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6 -~ e W TRI-.WELY' EDITION. WV INNSJ1O1) S.C . AUGUST 16, 1S90~ETBI ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, No.6 Law Bangs, t WINNSBORO, - - - 8.0. Practices in the State and United Sta$4 i Courts. E. B. RAGsD&LL G.W. RLGSDALI a RO***'-*RAGDAL Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, No.2 Law Eange, WINNSBORO, . - - C. 1 OSMUND W. BUCHANAN. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, NI. T aw Rangs,.e WINNSBORO, s. 0. 0 Practices in an United States and I Courts. 8 jeeal attention to corporation e J As. GLENx M[CANTS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, No.1Law Bangs, t WINNSBORO, - - - . 0. -1 Practices In the State and iatted stalm R Courts. t s ADER K HA N OATRC A&W , ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, WINNSBOBO, 8.0. C fractwes In s the Stats and United States OMee upstaira is Bank building. Art. Qd4L81a WINN.BORO,LS. 0 a t *ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, d WINNSBOBO, 8. 0. Omeie up-stalua over J. U. Beaty & Bro.'s 0 tore- t I. L McDoNJtn. 0. A. DousLe.p Solicitor Sixth Circuit. M DONALD i DOUGIASS, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, , Nos.Sand 4 Law Range. s WINNSBORO, - - .0. a tices o a the Stats and United States r s. 8 W. D. DOUGLASS. Attorneys and Counsellor at Law No.6 Law Range, . WINNSBOEO, - - - - S. . s Prae ce in the State and United Stass Courts. F'OOD FOR THOUGHT. d - ldness is ever blind- therefore,says Bacon, it is ill in counsel, but good in ti exec'ition. at By taking revenge a man is but even c with his enemy, but in passing it over t be issuperior. Prosperity awaits all men, and even pursues some, but it is. never found In the haunts of vice. b 3ou can't. square accounts with God C a- Ihg as you owe youi brother any- t1 thing. Matt.i.23-24. it Nothing is more precious than time, n and those who misspeid It are the great est of al prodigals. Perfect valor consists in doing with- b out witnesses all we should be capable of doing before the world.n .Let us be of good cheer, remember- b ing that the misfortunes hardest to bear n are those which never come. a: * ofThe wealth of a man is the number ofthings-which he loves and blesses, *which he isloved and blessed by. b The happpiest man is he who, being k above the trouble which money brings, has his hands the fulless of work.s One who has wronged another with U malice pretense seems to find it difficult b to showbhim adue regard again. a The ear and the eye,are the mind's a receivers, bus the tongrueis only busied n in expending the treasure received. Thore is nothing like a fixed,-steady f alm;,wlth an honorable purpose. It V dignifles the nature and insures suc-- l c cess, . The angriest person in a controversy oe is the one most liable to be in thed wrong. It is said the devilfinds plenty of work ja for idle hands to do, but he hasn't got in on a modern tramp to any very large ~ extent. I -Ore ought never to speak of the b faults of -one's friends; it mutilates b them. They can never be the same di __ afterwarda. si Labor, though it was at first inflict- ri ed as a curse, seems to be the gentlest si of all punishments and is fruitful of a thousand blessings. Enthusiasm is the genius of sir eerity and tiuth accomplishes no victories without it. The labor of the body relieves us from the fatigues of the mind, and this ci it is which forms the happiness of the a poor. The proper function of a government a is tonmake it easy for the people to do a: good, and difficult for them to do evil.I Never prophesy, for If you prophesyb wrong, noDody will forget It; and i you prophesy right,nobody will remem- SI * bher t. 1 No state can be more destitute than that of a person who, when the delights i of sense forsake him, has no pleasures i of the mind. . It is one of the easiest thingi in the C world to get i'ito debt, but debt is one of the hardest masters to serve and one of the most difficult to escape. r When thou are obliged to speak, be sure to.spealk the truth; for equivo cation is half way to lying, and lying is the whole way to eternal destruc- si tion. jn Life is a quarry, out of which we are sa to mold and chisel and complete a char- jb acter. Iti Everything which has form in natureg is trying to tell us something for our good. Subdue untruthful men with truti - fuiness. OUR regull army is small, but it ras made still smaller Dy 1,578 deser ions during the past nine months. his is a costly piece of business, for be deserter cnsas the Government is ood deal of mouey in one way of nother from ins eriistment until he kips. PRINCE BISMARCK continues to sup. ly good Interviews for the German apers. He complained to a corre pondent recently that "a few months f laziness"1d added ten years to his fe;" that he had aged considerab'y ince he left office, &c. This is the iason when a good many persons, un. ke the ex-chancellor, would take sev ral months of dotce far nsente with ut growling, and then feel ten years ounger. CONSIDERABLE interest attaches to be laying of the cable between Ber auda and Halifax, and its completion rill make a new era in the history of be island. An Amerkan electrician ho has just returned from the Ber i das poin's out how much more par oxical the absence of te'egraphic ommunmcation there is from the fact bat :t Is an important British naval ad coaling station, with one of the irgest floating dry docks in the world, ad a large military garrison, and that be prosperity of the island is mainly ependent on its export of vegetables, rhich brings in revenue of over $269,; .0. The people have become alive to e necessity of knowing what is going a in the world around them; they are utting up better buildings, dredging e harbor channels so as to admit the rgest craft, building docks and rharves, and are now placing them slves in a position to reap the full Ivantage of daily prices current. This idently is not the end, for it is amored that plans for an electric road re already under consideration. A COMPANY has been organzed In ennsylvauia for the construction of eel railroad passenger coaches which ill neither break, nor go into splinters cases of collision or other accident. 'he steal car is not an entirely new evice; but the companies did not like -certainly have-Uot taken to it-and 'onld not have it, for that reason, set iere is good cause to believe that the eel car is as likely to be the passenger ach of the future asthet-steel ship is e assured favorite of the present. In lies apparently the element of safety > the most attxinable-degree. It may a bent, Indented or crushed. even in a llision, but if so built as to exclude ie use of wood in mate l measure, I cannot be smashed and reduced to a I ass of tinder ordeath-dealfng timbers adsplinters. The.question of practical ghtness should not be :u" iunanswera leone in the construction of steel pas uger chaelles, as they coidd certainly istrongly built. withoueing made uch heavier :than the p'esent palace :id sleeping cars. FmRE could not have invaded a milding In the country where more sees of various kinds would have re ilted than from the burning of the pper floors of the Western Union Eilding in New York. As it was nominally fire-proof structure, papers id books were stored there that oney could not replace, and there as, besides, a great amount of costly1 A:ings reqrLired-for the business of thel retern Union Company and the Asso ateG. Press. Their destruction illus ates anew the practical impossibility securing inflammable material from mngers of fire by the construction of a ising that will not burn. A- forolace an ideal fire-proof structure and that what a fire-proof building becomes hen flames break out in its furniture, >os and papers. Fire-proof or slow irning construction is, nevertheless,: ~sirable, because it helps to stay the read of flames, but it should not give seto afalse sense of security. Thej .me precautions against fire are re ired in abuilding of this kind as in e flimsiest structure of wood. IT sEnED to sympathetic readers on ds side of the water that if Stanley >uld have only been allowed to drive way with his bride after the wedding remonies at the Abbey, and be no ore seen by the wedding guests, such 'angements would have been more oughtful of the great traveller's very iicate condition and weakness after' i acute attack of illness. Notwith anding the fact that he was still tand extremely weak, he was rep. sented as helping to receive the urongs of titled and other guests upon s lawn, and as resting upon his stick hle surveying the wedding presents. onventionalities, n'that land of for alities, had to be observed, even if the idgegroom should 'faint under the' itine, so that it is no wonder that the stivities and the guests and the gifts 1 contributed to make the hoped-for >eedy convalescence of the bridegroom tuch longer delayed. A little common se would have spirited away the tidal pair from the moment the signa res had been affixed, and left the ests to enjoy the garden party and ae gifts, with the easy explanation st an invalid could not be part of the rificial shoW. ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. A Dog Finds a Lost Handkerchie 'and Squirrels Bar Out Two Ow:s. Can any one match the following a an instance of canine intelligence? J party of children bad spent the forenoo m a huckleberry pasture. A dog be longing to Mr. Prindle, father of one c the children, had been with them. (I he wasilke a dog I know, he had hunt ed out a patch of blackberries, and hac goneq tusiness, picking and eating on his own account). Upon their reach lug home, it appeared that the Prind girl had lost her pocket handkercaief The dog, being a remarkable animal and up to such tricks, was sent back tc -And it. HIe came home after a while dispirited, ana without the missing at ticle. As it would never do to allos a precedent like this to become estat lishea, the owner went back with th animal to the field, and waited to se that he properly performed histask. H1 was at first reluctant, and sat on hi haunches for several minutes in a statE of evident mental dejection. Sudden ly he started up, all alert, with the at of having solved the problem, and wha he did was this: Ho took his position ; rod or so from the outside wall, an( made a swift circuit ot the entire field keeping that distance from its boundar les. Returning to his starting point,hE took a new course a rod or two insid' his former one, and surrounded th field again as before. His next cours was at the same distauce inside that and so he kept on, till, as must in tim 'Inevitably happen he found the hand kerchief and gave it to his master. I have to confess that there is an ele ment of tradition about the story o Mr. Prindle's dog, in that respect, tha it belonged to a former generation, an that, while my informant--hiaself -o that generation, and acquainted wit both master and dog -held it as an ur questionable fact, I cannot now abso lutely verify it. This is not true of th owl story,which is a story of to-day,an can be had at first hand by anybod who cares to take the trouble. Th home of these owls has been from im. memorial time in an aged elm tha graces the front yard of one of the o1 mansions g& gown. -W 1hiis cause by. tbebreaking of a Iarg limt the owls have taken up their abode Three years ago some squirrels tool possesssion of the same tree and wage continual war with the owls. The lat ter maintained their rights,and the con test was hotlytcarr!ed on.unti', at last incautiously, the owls took a fancy t spend the day out a-visiting, Th squirrels seized their opportunity anc stopped the hole full of sticks, twigE and even branches of considerable size which they drove In so firmly that al the storms- of the succeeding winter dk not dislodge them. For that year,then the owls gavo it up and made thel home elsewhere, but they are back a this present writing, and matters ar going on as of oll. D ut6nVzictoria's First Trouble. One of the earliest troubes-perhap the first crump'ed rose leaf ini the queen1 royal couch-was the proposed dismih sal of her bed-chamber ladies on the fa] of the Melbourne ministry. Sir Robe, Peel and the Duke of Wellington trie to persuad e her majesty that her ladle were on the same level as her lords,bu the queen would have none of it, an wrote the famous letter to Lord Mei bourne,in which she said: "They want ed to deprive me of my ladies, and suppose they would deprive me next c my dressers and house maids;they wish ed to treat me like agirl,but I will shol them that I am Queen of England. The Elizabethan ring about these word has echoed down the years until to-day and her majesty has never failed to re member, and to make others remen) ber, that above and before all else sh Ir "Queen of England." When Public and Private Right Clash. How general and dominant is the de sire to encroach upon the public street ils hardly realized by many a citizen un t I, having bought a vacant lot, hei about to build. Conscious then of lini itation by his neighbor's bounds oi either side,he casts a yearning eye upo: the fine open space in front, belongin to no onie in particular, but only to th public. His sense of public right sud denly sinks beneath a swelling apprec ation of the convenience of subjectin the highway to his own particular use None of it must escape him. His sur veyor must lay down lines that sha] make certain that the street takes noth ing from him, even at the risk of hi taking a little from the street. Law and ordinances are searched, strained and sometimes snapped, in-his effort t lengthen his line street-ward. His zes to wrest from the pui.dic place yard room for his building material become keen; and he forgets indIgnation at las year's passages through muddy gutter or over slhppery stagings, necessary t avoid the obstructions or trenches o the neighibor who was then building The traveler and the house-builder lool upon the public street from points a view distinctly diverse, if not -adverse. -Cardinal (jibbons thinks tha libraries and art gallaries should bi open on Sunday, and Philadelphia in. sists on closing her barber shops. Ther< are many men of many minds, AN ORDEAL IN CEYLON. f A Custonr.Whloh Does Not Always Argue for tfessness. Recentlyithe district Judge at Kalu 9 tara, in Ceion, had before him three. L persons, inguding a village head-man, 1 charged -with causing grievous hurt to - four others y requiring them to plunge f their right jds into a caldron of boll f ing oil. T>- medical evidence descr. b ed the han sabeingfn "a sodden,sup I puratinge ' tron,",he-flngers being I in some casedeformed. In all cases - the injured-,ersons were unable to fol low their o dlnar f4vocatIons for about a month. The facts ot case,as stated in the judgment, these: A woman in the village had fsnme plumbago and rice stolen from ier;iead-man made in r quiry,and faAin obtain a-clew tothe - theft, annc tliM It would be nec e essary on dt--daytohold an ordeal B by burning'oil Thfsappears to be a B not uncommon custom in remote parts s of the country, anid the formalities are as follows:'ome ^I from newly-gath - ered king ocoanutsis manafactured by r one of the friends of the complainant; t this is poui i o a caldron and heated I to boiling ow2 ch of the suspected I parties is rd to dip his band into the vessel o--and is at liberty to sprinkle:a muchof the hot oil as he brings up With hifiers oin the person of the com iinan who stands close at hand. An exclamation of pain on the part of thes.u ted person is construed into an a'lission Of guilt. It no B such exclam toenis miade,the Innocence - of the party ssupposed to be estab lished. e In the prese it case the evidence es tablisbed tist the pressure on the ac cused was not-merely moral; they were i lorced to dip ther handsinto the burn-" - ing oil. Miarce seems to have been 1 used in bri them to the scene of - the ordeal collecte& there in re - sponse to tders of -the. bead man a who, seat -platform opposite the l vessel of to have acted as the V presiding? -ach of the complain a ants de itie fact that they were reluctant tosiL to the ordeal, but were forcly " upto tiecaldron l by the other , n their: afis ptun' piTi oil. They had sufficient self-control to ab stain from calling out except a boy of seventeen,who cried out lustily ard was thereupon. pronounced the guilty one. - The judge took the fact that it was at custom into account, but refused to dismiss the prisoners with a sarnIng, > as suggested by their counsel. He fined B them one hundred rupeeseach,with the1 alternative of rigorous imprisonment for ten months. A Prescriotlon for Longevity. One of my prescriDtions for longevity may startle you somewhat. It is this: r Become the subject of a mortal disease. t Let half a dozen doctors thump you and B knead you and test-you In every possi ble way, and render their verdict that you have an Internal complaint; they don't know exactly what it is, but it -will certainly kill you by and by. Then B bid farewell to the world and shut your B self up for an Invalid. If you are three score years old when you begin this' 1 mode of life, you may very probably t last twenty years, and there you are - I an octogenarian. In the meantime S your friends outside have been drop t pmng off, one after another, until you I find yourself almost alone, nursingyour - mortal complaint as if it w'ere your Sbaby, hugging it and kept alive by it I if to exist is to live. Who has not seen f cases like this-a man or a woman shut - ting himself or herself up, visited by a ! doctor or a succession of doctors (I re 'member that once, in my earlier exper S lence, I was the twenty-seventh physi ,cian who had been consulted), .al',vays - taking medicine; until everybody :was - reminded of that impatient speech of a B relative of one of these invalid vampires. who live on the blood of tired out at tendants,"I do wish she would get well -or something!" Persons who, are shut up in that way, confined to tiheir - chamber, sometimes to their beds, have a very small aruount of vital - expendi ture and wear out very little of their Sliving substance. They are like lamps -with half their wicks picked down, and will continue to burn when other lainps ' have used up all their oil. An insur I ance office might make money by taking a no risks except~ on lives of persons suf . fering from mortal disease. -The Tortoise M%Rrket of Philadel i,hia. -The taste for "stewed t;errapin" and - "snapper soup"? has become so general 1 in Philadelphia, that the United States - are now- ransacked for the means of ' auppiying it. Within a few years the SspEcies..sod were the "terrapin," Ma'a coc'emmys palustras: the "red belly," Ccteus inculptus; the "slider,"c'hry 1semys rucgosa;and the "snappet',"CAely d cra sepentna. Now large invoices of turtles are sent from Mobile, New Or Sleans, and bt. Louis. which include the Sfollowing species; Chrysemys beflhi, C. Selegans, C7.. concrana, and (. troostit; Maoremyp iogapa.and il. les eurit; total, exclusive of sea ,turtles, fen Sspecies. A&ll are-abundant ~In the mar ket exceiit the (YE ?ellii, Paint th~e tonigues of your fever patients with glycerine, says a physi cian; it will remove the sensation of thirst tnd discomfort felt when thfA orgaxt is dry a':d fcl THE INNER LIFE. We know there is a life within the life. Of each who, toiling, threads the conquered way; Ever a fiercer strife be hind the strife That each Is seen to wage from day to day. We find ourselves contending with a world In which ambition rules and pride holds sway; We drink and seoff, like others, are possessed With zeal to grasp the baublesas we may. So we are Judged to be allke as bass As he who sells for pottage all he bath Who yields not only love and joy and truth, But yields for this his sours immortal worth. Be thou serene before the heartless judge,. Brave heart that hath with unseen valor fought; Strive not to hold against the world a grudge, And sell the sunshine of thy lie for naught. The world can never know thee as thou art, Much less with truth can judge thee as it ought; But4f thou thret with courage hdone thyepart, For theteres n othing frher to besought "Tis well for us to toll and strive to win All that our health and comfort may require; But let the angel still within-us reign, That he may aid the world to something higher. Then let the Inner lifebe full and free Let mind rule with the scepter of Its might, Let heart and soul with aspiration turn Toward all that's great in nature, grand In thought. Then be the world in judgment true or false, The heart, ser.ure in consciousnless of worth, Car fnd within Its battleruents of truth. The greatest pleasure possible toa WAITING TO SERVE.. Bodney Shipton was a southern boy, and, like many a northern lad, he was ambitious. Like many a northern lad, too, his parents were poor and un able to do for their son as they could have wished. But they sent him to school until he was 14 years old, and then, at Rod's earnest 'request, they sei,t him to a school of telegraphy for a year, where Rodney learned to send and receive messages over the wonder ful and mysterious wires. For Rod was - by no means content with the humdrum life on the twenty acre lot in Mississippi which his father called the farm. It was. well enough, he always said to himself and his chums, for 'old folks' who were satis fed to raise corn and tobacco, and know nothing of the grat world around them, save what they read in the weekly paper. But that wouldn't suit Rod Shipton--'not much it wouldn't.' No, Ecdney was , anxious to start, fight-into the front ranks of those who are taking part in life's great bat tles. Put Rodney Shipton soon discovered that even those who are willing to do brave and arduous work are not the ones always selected for the most im portant duties. He had to learn, as so many of us will have to, that, as a~great poet once wrote: They also serve who only stand and wait. He found very speedily that the great telegraph companies and newspapers were not in reed of inexperienced lads of fifteen to place in their offices m large cities and other centres of life and activity. First, he applied for a position in Washington, and did not so much as get an answer to his application. Then e tried New York, and the manager of the concern wrote back and kindly told the lad that he had better try 'nearer home' At last, much discouraged, Rod did try ne arer home. It went much against the grain for him to think that a tele graph operator should be compelled to remain in such a rusty old state as Mis sissippi. But he braced up, and one ine spring morning he started out on a tiamp of more than thirty miles to Jackson. R$d Shipton was used to long tramps; his father had not so many dollars that he could afford to give up two of the m for railroad tare. The lad's shoes wvere pretty dusty when, early on the second morning, he presented himself to the superintendent of telegraph of the-Jackson and Rich mond railway and asked for a 'job.' 'Well, my son,' said the superin tendent, 'you're niot very old and you've had no experience, but if you are In dead earnest and want to show us what kind of stuff you're made of, I'll offer you a job. We're got an offBe up at Snowflake City, seventy miles from here, and we find It pretty hard to keep any one there. It's a lonely sort of a spot; on one side of the track is a swamp and on the other aide a srrbby forest with a sawmill and a store. You'll have a very few neigh bor, and those that are there are about as rough as they make 'em. There's very little work, and, conse quently, very little pay. Now, then, if you'll go down and try your hand as operator at Snowflake City, I'll engage you at a salary of twenty dolla s a month. What do you say?' Well, It wasn't a very bright picture which the superintendent presented to our young friend, and so Rodney Ship ton thought. He stammered somewhat as he replied: 'You see, sir, I thought some of a job in the city; and then, sir, the pay -It's awful small; father pays that for a hIred man when he wants one on the farm, but,-but--yes, sir, I guess I'll tae the job in Snowflske City.' 'Look here, my lad,' said the super Intendent, laying his hand with much kindly feeling upon Rod's shoulder. 'I know just how you feel about It. I was a boy myself once, just about your size, and with just as much of a desire to do something big as you have. But I started In clear at the bottom, yes, inv than yun wirl hae io, ta nd T stuck to it, and think I did my duty. 1 You do th6 same, and we expect'n 1 more of the best paid man'n the road.' ] And the very next day Rodney Ship ton, Instead of tramping back to his father's farm, took the - train to Snow- 1 flake City. The friendly words of the cfical who 1 was now his chief bad encouraged him E greatly, and he resolved to 'stick is out' at Snowflake, no matter- what 1 might happen, until - his ability should 1 be recognized by his employers. ; if the picture of Snowflake City, I which Superintendent Stebbins. had I outlined, was a dark one, the reality i was still more black and unattractive to Rodney. The ne'ghborhood itself g was most uninteresting. Natire had done as little as possible, it seemed; _ and the inhabitants were even more . uncouth than their surroundings. The i men were of the roughest and most ig norant-type, whi'e such women-and, I children as graced-or disgraced-the 1 settlement were nearly akin to the men I in their tastes and habits. othtat I there were a great many of these peo pie, for within a very wide radius of Snowflake station there were not ~more .than a hundred .human beings; who were about evenly divided between blacks and whites. - As for Rod, he made his headquart ers at the cabin, which was. known a$ l the 'Station.' At first he tried board j ing at 'the store,' which was also a hotel and saloon, but he fnally eame.to the conclusion that he had better 'keep. house' in the little cabin, which now became for him kitchen, parlot, bed room and office all rolled into one.,. It was truly a lonesome spot, and through the long early so.mmer-days 1 and the weird nights, when the breezes . soughed and sobbed over the dism.. - swamp, Rod often got homesick; fothe; 4 old farm. He did not have much work 1 hardly enough to keep him-from grow 1 ing weary; but, remembering.tb sa perintendent's words, Rod did hiswork promptly and well, and not a singl reprimand canle to him over the wire from the train dispatcher. Rod saw few people, for passenget trains stopped very, seldom at n ffake, and the Aoyadid; _not;eoon vsm roiie raui dgenera = half drunken men from the sawmill. Three months passed away that were long and dreary ones to Rodney Ship ton, and one August day the lad awoke to find himself Important. Yellow fever had broken out at Snowflake City! The state medical officer had been down from Jackson I and pronounced four cases of serious sickness as yellow fever of the most pronounced kind. Forthwith a doctor and nurse were dispatched from the capitol to Snowflake, and the district was laid under quarantine. No one dared leave the fever district now untir the pest should be driven away, and, for all the communication the wretched people have with the toutside world, they might as well have been living on a desert island in the midst of the Pa cific Ocean. Stay, there was the tele graph! Touched by the deft and will lng fngers of the young operatpr, the throbbing wires carried all over the country the tale of misery which Snow flake City now told. In the columns of the great daily pa persi of the north were printed Rodney Shipton's dispatches, wherein folks learned how the poor wretched, ignor-1 ant people of the' forest and swamp were dead and dying; how the four cases speedily increased to fourteen and then to forty. Ro:lney's mes.'ages, calling1 for aid, brought nurses from the hos pitals of the great cities; Rodney's messages brought nourishing food and healthy clothing to those who were for tunate enough to recover; Rodney's messages brought medicines for the sick and even caskets for the dead. And many codfinai were needed in the stricken district-for fully half the people died; and tbrough it all Rod stuck to his post. The other folks of the settle.. ment moved away as far as they could within the quarantine boundary, but Rod stayed right on at the little tele graph cabin on the edge of the swamp. and close to the hut. and hovels of the sawmill people.1 He knew that the people and the doctor could not do without the tele graph; .he knew that no one wouldI come form outside If be should desert1 his post, and he knew quite' well that there was not a soul in Snowdlake City, besides himsel', could operate the tele graph. So, with a brave heart, he did his duty. Rod did not complain now that his work was light; dear no! He could hardly give information enough with his Ittle clicking hammer. The eyes of the whole country were upon Snowflake City. The people were sorry enough for the unfortunates shut up by themselves, but they wanted to keep3 the dread plague at Snowflake. No trains stopped now. Most of. them went flying past, and even on the hottest days the passengers would shut down all the windows, as if they were afraid to breathe the air in passing. Even the local freight only slowed as she went on her way, and the train men carelessly dumped the barrels and boxes of clothing and provisions on to the little platform for Rod to gather up as best lhe might. So the days and weeks dragged slowly along, and one morning the pa pers ha these words at the foot of , heir -suala dispate l o telepk )lace bas-tb( fever Then fordais -ter e - 1l over the wlies_rOn; 'fillage, and'the .Strrf. hout the news a rain men ac fey tation. But Rod did 3u - hetvery few ever,a. ai Lown-.the .d cheer the.eope eared for the nfection. Yes, Ro. While, ba1 6 7d gain . ie recevee Lumea~ is. ,pluckp Lmong4his -s he governoro er whiehi rem Sa - his is wha 1a ai uobIy. -A.0e tm udirectors.iemC ' skar."ist'5bntr l To-da a G one:e o ee Zieseeod ibich hdy Beea engt1; andis . with single seats on-sack dsle. The car itself. weighs _ ons, the weight of anordm; wenty to-twenty-six toon g without-the tender, weigis dnd runs-with two ars at the rat. ,ot yur. There Is a smn1 his. in -the -United'sate n 3acks Countya,r bit ;ept as. an expensive toy; armer, who has made aort The Flitht of e Time isa great in:titutl. sawtla e difficult to get along witoat't' and ret we shall have to omeda Hie - rou ever-noticed how long time se ihen you are young? The f nd Fourth of Julys semtchY ~ternities between them, t he uo- 2 rrow older time is asbrieaack ~ >it's tail. Then theretis'ao'merenge ~oy business about-time. In childhood how lovingly weto ipward to the summ't ofe thaffhlLoi rears whereon we are to lhe enfired with the crown or manhood, and21aow ong it seems between: each beat of the ieart-each oscillation of the pendu-2'-~ umn. Gradually this pendulum-eell ates wiith a vigor unknown before. lonths, years flit past like dogs ;with in cans tied to their contaiona We - ire not as supple as we once 'vittles" do not taste like theydfwe we tramped twenty or thirty iles - fishing pole or gun at theage df 1xteen. Finally our eyes grow -- mnd with stooping form and. i rait we-approach that dark, mist d valley, which when we stood restibule or life and played"i cemedso far off. -Frugahity and. Fprtf.. It is stated that one of men in this country, whose - - stimated at over $100,000,000,3re asts only on boiled eggs, eatsonj~~~~ >acon and liver for lunch,,and dznes^ie iceut of roast beef and poiato,'wshe lown with water. *Probably if hie' had been in the prac. ice of dining on quail on-toast, Inc ng on terrapin, and dmng ocfefa - ack duck and "champagne, he might% ot have the $100,030,000 to An is Such things have occurred before in he history of wealth and thote irho iaveamasEed it, don't yon'know. The Biggest Lum'n f'~z The Iargest piece.of gold e rom the earth was discoveru-ifzy10~ .872, in New South Wales, Austridia~ I was an irregular shaped slab, four eet nine inches in lengthy and Ireo eet three inches in with.iwfli an iver age thicknesis of abouti threu ie s [t weighed something over 600 pohuds mnd, although not of virgin'pu'reas ayed $149,000. The moseakal0 >art ofthetory stlahe . wh ound it did not have.. money epg~*' 4) pay their board bills th efore. - Ltuce has a sedative- effeef- o! riie tervous sys em, and the ordinary plant, us well as druggists' Preparations of it nay be succe.ssfqlly employed jn e