The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 21, 1904, Image 2
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COMMODOHE NICHOLSON
* OF flitf NAVY
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iMommeads Pe-runa--Other Pro-;
mlner.t Men Testify.
. Commodore Somervllle Nicholson, of
the United 8tatea Navy, in a letter
from 1837 R St, N. W., Washington,
D, C., saya:
"Tw Peruna has been and is now
qsed by so many of my friends and acquaintances
as a sure cure for catarrh
that I am convinced of its curative
qualities, and I unhesitatingly recommend
it to all persons suffering from
that complaint"?8. Nicholson.
The highest men in our nation have
given Pernna a strong endorsement.
Men of all classes and stations are
qually represented.
If you do not derive prompt and sat-1
Isfactory results from the use of Pe-!
runa. write at once to Dr. Hartman. j
giving a full statement of your case. ,
ad he will be pleased to give yon his |
valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hariman, President of j
The Hartman Sanitarium. Columbus. O. I
Aak Your Draught for a frea Per una j
I Abcenec for 1904.
80. 4.
The Iary man would rather sit down and
hope than go after a certainty.
Qalt Coughing.
Why eough, when for 25c. and this notice j
you get 25 doses of an absolutely guar- j
Steed cough cure in tablet form, postpaid. !
'. Skirrin Co., La Crosse, Wis. [A.C.L.] I
A woman will forgive a man anything
except his refusal to ask forgiveness.
^ 'Wonderful Statistics.
When it is considered that the percent- |
age of deaths from consumption is 91 per
thousand against 03 per thousand of any
other malady, how important to guard
against a slight cold. Taylot's Cliero- 1
kee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mullein
fa the great medicine for coughs, colds and ,
- consumption.
At druggists, 25c., 50c. and ?1.00 a bottle, j
A woman's idea of a compliment is to
same her baby after a rich relation.
H. H. Gbee^'s Soss, of Atlanta, Ga., are
the only successful Dropsy Specialists In the
world. See their iiberal offer in advertlso*
<? ?nMK?r onlnmii of this nauer.
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ft is easier for a woman to conceal hei
Jove than it is to hide her indifferenoe. (
IsImt'i Home Builder Corn.
Bo named because 50 acres produced so
fceaviiy, that its proceeds built_ a lovely
home. See Salzer s catalog. Yielded in
1903 in Ind. 357 bu.. Ohio ICO bu., Tenn.
6 bu., and in Mich. 220 bu. per acre.
You can beat thia record in 1904.
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THESE YIELDS
PER ACRE?
220 bu. Beardless Bariey per acre.
110 bu. Salzer's New National Oats per A.
10 bu. Salzer Speltz and Macaroni Wheat.
1.000 bu. Pedigree Potatoes per acre.
14 tons of rich Billion Dollar Grass Hay.
10,000 lbs. Victoria Rape for sheep?per A.
100.000 lbs. Teoeinte, tne fodder wonder.
14,000 lbs. Salzer's Superior Fodder Com
?rich, juicy fodder, per A.
Now, such yields you c&n have. Mr.
Farmer, in 1004, if you will plant Saleer'a j
seeds. [A.C.L.]
TTST SEND Tins NOTICE AND 10C.
In stamps to John A. Salter Seed Co., La !
Crosse, Wis., and receive their great j
catalog and lots of farm seed sanv es. i
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When a man thinks lie knows it all he
i# happy until he wakes up.
Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflacmatioD,allays
pain,cures wind collo. 25o. abottle
A failure to 6tart often saves a miserable
finiah, j
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lORAffO tobisss^ibuau i
I \r UrVvVV any form. Trtstaesl
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M Too take no chunoea S* I
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I No matter what your preferen
II some one of the eight differen
U will suit you. Winchester Ri
\ ble for shooting any game, i
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reliable in action and a strong
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Pitchforks at an Election.
Extraordinary scenes occurred at
the counting of votes during a municipal
election at Florenzac, near Montpellier,
France.
It was stated that the presiding of
ncer ana two 01 tne assessors naa extracted
ballot papers and placed them
In their pockets. Upon the fraud being
denounced by the opposition,
several hundred peasants, armed with
pitchforks and other weapons, attempted
to break into the schoolroom
where the counting was going
on, and threatened to lynch the officials
concerned.
It took 100 gendarmes all their time
to repel the Infuriated crowd, and
several times they had to charge with
drawn swords.
Intelligent Dog Dies.
After an absence of a week. Rex, a
French poodle belonging to Fields
Rhoads, a newspaper dealer of Chester,
Pa., was found dead in a ditch by
Its owner. The dog always accompanied
his master on his newspaper
rounds and served many of the customers,
taking the papers In his
mouth and leaving them on the doorsteps
or carrying them Into the yard,
as instructed.
Mr. Rhoads avers that the poodle
would often take papers from the
tore to customers and would never
make a mistake, going unerringly iu
the house of the person to which h.
was directed.
"Collect, Rex!" meant that he was
to bring back a penny, and the dog
would wait until the penny had been
given to him.
Slate of First-Class Quality.
Manager Pike secured a slab
twonty-four inches square the other
day which was taken out of one ot
the state quarries at Northfleld, Vt.,
in 1869. The piece was sawed and
planed when quarried and left on the
ground. During these thirty-five year3
it has been exposed to the frosts and
snowa of winter and the hot suns
and rains of summer under the most
trying conditions. When the stone
was cleaned it showed up as bright
and- in as good condition as when
first taken from the quarry.
Moose Track North.
According to observers in the Adirondack
wood8. at least three moose
have been seen, recently, working
their way north into Canada, and it is
inferred that the attempt to stock the
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COnn WOO Q 3 Willi U1CUI mm law, auu
that moose placed there will take the
same trail to Canada that was taken
by their ancestors seventy-flve years
ago.
Jcxe Tint Butter Color makes top
of the market butter.
All things come to those who stop waiting
and go after them.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.?N. W.
B*mcel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17,1903.
Fresh bread Is easily cut if the
knife is first..
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(Mrs. Elizabeth H. Thompson,!
of Lillydale, N.Y., Grand Worthy
Wise Templar, and Member of
W.C.T.U., tells how she recovered
by the use of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
" Dkab Mrs. Pinkuam: ? I am one
of the many of your grateful friends
who have been cured through the use
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
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When I was thirty-five years old, I
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womb trouble. I waa very anxious to
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Compound hud made. I deeded to try
it. I took only six bottles,but it built me
| up andcured me entirely of my troubles.
" My family and relatives were
naturally as gratified as I waa. My
! niece had heart trouble apd nervous
prostration, and waa considered incurable.
She took your Vegetable Compound
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| and she became well and strong, ana
her home to her great joy and her hus*
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female trouble, and am satisfied that
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95000 forfeit if orhl/.al of ebot* litter pricing
I ger.uln&nete cennot oc produced.
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SG RIFLES lip
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t Winchester models"^ f
fles are made in calibers suita- II
from rabbits to grizzly bears, M
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)eing well made and finished. J
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RUN WITH PATIENCE
fll'P REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON
A Strung Discourse On the Christian i
Race That Should Be Run With
Patience.
Pkincktott, JJ. J.?The Rev. Dr. John
Balcom Shaw, pastor oi the West Kn<J
A /At . 1. AT .^L.iAon %i*. ~ i
t'resnyienan emurcu. .uiimiuuuu, |iuo..,iu
Sunday morning before the students of
Princeton University. He took his text
from Hebrews xii:l: "Run with patience."
Dr. Shaw said:
There is a vast tHiTcrcr.ce between walking
with patience and running with patience.
Doth arc hard, incalculably hard,
but thoy are hard in very different ways,
and call for graces which are exact opposite?.
Walking with patience requires
the grace of repression or resignation.
The spirit leans ahead but tiie
body must needs lag behind. We want
to run, but we have to walk, and a slow
pace when one feels lie might make
paste and ought to make baste is mightily
aggravating.
Walking with patience is one of the
young man's struggles, lie wants to get
on and up, with quick speed, but circumstances
.org holding liirn back. He lias
a mother to support, lie works for an vnappreciaiive
firm, he lacks the proper influence,
he Las no friends at court, he
can command no capital. Therefore, he
must stay a clerk when lie deserves the
superintendenoy. He must go to business
when he would prefer a profession. Creeping
when you are eager to be leaping?
can you imagine a greater tax upon patience
than that?
Walking with patience is poverty's prob
loin. To suffer want wlien otners no more
deserving than you are in affluence, and be
resigned to it, it is the hardest possible
task. That is the bottom cause of ali
our labor agitation?impatience under limitations.
Walking with patience is misfortune's
mission. To be held back by reverses, disabled
by sickness, retarded by circumstances,
felled by a great sorrow, so that
we must walk instead of run?these are
amoDg the most difficult experiences of
life, and are these not experiences that
come to all? Who of us, the most prosEerous
and fortunate, those whose track
as the fewest up grades upon it?even
the young college man with his own peculiar
problems to solve and struggle to
meet?who of us does not find frequent
need to cry out with face turned upward?
I want the love that all things sweetly
bear,
Whate'er my Father's hand may choose
to send.
I want the love that patiently endures
The wrongs that come from earthly foe
or friend.
Some great soul who had evidently
taken a full course in the school of suffering
and won the full diploma of resignation.
has most aptiy and beautifully
expressed the soul's need under such conditions
in these words:
The night is dark, but God, my God,
Is here and in command;
And sure am I, when morning breaks,
1 shall be at the land.
And since I know the darkness fa
To Him as sunniest day,
I'll cast the anchor?patience?out,
And wish?but wait for day.
God help us to learn how to walk with
patience!
e..i- mnnincr with Patience? i
Does it not rail for quite another school-j
ing of ourselves, just as running on the j
athletic field demands a training peculiar J
to itself? Even a fast walker is not necessarily
a good runner. The requirement
in this ca?e is active rather than negative.
Here is needed not the grace of repression,
as in the other case, out of cultivation,
of application or concentration rather than
of resignation. In walking with patience,
the weights and the brakes both must be
applied in order to hold the spirit back and
keep it apace with the body. But to run
with patience, the weights need to be laid
aside and the brakes removed that the inner
may keep abreast with the outward,
that our ambitions, our hopes, cur aims,
may fly forward toward the goal, "nor,"
as the line of the old hymn runs, "tire
amid the heavenly road.'
The very pace of the runner is itself
the foe ot patience. It calls, seemingly,
for impetuousity, and the more impetuous
the runner, we are accustomed to think,
the better. Its certain effect is to heat the
blood and fire the nerves. Behold the
athlete with every muscle taught, every
line of his face hard set, his eye intense
and eager, the applauding crowd urging
Dim on: now can ur uc puu?ui
self-controlled? Indeed, patience would
seem impossible, and impatience the very
price of the prize. And yet every athletic
man before me knows this is the talk
of a novice. If there is anything the runner
needs it is self-control, to be able
"to keep his head," as we say, to command
his nerves, to hold his strength
in check at the first and let it out toward
the finish, to keep from being unnerved
by the shouts of the crowd tooe equal to
any unforeseen turn the race may take or
any condition before unreckoned with that
might appear. And does it not always
turn out that a running match is at bottom
chiefly a question of self-commandmuscle,
wind, nerve, mind, yes, and heart
?and the winner ever found to be the one
who has run the race with the greatest
patience?
Young men. this is a running age, and a
country where, whether you will or not,
vou must adopt the quickest pace. "Step
lively," the car conductor's inelegant command.
is characteristically American,
though it may usually happen in this case
to be spoken by a foreigner. All Americans
are proverbially in a hurry. Even our
kindergarten tots have caught the step,
and from childhood on it gets gradually
faster and faster, until, when a young man
reaches maturity, he is on a dead run.
Life these days is a veritable rush for existence.
To run, then is an easy thing?it is the
most natural thing in the world to us, we
have been bred to it; it is instinct, but to
run with patience, to keep the soul calm
when the nody becomes heated and overtaxed,
so that the spiritual does not lag
behind the material life, and we grow fe
verish, sordid, impetuous?an: mis is quite
another thine. Such a difficult task is it
that, amid tne clamor and tumult of our
modern life, it is the rarest thing to find
men with tranquil temperaments, steadfast,
patient, reposeful. Under the strain
and pressure of the times we get irascible,
restless, nervous, narrow ana shallow of
soul. Solitude has no longer any congeniality
for us, and, as Dr. Samuel Johnson
declared years ago, "When a man cannot
bear his own company, does not like to be
alone, there is something wrong." It
would seem as if Wordsworth were arraigning
our age and not his own, which
was so phlegmatic ai:J meditative as compared
with this, when he wrote down his
memwable lines:
"The world is too much with us; late and
soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our
powers.
Little we see in nature that is our;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid
boon!"
Avereivc to solitude, and over-enamored
of society, hard driven by materialistic
gain and greed, tearing ahead for a prize
that our nervous clutch may crush so soon
as it is once in the hand, we outrun our religious
duty, the claims of our inner nature
are left away behind, and we go dashing
madly ahead, like a runaway engine, into
spiritual, if not moral, ruin. This, young
men, is the feverish race you are soon to
enter. Whatever your disinclination thereto,
you arc bound to run it. The one supreme
qr.cauon is, will jcu run it with pa
tienae or, as the great majority arc seeking
td'do, impetuously, wild.y, without selfcontrol,
and therefore unsuccessfully?
"\Vhat is the secret or such patience?"
you ask of me. eagerly, earnestly, in your
upturned ;'ate3: juet our author answer,
"Looking unto .Jesus" is the soie remedy
he suggests. '"Let us lay aside every
weight and the sin that doth so easily beset
us. and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us, looking unto
Jesus, the author and lini-hcr ox oar faith,
who, for the joy that was set before Him,
endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the
throne of Cod."
"Looking unto Jesus" may mean at least
three things: Looking unto Him as the
final goal; looking unto Him as toe one
only emancipator, and looking unto Him
as a perfect model or pattern. 1 believe
nn:lior of this fuistle means all this
here.
I. Jesus the supreme goal of our lives?
our highest purpose, our commanding aspiration,
out to whom all our energies run
and upon whom all our ambitions and activities
terminate.
"Lord, let me not he too content,
With life in trilling service spent,
Make r.ie aspire.
When days with petty cares are filVJ,
Let me with holy thoughts be thriiied,
Of scmctning higher."
This must be our constant prayer, if wc
arc to run the hurried and hurry.rig race of
modern life and preserve oar equipoise
through it a!!; and that "something higher"
to which we must aspire is the service
of C hrist. Let a man begin to live his life
| in devotion to Him, for ilis sake and unto
His honor, turning all the intensity and enterprise
of his strenuous existence toward
that as his goal, and his life will speedily
lose its feverish heat and grow cairn and
steadfast and serene. He i.eed not siacken
his pace a bit. If that be its goal, he nrav
continue to run and on to its close he will
remain patient despite his environing con[
ditions. He may make haste to get rich,
to acquire leadership, tq attain success, to
exalt Jesus Christ instead of self, if the unseen
be his chief aim and aspiration, and
the material but a means thereunto, he
will "0 through life patient-proof, and the
| tumult and fever of the age will never get
into his soul.
"For this i3 peace?to lose the lonely note
Of self in love's celestial-ordered strain;
And this is joy?to find one's self again
In Him whose harmonies forever float
| '.Through all the spheres of song, below,
above.
For God is music, even as God is love."
Oh! this is what our hard-headed business
men need, this is what our nervous,
self-centered society women need, this is
the great need of our ambitious and eager
youtn, to make Jesus Christ, His glory and
service the sobering, absorbing, controlling
ambition of their lives. Is this not the
first great look our author commencis 10 us
?looking unto Jesus, as our supreme purpose?
And what is the second?
Second?Looking unto Jesus for power in
our lives, as our great emancipator from
the bondage of this materialistic age.
"Have you ever thought, my friend.
As you daiiv toil and plod
In the noisy paths of men.
How still are the ways of God?
"Have you ever paused in tba din
Of tralHc's insistent ery.
To think of the calm in the cloud.
Of the peace in your glimpse of the sky?
"Go out in the quiet fields,
That quietly yield you meat,
And let them rebuke vour noise,
W hose patience is still and sweei."
Jesus Christ alone can bring tiie quietness
of the lields and the calmness ot the
cloud into our being. To Him we tarn, as
to its first great source, would we have the
same atmosphere blowing through our
souis. You know Mmc. Guyon's deiinition
of prayer: "The silence o: a sou! absorbed
in God." And Tennyson's, if possible, was
even belter: "Prayer is like opening a
siuicc between the great ocean and our little
channels, when the great sea gathers itself
together and flows in at full time." If
you and I would run with patience, wc,
too, must let tnis tiae now into our lives,
and that can never be until we live in close
touch with Jesus Christ, seek His help at
every turn, draw upon Him for our
strength and depend upon His grace for
sustaining and transforming power. Henry
Drummond once said: "Five minutes in
the morning alone with Christ will chance
for us the whole day." What then would
all the minutes of all the days in union
with Him do for us?
"Have you and I to-day
Stood silent as with Christ, apart from joy,
or fray
Of life, to see His face;
To look, it but a moment, in its grace,
And grow, by brief companionship, more
true,
More nerved to lead, to dare, to do
For Him at any cost? Have we to-day
Found time, in thought, our hand to lay
In His. and thus compare
His will with ours, and wear
The impress of His wish? Be sure
Such contact will endure
Throughout the day; will help ua walk
erect
Through storm and flood; detect
Within the hidden life sin's dross, its
stain;
Revive a thought of love for Him again;
Steady the steps which waver; help us see
The footpath meant tor you, and me."
Forever true it is that those who run
life's race patiently are pre-eminently men
or prayer.
Third?What is the third look? Looking
unto Jesus as a pattern for our lives.
There is something about this pattern peculiar
to itself. impressed in a word, it
has the perspective of eternity. Christ
lived His life not to gratify a fleetiug,
temporal, selfish sense, like avarice, fame,
success, pleasure, but to fulfill a Cod-given
mission, to reach up to a divine standard,
and work out an eternal equation. Put together
three heart utterances of His and
the full pattern will be before vou: "1 do
always the thines that please Him"?duty
to His Father, His will ever yielding itself
j to the will of God. "I am come that they
I might have life and that they might have'
| it more abundantly"?duty to men and
! complete dedication of Himself to the fulfillment
of that duty. "I must work the
works of Him that sent Me"?duty to Himself
as "the sent of God" whose one passion
was to make His life justify its high
puri>ose. As some one has phrased it:
"On one great mission bent,
He sped for God, forever unencumbered
Of earthly clogs whereby our souls are
numbered,
In glory excellent."
Keep this pattern before you. my fellow
runners, consult it the first thing in the
morning, turning to it often through the
day, and let it be the last thing you look
upon at ni^ht ere your eyes forget to see,
tinn jwu Win uc i?i?? acimus iu ut umti nnt
than calm of soul; too much in earnest to
lose your poise, too set upon linking every
moment of time with eternity and working
out the answer of your life to God to
let temporal aim command you or sordid
thinge enslave you. Then the weights shall
he lifted off the inner and laid hard down
uoon the outward life, and you will continue
to run?perhaps, your pace may
quicken?life will be a prompt, an earnest,
eager, intense race, but you will run it
clean down to the end with patience. This
a the trinal secret I bring you: Christ the
purpose of our lives. Christ the power in
our lives! Christ the pattern for our lives!
Shows Himself* Henst.
We believe there is truth in the old
saying "In vino Veritas." Wine, when
enough of it is taken, lifts off the cover.
A man not only tells the truth when he
is drunk, bur he shows his secret disposition.
If he is a beast, he shows himself
beastly If he is at heart cruel and revengeful,
he may become a murderer It
he is lustful, ho becomes licentious Strong
drink exaggerates that which without it
might lie latent and unknown during ?
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Our. Budget I
of Humor.. 1
To My Uoz<
They sing of love, Virginia's love for Paul;
Hero's for Greek Leander, whom the
waves
Brought to her feet lifeless beyond recall;
A he lard's love for Heloise, their graves
The mark of it; and these are passions all
Of which the sentimental poet raves.
But vet another love, and not the least,
Where cupid plays no part, yet hearta
confide,
Firm as the' heathen's worship for the
East,
Loyal and true it eometli to abide;
A love that needeth neither oath nor
priest,
The love of beast for man and man for
beast.
Then, poet, place it in love's catalogue,
His love for me and mine for my old dog.
?Jean liushmore, in Life.
M'iles of Youth.
"You pooK boy; here's a penny for
you. Now stop crying."
"Yes'rn. That's what I was crying
for."?London News.
The Doctor,
Parke?"Was that your doctor's auto
mobile in front of your house''"
Lane?"Yes. He owns it, and I paid
for it"?Town Topics.
Crazy Himself.
"Yes, if I do say it," said the conceited
fellow, "she's crazy for me."
"How unnecessary," remarked Miss
Sharpe; "you don't require any assistance
in that direction."?Philadelphia
Press.
A Cleveland Volunteer.
"It will take $106,000,000 t<f run New
York next year."
"Well, I believe that if they gave me
that amount, I could manage to run it
for a good deal less."?Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Putting- Her Right.
Aunt Margaret?"They tell me Flor-.
ence is your fiancee."
Dick?"No such thing; what stories
folks do tell! She and me is engaged,
and that's all there is to it"?Boston
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Competent Testimony.
Edyth?"Yes, Jack is inclined to flirt
a little, but his heart is in the right
nlace."
Mayme?"Indeed! How long has It
been In your possession?"?Chicago
DaL'y News.
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Chanced*
"They say her parents arc- common.'*
"Not at all. But I understand they
were so befure they got their money."?
Illustrated Bits.
Crom of Tear*.
Constance?"Why so lachrymose, 1
Gertrude? Is there any perceptible 1
diminution of his love?" i
Gertrude?"No, but of late he evinces
a disinclination to take about his '
money."?Town Topics.
All Anna. I
Mrs. Grumps?"Quite a puzzle in the |
newspapers these days, trying to de- i
termine how old Ann is." j
Mr. Grumps?"Should say so. Quite |
[ an impossibility to determine how old i
any woman is."?Yonkers Herald.
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Afraid. |
"I am sure, however." said the rich ]
old man. "that none of my relatives (
wish me to die." I
"What makes you sure?" ,
"Because I have only four, and they ,
are all lawyers."?Omaha News. ,
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Diplomacy. j
Bangs?"Henderson tells me you invariably
give in to your wife in argu- (
ment with her."
Bings?"That's all right: that's diplo- (
raacy, you know. It is the only way
I manage to have the last word."? ,
Unctnn Trnncorlnt.
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A Valuable Guide.
First Sportsman?"Good guide, is J
he?" 1
Second Sportsman?"Oh, yes. If nec- 1
essary, he'll do the shooting and bring <
home the game and let you say you <
did it, and thrash anybody that says
you didn't."?New Yorker.
The Leading Lady. 1
Flaygoer?"I suppose the leading 1
lady is very happy after getting all 1
those bouquets." _
Usher?"Oh. no. She only gdt flfE*'"""
Playgoer ?"Gracious! Isn't that
enough?"
Usher?"No; she paid for six, I be- .
lleve."?Philadelphia Press. j
Ha? the Habit. (
Mrs. Nexdore?"That piano we 1
bought for our daughter was a great
bargain. We bought it at auction,
you know." <
Mrs. Pepprey?"Oh! that may ao- j
count for it." .
Mrs. Nexdore?"Account for what?" I {
Mrs. Pepprey?"The fact that it's go- j t
log, going, going."?Philadelphia Presa. $
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| 9 ROADS.
A National Mouur* Needed.
At the recent session of the National
Grange Mr. W. Plerpont White, of
Utiea, X. Y., connected with the good
roads movement, spoke as follows upon
the subject:
"In the past ten years the nation has
expended the sura of $176,000,000 for
river and harbor improvements. What
has the nation done in the past ten
years to aid the farmer in getting his
produce to the shipping centres? Nothing.
Is there any reason why the natation
should not aid the farmer in cheapening
road transportation to the consumer?
No.
"Why has not the farmer had this
aid before? . Because he has not intelligently
asked^for it'through a representative
body i such as the National
Grange.
"Gentlemen, the Federal Government
is spending SI-to.000.000 a year in pensions,
as it ought to those who defended
the nation. It is spending millions
of dollars a year in great public improvements.
su^h as postofflces and
court houses, all of which money is
spent in cities and not in the country.
The nation, by a protective tariff, has
built up a manufacturing interest in
this country that has created wealth
in cities, wealth ill the nation and
drawn farm labor away from the
farms to the cities; and-it Is time that
the National Grange should intelligent,
ir dnnnort n national measure asking
for national aid in the intesfesf^ of^
cheapening transportation from the^
farm to the shipping centres, Just at
it honors and aids the veteran, and th*manufacturer,
the railroad and tl
steamship shipper. Yon gentlem
here are representatives of the r
Important interests in the nations
occupation lies at the foundatimfltfH
the success of this great republic^^H
the Industry of agriculture are enpaCT^B
35,000,000 of people of the Unite?
States, and you provide food for the^
entire 80.000,000, and have a surplus
product to send to foreign nations of
exports which range in value from
$700,000,000 to $1,100,000,000 annually,
and with these Interests at the
very foundation of the nation Is it not
proper that you should intelligently
advocate the cheapening of transportation
of your farm roads with national
aid?
"I ask your aid In behalf of tho
Brownlow bill, introduced in Congres*
last year and defeated; to be intro
duced again this year and we nope
passed, as It Is drafted on lines of
sound policy based on the best experience
of States r?4iich have gtanfred
State aid. The $20,000,000 sought to
be appropriated by this bill will call
for an appropriation of $20,000,000
more on accotfnt of the States and the
counties using the money, making a
total expenditure of $40,000,000, capable
of building 5000 mllec of ilghway
in the nation. This country has not
yet developed a Mr. McAdam or a Mr.
Telford. Road building is an art acquired
by experience only, and too-,
much money easily possessed by an
earnest, energetic, honest but inexpe
rienced road Dunaer, win noi mm*
rou the best results."
In thf South.
We have called attention several
times recently to the good work done
in Louisiana in the matter of better
roads, especially in Ouachlt^and Natchitoches
parishes. A bet It feeling
has been aroused throughout the State,
and we may look for a continued improvement
from year to year; that Is,
the more miles of good roads constructed
the more clearly their value will beseen.
The chief difficulty in the South in
building roads is the expense. The
~ * mnntf
soutnern couuues ub?c uui u>E
to spend on expensive roads, however
much they may be desired, as thej
have so many other heavy hardens on
their hands, in the maintenance of the
schools, levees, etc. If they are to d?
much in the way of road building it
must be done cheaply.
South Carolina Jias been experiment* *
Ing in this matter, and we learn frotM
the Charleston News and Courier thaH
it is doing splendid work in buildinjH
Rood roads at small cost. Some of th<fl
facts and figures given by the South*
Carolina paper are most encouraging;-*
showing that good roads can be constructed
at a cost far below what w?
have believed possible. Thus, in Newberry
County a road eight miles long
was constructed at a cost of only $350,
the chain gang being used. It is
claimed that this road is the cheapest
sver constructed in the United States,
ind this claim will not be disputed.
The Newberry road has been gravelled
from six to twelve inches thick. In
?umter County, where there is n?
rravel, good clay and sand roads are
heing constructed at a cost of $800 a
nlle. including the material and all
>ther expenses except the maintenance
>f the convicts employed.
If we can do in Louisiana anywJ^Htt
lear as wen as oomu
ng in this matter, there
>vhy any portion of Louisi^^^H^H|
>e without good highways H
eans Times-Democrat.
_-^* turjeit Parish la the
The largest diocese in tfl|^^H^H
that of Bishop Warren, of
ulist Episcopal Church. It^HBB
;rora i lie Afghanistan border an^i^B
ilimalayas, through and inclnding InH
iia, Burmah, the Malay Penlnsol/S
3ornco, and the Philippines. H
Llngalstlc Railway Employes, flfl
The administration of the Swedia^H
State railways has ordered that all tlB|
>assenger guards be taught EngllaH
md German nt the expense of t^H
State, this being one of the seveiRBj
nethods adopted to attract tounatsfl
o Sea urticaria. fl