The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, June 08, 1898, Image 8
TMS POET AND THE CHILDREN?
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'with a glory of winter sun shine
Over his locks of gray,
In the oki historic mansion
He nt on his last birthday.
With his books and his pleasant pictures
And his household and his kin,
While a aound^as of myriads singing
Prom far and near stole in.
it esme from his own-fair city?
From the prairie's boundless plain,
From the Golden Gate of sunset
And the eedarn woods of Haine.
And ins heart grew warm within him,
And his moistening eyes grew dim,
For he knew that his country's children
Were n*ngfag the songs of him.
The luya of his life's glad morning.
Th? psalms of bis evening time,
Whose echoes shall float forever
^OtfthVSrai?is *ef er&iyclhne.
AH their beautiful consolations,
Sent forth like birds of cheer.
Came flocking back to his windows
And sang in the poet's ear.
Grateful, bot solemn ai? tender, >.
The music rose and fell?
With a joy akin to sadness
And a gree?n^?ike?aTewen.
With a sense of awe he listened
To the -voices sweet and young.
Sha last of earth and the first of heaven
Seamed in the songs they song.
And waiting a little longer
For the wonderful chan ie to come.
Se heard the summoning angel
Who calls God's children home!
And to him in a holier welcome
Was the mystical meaning gi van
Of the words cf the blessed Haster,
"Of such is the kingdom of heaven.**
. -John G. Whittier.
In the absence of. Jules, Mme.
Cham pc linet's one female domestic, Me*
lanie, serving in this bourgeois house?
hold in the double capacity of cook and
chambermaid, opened the door to Raoul
de Malplaquet and ushered Mm into the
?alon.
"My mistress," she said, "will be
down in a minute."
A miaute? Yes, but such a minute ai
one only'experiences in hairdressers' ox
barbers' shops, and which enabled
fiaoui to completely inventory .the fur?
. nifeire of ?se room inwt?ch he found
himself, while the "hands' of the docs
were making the roun?Lcf the dial
; On the stroke of the half hour, ir
bo^ Mme. Champonnet appeared, hot,
Sashed, breathless with the speed of the
toil et sh a had made.
"Soar pardon, monsieur, for keeping
von so long; aise, aa I do not know you
ktaH, for ?king you the object of you
sailing here.''
? ?aoul rose to his feet.
"Madame," said he solemnly, "to
f?ome to the point at once, yon have a
.laughter, Mlle. Georgette, I believ?.
i "She is, monsieur/'
"So charming that it emly remained
{"or me to see her once to know.that it
2s useless for me to attempt to resist the
{jassion with which she has iinspired
toe. X am cursed, you see, madame, with
i 2rost impressionable nature "
"You have come, then, monsieur, to
Ask of me the hand of my daughter in
?^riage;"
t "But, no, not at all, madame. Impres?
sionist; though i t>e, I am also a poet and
oould not reconcile myself to the idea
of marriage in the vulgar, prosaic fash?
ion of nowadays. I am here, madame,
to ask your permission to--abduct your
daughter."
/'To abduct Georgetta! You are mad,
monsieur!"
"With lore-I confess it !"
"But no, no, I tell you. Your propo?
sition is simply preposterous."
"But reasonable, all the same, ma?
dame, since I simply loathe convention
a]?ty and seek my happiness in an indi?
vidual way. I love your daughter. I
prove it by wishing to abduct her. li
site on her part permits herself to be
abducted, it establishes. beyond cavil
her profound love for me. We become
at once, madame, with your permission,
the talk of the town. "
"Exactly, and I do cot like scandal "
" But fame is not scandal, madame,
.and see-always with your consent
bow eacyitwil? be. We rush to tbs
station; we leap aboard ? sleeping car;
we dash into Spain, that land of chiv?
alry and of flowering orange trees, and
there, at midnight, by tho light of the
moon, we marry clandestinely"
"Which is just what I object to, I
tedi yon, monsieur."
"Marry clandestinely, I repeat, in
some obscure little chapel, dimly light?
ed by a single taper. The romance ends,
you observe, madame, in the most ortho?
dox manner."
"But Georgette herself-she will
never consent, monsieur. Abduct a girl
like her, with every accomplishment
. and suitors by the score!"
"Granted, madame; but ask her and
see! Your daughter, as the Comtesse de
Malplaquet"
'"Eh? What name did you say, mon?
sieur?"
".Comtesse de Malplaquet Further?
more, madame, I would add that I waive
the payment of that 10,000 francs that
you have put aside as your daughter's
dowry. My own fortune is amply suffi?
cient; my income, alone, 200,000 france
a year. You will, my dearest lady, you
Will permit me to abduct Georgette,
whom I truly adore?"
Comtesse de Malplaquet! Two hun?
dred thousand francs a year !
lime. Cham ponnet began to soften.
"But wait, but wait ; yon go too fast,
monsieur," said she. "You spring up
in my way like a Jack in the box ! Your
credentials, your references, please ; for,
after all, understand, I do not know
you."
''Credentials? Certainly, madame; J
perfectly proper precaution. My notary,
Mai tre Pitou, 18 fine Bonjard, will put
you au courant of my entire history."
"And Georgette-she does not know
you, monsieur."
" Wrong again, madame. I saw her
at the vaudeville some days ago, and
she responded to the ardor of i?? ?tazs
with a sympathetic blush. Ask her?
madnme, ass her if I may abd not her.
1 desire no mora "
"^T?i?, go be it, monsieur. I nave
only the interest of my child at heart
Six days from today, then, return for
your answer."
"Six days from today, madame."
Raoul bowed and departed.
Raoul, Comte de Malplaquet, had
joally been, up to this hour-so Maitre
Piton, 18 Bue Bon jard, said, whose in?
come was large from his care of the
comte's estate, and larger still from his
care of his morals, according ; that is,
to the report he gave of them-a young
man of the steadiest habits, wholly ig?
norant of the taste of absinth-in his
bitters, at least-his fortune a reality;
briefly, a rana avis in the matrimonial
market.
It was only this crazy abduction
scheme of his that worried good Mme.
Cbamponnet, with her old fashioned
way of regarding things. Still, after
alV it was merely a pretense, the fool?
ish notion of a romantic lover, a mock
abduction, in truth, since she, fore?
warned of it, was an accomplice in it
Then the title of comtesse and 20,000
francs a year falling to the'lot of a de?
scendant of the hardware trade certain?
ly merited some little concession in the
way of maternal scruples.
She decided to lay the whole matter
before Georgette.
"Abductme," cried she, "like a real
Lochinvar! Why, mother, how charm?
ing I"
"And you are sure, you are sure,
Georgette," the mother continued, de?
termined to do her whole duty to her
child, "that you have observed this
gentleman sufficiently to be certain that
he will be agreeable to you?" /
"Observed him sufficiently when he
has followed me like my shadow every
day for a month past!"
Naturally, therefore, when Raoul ar?
rived promptly to the moment at the
appointed" hour there remained only
the preliminaries to settle for the affair.
' ' Which will take place, madame, ' '
Raoul concluded, "on Friday next at
me midnight hour"
"The hour of crime!"
"For me the hour of happiness. On
J-riday, then, I say, at 11:30 p. m., I
stop under your window. The sound of
a mandolin played by me will be the
signal, The dead latch will be up, and
you will >be .sleeping-like the dead,
madame. Georgette will descend; we
spring to the carriage; I'll have it in
Waiting;. gallop, to the station, jump
aboard th? rapide, and next day find
ourselves the leading article in the
morning papers. You, by noon, will be
interviewed by all the reporters of tho
city, visited and condoled with hy all'
your enemies, and a dav or two later
will receive from us a letter detailing
our happiness. Now, as I have still
many things to do before my departure,
I bid you au revoir."
" Without seeing Georgette?"
"To see a girl I am going to abduct
would be improper, madame."
And Raoul, the case won, withdrew.
On. Friday, then, at midnight, the
abduction, se arranged, came off. Mme.
cuamponnet, even try a" happy" fore?
thought and an eager desire to increase
the comfort of the affair, having dis?
patched, secretly, of course, to Raoul's
address a trunk containing Georgette's
handsomest and thinnest clothing. It
was always so hot ic Spain !
Spain? Picture, then, her consterna?
tion, her maternal despair, to receive
from-Norway, a whole month, too,
after the abduction had taken place, the
following telegram :
"Did not go to Spain at all. Too hot
Here we are freezing. You ought to
have sent a bearskin in the trunk. Not
married yet. ^he religion here is Prot?
estant Tomorrow we start for Asia
to warm ourselves. We do nos know
the religion there. "-From the French.
Effective dan Jose Spray.
The salt, sulohur and lime spray foi
San Jose scale, as it has been used with
good results in California for many
years past, is made as follows: Unslak?
ed lime, 40 pounds; sulphur, 20 pounds;
salt, 15 pounds. Ten pounds of the lime
is first slaked and boiled with the sul?
phur in 20 gallons of water for three
hours over a brisk fire. The remaining
80 pounds of lime is slaked and added
to the boiling mixture, the salt is then
put in and the whole boiled from 80
minutes to an hour longer. Water suffi?
cient to make 60 gallons is then added.
When the ten pounds of lime and th?
sulphur have been boiled long enough,
the mixture assumes a deep amber color
and the sulphur will be held in solu?
tion. Before use the whole should be
strained through a fine wire screen and
be agitated while the pump is at work.
It may be strained through burlap, but
loose threads are carried through, and
these are liable to dog the pump.
This mixture has been found equally
effective as a preventive of curled leaf
and fungous disease, as a remedy for
the scale, and in all the large orchards
of California it is used religiously every
winter. It must not be applied after
the trees are in leaf or when the buds
are bursting, as it will injure the fo?
liage, but when the trees are dormant it
can be used without danger, says a cor?
respondent of The New England Home?
stead. _
Cereal Exports.
" A report of the department of agri?
culture states that cereals that were ex?
ported in greatly increased quantities
during the past year to meet foreign d??
ficiences were oats and barley. Ship?
ments of oats were made to the extent
of 35,096,736 bushels, valued ac $8,
756,207, as compared with 13,012,590
bushels, valued at $3,497,611, in the
year preceding, while the exports of
barley during the same period increased
from 7,680,331 bushels to 20.030,302
bushels in quantity, and from $3,100,
811 to $7,646,384 in value. The ex?
ports of rye, while much less important
also show a notable gain, having ad?
vanced from 988,460 bushels, valued at
$445,075.for 1896 to8,560,271 bushels,
valued at $8,667,505 for 1897. Prior to
last year our shipments of buckwheat
were not large enough to be considered
worthy of separate mention in the offi?
cial accounts of our export trade, but in
1897 they assumed more imp?rtanos and
were stated at 1,677,102 bushels, with
a valued$678.959
A Lesson Ir: Business.
Blum per failed once and lost bis last
dollar. He studied the thing over from
every, view and concluded that his fatal
mistake was in hot advertising. He was
a general favorite in the country town
where be met with disaster, he held
nothing ont against his creditors, and
his reward came in the shape of the
postmastership. The income depended
very largely on the Dumber and value
of stamps sold, Blumper determined
that he would not fail again, at least
from the same cause.
In the local paper there appeared a
big display advertisement notifying the
public that Blumper had the largest,
brightest, newest sud best selected
stock of postage stamps in the county.
He would sell them at- the lowest figure,
warrant thom to be all that was repre?
sented, would sell them in quantities to
suit the purchasers, guaranteed that
they would carry a letter as far and as
safely as any other stamps in the world,
defied competition and wound up by
saying that he had the backing of the
j government. As long as it was good he
? was good.
! "It beat the band," tells an old etti
! zen. "We laughed at him and knew
that he was the first postmaster that
ever adopted such tactics, but he was a
winner. It tickled the people almost to
death, and there is no better way of
getting their favor. They sent from 100
miles in every direction to buy stamps
of him. Not a man came to town to do
business or make a visit that did not
have a commission to bny postage
stamps of Blumper. He made a nice
thing, is now in private business again
and thinks an advertisement about as
good as ready money."-Detroit Free
Press.
Not Their Exact Words.
The general tendency to look at the
actions of others through one's own par?
ticular spectacles is frequently observed.
Perhaps not so often noticed, however,
is the habit of unconsciously rendering
another's speech into one's own lan?
guage.
A Boston girl who had been taking
her first lesson in bicycle riding ex?
pressed her satisfaction at home at the
result of her experiment
"The man said," she repeated, "that
I had made most satisfactory progress
for a novice. "
"Why, did he really say that?" was
the surprised query. %
"Well, no," answered the Boston
young woman, after a moment's reflec?
tion. "What he did say was, 'You'll do
fust rate for a new beginner. ' "
A friend of the poet Bryant chanced
to be alone in his study when a cabinet
maker brought home a chair that had
been altered. When Mr. Bryant return?
ed, he asked :
"Miss Bobbins, what did the fellow
say about my chair?"
"He said," answered the visitor,
"that the equilibrium ils now admirably
adjusted. "
"What a fine feBow!" said Mr.
Bryant, laughing. "I never heard him
talk like that Were those his exact
words?"
"Well, he said, 'It joggles just
right1" repeated Miss Bobbins. -
Youth's Companion.
Story of a Boston "Tip."
Li a fashionable restaurant the other
evening a lady and gentleman were din?
ing before going to an up town theater
They had been belated in arriving, and
their order was consequently small and
nastily consumed. Handing the waiter
a $5 bill for the check, he was requested
to hurry, but as he did not return with
the $2 change, nor could he be seen
anywhere in the room: the gentleman
beckoned to another waiter and tol?
him to look up the other. After a still
longer delay, the first waiter, looking
glum enough, reappeared on the scene.
"Where is my change?" said the gen?
tleman. "You told rae to keep the
change, " returned the waiter, with a
surly air. Here the lady took a hand
"You're mistaken." she said. "It is
not likely that the fee should be $2
when you leave us to put on our own
wraps. ' ' So the fellow drew the $2 from
his pocket and the gentleman, not wish?
ing to make further trouble, gave him
the customary quarter and departed.
Every one knows the course that should
have been pursued, but with not two
seconds to spare people cannot stop to
make complaints at headquarters, and
this the wily waiter understood quite
welL-Boston Herald.
Wanted a Good One.
Speaking of antiquity brings up the
inexplicable American fad of using
coats of arms. It reached a climax not
long ago, when a youthful daughter of
a wealthy German brewer visited an
engraver's office, and, looking over the
books on heraldry, finally ordered one
coat of arms for her own use which
combined the prettiest features of those
belonging to three great English houses.
Her youngest sister, not to be outdone,
ordered one for her notepaper and books
Which contained devices from five old
English houses, not one of which coin?
cided with the other's choice. The
amazed engraver endeavored to expos?
tulate, but neither of the young womeu
would listen to his argument. "They
liked the coats of arms," they said, j
"Anybody could buy them who wanted j
to, and they didn't propose to allow i
any ridiculous nonsense to prevent them j
having what pleased them. Besides that,
they wanted them different anyhow, so
that they wouldn't get mixed up."
New York Mail and Express.
The Better Word.
JcAd-Don't you realize that mar?
riage broadens a man?
Benedict-Oh, yes. I suppose it can
be put that way, but "flattens" is the
word I've always used.-London Tit
Bits.
The American consular agents at
Kalamata, Greece, and Dardanelles,
Turkey, received as compensation from
the United States treasury in 1896 the
sam of fl each.
Tr ny CD ic Ken* Dfe.
The "unknown cause" of the fre?
quent losses among chickens before they
are more than 4 weeks old which we
see frequently spoken of or inquired
about in some of the papers professedly
devoted to the poultry interests, and
which they often ascribe to "constitu?
tional weakness," is most frequently
caused by indigestion. The weakness is
an inability to digest their food with?
out clean grit of some sort to go with
it into the gizzard, or ix> digest sour and
moldy dough or moldy grain under any
conditions. We have seen some such
cases, and we always found either this
or lice in abundance to be the cause of
the trouble. There may be a constitu?
tional lack of vigor which causes chick?
ens to die in the shell before they are
sufficiently developed to break out and
which causes well cared for chickens to
grow very slowly and mature late, and
even to be generally worthless after
they have matured, but we ascribe
these to the breeding fowl having been
made too fat or to having been weaken?
ed by some disease like the roup. Sud?
den deaths in great numbers after the
chickens are hatched and growing well
are usually due to a lack of vigor on
the part of the keeper. Somebody is too
lazy, careless or busy sit something else
to kill the vermin in th? coops, give
fresh, clean gravel in the yards and
mix fresh, sweet food every time they
are fed and take away all that they
will not eat up clean as soon as it is
given them.-American Cultivator.
Cleaning Boosts.
The proper way to clean a roost, says
Epitomist, is to first carry everything
out doors, roost poles., nest boxes and
loose boards. Give them a dose of oil
and apply the match. If the wood takes
fire, it can be put out by throwing sand
on it. Now rake out all fowl dirt and
give the inside a good coating of white?
wash. Do this once a month. If we do
not have time for all this, then get some
liquid lice jiaint and go over the roost
poles, nest boxes, etc., with a brush
dipped in the paint. Put on a good coat.
This should be done just before the
fowls go to roost at night Probably the
fowls will not like the smell, but drive
them all in and shut the house up tight
for an hour or two. This will not only
kill the red and gray mites, but all the
body lice on the hens as well. In ten
days (after the lice eggs previously laid
are about all hatched out) repeat the
operation, when we may reasonably
know that our hens and roosts are free
from lice and will stay so for a month
or twa Farmers should feed oats more
freely to poultry than is generally the
case. Oats are a most excellent eggmak
ing food when fed in connection with
other food. Boiled oats are especially
good. _
Feeding: Affects Eggs.
We once heard an old physician say
that when obliged to remain at some
houses so long that it was necessary or
desirable to eat there, he always chose
to have one or two eggs boiled for him.
The impression conveyed was that he
thought that nothing unclean could be
inside the eggshell, but if he could
have seen some of the messes that are
fed out to hens or that hens feed upon he
would scarcely have felt so sure of hav?
ing wholesome food even when he broke
the eggshell. Many people do not un?
derstand that an, unpleasant flavor can
be fed into an egg as easily as it can
into milk and that only such food
should be given to the fowl as is per?
fectly fresh and free from objectionable
odor3 or flavors.-Cultivator.
Managing a Husband.
It is ridiculously funny to hear two
or three married women discuss the mo?
mentous question of how to manago a
husband, asserts a writer in the Phila?
delphia North American. Yesterday I
dropped in at a bride's cute little home
to sip a cup of tea. The poor little crea?
ture had evidently had a slight differ?
ence with "hubby" before he left in
the morning, for she seemed a wee bit
unhappy. It was not long before a
young matron entered and made a third
to the party. This particular macron
has a great reputation for managing
her spouse and was just the person "the
bridey" needed. She commenced at
once, and this was the conversation :
"My dear, is your husband ever
cross?"
"What a funny question! He is nev?
er anything else."
"How in the world do you manage
him?"
"I don't try. I just let him alone. "
"But how do you make up:"
"We don't. Ho is always as cross as
two sticks at breakfast. They say most
men are. He gets off a lot of sarcastic
things about women attending to their
households, clubwomen, and so forth,
and then he goes away mad."
"Oh, dear me, you poor thing! And
yet Tom told me this morning you were
so congenial and so well suited to each
other."
"So we are. When Harold comes
home in the evening, he hands me a
little package and says he hopes it will
please me. I tell him he is too good
and that I wish ail wemen had as good
a husband as mine. Then I see what he
is giving me. Sometimes it's a lovely
belt or a new chatelaine or a fancy
scarf or something of that sort, and I
give him a kiss and ask him to forgive
me for being cross in tho morning. "
The little hostess looked dazed and
went on sipping her Ku ?J un tea in pro?
found silence. Finally she broke out:
"And yet you deliberately told me
you did not manage him'-"
Pertinent query. What has Mr. Tom
in store for him in future?
Sign of a Trip Abroad.
"Mrs. Gaswell, your daughter's visit
to Europe seems to have made her quite
a polished young woman. "
i4I should say so. My land! You
ought to hear her say, 'I shall be very
pleased.' "-Chicago Tribune.
Live With the Dead.
Thousands of Egyptians live in old
tombs, eating, sleeping, wooing, loving,
laughing, dancing, singing, doing all
their deeds of daily life and household
work among the mummies and sar*
cophagi.
Eloquence at ?;ay.
It was a preacher who had that "fa?
tal 006007" for whom an acquaintance
laid a trap. He had a way of promising
to preach, and on beginning would say
something like "I have been too busy
to prepare a sermon, but if some one
will kindly give me a text PU preach
from it." One determined to cure him.
He therefore asked him to preach. The
invitation was accepted. The time came,
and the visitor began his usual intro?
duction: "Brethren, I have been so
pushed for time today as to have been
quite unable to prepare a sermon. But
if some of you will give me a text I'll
preach from it. Perhaps my brother
here," turning to the plotter near him,
"will suggest a text. " "Yes, brother,"
came the ready response, "your text is
the last part of the ninth verse of the
first chapter of Ezra, and its words are
.nine and twenty knives.' " There was
a pause, an ominous pause, as the
preacher found his text He read it out,
"Nine and twenty knives," and began
at once. "Notice the number of these
knives-just exactly nine and twenty;
not thirty, not eight and twenty. There
were no more and no less than nine and
twenty knives. '' A pause-a long pause.
Then, slowly and emphatically, "Nine
and twenty knives. " A longer pans3.
Then meditatively, "Nine and twenty
knives." Again he rested. "Nine and
twenty knives. " A dead stop. "Nine
and twenty knives-and if there were
nine hundred and twenty knives I could
not say another word. "-Harper's Mag?
azine.
The Canyon of the Yellowstone.
The canyon is so tremendously wild
and impressive that even the great falls
cannot hold your attention, say^ John
Muir in The Atlantic. It is anout 20
miles long and 1,000 feet deep-a weird,
unearthly looking gorge of jagged, fan?
tastic architecture and most brilliantly
colored. It is not the depth or shape of
the canyon, nor the waterfalls, nor the
green and gray river chanting its brave
song as it goes foaming m its way, that
most impresses the observer, but the
colors of the decomposed volcanic rocks.
With few exceptions the traveler in
strange lands finds that however much
tho scenery and vegetation in different
countries may change Mother Barth is
ever familiar and the same. But here
tho very ground is changed, as if be?
longing to some other world. The walls
of the canyon from top to bottom burn
in a perfect glory of color, confounding
and dazzling when the sun is shining:
white, yellow, green, blue, vermilion
and various other shades of red indefi?
nitely blending. All the earth here?
abouts seems to be paint Millions of
tons of it lie in sight exposed to wind
and weather as if of no account, yet
marvelously fresh and bright fast col?
ors not to be washed oct or bleached
out by either sunshine or storms.
Expensive Mirth.
"Cheery words cost nothing"
"That's where you are way off. I
said two cheery words yesterday, and
they cost me $17."
"How did that happen?"
"Well, I slapped a big man on the
back and said, 'Hello, Fatty!' "
"That was all right"
"No, it wasn't He turned out to be
a man I didn't know, so we knocked
each other down and got into court "
Boston Journal.
Not Built That Way.
The Publisher-We can publish your
book of epigrams if you will guarantee
us the cost of printing and binding.
The Poet-It's no go. I never could
enjoy witticisms at my own expense.
Cincinnati Enouirer.
r< util at in ~ the Teeth.
lt is curious to what an extent the
mutilation of teeth goes cn among sav?
age nations, and even among certain
civilized people, such as the Japanese.
With them a girl is never married with?
out first staining her teeth black with a
repulsive kind of varnish, and the cus?
tom is especially adhered to among
members of the richer classes.
On the west coast of Africa a large
proportion of the teeth are deliberately
broken when children reach a certain
age. Both in the new world and the old
the custom exists of extracting the two
front teeth of domestic servants. In
Peru the custom has existed from time
immemorial and used tu be a sign of
slavery in the days of incas. This is al?
so the custom on the Kongo and among
the Hottentots. Teeth are stained in
various colors among the Malays.
A bright red and a bright blue are
not uncommon, and a bright green is
produced with the aid of arsenic and
lemon juice. Livingstone related that
among the Kaffirs a child with a prom?
inent upper jaw was looked upon as a
monster and immediately killed. On
the upper Nile the negroes have all
their best teeth extracted in order to de?
stroy their value in the slave market
and to make it not worth while for the
slave traders to carry them off.-Pear?
son's Weekly.
Converted by a Handshake.
Here is a good story of tho Right
Rev. Thomas Underwood Dudley.
The bishop had gone to Beattyville,
and the place was rough and desolate.
A rough looking man came up to him.
"They tell me you're from Virginia,"
said the man.
"Yes."
"Thev tell me you fought with the
rebels.""
"Yes."
"Give me your hand, pard. My
name's Bill D?lau, an I'm a blacksmith
down here."
"Bill," said the bishop, "I'm proud
to meet you."
That night Bill Dolan went to the
service and heard the bishop preach,
and he went afterward too.
Twelve years later the bishop went
to Beattyville once more. It was sun
set. Ho was met by the town's clergy?
man. "Bishop, Bill Dolaw died y ester- j
day, and before he died I baptized j
him," said the minister. "In his last
words he told me co tell the bishop that
he loved him."
"That" said the bishop, "was in- I
deed a compensation!"-Louisville Cou- I
rier-Journsi. '
GOOD ROA?) WISDOM.
How to Improve the Highway? at {?mall
Increase of Expense.
It is constantly being remarked in
conversation and printed in interviews
and editorials in the papers that better
roads are very necessary, but that they
are too expensive. The community is too
poor to do anything, and there the mat?
ter ends.
This need not be so, says The L. A.
W. Bulletin. There is hardly a town or
county in this country in which the
money now annually expended is not
sufficient to procure m neb better road
surfaces than now exist, while a very
slight increase in expenditure would
make great improvements possible.
Head taxes must be paid in money,
and not in labor. Good results have
never been obtained by working out
road taxes, and it is not in the nature
of things that they should be. What
ever is to be spent on the roads must be
available for use in the employment of
experienced help under intelligent su?
pervision.
Proper grading must be secured, hills
reduced and fillings made until no steep
hill exists that the farmer must "load
for" every time he hauls over the road.
The bed must be thoroughly drained
or a good surface will be impossible,
and the surface must enable the water
to flow off readily. Nothing ruins a
road so quickly as water standing on it
or soaking into it.
The roadbed rc* be crowned enongh
to shed water and must be kept in con?
dition by a system of regular repairs
and continuous oversight.
After a good surface is secured by the
above methods it must be preserved and
maintained by permitting only the use
of wide tires on heavily laden vehicles?
thereby continually rolling and improv?
ing it
Conflict of Nature and Art.
A young man here in town who is
studying drawing-I won't say just
how or where-went out to a Welsh
rabbit supper at a friend:s studio one
evening. The supper was given to cele?
brate an examination in light and shad?
ow which several of the ycung art stu?
dents had just undergone with success.
The young man I speak of was full of
the subject. His mind was still dwell?
ing on it when he started home. Half
an hour later a fellow art student came
up with him. He was standing before
an equestrian statue in one of the little
parks and was intently studying the
shadow of the bronze rider cast by the
moon.
'"Say," said he to the other student,
"look at that shadow. I've cast lots of
shadows and I've studied 'em. That
ain't a bit like it I know shadows.
That ain't an angle of 45 degrees."
Here he took his friend's arm.
"Old boy," ho said solemnly, "that
shadow's all out of drawing."-Wash?
ington Post *
The Letter D.
The Semitic people called D Daleth,
a dcor or opening, whence the Greek
delta. To us in its present form it is
not much like a door, as we know, but
if the orientals lived in tents shaped
like the letter B it is not wonderful
they should have doors the shape of a
D. Our form of the letter is greatly
changed from the ancient D, but a
glance at the Greek delta, which is a
right angle triangle, shows it identical
in shape with the triangular tent door
closed by flaps of canvas, and when one
of these was drawn back a shape was
represented which must have been fa?
miliar to all orientals.
Getting Even.
"I notice," remarked the literary ed?
itor, casually turning over the leaves of
the book the- struggling author had
bronght in, "you have given your hero
six fingers on his right hand, and there
is nothing in the story, so far as I can
see, to explain why. May I ask what
the extra is for?"
.*To snap at the critics, " vociferated
the struggling author, with a gleam of
vengeance in his eye.
The worm pad turned.-London Pun.
Hood's
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taste in the mouth, coated WL0 ill Sf*
tongue, gas in the stomach, IBS 3^
distress and indigestion. Do *"
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?KA1H8 GOING NOR JE
No 72.?
Lea** Wilson? HUI {9 10 a a.
Jorcou 9 ?5 a n
.. Da^, $4^au?
?u:u2>ertO? 10 10 au.
" Millard, lp a ...
" S?lv?r, ' Ii Iv a ia
*? i*aok-?vi??e. il 30 p tr
" Tts?ol, ii ?op s.
11 W cv S. JUL?., 12 27 p fe?
ar. Suaotei, 12 30 p ?.
TRAINS GOING SOUTE.
No 73.?
Lewvc Sumter, 2 30 pr
" W. JkS.JatC. 2 33?o
" Tindal. 2 60 p m
%* Packeville 3 10 p m
" Silver, 3 35 pia
?. Millard, 3 45 p ia
.? Sammert o 4 40 p to
Davis, 5 20 p fe
' Jordon, 5 50 p fe
Ar, Wilson Mill, 6 3l? p to
Traine between MiKard and St. Pani kare
Millard 10 15 a m and 3 45 p m., arriving
St. Pad 10 25 a m and 3 55 p m. Returning
leave St. Pa .1 10 35 a m and 4 10 p m, and
arrive Millard 10 45 a rn and 4 20 p m. Dai?
ly except Sunday.
*Da:ly except Sunday
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