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HOODV8 ASECDOTES TOLD
KUOU THK PULPIT.
k pt on quoting Scripture, feeling that
if the man didn't believe, God cou'd do
what He chose with His words, and
make it quick and powerful and sharper
than a two-edged sword.. The man
kept saying that he did-not believe
what the Bible said, and I kept on quot
ing passage- after paesage of Scripture,
and the man who, two hours before,
had entered the hall an infidel, went
oat of it a converted man, and a short
time after his conversion he left the
city for Boston a Christian, to join his
family in Europe. Before this gentle
man went away I asked him if he be
lieved the Bible, and his reply was :
"From back to back, every word of it."
.
A favorite way to study the Bible with
me is first to take up one expression,
and run through the different places
where they are found. Take the "I
ims" of John. "I am the bread, of
life;" "I am the water of life;' "1 am
the resurrection;" "I am all and in all."
God gives to bis children a blank, and
on it they can write whatever they most
want, and he will fill the bill. And
the promises. A Scotchman found out
31,000 distinct promises in the word of
God. There is not a despondent soul
but what there is a promise just to suit
him.
I remember when I was a boy I went
several miles from home with an older
brother. That seemed to me the longest
visit of my life. It seemed that I was
then farther away from home than I
had ever been before or have ever been
since. While we were walking down
the street we saw an old man coming
toward us, and my brother said, "There
is a man that will give you a cent. He
gives every new boy that comes into
this town a cent." That was my first
visit to the town, and when the old man
got opposite to us he looked around and
my brother said, not wishing me to lose
the cent, and to remind tbe old man
that I had not received it, told him I
was a new boy in the town. The old
man, taking off my hat, placed his
trembling hand ou my head and told
me I had a Father in heaven. It was
a kind, simple act, but I feel the pres
sure of the old man's hand upon my
head to this day. You don't know how
much you do by just speaking kindly.
A rule I have had for years is to treat
the Lord Jeeus Christ as a personal
friend. He is not a creed, a mere empty
doctrine, but it is He himself we have.
The moment we have received Christ we
should receive him as a friend. When
I go away from home I bid my wife
and children goodby, I bid my .friends
and acquaintances goodby, but I never
heard of a poor backslider going down
"i nav3 Deen
iiir service has
The anecdotes of Dwight L. Moody,
the famous evangelist, as told by him in
the course of his sermons, no doubt
contributed largely to the remarkable
btuutees of the evangelist in his chosen
work. He rarely preached a sermon
without making some apt and pointed
illustration which brought home to the
hearts ot his hearers the idea which he
wifhed to convey. His stories were
terse, simple and well told and his store
bonne of anecdotes beemed inexhausti
ble. To illustrate the character ol the
evangelist, briefly, it has been writteu of
biai' as follows:
Self-made, and conscious of the ab
solute truthfulness of every Bible decla
ration, I-vight Lymau Moot'y is, per
haps, the most independent and power
ful of evangelists. Man, rather than
books, and God, rather than man, have
t een bid study, and made his life in
tensely individual and one which has
((instantly increased in good works.
During his long labor he has been the
tiiime faithful, persevering, original and
puugent I). L. Moody, with an unshaken
faith in God and a burning desire for
the conversion of souls. At home Mr.
Moody is cheerful and happy; in the
eoiial circle he is genial and compan
ionable; in the pulpit he is truth on
lire."
Mr. Moody's anecdotes dealt with
every phase and character of life. He
appealed to his hearers earnestly and
with eimple eloquence and his power
ful personal influence and magnetism
he was listened to with rapt attention
wherever he spoke. His anecdotes ap
pealed to one's sense of affection, afflic
tion, assurance, belief; they were de
signed to inspire belief in the Bible,
they encouraged Bible study; he told
stories of the blind, the blood, of chil
dren, of Christ, Christian work, Chris
tian zeal, confession, conversion, decis
ion, deliverance, excuses, faith, forgive
utss. grace, heaven, infidelity, intemp
erance, liberty, little folks, praise,
prayer, song, trust, wisdom and things
closest to the jeople.
A few of the most striking of these
are giyen below :
"One day when I was in Brooklyn I
saw a young man going along the street
without any aims. A friend who was
with me, pointed him out, and told me
his story. When the war broke out he
felt it to be his duty to enlist and go to
the front. He wis engaged to be mar
ried, and while in the army letters
passed frequently between him and his
intended wife. After the battle of theipn his knees and saying
'.. :."ie.-ni,PB me young najiynea hoji- linear you for tea yj
ously for the accustomed letter. At last I
one came in a strange hand. She
opened it with trembling fingers, and
read these words: 'Now we have fought
a terrible battle. I have been wounded
so awfully that I shall never be able to
support you. A friend writes this for
me. I love you more tenderly than
ever, but I " release you from yo ir
promise. I will not ask you to join
your life with the maimed life of mine.'
That letter was never answered. The
next train that left, the young lady was
on it. She went to the hospital. She
found out the numbei of his cot, and
she went down the aisle, between the
long rows of the wounded men. At
last she saw the number, and, hurrying
to his side, she threw her arms around
his neck and said 'I'll not desert you.
1'Jl take care of you.' He did not re
sist her love. They were married, and
there is no happier couple than this
one. We are dependent on one another.
Christ savs, 'I'll take care of you; I'll
take you to this bosom of mine.' The
young man could have spurned her
love; he could, but he didn't. Surely
you can be saved if you will accept the
Saviour's love. If God loves us, my
friends, he loves us unto the end. 'For
God so loved the world, that be gave
his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life."
"I remember seeing a story sometime
Ago in print. It has been in the papers,
but it will not hurt us to hear it again
A family in a southern city were strick
en dowu with yellow fever. It was rag
ing there, and there were very stringent
tauitary rules. Tne moment anybody
died, a cart went around and took the
collin away. Tbe father was taken sick
and died and was buried, and the mother
was at last stricken dowu. The neigh
bors were afraid of the plague, and none
dared go into the house. The mother
had a little son and was anxious about
her boy, and afraid he would be neg
lected when she was called away, so she
called the little fellow to her bedside
and said, 'My boy, I am going to leave
you, but Jesue will come to you when
I am gone.' The mother died, te cart
came along and she was laid in the
grave. The neighbors would haye
liked to take the boy but were afraid of
the pestilence. ie wandered about and
noallv started up to the place where
thev ba'd laid his mother and eat down
on tne grave and wept himself to sleep
Next morning he awoke and realized
his position alone and hungry.
ttranger came along came along and
seeing the little fellow sitting on the
ground, asked him what he was waiting
for. The bov remembered what hi
mother had told him and answered,
am waiting for Jesus,' and told bim the
whole story. The man's' heart was
touched, tears trickled down his cheeks
unci he said 'Jesus has sent me,' to
which the boy replied, 'You haye been
a good while coming. He was pro
vided for. So it is with as. To wa;
for us we musi have courage ana pa
tience and God will help us."
An infidel come the other day to one
of our meetings, and when I talked
with him he replied that he didn't be
lieve the twelfth part of the Bible but
SAM JOKtf? WR1TKS HOW TO BUILD
A MODEL CUT. ' .
become tedious ami monotonous,!! -iiave
come to bid you farewell; goodbyj Lord
esus Christ. ' I never beard c$ one
doing this. I will tell you how tq&y go
away, they just run away. I
Two young men came into our in
quiry room here the other night, ana
after a convert talked with them and
showed them the way, the lighi broke
in upon them. Ihey were assea,
'Where do you go to church?" They
gave the name of tbe church where they
had been going. Said one, "I advise
you to go and see the minister of that
church." "We don't want to go there
any more. We have gone there for six
years and no one has spoken to us."
A young convert got up in one of our
meetings and tried to preach ; he could
not preach very well, either, but he did
the best he could. Some one stood up
and said: "Young man, you cannot
preach; yoa ought to be ashamed of
yourself." Said the young man, "So I
am, but I am not ashamed of my Lord."
That is right. Do not be ashamed of
Christ of the man that bought us with
His own blood.
I remember soon after I got converted
a pantheist got hold of me and just tried
to draw me back to the world. These
men who try to get hold of the young
converts are the worst set of men. I
don't know a worse man than he who
tries to pull young Christians down. He
tried to argue with me, and I did not
know the Bible very well then, and he
got the best of me. The only way to
get the best of these atheists, pantheists
or infidels, is to have a good knowledge
of the Bible. Well, this pantheist told
me God was everywhere, in the air, sun,
moon, earth, stars, but he really meant
nowhere. And the next time I went to
pray it seemed that I waa not praying
anywnere or to any one. We have
ample eyidence in the Bible that there
is such a place as heaven, and we have
abundant manifestation that His influ
ence from heaven is felt among us.
I won't accept this invitation be
cause of those hypocrites in the church."
My friend, you will find very few there
if you get to heaven. There won't be a
hypocrite in the next world, and if you
don't want to be associated with hypo
crites in the next world you will take
this invitation. Why, you will find
plenty of hypocrites in the church.
They have been there for the past 1800
years, and will probably remain there.
cut what is that to you r This is an. in
dividual matter between you and your
God. - -
Sarage Hog Kills a Farmer.
jacoo vanaoren, aged 73 years, a
farmer, living near White House, Md.,
died from injuries received three days
ago, when he waa attacked by a vicious
hog. The large hog broke from its pen
and attacked Vandoren before he could
defend, himself. One of the hog's tusks
tore a frightful wound in his leg and he
was otherwise badlv injured. Vando
ren called to his dog, which attacked the
savage beast just as it was making a
second onslaught. The hog left its vie
tim and attacked his dog, which ena
bled Vandoren to make his escape.
Pittsburg, Pa. The building of
cities dates back almost as far as the
history of mankind and we have as
many varities of cities as we have
varieties of men. I have been in and
through almost every Important town
and city in the United btates and
Canada, but it was my good fortune on
this lecture tour to visit and spend a
day in the model city of America, the
town of Vandergrift, Pa., forty miles
northeast of Pittsburg, situated on the
historic Kiskiminetas river. Beautiful
for situation and pleasant in all its
surroundings, mountain, hill and dale
all blended, making an ideal spot. This
town was first created in the fertile brain
of Mr. George G. McMurtry, president
of the Apollo Iron and Steel works. It
was a great pleasure to me to meet him
and listen to his" words bo full of instruc
tion and common sense; I spent more
than two hours talking with him.
This young city, three years old,
which he has builded, or rather which
he has taught others to build, is a mar
vel of symmetry, beauty and conveni
ence. Mr. McMurtry told me that he
had visited all the leading manufac
turing towns of Europe and America
and had obtained all the information
that skill and experience could give on
how to build a town. He saw that the
first thing was foundation and that the
foundation of every model city must
begin with a perfect sewerage system.
Secondly, that they must have pure
water. Thirdly, that environment must
be conducive not only to health, but to
contentment and happiness of the citi
zen. . He said that the foundation
which lies Kdeeper than the sewerage
system of the city was the fact that a
man is a man whether he is behind a
hoe or behind the manager's desk, that
a man has a perfect right to live and
to prosper by his labor, that he is
entitled to fair, square treatment by his
employer, that he should have the
privilege of making and maintaining a
homethat his confidence in his em
ployer'is next to value to his skill as a
workmen, that in order to secure and
retain" his confidence his employer must
repose confidence in him, evince a
lively, practical interest in his welfare
and the betterment of his social condi
tion and encourage him to look for
better things.
The sub-foundation of this town was
in tbe fact that a citzen is both a
master and a man; master of his own
destiny.
He told me that the Apollo Iron
and Steel works had been located in
Apollo, a town three miles away from
Vendergift, and was the largest produc
ing plant in the world of sheet steel and
iron. That he was not satisfied with
the environment of Apollo, so he moved
and rebuilt tUe plant ot tow irou and 4
steel works ai d then builded this
modern city around the plant. Alll the
plans, methods, etc., were in the mind
of Mr. McMurtry and he employed Mr.
Fredarick Olmsted, who was the architect
of the general plan of the World's fair
at Chicago, and under the skillful
direction of Mr. Olmstead -the plan of
the town was developed, and while this
town now has been in existence only
three years they have more than three
thousand population, and a finer class
of people does not live on this continent.
Ninety-seven per cent of the citizens of
Vandergrift are American citizens, only
three per cent foreign born.
They have most beautiful churches.
The company of which Mr. McMurtry
is president gave to each Christian
denomination not only a beautiful
building lot, but seventy-five hundred
dollars in cash, with only two conditions
attached. First, that they were not to
build a chur.. h costing less than fifteen
thousand dollars, and that no debt or
mortgage should ever b created on this
property. The Methodists, Presbyter
ians, Lutherans and Catholics have all
builded beautiful churches and all are
prospering, and all are growing in
numerical strength. They are now
just finishing a beautiful opera house
costing about thirty-five thousand
dollars.
. The business houses of the town are
niodela in architecture and beauty. The
residences are built after the most im
proved plans. Tne Apollo Iron and
Steel Works campany don't own a
single residence or business house in
the town. They laid the foundation of
the town, put in -sewerage, furnished a
magnificent water '. works,- giving an
abundance of pure water, electric lights,
paved the streets and put down elegant
stone sidewalks, etc.1; etc., and simply
advertise the lots for sale and selling
them very reasonably, and with each
lot all the priveleges. of the town are
given to the purchaser of the lot. More
than three thousand energetic, healthy.
industrious, contented people now live
within the corporate limits cf this
beautiful city. Each" deed to real estate
from the company carries with it a
prohibitory proviso for ninety-nine
years that no kind of liquor or beer or
wine can be sold.
Mr. McMurtry told me that the
Apoila Iron and Stee works didn't
propose to be a Salvation Army, trying
to get men to heaven, or a benevolent
institution to take care of the sick and
destitute, but that from a business
standpoint beautiful churches and well
tilled pulpits furnish advantages that
business men cannot overlook. A
hospital to take care of the sick is not
only charity, but good business policy
with an institution with a large enter
prise, that they didn't propose that in
Vandergrift they should give to any
body anything except an opportunity
to be somebody and to do something
worthy of a man. He said to me that
sewerage, water and lights, and no on.
are generally inaugurated by piecemeal
and poorly done at best m the cities,
and the cost created ben dad debts and
increased taxation, but the city of Van
dergrift has all these and not a dollar
of debt on the ci';y and furnishes oppor
tunity for industry and economy such
as few other' towns inihe wt;rld give to
men. In the great and iron p'ant
the wages of the b', ?n grade frc:n a
dollar ana a half a ' p for the com
monest laborer to- terrK'ars a day for
the more skilled one'VTaese laboring
men have purchased, era" hts ind
builded their houses and uiey furnish
to the steel and irojr" plant the moat
intelligent, and with all, the most
reliable labor in the world.
.A man1 who is not all right finds a
lack of congenially in this town and, he
very soon either walkB the plank volun
tarily or involuntarily. The plan of
this town is built oa the idea that
men must be healthy'to be efficient and
that good health has much to do "with
the moral and intellectual character of
a man, and' the men in Vandergrift
know that fidelity to the trusts com
mitted to them not only icscTes them
a permanent job, but it Mil give to them
prprton jl hta. tsjf-s.oo!8 not pander
to the slum element with its' Baldens t
and gambling hells and vicious places.
They have sense enough to know that
that element neyer pays its way any
where, but simply furnishes victims
for the "penitentiary, almshouses and
perdition.
I shall carry with me Jmost pleasant
memories of this beautiful young model
town, and I shall be a wiser man be
cause I have met and known Mr.
McMurtry, the president of the Apollo
Iron and Steel works, and the builder
of this town.
I have concluded my lecture tour.
Sam P. Jones.
The Markets of the World for Cotton
Jackson ville Times- Union. .
It is an impeachment of the sound
sense of the southern people to suppose
that they will vote next year to destroy
the prospects of material advancment
for which they have waited so patiently
and labored so long. Let the issue be
presented to them clearly, and they
will not be so fanatic as to play into the
hands of the New England manufac
turers and shut dowu their mills just as
their doors have been opened. To-day,
with the Philippines in our possession,
we shall syeak with voice potential for
the open door in China, and find our
claim backed by England and Japan,
with the new ally, Germany. Relinquish
the Philippines and the door would be
closed in our faces, except as it was
kept open for us by the grace of friends.
Shall we accept a position so humiliat
ing as this? The south is quite capable
of doubling its production in raw cotton,
and so long as the markets of the world
are open to us it is quite possible for the
south to manufacture into cloth a large
portion of the increased cotton crop and
yet fiad leady sale in foreign markets
for every yard that the mills can pro
duce. We believe that the time is
rapidly approacLjng wbn there will be
no each, thing afoverpud 6rtiorr xl tai
oouuiry.
Doctors and Morphine.
One of the leading experts on ine
briety in its most virulent forms, Dr. T.
D. Crothers, recently read a paper
before the Connecticut Medical associa
tion on the subject, "Morphinism
Among Physicians," which contained
some remarkable statements. As doctors
are as a class best acquainted with the
destructive ejects of morphine, cocaine
and such powerful drugs, it would seem
that they would be the last to fall vic
tims to them. But Dr. Crothers de
clares that 21 jer cent or one in five :
or the physicans of the middle and
eastern states use spirits or opium to
excess; and helconcludes that from 6 to
10 per cent of all medical men are opium
inebriates. It is estimated that there
are 150,000 opiumists in the United
States; and ehis' fact, in connection with
the prevalence of the opium habit
among doctors, presents one of the
gravest problems for solution before the
American people.
Dr. Crothers arraigns the men of his
own profession as being responsible to a
great degree for the spread of morphin
ism in this country.
He Had Been There Himself.
The night was dark, consequently the
electric lights had been turned off. Mr.
Bothskid, the banker, who was return
ing home at an unusually late hour,
picked his way over the frozen ground,
and as he approached the brown stone
mansion which had been his home for
many years a stifled sob escaped his
lipB. The tnou-jht that it would soon
pass into other hands was more than he
could bear.
He had nearly reached the door when
a burly footpad emerged from behind a
tree and ordered him to "stand ana ae
liver.". ' ;
A wild, uncanny laugh rang out on
the frosty night ak and echoed . down
the deserted avenue. It was a mirth
less laugh, and it caused ti shiver to pass
through the footpad s stalwart frame.
My good man," said the banter in.
a hollow voice, "you are too late.
have iust been around paying for the
Christmas presents my wife bought me
Here is my watch and diamond pin."
"No, no" cned the highwayman,
brushmsr a tear from his cheek, "1 am
a robber, it is true, but I have a heart
Anci thrusting a roll of bills into the
backer's hand, he vanished in the dark
ness.
Drowned in a Bath Tab.
The New York Sun of Monday gives
these particulars of the death of a North
Carolinian m that city :
Frederick H. Harris, a clerk 20
years old, living in the apartment house
at 20 West One Hundred and Fourth
street, was found dead yesterday morn
ing in his bathtub. The tub was full of
water and bis head and the upper part
of his body were sub-nerged, but his
legs were dangling over the side. The
police believe that the young man had
a fit white naming ana was arownea
The coroner's office is investigating the
case. Harm came here from Chape
Hill. N. C, last July. He has been
employed as aclerk by the Continental
Tobacco Company."
SURE DEATH TO COUNTRY MKR-
. CHANTS. " ''
Some members of the Natiomal Asso
csation of Manufacturers, together with
the proprietors of seyeral large depart
ment stores, "" and" other philanthropic
citizens, who seem to think that Uncle
Sam should conduct his affairs to serve
their personal interests, are trying to get
Congress to pass a law admitting large
parcels of merchandise into the mails at
a low rate of postage. Among the ar
guments they present is the fact that in
Great Britain the postage on parcels is
6 cents for the first pound and , 2 cents
for each additional pound, thus making
an 11-pound package, which is this limit,
cost only 26 cents: and then they goin
io hysterics over the great benefit and
convenience it would be to the plain
people to have such a rate of postage
for the transmission of their Christmas
presents. The wonder is that they do
not ask. Uncle Samtory their - pack
ages for nothing, y , "'i"
Let us see how this would work. To
begin wilh, our postal service now has a
d ficit of some $9,000,000 per annum
for operating expenses alone, and if to
this be added the appropriations for new
post offices and new equipments, with a
reasonable amount for depression in val
ues and wear and tear, the deficit would
probably amount to $20,000,000 or more
per annum.
Who pays this shortage?
Every schoolboy knows that if Uncle
Sam does not sell postage stamps enough
to pay his postal expenses, he must
make it up from his customs duties, or
from other internal revenues, so that
the people pay the Government's deficit,
which form 8 the profit going into the
pockets of a few large business houses
who are in a position to work Uncle
Sam's machinery to their personal ad
vantage. If a woman in Oklahoma, or Oshkosh,
or any other out-of-the-way place, can
get a new dress," or ten pounds of tea, or
a boy's Buit, or a pair of shoes, or any
thing else that her family or household
uses, in New York, Chicago or St. Louis,
or any other big trade center, at an
expense of 26 cents or less for postage,
will she patronize her local storekeeper?
A cheap parcels post means sure death
to the country merchants, a blow to the
prosperity of every little country vil
lage, and an enormous reduction in the
business of regular j bbing merchants
and all for the benefit of a few mer
cantile aggregations that are not sat
isfied to corral all business within 100
miles of their establishments, but now
want Uncle Sam to pay delivery chages
on their packages so that they can cap
ture the retail trade of the entire coun
try. If we are not very much mistaken,
the million or so of country merchants
will have something to say before Con
gress passes any new postal laws which
WOUld inevitably CUrve- thse--nroluiaiiJ
out of busines.
BILL. ARP HI KuM" UROLIJa.
Laziness and Success.
loung People.
"Laziness, said Mr. Chipperly, "is
one of our besetting sins, and it is quite
possible that we may be very lazy even
when we are fully occupied. How many
of us pitch in for all we know how
when we work, and how many of us
putter around the edges and pick out
the easy things and use up the time on
them, and fight shy all the time of the
tough proposition that somebody's got
to tackle? That's the question. There
are more forms of laziness than one.
"Not only is 'procrastination the
thief of time,' " said Mr. Gray top, "it
the underminer of resolution. By
putting off we not only lose time, but
we get into a spongy, no account, irreso
lute state, which may become a part of
our habit in life. With this way of do
ing thines we may scrape along from
day to day, but that is all. To succeed
we must get at it, and as getting at it is
the opening wedge to success in life, so
keeping at is the beetle that drives the
wedge home.
I have just returned from good old
old North Carolina a state that I love
because of its good people, and, partly
for the same reason that Alex Stephens
said he loved his little dog, "because
the little dog loved him." I am never
more honored than when I go to visit
old Bip Van Winkle, that Washington
Irving made famous and Joe Jefferson
immortalized. The good old state
waked up long ago and immortalized
herself by sending to the civil war
more soldiers than any state of the con
federacy, not only more in actual
numbers, but more in proporfiou to
population. And she would do it again:
The confederate sentiment is stronger
there today than anywhere that I know
of and I am actually afraid that tae old
veterans are getting ready to rise again.
Why, at Wadesboro twenty-six of them, ;
in old confederate badges, escorted me
to the hall. Some of them had but one
rm tndjBme one leg, and they were
all solemnly" prouo?T?tTte??
They circled half around me on the
platform and reminded me of the grand
sanhedrim that Moses tells us used to
gather at the tabernacle. They baye a
Tammany hall in the village, where
they rendezvous and refresh their mem
ories and keep alive and burning the
confederate sentiment. I do hope they
wonrt rise again.
From there I went to Monroe, a
beautiful little city of 4,000 people, who
are wide awake and are putting on
metropolitan airs. Cotton jnills and oil
mills and waterworks and a gas plant
are already established, and I was
pleased to see that the children in the
factory looked healthy and happy, and
the superintendent told me he paid the
youngest of them 25 cents a day, and
warked them only 10 hours. I met
scores of old confederates there and
some of them came miles to greet me.
It was a real ovation all the day long,
and made me feel humble and thank
ful, for I can't understand what I have
done to merit such kind attention. One
old veteran who lives in the Waxhaw
settlement brought me a hickory cane
cut from the spot where Andrew Jack
sou waB born. Another veteran came
sixteen miles to bring me a jug of
mineral water from his spring, thai he
said would cure me of my kidney
trouble in two minutes. "Yes. sir,"
said he, with emphasis, "ia two min
utes by the clock."
But I must forbear for this time and
close this long letter with love to all
mankind except some. Bill Arp.
once
Jost Hla First Marriage Certificate.
Salisbury Sun.
James G. McGlamery, of Wilkes
county, has had the honor of marrying
the same woman twice. The hrst cele
bration occurred twenty-Bix years ago
and the last only a few days ago since.
Mr. McGlamery tells the Chronicle that
twenty-six years ago he and America
Nichols went to South Carolina and
were married. They made their home
there till a few years ago, when they
were burned out and everything de
stroyed. The certificate of marriage
was burned with the other things. They
mqy-ed back to Wilkes, where they have
lived together since. They have eight
children, some of them married. There,
however, are alwavs "doubting Thom-
aseB." and some of their unfriendly
neighbors have recently doubted their
marriace and threatened to have suit
brought. Their certificate was gone.
and the witnesses dead, and so they
decided to have the ceremony performed
aeain so as to allay the doubte of their
neighbors.
A 'Woman Hanged.
Brandon, Manitoba, Dec. 27. Emily
Hilda Blake, a domestic, was hanged
here this morning for the murder of
Mrs. Lane, her mistress. The execution
was private, only a few persons obtain'
ing the privilege of witnessing it.
Miss Blake, who was only 22 years
eld. walked firmly to the scaffold with
out assistance and was the coolest of the
party with the exception of Hangman
Ratcliffe. She made no statement. The
girl confessed that she committed the
crime, saying she did it because she
loved Mrs. Lane's children and was
jealous of 4he mother's love. Her trial
was very brief, as she refused all offers
of counsel and pleaded guilty.
"I was discharged simply to vindicate
an old adge," said Simpkins.
"How was that?"
"The adage says, 'Where thcre'p
smoke there fire.' The boss had a rule
against smoking. I smoked and was
fired."
The Sanctif y of a Church.
Philadelphia Times.
Persons in New York who look a
long way around a corner to find some
thing to grumble about are protesting
because a church in the heart of the
"Tenderloin" district, that was
given over to the seductive song of the
soubrette. In other words, it is turned
into a music ball.
Not a mile away from this edifice, in
a fashionable part of Madison avenue,
a church building has for years been
used as the up-town office cf an express
company, in enlarging ana altering
the building nothing was done to con
ceal the fact that it had been a church.
In every growing city one may find
churches whose congregations have
deserted them as trade drove population
elsewhere. But have they ceased to be
churches? Charles Kingsley, in
Hypatia," tells of Augustine wanting
church in which to preach to his
soldiers.
"There is a ruin which was last
month a church," he was told.
"And is one still," replied the saint
"Man did not place there the spirit of
God and man cannot expel it."
A Judge on Pardons.
In sentencing Levi Moore to 99 years
.. . t i -r -1 ir
in the penitentiary, juage jonn w.
Wofford, of the Kansas City Criminal
Court, recently made some remarkable
statements. Among other things ne
said :
"When ou go down to the peniten
tiary behave yourself and some 1001
Governor, who wishes to distinguish
himself for philanthropy, benevolence
and kindness, may pardon you. Yours
is an extraordinary ca3e, and some
Governor may think he can become
distinguished by pardoning you. There
fore the jury did you a great nenent not
to hang you. They have given you a
chance to be pardoned.
We have had examples lately ot
Governors seeking to become heroes by
rinrfJoninflf murderers and criminals in
this State. The hero lactory nas oeen
working oyertime in the last eighteen
months. If a man can become a hero
by wading a river with the water up to
his shirt tail, why can't a Governor be
come a hero by parloning you?"
The Kataral Inference.
A gentleman was riding on one of
the coaches in the Trossachs of Scot
land, when the driver said to him:
"I've had a coin guv me today 200
years old. Did you ever see a coin 200
years old?"
'Oh, yes," was the reply. "I have
one myself 2,000 years old."
"h " said the driver, "have ye?'.'
And he spoke no more during the reBt
of the journey.
When the coach arrived at its desti
nation' the driver came up to the gen
Hem an with an intensely self-satisfied
air and said: .
,rI told you as we came along that
had a coin 200 years old.
"Yes."
"And yousaid to me as you had one
2,000 years old."
"Yes, so I have."
"Now, you be a liarP'
"What do you mean by that?"
"What do I mean bv that?"
"What do I mean? WThy it's only
1899 now!"
terse:, tart asx tiisklt.
- . .. : 1
Mr. : McKinley - is already, making -plans
for stumping, tours during the
Presidential campaign; - one of them
will be to the Pacific coast.
The frequency with which the ad-miLiistra'-.on
goes to the rescue of the
Wall SV reel speculators boded no good
to th V- pul.iican party.
Gen. iioe Wheeler's friends are ob
jecting to the treatment he is receiving
at the hands of Gen. Otia. It is more
than probable that Otis acted on orders
from Washington, when he assigned
Gen. Wheeler to an unimportant com
mond in Liizon.
That the people of this Republic. are
not ungrateful"- shown by the rapid
growth of the funisfor the widow and
children of Gen. Lawt?.
When Mr. Brigham Mtoberts looks
over the trouble that thrtse wivea haye
made for him he must doisbt that there
is luck in odd numbers. S
pieasicrTr-s , newspaper jn ?v";i
step toward Filinmo uoerty 1
openly stater" that the new8p5ne -Or-
Manila h ,,e less freedom in pubiianing
the nev8 than was allowed under the
Spanish regime.
Can the United States afford to keep "
on giving the lives of such soldiers as -Gen.
Lawton for the Philippines ? It ia
high tiaae for the people to seriously
consider this question.
There are many evangelists, some of
them strikingly successful, but none of
them have been as successful as the
late Dwight L. Moody. It is not giyen
to a single age to produce to such men.
It lookB as though England would
soon be compelled to sell bonds to raise
the money to meet the enormous ex-
pense of the war in South Africa. Eng
land will, in the end, get the Transvaal
Republic, tmt she will haye to pay a
big price for it, both in money and in
blood.
Enla Stou a factory.
Trion factory with its immense power,
driving 30,000 spindles, was stopped by
a school of eels.
j.ne eeia came down the creek m
large numbers after heavy November
rains and went through the flume into
the wheel pit. The unusual obstruction
caused the speed of the mill to slacken
and the machinery was Btopped. An
examination was made and about 200
pounds of eels were found in the pit.
A citizen of Trion wrote the following
letter about the incident to the editor of
Textile Excelsior, a cotton mill journal
published at Charlotte.
Trion Factory, Ga.
Editor Textile Excelsior:
For the past three years we have had
considerable experience with eels at this
mill. They come down stream after
the first rain in November. So numer
ous they are that they choke down the
naiejr jlhis tact joas bees re
ported before in the TexKie-Eaaseigior,
and it seems that there was considerable
doubt about its being true. Again I
say that on November 27 there came a
rain which made the river very muddy.
Along towards night the speed began to
go down. Everybody cried out "eela
again!" To be sure that it was eela
and no small number, we stopped the
mill and opened up the wheels. Sure
enough, there they were, the wheel pit
full of them. Two hundred pounds
were taken out and many dropped
through the wheels.
After the boys had taken out all that
were still alive, we thought of the
doubts that might arise when this fact
became known. We concluded, there
fore, to haye a photograph made. It
represents what was left after all the
town had been supplied with the eels.
This photograph is a view of what takes
piice nere every year in tne way 01
catching eels. These weigh from one
to six pounds, and the majority are of
the larger tribe. The water wheels had
to stand all day and the next on ac
count of so many eelsget tuto
them, and lor fear some of the gearing
connected with the gate would be broken.
Just Like a Youngster.
Detroit News.
Major Ford H. Ecgers tells an amus'
ing anecdote of the late Gen. Clinton B.
Fiske. The General was addressing a
Sunday-school convention. One of the
speakers had reminded the children
that it was Washington's Birthday.
"Children," said General Fiske, "you
all know that Washington was a gen
eral. Perhaps you know that I am also
a general. Now, can anyone tell what
was the difference between General
Washington and myself?"
'I know, sir, piped a small boy m
the back part of the room.
'Well, what was the difference?"
said General Fiske smiling at the lad's
eagerness.
"George Washington couldn't tell a
lie, sir," cried the boy in exultant tones.
Shouts of laughter followed, in which
the General joined heartily.
Pensions Claims Increasing.
Washington, Dec. 25. It is expected
by the officials of the Pension Office that
the applications for pensions on account
of service in the Philippines or Cuba
will more than offset the decrease in the
pension list on account of deaths of, pen
sioners. The pension attorneys have
beeu watching the lists of casualties very
closely and have been ia communication
with injured and sick soldiers until
nearly 25,000 applications for pensions
have been filed. As a large majority of
the claims have been filed by- a few en
terprising firms, the attorneys will make
a good thing of it, as the fee is $10 for
each pension allowed.
When a washerwoman changes her
place of residence, one may ask "where
she hangs out now," without using siang
An Unfortunate Keeollection.
"Whom did you marry, Billy?"
"AMissJones, of Philadelphia. '.'
"You always did like the name
'Jones;' you used to U;g around after a
little snub-nosed Jones girl when we
went to school together."
"Yes; she's the girl I married."