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I s? ????, As High as Her heart B) Martha McCul.och-Wllllams Ospyrlafci, l.'sg, t'U M. Wood V ; i lionise en me Into the ro-e garden lit a little willful run, a p t on her lips, her pretty arelntl eycb.. w? uyln.. vainly to ?cowl. Hut her face cleared magically nt sight of Trent, who liud eome lu by the further Kate, Invisible from the front piazza. lie swung his hat to her Joyously anil us soon us she eame with in easy hail said hushedly: "Great larks afoot; great lurks! ltut, say, can you keep a secret?" "1 think 1 can keep one?going. That Is what most secrets are for," Deniae answered, with the least toss of the head. Trent gave her an Injured glance. "I take that as personal," he said. "You know how 1 hate to have you spoil yourself attempting epi grams." "Dear, dear! Can't one speak frozen truth lu the shortest possible fashion?" lieulse apostrophized, sticking out her pretty chin and making herself insult ingly tall. Normally the top of Trent's head came Just level with the part of her bright hair, hut when she thus ex aggerated her stature his shrunk inch by Inch. Luckily he was not sensi tive on this point. He smiled quizzic ally as he said: "Nature was kind to save me so much trouble. You know, one always looks up to what one wor ships." But Itenlse answered him with a grimace and turned half about, then all at once demanded: "What is this trumpery secret? If I knew any thing I wouldn't take ull day to tell it" "Not even If it involved "treasons, stratagems and spoils,' eh?" Trent an swered tranquilly. "This does Involve all of them. Billy Mason is running away to marry. Il.u treason to you, since you are not the bride. Instead while THE MINISTF.!t HITBltlED THBOnail HIH OFFICE. you are the stratagem, in part at least. You are to go right off anil ask Ma llnda's aunt"? "It's never Mallnda! Mallnda Ma loney!" Denlse ejaculated, clapping her hands. Trent nodded emphatically and ran oil "You're to get Mallnda out of dress?say you want her company In to town or any other thing you please. The point Is to get her. She must be In Courthouse square by 11 sharp to morrow morning. I shall be there to look after the gpolls. Beldlng Bros, will be paying off their mortgage?$10. 000 that Is rightfully Mallnda's money. Unless she marries before Mrs. Ketch am gets a chance to reinvest the cash she may whistle for It until she's rising thirty. You see, by old man Maloncy's will Mallnda's husband is to have no control of her estate except so much of It as may be represented by cash In bank ui*on the wedding day. Everything else Is tied up hard and fast at the discretion of Aunty Ketcham. I had better say at her temjM-r. She hasn't got a thing In the world against Billy except that bis mother cut her out with his father, a matter of thirty years back." "That's good and plenty! How stu pld you men nie," lionise sold sagely, "but Bister Ketcham wouldn't let an archangel have Mallnda with her good word, because her bad word means keeping a clutch on the money, and ?he's so stingy she even grudges her self a good long breath." "You'U bring Mallnda?" Trent ask ed. Denlse nodded contldently, but all at once cried: "Oh, I forgot! Maybe 1 can't. The Baxters are coming That's why yon found me in such n taking." Trent whistled. "The Baxters 1" be rejw-nted. "How many strong?" "Old madam ami Bon John and His 1 Barali," Denlse answered. Trent wills- 1 fled again. "1 dont think we quite ' deserve that," he said. "Your mother Is. I dare say. delighted, but how ' about the squire?" 1 "Dad would Is' swearing If he dared," ' Denlse said, sighing. "Poor dear! He ' knows If he did mother would turn on ' the waterworks, go to bed and stay 1 there a fortnight. And then all my ' next season's party frocks would go up In doctor's bills. We liear one anoth er"* burdens - dad and I. But for what he'd have to suffer over it I'd run away from home whenever anybody ?aid Baxter." ' "Vou'll have to do It In the end. Why ' now now?" Trent said persuasively, trying to take her baud. Slit- pulled it away, but not angrily. Maying with a liuli' slgb. "Not Just yet. 1 must litul out tilings." "What tilings'/" Trent persisted. Pcnl.se looked away. "They are whether I want the frc.-dom anil tin* ?the money you would stand f she said at last, "or whether 1 truly Mike you yourself." "Settle it eitlier way. Just so you take me," Trent said Joyously. "However, um 1 going to get Mulin dn" I toi e hrol " out. Trout chuckled. "Tell Sister Ketch am you're going to be married and want Linda for brid >maid. Then, of course, she won't mind letting lier go along to help select wedding tinery"? "That she will," lienlse interrupted. "She doesn't believe in weddings, hard ly in marrying. I reckon slie's 'fraid if I.inda sees too much of the holy in stitution there'll be no chance of her keeping single or di voting her and her money to the missionary cause." Notwithstanding I Ionise was certain she could fetch Mallnda. She was al ready rehearsing a fairy tale of bar gains that would, she knew well, ap peal mightily to the thrifty Ketcham soul. And all would have fallen out ex actly us she hud planned if there hud been no lluxters, whom she bud left wholly out of account Unluckily Mad am Baxter overheard enough of talk between Deuiae and her maid Iteua to let her guess pretty well how the land lay. So I teniae was hardly away from the Ketcham place, with Linda trem bling and happy at her side, than mad am was telling Sister Ketcham over the phone a deal more than all she knew or even suspected. Anil thus it fell out two hours later that as Billy and Linda stood up before the minis ter. hearing, but not heeding, bis sol emn exordium, the door was filled with a bloeky figure, red faced, gasping und lor the moment speechless. Amos Trent was no big man; still be hnd a grip. Before Sister Keteliam found voice lie was beside her, holding her fust with one hand, the other laid firmly over her mouth. And there it stayed, while the minister, sensing the ?ituution. hurt-icl through ills office. Billy said afterward he "beat the time o' every purson south o' the Ohio riv er." At the "1 pronounce you man and wife" Amos let go, not suddenly, but with a suave relinquishment that left Sister Ketcham still upright. As she glared at him Ilenlse ran up to them, holding out lit-r hand and blushing like a rose. "We have made such a dread ful scandal, Autos, let's get the worth of it," she said. "Yes, you may have liie if you will take me. 1 shall never feel taller than you any more." So then and there the minister had another Job cut out for him. lie did it with a llourish and always said he was proud of the day's work. Sister Ketch am was for making him trouble, but found she hud no case; also that since she had seen her niece married In the the law's eye she had consented to it and thereby lost control of the proper ty. As for 1 lenlse und her husband, thty lived happy ever after, chiefly, said I lenlse. because Amos could make her mind him, but liud the wit never to try doing it. Pleased Himself. A certain head gardener, whose work is admired by thousands of visitors every summer, is as outspoken us lie is capable. Not long ago he was summoned before the directors of the establish ment where he is engaged to explain why he had made certain alterations without consulting the board. "Well, gentlemen," he remarked, "the alterations is u success, and that satis lies me." "Hut that Isn't the point," said the chulrman. "Why didn't you consult me in the matter?" "Because, sir, I'm satisfied with my place at present, and intend to keep It." "I don't think you are going the right way about It," said the chairman. "Well, I do, and thafs where we dif fer," returned the gardener boldly. "I've had the Job five years, and be fore I came you'd had four gardeners in twelve months. Why? Becuuse the first tried to please the chairman of the board and failed. The second tried to please the manager and didn't stop a month. The third tried to please the secretary, and the directors sacked him. The fourth tried to please the whole board. and so ran afoul of the manager and the secretary. The fifth - that's mo -pleases hlsself and keeps hla Jobr And. be it remarked, the gardener la ?till "pleasing hlsself" at the same place.?tendon Truth. Th? Earll/a Jonrnrf. The earth does not travel at the same rate all through Its Journey. Its orbit living elliptical. It must at some time approach nearer to the aim than at oth ers ami will take less time In moving through one part of Its path than through another. In wtnter the earth is nearer the win than tn summer and mows* through space more rapidly. On Jan. 1 the oerth is shout 8,000,000 miles nearer the sun than it Is on July U and as the velocity of a planet ln rrrasas with its nearness to the sun the earth passe* over one half of Its orbit In less time than over the other half. Between the vernal equinox, which happens on March 21, and the autum nal equinox, which falls on Bopt. 23, the parth Is 180 days in accomplishing thnt half of her Journey round the sun. wlille the other half occupies only 170 lays. It has been aaid thnt owing to die friction caused by the tides and ither reasons the earth It moving more llowly than it used to do nnd that the lay* are consequently lengthening, but is this Is only to the extent of half a ?eeond In a century it will be n long lime before there will be any apparent inference. I DANGER IN EARLY RISING. A*w York Xi-<il<-al Su>? II foildut'eM III lluiilifir. All the spiritual descendants of Sau rlio I'uuxa, that fin st eulog.st of sluui ; l?'r, should bless I ho ii., me of l>r. Sei dell TulcOtt of New York. Iff. Talcott In u specialist in mental diseases, and , he deelurei (hat the liabit of early ris ing conduces to uiadnesii. "The free and lazy savage," he nays, "Bets up when he feels ready and rarely or nev i er beeomen insane." I?r. Talcott'* pro test should be considered carefully by his fellow countrymen, who, even more j than the British, pride themselves oil their active habits. Itecently, we be lieve, there has been founded In New i | York a society whom* members pledge themselves not to take more thun four hours' sleep in the twenty-four. It would be interesting to follow the health and life histories of those who keep this pledge, for we do not sup pose that there is anything dangerous in early rising in itself, but only in the combination therewith of going to bed late. On the whole, it is better to obey the old proverb and "go to bed with the lamb and get up with the lark." But it is a different tiling when oue com bines the attempt to fulfill the lntter part of the advice with a habit of go ing to lied with the nightingale. Y'et the increasing strain of business com pels early rising in those who would succeed, while if they want to com bine pleasure with business they will find it impossible to get to bed before i midnight or even then, for our amuse | ments seem to begin and end later every year. The energetic people who go in for this fashion of life are apt to assure others, and themselves also, that they do not require much sleep, and undoubtedly it is possible with practice to do with much less than the normal amount of rest. It is impor tant. however, to remember that such a habit cannot be Indulged In without a corresponding sacrifice of health.?Lon ] don Hospital. Parisian Beauty of Today. j Frenchwomen n n' never beautiful now, says the ungallant M. Marcel i'revost. I.ots of them are pretty; you I never see a plain Pnrlsieiine; but the i prettluess is of the toilet. Plainness is | j dissimulated by art. Those engaging ! looks are manipulated. The color j comes and goes, and one's maid can fetch and carry it. as Lady Teazle said of a contemporary. But M. I'revost is impartial between the sexes. Mascu line beauty, he alleges, does not exist in France. Talne one day. talking to his class at the College de France about the renaissance types of man hood, exclaimed, "Ah, gentlemen, how ugly we are nowadays!" M. I'revost agrees with Taine. In any assemblage of Frenchmen, he declares, the appari tion of a really handsome man would excite Injurious gossip. He would have to go home and disfigure himself to retrieve his character. This is carry ing the prejudice of plainness rather far.?Paris Messenger. California Elk Preserve. The California elk is to be saved from extinction. Henry Miller, the cattle king, is arranging a preserve, immune from gun and dog and the civilized things which harry forest dwellers, where the elk may live on in peace and even increase. The eut tle king will be able to carry out his praiseworthy scheme because already he owns nbout alt the California elk which lift their antlers today. He never bought them with money, but he went into their wild haunts and saved them from the destruction which was wiping their species out of existence. The elk which he now owns compose what is probably the only herd of American elk which it will be possible to save.?San Francisco Chronicle. What the Csar Would Be. Here is a confession from the czar of all the Russias: "1 love traveling, but only when I can do it in my own way. I never travel otherwise than at night and spend my day visiting mu seums and quaint old streets, bazaars when I am in the east, antiquarian shops when I am in the north. I am more of an Asiatic than a European in my tastes, and I have not only a vast collection of Indian curios and quite an army of Buddhas, large and small, but also a library composed of books treating of Indian subjects alone and another of books dealing with Egyp tian law. Were I not?well, what I ain, I should be the greatest bookworm In the world." Benoftt Shan* the Kaiser. One of the curious features of the Gordon Bennett automobile race waa | the absence of James Gordon Bennett i the donor of the cup. Mr. Bennett has never made any secret of the fact that i he regards the kaiser as a dangerous i man, whose political plans and policy ( must be opposed to the uttermost, and I he has consistently exerted his Influ- 1 ence in the press in this direction. It 1 Is understood that Mr. Bennett came to I America for the express purpose of 1 avoiding the necessity of going to Hom burg. Even Boston Slips a I.lltle. 1 If we are to believe the scientists, | Boston is slowly sinking into the sen. I The datum plane, to which all eleva- i tlons are referred by the city engineer- i ing departments, shows that after a t lapse of seventy-two years we are .79 t of a foot nearer the sea thnn we were, t In other words, the land of Boston and 1 vicinity is sinking at the rate of about 1 a foot per 100 years.?Boston Globe. ? AN UNLUCKY DIAMOND. Owilrd l?> Ooui Paul Kruir<*r. If llntl ? dlrui.Ki- H:ntlirr, When Ooin i'aui Kruger went i > Ku ropc. lie took Willi hllU a famous dia mond. which wan Hah] to l.ave lcou;bt misfortune ?nil dectl, to nil its pos k<*?- rs. It ha 1 a cui ?ua hi- ry. The diamond c .inally belonged to lleshhesli. n itaauio <. f. from wlioiu il Was ??. i jrlel1 by . ' o ha. 11 /hllU klni;. TT baku'l h i act killed hint uud atole the atone. The brother c-ame to gi lef, iitill toe gi in passed into toe i>os aeaaioo of a Zulu chief, who soon aiter w .i'i v as a fcsii. utl. The nallvea aav that no k-ss than sixteen of the successive posseaaors of the diamond were either killed or driven out of the country for the -ake of tlie a in. Tlie diauioud Was then oca by white men, who nought to possess it. A par ty of white ..il irked the natives who hud ti e atone in their possession, and a i ve tight ensued, in which tlno lives, mostly unlives, were lost. Ueiuelu. a native chief, took the gem and concealed it in a wound which he had received in the battle. Afterward Momeia was caught by tlie Boers and set to work us a slave. Kruger, hear ing the story, relensed hitn, und in gratitude Mernela gave the atone to his liberator. Some years passed, and then Kruger met his misfortune. Where the fatal diamond is now is not certain, though it is certain that the ex-president of the Transvaal part ed with it. Some say that it is in the coders of tlie Vatican and some that it was sold to tlie emperor of Austria and is now among tlie crown jewels of Vienna. Tlie stone is said to he 200 carats in weight, hut is not perfect. SelcntiNtN' Experimental llethndH, When tlit" memorial to Sir Ueorge Stokes tvas unveiled the other day, Lord Ilayleigh held up as an example still to be followed the simplicity of Stokes" experimental methods and the limitation of his apparatus to the bare essentials for the demonstrations he had ill view. Professor George Dar win has well said that people are now adays too apt to think that science can only be carried forward with elaborate appliances, and yet many of the finest experiments have been made with cardboard, cork and sealing wax. Mod ern science has rendered necessary for many investigations highly expensive instruments, and great laboratories are required for college purposes, but, ob serves Professor Darwin, "the number of grout investigators has been but lit tle Increased by laboratories, and those who arc interested in science and have not access to laboratories should not give up their study in despair." There are gentlemen living today who have spent almost as many thousands as Newton and Stokes spent pounds over their apparatus and yet up to the pres ent have not far eclipsed the two Lu casian professors.?London Telegraph. Egyptian Hag*. Hundreds of tons of Egyptian rags are exported every year into the Unit ed States to supply the paper mills. At Mannhelni-on-tlie-Khlne American im porters have ragplcking houses, where rags are collected from all over Europe, the disease Infected Levant not except ed. and where women and children, too poor to earn a better living, work day after day, with wet sponges tied over their mouths, sorting these filthy scraps for shipment to New York. The best papers are made of these rags. The common ones are made of wood pulp, which is obtained by grinding and macerating huge blocks from soft wooded forest trees. Will Locate the illume. Not long ago famous astronomers were telling us that the sun spots have no appnrent connection with the weather. Now comes the United States wenther bureau, an institution which makes a specialty of climate, and an nounces that it suspects a casual con nection between recent barometrical disturbances and the approaching sun spot maximum and that it purposes to look deeper into the spots. The meteor ologists are naturnlly more anxious than the astronomers to fix the blame for the weather somewhere.?Boston Transcript. Odd Population Facta. More than 3,500 persons In the Unit ed States are a hundred years or over. There were 200,BH4 persons who could not tell their age to the census takers. There are more persons six years old in ihis country than of any other age, 1,832,1118. The census men counted 153,000 babies under one month of age. Thirty is n fatal age. There were 1,405,250 persons who were thirty years old and only 850,575 who were thirty-one years old, a falling off of more than 600,000. The Englishman*. Income. The total annual lncomo of the peo ple of the United Kingdom, ns estimat ed by Sir Kobert Glffen and Professor Bowley, approaches $10,000,000,000. Our population at this moment is as nearly as possible 48,000,000. Dividing $10,000,000,000 by 43,000,000, we get neurly $235 as the annual Income per head of the British people. Taking a family ns five persons, we see that the iverage Income per family la about $1,175 per annum. -London News. Explorer*. Few explorers have gained great ivealth. Most of them have either for 'elted life In the pursuit of their am otions projects or been satisfied with itnall pension. Sir Henry Stanley was in exception, lie left an estate of more ban $750,000. nmussed largely from he sale of his books. Livingstone's for une did not amount to a tenth of this, fill Challlu passed away almost penul ess. No explorer before Stanley found >xplorlng a paying vocation. Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of School Fund of Johnston County for Twelve Months, Ending June 30. 1904. RECEIPTS. Kecehed GeneraL*tate and County Poll lav ... .............. $ 7 1*9 19 deceived special I'oli iiuf, levleu under sec. school Law. HUB or *o? a acts 2*5 oo itt.rlVI M. ;.vTul i'a l-.-rt. tuX ... t.> Oil |J Kt-ccived special Pioi-ertj tax. iev ied under school l.aw or local acts i ^ 0~ Prom Fines. Forfeiture?aud Penalties iu Um scleral courts * 587 95 From Liquor Liceuaea. ? 1 282 50 From hi-pe MiriM - - - ? 6163 60 huuj Lotto Fund ?? * ?' * U) Fiom -tute i rciisurer - ? 1 696 60 Fro in l'eabody Fund - ? ?? >006 i From lcli over Lumber ? 2 23 From uurai Libraries 1230U From Tuition ?? 350 Frointlruiu Distileries - - 3*75 Total received during the year from June ;Ji?. 1903, to July 1, 1904. 36 60# 9b iia.auce yii hand as per last report - 929 #0 Total 8# 438 7# DISBURSEMENTS. Paid Teachers of Schools for Wliit 8. - 1984521 Paid readier* of Hchoola for Colore* 32196# Paid for School Houses and Sites White 6 821 3iJ i Paid on installment ol Loan Fund ? 436 00 j Paid County Superintendent 940 66 Paid for Treasurer's Co.- mission 2 per cent, on 30,142.90 dollars 602 85 Mileage and per diem of County lfc anl of Education 123 02 i Fx peuses ot County ltoard of Education, including l'uel, stationery and postage and oilice rent 174 09 Paid for taking Census - - 200 03 Paid for wood lor White 53426 Paid for wood for colored .. 106 00 Paid for repairs for wells for white 36 95 Paid for repairs for wells for colored 11 23 Paid for insurance ... 89 80 Paid for stoves lor white 108 15 Paid tor stoves for colored 32 00 Paid for dc6ks 50 40 Paid for Kural Libraries. 150 00 Paid for extra services by Co. Treas. and blank book 35 80 Paid for Sundry Articles 180 01 Total Disbursements 33 646 47 Bulunce on hand July 1st. 1904 4 79229 Total .. _ 38 438 76 I certify that the ? hove Is a correct copy of the County Treas urer's report of rec. ipis and disbursements of ^be School Fund ol j Johnston Countv for the year ending June 30th, 1904. This Dec. 30, 1904. IRA. T. TURLINGTON, Sec. Co. B. E. IN THIS PAPER ' - -T-V"V O A ffTHE STORY OfS // THE I * /|P^CLARAnoW \ ^IND^piiN DENCE \P V MISS FJV ?S' TRtUMPfT^^ I==3?%^=zfs* 7 Hedrts>* / Courageous^ I By HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES I \ Patrick Henry is the central and J Vdominating interest of Miss Rives'/ \ne*v novel. Hearts Courageousy \ It is a story brimming / \\vith love, beauty / \ancl heroism./' >sNew York Times ^SATURDAY boo^/r ' | ^Bevievv/^ We have secured the serial rights for this great Ameri can story and you can read it now in our columns. Don't miss the first chapter. Big Hardware and Furniture Store AT FOUR OAKS E. Lee Hardware House. 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