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VOLUME XVIII.
FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. JULY 22, 1903.
'NU'MBlfitt 29.
CEAUTY FOR ASHES.
Housed With ft thollusk of th ten,
t Home atom lit of mean degree
' Alust perish tnYA a pearl may be,
F-Htlnifitlshed, In Its purple car,
-: From prison wall and orystal wave,
in ruin win a giuiering gravei
V-Tltl, lf- rlewdrop Codl and eleuif
, Adorns the boauia 6 ft uuoetL
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' 0 Ufa that olfmbi from power t power t
Kaoh dttritnoM brood ft brighter hour.
juioa laumg towi a letter flower.
0 triumph of divine desire
Yihea human passion chokes Its firet,
And ail the brut In Bian expires I
I'm then the spoil of vanquished paid) '
1 o braver loss, the- gtaoUev gain
lhe search of love among the slain;
For Ood dlteerns with punctual eyes
The godlike where the carnal dice,
Ana olotlie with light the ransomed price.
" I make my Jewel, to," he ultfj. .
" Of sorrow's tears, of suppliants breath,
A-glory round the dust of death."
n-Tberon Brown, In Philadelphia Sunday School Tlrn.es.
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Career of His Father's Son.
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By i. PARRY TRUSCOTT.
Mrs. Hares was undeniably a widow,
but she was very (ar from the state
Known. an lone ana lorn," lor ner nug-
r
Ji band, ol whom she had plainly stood In
(onsiaeraDle awe, before, aying nua
considerately bequeathed to her "his
living image-" in a slightly more man'
agcable form. Like most women, Mrs,
Hayes waa Drone to concentration, ea-
peklally lit matters Of the Heart, and
two so exactly alike might have proved
an embarras de rlchesse, But left With
billy One, and that a smt 11 one, she re
established herself In her native vll
laxe and contentedly applied herself to
the washtub and the Ironing board w
the maintenance of herself and the
little Johnnie-until he ahould be of an
tge to realise her great expectations of
him and prove hlinsslf the man his
father was. ; ,f , '.': :v
"Just about a clever scholard, too,'
explained Mrs. Hayes to any one ho
cared to listen.
None of her friends and relations
lad seen this wonderful man of hers
hi the flesh; she had met htm in Lon
don while lit thf service there, and had
ooJy .returned . to the country at his
f. death. But they were not allowed) to
forget him, and the tale ot his numer-
ous attainments was told and told
again. He had left only a very 'few
4 pounds' wbrth of furhlrurt behind him,
' but, according to his wife, he had been
"most too clever" for money making
' one ot those men so topheavy with
brains that they cannot' conveniently
stoop to pick op a mere weekly wage.
f And, then, he hid died quite young, be-
fore hi hnd been given his ''chance.
'"ircr, a farm hand, keeps
'"v , "taWlraete Is released
from school - but it is nffttsriiua that
. men of talent, take longer tOtUrrt
themselves In independence; - some
V times the twenties see them still only
thinking of doing ft, the thirties sur-
prise them with the task unaccom
plished.. Every one knpws that brains
Uke longer to develop than Industry
, 4' t any rate all Mrs. Hayes's in
tlmates knew it, having had the theory
vast forth' to them in homely language
, many times. "And he ncvef had his
' chance, you understand me," she would
end; "was just snapped oft like a bud
as the frost catches." ' : - ;
But' Johnnie, lucky boy. Joined his
A toother's, robust constitution to ..... his
father's intellect, s shverred, and
hi eom)dtt!ot.;M ,aay rate,? seemed
a ulten yldeictX And if they look
to see what bis father looked like, let
tnem look at Johnnio, said his mother,
"his living picture!
Judged thus by Johnnie, his father
eenw to have had sturdy,, stumpy
figure, a round, blunt featured face,
, powerful' white teeth, a shock of stub
by, sun bleached hair and prominent
- light blue eyes that ";;re wont to- stare
- unbllnklngly during a conversation at
whatever object first met their gaxe-r
JIthls jdded to a curious reluctance
to BSfTvoW-more than the absolutely
necessary. A common eflSOgh type. In
. that neighborhood, yet not even that
2 neighborhood's preconceived idea of a
4, , son of genius. . s - ' ', ' f ?
But, if any smiled, they -were kindly
folk and took care, to do ft only be;
MM the mother s Back.
During ; Johnnie's passage from
. heavy baby Into a healthy, hearty boy,
"""Mrs. Hayes was spared' half the pangs
of motherhood. She gave away the last
of his pettlctfeta without a sigh; with
s her own bands, to an accompaniment
t of smiles instead of tears; she cut cloee
the mop of hair which had always rc
fused to respond 'to her efforts to en
,, uce it into cuns. . sue was In such a
, hurry for him to attain man's estate,
and to liJW forth to ' i, wondering
world the heritage bis father had left
''" him, that She hurried him with all her
- might through his early years. John-
" nla never grew out of hie clothes like
, other boys. Hg was forced to turn them
up, the trousers halt way to his knees,
' and the sleeves to his elbows, before he
: could more In them, and they were al
t ways beyond patching before his limbs
, overtook them. When he was five years
' old she publicly announced her inten
tion of calling him "John." as a welght
ier and more fitting name. But he wm
. so unmistakably "Johnnie"' that no one
could remember to follow her example,
' and half her time she only managed to
-end a sentence started too nimbly with
. a VJohnale" that had "slipped out"
As soon m he could toddle Johnnie
. went to school, and continued to go
. dally until the extreme .limit ot age
" when schooling is compulsory on the
youth of England. Once laboriously
- tabllshed In a "standard," he showed
a marked disinclination to leave it, and
. - the utmost prodding never advanced
mm beyond the borderland of the
"fourth." But his mother blamed the
school and her want of means to send
him to a better one, not Johnnie. Of
r TOiiree, what any yokel learned would
not be the learning to tempt her hus
band's son. ' Johnnie received subtle
flattery from her Instead of blows for
his slow- progress. He met it, as he
met most things, with the Impenetra-
" ble stare of his light blue eyes. His
opinion of himself would have inter
ested a good many people by this time,
Is sllfnce remained unbroken on
that k !'it as on so many others.
TheitTt'HIowed the usual little diffi
culty In i: '"f? the village genius with
a m'iiii3 of i ' i'M? a livelihood. Mrs.
H' refused to 1 1 ,. plate anything
whereby "honent st .T' might be
caused to flow from her son's low, hair
lliatrhed brow. Most of the mcmAbojit
ln-r worked out of dfx)rs, or at some
ii'. i.i.Ie trade, and nothing of that
1;;m!, i-he litil 1 'i.' ,l y,.Hra affo, would
d- f r Johnnie. WiUi p.rat dit5i4ty
! ' - U-!ay, i!ie ii..,i!ui-d him em
ployment at the village grocej-'s Just
while ho looked about him. Hd was to
"keep the books'' aa his chief Occupa
tion, and' she made a great deal conver
sationally ot the glory of those books,
Johnnie made very little of them ex
cept to blot them freely. He seemed
all the while he sat over them to be
struggling, hard to do something re
quiring great expenditure of noisy
breath, but the result failed to satisfy
the grocer, J
He took hit dismissal tterfittly, it
with a lingering shortness of breath.
Don't krit 10 stay; !?, he blurted
out. at last; "but could you say could
you say as
"I'll say 1 thing you're a deal too
clever for this Job, my boy," said the
kindly grocer, "if thaWl suit you?"
And be winked Jovially. - ?; ;s:,
"Thank ye, sir," said Johnnnle, sim
ply, and very slowly and solemnly re
turned the wink with one prominent
blue eye. And that was the only clew
to .the hidden depths ot his character
the village ever received from clever
Johnnie,. "-:
For his mother did not try again to
find him a situation; he qulotly- put
himself beyond that possibility. She
came. down one morning (o find him
gone, with a little bundle of clothes,
and apparently half a loaf and a couple
of turnips. . ;.:
"Dere Ma" (he had written Hie never
called her anything but "Mother," but
"Ma" proved easier In the spelling)
'I bam goln to foind som work has 1
con do Dere Ma i wnll send you som
cash reglar when I gets It dere Ma.
iimr IUVJU HUU 4. nAICA ii-z
She never showed this letter
on, but-
Uhe MOSaflL flight ot Johnn
to any Vperhap:
r ...Tiwrnoiisiv amin annur
leTrveil ot
romance all her own. And it so tooki
ui urr uoie auu inougm inai sne grew
accustomed to being alone before she
began to mind It. -;
. Meanwhile, with considerable direct
ness, Johnnie made him way on foot to
I large racing stable tn an adjoining
eonnty that he had once been told
About He waa lucky in this, that the
owner of the stable waa actually pres
ent when he reached it, and lucky also
In being given the opportunity of mak
ing his application for employment to
the Great Man himself. Johnnie's
breath again gave him trouble, . but
what he said was to the point
I haven't had much to do with 'em.
but I do seem to know something about
'em, and I'm so mortal fond o' horses
that nothing would be too much trouble
to learn; and. If you'd try me, I'd work
my hardest" Then his breath j gave
out and he stood panting and expect
ant the stare of his blue eyes for
onos fixed appropriately on the Great
Mans face.:;?,.;,,.,: c-i .v.;
And he waa given the work he longed
for. The Great Man was "mortal fond"
ot horses, too;' there may have been
times when he even envied his men
their method ot earning their ' dally
bread about his stables. At any rate, he
realized that Johnnie was going ,to
live an ideal life a life spent in doing
the thing of all others : he wculd
rather do. 'v..'.
Johnnie's choice of occupation. In
deed, was such a wine one that he did
not long retain the humble position In
which he started. His fondness tor
horses taught him more about them
than experience taught many of the
others; be could always lead them by
It, Just as a woman who loves children
can always make them love her, or a
man who loves men can always man-'
ago them. Arid from the first when hla
wages amounted to only a Very . fett
shillings weekly and he was obliged to
gQ often very hungry, to do it (for
Whnule was sUU growing and his. ap
petite with him), he regularly sent a
monthly postal order to hi widowed
mother, and as time went on he never
failed to make it larger to match every
rise, He did not often write, and. If
be did, he never gave her his address.
or any news beyond the state of his
health; a thing that having started
propitiously, did not vary. Nor did he
ever visit her, although it would have
been aa easy enough Journey to take.
a likely tmng to flo. But In refrain
ing, Johnnie probably had his reasons:
he covered them over with a wide re
ticence, but it was known by now that
he generally had them for other peo
ple to talk about If they cared to.
And then at last Johnnte gained pro-
motian and a rise so substantial that K
seemed to change his views. For mots
than a year he had been "walking oof
with a young woman only a servant,
It is true, but sweet ot face and true
ot heart, and as fond of Johnnie as he
was fond of horses. He had started
their walks together by making it very
plain to her that marriage must be a
remote possibility, because the postal
orders taxed bis resources and wore not
on any account to be stopped.
"80 It mayn't be worth your while to
be waiting," he had said. "Likely It
would be a stlfnsh time."
"Then you don't really love me?"
sighed the maid.
"I loves you right enough,' said
Johnnie, fl wasn't speaking ill of my
love." 'V
"If yo,u love me, how can you doubt
me being willing to wait a bit for you?
You're willing, aren't you?" She
spoke with tears.
Mighty willing," 6ld Johnnie. ' He
drew her hend upon his shoulder, and
he putted It, renting there, as be might
the hnad of a favorite horse. Shortness
of breath, as of old at an emergency,
overiok him, but be managed to re
peat "fiendy, m' beauty, steady,' a
trenf n.nny timra.
1 i!"-'.v his) F' nermm wo.ts ai-TUal. I
ly admitted of the double burden the"
postal Orders to the mother at a dis
tance and the pretty wife at borne, But
before making this Changs' lit iifdi
Johnnie, almost for the first time, took
a step on the Impulse of a moment
felt a longing to see his mother's face
once attain and acted fail it-
He found her on her deathbed, pialri-1
ly within a few, hours of her death.
Johnnie had his own luck he might
so easily have been too late. For she
had not beed so particularly young at
the time ot his birth, and she wad quite)
an old woman now. Consistent always,
she asked her son no questions con
cerning his long absence; she did the
talking to the last
"A gentleman m a bank would have
to know a deal," was one of the things
she said, and Johnnie understood that
he had spent tha yoars percheo on an
office stool as a banker's clork. "You'd
wear a top hat and a black coat to
business every day, of course.'' She
touched hit rough tweed covered arm.
"But you were right ot te come any
ways dressed tip, as these folk might
think they're an envious1 lot, and
wonderful ignorant with it" Shs gave
him, with Increasing difficulty, thet
many details of his Ufa one by one; It
took her all her time, and, almost at
tha last, she remembered something
of great Importance to them both.
'I told 'em always, Johnnie, when
the orders came, but I never changed
'em here I waited till I could get Into
the town or something turned up; of
tea I bad to wait A hit, bat t always
managed It and 1 never told a living
soul how small they were, my dear. I
knew how many expenses you'd be
having, dining out with the gentry and
all; your old mother understood, but
others might have thought different,
and I never told a soul. Ob, " they've
kept me well since I've been past work
ing, and I'm not complaining, only I
thought. I'd Just tell, you as I under
stood why they were so smell." "5'
"That's right mother," said Johnnie;
you waa always, a good 'un at 1 ex- -
cusea," " 'f , .
I loved you, yow see, Johnnie; and
your father before you," explained the
'That't right, mother," said Johnni-"
staring hard at the foot of the V
ot unblinking, prominent-
gently stroking hey7
war always a t'---
When her y
ever, Jolu'
her. Jf
"Good Lordv.
fashion, "you know v..
act untruthful, and Uia.
knave left her if I hadn't akuu.
p a deal happier alone. But Ifv
THIS IS AGE OF TIIE AUTO
THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE'
Kill, ths RAitwAY.
MAY
Ways In Which the Motor Wilt Affect
the Fate of the Individual arid t?i
Community A Social and Indu.v
trial ftevolutlern .,
The automobile Is no idu'grY M ex
periment, and motoring is jio longer'
a pastime or a luxury. .
rVhat 18 the probable Influence of
the automobile' Upon Contemporary
life? Every car bwnef hat It fcnee a
vastly Increased radius of nitrvemerif.
The old coaching roacs and eoac
Ingt Inns will once more be t. jnged
with travelers. We shall know the
land we live lnIto rural Interests, Its
beautlos, Its antiquities. The man
who has a business in the town will
no longer be dependent upon a slow
and rare service of trains. Therefore
thousands of the town. dwellers of to
day will be the country dwellers of to
morrow. This will bring Into the
market at good prices a great number
of country places unletableand unsalable-
today, There will soon arise, In
consequence art Irresistible demand
for better roads. The present absurd
laws regarding speed will soon bd at'
tered by abolishing all restriction up
on speed, and making every driver re
sponsible, under heavy penalties, for
inconsiderate or. dangerous drirtrts.
So much for the privately owned car
and its future influence. This, how
ever, will be but a minor (actor In
the coming development ot motor traf
fic. The motor vehicle for business
purposes will soon be universal Al
ready 'the more' enterprising trades
men are using, with greater' efficiency
and economy, light motor vans tor the
collection and delivery of their goods.
In New York heavy commercial -
port is being .rapidly absorbed I' e
motor. A few years hence wf
look back with a tmile to the r
of the railways sri
Ing horse-d-
traveler?
tbnv"
That the coming of the automolXie
will be a social and Industrial revolu
tion I have not the slightest doutt;
that It will add vastly to the sum cf
human pleasure and heai'h Is certain;
that It will render what Kr. Hardy calls'
"the doubtful honor cf a brief transit
through a sorry world" ft fullor and
more intefcstlhit experience, I feel
sum In fact, if F ; V
"TIs life whereof our nerves Aft
scant
More", lift; And fuller, that we want :
the motor car, in dfl tense, bids fair
to go a gocd way toward supplying the
deficiency, Henry Norman, M. P., Ill
th World's Work,
' COAT IN CHINA 8EA8.-
8ometlmes tha Sampan la Jblowrt
Clear Across the Pacific
Everybody has read etorlos ot tho
China seas and, tbeieforo, everybody
has read about the queer vessels called
sampans, because no story of those
watort could be complete without a
reference to them. ; '
The general Idot about tha sampan
Is that it is a poor craft to venture
far out to sea In, and that the Japan
ese and Chinese sailors must be ex
tremely phicky to take the long cruises
that they do. But as a matter ot fact
the saupafl It an excellent sea boat
and lives in almost any kind of weath
er.' Tho Only drawback about It It
that its bull,! makes it a difficult ves
sel to sail, That Is why sampans
sometimes aro blown clear across the
Pacific ocean. - They cannot sail Into
the wind the way our smart sailing
vessels can, and In bead winds they
become excessively awkward things
to handle. ';:";'"''"v;;-:''v'"''f.V-'''i'..
But their high sides And big bows
and items make tbem dry and pre
vent the seas from washing over them.
80 while a crew of a sampan may be
quite helpless In a big ga'.e, the men
long as thoy are
-J--vnd poril
A SERM0.N m SUNDAY
A BaiLLUNT HISTORICAt OISC0U.1SJ
ON THE REFORMATION.
The Itv." i, f, WIIms folk litelmettralr
t That f.riod Wftert the ro(lllnn
efTrne lte1l l Liberty Wave Lent
; Vreelnc (he Mind From ThraHdnuf,
Jr.
Xkw'Voiir (.frc In the South Congre
jStlcfflnl ChtrN-h, Brooklyn, the Kev. J. 0.
Wilson, RifH.t iM.tor, delivered a die-
nroaa ana secure ;oui
true religion iihr rt
left nam of the higbei
idea's tnettained. In
conrM on "The Struiiit Im ltelimoua Lib
erty," the euhiect being "JCiirepe an the
Fve of the Reformation." The text
Aetev., 38 and 38: "And now I ay unto
you. Refrain frnnvtheee men, and let them
alone; for if ftiie rmniel or this work bo
of men, it wilf.ceme ffl ttsnnht, bnt ii it be
of God, ye cannot overthrow' Hi lit haplv
ye he found even to fight agujnef (J-Kf.
Mr. Wilfon Mid:
Let Ine augyext at the outset that the
atnigg'.t ioT religioua liberty and what M
known ae the Rt-farmntion ore not in all
reapecta identical mnre'menU. The llelor
mation jr.. a great tidal ware which swept
Oyer Europe in the sixteenth century, out
of fbe vast and troubled eea of the centur
ies whoi Water were greatly agitated by
the struggle for Millions lioerty. It waa
the culmination of that etrutgle. It exert
ed the fundamental principle, tlpon which
it bad proceeded, and sr ceeded in latin
broad and aecur foundation, upon which
' could ne hmlt, bur it
er standard, and finer
111 that reanert tiiM-a ia
mncn yet to M desired,
In view of the fact that tlie Reformation
split Europe into two great warring relig
ion. emp, it is necesMry to remind our
felvea thai un to that time there had been
but one Christian church in Western Ka
roo. And the atriura!e for religioua liberty
Went on within that church and not out
side of it, nor seainat it. after the tint
three centuries. Whatever glory and what
ever ham attache, to that church during
the first fifteen centuries ia ehared equally
bv u. all. Proteatanta and Roman Catholic
alike. The Reformation itself originated
within the Roman Catholic -Church, and
waa led by men bred in her school, and
cloisters. We should also remember that
the Roman Catholic Church of the fifteenth
and sixteenth eeoturiea is not the Roman
Catholic Chnrch of the twentieth century
and in the United States.
From a very early agt ' religious differ
ences have engendered -strife and stirred
the moat violent paiwipna of men. Although
the Jeva tasted tharhittj-rnMa tif nnuM-ti.
ion. that didjfot prevent them from
"' ' eup to the lipa of the
- 1 ..with the aid of the
V it to ita dre,"
Cruaaders whitened the plalia rf Ana Mi
nor with their bones and dyed the araM
of Northern Africa with their blood with-,
smt achieving1 anv permanent reaillta m
either Aaia or Africa, their eaodua from
KiirOfW and their return to their ionner
linmea were attended by conaeou-ncea in
Kurope far greitter than would nave been
the eonqneat of alt the Knet and the rewne
f -the relics of all the sainla. In the nrat
place they had broken the power of the
Snracena by successive Impaeta upon ibem,
by ttrabmeed conflict with them. -
Tlie (tad fought fire with fire. Religions
fanatiei.nl wu matched atainat religions
fanaticism, and it inflicted such jiuiih
ment upon the rapacious and cruel Stunl
man that he has never been able to rjlly
from it. Although he reached the ;hnrej
frf Europe Inter on. he was exhausted with
the struggle, and liaa rontinuea in state
of Innguialn'ng impotency ever .inet. Jn
the second olaae the Crusade, hail a
marked and lasting effect upon the Cru
saders themaelvea, and in spite of their
suffering and losses tlie gain ws trejter
tiiad the low, for it brought them mto di-m-t
Anti Intfntwlintat contact with tilt
Kaat, at that time the cultivated and re-'
fined portion of the world. Constantino"
pie and Antioch, the two great storehonwa
of ancient art and learning, and the cen
tres of the woalth and culture of the Knit,
had become familiar to them, Antroch
was for a time in their hands. ( The sp'en
did buildings, fin fabrics, beautiful stab
iles, coatly gems, were a revelation to the
Crusaders, and served as object leajmne.
while the elegant refinements, spleiidid
courtesy, magnificent manners and ancient
learning of the Kaet were not.withont their
effect upon the coarse, nude and tmtameo
barbarians of ttt West. Those who sur
vived the conflict returned with new ideas
of the character of the world in which they
lived, of the meaning of civilization, of tha
possibilities of humanitv, and of the de
fect of Kuropc. They had been to achooj
and had traveled. Their view of life had
been broadened and their mind enriched
1 enntact with sunerior conditions of life.
and a great mental and moral revolution
1 ad been wrought in tnem.
Tint the CrnsadeS had also an Immediate
and lasting effect noon Enrone itself. For
hv enlisting in the Crusades the serf bought
ftis freedom Irom tne sou. ine aeuior was
freed from his creditor. He that went out
a alav came back a tree man witn gom
coin in his pocket and some new ideas of
the world in hie head. Serfdom, villainage
and alaverv were practically abolished m
fcurope. The cities also naa oeen ame, oj
immense sums at mnnev nairt to the neren-
Itary princes, who held lorrwiip over tn
to buv their
for thewao'v
ent
tv-
EVENINQ ON THE PORCH.
When work Is over for the day
And twillffht gathers 'round
And Lucy takes ihe ganlun boss
And wets the dusty ground,
TVhea through the dusk
Where scent, of musk
Are borne upon the broete, . '
. Avoioeenys, "Law!
I never acw ( .
Itoae bushes g.-ow like Ueaet"
. That's when toe world,
Is brUhtor than
The firefly's fiokle torch, . -When
kids roll on -
The level lawn
- And chairs ar on the porch,
When darkness finally settles down . .
And drives away the heat , X
And ends ihe ball game widen the boys
Are playing In the street
Oh, then's the time '
When halt In rhyme "
- The dmaiss go to and fro, .
With ooeaosot
. Bright stars above '.-.:-And
seas of love below,
. Till reason says
It's time to leave
The night, the damp, the air, . .
. Hut with the dreams ;
A something seems
To chain one to the chair.
Indianapolis Bon.
HUMOROUS.
Wigg Did he Inherit hit money or ;
did. he make it? Wagg Worse than
either.' ;ie,vmarried for It. ,
"Your face is very familiar to me,"
remarked the barber. "Not "alfso
familiar as your manner to me," re- :
plied the crusty man in the chair. ,,
Billings How did you know Pottel
took the elevator coming up? Bert
Ob, I know Potters nature. He takea
everything he can lay his hands on. '
Miss Gushing Which do you pre
fer, Mr. Dashing, blondes or bru
nettes? Jack Dashing Oh, It all de
pends on the girl I am with. -Chicago
Newt. - -
, Sllllcua How did he itctOre his
reputation for" such greatly' "n?
.cVn Ir-iw-'
nVist keep turning of the women out
sol
foudllka and so deceiving of them
selves, what are we men folk to be do
ing fejr the take o' peace?" Tho
BUetcn
;. QUAIWT.ANO . CURIOUS.
If a census could be taken of the men
who work over a washtub more or less
days per week,- It would run tip Into
the hundreds of thousands. t -.
. As a self-minded atonement for slnl
committed SO yeart ago, a Moscow beg
gar has ever since worn an Iron chain,
from which two heavy weights depend.
For sweeping the streets ot Bendlgo.
Australia, where such expense It
caused by people who scrape the roads
for the sake of the gold dust obtain
able, a mas has been fined 20 shillings.
It Is not generally known thatTtht
Jackal Is a greater destroyer of hu
manity In India than the tiger. Sta
tistics published by the government ol
India show that while 928 persons were
killed by tigers more than 1000 children
were carried away by jackals. ,
The latest craze In Paris It the wear
ing of a lighted lantern as a personal
ornament The fashion originated with
a speculative manufacturer, whose "po
ntes lanterns" were bought by tens ol
thousands at the fair ot Neullly. The
lantern It very small and neat nd
made In gothlc form, after an ancient
model.
Sixty mastodons have been found In
New York, mostly along certain well
marked belta Outside these belts the
state Is barren. They,' therefore, had
distinct feeding grounds, and that, too,
In a not very remote time. Tbey art
usually found resting on the boulders
of old streams and in a comparatively
thin layer of peat - - .-
Paul Deamuke, of Amphlon, Texas 1
who has Just been elected Justice ol
thfl peace. Is without arms, but per
form wonders with his feet - With
tbem he handles a knife and fork with
dexterity and writes with ease. Foi
six months he was county clerk, kepi
the- records accurately and .they an
models of neatness. .
Even the Jaded taste of the Paris
ians Is responding to the sensation ot
seeing a child lion tamer In the per
son of Tilly Bebe, a frail 17-year-o!d
gfrM She dominates the savage beasts
by affection, and although the bean
ugly scratches, say that none- were
given with malice. This modern TJnad
It said to Bleep with her lions frequent
A Shakespearian Relic
An Interesting Shakespearian relic
recently sold at Sotheby's was th
armchair made from the wood of tin
mulberry tree planted by Shakespeare
in New Palace Garden, Btratford-on-Avon.
Tne pedigree of the chair li
unquestionably authentic since Its his
tory can be traced rlgltt from the time
of the famous tree b'ii,e cut down
cupied tn honored place In the Strat
ford Arms, Stratford. When the pro
prletor died In 1845 It passed Into the
possesion of his tiaugntor, then t
that of his daughter's niece, by whoir
It was for tome tinta exhibited In Bhef
flul-1 Public Mureurn, Wvaton park. A:
the sale at Sotheby's this unique rolli
was Bold for 150. Tbe Tut ler.
railway."..
farmer will gci-i
or rail at a fractio
transport cost
The coming of the motor mean v
absolute change ot the nature and con
dltlons of passenger traffic In cities.
Ten years hence there will not ne
horse left In tho streets of London or
New York, except the few Kept purely
tK pleasure and pride In their besTty
and strength and for police and: mili
tary purposes. Their - disappearance
will have three results: First twice at
much traffic can, be accommodated In
any area; second, the streets, no long
er subject to tho -pounding of their
Iron-shod hoofs, will be smooth and
quiet, and will last Incomparably
longer to the saving of the tax pay
ers' money, and third, there will not
be' 5000 tots ot manure deposited In
London every dsy, to be collected and
carted away, filling the air with odor
and the. lunga with poisonous dust,
and costing an enormous yearly turn
for Its final disposition.
' I am even Inclined- to go a step fur
ther and hazard the opinion that the
motor will kill the railway. Why
should the community pay a huge
sum per mile for a special roadway tor
electric cars and a huge generating
station, when self-propelled motor om
nibuses of equal speed, comfort capac
ity and economy can use the common
road, and, by their ability to be steered
round obstacles, not Interfere with the
rent ot tbe traffic? I am convinced
that municipalities would consult their
own interests by carefully considering
tbe Introduction of motor omnibuses
oeiore embarking upon the heavy Init
ial cost of an electric railway system
which may quite likely be obsolete be
fore their depreciation fund has been
Charged a dozen times.
One great organization alone the
greatest of all the railway will suf
fer from the coming of the motor. The
motor will rob them, of passenger traf
fic, of the transport of malls except
for long distances, of the carrying of
light goods and light agricultural pro
duce, and will - prevent them from
opening .up new districts, which will
be served by light lines and motor ve
hicles as today in America by the elec
tric trolley. To some extent the la-
Jury will be mitigated by the motor
bringing to tbem agricultural produce'
from wider areas tnan can produce it
profitably to cart to the rail; and, of
course, the motor engine, or rapid
succession of motor carriages, as al
ready planned in France and Austria,
Will replace the steam locomotive for
suburban and light fast traffic. ' But
on the whole, the stage coach will be
avenged upon the railway by tha mo
tor. . ..:,"-
There are several other aspectt of
the development of motoring such,
for example, as the motor on water,
where also it will effect great chang
es; and the stationary gasoline motor
for light manufacturing and domestic
purpoaoB. One more ' matter, ' how
ever, cannot be passed over, namely,
the colossal Industry that the manu
facture? of motor cars and all that be
longs to them will become.
Ia 1902 Great Britain Imported mo-
til rZLfJl ??A - o .e vaiue of ,,512,
Accidental Injuries.
Among any jnfl.O"0 pnnie, 15.nfo r
porli'iice diirliij; t'.e y.-ir en n e,,.niH
liny cf eenic) I. m-v- i-,-- (--,,,:, ,
ui-fi a ''. .f: otl mi !-'-; 1 ! i--:., ...
310 and exported only i'-57,4!)5. The
value of the American output of mo
tor vehicles fur 1IW2 is officially reck
oned at.f.'5,ilK),fi0. In tlie name year
France exp nt. 1 motor cars to the
value of $.i:!il,2''l Tv.-o firms manu
facturing pneumatic t vn In France
turned out In V.h2 ll.liiii.fiijo worth;
end each of thrm has f futi.o-iQ v-orth
of roiids in the ehurre of mri-nta. .-v-Snly
French ' i,rnt( niannfm-fiire mitt or
'Til, ail-l 1 1 . ' r Ci-ll.bll.--l 0;!;,i:t. I f
if V ."4 11' - -i . T'S. 'iT- :..i ; y
rv
tiKk
ADO.
fromV
to 17fi.
THI END OF THE WORLD. .
Mara Will Let U Know VVhtn It It
v About to Come.
- In McClure's Magaxlno, Dr. Simon
Newcomb presents tome speculations
which are noteworthy as reflecting the
theory of modern astronomical rcience.
Prof. Newcomb no doubt would dis
claim any Intention to play the part ot
prophet Hit essay, in tact. Is dis
guised as fiction. But the parallel be
tween "the end of the world" at he
portrays it and the current theory of
tha law governing heavenly bodies Is
obvious. The time of bis story It
placed far In the remote future and
thet Inhabitant! of the earth are
warned by signals from those In Mart
that a dark star Is falling rapidly
through the heavens toward the sun,
into which It will fall within a few
months. The fatal collision takes
place, the tun break! forth In an ap
palling burst of flaming beat and In
the ensuing days every vestige of llfo
and civilization on earth has been de
stroyed. .-',. ' ; . -,"'
It It Interesting to note that Prof.'
Kewcomb't story, fantastic at it
seems, Is substantially In accord with
the views of other advanced astronom
ers as to what might be the ultimate
fate of the earth. Sir Robert Ball esti
mates that within view of our tele
scopes we have probably 100.000,000
start and that 'this number must be
multiplied by . millions If we are to
form an even tolerably accurate esti
mate of the number of dark and In
visible bodies which are passing
through space In all directions. That
a collision between two of these bodies
occasionally takes place la practically
conceded, the tudden appearance o!
new atari" being accounted for at
i result of the tremendone Impact of
colliding bodiet and the conversion of
energy Into light tod heat What the
result of such A clash of heavenly bod
ies must be it shown by Sir Robert
Ball't estimate that were the earth to
encounter an, obstacle sufficiently
large to stop it In Its motion around
the sun not counting its forward mo
tion In concurrence with the. rest of
the solar system the collision "would
generate as much heat as could be
produced by the combustion of 11
globes of solid coal each as hoavy ai
the earth.' Chicago News. "i
A Fourteenth Century Code, r
The following quaint table of fines
lnfllctej on Hooligans In the year
1314, under Louis X of France, has
Jtlst been brought to light:
For a blow with the flat ,
For' throttling n man
Far spitting In the faco 3d
ror a blow on.the noso drawing
bl'l Ed.
For a kick S(1
A broken arm 7
It Is to bo presumed, allhomrfi the
table makns no mention of tho fact
that a pum-b, on the nose which d"I
trust. Kurh was the i,,
sonableness which animated
brat Christian Emperor issued air-w
rehmnua In !pr l.nn IrnMra - , L. ,)
Milan, which granted religious liberty with
in the empire, on tlie basis of the aarreil
rights of conscience; only those religioua
rites were prohibited which involved im
morality, magic or sorcery. Not nntil the
fatal passion for power had been aroused in
them by ita poaaeaaioa did the Christiana
reaort to persecution, 'i be organization of
the Christian ehurch kept pace with its
spread in Europe, - From Rome ss s centre
the missionaries penetrated to all parts of
Europe. They carried with them the love
01 me mother church from which thev
went and bound the churches which their
Panted to her in gratitude and Christian
fellowship. The confidence and affection
wmrn she won by her generosity and self
sacrifice in the gospel, she soon came to de
mand as her right and when at length the
Biahon of Rome secured the political pow
er of his city he aspired to make the tradi
tional capital of tbe world it ecclesiastical
capital also, then, with tbe policy of mili
tary Rome the Christian church adopted.
'u, tuv ainuiuuus ana reicnuess spirit ot
the Caesar. Ecclesiastical Rome usurped
the right of mankind and perverted their
wan-ues as ruiu leaser as am political Koine.
Through mcceaaive stages the ehurch
mounted to the throne of it power until
it wss more absolute than tha amnira
ever essayed to be. len like Gregory the
", uca ma nuaeorann made tne
1 moat astonishing, claims, and absolute su
premacy in all human afltira, and treated
with the utmost severity all who withstood
their claima. Unavailing protests to their
astounding pretensions were raised by men
like John Kcoliis, Ahelard Arnold, of Brea.
eia and Wickliff. and in the humbler walks
of life opposition showed itself in such
sects as the Albigenees and the Waldensea,
neither of which desired tn separate them
selves from the Catholic Church, but both
of them desired that ita pretension, should
be moderated and ita abuses reformed ac
cording to the scriptural requirement ol
apostolic simplicity and purity. These men
were simple minded and their live were
pure, but they were subjected to the most
remorseless persecution. Their heroic en
durance and unfaltering faith has covered
their memory with a halo of glory like unto
that which surround the earlv Christian
martyrs. During the massacre of the Albi
tenses waa born the order of tha lv.,!ni
cans, into whose hands was intrusted, the
institution known a the Inquisition the
most diabolical engine of intolerance and
persecution that human ingenuity ever de-
viaeu.
not .linw blood ni'tilt bo
f".-ni((i,!;!,!y lower r:its
l;lf!iotj
than
'd nt
fid.
l-'-l 1;
It is the fa.te of all despotism, to work
their own d(i .:.on by s fatal disregard
vi u nip-, ai airman ennurance, and
when the papacy added the horrors of the
Inquisition to tne usurpation of the most
acred of human righta. and aggravated her
offenaea by the flagrant immorality of the
clergy, she transcended her limit and in
voked the long slumbering and accumu
lated WMih of centuries, which burst forth
In the Reformation, disrupted her solid
empire, and caused her tha Inas of two.
third of her spiritual children.
Two great movements in the Middle Ag
contributed to hasten the triumph ef re
ligious liberty in Kurope, They were the
Crusade and the Renaissance. Th relig
ious enthusiasm of Kiirone. dormant for
centuries, was kindled by the fiery elo
quence of Peter the Hermit, as he prenrhsd
crusade against th "intidel Turks," for
the purpose of rescuing the Holy Sepulchre
from their hands, it waa as when a door
la suddenly opened into a house where a
fire has been long smoldering, smothered
in it own smoke, the whole building if
wrapped in a sudden conflagration; or as
when a volcano long extinct bursts in Is
smhien activity. A ypnntancou luirifing,
is of one man, unparalleled in history,
look place among ail clnases of people.
Kinis and penxiints, priests and lawyers,
meixhiints and Inon-eia w-re vcot by tlie
Hunts nnt-ltly inu!ut-.e and ttr.-.l lv the snree
t';il, wlo.il foe tii tone bunie.l aok in
eveiy l.rrji-,1 fled -'-.' .J clculntiona
and m0 ir-t ,.,,'-.. . Ad 8. e were moved to
veitlme l??.- and Intte-.e iu the ii
1nrmii tne m rp of
I.
as the ( m...
and t wo of t -
tl , 1
III I
n-.-t, " Ii .
hv cnue.
it ri als ai-v'-n llo-
atti to auin-Mb
and the great becami-.
of learning, and snared mr..
evnens in collecting MSS. and crci
libraries and school of learning. Th
mind of men already liberated from their
ancient thralldom by the Crusades were
quickened and enlightened by the new
learning which soon spread among all
elaasea of the people. .;
In addition to these great movements
nd perhaps as consequence of them was
tne spine 01 aaventure wnicn now orog
nut simultaneously in Italy and Spain,
France and England. Germany and Hot
land. Insnired by Co'nmbus, s native of
Genoa. Italy, hundred of adventurers
braved the perils of the nntrnversed seas
in search ol new land, or new passages to
th East. New continent were discovered
and the globe wa circumnavigated. In
vention also waa nnirkened. Drintina hv
movable type and the manufacture of
paper (ram rag had but recently been in
vented. The mariner'a compass cam into
general use in navigation. The telescope
waa invented and the heaven explored for
new world, a th sea for new lands.
The whole period waa on of unprecedent
ed mental activity and terment. uoperni-
ens, by hi new system of astronomy, and
Kepler, by his law, were soon revolution
ising astronomy. All of these, things had
their effect noon the minds of men. The
dieeoverv of the si andshane of the earth.
of it relation to other bodie-t in apace: of
tne immense distances in the heavens and
the Vast mrsfems nf worlds 1n enact! the
changes of men's idaa aa tn the centre of
the universe and the revelation thie
not the earth, but that the eartjstinis only
an insignificant member of a system vwM
centre waa tne aim; all served to teach
men the uncertainty and' instability of
things thev had been accustomed tn Heard
e established bevond the pet-adventure of
nouin, ana lea tnem to expect and pre
pared them to receive changes In other
nhere of thomrht and realms of life. A
si,!.-it of skepticism became general and in-
vanea even the church, end everything
seemea to converge upon ana conspire to
ward a single point, nntil nothing could
viinscana lira mnjiincuou 01 rnrce wmcn
Vorkert tn fr the human mitiri rmm hnnd.
.Tige and the human spirit from thralldom.
Beginning with the struggle for reliiious
liberty, it ran en to compass the liberty of
tne wnoie man ana was destined not to
stop until he was every whit free, it ha
already secured for us the liberty of con
science, the right of private Judgment, po
litical ana personal ireeuom. jiiic tn end
ia not yet, and what it shall be no man
knoirctn. But as great and good men as
ever fought in any cause right still in these
ranks, which are Constantly Increasing in
numbers, in power and ia resoluteness- .
That the motorist cannot help reck
less driving was maintained by a
French tavant in a' recent meeting ol
scientists In Paris. The furore steals
un them. Id setting out they Intend te
go at a moderate pace, but . aa they
warm to the work they must rush 00
faster and faster. The flying lands
cape through which they tear forward
produces the kind of gld-.llnesa which
Arabs say takes hold of them In the
fantawla. In this state motorists would
run down those nearest and dearest te
them as unhesitatingly as though they
were so many animals.
on t
of 1
k I el
1 I
Can'nla Is about to become the cMot
source cf tbe world's supply of arsenic
The' arsenic which f ir ninny years bat
fled tbe p 11 1 miner of Imiitineg conn
tv. ( -11111: 11. in tneir f iorts to extract
tne pox urns nietul from Its matrix
li;ii" In1!1, i e
I 0 r I 1
v 1 ' f
1 1
' f H
the more prr-fVut
It - t
'Hi 11
--': -. "II Of t1
1 , 1 I Cf !.
: Of tilt
1 !1 (if tilt
1 1
f 1
tin -I
t
for "brothers wuTiue.
"sisters?" Hen peck Nonaw-.
often heard of a cistern that; would u,
up occasionally. Catholic Standard
and Times. '
- Rolllngston Nomost Here's a piece
in de paper wot says de great trouble
wld de American people Is dat dey eat
too much. . Hungry Hawkins Hully,
geel An' people gltt paid fer wrltin'
t'ingt like dat!.. :;.;.
.."Tommy," said the surprised moth
er as she caught blm in the act ot tak
ing the fifth slice of cake, "aren't you
forgetting yourself ?" - "No, ma,"
chuckled Tommy; "I am remembering
myself pretty wen." :-.'.
Mrs. - Briggs Funny about - men.
Mrs. Fltts What" s funny? Mrs.
Brlggt When we were married .John
waa mad because the people threw
rice at me, and now he thinks nothing
of flinging at me any bit of Ironmon
gery that happens to be near hit hand.
"That iejrrjygge, is it? 1H
tewmsjttfTbe the Hon TSfcthe evenln-
at hat he ever done tomS
famous?" "Haven't you heard about
blm? He't tbe man that succeeded in
supplying a Manx cat with a tall by
graltlng the latter half of a make on
lue animal. Chicago News. .'.
Mystery of the "Dowser."
In an Interesting letter published In
last week's Speaker, Lord tarrar calls
attention to the mystery in which t: i
time-honored calling of the "dowser"
is ttlll enveloped. Tne "dowser" I :,
of course, a person endowed with tl.
rare sense ot being able to detect
presence and locality of undorgrom
streams of water, and the fllut v
tions supplied f Lord Farrer of t
practical value ot this accomp:
ment fully corroborate the , Dm
testimony that has been collected f
time to time.
The - Inference to be drawn f 1
Lord Farrer's observations Is that :
haxel twig usually employed ag
dex la by no means a necessary
ot the dowser's equipment, and
the tense which warns him cf
presence ot water Is moat pro!
equivalent to the InsttWtt that 1
the birds and animals of the t! '
their drinking places.
As a matter of fact, the has, 1
has been tested as often as plain
and will "dip" tn the hands ir
merest novice If persevered .
a time. The results, too, are -.
as misleading as those olititiii, i
Use of the heart-shaped, li
the Instinct of tho boni "
would appear to be a mo: t
one, and capable of further
mont If properly tind.-r-t--
rected. Ulack and V l.i'.v
r 1
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