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J 4 BILL ARF... sf Tn a recent' letter I took the part of the badl boys and said they must not be given up. ; That letter has provoked a- most intelligent comment from a western school teacher, who has been teaching boys for'; twenty years Ho says that his so-called bad boys al most invariably turned ; out to be his best boys, best scholars, and best men . and he never punished one with the rod. ? s His illustrations are; very apt, entertaining and instructive, for lie is no'. ordinary1 teacher but is & highly cultured gentleman ajid writes a beau tiful letter. His letter contained sev eral pages and was eagerly perused; He says I am a believer, in the rod,. but it has been my lot to have to use it mostly, but lightly, on mamma's pets thA errni hnra whn npvr riifl n.nv- thing wrong. He does not believe in moral turpitude or total depravity, but that all natural instincts are good, and that eveil is only an abuse or misuce of the good, and he has never seen a human being who would not: at times perform some kind office for another, never expecting a reward. Once Upon a time, the story goes, a little girl was watching a sculptor as he put the fin ishing touches upon an angel that he had 'chiseled -from a block of marble, and v she exclaimed : "Oh, what a beautiful angel you have made!"- "No-." said the- sculptor, "the angel was al ready in the marble. I have only chipped a way. the rough stone that hid it." ' " ' - So it is withevery man there is an 1 I A . !, K.,. I . I MX W H. L Vj KK. A M. 11 & t by the stony covering. The skillful ' sculptor could find it. ! This reminds me of an incident that happened many years ago iu Rome while I lived there. It was on Sunday while a great freshet was inundating a portion of the town. A poor boy, the son of a widow, had rowed his little boat out in an eddy to catch some wood that was floating down, fly some mischance his boat was caught by the current and he was carried rapidly down the stream. His mother had seen it all and ran down the bank screaming for help. Many people ran along with her, but could do nothing. It was near a quarter of a mile to the junction where scores of menv and boys were watching the surging . wa ters. As the little boat neared the bridge pillar it capsized and the boy disappeared with the boat. In an in stant it came to .the surface again and ; thanks me for the klndnes I showed him at school." ; I believe that the use of! the rod In cur publiq schools ha been generally abandoned The punishment of refrac tory pupils is now just whaf it is in our colleges. Expulsion, suspension, month ly reports - of conduct andj progress. Patrons seem;satisflei with tills t nd the general verdict is that Solomon was joking; My f riend FojrfcVas as hos tile to whipping Children las - is Dr: Holderby, of ? 'Atlanta, and when I quited Solomon, who said.) "He that spareth the rod hateth his: son," he said, "Well, Solomon was' mad. when he wrote that.' With all of those wives he must have had three or four hun- le,; rascals him and flred children, and the lit were always tagging after begging for candy; or a knife or a dog. or soðlng, and they climbed up his legs and felt in his pocketsfand pulled his hair; aijd it was papp this and daddy that, until, he" got desperate and Wrote that verse. I don't -take every thing for gra nted : that Solqmon sa ys, nohow. A man who was as big a fool about women as he. was, needn't tell me about whipping chlldreiif. He didn't know howjto raise Rehoboatn who suc ceeded him, for he said to tpe children of Israel, "My father chaitised you with whips, but I will chastise - you with scorpions.' That's, the j kind of a boy he raised with his rodf But after all and before ill it 13 the home influence that moulds; the child, for that is constant and endjii ring. The angel that was. within Bob 'was uncov ered by ll$; mother's .love. 8t?mc moth ers send their little children , to school as to anursery to get them font of the way or because they cannot manage them at honie. While others jput up tor them a; nice lunch and klis them a sweet goodbye and fondly I watch for their return. Our children had to go more than a mile to school" when we. lived on the farm. They .hill to cross: the creek on a foot log and then? through a field up a long nil and then down the hill until out of sight, it-was my uaily' pleasure to watch them go and come, and reel that they were safe. .. , - . And now our eldest daughter is going to leave us going to Winnsboro, Caro lina, to live, where her huspand has found profitable employment Th'iy haje five children, some of whom were our (tally visitors, and madejus happy when they came. ..What shall we dp now? We thought that this :exodus of our children was over. My wife and .1 are growing old and it grieve? U3 to lose our children and grandchildren. But this is the common lot! There is nothing true but heaven. Bill Arp in. Atlanta Constitution. It ' President to Come South Washington SnoHnl s PrntlJnn f the boy was seen clinging. to the chain Roosevelt will make a trip through a pan or tne aoutn next month If offi- Save that boy, somebody' "I'll give $5 to save that m at its end. Said one. boy Said another. "I'll give "I'll give $20: said another, but no body dared to venture. The mother cried in agony, ' Won't somebody save my boy." Just then a young man was seen rushing wildly 'down,' throwing off his coat and shoes, as he. came and passig the crowd, - he ran clown into the water and struck out boldly for the boy. He got him, and clasping one arm around his waist swam with the other and laid him at his mother's feet:" He was limp and speechless, but alive.- Putting on his shoes and coat the young man walked quickly away. But he was known to most of those present. He was a barkeeper arid his moral standing was not good, for he was profane In speech and his asso- ciai business should not make his presence in Washington neqessary at that time. The trip will pe made about the middle of the. month, the primary object of it being to enable the President' to attend, thelreceptiorj to be tendered by the citizcroi of Mem phis to General Lake Wrfgfat, "vice governor of the Philippine Subse quently, it is expected, that the Presi dent will accept an invitation to par ticipate In a bear hunt in the cane brakes of Mississippi. He Imay, em brace the opportunity." while In- the South, to visit the TusFkeegeefPnatitute, at Tnskeegee, Ala. - : Tom Johnson Gets Scrapny. Cleveland, O., Special.- A leirsration- elates were the sports and drinking 11 street scene occurred" during a poll men of the town. He was under, the ban, but there was an angel in him somewhere. He knew the poor widow and he knew the boy and he scorned to accept any reward. I have often ruminated over that heroic deed and wondered. , .. v My school , teacher ' friend ' says 7 that the difference between a bad boy and a good one U that the stone is harder to chip from the former, but gives u 'finer and more durable polish when the rough outside is chiseled away, but I arrest tne gooa noy s angei is found in cnaiK, and soon crumbles or decays He tells of Bob, the worst . boy ever taught. It was far out in western Texas, and when the school was made up it was predicted that Bob and ' the teacher would have a fight in less than a week. He was fully apprised that Bob was wicked and cursed like a sail or and would fight at the drop of . a hat and drop it himself. Bob's father was dead and his mother an invalid and very poor, but Bob loved her and was kind and good to her and cooked the breakfast before he went to school, which was two miles away. He always hurried home after school to chop the wood and bring water and help her with the supper. The teacher's pilnih ment of hia pupils, when it had to be given, was keeping them after school and requiting them to get their les sons. Bob very respectfully -asked to be allowed to go home to wait upon his mother. He behaved very well for a weekf but this bad day Came and he . did not study at all. He -seemed io be ready for a row. The teacher told him mildly but hrmly that he must stay In until he got his lesson. Ho gave a look of defiance and shut up his book. My friend says : "It waa jone of the trials of my. life. ' I pretended to be reading a book, but I was only think- . ing. In half an hour Bob opened his book, but I; saw tears in his eyes. , Af- . ter a'while he said, 'I can't study now. . v. Please, sir, let me, go home. It's, get ting dark and mother will be scored.'. tical meeting in the public square, in which Mayor Tom L. Johnson struck William Mylecraine, a Republican tax board official. In the race ivlth hit first., It seems, , according to tbe state ment, of , bystanders, thatt the mayor X)verhard Mylecraine assert that he (Johnson) was a liar. A few!otwwda followed, and then the mayor struck Mylecraine In the face. , Mylecraine left the square, declaring flthat he would serve a warrant for the mayor'E - Caused Bad Wreck. Bristol, Tenn., Special. A flagnran on the Norfolk & Western Railway fell asleep and allowed a heavy freight train to crash into the head-end of a work train, three miles east of ; Bris tol. The work ' train engine was hurled into a field; and demollshecl. The freight engine, after standing almost on end, fell partially hurrying itself In the dirt. Fireman Mason, M Bristol, and a number of. work hands were in jured; but not seriously. Politician Suicides. Norfolk, Special.- John Aj Morgan, a leader of the "straightout" Demo cratic party In Norfolk county, which faction has -been fighting the organl zation of fusionists for several years, blew his brains out at his residence Wednesday; morning. He was found by a servant ' in his room in Berkley. On a table was a note which stated that it had been said that 1 his death wouldrsmooth the waters of the coun ty politics, and. if such was the case. it could be shown now; His wife was visiting her daughter -in New York when the affair, occurred. WAS ON THE STAND. Roland BAldlineux Testifies in His Own Behalf CONCEDED AND DISPUTED WRITING Experts Disagree as to Sender of the Poison PackagerThe Testl - mony, - New York, Special. The cross-examination of Roland B. Molineux by. As sistant District Attorney Osborne, which was 'resumed at the opening of court Saturday, was finished within a few minutes after resumption. MrV Os borne's first question was: "Did f not Mr. Barnet pay your wife attention V" "Not at all," was the reply. v "Did you, not so testify at the in quest?" -h v-. : '., y.: Molineux's reply' to this wan that Barnet had paid attention' to Miss Chesborougb in the spring and autumn of 1898 bef pre she became Mrs. Moli neux. '... i.,, ::.:, ,. - . The defendant was in the best of humor. When Mr. Osborne asked him If he gave his wife an engagement ring at tho time of his engagement, and his answer was not to the prosecutor's sat isfaction, he said smilingly: "I can tell you better than you can drag it out of me." !'' - r:.;;.,.. "I don't wish to drag it out of you." ,Molinoux then said he bought an en gagement, ring on November 18, 1898. Yesterday he testified that he and Miss Che3borough became engaged in Sep tember, 1898. At Christmas,'. 1898, he gave her a "mizpah" ring and when he became engaged in September, 1898 he wished to buy her an engagement rin?, but:did not do so until November. A letter ta Miss Sadie Sheffler, in which Molineux spoke of his engageraent and forthcoming marriage as a "romance," and said also that it was sudden, vas then identified and admitted in evi dence. Mr. Osborne ceased his exami nation rather abruptiy after several questions as to the prisoner's connec tion with various medical associations. As Molineux resumed his seat, behind his lawyers, Rev. Lindsay Parker, of Brooklyn, shook hands with him, and his father, General Molineux, pattfd him affectionately on the shoulder and said. -Good boy." r:- Mr. Black called Max Guropel, a handwriting expert, as his first witness after Molineux. Mr. Gumpel told of hla oxperience as an expert. He said he Ssd studied band-writing more than- 3d years and had, testified in many Impor tant cases, among others the Riegand Becker forgery ; the Sharon? will case, the Sarah? Althea .Hill controversy -in California,, and the Rice wHlV case ini New York- He declared that the con coded and disputed writings were not WTitten b ythe same .hand. Mr.: Crumpell said it was his belief that thw addrerv orx the poison package was in the nat ural hand of the writer ant that its cramped appearance wa du to its having beer written after the package was made np.; On cross-examination, Mr.. Gumpel said hel would eapect the sender of a poison package to disguise hi handwriting. "I know of no case in whreh a person had sent poison: to any cne without trying to conceal his iden tity-" Mr. Osborne got the witness to sar that thv"u" and "c"; ra "ciub written by Molineux, had many chac ucteristics iin common withUbe addTesar on the poison package wrapper.'; Hfe f onad also shading in: the top of ttte letter "c'ia "Cornishv on t&e wrapper and like shading in the "T" of the Vosrd "club" In various of tfce conceded writ ings. Dr. David E well, hariflwrl ting aMC pertV was the next witness. He said h had madeoeareful studies of disguised and concoaed writings and was convinced-they had not been done by the same hand. Dr. Ewell was still ors the Etand when court was adjourned tmtll Wednesday next. .Possibilities of a CaUfornta. Acre. Samuel Cleeks lives on one acre in tho Sacramento valley. Of this acre uriii- trpt thi ioaann tnmnrrnw. ami I oi tho space, but in the. balance ; Is ont be bad any more.' V Well,-I was : . grown? every - variety of fruits, - nuts, lust overcome, and I took him in-my vegetaoies,, etc., xnat win or. can be arms ana we wept togetner. Never aiu Bob give me any more trouble and all THE MIND OF THE ClffCO; Da Happr If Tou Ifvr BoUterro In - fant Wew Bekblaptfe Ideal. ; In the next annual report of the Com inlisloner of Education will' appear a paper entitled "Inhibition; A Study of Child Character," which will deal with the ideasthiJtj dwell In the brain of a very young 'A child arid aye developed into thought: The data concerning the development of the child mind vere gathered from recorded observations of hundreds of children, while they were ntwork or play. Deductions are made; from the facts I presen ted, that over-exertion, particularly of n mental nature, is injurious to the child;; that the young mind ; in the course of growth mav be permanently injured by over- study; that -when a child is growing rapidly he is dis inclined to exercise1 and on the other hand, that too much exercise will check growth. The report says thatrestlssness in chfldren up to six or seven years of age is a good sign, but a bad . sign after that age. The report says: "The rest less child should naturally d evefop into a man of ' action. Mothers who have restless children can get comfort out of the fact that this condition shows a normal arid desirable development; The boisterous hild is as a rule a peeoliar ly good.animalj , A quiet child the report says, is not necessarily one j that will develop into a bright man ori woman" Such a condi tion in a child is often the result of rapid growth or of sickness. , The report cotibludes: "We are snffeT ing from a fijlse idea of education. Avhich has been handed down to n from the Renaissance. We secm to think that to roaster books is the only way to become earned, and that to be come learned is the object of educa tion. One can gain nothing by second hapd information from books, and the object of education Is not to make men scholars. The time when a man caiv become learned from books is already passed. We live in an age of science, and observation and experiment I are fundamental methods. v Our Ideal stu dent Is no longer an emaciated con sumptive,' with a wet towel -about his brow, bending over Ms tome in- j the small hours of the morning, but rather a well-rounded man of the world r one who knows books, but who knows men and affairs as well,' one who has drunk deeply from .. every experiencr an honorable ' life can offer him ; one who has ideals of action as well ai thought" I j f The Jle WlKreakDwwn, When a man standing at the head, of a vast business breaks down the papers begin, to talk of the enormous pressure of modern, life,., especially, in. the lines of finance and industrial activStj-. There are railway presidents who stand a great amount of business strain,, but they waste none of their energies,, and are temperate., as all nien of great affaixs must bev if they wouia Hold their own. im these busy f While x great business involve largo responsibilities, k strong ma & at the head of It will pe- found to have- se lected capable assistants, oftentyounger men withi greai power of resisting strain. The railway president,, bank E president or head. f a trust" has his staff; hi business i systematized,, and: ja large part of his. worth no. his cor jporatl6rieonsIsts inu his ability to pick wu iiit-ui lur resyuatjiuie piacs.. , . When one come to look over the, list of men. broken down in busiaess itis among those having small business that the greater number will be found. The man. In a small way rarely can afford' ta have capable assistants he must "do It all himself," and; hence worry and overdoing. There Is- more of a chanc for bralnt fag In a small sfeop or agenay than ini a big busiaess.. Mex ican Herald. . ' ! CAlTTlln.. A charter has Margolks Cottnn mouth, Va.r it? crease to noo oon h V President. J. hS R- MaJ V, .1. " ompVTyw?! 1 bagging plant a?nn ago as to .be b S Hus & Co., and z h There are two Um ech, and a PortSVl comes from a pian? the jhu byMargoIius&cSao RogMill atPeteT It was stated Be verar Urt Thomas Hirst of tlf ifc Manufacturing Co. olv l had about Am s ,vlttUnd i branch rug anUat pJL. oetaila for citablisH.r tUH -J . Hid -I. i mnce Deen ComnUto v' WW i building has bien c' raoiy as local operatiS looms additional rr,aLn stalled. I The 8 iuciaua ling Pirst, manager. Co. A $io, ooo Knitting Thomas J. LiH!arri n? was mentinnprl rM.. J in t .:;;;;w"u d5ce, o wwwwixailllttHL Of He ftas a7.T knitting mill, an IncoroSSS io knitting; mill: knitting mill. Elkin Knitting MiTSs equip the mill. Cam'tpi Zt 000. and twontv L-Lr1 t ' . "' V.7 11J 1 i I I I1U . , t with complement of spu :.S retc, will be installed for th f An e .... r- nun ui uiKu b, women's nn i hosiery. Further derails aroS der consideration. , Mr. rS Textile Notes Messrs. Walter Wi vy. nun auu layion Giles iJ Wilmington,. N. C, have inco the Sterling Manufacturing Co ? capital stock of $50,000. Coi1 purposes are stated as the mJ tare of cotton, linen and silki? the finishing of same,, etc.. Thos ed aTe prominent cotton-mil! t) torsv No specific statement as fcl tentioas of the company ha v maae. Stonewall' (Mass.)- Cotton P proceeding wi tfr the repairs its I plant, recently damaged by fire. oO.OOO' worth of new maefcinerr ( been ordered from New England ers to- replace equipment M made useless.. ACditional fire pn tion wilT also be Installed. imM. 50,000 gallon steel tank. The coc? operates a total off 21,000 spindld 500 looia3 A T. T. Ball'enger of Trwa- d L mentioned recentfy as proposisr t t forematfon of a knitting compii. I 'i has succeeded , i n organizing aiti Beatson, president; T. T, m vlce-ijre3fdeiit; xmd Fl P. Bacoiial j tarv-treaaorer. Tmrfistlffatfansanr. - X A ! - AllU' itctiifi uEuut; wilu a view iirw upon X Urther and flbal detail Ga., hair decided to add eonsidel new machinery to its plant Theses provements will fncrease the p'a, output to 750 garments per day. company at present operates 20M( ton snfndles. twentv-thre? tofc machtns, ..etc., 821', is ccataliied: $100,000. A VP Ufltohftr' .f TTrTrffttt. represents cabltsrllsts , wfro bare' m Motormans Strike Ended. Schenectady. N. Y., Special. The strike of motorhien on the Hudson Val ley Electric Railway was ended at 9 o'clock, the company recognizing the union and. agreeing to the schedule of wages put by the men, who will return to work at 1 o'clock. The strike has been notable for considerable rioting and ' the consequent calling out of sev eral companies of State National Guard. the neighbors wondered. I verily be lieve that if I had whipped him X lie k , would have been ruined by it. After his mother's death he enlisted in the army and won nis straps. - ana he. made to grow in that climate. On :his acre Mr. Cleeks has j supported aimself and wife for forty years, mak ing a good living, and '; has put aside jn, an average $400 a year. - He Is one af .tho men in this ;part of the valley writes me occasionally, ' and ; alwaya 1 . who t always has money to loan, v ;; Typographical Union Reinstated. Chicago, Special. The Chicago Fed eration of Labor Sunday rescinded its action of expulsion against Typograph ical Union No. 16, and offered to rein instate the delegates when they shall apply-for admission! The action of the Chicago Federation ls due directly to an order from President. Samuel Gom pers, of the" Federation of Labor, whV commanded 1 1 . to reinstate the; printers by November 10th, or' lose" its tight to affiliation. He in turn was stirred by the International Typographical Union, which notified him that unless he should issue the order it would with draw from the American Federation. The Lm Business. Ovcwrowding ts the motto of the day. The factories are vercrowde'd. The theatres aare overcrowded. The onjy reason why -one doe not say that the street carf are overcrowded; Is that they are something wocse.. v Ml such overcrowdings however;, are- sparse ness and" loneliness compared with the overcrowding of tlte bar. In 1891 there were, fifty-eight law schools with 60fT3 students. Now according to am estimate made by Professor Huffcutt. of Cornell there are 120 schools with 14,000 students, j MeaaawhQe the num ber of tall fledgetli lawyers : in the United States Is said by the last census to be about 114,(KMh. No other profes sion, wfth the exception of. teaching and of , medicine, Is so populous.--ChI-cago Tribune. ' A Giant Without 8trenKtlk A . peculiar story Is brought by the delayed Australian mails this week. At Warrnabool,-; Victoria, an applica tion for an. "old age pension" was made on behalf of a young man named Mc Lean, whose height is seven7 feet four; Inches,' and his age, twenty-four years. It was stated; that-owingto -a heart weakness this youthful Goliatn Syould never be able to work, and that he had no one to rely on for support.' For some time be had been an : inmate of the local hospital; where two beds had to be placed together in' ordef to ac commodate bis recumbent form. It was officially promised that his case would be laid before the ministry. wUl.J; . . .-111 . noh iuiLieu' a pruposiiiou lor iucx ment erf a $100,000- cotton factor. Orang, Texas. The projectors asrj N ' . . . JLa . Mfl urange investors sudschuc a amount of the requisite capital t furniih free site for the-plant. It is reported: that Kenry Spa? the Elj' Walker Dry v Goods,) Loufe, Mo., Is? seeking site in th for the establlShmen t of a large h ery mill. A plant of such si employ, from 200 tn m operatij sadVJ to be' contempTated. . J A movement is en foot fortjt tfon of a cotton factory at McCWJ S!-.:CV?B. F: Mauldln. presided f Wenormlrfb Ranlt Rank, is Wt fn the proposed enterprise and J tfeavor to1 organize a company 1 establishment. r Cntfnn fill NoteS. The Transatlantic Trading Galveston, Texas, reporU wj ments of cotton seed products meal that oort fas- the month as follows: Cotton sc ' J tons and cotton seed ck mZi a total of 5990 tons. The sap pany reports the shipments ny j Orleans for September at w J of meal and 2420 tons of total of '3693 tons. The following are the fffic f' V tions of cotton seed ana i prodnets as posted at tne.";n ll $ Cotton Exchange on tfie Primes reflned oil in barrels- Ion, 36 cents: olf refined o" "', per gallon,. 35 cents; prune loose, per gallon, 30 l -ol f; cotton seed1 cake, per ton pounds. $26.50Jto $26.75; P" seed meal. - per ton of" ' f $25.50 to-$25.75; soap stocR. vt 1.10 cents; cotton seed " totj livered at New Orleans, v 17 in Orleans, per ton oi 000 P 20Q0 New $16. Receipts of cotton seeu - Texas, last week 1 :te$ heavy 'the price $1C50 per ton. 1 eed at bei'JS
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