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This new-feature of our plant is now being perfected and we will be able to turn out work of this kind equal to any establishment tSguth of Washington. s S & & m ft irf t' ... . n it",, LETHCO, MANAGER. Visitors' are always a t4 n c3ry ELDEST . LARGEST B E ST OUB SECIIOKAL nCJlIHTY A STRANGE ME!fTAIi ATTITnE. Th' Xeir EucUnd Mlwlonary and : Knntbern 8clf-Abiwuent Provln . rial Individuality Not a Bad Thing The San will wait In vain for any hav no "fuiir nr i l.n nf lnl.n.l .v.- I .... . . j. . - - w..-, ...uu-..., iniu ins uinvinsuiBiieu fWl .rfi,? V.; T -, ..7. wur inry nave no recognition. Pos-presence suddenly became conscious J ? -f h0d a 'nankful- "Ped aessed of the missionary spirit, which that her "Vs" were not Boston "aV look on their expressive countenances. ls a coiiacienr-e.uivinr rm rnr h.. fa1 er1,Ilft.rer?." !C iom at home, they are eager for a cm-he took her talent ana hid it under a wf.i "VllTl even''ou J1fk'. Mie- Al,a I 0 not know a role more; very superficial knowledge of Beacon well-born woman,.-acrustomed to the ry m tMt tnflii it.. amhinn r . ...... u . ... ... a. , .. iw.HWM " nurci Duccui, An mure was vrv in- lnlf,M?lew EngUnd'sOwn Kx-!eive her. leaned over and. In a aort of u. Tether V n T",,t1"l.".n,"f. - l yr.u"?pr- rLTlS; iSLfJ?" ve declared but1 Ithout inseme aT.ld ample Proven Soutlieru KducaUoiial - Traditlonn ' Peculiarly Worthy of Be- Ing Preserved Low Opinion Whicli the Imitated Always Have of tlie Imitators. . . , Baltimore Sun; - The orator of the evening, with u mission to Southern women concern ing education, came forward. She was built after the regular rule, rather heavily, and from her fair, open coun tenance benevolence shone with a glit tering, surface cordiality. Her mild ' blue eyes looked everywhere, penetrat ing tus uLTnet mrnrn wiiric vvn- clous Illiteracy eat abashed. Cegtrintng' with a plea for the ml- versality of knowledge, the speaker JureunW The flMt ackn.wledgment o M.r,?d;rdepe.edn itr iss.s.?",t,, --?fut. about the weather. And presently sh ( forgot her newly-ucqulred accompliHh- depressed In this stagnant1. ""ul V,yer8l L u" ". "l ... -"' ilniiinhm" n'hnf...... ..,,. a "J n juuna; riiiioinail 01 UlSiin-iu'1 nwinm iiiui sue Klir. missionary " gave her a long" de T;U!!hld "n'a,r "nd n tion c-'And no sooner did she come back to searching look such us I understand '2 univsrauy 01 ms native ih t"" oiu Rniieman gruin- s used, Hh 'effect nhe LCtonA" ,nB',tl" of orld.f.ned ed. "Hum-m-hmn-.n! So you are iii'iwiauif, ii in iiiiu i buii, 111 ma ,lUK - i 1 1 vii a Hi siv iiaincu lira 0 LH I C" THE SWAYNE IMPEACHMENT. be controlled and yet encouraared and ,'rZ,e"" to 'prove the condition of the'und county. "Why didn't you tell me whlsoeTd '-Strive ho """j whole country by sacrificing his owi.-Uhat before? Tour name Is ? wnisperea. strive, hope. the a rltUen of th Jh t)l.Tnen you mu8t be tne of .. tsy tne limitation of Southern house-1 "widest" sense wrote u. book, in which 'A flood of questions; reminiscences fol Keepers. the aathor or an economical , he loid bare her waste places. It was lowed. The insignificant Imitator of cookery book cume--to a Southern cUyhard to see the good to be expected by jun . accent not her own attracted no and delivered n course of lectures. In this sacrifice, for the attack unm. attention, but when she nut hack her native speech she took a certain rank, not from her Own personality, but ot her country the first she advocated the use of the'the past anil a lecture to the dead, scrubbing brush und water, and then t quoted vfrottt Horace Mann the axiom entreated them to open their windows not In the nature of a practical reform, from that J. . . 7a ' "non- ,'" T " Al. 'M naa And although his oblation was not ap- 1 do not think we cn deprive our- und the outcome a eitremelv .loubui U ta InUhe power of a child, to walk regu ated their health and given them -proved of by W. own sex. who know 'selves of this one sure claim of-recoa- ?i lne outcome ,s femeiy doubt-( largely the Author of His Own Trou bleu He Has Never "Made Up" to me reopie 01 florid and They Dislike Him. New York Commercial, Republican. Xobody unfamiliar with Florida af fairs, political and otherwise, during 1 11c pnst nneen years can clearly un derstand or fully appreciate In all its bearings the Impeachment case against United States District Judge Swayne. of that State. The case bids fair to lie more than famous.- It Is likely to necome distinctly historical. Apart ro:n the fact that this will be the first impeachment trial of a Federal judge In seventy-four .years the re moval of Judge Humphreys, of Ten ii usee, in 1861, for accepting a Con federate commission bejng unworthy of classification in this connection the case promises to bring out a mass of information as to Federal-bench practices hitherto not of public know ledge and other specific fucts that must instantly challenge popular at tention and Interest the country over blttered him; and thenceforth he ap parently regarded every man's band as against him. He should have re signed then and there. .He should have understood that he was unfitted by temperament to ait on the Florida Bench on any bench, perhaps. " Most of the acts with which Judge swayne is charged would have pro voked no criticism against a Judge reasonably ressected and measurably popular. He has himself to thank that for more than a dosen. years Florl dians have had. him "under surveil lance," ready to put a pry under him on the very slightest pretext If he will, he can put up a defence that must arouse considerable popular' sympathy for him; he can make the issue an ex citingly partisan one, If he so elects. And there is a grain of comfort,, for him In the thought that of the three Federal Judges under Impeachment from the foundation of tho government down to the present day the Hum phreys case being omitted only one was convicted. . directly up from the Ignorance of the wholesome outlook she would, sheitha Infant to a knewledge of the primary Promised, teach thein how to broil mAtp th nnnArtnnltv fr r- u nman ( ; rninB unnn Rnnthrn Mtnnl ivhn hav duties of man. Having thus tactfully, beef steak. 1 ch thein how to broil mo.. ctK .il eyona question there is an element :?L!:S confess, could no rZK -la. awkVrom iheTr on ayK defined the status of the audience, she hose fori her text the magic phrase. "Broadening, Widening, Uplifting the Individual Life." And when she ut tered these war cries she suited the -action t the words ehe opened her arms; she breathed hard ; she tiptoed. The , habit of ft he South, the mission ary was pleased to tell .us, was intel lectual Inactivity. We were not dlf- of kindling the curiosity of your cor- Rousseau tame reading l" w"y ice mey ten tlonal conference hein .f-"1' consid'red "uperfiuous or slsted. Since then avowals of lllitera- homes which they never held in them .ni' -1' . ... "' darkness, blindness have poured These persons are of a sapiency. The .5pe"ence nave naa tne errect. forth with a frankness which makes hallmarks we despise tney keep shin lng like an oil lamp. And If we have swept out "certainly is" and "mighty glad" with a besom, all the better for them. They have attached these ..re vealing phrases to their garments, and there they will cling, like burr to a sheep, for by their use of them they arrived. At an educa- us such unpleasant things, hlgh-splrlt- (southern city two women, the daugh- ed womeu allow committees from other iters of gentlemen of ripe scholarship sections to examine into our educa-ln.ii n.. .v.- v uri 'n-f "Pclal.8ts are nutterf of Northern miss onar les wi , eom down and whv we n riranoht rimA ,ai u,. irenirom ine wona ana wesi in . seii-aoasement nerore tlie holder flowed down dry and gaping throats have " w.iun. one uwi iroi " v.,r0 , c, u.amr. lMhe champaane. It was like olii-fush the children of Southerners brought up In New England, who had contracted the' New England habit of mini anl speech; In one generation. To be sure, tradition had Its Influence, an effete civilisation bad weakened the will, but sue was not one to bid the child of the drunkard expect to be himself a drunk ard; she believed that habit could overcome heredity. There was no rea son why the sew ethical and educa tional training! could not give the In dividual, and through the Individual, the section, self-propulsion and self controt. ;'.' Thfirefort, she would encourage rath er than depress, her audience. .To be ure, it was- easy to reply to these uvea 'in tne atmosphere of culture and1 TZ i " .V : t"Mwjjr wiu SOUTHERN EDUCATION. Education in the South has always been of an interesting and individual character. In the first place, it was one of manners and breeding and was not acquired through books of eti quette. I have never seen a manunl of behavior either written or read by Southern gentle people. A certain amount of culture was a necessltv 'of existence, like the dally bath of.whloh we near, so much ncwadays in rent-el society, ioned religion, when decent people called themselves "vile sinners," and declared that they were worthy of the perpetual society of thieves and out casts In an unmentionable place. Then tne missionaries rushed to the rescue, with Froebel and Nature Study stretch ed out to save them. PROVINCIALISM AND DISTINC TION. ' Then.; In the matter of nrovinclaiiitm I think we shrink trom this stigma educational advantages- She acknowl edged-iat she -was fed from Ihe stream of great public: libraries, from courses of lectures.- delivered, by the most up-j to-date women and .wu of the days?" "T , l tiresome s 111 u in.t '-h.-.s h.ir'"'.nA-r2ltwct.-about books which "trained development and which is Hke leading a recipe for, Instead of eating, broiled lobster. r . People y people I mean a land of clubs and organisations. 'while t hose to ..whom she, addressed herself were still struggling with the.element a ry problems of intellectual existence. but t here the, difference oed.v The mir e or North,; west and, South mi f ntlaUy the same. ,v The classics h p t o p r "d to no one section but to" alt Kro el," we 'were assured, '"address rd h?t nself to the humblest as well as to I 'is encyclopedic rwoers.t! -The In ei i, t s.ntiments of Enerson floated .vt tie boundary line and lodged In the i.raih o the ' deswndant of r the t.:ve-l-;l ver. There ,is hope In mul tl i ! ; fQj-ci-ts, In the human and; hu ?' clement, that is-as ."much' -:.r : ' Sff as ours. ; The future is . 1 i- ; .stever you may have done r f. . . KI.'J TUB r.OD. ' .. jv arpror"'- ; i ; ' !,. to Innii' "'1 - 1 : f en.if-tiv - . J',1 (IV!, the best authors, wo read and assim ilated what we real. To be sure, we did not enjoy -"dirjct'' reading oud. ss mo mrew uuuhb iu;uierM, mere' was en absence or thoie Hifsome little a 'iJ U?La 2 duryi,0W4 t0 much shame. If provincialism tftrbe gleaned t'om books, all k- intulUon or lnheritoL but for oor t Y "- "."'"f: trace of' Indlvlduallsni r dhlurie: customed to browse in fine old libraries ,tion. To be Johnson., tt t. w th. language we -speak but the thought In which the language is clothed which makes us provincial. When . Carlyle wanted to be eiTective, hevspoke broad est Scotch. D'Artagnan ragged and strutted In Gascon and hid his subtlety under the Gascon reputation for brava do. An Englishman , was , invited, to breakfast by Dr. Holmes, and was sur prised to see blueberry pie. Dr. Holmes expressed inextinguishable grief and pity that there was & region' on God's earth so desolate as not to know blue berry pic., The same Englishman had no doubt his tea, his sour bread, bis Joint and his tub' tucked away some where, about him. s - And we are ashamed of uS"do'a" and .,flo,r' and abase ourselves before our hiblt of proiTounclng x- the : letter "C;and ;rbluSh at the J sobtid 4 of :?nlfhty:: srd ttrtalnly-ls,v,U.i-, $ It wj-3 in Boston, In a "friendly home of lettered refinement,", to quote Mr. noweit s nappy .pnrase,, and the , dark wainscoted room Mookf H ; ... throuxh certain class read as they bathed and boasted about Itettuon. ' 2 - It is perfectly; eaS to Understand, on the other hand, wSy foreigners tbould "come down." " as ;ie 1 call . u, when they meet with the welcome ' that awaits them. . They are well-moaning persons, ; with elementary;: information and little. culture, who in a mort Ted itable i way have, acquired the nduca. tion of which they fancy themselves a sort of ; Columbus. ' Their itch : to : nlr their : accomplishment Impels them soutnwara. ur they are of rpctl.!e antecedents and attainments who live in isolated ommunltlr,yh. tne wmaows. ' TM wtnt were covered with bid portraits .and books in' honor able s vellum ; and ; calf skin. .The Very absence of striving for the 'old'-" and the picturesque in .furniture nd drap ery, gave the dignified -place an ah of long leisure and large ease. A; Boston irentleman of the past, generation was A COST1.T -.MISTAKE.";.:? ft'iV Blunders are sometimes very expen sive. Occasionally life itself is the price "f a sxiiHtake, but you'll never be wrong i t ike Dr. King's 'ew.Llfe pun I 'ye -n,ia. 4 yiiziness, Headache, " " '"" "el t'oubles.- They , are Vn at' Burwell ; the host, and the young Southern per. ; ,son who ei't 'rca, with a very pardon' I'ulms Live fjong. Milwaukee. Wisconsin. "Most of the"' palms sold In this country come from Belgium." said J. C. McHutchinson, bf New York, at the Blats Hotel, "and the lily of the val ley slips from Germany. Nursery stock comes largely from France. There Is a 25 per cent, duty on palms, but we sell millions of them in this country every year. They vary in price from 'i a hundred wholesale to $200 apiece or even higher. There is no.lirnlMo thf-prlee paid torr good pwra a man . napptns . to want it. rbut whe.n he . wnt s. to, dispose of .lt. ne may nave. 10 iet it co-ior aimoat nothing. . There1 I ' limit -to the age to which palms grow under- fav orable circumstances, apparently. -: I' have seen palms in the Pacific .Ocean apparently growing right "out of the water to a magnificent height. On ap proaching them. It is seen that, they are . on little sandy islands, with 'the waves almost wetting their trunks. Some of them are doubtless - hundreds of years old, perhaps even thousands. Palms are used In the East much more than in this part of the coun try, florists having orders to decorate hotels and theatres and private resi dences for social functions." Monotonous London Name, ' St. James Gasette. - ' . The "Saints" have no fewer than J97 streets named In their' honor in Lon don,: There are 10S Chureh streets, B Chapel streets.' : Cmr ;i streets, 100 Queen streets, and nearly, as many High streets. If a letter were address ed to one or these without further def inition, it would take soma months be fore It could .reach the address. . .: Hwrbuchly Independent;' Again. : - lAutevinaVCott-Br'-JarnaC't' The Senator Why mustn't I vote for that, bin? vf'f V-v;a" icHrfA- Constituent Because the neAnie don't want it. Senator.'-,!; i The Senaloi-What have the neonle pot to do with it? Ain't election over, heir? against Judge Swayne persecution both because of his political prejudices and of his assertive Indifference to the people and the Interest anions: whom and which his lot has been- cast; al most any Northern Republican lawyer of mere tact and less - stubbornness than he could have gone on the Fede ral bench In Florida and have com manded public respect and confidence from the eutset. if not popular esteem and affection. Judge Swayne obvious ly' cared little :' nothing for any of these, and thua his enemies have been enabled to build up. u case about hlm largely from . material ' that, would hardly have suggested impeachment In the case of any other Judge-rand at tne same time a case mat at present appears-to disarm any critic who might charge that there,. is politics or sectional - prejudice oenina 11. . Judge Settle, . the - predecessor of Swayne, was a North Carolinian also a Republican and he died late.ln.1S8V A Republican Senate refused to 'con firm -President Cleveland's appointee:. Some months later President Harri son named Charles Swayne, -of Dela ware, rpr tne poaition-rcnieny, it . is. said,vj through the innuenoe-of - Hamil ton Disstbn, and others, of ; Pehnsyl-; variia, who then had large- property interests 'iorida ana ,tne. appoint ment was a great surprise there, espe cially to the "machine . 1 Republicans: who had , been unable idt agree on; .a candidate or tneir own. thus judge Swayne went on the Federal bench In; tm iiacHsonvniB ; uisirici- 'practically unknown; with no friends or -defenders In his own party and with' the -entire Democracy of the 8tate regarding him as an open enemy or1 at best, tnur piclously because of President Harri son's proclaimed policy of relentlessly pursuing and punishing all offenders against the ; Federal election. One -of Judge S wayne's early official acts was tne appointment or-a jury com mlsslener from '.Columbia -county ' who was ,not generally regarded as a . fit man for the place and was especially and extremely offensive to the Democ-. racy of the entire State. m ., That was a mistake perhaps a case of Imposition , by persons whom the jude trusted.' J Hf should have cor rected it promptly,- might- have done so easily. He did hot and that was the- beginning , of his troubles. : For" rourreen years his pailt naa -been . a thorny, oner 'As; icon a he could do so a Florida Cpngressinan,Vi whose venomous hatred Judge. Swayne had Incurred, secured the. passage, of a bill so :.. changing the "Federal - district boundaries that the. Judge's .Jurisdic tion was shifted from Jacksonville to Pensacola and he was obliged to give up the home that, he had established In Srt. Atiguit-lne. 'Thut soured him. Cm- Tclephono Etiquette. , Philadelphia Press. . A prominent" society woman of Wal nut street was entertaining an Eng lish woman recently."'' In' the latter's country telephones, are not as much in use as in America,' and. where they are Installed in private houses the serv ants usually answer the' 'phone. It is different In this country, .as the mistress of the house never considers It beyond her, dignity to talk over tne 'phone, "and attends to much of her shopping and business duties lit that way. .The English visitor was much interested In the convenience of the telephone. One day her host was out him! . tlie bell. rang, and she thought she would answer thej'phope. The first word she heard over It was "Who are your The question was asked so abruptly and' sounded "so , harshly to the gently bred woman that sne in stantly dropped' the receiver, with in diarnatldn. and A catted . a' servant When the hostess returned, her visjtor described what she considered was a very discourteous 'phone message, and the former had quite a Ume explain ing' the. abrupt messages necessary in using the 'phone.- Howsevr. they both came-to agree that ' it wan time for some one to write a book on telephone etiquette .andthe author should make itlmpiu-atlve that the, person called up should ene nrst.io answer mm so-and-so." and thus the', lady r can whisoer ; her Pretty ' hamst . and the dourtest'es : of', life "'b; : irokew-ft. i 'im m w r '7, , JUVENILE BICYCLES 5 Armistead Burwell, Jr. HARDWARE. CUTLERY, SPORT ING GOODS. 25 North Tryon Street ill it' New ? T6rtt Hersld t t ? ; n f 'i tfhYa.. Jotrmtiind (n : tha i Mexican congress yesterday with the approval of President Dias. the .finance minister and thw rahiner. assures the adoption of the sold standard in Mexico at an early date. It was probably, beef use or the general confidence that this step would be taken thst the littlepubllo n our southern borders was able to recently dispose , of its .forty mllllana of 4 per cent, bonds the . first secured. Joan it ever 1 floated.-'-- ''ii -, While the ' general . prosperity of the ruintrv . has . Increased J the v earnings upon foreign capital particularly Jhat invested inratiway -wnwn nave-oeen mostly built by Americans-hese have been very much reduced by exchanging into -avoid .the, silver-received. . . Under free coinage the Mexican dollar Is sim ply, worth its price . as bullion and fluctuates withtbe varying" priofg tof the white metal.: Hence Mexico's com merce, has been restricted because It has had no permanent basis for its calculation-and foreign capital .which oth-i erwise would'hav poured in, to assist In developing the great resources of the country.' has bfi hark for f:ir cf rt paymt'tlt, In a d-r-- ., , 1 cui". rv NOTIGB All who have any .book account or any claim against the Lincoln Cotton Mills and iAhnntnnr Mlll mitairia n a- notstttust be preseuted and paid 1 before: January 1st, 1905v", UevciMi i lit rf . .ar. For over 57 years Buck's fcava fceen pl:a::r4 fcll:s, trl to-d-y t!::j rr t :tt:r r 1 r?"
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