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SHE'S PRESIDENT.
Since mother is the president
Of Bigvllle's Woman's Club,
Fa's made her have a hired girl
To wash, 'nd iron, 'nd scrub,
'Cause hp says, "No use talkiu' now,
As wnsbln' nt the tub
Ain't just the work fer mother sine
She's president, eh, bub''''
'Nnd t'other day he said, "Now, ma,
You go down to the store
N pet thet Ingrain carpet yon
Wns wantiu' once before.
Gosh, if It costs four dollars I
Doiilt enre! 'Twon't do no more
To have home-made rag carpets on
The president's front room lloor."
" 'Nd then," he paid, 'nd looked at her
A-lnughiu' kind of sly,
'T'bnps wc might find some furniture
You'd maybe like to buy."
Then inn she tips and kisses pn,
'Nnd wiped her both eyes dry,
'Nnd p.i said, "Sho, now, 'tuln't the thing
Tor presidents to cry."
- fiuffiilo Courier.
POETIC JUSTICE.
The room was full of the delicate per
fume of violets. A jar, holding the
purple (lowers, stood on tho table, be
side the bed. The man who had Just
entered the room removed tho unllgbt
'(1 weed from bis lips nnd stood mo
tionless, Inhaling tho fragrance.
Willi nn nngry exclamation bo strode
to the window, lifted tho sash nnd
threw the offending flowors as far its
bis strength would permit. Down,
down, they fluttered, swaying this way
nnd that like living things, In tho brisk
evening wind, until they touched tho
turf of tho well-kept plaza of the hotel.
A Hood of soft moonbeams poured in
to the room. The man stood quietly in
the refulgent glow. He was thinking
moodily. "Pah: Violets were remln-Iscent-of
Alicia." He did not wish to
think of her now, when the glamour
of another scene was so freshly upon
lil in a feeue In a dim old garden,
where brilliant popples blossomed In
rank profusion, nnd the soft, languor
ous tones of n Castillnn patois made
music In his ears.
Who could have put violets In his
room! It must have been Lee Wing,
the Chinese boy, though sentiment in
tho nlniond-cyed heathen there was
none. It could not be that Alicia was
here and his brow darkened and
curses sprung to hi.) lips. "Nonsense.
It was Impossible;" nnd he threw him
self upon the bed and lived over again
that hour iu the neglected garden
lived with shining eyes nnd 6miling
tips until clerk lashes and soft arms
mingled with tho fantasies of dream
land. Herbert Somers had left his affianced
wife In nn old Puritan town In Massn
'htisetts, three years before, while he
set out to seek his fortune. The wed
ding clay had been set for the autumn,
ownrd which the date of our story Is
fast hurrying. His letters to her bad
grown less frequent with the years,
and he coldly analyzed his feelings to
ward her now. She had been a little
sister to him, obedient and trustful. lie
had blindly offered himself ono after
noon, when she wove a white gown
with violeis nt her breast and In her
hair. Ho loathed violets now.
Hlie wrote him pathetic little letters,
full of prayers and happy tears, and in
return he sent her sketches of his life
among a new people careless letters
to which she returned as to a fetich, as
devout a little heatben as could be
found In n New England village In this
century.
Hut her name never sprung to his
l'ps; his heart was not In her keeping.
However, he had fully determined to
go to the old homo nnd marry Alicia In
September. He would probably huve
carried his promise Into execution If
he had not been blindfolded by fato
nnd sent to Monterev. ostensllilr for
business, but actually that Love might
entangle him In her silken meshes.
. He had tarried two weeks in the old
Spanish town already. Perhaps cer
tain glance from a dark-eyed Senorn,
who was a guest at the same hotel,
could have told why he lingered, even
when In bis pocket there were letters
from his firm urging him to move on to
fresh pastures. Two pairs of eyes, one
tender, one compelling, can no more be
governed by the rules of ordinary life
than can the tide cease to flow by the
mysterious attraction of the moon.
Bonier was in an enchanted land,
nis sensibility to beauty, his capacity
for loving had In a few week6" time
grown Into a giant Influence, which bo
could not control. Time passed a
lustrum In a moment he heeded It not,
for the beautiful woman with the In
scrutable eyes walked and talked with
ldm every day iu the old garden, where
pious monk and zealous padre had
been wont to meditate and pray.
It was late when Somers awoke the
morning after the violets had been so
rudely tossed away. He dressed him
self hurriedly and hastened to the
breakfast-room. The Senora was al
ready there. On her way sh had
picked up a bunch of dew-drenched
violets that had lain all night upon the
-rass and there was a restless glitt?r
o tho eyes she turned upon tho man
beside her. It was Don Gonzales, h -r
husband.
ne had reached tho place late Inst
night, the garrulous waiter had told
Sorners, ns he lingered over the rolls
and the bacon. The Senor was a rich
coffee planter nnd the Sonora was not
half hN H-.ro. shameful, ibis buying
and selling of heart. Somers gave a
furtive glmee in the direction of the
newcomer. Don Gonzales bad fine
features of a light mahogany hue, but
there was a squareness about the chin
and a look of determination in the eyes
that would have told a less Interested
observer that he was not a man to bo
trilled with. Somers took courage, and
after breakfast ! leisurely followed
the pr.tr to the broad piazza, where lie
yas duly presetted. Dfn Gonzales
VOL. XX. PITTSHOUO, CHATHAM
proved to be a gentleman of Intelli
gence nnd somo culture. He was par
ticularly offabCa toward tho young
American.
Ths love-making proceeded more
cautiously now.
It was night. Tho air wafted a
thousand sweet scents from the old
garden. Strolling through Its unkept
paths, with eyes half-closed, but sensi
bilities keenly alert, were Somers and
tho Scuorn. His arm bad strayed un
rebuked about her waist. Tho music
of her voico wooed him like a siren's
song. Strange, strange that he Messed
the lucky chance that had brought him
to this place. She stretched fort!) her
white arms and laid them llngorlnsly
about his neck. Ho stooped and kissed
her. Just then rhero was a souud of
hastily retreating footsteps as if their
owner had grown Incautious, under the
Influence of somo stioug emotion.
The niootu hath eyes, and a thousand
orbs are the stars. More llinn once be
fore Somers fancied that he beard re
treating footsteps as he returned from
a stolen meeting, lint the cordial man
ner of Don Gonzales bad thrown him
completely off bis guard.
A moonlight ride had been arranged
upon the road that winds beside the
beach. At tile last moment word was
sent that, the Sonera was too ill to go.
Rut J ton Gonzales, with strange in
sislenee, declared lhat Seiners should
not lose the pleasure of the evening lor
tho trifling Indisposition of a woman.
Somers climbed into tho showy trap
with a curious presentiment of oil.
Don Gonzales held tho reins, and tlic.v
started off with the clanking of the silver-mounted
harness and a crnck of
the whip.
Two hours later. The scene Is trail
pcendently beautiful. The moon tint
pours her beams upon the shimmer
Ins water of tho ocean Is sending long
bars of light through the blinds of a
window where a sad-eyed Sonora is
pacing her room, a prisoner behind a
bolted door. .She transforms the land
scape in1o radiant beauty to a traveler
riding swiftly along the shore line
alone; but she is ns cold as death to
the man bound by ropes, gagged and
stretched upon Hie beach. iil .
staring straight upward to the star
lighted id;y.
It was Somers waiting f.-r d":ith.
The tide was coining In. He could hour
ir lapping the ragged edire of tin- -.and.
In an hour's tini" the place where h"
lay would be submerged and he w.mld
be a ghastly tiling, borne out on the
bosom of the ocean. Caught liken rat
In a trap, nnd he struggled with his
bonds. Ills last thought was no' of
Alicia, but of an old court where th err
ors nnd vines grew lankly, and of the
soft glances of the woman that he
loved. The winds seemed to whisper
her name, the stars blinked In sym
pathy, aud Somers went out Into the
unknown with a smile upon his lips
for the Senora.
In a New England ootmtrv town a
young woman was sitting by her wi.i
dow, looking out Into the empty night,
nnd dreaming such dreams com - :.
the young. Tlnaily she extinguished
her candle, and, kneeling by her white
bed, prayed for him who had already
entered Into the castle of death. San
Francisco News-Letter.
BERLINITS UNIFORMITY.
Less Interest in It. Street, than in
London' Alleys.
Berlin is almost ns discouraging In
Its other landmarks of Its notable Ger
mans ns In Its public statues. It is al
most as bad ns New York, where few
houses now stand that were iu exisi
one wheu Franklin nnd Washington
were alive. London Is rich in build
ings associated with great men, ,iad an
American can hardly walk from West
minster to St. Paul's without recalling
a dozen names of men whose lives are
dear to him. Berlin has, however,
been almost built anew since lSTo. I
can remember whole streets that were
different when I was a boy. There are.
to be sure, a faw In-uances of memorial
plates being afllsed to houses where
notable Germans haw lived, but even
In these cases the houses themselves
are an uninteresting portion of an un
interesting street. The Prussian kings
added uniformity In street architecture,
as well as in the dressing of soldier",
and that may be the reason why to-day
the most beautiful streets of Berlin
furnish less Interest to a stranger than
the grimiest alleys of London, with
their charming diversity of dirty
front.
The houses nvo rlt equally high,
equally broad, equally ga idj on the
outside nnd equally devoid or individu
ality within. The Ap.gJo-Sa'n owns
bis house and makes it comfortable
for himself end his family. Tho Prus
sian lives in an apartment house, along
with perhaps a dozen or more famlties.
all of them subject to the iwttry tyran
ny of a porter, whose du'ies are dan
gerously near to thoo of a police
agent. Thus the Individual taste of a
Berlin artist, writer, actor or othBr
notable resident finds no expression
through his architectural surrounding..
A Helmholtz, a Monunscu, a Mensel or
a Virchow Is in Berlin as little identi
fied with his house as a soldier with
his barracks. This form of living his
its conveniences, particularly to n
bachelor, but is not conclusive to in
terest In those who seek the literary
landmarks of great capitals.- Harper's
Weekly.
They Had to Interfere.
"Were the sanitary police In your
house thi afternoon":"
"They were."
"What was the matter';"
"I was smoking that cigar you tave
me."- Life.
It Is bard for some men to say .lit i
what they mean, but It's harder for oth
ers to mean what they say.
The man with loose habits is the one
that is oftenest tlgu.
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FIELDS OF ADVENTCItE.
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARINC
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
b.i.1 o.m. i., Tin,, to svo ti.o ovr,-
i.n.d st.,Co un.! p.enBr-Piomi
light With a .Mi.-sUsiiil rntithrr.
'A few very oKl people remember
iTin (.'ail, who was nn overland etnso
driver way liacU in llio fifties," said
Ansel Newman, of Washington, who
rovisiied New Mexico recently after an
absence of thirty years, ".Tim Call
vm a llr.sl-c!as mni who had held tho
reins for llnce years on llio overland,
v. liii-'i was a pretty goo,l whilo for a
driver to keep alivo in those days.
His rotilo was the Inst stretch east of
Las Vegas at. tho time T speak of, and
on a Juno morning I was sitting be
side him on tho box as thoslaqo roiled
westward. d'ie to reach Las Vegas that
evening nt '.) o'clock, Thero wan n full
lon.l of passengers ten men and two
women, at I remember mil threi
M'?n besides myself were on the ottt
(iide, "I had known .Tim Call for years
and I notice:! Hint he was abstracted
and silent, tbii day. lie rttended
carefully to his driving nn 1 said little
to iiio until wo stopped at noon nt a
Mti station for dinner. After we
litil eaten nn l whilo tho horses were
being hitched up ho spoke to me of
what wai in liis mind.
" 'I've got theqtioerost notion nbout
tlifl next station the lied Uiver
Station' he said with a sort of shame
faced nir, for nn overland stage driver
haled worst of anything to confess to
a I'celitij of apprehension. 'I'vo been
looking for Indians every timo I drove
up t!t"iv for (lie last three trips. I've
Ire lined iib-cit "em nights that I was
driving up t ) slut ion, with I'rod
rieli;. the k'Viv; waiting for inc hold
ing tiie relay hores by the heads
r.tel then when I'd Rot to where I'd
seen him standing there was nothing
but Indians bad ones, in war puiut
and hostile. This is in confidence,
nn l not to be repeated btU io you
believe there's any truth in drea.iis;
that there's such a thing ns foreknow
ing something that i.i going to conic
nbout that yoti don't know by your
reason or any one's informal ion?'
'"I reckon not, Jim.' I answered,
'and so far as dreams signify l'vo al
ways heard that they go by contraries.
Look nt your dreams through this, and
see if thi'y dou't take on a brighter
color;' and I pns.-cd him inv whhkv
llnsk.
"Call nodded to me, took a moder
ate pull nt the flask and passed it bark
to ice. Tho ciiect of tho whisky was
to make him n trirlo more cheerful,
but ho looke.l grave and anxious as
we approached tho lied River station,
which catno into view while we w vro
two miles awuy. Thero was some
thing a little odd in th" appearance of
the pia -o. The relay horses evident
ly had been driven 1 1 the corral, for
t!i y wi re not & razing anywhere in
view, le;t Friedrioho. tha station keep
er, !i at oar coming should have
appeared leading them out in liarnes?,
was now here t be seen. Tho driver
was silent and watchful ni we drew
near the station, holding the horses
carefully in hand, an 1 even I began to
feel something otnnions in t lie utter
silence and loneliness of the place.
"The stage had crossed n rruleli
that le I round the rear of the corral I
to the river, and was nbout 'J Of) yards
from tha station when a littln dog
came out of the hollow nnd made for
the stage, running ns if bally fright
ened. Cull pulled tip the hoists.
"'That's Friodricu's dog,' ha said.
'There's something wrong at tha sta
tion, or he'd never net this way. I'll
get on tho s.ifo sido of the gulch again
before I try to find out.'
''The dog was cowering under the
stage, looking fearfully baclc as Call
swung the horses round. Hardly had
ho turned their heads when from be
liind the station and corral twenty-five
or thirty Indians streamed out into
view, armed with bows, with a gun or
two among them, and ran for th stage.
At the same time as many more that
had bon concealed in the gulch sprang
to their feet and ra i to head us off.
Call knew his business, and he put
Lie stage and horses neioss the gul
in a hurry, but there was not thirty
yards between us and the nearest In-! terrible blade split the flesh to tho
Jiatis as Ave came up on the further j i,one, nnd for a moment she fell. As
bank, and the arrows were living thick. Lve rushed up sho received another
A half dozen arrows struck the coach, imllet, this timo from ine, nnd fired
mi l n passenger got one iu tho arm, Lhen I vrn too excited to be really
but fortunately none of the horses was ! conscious of v hat I was about. F.ven
disabled. We l ad a ride and three or ! then the laaguinVent courage and vi
four revolvers among us, which we .set ; t;,!it v ,f the beast did not seem t j be
to going, nil 1 wo had tho plea-tare of r,:liVd, until Walter lushed forward
seeing one Indian go d wu fiat on his '. ,,,! .-.lunged his huutincr-knife deen i.i-
faee before the horses pulled us out of ; t tiie shag.rv ho lv. it was a death
danger. Wo went back to tiie station ! ,i0l-: i,;,t ; the bear topple! bnek
where we had had dinner, nnd from ,vn,.,i ilC stl-n,-k with her left paw, and
there a courier was despahdie 1 to Las o;u s.cq, t.. through the mus-
Vegas with tidings of what had Imp- j ,.ios his arm to too bono. Ho sank
poned, nud next morning an ewort of I (iown, noaiiv faintinsr, and as fnstas v.o
citizens arrive I to guard tho stage j e-nl, strugg'e through the cane, Isom
through. No Indians were to be seen j ftlld I half led, half carried hint out of
eloiig the route. the stilling heat, and back to tho clear
"At ib.o Hod River station Fried- Ura?e around the haekberrv-tree, leav
richs. the keeper, nud his helper were jg the dogs to vent their fury on the
jeium ueii i ami mimiaTeu, anil me :
nor-os nun ueen stolen, ine inmans,
rtVariihi ApneV., had surprised and
killed then and toon prepared to take
in the stae on jts nrrivnl. On itsnn-
pearuneo lil'f of the band wailed bo- !
iiin 1 the corral, while tho others stole '
along the gulch to cut oil' its retint.
There is little doubt that their pia:i i
would have succeeded had it not been '
for the iiuus.iiil suspicion :!u I watch-;
fulues!, i.f the stage driver, inspired
by his Mciceomituli'.e ju-e-.i ntinieiit of;
ft-hat nclniilly came to pass at tl.e rt.i- :
th'ii." New York Sun. 1
t lrren l'iiilit With a l'mitticr.
On a visit to New Orleans some
mouths later, I met Major Fontaine, t
mvs writer in the Chicago Times-
Herald. We wvie going through the ,
t.:o"t fertile but sparoely settled sec ,
tion of couutry kaowu as tie Jlissis- j
COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY, FKUKUAUY 17,
ei iUlA- ,Trla1 Xy,lan,fl1,?
. Wiiieh ones belonged 1o Cieneral W.
S. Hancock, and tho colony of six or
seven htm, ircd colored peoplo founded
j by ono of the former slaves of .Teller-
son Davis, ho pointed out the windo"
' h';? mo.ten silver in tho mounhgut,
! "nd said: "Just over there, two years
' ago, tnero occurred one oi tno tougn-
est fights between a colored man and
c p.mthcr that ever hoppnned, I will
wager." The train was not moving so
swiftiy as to prevent inygetting a view
of tuo country heavily wooded, level
and weird in its loneliness and shadows,
and ono could readily boliove it the
habitat of tho fiorcest of animals,
"The colored man was doing soma
work for me," continued Major Fon
taine, "and hal gano some distance
from tho camp to got a drink of water.
He eaid that ns ho lay down to drink
from tho stream, having no drinking
vessel with him, lv. t't i itflit ll3 heard
a noiso in a tiro .avIioxo branches
spread just ft'j.ive hi nig IIo gave, only
n passing glance upward, however,
and began slaking his thirst. As he
finished and stal led to rise from bis
reeunibect position sometliingsiidden
ly fell upon bis b ick and shoulders
wii'n such weight as to mash him to
tho earth again. The weight also fell
with e, thumping sound to ono side,
but' not before cut ting several lerriblo
gashes on his bnek. He had h.id some
experience, and soon realized that ho
was attacked by a panther. It Jin I
evidently sprung from a considerable
distance nnd nt un angle, this account
ing for tho brenkingof itshold, though
its claws nud tooth had entered his
lleslt.
"Tho mnn was a powerful fellow,
and, like his race when mail, knew no
mora about fear thin tho creature at
tacking him. lie hadn't even a kniio
about him, but notwithstanding ho
jumped upright and faced the panther,
which, with Ida '.ing cyea and crouch
ing form, was pn paring for another
plunge. He stood lacing it for per
haps a dozen seconds, when tho
panther leaped directly nt hi.t throat.
I he colored man, standing w ilb one foot
a little behind the other to servo as a
brn"c, threw fur.v.-ird his left ivnn.
This ..ftve.l ids threat, ns it was closed
on by t'.ie unimU. The pain win s:)
r'.e.ito that h c.inM not restrain n yell
of anguish, which w as heard by mo a!
tho ea 'iij. With his right hand ho
grasped the animal by the throat in
tiie hope of choking it to death; but
this not u.-eo'iipli -oing his purpose ns
soon as ho ha I hoped he pressed it
close ns ho cjiiKI against his breast
and fell forward, holding it so as to
receive his weight.
" When I heard t'10 fellow's yell I
gathered my gun and a large butcher
knife in the camp and started forward
to help ln'ow I reached him whilo he
anil his llereo antagonist were strug
gling on tho ground for the mastery.
About half the body of the panther
was from undertho man, while its head
was still fasteued underneath. I buried
the knifo two or three times in tho ex
posed port ion, and it was not long before
it gradually relaxed its struggles and
stiaightonol out, done f r. I think the
colored man would have finally tri
umphed, but this is by no means cer
tain, as he was terribly weakened
when I reached hini. If ho had
formed an idea that nil the blood on
that spot wai his own T. n'.i suro ho
would h ive given up f .r if there i
one thing that can demoralize a colored
man, sirane to say, it is the sight of his
own g. ue. lie was several weeks re
covering, ns something like blood poi
i. on set in. Tho panther wa? about
the largos' T have ever s-en'."
A Itattlo Willi ft Hoar,
A writer iu Outing eb'cs the follow
Ing account of a battle with n bear iu
a Southern cane-brnke:
"Guns wero useless in that almost
impassable jungle. It was war to tho
knife, now. The heat becamo stitling.
No breath of wind could forco its way
through thoso close-growing stein?,
and, perspiration poured from us ns
in a Turkish bath, Tho rapidity with
which the old alio forced her way,
wounded as she was, and hampered
with dogs, was wonderful: and her es
cape would have been almost certain,
had not Isoiu, who, by vigorous wield
ing of his canc-knife.ha 1 kept close to
her. found a chance to briner liis
Wearon clown imon her should. t. The
helpless form of their enemy.
ClilMrrn That t.irk Nonriti incnt.
"Many children at ichool," said a
student of chi'.-lren, "appear to bo
stupid when they nve only badly
nourished. T!ir may havo plenty t
eat without a su licient amount of
nourishment. Study will not hurt a
healthy child. Good, iinrd thinking
lflpsihe circulati-m of the bb. i.l."
Nvw Vork Time.
A i Jl lilt'S !
Cvelist's privii'
1 1 For nu Hour.
opinion, ten mil
cyclist's opinion for his friends, eigh
teen miles; police constable's priraio
opini'):i, twelve miles; police coniui-
bie's opinion for the ma ristra'c, tweu
ty four miles; cyclometer' opinion,
t.iiity miles; old lady's opinion, who
wa3 knocked down, ioity miies; actual
speed, ei0'ut miies Fick-JIe-Up.
GOOD ROADS NOTES.
Goncrnl Stone on tntfl Aid.
The subject of State aid for road
building was touched on by General
Stone, Chief of tho Bureau of Good
Bonds of the Agricultural Department,
in his address nt the annual conven
tion of tho National Road Parliament,
lie said;
"Tho provision of State n!d is the
only possible method by which the
State, nnd tho corporato property of
the cities can aid in tho building of
roads. Throughout tho United States
tho cities nnd corporations, ns far n.i I
know, nro quite willing to help, and
the onlv question is how they can do
ir.
"It is of more vital importance to
the ei;ios to have good country roads
than it is to tho people of the country
1 hem-elves. F.veiy ounce of tood
that is consumed in the cities niurt
crime from the country, nnd if the
eouiilry roads wfrfl wiped out to-day,
the fanners could go right on living,
bill t!io people of tho cities would
have to seatt -r to-nu.rrovv they could
not live a day. They tiro beginning
to realize it; they are beginning to
feel tiiat thev want, a hand ill tho
bail-ling of the ron is, and they have n
feeling of very warm interest. A
great many city people are poinff to
the country that formerly did not go
a nil, and they would go n great deal
morn if they had good country roads,
nnd 'Slate aid' is tho only mensuro
tiiat any cf us have been able to devise
by which city and corporate properly
can aid iu tho development of the
country roads.
"I wa-interested inwhator.o gentle
man sai l this morning, that in his own
township, liis villa-go and Lis baatc
paid three-fourths of the township 1i-,
nud that was a fan- contribution. 'Hint
was uni!i(,'.'.tio;iiibly fair so far as hi-,
township was concente 1. but how
ii'i'iut tho next t v.vnship that has no
village and no bank? Wo must look
b.-vond our own immediate neighbor
boil; we luiiit cultivate a wider
citii n hip. and that feeling of widur
citizen --hip i s growing a feeling that
the t'.ivon d localities inUs! help those
))! o favored.
1 .1. n ivi ;;!a 1 to say that the RCftl.il
po .ses.-i n of roads, w herever I
have known it, has bad a great eii'oet
in developinc; that kinder feeling and
broader citue-i iiin. t lias been p.
marked f'.et i,i New Jersey tiiat the
localities v. meh hn taxed themselves
to get good roads nro the iiist to vote
to give Slate nid to the localities that
have not good roads. Many men say
'We see tiie Ijciietits of it: we have
tho benefits of it, and we can afford to
bslp our neighbors enjoy it.' And
you will find that tho movement for
State nid, wherever it goes, will holp
to develop a broader citizenship.
' hope that somo time Federal nid
will broaden it still move. I hope
that the peoplo of tho United States,
in tho more-fa vol c-l regions, will feel
disposed, ns they get the benefit of
goo 1 roads theiiHe.ves, to help confer
tho:o benefits noon tho regions that
havo not the advantages. I believe
that evi ir step taken, every judicious
step taken towards bringing n'oont th"
ni l f the Fedi.ral ( tovernnient to
wards general ro.id improvement w ill
help to develop that for ling all through
tho United St i ' s ; thy, we have got to
coir-iJer something beyond our own
noigUliii h'ici Is, i). vend our ow n
Counties and beyoii I our ow n State:-.
We have t.'ot to look over th" whole
field of tho United 8ia-.es and :ce
what the General (.iovcriii.'.ent can do
t i help the peiple who need this kind
of help everywhere."
;oml iiinl mono Ito.iit., f"1
Tho interesting f.:-;t was reported by
Ab.ieville that with rea 1 ma-hines and
convict labor the cost of improving tiie
roads, even in that Lilly and clayey
comity, was only from .-" to tl per
mile. Darlington, w hich employs like
machines and labor, reported the cost
of tho convict force last year at twenty
five cents n day per convict, nnd only
fifteen cents (his year. On .the basis
of "cost'' exhibited in these counties it
right to be practicable certainly for
any county to make good roa.'. tiiat
wants them. Anderson paid for its
"machines," which are r.perated by
convict labor, by means of "a mid
levy"wit;i sandy soil; operates "a road
machine" with convict labor and has
found the system "satisfactory." The
"old system" i till obtains in Chester
Co.vity, where ' the ti :1 j-, red nndtl.e
tv.iaty billy," but sy.eltiatie v.,rk
w i'h tiie i-ha'it M'.hrs h.is vnndo the
l'o.i 1-, "mucll b, iter," and the v;o;!eo,'
property, it is sai l, l;:n been "i n
haiiee.l by virute of these impi-oie-i-cat.-.."
Oarlingl u makes a special
roper:, which is of g;-c-,: iuteriM. Tiie
sandy roads ij tint county Inr.o been
"improve l" by the plan of spreading
n lave;- of cl.-.y on t!:i ir stir face. .
layer of "six inc'ies hi depth" has
l ia.le a "firm, hard roadway,' where
there was p. .of;, sandy ono bef ire,
which, when projvrly drained, has
given satisfaction. Charleston News
nnd Courier.
Tji tu the Times.
Sonic of the besi roads in Tonne -oc
nro claimed lv Hamilton f'-vin'.v.
I Tluy arc so well appreciated by all
, classes that t'ie Chattanooga New 4 s.ys
I "t I. ere is a grow in i tendency among
the farmer along our eood roads to
buy wheels, and this season finds hun
dreds of th.-i-i thai u.-ed to have to
li it.-it up their t.-ams and take from tw o
t . live hours t' -r it trip to t ovn o.o v
:i i l ie in on t-eir w heel and nro bark
h"ii:e Iu lc ': tin. i.' than it used Li take
tie. ..i to in:.!,.' the trip one way. Thus
li e i-ld world i Move,' nu.lt. '.o fa'-i.i-ers
m e i: n the bust among tiie pro
gressive of their br.iliren."
t'oiui-t-lu-utvi- Ainu In 1 lorl.ln.
To benefit Morally, mentally and
tr.auvi t'.iy every resident ot the State;
tg encourage l uialgrutiou; to estab
18is. NO. 25.
lish new enterprises; lo increase Hits
value of every n.-ro of good :r; to
set tiie debtor five by enabling him to
pay his debts; to aid ti e ; rough of
moral n'li lc'igiotts sev.iun n' in tlio
rural districts by making f:!ic.-!!i llio
road to church, and to confer upon
future generations tho great boon of
general cduraliou by removing tiie
Chi-' obstacles to attendance nt school
jad roads nnd poverty, nro the aims
of tho Florida Good Roa.b Associa
tion, for Itniict Snifiirltig.
IToro is a schema for proviuinij
crushed stone ready nt hand for sur
facing country roads. In many sec
tions of the Middle and Eastern
States old loitering ?lom walls flnuk
the highway on either side. Owners
would generally glad to get. riJ of
those old walls. Lr t a traction engine
propel the env-her along tho road and
furnish power to do the crushing, the
old wall.; to j.-r.nido I'm material,
which is thus left exactly where it is
needed without the necessity oMwico
handling. New 1'iigland ilome:,t-ad.
M.it Tl'eliii-li.loii. :lllni ill ItlC C'lllil.
Tt is abruplly conn' rriink in the
forest plateau, so that ',;: -.-.i nothing
of it until y.ei mo Mi.bL iily .-.topped
on its brink. !:lt i i e : .; -: : r;; i 1 )
wealth of tli-. i lely-i-. t ;i : 1 i-eulj..
tared buildings le :' re yo't nnd be
neath you, No 1,1,'itli i' how Lie yoti
may havo woiideicd hiilierlc or i ow
many faiucms eoiges and -viilhy.. vi't
have seen, liiis o:i", the Gran I (.'a'lon
of tUu Colorado, will .".ciu i:-' novel t i
yon, ns unearthly iu the color and
grandeur and quantity of its architec
ture, ns if you had found it nfter death
on some other M-ir; so incomparably
lovely an I ftrand nud supreme is it
above all the other delightful canons
in our fire-moulded, earthquake
shaken, ra;n-washed, wave-washed,
river and- c,!a-ierrcnli.tnre 1 world.
I; is about six thousand feet deep
where you lir-t see it. end from rim
I to l'!-l (en to ll't-ell lilt t SW luO. .Mill
i:r.-lead of bciiitr b pendent for interest
on waterfalls, ileoth. wall sculpture
nn 1 nen'ii v .f perk-lil; i'.O'ir, like i.cis'
other (o'e.i! ca.i'cis, no waterf:;lis nro
in sight, an I no nn r.-ri ibl-c fionr ! l-iico.
Tic bigriv.'r ha i'tst r.-.-ui ct.otigli to
ilov- ne 1 i-.rii' el ctr-: ly, h re and
tiler-' j'r, c .re; i' i . .v best it call
like a v.-.-ai-v, M iri. nriuT, overla
t i-aveli-r 1 1 yi ng 1 1 i
1 re.miie'.otis i,:eV;M:
a'lys, whi'o i: i rrev
mellow nu i .lo'r"!i
the
liil.yriitiii.i
i e-iee. J.
sl".i'l of In i :: :'lied only v.-li't eh', the
vast spaei beuveen the wails is crowd
ed with Nature's grandest butl.ling.s
n subliiiio city of theni paint'd in
every color of tiie rainbow nnd a lorried
wi'.h'rieh'iy.frelte I cornice and battlo
meut spire und tower in endless vari
ety of stylo and architecture. Every
architectural invention of man has
been anticipated and far more in Liis
grandest of God's terrestrial cities,
John Muir, iu the Atlantic,
Scil llnnlin n Unit it Tn.Iii-.lrr,
Seal hunting in it i 1-' ,vi;it.ia'e f.vni
upon land i brutal heron 1 et!:er in
unstrios bceau-e it deeen Is for sac
ces r.poii qnaiiiies that we admire in
animals, ira-ia'ulity nr.-t tamcncH,
Ait.!.' lied to t!i.- li r.l the-o i-s r. con'. in
4,-eiit oi vent if d "i-.'ieliel-i! " s.-als.
A iii-ii' c.-libr v
old dig" !';M
to t'icm- civ. .
baehelor. f.i-t
ns ircll f- h,.,
i ciiii ( i i.y t he gi-i'.u
i-: all i :e :
'uai.iro'
.'V.una'.e
1-- life
needed
l.s. The
e.:1, nnd
Me i Tu-
''. I:i l"tO
: .' a
j:
i-'i
lo ! 'lc
world
uel'li:
sen'-.
inland. Tioi do lie
painfully idong no tec
a.-rkivavd au the progr. ;
of w,-,t.;- proceeding o;
lim"! lo'-iC; p.ulse . ;t tl.e
!t I'll-
.It
half a mile nn hour. In six hours they
reach a secluded "killing i.r.cn: 1." Tliu
Iitdiiius separate them into groups,
select the finest animals nnd beat them
to death with elit'.'S taking care not
to break tho furs, lest they lie unac
acceptable upon Fifth avenue. Illus
trate.! American.
Ie:rnrti,in or Iii-:..s.i liirnu,
A L'-issiiin b-ist, riolo vi.-t, vi.o ha
made a specialty -..1' iiit.ying the in
it o'u.'e o; ci o'.v in ile iroyir.g disease
germs, i-report 1 m liav.ng come to
the e.iiie:i-.io:i Unit, Ihnug.i cuiieo is
to i-ome degree a tlisi.; 'eci.'t.it. ilicj ro
petty in quclion r. n'iy e. Is i.et
i;p-:i t'ie :i -tive j eiuei i ' .: coiV.-e, or
cut'.'ein. v. iti-'ii it con:. tins, bat upon
the -".ii -tii'..-- d- ! ' :: the ro;i-t-i.;
"I t "ie i i .: y i i . - 1- :,o i that
i'.e v-ii i.'Us .,b.-tit:t:v i -r et.-fi :
;d-o !-er:..:cl.'. s, M id. like n, iicc'oji
illsii.i'cet-i.it pi ope; lies tlur '.:;. llie
to is'.iii-j; pi ', I'l-n ,, v y ie-
fusion oi i-iih. : cicV.-e .. ;: -i.i.r.e
was found lo Lo t-ipalt'i- 1 . I : il:e
i "
o! . 'i.e.-, :i w M :,,! i- ' - , . -.
and of tvphoid love: v. ithin m-i.io-
v.iiiit l.iie.'cr time. Ti'-r e :i. In ion
should not. b."v.'v.-r, b drawn from
these siiiteinouis thill inic r .,.:!'- o or
its Mib-.titutos are to i e cm- idered of
value on neeo-.tnt of their 'light nu
ll eptic properl ii.-s. its too long n timo
is re.iiircd for tin- destruction of genua
by them. Nov York Tribune.
OlCTIl I'l lllf m at.
Mi. .Tt.ltii S,.-,i hini h is prove 1 tl af
she ea :i ti a'-!.' it ' a v,. - rl. i;i Sy iet-y,
Aiisf. ilia. !;:e i- l.ito',i;i .-is "i,l,-,:cu of
i!e Seas" f.i" Cio ski, I v.itii wlii-m s u
li'-..'!;.:'Ut le r bus'.nn i' - vi-- i into
i !'. v.lir:i be nnd all the erev ve-o
laid i.-w v.i.li i-iic.'! i tV. Ihit
il, "-,;:.' l.ir l.-Ciolii y tlile. "i"-.
Strnchnn n ,.v not win il: e -. .ioi: i,
lil-..rep"a.-tic.l! o-.ie i. ,'.-'.- ,,, le-.-r."
she lia' i ; i I. I J-.r p .:ui -i ,:v 1,1
i-i';-' t :;e -xii'..i.-:i u '? n mute's
Hr.;:e.., b n i, ...s , 1 b- r, n'-
i ti.'ii gll it is :l -li l le'u'u-,.. 1 t::;o f ,;e
knows more iilc.!' -ivir.h lo than
thiv-:o:nt::s cf t'ie e.n :.';i..a:.v'i wLc
are t. '... eJ u &b'a W-cude.
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HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES.
To Wash rijcK Slorl. ina.
The best v.ny to wa-h black stock
ing is, first, lo t urn them wrong f ide
;M, so they will not become stioaki-d
on the light iide; then va-di them
with good soap and v. itli n li.ile iim
Miinia in toe water. Jliiuo tlieni in
blue water and bang them to dry in a
p nee sheltered from the sun. Nevei
wash black sdorHngM in water in
which white '.loth us have been
! washed, for tlw ha: will Habere to
j them.
I flnsIiM fur Snl.nl.
! A dainty "basket" in which to servo
"nlad of .'.wee Hue a Is, halibut o
ee'evy, with inayoan ise drossmg or
c-.c lin beta ith iVen-li d r.- -iii",, is
made thus- Select linn, vo.imi toma
toi s of about t!l- same size, peel and
cat ft sli.e Loin the stein end, thou
with a Hindi i.j c.o.i scrape out nearly
Ml the insI-U- i '.),' A b lie may I.h
!,,,!. 1 v ..i!.ii.-i a .-tn I; ot i iii'sli v of
the ri.:lit b n. tii
n ie.i of the "o. ;!;
j t O tuo oppoiit'i
I lie ( CI
II
t loean . of bi ih'e'iine
I
i -. l i .
. ir. ,-r it v. ;! ;i a : .lutnei oi
in i-'.!! w.iter. icadc in pro
i. l:i' nice of ni i'l l.i tt ) in
Wi . iie lileti.l i- W'tlt
ih the Ihiid. i oii.-b it bi i:-k-v
i. '.h lent hi I . It lolisl bo
O? il l '
i 1 nater.
r.-v.-n d w
lv v. .lb a
noted tin: this ..Mil:- a -i.l pifpitrH
llo'i is a .oi.-.oii uini i"'v sn.,,.i in i :
( tie.- ni ij,,. bra s. to I !. no!,
n liise t,.,t i! -i, -iil.i be used too
often, or be kct whore irn oio'isihlo
jieople eouid 10 .-li i . The bvt'le
should be labeled "j olsi.n. "
T. ( i.'.in Iloiu'lmli .
Insiitiinents of toiteie though
hre-si Inor upholstered dining room
suite- lnny be, inanv peoidc, obligeil
to res' the lisel'.cs ii f.:i tic tender
lucreics of .i e ordiiinry lo-Jgiii'.'-lioiui.
rir liirii- i.L-d et in t 's, ii! nml
1 hese ten oi s in tlieii l oo.,, . J'hev
may l e -n -j.i. ! ri.-di iy so--of
llt.'i. i :.t!!'- l ie .11 ii.i '. .!! I . Iiotlid li
l.v.oua
Mi.llbl
pernai.s like to cl. un the 1...: -.chair m
tome ' f iitioti-- a. id 'i:ti iacto'-y
linill nor. li'l't'iis pur o e I. t the:o
ilissohe n e'.i iv o, t h i t 1'Oek nir-
l.iohiil ill !1 i.i.ie-t of bl i.iiig V'Slci,
.-Hi'' tic wiit. r t ' iitlii'.s! eo 1, nud
1 t. i !t.. ; ii : U-i a I eh.l's
by u,i ,i..s '-) Ii u.
T.i it.til litre.
' r.nv the le-s: lice, ami wish nbout.
a tcaeiipiiil. reoio-, ine j i , t ,i,g ountv
g it orriihi isti tli.it may he-e b..co..ni
h,i:.i d with liie (iiiii i. Let I'niiy two
qil.iltsoi Suite 1 waiei boil in a bo go
Mitleepall, n el when the li jtii'i l' 'nub
tiling tni-ow in the rice and allow it b
h iii hard f r abmit t .veniy-tive miu
utes. 'i'l. ere is no hard find las' nilo
- about the length of ".inn- lor lice (
I boil, but it can 'nest be determined by
I rubbing n giain between the iingeis.
I If it runs a way easily i: will le (one,
: a id tho rest oi tic rice s'n u!d 1 e re
moved from the tiie tin i 1 ly or it will
become too suit. When removed Loin
the fire chain the rice t In r.;:h n ' ii-ve,
pour n qniiiili v of eld water om-- it,
and (Lain ay..i.i. Then ) f t the dish
oi i i'-e into tl.e nw-u to mi:' again
nnd to dry the giiii.is, liil ecch is sep
arate fn It it fell.!'.---. Thi is tliesigu
of w-cil-o:i..'ked lice
n.ilpe.
Apple Stnllne 1 lsiei 1 of ir-iug
the eiisfoninry L.t-ail sit ,n ; for sparo
li.. r.;e ih,. r 1 if i ie r t:iv(- llio
ii. .-.a: a t'e'i ate ii i.oi. j .;.- :i iUiii'i
of 1-1.1 ;i! !e ii . C, !..X iblot:..;'., this 11
' tiil'lo ;:....;,:,; of imt'ei' cr.t into sioiill
1 it--, a tta-,. t-iif.il :' s.iunr and two
of t'ocr. Lr in .iin ie it-el, but,
it w ill no' i-iit -.. ni. . iy w ss--: seiie 1.
Stllh' t'.O 1 i'os, l-.il, tie :.l Heist in
; 1 he 11-15 ill nut ..in v.
I Cheri v . ,rrn -tfir-'i . b! to n int
! of n.ilk two i e ing 1. .:! )' iliiht
cornst u iih. a J imh ot Mil: a el tim.ii
, tnlde-poo niiis sr.giir. Cook inn .Luibb
! boiler until tb. i-.-ic, tii-n fold in tho
' bea'en whites ot tie i e egs n ni Urn
cherries troiu a pint can. JUko imme
iMntcly from li e. 'i'ler elu III' s .o;:.
be tiiO'.oughly tlriiin- i. Le.it the
; sj ooiiml of !--..-.-.-. ,,! f,r, I .... -.. v I'll
tini pudding
j Cocoa .te'.ly.-Tiilx a i1ess,e I - iie;infnl
.of fivnj iu :i lull.'-pi lit of water, and
tirc.ver the iii" in.i! it ioi1-. and
j sweetetl '1 l! Il :l ..".''I ! i 'Ulld of
' mi ear. Stir i.-r.o i; v.gii'e b- : ne: hall'
nil ell!!".' o( . , ;.,t .,. -iUe.1 in hrlt n
I 1 lit of i old w,i:. , i' ir v I -t it half
to i- j i ..;.it "f ' :. .':1 ;.:; I -i.l ji" 5'
i ,..:,:ili;. ni.t-l 'he -'. i e.ti. o. so' -.
!'.;. r i.iio a !....!.!, elei I;:' tV Vite I
turn out n:id s:i . . ; 1 . itb a lid'f pin'
of , 1, ii.il. wl, pie!.
', : iiie-li i ' .. I'll..;. 'I ,i! i to-gi-tli.-r
:, li 'll oil-, ! , t , . I oiled
Sl'lllilgh.' I I" -I . iCfieil' 1'f looke.l
beets, !in .!i.. ,., i , I, . mi l :iii
Ollll O' I"! I t !'. .1 III C . ll'l'l'
table.- c.i -,e le . .. . I m i ook ing
u-o only n sgili g. ...ir'n! . i - i't u 1 the
same ot w hit" i .-t pe: . die. lie in two
tiil.h'sjio, mi'ii' of lion:-, tour tablo
oolifuis of milk, tin. -:ii, ,,. of ineltoil
butier and four w i-li I e.it. n eugs. Mix
well together and tnin into n buttered
fireproof di.-h and bal.e twenty miu
lite".
( t.ilantie.e of S.ilm. n- !' en tlireii
poiiniis e( ahiioi'. i'a'b.el, cookiii;',
for aiioiit live lniiillti -. Lei,,oe lioiii
water, pt inkle the i o s ' . 1 c v. iih a toi-
sooolillli of Milt, ll l:i ce sullspt toilful
oi" 1 l.e k p. ! per. ' -' el'.e chopped
le i -In to i : . i -. ! oloi-dii el p - i le 1, tnin
t,l!i'e-poo itul ot !l ll'V (lid ii ih'(.
e")t of bit-ad t-rti iibs r iiturali ;l with a
lialf-etti. ot inelt.d butter; mil (he fiu
t 'it'llier, tic with 1 r..;id t.iiies put
! i'i'o n t'l "p inn, with two tablespoon-
i m oi o .in-., ivi-i a nn i-cnp oi milk,
and bake on r lo t oven for t .vetity-tive
minutes, hnsting ..fu"i, and ;rve with
its '..wr. fcitt y pe'.m-d yvyr.