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Itatltam gejcorfl. xf Ctettam RATES Of ADVERTISING One iquAre, one insertion One square, two insertions t One square, one mouth For Urger advertisements libctml cssv cU will be made. II. A.. LONDON, EDIT0I1 AND PROriUETOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 11.50 PER TEAR Strictly In Advanci. VOL. XXIV. ITITSliOUO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C THURSDAY, JULY I U, 11)02. NO. 17. A NOVEL. f3v flrs. SliicibcUi (J. cOit'lcr. (ISABELLA CASTELAR.) (r.iptrijhl, 1192 ntl HM, by cn.WTi:it xix. A rr.Y run in i.c ami the asswei:. When flic lni'l rctiicl to Lei' room. nfior i' iir t i iij-j with her lover, Tolly Hamilton suddenly realized what she hail never before .so much us suspected, uii'l that was that she possessed great latent capacity fur sniveling. '' am surely the most unhappy gal in this (.;tvat city to-night," sho thought. "I never supposed thnt f could ho so unhappy. Ami yet I ought to havi! h now 11 it. Any one capable of being so happy as I have he. !i u!l my life nn.l bo trauseendeutly h .(' ns I have lieen since t'luroueo ii i l I have been engaged should ho I it-p.T.'.l for anything. I ought to haw known that people can't live in heaven in this world; ami yet that is in.-! what I have I icon doing. Perhaps .1 have been st ilish in my happiness, 1 . . i 1 1 I have not meant to ho. Tcrhnpa I ought not to have con- a!e.l ii from pupa n 11 1 lunminn; hut C. i! is noti-oiise. I!ecause 1 haven't (nM.'e.'.le l it L haven't known how, i v. ii l i pi, aiv! Clarence, and they h.;vo umh'i'.sto:! 1 the whole thing just ifv.ill ii .1 if ( h.; l repented every word C.ai i "aii i:c ami 1 have said to each '' i'. Ml the same, 1 mil going to t '1 til i-i n r...'' u 1 t ! : s i 1 1 il was nearly midnight, M.iy J ! u -j 1 1 1 i :i went swiftly to tho r . ii oi' h i-parents at the farther end tlie l.i,!l, imt nut Co far away hut ,u!y cherished child was at within tho sound of her I i: 'a ! '.- V.iitV. I . .I'l l .Mis. Hamilton had just I :'i' i peaking of Mary and her i ; 1 it was with diuieully that proud ; u I happy mother refrained i. i t nTiit in- her daughter on j r iSaiuiii y tlmt hIio would, nfter l-.'.o.ue tiio countess of Winder- Tap i, m.o.ima!" exclaimed Mary, -':!; i-.-e I ought to have told you !'. Ii ii'. . bui veil liuuw I Alii til ed t i m.i. i v Clarence!" Air. 1. s ,1a i laughed and hissed iter; i .u,l then, holding her th, lie said gravely: peeled it, both your vlf, for Homo time, Clarence himself is in .i i 1 "V , cl ir: hut you Know, papa, v 'i I !"'! ii ahout th perfectly (i.-.y :v ,., Mm. llelmholtz, you " : ,' i o!ie toChii'ciicu ns if he was it., w ry p. blumo." "i'l'i'f y.oi luiiii that, Tolly, you t-o i: ! i i . unhappy ahout anything t:;..t I in.iv!.:v to Clarence; but one t'li:.; y.,;i !..:,y jusl Kettle down at.. I l.i :il ! i u. col tf'at is that no man on i i . g.'in;; to deceive my little girl i r .:ivc i i r a iv cause to spoil her jinn,-.,, wii'i crying, without giv- . .i ,, I account of the reason of it ' ' i 1 in r nl 1 father. And now, good i . 'i:. r.ti 1 go to t.ed, Tolly." 'i.i'y h.u I good-night, and ex- ' i ;1 embraces and Lisses with both . .i' iiud lnoilier; and though her 1 ipi's words Miiinde l viiguely'threot- they were al-o I cttssurring, for I.- iui 1 fuardel her liko a tender i! !': ni every breeze of heaven, t:,.v .'icU !,( .iio bringing gladness i luippiiie-s to horj and not yet 1 i 1 pieiiy Tolly Hamilton learned tut :;ii.','.s may come and will come, 'aiust whic'i even lovo itself may . ,H.,,- ..mcness io Hiueia. ii u i i Hoe ,n. in'! j.,.! to bed, r.t least uot yet; ! :'.ut 'a1, she ran swiftly toward tho r i '..i ,,f Dolores, nud, fluding her still I Hi' and apparently not thiukiug of! s: P, she took her to task for having i I t : t hel -.-il : e luded all the OVenius. iv.'vu-, hi, l.el sad and disturbed nnd (Mi.cd unwilling to expluiu why t i.o ha 1 ni t appeared ut dinner or af Ui ".aid in the drawing room. "V..u Know I nui often gloomy nnd i.ut of spirit: ," she said at lust, "and l. ai'y not tit company for happy youug pe -p!c ol my owu age who have never l.ll .. II Sill , OW." "Ye. i, l!i:.i, you have said such l!i:i.,; - to me I clorc, and 1 um tilled v i! ii m If r. pi oaeh iu henriug them, lei niireiy 1 must be to blame if I can i i.! in none wuy miiko you forget yiuu' hutowh and give you Uappiuess i i,l.ad." "You ave never to bbiino in any 1! i:..;, M.-ii-uja!" exe'aimed Dolores. "'il ivs iruiciubcr that 1 have i- ".! : . Vt'lialevcr happens, and v.' a t ;t I iiiav do, remember that 1 !. -., vo l u'ii vo everything iu my life i t the me.i.ory of my mother. An 1 u i.v a-'i mo nothing more to il '.-lit; for, iud 'cl, I can hardly ex !'.:.! n to l.iysell w hy I preferred to re-lu.-iiti ah'tie iu n y room this evening r i'i:tu t : in n 1 it as usual with y-t aitd y 'U- fiiends and your- 1 l iri:i it 'i Mr. Stanley." She e:i led abnipl.ly, and Tolly felt Lev h urt c ir.ract with ji-aloui doubt i.ii 1 a'; v i v olnrcH was goinij t" lav 'vour I.e. ci " wh;u she changed the phrase t that of "Mr. Stanley. ' '.She knows that he is my lover,'' thought IVIly, "nud yet she cannot beat to call him no. Oh, what does that menu? It was only a day or two ngo that Olive Ouyo said she would in t dure to have n'frieud so beautiful i.s 1 lolcrcn nud a sweetheart so hand s rue as Clarence constantly looking i.'. in.'li ether, evcu with a face that both o tight to lovo between them. Oh, what a shrewd and terribly deep rail that is, and I jui sure I shall al ways hato her uttoi to uight! But Koiikt Busnei'ii Sons,) she. does say things thut seem full of nu awful meaning." Her gaze was lixed full on Dolore.'i while these thoughts passed liko lightuing through her mind, and tdiu saw the elenr olive-cheek flush to the hue of carmine, and the deep, lumin ous eyes grew dark and full of trouble, though they still gazed bravely buck into her own. "Triibt me, Murnja," said Dolores; "trust mo ; for oven when I give you pain believe that I love you then, per haps, most of nil. Ami now good night. I want to think n little while before I sleep, and I am i;o tired." Mary Hamilton impulsively caught the lovely .Spanish girl in horarms and kissed her. "Good night, then, my sweet sis ter; but go to sleep soon, anil don't ; think too hard. That is all I ask just ; uow." ! Sho hurried away, ns if fearing to : trust herself to say uuylhing more; nnd I Poloies, her eyes shining; through J , grateful tenrs, went toward tho open I I window, from which she could eitteh n j j glimpse, of the far-oil' broad liver that j i lluwed to the sen, nnd overhead that ! ; other illimitable and shoreless ocean I j of ether w ithin which forever swing : I the countless millions of other worlds : ' that men call "stars." ' j I'or a few minutes she rmrained I gazing down on the streets below, but ' I ipiickly her eyes sought tho upper air, i i and her thoughts soon soared above I the disquieting inlluences of tho lower ', J world, while peace and tranquility i stole in upon her sul. , I "What mere atoms we are. all of : ; us, iu this endless universe," she ' j murmured, with a gentle tolerance ; : toward everybody, "and yet how all ! important, each one of ns, to ourselves ! or to some one else. Hut for that, i how glad l should bo to lose myself: i forever in tho grent sea of space i What u'us that line that nnii.iiii.i used ' , to say from tho old Soot. di song? - "Tin love, 'tis lovo that makes the i world go round' that was tho seuti i incut nnyway! Dear Maruja! Kho ; fears that Clarence Stanley is falling I in lovo with mo, and from the depths of her Oivn passion, sho thinks no woman could fail to fall in lovo w ith him! Ami why does tha man's pres ence disquiet me? I am so ignorant of this great passion of which p oet.i sing nnd novelists write thN 'love that makes the world go round'- that f do not ovou know ita signs. I am disturbed, but uot joyfully; 1 tun ex cited, but not with pleasure. Xo, no, this cannot bo love! Hut w hatever it is, it is making Maruja unhappy, nnd that must never be. Kather thin bring utiliappiucss into her lifs I will vanish out of it forever, nnd he wilt sue me no more, lint is that neces essury? Does my presence come be tweeu Maruja and her lover? Am I not vaiu and foolish to suppose it? Must I Biiorillco this new ami happy life for nothing! The only peace, the only happiness except my mother's lovo that I have ever known? 1 will not be rash. I will l.i ow tho worst I hefoio I throw awny substance lor shadow, () mother- dear nnd be.-t love of my lfie be near mo now as ever to comfort and help me!" With a bitter moan ot grief Dolores drew back from the window, and her gaze dropped from the clear and glit- i teriug expanse above her dow n towuid tho street helow, ami in that on.) swift glanco she caught a glimp.io of n white nnd supplicating face raised toward her own. "Who is that? Whtt does i, menu? Hurely 1 know that face?" she thonc'lit-nn.l in tlin net! niMiiiclit she was bending out of the window tuid bending eagerly downward. Tho face upraised to her was white and drowu with desparing misery; for when ho had left tho presenco of Stnnley, Van Tassel vus conscious ol some impending horror, ali the in'ro terrible because it was unknown and j intangible, lie felt only too sure j that, while iu tho mesmeric trance, he Iliad been bound by the evil wili which now controlled him, to a prom I ise, tho fulfillment of which might ilead him into crime, but w hich he w as now quito powerless t resist, lu his benighted mind ho called on every power in heaven or on ci.rth to aid j him, and suddenly, like i: flash of j light, the face of Dolores Meudo.a seemed to rise before him. lie had I heeu listlessly walking to and fro, having stopped more than once or twice to refresh himself with brandy, and hw he was being tollowc 1 by a couple of very rough-looking tramp' who had onught the glitter of gold when ho hail paid for his last drink of brandy. When ho stopped sud denly, looking about him, the thought themselves delected; and spying the bluo uniform of tho police not far distant, they slouched into ti dark lauo nud watched silently, while Vuu Tassel tinned into a side street aud pursued his w ay till, as be glanced upward, he suddenly saw tho faro of Dolores, radiant in tho starlight, und lookiug to him like the face of bis good nugel smiling from tho heaven". "Help! Help!" ho cried, nud bis hands were raised iu supplication toward her. "It is Mr. Van Tassel!" excluimed I Dolores, aud iu sn uistaut she ie- membered nil about him-tue feeliug j of pity w hich had so touched her on j their first meeting, nud ib siro to pro tect which had tucu actuated her nud 1 a f ensntiuii, to often experienced since, but not understood, ns if some one was crying out to her for assist ance. "What does ho say?" thought Dolores, ou beholding, from her win dow, tho pnlj, drawn face of Van Tasiol. "Ho is surely in some great trouble, und ho is railing on me for help! I cannot speak to him from here; it is too far; nud yet I cannot let him think luo deaf to his call or un willing to respond to it! Ah yes:" She hud drawn back into the room, and now, ps she looked uboiit ns if f,,r i-oiuo means of conveying a message, she saw on the tlowcr-stami beside her a simple white rose, placed thcrehoiirs before by Mary Hamilton. "He will understand," she thought; and seizing the llower sho Hung it into the outstretched hands of Henri Vuu Tassel. He caught it aud pressed it to his lips, and with it there came to him the same sense of strength of being uplifted nnd invigorated that hud eome to him when iu her pres ence, lie waved his hand toward her, and her face disappeared from the window, and ho turned, to lind himself in tho grasp of the two tramps, who t had approached in the shadow of tho house, and, entchiug him now oil' his I guard, seized him, gagged him witii I ouo hand, nud bore him to the ''round swiftly and without resistance. Van Tassel, who was but a slight man, of ! very little physical strength at any i time, was easily overpowered, und I would have been robbed instantly i nun wiiiioui ii turnsole "an ii oi iieip come to him as suddenly and uiiex- pceteilly as lie nail been ut lacked. At the moment w hen Dolores had appeared at the window, just after recognizing Van Tassel, a gentleman who had been approaching from tho other direction, aud who wnsa stranger ; to tho con nt i y as well as to the : metropolis, paused and said to him ; self, with n laugh: i "A custom of the country, f sup ! pose, and much the sauio as in other countries, too an American liomeo , and Juliet." ; And us he stood for a moment in tho ; shadow ol a tree, bin very natural ! suspicion seemed verilied, and a whito ; rose was tiling down through the soft May air aud was caught nnd rup I turously kissed by the recipient. What happened licit was all so rapid that no one of tho participants could have clearly described it; but the I effect was to bestow' blackened eyes ! and bloody noses on a couple of rullians, who received these murks of 1 favor with howls nad execrations; and I when Dolores again this time iu j ahum as well ns snrpi iso looked out I of tin) window, she saw the attacking party in full retreat and llouri Van I Tassel, much disheveled mid visibly j excited, leaning aguimit the shoulder '. of his rescuer. I Dolores, who h..,l seen to:) many street lights not to understand and whose first thought was for Vuu Tas : sl-1, liew from the room, downstairs : nud out into tho tilreet, with. nit puus- ing to think, aud only took breath when she stood beside S an Tussel and held his trembling hands iu hers. "1 hope you are not hurl?" she ; said then; but it was the stranger 1 who replied to her; for Van Tassel, J : suddenly uwnro of the brandy he had : bc 'ii drinking, shrank from her and ' only wished that the earth would open I j and swallow him. j "Your friend is not ui nil hurt," said ! the stranger, whose voice was very ! ' full aud deep und musical; "ho is not : even robbed. I was just in time to j l'righteii ol" tho thieves before they I had secured the plunder." j ' "Oh, thauK you!" said Dolores. "I we, both of us, are very grateful, j Mr. Van Tassel, please go directly I home, will you not ? And, sir, if yoti I 1 would do so, it would bo such a kind- j j uess, will you put him iu u carriage : und tell the driver to take euro of him; ' I but, indeed, I don't know where ho ' lives." Dolores remembered afterwards that, the stranger had raised his hut und cloud holding it in his hand, but bend- ! ing slightly toward lur while sho j spoke: and .-.he was vaguely conscious j that she w,n being treated with us j much iispuct us if the bud been a princess; but her cheeks were burning liko lire, and she had dropped Vuu I Tassel's hand which site hud held, aud , which cluug to her lingers liko that oi : a frightened child. I "1 will tiud out w here to take him," , said tho stranger, when sho censed speaking, "ami I w ill see him safely j home; you may trust me." j "Oli, thank you, thank you!" said 1 Dolores, and for a brief second or two their gazo hold each other, then ho : bowed, and she turned and disappeared I into tho house. She could scarcely have counted sixty seconds since sho left il, and yet she felt thut something hud l.uppeued that was to chungii her w hole life. Tin. stranger also felt that ho could never forget those eyes, so full of child like contideuce, so deep and dark with pas sionate intensity. "What a bciiutitul girl," ho thought. "Who can sho be?" aud turning to ward Van Tassel, "nut what u choice for a lover!" To HE COM INt'F.K. A HiiLtie! liromti. Mr.. Uriimblc "Don't you rcmem her. Will, how yon used to rhapso dize over the thought of just you aud I living together iu a dear little cot Inge somew here, far from the madding throng? Yon used to say that would ho patadiee, but you don't seem since we are married to hold the sumo opin ion." Mr. Bramble "Xo, I gave up th ule.i tho week you were without a jirl. You see, if we lived that way foil would have to do the cooking for is tight along." Chicago Times. The tax ou coffee in Trance is four- en cents a pouud, lu F.uglaud it id hree teats. WALL STREET WONDERS BITS OF THE COMPLEX MACHINERY OF FINANCE. Nbw.iui(.ib Willi Ten t:.lltJoim an Hour onil 1 li'i-t-l iiuIihI NMYnl)i Wall Strt'MV Fiiormutin roiuliitlon 1 In, Invriil',uii Ili'vleeHto Hcx ul (JhoIhIIiiiiii Precisely at It) every business morn ing u liveried ntlen'l.itit. carrying ii gong, steps upon the floor of the New York Stock Kxi'haiige ami heats n re sounding tattoo. The fist note Is n cull to arms. Hefore lis echo has died away hun dreds of traders with their scouts, aids find messengers me st ruckling In a great seething muss. The same signal has Meanwhile been ciinleil to tlmu .iiitiils of otliees--tlie limney world Is uwnkc. Coiiiinuotislv for the next live hours the kings, hirelings, servants and slaves ol limince wage lieree bailie. Jus; ls.iMHt seconds, any um.. ()f which limy spell ruin, an I (he volume of busi ness requires that ciieli tick of the clock shall be a record of something di.ne. Nowhere else in the world has the mechanism for carrying on I ns! ness been reduced to such an exact ' science. Wall Si reel is always l evd i dily im patient to bear III" lalest news nhollt Itself. 'I'he general public mac 1 m. tent io wait for its morning paper. The Willi Street man ,! inaiuls the laiesl liuuncltil news ol' Ii; ' Intervals of secunN eiiiire world at nly. : 'I'he financial news service under this pressure has rem he I a perfect ion lil- lie short of inaiv cilntis. The news is j telegraphed over a variety of tickers ; directly from I he ilnnr of the Kxchange to thousands of nilices, it is talked over telephone wires with . n I in 11,111 s live-lionr comieci inns, or it is print. d lu inlniiiiiiie newspapers :iml illsiiiie iited by hand tit tl.e rate of ijfiy or ; more editions every live-hour financial I day. Visitors to Wail Street will scarcely ! fall to notice the swarms of small boys clutching h.'iliill'uls of papers and usually on n ih ml inn. They tumble unexpectedly mil of basements, disap pear in ::u iiislant through the door ways of great (.ohe buildings, to re turn shortly empty handed. These tire the mosi aleri in ivslioys in the world. They distribute by main boy power Hie famous financial news slips in the of Ii. a's of Hi,' market operators. In normal limes I hey deliver an edi Hon every ten minutes. During finan cial panics or oilier I'xellenieiit edi tions aii' even more frequent. 'I'he tcn edil lon au-houi- newspaper is organised mm Ii the sai s an ordi nary news shirt, hut with inure de pendence upon the telegraph, tele phones ami various l.i tor-saving de vices. The iilliiuelal news is colli i t, il nud condensed in the briefest possible I'oiin. ,'uid is rushed to the type-selling uiacliiii.-s. In a slim i time tin. form has been thrown iulo a buzzing luile press and the ediiieu is being inn oli'. t'ndcr or dinary conditions brief n vs ileliis can be writ leu. edited, put in type and a proof olilaiued iu from three to four minutes. 'I'lie foil. I and size of the newspaper or bulletin are sacrificed io speed, 'file slu els measure abuiil live by nine inches. 'I'll.- volume of news furnished in this form iu a day i considerable. The sheets give the news more iu de tail than the tickers. Tbey are meant lo lie read at a glance iu the rush of trading hours. They give briefly studies in the values of securities, re ports ou railroad and industrial prop erties and eoiiiineni on the money and exchange markets. The newsboys, usually about fifty strong, line up hefnro the little presses as tin- time for the edition ap liroaehes. The bulletins Putter from the press ai the rate of Sou a minute. The boys grab them by tile handful aud disappear through the nearest door on the run. The time of their exist ami return Is taken to a second. Wages are vaiieed according to these recorib A matter ot twenty seconds or so In covering u route may be smlieleiit to distinguish a good boy from a slow- one. More than Ion olliee, iu the dis trict arc served iu this way at least every ten minutes. A well organized strike ou the part of these newsboys, wcro it to come un expectedly. Would be fi li more or less seriously on all the :;ivat linaiicial cxclianges nt tile World. A delay of set seconds in distributing important hearing upon the market olteii causes serious lluctuaiions iu prices. At such times the other means ol distributing the news are usually i logged and are far behind the actual Imam ml limes. So lor u few brief minutes the tiuamial world of Wall Street may be said to bang upon the nleri boys. Incidentally they siaml tin excellent ihauee of promotion. Ii is possible thai sonic of the gieat limtuciers of the funny .ire ut prcsint standing in line before the little l u.zer presses. The little tiikets with i heir incessant chatter and mote or less intelligible hicrogl,viiu s aie. oi course, familiar. These report the ipiotal ions of stocks iu ileiusands of cilices iu something less tii. iii a mitotic after tucir au- tli 1 1 11 1 i l:li' 11 1 . During linain' tl panic the market at times I eeouies so ai iie that tho tick ers Mud themselves an hour or more behind the news, file slock ticker has been elaborated of bite in several ways. A complicated mechanism which prints the u n s by electricity ou a comhiuous pace or si toll Is the most successful of these devices. All these contrivance are operated j from a coiiuunii o i lie. either ou the lion! of tin- Fx, halite ol some point ill i tin 1 comntunii inn n W illi it. A siu- I i,'le operator seated ceiViv a typewriter writes upon a thousand sheets ill ev ery section of the city at the stime In stant of time. The number of Stuck Kxebange tick ers Is restricted nnd many Ingenious devices are used to repeal the oflicjul figures with the least possible loss of time. To be sure. I he figures miiy be repented over other tickers, nnd there are several sii'h services for side, lint this, however nimbly done, cm mils the loss of two or three uiinuict at least. j lty the time I he belated figures nr 1 live ti.i active stuck Is likely lo havi fluctuated a dangerous distance. The ! best siibsiiinto for an olliclnl ilcker is, io repeat the ligures by word ol i mouth over a telephone, the circuit j being kept open throughout lie entire ! financial day. The Wall Streei man, during the linancitil rush hours, requires more walling upon than loyalty. As the general action moves more rapidly tin. number of employes increases in di rect ratio. There are. for example, more lues .-engcr boys lo the aire throughout the linnnii.il ilisli-lct ilian mi any other spot of equal size in the world. F.ai-h nelive trader on the Hour of the Slock lvi hiinge has from two lo live assist ants or messengers, lu every oflice a similar wculih iu the number of as sisianls is to In- found, w hile the mini her of messenger boys oil e.'lll Is illsO uniisi'.il. It is estimated thai there are from eighty to one hundred special lues scngois available Uiou cadi acre of the Wall Street dislrlci. The boy popula tion of the olliee buildings js ralhci im ro than in if- iliis. Tor every acre, therefore, Ihcle fire some 'Joll lues seligers Imagine till acre lot filled Willi "."ill boys. They would pretty coin forlably crowd it. It is dil'icull lo realize i he extent of the enormous davlimc population ol Ihe Wall Street district. It is crowd id wild great, iiiirlc.'ite hives of olliee buildings, all of which are densely populated. Th,. largest olliee buildings iu the world tire In be found whhin a stone's throw of the Kxcbange. aud many of them have long wailing lists of would-be tenants. 'I'he natural congestion on the sur face is increased by the unusual nar rowness of the si reels I boreal, mils. Many of ilictn, though Unci with iwi my slory structures, are little more than alleyways. Should all th,. inhabitants ,, the great buildings on Wall Slreel. near lirnadway. chance, for instance, Ic b.'ive their oliiees ill Ihe same Inslaiil there would only he si. Haling room foi about oiicfnurlh of them. In olhei words, the popnialion nf Wall Street, bclwccli Ittcadway and liroad sired, would be sitllii i: nt to till the sir,., ) four linn s ol or. fie- fatal crowding ol ihe famous T.luck Hole of Caleuiia seems trilling by coiuparisoti. New York Sun. i'llO MllV tlortl'l. Il Is the Mayllower season. The sue ecs-i'ul finder of a patch will forget that 111 ie has In , n talk about tin growing siareiiy of these essentially Massachusetts ih.ivcis. Put it is a I'aei Ihat place- I fi.tt have Known iheni know lliein no more and thut il would imt be addle nit mailer to exterminate them altogether. So jusl a word about how io pick III 111. ill Ihe language of .1 magazine writer who is a nature lover: "I'he steins arc ery lough. You try lo break thetti. then lo Ivvisi lliein then you give a pull, ami up the whole ihlng comes, 'fake two good things with you on your spring walks pa. licnc and a penknife, ami il.ui'i. be cause you like May .lowers, (l.strov th lil.le plains that uiiglil give so much pleasure to you and llid' people veai- after ve i r " - V.w- I:. , 1 1 ,,t .1 -Ji-tn. dard. A London llakerlitiii in 144:t. Previous to III:; there vveie no bak ers' shops iu London. ISdotv that dale Ihe inhabitants of Stratford vvviv bak els for Ihe W hole l ily. The.V sold llieil bread every day except en Sundays and great festivals, which was brought in tarts, ami they were ordered to stand, throe iu Cheapshle. Iwo iu 'or:i hill and one ill I. race Chun Ii street. The Si rat ford baking liuallv ceased in toils;. lu Ihe year ."il'J, ilievc being a great scarcity, the Stratford bakers were se verely handled by tile famishing popu lace, lu the latter pail of llctiiy VI. 's reign the i iti.t us purchased the am icnt labric called l.eatlelihall. ami under the ilitection of Sir Simon P.yo ii was con xetitd into a public granary. -liak.i'.s' Ui view . Hello, Henry! I didn't think it quite right for the hoys on the slreel to call out to the Pritev. "Hello. Henry!" ot "Where is Ib iuvV" Um the Prince diil not seem to mind. He answered In kind. "Hello.'" he would answer, or "Here I am." "I am Henry." or. with his linger pointing to his breast, "Here is Prince Henry." If lliey said. ' Hello. Prim , : how are you 7" he would say. "All light, how are you!" - Admiral p.i an-, iu Mei 'lure's. (1,1,1 l.t'tll-l' I'.nut. At cording to the Loudon Oruphir ..'ul f.'shione-l knife boxes are veiy mm !i sought lot ju-t in prcst tit. in Kli-land. a- they make excellent letter, boxes to hang in Ihe ball ill a coontty liou-e They are geiierilly made i:i dark colored woed. but are sometime in sal. n wood curi iisly inlaid. An Intori-Mllns Kurt. 'Little lied Klding Hood" wns writ ten by Charles IVrrault, a l'reiuli author, who published it in HiU7. Ladies' Home Journal Il Virata tint (Jtlii klv. Tin re is nothing that wears out So quickly as a tiiio'y put nit" practice. New York Puss. A Miitlorul Ni'i-a. IN my opinion the most important, question before the American peo ple to -day Is thai of good loads-, flood loads, like all other good things, cosl. Cheap articles are of Inferior quality: hence our bad loads. If We tire to have good Ion Is wo must nay for them. To oay for iheni i we nui' I be taxed. Then, If taxed, I how? Hy the federal or Stale (iov j eminent? 1 am in favor of ihe whole system of roads In the country b ing placed mider liovernmeiii construction, io be paid for out of the I'llited Stales Treasury, and. having iui roiimvil a bib looking lo Ibis end. I am overwbelnml with biters from all sections of tin country approving it ami inquiring libout It. This bill provides for tin direct .ippr.iprlnlioii of SI no. Uuo ti be expended In the forty live States mid four Territories of the I niicd : States In proportion lo popnl.ii ion. It ; should become :i coin inning approjit iu- : lion l ill good roads become a m t w ork I over the land. j Will anybody I' ll me why the j 1'nlted Stabs iloveinmeui should not ' roust met good roads iu Ihe Mirioiis j Stales ami Terriiori s? s there any difference ill lliu.s applying public ; money and applying it to erecKs, brandies and river.-V P.oih are to ex pedite nanspoftaiioii. ti help inier staie and foreign cnmioeive. Now. when wo remember that New York is nearer to San I'raneisc,, than it was to T.altiiuore seventy years ago, when the one exchanges goods with the other every hour of the da ; when we can now whisper across the continent - wo may the inventive geliliu ihink thai Ii was alone of .-m il men ns Watt, Slephel fulioii, lidl and ! lalison; but not so. "We have till ted the national baud and loosened Hie national purse strings'' to il.e ticoiir ngeiueiil of inspired Industrial ineili ods; to the establishment of great coin- I uicreial ami mechanical centres; ami 1 in certain directions have so exieiuled national aid as to enlarge and iptickeu the means of linnsporialiou except thai on public roads - and have ex pended millions to provide mulcts for the accumiilal ing inland Hade. Il was gootl stab sinauship to do it. excepl ! that tiny Ignored public mads. During tin- early yens i.f the Ke public t lie National i iov e, uiiieii appro priated only ubiiut font I, en millions of dollars for 1 he enlisli tictioti of the national highways to connect the ('apilal with Ihe di.-lani parts of tin' country. The longest straight mail ever mailt' by any gov ci tinieiii in the world was b mil by tic 1'nilcd States from I'liiiiberlauil. Md . ami through Maryland, Pennsylvania, uhio. liuli una and Illinois to St. I.nuis. 'litis was not only I lie longest straight l ead, but the best road ill America. It was productive of great good in its day. bio owing lo ihe differences iu the minds of the leading siali sm, n of ii.nl day the Work was liually abandon d. i and lor two general ions past the n u eral ( loveri. incut has done veiy linie. or almost uoihing. toward the cu. struciioii and maimcmiucc of ihe highway.- of the country. As a result Il.e great ( 'ttmbcrla ml toad has fallen Into decav. and there has been less ! l""-'v" '''' 111 ""' science ami art I '"' I'"1,1''' '""bling iu Ihe 1 lul. .1 : Slates from that day to this than iu liny othi r knowledge industry or Tin concentration of popnl.ita.ii ami Wealth iu great cities would be large ly overcome if the country districts should have their fair share of the iippi'opriaiion of public money ami the consequent improvement of the coun try roads that would follow-. Peter J. Olc.v. Kcpicseuiuilvc from Virginia The Value of (..mil llnud Perhai the vain Ihe most convincing proof of of good roads is the experi- ence of those who have lm.lt them. Most of us are not acquainted person ally W illi gootl roads, ami cannot speak from experience. 'Ihe great county of Mecklenburg is the pioneer of the good roads movement in North Caro lina. In the beginning, there was much opposition to the movement, especially ou lite pari of the town people, who did not w ant to be taxed to make eotui try roads, ami they said they had no interest iu lliein. They have ft. und out ditfcrenlly. Many country people have thought the money spent was ,i u-cless extravagant o. They have found ot:l differently. It may he si lily said, ou reliable authority, thai every class of pi ople in Mecklenburg ('omiiy . iu city utiii country alike, now f.ivei- the s.v-. teni which has given the t.iiiuiy such splendid roads; ami that i in- people, as a whole, would tint go b.nk t. the old mud ami mire for five linn - ihe cost of the roads. A liontl Work. The Department of Agtit n!l in e is doing a great thai of good through iis butt-ail of toad inquiry, awakening au interest among the people in the ad vantages of good wagon roads and as sisting In the construction of model highways for the iustcuctiou of the public. -Dcuvef Republican. A Hj. There is too unuh playing to the grand Maud. When a weak, wobbly Hy makes lis appearance. Is it neces sary for a woman lo break oft con versation Willi her guests nud chase It to prove she is a neat housekeeper? Atchlaeu Clobv. PICTURED ON ROCKS. Ctirr In Artunu Oi iiunirplort With M.pt Onttiririt Oltl. The oldest nutps iu America nre to be found iu Arizona and Texas. How old they are may not be said, but they (bite back many centuries. The In dian has left behind him many records. In his rude Implements of peace and warfare his knives, arrows, axes, spears, vessels, Morlnre, quoits, etc., we can read to-duy the history of pre historic rnees, their habits and cus toms, their social life, their tribal re lations, their occupations nnd their pastimes. Trom picture writings wa gain additional Insight Into the ways of these primitive people. Jt now ap pears that some of tliese early dwel lers iu the land were map makers of no mi an ability. The traditions of some of tin- tribes of Arizona nnd New Mexico point to a common origin with the Moiitczuinus. It seems quite cer tain that the nations or tribes occupy ing the country now known ns New Mexico. Arizona. Texas and Mexico j held iuiiinaie relations with each other, jand i heir Inhabitants traveled buck j and forth from country to country for j centuries. j In Teiinja canyon. Texas, (ire un I mlstakable evidences of ihis. The lay ol the land is such as to make this canyon the natural puss for a i large area of country north ami south of that point. The travel w hich has i passed through this i-nnyon has woru the solid rock of the trail to a depth of not less than three feet. ICveii though the region about were densely populated. It mtisi have laken cen turies to wear through llihs adamntiii path. The walls of ihe canyon, whh'U are perpendicular and smooth, are em bellished with lines carved in the rock, and l hen traced over with paint of a vermilion hue. so pfiinimcut as to have lost but little of its luster during the centuries it has ornamented (La rock canvas. The lirst discoverers of fiese mark ings were unable to decipher iheni or ! K"es.s im ir imporl. bin siiliseqtiently prospectors ami plainsmen who visited ! 'anyoii discovered in these Hues iiecurate maps of the country, with the ' trails, luoiint.iin passes and water ' holes indicated thereon. The makers . of these maps showed a thorough knowledge of the country aud ac curacy as lo relative distances and points of ihe compass. Near Oat tuans rial. Arizona, are what nre known as "Ti tiros ! iutados," or paint etl rocks, 'fin walls of the ulcsa lire covered from base to summit with drawings of n, animals, reptiles, etc. Some i f (lie ligures are of Si) uiiceriain a nature as formerly to have failed of dassiiii at ion. It Is now known that some of these are maps of sections of country, with trails, vil lages, wilier wells, etc.. Indicated upon Hum. H Is somewhat rcinai liable that among the animals pictured on tie-.' roiks are camels so lifelike nu to admit of no doubt as to their Idcn Illj. There can l. liule nueslloii but the makir- of those piciures had knowledge ,,i r.gypt or Arabia or that the i . mid w as nin e iti.ligi n.uis lo ti.is count ry. Pit Isbitrg (lazctte. Hi In ii Setil. Ilcr-' is a true siory of a curious per sonality well known to many profes siotia: ineii in 1. endeii to day. Me Is 11 Scot, wbo.-e business ability Is above the average, but every thing he docs 1st done with the uir of a man constantly wresting wiili soiu,. piobhnt of the soul, lie lardy speaks unless spoken to. He never smiles, and bis eyes have a liicil but intense expression. One day he was ret urning to Loudon with several companion-, 'flic whole party were Seotii.-b, but i be companions wi re ih purlin, nt ol "' M'-mul type. One of lli-. iii told a bu I morons tale, ovi r which the rest laughed uproariously. Not so the hu man problem, iu- silt lu a coiner of the mil way carriage glowering at his mirthful frii nils. Half tin hour after ward, however, when all were standing ut a street corner before separating. lu tool; in;,, aside and said solemnly nud slowly: "Ye would ol.salrve that 1 didua' laugh at yoiuf story. Well. I saw th,. joke. Ye might not think It. ''tit I have a keen sense of humor." I I-ondoii Daily News. CsMnet lioniii "Minvrit." The President is shaved every tiny, usually le. iw i in LV.'in ami : o'clock each aflernooti. after lunch is scred nnd i the guests at lunch go away. In the ; Cabinet room is n folding barber's , (hair, which, when not in use. Is placed j ag.iinsl Hi,, wall Mud remains unoli i served. The President sits in this and ! s shavvd In the Cabinet room. The : work is quickly done, as the President . apparently begrudges the time takeu and wants to be up ami doing some thing. President MeKinliy always shaved himself, n-itc; cither a safety or regular raz.u. He could bundle a razor with great ea-e, as be bail been accustomed to shaving himself fun years. When he went away he shaved loins, If as usual. Ih' could do the Job on a flying tram as easily as when iu his room President Kot scvelt does n o know how to shave bimsi If com foitall.y. and lakes his barber wit' him when h.. goes ff anywhere j Washington Star. ! He M'hs l.ell V onil,-ring, j It was a holiday. v man walked l into the busim ss otip.e of a wil k nwn j newspaper ami handed the at the counter li death not hi- r, cMMse ihat In Itself was nothirg am. i,;,- m his manner was merrv. mid locnMst cntly so. The clerk in -U an, ,t nliu rntner slrangel), be voueli-u.d this Jeiiiark. accouipant i' with a i-i'so-uuri-tng slap on the .lo uM,.,. "Why. my bey, that wii- in, mother lu law." When he left tin olliee he left the clerk lu deep thought, ueudcrluif if tbnt wns the wny motiiers-ia-law nf j fvcted ull uieu.-New York Trlbuue. i -a-tri""- ' ii