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)t Cljatljam liccoroj $5v i I) t Chatham iiB ccdrb . Ch7a. LONDON, Editor and Proprietor. liis OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 Per Year. RATES OF ADVERTISING On Mnire, one insertion $1.00 f : 1.1 Ay One square, two insertions One square, oneanonth :. 1.50 250 -1,. 'For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Conr: tracts will be made. Strictly en Advance VOL. XXyil. FITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY, N. (.. THURSDAY, MARCH 9.J905. NO. 30. THE SPLENDID SPUR OR' THE ADVENTURES Rj ARTHUR T. CHAPTER V. (Continued.) There was a minute during which the two parties could hear each other's breathing. Sir Deakin set down the nutmeg, wiped his thin fingers on a napkin, and addressed the Captain sweetly? Before asking your business, sir, I would beg you and your company to taste of this liquor, which, in the court of France" the old gentleman took a sip from the mixing ladle 'has had the extreme honor to be pronounced divine." He smacked his hps and, rising to his feet, let his right hand rest on the silver foot of the lamp as he bowed to the Captain. Captain Settle's bravado was plainly cozing away before this polite audac ity, and seeing Sir Deakin taste the punch, he pulled off his cap in a shamefaced manner and sat down by the table with a word of thanks. ' "Come in. sirs come in!" called the old gentleman, 'and follow your friend's example. 'Twill be a compli ment to make me mix another bowl when this is finished." He stepped around the table to welcome them, still resting his hand on the lamp as if for steadiness. I saw his eye twinkle as they shuffled in and stood around the chair where the Captain was seated. "Jacques, bring glasses from the cupboard yonder! And, Delia, fetch lip some chairs for our guests no, sirs, pray do not move;" He had waved his hand lightly to the door as he turned to us: and in an instant the intention as well as the bright success of this comedy flashed upon me. There was now no one be tween us and the stairs, and as for Sir Deakin himself, he had-already taken the step of putting the table's "Width between him and his guests. I torched the girl's arm, and we made as if to fetch a couple of chairs that stood against the wainscot by the door. As we did so, Sir Deakin pushed the punch bowl under tho Captain's nose. "Smell, sir," he cried airily, "and Tepovt to your friends on the fore taste." Settle's nose hung over the steam ing compound. With a swift pass of the hand the old gentleman caught up the lamp and had shaken a drop of burning oil into the bowl. A great blazo leaped to tho ceiling. There was a howl a scream of pain, and as I pushed Mistress Delia through the doorway and ov.t to the head of the str.irs, I caught a backward glimpse of Sir Deakin rushing after us, with one of the stoutest among the robbers at Ids heels. "Downstairs, for your life!" I whis pered to the girl, and turning, as her father tumbled past me, let his pur suer rim on my sword, as on a spit. At the same instant, another blade pass'd through his fellow transversely, and Jacques stood beside me, with his back to the lintel. As we pull'd our swords out and the man dropp'd, I had a brief view into tho room, whore now the blazing liquid ran off the table in a stream. Settle, stamping with agony, had his palms press'd, against his scorched eyelids. The fat landlord, iu trying to beat out the flames, had increased them by upsetting two. bottles of aqua vitae, and was dancing about with three fingers in his mouth. The rest stood for the most part uumbfound er'd; but Black Dick had his pistol lifted. Jacques and I sprang out for the landing and round the doorway. Be tween the flash and the report I felt a sudden scrape, as of a red-hot wire, across my left thigh and just above the knee. "Tenez, camarade," said Jacques' voice in my ear; "a moi la porte a vous lo maitre, la-bas;" and he pointed down the staircase, where, by the glare of the conflagration that beat past us, I saw the figures of Sir Dea kin and his daughter standing. "But how. can yoit keep the door against a dozen?" The Frenchman shrugged his shoul der with a smile. "Mais comme ca!" For at this moment came a rush of footsteps within the room. I saw a fat paunch thrusting past us, a quiet pass of steel, and the landlord was wallowing on his face across the threshold. Jacques's teeth snapp'd to gether as he stood ready for another victim; and as the fellows within the room tumbled back, he motion'd mo to leave himi I sprang from his side, and catch ing the rail of the staircase, reach'd the foot in a couple of. bounds. ' Hurry!" J cried, and caught the old baronet by the hand. His daughter took the other, and between: us we hurried him across the passage for the kitchen door. Within, the chambermaid was on her knees by the settle, her face and apron of the same hue. I saw she was Incapable of helping, and hasten'd across the stone floor, and out toward the back entrance. A stream of icy wind blew in our faces as. we stepp'd over the thresh old. The girl and I bent our heads to it, and stumbling, tripping and pant ing, pulled Sir Deakin with us out into the cold air. The yard was no longer dark. In the room above one had push'd the easement open, letting fn the ."ffind; OF JACK MARVEL. QUILLER COUCH.' and by this 'twas very evident- the room was on fire. Indeed, the curtains had caught, and as we ran, a pennon of flame shot over our heads, licking the thatch. In the glare of it the out buildings and the yard gate stood clearly out from the night. I heard the trampling of feet, the sound of Settle's voice shouting an order, and then a dismal yell and clash of steel as we flung open the gate. "Jacques!" screamed the old gentle man; "my poor Jacques! Those dogs will mangle him with their cut and thrust '.' 'Twas very singular and sad, but as if in answer to Sir Deakin's cry, we heard the brave fellow's voice; and a famous shout it must have been to reach us over the roaring of' the flames: "Mon maitre mon maitre!" he call'd twice, and then "Sauve toi!" in a fainter voice, yet clear. And after that only a racket of shouts and out cries reach'd us. Without doubt the villains had overpower'd and slain this brave servant. In spite of our peril (for they would be after us at once), 'twas all we could do to drag the old man from the gate and up the road; and as ho went he wept like a child. We found a hiding place in . the woods where we remained all night, but the great exertion and the ex posure to the cold was too much for the eld gentleman. When morning broke Sr Deakin had breathed his last. I delved his grave in the frosty earth, close by the spot where he lay. Somehow, I shiver'd all the while, and had a cruel shooting pain in my wound that was like to have mastered me before the task was ended. But I managed to lower the body softly into the hole and to cover it rever ently from sight; and afterward stood leaning on my spade and feeling very light in tho head, while the girl knelt and pray'd for her father's soul. And the picture of her as she knelt is the last I remember till I open'd my eyes, and was amazed to find my self on my back, and staring up at darkness. "What has happen'd?" "I think you" are very ill," said a voice; "can you lean on me, and reach the hut yonder?" "Why, yes; that is, I think so. Why is everything dark?" "The sun has been down for hours. You have v been in a swoon firsthand then talk'd oh, such nonsense! Shame on me, to let you catch this chill!" She help'd me to my feet and stead led me; and how we reach'd the hut I cannot tell you. It took more than one weary hour, as 1 now know; but at the timo hours and minutes were one to me. In that hut 1 lay four nights and four days, between ague fit and fever. And that is all the account I can give of the time, save that, on the second day, the girl left me alone in the hut and descended to the plain, where, after asking at many cottages for a physician, she was forced to be con tent with an old woman reputed to be amazingly well skill'd in herb.3 and medicines; whom, after a day's trial, she turned out of doors. On the fourth day, fearing for my life, she made another descent, and. coming to a wayside tavern, purchas'd a pint of aqua vitae, carried it back and inix'd a potion that threw me into a profuse sweat. The same evening I sat up, a sound man. Indeed, so thoroughly was I re cover'd that, waking early next morn ing and finding my sweet nurse asleep from sheer weariness in a corner of tho hut, I stagger'd up from my bed of dried bracken and out into the pure air. Rare it was to stand and drink it in like wine. A footstep arous'd me. 'Twas Mistre? Delia; and, turn ing, I held out my hand. "Now this is famous," said she; "a day or two will see you as good a man as ever." "A day or two? To-morrow, at least. I shall make trial to start." I noted a sudden change on- her face, and added: "Indeed you must hear my reasons before setting me down for an ingrate," and told her of the King's letter that I carried. "I hoped that for a while our ways might lie to gether," said I; and broke off. for she was looking me earnestly in the face. "Sir, as jou know, my brother An thony was to have met me nay, for pity's sake, turn not your face away; I have guess'd the sword you carry I mark'd it. Sir, be merciful, and tell me!" I led her a little aside to the foot of a tall pine; and there, tho' it wrung my heart, JoM her all; and left her to wrestle with this final sorrow. She was so tender a thing to be stricken ' thus that V who had dealt the blow ! crept back to the hut, covering my eyes. In an hour's time I look d out. She was gone. At nightfall she return'd, white with grief and fatigue; yet I was glad to see her eyes red and swol'n with weep ing. Throughout our supper she kept silence; but when 'twas over look'd up and spoke in a steady tone. "Sir, I have a favor to ask, and must risk being held .importunate " "From you .to me," I put in, "all talk of favors had best be dropp'd." "No listen. If ever it befell you to lose father or mother or dearly loved friend, you will know how. the an guish stuns Oh, sir! to-day the suri Deemed fallen out of heaven, and I a blind (creature- left groping in the void, indeed, sir, 'tis no wonder; I had a father, brother and servant ready to die for me three hearts to love and lean on; and to-day they are gone." I would have spoken, but she held up a hand. "Now, when you spoke of Anthony a dear lad! I lay for some time dazed with grief. By little and little, as the truth grew plainer, the pain grew also past bearing. I stood up and staggered into the woods to es cape it. I went fast and straight, heeding nothing, for at first my senses were all confused; but in a while tho walking cleared my wits, and I could think; and thinking, I could Weep; and having wept, could fortify my heart. Here is the upshot, sirthough 'tis held immodest for a maid to ask even far less of a manv We are both bound for Cornwall you on an honor able mission, I for my father's estate of ' Gleys, wherefrom (as your tale proves) some unseen hands are thrust ing me. Alike we carry our lives in our hands. You must go forward; I may not go back. For from a King who cannot right his own affairs there is little hope; and in Cornwall I have surer friends than he. Therefore, take me, sir take me for a comrade! Am I sad? Do you fear a weary jour ney? I will smile laugh sing put sorrow behind me. I will contrive a thousand ways' to cheat the mile stones. At the first hint of tears dis card me and go your way with no prick of conscience. Only try me oh, the shame of speaking thus!" Her voice had grown more rapid toward the close; and now, breaking off, she put both hands to cover her face that was hot with blushes. I went over and took them in mine. "You have made me the blithest man alive," said I. She drew back a pace with a fright ened look, and would have pulled her hands away. "Because," I went on quickly, "you have paid me this high compliment to trust me. Proud was I W listen to you; and merrily will the miles pass with you for comrade. And so f say Mistress Killigrew, take me for your servant." To my extreme discomposure, as I dropped her hands, her eyes were twinkling with laughter. "Dear now! I see a dull prospect ahead if we use these long titles!" "But " "Indeed, sir, please yourself. Only as I intendato call you 'Jack,' perhaps 'Delia' will be more of a piece than 'Mistress Killigrew..' " She dropped me a mock curtsey. "And now. Jack, be a good boy, and bitehTme this quilt across the hut. I bought it yesterday at a cottage below here " -v. She ended the sentence with the prettiest blush imaginable; and so, having fixed her screen, we shook hands on our comradeship and wished each other good night. CHAPTER VI. I Lose the King's Letter; Am Carried to Bristol, and Escape. Almost before daylight we were afoot, and the first ray of cold sun shine . found us stepping from tho woods into the plain, where now the snow was vanish'd and a glistening coat of rime spread over all things. On the far side of the valley wo entered a wood, thinking by this to shorten cv.v way, fcr the road here took a long bend to eastward. Now. at first this wood seemed of no con siderable size, but thickened ancl spread as we advanced. 'Twas only, however, after passing the ridge, and when daylight began to fail u , that I became alarmed. For the wood grew densor, with a tangle of paths cris erossing amid the undergrowth. And just then cam? the low mutter of can non shaking the earth. We began to run forward, tripping in the gloom over brambles and, stumbling into holes. For a mile cr so this lasted, and then, without warning, I heard a sound behind me, and looked back, to find Delia sunk upon the ground. "Jack, here's a to-do!" "What's amiss?" "Why, I am going to swoon!" The words were scarce out. when there sounded a crackling and snap ping of twigs ahead, and two figures came rushing toward us a man and a woman. The man carried an infant in his arms, and' though I called on them to stop, the pair ran by us with no more notice than if wc. tad been stones. Only the woman cried, "Dear Lord, save us!" and wrung her hands as she passed out of sight. "This is strange conduct.", thought I; but peering down saw that Delia's face was white and motionless. She had swooned indeed from weariness and hunger. So I took her in my arms and stumbled forward, hoping to flrA the end of the wood soon. For now the rattle of artillery came louder and incessant thiough the tree3 and ming ling with it a multitude of dull shouts and outcries. At first I was minded to run after the man and woman, but on second thought resolved to see the danger before hiding from it. The trees in a shore while grew sparser, and between the stems I marked a ru.ddy light glowing. Anci then t came out upon an open space upon the hillside, with n dip of earth inifroni and beyond a long ridge of pines standing up black because of a red glare behind them, and saw that this came, not from any settirg sun, but was the light of a conflagration. The glare danced and quivered in the sky as I crossed the hollow. It made even Delia's white cheek seem rosy. Up amid the pines I clambered and along the ridge to where it broke off In a steep declivity. And lo! in a minute I looked down, as 'twerer inLo the infernal pit. - (To be continued,) Making the Most of Dirt Beads. &ENRY P. MORRISON, momliov Am Krw fl " V. . H. ' ' 3J? says: The severest econ- public funds that can be practiced in any locality will never succeed in making the tax gath erer a welcome guest. This will be true because. to the mass he brings a burden and . a. difficult problem in finance. To a few his coming is re sented because they have no apparent interest m either the betterment or the decent maintenanc of their home local ity. Keeping these facts in mind it is not difficult to understand that the task of bettering the highway system of a State, county or town is no easy mat ter, and that it is one in which the ob stacles increase in proportion as the lo cality to be improved is removed from the centres of population and financial activity. Therefore the honest advo cate of good roads, who hopes to suc ceed, must point these facts to the farmer: that with care and intelligent treatment a large mileage of his home dirt road system can be made to an swer for years to come; that the only help the good roads people require of the farmer is that he stone, gravel or otherwise improve such mileage of his local highway system as cannot be suc cessfully maintained in its present shape; and that his State stands ready to-day- to aid him financially in the matter, or will in all probability be able to do so before the adjournment of its next legislative body. The highway system which accom plishes the greatest good is the system which is available for economical transportation at i.V seasons of the year. A highway system like the afore said is not infrequently the result of an expenditure which would render this same system an impossibility in many farming localities; yet these lo calities are to-day absolutely in need of better roads in order that their citizens may compete successfully. Localities are not wiped from the traveler's map because the roads which lead to them are not macadamized, but they are left out because the roads of dirt are improperly cared for. Through lack of expenditure in permanent road Improvement or intelligent mainten ance of existing dirt roads how many localities, directly in the line of profit able and frequent road traffic, are ab solutely cut off because bad roads di vert the travel! The citizens of the af flicted community not only lose the probable commercial value of this traffic, but win the enmity of the trav eler because their road conditions rob hira of the opportunity to make his journey in a direct and therefore eco nomical manner. Not infrequently investigation will show that the community which per mits the condition of its road system to stand as a barrier to its own pro gress, and an element of unnecessary expense to the traveler, simply main tains that position because its citizens honestly believe that they have not the financial ability to do otherwise. In all probability that community had estimates furnished as to the probable cost of improving its highways. These estimates, when received, disheartened the citizens of that community so that they have put aside the question of good' roads as being for them an unat tainable blessing. Whereas, had they fallen into the hands of a really expert road engineer, their money, no matter how small in amount, would have been invested in stoning the bad and direct ing the treatment of the fair mileage of their roads, and that community would to-day have been on the map of accessible localities. In the past the crime of it has been that engineers who had had no particular training for or experience in highway work were con sulted as to these improvements; the result was that they seemed to know but one specification for road improve ment, and that a specification which called for such an expenditure of money as rendered it impracticable in four out of every five communities. The necessities of our nation for bet ter roads, and the financial inability of many of our farming districts to build them, has forced and hastened, in the work of road improvement, the same severe economy in design and construc tion practiced in other branches of en gineering, ith the result that the road engineer of to-day js not limited to one specification, and possesses extended knowledge of the treatment of dirt roads, and so applies itas to render t&eru available until such time as the funds can be raised for their perma nent improvement. A decade ago the engineers who handled road improvement insisted on a uniform depth ef stone in a road im provement plan miles in length, and finding its foundation on a hundred and one different soil conditions. The road engineer of to-day would consider it quite as good practice to follow this practice as it would be for a bridge engineer to design a bridge truss with ill its members of the same dimen sions. But the present road engineer ing practice, so schooled as to take ad vantage of favorable foundation condi tions and reserve it3 heavier expendi tures for absolutely necessary loca tions, coupled with the knowledge which the road engineer possesses in the matter of bettering and maintain ing earth roads, will aid many locali ties permanently yet inexpensively to letter serious sections of their highway system and economically maintain the, The truth is that no matter to what proportions the good roads movement may grow the close of this century wilt still find a great mileage of highway 1 supporting vehicular traffic without a road carpet. It is therefore plain that the road engineer should not only be skilled in'designing a variety of road coverings, but he should be and is fast becoming a past master in the art of bettering disagreeable and dangerous existing conditions on the earth roads of the country. The old time super visor, maker and mender -of roads, has by no manner of means outlived his usefulness. There are hundreds of these men who cau give valuable infor mation concerning the maintainanceJ)f earth roads, being qualified for the task by long years of experience . and observation. The proper organization of a school for the training of toad engineers should include in its fanity men of extended experience in the handling of earth roads. Good Roads Magazine. j A Patriotic Keforin. " I believe that the gigantic task of bringing the highways of this country to the highest standard possible is a reform ' advocated in the interest; the direct personal interest of every man, Avoman and child in these United States, and that it constitutes a reform from existing conditions as unselfish and as patriotic as any movement un dertaken in the last quarter of a cen tury. Its full accomplishment through out the length and the breadth of this Nation would add immeasurably to the National wealth and prcmote the gen eral development more than any other one thing yet lacking in the Nation's equipment for the final struggle for world wide supremacy in the commer cial wars among the nations. That there is such a struggle coming on no one can doubt who gives intelligent study to the trend of the modern com mercial condition and circumstances. Governor Bliss, of Michigan. Adda to Prosperity. Nothing can add mere to the prosper ity of the State, nothing can serve to lift farm values so materially, nothing can bring summer tourists and resi dents to settle and beautify and enrich our valleys so much as permanent road building. I would not only urge the continu ance of the present State tax, but I would advise an increase of the same, and even more liberal treatment. And in this connection, and as a cor ollary, I would recommend that the State begin a system of elimination of grade crossings cf both steam and electric roads and the highways. . The laws of Massachusetts and New York furnish desirable methods. Pro ceed slowly, but make a beginning. Governor McCullough, of Vermont JAPAN'S ''HUMAN HORSES.' v The Power and Endurance of the Famed liicVshawmen. The feats of which the Japanese rickshawmen are capable are almost incredible. I remember some years ago of being driven ashore in a yacht in the Inland Sea during a typhoon. It was far beyond the treaty limits which then existed, and foreigners were not allowed to travel outside those limits without special passports. But the Mayor of the neaiest fishing village was kindness itself. He prom ised to supply the best rickshawmen which the neighborhood could produce, so as to take us to a railway station some forty miles away. And he kept his word, for the distance was covered in less than six hours, includinr a halt for refreshments. Each rickshaw was drawn by two men, tandem wise, the usual fashion when long distances have to be covered. The leaders in each went through the whole distance, while the wheelers, so Lo speak, were chausced half way. The road was over ine greater part of the distance little better than a mountain track, and it was rain ing most of the time, but there was never a break in our progress except to allow the coolies to take off or put on their clothes. They prefer running in nothing but a loincloth, and do so whenever they get safely beyond the eye of the police, who have orders strictly to administer the law again6t nudity. The fare paid for this prolonged journey was, if I remember rightly, about three shillings for each rickshaw, the extra shilling being a gratuity thrown in for good service. I know that it purchased so many blessings on my honorable head as cannot yet be quite exhausted. And having made our farewells at the railway station, the coolies started back at once for their own village. London Mail. WORDS OF WISDOM. Many consider a poor excuse better than none. Great blessings are often held wait ing for soma small obedience. . The JJible, in its wonderful and va ried imagei-y, is the reflection of all hu man experiences. J. S. David. He who waits for God is not mis spending his time. Such waiting is true living such tarrying is the truest speed. Joseph Parker. That action is not warrantable which either fears to ask the divine blessing on its performance, or, having succeed ed, does not come with thanksgiving to, God for itssuccess.-Quarles. Say all 'that you have to say In the fewest possible words,' or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or he will cer tainly misunderstand them. Ruskin. Quick is the succession of human events. The cares of to-day are seldom- the cares of to-morrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles: "Ye have done your worst, and we shall meet no more," Oowpef. Humor Oar Hired Girl. , We awake and call her ear'y . When the sun comes up in state- We awake and call her early, . - But she don't arise 'till late. Surely Not. - - ' She "There are microbes in tisses, fou know!" - He "Can you blame 'em?" Cleve land Leader. Irritating. . Mayme "What a gossip Mrs. Gadby is!" Edith "Yes, indeed. I never tell her anything without finding out that she has already told it herself." Philadel phia Bulletin. ' - ' " - Yonkers MatronSc Mrs. Bacon "Just think! My hus band has eight pairs of suspenders!" Mrs. Egbert "Does he always use the same nail, or does he use a differ ent nail for each pair" Xonkers Statesman. Just Curious. - Towser "What are you cnasing that squirrel for?" Tom Cat "I wasn't chasing him. 1 was just going to ask him where he gets his tail pressed and curled." Phil adelphia Bulletin. A Stayer. "Yes," said he, letting her out an other notch beyond the speed limit, "the automobile has come to stay." "You were right," said his guest a few hours later s they trudged wear ily into town. Houston Post. How It la. " Young "Wonder why it is they call the man who stands up with the bride groom the best man at a wedding?" Elder "It means that he is the best off; he's the one who isn't married you know." Boston Transcript. Safe. Mother (severely) "Were you out on the porch all alone with Archibald lasl night?" Norine (glibly) "Not all alone. Arch ibald was with me." New York Press. An Impossible Combination. "Why has Mr. Flipkins disappeared from society?" "Lost his money," answered Miss Cayenne. "It is impossible to be a lion in society and a lamb in Wall Street both at once." Washington Star. Or a Rabbit loot. "Have you ever been under fire?" asked the head of the firm of the appli cant for a position as watchman. "I used to go deer hunting every sea son." "You are engaged. You must bear 'a charmed life." Houston Post. Kb venae. Mr. Spooner "You play beautifully, Miss Dweller. I suppose you practice a great deal? Miss Dweller "I've been practicing all my spare time since that family with the four children moved in on the floor above." Brooklyn Life. Where His ThouchU Were. Briggs "What a fellow you are! 1 aon't Deneve you Tnougnt 01 your wiie once while you were away." Griggs "On the contrary, I couldn't get her out of my mind for a minute. I "was afraid she'd get on to the racket, don't you know." Boston Transcript. A Garbled Quotation. "Up in Vermont they have been using girls for trolley car conductors in the interest of some worthy charity." "I s'pose Tennyson had 'em in mind when he wrote that famous line." "WTiatline?" " 'Ring up, wild belles.' "Cleveland Plain Dealer. JV The Reminder. "Blank is one of the slipperiest fel lows I've ever known, and yet there's one peculiarily good quality about him he always keeps his word. I wonder why?" "Because he had a severe lesson. He broke his promise once, and it cost him $50,000." Detroit Free Press. . lioneltudinal Limitation. "Can I put this dog in the baggage car?" asked the tall, angular matron on the station platform. "Yes, ma'am," answered the con ductor, glancing at the daschund and turning the animal over to the brake man. "But we'll have to double him up. There's only one bagage'ear In this train. All aboard!" Chicago Trib une, i j Fixing It, Tess "They say if you walk down stairs backward with a lighted candle in your hand the first man you meet will be the one you marry. I'm going to try that on Hallowe'en." Jess "So am I; it must be done on the stroke of 8." - , Tess "Oh! You don't have to do it. at any particular hour." Jess "Yes, I do. I told Jack Han gom to call promptly at 8." Philadel phia Press, - POPULAR SCIENCE Palestine is a land of flowers. Bot anists tell us that there are 2500 dif ferent kinds. ' ' The eastern sun gives the colors , a brightness they , seldom have in our hazy clime. The wild flow ers are , somewhat localized, so that acres, and indeed milestake their hue from a single flower. Diamond cutting up to a recent time was nearly all done abroad, Holland being the chief centre of the industry for some centuries, but of late a good deal of it has come over to America',' where electrical machines are used in the work to great advantage . in all ways. European work has always been done by hand, as it still is, and the lapidaries there are only Just waking up to the knowledge that artificial power can be applied. Besides cutting real gems, the machinery employed here turns out great quantities of ar tificial ones, which now rule the mar kets of the world. Weather forecasters in the British Isles have worked at disadvantage. The disturbances largely approach from the west and southwest, and in those directions the Atlantic has kept the observing stations too far away fox effective reports. The aid of wireless telegraphy is now being invoked. Ef forts of the Meteorological Council to make arrangements with Lloyd's have failed, but private enterprise has now stepped in and the approach of future storms is to be signalled from ships crossing the ocean. It is expected that in winter, when the western coasts of Europe are often swept by severe gales, the warnings will be of great value. . , . " ; -. I.-, . When we read of the men who in habited the caves of Europe at a. time when mammoths dwelt on that con tinent, we seem to have gone back to a period so immeasurably remote that, we can hardly picture in the mind's eye the appearance which the ; repre sentatives of our race then presented. Yet, according to Professor E. B. Ty lor, the natives of Tasmania "remained within the present century representa tives of the immensely ancient Paleo lithic period," Recent studies of th relics of the Tasmanians, who becamo extinct when brought into touch with modern civilized man, show that. tho workmanship of their rude implements was below that exhibited by the "drift ' and Cave men" of Paleolithic times. The Smithsonian Institution has pub lished a new edition of Dr. Langley's "Experiments in Aerodynomics," first printed eleven years ago. In summing up Dr. Langley speaks of the prospects for the future somewhat as. follows: Since that time, he says, he has demon strated that mechanical flight is pos sible by actually performing it with steel flying machines nearly one thou sand times heavier than air, driven by steam. These machines weighed from thirty to forty pounds, and flew from one-half to three-quarters of a mile at speeds varying from twenty to thirty miles an hour. It is believed by Dr. Langley that the time Is now very near when human beings will be transport ed at high velocities, though perhaps at first under exceptional conditions, such as are demanded In the arts of... war rather than of peace. . -: - ; . Dignity and Influence.'' The influence of the editorial depends bpon the character of the journal in which it appears, maintainsFourth Estate. . . If the newspaper notoriously lacks -sobriety of judgment, decency and sex riousness of purpose, its editorials are necessarily inconsequential, trivial, silly and of no interest to intelligent persons. The opinions of a mountebank, who stands upon his head and twiddles his toes by way of exordium and to attract attention, are not listened to with re spect, and it is not to be wondered at that in time he should come to the con clusion that the people do not want opinions, and that toe twiddling is the only thing really worth while. In journalism, as in the law, politics, theology, science and philosophy, the value and weight of opinion, are in exact proportion to the character and reputation of him who pronounces 4t. If the readers, of a newspaper have confidence in its sincerity, serious ness, ability and fidelity to what it be lieves to be the public interest, they do much more than glance at its ed itorials, and that newspaper exerts a very marked influence upon the thought of the community in which it Is pub lished, and Is recognized abroad as a reliable exponent of intelligent public opinion. ' ! , Tt Kichei in Corn. . The greatest hoard of 'the yellow metal ever gathered " in . any country could not buy one year's harvest of the American corn and wheat. To. buy one season's corn crop would .take all the gold minted in this country in six years. In the last seven years all the gold mines have -1 produced only enough to buy one year's yield of our sis leading cerealsl Cooks Are Jfecewary. A Pittsburg educator tell us cooks are paid more than teachers. Oh, well, one must eat, while, on the other hand, at a pinch a man can make his mark to a contract involving millions. N. Y. Telegram. ' One Mftn Split. A bench of seven magistrates at Walsall, England, announced that they were "equally divided" in opinioo of 1 case, and that no decision would be given, Z u? i 4 v I: " 1 ! f f ' 1 r r! i! it, U!5
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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March 9, 1905, edition 1
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