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VOL. XXKIII. PITTSBQRQ, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. :C, THURSDAY, AUGUS llMiV NO 3.
LUKE HAMMOND,
THE MISER..
jlll.WI
By Prof. Wm. Henry Peck,
Author of the "TR Stone-Cutter
of Lisbon, Etc.
CHAPTER XVII. i
Continued. j
What is the matter, Fan?"
"There! there! on the floqr! In let
ters of blood red blood! you see a
name' cried Fan, trembling and
shrinking.
"I see nothing, save a coin. I sup
pose I dropped it," said Hammond,
stooping and picking it up.
-And you, Mrs. Harker!" said Fan,
fearfullj agitated. "You see a name
in blood? a name "
"I see nothing, Fan," said Nancy.
-Then it is meant for me! for me!"
shrieked Fan, tossing up her arms.
"A name a phantom name! a "warn
ing another "warning from the grave
Nicholas Dunn! He "was my husband!"
And falling upon her face she
swooned with terror.
Luke and Nancy stared at each other
in mutual consternation, '
The truth was out, plain and firm!
Old Fan was Ellen Elizabeth Dunn,
and they were her children.
"If she would but die now," said
Luke, pale and remorseless.
" 'Twere well if she did," said Nancy.
But neither of them raised the miser
able old creature, whose ghastly and
wrinkled face rested so still upon the
name of their father!
Hammond gazed upon her. in stern
silence for a moment, and then turned
to speak to Henry Elgin.
Henry Elgin was as before, but Kate
Elgin was gone! Hammond stared
thunderstruck. ,
"Tremble dog!" shouted Elgin. "Her
delirium was feigned! God grant she
may escape!" and springing from his
bed with sudden strength he shut the
door of the ante-chamber near the hall
and locked it with the key then in the
lock.
.uuke, springing to a bell-cord and
jerking it violently, cried: "We are out
witted again by that girl!" Then into
the speaking tube he roared: "Daniel
rouse the dogs! Both prisoners are
loose!"
Then rushing at the locked door, he
Iegan to spring against it furiously,
wni.o he filled the roorj with cries of
rag ; -
-!
CHAPTER XVIII.
VILLAINY TRIUMPHS AGAIN. -
Daniel was prowling about the little
library, with writing materials in his
hand, when the ringing of the bell over
the desk attracted his ear to the speak
lug-tube. "
The words that were bellowed frcu
the white and gold chamber "Daniel!
Rouse the dogs! Both the prisoners
are loose!" caused him to dash down
ink, pen and paper, and dart 'into the
eastern wing like mad.
oinething in while llitted by him
and he grasped at it, gaining a hand
ful of muslin, and a sharp blow in the
face for his activity.
The blow Kate for it was she Cc
livered at random, blinded him for an
instant, and in the next second the
was lost in the darkness.
fehe will make for the front," said
Daniel, "but I know how to get there
before her."
H? sped along the hall, down a flight
of steps, taking them from top to bot
torn at a leap, then rushed through an
other hall and into a room," damp and
dark, but familiar to him. Then he
lifted a trap and hurried down a steep
ladder into a cellar. He knew every
inch of the way; blindfolded he would
have known it. Counting his steps as
he sped on he reached nnnthpr lnrlrlpv
and his foot was on the first round
"When a strange noise startled his ear.
I "What's that?" he said pausing.
! A smothered pounding, far down it
seemed in the earth beloAv him!
His hair rose on end, the eweat
started in icy drops from every pore.
"It is the evil one working his way
up after Luke Hammond or me! or
me!" he shouted, and bounded up the
ladder till his round bullet head butted
Painfully against a trap above. He
raised the trap and leaped into the
main house. Then rushing through a
basement apartment he ascended from
the kitchen to the dining room. On,
"with fearful leaps, he sped and jerked
open a window.
"Tiger! Leo! catch him! Ha! St
boy! Catch 'em, dogs!" he shouted.
In a second the fierce baying and sav
age growls of two monstrous dogs told
him that he was heard. He gazed
forth for a moment, seeing the dim
forms of the ferocious beasts darting
here and there amid the darkness and
then hurried to the rear of the house.
"Paid! Rush! At them, my boys!"
he shouted, as he opened another win
dow and thrust his head forth. "
Again fierce baying and growls and
dim shadows leaping about.
"Try their teeth, my dainty girl,"
said Daniel, closing the window and
rushing to a cupboard, where he
lighted a lantern.
"Now to run down the hare," said
he, prowling about the house, grasping
a bludgeon as if expecting to meet, not
a hai-Q, a timid, trembling hare, but a
wolf or a panther."
And Kate! Poor girl, after her so
far successful ruse to escape from her
prison she had fled she knew not
hither till seized, by Daniel in the
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hall. Escaping his brutal clutch on
she sped, trying every window as her
outstretched arms swept along the
walls. She stumbled over something,
stooped and picked it up. It was the
same hatchet her father had lately
held cast aside the night before by
Hammond. Its possession nerved her
arm to strike, and finding a window
she dashed out the glass, shattered the
sash, and was cutting through the
shutters when she heard the wrathful
shout of Daniel and the clamor of the
savage dogs.
"Oh, cruel fate; What shall I do?"
she cried in woeful despair, but hack
ing away for dear life at the stubborn
wood. - ;
Daniel, returning to the eastern
wing heard the sound of crashing shut
ters, and bounded toward the spot,
with lantern advanced in one hand and
his bludgeon in the other.-
"Ruffian! would you strike a wom
an?" cried Kate.
"Aye!" he roared, leaping forward
and sweeping around his club. But his
foot slipped as he sprung and he fell
headlong at Kate's feet.
Grasping club and lantern he was
about to rise, and a bitter curse was on
his lips when Kate cried out: "May
God forgive me!" and struck him full
upon his bare head with the blunt of
the hatchet, letting fall the weapon as
she struck, He groaned, fell forward
upon his face and lay fearfully still.
Kate stared at him for a moment as
if appalled at her act, and then snatch
ing up the lantern fled along the hall,
hoping to find some entrance into the
main house, and thence to effect an es
cape or alarm. But all the doors were
barred and nailed up. Again she tra
versed the deserted halls and found
herself in Hammond's library. Here
the door leading into the main house
was locked and the key gone. While
she searched for something with which
to shatter the bolt she heard a crash
and yell in the eastern wing.
Luke had broken his way out of the
ante-room by furious springs against
the door! Kate's despairing eye fell
upon the strong, heavy steel poker
near the grate. She seized it and
showered rapid blows upon the lock,
It bent, it yielded, the door flew open
wide, and Kate darted away just as
Luke sprang through the closet pas
sage into the library.
"Stop!" he jelled. But Kate fled on,
and was descending the main staircase
when her foot tripped on a loose stair
rod and she fell headlong to the bot
tom, sorely bruised and half stunned.
As cue struggled to rise toe sinewy
arms of Luke encircled her shrinkin
limbs'
"Caught again!" he laughed, as he
tore off his cravat and bound her
wrists.
Kate rose to her feet, half dead with
fear and exhaustion, but made no fur
ther effort to escape.
"Ha! What device will you next at
tempt?" said Hammond, as he picked
up the lantern lying near her and led
her to his library.
"Whatever God shall give me wit and
strength to do, monster," was her un
daunted reply. ,
"You are cunning very cunning,"
said Luke, retaining his grasp upon
her with one hand and searching in a
drawer with the other.
"I am sorry to do it, Catharine El
gin," said he, as he produced a pair of
handcuffs, "but my safety demands
that you shall wear a pair of iron
bracelets for a few hours."
Kate made no struggle as he slipped
the handcuffs over her tender wrists
and snapped them fast with a tiny key.
As this degradation was completed
Daniel made his appearance witn a
bloody crown and an inflamed visage.
"Good,'said he, as he saw the hand
cuffs "That should have been done
yesterday. She is tra tricky as a colt
Luck was with me, for .if it had been
the edge, and not the blunt, of the
hatchet that struck me I'm blowed if
there hadn't been a murder."
"It is not murder to kill brutes who
assail us," said Kate.
"Sinall difference to me what name
you'd a-given it, Miss," said Daniel,
grinning. "I wouldn't have struck ye
I only meant to scare ye, Miss."
"No matter," said Hammond. "Dan
iel, go place Elgin on his bed, and roll
it back into the crimson chamber.
When I crashed my way out I found
him lying senseless in the hall. He
had fainted."
Daniel hurried on his errand, and
Hammond led poor Kate back to her
prison, where she found Daniel rolling
'array the bed. "My poor, dear father!"
said Kate, sobbing for the first time.
Henry Elgin opened his eyes at the
sound of her voice and as he saw her
he said:
"Take heart, my child. God is just
and the right will prevail."
"Away with him!" said Hammond,
and then led Kate to her chair.
Nancy had in the meantime erased
the name she had written on the floor.
pulling old Fan aside to do it, and
when Fan came to her senses, though
her first glance was toward the spot
no trace of the name remained.
"It Is gone!" said Fan, "but I know
I saw it!" and at that instant Ham
moM led Kate Elgin to her chajr,
"Yes, Fan," began Kate, for she had
overheard every word that had passed
between Hammond, and Nancy while
she feigned delirium.
But as Kate began to speak the
watchful Hammond sprang upon Fan,
and seizing her by the shoulders
swung her headlong forth into the
hall. '
"Awayi to you bed, old hag!" said
he. "But for you this troble had not
happened."'
Fan gathered herself slowly and tot
tered away, while Luke returned td
Kate.
Monster!" said Kate. "She is your ,
mother!"
"I deny it! All my life I will deny
it," said Luke.
Miserable liar!' replied Kate, With i
a scorn that made him quail. "I heard .
every word you and your sister there .
spoke. Your father's name was Nicho j
las DUhh, and I thank the great God
of heaven that you are not my uncle!'
You know too much for your own
good, Catharine Elgin," said he stern
ly. "I am not your uncle know it,
since you believe it. But tremble to '
think that, as I am riot your uncle, I
may become your husband!"
With this terrible threat more errU
ble to Kate Elgin than all he had ever
said or done he strode away.
Mercy on me! what can that man
mean!" exclaimed Kate.
''I'll tell you what he means, Miss,"
said Nancy, with a triumphant leer of
fiendish malice. "Luke Hammond .has
a son, hut that son may refuse to
marry you, and then Luke will marry
you himself."
May I die ten thousand deaths rath
er!" exclaimed Kate.
Bah! you may wish and want,"
sheered Nancy, "but Luke always has
his way in the end. Your pride will
be all shame if you resist much longer."
"Such villainy is dreadful to imagine
terrible to know," said Kate, aston
ished at the calmness of the evil wom
an near her.
"Yes, you were proud, Catharine El
gin, said JNancy, and your -eyes
flashed your lips curled when I used
to speak to you. But, let me tell you
my blood is as rich as yours."
"Blood!" said Kate, scornfully. "In
this country blood is as rich and red in
the poor man's veins as in the million
aire's! I know now you are not of us
by blood or birth. Nor was it pride
that made me despise you, Nancy Har-;
ker, but hate of the evil I saw encom- cur within forty-six hours of a change
passing you as a garment. You are j in the moon, even if there were no cas
well worthy to be Luke Hammond's j al connection whatever. Now, it re
sister Luke Hammond, indeed! He ' Quires only a very slight predisposition
has no right to the name! He is an n favor of a belief in the effectiveness
imposter! And be sure that" time will j of the moon's changes to make one for
discover his villainy and yours, ' Set a'few of the changes that occur too
wretched woman!" I far from the proper time. Coincidence
"Don't taunt me,. Catharine Elgin! enough can easily be found to justify
You may revile Luke, but you shan't
revile Nancy Harker! I'll tear your
proud eyes out of your head for you,
you minx!" screamed Nancy, opening
and shutting her long, lean fingers and
distorting her evil face with rage.
"I verily believe you would, Nancy
Harker," said Kate, quietly, and not
shrinking a hair's breadth, "being his
sister what better could you be than a
she wolf!"
Nancy swelled with venom, and
would have rejoiced to dig her sharp 1
nails in that beautiful and scornful
face, but the bell near the door tinkled
r tivin '
and she hurried to the speaking tube.
"It is near morning; you had better
try to sleep," were the words that
came to her ear. '
Nancy replied: '
"I will tell Daniel to bring a bed into
the ante-room and I will sleep there."
"How is the prisoner?" asked Luke,
in his den above.
"Stiff-necked as ever," said Nancy.
"Be wary; she is plotting," said the
tube, and Nancy left the room to se?k i
Daniel, but did not fail to lock the door
after her.
When she returned Kate was asleep
in the chair, for fatigue and excitement
had overpowered her.
"You are handsome-handsome as a
May morning," thought Nancy, gazing -
upon the unfortunate, brave-hearted
girl. "I was once as handsome as you
and you II fade na: tade hetore
fade ha! fade before
Luke tames yon."
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girl she locked the door and lay down
upon the bed Daniel had brought, into
the anteroom. .,' .
In the crimson chamber Heni'y Elgin
once more slept."
In the hall Daniel paced to and fro.
In her den near the kitchen old Fan
shivered and moaned, dreaming of the
dead. .
Far down among the foundations of
the house James Greene labored and
hoped. And in the little library slept
Luke Hammond in his chair, with his
cocked pistols on the table before him.
CHAPTER XIX. -
HAMMOND ABOVE, GREENE BELOW.
At 10 o'clock on the night following
the events of the last chapter Ham
mond was seated in his library, won
dering where the lost will could be,
and thinking that he would in the end
be forced to fire the house to destroy,
it, when Nancy entered from the east
ern wing. -
"Well, Nancy," said Luke, '-how gees
all in our jails?"
He laughed as he spoke, for he
thought it a droll conceit, and rubbed
his hands briskly as if ia excellent
spirits.
"Much better with the prisoners than
with the turnkeys," said Nancy, sitting
down wearily. "Daniel is nearly worn
out, for he says he cannot sleep for
fear one of the prisoners may escape,
and so make" him a gollow's bird.
And as for me I wish this thing were j
over, Luke..- Catharine Elgin shows no
sign of yielding.'
"She'll yield in time, never fear. And
how Is Fan?" -
"She sits in the kitchen. riDan;;); nnl
mutteying."
To T?e '.onUauea.
THE PROBLEM OF SEASONAL FORECASTS.
FACTS WHICH DISCREDIT ASTROLOGERS AND PROPHETS
WHO PRETEND TO FORETELL THE WEATHER,
it 4f
:-
f ?
t it -i
lQJ4m. HE infinite desirability Of
v foreknowing the Seasons
S . 'men is at once the oppor
T5" tunity of charlatans and
the justification of national weather
services. It avails little to decry the
methods of impostors or to brand -them
as fakirs; the Court Of final resort roust
always be a comparison o results, and
such comparison every onecan now
make for himself. Weather- maps
showing the actual conditions on every
day are now published by practically
every civilized nation, and are accessi
ble to all, and ail that is needed to cure
the most implicit belief - in almanac
predictions is an honest Comparison of
these predictions for a single Season
with the actual occurrences as shown
by these maps. Conspicuous instances
of failure, such as those Of the artifi
cial rain makers, who a decade ago
were given the fullest opportunity to
test and exp'oit their theories, or the
colorless results of the extensive cam
paign of bombardment as a protection
against hail, which has been conducted
for several years in Southern Europe,
do not convince the credulous. They
do serve, however, to illustrate the
"confusion of tongues" among the pro
phets of these latter days, who bom
bard the skies to precipitate storms
and bombard the clouds to dissipate
tuem. Government meteorologists are
not alone in the denunciation of the
fallacies, absurdities and pernicious ef
forts of so-called long-range forecasts.
Professor Young, probably the fore
most American astronomer, speaking
of lunar influences, points out that the
frequency of the moon's changes is so
great that it is always easy to find in
stances by which to verify a belief that
changes of the moon control conditions
on the earth. A change of the moon
necessarily occurs about once a week.
All changes of the weather must, there
fore, occur within three and three
fourths days of a change of the moon,
and one-half of all changes ought to oc-
pre-existent oeiier.
Unquestionably there is a general de-
sire for an extension of the range of
forecasts to cover the near future, and,
if possible, the coming season. If some
explorer in meteorology and astronomy
should discover some fundamental law,
nitherto unknown, whereby he could
accurately calculate the time of arri
val, the force and pathway of storms
for weeks and months in advance, and
could warn the people of future floods
or droughts in defined localities, he
vvould at once take rank as the great-
est scientist of the world. And then if
he would reveal the secret of his dis
covery for the benefit of future gener
ations, he would be honored as the
greatest of philanthropists as well as
the wisest of mankind. But, alas, up
to date this man has not arrived.
Some of the ablest scientists of this
country .and Europe have devoted
much time and labor to the study of
this problem. They have consulted
weather records of all countries, tak-
. ing notes of the dates of heavy storms
and making comparison with the posi-
tion of the moon and planets, to deter
I mine if there is any discoverable con
nection between the movement or
mose boaies aM the sweep of
ctnm e(1(11ia h Atmosnhere.
. The consensus of opinion has been that
i th , foundation cf fact or phi-
; losopny for tnat system of long-range
( forecasts. So thus far there has been
, ntlre faimre to establish a scien-
tific and practical basis for any kind
of trustworthy predictions as to the oc
currence of storms, floods or droughts
in snecified localities and at certain
dates in future months or ssssons,
Though, such foreknowledge is very
desirable, yet at the present stage of
human progress it is beyond the possi
bility of realization. In this field of
scientific research the wisest students
have beeu most deeply sensible of the
limitations of human knowledge, but
charlatans and pretenders claim to hold
a kpv to mysteries in earth and the
heavens that are hidden to the balance
cf mankind. Quackery in meteorology,
-s well as in medicine, is indicated by
the extravagant pretentions of its prac
titioners.
Modern astrologers, following closely
the lines of their ancient prototypes,
give the sun a minor or passive role,
while the moon and planets -form an
all-star aggregation in the ever-shift
ing scenes of the earth s drama. To
each planet is assigned some specialty
act on the stage, each producing a du
ferent type of weather, and when the
three -act in conjunction the complex
results are startling. ,
Really, it is difficult to treat such Iu
dicrous matter with becoming dignity
and seriousness. A certain almanac's
description of "Each planet's peculiar
phenomena" is absolutely irresistible
as a mirth provoker to any reader who
possesses a sense of the ridiculous and
some elementary knowledge of meteor
ology and astronomy. One is impressed
by the evident earnestness or tne au
thor, and yet it seems that he must be
too diligent to believe in his absurdly
fantastic theories. They are no more
believable than the myths and legends
of the ancients. It is inconceivable
that a learned astronomer and meteor
plogist actually tielieyes that the sun
1 i
It it it it it
is passive except When it is "per
turbed" by some planet's equinox; that
mists and 'Vapors are injected and in
fused into the sun by Mercury's per
turbation, and then thrown Out by so
lar energy td form mists and sleet on
the earth, find that during the so-called
"Jupiter period" the carrying capacity
of the earth's atmosphere becomes dis
ordered and Weakened, so that it cau
not transport and diffuse humidity.
thereby causing consuming droughts in
places and destructive cloudbursts in
other localities. One who actually be
lieves that kind of absurdity is really
beyond, the reach of influence by evi
dence arid argument. The bare state
ment of such propositions is a sufficient
refutation.
Students in the primary class In me
teorology learn that the ever-changing
phenomena of the weather are all ref
erable to the action of the sun. upon
the earth and ite atmosphere, vapors
and gases; that the constantly radiated
energy of the sun supports heat, light
and electric force in the solar system.
The planets possess no form of inde
pendent energy whereby they may
"perturb" the sun and increase its po
tency.
The libraries of the United States
WTeather Bureau contain the substance
and much of the detail of all that is
known of weather wisdom, ancient and
modem, and the scientists of this bu
reau certainly are familiar with the es
sence of this knowledge. Those who
are in a position to know are well
aware that every possible effort is be
ing made to extend our knowledge of
the laws that control weather condi
tions, and meanwhile to give to those
who are vitally concerned the most
trustworthy information obtainable. It
is a matter of common experience that
the notable success of some commer
cial article of merit is sure to flood the
market with, spurious goods of the
same class, which unscrupulous vend?
ors spread before the indiscriminating
public. The rapid strides of the Uni
ted States WTeather Bureau in recent
years toward popular favor through
the widespread dissemination of the
forecasts a service made possible
larger by the phenoiAenal spread -of
the telephone and the development of
the rural delivery service has appar
ently given a new impetus to unsci
entific, not to say unscrupulous, fore
casts, based upon some theory of cy
cles or of planetary control. And the
Chief of the Weather Bureau is be
lieved to be not only justified, but
morally enjoined to counteract as far
as possible the mischievous effects of
the work of astrologer wrho pretend
to foretell tfee character of coming
seasons or the progress of storms and
ordinary weather conditions for a
month, or a year in advance, and whose
unfounded and unreliable forecasts are
too often given undue circulation by
the less careful publishers.
The problem of seasonal forecasts is
receiving at tne nanas or tne aoiest
and most painstaking students of both
continents a comprehensive considera
tion that is certain to be fruitful and
far-reaching in its ultimate results.
So important and so pressing is the
work and so promising is the field that
the Chief of the Weather Bureau , is
building and equipping a large observa
tory, wherein the best talent available
will soon be employed to study the in
tricate and profound problems of the
atmosphere, whose solution promises
improvement over - present methods
and results in forecasting and may lead
in time to seasonal predictions on a
truly scientific basis.
Why Women Work. "
There is always a good deal of talk
as to why some women prefer to earn
their own living rather than marry.
The wherefore might be discussed till
all of the disputants reached the chlor
oform age and not get all the right
answers; but one reason of it is thaj
some married women have a habit of
talking. And in these little monologues
about their husbands they sometimes
turn the limelight on a few hard facts.
One of them is that there are some
men very often good men,, too who
provide their wives with enough to eat
and wear, but never allow them the
handling of a single cent of money.
One man, for Instance, gives his wife
?3 for shoes, but insists upon going
with her to she that she spends all of
it for that and doesn't buy a pair at a
bargain and save a little for a matinee
that she couldn't see if she didn't
scheme for the nrice of the ticket. De
troit Free Press.
Tvrere Better So.
Stewart Edward White, the author.
lost some money recently through the
failure of a trust company.
In Santa Barbara one day he was in
troduced to an interesting young man
from New York. '
"Wrhat does that young man do?"
Mr. White asked on the-stranger's de
parture.
"He is attached to the Commercial
Bank," was the reply.,'
"Ah," said Mr. White, "so they at
tach them now. do they? Its not a
bad idea." Cincinnati Inquirer.
A Worthy Cliarity.
A certain English actor, whose debts
had made him an object of interest
to various bailiffs, met a friend
one day who astd him if he could
spare ten shillings toward a fund with
which to bury a bailiff who had just
died.
"By all means," replied the actor:
"here's twenty shillings bury two."r
Harper's Weekly,
REPLY; ,
IIow Peace
Was Restored
hy a filer
Jest.
Judge Emory Speer, who preside
over the United States Circuit and Dis
trict Courts for the Southern District
of Georgia, and whose decisions in
peonage cases have recently attracted
Wide attention throughout the country,
is the possessor of a nimble and facile
wit. In earlier days, before he had at
tained the ermine, Judge Speer was' a
politician and a power on the stump.
Shortly after reconstruction he ran
against Allen D. Chandler for Con
gress. Speer was a Republican, and
his politics sufficed to bring him un
popularity among a large majority of
the white population. It was his wit,
his good humor and his unfailing cour
age that carried him through the cam
paign without a serious difference, and
finally brought him to victory.
On one occasion, when the young can
didate was addressing a very democra
tic and hostile audience, a brawny
countryman was observed fighting his
way through the crowd to the speak
er's rostrum. It was evident that he
had spent the preceding night ".with
John Barleycorn, for his clothes were
rumpled, his hair dishevelled and his
face of a fiery red that rivalled the
noonday- sun in brilliancy. Shaking a
belligerent fist under the nose of the
orator he exclaimed:
"Sir, you are a demagogue!"
The crowd howled, but Speer was
not disturbed. He waited for the noise
to subside and then, with a smile and
in a tone of entire good humor, re
joined: "And you, sir, if j-ou would, wrap a
few wisps of straw about you, would
be a demijohn."
The, delighted audience roared with
appreciative laughter, and the discom
fited patriot slunk away. It is said
that in no voting precinct of-the dis
trict was Speers' majority larger than
that in which ' this happy i-etort was
made. Saturday Evening Post.
WORP3 OF WISDOM.
No man is a failure who has over
come himself.
Manhood is always marred by being
ever on the make.
There are none so hard on the poor
as the poor themselves.
. Good ideas, like good pictures, are
all the better aptly framed.
That happiness is the best which we
have done our best to deserve.
The man who serves his conscience
well is always sure of his reward.
Man may not evade the laws of Na
ture, and if he is wise he will not
break them.
We always like those who admire
us, but we do not always ime tuose
whom we admire. Rochefoncauld.
Don't let the madness of fault-finding
enter into you. It is the most de
structive thing on earth. Toledo
Blade.
Inequality of opportunities breeds
Inequality among men. Democracy
can not live where special privileges
exist."
Cultivate Cheerl ulaef.
There is nothing which so complete
ly swreetens existence, or so effectively
eases the jolts on the road of life, as
the sunny, hopeful, optimistic disposi
tion. '
Cheerfulness lubricates the mind; it
is the oil of gladness which eases fric
tion, mitigates worries and anxieties.
The life machinery of a cheerful man
does not grind away so rapidly as he
whose moods and temper rust and
wear the frame away. When your
mind is self-poised and serene, every
faculty and every function of your
body fall into line and work normally.
There is equilibrium and health every
where in the body.
The work done by . a man with a
calm, balanced mind has a vigor and
naturalness about it, which are not
found In that turned out by the one
sided, morose man with a mind out of
balance.
Cheerfulness does half your work
for you, simply because it makes you
look on the smoothest side of things,
and because it urges you to do your
best. v
Serenity does not live with the guil
ty, but dwells only with a clear con
science; you never find it apart from
honesty and square dealing, or with
tne idle or vicious. A sunny man at
tracts business success, everybody
likes to deal with agreeable, cheerful
people. r
We instinctively shrink from a
crabbed, cross, contemptible character,
no matter how able he may be.
We would rather do a little less busi
ness, or pay a little more for our goods,
and deal with an amiable and cheerful
man.
One Way to Avoid Wrinkles.
- Four-year-old Alice had been to visit
a very aged lady, whose face was bad
ly wrinkled. On returning home she
climbed into her aunt's lap, and, look
ing at her intently, queried:
'"What makes Grandma Barker's
face all wrinkled?"
. "Because she is very old, dearie,"
was the reply.
"Will your nice smoove face be like
her'g when you get to be old, auntie?"
asked the child, soberly.
"Yes, darling," said the aunt, sigh
ing in anticipation of her lost charms.
"Oh, well, auntie, don't feel bad!"
exclaimed the child. "Maybe you'll
die pitty quick!" New York Press.
A True Hero.
The superintendent was giving the
children a little talk on "True Hero
ism." "Boys," he said, "what would
you call a young man who did his duty
well and bravely, without flinching, ex
pecting no great credit for it, and con
tent to let others win the applause of
the multitude?" "A baseball catcher!"
shouted all the boys, - Cleveland.
Leader,
THE JUDGE'S
Ot Interest to Manufacturers. , .
ERHAPS no class of people,
the farmer not excepted,
has a greater interest .in
highway improvement than'
those engaged in industrial
m
P
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enterprise. If the common roaas 01
the country were brought to a condition
that would enable farmers to market
their products at all seasons of the
year, the cost of living in town and
city would be greatly lessened, and
discontent among laboring people and
operatives in industrial concerns would
largely decrease if it did not entirely
disappear. Why and how? Present
road conditions compel farmers to rush '
their products to market as soon as
harvested, when the roads are at their
best, as by waiting a convenient time
they may not get there at all. If one
farmer must 'do this, his neighbors
must do likewise. This naturally con
gests the market, forcing low prices to
the great detriment of the producer and
without benefit to the consumer, be
cause the average family in town or
city buys only in small quantity at
one time, say a day's or a week's sup
ply. What is the result? Th? specu
lator, finding prices low and knowing
that in a little while the bad roads sea
son will be on when competing prod
ucts will Le kept away from trade
centres, buys up the surplus and stores
it away for the day which he knows
is surely coming when he can demand
and receive his own price tor his hold
ings the stuff for which men toil;
which they are compelled to have. And
when the citizen in town, the mechanic
and operative of the shops and factor
ies, is forced in winter and spring to
pay exorbitant prices for those articles
cf household necessity which went
begging for buyers at low prices the
preceding fall, he figures the increased
cost of living in comparison and grows
restless and discontented and is easily
led into strikes and other labor disturb
ances. Wo all know what usually
follows. This, of course, is not all that
enters into strike causes, but it con
tributes a full share. It ought to be
perfectly plain to American manufac
turers that the continuous, orderly op
eration of industrial business depends
on measurably contented operatives;
that men are never contented when the
cost of living is above their earning
capacity; and that prices cf food stuffs
from the farm would be always at a
decent living level to all concerned if
we had systematically improved high-waj-s
over which farmers could travel
to market any day in the year. These
farmers would-realize better prices for
their products than they do and still
be able to sell to all classes of consum
ers at lower prices than Is forced by
speculators in the bad-roads season.
If this position Is sound, then the duty
of manufacturers seems to be to lend
their every influence to the support of
the Brownlow-L,atimer bills which seek
to bring about systematic and scientific
highway con?tructi"n end improvement
in co-operation with the States. It is
no less in their own interest than, that
of the farmers', who are their best
patrons after all. And it is no less the
interest of all consumers of farm prod
ucts in every town and city In the
United States, and of every railroad
and other corporation employing labor
of airy kind, and of every railroad and
building contractor and others having
men in their employ.
We are advised that Hon. W. P.
r.rownlow,. moraber of Congress from
Teunoese?, is deslroua of hearing from
.manufacturers on this question, and
will appreciate any expression of views
thereon that may be sent to him. at
Washinslon. ,
- Cost of Bail Roads.
Cel. .7. Killebrew, in the Southern
Farm Magazine of Baltimore, says:
No portion of the South can afford to
pay such' extortionate rates as are now
paid to get produce to market. This
cannot be less than 25 cents per ton
mile, noMo mention the wear and tear
of wagons and teams and the loss of
time on the roads. One two-horse
wagon on a good macadam l'oad should
be able to convey in one load ten
bales of cotton to market or two hogs
heads of tobacco. A good load with
snc-h a conveyance over the miserable
roat's of tlie South is two bales of cot
ton and one very light hogshead of to
bacco, attended, then, with frequent
miring of both wagon and team. Pub
lic spirit needs to be aroused to this
pitiable condition of the great majority
of . tha highways of the South. No
money can be expended for public Im
provements which will bring more
comfort and happiness to a greater
jiii.mber of people. . No money expend
ed in building good highways ever
causes regret after the roads are com
pleted. The Improved roads become a
source of pride to all taxpayers and to
Gil public-spirited citizens. ,
' TVeatlier ISurrau Saving.'
Some time ago a skeptical insurance
company determined to investigate the
amount of property saved in one year
by the warnings of the Weather Bu
reau. It wag a company of conserva
tive men whose estimate would be un
der rather than above the truth, but it
found that on an average the people
of the United States saved every year
?no,000,000 because of their weather
service. As the people contribute $1,
500,000 every year to its support, this
means that they get annually a divi
dend of 2000 per cent, on the invest
ment. An investment in which the
original capital is paid back twenty
times over in twelve months is extraor
dinarily profitable and well worth Jn
.vestigation. .Century,