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EASTERN liOPRIB&f . " - Onward andptoard. ' ' , - I : : : : 9-t H-s r- f 1 : , , ' .j ' . a , - , J i VOL. VI. AND THE YEARS CO BY. t "r , 4 jfcaterqay s toys: I ,ife 19 art Inner nJ u: . i? ..... , . . ..Little by little the world shnnra ; j j. - " deepens the sense of enjoynt indlZ' xieasure is wearing off part of its i-. xum lae years go bv. A 1 AL - . 0-wx. Now there is question and doubt and dis- Well time win alter, and truth wiU out- Kight is as needful, perhaps, as the day, And the years go by. Work multiplies and pleasures abate, bo much to dp, and we are so late. uucs sun nociting now knock at the r And the years go by. Once-ah we siprh! but we never can stop; )Vhat is life for but to work till we dron? jmy one tnought to rise to the top. And the years go by. e is,onnin(r, and what have we done? Oh, we bad dreamed of such victories won; W U the flt, lnd what j8 Mtoe, auu me years m h V hat do we hold but a handful of Hnt Somehow " r;?'. rust. tw 1Ui Ana the vp-i n u-. A . Helen F. Boyden, in New York Observ- O .rwwwtfvuwgjoBooo 1 UNDER THE DOCK. I g o o o o o By John Milton Stoddard ooooooooooooooocooocooocoS ' 7T S the swift lake steamer . swung from her dock at De- NV troit and, turninz northward C began the long trip to Mack- maw, i sat with a young man. a new acquaintance, on the promenade deck ana leisurely surveyed the long panor- nraic river-front of the chief city of micnigan. The sun, already half-way to the horizon, swam in a blue, autum- ual haze, its slanting beams' gilding the tall buildings that broke the sky une ana oiazmg with blindinjr reilec- tion from their countless windows The soft land-breeze broueht faintlv the roar of the streets to intermimrle witn tne pulse-like beat of the machin- ery below us, and the whole scene was one of such autumnal placidity and peace' that I watched it in dreamv silence until my companion spoke. Do you see that building over therer he said, indicatine a tall structure at the water's edge. "That is the Grand Trunk Elevator, and I never pass It without a shudder, for u marKs the worst position I was ever in." He paused, but scenting a story. I begged him to continue. "Well," said he, "it was eight years ago. I was then a telegraph operator, and had the night trick in the vard office at Detroit. I had come up a short time before from a little station in the country. It was early in the Epring that I was ordered to 'Yd,' and the ice had begun to go down the river i i ... uuz rne nignts were still very cold. The old yard watchman groaned mightily every evening about the delayed wartn weather, but he kept my stove hot. and as my duties were all inside 1 carea little for the temperature. My work was light, the city was new to me, and I was enjovine mvself huee- ly when I got into the trouble I'm go- ing to tell you about. "Just at sunrise on one particularly chilly morning my telegraph-sounder became mute. It wouldn't resDond to the key. An examination of the bat- tery showed that the water in the cells had evaporated so much that it did not touch the zincs, and so it gave no cir- cuit. "I rumaged through the cupboards and found a large empty bottle. it was the only thing I could find to car- ry water in, and went down my two . pair of stairs to the tap from the city m an illustrated article "On the Mat rnaind. And I found the tap frozen terhorn," writes: "Among ay most tight. frequent climbing comoanlons are Here was trouble. Water I must have,) and that quickly, for at six o'clock a dozen yard conductors bound ior west uetroit and the Junction would be clanging for orders, and the mea or depending upon a weak little relay to work with a tired, nervous, and therefore easily angered dispatch- er was a far from agreeable one. I considered for a moment, and the thought of the river came to me. Go- ing back upstairs, I secured some twine, and with that and the bottle, I made my way to the dock beside that flvipg off from all parts of their cloth elevator yonder. imf The return iournev is mostlv n There I lowered the bottle by the string to the water and tried to fill it, the hand-drawn sledges used by hill but it is not easy to dip up water In a side peasants to carry them down. bienaer-necKea Dottle which Insists on staying upright when it should be tip- ping over. I was leaning far out from me eage 01 tne aocK, ooDDing the bot- up ana aown, wnen my loot slip- ped, my hand lost its hold, and down I went, splash, into the ice- cold current of the Detroit River. And I could not swim. "Of course I sank deep and struggled wildly in the current A few seconds later I came up gasping and choking, and as I threw my arms wildly about they struck something hard and solid. This I grasped. I souttered desoer- sely and choked, but clung to my sup- p.., uu uiauageu 10 cuicu my "itttin anu iriea to tnins or now to fe'et back to my instrument. "To my surprise, I was in almost total darkness. I shouted, and the tones rang hollow and confined. Grop es about, I found other supports sim ilar to the one I was holding, and then the horrible truth came to me. I was under the dock. "I realized my position instantly. e wnarr was faced with plank ex 4, - I n ing dowu under the gnrfacet but " me bottom, and the current had rn "iVd me under the nlankin? from tlltside the Wharf. To escape bV div- ag woul3 have been easy for an ex- Pert swimmer, but my only hope was 2Sf .m,ght comc before -jr iiuuiucu angers relaxed their 6 1 nay. "The water was fearfully cold. Oftv I III V llPnn n m-I 1 1 i : Buouiars rose above it I below it TOno . . VVtt " Frant , " h TL!. DerVe- ' , . wrappea arms I UUU IPPTJ nMTUinifnln J .. I ,, -cijr uruuna me icv I Pile. Ocrfl&lnnnllTT T i . j - . - but only the S"ulfen crTh of 'the iS . - fioaeuger-xrain speeding by In imagination, I saw the passengers in coacues talking and laugh ing. With my nearness to death came a weak delirium. The darkness under the wharf seemed inhabited w,.i. uiv lorms. jswining arms in the water mea to arag me down. Liquid voices of the current mocked at me and gurgiea tnreats. When I siwom the echoes scared me into silence, and the voices of the darkness and the current again rediculed mv dvtnir i wi j.-i . . ' -3- ""5 -Ml i . " ucm- mg tne call of th dtnnpr.hoii o In a voice that to me sepmort thnn 1 shouted to let mother know wnere 1 was. Tbe bell rang and rang. I A fM n M n ,1 1.. T . , - ... i -k'u nuu ukuiu i snoutpn. nnrti n rt. 8Ponse brought . back my wandering ouoca. xi uas me oia insn xvntniv Ytn V nll.JI tT kin Billy, boy! Are yez down there My answer sent him hurrying back across the tracks as fast as his years would allow. It was the bell of one of the yard engines I had heard. Th crew had pulled up from the slip dock to get orders to the Junction, and thev had ranS the bell to let me know that 1 was wanted. Becoming impatient at my lonS delay, they started a search for me and fate led tlie olJ to the U0CK 'How to get me out? Some men ran to tue roundhouse for saws and axes, ut the distance is considerable and momenis were precious. The planking of tue aock was of newly laid oak bolted t0 heavy stringers, and before tne tools could have arrived and the wooa oeen cut tnrough l might lose my hold and sink, "Probably I must have been drowned but for a brakeman named Louis Cal verT a y mne oiaer than myself. He had been bred in the lumber woods, an(J ad sailed on the lakes, and rail- roaamg naa made him fertile in ex- pedients. He saw at once what to do. ana ms Plan &s instantly accepted TDe otner men. "A short spur track runs down to the rIver at tnls Point and terminates ln a IarSe stop-block. Down this" the efliIBe was oacKeu, wnne heavy tail- ropes, and chains were brought from some ay-cars near. The spaces be tween the planks directly over my bead arrd the two adjacent were en- lai'Sea "7 tne one axe at hand, and a cuam was passed under and looped round the board. Then the great ropes were Passed back across the stop bIock t( tue engine and there made Ias- At 1116 signal, t!e locomotive started ahead slowly, but the planks above me did not yield. 'The situation was too desperate for further caution. The engineer backed down, took as much slack as he dared, and then flung the full pressure into the cylinders. There was a rending 80an(J. twenty feet of plank rose in the alr 8wuS round, and slewed across the dock in the wake of the engine. ln a bound Calvert reached the aperture, clambered down to me, and neia me UP untu tae7 Bent down a loop or ana lirtea me to safety. "Three days after that the superin tendent gravely informed me that I was t0 T0UDS to be trusted so near tne water. and sent me north to a sta tion in the woods." Youth's Com- Panioa Children as Climbers E. H. Cooper, in Cassell's Magazine, children of ages vary'ne from six to sixteen. They require attention on mountain heights a good deal cf at- tention. The usual nurserv method of negotiating a mountain is to skip up the first Quarter, run ud the second. walk rather soberlv no the next n-.ar- ter and proceed for the rest of the way in tears. Their boots are hurting them horriblv. their stockins susnp.n- ders are broken and the stockines are coming down: thev have got headaches and at everv fresh sten hnttnna an matter of hiring guides witn some of But when these little folks Iiava been trained to walk they are the most charming companions, and no climb is so nice as one made in company with SOme happy crowd of small AlDinists wlth minature alpenstocks, ridiculous ly small nailed boots and a general capacity for eating, climbing and laughing at anything. The guide who 'Comes with you is also happy, feeling that at any difficult place he has only to grasp several email petticoats in one large hand, and at the worst can carry the whole party on one arm without serious difficulty. The aver age chUd is so serenely and perfectly happy climbing on the hills of Switz- erland in a blaze of sun and the most perfect air of Europe that it seems a pity children- cannot come more often to share the holidays of their elders." What He Did. A small boy recently visited a church for the first time, where the. pews were very high. Being asked on hia return home what he did in church, he tepiieur x jubi wcui iuiu u uig cup- board anJ gat on a snelf Bosto 4T 1- I - i ' 1 : A Native of America. Turkeys do not come from Turkey The bird is a native of America. EDENTON, - . . What a Careless Man Can io. As an illustration of how careful farmers- should be in selecting a man to run a creamery a dairy paper says that, in a creamery handling 10,000 pounds of milk per day, it Is easy for a careless or poor manager to lose 51500 a year on the quality of the but ter, $3000 a year on the quantity, $150 on the consumption of coal and 40 on that of oil. Creameries are a big thingfor the farmer, and the selection of a man to run one is no trifling mat ter. The success of a creamery de pends upon good management backed up by conscientious patrons. Shelter For Young Fowls. The young fowls which have roosted m boxes since being hatched should be provided with protection from cold rains during the night. The boxes are no Tonger large enough to allow a brood of chicks to hover in them, and on that account most of them will sit on the ground outside, or perch them selves on top. The exposure will, beyond doubt, give the chicks colds and from that of a neighbor who lives up the creek roup will develop. Unless shelter can from you losing some hogs with chol be placed over the boxes, he chicks era and throwing their carcasses in or: should be taught to go to the uoultrv nouse and roost with the' old fowls. During mild weather ! the windows ..mi i;eu me uoors snouia oe left open so that the fowls may gradually be- vc attusiumeu to tne change. a good way to persuade the chick- ens into the house is to throw a few handfuls of grain to them in thehousp. ana when the greater portion have feuiie m ciose tne door and keep them count dog that runs all over the cpun there. In a short time every one will try at night. If von will lot him nini: have learned to go to the house at night. Home and Farm. Unloading Corn Made Easy. A useful device can be made and at tached to the back end of a waeon Lot so that shoveling out may be begun at once upon reaching the crib. It will also add several busbels capacity of the wagon box. Make a sloDinir floor EXTENSION FOE UNLOADING COBN. a, a few feet long with crossnieces cn the lower side at "b" and "c." Let this floor be as wide as the outside of the wagon box. Then put on short sides nailed securely to this sinning floor, and extending forward a few inches past the sides of th i,nT ,,i on the outside of it Take out the end gate and gate rods, put on this attach- ment and bore holes to correspond with the holes in the box nmi witi, four bolts secure it in nlnce. The lower crosspiece. "c." shoul.l eirtenri out a little beyond the wagon bed on each side and come down against It the sloping floor resting on the hnttnn-. of the bed an inch or two from the back end. If desired this nttnohm can be fastened on with stout hooks and staples instead of with bolts. A Munger, ln New England Homestead. Skim Milk For Ducklings. Some exhaustive experiments have recently been made by the Ontario Agricultural College on the feeding of joung aucKs. It was found that skim milk was a valuable and cheaD aux iliary rood for raising young ducks ui uuuivs were iea upon a mixture composed of equal parts of uran miuanngs and cornmeal. For Pen 1 the mixture was moistened with skim milk while for Pen 2 boiling water was used; Pen 2 also received a small amount of animal meat and cut green bone in their ration. At the end of eix weeks all were weighted, ine average weight of those in Pen 1 iuuuua eacu, produced at a cost of 3.6 cents per pound. The average weight of Pen 2 was three , ... wot ol proauc- i tion 3.8 cents per pound, the cost in both cases representing the feed only, t.wuv ictnyumg me eggg or attend- rnce. During the next four weeks .v,.0 clc lcu niiiie, ana tneir re- spective gain was nearly eaual. When the ducks were fifteen weeks old they ".feuu, cuuwiiiK a total average of eight pounds. Some chick- ens of the same age averaged three and three-quarter pounds each. Ducks "t.-w.co, Biiyuia De i !. a nngui 01 aDout nve I pounds each in order to secure the The Winter Forcing of Vegetable "egetaoies. I The growing of vegetables nnrW he glass for the winter market hna doi. ord mifi,Sr, " " I ' " V?? years t0 1 k uure range? of modern houses are imw ht-j :. t 1 iu ii, n wnicn are grown the entire list of tender vegetables. The special crops are usually confined to lettuce.- rad- ishes, tomatoes and cucumbers. The forcing of any winter crop is a matter itSr'T thaD rCtiCe' 8lUCe local conditions lmvo nil n a miv. the methods of culture and the kinds of vegetables forced. Skill and man agement and close attention to details are the requirements necessary to suc- .v viu rrjiu i I!' 1W0 fUQdamental elements, uuvvever, are essential, neat and" light, I'Ho, fn.rmo.i In rrmAA JXT. 11 I . i"l"Jtl io "ccucu wilii au crops, lnH 1 f X!.. . ... I . "... ve .llte wnere Irmt 13 wauieu. wim sucn crops as radishes, rhnharH laff,,-, I ...... . .'.vC uu uopamgus, wnere uie vt-ge.ai.ve part oniy or ihe plant wanted, Drignt suniignt is not abso- lutely necessary, but with such crons as tomatoes, cucumbers, melons and beans, where the fruit is the aim, no j 8 17 N. C, THUEAYi - - - t amount of heat will prdt substitute for sunlight in ripenha pohen, which is the most import factor in Uie result. Theref orefaA-situiition where the maxlmim5hinejcan oe had should be selected where such crops are to be grown. The best pay ing crops for winter forcing are prob ably cucumbers and tomatoes; j the most exacting, melons. The demand for melons is limited, and the cost of producing good-flavored, well-ripened rruit is high. Orange Judd Farmeri Points on Hog Cholera. I : Dr. D. F. Luckey, State Veterinarian of Missouri, has issued a report ion hog cholera. He sums up the result of his Investigation as follows: f. - "At present all the advice thatlcan be given is to burn the todies of' the J cholera hogs. Use a little common sense about bringing the cholera5 on j your place. If you really think, ivoua neea the cholera among your hbgs,a - - t L rase a mtie time some day to go Over to your neighbors who have it, walk around among the sick hogs for awhile; go back home and trkmn around your own hogs, and you ca go to bed that night feeling reasonably, sure that in a few days you hogs Will have the cholera. If this chrmM tkti i and it seldom does wnft till isk0 near the creek. Then, as snnn naitiv 4 germs have time to wash downMrw your place, eet all VOT1 1' hnoa frcra 7-i.auf. ana anve them to the creek for a drink. If the weather is warm ; thtf I - ' - - - v ww V. nogs win generally go to the creek without being driven, therehv s.ii-j no- their owners a great deal of worry and exertion. i - "If thisfails, try keeping a no-ac long enough he is sure to find sonie-'i where a piece oi hog that ,ha' died about a year before with the:hoa; cholera. Your neighbor had buried ii about six inches deep, and the dog fog a mere lack of anv nthor nnctlnm' scratches it up. However, feelimr delicacy about the propriety of deposs iting his bone upon the front pdrcli h' generally goes out to the hog pen to' find a place to get some dirt to ctVep". It up about one inch deep. The hoes of course, do not bother Ihe dog's? meat. Anyway, from now on wlitn' your hogs die of cholera, burn them." In conclusion, Dr. Luckey says that some very encouraging results tiavn. been obtained by recent experiments, In Missouri in vaccinatim? in against cholera. The results will be. published in a bulletin soon to be !? sued. i - Facility in Hanging Hogg. 4 The hardest work about buteherihi? is hanSinS the hogs unless one j has," something that will lighten the laW, 7be device shown in the illustratfoyt is Very satisfactory, and can'be injjdej at very llttle exl)ens?- It would re- quiro about seventy feet of scantlralr: three and a half b? two inches, 'two? gooa Pu"eys and a strong piece of rope- The les are seven feet thre ,ncues lonS- At the top are jtw rrames. The side pieces of the ubyer one is ci8ht feet long and the loiwer ten feet- At the joinings the legs and side Pieces should be mortised oner THE HANOEB BEADY FOB USE. : inch each and firmlv bolted with n.i strong bolts. The two cross boards at the top are each five by one and a half inches and long. They should be of some hard- wood, as they hold the puHeysJ&ni consequently bear the weight o the faogs. Braces can be put in if thje frame does not seem strnno- &ni,i isiues snouio lean toward teach other some, the lees hein i-r aa w half feet apart at the top, and fouidnd a nair reet at the bottom. 4. The roller is ahnnt trrn r, ok irom tne ground. The one In the illustration Wfl s tn Iron binder, the iron rod in the centre beis? ouuaieu m one end tor the omv, Any blacksmith can make a eranV t it It should be lnno .nnn good leverage in lifting the hogs. I T1a fuuejs are lastenea to the' boards at me ion oy means of evehnlta sfrw,k rope Is fastened to the roller, rAss 7u , i I , UlUel ena ll shonlrl he Inner ennnrrh v.o w. kJ i , . . i "-"c "u 18 reaay to De nun " until gambrelnes abo; tne ten f00t side Piece; tuin the i: j.x. . ' uuiii me gamorei rests on these nk'c&a at both sides, when the rnne la rrn-HiSn and the hog is slipped to the end?riel tha roller .iLi,, 3 the Ja -T"! - luf Ztol hosa can be bS at one time m th! "f way. Another arrangement good for fraii days is made by securing tin roller at the side of a shed, and chaining tle pulley to the rafters. A long rope is required and the hogs are raised and then lowered into a hoshe not water. After thev are cnldri .k4 - " v . " '"vu.v.w.m.u cleaned, the carcasses are raised arlfl hun on twn honr c,nntn, ,1 ... -"-'"""S- are rastened in the shed and; usd just as in case "of the other device This permits all work to 1 nna der shelter, and does away wiQi the heavy lifting on butchering dav. C. A. Sbull, in American Agriculturist. DECEMBER 27, 1900. N D H AT CI TIinrc Alt" UN MJIUDcS j V 1 JU1VIUW I o ft k a Pare Cwon. Mn IS a Rare CVent Among the Negroes. UYS TfiEY HAVE NO REMORSE Old "Uncle LewJs" Pistol and Poison Should fiot BT So Handy. ' The rapid increase of suicides in the south is alarming and provokes the serious study of our thinking people. Fifty years ago a 6uicide was a rare ivent among the white raceAnd never heard of among the negroes. When it lid occur, it was considered an evi dence of insanity. I do not fecall but Dne instance in my youth and that was a woman who jumped into a deep wueu no neip was within reach. But nowadays almost every dailv na. per contains an account of one or more ITlt'Jn til w ?, eT.6n eroes bave ff' WI" lmI" . i i aT A, v" . u 11MIuy o: . tne L 01? wia'. wh0 18 my wood chopper, asked me he othr ZZ, hw Z as that the white folks kill "derives 30 much, and de niggers dident." "Ftf- cause,' said I, "white folks are more sasily overcome with erief nr or distress, than negroes. You negroes don't borrow trouble, nor take it hard "uou (, uoea come. You don't give pom-selves much anxiety about to-mor- teXtiW6ek' r next year- Yoa food aa loH. heTaw MoSsl -don t grieve long over a death in the ting at the king's eate. He hW hpSit, family; your emotional nahirp iefn , "?Sga.. H.e ha? be.gun low arndo- vr, I, T ?7 vi . Joosn tJi Z fageftion is i3.' "is on.the line rrcords Xwthat v;e, m,arrlage remind me of old Sato, the Ro- w 7 , legal mar" man censoT' who hated the Carthe- KpuiItionPthanein thf' 5rdillg SenIans 6a that he never voted on population, than in the white race, any question In the Raman senate eerv v Jr6C16 getS J6SS and le3S wtfaout adding, "And I ateo that mSTdn r yl!ng mn and wo- tge be destroyed." But nobody fnautn0 th,ey iUSt UP cares: we wIU have a schoolbook mn n-7 ar0 ypleauan.d60the emission in every southern state, men don t care very much about the The south is moving right along in any. Besides all this, Uncle Lewis, literature. I see that "Barbara Friet- fhin JTf.f tmlt f 8teallng Iit,le chie" 18 to Pyed InltlaSa I mSnVi , counts in a great wonder if that dramatic lie will be pa measure for their indifference to the tronlzed by any self-respecting south laying up of something for the fut.n- orn man rTr .Sr; r.f.! something for the winter, or the rainy days, or for old age. II the worst comes to the worst they know thev can steal or beg. If your young folks, , amer", hadn't got but a uunai m me wunu, mev wiil snend it. a u.reiuK!iuu, or an excursion, and raKe tne cnances. Now. Uncle Lewis you remember when there wasn't a chaiDgang in the south, nor a heinous crime nor a brutal outrage, dbmmitted by your people, from the Potomac river to the Rio Grande, Now there are in Georgia alone over 4,000 of your people in the chaingangs, and there would be 4,000 more if all the little stealings were punished." Uncle Lewis had stopped cutting and was leaning on his ax helve. "Dat's all so," and he, "and boss I knows it, and boss what I wanfs to know Is dls: What must we poor niggers do about it?" pThere is the rub. I couldn't tell him. but I did say. "Uncle Lewis, vour race has got some mighty good traits, and I like' to have you about us; you are kind-hearted, good-natured, easy to please, and don't carry malice or re venge in your hearts; you steal, but you don't cheat anybody. The white race won't steal, but they will cheat, or take advantage in a trade, and that i3 worse. If you trust a negro with anything he will not abuse your con fidence, but a white -man will em bezzle and defraud and even the cash iers of banks will appropriate the bank's money, and falsify the books for months and years. Every race has Its race traits, both bad and good. Some of your bad ones were almost run out by slavery, but they have come back again, and all your college edu cation does not stop it It makes it worse. There is nothing will stop it but work, constant work, every day, urder some good employer. Work on the farm is your best safeguard, or work as mechanics under good con tractors. Your people make good me chanics, and the white people employ them and patronize them just as will ingly as they do white mechanics. The negro blacksmiths and masons get good employment here and every where, and as for cooking and washing and nursing, your women have it all. The two races would fit together nicely if it wasn't for politics and idleness. An idle negro Is a dangerous creature and should be taken up and put to work. He Is much more dangerous than an idle white man, for he has no'j buaune, ana tears noi umi nor reguruu i man. If I were a law-maker, I would make continued idlleness a crimme, for, as Ben Franklin says, "It is, the parent of vice." I started to write about suicides, but got to preaching Uncla Lewis a ser mon and got off the track. Nineteen hundred years ago Plutarch, the Greek historian, said that self-murder was cowardice, for a brave man would suffer rather than take the life that God gave him, Self-mmurder was a heinous crime - under the old English law. The estate of the felo de se was confiscated, and taken away from his family. His body wa3 buried on the highway without a coffin and a sharp stake thrust through it to mark the accursed spot Suicide was under thf ban of tne church, arid no prayer? were said for his soul. In no civilized country has suicide been justified, ex cept in such cases as that of Saul, who fell on his sword because, as he siid, "Lest these uncircumcised Philistines thrust me through and abuse me." Or perhaps that other notable case th scriptures record, that of Judas, whose remorse was so dreadful he preferred hell or anything that would be a change. But generally it is "better to endure the Ills we have, than fly to those we know not of." Almost every day we read of young men and young women killing themselves because of disappointment or dissipation, or aboui love or money. They must belie vr there is no hereafter, or all punish ment ends with this life.. Surely no Christian man or woman would thiol-; of self-murder. Wait, wait, young man, young woman; wait, I say su- fer and De strong; only cowards kill I themselves. The soul is locked up in this casket and God only has the key. Wait and trust .Him. Remorse for a great crime may atone somewhat for self-murder. Miss Morrison might-have seir-muraer. miss Morrison mignfc-havf killed herself after she killed her rival andit would have seemed heroic;- When Othello discovered his great mts take ln killing Desdemona, his perora tion was grand as he said, "I took the circumcised dog by the throat and smote him thus," and then stabbe himself and died, for, as Shakespeare says, "He was great of heart." In ancient Greece and Rome their notable warriors sometimes killed themselves mtiier than suffer the stings of defeat in battle. In Japan military officers commit what la called harakarf (rip ping open the adbomen) to avoid per sonal disgrace. But in our land the pistol or poison has superseded all other means of suicide. It would save thousands of lives if the pistol was abolished by law. Not one should be allowed in any household; they are entirely too convenient for murder or suicide or robbery or revenge. And the sale of poison should be so nvsu lated that no one could buy It except upon the most careful Inquiry as to its mtenaea use. Human life is too sabred to be endangered by pistols and poison Paul says, "We are i in i tne image of God." Well, we see that. Mr 11 "T- wmnplcker. & 1ZLZ has opTnthe baUat I Wnohi nowi against the south. He was in such a malignant hurry that he got in the first bill, and it i-s to reduce the ieii-seniaxion or the south . in coa gress. 'He reminds me of Hainan, , a goiiuws ior us. Liet him beware, for it was Haman who was hanged. Some of these rabid renub- a yakTe troup cnU tofcSwiS "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and we egged them out nt tnwn tw done. Thev mav ah,in D off, but they shan't come down here and ruh it. in Rill Am It. aio,. constitution JACKSON'S PERIL. Almost Forgotten Attempt onthe Pi'SS-' ldent's Life. On March 30, 1835, Gen. Jackson wag- attending the funeral of Warren R uavis, a member of congress from South Carolina, at the capitol, and while walking In procession to take a carriage on the east front of the capi- toi ne was approached by a man named Richard Lawrence, who pre senteu a pistol within a few feet of him. The cap exploded, but did not ig nite the charge. Lawrence threw the pistol away and drew another, which also missed fire. Gen. Jackson was on the arm of Mr. Woodbury, secretary of the treasury, but pursued the assassin with raised cane. Lieut. Gedney of the navy knocked Lawrence down, and the f i fends of the president tried to re strain him, but he said: "Let me go, gentlemen; I am not afraid. They can't kill me. I can protect myself." Law rence was arrested and arraigned be fore Judge Cranch and committed. At the trial he behaved much as Guiteau did, Interrupting the proceedings and talking all the time, until the judge ordered him to be removed from the court room. A commission appointed to examine into his condition reported him of unsound mind. He was com mitted to an insane asylum, where he lived for many years. Thero was an attempt made to involve some political adversaries of Gen. Jackson In this at tempt on his life, but the examination and trial revealed nothing but that it was the act of a madman. Gen. Jack son's escape from death was providen tial. The pistols were loaded very heavily, and after the arrest of Law rence were fired, the caps exploding and igniting the powder readily in the pistol and sending the balls through several Inches of plank. It was stated that Gen. Jackson said at the time that he knew where the attempt originated. vvasmngton i'ost. HIS MOTHER WAS "ON TO" HIM. Anjsld woman, plainly dressed, went into the- men's hat department of a big store the other day and said to a salesman: "Here is $2. My son will come here tomorrow, and you will please fit him out with a $2 hat Hia name is so-and-so." The salesman asked wby the purchase of the hat was to be made in this strange way, and the old woman answered: "If I should give my son the money he would spend it for rum and get no hat." Then she departed, and the next day the son appeared. He was a tough man of 38 or 40. He gave his name, and then he said: "Say, how much did de old lady give yejer de sky-piece?" "Two dol lars," the salesman answered. "Chee, is dat all? , Say, she's gittin' mean In her old age, ain't she? Well, trot out a dollar sky-piece, an' gimme de change, see." The salesman would not do that, however, and the promising son had to take a $2 hat. The first one that was shown to him suited He did not appear to be particular. He clapped the new hat down over his ears, ami swaggered out with the re mark: ".You kin keep de old one, cul ly." Philadelphia Record. The Automobile Show proved a reve lation to the people of New York eity. ft Is a sociological lesson, and marks a definite point -In the road of progress. NO. 29 I ("i (2si SB A Canadian's Views. N view of the experience of the past wet year In the: matter of roads, er rather the want of them, I venture to' suggest that- this is I an opportune time to- discuss matters concerning the failure of he old sys tern and the substitution for it of some more efficient method, writes F, J. Collyer, in the Parmer's Advocate,, of Canada. . For those living from AT' teen to twenty miles from the railway, as some of us do, there is no other question- concerning our business -of such moment. ' . The statute labor system, copied, I believe, largely from that in fore? ia Ontario, while It may have afforded, in the old days, the only practicable method of filling a mud hole or bridg- ing a creek, has, for reasons well known to your readers, certainly passed its-days of usefulness. - The Territorial Government, falling ' to profit by our experience, a few years ago instituted a statute labor system there, which, while superior to ours in several particulars, has already been found wanting, as may be seen from comments in the local papers, and. pro? vision has even been made for the sub ftilution of a cash system when "the majority of ratepayers in a district (Usually a township, I believe) so de- she it. Most of our progressive municipali ties have, I understand, abandoned the old system and now collect varying amounts of cash in lieu thereof, and the results of the change, In some of them at least, have been most grati fying. For instance, the Clerk of Birtle Municipality Informs me that in the two years during which they have collected $2 per quarter-section they have done more work than they did In the previous fourteen under the old regime, and I may state that in our own Municipality (Archie) the ad mitted value of the improvementa done under the old system only reaches six per cent- of the nonimal cost. As to the expenditure of the cash, when it is collected, there is a. differ ence of opinion as to the merits- of the 'day labor" and "contract" systems. Some uphold the "contract" system, considering that it Is not safe and I am sorry to say the fear Is sometimes justified to allow reeves and coun cilors to hire their neighbors; but I havFT.Kua' of dishfejMgt--gsQetfces--lp ' awarding contracts, through only noti fying favored parties. As far-as iny experience goes (and I must admit it is not great) the "contract" system has not proved a success. Owing to the necessity of hunting scrapers, etc., and the frequent inexperience of Oie ten derers, who, naturally, do not wish to lose money on the job, the prices paid are frequently .very high, ?5, $6, and even $8 per day for a man and team being not uncommon rates of pay. Op the other hand, day labor for short terms is frequently unsatisfactory, as neither men nor teams are of much use until they become acquainted with the work, which was a frequent cause of failure under the old system even when the men were willing to worky and the tool and inspection troubles were ever present. As a solution of the problem, I would suggest the fol lowing plan, which', as far as I am aware, is untried, but would, I think, overcome the difficulty without any great outlay in initial cost: Sele:t'a well-principled, hard-working mail as working foreman, with or without a team as the number of men to vork under his direction would be s nail or great. He should, preferably, ave a prior knowledge of the work, wfiicb should be previously laid out by a surveyor if the municipal authorities, are incapable of doing it, and I15 should be paid a good salary, placed under bonds, and hired fo: as long a season as is considered advisable. Then all residents desiring to work on the road should be required to give notice, by a given date, of the length of time they wish to work on the roads and the date and locality , in which they would prefer to put in the tlmej those selected would work under the direction of the foreman, who in turn would be under the general super1 vision of the reeve and councilor of the ward. This plan would necesst-. tate but little" loss of time through moving, as the townships could be . taken in rotation and the outfit would only need to be moved when the mon- ' ey allotted had been" expended. It would probably effect a saving la wages, as cost of living would, be less if a caboose was provided, which, besides affording accommodation for the men, would also contain small '' tools, horse feed, eta As .regards stonework for culverts, etc., it would ' perhaps be advisable to have that done by a qualified stone mafcon, as th dry stone walls and poplar stringers so frequently built last but a short time, and frequently fall shortly after erection, through unskilled workman- -ship. As cement is now procurable at $3 per barrel, and even less in quantf ties, it would, I think, be advisable to have all walls over two feet in height laid in- cement mortar, with flanking walls, at least on the upper side, to prevent the earth beiug washed cut behind the stonework. "? A Considerate Wife. . 7 "The most considerate wife T vi heard or," said the Cornfed PhUosoph- er, "was- a woman .who used to date ail her letters a week or so ahead, to allow her husband, time to mail them; inaianapolis Press. " - The Girl to Freeze On To. TTt . . ueuever you see a girl at a prtfrty that none of the aieu are talking to. yor can generally bet she knof s how to bake good bread. New Yok Press. K V X v. -,J - 1 -3 I" - IT-" " "VI V '-v-r- v3 -,n-,'ST. - v I - J- 1LH - - -i ri . i.z x - ' l to- -;..Ht?- .'ft ' -'III-'''"' T- " - - - " " -