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I'. . . r if TIIK CAUCASIAN. ,.L fll ,I!'i:i KVEKV THCIWDAY, jir MAKIOX MTLEK, j or ;i;xl I'iojii ictor. wcfk we tfiv; you a neatly print'-l ,,:irfTn our M TI:KnS AM WITH NEW TYPE. .,- -hiv your appreciation by in; kditoiis chair II' w Tii.(;.s look FituM l'i: STAND POINT. ) Tho Opinion of The Caucasian and the Opinion of others which we Can Endorse on the Various Topics of the Day. iiriit'tt county lias decided, majority, not t move ((.iiiily site to Dunn. l.v I l.c Statu I'rens Convention will nifct July 17th. I'lace not yd (iet iiniiifd, tint somewhere i ii Wc-itern Caruliua. "lie .Inn number of (Jodey's I,;k1'h I'.ook Is an excellent !iuinlir. Two frontispiece il iiHtr;itini.s, "Purity" and "To the (ioldcn bands," etc, are both will rendered. A two page piece of music, "Golden Love," will lind many admirers iu this month of marriages Among tlie literary pages is an illus trated story entitled "Thalia," ly Mmily Lennox, tlie name of Hie ;i nthor being sullicient war runt for its merit. "A Model American (Jirl," by David Low ry, opens well, and premised some (.Mil )d descriptions of Wash ington society for the future. ' A La ter Day Loch invar," by Ada Maria I'eck, is a story with a moral, as all her writings have. John's Jealous Wife, by Eugene Hull, who, although a new con trihutor to God ay's, isan author of much merit in the literary world. "A Woman's Way," by Elsie Snow, grows more exciting with each number. Numerous short stories and poems, with fashion notes and work articles, complete a creditable number to finish the one hundreth and eighteenth volume of the mag azine. Published at Philadel phia, Pa Judge ltuflin died at his home in llillsbor. last Friday morn iiig. lie was about G5 years of age, was a graduate of the state University, was a son of Chief Justice Ruflin, and has himself graced the bench of the same august tribunal which his fa ther did before him. Our read ers can form a good estimate of the character of this intrepid soldier, learned lawyer and dis tinguished jurist, .and of his sterling worth as a citizen from the following opinions: "II is death leaves a great hole in the legal profession." Pres K. P. Battle. "He felt an earnest interest in the public good, and ranks among the first men who have sat upon our Supreme Court lleuch." Associate Justice Mer- riiaon. tt T 1 i "i can not say too mucn m expression of my high regard, affection and respect for hire." Chief Justice Smith. Ihe deceased was one of the best Judges and one of the most forcible writers who ever adorn ed the Supreme Court Bench. Col. Tlios. S. Kenan, II the death of Judge Ruflin the State has lost one of its pur est men and greatest lawyers. Mr. II. T. Gray. In tlie death of the late Judcre Thomas Ruflin we have lost, in my opinion, the ablest and mos successful practitioner of the law in the itate. R. II. Battle TT . j 1 i lie was tnougnt by many. when in the lull vigor of health to be the finest practitioner o his profession in the State. He was always thoroughly prepar ed as to the law and the facts of his case, was a powerful advo cato and great winner of ver dicts, and was unsurpassed in his skill in cross examining a witness. It is said that false hood could not live under his searching and withering cross examination. Judge Strong. Ha wTas a typical North Caro linian, despising shams and pre tenses ot all kinds. He was a man who never hesitated to do what seemed to him right, who never shirked a duty or forgot a friend. C. M. Busbee. He was notable for his great clearness and vigor of mind, tenacity of purpose and strong will and determination. Loyal to Lis State and her institutions, he lived without fear and died without reproach at peace with his fellow men and in cheerful submission to the will of God. News and Observer. Vol. vii. WKAITII NOT IM.UTOClt ACY. The mere fact of a lanro ac cumulation of wealth in a coun try is not proof of danger tn rcial order or to republican nstitutions. There is no prejudice in this country against riches honora bly acquired and rightly em- loyea. un the contrary, pret ty nearly every body is after hem or would be glad to pos sess them. An ambition to 'et on in tliH world' and to seenre financial independence is most reditable, and it is at the bot tom of our nation's wonderful progress. Even the sharp practices by which gret fortunes are often acquired and many of them are tainted in their origin or rogress are overlooked in tho present negatively unobjection able or positively beneficent use to which ther are devoted. It is recognized that large sums f money in single or in few lands are needed to the pros ecution of great enterprises. No, there is no hostility worth mentioning in this country to wealth per sb, honorably won or ntrlitly inherited and em ployed in the y roper public spirit. It is only when money gets into the arena of politics and seeks control of the Govern ment that it becomes obnoxious md dangerous. When money secures its possessor a high of fice by corrupting .the suffrage or debauching public servants it is a cause of injustice and a source of danger. When the monej of a great corporation, a debt or to tlie government for a large amount, is employed in maintaining a lobby at Wash ington to "look &f ter the legis lative, the judicial and the ex ecutive departments," as Mr Iluntington coolly admitted that the Central Pacific mon ey was used, it is a public ene my. There is no difficulty in draw ing the line. The money pow er ma&es itself a plutocracy when it invades the domain of politics and government and Bubslilutea tho selfish interest of the few for the will and welfare of the many. It is the begin ning of this encroachment that the people are called upon to resist. The possessors of large wealth should be content with their opportunities for accumu lation and enjoyment in this highly favored land. They should be glad to be let alone. When they entrench upon the rights of the people they Should hear and heed the sharp admo nition, "Hands Orr." N. Y. World. MADE HIM A POLITICIAN. An Alabama man who wanted to find out what profession his son was best fitted for, put him in a room one day with a Bible, an apple and ,i dollar bill. If he found him, when he return ed, reading the Bible, he would make a clergyman of him; if eating the apple, a farmer, and if interested in the dollar bill, a banner, v nen ne returned, however, he found the boy sit ting on the Bible, with the dol lar bill in his pocket and the apple almost devoured, and so he decided to make a politician, of him. Winston Sentinel. . a. HOME-SICK. The sensation of homesick ness has been variously de scribed, but never more graphi cally than by a little girl, who, miles away from home and mamma, sat heavy eyed and si lent at a hotel table. "Aren't you hungry, dear?" esked her aunt, with whom she was travelling. "No'm." "Does your head ache j" "No'm." "What is the matter ?" The child's lips quivered, and she said, in a tone to grieve the heart : 'I'm so seasick for home 1" 1 GGS-TIi AORDIN Alt Y. We learn from tho Clinton Caucasien that 21 chickens were hatched out cf 15 eggs. If this statement is not eggs-aggerated it is cackle-lated to arouse hen- thusiasm amoug the laity, and hen-gender a disposition among them to chant-a-clear-er record and thus give us caws to hatch out another crop of f o wlest puns Wilson Mirror. -. ... m Wife "I mended the hole in your trousers' pocket last night after ycu had gone to oea, Jonn, dear. ow, am 1 not a tnougnt ful little wife ?" Husband (du biously) " Well-er-ye-es, you are thoughtful enough, my dear, du how the mischief did you dis cover there was a Jhole in my trousers' pocket ?" THE DR. BATTLES ADDRESS. A PROFOUND AND LEARNED DOCUMENT, TEEMING WITH NEW 4NI) O RIGINAL IDEAS. HISSUBJECT: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF CHANGES IN THE STATE'S ORGANIC LAW. He Explained the Causes and Results of the Changes. HE POIXTED OCT THE DANGERS AHEAD AND THE DUTY OF THE RISING GENERATION IX AVOIDING THE SAM If. He Uclated Many Pleading- and Interesting Stories and Inci dents About the Unique Characters of the Last Century. Huntley, N. C, May 23, '89. On last Friday Hon. Kemp P. Battle, LL. D., President of the University of North Carolina, delivered the annual address be- ore the closing exercises of Sa- em High School and the 14th nniversary of tlie Philotechnic iterary Society. After being very happily and gracefully in troduced by Mr. H. E. Paison, a member ot the University Grad uating Class of '81, and a rising young attorney of the Clinton bar, tbe learned doctor and dis tinguished educator proceeded, and for an hour held the atten tion of a large and promiscuous audience with one of the most instructive addresses it has ever been our good fortune to hear. We had hoped to be able to treat the readers of The Caucasian with a reproduction of the ad dress in full, but for several rea sons the Doctor would not con sent for the document to be put in print at present, but promis- ea it to us ior a iuture issue. Therefore we are forced to give you a brief outline or synopsis only of it at present : He opened by stating that as this was a centennial year and so much had been said about the United States Constitution, the changes in our National Govern ment, from pulpit and forum, that it would not be inappropri ate to take a review of our Con stitution and Government ot 1776 and to trace a century's changes up to the establishment of our present Constitution in 1876. He first went into a discussion of the principles underlying the Constitution of 1776, and showed, though the idea of the people was that each branch of the Government Legislative, Executive and Judicial should be separate and distict, yet such were their horror of the Judges and Governors appointed by the King of England, and under whom they had lived during co lonial times, when their only safeguard and protection lay in a representative Legislature. that, in their desire to curb the powers of these officers, they went too far and put them al most entirely uuder the control of the General Assembly. This was effected : 1st. By having the Governor elected by the Legislature and then for one year only, and giv ing that body power to reduce his salary during term of office 2nd. By having the Legisla ture to select the Council of State, (viz., Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General, etc..) which council was to watch the Governor rath er than advise him. 3rd. The Legislature also gov erned the pardoning power of the Governor, and appointed and paid the officers and mem bers of the State militia 4th. By placing the salaries of Judges under the control of the Legislature. 5th. While the Judges held for life, or rather during good behavior, yet the Legislature could get rid of them by abol ishing their offices. Tn addition to these autocrat ic powers which the Legislature held over Governor and Judge3, it also had unlimited power of taxation and exemption from the same. Also of running the the State iu debt. . Notwith standing these tremendous pow ers, our Legislatiye bodies in the main, acted unwisely, except that they showed a rather nig gardly economy toward public improvemants and the material progress of the State. However CAUCASIAN X'vi.r" Somoorooy and "Wlxlto SupremAoy. CLINTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 30, the old Constitution contained certain checks and balances that prevented the abuse of atich un limited power by the Legisla ture: Is. By the provisions for an nual elections; 2nd. The body was composed of property owners,representing property owners for by the pio Tisions of the Constitution none could vote for a Senator unless a free-holder, though a free ne gro was not barred; 3rd. The East, which contain ed about two-thirds of the wealth, had about two-thirds of the counties and about the same proportion of members, though the West zealously demanded a new county for every one form ed in the East, but ou the other hand the East succeeded in hav ing land taxed by the acre for some time. This condition of affairs was considerable unsettled by the canal fever, and many other pro jected schemes of internal im provement in which the State lost large sums of money. The Doctors description of the vari ous wild schemes for canalling the State and making navagable all rivers, branches and mud creeks to their sourse was high ly airusing and humorous. The railroad fever of 1831 causftd a more urgent demand for more representation from the West. Excitement ran hitrh. leading even to threats of civil war. Finally the P3ast yielded to some extent, as seen in the revised constitution of 1835. In this constitution there were also many other desired and impor tant changes. Under the old constitution from 1776 to 1835. the General Assembly was a leg islative aristocracy, a legalized plutocracy, but the executive branch of the government pro tected itself against the unlimi ted powers of the Legislative branch (as pointed out above) by good conduct and social blan dishments to such an extent that the Legislature elected most of the governors three times in suc cession, wnicn was tne constitu tional limit, and then to higher offices. The Treasurer and Sec retary of State in several cases were re-elected for more than 30 years. The Judicial branch sustained itself by wise decisions and perfect integrity. The North Carolina Judiciary nas the hon or of being the first court to re fuse to carry out an unjust mea sure of the Legislature, which was in 1786, when Samuel Spen cer, Samuel Ashe and John Wil liams were on the bench, and for this courageous act the Senate afterwards even voted them thanks. It is a coincidence worthy of notice that from 1820 to 1835, tbe time during which our peo ple were clamoring for material changes in our old constitution toward increased and equitable suffrage, that our cousins across the sea were demanding about the same changes in the organic law of the mother country, which were granted in the amendment of 1831. Such had been the fear in North Carolina of the union of Church and State that, by the constitution of 1776, preach ers were excluded from the Leg islature, and Roman Catholics were prohibited from holding office of any kind, but both of these restrictions were removed in 1835, and in 1861 the restric tions against Jews was removed. The only religious test now is the denying of the being of Al mighty God and the blasphemy of Christ and Jehovah. Rep. Throne, of Warren county, was expelled from the Legislature in 1874 for this crime, whioh is the only case on record. The new Senate, after 1835, founded on taxation continued overwhelmingly eastern. The new House, founded on federal population, was also Eastern though by a less majority. But since each county was entitled to one representative, whatever might be its population, the western statesmen continued to clamor and contend for the formation of more counties in the West in order that they might gain control of the House, and they followed up this ae termination with such wisdom and pertinacity that by 18 4S, when internal improvements on a large scale by the State were begun, the West had gamed 12 new counties and the East not one; and by 1861 the West had gained 23 to 2 for the East, making a net gain of 21 conn- ties, and therefore 21 members, for the West. Next we go to our present constitution of 1876, which is the constitution of 1868, with a few modifications and contrast it with oir first constitution of 100 years before. The most striking contrast be tweeu the two is the difference Continued on Second Fage. CAXT SEE ANOTHER AN UNSOPHISTICATED HON EYMOONING COUPLE WENT TO THE NEW YORK CENTENNIAL. Enough Experience, Dearly Bought, to Last to All Eternity. George W. Clark and Martha W. Van Wert were married in Slingerland Center, N. Y., on Monday, April 29, 1889. George kept "the store" there; owed not a cent in the world, and had a hundred dollar?, besides his rail way tickets, in his pocket when they started on their wedding, journey. They had planned it months ago. Both their grandfathers had served in the Revolutionary War; both bride and groom bore names handed dowr from that era, and both weie "well up" in American history. John Adams Clark, cousin to George W., had been "clerking it" in Nassau street for three years. He had engaged rooms (as a special and personal favor to himself, the proprietor's friend, he wrote,in the Rocham beau Hotel. "Hang expense!" George W. had written in ordering quarters. "A man expects to have but one bridal tour, and it is yet more certain that a Centennial comes but once in a hundred years." John met them at the Forty- second street station with a car riage, upon their arrival on Tues day morning. The conveyance was old and rusty.the horse older and rustier, the driver oldest and rustiest of all. The jolting and rocking over the stones on their way to the hotel threatened, said j jlly George W., to shake the filling out of their teeth. "He has such spirits !" smiled the pretty bride. "But who could be depressed on such a day, in such a scene? It is like Fairy Land. And I just doat upon a crowd !" She repeated the exclamation, standing at the windotv of the reception-room at the Rocham beau, overlooking the gorgeuus panorama below. "I suppose we can see as well here as anywhere else can't we ?" she added, in naive com placency. "I am afraid all f. ae hotel front windows are engaged," said John Adams, who had escorted her up, leaving George W. to settle with the driver. "I guess I'll go and see where George is." He looked and felt uneasy. The best bargain he xuld make for the miserable trap and rack- o'-bones that had brought them from the station was ten dollars. George W., his complexion like a purple cabbage, was in in loud dispute with the seedy cabman. A crowd of grinning loafers surrounded them; two Kocnamoeau porters stood on the steps, superciliously disgust ed. A policeman charged into the mob, club in hand, as John Adams appeared, with a vocifer ous "Move on I" The driver had demanded flf te3n dollara for the job. John Adams urged that it was a viola tion of contract; George W. as serted that he would carry "the thin? ' before a Justice's Court sooner than pay it. The tumult promised a side-show not set down in the programme. The of ficer swore impartially at all concerned. "Pay him !" he ordered, bru tally. "Next time, look sharp! There's no use disputing any thin to day. Centennial prices, you know ! The "next time" was when the elevator carried the bridal couple up five stories to a stuffy, single-bed room upon a court, dimly illumined by one gas bum er. "All right, sir!" affirmed the porter. "Last room we had left. Wouldn't have got this, but party called home by tele gram. Malt million peopie ii sleep in the streets o7 N' loA t'-night." George covertly abstracted a card from the bacK of the door, and, while his wife made her toilet, carried it to the crowded office. "Can this be correct?" trying to speak calmly as the cross clerk glanced impatiently at him. "No. 450 is a beastly hole, not fit for a decent man, to say nothing of a woman. Yet here I find it set down at 15 a day for one person, 25 for two." "Needn't keep it if you don't like it. Could let it to other parties for $50 this minute Centennial rush must be met somehow. Move on, please !" Forty dollars gone or as good as gone already, and nothing or worse than nothing to show for it! And they had meant 1889. to spend a week in the city ! At the cumulative mediation the bridegroom paused without the door of 4r4) to pull his faco up straight. The vision that met him on the other side of the dingy pan els made effort needless. Martha had planned and exe cuted a "stunning" Centennial costume. Her gown of cream colored nun's veiling was drap ed over a navy-blue silk petti coat, the loopings being secured by red bows. A blue silk vest was fastened with coral buttons; about her chip hat was twisted a red-white-and-blue sea rf . Fur thermore, as her enraptured spouse told her, she carried the national colors in starry-blue eyes, pearl-white skin, and rosy cheeks. He forgot all but love and patriotism as he emerged nto the street, with the new and improved edition of the Goddess of Liberty on his arm. "Hurrah for the red, white and blue!" "yelled a tipsy fel- ow at the first corner, driven up against them by the swirling pushing, boisterously-hilarious river or numan beings that caught the bewildered pair. Neither could speak r think until tbe sweep and eddy had borne them like drift-wood to he junction of Fifth avenue with Broadway. There the cur reri dashed into momentary pause, as upon a reef that re- urned it gradually a halt nade that all might see the Tri umphal Arch. Isu'thejust su61iine?" ut tered provincial Martha W., in a shriek that barelv reached her msband's ear. "Oh! George! I begin to reel use tne Centen nial !" The crowd roared and surged refluently before a squadron of mounted police the vanguard of the procession. Martha was borne off her feet, and but for ner despairing ciutcn upon George W.'s arm, would have been trodden under heel. Buf- fetted, swung, upheaved, they yet held together and brought up alive in the angle formed by a wooden staging with the build ing in front of which it was erected. George W.'s stalwart shoulders kept off the crowd until he could be sure that his wife was not quite crushed. "My feet are trampled to a jelly 1" gasped the brave little hing, trying to smile. "This is serving one s country, l sup pose." She served it there for three mortal hours. By tip-toeint, and making little springs from time to time, her hands upon George W.'s arm, she caught furtive glimpses beyond a fore ground of phalanxed backs and hats, of tossing plumes, bayo nets and flags in the upper mid dle distance ; the air billowed and beat with the blare of brass bands; the people about our couple shouldered one another, and babbled shrilly, and joined as lustily as itrnorantly in the cheers that arose from the front. Now and then through ritts in the breathing barricade, Martha beheld the cheap effigy of his country's father,projected sharp ly upon the blue sky. Men smoked bad tobacco; children squalled and sobbed; boys whis tled cat-calls; poanut shells from the upper stand rattled upon the new chip hat ; greasy crumbs besprinkled the Centen nial gown. O h h! I wish we had never never come to tins nor i a . rid town !" A cane-poke from above drew George W. s attention. "What'll you give me for my place ?" said a blear-eyed man, in a beery wheeze. "What'll you tafce for it?" The beery man crossed his Augers. Desperate George W. nodded. The beery man drop ped to the earth like a cat, and held out his hand. Like a kit ten a newsboy scaled the side of the staging into the vacated seat. When George W. looked up af ter patting $10 bill into the spec ulator's hand, the lad was calm ly contemplating the procession from the coveted altitude with ! interest the enraged countryman I could not divert. The crowd! applauded vociferously. j "A Centennial trick!" said a bysta&der. ' Pocket it and say nothing. Can't I help you get the lady into a better place ?" The tone was so sympathetic that George W. accepted the of fer. Between the two men Mar tha was shoved and dragged edgewise to the upper corner of the street. There, two currents met that flattened her helpless ly against another wall now with her pale face turned quite away from the pageant What mattered that ? She had seen enough helmet-plumes and flut tering stars-and-stripes, and perky guidons to last her to all eternity. Another hour of slow Continued on the Fourth Page.) No. 33. CUMBERLAND NEWS. THE FAYETTEVILLK AND A L BE M ABLE RA I LROA D A PROiUBlLlTY. Efforts Being Made toward Getting Sam Jones to Ccme to Fayette ville An Attractive Depot to be Built. Iteg. Cor. Caucasiax.1 Fayktteviixk, NC, May 27th, The principal appointed by Hon. C. W. McClammy, to the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, having failed to staud his ex amination there, Mr. Alfred A. McKethan, a bright young lad of this city, has received the ap pointment, he having been the alternate. Mr. E. J. Hale, of this city, who was appointed Consul to Manchester, England, by Presi- Cleveland, four years ago, La been removed by the Republi cans. It is probable, his friends say, that Mr. Hale will remain in England, to take a position with a big corporation. Another meeting of citizens took place last week to prepare for the big centennial The committee of arrangement? was increased from 25 to 50, and a special committee appointed to i purchase the tabernacle. Tlie permanent organization was ef fected with Capt. N. W. Ray as chairman, and Mr. Z. W. White head, the able and enterprising young editor or the Observer, and Mr. II. I. McDuffie,as secre taries. There has been a large num ber of accessions to the differ ent churches since tho Pearson meeting. They are distributed as follows: Presbyterians about 70; Methodist about 55; Baptist about 15; Episcopal, about 5; CathoUc, about . The family of Rev. T. P. Bar clay, arrived last week from Princeton, Ky. The elegant manse, on Anderson street, was all fixed up for them by the ladies, and they repaired at once to their new house. Mr. Barclay has charmed his congregation as well as everybody else. Mr. John West, of Sampson, is confined In the jail here, labor ing under a mental derangement. He is in the jail only tempora rily. Mrs. Thos. H. Sutton has been elected President of the Ladles' Memorial Association, Mrs. Dr. S. J. Hinsdale, vice-president; Miss Emma Murchison, secetary and Mrs. Dr. T. M. Hunter, trea surer. There is a good prospect of the Fayetteville and Albemarle railroad being built. A charter was obtained at the last Legis lature, and at the recent meet ing of the stockholder? of the C. F. & Y. V. Railway Company, President Gray was authorized to help build it. As contem plated the line will run through Moore and Montgomery (where there is not a foot of railroad) to Albemarle in Stanley, another county without a railroad. This road would be a great feeder to the C. F. & Y. V. Railway. Wil mington would b benefitted too. The Kickapoo Indians are drawing .large crowds every night to their wigwams, oppo site Base-ball Park, on Gillespie street. The performance is very good, especially for a free one. They sent two balloons up last week. Capt. J. C. Smith, the whole souled commander of the steam er D. Murchison, has retimed to take a position on the trans fer steamer of the C. F. & Y. V. Railroad Company at Wilming ton. The merchants have agreed to close their stores at 7 o'clock in the evening, every day ex cept Saturday, and then close at 10 o'clock. Few remain open after those hours. The over worked clerks enjoy this brief respite, and doubtless give clos er attention to the interest of their employers. The Graded School closed last Friday without any. fuss or ex hibition. We would like to ee them have some closing exerci ses. We UK tne plan. We are glad to learn that the new depot, spoken of in the last issue, for this city, is to be of brick, with every convenience, surrounded by flower gardens, fountains, &c. It will be some thing new for this part of the country. ' An effort will be made to get the famous Rev. Sam Jones to come here and conduct a series of meetings. A gentleman went to Danville, Va.,to se him, but has not returned. Quite a number of Baptists are thinking and talking about organizing another Baptist Church here. State Secretary Coulter, of tUe Y. M. C. A., was here nearly A rpcr-Cuti cr, IVWir. ml New Job Type have bet 3a!4 to oar Job Odors tnd w eon now do work to suit even th tamt ffee tMeou. Call In and w ta tuples, of th work we have done la the last few day. AdvrrUitaK rt made known ou uppUcat'cu. all UM reek In th Interest of the local association. $1,000 ww raied for tbe purpose of employing a General Secretary for this Association, who will keep th? rooms open day and night, plan and arrange enter talnmenU, &c. The rooms are In the old People's Bank build ing, on I lay stroet, and are handsomely f urnbhed. A gym nasium and other attractions will be put in. Rain is badly needed in thLi couuty. The crops are suffei ln. The doctors say that there la remarkably little sickness, even for thl season of the year. ' ' --4 i hiijiu:n8 corn tut. Something Interentinff fur the Uttle Folk. Prorml tor Thk Cjutakhx rh week W. A. Johnson. NELLIE'S SACRIFICE. T u t lovely lummrr morning. There wrro bird, and ), and Bower; And. up (u the calm blu RTcn, Not a rloud to threaten shower. Nell and Carrie woke at itinrUa, frying out with voloea far, It' the luorblnit ot the picnic ! lou't thla a gloriou day t' Down Uie utalr they lillthelr hatnil. Hut, alM S the nurse waa ill : Mamma i k with "aurh a headache" No ono there, her lac to fill. All their drewni wt re ot tho picnic, In the wood they longed to roam ; Hut their mother teid the children ; "One ot you iuut tay at home." Little Nellie iiiied a moment. 1 urned away her golden head. Wiiwd a tear from off her lanbea Sped rhen be quickly, bravely said : "Carrie'a craxy 'lout the picnic. She may ko ; I'll Uy with you ; Li-t me bathe your head with camphor, And I'll aee to baby too." All that long and sultry morning, facing down the garden walk. Keeping tretful baby quiet with her Rlorlcs and her talk Nellie tttcrificcd her picnic. Yet were happier tar than they Who came trooping home at sunset. Telling ot their fun that day. "Yes, my darling," aald her mother, Stroking back the curia at gold, "Yon have made me Terr happy. As my looks, I think, hate told. And the souls who think ot others In this lite, will aee, some day. One In all Ilia kingly beauty in the land so tar away." Dane Smklie. Eight sorrowful little faces pressed against the windows looking out at the rain. Rain drops and clouds outside, and teardrops and frowns inside It was hard to tell which waa the gloomier of the two. "Why, we all want to play croquet," said Mable, sally. "Our tew set came last night, and we wanted to use it the first thing this morning; and now It's raining, and we can't go oat or do anything but have a hor riii time." -Well it. is too bad if you must have a stormy day in doors as well out," Aunt Sue answer ed. "Now, I ebould think that eight little cousins could make all the sunshine they wanted, even if it did rain and spoil their croquet party. Why wouldn't a game of blindman's buff be just as pleasant? You can have the large dinnlng-room to play in, and move the table into the corner. There I I see some sunshiny smiles already. Now don't let me see any more clouds on thebe dear little fa ces." In a few moments the rain drops patted against the wind ows unheeded, for the children were enjoving their game. Even Frisk joined in the fun, and barked noisily. Now, was it not far wiser to make sunshine at home than to mourn oyer the disappointment the rain brought. Little Bfitnie. Bessie had just lost a Uttle sister and a baby brother, but mamma 'had told her o much about the liappv country they had gone to that she hardly knew the word "death." She was not well one morning and the alarmed mother men tioned sending for a doctor, but Be.ssle screamed: "I don't want tojro to heaven; I don't vant to go to heaven!" connecling the doctor's visits of late with the departure of her brotber and sis'er to that other world A day er two afterwards as she stood looking out of the window, she called to her mother : "Mamma, here comes the hea ven carriage; here comes the heaven carriage!" It was the hearse, the one that had twice come to her home. The first time Bessie ever heard Mr Blank preach, he sev eral times used the strong lan guage of threatening and de nunciation of the Bible. Beawle had been told that she mast never use such words as ''devil," etc., so when she came home she looked very solemn. On being questioned, she answered: "I don't like that preacher, he cusses so !" Another occasion, when the preacher? manner and tone was' very earnest, she said: "He dust carled (quarrelled) an carled an' carled. 5 I- !:; if A ' t I 1! i 'i i f l'i I !f ill ! 5 t 1 i t . . . .i 1 1 Is a- ;