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Greenville, 45 Goldsboro, 45 High Point, 50 IlilLsboro, 35 Littleton. 25 Louisburg, 20 Mercer, 40 Nashville, 30 Oxford, 15 Raleigh. 30 Hoeky Mount, 35 Scotland Neck, 40 Sn.ithfield, 40 Spring Hope. 30 Tarboro. 40 Wake Forest, 25 Warrenton, 20 Washington, 50 Weldon. 35 Wilson. 35 Winston. 55. F. C. Toepleman, General Saperintendent. The be8t patents and straight FLOURS H. THOMASON'B. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE BAND 0 Mt mories of the Halcyon Days When Old Frank Johnson's Orchestra Discoursed Music That Was Not Classical. (Fiank b. )Voodson, in Newport Sousa came and he'' captured he town. Souaa is a reat man and he has a ;;reat band. His music '19 some thing wonderful. I sat there in the Academy of Music simply entranced, for a while, but really before he had gotten through with the program and the encores I had begun to get a little more than enough. That was not j Soma's fault I guess, but rather the fault of my very faulty musical edu cation and training. I love to hear good music and I simply dote on a band but I confess that I got tired of Sousa. Weir, as I was coming out of the Academy I heard a young ladv say: Oh, wuv will Sousa play so music: why does he luucU classical not conline him- , self to his own grand inarches." I hadn't thought of it before, but maybe his playing is too classical for my ear. But this I well kuow and know quite well: in the years long gone by 1 was never known to ;et tired of Old Frank Johnson's band. Old Frank Johnson's band! My! Mj!! My!!! what memories the mere mention of that wonderful musical aggregatiou brings up! Why, away back yonder, when 1 was a barefooted village boy, I could follow that band for miles or sit and listen to its sweet music for hours, yes, for days, if it eould have played so long, and I never got tired, either. Old rrank Johnson was a negro slave, owned by a wealthy Roanoke river farmer, whose broad acres were located in Northampton county, N. C. He bought himself, on a credit, and in a like manner purchased the free- lora of his wife. His old master threw in the five or six children, all boys, for ;ood measure. Johnson was a natural-born musician and could play any instrument he had ever seen, but his specialties were the liddle, (no violins in those good old days, but fiddles) the claronet and the cornet. He earned the money to pay for his and his family's freedom by fiddling for balls and dances, and then made a goodly fortune. He was known as "Old" frank Johnson when I was born and I don't know how long before. I never knew iim to be called by any other name. He was as black as the ace of spades, but be it understood he was no com mon musician, no ordinary fiddler. He was an aristocrat, too, "ho was; a regular "'fore de wah" aristocrat and if any "po white trash" had offered to employ him to furnish band music for a poor folks' picnic or orchestra music for a country dance that "po' white trash" would have been smoth ered beneath the withering scorn and righteous indignation of this ebony med old Roanoke rirer aristocrat. He played only for aristocrats, and was always well paid. All of his sons were musicians and back yonder in the fifties when, I, then but a tot, first knew of Old Frank Johnson he had ten sons, and four or live musically inclined nephews, all named Johnson and all tolerably black. noue being: brighter than "2inrer cake." When I and forty other lads f the village used to walk, not run. miles to meet the band when it had been announced that "Old Frank John son is cominr to town," I knew the riven name3 of all the sous, but I lave forgotten them now except John nd Edward and Cephas and Frank, Jr Well. Old Frank Johnson made up a rass band of this family of sons and icphews, about fifteen or sixteen strong. Old Frank blew the clarinet; John Johnson, his eldest son, the cor net: Cephas, the tenor horn; Edward, ihe big brass horn, and Frank, Jr beat the snare drum. They also had the big bass drum, the cymbal and he long drawn-out trombone and all He other horns and things that go to make up a complete brass band. All he Johnsons were tiddlers or banjo pickers or flute blowers, and the busi ess of this great North Carolina raus ical asrffreiration was to furnish field .tnd lawn music for aristocratic tour uaments, picnics, etc., and dancing mu.MC for the inevitable grand bal fhat followed at night. Sometimes ihe band played at big Democratic uarbecues and speaking; but never at a Whij; gathering;" Old Frank Johnson was a Democrat as well as an iristocrat, and he would have died before he would have allowed his band to play at a Whig meeting. Old Frank Johnson's band was known all ver - Northampton, Halifax, Edge iombe. Warren, Nash and Granville counties in North Carolina and was ilways in demand. " In summer time the band played t the Springs and there was every ear a scramble between Kittrell'a Springs in Granville county, Jones' nd Shocco Springs in Warren, and Buffalo Springs just across the Vir ginia line, for Old Frank Johnson's summer service. Generally either ihocco or Jones' would get him and sometimes (the two places beincf tnly two miles apart) they took him jointly, the band playing at one place ne day and one night and at the ther the next and that is how I came ro know all about Old Frank Johnson's band. When the band was at Jones or Shocco it came into the town of War renton, eight miles distant, once 1 week or maybe once a fortnight to play in the court house yard in the afternoon and for a ball at Brownlow's Hotel at night and the dancers at the Springs, and all the regions round about, came in too 13 0 THAT EXCELLED SOUSA. News Morulas llerall What balls these were and What balls those were at Shocco and JonesM No germans in those days square dances all the time and, O, my, how Old Frank Johnson could call the figures: "Balance All," ''Swing Your Partner," "Ladies' Change," "Back Again. Doocee-do," "Swing Corners All," etc., etc. And when the great long ball room in Brownlow's Hotel was tilled with those happy dancers there was a scene of beauty and chivalry the liko 01 which we don t witness in these days. I don't know that women as a gen eral rule were any prettier or lovelier . I 1 L. 1 r or men nauusomei or uuuicr iu uiusc days than now, but some how l can t help from thinking they were. I was mighty young then, and maybe not capable of judging, but visions of those handsome people who danced to Old Frank Johnson's music in Warrenton and at Shocco Springs, and Jones' Springs are flitting before me now; I see them just as 1 saw them then, and really 1 hardly ever catch a glimpse of a young woman now-a-days who looks near so pretty to my eyes as do those I behold in the vision. Yes, beautiful women and hand some men. there were tne somer- villes, four or five sisters, all stately and beautiful; Miss Sue Williams, Miss Pauline Rolf, Miss Nannie Wil son, Misses lizzie ana Annie nuni- mer, the Edwards girls, as happy a quartette as ever lived; Miss Rosa Martin, Miss Laura Martin, Miss Martha Washington, Miss Lalla Fittz. Misses Maria and Fannie Southerland and pretty little Kate Southerland, Miss Belle Bullock, Miss Meta Swain, Miss Elizabeth Green, the accomplish ed and beautiful daughters of Colonel Mason Wiggins and a hundred others, all beautiful and highly educated and all richly attired and bejeweled. And the men: Ben. Wade, loin Cook, Jim Somerville, William White, John Duggcr, Wm. H. Cheek, Dr. Foote, Walter Montgomery, Horace Mayfield, George Bellamy, Bill Alston. Phil Norwood, Ned Plummer, Austin Greeu, Col. Tom Jones, Peter Mit chell, Blount Plummer, Elias Carr, Walter Plummer, Ned Allen, Tom Skinner, and a host "of others, all handsome and chivalrous and most graceful dancers. Well, bye and bye the war came along, Shocco and Jones' Springs were permanently closed, Warrenton was deserted by these handsome men who went to Northern Virginia to fight under Beauregard, Jackson and Lee, and all these beautiful women quit dancing and went to sewing and pray ing for the handsome, brave soldiers who had left home and friends at the first tap of the drum. A rich Roanoke river farmer who had been made a Confederate colonel hired Old Frank Johnson's band to make battle music for the boys who wore the gray and carried him and his band to the front. Old Frank was an aristocrat and a Democrat but he was not a fighter, and he didn't like the music of the bullets. He threw up the sponge early in the struggle and took bis band back to the banks of the Roanoke where he occasionally played for a country dance. Dances were not much in favor during the dark days of the war, so business was dull, and bye and bye he had to condescend to call figures for "po' white trash." After the war Old Frank Johnson partially revived his band and played for a few more picnics and balls, but he was now too old and times were too much out of joint. The last time I saw the old man and his baud was in the summer of 1866. He played at Halifax, N. C, for an old fashioned tournament in the morning and for the coronation ball at night, and this, by the way, was the last effort of the old time aristocracy of that section to revive the ante-bellum festivities and it was a dismal failure. Too many of the old time aristocrats had gone to the wall in the crash of '65. They made a sickly showing at the Halifax tour nament, and the po' white trash" went to the front. An overseer's son caught the most rings at the tilting and crowned the daughter of the county jailer, queen oflove and beauty. Old Frank Johnson died the next year and I have always had a lurking suspicion that the Halifax tournament, so disastrous to the ante-bellum aris tocracy, broke his aristocratic old heart all to flinders. Old Frank Johnson's band never played classical music, don't reckon Old Frank ever heard of classical music, but his music suited me and I never got tired listening to "Katie W ells." "Gentle Fairv Belle." "Who'll Take Sugar In His Coffee," "Mocking! Bird, "My Dark Virginia Bride, ..rttt ru-it unm " sik . , .'. .. ;ousa s uanu wiin its cusiitw music and marches are not a patching to Old trank Johnson's band as 1 knew it and heard it and .loved it in those good old .days, now gone never to return. By the way, I wonder what has be come of all those handsome young men and beautiful women who used to dance so gracefully to that sweet music! Many of the men fell in bat tle, some as early as Manassas, some at Seven Pines, some at Cold Harbor, j some on the works at Petersburg and ! a number of them in the Wilderness, but some 01 them never leu iq oattie. Like Old Frank Johnson, they loved fiddle music and dancing better than they did the bullet music and fight- as. and they "followed the band back home." And those lovely women nearly all are dead, I reckon. I don't know that I can locate a single one of them. Such as are living I guess are mothers and grandmothers perhaps, but I will wager a gill of buttermilk that never a one of the daughters was ever so beautiful as were their mothers when I used to see them "balancing all" and "swing ing corners" to the sweet music made by Old Frank Johnson's band. - THE WOMAN'S MEMORY. "S- he is dead 1" the spinster said. i' And wept, 'twould seem, unduly.' "Aid he wan one of Nature's Knights K gentleman, aye! mst truly, Thi wicked world niiirrir fitly view With feeliiieof self-pity The pHS-dnjf of a niri so true. So noble and so witty. It holds tw few ?-uch men as he, Who hail all men as brother, And who are never lo t see The terlinir worth of others, fie clung t Truth whene'er he went, Nor time nor place might matter. For everything he said he meant He never stopped to flatter. Good Ju'lguien? bcted his spoken word, And no consigned to earth. 'Twere fitting tint the woild accord Due tribute to his worth." Tle man she mourned was sixty-odd. And there w . little, to him, A plain old s-ul in fart, 'a clod" His . eitihlrs said who knew him. Her neighbors wondered how she came T know 1 hi Mr Burton. Said they: "H i wasn't no old flme. tshe had none such, that's certain!" And that was true. Yet it appears Tld- man whose charms had caught her Had met her once in ny-gone jvars; Just once and then forgot tier. But ah! she hetd his memory dear And hailed his death with pify, Fnr he, in that long vanished years, Had told her she was pretty NOTABLE EVENT IN HISTORY. Since the Climax of Napoleon's Career Probably Nothing Has so Moved the World as the Passing Away of the Aged Sovereign of the British Em pire. (Favetteville Observer.) It is probable that no event has so moved the world, since the climax of Napoleon's career, as the passing away of the aged sovereign of the British empire the monarch who, in theory, "reigns but does not rule," but whose wisdom and remarkable virtues have for a long time com manded far greater obedience to her will than was commonly supposed. .The progress of the British Isles since he asoended the throne in 1837 has been like a tale from. Arabian nightsr Great as the increase of their population has been, from 17 millions to over 40 millions, and of that of their transmarine and annexed de pendencies, until now they reach a total equal to one-fourth of the earth's inhabitants, their moral, material and political advancement has been in even far greater ratio. Within a year after she was crowned, the movement for the repeal of the crown laws that abrogation of the tribute which commerce has been paying to feuda lism was formally launched at Man chester. It was a reflection of the success of the American republic; and, from the time when the repeal was secured, eight years later, reform has followed reform, until the people of the mother land have become the freest in the world, far outstripping our own in the readiness and accuracy with which they secure a response to their will in the law of the land. Keeping even pace with this political advancement, the moral, social, ma terial and intellectual progress of the people have gone hand in hand, until Britain, not France, is now the most civilized of the nations of the earth. When Victoria was crowned, the British people had hardly emerged from the atmosphere oj the seven teenth century. Only an insignificant number enjoyed the privilege of vot ing. Capital punishment was in flicted in public and for comparatively trivial offenses. The prisions were filled with wretchedness and reeked with filth. The masses were illiterate. Today, in the final measure of a high civilization, the body of the people stands without a rival. In all this, vast change, the pro gressive spirit of the Queen, tempered by a wise conservatism, and the rigor ously virtuous example of her court, have played a decisive part. The National " Scores Another Scoop. It ir interesting to follow the keen rivalry among the popuhir-prieed peri odicals. "The National Magazine" f Boston Bcored its first sijrnHl scoop on the Galveston article, published October 1st. nnd hart continued an unbroken record ever since, thirty to sixty days iihead of older rivals, with fresher matter and more elaborate illustration. In fact, the first magazine to introduce "timely" articles into the pages of monthly periodicals: was. The National Mnuazine' The article ou "Victoria, Queen and Empress." with most elabor ate illustrations is fresh and crisp, and dates and circumstances of the demise of one of the greatest characters known in the world's history, fresh from the press. This is only one of the twenty articles in "The National Magazine" for February. In hia handsomely illustrated Washing ton observations, Joe Mitchell Chappie is now recognized as one of the strongest and most entertaining writers at the; Nation! Capital. Nothing escapes hist Sr- keen observations, in the SuDremeConrt. Senate, White House, or the dosty I j archives or a department. He brings! the reader viridlv in touch with all the o-ront niiuatin f moment t th rni - - h - " - ... r tal. The Stories in "The National Maga zine" are intensely strong in their Americanism, and in it pages many of the most popular meriean story writers of toduy have first tested their literary lance. Melville Dorsey, the drnggist, will refund you your money if you are not satisfied after using Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They cure disorders of the biomacb, biliousness, cons' ipation and head ache. Price 25 cents. Samples free. A woman with a babv and a woman witQ a dog always look pityingly at actrother. FLOWERS AT PAN-AMERICAN. dumnlas Lmdc Effect Beaatifnl Floral Exhibit. The Pan-American Exposition at Buf falo next summer will possess unusual charm for lovers of flowers and of , beautiful landscape effects. Perhaps in recognition of this the members of the Society of American Florists have decided to bold their annual conven tion In Buffalo in 1901. Chicago was anxious to win the convention, but In view of the special attractions for Its members which the Pan-American Ex position will possess it was decided to meet next year in the Pan-American city. The gathering will bring to Buf falo about 1,000 delegates and their ' families from all parts of the United States. The floral features of the Pan American Exposition and its landscape effects will surpass anything ever seen before by visitors to expositions held in the United States. The laying out of the grounds was done with the view of providing for such attractions, and ample space was left for courts and HOKTICULTURK BUILDING. fountains, canals and lakes, which will be bordered with plants and flowers of all kinds aud descriptions. While there will be charming scenery of this char acter in all portions of the grounds, an especial effort will be made to embel lish the southern portion, adjoining Delaware park, at the entrance to that part of the grounds where the main Exposition buildings are situated. On both sides of the splendid Triumphal Bridge at this point will be two arti ficial pools called the Mirror Lakes, connecting with the Grand Canal. which encircles the grounds. The slopes of these lakes and the whole vi cinity will be adorned with a magnifi cent outdoor exhibit of flowering plants set in the midst of shrubbery and trees In such a way as most to enhance the beautiful effect There will be a large display of rare water plants, including the Nllumbiums and the wonderful Victoria Regia. or Amazon Lily, and many Nymphapas not before exhibited. Applications for space for exhibits on the grounds and in the special building to be devoted to horticulture are com ing from florists all over the country, and the expressed desire of -the culti vators of flowers and plants to be rep resented at the Pan-American Insures an extensive exhibition of these beau tiful products of nature. LIFE SAVING STATION. One tm Beintr Erected by Catted States Government. Work was recently begun on the United States life saving station upon the grounds of the Pan-American Ex Dosition at Buffalo. N. Y. The site of the station is on the north side of the lake In Delaware nark, in one of the most beautiful portions of the Ex position grounds. The life saving station will be fully equipped with apparatus and men and will be a most attractive as well as novel exhibit. Life saving exhibitions will be given every day during the progress of the Exposition. The appa ratus In use by the government for this purpose will be shown and a crew of ten picked men will be employed in giving thp exhibitions. The station is to be modeled after one of the regular stations along the coast of the United States. Hoping to Blake Their Fortune. The thousands of people who visit the grounds where the buildings of the Pan-American Exposition are rising like a city created by magic we many things which Indicate that the value of the vacant lots surrounding the Ex position grounds for money u.aking purposes next summer is duly appre ciated. For instance, one real estate dealer advertises like this: "Can you keep a boarding bouse? Can yon run a lunch counter? If so. here Is your chance to make the most money." An other advertises. "Choice lots for hotels, boarding houses, saloons, sum mer gardens, restaurants, souvenir booths and other things by-which yon can make your fortune at the Pan American Exposition." All the vacant property In the vicinity of the Expos! tion grounds is staked off and pla carded by signs indicating its value for purposes In connection with the big Exposition to be held in Buffalo next summer, and many buildings are al ready going uu which will be used for accommodations for Exposition visit ors and all sorts of purposes connected with their entertainment. Broad Scope of the Exnoaitloa. Nearly all of the nations of Central and South America have already sent formal acceptances to the Invitation to participate in the Pan-American Exposition. Exhibits showing tbe re sources of all the principal countries of Central and South America are now . In course of preparation. Government . . officials are preparing exhibits from the Philippine Islands. Porto Rico. Cuba and the Hawaiian group. About 15 acres have been set apart for tbe court of tbe state and foreign buildings on the eastern side of tbe grounds and a little south of the main group. Tbe fellow doesn't always himself. who wears glasses make a spectacle of The man who raises hogs realizes that the pen Is mightier than the iwora. 1 r FOND FATHER'S fi MISDIRECTED LOVE ! TO O The Change Wrought in Three Lives by One Man's Wrong Doing A North Caro lina Romance. tat 1 Special Correspondence Raleigh, N C, February 1. At the of the United States recent term court held in this city during the trial of a white man by the name of W. M. Crowder, the commission of a crime was brought to light which has changed the entire course of life of a young man and a young woman, and well nigh wrought a tragedy. Near the town of Jackson, in tbe county of Northampton, in this State, there lives a family by tbe name ol Barnes. It is an old and respectable family and there is a daughter by the name of Neely, who is a Deautnui specimen of womanhood, one is twenty-eight years old, weighs about one bnndred and thirty pounas, is light haired, fair complexion, and blue eyes. She was graduated from Murfreesboro Female College with highest honors. She is the only child of her father, and has been taught by him to ride horses and use a gun and pistol. She is an expert with both. She can snuff a candle at twenty paces, ride to hounds in a fox chase, equal to any man. Her father is not a wealthy but a well-to-do farmer. Miss JSeely is very popular ana is known as the belle of the county. She has worn these honors with be coming modesty, because she is a young woman with a plenty of sound ense. It goes without saying mat she has had many admirers who would have been delighted to have married her, but she seemed to be oblivious to all these attentions until a young man of about her age by the name of R. D. Hodges appeared on the scene of action about the first of January, 1899. Hodges lived in Florida, his post-office was St. Peters burg. He formerly lived near Jack son and returned after being away ten or fifteen years, to visit his rela- lres. He bad been engaged in iruit aising in Florida, and trading in lumber and naval stores, and had amassed a considerable estate for a man only twenty-eight years old. He is quite a handsome man; is well ed ucated; and is beliked by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. In visiting his relatives he met Miss Neely, and it seems to have been love at first sight on the part of both. It was soon observed that Hodges had won the affections of Miss Neely, and there ware general congratula tions tbat both parties were going to Io so well in their marriage relations, rhe engagement was finally an nounced and Hodges returned to Florida and a regular correspondence between the young people was kept up. It was understood that the mar riage was to take place in the fall of 1890. Within three miles of the Barnes family resides the family of W. M. Crowder, who is the blood uncle of MissNeelv on her mother's Side. This man has a son, Harold, who has been a ... in love with his cousin. Miss Neely. nearly all his life. He is a worthy young man, but Wiss.iveeiy nas never had more than ordinary cousinly ai fection for him; and would not think of marrying her hrst cousin. It ap pears that Harold has been near los ing his mind since it became known tbat Hodges and Misseeley were 10 be married. The father of Harold Crowder re ceives his mail at the post-office of Laska as does the Barnes family Freauentlv Mr. W. M. Crowder in getting his mail would ask for that of tbe Barnes family and it would be given to bim. Among this mail were the letters of Hodges to miss neeiy. About tbe fifteenth of June last. Miss Neely received a letter from Hodges and answered it promptly. She expected an answer within a week 1 . i' 1 . as was usual, our, k uiu nut oome. Havinsr immediately answered tbe : - . . . . .a 1 last letter received oy ner ironi noa cres she nwaiteu nis re pi 7 as ne " . . . . . . thought she was requirea 10 ao Week after week passed and no letter came irom noages. iis sxkviy uiu not know what to make of this silence - ww s aa? . ' of her betrothed. She could hear of other persons in the neighborhood getting letters from Hodges but be made no mention 01 ner nor 01 no. having heard from her. In the mean time Harold Crowder was presistent in his attentions to "Cousin aeeiy and wan often seen escorting her to different places. About tbe middle 01 uctoDer iasi Miss Neelv haDDened to go by the post-office at Laska, and seeing Mr, S. C. Draper, who was the assistant post-master, sne asaea mm 11 mere was any mail for her, and was told that there was none. She then re marked.that it bad been nearly four months since she had received a letter from Florida. Mr. Draper quickly re plied that several letters had. been received for her since that time, and tbat some of them, if not ail, had been handed to Mr. W. M. Crowder to be delivered to her. Miss Neely replied that her ancle had not de livered her a single letter. Crowder was seen and he denied that tbe post master had ever given bim a letter for Miss Neely. Immediately Miss Neely wrote to Hodges relating these facts. After waiting for an answer to his third letter and receiving none. Hod ges considered that Miss Neely had decided to break the engagement and refused to answer his letters as the beet means of attaining this object He made all preparations to marry Miss Neelv as had been agreed and. believing that be bad been discarded without nan and shamefully treated o FOR HIS SON. of Atlanta Constitution ) by the woman whom he thought to be the soul of honor, he commenced to pay his addresses to Miss Gertrude Lyndhurst, of St. Petersburg, and she caught him in the rebound, and in a few weeks they were married. About a month after the marriage, Hodges received tbe letter of Miss Neely relating the cause why she bad not received his letters, and suppos ing that be had not answered, she did not understand his silence, and there fore had not written him. Hodges was astounded when he read this let ter, and was much disturbed and grieved that he betrayed himself to his wife, and wss compelled to dis close to her all the facts. He also immediately wrote the father of Miss Neely a similar letter, aJ informed bim of his marriage. At this juncture the whole matter was referred to tbe post-office. depart ment at Washington, and tbe 'case was put in tbe bands of inspector Connelly. He gathered the facts as hereinbefore stated and had n ."M. Crowder arrested and put in jail; and at the recent term of tbe United States court held in this city by Judge Thomas R. Purnell, Crowder was indicted and convicted and was sentenced to the Nashville peniten tiary for one year. Crowder denied having received any letters for Miss Neely, and tbe only motive that could be imagined for his concealing and destroying the letters, was the desire that his son should marry Miss Neely. When Miss Neely first heard of the marriage of Hodges, she was greatly surprised, and thought herself well rid of a man who would act so die honorably towards a woman; but when she found that she had been deceived by her failure to receive the erters of Hodges, as he had been by bis failure to receive hers, she was greatly grieved. She admitted before the court that sho had expected to marry noages, ana mat ne pos sessed her affections to tbe fullest de gree, there was great sympathy for ber in the court, and Judge rur nell imposed tbe fullest penalty al lowed oy law on urowaer. When Hodges found out all the facts, he was terribly distressed, and when tbe facts became known to his wife, she was grieved beyond expres sion, because she then knew that Hodges had married her when he be lieved that he had been shamefully discarded by Miss Neely without cause and without notice. She so much feared tbat her life with Hod ges would be one life-leng misery tbat she proposed a separation rather tnan be a living reproach every dav to her husband. Miss Neely heard of this state of affairs, and she wrote and begged Hodges for her sake to live with his wife and to treat her with all consideration, because Mrs. Hodges was not to blame, and it would be cruelly wrong to make ber suffer because of a wrong done by W. iu. urowaer. Hodges therefore re jected tbe proposition for a sepsra tion. and is living with bis wife in their Florida home. FULFILLING THE PROPHECY. Qround Hog flakes Good His Predic tion About the Weather. Now tbat Ground Hog or Candle mas Day, February 2, has come and gone, those who believe in the popular superstition connected with tbe ground bog and bis shadow are firmer than ever in their belief of the animal's ability as a weather prophet. If he did not see bis shadow when be came out of bis bole Saturday be was blind. That be did see it is, to tbe minds of many, evidenced by tbe variety of weather snow, hail, and beating rain which fell upon Balti more yesterday. According to tbe traditon, on ieb- roary 2 of each year tbe ground hog. bnrdened with a eertain sense of re sponsibility in being tbe popular weather prophet, emerges from bis winter laager" and calmly weighs in bis mind the prospects for Spring. He looks around to see if be can get a glimpse of his own shadow. Jf none can be seen, he concludes tbat tbe weather is bad, and tbat it will soon mend, and he immediately pre pares for Spring. On the other band, if the sun is shining when he ven tures forth, he sees his shadow, con cludes tbat Spring is far off and that it is best for bim to go back and hibernate six weeks more ere be ven tures out for the season. 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