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Why Some Americans Persist in Living Abroad uta mlf In wonder. makes people ro ws atertag greeta«l»M from Cairo to ha the ter oar ore is quite as Gunttaatft ter the aheeaea of kith ami kin. Ex . baa taught mo that tbs majority of them tnAlglmut tt MitiirT md art. too. for tht M ftt la appllad to tfc* docoratloa of tka they are ta the Rosetta Rtsoe. k Italy, ter Instance, log since That useless fatigue Is left to 1 hare met ao mare dream of vlaitlag the la the library of tor ease the Magnificent irtsaely ta stagy Italian. 1 *h* Mi* expensive little cities. some twaddle . - - ***• ■» -w*rt ter It, la abu cases out of ten, rttruCMea of the piece lies lb the fact that a Victoria can be bad for moot* omd I good cook for on*troth that •mm.-Tho Centorj. Ambition in the United States MBITION Is nowhere dee so general and eo booadlees aa ta This la natural, for. in so ether country Is Indl -J • highly differentiated as In America, or man eo ten of inborn energy, so rich la initiative, resource, optimum and self-confidence; eo little tethered by pedantry, ao willing to recognise tbs value of a brilliant personality, however thU A? xpresaloa. tt ant be added that In America the Instances from the mast humble beginnings to the moot •* numerous and striking than anywhere else, from a woodcutter Into a President; a Schwab earned a dollar a day, sad, at thirty-live, baa a sal of a mflUos; a Carnegie who, aa a youth, did not know ■ad a shilling to bay primers, sad, as a man in mature life, does *• P* *ld reasonably and usefully of his three hundred ■w* *n«« te every woodcutter, every “buttons." every with the scantleat elementary schooling, the Idea that tt s himself whether or not ho shall |tread la the foot a Schwab, or a Carnegie, and reach the goal that these tulaed. “Anrea medlceritaa” has nowhere ehh eo few partisans "Everybody eheadr U the National motto. I suppress, ^ . .. the second half of the smart sentence. The universal ideal cf the Amiri ran people aiai te he success. The dream of success feeds **• tency cf the chad, hypnotises the youth, gives the man temerity, , and perseverance, and only begins to bocome a matter of tudiffer ’ the sobering tnanence of advanced age. " however. Is hut ooe of those vagao words which mean noth hat which, like "freedom." or “program." are mere red pleats by everybody with contents distinctively bis own.—Success. A Collegiate Education Essential to Success a , as business associate In many eh lntlmataly acquainted with hundreds potent whatever of edoce of dollars. I never mat at was not profound and that he had not an edncation. of them who did not feel In the' pres • a certain sense of mortification paid for. I never met one of them who whole fortune that his boy should never m la part, frem the Latin and Greek. Our literature a sort af Latte and Greek. The men or the woman who knows aad Greek takes op the paper and reads the editorial or the megn [ the page, or the book of poetry or prose aad looks at the Is a meaning m the word with the Greek or Latin to him tmeonscioaaly; there la a suggestion of a which gives them a delight; au that yon _ to the day af their death, and business people aatfl thejr go lata baalnsM fa the alder cwimlrtes of the world the higher education had always beta a pel megs, in these United States of America a liberal edncatloa fa a duty. Thera the Institutions of government rest upon thrones, rest a poo riavir not upon easts. There the higher edncatloa endangers the caste aad imflaunlsis the throne. Bara liberty nets upon the intelligence of the people, aad It la pore or It la base accordlag to the character of that Intel Every collage la aa Insurance company against anarchy and socialism. Ivory ftdty equipped aad thoroughly educated boy and girt la a missionary Sm the right la the /Mate, in society, in religion and la merale. ~v..> In a recent letter I took the port of the bad boys and said they must not ho |!ria np. That letter haa provoked a moat Intelligent comment from a wetter* school teacher, who haa baen teaching hoys for twenty yearn. He ■ay* that hts so-called bad boys al most Invariably turned oat to be bU beet hoys, beet scholars, ax<l best man. and he never punished one with the rod. Hla illustrations are very apt. eutertalalng and instructive, for he It so ordinary teacher hot la a highly cohered gentleman and srrltee a beau UIui letter. Hie letter contained eev •nd pages and was eagerly perused. He says I am a believer is the rod. but it haa been my lot to have to use it mostly, but lightly, on mamma's pete —the good boys who never did any *ilng wrong. Ha does not believe ta moral turpitude or total depravity, but that all natural Instincts aro good, and that avail is only an aboso or mlausc of the good, and he haa never seen n hamaa being who would noUat times perform some kind oflee for another, never expecting a reward. Once upon a time, the story goee. a little girl wag watching a sculptor as he pot the fin ishing touches upon an angel that he bad chiseled from a block of marble, and she exclaimed: "Oh. what a beautiful angel you have made!" "No," said the sculptor, "the angel waa al ready In the marble. 1 have only chipped away the rough atone that hid 80 it is wlthovery man—there Is as escet there, though too often hidden by the etony covering. The iklllfol sculptor could find it. This reminds me of as incident happened many years ago la Rome while 1 lived there. It wee on Sunday while a (real freshet was Inundating a portion of the town. A poor boy, the son of a widow, had rowed hie little host out la aa eddy to catch soma wood that was floating down. By some mischance hie boat was caught by the current and he was carried repldty down the stream. Hie soother had seen it all sad ran down- the bank screaming for help. Many people ran eking with her, but could do nothing. It was near a quarter of a mile to the (junction where scores of men and hoys were watching the surging wa ters. As the little boat neared the bridge plller It eapsited and the boy disappeared with the boat In an In stant It came to the sarfare again and the boy was seen clinging to the chain at Its end. "Save that boy, somebody." Bald one, "I'll give $5 to save that boy." Bald another. “I’ll give $10." "Til give $20." said another, bnt no body dared to venture. The mother cried la agony. “Won’t somebody save By boy." Just then a young man was seen rushing wildly down, throwing off bis coat and shoes as he came and patalg the crowd, he ran down Into the water and struck out boldly for .tha boy. He got him. and clasping lone arm around bis waist swam with the other and laid him at his mother's ; feet. He was limp sod speecEJbWT bit : alive. Putting on his shoes and coat the young man walked quickly away. But he was known to most of those present. He was a barkeeper and bis moral standing was not good, for he ! ws« prof tne In speech and bis aaso . dates were the iports and drinking I men of the town. He was under the ; ban. but there was an angel in him i eoaaewhere. He knew the poor widow and be knew the boy—and he accrued !to accept aay reward. I have often i ruminated over that heroic deed and wondered. i iwitudr irimu BajH uui : the difference between a bad boy and ! a good one !■ that the stone is harder i to chip from the former, bat gives e ;ia*r and mora durable polish when the rough outside is chiseled away, but 1 the good boy's angel is found In chalk, and soon crumbles or decays. Ha tells of Bob, the worst boy ever taught. It was far out in was tern Tessa, and when the school was mado up It was predicted that Bob and the taaeber would have a fight In leas than » week. Ho was fully apprised that Bob was wicked and cursed like a sail or aad would fight at the drop of a bat aad drop It himself. Bob’s father was dead aad his mother aa Invalid aad vary poor, but Boh loved her and was kind aad good to her aad cooked thf breakfast before he went to school, which waa two miles away. Ha always hurried horns after school to chop the wood aad bring water aad help her with the supper. The teacher’s pualah ■sat of his pnpOa, when it had to. bn gleoh. waa keeping them after school aad requiring them to gat their lea soaa. Boh very respectfully asked to ha allowed to go home to wait apon Mo mother. Ho behaved vary wall for a wash, hut his bad day came aad he did aot study at all. Ha seemed to be ready for a row. The teacher told him mildly hut firmly that ha asset stay la aaUl be got his leases. He gave a took of dafiaaco aad abut up Ma book. My friend says: "it was one of the trial* of my llfa. I pretended to bo median a book, but I was only think ing. fit half an hour Bob opened Mo hook, but 1 saw taara la hie eyes. Af ter g while ha skid. 1 can't study sow. n«os% sir, let ma go boom. U'e get ting dark aad another win bo scared. Mho's all atone aad Mek. Please, air. 1 will gat this iaaaaa tomorrow, aad I wool bo bad say more.’ Well. I waa jMt svwaome, aad 1 took Mm la my arms aad wo wept together. Never did Bob gtvo mo say more trouble and all the sal fibbers wondered. I verily be lieve that tf I bad whipped him he would have boeo ruined by It After Mo mother's death ha enlisted la the army aad woo Ma straps, aad he writes am occasionally, aad always than ho mo for the kladooa ( shewed Mm at ashed.'' I Mtove that the use of the red fa wr jmMe schools has bean generally The puatshmaot of refrac ts sow fast what K is ia otrr __muoth at saofiatt aad acofireas. - _-with thio rod verdict to that gal am a Pbrt use aa haw ... aa to Dr. . aad wbeo I mid. "Mo that bto aoe* ha woe mad when 43 wrote that- With ell of those wive* he man have had three or four hun lrcd children, and the little rascals wero always tagging after him end begging for candy, or a knife or e (log, or something, and they climbed np his laga and fait la hu pockets and pulled hi* hair, and It waa pappy this and daddy that, until he got desperate and wrote that verse. I don't take every thing for granted that Solomon says nohow. A man who waa as big * fool about women aa he waa. u«*da't tell me about whipping children. Ha didn't know how to raise Rehobosm who suc ceeded him, for he eahl to the children of Israel, “My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise roo with- scorpion*.' That’s the kind of n boy ha raised with hta rod." Bat after all and before all It la the home Influence that moulds the child, tor that la constant and enduring. The angel that was within Bob waa unuor ered by kls mother's love. Some moth er* send their little children to school aa to a nursery to get them out of the way or because they cannot manage them at home. While others put np tor them a nice lunch end kies them a sweet goodbye and fondly watch tor their return. Our children had to go mors thaa n mil* to school when we lived on the farm. They had to cross the creek on n foot tog end then through a laid up n long htl! and then down the hill ontll out of sight It was my dally pleasure to watch them go and come, end feel that they were safe. And now our eldest daughter Is going to leave us—going to Wlnuiboro. Caro lina. to live, where her huaband baa found profltable employment Th-.y have flve children, some of whom were our dally visitors and made us happy when they came. What shall we do now? We thought that this exodus of our children waa over. My wife and 1 are growing old and It grltvee u* to l°e* our children and grandchildren. But this la the common lot There la nothing true but heaven.—Bill Arp In Atlanta Constitution. PROMINENT PEOPLE. President Roosevelt Is forty-four yean old. King Edward has been godfatbsr to seventy-five persons. Premier Balfour Is not only a fine ! musician, but also a golfer and an an* tomobillat. Kor a country aeat. Robert T. Lin coln. of Chicago, lias bought 2600 acres of land at Manchester. Vt. Tbs Crown Prince of Germany Is a clever nutomobllist nnd understands how to repair all accidents to the ma chine. The 8linh of Persia owns the largest diamond In flic world, while the Sultan of Turkey It the possessor of the larg est roby. The German Emperor bss taken np a new hobby. He Is very much fascin ated Just now with the collecting of book plates. The Hon. Maude Pauncefote. daugh ter of the late British Ambassador, Is compiling ber father's papers for pub lication In memoir form. Nothing could prove more clearly the complete restoration of King Ed ward to health and strength than bis v^^to -the Newmarket races. Senator Psttns, of Alabsma, declares the secret of longevity to be: Work. He says those who get rich and retire early from business are apt to die. Lord Kitchener, when asked recent ly for his autograph refused, saying: "Young man, make yonr own auto graph worth something. Mine’s worth nothing.” John Morley baa presented the li brary of the late Lord Acton, which was given him by Andrew Carnegie, to Cambridge University. There aru 70,000 volumes. Hedln Sven, the Asiatic explorer, has been ennobled by Sweden, despite the protests of many friends that he might better have received a money compensation for bis discoveries to atone for the fortune he has spent on explorations. I a PORTING BREVITIES. Lord Derby, (he trotter, bar won up ward of 880.000 this season to date. Harvard beat Princeton for Intercol legiate golf championship by 14 holes to 9. A woman’s gymnasium, to coat 831, 000. will be built at tbs Unlreralty of Chicago. Horae racing In California the com ing winter will be on a higher plane than ever before. During the Harlem meeting, nt Chi cago. 8187.777 was distributed In •tehee and purees. ^Tbe Western Jockey Club bat re fused te great a trainer's "-to 8tors rHommedleu. Daa Patches failed to beat the pac ing record <U»%) ot Memphis, Teas., making tbe mas In 2.01. The athletic council of Cornell Uni versity has voted te send e crow to compete Is the Healey regatta next 7*er. Prtaea Alert wen a match race from Hr Albert a at Memphis. Tana., and *" • .*■“ kidney Buns, ana af tbs A merles a BBf •* petted from Prune*, ro ♦watl B Parle, wee rearreeted aad •oeerted to the froe tier. BdMh W„ driven by Prank O. Jones, wua a free-far aU pace at Memphis, Tn, pacing each beet la 206%. a rec ord for two amts far mares. O'Oeaoer, the Jockey, has been ga ped by Baron da Bet had. lid to rtdo in France far Urn asst three yearn at a mlary at 816,000 par aaaum. TacMsaan are greatly pleased that G. Oliver Iselln has consented to take ss^srA’swii’csr " puts dm SffSr ifMWi te the atom with them, aad ttep am appaaai to M. The fra* GOOD m • ROADS. lalmstm IthrauMM. HS following interesting In formation U tntcn from the recent article entitled ‘Hoad Building with Convict Labor In the Southern Stater." by Prefer tor J. A. Holme*, and will be of Interest to tbore Interested in the good road* movement: Portable prison* on wheels are novel tie* which are now in uae In several localities. These movable Jails appear to solve the problem of preventing the ••cap* of convicts employed at great distances from their prison proper. In exterior appearances they ore freight car bodies provided with barred win dows and mounted upon wagon trucks. As the road improvement progresses they are drawn forward by horse* and collected in some convenient grove or open Held, selected no the temporary prison camp Morning and evening the convicts are marched along the road from and to their quarter*. To facil itate their being safely guarded daring the nlgbt without too great rl*k and expense, each prisoner, when he goes to bod, bis either one foot or one band manacled loosely to a clisla or rod from which he can be easily re leased the following morning. Tier* of bunks Inside comprise the •leeping quarters. These ore easily and cheaply made comfortable. Ample ventilation Is afforded In summer and during the cold months there Is a stove In each car. One of these portable prisons, which can be disjointed and transported lu sections, la lu use on the public roads of North Carolina. One of these movable Jells can be lengthened to accommo date fifty convicts, its side* and ends are of boards bolted together In sec tions. The roof, of corrugated Iron, la also In sections. Large tents are used in States. v.vutu* tiiwvimi uu me cooking ana washing of some migratory camps. This work Is usually done, however, by trusty male convicts, and in some cases It Is performed by hired labor. Tho younger prisoners are usually as signed to such tasks as the carrying of water or the running of errands. A ball and chain are attached to con victs who show a desire to escape. While these encumbrances make it Im possible for a prisoner to run rapidly, they do not seriously hamper his move ments during the regular road work. Critics of the convict syatum of road building say that it offers too mnny opportunities for the escape of prison era; as a matter of fact, however, the annual escapes amount to lees than two men out of each hundred. Almost S00 counties, representing ten States, employ convict labor upon their roads. This furnishes an army of 4377 road builders, eoch of whom coets his State thirty-three and one-half cents a day. Were he left In the county Jail he would cost one and one-half cents more a day. Hence he Is a cheaper article tolling open the roads than languishing In a cell or Jail yard. All told, the cost of convict labor In these States ranges from one-third to ono-bair that of hired labor employed In the same work. Tho Southern States employing con vict road builders arc Florida. Georgia, Kentucky. Louisiana. Mississippi, North Carolina. South Carolina, Ton ncssee. Texas and Virginia. In the two Carolines and Georgia such a per fection of systems Is reached that large camps ore operated at cost of only twenty to thirty cente per convict per day. Provisions are purchased for the prisoD camps at wholetule at competl i five rates; tho couvlcts do their own ; cooking and washing. Owing to the usually good sanitation of the camps nnd the benefits of exercise to the pris oners. the cost of medical attention la limofft nnthln* Another virtue of the system Is that the prisoners, after lnjarinc their com munities by the commission of their crimes, and after adding to Ita financial burdens by Incurring expense for their capture, conviction and punishment, arc put in a position to benefit that community. Having served an appren ticeship in the handling of rood bulld ia* machinery the convict leaves Prison with a training which enables him to earn n better living than be probably made before. Only prisoners convicted of misde meanors can ha assigned to work on tba public roads of Virgin la, West Vir ginia. Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisians, Mississippi, Texas. Florida and Qaor ***- The terms of inch convicts do not usually exceed one year. In Ala bama all able bodied mate prisoners wheat terms do not exceed two years, may bo sent to the roads in Booth Carolina the Umtt la five yearn and in Kcrth Carolina ten. An experiment la now being made In •onse Southern counties In the employ <m the roads of captured, but un deleted prisoners, nsable to give ban. If the prisoner be acquitted at hla trial ha Is paid for bte services. If con vletad, bis period of labor oa the roads is deducted from hie term. Many convicts fat the «ootbera States are employ** on farms, in fact arias or in mines, being worked under the lease ar contract system, or in sente team under Ruts control. California emulate quarry and crash •trae for use in permanent road baOd ta* Tba cant to half what it woald be with hired labor. Strang stockades •arraand tbeas quarries, aleo the aon riet qsorters The percaataan of mm. alms houM, 41,000 of whom are mam. With such a fore# every county la every State might develop lta highways to the highest degree of perfection. The article above referred to on "Rond Bnlldlng with Convict Labor In the Southern States" ran be secured free of cost by application to Professor J. A. Holmes. Chapel HIU. N. C.. who la the Special Agent of the Southern Division of the office of P.oud Inquiries of the Culteil -State Department of Agriculture. An Imagination etageovrr. If we could hare good roads It would add more to the value of farm property than all other public Improvements put together ever hove. It would reduce the coat of getting our crops to market more than one-half, and In saving of feed that la cow fed to Idle horses. It would amount to a sum that staggers the Imagination. A Practical HmsIl Every day that a team remains Idle It la something for which no return will ever be received. If we had good roads the teams could be used on the farm when the ground was In condi tion nod the crops could be hauled to market at such time* as form work could not be prosecuted. A BsairkaliU Stxlrmcnt. It has been computed that the aver age cost of getting crop* from the farm to the railway station 1* greater than pnttlng It from the railroad station to the seaboard. A Farmer's opinion. "If It were n question of farm wag ons with narrow tires furnished free of expense, or such wide tire wagon* as I am usiug at my own cost, 1 should continue to Use the latter.”—A farmer. Have Wide Tires. The very best way to make and keep good roads la to have wide tired wagons. WORDS OF WISDOM. Like the bee. we should make our In dustry oar aisusemeut.—Goldsmith. If you will oot hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckle*.—Poor Rich ard. Politeness iudnccs morality. Sere nity of manner requires serenity of mind.—Julia Ward Howe. After oo many bare coldly repeated that vice leads to misery, is there no generous man who will proclaim aloud that misery leads to vlcef—Landor. The human race la divided Into two classes—those who go abesd snd do something, and those who alt and in quire. “Why wasn't it done the other way?"—O. W. Holmes.. Taken In its widest sense, culture means preparation for complete living. Acquisition of fitness for carrying on tho business of life is primarily a duty to self, and secondarily, a duty to oth ers.—Herbert Spencer. Tbe aim for which we give onr best strength Is everything, the visible suc cess ts nothing. True faith may be tbe greatest, goodness and fidelity at the highest, when visible success Is at the least.—John Hamilton Thom. Men. though never so thickly clad in dignities, ait not Inaccessible to the In fluence of their time; especially men whose life Is business: who at all turns, were It even from behind Judgment seats, have come In contact with the actual workings of the world.—Carlyle. ’Tls certain that the one thing we wish to know 1*. where power Is to bd* bought. Bnt wc want a tiner kind than that of commerce, and every rea sonable man would give any price of house and land and fntnre provision for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental en ergy. Our money Is only a second beat. We would jump to buy power with It. that Is, intellectual perception moving the will. That Is first best. Bnt we don't know where tbe shop is. —Emerson. Many and curious are tbe custom* re garding brides. In Switzerland tbe bride on her wedding day will permit no one, not even ber parents, to kiss ber upon tbs Ups. In parts of rural England tbe cook pours hot water over tbe threshold after the bridal couple go, la order to keep It warm for an other bride. The pretty custom of throwing tbe slipper originated In France. An old woman seeing tbe car. rlage of ber young king—Louis XIII.— passing on tho way from ebureb, where be bad Just bean married, took off her oboe, and, flinging It his coacb, cried out, "’Tie an I have, Tour Majesty, but may tbe blessing of God go with It." Thara Is on old superstition la Germany against marriages lu May. A favorite wedding day lu Scotland Is December SI. so that the young people can las vs their old life with tbs old year and begin their married Ufa with the new one. Tbe Italians perm It no wed ding gifts that are sharp pointed, con nected with which practice Is our su perstition that tbs gift of n knife sav ers friendship. One bsnotifnl marriage custom is that of the bride. Immediate ly after the ceremony, flinging ber bos quet among bar maiden friends. She whs catches It la destined to be tba neat bride.—London Globe.. Fasest Oasvytag. For many years tbe sad less belt aasthod of carrying merchandise from pises t# place in largu buildings has bean la ass and the system has worked wad. Its pises. hewersr, la being rapidly token by the toiepheraps sys tem, la which, an an merhaad wire, merchandise map ha farrtod suspended, with aUetridty as tbe motive power. One af the naan of telepharnge. which appeals an everybody. Is to railway stoHam Car carrying bapga«a.-BeUi #
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