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-'It is a strange development in the
business of writing, noted by. Life,
that as newspapers grow larger, books
grow smaller.
A year's operation , in Maine of the
law substituting a town system for the
school district system has reduced the
number of ungraded schpols by 348
and increased the number of graded
schools by twenty-eight.
Following the example of one of the
American magnates London Punch is
going to erect its work .shops and
houses for its employes, in the coun
ty. Tonbridge, Kent, near old Tun
bridge Wells, is the situation chosen.
There is a widespread; belief among
the Boers that President Kruger is a
sort of saint or prophet, occupying a
place different from and higher than
that of ordinary men. This feeling is
said to explain, in a measure, Kru
ger 's control of the Transvaal Parlia
ment. y-' v'
'The South is making it easyand
profitable for the establishment of
manufacturing enterprises in that sec
tion,' declares the Trenton (N. J.)
American. ' "We notice ; that at an
election held in Charleston, South
' Carolina, to determine whether fac
tories established there Bhould be ex
empt from taxation for five years, the
question was carried in the affirmative
by almost a unanimous vote, only fif
teen ballots being found in opposition
to it."
Spanish reports of battles in Cuba
. are all to one effect. The rebels were
beaten with heavy loss, while the
Spanish loss was little or nothing.
That is the story, day after day. We
have not kept an account of the Cuban
losses thus rep1 or ted, observes the .New
York Tribune, but we are inclined to
think that if they were all added up
the sum would indicate a mortality
exceeding that of almost any other
modern war, in proportion, that is, to
the numbers engaged on bothsides.
Perhaps a reminiscence of the Ten
Years' War will to some extent eluci
date the character of these reports.
During that struggle a careful account
was kept of the Cuban losses officially
reported by the Spanish At the end
of the war the totals were 395,856
killed, 726,490 wounded and 451,100
prisoners a grand total of 1,573,446.
And the entire population of the isl
and was only 1,250,000 1 It is safe to
reckon that the Spanish reports at
this time are no more accurate than
they were in the Ten Years' War,
Their own losses are probably much
heavier, in the aggregate, than thje
Cubans'. In the Ten Years' War they
admitted the loss, by -death, of 81,098
men, of whom, however, only 6488 fell
in battle or died -directly of wounds.
Yellow fever, cholera and other such
agencies did' for the rest.
Politeness always pays, even to ' a
stranger. The force of this familiar
proverb in shown in a good story
which comes. to the Atlanta Constitu
tion from Pennsylvania. A young law
student by the name of J. Spencer
Miller found himself o few days ago
the possessor of a handsome fortune
valued at, $70,000. His benefactor
was Bernito Mull, an Italian, who was
known to be very wealthy. Four or
five years ago Miller was traveling
with an'engineer corjis up the State.
He lived at Scranton fornearly a year
and -while there made the acquaint
ance of Mull.; After befriending the
Italian when "he was set upon by hood
lums the two became fast friends and
auring a long illness of young Miller,
tne Italian waited nnon him and crave
him daily presents of flowers and
' dainties. Miller returned to Media
three years ago and the intimacy
, ceased. The Media boy had about
forgotten his foreign v friend until
- yesterday, when a letter came from a
person in Scranton saying that Mull
had died at St. Louis. Mo., and had
left 870.000 worth x r?
Spencer Miller. The letter asked:
"Are you- the J. Spencer MiUer re
ferred to in the will?" Mr. Miller at
'first was inclined to regard the whole'
thing as a joke, but on telephoning to-
- other persons ' at Scranton he found
that such a bequest had really been
made.,) The only question is whether
nt the J: SnencerTMiller. of Media.'
is the person mentioned ;"in the will.
V "There seems to ; be no doubt ot it.
Mr, Miller believes he . is ? certainly
the .man, and with his ; attorney , has
cone to Scranton to make a thorough
investigation of ' the ' strange' case:
Mull was eccentric and was a convivial
Bori oi a terson.:; - JQ.e wn
- years , old. Miller, the legatee, is i
' muscular young man of twenty-tW0j
whose parents reside aMedia
BUSjY MART AND 'GRASS Y WAYS.
I am' tired of the city's sounds and eights,
Tit od of the glare of the noisy town;
I lorn? for the quiet farmhouse lights. '
- That shine through the trees when the
J dusk comes down.
I long for the cent of the berry-vines, .
J That over the hedges climb and fall ,
For the song and breath of the ; wind-blown
pines, '
Ana ihe stars and the darkness over all!
I am
tired of the city's sin and strife,
Of
he bargain-mart, and the busy maze
I dream of the dear old country life,
Of the blossomed fields and the , erassy
ways, V-:-
And I yearn, like a homesick child, to, steal
To my garret room, by the starlight's
gleam,
En the dear old home of my youth to kneel
And pray, like a child and Sieep and
dream!
M. B. Bridges. In Ladies Home' Journal.
L0VR IN THE DESERT.
NE day a boy came
running to his fath
er with a l book.
"What does this
word mean?" he
asked, for he be
lieved . that his
father knew all the
i j a ti jj
rnmm wuuu uuu , most Ul
the things beyond. The parent be
lievejl that,- too, and that 1 is how the
child had come to imbibe the idea.
The man looked and saw the word
IUVCi
1 k
"Do you know what that
wore
means, papa?; as ted the boy.
h, yes, said the father, and he
began thinking. He thought for a
long Rime, for there were so many
things love is that he hardly knew
where to begin defining. And the
longer he remained silent the harder
it seamed to find abegmning "It is
difficult to answer " he observed, and
the boy interrupted him.
"When we find a difficult problem
at school," he said, "we go to the rule.
What is the mle about love?"
Tlie father looked at him, but did
not answer. He thought. Then he
gazeel anxiously about, and out
through the window he saw a man
passing.
"Ah," he said, "there is Mr. Brown,
and I want to see him."
Ar d he hurried out to speak . to the
man, and the boy never heard what
love Is, or what is its rule.
,
Ford, being quite satisfied that the
stor was a lie from the beginning,
ancT ;hat his search for the wonderful
lost lesert tribe would result in no
benefit to the Smithsonian Instition,
stop 5ed to rest in the shade of the
water wagon, the wheels of which
werepsunk eighteen inches into the
roasting sand.
"Look out !" he yelled to one of the
drivors, or this Nevada sun will get
actic n on - you and you will pop like
corn! Isn't it hot!" and he looked
abou t at the blistering white and blue
and sudgeled out of his memory cer
tain verses:
And vhen grim spirits come to that curs'd
land,
To be where wanderers fell,
They look in terror at the burning sand
Ana hurry back to hell
And that's desert Nevada, and where
we are driving and sweating through
it to find the desert tribesman, who is
a lie ''
"By the powers, it isn't a lie!"
veiled Graves, his assistant. "Ijook!"
" . . . . ' . ... -.
"A Uhmese boy! roarea jeora.
"Ana ve eods, a red-headed Chinese
boy, and on a camel, and in Nevada 1
1 W '
Hong Foy was a dismal failure.
McGoggin told him so daily. He
could not tramp Southern Pacific ties
half as well as Yo Heave, or whatever
the pockmarked Chinaman's name was,
andiFon Kee could almost carry a
"sixty-pound- to-the-yard" rail by
himself, while Hong Foy, being young
and pale and calm, found it difficult
to lug even tne spiKe maui or xne
pinch bar. Wherefore the investment
of the Southern -facing tauroaa com
pany in Hong Foy was denominated
by- Mike Mcuoggm, tne section iore-
manl as a weir a ana wonaerxui lauuro
ly McGoggin used words of the
same: import dui oi .ui-ututjut pruuuu.
ciation. Hong Foy, however, could
cook1- and he showed Maggie McGog
ein liow to make a soup out of potato
sprouts which McGoggin declared to
be tlie triumphant work of the devil.
Soup, by the way, is a thing not to be
experimented on wnen xne eecuou
boarding houselistat a place in Nevada
where the water is brought in a tank
from a station eighty or a nundred
miles away. : McGoggin appreciated
the soup, and because of it refrained
for two weeks from discharging Hong
FoyJ t But on a Saturday night of the
month of June, in the year lool, he
threw a bolf at Hong Foy, hit him
withj a crocked spike and made a run
to the tool house to get a wrench to
kill him, with. He had seen Maggie
when she kissed the young Chinaman
in the kitchen.
the shade of the tool house, after
McGoggin had retired, Hong Foy crept
like fa dog which had been ' whipped
out pf its kennel but knows nowhere
to go H0 knew two lines of steel
over! f which Chinamen labored while a
red headed white man swore volubly
at them. He knew a blue horizon,
and j these things were all he knew in
that! land excepting the sun. Where
could he go? As he leaned dejectedly
against the tool house and thought of
his
ove making, he weptfc and, weep-
ing,
Maggie - found him. Hong; Foy
had
not dreamed of the future, and
had
girl
not expected the , coming of the
"He had only expected to sleep
in the- tool house that ; night and : be
bea
en again in the i
morning, j out
The best part of
a
Maggie had planned.
ner
pian was that she had broncrnt a
huge bottle, and it had -water in it.
' VWe will go that way,", she said, point
mg out into the desert. , , - '
' It is not so bad to walk all night
through the desert if you are euife yon
I
are coins' f. n Tiava nhade in T7b.ip.Ti 1 i;n
rest the next day. But the next day
looked about them all they saw was
what a couple of ants in a' plasterer's
box of lime see.. F&T f.ari far away,
round about" and near "it was white.
And it was so flat that they seemed to
look up out of a basin to a brim which
was white and blue, and the alkali and
the sky nestled so close to each other
and the sky. arched over as though it
rtf the plain in such wise
J V W aV W- ; A '
that Maggie thought" they. mightV'as
won nave Deen' lmp-wv" duou
i a i m. Til nn c t u r a . - w j w vj
to be the biggest egg anckDiggest shell
ever created, and there would be room
for on W one of such like in the world
The san was beautiful in the early
morning, and there were roses in the
Wort past iust as-there are roses m
the east of the orchard land. Thesun
looked on them with a friendly rotun
vn.v for an hour and then he frowned.
tHft frown was of white heat. And
sleepily they plodded on searching for
a brush big enougn to cast two square
feet of shade. They had no, means of
telling time otner tnan oy tne sun,
but the girl knew the secrets of the
inn and knew it was 10 o'clock when
the pale, calm face of Hong Foy looked
into hers with a dumb piteousness ana
he sank in -a swoon. Hurriedly the
trirl uncovered his head and saw for
the first time the great, jagged, ragged
hole made by that bent spike thrown
by her father. Tha iron had dug deep,
hnt the Chinaman had rtlastered the
wound with thejlean waste taken from
the tool house and had wrapped his
quene around it. Maggie regarded the
hurt with a little bit of womanly hor
ror, and then she thouorht of how her
lover had walked all that night through
the sands with his bead wrecked py
her father's effort and had not intima
ted that he was injured at all.
"He is worth it," said Maggie, and
tenderly she dressed the wound, wash
ing it with the precious water Hong
Foy had carried in the great bottle.
"He is worth it."
If you would have to guess at the
smallest part of the awful journey go
out on the Southern Pacific where the
temperature is normally at 140 in June
at 11 o clock in the daytime ; wnere
the air is so hot that it curls itself up ;
where the alkali is baked into powder
finer than the finest powder known to
medicine, and without the slightest
breath of air to asritate it sifts and
scatters about over the surface pf the
earth, being drawn up by the sun just
as you have heard of water being
drawn up. It will be an unpleasant
ride to von. for vou will leave your
-a v
coat at Ogden and your "raiment along
the right of way with great persist
ence. And beating, beating, beating
with a might that makes your head
thump, is the great, world-consuming
sun. Yes, if you would like to guess
about Maererie and Hons Foy the
crippled Hong Foy and their twelve
davs Darchmff, famishing, asromzmg
ionrnev. until thev walked out of
j y W r
death and into a erreen line of para
d'ise which ran along a cTear river, you
must sro there and do it for yourself.
And at the end of ytur journey, if you
ever get to the end of it, perhaps you
will fall faintine and deathlike at the
.'margin of the stream as Hong r oy did,
or perhaps you will drop on your
knees and pray as did Maggie.
"The only thing in the cabin," said
Graves, "which plainly was not made
out of the things hereabouts, is a great
bottle, which is apparently for water.
I wonder where it came from?"
"I don't," said the driver of the
water wagon. "What I want to know
is about that humpy-iookin' camel
beast that the boy met us on. Tell
me where that thing came from and
I'll go homo satisfied."
"They don't know themselves," said
Ford. "They only know he came in
here one day, and the woman says he
was sent byGod to help the Chinets
haul wool in winter time, but the
Chinaman insists that he was created
out of the ahcali or something, from
what I gather in talking to him, as a
special gift of his joss. The boy says
nothing I consider that beast the
greatest object lesson in the concilia
tion of religious disputes that 1 ever
struck, for while holding these differ
ent views they don't quarrel about
him. The real explanation is probably
that he is the offspring of some of
those camels the United States Govern
ment bought over in Africa several
years ago for use in the Arizona army
posts, but which turned out' a failure
and were let loose to roam where they
would."
"I suppose," said Graves, "that yon
will say in your report that the red
headed, half-Chinese kid is the natural
child of the desert?" ;;
"Yes ; if this land of heat and hard
ship is ever to be peopled I think that
will be the kind for it !"
"Did it ever strike you, "said Graves
to Ford, after they had got back to
civilization, "how that Chinese friend
of yours and his wife and child out
there in that desert are so fond of one
another?"
"Graves," said Ford, "the word
'love' always seemed to me to .be a .
sort of a sickly one for a grown man
to use in- talking to another, but do
you know that is what I would call
that case ? I don't think I'd say
fond." . : ; -
"If don't t ' understand .' it ; at all,
Graves obserbed.. . : K. 0V
"Well you know, there's no rule for
that kind of thing, old man. Love is
something you can't cipher and like
your latitude and your i longitude. .
Chicago Record. - ... - '
Father, Krieipp, the7 good old priest
in Worishof en, Bavaria, who believes
in a cure-all by -water, and amo ng
whose " patients . are ' any : number of
crowned heads and magnates, has just
spent a week in Berlin. There were
immense gatherings in several public
halls , to do the .old man honor; He
delivered sundry lectures . on ' his
method . . t
THE FIELD OF ADVENTURE.
THBHAING INCIDENTS AND DAB
IKO DEEDS ON LiAND AND SEA
A Sea Captalns Brave Daughter
Turned His Hair Grav The Iilon
and the Tady; Etc.
-w v BESSED in her jaunty sailor
I 1 1 suit of navy blue flannel, her
I - flaxen hair hanging behind
"' in one large braid, and with
her hands thrust into; the : pockets of
her 1 acket, Margaret Neilsen, as she
stepped from a tug at the Barge. Of
finfl vesterday afternoon, , looked
Trrinal eea captain's daughter, i No
one would have fancied, however,from
her appearance that this bright-eyed,
eighteen-year-old girl had but recent
ly passed through the horrors of t
shipwreck and had been instrumental
in saving eighteen lives.
It was on April 1 that the Nor wegian
bark Julie sailed from Nmai Bridge,
Wales, under ballast for West May,
nova ocona. captain ieiisen was
part owner of the vessel and had be
come attached tb her. His daughter,
TUT J. 1 .
.uxargarex, naa made several voyages
with him and had shown herself thor
oughly at home oh board ship.
When she begged to accompany her
father on the last voyage, his consent
was readily secured, and her pets,
handsome water spaniel, a big black
cat and half a dozen rabbits, were, of
course, allowed to accompany her.
She wouldn't have sailed without them.
For the first week the Julie had
good sailing winds, but no particular
ly"rough weather was experienced,
and the bark made . fair headway.
Then came a succession of westerly
gales, and after pounding about at the
mercy of the winds, the vessel sprung
t l All -i 3 - ,
a ieaK. a.11 wno were noi needed in
the management of the boat were put
at the pumps. The captain's daugh
ter, herself, took her turn at the wind
mill pump, and with words of en
couragement cheered the men at the
hand pumps. Nearly every moment
the huge waves broke over the vessel,
drenching the men at their work. The
water was gaining on them, and it
seemed evident that in a short time
they must take to the boats and trust
in Providence for a deliverance.
During those trying hours the cap
tain's daughter sung cheerily She has
a good voice, high and clear, and she
seemed to know just what songs would
put most heart info the Norwegian
sailors. She sang the Sagas which re
counts the deeds of valor of the flaxen
haired race, and the men were in
spired to renewed efforts. They even
smiled as they worked at the heart
breaking pumps. The bravery and
confidence of the captain's daughter
were contagious. In spite of all their
efforts, it was discovered on April 19
that the pumps were not keeping'pace
with the inflowing water. With three
feet of it in the hold and the tide rap
idly rising, the abandonment of the
bark seemed inevitable.
The man at the wheel kept the , old
craft headed in the direction of the
Irish coast, but strained his eyes, in
Vain for sight of land.
Suddenly, from the poop deck,
eame the cry in a voice which every
one reoognized, of, ' A sail. A sail !
I see it plainly." It was the captain's
daughter who had raised the glad
shout, and the next moment she had
flown down the companion way to call
her father, who, worn out by ceaseless
watching, was trying to get a brief
rest before he gave the order to, take
to the boats.
Captain Neilsen was not slow to
act. The knotted flag, as well as the
flags of the international xjode, were
run up to indicate that the vessel was
in distress. After what seemed an
age, answering signals were run up by
the other vessel, which proved to be
the Norwegian bark Oscar IL, bound
for this port. While the Oscar II. was
bearing down upon them, the wheel
was made fast and the now overjoyed
sailors were busy in getting together
their little belongings. The crew Qt
the Julie left the sinking vessel in
their own boat. . The captain and his
brave daughter were the last to leave
the bark. Up to this time Miss Neil-
sen naa conducted, nerseii with re
markable fortitude, but when she
stepped into the small boat and sat,
down with her dog and her big black
cat, taking a farewell look at the old
bark, she broke down and .cried like
any other girl.
The Oscar II., with the shipwrecked
crew on board, reached port yester
day morning. The sailors were taken
to the Sailors' Home, in Brooklyn,
and the captain and his daughter went
to the Stevens House, on Broadway,
where they will remain several days
before returning to Norway. .
Captain Neilsen plainly snowed the
strain of the experiences through
which he had passed, but his daughter
was in the best of spirits. She modest
ly refuses to take upon herself any of
the credit for the rescue, but Captain
Neilsen patted her head and said he
didn't know what would have happened
had not her bright eyes made out the,
distant ship. New York Press,
Whitened His Hair.
Edward Gunnison,, -a prospector,
while test-pitting for iron near, Two
Harbors, Minn., had an adventure
that has turned his hair gray, but as
at the same time he discovered a sub
terranean lake full of apparently blind
fish, he figures that he is ahead.'
For several weeks past Gunnison
has been prospecting1 -between this
place and Duluth, 'and -has sunk a pit
on, the lake shore a few miles north of
here. One morning, while pursuing
his investigations at a depth of twelve
feet, the earth at the bottom of the
pit suddenly gave way, dropping Gun
nison and his pick and shovel into the
subterranean lake . twenty feet below
the boltom of tb e pit. . . 1 ' -
i The water was shallow, and ,as soon
as Gunnison recovered from his fright
, he made an examination of the cavern
inclosinsr the lake. -This cavern, Gum
nison savs. covers two acres of water.
and the shores of the little lake are of
rock, which also'form the walls. The
water is clear and cold, being fed 'ap
parently by underground streams. 7
After a long search in the darkness
Gunnison found that the lake had an
underground outlet into Lake Super
ior. This outlet was large enough for
Gunnison to creep through to the open
air. , . :r - .-. ;
- As a memento of his involuntary
trip into the bowels of the earth Gun
nison brought with him one of the fish
of which, he says, the lake is full.
This fish resembles a black bass in
some respects, 'ohly it is whiter and
apparently blind.
Two skeletons, f probably of Indians,
were found in the cavern in which the
underground lake is located. They
were lying side by side at the mouth
of the passage through which Gunni
son crept. They crumbled to pieces at
the touch.
The Tj&dy and the Lion.
The bravery of Mies Blanche Knox,
the pretty young daughter of Dr.
xjouis u. iuiox, the veteran circus
man, probably saved the doctor's life
during a struggle in New York with a
young African lion.
Dr. Knox was formerly surgeon of
a circus. He has; marvelous control
oyer wild animals, and his spare
moments are spent in training them.
Three young lions romp about his
office like dogs. The other day an
African lion named Tom Paine oame
by express. He is a brother of Bob
Fitzsimmons's pet lion, which recently
met his death. His parents are
Wallace and "Victoria.
When the lion was taken from his
traveling cage and fastened to the
floor by a chain he became furious
and made a flying leap for liberty.
The chain parted and the lion leaped
toward the window, which was open.
Dr. Knox sprang in front of the win
dow, while J oe Thdmas, the doctor's
assistant, threw himself upon the lion
and twisted the piece of chain about
its neck.
The temper 01 the animal was
aroused, and he fought ferociously.
His strength was more than a match
for the two men, and matters were
assuming a serious aspect when Miss
Knox seized a strap and making a
noose of it walked boldly up to the
lion and, evading a savage ; thrust of
its paws, thre w it over his head. Then
she slipped the end of the strap
through a ring in the wall and pulled
it tight. The fight was all strangled
out of the lion, and . he meekly sub
mitted while a new collar and chain
was placed upon him. The doctor
and his assistant bear several marks
of the encounter.
An Elephant Rescues a Child.
Bessie Kooney, the ten-year-old sis
ter of Michael Boone v, the bareback
rider, was about to be hugged to death
by a bear yesterday morning at Tat
tersalPs, when Babylon, one of King-
ling Brothers' big elephants, knocked
the brute down and saved the child'u
life.
The bear, known as "Growler," has
vicious temper. He was chained
Jear the elephants. The little girl is
friend of the elephants, and was
romping with some of them when
Growler seized her and closed his
paws around her slender form. '
Babylon, who had been an inter
ested speotator, brought his trunk
down with ciushing force on Growler's
head, The bear was stunned by the
blow and released the child, who had
ainted. The elephant then picked
her up and placed her where the bear
could not reach her. Attendentst who
heard Bessie's screams, ran to her as
sistance, but arrived too late to rob
Babylon of the honor of saving a
human life. Chicago Tribune.
An Exciting Incident.
A most exciting incident happened
one day last week in front of the door
of a carriage factory of this city. , A
lady who is prominent in Booial circles
had just arrived at the place to look at
a carriage which she had ordered. She
was accompanied by a lady friend. As
they were about to alight . from their
oarriage they noticed that there was
some excitement in the office of , the
carriage manufactory. While hesita
ting about getting out a mad dog
rushed out of the place and ' jumped
into their carriage, an open victoria.
The dog passed under their feet, jumped
out of the carriage only to repeat the
same performance three times, before
tne aim as? paralyzed carriage em
ployes could dispatch the animal. -Washington
Star. ,
This Dog Shed His Muzzle.
"You will be amused to learn," said
a manufacturer o t dog muzzles the
other day, "that dogs very, often dia
play considerable cunning in getting
rid of their muzzles. A gentleman
living in Brooklyn possesses a dog that
was continually being provided with
" ' . 1 A. ft J .
new muzzxes, oui yes was , never r seen
wearing one for more than five con
secutive minutes. .-r
'His owner, previous ;to taking the
animal for a run, would carefully
fasten on the regulation 'ornament,
and a few minutes afterward the dog
would be found waiting expectantly in
the hall, but 'without his muzzle. The
mystery remained 'unsolved, until one
day a servant noticed the dog" this
time wearing the muzzle bolt at full
speed into the scullery. ,
"Now, in the scullery wall there was
a large nail fixed : about a foot from
the floor, and presently the girl be
held the artful animal hook his muz
zle on to this nail and drag at it until
he had succeeded in removing it alto-gether-i
of course, to the detriment of
his nose. It is a positive fact that af
ter this had been done the dog took
the obnoxious muzzle into the gar
den, and did his best to bury it on
the edge of the v flower bed," New
York Mercury.'
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Varnishes and Everything kept in ,
a First-Olass Drag Store. '
Prescriptions
Carefully
Store in the Old Steve Johnson
Building, Just opposite the Court
House.
Be Sure to Call anil See Them.
R. EL STALEY & CO..
DEALER, IN .
DRUGS
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PATENT MEDICENES,
TOBACCO, CIGARS,
Cigarettes, Fancy and
ToilefrSoaps, etc., etc.
Prescriptions promptly and acour-'
ately rilled. Situated in the Brick
Hotel Buildincr.
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Situated on Main Street, east of tht
Court House. Good horses asd new ve
hicles of all lands ready for the accom
modation 'of the traveling public. Horses
carefully fed and attended ; to. Givs
us a trial and see how we feed.
A .C. WELLBORN,
Wilkesboro, - North Carolina.
R, K HACKETT,
Attorneys at iCaw,
-VWlLKESBORO, K. C.
WiU practice, in the State and Federal
Courts. ; ;
IOAAC C. WELLBORN.
Attorney - at - Law.
Will practica In all the courts. Deiler
la real estate. Prompt attention paid to
eollection of clxiima.
T. 9. Fxlht. H. L. OMura.
FiflLEY & GREEHE.
Attornoyo - at - Law,
WUJKBSBORO, N. O.
Will practice la all the courts Col.
itctioas a epecialtir; Real estate sold on
oftwirmssion -
It appears from: the well-Informed
it&ilway Age that fior eight years; the
mileage of annual rail way construction
m tne united States has been steaxiUy
decreasing. Froin: nearly 13,000 miles
or track iald in tlfe 'wonderful year 1887 :
the ftotals have gone down by thou
sands and hundiiods, until 1895 touched
the I lowest rourd for twenty years by.
adding, only ..1803 miles tx our railway
system. But t'flis does not mean that
tfee demand for milwaysr is nearly sup
plied and that construction will con
tinue to decrease. ' On the contrary,
there is room, and will -be need for ad
tfMons far greater than the entire pres
ent mileage of the. country. We have
now something over 181,000 miles of
road. To equal G.reat Britain to ita .'
ratio of . raiilway ' mileaige to square
miles, -we s-hould ' have, a total of 492,
000 miles? to equ al the abundant sup
ply, of Illinois w must have 522,000
, males; while if Massachusetts wilth its
mfile of railway to every , four square
miles of territory be the standard, he
United States will " eventually boast
772,000 miles of Ifnes. That there
Is tmuch railway building yet to
be done; the records, prove beyond
a doubt. Wihen 1 1 will ',' be done de
pends on condition yet to be developed.
A considerable aniount of work is al
ready umder ; wayr During he first
three months of t his year 253 miles of
track were laid om twenty lines, and in
cluding these our; (books already show ,
sixty lines on whiiih it seems reason
ably certain th'At 1750 mllles of track
will have been lalfd' (by. the end of 1896,
WirtJh a possibility of much more. It
ail depends on the? tSones, . not on the
questioai finding, room, or of demand .
for more1 railroads. .
It is not Terr itasr : for a nftrifln to
take his own tirao without taWnff tha
time of others. -
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