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7i3 Chronicle, vTLKESBORO, N. C. , . JUST suits mitt. "This world," lie said, "just suits me-r iaKeiiioraumaui -Jest warm enough In summer. Jest cool enough in fall . - t-. Forlivin every day ; With Jest enouj iverj met ?n o' roses 10 nide the thorns away. They say worlds shine above us, , Where all the bright stars be; ... uw VUIlJ V1U f VTA lVt( LVv 11V " 1 Atlanta Constitution. Mary had a little man ' - " More wealth than brains, you know-.? And everywhere that Mary wents V . r : The man was sure to go. U , $ .He followed her to church one day' , And they were wed, these twain. -He liked it lor a while, and. then t '- f He never smiled again. i "the fonms Angela ' 3Tl ? O U i ' t xj xne uuuoojc. One'oilhe - saddest deahi aVthe: nre t i of the; Park Avehue ; JHotel. in New j5Tprk ;,recen$ly was .that - pf Mrs. Rebecca IS. Foster, known 'as ' the Tombs ' ! Angel. Mrs. Foster was the widow of General JohrpAFosterr 'Frjfteenfyear she haddevtotetfherseiriuHrlorlai: practi cal charity among the prisoners, espcM Stmx JJlfilwomea ronerscoiitinedUn the City Prison known; as the Tombs. - She lanJier.missionary work in cojl-. ;f nection with'CalvaryfEpiscopal Cnuith but .very sopntound'A sphere. of ;benef- -' itself. : ' She was well known to all the judges, lawTer3; andbficiay ctnnecft& with criminal procedure In Ihia city, ? and was so ' highly regarded that she was-made a protfatiorra&fEfcerof ?the Court 7ofTSpecSesoiaslfehe.,Wjas a woman of unusual personal charm and attractiveness, and yet was unassuming " and unaffected in her; bearing; so that !- she moved about - in " the crowded and often t disagreeable jrarroundings of criija ; inal courts untouched by the hardening :' AVOUVU KKsj VSAAIA Vllv AAAXAAW3 UA VXAVA VU Ul lU mnuences iaat necestsarxiy uneui. uiose who have to deal with the-, criminal - classes, and radiating everywhere, by. lier Very presence -the refining; refresh- inir 'onrl inonimniv.infliianAaj nf mi-pa ,; unseuisn, ana sympatneuc woman one ' ? never soxighi putlicity7and perhaps was not widely known in the city except in those circles 'which for some special . reason came va contact with her work, 5 andyet hexeathmeansa loss tq the . :welfare' bt- the 'lifer of Hhe -city greater than it would suffer' from the death jof : many a prominent public official. The personal . and official respect for her . characten.ability, ancLjvork is indi cated by the fact that both the Crinji : nal Dertartment of the Sunreme Court and the Court of Special Sessions aid journed for several hoars as a tribute jto ;4her memoryand J.n each casef memlo- T:Vi a ? T '- v. 1 1 I - i " J f ney ierome weu cuaxacienzeu xura. -Foster's qualifications for her work by sayinvg: ?There'areJniaby people of fine 'philanthropic impulses and feelings in this city on the ohQ handv and,on the vomer many wno nave rename, copi. r and - unswerving good ' sense , But j I 4 know of no one who combined .human ; ' sympathy and sound judgement in the - remarkable degree in n which ? it was found In Mrs. Foster." , Her Jove for uuiujuuiy vrao o eurung mat me outcast . and suffering? criminal : turned fa ) her . with confidence and an open -heart; and her ability to read human character and to form the right estimate of the essential parts of the individual was so sound and unerring, that: the Judge of i the Criminal Court almost invariably followed her advice in-theirtreatmeht of those cases of which she had made An invoatiarotinn TTor nnHo I? -fa arl1 ; her'associatesand we"belieye .will esp- LIUOOAAV W AAV LUUUi CkU AAAgy AAO UUIU ithat purity, unselfishness, and sincerity of character constitute the greatest pos session r which it is, , possible for the State the prevailing methods of dealing ; wUhcriEuinawill bejikg those. whiqh MrsrFoster ; used, and the 'spirit will be the ' same as that which inspired her , J-;:. native Killed by Degree. ' Manila, March 6. rA court marti has been ordered to try Major Littleton, :WV T. Waller and Lieutenant John H. A: Day, of the Marine Corps, on March : T 7 MATT - . T t A ArOVIM JTi-tf - a 5 Jw A . UVAVy VIA.. IfAU viuugu UjI CArUUUg natives of the island of, Samar withoijit triaL Some of the circumstances are . tlAAllliarl ; otnvmna : r. Cna nat!i7o ,nrila -Mtu hi uco I auu : puuuujr snub ill bile '- thigh. - 'The next c day the -irian was shot in the aims. - The third day he was shot in the, body i and : the ; fourth .unjr mo uauYo wus xijieu. - xnenua ox y ' the two officers attribute their actions to loss of mind, due to the v privatiorls which they Buffered in i the island of Samar. : -l t - : t 7-1; Greensborocorrespbndence Chariot Observer:: A gentleman from Danvill Va., tella me that the management of uw xvivexsiuo vutbun jxlius, employing ;"2,500 operatives; is displacing the men weavers with women. A large number of the looms. . .are, now operated by womenwho are said to be giving entire satisfaction. Thisthange was inaugii rated after the big strike last year; in which the mills "come--out Victorious. The management is of the opinion that women laborers are more tractable than men and not so liableto beMed "astray KwtVia Uitr.kUiul SviiJLaJjt- tit.-"- I agitators who move from place to 'place seeking to stir up strife between eni ployer and employe. - . V , , - - . - Harriet Sadie's husband never gels excited, never fights1 back, : and she simply cannot make him cross. 4 ; ' j Estelle-Yes. The horrid thing. . fie 13 eimpiy exasperating. ' ' SAKX JONES ON TO is DISENSAII AND OTIlEIi lTlAXXEUS Atlanta Journal. ', ; v -!' I told you so; about" that dispensary fight in Rome. I knew ten days ago. beforelhe election, how thething.Swaa going. I tell you when that liquor crowd begins to rear and talk ? about fighting you may know they are beat eyery,.time.. When . the. thing is going lUClT WltV tUCV IMC BUUUUllg uafpjr r but when they see and know it is going the other way they rear and pitch and cues and say they we i going ' tojtake no Z. JqoiaftMraia. hahe.ujd ,JelCanys take it and don't die. f suppose the I knstir'a minu kw tv.; iva saloonkeepers , of ,Eome andSIster defeat of the saloons in iloyd county. TKey all did what they could to defeat this: dispensary and perpetuate : the saloonsI am glad they busted, though I want it distintly understood I am not ujVnaxupion, nu never win uw, ui wie oaspensaiy, out i Know as weu as x in , ui"v: kuuik . , OVClJti BWUUUWUI.Vi uwcutr dwpensary is better than a saloon. fiT? " ffu , quor inwresi out 01 luo uauus ui uuocrcueiB, .Bf for gain paakes gem ransack the earth iW. YIUUU1B W 111CU uamu, UU lUBU makes tnem potent xactors in , tne$ poll- tics oi tne town ana county. JNQ com- munity v knows this , better : than the people of Floyd' county,1 for the' whisky gang of Bonie. has been the most potent factor in the pontics of that county for years and years-Vxhenyou take a bar keeper's barroom away from him he is like a negro ' at whiter primary he just ain't in it. The lohesomest human being I ever saw was a colored brother who in former years' had done business at the polls, to see him standing off on thedayof thewhite primary, lonesome, wue-ueguu?, ireuug uyiB , uav uau passeOJ ,v i neara wnen i was in unattanooga the other day that some of the Borne saloon keepers had been up there look ing for places to set up. ;I heard also that they had -been down to : Atlanta looking around, and when you break them up in one place it is irke running the 'soiled doves "r out of , one. "city-r they flock to another, and they are just as mdch "soiled' doves' ' in one city as I in another. ;, A man who has long fol lowed "the liquor trade and traffic soon comes to Deiieve- taai ne can't 'make a living at anything else, and many of them say, 4 'If I could make a" living at anything else I would not keep a sa looni i ana jny omy reply to them is that whenever the" day came with me that I could not make a living without getting behind a counter and dishing out damnation at ten cents a drink to myneighboreJUwould; go- deliberately out to the corporate limits and blo y my brains out. A suicide is a better -citi zen man a saloon keeper, aeaaorahve. m I anderstand that some of the saloon keepers axe nosing around in ".Bartow now seeing if there ain't an opening over here, since : the4 supreme court knocked out our prohibition law, and there are a lot of us mad about that yet, and while we have no law against the saletpf liquor wewant4them ,to un derstand we have got a sentiment here in Bartow county against it, a majority of the good people of this county at the polls have said they ; didn t want any whisky sold in this county, and the red-hosed supreme court may reverse that decision in a legal sense, but they can't. do it in a moral .- sense. If any fellow has. the temerity .to put up a sa loon anywhere m ,uns county . ana a crowd of kuklux comes up here from Mexico or comes over from Australia and takes him out in the woods and nxes mm so ne win nave to stana up and eat for the hext , three months, . I will have at least mbre respect for that crowd from, .Mexico or Australia than I haye for the supreme court of Georgia; zvb icaoii bu ox oo iuc bcuiptu tuiue iju ca tion is concerned itfBartow county. I have beeh thinking sometime I would take a day ofTahd go down to Atlanta and examine the color of the noses of our supreme court judges. .They many be aU lily white, some of them may befpale pink and others blood red; I will not know definitely until I take a day off and see. Woe be to the man who goes against j the sentiment of the decent element of a community Sentiment Is like the atmospere abdutus; wholesome and harmle unUr storm centers are stirred and the cyclone' appears in the air. and righteous indignation or right sen-1 timent stirred to its highest pitch is but ! a moral cyclone before - which every thing whirls ana moves. 1 live in liar- tow county, I have lived here from i childhood, by blind tigers, dispensaries 1 or saioons, ana n any nttie town or corner Of this-county thinks they can set, up in that business - we will meet them at the tank rthat is if ' the court knows herself; and she think she do. I can't-believe that , ft license ; can be i gotten in this county for a barroom, inougn iney are talking it in big shape I over at Emerson,: but I - don't believe the council or that town will turn that I traffic loose upon the homes" ; this I county to wreck our boys and ruin our I citizens for the pitiful sum that they will getput of it; but perchance they do then I we wm uau u eiecuumor mis county I ionnwitn, nonor a aispensary, but tori what we had before the supreme court I got in its licks Upon us. My advice to the I MUUUJ UWU fc.CCJCl o M11U VUB J B1UUOI1 I 1U VUG HgUb B1UC, ' WIUUU HfDUtU W ID gang is: - Quiet down, boys,, take, your I crease : the" fears of Professor Kierle medicine like a man and retire grace" fully. Seab-s in the saddle, .the dis pensary will do business, and doit better than ever you did it and do it more decently than, you ever did sit. They will sell better liquor i :and : sell , it cheaper. As far as the - morality ; of ? the ques-1 uon is concernea, when any commu- he wouia be subjected to other' medi- nity licenses a bar they are a party to it cal treatment more severe than the in withvall that the barroom means, 1 and jection of the virus. Speedy recovery they turn the thing over to another I man to do what he can with it, . but a I dispensary is .in $ the. - hands of the I county. Tney close at sundown, they I open at sunup. . They, violate no lavs they .have no interest in; the violation of laWi drunkards" aiid minors cannot buy it.V; ; . - v 1 I regretted very 1 much that . my , own sickness prevented me from being pres-f ent at the Guerry meeting in .Atlanta the other night. I am a Guerry man I keep saying that Guerry is. for some-' thing and Guerry is agin ? something and I am for everything he- is for and I am agin everything; he, iSaagin. He stands for'sdmething, he stands "against something, bjit ; when J look at .Terrel tj of e fwwh'o w bragging well trryour hind on this crowd. He looked atone-' gentleman and said : "You are a gold bugJ.' ...Yes, sir," he replied, "Thafs my sentiments." He turned to another and Baid,'44You are a free silver man.V - iYes," he said, 'ahd p0inUng to another he said: "You are a prohibitionist. 'f r He rephed, "Yes, air I untoil that tinlrot oiirht. vooro i Bio-Vir" TTo than rint tn a can J cadaverous looking - fellow and - said: ?You are a popuhst." The poor ieUow m qaH nnsnH "Ymi nro a liar- have heen 8ick, I wish I had Candi" Hofa Torw Kafnra tKot follrtnr : incf trk hil VA K5 11PHja tattaII's TTiHa t Terrell would have been to him like f ellow: who v when ' one man said, "I have been : married three times, gentlemen the first time I married for money, the second time for beauty and the-third time for intellect; and in : the three wives I goty the world, the flesh and the devil." u The other fellow said By hoky, what of that, I got them all in one. l think: uanaiaate Terrell is a goldbug, free-silverite, prbhibitionist, populist, or Candidate Guerry had him aboutright when he said he was Vthe twn.fiVWi nio-Pnn nf fhfi plow bov I roost. A feUow that's everything aint nothing, and a fellow that s noth ing is everything. . That's what I have got agin Candidate Terrell. I am sometimes asked what I think of Candidate Guerry 's chances. If Candidates Terrell, Estill and Smith all run. then I say Candidate Guerry stands a first-class chance, for the three candidates he opposes stand on about the same platform. If he is; elected, whenever you want anything done, instead of doing it they will point their finger at the platform and say, "Look at that. Them's my sentiments." Like the fellow who found it in his cold room at night too hard to kneel down and pray. . Finally he decided that he would write out his prayer and. tack it on the wall, and every night after that he would undress and point up at the rvrnvor n.nrt aav lnrn. rhPRA hta mv sentiments," and hop into the bed and go to sleep. j wouldn't give a chew of tobacco for a platform. A platform is like the" thermometer when the old fel low standing up by the bridge in Rome, looking down at the uostanaula river frozen over and the boys skating on the ice, saia, "wen look at that: that oeats anything since the cold Friday of '43." Somebody asked was it pretty cold then. 'Yes," he said, "that was the coldest time I ever saw. I went to my barn that morning and picked up my hatful of rat tails that had frozen off, and, . -mm m a m a . 1 sir, the limbs iriz: on the trees an around the woods." Somebody asked, "How. did the thermometer stand?" "Why," said he, "the -darned old thing wouldn't stand at all; you had to lay it down and build a fire on it to make it work at all." You want a brave, true, heroic, brainy fellow to build a fire under the platform and make it work. Guerry will do that, gentleman. , He is the grainiest, brav est fellow who.has stood on the, -hustings in Georgia in, my day, and that's what we need as an executive a brainy, brave . fellow, who stands by principle and right: ' Yours, Sam P. Jones. . Hydrophobia Patients Cured. Baltimore Special to Raleigh Post. Willie Patterson aged . 7 years, the son oi Thomas ss. ii. Patterson, of Statesville, N. .C. and Bathy Warren, aged 10 years, of the same place, who have, been at the Pasteur Institute, this city, since February 13, under treat ment for aggravated cases of dog bites, were dismissed from the institution to- i day. They were subjected to the most intense treatment by the director of the institute, Prof. Nathaniel G. Kierle, on account of the serious, nature of their many wounds, and are now pronounced as immune . irom nyaropnoDia. liotn boys were bitten in a horrible manner about the face; neck and head by a ferocious dog, which belonged to a neighbor ' of Mr. Patterson, while the lads were ; rollicking in the yards of their refpectlve . homes."' ; Several . days elapsed before they were . sent to the Pasteur Hospital this city,1 by their at tending physician, and then wounds had partially neaiea. : 'The close prox limity of the wounds to the brain caused Professor Kierle considerable anxiety, and he greatly .feared for the r. ultimate recovery of the lads. Mr. Patterson, the father of one of the boys, who has been in the city since tne arrivar oi tne Doys, leit witn tnem today, i .vvuheTatterson became ill a few days after his reception in the hos pital, and developed peculiar symptoms The little fellow was then removed to i a ward in the city hospital and his ill ness was.-diagnosed as appendicitis. Four days later j however,' he admitted to his father. that he only bruised his side on the bed" post " while wrestling with his playmate. He would not tell Professor Kierle because he feared that then followed. To-day. the two boys left the Pasteur Hospital for their. homes happier and healthier than when they arrived, HAVING CP TBEASUCE. Charlotte Observer. y - , - . ' The statement was made by a New York paper the other day. that Bussell Sagethe financier, was at his -office alone during the bad weather, none vof his clerks. .being willing to brave the sleet and slush. Mr Sage did his usual day's work" alone: He is 85 years of age, and owing to the fact that he is worth, something like $50,0007000 it is not imperalEive that he made every day count.-. This man probably "has. the wprst name; among - NewYork,s4 ich citizerleF-the name of heirig extremely eeiuHii auu u ciose lu even eat enougn. The lAter charge is probably ari l exag geration but eveh'if in a measure true, there rare two. ?sidea:to f the , question. Men of the Sage type must in the first place.be able to do something' or : they will never become rich 'mien. In their youth they; assume' the habits of thrift and economy and m ' later years they cannot -depart from them. For in stance, if "Bussell Sage had not . gone to to his ornce on the day . in question he would probably . have been one of the most miserable men in New York. The fact that he does ; not need to make more money does not figure in the case, for there is where the pleasure comes. and if the stories of Mr. Sage's economy are even in a measure true it is because in saving a few dollars on a suit of clothes he is gratifying a passson which is as exacting as a passion could be. One; man takes pleasure in saving and making, while another enjoys spend ing. The man who enjoys laying up treasure is no more to be condemned than he who spends all that comes his way provided, of course, that honesty and fairness are preserved. Tillman Speaks to the Irish. Senator Tillman recently spoke to tne Irish, oi JNew xork, ana among other things he said: "I am no orator and if I have any claim to it, it is because I speak the truth and fight the, devil with fire." "Well," came a voice from the audi ence, "if you're not an orator, you're a good nghter. A little later he said: "I was afraid I would have to postpone my visit be cause 6f an incident you all probably recently read s about, that occurred to me in Washington, but one of your committee came, to Washington and with his Irish eloquence made me promise td be on hand unless I was in jail.. . Now, here I am, so take a good look at me, for I am going to talk plainly." . - v. The Senator launched into an attack upon. England for trampling under the Irish. "For long centuries the Irish have been trampled upon and murder ed by the English," said he, "and it may noti be amiss to here state that bickerings and petty squabbles among Ireland's own sons have been responsir ble for her conditions to-day. They make grand soldiers for her away from home but fail to showlheif qualities in her own behalf." " Turning from this subject, he said in strenuous tones: "If being a flunkey and aping nobility and establishing a system that is akin to England's policy is making Tories of us, then I think we are there at last, or at leost the govern ment at Washington has got there;' England,", continued the Senator, "can squint and shake its thumbs at us and say "your work in the Philippine is as bad as ours in the Transvaal." Why, have we got such a government? There is the rub. Why do you pass resolu tions such as you have to-night and on other occasions, and then go out and vote for those who are stifling liberty at Washington ? We are losing our love for our institutions-, and if we con tinue thus, we will go the way of other republics." Senator Tillman then said the Ameri can people were slaves to partyism and could get along without a "boss," who, he predicted, in time would betray the people. - Log Cabin Philosophy. Atlanta Constitution. Ef some folkff knowed de world , wuz turnin roun ae a spena a metime makin' breaks to stop it. You can t reason wid a mule, an' de mo you beats mm ae tougner ne gits. He's des nachully ag'in. the govern ment, ' : Sometime a cyclone's" a blessin', kaze hit splits de wood des de proper size fer kindlin'. -" The Vanderbilt lines, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and the North ern Pacific Bailroad, companies have contracted for the largest shipments of American tobacco to the Orient on record. These contracts call for the transportation of 500 car loads of to bacco in the leaf' from Virginia and other Southern points via Chicago and St. Paul to Japan and China where the crude leaf will be converted into cigars and cigarettes-: A large part of this tobacco is already en route from the Southeast. , - rJ-y- -'. : .... The partial-; failure of the Maine ice crops is given as the reason for the an- nouiiCement oi me American ace wjm- pany - that the price of ice had been ad vanced nve cents a .hunarea-weight. The' new schedule goes into effect im mediately. . ' - ... . , It is reported that a citizen 'cf Bal- eigh, worth $10,000, .has stipulated in his; will that his coffin is noi to' cost over $20 and that only $10 shall be given to any child-of his who drinks whiskey "or smokes cigarettes.' - sMrs. Gadd Dear me, I've had such a discouraging, hard day of it, making calls. " " , - - . - - " '" s Mr. Gadd What was the. difficulty? Mrs. GaddWhyJ, found nearly every 'one of them at home , ; 1 r Mifs Alice Boosevelt, daughter of the President will' not attend the corona tion of King Edward.- iZ . . r BIXIi AIIP'S LETTEB. Atlanta Constitution. Ii was ruminating about ; the -fight. It: is common property 'and everybody has the'right to talk about it. , Tillman idid wrong in jumping over three desks to strike KcLaurinI About one desk was the limit of property, . Three desks gives a man time to cool and that makes it against the law to fight.. As to the time and place, that is of no con sequence now. There was a time in the days "of "Webster "and Calhoun :Tom Benton and? Henry Clay; when the United States senate was as sacred al most as a' church but now ra large"mia: jority of its members get their places b conduct infinitely . more n disgraceful than fighting. Bribery and corruption have got so common that a' man can't get there without using a big pile of money and making a . lot of promises. Of course, I do not include, our south ern senators 'for they haven't got the moneys' If we had some millionaires T in, Georgia, Clay and Bacon would have to step down and out. And I- am not so disgusted with. Tillman for fighting in the senate chamber. He had reason to. believe that his partner had received promises, and 1 reckon he had. lie certainly had great expectations or he would not have flopped over to the re publicans so suddenly, i Politicians have to be paid for their votes. Till man is a true man. : but he is .not a great and good man. ,1. admire him for traits in his character. He cannot be bribed or intimidated. ' He dares to sav what he believes and : he usea- his pitchfork with impunity. He is, impet uous and combative. - but he is sincere and everybody admires a sincere' man ...... Sincere is one of the strongest and best words in our language. ; It literally means unsealed without wax- ior in the olden times letters were sealed with wax, but if it contained no secrets it was not sealed at -all." for wax cost money. ' Tillman is a bold, defiant, stubborn man. but he is not great, r, A great man like . Webster or Calhoun would have said to McLaurin: "Well,sir, ifTI am a liar I deserve the epithet. r If I am not, then you deserve it, but I shall not stoop to give it." I wish we were all that great." This thing of resenting' the charge of lying with a blow . is i a - strange perversion of pro priety. A man may gain j his ends by cheating, swindling, over-reaching hy pocrisy, bribery or concealing the truth, but you must not call him a liar. , He; may. break all the command ments, hut dont call him a liarthough that is not in the Decalogue. All that I regret about the fight is that Spooner did not call Tillman a liar and get mauled font before McLaurin came in. I want somebody to whip Spooner.- He was the teaser that brought on the fight and was delighted that it occurred between the tw6 Carolina senators. With his party it is no crime to shoot down ten thousand Filipinos, who re fuse to give up their country, but it shocks them awfully to 'have a little fracas in the senate chamber. v y ell, there are some great men and there are many , good men, but great ness and goodness are rarely combined. Addison says it takes both to make a man complete. Such for example, as Washington and Robert E. Lee. Job says great men are not always wise and he might have added most of them arc mean, selfish, heartless and ambitious. Lord Bacon, for instance, who took bribes while on the bench; and Crom well and " Napoleon. Webster was a very great man and long has been my ideal of greatness. He was called the Godlike, but sometimes his human na ture overcame him. And- so with Henry Clay and Bob Toombs. , The great weakness of the people is idolatry. Partisan or sectional or religious idol atry. Every man who climbs high up where the people can see him is either a saint or a sinner, according to our politics, our section, our ; creed. One man idolizes the character of Lincoln or of Grant, another holds both of them in contempt. ;. I suppose that three-fourths of the northern people pay homage to the memory of old John Brown for , what they call j his good in tentionsand every northern history and encyclopedia apologizes : for him," and even so good a man as McKinley excused himself for not attending the reinterment of his bones, on the ground that the pressure of official duties would not permit him to. leave Washington." Most northern men still denounce John C. Calhoun as the. author of secession and' Justify Sherman in burning Colum bia r Here in Georgia this idolatry ; is already taking shape in our silly hur rahs for out candidate for governor. But, as usual, the loudest shoutershave axes to grind and" are diligently en gaged in setting : traps to , catch the people. But this is . he shadowy side of politics and I won' t ruminate any further about it. - - '-" , r r If the ground was dry enough I would work some in the garden and not brood over things that will aoon pass away. I thought that spring had come two weeks ago, and I exclaimed, 'jHailgenJle spring." But she didn't hail she only sleeted and they ? say that old winter is Ungering in her lap-; the old rascal. He ought to .be ashamed of himself. . My best , relief and' comfort is to play with the grand children. v Our little girl of 5 has' had her little feelings hurt, and is very in dignant at what her Cousin Will said. She told me about itr vuranapa, l tola Cousin1 Will that when he got to be a man and I got to be a young lady he must mary me and what do you think he said?" "I don't know. What did he say?" "Why, he said he would see about it.' Wasn't that mean? He ought to be glad to marry me. If he don't mind I will marry , my Cousin Balph; and then rl reckon he "won't see ? about it. ; He's mean, ain't ne,-granapar" . Anotner little chap was saying his prayers the other night and prayed for God to bless grandma and grandpa and Aunt Mary and Cousin John and several others, and'Tthen he said: "That's all Lord Aint that all, papa?". "No you didn't pray "for your Cousin Jenny." "No, papa, I won't pray, for her, she's mean; I wish God would send a cow to butt her over." All of our little ones are go ing to school now, and feel their 'con sequence: I'm taking more interest in our public school then I ever did. Our 12-year-old, - who lives with us, is absobed in her studies, and love her books ' and -her teacher, and is proud when she gets marked perfect or away upon the nineties.. Of course I helpher with her sums every night, for some of them are very hard, and sorter strain my did mind. There are fifty-three pupils in her gra4e (the sixth), and yes terday : forty -six of them had the sums done correctly,- -and when the teacher asked those who had no help to hold their hands up hot a hand was held up. They all had help.. . .That makes forty seven teachers for one grade, and I am pleased o be one pf them. ' I wish that the school teachers ; of these children could realize how much influence they have : over their pupils. The teacher. can make the school are oi a - pupil pleasant or miserable, and I am glad to believe that our teachers are kind and mnivMPntiniiR-:: k T1 ha.vfi sp.verftl : CTand- children there, and I take note of their progress The days of old Isham are past. ine oia man was a siern ana ngia ais ciplinarian.r lie wore slippers in the school room, and sometimes would slip up behind a boy who was making horses or dogs on his slate ana would suddenly mash the hoy's face down on the slate and rub the picture out with his tose. He used to ; have fights with the big boys," and loved to" miul obedience into their . rebellious souls. And there was Beman and. Judge Warner and - my father and William ; H Seward all yankees who bad" to 'subdue tho big boysjby hard fighting, and if a teach i r couldn't whip a boy aud subdue him he was turned off as incompetent. My VL7AA1AAA AO ilittU JL . ilJVCK l.JJ JiJUVll whipping when I was a school boy. ,1 still remember ; how v; John .. Norton whippedTme pn.a boil and . burst cd . it, and I ran home yelling and my mother cried as she doctored it up and mv father made me go back. But John Norton was a good teacher,' and he had a hard time with Jim Wilson and Jim Craig and Jim Wardlaw and my broth er JimaT dJim Alexander, the doctor who died last fall in' Atlanta, and sev eral other Jims. ; Inever knew a boy named Jim who wasn't develish at school. Verily there is something in a name, and now Jim Smith is going to run for governor. Better not tell a lie on him; he, would jump over forty desks to whip a man. , Bill Arp." Klatts'on Rural Delivery, Washington, March 6. Representa tive Kluttz to-day spoke in; opposition to the proposition to place the rural free delivery service upon a contract basis. : His speech was spoken of in high terms and was - listened to atten tively by. members on both sides of the chamber. "The (question for this House ought to be," : said Mr. Kluttz, "not whether this, service can be pared down in cost, but rather how it can be made more efficient ; I grant that if it is to be crippled or relegated to the secondary place to even the discredited star system, let go to the lowest bidder and simply at the least cost, without regard to either . acceptability or effi ciency, there may" be merit in the gen tleman's bill. r But if it is to maintain the enviable reputation which it has already made; if it is to give the rural population the very best and promptest mail service, it must ' have no such friendly knock-out drops administered - to it. I do not. believe that under the proposed contract system an equally efficient service could be given for less than the present cost.' " : Country Weeklle. . Charles N. Kent. V, - )t the 14,827 weeklies about 12,000 are aenominatea oountry weeklies. The remainder includes class journals of various kinds, together with weekly issues from some of the larger daily offices These country weeklies have a value greatly beyond the conception of any one who. has hot given to the mat ter careful consideration. They occupy a place in country homes as close and influential as that of the country doc tor. Nothing has been found to sup? plant them, and nothing ever will be found to do so. : They tell the story of local happenings so dear to local read ers without which the week's record is never complete. ; Fifty millions of peo ple live : outside i the larger cities 50,000,000 of country people. It is the local country weekly which reaches them. - ":c::.:;-'y.r: ' -- :Ho Help for the Doers. Messrs. Wolmarans and Wessels, the Boer representatives who came to the United States from Europe for the pur pose of conferring with the Secretary of State, , were in Washington ; Wednes day and were received by the Secretary of State merely as private citizens. The induce the United; States ; government to do something to terminate the pres ent bloody struggle in South Africa. A matter of complaint by the delegates was the shipment of horses, mules and provisions from the United States to the British forces in couth Africa. . The Boers also visited the . White House, v The President heard them at tentively but informed them Hhat this government cannot and will not inter fere in the struggle. - For some time it has" been generally understood i that Mr. B. F. Long, of Statesville, would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Supe rior Court judgeship in; this (now the tenth) judicial district to succeed Judge Coble whose term expires next January. Mr. Long has but very recently defin itely determined to be a candidate and the indications are that he will receive the nomination with little or no oppo sition. Statesville Landmark. .,;
The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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