BILL AQP'S LETTER.
: Atlanta Constitution. ,
I've been watching these women I
For a lone ; time I
;did not like the name, but I am recon
died. I never visited a man's club bu
once. It was a gathering of very mceJ
well behaved social gentlemen with eat
and drinkables in the background
but no body, partook to excess while J
was there. -The excess came after
wards, if it came ai all. But a wo
man's club has neither eatables noi
drinkables nor cigars. Of course it is
a very .social gathering but they mean
- business and they do it. Only ; a few
years ago a few ladies of this town de
termined to do something for the town
and they formed "The Cherokee Club,'-'
and soon had more members and went
to work. . All the members had passed
their teens and the married ones had
. laid by their crop. They secured a
charter and then got a lease from the
city and the state for fifty years control
of the, ground between the hotel block
and the railroad nd adorned it with
grass and gravel walks and enclosed it
with a chain fence and placed hand
some iron seats by the shade trees and
planted a beautiful fountain in the
"center: and peopled it with gold fish.
This beautiful park is the frolicing!
ground for the children and a cheerfulj
resting-place for their tired mothers
and a trysting place for young men and
maidens. Near by the trains are pass-)
ing at all hours, and our new beautifuL
passenger depot is near at hand, where
our people congregate to receive their j
friends or bid them goodby. And the
- club did it aU for the old depot would
still be there if the women had not
stirred up the men to demand another.
Then these women began to plant
flowers and shrubbery in the school
house grounds, and next they started a
small library in a small room, and cir-
. culated good books among our people
and they kept on and on until they got
a larger room and more books, and
kept it open two days in a week nd
the demand for books soon widened
books soon widened to
the country and every week they sent
out four boxes of sixty volumes each
along the mail routes, and so have es
tablished a rural circulating library that
has proven a blessing to our country
boys and girls, and the books always
come back unhurt and are sent out on
another mission. Next these good
women started a sewing society among
the poorer classes in our community
and are taking turns in teaching the
girls how to cut garments and make
them and. where they are very poor
they give them aid and comfort. It is
all charity. But last of all and best of
all they have actually laid the founda
tion of a Club Library building that
will hold thousands of books and where
all the best magazines of the country
will be- taken. The city fathers gave
them a beautiful lot and if the weather
permits the building will be finished
and paid for and occupied in three
months. It will not only be a library
for books but a place for rest for the
traveling man as well as for our coun
try friends and their wives and daugh
ters when they come to town. Besides
these uses it is intended to have literary
and musical entertainments there that
will be far more elevating and refining
than the average shows that perform in
our opera house. These same women
organized a lyceum course for two win
ters and succeeded fairly well, but to
send afar off for lecturers costs too
much for a town of this size and so
they are going to secure home talent
and talent from Atlanta and Rome and
Dalton and have entertainments at
popular prices, say at 10 cents admis
sion, as Professor Proctor, the great
astronomer did np north. He told .me
be never charged more in a manufac
turingjtown and always gave the work
ing people the preference of Beats and
always had a crowded house. It was a
cheap, and delightful school to them.
What these club women will do next I
do not know, but they mean business
They mean to elevate their own sex first
and if the men and boys come in they
will find a welcome.
I suppose thaU
this library building will be the first
that any club has erected in the state,
and what I wish to remark and t-mpha
size is that there is not a respectable
town or village in the state but can do
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get the money to do all this? "Heaven
helps those who help themselves." Our
women began with very little. The
railroad gave them $50 to start on and
gave them part of the seats in the park.
men xne ciuDgave an oyster supper
and made a good little sum. Later on
they held a bazaar, and latter on a con
cert, and after awhile another supper)
and all along at intervals they smiled
at the; merchants and others and got
some money and when they run clear
down :. they assess themselves- and we
husbands and fathers have to shell out.
No, you don't need a Carnegie, but if
you have one great big hearted man
and his wife in your community like
we have you will not become bankrupt.
Where there is a will there is a way.
And my observation is that women can
da any good thing they combine on.
A thoughtful man who witnessed the
laying of the corner stone said to me,
"This is the b st work that- has ever
been started in this town and is doing
more to uplift and encourage our voune-1
people than everything else. God bless
the women."
Lord Bacon .said, ' 'Knowledge is
power." It is force. It is money. : A
good library is better than a university.
Dr.. Johnson said, "Knowledge is th3
wing with which we fly to heaven."
One of my boys (Frank) is & civil en
gineer and buiit two plants of water
works", in Ohio for Mr.. Huntington.
une aay tne pump at London got out
of order and he went down in the deep 1 I months, brought $7, - and the wo
well to fix . it but failed. A second I mien. Belle GriffinTand Emma Reed.
time he tnea it, but it would not work
a an j- -k - nvA fj-vws z . . T.I
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. w u ueigut
boring town for an expert to come - by toj
the train. He came and fixed it in half
an hour. Frank felt relieved : and
thanked him and asked him for his
bill. "Ten dollars,"- he said; - "two
dollars for railroad fare, $3 for fixing
the pump' and $5 dollars for knowing
how." That's it, knowledge is money.
Some time ago I advertised for a
copy of General $ Henry H. Jackson's
famous speech on the Wanderer' '
and also for a copy of Daniel Webster's
last and greatest speach made at Capon
Springs in June 1851, in which he
qualified all his previous declarations
about the right of a ? state to withdraw
from the union under certain: contin
gencies. That speech was " suppressed
at the north and is not found in his
published works.
Well I have been favored with both.
Senator Mangum, of :North Carolina,
heard the speech delivered and he with
other southern members of. congress
had it printed in pamplet form and his
grandson, Wiley Mangum Turner, of
Greensboro, N. C, has found it among
his grandfather s papers and sent it to
me. My friend, Mr. Ed. Holland, of
Atlanta, Ga., has had both speeches
neatly printed in one pamphet, together
with a brief biography of General Jack
son by his friend, Joseph M. Brown,
and this invaluable pamphlet will be
mailed to any address on receipt of 25
cents.
It will be sent to students of colleges
at the cost of publication. Address JUd
Holland, Atlanta, Ga.
And now here is a letter from an old
federal soldier living at Live Oak, Fla.
His name is F. W. Angus, and he be
longed to General Sickles' brigade, and
two days after a battle in Virginia in
1862 he found in the woods the dead
body of a confederate soldier and he
and a comrade dug a grave and buried
him: In his pocket was found a pass
from Colonel John S. Reid, colonel
commanding Third Georgia regiment,
and the name of the soldier was D. P.
Williams. Also another pass from
Captain D. B. Langston, commanding
company K.
I find in General Avery's roster the
names of both these officers and if pri-
I vate Williams has anv surviving rela
tives and would like to have these
passes l will send them.
I wrote in a former letter that the
bears of Mississippi had held a conven
tion and resolved not to come out of
their dens to be shot at by any presi
dent who slandered Mr. Davis. I
am pleased to read that Governor
Longino did not invite him there and
that the veterans of Memphis will not
attend the ovation that Memphis has
promised him. After denouncing Mr
Davis (who was dead) as the arch traitor
and repudiator, it seems to me to be the
most unblushing impudence for him to
put his feet on that hallowed ground.
He savs in his so-called history that
jwhen Mr. Davis was governor he vetoed
the bill that was passed to pay the
repudiated debts, when the truth is Mr
Davis never was governor, nor did he
ever advocate repudiation. Teddy, old
boy, when are you going to retract and
send an anoloev to Mrs. Davis, who
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aim uveal iuu say m yuur uuuk. mai
,we were all traitors and anarchists
IHow about your Uncle Captain Bul-
och, who served with Admiral Semmes
n our navy, of whom you wrote so
ushingly to Mr. Cunningham, saying
he was a most admirable man and very
ike the Colonel Newcome of Thack
eray was he a traitor, too? out
Cunningham says Teddy is all right
and showers editorial praise upon him
in "The Veteran." 1 wonder what the
veterans of Mississippi think of that.
Teddy said: "I'm going to Miss
feippi to hunt for bear, and the bears
feaid, "Forbear!" Bill Arp.
Reflections of a Dackelor.
New York Press.
Innocence is as innocence doesn't.
Widows are a rich diet, highly sea
soned.
Guess the serpent in the harden
of
.bden was a garter snake.
After a women works up her shape it
P called her figure.
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mere is no way to make sour milk
sweet, nor an old maid either.
The pleasantest surprise is the slim
girl who is not slim in spots.
1 Spread her hair over a thousand gen-
erations and it won1
vir ri sts-t a nvhW 4 wm'4- lrf- -
A fat man never seems to take up as
much room as a fat woman.
m a m
ne more women understand a man
the less he understands them.
Great men are great indeed until you
get acquainted with them
Men blow their own horns because
nobody else will blow them for them.
.mere is nothing that will season up
Id maids to make them palatable.
What women like about, sad play is'
that they can cry in plenty of company.
It seems funny to think that great
men were once spanked just like the
rest of us. -
xou can't tell anything about a wo
man s real dimensions by the size of
her corset.
A girl's appetite for steak and fried
potatoes is a Bign that she has no secret
lqve affairs.
The woman who knows how to man
a$e a man a80 knows how to keep him
jfrpm knowing she does it.
A man can always tell how much a
woman likes him by the way she makes
it plain that she doesn't. , ..,
tine xess a man nas to sav.m ms own
h6use the more some women will let i
him know he ought not to say it.
Auction Sale of Negroes in Kentucky.
Lancaster, Ky.,.. Nov. -28. Sheriff
Lawson attracted a lar&re crowd before
the court house door to-day by the sale
or f tnree negroes, iwo women ana a i
man. ihe bias were lively but small.
The man.: Charles Anderson, sold for
Isold for one and three years, respec-
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1 V " " 1 a 4 . ' mi I
l?:0?'
were convicieu ior vagrancy anu oraerea
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.SAM JONES' LETTER.
Atlanta Journal.
Since writing from Meridian, Miss.,
last week I've passed through Missis
sippi,; northern Louisiana, Arkansas
and southeastern Missouri, - and I've
seen evidences of great prosperity in all
these sections. Crops of both corn and
cotton are much better than was ex
pected even a month ago. Farmers of
these sections are rushing their cotton
to market. They could have sold a
month ago at 8 cents, now they are
selling for 7. They seem somewhat
Stampeded and they will sell when you
get them rattled. The lumber industry
is immense and the railroads are
crowded and glutted with freight. The
like was never seen by the oldest in
habitant. Trains, trains in both di
rections until it 'makes one dizzy to
look at them, and every passenger train
crowded, frequently the people stand
ing in the aisles of the cars. Yes" sir,
the end of the boom is not in sight,
and it looks like it's good format least
another year. So mote it be. If the
good people of Georgia, who worry over
belated trains, would travel west now,
they would ' think our Georgia trains
run pretty well on time. I never saw
trains so far off of time everywhere and
on every road. I don't think I've been
on a train in ten days when it was on
time. So be patient with the Georgia
railroads, gentlemen, for they are do
ing much better than their neighbors
do
I ve- been out ten days or more
and I have not seen. a Georgia paper
Our papers don't cross the Mississippi
river much. I have lost sight of the
Georgia legislature. It's strange that
none of the dailies of the west notice
that august body. They surely must
not be doing much or they would be
noticed by the Associated Press reports
I hope the boys are doing nicely this
term. - Their trip to Valdosta was not
marked this year by any drunks,
pistols, or members put off for repairs.
I am frequentlv asked and receive
letters inquiring where is a good section
of this great country to locate. It
seems to me that if I were a farmer
seeking fertile soil that I jvould buy
land in southeast Missouri, rich as the
delta of Mississippi and less malaria to
contend with. Corn and cotton grows
in great yields there. The new rail
roads and drainage canals which are
now being built and cut in southeast
Missouri are doing wonders for that
section and these splendid lands in
virgin timber can be bought, I am told,
for ten and fifteen dollars per acre, and
the timber will pay for the land, they
say. 1 never saw hcer corn or cotton
or wheat than grows in southeast
Missouri and northwest Arkansas. I
find through this section, as I find all
over the west, a lot of Georgians, and
they are doing well out here.
I find the lecture audiences splendid
in the territory through which I have
passed. Many of the towns have large
lecture courses.
The lyceum courses have grown
throughout the country immensely in
the past few years; the people take to
them more and more. General Gor
don, Colonel Ham, Charlie Lane, John
Temple Graves, etc., are busy most of
their time in the lyceum courses, and
they all please and hold their places in
this growing field.
I wind up my tour next week at Pe
oria and Mendota, 111., and come home
for Thanksgiving, and this will be the
first Thanksgiving day I ve spent at
home in ten years. I suppose a fellow
can be thankiui on the road, out l
suppose he will feel more thankful at
home with his wife and children eat
ing turkey and cranberry sauce, with
the other good things uod permits us
to have.
I shall have thanks to render unto
the Lord then as I do at all times. I
am so glad I am alive; 30 glad the devil
ain't got me: so glad I've been sober
thirty years; so glad I m not a whiskey
soaked Democrat or Republican; so
glad that I was never a Pop. , or a free
silver loon; so glad that nothing has
happened to me but what is common
to man: so glad my wife has such a
good husband and me a better wife;
glad I'Ve got the best saddle horse in
Georcna. and that he is as good in
harness as ever tightened a trace.
I am sorry for a man who has not a
thousand things to be thankful for to
.where he has one to kick and growl
about. I hope America will have the
greatest Thanksgiving day in her his
tory.
Let everybody get up the morning of
November 27th, wash their faces, put
on their best bib and tucKer, and go
out to the church ani hear a good
Thanksgiving sermon; come home and
eat turkey and spend the afternoon
with loved Ones, recounting the bless
ings and mercies of the past year, -and
my word for it, yu will be a better
man for the next twelve months. This
"going the pace that kills," without
time to think of God's goodness.
Yankee Doodle always makas more
over Thanksgiving day and July 4th
than we southerners do; but we win it
back on Christmas. In crowds and
crackers, drunks and . deviltry, an
bid-fashioned Irish wake and a south
ern Christmas day are much alike and
I could newer understand or explain
them. -.-
I'll be at home three days, and then
for a tour through Pennsylvania.
Yours,- . Sam r. Jones.
A sentimental editor out in Kansas
asks r "Are there any s wee ter words in
the English language than these, 4 I
love you?" Perhaps not: but- the
words, "Here's that aoiiar l owe you
u Buuaunpuuu, .: iajug
in
delightful enunciation to
the ear
of a
nawepaper man. ,
"Who were those two women -who I
just
registered?" - inquired the. hotel I
proprietor. ; "Mrs. Mary McGinnis and
n
her dauzhter. Miss Mavme MacYnnes ' '
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FOOD FOR THE SICK. ;
How 4o Prepare u Some Appetlslnflf
'-,!. Dishes Per Invalids.
A great many dainty dishes suitable
for an In valid are Inexpensive as well
as nourishing and easily digested, says
the New York Commercial Advertiser.
Take, "for instance, the proverbial
rhirken. which the average invalid
soon tires of when served up In the in
evitable broth or-stew. There are one
or twin iipw wars of oreDarine it, not
the least delectable of which is chicken
custard. -
To prepare this -take a teacupf ul of
good chicken-stock and add to it a like.
amount of cream. Cook it for a few
moments in a double boiler; then when
hot add the yolk (beaten) of three eggs
and a sprinkling of salt. When it be
irins to thicken a bit. oour it into cus
tard cups and set it aside to cool.
Another appetizing dish is made by
putting the yolks of three eggs into a
double boiler with half a pint of clear
chicken broth and .with an egg beater
whip the mixture until it is frothy.
When it has cookedor a few moments,
add to it three teaspoonfuls of sherry
anierve hot with some thin crackers.
Tapioca jelly is a dainty that is es
teemed by invalids who have been so
fortunate as to have been served with
it, and this is how it is made: Take a
cupful of tapioca and soak It over
night in about three cupfuls of water.
In the morning put it in a double boil
er with one teacupful of hot water and
let it simmer gently, stirring from
time to time until it is perfectly clear.
Sweeten and flavor with the juice from
half a lemon and two tablespoonfuls of
any kind of wine you prefer; then pour
into little molds or cups and set on the
ice to harden. A little whipped cream
added to it when serving is an addition
that most people will like.
How to Relieve Choking?.
Raising the left arm high as you can
will relieve choking much more rap
idly than by being thumped on the
back. And it is well that every one
should know it, for often a person gets
choked while eating when there is no
one near to tnump mm. very fre
quently children get choked while eat
ing, and the customary manner of re
lieving them is to slap them sharply
on the back. The effect or this is to
set the obstruction free, so that it can
be swallowed. The same thing . can
be brought about by raising the left
hand of the child as high as possible.
and the relief comes much more rapid
ly. In happenings of this kind there
should be no alarm manifested, for if
a child sees that older persons or par
ents get excited it is very liable
to get so also. The best thing is to tell
the child to raise its left arm, and im
mediately the difficulty is overcome.
How to Improve the Complexion.
Persian ladies, who are said to have
complexions whose bloom and velvety
softness are simply wonderful, use no
sort of cream or ointment for their
faces. Instead they apply half an hour
before their daily bath a coating of
white of egg. When this has com
pletely dried, it is sponged off with tep
id water to which is added a little tinc
ture of benzoin, and then the skin is
sponged over with cold milk. The white,
of egg cleanses the skin, and the treat
ment described removes all impurities
from the complexion, heaving it smooth
and soft as that of a child.
How to Wash Chamois Gloves.
Make a strong suds with white cas-
tile soap or any other kind of good
white soap, and to two quarts of suds
add one teaspoonful of borax dissolved
in half a pint of hot water, says The
Ladies' Home Journal. When the suds
are cold, put the gloves on the hands
and wash them slowly and gently, as
if washing the hands. Rinse in the
same manner in clear water; then
draw off gently and hang in a shady
place to dry, drawing them into shape
when they are almost dry. When per
fectly dry, rub them between the hands
to soften them.
Hovt to Make Peanut Cookies.
Peanut cookies will prove a delight to
most members of the family. To make
them remove the skins from two cup
fuls of shelled peanuts and put them
through a meat chopper. Cream to-
rrnt f f no ennrvn !- lo f f Knf Inn nvtl
one cupful of sugar; add three egcrs.
two tablespoonfuls of milk, one salt-
spoonful of salt, the nuts and enough
flour to make a soft dough; roll them
on a nourea boara, cut tnem with a
small cutter and bake in a moderate
oven. -
How to Keep Violets Fresh. v
It is worth remembering that a cor
sage bunch or violets may oe worn
several times if a little thin cotton bat
ting which has been dipped in salt wa
ter is wrapped around the stems each
time before the tinfoil is wound about
them. When not in use, takeoff the foil
and batting and put the stems in a
glass of water which is slightly salted.
The bunch should b? kept in a cool
room with tissue paper twistea over to
exclude the air. (
Pointed Paragraphs.
When a man gets full it is a good
time to get his bust measure.'
Truth lies at the bottom of a well ,
but the angler never goes there-to fish.
Many a man's downfall can be traced
to the loss of his balance in a bank.
Cars are often loaded, but the engine
sticks to water and does all the work.
If "a man amounts to anything he
doesn't have to boast of his ancestors.
It makes a woman heartsick every
time she has to cut a valuable piece, of
lace.' -When
a locomotive goes off on toot
the engineer is generally carried home
in a cab. - - . ':'-"'
"All men may be born, equal, but' the
average man . imagines he was born a
little more so. - - ' '
CONVICTS AND BOAD BUILDING.
The" October Bulletin of the . North
Carolina State Board of Agriculture
came from ; the v presses of the State
printers yesterday, sit con tains an ex
cellent article from Mr. Gerald Mc
Carthy, table of close .seasons for game
in North Carolina, the legislature and
the convicts and other valuable matter.
In regard to the legislature and con
victs the Bulletin says : among ; other
thincra- . "
'"The uenerai Assemuiy -iix.
Carolina, which will convene at Raleigh
-1 in-ho . upnprn. ARsemDiv--oi
in January, wm WUDiuW ,u
means oi Denenng me; ?
industrial and educational
One subject that will occupy the minds
of some of its most progressive nit m
bers will be the disposition of the State's
convicts in such manner as will effect
Our section most beneficially. There is
a strong sentiment in favor of putting
all . of the convicts to work upon our
public roads, and in preparing stone
and other road materialUu order that
the counties of the State that are so
anxious to progress along this line may
have some encouragement from the
Commonwealth. This will be an in
vestment yielding a handsome return
both to the present race and to pros
perity: Under the caption, "The Wilkes-
borO-Jeffer8on Turnpike an Object Les-
in Mountain. Road Building,". the Bul
letin says: v -
"The State is aiding with a gang of
convicts to build a turnpine road from
Wilkesboro, N. C, up B-ddles Itiver
and over the Blue Ridge Mountains
to Jefferson, N. C. The road has been
surveyed by S. T. Kelsey, who reports
the length of the line thirty-nine miles;
maximum grade, one footprise in thirty;
no up-grade going south from the top
of the Blue Ridge thirty miles to
North Wilkesboro, and j no up-grade
going north from the top of Blue Ridge
Mountains to New River. I It is an ex
pensive line to build, owing to steep
bluffs and rock cliffs along Reddies
River, and also as to the necessity for a
high line and the -making of high
bridges, culverts and fills to avoid dam
age from floods and washouts.
"The intention is to put - the road
where it will stay and be in condition
for travel at least 365 days in the year.
Most of the way there is plenty of rock,
gravel and sand convenient for the
making of a fine roadbed.!
"The most expensive part of the
road is now being built at a cost of
about $1,500 per mile, and the esti
mated cost of the entire iline, thirty-
nine miles, is $40,000. j
"We believe that no wagon road has
ever before been built in the mountain
sections of the state with such light
and regular grades for so j long r, dis
tancethirty miles in direction of
heaviest hauling. Such a road will
surely be worth to the State, as an ob
ject lesson in road making, many times
the amount that is being furnished in
the way of convict labor aid in its con
struction." !
RUHAL MAIL S Ell VICE.
Atlanta Journal.
Southern representatives in congress
are mainly responsible for the rural
mail service which is growing so rap
idly in favor and is already so well es
tablished in the regard of the country.
This great provision for I the conven
ience and benefit of the people who re
side in the rural regions was urged by
southern men when it had hardly any
support from others.- ; .
The rural mail service has come to
be a big business and there is a s trong
demand for its extension.
About 13,000 carriers are now em
ployed and the superintendent esti
mates that 40,000 will be needed to
make the service practically complete.
The gross cost of rural free delivery
throughout the country is estimated at
$24, 000,000. A deficit of from eigh t
to ten million dollars in this service
for two or three years may be expected
that is to say, a deficiency of from
four to six millions in excess of last
year. But it is practically certain that
when the system is completed it will
pay for itself . L
The government should not hesitate
to extend the benefits of the free mail
delivery and collection to the people in
rural districts, because the service will
not at once pay its expenses.
It has been the. policy for many
years to keep the postal service up to a
grade of efficiency beyond its income,
but it has been found that a rapid
growth of reuenue invariably results
from this liability, so that a con
tinuous improvement of the service is
possible.
The quality of the service is kept up
to such a very high standard that no
body objects to an annual postal ap
propriation. No tax is laid more
cheerfully than this.
There is a just general complaint
about the abuse of the second class
rate privilege which has caused the de-
facit for the last few years. I If this rate
were, restricted to the classes of matter
to which it was intended to apply the
postoffice department would require no
appropriation and would be able to ex
tend its rural mail service and make
other improvements without cost to the
government.- .
The rural delivery has proved thor
oughly successful. It is no longer an
experiment. Its advantages to the
farmer are evident. It is a great con
venience and it keeps him in much
closer, touch with the outside - world
than it was possible for him to be with
out it. The. initial cost of the system
is small compared with the benefits it
will afford.
It is; all right for a fast horse to at
tempt to lower his record, but when a
man ' attempts a similar feat it is ail
wong. " - - . r
Consistency is said to be a jewel; yet
Daste diamonds are not jewels, although
paste is noted for its consistency. -
The King and the Seidlltz Ponder '
On, the Crsr cone!gr.;nent of seidlitz
powders to the capital of Delhi the
monarch was deeply interested in the
"accounts of the refreshing box. a box
was brought to the king in full court
and the interpreter explained to hia
majesty how it should be used. Into a
goblet he put the twelve blue papers
and. " having added water, the king
drank It off. This was the alkali, and
the royal countenance expressed no
sigh" of satisfaction. It was then ex-
plained that Ixk the comminution 0f the
powders lay the luxury, and the
twelve white powders were quickly dis.
Ivph1 iu wter . and as e.iriv w,
his majesty.
1 With a shriek that will be remember
ed while Delhi lasts the monarch rose,
stared; exploded and In his full agonies
sereamod,-"Hold me down," then rush
Ing from the throne fell prostrate on
the floor. There he lay during the long
continued effervescence of the com
pound, spurting like 10,000 penny,
worths of imperial pop and believing
himself In the agonies of death, a rnei
ancholy and humiliating proof
kings are mortal. Indian Mirror.
that
Historical Fiction. .
in lecturing Dr. Gardiner was very
fond of retailing the hackneyed old
historical anecdotes that garnish the
school books, and he would commonly
append the comment: "Now. that story
is not true. 1 have reason to know,
indeed, that it is pure fiction, but for
our purpose it Is better than the truth
because the ; truth cannot be rounded
off and polished so nicely to suit one's
conception of character or of circum
stanced' Forsimilar reasons he was
Instant In praise of historical novels.
"A genius like Scott or George Eliot,
especially in 'Romola,' " he would say,
'-"has , many advantages over the plod
ding historian and can often arrive,
by the intuition of genius, - at truths
which the most laborious research
could never reveal, and, on the whole,"
he would add, "historical fiction is
much more trustworthy and incompa
rably more respectable than fictitious
history." London News. .
Cues nia Ring
In
His Business.
An- "east side character
well known
about the supreme court wears a nar
ticularly brilliant solitaire diamond
ring, with the stone turned In toward
the palm of his hand. He was asked
if be wore his ring this way for f eai
It would be stolen.
"No," he said, scorning the idea. "Th
thief what Is - wideawake enough ti
rob your uncle, he ain't been , born yet
It's for business reasons that 1 wear
my- diamond so. ' When some fellow
comes to touch me, I hold up my hands
so (with the back toward him) and
say, 'I'm broke, my friend,' and he
don't see my diamond, and he goes
away. But when I' want to do business
with a man who has money I turn my
hands so (with the palms out) and say,
'What can I do for you. my friend?1
and he sees the big diamond and thinks
I'm a good man to deal with." .New
York Times. j
' The Peanut In London.
Noting the Introduction of the baked
peanut in London, the Pall Mall Ga
ssette observes; "We do ? not know
whether .that excellent feature of Brit
ish civilization, the hot potato, flour
Ishes on winter nights at the street cor
ners of New York. Probably it does
but if It does not there should be an
nnpn? Tl rr fnr crvmo rrnnrl fiomntfon wtrth
an eye to business to show our cousins
that they have not got a monopoly of
good things. " However, we welcome
the peanut, more familiar to us as the
monkey nut. as a highly desirable im
migrant and have no doubt" that he has
come to stay. r , ;
Literary Underwriting-.
One well known firm of publishers
runs a good deal of its. business on the
following lines: It t secures a popular
novelist, offers him so much for his
next book and then forms a little syn'
dJcate in the city to share the expense.
A new book by a popular author is a
considerably safer investment than
'. i J9 . ' a - m
uiaay newiy tuscovereu goia mines.
Literature-
Japan ese Art.
The Japanese Is a born lover of na
ture. -Whatever.he produces, from the
most painstaking work of art to the
simplest household utensiL is after nat
ural models. In the representation of
figures and4 scenes the Japanese dis
play a perception ; which Is astonish
ing. With a couple of strokes of the
brush they reproduce what " they see
with a , truth to life which Is almost
Incredible.
His Only Pear.
The undaunted Corporal Caithness,
so conspicuously daring in a "pinch"
at the battle of Waterloo, was asked if
he did not fear they should lose the
day." . .
"No. no," said he. "l knew we could
not do that. My only fear was that we
should all be killed before we had
time to win it." - " -
V - An Aspiration.
There Is woe and whoa, and If woe
would only obey our whoa It would be
worth , while driving. Milwaukee
Journal. - - v- -
- Tliere are many people who make it
a point when they receive a goldpiece
to withdraw It from circulation by
hiding It In some secret place, and the
amount of gold thus hoarded Is prob
ably very large.. .
In rortu.Tnl married women retain v
their maiden names. ,
'I don t think very much of your
reference." ' .
"I don't wonder, ma'am. My mis
tress was too busy to write it, ma'am;
an' so I got her maid to write it for her,
ma'am, an' she's only been to night
school one winter, ma'am, an' the pen '
was a bad one. " -
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