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1 - IKS. PDGIl'S AHSWEH TO PATH ES RYAPi3 "COSQCEREO "Purl that banner," and we furled It, ( . As the poet-priest had said; i Furled it slowly, furled It sadly, For our hopes, alas, were d. ad! - -Furl that banner," and we furled it, - -j Though our hearts were bowed with pain As we thought upon the heroes . - - , Who beneath its folds were slain, i ; j 'Furl that banner, and we furled it, t . . r Banner of the sacred cross ; : . As we furled it inany a woman ' Knelt and wept some loved one's loss. ; 'Furl that banner," yes, we furled it, ' Laid It softly down to rest; , - " . ; 4 - But the place where we enshrined it - ; : : "Was in each faithful breast. - ' Ye?, we furled it, and we laid it - In our hearts; far out of sight; ;' But our Southern women taught their children -.- That their fathers cause was right; . That tis right to fight for honor - , , ! - 'Gainst a foe, however great; That the cause for which we fought Was but the sovereign right of State t : - Taught them to revere that banner, ; " v; , Love its cause and heroes brave; - ' r - That, to them, the Sonth's escutcheon ' , - : - Free from stain their fathers gave. . r And they have revered that banner, ,.v : : r-r -Kept its record ever bright; ... ' ) v "And when, of late the Union called them . They were eager for the fight. " j Loving honor, loving duty, . To that record they were true, - . rAud Southern women gave their blessing " To their soldier boys in blue. - - Confederate Veteran. F0OLED THE HORSE. JUpplncott's Magazine. . : t ' In a -little Virginia city not a .very great while ago there dwelt a young Englishman, tall, angular, . and with feet that were a wonder to behold, par ticularly as to their length. .. . ' j A -pair "of dancing-pumps, made to order for him and displayed in the win dow of a shoe store once, were thought to be an advertisement to catch the eye : of the" passer-by; - -Wishing to go to a small hamlet near the city one summer afternoon," he stepped into a ; livery stable and asked . for, a : riding horse. He was told that ... all .-were out, that he could be i fur . nished with a buggy and "horse,1 but sliding horses there were none. --! He preferred the riding horde and was about to go away when a negro hostler who had heard the conversation said to : the proprietor, - -'. ; "Boss. dat Bill hoss'll ride all right." : "In't he inclined to be a little fool h under the saddle, Jim ?" "Yass. suh. he is, a ; little ; but I jess know this gen'min can ride him." ; The Englishman - expressed his abil ity, to ride anything, and only asked that .the horse be fairly well gaitedi i : So the "Bill hoss'' was saddled, and, upon . being f mounted, : moved out of the stab'e and down the street as if he had n always been . used for a saddle nag,' and never for harness. - : , The proprietor, observing this, ..re marked to the hostler, - ! - 'Jim I thought you told me he was skittish under the saddle."-'1 T :' "Well, boss, he is. But, 'fo' Gawd, look-atdat white man's feet. Dat hoss thinks he's in shafts !" ; Senaatlonal Developments In the In vestigation of PostofSee Frauds. - Washingtost, April 23. A most sen-: sational development of the investiga- , tion ' of r the Postomce Department af- - fairs occurred just bef ore the Depart ment closed to-day, when ' Postmaster - General Payne announced the sum mary dismissal of ' James Tyner, As;r sistant Attorney General for Jtheost oflBce Department, cownlingithjt the annpncemenJQietartling charge that rn the papers and records in the safe of the latter' s office had been abstracted by Mrs. "Tyner, wife "of the ; di charged official, with the assistance of ' others. The Postmaster General states that Mrs. Tyner has refused the de mand of the government for the return "of the papers ' taken, and said the case would be submitted by him to the - De- partment of Justice to-morrow morn ing. Other sensational developments are . expected to follow. The question of arrests is now under consideration and will.be passed on immediately, by Attorney General Knox, " I - " .The. Jadse' Wit.' i An old judge traveling along a Ten nessee road on- a -"sultry . ' sum mer day halted;;near a preacher's house to rest nm8elf. driver and team, t Whilst : re dlining rTihder the shade of a' tree the preacher came but for a chat and soon caught sight of a pair of very 'large feet, for which the judge was noted as l having. The preacher jocularly refer frine to the judge's feet, said : . "I notice, ' jff Vintra a ntrr frwv n . to gtand on," at the same time display ing hi3 own foot, clad in a dainty Nol 6 boot. Yes," remarked the judge, I1 1 whilst on my way here from Nashville 4:iy driver remarked that it was a nota 13 fact that fine blooded horses always i bi feet whilst A jackasses had very lall ones." The preacher immediately - the converson to the prpspects -) for the next season. r Sin JONES ON THE GOOD "WOKIIS i i. , OF COOX TV OMEN, V Atlanta Journal. . ' It may be of simply; passing interest to the City of Atlanta that there is now in session in your city the annual meet ing Of the Woman's Board of the Home Mission Society ; ot the : Methodist Church, South. The good women, coming from fifteen .estates, : ara now busy with the work of their convention, this meeting is made up, of. the very jream of our outhernwomen in intel lect, in moral worth, in social standing, in spirituality. They; are in s the very first rank. There is not a man, woman, or" child in ; Atlanta but who would be benefited, instructed and blessed by at- enaing meir iuwuuk 1 uuuu cpcwo f the male persuasion would get , some ots on oratory; philosophers might earn to reason ; and preachers might 'earn better how to -preach, by1 attend ing the session of this meeting.' r : Jil was once; very -much opposed to women speaking in - public, s but I . was (jnce very ignorant. ; I have heard some women talk in public that made me ieel like I was not capable of saying jjjace at the table. I have heard some nen talk in public when I thought -that if they- were a ? sample- of s male speakers that men - ought to - talk no more forever in public. It has fallen to my lot to deliver the address of wel come in behalf of Georgia Methodism to this assembly of Christian women. ' lie very task puts me almost where i he fellow was at the marriage without he wedding garment on 1 I have been vith the good, women of Georagia in heir conference . board ; meeting . and lowever much of culture intellect, jharacter , may have gathered J in r this sonvention, I am not afraid ' that the Georgia women will lose by association i r comparison any of the ; lustre that tdorns their noble, intellectual, splen did womanhood. - - We have women or ators in Georgia that reach from "The Joy Who Stood on the Burning Deck" lp to. Demosthenes, himself. . . Yea, rerily they might reach to Cicero. r The -work accomplished for . the shurch and" humanity through the various organizations and methods of his home mission society is wonderful ;o contemplate. - The parsonages :they lave builded, the hungry they have fed, ;he naked they have clothed, '- the sick ihey have visited, the money they have contributed make up a record that an ;els might covet." - What good women cannot do in rescuing the perishing, saying the fallen and building upi the ivaste places need not be undertaken by mortal man. Women were not only ;he last at the Cross, and first at i the Resurrection, but they have been in he forefront of every hard fought bat-; ;le for.Christ, and when the fight was jver and men lay down to sleep they lave - been " dressing ( . the wounds and ministering to the suffering all along lown the ages. It might be that an jela unawares are now visiting Atlanta. No convention, association or conclave :ver assembled inr that city with more moral worth and weight and moge con secrated endeavor, in the interest of lumanity. I repeat! it is worth your ime "to steal away a while"' and catch some of the droppings from the lips 3f - these bright, consecrated ' women. You will leave the meeting with a ligher opinion; , of consecrated wo nanhoed'a'nd a less opinion of I the i iterner sex.' -, r These good women will carry away rom Alanta memories of its throbbing if e, its genial x. people, its sky-scraper Hiildings, its thronged busy streets, md they ' will leave with Atlanta some le8sings that union depots, spacious jffice buildings, magnificent business louses and well-filled banks cannot im axt: The good woman, God's best if t to man, the bad' woman,- the devil never put a worse' thing off on the tvorld., Women head the ' procession xth ways, to heaven and to 9 hell. A consecrated cChristian woman,, .busy about 1 her Lord's - work, shines with : a ustre a thousand . times brighter than the sparkle of the diamond and the richness of the silks of the giddy fool ish,, heartless society crowds. The one ja steady fixed star, shining forever; the other, a comet, .a -meteor,, without 'orbit or purpose, . dazzling as - it flies .through the heavens, the crowd look ing on with admiration, not knowing where it comes. from and caring ; less where it goes to. ' The - one loves her Bible, the other loves her deck of cards. The one loves her closet of prayer, the other the comic opera. The one loves her home and children, the other turns her children over to a hirecT nurse and fondles a pood'e'dog. The one is real. the I other a. : sham. , The one makes home happy,- the other don't know she's got a home. .The one will go to 'heaven, the other to, where? Echo answers, where? ' , ' " " Yours truly, Sam P. Jones. Dr. Mile' fain Fills, "One cent a (Soea. COW GEORGE ITASniNGTOtr I70!f When George Washington was 16 years, of age he surveyed land for Lord Fairfax," and when he had been' survey ing nearly two years he had so ; trained his-muscles in jumping ditches and branches and climbing mountains, etc'r, that-he had gotten to be a fine jumper. A.t that time there were two boys in love , with and visiting the fame girl, each "of them desiring to , marry her, but she could not decide which of the two she would take ; neither could-the fold gentleman," her father,- make' the decision.: Finally ,: he (the father)'de? cided upon a plan. He told the j two boys that there was to be a big picnic in a few day s, and that he would let the two .rivals ; have- a jumping match, and the boy that could jump the farth est could have his daughter for his wife.'- ' --"- '- ' J George Washington knew that he was a fine '-jumper,"- and . thought he would have some ' fun ; so he went to the girl's father and asked permission to jump with the K other two , boys. George- knew - that he could " beat the other boySc So after dinner they had the jumping match, and, sure enoughj George did : beat the other two. Then everybody began to cheer George, the mountain ; surveyor, for winning the prize, but he decided he was too young to .marry, : so he made the crowd -a speech, and then told the girl's father that the boy who was next best j umper could take the girl. Again the crowd cheered. : The then successful man was a Mr. Curtis. After the picnic George went home," not thinking any thing more of the day's transactions; and then joined the ar'my, and after the Revolutionary- war was over he was going along . one day and came to a country tavern. - He told the driver to take ouf the team ' and stay all night, and for hinv to hitch up the horses next morning and : be ready to go on the journey, f The driver did so, and was ready as instructed.- Before leav ing George saw a lady at the inn whom he thought he knew. " So "he looked at her and she looked at him." She said: "I : think I know you,"- and George said "I think I know you." She asked,- fWhat is your, name?" He answered, . 'George : Washington.' She said .:. Do you - remember on a certain day, at a certain picnic, there were three boys, who iad a jumping match for a girl to see who should get the girl for his wife?" "Yes," said George." Said she : "I am that girL" Andv I am the boy that won you and let ;the other fellow have you,", 'says George. Said she : - "You knew, then fhat my name was Martha, and the boy who married me was a Mr. Curtis, and my name is Martha Curtis." My hus band is dead, leaving me, a widow." George then fell in love with her, and told his .driver to again put jip the team and let it remain until further orders. : George then" got up a "court ing' match," and about a week later he married the girl that he had won at the "jumping match" several years before. - , " , Then George made them a speech at the tavern, and related the incident of "several ;; years ago," and without further ceremonies they left for Mount Vernon, where he made her his house keeper and mistress of affairs. . . " WliIIe Lore Cleveland, t . Goldsboro Arffus. ' All through the years of Jts entire existence The Argus has stood by Grover Cleveland even5 when it cost something more ; than talk to be his friend in the political maelstrom en gendered by ; office-seekers and aug mented by "time-servers. The Argus has ever been ' his friend because he has ever been the unterrified and un faltering friend of the Southern people, and The Argus is of the South and the Southem people r as i a whole ' are the grandest people on the earth. ; When he; was first elected President he hot only took into his cabinet South" era men and Confederate generals, at that, but he. sent Southern men and Confederate soldiers i as ministers and consuls abroad ; and he did likewise in his second administration. But why recount these incidents "now? They are familiar knowledge the world overfv f Mr. Cleveland ' was right. . He knew he' was right ; he generally is right ; and when he knows he is right he dares to do and take the consequences,' and wait for - time," the tomb-builder, of sychophants, to bring the people round to right thinking again.- Hence it is that the people may be trusted for, "you may fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time ; but you cannot fool all the people all the time.". ' . ' - r There is . a species of grass, Stipa vaaeyi, growing in the mountains of New Mexico and in some of the neigh boring regions, that has the remarkable effect, of putting to sleep every horse tnat eata. . nUUTS LOCAL TKADE. Complaints About the Rural Free Slall Delivery. Washington, April 25. According to " statements contained in numerous letters of ' cbmjplaint and protest; re ceived at the postoffice department of late, tne days of the cross roads ."gen eral store" and the rural side emporium are numbered. " ' The principal feature of the changed -conditions which will destroy - local industry is stated - to be the rural free delivery; service. v -.During Postmaster General Payne's absence from Was"hington, acting Post master General Wynne issued an border instructing postmasters throughout the country to prepare lists of rural delivery routes and post them in conspicuous places in their offices. - Since the issu ance of the order the complaints re garding the service as an enemy to local industry have been more .numerous than ever, and signed petitions, ad dressed to the postmaster general,-have been received at the department by the score, i Mr. Wynne s order was intend ed primariy to obviate some of the con fusion' resultant" upon the discontinu ance of the star routes and the estab lishment of rural delivery , with" the consequent changes in the names of postoffices and addresses .of : patrons. But the complaints which. have been coming in claim that this' posting of rural delivery routes and the addresses of patrons along their lines have .work ed very serious harm to the trade of rural communities, ilt is stated that a large number of mail order firms which sell and ship every thing from a pack age of pins to : a bedstead, including live etock and steam engines, made a practice - of sending representatives to post offices throughout the country to copy the lists of routes -and patrons, which were later used in sending : out catalogues and circulars descriptive of their wares. . It is admitted by officials of the post office department that as a result of the general establishment of rural free de liverv routes the mail order business of the country has grown . enormously. This is true as well of the subscription lists of newspapers, which were wonder- fully affected as to ; growth by the ex- sion of the rural free delivery service. Toe complaints received at" the post office department contain the general admission that the country stores can not compete in prices with the big mail order concerns and a statement that a great deal of . this I local . business . has been won away by the more modern and enterprising competitors in the big city. : - ... Tbe Baby's Complaint. May Smart Set. - - I .am a baby, 11 months old, and nearly : worn out already. Please let me alone! - - " I am not a prodigy, except to the ex tent that, not having anything to say, I don't talk. Two big , persons claim to be my parents why can't they let it go at thatl r I have never denied the charge. I haven't much data to go by, but I don't think I am either a magic ian j a learned, pig, or - a ' virtuoso. I don't hanker for applause; so, it will be an appreciated favor ' if you won't put me through any parlor tricks. If. I have my wealthy v old uncle Ezra's nose, congratulate uncle Ezra, but don't blame me. Imay be a klep tomaniac, for all I know, but I, can't help it. Don't rattle rattles at me they rattle me. Don't goo-goo and optsie-kootsie at me. I can't understand it any better than I can the English language. ' The pain I have is hot in my stom ach but in my neck. I don't-want to be entertained -: or mystified or medi cated or applauded." And, if you don't want me ' to . grow up to be a hypo chondriac, a stamp-collector, an awful example, a ping-pong enthusiast, or a misanthrope, you just lemme be! i Fatal Accident on tbe Soathern. -Lynchburg, Va. , April 23. The Washington .& Southwestern vestibule limited, No 38,: on "the Southern Kail way, collided with , the rear end of a freight three miles south of Lynchburg this "morning. . The engine was re duced to scrap iron, -two mail and two freight cars were burned, . and the pas senger engineer, Chas. R. Kinney, of ThomasvUle, N. C, was killed. When Kinney saw the freight ahead of him, he reversed his engine and -jumped, and as he struck the ground, the fr?nt mail car fell over on : him, killing him instantly;; The colored fireman, Hard en, who jumped on the opposite side, escaped with a sprained arm. Postal Clerk . William . Fealeyof Washing ton, was bruised in jumping The other eight postal clerks, who did not attempt to' jump, escaped unhurt, although their cars were badly shattered. 1 The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be .. the wisest ". - - --sr. - - XII E IDEAL FAnmCEIX'S LIFE. Mrs. W. II. Felton in Atlanta Journal. It is the time when , the spring poet feels like makinghymes and especially the time when professionals of all sorts sit in the house and prate about , the "Ideal Life of the Farmer." - v - JBoth classes c of writers are ' to be taken with a "grain of salt." The average spring poet finds a place in the waste basket, and the professional view of the ideal farmer is negatived by the plain, hard facts in the case. A late spouter on this subject brings certain statements to newspaper notice, which would make an old cow - dance in derision and scorn. , For instance the following : -j : -.'" , - ."The farmer if he does not feel well can . rise , in the morning at whatever hour it pleases - him to do so, for an hour' or so or a day or two does not make much difference in his affairs. except at planting and harvesting." lhat "green goose" could not cackle about the horny-handed sons of toil who - rise at 4 o'clock summer and winter and get a running start on the day's business." They know'they must rise early ' and work constantly 'Until daylight closes in and . watch all the corners if they expect to make "buckle and tongue meet'.' at the end of the year.'. That story will not go down with the average hay-seed, much more the men who understand the outs and ins of farming. Tilling the soil is no easy work. , It needs brawn and muscle as well as common sense and judgment, v ; The idea is insinuated that brain workers are not expected to be found among tillers of the soil. That is a mistake and facts go to prove it. The same sort of mental . acumen must at tend agriculture that goes with all me chanical or industrial occupations. Take for instance the man that de livers milk in the city or large towns. The milkers must get to the milking place hours before daylight, and then the milk cans are loaded into the carts, and the delivery begins about 4 o'clock or earlier in. the summer time. Com petition" is so great he must be extra careful to be very clean in all respects as well as obliging to his customers. Unless a man has some other busi ness by which to aid his farming opera tions he is a very hard worked iman, after he makes a living, and that only a plain living for his family. If a man owns his land and puts all his spare time into making improve ments on his place he may make him self comfortable by hard work and close economy, but the man that must plow and hoe and dig and ditch with his own hands is a very fortunate person indeed if his individual efforts will feed, c'othe and shelter his young and grow ing family comfortably. The independent farmer is the one who hires but little labor. It. is unre- liable hired labor that is eating up southern farms He must either hold the plow or drive. Stop this tattle about the. i 'ideal farmer." It makes the real farmer very tired. Farming that pays means hard work, close attention, strict economy and more than average comf mon sense.- " H Iallas Win by 5G Vote. Gastonia, April 22. As a result of the election held in Gaston county to day, the county seat will remain at Dallas, the majority favoring that town being 56 in a total vote of about 3,300. The campaign on the question has been vigorously waged for some weeks. Dallas is situated four miles from here, on the Carolina fc Northwestern Rail road. It has been contended during the campaign for removal that the town of Gastonia has more county business than all other sections of Gaston com bined, and that being the centre of population and on the main line of railroad it should also be the county seat. " The great need of new. county buildings emphasized, and every argu ment brought -to bear in favor of re moval,' but to-day's vote has settled the matter, at least for the present. : ; Girls or Cigarette. The . school teachers are after the igarette smokers. .Prof Pennypacker, ci principal of .York High School, with the. hope of -breaking up the cigarette habit 'posted the following sign: . "A cigarette smoker is not fit to en joy-the company of a young woman. Hereafter any boy student found smoking will not be permitted to asso ciate with the young women of this school;" Returns in the office of the State Su perintendent of Public Instruction show that in the following counties . the poll tax for school purposes is greater than the property tax : Alexander, , ; Alle ghany, Ashe", Carferet, Dare, Greene, Hyde, " Macon, Madison, ; McDowell, Mitchell, Pamlico, Person, Sampson, Stokes, Tyrrell; Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin. . ' the cnowTii of r.:o:::;oM3". Atlanta Journal. - Some pertinent facta and figures upon the rapid increas3 of the Mor mon church in Utah appear in a recent number of Harper's Weekly. It says : "The Mormon church is growing faster today thanever before in it3 his tory, ; It is building more churches, planting more settlements and main taining more missionaries ' over the earth." ' . - During 1899 the Congregationalisms, Presbyterians and Methodists -gained lew than 50,000 "while the Mormon churchj with a population about one fifteenth as large, gained 63,000, or about 13,000 more than all put togeth er. The M. E. church, which has a membership of 2,762,291, - increas- d .16,500 in 1901, while the Mormons in creased 95,000 in the same year. They are pressing their work in foreign coun- t.H as ' fri-nii 1 "Rrifnin. fJrmnv. Rwitzpr-. land and Sweden. Their tithing sys tem brings in the money, and v.ith this money the use all the power of a thor oughly . materialized and - aggressive organization. It is a church where money and members may exist in full, force, yet the polygamous ideas is understood to J 1 1 ! '1. - fluence.' Nevertheless, . the Mormon idea is aggressive,: and, backed by its "money,, it gathers, in , scores of members. ,: . It is reported that the ruling bosses of theRepublican party are very Uneasy about the political situation in Utah. If Mormon representatives or senators are sent to Washington City, then the Brigham Roberts case will come up again, and the reason for his being refused admittance into the national legislature must, perforce, be reviewed. To have a Republican expelled be cause of : dual wives will perhaps lose Utah to the party which does it. - The - . -.- t ; : i "a i .... its grip on Utah, but they want a man, who can stay in when he gets in," and hence these tears! The Mormons are- Mormons first and politicians later. If there is a kick on Mormonism, then the G. O. P. may not be of remain so popular in Utah. It wants to eat its cake and still have it. T)f the 207,000 people in' Utah about 166,000 are Mormons.' They,' therefore, hold, the balance of power in Idaho and Arizona also, with rapid populating, power in Washington, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado! The future of Mormonism is hard to foretell. Ills Time Wat Not Vp. : A man of a mercenary spirit had several sons, one of whom- was on the eve of his twenty-first . birthday. ' The father had always been a strict discipli narian, keeping his boys well under parental charge,, allowing , them few liberties and makinor them work" Ha Wi lt was with a feeling of considerable -satisfaction that the young man rose on the morning of his birthday and began " to collect his personal belongings pre paratory to starting out in the world. The farmer, seeing his son packing" his trunk; which he rightly judged to be'evidence of the early loss of a good farm-hand, stopped at the door of the young man's room and asked what he was going to do. ; - The boy very promptly reminded his father of the day of the month and the year, and declared his intention of striking out in the world : on his .own account. "Not much you won't," shouted the pld man, "at least not for a while yet I You wasn't born until after twelve o'clock, so you can just take off them good clothes and fix to give me another half -day 's work downj in :. the potato patch." - ' - - - S Did RotEuowIIU Peril. . FrailmanAh, doctor I I called to ask for your bill against me for service during my recent illness. . v . Doctor Yes? That's strange, for I was just about to make it out. Frailman- What is the amount ? Doctor It's just an even $300. Frailman What! You don't tell me it's that much ; why, I believe if I had known I was that sick it tfould have killed me; - . ' The trustees of : the Tuskeegee Nor mal' and Industrial : Ins i ute, in A'a bama, have received $600,000 towards the endowment . fund from Andrew Carnegie, who attended the recent meeting in behalf of the Tuskeegee In stitute, where ex-President . Grover Cleveland presided. The trustees will meet soon to take action in accepting the ' gift and at the same time to take measures to still further increase the endowment. , , - : Reports from the apple-growing coun ties of Virginia are to the effect tha t the recent cold snap did no dam aje, and present indications are for a very full crop.'. . - ;
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