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VOL XII. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY JULY 5, 1901. NO 18.
Baby's walking, "toofy's" breaking
Through those little gums :
Now's she's crying, mama's prying
For those pricoless plums.
Creeping out and peeping out,
The little "tooffy" came,
And with It came the little sobs,
To show what was to Ultimo.
Here It is 1 ' Our little Charlotte
lieally has a tooth.
Come here quickly, you can see It,
Here's the very best of proof.
It's her first one and her best one,
That "toofy" slilnlug there,
I can hear it scrape the thimble.
What will papa say, my dear y
He'll prance about and dance about
And kiss his little girl,
And tell her she's a Jewel
With that tinv, shining pearl.
L. T. Capers.
STATE NKWS.
George Foster Peabody, a New York
financier, has donated $10,000 to the
North Carolina State Normal and In
dustrial College.
A Holiness or Sanctification churcl
is to be organized in Winston-Salem
Already 108 names have been secured
for membership. A number of these
have withdrawn from the other
pnurcnes. i committee nas ueen ci.usen
to make the necessary arrangements
for organization.
The supreme court has given notice
that the next examination of applicants
fo; license as attorneys will be held
September 80th. After this year the ex
aminations will be held on the fourtl
Monday in February and October, the
new law naming those dates as the
beginning of the spring and fall terms
respectively.
Governor and Mrs. Aycock, State
Treasurer Lacy and other ltaleigh people
spent Saturday in Charlotte, the guests
of the Manufacturers Club of that city
The party was royally entertained and
in the evening the Governor made an
' address before the club which was well
received. His the.ae was the indus
trial and educational development of
the State.
Charles C. Collins, the old slave dar
key that likes George Vanderbilt as a
licigiiuui nuu ii.io uctii iriuoiug iciiiih
ing offers for his tract, is soured at
being disfranchised and will sell ou
and move to Philadelphia. He says if
he can't vote he thinks other people
ought to pay his $00 tax. lie will
give Mr. Vanderbilt first chance at his
land.
The Gastonia Gazette says the only
woman ever executed in Gaston coun
ty was Caroline Shipp, colored, hang
ed about nine years ago for poisoning
her child. The county now has an
other somewhat similer case on hand
A vounc negro woman named Annie
has been committed without bail on
the charge of drowning her two-year-old
child. The child was fouud dead
in a well.
There are zzo blmu children in
the state institutions at Haleigh,
white and colored. The superintend
ent had secured the namespf 100 others.
Last week he received the names of ISO
notion his list. Thus it is shown that
not half the blind children are at
school. There is no law to enfore their
attendance, the legislature lacking the
courage to e-act it, so that bills to that
end have never got further than second
reading. -
This from the Marion correspondence
of the Charlotte Observer tells of
pitiable state of affairs in McDowell
county: Heavy rains continue to iau
in this section. Bridges have been
washed away the third time since the
flood of some weeks ago. Great ruts
are washed out in the roads. Farmers
are sadlv disappointed. To give it
correctly McDowell is a wrecked countv.
Small creeks have overflowed since the
Hood and washed away corn that was
replanted for the third time.
Two IHen Killed hy Llht nlii.
Last Tuesday two men in Lincoln
county were killed by lightning, and a
third is not expected to Jive. Ihe
Charlotte Observer gives the following
particulars:
Mr. William Huss and his two grown
sons, who lived on a farm near Grouse,
were the men who were struck by
lightning. About 12:30 o'clock they
were hoeing cotton in an open field in
front of their house. At tais time it
wns raining but little, and there had
not been much thunder or lightning.
Suddenly the three men fell to the
earth and lay still. There was a loud
clap of thunder.
Members of Mr. Huss' family saw
what had happened and ran to the
prostiate men. It was found that the
father and older son had been instantly
killed, and the younger son was un
conscious. A physician was sum
moned and every effort was made to
resuscitate the young man, but he re
mained senseless and his recovery was
not expected last evening.
Charles F McKesson, of Morgan ton,
has been appointed clerk of the western
District Court at Asheville, to succeed
C. L. Moore, the present incumbent.
Mr. McKesson's term of office will
begin upon his qualification, which, it
is supposed, will be July 1.
W. Y. Moore, while ploughing in
the field near Roseboro, Sampson coun
ty, was killed by lightning. The horse
was also killed. -
HILL A HP'S LICTTER.
Atlanta Constitution.
The increasing prevalence of suicides
indicates an unhealthy condition of
mind and body and I have thought
that if the man would quit thinking
about his troubles and go to chopping
wood or digging in the garden, or even
go hunting and get up a good circula
tion he would feel better and conclude
to live on a while longer. The body
effects the mind and when the blood
in the veins get thick and slugg
and the secretions become stagnant
the mind gets diseased and morbid
the emotions are out of tune and the
man actually believes he would find
rest and peace in death. It is strange
that any man of education or refine
ment would entertain such an unreas
onable hope. What did . the school
teacher of Dothan accomplish by killing
Dr. Mcrseil and himself? Where is the
schoolteacher now? When two enf mies
light a duel and both are killed, how
do their spirits meet in the other world?
Do thev shake hands or renew the
fight, for, of course, they are not in
heaven? What does the young man
accomplish by killing his sweetheart
and then himself? Are they not then
forever separated? What does any
body gain by suicide? As Hamlet says
is it not better to bear the his we
have than fly to others that we know
not of?" Run to the woods keep on
running-f-jump the branches, swim the
rivers, get wet, get tired work in the
garden, dig hoe, chop wood, mount a
horse and ride furiously anything to
divert the diseased mind from its train
of thought. My good old father was
afllicted with rheumatism and when
he felt the acute, agonizing pains com
ing on he would rouse up and limp
away and make for the farm, ana
would walk faster and faster as the
pains increased, and would actually
make them ashamed and they would
leave him for a day or two. To keei
the mind in a good, normal condition
the body must be exercised. Sedentary
occupations are not healthy for men
and even women should fly around the
house with a broom or wash the win
dows occasionally, or dig among the
flowers. It will not do for them to eit
and sew all the time. I am sorry for
these unmarried girls who have to run
the machine all the day long and get
no healthy exercise except for the ankle
bones. When they get married and
the babies come along they are pretty
safe, for little children give a mother
diversion enough. A mother with
babe in her arms never thinks of
suicide. Even if her husband is cruel
to ner or is a cirunicara, sue wm Jive
on and on for the "sake of the child
Wo note that most of the suicides occur
among the young men and are caused
from intemperance or disappointed
love or failure to make money fast, or
being caught in embezzlement (alias
stealing). Othello killed himself be
cause he found out that he had wrong
fully killed his wife, and Shakespeare
says ' 'he was great of heart. I reckon
he was, considering that he was a Moor
and did not believe in hereafter. It
was the best thing-and most heroic
that he could do. It was the very in
tensity of grief and repentance and has
no parallel in modern suicides, for most
all of them are selfish or revengeful. It
was like the Harikiri of Saul, or of the
ancient generals when- defeated' in
battle.
The most alarming feature about
these suicides of our young men is the
indication that they are not believers
in the Christian religion. JNosane
man will take his own life if he believes
in heaveu and hell and a future state
of rewards and punishments. He will
be afraid to. The influence of modern
fiction on the vouthful mind has much
to do with it, for a great deal of it is
tainted with atheism and infidellity.
Even some of the standard writers,
such as Hume and Disraeli, had left
their bad impression. The latter
threw a dark shadow over life and says
that "youth is a bluuder, manhood
struggle and old age a regret."
is it not tar. better to take a more
hopeful view of life and say like the
poet, Horace Smith:
"The world Is very, lovely! ' Oh, my God,
1 thauK tnea nat l live."
Or to say like Longfellow
"Life Is real life Is earnost
And the grave Is not Its goal."
It is easy to diagnose a poet's tem
perament or a philospher s by his writ
ings some are gloomy ana some are
bright and cheerful. I was ruminating
about these young men who have just
graduafed at my alma mater and the
other home colleges, and wandering
how many would prove a success in
life and twenty years hence exclaim with
the pact, "Oh, my God, I thank Thee
that I live." Fifly-four years ago I
was at Alliens, in the class of '47, and
of the forfy-two then living there are
now but half a dozen left. Many of
them lived and died and made no signs.
Some of! hem saw trouble and some
made good citizens, good husbands and
fathers; and just so history repeats it
self all along the generations. It
grieved me that I could not attend the
centennial and commune with the
alumni and rejoice with the young and
feel lonely with the old. Then there id
old college and new college, and the
chacl and the campus and the two
mils that are still unchanged. I won
der how many boys have occupied the
old room that Briscoe and I lived in
for two long years? I saw it in the
picture and felt like it was still my
room. The ailanthus trees (by a mis
nomer called the tree of heaven) grew
close to our windows and extended
their nauseating odors to the dormitory
where we slept, and the boys all along
the line complained, but the faculty
said it would soon pass away, and the
trees were imported from China, the
Celestial Empire, and they were called
the trees of heaven. So one dark night
the boys (not I) got axes and girdled
them and they died and went to heaven
in China, where they came from. For
some months I roomed in new college,
and so did our tutor, who was cross
and never smiled, for he was an old
bachelor peace to hh ashes. He
wouldent let mg nor Chess Howard play
on the flute after stuc-y hours at night,
nor let Ben Mosely nor Dick Farmer
play on the fidd'e. Said it annoyed
him, and so some of the boys (not I)
got some old cannon balls from the
armory and away in the dead hour of
night, when sleep falleth upon a mm
or a tutor, they rolled a six-pounder
along the long hall 200 feet right by
his door, which was about midway.
When it got to the other end another
boy slipped out and rolled it back again,
and this roilmg and rumbling was kept
up for a time until there happened just
what they thought would happen. The
tutor had opened a crack in his door
and when he heaid the b?i c mn'ngfo
the fifth time he slipped out suddenly
and slopped it with his foot and picked
it upand took it in in his room. Tiat
was just What the boys (not Ii wanted
for they had another one in the fire
getting hot. In due time they took it
in the' shovel aad sent it slowly down
the hallway, and it stopped net far
from his door. Quickly he stopped
out and tiie hgat from Ins room
showed him tne ball. He sc-ned it
with his right hand and straightway
dropped it and used fme language
that was unbecoming, and retreo.jd to
his room. The nt day his baud was
Ued up in a white handerchief, which
was a Krua ot nar ot true 3, ror lie was
mush more considerate to us and
seemed to like music. I never perpe
trated much mischief wh'le in college
but l was an apt sclioirr to Jook on
and enjov all the fun. Chess Howard
was an expert, and could play
ball better than anybody, especially
a hot cannon Da" I. Chess came to
see us some time
while asked me and
ago and after
my wife to give
them some music. And so she seated
herself at the p'ano and I took my
flute and asked whit he would 'ike
And he sa id play that good old piece
that we used to call "Sallie Baxter
when we went serenading in Athens
so we piayeu it, ami be'ore we were
aware of it Chess had slipped bis own
flute out of his pocket and was tooting
along behind me. Sallie was our
college sweetheart, but we d tdent get
her, for a Bird flew there and she fol
lowed him off to Baltimore and is liv
ing there yet. But we never thou
of suicide.
But I forbear. It is sweet and it is
sad to recall the memories of '45, ' 1G
and '47, and I would have felt lo3t and
lonely in Athens. It was a college
then. It is a great university now,
and many changes have come over it,
ana we okl veterans have to keep up
with the procession whether we like
the modern methods or not, They
have got intercollegiate baseball in the
curriculum now and I reckon it is to
keep the boys f rom committing suicide
It diverts their minds from the strain
of trigonometry and calculus and
conic sections. Progress is the order of
the day in colleges as in everything
else. One hunded and hf y years ago
old Dr. Johnson said to BosweM, "In
our great schools there is less flogg'ng
than formerly. Consequently, less is
earned there. So what the boys get
at one end they lose at the other
Now there is no flogging anywhere,
ana tne teaciiers ana protessors are
thankful if they escape it from the
boys.
Bill Arp
Itaby Itorn with Needle In Stomach.
New York Sun.
A. needle was found by Roentgen rays
on Saturday evening in the stomach of
Mary Lang, 15 months old, who has
cried almost a'l the time since her binh
and shown indications of pain in the
stomach. She was taken to St. James
Hospital in Newark from home at 123
Adams street, and the hospital
hysicians sent her to Dr. Frank
Devlin, who has a Roentgen ray
apparatus. He discovered a dark line,
and by careful manipulation of the
flesh brought a needle to the surface
and extracted it with tweezers without
making an incision.
He was of the opinion that the
needle wrs in the child before its birth
and cited a similar case of the Dalan
baby of Plainfield, from whose stomach
a needle was extracted a few days ago.
The needle taken from the Lane baby
was blackened, but intact.
A Doubtful Compliment.
Rose I heard someone pay you a
ompliment yesterday, Marie. Marie
Did you really, Rose? Oh, what was
t? Rose Oh, they called you pretty.
Marie Honest? Tell me just what they
nd. l.nse Hell, we were talking
alMiut your wanting the leading role in
mr amateur play, and someone re
marked: "She's a pretty one for such
a part as that!".
SCANDAL AT IUGII POINT.
It Grew Out ol the Fake School of
Healing There.
Statesvllle Landmark.
There is at High Point an institu
tion called the Hammer School of
Science and Healing one of these in
stitutions which claims to cure the Ills
of the flesh by theT exercise of divine or
supernatural power. The institution
was recently refused a charter by the
Secretary of State. One MacKnight is
at the head of the institution.
As is always the case with all hum
bugs, this school of healing has its ad
herents. Young men and women and
older ones, too, have gone there either
to be cured or bodily ills or to learn the
art of healing under MacKnight, for
which they paid liberally, of course in
either event. Among the pupils was a
young woman, a Miss Snider, who
lived in the country near High Point.
It was rumored a few weeks ago that
this young woman and MacKnight
were unduly intimate. The couple
were watched by the chief of police
and another man who said they found
them in a compromising position. A
night or two thereafter a company of
irresponsible boys and men went to the
school and attempted to make a de
monstration with a view of forcing
MacKnight to leave town. He bluffed
them, however, by firing a pistol, and
they a'l ran. Then MacKnight hired
a private detective, a young man from
Madison county, to protect him. The
detective got into a row with a citizen,
weapons were found on his ferson and
he was arrested and sent to jail for
carrying concealed weapons.
The next act was by the young wo
man, Snider, who took out a warrant
for Zander against the chief of police
and the other man who claimed that
they found her in a compromising
position with MacKnight, and Mac
Knight also took out a warrant for a
half dozen or so of the fellows who had
tried to run him out of town aud failed.
The case came up for trial before a
magistrate at Greensboro Saturday bu
was not concluded until Wednesday
There was an array of lawyers, a great
cloud of witnesses and a good portion
of the population of High Poititpreseu
as spectators.
Raleigh, N. C, June 2G. The
sensational prel'in'nary tiial for slandc
Diougnt by Jmss onvuer against ume
of po':ce, Bennett, of High Point, and
Frank Secet ended this afternoon
very sensational'. The trial .justice
bound them over to court in $200 each
but presently i convened the court and
requ'-ed me ely personal bonds. The
two justices who sat with them urgei:
acqu.ttal. Fading against the tria
justice is h'gh. High Po: it citizens
were on hand" to put up a hundred
thousand dollars ba'l, if neeessa-v
They declare McKnight, Miss Snyder'
teacher in the Chrisli. n Science college
cannot live longer at High Point.
Fins For Georgia.
Charlotte Observer.
The statement in yesterday's dis
patches that the Southern Railway has
made arrangements for the purchase
of 10,000 acres of land on its line in
Georgia for the purpose of planting on
it a colony of I ins, is of mterest
These people make excellent seitlers.
It could be wished that North Carolina
could catch some of them or some of
the other desirable emigrants who seek
our shores. Many Germans, for in
stance, settle in this country every
year, somehow they have been turn
ed to the West, yet in the South, espe
cially in North Carolina, they would
find many of their own people, and cli
matic, soil and other conditions adapt
ea to tnem ana to -which they are
1l .1 I.
adapted. In the early history of the
country German emigrants found this
section a desirable one in which to lo
cate their homes, and in many locali
lies these are the basis of the
present population and we have
no uetter citizenship. Jvery year
thousands of desirable emigrants
come to this country and for the most
help to people the West. These are
Germans, Norwegians, north of Italy
people and others. The South should
catch some of them. It does not want
those whose natural habitat is the
slums and who find immediate lodsr-
mcnt in New York and other cities by
natural preference. This settlement of
Fins in Georgia may be a beginning;
at all events the news of it is to be
received with gratification.
Omaha Church Rule Out Women's
Hats.
Omaha. Neb., Special.
The First Methodist church, presided
over by JJr. Jrlirst, and one of Omaha's
chief places of worship, will no longer
blossom forth as a flower garden on
Sunday.
one board of trustees has passed a
resolution forbidding women to wear
headgear of any sort during hours of
services, such finery being said to be an
impediment to godliness. In thus
giving the hair dresser advantage over
the milliner the hoard remarks that
Omaha took the initiative in securing
the removal of hats in theatres, and
agrees that churches should not tarry
behind in such an advanced and
commendable step.
Lots of people seem to think it bad
form to be polite in public.
ROCKEFELLER'S ADVICE.
Charlotte Observer.
In an address at Chicago University
the other day, John D. Rockefeller,
supposed to be the richest man in the
world, expressed these views:
"The chances for success are better
to-day than ever befoie. Success is at
tained by industry, preseverance and
pluck, coupled with any amount of
hard work, and you need not expect to
achieve it in any other way.
"If you are to succeed. in life it will be
because you master yourselves.
"You will do well not to underesti
mate the strength of any foe.
"How many young men whom I knew
in my school days went down because
of their fondness for intoxicating
drinks ! No man has ever had occasion
to regret that he was not addicted to
the use of liquor."
There is much popular feeling
against people of the Rockefeller type,
who have made large fortunes through
the medium of trusts, but if any man
was ever qualified to speak upon ma
terial success from personal knowledge
that individual is the Standard Oil
magnate. He and those like him are
often severely arraigned by speakers
of another class for advising men as
to how they can make money, the
claim being that mere wealth-getting
is not success.. Certainly it is not, bat
advice is desirable upon all lines of hu
man effort and whea Rockefeller,
Schwab and others like them talk
about that which is necessary to finan
cial Ljceesi they are on the subjects
upon which they ave qua'ified to speak.
As to Rockefeller's advice, even the
enemies of mateiiaUsm cannot but ad
mit that it is ptetly straight talk, ex
cept possibly the allusion to chances
of success to-day as compared with
former times. There is a wide belief
that e t usts have so concentrated
cbuditioes that a young man's talents
aie not as ma keable as they hav
been, but even that is open to discus
siou. There is still good reason
to
believe that a man has yet much to do
with carving out his oiva place in the
world; or, as the commencement ora
tors say, he is "the architect of his own
fortune."
Good For rcxan.
Atlanta Journal.
1 he great state ot lexas lias many
claims t i fame besides her vast area
her rich soil, her enormous cotton crop
and tier wondenul oil wells.
Texas should be prouder of nothing
than the fact that in proportion to her
means she does more for public educa
lion than any other state, north, south
eait or west. ' -
Texas p iys as much-money for the
support of her pub'ic schools as does
New York city, and that city has prop
erty worth many times over the valua
tion of all the property in Texas.
lexas has the largest permanent
school fund of any of the 45 States
has built more schoolhouses in the
past five years than any other two
States, and is expending immense sums
every vear on improvement and exten
sion Oj. her school tacilities. lexas is
already a great State, but is preparing
to become a much greater one.
Suez Canal TralUc.
ine suez canal trainc in lyuu was
but little less than that of 1899, which
was exceptional, invents in China
obiigeu the powers to send out many
ships, despite the bad economic situa
tion. The receipts were 93,000,OQO
francs, or but 650,000 francs less than
hist year. This was on a capital
ization, including all improvements up
to the end of 1899, of 5S6,G79,13S
francs. As the net profit is 52,000,000
francs, the stockholders are evidently
getting a good xetum. The total num
ner oi vessels traversing tne canal was
3,441, of which 1,935, of over one-half ,
were British. The rivals of England
in commerce the United States and
Germany sent through the canal, the
one 22, the other 4b2 ships. A loan
of $5,000,000 is to be issued to provide
for improvements.
Ttilane's Progress.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
under the direction of its new president,
Dr. E. A. Alderman, Tulane University
has made greater progress in the past
year than in any previous year in its
history. "In this era of expansion
and development," says the Picayune,
Tulane has gotten the fever, but it
does net intend to annex any foreign
territory or to carry the flag beyond
the Constitution." Four new depart
ments have been created and four new
professors are to be chosen, and Presi
dent Alderman has been instructed to
find the right men. The new chairs
are philosophy and pedagogy, econom
ics and sociology, civil engineering and
electric engineering.
No Use For It.
Mr. Suburban I was called on bv a
committee today who wanted me to
ontribute something toward the build
ing of a new fence around the old
cemetery.
Mrs. suburban And how much did
you give them, dear?
Mr. Suburban I gave them nothing.
simply because I do not see the
necessity for bunding a fence. Those
who are In the cemetery can't get out,
ind 1 don t believe there is anyone
ery anxious to get in.
DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES.
Key. Sam Jones la Atlanta Journal.
I arrived home just a week ago after
almost constant absence since the first
of January, feeble in body and mind,
with my constitution and by-laws both
out of fix. I have been farming a week
and I am greatly improved by the rem
edy. What a treat it is to an over
worked man when he is overworked
on one line to have other work that
is recuperating and helpful to him.
I have spent several days in the broil
ing hot sun, in the fields with the hands
that were cutting wheat and oats,
plowing corn, sowing peas, etc., get
ting up at half past four o'clock in the
morning and turning into bed at night
at 9 o'clock and improving every day
with the treatment.
I just sit up long enough after supper
to read The Journal and what a treat it
is to a fellow to pick up a good newsy
paper like The Journal and get the
news from all around the world every
day. Atlanta ought to be proud of her
newspapers. No city of its size on
earth can boast of such papers as
Atlanta, but among other things it
troubles me to see so many people in
trouble. Hardly an issue of the paper
for a week but what is reported the fact
that some man has killed his wife or
sweetheart and this afternoon some girl
hai killed her lover. I never heard of
lovers doing so many devilish mean
things as they are doing these days.
I have heard it said that when love
turns to hate it is as dangerous as a
rattlesnake, but I can't see how love
can turn to hate any more thad I can
see how water can turn to fire. Some
people have just naturally got the devij
in them and all you have got to do is
to touch them off. The great trouble
these days h that very few girls are sat
isfied with one beau and very few
young bucks are satisfied with one
sweetheart. The girl that has the most
beaux is the most envied by the other
girls and I suppose it is the same way
with the boys. No wonder they get up
a lot of deviltry and somebody gets
k;!led. A sweet, good modest girl with
one clever beau never gets killed by
her lover and a good, clever boy with a
nice clever sweetheart never gets killed
by his girl.
Farming may be good for a broken
down preacher and lecturer, but I don't
know what sort of medicine to give
these devilish young people and there
are many of the old people got the
devil in them, I know a remedy for all
deviltry but the rascals won't take it.
They are like a horse with the colic;
when you drench him with remedies
you have got to swing his head to a
limb and put a long-necked bottle down
his throat, and he will hold it in his
mouth until it strangles him almost to
death and then maybe die with the
drench cough at last. It is mighty hard
matter to get a dishonest man to take
a good dose of Bible honesty; it is a
hard matter to get a cussing rascal to
pray; it is a mighty hard matter to get
a liar to take a big dose of integrity
that will cure him; but perhaps the
hardest of all is to get a stingy man to
take a cose of HberaMty.
There is no disease without its rem
edy, either moral, intellectual or phys
ical, unless we find cases in the asylums
and hospitals that have gotten beyond
remedies. When a fellow finds out
what is the matter with him and finds
out what will cure him. if he don't
take the remedy he deeeves to die if it
is a physical trouble; he deserves to go
to the asylunr if it is a mental trouble ;
he deserves to go to predition if it is a
moral trouble.
I leave with wife and daughters for
our Kentucky farm to-morrow. We
will rusticate and be there a few days
and then I am off for my summer
chautauqua work.
We begin our tabernacle meetings
at Carter8ville the last Sunday in
August and they will include the first
Sunday in September. Everybody is
invited, I expect to have Dr. Monk, of
Knoxville; Rav. Bascom Anthony, of
Savannah, and I hope Dr. Jordan, of
the First Baptist church of Savannah,
will come; also the pastor of the First
Baptist church of Anniston, and all the
preachers in the region round about
are invited. Cartersville will take care
of them. Yours truly,
Sam P. Jones.
Helen Keller's View of Jefferaoa'e
Fishing.
Joe Jefferson, according to James S.
Metcalfe in the Ladies' Home Journal
for July, does not care for the sport to
be found in angling for amber-jack in
the waters at Palm Beach. Florida.
There's no attraction to me in that
kind of fishing," he says; "the fish are
notjgood to eatr and killing them is pure
wanton. Of course I catch more fish
than I can eat my appetite not being
a large one but they go to the Cap
tain as a sort of perquisite. What he
can't use he sells, and eventually they
are eaten by some one. And that re
minds me that Helen Keller once ask
ed me how I justified my killing so
many fish. I explained to her that
the fish is naturally a cannibal and is
constantly killing other fish hundreds
of 'em and so, by killing one fish, I
save the lives of hundreds of others.
'I suppose it's for that humane season
that you catch them,' She said." And
Mr. Jefferson chuckled with enjoyment
of Miss Keller's explanation of hi
benevolent defense of his favorite pn-
tinie.