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VOLUME XVIII.
FlUNiaiN. N, C, WEDNESDAY; JULY 15, 1003.
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BACHELOR TEA.
4 bnohelor man and a bachelor maid
' Bk ii(iluu eup of ton,
" ( Bald tha Iwotolor man, ''Elizabeth, def,
, It certainly teems to me,
That never a oue of aeatnr rare
'SW Or wins from the vault! o( klnrfi ', i
Was eipiat-io-Uil fairy curl jtou bratf
. Whlie the btigBi-tittle tToitbi-siagt. ; :
"It rents me well, and It soothe my tout;
And It comforts me through and through,
TU a eiagloal cap, and I'm lair tpell-
. . Donna
Aa I ait and lip It with Ton.
Shall we sip it together thro' all the year
The future la bringing our way?
We could meet right bravely tut hope and
lean
; . Bo pray do tot answer aay,,: ., t
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Tha bachelor maid, with a !co content,
Stirred the neotar about In her cup.
And thoughtfully pauand to ponder a bit
Before looking merrily op.
And laying, "Why, when Will JOB go, to
llMK
tot a nice little haven of rest)
for If we are married, don't yqu ted
lou sever tan n my guest?'1
Bo these bachelors twain tat bhietly down,
And talked (he matter o'er.
While the kettle tang, and tha fragrant herb
iia pan in me eounou nor.
And the story ends, aa atorlea should,
In wedding belli and laughtert
Of oourae they married jou knew they
wouia
And 11 Ted happy eyer after,
Mr. K. H, Addlaon, In flood Housekeeping.
l "JOAN."
' A Complete Story by Margaret Westrup.
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A great eld sweet smelling garden,
and one little maid among the flower
Cnd bses and butterfles. . All alone she
was, for mother did not come out Into
tho garden much those days. Joan
BtoppeJ before a tall pink hollyhock
and spoke.
"I don't think this Is such a nice
summer as most," she said. "I used to
say 'fink,' once oh, years and years
ago when I was ker-wlte n little baby,
but I say 'Iherlnk'' now, 'cause I'm
most grown up, you see."
Then she walked on again down the
little twisted gravel path, with her
hands clasped behind her, and her
brows -graro with thought For so
Man Daddy used, to walk when he was
having a big "therinfc
V "But It's whole days 'moat years
since 'Man - Daddy went away," she
said, stopping beside a gray green bush
of lavender, "and he said good by so
hasty, he squeezed me so hard that he
hurt, and hU eyes were angry, and I
hadn't been naughty, at alL Are you
sorry, sweet lavender!"
,. She burled her face In the fragrance,
then trotted on down the little path
till she came to a tall foxglove. 8he
tilted back her yeUow bead and gated
up at the white and red bells with
wide gravity, her hands still elapsed
behind her back. " v i , ' '
One day," she said, "a lady came
to see mot or it was It was a long
bljirVfiCL .. Jwtifl.you were borned,
pretty ladies what bow,-OaBne
to kiss me wnen she was golni
didn't like her, yon see. and I wou
kiss her, and I ran in to mother, and
Dornea,
woufuiT
"tou tee," the said, sitting down for
one minute beneath the sunflower and
gazing up at It wistfully, "I'm not real
ly a butterfly; and my legs butt it
little."
xne sunflower nodded, encourag
ingly.
Its a long way," said Joan. "I've
run miles and miles, pretty gold lady
oh, miles and miles miles ? her
voice trailed off Into a drowsy mur
mur "and miles!" she said, with a
sudden jerk and Bitting upright. She
gazed np at the sunflower reproachful
ly. "I mustn't go to sleep," she said.
"I've got to And Han Daddy In the big
place where they took Ftdo when he
was lost. It's Just there." pointing
down the road. "Ooodby, gold lady, I
must be quick, 'cause Man Daddy will
be lonesome without me and mother,
you see, and mother will be lonesome.
tOO." ...T " ' : - ...
8he started at a ran, then' looked
back over her shoulder at the sun
flower with a troubled little laugh.
"My legs won't work propelly." she
said, and struggled on. The sun had
gone behind great threatening clouds,
but Joan took no heed. All her mind
was centred on getting on. She took
no more rest till she came suddenly
upon a group of popples growing In
the grass at the wayside; by them her
legs stumbled and gave way,, and she
sank down on to the grass. She whis
pered to them in a tittle voice that was
brosthless and full of tears: 1 want
man
aiia-KUeTlrJstlll and set all her
teeth together to keep the sobs back.
thought after each doze that It was . SESSION FOU SUNDAY
fresh weary night begun again . .
passed; the sun rose In a glory that '
flooded tho room and shone pink on A DISCOURSE FOR &RLS DELIVERED
the weary little face lying on the crum-, BY REV. OR. W. R. HUNTINGTON,
pled pillow; and then, when the pink , '
glory had fatted Slid left Only One bar On Preacher Describee TJmte Whnt Cou-
Of gold peeping through the blinds', ' SUIont It la Possible ror a Woman to
and resting lovingly fid the relloW i lom la Very n and Troth, a
curls, he came, Straight to the little
room he cam ft
''Tou see", queeri of the garden," bain
bled the restless little v6tce, "it hurts
rather bad. He loved you the be.i'st
of all; but he won't come a.id t
mustn't cry. you see. But It hurts!"
He bent over her, her tiny bands In
his.
"Joan " .
Joan's beaming smile greeted him.
"He has come, queen of the garden
Man Daddy has come!" she said, with
an Infinite content, and fell asleep.
. When she awakened the pain had
" 'Most gone." - . v
"I knowed you would take It away,.
Man Daddy, but" wistfully "I didn't
And you, did IT"
He glanced across the bed at the
woman's down-bent head.
"Yes, Joan, you did. If you hadn't
looked foisnie t should not hav come."
She half smiled,
"But"
"Never mind, now, little one. It Is
all through you I am here.'
"Honest Ingln, Men Daddy T
"Honest Ingln, Joan." : ; : ;
She beamed, satisfied.
."If I hadn't looked for you, you
wouldn't have corned. Aren't you ever
so glad, mother?"
Low and earnest came the woman's
answer:
'Yes, dear."
May I go and toll the. flowers, Man
Daddyf"
;'Not yet, Joan.".
''But you haven't tied up my stum-
njick Into a dolly"
"Not this time. Lie still and be
good, little one." .
"Yes, Man Daddy. Kiss me."
He bent over and kissed her. :
"You, too, mother.". Then suddenly
she dimpled gleefully. "I want a um.'
ble kiss," she said. ; ' .
There was a little constrain'
"You haven't forgotterV'
In shrill tones of T
No." -Then
hands.
lad ror.Ter.-iie a.ntie ana Dignll e I
Kr YonK f"tT,Tli Bev. Dr. Will
H, llnntlrigtOH, rector o( Orare
Church, preached recently a aeVmon to a
fanhinnnbla achool for gtr!t which haa
ittrsctcd niticli attention, and by requeat
it ia here (riven.. The text Wai ehoecn from
Isaiah xlvii: 7: '"i'hoti aikt, I ahall be
I lady forever." Dr. Iltintirtgtdn taid:
I quote our prorlhet in tint fragmentary
way for the aako of vividneae. The briefer
the text, the more likely it la to be re
membered. But if, under preaent circum
itancea, we would do justice to tha man
ind to hi thought, aome heed muat be
pa to what baa pone before and to what
Follows. Taken ty themaelves the wortia
sound, aa if they muat have been, in the
first instance, . addrcsed to a woman, but
Uiey were not. The aspirant after an
trerlaating ladyahip waa no woman at all,
but a city an ancient city, a city opulent,
Ind auperb, Babylon the great. ' -
Emboldened like ancient Home by lit
military conquests, intoxicated like medi
iral Venice by its commercial prosperity,
confident like modern London in tha pos
sesion of resourcM which aMtnerl measure
less, this queen city Of Chaldea had come
to think of itsell as invincible and indes
tructible, "House of Kternity" waa the
name it gave to on of its templet. "Foun
dation ttont of heaven and earth" ran the
vain-gloriout appellation of another.. Uar
iens and parks, the city had in abundance.
A mighty bridge which eroased and a tun
oel which nnderran tha river Euphrates
were among its engineering triumphs. The
circuit of the walla,' lofty and broad al
most beyond belief, wit between fifty and
sixty miles.
But there wat a man In Jerusalem whom
none of these things greatly moved in the
tense of stupefying or alarming him. The
man's name waa Isaiah and nit father's
name waa Amos. When people came to
him with their panic talk about the big
ness of Babylon and the littleness of 1 tua
alem, he betrayed no apprehenaiont on the
contrary, he epoke up and harangued
Babylon with much plainness of tpecch.
"Sit thoa silent," he cried, "and get t
into darkness, 0 daughter '
deans, for thon thalt ,j
the ladr of kin ' "
ahall be a b 1
thou, thon "
that d"-
sh'
"tniW," b It oWrverl, is a title, not a I
teneno Word, neceiwaiily covering r II the
hiembcrs of one sexl and aa a tit's? it If- I
longa only trt those Wlio have a riqht to
llnim it.. Now,- wlio are Ihev who, in
point Of fact have a righl tt cialhl it I Itt
monarchial Countries tnei-e ia no dilhculty
in finding an answer to tliia question. In
England, for example, tin Heralda' Of
fice, to which such matters are intrusted,
tan and will girt you a dcliniticm in black
and white, clear-cut id unmituki(b;e- A
,"lady," by English law, may be the wife f
i man above the rank of kuight and below
that of duke. The title also belongs to the
daughters of noblemen not below the rank
oi earl. ana it giren uy cuurbesy iu um
ttnvM n( lrnicrlfta.
Jt that pass for ngland, but what of
Mdyshlp in America, where no such sharp
divisional lines an dtnivn by the pencil of
SUthoTityt Here, thank Corl, we hare a
much worthier dcflmtiqn of the T.ord and
more satisfactory f-aVJrprttltion of the
thing. Ladyship, trader a democracy,
meant and can mean only one thing,
womanhood at itt beat. Not ail woman
hood ia womanhood at itt best any more
than all manhood ia ma. '.ood at itt but
would that it were. And what are the
characteristics of womanhood at itt bestf
What are the tc'cer by which' it it -authenticated?
We cannot greatly differ in
opinion upon this point. Surely of these
characteristics dignity ia one, geutlencst it
mother, fortitude it a third and sym
pathy complete the oluater. It were un
reasonable, of course, to expect the full
ness of each em of these four traits in
any tingle personality, r-i matter how rich
ly endowed by inheritance or carefully
matured by training. And yet it it beyond
question that tome tincture of each ono
mutt be found present in a woman before,
tinder democratic conditions, her claim to
ladyship can be accounted valid.
Dignity there are a thousand imita
tions of it, counterfeit! beyond number,
BILL ARP'S LETTER ,BIG redwoods dqomed
Bartow Sage is Under the
Weather, Cut Undaunted.
IS NOW SEVENTY-SEVEN
but how Whollv admirable ia the cenuina
article, what "in excellent thing in wom
an!" Not by aping dignity do we become
dignified. Aloof neat it not dignity, hau
teur it not dignity, stiffness is not dignity,
a pompous manner and a brocaded ttvit
of speech these art not uignity. True dig
nity is not of ice, it it of flame. A certain
delicate and fiery nimbus which circlet the
sanctuary of personality to safeguard it
from intrusion and encroachment. "Their
dignity," exclaimt an old Hebrew pro
j' -t, giving nt the whole thing in a nut
J "r dienii.e lm!l proceed of them-
''Wo with all
- "en-
Walks Out Into His, Garden for First
Time In a Month Deplores Re
cent' Horrible Disasters
Wrouoht by Terrors of
the Elements, ,s
. When Ahashnorns was king of Per
sia he got to mad with Haman one
day 'that he walked $nt Into the garden
to let his choler down not his shirt
collar, but. to cool oft his anger, for
fear be might do something undigni
fied. Then he came back and had Ha
man hanged, on the gallows ha had
built tor Mordecal.
Well, I walked out in my garden yes
terday, the first Ume In a month, bat I
was not mad with anybody. In .fact, I
am pleased that I am allowed once
more .to walk outdoors and peruse the '
flowers and vegetables and pick a fe'
strawberries April 24 and had a g"
watch me and have kept me f
up for months while the ea
chilled the air, but now they
down tha steps and no acalr
me around among the flowC
are very beautiful from th
but more so when you ar
them. We never had so ir
ful popples before all "
slios double, and treble '
AMERICA'S TALLEST TREES PALL
TO LUMBERMAN'S AXE.
Chance for Second Growth Investiga
tion by Bureau of Forestry Shews
That Young Shoots May Be Easily
. Grown and the Race Preserved. .
What is to be done for the redwoods
of the Pacific Coast Is a question that
has not only agitated California, but
Is of sentimental concern to the whole
nation. The Bureau of. Forestry, at
tacking the problem In a thoroughly
practical spirit, has worked out con
clusions that should appeal as reason
able at once to thy lumbermen, who
cut redwood on account of Its fimraer.
ctal value, and to Ahose vh' vs
ancient and marVeloua '
growth preserved.--'
The result J
a bulletin by
sued by thb
The rew
mercha '
est on''
000 b'
lor-'
from old trees. ' Supported and nour
ished by full-grown roots-and stem),
young trees grow under, shade, that
would kill the small seeding. The
sprout will endure an astonishing
amount of shade. In stands of second
growth, so dense that not a ray of sun
light can enter, saplings 6 or I feet
high are to be found growing from
stumps, bare of branch or foliage ex
cept for a few inches of pale green
crown at the top. In very dark, damp
places In the virgin forest one may find '
clumps of shoots as white as sprouts V
from a potato. , )
Wood Has Msny Uses.
Redwood possesses qualities which fit
It for many uses. In color It shades
from light cherry to dark mahogany, It
is easily worked, takes a beautiful pol
ish, and Is "ie of the. most durable of
the wwiferous woods of California. It
y-,Bta decay so well that trees which
ave oeen lain ooo years In the forest
VY been sent to the mill and sawed
1 lumber. The wood is without
V and offers a strong resistance t -ie
record of fires In San F
N It is much used, 1-''
v '-ure It, bec-'
Njns V
as sap
nds. J
mother was ill on the I forget the But presently she sat up. "Dey's com
ing, sue gasped, her grammar grow
ing weak In her extremity. A sudden
gleam lit her face.
"drown up angels cry to give the
flowers water," she said, aa a great
tear rolled down her cheek, and, kneel,
tag, she bent over the poppies and
bed without covers In the drawing
room, you know, and the lady was
' smiling ever so, atd her dress was as
long as a new little baby's, and that
.waa the day Han Daddy went away."
She bowed gravely to the polite fox
gloves, and trotted on. .
shi
jc
enV
WhenV
baby'i
slight mo
Before a group of tall white lilies sobbed her heart out, while the teas
she stopped again. She came closer, splashed on, to the flowers. But other
auu, Bireicmng up ner arms, punea ope drops from dark clouds
gontly down and laid her soft cheek
, -against the snowy petals., . ? ,
'. For a moment the baby Up quivered,
"Man Daddy loved you the bestest of
..all. .'Queen of the Garden' that's
what he called you, you know."
Then a cry went up In the warm,'
swoet air. ; "I want Man Daddy oh, I
want him so bad!t .
v The little hands were unclasped only
. to be locked together tighter still.
"For I'm 'most grown-up, you see,1
whispered Baby Jpan W the tall white side. "Tou see, little blue ladies,
Illy, "and grown-ups don't cry, you
Know.
overhead-
drops that beat the popples shudder
ing to the earth. "The angels are
cryjng, too," murmured Joan, sleepily,
and rolled over and lay still.
The angels' crying was long and ve
hement It woke Joan several times,
but she was dazed with weariness.
Onco she murmured with a smile: "It's
most a cold bath 'stead of a' teppy to
day, mother," and went to sleep again.
In the dimly lit room on the little
bed Joan tossed wearily from side to
It
She left the lilies, and walked on In
thought. At the end of the path
her WW CaBltghade was tied with
string to a nail in t&rwarkfiiicll 1
long while It had taken to fix that sun
shade ."propelly," but Joan eyed It
proudly now.
"Are you ker-wlte happy V she said.
peeping round at the clambering white
jand pink convolvulus behind the lit
tie parasol. "Poor muslin ladles, didn't
me wina diow you arenui? -
m she watched a little blue but
terfly as she fluttered. about from flow-
er to flower, and finally sailed over tha
Wall ,.. ,.;....,...,..,
"It ! was a buttlefly,"'she said to
the convolvulus, "I would soon find
Han Daddy." She sighed, so that her
Bmall muslin pinafore bosom gave' a
big heave.. "But then," with another
thought, "I'd have to leave mother."
She sighed again. '"Mother , says.
Don't worry, Joan, when I ask when
: Man Daddy's coming home, and then
, she kisses me ever so, to make up.""
1 She trotted on again, with bands be
. hind her back. '
A woman looking from a window
. turned away In anguish from toe small
feminine Imitation of Man Daddy.
Suddenly the chubby legs twinkled
In wild haste up the garden, across
the velvet lawn, out of tha open gate
Into the road, 1 .-
"I can go 'most as fast as a buttle-
fly," said Joan, "and I'll And Man Dad
, dy at the nice place tohere Fldo was
took- when he was lost, where there
were such a heaps and heaps of dogs,
I know Man Daddy'Il be there," with a
. gleeful chuckle that brought the dim
' pies laughing to her cheeks. "Mother
never thought qf that I b'lleve it was
the lilies what put the therlnk In my
Inside." . , ;:- ;.'.
Along the hot, dusty road, meeting
no one in this peaceful dinner hour,
she (rotted, her sunuonnet dragging
behind and her yellow hair rivalling Joan do Jy,
mo b s " uih.luo uu viuier sine.
Is her desire to emulate the butter
fly she got over the ground at a sur
prising pace. She put all her heart
and soul Into her endeavor, as she al
ways did into everything she under
took. Life to Joan was a deep and an
arneet thing. She hardly knew that
nuns bad in you stummlck Jus' here,
laying one hot little hand on her
chest; "but I'm not crying, you know."
"No, my brave little darling," mur
mured the woman,, bending over her.
aut yon is, mother!" in an acceaa
of utter surprise. "I feel It on mv
head.- I fluked therinked grown ups
never Oh, It hurts, mother!" her An
gers clinging around her mother's; "It
hurts, yon see," drawing a long, sob
bing breath. ? '
presently- she began, anxiously:
"That did sound like crying a bit, but,"
with a tremulous little laugh, "It
wasn't it wasn't, really".: ,
"No, no. dear I know try to go to
sleep," and she began to sing a" lullaby.
"You sing very nice, all of you,w
babbled the restless voice. "I do like
flower singing you can hear the wind
shaking their voices but Man Daddy
won't come! One day, It was -years
and years ago, little pink ladles, I ran
and ran you see, I'm not really a but
tlefly, but, then, when buttleflles use
their legs they go quite slow, and I
haven't any wings, you see" - :
, A frock coated figure bent over the
bed now, and the woman's eyes never
left his face. yv ;
"Fever high she must be soothed."
"I want Man Daddy you're not Han
Daddy) you know, one day, when I
was ker-wlte little I cut mine finger
I cried wasn't It funny? But Man
Daddy tied It up and I laughed, 'cause
he said It was a dolly. Would he tie
my stummlck np If tie was hereT It
hurts, you see oh, It hurts!" . ;
Anguished and broken came the wo
man's voice: "I do not know where
he Is." - -, -
The doctor looked grave, and pres
ently he went "
"Darling, you are so brave and good,
will you try to go to sleep, to to be
well when Daddy comes backf
. "Is he coming back, mother? Oh, It
hurts!" with a , sob, "it hurts so.
mother."
If you go to sleep, dear oh. do try.
ib-"-:
his arm around her
was over, p y.
end well, she is
red, weakly. :
chuckled drowsily.
iishes rested on the
le woman i, made
way from him; but
bis arm tSen I 1
"Suppose si likened?" he said.
There was noSutW then In ths room
save the ticking of his watch. Pres
ently he spoke:
: "Nora, I cannot go away again.1
"Stay" she breathed "I do not be
lieve that tale."
" "God bless you, dear!"
"No no; I was wicked to doubt
you." -
"I deny It, now, before" v
But she stopped him with a kiss.
"Man Daddy, kiss me, too. May I go
and tell the flowers in the morning? I
am ker-wite well now."
"Go to sleep again, little one."
- She shut, her eyes obediently, then
opened them with a gleeful smile.
"All the sheeps are Jumping over the
gate now, mother!" Bhe cried "every
one or them!" The Quiver.
QUAINT" AND CURIOUS.
The range In weight of the Jewels In
watches is from one one-bundred-aud-flfty-thousandthp
to one two-hundred'
and-flfty-stxth-thousands of a pound.
The most wonderful of aboriginal
American monuments Is the famous
Aztec calendar now In the Mexican
National Museum. It la a sodiac, 11
feet jn diameter, and carved from solid
rock. The monks of Cortex burled it
In a marsh, and it was lost for 232
years.
In France an excessive, growth ol
balr on the lip was noted I a 497 Insane
wouien out of each 1000, vhile only J90
were iouna in each 1000 In the general
hospitals, u was noticed that tb
latter very frequently bad a persona
or family record of neuropathy or men
tal degeneration.
The floating gardens In the lakes
noaitbe city of Mexico were recently
visited by sn English naturalist, who
reports them a paradise and accounts
for their existence. Floating tangles
tu pem moss, rusnes ana grasa are
caught by stakes driven into the soft
lake bottom, and upon this mass rich
mud from the bottom Is thrown. Ths
surface is then transformed into
market garden.
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The new hydroscopa Invented by Slg-
pici ,
of man.-.
God'a proiK
out of thia iliuv
her eyes to the Y
at we have teen, v
With the text th.
proceed. Under whaVw.,,.
tible, either for a city or for t OUiti,.
Mcome in very deed and truth, a la.
This is the question to which I thai ati
HM ,n luJ .. . I . . . - , . I
' l ,l " M jur luougos io-nigoc, antu
whether we have respect to the week
which ended yetterday or to the week ,
which has k.. miJ .1. 1 I .
cannot but account the topic a timely out.
It may teem to be comparing email things
With great tO nam Hi MHnmmMnl
J. o',a tcnool for girla in the tame
breath With the commemorative week of a
y wnica nat lived through the fourth
K art of a thousand yeart, but, perhaps,
tfore We tha done, hnMn in
turing thut to couple the two mar be for-
(i.vii me,
Uf the aorti of ladyship of which I have
made mention, that to which comuiunitiea
and that to which individuals may attain,
We Will look at eiriit Uirmhrn fW With
dvio ladyahip we associate those qualities
which win lor cities aa admiring love.
Physical strength, -riches, commercial en
terprise will give a city lordship. That it
one thine: hut lava),in nif
For the compelling of retpect lordship
may suffice a city, lor the winning of af
fection aomething of bu' it esaenUl.
HOW aboilt the Ijlllv nl MnJinnf M..
the any better ground for counting upon
the perpetuity of her ladyahip than had
the Lady of tht Euphrates Can we trust
her anv more imnlicitlv limn Tuih tniaf.
ed Babylon when the stye confidently "I
tliaU ba a lady forever." - That depends
upon the relative measure of importance
Which tbt citv. in ths ton run. shall m.
sign to the treasures of the market at
compared with the treasures of the soul.
I am tuing the word "soul" in a large
and comprehensive sense. Religion and
religious interests are of count foremost j
in iny taougnt, since, Without a due re
tard tO triPtta VIA fiitv fmn Mrann-nll.
live; but when I speak of the trearuret of
the tool at essential to the city that would
adventure ladyship I have in mind all of
those precious things that so to make nn
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uiv iMcausue as contrasted witn tnt ma
tenaliatio tide of human life Righteous
ness f Yet. Worship? Yet; but beside
these, ftoetrv. 1a1m mnA whBtM 'u
there may be that ministers beauty to the
er oi nannony ana melody to the ear.
These last are what make the treasures of
the' soul. These, miniled in due nronor
tlOU. aive to a mnnicinalitv irhnS BiTvv
uu guia ana negotiate securities oi them
solve can never give that indescribable
Quality which I have ventured to eall eivie
The prevailing note during the past
wtok nas Deen in nniji nt m tnnmtn
tion. Whatever flags and flpwert could do
to convince peqple through the eye, or
tnarvu mua ung 10 persuade jnem tnrougn
the ear hat been attempted. It hat been
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in connection with birthday festivities,
and yet there it another aide to it all. The
statistics of the city's trade are marvel
ous, but what of the inventory of itt
spiritual possessions and the roster of itt
great men? How many poets .and how
many seen, how many composers' and how
many artists, how many scholars -and di
vines, how many philosopher! and states
men oat this community produced in the
nor Pinos, an Italian, It Is said, en- IT"1" 0, it two. hundred and fifty yeart
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tb'S duplicauw
Bian'a Work at it iuiu
eventually an imnirm,. t .,1
t)tal stock of gentlenese. Let us bt misers
ore. The tide of this twet h grace it never
Stthe flood. There it no peril of any over,
there is" " trea8ur everr drop
I will shut mine eyes-tight, moth
er, so" '
The restless little body lay rigidly
still. ... .
"Think of the sheep, dear," said the
mother, using a recipe she had found
successful with Joan in a former chlld-
sbles human eyesight to penetrate the
sea to an Incredible depth and for an
enormous radius. A naval official who
witnessed an experiment with his hy
droscope In . the Mediterranean says
mat me instrument can be operated
from the deck of a ship, making visible
cables and torpedoes, and ought to
nullify the dangerous character of sub
marine boats.
er short legs were aching, or that ll illness. "Count them as they come
her cnrlB were sticking to her damp
.iHa-Sx2w- Bt tne tlme the village
dinner lioifT was over the village was
left lar be'itnfl by Joan's determined
leea. She began to meet people, and
a few asked herV;Hire she was going.
Joan's beaming, moi.iTy "Ho and her
Unswer, "Man Daddy JuS....-re," with
a grimy fort finger pointing ajyj.firer.t-
ly to the end of the road or Ianea
lulled them. But presently Joau
topped to tiflk to a great sunflower
nodding" its. golden head at her over
the railing of'ajittlo garden. It was
vhrn phe camrht sii'ht of its friendly
f-ue 1 ii.it she. hiiiiw bow her lis
up to ine gate and Jump over it See,
there they go one, two, three."
Presently the great eyes opened with
a plteously worried look.
"Mother, they stick! They won't
Jump over the gate at all!"
All the woman's pride had gone.
She racked her brain for some clew
to her husband's whereabouts.. At
last she thought she had one, faint
and-eliislve, but she would try she
would telegraph. STio crept from the
room while Joan lay in an uneasy
doze, jmd wrote her telegram, iind
sent ItSjeff w'lh a V.1U1 prayer in her
heart, f),
The United States census for 1900
finds 3536 persons in the United States
who are 100 or more years of age. The
value of -these figures may be ques
tioned, and perhaps may be best esti
mated by the fact that 72.8 percent of
the whole number are negroes, nany
of whom have no rellablo evidence as
to the date of their birth. They are but
11 percent of the total population. It
seems Improbably tob, that this coun
try should have oisr 3500 when Ger
many, with a population of nearly gi,.
000,000 has only 778, and England, with
32,000,000, only 146, and France, with
40,000,000, has only 213.
.
A Query.'
Will tho mnn who Invents a sneeze,
fill flying machine leave any foot
prlnla In the sandg of timet I'liHa
drlpWa Kowrd.
ized existence? Aiav. nf lnm
whom we reoall aa having come under one
or anotner oi mese neada, now many have
been of lirtt rank, how many even of sec
ond rank, when the complete censua of
"the great of old" it taken into account?
These, perhaps, are humbling reflections,
but they are wholesome. It it by count
of heroes, not by count of bends, that a
city's place in the final list of hrmon it ta
tw determined. Whether thit city of mag
nificent opportunities it destined to accom
pluh ladyship remains to be teen, Tht
balance trembles.
I paas abruptly from the week of com
memoration to the week of anticipation,
from thoughts suggested by the prospect
from your windows to thought! suggested
by the facet into which I look.
. Iu what sense it ia open to ron girl
graduates of this -passing year, dreaming
your early dreama of what success in life
may aignify, in what sense ia it possible
for ywu t attain ladyship forever? Jlefore
attempting to answer the micstion, let us
clear our minds aa coinnlttclv as mnv be ol
prejudice and aiinapiiraiicnsion.
The word "lady'' has fallen of lr.j yenii
(the more'a the pity' aomewhat into die
repute. Claimed as" a right by the nisny
the title hns come to he lightly ctei'iiii-'I
as a priv!ce by the few. In tact, so
cheap is it nccoiinted nowndsya tout to
:lii(V.nl it altogether, ciretuilfr avoiding
the use of it in common con'irfffUioii, is
not seldom liken to be a mat of good
As, to fortitude, I chose the word with
care, wishing to mark off from courage in
rmeral that special form of thit virtue
which fan found frequent and tp.'endid il
lustration in tht annals of womanhood.
V.urKf ?f the tort which qualifies one "to
drink delight of battle," to head storming
parties and to volunteer on forlorn hopes
ia not expected of women, and, for that
nutter, ia not so common among men at
men would like to have it thought, but of
that other and more praiseworthy fearlett-
"- " u, wnuuut tne exemmene or con
flict, is able patiently to suffer, persistent
ly to endure, in thit Christlike virtue, it it
noesibla it n.a -n iUHnnj k.
shown to be possible that women thould
see; With the troma of this virtue
wholly absent no woman'a character even
to much at approximates perfection.
But it la not nn,i.h in -l.l-
plaininalv to suffer hv m unj
ufler withf That it what tvmpathy metnt
tuffenng with" remember that tympa-
any won me laat ol the tour blottouu we
set out to twine into nor wmth. It Anm
sot matter how well bred a woman may
be m other respectt, it does not matter
how varied her accompliahmentt, intellect
ual or artistic, if tender hearti-dnnu thm
Kwer to enter quickly and deeply into the
'hns of othert, if tliit be wholly absent,
it is idle to talk about "charm." it timnlv
full of our iu
was 71 on thel.
sjt auu
u not there. It ia thit insistence upon
sympathy, aa a necessary ingredient ot
true womanhood that renders the Chris
tian type to infinitely superior to the old
classic type whether or maid or matron.
That a woman can look on composedly at
a bull fight it the opprobrium of Spanish
civilisation, but there wot a time when
not in one corner of the Mediterranean
exclusively, but all over the Latin world
women called ladies could both toleraia
and even fiereelv deliuht in tha aheHdina
of innocent blood. "
What haa changed all this? Only one
answer to that question it possible. J ems
unrut sat changed all thit. To Hun we
owe it that to-day not only dignity and
fortitude (stoic virtues as well as Chris
tian) not only -dignity and fortitude, but
also gentleness and sympathy are recog
nid aa necessary features of all true
auyanip. ,: . :
.But who ia sufficient for thnu thinmr
With the standt-d set ao hinh. tha Mi
hjbub eo eyere, woo tnau past r ,
Ah, my young friends, how glad I am
that thia it Whitsunday, the feast day of
tho Holy Ghost, for Whitsunday points us
i me secret ot power, and banda over to
nt the talisman of aucceaa. It ia hv I ha
strength of Qua that womanhood atruggles
upward to itt perfection. The ages of
chivalry gave to the Virgin Mary the title
OI our lanv. ,ll!mn hv some atanrlanla
of ladyship nothing could aeein more in
appropriate, but judged by tha true atand
aid nothing could be more just. ;
All do
-,'t tlie numli,
to be i(iiu'r
ft go to tins ext
ot llinse u ho w
of and ihI'Iic.
ami i:'
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TABLECLOTH TIP8.
Fineness is not a safe guide, either
for durability or lasting beauty of
table linen. ' Weight is the standard of
price, and It Is not advisable te buy
table linen that weighs less than four
and a half ounces per square yard.
The comparative merits of bleached
and unbleached 'napery depend upon
the use to which It is to he put.
For common or rough use It Is often
well to buy ths unbleached and also
In the country or auburbi, whore one
can bleach It on t;ie grass or out In the
un.
Never buy a mixture of cotton and
linen, and beware of damnnk that Is
stiff and craelty, for It haa proTiably
been Blarcbfd to make it appear of
better quality than it really is. Good
linen has an elastic texture. Roms of
the finer Fremh dmsiks rpprar ex
quiHitn, but they do not pa-s the soap
!;1 iilr tvit rrc'!!'ab!y. ' ciiMilerint
a'l ,nii:t t, IrUi lim n Is far t.uuerlur
to eey oilier. ' 4
'l -'.! y.-'vl p... I ,i .,-ilf is the l, -t j
v. 1 li f r : ! .... ,'i : ll iv ,., m
V 11 I !!.:..'.'... 1
16th, and my oldest gi
my name, : has my L.,
mother hss the nth anciv
daughter Caroline. Is named br her
and Las her tlrthday. And there are
some more In June that I have forgot
ten. Two little granddaughters brougn
me some nice linen (h'dlifs) before
breakfast. These little gifts are
sweet and help to -smooth the wrinkles
from an old man's brow, Our little
2-year-old loves to climb on my knee
and pat my old cheek and call m
g anpa and.. that gives me more pleas-
ire thnn a gold mine. May the Lord
keep the little ones under the shadow
of His wing.
... Oh, the horror of horrors away out
in uregon. will cloudbursts and fires
and floods and shipwrecks never
cease. Every day brings some new
dlssster, some wreck of Innocent child
life, some mother torn away. Lord,
good Lord, have mercy upon the peo
ple and forgive all their sins. Like
tne poor fisherman I would say, "Lord.
good Lord, 'I am a fool to speak to
i nee, but save the children from the
storm and flood and flrs and pesti
lence." When I read the day's disas
ters my old heart throbs with nltv.
ana, like the weeping prophet. I ex
claim. "Oh, that my head were waters
and my eyes a river of tears that
mignt weep day and night for the
slain of the people" 40, oO, 100. 200,
400. Every day adds to pain and mis
ery and anguish and detblatlon. Loved
ones are gone and homes. Somehow
when I look sround me at ail these
happy hearts and faces and the flowers
lifting their petals to the sun and the
pigeons bathing In the pool and see
the young people playing tennis down
in the court and the contented negro
plowing my neighbor's corn and the
cow graslng In the pasture, I feel like
It Is amoat a sin to be happy while so
much grJef and heartache abound all
around us. It dtd not use to be so.
In my youth we had no suicides; mur
ders were rare; no crsiy people to All
the sanitariums; no chalngangs; no
crime of any consequence.. What la
the matter with the world and the peo-
pier Even women have got to hand
ling pistols sad poison, and grave dig
gers have gone on a strike and we will
have to dig our own graves before w
die. Lord, help as all. Now let all
the people say Amen. BILL ARP, Is
Atlanta Constitution.
ABOUT B EDCIX)TH INC.
Bedclothing should be warm and
light; heavy rugs and thickly folde
cotton counterpanes should1 never be
put upon the lod of either old or
ronnc;. TM veleht '-. aepresslng, and,
owing to the fact that such things re
tain the perspiration, they are ex
tremely unhealthy. If a cotton coun
terpane Is put over the bed during the
day for the sake of appearance It
should be t iken off at nttiht and some
thing lSbht and woolen substituted.
fregon Krrtjed.lt for the
rliliil.-en !t-e,.-yr:ir p.-r
lulu. $11: iniiiui.';, til; f,
while Ixeiitjiieky fviir.,;
L I ( j ll I 1
lineal Inn
' 1 Co!.
iSn
ci'op7TUeiiu
:lf with young
raiuewAian with mature
timbered areas rather thSn
virgin forest. Where attfentlb,. m:
given the old forests and methoos-ofT ei
luberlng, it was only that a better
knowledge might be gained of second
growth and how to deal with It
The redwood of California belongs to
a genus of which the big tree Is the
only other species now alive. Both are
allied to the cypress, and their lumber
is often called by the same name, but
they are botanlcally distinct from each
other. They do not even occupy the
tame situations The big tree occurs In
scattered bodies on the west slopes of
tne sierra Nevada, while the redwood
forms dense forests on ths west slopes
oi tne coast Range. ,.' ,
; . . Tallest American Tree.'
me reowood grows to a greater
height than any other American tree.
but in girth and In age It 4s exceeded
by the big trees of the Sierras. On
the slopes 226 feet Is about its maxi
mum height and 10 feet its greatest
diameter, while on the flats, under bet-
the conditions, it grows to be 350 feet
high, with a diameter of 20 feet. Most
ot the redwood cut is from 400 to 800
years old. After the tree has passed
the oge of 100 yoars, Jt nsuallfni
to die down from the top anaViO fall
off in growth. The oldest 'redwood
found during the bureau's investigation
bad begun -life 1373 years ago. '
The bark of the tree offers such
remarkable resistance to fire that ex
cept under great beat It is not com
bustlble. It is of a reddish-gray color,
fibrous in texture, and gives to full-
grown redwoods, a fluted appearance,
Moisture available for the roots 'is
the first need of the redwood, as any
nuiy .tract ot forest will show,
Wherever a small cully, or bench, or
oasm is so placed as to receive an un
common amount of seepage, or when
ever a creek flows by, there the trees
are sure to be largest. While moisture
of the soil affects the development of
the redwood, moisture of the atmos
phere regulates its distribution. Ths
limits of the sea fogs are just about the
limits of the tree. The fogs, unless scat
tered by winds, flow Inland among the
mountains. Western exposures receive
most of the mist they carry, except
those higher ridges above their reach.
which support, in consequence, only a
scattering growth of redwood.
The tree's vitality is m great, it en
dures so many vicissitudes and suffers
from so many accidents In the centuries
ot Its existence, that the grain of its
wood becomes uneven In proportion as
its Dfe baa been eventful. The wood
fibers formed under different rates of
growth sometimes get. up a tension so
great that when the log is sewed the
wood splits with a loud report, j
The seed of the redwood will not
germinate In shaded places; the small
seedling demands plenty of light. The
crown is almost as thin and open as
that of a larch, another slen that the
tree is not naturally tolerant of shade.
Ia a mixed stand the redwood's
brsmeliis die off more rapidly than
e of lis companions, and tho crown
mis eji!;erly to places where the li .fit
ter.i the forest canon v. lint In c.,u
lie i! rh;im of lis scrMlilvwirs to 1I;:M
the i ., 1 forma one of the (l.-i. .., t
f.'i. I' -it f COW.
H1
t one )v
in the bt"
sprain
ease heave the
A camel has but
Venn Inn. nn . I xv . V '
vub MM l-U I IUH Ulll Ik-
he begins to get up no creatuio "u,.w
earth but a camel could do such stupid
things. He straightens out his back
legs first, leaving that part of his
body high in the air. As I rose ms
JesUcslly above the preacher and
could only with difficulty keep my
seat, a deadly fear came upon me lest
I should fall upon him, and thus un- J
wittingly and suddenly end a career
of usefulness. My only comfort was
that he doubtless was better prepared
for another world just then than, I was.
When the beast finally gained his foot
ing and T became accustomed to the
"roek-a-by" motion, the ship of the
desert : became , a most comfortable
means of conveyance.
. TheFlve Stages.
At 17 she said: "1 want a man who
Is ardent in all ot love's ways and
whose passionate devotion may never
flag. He mustbe alland broad
shouldercdJtnirndsometclih dark.
soulful eyes, and, It necU
go to the ends of the world for my
sake." '
At 20 she said: "I want a man who
unites the tender sympathy tf a wom
an with the bravery of a lion. I don't
mind bis being a little dissipated, bo
cause that always adds a charm. He
must be, however, accomplished to the
last degree, and capable of any sacri
fice for my sake." s
4 25 she said: "I want a man who
unites with an engaging personality a
complete knowledge of the world, and
if, of necessity, he happens to have a
past, he must also have a future; a
man whom I can look up to, and with
whom I can trust myself at all times
without the slightest embarrassment'
At av sne earn: -1 want a man with
money. He can have any other at
tributes that a man ought to posse,
but he must have money, and the
more he has the better I will like it."
t 35 she said: "I want a man."
Life, -1 . .
. Blood Poisoning.
Blood poisoning Is now recognized s5
poisoning by a living organism, vt!i; ,i
ordinary poisoning Is by some tin u-
Ical substance devoid of life. LIuoJ
poisoning took its ntino before its na
ture was properly understood, and it
was thought to be a form ut ordhm -poisoning,
but that the blood ralh.-r
than the "vital principles" was chic''
attacked.
Aa the stomach enn, aa a rule, ()-
stroy the life of moRt ore -
while It can only to a limited
alter the constitution oi cV"n U . ,
sons, poisoning by livlmt or
or blood poisoning, Is ' far it
mon through wounds th ui l.y t
eaten, and tlivs the Idea nf its l,.
poisoning of the blood wm s
ened. As a "blood poison" is
can, and often dues, go on iurr
S'ler lis first. In.!'. ion. it-.t
CiiVioHS dlil.'leliee !:' (W- .
Hint blood p.. i.Mhk ; -, ;
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