North Carolina Newspapers

1 til' 4 VOLUME XVIII. FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. JULY tO, 1003. MUMUEK HO f iii iii in iii iii iii iii i,i in i T-l DELLIGEREfJT SCHOOLMASTER - And C5 BELLICOSE EDITOR. la m part of the country where the teacher is still credited with vast men. tal range and encyclopedic knowledge and la not regarded as harmlesi drudge there lived and "conducted classes" a long, raw-boned mountaineer named Hill. He was a man or amax In Industry and possessed of dlplo mas of learning, but he retained In rich luxuriance the unpruned collo lulal speech of his native mountains a speech Which took grotesque liber ties with grammar and idiom. . Now' this Hill was. among other things" a "Kreit hand for the gals," as he elegantly phrased it, and in their company he took a satisfaction which overflowed in grins and cackles and uncouth ' compliments. Even here, however, he had, like Washington Irv Ing'e Immortal Ichabod Crane whom, In general, he rather closely resem bled -an eye upon the practical side of things. In short,, he was apt to look with special favor upon young women who were blessed with rich fathers. .;, ; Now, In the same region In which -this schoolmaster held away lived gentleman who undertook to supply i"f community with the local news In weekly Installments, and, to that end maintained a plant consisting of hand press of respectable age and an . , Office force of one compositor. i Naturally Mr. Harris, the editor, ; i was a man in high consideration; no political or social function was com' pleto without him. Naturally, also, Mr. Hill, the schoolmaster, was per- son of equal If not superior considers' lion, and likewise much In demand for til manner of festivities. Both gentle " men went at least as cheerfully . as ' they were bid and neither ever missed one of these delightful dances whleh were a feature of Wauhatchle society. Both the editor and the schoolmas- .:' ter danced vilely and each regarded . . his own capers with much compla cency. These facts lire Interesting but not essential; the point Is that both the J-" the schoolmaster, by CuTieA ,ftffeftioiii Upon the same li a local helrcssr" jurat amod friends thev n resent 17 beSftfl. t look at each other out of the corners of their eyes and then settled down to a deadly rivalry marked by an un compromising : attitude of mutual ,-acoro a scorn which neither took the . . pains to hide, . . - ., -: The lady In the case was not wiser ' or more beautiful than the general run of girls, but she nad the astuteness ,. which belongs to the sex, and she held " the balance so true between the two . rivals that neither could claim any f . . long-continued advantage. It so happened that the learned Mr. Hill had as assistant a harmless - drudge who, as is the way of some v foolish schoolmasters, set his boys to write compositions, many and long, and Mr. Harris, as befitted a puuuc splrlted editro, offered a prize for the best composition on a matter of , public interest," written by a pupil of the school In which the whole town : of Wauhatchle took, pride. But, be cause he hated Mr. Hill, Mr. Harris stipulated that the editor was to be ' the sole arbiter of merit These com .positions "on matters of public lnter- "est" were duly written, doubtless with " hpalnful (bought and more chew ifTTli NfTis u lijinii mil penholders it he part of the yoTithf--uTnT?eJ n results of their labors were hand j to the editor, and the editor award- his prise -a year's subscription to ,ie Wauhatchle News... Further, he . . , 1.1 1, n.4 lit nrt. jutanw In hla aimns. This Juvenile scrawl was not ri remarkable In any special- way. but It was outspoken about a matter of local "poIlTTcr'wblch was at that time mak ing bad blood. What was worse, the , youngster who wrote It a pugnacious youth had ventured to assume po . sitioa which did not at all agree with ' the stand wjilch the schoolmaster had . , Judged it wise to take on the same subject Reading the effusion now In a public print and proclaimed In scare head lines as a prise essay by a pupil of hta school, the learned Mr. Hill falr : )y boiled with Indignation. His ene my bad played him a scurvy trick, and he must have revenge. He seised his hat, and still holding on to the offend ing newspaper, set out to find the edi tor. This he had no difficulty In do lng. The faithful servant of the pen - and the public was In his sanctum with the lone compositor and several loafers who spent much time there. In . , the midst of this sleepy senate ap peared suddenly the Indignant Mr. H1U . very red In the. face and agitating his . newspaper and declared with groat vehemence that he objected to that so-called prize essay. He began to sling his mountain lingo about reck lessly and even Indulged In' threats of personal violence at which' the edi- tor smiled pleasantly. Then the schoolmaster, beside himself, made for the editor with his fists, Whereupon the compositor and two burly loafers promptly collared him and hustled him away, swearing in a manner that would have given Infinite delight to .y the Innocent boys over whom he pre sided and, doubtless, shocked the young ladles to death. . . ''' All the next day the schoolmaster Jylained the mysterlese of the pons V aslnorum to a lot of blockheads or made the same blockheads recite Latin ' verbs. ' The young villains had evi dently heard all about the scene In the office of the Wauhatchle News. They tittered and talked In corners ne was busy and the young lady iihronp of the school were es pecially n.h?: jMing. Poor Hill t'ood at his blackboard and fumed. not enough that this meddling I ' V -'""t'd be per petually In his tvay w, ' lovely and wealljiy Mis Carry . ,1 No! the fellow must print In his eu, ' glid ed little paper things containing Y ,t r. -Iiop.nible and what was Infinitely nise Impolitic' d.ictriin-s. 'J a he ll.-ol Hie Impudence to poi'hil.n tliee Moo K3 "pi'ive C" :'3" tff the pupils ;t X.-mhrt, M S T!i Pi'"s I III M 1,1 i.l 1,(1,1 III hi 1,1 -, lilt, .lii knew and , Miss Carry-May would know of It, too. Harris would cer tainly toll her it nobody else did. It was Intolerable. Hill's wrath having cooked thus alt day, he set out as soon ss school was dismissed to find the editor once more. This time he met him on the street "I want to speak to you, Mr. Har ris," said Mr. Hill, sidling up awk wardly- to the place where his enemy stood. "I am at your service, sir," said .Mr. Harris, looking bored, "but be brief; am In something of a hurry." "I want," said Mr. Hill, without fur- ther ceremony, "to fight you." "I don't see the use of that," said Mr. Harris, "Tott must apologize," said Mr. Hill I certainly shall not," said Mr. Hauls. "Then I'm going to lick you right now and here," said Mr. Hill,' flying Into a great rage and making wind' with his arms. "Not now or hero." said Mr. Har ris, coolly. "I am no street brawler. I am, as you are aware, a justice of the peace, and I do not propose to get myself hauled before the mayor even to oblige yon. I shall lie. more than pleased to meet you at some more con venlent season, in some retired spot outside the town limits. At present I am going to supper." And Harris turned on his heel, linked his arm. In that of a friend, who had been a curi ous observer of this scene, and strolled slowly on down the village street Hill, left thus unceremoniously, stood and stared his mouth open the picture of helpless fury. Then he rushed af ter the editor, shouting s torrent of speech, In all of which the word "fight" alons f as articulate. Harris turned. "I told you," said he to Hill angri ly, ."that I was going to supper," and he resumed his walk. This time Hill, after standing liko a -lost man and, gazing after Harris for a moment, swung round In his turn and strode oft In the oppo3lteXjeftlon. He walked violently, sllisfcing hnim.'s t it was that when the schoolmaster met Miss Carry-May the young woman. Instead of answering his grins and compliments with smiles as she had been used to do, was apt now to turn her head and giggle, and when the wretched Hill tried to- ex plain she giggled mora than ever. It might be supposed from this that the editor was in high favor. But In that view he was evidently mistaken. - The editor came back from "up the county" some time during the next week, and called immediately upon Miss Carry-May. He was received with frowns. Miss Carry-May told him frankly that she could not respect a coward. Everybody, knew, she said, that he nad declined to fight the schoolmaster afterward he had . run away and, well, she, for one, was sur prised. The editor, who had it very bad, was dumfounded at this view of the matter, and hemmed and hawed at a fearful rate. Mlas Carry-May took advantage of his confusion to overwhelm him with reproaches. 'I never thought yon would bo a coward," she Insisted, ; and was so clearly distressed ; that the : editor sprang his feet and declared be would go after Hill at once and thrash him within an Inch of his life. 'Before Miss Carry-May, now little frigh tened, could stop him he waa gone out Into the night With all possible speed he made his way to the schoolmaster's dwelling and rang the bell with a Jangle that alarmed the quiet household in which Mr. Hill was a boarder..; A little boy one of Hill's pupils came to the door, and, to the queitlon put as to Mr. Hill's whereabouts, replied with very round eyos that the schoolmas ter had just left the house with Eo more explanation than that he waa going "up the road a piece." The edi tor started. That was the phrase Hill need to employ -when, he was going to see a "gal" end what girl could there be but Miss Carry-May T His enemy must have passed him in the dark. The editor left the boy still staring, and retraced his steps hastily. " As he came opposite Miss Carry-May's house again, sure enough, be heard Hill's unmistakable nervous cackle within. Miss Carry-May's voice was not audi ble. ,-;.. The editor did not go in. : Instead he went to his room. In the morning' the schoolmaster received a note which read: "Sir: ; I have been waiting for you to name a time ahd place for the en counter you were so kind as to sug gest to me the other day. You bare sent me no word. , May I venture to offer a suEgestlln In my turn? If it be. agreeable to you, I will meet yon In Dead Maa'a Hollow' at 5 o'clock this afternoon. Kindly bring your gun, (Signed) "JOHN HARRIS." This note was delivered to Mr. Hill In his schoolroom, and produced a cu rious effect Mr. Hill hid been in a villainously bad humor. Now he twist ed ecstatically In his chair as he read, his face spread Into a wonderful grin. "Tell Mr. Harris," said be to the boy, "I'll be there." All the rest of the day he was nota bly preoccupied and fidgety," and sev eral times the pupils heard him chuckle to himself. About half past 4, having at that time dismissed the last lingerer, Mr. Hill, from the window of his schoolroom, saw Mr. Harris walk ing by in the direction of Dead Man's Hollow, which, by the way, was a lone spot In the pines, and the reput ed scene of a murder. The editor was accompanied by the same gentle man who had been h! companion at the time of the street sveounter. The two men walked rapidly;' and Harris' wore an expression of much fimnesa. When the pair were well past the house and out of s'ljit around a curve In the ri'd, I'r. Hill hurhed aloud all to klnc ", rl foTInwed slowly. J"H as he reached Uis edje of the town be met a bupsy. Jn the bupKj- was Mies Carry-May and a man with r-i hair. Miss Carry-May bowed, aad (he buRgy drove on. Mr. Hill turned to look after it, and seemingly forgot to turn again; for, Instead of going to Dead Man's Ho.low. he walked straight home. The editor and his friend waited for him at the appointed place a full half-hour then they came back to town, and went without delay to Mr. Hill's place of residence. There thoy learned that the schoolmaster had just gone toward the station car rying a small handbag. They fol lowed in haste, and, were in time to tee the tall end of the southbound train disappearing a mile down the track. Then tho editor swore In his. slow way, and the two trudged bock to town again. A little later Mr, Harris rang Miss Carry-May's doorbell. He was ushered Into the parlor and found the young woman arrayed In bgr most becoming frock and vory busy entertaining a strange gentleman with red hair. Miss Carry-May looked startled, but Intro duced the" stranger as the Rev. Mr. Jopllng. Mr. Jopllng. basking luxuri ously a the lady's smiles, kept up an Incessant flaw of small talk, and was evidently good for the. evening. Clear ly there was no chance for Mr. Hsrrls tonight nd he took himself off In state of mind which beggars descrip tion, i , At his room he found a note In a strange, wild handwriting. Dear Harris We are both of Ui euchred. I ain't going to fight for no gal alive especially not one tint H spoke for already. This one Is going to marry that red headed parson. She told me so last night - - "Tours truly. T. HILU" That night the editor did not sleep. Hill came back Monday morning the duel had been set for Friday entirely curod of his warlike fever. He was very friendly with the editor who re ceived his advances with very bad grace Ignored Miss Carry-May utter ly, and was presently a violent admir er of another of the young women of Wauhatchle The editor, for his part . withdrew from society, and his 1 era took on a tone of eh roe i thropy. . ; Miss Carry-May. J'- ally. In time, ' F red hair. V' The most remarkau TrnKhtning on record have b I J Hamburger named Walter. f glpW that a flash lasting 8-10.000 of a sedpnd Is preceded by at least five smal ler TJaab.es separated by 4-10,000 of a second. Thetroet beggars In Barcelona Turn entered Inte-va solemn covenant to withdraw from circulation all the two? centime pieces hleh thej receive from the charitable public, so as to compel their benefactors to give them the coin next In value-vls., Ave centimes. 1 ; The flying frog Is found Jn Borneo. He uses at expansive membrane on each of his feet in sailing from tree to tree. The webs enable him to do this In the same way as the wings of our modern flying machines enable their Inventors to remain for a time In the a.r...'::y.;-:,T:; The best designed flying machines Were the pterodactyls, the huge flying reptiles of the Cretaceous period, which had wings 17-10 meters long, but small narrow bodies and bones much lights than those of the birds of today. Their flight must have been as easy as that of the butterfly. One of the latest sights In Paris Is the feat performed by a Dane named Bap tiste. The human lamlly have gener ally thought it prudent to leave walk ing head downward to flies and other Insects fitted for it by nature, but Bap- tiste seems to treat It as quite a light matter. He straps a small pad to the top of his bead, then, standing on his hands, he lets himself down on to his head, when he proceeds to get over the ground by a series of . short jerky jumps. V,'t:ie In this position the man la able to perform several of th everyday acts of life with apparent' fantastic escapes from death were by no means uncommon features of the Boer war. There was exhibited soma time ago la the museum of the Royal United Service Institution one of Queen Victoria's chocolate boxes. In the lid of which Is still deeply Imbedded Mauser bullet To that same collection there has just been added an even more remarkable relic. Thia Is a silver cig arette holder case, which was struck by a bullet at a distance of 1200 yards while it was in the pocket of a captain of the Imperial Yeomanry. The curi ous part about it Is that the officer t not aware until afterward that he had been struck, although the bullet also pierced the sovereign purse and cig arette case which he was carrying in the same pocket In the Carplnterla valley, a few miles from the city of Santa Barbara, Cal, there ie a mammoth grapevine. It waa planted in 18tg by JrraquI Lugo de Ayala, and has therefore just complet ed Its tnree-score years. The first elec tion In Santa Barbara county under American rule was held beneath Ite ample shade. This latest candidate for the world's record Is double from tbg surface of the ground up; the two park are knit together In a David and Jonathan-like embrace to a height of about f Ave foot seven Inches, where they sep arate Into huge branches, the largest having a circumference of 3 feet. Blx Inches above the ground the viae meas ures t feet and 5 1-2 Inches In circum ference and It covers rtn area of 115 square (the whole back yard), sixty pouts supporting the frame work. T:t owner nays that, were provisions mad'), It would spread over a greater surface, but It Is pruned every year. Fabulous tulcs' are told of tho f;raps this vine produces. That It did actually yield ten tons In a rweut sanon seems to bi authentic. Tho greatest pumping plant In tilt world la one whh h d.aws 3 Mf p illmrH (if VUlt'T a d;iy ,: 7 lllii, i ti tho ftUl fH'Ma ut 1 if , A "t SUNDAY ERILUANT DISCOURSE BY THE REV DAVID JAMES BURRELL D. D.. ULD. SanjMti The WlrelaM MH(a at God , A Han Who Wonltl Uar the Word ' Thrown the Borlnrk Must Divest UluiMlt of Prejudice. ,., New YonK City. "The Wireless Mes sages of Uod" was the subject of the ter mon preached bv the Rev. David Jamet riurrell, . D., LI..D., in the Marble Col legiate Church, ijunday. He took his text from I Corinthians ii:U: "1'he natural man receivcrth not the tliinn of the Spirit of Uod, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Dr. Burred said: 'A great principle is here laid down which governs in the universal realm of truth, to wit, the principle of mutual adjustment. If you strike a tunim fork which is keyed ;o middle U it will awaken a response in mother if keyed to the same pitch, but not Hiierwise. mis la tne basic tact in wiro ess telegraphy. Ou-Caua Cod there is a transmitting station, consisting of four steel towers with a bunch of wires auirxnd- d from the top and meeting at a common point like an inverted cone. If the power be applied to the apex of this cone, the wires begin e tremble, and this current, Mcillating a. t rate of, say, 996,000 vibra- aons per second, create a series ol eorre ipondinjt vibrations in the surrounding ithar: lust as a stone cast into a tmnd lends out concentric circles of water. Tbil ither wave speeds outward with incalculn lie rapidity in search of its receiver. Now, ;here is such a receiver at Pol Dhn, in Cornwall, and the wires at Pol Dhu are precisely attuned to the transmitter, that s, adjusted to an oscillation of 990,000 per wcond. so- that the message sent from tha itation at Cape Cod meets no response tm :il it finds itj sympathetic station at Pol Dhn, and this welcomes it. The system of wireless telegraphy which a Justly credited to Marconi is not an in dention, but a discovery; He has simply ii-hted UDon a process which has been roing on perpetually in space. The sun as iue great source and centre of energy in ur solar sniverse is constantly sendinr out messages of light. It is a . scientifically lemons tra ted fact that a beam of light is imply an electric message; tnat is, a vibra- ;ion oi ewer, a And here the principle holds It can be received except b that no message a lorae object which is sympathetically tuned to welcome it. uel us su Professor Punin suggests, that a t us suppose! as beatr" light intended to convey the r 1 tent out from the sun. '' lentins a certain per second sre' ;t reaches t1 its eaw - thro- K Wll( dren av here is t,,. ferred to. wireless met attuned, or a character of Go,. .Let us begin wn universal medium tu municates with the ci ther are some who ou nature's Uod and hear y everything about them, t "There are so many voices u I without signification." 1 though they dwell In the d find "every common bush V, At night the heavens declare- them and the firmament ahoweth l.m diwork. This was in Bryant's mind when he wrote! t To him who In the love of nature bold Communion with her visible forms, she ' speaks -A various language." But there are other who hear no voices, and see nothing that is not visible to fleshy yes, like Peter Bell, of whom Wordsworth aya: . . ......... "A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose wa to him And it waa nothing more." Whence this difference It arises from the fact that some soul are sympathetic with God and other are not. There was Coleridge, who wa so devoutiy inclined, so open to the reception of spiritual truth, that, walking in the vale of Chamounix, he beard the snow capped mountain and lot fall echoing Hi name: "God! Ut the torrent -like a about ol - nations - Answer, and let the ice plain echo, Oodt God! riing ye meadow stream with glad- some voice; , Ye pine grove with your soft and soul- ' iik ound; . j Y living flower that skirt the eternal forest; - Ye wild goat sporting round the eagle's . nestt Ye eagles, playmates of the mountain stream; Yo lightnings, the dread arrows of tb ... winds; .... Y sound snd wonder of the elements Utter forth God, and fill the hills with praisel" ' The wisest Man that ever lived got les sons in theology from the ravens, trie lilies of the field, the growing wheat But, alas! there are those who have no ear to hear the song which is within the song of birds and the visions which are within tn beauty of the natural world. They are bound down to things material, dreaming no dreams and seeing no visions; of th earth, earthy, "Great God, I'd rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn: 6o might I, standing on this pleasant lea. Have glimpse that would make me less forlorn. Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea. Or hear old Triton blow hi wreathed horn!1' It is th misfortune of all misfortune to be thus bond slave to the five senses; to see nothing beyond the range f physical vision snd the circumspection of the finger tip. This is to be agnostics, indeed; to have no clairvoyance, no spiritual spprs Hension, no wcond ight, no faith. It is an eternal and irameasureabl calamity to stand in the midst of a universe where the ether is vibrant with message of truth snd be so deeply tbsorlied in our little plant and pursuits and "physical ciences" that we hear no voice of Uod. Let ua turn now to the Scriptures which claim to be a divine revelation. There is an attempt in some Quarters to reduce them to the level of other literature, antl those who approach them in this sttitude will find precisely what they find in other books sna no more. Here, as elsewhere, we find what we are looking for, and hear what we are listening for. The mere stu dent of literature finds in the Bible mytht and parables, songs and chronicles of suv passing beauty, but there are others who liHten as at divinr oracles and hear the very Voice of God. vr How are we to acewkflt f " his difference of estimate as to spiritual value snd vera cious integrity of the Scriptures? It it due, ss before, to a diflurciico of relation with God. In some canes men hold them selves in rendim-as to hear, as (Samuel did in the e.ii'ly watches of the rutTnini?, when in answer to the hivcniv oiee lie said. 'Speak, Lord, for 'iliy servant nenreth!" Jn oilier aw they n;;inl in a critical or skeptical attitude, as tm-minre C-ir'uer did when he remarked, "J am not wil to re ceive thia Bluleini'lit ti""'l ti'e nuM' ,;,!V of any ati..i p .'ison as tni." I ..vie is i- -t-ing in the win il tmit ran o -v t r nhvitv of the '',! as t ' ri . 1 i woii.i-v Hi-.h.in. iSo tn.m i -n I,, r a i 'V- eniy it, c ho IS II. t. i'' 'r.'. v v. .:g tO iii.it t. it t.oj IS V. i r 1 ! ,e. In" laet ti it a m ill in ; 'i' ciilr-i. ,( iumox ro prviate "Paradise Lout," and equally sin gu,:ir th.it Jotin Aulton could see nothing m 'The 1'rincipia." llhviously.this was nor to tee discredit of either "i'arauiae l-t or "i he Principle," nor was it a reflection upon the learning of either man. It sim n,v indicates that in order to aoDrehend truth in any quarter a man must be mm- uariieucaiiy aispwea ton ara n, juuton had no mind for mathematics, nor Newton for poetry. Bo the wisest of men, as he world holds wisdom, may come to the Scripture end tind nothing there; as the soldier of Titut, st the taking of Jerusa lem threw -pen the ark of the covenant and found it empty. It is a protorb that none aiw so blind as thos who will not see; wherefore a men who would hear Uod speaking through the Scriptures must di vest himself of prejudice and be willing to near mm. And at this point, again, we discover why Christ is so often rejected as the incar nate "word." - There are multitudes who regard Him as chicfent among ten thousand and altogether lovely, but ilier are many others who see in Him nothing but "a root out of a dry ground, who hath no form nor comeliness that they should receive Him." Why this wide-difference of view? It is duo to the same difference in receptivity. mere are some who profoundly feet the need of Christ; tha Sense of sin lies heav ily upon them, and they would fain be de livered from it. They wait, like aged Kim son in the temple, tor tl coming of the mighty One. and. beholding Him, they- irr nantly receive Him as Lie (jod-sent Word, laying, ''Now lettest Thou Thy servant de part in peace, for mint eyes hare seen Thy salvationl" They welcome the message b they were waiting for it Others, like Nathaniel, cry, "Can any good thing come out of Neiareth!" Antf prejudice mint be ovemome before they ran receive Him. Ihue it is written, "He came unto llis own, and His own received Him not; but to a many as received Him to them lave He power to become the sons of Uod." Prejudice is grounded in pride of worldly wisdom, and this is the great obstante be tween the soul and Christ as the "word" or mtwge from God. . , - . Thin it has come to pass that some who have been distinguished for their attain ment in certain province of knowledge have been vholly blind on the godward side. On cannot forget how Charles Dar win, after snendinff hU tifaln .Tn.rim.nt. ing along the lines of physical science, died been starved. In. hi, childhood he had lu-uicii 1. 1 iiie l si . f i Til r-i r i mar-nave, aii starved. In. hi H0 .deP'Jr religious, l,M aai,t hi, k aiu aiveii so long nmiti an environment of purely Biaterialwn,it that Uod and ira-rtmri- o'r dreams to la ted - Chriatianueiicvera, aim jected to analysis try the so-called "scien tific method." Tho Judged, there i noth ing in regeneration, nothing in sanctities tion, nothing but infatuation in the up lifting and transporting influence of the Spirit of God. In view of such considerations is it not apparent that the soul is blind and deaf to heavenly visions and revelations, anles it is attuned to them? And what solemn sig nificance there is in the words' ot .leans: "Ha that hath ears to, hear let him bear." There are, indeed, "so manv voice and none ot them witnont signification," bnt th people standing by say: "It thunder thl O for the hearing car and the un derstanding heart! What avail it to eali a commission of blind men to pass judg ment on the art of Titian or Itaphiclf What avail it to bid a jury of deaf men sit in judgment on the oratorio of the 'Creations" Thus when th philosopher of Athens heard Paul preaching on Mar Hill "some mocked and other said: We will bear thee again concerning this mat ter." The gospel is "foolishness to the Greek, and to the Jew a (tumbling block, but to them that are Mtved it is the win dom and power of God." Men sit like blind Bartimaeus in the Valley ot l'alm: and it beauty is unknown to. (hem until tb Lord of truth, passing by, ears: "Re stive thy sight!" The five physical senses ire a five gate onea to physical truth, but fsith is th sixth gate, at which alone ipiritnal verities can enter. Wherefore it is written: "lie that comsth to God must believe that He is and that He is a reward nr of them that diligently seek Him." Th Beat f to Com. . God's best gift ar always before us, liver behind. Pleasure .of- memory are nmetimes delightful, but Ssasure of hop ire ever yet richer and brighter, especially to the eye and thought of faith. Kays one f God's dear one, referring to a fresh blessing from God: "This sudden coming A a king eipec ted blessing is the sweetest Etbat ever came iuto my life. How God is and how tenderly He leads us I haogc always a great good into a greater. 1 have been happy all along, but now, since this experience, mf heart seep linainff: 'limit, peace and lite, the flower of fade-J ea Dioom, . , The Saviour give n Mt beyond the tomb, ' '-'v. But here and now, on earth, some glimpse ia given , Ot Joy which wait u through th gate of heaven." j And thus it ever is in youth, in maturity, Xi age and yet beyond tho best is yet to ionic. Iet us look forwanr and upward, ind ever hope and trust and praise. Bun Uv-Sttliool Times. 'In almost all other departments ot the work aday world," said Professor Robert. Ersklne Ely In a recent lec ture, "eome phase of democratic feel lng has flltored through except that et domestic service. This Is still in the pall of feudal darknens. And It is the women who keep it so, and the women who must eventually emancipate It Laws and laments. Increased wages or gifts will not work enfranchisement The rlshts of tho woman domestic must be rocogn.lr.ed by the woman em ployer an sacred and Inalienable bo fir6 the so-rsl'sd 'servant problem' ran bo solved. As matters stand now there Is no system, no yccle of hours or i!:i'H, no standard of any sort between iiii;itr"a ami maid, and Ihe treatment of nrh by the other if, V f t to thft ( rice of the temptrnmnt end, too 11, ti-mpor, and tin or I-" s I' t ( la no r. T i a not to i x- I. r u 1 1 1 1 t ' i t d' ( f (tfl BILL ARP'S LETTER Sagp of Bartow, Convales cent, JViites Interestingly. TALKS OF YOUTHFUL JOYS Gentle Spring Continues to Flirt and Fool With Old' Man Winter. Mating In the Olden Tim . . and tho Present Day ... j Compared,- . , It is now many Weeks since the good BU Valentino told the birds to mats and the girls end boys to go woo ing. St, Patrick has been out and shook his shelalah at the snakes, but still gentle spring keeps on flirting ana tooling with old man- winter and make him believe ahe la In love with him. But she Isent. May and Decem ber never mate, nor March and Novem ber. It Is against the order of nature. Wo old people can look and linger and admire, but that. Is all. We j have sailed down the river anJ encountered Its perils, Its reefs and rocks and shoals and' quicksands, but strange to nr. we give no warning. Maybe It Is because we know that warning will do no good; maybe; because misery- loves company; maybe, because It Is the order of nature, the flat of the Al mighty. , Verily the young - people would mate and marry and launch their boat and sail down that river If thoy knew there- was Scylla and Charybdlli at every bent and levia thans and maelstroms and cataracts all tho way down. Poor, trusting, suf fering woman. Whak perls, what trl s 'a what afflictions dos fhematernal t bring wn Close Up by Hutlful yormej nf doair" Buttered and enjoyed, 8uch a kaleido scope would havo a world of eager lookers, for the old are as fascinated with stories of love and courtship as the middle-aged and young. In look ing over the dally, or weekly paper, we may, skip tne. displayed headings of war tn Servla or riots tn London or cyclones tn Oregon, but any little par agraph that has love In It arrests the eye and demands attention. . Children go to school to study books, but the time they aro In tholr teens they begin to mix a little timid, cautious love with their other studies. A sweehoart Is a blcseed thing for a boy. It strengthens him up and washes his face and greases his hair and brushes his teeth and stimulates bis ambition to excel and be somebody. Jerusa lem! Row I did luxuriate and palpi tate and concentrate toward the first little school girl I ever loved. She V'ks as pretty as a pink and as sweet as a daisy, and one day at recess, when nobody was looking I caught her on the stairs and ktsse . her. She was dreadfully frlgoiened,-but not mad. Oh, no; not mod. - She ran away with her blushes on her check,- and more than once that evening I saw her glance at me from behind her book and wondering If I would eror be so rash again. .'-'" ;, :. And now, Mr. Editor, if a. thousand of your patrons peruse those' rardom memorleq, nine hundred ot them can finish up the chapter from their own unwritten book. Who has not loved, who has not stolon kiss, who ' has not caught Its palpitating thrill and folt like Jacob when he lifted np bl voice and wept? Oh, Rachel, beautiful and well favored, no wonder that Ja cob watered thy sheep and thon klssod thee, for there was no ono to molest or make thee afraid. That memorable kiss Is now tour thousand years old. and has passed Into history as classic and pure, but I have had them, and so have you, dear reader. Just as sweot and soul-Inspiring, and never said any thing about it to anybody. Ours was a mixed school, and every Friday the larger boys and girls nad to stand up In line and spell and define. My sweetheart stood head most generally, and so I was stimulated to get next to her, and I did, and my right hand slyly found her left.and we both were hap py. But time and circumstances sep arated us, and we both found new loves she married another feller and was content, and so did I, but neither of us have forgotten the stolen kiss or that tender olilldlsh love that made our school days happy. But love b comos more earnest after awhile more Intense, more frantlc-Mlie young man means biiHliiens and eo does the. maiden,, Llkjs. the turtle-doves In Ihe spring of thsrirenr, they aro, looking around fi.r a mate. This Is nature, .n.. d It, Is r', '.t. Cod saitl, "It is not r - or ii oi to be alone; I will make a h mil t f r 1 ' u. ' And so ho no: !e l-ts to In-'.) !: -'t the fici.-nsefl, Slid I : -H Is tvh t a v I t a ,.. ,1 r y 1 ,1.:,.! oil; M to ilo row ; I'l.t f it !:, s n't lo f J'jn Thn rich girls won't havo them, and th poor girls are trying to keep np with the rich, and so tne turtlo-doves matt more slowly nowadays, rolks need tc love and court and marry with more alacrity than they do now. It Is not vanity to say that I could have mar ried half a doscn nice girls, and my wife could have had choice of a don clever, prosperous youths as likely at myself. Cupid Just roostod around those woods and shot his arrows rlgnl and left. Sometimes he shoots a young man and then waits days and weeki before he shoots tho girl he Is after This keeps the poor fellow on the war path, and frantic and rampant, and Cupid laughs. But he was clever tc me, for as near as I can Judge, he lei fly both arrows at once and plugged my girl and me simultaneously, and with a center shot. My wife denies this, but I haye told It so often I be Hove It. , There was no Bklrmishlng on my part I nover did snoot with a scattering gun. Marrying was cheat In those days. My recollection Is that It cost me only about $45 twenty-five for clothes, ten for a ring and ten more to tho preacher. : It didnt cost any body else anything to speak of, for there were no wedding presents. Thai tomfoolery wasn't Invented. We didn't go to Niagara or anywhere right away, but we went to worn. A month or o after we did take a little trip to Tal lulah Falls and look at the water tum ble over the rocks, but that didn't cojl but few dollars and made no sens Hon outside the family. My thought ful wife had enough nice clothes to last two years when I married her, and thoy were long afterwards cut up and down for the children, and there arc some precious fragments hid away In tho old trunk now.. .The old trunk, and of common slie, -was sufficient then for a traveling wardrobe tor a lady of the land. : My father and mother and twe children mado a-Joumpy by ac.te: Boston wi-""" """ ""- and ci" r faCN bone, mil the animal is eaten.: Now the general purpose cow Is cross or type Intermediate bet ween the beef and dairy type. This animal, strictly speaking. Is the product of careful and good breeding, and Is not the outcome of chance or accidont Shs has been bred for dual purpose and If she comes up to anticipations she Is a good milker and. a good bsef pro ducer. While not as good as the best beef animal or the finest dairy cows In producing beet or milk she neverthe less possesses the ability to partake of each to a considerable degree. She 1) eminently adapted to the geiival farm er who wishes milk and later a tal cow for the shambles, with calves which will produce good veal In a short time from blnb. It may not bs generally known, but Is Is more diffi cult to raise such an animal than .typical beef or dairy cow. The dan ger, however, comes in with the no purpose ow. In trying to secure s good general purpose cow, we may stumble upon the no-purpose animal This should be avoided In every pos sible way, for the Investment worffd prove as unsatisfactory as anypos si lily could on the farm. I EKerr Ut The Spltomlst LATHS PKUNiyO-tEBT. ' The concensus of oplnlok In about all parts ot the United States, ot ex perienced orchardlsts, agrees with that of Mr. John Tibbetts, of Michigan, who says: . My experience of over fifty ears In pruning, not only in this State, but In California, has convinced me that $E a day would better be paid, to an ex perienced hand to prune In June ot July than have the work done for nothing at a much earlier date. Tru. better prune even In January or Feb ruary than not prune at all, and the conditions and locality, would, of course, have much to do In the mat ter. In California we prune In Jan nary becausa the season there Is from two to three, months earlier than hore, and possibly In some of the old coun tries it might be proper to prune, ear lier than in this latitude. But a safe rule in any latitude Is to only prune when the bark peels, because then It Is the wood-forming period. It must be appaient to any one that the sooner a wound begins to heal after It iB made the better. , This Is sound advice tn nurseries and tn young orchards. But In old or chards, when the time comes for a grand shortening or cutting back of the fur-extending limbs for ths develop ment of a now top. the work must be dune In November or In the early win ter on miiil days, and the wounds should be painted or covered with Bood l: ;uij smftlng-wax covered with white p-pi-r. The last plan Is far best, but the painting Is a quicker provtfe and ts fulrly ssOsfactory. I? t' a ? tn t I 1 1 t t 8CI380R8 GRINDERS. Some from the Austrian Tyrol, 8oms From Italy How to Distin guish Them. Speaking generally, the scissors Srlnders with machines which thoy trundle ahead of them like a wheel barrow, come from the Austrian Ty rol, while thoae with machines car ried on their back come from Italy, and It may be from as far . south as Naples. . But there are some Italian scissors grinders from the tar north ern province of Venice, bordering on the Tyrol, who, like the men from Aus tria, use trundle machines, and may themselves more nearly resemble the man of the German races to the north than they do those of the Latin raco to the south. . The back machine men have been bore the longer. ... The trundle machine men did not begin coming tn numbers until 20 years ago or loss.- But there are now here many ot each, and they are spattered all over the country. The back machines are all substan tially alike; of the trundle machines, while they do have some general re semblance, there are scarcely two just alike. In Austria there are places where these machines are made. They cost there $12 or $15, and, mode of hardwood, they last for many years. But many ot the grinders make thl own machines, embodying their own Ideas of what would be most conven ient or desirable in use, or what mlgot -suit their fancy. Under this last head anight be classed the cranks seen on some ot the machines, connecting the treadle , with the shaft ot tho driving wheel. 8omo ot those, - Instead of being straight, like an ordinary crank,, are curved, crescent-shaped, or so much curved that they make all but ar circle, which play round and round curliiv ly When the mnchlnrlsworkcil, ..jrlnMo-' walks and cliy country dirt -roads,! His trip waa proapero many parts the scissors grlno. remained quite unknown. He ia tilling fresh grount., and his returns were corresponding.: Even In one small city that he struck, a place d 10,000 Inhabitants, they had never seen a traveling scissors grinder, and here he took In six or seven dollars a day,somethlng more than $20 .n three days, while his dally expenses had been about $1. "A gold mine?" said bis Interlocu tor. ... ....' "Bettor . 5e gold mines," said the I 'and good-humored scissors grinder. But there are no . such New Eng land cities now.' The scissors grind er Is everywhere, and the business has found its level. But It Is uncertain and variable, even at that.' Here In New York, one grinder said a man might got and make nothing, and then ft. take 12 or $3 Iromnne hon customer . ' " Interlocked Deer Horns. x Interlocked deer horns, from the heads ot two big .bucks that fought to the death on the banks ot . McOInn creek, are on exhibition tn the show window of Doyle LaLonde'a shoe store. .-.'' The Interlocked horns were found near the Bayburn Jam, 40 miles west ot Alpena on the opening day of the brook trout season,, by W, B. Dobson, editor ot the Echo, The larger of the two sets of horns has It points and Is one of the largest ver sccn'ln northern Michigan. The buck that wore the horns weighed over 800 pounds. When found the horns were attached to the skulls ot the two animals and were burled In the mud alongside of McGinn creek on a beaver meadow. The skeletons were also burled In the mud. Deer hunters who have seen the In terlocked horns say the larger of th two sets of horns was probably worn by "Old Brim." a famous big buck that had been shot at hundreds of tlm He escaped the many bullets find ; him only to die In a fierce battle wi , another buck. The fight probably o, curred about a year ago. Alpena E ve ping Echo. Temper Sign Board. In a Japanese temple there In t a wootlon frame filled In with t When a man Is vexed with m y Instead of going to harm the p ho pays tho priest a certiiin m,i monoy for a null and driven It 1 frame. In this way he rvilevt . temper without doing much harm would bo a P"od hi-a to havo s: frames fix"! up In places ho' IV. T 1 ' t 1 : 1 to l.o a t' 1 t o v. 1 i li t ) t t r i 1 H, s and ro'ih nam ty an 1 1 t 1 bringing airowuj. orirSun.