VOLUME XIX.
THE GREAT HOPE.
1 wonder who among m nil
Would .trive another dav,
Would have aoottnr wish to crawl
On' up the lutlsorae way,
If, honestly and tally, down lb hi inmost
heart,
Eaeq mortal thought
Ibat earth was all and Deal, the grave the
end; lint naught
Of soul or mind might sweep
Across the em tv deep
To claim the old dead ho ly's counterpart,
Idealised and perfected; that none might
gase
Mack on the world, nor see the living raise
Up monuments for up, uor hear their praise.
With this liuiti torn from ovory breast,
With ail believing death the end,
Bow many wouM Ft:ll do ihelr besl'r
Who Mill would strive.' Would yon, my
friend?
. 8. . Kiser, In the Chicago Booord-Hor-1J.
THE GIRL WHO WANTED
A MASTER.
By Augusta Kortrecht
From her childhood the girl had frit
a vague longing to be controlled. Hers
was the woman-heart that craved the
word of authority now and then; and
yet the had gone, through some twenty
years in a world where all sorts of
words abound, and had not met that
kind. She knew just where the trou
ble lay. She hud been shielded from it
unwisely, foolishly by a too tender
family of male relatives. She had been
kept out of her right, as it were. When
she merited rebuke she got only gen
tl remonstrance; and when she need
ed to be led she was followed instead,
sometimes far In folly.
But now that she had tome to New
York to earn her living she meant to
change all that. She had thought it out
She Intended to take service with a
high-handed master; to throw off re
sponsibility; to put her thinking appar
atus down in camphor bails as unnec
cesary; and to do onfywhat she was
Hidden. Her brother was
home on a business trs
;away irom from
p, aixi am not
"m 1
'and a I
Mr. i
was b7
saw I
lng V
figure
dwe)
dell
Ills
to lock your trunk. Be back here with
In ten minutes,"
Meekly she obeyed. In the big hotel
dining-room the severe-looking man
opposite her Ordered dinner without a
word of consultation. He ordered as
for a child, and very humbly she ate
what he served to her. Then he called
a cab and they drove to a theatre. It
was not the kind of pity she cared for
and she had seen it before. She was
pretty tired, too. But she glanced at
him and decided not to speak. After
the play he led the way to a supper
room, He made light conversation,
and now and then smiled; but he or
dered things without parley. She won
dered whether she might mention that
lobster always made her very 111 J but
she did not tell him.
It was very late when he left her In
side the hall of her boarding house.
He turned and looked back at her. She
seemed very small and wan; and he
came back and put his hands on her
shoulders, and when she looked up he
was smiling, but he tried to frown.
"The voice of authority?" he said
musingly. "That is what your letter
to your brother said. Well, it Is all
right That can be arranged. All you
have to do Is to say 'Yes at the right
placo in the service; I'll tell you when.
You shall never have to think again."
She was very tired and very sleepy.
She clung to him lgnominiously while
she said: "I'll do anything you s-s-say.
Th-th-thank you. But don't ever ask
me If I'm honest and don't b-b-bully I
me, and I can't b-b-bear to b-Le
b-b-b-bossed.
And she fled up the dark, ding)
Stairs. New York Times.
6T. KILDA 8 LONELY ISLE.
The Native Think of Emigrating to
South Africa.
It Is hot surprising to learn that the
inhabitants of St. Kilda propose to
leave their lonely island and emigrate
in a body to South Africa. Though St.
Kilda is only forty miles west of North
Ulst, from whicn island there it dally
communication Wit
UNKNOWNSO. AMERICA.
YHERE ARE VAST REGIONS STILL
UNEXPLORED BY WHITE MEN.
Mountains to B Climbed and For
ests to Be Penetrated Interesting
Discoveries Possible Amazon Re
gion Largely a Mystery Hardship
of Travel Ther.
Of all the continents, South Ameri
ca undoubtedly offer the greatest
field to the adventurous traveler. "Ex
plorers have gone up the rivers and
come down again," a writer on the
subject says, "but they have not pen
etrated any distance overland across
the Jungle-covered water sheds."
Never a month passe without an ex
pert It irm leaving the Confine of civil
ization and plunging into the heart of
some unexplored region in Bouth
America. Little or nothing is heard
of these expeditions, but each of them
would furnish material for a thrilling
book, If the adventurers cared to
write about their experiences. Usual
ly they do not.
They have other fish to fry. They
are orchid hunters, gold prospectors,
diamond seekers or government offi
cials engaged in delimiting boundaries
between the various republics and col
onies of South America.
Three months, six months, a year,
perhaps three years after they left
the last settlement on liio fringe of
tlis unknown, half of them returned,
tanned, haggard, half starved, fever
stricken.. The rest have been lost In
the Jungle, to perish of hunger and
thirst; or drowned In the rapids of
some mighty river, or killed by hostile
Indians, Jagtilars, or sting rays.
The survivors always tell toe same
story;
"We have Seen some wonderful
things, but they wore not even the
thousandth part of that whleih lies be
yond. We climbed such and such a
mountain, asoended such and such a
rivor, dwelt among such and such a
tribe; but we heard ,of other moun-
iter river, ouier tribes tar
resting In the
FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 27, 1904.
Amazon river basin. Narrow white
lines ran through it here and there,
showing where explorer have Jour
neyed up the rivers. Thoy have not
been able to penetrate overland to any
considerable distance and discover the
mysteries of over a million square
miles of jungle and mountain.
.One of the best of all South Ameri
can explorers, the Colombian General
Rafael Reyea, speaking to an assem
bly o' South American geographers in
the city of of Mexico, recently said :
"In the extended forests In which
cannibal savage were wandering
when my brothers and I made our ex
plorations only a. few years ago, there
exists today an Important commerce
of some tens of millions of dollars, and
towns of thousands of inhabitants
have been established."
His explorations extended over along
period of years, and wre made In con.
junction with his brothers, Nestor an
Henry Reyes. The ttiree brothors sue
ceeded In their main enterprise to
discover a waterway navigable foi
steamers from Colombia to the Ama
zon and they also found- many un
known tr.hns of Indians. But they
paid dearly for their heroism.
Henry died of malignant fever while
exploring the Yabari river. Nestor,
lost In the forest of Putumavo, was
captured and devoured by cannibals;
Rafael spent his fortune and ruined
his health.
Rafael Reyes met President Roose
velt In Washington recently, and the
latter said to him, speaking of cen
tral South America:
"That region is a new world, destined
for the progress and the welfare of
humanity."
There is much to be done beforo
the country is even properly explored,
to say nothing of Its being commercial
ly developed. The proposed Intercon
tinental railway, which is to unite all
the existing systems on the American
continent, will doubtless have a pow
erful civilizing tendency. Already the
surveyors for that road are throwing
light on many dark corners of South
America, and when tholr work Is fin
ished and every branch of the line is
in working order, the unoxpiored sec-
iinnoi the country will be much clr-
Sun.
PHYSICAL CULTURE IN SCHOOLS,
What the Moat Popular Game for
Children Have Been. . i
Dr. Gitllck, director of physical cul- !
ture and teacher cf the physicaltraln
Ing department of the New York pub-
lie schools, about 100 In number, met
at the High School of commerce, 155
West 65th street, to arrange the games
most suitable for school children.
Dr. Gulick announced that he had
corresponded with every large city
In the world with a view to getting
their methods of developing the physi
cal condition of their school children,
and he Intends to give the children of
Now York the best physical training
that can be had.
The games that have been the most
popular In New York city, he said, are
"Three Deep" and "Centre Ball." Tho
former can be played by any number
of children. The players are grouped
In two circles, one within the other,
while one.player known as "It" and a
"chaser" remain on the outside of the
outer circle. "It" is chased by the
boy selected as "chaser," and can only
save himself by springing behind a
member of the outer ring and shouc
Ing "three deep." "It" then takes the
placo of the boy in the outer circle,
while the one Immediately in front of
hlmlntho inner, becomes the "chaser,"
and tries to catch the former "chaser,"
who has now become "it." The game
Increases In speed and interest as one
after another of the ring men have
been ousted and required to take their
places as the "chasers" and "its."
Every boy participating In the game
comes In for his share of the sport,
and the uncertainties of where 'It" is
going to stop and cry "three deep''
keeps each player on the lookout all
the time.
"Centre bnll"promlses to much In
vogue in the public schools during the
winter. In playing the gamo a circlo
of some 20 or 30 boys is formed, while
a single boy takes his position In tho
centre of a ring. A basket or medi
cine ball is passed from one member
of the ring to another with rapidity,
and the boy In the centre must touch
the ball as It is passed around. When
he succeeds In this the player In whose
hands the bj.il was last held, or frorn.
whose hands it was last passed, be
comes centre, and the centre takes his
lace in the circlo. The game is fast,
be successful, a boy must be
gtfd possess an accurate
Is another
iir skill. A
a umber
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Tho error of one moment become
I the sorrow of a whole liretime.
I . No one lives more lavishly and
knows less how to save than the pool.
I Teach them how to keep house and
nhey will n-.ako homes. Owen Kildaro.
t ' Bo amusing. Never tell unkind sto
I ties; above all, never tell long ones.
Too many people only know by hear
say that It Is more blessed to give
than to recolve.
Ignorance may be bliss, yet the real
self-satisfied chap Is tho one who ima
gines he knows it all.
Common sense enables a man to see
things as they are and do thing as
they should be done.
Dogs scent danger sooner than men,
and their fidelity is more reliable.
"The King's Messenger."
A wise man adapts himself to cir
cumstances, as water shapes Itself to
the vessel that, contains it.
You cannot paddle In Bin and go
with white feet before the throne of
God. Karadac, Count of Gersay.
Soino men ought to carry their con
sciences in their pocket books, it
might make them more tender.
There are two powers at which men
should never grumble the weather
and their wives. I,ord Beaconsfleld.
A man thinks he Is practicing econ
omy when ho denies himself some
thing he can't raise the money to buy.
Little love is little righteousness;
great lovo Is great righteousness; per
fect love is perfect righteousness.
St. Augustine.
It is impossible for those who are
the slaves of low habits to entertain
noble and generous sentiments. Their
thoughts must always necessarily bo
similar to their ways.
Every Inch a Soldier.
The United States cavalry does not
in its thousands of daring riders pos
sess any better than are. to be found
among the 200 in the Philadelphia
mounted police force. In fact, every
one of the mounted policemen In this
city Is a thoroughbred soldier, and al
though not so thoroughly trained in
cavalry tactics as the regular cavalry
man, cam show the same pluck, the
same devotion to preclseness In drill
as the soldier does. That stich is the
case, however, has been quite gen
erally understood. An incident of a
recent drill of the mounted police In
Fairmount park is worth telling at this
time. The platoon was under the in
struction of the, drlllmaster, Lleuten-
Reed.-and he was working
en certain man-
en of a riot,
oye of
A SEKM0N FOE SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY OR
CHARLES a PARKHURST. .
abject of the Distinguished New Tork
Clergyman's Herman, "What Think
lfe of Christ t "Why Ho Many People
Oat Tired of Being Christians.
New Yoke City.-Di-. Charlea H. Park
hunt, pastor of the Madison Square Pres
byterian Church, preached Sunday morning
on "What Think Ye of Christ?" from the
words found in Mark viii:20: "Whom say
yu inai i am. ur. rari;nuret said anions
other things'.
Christ means to you something; what is
Christ Himself asks this of Hi? disciples.
It is tho first Christian catechism. Uriel',
but nevertheless it is catechism, and in
God's warrant lor our asking doctrinal
questions, and His warrant, too, for our
being prepared to frame some sort of au
answer to them.
Christ's inquiry here means that He ex
pects His disciples to have convictions
convictions in regard to Himself at any
rate and deliuite enough for them to be
ttblo to state thera. .Such convictions may
be more correct, may Lc less so, but an im
perfect opinion is better than noiie, and nn
opinion ends in being perfect that did not
begin by being imperfect, and sound con
viction is blunder convicted and converted.
Everything human begins in a mistake.
Error is the loamy soil out of which truth
vegetates and blossoms. The historv oi
philosophy, science and theology illustrates
this principle with a distinct cogency that
is unanswerable. Su that we need not be
too much afraid of being in error provided
only we cling to our error with a tenacity
that is not simply tenacious, but that u
also honest and intelligent.
What think ye oi Christ? His appeal
here is to man considered as an animal who
thinks, who has ideas, ideas of his own,
takes impressions from what is shown him,
told to him, acted out before him. and nn-
Iircssions that so groove themselves into
lis substance aa to take donned shape and
anape that is fairly permanent. Just as
objects make an image of themselves in the
eye, so facts, events, truths, make an im
age of themselves in the mind that is,
they do if the mind is an alert mind, sensi
tive, responsive. A man can, of course,
look without seeing anything; so he can
h-ar without learning anything; live in the
presence of great realities ana come away
from them without carrying upon his soul
any of their imprint. An ox can look to
ward the west at S o'clock in the afternoon
without observing any sunset; there is a
good deal of the bovine still in most of us
that call ourselves human, and that ia why
we behold so little of what is really visible
and whv we garner so little of the fruit
that falls into our laps. A duck can go
through the water ana still come out dry.
A boy can go through college without any
of the college going through him. Judas
walked three years with Jesus and finished
by being a devil.
What think ye of Christ! He wants to
find out from His disciples, then, what im
pression of Himself He l,u2 left with them,
v hat stamp He has put u them. What
they think of Him will bu only another
name for the record of Himself that His
teachings and demeanor have left printed
upon their intelligences. I am trying to
have you realize that their opinion of Him
that He was trying to get hold of was
lonietking definitely traceable to the
working 'influence upon them of His own
presence and activity. He ia not interest
ed to know what they imagine Him to be,
nor what ihey logically inier Ho may be,
nor what some one has told them that He
He has been for some time demonstrat-
to them by word
N UMBER 4'
man nas iw ins pocicec co-nay is inougnc oy ;
him to be sufficient to pav all his debts,
defray all his expenccs and secure all de
sired comforts and luxuries for an indefi- r.-
, . i .. . . , .. lit..
l.lV tllUC IU fUHIC IIC IFIII 1CCI tU IlllllVITB .
to going out and earning a couple of dol- ,
i.irs to-morrow, ann so nis connnenos in hiw
absolute and everlasting sufficiency of hia
present porKet contaiuings may easily twr
sua in his turning nanner. Those illustra
tions only serve to indicate what I mean
by saying that a man may be as orthodox
as Calvin and ai wicked n In know bow.'
The principle we h;ive been discussing '
also explains why it is that so many people
who show a good deal of Christian seat .at
the start so soon get tired of being Chris-J
nans. Jo have earnest views of Christ,
to he intensely Interested tn them nr
.lesus temporary witnurawai; irom
at crucifixion, threw up the whole matttv,.'
resumed their old life and went back -to
their fishing. Interest ia not self-sustain-:
ing. Enthusiasm, like a burning candle, -consumea
itself in its own heat. The sun,
so astronomers tell us. would burn itself
nut and our systems fall back into drigmal
darkness were not special provisionnude
for keeping up the sun's temperature. '
At the same time there arc lines of tt'
fort and employment where inteeirt, on '
the contrary, never does seem to flag,
where heat is not only maintained, bus ;
with a mercurv that is rather steadily .on .
it.. : c--,: J .1 t f.J '
viic- , ihv. crcituiK ii9i (ic vim imiiuiar win
rather shop worn instance of the money,
getter, who, the more he gets, the intenser,
as a rule, becomes his ambition tfjfcget,' v
that is onlv one of the manv pursuit -where
the like enhancement of interestV
mounting np in many cases to the height
of a steadilv growing passion, is seen to I
evince itself. Examples of this are, t j
should say, especially frequent among
scholars devoted to the scientific investi
gation of nature and nature's beauties and :
marve s. tint in the instances ot suen aa-
the particular fact I would beg you to no
tice is that what keeps the investigator'
heart glowing with a warmer and warmer
fervor is not the arrav of facts that have
been brought distinctly within the range
of his knowledge, that he baa been able
AfintUlv t.K.ilBtA mnA nt wIimIi in
trolled by them cannot, unforturvv
taken as a certain sign of tho eo - - V
of that interest. The falling oft H
ing down of Christian enthusiahV -
mon exnerience. Even the disk. ic - .-. r
some time nast he has issued a complete V"?T
stepping forward on to new gronnd that
keens his thoughts alert and his heart
aglow. Whatever it be, the cii is alwav
tiresome, only the new is interesting. To
thonaturalist the world retains its fascina
tion, although an old world, because of the
deeper entrance he day by day gains into
that world and the ever fresh disclosure!
of newly discovered wonderfulness and
beauty that she thereby makes over to ,
him. In the same way there are certain
books that we read and re-read. In a war
they are old books, but it is not tbeir old- '
ness that faaeinatea us but a certain ever
lasting newness that lay beyond the reach, .
of our previous perusals, as eyes that look
quietly and intensely into the night-sky see
tars that are sunk too deep in the firma
ment to be eanght by a first and easy
glance. And that suggests the old holv
book, the Bible, which ia always new and '
which the church always loves, because
there is that in it always which our last
reading was only on the edge of discover- , :
ing. If the church should ever come to the
end-of the Bible it would throw it away. -Some
people have thrown it away al
ready; some who seem to themselves to be
Christiana have thrown it away; it seem ...
to tnem they nave come to the end oi it.
To them there ia nothing new in if-
mnra Af Mum kv lk m'tnRlOle W ar
illustrating they can do nothing but tore
Jiaway. xne ox h,uwb niuugw w
,ien it ia dark, hut never seea a sunset.
All of this leads up eaauy w an expij"-
in of the fart stated a moment ago
v who have begun to be Christians
--lii imPI .iiii-mi. ,f'''- "