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FRANKLIN: N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER '28 1904.
VOLUME XIX.
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The Judgmeri of Nathan;
Or, the' Story of flow -He Selected
the Right Woran.Tor a Wjfc. : T
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"Set right down here, Nathan," si
Daniel. "I'll have to -see what , Jqi
Wickerson wants. He' always both-.
ing arotin, line an aggravaun
What's eatln' you; Joel?"
"I want a gallon of your best
aid Joel; "T hat's it worth, today
''Fifteen cents," answered Dlel.
bustling about as If the store ware
crowded with patrons. "Let's! have
your1ian." ' ' f '
' 'It's only 14 cents at the! White
Front," protested Joel, holdtts his
can obstinately behind him. j
"Fifteen here to regular cuspmcrs,"
replied Daniel, meaningly. '
Joel sighed. "Well, then, gts tne a
gallon, an' a dime's worth ft eatln'
tobaccer, an' a pound o' farollny
prunes, an' put It on the bcoVj
"Califorhy prunes," amoad-PanieJ.
' "Caroliny," Insisted Jo5l.I reck
on I k'now what I want. Hof are you
Nate?" . "'. --;
. "Ain't well," said NathaqpUply.
"Rheumatiz?" - t
' Nathan nodded his head willing to
admit what was not altogether true
for the sake cf discouraging- conversa
tion. . -J
v "Miss Wickerson "allows that rheum
atix is only another name fcr laziness.
I ain't Just prepared to agree with her
an' yet I never hecred oj It keepln' a
man from anything but worK. ixn t
operate agin' goln'-fishin' does it,
heigh?" He chuckled his audience in
the side and leered knowingly.
Nathan had little use for an observ
ation that approached too closely to
the truth, and Joel, being notorious for
Just such observations, there was noth
ing to do but retreat in as good order
as possible, so he got on his feet and
strolled carelessly toward the door.
"You can look at that cow any time,
Daniel!" h nailed back, over his shoul
der. '
'' "Wait a moment, I'll go right now.
Where ' Dave?" '
Playing dominoes for the cigars up
to Andy ' Wlggins's," volunteered
Johnny Jttonly in his cheerful treble, "i
see aim."
"Pick ye out a handful cf candy,"
commanded Daniel, magnanimous,
"an run an' tell him I want him hus
tle now!"
; ; Dave soon appearedat the back door
and having dusted his shoes, parted
lis hair lfecomingly and adjusted his
necktie, took his place behind the coun
ter and assumed an attitude of care
ful attention to business, ' Dave was
considered very stylish, wore broad
shouldered clothes and high collars.
sang in the church choir, and played
a B-flat cornol4i Mlllville A'yid.
fctciine
ai3"puc
lred by the fair sex. A number of
e girls WUld walk several squares
it of their way after school to pass
Freeman's store because Dave Marcus
was sure to be out In front about that
time, ; leaning gracefully against the
awning post, swapping reminiscences
with Elmer Jordan, who had but lately
returned from Manila, and who still
affected a military carriage, wore his
leggina and army hat, and smoked
; with his cigarette drooping raklshly
, from his Hps.
"Come along, Nathan," said Daniel,
threading his way between Uncle Billy
Harlow and the cannon stove. "We'll
' go out and look at the cow. Did you
. say you wanted a cheese sandwich?
, Here It la." .. . ,
Jimmy Henly picked up a crumb of
; cheese from the floor, Wiped it on his
sleeve, and ate it. Uncle Billy Harlow
got up- on his chair to reach for the
Mlllville Weekly Clarion, and In do
ing ao .stumbled over his dog, who
was always afraid he was about to be
left behind. Rebecca Foulson came in
to buy a pattern from Dave Marcus.
nd in the general excitement Joel .
: Wickerson managed to abstract a cou
: pie of dill pickles and a handful of
crackers, and to make"a triumphant
exit with them and his groceries.
"Let's go up the mill race," suggest
dp; Daniel.
' It was not far to walk. Just across
the railroad bridge down the steep
side of the 'grade, through a forest of
, Spanish needles, between the sagging
yires of a fenee and then you struck
"a well beaten path that ran along the
tank of the race to the mill. Two sy-
. Vcamore trees, as spotted as leopards,
I locked arms and leaned together far
J out over the listless current, and some
1 J 'one had rigged up a board between the
' trunk which made a very good seat
Aand a capital place for the wayward
Wall boy to smoke cigar and play
lards. Nathan picked up stick and
Opened his knife with a click. Daniel
e-llt hi cigar, flipped the match in
fo the water and settled his back lux
uriously against the tree.
It was a hazy- day in mid-autumn.
The first frost had come and gone and
the forest had begna to don its Jo
seph's coat of many colors. -
A flock of crows flapped leisurely
along overhead. A . jay ' (creamed
harshly In the thicket A red-head
rapped ofllciouBly far up -In the syca
mores, and a squirrel whisked out to
protest against the 'interruption. The
school bell rang : for recess and the
shout' of the playing children came
loud and soft by turn with the ebb
and flow of the gentle breese. The lo
cal freight arrived and stopped at the
dripping water ttak.-"';':Vi;Vf v. ;
"Nathan," said . Daniel, i: solemnly,
"I'm a-going to get married." -.. 1.
. His companion's jaw dropped as sud
denly a If some concealed spring had
snapped. "Why why, yon can't mean
it, Daniel," he stuttered. t; ;
"I most certainly do," replied Daniel,
with an assumption of nonchalance
that he was far from feeling. 7
"B-but at your age!" " ji ' '
"Never toq late to mend," observed
Daniel blithely. V'k'U;1
"I don't know If mend Is the right
word for It," Nathan shook his head
dubiously, "and lf .lt Is It; seems to me
that If I'd a got aion.'W the ripe old
afro, -"--lxty-three unmended I'd a sort
, i it so natural that way that I would
ij .1 . Ixxunred about the repairs."
I
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it
"I ain't but sixty-two," objected his
. friend. V'f-V ;'t ' ? -S t ;'' .
i "As good ax sixty-three. -I know
when your birthday I by' reckonln'
from mine. Don't you remember, I had
to lie about my age so' we could n
list In the same company?"
"Well, then, have It your own way
th:n, do. Sixty-three ain't old."
"I'm not eo sure. Now I am a great
grendpa at that age an' you just a
stc-tln' in, but who's to be the happy
Mrs. Freeman?" ,
Panlel blushed - until his mottled
face resembled a variegated pincushion.-
'"There's two of them I'm a hesl;
tat In' between,"-ne answered, looking
vaguely at a flaa'.ui sumach bush on
the. opposite shore.
Well." prompted Nathan.
"Two of 'em," repeated ':. Daniel,
bring hU index finger down Upon the
board with a thwack and staring hard
at it; "one Is one is" he shifted his
gaze to a thlBtle close at hand, and
picking up a switch, threshed it vigor
ously. Nathan whittled away without
the least appearance of interest
"One is . Abby Bell "
Nathan nodded bis head In corro
boration,' somewhat disappointed at a
revelation that was no revelation, bo
cause MUlville had been dally expect
ing their marriage for thirty years.
''And the other is confound that
bee, he's agolu' to sting me yeV'
"Well, for heaven's sake," ejaculated,
Nathan, "say It siy It Is who?"
"Ann Elizabeth Tompkins," Daniel
blinked his eyes, inflated bis checks,
until they resembled a bellows, and
blew out the name as If It were a plug.
'The mischief!" gasped Nathan.
"Now, what have yon got against
Ann Elizabeth?" demanded Daniel,
with an Injured air,
"A widow an' a gossip, an equal suf
fragist an' a coclal puritylte, a soul
feeder an' a sanctified person, an' to
marry you! Lord! Iord! The saint and
the sinner, the hawk an' the dove, the
sheep an' the goat yah, yah!" The
old man grasped his knees In his
hands and rocked to and fro in an
ecstacy of mirth.
"Go on!" cried Daniel. "Pile it up.
Insult your best friend If you will, but
don't drag her In; don't you say noth
ing about her until she's present to de
fend herself."
"I Wouldn't dare to then," said Na
than, earnestly. "Why, Dan'l, she's a
match for any two men In MiUvlIle,
an' you know it. Six feet tall an' two
hundred if a pound. Who-ee! Don't
you sit there an' admit that you're con
sider! her. Back track. Back track!
Climb, a-tre'e; swim a stream. Any
wayJto strike the scent, mv bov. I
e It ain't tos late, romrade. I hope
you haven't gone and committed your
self beyond recall."
An acorn rattled from bough to
bough in a neighboring tree and
struck the ground with a thud? Dan
iel dodged with a quick duck of the
head and glanced apprehensively over
bis shoulder.
"It ain't went that fur," he admitted.
"I'm only a-flgurin', as a fellow says."
"All right, but dont you figger too
close. Looky here, Dan'l, I ain't got a
thing against you marryin', but after
having been so uncommon deliberate,
let's not get in an all-tired hurry all
at once. It's mighty easy to get mar
ried. It's as easy as it is for a rat
to get into one of them patent traps,
and marriage has got its bars, too, as
well as its bait Now, to continue tba
argument, we will say, my boy, you're
a-marryln' to better your condition
for the purpose of bacomin' more com
fortable; an' I Judgo that's all a bach
elor thinks of when he's marryin'. It
such be the case, an' I think I know
you pretty well, don't you make the
mistake of marryin' a widow of strong
convictions and mature age. My
brother married a widow. He was
about your age when he did it, too, an'
out of consideration for his feelln's
an' in the hope of bavin' a life of ease
the rest of his days he selected what
he thought was a rich widow. Well,
they hadn't hardly et their first meal
together until he realized he was tied
up to a whited sepulchre. Yes, sir, for
a fact. She took all her money and
put It into a costly monument to her
first husband, an' George W. bad to cut
right out an' dig for a llvln'.
"He tells me it is a mighty handsome
stone, with two angels carved on It,
clasping hands, an' right below the
word, 'Till we meet again.' 'Many'
the night,' say George W., 'that 'I've
laid awake calculatln' just where I'm
supposed to be whilst they are a-meet-In'
an' claspin' hands.'
I ' "Dan'l, a widow either make"" club
or a clog out of her first husband. You
are either a whole lot-worse or you're
never quite so good as he was, an' the
longer he's burled, the better he gets.
"Another thing, too, Dan'l, there Is
no such thing a romance in a second
marriage. Love's Is a plant that don't
bloom more "than once for any one.
And when a widow decide she needs
another helpmeet she sizes up the can
didate with a mighty cold, calculatln'
eye first, while a widower act a If
he was afraid the npply would run
out before he got a f hance to get pne.
"To my mJnd, there' one time, and
n time only, for marriage. It' when
you're young an' in love, so young an'
sq much in love that nothing else mat
ter at all. A second marriage is Ilka
a set of false teeth a more or less
passable substitute for the first accord
ing to fit. but dreadful hard to write
poetry about." . ... ?,
"You're powerful set against auch
thltjgs, It seems," complained Danlol.
"Now, I want to know, what you'd do
in case you wa left? Wouldn't you
turn an' marry again?" - .
"Maybe I would. Maybe I would,
Dan'l,!' Nathan sighed. "A man an' a
moth has a habit sametlmes of a cut
tin' loose from everything an' flying
plum in the face of Providence." '
"Do you think l ' ought to marry
Abby Bell, then?"
"Vmr-perhaps. She ain't so old but
she might be older An' she's proba
bly bo unselflsih that she'd marry you
for your own good." Yes, Abby could
likely scrape up enough romance to be
happy herself, an' she'd be so perfect
ly proud that she had got a man, after
all, that she'd pamper you up like a
young lord an' that I judge is what
you're looking for." , -, .
"Now, Nathan" Daniel leaned for
ward and1 put bis hand on hi friend'
shoulder "a man to man, as the man
ln light to a man in the darkness,
Is It the thing marriage? Cap. you, In
the face of your knowledge and experi
ence say ao- to mel"' .
, Nathan cleared bis throat- huskily.
J, "Comrade,, don't you gather ' from
what I've ever said to you that Zerelda
hasn't been a good companion to me.
I've talked mighty trifi'a' about my
wife, which is a thing' no man ought
to do, but I've got the savin' grace
to be ashamed of It When she left her
home to come out here with me it
was a sore trial to her. She thought a
heap .of her mother, an' she. bid her
good-by realtzin' that she could never
hope to see her again. :, She Jest put
her band in mine and set her face to
the west an if she ever looked back,
like Lot's wife, ! never knowed it Wo
didn't have much to come to. Only a
log cabin in a clearin', but lure glori
fied it into a shinln' palace, an' it was
not long until there was a curtain at
the window, a flower in the garden an'
a babe in .the cradle three things to
make a man happy.".
- "We've raised four children an' bur
led two, Dan'l, an' If ever a woman
done her duty by her family It was her.
it's only lately that she's had any time
to devote to the cause of sufterln' hu
manity in general. A houseful of chil
dren will keep a woman out of lota of
devilment Dan'l, I use tobacco, fish
a good deal, an' play cards whenever
I get the chance; while Zerelda 'tends
church an' prayer meetln', feeds
preachers and delegates, wrestles with
the demon rum, an' pretends to sancll
flcatlon; an' now that I come to think
of It, I reckon, after ail. Its simply dif
ferent ways we have of enjoying our
selves, an' ehe's as much right to her
way as I have to mine. An' I'll go
further, and remark right here, that
if any other man would say the things
of my wife that I've said of her, I'd
bust his head open. I would." v
"Nathan," said Daniel, hoarsely, "It's
it's a-goln' to be Abby."
The two old men clasped hands, and
looked long and darkly into the waters
of the race, that, like the stream' of
life, could never turn backward.
The two sycamores alike bound to
gether swayed and bent low in the
breeze, appearing, with outspread arms
and rustling foliage to be whispering
a benediction.
A golden leaf fluttered loose, and,
turning over and over, fell gently Into
the water, and the ripples spreading
In slowly widening concentric circles
seemed at last, like' life and love, to
reach from shore to shore. Allen G.
Garrigue In Indianapolis Journal.
QUAINT AND CURI0U8.
The proportion of policemen to
population Is one to 307 In Paris, one,
to 408 in London, and one to 458 In
New York.
Since the use of wire fences has be
come so extensive, the number of cat
tle killed each year by lightning has
greatly Increased. ,
Norway's coast line 1700 miles In a
straight line becomes 12,000 miles it
folic wed round the fjords. In these
fjords are over 150,000 islands.
In the lastfew weeks since the
planting of trees on the Government
forest reserve In the Diamond River
Valley In Nebraska began 300,000 trees
have been planted.
Lombard street in London took Its
i.ame from the Lombard merchants
who, coming from the Italian republic
of Genoa, Lucca, Florence, and Venice,
settled in London in the reign of Ed
ward I.
It Is asserted by a sculptor that the
human foot Is becoming smaller. The
masculine foot of 20 centuries ago wa
about 12 Inches long. The average
man's foot of tcday Is easily fitted
with a No. 8H shoe, which Is not more
than ten and seven-sixteenths Inches
in length.
Geographers tell us that in place the
Pacific is more than 29,000 feet deep.
In other wcrds, it the loftiest moun
tain on the globe, Mt Everest, 29,062
feet high, were placed In the Pacific
ocean at Its greatest depth, the summit
of the mountain would just about reach
the surface of the ocean.
'South Australia Is said to be suffer
ing with a great Invasion of mice. The
cause Is the recent bad weather, which
caused more cr less of a failure of the
wheat crop, and the fanner allowed
much grain to remain In the field.
This Jell to the ground in time, and
so furnished much food for the mice. .
v He-Paid HI Debt Promptly. ,
A train was Just starting to leave
a .suburban station, says the New York
Tribune, -when an elderly man rushed
across the platform and Jumped on
one of the slowly moving ears... The
rear-end brakeman, who wa standing
by reached up just as the man got
aboard, grabbed his coat tails and pull
ed him off. "There," he said, sternly,
"I saved your life! ' Don't ever try to
board a train that way again." r
"Thank you," , said the old man,
caimly.-r ''Thank you for your thought
ful kindness. It is three hour till the
pext train, isn't It?" , 'y-T, 1. v.
' ."Three hours and f quarter," said
the brakeman, "but it (s better to
wait that length of time than to be
killed.". : . :.-. :r.:i .
The long train, meanwhile; bad been
slowly gilding by, slowly gathering
speed.; Finally the last car appeared.
This was the brakeman car, the one
for which he had . been waiting, and
with the easy grace born of long prac
tice, ha started to etep majestically
on a.
- But the old gentleman seized him by
the coat, and with a strung Jerk pulled
him back, and held hm until it was
too late. ', " - : ,
"One. good turn deserves another,"
said the old gentleman, with a smile.
"You saved my life, I have saved
yours. Now we are quits," '
CHRONOMETERS, ON ICE
ONE OF THE REMARKABLE
THINGS SEEN AT THE NAVAL v
, , OB8ERVATORY. . i , -
he Importance ef Absolutely Correct
Tim on 8hlpboardTt Based on
Purely Scientific Principle Work
Exceedingly Technical, fj-'i ' : ;
One hundred ship' . chronometer
kept in cold 'storage is one of the
many remarkable thing to be seen at
the United States naval observatory at
Washington. To the layman It would
appear that the authorities were ap
prehensive thr.' tne timepieces would
"poll," One more' experienced would
reason that the process had something
to do with regulatlng'thplr time keep
ing qualities. , Neither surmise i cor
rect. The fact of the matter ia the
.chronometer are allowed to go tick
ing merrily on in their own way and
time. No one hurries them, and 'no
one tries to diminish their speed.
Yet so important is absolutely cor
rect time on shipboard that a differ
ence of tour seconds means a mile in
longitude or latitude. And a mile in
longitude may mean a warship on the
rocks. '.;'i-- '.v',;;
While no one correct the "running"
of these chronometers, a most ac
curate record is kept of their manner
cf "running" under different tempera
tures. This why they are kept on Ice.
The regular annual curnometer trial
begins .on January 2 and ends June
22, and during, this period there, is
scarcely a- minute or the day that the
time-keepers are not under the closest
observation of experts who can tell
their variations to a hair's breadth, all
of which are carefully noted on a rec
ord, and, at the completion of the
test, handed to the- commander of the
vessel to which the Instrument be
longs. The temperature varies at different
times of the test from 60 to 90 de
grees and the- losing or gaining
qualities of the chronometers under
these conditions are accurately kept
Thus with a chart expressing in
curves Just what he may expect from
his chronometer under different condi
tions of climate, and, with his thermo
meter and barometer close at hand,
the sailing master may calculate to a
nicety the correct time and get hi
location to a certainty.
The importance of a central station
where navy chronometers and other
navigating Instruments may be stand
ardized is not appreciated outside of
those directly Interested, despite the
fact that millions of dollars and 'thou
sands of lives are wholly dependent
on the efficiency 0 ftbe service in this
line of work. It is essentially neces
sary that chronometers should be re
gulated by a common standard, and,
In order tbat this may be done suc
cessfully, the same person who trans
mits all over the country the standard
time should hare charge of them.
In other countries there are several
naval authorities that do the work
which ther Washington observatory Is
practically doing alone. In France
there la a great central observatory
at Paris, with branch naval observa
tories at Toulon, Lorlent Cherbourg
and Rochefort. The same method of
dividing the work Is adopted In other
countries.
The policy of the United States,
however, is to combine all the en
ergies and talent at the central obser
vatory, for Instance, between $40,000
and $50,000 worth of chronometers are
tested during six months each year,
and many others all the year round.
The tests are made by the most ex
perienced men in the government ser
vice, and the room wa constructed
after years of study and experience.
Thore are a transit-house and a clock
room, which are Considered the finest
in the world. To establish duplicates
of these arrangement in four or five
different points along the coast would
nearly quadruple the first cost of the
plants,' with a proportional Increase
for, maintenance, and at the same
time would abolish that exact com
parative test and standardizing of in
struments which is today one of the
strongest point of the. present sys
tem In this country.
It Is recognised, however, that the
'eat area covered by the United Stat
Is too vast a field to be attended to ex
clusively at one point. A small naval
observatory has, therefore, been con
structed at Mare Island, California,
from which the' naval vessels itt the
Pacific receive their supplies of navi
gating instruments all of which are,
first standardized at Washington
and receive the correct time. It Is
probable that before long another sub
division will be established at Tutujla,
Samoa, to facilitate the work of navl
gJtn. 1 '
The. test of chronometers 1 based
on purely scientific principles. The
temperature room Is constructed so
carefully that the .thermometer doe
not vary one-half of a degree in a
week. : The room Is 20 feet long by
10 feet wide and eight feet high.. - It
has double walls, quadruple window,
and warm water pipe surround it
Below it Is a big refrigerator holding
2000 pounds of Ice. A perfectly ad
justed thermograph keep a record of
the temperature. . If It becomes too
warm the expansion of metal on a deli
cate instrument serves to turn down
the gas beating the water la the pipe
surrounding the room, thus giving
scope for the action of the cold stor
age plant If, on the other hand, it
become too cool, the metaLcofitract
and the gas I turned higher, heating
the water and raising the temperature.
In this way the temperature of the
room Is kept an any degree desired.
As already mentioned, the time of
the chronometer I never changed
here. Sometime a chronometer 1 al
lowed to run tor four year without
the slightest alternation being made
In Its time keeping qualities. Some
times It Is fast and sometimes slow
according to standard time, yet the
sailing master knows the exact time.
This he calculates from the curve
table, furnished to him by the -naval
observatory. The manner of making
these tests forms. one of the most in
teresting studies, at the observatory.
The work Is exceedingly technical, and
In no department of the government
service In more scientific knowledge
and exncrlfnce reisiiiied thus kire,
Broii .'.,, n 1 -tfte,
DOG COULD NEVER FORGIVfc.
Always Attacked 'Trolley Men Be
cause a Car Cut Off HI Toe. .
' Because be could not forgive -trolley
employe after a ar had cut off
three of his toes, Bruno, a splendid
St. Bernard dog, belonging to Mayor
Charles A. Bookwalter. of Indianap
olis, Ind., had to be chloroformed. His
hostility to street car conductors and
motormen was his only fault, but that
phase of his character caused so
many threats of damage suits : tbat
Mayor Bcokwalter decided that be
could not afford to keep blm; ; : u
: Several years ago while in the
street In front of his' master's house
the dog wis struck by a street car.
HI foot was caught under the wheel
and he came out of the accident min
us three toes. This was the begin
ning of his antipathy to street car
men, and It gre upon him till no em
ploye wa safe if Bruno. saw him oft
hi car, '. ,r , '
Mayor "Bookwalter live on North
Illinois street. Near bis residence Is
a place whero the conductors and mo
tormen change cars, and as many of
them reach the point before their
car arrive, there are always sevoral
In the street Up to a few months
ago ' Bruno contented himself with
attacking his supposed enemies when
they passed ' the mayor's house off
their car. But recently be began to
lie around the relieving station and
before his presence was suspected he
would have one of the men by the leg.
Complnlnts were made, ' and thft
mayor sent the dog to hi farm, but
Bruno wouldn't stay. No motormen
nor conductods came that way, and
he was lonesome. So he came back,
and when sent away a second time,
again returned. Ho was always found
watting around for an opportunity to
get a street car man by the leg. So
Bruno was sent' on a journey from
which he will never return.
"He . was a great dog," said Mr.
Bookwalter, "but he was made for an
80-acre field, and not for a town lot.
I am satisfied that his only motive for
attacking street car, men was to get
even- for the loss of those toes. He
felt the deformity keenly, and was
never the same dog after he was In
jured. Any child could play with
him, and I never knew him to attack
a stranger, but the sight of a street
car conductor or motorman seemed
to awaken In him a spirit of revenge
which was never manifested under
any other circumstances. Philadel
phia Record. "
In the Other Pocket
"I can't quite make your change,"
said the storekeeper, painfully re
counting the pile of pennies In his
band. "It's a cent out of the way."
"Oh, never mind," returned the muni
ficent buyer. "But It's my cent," was
the unmovlng rejoinder.
Sometimes It does happen to make
a difference if we know who owns the
cent. The New York Press tells this
story of a man who, early one morn
ing recently, came to the assistant
treasurer of a church.
"I attended service yesterday," sutd
he, "and I made a mistake when you
took up the collection. I had a penny
and a five-dollar gold piece In my pock
et I think "
Here he stopped to take breath, and
the other man Interrupted him with
some Impatience. He bad heard just
that complaint before. Somebody was
always bunting a five-dollar gold
piece.
"I think you are mistaken," said he.
"We had no five-dollar gold pieces In
Sunday's collection."
"That's Just what I am trying to get
at" said the old gentleman. "You
out to have had one. I meant to put
mine In the basket, but I made a mis
take and dropped In the. penny In
stead. Here 1 the gold piece."
Not a "Dead-gam 8portes."
A notable sporting event came oft
at York 100 year ago. The wife of
Colonel Thornton, a well-known cit
izen, had backed herself to race
against Mr. Flint for 600 guinea a
side. The crowd wa estimated, at
100,000, ten times a many as bad
been present even to see Eclipse first
and tie rest nowhere. For three
mile Mr. Thornton led, but her horse
had "much the shorter' stake of the
two," and Mr. Flint then forged
ahead, and Mrs. Thornton gave up in
mercy to her horse. She was much
less tender to Mr. Flint. A few days
later the York Herald contained a let
ter from her accusing him of lack of
gallantry in refusing to allow a
gentleman to ride round with her, so
a to be bandy for' the' rescue If her
saddle slipped round, a it had done
a few day before; in saying, "Keep
fhi.t aide, ma'am," gruffly to her at
the starting point, and beating her as
badly as he could. She defiantly
challenged him again for the next
year. London Chronicle.
- The Japanece Inatlnct.
Some of the ewellest apartment In
New York are occupied by Japanese
tenant who appear to be possessed of
ample means. In one family is a boy
of 4 1-2 yean, a stocky little fellow,
who baa already developed the In
ttinct tbat render bl nation great
In war.' 'He I a tireless worker,- In
stead of riding on the toy wagons of
his whit companion he insists upon
doing -all the heavy work, pulling the
.vehicle up bill, lifting them over ob
stacles, ' guarding them, seeing to it
that not too many passengers' 'get on
tor a coast down grade, etc. - Yon nev
er saw such sturdlness In a youngster.
He will fight at the drop of a bat, And
can hod his own With a 10-year-old
Caucasian a well as If he were an
adept in the art of Jlu-Jltsu. With It
all be I good-natured and likes fun.
Street Car Company Party te Divorce
"'- .': Suit
Myron E. Rosa and the Metropolitan
Street Railway company are mad
Joint defendants in a divorce suit filed
In the circuit court yesterday by
Pearl L. Ross. This odd case arose
out of a judgment that was obtained
by Myron Ross of $2000 against the
street railway company, and which 'it
Is the wish of the wife to share. The
divorce was filed pending the result
of the damage suit, and It was rofiled
In in ill" tL '" the judgment fea
ture for'lllWilWf. Kansas City Tlnws.
A SERMON -FOR SUNDAY
M ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED.
- "KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST." -
Th' Her, Wlnflald Scott Baor Toll Those
Who Would Beo.lV. Lllt Tliot Thoy
. MBit Xxerciie Self-Control mid Bucri"
' flco Flfliuuro lo tli Work,. v;
4 Brooklyn, N. Y. The Revt WinfieU
Scott Baer. rector of St. George's Church,
preached Sunday morning on "Knowledge
of Christ." , He took his text from Philip
piant iii. 8: "I count all things but loss for
the excellency of the knowledge of Christ
Jeitu mv Lord." Mc. Baer said' among
other things:
A quarter of a century had putted sines
Paul on the way to DamaMUS u a great
light, since he who way the persecutor of
the church became Apostle to the Gentiles.
They were years of mental and spiritual
growth, of missionary seal and activity, of
suffering and privation, and beyond that of
joy and gladness which no man could tell.
Now, looking back over his lifo from
prison in Rome, he passed judgment upon
his gain and loss. There was no tinge of
despondency which might have come from
.age or weakness, no touch of bitterness
showing that the iron miqht have entered
into hit soul, but with the calmness of a
judce and the fervor of a seeker after
truth, he cried: "I count all things but
loss for the excellencv of the knowledge of
Christ Jesus my Lord." '
There are many kinds of knowledge,
rained in diffarent methods and ways.
Some comes through exercise of memory
some through careful observation of the
facta of nature; tome by experiment in the
laboratory; some bv careful-reading of the
past and wise judgment upon it; much
from the careful study of oumelves. In
varying degrees, these all are precious, and
they are given only for a price. The school
system of wriich we are proud is costly.
The va$t expenditure of money is but an
item in the cost. Energy, time, thought
of myriads interested in the work of knowl
edge and in training those committed to
their care harder far than hearing lessons
from a book. The years of school, the
hours of study and practice, the physical
confinement when children would rather
be on the street or in the field, all these
must be cou&ted in. We oro almost disap
pointed when ws do not read among the
honors of collegecorcmcnccment some men
tion of gifts of money 1. enable th col.
lege to pursue truth, and give it out to
those who seek it; and here also are time
and labor and research. So those who
would receive the full benefit of the prof
fered knowledge must exercise self-control,
sacrifice p'ay and pleasure to the work;
This ia but the beginning of knowledge.
In every realm of life men seek if haply
they may find. The borders of the un
known are being pushed back day bv day,
and the light of truth is seen and known
over ever wider tracts. In scientific re
search, invention, exploration of the
earth, knowledge of society, knowledge of
mind, men are thinking, working, gaining
knowledge. They pay the cost. The ice
of fie north,. co'ild it epenk, wo'ild tell of
those who sought the pole, merely, 'that
they might know; the junglea of Asia and
the forests of Africa are known to ua from
the traveler; minsionnry. scientist, soldier,
feeker after gold, with their different mo
tives impelling them, they bring forth
knowledge for the world. Human trials,
privations and death have been paid for
that knowledge. Few as they take it,
think of the price at which it is purchased.
There are dgrees of worth in knowl
edge. That which has most of the human
in it contains most interest for us. Per
sons are the highest facta; the knowledge
of persons is the highest knowledge. It ia
1 a wonderful story which science tells ua of
the development of the world. It is a more
living story for in to know of the develop
ment of mankind; hence, historv, biogra
phy and social matters have a deeper in
terest for us. Nor 'a it an easy matter to
read the past or the present. From the
tame chemical ingredients "e expect the
same results. Personality may conceal or
may reveal itself by its words and deeds.
Xone of us needs to be Jekyll and Hvde
to appreciate that lie is not always clear
aa crystal, to be read by all the world.
Deeds may belie the heart. None of na
knows another perfectly, perhaps we do
net I' now ourselves. The mathematical
table we know, but the knowledge of man
kind ia higher, and more secret and diffi
cult to gain.
If study of man he our true study, then
the study of the beat ia our wise part.
How foolish 'or the student in srt to
study the cliromo when the masterpiece
ia before his eye) Why strive to read by
light of lamp when the glorious sun in the
heaven floods the earth with light? Seek
the noblest, and learn of him. ft was this
which Paul was doing. The deaire of bis
heart, the end of his thought, the goal of
his purpose was that he might know
Christ, and for that he would count all
thing but loss.
There hot been loss in Paul's life as he
gained this knowledge. Loss of money,
position, friendship; bitterly hated by his
peonle, and now loss of liberty as captive
at Rome. But these he counted loss for
the knowledge of Christ.
This was more than a knowledge of thj
facta of Christ's life; more than an ac
knowledgment of hit past and present high
dignity in the'sniritual world; more than
a recognition of the place of Christ in
Rod's work for ma-). One might know all
thU, yet not know Christ, as Paul longed
to know, in the commnnion of friendship,
in the inspiration of Christ within, in the
power of Christ raising him from sin to
righteousness, making him a rartaker of
Hit own life, so that he could aav: "I live,
yet. not T, but Christ liveth in me."
We may not follow Paul's intellectual
flights, nor gate with his vision at the mva
teries which are unveiled. But we may
know the purpose of (!od for ua. which ia
that we shall seek the truth of life. . This
ia found in Christ. To know Him is the
privilege, of all,. -'There ia no exclusive
class of rich or poor, hut the knowledge is
open to all who am willing to take it as it
can be taught, and are willing to pay the
price. - - .
This knowledge of Christ can be known
hut partially through reading of the skies
above ot the; Scriptures beneath. Many
through these eomo to a knowledge of God.
Bat such study ia too easy a school for
character, as we strive to know the living,
loving God.- -
One has toM of the search for th snow
white bird of truth. How, sfter weary
jonrneyings. toils, temptations, struggles,
at last in the hour of death a glimpse of
the passing creature it given, and a feather
dropped from its' wing it grasped by th
dying man. No s-ch cold truth as that
do Ve seek. Tt is the knowledge of th liv
ing person, Christ Jesua, our Ird. He
can be known truly only through tvmpa
thy, kindness of mind and heart and life;
through personal experience.
For success in any pursuit of truth there
must be desire, concentration, work and
patience. There must b') the desire impel
ling the searcher; the concentration of en
ergies on lbs nmvniit; ttudy of the laws ot
the subject; willingness to serve in the hall
of patience ere passing into the palace of
wisdom ; It is unreasonaWe to exwt that
the highent knowledge f man, the knowl
edge of life, can be, secured without paying
the price. . -. . . .
For it there it needed a desire which
hall overcome all other desire. . There
must be s purpose of the will, the lifelong
endeavor to attain. Paul counted not him
self to have attained, but he pressed on
for the prixe. Then must be a purifica
tion of life, for Cod it known through th
Spiritual rather than the intellectual part
of man. Those who lore tin do not know
Him, in this sense; they haw no sympathy
with Him, they know not Hit mind, they
tore not TTIs things, and without this srm
pathy there cannot be the knowledge ot
person to person. Because at this neces
sity of knowing God throuuh the ecrnest
nesa of desire, the bending of our will, the
obedience of our life, there come the
struggle in man's life with trial, tempta
tion, suffering. For if it be the life of
Cki-ist we are to know, -then it it life of
truth, of holiness, of love, of self-sacrifice,11
of consecration to the Father's will. No
man can know that life in its fulness save
ss he experiences it. He may disciins it,
and compare it with others, tut only he
who lives it. kixiws what it, i.i. 't wo of the
ilMfiph' n'l'-tl the Lord for the chief
Jliaee m the l.ttt!-(nm. He t!d 'I tmt
f'hev luuiv lint, h-'t f!i-v n-,i.-.f. i .in vp
.1". I " f' I ... 1-! 1 i
t I- ' i t 1 tin? iii! 1 t
they could. Later, In a measure, they did.
But the placet are reserved for those
to Whom it it appointed, for those who
are fitted for it. It it th inner prise of
character, ef holiness, of love, of truth,
after the likeness of Jesus Christ which
entitle one to stand near Him in spiritual
power and dominion. This it not r.lwayt
easy. Christ had Hit struggle. Hit ugony,
Hit cross. The disciple it not above the
Master. It may not mean the giving up
of life. It doea at timet iu mission lands.
But to gain that 4cnowledee of Christ n
cost. It righteoutness gained without ef
fort f I forgiveness of one who hat in
jured ut a, mere' bagatelle? Do ail the re
ward! go to the "honest and high princi
pled in politics? It truth in bnsinest al
ways at a premium? In the presence of
the pleasure tnd the business of (he day
It It a simple matter to keep one's head
erect, snd work as a son of God, and thus
acting, know Christ in truth and love?
Does it demand much of ua that w shall
give ourselves up for those who may scorn
or hate us, so following the example of
Christ, who gave Himself for ua? Ah, we
know in our daily life how great the task
it set for us in the school of character, that
we may know Christ; that we may be like
Him; that we may grow in the.knowledge
of human truth tnd lev at we not only
see it in Him, hut know it in ourselves.
. It costs much because it it life; and be
cause it it life, it pays. For chief in the
joys and glories of truth, there stands this
excellency of the knowledge of Christ at
apprehended by man: it ia the truth of life,
the life of God, the life of man, who it the
child of God.
Read through the hiitory ot the past of
those noble ones who have aide , the moral
uplift of the world through th- personal
living knowledge of Christ. They know
truth and lova, because they have lived
truth and love. Tbey paid the price. It
might he poverty, persecution, martyrdom:
struggles within and trials without. In
the power of Christ's ttrengthening them
to do the things which were right, in the
suffering for others that they might be
drawn unto God, thev eame into possession
the knowledge ot Christ, through exper
ience. With one accord that noble multi
tude which no -man can number, of apos
tles, prophets,- martyrs, known and un
known, giving thanks unto God for His
goodness, ascribes to this knowledge pre
eminence and surpassing gtorv above all
others; crying out with Paul, We count all
things but loss for the excellency of the
kpowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord.
Liberty.
There it no sweeter word in human
speech than liberty, no finer thought in
human mind, no richer gift in human life.
What ia freedom? Independence of
law? So many think. But they are mis
taken. He who imagines freedom con
sist! in getting rid of law ia totally and fa
tally wrong.
We offer the Ten Commandment to a
man for hit moral code. He reject the
code, saying, "I will be bound by no ta
bio of lawa. I am free." He is not free.
He may as well reject the multiplication
table or tht law of gravitation.
"I will be enslaved by no, creed." En
slaved by a creed? Creeda do not en
slave; they are deelarationt of religious
independence, proclamations of emanci
pation, affirmations of freedom. A creed
it much like a political platform a state
ment of opinions. No one platform ever
contained all the political opinions of the
men who adopted it. No one creed ever
contained all th religious opinions of its
adherents. It is at best only an attempt
to state the essential doctrines in which
its makers agree.
A bird is free in the air. The air is its
element. A fish ia free in the water. Wa
ter ia ita element. Man ia free in obedi
ence to the lawa of his being. The Bible
contains these laws. Moral judgment con
firms them. Conscience approves when we
observe them, accuses us when we violate
them. A man who peraistav
truly out of Ins elements
the air or a eparrow in wafr a 77
enu-is uie same wneii auy ii.: -vitamin
gets out of its element, out of harmony
with law the penalty is dejith.
But, an intervening liana may restore
the fish and the bird t-v their elements?
Yes. And is thera no 'nand to restore a
lost man to his element? Christ is God't
answer to that question. tWhom the Son
makea free, he ia free indeed." Philadel
phia Ledger
Fray Not Alone For Self.
A gentleman who was traveling in Ire
land tat down one day in a cottage to talk
with an old woman. Aa they were having
their "dish of discourse" there came a clap
of thunder, and the old woman at once,
spread out her hands in supplication, cry
ing: God bleat and save ns! And save hit
honor, and save the people and all of us!"
" For the space of half an hour the thun
der wat frequent, and each time she
prayed. Then she told the visitor thit
story, which hat a good moral in its defin
ing of the proper spirit which should be
longto prayer: -
"There waa a man, and he was working
I a field like, and it came on to thunder,
snd he put hit head in a hole in the wail
and he said:
" "God save what's out o' me!'
"But he ought to hav prayed for the
whole of him, for he no sooner said that
than the wall fell snd took hia head off.
"It was telled to me that this was a
judgment on the crathur, because it is not
right to pray small, just for yoursilf. Bnt
you should pray large-to save us all pray
Dig and open hearted. But that may be
only a story, tic"
Thing Japanese. . '
Ten year ago Japan exported $650
nrth of cotton creoe to the United
States, but now thi figure Is $30,000
yearly. Japan's total export 01 crepe
Is worth- $236,000 yearly.
Japanese silk has x fine future In
Mexico, if the Japanot exporters are
more scrupulous as to the qualH of
the silk they send there.
Demand In China for Japanese can-
shnna. fans, china and antimony
ate Increasing since th present Fat
Iji war began, -J" , -... ... ' ..
In August, 1904, Japan exported 11,
300,000 worth of manufactured ilk
tissues, against $1,100,000 worth In
Auriiirt. isos. ah increase of $500,000
There was also an Increase of $70,000
In the exportation ot siik nanuiier
chlef. Japan' total exports In Aug
ust. 1904, were of the value of $14,
878,000, against $15,847,000 In August,
1903. Buch a sm:i decrease, $600,000,
In time of war 1 surprising. The fal
ling off was la raw silk exported. Tea
figure for $1,000,000, raw allk for $4,
500,000, co'.ton yarn tor $1,860,000,
cotton yarn for $1,850,000, copptr fof
$541,000. :;
Japan's : import In August, 1904,
amounted to $14,221,000, against $15,-ea-i
nan in Aniruat. 1903. a decrease of
only 11,510,000. Thl I another sur
prising result tor war lime, me a
"eese was mainly a raw" cotton, $1,
(00,000, against $2,900,000, a falling off
of $1,000,000. Sugar also decreased
tgKn nnA. while wool increased $36u,-
000, and keros-ene oH $800,0.. Rice
figure for $2,350,000 total import. -'
Japanese Formosa did an export
business, of $800,000 and an Import
business of $380,000 In August, 1904,
Itaving a balance of $420,000 In favor
ot the Island. 1
Japanese progress is shown In the
fact that the receipts from her State
forests for timber, firewoo, bamboo
and otber'Jrodnce rose from, $129,000
In 1880 to1 " 1,204,000 in 1903, an In
crease ot $1,075,000. ;
Strangely enoiiAh, a woman is. sel
dom gi-dtrful to you when you try to
hi-lp her make up h-u- mind, the Simi
u'vUle Jiiiirniil C'lnmcnta.
WHAT'S IN A NAME. ;
In the morning he's r pirate, with t cot-.
. law and a gun ;
And wa imnulu at the BaablM et Bit
ere ;
III name, as lie Informs us. Is a awe-In-
apii'liu; one : '
"Lord t'erdlnamlo Doderlgo Guy!"
By ten o'clock our pirate
- IiIh mii'V ti-aitp 1
has renounced
in armor
. Hhlilil r
nw, u -hat a lane ana
fie gallantly advances to defend a helpless
maid,
- And we know that bold "Sir Launcslot"
. has the Held. ... ,
Aud not, a skulking savage, be Is lurking
' In the hall, . - 1 .
Most a'anning lu hla feather war array:
But lie graciously axsurea us he will an- 1
- ewer l we call - .
J'lllawatha Mudjekeewle OJIbway I"
As "lloratls Nelson liewey" ie't an admiral
of parts, '.
And last In all his catalogue ot names
Couies the very Klmtile (Ills under which
he rules our hearts.
For when he's sound asleep he' merely
"James !"
Hannah J. fernald in fit. Kleholat,
JUST FOR FUN N
"So Mr. and Mrs. Jones have quar
relled? Why doesn't she make up?"
"She does, dreadfully. That's why
they quarrelled." Judge.
"Oh, ho! I know what's the matter
with you. You're seasick." The Girl
I'nrnot seasick at all, Bobby Brown.
I've felt like this on land lots of
times." Puck.
Wife (quoting) A man's work's fin
ished with the setting sun; a woman's
work Is never done. Husband (brute)
Quite right, my dear. I've often re
marked the omission. Punch. ( -
Gaggsby Jones is very wealthy, but
he says his life Is full of trials."
Waggsby "JTes, that's what - makes
him wealthy." "How so?" "He's a
lawyer."-Ctncinnat! Commercial Trib
ue. Blinks What did you say to your
wife when you got home late last
night? Jinks My Dear. BInks Is
that all? Jinks Yes. She began talk
ing then. Cincinnati Commercial Trib
une. "Very well, sir." said Dr. Quack,
after bis quarrel with the undertaker,
"I'll make you sorry for this!" "What
are' you going to do?" asked the un
dertaker, "retire from practice?"
Philadelphia Press.
Wife (who has been away) You
must have liked that breakfast food,
James dear. There isn't a single box
left. James Yes, darling. It was
great tsotto voice) to start the fire
with, mornings. Judge.
Barber Did Weaver give you any
security for the money he borrowed of
you? Draper No ; he said it would be
secure enough in his possession. Bar
ission. Bar- ; ' r
ltJMrj9S-y
ber Come to think- about
ston Transcrip
e Do you believe
3 that j
la a lottery? Husband-
Wife .Why not? Husband BecaiuU""
when a man draws a blank In a lottery
he can tear it up and take another'
chance. Chicago Daily News.
"He's writing a novel." "I suppose
he was out of his mind?" "He I and
he thought if would be more success
ful if be wrote while in that condition.!
It's to be of the regular popular order,'
you know.'.' Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Bertha You don't mean to say yon
have refused Frederick?" Edith "I
had to. He told me he had never done
anything he was ashamed of. I never
could think of marrying a shameless
man, you knowi" Boston Transcript."
"Bay old man, I. want to sell you a
ticket for our social club'i private
theatricals." "Not me. I .haven't
time to go to those things. ; I
"Nobody asked you to go. I merely
want to sell you a ticket," Philadel
phia Press. '." ,
"A public official Is the servant ot
the people," said Senator " Sorghum.
"Yes," answered, Miss Cayenne; "and
sometimes he's the kind of servant
that carries a market basket every
time she goes heme from her place of
employment." Washington Star.
"See here, old man, what in thunder
did you mean by advising my daugh
ter to go abroad to study music? She's
no phenomenon, and I can't afford It
You know all that." "But we're on
the same flat aren't we? I know when
I've had enough." Detroit Fre-i?8s
She Did you send verses to the girl
you were engaged to? He Yes; that
was the whole trouble.. I see, she
didn't like them? On the contrary,
she did like them. But she discovered
that another fellow wrote 'em, and
she married the other fellow! Yon
kers Statesman.
' Barnes Howes Is a pretty good sort
of a fellow. Shedd Yes, but be hasn't .
got any tact. At the restaurant the
other day he asked me if I waa fond
of cats, and I , was -eating rabbit stew
at the time! The idea'of asking such
a question at such a time as that!
Boson Transcript.
"So you don't care for. poetry f
"No," said the eminent inventor.
"Only the other day I heard a young
Woman singing 'bad I the wing of a
dove.' Now the wings of a dove would
be wholly insufficient in atmospheric
resistance for any practical purpose
whatever. What 6h really want Is
a tetrahedral kit." Washington Star.
1 Lebaudy's- List of Title. '
The London Express gives the fol
lowing complete list of Lebaudy'i
title: ...'
" Jaquea L Najln-al-Den , .
Emperor of the Sahara. - ' ;
Comnymder of the Faithful.
King of Tarfala.
'' Duke of Arleuf.
: Prince of Chal-Huln. -
' Brain Large and Small.
: A moUBe, It appears, has a compara
tively larger brain than a human be
ing; but the brain of man has an ml-
dltional development of the frontal
lobes, and there lies the dlfferenco.
Higher apes wlW Very fatge brains
have frontal lobes smalt than the
lowest human Hlot. London Mail.
A German publisher savs Unit !
the number of new Ixn.l.s . c
year 1 onoi iiioum, n;pv ir -. 1 ,
ntamiM 1 , t 1 r 1 i
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