VOLUME XX.
VAGRANTS
Ctsenge was his mistress, chance hit conn-
aelor. ,
Lot could not keep him, duty forged no
- chsla.
The wide mi ud the mountain! called to
aim,
Aad star dawaa saw his cannon la th
rata I
. Sweet handa might tremble ! A;, but he
must go.
Revel might hold him tor a little space.
But turning past the laughter and the
pa,
: CI eyas must ever catch the luring face.
Mtt..tilTHtlHHWHWHWH,WtHtt,W,
I PRECIOUS
By MARY SWEET FOTTEB,
HWMHHtHIIWHI
Hester and Jacob Cross had a letter
from their only son, which caused
them both a great deal of anxious
thought
"You see, father," to tan a portion
of the letter, "I can seldom leave my
business to go out to see you, it is
uch a long, expensive journey, and I
anuSt think of saving the dollars and
cants, now that I have a wife and
hild to provide for; so I agree with
any wife that It would be a good idea
for you and mother to come out here
Just close up the old place and come
out here and live with us for good.
No use trying to sell anything, for no
on would care to buy such a little
tumble-down house; and If I remember
tight, there isn't a piece of furniture
in it which Is worth above a dollar.
Just pack your clothes and. a few
things you value most and come right
long and live with us." V
"Don't you think . Henry speaks a
little too slightingly of the old home,
- Heater?" asked Jacob of bis wife. "It
waawfcood enough Tor me and my
father before me, and he had a good
. , comfortable bringing up In lb"
fl a'pose he's got so forehanded that
I . he easy live In a way that makes the
- old1 things seem dreadful old,, and he
, eatt help It, Jacob," replied Hester,
ready now, as in the time of her son's
boyhood, to make excuses for his
Bhortcomlnt,-a. Yet there were plainly
Written upon' her face Uaaa Of pain
i caused by some of the words in her
""vbAy's letter, which not even the eem
""""Vy sincere and hearty Invitation to
me and live with them could smooth
gWoU
THE:. FRANKLIN PRES
EPITAPH.
Dear eyes might Question I Tea, and melt
again.
Rare Hps, a-qulver, silently Implore,
But ever he must turn hit furtlre head
And near the other summons at the door.
Change van his mistress, chance his conn-
' Sflor, :
The dark flrs knew his whistle op the trail,
. uj tarries he today and yesternight
Adventure light her stara without avatli
crmert,
I II 1 1 UHlI
OLD HOME.
1 1 1 1 1 1 Mil e)4 " '
her own day HUM at ndmeY grandma
thought) and her heart went out to
tUf, little girl with a longing to love
and care for It In the old-time ways
in' which she had nurtured her baby,
her duly one, the father of this one,
but as different to it as the ox-eye
daisy to the forget-me-not
Hester Cross clung to the child with
loving tenderness, loth, when the limit
of time was reached, to give It to the
rvrse, who waited for her cha'rge.,
"We'll see," she said, when she and
Jacob were alone again, "we'll see If
I am not to have any comfort With
Henry's baby. That Burse gift ihali
not have everything her own way, but
there' One thing she may have, and
thill a rest"
Jacob looked thoughtfully and said
little. He saw further Into matters
than his wife. She, without being con-.,
celted, had more confidence in her own
ability to do things for others In her
own way satisfactorily to them, as
well ar herself, and la thit ease, aa
once or. twice before, fea felt that she
was going tO be disappointed.
Before he had time to apeak a word
In reply a door opened and closed
somewhere near, and they heard the
softly modulated tones Of their daughter-in-law
la conversation with her
husband,
"They are dear old people," she said
In reply to a question of Henry's, "but
I am afraid a difficulty will arise in
regard to Lelna. I cannot have nurse
Interfered with la tot car of Bur
child." - "
""Niii her
N?lt
I
Not until the oil tonal were well
on their wajr hi did the reason of
their suddea retuira. there dawn on the
mind of their sor. Tnen ue said,"
"Helena, do yoVeare to know why
your father and mother-in-law did not
make a home with us aa they first In
tended?" She noted the bitterness tn till tone,
and said nothing, but Waited With
questioning eyes for what he bad to
say, ;'.,. .
"They overheard your learned dla
qutsitiott an the Subject of grand
mothersthe danger of allowing them
to nurse or caress their grand
children."' Helena Cross blushed a fiery red.
she would have given much to- recall
she Would have give nmuch to recall
the words which had worked such mls
chief. . ..
She was not so cruel of Hard-hearted
as not to realize what she had done
and id regret It from the bottom of
her heart She waa young and felt
the importance of wife and mother
hood, and had listened to too many
well-meant but false and foolish teach
ings, and herein lies excuse enough
for Henry's wife, whose punishment
was quite adequate to her fault, or so
her husband decided when a fsw hours
later ha aaw her eyes swolen and fed
With weeping.
As for the father and mother who
had so suddenly changed their mind,
no tongue can tell hdw blest and
Iweet, and altogether idvely, the
."little did tumble-down house," which
had been so calmly deserted by them
four days before, appeared now, as, in
the 'golden light of an October sun
set, they stopped before it
"Oh, I'm so glad I didn't tear up or
down anything," sighed Hester,' soft
ly, wearily, yet delightfully, aa aha
stepped Inside the dear Old kitchen
door. "Jacob, are ydd tad tired to
run over to Bennett's ana get. the
cat? They'll give her up it don't
seem quite like home without her
why bless me! there she Is. ,1 might
have know ahe'd see us coming. And
now we'll unpack the things Henry
madfi us bring, and have supper. Do '
get out from under foot puss, till I
get a fire built!." '
And Jacob, splitting pine k'odllngs,
kept Bis face turned aside frc: Hes
ter that she might not sea the Sappy
tears In his eyes.
No 8ne id welcome them, only the
did bit they had deserted, yet for Hea
ter and Jacob Cross it was a blessed
home-coming. ; ; T '
- Letters came at regular Intervals
from Henry during the winter, and
each one waa filled with news of the
little child all her little ways
wiles bittersweet hew to Or,
Hester. Hut through alt ran
lude of sadness babi
She amtt Illness aftV
recovei
v theri'
FRANKLIN. N. C.. WEDNESDA Y. FEBRUARY I
SAHARA NOT A DESERT.
WATER, SOIL AND MINERAL MAY
MAKE A FRENCH EMPIRI.
A Mont Mischievous Legend That Pro
claims It art Unbroken Wast of
Shifting lands, Without Rain and
Dsvoid of Animal Life ana Vegeta
- Hon,
from my early youth t have been
Immensely Interested id the Sahara
and the Soudan. In 1879 I applauded
the project of the Engineer Dupdnchel
and wrote an article for the "Journal
des Debate" urging that Algerl and
the Soudan be connected by railway;
81nce then t have made ntfmefoui
ploaa of this sorb, 'both id newspaper
articles and In lectures.
In this present work, ! treat first b?
the Sahara; I don't hesitate to say
that the Sahara finds its complete re
habilitation in my book. A most mis
chievous legend still beclouds that
vast region. The Sahara is regarded
as an unbroken waste of shifting
sands, without Water or rain, and de
void of animal life and vegetation. If
our superficial geographers had their
way they would utterly abolish the
Sahara, and they would think that in
so doing the? wWe gating fid Of ad
obstacle and a nulaa&ce:
There could be no greater trllstake:
The Sahara is worth keeping and
worth exploiting; It has Its value, and
a large one at that. The future, a
near future, I hope, will prove It The
world has been deceived " regarding
both the soil and the subsoil of the
8ahara- It Is not a waste of shifting
sand. On the contrary, all but about
a tenth of it has a solid and uniform
soil. It rains there with perfect re
gularity Ahy traveler who ha spent
a period of several montna rokmtnj
about the Sahara trill tell ydd he n
countered rainstorm, and sdmbtinlel
very bothersome ones, or at least thai
he saw traced of recent rains.
Besides the water on the surface
there is abundant water underground.
The wandering tribes use only what
Is at the surface or only a few yarda
beneath it, as they will hava nothing
to do with the spontaneous pools,
which they allow te be fined with
rubbish and polluted by reguse, peo;
pie have Jumped, to the conclusion
that either water was wholly wanting
or that it wasn't fit to drink, when, aa
a matter of fact very little labor and
very little care are required to reach
sources of a healthful water supply
In part of the Sahara,
Oasei can be either extended or
dases mead notbinf
"Vplota- of ground
""qd the oaa-
only by
Jture, just
( Whole
Southward salt, lugar, and manufac
tured article) and northward skins,
woolen, alpaca, Cotton, tobacco, dye
stuffs and, mineral,
To brings the tropics within el day
of Paris, within tlx and a half day
of London and Brussels, and within
seven of Berlin such a conjunction
of rich tropical countries with the
capital of great colonising nations can
be achieved at this point only. It Is
Impossible -tor a mind gifted with re
flective powers and trained by experi
ence and informed concerning great
modem enterprise and able to analyse
them to doubt the Immense value of
the Sahara. Those Who speak ill of
these vast region are either incapa
ble of reflection bt devoid of expert'
ence) they go oil talking about "de
serts of .Shifting sand" predlSely si
Voltaire talked of tod "acre df snoW"
and the "acres of ice" of Canada; Thl
colonising nations hive a llobler way
of appraising undeveloped Countries
"Where there's space' said Cecil
Rhodes, "there's hope.'
When the English had built theii
railway In te Nubian desert they pro
ceeded to plan the development of the
osis of the Libyan desert and the ex
ploitation, of the mineral resources of
that waste region. Far more" ex
tensive is the Sahara far richer are
the resources It offers aa aa Incen
tive id OUr actlvit
1 What ir we doing In this decisive
period df bur commercial history?'
Choice spirits are indulging III disser
tations, spouting epilogues, criticising,
raising objections. We- must act lf
we want to make the French-African
empire a reality we must build the
trans-Saharan railways. , We need only
construct them on a modest scale, but
they will be of incomparable political
and economical Importance. Delay It
perilous i It Ik by to meant Impossible
for our French-African empire to be
scattered te the wind, in part at
ieaat, tf more farseeing if not mare
valiant nation. Should that happed
France would for a second time have
missed her destiny as a colonizing
power and there would then be no
hope of future reparation. Translat
ed by the Boston Transcript from Be
French of Paul Leroy-Beaulleu.
QUAINT AND GURlOUti
. The Sahara desert 1 three time a
large as the Mediterranean sea.
Chess Is still Included in the curri
culum of the Russian schools. It
teaches the boy to move when young,
and la a great advantage In times of
War, "
'I-.'- er.TTi.ia. ,. ' " ) .
6. K. Mellen; the sdn 6f the presi
dent of the Consolidated, la working
as a stenographer in his father's of-'
flee, and 1 going to learn the railroad
business from the bottom up.
bailahoonl
"
1905.
SERMON FOR SUNDkY
STRONG DISCOURSE BY
REV. DR. LYMAN ABBOTT.
THE
(nujeeti The Ever Present (Suit Hie Cost
Toward Whleh the Trmneltloa of The
ology Shonlit Lead U Inward Aspir
attains unit iKinglnas the Value of Gail
BnooKLYN, N. Y.The Rev. Df. Lyman
Abbott occupied the pulpit in the Church
of the Pilgrims Sunday morning in the ab
sence of the pastor, the Kev. Dr. H. 1.
Dewey. Dr. Lyman Abbott's subject tru,
"The Kver Present God," and be took for
bis text, Romans, x:6-7-fl: "Hut the right
eousness which is of kith tpeaketh on this
wise: say not in thy heart who shnll as
cend into heaven (that is. to bring Christ
down from above) or, who shall descend
into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ
airain mm the deed), hat what saith it?
The word ts high thee, it is in thy month
and in thy heart) that Ik, the word of
faith which We preset)," Kesjdi
The "word" in . the 5s"cW Testament
means, God. speaking. A friend sit by
your side in iibscnt-Wiildeil njeuititlion,
and his speech reveal the sfhd (if man
So the word of Rod reveals the unknown
Rod to , W have not to go tn I he
depths to find the manifestation of God is
II about us and within at. We are all fa
miliar with the statement that ,wf, arc
Fasaing through a transition in thed.ogV,
f it were onlv a transition in theolosv it
would not disturb in mifh. We could
leave the theologians, (o study the theology
of the future for themselves. But it is 1'fo
ts a.SO
a transition in religion, experience I am
ture that the older members of this con
(tregation can trace in their lives, more or
ess, a change, not simply in their intellect
nal opinions of religion, but in their really
vital religiou experience. We Used to
think, in our pnvhood. of ttnd at King
sitting on the Great White; Throne, with
it,. ..-.'- ,i.ahaj -V.-.., u : ... . .. A .i;nfl
to Him. He wa far awav. We sent our
prayers np to Him by a kind of spiritnsl
wireless tcewaphy. asking for things, ami
vmeunics (it) irnuiu give ua uniiy
and sometimes He would not. But this
was our experience of praicr, and that was
onr notion of the answer to prayer: and
this faraway God, sitting on the Great
White Thrnn. hd revealed Himself to
men, through the Bible and through the
Christ, It was I great historic revelation,
and w Went backi more or less conscious
of that revelation Of the faraway God in
the faraway historic time, and we went to
that Bih'e tn find nut whf it fnld li re
specting God's law. of what was required
of ns, and the things with respect trt
God's grace, what He would do for ns, snd
with many of us thot experience has not
changed. The picture of the great King
has grown dim and indistinct, or di lap
peered altogether, and remains, if it re
mains at all. aa a recognited nipture and
..ot a reality. And '.hat Christ, who
rvms to us a mediator between Rod and
mai., a revelation of the faraway God. has
also grown faraway. That i, we liaye
come to recognize that He is great hit
torio figure, and we are, more or less, per-
ilexed aa to whst His revelation is of the
araway God, and what Hid relation to ns
is, and our pravera have changed and our
conception of the Bible has changed, and
we can no longer take a text out of ('
B'ble and rest upon it as a final and abso
lute authority. If we try, perhap some
And '.hat Christ, who I
succeed and snme full.
What I do tiinl this morning it to
poinfout. Mot What lias taken place, but to :
indicate the goal toward Which this trait'-1
tton should lead us; what is the J'rtimnecl ,
Land toward which we should look! What MIM hypnotic suggestion was not n ee
ls the religions exuenenee we may hope , ,,. ,,, . . r, ,
for in the future to take the place of this! IV elcplaln the crime. Doctor
eligioua experience of the past, that has
frown dim and inalatinct.and which it on y
Jialf believed. In the fin place, I ant sure
unapryoing mis
l the ciutrcn nave
jt a vaguer.
ot work
S.
' We are to' aee not onlv what Got? has
Anne in the past, but what He is alwav
i . a i rr-i .- tt: j
(loiny. iiiwa.vi wan in nil wura; mm
He always is in it, forgiving, pitying, help
ing, feeding, comforting, strengthening.
. We' do not know it. but He is always here,
in the hearts and lives of men, doing what
He did in the past, still saying to Nicode
mus. "You need to be born again ;" to the
l'hariaee, "Woe unto you that devour
Widows' house:" to the weening sisters,
"Thy brother is not dead. There is no
"dvingi" to the penitent sinner, crushed by
the memory of a wasted life, "Go in peace,
thy sins are forgiven thee." The life of
Christ did not ston at the cross. I will
not say, that we look st the cross too much,
but I will say Hint we have looked at the
resurrection too little. Christ's is a con
tinuous life. That is what He means when
He snys, "I am with you always." We
irnint realise that He is hero and now in
the Uvea of men. My conception of the
Bible has undergone a gre.it cUnto and I
cannot anv loncer go to a trtt ana soy,
"That settles it." Shall I then shut the
Bible nn and sav it is hut a record ol past
life? No, it is the revelation of the eternal
life, the interprdt'itinn of God in human
experience, not on'y in the devout but also
in the undevout: not onlv in the believing,
but in the skeptical. The Bible seems to
tn like a gri-a moiestra of 100 men all
nlaying to express the musical life that is
in the conductor. It is God speaking
through the experences of men. I belief
that Rod -is carrying us through a transi
tion time (all tin-s are transition times),
and taking swav the idols upon which we
rested, and wh'rh we have counted sacred,
in order that He, may carry ua nacK to
Himself; and that, if we take the exper
I 1 .( ,V. .f 11. n-l,.r;u . nn.
dmUnj .h. mrM,. !. unA,. its litera
tnre. history aud relieiout life aright, we
shall find it all exnlains these words of St.
Paul; we are not to ascend into heaven to
bring God out of the past, nor look to the
future, but we are to look about ua and
nnderstand that He is still directing the
destiny of nations and ourselves. We are
to look within ns and know that the aspir
ations, the desires, the dissatisfaction in
Ourselves, the longing for something hither
nd hettet--tbese are the voices of God
He was always and always will be in Hi
world; and throujli the church and1 he
Bible and by the reve'ation of Himself in
th Christ, God manifest in the flesh. He
is brinring us, not to the church, not to
thl Bible, not to the mediator, but to
Himself. He ever lives. He ever indwells
"closer than breathing, nearer than hand
Or feet."
Hypnotism and Crime.
The average man know in a gen
efal way that thvre 1 such a thing
as hypnotism, aud that a person waen
In the hypnotic state will do at be i
bid. Consequently, when it is reported
that a crime hag been done by one
man at the suggestion of another who
had -ypnotlred the first, the average
man is ready to believe It posslDle.
This doss not happen so often as la
sometime supposed, according to Dr.
Pierre Janet, a French psychologist
ho has recently been lecturing in
this country.
- Doctor Janet : say that Of all the
cases where hypnotism has been al
leged a a causa ot crime, he knows
of but tnree where the fact has been
clearly shown, and In one ot these
Janet says, iurtner, tnai only sve or
six per cent, of mankind can be nyp-
notised. If one uses the term with pre
cision. Other psychologists say that
a man when In a hypnotic state can
not be persuaded to do anything which
vLbe would not do If fully conscious of
,a.
; NUMBER 5
MUSIC MADE BY AZETIC PLAYERS,
Flageolets of Pottery Used by Their
, -, ' .-. Musicians.-..,;':':- .
Among the many grotesque objects
In the national museum, relics of a
people who flourished on this con
tinent prior to the Indiana, I a unique '
collection of' musical .Instruments,
many of whichc, however, Weird In
appearance, still give forth tones as
sweet and clear as they did a thousand
years or more ago. Nearly all of them
are wind instruments, similar in princ
iple to the modern flageolet, and were
found for the most part in Azteo
tombs. The material Is principally a
fine species of pottery, and the flageo
lets are generally made In the shape
of birds. Mr. E. P. Upham in whose
department the collection is, has de
voted much labor to recording accur
ately the notes of the prehistoric In
struments, testing them with piano
and violin. '
But one of the flageolets was found
to possess a range of notes In exact
accord with the modern musical scSIe:
Upon this little Instrument Mr. Up
ham is able to play "There's Nae
Luck Abut the House," as well as that
simple melody could be executed up- .
on any modern musical contrivance
of a like nature.
A prehistoric whistle vase from Cos
ta Rica shows that a useful contriv-
ance now in vogue is by no means
new. The shrill whistling sound emit
ted by the vase ceases when the liquid
being poured Into it reaches a certain
height. The whistling oil can will be
recalled as a modern utilisation of this
principle. A remarkable feature of :
the collection are some double flutes
of bone used by the aboriginal inhab
itants of Brazil. What makes this in
struments especially notable In their
resemblance to Bimllar specimens
found on the Pacific coast of North
America, and, more wonderful still,-to
those discovered in Greece, some of
which may be seen ln'the museum at
Athens. ThnniT1i-irm tints are seen
aepictca tn ancient Urecyjirpamwagat
the tones produced by those in the
Q r. I f 1, . I ii - . .ln,.u.l
uiuiuiouiiiau "",inn are o ins tj
soft and mollnw . f.
Among the prehlstorlo bone flute is
a specimen from an ancient grave near
Lima, Peru. It is formed of portions of I
the ulna of the brown peltcan, the ends I
caving Deen cut. off and the cellular
portion of thVbone removed.
Two Interesting specimens exift" luw-
the collection, albeit much damaged, V
of pan-plpee made of reeds., They .
were obtained by Ensign' W. B. Saf
ford, U. 8. N., from ancient, burlat
places near Arica, Peru. " The reeds v
are of graduated lengths, lashed to
gether by threads and held in place '
by a piece of spilt reed fastened
transversely to their length. These
pipes are now so crushed and mutilat
ed that a positive sound cannot be
obtained from them.. That instru
ments of this kind are of ancient
Igln and were in use by
before the &ptn,inhconqtnia le shown
oy we account oi tne historian uarci-
lasso de la Vega, who said;
In music they (the Peruvians) ar-
iiivm m voiiaui iiai uiw 11 J , iu wuivu
the inhabitants of Colla did more par-
tlcularly excell, having been : Inven-
ifirs oi a certain pipe made ot canes ,
Ltipr every one of which -4
2
d W
her and