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IV THE FRANKLIN PRESS, VOLUME, XX. AGE; i, ''The hoary brad la a erowri at glory." iruveros svi.. si. It the bent of iirp. the (old that odr youth - It Hid to (old? - Is the preface to be choaen, or the story that U told? ' It Is better, so it seems, to have wakened from the dreams, To have seen the glamor passing, while It left the truer gkanis ; To bare learned that always peace gives our petty caret release, Hushes all the Idle clamor, bids the fretting troubles cease. Better, thus, with folded hands, musing on the falling fcands. Than to strive and strain and struggle for at last one understands That the moving pen of Fame writes each hour a hewer name, .. And the scroll of all the victors goes to feed the flckle flame. It. Is heat to calmly gase down the pathway ,of the days h--. THE HONEY THIEF. By FRANK LILL1E POLLOCK. For several years Lancaster and I had ' been managing a rather large apiary In southern Ontario. In 1900 we tried the experiment of establish ing an "out-apiary" in the wild coun try northeast of Toronto. The forest had all been "lumbered . off" and the ground burned over, and afrom the charred earth had sprung miles of raspberry bushes and crim ' son flreweed, growing In an almost Im penetrable tangle over and among the half-burned roots and logs and trunks. All this furnished thousands of acres ot bloom, that lasted from June till frost, and there were no bees to gather the pectar. The country was quite unsettled, and we 'had to ship oar bees by express and then haul them eight miles from the railway over a coJuroy read; but 'the experiment was a success from the start Out of our fifteen hives that year we' sold one hundred and twenty fire dollars' worth of beautiful comb honey,;." We had now more than a hundred lyes n the spot, and this backwoods y had become the larger half of Iness. We usually went up- to lln early spring to unpack the yd then one of us camped near V during the summer, to har- crop. It was generally Lan Vho did this, for his manage d proved much more success-i 1 mine, although he disliked i waied nothing for the nterest in any pi; honey. But I f Strewn wltii withered wreaths of MriU lined with nlvrtlea ami i lined with Myrtles aud with bays. Snows ! three Score years and, tea biij make white the beads of men, ., v But the sunshine of the summers sparkles In their smiles again, . 1' And the dory of their years ah, now splendid It sppears When they teH ns of their gladness that hat lurked behind ihelr tears, Of how Time, the silent thief, took tbe sor rows that were chief. Leaving love and light and laughter In their lifetime's garnered aheat. , .ge the son rays In the west; end of the toll and quest ; With the evening star that beckons on the rosy rrsd of rest, Wlille a murmur soft and low brings the songs you love snd know ' All tbe sweet and subtle measures of the songs of long ago, la the best of lite the gold that oar youth Is said to hold? Is the preface to be chosen, or the story that la told? IT, D XetWt, s Chicago Tribune. : one animal, wild or tame, that was capable of such a feat the honey loving bear. Bears, as Well as doer, were not Un common thereabouts, hut we had never tried to find either. But now that bruin had found us, it was certain that he would return td renw so sweet an acquaintance! Lancaster had a double-barreled shotgun in his tent, which I think ha had never fired. I took the bicycle, rode four mile.! to the nearest settler's cabin, and borrowed his rifle with a magazine full ot cartridges. We de cided to lay an ambush that night. Duylight lasts late In that latitude and season, and at nine o'clock it was hardly twilight. Some of the bees were still flying about, not yet recov ered from their excitement. We se lected a screened nook on the hillside, where we could overlook the whole establishment, lay down in the middle of a clump of weeds, and waited for night. Darkness teemed never coming. Long before dusk had fallen a big white moon rolled up over the burned woods, flooding the wilderness with clear light - This Illumination kept the agitated bees restless, and we could Bee them hovering thickly about their en trances, while, the homeless . ones craw?! id .over their ruined hlv ieg crippled him, and tie tree was cov ered wltli i crust df charcoal, which; gave hira no clawhold. He' persevered for a long time, and k Was only after a score of futile experiment tbrtt he gave it up and lay down In the bush; ee, alternately licking his1 wound and glancing resentfully at Us up ibova bim. Meanwhile the bees that has ac companied us in our .flight forced themselves upon our notice. " Both ot ue bad lost our hats, and the- Insects had settled on our heads and faces and necks, crawling about Inquisitive ly and stinging at every opportunity. Lancaster suffered worse than t did, for, unlike most bee-keepers, he had never become uarnened to stings. We could see the swarms on the bear, too, but he was armored in hide and hair. We tried to wrap our coats about our -heads, but It was not suc cessful. The venomous little crea tures seemed to discover the-smallest loophole, and 1 had a doien crawling about under my clothing. I was Id mortal terror of being stung In the eyes, but I contrived to protect them. The pain became agonizing; It was almost Unendurable. I smarted all over from the scores of tiny polsdned punctures, and the effect upon us Of the Incessant attack was mniirknlng. and really beyond Any possible- descrlp ' tlon. We Could not move. We were J standing On short dead branches and holding on to the char.'id trunk, and it seemed that It coull hardly be ! worse td be clawed by the bear. There was really a certain danger that we might be stung td death, and I began to feel a rising dizziness and nausea from the amount df poisdn I had taken, t had to hold hard td Avoid falling, . I can't stand this!" exclaimed Lan caster. "I'd father fight the' bear!" But 1 did not think that he really meant It. There was no use In fighting the bees. We could only cdver and wait for the Stings. I simply can't stand this!" Walled poor Lancaster, five minutes later; and the next moment he slid past md and jumped, wisely choosing the side most remote from the bear. As he struck the ground he stumbled and fell, And I expected to see him In stantly mangled. The bear rose stiffly but alertly. In stead of making for his enemy, he stood quite still, trembling violently) It Seemed to me, and shaking his head With a sort of moan. Lancaster rlght- ed himself and rushed off through the bushes toward . the tent. But there Seemed no longer any danger. The bear began to sway as he stood, and HwsA to nls knees, and then FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, howUie Hants grow. Are abLe to take Pboti 6nlV In MINERAL FORM; fhe Difference Between the Growth oi Animals and Plants la Plainly De scribed The Plant Pettestei Very Limited Powers of Assimilation. The Epitomlst gives a very good description of the methods of plant growth so far as they are understood. The difference between the growth of animals and plants Is plainly de scribed. The article is as follows: Like all living things, plants grow by the assimilation of food, plant food, therefore, is the raw material from which the growth of new substance is produced, says the Epitomlst. The only difference between animals and plants In this respect lies in the fact than animal organs are able to take food In the form ot organic matter, which hat existed In animals or plants, Plants, on the other band, are able to use only materials in mineral form. Ot the many substances entering Into the composition ot agricultural plants all, except, carbonic acid and water( come directly from the soil, through the roots. One other Ingredient of all plants, namely nitrogen, really eoniM from the air, but it enters the plant through the soil to which it is car ried by the rain. Plftuth ore composed of both organic and inorganic mater lals. Each exerts Indispensable InflU enee in the action of the other. The soli material or mineral matter, Is the means of changing all materials Mfd Organic compounds.,. These compose much the larger part of all vegetation, j tri flimilar mntiner ntmna'nriertr nlant materials are Indispensable to' the ! changing of Soil substances into these important organic materials. Each Is essential to the action of the other, and is, therefore, necessary to plant growth, there is ad Important dlfior ence between plant food and mere ma terial fed to plants. This difference Is as definite with the plants as It Is With animals. The animal feeder nev er forgets that only a part Of the eubstance fed to bis animals Is actu ally utilized or enters the body as a part of tbe new growth made. Of the total material fed to animals, it IS known that only a part is digestible and has actual food value. The feed er has visible evidence that a Consid erable part of the material consumed by his stock Is actually excreted, prov Ihg that only apportion has been used, the plant possesses equally limited Power ot dtual assimilation, though is exeret. m mm J material, Front I" a - "Ap eN uniform 8cale- Government Urged id Mad All Their Postestloni ori 6ne Scale, The inteVriatlonai geographical Con gress, at Its recent mfeeflng Iri rtew York asked (he government id make a general map of America art a scale of 1:1,600,000. At the present time three governments are' producing maps on this scale, which wlil cover about one-fourth of tho land surface of the globe. If the United States should make a similar map of the whole ot America it would Include nearly one third of the area' of the entire land surface. Within the last thirteen years four of these International congresses have done all they could to promote the making of such a map. There is need for it. No uniform map of the entire land surface exists on a scale large cnoui;h to serve many practical and scientific purposes. There are many maps of carts of the lands on a far larger scale, as for example nearly all of Europe, large tracts of North America, and parts of Africa; but a map of all the lands on a uniform scale Is also highly desirable for many purposes, As Professor PnnWt has shown, .none ot the large colonial powers has yet produced A man ot all iU possessions on tho same scale. It Is difficult, therefore, to got a Clear Idea of the proportionate sl.;0 of different parts of these empires. It la not easy for the geographer to compare different coast lines, river basins, days find flO on, un less he has thorn before him on ade quate maps of uniform scale. Here Is an illustration. The Germans are now mapping China on a scale df 1:1,000, 000, Jlist as the French are mapping the Antilles. With the proper sheets of each map In our hands we may at once get the right idea as to the Com parative size of the areas embraced In our war with Spain and In the present struggle lu the Orient, When we speak of a map scale of 1:1,000,000, we mean that one inch on the map equals 1,000,000 Inches in na ture; or, hi other words, that an Inch on the map Is ocutvalent to 15.7 stat ute miles. This Is not a large scale, but It would bo fnr nlore adequate for the general purpose of the geograph er, the merchant, or the tourist than any map we now have of the United Etatea. Onr government survey maps a.t on too largo a stale to bo conven ient for many ordinary purposes, and our bent mlip for general use, mado In Germany") by the way, IS too small, Its scale is 68,8 statute miles to ail inch, and though the map Contains as much accurate Information as It Cad hold, It Is Jon small to show alt the details de y the attident or travoler, or -clye an adequate Impression utf of the country. New 1905. A SEM0N F0K SUNDAY KH ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED. "r'EtEtVl FlNUNCIATlONS," TT i tie. Oft iohn tlampston Drawt . lesson front a Chapter la the Life ol Hlmori tPftsf-rt ; Himaelf Vnr. tertedly iU Jrjiis Christ, Brooki;y, JL y Or; foii tf dm atone, pastor Of Emmanuel Baptist CmrrcH, preached Sunday morning a sermort W ''The Life and Character of SimorJ Peter' the special subject being "Peter's Renun ciations." The text was from Luke v:8, 10, II: "When Simon1 Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus', kneea, saying, .Depart front me for I am a sinful man, O Lord; And Jesns' said unto Simon. Fear tdti from henceforth thou shall catch men. And when they had brought theiy ship! to land, they forsook all and followed Him." Dr. Humpstone said: It was the second decisive day in the! life of Simon Peter n. Hay of destiny. Months ago in J u ilea he had followed his brother into the presence of Jesus; for the first time he then saw and heard the Mes siah. With Peter, to see and hear was in stantly to decide. He became a disciple, forthwith. In the Interval, Peter has been tome of the time In company with his Mat ter: but much of It at his business, toiling and trafficking', meditation hia constant avocation: to testify of the Christ to oth ers, as he met them In the contacts of the strand or the market, his habit and his pleasure. No lnegard, halt-hearted disci ple would Peter be, we are sure. His nl and enthusiasm would lead hira rather to overwork the role of advocate: to urea men with heat and energy to accept thai Messiahship of Jeans, even before they Were ready. There is nn unwritten chanter of Peter's life as on'y a disciple, which would he well worth tlie rending, if we had it. After its perusal we should be less dlsnosed than now we are to think that usefulness in Christ's service is necessarily connected with ordination thereto as ail exclusive calling. There could hardly be a more effective -showinir of what a mere disciple can do for his Master and hia fel low men than Ihia Inst leaf of Peter's bio graphy would furnish. If this were not the case you mnv he sure Jeans i.ever Would have called Peter thva dav to the Continuous opportunities of the ministry; Por. later, to the Weightier responsibilities of the spostotate. For an. incipient crisis had been precipi tated in the career of Jesus as Messiah. Hit rejection at Nazareth was the cloud, no riiffffpr than a min'i hnnrl tKf navar lis. 1 less, pirtcnded the final distant storm I burst of hnte unto death, from which there wou'd be no escape for Him. Re jected by "His own" after tho flesh, it was I time He Was gathering "His own after I k. , t.. ti: perpetuators and interpreters. So He left Nazareth to take up Hia residence at Ca- ( pernaura, that He might be near the most prominent and promising of the groun of His early disciples. What though these jrert only a quartet of fishermen! The Lord taw not as men saw, but with the in light of one who "knew what waa In man, nd needed not that any should testify of I an. He knew the time had now come separate Unto Himse'f and the service of . Tit kingdom, the founders of His church. Hit eye taw every nreclous possibility in their nature. He discriminated them one from another, appreciating the individual ity of each, and yet discerning their com pllmental temperaments and qualifications. With Him to feel was to sett when Hit "hour" had come He never deferred. I In the early morn,ng. therefore, He be took Himself to the lake's ishore. There ?e found the multitude! 'already astir, he nennla were Shrnarl. ds ilia manner is le bast, with the break of day; taking ; Njiasting on their errands, following : i became the i The 'tipn painfully aiWI-tbaslngly conscious of hit weakness and Inferiority is the inatsnt in His disciple experience when Jesus it surest to turn fricdiifageY and restorer of Hit own. When we Sfe determined to say the worst of ourselves He Is busy making the best of ns. When we think, mich ij our sense of unworthiness, that Tie Snd we must part company, then He la most resolved never to leave nor to forsake us. "Fear not." rings ont His word of cheer. "Thim im the hemnninff at richer life and wider service. Henceforth thou shalt catch, men," For the knowledge of self tnd the distrust of self it arouses, and tne Knowl edge ot Christ, With the confidence in riin'sf Ik nwatiena these are the first shoots oi? Jpiritual growth and the first foundation atones in the edifice of a dis ciule't usefulness. Spiritual tensltivenest is the condition of ministerial effective ness. It is the man who knows he it not fit td miitister whom Christ can make so. Therefore;, wlien the boats with their marvelou freight of (Uh, had been brouzht to land, did Jesua ick of Peter and his partner that surrender of themselves to service, which involved the separating of themselves) from every other interest and occupation 9 exclusive and continuous companinnshii) with Christ, and to con stant work for others', tinder His direc tion. Then and there, as fltie of four, did Simon Peter make that supreme rrmmcui tion, which, because it was made at hit own command, and was the manifestation of faith, and the proof of love, the Lord accepted, and forever after blessed: They forsook all and followed ITifft,' It was a sacrifice of consecration which only those who have done the like are fit or compe tent to judee. 1 f we are ready to put our selves in Peter's n'ace, to face the indeter minate future a he faced it, that day: to think of the ki:i(l of interest in his busi ness a man of s ich energv must have had, a id the enthns'usm for his occupation as fisherman which evidently, to the hist, he fe't: if we are observed to note the latent evidences in the irnspel storv that the busi ness hitherto had flourished and pros pered, so that l'eter and his associate! dwelt in comfot, bordering on the cdee, at least, of comoetence. estimated by the r'andards of that land and aje-then w shall know whs e venture of faith and ex pression of confidence in his Lord Peter made when he left all for Christ, giving up the chance n( future gains and binding liimse'f to the sacrificial use of present possessions for the common good. Jt it frequently laid, disparagingly, of Petert renunciation of Hip world and its good, "It was a litt'e all that he left," and Peter haa been criticised, for himself, re ferring, at a later day, to the sacrifice he. with others, now made "a boat, a few nets, dirty and old, an occupation espe cially laborious and in some features of it repellant to men of ordinary refinement.' waa what he left, we are told. Well! per haps it was so: more likelv it waa other wise. But whether the "all" were little or much, Peter left it; left It instantly, utter ly and without regret. He transferred himself in prnfoundest faith and liveliest gratitude to Jesus Christ and His service exclusively, forever. -JW Christ's sake, the work's take, the world's sake, he re nounced his former life and ambitions, to give himself and all he had unreservedly to Jesus Christ. And Christ we.comed, aoplauded and haa abundantly rewarded the sacrifice, ft is a surrender not asked of every disciple, but in proportion as any disciple approximates its spirit of .faith and consecration, in that measure will he realize Irra completcst spiritual life. It is a sacrifice completer even than ia asked of every disciple called to an exclusive min istry; but only to the degree that the min ister of Chrirt can detach himself from the world, and Its spirit of gain getting, will hit largeat spiritual power and widest in fluence be realized. Here ttandt Peter! noble examnli of renunciation for Christ'i take, upon the pages of scripture, summon ing tit all. from our vain seeking for ma terial good at the all of life; and from our disposition to keep what we have gotten vcius ivelv as nur own. Chriat's disci ples belong to Christ, and all they have is hether they are called to use it eg immtniate service or not. it f .leans beware ot lot- ort to save and cher- ; profited if he ia-t hit THE LAND OF "HERE INSERT." "The Land of Hope" and of "Pretty Boon," "The Land of the Never-to-be," -And "The Land ot Jliuht" and "The Land of Dreama" Are worked to the limit, see? And other varieties ot strange lands Have steadied tlu poet's spurt: l)t I I slnu of whichever roll choose of lb Land of "Here Insert!" Ah. all of the dreams of youth come true In the land of (llr Insert !) The Klrls have eyca of a wonderful hue In the Innd of (Here Insert!) Xever a sorrow and never a pain Never a loss but always gain. Kvcr (he sun and never the rain In the land of (Here Insert)) Faith Is a fadeless plant that rjowi In the land of (Here Insert !l Acd lips make mo k of the ml June roso In the land of (Here insert!! And death sifts downward soft as sleep On eyes that never have learned to weep. And due dress patterns are sold quite cheap In (he land of (Here Insert!) And so. kind friends. If you happen to nave A siieclai desire to sing A land of any particular atyle. Vet haven't the time for the thing. Just take the second and third of these Verses (easy as dirt !) And put the name of your mvthlrn! land Where II tells you to "Here Insvrt I" Svw OrUnnt Timrn-l)aocrat. JUST FOR FUN Algy It takes three generations to make a gentleman, you know. Pene lopeWhat a chap you are for look ing ahead. Life. Owner (as automobile starts back ing down the hill) Pull everything you can see, and put your foot on everything else! Punch. "Were you ever In love, Edwin?" "No. but I have a brother who's had measles an mumps an' most every' thing." Harper's Bazar. I-adv Oh. that bin doc Isn't tne one I advertised for. Mv doc was a little fox terrier. Boy YesVm. Your, dog' Inside o' dis one! Puck. r a "Jones is growlln' at the world again." "Why, I thought be was do ing well." "So he Is; but he wasn't expectin' his good fortune!" Atlanta Constitution. Miss Antique Why have you always remained single? Oldbach Simply from force of habit, I suppose. . You know you know, I was born that way. Philadelphia Record. Woman of the .House You're not one of those labor agitators, are youT Goodman Oonrong (with his mouth full of pie) No, ma'am, I'm a rest agitator. Chicago Tribune. Giles So you've got a place In that banking house? I suppose It waa because you knew the president? Har- rla Partly that, and partly because he didn't know me. Boston Tran script. Church Haven't seen you at the.; theatre lately? Gotham NefTm'lay lng the foundation for a fund which Is to be divided between the plumber and the coal man this season. Yonkera Statesman. The Boss I'm afraid you are not qualified for the position; you don't know anything about my business. Applicant Don't I, though? I with your typewriter. ;