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THE FRANKLIN
VMI.1IME XX.
FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY; SEPTEMBER 27, 1905.
.NUMBEUS9
PRESS.
THE 80UID MAN
The solid old mtn of bnslness lti la his
. chair In bis downtowa offlc ;
- And h's prone to Inqutra,
la this rood old faquirs,
ITow hit boy Is doing at college.
AS he sera In the line of hU "INitt" and
bla "Times" n
The irrowth of a new.
And he doubts not true, T"?
tQuter-fangled athletic knowledge. . t
this Irate old men of business growls In
hit chair In Ms downtown ofllce;
And his temper grows sore.
As he ponders the more
Upon what be has read In the papers
Of the football natch and the baseball
gfimo,
. And th' nnustial stew
Klckrd no by the crew,
Aud tennis and other capers. .
Then the sage o'd scan lakes a notion to
l"ve bit chair In his downtown of
fice. With a cnrt "Short. trip!"
fie parks up bis grip.
And a train he takes for the college.
.Then be scans bis "Timet" for a baseball
date.
And be chifklet a bit
When he finds he has hit
Just the time for acquiring knowledge.
This clever old man to the ball ground
drives. In the grand stand toon he'a
..... alttlng.
And glancing down,
" With a sinister frown.
Toward the uniformed boys on Ihe bases,
tie knows not the game, but his neighbor
does.
The Day of the Tortoise. Carro ffl ,
WI''Out much mental effort Mrs.
Fraser had named her flrat three ba
bies May, Augusta and Julia, for the
months In which they were born; but
he had found herself to take some lit
tle thought before the fourth child
whose birthday happened to be No
vember 30th, could be christened. She
had risen to the occasion, however,
and little number four became No
venda, which, being Interpreted,
means In Fraser language the end of
November.
By the time Novcnda, who heartily
disliked her name, was seventeen, the
adjective most frequently applied lo
her was the word "slow."
No one meant that the girl was stu
pid, for her brain was actlvo enough,
but in every movement of her body
she was so deliberate, so exasperating
ly leisurely that her own particular
adjective stood greatly In danger of
' becoming overworked. Whatever she
did with her patient, painstaking fing
ers was beautifully done, when it was
done, but in all her movements every
body agreed that Novenda was as slow
a the coming of spring.
All attempts to hurry her were fu
tile. When she was sent up-stalra
fh'iaUaa tW,tlrc.aJ
egin read-
rnsbok. the rest of the
Jiat about and groaned be
volume was likely to become
literature before the slow
der reached the final chap
no way of accelerating No-
To be sure, the delayed handker
chief, when It finally arrived, would
be free from the holes that the laun
dress always to artfully concealed by
careiui loioing; me ice, wneu uuiau-
- ed, would be the best possible; and
- six months later, when the others had
forgotten that such a book had ever
been written, Novenda provided one
gave her time could recall all the in
tricacies of the plot, describe even the
hast significant of the minor charac
ters, and reproduce the setting, down
to small details.
All this, however, did not quite
' compensate the long-suffering, family
jJorheJh3velj
Novenda to get inings nmsncu. rar-
tlcularly to Julia, whose fingers flew
with most lightning-like celerity, was
Novenda a sore trial; and all partner
ships between the two were pretty sure
to lack harmony.
' When Mr. Fraser's trusted clerk
peculated in copper, when all the cap
ital so sorely needed In the business
went to pay margins and finally van
ished completely, and when Mr. Fra
ser went home one noon, leaving
about everything he owned in the
hands of a receiver, the hitherto Idle
family, Instead of repining, turned
with unexpected cheerfulness to the
prospect of bettering the situation.
For many years It had been the
custom of the family to go for a day's
outing to the vast berry fields lying
a dozen miles south of their little city
The Fraser children had often said,
laughingly, that if they ever need
ed money they would take to
berry-picking as a profession, because
the work was so pleasant and the
' profit so large.
Bide by side in the morning paper
stood two fateful items. One an-
. nounced Mr. Fraser's failure, the other
stated that the berry-train would make
' Its first trip for the season the follow-
log day.
To the enthusiastic young Frasers
the coincidence seemed absolutely pro
vidential. , :
Armed with baskets and their
mother's permission, and clad in their
simplest gowns, the four Fraser girls
promptly purchased round-trip tickets
' for the berry-fields and courageously
boarded the anything but palatial
, train. . .
, One day of the berry business prov
ed more than sufficient for May,
who was overfastidlous and not over-
strong. Before the end of the week,
however, she bad obtained good po
sition in an office and was filing It
satisfactorily. Augusta, .. too, . bad
" found employment ; : - 1'v';-'1--.
But quick-fingered, Impetuous Julia
a and slow-going, overcareful Novenda
remained faithful to the berry fields;
' and Mrs. Fraser encouraged them be-
cause the outdoor life was doing won-
ders for their hitherto Insufficient ap
1 petltes and pallid cheeks. yt
: The pickers were all women, girls
or young boys, unpolished In their
: ways, perhaps, but safe enough as
travelling companions; and all, seem
- Jngly, were moved by the one mer-
rtuary motive, to pick as many berries
as possible In the shortest timer.' The
berrlas were sold afterward to toe reg-
ular shipper, who was always' to be
found on the home-going train. .-'
OF BUSINESS.
And Insisting to tell.
The jrouib posts him well.
Naming over the brown young facet. (
But the dark old dan only frowns the
mora as the game roes through
eight Innings,
And only one mora
Keaislns, while the score
Brlngt ten Innings clout Into vision;
For the visiting nine goes out "one, two.
three,"
And also "one, two," . ,
Of the side In bine, i
And the third takes up his position.
The solid old man of business give a
start as of recognition
At his neighbor'! cry,
"Now, hit it. 81!"
And the batsman swings all hla muscle
What a cheer goes up at the. ball shoots
out.
And far over the head
Of the fielder In red .
It sails, while above all tea noise and
bustle. . -
A wild old man of business yells as he
leans on his bench in the grand
atand
"Hooray ! hi t wl I
A home run, 81 1
U tell vou that tbat youngster's mine,
sir!
Silas W. Brown I'm B. Wltblngton
I'll give him a dinner.
That due, voting sinner
Vcs, him and all of his nine, sir I"
Wnlter Camp, In Bt. Nicholas.
Drown
Both girls enjoyed their days In the
open. There was an enchantment
about the berry plains to be found no
where else, JTtie Bandy soil was car
peted with a thick, cushiony, crisp
white moss, or lichen, that crunched
pleasantly under one's feet in dry
weather. The wind, sweeping west
ward from the lake or eastward from
the balsam-covered hills, was fragant.
Invigorating and uplifting. Almost
the only trees were scattered ever
greens, vividly greon at the tlpa with
new growth, and there were berries
everywhere. The rainy Bprtng had
worked wonders for the berry-fields,
ami the crop was an unprecedented
one. ,
The juices, too, we're good from a
dollar and seventy-five cents to two
dollars and a half a bushel, according
to quality. A rapid picker could eas
ily make three dollars and a half a
day. The champion picker, a strong,
f.ne-looklng girl of perhaps nineteen,
made considerably more. Jnlia went
home every night with a berry-picker's
appetite and two or three silver
dollars she might have had more It
her berries had been cleaner. NoVen-
da's proudest achievement- had been
eJj?hty-ovencents.
nda wa cer-
while
nckers
at Novenda s niglrru. jTt was
not customary IndeedTtsaawas eon
sidered almost a disgrace for ayv
"all day picker" to board the tratn
as Novenda was doing, day after day.
with less than half a bushel of the
abundant, easily gathered fruit, to her
credit.
Still, to the undisguised amusement
of the successful pickers, the leisurely
Novenda continued to go berrying.
Sho was too painstaking to be rapid.
There were no cleaner, evenly big,
evenly blue berries than hers, but It
was clear that unless berries suddenly
soared to unheard-oi prices, Noventia
would never capture ' a very large
share of the big bag of coi ndisbursed
each day in the "ofllce car."
There were women who could not
read or write, chattering, gum-chewing
girls, apparently without an Idea
In their unkept heads, and ragged
little boys who spent half of each day
In the lake; but the poorest, least In
jJuatrifKie, -jsJLCaJ.Bfir! -jtfSjierrnong
them all gathered nearly twice as
many berries as Novenda.
There was Julia, for Instance, pick
ing with apparent nonchalance, both
slim young hands going at once, and
her tongue going at the same time,
getting four times as many berries as
her sister, who went home nightly .tired.
soiled, sunburned, weighted down by
perhaps eighty cents minus a quarter
for car fare and a burning sense of
defeat. . ,
To be sure, Julia's berries were not
paid for at the highest rate be
cause they so often lacked uniformity
In size, color and ripeness. More
over, they wero always plentifully In
terspersed with such extraneous mat
ter as happened to meet Julia's rr.pl it.
undlscrimlnatlng fingers. If thistle
down grew in her patch, Julia was
certain to gather thUtle down. If
there were green, unrlpened berries,
the swirt-handed girl inadvertently
gathered these. If there were fallen
needles from the scrub-pines, these,
too, were Industriously culled.
"What! Only a quart!" Julia would
exclaim, when the girls, fresh from a
good night's rest, had been picking for
perhaps half an hour. "Goodness, No
venda, I do believe you're falling be
hind your usual disgraceful record!
All this time, and you haven't picked
enough to make a respectable pie!"
"Well," Novenda would retort, "who
ever makes pte out of my berries
won't have to stay up the night before
to pick them over. I don't aee any
use, for Instance, in gathering great
big fussy caterpillars like the pair in
your basket Do they pay extra for
caterpillars?"
One day an elderly, prosperous-looking
man stood beside the shipper in
the market car. He was a passenger
from the regular north-bound train to
which the berry-cars were attached,
and he seemed to be greatly Interested
In the yield. .
"Hold on!" exclaimed the passen
ger, as the shipper's assistant was
about' tp pour the contents of Noven
da's basket into the crate. "I want
to buy those berries just as they are
finest fruit I ever saw." ; '-.' .
Novenda's basket was typical. Clean
Inside and out, the berries of uniform
size, and free from the leaves and oth
er Utter that made so much of the
crop picked by careless hands unsight
ly and almost unsalable, the basket
was indeed ,i tempting. The man
viewed his purchase with satisfaction.
and then turned again to the dealer. '
"Does the girl who picked these ber
ries happen to have any sort of an ed
ucation : ' '
"Yes," returned the dealer, "she
seems way above the average quite ft
little lady, In fact But her sister
beats her all hollow for speed there's
the sister's day's work in that crate."
"They're ft messy lot," said the pas
senger, eyeing Julia's untidy bushel
unfavorably and expressing Ms opin
ion wltli undisguised candor. "It's
berries I want, not botanical and zo
ological specimens. The' sister may
pick faster, but she seems to pick
about everything that comes her way.
No, I'd like to meet the girl who goes
with this small basketful I have a
reason." " 2'" ;
"Well." returned the dealer, "there
ahe la, on the platform of the next car
-the slim one in the sailor bat"
The purchaser of Novenda's berries
stepped up and asked the surprised
girl If she thought she could leant to
do typewriting and other office work,
and offered her immediate employ
ment with excellent remuneration in
her own town. -
"Why," gasped Novenda, coloring
furiously, "I can do typewriting al
ready, I took a buslneci course In
school, and I think I can cio whatever
else I'm told, but but I'm awfully
slow about everything! Really, Mr.
Page," Novenda has recognized a
prominent real estate man in the pur
chaser of her basket, "I'm probably
a great deal slower than the slowest
person you have ever known. I I
ran't begin to pick berries."
"Oh, yes you can." said Mr. Page,
with a pleasant smile that Inspired in
stant confidence. "A workman Is
known by his chips, and it was your
berries that made me think you'd do
for the place. I could see that you
were careful and painstaking. Those
are the qualities I'm looking for."
"But I am so slow!" reiterated hon
est Novenda.
"I'm glad of It," returned Mr. Page.
"There isn't a great deal of work,, but
what there Is has to be done exactly
so. Live In town, do you? That's
good. The young lady I have has just
asked for a permanent vacation she's
going to be married and H occurred
to me that I might find her successor
right here on the train among all this
flock of girls; and, bless me, so I
have! Now 1 call that luck."
So did Novenda call It, and ao It
proved. The position was a good one,
Novenda happened to fit her some
what eccentric employer's need, her
fingers were more at home In the well
ordered office than they were in the
berry fields, and the Frasers, In their
reduced circumstances, found Noven
da's comfortable salary a welcome ad
dition to the slender family purse.
"But think," exclaimed amazed Julia
from time to time, "of any man's be
ing foolish enough to take a snail or
a refular tortoise like Novenda,
when
Spa," twlnkUsaw yTuda. with
sslng how clostWne came to
th, "he caught the hare nap
-Youth's Companion.
'. QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The first cherries appeared in the
Par8 market this year on March 11;
there were thirty-eight of them, and
they were sold for $15.00.
At Sllgo the other day a crowd
watched nearly 150 rats cross high
above the ground on an electric wire,
from the town hall to a flour mill
two hundred yards away.
The body of a Tyrolese guide, who
fell Into a crevasse on the glacier of
Grossvenediger in the Austrian Alps
thirty years ago, has been found in a
remarkable stato of preservation at
the foot of Hie glacier.
Postal conditions in the interior of
Turkey are still In a patriarchal stage
of evolution. When a postman arrives
In a village, on mule-back, he distrib
utes the letters.. In a jrattfc" place,
giving" cSctffi Is own, and then puting
the undelivered ones Into the hands
of relatives or acquaintances of those
to whom they are addressed.
The organisms present In a diseased
appendix have been discovered by a
London physician In defective teeth.
He therefore argues that appendicitis
may be caused by bad teeth. The
doctor does not think, however, that
modern teeth are as bad as ordinar
ily supposed. Egyptian and Roman
remains Indicate, he sa. j, that a larg
er proportion diseased teeth ex
isted at that time tbau "t the present
day.
A recent writer In the National Geo
graphical Magazine, tells of ft tree
growing In the Malay Archipelago, the
Andaman Islands and Ceylon, which
produces a fruit used In Ashing with
results of a remarkable character.
The fruit is pounded up Into paste
and left In' bags, over night, after
which it Is sunk at low tide into deep
holes along the reefs. The fish soon
begin to appear at the surface; some
of them lifeless, others attempting
to swim or faintly struggling, with
their ventral side uppermost In this
condition the natives have no diffi
culty In picking them out of the wa
ter with their hands. -
A Salt of Zola's Medan House.
Miscellaneous property In Paris,"
France, belonging to Emlle Zola, has
been sold by public auction, at the
late writer's Medan . house. The
scene was rather ft pathetic one. Not
200 patrons had gathered, all being
friends of Zola. His widow had with
held many works of art- and memen
toes, acd the property consisted of ft
heterogeneous lot of furniture, end
furnishing utensils, from saucepans,
crockery and. lamps, to bedding, "Jap
anese masks, frames, parasols, etc.
The sale started in particularly
melancholy way with ft lot of clothes
pegs, which was painfully sent up to
three francs. The total of the first
day ot the sale reached 124 pounds. It
will be remembered that the house
itself has been generously given to
the 'public charities' administration,
called the Assistance Publlque, by
Madame Zola, and Is to be used as
rest home tor hospital nurses by her
wish. London Telegraph. - r
Beer war prauns.
A London paper alleges that the
government has lost 15,000,000 by rea
son of frauds In military stores is
the Boer tvar.
ABOUT WILD ANIMALS,
CRAFTINESS OF SOME AND STU
PIDITY OF OTHERS.
Those Which are Compelled te Live
by Their Wits Are as Intelligent and
Smart as the Horse and Doj of Civ
ilization. . 1
Last Sundffy afternoon a party of
three or four wore strolling through
the grounds of the Zoological Park
looking at the animals and watching
their tricks and capers. In the party
was a retired officer of the United
States army. On returning home the
party had dinner, and over the coffee
and cigars the General entertained the
company with a story which the vis
it to the Zoo hsd called to his mind.
'"During an experience of thirty
years on the great plains of the West
in their rough state I made quite a
study of the habits and customs of
animals in their wild state," said the
general. "Of all the animals that live
from hand to mouth, Br'er Rabbit
seems to bo especially defenseless and
the most eagerly sought after. Yet
It has been my experience that even
the harmless bunny will fight on occa
sion and look fierce enough to scare a
camel. On a ranch near one of my
early stations there was a shepherd
dog that never tired of playing with
the numerous cotton-tails that dwelt
under the cacti and In tho big ledges
thereabout. The dog was always 'It;
for he never caught any rabbits. One
evening he flushed one In a millet
patch and tore across a dry creek bed
after It pretty close behind, but not
gaining to any encouraging extent.
"Just as he rushed past a large cane
cactus a big rabbit flashed out like a
gray streak and hit htm a solid thump
In the side. Its onslaught was so sud
den and so well timed that Mr. Dog
lost his footing, rolled over on the
hillside with a yelp, scrambled to his
feet and raced headlong for tho camp
with his tall between his legs. The
rabbit watched him and then hopped
back under the cactus again, squatted
on his haunches, wagged his nose and
washed his face with his paws in
quiet contentment of a victory gained.
After that that dog always viewed that
particular spot with suspicion, and It
Is doubtful if he ever knew what
struck him.
"I have een cases where arabblt
would delight in playing with and
teasing b dog as swallows sometimes
do with a rat. But the rabbit is shy
about playing the same trick upon a
swift fox, just as swallows are shy of
teasing a weasel. You may think I
am joking, but I have seen a moo!
fight partT of rabblta playing leap
frog and tag suddenly disappear In
their burrows as the scent of a fo
crept down.on a liglit breeze. A jack
rabbit is ftlool, for, ir you once start
him, he will, run past a hundred safe
havens of rofuge and will gradually
work his way back to the place from
where he started.
"On the north side of the Colorado
Canon In northern Arizona are the
Buckskin mountains. Once, while rid
ing along looking at the beautiful
scenery, I noticed that two coyotes
were hunting, and t'.iey started a big
Jack rabbit. With a bark and ft yelp
the chase began. It was worth wit
nessing from the point of vantage I
occupied, and I watched It from the
start to finish. For the first few
jumps both coyotes rushed and yapped
at the top of their lungs. Then one
of them fell back and lay down in the
snow until he blended with the land
scape. The other coyote forged on
at a hard rate after the jack rabbit
following as closely as possible and
keeping up his yelping at a great rate.
Little by little the rabbit swerved
toward, the. left. maUl he had finally
made the circle and came back near
hie starling point. Aa he swung in
near the coyote tbat had atayed be
hind the latter Jumped toward him
with a wild shriek of ferocity, and for
the next hundred yards or so that
rabbit broke all records in his efforts
to get away.
"Whon the waiting coyote took up
the pursuit the one who had been do
ing the chasing dropped down and
rested. The next time the rabbit
made & wider turn and took a longer
time to get back, but back he did
cotae as last and tjien the program
was repeated all over again. But the
next time the rabbit returned to the
starting point he was too exhausted
to escape tho rested coyote, and fell a
victim to his foolishness In returning
to a point he had been twice warned
to avoid.
"Now, compare such foolishness
with the . wisdom ot the otter, who,
seeing the footprints of a man near
bis bouse, will hide out for ft month
before returning to that place.
"Own cousin In foolishness to the
rabbit is the skunk. Confident ot his
awful weapon of defence, a ekunk Is
only equalled In reckless bravery by
the porcupine, and both are too stupid-
to take any warning. .. Around
army camps, where the cooks cut open
canned food with "ft hatchet. It Is not
an uncommon thing to catch skunks
near by, The top of the can being
cut in quarters by two blows from
Ihe hatchet, It Is emptied of its con
tents and thrown on tho waste pile.
If that can happened to have held
salmon it Is Irresistible to any fkunk
or coon that passes to leeward ot It
A little Investigation locates It, paw
Is tried and then nose. The yield
ing top allows an entrance but fbrbids
fin exit nd ao, with the can as
hood, the prowler falls aj victim to
those In the camp. .
Hit is interesting to note the actions
of an otter when he finds the tracks
of man noar bis home.; He stops
and his hair bristles up and-he casts ft
furtive look around as If he had been
caught in the act ot stealing chickens.
Little by little he edges away, and if
he has a wife and children, sneaks
of to them and bustles them out and
away from the place. Ho knows the
dangers of civilization. , ; . '
"The wildcat and mountain lion, af
ter one experience with a trap, be
come very wise and hence correspond
ingly hard to trap, but strange thing
bout most animals that are wise In
avoiding steel traps Is that they seem
to know that when a trap Is sprung
It Is no longer dangercus and wit)
go right up to it and eat the bait '
"So it is with ell wild animals I
nave seen on the plains. The horse
and the dog of civilization may be
mighty intelligent and smart, but
those animals that are compelled to
live by their wits are not very fr
behind If at all." Washington Star.
MACHINE PIE AT LAST.
Bakers Hsva Heretofore Oeclsrsd This
An Impossible Feat
Lovers bt the great American dain
ty pie will rejoice to learn that ft
new era has set in for Ha unlimited
production.
It Is a far cry from the "pies moth
er used to make" to ft superior pro
duct made by machinery, but this has
been accomplished by ft machine in
vented by Philadelphlan. v
For years there has been progress
in almost every line of baking, with
the exception of the succulent pie.
Bakers and practical inventors along
those lines, who experimented, have
declared that machlpe-made pies were
ae impossible as perpetual motion.
There are so many steps in the opera
tion that It would seem their conten
tion was well founded. Undaunted by
precedent, however, the Philadelphia
inventor has continued his experi
ments for two years, and at last has
reached his goal.
The ple-maklng machine haa been
Installed In a baking company's plant
in this city, and is now grinding out
a steady stream of pies of all kinds
and varieties. With the machine an
operator can now produce thousands
of pies where he formerly turned out
hundreds. Not only will this serve
to cheapen production, benefit the con
sumer by making it possible to use
better materials, but, as most of the
work Is mechanical, absolute cleanli
ness and uniformity la assured.
The pie machine Is long and nar
row, being about 10 feet by 20 Inches.
One man and three boys constitute
the operating force, turning out 16 to
18 finished pies a minute. An electric
motor furnishes power, while a gas Jet
keeps the forming dies warm. Sus
pended over the machine Is a tank,
which holds a sufficient amount of
filling for 400 pies. An agitator re
volves within and keeps the fruit
from packing at the outlet.
After the "paste" for crusts has
been properly mixed it Is weighed and
cut Into proper-sized pieces by a
dough divider. , A tray full of lumps
of dough for bottom cruBts Is placed
at one end of the machine and' an
other tray containing lumps for top
crusts at the other end. At the rear
is a stack of plates, automatically fed
by a ratchet. A magnetized arm
wings around, picks up a plate and
es nsjir. a die made to receive
it. A piece of dough is placed on the
plate, and the next moment brings It
under a die which forms the lower
crust. Then the fruit is deposited
from the tank and the plato moves
forward. By this time another lump
of dough has been flattened out and
stamped with an Initial such as "L"
for lemon while an automatic bel
lows blows a puff of flour over the
dough to keep it from sticking.
The next movement brings the
filled pie and the upper crust togeth
er, one operator being stationed here
to adjust the top cover if necessary.
Then the covered pie comes under the
edging die, which cuts off all scraps,
and the pte passes forward on an
apron, which leads to the oven. One
motion succeeds another with such
regularity that the finished pie is
passing to the oven almost before one
can grasp the Idea and purpose of the
machlhe. With no fuss and little noise
the empty plate starts" at one end aud
passes off the other end of the' ma
chine, a finished pie In less than four
"seconds. Philadelphia Record.
SHOW PAUL JONES AS PIRATE.
Old Prints from England Depict Hero
aa a Sea Robber.
An Interesting collection of steel en
gravings of John Paul Jones was
placid on exhibition today In the re
ception room adjoining the office of
the secretary of the navy. Many ot
these plates are over 100 years old,
aid were made immediately after the
famous flfht of the Bon Homme Rich
ard with the British sloop-of-war Ser
apis. Most of the engravlnga were
made In France and England. In sev
eral the great naval hero Is carica
tured as a pirate and represented In
ridiculous attitudes.
One of the pirate plates pictures
Jones as a man of swarthy complex
Ion, with blac khair and beard, and
gives him tho appearance ot ft Cor-
alcan. He Is attired In a ridiculous
costume and is making rather awk
ward gestures. About the waist Is an
apron, on whleh Is skull and cross
bones. In one hand he holds ft big
pistol and In the other is a large
sword. In his belt Is ft pistol and be
neath his feet are several cannon.
There Is chaos on the ship, which la
in flames.
An English portrait gives the na
val hero the appearance of a China
man. He is standing beside the gun
wale of his ship, through which ft can
non ball has just passed. Jones lias
four revolvers in his belt, another In
his right hand and ft sword In his left.
The ship Is represented as being on
fire and Is literally shot to pieces.
Another which shows the hatred
of the British at that time, is a col
ored print. The costume consists of
ft short blue coat which fits about as
snug aa would a salt sack. The trous
ers, the legs of which are very wide,
reach ft little ' below he knees, and
the groat admiral Is In his stocking
fent ilii this plate he Is also por
t rayed as a Mongolian. In a wide
belt are four large and cumbersome
pistols, another Is In one band and
in his other hand Is a curved sword
ot the pattern used a century ago.
Cannon, powder-horns and battle axes
are strewn about the deck ot the bias
ing ship. Many dead 'sailors are ly
ing on the deck. " v
Still another plate shows the hfro
in the uniform of a Russian admiral,
and still another in the uniform of
an American naval officer. Washing
ton correspendence of the New York
World.
The Pennsylvania was chartered It
1846. Construction was begun in the
following yr-ar, and the road was
opened In 1S54. .
17 '.HE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV, ALBERT JONES LORD
Snbjtet i Itmaml ot Serriee.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Tho Rev. Albert
Jones ,-ord, pastor of the First Congre
gational Church. Mcriden. Conn.,
preached In Plymouth Church Sunday
morning In exchange tclth the asslstuut
pastor, ihe Rer. Wllflud P. Harmon.
Mr. Lord had a good audience, and
preached an excellent sermon. His
subject was "The Sncranient of Ser
vice." The text was from Isaiah xll:G:
''They helped every one bis neighbor,
and every one said to his brother, 'Be
of good conrsge.' " Mr. Lord said: .
We have been passing rapidly in tho
Inst half century from an Individual.
Istlc to a social type of civilisation.
Paul's words were never more true
than to-day, when he said, "None of us
llveth to himself, and no man dletb to
himself." All the forces snd factors
pertaining to human life mechanical,
social and rellglous-bave been moving
to such a degree toward each other
that the twentieth century can say ibat
the one word which will serve her best
for a watchword Is "Together; togeth
er." In the Industrial world the "concen
tration of forces is most manifest. Dr.
Jnsinh Strong rails to mind bow tbat
fifty years ago It was the sge of home
spun. Families could meet all the
needs ot their households, spinning,
weaving and the making of garments.
The fields about the home supplied the
Inmates with the necessities of life.
Then It was that the main force was
the brawny arm. But to-day manufnc
ture has forsaken the home fov the
mill and the factory, and steam nnd
electricity are the regnant forces. Di
vision of lnbor has taken the place of
the slnglo hand. Then one man mude
many things; now many men make one
thing.
But as Industrially, so socially are
we becoming more Intimately related.
A half century ago there were com
munities, many but small In number
and limited In advantages, yet complete
In themselves. Citlxens seldom went
beyond the borders of their respective
towns. But gradually those communi
ties have been grouped Into towns, and
the towns developed Into cities nnd the
cities Into greater cities. Whereas our
fathers were independent of all tlie
world; we nre more or less dependent
on the whole world. This made Robert
Louis Stevenson exclaim, "It Is really
disheartening how we depend on other
people in this life."
This complex life has given rise to n
great many social und fraternal or
ganizations. Men have banded them
selves together for mutual helpfulness.
Fathers working by the week and
for small wages, having little ones de
pending upon them, have serious
thoughts when they realize that sick
ness 1!,y Dc lTln 1,1 walt for ,nem
and short hours may be their,' lot.
When ttrohead of the family Is ( sick
and unable tcXvfork, the Income ceases,
hut nvneiiRPt iWense. To meoUjH
these noss b It es ttfka.vnnnni
lent societies and ijrna
tlons have come Into existence;
It Is every man's duty to consider not
only the present demands of the fam
ily, but its future welfare. It is a
crime for a father to spend his. mouey
freehanded at tto bar, or in hospitality
at the el nb. or squnnder It In sports,
when be has not, either In the savings
bank or In Insurance, made secure the
future welfare of his family. It Is
every man's doty to endow the future
with as good a livelihood for bis fam
ily as lies in his power.
We heartily sympathize with frater
nities aud societies In their sick bene
fits nnd care of widows nud fatherless
children. They have a mission In soci
ety. But, however commendable they
niiiy be, they must not take the place
of the two divine Institutions tho
home and the chinch. 'There Is but one
place where God has set np the altar
of domestic affection, where conjugal
relations are sanctified by the presence
of children, and that Is the home; and
there Is but one institution which the
Sou ot God ordained while upon earth,
and that is the Christian church. Fra
ternal organizations should be supple
ments, but never attempt to be substi
tutes for tho home or the church.
But we cannot say tbat because life
Is becoming more highly organized it
can be lived more easily. On the other
hand, we are Inclined to say tbat the
closer men's relations are the greater
the friction and the more difficult to
have every event work good to every
person. Vhis kind of lire, I repeat, Is
far better hut more difficult to live In
all Its relations. The tone ot a three
or live bank organ Is much better,
richer, more sympathetic and harmoni
ous than the tone of a cabinet organ,
lu the one there arc few combinations,
while in the other there are hundreds.
Au ninateitr can play the one, but only
the uiaster organist can play the other
satisfactorily. So In these times of
highly developed social and religions
life It is difficult to live a full, rounded
Christian life. A compauy ot people
spread over a large area can get along
comfortnbly well, but crowded into a
small inclosure they will suffer em
barrassment. ' They all have elbows,
and where it Is ideal to march through
life, touching elbow to elbow, It la not
so comfortable when men are cramped
nud tlteir elbows touch one another
nuder the arms. Our whole social life
IS. therefore, n question ot elbows.
This leads us naturally to ihe ques
tion, How can lite be lived so as to ful
fill all these manifold relations The
answer is found tit the words of tho
text, "They helped every one bis neigh
bor aud every ono said to his brother,
'Be of good courage.' ". I wish these
words might be placed over the doors
of every church, Inscribed Upon the
walls of every place of worship and
selected as a watchword for every
rliarltnbls onanlxatlon. What a
cbangd world this would be It the sen-'
timeut ot this text should go into effect
to-morrow rooming.- The words sug
gest to ns two ways by which we may
administer the sacrament ot service.
Humanity Is lu constant need of help.
The circle ot suffering and misfortune
Is all the while changing, but It never
happens to re e-npty. in spite of the
fsct tbat we ati a rich country and
are living In times ot plenty, there art
children In every city In need of bread,
and elderly people in need ot support
and comfort ; It Is no disgrace lo be
poor or to be sick It we bare done all
In our power to drive away the wolf I
from the door and beat down the
germs lu our system. Jesus was poor,
more so Uian ilia foxes and the birds;
Paul was poor, having few or no pos
aesslous but' "the cloak and the parch
ment:"' Peter was poor, "Silver and
gold have I none." Toveriy Is no dls
writer, unless it be the dregs of a
wasted lift. "M'lierever there Is hon
ored poverty there should be generous
l ".CC.Ienee.
T) pit v distress Is hut human;
T relwve it it Gnd like.
V.'hen Jeans wns upon earth He said
that every bdiefnctloii which was be
tnwpil mmn one of the least of the
lin-Uircn lu a laving spirit was accepta
ble rmto Hlui. Inasmuch Is a word
which Ih full of significance to all char
ity workers. "All the beautiful senti
ments in the world will welxft less than
n single lovely action." Many of the
fraternal organisations might teach ns
who nre members of the cbureb lessons
In charity. A short time since I re
ceived In my mall by mistake a postal
sent by one member of a fraternal or
ganization to another, asking blm to'
call nnd nislst n sick brother. How
often does our fellowship prompt n to
do this? Yet the Bible says, "Do good
unto all men, especially unto those who
nre nf the household of faith." No gift
ot inraus or might will ever, fail to be
thrice blest. Let the largest end of
your tceneroslty be beneath the surface
If It chances so to be; let the number or
your benefactions be ft secret If you
will, but, whether secret or public.
crowd your life with endless benefac
tions and countless mercies.
Edwin Markham has a beautiful
poem entitled "Inasmuch." He pictures
a watchman. Iran by name, on Mos
cow's castled height guarding the cit
adel. The driving snow was heaping
itself against the citadel wall when a
half bare beggar man tottered past.
The watchman ran nnd threw his own
coat around the hillf frozen beggar, but
tbat very night died himself from ex'
posu re:
But waking in that l!ctr Land that Ilea
Beyond tho reaches of these cooping skies.
Behold the LorJ enmc out to greet him
home.
VVarin? the coat lie gave at Moscow's
don?f
TV "ring the heavy, hairy coat he mve
Ey Moscow's tower before he left the
grave.
"And where, dear Lord, found you this
coat of mine,
A thin unfit for glory such as Thine?"
Then the Lord answered with a look of
light:
"Thit coat. My son, you gave to Me last
night."
But 'here is another way to ngalu
offer the sacrament of service than by
giving food to eat and raiment to put
on: It Is suggested by the iust half of
the text: "And every one said to his
brother, 'Be of good courage.' " There
arc men nnd women In this world who
need an encouraging word more than
hey need bread. Man docs not live
by bread alone. There nre men on our
streets who have been unfortunate In
their lives. They are pessimistic and
discouraged nnd distrust all the world.
There nre others who nre in some vo
cation which does not mensnre up to
their ambition, and they need to have
some one tap them on the shoulder aud
say, "Bo of good courage." There are
a good many men who become discour
aged before they become drunkards.
There are others who lose, their hope
before they lose their good nnme.
There are mnny who need to be met
at the door of the factory at the close
of the day's work aud Id beyond the
saloon to the doors of tbeir homes,
that they may be saved to themselves
and to their families. They need words
of strength. Tbeir wills arc weak and
must be reinforced. They need to be
Inoculated with courage, nnd the power
to resist evil.
Very few of us realize how much
help there Is in a handshake when
iven in a brotherly way. One of wei-
IftmtPU's officers when commanded to
go on some perilous duty, lingered a
moment as if afraid, and then snld:
"Let me have one clasp of your all
conquering hand before I go, and then
I can do it." The majority of the
needy ones oj earth ask not for our
money, but for our sympathy, and our
sympathy we ought to give. "Some
one ought to do It, but why, should I?"
should be turned Into Hie sacrificial
sentiment, "Some one ought to do it,
so why not I?" Frederick Douglass
appreciated the uplift which Lincoln
nlwnys gave him when they met, for
Douglass said: "He Is the only man
who does not remind me that I am a
negro." To say to n weak brother with
all the meaning In your soul. "Be of
good courage," will often make him 4
moral glnnt and suffer him to rise
above his difficulties and his shortcom
ings. There nre very few persons who
do not need words of encouragement,
who do not need to have some one say
to them, "Be of good Courage."
No one has ever been able to speak
this word with such pathos as Jesus,
nnd no hearts have ever been lifted Into
the presence of llielr best selves as
those to whom He spoke. When the
woman was brought to Him taken In
her sin, It was "Go sin no more."
When others would condemn the wom
an who stole her way Into the bouse of
Simon the leper to auolnt Jesus' feet
He said: "She hath done what she
could." Wbcu Mary and Martha were
mourning the loss of a brother It was,
"Thy brother shall rise agaiu." When
tho thief on the cross threw himself
upon .Testis' compassion, the Master
said, "To-day thou sunlt be next Me lr
Paradise."
Something Kxtvw.
It Is not enough, according to Chris
tianity, to be ns good ns the average,
yet many seem to think so. It is hard
lo overcome the childish habit of com
paring ourselves with others, and tak
ing what comfort we can from the
thought that we nre not' any worse
than they.
Jesus said: "What do ye more than
others?" Christianity, If it is anything
new at all, is somethlug extra. It does
not say that the old religions are alto
gether wrong. No, It eays that they
art Inadequate. Christ came to fulfil,
not to destroy. Tho braised reed He
does not break, the smoking flag He
does not quench. The first He seeks
to bind np, that it may become just as
strong as possible; the second He fans
Into a flame. Christ says to all men;
"Yon are My disciples Indeed when
yon become all that God Intended yon
to be. Do not remain in the lowlands.
Do not be contented with a common
nlace life. Come npon the mount with
Me. Live the separated life. Be some
thing extra." Northwestern Christian
Advocate.
Acoident Restored Speech.
A remarkable case ot a bicycle acci
dent restoring the power of speech to
a man who has been dumb for five
years, has occurred at . Brockhurst,
near Portsmouth, England. Jack
Moore served with the 16th Lancers in
be South African war, and was In
valided home after an attack of en'
terlo fever, which deprived him ot his
power of speech. When returning
from work the other night, his bicycle
skidded, and In the excitement ot the
mishap, he was astonished to find blm'
self able to make an ejaculation. His
recovery ot speech ' is now perfect
though four operations to restore il
had failed. '
v Contlaaoas Farewells.
"Well,1? remarked the spectator ' at
Mrs, Oldstars' : farewell performance,
"she certainly was deeply affected."
"It looked that way." replied Crlt
tlck.. "Of course It's natural to be affected
under the circumstances.", '
"Yes, tbaf s why she got Into tho
bablt of affecting o be natural"
'FISHING OR AGRICULTURE? , .
frofesaor Wisdom waa a learn-ed nan.
A vary learn-ed man was na ;
Why. he'd rrad Arable or Hlndostan
Aa easy aa our A, B, C.
One summer time ha thought he'd takt a
rest!
From school books tat would gat away ;
He'd lake his collar off, also his vest,
And watch tht farmers maklnr hay.
And thus ha rhanced to meet a farmer boy,
One who waa bright, yet had a way
Of asking some deep questions to annoy
Tht greatest thinkers ot tht day.
Tht Professor talked on the growth of.
yams, f
And eiplalned about the vulture.
But balked when that boy askd, "If dig
ging rlama
Was fishing or agriculture?"
Judson nisco Id New England Grocer.
JUST FOR FUN
"Wasn't that woman's club a suc
cess?" "No; it had all' the discom
forts of home." Brooklyn Life.
Old Rocksey "The young man who
marries my daughter must be rich."
Impecune "Well, sir, I don't know of
any better way to get rich than to mar
ry her." Puck.
Inert Ike "Wot does 'procrastinate'
mean?" Homeless Homer "To put
off." Inert Ike "Gee, but wuzn't we
procrastinated from dat fast freight!"
Cleveland Leader.
"What landed you here?" asked the
prison visitor. "Dls Is a case o' mis
taken identity," replied the convict
"I mean de feller I took fur me pal was
a fly cop." Philadelphia Ledger.
The Lady "Ah, my poor man, I am
glad to hear you say you never miss a
bath." Gritty George "No'm! I
haven't taken one in ten years and I
don't miss it a bit." Chicago Dally
News.
Cholly "I tvsiaail d ni, rBlc,we
are following these
wrong direction
We will soon catch up
Cholly "T-that's what I
Judge.
Paw Figgjam "Wnat makesw
. . . , . 1 , a n-S,
ininK your teuunor in crazy: iuiw
Flggjam "Because when she whlppei
me yesterday she told me she stood
loco paresis' to me!" Baltimore
American.
"Was anybody punished for GraF
ton's misdeeds?" "Yes." "I under-
stood he was acquitted." "He was
But the business men on the jury lost
money and missed their meals."
Washington Star.
"Do you think there is any difference
In a man's weight before he eats his
meal, and afterwards?" asked the
boarding-house lady. "Well, not If he
gets the meal here," replied the thin
rtoanfer.-- Yon kersBTgfwwaaB. " "
"Here's a clergyman who urges that
women should go to church plainly -'.
dressed." "Indeed? He must want to
add to the problem, 'Why do not men
go to church?' the problem, 'Why do
not women go to church?'" Puck.
"Isn't It queer," said Singleton, "that
a woman takes a man's name when she
marries?" "Oh, I don't know," replied
Wedderly. "It would be queerer still v
If she didn't take everything else the
poor Jay has." Chicago Dallv News. -
"Did the father give the little bride At.
away?" "I should say he did! He got -rattled,
and what do you think he said
as he handed her over to the groom?"
"What? It Is more blessed to give
than to receive!'" Cleveland Leader.
"It Is hard to tell whom you can
trust," said one grafter, "Yes," an
swered the other. "Sometimes f- thlnki
there is no sucn tning as nonesty. iou
never know who Is going to turn
State's evidence next" Washington
Star.
"How did you find things In Ameri
ca?" asked the Interviewer of the Eur
pean who bad come over here to look
around. "Well," was the answer,
"credit Is dilated, stocks diluted, and
the President is delighted." Washing
ton Star.
"No, Indeed," she said, "I can never
be your wife. Why, I' have half a doz
en offers before yours." "Huh!" re
joined the young man in the case.
"That's nothing. I proposed to at Iej
a dozen girls before I met you." CUrJk
cago Daily News.
"How do you explain these mutinies
in the Russian navy?" "Very easily,"
answered the English fisherman.
"People who can't tell a trawler from
a warship must be too nearsighted to
recognize their own commanders, "
Washington Star. .
"A Government official is but a ser
vant of the people," said the man with
old-fashioned ideas. . "Yea," answered
Senator Sorghum. "The trouble is
that in so many cases the tips amount
to more than the regular wages,"
Washmgton Star.
"What is the foot 4tndtBduTB41a
ease?" "It Is aa ailment much prs-T
valent among a certain class of public
men, who have a bad mouth, and every
time they open It they put their foot
In It Next time you can ask a harder
one."t-Boston Transcript
Sharplelgh "There's Dusenberry;
he'a slept only two hours a day for
the past five years." Snod grass "How
remarkable." Sharplelgh "Yes, he's
had a Government job that long and
takes the remainder of his rest at
night" Washington Life.
' "Gracious, Elslel" exclaimed the lit
tle girl's mother, "why are you shout-.
ing In that horrible fashion? Why
can't you be quiet like Willie?" "He's
got to be quiet, the way we're playin',"
replied Elsie. "He's papa coming home
Uste and I'm you." Philadelphia Press.
Collector "I've motioned to that old ,
man three times, and he pretends not
to aee me. Now, I'm going to present
this bill In the presence of bis friends."
Office Boy "Aw, you chump! he can't
see you don't you know he's blind?"
Collector "Blind T Then, by 'George,
he's got me this Is payment at sighU"
Cleveland Leader, "
Burned on a Bug.
J "Alice rushed In from the garden.
where she had been' picking fln,
She was badly stung by a 6e. s
was holding on to her finger and s
blng pitifully. .
"Oh, mama,"' she cried, "I bin
me on a bug!" Brooklyn Life.
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