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VOLUME XX.
FRANKLIN. N. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER II, 1905.
NUMBER 41
FRANKLIN
The H u m ble Worker
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In company with thirty-five or forty
other girls .Alicia Harding was wrap
ping oranges In rustling tissue-paper
and packing them for market The
room held multitudes of great, smooth,
fine oranges navels and yellow St.
. Mediterranean sweets.
Miss Calhoun, -forewoman of the
third-story girls, was scolding, as usu
al, at Vina biggs, who was slow ana
had awkwardly dropped two oranges.
"I'll discharge you some day, Vina
Biggs!" rose Miss : Calhoun's angry
voice. "I've a great mind to now
"How Miss Calhoun does scold
Vina!" murmured Alicia to her neigh
bor, Sadie Gardiner.
Sadie curlV her Hp and answered,
"How much Miss C. scolds us all ex
cept you, Alicia!,, Miss C's never sat.
Isfled with our work. Amiable crea
ture! But she looks after the firm's
, interests, and that's what they want,"
: Generally, In packing, an orange in
an upper layer ought to be placed
over the crevice between two oranges
in a lower layer. Alicia was a swift
packer, and knew all the different
ways of packing and grading; but these
things sometimes puzzled poor Vina
Biggs. She sometimes made mls-
. takes and had to repack a box, Per
haps she had only packed two bun-
""tired and Bixteen .when she ought to
have had two hundred and twenty-six.
Such mistakes made no difference to
the firm, because the packers were
paid according to the number of
- boxes packed correctly, but they made
much difference with Miss Calhoun's
temper.
The" forewoman looked at Alicia
Harding with distant approval, which
was Miss Calhoun's nearest approach
to friendship, but Alicia was too sorry
for Vina Biggs to fool pleised. Per
haps It was because Vina had looked
so wistfully across the room when
Miss Calhoun had said coldly, "That
Is right, Alicia." The girl wished Miss
Calhoun would sometimes praise Vina,
who tried so hard.
Now, after Miss Calhoun had scold
ed Vina, Alicia, hastily unplnnipg a
little winter rosebud that she wore,
made an excuse to cross the room, and
put the rosebud in Vina's hand. The
girl looked up, caught Alicia's smile,
and gave a frightened, quivering little
Bmile in return.
"Poor thing!", thought Alicia.
And that was tho last day of Miss
Calhoun's scolding of Vina Biggs, for
the forewoman fell that evening and
broke her leg.
'Who would be forewoman; now? It
wasfthe busy season, and the firm w
yhora to engage.
a chance to reprove
poor me" exclaimed Sadie, in affected
terror. "0 Alicia, be merciful!" And
Vina Biggs' usually frightened face
glowed suddenly with new hope.
"I don't reckon Miss Alicia'II scold
me." was her thought.
As days went on, Alicia found the
place a very trying one. Some of the
girls were offended by her decisions
and her criticism of their work. But
duty required her to be keen for the
firm's Interests. No slipshod work
must be allowed. Often had she
thought what she would do if she were
In Miss Calhoun s position. She be
gan to feel annoyed if the girls care
lessly dropped fruit; she waa afraid
some one of the firm might come in
and see. A good many things to which
Bhe had before been indifferent now
assumed importance. Her days were
very busy. ; She found herself at times
Irritable, ,
One day she spoke sharply to Vina
Biggs about some mistake, and the
girl looked up frightened. Alicia re
membered guiltily that she had meant
to be kind to her.
The new forewoman unintentionally
spoke sharply to Vina on subsequent
days, and the slow girl's eyes grew
frightened again. It provoked Alicia
to see that unconsciously accusing
look.
"You're growing like Miss Calhoun,"
Sadie privately Informed Alicia.
"I can't help it!" answered Alicia,
with sharp nervousness. "You girls
don't understand bow It feels to be re
sponsible. Things must go right!"
That evening Alicia went once more
to see how Miss Calhoun was getting
along.
"I guess you find being forewoman
Isn't easy," said Miss Calhoun. "But
there's one thing. Before I left I'd
mode up my mind to 'discharge Vina
: Biggs. She's too slow for endurance.
And her mistakes! I used to tell her
I'd discharge her, and I would. You'd
better get rid of her, Alicia, Then one
trouble will be out of your Way."
i Alicia hesitated. She would be al
most glad to be rid of Vina,; Yet. Vina
tried so pitifully; hard to do well!
Alicia pondered if she really needed
the work, -much, -and o she' walked
round by Vina's house -to see what
kind of a home the girl had. And she
found It a very poor, dingy little home
outside.
As Vina' saw Alicia coming in at
the gate, terror swut over her. "She's
coming to say I can't work there any
taoce! She'll tell me so right before
mother, and mother, always thinks I
do so well! And what'll we do with
out my wages?"
Vina had never told at home any
thing about Miss Calnoun'a or Alicia's
scoldings.' It waa only. Alicia's form
er little kindnesses that Vina had re
ported, and tonight Mrs. Biggs beamed
accordingly when the new forewoman
came In; , . 4 -;?:.;, y- .
The room was poverty-stricken, and
there were several small children,
Mrs. Biggs was cheerfully voluble con
cerning "Vlney," who sat In a dusky
corner, dumb with despair over what
sho suspected was Alicia's errand, and
flushing with awkward shame to bear
her mother's praises. . ' ;
'In can't find a better girl to her
mother than Vlney is," said Mrs.
Biggs, affectionately, "Every cent she
earna atthe orange-packing she brings
right home to us. We haven't been
getting on well since father died, two
Jrit""ot the
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J years ago. But Vlney's a great help.
She's a fine worker at the orange-
packing, isn't she?" i
"She tries very hard," answered
Alicia. .
"Vlney's good girl," repeated Mrs.
Biggs.
Alicia went away. How could Bhe
discharge Vina and hurt that mother
heart? Something she bad seen in
Mrs. Blggs's face as she looked toward
her daughter had touched Alicia, who
was motherless. -' .
Alicia heard footsteps In the dusk
behind her. It was Vina, breathless.
"I don't know, what you thought of
mother's talking that way about me!"
Vina said, faltering. "I'm not smart
at the orange-packing I know I'm
not But mother keeps thinking I am.
I never told her about Miss Calhoun'
talk. But I'm trying hard, Miss Alic
ia," the voice broke, "only I'm so
clumsy, somehow."
"Never mind, Vina," Alicia said,
gently. "Keep on trying for your
mother's sake. Mothers are worth
working for."
Alicia walked swiftly away. She
had decided to keep Vina.
"It Isn't hurting the firm any, be
cause it Isn't a question of day's
wages," reflected Alicia. "Vina only
gets paid for the boxes she wraps and
packs correctly. Otherwise she'd have
gone long ago. So it's only a question
as to whether I have enough patience.
Vina does try hard, even if she isn't a
fine worker.'"
So she kept Vina, kept her through
most exasperating mistakes; kept her
through days when her own nerves
were on edge from vexation; kept her
when, with all Vina's pathetic trying
to do well, it seemed to Alicia some
times as If to say, "Vina Biggs, go
home and stay thero!" would have
been the greatest relief. As much as
possible sho gave Vina only one kind
of packing to do. This was not possi
ble always, :md trouble came of chang
es. "It's lucky for Vina that Miss Cal
houn didn't stay here," said Sadie.
Alicia did not guess what devotion
to her sprang up In Vina's heart or
what neans of praise she sung at home
to her mother.
'Why, child, anybotly'd think that
MIks Calhoun didn't use to be good to
you, laughed her mother; but Vina
only smiled.
One day the. girls wens at work when
a sharp earthquake wa.i felt In the
third story. There was a chorus of
screams. Some piles or orange-boxes
crashed over. One girl fainted. Most
of those in the room rushed toward
the door, Intending to run through the
But Alicia
her back to it, facing them.
' "Stay in this room!" she cried, above
all the swaying and rumbling. "You
mustn't run downstairs! It's the most
dangerous thing anybody can do to
run down a stairway during an earth
quake. Stairs sway so people almost
always fall and get hurt Walt! Stay
right here! There! It's stopping!
It's stopped, girls! It's over!"
The girls- fell back. From below
came the shrill cries of the second-
story girls. But probably Alicia's
third-story girls would have quieted
had it not been that the second shock
began with Its horrible swaying and
creaking and Its rumbling and inde
scribable noises.
"It's coming again! We'll all be
killed;" treamed one 'girl, hysterically.
Down went mo?e orange-boxes. The
girls rushed from all over the room
toward the door. The bolt was on the
hall side. Alicia, determined to pre
vent any accident, resisted. Then she
knew that in ail the hysterical pushing
and commotion the door had been
jerked open somewhat, and then strug-
glingly shut behind her. Somebody
had slipped out
Then Vina Blggs's voice came loud
ly calling through the door, "The girls
can t get out now. Miss Alicia! I've
bolted the door! That's why I pushed
out Now I'll stay right here till you
tell me to open it"
There cajme a tremendous, deafen
ing crash. Alicia herself screamed at
its suddenness. What did that sound
mean?
"The house is going!" screamed one
girl.
But the house stood firm. The
earthquake was at an end. But what
had caused that crash? Alicia had a
quick thought The earthquake had
been what is known in California as
a "whirling" earthquake; that Is, the
motion seemed rotary Instead of back
and forth. A "whirling" earthquake Is
very apt to break off chimneys. Alicia
believed a tall chimney had fallen.
crashing through the roof, directly into
the hall.
If Vina had not bolted the door the
girls, frightened by the earthquake,
would have been rushing through the
hall to reach the stairs when the big
chimney fell,
Alicia cried, "Vina! Vina! Are you
there? What's happened? Open the
door. Quick!"
There was no answer. "Vina!" cried
Alicia. "Vina did the bricks hit you?"
Hushed by the terror In ; Alicia's
voice, the girls In the room had all
become still. Some red brick -dust and
mortnr had sifted through the crack
under the door. Alice went down on
her knees, but she could not see any
thing. She called Vina, but the voice
pn the other side of the door waa
silent .-.I.--' . -
"The bricks struck her!" whispered
one girl to another. -
Maybe she had run down stairs
ventured another.
i But there bad been no time, and
Vina would silrely, not have run
against Alicia's orders, after bolting
the door. The all knew that It she
were outside the - door unhurt, she
would answer.
The room began to fill with frighten
ed Whispers, and one excited girl burst
Into tears. "The poor little thing!
Oh, the poor little , thing! She's
killed!" one girt sobbed. "And If she
hadn't bolted the door we'd all have
been right out there, running in the
hail, and, the chimney would have
struck mi 0 girls, she's saved us atlt
Poor Vina!"
They, heard men's feet rash Ins np
the stairs, crunching the bricks.
Somebody came springing over the
bricks toward the door.-pushed against
It, muttered In astonishment, unbolted
the door, thrust it open, and stood
there, catching his breath. He was a
member of the Arm.
'Mlss Harding," be cried to Alicia,
"who bolted the door? Thank heaven,
you girls weren't in the hall when
that chimney fell! I I was so afraid
Bui the girls were rushing past him,
crying, "Vina! Vina!
They found her under a great pile
of bricks 'near the door, and brought
the poor unconscious body in. The
bands that had made' so many mis
takes at the orange-packing, and yet
had worked so eagerly to earn some
thing for her mother and the little
ones, were limp and helpless now. ,
The ears that had heard to many
shejrp rebukes from the forewoman,
and. sometimes unkind remarks from
other girls, were deaf now to all tho
girls' sobs and entreaties. The brown
eyes that had so often held that fright
ened, wistful look were covered by
shut lids that did not even quiver.
There were bruises on the white face.
No one could tell how much Vina
had been Injured Internally. There
was no sign of consciousness.
She ww taken away to her home.
Alicia went, too, and saw the pitiful
home-bringing and heard .Vina's
mother wall, "0 Vlney, darling, speak
to me! Open your eyes and speak to
me, darling! 0 my darling, best girl,
are you gone?"
And Alicia's own tears, fell as she
told the mother that Vina had pre
vented the other girls from being hurt.
Poor Mrs. Biggs listened, sobbing.
I know Vtney was glad to help," she
wept. "0 Vlney, Viney; darling, are
you gone?"
But Vina did not die. One night.
a while after this, Alicia knolt beside
the lounge where she lay.
"They'll all be your friends when
you come back to work, Vina," Alicia
was murmuring. "The girls all realize
you saved them from getting hurt or
killed. And don't you worry about
money matters, Vina. The girls sent
some money by me to your mother to
night, and they sent their lore to you,
dear. They're going to send some
every week, money and love both, I
mean.till you get well enough to
work again."
Vina's weak hand stole out from
under the coverlet and sought Alicia's.
I'm glad that I kept the girls away
from the bricks," she whispered, faint
ly. "I I like the girls. You tell them
eo, ivon't you? But but I shut the
door for you, Miss Alicia, because you :
wanted
I I lo
me!"
All
tie
knot -.iis!" fthb of the other
KjfTwIftTTgfrlS. Alicia wondered, would have
roveu ner enuugn w nurry iu uuii
the door and stop the terrified rush
Into; the hall?
"Yes," said Mrs. Biggs, cheerfully,
"I've been telling Viney the other
girls will be glad to see her coming
back when she gets well. You must
miss Viney at the orange-packing. Vln
ey's such a fine, worker!" Youth's
Companion.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
A fleet of vessels is engaged from
January to August each year in the
capture of sharks near Iceland. Only
the livers are sought That of each
yields five gallons of oil, which has
medical virtues resembling those of
cod liver oil.
A Sheffield (England) firm has on
view in Its window a pocketknife pos
sessing seventy-five blades. Each
blade has a local scene engraved upon
It The firm offers $5000 to any per
son who can shut all the blades with
out cutting hrs fingers.
All other towers will dwindle when
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany of New York completes its build
ing on Twenty-third street Madison
avenue and Fourth avenue, by lifting
a tower 660 feet high, Just where Dr.
Parkhurst's church stands on the cor
ner of Twenty-fourth street -
One of the features of the coming
Grand Army of the Republic encamp
ment at Denver will be the largest
American flag ever manufactured. It
Will be 116 feet long by 66 feet deep,
requiring 1450 yards of bunting, and
weighing so much that the only pos
sible way to display It will be across
the front of a five-story building.
Sable Island lies about eighty miles
to the eastward of Nova Scotia and
consists of an accumulation of loose
sand, forming a pair of ridges united
at the two ends and Inclosing a shal
low lake. Tracts of grass are to be
met with In places aa well as pools of
fresh water. These afford sustenance
for troops of wild horses or ponies,
descended, it ta supposed,-from stock
cast ashore from a Spanish wreck
early in the sixteenth century.
The Washington Post relates that
recently a letter was received at the
Treasury Department addressed, "Un
cle Sam, Washington, D. C." It reads:
Please find in- close 05ct For which
I want you to tell me the side et the
nlckle la head and what is tails. Use
nickel for postage In return." The de
partment .Teplied that there was no
"head or tall" officially, but an "ob-
eerse and a reverse side." The writer
was told to toss a coin and take his
choice, and the nickel waa deposited
In the treasury.
Last of the Mohicans, .
When the days are cool and clear
the tuberculosis patients on North
Brother Island wrap themselves in
the bine blankets furnished by the
city and alt In the open air for a sun
bath.
A short time ago the health com
missioner conducted a party of peace
delegates to the Island. They were
from England, and had seen pictures
of the North American Indian.
"How Interesting!" remarked one
visitor, a th boat was about to land.
See how peacefully they sit Are
they the lastjof the Mohicans?" New
York Bun.
CANADIAN JANDICKAfT
WORK OF WOMEN FOR VILLAGE
INDUSTRIES IN THE DOMINION.
The Canadian Handicraft Guild ' an
Important Philanthropy Diverse El
ements In Population French Vil
lages on the 8t. Lawrence Where
Hand Looms Are Still Used Dou-
: khobor Embroiderers and ., Irish
Lace Makers Indian Artists.
The work of fostering Canadian arts
and crafts is one of the most Interest
ing developments of philanthropy In
the Dominion. ' Canada is made up of
more diverse elements than is general
ly suspected. The French Influence i
very strong among the Indians, as well
as the descendants of the original
Habitants,- but there are also Russian
Doukhobors, Galltctans, Irish, English,
Scandinavian, Scotch and at least a
dozen distinct Indian divisions. Each
of these have had their native arts.
Tho Europeans brought with them ex
quisite arts of lace making, spinning,
weaving, embroidery, dyeing, etc. The
native arts of basket-making, bead,
and porcupine quill embroidering,
plaiting and weaving have never been
improved upon by any arts of civili
zation. Some of the weaving, In fact,
it has been found impossible to pro
duce by machinery.
Canadian rural life has grown pro
sole, to a marked degree within the
past twenty years. There has been no
great Industrial development even in
Jhe cities, and tho country communi
ties have remained In many cases as
primitive as when Evangeline twirled
her distaff above the sands of Acadia.
There are villages along the shores ot
the St Lawrence where the French in
habitants are living the lives their for
bears of. two hundred, years ago lived,
with the important difference that
while they go not to tho outside world
the outside world comes to them In
the form of cheap factory-made uten
sils and fabrics. The people have cot
progressed farther than to have aban
doned the handicrafts of their ances
tors. Civilization Is represented by
the village store.
To these barren lives the arts and
crafts movement made an immediate
appeal. Whell, in the spring of 19(H).
the Montreal Branch of the Women's
Art Association rf -Canada decided to
bold an exhibition of handicraft "in
order to revive- public Interest la na tive
arts, little difficulty was encoun
tered in setting together a character
istic display. So eager was tho re
sponse, both from workers and public
that a depot for the sale of Canadian
handicrafts was xcUrd for. It wan
mm.
Opened.
months the work
over to the Canadian
landicraft Guild, this step having
been made necessary by the limitations
of the original charter and the rapid
development of cottage industries In
all parts of the Dominion. The guild
s composed almost entirely ot women,
although, after the British fashion, tho
governor-geueral and Countess Gray
are named among the officers as "Pat
rons," Lord Strathcona and Mount
Royal Is "Hon. President" and Sir
Melbourne Tait Is "Hon. Vice-President"
8everal men's names appear
also among the directors ot the socie
ty, but in the main it is a woman's en
terprise, developed and managed by
women.
The native arts of the French Can
adians consist of many ingenious weav
ing, among them the celnture Heche,
the gay sash familiar to winter visi
tors to Quebec and Montreal. This
amazing piece of weaving Is a heavy
oblong of bright colored woollen
threads, plaited by hand on a rude
loom of sticks. The arrow, ai light
ning pattern, is the Invariable design,
and the threads form a handsome
fringe on the ends of the sash. No ma
chine loom has been invented which is
able to weave a celnture Heche. A mod
est one costs $25, and an especially fine
specimen often brings $100. The wrin
kled grandmothers, whose ' patient
hands produce these celntures, highly
prized by tobogganers, .snow-shoe rs,
and other devotees ot out-door sports,
both for warmth and beauty, are near
ly all half-breeds. The art was prob
ably French In the beginning; the pat
tern is undoubtedly Indian. The arrow
pattern appears in nearly all Indian
decorations, basketry, pottery or bead
work. If the crafts movement had
done nothing more than to keep alive
these wonderful old designs, mountain
and river, lightning. Are, storm, for
est prowlers, gods of imagination and
fear, it would iiave Justified Itself.
The French-Canadian tapestries, cov
erlets, rugs, etc., show many charming
designs, evidently worked out - after
the Immigration. The pine tree pat
tern, the fleur-de-lis, full of reminis
cence, the "Little Mary" -pattern Is
terisUc. The "Little Mary" pattern ts
amusing in its naivete and reminds
one ot the quaint little figures which
our grandmothers worked ( on their
samplers. It is a stiff figure of a girl
or woman;" with a slim,' reed-like body
and spreading skirts, -very much con
ventionalized in many cases; It ap
pears often on bed cover and quilt.
The "tittle Mary" quilt are a sort
of a tufted weaving, the tufts or loops
pulled up separately through the fab
ric with the help of some small Instru
ment, often nothing more than a bit of
wood. It is said that practically the
same work Is done among the Acad
lana of Louisiana , ..,
Besides the French-Canadian there
are many Irish and English women
who have traditions of Old World arts,
especially lace making. At the crafts
shop and In the exhibitions have been
shown some remarkably good speci
men of Irish crochet, Carrlck ma
crosse and Limerick, and some beau
tiful Honlton. Inquiry has revealed
skilled knitters of Irish lace In dozen
of villages, and the guild ) making
every effort to bring the standard up
to that of the best Irish lace-maker.
The Honlton lace-makers are found in
Ontario only.
The Doukbobor embroideries are ex
quisite, both In color and design, while
the workmanship Is a little short of
perfection. There Is a decided Oriental
suggestion in the designs. Persian
coloring 1 In all of their work tnd
their drawn work and open embroid
eries are as unlike Western work as I
possible,
vnnK
The hardest art of ail- to revive
were those of the Indian tribes. Miss
Phillips writes of them; "As a race
there never was one more Impractic
able, mere averse to combinations for
hie' own good, or more deaf to the
voice nf instruction. But even In this
branch of our work we have great
cause to be exceedingly encouraged.
We have aroused a pride ot race in the
Caugbnawagas, Mlsslssaugas, Mlcmacs,
Mantagnals, Crees, British Columbia
tribe and others. .The Caughnawagas,
living within a few miles of Montreal,
and perhaps nearer a metropolis than
any other of our tribes, had so at
tempted to modernize their work that
it had become a horrible travesty on
their ancient art But within a year
a change has taken place, and we ar
happy in feeling that the guild,
through the government teachers in
their village, has been able to induce
them to use better materials, and do
some of their old-time good beadwork.
We how get from them electric light
shades, belts, chains, and purses which
show decided taste and skill In design
and coloring."
Since the opening of tho handicraft
shop thirty-seven exhibitions have been
given of work coming from all part
of Canada, from the shores of Labift
dor to tho farthest coast of British Co
lumbia. The first year the society paid
the workers ?s)UU, the second year $2,
000, and last year it was able to send
them $4000.. Tho Canadian government
take a warm interest In the move
ment, recognizing the fact that it Is H
work of national benefit New York
Post
LAST OF BIQ FAMILY.
Death of Thomas Lilts, One of Ten,
Remarkable for Size.
The last of the old Litts family, one
of tho most remarkable families in
the state of New York, has gone with
the passing away ot Thomas Litts,
who died recently la Monticello. Ho
died suddenly Irom tho effort ct tho
extremo heat while at work in a field,
near his homo, writeB a correspondent
cf the New York Sun. Ho was 80
years of ago, and for the last halt
century had been ono of the most
commanding and prominent figures In
Sullivan county because of his slzo
and wondorful strength. He was ser
geant in tho 1 13a Regiment of New
York Volunteers, and was tho strong
est man In tho regiment. Every
member -of the family of- fen, ' fivo
males and five females, was as strong
as a giant and the wonderful feats of
strength performed by them won for
them almost national fame.
Thomas Litts, while attending the
old-time logging and haying beej
tUnerpirt- WHtmmiS' -toA-Wen known
to pick up a barrel full of cldor and
drink from tho bunghole. A brother
carried a barrel of pork on his back
p. mile without resting on a wagor,
tho pork being tho wager. In tho
days of ills young manhood Thomas
Litts weighed over 200 pounds and
was an athlete.
Even the daughters were more pow
rful than ordinary men. It is said
that, one ot the girls has also been
,no'..n to lift a barrel of cider by its
chimes, and drink from its bung. She
once saw three of four able-bodied
men attempt and fail to place a
heavy mill Iron upon a wagon. She
threw them right and left with her
bands, telling them to get out ot her
way, and then, unassisted, and with
ease, lifted the iron to Its place on
the vehicle.
la his young days one of the brothers
was considered an expert wrestler,
and sporting men from a distance
came to measure their skill and
strength with his. One of these was
a famous wrestler of the city of New
York. When he called young Litts
was not at home. Seeing Miss JJtts,
he made known his business to her.
"What," exclaimed sho, "wrestle
with mine brotheri" and she eyed him
as If taking his caliber. "Why, yon
are foolish. Go back and save your
money, for I can throw you mine
self."
; She continued to jeer and banter
him, and - finally dared him to the
encounter in such a way that he ac
cepted her challenge. He found her
strength and skill too much tor hit
science. Her feet add ankles were
protected by tho drapery which sur
rounded them from the advances of
his heels, but they found no obstruc
tion when she attempted to trip him.
She sent him to grass twice With such
celerity and force that he retired
from her father's dooryard vanquish
ed and crestfallen. He returned to
the metropolis without delay, believ
ing that It Sullivan county produced
such girls it was folly to contend
with the men.
Four ot these ' giant brothers died
unnatural and violent deaths. Ben
jamin was run over by the cars, Wil
liam was poisoned by his Jealous witty
Charles was killed In a mill by being
caught In the shafting and Thoma
by lunitroke. '
Wage of 8ln.,r -
Mayor Anderson ot Jackson, Tenn.,
who has been mentioned favorably
a West Tennossee's candidate , for
governor to succeed Governor John
I. Cox, and to whose able administra
tion Jackson owes much of Its recent
development, possesses a , political
record so clean and straight that he
can well afford to crack a joke at
the expense of politics, which he has
a habit of doing every now and then,
greatly to the delight of his hearers.
Last week a few merry and influ
ential gentlemen assemmed in the
mayor's office. One of -them was a
prominent lawyer, anoiuer a supreme
court judge, and a third an able poll
te!an. ' .. .'. .
The lawyer while telling of the rise
and fall of a certain public man, used
the expression, "the wages of sin."
"I have heard that phrase all my
life," said the politician, "and I've yet
to know Just what are the wages of
uin. , Do you know. Judge?". . . -
"I give It up," answered the judge,
"unless you wont a technical defini
tion." "Tell os, Mr. Mayor," pleaded the
politician, turnjpg to Mayor Anderson
"what are the wages ti sin?"
"Humph," answered the tiayor, "the
wagf of sin? Oh, thoy depend on
what kind of office the sinner Is elect
ed to." Memphis Comro.prcinl Anpnl.
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNPAY SERMON B7
THE Rtf. DR. C CEORCE CURRIE. '
Subject I Growth.
Brooklyn, N. T.-The Rev. C. George
Currle, D, D preached In Holy Trin
ity Church Sundny morning to the con
gregations of Holy Trinity and St
Ann's. Dr. -Currle's subject was
"Growth," and he selected for his text
IL Corinth Inns, v:4: "Not for that we
would be unclothed, but clothed upon."
Herald:
These words of the epistle express
the important principle that wherever
there is vitality life not only adds to
Itself continually, but at the same time
never throws away, never entirely loses
the essential elements that it has once
succeeded in acquiring. That is to lay,
that all tlifl time that life is putting on
raiment, ns It were, or being "clothed
upon" eay, in the flowers, or bush or
insect or ninn, for that part all that
time it keeps the essentials of whatso
ever it has Invested Itself with. And
It Is never perfectly unclothed of its
fuiulmuentni gains; "not unclothvd but
clothed upon." ThcsB princip'es hold
good in relation to lite of every klud
und under all conditions. It Is one of
the gret keys of nature that have
been funiisliel to us, and Its univer
sality springs from the fact that
the universe Is fumlnmeuially similar
In nil Its parts. I menu to say that the
universe is constituted In such n man
ner that the different plans ot being,
the physical, the Intellectual, the moral,
the spiritual, nil correspond to one an
other. So that whatsoever Is true in
one is true l i all of them. Mankind,
in fact, has an instinct to that effect
Our ordinary words that we use In
talking, for instance, for physical
things are mostly the same as tuose
used for intellectual or spiritual things.
The word, "right" means straight, and
"straight" is constantly used by us lu
n moral sense; the word "wrong"
means twisted or corrupt, and "cor
rupt" often menus dishonest. The
things that are seen ore, that Is to say,
divinely created pictures of the things
that are not seen; and it Is a great
satisfaction thnt we can have a trust
worthy picture of spiritual things that
wc can see. Our blessed Lord talked
In parables, not because parables arc
simple, but because the truths ex
pressed by parables (as the loaf of
bread or the raiment or tho waler from
the well, or tho sparrow bavins b,is
food prepared for JiJin, or tii lily get
ting its raimeut without worrying
nb.mt it) vare not merely physical
tiuths-jou must not full Into thnt
blunder they me truths that reach all
the way up through nil the plans to
the eternal kingdom. Our Lord talked
lu thnt way because lie snw the whole
of the plan, from the top to the bot
tom, mid He talked iu no otner way
the people nt huge: -wituout a par-
oj.nsmtKe lie not unto inein. mt
,iV Mntellevtual. moral and spiritual,
. I ' .1 1. ..! , nil
aro reijKlr11111 111 I'uj""'11.
of thenirlmuilllamentn
is why He
Now come back
ciple before us, "not uuclotl;
clothed upon," and let us see to it that
we have the physical and material idea
distinctly in our heads. Here, for in
stance, is the Etuiup of a tree with the
different rings of wood of which it is
composed. Year by ye.-.r the tree bns
put on new growth, which you can see
in the successive rings. But nil the
time that H has been putting ou the
new rings It has never completely let
go ot the old ones, and the first ring of
all is right In the centre all the time.
Let nie givo the little folk a simple il
lustration, that they may take It away
with them. Children, you turn an ap
ple on Its Bide Cut It down In the cen
tre through nnd through. Then you
have two halves, have you not? Well,
cut off from cither half a slice, very
thin, tho thinner you cut it the better.
Then hold the slice up to the light.
Now, what do you see? You see in the
centre, distinctly, the dark outline of
the original blossom that was on the
nnnle tree In the springtime.
Now, take some examples ot this
principle. There Is the Bible, for in
stance. It Is a living book. I mean by
thnt It was not flung down from the
sky, like a meteorite, so as to land like
Joseph Smith's Bible somewhere In a
valley all made up and ready. It did
not come that way; but It grew in the
world like an oak or pine tree; and. ac
cording to what the Saviour says abont
the Holy Gbost continually teaching la
the word in successive ages, the BIMe
which is GuJ's truth or the word of
God, is, in a manner, still growing. Do
you know that? It is coming out in
parts. It is lifo from beginning to end,
It Unfolds, not a single period of man's
history only, bnt successive stage in
the growth of tbe human mind. Xhere-
ttm it contains, like a tree, successive
rlnS, as it were, greatly contrasted
one with another, widely differing one
from anotber. In one ring, so to speak,
it. Ik "an eye tor an eye and a tooth tot
a tooth." Literally, exact justice, in
another ring it is, "If a man strike the
oq the one cheek turn to him the other
ahu," In the one ring, vengeance; in
the other, no vengeance. The Bible, is
I said, thus unfolds to ns successive
ages in th spiritual growth of man.
Some of its stages, or rings, such as
polygamy, we have left behind us long
ago; some we have not yet reached.
The Sermon ou tbe Mount especially
slretche out and awny to the furore
perfection of the race, when a nation
like Russia will be an impossibility.
At the present time, you know, all na
tions take brute animals fpr their rep
reaeutative coat ot arm, because they
all have the brute In them. - Tbe time
will come when the bear and the lion
and the bird of prey shall all be ground
out ot humanity, and the work be ful
filled when be that Is struck on one
cheek will turn the other also, and the
rnoe will beootna, as it never has be
come,: Christian. And yet whatsoever
has been true remains true forever.
While the Bible gives us the story
of tbe Gospel, It continues to retain
the law in the Book ot Deuteronomy.
Calvary does not blot out Sinai. They
are related to one another.' You must
know the law before you can know the
Gospel. You often bear of people be
ing extremely willing to forgive. What
is their forgiveness worth? It is not
worth anything, because they have
never suffered from the Indignant
wrath ot a just and noble anger. No,
forgiveness is not worth anything ex
cept where the' anger restrained ts thn
ring inside of It. Another thing, Goa
continues to clothe mankind, a He did
i-.t the first. He clothes the human race
with ideas. Where do you think the
Ideas come from? Did man produce
them? They come from outside, my
friends. Or, rather, from thf God, who
is within us, and inspires the whole.
He clothes the human race with Ideas.
You open the wardrobe, as It were, ;
and there, bunging np, so to spenk, are
(Jenesls and J mint's nnd Jcrcmlnu aud
Isaiah and tho Oospels, the successive
garments for man's successive mental
punKise the child's clothing, tho boy's
c-lo-.liimr, the ynnrijj mall's clothing.-the
iTiimv-.l cl".-i.liii.(.'. the perl'i'i'tiiex nC
tUo full!,'" i iin us ia !! lYutl-
mat
nlkedSCJinrobles. "V
i irna.r- iiw v
tudes, here aud there, in Epistles, lu
the Apocalypse, but above all in the
deep mystical sense ot the Bible all
through-lbe true mystics, that we do
not get from hearsay, that we know by
intuition, but which, of course, to the
mass of meu are absolutely unkuown
and invisible. So far as the Bible is
concerned the principle Is true, "not
unclothed, bnt clothed upon 5" .
You cannot muke anything grow that
has not roots. It Is carious, but )ou
cannot Whatsoever It is sooner or
later It will wither. In order to grow it
has got to grow out of something. Idea
are precisely like plants. As, I told ou,
all the plants ot the universe are alike;
growing things are all alike, whether
ideas or anything else. It Is of abso
lute necessity that they shall. have
roots. Thus, for example, love; joy,
pace, gentleness, .goodness, truth are
ideas. Nobody can complain of them,
but ot what conceivable pse would it be
to stand ou a pillar and call opt to
mankind, "Be loving, be joyous, be
peaceful, be gentle and good and true,"
if you had nothing more to say to them
than that? What conceivable purchase
would those principles have 1n the
world without the spiritual reasons out
of which they grow and on which they
depend, namely, the facts of living re
ligion? The blunder of planting ideas
without roots is as old as tbe bills.
Every scholar, every studeut of his
tory, is up to bis knees, Up to his chin,
in withered sects, withered religions,
withered kinks and notions of this and
that sort, every one of which bad a
good siilo to It, bnt all of which have
died for want ot roots or continuous
power evolution. I do not like that
word, but we-will use it now.
Now, as opposed to both of these peo
ple, those who give the worid no new
truth and those who give the world
nothing but new truth. The Christian
church nt large represents the latest
truths, as well ns tbe first truths, and
the first ns well as the last. There is
no fuult to find with these new doc
trines. Of course not. On the con
trary. For lusinnce, the dynamic pow
erthat capital and most useful thJug.
the dynamic power of the forces of
nature a prayerful desire for the heal
ing of the sick. Ail right. Tho power
of altruism, sacritlceM for the healing of
the sins of society. All right. My
good friends, they aro plucked straight
from the branches of the tree of tlip
gospel. There is uoyfault to find with
these. Ou the contrary, It is for tho
sake of their production that we In
sist Jiiat they bo tf.k?u in connection
with the tree that !"ts grown them
Jesus Christ nud Il's sacrifice from
which -they sprang. jEvery institution
springs from sonic npt or otlicr. There
ia the font nt thj v0or of the church.
Weir.' it'j'i-f.f csents baptism, nnd some
body says It is a good thing to have
a conventional s.vm'jol of purity or Im
provement. But do you suppose it
would be there nt nil if it were oniy a
conventional symbol of purity or im
provement ? Why, my friend, Ihnt
tout reaches' down and down through
nil the strata of history; through the
iluikucss of the .Middle Ages, down to
the iirst Christian centuries; down to
Jewish rites; down to the ancient
pagun and prophetic mysteries; all of
which bad their thought, or what an
swers to it, under the direction of Him
(vJioigMedjiotjnerely
hristhiuTnlVveryinuTIiu
cth Into the world."
This baptism is a reality in the uni
verse forever, because it lives by its
roots. I might prove tbe same thing,
If I had time, with regard to the cross
or the altar, which goes down through
the ciuttirhs, back to time and space
before tho foundation of the world,
'i'hesa. with other Christian doctrines.
illustrate tho UiVine method, which is
coutinnal progress without any loss.
In other words, as the apostle says,
"not unclothed, but clothed upon." The
principle is equally true of ourselves
nnd our whole existence, for apparent
ly thero is never a real break in tbe
progress of humanity. The tnnstian
Is nover rlDe. he is always ripening.
Even in the moment of death be is still
growing. Obscurely, but Just as stead
ilv as when he was a babe. When
passing by death through the blessed
gate like the new-born infant be is be
ing "clothed upon" witn new senses,
new power nnd understanding, new
ways of looking nt things, so that hav
ing died, as we call it, he stretches out
the arms and limbs of his Detng ana is
"clothed upon" like a tree In spring
time. Life Is worth living. Aye, In
deed, it Is. Don't you ever imagine
for a minute thnt it is not. Life Is
wosrh living to a degree you have no
foneoptlon of because the glory that is
coming upon us, that Is to be put upon
us, rosy he measured, by the highest
standard the worlu has ever seen, the
sacrifice of the Lord Jcaus Christ
Nothing is ever low; it would ne con
trary to the laws ot nature to suppose
such a thing, but it is glorified to a de
gree that passes understanding to con
ceive: "Not unclothfd, but clothed
upon." '
. The Croae,
Was it not Tyndnll who said he
would go Insane in an hour if he were
not assured of the existence of a wise,
over-ruling Tower hi the universe!
How immeasurably more steadying 1
tbe assurance ot the Christian that the
cross of Christ rsveala the mint of
God! Life la Inexplicable, if only
power rules. - '
One of England's chapels Is an archi
tectural blur when one first enters It
But a verger soon tells the visitor to
take bis stand on a blood-red cross that
Is in the centre, and looking down this
arm of tbe cross' be sees a beautiful
picture, and down that still another
bit of harmony. Tbe four afms point
to wonderful representations of event
lu the life of the Son of Man. Only
from that cross may the pictures be
seen in their true perspective. Only A
Chrlsto-oeiitrlo faith can see life as a
plan nud solve Us enigma. racifltf
Baptist.
If the Army and Navy "Journal cor
rectly translate an article In the Ar
tillery Journal ot St Petersburg, the
wonder ts, not that the Russian were
whipped In Manchuria, but that they
made o good a uhowlng a they did;
comments the New York Pre. The
article referred to give an account
of an examination held last year at
tne Esarkoe-Selo School ot Applica
tion, where Russian captains of artil
lery, go through an eight-month'
course before taking over the com
mand of a battery. The examination
were- taken by forty -six officer, ijom
of them having twenty-flve year ot
service. Of these eighteen had nover i
read the authorized text book on field
artillery firing, and of the twenty-eight
who had, only lx asserted that they
understood the principles therein laid
down. To the question whether they
knew the rules of firing, sixteen r
nllot In the negative and twenty-eight
had nover read even an elementary
book on .field ta"tU'S. Fourteen
ifciii, thv hud some har.v notion of
artillery' tactics; and the rest gave It
up
1
t THREE FISH STORIES.
Mr. Black.
Whltf and I went out for tront abont a
. vn-k ago . "
White's catch vasn't very beiTj nlu was
great, you know.
One I himked a One two-pounder nearly
got aar. .
Here's a picture of the beauty, taken yes-
teraay ; , - .-
whlto pretty sore, I reckon, at say .
streak .of luvk, . .
?ald I waa tbe luckiest latter he bad ever ,
struck.
';uesi rii go again next week If I tan spare
the time i
:.Mt week's trip waa elegant the weathes
was aubllme.
Mr. White.
Black ar.d I went oat tor trout about a
I was tin kr from the Jump ; Black didn't
atand a ahow.
Sixteen peck led beauties, tlxteea I Isn't
that a fewl
Poor old B ack, be tramped all day and -
only landed two.
ilere'a a picture of a corker ; two pound -
Gat he weighed.
Thought that 1 wuuld lose htm, though; a
rattling tight be made.
Black and I went out for tront abont a
week ago,
1 was lucky (rum the Jump ; Black didn't
Tbe 1' robin.
Two awell guyi came out for trout about a
week ago. .
All der ti k e It was great, and gee I dey
had the dungh
See die paner dollar; well, dem fellers gave
me two
Jei' fcr K'.vln' dem aome trout I caugbt in
Maaon'a ilouffh.
One of dem u mighty fresh ; he called me :
"little brat,"
Jea' de fame I got bla dough, so let It go
at dat.
Two awell guja came out for trout about a
week ago.
All der tackle It was great, and gee ! dey
bad the dough.
Diversion.
JUST FOR FUN
Knlcker "Yes,. Johnny; I am a self
n.ade man." Johnny "Couldn't you
afford to hav God do It?" Judge. S
ErfiiJ"-"' save mathlswatcb
on my eighteenth birthday!" Ethel
"Does it still keep time, dear?" Puck.
Retld "How much does that chauf
feur cost you a season?" Greene
"Repairs, fines, or salary?" Yonkera
Statesman.
"Is the zemstvo congress doing real
work?" "I don't know about the rest
of the delegates. But tbe man who
calls the roll Is." Washington Star. .
"What a horrid sore Charlie has on (
his forehead, hasn't he?" "Oh, not
Xot at all! Why, he got that in an
automobile accident." Detroit Free
tress.
Bill I hoar Hardwacks is making '.
plans for the future. Jill Well, If he
wants to preserve 'em he'd better
make 'em on asbestos. Yonker
Statesman. . -
The Mamma Why don't yon Bay
grace, Marguerite?" MargueriteBe- ,
catn3eiTshashiBg5teSiH''vSre
said grace twice on It this week.
New Yorker. ' : "
' How many zones are there, John
ny?" asked the teacher. "Six," he re
piled. "One torrid, two temperate,
one arctic, one antarctic, and one
canal." Judge.
Freddie What's the difference be
tween being sick and an Invalid? Cob-
wigger An invalid, my boy, I one ""
who makes those around him lick.
Harper's Bazar.
Baity More Did you ever know a
man to lose his entire fortune in one
fell swoop? Calvert, jr. Yes, but I've
seen more men lose their all In one
fool swap. Baltimore Americas.
"But why didn't the superintendent
of Insurance investigate before?" -
"How unreasonable! Why should you
expect him to know anything nnTtt-nv
sees it in me papers i oruuaiyn
Ufe. .. ,
Rev. Dr. Torker "I'm pleased to lee
that you attend church so regularly.
I hope you have found grate." Far
gorn "Excuse me, but her name ia
Helen. Ah! There she i now good
morning." Life.
Hostess "Won't you sing some- !
thing, Mr, Borely?" Mr. B. "Yes. If - -you
like. I'll sing one just before I J
go." Hostess "Well, do lng now, j
nd perhaps Miss Slowboy will aocom-... .. f
pany you." Punch. (
Visitor "I wish to see your em
ployer." Office Boy "I'm sorry to
say he's not in." Visitor "Why are
you sorry to say It?" Office Boy "Be
cause It goes agin me conscience to
tell lies." Cleveland Leader.
Flnnlgan "Th' scientists be eayin'
thot befoor long there'll be twoic aa
manny people aa th' counthry kin sup
port" . Mulligan "Nlver ye moind.
Be thot toime yure dollar!! only buy
bait as much, any way." Judge.
City Editor "For a beginner that
new .reporter seem very particular
not to make any mistakes." Assist
ant "Ye, I told htm to writ on one
side of the paper and he wanted to
know whichvild," Philadelnhla4leci.
ord. . . V ;" V -:. ' -
"I It lively out here?" 6ure; the
old residents won't associate with the
summer cottager; the cottager de
test the campers; the camper loathe
the excursionist." "And the etcur
sionlnts?" "They hate each other."
Puck,
"Quite a number of Englishmen are
locating In the new suburb he' build
ing up, and he' thinking ot calling
the place 'Shilling.'". "I don't quite
Bee the Idea." ""Well, that' the Eng
lish quarter, you know." Philadelphia
Press. .
"Well, how did on sleep last
night?" asked the proprietor ot th
summer hotel "On the floor," replied
the man who had arrived the evening
before. "I found that It wa just aa
oft a the bed and didn't sag.' Chi
cago Record-Herald. .
"What' your father' business?"
asked Mr. Packlnham. ' "Business?"
exclaimed Lord Harry. "My dean Ir,
my fathah ha no business." "Oh, ex
cuse me. I thought he might be lead
ing a blameless life. What' his
gMt?" Chicago Record-Herald.
.He "A marvellous discovery, my
dear lady I That life can be produced
In sterilized bouillon by the action of
radium. Why, this may have hr 1
cd in this world of ours, mil!i'i -t i '
years apo!" She "Er yes, of c I
I understand that there m--iy have 1
radium then, but tr where C'.S i "
si t the t)f,f ti ?" Pi h.
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