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NUMBER 40
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"THE DEAR
Olmm bark the tar old daya all the (limine back the dear old daya- the path-
boye la line ' way through the dU ...
"Boy atood on (he btirntn' deck," an' "Bla- : To the arhoolhouaa In the bloaaoma; tha
gen on the llhlne !" . ; sound of far-o belt ......
"'Twas mldnlKht: In hie guarded tent" Tlnklln' 'croet the meadowe; the song or,
' ire aiKik It high and low, the blfd an' brook i . U1.v..fc
While Mary trotted out that larvb "whose The old-time dictionary, an' tha blue-hack
drere ae white aa anow 1" aiiellln' book !
; Gimme back the dear old daya that Mem'ry Gone, like a dream forever t A elty'a bid
lovee to keen, the place ... t ,
With "I'llot, 'He a fearful night there! Where etowt ihe old lof achoolhouae i an'
danger on the deep!" no familiar face '.
The old-time, awkward featurea tha jerk, la amlllng there In welcome beneath a
mrent far a bow: uorqln' akji '','" , ,
. W na'rf that "Curfew ahonld not ring," Thero'e a bridge acroet the river ; an', we Tt
but. Lord 1 ll'a ringla' now I , crossed, an' aald "Oood-by I
Frank h. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution.
Trus Tale of an
Dogs constantly are surprising their
best Irit-nds. The true tale of Bob is a
shining Illustration of this fact, -;
Bob is an unarlstocratlc but IntelU
gent animal, whose ancestry is several
parts fox terrier, the other being un
known. - He Is sturdy, brave, quick
witted and efficient, well equipped in
every way to play a good part In the
canine struggle for the survival of
the fittest. Keen as a fox, and game
as a nebble that is Bub.
' He has, also, two contradictory char
acteristics the love of Bis nome anu
the lust for travel, and thereby hangs
this veridical tale, which Is, In the an
nals of dogciom, what the saga of Lief,
the son of Eric, Is In the chronicles of
human adventure. For without the
aid of chart or compass, without even
the sense of smell to guide him. Bob
has Journeyed through an unknown
land more than 100 miles back to a
spot he bad not seen for Ave years.
From South Haven, Mich., to Austin,
III., by the overland route, Is the feat
of the wonderful Bob.
Bob acknowledges as masters two
little boy b William Henry, Jr., aged
10 years, and Rudolph Henry, Bged
12. Their father, William Henry, Sr.,
an employe In the filing room of the
Circuit Court of Cook county, Is rec
ognized by Bob and his own owners
as tha final court of appeal In all dis
putes over rights of proprietorship.
Bob came Into this world some nine
or ten years ago, being born within
the confines of Austin before that sub
urb was annexed to the city. He
promptly was adopted by the Henry
family, then resident In Austin, and
Interested In the management of a
bakery at 201 North Pork avenue. -Amid
the fragrant exhalations of the
bakeshop, with the aromas of cream
puffs, coffee cake and fresh bread ed
ucating his nostrils to a delicate sense
of the good things in life, Bob pasBed
from the days of puphood to canine
maturtfy; He frolicked with Willy
and Sidy on the lawns of the town
park "ist across the street, and foroved
prodigy at massacrjdg the
ts ?whlch attempted to gnaw ara
sques fn the crusts of Mme, Henry's
s. His warfare on the rodents
so pitiless that Grocer Louis Nls-
, half-way down the block, attempt
ed" -seduce him Into a change of
habitat with choice bits from the chop
ping block but Bob proved faithful
to his old friends. Altogether, tie
found Austin a very pleasant place In
which to live.
Five years ago the bakery changed
hands and the Henrys moved away.
William Henry, Sr., entered into the
employment of the county and located
in Chicago at 91 Hill street, but the
grandmother Immigrated to Soi'"1
Haven, where she owned a small plot
of ground just outside the limits of
the town. Bob was sentenced to live
with hor, and was taken across the
lake in a steamer, enjoying the trip
hugely, for he Is a dog Ot an extreme
ly nautical tarn of mind.
Then Willy and Rudy and William,
SrH and the rest of the family came
over to visit him quite often. But af
ter all country life lacked the Intoxi
cating, cosmopolitan charm of urban
Austin,: and there was many a time
when he longed tor the smell of cream
puffs and the squeal of a frightened
rat.-"
And now the history of Bob's ad
venture begins. Sunday, July 16,
Henry, Sr., and his family ran ovet
to South Haven for the usual week
end outing.- Bob bad been suffering
from an unusually . severe attack of
home-sickness the week before, and
the arrival ot his lords and masters
was a welcome balm to his nostalgic
pangs.
The time for parting came at last,
however, -and Bob's heart was sad, In
deed. : Rudy was left behind, but
Willy' and his father sailed away on
the Eastland that evening, leaving
their faithful friend behind them on
the wharf. The newly married cou
ples were kissing on the decks, hand
kerchiefs were fluttering over the bul
warks . and the famous homeward
bound chorus, ''Are you married? Are
you married?" was violating the chas
tity of the summer twilight as the
excursion liner left the docks. -
" Occasionally the classic retort of
the venerable quid "No, we're di
vorced !," floated across the waters,
and It admirably expressed the feel
ings of poor Bob, perched disconsolate
ly on the end of the pier.
Willy and Pop leaned across the
railing to have one last look at the
lonely dog, which broke Into a long
"Ow-ow-ow-ow!" of grief at the sight
of them, and was only restrained from
a' suicidal attempt to follow In their
wake by a kind-hearted dockwalloper
who clutched him by the scruff of the
neck at the crucial moment and with
a friendly kick sent him scampering
toward home,
- Three days after the dull routine of
filing briefs In the dingy archives of
the Circuit Court was broken for Hen
ry' pere by a letter from IZ-year-old
Willy, visiting with grandma at South
Haven. It contained this pathetic
line:
"Bob has runned away,"
Yes, the gypsy strain In Bob's mon
grel blood had asserted Itself at last.
Without ceremony or leave-taking he
had wandered down the road and over
the hill out Into the great world. Hie
recent emotional disturbances had
proved to be too much for him; his
first motive In running tiway merely
was a blind consciousness that the
times were out of Joint and that some-'
OLD DAYS.
Intelligent Dog.
thing must be done to put them right.
But as he settled down to a long,
steady dog lope he began to think ot
the happy days ot long ago in Austin,
He seemed to smell the cream puffs
again and to hear the rats gnawing
at the flour barrels in the cellar. Then
he knew that he was going back to
the land ot his nativity, and that noth
ing but sudden death would atop him.
Let the clever animal psychologists
who experiment on white mice at the
universities tell, if they can, what in
stinct guided him over thla route,
which he never had traveled before.
It is sufficient for the purposes of the
present narrative to say that he never
faltered or hesitated, but pushed stead
ily on, keeping the lake on his right
paw and following the sun. And his
advantures were many.
Near Watervllet, Mich., he met a
farmer's wagon, and was given a lift
of many miles, which gave his aching
pads a grateful rest. He supped at
Benton Harbor In the rear of a butch
er shop,' defeating three other scaveng
ing dogs In fair fight, for hunger had
made him fierce as a wolf.
Then he crossed over to St. Joseph,
enjoying a refreshing swim across the
St. Joe river. The next day was Wed
nesday, during which he passed
through the town ot Stevensvllle,
where he almost caused a German
hausfrau to suffer an attack of apo
plexy by leaving a trail of dirty paw
prints across the newly washed streets
which were drying on her lawn. Near
Brldginan he fraternized with a group
of tramps who were dining off a pur
loined pullet, scorched over a camp
fire, and at Sawyer, the village black
smith "sicked" a mastiff on him.
Having escaped the mastiff without
much honor, but with a whole skin,
Bob fared on to New Buffalo, where
he spent the night in the railroad sta
tion, through the kindness of the Irish
flagman.
Then Bob entered the domain of
the Hoostcrs. He almost was tempted
to dig a grave for himself and die
when be came to the sand dunes, but
Michigan City proveofW oa'SH Inthe
desert. Here he was observed by the
faithful few at the station who watch
the trains come 'in, and one kindly
soul- fed him a doughnut from the
railroad eating house.
Bob devoured it in stole resigna
tion, even as the man lost In the wil
derness will eat his own shoes. But
when one of the village cut-ups re
marked, "That there dawg will eat
ennythlng," and made him "speak" for
a discarded "chaw" ot tobacco, Bob's
city-bred pride arose, and he shook
the sand of Michigan City out of his
fur. He made good time by keeping
close to the shore line limping along
the shingle and eating an occasional
dead fish.
Although the Tolleston marshes con
fused blm for a time, he soon found
his bearings and began to forge north
ward, toward the smoky haze on the
horizon, where he knew he would find
the cream puffs and the rata. The
dugout ot the, boy bandits and the
scene of Nledemeler's last stand, near
the powder mills of Aetna, bad no
charms for him; his strength began
to return with the sense that he was
nearlng the goal,- and he soon bolted
through Hammond and across the
state line Into Chicago. ;
How Bob rode in a caboose from
Pullman to Randolph street that is
a minor detail in this true tale of a
dog. He made a gallant finish at 2
o'clock on Thursday afternoon, going
straight as a homing pigeon to 201
North Park avenue, Austin. There.
as of old, was the bakeshop, and there
bis nostrils were made glad with the
scent of newly baked bread and de
licious cream puffs.
Mrs. J. W. Boyle, now the proprie
tress of the bakery, was startled out
of a study of the advertisements In
the morning newspaper by I long and
jubilant ow-ow-ow'ow!"
It was Bob, his nose in the air.
every rib visible, covered with dirt,
but cheerfully giving voice like a
hound In at the death. She charitably
opened the door for the tramp, Bbb
darted In, and In another moment was
curled up in his favorite seat, on the
window-sill, fast asleep, Shortly after
ward Mrs. J. J. Owens, who lives In
the flat above, came In to buy sup
plies for supper. She took one glance
at the sleeping dog, and then ex
claimed: , "Why, where In the world
did you get Bob?"
Meanwhile Henry, Sr., whose mind
has been trained by a long study ot
legal documents, had been thinking
over Bob's disappearance. Last Sat
urday morning be remarked to Mrs.
Henry. "I'll bet that blamed doe has
gone back to Aul tin," and, although
this acute remark was greeted with
wifely Contempt, be went out to the
old homestead that afternoon. Chi
cago Record-Herald.
Fsels HI Oat.
A musical composition of the Span
ish dance order made the hit of the
evening at an open air concert given
at Fresno last night by the 6th regi
ment band. It was composed by a
waiter in a local chophouse. F, C.
Franzonl Is his name and between or
ders he has succeeded In grinding out
a very creditable piece ot music. It
Is entitled "Zona." Since- his success,
the waiter has adopted the title of Slg
nor Frazinl and has taken to wearing
a top hat. He announces that he will
devote himself to a musical career.
San Francisco Call,
New Orchards.
Where such a thing Is feasible farm
ers should plant nut trees and thus
utilize the hillsides where nothing
else will grow for nut orchards .
Milking Up.
It ts easy to milk a cow down in
two senses In one. A poor milker It
pretty sure to get her down In her
quantity of milk. Milking up again Is
harder, but It Is possible. I heard
lately ot a cow that had got down In
two months, from 24 to six pounds a
day, without any apparent cause, as
far as she was herself concerned.
. The master milker took her In hand,
handling and petting her; he filled her
up on a mixed diet, salted, and wash
ed down with clear water. In a little
over two weeks she had gone up again
to seventeen pounds. .
This man believes In the Scandina
vian plan of treating the udder witll
a kind of massage after the milking Is
supposed to be over, . Tbts ts done
for three or four minutes when some
very rich milk Is prodnced. It seems
that there la always some hiding away
In the cavities of the udder.
Instinct as well as experience makos
the calf go through with Its "hunch
ing," and no wonder the cow kicks the
calf in a not very motherly fashion, if
her udder happens to be tender. L. A.
Nash In Indiana Farmer.
Grooming Horses,
The process of grooming requires
treat practice and experience in or
der to remove all the deep-seated dirt
and loose scales. Cleaning the legs Is
also an Important point In grooming.
In dry weather simple brushing out
Is sufficient, followed by hand rubbing.
In wet or wintry weather when there
Is mud, washing ot the" legs Is general
ly resorted to. This practice, as It is
commonly performed, should be con
demned. It Is not so much the actual
washing that should be objected to,
as the fact that the legs are almost
Invariably left damp. This Is a pro
lific source of inflammation sometime;)
of a portion of the skin, as in cutane
ous quittor, erythema, etc. The mud
commonly gets the blame, but experi
ence shows It Is not tne mud, but tho
washing aggravated by bad weathe:',
which produces these evils. If the
legs mus,t be washed they should bo
rubbed ublil they are not only thor
oughly drytbut warm. After IhhMhey
should bcbvndaged. Washing ihe
wholer&dy of the horse is a practice
thaVshould be wholly condemned. The
-practice of washing destroys the flossy
appearance of a well groomed animal
besides removing the protective oily
material and subjecting tho horse to
more danger from chill.
Study tha Hay Crop.
Some fields are ready to cut before
others, and It is well to attend to
these first, as it should be the aim to
get all ot the crop possible when at
the most profitable stage of growth.
The wild or water grasses, where
there are any, should be cut early and
so should any fields infested with
weeds that should not be allowed lo
ripen their seeds.
There is likely to be a considerable
amount of the white daisy this sea
son for some reason, and these should
be cut when In bloom when they will
make a fair quality of hay, but If left
until ripe are nearly worthless, and so
of all weeds, with a proper rotation
and suitable cultivation there should
be fewer weeds In the mowing fields. .
To cut the grasses early, or as nearly
as may be when In full bloom, is gen
erally considered best by all farmers.
In some cases it may be necessary in
order to do this to commence a little
early, so that all of the crop possible
may be cured before It has passed the
most profitable stage of growth. Were
It not for having the best of machinery
for the work and smooth meadows
this could hardly be done, but with
these aids there Is a great saving In
time and labor.
To get the bay at the right time and
in the best condition should be the ob
ject, then put the different grades by
themselves where they can be had as
wanted tor use another winter. E.- R.
T., n American Cultivator.
Holding Back Milk.
According to Professor Stewart, the
following is the explanation why cows
sometimes hold up or keep back their
milk. The production of milk Is dun
to a nervous action by which the gland
ular substance of the udder is broken
down Into milk whenever the cow Is
Influenced by sufficient excitement of
the right kind. It depends upon the
structure and function ot. the udder
lust as much as tha sections of other
glands do, which we know are wholly
subject to a set of nerves controlling
this distinct function. The udder is
not a mere vessel for holding milk that
is supposed to be secreted continually
and gathers In the udder, as one may
suppose a constant dripping of any
fluid would fill any other receptacle.
On the contrary, It is a gland, made up
St cellular substance, which grows by
separation (from the blood) of the
matter required. When It has attained
maturity, or when the necessary ner
vous action occurs, It breaks down
Into a special product milk.
Several experiments have been made
with the udders of cows In milking
condition that h.-ive been slaughtered,
and an examination, has been record
ed Qt the udder of a cow accidentally
killed on the railroad when going
home to be milked, when she would
have given the usual ten quarts. The
microscope showed J.u minute globu
ules ot the tissue swollen and distend
ed, but the udder contained practical
ly no milk, except a very small quan
tity that drained from the divided tis
sue when ct across.
We perceive, that this function of the,
cow is wholly nervous in its action, 'as
indeed, ever other function of the ani
auU Is, and if the d" nervous excite-
ment is absent, there is no functional
action, It is wholly due to the right
influence on the nerves that the milk
Is produced and flows from every ulti
mate globule of the udder down
through all the ducts, small and great,
to the teat. Then, If all goes well, and
the cow Is In her natural, easily ex
cited, nervoua condition, as soon as the
milker begins to touch the teats tha
cow lets down the milk that Is, she
does not exert herself to oppose thi
action of the nerves of the mammary
glandB. Massachusetts Ploughman,
; Growing Calves.
It Is the rule among all good dairy
men to take the calves from the cows,
when a few days old at most. It has
been found that the udder Is injured
and the cow damaged by any other
course. Calling attention to this fact
the London Live Stock Journal says
that the Injury la more or less perma
nent when the calf la allowed to suck
any considerable length of time, that
the udder of the young cow loses ra
pacity to hold a large quantity ot milk
If ever it had-tt and older cows,
becoming accustomed to the steady
half-hourly drafts of the calf, fall oft
rapidly In their yield after the calf
has been sent to market. It Is true
that calves fatten well on the cow, but
they can be fattened very nearly If not
just aa well on the pail. New milk Is
far too expensive a luxury for a calf,
which, after the first week of Its life,
can be put on a ration of sweet skim
milk, 'the loss of cream being made up
by the use of scalded Unseed, meal.
Where the milk Is the principal thing,
veil I H secondary, and It is well to
sacrifice some of the excellence of the
latter to the good of the dam. A heif
er that Is allowed to rear her own
calf is generally ruined as a dairy cow.
Her udder, never, becoming distended,
lacks capacity to carry the milk from
one milking to another; and when the
calf is at last taken away, not only do
the teats leak, but tho distension of
the udder, causing discomfort, results
in a decrease in the yield.
On the other hand, had the disten
sion occurred when the whole system
was in the plastic condition In which
it Is just after calving, when the udder
Is naturally swollen and more or
less painful, it would have become per-
rranently adapted to the clrcumstancear.lniad()ne by machinery. There are
The , desirability. jthcilafer of
proamljjgJfeTffig ; the calf from the
cow Is apparent, and It Is, In fact, de
manded by every motive ot economy,
Many farmers who do not desire to
rear their calves sell them when a few
days old for a trifling sum, yet they
all havo the means at hand to make a
good profit out of the skim milk by
feeding It to the male calves and turn
ing them out as veal. Excellent veal
can be made mainly out ot skim milk,
and many calves reach the butcher
which have never been fed a quart of
whole milk, nftor the first day or
two of their lives. If properly looked
after these calves look quite as well as
those raised on new milk.
Butcher-Baron's Trouble.
A 50 necklace has just been the
cause of considerable excitement In a
theatre at Montmartre. It had been
stolen by a young butcher from a
woman who was his customer, and
inter It was recognized by the loser
on the neck of a girl, who set near
her at the performance. Accused ot
wearing things that did not belong
to her, the girl stated before the com
missary of police that the necklace
was a present from her friend, the
Baron de Montegalllna. The noble
man In question was at once sent for
and turned out to be the butcher,
whose thieving proclivities had got
the better of his honesty. The com
missary, after a rigorous cross-examination,
learned from the butcher's lips
that he had stolen the necklace and
assumed the title of Baron in order
to win the affection of a young lady
who otherwise would have bad noth
ing to do with him. He Is now In the
lockup awaiting his trial. Paris cor
respondence In I-ondon Globe.
Land Was Out of 8lght,
"Yes," said one of the traveling men
who were telling stories In front of
the hotel. "I was once out of sight of
land on the Atlantic ocean twenty-one
days."
"On tho Pacific one time-1 dldnt
tee land for 29 days," said another. A
little bald-headed man tilted his chair
against a post and knocked the ashes
from his Cigar..
"I started across the Kaw river near
Lawrence In a tklff once when I was
a kid," he said, "and was out of sight
ot land before I reached, the other
side."
"Aw, come off." came from one of
the crowd, "The Kaw river Isn't more
than 300 yards wide anywhere along
near Lawrence." .
"I didn't say it was." said the little
man, quietly. "The skiff turned over
and I aank twice." Kansas City
Times.
Bathers Who 8leap Floating..,
"To fall a Bleep floating on the waves
Is not an Impossibility," said an At
lantic City life-guard. "On the sun
warmed billows on an August after
noon I once floated off to sleep, and
when I awoke I was nearly halt a
mile out at sea. I know a Camden
man who often takes a floating nap
off Chelsea.
"A good many people can't float
even though they can swim. They
can't float because they keep the line
of the bodyt from head to heels, stiff
and straight The line Bhould be kept
curved a little It should resemble a
very broad V and all the muscles
should be loose, relaxed. It la easy
to float, I have taught many children
of six or seven years to do It."
Philadelphia Bulletin.
1,000,000 foreigners fame over to
ttlfl country lant year, . '
MAKING 80 DA WATER, i
Getting It Into Bottles Is the Opera
tion Requiring Quickness.
There Is a soda water man In this
town who believes that it the cooling
but harmless drinks of modern days
had been known and brought to their
present state of tempting perfection
SO or 100 years earlier the thirst tor
intoxjcatlng beverages would : never
have got such a grip as it now en
joys on civilized mankind. This is a
question for the historians and meta
physicians to thrash out, but it is a
view that Is prettyabard on our grand
mothers, whose sassafras and other
aromatic home-brewed beers were, ac
cording to the testimony of our fath
ers, good enough to put the W. C. T.
U. out of business if anything could.
There is, however, much In the con
tention that the "soft" drinks man
factured today out of various charged
waters and fruit flavors are as near
perfection aa science can make them.
Scientists, Indeed, are constantly
working at the problem of making
them better, and the need of secrecy
in certain cases, to protect new pro
cesses not yet patented, does not in
terfere much with the progress of
the study.
The notion that soda water has any
sulphuric acid in It Is entirely erron
eous, according to the authority quot
ed above, The carbonic acid gas with
which plain water is charged, is, in
deed, made by treating marble dust, or
other substance containing carbon,
with sulphuric acid, but after the gas
ts made it Is neither marble dust nor
sulphuric acid, but something very
different, and before It is forced into
the water by pressure it Is passed
through an apparatus which thorough
ly cleanses It.
The name soda water comes from
the fact that carbonic acid gas may be
generated by treating bl-carbonate of
soda with acid. It was often made in
that way in the early daya in small
quantities and could be so made now,
a glassful at a time, but there, is a
sediment in such water, resulting from
the chemical combination of sulphur
In the sulphuric acid and the soda in
the bl-carbonate of soda, which may or
may not be harmful tq health. Tha
modern soda water, however, as made
by the factories, Is nothing but water
and gas. It is the "fruit" flavoring,
if made of chemicals, that is likely to
be harmful. For manufacturing in
quantity the gas Is accumulated In a
gasometer, where it Is stored. For
putting soda water, sarsaparllla or
other carbonated waters in bottles the
flavoring Byrup is put in first and then
the gas Is conducted to tho bottle from
the gasometer by a stout rubber hose.
This is necessarily a rapid operation
stops and cdtkt! for both hands and
feet of the operBtothat by th5
time the water and gaa arer. on top
of the syrup the cock is at once force"
Into the bottle's mouth and the fas
tening apparatus is applied, all In the
space of a few seconds. There is more
than one style of machine for this
work, but with ono of an up-to-date
pattern an expert can fill from 200 to
250 dozen bottles a day.
For putting up seltzer and similar
waters in siphons u special machine
Is used. The siphon has to withstand
an interior pressure of from 175 to 200
pounds to tho square Inch, and in addi
tion to being thick and strong must
be as tight In the neck against leak
age as a Bteam valve which often sus
tains no greater pressure. There is
a good deal ot risk to the operator in
bottling siphon goods. The siphons
are made in Bohemia, because the
glass needs to be finely tempered, an
art that reaches Its highest perfection
in that country. Philadelphia Record,
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Three brothers were wedded
three sisters at Durren, England,
cently.
A correspondent of Nature says he
had his portrait painted by two well
known1""' 'd calculated that In
each case about - .,000 strokes of the
brush were made.
A lineman at Reno, Nev., came In
contact with a heavily-charged wire at
the top ot a 60-foot electric light pole
and fell to tne ground. When he re-,
covered consciousness he wished
return to work at once, but was per
snaded to call It a day. .
Chinese newspapers, owing to the
cheap quality ot paper used and to the
low price of labor, both literary and
mechanical, are issued at an extreme
ly Small figure. The price of the or
dinary Shanghai Journal la four cash,
or about nne-flfth of a cent
The following notice waa recently
conspicuously displayed in the engine
dispatcnej's office at the roundhouse
In a town within 60 miles of Albany:
"Trainmen on passenger trains must
not. go through the coaches with over
alls on, without first taking them off."
; A bird which can talk in two lan
guages and whose repertory consists
of 17 phrases is the latest addition
to the London zoological gardens. The
bird belangs to a species which flour
ishes In northern India. Three of its
phrases are In an Indian dialect and
the rest In English. The bird's name
Is Tommy, and It asks all visitors.
"Who are you T" , , .
Disconcerting.
"Now, boys." ssld the schoolmaster,
during an examination in geography,
"what Is the axis ot the earth?"
Johnny raised his hand promptly.
"Well, Johnny, how would you de
scribe It?" .
"The axis of the earth," said Jofcn
ny, proudly, Vis an Imaginary line
which passes from one pole to the oth
er and on which the earth revolves.'
"Very good," exclaimed the teacher.
"Now, could you hang clothes on that
line, Johnny?"
'Yes, sir," was the reply.
"Indeed?" said the examiner, disap
pointed; "and what sort of clothes?"
"Imaginary clothes, sir." Harper's
Weekly.
The bicycle boom is bo big In Eng
land that the factories can not keep
pane with the demand
. IHE PULP1T.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
DEAN, H MARTYN HAH T,
Snlijee i Tllhng Tha Hooial Problem.
DeiuVr, Col.-Penn H, Mnrtyn Hart,
of the St. John's Cathedral, recently
preached a sermon on. '"Tithing the
Dlvlno Solution of the Social Prob
lem." The text was from Matthew
ixll:2!: .'"Render, therefore, unto
Caesnr the things which are Caesar's
and unto (Jort the things which arc
Cod's." Denu Hart said: .
"It surely was no just argument that
because the hend of Caesar was upon
the coin It therefore belonged to blm
and 'ought to be returned to the im
perial treasury, any more than be
cause the erilgy-of the king is struck
upon the Kiigllib sovereign that there
fore all sovereigns are his property.
"You will notice that the Lord had
said, 'Show me the tribute money.' A
bystander offered the coin, which lay
In the extended palm of the Lord's
hand. The Jews have ever been the
most precocious of money dealers.
Had the Romans permitted them to
nav their taxes In all manner of coins.
great would have been the loss to the
exchequer; therefore a coin was
struck, and there are still zome of
tVem to be seen, in which alone it was
la- ' -1 to pay the tax. This coin had
to be purchased from the publican ot
the district, who looked after bis own
interests. The 'tribute money' went to
Rome, to the Imperial treasury,
"The man who had produced the
coin had already acknowledged his
liability and bad provided himself with
the means of liquidating It. The coin
was only of nse for the one purpose;
that one thing was the payment of tho
tribute. The questioner had answered
himself. 'Fulfill your obligation,', said
the Lord, 'and render unto Caesar the
things that be Caesar's, and do not
forget that the power of Caesar Is only
the representative of the higher power
b.- whom kings reign, and If you admit
the authority of the servant by so
much more should you recognize the
authority of the Master: render, there
fore, unto Mod tho things that are
God's.' What, then, are 'the things
of God' which we are required to ren
der unto Him?
"If the context requires that the
parallel shall be continued, and it Is in
a sum ot money that the answer must
be given, then the only reply can be
that one-tenth of every man's Income
is 'a thing of God.' Now what evi
dence have we that'tbls Is so and what
is the purpose of the law?
"The ultimate appeal as to what Is
truth must be the opinion ot the race.
It the opinion of all men could be
taken as to the truth or falsity of any
proposition, thot would be a final de
termination. When anybody ts in
doubt of a lefrnl or medical question,
the only solution of the doubt Is an ap
peal to men of the legal or medical
professions. 'Counsel's opinion' is
taken, or the sufferer goes to a doctor.
-If it were possible to extend this
natural instinct to tne limits ot Hu
manity and upon any question of
grave import the opinion of all men
Kcould be ascertjiinea, tnen tnat expres
sion would be as nearly truth as it is
possible for us men to arrive at,
"The Lincolnlan canon is as sure a
rule as the most firmly established
axiom. 'You cannot fool all the peo
ple all the time.' There are, at least,
double the number ot Bibles In the
world as there are ail other books put
together. If the list of the libraries
in the world be taken out ot an en
cyclopedia and the number of their
volumes added, It will be found that
In all the libraries which possess over
100,000 volumes there are 60,000,000
books, and if we allow that there are
as many books in household libraries
as In these great public collections,
which IS making a liberal estimate, we
may safely conclude that there are
not more than 100,000,000 secular
books in the world. But during the
last century the leading Bible societies
of Europe and America put out more
than 200,000,000 Bibles, In 860 differ
ent languages. Tbe British and For
eign Bible Society turns out ot its
presses seven Bibles, or parts of the
Bible, every minute, day and night.
It ig, therefore, tbe opinion ot the race
that thjs Book is 'the most valuable
tiling in the world,' as the Archbishop
of Canterbury describes It, as he band
ed a cop', to tbe new-crowned king.
"The opinion of the race la that the
Bible is a book of truth; that it Is
what it professes to bethe revelation
of the heavenly Father to tha children
of men. Now if this be the case, It
would be strange indeed. If this com
munication from outside our life did
not Instruct us as to tbe great desider
ata of every individual. Let any one
ask himself what would make him
perfectly happy and content in this
present state of existence.
"The reply would be: First, to have
a conscience void of offense; next to
have no fear of death, but a looking
forward to a glory to be revealed;
and finally, to be removed from any
anxiety as to the necessities of living.
As we should expect, tbe answers to
these essential requirements of life
are given on the very first page ot
human history. - .
"In the dramatic story of Cain and
Abel the three provisions for satisfy
ing these three fundamental wants
are plainly stated. These two broth
ers came together on the same day, at
the same time, to the same place, for
the same purpose; there were two
altars and each brought material for
sacrifice.
'"The essential truth of sacrifice, de
spite the Immense ingenuity which
has been employed to explain It away,
remains stamped upon It. . Millions of
intelligent men have brought an inno
cent victim to an altar erected to the
unseen but recognised God. Putting
their hands on the head of the victim,
tney confessed tbe sins which lay a
burden on their couicfence; they thus
killed the sacrificial animal; tbey
burnt part of it and ate the rest of it.
It would be an insult to the intelli
gence of .mankind to admit that all the
generations of men should,, one after
another, perform sacrifice in practical
ly the same way, and mean nothing
by it - Tbe meaning of its ritual is
written large npon Its surface. No
sensible man could for a moment be
lieve that the wrongs lie had done,
and which be regretted and would
undo If he could, and was prepared to
make what atonement tor he was able,
Just think of it! Nome, whose out
put of gold for the season of 190B la
estimated at 10,000,000, was practi
cally unknown a few years ago, the
Boston Transcript recalls. !t recent
history probably stirparsca the mad
dest dreams of the adventurers who
long ago froze and starved on Its
then Inhospitable shores. It strikes
us that Jack London mlsed a rare
'chance w?:en be hurried away from
tho romant'c Northwert to go to Lnn
to ';'; prr-isnJc, ?nf(Ul5m,
he could transfer 1 a dumb animal by
putting bis hands on its bead and con
fessing his sins. That innocent anl
mat represented - some other Being,
who 'could bear the sins of the world.'.
The only nation ot theologians tbe
world has ever produced kept dear the
original revelation. They knew there
was 'a Lamb of God tnat taketli away
the sin of the world.' ;
: "That God requires of men a tenth
of their income, as a tax for the gen
eral purposes of the commonweal, and
Issued this law as one of the funda
mental' rules for the guidance of hu
man society, ts evident from the fact
of Its wide observance by ancient na
tions. One Instance must suffice. n
Plutarch's life of the Dictator Camil
las, it is recorded that after tbe taking
of the Etruscan City of Veil, the
augurs reported from their inspection
ot tbe sacrifices, that tbe gods were
outraged, An Inquiry was instituted
and It was ascertained that the sol
diers who had been concerned in tbe
sacking of the city bad neglected to
dedicate tbe accustomed tenth to the
gods. Tbe senate decreed that tbe
victorious legions should make restitu
tion and that a cup ot gold of eight
talents weight should be sent as a
trespass offering to the Temple of
Apollo at Delphi.
"The Roman ladles brought, of tbelr
own free will, such liberal gifts ot
Jewels and gold that the Senate, to
honor them, decreed that funeral ora
tions might be made at tbe obsequies
of women, which hitherto had only
been permitted over eminent public
men. This extraordinary episode
proves how rarely it happened that
tithes were not paid and how grievous
was the sin of omitting their payment.
The further history of this incident
also proves that tbe payment of tithes
was a world wide Institution and car
ried with it a sacredness which can
only be accounted for by admitting
that it was a primitive and universally
recognized Inw of God. .
"Three senators of high rank were
appointed to carry the restored tithe,
with the trespass offering, to Delphos.
On Its way the embassy was taken by
the Liparians, who were then at war
with Rome. But when the governor
of tbe city understood that the rich
booty was tithe on its way to Delphos,
he not only liberated the Romans, but
sent a squadron of his own fleet to
convoy them safely on their way.
"This dedication at a tenth, for the
common purposes of the community,
could only have been devised by a
mind which thoroughly understood the
whole problem of the needs of human
society. If it were honestly prnctlced
it would be found Just enough to alle
viate all social pressure and It is not
a little to be wondered St. that the
public eye should be blinded to such
an exceedingly simple and easily ex
ecuted law, wblcb could readily bo
enacted and as readily executed. Sup
pose that every citizen comprehended
the effectiveness of the law of tithe
and voted that it should be constituted
a national Income tax, what would be
tho result?
"Consider the absolute Impossibility
of legislating against trusts or com
binations of capital. Legislation
against tbe natural processes of trade
can never be a success. The money
getting proclivity is an element in the
character of men, which, like other
charftptorisitlcg. vnrtcB la alffccsat pea:
pie. Those In whom it Is largely de
veloped will accumulate money natur
ally. If all the wealth of the com
munity were evenly distributed among
Its Individuals it would. In the course
of a few years, go back again Into tho
hands of those who possessed tbe apti
tude of making money. The law of
God would tax this capability for the
benefit of those who do not possess it,
and for those who by various disabil
ities gravitate below tho line of com
fortable living.
"The taxation of a tenth will be
found to be that exact fraction which
everybody can subscribe without dis
tress, and exactly that sum which will
maintain those who from various
causes are unable to maintain them
selves. All communities have about
the same proportionate composition,
and tbe example afforded by this city
of Denver will be applicable to any
other city mntatis mutandis.
"This city is composed of about thir
ty thousand houses. It will be readily
conceded that for living purposes each
house must represent a yearly income
of (1000. So that the minimum Income
ot this city is $.10,000,000. Tbe actual
income Is probably twice that amount.
But see tbe effect of tithing this mini
mum $30,000,000. Tbe tithe would be
$3,000,000. Now. by actual reckoning,
it Is found that the Income of the 125
churches, that is, all moneys gathered
for all purposes from the people wor
shiping in them, amounts to less than
$300,000. Last year tbe Incomes of tbe
five largest denominations were: The
Presbyterians, $56,000; tbe Episcopa
lians, $48,000; the Congregatlonallsts,
f$34,000; the Baptists, $31,000, and the
Methodists, $21,000. Bo that $200,000
will represent tbe religious income of
this community, The County Commis
sioners expended on relief $86,000.
Tbe four hospitals did not spend in
charitable work $5O,0W The other so
cieties which exist for eleemosynary
purposes, together with all the private
charity of the city, will have their ex
penditures well covered by $114,000.
So that $500,000 represents the relig
ious and charitable cost to a city of
166,000 people, of maintaining its
churches, hospitals and charitable so
cieties. The public school system,
which is remarkably efficient, cost
$486,000. Thus, for all sorts ot charit
able relief, all sorts of religions effort
and for public education the city ot
Denver spent $1,000,000.
If tithing were in force the tithe
commissioners would have,-' at - the
least, $3,000,000 at their disposal that
means to say that tbe churches might
all be free, tbe hospitals wide open
and well equipped; public laundries
might relieve the women of the work
ing clnsses; their food might be cooked
at the public kitchens; every man too
old to work might be pensioned; the
streets might be gardens, where all
such pensioners might have easy labor,
and every reasonable cause for discon
tent might be removed.
Let the people demand that an in
come tax of a tenth shall be a national
levy. The English pay Income tax,
why should not Americans? The Mor
mons pay tithe, and they have no poor
and no discontent, so far as the matter
ot living is concerned. It is the law of
God, wonderful, simple and completely
effectiw, whereby all social disabilities
may baWemoved.
A SUGGESTION.
Mr. Sloman Now; you're - Joking,
again, -aren't you?
j Miss Walte Judge for yourself;
you should know me' pretty well by
this time,
. Mr. Sloman But ' you puzzle me
sometimes. I don't know what to
make of you.
Mk-s Wnlto No? By the way, did
you bear about Jack Brown and May
Long? IJe made tier his wire yester
day, DiHadelp'ila Ledger,
FIERCE HORNED CATTLE.,
THE PHILIPPINE TIMARAU HAS
NEVER BEEN TAMED.
Natives Afraid to Hunt It, Although It
Is the Smallest of tha Ox Family
Prof. Worcester's Hard Task In Get
ting a Shot at One Cant Be Drop
pad. Unpatriotic though It may aound,
the American bison was great only In
appearance. His shaggy frontlet, his ,
wild eye and his mighty coronet con
cealed as cowardly a ton of flesh as
ever stirred, says the Washington
Star, . - - -
But even If we have to admit that'
the big Boa Amerlcanus of the United
States Is not worthy of honor except -as
a marvel of the animal world, the -Spanish-American
war saved our face,
for when we acquired the Philippines ' "
we acquired with them a buffalo that
Is the wickedest thing that ever moved '
on four legs. The Philippine carabao
or water buffalo Is wicked enough
when wild, and even In a tamed state
is prone to attack human beings sud
denly. But the tlmarau, although much
Bmaller than the carabao, is so mean
and Bavage that he will search out
carabao and kill them tor the mere ,
love of killing.
Nobody ever has tamed a tlmarau
Nobody In the Philippines wants to .
try; indeed, few natives of the Philip- V
pines ever want to see one. The fear
of the tiger and Hon in India and
Africa Is as nothing compared with
the fear of the tlmarau In the Island
of Mindoro.
So deeply rooted is the fear of the
furtive, belligerent, relentless little ox
that Profs. Worcester and Steere were
unable even to find out what kind of
beast It was when they visited the
Philippines in 1888 on an exploring
expedition.
Everybody warned them against the ;
creature, but.no two descriptions
agreed. Prof. Worcester Bays that "
one man solemnly assured-them that .
It had only one horn, which grew,
straight from the top of its head. An
other declared that he had never seen s
any boms on it, but it certainly bad "
only one eye, which was set right in
the middle of its forehoad.
These tales spurred them on, and
they visited Mindoro, only to search
In vain for several months until they
found a tribe called the Mangyans,
who knew It well. They said that it
was like a small buffalo, with straight 5
horns running upward and backward
like those ol a goat. They expressed
great fear of it, and told him it at
tacked and killed the big water buf
falo every time it got a chance, and
how it would charge a man when
ever It was approached.
Finding out about tlmarau and find
ing tlmarau were two different things..
The creatures were so marvellously
shy and cunning that, although the
Barry 'foltowea "tritllg flay Bw (lay
which showed where whole herds had
congregated, they never even caught
a glimpse of the animal itself.
At last, after more weeks of bunt
ing, a native trackor led them to a
hiding place ot tlmarau; but ho did
so only after he had forced an agree
ment that he be permitted to run as
soon as he had located the game for '
the hunters. He pointed into the
bushes, whispered "Tlmarau, senor!"
and raced madly away, his face gray
with fear. ' , .:,
Prof. Worcester worked his way
carefully through the bushes, but
could not see the buffalo for a long
time, so perfectly was the animal con
cealed. At last he saw his head and - '
fired, but Just as he did so the bull
tossed his head and the shot missed
him.
"As I fired a second time," says
the professor, "there came craBhea In
the jungle on every side of me. I
had walked Into a whole herd of tim- -arau
without knowing It. One old
bull stood his ground and I gave him
a bullet In the shoulder. Furiously
he whirled around on me. As I puBh-
ed the sliding block of my rifle to
throw another cartridge Into the mag
azine the mechanism jammed and left
me to face a wounded tlmarau with a
useless gun. Why that brute did not
charge has always been a mystery to me.
I never afterward knew one to .
tall to do It under similar circum
stances. What he did do waa to rush
madly into the brush after the herd." -
Prof. Worcester found his tracker
up a tree and had so hard a time coax-
lng him to come down that they lost
the trail.
Despite careful hunting and despite -tne
fact that tuey were In tlmarau
country, they got no other shot that ' '
trip; and it was not until the next trip '
that Prof. Worcester got one ot these
buffaloes, and then only by tiring half
on guess Into the bushes where he
could see one indistinctly. It Is rare-
ly that these little buffaloes are round -
in any exeent cover so deniAHhalthe , t
hunter muslisut bis way through tswj j
with a knife, foot by. fooVTbTs aud"";
the fact that if he happens to get .
within scent or a lurking buffalo the
animal will charge him as quick as
lightning and gore and trample htm
to pieces combines to assure the lit
tle forest buffalo of Mindoro a long
season of Immunity.
The natives like the meat of the
tlmarau, and aa other food often falls
them they are eager enough tor It;
but they are far too much afraid of
these cattle to hunt them, even when
they are starving.
Attempts have been made to catch
them alive, but the tlmarau usually
kills itself by its wild struggles as
aeon as trapped, and even It It does
not struggle to the death it refuses
to eat In captivity. , The natives say
that even the youngest calves If
caught and put to suck, with a tame -carabao
will not only refuse to eal,
but will try desperately to kill tho
foster mother. ;
The tlmaran and Its cousin, ihn
pretty little anoa ot Celebes, are I hi
smallest of the ox family. The big
gest, standing higher at the shoulders
than even our bison, Is the gaur or
leladang.
- Not Likely to Be Single.
Maiden Aunt I wouldn't nwriy tin
li-t man living.
Niece Well, untitle, I siisn't": 1
must lm nuuriel already.
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