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The friends of Mr. J. S. Garrett are
enthusiastically supporting him as a
delegate to the district convention.
His election today will evidence the
fact.
Hon. W. H. Johnson. H. R. Rucker
and J. W. Lyons have no opposition
as delegates from the state at large,
but several are after fourth place.
There can be no doubt of the nomi
nation and re-election of the Hon
William McKinley to the presidency
The prosperous condition of the conn
try insures the same. Georgia wil
send up a solid McKinley delegation.
The indications are that there will
be perfect harmony at the mass meet
ing which convenes today at noon in
the court house for the purpose of
electing four delegates and four alter
nates to the state convenes in Atlanta
March 7, and four delegates and four
alternates to the district convention
which will be held March Bat West
Point. Muscogee feels herself hon
ored in furnishing both the state chair
man and district chairman, and it is
perfectly natural that she will show her
appreciation of the honor by the elec
tion of Hon. W. H. Johnson to the
convention, and Mr. John T. Shep
pard to the district convention. It is
the concensus of opinion that the other
delegates elected today will be Messrs.
Roll Willett, Alex Toles and Perry
Senior to the state convention, aud
Messrs. E. N. Clements, J. S. Garrett
and W. J. Marshall to the district con
vention. Mr. Clements is also the
choice of this end of the district for
delegate to the national convention,
which meets in Philadelphia next
June.
Wealth may come from the nickel
saved, but the nickel spent brings
general prosperity. If this nation
were to start in this moment to save
or hoard its nickels it would not be a
week before prosperity would shut up
like a clam at high water aud wait for
the loosening of the purse strings
which were strangling it. Wbat po
tentialiiies for national prosperity
abide in the nimble nickel How in
significant itself! Multiplied by the
population of the United States—-76,-
585,000, according to the treasury es
timate August 1, 1899—it swells to
the enviable sum of $3,814,250 for a
single day. In a twelve-month the
nickel a day spent by the population
of the United States will amount to
$1,392,201,250. What mountains of
misery such a sum can remove in a
year! The nimble nickel is the symbol
and herald of good times. The peo
ple who have learned how to save and
how to spend it have solved the prob
lem of living contended, happy, pros
perous lives.
Science is steadily broadening its
field of usefulness as the servitor of
industry and the benefactor of man
kind. Of all the sciences there is
none so imperfectly understood as that
of meteorology, because we are forced
to de*«l with an intangible substance
and changeable air currents and tem
peratures, and the subtle influences
of land and water, of low depressions
and high elevations in the earth’s
crust, on a delicate but responsive at
mospheric envelope. Yet the science
has advanced sufficiently to be of great
value to the navigator and iu guiding
the farmer in plowing and seeding and
harvest seasons.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
discourse by the eminent divine
LAST SUNDAY.
fcdghlt of the Face—Tho MarvelB
bt the Human Eye Prove the Infinite
Wisdom of the Creator—Divinely Con
structed Lighthouses of the Soul.
[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, l»00.]
Washington, D. C.—ln this discourse Dn
Talmage, in his own why, calls attention
to that part of the human body .p'eter
perhaps discoursed upon in the pulpit And
challenges Us alt to the htttd.V «! smnls
clence. Text, Psalm kilV., 9, “He that
formed the eyo, Shall He not see?”
The impOU organ of the human system
Is the eye. All up and down the Bible God
honors it, extols it, illustrates it or ar
raigns it. Five hundred and thirty-four
times Is it mentioned in the Bible. Omni
presence—“the eyes of the Lord are In
every place.” Divine care-r' ,, a9 Ilie apple
of the eye.” The olnUd's—“the eyelids of
the morning.’' Irreverence—“theeyethat
mocketh at its Father.” Pride—“oh, how
lofty are their eyes.” Inattention—“the
fool's eye in the ends of the earth.” Divine
inspection—"wheels full of eyes.” Sud
denness—“in the twinkling of an eve at
the last trump.” Olivette sermon—-“the
light of the body is the eye.” This morn
ing’s text, "He that formed the eyo, shall
He not see?”
The surgeons, the doctors, the anato
mists and the physiologists understand
much of the glories of the two great
lights of the human race, but the vast
multitudes go on from cradte td grave
without any appreciation bl the two great
masterpieces of thb Lord God Almighty.
It God bad llfcked anything of infinite
wisdom, He would have failed In creating
the human eye, We wander through the
earth trying to see wonderful sights, but
the most wonderful sight wo ever see is
not so wonderful as the instruments
through which we see it.
It has been a strange thing to me fdf
thirty years that some scientist tvitli
enough eloquence and magnetism did not
go through the country with illustrated
lecture on canvas thirty feet square to
startle and thrill and overwhelm Christen
dom with the marvels of the htimisa eye.
We want the eye taken from all its tech
nicalities and some one who shall lay aside
all talk about the pterygomaxillary fis
sures, the sclerotica and the eblasma of
the optic nerve and tn plain, common par
lance which you and I and everybody can
understand present the subject. We have
learned men who have been telling us
what our origin is and what we were. Ob,
if some one should come forth from the
dissecting table and from the classroom
of the university and take the platform
and asking the help of the Creator
demonstrate the wonders of what we are!
If I refer to the physiological facts sug
gested by the former part of my text, it Is
only to bring out in plainer way the
theological lessons of the latter part of
my text, “He that formed the eye, shall
He not see?”
I suppose my text referred to the human
eye since it excels all others in structure
and adaptation. The eyes of fish And rep
tiles and moles and bats ate very simple
things because they have not much to do.
There are Insects with a hundred eyes, but
the hundred eyes have less faculty than the
two human eyes. The black beetle swim
ming the summer pond has two eyes under
the water and two eyes above the water,
but the four insectlle are not equal to the
two human. Man placed at the head of
all living creatures must have supreme
equipment, while the blind fish in the Mam
moth cave of Kentucky have only an un
developed organ of sight, an apology for
the eye, which if through some crevice of
the mountain they should go into the sun*
light might be developed into positive eye
sight. '
In the first chapter of Genesis we find
that God without any consultation created
the light, created the trees, created the fish,
created the fowl, but when He was about
to make man He called a convention of di
vinity, as though to imply that all the
powers of Godhead were to be enlisted in
the achievement. "Let us make man,”
Put a whole ton of emphasis on that word
“us.” “Let tts make man.” And if God
called a convention of divinity to create
man I think the two great questions in that
conference were how to create a soul and
how to make an appropriate window for
that emperor to look out of.
Seo how God honored the eye before He
created it. He cried until chwos was irrad
iated with the utterance, “Let there be
light!” In other words, before He intro
duced man into this temple of the world
He illumined it, prepared It for the eye
sight. And so after the last human eye
has been destroyed in the final demolition
of the world stars are to fall, and the sun
is to cease its shining, and the moon is to
turn into blood. In other words, after the
human eyes arepo more to be profited by
their shining the chandeliers of heaven are
to be turned out. God to educate and to
bless and to help the human eye set on the
mantel of heaven two lamps—a gold lamp
and a silver lamp—the one fortlie day and
♦he other for the night.
To show how God honors the eye look at
the two halls built for the residence of the
eyes. Seven bones making the wall for
each eye, the seven bones curiously wrought
together. Kingly palace of ivory is consid
ered rich, but the halls for the residence of
the human eyes are richer by so much as
human bone is more sacred than elephan
tine tusk. See how God honored the eyes
when He made a roof for them, so that the
sweat of toll should not smart them and
the rain dashing against the forehead might
not drip into them; the eyebrows not bend
ing over the eye, but reaching to the right
and to the left, so that the rain and the
sweat should be compelled to drop upon
the cheek instead of falling into this di
vinely protected human eyesight.
See how God honored the eye in the fact
presented by anatomists and physiologists
that there are 800 contrivances in every
eye. For window shutters, the eyelids
opening and closing 30,000 times a day, the
eyelashes so constructed that they have
their selection as to what shall be admitted,
saying to the dust, “Stay ont,” and saying
to the light, “Come in.” For inside cur
tain the iris or pupil of the eye, according
as the light Is greater or less, contracting
or dilating. The eye of the owl is blind in
the day time, the eyes of some creatures
are blind at night, but the human eye so
marvelously constructed it can see both by
day and by night.
Many of the other creatures of God can
move the eye only from side to side, but the
human eye, so marvelously constructed,
has one muscle to lift the eye, and another
muscle to lower the eye, and another mus
cle to roll it to the right, and another mus
cle to rod it to the left, ami another mus
cle passing through a pulley to turn it
round and round, an elaborata gearing of
six muscles as perfect as God could make
them.
There is also the retina gathering the
rays cf light and passing the visual im
pression along the optic nerve about the
thickness of the lampwick, passing the
visual impression ou to the sensorium and
on luto the soul. What a delicate lens,
what an exquisite screen, what soft
cushions, what wonderful chemistry of the
human eye. The eye washed by a slow
stream moisture whether we sleep or
wake, rolling imperceptibly over the pebble
of the eyMnd emptying luto a bone of the
nostril, a Bontrivance so wonderful that it
can see the sun 95,000,000 of miles away
and the [mint of a pin. Telescope and
microscope in the same contrivance. The
astronomer swin/s and moves this way and
that and adjusts rod readjusts the tele
scope until he gets 11 to the right focus.
The microscopist moves this way and that
and adjusts a.id readjusts the magnifying
glass until it is prepared to do its work,
but the human eye without a touch be
holds the star and the smallest insect. The
traveler along the Alps with one glance
taking iu Mont Blanc and the face of his
watch td W* tmLa&t ho has time td climb
it* Oh, this wondet/ul Cfiperi. obscura
which you and I, carry about vtit.h u£, so
frond tlicxdp of Mount Washtdgtpu «« <? an
take In FCwEngiana, so at night w,e can
iiecp into our vision the constellations
»i)m horizon to horizon. So delicate, so
seml-inflnlte, aud yet the light coming “5,-
000,000 miles at the rate of 200,000 miles a
second is obliged to halt at the gate of the
eye, waiting until the portcullis be lifted.
Something hurled 95,000,000 miles and
striking an instrument which has not the
agitation of even winking under the power
of the stroke.
There also is thd merciful arrangement
df jthd teiltf gland ti? which ihd dye is
Washed And through which rolls the tide
which brings the relief that comes in tears
when some bereavement or great loss
strikes us. The tear not an augmentation
of sorrow, but the breaking *ip of the arc
tic of frozen grief in the warm gulf stream
of consolation. Incapacity to weep Is
madness or death. Thank God for the tear
glands and that the crystal gates are so
easily opened! Hli; the wonderful hydrau
lic apparatus of the human eye! Divinely
constructed vision. Two lighthouses at the
harbor of the Immortal soul under the
shining of which the world sails in and
drops anchor.
What an anthem of praise to God is the
human eye! The tongue is speechless and
a clumsv instrument of expression as com
pared with it> Have yod ndt seautbd eye
dash With indigaatioiit or kindle with en
ti'.tUlasrd, of expand with devotion, or melt
with sympathy, or stare with fright, or
leer with villainy, or dfoOp with sadness,
or pale with envy, dr fire with revenge, or
twlfikU with mirth, or beam with love? It
is tragedy and comedy and pastoral and
lyric In turn. Have you not seen Its up
lifted brow of surprise, or its frown of
wrath, or its contraction of pain? If the
eye say one thing and the lips said anoth
er thing, you would believe the eye rather
than tho lips. The eyes of Archibald Alex
ander and Charles G. Flnuey were the
mightiest part of their setmonS: George
Whitefield enthralled great assenlblages
with his fives, thoiigli they Were crippled
With stfAbisrrius. Many a military chief
laid has with a look hurled a regiment to
victory or to death. Martin Luther turned
his great eye on an assassin who came to
take his life, and the villain fled. Under
the glance of the human eye the tiger,
with five times a man’s strength, snarls
back into the African jungle.
But those best appreciate the value of
the eye who have lost it, The Emperor
Adrian by accident nut out the eye of his
servant, and he said to his servant: “What
shall I pay you, in money or in lands—any
thing you ask me? I am so sorry I put
your eye out»“ But the servant refused to
put any financial estimate on ttfl value of
the eye) and when the emperor urged and
Urged again the matter he said: “Ob, em
peror, I want nothing but my lost eye!”
Alas for those for whom a thick atd Im
penetrable veil Is drawn across the face of
the heavens and the face of one’s own
kindred.
That was a pathetic scene when a blind
man lighted a torch at night and was
found passing along the highway and some
one said; “Why do you carry that torch
when you can see?’’ “Ab,” said he, “I
can see, but I carry this torch that others
may see me aud pity my helplessness aud
not run me down.” Samson, the giant,
with his eyes put out by the Philistines,
is more helpless than the smallest dwarf
with vision undamaged. All the sym
pathies of Christ were stirred when He
saw Bartimeus with darkened retina, and
the only salvo Ho ever made that we read
of was a mixture of dust and saliva and a
prayer with which He cured the eyes of a
blind man from His nativity. The value
of the eye shows as much by its catas
trophe as by its healthful action. Ask the
man who for twenty years has not seen the
sun rise. Ask the man who for half a century
bus not seen the face of a friend. Askin
the hospatal the victim of ophthalmia.
Ask the man whose eyesight perished In a
powder blast. Ask the Bartimeus who
never met a Christ or the man born blind
who is to die blind. Ask him.
How It adds to John Milton’s sublimity
of character when we find him at the call
of duty sacrificing bls eyesight. Through
studying at late hours and trying all kinds
of medicament to preserve bls sight be
had for twelve years been coming toward
blindness, and after awhile one eye was
entirely gone. His physician warned him
that if he continued reading and writing
be would lose the other eye. But he kept
on with his work and said after silting In
total darkness: “The choice lay before me
between dereliction of a supreme duty and
loss of eyesight. In such a case I could not
listen to the physicians, not if JSsculapius
himself bad spoken from his sanctuary. I
could not but obey that inward monitor. I
know not what spoke to me from heaven.”
Who of us would have grace enough to sac
rifice our eyes at the call of duty?
But, thank God, some have been enabled
to see without very good eyes. General
Havelock, the son of the more famous
General Havelock, told me this concern
ing his father; in India, while his father
and himself with the army were encamped
one evening time after a long march, Gen
eral Havelock called up his soldiers and
addressed them, saying in words as near
as I can recollect: “Soldiers are their 200 or
300 women, children and men at Cawnpur
at the mercy of Nana Sahib, and his
butchers. Those poor people may any hour
be sacrificed. How many of you will go
with me for the rescue of those women and
children? I know you are all worn out,
and so am I. But all those who will march
with me to save those women and children
hold up your band.” Then Havelock
said: “It is almost dark, and my eyesight
is very poor, and I cannot see your raised
hands, but I know they are nil up.
Forward to Cawnpur!” That hero’s eyes,
though almost extinguished lu the service
of God and his country, could see across
India and across the centuries. But let
any body who has one good eye be thank
ful and all who have two good eyes be
twice as thankful. Take care of your eyes
and thank God every morning when you
open them for capacity to see the light. I
do not wonder at the behavior of a poor
man in France. He had been born blind,
but was a skillful groom in the stables.
The recoil of this question is tremen
dous. We stau lat the centre of a vast cir
cumference of observation. No privacy.
On us, eyes of cherubim, eyes of seraphim,
eyes of archangel, eyes of God. We may
not be able to see the inhabitants of other
worlds, but perhaps they may be able to
see us. We have not optical instruments
strong enough to descry them; perhaps
they have optical instruments strong
enough to descry us. The mole cannot see
the eagle midair, but the eagle mldsky can
see the mole mtdgrass. We are able to see
mountains and caverns of another world,
but perhaps the inhabitants of other worlds
can seethe towers of our cities, the flash
of our seas, the marching of our proces
sions, the white robes of our weddings, the
black scarfs of our obsequies. It passes
out from the guess into the positive when
we are told in the Bible that the inhabit
ants of other worlds do come to this.
Are they not all ministering spirits sent
forth to minister to those who shall be
heirs ot salvation?
But hum-iu inspection and angelic in
spection aud stellar inspection and lunar
inspection an I solar inspection are tame
as compared with tho thought ot divine
inspection, “fou converted me twenty
years ago,” said a colored man to my
father. “How so?” said my father.
••Twenty years ago,” said the other, “in
the old school-house prayer-meeting at
Bound Brook you said in your prayer,
‘Tnou, God, seest me,’ aud I had no peace
under the eye of God until I becime
a Christian.” Hear it: “The eyes of the
Lord are in every place.” “His eyelids try
the children of lire.” His ores were as a
flame of fire.” “I will guide thee with‘Mine
eye.” Ob, the eye ot God, so full of ••>ity,
I so mil of power, so full ot love, so fi) Il ot
indignation, so full of compassion, so full
lof merej I How it peers tfarQUljU thb dark
! nessl
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN.
J>recnXnt THOUGHTS from THE
World’s greatest prophets.
Be Thon My All— a! Cafl f6r ,
Abnegation the Hardest Aft *
Which la Attainable God Caret for
the Morrow—Christ Set the Example.
Be thou my Friend, my close Companion
Earth'apatha diverge as comrades onward
v wclitf* *
Friends may depart, bitt thoU; leave uie
never! •
Be thou my Friend I
Be tbou my Guide through darkness aud
through light,
In ev«n tne sunniest way may danger
bide. nj k
Thy feet have trod my road. By day, By
bight,
Be tbou iby Guide'
Be thou my King! Let me know whit to
That all my hours may serve some goodly
Command injr life and keep me royal, true.
Be thou my King!
Be thou my Saviour! Pardon all my sin.
I grieve o'er broken laws and wrong be
havolf)
Without thee heaven I cannot hope to Win,
Be thou my Saviour!
Be thou my Strength! Heavy am I with
Aveakncss*
In thee alone can I be strong at length,
Help me to lean on thee in trust and meek-
Be thou my Strength!
Be tbou my Life! No other one can feed
me,
1 faint, weary and Worn with pain and
strife j , , .
Where living waters flow, O, gently lead
ine!
Be thou my Life!
Be thou my All! Terrors sometimes enfold
me-.
The vasts of thy great universe appalL
Closer to thy dear heart. O, closer hold me,
Be thou my All!
A Call for Action.
The man who dares to stand up to speak
for God ought to spend his days in God’s
company, ought to learn His secret, ought
to think himself into the very inner myster
ies of His truth. You laymen, you men in
all our churches, who think that there are
societies to bo administered, who like to see
the minister on the street and have him in the
bouse, and meet him in society and appoint
him secretary of this organization or president
ot ano expect him to be everywhere
save where he ought to be —in the society of
God—let me tell you that not until the
churches knew what to expect and demand
of the men who are their prophets, and not
until ministers knoW how to distribute and
give inspired thought through inspired
speech, will the church rise to the height of
her divine function. Know this, that never
can God’s word embodied in man be con
tradictory to God’s word outside man. He
who fears the Inward reason despises the
work of God,and will not hear what He has
to say. Hummon your men from their
lethargy; summon your ministers from their
service of the moment; summon your teach
ers from the street and society, and say :
Dare to be alone, stand face to face with
truth, find it. and them come out and tell
us. The awfulest calamity that can happen
to an age is to be allowed to lie and rust in
error, or even to rust in its truth. John
Milton once said that the man who believed
because pwstyiory has t-dJd be-
cause the priest has told him, is a heretic,
even though it be truth that he believes.
We want not that manner of belief; we want
so to live and walk that the truth may be
inwardly joined to the mind of man.—Prin
cipal A. M. Fairbairn of Mansfield college,
Oxford, England, in sermon (Matt., 16—18.
Self Abnegation the Hardest.
The sacrament of service does not always
present itself in ways dramatic, or pictur
esque, or exciting. . . . Here Is a life, full of
its ambitions, ideals, visions, and it is called
one day to sacrifice them all for the obliga
tions and responsibilities of home. It has to
surrender the great hope for the small du
ties; and the routine and flatness of duty
seem so deadly that the heart cries out. as
one young girl once cried. “O God, make
me anything, so I be not commonplace !”
But what is this but Jesus Christ, again,
testifying to His right to leadership by
stooping to serve? It is often much easier
to do the conspicuous and dramatic duty
—even if it be a hard duty—than it is to
efface one’s self in homely service; just as
in modern Italy noble ladies make it a pious
duty to wash the feet of picturesque old
women in the church Instead of girding
themselves to the obscurer task of cleans
ing the life and the slums of the poor. But
the sacrament cannot be taken vicariously;
the self-denial cannot be deputed; the
home-duty, the obscure demand, is impera
tive and personal; and only as he bends to
that abnegation of ambition is any son of
man glorified and God glorified in him.
An Ideal Which la Attainable.
The obligation to bo holy in the sense of
striving after righteousness, of diminishing
day by day the number of instances in
which wrong has been done and by increas
ing dally, by prayer and faith and effort,
the power of righteous resistance of evil, of
persistence in choosing and doing that
which is good, is to be holy in a practical
and pleasing sense, and is what our Lord,
with His keen knowledge of human nature,
had In mind in His commands. There is no
use in setting before people an ideal which
they cannot attain. That simply discour
ages them. But to give them an ideal which,
however difficult, is attainable, and which,
however long the approach, may yet be at
tained by study and perseverance, this is to
Jut them on their mettle and on their honor.
t is to appeal to everything that is highest
and purest and noblest within them and to
enlist them on the side of holiness.
God Cares for the Morrow.
ATI along our earthly life we are shut in
with God, as it were, in little spaces. We
must live a day at a time. The mornings
are little hilltops from which we can look
down into the narrow valley of one little
day. What lies over the next hill we can
not tell. Perhaps, when we come to it, it
may reveal to us a lovely garden through
which our path shall go on. Or it may show
us a vale of shadows, or a path amid briers.
No matter; we have but the one little valley
of the day now in sight. Evening is our
horizon. Here in this one little day’s en
closure we can rest as in a refuge. To
morrow’s storms and cares cannot touch us.
—J. R. Miller, D. D.
Christ Set the Example.
The sacrament of service! . . . Here is the
great struggling,weary, un-Christlike world
at our doors, and here are the dreams and
hopes of Christian discipleship which hover
before us as we pray; and to give the one to
the other, the high ideal to the lowly deed,
the great thought to the slight kindness,and
to do all this without ostentation or conceit
—that is as though once more Jesus rose
from table and bent in His sacrament of
sen ice; and as He bent looked up into the
face of His disciple and said: “I have given
you an example that you should do even as
I have done to you.’’—F. G. Peabody, D.
D., in “Afternoons in the College Chapel.”
The straightest path to hanpiness. after
all. is the path about our neighbor’s estate.
Another’s good, another's joy, seek that first
and you will moat sorely find your own weal
and happiness.
.•in the matter of a private"
Ipllflg's Duplicated In Many Respects
ftteeoffr at Fart Meyer.
Kipling’s story, “In the Matter 0
Private,’’ written years ago in India
afedht M British soldier, was duplicated
almost exactly rCCCVftIy * Me f*’
just across the river frOffl Washington
Nicholas Davis of Troop B,
Cavalry, an enlisted man from tw
State of Kentucky, went daft over real
or fancied wrongs inflicted by mem
bers DW troop, and, aggravated by
drink, obtained ft KttiUorgensen and
a supply of ammun’Hidri,; barricaded
himself in the troops’ quartets »mi Ibe
<an firing in every direction throng
the open windows at each private of
civilian putting in an appearance u it i
in range. Fortunately, his marksman
ship was hot aud bis bullets dld
no injury.
The commandant at th? fort, flftt
exhausting all possible efforts to cap
ture the crazy trooper without sacri
ficing the lives of any of his men, final
ly ordered him shot, and a sergeant
and squad were detailed for that pur
pose. Instead of ordering a volley
fired, however, the sergeant, who is a
crack marksman, took a single shot at
the crazed soldier. Only Davis’s head
and the stock and barrel of his rifle
could be seen above the window sill.
The sergeant's bullet broke the am
munition chamber of the Krug-Jorgen
sen. driving the pieces of metal into
Davis’s face and head, stunning but
not killing hi®.
This re. ’ortunate shot pre-
vented wl > aight otherwise have cre
ated consul’ fable comment, the order
ing of a sold’er to be shot without tiial
In time of peace.
Davis was secured, and if he does
not recover his reason, will be trans
ferred to St. Elizabeth, the Govern
ment Insane Hospital.
The commandant at Fort Meyer re
fuses to discuss the incident, saying
that his first duty is to report to the
War Department.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
Fought When the Tmtli wflji Told.
“When General Gr. nt was Presi
dent,” said Henry Will* s» of Wash
ington, at the Hotel Imperial, “a cer
tain friend of his came out of the West
to see him. One day, just after leav
ing the White House, this friend fell
in with a fellow Westerner in the
White House grounds, and a heated
encounter took place, which suddenly
terminated by the General s friend
knocking the other man down and out.
The matter was hushed up, but the
General, naturally indignant, called
his friend to account, saying, ‘John,
you’ve treated me and the otfijyf I Jjold
with much discourtesy. Why did you
do such a thing?’ ‘Well, it was this
wav, General,’ replied the now thor
oughly penitent one. ‘you know there
was bad blood between us, and be had
set all sorts of stories going about me.
Just after leaving you 1 ran into him.
and he at once accused me of doing a
certain thing. As it was a lie, I only
laughed at him. Then he accused me
of something else, and that being also
a lie, I jeered at him again, but his
third accusation was true, and I
I couldn’t stand that, so I knocked him
down.’ ’’—New York Tribune.
increase in Railroad Track Laying.
Preliminary estimates made by the
Railroad Gazette Indicate that the
length of new railroads built during
the past year aggregate 4,557 miles.
This is more than double the average
mileage for the four years from 1894
to 1898 inclusive, and has not been
equaled since 1892. In 1898 there were
3,265 miles built iu the United States.
The state which stands highest is
lowa, with a total of 553 miles. Next
comes Minnesota, with 374 miles; Ar
kansas, 265; California, 205, and Mich
igan. 178. These five states include
one-third of the total new mileage of
the year. Twenty-nine of the states
and territories have added over fifty
miles each to their lines, and seven
teen have added over 100 miles each.
Among the latter are: Pennsylvania,
170 miles; Alabama. 161; Louisiana,
149; Florida and Mississippi, each 148;
South Carolina. 139; Georgia, 137; Ok
lahoma. 135; New Mexico, 125; Ten-
I nessee, 118, and Missouri, 107 miles.
The Ungrateful Tramp.
“T’anks, kind lady,” said the tramp
as he finished the last morsel of the '
bountiful repast which had been set
before him. “Dat wuz de best meal I
I’ve had since I left de Waldorf-Astori- 1
er, an’ I’ll remember it ez long ez I
live. W’enever any o’ me frien’s
axes me where to git good grub I’ll re
fer 'em to dis place. Good day, lady.”
‘‘You are not going already,” ex
claimed the lady of the house in sur
prise.
“W’y, yes.” replied the wayfarer,
“dat is. unless yer wants me to stay
fer supper.”
‘‘Stay for supper indeed! I want you
to saw some wood, that’s what I
want!”
“I’m sorry, lady, but I couldn’t t’ink
of takin’ wiolent exercise on top o’
I such a heavy meal."
“Yes. but you promised to saw the
wood if I gave you a dinner.”
“Well, wot if I did?” repliea the
tramp coolly. “Can't a feller change
his mind?”—New York Journal.
Still Another.
“What, ho! Within there!” shouted
the knight at the castle gate.
The warden got him up, yawning
prodigiously. “Another m-an with a
ho.” said he to his faithful varlet.—
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