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COLUMBUS CHRONICLE. Published Every Saturday 701 Front Street. J. T. COLEMAN, Editor A Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION. One Year. $l.OO Six Months 60 Three Months 25 One month 10 (In Advance.) ADVERTISING RATES. 1 MO. 3 MOS. 1 TEAR 1 inch 50c $ 1 25 $ 4 50 2 inches 75c 2 00 8 00 3 inches $1 25 300 11 00 5 inches 1 50 4 00 14 00 5 inches 1 75 4 75 17 00 6 inches 2 00 5 25 19 00 | column .... 300 800 30 00 1 column.... 5 50 14 00 50 00 Reading Locals, Notices, etc., 5 cts. per line for first insertion, and 4 cts. per line for each subsequent insertion. Special rates on larger space. All advertisements are due after first insertion. 1 inch. Send Money by Express. Money Order, Postoffice Order, or Registered Let ter, to J. T. COLEMAN, Columbus, Ga. Entered at the postoffice at Colum bus, Ga., as second-class matter. 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.— (ndianr polis Press. GET THIS Book. We have accepted the » gen “Camp Fires of the (sold only by subscription) which’*’*’ an account of the part * Negro in all the American , 1812 to 1899. A large steel ej’ (18x24) of the charge of the X e diets at San Juan bill i Q Cuba v en free with every bock. 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