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JULY 16, 1906 THE SUNNY SOUTH THIRD TAGE Boon of Rural Free Delivery By HENRY M. WILTSE. To the South and the Nation JN TWO PARTS—PART I. ! K 'ri. e.i -or \5hc ~ a rt r* jr uOu^ j j RECENTLY saw a letter, j written by a boy who j absent from his. homc--the J first lone absence of his j life. The distance that, separates him from the j home folks is a substantial 1 one, and he wrote enthu- j slas tically. feelingly, of the comfort lie derives from the numerous let- ters, and almost dally in stallments of local papers and clippings from them, received by mail “I tell you," he said, "Uncle Sam's ! mJT?I system is enough. ».f Itself, to •make one think well of hlc Uncle Sam '• The simple truth is tfret the postal branch of the government service lies closer to the 'individual citizen, the home and the heart, than any other. The free i delivery service, city and rural, brings i it more frequently and more impressive- j ly before the popular mind and under- [ standing, than it ever war- "before their establishment. Their popularity, ever | on the increase, is shown by the statis-, tics of their growth. I City free delivery was established in 1863, and lit the year 1863-4 there were ! eixty-rix municipalities enjoying the ser- j vice. The number of carriers was six ; hundred and eighty-five. In the year | or 1903-4 there were eleven hundred mu- r.lclpalitips enjoying itn-e service, and twenty thousand, seven hundred and slxty-cne carriers were employed. Of rural free delivery routes, there were in operation forty-four in 1897, and in the year 1904 the number was 24.- 656. The appropriation for the maintenance of the service, the first year mentioned, was S40.000, For the Tatter year it was *12,921,700. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904. the number of new rural routes es tablished was 9.447. POPULARITY INCREASING Rural free delivery is destined to be come a much more appreciated branch of the general postal service than was ever its coordinate branch—its- second cousin, for instance, the star route ser vice. Furthermore, it is going to be a mere popular service than municipal free delivery, and will, in a few years, be thoroughly established as a necessity quite as absolute as is the city service. It would not be an exaggeration to say TTiaf a Tar greater necessity lies behind it. and underlies it, than ever lay be hind or under the kindred branch, tht first cousin, as we might call the city service. Yes. the two branches of pos tal service arc our city cousins and our country cousins. They are going to perform the excel lent service to the nation of bringing the rural and the urban branches of the great national family together, making | them* better acquainted with each other | and each other's ways; thus making city | leople less provincial, and country neo pie less haughty, when they go to town. I It will be very much as If they lived | in town a large portions of their time. ! and as if ?li*» r-ltv fnlU dwelt much ill ' the country As in many, many affairs in the insti tutions of life, and especially of civil ized life, two of the greatest benefits tliat. are to arise- from the rural free deliv ery are merely Incidental to the original measure. They are improved roads, ar.d more as well as better bridge*. For rural routes are not established Just because the squire, or the colonel. The Water Boy—Scene on U Georgia Route. such equipment as is furnished by the department. HTte immediate conduct of the service is in charge of the superin tendent of rural free delivery. SYSTEM ESSENTIAL. The work is so vast in volume and ex tent. however, that the general super intendent needs many assistants, ana In order to systematize it, thoroughly, the country is laid off into sections, known as divisions. They are the ea?'- ern, the Philadelphia, the Atlantic, the southern, the Ohio, the Missouri, the St. splendid spring in historic Jonesboro to | Floursvilie postoffice, at the. other end of the Journey. ITS HISTORIC INTEREST. Jonesboro is one of the oldest and most historic towns in the south. it would be a place of immense interest in history if no other great event had marked its existence than the birth there of the state of Franklin, which took place August 23. 1783. There were present "n this momentous occasion such men as John 'Sevier, Charles Robertson, William Trimble, William Uncle Sam Asked To Become Spook Inspector HE phenomena of ghosts, phantasms, etc., should undoubtedly be made the subject of careful govern ment study.” said a scien tist of high standing who ! had been shadowy images j faint, shawody Images ! that appear now and then ! to the imaginative and unimaginative. “I um directing efforts j toward having higher of ficials make a careful in- 1 vestigation and report along the lines of j English researches of these mystic things j that so few know anything about. I be lieve in the end I will finally secure sanc tion of the officials agents to begin the queerest investigation ever made by the government, but one promising the { greatest enlightenment to mankind and | the clearing up of one of the greatest j mysteries remaining unsolved, j "We may be impregnated to the fidlest I extent with the modern-day cynicism and j skepticism until we proudly boast that j there are no such things is ghosts, no ! apparitions and newer will he. Rut three-fourths of the men and women who j make these boasts privately feel that 1 there is within us some unknown power ! of the mind or soul that enniiles most weird things to to take place. They can't explain, don't .attempt to explain and in public meet these facts with deccisive laughter. Much of this is due to com plete ignorance of the wide study of mental phenomena. I don't believe there is a man or woman in the world who has given anything like earnest study to the reputable publications relating to psy chological problems who will not frank ly admit that there arei many unexplain ed things in the field of apparitions and specters. Why should the government spend millions of dollars educating peo ple along other lines an'd m ike no effort to furnish them with light on this sub ject. which is nearer to the soul than any other? REASONS FOR EXISTENCE. "The phenomena of spiritism, mesmer ism. hypnotism and ttilepath} are demon Paul, the Spokane, the Denver and the Cox, Landon Carter. Hugh Henry Chris San Francisco. The eastern division comprises No#,* York and the New England states. It ha5 headquarters In New York city. The Philadelphia division is comp >sed of Pennsylvania .and New Jersey. The headquarters are at Philadelphia. The Atlantic division covers Delaware, Maryland, Virginia. West Virginia, the District -of Columbia, North and South |j topher Taylor. John Christian. Samuel Doak. William Campbell, Benjamin Hol land. John Bean, Samuel Williams. Rich ard White. Joseph Martin. Gilbert Chris- i enu tian, William Cocke, John Manifee, Wil- I t ,.jj liam Wallace, John Ilall. Samuel Wil son, Stockley Donelson, William Evans sthrated every day to the eyes of the most practical people, and nulling is done to furnish corrections of the many ignorant and absurd ideas that prevail on these subjects. Few men doubt that all of these things are daily practiced, bat that which is not explicable to the average man is nothing but the imagin ation of a weaker man mentally. That is the way they figure it all out. and they go along satisfied. Isn’t there rea son for the existence of these phenom- If so, why can not they be in- ntly explained so that men and I women will not be made fools of and its headquarters are at Chicago. . In the Kansas City division are Kan- j f the city folk dwelt much in sag aRd Nebraska> and the headquarters are at Kansas City. The S*. Paul division takes care of! Minnesota, North Dffkota and South Da-; kota. with Headquarters at St. Paul. The SV>okane division supplies the ser vice to the states of Washington. Ore- ■ gon, Idaho and Montana. Spokane is, headquarters. The Denver division looks to the inter- j ests ut Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and er even the sequire and the colonel, with i New Mexico. HefMquarters. Denver, the aid of the honorable member from The San Francisco division occupies its Blank county, in the state legislature, attention with California, Nevada and , take :t notion that they want one m j Arizona. Headquarters at Sun Fran-: their neighborhood. No, they are es'ab- j cisco. lished upon the petition of the people to All of these aro in charge of regular; be affected, properly indorsed. The pur-| division superintendents, except the Phil-j pose of the service, defined in general adeiphla. St. Paul, Kansas City, Den- tariua, is to "Carry the mails daily, to | ver. Spokane and San Francisco iliv's- people Who would otherwise have to gi ions. These arc in charge of postoffice ! « mile or more to a postoffice to receive inspectors. their mail.” ' , T “« * rowth _ . Bui, even when the people—all of the j the following tame: people of a certain neighborhood, tfiong a certain desired route, petition for th~ establishment of one. there are some re quirements that must be complied with before they can secure the granting of their application. These requirements, being tip-on the part of 4no petitioners complied with, mean to them “more than tongue can tell," in increased omfort, better heilth. greater safety, -cs quicker, better. expensive means of getting* themsel'-es, ppnd , ng Jljly and th«r fcrodurts thoir lands and mstallath toil, to me nearest market town or city, j That is to say, “It is required that ' the Toads traversed by a. rural free fie* i livery route shall be in gfood condition; that there must be no unbridled creeks _ played upon by the mysticcism that sur- aniel Kennedy, Alexander Outlaw. Jo- I rounds mast of them? Why is there not sepfi Gist, Samuel Weir, Asahel Rawl- j s urn basis for intelligent explanation of . . Joseph Bullard. John Monaghan, these things and why shoulldn’t people Carolina. The headquarters are at Was-- John Murphy, David Campbell, Archibald i know what the basis of this explanation intgon. D. O. , ! Stone. Abraham Denton, Charles Rob- I Is? Of course it must be admitted that The southern division is made up o. j inson alld ,, ; . Hsha Baker. row students of the phenomena have Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida : _.\t Jonesboro Andrew Jackson. Esq., and Mississippi. Nashville is headquar- j attorney at law, practiced his profession, ters. At Jonesboro he sat as judge, and during The Ohio division comprises Ohio, In- ot» session of the court over which he diana and Kentucky. Headquarters at i presided acted as deputy sheriff long Cincinnati. enough to place under arrest the desper- The Missouri division takes in Missouri. , ack , Russell Bean, whom the sheriff and Iowa, Arkansas, Louisiana. 1 exas, Indian his deputies reported as being too tough Territory and Oklahoma territory. Head-j a customer for them. But when Jackson quarters, St. Louis. | covered him with a couple of pistols and The middle division has for its tern- told him to surrender, his reply was: “I tory Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. ; will surrender to you. Mister Devil." Mr. Vines deep not always ride on horse back, while delivering .the mail, but about GREAT AGENTS’ CASH CONTEST Six Hundred Dollars In Cash Prizes ! Contest Covers July I st to October 1 st 1905. To stimulate the work of agents for the three months supposed to cover the dull summer, The Constitution offers prizes to its v working agents. They are arranged to cover the whole south and to distribute nearly half of the amount so as to equalize the distance and place agents in competition who work under practically the same conditions. The rules for counting subscriptions to the different editions is plain and > and will be as follows :— Each Subscription to The Weekly Constitution Counts One. '" J Each Subscription to Sunny South Counts One. £ 1 Tfor-h Subscription to Weekly Constitution and Sunny South combined, Counts Two. Each Subscription to Tri-Weekly Ccnrtitution Counts Two. Subscription to Tri-Weekly Constitution and Sunny South combined, Counts Three. i* The Great Prise Offer $600.00 Cash. For the largest list of Subscribers, counted under above rule from July 1st tQ October 1st. 1905 $ 100.00 For the next largest list as above 50.00 i —A coma to an agreement, blit there are some sensible scientists who have stud ied It all and who have reached con clusions that are worthy of dissemination if the government should care to under take enlightenment. "Webster says that a ghost is thg \ disembodied soul or spirit of man, but ! my investigations all tend to prove that i the soul of man never stalked over spots ) of f-arth at any time in history in spirit j form. I have been developing for years the facts in cases of all the ghost stories 1 have been lahle to h-ar of and l have 4s- if this service is shown by] Routes in Appropria t ion. Operat ion. 1897 .. .. $ 40.000 44 1898 .. .. 50.000 148 1899 150.000 39 1 1900 .. .. 450.000 1.278 1901 .. .. 1,750.000 4.301 1902 , 3.993.740 8.466 1903 .. .. 8.054.400 15.1 19 1904 12.921.700 24.566 These apply to the whole territory of the Con etitutlon. To insure the distribution of a large part, the prize money evenly over our whole ter ritory. we have subdivided it into the following sections, for which we offer special prizes:— 1st Section. Virginia and N. Carolnia. 4th Section. Alabama. 2d Section. South Carolina and Florida 5th Section.Mlss. and Louisiana. • - 3d Section. Georgia. 6th Section. Texas. 7th Section. Arkansas and Tennessee. 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Commissions, clubbing combinations and cash! Can you beat it? Write at once for terms, new terms and club list so you may order Intelligently. .Six hundred dollais in Cash Prizes! A bonus for agents. While others are In for “a dull summer” you are at work with splendid opportunities and with a wide field on the best newspaper offer ever "made. Address all correspondence to THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GEORGIA ntelligor.ee to talk i than the houses that walled us In. That it is an immensely popular ser- " j vice. and constantly growing in popular ity, is shown by the fact that there were I, 1903, 11,700 petitions for ion. There Is a sentimental side to this ser- j vice, almost unknown to the city delivery service. No? many people. I fancy, would care to trudge with a city carrier over j half of ih j top buggy. I His route I down West eastern foot historic tree, as nearly eve States knows Fourteen R. F. D. Carriers and the Post Office at Jonesboro, Tenn. into uses a neat, eomfortabl I 'nun w.c Jiun.-es min Miiueu us in. At j sixteenth of an Inch was snipped off to upon which in-j intervals we inquired where we were, for j induce it to grow more, and the moth - but this is never | otherwise is the result ’ of j all. idea or thought;and take ounding.c extends out from Jonesboro Boon creek, and along the of a ridge on which is the in the branches of which, y sciioo] child ir. the United "D. Boon killed a bar." rncr over several his monotonous route more than or streams not fordable at all ord.nary And , fanpy there an , but fow p ,, op!p of | Seasons of the >'e*r. and that each . anv sentlment at all who would , U)l hP ' route, being not less than twenty-four; de i J(fhted to r)de wJt h a ruraI Pf or more miles In length, as a rule, shall Bis romantic .and varied route serve not less than one hundred farnl- j times each autumn and spring, lies. Routes less than twenty-four miles VVe will ta ke, as an instance’ the route in length are established where they j of Carrier John Vines, which extends from rot be made the standard length, and a I Jonesboro, east Tennessee, to Floursvilie. proportionate number of families is re- ] a distance of 25 miles. The population qulred on such routes." | along this route, is 633. The number ol The work of the rural free delivery ser vice is described in general terms as- the investigation of petitions for the service, and Its installation; the appontment. bonding and discipline of rural carriers «r.i substitutes, and the distribution of families Mr. Vines serves with mail Is 133. The average number of pieces de livered and collected by him per month is 4.500. Every inch of the ground over which this carrier rides is historic—from the —T" S t-l * - ,' : - •. . t '- •?•/• t *'-■"* - i ’xf, f.,'.*| Mty Vines delivers mail at the old Garst homestead, where Is a large and splen did spring, and 30 yards or so from this l f ' r j is an old "log house," where, about 135 : ago. Boon discovered this same boar, eating berries. it escaped at the l time by shuffling off "over the hills and j far away," but it couldn't long lte/>p it self detached from Mister Boon’s unerr- j ing bullet. ! Crossing this rural delivery route, near De Vault’s Ford, is :he ancient Indian and buffalo trail, which led from south west Virginia, through Cumberland Gap, to Kentucky and middle Tennessee. Thirteen carriers go out daily from Jonesboro, and I am able to present a picture of them, in group, as they are aooui to stari Tin their respective jour neys. This picture also shows the post- office at Jonesboro, where the Hon. Wal ter P. Brownlow, a nephew of the famous parson, lives when lie. is not in Washing ton attending to his congressional du ties, or somewhere else performing some other useful service to his country or for himself. This interesting route, daily traveled by Mr. Vines, is only one of many hundreds throughout the south that offer delight ful variety of historic and scenic interest. had some marvelous expiation marvelous to attempt to go into detail. | My conclusion is absolute that the soul j of man never came back to earth after his bode ceased to exist. 1 am satisfied, ; though, that there is within the, mental- j I’ athic P owpr ,,f th( ‘ nlin itv of every man and woman a power officially told of. just as at Intervals. wo paused in refer t ike close which, developed under r renders it possible for of a phantom to wltoev l.e reached by that person. I don't now to the strange things that place between the liying. either together or far apart, but mean to din! wholly with toe apparitions that follow dea;h under certain conditions. FOLLOW A TERRIFYING DEATH. "Right here 1 want to ask. Did you ever hear of a ghost where the death of a person had been quiet and in the nat ural way? Have you not noticed tnat ghosts are produced after some unustSal or horrifying death—following some tragic, intense moment in the life of one person or the lives of several - Make an investigation and you will find that this is so. This is due entirely to the fact that at the supreme moment in the tragedy the undeveloped mental power of the person in distress rises to its purposes. The person is being murder-; K IVW ed In horrible manner. He wants the world to know it and concentrates the mysterious fun'tions of the mind so sharply on a desire to expose the whole thing In some way that the scene is re produced in ghostly apparition. Il re mains on the spot to tell the tale man it would possess on nearly any subjec J quiry might be made, | tlio ease. The visior concentrated telepathi ! under stress of emotions of a kind sel- "Here." said Prentic to ° • tiutn experienced by the living. space; "here is Temple Bar." WORLD OUGHT TO KNOW IT. I thought r saw something that might "If the theory 1 hold is right the world h-ave been the ghost of an arch hewn out aught to know it. This wonderful tele- of the solid fog. The top of it. though mind ought to be l it was not lofty, was lost to view. Tem- mueh as are! pie Bar. now gone forever from the j>!a the various statistics about school life, j where its gates once -swung industrial life or other affairs. Scientists | of the old i fly—it was here otild never have known at | er was never happy after these event3 We had to feel our way carefully) until the handicap had been overcome. Two days ago the manager took the prodigy out to have his hair tn'mmeu and went to the "tonsorial parlor" of Charles Katz, at Third avenue and One hundred and twenty-seventh street, to have the delicate operation performed. All would have been happily ended if the manager had remained in the bafber , ,, ! qhon but he thoughtlessly went out to rtain emotions. , l "" ‘ " i "• t,le wall mmp. tut the protection - industrial life or other affairs. Scientists | of the old • fly—it was here her gracious I ' K1 T something r is ilesi-il to! 1)pIievP in tllp theory and if the govern- j majesty, Queen Victoria, of England, was j Tho l ruent should start an investigation the | wont to receive the keys of the city i ^ j revelations would be worth reading. j from the hands of the lord mayors when ! rare things In these | she drove in state to St. Paul eathedial. | penl We threaded Fleet street, but could not | see to the further shore. “Here is her majesty's tow Prentice, but nothing of it was visible. I ) "Yes, ghost i days and have always been rare, for ! that matter, but there are other phe- ! nomena. of man's mentality that deserve j investigation. Take the ease of a motli- I er or father dying many miles away from j his or her family. As death approaches j the mind Is so strongly fastened upon I the thought of the absent ones and the j grief is so great at being away from them that there is created one of those strange phantoms that is instantly trans- So bin- barber didn't realize that the lad his chair was a prodigy, nor that ~*s ! h-iir was worth about $2,000 an inch to Then, he is alleged to have ap pealed to Maurice s boy spirit by telling him how much better he would look with I a short pompadour instead of the long said ! locks that sometimes had to be tied with | ribbons. • T? took Katz but a few seconds to clip T e ‘ ip " n another. We crossed i off - 124 times as much hair as other Dondon bridge almost without knowing 1 barbers had taken three hours to cut. it. The waters of the Thames, which are | Finally the manager chanced to drop but condensed fog. were invisible from ! In and see how the operation was pro- the parapet, and the steam ferries were! greying, and when he caught one picking their way cautiously ing very like marine monsters and look- in a mt-.iN mined to the far away ones. So you do dy aquarium. We crawled through the not believe such things occur? Well, I tunnel for foot traffic under the Thames you never be the recipient of such ; which was like a hole in the fog. and for glimpse of his star lie burst into a rage and demanded reparation. The barber explained that this wtas one of the cases wherein the past i's buried and said that there was nothing to do but wait a year and let the hair a case j hours carried the sky about on our shouT Know. With mingled sorrow and anger - ■ fir . rs . It was a wooUy „ r „ - the impressario gathered up the locks smelling sky. Our nostrils were 2 {ook thP ™* nist hnn T j° hls mo ‘ n ' with cinders, like chimnev L-'°®fted . er. who actually succumbed on see/ng there were smudges all orL ' ' and her boy, rwul has since been under a Sometimes for a moment » r faces - | doctor's care for nervous prostration, a spot overhead tint was bU, tW ° We S:!W 'I Meanwhile Manager Erlich hurried to hls wafer, and we knew ” for ^he* Pale r0d offices and canceled all but one of the lost to us. The lamps dm engngemonts at which young Warner was dav were like 1. o ? W] a » I scheduled to appear. and so we expired the !: 1 . wh f n at her h ° m# ' last thought is to be a message to the j -- ---■ j- ™ ui ,1 as a blind: second. «lr„eet, sa id: other.' I agreed, but with a laugh, lie, 111 ■. OSt no more. ■ ..j nm 1nst; r ranc s| P over this affair, often and he was | land T have been suffering from nervous may a grewsome message. - I recall in my own fife that will never be for gotten. My dearest friend at school was the sweetest boy I ever knew. We up together, went to college to gether and separated after we became men. 'I must go to Loudon,' he told me une day, ’and I will tell you goodbj . I desire that we shall make this agree- j ment: If either of us should die £ ** f* ^ *"* “""*** We mao sees. o-» ™ n as a b,lnd ; second. «lr„eet, the very keenest. Historic, from days I whoever, i* most interesteu And I want wrotc to °thei , long before the revolution; scenic in all \ to , pU vou that my study of ghosts j 3 setting atong well m lppPar . j MAURICE WARNER'S LOCKS CUT variations from the line of grace to the; that where onc originated under circum-j ; lic ' b ' v ' ,s ' - witi/iV was the voice! (Fr °m Th picturesque—from the picturesque to the J stances of thc kind 1 describe “ ]««* j -i Tmt? ! “on r,Tn over by a train in London,’ it said, and 1 am d>- A Rural Mall Box With Signal up 4 ‘Mail for Carrier.” grandest of the grand. Any route, almost, from Nashville to the gulf, or from Memphis to Miami, would offer many, many such attractions —the one or the other—and most routes would offer them in happy combination. The .number of carriers employed in the southern division, given by states, is a3 follows: Alabama 398 Florida 25 Georgia 967 Mississippi 211 tie nnessee I.! 66 Total 2.767 But there is so much more to be paid about this -great! service that another article will be necessary, if even a com prehensive glimpse of it is to be given. In that, further details of the service will be presented, and something will be shown of what the carriers In the squtji see. «r .m{ghi sea. never disappeared fully until the object of its Creation is accomplished. "Research of the most careful kind into the great ghost stories of the wor. for thousands of years shows tins to be true. When Hie murderer lias been brought to justice the ghost disappears. Or if you tear up or change the locality In whic-h the crime was committed it will disappear because this disarranges- the scene. The soul of the person is not there. It is merely an embodied idea or thought, created under such tragic, im pressive conditions (Tiat ing. Goodby.’ The vision disappeared. A cable message the next day informed ' l me that the vision was right and that " Harry had died about the hour I re ceived the message. Was it telepathy or what?"—Chicago Chronicle. New York American.1 An inoffensive pair of shears, a willing barber and a boy’s desire not to look like a "sissy” are responsible for the transformation of l/ttle MaurToo "Warner, the hoy violinist, for whoso musical ed ucation the women of the Kelectie Club prostration. The beauty of my boy’s hair was somethiYi* very, very dear to me. and. besides, it was absolutely es sential to complete rhe artistic effect on bis concert tour Why. all the ladies of the leading clubs in New York have raved over Maurice’s locks, and now. just to think, they arc all cut off. We imme diately canceled tlie engagements wh.’eh lie h-'d made for this summer, and we LONDON IN A FOG. (Charles Warren Stoddard in National Magazine.) He knew his London well. We went remains until] forth into -a fog that was o-f the pea soup the idea has been realized. A most no-'variety. 'It seemed useless to wait any ticeable and important thing about these 1 longer for it to clear off. The days were phantasms is that if they talk at all it is solely on the subject uppermost in tlie mind at the time of dissolution. No other subject is 'discussed and a ghost was never known to talk on anything except the one subject. If a ghost, then, was really the soul or wind of all alike and were darker than twilight ever dared to be. I clung to Prentice Mulford's coat sleeve, for 1 knew if he were once to get beyond my reach I could never hope to find him again. We groped blindly among the streets, where tbfi atmosphere was only less palpable raised a fund of $50,000. front a dreamy; had been looking forw-ar^ so proudly to looking prodigy with long flaxen locks to a plain, ordinary boy. The consequent loss in the lad's mar ketable value has drA-en his manager to despair, caused the cancellation of con tracts worth $24,000. and nearly brake Maurice’s mother's heart. Incidentally the barber faces a lawsuit. The saddest part of the hirsute tragedy is that nearly a whole year, aside front $1,000, has been spent in inducing Mau rice's hair to sprout to the length of 8 inches. Occasionally it was necessary to have lii= debut at Carnegie haTT. "Put T shall get histice from tha* bar ber. My rase is In the hands of M. P. O'Connor, in the Home i -fe insurance balding, and T e-a sure that T can re cover damages, rersonallv. 1 would not tape S20.000. the locks were so dear to me.” the hair cut. but ah! the carefulness! bt-cit in an hour." On his return, he that was always exercised! It was cut] found that some envious rival had ln- aimost a hair at a time .and just one-1 scribed underneath, "What fort** SARCASTIC. Tr Roston the other day. a young law yer who spends the most of hls time Lying to seem busy and prosperous, went °ut for a while, leaving on his door a card neatly marked, "Will be