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BILL ARP’S LETTER.
As Ag’er Advances Darkness of
Night Grows More Unwelcome.
TWILIGHT HAS LOST ALL ITS CHARM.
As Symbol of Evil the Night Is Given
as a Contrast to that Which is
Good—William Quotes Ex¬
tensively.
1 confess that I do not like the night
—exdept when I am asleep. Of course
1 mean the dark night—nor do I go into
’ raptures over what we call the twi¬
light.'—that doubtful light twixt sun¬
shine and darkness, and that literally
- means “light.cut in two.” It* seems to
me that these twilights grow shorter
as wd'grow older. When the day is done
the fiarkness does seem to fall from
the wings of night, and we hasten to
light -the lamps, for darkness is never
-welcofff£. It is an intruder and a synj-
*ol«bf every evil thing. We suppose
that night was created as a contrast to
■ * make us enjoy tne day, just as evil
was created as a contrast to that which
is good. The scriptures say no good
thing concerning arkness or night and
when describing heaven say, “There
jshaill.be no night mere.” They tell us
«f outer darkness and thick darkness
and. the blackness of darkness and
darkness that may be felt. Darkness
was one of the ten plagues that was
aeht upon Pharaoh. Job cursed the
day of his birth and says, “Let the
<4dy be darkness. Let the darkness
and the shadow of death stain it.” Da-
fid saith, “Sorrow endureth for the
alght, but joy cometh in the morning,"
and tells of the pestilence that walketh
to darkness, The apostles use it as a
aymbol of every calamity. Darkness
aovered the land when the Savior was
crucified. The devil is caHed the prince
darkness. Ancient mythology de¬
scribes Erebus as the dant cavern
through w-hich the spirits of the damn-
ad and wicked dead shall pass on their
way to hell. And Homer writes of a
aountry called Cimmeria afar beyond
tee sea W’here the sun never shines
«nd the people live in darsness. Mil-
, ton describes the uarxness of Hades as
vo dense that it was visible. Speaking
evil spirits that haunt mankind, he
•ays they move in darkness, but fear
teutft and chastity. “No evil thing that
•alas by night in fog or fi,re—no hag,
or ghost, or goblin damned has hurt-
SOl power over a chaste and virtuous
■woman.” Montgomery says, Night is
Hie time to weep. Ana Shakespeare
nays, “In the dark night, imagining
• *rme fear, a little bush appears to be
■ bear,” Young says, “An atneist half
God by night,” and Tenny-
won says of himself, “I am but an in¬
tent crying in the night—an infant
crying for the light.” But this is
enough, and these ruminations were
^revoked last night about midnight—
the hour when the deep sleep falleth
■pon a man, but not upon a woman.
My wife's voice aw-akened and startled
me. She said, “What is it? Wi.o Is It?
What do you want?” Then she called
«e and struck a match and lighted
the candle that was near. “What did
you hear?” saiu I. “Somebody is at
lie door,” she said, excitedly. “Which
4oor?” said I. "This one right here—
maybe somebody i sick upstairs,” she
id. Unlocking the door quickly, the
‘ftgbt shone into the room, but nobody
was visible. I examined the room care¬
fully and then went into the hall and
dKaing room and parlor and thence up¬
stairs on tiptoe, but all was snent.
When I returned she said, “Well, I did
wartainly hear somebody at that door,
nd it waked me, but maybe I was
(dreaming. I femember now, I did
have a troubled dream, but please look
wnder the bed before you put out the
*ght.” Such is conjugal lite and fe¬
rity. For some time I laid awake lis¬
tening for a noise ami ruminating on
human helplessness during the dark-
mess of the nignt.
I remember when I had an unwilling
fear of ghosts that I woulu not ac-
kaowledge.. I got it from the awful
stories that our negroes told to us
children, for there was a fascination
about them that drew me to their cab-
ias by night, and I listened to their
amde-up tales of ghosts and witches
wad Jack O’Lanterns and raw head and
Moody bones until I was afraid to look
•round behind me, and had to be
**arded to the big house door when
1 left. But this childish fear passed
•way. and long since I have realized
teat there are no spirits to haunt us,
*ed that “only man is vile.”
My wife is not a timid woman, but
ske is cautious, anu will not consent
tor me to keep a pistol in our bed¬
room for fear I might have a bad
fetam and shoot somebody through
mistake. She never sleeps very sound.
A mother who has nursed ten children
never does, and the cracking of the
j*per on the wall will arouse her. She
Is happy now, for there is another
SPandchild not far away, and she goes
there every day. Pretends she goes
to help Jessie, but it is really to nurse
and fondle Jessie s baby boy, for the
maternal instinct never dies, and she
has not forgotten the lullabies she
sang to her children in their infancy.
I remember how my aged mother,
when on her last bed, dreamed away
her loving ufe imagining there was a
babe at her breast and whispering a
song to it just before she tried. She
found two in heaven when she got
there. Oh, ye young men who linger
and jest in the saloon or around the
gaming tables or frequent disreputable
places, stop and think. Stop and thinK
and remember the long and weary
nights that a mother watched with
you and never complained. Maybe her
spirit is watching yov now and yearn¬
ing over you in the spirit land. For
her sake stop and thick and come back
to the innocence of your childnood.
And there are some little songs that
I, too. remember and can still sing to
the iittie help,ess teething things and
soothe them to sleep as I walk the
room. My little baby songs are stere¬
otyped in my memory and have been
handed down, tho’ not published or
copyrighted. They are a masculine
medley of “By, baby bunting,” “Hush,
my dear; lie still and slumber,” “Ju¬
liana Johnson, don’t you cry,” “Away
down in Shinbone alley, “And we’ll
pass over the Jordan, anu so forth.
They are ali in the same key and in
the same meter and dovetail into ,on£"
another and ju#t go round and round,
monotonous and mournful, until the
child has to go to sleep to keep from
hearing them; nevertheless, it is a
fact that I can get a sick child to sleep
when its mother can’t—and sometimes
away in the dead of night, as I walked
the room in my night shirt, I have tio't
only got the chud to sleep, but the
mother, too.
But I am having some little domes¬
tic troubles that are disturbing my
tranquility. Night before last I slip-
ped the keys off the nail in the back
room and went to the pantry to get
some nice apples i had hid away there_
for a surprise to the family just before
bedtime. I like these little surprises
and so do they. 1 found the cat locked
up in the pantry and put her out, and
then pushed the aoor to keep her out
while I was getting the apples. It .s
a curious detor Jock, for it has no knob
on the inside, and I soon round that
the cat was locked out and I was lock¬
ed in. I rapped and banged for awhile
for somebody to hear me and come,
but nobody came. Then I knocked
harder and halloed louder, but to no
effect, a hen I kicked the door and
made all sorts of a racket, but nobody
came. So I concluded they heard me,
but thought it was good fun to keep
me in prison and give me time to re¬
flect on my past life and the value of
freedom in this land of liberty. But I
didn’t ponder long on tnose things. I
was perplexed, but after awhile
thought of my knife as a screw driver
and soon had the hasp off and was out
of prison. “Didn’t you hear me? I in-
quired. “Yes, we heard you knocking
What were you doing out there?” said
my wife. They thought I was fixing or
mending something, and did not hear
my voice, for there were two rooms
and a hall between us and all the
doors shut. I distributed the apples
and everything was soon calm and se-
rene, but I have an increased horror
of being put in jail and I am going to
behave myself and keep out.
Monday night we heard Mrs. Sheri¬
dan sing, and n was a feast. We have
known her from her childhood, when
she wore pantaletts and pinafores and
went to school in Rome with my chil¬
dren. I could not realize that this was
or ever had been little Sarah McDon¬
ald who used to play and romp and
scream like other .children; but in her
youth she heard a prima donna sing,
and resolved to be a great singer, too.
The Scotch-Irish iriood was in her
veins and she succeeded. Her father
and mother were poor, but that made
no difference. They had faith—relig-
ious faith; Bible faith—and named
their four boys Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John, and their three daughters,
Mary, Martha and Sarah. Mark and
Luke are living in Rome yet and have
prospered. Sarah chanced to visit Phil-
adelphia some years ago and by re¬
quest sang one Sabbath at a little mis¬
sion church that was founded by John
Wannamaker. He was there and heard
her and took a great luring to her and
helped her to visit Europe to have her
voice trained. She soon found other
friends, who nave befriended her and
lavished upon her their aid and bless-
ing.
As I listened to her singing those
sweet old Scottish songs I wondered if
there were not many just such female
voices in that audience and all they
lacked was culture and determination.
I recalled Gray’s beautiful lines—
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark, unfathomed caves of
ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush
unseen
And waste its sweetness on the des-
ert air.
—Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
SAYS MR. SOURD.ROP.
“Yes, it’s mostly bill and coo during
the honeymoon,” growled Mf. Sour-
drop, helping himself to the best piece
of chicken, “but after that I’ve noticed
that it is pretty nearly all bill.”
Whereupon the young dry goods clerk
was seen to look thoughtfully in the di-
rection of the school teacher .—Baltimore
American.
AN ANSWER TO KEEP A CHAP
AWAKE.
He—You will have to go a long way
before you will meet any one who loves
you more than I.
She—Well, I’m willing to.— Life.
SELF APPROVAL.
“Young man,” said the serious per-
son, “don t you realize that the love of
money is the root of all evil ?”
“Well,” answered the spendthrift,
“you don’t see me hanging onto money
as if I loved it, do you?”
PREPARING FOR THE FRAY.
Her guest being late for breakfast, the
hostess sent the maid to inquire if he
had heard the bell.
“ “Yes, mim, he heard it,” announced
Bridget; “and I think he’s most ready,
mim. for I heard him sharpenin’ his
teeth.”— Brooklyn Life.
Passinc of (he Cable Car.
A few years ago the cable system was con¬
sidered the te it, but since the invention of
the trolley, the cable ii being rapidly dis-
placed. Experts now claim that compressed of the
air will eventually be the car powtr
future. In all lines of industry improvements medicine
are constantly being made, but in the
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters still holds
. lead, because it is impossible to make a better
medicine for indigestion, dyspepsia, belching
-At biliousness. Be Bure to try it.
•' it j the opinion of entirely too many
s “friend’’
that the word means one
who will lend his money.
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an astonishing surgeon.
“Why, there’s nothing wrong with
your vermiform appendix!” remarked
the surgeon after he had performed the
operation. doctor,” murmured
“Nothing at all,
the patient, nothing but the name of
it, and you might as well cut that out."
—Detroit Journal.
AN EXPRESSION THAT HURT.
“Have I got the ‘pleasing expression’
“I think that will do very well.”
“Then hurry up, please. It hurts my
fa ce."—Tit-Bits.
Look st the Labels I
Every package of cocoa or chocolate
put out by Walter Baker & Co. bears
well known tvade-mavk of the
chocolate girl, and the place of
facture, “Dorchester, Mass.” House¬
keepers are advised to examine their
purchases, and make sure that other
goods have not.been substituted. They
received three gold medals from the
Pau-American exposition.
A Bucolic Monarch.
Tte King of Greece delights in tak¬
ing recreation in the fields. He can
plow, cut and bind com, milk cows,
and In short could, at a piuch, keep a
farm going single-handed.
FIRST FEARS ALLAYED.
Suddenly a pale, agitated woman ap¬
peared before the genial landlord.
“Sir,” she exclaimed, “there ere
strange ‘ 5 noises in my room. I am
afraid a burglar lies hidden in the
closet.”
“Fie upon you, madam!” quoth the
,
landlord, merrily.
“’Tis no burglar. ’Tis merely the
spirit of a drummer who cut his throat
in your room thirty years ago.”
Whereupon ‘he woman, abashed at
giving way to idle fears, thanked the
landlord, and returned calmly to her
bed.— Indianapolis Sun. •
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carets the genuine, put up
in metal boxes, every tablet lias 0. C. 0.
stamped on it. Beware of imitations.
A woman may not be musical and still
be always harping on something.
Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov.15.—A medical author¬
ity Bays : “There is hardly a family anywhere
in which Garfield Tea does not often take the
place of the Family Physician, for practically
everyone suffers at times from disorders of
stomach, liver, kidneys or bowels. Certainly,
from no other medicine can such good result*
be obtained. Thi* Herb remedy makes people
well and thus greatly increases their capacity
for enjoying life; it is good for young and old. ”
A fellow may have a turning point in
his life without being a crank.
FITS per mauen ily cured. No fits or nervous¬
ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. It. H. Kune, Ltd., ,931 Arch St„ Phila. Pa.
The fellow with a bank account is his
own cash drawer.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup forehildren
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma¬
tion,allays pain, cures wind oolio. 25o a bottle
Sunday is the day of strength; the oth¬
ers are week days.
IMso’s Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
as a cough cure.— J. W. O’Brien, 322 Third
Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1300.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain .Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys¬
tem when entering it through tho mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable phy¬
sicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from them.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Oo., Toledo, O.. contains no mer-
cury, and is taken internally, acting directly
upon tho blood and uuicons surfaces of the
system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Omre be
sure to get the genuine. It is taken internal-
ly. and is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J.
Cheney A Co. Testimonials free.
O“8ofd by Druggists ; price, 75c. per bottle.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
Among the 282 medical journals pub-
lished in the United States twenty-eight
are devoted exclusively to hygiene.
Thirty with minutes is all the time required Sold by to
dye Putnam Fadeless Dtes.
all druggists.
Of 100 units of work done in Great Bri¬
tain thirteen are accomplished by man¬
power unaided by machinery.
A DOZEN MINERS DIE
Flames In Coal Mines the Cause-
Of Deadly Explosions.
CHARRED BODIES RECOVERED
D,.aster Occurred B. by M ,„. al
Pocahontas, Virginia, and Was
Caused By Defective Elec-
trie Wire.
A special from Bluefield, W. Va.,
says: Thursday morning at 3 o’clock
it was discovered that the Baby mi ae
of the Pocahontas Colliery Company
at Pocahontas, Va., was on fire. 4 a
alarm was sent in and the fire com-
pany responded promptly. In a very
short time after the fire fighters reach¬
ed the mouth of the mines and were
attempting to extinguish the flames,
some of the firemen and others rushed
inside of the mine to ascertain the
extent of the trouble and to assist
miners entombed therein, a terrific ex-
plosion occurred and many miners and
their would-be rescuers w’ere more or
less injured. It is supposed that the
mine caught fire from a defective elec¬
tric light wire.
Five bodies had been recovered up
to 6 p. m., and it is uncertain how
many more are dead, though it is
that there are several, perhaps
eight or ten, in the mines unless they
succeeded in making their escape
through the Tug river entrance.
Twenty-five persons have been res-
all more or less burned, some se¬
riously and perhaps several fatally.
The injured were carried to their
homes in wagons, and all the physi¬
cians in Pocahontas were busy all day
Thursday attending them. One or two
other explosions followed that of the
morning, and others are hourly expect¬
ed. The mine is still burning and
clouds of smoke are constantly issu-
ing from its mouth.
In 1884 Pocahontas experienced a
like experience in w-hich over one hun¬
dred lives were lost.
The dead so far recovered are:
Louis Woolwine, John Barnhart,
Will Montgomery, M. D. Koontz; a
Hungarian named Urico.
Woolwine, Montgomery and Koonti
were killed w-hile attempting to res¬
cue and bring out a dead body. At
this time it is impossible to secure
the names of those injured.
As yet the estimate of the d^age
cannot be obtained. *
FAIR BUILDINGS BURN.
Two Large Structures In Piedmont
Park, Atlanta, Totally Destroyed.
An Atlanta dispatch says: The
transportation and electrical buildings
at the exposition grounds were totally
destroyed by fire at 2 o’clock Friday
morning. The origin of the fire is un¬
known. The burning of the two big
structures made a brilliant illumina¬
tion. The loss is estimated at $55,000.
The buildings were located in the
lower part of the exposition grounds
and were in close proximity to each
other. They were frame structures
and furnished easy fuel for the flames.
The fire started shortly after mid¬
night.
During the Southern Interstate fair
the buildings were used as stables and
a large number of horses were quar¬
tered there. The city fire department
was notified and responded, but the
flames had gained such headway that
the work of the firemen was useless.
SOLONS ARE ENLIGHTENED.
Mrs. Felton Lectures Georgia Lawmak¬
ers On Educational Matters.
Mrs. W. H. Felton, of Cartersville,
Ga., delivered a strong and pointed
address Thursday at noon before the
assembly ... joint . . f ses ...
Georgia _ . general , in
sion.
She spoke on the subject of Geor¬
gia’s educational system especially the
rural schools, and her cry was. make
the schools what the ought to be and
make those for whom they are estab¬
lished attend them, or cut off the taxa¬
tion by which they are supported. She
illustrated her points with interesting
anecdote and applicable incident, and
held the closest attention of her hear¬
ers throughout.
JAPS DIE IN WRECK.
Accident on Great Northern Wherein
Ten Are Killed and Twenty-Eight
A special to The St. Paul Globe from
Great Falls, Mont., says that a wreck
occurred on the Great Northern, near
Blair. 375 miles east of there. Monday
morning, in which ten men lost the.r
loves and twenty-eight others were se
riously injured. An extra freight ran
into a work train and it was among
those on the latter train that the havoi
was wrought. were
Forty-one Japanese laborers
aboard the work train and ten of these
were crushed to death.