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THE LINCOLNTON NEWS
J. D. COLLEY & CO.,
VOL. I.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENTS.
LORENZO SMITH &BR0.,
-OF—
WASHINGTON, GA.,
ABE OFFERING FOB THE FALL TRADE
GincinnatiBuggies
AT $50 TO $75.
Columbus Buggies
AT $100 TO $160.
Buggies and Carriages of prices. other Also makes and
grades at various
STUDEBAKER WAGONS
At $65 and $70.
TENNESSEE WAGONS
At $60 and $65
WEBSTER WAGONS
$60 to $75.
THREE 3-4 WAGONS
-A-T SS-5.J.
One-Horse Wapo, vitli Seat,
Own Make, at $40.
KEMP'S MANURE SPREADERS, GfRAIF
DRILLS, ALBION SPRING TOOTH
HARROWS, WINDMILLS,
And a General Assortment of
Agricultural Implements
Also Single Harness from $9 up. Double
Harness, parts of Harness, Hubs, Spokes
and Rims.
A Good Buggy SHarnesslor $S0.
Our pricos are guaranteed to be as low as
n:;y similar house in the South. Give us a
call. Correspondence solicited.
O. M. MAY,
WASHINGTON, GA.,
GROCER,
AND DEALER 1»
- The liberal patronage which I have ob¬
tained from the people of Wilkes and adjoin¬
ing counties, I intend to hold by continuing
to sell my goods at the very lowest prices,
and by fair dealing in all things. Also
C. M. MAY & CO.
Will carry on a General Mercantile business
at Double Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga.
25 CENTS
WILL ULTY A
AND HIS DISEASES.
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THE AU&USTA, ELBERTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD.
In Patience.
if thon livest evermore alone,
Poor and forgotten and in thy silentpiaoo?
What if for bread thou gettest but a stone,
And in thy garden no rose lends a grace?
Still in thy soul the souls of all the flowers
Will fill with perfume all thy dreaming
hours.
What if the stars are far away and cold,
And Love hath no last kisses for thy lips—
If thou hast found misfortune overbold,
And joy’s sweet sun hid ’neath a cloud’s
eclipse?
Still, some stray gleams must keep thy
desert fair,
And wandering breezes lift thy heavy hair.
No soul but hath some sun, or star, or
moon,
That keeps itself a sacred thing of light;
As brooks go rambling thro’ the rose-rapt
June,
Some joy will seek thee in thy darkest
night;
Some hallowed dream will be fulfilled and
sweet;
Some buds will open at thy patient feet.
Seek not to wrench from Fate the hoarded
prize ;
Seek not to bend grim Fortune to thy
need,
Save by the upturned glance of loyal eyes,
Save by the heart that can in silence bleed;
Stand in thy God-appointed place, upright,
And thou shalt yet be the viotor in the fight.
—Fanny Driscoll,
THE GAMBLER’S WIFE.
“ What new beauty have we here,
Carl?” I asked, taking a small colored
picture from among the mass of papers,
pamphlets, wrapping paper, etc., that
covered the table and floor of the
library and which would have told
plain enough to all acquaintances that
Carl was at home once more, after
this, his longest ramble in foreign
lands, without the corroborating testi
mony of cigar smoke or the lounging
in the old
For this brother of mine never spent j
over six months of the year in the
.beautiful country home of his child¬
hood, giving the other six to whatever
place or people promised- most enter¬
tainment on short notice. The last
three months had been spent in Paris,
so I conjectured the little gem of art I
held in my hand was a French beauty;
the' pure outlines and exquisite com¬
plexion looking most life-like as they
smiled up at me from the tinted card.
But notwithstanding the great beauty
of contour and feature, there was a
frightened, almost haunted look in the
dark eyes that told of tragedy, or
least anticipated it.
“Who is she, Carl? The eyes affect
me strangely, with their wild, fright¬
ened look. There is a reigh of terror
in them equal to the one her ancestors
passed through. I almost see the
shadow of the guillotine in their velvety
depths.”
“ Let me see; ah, my little sister,
may you never know so hard a fate as
this poor girl encountered and suc¬
cumbed to. No, she is not French—a
Russian—but married to a French¬
man.” And Carl took the picture
from my hand and placed it on a small
easel above liis desk. “ I will tell you
about her, Louie, if you have an hour,
and I will tell I told
“ It was while Tom Barnes was with
me last June, and when we left Vei
sailles for Paris, that I first saw
Madame Literre—though I think the
name an assumed one. We had to run
to prevent being left, I remember, and
Barnes, out of humor because of it,
plunged his face into his book and left
me to my own resources.
“As soon as I was comfortably set¬
tled I, as usual, began scrutinizing my
traveling companions, and to try to
imagine who and what they were.
There were four besides ourselves in
the carriage. One, a quiet, middle
aged Englishman, who was soon asleep
in his corner. The two who sat next
myself were evidently husband and
wife, though he paid her none of the
attention and politeness usually ac¬
corded in public, even if dispensed
with privately. He was a pale, quiet
man of twenty-five, perhaps, richly
but quietly dressed, and seemingly tak¬
ing no notice of any one around him.
The wife, too, was pale, and much as
she looks there in that little picture.
Her dress though simple was perfect,
and evidently the production of some
first-rate artiste. Her whole style
proclaimed her at once to belong to
the higher order of society.
“She seemed to be suffering, and
frequently put her hand to her fore¬
head; and I observed upon the deli¬
cately-formed, ungloved hand a costly
diamond. It was a beauty; and I en¬
joyed looking at the flashing gems as
she caressed a small English dog that
often looked up at her with affection¬
ate recognition.
“The other passenger I could not
make out at all. He was elderly, com
monly dressed and with scant gray
hair ar 1 heavy whiskers. His pierc¬
ing eyes were frequently placed on the
silent young married couple, and then
he seemed as utterly oblivious of them
as they of him. What was his nation¬
ality? Was he with them or a stranger
like myself? I could not tell. And
LINCOJLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1&82.
the more I looked the more uncertain
I became. I thought, too, there seemed
an effort at disguise. He kept his face
watclifulness of the quiet young lius
band that he at times eyed so very
persistently
“We sped along over the beautiful
road, each absorbed in his own reflec
tions, broken only by an occasional low
sigh from the lady, and soon arrived at
our destination. The train stopped
and as none of my companions showed
any disposition to move first I aroused
Barnes from the depths of his romance
and we left the carriage.
“ Dinner over, we went to the thea¬
tre, and afterward, by the persuasion
of a friend, to a private gambling
house. I was greatly surprised on en¬
tering to see my elderly traveling com¬
panion seated at the table, his eyes
and manner keen as ever, and deep in
a game of rouge et noir, It was early
yet and very few people were present;
but every sound was hushed, and the
game went on in dead silence, broken
only by the voices of the dealers call¬
ing the result of the games, and the
rattling of the gold as it was raked
from one to another, The old man
seemed in luck for the time being and
won every game. I thought a gleam
of satisfaction shone over his face as
the door opened and our other travel¬
ing acquaintance from Versailles—the
quiet, careless husband—entered and
sat down to play,
“ I did not play that night, and my
whole attention was given to those
two. The young man lost from the
first deal. Kouleau after rouleau was
swept from the table by liis watchful
old opponent; but still he played on.
The large sums he lost and his pale,
excited face deeply interested me, and
I stayed on and watched him until late
at night, when he left the room, his
last Napoleon gone.
“ After supping at a coffee-house I
went hack to my room at the hotel,
but for some cause could not sleep.
ThteJieat was oppressive and my room
small; besides, the game I had been
watching had excited me strangely,
and I only fell into a troubled sleep
near morning.
“ I was awakened about daylight by
voices in the adjoining room—those of
a i» aa and woman, evidently. The
man’s voice was low and
and the woman seemed to be. crying.
I could hear enough to understand
that she was refusing him some re¬
quest, for his tones became loud and
threatening, and at last I heard him
U t If you refuse me, you seal my
ruin and your own. T have no more
gold, and I must have the diamonds to
retrieve myself.’
“ Hysterical sobs were the only
answer he received, and he continued :
ti < Something tells me I shall win
to-night, and I must have the ring.’
“ ‘Never, Charles ! I cannot give
it up. It is all I have left. It was
my mother’s and I will not let it leave
me.’
“The man’s voice was so choked
with passion that his words were in¬
articulate, but with a burst of wild
anger he left, slamming the door after
him. The woman’s sobs became lower,
: her crying ceased, and I fell into
another nap, not waking until near 10
o’clock.
“I saw neither of my gambling ac¬
quaintances that day, and the night
found me again in Monsieur Carlo’s
rooms. The old man was again on
hand—not satisfied, I thought, with
his winnings of the night before—and
again I saw a gleam of satisfaction
cross his face as his victim of the pre¬
vious evening came in and got ready to
play,
“‘Make your game—the game is
made up ! ’ cried the dealer, and was
about to deal the cards when the young
man who had just entered called out
in a loud voice :
a * Fifty Napoleons upon the red! ’
“ Seeing he placed no money upon
the table, the croupier paused a mo
ment, then said :
it t Sir, you must stake the money.’
“The gambler started and turned
paler than ever; a long, shuddering
sigh broke from him as he felt first in
one pocket and then in another, and
finally grasped his hat .and fled from
the room. The playing went on for a
while longer, and then one by one
they went out, leaving only the at¬
tendants, the old keen-eyed gambler
and myself present. Something—an
undefinable feeling of interest in the
unhappy man who had left the house
in such despair a short time before—
held me there; I must see if he re¬
turned,
“ Suddenly the door opened and he
ran in, as if fleeing for his life. I
shall never forget that sight, Louie.
His face was ghastly, liis dress dis¬
ordered, and he trembled as though
with ague. As he rushed up to the
table, in the strong glare of the lights,
I saw great drops of perspiration
standing on his brow. He thrust his
hand in his pocket and tossed a ring
down before his opponent.
francs. . ‘“ Ttere i“ Now k cover my stakes * h0 ” ’he a " d
cried. ' ’
“ I instantly recognized the beauti
ful diamond as the one his wife had
wom in the car8 > and the conversation
1 had heard that morning came back
to my mem ory, and I knew my fellow
brave ^ ers were the man and woman I
had heard disputing in the early mom- i
ing hours. But he had succeeded in j
overcoming lier determination, for he
had the ring, and my heart ached for
the poor wife as I wondered how he
had obtained it.
M < Bed! I bet on the red!’ again
shouted the young man; and in a mo¬
ment the croupier called ‘Black wins!’
and the ring was no longer his.
‘ “ With a wild cry the wretched loser
fled from the house; and completely
unmanned by what I had seen I re
turned to my hotel, hoping the young
man would soon follow me.
“I found them all—travelers, pro
prietor and servants—wild with excite
ment over the murder of the beautiful
Russian lady. An hour before her
maid had gone to her room and found
her deluged in blood from a wound in
her head, and dead. The husband had
been in and left some few moments be¬
fore. I went up to her apartment and
to the bed where she lay. Her exquis¬
ite face was fairer than in life, for it
had. lost the unhappy look and seemed
at peace. As I turned to leave the
room I saw this picture among a heap
of things turned out of a man’s travel¬
ing case, and appropriated it. Probably
the husband had tossed it there in his
search for some valuables to risk at the
gambling-table.
“The miserable man took his life
before he was apprehended for his
crime; and the old gambler who, first
in one disguise then in another, had
followed the easily-duped victim from
city to city and won many thousands
from him, left Paris before the husband
and wife were carried to their last
resting-place in the beautiful burying
ground where his forefathers slept.
“ Louie, this is why I refused to play,
even with Howard, last evening. I
j have never touched cards since, and 1
j never can again.” . —San Francisco
The Grandeur of TTo»t<m.
When you want to get the grandest
idea of a queen, you do not think of
Catharine, of Russia, or of Anne, of
England, or of Marie Theresa, of Ger¬
many; but when you want to get
your grandest idea of a queen, you
think of the plain woman who
sat opposite your father c. at the
table, or walked with him arm
in-arm down life’s pathway; some¬
times to the thanksgiving ban¬
quet, sometimes to the grave, but
always together—soothing your petty
giiefs, correcting your childish way¬
wardness, joining in your infantile
sports, listening to your evening
prayers, toiling for you with the needle
or at the spinning wheel, and on cold
nights wrapping you up snug and
warm. And then, at last, on that day
when she lay in the back room dying,
and you saw her take those thin hands
with which she had toiled for you so
long and put them together in a dying
prayer that commended you to the
God whom she had taught you to
i trust—oh, she was the queen! The
| chariots of God came down to fetch
| her; and as she went in all heaven
rose up. You cannot think of her
now without a rush of tenderness that
stirs the deep foundations of youi
soul, and you feel as much a child
again as when you cried on her lap ;
and if you could bring her back again
to speak just once more vour name, as
tenderly as she used to speak it, you
would be willing to throw yourself on
the ground and kiss the sod that
covers lier, crying : “ Mother, mother!”
! Ah! she was the queen—she
was the queen. Now, can you tell
me how many thousand miles a
woman like that would have to travel
down before she got to the ballot-box ?
Compared with this work of training
kings and queens for God and eternity,
insignificant seems all this work of
voting for aldermen and common
couneilmen and sheriffs and constables
and mayors and presidents ! To make
one such grand woman as I have
described, how many thousands would
you want of those people who go
in the round of fashion and dissi¬
pation, distorting their body until in
their monstrosities they seem to outdo
the dromedary and hippopotamus! go¬
ing as far toward disgraceful apparel
as they dare go, so as not to be ar¬
rested by the police—the behavior a
sorrow to the good and a caricature to
the vicious, and an insult to that God
who made them women and not gor
gons; and trampling on, down through
a friv.olous and dissipated life, to tem
poral and eternal damnation.— Dr.
Talmage,
nr® WASHIXGtoX hoxvhext 1
.
The Pragreu of the Work on It—History
of the Monument.
Dto«tag about the Washington
monument, . a ^correspondent , . at . the ..
nat ional capital says: The monu
ment has now cached a height of
800 feet > and il 13 expected that about
fort v feet more wil1 be before
-
tbe s f® son end3 - Tbe height of the
structure has been about doubled since
the work was resumed, a couple of
y ear3 a 8°> after so long a delay, and is
now a httle over one-half what it is
be when completed, the highest
structure in the world. Its height,
when completed, is to be 550 feet. The
monument board, after the work was
resumed, two years ago, determined to
make it the highest structure in the
world. They studied up on monu
ments, churches, towers and articles of
sort, and found it to be perfectly
sa ^ e and bbe 7 W ^1 push it up to 550
height. It is hoped that the
work may be completed within two,
or ’ furthest, three years after the
- Few people are aware that the site
of this monument is one proposed by
Washington himself for a shaft of this
nature, yet such is said to be the
I fact. It is said that General Wash
ington suggested to Major L’J ’F“*ant,
the originator of the plans for
the city of Washington, that at
the point now occupied by the mon¬
ument there might with propriety be
erected a monument in honor of the
war of the Revolution. This was
never done, but when the site for
Washington’s monument was sought
this was hit upon as most suitable, and
thus the wisdom of the father of the
country again honored.
The date of completion of the monu,'
ment is of course a matter of uncer¬
t ainty a s yet, but it is probable tha|
hundred years will ha
elapRl between the date of the uft
agitation of the subject and the com.
pletion of the monument. In
the Congress of the United States
ordered a bronze statue of Washing¬
ton to be erected where the residence
of Congress should be permanently
fixed, and directed the minister at
the French court to employ an artist
to perform this work, but by some
means it never was done. A few years
after the project took different shape,
and in 1799 resolutions for the erection
of a marble monument to Washington
were passed by Congress, and the
family requested to permit his remains
to be buried under it. The permission
was granted, but the work was never
begun. A number of other attempts
were made in the same line, but with¬
out success, and finally in 1833 a few
men, disgusted with the slowness of
Congress, undertook the task them¬
selves, and atter obtaining about $®D,
000 in $1 subscriptions, began the
work in 1848, the corner-stone being
laid July 4 of that year. In the next
six years 156 feet were laid and then
the funds gave out. In 1854, during
the Know-Nothing excitement, a band
of masked men visited the monument,
gagged the watchman and taking the
slab of African marble sent by the
Roman government, broke it in pieces
and threw in the Potomac. In 1855 a
number of members of the “ Ameri¬
can Party ” forcibly took possession of
the monument, ousting the old board.
In ’59, however, the old board again
took charge, by the direction of Con¬
gress, and as a first act re¬
moval several courses of stone laid
by others when they were in con¬
trol. It was not until 1876
that Congress persuaded itself to as
same the work, and then it was found
necessary to strengthen the founda¬
tion, so that work was not begun until
1880, since which time it has been
pushed until the present summer,
when, owing to the slowness of the
contractors in furnishing the stone,
work was suspended. It will now be
pushed forward again until cold
weather stops its further progress.
The monument is fifty-five feet square
at the base, and when completed will
be 550 feet, and it is said the highest
structure in the world. It is of
white marble, each course of marble
being two feet in thickness. Its top
is to be reached by stairway and ele¬
vator. On the interior face, observ¬
able from the stairway, are stones fur¬
nished by the United States, some of
them bearing inscriptions. Michigan
sends a block of copper ore, Nevada
one of silver, with the words “ All for
our country.”
Joseph Perkins Beach, a son of the
founder of the New York Sun, is en¬
gaged in preparing a genealogical re¬
cord of the Beach family. He has the
names of 2,573 Beaches, descendants
of two brothers who came to America
in 1630.
The waiters ought to succeed in a
strike, for they usually carry all before
them.
The Goat-Herd Who Became a Great
Sculptor.
The story of the early life of Law
son, the eminent sculptor, is full of in
terest merest to to „ working orkln , men and their fam
ilies . His father was a miner, as were
mos (; o£ inhabitants of the beauti
{ul vaUey among the mountains in
which he spent his childhood. Sta¬
denly one morning in June an alarm
p e u m irnated to the Village that an
accident bad occurred in the mine,
Immediately the road was filled With
0 f people, and among them
wag a p^y 0 f between twelve and
fourteen, who was ashy pale, his legs
trembling that he could scarcely
move but ^j$rertheless strained
evei ie mouth of the
p ft. T1 into the mine,
aru p ft ^who Png were
ft were drowned.
Trank ' had died four
years befof that time his
fath nd Pen everything to
eac 4 ither was in the
fl 0C J though t: “What
I wil htotm too!”
Ali| f .' -.work
t 0 so
^
acci
hours. Fr;
hardest. Hi
alyzed by e
down sensei
knew Mnifl
carried his®
he awoke®
at J® j QJ
JM
there
formerly
enjoyment. Heins to work
and carved out the SgureJof the two
dogs in the wood. He was^ himself
pleased with the likenesses, and having
finished them brought them home with
him and laid them quietly on the table
in the house of the shepherd whom he
had been employed to assist. “ What!* 1
exclaimed the man; “ why that is ‘Bru
no,’ and this is * Snap;’ do you mean to
say that you have made them?” “Yes,”
said the young artist, “ 1 have indeed
carved them both myself, and I did it
on purpose for you, as I thought you
would be pleased to have a likeness of
your two favorites. His master, the
squire, had a number of fine horses,and
the youth very much wished to make
a likeness of one of these—a beauti¬
ful Arab—but he found it difficult to
obtain the requisite opportunities of
observing the animal. He most fre¬
quently saw it merely as it quickly
passed h;m with its owner on its back.
But he persevered and succeeded. When
he had accomplished his purpose he was
one day standing at the gate of the
park, comparing his work with the
original; and, looking with satisfaction
on his production, he exclaimed: “ It
is really like.” “ Like what?” asked a
voice just behind him. It was his
master’s. This was the turning point
in the youth’s history. This gentleman
had business connection with Liver¬
pool as well as a large estate in Wales,
and he was so much pleased with Law¬
son’s skill, and tho promise which it
showed, that he soon after arranged
that he should remove to that town
and pursue his studies ■ under the di¬
rection of a sculptor there. In Liver
pool he experienced many difficulties
and not a few real hardships, but ho
persevered and in the end was .re¬
warded.
The JDyek “ Head Hunters.”
The Dyaks of Borneo, who have re¬
sumed their old pastime of “head
hunting,” are the aboriginal inhabi
tants of the islands. They are closely
amed to the Malays, but are described
as being more simple and honest and
morally superior. They are somewhat
taller than the Malays, well propor¬
tioned, and with straight, coarse, black
hair. Of late years they have gained
the reputation of being industrious,
docile and faithful, when kindly
treated. They were formerly notori¬
ous for their daring dt eds of piracy,
and especially for indulgence in the
peculiar pastime styled “head hunt¬
ing.” Impressed with the belief that
every person beheaded would become
the slave of the hunter in the future
world, the Dyaks were eager to decapi¬
tate as many persons as possible, and
thus became the terror of their foes.
There are now over 2,200 convicts
belonging to the Texas penitentiary,
487 of whom are confined within tho
walls ; the remainder are on farms and
railway*
PUBLISHERS.
NO. 6.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
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The persistence of the magnetic
property observed in certain tree§ is
attributed by M. Larroque to the
transportation ...... by lightning of - small „
particles of iron held in suspension
with other matter, which makes up
what is known as the dust of the air.
English ants do not, as those of
warmer dimates, lay up food for the
winter, hut, as Sir John Lubbock re¬
marks, “they do more, for they keep
during six ftxonths the eggs which will
enable them to procure food during
the following summer, a case of pru¬
dence unexampled in the animal king¬
dom."
When a glass stopper sticks'in the
bottle pass^^tripof woolen cloth
itbackward^^BMrard. see-
3aw ’ This
fnctibn heats and (HHsthe neck tc
expan d, so that the stopper becomes
loose. On this prindple of expansion
by heat a tight screw may be with¬
drawn from a metal socket by sur¬
rounding the latter with a do®
in boiling water.
These are the concluaicmsofP
E. Wooltty on the physical EMM ™ m
mf Skum the soil in a dense and a louj
lUtfi it of is water desired in to iacrssaat^ sod 4$fl
a
g|ed at, but a loose J
LiS
■ ‘
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it. A'-
Asa
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r; :~ ^ -Vm®
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take either
in vinegar, Or me wift* wato*.
Persons who suppos _
fering from heart disease bee
have pain in tne region o£ $h
or palpitation, seldom ixaveai
of that organ. In nine cases a
they are sufferers frgm dy
nothing more. Congestion
lungs is most frequently cai
sudden change from
ventilated room, or railroad c
horse car, to the cold air outside,
out being protected by sufficient cloM
ing ; hence many persons thus seizljl
drop dead in the streets.
Hot drinks are specially hurtful to
the stomach. They cause irritation of
the nerves of the stomach, and conse¬
quent mild inflammatiot of that or¬
gan, so that after a hot drink the
stomach is red and congested; in time
a debilitated ’condition is set up. A
temperature of 100 degrees also de¬
stroys the active ferment of the gas¬
tric juice—-pepsin—and so leads to
indigestion. If the stomach is at all
disordered, hot drinks give rise
* much griping pain, and in many ci
to vomiting. In cases of diarr
too, hot drinks only increase it, w
cold ones tend to lessen it.
Curious Investigations.
M. Mentegazza, an Italian
gist of note, has studied with great
care all the contractions which suffer
ing produces in the human face, and
endeavored to arrive at an exact dis¬
tinction of the phenomena of real from
those of simulated sorrow. In regard
to feigned grief, he says that the ex
pression is nearly always exaggerated
relatively to the cause of the grief; the
visage is not pale and the muscular
disturbance is intermittent; the skin
h;is its normal heat; there is not har
mony in the mimicry of grief and one
sees certain contractioilSj cer tain re¬
laxations> which are wholly wanting
in real ie£ the lse is fre cnt) ia
consequence of the muscular move¬
ment; a surprise, or any object which
vividly attracts the attention, suffices
to make the tragic mask immediately
fall off; sometimes one succeeds in dis
covering among the tears, the sobs and
the most heartrending lamentations
the presence of a chuckle, which ex¬
presses, perhaps, the malignant pleas¬
ure of practicing a deception; and
lastly, the expression is very eccentric
or is wholly wanting in concentric
forms.
Washington is growing very rap¬
idly. The permits for building issued
during the last year were 1,739, repre¬
senting an outlay of $2,468,986, which
is $500,000 more than for the preceding
year.
Honors come by diligence; riches
ipring from economy.