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m m ft! 1 .1 . S’- Mu a k fa 9 ■i • I I m y e i! YOU. V. When your eyes smile too—when your eyes smile too, It’s then X know your hidden heart is laugh ing out with you. It's often I have seen your lips go searching up a smile. And, oh, 1 somehow knew your 1 heart was grieving all the while gloomy, and tho And the sky was dark and bird-songs were so few. shining—till And the sun forgot its your eyes smiled too : THE SUBSTITUTE. Rev. M. Pennell,pastor of the First Society, Brookville, entered^his house one afternoon in July with an expres¬ sion uiion his countenance so unlike the look of w ariness generally there visible that his wife, noticing it, in¬ quired: “What has occurred that affords you such evident gratification?” “You know I was wishing that I. might have a temporary relief from my cares, but was unwilling to take a vacation because of my belief that no church should, even for one Sunday, be without preaching?” it “Yes; and I know that you owe to your people, not less than to yourself, ■.(to rest from your labors; so doing,you cbqld accomplish much more. Have yoif.deeided to go away for a season?” “Bead that,” lie replied, passing a letter to his wife. She unfolded the missive, whose con¬ tents were: C — New York, July 12, 18—. Dear Brother Pennell : You will be surprised at hearing from your former class¬ mate iu Andover, between whom and your¬ self there inis never been anycorrespond¬ ence; but a few words will render ait com¬ prehensible. Prom my remembrance of your views respecting the duties of a pastor, and from what 1 have heard of your faithfulness, I apprehend that you would not sacrifice what you, perhaps unwisely, regard tho welfare of your people to your strength. physical aud, of course, mental health and A young man whom 1 considered very gifted has been studying iiko with me for nearly two years and would to Provided preach a few Sundays, experimentally. charge for you wish to be absent from your a month or six weeks, my friend will gladly supply your pulpit during that time for no other compensation than his board. If,how¬ ever,you shall choose to make him a trifling donation, it will bo very acceptable,as he has to provide for himself entirely. until the I shall be absent from home middle of September, so. if you think.proper to accent my suggestion, please write to Mr. Thomas Smith. Boston, whither he is going to visit friends, on receipt of this. With kindest wishes, Fraternally yours. William Blake. “You will avail yourself of the op¬ portunity to recuperate your energies?” asked Mrs. Pennell, having finished the letter. “I shall. It seems too much like a dispensation of Providence to be neg leeted. ” “I am so glad!” Mr. Pennell went to bis library and wrote to Mr. Smith, mentioning the letter from “Brother” Blake and in¬ viting him to substitute for him dur¬ ing the coming six weeks. Three days later Mr. Smith came to Brookville. He wai of the medium height, slight, pale-faced; had long auburn whiskers, worn a la Anglais, curly hair of the same hue; blue eyes, that were sharp, inquisitive, penetrating; regular, pleasing features; was evi¬ dently not far from 25. The following Sunday he occupied a seat iu the pulpit with Mr. Pennell, but took no part in the exercises, ex¬ cept to offer the closing prayer. At the conclusion of the morning service—the only one for the day— the pastor introduced him to the more prominent members with the re mark—it so:)n became sterotyped: “Mr. Smith will preach for me while I am having the vacation which it appears to be my duty to take, and I think you will have no reason to re¬ gret the temporary change.” Everyone expressel his pleasure at knowing that Mr. Pennell had con eluded to rest; no one doubted but that Mr. Smith would satisfactorily meet all requirements. already Indeed, the newcomer had done much toward securing the favor of those who were to constitute his congregation. “What fervent prayer!” “How a earnest he seems!” “He is destine 1 ■o Hike become distinguished,” and other observations might have been heard, solto voce, from the elderly people. whispered to The maidens one another, “Did you ever see such side whiskers?” “What magnificent eyes and he has!” “Isn’t he fine looking!” so on. The next Sabbath ihe subject of bis discourse was: “I was a stranger, and ye took me in.” As a literary produc¬ tion it was masterly, and it was de¬ livered in a manner that held the au¬ dience spell-bound. the pulpit AVlien he descended from an old man, whose frame was bowed, whose hair was silvered by age, ex tended his hand and said, tremulous ‘Brother Smith, ia more than 80 years I have never heard so excellent a sermon as yours.” returned 31 Smith. “Thank you,” words encouraging,” r. “Your kind are and a blush supused his face. From that time his who praises were on every lip. People were noted Sabbath-breakers went to hear him; WHEN YOUR EYES SMILE TOO. Whon your eyes'smile too—when your eyes smile too. Oh, the listen of the willows and tho glisten of the (lew ! Oh, the brightness of the meadow and the lightness of the grain, winds that laugh And tho musie of the little along tho line! Oh, the whisper of the valley and tho deep ness of the blue, living—when And the glory just of your eyes smile too! Press. —New York the prayer-meeting had au attendance larger than it had ever before known; the “sewing circle,” usually discon¬ tinued through the hot months, was re-o rganized.and of it he was the mov¬ ing spirit. the gentler With reference to sex he acted circumspectly, being courteous toward all, but manifesting no favor¬ itism for any 'popular of them. In a fortnight he was ns as a clergyman could desire to be. “I should like to ask a great favor of you,” he said to Mr. Campbell, president and cashier of the local bank, a “pillar” of the church, as they sat in conversation one evening. “Do not hesitate to ask any favor which it is in my power to grant,” was the reply. the for “It is not exactly thing au humble servant of the Lord to wear this ring”—extending sparkled In's shapely large white hand, whereon a diamond. “It- indicates a taste for display that, not commendable with tho rich, is reprehensible where the wearer is poor and tilting for the vo¬ cation that is to be mine. I do not wear it as a matter of display, hov* ever, but because it i» an heirloom, from which I have been unwilling to part in the seasons of my direst need. The people cannot know my motive in having it appear misapprehend upon my person it. and will probably willing, I would ask, if you are to give it a place in your safe at the bank.” . * Most assuredly. Carry it there in the morning, and I will deposit it where it will be secure.” “Thank you. My mind is relieved of a great responsibility.” the The next morning he went to bank and saw his ring placed where Mr. Campbell convinced bini it would be “secure.” After an absence of five weeks Mr. Pennell returned to bis charge, and Mr. Smith went from Brookville to a small village in Maine, where he had engaged to preach for a short time, he said, There was a wide and deep regret at his departure, and now a few of the church members—especially those who had joined under liis administration— freely expressed their wish that the “lay preacher” might continue to sub¬ stitute for the regular pastor, who, such remarks reaching, deeply grieved. matters settled into their Finally and moved former channel on peace¬ fully for the greater part, though not without an occasional disturbance such as the parish had not known prior to the advent of Mr. Smith. Toward the elos'e of the September place by the a j panic was created in rumor that the bank had been bur glarized to the amount of nearly $60,- | 0()0_a rumor that proved announcement true. The day that this was made Mr. Smith again came to Brookville to obtain the ring, which he had thought it best should remain in the safe while he was away. Despite the gloom of those who had suffered by the burglary, they were glad to see him and, learning his loss, were so sorry as to almost for get their own. “Though tho intrinsic value of the ring was considerable, I valued it chiefly because it bad been in our family so many years—handed down from one to another generation,” he said; “but my loss does not deserve mention with that which some of you have experienced. It does make me feel a personal interest in the affair”— this to the directors and depositors— “and I would suggest, thatyou at once telegraph 'of to New York for Mr. —-, one the most expert detectives in America. I regret my inability to re¬ main and learn the result of your in¬ vestigation. If you succeed in re¬ covering the stolen property, I shall appreciate your kindness if you will express the ring at once to me at Rochester, New York. ” 3Ir. Campbell promised to do so. Mr. Smith thankedhim and was gone. The detective named was summoned by telegraph and within 12 hours ar rived in Brookville. To him the pres¬ ident stated all the facts in the case, of which the officer made a memoran¬ dum. Then,as in verification of these statements: “Ihe door of the bank was locked when you reached it?” he said, inter¬ rogatively. returned 3Ir. Campbell. “It was,” locked?” “The safe was also “Yes.” “The windows were fastened as usual?” “They were.” “Who knows the combination that you use on your lock to the safe?” “To thine self be true,and it will follow, as night the day, thou cans’t not then be false to any man.” own IJNCOLNTON, OA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY <>, 1898 I “No one but myself.” . 1 “Have you ever committed it to * paper?” “I have, and the paper is now in a sealed package, held by my attorney and to be opened only in case of an illness—that renders me unconscious —or my death. ” “Do yon know that the package has never been tampered with?” “I suppose that it has not. M ill _ learn shortly, and he wrote a note whioli he sent to his attorney. “No suspicions person has been seen in the village recently?” “Not that 1 am aware of.” The officer began his examination of the premises, frequently referring to his memoranda. Meanwhile a sealed package was handed to Mr. Campbell, who, opening it, said: “The paper is here, unmolested.” “Are you sure that you have never accidentally disclosed the combination to anyone—that no one has. been near you when you opened the safe?” “The only person who has ever been near me when I opened the safe, with the exception of the officials, is the gentleman who substituted for our pastor this summer.” “How did he, happen to be near you?” valuable “He came here to leave a ring that was his for safe-keeping.” “You opened the safe in his pres¬ ence, and lie unsuccessfully tried to open it after yon?” v “Yes,” in absolute astonishment. “Describe hispersonal appearance. ” Mr. Campbell did so. “That is all for the present,” re¬ marked the officer. Four days elapsed, during which the detective seemed to give the “case”, no consideration, devoting his time to conversation with this, that and the other one on any subject except the burglary. Then he went to Mr.Camp bell. “Your description, ” he said, “of the gentleman'who substituted for your pastor this summer tallied so nicely with the description of a burglar who .lias ‘operated’ in the West that I at once made up my mind that the two were identical.” Mr.Campbell gave a start, “Leaving you I called on Mr. Pen¬ nell and learned the name of the cler¬ gyman by whose recommendation Mr. Smith came here. To this minister l immediately wrote. The reply is—” reading a letter: C— New York. Oct. 2, 18—." Dear Sir—I n answer lo yours, just at hand, would say : 1 know no one by the name of Thomas Smith,never had a student, never wrote to Brother Pennell. The even ing before I left home, last July, a young man,in all respects like the one you describe, called ou me and asked innumerable ques¬ tions concerning Brother Pennell—so many and so. strange that I wondered at them. 1 intended to write Brother P.about this man. but neglected it so long that I deemed it best not to write at all. Wish now that 1 had, as it would have prevented the imposi¬ tion which has been practised upon an es¬ teemed co-worker and his people. Yours respectfully. William Blake. Mr. Campbell was too much aston¬ ished to speak. Smith—or “Probably this man whatever his name may be—learning that your bank did an immense busi¬ ness, resolved to burglarize it long ago,” continued the officer, “Just how ho chanced to adopt the clerical role I cannot say; but, having deter mined upon it, he could easily find the name of some one who was your pastor’s classmate at tlie Theological seminary by consulting the catalogue of the institution for various years, Fortune favored him in selecting 3! r. Blake. He had never corresponded with Mr. Pennell, but was thoroughly versed in his ways. This circumstance enabled Smith to write to your pastor, with no fear Of detection by reason of the penmanship. The time of writing was also opportune, as 3Ir. Blake was on the point of leaving home, and Mr. Pennell could not write to him con cerning the would-be substitut e, “The ring—it may or may not have been worth something—was the ruse by which he gained a knowledge of your combination. When you opened the safe he learned the number that you used, and his unsuccessful at tempt to open it after you was a mere ‘blind.’ Of course, to obtain an en trance to the building was an easy matter for him. I shall this very day go in pursuit of him, and my advice is,say nothing of what I have told you to anyone except the directors, more than that ^ have obtained a clew to the perpetrator of the deed, until you hear from me. ” Early in December he received a telegram from the detective at New York, which contained the single word “Come.” He went to that city, where he found Thomas Smith, alias various other names, in custody, who made a full confession, quite substantiating the officer’s suppositions,and restored all that he had taken from the bank, save a hundred dollars or so. When Mr. Campbell returned to Brookville with the stolen property everyone was astonished; they were more astonished on learning the true character of the “lay preacher.” “His first text should have been, ‘I was a stranger and took ye in, J }> fa cetiously observed one of the church members whom Mr. Smith had espe¬ cially pleased. of his flock Since that time no one has expressed any desire that another than the Rev. Mr. Pennell administer to his spiritual wants. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The number --* of stars pictured the on English and German photo atlases is about 08,000,000. Scientists tell us that every element to the support of man is within the limits of an egg shell, in the best proportions and in most palatable form, Ia the last publication of the Berlin Academy of Sciences Professor Bont g eu p as au a rticle in which he con firms the observation of Dr. Braudes that it is possible to make tho X-rays visible to the eye. The durability * of catalpa wood in illustrated at tho ^ Indianapolis, J by / a sec ^ a ca pa po t at the ground surface, whore decay is always the most rapid. The wood is but slightly affected by its twenty-five years of exposure. Evaporation is proportional to the velocity and dryness of tho wind. Scientific experimentation demon¬ strates that when the temperature of the air is at 80 degrees F., with a relative humidity of fifty per cent., the evaporation, with the wind blow¬ ing five miles an hour, is 2.2 greater than at calm; at ten miles. 3.8; at fifteen miles, 4.9; at twenty miles, 5.7; at twenty-five miles, 6.1; at thirty miles, (1.3 times as much as a calm atmosphere of the same temperature and humidity. For the filtration of liquids contain¬ ing very fine precipitates which are apt to pass through the filter, such as barium sulphate, lead sulphate, cal¬ cium oxalate, etc., W. Busch recom¬ mends tho use of powdered pumice stone. It, is necessary to use a very finely powdered pumic stone which has been freed from acid soluble sub stances by boiling with diluted hydro chloric acid and washing with water, About two to three grams of this powder are placed in the bottom of a filter. After pouring back once a clear filtrate is obtained, When whisky is used instead of water in making glue the mixture will remain unaltered for years, will re¬ main perfectly liquid except in very cold weather, and is ready for use without the application of heat. Tight corkage to prevent the vola¬ tilization of tho solvent is the only precaution necessary to keep the glue perfect. All that is necessary is to break the glug into small fragments, place these in "a glass vessel, and pour sufficient whisky over them to thoroughly It dissolve. After being tightly corked for three or four days, the prepared glue is ready for use. Chinamen’s Pigtails. Among the real injuries that can be offered to a Celestial is to cut off his hair, which he wears in a plait down his back and to which disrespectful Western nomenclature has attached the name of pigtail, Sometimes the hoodlums in San Francisco aud the Larikins in Sydney, N. S. W., in an overflow fof animal spirits and in unreserved contempt of the heathen Chinese, cut off the pigtail and the un¬ happy victim of this outrage has to go, like the messengers of David, who, be¬ ing shorn by the Philistines, were told to tarry in Jericho till their beards did grow, and, as the old Hebrews did, dwell apart until the pigtail became at least observable. It is reserved for the administration of the Public Works Prison in Toronto to show consideration for tho pigtail under circumstances not usually con¬ sidered as sources of tenderness, and the Chinese who come there as con¬ victs will hereafter retain their pig¬ tails. In this country in State prisons the hair is cut close, and no National custom will save it, though it be as sa¬ cred as a Chinaman’s pigtail.—Wash¬ ington Post. Artificial Silk. Artificial silk is now an article of trade and as it is advisable for buyers to be acquainted with the means of de¬ tecting it the following from the Dec¬ orator and Furnisher is worthy of note: The most effective test is combus¬ tion. While natural silk burns slowly and turns up like horn, at the same time omitting a characteristic odor, arti¬ ficial silk burns rapidly when once ig¬ nited and smells like burned cotton. Sometimes the two kinds of silk are mixedjinthe same article. Mention is made in an Austrian paper of a fa¬ bric, alleged to be of English make, the warp of which consisted of natural silk, weft of artificial. The origin of the latter could not be detected by tho eye even by the most expert connois seur. Ilpon the combustion test being applied, however, the material burned with extreme alacrity. A Monster Check For Unties on Tea. Upton, the English tea merchant, whose name went round the world in tho recent Jubilee season because of his $25,000 dinner to the poor, has just added another item to the news of the world. He has drawn the largest check ever paid for customs duties. It was for £50,513 11s. 5d., or somewhat more than a quarter of a million dol¬ lars. It represented the duties on one week’s importations, about 1300 tons. The weekly consumption of tea in the whole of Great Britain is about 2000 tons, so Mr. .Lipton has a business that can afford a $25,000 charity onca in a while. COOD ROADS NOTES. “ “ clean Koail*. On the principle that the greater al¬ ways includes the less, good roads naturally imply a clean as well as a smooth and durable surface. But sometimes the only step that can be taken toward better roads is to first keep the poor ones clean, and a bad road that is clean is not quite so bad as one that is not, and more or less covered with refuse. In New York, for a year or two, the streets, poor as they are for the most part, have been kept remarkably clean, and since this happened it is said that the demand for rubber overshoes has materially decreased there. In towns and in the country, if live stock were kept off the highways and properly confined, the roads would bo much cleaner, tho farmer could do away with nearly all his expensive fencing, and traveling would be far more agreeable. Highway Drainage. There is one fault frequently com¬ mitted in the use of the road machine; there is an insufficient escape allowed •or water. Those who operate the machines object to being bothered by bars, or the so-called “thank you, inarms.” So these are not being put in their places as they should be. If there is a short sag to be filled, it can probably be done from material it the sides by using drag scrapers, then dress up with a road machine, or if the soil is a stiff' clay or muck, haul an gravel, rock, shale or sand, if they ire available. If not, the embank¬ ment should lie raised to au extra height to give a quick drainage. The worst feature in the working of the roads is that they are made the gutters of the county. The ditch on the upper side of tho road gathers all the water from the fields above the road aud carry it to the foot of the hill; the ditch ou the lower side gathers all the water com¬ ing from the road, and between the ;wo our road systems arc being washed out. Drainage can and should be provi¬ ded to get the water outside of the road limits at short intervals. Water is a poor road material. Keep it from getting on the roads where possible. —Kenyon (Mich.) Leader. Profit in Good 11 oatl Taxes. The hill tax is produced by running roads in straight lines over hills and mountains with grades of ten to fif¬ teen feet in one hundred, instead of following valleys, skirting hills and making gradual winding ascents, keep¬ ing as close as possible to a four per cent, grade. The square corner tax is common on the prairies and in level districts. It consists in traveling, for instance, seven miles north, and then seven miles east to reach a point- that is but ten miles northeast in a straight line. In such a case forty per cent, of the actual distance is added, The aver ige distance added in this way be¬ tween any two points throughout the country is twenty per cent. The mud tax is due to having soft roads insufficiently drained, and gen¬ erally “repaired” by having the sod, stones and earth from the gutters thrown on them once a year when road taxes are being worked out. The fence tax arises from the time, material and expense of erecting and maintaining unnecessary fences. The snowdrift tax follows on the heels of the fence tax, fences serving is obstructions to cause the formation of drifts. The waste land tax comes from the loss of good, unused land left on the roadside outside {-lie fences. The wagon wheel tax is caused by the use of vehicles having narrow tires, with rear wheels following in the track of the front pair, and thereby always tending to cut up the road sur¬ face. The good roads tax is the profit ac¬ cruing to the farmers aud all other persons using the roads from the re¬ moval of the above self-imposed taxes. -L. A. W. Stems. Prosperity travels on good roads. Good roads are highway morality. Bad roads mean dreary isolation for months every 3 r ear. California has passed a law requir¬ ing the use of wide tires after January 1, 1900. The citizens of Orleans, Inch, have just voted $46,000for the construction sf thirty miles of gravel roads. Thirty-six miles of turnpike road, thoroughly drained, are to be con¬ structed at once in Felton, 3linu. Bowl repairing is all right, but it should be preceded by road building. “Repairing” a mud hole will never make a road of it. Rural postal delivery is popular and is likely to come, but it will depend for its efficiency and extension on bet¬ tor roads than now exist in most parts of the country. The Merchants’ Exchange of Oak¬ land, Cal., has decided to take hold with a will and help the Street Com¬ mission in its labor of getting good roads for that city. Three years ago the death rate in New York City was twenty-six per thousand. Since the streets have been kept clean it has fallen, and for the first six months of the present year it was under twenty per thousand. NO..31. GEORGIA RAILROAD. —A N I>— Connections. m For Information as to Routes, Sched —tiles and Bates, Both— Passenger and Freight Write to either of tho undersigned. You will receive prompt reply and reliable information. JOE. W. WHITE, A. G. JACKSON, T. P. A. G. P. A. f Augusta, Gro. a. W. WILKES, H. K. NICHOLSON,! G. A. C. F. <fc P. A. Atlanta. Athens. 1 W. W. HARDWICK, S. E. S. A. C. F. A. Macon. Macon, y M. B. HUDSON, F. W. COFFIN * S. F. A. S. F. & P. A. Milledgeville. Augusta. AN INTERESTING FAMILY. — rhe Jimson Weed and Its Nn morons and Important Relatives. The lowly jinisou weed belongs to i family not only interesting, but off. great importance from an point of view. The Jamestown Is only another species of the plan * from which the priests of Apollo i decoction to induce that state of ?estasy in keeping with (lie proplietiA diameter of their revelations. Tonga Is a. drink made from die seeds he Indians of Darien give to their Iren that they may discover the turn of gold. Klondike vs might take 'll baby along and a few jimson seeds to make tea. and when tho has iaddy its could “dope” dig, and falls of find. down, thflj sure a Of course you eat potatoes, which ■ousins likely of the eat jimson them with weed, but with® j^B eery or their jackets, in salad, prepared as S aioga chips or in other ways too merous (o mention, but it is safe to « that you never ate them preserved, cr yet that Is the way Parkinson, in llMO. recommended that they rooked. Tie suggested that the be roasted, steeped iu sugar or with marrow and Spice* opportunity toe some enterprising eln or housekeeper str.i;i.„ !• .’ < ; g to win distinction in the way of ing fiommes de terre. You probably eat tomatoes, too, ‘ which you probably eat with sugar call tomalitoes, while your friend eats his with salt and calls, tbeifg plain tomaytoes. If you are partial iu vegetables the egg-plant, also a nig® shade, is found upon your table, pos^gl aip bly seasoned with cayenne pepper, m other of the same family. r J'be great sweet-smelling masses of white magenta petunias which arc so fain] iar, are also of this enterprising fan* t'.y. Bitter sweet, the Jerusalem cherry, apple of Peru, henbane and the ugi ' horse nettle are a few other less familiar. The long-eorrolled aieotiana n flora, which opens, as its nunig® pests, in the evening, is a favorw don flower, as is the named for the gentle scholar-priest Buenos Ayres, who first collected i Another ohl-fashioned flower of tti family is the .matrimony vine, Is not a vine, but a shrub with ben. branches. B.'lliVdoaua, also as atropa, is a night shade. The used it to make a was!: for freckles; hence its name "belladonna,’’ lady. Its poisonous properties got for it the name of the cruel fate. who cut the thread of human life fast as it was drawn out by Last, but not least, conus king tb* bacco, product of our own soil, the i weed against which Popes have issued j bulls and kings mandates, modest and still vive| !e roi! But even a man as he rests after dinner in pered feet, sans waistcoat, sans tie, watching the.blue smoke above his head and N dr-eau'eng. dreams as only nieotiana tobacurn produce, takes much comfort and echo the remark: "It is a very esting family."—St. Louis "t'il L. Bamboo as Build'ng Material. The great strength of bamboo ',3 not at all understood by the majority of] persons, it is bamboo said or poles, excellent each author-] of them] ity that two one and seven-tenths inches in diame ter, when placed side by side, will sup. port a grand piano slung between there by ropes, and that they will neithoi sag nor break under the burden. Bam, boo will form poles s Rty-five to seventy feet long and from eight to ten inehei in diameter. A derrick, twenty-six feJ high, made of four inch bamboo- poll t| raised two iron girders weighing twenty-foi| gather four hundred and pounds. The wonderful lightue of this material in proportion to 11 strength has excited comment of lat and new uses are constantly beta made of it. Scaffoldings of bivmb. have the advantage of lightness ai strength. It is predicted that this m terial will come into gereral use £ I such purposes.