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file finfoln Home lonrua . i a YOL. Y. Alp me! and wliat is life? checkered An ardent, anxious, race With Time, a little breathing space Of care and strife. And.w hither does it lead? Alas', poor fools, wo little know U To what sad goal or bitter woe . Our courses speed. And vrli ere l ore Is it so? Not Why should we struggle, fight and die, knowing whence wb come, or why, Or whither go? If dsatli be life, indeed, Why should we longer tarry here, ' Beset by hope and doubt and fear— Why not be freed? JOEL’S PUNKIN HOOD. By SUSAN 13. BOBBINS. j .JDsxL T was the first really ' 'Va. cold day of winter. -v There had been s' WfS&x sharp winds and frosty nights before, tout this day was bitterly blustering. Along the frozen road, giving- tliun ‘ derous notice of its ' a “ approach, chattered ••a blue farm wagon, drawn by a white horse, which was driven by a tall man, . who wore on his head a large green hood of the pumpkin variety. Every 'one who saw him pass, on the way to his wood lot, said or thought: “Joel Bennett has got out his punkiu hood.” And some of the men looked after him almost enviously as they paused to rub their tingling ears. After Joel Bennett’s mother died, leaving him alone in the old house, of the neighbors wasted a great deal sympathy on him. The women of¬ fered to do his mending, and on bak¬ ing days sent him pies and dough¬ nuts. But when he told them that he •could probably mend fully as well as they could, and when they found that he gave their cooking to the pig, they sympathized less, and con tented them¬ selves with buying his butter, which was of excellent quality. With all his independence, how¬ ever, he had one weak point; he could not resist Miss Serena Bowen’s gin gersnaps. He had tried repeatedly to make them himself, but, although at times he felt encouraged and had hopes of mastering the art, he finally gave it up in disgust, and vowed, amid a blue cloud of smoke which was ascending from a panful of rounds of carbon, that he never would attempt the impossible again. So every week he carried eggs and butter to Miss Serena Bowen and « bartered them for her gingersnaps. A.nd she would remark to her tortoise¬ shell eat, after he was gone: “I don’t see how that mau manages to con¬ sume such a quantity.” It was five years now since, with Itlie remark, “I have froze my ears jonce too often,” Joel had adopted the / j headdress before mentioned. The old green hood began to show the effect of wear. There were places where the green outside had worn off and showed the white cotton batting inside. It was also evident that this threatened dissolution caused Joel some anxiety, for ‘in one place there was sewed on, with large, laborious stitches, a patch of thick black cloth, which, in contrast with the faded green of the surrounding territory, could be seen for nearly half a mile. Everybody noticed this dilapidated condition, and felt sorry for Joel. “I wonder if he’ll wear that old thing next year,” said Miss -Serena. And as she looked about the cozy room that served for her little bakery she sighed, for some unaccountable rea¬ son. Spring came, and for some little time Joel had worn a hat, while the punkin hood hung on a hook in his back entry. Then one day toward the end of April Joel decided that it was tune to pack it away for the sum¬ mer. He took it down and looked at it dubiously. “I’ll have to mend you,” he said, and preparatory to the nn / dertaking he took it out of doors and hung it on the clothesline by its two strings to air. Miss Serena Bowen, passing along the road, was a witness to this act. That evening Joel had finished his day’s work and was sitting in comfort in his kitchen reading. On the stand beside him was his lamp and a plate of gingersnaps. Every so often he would put out his hand mechanically, take one of them and eat it slowly as he read. The last bite he invariably -gave to the large black eat that sat on liis knees. It was evident that he was taking solid comfort. But presently, when his hand groped on the empty plate and failed to find what it sought, he roused up. A de¬ termined, almost grim look came on his face, and he put the eat on the ■ floor with scant ceremony. He went into another room and came back with a work basket and some patches. He put them on the table, threaded a needle with much difficulty and then went out to get the punkin "hood. A QUERY. Yet wliy do I deplor* My present lot? If God so will That I should tarry longer still Need I ask more? And if this life be sad Will death no brighter prospect bring? AVill it not lose the only sting It might have had? And if to die be gain Will not my gain be greater still To leave the world with all its ill And all its pain? Oh, why should I repine? sparrow’s fall To Him who marks the Shall I not leave my life, my all— Ay, even mine? —J. Sansome, in Frank Leslie’s It was gone. He groped along the whole length of the clothesline, but it was empty. He lighted his lantern and searched all the yard, but in vain. Joel felt his loss keenly, butkekept it to himself, and no one suspected what had befallen him. He was a forehanded person, and he determined that before much time had passed he would have another hood. He got the materials, and thereafter his evenings were spent in a desperate tussle with the problem of lioodmak ing. At such times Miss Herena’s gingersnaps were the only mitigating feature of his night labors. Joel’s dis¬ position gave way under the strain and the black cat learned to flee hia pres¬ ence. The 1st of May came and the hood was still unfinished. •One night, when Joel was surround ed by cotton batting, cloth, needles and thread, there carne a bS,n gentle knock >t hi. door. He l,»d mnojerl before .by hoy. rapping end then di appearing. Now lie was glad of the diversion, and he started for the door in hot haste. He sped ant into the night and up the road. In the distance he could see a black figure How he ran! In a few minutes he overtook the ...1, catcMng it by tb, ,ho«l devs, shook it vigorously. “I’ll teach you to come knocking at my door,” he said, fiercely. “Oh!” gasped the victim “I didn’t mean for you to know I did it. At the sound of that voice Joels arms dropped at his sides, and just then the moon shone out from behind some clouds and she ,ved Joel Bennett and Serena Bowen to each other “To think of her doing it, said Joel as he went sadly home. ‘I wouldn’t a’thought it.” paused, When he reached his door he f ““"" E ^ a “ Ha tool it off anil oamoff it iuto the house. It was a beautiful brown punkm hood quilted with tiny stitches. In side it were a quantity of gmgersnaps and a bunch ot carnation pinks. For fall five minutes Joel stood looking at these things, then he said: “To think of her doing it. I wouldn’t a’ thought it!” Then with a beaming face he gath¬ ered up his unfinished hood and the pieces of cloth and cotton batting and put them in the stove. While he was fixing the pinks in a vase he was struck by an enlightening thought. “Why, she stole the old one off the line for a pattern.” He took out the ginger snaps and going to the glass tried on the new hood. It was very becoming. Then, in thoughtful silence, he ate a gingersnap and gave the last bite to the black cat. It was a week later that Joel was m Miss Serena’s little bakery. “Yes,” showas saying, “I am tired this morning. Things didn’t go well yesterday, and there is so much to fret about, trying to suit everybody.” Joel cleared his thiAat and spoke hesitatingly. “Would it—would it be easier if you should only suit one?” he asked. Miss Serena blushed beautifully as she answered, very low: “Yes, I think it would.”—Chicago Record. CSlailstonc’s Malady. Gladstone’s malady is almost exact¬ ly like that from which Bismarck has suffered so long, facial neuralgia and deep mental depression being the chief symptoms in both cases. The English statesman, however, is hardly likely to give the same explanation of his pains as was recently propounded by the grimly humorous Teuton. One day, when the latter was obliged to sit for hours v itli his fingers pressed hard against his cheeks for the. sake of getting a little relief, he is said to have remarked: “This is only just; in my life I have sinned most with my mouth—eating, drinking and talking. ” Journey of a Bullet. In the fight in the Saran Sar pass in Northwest India, a rifle bullet fired by the enemy entered’the muzzle of a Sepoy’s rifle, penetrating nine inches down the barrel. The Lee-Metford rifle is oi .393 calibre. “To thiue self be true,and it will follow, as night the day, thou cans’tnot then be false to any man. own LINCOLNTON, GrA.. THURSDAY, MAY 19,1898 INSTANCES SHOWING THAT THEY USED THEIR BRAINS. * racks <>r a nos That Wanted His bin* j j «er and of One That Wanted Jiomaer ' and Sweetmeats—Itemarkable iixHild turns of Eoasomng Towers in Animals. “The physical expressions which animals employ to manifest their pas¬ sions, requirements, distresses, and emotions,” said a naturalist in the New York Sun, “are precisely similar to man’s. They caress with their lips and limbs; show resentment by facial dis¬ tortion, bites, and kicks, and fear by a tremor; they leap with joy, loll with thirst, lag with fatigue, and attack for revenge and reprisals. Even fishes, with their poor, deficient bodies, are able to manifest many apparent men¬ tal operations in a manner intelligible to man as well as to one another. “There is no end to the authentic* ted instances of animal sagacity indi eating premeditation, plan, i purpose, sense of duty, prudence, gratitude, method .judgment. Animals memor ize They cher sn malice, they dream in their sleep, they can count, they have a sense of injustice, a conscious ness of error, and notions of forgive ness tale. and reparation. Animals medi Dogs have been seen to sit in a tit I* * of such V abstraction v , i • that iv i no one could i -t engage then-attention, . j. + and i pre sently off with impetus that; ; start an showed taSu plainly there was mental im palM it. A friend of _ lad a setter dog ho intelligent that at a caff SoSia 1 *» «*. r a ri“ tb " the dog s master, being very , busy did -.-'i not put up thecomas usual, and the dog, after waiting some time and seeing that there didn’t seem to be any chance^ of his getting his dinner, went away. An hour or so later the butcher.came into my friend’s store and told him ,hr.t thoro rtn. no aronej in the envc lop, the dog bed brorrght over day. The dog’s master informed the butcher that he hadn’t sent the dog with an envelope that day, and was astonished to hear that the dog had visited the butcher s carrying an en velope as usual. The dog had down the envelope, got his meat and .„b.p,rerl out of tb, .tor, had „ if iu . great hurry, something he never done before. Every time before that he Lad brought his meat into his mas ter’s stove and eaten it there This time he had not been seen since he went'away. His master looked him up and founc him lying in the grass behmd the store and in response to his masters cal the dog came to him a most shame-faced looking animal his hanging head and drooping tail betraying the guilty feeling he had. 1 he dog, having seen tha Ins master wasn't mclined tlia. day to give him tb. .tor,, t.teu it orer to the butob ers, and getting hia meat, scampered away before the cheap could be dis covered. He knew ha had done a wrong thing and that if he took the meat to tne store as he had always done be fore he, would be found out at once, and when his master called him he hadn’t the face to try and hide his guilt. “I had a Newfoundland dog once that one day bravely rescued a child from the water at a seaside resort where I was stopping. The act was rewarded by much carressing and petting of the dog, and by his being fed generously with candy, of which he was extremely fond. This ceased after a day or two, and then one day the news came to me that a little girl had fallen from the end of the pier and that Ponto had rescued her. Again the dog became for a time a great hero, and the best of bonbons came again. This in turn became a thing of the past, and then, the very next week,the dog rescued another child that had fallen from the pier. Petting and candy followed this third noble act, and when they again ceased only a couple of days passed before Ponto had. brought safely ashore another child that had tumbled into the water from the pier. Now, it began to strike me as something odd that the dog should happen to be so oppor¬ tunely present, on these critical occa¬ sion, and when he ceased being the petted hero after this fourth life-sav¬ ing effect I kept a sly eye on him. The pier was a favorite play spot for the children, although so many of them had fallen into the water, and one day I saw Ponto strolling down there to join them. I followed without his knowing it, He mingled with the children, and before long I saw him deliberately, in apparent play, edge a little boy toward the side of the pier and actually pushed him off into the water. Then he jumped in after the boy and easily carried him the short distance to the shore. The scoundrel was actually making a practice of tumbling children from the pier and magnanimously saving them, praise just and to receive the homage and sweetmeats of the grateful and admir ing guests. I shipped this Jekyll and - Hyde dog back to New York-that very flay. Now, if he hadn’t reasoned all , that sly business out and acted on his j conclusions, I don’t know what it ‘ might be called.” HEART WOUNDS. instances In Which Patients Have Recovered. The murder of the actor Terriss has public attention very strong¬ to the subject of wounds of the heart, and professional interest fact that, is by the important the extent of the woand) “which pierced the heart through,” the murdered man lived close upon an hour. The cases in which patients suffering from small wounds of the heart have lived for some time, and have even recovered, are by no means rare. A case was re I>orted to the Clinical Society last year in which a man who had been stabbed over the third left costal carti¬ lage, and had suffered severely from hemorrhage, died seventy-nine days after the injury from general causes, and after death a scar was found in the right ventricle, showing that that the heart had been penetrated. f But the , W luut * may mor be ® recoveredHorn severe ™j urie8 ° Mulili£ ° relates the case of a man was atabbed with a stiletto on the sternum. For a time H life WM (l aired ofj but he re covered, ; and returned to his employ on his death, from other causes, ten years ater it was found * dhereut 0 P to elieaic th « teart 1 ^ and a ‘ ^ a ,, ^ > rounded . the was a opening J ° on innei e of the . right . ,? , , ventricle admit , , ” ,. ' . ° .’ , ... ; > J1 ul ^ eldm 10 e in . *° , le lt , J n V 1 ',' 1 . - , ™ 5 m ? r “ !“* trsgrJs&ssv: »V ,'” s8 rt °‘ t •«. An instance f record which w-r is on in a ” h am . iole of wJa ose heart had , ,, . , , 1 _____ \ ^ Tavloi- relates the 'fol A Af „ f i- v „ | )!l 0% T d 11 ?f \ 0 C 1 aSe ’ a T J a, w - n ,10 ^ e f l ' .° 1 ii ^ f ™ l10 , !' 'l “f f , ill . Ki ^ i 5 n ' ' ' ,, , i j ! eiet ads °., a oa ! s , . ? ’■ ? f s - 3 “ ^ “Itoal Vitaiaes, of the ; : the deceased must >vi“ V u VthThe received" the shot. The 1Ytri do ™ 1 of the » ^ „ p ’L»„t‘ «sonei s nouse was . . flowed, ’ ff^h? medical opinion was “nn ,, . ^ after the cWsed, and shot him Btojee j. it was, Ld however, urged and & d t]iat ho shot, the de¬ t]lr t the door of Ms own ^ whilo the latter was attempting / { There waS; in factj f blo od from the door to I , v]iere the body lay. The £ acquitted. But man? f ext raordinarv Hotter instances of the L.«i«eon iatenoe ol injury to the r ,,0;f„ °< • - ^..‘’Lavoisil.g Mother tb, Lsuvl , f sid& to sid nd of a _ 7 ^ ho Uved for five weeks with a P woo(J three inohes i oug in his ° ^ ventl . ic l e .-London Hospital, HOW WILD ANIMALS DIE. Gets Them, liven If They Escape the Gun or Spear. "What becomes of all the dead birds animals'? Some of them, hast¬ ened in tlieir exists by villainous salt¬ petre, go into cooking pots or yield up their blood-dabbled feathers for wo¬ man’s adornment. But how about those who die a natural death? It is the rarest thing to find the bodies of wild animals, except such as have plainly died in conflict or by accident. At salt-licks the ground is often covered with the bones of ani¬ mals who have been killed in lights with each other. In tropical countries the bodies of dead animals rapidly decay and their smaller bones are devoured by greedy beasts of the pig and hyena types. But the same scarcity of animal re¬ mains is noted in the Arctic regions, where decay is almost unknown. Here big beasts "like the Siberian mammoth have been “cold-storaged” for many centuries, and actually eaten at the last. But , each , succeeding .. spring does i „ as a,,™.,b„i. 4 by the snow. Yet birds swarm by tbe millions in summer on the Arctic tundra ami seals, reindeer, foxes, walruses and other land and water animals are there. Nordenskiold notes this strange absence of “self dead” polar animals. Not one did he see, though there were plenty of traces of man’s wanton waste of life in crea tures dead of gunshot wounds. “The polar bear and the reindeer,” he writes, “are found in hundreds, the seal, walrus and white whale in thou sands, and birds in millions. These birds must die a ‘natural death’in untold numbers. What becomes of their bodies?” It is strange that on Spitzbergeu it is easier to find the vertebra of a gigantic lizard of the Trias than the bones of a seal, walrus or bird wbicli has met a natural death. It is probable that animals almost universally hide themselves when they feel the pangs of approaching death. Their chief foe is hunger, coupled with old age. Distemper kills foxes and wolves as well as domestic dogs and cats. Chills and heart disease count animal as well as human victims, Old animals die of. indigestion, especially when their tenth too poor to permit of chewing foot! Oregon Sends Its Carp East. At last a market has been found fol carp, and if it only proves adequate tc the supply which can be furnished, the number of carp in this section will soon he reduced. Mr. Boeder, oi Sauvie’s Island, says there are now three men fishing for carp in the out¬ let of Sturgeon Lake, and they sell their catch to a dealer in Portland for two cents per pound, to be frozen and shipped East. If the fish find a ready market and the sale increases there will soon be many more persons fish¬ ing for them. When the water is rising the carp rush up the river into the Jake, and when the water begins to fall the sa¬ gacious fish rush out again. They are caught in a bag or purse nets set in the outlet of the lake, and by turning the nets around as the flow of the water changes they are caught “a comin’ ora-gwiue.” Sauvie’s The lake and sloughs on and Island are swarming with carp, there is no end to the quantity that can be taken. Carp grow to weigh forty pounds or move and it is said that some weighing forty pounds have been seen in Sturgeon Lake, but the largest seen in the market here weighed a little Eastern over people twenty-five will pounds. If the eat carp, they can have all they want at low rates from this section.—Port¬ land Oregonian. Thicker Shoes. Women have made a great advance in the matter of being properly shod for walking. We can remember when paper soles and silk stockings were quite as often seen on a winter pave¬ ment as anything more sensible. Now they wear a thicker, sole. As a conse¬ quence, red cheeks have taken tha place of blue noses; and though the family physician may have a fee or two less, we know of nobody else who can grumble. Ah! we forgot—tha shoemaker. He tells us, that since ladies took to thick soles he sells only one pair of boots where he used to sell two. So that, as amatterof economy, it seems the ladies have reason to con¬ gratulate themselves on this blessed ref 0 nn. -- 7 .New York Ledger, HUSTLES FOR HERSELF. An Ohio Toung Woman Who Carrie J Mail for a Living. fi Not many girls would enter Into a. contract and furnish a good bond for the faithful and prompt performance for four years of a duty to cover thirty two mile® a day, rain, snow or shine. Iff delivering Uncle Sam's mail. Yet tliia is what Miss Sadie Webb, the 20-year old daughter of Aaron Webb, a wealthy $nd prominent fanner of Porter ship, Ohio, has done. Miss Webb live* with her parents on their farm, and while the two sisters stay at home and help their mother and her father till the soil she discharges duty as contractor on mail route No. 31,277 and probably does more driving than any other girl In Ohio. She coven* 192 miles per week, 9,934 miles per mouth and 39,730 miles In the four years of her contract, a distance equal to that around the entire globe. Early in the day Miss Webb leaves her home, one and a half miles north of East Liberty', and, passing through* three more towns, she gathers up the IeaveB what is to be left at' ^ 'zxz? along he route hat , sh* i the vil ages ^ to travel every day of her life She aas bought articles for her ranging m size from a needle to Ing the necessd.es range. She of makes life and a the specialty along her route eon . iu e l J making purchases through her mission. . hast winter when the tnermome eE registered 22 degrees below zero she was prompt in all of her appointments along the route. That day she wore a heavy coat and felt boots reaching to the knee. Her hands were covered with a pair of elbow gloves while she drove through the distance, none the worse for the cold. Her work, although arduous, is enjoyable to her and very remunerative as well. She has made as high as $5.35 in a single clay from sources extra from her stipulated eon tract with the government, Not only is Miss W ebb a success in commercial circles, but she is well liked in social circles as well. Her home is an evev-weleotne place those who desire to visit it. She is a handsome young woman and took the contract when she was just 18 age. age. She is an entertaining tlonallst, tlonallst, has has a a pretty -round face under two vm dark rt n t»Tr oirahrmurs eyebrows ft are I’P Sf*f: set two hazel eyes “that know their keepers.” Tumors, diphtheria and consump¬ tion are frequent animal complaints, and anthrax, influenza, glanders and cholera claim their share. Babies comes in epidemics among wild ani¬ mals as well as tame ones. It was so common among foxes in 1830 to 1838 in Franca and Switzerland that fox hunts were organized for the protec¬ tion of domestic animals. All this, however, doesn’t explain what becomes of the dead animals. Perhaps that will cease to be a mys¬ tery when we find out where all the pins and shoe buttons go.—New York World. WISE WORDS. Education is a mental maa-iner. Vanity is the yeast cake of pride. Beading is planting seed thoughts. Character is the mirror of thought. Effort converts the ideal into the real. Moderation is a check to pvesump tion. The past is the shoolmaster of the future. Beason is the dissecting knife of thought. True politeness is kindness kindly expressed. Make education a science and it will become an art. The true prophet is seldom a prophet to his own people. If stolen dollars would burn, there would be some hot pockets. Sympathy is the channel in which the current of a man’s thought runs. Tolerance is good, so far as it goes, but it has no place between equals and friends. There is a vast difference between speaking “one to another,” and one about another. ■ Home men blow their own trumpets by praising in others what is most conspicuous in themselves. It is one thing to survey yourself with pride, and quite another to ex¬ plore your heart with humility. Without first making everything else, God would have been without a language with which to speak to man. —Barn’s Horn. The Drink a Man Needs. An average man requires fifty-nine ounces of food per diem. He needs thirty-seven ounces of water for drink¬ ing, and in breathing he absorbs thirty ounces of oxygen. He eats as as much water as he drinks, so much of that fluid being contained in vari¬ ous foods. In order to supply fuel for running the body machine and to make up for waste tissue he ought to swallow daily the equivalent of twenty ounces of bread, three ounces of po¬ tatoes, one ounce of butter and one quart of water. The body of a man weighing 154 pounds contains ninety six pounds, or forty-six quarts, of water. NO. 50. Past Caring. ' Here's Mr. Joseph Jefferson’s story. He told it the other evening at :i banquet up in New England some where. “I atn reminded,” said Mr. Jefferson. In tlie course of some remarks, “of what once occurred to me. I was ing the Atlantic. The weather wn dreadful, I was trying to guide myself along the deck, and, incidentally, to al others. In this mission I ran across lady lying prostrate on the deck, deutly sorely troubled with that ful disease, sea sickness. “I said to her, ‘Madam, may I you anything to relieve you?’ “She looked at mo feebly and said ‘I beg you will not mention it. Wil, you also kindly excuse me, sir?’ “1 then said to her: ‘But is there ing I can do for you?’ BhI •• 'No, sir,’ said she, in the same ‘“But, madam,’ I said, ‘you are dontlv suffering. Can I do help you?’ “ 'I wish,’ said she, ‘that you go away. I am not fit to see any one.’ ‘I am sorry, madam,’ I ‘that I can be of so little service. Can I do nothing for your poor husband, the gentleman whose head I see in “ 'Oh.’ said she, ‘that is not my bus band. 1 do not know in the least who he is.’ ’’—New Yor k Telegra m. Australia's Rig Land Owners. The London Echo gives a list of large iand owners in Australia. One o.t them has 020,000 acres, another 1.200,000, a third 3,000,000, while the Union il-.vtlS no fewer than 7 . 800.000 »e>'oa. , GEORGIA Ml W A. IV I >~ Connections For Information as to Boutes 8-b' —ules and Bates, Both— Passenger and Write to either of the undersigned Yon will receive prompt reply reliable information. JOE. W. WHITE, A, G. JAOESO T. P. A. G. P. A, Augusta, Ga s. W. WILKES, H. K. NICH0L8O3 C. F. & P. A. G. A. pi j Atlanta. Athens. W. W. HABDWIOK, S. E. MAGILfc S. A. C, F. A. Macon. Maoo*. M. R. HUDSON, F. W. S. F. A. S. F. & P. A, Miliedgevilia. Augusta,