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YGL. VIII.
IMMORTAL.'
■Once wc have loved we never lose That is not faith which drops its hold. '
That is not love which can forget, Once we have trusted, in our clasp
T' rough loss and loneliness and grie Forever lies life's changeless gold.
'his gem is as its coronet, Nor withers in our loosened grasp;
That true love never can forget. True faith through all time keeps its
clasp.
—Margaret E. Sangster, in Harper’s Bazar
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Y dearest wish is
that I could soil
f//?/ -cjft/S, Erovm Susy Ross, Bess,” rinsipg said
f /lf M \V I tlie dishes she had
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“What iu tiio
world do you want
% A to sell Brown
Bess for?” her
mother asked, looking up from the
dough she was kneading.
“I could go to the academy, mother,
for two more terms,” was the answer.
“Then, perhaps I could—get the
school at tiie Corners.”
“Nonsense, Susy, I need you to help
me;”her mother said. “Keeping school
is a thankless business.”
“It’s money,” said Susie, “and I do
long to help myself, and you, too.
Money will do everything that needs
to be done.”
“Yeg, that’s a fact,” spoke up Tom,
“and there’s lots wants to be done.
I’d like to clear that five-acre lot for
potatoes and corn, but I can’t do it.”
“And the house wants shingling,”
lier mother said plaintively, her eare
worn countenance taking oil another
shadoy.v
“The front rtdo*’s got a crack all
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“and there ought to lie a fireplace in |
granny’s room. Then there’s the barn;
it’s all that- we can do to keep the hay
dry.”
“I know all that,” said Susy. “I
know the house is getting to be a
scarecrow, and the barn is worse, and
that’s why I want to be earning. As
for the shingles, I should think you
could put them ou yourself, Tom; yes,
and mend the door.”
“Where’s the shingles?” Tom asked,
in his matter-of-fact way. “Where’s
the nails? Where’s the hammer? The
old one is broken past mending. And
where’s the money to get them with,
I should like to know?”
“Sure enough,” said Susy, “unless
I could earn it. That’s why I want
to sell Brown Bess.”
“And if you do sell her you -won’t
get much,” Tom said. “ She’s so full
of her tricks—the craziest colt I ever
saw.”
“I’m more and more afraid to have
you ride her,” her mother said. “But
if you should sell her, there’s the
mortgage to he paid in October.”
“If I sell her,” said Susy, quietly,
“it will be to finish my education.”
“That’s always your cry,” her moth¬
er went on, in plaintive tones; “no
matter what’s needed; hut I s’pose we
must give in. Bad as the roof is,
it shelters us. What would wo do
.without a house over our heads?”
“I’d sell the cow, too,” put in Tom.
“And then grandma would just
about starve,” the mother supplement
ed.
; Susy turned away from the table,
angry and grieved, hut she said noth¬
ing, only ran upstairs to her own
room.
“They don’t see it!” she sorrowfully
murmured. “They can’t understand
that it’s for their good and comfort
I want to get that school. I’m willing
to wear old clothes and to walk three
miles and back every day for the
sake of finishing my education. Let
the roof leak awhile—if Tom don’t
patch it. Let granny sleep downstairs,
where there’s a tire. I’ll help them ail
in a year or two—hut they don’t see it
—they won’t see it. If 1 can only sell
old Brown Bess! I‘d go and beg time
for the mortgage, or I’d borrow money
—or, maybe I can get enough to repair
the house and go to school, too. If
only Brown Bess wasn’t such a little
.vixen! It will go hard to part with
her though; it was my father’s last
gift.”
Tears rushed to the dark eyes, but
she repressed them and went down¬
stairs.
After helping her mother about the
house she donned her sunbonnet and
ran in to the barn. Tom was rubbing
V ’down < Brown Bess, whose bright,glossy
(coat shone like satin.
‘To thine own self be true,and it will follow, as night the day, Uiou cans’t not then be false to any man.”
LINCOLNTON, GA . THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1000.
“Much ns I can do to take care of
her,” said Tom. “She wants a regular
groom who would break her of her
nasty little tricks. See how she throws
her head up, and look at her eyes
flashing fire! Are you going- to the
■store? Mother wants sugar and mo¬
lasses, and vinegar—and I've got to go
in the field.”
“Yes, I’m going,” said Susy, “though
I ilreas it, the bill’s so large. If I
sell Brown Bess, that’s the first thing
I'll pay”
“That and the mortgage,” said Tom.
“Well, I'll saddle old Dick.”
Susy mounted to the back of the
slow old cart horse with gloomy fore¬
bodings. It was a warm September
day. Even in the midst of her anxi¬
ety the beauty of the ride to Hillstou
soothed and delighted her. Every
detail of the way was familiar to her,
yet when she came to Silver Ledge
Falls, and saw the white spray leap¬
ing over granite rocks and dancing
among the islands, she stopped old
Dick nd sat enjoying the scene as if
she had never beheld it before.
“Good morning,” a voice said behind
her.
“Oh, Charlie!” she exclaimed, with
a start. "I didn’t hear you coming.”
“No? The falls are so loud. I saw
you at the bend and followed. Going
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“Yes, Charlie, . she made ropi.,. and
i!1 spite of herself her voice held a
curious tremor.
“You’re worried over something,
he said, the keen lover’s eyes noting
the shadows.
“Y’es, Charlie, a little—the same old
trouble. I want to set things tc
rights—and—it’s hard work,” she said
in a low voice.
“I knew it. Why won’t you leave al
these matters'and come with me? The
house is waiting for you—and so am
I. Susy, darling, make up your mind.”
He held out his hand a look of un¬
utterable love making his rugged face
beautiful.
“If father had only lived,” she said.
“But you know it is impossible now,
Charlie. I can’t leave mother—not
yet—and I must finish the course at
the B- Academy, and keep - school
at least a year before' I get things
straightened out.”
He gave a long, low whistle, then
urged his horse, but stopped again
till Susy came up with him.
“You know I’ll wait for you, Susy,
as long as you say, but it’s rather
hard ou me, as I’m forehanded and
ready to marry, Susy, come, make
up your mind, My house is a large
one. I’ll take your mother and gran¬
ny. Tom can run the farm, and-”
"What! Let you support tne and the
family too? Never!” and her eyes
flashed. “I would never permit it.”
“Well, Susy, I’ve declared my will¬
ingness to help you, if only you would
let me,” said Charlie, “but since you
won’t, don’t look so sad and worried,
my darling. It’s worth serving and
saving for seven years if I can only
win you at last for my wife.”
“Oh, Charlie!” she said, brokenly,
“your love is priceless. Only be pa¬
tient.”
“I’ll try and keep on hoping,” he
said, and they parted at the store.
The grocer met her with a smile.
Everybody liked Susy. No girl more
genial than she under ordinary cir¬
cumstances, but to-day her face was
clouded, her manner preoccupied.
"Mr. Lee, I’ve made up my mind to
sell Brown Bess,” she said, after get¬
ting the things she needed. “Do you
know anybody that wants a horse?”
“Dear me! Going to soli Brown Bess!
Well. I was thinking of buying a
horse for my Alice. Is she safe for a
girl of ten, do you think?” the grocer
asked.
Susy grew pale. She had not an¬
ticipated a question of that sort, but
she answered after a moment’s inde¬
cision.
“She is fond of taking her own
head sometimes. No, Mr. Lee, if 1
find it hard to manage her she would
never do for your little girl.”
“Ah, I’m sorry for that, Miss Susy,”
said the storekeeper. “But I knew a
man who wants a spirited horse.
What would you sell her for?”
“I leave that to the purchaser,” Susj
made answer. “Papa paid $75 foi
her more than a year ago, and 1
wouldn't want to take less than that
for I need the money very much,”
she went on, “and if you will be so
kind as to take an interest in the mat¬
ter-” She stopped, her eyes wist
■ful.
“Why, of course I will,” the grocer
responded. “I'll send my boy to your
house with the groceries, and he can
bring the horse back with him. If
anything is done in the -1 of a sale
I’ll let you know at once? -
Susy thanked him and went on her
way home. As she came In sight of
the house, an old-fashioned, two-story
building, where dilapidation was ren
lered picturesque by n profuse growth
)f ivy that covered the front porch
md much of the exterior walls, she
felt more comfortable ns she thought
aver her prospects. In imagination
die had her mother quite reconciled
to all her plans, her school life as¬
sured, and all things going on swim¬
mingly. For who knew but Brown
Bess might bring her $100, she was so
spirited and handsome?
Work and home seemed brighter,
file grocer’s boy came for the horse,
rind though it was hard parting with
the pretty creature, Susy, in expecta¬
tion of results, bore the separation
bravely.
“Can't we take a little of the money
ton get to shingle the roof?” her
nother asked as the horse was led
iway.
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SELLS THE BEST SHOES
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If you want Good Shoes Cheap, do not fail to see him. Call at
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907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
“I hope so,” Susy replied, blithely.
“And you still think of going to
school. Ain’t you too old?”
“I’m not eighteen yet,” was Susy’s
mswer. “Many girls go to school till
:liey are twenty.”
“And there’s clothes to think of,
tresses and bonnets and shoes.”
“Oh, they’ll be provided,” Susy said,
Kith a little laugh.
“An’ winter’s cornin’—an’ it’s two
or three miles to the ’cademy,” her
mother went on, each time throwing
a more plaintive cadence into her
voice. Tom’s clothes are terrible
patched, an’ mother needs flannels, I
ain’t so young as I was once, hut I
ain’t sayin’ anything about myself,
only it’s kind o’ hard to spare you,”
and the lines in her mother’s weak
face deepened. could it
“Mother, I wish you see as
I do. I must go to the academy,” Susj
made reply. “It’s the opportunity ol
my life. But I tell you what I wit
do. If I get a hundred dollars foi
Brown Bess I’ll divide even. Fiftj
dollars would go a long way, wouldn 1
it?” would gel
“Well, yes, fifty dollars
everything we need, ’ was the reply
“But you’re never goin’ to get a hum
dred 'dollars. You’ll be more that
lucky if you get fifty.”
“Well mother,” said Susy, desper
ately. Rf I o a ly„. S et^ fifty. r.UdMd§
even. It will be thirty dollars coming
! in every month if I only get the
school.”
“I don’t see there’s any chance of
that,” said her mother, with woe-be
gone face.
Day after day Susy waited, but no
word came about Brown Bess. Tom
declared that he believed there was
no prospect of selling her, but one day
Charlie Grant drove up to the house,
his face fairly beaming.
‘T thought I’d bring you the news,”
Iso said; as he came in the bright liv¬
ing-room.
“Have they sold Brown Bess?” Susy
asked, her voice trembling in her ex¬
citement to hear.
“Well, yes—that is, if you’ll take the
price they offer,” Charlie made an¬
swer.
“Oh, I hope it's a hundred,” said
Susy.
“A hundred!” laughed Charlie. “Is
that what you valued her at? Lucky
for you that I was in at the bargain.
That horse will be worth thousands
of dollars before long. The man who
bought her trains horses for the trot¬
ting course. He has discovered re¬
markable qualities in Brown Bess as
a trottter, and is willing to give yon
i thousand dollars for her.”
A thousand dollars! Susy stood foi
a moment like a statue; then she flew
into the kitchen, where her mother
was making the daily batch of bread,
exclaiming:
“A thousand dollars, mother! we're
rich! Brown Bess is sold for a thou¬
sand dollars. You won't have to work
hard this winter. Tom can get two
suits of clothes if he wants them, and
buy the five-acre lot. Grandma can
have all the fire she needs; the roof
shall he shingled, the mortgage paid
off and—and -”
“What am I to have?” Charlie asked,
as she stopped out of breath, he hav¬
ing followed her into the kitchen.
She turned round, and, blushing
beautifully, held out her hands. He
clasped them both and drew her to
his bosom.
“What do you think of tht«, moth¬
er?” lie asked of the glad-hearted
woman at the bread-pan. “Susy is to
be my wife.”
“Wby, I think it’s a good deal bet¬
ter than keeping school,” she said.—
Waverley.
FRUITS IN COLD STORACE.
Cantaloupe* Among: the Cater One* Added
to the List—A Watermelon Wrlnlile.
Nearly all kinds of fruits are kept
(nowadays, on occasion, in cold stor¬
age, and they may he kept for practi¬
cally any period; winter pears, forex
ample, are kept from October to May;
oranges are kept six months, and so
on, and the list of fruits thus stored
Jias been all the time lengthening, Due
added within recent years is the can¬
taloupe, the cold storage of which was
begun, with the wide extension of the
area and latitude of its cultivation in
large quant ities for market, and_ the
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consequent extension of its season,
about six years ago. Cantaloupes come
iu large quantities from as far west
as Colorado, and as far south as Flor¬
ida. With the great lengthening of the
season of this melon iu the market,
and the vastly increased receipts cold
storage has been resorted to to save
fruit that must otherwise have been
lost or practically given away. At one
cold-storage warehouse in this city
there were put in last year, in the
course of the season, fifty carloads of
cantaloupes.
A fruit not cold-stored is the banana,
which is shipped green, in keeping
condition, to be sold as it ripens. An¬
other fruit, a good keeper, which is
not cold-stored, is the watermelon,
though what is perhaps as new a wrin¬
kle as any in cold storage is one in
connection with the watermelon. While
the watermelon is not eold-storod for
its preservation it is nowadays put
. into cold storage to cool it. A big res¬
taurant, cutting up and selling in the
season many watermelons daily, sends
fifty or a hundred melons to the near¬
est cold-storage warehouse, where the
fruit is brought down to a tempera¬
ture agreeable to the palate of the
consumer more economically and con¬
veniently than by putting them in ice
boxes or by icing them in the restau¬
rant.—Xew York Sun.
A Hoodooed Car.
“This blame car is hoodooed,” said ;
the conductor of an F street car to his
to motorman and get the^ other change day. “ I am going
try a to another car.
Is there such a thing as a hoodoo car?”
the conductor repeated, in answering
the inquiry of a reporter. “Of course
there is. I have* seen many a car that
was always going wrong and getting
into trouble. More than that, queer
things happened ou them at
’lines. There arc plenty of mi !/ / qh
ad conductor,i whc. evade su «. ''.car,
ESFiU ow \
'i - a < ‘imVHw&n ...
been some funny- things mSt happening^
around it. Did you hear bell ring¬
ing at intervals all the way down?
Well, a good many times here lately,
i hat bell lias rung without a soul touch¬
ing the button. We have tried to find
the cause of it. but have not sue
ceeded. The other day we had a hot
box and the car has been in a number
of accidents. We came within an ace
of running over a child, and if the
blame thing keeps on I wouldn’t run it
at any price.”—Washington Star.
Mexico’s Mixed Population.
The Mexican census, recently taken,
whose results are just coming out,
shows a population of 12,491,573, over
two-thirds of whom cannot read or
write. Over eighty per cent, of the
population is of mixed and Indian
races. Sixty-three languages . \ I'' '
spoken among the people. The Indian
tribes or races make up more than
thirty-five per cent, of the population,;
and are divided into fifty-two. lan
guages. Very few of the people of
mixed and Indian blood can be re¬
garded as civilized.—Springfield Be
publican.
Something Xew In Horticulture.
A fad in horticulture which has
pretty results is to insert strawberry
plants in holes in barrels which have
previously been bored for the purpose,
and the barrel filled with earth. The
plants flourish in this way splendidly,
often completely covering the barrel
with the leaves, blossoms and fruit.
The Indiana Supreme Court has de¬
cided that it is within the power of
the State Legislature to compel the
vaccination of school children. Iu ren¬
dering its decision, the court says that
it does not presume to say whether or
not vaccination is a preventive of
smallpox. It thinks this is not a ques¬
tion for the court and is one about
which medical men differ, While
there is in Indiana no explicit law
making vaccination compulsory as a
condition of public school attendance,
the court declares that the school au¬
thorities. in excluding the boy whose
parents refuse to have him vaccinat¬
ed, were within their province. They
had acted under the advice of the
■State Board of Health in view of an
emergency, However, the court rules
that the exclusion of the student in
question should not have force or ef¬
fect longer than the existence of the
emergency, The court does not doubt
that compulsory vaccination is clearly
within the police power of the State.
The gist of the matter is that a child
may be given the choice either to be
vaccinated or to remain out of school
until the danger of smallpox has
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