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Wlier© Whistling Is LTn.
Tlio Arabs call whistling “the devil’s
music,” and they consider it the most
unlucky sound that can proceed from
human lips. An old proverb of theirs
Is to the effect that after whistling,
the mouth is not purified for forty
days.
In many other parts of the world a
similar idea prevails, in the Tonga is
lands, for instance, where whistling i3
“tabu,” and in Iceland, where the
peasants strongly object to it, believ
ing it to bo a violation of the divine
law. Whistling is quite unknown
among the descendants of the Peru
vian Incas.
The Cornish miners are very super
stitious, and they lay a ban on whist
ling while underground. The old
hands think it a fertile source of evil,
and the young hands „ct many a
“scat” on the head to bring them to
the same opinion.
One Thousand Years Old.
There is always a peculiar interest ;
attached to any great piece of work
completed by a people living many
hundreds of years ago. This is especi
ally so of the Great White Horse of
Wiltshire Downs, England.
As you stand on an elevation and
look across the country, your eye
catches the form of a gigantic white
horse upon the side of a hill beyond
tho valley. It is a figure cut in the
rock in the side of the Do\vn3, and is
175 feet long from the head to the
tail. It is believed to have been made
in the time of King Alfred, who died
1,000 years ago. The figure is rather
crude, but when seen at a distance the j
outline of a horse is very distinct. Just ,
above the figure, on top of the hill, ,
are the remains of an old camp.
Found Few Bodies of Animals.
It has been a source of much sur
prise to Prof. Nordenskjoid that dur
ing his expedition witnin the arctic
circle, in regions where animal life is
abundant, he has found very few re
mains of animals which died a natural
death. No one has any idea of what
becomes oi the bodies of such animals;
end it is indeed very strange that on
Spitsbergen it is easier to find bones
of a gigantic lizard of remote geologi
cal time than those of a “self-dead"
seal, walrus or bird. The same is also
true of some places not so far north.
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Better Country Highways.
“ AVING had considerable ex
perience in road building as
Commissioner of Highways,
I want to say a word on how
roads can be much Improved before the
great tidal wave of permanent improve
ment reaches up, for, although it is
bound to come, we need not stand
back, knee deep in the mud, waiting;
and what is done in the way of drain
ing— iho first of importance — and
grading, and otherwise clearing up
the sides, will all be so much gained
toward the final finish. I will give a
little experience of how I make a good
earth turnpike on & level piece.
First, I provided ample drainage,
then, early in the spring, before the
ground was thoroughly settled, I back-
furrowed to the centre, then harrowed
lengthwise and rolled, which process
I repeated for tlm third time, the last
time doing a very thorough job of
finishing with harrow and roller.
Now, those that never tried it will
be astonished to see how high these
workings will make a road, and, con
trary to the “expectations of some,”
this road settled down hard and
smooth, and made a durable turnpike,
and without a single pain or backache,
as caused by the old scraper method
then in use. Now, the modern wheel
road machine would materially assist.
My purpose in writing this is particu
larly to deal with another phase of
road improvement, suggested by arti
cles often published, that is, in relation
to convict labor in competition with
outside labor. The person that is for
tunate enough to keep out of jail has
no just reason to complain. In tho
first place the jail labor would he em
ployed to a considerable extent, if out
side, or not in jail, which, of course,
would come in competition with indus
tries in all branches, and when men
have forfeited their liberty there is no
good reason why they should he fed
and clothed at the expense of the State,
for the express purpose of giving the
other part of the community markets
for labor as well as produce. There is
nothing fair about it. As the State Is
respor$00e for their keeping, it should
be at'». ,~rty to use them to
possible advantage, ro compa
help, at least, to earn their <TWn Iivin,
—a new experience to many, I think.
rtfcifUm effect ea the convicts them
selves is worth any sacrifice to outside
labor, and it shows a selfish motive to
even mention or bring up the question.
Again, there is no person outside of
jail in this country who wants a day’s
work who cannot get it, and at fair
compensation.
As a matter of fact, many commit
petty offences for the express purpose
of getting into jail, in order to, get their
winter’s board. If they were com-
celled to break stone, saw wood or
.hovel snow in a chain gang I am sure
many would prefer to hoard them
selves. A.s I have said, it is a weak,
selfish argument to he harping about
the employment of convict labor as in
damaging competition with outside em
ployment—for the tax paid to support
this idle class will more than offset the
difference of being employed in jail or
out.
Criminals, even, have some self-re
spect, and I think many a young man,
if loaded into a wagon and carried to
some distance and put to work ditch
ing, or on other road work, where he
would not be shielded from public gaze
behind the bars, would resolve “If 1
live to get out of this, I will work out
my own road tax as long as I live.”—
A. 7k C., in the New York Tribune.
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Helping State Load Work.
Th; annual report of Director Dodge,
of the office of Public Iload Inquiries,
Agricultural Department, says that
representatives of the office visited
nearly ail the Slates during the year
and made scientific investigations re
garding local condition, road materials,
etc. Several Stale legislatures asked
for and obtained assistance in framing
new road laws. Farmers’ organiza
tions, farmers’ institutes, business or
ganizations, schools, colleges, etc., peti
tioned for co-operation and advice, and
all of them were accommodated as far
as the resources of the office permitted.
Never before, says tho report, has
there been so much interest manifest
ed in the subject of road building, and
more actual work in that line was
done last year than ever before. The
object-lesson methods of teaching
practical road building, carried on for
several years, became so valuable and
were so highly appreciated that there
were many calls for their extension.
To meet the constantly increasing de
mands for practical assistance and ad
vice the director suggests the organiza
tion of two or three outfits of road
building machinery, including rock
crushers, screens, rollers, road graders,
etc., to he used in illustrating actual
road construction. The road materials
would be cheerfully furnished by the
local authorities, who would also con
tribute the common labor teams and
fuel. This plan would make the ex
pense of building experimental and
sample roads very easy to be borne, j
and would enable the Government,
with a small exp, nditure, to accom- j
plish much practical benefit. Tho di-
rector asks that the appropriation for j GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
tl’.e purpose be increased to about j
Arrington Bros. & Co,
$1000 for each State and Territory.
Another Good Hoads Train.
In pursuance of the policy of (level j
oping territory tributary to its lines a j
“gcocl roads train” of ten cars is to i
soon be sent out by the Southern from j
Washington, under charge of President I
W. H. Moore, of iho National Good
Heads Association. The train is to
stop at various points in the South to j
build sample roads and stir up interest |
among the residents on (he subject.
All necessary road building machinery i
will lie carried on the train and oper- j
ated by a corps of road experts. It j
will lie well remembered that-the Illi
nois Central ran such a train over its i
lines a few months ago.
THE GRUMBLING MULE.
He Can 15o tlie Most Work. But He Sets
Everybody hy the Hare,
“The finest draft animal in the world
is the grumbling mule,” said one of the
drivers handling the local mule ship
ments to South Africa. “Silence may
be goiden all right, but It will not pull
us many tons on a cotton float or as
tall a load of sappy sugarcane. Among
men some of the hardest workers have
been notorious kickers, and their case
appears to be something like that of
the mule, who is so full of dynamic
spirit that a little is always slopping
over in the shape of dissatisfied growls.
Still good work does not always make
up for a dissatisfied demeanor, as I
found out a couple of years ago up
near Plaquemino.
“I was working in a sugar house at
tho time, and the offices of the planta
tion were just across a passageway
from a warehouse into which sugar
was lifted in the old-fashioned way by
a rope pulley and horse power. We
were all used to the squeak and grit
of tho apparatus, but one morning, in
addition to the accustomed sound,
there was a keries of groans and grunts
which continued spasmodically
throughout l tlie day. Next morning
same trouble, land by noon the entire
office force began to grow nervous and
cursed the KKfH
“Somebody was sent oiu to learn the
cause of the trouble, rind .brought back
the information ' grutfiblijjg\
the lfcou-
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The Lincolnton High School
THOS. O. STEPHENSON. A. B., Principal.
HISS BESSIE WAKE, Assistant.
11)01-1902.
Fall term of four months begins September 2, 3901,
Spring term of five months begins January 6, 1002.
it
^^^tiore
days, but hy that t ; mo no oil
speaking terms with any one else in
the office, the manager and his assist
ant had almost come to blows, and I
was on the point of throwing up my
job. The dissatisfied growl of the oid
mule had inoculated the entire force.
“Finally the manager gave peremp
tory orders to have the beast banished
to a drainage pump on ‘.lie hack levee,
and in a few hours harmony had re
turned to our camp. Two days later
the man in charge of the drain pump
came into the office and threw up his
job. When asked why he replied:
'Boss, dat mule ye done gimme am too
confounded disagreeable.’ ” — New Or
leans- Times-Democrat.
An American Artist on American Art.
Mr. Frederick William MacMonuies,
one of the leading scupltors of the
world, born an American, has just come
home to live and work in his native
land. After, seventeen years’ residence
in Paris it would be natural to suspect
a man of Parisian leanings. Not so
with Mr. MacMonnies. “I have come
hack because I am homesick,” said he.
One must go, in his opinion, to the hot
bed of his art or his profession, work,
there a long time, always studying,'
and “then with the training of years
in the best school let the man return
to his own country and apply wliat he
has learned to its needs.?/-The possibil
ities in this country for-'sculpture are
magnificent. I can’t imagine anything
finer. There is a splendid, unmistaka
ble movement in the United States to
ward having all that is beautiful and
true. Some of the finest things in the
world’s sculpture have been called
forth hy patriotism. There are no peo
ple in the world so patriotic as the
Americans.” That does not sound as
if the American nation was composed
of money-grabbers and stock brokers
alone. When we can remind our
selves of Abbey and Sargent and Mac
Monnies, and know they are all Ameri
cans wherever they may he, and when
every now and then one or the other
speaks thus of the outlook—Mr. Ab
bey yesterday, Mr. MacMonnies to
day, Mr. Sargent cr some one else to
morrow—then there is much to be said
of the future of American arts. These
men have sought the best place to
learn, and they come home from time
to time to do work in their own land.
It is so to-day,and GeorgeMeredith was
right when he said that soon—in twen
ty-five, in fifty years—the centre of cre
ative art would be in America.—Har
per’s Weekly.
A woman may not marry the first man
who proposes to her, but she will respect
his good judgment as long as she lives.
KATF.S OF TUITTON PER MONTH OF FOUR WEEKS:
Primary—1st and 2nd Grades
Intermediate—3rd, 4th and 5 Grades
Grammar School—Glh and 7th “
Academic—8th and 9th “
Collegiate—10th, 11th, 12th “
Music
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month. Otic dollar per mouth will he deducted for all pupils of Pnbile school flge for the ^
i: public term of five months. i
>5? Tuition payable at the end of er.ch month, unless arrangements arc made otherwise. No t
deduction for lost time except in case® of prostrating Hickness,
x Boys and girls prepared for Sophomore und Junior classes respectively in onr best colleges, j
L Satipfa :tion guaranteed every assiduous pupil.
& Teachers prepared for the examination.
x? Discipline llrm but mild and pupHs are enforced to study and behave.
>5? Lincolnton is one of Hie best locutions for a school in Die country—quiet and healthful-
IT and its citizens are noble, generous and polite. There are no incentives to idleness or^j
•Jjl extravagance. The school building is commodious and well seated. The intent audj|
/ft approve! methods of teaching are used and the best school apparatus that moneyj
jjv employed.
JJ: Wiib the sympathy, support and co-operation of our people we expect fo ha
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