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VOL . IX.
THE CPTiMiST.
Old Uncle Finn was a good ole chap,
But he never seemed fer to care a rap.
If the sun forgot
To rise some day,
Just like as not
Ole Finn would say:
“Oncommon dark, this here we're in,
But ’taint so bad as it might ’a been.”
But a big cyclone came Tong one day, blowed
An’ the town was wrecked and
away. When the had passed
storm
We turnud around
And thought at last
Ole Finn had found
The state o’ things he was buried in
About as bad as it might ’a’ been.
go we dug ’im out o’ the twisted wreck
And lifted a rafter off his neck.
Ho was bruised an’ cut,
And a sight to see;
He was ruined, but
He says, says he,
With a weak look ’round and a smashed up
“ ’Taint half so bad as it might ’a’ been!”
Bat after all, it’s the likes o’ Finn
Makes this world tit fer livin’ in.
When davs are diear
And skies are dark,
It's good to bear
Home old cuss bark, cheerful grin.
“How see here, son!” with a
« ’Taint half so bad as it might ’a’ been 1”
—Newark News.
TIE PHANTOI VOICE.
Sitting on the veranda 0.^ is sum
mer residence by an inland ane in
Michigan, surrounded by ms
and guests, the venerable Judge Wat
ties told the strangest story of his
professional career.
“Immediately following my ’admis
Sion to the bar,” he said, “I was made
ergspp uting Clk. attorney, accepung the
(Hr .ffi?' eM?
in mind that this was a good many
years ago in a little valley town in
Pennsylvania, where we were hemmed
in by the mountains and had few with
whom to compare in the matter of
intelligence or attainments.
“In the criminal annals of the county
there were the evidences of a well
disposed community; and it came as a
startling sensation when Farmer Jen¬
kins, driving home late one night,
was beaten to insensibility and robbed
of a large sum of money. Here was
work for me, and I went at it with the
zeal of an ambitious beginner. Jen¬
kins insisted that he would be able
To identify his assailant, seen in the
dim moonlight that sifted through the
trees, describing him as a tall, well
dressed young man with a dark mus¬
tache and an angry red scar across his
left cheek.
“ ‘Why, I seed that air critter,’ de¬
clared Constable Joe Huskey, ‘I kim
or. him sudden like yisterday when I
was fishin’ at Punkey Holler crick.
Th’ feller war in swimmin’ and tola
me he war jist outen the city fur a
Icetle recreation. I’d know him
'mongst a theusan’.’
“By employing competent assistance
from Philadelphia, we ran down our
man, Jenkins and Huskey both recog¬
nized him at sight. A few days after
the arrest and while I was working on
the case, a handsome, matronly ap¬
pearing woman walked into the office,
introducing hersefl as the mother of
the prisoner, who had given the name
of Harry Winter. She bore the unmis¬
takable marks of refinement, and in a
brief statement, punctuated by con¬
vulsing sobs, assured me that a terri¬
ble mistake had been made. Harry
was her son, her only support, and she
a widow. He was the soul of honor
and had never given her an hour’s
anxiety. He was with her the night
of the assault and robbery. They had
walked for an hour in the evening,
after which he read to her, going to
his room at 11. It was a physical
as well as a moral impossibility for
him to have done the great wrong laid
at his door. Her story greatly im¬
pressed me, but there was the positive
identification by Jenkins and the con¬
stable.
“Less than a week later I had an¬
other caller; a well dressed man who
walked with a limp and who said he
had been subpoenaed by the defence
to show Winter’s good reputation. But
nothing could have surprised him
more, for he knew tne accused to have
a very had record. He declared that
he had a full confession of that very
crime fjom thep risener who had re¬
lied upr® the cripple as a loyal friend
simply I leeause they had met occasion¬
ally h( the mother’s house. This
swept »vay the doubts thkt that she had
ereated,; convincing me her cling-
‘To thine self be true,and it will follow, as n%ht the day, thou cans’fc not then be false to any man. ”
own
LINCOLNTON, GA , THURSDAY, MAY la. 1902.
ing love had overcome her regard for
the truth. I gained a promise from the
cripple that he would say nothing till
called to the stand by the other side.
“When the prosecution had made
his case at the trial i was entirely
satisfied. Just after Jenkins and Hus¬
key had sworn point blank as I knew
they would, word reached me that
there was a private detective in the
court room who wanted Winter for a
crime committed in New York. This
was help from an unexpected source,
and I soon had it before the jury that
the ugly scar on Winter's cheek was
made by a man defending his home
against burglars. There was not a
weak link in the chain of evidence
that had been coiled about him.
“On his behalf the testimony of the
weeping mother made a deep impres¬
sion. but I was confident that the spell
she had put upon the 12 men sitting
in judgment would yield to the cool de¬
liberations of the jury room. ' After
several unknown witnesses had given
testimony tending to show that Winter
had led a reputable life, the man who
had called upon me limped to the
stand, and I must confess that I re¬
joiced at the anticipated confusion of
the defense.
“But there was a most unaccounta
fcle intervention. No sooner was the
oath administered to the witness than
a voice from overhead solemnly
warned him -to remember that he had
made the sacred promise before his
Maker to tell nothing but the truth.
TJie p r j sonsr dropped heavily into
c jj a ; r> ^ le j uryme51 went white as
ghosts and the judge cast a troubled
]6ofc about the ceiling as if to detect
^ bo]fl offiemlel , < 0rder iu the
court’ was gruffly demanded and the
case proceeded. The first material
question asked was as to the eliarae*
Jem Di'farliWm of the pxif.'Q-i.c r, ap d.. t 1 ’AL.^nr< .«■
‘v&k.gmjR ITYPUrom the rear
of the judge, called the collapsed wit¬
ness, by name and said in measured
tones: ‘R.emember that tbe pains and
penalties of perjury are not inflicted
in this world alone, but are imposed
through all eternity.’
“The court whirled and gasped with
a terror that his pride sought vainly
to conceal. An unknown dread was
upon me and jurymen were stricken
with fright. Hafldheaded and practi¬
cal old farmers as they were, the su¬
perstition that had lain dormant and
dying through generations was quick¬
ened into life. But it was the wit¬
ness who cringed and stared as
though in the presence of death. He
admitted a bitter enmity tow'ard the
prisoner whose liberty he had meant
to swear away, though called in his
behalf, and wound up by not only
swearing, that Winter was a model
young man, but that he was seen
walking with his mother by the wit¬
ness on the night in question.
“I felt the ground slipping from
under me, hut the dramatic climax was
yet to come. From an open door into
one of the small adjacent rooms hur¬
ried an excited man with striking feat¬
ures and blazing eyes. He rushed to
the prisoner, embracing him as a fa¬
ther might have done, and then de¬
manded, rather than requested, that
his evidence migut he taken. It was
to the effect that he had been a cap¬
tain in the Mexican war, that Winter,
then a mere boy, was a drummer
whom the captain loved as a father;
that when he was shot from his horse
in a charge, the boy gallantly fought
back the murderous Mexicans till
stronger assistance could come, and
that there he had received the wound
which left such a g’hastly scar. The
impetuous witness even got in a state¬
ment that there must be some vile
conspiracy against Winter and wanted
to confront the private detective. But
he had disappeared. The jury ac¬
quitted without retiring, and I thought
their verdict a righteous one.
“One evening some years later, when
south on business, I found time heavy
on my hands and dropped into a place
of amusement. I was indifferently in¬
terested until tuat voice of the court
room, which still haunted my mem¬
ory, came from an upper corner of tbe
hall. I felt like running, but, turning
to the stage, I saw my hero of the
Mexican war. He tipped me a rec¬
ognition, and later went with me to
the hotel. There, under pledge of se¬
crecy, he gave me the inside facts of
that mysterious trial.
“The alleged mother, the alleged de¬
tective, the alleged captain, the crip¬
ple and Winter were all members of
a shrewd gang of crooks operating in
the east. Winter had committed the
robbery and his pals had put up an
elaborate scheme which saved him.
1
They enjoyed firany a laugh over the
manner in which they had J.$pne’ the
‘Rubes’ up in ray countrfft Winter
was then doing a life sentence. The
mother was dead, the detective fled
from the country and the cripple went
with him. The captain was one of
the best ventriloquists of the day, and
bad become a professor who made an
honest living. It was his voice,
thrown at will, jtliat left us simple
folks thinking that we had encoun¬
tered the supernatural.”—Waverly 1
Magazine.
NEW POSTAL CARDS.
When Four Millions Are "Bundled They
Will Be on Sale.
A new one-cent postal* card is nqw
being printed at the Bureau of Engrav¬
ing and Printing; says the Washington
Evening Star, and when the first issue
of 4,000,000 has ben counted and bun¬
dled the new carfi’will be placed on sale.
Its distinctive'feature is that the new.
card contains, a vigenette of President
McKinley iimieij, of President Jeffer
son's portrait. The issue of the Jef
feison card wall be discontinued when
the present stock on hand is exhaust
ed.
When desired |jy purchasers the new
postal cards will be furnished in
cards each. < It is expect
sheets of 40
ed this arrangement will effect a
large saving to purchasers who have
their messages or addresses printed
heavy black device at the top of the
Jefferson card and leave a clear space
for the postmark, the new postal card
has three lines ot small type printed
about an inch below the top of the
card. Tile card is'thus divided liter¬
ally into two sections—-one ..for ;.:e
postmark and onto -for the address. Tae
official descript.P0.oi Hff^’new ca ■ I is
a portrait of the late President McKin¬
ley, threequarters face, looking to the
left, with the words: Postage one
sent’ above an dl843-J: ”in1ey-100T
below the stamp and following its
elliptical contour. The portrait used
for the subject of the stamp is one
which was preferred by Mr. McKinley .
himself. The stamp is practically de-|
of the '
void of ornament. To the leu
portrait are three straight lines of let- j !
tering, the top line being one and one
sixteenth inches below the upper edge ;
of the card and containing in small
capital letters tne words, ’The Space
above is reserved for postmark.’ The
second line is made up of tbe words,
‘Postal Card’ in large plain capitals.
The third line is jhe same type as the
first, and reads. Tim space below is
l he fdy. In the upper |
C
(be UnUed thTof states its position balano- 1
the i stamn in the upm.r
right hand com. Above the coat-oft
arms in the same; style of capital let
ters used above the stamp are the
words,‘United States,’and below it the
words, ‘of Am -rica,’ following the con
tour of the .-oat-of-arms. Black ink
will be used in prim.ng this card. T he
card will be r he same size, 3 1-4 by
5 1-2 inches, as the old one bearing
Jefferson’s portrait.
How to Drink from a Glass.
One of the 1 y theories of hygiene
that doctors are teaching to persons
who have children to rear is concerned
with the comparative unimportant
duty of drinking oat of a glass in the
proper way. The new way of drink
ing, according to the physicians who
teach it, avoids any contact of.the lip
with the rim of the glass. The lips
tare held so that the rim of the glass,
touches the outside of the lower lip;
By the usual method of drinking, thei
infection from eg a glass that hsjti
’been previously handled by a sufferer
from a contagious disease.—New York '
Sun
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Hia Congenial Surroundings.
The head of a well known shipping
firm in this country received a letter
fiom a millionaire Swiss banker, ask¬
ing him to try to help his son get a
job in some mercantile or shipping
house to learn the shortly (business. The batik ^hip¬
ping firm nead wrote to
the doting parent: sjon j
“Dear Sir—You Employment has arrived. I
have given him at my
offices at $5 per ■>*<-'k with others of
his class. One o« these young men
has just bought ai t|e $60,000 yacht and
another comes to office in an $8000
automobile. I th ink your troa will
find his surroundings congenial.”—
New York.Sun.
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A Living Skeleton.
A most remarkable* specimen of hu¬
is Lazor Jerrett, of Limestone,
County, Me., who was
a giant and is now little more
a* skeleton. JarretJ is one of the
twelve children of a Tobique Indian
and a French Canadian mother, and
was born on an island in the St. Law¬
rence river, 100 miles below Riviere
du Loup. There were nine boys, all
over six feet tall, and three girls, each
of them taller than the average man.
The fathey died on thq island, at the
age of eighty-six years, and the mother
and her children walked alj the way
across the country to Aroostook
County, Me., where they were cared
for by the people of Limestone until
they got employment. It is said that
the mother, who lived to be ninety
two years old, was, at the age of
eighty, one of the most expert potato
pickers in Aroostook County.
Lazor is six feet six inches tall, and
once weighed 265 pounds. He is now'
fifty-five years old, and for the last
thirty yeais has been growing con¬
stantly thinner, until now he is a mere
handful of bones, weighing only
eighty-six pounds. He wears a No.
11 shoe and a No. 5 hat. What made
him grow thin he. does not know, nor
can any of the many doctors who have
examined him give any explanation of
the phenomenon.
Doctors say that, apparently, there
Is nothing in particular the matter
with Lazor, and that if he takes good
care of himself he may live to be as
old as was his mother at her death.—
New York Tribune.
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j Shoes than ever was
K. G. TARVER, Manage* Before.
0ne Dollar Brogan b is better. Our One Dollar and Twenty-five
, g R beats the wo rl(L
„a l )u ( )ne Dollar and Fifty Cents Shoes are simply superb. Dollar and
Fift’J Two Dollar Vici Kid Shoes a big value. Our Two
Cents Hand-sewed Shoes are the best on tbe market,
[We can give von Ladies Shoes at 75c, but the Shoes we want .to sell
rou are $1.00 and $1,25 Ladies every h^T BAEGAINS^nil $ yo2
Laches Dress Shoes. Ihey are RED HOI BARGAIN S and don’t don t you
for let it. Now our $2.00 Ladies Shoes are as good as anybody s $3.00
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j We is never better forget than the Children before, _ and Babies . and tins line ot shoes tins
season ever
HATS! HATS! HATS!.
>1 Our prices in Hats are simply Tornado Swept. We give you Boys
Il/ats 10c, a l'eal good Hat 25c, Men's Felt Hats 65c, Men’s Extra Good
Melt / Hats $1.00, and so on to the end. within mile of tliis season in
We don’t expect When any one in the to come city be a Call and us Examine and be
Price and Quality. sure to
Convinced.
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907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
two wolves, and they are very valuable
as hunters. He captured tem^w en
young, raised them as kittens, and
M w, though they are as large as shep¬
herd dogs, they are quite tame and
playful. Decker says the wolves can
outrun dogs on the hunt, and axe very
long-winded. Their favorite way of
catching a rabbit is to run alongside
of him, put their nose underneath Mr.
Cottontail, and throw him ten ox
twelve feet in the air, catching him in
their mouths as he falls. The wolve3
always return to their master when
called.
Decker’s success has caused other
sportsmen to undertake the training of
wolves to supplant dogs in hunting,
and it is probable that wolves will find
a place in future kennels.—Charlestoi
(Ill.) Correspondence Cincinnati En
quirer.
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THE DONKEY DRANK BEER.
Billy and uu Kiilor Afforded tan to
Tenderloin Pedestrians.
Tenderloin pedestrian’s were highly
entertained late last evening by the
spectacle of a diminutive flonlfey, be
stridden by a large man, Standing in
the shadow of the preeley statue, while
Policeman Gallagher of the Broadway
squad was vainly trying to get them
to move along. The donkey is kni'wn
through the region as “Billy’ the
Boozer.” He belongs to James Carroll
of 156 West Twenty-Ninth street, while
his rider was James Titer of the same
address, better known in near-by re¬
sorts as “Ttfe Senator.”
The little animat had his ears flat,
and was braying at a pitch that
drowned the roar of Broadway in his
immediate vicinity. The pleasure of
the crowd rose to ecstacy when the
policeman passed behind and the tiny
hoofs flew out, nearly kicking him in
the head. Tifer admitted that both he
and the donkey had had many drinks,
and the policeman threatened to lock
them both up on a charge of being
drunk and disorderly, when the man
sent for a pail of beer, The donkey
swallowed it greedily, the ears resumed
a pleasantly erect position, and he
trotted amiably homeward.
Billy’s latest notorious exploit was
on New Year's night, when, after a
carouse with some human acquain
tanee, he ascended two flights of stairs
in a strange house and terrified two
women upon whom he came unan
nounced. He narrowly escaped being
shot by an inmate. In his younger
days he was a pet of the children in
Central park.—New York Times.
UNCLE SAM BUILDS A TOWN.
Navy Department to Construct Homes'
at Olongapo Naval Station.
Uncle Sam is going to build a town.
It will be constructed at Olongapo, the
site of the proposed naval station on
Subig Bay, Philippine Islands, says
the Washington Times.
Such action is believed to be neces¬
sary in order to provide labor for the
plant, Plans for the town are being
prepared by Rear Admiral M. T. En
dicott, chief of the bureau of yards and
docks.
Rear Admiral Endicott points out
that many shipbuilding corporations
have been compelled to build towns im
the vicinity of their plants. They renj
the houses at a nominal elect figure their to may® thejfl
employes. The latter
and other officers.
The plans of the department afl
propose the construction Manila of a and railr^l Olflf
which shall connect
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