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a m % -4 ^ ■■' A Jpiisliid^ IT—* ft'® A /jx r** t; » ■ . V / i jv. ♦ m 4 ft S.5 4 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 + 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. „,,V. 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. C* s&s ex: -IN’-- 05? ...... ®«g|j|gf 0 WKSsSB Hjjjpjl j fSfrjtfeMBT SSOmL ft. ’“'ft® 4 & \ . ~ 55. r£0ISk0m Jlffltefik ® Jff ** Wm i' » C/2 # t j j %, Hotter Bargains and Better 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 Blirtes. , a , .. . 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. a U 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. m . 50. 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 gapo. .. lib'.