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YOL. IX.
LIFE AND DEATH.
So ho dies for his faith. That is fine—
More than most of us do.
But say, can you add to that line
That ho lived for it too?
In his death he bore witness at last ^
As a martyr to truth.
Did his life do the same in. the past
From the days of hia^Cuth ?
It is easy to die. Men have died
For a wish or a whim—
From bravado or passion or pride.
Was it harder for him?
But to live—every day to live out
AH the truth that he dreamt,
While his friends met his conduct with doubt
And the world with contempt.
Was it thus that aside? he plodded ahead,
Never turumg
Then we’ll talk of the life that he lod.
Never mind how he died.
—Conservator.
* The Usual Ghost. ♦ *
I By Hals Howard Bicharesox.
We were talking about ghosts and
psychical phenomena in general when
Lithgow volunteered a story.
“I don’t repudiate the ghost busi¬
ness, boys, but this is my nearest ap¬
proach to an apparition. It was down
in Rio-•”
“Then it was lizards,” interrupted
Gammons, disgustedly.
Some one fetched him with a chunk
and Lithgow proceeded,—
“It was down in Rio just after the
rebellion, when the navy bombarded
the city. I was there surveying on a
projected railroad, and had hired a
house on the outskirts of the town.
AU I needed was a room, but the price
asked was so low, and the little gar¬
den with one or two orange and pa
paw trees looked, so inviting, that I
only one oi the rooms down stairs be
other room was only floored in part,
but would do excellently for my pony.
“What was upstairs I didn’t know,
as the steps of the rude stairway had
been removed, and the opening above
boarded over. The neighborhood
seemed respectable, and there was a
small barraca opposite with several
companies of soldiers.
“The first night, strange to say, I
slept undisturbed, but may be I was
used up from an unusually hard bit of
■work. I was dimly conscious in the
morning of remembering that my
horse had been restless during the
night, and of having accounted for it
by flies. The next day was pretty
warm even for May, and the night
failed to acquire its accustomed cool¬
ness. I kept awake a long while.
Then I noticed an increased restless¬
ness in the pony, and while wondering
what I could do for her comfort, some
one began stalking in a deliberate
fashion across the par-tly boarded
floor. I expected to hear a voice, but
my unknown visitor held his tongue,
but maintained a mark-time sort of
pacing to and fro.
“I jumped up without much attempt
at silence, ran to the door and flung it
open. The moonlight was sufficient to
show an empty room, save for the
quaking mare. The street door was
securely barred, and I closed the win¬
dow shutters, although it seemed im¬
possible that any one could make a
speedy exit by them. Then I went to
bed again, speculating on the where¬
fore of the intrusion, but soon fell
asleep.
“However, on the following night
the same monotonous and slightly' ha¬
rassing pit-pat was resumed, The
ghost did not keep schedule time, that
is the conventional midnight, but had
a great faculty of perceiving the mo¬
ment of my falling asleep. I arose
cautiously, pistol in hand, and stood
listening by the door. Stamp, stump
—a somewhat irregular light and irre¬
gular step w r as certainly sounding from
the other side. I could hear the mare
dribbling out her breath as she trem¬
bled. When the footsteps seemed just
opposite the door I burst in.
“But the pony was all alone. The
moonlight streamed in the windows,
for it had been too stifling to close
the shutters, Daisy kept her head
turned with frightened eyes toward a
corner of the room, but there was noth¬
ing there. Somehow I felt loth to lin
ger, and after soothing the trembling
pony, went back to my room and shut
the door carefully. Then I lit the lamp
and read and thought and dozed till
sleep overcame me altogether.
“Feliciano, the lieutenant opposite,
said with a shrug of his delicate shoul-
‘To thine own self be true, and it will follow, as night the day, thou cans’fcnot then be false to any man.”
LINCOLNTON, GA, THURSDAY, MAY 29. 1902.
tiers that no one stayed in that casa
very long. He wouldn’t stay five min¬
utes—after dark. So I invited one ol
the boys to the theatre and to stay
with me all night. We had hardly
blown out the light before the walking
began. Donovan started up.
“ ‘Who’s your restless neighbor, Lith
gow?’
“ ‘I don’t know. Maybe two of u»
can find out,’ I answered in a whisper.
‘You pull open the door and I’ll jump
in.’
“But Donovan wanted the honor of
jumping in, and I readily consented.
We listened till Donovan whispered.
‘Now let me at him!’ and iu he sprang.
“By George! I heard him right
there. Lithgow, you’re got a harnt.
There’s been bloody murther! Let ma
out!’
“We didn't sleep much the rest of
the night, because Donovan insisted.on
relating hair-raising ghost stories. I
chaffed him into coming again. We
made ourselves comfortable in the
room with the horse. A. game of eu¬
chre passed the time until 11 o’clock,
and perhaps we took several swigs of
Dutch courage. We blew out the light
and lay down. I know I felt consider¬
able suspense, reclining there right on
the ghost’s stamping ground, and Don¬
ovan was breathing,heavily.
“The suspense lasted long enough to
make us a little sceptical of our appari¬
tion. Donovan turned over with a re¬
lieved grunt, and I relaxed myself for
slumber. Suddenly Daisy gave a little
snort and we were wide awake. The
stump, stump, of the ghost’s footsteps
sounded resonantly through the room.
Donovan groaned; I could not restrain
a cold sweat. The step seemed at the
very bedside. The moon had gained
the zenith and left the room in Shad¬
ow. I sat up.
“ ‘D’ye see it?’ said Donovan, hoarse
IT.
“All I could distinguish was Daisy,
with head truriedtoward the corner
her lalarin ■tht;
night before. Indeed now that my at¬
tention was directed the sound did
seem to come from there. I threw the
small club I had viciously toward that
quarter. Something intercepted its
flight before it reached the wall, and it
clattered to the floor in company with
something else.
“I struck a light and Donovan
jumped up.
“‘By George!’ he said. ‘The ghost
has dropped his walking stick!’
“He gingerly picked up a light bam¬
boo pole about nine feet long. Simul¬
taneously we peered upward; I held
the light higher.
“‘Shure, he dropped his,cane going
through that crack,’commented Dono
van. indicating a narrow space between
the boards covering the stairway open
ing.
“We cocked our revolvers.
“‘Come down, ye luney spalpeen,
commanded Donovan, as brave as a
lion now, ‘or we fill your foggy carcass
with port-holes!’
“The boards were displaced.
“ ‘Don’t shoot, senhors! I descend
myself,’ and a good looking Portuguese
dropped through and stood bowing be¬
fore us.
“He smiled engagingly, and gave an
expressive side glance toward the li¬
quor. He responded quickly to my nod.
“ ‘You see, senhors, our little bom¬
bard had not success, I take chance
and fly, and herein hide myself. You
will not betray? No? Ai! My clum¬
sy espiritu alarm you not? Others fled
when I tap so, in two, three days. Ha,
ha! and Feliciano, my cousin, the lieu¬
tenant, bring provisions, Tomorrow,
next day, I think to escape, Your
health, senhors!’
“And the third night he was gone.”
“The deuce!” complained Gammons.
“I've had a better seance than that
myself. ’ ’—W aver ley Magazine.
listen to Papa.
There is a man who fancies he is at
the head of the house. This particu¬
lar man has several small children,
and it pleases him to discourse a
great deal on the training of the
young.
A few days ago he had friends vis¬
iting him. His two little sons began
to play about noisily. It is one of his
theories that children should obey im
plicity, and he wanted his friends to
see how he carried it out in the train¬
ing of his own family.
“Johnny,” he said sternly, “stop
that noise instantly.”
Johnny looked up in surprise, md
then grinned a little.
“Oh, Freddie,” he said
er, as they listenglj went oj Igjf
romp, “just
talk like mama!”f
Zinc Salts in Fruit.
The export of various forms of dried
fruit from this country has been con¬
siderably hampered of late by the
discovery that a large part of it is
contaminated with zinc salts. It was
at first supposed that the presence of
the zinc was due to the zinc trays
in which the fruit was dried, and their
use was abandoned. The zinc, how¬
ever, continued to appear in the ^ruit.
Herr Solstein of Gorlitz has recently
conducted an investigation to deter¬
mine its source. He finds that if
zinc is present in the soil or atmos¬
phere it is readily taken up by the
plants and fruit trees, and as a con¬
siderable portion of the ordinary fer¬
tilizers contain zinc salts, it is very
probable that the latter are responsi¬
ble for the contaminated fruit. It
seems improbable that the small
amount of zinc which is present in
the fruit can be of any importance
physiologically, but it obviously is of
considerable importance commer¬
cially. That it will be possible to
eliminate the zinc entirely seems
doubtful.
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Our One Dollar and Fifty Cents Shoes are simply superb. Dollar and
Our Two Dollar Vici Kid Shoes a big value. Our Two
Fifty Cents Hand-sewed Shoes are the best on the market.
We can give you Ladies Shoes at 75c, but the Shoes we want to sell
rou are $1.00 and $1.25 Ladies every day Shoes and our $1.25 and $1.50
Ladies Dress Shoes. They are RED HOT BAKGAINSand don’t von
forget it. Now our $2.00 Ladies Shoes are as good as anybody’s $3.00
Shoes. Shoes tins
We never forget the Children and Babies and this line of
leason is better than ever before.
HATS! HATS! HATS!
Our prices in Hats are simply Tornado Swept. We give you Bovs
Hats 10c, a real good Hat 25c. Men’s Felt Hats 65c, Men’s Extra Good
F e jt Hats $1.00, and so on to the end. within mile of this in
We don’t expect anv one to come a us season
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907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
QUEEN FEARS ANARCHISTS.
King Edward, However, la Not Appre¬
hensive of Assassination.
Queen Alexandra has developed a
terror of anarchist outrage bordering
oh superstition, and in consequence,
as it is down on the royal program
that the king and queen shall travel a
great deal this year, the detective de¬
partment, the railway companies and
the postoffice are making elaborate
arrangements to insure their safety,
A special body of picked men from*
Scotland Yard will be detailed, and for
the first time in the history of royal
traveling an expert telegrapher and
telephone operator will accompany
the train.
A special apparatus will be provided,
so that in the event of any mishap, it
can be attached * to the nearest tele¬
graph or telephone wire and communi¬
cation obtained so that assistance can
be summoned from the nearest station.
These precautions are said to be the
suggestion of her majesty. I am in¬
formed by a member of the Scotland
Yard force that she, on more than one
occasion recently, has expressed the
wish that she might be left to enjoy
the seclusion of her Norfolk home.
Court etiquette, however, demands
her public appearance. The king.
however, does not share her alarm.
Rell& rvlces Are Short.
rayer book enjoini
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Cab Service in Germany.
"The whole cab service of Germany
Is regulated in a way to make the
American envious of German institu¬
tions,’’ writes Ray Stannard Baker in
“Seen in Germany.” In most cities
a large proportion of the cabs are pro¬
vided with ’’taxameters”—little dials
placed in front of the seat and so* ar¬
ranged that they indicate just how
much the passenger owes at any given
time. For instance when you take
a cab in Berlin the indicator shows
a charge of fifty pfennigs (twelve
cents) as soon as you take your seat,
and as you drive the figures change,
ten pfennigs at a time, and when you
are ready to stop you pay the sum in¬
dicated by the dial, no more, no less.
Thus there is no chance for extortion
on the part of the cabman, and no dis¬
agreement as to charges, a feature of
disagreeable prominence in London
and Paris. And it may be said in pass¬
ing, that the charges are generally
very low compared with those in
American cities.”
The street car system of Budapest
Is considered the best in the world
EXECUTIVE SESSIONS.
Senator Mason Relates His First Ex
perJence with One.
Senator Mason has written an ar¬
ticle about “The Faroe of Executive
Sessions.” After telling of his awe of
executive sessions when he was a rep¬
resentative he describes his first closed
session after he became a senator:
“A senator from New England arose
and solemnly and earnestly moved that
we go into executive session. The bells
all over the senate end of the capital
rang and made music to my ears. The
chief page clapped his hands three
times and the pages all rushed from our
sacred presence. Amid the ringing of
bells and the rushing of feet the peo¬
ple were all moved out, the doors were
closed and we were alone!
“Thereupon the senator who had
moved the executive session struck a
match in the usual way and lit a cigar,
audibly informing his neighbor that it
was the only one he had. He then
moved that John Smith be confirmed
in his $700 postoffice in Podunk. The
vice president of the United States
said, ‘Without objection it is so order¬
ed.’ A motion to adjourn was carried.
In one moment, my dream was bro
ken.”
England owns 7,930 of the 14,07?
steamers belonging to the twelve lead'
tog nations of Europe and America.
The man who makes a fool of him
eelf seldom boasts of being self-made.
NO. 52.
NOVEL OYSTER BEDS,
Seems to Be Chief Use of the Funny
Turkish Navy.
The Turkish navy in 1878 retired be¬
hind the bridges up the Golden Horn,
and there remained rotting until 1897,
the only purpose of the vessels served
being to act as mussel and oyster beds,
from which the dock yard hands oc¬
casionally got a good feed. The ships
were dismantled, in many cases parts
of their engines were used for mer¬
chant vessels, and it is even said the
propellers were taken to the palace to
prevent anybody making use of them.
When the Greek war broke out, and
dally rumors came of the Greek fleet
doing immense damage to Turkish
seacoast places, a feeling arose that
the Turkish navy must be up and do¬
ing, and the sultan also saw that ha
must make a move. So orders were
given for the fleet to get under way,
and all the mussels were scraped off,
the boilers patched with cement, and
the fleet started. Not one of them was
seaworthy, but they made a fine show,
and the populace was satisfied. Their
engines, however, were useless, and
their decks so rotten that in some
cases they could not carry the weight
of the guns. Even when warping
themselves out they had to borrow
each other’s cables, as they were only
provided with one each. When they
got into the Marmora they did not
know what to do. but luckily captured
a small coasting steamer, which pilot
ed them to the Dardanelles. There
several were leaking so badly that
they had to be beached, while others
went ashore of their own accord, and
there they are to this day.
Again the sultan thought something
should be done, so he entered into a
contract with an Italian firm to repair
and “re-everything” eight of the war
ships at a cost of £1,500,000. But the
Italians wanted something to begin
with, and after two years £130,000
has been forthcoming. Now the sul-
1 *tI'cnun.- break
munYVative, and he wants to
the contract, supporting his wish with,
all kinds of excuses. The “Shadow’s”
latest proposal is that the Italian firm
should build a new cruiser as compen
sation for breaking the contract.
I,ast Vienna Horse Car.
A few evenings ago, says the London
Telegraph, the Vienna public took a
noisy farewell of the horse trams in
the Ringstrasse. The two last cars,
which started in opposite directions,
were hung with blue lamps and dec- ,
orated with flag3 and greenery. The
oldest drivers were on the seats, and
the oldest conductors in the wagons.
Both cars were crowded to the utmost
possible extent, and the police for once
closed their eyes to overcrowding.
Songs were sung and hurrahs given
for the horses, while the noise brought
the guests out of the cafes, windows
were thrown open and handkerchiefs
waved. None of the passengers left
the cars until the circuit was complet¬
ed, when the horses were stroked and
fed and the tramway servants richly
tipped. The cars passed each other on
the Franz Joseph quai amid uproarious
cries.
Henceforward only electric cars will
run in Vienna, These are popular
enough in winter, but in summer they
are unbearably hot. The lines have
now been laid as near the centre of
the town as the width of the streets
allow, but the dream of bringing them
to the Stefansplatz has not yet, fortu-;
nately for the omnibus companies, beeE
realized. . M
Fishing from n Cabnone.
For a week or two trainmen on tlif
Delaware division of the Erie Railroad
have noticed a big wildcat in the vicr
nity of McClune. and several times th<
crews have shotguns in vain at discharged it from the revolvj ca
ers and
boose.
The other day Conductor Orce ha
a big hook made. This he baited wit
a chicken and attached a piece of be
cord to it. When the train was dasl
ing down the heavy grade toward De
posit, the conductor hung the baits
hook and line off the rear of th
caboose. When rounding a sharp cur'd
the wildcat suddenly sprang from J
pile of railroad ties and seized efi
chicken. in Orce moment gave a hard, the screamin] quick puj
and a
struggling cat was hauled upon tl
platform, struggle, where the succeeded trainmen, in after killiJ j
severe
it. It weighed forty pounds. frd
Orce will get the scalp bounty al
the Broome County authorities
have the hide made Into a cap to wJ
over the historic Delaware divisil
next winter.—New Tfork World.
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