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7 fel « Q& y f mm -4 O Mi fesiSES FI I X \ ♦ 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. r !ED ISI §I1S -IN Boots, Shoes I hi IBP- fmM< j ’vitr® fpl L x . .' r : SP i PS 3 m mm 1. m Hotter Bargains and Better J Shoes than ever was R. 8, TARVER, Manager Before. Our One Dollar Brogan is better. Our One Dollar and Twenty-five Dents Brogan beats the world. 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 Price aiK | Q ua ]ity. When in the city be sure to Call and Examine and be j Convinced, GO, 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 §Sm the service, includ l s W mot last abovi 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. .