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1 do remember, when I was a lad,
After the noisy pleasures of the day.
After the brimful hours of chore and play,
When the still, dreamy hour of twilight had
faded, and father’s earnest voice had said:
“Come, little one, it is the time for bed!”
I do remember how I used to plead:
-“Just a few minutes more I want to stay;
Just a few minutes more I want to play;
I will be very, very good indeed.”
With all ray childish heart would I implore:
“O let me stuy just a few minutes more !”
Now I am old, and on my shoulders laid
Are many heavy griefs of many years,
And down my cheeks the often rolling tears
Have deep and dark their fearful furrows
Hi &d<3; *
And God’s dear voice down in my heart
has said
“Come, little one, it is the time for bed !”
I’ve played the glad games of the brimful
day,
Have done the chores that foil unto mv lot
And borne the burdens all, complaining
' not;
Now am 1 weary both of toil and play,
And God has said, who means it for the
best:
“Como, little one, it is the time for rest!”
And yet in childish treble do I plead:
* “Just a few minutes more I want to stay;
Just a few minutes more I want to play;
I will be very, very good indeed.”
And still my lips pray as they did of yore:
“O let me stay just n few minutes more!”
—George Seioei, in Lippiccott’s Magazine.
9 ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE,
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# By Pierce B. Barnard. 9
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It . was- a settled conviction with
Amelia Robinson that,she would never
marry. She was pretty enough ar.d
educated, too, .with sufficient amiabil
ity to satisfy the average suitor. The
fault was with Amelia... She admitted
^*4s. l Sne had had offers; in fact, look
into the extravagant claims of her
ilf^occataed — sc od^flea 1 of - her
attention.
Among the many she had rejected in
the big, establishment in which she
was employed there was not one who
had net been ruled out fairly on the
ground that she was a better manager
than he. She was more practical,
more accurate, more self-possessed,
than any of the male faction. Further
more, she was perfectly satisfied with
her superiority, and intended to en¬
joy it for a good while yet.
When,Jack Ashbin .came in from his
three months’ tour of the southern
states, he was greatly amused at the
state of affairs.
“So the Goddess is still obdurate,
eh? Won’t listen to reason or non¬
sense, or anything else?”
He put down his grip and smiled
agreeably at the entire office force. His
good humor was always catching, and
his homely, comprehensive grin was
familiar to the company’s patrons in
many states.
People had said he resembled the
picture of a man in a matrimonal
guide whom women are told to avoid,
and as he often narrated the story
himself, one can see he did not under¬
value a joke of any kind.
His face was one not easily forgot¬
ten, and his manners were of the ad
hesive kind which marks the perfect
canvasser.
The hoys Jared him to try to talk to
Amelia on, any subject than business,
so he went to work, and it wasn’t long
before they had grounds for jealousy.
Jack began with the weather, but
easily shifted to the opera, walking
skirts, early marriages, runaway
matches, mothers-in-law, etc.
The first thing Amelia knew she was
getting interested—and in a man, too,
of all things! Of. course she must j j
quickly put a stop to this, but the
question was how? The only way to j
interrupt his flow of eloquence was to !
seek safety in flight, and she had long |
ago made up up her mind, never to
flee from any man. Still, this freck
led-faced knight of the grip must not
be encouraged in his mistaken enter
prise. Amelia was not the kind to al
low anybody to be misled by her ac
tions. But just as £he had settled up
on the best form in which to dismiss
this ardent admirer, he suddenly
changed his tactics.
“All! I see,” he said in an alarmed
tone, “You are falling in love with me.
It’s too bad—too bad!”
“With you?” exclaimed the aston
ished typewriter.
“Yes; I can tell every time, and I’m
sorry for it.”
“Why, you were never more mistak
en, sir, in your life!”
“Oh, it’s possible you don’t under¬
stand your own case; but it’s a fact;
‘To tnum own seif be true.aud it will follow, as night the day, cnou cans’t not then be false to any man.”
LINCOLNTON, GA . THURSDAY, JUNE 5. 1902.
you are drifting into love, and, as I
said before, I am very sorry—for it
can never be.”
“Your assurance is astounding!”
“It seems so—but I must warn you
in time. Young iadies have an unac¬
countable way of throwing themselves
at me. I always know when the fatal
moment is approaching, and I im¬
plore you to pause and consider before
it is forever too late.”
“Why, you ought to be arrested!”
“Anything to stop your mad career
before you mar your future happiness.
Nothing causes me greater pain than
to say ‘no’ to such beauty as yours;
hut duty, you know, comes first, how¬
ever painful it may be to me.”
“You are< taking a great deal upon
yourself-”
“<?n the contrary, I am trying to
avoid a great responsibility. Really,
you must restrain your emotions."
“My emotions, sir? I’d like to have
you hung or shot or anything--”
“Affections like yours are terrible
when thwarted.”
“Leave me immediately, I say!” And
paper weights and scratch blocks
helped to emphasize her meaning.
From a safe distance at the door of
the office the irrepressible continued—
“You are in a critical condition.
Consult your friends, your pastor—
read good books:—go out more—try to
occupy your mind—there is still hope.”
Just as Amelia was glancing about
for a convenient implement with
which to commit murder, a clerk who
had been her first admirer came to her
j rescue. It was just in .time, for the
pretty typewriter girl was on the point
of appealing to tears.
Then they explained that it was all
in fun, but Amelia would never look
upon it in that way. No gentleman
would overstep all bounds like that in
the name of innocent fun.
Her rescuer was of the opinion that
the world was full of just such mon¬
sters as Jack Ashbin, and that every
ladv needed prnffv tor. Amelia -
agreed with hirf., which made him very
happy.
Still all the afternoon she was nerv¬
ous, even making some mistakes, a
thing unheard of before.
The next day the man of boundless
nerve was exiled to the Pacific slope
for six months. Amelia was soon as
calm and serene as ever, and “they
say” a case with her oldest admirer is
not out of the question.—Waverley
Magazine.
A Forgotten Statesman.
Why is it that Oliver Ellsworth, has
received so little attention from biog¬
raphers and historians? asks Frank
Gaylord Cook in the Atlantic. He
was not born in Massachusetts or Vir¬
ginia. In Connecticut, like Pennsyl¬
vania, the historic field has been meag¬
rely tilled. Moreover the dramatic
and opportune quality of his work has
been perceived only through the per¬
spective of subsequent years. To ne¬
gotiate an unpopular convention for a
party just retiring from office in de¬
feat and ignominy is not conducive to
immediate fame. Nevertheless, he has
not been wholly overlooked by subse¬
quent statesmen. Webster said of
him: “For strength of reason, for sa¬
gacity, wisdom and sound good sense
in the conduct of affairs, for modera¬
tion of temper and general ability, it
may be doubted if New England has
yet produced his superior.” What he
said, as chief justice of the United
States to the grand jury at Savannah
in 1798, was the aim of his life: “So
let us rear an empire sacred to the
rights of men; and commend a gov¬
ernment of reason to the nations of
the earth.”
Railwavs in Piam.
Next to Japan, there is no country in
Asia making more strenuous efforts to
increase its railroad system than Siam,
The king has ordered several private
cars for the use of the royal family,
and the rolling stock of the Siamese
state railways is constantly being in
creased. Most of the railway material
comes from Germany, as the director
general, as well as most of the engi
neers of the Siamese railways, are
Germans. The electric roads in Siam,
however, are controlled by Americans,
as is also the electric lighting system
of the Siamese capital.
Ancestry.
Miss Upperten (haughtily)—My
great-grandfather was a Virginia Tay
lor.
Hiss Newrich (unaffected)—Indeed!
And my grandfather was a Chicago
butcher.—Chicago News,
A recent fire in Para. Brazil, de
stroyed 28 tons of rubber.
Guns of the Mlkasn.
The trials of the improved Elswick
gun mountings for the barbette guns
or the Japanese nattiest!-'p Mikasa
seem to prove that they are a long
way in advance of anything yet in use
in our navy, says the St. James Ga¬
zette. From the after baiffie.te, firing
unaimed shots, the gun was on one
occasion loaded and fired in' thirty sec¬
onds on the best previous performance.
But the most remarkable result was
achieved by the forward barbette,
which, firing aimed rounds from open
gun, got off three shots in a net period
of ninety-seven seconds, or at an av¬
erage rate of one rounu in thirty-three
and one-third seconds. As, however,
tne gun’s crew was merely a scratch
lot, it is possiole that the Mikasa will
beat this performaftce In j the future.
She will, at any rate, approach the
rate of two rounds per gnu per min¬
ute, which means that from Her four
12-inch guns alone she will be able to
hurl three tons of steel at an opponent
witnin that time.
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Our Two Dollar Vici lvid Shoes a big value. Our Two Dollar and
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We can give you Ladies Shoes at 75c, but the we to
you are $1.00 and $1.25 Ladies every day Shoes and our $1.25 and $1.50
Ladies Dress Shoes. They are RED HOT BARGAINS and don’t you
forget it. Now our $2.00 Ladies Shoes are as good as anybody’s $3.00
Shoes.
We never forget the Children and Babies and this line of Shoes this
season is better than ever before.
HATS! HATS! HATS!
Our prices in Hats are simply Tornado Swept. We give you Boys
Hats 10c, a real good Hat 25c. Men’s Felt Hats 05c, Men’s Extra Good
Felt Hats $1.00, and so on to the end.
We don’t expect any one to come within a mile of us this season in
Price and Quality. When in the city be sure to Call and Examine and be
Con vinced.
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907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
The Charm of Washington.
“Washington has a wonderful fas¬
cination for people who have once
fallen under its spell,” said a former
official, who has located in the capital
permanently. “People who have once
sojourned here, in an official capacity,
whether large or small, seldom want
to go hack to their native , towns.
“I will wager that four-fifths of the
employes let out of the census bureau
are moving heaven and earth to stay
in Washington. They have outgrown
the narrow life they left to come here,
and are under the spell of wizardry
the town exerts. What is the charm?
Well, I don’t know, unless it is the at¬
mosphere of leisure and conservatism,
of intellectuality and politics that
pervades the capital city.
“We are close to the men at the
wheel and the throttle; we see the
workings of the vast machinery of
government and politics, and it is in¬
teresting to most people, That ex
planation would account for the man
of understanding staying hare. For
others, I think it is because life is
easier and softer, less strenuous than
in the cities cf the west and east.”—
Washington Star.
There is r.o fitting monument on the
grave of Salmon P. Chase in Cincin
nati, Ohio, only a simple stono bear¬
ing an inscription of fouf lines, and
reciting Secretary that he of was thy “SL-najtor, Treasury,^ Govern¬ Chief
or, States.” His
Justice of the United
daughter, who idolized babb rests be¬
side him.
Wiles of a Serpent.
There is nothing so wily as a smart
man. Leave the women out of the
question altogether. At an entertain¬
ment which was to be devoted entire¬
ly to the reading of poems by the per¬
petrators thereof, the audience was a
mere handful. One man in speaking
of it remarked: “The rainy evening
kept all the audience away,” but an¬
other suggested that it was the char¬
acter of the entertainment that thin¬
ned the crowd. On this particular
evening two friends, both poets, set
out for the scene. One hesitated
about, and why the man who took
whereon his friend said: “Ore, only
lake one; there will be so many others
to read that one will be enough.” He.
however, took six along in his inside
pocket, and now since he read those
six and the other man had only one,
the latter is wondering how it came
about, and why the man who took
six should suggest but one to him.—
Louisville Times.
A Disappearing Rlvor.
A recent report from C. T. Frail, one
of the hydrographers of the survey,
has reported the existence of a stream
whose water in the summer season en¬
tirely vanishes midway in its course.
The river is known as the Dry Fork,
a small stream in northwestern Utah,
tributary to Ashley creek. About four¬
teen miles from its source in the Uinta
mountains this stream reaches a large
basin or sink, whose walls are from
75 to 100 feet high, except on the up¬
stream side. The pool is apparently
bottomless and the water in it revolves
with a slow circular motion, caused
either by the incoming waters or by
suction from below, or both. The
only visible outlet to this pool is. a
narrow rock channel from which a
little water flows, but is soon lost to
sight a few hundred yards below. A
measurement of the main stream just
above the pool showed a volume of
ninety-six cubic feet of water passing
each second, but this entire flow dis
appears in the basin and the stream
for miles below is perfectly dry. About
seven miles below this interesting pool
were found several springs, one of
them is a large hole twenty-live feet
in diameter and twenty feet deep,
which at times are empty and again
filled with water. It is thought that
the water which disappears in the
upper pool, flows underground, deep
below in the gravels, which form the
bed of the stream, and in times of
heavy rainiall appears again in the
larse springs below.
What wonderful stories are invented
to please impressionable women?
ISO. 1.
A ROBBER. OF TRAPS.
Wolverine*. Annoys Hunters, but Is Too
>liv to Ee Family OsvuljWf.
The wolverine is stoutly fyuiit and
about three and one-half feet in length,
including a rather short' taii;*which is
covered with long drooping.hair. Th®
general appearance of the animal re¬
minds us of a shaggy, short-tailed dog
or small bear. Tpejhead is broad,
with obtuse nose, short ears and small
eyes. The body is covered* with dark
brown or black hair, abo.ut four inches
long, which hides beneath it an under
coat of soft, short' fur. ’ The legs are
short and stout, and the'-feet broad and
covered below with wool'/ hair. The
toes are armed with strong and fairly
sharp claws. The curious appearance
of the animal is added to by a band of
reddish-brown hair which commences
behind the shoulder, runs along the
flank, and turning up on the hip unites
in the rear with a similar band on
the other side of the body. There is
also a whitish band across the fore¬
head, from ear to. ear. Such- is. the an¬
imal which the early writers loved to
romance about, and which the north¬
ern hunter doesn’t love at all.
Like almost all the carnivorous ani¬
mals inhabiting the cold regions of the
north, he will eat the flesh of any ani¬
mal he can get hold of, living or dead.
He .catches wild mice and certain oth¬
er small quadrupeds and possibly
grouse, which have plunged into the
snow for protection from thejctrld. pasture But of
he is slow of foot, and the
northern hares or otfiey. fleet-footed
creatures would be quite out. of the
question. His principal'' food is
thought to consist of the -flesh, of ani¬
mals which have been killed by acci¬
dent, as great numbers of animals are
killed everywhere. He is also said
to. destroy great numbers of.,foxes at
the time when the cubs, are small. He
seeks out tlie dens, forces an entrance,
and kills both the mother fox And her
little ones. No doubt he often ^catches
very young’ hares ana rabTfita." >.f -f.
earned his name of “glutton,” not only
by eating large quantities of food, but
by bolting it hurriedly, sometimes
scarcely chewing it at all. t
But what has brought him ifito ill
repute with the hunters is his hstbit of
following them to rob their traps. A
trapper will walk for many mile,s, set¬
ting his traps for beaver, martfens, arc¬
tic foxes and. other •f-ifi v -beteiHg ani¬
mals, and return the next day to find
that a wolverine has upset all, his cal¬
culations. The glutton has'followed the
trail of the woodsmen, . visiting: trap
after trap, skilfully stealing the bait
from some and killing and‘devouring
the animals that have been caught in
others. But although he frequents the
traps so readily he is not easy to catch
by any means, for he is cunning and
suspicious, and manages to keep out
of trouble as a rule.
The wolverine has been, killed as far
south as Rensselaer county, New
York, but it inhabits chiefly the north
ern countries, not only of America, but
of Europe and Asia.—Boston Herald.
Greatest Flower Market in the World
The greatest -flower market fin the
world is the famous Covent Garden
market in London, and to catch a peep
of this centre of activity at Easter
time is a revelation. This flo wer liead
quarters for the world's greatest city
was established about, three "quarters
of a century ago in a most modest
manner. Now it occupies a vast glass
roofed brick building. This immense
structure is divided into hundreds of
separate little stalls, each -presided
over by a man or woman, but viewed
from one of the entrances the hall
appears to be heaped up ten feet high
with one vast mass of bloom.—-Wom¬
an’s Home Companion.
lee Instead of Dynamite.
A notable quarrying feat has just
been accomplished at the Rubinshaw
granite .quarries, Aberdeen. A larg®
stone had been drilled ready for split¬
ting, when the thought struck the fore
man that nature might aid in the ob
ject to be attained. The idea being
sugested by the severe frost that pre¬
vailed. Water was poured into each
of the drill holes, and it was found
after a couple of Jays that the block
of granite had completely burst open.
An idea of the immense power of
frost wil be gathered when it is stated
that the stone thus detached has a
weight of about six tons.
Man’s Ingratitude,
“Nonsense, Frank! Can’t pay them!
Why, before we were married you told
me you were well off.”
“So I was. But I didn’t know it.”—
Punch.