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- Come, let us fare together
Into that clear blue world— ;
The tide that no fate.can tether
With the sails of our souls unfurled.
Het us drift into any weather;
Such Come, let us find a path,
as the mermaid hath
With pebbles and shells impearled.
We v/ill float down the foam-swept spaces,
Till _We they v. i!] creak hide by the crystal cool, moist walls faces—
on our
With a rush as of waterfalls,
1 Or, like tears; in love’s tempest driven—
•Love with us, there alone;—
Half the world fo r our own
.And the whole of heaven!
Beggars, Spendthrifts, we may not borrow;
we cannot pay;
But come! There’s no bright to-morrow
As dear as our sura to-day!
Book: r.ot a cloud to shade us,
Nor a boat sail that’s near nor far,
And we are as God lias made us,
' Woman and man v. e are.
SAVING OF PETER..
How lie Found Something nicer to Take
Than Ipecac.
M RS. MINNA SCHMITT
at the kitchen door of Mer
mm's big bouse and looked
(a at the changing west. Every
moment the light was growing fainter
and duller, and still Peter Burns did
not come in to the supper that had been
waiting for him over two hours. This
was. sti..|ige of Peter, and it would
have Viceu not'only strange, but suspi¬
cious of anybody else, after, having
been “ Teetfdneering” all afternoon,
v. iih the old Judge, Mrs. M-errlam’s hus¬
band.
ill's.. Schmidt did not like the Judge,
The worst men, in her eyes, are those
who ajways seem so nice and pleasant
fr BMuk everybody, and abuse and their between wives. times If gyh, get
"? ou'v ciea-p all
* Tes for
that goes wrong, as 1he vii
Mrs. Merriarn, when she had
flie’ old Judge bound over to keep the
peace. Bine? that time the Judge had
been obliged to live at the village hotel,
and XJrs. Merriarn was left in the big
bouse.' .Now’s when the Judge wanted
to sec* Mrs. Merriarn, lie drove up to the
gate and whistled for lier. Then Mrs.
Merriarn put cu her best dress and
went driving with him, for the Judge
was really very pleasant when lie was
in a “good temper,” as Mrs. Merriarn
herself would have put it. Every even¬
ing she made Peter drive down to the
hotel to see that- the Judge got to beu
without liis boots. The Judge paid
those of his bills that he could out of
bis practice, mid Mrs. Marriam paid
her own out of the place and the “sum¬
mer guests.” Sometimes she paid an
odd one of the Judge's.
Minna could not see blit what it was
much better so, though whenever she
went to the village she had to hear
'•something about women who wear the
“pants” and like remarks, which passed
for wit thereabouts. But Minna, who
had had a sharp, and happily short,
married experience of her own, loftily
Ignored these supposed jokes, for her
German tongue was too slow to visit an¬
swers. The delectable Peter himself,
who made possible the harmony ot' the
present conditions, was Irish. He
drove Hie Judge home one day when
the Judge's driving was a Hit uncer¬
tain: even for a horse that could find
the way home alone. Peter had put up
the horse and looked after tilings that
evening, and he had bec-n doing so ever
since. Now be was the one person who
was t hie to travel cheerfully the some¬
times slippery path between the inn
and the house at all times.
And still iie did not come in. Minna
bethought herself that she ought to go
over to Hie stables. To-morrow would
be Sunday, and Peter often needed a
•stitch put in somewhere. It was not in
Minna’s quick fingers to see any one
untidy on Sunday if slie could help it.
So she went over to the stables—not
that she was curious or, even worse,
worried. Things did look queer. The
road-wagon was standing in the drive¬
way, the cushion left shiftlessly on the
seat, and Peter’s best coat lying across
it. After a moment Minna’s sharp ear
hpard deep breathing, and there, at the
bench, inside the door, lay Peter, fast
asleep. Now Minna could not believe
that any man would go fast asleep
without his supper unless there was
something wrong. But she was used to
doing things, not standing and looking
at them. She took the cushion off: the
‘To thine own self be true.and it will follow, es night the day, cnou cao-’i not then be false to any man.’’
SEA-LOVERS.
Come! Hot for the the burning world’s ways sands, grieve us; 1,", &
are
The Clasp hours with and the gladsome days bereave us; f
me hands '
And go by sweet height, and hollow,
Where never a milestone is
To point the way to the bliss
Our sure feet find and follow!
We will buffet tlftiggeves end beat them,
Rest with t^iern, cSktek to cheek,
Rush with them, meet, them, greet them,
Flee from them, whau they seek,
Lips, with their passion glowing,
Living, Shall loving anew,
vc’spave them a kiss or two,
From our hearts’ wild overflowing?
Nay, if we leave behind us
Loads too heavy to bear,
Fetters that strain and bind us,
With the rags that we used to wear—
Out of life's fret and pain.
What Taking the way that is nearest,
matters it, heart, my dearest,
If we come not back again?
—Madeline Bridges, in Life.
seat, and along with the coat carried
it into the carriage shed.. Something
hard in one of Peter's pockets struck
her hand, and she know .'it'at once tor
a bottle. It was almost empty and the
contents were not to be mistaken.
Then, she tried the other pocket. Be¬
hold, another bottle!
“That camel of a Judge,” she mut¬
tered. “He lias five stomachs and be
does not rest until everybody is like
him.” The zeal to save woke in lier,
and she did not ask herself whether
she,had that fine zeal for every waver
ing soul, or only for Peter's. She took
the bottles and hurried to the kitchen
with them,
Mrs. Merriarn msj, her at the kitchen
«W,\ "Where L
and
ally' hem tip the two bottles in front
of her.
“Minna,” gasped that lady, “what—
what have you been doing?”
“I?” screamed Minna. “Peter, you
mean.”
“Peter! Oh, Peter, Peter, you too,
Peter!” wailed Mrs. Merriarn, ns she
sank down in a chair. “But wait; this
is the first time, and there is still hopes
for him. I have it!” And she hurried
to her medicine shelf and came back
with a bottle with some brown stuff in
it. “Tins will make him wish he'd
never touched any election whisky in
his life. Run and slip them back,
Minna.”
Minna obeyed, and then milked the
complaining cows, grown restless wait¬
ing for Peter. And when everything
was well done she went up to her room
and cried a bit. In the morning she
was up earlier than usual. There
seemed to be no use in waiting for
Peter to drive lier to early mass this
morning. She trudged along the damp
road from which the late August sun
had not yet drawn the dew. And her
feet somehow felt very heavy.
“It is a damp morning,” she said,
looking against the shining mist. Here
and there a dead leaf fluttered iu front
of her. The sun was soft and warm,
and the gleam of the trees deep and
dark iu the glittering moisture, and yef
it all kept lier thinking that winter
was near, and that she herself was
thirty-lie. As she passed a little
house on the road where old Anse, the
elioreman, lived with about a dozen
grandchildren, she heard a child's fret¬
ful cry "Must be it's sick. I’ll have
to ask Anse.”
When Minna came out of the church
she had a start that must surely have
given iter a nervous shock had she
been of less hardy fibre, for there was
Peter waiting as usual.
“An’ why didn’t you wait for me,
Mrs. Schmitt?” he asked.
“It was a good morning to walk,”
said Minna most quietly.
He helped her into the cart, and then
he said slowly, after they were started:
“It was a very hot day yesterday,”
and be switched the lines to chase the
flies off the backs of the horses—“a
very hot day.”
But Minna was silent. After a little
Peter went on: “IYe went over a tur
rible lot of country yesterday, the
Judge and I. I’m thankful we had a
right good supper over to ITarneek’s, so
bein’ tired an’ restin’ me a minute, 1
fell asleep. It’s too bad you milked the
ccws and did that work.”
“Ob, that didn’t make much differ-
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MNCOLNTON, GA , THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1902
enee,” said Minna. But tliere seemed!
to be something that did, so after a
bit Peter went on again.
“The Judge is a tumble man to
drink and treat all foun’ when he goes'
’lectionfierlug. He gimme a couple o’,
bottles to treat the boys for him, but I
met old Anse in the road this mornin’
an’ he told me one-of the children was
sick an’ ho didn’t feel very well him¬
self, an’ so I gave him the rest.”
Peter had the flattering sense that he
was clearing himself without admit¬
ting the suspicion, which is really a
very delicate thing to do. So he was
the more surprised to see Minna jump
around m her seat aud fairly scream
at him:
"You did what?*
“Gave it to old A;:se for the child.”
“Oh,” she moaned, “for the sick
child. It’ll kill it.”
“But it was good stuff,” said refer
blandly. “The Judge paid a dollar a
bottle for the bit of a bottle.”
“But it’s bad; I know it’s bad. Hurry
up and tell Anse id had.” Peter only
stared at her, and .almost held the
horses at a stand ill. “Hurry up,”
she said, and rattled the whip in its
socket. At this ominous and unaccus
touted sound, the horse plunged for
ward so suddenly*.that I’etor had to
pull them to their haunches to keep
them out of the ditch.
“I’ll not drive a sl'fep, I’ll tell ye,” he
said, “until I know what for,” for
Peter could not stand bothering the
horses began when lie Jras driving. Then
Minna to cry and Peter as well
as the horses was bothered.
“But, .Mrs. Schmitt,” he said, “sure
an’ you’re always such a sensible
woman——” HAL
“What’s the use to be a sensible
woman when a man’s so foolish? It’s
all your fault,” 3 And Minna cried
more. mam
“Well, then, if it is. I'll be driving
on,” said FetfiSJ “An’ you’ll be tellin’
me he liftedJBL how U is mjaBBiie thmJa^ny (it fault fcot ” Then start
field while the tears rolled t .wn her.
cheeks. Then she stole a glance at
Peter’s face, calm and mascuUnely un-l
relenting. There came a tied i>.. nd
her. McGolriek's mules were coming
up the road behind them, and she and
Peter standing still like that! So she*
began hurriedly:
“I was afraid you'd get like thc :
Judge, too, so wo thought if you did!
get good and sick you’d never do it ;
again, and we put some ipecac iu it, a
whole ounce-”
“In what?” asked the hyper-inno
ceut Peter.
“In the bottles of whisky,” gulped
Minna.
Peter whistled and the horses flew.
“Ipecac’s bitter, isn't it?” But Minna
did not notice. She was crying so
hard. “Guess I better tell Anse that
it’s cheap ’lectioneering whisky and
the Missus will send him somethin’
better.” Minna smiled so gratefully
that Peter fell to wondering what he
could do next to please her. When he
came out of Anse's he was chuckling.
“The baby’s all right. But Anse is
bavin’ a time!” Whereupon Minna
giggled hysterically.
To make sure, Minna lierself took the
basket and the port wine which Mrs.
Merriarn sent. AYhen she came back
she walked rather slowly up the drive
way, trying to decide whether she
should stop and tell Peter. When she
came to the stable door Peter was
pitching straw for bedding. He did
not seem to be getting much on his
fork, and presently he looked up as
if seeing her there was the most unex
pected happening. He pulled his hat
down and came, toward her. Leaning
against the doorpost he regarded the
prongs of his pitchfork intently. About
that time Minna found her basket
handle very interesting, and she began
to rub her forefinger thoughtfully up
and down its strands.
“Tho baby’s all right, Peter,” she
said, after a while. Peter looked at liei
medltately as if somehow she were
saying something else.
“Mrs. Schmitt,” he said then, “I’ve
been thinkin’ about how worried you
got about them bottles. It’s kind o’
nice to think people care enough tc
worry about you. Now, I’ve been
thinkin’ that there might be nicei
things to take than ipecac, and some¬
times it’s the nice tL'ings that are best
lor a man, don’t you think so?”
Peter stopped and dug his pitchfork
into the ground. Minna’s literal Ger¬
man mind had become unwary.
“What would you take, then, Peter?”
“Well, now, Minna, if ’twerc left
to me I’d take you.’’ -
In spite of Mrs. Merritt in, who
[minted out precedent and evidence to
(trove that Minna had strangely invert¬
'd her opinions, Minna agreed with
Peter—just to save him, to be sure.—
Xew York Sun.
| Snakes in Dutch Guiana.
“Speaking of snakes,” said a mining
engineer, “I do not think there is a spot
on the the face of this earth to equal
Dutch Guinea in that respect. There
they have large snakes, and small
snakes, red snakes and green snakes,
amber-colored snakes and golden
snakes, snakes harmless and snakes
deadly, round-headed snakes and flat
beaded snakes, and snakes ranging
through the entire list of colors from
mud gray to a striped orange and red.
“If you are a tenderfoot ,n the coun¬
try, before you leave Paramaribo for
the gold fields in the jungle the natives
will warn you against the snakes. On
the way to the fields, 400 miles up the
river in a c-anoe, you can snoot a dozen
or more water snakes if you are watch.
ful. Once in camp and accustomed to
precautions, before you get into your
hammock at night you turn it inside
out to oust a possible parrot snake that
may have taken kindly to your bed.
During the night if you are called upon
to leave camp you pick your way
along the jungle trail with a lantern
held low to light every inch your feet
traverse. In the morning when you
come to the embers of your camp tire
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E. G. TARVER, Manager
Our One Dollar Brogan is better. Our One Dollar and Twenty-five
Cents Brogan beats the world.
Our One Dol-ar and Fifty Cents Shoes are simply superb. Two Dollar and
Our Two Dollar Vici Kid Shoes a big value. Oitr
Fifty Certs Hand-sewed Shoes are the best on the market.
We can give you Ladies Shoes at 75c, but the Shoes we want fo sell
ron are $1.00 and $1.25 Ladies every day Shoes and our $1.25 and $1.50
Ladies Dress Shoes. They are BED HOT BARGAINS and don’t yon
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 thie>
season is better than ever before.
HATS! HATS! HATS!
Our prices in Hats are simp’.v Tornado Swept, We give you Boy*'
Hats 10c, a veal good llat 25c. Men's Felt Hats 05c, Men's Extra Good
Felt Hals $1.00, and so on to the end. mile of this in
We don’t expect any one to come within a us season
Price and Quality. When in the city be sure to Call and Examine and be
Convinced.
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907 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
y 0n w ju fj n d a bunch of snakes curled
up aroU nd one another to keep off the
cRni 0 f tlio night in the warm ashes,
And so it is, snakes, snakes, snakes,
Throughout 40,000 square miles of
jungle it is ono continuous snake para¬
dise.
The Preservation of Westminster Abbey.
At a recent meeting of the Society of
Antiquaries in London Professor L-eth
aby read a paper on “Westminster Ab¬
bey and Its Restorations.”
Referring to the coronation of Ed¬
ward I. he said the accounts showed
that a great stable was built iu St.
Margaret’s Churchyard, temporary
halls were set up in tlie gardens of the
palace Jor the people, a wooden passage
was built from the palace to the church
and the new tow r er above the choir
was covered with boards, and a wood¬
en floor laid down in the choir, show¬
ing that these two last portions were
not then completed. He traced the
story of the vandalism in the shape of
restorations which has been going on
since Henry III. work—the destruction
NO. 18.
of the palace buildings, the painted
chamber, St. Stephen’s chapel, tin? star
chamber, etc. He said that similar
work was still under way, and that un¬
less this system of so-called improve¬
ments could be arrested the original
abbey would soon be a thing of the
past.
A Record-Breaking Name.
Josephl Andreszkswerownitzka is the
name of a young Polish girl who ar¬
rived in this city on the Haverford
from Liverpool last week. She has the
longest name of any immigrant that
ever came to Philadelphia, and when
they told her so as they examined her
,at Washington wharf, she smiled with
gratification. “I thought my name
would be the longest,” she said. “E
thought you would tell me that, for
that is what I have been told by every¬
body since I left home.” Miss Andre¬
szkswerownitzka is bound for Sf. Paul,
where a place as housemaid lias been
engaged for her in a hotel. She was
advised to change her name, on ac¬
count of its awkward length, but she
replied; “No, indeed, I will not change
it till I get married.” — Philadelphia
Record.
The Perfumes of Bulgaria.
What a strange perversity of fate it
is that the finest perfumes in the world
should come from the filthy Bulga¬
rians! The rose industry of that peo¬
ple seems most incongruous, yet last
year some 10,000 pounds of otto of
roses were produced, at an average
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Hotter Bargains, and .Better
Shoes than ever was
Before.
value of, say ?5 au ounce.—New York:
Press.
The Biesest Balloon.
The biggest balloon ever made was
by a German named Ganswendt about
twenty years ago. Its capacity was
20,000 cubic yards. It w'eiglied twenty
one and a half tons, and would raise
three and a half tons into the air.
It is said that the New York Central
will be obliged to raise its tracks ele¬
ven inches all the way between New:
York and Buffalo, iu order to get in
the new stone foundation
New York has in operation 1,700
miles of electric railway, The most
notable projected road is a four track,
speed road connecting New York
ci^Twith a number of important projected sub¬
urban towns and which it is
shall ultimately reach Boston, The
third rail system will be used, w'ith
solid construction, heavy equipment,
with a service of 200 trains a day to
suburban towns.
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