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The Starkville News
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OTARKVILLE. : ; : MISSISSIPPI.
THE FACE THAT SMILES.
Brother, you are gazing backward, toward
the scenes of your mistakes;
You are weeping o’er your errors ill! your
proud heart almost breaks.
You’re repenting and ‘regretting, you are
sighing, Oh, alas!
And you’re missing all the glories of the
present as they pass.
Leave the grim and grewsome picture
look the other way aw bile.
For the face that’s toward the future Is
the face that wears a smile.
You are lost in contemplation of the blun
ders you have made;
You are sighing o’er the countless times
your soul has been dismayed.
But the future’s sun Is shining on the fu
ture’s verdant trees.
And the future’s birds are singing—you are
missing all of these.
Cease that useless gazing backward, look
the other way awhile,
For the faces toward the-future are the
only ones that smile.
.When your back is toward the future then
the blazing lamp of hope
Throws your shadow o’er your landscape
and with blinded eyes you grope
For the blessings that had vanished with
the times they strove to bless;
Face about and you’ll discover all your
grouping’s fruitlessness.
You’ll be dazzled by the glory of the pros
pect for awhile.
But with face turned to the future you will
learn to wear a smile.
—Baltimore American.
I A Closer View |
I WILLIAM NICHOLSON I
(Copyright, 1903, by Daily Story Pub. Cos.) *
MARIE shook her head a little sad
ly. “Of course*! care a great deal
for you,” she said, “but not in the way
you ask.” She knew she was saying
something very stereotyped, but she did
not know how else to express herself.
“Then I suppose there is nothing
more to be said,” answered James
Willis, with the uncomfortable inflec
tion characteristic of the rejected
suitor.
“There is much more to be said,” as
serted Marie,' vehemently. “I don't
want you to think that 1 have been—
been leading you on, because I have
shown such a thorough appreciation of
your society for two years. It has been
very pleasant, and I don’t want this—
this to make any difference. We are
not going to be foolish, as some peo
ple might; we are going to be the same
good chums, are we not?*’
“Yes,” he answered, listlessly, “we
won’t let this interfere.” Rut he knew
very well that this w ould thereafter de
cidedly interfere with the spirit of
good comradeship which had made
them enjoy the hours they had spent
together. *
“I have so much for which to thank
you,” she stumbled on, not knowing
how this expression of gratitude hurt
him until she looked up into his eyes.
“O. I don’t know* just w hat I w ish to
•ay,” she cried helplessly; “but you
have been to me w hat no one else could
DON’T BELIEVE THE HEARTEVER
TRULY LOVES BUT ONCE.”
have been —you have taught me how to
live and to enjoy myself without part
ing with my principles. You know
what I mean. When my father died and
I came to live with my uncle, I knew
nothing but the know ledge to be found
in books. I looked aghast at the world
in which I found myself. I thought
everything savoring of the world was
wicked; I thought it a sin to dress too
prettily —in fact, I was a silly little
prude. You made me to know that
some things that glitter are gold.
understand what you mean,” he
•aid; very gebtly; “but if I have helped
you any I must disclaim the credit of
having done so from purely unselfish
motives. You do not know how an un
spoiled, noble girl such as you are ap
peals to a man who has seen much of
the shallow mockery of life. It was not
altogether your fresh young beauty
which first attracted me; and if I have
been the means of your forming a
taste for innocent frivolity, I am your
debtor, for you have taught me one
thing at least.”
“And that i— T 9 she inquired, won
<Jeringly.
“That there are women who will not
A
sacrifice everything for the sake of
that which glitters and is not gold,”
he answered.
“You have been disappointed in
someone.*’ she said, lowering her voice.
“Yes,” he asknow ledged, withti little
laugh. “I loved madly, desperately,
and the girl loved me; but she married
a fellow who had more money than I.
That’s the story in a nut shell. Need
less to add that I ceased to care for
her after she threw me over. Rut some
how my faith in all women was shat
tered until I met and loved you.”
“I don’t believe the heart ever truly
loves but once,” she said with convic
tion. “If you really loved her you don’t
love me—not with all the strength of
your nature.
“What do you know of love, child?”
he demanded.
“I loved once,” she confessed, a warm
flush glowing in hert fair face.
“Then, according to your theory,
you love him yet,” he said a trifle bit
terly.
“Ye§,” she answered simply; “I have
not heard from him directly for more
than two years. He was away when
my father died, and uncle took me
home with him immediately. He —he
worked as assistant bookkeeper to my
father, I was very young and he was
very poor; we knew we had to w*ait;
we were not formally engaged, but we
loved and understood each other.”
“And during all this time he has
made no effort to see you or to 90c
respond with you?” asked Willis, a
strange expression flitting across his
face.
“He is too proud to seek me now,”
she answered, valinantly. “My uncle
is rich, and he is poor. Rut my heart
tells me he is waiting for me and he
will seek me when he has something
more than his love to offer.”
“T hope he will,” said Willis, a little
brokenly. “I hope he will be every
thing you expect. Rut don’t make the
mistake of cherishing a romantic idea
which may be no more tangible than
the will-o'-the’wisp. To my mind his
long silence suggests the thought that
he has given you up, realizing that
your paths now’ lie so far apart.”
“Mr. Willie!” she exclaimed, indig
nantly, “I am surprised to hear such
an expression from you; under the cir
cumstances I should —”
“I have only your happiness at
heart,” he interrupted, “and I only
wish that Heaven had decreed that I
should be the one to inspire s\ich mar
velous faith in man's love and fidelity.”
“I ask your pardon for doubting
you,” she said with downcast eyes.
“Granted,” he returned quickly, and
he rose? to go “I maybe out of town for
a week or two, but I'll see you at Mrs.
Scott’s, won’t I? While lam not to be
one of the house party I’ll be there the
night of the ball.”
“I shall be there,” she answered, and
they parted.
********
It was seven o'clock, and Marie Allen
THE BRIDEGROOM’S SONG.
I’m sick of the song of the bride and her
bloom—
Just hearken to me for awhile—l’m the
groom.
T know I’ve no rights in the case, but alas—
That’s right—all I get in the case is a lass!
I know I’m supposed to be silent and meek,
But, hang it! I’m bound to get reckless
and speak. ■"
They’re buzzing about what the bride Is to
wear;
They’re buzzing about how she’ll fix up
her hair;
They’re quarreling over the bridal bou
quet—
I listen in silence to all that they say.
They treat me as though I was chained to
my doom—
Alack! What am I? lam only the groom.
The best I can don is some black and some
white,
A horse-collar vest and a bad case of
fright;
My hair will be combed as it’s combed ev
ery day,
I’d surely get mobbed if I lugged a bou
quet;
I’ve got to be meek and try bravely to
smile—
The meekness will stand me In hand after
while.
Singon of the beautiful bride and her bloom;
But don’t mention me—l am only the
groom;
Just say “he was dressed in conventional
black.’’
Then kindly forget me and hasten right
back
To rave o’er the bride till you’re black In
the face—
I’m only the groom, and I’m learning my
place.
—Baltimore American.
PRINCE’S SELF - EFFACEMENT.
fwlngr Ed ward** Sensible Course While
His Royal Mother Was
on Earth.
The world is beginning to realize
the king. It took some time to do so.
There were plenty of people who had
grown so accustomed to the self-ef
facement which the had prac
ticed so long as prin6e of Wales f dur
ing the* lifetime ot his mother as to
have come to the conclusion that in
all the serious affairs of his kingdom
the king would count for little, says
London M. A. P. Mind you, there
were some ground for this assump
tion. It is not generally known that
this self-effacement was the result not
merely of the prince’s own act and
respect for his mother, but also of
deliberate ministerial act. Some time
in the seventies the question was
raised whether, as the prince was
practically performing all the cere
was the only one of all the guests at
Scott's Towers who was dressed for
dinner. She stood on the broad piazza
and looked anxiously down the long
carriage drive, for the afternoon train
w’ould bring James Willis to Scottville.
Finally her impatience mastered her,
and throwing a scarf about her bara
shoulders, she walked dowh the drive
way. She reached the gate just as it
was opened to admit the expected
guest.
He greeted her pleasantly, though
with some degree of formality. “I
walked up from the station,” he ex
plained. “A June evening in the coun
try is Irresistible—but I hope I’ll not
keep dinner waiting.”
“Dinner is at eight,” she said. “I
dressed early, and —and came to meet
you.” She brought the words out with
a jerk, and looked at him appealingly.
Without a word he led her to a rustic
bench near by and seated himself be
side her.
“You wished to see me alone, then?”
he asked. *
“Yes,” she said with a little gasp. “I
knew it would be next to impossible to
talk with you unless I met you here,
and I could not wait to tell you.”
“To tell me what?” he asked, trying
in vain to conceal his eagerness.
“I have seen him,” she anwered with
a little laugh, “and you are right and
I am wrong.”
He pressed her hand encouragingly.
“I came on the morning train,” she
continued, “and it /stopped at a little
town for several minutes —and I saw
him. His store is near the railroad
erossing; he sells plows and things.
He looked the same, and yet different.
He was talking to a country girl as
pretty as a wild rose—”
Willis began to laugh in sw**e of him-,
self.
“You know an without my telling
you,” she said, joining In the laugh.
“I don't suppose he has given me a
thought since I passed out of his life.
He looked contented and prosperous,
and he had eyes for no one but his pret
ty companion. I had dreamed of him
toiling and striving for my sake, when
doubtless, as you suggested, he ceased
to care for me long ago. It is inevit
able that the change in our circum
stances should have left its mark on
both, but believe me, that is not the
only reason I could not love him now.
It is true that a look into the hazy dis
tance often discloses a beautiful pic
ture which a closer view* would dis
sipate; and 1 have had the closer view.
But —but that is not the reason I do
not love him now.”
“And the heart never truly loves but
once.” said Willis, hopelessly.
“Ah! but it does.” she said softly,
“and he has long been supplanted, only
I did not know it until to-day.”
And then, in spite of all the windows
of Scott’s Towers staring through the
twilight —he kissed her.
monial duties of royalty, he should
not also share in some of its political
responsibilities. One of the first things
to be done if this question were de
cided in the affirmative was to in
trust to the prince a large amount
of secret official knowledge—impor
tant foreign office dispatches, for ex
ample—which up to that time were
submitted to the eyes of the queen
alone. It is credible, but I
have every reason to believe it is true,
that cabinet, after they had de
bated the question very seriously and
very thoroughly, came to the conclu
sion that it would be a violation of con
stitutional usage to give the prince
of Wales this information. The king
accepted the decision with the good
sense which he always displays —a
good sense typical of the nation to
which he so thoroughly belongs;; and
went on his way, content to be a
spectator of the great drama going
on immediately around him, and to
be left to his own resources for the
gaining of knowledge of the secret
springs and unavowed motives of
great political events.
The Rattler'll Whistle.
I found myself somewhat muddy
and breathing a little hard; but I
was not wdiolly chagrined. I had
heard and seen a black snake whis
tle. I had never even known of the
habit in the rattler before. Since
then I have seen one other snake do
it, and I think I have heard the sound
three or four, times. It is almost in
describable. The jaws were cloned
as it was made, not even the throat
moving, that I could see. The air
seemed to be blown violently through
the nostrils, though sounding as if
driven through the teeth—a shrilling
hiss, fine and piercing, which one
not so much hears as feels feels
it crisping cold along the nerves.—
Writer in Nature.
It AH Depend*.
“Yes,” said Newrib, “I’m satisfied,
judging from my own personal ex
perience, that married life is the only
happy one.”
“By the way,” queried old man
Wederly, “how long have you been
married?”
“Nearly a week,” replied Newrib.
“Huh!” exclaimed Wederly, “I
thought so.”—Cincinnati Tiger.
Temperature of Root*.
The roots of plants are found to hay®
a higher temperature than the toil,
but only wdiile growing. •>
HUMAN ELECTRIC WIRES.
fvro Student* Cptc to Conduct 500,-
000 Volt Current Without the
Leuat Harm.
Two University of Michigan students
■tood in a darkened laboratory one
day lately holding an electric light
bulb between them, like a water pail.
A college professor pulled a lever.
The electric light bulb suddenly light
ed the room, showing an audience who
gazed in amazement at a human elec
tric wire—the arms of the two stu
dents through whom the current ran.
The students grinned sheepishly at
the startled looks of the audience, re
ports the Chicago Tribune.
Then the professor, Benjamin F.
Bailey, stepped forward, and by the
light of his human wire demonstrated
how a 500,000-volt current of electric
ity may be made as harmless and
agreeable as a June breeze. Indeed, the
two students nodded when he stated,
as his first remark, that the only sen
sation which tkt 1 boys experienced was
a warm tingling of the palms of the
hands.
The scientist explained the appa
ratus through w hich so strong a cur
rent of electricity was made harmless.
It was a “step up” transformer.
IlovJghly described, this transformer
was a box two feet long, one foot high,
and one foot wide, filled with oil. Im
mersed in the oil were two coils of
heavy w ire, one of four turns and one
of 200. The voltage of the current in
the small coil was increased thousands
of times in passing through the larger
coil.
The electric current used came di
rectly from the university dynamo,
with 15 amperes and 110 volts strength.
It passed through two “step up” trans
formers, the first one raising it to
5,000 volts, a current destructive to hu
man life. Then it was run directly into
the odd transformer described. Just
what influence the oil exerted over the
electric fluid was not explained. The
effect, however, was tremendous. The
fatal current had 240 alternations a sec
ond; this new current, 800,000 alterna
tions. The current had been trans
formed from 5.000 to 500,000 volts, an*d
was now harmless.
The power of this current was ap
parent in the dark room, even through
the dead copper wires. About the
wires there was a filmy haze of light,
green tinted sometimes, then blue,
but mostly violet.
A few preliminaries preceded the
electric light experiment. Prof. Bailey
showed the current leaping across a
space of 12 to 14 inches, between two
metal knobs. It was a small streak of
chain lightning, perhaps as thick as a
lead pencil, and it cracked like a pistol
shot.
The students, who were called from
the audience, grasped in their hands
a short, naked wire, at the center of
which the incandescent lamp was sus
pended. Then with their free hands
the boys grasped the broken ends of
the 500.000 volt wire and the current
which lighted the lamp completed its
circuit through their arms.
There are two theories in explana
tion of the harmlessness of this cur
rent. According to one, it alternates
with such extreme rapidity that the
electricity has no time to act on the
muscles, nor to communicate its im
pulses to the nerves. The other theory
holds that the current does not enter
the body at all, but passes over the out
side.
The medical value of the strong cur
rent has been tested at the Univesity
of Michigan hospital by Ur, W. J. Herd
man. It has been found to induce
sleep, under proper conditions, and to
benefit rheumatism.
Quick Lunches in London.
London is appreciating the extension
of the cheap restaurant tea shops, as
the people call them. They follow the
quick-lunch idea, recently introduced,
and the extent of public patronage is
astonishing to Londoners. Breakfasts
are now served at popular prices, and
the breaking up of the “home break
fast,” as the serving of rolls and cof
fee in lodgings has been termed, is
doomed to remembrance as a night
mare.
Woman's Wonderful Endurance.
“Horatius,” said the indignant wife,
“I don’t believe you’ve heard a word
I’ve said, and here I’ve been talking
for half an hour.”
“Well?” said the pondering husband,
“who could believe it? You seem just
as fresh as when you started.”—Stray
Stories.
No Proof at Hand.
Guest (in restaurant) —I say, waiter,
this pie must be at least two weeks old,
isn’t it?
Waiter —’Deed Ah dunno, sah; Ah’s
only done been heah er week, sah. —
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Roundabout Cure.
Doctor —Aha! You look much bet
ter. Did you take all my pills?
Farmer —Yes, indeed. I almost lost
them, though. You see, the old black
hen got at the pill box and before I
knew it she swallowed them all. But
I killed her and ate her right away,
and so I got cured. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Failed to Keep Appointment.
Locked into his office by mistake, a
Swiss editor, in order to keep an ap
pointment with his wife, jumped out
of a third floor window and broke his
leg.
Supreme Comrt Sustain* the ftaoi*
Ease Trade-Mark*
Buffalo, N. Y.—Justice Laughlin, in Sue
preme Court, has granted a permanent in
junction, with costs, against Paul B. Hudson
and others, of New kork City, restraining
them from making or selling a foot powder
which the court declares is an imitation and)
infringement on “Foot-Ease," now so large
ly advertised and sold over the country.
The owner of the trade-mark, “Foot-Ease,"
is Allen S. Olmsted, of Le Koy, N. Y., and
the decision in this suit upholds his trade
mark and renders all parties liable who
farudulently attempt to profit by the ex
tensive “Foot-Ease" advertising. Similar
suits will be brought against others who are
now infringing on the Foot-Ease trade-mark,
rights.
“If time was money," said Uncle
“some folks dat stops busy men to tell
funny stories ought to be arrested fox
embezzlement." —Washington Star.
Do not believe Piso’s Cdre for Consump
tion has an equal for coughs and colds. —J.
F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900.
Some fellows marry poor girls to settle
down, and others marry rich onee to set
tle up.—Philadelphia Record.
Opium and Liquor Habits Cured.
Book free. B. M. Woolley, M. D , Atlanta,Ga.
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Never trust the man who will not truafc
another.* —Ram’s Horn.
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