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WELSH, LA,
. eoplb who think they. would like to
beiregetarians might And this a prof.
itable time to try it.
Tobacco chewers will be glad of the
cheering news that growers are now
using paris green on the plants to kil
te 4orms;
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PH 81CIIN and
SURGECOW.......
oal Surgeon for the Southern
aoi Railway Company.
WroL5 º- LO1uSlIANA
E. F. bWSON & GO.,
REAL ESTATE.
Agents for the North American
Land and Timber Co.
Wild Land and Improved Farms
for Sale or Rent.
Choice Rice Lands at Low Prices on
Eiay Terms.
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elsesdted.
JAB$IS F ELLIW, MFgr.
WELSH. LA
litlug.
JEthel-Mrs. Youngwife is worrying
b use her husband is fond of adven
t and not of domestic life.
dith--l~-.4at case 1 don't see why
sh nee3 worry. He's likely to be very
ha' at home.
Aids for Trnth.
u'th Is mighty and will prevail.'
qu  the good man.
" would infer," returned the other.
"th t you. think that truth always bas
t ae machine gune on its/ side."
1}sir 1 .;e .' ýý' _
A 4ni tony war'. whose .bord!wrl:
la thick with blackberries and golden
S rod ;
Abrupt. bares hills on one side looking
down.
And fromn the other you can see the
townii
Follow the river'a course through mead
ow* green.
O'er which thick woods and marble ledges
lean.
A little :'t I rt . where the road descends.
A brook's soft tinkle with some bird song
blends.
(Gone from its edge the dear old dame'::
small cot
,Half hidden by quaint flowers:) lush .ber
gtaiot
Makes weoot its banks. its depths the boys
still swim.
Or watcbh the minnows from some willow
limb.
Unon its bridge how often [ have stood
\Vatchine the west. whose glory seemed
to flood
With tenderest light the poorhouse and
the graves
Reside it turn to gold the bronklet's
Till from the hill. 1( dearest sight of all!
I saw my father and [ heard him call.
He came with sturdy stride and swinging
pail
My hand in his, I told my day's whole
tale
Of joys, that 'neath his bright smile
seemed to grow,
While lessened was my every childish
woe
As his sweet words fell on my soul like
balm.
While we walked homerward through the
fragrant calm.
Unrhanged the scene (time sometimes
spares old joys,)
I view it now beside two merry boys.
Who, as they play, mark not the tears
that fill
My eyes as I gaze upward toward the hill
That oft my father cleared with sturdy
stride,
(Feeble his gait long, long before lie died.)
Beside the margin of this little stream.
The vanished years to me one long day
seem,
Their joys grow brighter and their griefs
pain less
in this dear spot his mem'ry seems to
bless.
The scene is commonplace no doubt to
you;
To me it is the great earth's sweetest
-Mary M. McCarthy, in osYton Transcript.
ONE BOY'S PLUCK
MMEEts l~E~~EIE·RERI3·IE·BREWWMMW
I N the fal1 of 1879, when I. was su
perintendent of telegraph service
on the Southern Minnesota Rail
road. a line-repairer named Frank
lin sustained a severe injury by a fall,
and inriug the winter was unable to
attend to his dtl ites. In reporting his
conditioni. he recommended that Jona
than Hardrubble be employed in his
pllace on the Western D)ivision, as
HIardrubble knew the line thoroughly,
and was competent and truthworthy.
On this recommendation I immediate
ly sent Instructions to Hardrtlbble to
assume Frahklin's duties. and he dir
so. Save that his division was kept
in excellent condition. and his reports
were concisely worded and written in
a neat. round bhadl. 1 knew nothing
of him.
One morning in A-p:ril I received :i
tersely worded note from the general
sipeorintendent, telling min that he had
been inforlhed that the lineman on
the Flandresu Division was a sixteen
year-old boy. and suggesting that a
man he appointed in his place.
I was not only surprised to learn
that my model lineman was a- boy, but
regretted to discharge himn without
cause, as he had proved painstaking
and efficient. Furthermore, good men,
willing to bury themselves on the Da
kota prairies for forty dollars a month.
were not numerous, and undoubtedly
difficulty would he experienced in find
ing a man to accept the place. There
fore I toot a half dozen monthly re
ports that had been submitted by
Hardrubble. and stepped across the
hallway to the superintendent's office
to make a personal appeal for the boy.
The general superintendent was a
thorough railroad manager of long ex
perience, sometimes gruff but always
just, and I was riot without hope of in
ducing him to rescind his order. He
listened to my statement and then
shook his head.
There is too much hard work and
responsibility in that position for a six
teen-year-old boy!" he declared, em
phatically. "'He may do his work well
for A. time, but occasion will arise
when he will fail. and fail in suchi a
manner that it will mean heavy prop
erty. loss, if not loss of life. I must
insist that you replace that boy with
a man."
As the superintendent finished
speaking.and I was about to leave the
room, a messenger entered with a tele
gram. It was. long and evidently im
portant, as the superintendent read it
through 'twice. He folded it into a
small compass and slipped it into his
pocket and as I started to leave the
room said:
"I have changed my mind about that
boy, Gregory: you need not discharge
him. A d when opportunity to do
anything for him arises, just call my
attention to the matter."
It was two weeks before I knew the
meaning of that unexpected change of
orders.
Through the long. hard winter-still
famous as the "big winter"-the young
lineman had done his work as well as
a man could have done it. From No
vember 14. 1T79. until the second week
in Mlrelh followinu. no trains were run
on time between "Wells. Minnesota. one
hundr'ed and fifty miles w-est of tire
Mississippi. and Flanudreau, Dakota.
the western terminus of the road; and
in all those months not a dozen trains,
freight or passenger, passed over the
entire length of the road. The prairies
west of .Tackson were huried under
snow drifted to an unheard-of depth.
and in many places the tall telegraph
poles barely protruded above the crust.
But on every day of that long, cold
winter the wires west of Jackson were
"working" and twice between Decemn
her 1st and the day in March when the
big rotary snow-plow cut its way
through the disappearing drifts the
boy had tramped across the crusted
snow. front the point where the three
big engines working west ~vard were
"bucking" the drift, to the crew of
farniers and sectionmnen slowly shov
elling their way eastward.
With the last week in March the sun
had melted what little snow had been
left on the right of way by the shovel
lers. On the open prairies great bare
spots of grass alternated with wave
like drifts--shadows of their former
selves-and every tiny brook and swale
was turned into a raging torrent or a
lake by the melting snows. The warni
chinook, sweeping eastward from the
far mountains, tempered the atmos
phere: and when the young lineman
set out on his velocipede car to Inspect
svery foot of wire in hI' dlivilson, na
tlre seemed to give a mute pledge that
string was come.
Twenty miles east of the Dakota
line. in the southwestern part of Min
nesota. Rock Rivetr finds its way in a
southwestern direction to the Big
Sioux. Its course is down a valley
varying nII width from three hundred
to four hundred yards. For mihi3 the
prairie is unbroken on either sid,' of
the valley, when suddenly there is a
sharp descent of seventy-tive or one
hundred feet to another level. The op
posite bank Is equally abrupt. and the
valley lookp as If it had been formed
by a part of the orairie sinking and
leaving a perpendicular bank on each
side.
The engineers who surveyed the line
for the railroad found it hard to de
termine how this valley should be
crossed, the problem not being solved
until a narrow. gulch was found lend
ins from the east to the bottom of the
depression. From the month of this
gully the line makes a sharp turn
northward. running tip the valley a
short distance to a point where anoth
er ravine leads up to the prairie level
westward.
The men who constructed the tele
graph system avoided the dip into the
valley by running their line of poles
directly to the top of the descent, on
the very verge of the precipice. Here
a spile. one of the kind used in bridge
work. had been erecter. qind on the
opposite side of the valley another
stout. post had been placed. From
these two poles the wire was strung
across the valley, sagging in the mid
dile, and hanging but a few feet above
the tops of cars passing on the track
below.
When Hardrubble reached the polet
where the telegraph-line.led slightly to
northward from the railroad, he lifted
his light velocipede from the track
and walked across the prairie toward
the descent. As he approached the
spile supporting the eastern end of the
wire suspended over the valley, he saw
that an insulator bracket was loose,
pImrnitting the wire to sag. His climb
ers *cre strapped to his feet. '.nd be
quickly made ready to replace the loos
ented bit of wood.
With his task finished, the boy rest
ed his weight on his steel climbers and
gazed on the scene before him. The
top of the pole at an elevation of twen
ty feet gave him a view of the prairie
for a distance of a dozen miles in eith
or direction. ()ff to the west the 1i-.e
of rails, winding and twisting across
the prairie, led toward the three spires
and twoscore brown roofs of Pipe
stone, where a dark blot on the land
scape indicated that the east-bound
through passenger train was at thai
moment leaving the station. North
and south, as far as the eye could
reach, stretched the valley of the Rock.
and down its centre roared the river,
in summer a tiny stream that might
be forded anywhere, but now a tor
rent, f-ed by-melting snow.
The water was brown and white and
yellow. and here and there creat cakes
of ice had ammtoned. senduin the cur,
rents back against themnselves until
parts of tilt valley wetre transformned
into lakes. liI saw that at the rail
road bridge below him one of these
dams had formed, and that the ice was
piled high against the structure. And
then he saw what ca:used his heart to
beat faster and the blood to leave his
check. The western end of tie bridge
hadt been torn from its fastenings by
the pressure of ice and water, and the
rails from the west led out of the gul
ly and around a point of bluff, and end
ed over a gulf filled with a foaming
tide and masses of grinding ice-cakes.
This meant disaster to the coming
train and perhaps death to train crew
and passengers, unless warning of the
danger were (uickly given.
- For milesin i her direction no bridge
spanned the river, and to wade or
swim the stream was impossible, the
strong current and moving ice making
the attempt almost certain death.
WVhere the gorges had forlmeld. the ice
:was a grinding malss. lld ia g:lncee re
vealed the fact that these could not
be trulstel.
Young Hardrubble's glances wan
detred up and downlu the valley and thfen
:l'oss the prairie, to tlh w-~stwa:irld,
where the faint blur of smoke, of a few
litlutes before hadl incllcre:sd to a lollng,
Iblack cloud. In ten .linutens le t r;ili
would be swinging around thl sharp
curve of the gully into the vall.
Then his gaze returned Io tthe lver.
The only thing spanning the eroent
was the rusty telegraph wire, lean
at the top of the tall pole to the oppo
site bluff. Could that aid him? At
the middle of the valley, one hundred
yards distant. It was not more than
eighteen feet above the ground. If in
any way he could cross on that frail
span it would sink still lower under
his weight, and he might readily drop
to the soft turf on the western bank of
the river.
An instant later he drove his steel
spurs deeper into the pine pole, and as
he clung with one hand to his un
steady perch, he hastily unbuckled the
belt around his waist with the free
hand. Attached by rivets to this stout
strip of klcther was a steel snap from
which by means of a ring in the han
dle, was suspended his hatchet. He
cast the hatchet aside, removed the
belt, and clasped the steep snap around
the wire. Then, throwing his weight
on belt and snap, and withdrawing the
spurs from the pole, he began the dash
across river and valley.
As he released his hold on the tim
ber the steel loop slid smoothly down
the slanting wire. slowly at first and
then more rapidly, his body carried
forward by its own increasing momen
tum. The bank seemed to glide away
from him, and almost in an instant he
was above the racing river, the tossing
waves sprinkled bhin with spray as he
crossed. Then below him was the
brown sod of the western bank. the
wire sagging under his weleht until
his almost touched the earth.
Releasing his hold upon the belt b
fell headlong upon the water.soaked
ground. hit nuickly gained his foot
ing. scrambled up the embankment to
the track, and ran pauting up the
gorge to meet the train. His frantic
gestures soon brought engine and cars
to a stop.
"Why not T~hrdrlibhle?" suggested
the superintendent two years later.
when I notified him that it was my
l.ntention to resign. and that conse
suently a new superintendent of tele
graph must he appointed. The super
'ntendent ilid try hin, and after the
Southern Minnesota Railroad was ab
sorbed by the Chicago. Milwaukee &
St. Paul system, another promotion
awnifed the former lineman. To-day
9ie is superintendent of telegraph on
one of the leading railways of the
West.-Willlam A. Bowdish. In the
Youth's Companion.
STARTED NOME BEACH RUSH.
At Death's Door a Man Makes a Lucky
Strike.
"When the news of the Cape York
discovery reached Nome. that district
was in the throes of the beach excite
ment. The man who started this rush
is now a firm believer in the adage, it
is always darkest before dawn. His
life had been spent in a vain quest
for riches. He had mined in Colora
do, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Two
years before, when old age had come
upon him, he had started for the Klon
dike. Ill luck pursued him. On all
sides were men with claims from
which they were taking wealth, but
wherever his pick and shovel touched,
the ground. seethed to be worthless.
He drifted down the Yukon. Hearing
that the streams about Nome were
rich, he struck out for this Eldorado,
in the summer of 1899, only to find
that every promising claim along the
creeks had been taken, some of them
two or three times over. His money
was gone and so were his provisions.
Age and hardship had worn him down
so much that when the scurvy seized
him nothing seemed to be left for him
to do but to await helplessly the re
lief of death. His tent was pitched on
the seashore, and there he lay watch
ing the excited crowds arriving in
boatloads from Seattle. He spent the
long days idly washing the sand with
in reach of his pan. The occupation
in which he had used the many fruit
less years of his life was become the
solace of his dying hours. Suddenly
a strange gleam caught his eye. He
began to wash the sand excitedly now
and with microscopic care.
"A group of treasure-seekers on their
way to a creek noticed him bent over
the pan.
"'Lookin' fer gold, ain't yeh? they
cried, guyingly.
" 'Yes,' retorted the sick man. 'and
what's more I've found it.'
"In a day the m:td tide of gold-seek
ers was rushing to the beach. The
sick man's luck brought back his
health, and if he had not been tied
down by long customn to the restless
life of a mnler his wealth would have
secured for his closing days affluence
and conlfort."--Engene B. Palmer, in
Ainslee's.
Has Traveled 60,8.40 Miles.
A remarkable caise of physical endur
ance is shown in the record made by
Fireman Charles Bellamy, of the Burl
ington road, who has closed up his six
teenth, year with the railroad com
puny, eleven years of that service be
ing as a fireman on the fast mail be
tween Galesburg and Ottumwa, and
later between Burlington and Creston.
In all this time Fireman Bellamy has
never lost a tfrip or received a scratch
on the engine through accident. He
has made since tiring 06,t840 miles and
burned 32,501 tons of coal. Mr. Bell
amy's case is a tuarvel.--Iowa State
Register.
Her Life TVent Out WVith the Tide.
The old superstition tlhlat from folks
dying nealr tlie slt-isholie the life goes
out with Ihe tide was curiously fnl
tilled in lihe death of Queen Victoria.
Accordlillg to tile otticialI annoullcenlent
(thie Queen tlited lit (.i;( p. in. on Tues
Sdny. The Briitishli tide iable shows that
I it was higlh water in Spithcad, near
SCowes, about twe.nty minutes after
noon on Ilthat day. So it would be dead
Slow water at 6.30 o'clock in the even
t ing and at low water the dying Queen
Sof England "we-t ouy with the tide."
Whoaen a an Wlrat ]leeo em
Acts This Way.
When the average novel writ
wishes to describe a set of eaotlo
for which he has no appropriate na
he usually refers to them as belag
"mingled," and this, perhaps. bett
than anything else, reflects the conde~
tion of a man when he first becomes
father.
Coupled with the feeling of lnte
pride that comes to you as one of
"interested parties" in such a mome
tous event, is the kindred feeling 0
utter Insignificance you also have,1
which acts as an antidote.
After being ordered out of the room
by the doctor and the trained nurse,
you wander aimlessly down a side
street, although you cannot for the life
of you tell what there is to be ashamed
at--and as you approach your office
you grow more and more uneasy.
And yet, while there is guilt written
all over your face, there wells up In
your heart a veritable fountain of in- ,
tense egotism, which is immediately/
on -tap to the first moment of coni
deuce.
You assume a careless air, and carry
your indifference to the point of inten.
sity. And then in response to inquir
les-for your face itself is a story
bearer-you announce, as if it hap
pened daily, like the weather report
and the time table, that it is a boy
or a girl, as the case may be. Thus
you run the gauntlet. and finding that
the world still moves and breathes
and everybody is inclined to settle
down, you watch your chance, and
get the first unmarried man you can
find to listen to you. You pbur into
his sympathetic ear the whole story. .?e
You tell him how much the baby
weighs, who it looks like, how you.,
felt, and how you feel. You describe
your aspirations for that child, talk
about love and duty and education
and training, order a small bottle, sup
plement it with another, get more:
confidential, and finally leave him
with a sense of your intense impor
tance which only another interview
with the doctor and the trained nurse
-and the baby--can wipe out.
$ut all things have an end. At the
end of a month, while you are at your
desk at profit and loss. some one;
comes in, slaps you on the back, and!
shouts: "Well. old man, how's the
baby?" And you reply, absent-mind
edly: "Oh, he's all rlght!"-Life.
Horsless Fsren Machinery.
An enormous future seems to be in
store for horseless farm machinery,
and when farmers realize that their
machinery can be propelled as effici
ently as by horses, at less expense, by
hydro-carbon motors, a vast- field will
be opened for manufacturers. Already,
experiments are being made in this d-'
rection. One of the most suggestive'
illustrations of automobile propulsion
at the Paris Exposition was a mowing)
machine worked by a double cylinder.f
ten-horse-power gasoline engine. The
oil tank was divided into three com
partments, one for oil, one for bat-i
teries, and one for water. Power was
transmitted from the motor by sprock-l
et wheels and chain to a friction
clutch, placed on the cross-shaft of the
mower. The clutch was so arranged,
as to engage either one beveled gear)
wheel or another placed on each side.
The machine could thus be run back
ward and forward at will. The bev
eled gear wheels engaged a pinion.
which served to operate the flywheelt
shaft and cutter bar. They also trans
mitted power to the mower wheels
through two gear wheels. The fric
tion clutch was controlled by a lever
placed at the foot of the operator, and,
the machine was steered by a crank
connected with the guide wheel In)
front of the cutter bar. The driverl
could cut in any part of the field with
out dismounting, as the cutter bar
could be lifted by him from his seat;
by means of a lever. These machines
arealready being made at such a com
paratively low figure and their main
tenance is so cheap that within a ver '
short time they will be found. on ai
great number of Iprre farms in lieu of;
horses.
Church onl the Roof.
It is claimed that the structure be
ing erected by the congregation of the
Central Christian Church of Columbus.,
Ind., will have the novel distinctioni
of being the only church in Christian
dom that will have a roof-garden for
summer services, especially for Sunday,
evenings, and for week-day socials and
entertainmenuts. Th'rle seating capacl
ty of this novel auditorium will be as
large as the flrst floor of the church,
which will he used for wil~ter services
only. A slate roof will be erected ov
er the open auditorium for protection.
in case of sudden rainstorms, but the
sides will ,e entirely 6pen, except thati
screen wiring will be placed entirely
around it for protection from inscets.
It is proposed tihat potted plants of
various kinds be placed in convenient
places in the open auditorium.--In.
dianapolis Press.
Cuba's Big Hailstones.
The correspondent of the Havana
weather bureau at Cruces, thirty miles
this side of Cienfuegos, states that
during the lIailstorm there recentlyy
hailstones weighing 1two pounds fell.
Several houses were blown dtown by.
the hurricane and considerable---,rsa
age was done te the crops,-^" ~fhe
(Cuba) k'ost. Oly ad at a
".Tohn. !¶he p'-:rll diver," k0-00L /
lished a: mussel farm in Bouul s re one
ty for the culture, of Pt IsCer.
stocked a stream with a h
of mussel, and has itelc 'h
to Lfxington peopl Ou J
from $20 to $40
Democrat. j