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DILL AHP'S LETTER
i William Agists GrandchiUrrn la
Eclvii; Problems.
TOO IMED ON IKE LITTLE ONES
Cartow Philosopher Discusses Modern
Methods of Teaching and Re-
t cords Hie Disapproval
Thereof.
If twothlrd3 of a, houso costs four
fifths of the lot arid both together cost
14,400, how much was paid for each?
Well, that Bum Is easy If you know
how to do it. Our little school girl has
nio to help her every night and some cf
these tangled up sums strain my old
fashioned mind, for the rult of threo
is abolished and new methods adopted.
I remember a sum in the old Smiley
arithmetic If six men can cut four
acres of wheat in three days by work
ing six hours a day, how many men
will It take to cut nine acres In four
lays and work eight hours a day?
These perplexing problems remind me
cf Judge Pob Strozler's charge- to the
jury In a horse case, where the plain
tiff sued for damages because the horse
he 'bought was a stump-sucker and
wouldn't work on the off side. Four
teen witnesses had testified, some for
and some against the horse, some for
glanders but not for stump-sucking,
6ome for stump-sucking but not for
glanders, and some swore he was
eound and some unsound. Gentle
men," eaid he, "if you believe that the
horse had the glandors but didn't
ctump suck, or that he sucked stumps
but didn't have the glanders, or that
glanders Is an unsoundness but stump
tucking is only a habit, or if the horse
wouldn't pull when worked on the off
side and couldn't be cured of It,
though tii. Vourt knows from experi
ence that L Xmld be cured of it; or If
you believe from the evidence that
the horse was not warranted sound as
against stump-sucking and off-siding,
I but only against such material things
, as glanders and swlney and the like,
then you must find for the plaintiff or
the defendant according to the weight
of the testimony."
My candid opinion is that some of
these miscellaneous problems are too
perplexing for children not yet in their
teens, and if parents or grandparents
or uncles or aunts or somebody don't
- -.gve help the child would give up in de
spair. I have often wondered how
those pupils got along who had no
--help. My father helped me all my
school life and my wife and I have
helped our children. It is Impossible
for a school teacher to give patient at
tention to each child where there are
thirty or forty pupils In the grades.
v , Only five hours to teaca In and four
or five different text-books for each
pupil and book, while it tanes me half
t- 'and hour every night for one pupil In
one book. Hence it is that only a few
pupils get a fair education la a grad
ed school only those who are bright
and willing and have help at home.
;f Parents that can't help or won't help
lose their home influence over their
children. Every phase of their educa
tion is turned over to the public school,
which Is a free machine and teaches
books only, morals, mocesty and obe
dience are not in the curriculum.
Many little children are sent there to
- ecu mem uui ui tiien uiuuiers way, ior
she has work to do or shopping or vis-
iting, or must go to the club. Never
theless, a few make good scholars and
good citizens, and for their sake the
system must go on. It is no better in
the colleges, for the most charitable
estimate is that not more than ten lu
a hundred ever make a creditable suc-
.Nces8 in life. The ninety had just as
well not been born, but the ten will
Save Sodom, and It will be found that
these ten got their best education at
home. Good morals, good DrlnciDles.
obedience, self-denial, industry, kind
ness and good manners are a better
foundation to build on than books. To
make the home happy and Inviting Is
the secret of all success. The family
is a more Important institution than
the school, and love is the keystone of
the family. I scolded a little grandson
the other day and he got mad and went
off and told his little cousin that grand
' pa was mean and he was going to tell
his mamma on him. Next morning he
came to see us again and came to me
and kissed me and it made us both
happy. A little granddaughter was
troubled because her baby brother was
rl--Jck and the doctor was sent for. She
lourned over It tearfully and then
frightened up and said: "Well, If baby
dies I am going to keep him for a doll."
The Innocent prattle and sports of
these children is my greatest comfort,
md it almost grieves me that they
have to grow up and encounter trouble
grief and misfortune. George
lt Jincis Train may be a crank, but I
Oad rather be him In that park with a
score or two of happy children around
,me every day than to he I'ierpont Mor
gan or Rockefeller. It Is pathetic to
l"'k nf thai iiMii wno In tiuw punt it 1.1
M'Vi my years, who lias traveled all
over the world; lived In Australia, lec
tured In Kr.gland. Ireland and the Uni
ted S!at s Id laboring tr.en; written
and had published many bookx of trav
el and biography, ami at last discarded
all contact with m n and society and
Fettled down to daily communion with
little children in the public parks In
New York city. Accompanied by a
friend I got quite near to him once,
for I wanted to hear his conversation
with the children, but ho turned and
f-aw us, and, taking up his little ban
ket of dainties, walk d away to an
other siat and soon had another crowd
around him, and the only reason he
gives for his peculiar conduct Is, "For
of such is the kingdom of heaven."
I am aaln comforted with new
books-. Geoire Smith has sent me his
lotff-t edition of his delightful and In
structive bi-ok. "The Story of Georgia."
P. is a contribution to the history of
our state that every Georgian should
have in he house. It Is replete with
the -.oniances cf our revolutionary his
tory aro tnc biography or our noted
men and comes down to the period of
the civil war, where Colonel Avery
and Semmes and Kell took It up.
There has just been published another
Interesting and Instructive book by
General S. G. French. The title la
"Two Wars," an autobiography being
the part he and his command played
in the Mexican and the confederate
wars. The author was a prominent
factor In both, and he Is a vigorous,
pleasing and graphic writer. The book
is happily Introduced by Bishop Elli
son Capers, of South Carolina. It is
published by The Confederate Veter
an at Nashville, Tenn. It is dedicated
' to the confederate soldiers who bat
tled to maintain the causo for which
Oliver Cromwell and George Washing
ton fought." it Is Indeed gratifying
to see our own people multiplying our
own histories and thereby fortifying
this generation against the malignant
and slanderous productions of such
authors as the great Goldwin Smith
and the small Maclay. It takes a lot
of work to keep up with them fellows.
I think we are about even with the
Roosevelt Incident and the miscege
nation crowd. Maybe we are a little
ahead. We have all had our say and
can afford to wait. I still think that
Roosevelt Is a better man than I think
he Is, but he Is In awful bad company.
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
We are ready to enter your name or.
our subscription books. You will not
miss the 6mall sum necessary to he
coma our customer.
VIRGINIA'S NATURAL TUNNEL.
Caid to be as Interesting a Curiosity as
the Natural Bridge.
Said to Be as Interesting a Curiosity
as the Natural Bridge.
While the tourist comes from afar to
view the Natural Bridge, and carries
away forever photographed on his
memory the stupendous spectacle, yet
the natural tunnel of Scott County is
conceded by most people who have
seen them both to surpass the bridge
in grandeur and sublimity of scenery.
1 he tunnel is situated fourteen miles
west of Gate City. Stone Creek, a
considerable stream, flows through it.
and at high tide rushes along its cav
ernous bed with, a noise resembling
the heaviest thunder. The tunnel is
about one-eighth of 'a mile in length,
and curves in the form of a letter S.
A.t its southern entrance it is very high,
the noble ceiling bending gracefully,
forming a circular dome, as smooth
and regular as if hollowed out by the
hand of art. From this point it grad
ually ("im'.nishes in size, the roof com
ing down till, at the northern entrance
it reaches to within thirty feet of the
surface of the water. The northern
('.eclivity above ihe tunnel is irregular
and presents little attraction except its
bold and rugged height, but the south
ern side fully compensates for all de
ficiencies. Here a perpendicular wail,
almost as smooth as polished marble
and as white as alabaster, rises 400
feet high and curves in such a manner
that to one looking up from below the
regular rim presents a complete semi
circle. In the spring time the summit
of the wall is fringed with green inter
twined with honeysuckles. On the east
ern side Chimney Rock, an irregular
but perpendicular column, rises from
the bottom of the chasm to the level
of the plateau above, standing clear of
the wall from base to summit. The
ridge through which the tunnel extends
is covered with a heavy growth of
timber, and a public highway, leading
from Clinchport to Rye Cove, passes
along its crest.
The Virginian and Southwestern
Railroad has been constructed through
the tunnel, and presents, perhaps, the
only instance of a railroad running
through a natural tunnel. Owing to
the curvature the railroad company
had to tunnel through the angular pro
jection near the northern entrance,
thus making a double tunnel. Scott
County Leader.
If you have something to sell, let
the people know it. An advertisement
in this paper will do the work.
DR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY TH" NOTED
DIVIN.
Subject 1 Tim KweM 1 nfliirnce Wi Art
Aflt-t'tAtl For Ji,l or i:tl lly I oicr.
That H' hl,l,jin Itrritvlie Import
ance of (.odil A l loin.
tf'ojyr'Kli'. 11,1
Washington-, ). C.-Iu this discourse
Dr. Ta Image demount! aW that we are
affected by forces tlmt we seldom recog
nize mid enlarges upon human accounta
bility. The text in Job xr.iu, 31 ,
"Cnrint t i u biud the sweet iniitlen :c of
Pleiades?"
Whut i the moaning of that quention
which God pat to Job? Have we all our
lives been rending it, and are moot of us
kno'-ant of it beauty and power mid
practical sueitivencos? A mean ingles
tttssagp of Scripture many thought it to
be, but the telescoped were buy age after
;, and astronomical obnr rvations kept
on questioning the skies until the mean
ing of my text comes out lustrously. The
Pleiades la n constellation of Be veil star
apneanng to the naked eye, but scien
tific instruments reveal more than 4K)
pronerly belonging to the group. Alcyone
is the name of the brightest s!ar of "that
group called the Pleiades. A Russian as
tronomer observed that Alcyone is the
centre of gravitation of our solar system.
Hugh Macmillan Hays that the sun and its
planets wheel around that centre at the
rate of 422.000 miles a day in an oroit
which it will take J'J,0!W,0iHj" years to com
plete. The Pleiades appear in the spring
time and are associated with (lowers and
genial warmth and pood weather. The
narration of the Mediterranean was
from May to November, the rising and
the setting of the Pleiades. The priests
of liclus noticed that rising and setting
2000 years .before Christ.
Now, the glorious meaning; of my text
is plain as well as radiant. To give Job
the beautiful grace of humility Cod asked
him, "Canst thou bind the sweet influ
ences of the Pleiades''"' Have you any
Dower over the laws of cravitation? Can
you modify or change an influence wielded
by a star more thin 4)0.000 miles nwayr
Can vou control the winds of the spring
time? Can you call out the flowers? How
little yon know compared with omnis
cience? How little you can do compared
with omnipotence!
The probability is that Job had been
tempted to nrrogr.nce by his vast attain
ments. He was a metallurgist, a zoolog
ist, a poet, and shows by his writings he
had knowledge of hunting, of music, of
husbandry, of medicine, of mining, of
astronomy and perhaps was so far ahead
of the scholars and scientists of his time
that he may have been somewhat pulled
up; hence this interrogation of my text.
And there is nothing that so soon takes
down human pride as an interrogation
point rightly thrust. Christ used it
mightily. Paul mounted the parapet of
his great arguments with such a battery.
Men of the world understand it. Demos
thenes began his speech to the crown and
Cicero his oration- against Catiline and
Lord Chatham his most famous orations
with a question. The empire of ignor
ance is so much vaster than the empire
of knowledge that after the most learned
and elaborate disquisition upon any sub
ject of sociology or theology the plainest
man may ask a ouestion that will make
the wisest speechless. After the pro
foufidest assault upon Christianity the
humblest disciple may make an inquiry
that would faience a Voltaire.
Called upon, as we all are at times, to
defend our holy religion, instead of argu
ment that ran always Vie answered Vy
argument let us try liie power of interro
gation. We ought to be loaded with at
least half a dozen questions and always
ready, and when Christianity is assailed,
and we are told there is nothing in it and
there is no Cod and there never was a
miracle and that the Scriptures are un
reasonable and cruel and that there nev
er will be a judgment day, take out of
your portable armory of interrogation
something like this: What makes the
condition of woman in Christian lands
better than in heathen lands? Do you
think it would be kind in God to turn
the human ra-ce into a world without any
written revelation to explain and en
courage and elevate and save? And if a
revelation was made, which do you pre
fer the Zenda-Vesta of the Persian or
the Confucian writings of the Chinese
or the Koran of Mohammed or our Bible?
If Christ is not a divine being, what
did He mean when ITe said. "Before
Abram was, I am?" If the Bible is ft
bad book, what are the evil results of
reading it? Did you see any degrading
influence of the book in your father or
mother or sister who used to read it?
Do you not think that a judgment day
is necessary in order to explain and fix
UP things that were never explained or
fixed up? If our religion is illogical and
an imposition upon human credulity, why
were Herschel and Washington and Glad
stone and William McKinley its advo
cates? How did it happen that our religion
furnished the theme for the greatest
poem ever written, "Paradise Lost," and
to the painters their greatest themes in
the "Adoration of the Maji," "The
Transfiguration," "The Last Supper,"
"The Crucifixion," "The Entombment,"
"The Last Judgment," and that , all the
tchools of painting put forth their utmost
genius in presenting "The Madonna?"
Why was it that William Shakespeare
after amazing the world as he will amaze
the centuries with the splendor and pow
er of "The Merchant of Venice," and
"Coriolanus," and "Richard III.," and
"King Lear " and "Othello," and "Mac
beth," and Hamlet" wrote with his own
hand his last will and testament, begin
ning it with the words: "In the name
of God, amen! I, William Shakespeare,
of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County of
Warwick, in perfect health and memory
(God be praised!) do make and ordain
this my last will and testament, through
the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Sav
iour, to be made partaker of liie ever
lasting and my body to the earth whereof
it is made?" Had Shakespearei lost his
reason when he wrote his faith in Christ
and the great atonement? Put your an
tagonist a few questions like that, and
you will find him excusing himself for an
engagement he must meet immediately.
These words also recognize far-reaching
influences. Job probably had no adequate
idea of the distance of the worlds men
tioned from our world, but he knew them
to be far off, and we, who have had
the advantage of modern sidereal inves
tigation, ought to be still more impressed
than was Job with the question of the
text, as it puts before us the fact that
worlds hundreds of thousands of miles
distant have a grip on our world. There
are swept influences which hold U3 from
afar. There may have been in our an
cestral line perhaps 200 years ago some
consecrated man or woman who has held
over all the generations since an influ
ence for good which we have no power to
realize, and we ii turn by our virtue or
vice may influence those who biiall live
?'") ye im ?rom now. . i ((mvriimot,
is ns pownful m nuitpiml gr.twiation, and
if, as my text ti-u lns n I e, i''nc con-'
linns, the Pleiades, vlmh me indlioni
of mill I' from our earth, influence the
arth we oiu'ht to be impretiM d with
how may , influenced by olh' rs jar
away back and how we may influence
other lar down the future. That nil
away up nmniiii the Alleglmnies, no thin
you think it will hardly tmd ita way down
the rocks, become the mighty Ohio, roll
ing into the MiKsntrfippi and rolling into
tli e. That word you utier, that deed
yml do, may auument itself a the Venn
go by until rivers cense to roll and tha
ocean itself imiiil ba dried up in the burn
ing of the world. Puul, who wa all tli
time (ayin important things, said noth
ing more Martlmgly suggestive than when
he declared. "None of in liveth or dietli
to himself." Words, thosajdits, actions,
hare an eternity of flight.
As Job could not bind the sweet in
fluences of the Seven Stars, as they were
called, an we cannot arreat or turn aaide
the good projected loutf ag,o. Thoso in
fluences Mere marled centuries before our
cradle was rocked and will rei?n cen
turies after our graves are dinr. Ob, it in
a tremendous thing to live! Cod help ua
to be aright.
Astronomers ran easily locate the Ple
iades. They will take you into their oh
servatoriis on a clear night and aim their
revealing instrument toward the part in
the heavens where those seven stars have
tliejr habitude, and thev will point to the
constellation Taurus, anti yuu tnn mi'.
for yourself. But it is impossible to fjoint
to influences far back that have affected
our character and will affect our ('e.stiny.
We know the influences near by pa
ternal, maternal, conjugal but by the
time we have gone buck two generations,
or. at most, three, our investigations
falter and fail. Through the modern,
interesting habit of searching back to
find tne ancestral tree we may find a
long list of names, but they are only
names. The const eration or abandon
ment of some one 200 years ago was not
recorded. It would not be so important
if you and I. by our pood or bad be
havior, blessed or blasled only tho.--i im
mediately around us, but our goodness
or our badness will reach as fur r.s the
strongest ray of Alcyone yea, across the
eternity. C'ndrr this "consideration,
what rlo you think of those who give
themselves up to- frivolity or idleness
and throw away fifty years of their exist,
enee as though they wer? shells or peb
bles or pods instead of embyro eternities?
I suppose one of the greatest surprises
of the next world will be to see what
wide, far-reaching influence for cood or
evil we have all everted. I am sneaking
of ourselves, who are only ordinary peo
ple. But who can fully appreciate tlr
far-reaching good done by men of wealth
in Great Britain for the working classes
Mr. Lister, of Bradford; Edward
Akrovd, of Halifax: Thomas Sikcs, of
lluddersneld; Joseph Wentworth. and
Josiah Mason, and Sir Titus Salt? This
last great soul, with his vast wealth, pro
vided 756 houses at cheap rent for 3iH)0
Marking people, and chapel and cricket
ground and croquet lawn and concert
hall and savings bank, where they
might deposit some of their earnings,
and life insurance for those who looked
further ahead, and bathhouses and parks
and museums and lecture halls with
philosophical apparatus, the generous
example of those men of a previous gen
eration being copied in many places in
Canada and the United States, making
lite, which would otherwise be a pro
longed drudgery, an inspiration and a
joy.
If something appears against us, they
say. "Wait till I hear the other side.
If disaster shall befall us, we know from
wnom woujd come the first condolence.
Family friends, church friends, business
friends, lifelong friends. In our heart
oi hearts we cherish them.
When the heirs of a vast estate in
England wished to establish their claim
to property worth $100,000,000 they offered
a reward of SoUO ior the recovery ot an
old Bible, the family record of which
contained the evidence requisite. But
any Bible, new or old, can help us to &
vaster inheritance than the one spoken
o:, one that never lades away.
The sweet influences of the heavenly
world, which many wise men thought
for a long while was Alcyone, the centre
of the constellation of the Pleiades
world of our future residence, as we hope:
World of chorus and illumination: world
of reunion; world where we shall be
everlastingly complete; world where our
old faculties will be itensified and quick
ened and new faculties implanted; world
of high association with Christ, through
whose grace we got there at all, and
apostles and poets, Habakkuk, and St.
John of Patmoe, and Edward Young, his
"Night Thoughts" turned into eternal
day: and lioratius Bonar of modern
hymnology, and Hannah More, and Mrs.
Itemans, ana Mrs. bigourney, who strucK
their harps till nations listened; and
David, the victor over Goliath with what
seemed insufficient weapons; and Joshua
of the prolonged day in Gibeon, and
Havelock, the evangelist hero, and those
thousands of men of the sword who
fought on the right side. What company
to move in! What guests to entertain!
What personages to visit! What choirs
to chant! What banquets with lifted
chalice filled with "the new wine of the
kingdom!" What victories to celebrate!
The stories of that world and its holy
hilarities come in upon our souls some
times in song, sometimes in sermon,
sometimes in hours of solitary reflection,
and they are, to use the words of my
text, sweet influences. But there is one
gtar that affects us more with its sweet
influences than the centre star, the
Alcyone of the Pleiades, and that is what
one Bible author calls the Star of Jacob
and another Bible author calls the Morn
ing Star. Of all the sweet influences tha
have ever touched our earth those that
radiate from Christ are the sweetest.
Born an Asiatic villager, in a mechanic's
home, living more among hammers and
eaws and planes than among books, yet
at twelve years of age confounding robed
ecclesiastics and starting out a mission
under which those born without optic
nerve tool; in the clear daylight and
those afflicted with unresponsive tympa
num were made to hear and those almost
doubled up with deformities were
straightened into graceful poise and the
leprous became rubicund and the widow's
only son exchanged the bier on which
!he lay lifeless for the arms of his over
joyed mother and pronouncing nine bene
dictions on the Mount of Beatitudes and
doing deeds and speaking words which
are tilling the centuries with sweet in
fluences. Christ started every ambulance,
kindled every electric ray, spread everv
soft hospital pillow and introduced all
the alleviations and pacifications and
rescues aud mercies of all time.
He was the loveliest being that ever
trod our earth more beauty in Ills eyes,
more tenderness in His manner, mora
gentleness in His foot.-iteps, more nusic
in His voice, more dignity in His brow.
more Kracefulaeas in the locks that rolled
upon His ifiou!der, i tore ci:;,-. i n
His aou).
Sweet influence of th, !!( 'v Ci. ..!,
with nil Hi ti aii'-i '1111111!.; ai 1 ' : ' i., ;
n nd eii!!i( iji.it ii; p.)t r. W Ih ,i tli.iS,
power m luiiy fe.t th'ic will " iio Hue
cms to pai dull, and no luiu.' ciroi ti
eorrei t, nnd no nine surtou ti nun
fort, and l more bmi l.icc t break. But
,4 the old dine ship (,iifi,ri wuti bed
the riHiii( f 1 1 1 a Pleiades fr safs navi
gation h ml set s.ul m M.-ditcii 'am a'x
waters, but were sure to get back int
port before the constellatm i Orion oi 10
into sight the neasoii of cyclone am!
hurricane -so theie u a til in to sail for
heaven, ami that 1 while thfl sweet l l
lluences are upon u and before tho
storms overtake aud delay. () e l all your
soul to the light ami warmth uuJ co'n
fort and inspiration of that g-os;el
which has already peopled heaven with
Tmlliona of the rtinoneJ and is helping
other millions to that glorious destina
tion. Do not postpone tha things of Cnl
and eternity until the storm nf hie
swoop and the saltation of a great futurw
are upon ur. Do nos. oure wait until
Orion takes the place of tho Pleiades.
Weigh anchor now nnd with chart un
rolled and pilot on board head for the
reunions and raptures that await all the
souls forgiven. "And they need no
candle, neither light nor the sun, for
the Lord God giveth them light, aui
they shall reign forever and ever.
NEWSY CLEANINGS.
Southern. California has 2500 acres
In beets.
Yale's class of 77, Scientific School,
Las Riven the university I?ii000 to found
a (scholarship.
The building record of the present
year In Chicago Is fsald to bo without
parallel fIiico isfrj.
Harry Trego, of Pineville, Tenn.,
has shot n buhl cnglo measuring tdght
feet from tip to tip. .
Puropean investigators declare that
any living creature will lose llcsh on
a continued diet of horse meat.
Alaska Is the region in which liie
greatest extension of telegraphic fa
e.lities has taken place this year.
In some school districts of Kansas
enough wheat was raised this year to
feed the inhabitants for fifty years.
Berlin's Corporation of Merchants
has agreed to Hie Government's plan
of organizing a Chamber of Commerce.
A marble monument to the 110,000
Tennesseans in tho Civil War has been
unveiled at the National Cemetery, at
Knoxville, Tenn.
It Is estimated that the projected
railway from southern to -western
Australia will cost .$22,000,000, and
take five years to build.
The Orling system of wireless tele
graphy has been officially tested at
London, the results being satisfactory
except In torpedo steering and tele
phoning. A monument to the memory of John
Ericsson, the inventor of the first ar
mored warship, the monitor, and of
the screw propeller, has been unveiled
In Stockholm, Sweden.
A fresh irade has been issued by the
Sultan renewing the former decree by
which .Tews traveling to Palestine are
forbidden to remain more than two
months in that country.
The Treasury Bureau of Statistics,
at Washington, has compiled data
showing that the States carved out of
the Louisiana Purchase repay its cost
j-early with one per cent, of their agri
cultural productions.
LABOR WORLD.
The building trades are generally
well employed.
It Is estimated that one workman iii
230 owns his own home.
The seamen were never better or
ganized than they are to-day.
The laws designed for the protection
of factory labor are operating benefi
cially. German iron and steel workers are
experiencing an unusual season of
Idleness.
Thousands of women and children
work at the tailoring trades in New
York City.
There are not enough electrical engi
neers to supply the demand for that
class of labor.
The number of co-operative indus
trial establishments in the United
States have increased during the past
year.
The evils of child factory labor have
been gradually lessened, so that there
Is a decrease in the mortality rates of
youthful mill employes.
Striking workmen at the Adam
Schaaf Piano Company, at Chicago,
have been enjoined from interfering
with its non-union men.
As a result of American competition
workmen in British tobacco factories
have been told that bonuses they have
enjoyed heretofore will be withdrawn.
It Is said that several manufacturers
are about io back financially a move
ment having for its object the refor
mation of the apprentice system ia
the United States.
More strikes have occurred In Spain
this year than for many years past.
Quite a few of them have been attend
ed with disorder, necessitating the cabl
ing out of troops.
The street railway companies of
Salt Lake City, Utah, have set a new
standard for employes in requiring
that they shall not have defective eye
sight. To this end an order has been
Issued that after the first of the year
men Avearing glasses will no longer be
retained in the service.
CAUSE FOR DOUBT.
Harry So you don't believe a worJ
of it? Why not?
Dick He declared that it was the
honest truth. That's why, when a man
tells me he is telling the truth, I don't
object to believing him; but when he
says it is the. honest truth then I sus
pect he is lying. Baffin Transcript.