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THE FARMVILLE HERALD.
V0l.. -X. FARMTILLR VA.. FRIDAY. JULY 20. 1900. NO. 43.
OUR GREAT EVENT FARMVILLE FAIR OCTOBER 10 12 INCLUSIVE
C)TY DIRECTORY.
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ATTORNEY- AT-LAW,
PAMPLl.N CITY, VA.
. i Iward
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WATKINS*. WATKINS,
?ATTORN E.SAT LAW,
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-aES MANN J M CRUTE,
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MANN & CRUTE,
Atti ' Law.
U P. VANDERSLICE,
ATTORNEY AT I AW.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Green Bay, Priace Edward County, Va.
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( ' H. BLISS,
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GENERAL Al < riONEER,
kmi.mvii.i.i:. VA,
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PLANTERS' BANK,'
FAKMViLLE, VA.
Pi-aeldent
?*? u. V'ei able. - - Craahler
Capital aod Surplus, $75,000.
DIRECTOR*-):
H. K. BARROW, K. M. HI IR
H- A. BTOKS8, i If. WAI,KKK,
I. M. i Ki li:, i DAVIS,
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md Col*
\\'HITE 4 CO.,
DRUGS,
Medicines and
-Druggists" Sundries,
. oro pounded.
PARMV H.! K, VA.
Vi lillee nf Hie
inti ut Prince
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Plaintiff.
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the traci ol
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pulillea
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pouted
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u W. II. I il VCK.HT.IN, ( ierk.
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BUCKINGHAM LITHIA SPRINGS
?- on liberal tunis.
Addi
MRS. L. J. MORRIS,
SHEPPARD**, \ A.
Diivall, Robertson & Co.
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CuiiiinisMioii M.tcli.-itii-s n\u\
DF.ALKRH I X
Ila rd a a r,, Cutth ry.
Agricultural I mph meats, ,l<.
Buggies, Surreys, Hoad Cartu
and limul Wagons,
A_??!!!> for
.Li! WAGOI
AND THE CELEBRATED
BABCOCK BUGGIES,
hung on Happy Thotqht Kpkinus
the easies! rldei known.
d'liii mill.i** of established reputation,
TIIE' U WORLD,
THRICE-A-WEEK EDI
ts Hood ta lou as a haily ami
lim get it at tin I',,,,
ap a ll ,i 1,1 u.
Ii riirnlabea more ni Hie price than any
other !.. ibllahed in America, li*
mu* Rervlce cover* nil tin- if loire .-uni i*
: bj ; lu.i ..t i. *.\ iii.;],.-*, i i
Iruni lin Hoer war bave nut I .. ti ? \.
thorough ne*, and pro pti;'**. and with
the pre> n now in
ii will I-.- m\ altiahle. ll* pol ll
ahaoluu i> Impartial. Thia fad make. Ito!
'Ins 1 line.
If you want to watch everj move nf ile
pal ii l-ik. I In I Iii..-.- ii
A'orld. If you want to keep your eye.
m. iin ! ;In i need watdildi
the lin-;.. ;i \v. k vi url.l. If you want lo
know all ton ta, I ike the
a-We v. Vt ..r.,i
iiL'iilnr null*
aerlptlon price lu only I ir. W e
li it-., quail .lH. ? '..1 Hie
ll ii. iLu luxe ther o
nuhxcrlptlon |in e nf tbs tiwi*!
papen
Does Your
House Need
Painting?
Anderson Drug Co.
have a complete stuck d'
PAINTS,
tin* In*-*! iii tim country.
Lewis1 Whit.- Lead an<1 oil
.?it !??w?'*-i prices.
All kinds ni Lumber
Always un band.
Always fur building purposes.
Always Hildy worked.
Alway** ready tu he wm kui.
.Always tu meet your wants.
Always al market prices.
Always glad tn see ymi.
Always glad t<> quote ymi.
Always cuinc -mil try uh.
Always yours truly,
FartHYille Mfg. Co,,
PARMVILLE, V V
Farmville Commercial
Company,
INCORPORATED)
FARMVILLE, VA.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Retail) ra and Job
IM \ (roods, Boots,
Sinus, Hardware
.-uni All Kinds <>l
Staple Groceries.
?efore i.u\ Inf.
Farmville Commercial Co.,
i Ippnsltc N. A- W. Depot,
Farmville, Va.
HAVE YOI ll PRINTING
DONE AT THE HERALD
JOH OFFICE, KARMV ll-LKi
HE WAS A COACHMAN YET.
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Your euuehtng partner
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aald th* man, "bul -?
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By M irgu rito Sta ler. |^r
V?^??%fr*h^if*iil4^ii*:^'iF^o*-^i'^i^i^i^
I- do! ii pre! ty i lorj ; it wai more.
lt was fraught with tha! primi?
tive I U '.'i -lines*. 0ne Lits nu I
sion ol ali.ni* wiih cutting prairie
winds, bucking broncos, the era i I
u revolver, the whiz of a bullet.
llit* fellow's name wai Thoi
iunl he could handle a bunch ol
willi the liest nf 'lulu, bul there was
'? of Ilietl ujiiililiii ism about Ililli
tha! assorted ill with Ins sm rmi!.
.\iiil although lie drank harder,swore
? rougher 1 hana d
of tin m. In- iiiul never been able to live
down liit* nickname of "Kasl
paon. I mic- the Influi nci i
lng prairies, the boundless swi.-. of
cloud iiml sky, nu Intimacy with the
vis. .'md reliance upon nothing
Imt hi* nw ii wit iunl courage, s man
grows to i ?
creature, s.. differenl from our cir
cribed ideas of h man that, fur
wnn! of ii better term, we call him a
*V.i\\ -plllieli.-r."
The Three X outfit of cow-punchers
had lu en on the trail more than n
h, and, according lo all presedenl
nml reason, the ruin-- slim.ld hi
In weeks before, bul they had not. The
thal bad spru ng up wil h 11
early showers had seared snd died be?
fore the nevi liiin came to keep it
I he shallow, sluggish little
ns of brackish water tba! crawled
along the bottom of their beds, which
the year bi fore had Leen awol
yond their banka, tin.-ilh gave out ut?
terly. In every direction the white
alkali |iliiins L'listei!i-il away to the
meeting line of lin* sky in an Infinitude
of Isolation. The oldest Inhabitant in
nil tbe coantrj round could nol recall
a winter that equaled this In dry*
Bowbei! Nevada was then ;i nea
and the population migratory, vVII
sun, the boss of 'lu- outfit, had hoped
to get oul of the sagebrush country
?trike the Callfornls line
where above lindie by the end of the
tii-.st month OUt, bul there was no ruin,
im wilier, iind the plains la* in open
cracks. Day after daj the sun arose,
smiled down upon the parched little
linnell of men and cattle 14 long hours
tailed scroas a clotidlesa si
i*. ii. U unconscious of Ihe maledictions
hurled against him, while Un* bare,
burning prairie stared back In un- '
blinking defiance. There were gor
, , r\ evening moments
when thegreal Bery baU seemed almost
to st,*u il -till to -.'ive :i long bsckward
glance before dropping out of sight,
inn) wiih ii Midas touch turn Jill the ;
world to molten gold. Bul to the j
-.In-.ed-mit cow-puncl ? means
nothing l>"t bedtime -bedtime after a
hard, parched, hopeless day. There
clear, chaste moonlight nights
nf wondrous radiance, foo, bul the
iiiniiii waa -een only in the early morn?
ing, when thej nother day,
hard, more parched, more hope
I he cati le mere anatomical
charts by 'his time wen- I
aboul in crazy circles, too weak t i
watching, the three Xs on their
? to half the original size
? stu inline; of the hide, ur fell
|j in the earth lo rise again, siter
many seasoni of sim snd shower, as
?nair . :-i..i sall grass. . heir
bellowing waa reduced to ii moan a!
moal human in i's misery, for the one
common to all created things,
animal or human, is the voice of suffer*
I he Missourian, a grout, hulking
fellow, was lils! of the i
..f weakening. 'I ha!
terrible moment In nil like expert
. when the men whu have held ot!
. niiii etiiiutid together i
nf their nnmber losli This
led OUtfll whet!
tarted out with tin. cattle nero**
? laina, bul standing together,
shoulder to shoulder, defying death
againal fearful wida knit* a man deep*
ly lulu the life of his fellow. Among
i..' ii tli.ie was im spoken sym?
pathy, no nen Blt nf Killlllu
iii tlnii min sullenness was lhal grim
of nil mu ? , ii mini en?
during In stoic silence in order tba! he
? tmi Intrude I i*. own auffi rings
upon his already overcrowded neigh?
bor. The . of the lips tn mp
ii groan ?? I tl Irat-mad
dened may require mine heroism than
: facing n cntiiiun with ,l;:<-.-s ll\ in*.- and
i drums beating, Inasmuch as "hi
ruleth his own -s-j.il it ls greater than
In- thal taketh a city."
At lasi om- day the Mlasouriai
mit utterly. Ile was lint nf lin* cow
boj build in the firs! place, hut his
spit ndid horsemanship andentl
had Induced Wilson, tbe hoi
"Yankee Hill," us he was called, to take
Mm on. In his delirium he lay and
? cried fur water, day .'uni rn lit. He
, blubbered nm1, begged fur water, sad
called upon the names of those he had
known in his childhood, i
, w.iit ni.out his own bnatnesa, which
wai largely the formulating nf fi rven!
1 ami eloquent naihs anent the heat,
the drought nnd the delay; nnd ap?
parent ly un nile lu ard his erica. Water
? he nne thin-.' he wanted, and lin*
? ne thii.;,' he enuld not get, SO
i they had put his boots under his head
to make him comfortable, they lei him
alone, Under ordinary eireumsl
a Missourian nmre or less was of no
prent consequence to "Yankee Bill,"
bul this break In the ranks shattered ?
the last vestige of hope. Whatever
may have been done after thal In thi
i fTnrt to keep up their spirt ta wa
bravado, for each man foresaw tKe
end.
The Missourian had been n quiet
Hort In the camp, and nu nne had evi r
lu ard him talk much, lint noa he
talked Incessant]] in the soft, thick
draw] of the smith. Xml slwayi of
home scenes, i he memories of boyhood
that whetted the edge of their tor?
ture lill it w.-iv beyond all endi
Xow he w in. fishing along some si ream
snd swearing In round ten
"fal headed nigger"' fur scarin
fish: now he w;is In school strm
with some problem he enuld never
solve beyond "carry seven." Alway*)
coherent enough to call np merni
in their own minds nf a youth.
spent for the mos! part. They enuld
nol move farther awaj becaua
wi re vamped under the univ shade it'
sight. They though! of dragging him
oft beyond ear-shot, hut while every?
one would have been glad tn have it
? 1..nc nu man COnld du it himself. Their*
horny hands hm! grown penile in their
ministering touches.
Escape was long since nut nf the
question, for ile horses were woi
thill! lim men; not nile nf them enuld
carry a saddle, much less n rider,
man had saved n hi' I In hi*
revolver, knowing that that perhaps
would In* their univ deliverance from
?li too horrible to name. All hut
Side," who. when ii decision had
tn he made between himself and his
horse, hild led her nut behind ll little
acclivity ami put lil*-* las! charge
through her game little heart. Wiw?
in' must make his evil In .slim,
way, If In- would let his disembodied
spirit pass un nnincumbered bj a
parched frame. The knife he carried
in his limit was n miserable hack of
a thing, tit only for shaving tobacco
or chunking bacon. Ile felt a momen?
tary regret as he ran hi* lingers along
its jagged e.ices that a man with hi*
record should he obliged tn make hii
end with sn mean n weapon, The big
Swede in a moment nf madness hail
raised bia pistol as If it had been i
Jug, Baying: "Wal, boys, here's t.. a
i country!" I'.nt he had not shot.
'1 he enid ililli ?eemed tn cuni thc msh
iiess nf his brain, and tin- mirage ol
hope lured them on a day farther.
After the second day the Missouri*
nu's tiilk liii.--.-iii tu prow leis, li
Inp subsided Into a weak, incoherent
babbling; at last it ceased altogether,
and he lay stn imp wide-eyed intu the
relentless sky. As they had done
everything else, they did this silently,
Stoically. A Shallow lied wns scooped
nut and thc ennvas taken (ifT the
wagon fui- n winding sheet. When
tin- broken elide rinsed in i round
the open grave, the hoss cleared his
th mn t iiml said: "Boys, before we po
any farther, some nm- must make '?
prayer, sabe?"
Thej snlied. hut although every
riiHu'R Kimi might he consumed with a
voiceless cry tn -mme power above
himself fm- the repose nf tin* departed
soul, and release fruin a like fate,
they were all dumb when confronted
by the though! nf taking the name of
(md reverently. Instinctive!- they
turned :?? "Es ' Side."
"Ii'a your lead, 'East-Side,'" they
said. And "East Sid,-." groping blind?
ly backward toward tbe memortea nf
his youth, tiieil tn recall something
of religioua Import, Slowly through
lila desiccated brain percolated a line
frmn a church hymn; "Greenland's
Mountains," hut, although the
though! was pleasant in this burning
. the words were imf tu the
p..int besides, thut was nil he knew
nf it. II-* shook his heid sorrowfully.
"In the beginning" hf thought he
had struck thc righi lead there "In
the beginning, dod created " But
iiir,-,in I,,- ??? ind could |
further.
?i .nd ap 'East-Side!' " they urged.
Then thc light broke. The backward
groping h;id brought him down tn
the days nf his childhood, tn the
? had been wont
to say, .ih with bowed heads thc f;ini?
lly, to tin* third nml fimrtn genera?
tion, was gathered around hi* I
on Thanksgiving day. Sn. under the
burning sun. whose uniy shadow was
if carrion birds
that circled above the remnant nf the
niitflt. they stood over the grave ol
their demi eninpii nhill. Waiting for a
like fa te, or death by the'rown nandi,
to he turn hy SOyoteS perhaps 1>-*
fore the breath waa out of their
bodies, thc aix gaunt men with
?iicrcd heads, while "l.ast
pronounci d In .solemn toni s:
"Oh, Lord, fur what we ."ire about
to receive make na dev nut ly thankful.
i."
A pra yet v ai ,-i praj er to
Anything that began with
"Lord" In n \rr- \ \ and ended
with "amen" was a prayer. His
father had been s godlj man,
lind he had said it ; lt was
ap| ropriate on this occa lion. The
was ihi- same upon the I
for the word* smacked of the i
of Ihe wandering exhorten
the.i Iunl heard.
After the passing of the Missourian
there was even lesa lu do; the men
were iiiiue taciturn arith each other,
bot there was nnticeal.lv less pro?
fanity among them, posi IWj i>.
jealously and the wa** un
or becaua" their mouths
were too dry to articulate many
words. ]t was now si\ weeks since
thej had se! oul across the "sink."
expecting t., get the cuttle off 'heir
hands and have a little 'time" in the
city before starting Lack to the camp,
bot the wihl ? v ed. surry-lnokinp
things ssemed unpromising enough
now even fur ii pine factory,
As "East-Side" lay on the ground
looking up through thc holes In his
hal they stood upright and walked
no inure than was absolutely i
sary, for that required an expendi?
ture of strength- lazily watching the
Hucks nf birds that swooped and
poised In the air above him, he dis?
covered or thought he did. that they
i shadow against the sky a tiny
gray shadow thal he w itched fur the
utter hick nf anything else tri watch.
When the birds flew lower, tin* shadow
seemed tn prow harper and darker.
With a wild whoop he spran-.- tn his
feet, forgetting the value nf harbor?
ing his s, r. neth iis he grasped the
Import of that shadow. lt 9
cloud! Ever*- man sprang up at that
ipeck .'uni went tn wmk with
white fae .-md unsteady hands. The
speck grew larger iind the men
worked harder: every hole nr trough
that led tu the basin was cleared for
Bction sn that m.t one precious drop
Their words were few
hut kindly as they scraped away,
with nm- eye on the ltoiiiiiI nm! the
nthcr mi thc cloud slowly hut iinuiis
takably growing larp. r snd coming
their way.
During the nighl thone Bun scorched
dreamers dreamed nf molal winds,
nml rain drops pattering gently until
ll.v made a soaking downpour. Hut
they had often dreamed that dreamed
lt when their parched tongues hung
nut nf th. ir mouths ami cracked for
dryness. By lids lime they had prow ti
wary: even in their sleep they were
uti their guard ami nut tn he beguiled
Intu believing.
When at hist in the early morning
tin- rain did come, with thc Hrs! pat?
tering drops every man forgot e\i-ry
thing in the world bul the all
aumin) to Blake his burning
thirst; ll TIT il their ha's had CSUgbt
enough to drain, they sucked their
shirt sleeves. Then, Ix ca use hi
need fur that last charge was no limp?
er imperative, thc OUt fl I hoss drew a
head un the likeliest animal In the
herd, and they feasted royally. Joy
uproariously un steak nnd wa?
tt i And in the exuberance of their
glee im one noticed that fur eon
venience they had chosen the m..und
tbat covered the Mlasourtan fm- their
tahle.
After the feast every mnii lay down
!n his Irench, which was now Ulled
with water, nnd .iked
through tn the marrow, rousing him?
self nnly tu drain his hat. then fall?
ing hack and Soaking inure. And
when, nfter 'jt boura of soaking they
pot up ont nf their trenches each wa?
ter-logged man was a firm believer in
? .uv nf prayer.- Ban Oaneiseo
Argonaut.
DURATION OF MODERN WARS.
The Tonic*! Hi-Mt----!* Hie r.in-ll**. and
thS lim r* Han Vu! nerti I n
BSaallj Protracted.
Thc unexpected protraction of the
p.,cr war mid nut alarm Englishmen,
pince much longer wara have been
fought by them within this century,
i ollier'a Weekly. Nap..him de?
clared ws'r against England in .May,
the previous war hit ween thc two
countries having univ terminated by
thc treaty nf Amiens in October, 1801.
Lasted till April, 1st ?,
when Paris surrendered m the lillies
and Napoleon vva.s sent as prisoner to
Elba, where he arrived on Mnv I. lil?
li from Elba in March, 1815, and
nu need thc war. which finally
terminated with Napoleon's def eat at
the hattie nf Wilt erinn, mi .lune 1*. 1 ?* 1 .*,.
having lasted nearly 12 years. Na?
nok ou was s. nt as prisoner t.. St. He?
lena, where he (Hid in 1821. The Euro?
pean power that has been most at war
during ihe century has been Turk- v
rs of it, ,-is against 82 nf peace.
1 mi tlic list is Spain, with
ira nf warfare, nol counting her
?'.ital campaign. Then corni
France, with 27 years; Russia, wit.i
21. iiml It.-ily with 23 i i. si Britain
1 -I no li ss than 21. Germany, not
counting Prussia, follows with ll:
Sweden with I", and Denmark with'.'.
Our own country during thi* century
has escaped with three foreign war-*,
one civil strife, tin' Philippine insur
? i ci inn ami a Waker's do/en nf Indian
campaigns, the longest nf which wna
the Seminole war.
I i, il e rn rn ii n il llii.nl* la ( Ilir*.
\'ew Noi k's underground street rai!*
wav is only a beginning of Bubterra
car tracks lit large American
They iii,' needed in the cnn
f every city. Bt. Lotlll
would he vasily benefited hy under-'
ground railways down town, says the1
Poat-Dlspatch nf 'hat city.
? t .,f the ci'.v is now n
hi peril ni id inconvenience.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
Thc most promising mun seldom
misc.
Butt rtainlyacu!
dried affair.
I bowl of cream ls u em's Idea of the
lap of luxury.
Men ai ii women agree oftener In love
When s in:i!, has advice to give bs i?
. v with it.
.** ha: ki I ii his fellow man
is a '.nt' wi ] ti y n stter.
The |trsel rei ? i nmre
of n calling than a ti.
Thc mun w hu bas nothing rn bs proud
of is spl to be proud of I bat.
When ii man sees the error of lila
ways be should change bia 11
Women usually look oi the bright
aide of '
Asa mle the woman who is ber own
Into ii.in j bad babita.
Every man knows hitter than togo
up against another man's game, yet
they all du it.
Thc counterfeiter doean't care for
expen ea if he is allowed to pay In Ma
own coin.
livery mar. owe* something to him
t it's what be owes to other men
Buses all the trouhle.
An old bachelor Mys smne men arr
under the Impression that ii takes trou?
hle to perfect character, so th.
married.?Chicago Dally News.
PEOPLE WHO LIVE LONG.
Those who live longara always small
eaten. The enormous task the liver
iiml stomach of a gourmand have dally
ia too much for any system.
Because one's parents and grand?
parents lived to lie nearly 101 does nut
i lake it certain that their descendants
win do likewise, for thc inheritance ot
vitality may all he dissipated in i I
nf high Living, A small stock
nf vital force well taken care of may
his! i w icc as long.
Usually with long-lived folk the
trunk is long and the legs short in pro?
portion. The habit of deep, slow
breathing also belongs to this section
nf thc li ii man race. A calm nature ls
ary, inn, for a person always In
;i Rutter either with rage or joy wears
himself nut. Easy motions and a light
step, with muscular relaxation, are
other chari!e''ii
People who ara hmg lived all have
icrtain physical trails that are not
noticeable. In the first place they have
straight tnu-ks. Tin- majority of folk
have curvature nf the spine in some
degree, unnoticeable it may be. but
it la 'heic. Thc man who will !
i baa a straight hack, holds his
head up and has a broad, deep chest.
This me,-.ns that th." vital nipan.*- lire
mn crowded and perform their func?
tions unimpeded.
HASH AND REHASH.
Ilii ivory nt one time was
much used tm- artificial teeth.
The state of Washington furnlahed
over ' 10,00 I tons of coal to California
last year.
A "lightning arrester" hns heen
placed in the power house nt Ni.
Tails, which is Intended to keep light-,
liing fruin damaging the large power
houses.
Oul of 14! ?ld shipped I
United States In 18W, nearly one-half,
ur $2 wen! to Great Britain.
France si.I second, taWng$7,3M
Cuba third, with -
After a trial of the antitoxin treat?
ment in Chicago for a period of
28 months, the department of physi?
cians Iunl examined ! - "f al
leged diphtheria, and ? les the
KN lis-i.oeflicr bacillus was found. Ths
department treated 8,822 cases,
of whleh recovered, giving n death rate
nf ii.77 per cent., akrailis' a rate nf U
per cen I., as ha** heen said, prior to the
introduction ut' antitoxin.
IN VARIOUS PLACES.
Rabbits have I..come a plapue at
Berlin market.
Except fur ii few local shuwers there
was practically no rainfall at ail from
'he 1st nf Augual to the close ?f De?
cember in British Guiana.
i'.u' Chinese sect, the "Boxers,'
started a** a patriotic league, but as .all
Dilated nnn are very Ignorant
they make nu distinction t.etwe.a
o.|.* missionaries and land-grab?
bing Invadi
Wit hin the last y i ar an ancient grave
was discovered near Borne and opened.
In it was found the skeleton of a woman
with ;i complete s.i of false teeth, dla*
playing admirable workmanship, ami
'it out of solid gold.
Thc p. ildi n cap lc has been bo aw
fully preserved iii Boas-shire. (Scotland,
thal thc city council has at last heen
forced tn withdraw its protection, of
late years it has incren ed bo rapidly
that hares, rabbits and ptarmigan ara
no longer sufi eleni tn supply it.- ?
EXPOSITION AFFAIRS.
It is estimated thal si leaat -i 00 >
American school teachers will attend
the Paris exposition.
The Sa 11,it ion Army bas t
hall in I'aris dos,, tu the exp.
buildings, where services will he con?
ducted fur tbs benefit nf vi*-it?
.\t the 1'aii Aincrii . I "ii at
Buffalo, in 1901, thc buildings will he
lighted up hy electricity generated by
igines using natural
An International street railway cob
mil he held iit the Paris expo?
sition in September, 190 11" Inter
iation
ir
meeting pla.
Calculating on thc I..isis of n
(>r prevton * iit 1'nris. it is
aasumed thal bbbj
ii.iv he expected t..
through the turnstiles, and the total
nii-iiher may reach CO.000,000.
CUSTOM OF "TREATING."
t Ia at the Hool nt the Drink l".\ ll To
llH>? siro mr. Wards bf Ur.
I In ...lore I,. I u) 1,-r.
tal years agu a gentleman of my
icqnaintance fi ll into the habit of using
* until Le seldom passed u
Aa] will,out some symptoms of drunk
? Ile BOtaetimsa caine home ti)
Itatfl nf beastly Intoxl
ea'inn. I i, der their piteous appeals be
to i*o to an inebriate asylum,
nml after a few months of treatment
I Belt apparently entirely re
foi nu ii. Sunshine again lilhd the house
D| bee! shadowed With
?-I .un. sad BOROW. He continued sober
for Bl v.-ral moulin*, but one day an old
friend mel him In New York, greeted
him cordially md lavitod him togolnto
,i downtown restaurant and take a so?
cial glass erith Um, I'ndera sudden
Impulse lie yielded, and that one glass
i the latent appetite; the
chaim d tiger iras loosed npaln, and my
poor friend went hume that night pitia?
bly and disgracefully drunk! During
tin brief remainder of his life he was a
w reek I
That whets wretched tragedy of a
life wa* the result of a single act
a liieh goes under the deceitful name of
"treating." That friend who offered
luring glass proved tobeadead
I tay! (inuit, that he had no Inten?
tion to work a fatal mischief; grant
that hs had no thought of doing a sa
? iin. He did it, however, as if he
had been actuated by a fiendish malice,
"Foti -ht by want of thought,
I as hy want of heart."
pernicious ar.d abominable cus?
tom of "treating" 8 friend to a glass of
Sting liquor ls one of the most
prolific, causes of Intemperance. It
often engenders the habit of drinking!
B confirms the awful propensity!
mcinnes, ns In thc ease of that
gentleman mentioned In the beginning
if this article, lt sends a reformed in?
ebriate hack Into the mire. The dan
ger of this treating custom ls that lt
iv .;ns the guise of friendship and ap?
peals to the wi uk side of human nature.
anil take ii drink with me," aaya
the politician who hopes to win a vote.
"Won't you take a social glass with
me?*' I* the subtle invitation of a false
i ip that ls too often yielded to.
It is DO! everyone that has the nerve
if a Brooklyn neighbor of mine who,
having once been an Inebriate, used to
tay to anyone who invited him to take
a drink: "If you ask me to do that
again I'll knock you down!"
? istotn of treating has
very widely. When a customer
baa made ii good purchase be ls often
bj the merchant to go off toa
restaurant or a barroom fora bottle of
wine to "close up the bargain."
munera for commercial housee
seek very often to win customers
ny polite Invitations to a drink
lng i-.sort, or to a theater, or
sometimes to haunts too vile to be men?
tioned. I know of a very affable sales?
man In a wholesale dry gooda establish
nunt who became a dissipated man
from having to Invite customers to
lunch with him over ii bottle of wine!
IM* employers set that bright young
tempi nther people, nnd he did
? of his own character, The
various athletic contests and Intercol?
legiate ball ganu's are attended with an
enormous amount of hard drinking!
much of il Hikes thc fenn of "treating"
by those who have won t lit lr games or
tin ir bets, lt Is not too much to say
that a vast amount of intemperance,
with l's terrible results to purse, char
acter and Immortal souls, cnn be traced
?lireel ly to that cunning device of the
levll which puts poison Into a man'e
hiain nuder the pretense of putting a
IS Into his heart.
li these days a very lnrge amount of
moral artillery ls very properly aimed
at tin traffic la Intoxicants. Ttighteous
denunciations are hurled at the saloons.
Hut the destructive drink traffic really
is fed hy and depends upon the drink
custom. Intemperance ls bred in the
club, Iti 'he hume and in the social clr
'? . :.* well ns in the barroom. The pur
of li.pior lu a partner with the
llqaor seller. Everyone who buys an
ii toxicant or offers an Intoxicant to
r does his or her part toward
??lng the drink customs which
the waste and Ihe woe and
wretchedness of intemperance. The
? of Itages nnd of Justice to the
hi I Kiri np man absorbs a wide attention!
bul who will dispute that if all the
? I* spent by the working
In "treating" each other to al?
cuin.lie beverages were saved there
would !?<? thousands of better furnished
. better clad wive* and better fed
children?
Then ls another very weighty
though! tn be faced by eery man's con?
science. It U tills. The person who
;. Intoxicating glass to nnother
fruin whatever motive?ls responsible
for tba results of that glass! The false
friend who In obedteaes to a foolish and
. -..m "treated" the re
formed Inebriate of whom I spoke to a
. Mm* drink nf liquor was resjxjn
?ible. to B certain extent, for that man's
relapse and ruin. Certainly, if he had
?gad | hat gentleman to
with him he wonk, not have
tow li d the fetal drop. "Woe unto him
that giveth hi* neighbor drink." He
? ;t table fur what comes out of
Ighbora bps?yes, and for what
thal brain may do under the influence
inflaming draught. Whenever
you. mv reader, from a false kindness
sire guilty of "treating" another to a
?' intoxicating beverage, I wish
i nilpht see these solemn words
:ut in with a diamond on that glass:
? Wi'hln thia ir".ass doitructlon Hies,
Ami Iri ll* daptba does min swim;
i lt.* f.i.im perdition f'Me*.
I nth ls dancing sr. the brim!"
? !.. (ny lier, la Messen?
ger-_
A crusade apnlnst the saloons of
Stillwell and Mil! Creek. Ind., has been
?tarted by the pastor of the Friends'
("burch.