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p..,er and Retter before Us.

Gods best gifts are always before MS.
never behind. Pleasures OF memory are
sometimes delightful, but pleasures Of hope
are ever yet richer and brighter, especially
to the eye and thought of faith. Says one
of Gods dear ones. referring to a fresh
a long expected blessing is the sweetest
thing that ever came into my life. How
good God is. and how tenderly He leads
us! He changes always a great good into a
greater. / nave been happy all along, but
now (since this experienced my heart keeps
singing:
/" Rest, peace, and life, the flowers of fade
less bloom,
The Saviour gives us not beyond the tomb.
But here and now, on earth, some glimpse
is given
OF joys which wait us through the gates
of heaven"
And thus it ever is in youth, in maturity.
In age and yet beyond-the best is yet to
come. Let us look forward and upward.
and ever hope and trust and praise.
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Oil as Necessary a. Steam.

Worry kills ten persons where work kills
one. 1t is friction. not motion, when
wears out machinery, whether it be IN the
sphere of animate or of inanimate nature.
To avoid or to diminish friction is to IN
crease and improve the efficiency OF the
best machine that is set to any good work.
Oil on the running gear is quite as lmpo,r-
tant as steam in the boiler, whether 1T be
on a railway locomotive or on the oraln
that directs or performs work for God and
for Gods dear ones. It is in view OF TINS
truth that Cardinal Newman says, Not
mans manifold labors, but his manifold
cares hinder the presence of God" The
machinery which God has given man to
use in His service is sufficient under God
for whatever He would have that man do.
The cares with which man needlessly bur
dens himself are the retarding and wasteful
friction with which man lessons has power
for good and which tend neither to mans
good nor to Gods glory. The oil OF restful
love in God is the needed aid OF mans
physical, mental and spiritual machinery
Let US, then. keep our souls machinery
we'll oiled.
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why she cooked i.

The happy faced man swung on to a
College venue car, and this was the
story he had to tell as an explanation
for his good humor:
II have a good joke on my wife. We
have a new girl, a German, just over
from the fatherland. She is a hard and
willing worker, but is greatly in need
Of Judgment and common sense. Yes
terday my wife ordered fish and in
structed the girl to serve 1t for dinner.
AS soon as I tasted it I knew there
would be something interesting when
my wife discovered it was not Is fresh
as it should be. Her first mouthfuI
caused her to ring for the girl.
Mary, Is this the fish that came to.
dayf'
Eyes, 1na'amfs
Didn't yo1k know 1t wasnot kood
when yosas cook -
.sYes, matam
z Then why d
ss*Wefl, you b tboughi
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Inthe Studio.

81 will not sit that wayp' angrily
screamed the obstinate dame in the
photographers gallery. Il can't and I
won't. SO there"
Madame" said the photographer, lit
will be impossible for me to make a
good negative Of you unless you quit
being so positive. baltimore News.
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stricken as She SANG.

With songs of praise on her lips Miss
Mamie Magee was fatally stricken
while leading the meeting of the Young
Peoples Society of Christian EndeavOr
of the Methodist Protestant Church at
Moorestown. She fell to the floor in a
spasm, from which she never recov-
cred, her death occurring a little over
an hour later. Miss Magee was TWEEN
ty-seven years of age and n OF the
most active workers in the church.
She had been enjoying the best of
health.
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The Dentist Misses.

! sShe-"The milliner told me she had
been down to the dentists to have a
nerve killed."
He-"Well, from the prices she-asks
for hats, I should say the dentist must
have killed the wrong one."-Sacred
Heart Review.
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Money and Men to FIGHT Fire.

At the annual election and meeting
Of the Moorestown Fire District appro.
priations amounting to $1,000 for the
maintenance of the department were
made. Walter Inman was elected a
member Of the Board of Commission
ers. Charles F. Robinson was elected
chief, with Samuel p. Ruff as first as
sistant. B. F. Ellis was elected Presi-
dent of the board; DIR. f. G. Stroud,
Secretary. and Walter Inman, Treasu-
rer. 1t vas decided to purchase a new
hose wagon.
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sfxtean Negroes Drown.

Sixteen negroes composing two FAM
lilies of cotton plantation hands were
drowned in the Mississippi River near
Pecan Point, forty miles north Of Mem
phis, Tenn. They left the Chiles plan
tation after dark in two skiffs, waves
from a passing vessel capsized the frail
boats, and all hands save one went
down. A lad, Will Bell, escaped by
clinging to an oar.
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increase in Corporation Fees.

Showing a healthy growth of indus
trial matters the Corporation Clerk OF
the Secretary of States Office reports
the receipt of $57,852.28 as filing fees
of corporation papers for the month of
May. This is one of the largest months
in years. Despite the good year Of 1902
there has been a gain in the correspon-
ding five months past of $7778.79.
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Hotel Robber. Confeae Guilt.

Charles Russell and John Armstrong,
accused of having robbed the first floor
rooms of the hotels Wiltshire, Glen
dale, Chelsea and Kahn, pleaded guilty
in the Recorders Office at Atlantic City
and were held under bail for the Grand
Jury. The police recovered a wagon
load of clothing, which they are
charged with having stolen.
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Comforting Delusion,

Clarice-"Clarence, we must compel
those lawyers to settle fathers estate"
Clarence-"Oh, no; as long as they
don't settle it we can imagine there's
something left Of it."-Detroit Free
Press. FFt&&&
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A Careful Porter.

Owner-"See here! You want to
handle that trunk>more carefully"
Porter-4TH look out for it. sir. /
know d man who let one fall on his
toes last month. an he amt out of
the hospital yet."-Town and Country.
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Aged frisoner succu,rbs.

Elwood Berry, aged sixty years. who
had been in the county Jail at Wood
bury for some weeks on a charge of
robbing a store at Denver, died a few
days ago. He was taken to the aims
house with the hope that the change
would benefit him, but it failed. Berry
seemed very modest, and it appeared
that chagrin over his confinement hast
ened his death.
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His Strenuous Way

Spavin-"Hello, Cantle, exercising
your horse this morning.
Cantle (mounted)-"That was my in
tention when I started out, but it
seems to me the horse has been exercis-
ing me."-Boston Transcript.
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Lamb Green.

EEE X.
When the lambs get about two or
three weeks Of age, they will begin
to pick at the hay and grain. They
will soon want to be eating themselves.
To have them do their best they must
have a separate place from the ewes
to eat, where they a go at will when
they feel hungry-what is termed a
lamb creep. extending across one end
Of the barn where there is an abund-
ance Of sunlight. In here put 1at-bot-
toned troughs extending the whole
length Of the apartment, with a board
extending along the troughs, six inches
above the sides, to prevent the lambs
from getting their feet into it, as a
lamb is very dainty about having his
food clean. In here give them crushed
oats, wheat bran, corn meal ground
sc~oarsely. and oil meal in the same pro-
portion as I advised for the ewes.
After they have learned to eat well, in
rease the feed until they have all they
will eat. II any feed is over, clean it out
each morning and feed it to the ewes,
as the troughs7 must be Kept clean in
order to have them relish their food.
Lambs that are made perfectly happy
and contented las it is the happy lambs
that grow and put on fesh), being fed
in this will be ready for mar
ket at eight or ten weeks of age, weigh
ing from thirty to forty pounds or
more, and will bring more net profit
for the feed consumed than at any
other age. But if the lamb is going to
spend his life on the farm, instead OF
going to the butchers block, I would
recommend a different grain ration.
I would feed but little corn meal, IL
any. keep his frame growing, give
plenty Of outdoor exercise, and let him
develop naturally; then he will have
more stamina when he grows to be a
sheep.-American Cultiyator. sas
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WIN Investieate Lee,s Escape,

The Board of Managers of the State
Hospital for the Insane, at Trenton,
say they will rigidly investigate the es-
cape from the asylum of William J.
Lee. who walked through seven locked
doors in the dead Of night and
out of sight. They believe that Lee
was aided by some one officially con-
nected with the asylum. Detectives
have been put on the case.
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shower Intensified Drouth.

The latest report of the crop condi-
tions in the State said: Temperature
decidedly above normal, with widely
scattered showers, only sufficient to lay
the dust; these conditions have still
further intensified the long and disas.
tronS dr0uth."
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wardens haul Four shad Nets.

Fish Wardens Foulks and Mathis
have captured four illegal shad nets in
the Delaware River, near White Hill.
The nets were all large and contained
a number of fine shad. The law prohib-
its the fishing of set nets at any time in
the Delaware River.
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Press Censor Shot De.d.

Captain Sir Henry Hulse, who was
press censor in the latter part of the
South African war, and was a friend
Of King Edward. was found shot dead
in his bedroom at johannesburg.
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The Ideal Road.

"Of course you're interested in this
movement for good roads," said the
expert automobilist.
I'm afraid I can't have the sort Of
road I'd like" replied the beginner.
"What sorts that?"
zone that's hard while you're riding
along it and soft when you sit down
on it suddenly.r-Philadelphia Press.
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spartacus-"Have you been watching
the curio saleY
Snaarticus-"No.s l didn't know there
was such a vessel in the h~arbor.Y-
Baltimore American.
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The Goodness Of God.

Which of us dares to say that he. IN
Gods sight, deserves more than ke gets.
Which Of us, then, can say that God IS
bound to give him more than He does.
is to throw ourselves not upon the justice
of God, but upon His mercy, His goodnsss.
And goodness is free. II IS spontaneous
It flows from God.-The Rev. Dir. Alsop.
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Wary.

Ping-"There goes a man worth S.
100000, and he made every dollar of
it in trade"
Pong-Well, all I've got to say is
that I don't want to trade with a man
like that."-Chicago News.
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AGRICULTURAL
No Oats in Orchards.

No Oats in Orchards.
It has been many years since first
made the statement that a crop OF oats
Is the next thing to a fire in an orchard
This feeling was forced upon me by
the many injurious results I had seer
in the orchards Of others (but never ia
my own, and 1 have seen no reason
to change or modify the statement.
All the small grains are injurious TO
orchards Of any age. While the trees
are young and a large part OF the
ground is not permeated by their
roots, hence is not needed for their
use, 1t is both reasonable and wise to
utilize that part Of it with temporary
crops. But these crops should be such
as require tillage and especially IN the
spring and early summer. Corn IS
not a bad crop, if not planted too close
to the trees. Potatoes, sweet potatoes,
peanuts, cotton, melons or almost any.
thing that requires frequent stirring
Of the soil will do.
But oats are the worst Of all the
small grains for orchards, because they
not only draw largely on the fertility
Of the soil but require a very great
quantity of moisture. There are great
differences between crops In the
amount Of water necessary to pass
through them to the air from the
soil In the our of growth. oats
are among the most greedy in this
respect. Anyone who has farmed very
much knows how an oat crop leaves
the ground. And then, it grows so
late in the season. 1t is after rye and
wheat are in the shock, and sometimes
stacked and t~hreshed, that the oat
crop is cut. Whatever may be done
or not done with the orchard soil do
not afaict it with an oat crop.-H. -.
Van Deman, in vick's Magazine.
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Enropean sauadron ~ WOO KIeI

President Roosevelt has ordered the
European Squadron Of the American
Navy to go to Kiel, Germany, for the
regatta.
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For Cause.

Judge-'Do you solemnly swear to
tell the truth, the whole truth and moth
ing but the truth?'1
Witness-.I do"
Judge-"What is your occupation"
Witness-"Is am employed in the
Weather Bureau"
Judge-"You are excused."-Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
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a force Of 100 Russian b~ineiackcts'
was landed at Constantinople, Turkey,
to form q guard for the embassy.
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Cuba increases Duty ON C6fee.
President Palma, of Cuba, has signed
the act increasing the duty on coffee.
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The Kid-"Hully gee, fellers. come
yer dis way. Here 1t is! 1t must
'av escaped from the circus. New
York Sun.
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Emotionalisrn

you say you have shed real tears in
your actingY
Not exactly" answered Mr.. Storm
ington Barnes; sbutI have been tempt
ed to to when I saw the box Office state
Observation-Disclosures Star.
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versity diploma given in the soush
unless the candidate for scholastic
honors could repeat, word for wofu'
every line of Dixie" an" '
Star spanglei Banner. " Ihese WV
at least, and several others misn' DC
added as the currioulums were lr'ao'
ened. And, furthermore tins san .
requirement ought to be made peioic
franchise is granted. 1t is not a small
thing. Give our national songs the
"a ,pect of learning them-give them
the respect of rising when you near
them played or sung. Teach them 10
your children. Know their history
and it will be strange if your patriot
10 feeling does not increase apaoe
with your knowledge of your country s
ma,odies These songs may not Do
the greatest poesy or the gre"'eS'
music, but they stand for something
infinitely greater than these.
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BAR UP THE BACK DOORS.

The Calvin vagrant law is produc-
ing the desired admirable effects
wherever in the State 1t is being
vigorously and impartially enforced.
But it needs the auxiliary support Of
another reform which cannot be enac-
ted by the legislature, but can be
adopted and enforced by the majority
Of the people themselves.
o. If the greatest evils that affiicts
the domestic life of our people and
creates idleness, confirmed vargancy
and criminal viciousness among the
negroes of the town and country is
the back door commissary graft al
lowed to the cooks and house servants
of white families. There is, we ven
ture to say, hardly household in At
lanta having one or more merge SER
wants that does not give up surepti-
tiously every day food enough to sup
port one or more strapping, vagrant
loafers. This fact is so notorious that
no one would seriously question it.
And it exists solely because of the
misplaced confidence and lenient lax
ity of our white houeskeepers.
Northern people do not suffer these
robberies and their civic consequences
as we do. We Iacetiously say "a mig
ger will steal" and complacently en-
courage them to do so by ignoring
their incomings and outgoings. Ii
only the householder who winks at
the spoilation of his home supplies
suffered thereby, one could gladly say
"served him right, " and let it go
at that But VIXEN the surplus OF
his table goes to fatten a vargant
ecoundrel who preys on persons and
property by night, the community is
injured by the consequences.
There is but one remedy. We must
deal with servants ON business basis.
Pay them fair wages, require strict
account of supplies, and see to it that
they carry away from the house at
night no more than they bring in.
We must either agree unanimously to
bar the back doors of our homes to the
ingress of the tramp negro and egress
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PATRIOTIC SONGS.

We are all of us patriotic to de-
gree. We all love our country, both
I in and out of season, though We may
deplore certain Of her excuses ana
mistakes. There is not one OF us but
who thrills at the sight of Old Glory,
as our fathers did at the sight of the
old Stars and Bars forty years ago,
and one cannot look wholly un-
moved on the white dome of the cap
ital as it stands out against the blue
of the Southern sky. We revere
Washington, jefferson, Lee and Davis
and many other more latter day
people who are part Of our mighty
stateoraft. "Behold,' we say to the
foreigner when we are let loose on
the old worll for the first time, we
are the real thing, and so also is our
country, and we ire it because we be-
long to that country and because that
country belongs to u.s."
These things are good, but if our
patriotism has one failing it is most
abominable lack of historical knowl-
edge, and thorough ignorance OF our
national songs. America is music
loving nation. We possess some OF
the most beautiful and soul-stirring
national airs in existence today, but
there is not one person in thousand
who can recite or sing correctly all
the words of America" or 1.-The
Star Spangled BANNER, and right
here in the South, we venture to say,
that equally as few can recite the
greatest patriotic song the world has
ever known, the song that spurreC
many Confederate to gallant deeds,
and the song that makes the heart Of
the old veteran beat quicker,
"Dixie.
Every one remembers the story IL
Lillian Bells amusing novel, The
Expatriates. How the passengers
of transatlantic liner were giving 8
concert, and the evenings music was
to finish by the English passengers
singing "God Save the Queen" ant
the "Star Spsngled Banner" by the
Americans. And what was the re
suit? The English contingent stood
up and sang-every soul of them
every line and verse and the Ameri
cans, after the first stanza, were re
duced to two singers. There is to-
much truth in the story for us to flint
it exactly palatable.
If it were possible we should ilk'
to see no high school, college or uni
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assured of remunerative employment.
Of education for his children. OF
assistance and encouragement from
his white neighbors. The negroes
have every reason to be thankful that
they are living here in the 60 ithern
States, and those of them who have
ventured to try their fortunes else
where, whether in the Northern
States of America, or in the wild
wastes of Wanted Liberia have with
practical unanimity been glad to get
back to the land of the cotton and
ane. Memphis Soimitar.
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HERE IS THE NEGROES HOME.

The dispatch from New York tell
ing of the return of nine negroes.
"gaunt, hollow eyed and ragged, -
the sole survivors of party of fly
six Georgia blacks that were sent to
Liberia to form colony and expert
ment in cotton growing in that
country, epitomizes a whole volume
of allegation and argument anent de-
portation, segregation and colonial
tioa Of the negro as means OF set
thing the race question. Southern
people underst md that to sagregate
the negro, to place him beyond the
co ,trol and influence of the whites,
we're a crime against the neg toes, one
which, in view of the past relations
and the sentimental associations be-
tween the two races in the South, the
white people are not disposed to per-
pstrate, even if they were not deferred
by the material fact that the labor OF
the negro is needed right here.
The nearoo is not qualified if left to
| his own resources, to maintain the
moderate degree of civilization tC
which he has attained as the result
of his generations of association with
the whites in the United States in
slavery and in freedom. The unfor-
Inmates who have just been brought
back from Liberia by the hlep of theiI
former employers in Georgia would
doubtless have relal g d into the saw
aRery of their African ancestors if
succor had not reached them in time.
Their experiment at self-manage-
ment resulted as all others of like
nature have done and will do under
the same circumstances. Intelligent
negroes understand that, and those
who lack the intelligence to under
stand it, but who may wish to try
the experiment will be restrained from
the misfortune bound to attend any
such an attempt if they rely upon the
whites to assist them in so desperate
an undertaking. The negro is in
better condition as he is circum.
stanced in the South today than he
would be under any other conceivable
arrangement. He is relieved even
Of the responsibility Of government,
which is surely great relief to him.
for since it has been demonstrated
that he cannot govern himself he
would have q rough time trying TO-
give satisfaction in the capacity OF
governor Of superior people. he is
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the city who will buy wagon cottol
in onS and three bale lots, and as h
the commission man, his receipt
will not BIZ cut OF but increased. HI
will be enabled to sell this cotton TO
the merchants that now goes to othel
marktes and il will give him mor'
time TO get out and hustle for oottor
against the competition of othel
cities.
Such a policy will make Greenvif1e
the cotton market of the Delta, and
we believe, If pursued, will bring
Greenville more business, put In cir
calaticn more money and increase in
vestments. There is another argu-
ment against this rule that should
bring about its repeal and that is,
that many of the planters OF the
county are prejudiced against the Elk
change, and as we said before, ship
their cotton to other places ON that
account. Now, while 1t is true that
they can get as much for their cotton
here as anywhere. and that they are
wrong in their telief, still, 8 firmly
fixed is this 'pinion in their minds,
the repeal of this rule, making the
MARKET again an open one, is the only
way to convince them and bring them
back as buyers and sellers.
We are frank to admit that the OBJ
jet and purposes of the Cotton Ex-
change as set forth in section 1 of
fts constitution are worthy and
necessary for the conducting OF such
business. That their mem bership is
composed of as honorable, heightened
citizers as this or any city possesses,
and from cover to cover, rule IL is
the only Objectionable one we find in
their regulations. Still, as they say
their object generally is to promote
the interests of the trade and increase
the facilities and the amount OF the
cotton business in the city OF Green
VILE and in the face of receipts
and the merchants books in the past
few years, it is not doing it,when com
pared with the receipts of neighbor-
ing towns that have half the tacill-
ties for handling cotton rs Greenvllle
has. and as Rule IL is generally
agreed upon as the cause for the
loss. we believe as fair minded citi-
zens who have the interest of the city
at heart above that of their own, they
will now repeal it. But if not Pc
tition of the business men OF the
city should ask them to do SO. Such
an act may not increase the trade of
the city this year, owing to the late
ness of the season, but 1t will next
year and there is no doubt about that.
The question is now up to the Elk
change and the people as we expect
to say no more about it.
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Wo are not SO much worn out by
over work, as our clothes are worked
out by being over worn and CHRIST
mas time is coming. Moral
want some subscription money.
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of the purloined provisions for ms
supper, or else give up all hopes OF a
safe servant class and the abolitio
of the stall fed val rant and criminal
Atlanta Constitution.