SCATTER YOUR CRUMBS,
Amid the freezing sleet
The timid robin comes;
In pity drive him not away,
But scatter out your crumbs.
l
and snow
And leave your door upon the latch
For whosoever comes;
The poorer they the move
give,
And scatter crumbs
Ott your
All have to spare, none are too poor,
When want with winter comes;
The loaf is never all your own,
Then scatter out the erumbs,
Seon winter falls apon your life,
Yhe day of reckoning comes;
Against
ATC Wi
your sins, high decree
ighedd
ALFRED CROWQUILL.
A Break in The Levee.
clang! rang
Joft
before
hy
those scattered crumbs
on bell
ont of
and
springing bed
hack
lanterns w
and
the eml
the em
ound
lap of the
sword thrust
nnderst ane
«aid, in
before:
ik
lips firmly
“io,
his fath
in the sonnd of
bare floor. {he
and the
tin
swing
far
Above
little row of boats
feth
deft
skiff
needed but a
his hat
antlers
ite gle
witter
mpping waves, seed to
of the verandn
own little green
the rest, and it
to resich from
spreading the door
He heard the sound of his mother's
footfall in the hall as the oars cut the
water, but above that, above the hent-
ing of his heart and the rush of the
waves he heard his father's words,
and a moment Inter hiv skiff skimmed
out of the and the
darkness swallowed
goon found
moored among
moment
gned
coat Lae
behind
Iantern’s gleam
him up.
At Saunders’ big
the early mora of a
day. all was hustle and stir and ecom-
motion. On all the parching prairies
not a blade of grazs was left for
hungry herd: tanks were empty,
streams were dry, and the men were
making ready to drive the cattle ont
of the land of drought to the flush of
waters and green pastures of the In
dian Territory.
In the dusty yard, around the cabin!
spurg rattled, saddles creaked, ponies |
neighed., men shouted and hallooed, |
aad beyond, in the great corrals, the!
cattle bleated and bellowed with their
thousands of thirsty throats,
“You'll have to go an’ he'p Mason zit |
up a bunch of eattie in the north pas |
sure, Little Partner,” said Saunders
iv 4 boy who #tood near the cabin
door fastening his spur strap, with |
his arm through his pony Lridle.
“All right, sir,” said the boy, spring. |
ing into the saddle.
“Tell Mason to fetch a thousan’ an’!
Texas ranch, in
scorching October
the
to-morrer night, or--bust, We
A thousand an’ fifty-two
"
"
the
aver
that
“1 shall not forget, sid boy
hut a his
did
shadow crossed
face ns he spoke-—-a shadow
The streamed down, blistering
his back through his fonnel shirt, and
nlkali dust burned into every
pore of his body, Heat and dust
everywhere, with amd then
gleam of a white, shaly river-bed, dry
glistening lke a silver thread
the brown prairies,
stn
were
How the
and
winding
which the dead and dying cattle had
turned into vast chiarnol houses, where
the buzzards held Tull
STORY TWO
By daybreak
cattle in the north pasture were
ready
better lead
HCTORS
SW
morning ti
the next
bunch
for driving
ed and
“You'd with me, litth
un,” Mason said Kindly, when til
galloped up }
hogan “There'll
added
the boy swung throug
FOF OrGers hom
front the n
Hil
the chap sore touch
witched
Kind
Mason had
with his womanly
ever since the day of his
to the ranch, and he knew, no o
how the
ad's bones nohg
atigue
ti robbed
boiled the blood
SW pt on
their hot breatl
“Mother.”
The
ment, but
walls, the
bending over confused
lids quivered and
Slowly it all came back to him-—the
long ride, the sun, the dust and
the stampeding cattle.
“Where is Mason?’
by, looking up again
Kind blue eyes,
“He's all right now, poor old chap.”
said Saunders gently, and
the tone than in
but the boy understood
He lay quietly for a long while, with
the bed clothes pulled up over his eyes,
and the sheet was wet when he looked
ont from umder it again.
“Mason was Kinder to me than any
body in the world had ever been-—ex
cept my mother.” he sald, by and by.
“1 wish I had been the one to go,” he
added, wearily.
“Don’t you say that, lad, don’t you
now,” Haunders said, stroking the
boy's hand with his own brown palm.
“It'H all come right.” :
“But you don't know, Satnders, you |
don't know,” and the boy turned his
leas over on the pillow wearily,
boy opened his eves for a
the
no
wi ashed hospital
narrow oof and Sannders
him. The eye
losmd
hot
Ire nsked by and
nto Saunders’
there was
the words,
more in
Saunders went on soothingly. “You've |
been lyin® here prit nigh two months |
now, you know, an’ durin’ that time |
I've been here, off an’ on, sorter econ
you wouldn't a’ said to me, confidential |
Hke, ef you'd bin at yourse’f, but I |
reckon they ain't no harm done. [|
enough to travel to ast you ef you |
wanted to go home," |
“Oh, no; I can’t. Saunders, 1 can’t,”
“You
you?"
don’t
“You
you've tol’ mox' ever'iling on 1d
the
asked §
mean "hou
Saunders spt
Neo,
JOSE Die wl out the rest, little che p, "a
blamed eof 1 ain't felt mighty
you, That's straight, now, an’ no m
sorry fog i
take, but the mo’ 1 study erbout it thas
Kind or
omewhur., Don't you mison
now, little ‘un. 1 ain't
enll to preach; ain't
man, but
a feller's spent the best part oi
ol’ var
soem to be noth
mo’ it seems to me there was a
n Liteh
aerstan’ mo
had
heen n
never no
even good somehow,
wheu
his live aridin’ over these here
they don't
Crond
Aras were
in' but nnd 2 universe,
natehelly lo a denl er think
in’ An’ atshow BOCA to
Lord puts diffu thoughts
114
after It hegins
He «did ht
Bray
hen it
a} 3
whit
didn
done
everything looked!
broken red hill slopes
he slende chnreh
spires, the eronehing CHV
of the little city; beyond were
plantation lowlands, the
sprawling levees,
wind
within
ting calm and qui
escent for the swell of the spring ratns
to send it sweening on in its work of
destruction
When the whiste blew,
reundesd the
Httle pang of
fonwood
HOS Ware
ose
3 1
the biack
great grass grown
and the dark, treacherous river
ing between, shrunken now its
muddy banks, wai
amd the hont
Jeff saw with au
bitterness the old
which marked hig own home
landing, but he sprang ashore joyfully
before the wavering stage plank bal
touched the bank. He was the
only passenger for Steel Dust Planta.
tion he found, as the men who erowsd-
ed after him pushed by, hurrying up |
to the house, Joell followed eagerly.
Was ilies the homecoming he had pice
often as he rode over the
Curve,
Cie
not
Surely something was wrong. About
the yard the stablemen were hurrying |
to and fro, while others were sampling
cotton from the bursting bales under |
ong blockaded the broad avenue which |
led to the house, and, under the spread. |
ing onks, mules were bunched or
stood in Jong lines tethered te the lot
fence. Barn doors were wide open, |
and ploughs and hoes and scrapes, in
desolate heapr, iitored the lnwn.
Jeff gaw it all mm the brief interval
wh th it took to reach the house, and |
the hallway suddenly ceased, even the
blatant yell of the auctioneer broke
loo”
with a bang bright young
volee from the doorway shouted clear
above siger bobbing hb
“1 forbid this sale!”
Jeff
ORK,
as a
the « ends:
elbowed his way to
unbuckling the leather
neneath
What the amount of
sir?’ he asked
“Eight thousand, seven
fifty dollars, wit
¥
his cont ns he went,
your a
hundred
hh costs,” replied
astonished aunctioneer
“Then
your money,”
of bills from bh
count
roll
the crowd and
Jott
ig belt pocket
dismiss
sald, pulling a
end of
He
streams
Facts About the South.
A recent pamphlet by Mr, R. HL Ed
monde, of The Baltimore Manufacti
Record, gives in a condensed shape
th
would like to see it ey
Crs
#0 many interesting facts about
South that
tensively circniated
The re witioe
of the wor
we
South more than
g cotton, but thos
. i
i exceed value by hw
grain crops, which aggregate abont
CoO O0n 000 bushels a year
More than one-half of ail the stand
jug timber in the country Is in
Scuth,
Iron and coal exist in unlimited quan.
tities, and pig fron can be made bern
cheaper than anywhere else In the
world, Pittsburg and Chieago are
now using Alabama iron and basic
tire
Nearly every Southern State has an
The Earth and Man Compared.
If it were possible for 4 man fo con
truct a globe ROO feet In height
much less than twice the height of
Washington's monument —and to place
upon any portion of its surface an
atom 1-4380th of an inch in diameter
and 1.120th- of an inch in belght, it
would correctly denote the proportions
man bears to the gigantic globe upon
which he stands.
S
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.
A large stenmer was reported wrecked near
Drunihead,
%
OVA
n fishing village at isaac Harbor,
Hseotia,
We
s in the yards at Hoboken exploded.
aware, Lackawanna and torn lo.
wars injure
of the
1]
1.
( onfoect) ners ina ax
hicago, was dam
of B60 000,
Wests
Elwood, Indiana
1 and four
rn train ran into an
( hiris Hines
Kili others were seri
JUSIY ii
} a, passed the frightened
ging horse, and then ar
fire in the cen
und the
vhere ashe bullt a larg
attract attention ito the
efforts were succosaful, the train being
pped within a few feet of the beacon. Had
the engine struck the horse, it, with the train
would probably have been thrown into the
t-bed, a distanos of eighty fest. There
vere over 100 passengers on the train, and
thelr gratitue to the brave little girl was un-
bounded.
nc ——
FIRE C*USES TWO DEATHS.
Burned — Another Killed by Leaping
From a Window.
Une Person
One porson was burned to death and an
other was Killed hy jumping from a thirds
story window of a barring Uailding in Phila.
adelphia, The man who, was burned to
death is suppossd 10 be Harris Levi, bat his
body was so badly charred tha! recognition
was impossible. The other victim was Max
Finoberg, who jumped and broke his neck,
The building was a four-story brick, the first
floor being occupied as a grocery store; the
socond as a hall; the third a tallors employ
ment agency, and the fourth floor by Abra
ham Zoushy and family. When ths flee
broke out, Levi, ¥ineborg and several other
persons were on (ao third ftoor, All escaped
with slight burns esecept the above named,
The Zoushy family, consisting of futher,
mother sud five children, wore taken from
the roof of the burning buildiag by the - fire.
men. The fire originated in the collar, but
from what cause {s not known,
Bhows No Emotion.
and Albert Stafford fought 4
death near Mount Plea
months they
cnown that
throes
remed that a
1 ta the
For two
a fight
not
North Carolina
LIVE
CHICKENS Hens 2
Ducks, per ih
Turkeys, per
POULTRY.
TOE MOON,
TOBACCO. Infer's..8
Bovis d common .
Middtiing . ,
PRRCY...o.iiniuan
LIVE STOCK.
BEEF Best Dooves......8 275
SHEEP «4 veanins S00
Hogs in B80
FURS AND SKINS,
MUSKRBAT. .............. in
Raccoon 0
Red Fox. . .
Reank Black,
Opossnm
Mink
Outer.
150
300
6 0b
1000
XEW YORK
FLOUR
WHEAT No. 2 Red 67
BYE Western.
CORN RNa. 2.
OATS No, 3. ou
BUTTER Stato. .....coi0
EGGE-- State
CHEESE State. ........
dns,
PHILADELPHIA.
FLOUR--Southern
WHEAT No. 2 Red. .....
CORN-No. 3...coovnunns
OATS No. Be iaeiinaiom
BUT TER State, ........
EGOS -Peana. ft
Le
it out,
Male
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