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VOL. XXXIXi
SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1891.' .
NO. 24.
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4 f A Family Newspaper Devoted to lLiteratuie9 Vgricixltvive and General Information.
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General Von Moltke lived for almost
ninety-one years and ia all that time ha
never let hia mouth run away with his
brains. "..' ''
Chicago has discovered on a farm .ten
miles southwest of St. Louis a log cabin
built by Grant's own hands, and has
gobbled it for the World's Fair.
The consumption of canned good3 in
the Uuitcd States is increasing much
faster than is- the demand for these goods
abroad, according to BraMtreeVs.
' -
Next fall a gentleman fifty-three .years
of aire will enter the class of '94 of
Trinccton College. During the Civil
War he was a sophomore in that institu
tion, but left it to become a soldier..
Carl Schurz argues that we will have
three-days' steamships between New
York and Liverpool, because there has
been a three-days' reduction in time oc
cupied by a trip during the last fifteen
years-. I
The Duke of Marlborough has written
an article for an English review in which-
he urges "his countrymen (to invest their
money in the mineral belts of the South
ern States. "The Duke has already made
such, investments.'' states the Atlanta
Constitution. I
PERMANENCY.
A lover carved upon a bed of stone
His lady's name, and set thereto a rhyme;
And on the rock were marks Beside his own.
Scratched by a glacier in primeval time.
And yet the passion that his spirit stirred.
The -while he cut her fond and fleeting
name, , . . j
Methinks was more eternal than the word i
The ice age spoke time's snow against
love's flame! '', j j
Richard E. Burtontin Harper's Weekly
Austria's new Parliament contains fifty-
one lawyers, forty professors and schoo'
teachers, twelve doctors and apothecaries,
eiuht architects and civil engineers
twenty clergymen, 147 landed proprie
tors, twenty-nine 'officials, nine manu
facturers, nine journalists and six gentle
men of leisure. i I
It may be, suggests the Boston Tran-
Her Love Saved His Honor,
A RECENT INCIDENT OF HEW YORK LIFE,
It was nearly 4 o'clock in the after-
noon. People who were going downr
Cortlandt stieet stepped quickly to one
side. Those who were coming up did
likewise. This action made a free pasi
sageway for a man who was hastening at
the top of his speed to the ferry. When
he came to where another street inter-:
sected Cortlandt Be dodged in and out
between the wagons with surprising agil
ity and without perceptibly slacking his
pace. y
He was a peculiar looking man.;
Scarcely five feet tall, with shoulders of
the breadth of a large and portly man, a ;
large head, set upon a thick, short neck, !
a derby hat two sizes too, large resting
on his prodigious ears and exposing a
broad, bulging forehead ; small at the
waist, with slender legs bowed almost to
deformity and toes that lapped over each
other as he ran, he attracted scrutinizing
attention.
He passed the ticket punchers before
iney naa nine to can upon mm to nait.
By the time they thought of their duty
the dwarf was tapping a man on the arm
Thu man stood near the gate leading to
the boat, which was just coming in.r
'ine man wnom tne awart tapped, on
tne arm was imiy six ieet tail, lie was
dressed in the somewhat worn and ill
fitting garments of a laborer. Over his
right eye was a green patch. His beard
was two days old, and he had been clean
shaven when, a razor last touched : his
script, that Philadelphia will turn out
the
city
the trreatest seat of manufactures in
United States. The Press of that
claims the census shows its annual pro
duct to be $753,000,000, or 80,000,000
more than New York.! Perhaps latest
returns will modify these figures some
what. By the census j of 1880 New
Yoik led Philadelphia in manufactures
$150,000,000. ( '
The Lake Erie and 'Western Railway
has' a. rule, in common with other roads,
' rthiii the passenger who pays his fare on
thotiaiu must pay ten cents extra for not
having a ticket. Frank Mayo, an In
dianapolis drummer, boarded one of these
trains recently and declined to. pay the
-extra dime. He, tendered the regulai
. i .... .
fare, but the conductor declined to ac
cept it and ejected him from the train.
Mayo sued the company for $2000 dam
ages and got his verdict. It is a test
case and ha i excited a great deal of in
terest. ' ' '
Effects of variously colored lights on
insane persons have been observed by the
director of the - Milan (Italy) Insane
Asylum. A melancholy patient in a rosy
light improved perceptibly in twelvo
hours. In twenty-four hours he called
for food, although for many precejdjng
days nourishment had been administered
to him against his will. Thereupon the
director had rooms furnished iu solid
colors and confined patients in them.
Green and blue were found to be the
most quieting, rose the most cheering,
red the most exciting. All the patients
in the asylum will be confined hereafter
in apartments furnished in colors to suit
tne nature of their maladies.
Electrician Edison says that the entire
novel of Nicholas Nickleby can be re
produced on four cylinders of a phono
graph. In a paper read before the New .
York County Medical Society, Dr. J.
Blount Blcyer said physicians would find
' the phonograph very useful in recording
i the various souuds of the human voice,
especially iu the treatment of throat dis
! eases, such as croup and diphtheria,
when to have a record of the patient's
voice in its normal Condition would be
very desirable. Going outside of medi
cal science, the doctor said that in due
course of time tho phonograph would
undoubtedly be brought into use as an
, instructor of. foreigu languages and as an
j automatic, teacher of elocution.
j Says th New York -Nqwh: Few peo-
pie realize that day and night a little
. band of workers are silently burrowing
their way under the Hudson River and
nearing the end of one of the great
. undertakings of the age a tunnel be
tween New York and New .Jersey. In
time the noble s'truam 'will doubtless be
spanned by a in outer cantilever bridge,
but in less time we-' shall see under the
very bed of the rivef a. connection of
i-qual important o in its relation to' the
co.nuierciiii grovvin oi incw Xovk.. In a
a . I .1 -a . . f p inn r . .t
torn instance oi uiuoieet, mere is now
complete from the Jersey shore 3340
f i't, and prog.-evs as being male at the
f-iVi of ten feet a dav, the men working
with three shifts in twentv-four hours.
The work is now within eighty feet of
the r.ck fonn vti.; V, and alt the resources
of engineering s:UH are being employed
to pus t It fur.vur.i. Three tracks have
beeii substituted .far two, the air lock
the
his
man
head
as' he
down-
face. His slouch hat was pulled wejl
down on his forehead.
. The dwarf spoke to
turned about and bent
ward.
'But I cannot come, Jimmy," he said.
Again the dwarf spoke to him iu a
whisper. Then the two turned away to-'
gether. They went directly to the Sixth
Avenue Elevated Station, the dwarf
i walking behind. Whsn they reached
Twenty-eighth it was dark and rain was
falling. .
They went briskly toward Fifth avenue,
where they turned up town, walked .a
few minutes, and the dwarf's companion
paused. When Jim came up he said :
VTliis.H.'i'ans State prison."
Elizabeth shuddered, but William did
not. Fot a moment he was the stronger
of the two. At length he said:
"Not yet!" -
Young Gaylord looked at her as if
scarcely comprehending. Then she
added: i
"There is always hope."
This roused him and brought him back
to himself. He said:
. "Not for me."
"Let us see. Tell me all."
"Have you not heard?"
r 'Something from my father, but per
haps not all. Tell me."
. "In three .words. I robbed the bank."
: "Yc., I know. But that ia not all,"
and Elizabeth gently laid her hand upon
his arm. 4 'I have come to see you," she
added; "to help you, if I can. Will
you not trust me? I am, I know, only a
woman, but, I trust, a true woman and
one who must be convinced that her ideal
of true manhood is unworthy of her faith
before she will give that ideal up. My
trust in you tells me that there is some
thing yet to be uncovered, and may not
one so leal as I am claim all loyalty from
you? . Tell me all, William, and then I
can decide for myself that which 1 can
not permit even you, uuder a cloud be
yond which I cannot yet see, to decide
forme. 1 Come, then, tell me all.
i The young man looked at her stead
fastly a moment and then said:
: i"I will tell you all. But why should
1? It may break your heart; for, surely,
it will shatter your faith where I had
rather be adjudged a felon than have it
broken. o Besides, you may not believe
me. ' Your father is the President of the
bank."
"But I will believe you I must be
lieve you. My faith, unto the pleading
of my heart, is pledged. My trust in you
is immutable until you have made my
mind turn traitor to your self and led it
to doubt my sincerity. Do, William,
tell me all." j
"Why should I break your heart and
destroy in you a trust which must make
you miserable for life and make you de
spise me foreveri It is better that I
snouiaDear mis Durucn aione, ior oy so
doing I may retain, or at least some time
regain, some snare m your esteem
"You must co
"But I cannot.
in.
"She is waiting for vou.
flotijatcd so as to take w three
loaded
car-, . and in a little while electric transit
will !).! me i i l p'a;o o.' in pitient mule.
Hut for the fact tiiat there is a pressure
of several atjiosp'ieres, it wpuld be an
interesting brt to visit and see how art
Iijm e ze 1 n.iture by th'; throat and is
J.j'Mi'1,' her flo.y.i' w!iile the workers
I'" a iy j.Iod on to victory.
The man went up the steps, reaching
the threshold just as the door opened.
He stepped inside. The door closed
Jimmy waited until he heard a sob just
as the door was closing. Then he , hur
ried away. His work was only partly
done. ' ;
ne walked briskly and in . a little
while ascended the steps of a residence
on Madison avenue. The door opened
before he had . touched the bell. Hs
went inside and a young woman
closed the " door. The dwarf followed
her up one flight of stairs, into a sitting
room, which was evidently her own.' '
When she closed the door she said:
"Well, Jimmy?" ; f
"ncis with his mother."
"Thank you, Jimmy. You can go."
When the dwarf had gone the young
woman stood looking apparently at the
figures of the carpet at her feet. But if
she had ever known what the figures
were they were then as far from her
thoughts as the aate ot the discovery
that the world was round. This young
woman was Elizabeth Dalow. She was
not beautiful. Her lace was too strong
ior beauty. But a novice in character
reading must have seen that she would
be impressive anywhere. She was abovf
the medium height, with a good figured
Her eyes were a clear gray.; Her lips
were suited to a mouth that could be
either firm or sweet. Now it was firm
Her forehead was not high, but it was
broad, and her head sat well upon a fair
white neck above shoulders that did not
droop. She was a woman who would be
a heroine if put to the test. The test
was coming. Courage and strength were
required of her. When she raised her
head nobody would have said that either
was wanting. .
Passing in to another room she quickly
returned in a mackintosh and was ready,
to go out. She passed quietly down the
stairway, opened the door' gently and a
moment later was walking swiftly down
the avenue. Later she passed up the
steps where the dwarf had left the man
with the green patch over his eye. The
door opened at her touch. She, too, was
evidently expected. An elderly woman
conducted her to a room at the rear pf
the hall, smothering her sobs as they
went; Before she touched the door knob
she turned . in response to a hand upon ;
her shoulder. Elizabeth spoke only a
word :,
"Courage." -
Then they entered the room. Both!
stood, looking at each other, ine eyes:
of the elder woman was suffused with'
tears; those of Elizabeth were filling, but
her face was no longer stern.
Sirs. Julia Gaylord was sixty years of
age. Her face was sweet,' pure,
womanly such a face as a boy who
loves his mother never forgets, as a. man
instinctivelv trusts, and is better for the
trusting, as her husband had been, and,
who had died leaving a smile in return
for a kiss that had opened for him the!
gates to the visible sunshine of eternal
day. Mrs". Gaylord left the room, softly
closincr the door behind her.
In a few minutes the door opened aua
a young man entered. He was neatly
ana carefully dressed. Tall, slender,
pale, and with his eyes upon the floor,
he advanced to the middle of the room.
His faee was clean shaven. Elizabeth
sobbed, but her courage did not escape.
She arose, went up to him and said:
"I am glad you are here."
He raised his head. He .could not
speak at first, however hard he tried.
Tears came to his eyes and then ran
dawn his face. Again Elizabeth said,
and there was
much weaker man strength : .
"Courage." '
' Then William Gaylord'? voice cajne to
him. . He said:
"William, I love you! Now, tell me
all.!"
Young Gaylord hesitated only until he
had locked into her pleading eyes. Her
hand now clasped his own. He saw her
love in all its sweetness and purity un
folded as plainly as he had au hour be
fore seen the anguish upon his . stricken
' mother's face. He spoke:
' "God forgive me if I do a wrong!
You remember, E'izabeth, that two years
ago I .was made cashier by yout father of
the bank. My hands were then as clean
as my mother's name was above sus
picion. ' I worked faithfully. My salary
was small. I do not plead this in extenu
ation of my error, but it' was wholly out
of comparison with my duties. The di
rectors were close' fisted men. At the
end of a year I asked for a larger salary.
The directors said they could get compe
tent and more experienced men for what
I was receiving. My good mother had
only income enough to, sustain het prop
erly, and my salary barely kept me de
cently. I saw no prospect of making a home
of my own. But I plodded along. Eager
ness to advance in the world sharpens
the wits. One day I discovered that the
directors, vour father included, were
speculating in a mining trust. , One dis
covery led to another. I was not long
finding out that they sometimes used the
bank's deposits to add to their personal
gains. It was easy for me to persuade
myself that if the officers could make
money in this way, I could not fail to
do EOi Six months ago I began to use
my own money. I had saved nearly a
thousand dollars. I went into the min
ing trust. At first I ' made a little
moneyj and I had 1500. Then I went
deeper.1 Meanwhile the bank's officers
were speculating. The trust began to
go backward, and I began to steal. The
officers were doing the same. They
could kee"p going because their oppor
tunities were better. They had easier.
Access to the funds. The deposits were
hmninn lrw. Thrp.fi dnvs arothe officers
g f T o " " J -
Called me into their private room. They
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pau uiscoveruu my jjcuuibhuuo auu ium
ine so. I confessed, and asked for three
tlays in which to make my losses good,
intending to expose them and drag them
down with me in the ruins. They knew
that thev were, like ravself' guilty, and
perhaps mistrusting how much I knew,
they granted my request; Then 1 thought
of you. Your father must go with the
prash. . I could not drag him down and
disgrace you. I determined to run away,
but before I went one of the directors,
m6re bold than the rest, came and told
irn mother that I ws a defaulter. She
would not believe him, but I was in the
house, and when confronted by them I
confessed my guilt, but made no ex
planation beyond tbe mere confession.
This afternoon I, having cleanly shaved
my face two days before, procured &
second hand suit of clothing in exchange
for others and was in the ferry house
when Jimmy found me and Urged me to
come back. Why I did not resist him I
do not know, only that you had sent
him. I simply hcould not go, and I re
turned. To-morrow my mother will
beggar herself to try to save me. ilf she
fails and I almost pray heaven she may
-j-I must go to jail." .
i Here young Gaylord broke down com
pletely. Elizabeth did not. She still
clasped his hand, but she almost choked
as she said:
t " And this is all?" r
"All!"
I "And my father was as guilty as the
rest?" . . .
t -ii j 1 1 u : V. 1 rril. t-1;
IUCU
his sin, if there be a comparative degree
in a sin like this, is greater than yours.
You shall be saved or he must fall."
Elizabeth's face now softened and tears
ran down her face. Through them she
-said: I . -
"It was for me you hid 'my father's
crime. Surely my love can save you and
in it you can never again go astray. If
you could do this much for me my
womanhood would be false hearted to
falter in my duty. Wait here for1 me
until to-morrow. I will come. I will
go to your mother now."
Mrs. Gaylord's pillow was ;wet with
tears that night, but they were the tears
of gratitude, and peace camo to her like
a ray of -hope that never leaves a somber
shadow, from the giver of every good
and perfect gift.
The remainder of this story is quickly
told. What Elizabeth said to her father
will never be repeated in words, but it
had its full and perfect effect. . She re
turned to young Gaylord the next even-,
ing, and this is what she said to him :
"William, my mission has been a suc
cess. I believed you and I know that
you told me the truth. You are a free
man.. Before I rested last night my father,
confronted with your words, confessed
all. I went with him to the bank to-day
and faced the directors with him. His
head was only one of all the rest that
burned suffused with shame. I demanded
your freedom, and my father then ad
mitted that the trust had advanced agaiu
and that the bank was now as solvent as
it ever had been. Even your investment
had made no loss. Indeed, there was
something said about the profits gained,
and I then demanded a promise from each
separate individual that not one penny of
this gain should ever be touched by a
single officer of the bank. The promise
was made, and, William, you will prom
ise, too? I know, my loveJ you will,
And as he promised her tears mingled
with his own, while Mrs. Gaylord lifted
up her voice from a heart overflowing
with gratitude to Him who has promised
to be mindful of the widow's son.
William Gaylord and Elizabeth Dalow,
his wife, are living in the West, happy
and as nearly well contented as lov
ing man and wife can be, she still doing
him honor, and he as proud of her as an
honest man can be of a true and loving
woman.
If any man or woman is disposed to
doubt the truth of this ttory of real life
in all essential details, let it be said, with
all the reverence for truth which belief
in the Master based upon : unfaltering
hope inspires, that it is true, and that
there are men, for the incident is not of
remote date, who can verify it almost
within reach of the writer's hand. W
S. Snyder, in iVew York Preti.
JUST AS IN ClilNA.
A ' CHINESK WEDDING
I FRANCISCO. '
IN SAN
The Vice-Consul Weds da Accom
plished Chinese Girl How Mat
ters Were Arranged, and
- the Knot Tied;
A recent issue of the San Francisco
Examiner savs: The first official Chinese
wedding ever to take place in America
occurred Jast evening at the Chinese Con
sulate on Stockton street. s
The contracting parties are Owyang
King, Vice-Consul for the Chinese Gav-
ernment in this city, and Lillie Tin Loy,
daughter of Tin Loy, the well-to-do mer
chsnt , of Grass Valley, Nevada County.
The bride is an accomplished girl of
sevehleen, and was born in Grass Valley.
Her father, who has resided thete for
the past thirty years, has been lavish iu
his efforts to educate her in the English
as; well as the Chinese language. She
has traveled extensively in Europe, and
nas reproduced on
canvas many charm
ing Italian land
scapes and English
rustic scenes that are
still fresh Jn her
memoryi In 1873
she went to China
with her father, and
there received sev
eral years schooling
in her native tongue,
an excentional thino
among Chinese girls. She is a clever
musician, singularly apt with her needle
in fancy work and accomplished in many
other ways. '
Owyang King is thirty-one years of
age and was born in China. .He came to
this country when young aud graduated
at I Yale in the class' of '81, He after
ward returned to China and held a re
sponsible position in the arsenal at Foo
Chow, and in 1SSS was assigned to the
Consulate at New York. Three years
later he was appointed Vice-Consul in
this city, which position he has held ever
since. He holds fourth rank in the ser
vice; a standing about equal to a Viscount
in England.
The wedding, owing to the official '
position of the groom, was conducted
Ascending to the third story of the I
building the two women made their way '
to the bridal chamber, where the bride
was placed upon a seat and left alone.
. Then a messenger was sent to the Du
pont street restaurant an! Vice-Consul
King was informed that certain members
of the Tin Loy household were at the
consulate and would like to see hita on
business of importance. j
Then it was that II. "Y. Chang, Wong
Gee Kow, Wong Nagu .Fun, Lee Nam
and Lee Mun Chan, as representatives of
the groom's family, gathered about him
and 'ed him into the presence of the bride.
Owyang King was attired in the costume
of a mandarin with the addition of a red
sash across the right shoulder and a few
gold and silver decorations in his turban.
He entered the consulate with his friends
by the back door, and as soon as his ar
rival became known his friends through
out the house burst into one long chorus
of congratulations and fairly jumped
with glee.
Aft! a Hundred and Seven.
On the outskirts of the pretty little
town of Mattapoisett, Mass., there dwells
an old lady whom everybody in that
region knows as "Aunt Keziah." Mrs.
1T0RDS OF WISDOM.
The noblest mind the best content
ment has. j
He must be an obscure and common-
Kexiah Randall was born in September, place person who has no enemy.
1783. and was on her last birthday one 1 Men of character aie the conscience of
yean oiu. iier j ine society to which they be Ion
i ' m . .- l - i i ,
hundred and seven yean old.
house, which, by the way, she has occu
pied for sixty yeirs, stands in the midst
of a clearing, about one-fourth of a mile
from the main road, and is eo situated as
to be out of sight from the road and
from the houses in the locality. - The
old lady lives entirely alone, not even
be cheated is to
more cunning than oth-
THE i!iOOM.
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MRS. KEZIATI RANDALL.
having so much as a cat to keep hci
compaoy,
Wonders In a Drop of Hay-Water.
I Let me tell you of some -,uf the won
derful things I have seen. Once I put a
little hay in a tumbler, covered it with
water, and set the glass in a warm place
for a day or two. Then, with a medicine-dropper,
I put a drop of the water
on a glass slip, covered it with a very
thin glass wafer the size of a cent.placed
it under my microscope, adjusted the
focus, and what a sight met my eyes.
Dozens and dozens of what looked like
iftimated drops of jelly were darting
here and there, bumping against one
another, or dodging one another like
schoolboys at ' recess. Perhaps among
the crowd of smaller ones would dash a
much bigger fellow. I fancied it might
be a big brother, older than the others
by some hours, and so entitled to tho
deference he seemed to exact. Then, in
another part of the drop of I water, the
little ones formed almost r a j circle, and
presently in the center of ;this came
a big fellow he must have been at least
one-one hundredth of aninchlong who
began revolving slowly. "P. T. Bar
uum," I thought to myself.) "That is
exactly the way I have seen ljim adlress
an audience surrounding a circus ring."
But I can never know what he told the
small ones, for not even the "little ghost
of an inaudible squeak" reached my ears.
Besides these little creatures, ;I could se 3
what looked like dark specks darting
above. Determined to i find out what
these were, I used a stronger magnifying
glass, and looking through it the specks
proved to be other little j swimmers such
as I had just been examining; and the
latter, of course, seemed larger. But
now there were still other specks darting
about, so a still stronger glass ' was used,
with the same result, j Magnify as I
might, I could not reach ! a point where
there were not some moving atoms need
ing further magnifying.! I have since
learnel that no glass has ever been mide
powerful enough to reveal the tiniest of
these "infusoria", as they are called.
St. Nicholas. f
strictlv in accordance with
customs of China.
The knot is tied by
contract, which is
regarded as more
binding than tiny
other form, and the
ceremonies once
oyer, there is no
such thing as di
vorce or separation.
This contract - is
arranged by the
the old-time
o m,
THE BRIDE.
CAUUTIXa TUB BR IDS TO HER JTEW HOME.
Once in the presence of the veiled
bride, who was supported by Qui Tain,
Qui -Wong, Qui Cheng and Qui Lee, ;
four married women, a few words were
spoken by the friends on either side,
and then the groom advanced and raised
the veil from the face and form of the
bride. This was supposed to have been
the first time that the two had met. Tbs
contract binding the tw was not read,
but is retained by the relatives of the
groom, wno, Dy tne way, are in unina.
The bride was dressed in a simple dark
blue robe, her hair was caught up be
hind in a Grecian knot, and she wore no
jewels pr ornaments of any kind what
ever. :
Then they were told that their friends
had decreed that they should become
man and wife, to which proposition
they assented, and pledged their troth ia
wine, served to them in silver tankards,
which were connected by a piece of red
ribbon. This ceremony has the same
significance as the ring in Christian
In summer she . nas many
visitors from among the trsnsient popula
tion, for Mattapoisett is a watering place
on Buzzards Bay. There are
among the permanent residents who visit
her regularly throuchout the year to
supply her with wood and wrter and to
procure for her such supplies as sne
needs. . Although she has so many years
to her credit the old lady is wonderfully
Tumorous, and with her own hands
plants potatoes, peas and strawberries
the ground having first been prepared
by so ait) kind neighbor, and she also has
quite an array of flowers in a garden
which is her especial care and pride
When she is obliged to remain indoors
knitting is her occupation. She is an
interesting' person to listen to, as she1
talks of times when she was a girl. Al
though often urged to leave her lonely
house and move into the village, she
clings to the old home. Mrs. Randall's
husband, long since dead, was a soldier
in the war of 1812, and Congress has re
cently voted her a pension of $30 per
month. Cliicaqo Pott.
Yerj Much Alike.
The
fancy, one's self
ers. ,
If the power to do hard work is not a
talent, it is the ; best possible substitute
for it. -,
Some lend their hearts much as they
do their money, with a pretty heavy in-
terest. .
True worth never seeks credit for more
than it is; that is left for imitators and
counterfeiters.
The degree of success obtained may
often be ascertained by the amount of
jealousy which it," arouses.
Half our forebodings of our neighbon
arc but our wishes, which we are ashamed
to utter in any other form.
No abilities, however splendid, can
command success without intense Libar
and persevering application.
We may be certain of an axiom, but it
becomes to us doublv true when vouched
for by one whose opinion we value.
People generally are what they are
made by education and company between
the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.'
Many of 'us have two standard, one
for ourselves that reaches the clouds,
while the one which wc give to others
trails low i n the dust1.
There are thre with manners so fine
they seem formed by the graces,and with
speech so courteous that the spirit of per
suasion might have prompted it. -
Whether a boy is from country or city,
xich or poor, weak or strong, talcntel or
not, will aud work arc sure to win.
Wishes fail, but wills prevail. Labor is
luck.
parents or guardians of the couple, who
are not supposed to know each other un- weadings The proceedings over the
til the dav f the wedding. There are
many singular and interesting features of
a Chinese wedding when conducted
itrictly in accordance with the national
rites, and all of these were observed to
the letter yesterday. J
Five days ago Lillie Tin ' Loy was
brought to the city by her friends and t
placed in solitary confinement in a room
at the house of Lee Hung San on Sacra- I
mento street. There ia her seclusion she '
patiently awaited hpr. wedding day, see
ing no one but those whose visits to her :
with food were absolutely necessary. . j
Yesterday Owyang Km received his
friends at the consulate building, the old '
Pioch House, on Stockton street. From
early in the forenoon till 3 o'clock there
was one continual stream of visitors to .
the bouse, and the official received each
one with a low bow as they passed be-
fore him and tendered their congratula-
tions. Presents, many of them costly
and rare, came f:oin all sides, and these j
were arranged for the inspection of vis- '
itors. In the reception room hung rich
silk banners, sent in by the Presidents of
the. Six Companies, upon which appro
priate greetings wero worked in silver
and in gold, and many expensive articles
of vertu were placed iu position upon
every available table or mantel, as they
were left by friends.
At 3 o'clock the Vice-Consul was. con
ducted to the restaurant of ; Hang For
Low. on Dupont street, where the lead
ing Chinese. merchants of the city, as
well as many from outside places, en-
tertained him in the most extravagant
fashion until the time came for the wed
ding ceremonies.
friends of the couple congratulated them
again and again and then retired.
To-day the wife of Vice-Consul King
will appear in a robe of gorgeous red
satin, embroidered in gold and silver.
Her hair will be dressed in the fashion
of married women, she will wear a
coronet and her jewels and will take the
title of Ti Ti her ladyship. The day
will be devoted to the worship of their
ancestors and receiving friends of the
groom and - at sundown the marriage
ceremony will be completed. Then,
after a lapse of three days, the bride's
friends and followers will be permitted
to call and at the expiration of two weeks
the couple will go through the marriage
service of the Episcopal Church.
Among the presents were over thirty
pairs of bracelets, nearly fifjy hairpins
of various designs and many of them set
with jewels, pearl and jadestone earrings,
packages of United States gold coin,
chairs, drss patterns in the richest kinds
'. of silk, a beautiful brocaded silk gown,
with butterflies worked in many colors-
sent by the Chinese Legation at Ycko
honia silverware, Toll after roll of silk
lamps, lounges and a miscellaneous lot
of trinkets and nicknacks and articles
of clothing.
I
juggins "Look "here, if you can't
trot out anything better Jhan that we
sha'n't deal. You don't .suppose I'm
going to bid for an old rack like that,
do you?" - '
Coper (with sarcasm) "Well, I should
say you can't do letter. You're both a
trifle weak in the knees and would pair
well." Judge.
fisvlnrrl bowed his head.
abcth said :
You shall
lI believe you.
not
go to
I Here -voice was hard, firm, determined.
When Gaylord looked at her, he saw at
aiglauce that her mind was made up as
unalterably as the numbering of the days
oe upon an6ther. He pleaded with her
to save her father and let him go, but to
no purpose.
j "God is as merciful as He is just," she
said. "Through him I will save you
both. If in the ruins you are found, he
will be there with you. He has done this
wrong as much as you have done it. His
ability to stem the tide of J-adversitT aug-
that in her voice to give a j mbnts rather than excuses his crime. He
should have saved you. no suau neip to
do it yet,or the same law which sen
tences" you f hall sentence him. Weak
though you were, he was weaker, and
The Protection of Ourj Native Birds.
At a recent meeting of the Massachu
setts Horticultural Society the protection
of our native birds was the subject of an
essay followed by a general discussion.
It was said tha no intelligent observer,
can deny the usefulness j of our native
birds in destroying insects. Unmolested
by the birds these would rapidly multiply
and their depredations would increase in
proportion During the spring time
many of the birds live wholly on insects,
some takiDg them on the wing, others
in ,the larvae or chrysalis state and many
more as they appear in the morning' as
worms, grubs, borers, etc.
The mistaken idea prevails with many
that some of our familiar birds do more
harm by eating small fruits than they do
good by destroying insects. This preju
dice exists against the robin and many
other insect-eating birds, i And yet these
birds -are obliged to subsist principally
upon canker worms, some kinds of cater
pillars and bugs. Among tho enemies
of the small insect-eating birds the com
mon crow was mentioned! as-doing more
damage by destroying the eggs and young
of these useful species than he did good
by destroying the insects he devours.
Something should be speedily done to
prevent the wholesale destruction of bur
useful species of birds before they become
extinct. New York World.
: '
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Apples From Tasmania.
The singular experiment was tried by"
an Australian of shipping 1700 boxes of
apples from Tasmania to San Francisco,
Cal. This venture was somewhat like
carrying coals to Newcastle, as even late
winter apples are grown in the mount
ains sufficient to supply all that
Stato demands. It proved disastroui in
this case, as improper stowing or the
heat of the hold converted the greater
part of the consignment into file speci
mens of baked : apples. Xew York
Tribune. ; - !
An Optical Illusion.
The illustration shows what" wonder
ful tricks can be played upon the human
eye by knowing persons. Although the
lower of the two segments appears to be
much larger than : the upper one, it is
DEALING THE BONDS OF MATRIMONT.
Smallest Real Estate Transaction.
In 1822, Arthur St. Clair, of Cincin
nati, sold a piece ' of land for $2.25,
which is thus described in the deed:
1-1000 pt. of an inch from the n. e. cor
ner of lot No. 23, and running south 1-4
of an in. ; thence w. to the back line of
said lot; thence n. 1-4 of an inch;
thence e. to point of beginning." Thu
is probably the smallest real estate trans
action on record, I
It was just 8 o'clock in the evening
when the bride arrived at the consulate.
The buildiug was ablaze with Chinese
lanterns inside and out. and right in the
miriu nf the walk leading up to the
door burned a small bonfire of scented
woods. In every room in - the house
were gathered Chinese, clad in their rich
attire of many colors. When the door
of the hack was opened one of- the hand
maidens of the bride alighted and stood
with her back to the door. Then a form.
comdetelv enveloped in the folds ot i
heavy red veil, which reached to the
ground, appeared, and was assisted on
the back of the woman who had first
alighted. Then came what is known as
the "po-between the woman who is
supposed to have arranged the particu
lars of the match with the parents of the
contracting parties. She held above the
head of the hidden female a gorgeous
umbrella, and then, in this queer fashion,
the three moved toward the house. They
walked deliberately through the burn
ing embers this is a symbol of purifica
tion and immediately thereafter a long
fusillade of firecrackers commenced. .
This continued long after tbe house was
reached.
WHICH IS THE LARGER t COT OSI OUT Ain
SEE.
really not so. By cutting one out oi
the segments and placing it on top ot tne
other the reader may determine which
is the larger.
This tnck is not a test lor the eyes.
It is as certain to deceive a perfect pair
of eyes as it is to mislead any other kind.
There is, therefore, no reason why the
reader should consult a physician- after
having solved the trick. New York Sun.
A Unique Rotlftr.
At a reient meeting of the Natural
History Society -Dr. Thomas S. Stevens
entertained and instructed the members
by an illustrated paper on a rotifer, a
microscopic animal that is among the
rarest in the group. It was first discov--ered
by a Russian microseopist, next
found twice in Philadelphia, once in Uli
nois, and some years ago in Trenton. If
has now been re-discovered here.
The creature is unique in several par
ticulars that would be of but little inter
est to the general reader, but which fill
with inexpressiblo joy the heart of tbe
devoted microseopist, who is happy when
he is prying into the little Drain or tne
larger stomach of the animal.
The little creature is blessed above the
human beast in having two stomachs,
which it can fill with other animals, and
apparently enjoy itself jpy digesting them
in spite of their wriggling. But in con
nection with one of the animal's stom
achs a discovery has been made in Tren
ton that has never before been made in
any part of the world otherwise it
would not be a discovery. This pouch
i internallv lined with a dense and wool
ly coating of vibrating bain. These
strange internal appendages appear to be
unknown to any other than the Treoton
rotifer, and are, therefore, of great inter
est in a scientific way.
Another pleasing point, pleasing both,
to the animal and to the microseopist, is
that the rotifer has no means of seeking
iu food nor of creating currents in the
water that shall bring food to its double
stomach. It can only rest on a small leaf
or other object, hold it mouth widely
open and wait for Providence to fill it by
means of some wandering animal that
shall blunder into the trap and be done
for because once in those jaws there Is
. no 'escape. Trtnton (X J.) StaU Ga
tetU. '
Berlin had a great culinary exposition
recentlv. which was opened by Princess
Frederick Charles, the old time patron
saint of many a hof restaurant or hof
kueche in Berlin and bther Prussian
cit;es. AU German culinary societies
were represented. The chemistry of the
kitchen occupied a very interesting de
partment of the highly attractive display
of the triumphs in the realm of the
palate. ,
Tbe Texas Taraatnla.
The Texas tarantula belongs to the
family of burrowers, and his bdme is a
long tunnel, sloping downward for sev
eral feet, and then rising and pursuing
such a long and devious wa that it is a
jnatter of great: difficulty to dig one of
them out. At the door of his house one ,
catches a glimpse sometimes of t'ae soli
tary householder loo i; ing at the land
scape or taking a breath of fresh air, or,
perhaps, waitiig for some unwary beetle
or butterfly to pass by. On the slightest
motion he is gone, and there is but the
smooth, round hole, whose sides this lit
tle plasterer has made as hard and as firm
as the sides of an earthen jug.
' The tarantula commits widespread destruction-
among the insects in his-neigb-borhood.
It is but right, thcrefqre, and
according to the natural order of things,
that he should have bis enemy, too, and '
bo forced to skulk and hide, and be
oftentimes overtaken, and have his brief
holiday of lif- brought to a tragic end
ing, lis enemy is said to be the Texas
"hornctl frog,", that absurd little bur- J
lesqueon the lizard family, which abounds
on the Texas plains. " The horned frog
i . t . i r t t v :
apparently uaa no ee lur ui-auij, nun uia
heart must be a stranger to the sensation
of fear, since he does rot quail before
this grim and hairy monster, which is not
many degrees smaller than himsel'.
The frog waits at the door of the spider's
house as grim and relentless as the mes
senger with the bow string, bis rough
gray body lying motionless, and not to be
distinguished, from the surrounding
earth. So perfect is the deception and
so quick are bis motions ' that even tho
many eyed spider fails to detect his pres
ence and incautiously ventures forth.
Quick as a flash of light his enemy is
' upon him, and the fierce struggle begins. .
The scaly back and the horny head of
the frog render the tarantula's bites
harmless, and he spends his strength and
fights his battle in yain. In a few min
utes the strugglo is over, and the frog
devours, his victim,' wearing meanwhile
an expression of beatitude impossible to
describe. The wanderer about the fields
will find nowhere a moie wondeiful pic
ture than this contest between two of tho
strangest creatures that ever met, fought
and died upon the field of conflict.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
This Room Can't be Imitated.
Tbe wife of one of the best known
wall paper painters in the country re
joices in. some room decorations and
furniture which are certain never to be
widely imitated, simply because they can
liot be, although the cost was quite small.
The ordinary wall paper is printed
upon cylindrical rollers, varying in size
according to the pattern, which is raided
upon them in very high relief. The nar
rower borders are printed upon flat strips
of wood, whose designs also stand boldly
out. Of course the cutting of these cylin
ders and strips is quite expensive, but
when the patterns become old fashioned
they are no longer useful. This . lady
has taken a large quantity ot tbe cat off
cylinders and flats and combined them to
make a library table, a mantel, a decora
tive frieze, a wall cabinet and the frame
work of a piece or two of upholstered
furniture. The effect when the
colors are used in painting the furniture
Ss remarkably beautiful. It is not often
that a private house in America can show
anything like such a quantity of beauti
ful relief carvings. A folding screen,
fashioned of the flat strips, swung from
four columns of cylinders, is the master
piece of this absolutely unique decora
tive scheme. New York Prttij
a
In Sweden, as elsewhere, the manu
facture of margarine is constantly in
creasing, and several new works have
been or are to be erected. .
California salmon have been placed in
ft 8ko, Franca,
I " There has been a serious bush fire in
Australia. It extended along a line
twenty miles wide, and 13,000 sheep
were burned on one farm alone. Be-
' sides this fire the oat crop in New South
Wales has sustained extensive damage
I through locusts.
Sand Papering Machine.
A machine for, sand papering and
polishing woodwork has been patented by
an English firm. ' The macbicc has three
sandpapering cylinders. Tbe first is
covered with a cosre giade of paper,
and has a cutting art ion on the wood
similar to that of revolving cutlers.
When operating on framed work for
doors or parquetry it will cut away all
the uneven surfaces without breaking
T th or nluckinir the cross-
grained ports, and leaves an even surface
for polishing. The second cylinder is
coveredVwith a somewhat finer paper for
'sandpapering. The third cylinder is
; for finishing the work. It has a very soft.
fine cushion for the paper, wnicn jus
touches the work, and imparts to it a
very high polish. A' York Telegram.
Canada is getting more of Great BriV
aia's cmigranu. . I .