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Chatham Jcrord. H. A. LONDON, Jr., SMTOB AND PnorEIITOR. CWtaw ftp or ADVERTISING. Om iiaaM. om iOMrMoo, OMmw, two luwrtlom, BM wpi.m. one month, It TERMS Of SUBSCRIPTION: Onowtf y, ot'efcnr, Uue copy ,bx months One cor J-, tlirt mouth.". txoo 1.00 . VOL. VI. PITTSBORO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, APRIL 10, 1884. NO. 31. JgJ"Hm wlntBUbimlcurtrci wlB A Birthday Greeting. What tliall I 'ih thf! fir the cumin;; year ! Twclvo month, of dreamlike i .'.-o ! No cure '' No :i i 1 1 .' llright valui -imiliior uiituimi without in ill Of bil tor loans? WinilJ'M Imvo il llin. m; fiiuud ? IVInt U'un, then, whip Ifin nl ii' tho jcm'i end? What jb1h.1I I wi-h tli'.'p, then ? (iod kiKuveih well If I coild have my aiiv. no -)i.. !e of woo f-lemld I'voi dim Iliy Miii-liini) but 1 know Sliong cOMingA it not lcunit in happy sleep, Nor pntiincu ktvuel by eye thai never vvoip. Ah, would my wi-lip wcto of more avail To keep from thci' tho many jus of lib-! Still let m. lh thee ootirngi- for tlm si rife. The happiness that comes of w. rk well ilono An oftornunU the peca cf victory on! UNDER THE WEATHER. ".Six of us!" said Fenella Greyton, 'aa I nothing to live upon!" JSlio looked around upon tho rest oi the Grey ton family with the tragic air of a modern Melon. Tho Grey tons live I in prc-tty, U1 manor house, on tho Uloomingdale road, just a pleasant drive out of town. They liked rptty draperies, and cul tivated rare ruse', anil painted lovely little n.uatcur pictures, and basked, in a sort of unthinking way, in life's sun fchinc. They didn't know quite how much in onio they had, nor exactly where it came from. They only Know that everything wa in the hands of "pour papa's" lawyer a darling. whit"-haii-ed old philanthropist, who wan dev ot eJ tu the licatheil. an i who oTiciated as secretary to half a docn foreign mission a sociations. And whenever they wanted iimn'v they went to him for it. And one day. when Mm. (ireyton nn-1 her daughter Lilla went to the city olliee, With a bundle: of unpaid hills, to get Mr. Framingham to write a chceque for them, the door was pad-loek-d, and n liitio notice "To I. el!" was tacked up on it. Where had Mr. Fr iiiiinghani gone? Nobody knew. Whrn would ha return? T!ic public was dens, ly ignorant on that subject. Why had h" gone? And in answer to this question there was a very uni versal shrugging of shoulders, and a whisper ahoiit a general "smash-up!" Poor Mrs. (ireyton! Sho and Lilla Were both as ignorant and inexperi enced of the world as a pair of white kittens, and it was some time lieforo she could comprehend that Mr. Fra rningham was it tie. rough-faced vidian- and that sho ami her little, flock were penniless. "What shall we cloV" murmured Mr, (irevton, after sho hail wept through her whole supply of pockot handkerehiefs. "Couldn't wo sell our hand-painted china 'r" said Clarice, a swarthy-browed girl of eighteen. "I designed every piece myself. And Mr. Favalli said" "Pshaw!" curtly interrupted Fenella, "Just look at the china-store, crowded full of far liner work. Poor Clariei they wouldn't pay you tho price of the mineral paint it took to do them, for your plaetjues and vases." "1 can do art-embroidery very nice ly." suggested Mono, a tall, shy girl, with liquid black eyes, and jetty hair, growing low on her forehead. "Tho embroidery market is overfull,'' said Fenella, who was the incarnation of common sense for tho family. "If you could do housework now, Mon.'v " Mona looked down at her slim, white hands, all sparkling with rings, and shuddered. Hut Bess, the youngest, came brave ly to the rescue. "The first thing," said she, "is to send all the servants ol except Ann. We cau't afford t j pay four girls and a man any longer." "But who is to keep the garden in order," cried Clarice, "if we discharge thenan'r" "It must go without being kept in order," said Hess, "or else we must do it ourselves." "My poor roses !"sighed Mrs. (Ireyton. "Mamma's roses shall not. sutler," said I. ilia. "I will look after them myself." . "And old Mrs. Playford, who spends a mouth with us every summer?" said Mona. "And the Hi tl good girls, who always invite their friends here to the midsummer picnics and all the people who drive out from the city to lunches and teas " "We must make a clearance of the whole of 'em!' said Fenella, crisply "unless, indeed.they would like to make a business matter of it and pay their board."' "Oh, Fenella!" cried Mrs. Greyton. "Well, why not, mamma? So far as 1 can see, wo haven't got money enough to buy our own bread and but terso how can we afford to order ices, and frozen puddings, and palm tie foie grits for other people? But if we had a regular income, I am almost sure, with Ann's help, that we could set a very nice table for boarders." Lilla looked terrified. "Mamma," said she, "has it come to this?" Hess frowned savagely. "Lilla," said she, "don't be a fool! unless you think you would like to starve." And whilo tho family were still in committee-of the-whole, old Mrs. Play, ford's huge, old-fashioned barouche rumbled up to the door, with a Leaning Tower of Pisa strapped on behind in the fchape of trunks! "I'm a little earlier than usual, my sweet girls," said she, with a smile that revealed tho golden hinges of her false teeth after a most ghastly fashion. "But the season Is intolerably hot, and my doctor decl.iros it would be suicide for me to remain longer in town. And I know, darlings, I'm always suro of a welcome here!" Mrs. (ireyton was about to reply, when Fenella stepped forward. "'1 hen you haven't heard of it?'said sho. "We art) ruined, Mrs. Playford. ld Mr. Framingham has spent all our money and gone to Australia. We can't entcrt tin company any longc. Hut if you would like to board hen-, at a reasonable compensation, we shall la glad to receive you, and give you ali tho comforts of a home." Mr?. Playford" jaw dronpel; idi tint ed a sickly, putty color. "..i tin, John!" she died, to the man: "you needn't uicilrap those trunks. I have so many friend i who aie anxious for my society, that really I am not at liberty to accept your very singular proposition" l to Feueli.i . "I if course, I !o Mrs. (ireyton I "I sympathize deeply with you, but we ail Know that riches have wings, and 1 never did pit any coniidt nco in Mr. Framingham as a business man. So sorry that tilings should have come to such an awkward complication!" "There sho goes the old harridan!"' said Mona, as the withered hand waved itself froiii the carriage-window, half way down the drive. "She lias lived upon us for six summers, and now Mic Wouldn't lling olio of u; a penny it We were stai ving!" Old Mrs. Playford was better than an advertisement in the newspaper. The liidgood girls came no more; the city people kept sublimely away. Tho old adage concerning the llight of rats from a falling h'Uihe, came .strictly true- "llosa liidgood hasn't even come after that conserve of rose-leaves I promised Iter," said Mena, sadly. "And I gavo live dollars for tho spi.es and essential-oils, and I dried tho jacqueminot and niel-leaves so careful ly and Clarie painted such a beautiful butter-lly jar for it!" "Can I have tho pot-pourri, Mona?' asked He s. suddenly. "Yc-s.if yon want it,"ansvered Mona, with a shrug of her shoulders. "WTe can't eat nor drink dried rose-leaves." "Perhaps we can," said Hess to her self. And sho remagel out divers and sundry rare cl.l porcelain jars and vases from the family store, filled them with the sweet, strangely-scented mass that Mona had concocted, and carried them quietly to town. "It smells exactly like Mrs. Greyton's drawing-room at the manor house here!" exclaimed Ferdinand Houghton, as he entered the studio of Miss Mai vina Morris, a fair feminine sculptor who had somo very original ideas of her own, and was on "hail-follow-well- met terms with all tho other artists of both sexes. She was neither young nor pretty, yet every one liked Miss Morris. "Well, I should think it might," said she. "Do you see those wine-jars on tho shelf?" "Of course I do. What are thev ?" "They are filled with conserved rose leaves. Mona (ireyton made them. Hess, the second sister, wants me to sell them for her. Heal old porcelain; leaves full of tho subtlest scents of Bendeineer. Will you take one at ten dollars, Ferdy?" "Then it's true V" said Houghton. "About their financial troubles? rnfortunately.yes," said Miss Malvina. "I only wish 1 could help them. Come, buy the pot-pourri there's a good fel low!" "It's my last ten-dollar bill," said Ferdinand, "but here goes! Mona (ireyton is an angel. Do you suppose, Miss Mally, she w ould accept a poor artist like me, w ith no particular in come and nothing to live on?" "Try it and see," said Miss Morris. "Hut I'm not half good enough for her." "Possibly," acceded Miss Malvina. "Hut there are five girls, you know, and nothing to live on." So Ferdinand bought the pot-pourri, and rode out at once to the manor house. "Your uncle, sir, wants to see you up at the house," said the groom who led out his little gray nag. said Houghton. "I am in a hurry." "Hut it is some r-y particular busi ness," saitl the man, running down the pavement after him. "Oh, hang business!" said Houghton; and off he rode. Mona win in the garden, with a b.is ket, gathering more ros-'-b aves. She thought the pot pourri question prom ised favorably. Clarice was painting deqier.itely away at old India ginger-jars, up stairs. Fenella was writing an advertise ment, "Hoarders Wanted," for tho nannr "I can't stav this inorniii'j-,' . . .. . , , .,! the pan that had lit Id I'rin, the ter "flie house is as big as a hotel,' said . she. "Why shouldn't we make somo . m'r 8 tl"m' r- . use of it'-" i " 1 W('"'1 ll.v nt B;l"' a Mona (ireyton listened with smilc3 and tears to Ferdinand Houghton's vehement proposal. "Uat wh it could we live upon?"said she. "Why, I could paint pictures!" said this sanguine young wooer. "I'm sure to sell them at. a tearing big price, as soon as my name becomes a lit tie better known; and I'll have your mother and a'l the girl i to live with us." "h, Ferdinand!" said Mona, half laiiihitu', half crviiiL'. .An I Can the young arti.d knew that h" had not plea-led in va:n. "And it's all invin,' to tho pot pourri," said she. "the sweet, ti"al p.'t-p "Mi" 'Kvery bit of it," said Ferdinand. Hut In. unci" listem d grawly to t!m lab', when ih)-young ina'i came home la'e ia tic mo. nli.'ht, wiih his heart full of his love affairs. "Humph!" sail Fn'-b1 Harlow. "Mow many pictures did you sell dur ing the past year ?" "Two, sir!" "At how lunch?" "Seventy-live dollars each! "reluctant ly admitted Ferdinand. "Humph!" again grunted this ro" lcutle.ssi.il lihadaiiian'Jiin.' 'And you expect to miinlam a wife and her mother and four sisters, on a hiindi i d and lift;- dollars a year!" "1 :hall manage to maintain t hem in s :i'o way, !;r." ai l tho unal.a In I nephew. "There's always tie: I-ar West, you know!" I'ncle Hallow laughed. "I think I can inanag.) to do better than that for you, you young .scamp,' said he. "If you had turned back this morning when 1 sent for you, instead of pelting o(f to the manor house, as if eminence in his philosophical studies it was a question of life or death, you more to perseverance iind application would have learned that old' Framing- than to any marvelous natural endow ham hail been overhauled in London, i incuts. en route for Van Dieman's Land, j Oliver Goldsmith, than whom no gorged vit!i plunder, like an old leech!" hoy could appear more stupid, was the "What, sir," shouted Ferdinand' j butt of ridicule. A school ilanie, after "The (ireytou's defaulting lawyer?' wonderful patience and perseverance, "Himself, and none other," said ; taught him the alphabet, a thing which Uncle Harlow. "We had a cable tele- 1 shy deemed croiitable to her school. graph at eleven o'clock. Mrs. Grey ton'a m nicy is all safe in the hands of. our London agent!" "Hut, sir," gasped Ferdinand, "how do you come to know this?' "Old Dorranco Greyton did me a favor once, when I was a struggling man," said Mr. Harlow. "It was not my intention to stand by and see his widow defrauded without some slight effort in her behalf. It seems that I was just in time." So there was an end to Greyton troublei. They kept the old manor ! house. Ferdinand Houghton set up his studio thero in one of the irreat north-lighted rooms.and Mrs. Houghton makes pot-pourris every year, of rose- 1 ;aves. And as fast as the other girls marry off which is by no means a slow busi ness, for they are every one of them handsome she gives them each a wedding present of a sweet conserve of scented leaves, in an old Orit ntal jar. "For pot-pourris aro lucky!" she says, with the wisest of nods. thokiiiff a Wildcat. We have laughed over tho fablo of the man who had the tiger by the tail, and dared not let go. That the man himself in such a position does not feel much like laughing, a resolute farmer from Indiana can testify very positively and he only caught a very small kind of a tiger, either. While visiting in Vinton County, Ohio, Iately.lhe suddenly encountered a wildcat in tho woods. Having no weapon to defend himself with, he threw his whole weight on the cat and crushed it to the ground, at the same instant, by strange good luck, grasping tho animal's neck with both hands. His weight held the wicked little fighter close to the ground, with his feet, its only weapons, under it, while by main strength he slowly choked the life out of tho animal, liven after life was seemingly extinct, tho farmer says he was afraid to loosen h a ho!d, and only did s i when the cramp in his flu gera compelled him. He exhibits the skin of the animal as a trophy, but says he is not looking for other world., j vo conquer. CillLDKEVS COLON. Two Opinion.. "I u ouM not Ihiii fid." fwiit .Tnrk, " llreaiiM' tlipy Imvp no fun; 'J'licy 0:111 not fin a li-liiei;. nor A'sboo inn iMlh n K'lU' ' III. Iil.JiS. " (would not be a li..v." K.hl May, " l-'oi boyr. ni'e lionM Ihin.. Wi ll p. i keH lilb-.l wall bonk nnd loii I Ami iii.il- mill lo . ni.. -! iioji-." I orhratitMri. I Sin h a long lime the fru.-t had last ed ; berries were scarei, and the birds hi re almost starvtd. Made bold by hunger, the sparrows ontliered round , young lard, p n rg Itiiriuiiy iti me I kennel where Piins rough In ad rested I on his paws. j Don't be afraid," said her brother j "he's ii. ui h l 'i la vy to -tie; and if he .should c .mo will soon make him go ' lwk again;" and th- little sparrow raisid l.i ire t ami looked very ar- l,k . i "Ye.i. indeed," said another. "Who's j afraid?" Priii raised his head. "I') rth little ' wretches!" bo muttered. "Shall I go t out and i-iii-h tie in with my paw? j Hut no, they are hungry, and 1 am too strong t ii lake olten.se at the tlm at of the oak." So I'rin laid his head down again, and the sparrows finished their meal and then lew away, chattering about tin ir own bravery, and mconsciona that they owe! 'heir lives as well as their dinner , to his forbearance. l'-aimii4 lMmrrv It is soiiicwh.it discouraging for a boy wiih moderate abilities, who aims to do his last, to bo told that others aci oinpli.shcd in childhood what he can only tin by hard study the best years os his youth. Hut such a buy should not rrlav his oflorK lie will succeed if he gives his heart and mind to the work, sir Isaac Newton was pronounce l!a dunce in his early selim j davs. lie stood low in bis cl.issts. and ! had no relish for study, (im; day the bright boy" of the school g?ve him a Uo !. in the sl..n ii h. which caused him every pain. The i 1 1 : 1 1 1 1 stung young Newton to the quick, and he resolved to make himself fell and respected by improved scholarship. Xcwton owe! his prc- , and which she lived to mention with pride, when her pupil became fa- inous. I Sir Walter Scott was a 'lull boy a-.d when attendihg the I'uiversity of Kdiiihurgh. he went bv the name of "the great blockhead." Hut ho wast ed no timo on trifles, and in pursuing a study that ho loved, he was perse vering and methodical. Sheridan found it hard to acquire the elements of learning. His mother deemed it her duty to inform his tench- rr that ho was not briuht to learn like other boys. Adam Clark was pronounced "a grievous dunce," and Dr. Chalmers w as pronounced by his teacher an "incorrigible" one. Chat terton was dismissal from school by his master, who, finding hims elf una ble to teach him anything in a satis factory manner, settled it that the boy was a fool. A Compromise. Asa woman, accompanied by a boy about ten years of age, w as passing a store on Michigan avenue the other day, a cur dog belonging to the mer chant gave the lad a snap on the leg. A great commotion was at once raised over the cin u instance, and the mer chant finally inquired: "How much do you want to settle this case ?" 'Ten yards of calico," promptly re plied the woman. "Very well; come in and get it." The cloth was torn off and handed to her, and mother and son took their ' departure. They returned, however, j in a few ininii'"':, r.d when the mer chant asked w hat was wanted she re plied: "It's the boy who is raising a fuss, sir. He says he got the bite and I got the dress, and he isn't satisfied." "Well, what does he want ?" "Three sticks of cantlv will console j him, sir, or if they don't he'll have to take it out in complaining." The sticks were handed out, and as the boy broke ono in two and stuffed ; Ids mouth full he muttered: . "You let the next dog bite you and 1 nl take a suit of clothes and you may I have the candy." Ih fruit Free i'm. LIFE IX TANUIEKS. An American l.nity'. VNlf to T.vo Mnnr ImIi lliirciii. -Xhrli- litmalcv. j High above mo 1 behold the huild , ings and walls rf Taujiers. says an ' American lady in a letter to the New i York Sun. The blue Mediterranean dashes its waves against a ruined ino!e and a temporary pier fertile ie'coiniiio . dation of travelers. Kverything is ! tliflorent from F.uroponn scenes. Wild ; liowers grow in profusion on the roofs and old walls. The bright blossoms ol the cactus glow in the sunlight. The ; prickly pear uttains the size and height of trees, and in many places forms ! arches beneath which ride Moors and : others mounted on mules and donkeys. Tho natives eat tho fruit, cutting each pear from its stem with twine. Tho j leaves are food for camels. Just below the hotel and outside the gate of the city is the '' or market 1 place. On Sundays and Thursdays it is filled with a motley crowd, who bring game, meat, eggs, fowls, and other provisions from the surrounding 'country. It is here that Gibraltar ob tains its supplies. Here you see the genuine Bedouin Arab. Wild and dirty as fTo is, he is clean when compared with the horrid looking men from the Bill .oast, de- : scendents ol the old pirates. They are j ; wild and uutam d, and fiercer than I wild animals. They do not cover their j heads. Their hen I s are closely shaved 1 after leaving a lock by which they for. venlly brieve Mohammed will pull I them up to heaven, j Tho noiso and din in the marl-et i place is infernal. At least 0'' tongues are at work. You can hardly force your way through the crowd. Once on the outskirts von are lo.-t in irreat herds of cattln and strings of loaded . 'donkey.-: from Buihary. These little creatures carry wonderful loads. They ; look small by the side of camels. These j animals, relieved of their loads, are ly- : jingdown in a circle with their fore ' 'legs tied together. Near them are I j numbers of oats'im tents, filthy in the , extreme, and only high enough to sit I UlUler. Jiie colli IIMOM is terrible. I Some of the men nrchaiigingoii drums i land others are idavinj; tin- lilfih'it' I 1 . rs , , w hich is infinitely worse than the .Moor- : ishilruia. ' ( n passing through two gates w ' came to a fountain. It was surround nl by a mob of water carriers. Tat" tercd rags fluttered ovi r their naked legs. They fought fiercely f..r prece- 1 denee in filling their water skins. Women whose faces were covered with the exception of an eye, crouched on the ground near by, selling bread. The magnificent Moor, in flowing white robe and spotless turban, strutted ma- i jestically by, not deigning to cast his : haughty glance at us. Tho streets 6warmed with children in various co ' tunics. The small shops were packed ; with men sitting cross-legged. Above. below, around, and beneath there was dirt of every description. Fortunately for us, the viler smells had been tem pered by recent rains. In summer the stench is said to be almost iiubearal.b'. This morning we were awakened early by a great noise. We heard cries, shouts, tho beating of drums, the firing of guns, and the steady tramp of ani mals, biped and quadruped. These were the thousands who had lil'.ed tho s.A-o returning to their homes in Fez, Morocco, and the great desert of Sahara' ; There is, how es t r, a dense resident J population. j Yesterday we wa re guests in two Moorish harems. The inmates gave us a very kind reception. The gloomy ; appearance of the outer walls contrast- j ed bu'ongly with tho inside of the house. The halls were tiled. Marble pillars, bright colors, and rugs gave tho rooms a bright appearance. Mat. tresses wi re laid on the carp', ts in apartments facing the court yard. They were the bedrooms of the wives. There were no windows. Faeh wife leaves her slippers at the entrance of her bedroom. We saw no chairs, and only an occasional cushion. The wives prefer to recline or to sit on the floor. One or two sat on sheep skins. The second harem belonged to a rich ' Moor. We saw there several clocks ; and mirrors, evidently a recent impor- tat ion from Paris, but they looked out ; of place. Tho Moor had only one w ife and she was just thirteen years she had been married two years. old' : She ' sat on the floor barefooted with three value, in that it purified the air, rid- thoroughly other women, who were cither rela-j ding it of disease-breeding germs and ' ready for t tives or visitors, she was very pretty, t of vapors of decomposition. For con- 1 sown the With an engaging smile she motioned us to sit near her. she looked animat ed, gay, and happv. Several servants in Oriental attire were in attendance. (The life of Moorish wives must, how I ver, be very wearisome. They are j shut up in apart ur.'tits w ith grated windows, high above mankind, with inly occasional glimpses of the great wot Id without. In the first harem 1 saw a widow with seven children, all girls. Two vere playing cards and two were sew- j ing. Xoue of the girls had ever seen a man. On Fridays only the widow is allowed to go to the Mosl mi ceme tery to weep and to pray over her dead husband. We were offered coffee and cakes. lit iqiiette required that wo should drink four euj s of coffee and cat as inanv cakes. Our visit, was made very early in the morning. The poor wives were glad to see ns. They adiuiiel inr di't sses and called each other's attention to what took their fancy in the way of jewelry, 'lhey were dressed gayly, but they had a slovenly look and an ungraceful walk. Slioubl the Hair He Cut. It may be that cutting and shaving may lor the time increase the action of the growth, but it has no perma nent effect either upon the hair bulb or the hair sac, ar;d will not in any way add to the life of tho hair. On the contrary, cutting and shaving will j cans the hair to grow longer for the time being, but in the end will inevi- j tably shorten its term of life by ex-! hun-ting the nutritive action of the' hair-forming apparatus. When the hairs are frequently cut they will usu- j ally become coarser, often losing the beautiful gloss of the fine and delicate hairs. Tho pigment will likewise change, brow n, for instance, becoming chestnut, and black changing to a dark brown. In addition, tho ends of very many are split and ragged, pre senting a brush-like appearance. If the hairs appear stuii'.eil in their growth upon portions of the scalp or j beard, or gray hairs crop up here and there, the method of flipping off tho ; ends ol the short hairs, or plucking, l off the ragged, withered and gray i ! hairs, will allow them to grow strong- 1 iv and thicker. Mothers in rearing their children should not cut their ' hair at ceitain periods of the year j I (I'll ill' i in- mi pernio ions pci ions: 01 . full moon i, in order to increase its i i length and luxuriance as they bloom : into woiuanhool and manhood. This . habit of c utting the hair of children, brings evil instead of good, and is also ' coiidcinni 'd by the distinguished work- ( er in iiiis 1 "j art ni 'iit. P'of. Kaposi, of Vienna, who states t'.at it is well j know i, II, a' the hair of women who posse;, luxuriant In ks from the time , bee's sting is so line as to be nearly i f girl hood, never again attains its ' undistinguishable under tho miero ori inaliength alter having once been , scop.'. Under some circumstances the cut. I'iueus has made Pi" sam ob- j stinger stems as big as a red-hot crow serva'.ion by frequent experiments, : bar. and he adds that there is a general inr pr ssio'i that frequent cutting of the hair increases its length; but tho cf fei t is different from that generally supposed. Thus, upon one occasion he states that he cut of circles off hair an inch in diameter on the heads of healthy men, and from week to week compared the intensity of growth of the shorn place with the rest of the hair. Tue result was surprising to this close an 1 careful observer, as ho louu l in some eases t!i growth be came slower after cutting, and he has nc er observed .in increas in rapidity. I might also a Id that I believe many beardless faces and bald hea Is in middle audalvaneel aga are often due to con-taut cntUngaivl shaving in carlv i life. The young boys aid girls seen; " elailv ui on our streets with their dose- ; lv-clopped heads, and the voung men with their clean-shaven fiu'es. are year , by year by this fashion having their hair-forming apparatus overstrained. ! . " ' ' . Mowers in the Nick Boom. ' Tlie ".superstition." as he called it, ! tha' plants are not healthful in slei ping j or sick rooms, was vigorously attacked j by Dr. .?. M. Andrews, in a l cture before the social meeting of the alumni ' of the Philadelphia College of Phar- lency. The deleterious matter that j they gave out, the doctor declared, is j too small to have any appreciable ef-1 fe. t, while their positive value in a sick room is great. They fulfil two functions - that of the generation of ozone and exhalation of npor, by w bieh tho atmosphere of the room is kept in a healthful condition of humid ity. Test made by the doctor at Chiist Hospital sh.vved that in two rooms, alike in all respects except that one contained soiiik flowers and the other none, that containing the (lowers w as cooler by !J degrees than the; other. The ozone, w hich is generated bv i budding and flowering plants, the doc- tor had found to have great saniti.ry sumption ozone is of great benefit, ar resting the course of the malady, and by living among flowers constantly consumptives have been known to reach an advanced age. of thirty ; florists whom the doctor visited, he found none who had the consumption, though among the families of several it was hereditary, foliage plants, tho doctor found, produced no ozone, and, so far as he had experimented, he bad found noditterence between odoriferous and non-odoriferous plaats, 1 Strniplit on to Port. ?liiiibl lliionnh the ."a foiini mii the uwful M"l. And ind- that batik' rnnml m day anil ni:bi. Till the pub' moon bi'l". ber while face In bight. Th" -hip licit bears my b niiiR boini anil mo 1'iiie.. touanl lb.it p'H wlieni wailing lovet one- be, An. I on ih.' bi'iiili ol bom tin- lii'p i-bright : lin o' wi aliil ijis -h..ll I ml" (;l id with -ijlit. All. I l'lllpi-l l -I'nolli'll joyfully. K, iliniiij.'li ..n iiie.li''. i 'iid lii iel. sad winter days, t ir Miiiiiiii'iV short -lived iiiuniplis or yn"? spriiiKS Or unlinmi's vind b!on. iiie'iini'le lv wnys, My wml Ihmi-x iiiiuanl to In r haven lui. Ki'vond lb" oiili'i iiio-t fi'ii'rt ii harbor-bur, Hu l l to l ui i wbii si. .im. Ii ivc hiui-i"t her 1, unite Chnnilrr .Moulloi. in Honors. Do dwarfs ever live long? i Two for a scent - The nostrils. "You make me tired," said the wheel to the wagon-maker. What goes most against a farmer's grain? Hi . mowing-machine. Is a dog valued for what it will bring i r !.r what it w ill fetch ? Patti is greatest bai gain-maker in the wor' : sh" can get anything she likes t . a mere song. An Indian voinan lost her speech for a mouth, and the rest of theL.mily gained lifteei. pounds each. An amateur pollster informs us that some bouses have w ings, and he has often e. ii a hou - e fly. We thought no part of a house save the chimney line. To snv tie ' a man with a bad cold ; like a musician, because ' iia.-al organ and sounds ir.h, may be a bass joke, . certainly i tinny. i Detail.- -Mother: "I am ,n ,1U blow ttie bul l 'ml its te Offering afra'd Mr. Cr'-s ro -s is not strums in his atteuii :. " Daughter: "Ho is awful bashtu'. you know; but he's ottering l.iiiisi il pi corneal. Last night lie wanted in." to lake his arm." Si it-Mists vvli i have made minute examination as-crt that the point ol a she went into a store to buy some toilet soap, and when the clerk was expatiating on its merits, about made ' up her mind to purchase; but when he ' said "it would keep off chaps," she re I marked that she didn't want that kind. i - I'isiiit l. A bookbinder said to his wife at ; their wedding: "It seems that now we are bound together, two volumes in lone, with i lasps." "Yes," observed one of the guests, "one hide highly ornamental Turkey morocco, and the other plain calf." In Iceland the nights are six months long, and when a young man sits in the parlor for six or seven weeks with S1'1 w"ut WK ,ho 'l1'00". and then gets up with the remark that i.. .- : I... 1 t, ...111 ott 11 " ' '' ' aroun(1 ",htr pv,'ninS' t,ie yun 'oalir.e that matrimony is still lo,,8 "a-vs 0T- ... ., . Milking a Home in the West. With only a team and a few dollars the emigrant determines to make him- self a home in the wilds of Nebraska. His first care is to build a sod house, as he must have shelter. This done, about the middle of May he conimen- ccs breaking prairie, and if he has a good horse team, suci eeds in getting from forty to sixty acres broken by the middle of dune. A few acres of first breaking are usually planted with corn, drop; e l into a cut made through the sod with an ax, which incision is closed iigaii the foot of the planter. This canno ly at the mere the time it is : able seas in, V bushels to tie kins usually . ulti vated, and is w hol if the season. Half i .ilure, but if a favor his twenty or thirty i re. Melons and puni! 10 well on sod, and i mid-summer seldom i all be "back-sets" his .is breaking plow, tak r so of ground from he g breaking. Tho ground plowed deeper than it is 'te l. The ground is now r qi, and his wheat is of February, or In deiity of work to do, .t that. No chance to . turnips sown fail. In the ground with ins an inch low the spr: should not ' March. He . and hard wo. make money e year or two is pes him. The first uo.-t invariably one privations for the I. The weak or ally cive way in de of hardships average hotis shiftless on"s n spair and turn eastward. The reso lute ones stay, and soon have com fortable home. But no young man Arnold go West unless he is prepared ,o work hard in the face of many dilfl-tulties.