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VOL. VI.
WTTSBOK() CHATHAM CO., N. C, JUNK 5, 1881.
NO. 39.
Ymilly Fair.
At Vnnitt I'liir, n- wp how nml smile.
As we liilk of the in-m (iil'tpr tilt- wpiiiIipi).
As we eluit oi lii-hici. nml lint, mid style,
We know we nrc pl:i iiij; ii purl together.
You know tlmt the mil III I vveiir I linrrmv
I know vu it Mnilp i- n iitn.-k to hoitow.
Wii know lliiil under tin- -ilUf nml liiti-fi
Anil hack l" lieTiiitil'iil. lunching I'iippi".
J.ipsi-cipl tnmMc nml ilmk itepnir
At Vanity I'.iir.
At Vimitv i'liir, mi die-s piinidp,
Onr color-im- lirilit nml our snliips ulonmiiu; '
Hut you ktmw my iiiiiloiiil V Winn mul finvid,
Anil I kiimv Miur wenpoii, ilcpitc tle-ii
f-epniini',
Arp ilull, ami worthlc-s. nmt badly huttpi-od;
Tlmt dose in- it tion w ill show how- tuttt-rpil
And Mniin-d nip iIip ImniiprH llml Ilium itlmvo
us,
Thnt roiiiiinlcf litilp, while llirv owpiu tlipy lnvp
DM,
Thiil, mind llki I'Ipiioiiip, wnlk KSitnt-cyiil
Chip,
At Viiniiv ."nil-.
At Vmiily 1-"nii- iih wc.-tilvp for plnoo,
As wp pu-li, im I I . . mid crowd, urn tinny,
Wp know Hip n-nd i- ii 'I ii'ulli IIip nice
kn tin- .i-ip i- not worth tin- woriy ;
Tlmt in li-liliiv "' -i'1 "'n-' wound eucli
i' lift ;
Tiint titii'-li i f out !;un 11 !""- for imotlioi ;
'Hint the crown id" lnv liiive- IiiiI-h wliilp it
pit-si-p-
Hip Iiihw of the victor. Willi tlmins not eiilcs-M-s;
Ihut honors nip pinply mid wortlilpss to vvp:ir
At unity 1'uir.
Yet, (it Vi'uily I'liir. lis p p:i nlons.
We iiiPi l lunve lniiilx tlmt mi' woilh tlip
klmu in ;
'Moii- piHir pi-tc.ioweW tint ir-. k tlm throng,
Wp upp h Mi'itniiv hip vIiitp jj'ow ins ;
W'v tiud (jiunil miiiU undiT rohp- nfl'.-liion;
'Neuth liylit (Ipiiipiimirs lurk Mn'ii.;ili mid pns
tion ;
And l'uir, fnip llmior mid jjiKl-liki- Kp-i-tnnpii
In hull ol pli a-inp may Iimvp pxi-tonpp.
And p li in I pirn uli:ir an I -lirim- Ipr.iypr
At Vanity I'air.
.7i( Whcrltr.
AUNT REBECCA'S GHOST.
"I don't I't'Iieve n wor.t of it!" said
Aunt IteliivpH.
The wine like gh'W of , sunset yet ii
Itunined the fjn al l ay window: but
the rest nf the apartment was already
ohroudeil in the pr;iy idindows of twi
light, in wli'ise misty indistinctness
the huge eliaits of carved oak looked
like gigantic monsters fr in some for
eign shore. I'minthe walls frowned
ilown dark old family portraits, and
theeiimson hangings a'-ove the arched
:oors waved retles.-ly lutek tind forth
In the draughts of w ind that swejit
through the vast eorrid-ir.
1 don't helieve a vvi-rd of it!" re
peated Aunt lieliei'ca, with more em
phasis than liefore. "A ghost stm'y.
indeed!"
"Tell iih nhotit i', Violet," said
young Ilalewoi -ii. to whom the deep
hay-window, with its far off prospect
of snowy hills, veiled in gathering tw i
light, to say nothing of pretty Violet
Ornie's close vicinage, were infinitely
more attractive than the more modern
regions of Alnw ick I'laee.
"It is not much of a story." said Vi
olet, tluahing up to her very eyel ishes
St the sound of her own sweet voice,
" only years ago, li ng before my great,
grandpa built this heu-e, the site was
ail one unbreken wood, and there was
a tradition that u beautiful girl was
in littered by her lover. Her grave,
they said, was beneath the founda
tions of the ho use; but 1 scarcely cred
it this part of thelegeud."
"Of cmrsu. not," interrupted Miss
Kebtcca, with a toss of her false curls.
"I have no patience with the relies of
old superstition."
"What are you looking for, aunty
Have you dropped anything? shall 1
tall for Harris to bring a candle ?"
ksked Violet, a moment afterwards
Coming to her aunt's side,
"lihing, nothing," said Miss Uebec
Ca, wiiii a little einbarr.tsmetit in her
Voice. "Come don't stay here any
longer in the biting cold, unless you
both want a week's medicine and doc
tor's visits."
"It's not cold. Aunt I Jebtcca," plead
ed Violet, "and the starlight is so
beautiful on the stone pavement. Just
let us wait until that liery planet
mounts a little higher."
But a peremptory summons from
Col. Ornie himself, who had just wak
ed from a comfortable nap beside the
glowing ,fire in the library, to a sort of
vgue wouiier as to "where Kebecca
and the young people could possibly
be," speedily settled the matter.
"Never mind, Violet," whispered
Charles Halewood; "by and by when
your lather has gone to his room aud
Aunt Rebecca is busy with her curl
papers in her ow n special dormitory,
we can have a starlight stroll through
the ghost's territory!"
Violet gave him an arch glance as
she tripped after Aunt Kebecca into
the hall which led to Col. Ornie's
brilliantly lighted library.
"IwishCapt. Ha.lewood wouldn't
remain out there," said Aunt Kebee
ch, anxiously. "He will catch his
death of cold; and. besides "
"Besides what. Aunt Kebecca?"
"Violet." aid the maiden lady, "1
wish you would go down and see if
the housekeeper has prepared that
posset for my sore throat, that's a
good girl. I think I shall go to bed."
Violet went to ecute her aunt's
behests.
H.-w peacefully the distant hills and
valleys slept in their snowy mantles
that glorious December night. It re
minded one of a lovely painting ex
ecuted with brushes dipped in liyiid
pearl, and shaded with pencils of glim
mering silver.
At leant, so they seemed to Charles
Hazlcwood as he stood in the deep re
cess of the gigantic bay-window,
nearly hidden by the curtains,
the faded splendor of whoso tarnished
embroidery carried the mind uncon
sciously a century backward on. the
stream of time.
The tall, old-fashioned clock in the
hall was striking twelve, and the colo
ny of crickets under the warm hearth
stono were falling into a dreamy,
sleepy sort of a chirp, when Aunt I!e
heeea emerged from her door, treading
tin tiptoe, and carrying a dim light in
her hand.
Now, Aunt Kebecca, in nodding
false curls, lace coiffure, and eighteen -year-old
style of dress, was a very
different sort of personage from Aunt
Kebecca, with her head tied up in a
silk handkerchief, her false curls laid
aside, and a long white drc.ssing-robe
enveloping her lank figure; and the
latter w;ts by no means the more pro
possessing of the two.
Probably some such consciousness
swept nero-s I ho good spinster's; brain
for she shui'de I w ith a Tolerated rap
idity past the solemn eyes of th1 grave
old family portraits on the wall.
"1 am sure I dropped them some
where here," she murmured, pausing
in front of the bay-window. "How
provoking! There goes my candle
out! Hut 1 I clieve I can find them
however, the starlight is so bright.
Mercy up n us! what is that? The
ghost! the ghost!"
And Aunt Kebecca lied shrieking
down the corridor, her hands clapped
over her eyes, before which was im
printed the vision oi a tall figure
sweeping past, all in white with a
crimson stain at its pallid throat!
Thivlioo e was aroused into instan
taneous c miMiotion, lights flashed into
brightness at the various doors, and
an cagf r ein 'e of inquirers surround
ed Aunt Ki Vecca, who evinced strong
symptoms of an inti ntinn to ;;o into
hysterics.
"It glided past me likv a gust of
wind!" she shrieked, replying at haaxd
to the i!n stions rained upou her "all
in white, wiiii that dreadful mark of
blood upon its throat! It's a warning
I know it's a warning that 1 haven't
long to live! oh, what shall I do
what shall I do?"
"Hut I don't understand what you
were lining uf in the (ihost's
Corridor at this time of night," inter rupted
Cel. Onne. staring at his sister
as if not quite certain whether this
were an aetu.- l occurrence in real life
or merely a fragmentary part of his
last dream.
"Well, if you must. cn-'W," said Miss
Kebecca, with a little hs;enc .sob, "I
dropped my f:.lsc teeth there, just at
dusk, and I didn't 1 l.e to look for
them there with Violet aud Capt.
Hazlewood branding by, and so and
so"
"Oho! that's it, eh ?" said Col. Onne,
laughing. "L'pcn my word, Sister
Hecky, you are rather ovti'-partieular
for a woman fifty years old."
"Only forty-nine, James," interrupt
ed Miss Kebeee.i, with a shrill accent
of indignation.
"Hut the ghost?" inqiiirod young
Hazlewood, who had just arrived ou
the scene id' action, with rather a
llushed brow aud embarrassed air.
I'pon wliich Aunt Kebecca gave
way to the con lined iniluences of her
brother's unkind remark ami the
fright of ghost-seeing, and fairly
fainted without further notice. Ac
cording to the usual custom of woman
kind on such occasions, Col. dime and
all the other gentlemen were hustled
out into the hall, while the victim of
the female oilicials was deluged with
eau de cologne, stilled with burnt
feathers, and vigorously treated with
hot ilannel.
"She's coming to, poor dear
creature!" was the final verdict hurled
at Col. Oruie through a crack in the
door.
"AVell, I'm glad of it, I'm sure, said
the colonel dolorously, rubbing his
hands, "for it's eohl out here in thn
hall. Why, halloa! is this you, my
little Violet? AVhat's the matter?
Yon haven't seen a ghost, I hope?"
"No, papa," faltered Violet, "but
"Suppose we three adjourn into the
library. Col. Ornie. and 1 will under
take the task of explaining," Interpos
ed Charles Hazlewood, while Violet's
cheeks grew like flame.
"Well, may I venture to inquir
what all this means?" interrogated tho
bewildered colonel when the library
door was safely closed.
"It means sir," said Charles, laugh
ing, yet a little puzzled how to pro
ceed, "that Violet, your daughter, ami
I were just hi king out at tin-stars, in
the embrasure of the great hall win
dow, when we aaw some out; approach
ing with a light. Violet went to sei;
what the apparition meant, when Miss
l.'elncei, (wnoin it proved to be
dropped her caudle and ran shrieking
away."
"So Violet was thn ghost, elt?" said
the colonel, repressing a very i trong
inclina'.ion to laugh.
"You see, papa," interposed that
young lady, "I wore my long cashiii"re
mantle, for I was afraid of colds, and
it was tied at the throat with red
ribbons, and" - --
"And Aunt Kebecca took it for
granted that you were the murdered
heroine of our family ghost story," said
the colonel, archly. "Hut allow me to
ask, young people, what y ou were so
much interested in?"
"Well, sir," said Hazlewood, "I had
just asked her if she w ould marry me--don't
run away Violet--and she said
Yes,' that is, if 1 could win her fath
er's consent."
"Well?"
"And I would like to know what her
father s.iys to the proportion?" added
the young officer, laughingly, detain
ing Violet, who was struggling toes
cape." "He says," answered Col. Onne,
"that your intrepidity in facing the
ghost deserves some reward, and he
likewise supposes that his daughter
must be allowed to have her own way.
Take her, Charley, and don't spoil her!
No thanks now, but let me go and sea
after your Aunt Hebeeea."
"Papa!" slit' whispered, as he arose,
with his hand on the door.
"Welt, my dear?"
"Don't tell Aunt Herky that
thnt"
"That you were the ghost? Just as
you ph ase."
And he went, chuckling, to inquire
after his sister's health. There is no
evidence that he ever did betray Vio
let's secret; but two things may l.e re
garded as settled facts in the records
of Alnwick Place one is that Aunt
I'eliccc.Fstreuuously denies the exis
tence of ghosts, and abhors the very
sight of Inr niece's white inantl" with
cherry trimmings; the other is.thal she
is part ieularly careful never to pass
through the solemn old haunted hall
after sunset. lUnn fit 11,.
An Ancient Mexican Caleutlar.
Of all t alendars to an inquiring and
curious mind, the oddest and inot in
teresting is probably that of the ancient
people of Mexico. When disturbed by
the Spaniards, the Mexicans (though
cruel cannibals) were developing civil
ization. Their picture writing was
passing into the condition of phonetic
signs, but it had not yet reached the
Egyptian btage. The Mexican calen
dar depended on the combination of
numbers with pictorial signs. A rabbit,
a ree l, a Hint and a house were the
chief and most frequently recurring
pictures. They had a cycle of fn'ty-two
years, and Mr. Taylor observes that
their calendar may be illustrated with
a modern pack of cards, laid out in
rotation of the four suits. In the
ordinary calendar periods of twenty
days had names like our months, and
each day w is a rabbit day, reed day,
Hint day, or house day. The ritual
calendar was dilfi rent and much more
complicated, and the curious thing is
that it resembles the queer calendars
of Central and I'.astein A-iatic peoples.
Among Mongols, Thibetans, Chinese,
series of signs are combined in much
the same way to reckon years, months
and days. The Mongols have a cycle
of sixty years, recorded by a sort of
zodiac of twelve signs mouse, bull,
tiger, and so forth. Tire, earth, iron,
wood and water are combined in rota
tion with these, and insteal of calling
this year of grace lssl, the Mongol
perhaps calls it "male, tire, bull year,"
for the notions of male and female
come as copiously into this system as
into the Yedic ritual. Humboldt and
other authorities have inferred that the
Mexican calendar was carried over
from Asia with the Mexieau civiliza
tion. Hut the minds of early men
work so much alike when dealing with
the same set. of facts ihat even coinci
dences as curious as these between the
Mongol and Mexican calendars may be
original and not borrowed. l'ejple
may say that no two sets of minds
would hit on the same extraordinary
complexities. Hut men do everything
! fust in a complex way ; simplicity only
conies slowly, in machinery, calcula
tion, society and everything else, in
company with high civilization. L-i
don Daily yews.
I WUUE CLAMS AM) 0VSTEUS.
I
! MiirI Ovatrri Wrlixliliiii Thrrr 1'nnnili
Mimle ('linn, tlmt l it e Jltn l.inunl
Into a lliuliiu ICiiiiiu
"Speaking about shells, now," s.iid
an eminent eoneholugist, to a New
I York Sun reporter, holding up a mag
! nilieent orang.; shell as if it were a
: gotn, and breathing upon il preparato
. ry to polishing it with a chamois skin,
i "reminds mo of a practical joke that.
Bomo friends of mint) got up a little
; whiloago. You see, we had a dub of
shell men and met in each other's
I houses once a week, and once a year
i we guve a dinner, to hieh each meni
1 her was allowed ti invite a frien 1.
I Two of the guests at the last dinner
I wero Englishmen, aud as one of them
' had expressed a ('.esire to ser? something
i of American oysters and tint other had
! inquired about clam bakes, it was do'
cided to give them a surprise, and to
j say we did so don't express it. We
met at a member's house up town an 1
about twenty sat down to dinner, the
' two Englishmen being seated on the
! right and left of the President, as
i sober-faced a professional wag as ever
'graced a gown. After the blessing,
j wliich was delivered in the Sioux lan
I guage, two w aiters came in, bearing a
meat platter ol the largo -t size, and,
lifting it with tie' greatest iliilieuKy.
i placed it in front of on of the Kngiish
I men, whose eye. beg in to open as lie
; saw that the d.sh contained six oysters
j on the half sh "II that looked as though
I they would weigh three pounds apiece.
Thev were brought from Old Point for
i the occasion, you so ', and were what
' are called coons -nearly a foot in length,
j and of gigantic proportions. They
projected from the disii like great
! blocks of stone, and a small piece of
one would have been enough for two
i men for a whole meal,
j "'Wo generally begin on six o'
these,' said the President. 'They're a
little undersized, but it's late in the
season.
"Those are not all for me?' said the
horrified liritott.
'"Certainly," replied the President,
'ard if you want, larger ones say the
word.'
Finally the victim lifted the great
morsel that looked like an uuderono
ham, got it half way to hi mouth, and
then with a shit Ider drojipe ii. '(iood
heavens!" h said, -y iu don't mean to
say yo'i eat six of these? I can't go
one. Von see I haven't been educate I
up to it. I inn-! give it up."
lb' was urg-l politely, bat, as it
was an impossibility, the oysters went
refused, anl the text course was
brought on, every on looking as stiher
as a funeral. I tell you it would have
male a horse I itig'i I have seen those
men !o ii as t'.ie w.tii is came in. The
cotirs " was baked chens a la Khode
Island, and. as before, it to ik two men
to bring in each plate, piled with clams
so enormous that it fairly took one's
breath away, an I the Englishmen
looked on in downright horror. I'.y
actual measurement cadi clam was
nearly a to it in length, and nearly all
weighed in ire than six pounds. I!y
the time a half doen plates were
brought in the table was about covered.
The victim.! sat there in helpless
amazement, while the res! preloaded to
pitch in. Did they eat them? 1 should
say not. Nobody notice. I jthein, and
finally, when they had t atea Home
smallelamsthath.il been tucked in
for their benefit, the monsters were
cleared away. The next course was
called devilled tridaen.i, and one of the
guests being urged t try some, a mo.
ment later live waiters eanio struggling
through a door with an enormous half
shell of a ela n, that actually weighed
2-"0 pounds. This was lifted to the
table and put bp-lore the now thorough
ly demoralized Knglishmen, who
looked so utterly dumbfounded that the
whole party broke into a roar of laugh
ter. They then saw they were the vic
tims of a joke, and took it well.
"Rut how about those big clams?
Were they made up?" asked the visi
tor. "Xot a bit of it," was the reply.
"They were, I guess, the first of the
newly discovered edible clams of the
Pacific that had ever been brought to
New York or the East. They have
been known for some tune, but not to
the general public. A naturalist
traveling some months ago near Puget
Sound found that the geoducks. as
they were called, were considered of
the soft clam race. Just think of a
common soft clam about a foot in
length containing a mass of flesh weigh
ing more than six pound. In taste
they don't seem like irdinary dams,
but rather like crab boiled, or the
Si.i;'bern salt water crawfish or whip
b'i:,ter. When yen go clamming for
tl.es? gbnts you have a day's work
ahead of you. In the first pl.ue you
can get at tluni only at certaiu times
where there is extreme low tide, and
tin a you want a gang of men or a
drsdging machine to dig them out. The
scientific name for them is filyeinieris,
and it is said they are : i lino that an
establishment for canning them is to
he started. One weighing seven or
eight pounds would fill up sixteen half
pound cans. Attempts arn also being
made to introduce the great dam on
Hip Eastern coast, as it is found that
they can be carried ten or twelve days
in seaweed. So in years to como yon
may, in ordering a clam bake, bo
Nerved with a sitigbi geoduek.and have
to call in help to finish it.
"The geoduek has only one rival, the
great tridaena that we had brought on;
but this is more like onr Little Neck
dain in its make up; that is. it has a
strong, thi.-k slid), and, like many
shells, powerful teeth-like projections
that lit into each other. It is the
'argent known thell, weighing oi")
pounds or more, while the meat of the
animal alone tips the scale at .thirty
live or lorty pounds. They are found
in great numbers in the Torres Strait,
and burrow, as it were, in the coral
rock, their mantles and fringes show
ing and looking like great sea anemo
nes. Though the shells are common,
they are rarely secured, as no one cares
to dig in the water a week to get ono
out.
"They burrow into the coral rock,
and their byssus by which they fasten
themsdves is so tough that it requires
repeated blows of a hatchet to sever it.
Where they are found they are used as
too I, and the shells are cut up by the
natives and used as knives, daggers,
etc., bile certain oval parts cut from
the sle ll are bound upon the forehead
as orna nents.
A Kcslless City.
Tne most restless of tow us in the en
chanting laud haveth' ir hours of still
ness and repose. The "Movitiiento" of
Naples never ceases. The city seems
not to rest either by day or by night
You are in your room, reading, very
late, .lust benea'h your window some
body is twanging a guitar and bawling
a eanz rtetta with the usual rhyming
of "ciiote" and "amofe." "forte" and
"mono," the t-su-d exordium about
"Helta Xa; oii," an I lh" usual perora
tion about '-sanla l.ucia." Does the
minstrel outside !hini that, you will
open the window anl ilinu' him soldi
at -in the morning? Hut you retire
to your couch an l are ii.' again, say at
7 It is midwinter to see the sunrise.
What is that shrill ulnlation Moating
over the Hay of Naples a sound more
discordant than melodious, but yet not
altogether unpleasing? Is it the cry
of a peacock? I!ut peacocks don't lh
about the Mediterranean ea at 7 A. m.
It would be safer to surnvse that the
shrill note may be that of the fabled
halcyon. However, you lend your eai
more attentively to the note. I'poq
my wen! it is the squeak of Punch'
Two tattered losels iu red nightcap
and the usual imperfect oan'.aloons,
have rigged up in a boa! Punch's show
of the most primitive kind a bit ol
ragged blanketing, a stick or two and a
couple of red ochre smeared puppets
aud th'-y are rowing about the bay.
performing. Maybe some liberal Jack
Tar front a foreign merchantman in
the por; w ill fling the floating Pulci
nello a co;.per or two. The entertain
ment given by these abnormally matu
tinal histrionics is, I apprehend, inti
mately associated with the all-absorli-ing
question of qtiattrini. Behind "11
Movitnento" is "La Miseria." Both are
equally dependent and consequent on
the other. Idleness, profligacy, thrift
lessness and crime bring about the
movement, and the end of the move
ment is misery. Lotulm 'Y jruph.
A Queer Article or IMet.
Indians eat the horns of the deer
when they are in the velvet. One
day, on tne Sioux reservation, in Da
kota, a deer was killed near camp and
brought in entire. At sight of it
Pahlaniote. a Minneconjou of some
fifty years, dropped his usual statu
esque attitude, knocked olT the horns,
and, seating himself by the lire, began
at the points to eat tin in, velvet and
all, without cooking, just as though
they were most delicious morsels. The
others of th party looked on as if they
envied him. They said they "always
ate them so."
Disillusioned.
A Clifton girl who married a poor
young man and who has in conse
quence been practicing domestic '
duties has lost faith in the entire social ;
svstem. The other evening her
husband came in at six o'clock to j
supper and handed her a paper folded
and sealed.
"What is il dear?" she said, tender. '
ly. ';
"An insurance policy on my lil'
darling, for $10.0'. V
"Why. love, you already have one
What did you want with another?" s
"Angel mine, 1 ate two pieces ii;
! tuat pie you had for dinner.
1 COItllA.
OliKnmn of I Iip Cotmti'Y Anltnl or I he
I H -l Aim i ii im .III-mOoiixi ti n.
The ladies of our party were, so far
as we could ascertain, the first Amer
ican ladies who stepped upon the
eastern coast of ('urea. 'I' wo by two
we walked through the winding lanes,
past the walls of mud and cobblestones
which enclosed the bads yards of a
Corean house, until we cam; into the
main street, where there wero few
shops, but nearly all were houses.
These were one-storied, thatched roof,
and fronting the street; had one door
and one window, provided sometimes
with a single shutter opening upward,
anil sometimes with two shutters open,
ing sidew ays.
There was n.igla.vt in the windows.
The Honrs were .smoothly polished.
Occasionally th y were covered with
straw matting"!' a thin layer f w I.
In the sides of the mud-anil-stoiie
wausoi i u- House-. liai'U, smoky open
ings could be seen. 'f iie-.e openings,
we were told, served for chimneys.
I ndernea! h the Moor is an arched
brickwork, in the hollow of which,
during the cold weather, a lire i .. made,
when the heated nir warms the en
tire Mooring, and cireiil ites through
the sides of the wall ol the house,
until it escapes at the so dy opening
already mentionc I,
The clothing of the men v,i usual
ly w hite, and gen-Tally made of home
spun grass dot'i. It consisted of a
Sort of jacket and a pair of trousers
iiiad-' in loos - .-otiave fa-hioii. Their
load was adom-d with a black,
transparent, broa I filmm- d hat of
h -rsehair, through which a knot of fair
about three or four indies high could
be seen. Occasionally this ur.is doth
was of a light -ha b- of bin,, or "recti.
The women w-Ti very short waisted
jackets an I fuli-gaihcivd skirt... Their
hair was purled in the middle and
smoothly combe I. Tin- general ap
pearatliei-l the.se t'orean woolen Wit
more like that of Kmvpeniis than either
the Chinese or Japanese.
The hair of the youth and young
men of ('i;.;i is w. ru parted in ihc
luiililh' so long as i hoy arc unmarried.
As so. n as ih- y I : l.u -ban-is their
bail tied in a i.-iti'- on th-' top of
their head-, ju-l as the t hiacse ili-l i:i
their u nivc Ming ily ua-iy, an 1 as the
Taoist i-m sts in China do to day.
In all towns there ;tr - schools, but
the biliMiiU's are small, hardly largo
enough to iii-'oiumodatc twenty -two
scholars. Not mole than one fifth of
the boys attend school. The girls do
not go to school. The roofs of the
school rooms are so low that one could
nut stand erect in them if he bad his
hat on. The scholars had no desks it
tables, but wrote on the door. They
study the Chinese classics, but tn-t the
history of their own country. It is
said that there is one history of Corel.
However, none except oilicials are id
lowe I' t" rciid it. since by reading ol
the wrong-doing ,,)' others they might
be incited to perforin w rong acts them,
s.lvis.
Most of their b loks. whether in Chi
nese or Corean characters, are written
by hand. In Seoul, the capital, there
are two book stores the only ones in
all the kingdom in wliich books writ"
ten by hand, a i well as those printed
fnun wooden blocks, but not trom
movable types, are to be found.
In correspond ng with a pcr-on ot
tine's own or inferior rank they enclose
the letter in one envelope, but in writ
ing to one of higher rank the letter is
encf sed in two envelopes.
The Con ims. although living be
tween China and Japan, do not gene rally
drink tea
In certain alment- one mode of
treatment practised by the medical Ita.
icrnity i to iu-crt into that part of
he b uly which i ailing an iron needle
rvliich is heated red hot. hi ''.; H
di.oe,..
Turtle Soup fur the Million.
The turtle i- so exeeedinely prolific
hat if the eggs of only live timalc of
die species could be protected I l oin t In ir
tumorous enemies every year the Medi
terranean would soon swarm w ith tur
tles. The turtle lays it- eggs during"
the night upontli" bca- h, covers them
t.ghtly with sand, and leaves them to
he hatched by the sun. I'llfortiinately
they are regarded as a delicacy by the
Inhabitant of the oa-t. who oat the
greater part of them, while many more
fall a prey to dogs and other animals;
and of the young turtles which leave
(he shell, the trreater number are de
voured on their way to the sea by th,,
innumerable wild fowl which flock
about the coasts of the Mediterranean
The creation of a few farms, as has
been proposed, would so favor the na
turally rapid multiplication of the
hpecics that turtle, instead of being tin
luxury of the rich, might bt seen on
,ioor men's tal I 's, and .'-old at cheap
estaurants.
Icarus.
A MOIII IIN I AIM. Ft.
fTo uns Ii ruslic, li:i y at lii- plow :
lit' Weill I'ol'tll ill the llielllili. toiling rnltB,
And lino' i lii- ii.h-ii i 'o lid.eied ill content ;
I'piu-p titled lii- iiei it ..'i-id i- not peiipp enough
-mid L-V.,111- a .Ii;;i,imiI lii II till' ' Mil I- l-riKlit.
i in.-.- p.. iii lii- -eiil ii -piny nf ill Vine l;idieilont.
I he I . 1 1 ii,. ni iidih. r-pnn-i-l ah ii"i-y duck
And ei. o-i ii,. .ii- i-li., il aii o-l - pnii-p is rlipiip.
lie V. il ..,1 i, I .lie:, I,, e l l, Ill-el! in-piipd,
I ,, --...I. h . Mil I.I. I -,:,l.4 el le ,! Illld liPP.
'I I,;,,..,,! nn, I. ., iii nr. liMi.i- I i-h und old ;
Tin ii -o .ih. uii.l und niiiilted tin- Ileitis,
I'-M I.e. Ilie -mil. i imd reii-en - -pprpl source,
1 lire' Inly l inili- of inetuplit -lili'i',
Thou d ntlii i-l lili-l -.'lired on.
XV Iimi net ' Why puiisp.
'r.- I.mI ' -.-.! in lii- n.i- -wi-pi Ii"- fell".
Mid,;, -or i -' -it-n d. -in. e In- lit- d it l'c-i.
V.H.I I..I-.-I I. -! . -I'.iokilPtV not lilll fiemiong,
! :i!li d h'm lh.- Ileiti l of our re III nte;
s... like i. I'l In- !'e,l ..i p ,i .el d - eel.
And .! . !. i ::l....ll I Iiilll-ell.
' 'i . ,liip.il'l.iul ill III-' 'Ildl't -Mil.
ii- 1.
I-:vpi,
, ,ii u- ir ed lii- i- im;- ;ind fell:
,-! . -ei.li tlll.e- lllill.e eielll Illl-lllkP.
! VV ili: -.li-.dii!; - In Ii linn i nine hi- vl'-e- out.
! Ami li,. ., On, I; - lold Inn, -.,!,!! truths
, -in I. n h, li,,.! ii, -I ',, .il '. I'Mi 1, It pip true.
s,, h ,1 ,,t I,,. he ,i I mid eur-e I him-elf
' And th- - -a -p. I h.e-- th" loot l ed Inn, doun.
, .il. I Im;,' on Ili- wee-, h- i I'neil illld died
! V'l li -tin. I. eli;:li . I l It -'iel'.'"-l out ;;li:il.
Who wpip to Hump tin ei iii, - oi the fools?
- Churl. .1 O WUlUy.
IHMOHOl'S.
A bent pin on a chair is nn itW"1
tion of .in early spring.
Sweet iin- the uses of adversity, but
most people prefer sugar.
some of our base ball players seem
to have been vaccinated. They can'1
rateh any Cling.
My! but you're a strapping fellow!'
the dull razor it-marked to the barber,
as il was being sharpened.
"Will you name the bones of the
skull? "I've got them all in my head
Professor, bill can't give tie
"It's a great eoiufoit left
alone." said an Irish lover. ' socially
when your sweetheart is wid ye."
"The city mu-t put its font down on
such corruption," shrieks an excited
od. lor. Hut it can't you know. Cor.
porat ii ns have no soles.
smith "What liery red hair that
girl has. Looks as if she were ablaze.
Do you know her?" Junes "Oh, yes;
she is an old flame of mine."
A camel will work for seven or eight
days without drinking. In this he dif
fers from some im n, who will drink
seven or eight day- without working.
"Doctor." said the grateful patient,
eizing the physician' hand, "I shut!
never forget that to you I owe my
life." "You exaggerate," said the doc
tor mildly; "you only owe me for fif
teen vi.-its; that is the point which 1
hope you w ill iml fail to remember.'"
A merry exchange illustrates the
cotisi.-teticy of women by the two facts
that she will placidly open a can ol
salmon with her husband's razor and
yet My into a sort of wild, weird, po
etic frenzy when she -ees Iut husband
endeavoring to remove a cork from a
bottle with her best embroidery scis
sors. I'ecble urchin: "I say. ma, my head
aches. I'm going to stay home from
school this aft-moon." Solicitous tna
ternai ancestor' "Well, my dear, I'm
sorry, stay at home and rest. It
may ilo you good." Three hours lata
feeble urchin rushis into the house
with cheeks aglow. 'l tell you we
had a nifty game. Hightech to fifteen
I played short (iimine suthiii ' ft id.'
! The Fascination of the (iclil Mine9.
An old forty nitier says of gold hunt
ing: "It's the fa-oination of if. Lor
man. when you've struck it pretty rich
1 and e:in se yer gold right in f n-nt of
'you. when you're piling it up every
half o' tin- day. wi'h a nugget n-ov ami
again as big as a bullet to cheer you,
and then when t tit evt iiin' comes anil
vou count it upaitd find a hundred odd
dollars just picked out o' the earth that
I day--well, there ain't not Inn' like it.
' Then when you doa'l strike it rich you
alwavs think you're goin' t next day.
an' it's ju-t its exciting hearin' other
men tell in thetveniu' what they pulled
out as it is countin' over your own
Why, I've been three and four months
at a time without making a dollar aud
without a cent in my pocket; but gu -whittaker!
the excitement of it iloti"
give a man tw ice t - t Dink how hard up
he is."
How In Catch Fish.
"Hoy, how much do you want for
that string of fish?" asked an atna'eur
lisherinan or. bis way home from a
day's sport.
The boy named his price.
"All rieht, there's your money. Now
just throw me the fish," and he dex
terously caught them.
Talk about catching fish," he said,
as he pursued his way. l'hilul I phi"
Call.