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I)C l)atl)nm tttcoxb. l)atl)am flccorb. RATIOS II. A.. LONDON, EDITOR AND PKOPHIKToli. ADVERTISIN C TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, t hit square, one insertion flue njiime. two insertion I Ine square, one month ft. Of) 1.60 - a. 60 One copy, one ytmr One copy, six months . 4 nt" copy, three months $ 3.011 $1,011 .Ml T For linger n.lvertiMineiils IiIm ihI roii- jNl. In, tract w ill he iiiihIp. VOL. VI. l,ITTSB()KO CHATHAM CO., N. C, AUGUST 7, 1884. The Ashes Upon the Hearth. went to III old time cut Intro Wlicrti I dwelt iiii'hildhond iliry; I looked lliinnuli llirili'ur ul.l window Thut M't'ineil to retiun my guPf I sought I' r urine Kwvvt reminder To hem Imni my I:u e ol birth, lint nil! there ii'inuineil no token liut the in-he n nn the houilli. The ehiiinbfiK were buro und empty, And the eehiK-s eeemed to )': "Oh! wheru is t hu bu.-y boaselii'l'l, Ob! why do the ebil'lren irtay?'' A hr.tii.-h el the veteran oak tree, 'J'liut now wns u eentiiry eld, Still eurliiiiied ny little window Ti nt miiTorud the eunset's gold. I wandered to "niothei's ehiiinber," To the room w here father v rate. No sound briike the inoiiriiliil Miliums lint the chimney niv;illiw'i note. Then nniii t .oillit I ho kin ll.'li, tifiee n I'luee ul'.joy und niirlli, And ninilit hroiight the p:i.st ht-l.i-i m: Like the iiMies iion the hearth. II. av often we meriv Miiiiiv;.ilem. l-ircur ebe,tiuitHweet und hruivii Made a lied in the hot "wiHid iislics," Willi the liri-iiiil-lri'ilif'ihin. While the gills pulled nn-hisM' etmd And tn-si d it with nice on hih, Ami the X"lden ;pint ninsled In mi earthen pan near by ! Sim e Iho-e hnv din si. I ehillli 3 It i- tilly veins, ol- inure, And Ihe ' In iy mid nirls" h.iiesiiilti'ird To nimiy u distant shoie. While Mine hir linnd-. civ folded And shiltci. d In M.lhn l-.nilh, As I 1m y drojtii away fivm the spirit Like the ll-lirs lipim the health. BLACKBERRIES. fall anil slender, with a fair, flowcr. like fare, Monde hair, and eyes as deeply, darkly bint1, as wild forget-me-not a, Phyllis Trcseote was a very pn tly girl, indeed. So. at least, thonglit Vane Farrar, as he gazed admiringly down at her, seated mi a inoss cushioucd hank, over which a giant monarch of the forest waved its lea'y brandies in the bright summer suu 'ight. A parly of the young people, who we re spending the season at Furcka springs, had taken a fancy to go lilackberrying.and as usually happened, Vane Farrar and Phyllis Treseotu found that their paths lay in the same direction. I'hyllis had come to laireka Springs with her aunt,' lor the benefit of the hitter's rheumatism, and hither Vane Farrar had followed her, determined, ere the summer waned, "to put his for tune to the test anil win or lose it all." "Fair, fair, with golden hair!" mur mured the young man, as he watched I'hyllis ilitting hither and thither through the gloom-shaded Woodpaths; ami long before they had reached the blackberry patch, in what, was known in the "old Hart mea low," he had per sua ted her to rest awhile under the shadowy branches of a magnificent oak tree. Phyllis looked very fair, with the sunlight sifting through the leafy foli age, touching her blonde hair, till it looked like a skein of gold; and with his heart in his mouth, Vane Farrar opened his lips to speak. "Mis-s Trcseote," ho began, "o1 l'uyllis, if I may dare to call you so, I must speak now and place my fate in your hands. I--" " h, here you are!" cried a gay voice, and a thicket of leaves, with tangled grapevines and thorn bushes, was thrust aside, and (Hive Derringer appeared in view, "tih, I'hyllis! your aunt has sent for you to entertain a visitor a very important personage, 1 should say. She wants you to c ome immedi ately. Oh, dear, I'm so tired! I've hurried over the hills so, to try and overtake you.'' And she threw herself half-breathless on the mossy cushion, from which Phyllis had hastily arisen. "I will go back!" she exclaimed; "but you and Mr. Farrar stay for the blackberries." And she flitted away, before Vane, too gallant to leave Miss Derringer alone, could find words to protest. We had caught a glance from her eyes, however, and a glimpse of her rili.mt, blushing face that Idled his heart with sudden hope - a hope, alas, which was doomed to wither in the bud! "I knew she would rather go alone," it.ughcd (Hive, fanning her -elf with her broad straw hat. "Her visitor is Kiuier Savage; and of course though two is company, three is none." 'And who may this Mr. Elmer Sav age be?" asked Vane, in as cool a voice is he could assume, while his heart was beating a furious tattoi in his bosom. 'Why, don't you know?' asked Ulive, raising a pair of coquettish, iusky eyes to her companion's hand i'jnm face. "Don't you know he's her ntended? I didn't suppose sho had ept her engagement a secret from you ihuugh bh does love to tlirt, poor ihildl" "Young ladies do not usually make Q.e tho conlidtut of their engage uients," responded Vane, coolly. "But why do you say 'poor child?' Surely an engaged young lady is not a subject for condolences" "(Ih, but you don t know! Miner Savage is just as homely; and he's old too, and as cross as two sticks! Phyllis kept him on the hooks a good while; but he's rich as cream, you know, and so she accepted him. Hut what about the berries, Air. Farrar? Shall we go on V" And again the coquettish eyes wero leveled full at his face; and though Vane felt as if he had just received a cold iIdwi'', he rallied his politeness and made a show of being very atten tive to Miss Derringer. "Certainly, if you have rested stifli eiently," he responded. "Allow me to carry your basket." And on through tho dim, gloom, shadowed path they went; ((live chat ting gaily and easily, as if quite un sus icious of her escort's heavy heart. "So much gained!" she thought, tri umphantly; "and many a I ca t is caught in the rebound, they say. I must make hasle slowly, though, and give him a chance to get ov:-r the old love before he is on with the new. If everything gnei rigl t, I may be 'wooed an' married, an' it' ' before this season is over, in spite of Phyllis Trescote's airs and graces." Phyllis was sitting at the iloor of the tent which she and her aunt occu pied, in preference to taking rooms at one of the crowded hotels. "It was so much in ire romantic, to say nothing of comfort," said Aunt Kuniee. "At a hotel you nui.-t do as the rest do, while in a tent you are free as a lark. You dine when you please, and not when other folks please; and when you liav; company, if the space is rather limited, it's till the more rosy. Don't you think so, Mr. Savage y" "Certainly I do," responds Mr. Sav age, glancing around the ciiuiiuoiliou interior of tho tent, which was as pret tily furnished as any city boudoir "and, moreover, yuit have the benelit of fresh air. Witness Miss Phyllis' cheeks, as Mourning as a uiounlain daisy." Phyllis' cheeks were Hushed, but it was nut the woodland breezes which had brought, the scarlet into llieni." She caught sight of Vane Farrar. scarcely a do.en yards distant, with ( Hive Derringer clinging to his arm. her bright face upturned to his, while he bent his head to hers in a very lover-like altitude. They were loitering slowly home from tho berrying, the half-empty bas ket on Vane's arm bet raying that some thing besides picking blackberries had occupied his day. Not one glance did he vouchsafe toward the tent where Phyllis sat, with burning cheeks and wistful, dis appointed eyos. Three days passed -heart-aching days for two at least of the parties con cerned and then Vane Farrar sudden ly disappeared from the scene, and Olive Derringer's hopes were in their turn doomed to be nipped in the bud, or the time being at least. liut she was not one to give up the slego without a struggle, and when, two years later, she met Vane in St. Louis, her coquetries were once more called into play to aid her in becoming iniBtrcss of his heart and fortune. "Blackberries! blackberries!" came in stentorian tones from a fruit-peddler's wagon. Ami Vane Farrar, who was saunter ing down tho street, felt his nerves tingle, and his heart beat like a sledge, hammer For tho moment he was transported to tho moss-cushioned bank, with Phyllis Trescote's fair face half-drooping beneath his gaze. A few hurried steps, and Vane was beside the wagon, bargaining for a l, jx of the purple-ripe fruit. The old farmer was good-natured and garrulous. "Mighty line berries, them is," he asserted. "None o' yer Lawtons, growed in a garding. Wild black berries is better-flavored than all yet- tame ones. Fifty cents a gallon, square. Hev a gallon boxy" "Do you gather them yourself ?" asked Vane, his thoughts still wander ing to that brief episode, when he had Het out to gather wild blackberries with a lighter heart than he had known in the two years between now and 'hen. "(.ether 'em myself? You're right, squire; me an' tue old woman an' the youngsters gethered these, 'reptin' a few gallons Miss Treskit's gal picked " "Miss Trcseote ?" Vane was staring eagerly into ;he sun-browned face now. "Vus!" returned Farmer Hergatnot. .'Phyllis Treskit she gethered some of em, an' begged me to sell 'em fur her. They air mighty pore, her ati' her aunt, an' 1 alius accommodate 'em when 1 kin (lit up, ltally!" "Stop stop!" cried Vane. "Where how far is it? 1 have a notion to g. blackbcrrying myself. I would pay you well, if" "Oh, you could go along with me if you're a inind to. Never mind the pay. I'm a'most sold out now, an' will be a-starting home in a hour or two. Jump in, squire, if yer a mind t.-r." And Vane jumped in w ithout w ait ing for a second invitation. "Two gallons I've picked today, Aunt Kuniee that'll be a dollar. A pretty good day's work, isn't it?" I'hyllis Trcseote flung her calico sun-lumnet on a chair, and turned, with the last crimson rays of the set ting sun lighting up her blonde hair, to meet not her aunt's faded eyes, but Vane Farrar's admiring gaze and out sti etched hand. It was a poor little room, w ith bare floor and unpainted walls, but the clusters of scarlet bean flowers shad ing the low windows were not bright er than Phyllis Trescote's checks as she turned to meet the admiring smile in Vane Farrar's handsome eyes. Kxphinutions and apologies were soon made, and Phvllis learned for the ' - lirst time of her friend's treachery. "I was never engaged to Mr. Sav age," she assured her lover. "And w hen our fortune took w ings he was the lirt to desert us." Miss Olive Derringer was astounded when she received an invitation to the wedding reception of Vane and Phyllis. lint though it was one of the most brilliant affairs of the season, she was not one of the guests. Stitiintai, Niyht. Itouihay Street Scenes. liombay, sf.ys a correspondent, hex-- ceedingly interesting to me. I love to soak my handkerchief in camphor, and then start oil in the edge of the eve ning for a long ramble on foot, obliv- his of the danger from cholera ami other prevalent pestilences. Here is a single, lone Chinaman- he only one I have seen in all hoiubay who is stopping along to his shot hop. Here is a group of my estcemec countrymen, as I immediately gathej from the gilt inscription, "I'. S. s Trenton," around their hat bands, am: also irom their sailor suits. They an slightly moistened with benzine, I car see, and I have grave doubts as to tin nature of their mission ashore; but they compare so favorably with Hit men from the llritish ships in conduct that I do not rebuke Lhem as I tiassbv Here are some boo' blacks, the lirst. I have seen since leav'ng San Francisco Your shoes are always blacked by tin hotel porter, or the boaiding hoiisi porter, or the steamer porter in then Paris, so that the business of the street urchin is sadly in jured. I do not heai the familiar American cy, "Shine yci boots?" These Hindoo bootblack; should visit New York and see how it js done. Here a great crowd of natives an looking off at the sky over the bay. j look also, but see induing. 1 move or further until I come in sight of the sea shore, when I discover thousands anr thousands of people sitting down anr gazing at the blank cloudless sky. lerret out a Parsee (the Parsees alums' always speak Fnglish) and he explain: it all to me. This is the lirst day o the Hindoo Js'ew Year, and it is a great national custom to look for the new moon. Alter much looking I diseove, the queen of night the smallest cres cent I have ever seen. The streets are thronged with men women and children, all attired in cos tunics that are more showy than any I , have ever seen elsewhere in the world A series of terrific shrieks now risi j atiovo the babel ot street cries, elbow my way along to the scene ot operations and find that a Hindoo is piercing the nose of one of his daugh 'ers, aged perhaps ten yiars. This ia of course, a part of every Hindoo girl's education, but it is a medicine that- i; not appreciated in the taking. Th means adopted for performing the operation are rather primitive. The child's head is held by ono person, while another jams the wire of the jewel through the shrinking cartilage of the nostril. Melon ltranrfy. j The newnst addition to our already lomr list of intoxicating drinks is melon bran.lv. M. Levat. a ,,ri,nL.h chemist, is said to have succeeded in causing that watery fruit to yield a potent spirit. He took the juice of six pounds of watermelon pulp, and, having added a certain quantity of free sulphuric arid, he warmed the mixture, upon which the sugar became 1 tra.isformod into a mixture of glucose, 1' an. i tui.st-. tins i. iiiuu. i, which i 1......I . ti.:., !.... ...i.:.. u ferments directly, yielded ten quarts of perfectly normal alcohol. Keccnt statistics give tho number of j flouring mills in the I'nited States and ; anada as 25,050. TKYIXU TO ItKAT NAT I' lit". ArtlAclal Flower. lmle Hi Ilia Tnii.klr of nil ;.-II ov Hit i.i,)H Arr li HI. ..v.. .i.... :. .... ..." said a New York Mnil ami -.'.ryi'ia re porter who hail raised a .lacqiiemiuot rose to his nose. "Several persons have thought it was real," he contin ued; "well, it is one of the best speci mens I have seen." "It must be a delicate business man ufacturing these flowers?" "Very, and a business that has im proved considerably during the last few years. Nearly all the flowers iim.hI here are manufact ured in t his country." "Can you explain how you trans form ordinary muslin into such delicate looking fluwer.'.y" " eriaii.li, .-H into the factory. 1 will show you ev ery part of the per formance. Step this way;" and the reporter was shown into a long room which presented a buy appearance. Seated at a Ion table that'-extended down the ceutr-' of the room, were lif teeti or twenty girls all tm y dipping and cutting muslin, and iadening it with u-iri.a in rnri.nia -u iip.aott in.r ., . ' ; '.' .' !IS it Wert, lit limrlif ill loi.lil u.ill( lovely rose or delicate lily. It used to he tie custom to manu facture tha floral designs from a mate rial called rhill'iui.liut tha'jis too expen sive an article to compete in the pres ent market, .soordiuary Victoria lawn is substituted. liiii is lirst of all soaked in water to shrink it and then stretched on a frame to dry. When dry it is folded so as to make about sixteen thicknesses and it is ready to cut for any flower we waul. "Now suppose we make the most popular decoration of the present day, the snowball," said the manufacturer, und he took a scollop, circle-shaped steel die and cut out of the muslin sixteen pieces iit each bpiw of the mallet. Tho pieces were placed in alcohol and tinge I in the centre to give them the natural tint of the flower. Alter drying them, each of the scallops i is twisted and about twelve pieces I strung together by passing a wire through the centre. A little paste is added and in less time than it takes to relate, the snowball is ready to adorn some lady's Unmet. "Wl.itt are the mint ditlieult flowers i to manufacture': "Well, the rose, I suj.j. ise, or the mignonette. Allthosotli.it have line petals cause more or less trouble. The manufacture of leaw s is a little differ ent. They are cut in a similar way out of green muslin and then put in a press to stamp on the veins. '1 be ! color is put on with a stencil and dyes. and ea. h leal is dipped into wax and I dried. F cry loaf and petal is handled i separately, so that will give you an ! idea of tho work accomplished. Fash- ! ions are constantly changing and prices vary from twentv cents to 'J.M) j a flower." "Are not the dyes used very injuri- j oils? Not at all. Taris green was used in the old times, but now it is dispensed with and ordinary aniline dyes substi tuted. Wages? Some people have an idea that girls barely earn a living. Wo pay three cents a gross for stamp ing leaves. That appears very little when you know every leaf is stamped separately, bnl an accomplished hand will stamp fifteen or twenty gross in an hour, and working nine hours a day will give about 1, Not bad pay, ehy" Hismarek's Supers) it inns. After the battle of (iravelotte, writes Moritz Hindi in Jlnrp-r's Mnin- .. ini; there was some speculation one day at dinner as to what would bo the result of a complete conouest of i France, and the chancellor concluded : an exposition of his views on the sub ; jeet with the words: "But we should not speak of the bearskin before we have shot our bear. I admit that 1 am superstitious in these matters." Perhaps something crossed his mind aiiou' tho grudge of the old flreck gods. "There are not thirteen of us for dinner?" inquired his cousin. Count liisniarck-Iiohlen, counting th.i I'tiinrs mi, ilav tit Itliuii.w 'Y.t . for objection to that." Another time. w hen there were really thirteen of us at table. 1 drew the attention of Huelier, who sat beside me, tn tho fact. Hut h H' "lot to say anything about it, us it would put the chief into low spirits. On the Uth of October, s7h lieneral Hover met the chancellor at Versailles to negotiate on behalf of Haaine. Hut Hisniarck does not seem to have arranged anything definitely ivith him on that da v. He asked in he bureau what day of the month i; s. I'hrt 11th, vour excellency." The llth! That was Hochkirch and lena. No business should beconclud - ! Hi i n that ilav!" Perhaps it occurred o him, too. that this llth of October a " Friday. In lHoJ he writes from tflankenburg to his wife: "Iliad not I as good spurt at l.rt.liugeii this time' as I had three vears ago. It was i ,. . ' n ! rulav! And ill the Mill.c vear 111). I ... , . . .. ,, ,, , , ' ' w rt('s t'J her Iroiii llalle: "I kept cog- i itating all during the journey yester- i day whether, after all, it were not Fri day. It was a dies nel'astiis at any rale." In proof ol which he goes on to mention a series of small discom forts experienced en route, such as an inn infested with bug, "infamous coll'ee," Jew p ddl rs, "some 'princess es' from the Ifce.icnjasse," and an ob trusive privy councillor ( grheiiiirai h ) who traveled in tho same coupe. When the title of "count" was about to be offered to him, he hesitated for a longtime whether or not he should accept it; for he knew that a number of Pomeranian families which had ac quired the title ha-l heroine evtinci in a coui aratively short space of time. "Tin! country can not afford it," he re marked, when mentioning the matter. ( in the evening of the 2 id of Novem ber, ls7n, as we were sitting at tea in Versailles, he began to speak about his death, and state I definitely the age to which it as appointed that he should attain, and the year in which it. was appointed that he should die. "I know it." he insisted, when I rennm st rated with him on the subject; "it i a mystic number." Seven years later, at Yarin, he repeated t!.e same assur ance, to the narrator of this remarkable circumstance, but added, "Hod, how ever, only knows." I'liltinir Cameo Portraits. "Yes, sir, I am tho artist who cut it," said the tali, shaggy-bearded, el derly man with weary eves. II usi-i cameo a trifle larger t han a silver dol lar. The likeness - that of a well, known man was very good, and tin detail and finish of the work seeinei lo the unskilled and uncritical report ori.il mind very clever. "I am one of the few cameo cutter. in America," said the old man, "and except a bare few.they all do as I do travel from city to city and solicit or tiers. 1 have cut about 'Jon cameos it Chicago. I cut over oull in M. I.ouis an I did the best of all in New York and Philadelphia. Though I did mil while there cut very many cameos, I made the most money in Cuba. Th Cubans were willing to pay lii erally much more o than the people of this country are." "Jlowdol work? I have a few more tools than the lirst cutters am gravers did -those who lived in an cient liome but not many. My tools are simple, hardly worth description. A few sharp-edged tools, a little em cry, oil. and polishing instruments--that's all. Where do 1 get the stone I use? It is more properly a slull since only a few people will pay enough to warrant the imi of onyx. I get it from a certain pari of (iermauy. The outer layer is white, and out oi this lent the profile, cutting away tin white part until I reach the black lower layer. It takes me about a week to finish such a head as this, and for I I get about It is not what you may call an easy trade. It is bard or Ihe eyes, hard on the patience, ban on your chances of becoming indepen dent. "Are American profiles good suit jeets? The best in the world as a rule. Their features - especially young worn en's ai d girls' features art! distinct clear, you might say sharp. hih there is hardly one type of beauty tha1 is widespread, there are thousands o beautiful women and men, too, in this land, whose features it is a pleasim lor an artist to transfer to thiseve;. lasting stone, even if his reward i. only slight." I i'lie Dimensions of Heaven. The followiug paragraph cut it In' "The dimensions of heaven." is fron Lewis's Penny Headings"; "And hi measured the city with a reed, 1'.ihi furlongs. The length and breadtl and height ot it are equal." - Kev. xxi li. Twelve thousand furlongs eqiia. 7,t2O,0tH feet, which, being cubed isl,.ii;,7,.i:t,O.S,iKi(,(iiKi,M0(,0oticiibic feet Reserving half of this space for tin throne and court of Heaven, and hall the balance for streets, we have the tc. inainder of l'Jl.HiS.J'.i.'.iiiKi.iiiMi.iiiHi. iHH cubic feet. Divide this by PMi. the cubical teet in a room sixteen leet square, and there will be .'lti.:12l,!5l:i, 7'iO,Oi)i l,i Mill rooms. We will now sup pose the world always did and always will contain . .im ,ot i ) inhabitants, and that a generation lasts .'!! l-: years, making in all 2,o70,Oiii,hiii,ihm every century, and that the world will stand l()i ,i in (.in ll vears, or IrtiHt centu ries, making in all 2.07(I,(nki,(hiii,ikiii Inhabitants. Then suppose them were 1 1 m i worlds equal to this in the number of inhabitants and duration of years, making a total of 2,,.'7'.i,MH, Oiil,lNi),Oil. persons; and there would be more than a hundred rooms sixteen feet square for each person. I II I UHt UN'S COI.I JIN. . ........ .... llrttrr Vthlallr limn Will nr. a i ..... ., ..-..lb . ,rlv in 1 1 i.iM'iK -i '.' (iiteuiber. 1 notice I two little bovson .,;,. Wily t Hl.,. The small one 'Ulnbled and I'rll; ami though he was lot much hurt, he began to w hine in a 'jabyi.sh way not a regular roaring boy ry, as though he were half killed, but a little cross bine. The older boy to .1; his hand in a in.l and fatherly way. and said: "Oh, never iii 1 1 1 . 1 . .limiiiv, don't 1 whine; jt js gn-at deal better to w,jsti, And he beg.in in Ih rirst wav a i ;.heerful whistle. Jimmy tried to join tho whistt " 1 can't whist lo us nice as Charlie," said he, " my lip pin ker lip good." "( h, that is because ymi got all the whine out yet," : lie; but ymi try a nuiiuti whistle will drive t lie whim So he did; and the Ja-t heard of the .little fellow, whistling away as earnestly iave id ( ami not I bar. the an ay. I s.nv i they Wi ns t Ioiiil that was the lit Cli'l ol llll The l.t'vi'ti'l .. il l Hi.- It ile. A l.cw rct, ..lie day, bounding acn a pasture, suddenly came upon strange and hideous .ibje. t such as had never heloiv beheld. While stood riveted to the so it. Willi I hi and suriiri two bovs cam sight. One of tin-in ll. 1 1 1 " the 1il object, and the Leveret, as In awav, heard him exclaim. 'Ih Charley, here's the Kite." ! When til ' Leveret rca. h 'd bis nest he cried out l i lie- old hare, his tlli.tlier, ' ( Hi, in dlii'l. mother, I have seen a Kit" '." "Then let us all be truly grateiu' that you are alive and sale." repbe. the mother; "toi tbos. Kites arc blood thirsty and w irked things, who think no more of killing and devouring ; young Leveret than ymi or I would o' eating a brad of . h. or." "Oh-h h ugh h'" cried Hare, trembling. "I am awav. 1 thought it nni-t tlic lit 1 1 1 glad I rai be a w ickec ', with it! . luv heal thing, it looked so ugly great big eyes as larg.- a and " "My child' my child' not dulge in su- li i v.iggor.ition." ;-ai mother. "Hill thev Here, ma. and il tin ha.' great big sharp teeth, and a tail a 1-iug as long oh. a. twenty row": tails!" "1.1'Hy!" continue 1 the parent, ".I list as I am rebuking y. hi for exag gerating, you add b your ill behavioi thr sin of untruthfulness. I h.iu seen Kites, and kn iw perl. '.-tly well What they are like. Their eyes art not so large as mir own. and their tails trnt much lotig.-r: und as to tci ih they have none at all. but only a shai'i hook at the end of their nose, w it I, which they tear honest folks to pieces I am grieved to see this spirit of exag geration, and in order to .heck it shall punish you severely." saving this, she began to calf the poor litth Leveret soundly about the ears. She was. however, soon stopped by a hoarse voice, and looking up. beheld an old liav ell, w ho thus addressed her: "Mop beating that little thing. I have beard all your conversation, and know very well that the Kite your soli speaks ol is a very .lill'eiciit thing tn t!:i one ymi are thinking of II is male out of paper and sticks and string by human children, and they tly it in the air by means of a long piece nf twine." "Hut I never saw or heard of such r Kite in all my iifr." Wry likely not," retorted the Haven, "liut that only shows yoiif ignorance." The old Hare's ears dropped, and she slunk away to h.-r nest, luartily ashamed of her conduct. Moi;.t.. We should be very sure of the meaning which others attach to their words belore we. sit in judgment upon them, lest we o them grievous ; wrong, or perhaps expose our own ignorance. Ilnrni's Ymi;i '.''.. The Oeties id Mellimlist bishop.. In the Methodist Fpiscopal church the bishops preside in the annual con ferences, divide the conferences into districts am! appoint a presiding eld over each, as well as itx the appoint incut of the preachers, allowing none except in certain cases made and pro. vided, to remain more than three years out of six in the same appointment. They decide all law questions in the it 1 1 1 n ill conference, and travel at large .through the connection, overseeing its temper il and spiritual busine I'wice a year the bishops meet and make a plan for a time of meeting for the an nual conferences and designate with h al their number shall preside over tin. general coiilereiires. and under no eir- iiiiiHtani-es can they vote either in ;h u'eneral or inniial conferences. ,,;. Jif-hm '., An I .iv lll-h Itoy. Our I my u.i- ill an I lli- iloeior .-.ill- d in; II.- h ll lii- pnl-e. I. mi lii- ew- o..k. - I l.rifiht U .11 III tool -1 ,j 1 1 ll, All. I he uli! U-lill a do-.- ol oil. nulil." We prepared tin m Imih and to illn- went, '( ouio. dilllilli.'. lake it like II lllllll " I 1 1, -look, d up -mil in;; an I said Ma ilium, ! I'll he i,oo, as I Cilll." i I Then he iliii-tv hi- hand- iir.intel hei neek ! And ulii-percd a. he ki-ed her . j " 'm ,.,, so I'll ke the I'itll I And ,'ie the oil lo -i-lel. Ait Villi. Jviii llll'. Ill MOKOl'S. The dentist deserves well of his par ty. lie is always ready to take the stump. Familiarly do. s imt always breed contempt. For instance, there is the girl and ice cream. "This is a warm wave," said tho liiiin vv hose irale wife flaunted a ho' lire shovel in his face. " 1 am a man of enter-pries," re marked tho burglar as ho inserted his jimmy into the sale lock. The young man who went to tha picnic with the deliberate intention of making a mash, in ado one. Ile mash ed a pie. In the bright lexicon of our girls, during the icecream season, there isn't any such ev pressiiin as "No, I thank you." fill. i Wheeler asks in a frenzy: " Is there anything higher than a boy's am bition, that w inge'h away to the sun riven skies-" Did Klla ever timidly inquire the price of the liiht strawber ries ol g tith' spring? "If I were in California,' said a y oung fop in company the other even ing, "1 would waylay some miner with a bag of gold, knock out his brains, gather up his gold and run." "I think you would do better to gather up the brains," quietly responded a young lady. The.vg.it mad at each other on the way home from school, and as one of them turned in at her stiert she called nut: "Humph' Who cares for you? We arc going to hav e t he elect l ie light in our housf. You d. isn't!" "Why?" "'Cause it would show the pimples on your fa e!" ( rime livpiiseil. Vy a few mouths ago the papers gaie an instance of the act it cues of a l-'rem h detective. A loan bad ni'irder- ed his I al inpauioii and buried her body in a cellar. The corpse was discovered, and the in in said that the woman had killed herself by falling down stairs, and that he had burie I her secretly, f aring to be accused ot her death, lb' asserted that this "acci dent" took place in the autumn, in October. 'I he detective observed the traces of smoke on the ceiling. " Ynu hill a candle when you buried tin body," he remarked, and was answer ed in the atlirniative. "And you say you only enttred this cellar on that I'M' day in October?" 'I he suspected in in again averrelit. "You a re speak ing falsely," retorted the detective, and showed the murderer, between the crevices of the ceiling, the half con sun ed larva-of certain insects which only lay in the spring, and which bad been burnt l y his candle at the timt when he had actually buried bis vie tun. How often has a clever forgery been defeated by solil.' krell observer who noticed some very trilling over, vjgi.i tit Uie. sliilful fraud. Forged v-ii'.'.i v-.ava been found mil from the water-mark of the paper not tallying with their dale. TIhto is a story of a forged will being propounded in a French court, und the forgery was so skilful that il appeared impossible tn deny the document's aul hen1 icity, though certain circunist.ii cos caused its genuineness to be sieq . ct I. It Wiis drawn, not on ordinal y paper, but on the back of a map of France pro fessedly over a century old. The name of the publisher of tho map w;n in thu corner, together with the date, and the ; words, "Oengr.ipher to thu king.' 1 Though Ih.' relatives who were injured by the will fell convinced that a fraud j was being practiced upon them, re lies' j seemed hopeless. Hut a clever lawyer j discovered that, at the time of the sup I posed publication of the map, tho dignity of "lieograpler to the king's i had not 1 u conferred upon the inap- j maker. The name was correct, thai of i a well-known publisher of charts in bis day, and he had 1 ecu permitted to assume the title the forger had added, but not till some years after the date of the forged map. Investigations clearly proved that the geographer never assumed the title till it was legally conferred upon bun, and never afterward published a map without I Iding il; the ma is well as the will j written upon its back, was a forgery, detected by an observer of cuumal acuteness. l.tmitoit sluitil'inl.