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KING OF THE JUNGLE.
A correspondent of thu London Tel
fffiaii gives it graphic description of
ligppshooting in India. There nro two
I rhleipnl ways in Soul horn India of
destroy in r the jungle monarch. One is
with heaters add elephants gathered in
array to drive tho game from his cover
intotho open; and tho other method
is sitting tip all night over a "kill" (i.
p., It dead cow or goat struck down by
tho tiger), nnd thus patiently waiting
tint it ho Comes to finish tho carcass,
when at least one good shot is certain.
Tho first of these processes is Mover
ndopted in jungle tracts, simply because
the thickets arc so dense and vast that
the quarry might travel all day at his
best speed without once showing hint"
- se'f. The second, a mure sure but le. s
exciting style, was the one adopted
and carried out with much good luck
in tho instance described.
Toshoot big game requires much care,
time and expense, in none of which are
he planters able to be lavish. Coitso
q neatly they'd'. their shoot i'lg when and
where they can, coming iiponasumhur
here and thrre.i.r sitting up for a night
in a tree over the dead body of a cow
which some prowling tiger has slaugh
tered. It was for such a purpose, says
tho correspondent, that 1 oiko started
to make a moonlight expedition to a
patch of tangled jungle which crowned
the rocky summit of a high hill over
looking our cofl'eo gardens.
At firs spot, only eight hour In-fore,
a herd of the smoolh-coatcd Indian
kino had been feeding under care of a
native shepherd boy, when, not dream
ing of 'iny lurking foe, and intent only
on the siiccule.it spear and lemon
grass, a young heifer had strayed from
her fellows, and passing along the
edge of the slmla was sprung upon and
Killed outright, the herd boy and hi
charges living for their lives down tin
mountainside to the homestead. It
usually falls to tho lot of Englishmen
to avenge such forays iiion tho tiger
that makes them, and, tho news hav
ing been brought in, mvself and a
c iiurade forthwith .summarily con
demned to death tho striped terror of
tho jungles, and agreed to meet at
night an I ourselves execttto tho sen
tence. As darkness settled on tho littlo en
cimpment my friend and myself, un
der the guidance of an agile old low
land shikaree, took our way through
t!to denso black jungle, tramping in
; nd out of tho water courses which
intersected our path to the fo.it of the
mountain. For a little time we walked
in silence, smoking an' enjoying tho
cool of t'io evening, while our guide
stole on before us lightly and silently
as a wraith, creeping round the tree
trunks and picking his path through
tho carpet of fallen leaves without
making the least noise to betray his
movements. After a timo the ground
began to slope upwards, and we were
breasting a steep ascent of the precip
itous hill, sometimes on hands and
knees; but tho top once reached we
wero amply repaid for our exertion by
I he loveliness of the scene at our feet.
Moonlight in India renders beautiful
I ho most commonplace spots on the
face of tho globe, liclow us, and ex
tending as far as the eye could roach,
spread the great ownerless jungle of
one of tho wild st regions of Lower
India, a mighty tract of virgin forost,
?xpanding on all sides in deep green
undulations, the ranks of its mighty
winy of giant trees, broken only by a
patch or two of bare rock here and
there, or tho serpentine course of a
river that ran brokenly under tho
moonlight, now widening into a glit
cring silent pool, and anon weaving a
naiDW thread of silver under the
shadow of the trees. Not a sound
rould be hoard from the edge of the
rocky plateau where we stood leaning
,m our guns, except tho deep belling
note of a sambur deer echoing up from
the valley, and making the succeeding
jilenco seem even yet more deep.
For some minutes we drank in the
fresh, cool air of the mountain top.and
then, in obedience to the impatient
gestures of tho shikaroe, proceeded
upon our march to a clearing some
couple of hundred yards further along
the ri Ige, making as littlo noise as
possible, for we wero now in tho ene-
iny's territory. The place where the
kill had taken place was a wonderfully
.igerish" one a grassy level of a few
hundred yards, fringed on the upper
I de by a long strip of thick jungle
wuiiu ran oy the brow of tho bl J
VOL. VII.
into tho neighboring valley, and bisect
ed by a deep stony nullab, high
hanked, and doubtless filled by a
foaming torrent in the wet season, but
now boasting only tho smallest trickle
of white water, finding its way amid
a disproportionately large bed of sand
ind looso bowlders. Proceeding cau
'lously along in the deep gloom of the
jungle we soon saw the dead body of
the slaughtered cow, lying in full
moonlight, and m st strange and "un
canny" it looked. 13ut our native
guide whispering that we wero al
ready late, now glanced round, and,
.electing a neighboring tree, signed to
us that we should climb into it. Noth
ing loth -for tho shadows of the jun
gle were fearfully dark, and the tiger
was, as my comrade said in my ear,
'overdue" wo were speedily aloft and
s ifely perched in tho hollow of a deep
fork commanding a good view of the
dead heifer. Our rifles loaded and ar
ranged, we proceeded to brace our
nerves to an iron-clad calm, while en
joying the Contrast of bright white
light and deep shadows on the plateau
before our eyes. 15ut tho suspense of
waiting so m became very hard to bear
every rustle in tho jungle, every
chirrup of a cricket, made us grip our
guns under the impression that the en
emy was at hand. Royalty, however,
at home, is not to ho hurried, and tho
beast took his time. The delightful
quietness of tho evening was broken
only by the familiar voices of tho for.
os, grown so coin uon to our sense of
hearing that they were uow hardly
perceptible. F.vcry twig had its hum
ming night-perfo.Miier, every blade of
grass or loose stone was an orchestra
for a chorus of winged insect musicians
adding to tho general murmuring.
Now ami again tho black monkeys in
a sal tree in tho valley below appeared
troiib'e I by dreadfully bad dreams of
wandering panthers or gliding snakes,
and disturbed tho universal peace by a
sudden chorus of barking. Overhead
the leaves made a fairy tracery against
the purple vault of heaven spangled
with g ittering constellations, and a
shooting star Hashed o-cnsionally
across the vault, dragging after it a
palo streamer of saffron light.
Suddenly the cold, blade, nervous
lingers of tin shikaree tightened on
my arm, and I could feel his agitation,
though ho was invisible, for at this
moment the moon went behind a lleet
of light, fleecy clouds sailing up from
ho westward before the faint midnight
wind. My own hands closed on my
rille, while eyes and ears were strained
ineffectually t see or hear anything
in tho gloom, and heart and breathing
were kept under close control to pre
vent tho possibility of any sound es.
aping. How long this tension was
preserved it is dillioult to say; but in
perhaps forty seconds tho windward
edge of tho cloud shrouding tho moon
turned silvery with light, ami another
second or two saw the great .shield of
silver ride out triumphantly into space
Instantly all eyes were turned to the
"kill" at our feet, and there, his ap
proach unannounced by the cracking
of a single twig or tho displacement of
ono pebble, stoo l our quarry, his royal
livery of striped gold and black show
ing with wonderful richness in tho
clear glimmer of the stars; ono mon
strous paw planted lirmlyonthe swell
ing Hank of the dead kine, and the im
perial jowl already at work "nuzzling"
under the creature's body for the
trickle of blood yet welling from the
ugly gashes in its neck. Then the
royal beast, giving way to his appetite
tore a long gobbet of llesh from tho
shoulder, and was settling himself
down to a comfortable evening's re
past. Hut ho never said grace after
that meal! I saw iny friend's rillo go I
up to his shoulder as tho tiger turned
his broadside for a moment, and the
next a tongue of llamo leaped forth,
and tho sharp crack of the rillo hushed
every wild thing in tho forest, whilo
its own echoes rolled away among tho
distant hills to light and left.
It was clearly a hit, for we noticed
the bullet "plump" on the mark and
heard tho shoit, .sharp, angry growl
which responded liko an echo to the
shot, and when tho smoke drifted off
through the branches wo perceived
-stripes" limping away badly wounded
in the direction of a nullh or deep
water-course thirty yards over tho
dead grass. Into this ho was hasten
ing just as 1 got a good sight upon
him, and my ball, taking him in the
back, made him leap high in the air
and plunge, apparently dead, into the
corinda bushes. My companion ever
impetuous- was down to tho ground
and running after him quick as
thought. Following, but keeping a
steady finger on the trigger to meet
any charge of the enemy for nothing
is inoiv dangerous than a badly
wounded tiger 1 was at the brink al
most as soon as mv comrade. "Where
is he?" was then the question, and for
a moment we were uncertain; but two
stones thrown into a patch of dwarf
PITTSBORO
bamboo elicited a fclli stir an I a
faint "waugh! waugii!'' from I he tiger-!
who actually endeavored to crawl ur '
at us, stumbling across tho stream
bed. Our rilles wero on him as he'
made a feeblo spring at the bank on j
which we stood, but ho could, as we !
saw, do nothing, and, scratching inef-1
fectively at the dry bushi s on top, fel'
back. It was now really pitiful to see
the royal boast in his furious helples:i.
noss. Ho lay writhing for a space on ,
a neck of smooth, sparkling sand, I
whining nnd moaning in savage tones,
our barrels always covering him.
while ho gnawed his great paws and
dug the claws of his hinder legs into
tho soil, lashing tho streamlet into
foam with his tail. Then suddenly, a"
bis end approached, perceiving the in
dignity of these actions, ho screwed
himself round to faco us, and, half i
raising his massive head, glared at us 1
with undying ferocity for a moment I
and then gave forth such a final roar I
as I hope never to hear again. Crag
and precipice shook with it all around.
It set the elephants trumpeting in the i
forest, nnd drove sleep for the night
from the eyes of the black monkey-. I
While the savage cry still sounded I j
tired the coup de grace into his brain I
and the strong neck of the jungle moc.
arch bowed; death fell like a cloud
upon the green glitter of his eyes, and
limp and harmless, as the broken
bushes around him. the terror of th
forest and the plunderer of the shep
herd's herds Iny still! Wo were safe
'nough after that second, but the ski
bari was vexed with the rashnes"
shown in descending the tree. "Never
go down from a machan to kill a tiger
sahib," ho said, unconsciously Irish
"until you are pretty sure that he is
dead."
Tlie First
I're-lilent's Jinirney to Sew
York.
If the election of Washington were
unique, his arrival was no less so. He
w;'s the first President, and probably
will by the l.:st, to reach the seat ot
(oivernmeut in an open boat. (ioing
back to bis election, it may bo men
Moned that Congress sent ono of its
Members to notify him, and, as it was
a four-uays' journey, the messenger
reached Mount Vermm by tho 11th.
Washington was soon ready, and made
the journey on horseback attended by
his suite, which included Tobias Lear,
his faithful secretary. He was we),
coined every w hero with the highest
honors, and his route lay through
Trenton, which was tho scene of his
first victory. I n reaching New Uruns
wick he found a barge of Stato awail.
ing him, each of its rowers being the
captain of a ship. In addition to the
crew was the committee of rec;-ption,
which included the magnates nf the
Nation, and on this barge the first
President was conveyed to New York
city. It was a rather slow voyage of
fifteen miles down to tho mouth of the
ltaritan, and then from the Statin
Island chanivl (bettor known as tho
Kill von Null) was a Ir avy pull of
eight miles, but, slow as it might be
it was better' than laud carriage, and
six hours after leaving New P.runs
wick the llrst President landed at the
foot of Wall street. The same dis
tance Is now made by rail in less than
nn hour. IIo reached New York city
just seventeen days after his election,
and his inauguration took pine-; just a
week after his arrival. He was the
only President elected and inaugurated
in New York city, and the city has re
sponded to the honor by erecting a
statue to thu Father of his Country on
the very spot where ho took tho oath
of office. Troy Timm.
An Application Unit Was Itofiised.
A Washington correspondent to the
Philadelphia ll'vord tells tho follow
ing: I think I have a new Lincoln
Stanton story. At least tho congress
man who told it spoke as though he
had just discovered tho document
which is its basis. Jt was an applica-
tion for a chaplaincy in tho army, with
a series of endorsements by Lincoln
and Stanton on its back w hich ran
over the available spaco on the appli -
cation and down on a slip of paper
whicli had been added to receive them,
These were tho endorsements, each
being dated: "Dear Stanton: Appoint
this man a chaplain in the army. A
Lincoln." "Dear Mr. Lincoln, lie is
not a preacher. K, M. Stanton."
Three or four months elapse, evident
ly, and then we have: "Dear Stanton:
lie is now. A. Lincoln." "Dear Mr.
Lincoln: Hut there is no vacancy. K.
M.Stanton." "Dear Star ton: Appoint
him a chaplain-at large. A. Lincoln."
"Dear Mr. Lincoln: Theie is no war
rant of law for thai. K. M. Stanton."'
'Dear Stanton: Appoint him anyhow.
A. Lincoln." "Dear Mr. Lincoln: 1
will not, V.. M. Stanton." And ho
didn't. Hut apparently ho told the j then went to live in the wildest por
applicant that he could leave his appli- j tion of the State, w here he dislo
cation on file, for there it is among tho guislu-d himself as a mighty hunter
dry old documents. ' ind crack shot, as attested bv the fa
CHATHAM CO., N. C,
AX l-SSAY BY HILL .NVK.
A Humorist fiives His Views
on Hu Iter-Milk iny,
And A'so Tells How Ho Once Undertook
to Milk a Strair-'i Cow.
Hotter is the mature fruit of tho full
blown cow. It is the greatest effort
! of her life. The cow toils not, neither
does sho spin; yet I say unto you that
Solomon, in all his glory could not beat
her on hand-made, or rather milk-maid
butter. This subtle joke I have re
paired and newly upholstered for use
during the winter.
Hut'er comes from the cow in a
liquid stato. It is quite a trick to win
her confidence so that she will yield it
up to a total stranger. I once sought
to woo tho lacteal iluid from the milk
retort of a largo speckled cow to w hom
I was a comparative stranger. She
wasn't one of those blooded cows that
look as though they have been cut out
of a sheet of paper with a pair of
scissors. She was a low cow, with
coarse instincts, born in obscuritv.
j Her brow was low, but sho wore
j her tail hi rh, and sho was haughty
j O, so haughty. Tho young man who
I had hithorto acquired tho milk from
i this cow desire I one evening to hie
j him away to a neighboring village,
I where ho might trip the light boinbas
J tic toa till the wee sma hours anent
j the twa.' (iiuotalion from a poet
I who was a poor speller.) He wantel
me lo milk his large, speckled, plubcian
cow ; and I said I would. Tho move
ment was certainly ill-advised. 1 un
dertook to do ;is I had agreed, but
failed. From tho moment I entered
her stall and made a commonplace re
mark to her I knew our aeqiiaintancc
would not It a I to a warm attachment.
Somehow 1 felt constrained an I un
easy in her society from the moment
we met until loving friends pulled me
out through tho stable-window and
brought mo back to consciousness.
1
shall never undertake to milk a strange
cow again until the sign is right. So
far the sign has not been right.
1 might be sent on a Polar expedi
tion and get stranded on an iceberg,
with no other alternative b-.it to milk
a cow or eat an old friend; bat 1 should
hate to tacklo the cow unless the friend
was a very old friend indeed.
Iluttcr is produce I by expunging
the juice from a rare and costiy chem
ical known as cream. Cream is tho
bead on tin milk. Milk is known as
dry an I extra dry. A good milkman
will always ask you whether you want
your milk wet or otherwise.
An old well-digger named lr.idy
(Id me about going over into South
ern Indiana nt one tim to dig a well
for a man named Withum. Wit hum
was said to be very close. lie was
the most contiguous man in Indiana.
His wife used to skim (be milk on one
side, and then turn it over and skim
(ho bubbles off. It was a constant
struggle between Withum and his wife
to see which would be the meaner.
The first day that lira ly wa there
they had a round ball of butter about
as big as a lemon and as hard as l'li i
raoh'ftJieart. Tho bill ter-knifu had a
handle that would turn every timeauy
one tried to get a lick at the butter,
and tho little round ball would Hop
over on the other side and smile. Now
and then a hired man would reach over
with his own knife and make a slash
at it, but tho butter, confident of its
own strength, would tip over with a
dull thud, and the man would heave a
j siK" an'' Kivo - "P '-'m'n mother
farm-hand would make a wild dash at
j it, but burst into tears and quit. Fi
j nally Orady, who hail watched this
, performance several days, jabbed hi
J fork down through the middle of tho
! yellow chunk and successfully cut it
in two. In the cent ro was a small
! solid wooden top. "There," says Oral
dv, "I've found out what the h'amcd
thing is wound on, anyhow." JUII
! A, m C'Hirii r-J-mrna!.
j Who was lay Crockett,
The famous backwoodsman, hunter,
', soldier and legislator, Col. David Crock,
. ett, says a Southern paper, was bojn
at Limestone.on the Nolachucky Kiver
i in Tennessee, Aug. 17, 17SG. His
! father -of Irish birth -after various
' other vocations, opened a tavern on
! tho road from Abingdon to Knoxville,
where David passed his youth from
sever to twelve years of age.
He was sent to a country school.
but on thu fourth day quarreled with
tho schoolmaster, and, after playing
truait for a time, iled from home to
avoid a Hogging, threatened both by
his father and master. For fivo years
he roamed about with drovers and car
riers, till in his eighteenth year he re
turned home, attended school for two
months, learning bis letters for the
first time, and soon after married. He
MARCH 12, 1885.
mous "coon" story; th nigh as a mat
ter oT fact the real hero of that anec-dot.-
is said to have been ('apt. Martin
Scott -a person scarcely less distin
guished in his day as a sportsman than
Davy Crockett hiuielf.
In lspl David Crockett s'rved in
the Creek war under Oen. .lackson,
and alter (he peace settled at Shoal
Creek, in a desolate region in Tonnes
see. A community of reckless charac
ters having Hocked together, it v?s
found neocssajy to establish a tempo rary
government, and he was appoint
ed one of tho magistrates. IIo soon
after became a caudidato for the Leg
islature and made a suctv.s-.ful elec
tioneering tour by shooting'at matches
and telling amusing stories. He was
twice re elected to the Legislat lire, but
in his leisure intervals devoted himself
especially to bear bunting, till in l"--7
he w as elected by the parly of .1 iekon
a representative in Congress.
At Washington, ho obtained noto
riety by the eccentricity of hi manner
and language. ' In lsJ'.i he was again
chosen to Congress, but soon after
changed from a partisan to an oppo
nent of .la 'ks-m's administration; and
in ls:il it required hi:i most .strenuous
exertions to secure his re-election.
finding the in'lueiic' of Jackson
irresistible in Tennessee, Crockett sub
seqiiently sought a new career in Tex
as, I hen in revolt against, Mexico, and
alter a scries of military exploits, ni"t
his death al Fort Alamo, in San An
tonio de Hexar. After a hard iege,
the survivors, six in number, includ
ing Crockett, surrendered, but by ordei
of Sinta Anna, tlu-y wi-p-put tidea h
March ti, is hi.
Throwing (lie Slipper.
Popular custom i are long-lived.
I'sages whose origin is hid in tin.
mists of antiquity, and whoso primi
tive meaning has long been lost, art
still practised by force of habit amon-j
the populations of Kurope and Amor,
ca. Many of these popular custom
have been carried from the far e.ist tc
th- far west by that irresistible west
ward drift of the peoples which ha
now been going on for thousands ol
j years. .Mr. ;. .Lansing, ol Alexan
dria, Fgypt, contributes to tic hc-t
j number of the ihr-n' stnii.t an
oriental explanation of the occidental
custom of throwing the slipper atlei
, a newly married couple. Mr. Lansing
j writes that the custom of throwing u
slipper at another, or striking him
I with it, is still practised in the east as
! a sign of renunciation. A father, ''or
instanc-', w ho would renounce hi.s son
after he has been convicted of being
a wicked son, will, before witnesses,
take off bis shoe, and, if ne.ir enough,
strike him with it, or. if more distant,
throw it at him. IJecently we hat
had three cases of M slein convert.-. t
Christianity, whose relative and co
religionists have, iuthii manner, .sig
nified their renunciation and cutting
off of all relations with with tin per
verts from their fate. The oriental
shoo being usually a soft slipper, is
not throw n as a iiiisile, or weapon, foi
the purpose of causing bodily pain . . .
This explains the throwing of a slip
per after the bride as she leaves hot
father's house. It is saying to her in
a playful way: 'lie off with you. We
renounce you, and will have nothing
more to do with you.' " Mr. Lansing
explains in the same way tho taking
of the shoo from the foot in the caseol
the kinsman who renounced his claim
to tho inheritance of F.limolich ( f tilth
iv., S), the loosing of the shoe being
merely a legal formulaof renunciation,
which drew its meaning from popular
lure. Tho modern Arabs, instead of
throwing the shoe, sometimes use thr
expression, "My shoe at yon, in token
contemptuous renunciation. .Nwioi;
Si touf Timts.
What is Tin Ware!
It does not appear to be generally
known that th? article so commonly ;
used for household utensils, for cans, ,
for roofing, etc., called "tin," really j
contains very little tin, seldom more I
than one part in forty or lift v. Tin i
-pure tin--is a silvery white metal, I
and is the lightest and easiest melted
of all the metals in common use; it
being only about five-eighths as heavy
as lead, and requires only about two
thirds the heat to melt it. Pure tin is
colled "block tin," but it is rarely used
pure, the utensils, said to be made of
block tin being alloys with other
metals. Our common tin ware is
really tin plate a thin sheet of iimi,
ooiitnl with a film of tin. Plates of
iron of the proper size and thickness
are scoured with sand and acid until
perfectly clean, and then dipped
several times in melted tin; a coating
of tin of variable .'hickness, adheres to
the iron. The object of coating iron
with tin in this manner is to protect
tho iron from rusting. Tin when
exposed to air does not i ust or even
tarnish, while iron readily does so, but
the thin coating of tin completely
vrotects it
NO. 2
A TALI. OF TIIK aMML'M:.
Curious History of n Farncu j
Pciris.ii-111 Landmark,
Destruction and R-istoratioa of tho Placo
Voi'lomi) Napoleon Column.
Tho famous Napoleon column in
the Place Vcndouie, Paris, was con
structed by order of the great soldier
from cannon captured in his wars, and
was designed to illustrate in bronxo
the wonderful career of the Corsica"
boy. It was modeled after the Trajan
column, and is to day ono of the con -spinous
ami notab'e landmarks of tho
French capita1. lint it lias had a cu
rious history. In 171, when Paris
was lield by tho commune, it was re
solved to pull down the pillar, and
steps w. re immediate'y taken to un
dermine its base, the idea being to
cause it to fall with one great crash,
symbolical of that national fall which
the communists hoped t i see take
place as a result ol their misguided
efforts.
A bed of san 1, fagots and manure
was prepared for the huge mass to
fall upon, I hat tho c on -iissio-.i to the
siiiroundiiig buildings might be lesen
ed. The Otlicc Journal, on the in 'ru
ing of May pi, announce,! that tho
column would positively fall thai day
at 2 o'clock. At the hour naur.'d a
largo crowd of spectators ass -mbled.
The members of the commune and
the'r staff, amounting to (wo hundred,
at tended on horseback. Hands played
and everything wa done to give the
occasion a fest ive character. Colonel
Mayer, commanding in the Place Ven
doiue, ascended to the top of the col
umn and waved a small tri color llag.
lie then tore the liar, cried -Long
live the commune!" tied tim il.ighead
to the rails of the summit of the pillar
and descended. When tho ropes wero
tightened the band struck up the
"Marseillaise," and all eyes were fixed
on the doomed monument. "11 falls!"
exclaimed the onlookers, and the great
mass bowed slowly toward the Hue da
la Pais. As it fell it broke into pieces
in the air and struck the ground in
four ilistine! piece--. A loud yet dull
report follow od, and clouds of dust
rose into the sky, but the concussion
was nothing like so bal as the people
had CApectcd. The column forced it
self tome way into the ground, but no
windows were broken, nor was the
square in any way injured.
As soon as the huge fragments had
settled themselves. Col. Mayer mount
ed them and waved a red llag, the
populace cheering and shouting "Long
live the commune!". At nearly the
samo moment there was posted at
Versailles, the headquarters of tin
government troops, a brief yet. signili'
cant despatch, dated Mont Valerian:
"Tho top of the YoU'lome column has
disappeared from view."
The excite 1 communists immediate
ly set about making the indignity to
the memory of Napoleon even greater
than it had already been, by breaking
the bronze pieces of the column and
throwing them into the Sep. e and car
rying them into hiding in different
parts of the city, so that by nightfall
of (lie following day not a piece weigh
ing so much as twenty p muds of the
once magnificent monument which
towered into the air lo.'i feel remained
in the Place Yendomo, or was any
where to be found.
Hut tho fortunes of war changed.
Tho communist were driven from tho
city, and order on--o moro reigned.
Immediately an effort was made lo re
store the many ruined public and pri
vate portions of Paris, tho Napoleon
column among them. Howards wore
offered for the finding of the missi.,g
pieces, under the stimulus of which
the Seine w as dragged and thousands
of out-of-thc-plae-.'soxplored. Strange
to say, every piece of the great monu
ment was found. It was once again
raised, and to-day the heroic figure of
(he great emperor stands as proudly
on the summit of the magnificent
pile in the Place Yendome as though
it had never been plunged piecemeal
into tho Seine by an angry populace.
( 'tisxi It's Mtttjasiiii;
A Valuable Hint.
"What are you buying now?" asked
Ned Stevenson of Andrew- Powell, on j
meeting the latter in Hell's jewelry
store.
"I am looking for some present to give
my wife on her birthday. 1 (ell you,
making presi n 1 s n ist s a heap of money."
"Why don't you do as I do? I have
never failed to make my wife a present
on her birthday every year for twenty
live years, and 1 am not out a cent
thus far."
"How do yon manage it?"
"It is very simple. Afler we were
married, when her birthday camo
around I give her a twenty dollar gold
piece. When my birthday came
around sho gave me the twenty dollar
piece back, and we have kept "that up
ever since, and neither of us are out a
cent." MJHwjh.
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! "Whatever Is !lesl-I- Hest."
I know, ns my life ;;rw-i older,
And in no eyes li ivi- cIi iiii i' iIit,
TIim! iiiitlei- iirli rank Wron:;, bwnicwlieie,
There- lies (he i-tiul o Kii;lil.
'Hull CMl ll HillTO'V liiis its 1 11 1 1 1 e
I ly llie sol rowing oil iiiiih -i-d.
Pill :l sine II-tile Sim blil'; lliol'llin:'.
Wh.ili'vci is, is IjiM.
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A- sure u- III- n:.;hl It-ins -mii-I '.
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S.Kio-ii i- hy Ihe h" nl' mire I,
And I" row, in ! i-ii lo ill. t.
lint liulevef is, is li wl.
I Know I'h i-i- :iv" ne cii-.il-',
In till' ure il 1 .1 10(1 'l in.
An. I nil thin;- ivolk lo .! le r
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A;id I in . when my S,,-, ' . i.'iw o.l
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, r poll' -The :an
V-wspa;
if an
editor'.- cigar.
An a o'ieiiltur.il it' m -Never culti
vate ;in ,. qu.iiiiuu w it'i a rake."
"I'el'ovV is a i'aui ma'do shale.
Tweiity-d I';i'' go! I ; m are very
s'.ylish.
'i'o !. or ' bo-ii.1' says a writer. So
are oiler men, hip w!i"i ill y ; t old
rii-nili t In y gem-rally ret'oroi.
The haul. -si tiling i.i '.Irs world for
a ooa -.inn rive I d i is to make a
li d-'i.' bet wee i co I l.v -r oil and death.
They arc try tig in t.eria my t-i Ind
a -uii-itit' , for In li. -ni'dier. Ca t it
I e Ciey have f irg itt.e:i th Ant -riean
clam V
"Is land high in V tiiioiiI ?" asked
a sp Tulaior ol' an old (ir e t Mountain
farmer. "You just l-t ii is"' was the
rep'y. "If tho tr w isn't so st it'itcd
the clouds e -iiildn't pass by at all.
He was at breakfast, wrestling w it !i
a piec - ol 'remarkably tough eal. His
wife said lo him: "You always say
tb-re's i-omcihing to h thankful for
in everything. I guess you'd lie puz
zled in this instance." "Not at all,"
he re-ponded, stopping to breath; "I
was jii-l thinking how grateful we
should be tint we met it when it w as
young."
Marriage.
One man can bp a painter, another
,-ui author; but only the conceited fool
thinks he can bo everything. We are
obliged to unite with others in order to
fully develop our individuality.- -Among
the many differences in hu
man nature the most obvious is that
of sex. There are ce.t tin things in
which man is deficient and women ex
cel, and vice vci -a. Man is strong
and woman weak. He is fitted for
muscular effort and continuous activi
ty, and he should take the lead in
gaining tho means of support, whilo
she supplements his efforts by wisely
administering the household affairs.
Man is brave, that is, he can overcomo
obstacles; woman is fair. ' None but
ti e brave deserves (he fair," and none
but the fair deserve thu brave. The
rdal ion is knighthood mid la ly lemd.
The woman who possesses neither
beauty of form and feat ure nor beauty
of character, is unsex-'d. Man is self
ailii'ming, woman is scll'-.b-nying. He
must enter into the struggle against,
competitors, while she, standing apart
from this can cultivate sympathy at d
ti ndeiness. She is made st r inger by
contact with him, while he is softened
by her iuiliience. We judge him by
what ho docs and her by what she is
- her smiles, her movements, her
ways. Customs and usii.igos liavo
their firmest support in tier; sho is
the guardian of religion. Tho holiest
relation which man has evolved is the
home The husband and wife si Id
grow together, sharing prosperity, joy
and sorrow. They should he intellect
ual companions. Oulv of late has it
been admitted that woman has intolecl
and is not merely a creature of senti
ment. The real fact is that man's intc
lect is fitted for generalization, woman's
for specialization. Hot ween these ( wo
poles lie all ai l, science and morality.
I'.iroism or altruism is not the true
basis of life, but to live for the unity,
for the highest development of the
other and of sclf.-V'.r Fili.v,
A I'ctrificil Oyster.
While digging a well at Homo, fia.,
i workman found, at the depth of sixty
feet down in tho bowels of tho earth, a
petrified oyster. A legend exists to
he effect that a church supper held in
Home tweiity-llvo years ago was
ilmost a failure on account of its
..yster escaping from a back window
ind taking to tho woo ls. I. is Sup
po el that this petrified bivalve is tho
uissing oyster. We suspect it wns
recognized by a undo between its
dioulder blades. The oyster must
have been terribly frightened to bur
row so deep in the earth, Nun-iUubon
Herald.