iEljc l)atl)nm Hctorfc
ttljc iSljatljcun Ucrorb.
II. V. J.OiM)OIN,
ED1TOK AM) PHOl'UIETOK.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION,
One copy, one yoiir
One copy, six months .
One ropy, throe months
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My Answer.
Von sry my cio's jush noun tln lighter,
My is "ly d-cpcr, .liiy liy .lily;
I wonder ul whys how my dour is lining,
In thoso liroiul ftrccU ulu-ro Hill" cluMirn
piny.
Life till 1 meet her seams ono groul forever
Nnno hut it mother knows a mother' loss;
This hn your ciiiiilo.t, though you mny wear
never
'IV crown of wifehood, you will not fear iU
rros.
is it 80 then, and is my life llm heller
That iirvm children loan upon my knee?
That I know lint thcii ulnsp's rni-iU'lini; l'ott?r.
A tut no warm liicsido hit its place forniff
"You Miy my arm ucIih so, once morn to hnli'
lici ;'
My v m nclin so to look upon hoi- lurn.
1 knov-some iceel's lovo will sure enfold her.
."lis my weak self lhitetvot.s Mill 1117 place'
Ami tlnnk yon then, my heart puiin cs'( tlmt
never
Hitvo I he'd tiiino own warm against my
hctirt :
Hint, tiivl's best uti'l mng denied mo ever,
My one liiOoninsj is my petty nit?
Ah, Iriend, wlnit lolly' llojoi not see cleat ly,
I hp cross will 11nisl1 Imt tin; rnum rn Inn'.
Nutliinu is loit which once wi. have lov'.l
ileal ly,
'I'll' present i-t hitti-i. hit 'ir ;i; it yours'
.Viw Hulk , 1; !-,nt llmil.rein.j.
TURNED ADRIFT
Hosamond! Hosamond
"Yes, I 'iirlt! Phineas."
'It's nine o'clock, Hosaniond. The
clock's just struck."
"I know it. I'nclii I 'hi iic.-is."
"Well, takf iil'f them logi as hasn't
got fairly to going ami jut 'em kcerful
in tin chimney-corner, ntiil kivrr op
f lip rest with a good coat (if ashes.
l'y hour, Hosamond?"
"Vrs, I'ncle Phineas!" with a sigh.
Hrcau.se yen know, Hosamond,
nino o'clock's tho time folks was ahril."
"Yes, l"nrie ri.ine.'K"
"Ainl be sure you lock tho lujj front
door ami holt hotli tho bolls, ami poi a
rhtier agin tho hinges, ho't it'll tumble
over rf any one tampers with the fast
enings." "I'll not forget. I'ncle Thineas."
tieorgi) Hanil rose from his sf.it,
with a smile, as Kosauioiul l'ter'h
trouble'l eyes met his own.
. "Perhaps I hail better be goin,"
said he. "'Evidently your uncle thinks
iny room will be better than my coin- I
pany." j
"You won't mind hiin'r" said l!osa- j
mom!, faintly. i
"N'ot in the leasi," said t ieorge, I
"He's unite right. Nine o'clock is !
time to go home. I'll come some other
time and linish my visit."
Ilo held Hosamond's hand in his a
trille longer than there was any neces-j
snty for, as they parted; an;l the girl I
signeu so my as she hoitcil tlte grt at I
mor anu adjusted the "cheer at tho
exact burglar-catching angle.
George Hand had been very near
saying the word for which her heart
had longed all these months, just when
I'nclo Phineas' cracked voice made
itself audible, over the bend of the
stairway.
Ifwas rather hard, but Hosamond's
life had been a succession of mute
self-sacrifices, and this only mado an
additional one.
Hut I'nclo Phineas renewed the
subject, next day. w ith some acrimony.
"I tell yo what, Hosamond." said he,
"tht! candle-box is more'ii half-empty!"
"Yes, I'nclo Phineas, it's the middle
of January you know," said Hosamond,
gently.
"I don't keer el 'twas the middle of
April," snarled tlte old man. "That
ain't no excuse for wasting candles.
Arter this, the house has got tube
shut up at half-past eight o'clock at
night, and all the lights out. 1 ain't
goin to end my days in the poor-house,
not t please all the shiftless young
feller-i in the place. Ef they ain't got
homes of their own to set up in, 1
ain't goin' to turnish one for 'em."
Hosamond made no answer. What
comment had she to offer? Mid not
I'ncle Phineas remind her a dozen
times a day that she was a penniless or
phan, entirely dependent on him for tho
bread she ate. theclothessbe'wore? To-be-sure,
there had been a hundred dol
lars for her, when the estate of Eliakim
Foster had been divided; but I'ncle
Phineas had insisted on her laying
that aside for a rainy day.
Some said it was sensible thrift ; some
called it an offshoot of the miserliness
that underlay his whole nature. Hut
the old man deigned no explanation; he
only sniffed a great sniff when he heard
that Hosamond's only brother, .Tared,
had put his share into an invention of
his own which he was trying to push
through the patent office. "Humph!
said lie. "Fools and their money are
soon parted."
To-day, however, he had no sooner
settled the candle-nuestion, than he
' broached a new topic.
"(live me that there money o' yourn,
Hosamond," said he. "I've got a goo I
chance to invest it, where it'll double
itself in a year or two."
Hosamond turned red, then whi e
VOL. VII.
Sho diil not 9peak. "Don't ye hear
me?" croaked tho old man, impatient
ly. "Yhat are ye standing there fori"
(iet too tho money, I say!''
'I'ncle Phineas," gasped Hosamond,
driven to desperation, "I have'nt got it!
I I lent it to Jared!"
"Lent it to Jared!" thundered tho old
man. "Flung it into the lire, you
mean made ducks and drakes of it!
Lent it to Jared!"
"llo needed it, I'nclo Phineas,"
pleaded the girl. "And, after all, he's
my brother."
"And you never asked mo?"
"1 was afraid yon would not con
sent, I'ncle Phineas."
Tho old man snarled like an infuria
ted wolf; bis wrinkled .skin turned a
dull yellow.
"Kf ye're so very independent," said
he, "ye ran clear out o' this house;
my roof shan't shelter yo no longer.
Clear out, 1 say!"
I'osaiuond stoo'l appalled.
"ISu Uncle Phineas, I've nowhere
to go," she faltered.
"Ye'd oughter ha' thought ' that
afore ye was so free witli yunr money,"
growled the old man, as he held the
door wide, opt 11 for her to pass out.
"Hut it's dark, I'nclo Phineas! And
it's snowing hard!"
"What's that to me?" shouted tho
old tyrant. "Do you mean to start,
or must 1 take ye by the shoulders and
put ye out? '", I say!"
There was something in the savage
light of bis ryes that appalled bis
niece, even while sho had opened her
lips to remonstrate still further.
V'ith'itit another word, she glided out
into th 1 twilight tempest.
Everbody in l!eckerslield remem
bered that January storm for years
afterward. Young people dated back
toil; old inhabitants compared it with
the memorable storms of their youth
ful days. The snow lay for wseks,
full si feet deep. Wild creatures,
like foxes, wolves and wonels, crept
out of the woods, and, turning traitor
to their instincts, sought food and
shelter near human dwellings, linads
were impassable for weeks; railways
blocked up for days. And nut until
the spring suns unlocked the icy chain
of Pliiimiit's ( 'reek (one of the. deep-
est and most dangerous streams in the
neighborhood,) did they discover tho
scarcely-recognizable remains of a
human body, wedged among tho roots
of a submerged tree. Had it not been
for the scarlet shawl which Hosamond
Foster had worn when she left the
farm-house, her remains could hardly
have been identified.
Hut thev brought her to the old
Foster home, and I'ncle Phineas gave '
he? decent burial. From that moment, '
however, he never held his head up. I
'1 know they couhlii t convict mo'
in a court of law." he said. "Hut it's j
murder, all tho same it's murder! '
And 1 didn't never know afore how j
fond I'd got to be of Hosamond. There I
ain't no hired help I've had sence as
ever done as she done. Poor Hosa
mond -poor little girl! And it was
nir killed her!"
They sent for the doctor; but the
doctor shook his head.
"It is not a case for medicine," said
be. "The man is not sick. He has
something on his u.inU."
"Yo don't keep no medicine to make
a man forget, do ye, suture?" said
I'nclo Phineas, with a ghastly sort of
smile.
"If we did, our fortunes would be
made," said the doetir. "N'o, my
friend, there's nothing in tho Phar
macopo'ia to meet your case, worse
luck!''
So the solitary old man peaked and
pined as the days went by, hanging j
moodily over his handful of fire, and
refusing to Kpeal; to tho sympathetic
neighbors who came ami went.
Hut, one dav, when tho chestnut i
trees were all in blossom, a carriage j
drove up to the door, through weeds
that had grown knee-deep.
"Company?" said I'ncle Phineas,
with a side-long glance at the window.
"Tell 'em to go away; I won't see
nobody."
"Hut you will see w, I'ncle Phine
as?" cried a cheery voice. "You will
see Hosamond?"
Hosamond it was, alive and bloom
ing, with cheeks like her name-flower,
and blue eyes shining. I'ncle Phineas
looked at her with n troubled fare.
"Hosamond was drowned," said he.
"How is this? Are there two Kosa
inonds?'' Tear uncle, 1 am so sorry!" ex
plained the girl. "Hut 1 never heard
until yesterday of the girl who was
buried in my name. 1 tcet the poor
thing shivering on the road; sho
seemed to have lost her way, and I
directed her as well as I could, and
gave her my little red shawl to tin
around her neck. I took the train to
Scranton, and went to Jared. 1 didn't
know what else to do. And oh, uncle.
my huniin u uouars mis mom nun
quadrupled itself, an I .lared's pat-nt
PITTSBORO',
man, and we can pay you now for all
your kindness to us when we wero
children."
"I reckon it won't take much to do
that," said I'nclo Phineas, with grim
sarcasm. "H'lt Hosamond, ye've
lifted a t'lonsand-poiind weight off
my heart this day! I've missed you
every hour, and every day! You'll
collie back to me, Hosatnt nd, won't
yo, dear?"
"For a little while, if you wantnie,"
the girl said, blushing beautifully.
"Hut I saw (ieorge Hand at the depot
when 1 got off the Scranton train, lie
was so rejoiced that I was not dead
And 1 don't ijuito know how it hap
pened, but. I have promised to marry
him in August."
So I'nclo Phineas did not, keep his
niece Hosamond very long after all.
Hut tho fact that she was alive and
near him was enough to give him a
new lease of life. And on her wed-
ding day. the old man actually relented
so far s to .rivn Imr .another hundred
dollar bill out of the old green chest
that he kept back of the cherry wood
beils.ead.
'(ieorge Han i is a smart, forehand- j
ed lad," said he. "And lio.-.aiiiond is a .
good girl a very good girl!" libit I
Furml Uror,s.
The Advance of Arclm iis.
There will be a line chance for pos- .
terity to dodge if the present doings of
the star Arcttirues undergo no change, i
The result of theobservations :if these
doings made at the tireenw ich 1 ibserva
tory in lsis.l, numbering 'J'H', and ex
tending over a period of live months,
is theclear establishment, of that star's
movement toward tho earth dead nn at
the rate of something moru than -0
miles a second, o.nni) miles a minute,
jsu.ihHi miles an hour, l,:jjn,ii'i miles
a day. An SO ton gun drives a projec
tile 1,1'HI leet u second, maximum ve
locity. Arcturus is thus coining at us
at a rateofiJoil times greater than this.
To speak of it as shot out of a gun is to
use a faint and inidcquate simile.
This celestial projectile is moving over
a distance eipi.tl to that between the
earth and the sun every twenty-one
days. It has, however, l,il'2."MH of
these distances to;travrrse, thetefore it
will not arrive for '.i:t,oiMI years; but if
present observations are true, it will
there assure as the decrees of (iod, and
our poor little earth where will it beV
Scorched, snuffed out like a vapor like
ly long before the contact, and our
whole solar system gone to staves like
a bucket with one piece out. If we
haven't any interest in this result wo
have in the conformation of things
which foreshadowed it and this will be
the point of future observation. If
the present motion of Arcturusis nrhi-
tal, it will in time appear stationary
ami then recede; but nothing so far
has been discovered pointing: to this.
It, is, apparently, coming right along;
still its orbit may be so mighty that it
may require years before its bend will
lie indicated by a retardation of the
rate of approach, than by no percepti
ble motion either way, than by a re
cession eipial to its previous approach.
1 witimt"lis iYr'.w.
A Mountain Kailruml.
Tho great tunnel of (intern, by
which the pinnacle of the Andes is
pierced, will be, when completed, :,S0D
feet long, and will bo the highest ele
vation on tho earth's surface where
any such work has been undertaken
Hesides boring the mountains of gran
ite nnd blasting clefts along their
sides to rest tho track upon, steep cut
tings and superb bridges, the system
of reverso tangents had to be adopted
in canons that were too narrow for
curve. So the track zigzags up the
mountain side, on the switch and
back-up principle, the trains taking
one leap forward, and after being
switched on to another track another
''"''kward, until tho summit is
won; so that often there are four or
live lines of track parallel to each other,
one above tho other, on the mountain
Hide.- A"' York aim.
Novel I'liin to Catch Voles.
A farmer proposes the following
novel plan for catching moles: Take
two old cow horns and place them
..; I . ...,w,l I,n!n,. 1... tl. ......
outward in the track of the mole. uni, .
.i .....i.... m. ..,i. ....... !,. ..,.!
llllllll, I I iit'iui. iiiiiiuiit iiiu iiuiern.-i ,
mold will come along soon and crawl
into the horn just as far as he can go.
b I
and remain there trying to get " 1 ! ""'" """ " ""'"' '!"' -.1,
..... -o.. r..n.i on.i ' ni''l,e" one another over the fence, somethin' wrong about this, so I'll
, , , . . . . . i
llioics never go iuii iw Hum. crimen
up and examine your boms occasion
ally and you will soon have your mole.
Only her Father.
Miss lie Ycre: "Oon't yo t sing, Mr
Lisle?"
Mr. Lisle (of the Harvard glee
(dub): "Oh, ves; but we are not alone.
That ugly old dufler in the corner has
luen watching us the last half hour."
Miss le Ycre: "Oh. never mind!
him; he only my father."
Mr. Lisle tries to explain. linif
CHATHAM CO., N. C,
C HI.I)KKNS COI.rMX.
The l.nnd Without n Han.
' W no the Sun sail holil on llm Sen f OoM
I I "nil llm Violet lliiiuls I'nir,
And 'he niKtfeJ shapes ol the liosy ( 'npos,
I Ami tho ('untie of tho Air,
(.'an you nil! aright nil that country bright,
'1 hat is washed by waves like flume?
T is llm roust niliniieil, 't is the elimo lienrd,
(H'llie I jiml Without a Name.
And the way to t;o, U you lain wouhl kmw.
Is to charier thu Crescent Ship,
All ol silvoi' pale, with a cobweb sail,
Ami niei 1 ily iloes sho dip!
J'hrro ' 11 crew of II pea nt her !ilm trppi.
Ami 011 houiil that ship of I'nuin
Manv n ronjjin;; Iiiciiin seeks the uhorei
Hlenni
Of tlm I.nml Without a Name.
Helen ! Cone, in Hi. .Yiciuim.
A Tiny Vnrtilinan
IIouso spiders we know all About,
but there is one little brown spider,
! 'o;" 'ves on an our rivers . inn streams
j "i" curious than any other,
In the fall of tho year she bjilds
herself a little boat or yacht. It will
never upset, let the wind be ever so
high. You could not guess what it is
made of. niily a li of ; bent together
with tin-strong cables tho spider can
make.
Then away she goes, down tho
stream, lirst to one side, and thei the
other. On the voyage the spider
catches small insects on the water, as
her tiny boat hurries on with th tide.
You cannot see tier- unless you look
very sharp, because she is just the color
0!' t he leaf she is mi!
In the point of the leaf you would
lind a sort of tent, loosely spun, where
die often goes. 'J here she has bidden
a precious little silken ball, til lei. with
very small yellow eggs. Hut sro is so
rpiiek in her ino emcnts that before
you know it she is out of sight and on
to tho ocean. Whether she ever gels
there, or bides away until the warm
weather comes back again, nobody
knows. Our I.itttr On-s.
'I'lir Sni'iti-lsr Tnrtv,
One day the whole; family exeep
me went to New York to spend the
night, and Tom Mctiinuiss was allow,
ed to come and stay with me. so that
we could take care of the bouse.
As I couldn't go out ska,ting. Tom
and 1 thought we would make a Skat
ing pond in our trout yard. o we
poured a great lot of water over our
front UMlk which is iiiiiilc nf nskf'clt:
as it was very cold, it fro" i
' little while. We skated all day, and
j toward night we poured more water
i over it. so as to ina'o it nice and
smooth.
. We have been having surprise par
ities in our town this winter, and I
j Ic ird father say th;t we had them
i worse in our town than in any other
part of the country. A surprise party
is a whole lot of folks who rush into
your house at night, and don't give
anybody time to change their clothes
or take their hair out of curl-papers.
The surprise party generally brings
cake and pio with them, and every-1
boly cats some and drops tho rest on '
the carpet, and when the party is '
gone you sit down and burst out cry - I
ing, and say you were never so wor- i
ried in all your life, and wish those I
wretched, impudent people wero a J
thousand miles away.
Tom and I had a beautiful time nf-
ter we had got through skating and it .
was .lark. We had supper, and then
we brought down a mattress from up-
stairs and turne I somersaults on it in j
the parlor. Wo were going to black.
up and play we wero minstrels, but
we couldn't find any cork.
All at once we beard the most aw- j
fill noise in the front yard. Every .
few seconds somebody would shriek
like a girl that sees a rat. and then ;
men would use swear words, and ev- ;
erybody would talk all at once. Tom I
and I rushed upstairs, where it was j
dark, and looked out through tho win.
dow. A big surprise party was falling
over one another on our front walk, ;
Most jf them were lying on tho ice
and moaning, but. every minute or
two a man or a woman would get up '
and try to walk, and then slip and :
come down on somebody else. It was :
almost dreadful sight, and Tom and 1 '
could hardly keep from rolling on the
. . . . . . '
and lai.Rl.mR lo,,,. enough tor
the surprise party to hear. After a
while some of them managed to get
j off' the walk on to the grass, and then
tlw.e tinlloit th. re.it off lho inn un.l
ana went nome; mat
all except
three or four who were helped into a
wagon because they coul.ln t walk.
The next morning we put ashes on
the walk, and when father came home,
and we told him about it, he said we
had done very wrong, and then gave
us each 10 cents, and went into the
house laughing. I never knew him
to act that way before.---Harper't
Younj People.
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It requires only ten pounds of bony-
ncy to keep a live person's head above I
AUGUST , 1885.
! H IS MOST SKII.U TI. SHOT
How n Virriinin Patriarch
Won His Bride.
Shooting a Bi? Catamount Tliat Was
Clinging to Her Horse'x Nwk.
I James Taylor was born in the neigh
j borhood of Tyc Uiver Mills in I "''.
; He will be Si) years of age on the lmh
' of September, and never swore an
I oath, never tasted intoxicating li'pior.s,
! never chewed tobacco, but is an in
' veterato smoker, lie never rode 011 a
i steamboat or railway train, and has
, not been three miles from home Mnce
1 101. lie was the father of live chil
j dren, three boys and two girls. Hoth
! daughters are dead. Two of Ids sons
were killed in the Confederate and the
! , t, ,. ,( ,n servi(.,,. He listen-
with the profoundest interest to tho
story of liogardus and Carver, and
I with a smile he shrugged hii shoulders,
! saying:
"Thar, strangers, you're coiuin' to
the pint now. Why. when I was
young," and lie stopped to think;
' "when 1 was young, about J", I guess,
! I could outshoiit any man in the val
, ley. We used to swing an appie on a
I string, an' mountiii' our horse,, gallop
: like mad and tire at it. I coul I bit it
; every time. I could knock an apple
1 oil a pot nino limes out'n ten hlty
! yards away, an 1 could take tho bill
'. off a bird in a tri e as clear a. a whistle
an' never disturb a feather. That's a
t fact,"
I "What do you regard in the mo-,1
j skillful shot you ever made?" we ask
! ed.
"You mean the bed I ever made;
yes, an J uioiight, say, the happiest, o
my life."
We nodded in the ailirmative.
"Well, strangers," he began, "I'll
tell you all about it, It. war years
ago, though: 1 was twenty-one then,
an' but few people lived hereabouts,
an' what did war a good ways apart.
Down in the (other end o' the valley
lived John Anglrford, who had a dar
ter, an' I loved her like mad. but.
some way or other, she didn't kinder
want to hitch to me. About three
miles away lived another man who
bad a son. an" she tuk to that boy.
This made me kind of jealous like, an'
him an' me used to light often. Hut I
I unitl i giv in; 1 11 mane up my 111111
to
git that gal el
I could. ( hie d.iv, in
the fall o" the year I'll never torgit
that day I shouldered 'Old Faithful.'
that's my musket, an' went up inter
the mountains to see what kind o'
game was abroad. Well, I reckon I'd
been trudgin' around in the thicket
for nitih on to three hours, without
! seem' of a thing, w hen all of a sud-leti
I 1 heard a scream that almost I'ri - my
j blood. I heard it again, and I know-
ed it whar a woman's holler; o I jc-,'
I cocks 'Old Faithful' an' starts throiitrh
j the bushes. Put afore I got to the
i opeitiu' I heard horses' hoots a -kink
ing an a-clatterin' over the stones, I
hurried right on to the openm', an'
thar I seed unlit war all about. I
seed it at a glance, old Angleford'
horse w has a-tearin' along like as i I
the old boy war arter him, an' thar
war Sary Jane, her face as white in
chalk, a-clingin' to his back for dear
life, an' riirht betwix' her an" the
hor3(..g hp. hjs c,.iWS ,,riv iltl, ,
)lwih f UC hrsl,s n,.a a.trvii,- to
reai.h lhe war lho
,mm1t, j ev,.r M.t.,.
Your time's co,,",e. John,' savs It,,
n)yself .Hea,1Vi now. ;lim an'
you'll win the gal.' Jcs' as thar ar
)u,s3 with s,.r,.a,,,jn' pili got 01,.
Hito lo lne , i,- ,,,.,! aw,lv (r ,1,,,
catiimoniits !usi.l. 1 knew' it war Me
,n AvMl Ut f ttiu ,ir,,t, ,, ,,,.
j,nt, y (j,in"t miscalculate; I never did.
-j. W)n, jIlto ,,,. .. t.
mount's head, an' he rolled ocr .b ad
! on tj,e ground; the boss stumbled, an'
as he disappeared over the precipice I
rot died the faintin' gal in my alios
an' hurried down the road with tier to
her home, l-'-ir a lotfg time she bad a
ragin' fever, and kept a-callin": "Is he
come? Is be come?" Nobody could
tell what it meant. You se, men
them davs would go off an' st.iv for
. ,aVs a-buntiu', so the a sence o i,.
, ,stn,thers's boy didn't make anybody
think strange. Well, one .lav she rum
to, an' the lirst thing she axed about
war if Al Struthers had cum home.
M l I .1 .L: . .. .
, see. 1 shouldered "Old Faithful'
started out. Away up war th. rata-
mount had jumped on Sary Jane's boss
I found him ugh! what a sight I
s ed. Thar ho war. stark dead, a
stickin' on an oak limb, that had gone
clar through his body, an' bis boss war
dead, away down on the sharp-pointed
rocks below. We giv the poor fellow
decent burial. The only w ay I ould
account lor bis death war that Sary
Jane's screamin' frightened his buss.
an' runnin' in among the teres he got
caught on the sharp pint o' the low-
' wn limb."
NO. 18.
Here he refilled his pipe, nnd said:
"Come in, strangers, an' I'll show you
snthin'."
We followed him into the cabin.
"This are 'Old Faithful,' " he said,
taking down an ancient looking gun
from the rack and patting it affection
ately, "what done the business for me.
An' this," ho continued, unrolling a
musty looking parcel, "ar the skin o'
the tamal varmint that brought about
the happy change in Sary Jane, an'
thar." pointing ton white-haired old
lady who sat ro "kimr and smiling in a
corner of the moiii, "am the old gal
herself.'' -'AV''i ,( Tim'.
Facts Ahiilt Owls.
As I was seated on the piazza of our i
hotel last evening, watching the moon j
as it came out by the sea, an owl glided j
by, and only for a moment, w as seen j
! as it passed a window, through which
, the light was streaming, intent, no j
' doubt, upon its mission and -inparent-
ly undisturbed by the music, the hum j
i of voices, -tinl the red and green liuhts '
that Hashed up from the lawns on ;
Ocean a eiiiie. Owls may often sail j
' around the pier hotel al nigh', for ,
aught 1 know, but it U not otten that j
tin y are seen. Hack in the w Is j
they make tli"ir homes, and theretheir '
hooting is as familiar a sound as the I
; croaking of the frog. The farmer has
no better friend than the owl. and he ;
who kills one doe the public and him- j
self an iiijurv. White, .r -'!! rn 1
alter taming a pn'r ol owls, was con- 1
vin I that l hey brought a mouse to :
the nest on an average of every live j
; minutes from sunset, to daylight. j
Owls were never an epicurean feast, i
j but then- was for:ii"ily an eccentric j
genius in Newport, Heniamin Had- j
j win, who ate them, and for that mat- j
j ter anything that once h id the breath j
of life. Soiitney once had an v I
' roasted loi himself and Mr. and Mrs. j
: Worth. I gi e the se.piel ill his w ord- :
"We acrecd that there could be no j
' pretext for making owls game and j
, killing tin-in as delicacies but if ev. r
you eat otic, by all means try it boiled j
: w ith onion sauce."
; An otuelclte made of owls' rggs is
said to be a i lire lor drunkenness.
Owls are sometimes s' lifted not for
the table, hut to draw cr .ws within
range of the sportsman's gnu. N'o i
love is lost between the crow and the '
owl, and when the latter is pe.ircbed
upon a limb the form, r goes for him
w ith the celerity and disregard id all j
those cautionary measures that usii- !
ally mark the movements of a crow. !
v eager is he to meet the object of his j
aversion that he does not see the gun-
n.-r until i1 is too late to boat a safe j
r.-lreat. Tic Italians use an owl to!
catch small birds, only in their case '
the owl is tn-d to a perch in open
ground in broil sunlight, and tic
birds that gytM'o around him alight '
upon twigs smeared with bird lime.)
, In this way tli.-y becouie an c,iy prey.
' .,.. a- ' .him nul.
j Itinls Forced lo Take Medicine.
j "lie's got a sore eye," was the ex- '
pl.inati.'ii of a clerk in a bird store'
who was carrying a little green ;
s piawking parrot, lie cleaned it with
ja stick, and the parrot struggled tonet;
: away, r, tiering 1 1 1 -t doleful cries, but
, was iirmly lo l l until .siiili'-i. -ntly treat- .
el, and was then pin back in its ae.
: whole it sat and sol bed and moaned j
' pitifully. "We don't have in.iiiy such
j things to care tor, and it's a good .
j th'tig. for they are hard to manage, ;
A sore eye is dangerous always, be.
can-' we can't a I ways be .-ure lew it
! should be treated, liesides it spoils
tho market value of the bird. No-
body wants to buy a sore-eyed j arret
' and one that has a vry bad eve is apt .
to forget how to lalk. Parrots sc. in
almost Inimaii when they are siek, for ,
tle-y cry and groan and a. 1 dumpish,
and will submit to medicine ca-ily,
uuics it is very ainlul. uudthen they
resisl, just like the rest of the animal
' cicat ion.
! -other birds act differently. Wild'
bird will ted take luedu-iic. You
have to force it down, dick tlcm uti-
i del water when they won't bathe.-
stuff the food down their throats :
when they won't eat. and so o:i. Ca ;
n tries dislike doctoring, but are m i v ,
! intelligent, and take it ncio .a-ilyi
j than .-titer birds. Hobolinks are like
tin in. only more obstinate, and i -k-
i ing birds will somctit.-.cs die ol sullen- ;
; rn ss ratb.-r than take .lni!;s. Thry are 1
hardy, stronger, and rarely dck. lo'.l j
birds, though, are more deli. ale. and
so w lid thev won't take medicine." :
I'o .- Sim.
The Ten Finest ltuibliin.'s.
The ten litest buildings in this
country, iccnr ling to the majority
Vote given III the l.oston Ani'li
" !
.1. ..,', are Trinity church. Host on,
the cipil.d at Washington; . W.
Vand. -Hull's house. Trinity church
an 1 the Jet'!, rs", in market court house,
cwork; the city hall, Hartford;
city hall and state capitol. Albany;
; Sever hall, Camhridue, Mass.. and
I town hall. North Ea-toti. Mass."
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t here ute many blessed isl nut
Lying in the t.eu ol dreams,
I'omi who.e einriinis paliii i-rowne l lithium'
Havliyhl never dies, it ceeins;
h. ic in llie hushes ol the thunder
of the surf I. lib down the wonder
I l' soli, siher siniu streams.
And tot. in .hilling, thil'tin
I "list Iheii imiiIuil; alioi es of sail
o.i .in t I .el eyes iiphl'tin;',
t 'it it in lot due not land.
What theicli slliuin -ileus bl" ken,
'Jh. ie ha nevei touched, 1 reckon.
.Mollal lotk upon Oil' -toltid.
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Ill MOKOl'S.
A one legged man will never bo
troubled with wet feet.
A country seat that always rents
Tho barbed wire fence.
What, causes the (tower.? to shoot is
t' at they all carry pbtils.
I!m I'll;:' nn I'.-.thei-' heienro thev ' '
I li. -'i. niii'u hii,,l-!n ni,,
Wlelet':." -lecpy le.y ill thecoltiel Cile l.
I Ihpil; they lilil-l be dead"
What inn-t I do," ; ske I a mean
and conceited man of a frio.id who
knew him well, "I ' get a picture of
the one 1 lo o ni.-t f" sit for your
own potir.iit." was the reply.
child w ho b id once seen a grab
bag in church, after the contribution
I. had passed by .me Sunday, whis
pered to lcr toother: -ow much did
you get r 1 grabbed a .piaiter."
"out of every oic hundred and nine
female scho ! te,-cheis," says an ex
ihanu'c. "seven marry every year."
lov many times do the remaining
b'J marry? (live us all He lacts.
'Is the can honesty" aked old
Hyson. "Hone t as the day is long,"
w is the reply. "Ye-es," said old
Ily. son; "but then he won't do at all.
1 want him for a night watchman."
C. d llepate used to rave over Miss
Ourligiiil's hvacinthine curls, since
he has discovered I hat tiny lire fast
ened on w illi hairpins he has chosen a
lie". Moral emblem and now calls them
'lie locks."
The discovery has been made that
the world does not revolve with the
i iii" moment u m it did a thousand
ye irs ago, but i' still sw ings round
ta-t enough to satisfy the man with a
heavy bill coming due.
Oiiecn r.llalcth's Prayer Hook.
There is now on view at Mr. Edward
Joseph's gallery, in )!ond street, a
very iiirioiis and, it would seem, gen
uine relic of tin. . n Elizabeth. Thisis
a small prayer book, three in. hes by
two inches, in which the (Juecn has
written in a very neat hand, on sixty
live leaves of vellum, prayers in Eng
lish, (ire. k. Latin. French, nnd Italian.
The inside of the shagreen case, which
is adorned with ruby clasps, contains
a pair of miniatures of the (,'ucen and
the I 'a.-d Alencoti. painted by Nicho
las llilliarn; and the book is evidently
a il'"iii"iir prepared by theljueen
for her suitor, probably about l'iSI,
whrn, as readers of Mr. Fronde will
remember, she announced to her court
that sheha I accepted him for husband.
The prayers are very autobiographi
cal; the writer speaks of herself as
"drawing my blood from kinges." and
t haul- s Cod for "passing me from a
prison tea pal'aee" and "placing me a
Souveraigne Prince over thie people of
England. '' The histoiy of the book
can be traced from James II., who
gave is to the Puke of Her wick,
whence it passed to Horace Walp.de,
ainl alterward to the Imchess of port
land. At her sale, in 17m'., it was
bought for (tiieen Charlotte for 1"1
guineas. he left it to one of her
ladies in waiting, from whom it was
acpiirc.l by the late Ouchess of Leeds:
thence it passed info the late owner's
hands, it is described in Walpole's
"Anecdotes of Painting." in bis ac
count f the famous miniaturist Nich
olas Ililiiaid. St. J amis' (i'K'Ifr.
Two Siiurnl.ir l unatics.
lunatic at the Morris Plains
Asylum was mute for live years. Even
the physicians thought he had lost the
power of speech, one day t wo of his
lingers were mangled in a washing
machine. r the astonishment, nt
everybody who heard him he exclaim
c.l: "Hy the great and jumping Moses,
a devil is better than an inventor."
That was three years ago, and he has
not spoki u since. Another patient, a
boy in the same institution, is a light
ning calculator. The most intricate
problems arc solved by him in frac
tions of a minute. The boy believes
that his head is lilted with little blocks
with figures upon them, and they in
staidly fall into different positions and
work out the problems, lie thinks his
brain, in fact, Is a multiplication table.
His insanity seems pardonable, for
only a few sane men can compete with
biin as a mathematician. Everyday
be soaks his head in water to prevent ' .
the blocks from rattling, and occasion-
ally be begs for oil to put into his ear
s i that the imaginary squares will (dip
upon each other more easily. Harris
ttiirn J ijuinn.
is ;
t'i .
steam-saw is a success; He is a rich