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VOL. X.
PITTSBORO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, AUGUST 2, 1888.
NO. 48.
As the Years (Jo By.
S;l.cs ami their mothers' lullaby;
Children nt their daily play;
rtiii'h'ns hearing their lovers sigh;
Women brave in the world's way
Are of what we se? and hear dear,
As the years go by ;
Hoar, dear,
As the years go by.
q,iw tender u time, wi'hal,
How kin 1 to the goo 1 and true;
penile to me, withal,
S gracious and sweet to you,
This is whit we tee and hear, dear,
As the years go by;
lh'jir, dear,
Astheyoarsgoby.
finv's finger mirks wrinkles are,
(iniy hairs its frost and decay,
young heart has kept you far
From age marks and frost away.
It is what we see and hear, dear,
As the years go by;
Hear, de r,
As the years go by.
Time from your face stays sadness,
Leaving the bright sunshine in;
visses ycur eyes in gladness,
Leaving the sweet lovelight in.
Oh, this do we sea and hear, dear,
As the years go by;
Hear, dear,
As the years go by.
sweet, let your birthdays come and go;
Put your baud and love in mine.
V ou are young for loving so;
I live because lam thine.
All this do we see and know, dear,
As the years go by;
Know, dear,
As the years go by.
Eugene Field.
Story of Old Man Finn.
I saw hiui last summer, working a
;hird.class wire ia a Ve3tern city. In
cply to my inquiry, tho chief operator
nformed mo that Finn had been giv-n
?mploymcnt tho day before. I met tho
aid boy on the stairs later in the day,
ind be said, ia a weak voice, "Ye?
ini back h?ro again, what there is left
f me. My drinking dnyi are over, and
am about over too." He certainly
ooked bad, and I said to myself, 'If
zoasumptioa hasn't marked you for its
jwd, your appearance belies you." My
urozj went wandering away from him a
he said sad. y, "I can't telegraph very
well any more. My hand shakes, and
it is like sawing wood for me to work a
wire even a way wire." Then he Kft
me and pursued bis way up stairs to the
operating room. Old maa Finn is not
more thaa 55 years of age, but ho has
burned the candle at both ends, and his
acrvous system is fatally wrecked. Ho
has fallen into a decline of late year,
aad th;re remains for him nothing,
Icar, but tho bitter drogs of existence.
Away back in tho sixtic, when I was
a mere lad, endeavoring to master the
mysteries of telegraphy, Finn was in
bis prime. Ho was regarded as one of
the finest telegraphers in the country,
and at the time I first knew him ho had
just completed hb 21s: year. I doubt
if many young men who have their way
to make in tho world, -attain their ma
jority under fairer auspices thaa he did.
Intelligent, fine-looking, and tho master
of a rofessioa which at thnt timo was
counted as one of the fine arts, almost,
ho had, apparently, an cnviablo future
before him. Indeed, if I had been told
in those dear old days that I would
eventually reach what sec ne'i in my
boyish eyes a pinnacle of glory 3uch as
he occupied I should have been more
surprised and pleased than I could bo
now over any prospect of future pros
perity short of a tight hold on Paradise.
Somebody has recently written a
poem in which two tramp s figure. One
inquires on meeting the other if there
is no shade tree near at hand, and the
second replies, "Yes, a little further
down the road." Tho writer elaborates
this idea and says wo aro all tramp
looking for a shade tree. In hi? view
it is always farther down the road, and
but few of us ever reach it. The idea
is well enough but the view is too pes
simistic to please mo. I believe, on the
contrary, that wo are rather like child
ren straying through a house in which
there are many rooms of exquisito love
liness, each more beautiful than (ho pre
ceding one. uutsiao oi tnc mansion
we think we would bo content if wo
could gain the hall, but once withia we
6tray on and on, with thoughts intent
upon the possibilities which lie beyond
and little heeding the increasing beauty
of our Burrounding3 since wo left the
threshold. It is better that we should
sometimes consider tho point from
which we started. The experiment is
consoling at all events, and makes us
philosophic and moro contented with
our social status. There are not many
of us who have made the most of our
opportunities, who cannot say with tho
Christian of old: "Oh, God, I have
n uch to be thankful for."
Old man Finn has not so much to be
thankful for as many, and that he has
thrown away his opportunities is to my
mind the chL-f reason therefor. In tho
curt vernacular of Americans, we often
hare the so'utioi of a problem in one
world. We hear of men in our own
nd other professions who have extra,
ordinary abilities, kindly natures aad
many traits of character calculated to
endear them to their acquaintances. We
are told, however, that they arc at
present "down ia the worlJ," u'.terly
used up," aad when, we inquire
the cause, tho answjr com js with pain
ful regularity in th it dirjful monosyl-
tb'.o 4 Rum." Old maa Finn's failure
in Ho 1 also suiCJi tiblo of cxnlana-
i
tion by tho mention of th'it short sad
word. I do not moan to preach a tcna
pcranco strmo i. 1 1 writing a sketch,
however, of a man whom I have known
and admired, and through whoso kindly
aid 1 was launched on a career which I
hope I may bo pardoned for considering
a modestly u c'ul onj, it will bo neces
sary to cue a tew tacts. ihese tacts
stand for themselves. If they preach
anything I cannot help it.
How old memories como crowding
upoa me as I recall a lovely Sunday in
June so far away that I instinctively
look ia the mirror to see "if the young
boy is getting to bo an ol I boy," ard if
"the hair is growing thia on the old
boy's hoad!" I was cany at th ) office
that morning and was copying, with the
idea of becoming an operator, the
Morse a' p'.iabct from "Shall icr's Man
ual." So engrossed was I with my
work, and tho difficulty I experienced
in fixing my chubby 'fingers around a
pen so as to come within speaking dis
tance of making tho characters conform
to thoso in Shaff acr, that I di 1 not no
tice that some one hid entered. As I
was desperately struggling with the
letter "J," and inwardly bewailing my
lack of expertaess with tho pen, a voice
which startled me at first, but which I
recognized at once as Finn's, said:
"Hop down off th it stool, sonny, and
I'll make you the alphabet." I quickly
surrendered tho task to the more expe
rienced fingors of tho new comer,
who had been looking over my shoulder,
and I took my placo oa tho messen
gers' bench. Picsently Finn handed
mo a blank on which tho alphabet, nu
merals and tho punctuation points weie
given, and below them ho had written
ia hii own beautifully flowing chirogra-
phy: "Jamc3 Brady gave me his pretty
black walnut box of quite small sizo,
I bashfully expressed my thanks, but
my heart was full enough of gratitude
to have warranted something better
thaa I said, had I been able to ,
utteranco to mv ieoancs. After an
swering a call and taking several mes
sages, Finn started me out, saying as
I went to deliver them, "lou can
practice ou that sentence when you
have learned to mike the letters. It
contains all th) characters in the al
phabit." I have given that little story
about Brady and the small black wal
nut box to many aspiring youngsters
since then. I wonder if any of them
ever priz ?d it as hi 'hly as I did when it
firt became a part of my knowledge,
and I wonder, too, if among that small
band of youths, somo of whom
became operators, whilo others
failed ia tint to suc
ceed afterward in other things, thoro is
oao who cv.-r looked upon mo as a half
human, half divine personage, such as I
regarded Fian. Probably not. But if
there be one I am a much honored man,
for nothing I can feel for a human be
ing will ever excel my enthusiasm for
my old telegraphic hero. Even though
I havo seen him often of late years un
der circumstances, which, for the mo
ment, bereft him of all his old-time
glory, still I go on remembering him
bright, dashing and handsome, and am
thankful that I can. Old maa Fina is
the stern reality to nearly all who know
him now, but to me he is an abstraction
merely a reality which goes out of my
mind, giving place to my hero of yore
the moment ho leaves my presence
Before he had gone far on his down
ward course I had becomo an operator,
and worked ly his side. I remember
that in one of his exaltod moods he took
the color out of my existence for a
month or moro by a casual observation
which I can never forget. Like many
young operators, I fancied, long before
Iliad perfected myself in my business,
that I had 6o!vcd the problem. I spoke
in his presence to that effect one day,
and he said, with that charming blunt
ncss which is sometimes the result of an
indulgence in stimulant :
"You wiil become a deont operator,
but you are, of course, a frightfu' plug
now." It cut me liko a knife, but I
needed the lesson. Years afterward,
when I had progressed as far in tho tel
egraphic art as nature intended I should
ever go, I looked back on those earlier
years and felt that Fian was right. I
had finally been taught the bitter lesson
which tho great Newton confessed to
have learned, and I felt that the little
knowledgo we tcquire is valuable chief
ly as tecching us the density of our ig
norance. Finu's character had a humorous vein
in it withal. His ability as a "re
ceiver" was the talk and wonder of the
whole section in which ho lived and
wrought. Ho never broke, his work
was accurate, and his penmanship mar
velous. One day -an operator, who
copied press on the st.m3 wire, visitel
u, and asked George how he managed
to receive report day akt.er day without
even breaking. Pointing to a primitive
contrivance consisting of two lumbering
sounders and a quick switch fully four
feet square, situated on a shelf four feet
away, and which did duty as a repeater
for Worcester, Fian replied dryly: "I
do sometimes lose a wor J, but I hnve
to watch that rat trap over thero for
Worcester's break, and if a word Blips
me I can always spot it before it wig
gles through that agod threshing ma
chine." Tho timo carao when Finn could n o
longer hold the leponaiblo position of
night report operator and he went
West.
From that timo out, until rccontly,ho
has returned to mo at intervals varying
from six. months to twj years. He
plays th) role of th) 'Friead of my
Youth.' Ho has invariably appeared
without warning and utiformty in a
state of impecuniosity. Sometimes ho
hailed from a New E inland towa
where he had secure 1 a month's "sub
bing," again ho cams from some obsture
lingo on a branch of the Erie railroad
where he had been burie 1 ayear or two;
auou ho spoke of having just returned
from Wyoming Territory or of having
last worked in Texas.
But his appearance, from whatever
dinctioa ho oime. always tarried mo
back to tho halcyon days of my youth.
and invoked a vision of a brisk young
man stepping out of his way to perform
a kindly service for a round-faced coun
try boy como to the city to seek his for
tune. That picture will always last.
Hi wants have generally boon modest,
and I need scarcely add that his claims
on mo hiva never failed of recognition.
If, in opening my purso, I h.ivo some
times opened my lips and besought him
to be a man, it is but common
justice tohim to say that ho has invaria
bly promised to mead his ways. But he
has steadily gone down hill, and ha3
well nigh reached the bottom. I know
better than scarcely any other man can
know, how hard he has tried to retraco
tho steps taken under social pressure,
years ago, and which have led to his
decadence, physically and intellectual
ly. He has struggled against a cruel
fate and has failed. It was with sin
cere sorrow that I last saw him pale,
weak and emaciat d. I judge that tho
old enemy i3 conquered at la3t; but it is
too late. A more merciless enemy, one
on whom we may exhaust strength of
will in vain, is obviously preying upon
his shattered frame.
Somo day we shall read of his death,
and the casual acquaintance will s.-iy:
"Drank himself iato the consumption.
Poor fellow! he deserved a better end."
and will think no more about him. But
when the writer reads that arnour.ee
ment he will feel sad and grieved for
many a day; for Finn was once kind to
a boy whose catalogue of friends was
limited enough then, and to whose cyci
the tears will start unbidden when recur
ring Junes remind him that above the
friend of his youth a mound rises on
which the daiies bloom an I tho grass
wavos sadly in tho summer air. The
Electric Acce.
Utilizing Waste Material.
Tho market is lurnishe I with glue
from the slaughter-house jtw-bones aad
hoofs; coagu'ated ctttle blood is used
by calico printers and in tho prepara
tion of red liquor for printers' work;
dried blood serve s to clarify wines and
syrups; noatsfoot oil is ano'.hcr valua
ble product from the same source; the
bladders when dried and prepircd make
useful containers for druggists and
painters; tho ox-gall is used for lini
ment and many other purposes, and tal
low, one of the staple articl -s of com
merce, comes from the rough piecos of
fit Hot tanks are great levelcrs, and
every scrap of sinews, looso bones, or
small rough pieces are boiled down to
shreds and fragments, and the liqur,
whea drawn off and cooled, produces
glue or other valuable miteriil. Even
the dirt and residue at tho bottom of
tho tank is sold as "tankage" for fer
tilizing, and refuse blood is easily col
lected and turned to accou it. The caul
and best parts of the fat are rendered
into oleo oil for making artificial butter,
and the pressings give us tho stearine of
commerce. These aro only a few of the
products resulting from careful investi
gation of recent years. Not a particle
of the materials around the large
slaughter-houses is wasted, and the re
sult of utilizing what was previously
thrown away has brought out a formi
dable source of competition in the glue
and fertilizer trades, which has to be
met by reduced values. Oil, Paint and
Drug Reporter.
Mapping the Hearcns.
At the Astronomical Congress which
had been held at Pari3 in April and
May, it was decided to undertake the
construction of a photographic chart of
the whole heavens by the co-operation
of about a dozon different observatories,
the apparatus med to be the same ev
ery where, as-well as tho plates and pro
cesses of development. Tho Paris in
strument was selected as the standard,
and mr.ny of the other instruments are
already well advanced in their construc
tion. It would take us too far to enter
into tho details of the matter now but
clearly this photographic mapping of
all the stars will bo, when accom
plished, the greatest astronomical
achievement ihe world has ever seen;
transmitting to posterity an accurate
and permanent record of the present
state of the heavens, and furnishing a
secure foundation for the futuru struc
ture of stellar astronomy. Scr-taer'fl
Magazine.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
Freddy am m Comf:irlr.
Once upon an evening
Came a thunder shower ;
Fred and Sissy in their crib
Had scarce been half an hour.
Mamma, flying to her babes,
Lest they be afraid.
Heard her Freddy's earnest voice;
This is what he said:
"Don't you cry now, Sissy,"
Here he wiped a tear;
"Don't be 'f raid now, baby,
Me and God are bare."
Klndllar I'm r, Friction.
Many things look simple and easy
enough, but are next to impossible ex
cept to persons who havo acquired a cer
tain indiscribable knack by means of
long practice. Sir S. W. Baker thus
describes the Arabian process of kind
ling a fire, a process which many read
ers of the Companion havo probably
tried before now without success.
Tho Arabs always obtained their fire
by the friction of two pieces of wood.
A piece of dry nabbuck was selected
about as thick as the little finder. A
notch was cut in this, and it was laid
upon the ground, with the notch upper
most; into this was fitted tho sharp
point of a similar piece of
wood about eighteen inch's long,
which, being held perpendicu
larly with both hands, was worke 1 be
tween the palms like a drill, with as
great a pressure as possible, from the
top to the bottom, as tho hand de
scended with the motion of rubbing or
rolling the stick.
After about two minutes of great
labor the notch bcan to smoke; a
brown dust, liko ground coffee, fell
from the singed wood, and this charred
substance, after increased friction,
emitted a still denser 'smoke and com
menced smoldering: tho fire was pro
duced. A rag was now torn from the clothing
of one of the party, in which tho fire
was carefully wrapped and fanned with
the breath; it was then placed in a wisp
of dry grass and rapidly turned in the
air until tho flxme burst forth.
Youths' Companion.
Story of Robin' Xett
Mr. Corliss, the great New England
machinery manufacturer, not long be
fore his death had occasion to build an
addition to his manufactory a big ell,
for additional machinery. To prepare
the foundation for this ell it was neces
sary to remove a ledge of rock by blast
ing. Tho men to do the work on the
addition had been employed aid put
on the pay roll; the materials had been
purchased and brought to the building,
and the work of blasting had begun.
Next morning Mr. Corliss passed by the
place where work was proceeding when
the foreman in charge knowing his in
terest in pretty things called him.
"See here, Mr. Corliss," said he,
"here i3 a bird's nest that we've found,
and that's got to go."
He showed the manufacturer a robin
sitting upon a nest that had boon built,
fast and snug, in a crevice of the rock,
amoag some bushes that grew there.
The bird flew off her nest as tho men
came near, and showed five blue eggs,
that looked as if they had just been
laid.
"Can we movo that nest somewhere
olse?" asked Corliss.
"I'm afraid not, sir. We'd tear it to
pieces getting it out, and it isn't at all
likely that you cou'd get the bird to go
to sitting again any whero else. We've
got to go on, so wo may as well rip it
out and throw tho eggs away."
"No," said Corliss. "Wc won't dis
turb her. Let her bring out her brood
right there."
"But we'll have to stop the work on
tho building I"
"Let us stop it then."
And so orders were given that opera
tions on the addition should be sus
pended. They wero suspended; and
tho hands stood still, drawing their pay
for doing nothing, or next to nothing,
while the robin sat on her nest with an
air of great consequenco and zealous at
tention to business, and had her food
brought her by her mate, and at last
hatched her brood. And then there
wero three weeks moro to go by, at the
least, before the young ones could fly.
Corliss visited the nest frequently, not
with any uneasiness or impatience to
have the robin and the young ones out
of the way, but with a genuine interest
in their growth. The old birds had all
the time they wanted ; and when at last
they had . sternly helped the clumsy,
reluctant youngsters over tho hedge of
the nest, and they showed themselves
able to get about on their own hook,
orders were given to res imo tho butter
ing operations; and the dullboom of
the gunpowder, tearing the rocks apart,
was heard where the birds had peeped.
Boston Transcript.
So Many Years Ago.
Dumley (at table): "With me, Mifi
Spinster, the tomato is a recently cc
quired taste; have you been fond of
them long?
Miss Spinster: "From a child, Mr.
Dumley."
Dumley: "Indeed, so long as that?" .
Epoch,
A NOVEL OPERATION.
The Daring Surgery of the Kan
gaira Nose-Makers.
The Modus Operandi of Indian
Nasal Restoration.
It was ouly with great difficulty that
I procured, says a correspondent of the
Allah ibad (India) Pioneer, tho follow
ing information respecting the mcdus
operandi of the plastic operation for
restoration of nose fiom an old baid and
habit uvl opium-eater. My friend thinks
nothing of dai.y consuming forty -five
grains of opium, and whenever ho can
afford, just to keep aglow tho sunshine
of his mind, adds considerable amount
of bhang and charm (Cmnabis Indica,
leaves and extract-) and arsenic. They
cay tho baid is well versed in the science
of physic and astrology; besides having
a denizen of the other world at his beck
and call, I y whoso assistance he is able
to open the gates of the unseen. When
sent for to advise on difficult case?, he
never fails, before going, to summon
and consult hi3 nhostlv servitor as to
n w
tho nrosrnosis of tho disease ho i3 cillod
g - o
to cure. Ia the event of an unfavora
ble prognosis, ho declines to attend, but
furnishes his would-be patient with
the exact date and hour of his dem
ise. Bui I am wa-iderinir. The old
baid, it secm was a kind of family
doctor or professor of medicine to ono
of the nose-m ikers, and in this capacity
has moro than once witnessed tho opcra
tion of nose-restoration. He thereforo
considers himself in possession of the
3Ccrot, if secret it. i. His narrative ran
thus: After drugging their patient
with some narcotic, the K ingairas forth
with proceeded to paint tho forehead
with a medicatod lotion, as a prelimin
ary step. On asking the composition ot
this lotion, the onlv answer vouchsafed
was a grave shake of tho hoad. The
next step is to cut a piece of leather to
the shapo and sizo of the required nose.
This being done, it is placed on the
forehead and use 1 to mark out the lines
of incision. They then beat tho fore
head with an oil slipper until the part
marked out becomes swollen and promi
nent. Zinc tubes with a plato between
them to serve tho purpose of septum
nasi are then lodged in tho nostrils.
The next proceeding is to dissect s
flip of the swollen flesh with i
razor, leaving the lower part at
tached to tho forehead. In doing this
they take a vein with tho flap, the name
and position of which is a profound se
crt known onlv to himself and tho
nose-m ikers. Tho success of tho opera
tion depends entirely on the preserva
tion and careful dissection of this secret
voin. The next step was to turn up the
flap with the secrot vein i i a particular
way over tho tubes. This being accom-
nlishod. the other parts of trie noso are
pared and fastened to it with silk litera
ture, and the wholo thing is brought to
an e::d by the application of a special
ointment over tho wound. For several
days, until the wound is healed, the pa
tient mu3t keep a recumbent position.
O i union taking place, the piece which
was left attached to tho forehead is sev
ered, and the patient comes forth with a
new-born nose. I ought to have men
tioned that tho removal of tue zinc
tubes is effected as soon as convenient.
Thus ended the narrative of the medical
adviser to tho nose-makers.
It only remains now to iaquiro how
far their work i3 successful, and if their
skill be on a par with their reputation,
That they have many opportunities of
exercising their profession is boyond
nuestion. Tho wearing of baloo or nath
(nosc-rings) by tho married womon and
girls to distinguish them from widows
is a source of injury to the left ala nasi,
This is soeciallv the case with tho hill
women of Kangra, whose rings are far
heavier than those of women dwelling
in the plains; consequently one often
sees tho left ala nasi completely split
open, giving a more than slight disfig
urement, and preventing the distin
guishing mark from being kept up.
Many of these women make use of the
nose-makers; but, as far as my obser
vation goes, and I havo had many op
portunities of seeing their work, I havo
never seen a satisfactory result. On the
contrary, I have known many cases
where the operation has simply left the
woman's nose in a worso plight than
before.
Arabian Babies.
Life has exceptional difficulties for
the babies of Eastern nations, especially
for thoso who aro of sufficiently high
rank to be brought up according to all
the anciont customs of their race. The
lady who tells her own story in the
"Memoirs of an Arabian Princess," says
that a royal baby's first toilet, in Ara
bia, consists in wilding a bandage about
its body, after it has been bathed and
perfumed: The little creature is then
placed on its back, its arms and feet
are straightened, and the entire body is
swathed to the shoulders. In this pos
ition it remains motionless for 40 day,
but the bandage is removed twice a day
that the child may have a bath. Tho
Arabs believe that this process will
make the body straight for lite. Under
such circumstances it socmt fortunate 1
that babyhood is not a period which
can be remembered i i after years, for
nobody would choose to Miff-r such
days of misery again, ivca in recollec
tion.
If the child bo a girl, on tho seventh
day after her birth, holes, u-u illy six
in number, are pricked in her cars, and
when sho is two months "old, heavy gold
rings are attached to them, to be worn
throughout her lifetime, except during
periods of mourning for relatives.
On the fortieth day the baby's head
13 snaveel a ceremony which could
scarcely bo performed in our own coun
try, where thick hair is usually of a later
growth. This operation is considered
a very important one, and thirty or
forty persons are witnesses of it, for the
performance of certain rites.
The disposal of the first hair is re
garded as a very weighty matter; it
must not be burned nor carelessly
thrown away, but Luried, thrown into
the sea. or hidden in some crevice in a
wall.
This fortieth day marks a turning
point in the child's life. Heretofore it
has only been seen by its pirent", tho
slaves on duty and a few intini'.tc
friends of the family, now, however, it
may be seen by everybody, and is re
garded as fairly launched on tho tide of
existence.
Several charms aro attached to its
body, for protection against tho "evil
eye," boys wearing them to a certain
age, and girls still longer. Tho favor
ite charm consists of a gold or silver
locket, worn on a chain.
The smallest children among the
Arabians are strongly perfumed; every
thing they use, from clothing to articles
of toilet, is covered at night with jossa
mine, and be for o it is used, fumigated
w ith amber and musk, and sprinkled
with attar of roses.
Millions of Eels.
We have good words for our New
Milford friends whoso rations of eels
have been shortened by th) big dam in
the Housatoaic above Shelton. Sunday
there were millions of eels, small fry.
n?aaca to tne norta wucre (n y can
grow to the long throe and four footers.
Little pooh of water besid) the fishway
were literally alive and black with
great masses of them which ould not
seem to b) accommoditcd in the trick
ling of streams, and so they crawled
liko snakes upon tho damp earth or,
hugging to the moistened sides of the
fi-hway, pushed oa toward the summit.
Tho advance of the procession was not
far from tho top while long lines could
be seen coming in from the river, and
worming their way idong ia tho wake
of the advance guird. An enemy, m
the shape of a dog was. how .vcr, at
tacking the eels furiously. When per
sons would lift tho squirmers up by the
double handful, the dog, a little Scotch
terrier, would devour them with great
gusto, and when they were not fed to
him in this fashion ho would stick his
mouth into tho water and take them
himself. This operation wjs continued
until the little dog was as round as a
fattened cel. Numerous spectators
looked on with astonishment at tho ca
pacity of the deg whose stomach roust
now bo a pretty full eel pond. As there
was no mastication, the little fellow will
probably have enough live food to last
him several days. Ansonia Sentinal.
An Odd School Book.
"Tho new 'Primer for tho People's
Schools in Kamcroon,' Africi, com
piled by Dr. Christallcr, has been pre
sented to Prince Bismarck," says a Lon
don newspaper. "It appears that the
native childron will have to learn fcur
different alphabets German print, Gor
man writing, Duala print, and Duala
writing. Tnc Duala language is not to
be printed or written in tho customary
German letters, but -in the so-called
Latin letters which are u ed by all the
people of Western Europo except the
Germans, and which the latter r.ow use
ia all tU-ir scientific work. Perhaps
the Enslish reactor would like to sec a
specimen of Duala. The reading-book
contains a chapter ou 'The Mouse,'
which stands a3 follows in Duila: 'Puo
e salo. (The mouse is little,) E bon
mondo mi bwaba, na masongo, ma bow-
oli. (She had a long tail and sharp
tecthi) Puo o tond kokctele, na ny
amse gita c buka noma e mn-da. (The
mouse is fend of gnawing, and spoils
much more thai she can cat.) The
many open vowels and tho comparative
fewness of consonants givj tho Duila
language a very melodious character,
and render it p?cu'iarly 'aiig.ib'.e.' "
Often So.
Bjoncs Singular, isn t it, Mr.
Jsmythe?
Lsmythe What's that ?
Biones Why tho vessels sometimes
go over a bar to get plenty of water.
Jsmythe That's nothin . I've known
maty a man to get iato deep water be
cause he couldn't pass a bar. Ocean.
Needs Cleaning.
Brown:
inson. is
"I sec that your watch, Rob-
abcut an hour ah.-s.d of su
time."
Robinson :
got into tho
Bazar.
'Yes;
iUl
1 don't
lately. -
(!J Wll itS
-Harper'
A. Spray of Apple Blossoms.
They lay on the broad, low window ledge,
Where the hand of a little child
Had placed them, dewy, and fresh, and
sweet;
And the grandmother had smiled,
And softly stroked with her wrinkled hand
Tho curly, tumbled head;
And then the needles bright were still;
Unrolled the snowy thread.
'or, borne ou the breath of the applo bloom,
She lived in the golden past;
She saw an orchard where blossom snows
Were falling thick and fast,
Fallidg upon the tho fair, bent head
Of a maiden in girlhood's prime,
Reading a letter, worn and creased
From folding many a time.
"When the apple blossoms are here once
more,
I shall cciue back, Allaire,
Shall come for my answer." The scented
wind,
Which ruffled the maiden's hair,
Brought to her ears a well-known voice,
She turned in a startled way:
"I have come for my answer; what is it,
dear?"
What could she do but lay
Her hands in the eager, outstretched ones!
Ah! life is sweet in June,
When hearts keep time to the liquid now
Of life, and light, and tune;
And when, in her snowy, floating veil,
She stood on her bridal morn.
She would have but the tinted apple bloom
Her wrhite robe to adorn.
Through the open window the western wind
Blew soft on the wrinkled face,
When a smile shone, sweet as that could be
Which had lit her girlhood grace.
A little voice called her truant thoughts:
"Grandpapa seat me to seo
If you knew that the clock has been striking
six?
And he wants you to pour his tea?"
Good Housekeeping.
HUMOROUS.
AU knotted up Tho steamer's speed.
Flirting Attention without inten
tion. The child of tho sea The harbor
buoy.
A howling swell Tho sea in a
storm.
A carpenter isn't needed to frame an
excuso.
Why was a certain race horse appro
priately named "Bad Egg?" He cou'd
not be beatou.
Sailor: "Did vou ever sec vessels ia
a fight?' Landsman: "N-), hut I'vo
seen a ship spar."
Tho hungry, shipwrecked sailor,
clinging to the raft in mid ocean, always
longs for chop seas.
You can never convince tho fellows
that are locked up that stone walls do
not a prison make nor iron bars a cage.
Nothing can equal tho postage stamp
for evenness of temper and calm. You
can lick it until it por3pire3 in every
pore, but it won't even change color.
American genius should utilize tho
grasshoppers. There is no doubt they
could be dried, pulverized aad mado
into soup cakes for use of the army and
navy.
It is an interesting psychological fact
that when a man slips down by stepping
on a banana peel, he always looks as
though he would like to step on tho
peal of laughter that follows.
Clarissa writes to ask "if there is
anything to prevent a woman from be
coming president of the United States."
Thero is, Clarissa, there is; and the
thing is commonly called votes.
Young Mr. Guy, always interested ia
the study of owls, tried to go below,
but found the companion door of the
ocean steamer locked. "My goodness,"
he exclaimed, "I'm decked out tonight,,
for sure," - ' " - ,
Smith (listening from tho (flico win"
dow to a couple of Italian o i its grind
ing hand organs) "Woudcr if those"
fellows are playing in opposition to
each other?" Jones "No, they seem to
be taking turn?."
Every time: Ada "Are you study
ing French and German?' Alice "Yes,
German with old Prof. Schwachougen
and French with young Prof. Gaston
Chcri." Ada ' Which language do
you prefer? ' Alice "Frcich."
"There are fish in the s a," said the maiden
fair,
"As good as ever were caught, so there!"
And she jilted her beau and away went he.
And sho found, although, there were fish in
the' sea
As good as ever were brought to land,
They wouldn't come out at her command,
And the beautiful muid grew pale and sad.
And wished she had kept tho one she had.
Applying the Method.
There was a slight impediment in a
little Poiton girl's speech, and she had
been "drilled" out of all patience by
well-intentioned teachers and friends.
When she received a doll for a birth
day present, sho was delighted to find
that by pulling out a green string a
passable "mamma" was produced. But
the "papa" which followed the twitch
ing of a white string was imperfect, and
Trhcn the little mother discovered that
ir child had inherited her own infirm
ity her heroic nature was shown. Sho
lost no timo in putting to account her
owe training, and pulling repeatedly on
the white string . with an unfaltering
hand, she said, firmly, "Dolly, you
must be trained till you learn to lay
that plainer." Detroit Free Presg,
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