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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION,
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RATES
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DOLLAR PER YEAS
Strictly fnAdvance.
The Early Reaped.
Flowers reaped early, while the devr
la on thein, day being new,
Know neither du-t nor stain,
Or woe s refrain,
Or thirst:
Light kisses them the first,
Aud th y are fair
Poeause untouched by earth's stain anywhere.
Lives re ped while life is new are pure,
Unsullied, bright, mature
In fairness, and replete
In all that makes remembrance sweot;
It'deeined
Before tin's sear its way hath seamed,
Or anjjui-di scored its deep-drawn mark
Or dealt its thrust amidst the dark,
And thy are fair
IVcnuo untouched by earth's stain anywhere.
George Klingle,
A FEARFUL SIEGE.
The capital of Michigan had scarcely
b.cn changed from Detroit to Lansing
leforo n y father got the fever to go
West. Wo were then living ia New
York State, and doing fairly well on a
farm, but the talk nbwut Michigan up
"?t many a man who was then well
enough iff. I wa9 14 yenrs old the day
we Icit for tho Wc l father, mother,
fiur children, and a hired man. All of
us, clear down to the baby, were en
thusiastic snd full of hone, and father
was just tho sort of man
land sharks were lookiog
fold him a swamp farm ia
the D.-troit
for. They
Shiawassee
county, a ad ia one way and mother,
cheated nod defrauded him, until wo
reached cur destination, with hardly a
dollar to begia on. A span of horses
and a cow constituted our live stock,
and when fathor fouad how he had
been dupod, ho lost heait entirely. The
twiddlers guaranteed forty acres of
c caring and a gool log house. Tho
clearing was a lake, and the log house
was a wretched affair, about sixteen
feet squire, which had been put up for
some surveyors.
It ia not, however, cf our family
troubles I am going to talk. Michigan
was a great game cou try at that d-te,
and we sooa discovered that we hid lo
cated pretty near headquarters. Insido
cf three days we had seen a paather,
three wolves, a bear, a lynx, and an In
dian devil. Our nearest neighbor was
ten or twelve mile? away, and the near
est village about twenty. "We were
dead stark alone in the midst of a great
wilderness, and, aside from all other
perils, the Indians, who were generally
supposed to be peaceable, looked upon
all pioneers with jealous eyes, and mado
their stay unpleasant ia many ways. On
the second day of our stay they stole
ur cow and ran her off into Ingham
couaty, where we accidentally fouad
her two years later ; and inside of a
week they made several attempts to get
the horses. It was not until fired upon
that they left us in peace, an I then the
wild beasts and reptiles took hold. Our
hut stood within 200 feet of the edge of
a great swamp, and the swamp was
headquarter) for rattlesnake?, bluo
rac:rs, black snakes, bears, panthers,
wolves and cvjry other creature belong
ing to the country. During the first
weak of cur stay wo killed upward of
a hundred snakes, most of th?m rattlers;
aad Gordon, the hired man, who wis a
good shot, killed a bear and three
wolves.
Our adventures with the panthers
were many and perilous, as tho beasts
seemed determine I not to leavo the lo
cality. The first time I saw oae my
life was pre-.erved ia a most wonderful
m inner. We had been located about
10 day3, and were cloarinj up a piocc
of land about a quarter of a railo from
tho house. Father was eic'c ia tho
house, Gordon was eff alt9r a deer for
meat, and I was in the dealing alone,
having a light axe and cutting away at
theBtnall trees. The only thing I feared
was the snake, having been assured
that no wild beasts would attae'e me by
daylight. In cutting down a young
beech tree it foil upon an iron wood in a
way to break it off about 10 feet from
the ground and leave the t.uak bidly
splintered. This spliatcrol trunk stool
about 14 feet from a very large beech.
I had noticed it only ia a general way,
as I had set myself a stint to do, and
was working with much enthusiasm.
It was about 4 o'clock ia the after
noon and I wai bending over tj exam
ine a curious bug which was crawling
r.t my feet, when a scream filled the
woods, something hit and knocked
me flat on my fac.', and next
instant a wonder.'ul tituatioa whs devel
oped. A panther had sprung upon me
from tho large beech tree. The coward
hid no doubt been watching me for
a Ion j timi and had waite I for me to
set my back to him. He meant to clear
the splintered ironwood in his spring,
but he did not quite succeed. Ho tad
struck mc with hn paw rolling mo over
but not hurting me to speak of, and as
he coma down his right hind foot
caught between two great splinters and
lioKl him fast. Then I was treated to a
circus. I was too scared to move and
sto( d not more than ten feet away and
witnessed what nob dy ever saw le
fore. The beast hung head downward
11 the air, clawing and spitting and
yelling, and the harder he struggled the
more securely was his foot imprisoned,
fcuch screams and yelk' Father and
vtol. x.
mother came running at once,
suppling I was attacked,
and an Indian who was hunt
ing a mile or mora distant was guided
to the spot by tho racket. The sharp
claws scat splinter) of wood flying all
about aid the lithe body bent and
twisted like a snake. We had no gun,
and father was too weak to venture to
u e tho ax-.. We were, therefore, stand
ing -opan-mou'-hed when the Indian
came up and shot the panther through
the head. He could not get the carcass
until we had chopped tho stub down
aud split it open with wedges.
A couplo of weeks lat. r a hunter
camo along who advised father to give
up clearing for a year or two and trap
and hunt. All sorts of fun had a fair
cash value, and the state was paying a
bounty on the rcalps of wolves, bears
and panthers. Tho Indian, who had
taken the body of the panther off with
him, had mado f 15 on its sca'p The
hunter told U3 how to make rude traps
aid deadfalls, and tho three of us were
scoa bn-y with tho game aroucd us.
One day I found a path leading arou.d
the edge of tho swamp, and the soil
bore unmistakable proof) that wild
beasts passed tint wy. Wo .had heard
the scream of panthers nightly, but I
supposed the beasts which used this
path were wolv s. I had mado a stout
rope of hickoiy peelings, and at a favor
able point on the path I bent over asttut
sapliug, attached my rope, and then
noosed it and carried the trigger to a
Luh, What I wanted now was the
bait, and Gordon furnished that ia the
shnpo cf the fore-quaiter of a deer ho
had killed that morning. Whoa the
trap was ready no animal could get at
the bait without putting it) head in the
noose. I went to sleep that night
counting on the scalp of a wolf, and
next morning I was off as scon as I
could sec my way through tho forest.
It was well that I was not ten minutes
earii'ir. I was within tea rods of tho
trap when I was stopped dead still by
the screams of a panther. I knew the
beast as soon as he yelled, and it wa3
easy to conclude that ho was in
trouble. I crept forward very carc
fu'ly, hearing a great thrashing about
with the yells, and when I reached a
point where I cou'd see the path I saw
that a big panther had noosed himself.
The noose had caught him about the
loins, so far back tint he ceuld npt. get
at the ropo to bite it, aid tho spring of
the trco bar. I7 permitted him to touch
the earth wi'h his paws now and then.
If tho other beast, trapped through
his own carelessness, was mad, this fel
low, who had becomo the victim of a
put-up job, w is liniou'. Ail the rage
in his nature Lubbled up as he dangled
there and felt that hi) end was near.
He was at a great disadvantage, of
course, but his struggle) were so vio
lent that I becamo alarmed aid ran
away, knowing that if he got loose he
wt u d tear me to piecos. He was still
fast when I returned with Gordon, and
a lul et quickly put an end to his ca
reer. He was an old and a dangerous
beast. When we came to skin him we
found the point of a knife in hi) shoul
der, rnd ho had several scars made by
the weapons of the Indians.
We did not catch sight of a panther
for several weeks after this adventure,
although never a night passed that we
did not hear their screams. The
weather had row com? on warm, and
we could do no more at trapping.
Father fell very sick, and one day about
thcmiddlo of June it became pi an that
ho must have medical assistance at once.
G rdon mounted one of the horses for a
tide to the doctor's, a distance of twelve
miles, aud when night came ho had not
returned. It had scarcely grown dark
when the wild beasts rround us began
to howl and roar and skulk about the
house, and after catching 6ight of sev
eral wolves I went in and barred the
door. There was only one opening for
a window, and over this was nailed a
blanket. It was high up from the
ground, and only about two feet square.
The horse was in a stout pen, and there
was no fear that he could bo got at.
When night had fully settled down we
were in a state of siige. Wolves to the
number of forty or fifty surrounded tho
house, and growing bolder as time
passed and their number increased, they
mado furious and repeated efforts to
force an entrance. Gordon had tiken
the gua with him, Lut we had two
axes in the house. Mother stood at the
door with one and I defended the
window with tho other. The
wo'ves gnawed a hole in the door,
through which one could have passed
Lut for her presence and tho . sharp
edged weapon she wiilde I. Every head
stuck into the opening received a b'.ow,
and the baffljd animals fi tally ceased
their iff arts at that point, although
mother dared not leave the spot. After
the wolves had worried us for an hour,
without, however, hivinjr made much
of an ffort to get in by way of tho win
dow, it being too high for them, they
left U3 all of a sudden. I then dragged
a chest across the floor to stop tho hole
in the dor, and mother discovered that
father wi9 dead. The poor man, weak
as he wa, had not been tblc to endure
the fright of the atUck. We did not
hive many minutes or lamentation.
The wolves had giv.e p'ace to a more
PITTSBORO',
dangerous enemy. There was a sud
den pounce on the roof over our head),
accompanied by a snarl, and we know
that a panther was at h n 1. It was a
lucky thing for us that tho builders
of tho hut wcro either lazy or in a hur
ry, and had built only a
small fireplace end a small
chimney. Thcro was no firo
on tho hearth and had tho chimney
been iho ordinary mnmmoth affair of
tho backwoods we should have had a
panther on the fbor in no time. The
first was scon j iced by a second and
third, ad then two or three others
were heard on tho gi jund. They may
have scented the dead or they may havo
known nothing of our great calamity.
That they were determined to get in
wo were soon led to understand. I
maJo a smudge on the hearth to keep
them from trying tho chimney, and then
mother took one sido cf tho window
and I the other. We instinctively felt
th it it wa) the point of danger now that
tLo chest protected tho door. We were
hardly at our posts -when a panther
sprang up and toro the blanket
down. Our lirrht consi tud of a -niece
of cotton lying in a dish of coon's fat,
and at time3 tho flimo was almost out.
A couple of minutes after the blanket
was torn away a pinther sp'aog into tho
opening. Had he been left undisturbed
he could havo squeez.d through, but
the instant his head appeared wo both
struck at him. His riht fore naw
3 1
hung over the ede of the opening, and
my blow cut it clean off and droj pod it
on the floor. That settled cno of the
visitors, although tho row he m dc over
the loss of his paw aimst unnerved us.
At that moment thcro seemed to ba five
or six of the boasts about, and it was
only a short tiino before another sprang
into tho opening. Mother struck him
fquirc in the face, and fivo minutes
later I severely woundod a third.
Tht seemed to dampen the
ardor of all, for they soon with
drew, and the wolves returned. It
must havo been that these creatures
scented the dead. It was tho first timo
they had appeared in such numbers and
so boldly, and hunger could not have
been the causa of it. They made littb
or no effort to get at the horse, but for
an hour after their return they made
desperate and determined effort3 to
break their way into the cabin. They
cime against the door, 6ix or eight of
them at onceWith -sirch fcrco ai'loV
shake the house, and had not the lower
log boen su lk in clay ground they
would havo du- their way under.
It was midnight before we had a let
up, and the last wolf did not leave be
fore 2 o'clock. Up to this time mother
had not given way to her grief. Waen
danger passed away she broko down,
aad from then to daylight I sat alone by
the door with ax in hand. I looked for
Gordon at an early h-mr, but ho di I not
appear. About 10 o'clock the horso
c me home, bitten in a terrible manner,
and so serious werj his injuries that ho
died before nijht. We knew from tho
wounds i. flicted on the horse that he
had been pursued by wolvjs, and there
was little doubt about tho fato of hi3
rider. We dared not start out in search
of help, as we knew not which way to
go, and we dared not leave the body of
the dea I in the house another night for
fear of the wolve3. We waited until
8 o'clock, and then, hoaring nothing
from G rdon, we dug a gravf, wrapped
poor lather's remains in a sheet, and
buried the n as best we coul 1. Next
day some hunters callid, and they, went
to look ftr Gardon. Hi had been to
the doctor's, to find him too sick to
come. Oj the way b ick he had boon
chased by a drove of wolves, and, while
the horse had escaped, nothing but a
few bones could be founl of the man.
Gems and Precious Stones.
The most valuable of precious stones
is the diamond pure crysta'zed car
bon the most highly refractive and the
hardest of gcm, and the only one that
is combustible. This latter property
was discovered ia 1691 by Cosmo IH.
ofTu:cany, who ignitod the diamond
with a burning-glass; and later it was
found that when burned in a crucible
this gem converts iron into steel. Tho
diamond generally occurs as an octahe
dron, and surpasses all other gems in
the property of dividing light into col
ored rays, c su-ing that pecu iar flash of
prismatic hues called its fire.
Diamonds aro rated by the carat.
The term carat is derived from the
name of certain small leguminous seeds
which, when dried, aro quite constant
in weight. They were used in India
for weighing gems.
In 1871 the syndicate of Parisian jew
elers, goldsmith and gem-dealers sug
gested 205 of a gramme as the valuo of
a carat; and this was confirmed in 1877,
all tho leadiug diamond-dealers of Lon
don, Paris and Amsterdam accepting It
The English carat is t qu il to 3. 1633
plus grains (c mmonly reckoned .13 3 17
grains) troy, hence there are 15 carat)
in an English troy ounce.
A Peculiarity of Make.
O'.d lidy (to boy in shoe store) : Are
your shoes all made oa anatomical prin
ciples, boy?'"
By: "No, mum; they're all made on
last?." Epoch.
CHATHAM CO., N. C,
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
Two l;tte Rite.
One merry summer day
Two roses were at ploy;
All at once they took a notion
They would like to run away !
Queer little roses,
Funny little roses,
To want to ruu away !
They stole along my fence;
Tbey cl-atn erod up my wall;
They climbed into my window
To make a morning cell!
Quetr little rc-ses;
Funny little roses,
To make a morning call!
-Julia P. Ballard, in "St. Nicholas
Storlrn ? Animal.
A subscriber i 1 L-utsi ma writes to the
Detroit Free Press: '"The Wool lizatd
is not a desirable animal to hava for
close neighbors, although I never knew
of them doing any harm. A nest of
.hcm had tiken quarters ia some rotten
limber neir my habitation in Louisiana.
At rnornhf, noon and cv.-niig I saw
them, rather shy at first bus on the look
out for my approach and wanted to
cultivate my friendship. One day with
a piece of iron I mutilated one and held
him under th; iron. Tho Iizird tumel
himself around and by looks and actions
said: 4I did not thin'c you could be so
cruel; wo fill thought you would not
harm u-; wo trusted you; contrary to
our instincts our onfi lonce wis mis
placed; we will never trut you more.
It is about six weeks ago and I have
never seen one sine.'.
I told my Iizird 3tory to a farmer
at Wilson's Point, Ln. Hj related that
a ground hog took up qmrtcrs in a hol
low tne close by his hue. Tho
gnu id ho:., shy at firjt, gettin bolder,
in time would conn cut every day, feel
awhile, then stand or sit erect, and look
around for d g3 or enemies, all Ihs
whilo becoming moro domestic ted.
The gfou id ho? doing no damage, the
farmer had nothing against him. How
ever, ho took his shotgun oao day and
fired to scare him. Tho poor ground
hog fe 1, uttered a cry as much as to
say, Uo something for me,' and that
was the end of him.''
An Affccif onat .Iion.
The superintendent of the animal
department out in Woodward's Gor
dons, Sin Francisco, tells in tho
;Gr'phic jaalbt-tic . and pretty storj
ab. ut a lion they had out there. At
first he was so dangerous that they did
not care to venture too closo to him;
but by persistent gentleness and kind
ness the superintendent gradually made
the beast so fond of him that it liKed
to have him go into the cage, and if
he'd lie down beside it the Hon would
raise its head so as to givo him a soft
place to lay hK O 10 day a drunken
sailor camo into tho Gardens and be
gan teasing the lion. The superin
tendent camo up and told tho sailor
not to tease tho beast. The sailor re
plied with an oath and struck at him
twice. Tho lion became perfectly
frantic with rage aad roared and bent
the bars of his cige, so much so that
the sailor got frightened. If the lion
had got out of hi) cage there would
not hnvj b:cn enough left of the sailor
for a funera1. At length the lion got
some kind of a turn r and was in great
pni". Ojc or two slight operations had
to be performed and nobody could get
near the beat cxc:pt this one man. Th9
lion let him cut, and looked at him
pratefully all the tim licking his hand
when it was over. The tumor grew so
bad that a big operation had to be per
formed, and it was with fear and trem
bling that tho superintendent under
took it, for tho lion was in terrible
pain. The doctors could not go near,
but they drew a diagram of the body
of the lion, held it up before him as he
went on, and mado the marks on it
where he was to cut Ho follow :&
their directions, and all tho whilo tho
lion lay as still as if he wero undis
turbed. The last operation did
no good. Tho beast was in
such fearful pain that they had to
kill him. The superintendent took his
revolver, and after petting the animal
fired oao shot through Imhead, putting
the muzzle closo to it The lion gave
him a pathetic look, in which there
seemed to be a mixture of surpriss and
reproach, but no auger. It took three
shots to kill him, and all tho time the
beast never took his eyes off the man
who was killing him. The superin
tendent says he was never so curiously
and deep'y aff.ctid in his life, and he
could not help crying; even now he
feels the tears come when he recalls,
and he cannot forget it, tho lion's piti
ful look at Lim as his head fell back for
the last time.
An Overdose.
Brown You don't look well, Robin
son; what's the matter, sick?
Robinson Yes; smoked too many
ciars today.
Brown How many have you smoked!
Robinson That one you gave me last
night. New York Sun.
Nora Blundcrby'sent her best young
man some pressed violets ia a letter and
added in the postscript: 'Bo very
cnrcful.how you break open the enyc-lope."
vyAy
AUGUST 16, 1888.
A HORSE HOSPITAL
Scenes Attending an Equine
Surgical Operation.
In the Clinic Room of a Chicago
Veterinary College.
There is a very close analogy between
man and horso and the 75 students at
tho Chicago Veterinary college see
this demonstrated every day. One of
tho patients now in the hospital is a
sorrel st ill ion which came there a few
weeks sinco with a broken shoulder
blade. A piece of bone was taken out
through an intidon made by Dr. With
ers and the horse will soon be as good
as row. Another has had two teeth
chiseled apa;t from his j.iw bone and
cats his oats qnite contented lv without
them. Another had one of the quar
ters of a foot taken off, necessitated by
a quittor, originating from aa ulcerated
corn.
There are as many different ai'ments
rep.esented as at hospitals for our own
race. I'ornaps tno mo3t common ot
horso troubles are bone spavins, and
the most frequent operation at the vet
erinary college is that of firing a horse.
This is the first precaution taken bofore
the operation. The rope ij drawn from
the fettered hind foot to a point on the
breast between tho fore legs, where it
passes through a ring fastened on a
collar arou id the horse's neck. Thi3
form a pu!L-y, and a slight pull leaves
the pationt but throe log) to stind on.
sooa convincing him th it kicking is out
of tho question. Tho next stcn is to
blind fo d the hone, thon hi) spavined
le is crippled; after that the firing.
A horso s sufferings will about cqud
a 111 ui's under the samo conditions, aud
just as a hih-strung, ncrvou sensi
tivo man wiil feel more pain than ho of
a dull, stupid, phlegmatic nature, so
with tho horse tho thoroughbred,
wiin auatca nostrils and quivering
nerves, suffers an intensity of torture
quite impossible to tho sctub. The
analogy continues when tho high-bred
man, with the high-bred horse, suffers
the greater agony, marked only by deep
groans, while ho from the common herd
suffers lc33, raises aa outcry and com
motion indicating nothing less than
muidcr. D'ood will tell. Tbia brj liuiro
Was of the scrub class, and had the
aiuuents ana neipors naa tneir way,
would have been thrown, but Dr
xiugnes saiu: "jno; to nre spavin
properly the tendons and hide must be
at a tension, and not limp as when the
patient 13 prostrcte," so the bay, with
hi3 noso held tight in the clutch of
twist, and one leg constantly jerked
from under him, twisted himself into
all sorts of positions during the whole
hour of tho operation. He was followed
by a high-lifed sorrel, which, although
ugly and hard to manage before a road
wajon, went through the samo ordeal
of fire with an obstinate determination
mat soemea to say: ' Kill me if you
will; I will die unennquired."
The red hot 4 liaing iron'' first burns
a vertical stripe over the hock, ia all
about a foot in length; thon from this
stripe on cither side i3 burnt out ten
or a dozen strips of hide, other irons at
white heat being continually fetched as
tho3e used grow cold ; one side of tho
leg thus striped, tho other side is fired
in like manner, and then the more cruel
"puncturing iron is put to tho torture.
Its point is foicjd to burn its way to
the very centre of the knee bone, not
one, but 20, perforations being made.
All through this ordeal the gallant sor-
rell has stood with legs braced and
with scarco a tremor or a groan
He is now showed what rest his
burnt leg will permit him for
several hours, and then begins tho
worst of his troubles. A powder made
principally of Spanish flics is rubbed
into the sores mado by tho firing, and
for three days tho horse, supported by
three legs, swings tho maimed fourth
which all about the hock is a mass of
blisters. This blistering is wahed off
alter three days and lard applied every
day for four weeks. Ho can't bo al
lowed to lie down or to reach this leg
for two or three weeks and his head is
tied so high that to lie down is impos
sib'e. It will bo a month before he
leaves the hospital and two monfis be
fore he can be driven, but he is then
sound and his lamenesshas disappeared.
The cost is $10 for the operation and
21.50 forevery day's keep and attend
ance say $50 in all.
A horse can sleep while standing
much easier than a man can. He looks
toward a fixed point to steady himself,
then braces hi3 legs in such manner
that the joints are locked, and
thus his entire weight is thrown on the
fibrous tissue and taken from his mus
cles, giving his entire muscular system
the needed rest Strolling through the
various city barns the saunterer notices
that p?rhaps two out of ev ry fifty
horses never lie down at all. Chicago
Herald. .
A boy may groan, and from sickness
moan, from .the church or tho school to
stay; but there's no pain so deep him
from circus can keep, because he aia'
built that way.
Ay
NO. 50.
The Steppe of the Irtish.
Under the above title G:orgo Kennau '
contributes to tho Century some of his I
xperioncos in Siberia just previous to
his first mooting with political exiles.
t is with a feeling of intense pleasure
and relief that or.o leaves such a village
and rides out ucon tho wi le. clean.
breezy steppe whro the air is filled with
the fragrance of clover and tho singing
of birds, and whero the eye is constant
ly delighted with great swoeps of
smooth, velvety turf, or vast undu
lating expanses of high steppo grass
sprinkle I in tho foreground with mil
lions of wild roses, white marguerites.
delicate fiv -angled hircb .'lls, and dark
red tiger-lilies. B twcea the villages of
K'utiya aad Ktlmakovn, on Fiiday, we
rodo across a steppe which was literally
a groat ocean of fl twers. 0 10 could pick
twenty different spocie3 and a hundred
specimens within the area of a single
squaro yard, nere an I there wo de
serted the miry roai and druvo for
miles across the smooth, grwsy plain,
crushing flowers by tho score at every
evolution of our carriage wheels. In
the middle of the steppo I had our dri
ver stop and wait for me while I
alighted and walked away into the
flowery solitude to enjoy the still
ness, the perfumed air, and tho sea of
verdure thrcu;h which ran tho long,
sinuous black line of the mu Idy high
way. On my left, beyond the road,
was a wide, shallow depression six or
eight miles across, risins on the oppo
site side in a Ion; gradml sweep to a
dark bluo lino of birch forest which
formed the horizm. This depression
was one smooth expanse of close groen
turf dotted wi.h grazing cattlo and
sheep, and broken hre and there by
a silvery pool or lake. Around me,
upon the higher grou 1 1, tho steppo
wa3 carpeted with fl
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which I noticed splendil oranro asters
two icche3 in diameter, spotted tiger-
lilies with stronsdv refljxsd nfitals
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white clover, daisies, harebells, spire a,
astragalus, melliotus, and a peculiar
flower growing ia long, slender, curved
spikes which suggested flights of min
iature carmine sky-rcckcts 9ent up by
the fairies of tho steppe. Tho air was
still and warm, and hai a strange.
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sweet fragrance which I can like a only
to the taste of wild honev. There
were no sounds to broak the stillness
of the groat p'ain exept the drowsy
ium of bees, the regular measured
"Kate-did-Kate-dii" of a few katydids
in the grass near me, and th) wailing
cry of a steppo hawk hovering over
the nest of some fie d-micx It was a
delight simply to lio oa tho grass amidst
theflwer3 and see, hear and breathe.
Origin of a Popular Song.
Among tho favorite songs of our dry
are somo which originated under pe
culiarly curious circumstances. The fa
miliar Peck -a-Boo." which has been
wora nearly threadbare, wa, according
to its author, Mr. Scanlon, an inspira
tion of the moment. It was suggested
by tho gambols of somo children, who
were playing around tho door whore he
was sitting, idly picking out tune up
on an record ion. As tho children
peeped curiously into hi) door, he be
gan to say "Peck-a-Bjo," nodding his
head at the same time. Un consciously
tho instrument played a few notes to
suit what he was saying and the idea of
a new melody struck his fancy. He im
mediately wrota off the choru3 of
"Pcek-a-Boo" upon an envelope and
added a few stanzas afterwards, touch
ing up the song at his leisure. The
mudc came spontaneously and was far
less difficult than the fitting of it with
appropriate words; but as it was by no
means his first experience, ho was not
long in getting it into proper shape.
It was certainly a happy inspiration
for Mr. Scanlon. This melody alone
has netted him $36 000 in royalties, and
still brings in a comfortabb income, as
he receives six cents on each copy soil.
It has, with his numerous other com
positions, made him a fortune, in strik
ing contrast with such writers as poor
Stephen Foster and John Howard
Payne, whoso best work served only to
enrich the publishers who wore so for
tunate as to obtain th ir en tiro control.
Detroit Free Press.
The Phonozeitograph.
The Due de Felt re has designed an
instrument, which he calls a phonoze
nograph, intonded to indicate the di
rection of any distant sound. A micro
phonic plate of peculiar construction is
fixed in a vertical plane, and is in cir
cuit with a battery and a telephone re
ceiver, or a D.-prez-D'Arsonva-galva-no
meter and a Whcatstone bri Igc. The
microphone is more or less affected ly
a distant sound, according to the angle
that it makes with the scurce. By
moving the plate about until the maxi
mum eff. ct is obtained the observer if
enabled to exactly locate the direction
of the sound. The indications of the
telephone receiver aro absolutely accu
rate, but those afforded 1 y the galva
nometer are less so, and this latter ar
rangement will require great modifica
tion of the microphonic plate before it
can be said to be of a practical nature.
This instrument msy possibly prove of
use at sea ii preventing collisions in
foggy weather. Electrician,
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Regt Cometh After A1L
Beyond the toil, the burdens of the day,
Bevond the temoests and the storms of life:
Far from the tumult of the weary way,
Beyond the longing and the ceaseless
strife;
Out of the darkness and the gloom of night.
Beyond the hills where shadows never fall,
And far beyond the range of mortal sight,
Rest cometh after alb
After the fever and the restless pain,
After the waiting and the weary yeans
After the conflict and the loss and gain,
Ai to r the sorrow and the useless tears;
Far, far beyond the lofty heights of Fame:
Beyond the hills where shadows never fall
Beyond the fear of censure and of blame,
Rest cometh after all
.William G. Park in Boston Transcript.
HUMOROUS.
How to cut a person Look daggers
at him.
The fashionable hair cut is a la
mowed.
Bid nominatioas are like the itch
Th?y set a good many people to scratch
ing. When the girl baby appears in a
houiriiold there is generally a family
cry-si'. :
The mm with tho first baby is all
f miles Smilc3 for himself aad his
friends, too.
D mghter Mammi, what is a man-of-war?
Mamma It'j a naval officer, of
course, y ;u silly child.
When a cat gives an entertainment
from the top of tho wall it isn't the cat
we object to, it's the waul.
"Where are you going, my pretty maid?"
"I'm going a-yachting, sir," she said.
'May I go with you, my pretty maidr
' Yt s, siree, if you're not afraid. "
The Chinese ought to be very good
billiard play on, for they are accus
tomed to hand.ing tho cue from their
earliest years.
Chicken salad never sets well on soma
people. Perhaps it is made of the
wrong kind of chicken. For ins tan oe,
roosters are never good setters.
"Mother is always telling me not to
bolt my food,'' said a small boy, "and
now she has gone and bolted up the
cupboard that has got all the victuala,"
A New York literary man composes a
good many of his poems while riding
about the city. He i3 a hack writer
with a vengeance.
Dingley Oh, I'm just like I used to
be. By the way, Peckham, how's your
wife? You used to say you had tho
boss girl when you were single. Peck
ham (sadlj) She's still boss.
Physician (to living skeleton irt a
Now York museum) : You seem to be
threatened with a fatty degeneration of
tho heart Skeleton: I presume so, as
I am engaged to the fat woman over
there who weighs 614 pounds.
'What trials you must have," said the
lady, contemplating a famished tramp
devouring tho generous repast she had
placed before him. "Yes'm, and tha
wust of it i3 I alius get convicted, "
answered the tramp between bites.
"I was getting measured for a suit of
clothes this mawning," said young Mr.
Sissy to his pretty cousin, "and just for
a joke, y'know, I awsked Snipcm if it
we ally took nine tailors to. make a man.
He said it would take more than nine
tailors to make a man of some people.
I thought it was quite clevah.''
A "legitimate" barnstormer recently
returned to the city on foot after an un
successful starring tour in Shakespearean
characters. A friend accosted him and
asked him whit luck he had had.
"Luck," the actor replied, "why, out
there in Illinoy I played to four kero
sene lamps, and two of those went out
after the first act"
The Wily Mormon Prophet.
Brigham Young, the famous leader
and prophet of the Mormons, often had
to exert the whole of his wonderfully
quick wit in order to preserve the faith
that his followers had in him, but ho
was generally equal to the occasion. A
certain elder, while chopping wood, had
cut his leg so badly that it had to bo
amputated. As soon as he was able ho
came to Young and stated his case to
him somewhat as follows: "I have al
ways been a good Mormon ; I have sev
eral wives and a good many children,
and in my present maimed condition I
do not know how I am to provide for
them. I believe truly that you are
Christ's representative on earth, and
that you have all the power that Ho
had. It you like, you can work mira
cles; if you like, you can give me a
new log, and now I ask you to do it"
Young assented to all the flattering
propositions as they were laid down,
and when the elder had finished speak
ing he said : "I can givo you a new leg,
and I will, but I want you to think
about it a little at first When the day
of judgment comes, where vir you are
buried, your old leg will find you out
and join itself to you, but if I give you
a new one, that will rise with you, too,
and the question is whether you would
rather suffer tho inconvenience of get
ting along with one for a few years here
or go through all eternity wi'h three
legs." The choice was quickly made,
and Brigham Young's reputation as a
miracle-worker was saved. Argonaut
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