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1 mfriintriin lit rr iiimrtirii , m an n- t i vnmirwuiii urn m fl-ljc Cljatljam ttccoib. KATES II. A. LONDON, KMTOlt AM) riloriUETOIt. ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ( MIC Sqlltlll', ('III' 1 IKiCI t im- (inc square, (wo inHcrliuiiH Otic square, one month - t.00 1.50 S.rVJ ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR Strictly inAdvance. Fur lBmer ndvc rtis. m-i.'s liberal con- VOL. XI. IMTTSP,01.0 CHATHAM CO., X. C, SEPTUM P.EU 2", fsss. XO. 3. trai ls will In' niii'l". A II 11 1 1 .id or Moments. All tluo.iigh the hours of night, '1 lii" n i omitting ruin Peats wi'li Us footsteps liglit Vp- n tin" w, licit. w niii"; Again rn I yet r-gilin, Tho rnir.dr- count aright, To rin-i i'f slumber fain, The iniiin"iitH in tl rir tlij;h' II- w slow, iiIiir, liow slow Tht r. okoiiiuie, tlmy reoitei As motti-nts r iiiio ami got v When I in w ii lend- up lit-r bright Young II nirs n rosy train, How- n-ndv for deliight Tho world n ml wi remain! For l-tii -lens Hint constrain, Ami slm-lons that nth Ight, lil mcinoi irs 1 tint complain, Anil dreams in bltiok be-light The presiigos if woo -Have lost I heir dismal iiiifht As moments eorue biiiI ko- The ni niopits (lint in spito Pistil I In- team of )Hin, hc-seemd I ko mfiiiito Kni' drops, on heart niul brain Kadi oil" sopniiit" hum"; Hut im iii. nts Hint alight I.iki" -Ion lull nn tli" grain, Itofresh ii- nmi re-quito So p-nt'y, noin' limy know Or sound i f tin-in or sight, 3 moments come and go. jxtsvui. Hnllnd, in lih-rk and wldtss Mnk" now this sentence plain, Hear Willi'-1- llicii-iinlo; Wrong shall rivc way to right Ami night of day l-c shin, As in- linn I - I'oini' niul go. - li'i'i tiniiil iMi" ) Transcript A NARROW ESCAPE. Ono m"raii in Augud, after j had In nnt ihi Si-rrn La Sal about live neks, 1 -i t i lT to shoot "cotton-talk" 1 took a lou UK -! nrrcllcd shot-gun, and proceeded on h-rso back as fnr a tho rnirals and log cal in tf a squad of cat tlo men, thtcc id ilu - lelow our camp. Four cowboys and n herd bos, named Little, wvro hero patrolling the upper ino of nn extensive rnngr, on which were grazing lifti on or twenty tliumnud Ii -ad of tho half-wild Texas cattlo of !hi"-o western iini-lieu. As it wns nlready past "sun-up," 1 ivn not surpriicd to find no ono at th corr.iU; tho hoyt were all out on thu rinse. Pi-iinou iliuj; and tyim; my pony inside tho hor-ie-pon, llirst arranged uiy tartridcs nnd other equipments for r.ipid lomlin-.', and then stinted forth aa foot ovi-r tho rough ground boynit llio corr:ilj. Furrowid in iv z i z i rj cours-i acrois .h! plain was a dry, shallow arroyo, nt ihi liiuo of ycur well blocked with the iiiialt garni) I wai after, and in the rourse of nn hour or in I had ni many birds hb I could ' mfortably carry. And til o, after a short rest, I climbed cut di tho jil-iin, and took a short cut for iho corraU. My courso lod mo alone; th-j upper cdjjn of the cattlo, hu wcro jinzinir in sraitered " buucho" all ovi-r tho lower ond of tho valley. I had gone pcrhapi half n mile, when I became awuro of a strnno coiiim ition anion" tho feeding tliou -nn li. Fur it rhaoccd that I had now come upon a ittlo swell of land, somewhat higher than tho mrroundin f plain, and ha i stopped lor a momot to watch tho piF toral scene. Presently 1 noticod that tlio cattlo wero no lonj,'or grazing rpiietly in group', I'Ut seemed, as by n :ommon impulse, to bo moving up tho valley. I could sco bunch after I mull lift their heads, and, aftar watching for i short timo tho movemonts of th-xo in front, join in the slow procession. My first thought was that tho cow. boy?, for semo reuson or other, were iriving them toward the corral; but then I reflected that if such were tho rise, thoso in the rear would In tho first to start, instead of, as wus tho case, following tho lead of thoso ia front. ISoMides, instead pf stopping to match an occasional mouthful ol grass, as they would do if they wero being Jrivcn, they came on with heads in the air, as though nttractcd by some curious i-.'ht. It was not long beforo tho whole drove was in motion, and, as I watched, 1 noticod tbat tho tlrilt was not in liarnllol, but in convergent line, as :h 'U'h they wero attracted to a com mon centre, and in another instant it fli-hed over mo thnt that centre was mysell 1 A v.'iy strange son9atioii ato'o ov. r mo at thU discovery, and I now remem bered Little's saying oneo that whilo h-jsc T-X is cattlo do not mind n mnn :i horsoback, it wi.ul.l bo a dangerous tl.ing to go amongst them on foot tho -ight of a dWmiuntcd man being almo-t unknown to them, unco tho cowboys invariably ride. As I looked at the slow-moving thou sand. 1 ccu'd well imngino that even if curiosity was the only motive impell ing tbein, yet tho momentum of thoso i tho rear might so press the forward ranks that a mnn would have little chance to escape being trodden to death by the pushing throng. Hut thero was strong reason to sus pect that less innocent motives thin mere curiosity might actuate them, for I knew the untamod, violent nature of this half -wild stcck.and that they wir? not to bo tritlod with. As yot tho diitant red brown throngs wero only slowly drifti ig toward mobut I thought tliut I detected symptom of uneasiness in tlioo i i front, nnd nt once conclude I thnt I had bettor, i i tho plains wnincubir, "hustlo myself nnd hunt my hole." Tho diitnnro to tho corrals was two miles or mire. I knew that I could not reach that point and nt onco docMcd to seek salely in tho arroyo, which lay behind mc about half a mile, ns I have alrendy sai l. Tho thnu ;ht struck me, too, that to run, or even to turn my buck upon them, might incito nnd draw this curious, livioj avalanche headlong upon mo. I therefore stopp' d backward as quickly as 1 could, still faring tho oncoming multitii lo. Tho leaders of the advancing herd wero do more than two or three hundred yards ia front of me, and I had retreat ed somj fifty yards, stepping quickly backward, whon tho foremost of my pursucis quickened tin ir pnee into a alow trot, nu example followed by thoso behind, till, liko n wnvo, n movement had commuuitatod itself to thos-.' furthest in tho rear. And now tho trot, which had boon gradually quickening, broko into nn awknrd gallop, and tho whole herd charged down upon m. For n moment as I saw thu scmi circlo of converging colums, saw the long horns sweopin tho groind, liko march reeds boforj a November gab", saw the plunging shru'ders and heav ing backs surging through the clouds of whilo dust which rolled up before them I gavomysolf up for a doomed man. Thon, abandoning all fuithcr clt'jrt nt caution, I turned and ran for my life. Tho ground behind mo trembled under tho tread of their myriad feet; and tin mutllid thunder of their plung ing hoofs, minglod with the Iuw, fitful bellowing which filled tin air, sounded i liko tho roar of nn advancing tornado, j iun and gnmo wero too much to carry in a raco where so much was at stake. I dropped them both ns I sped onward. The ground was ns level as a llo'r; and 1 ll -w over it, taking tho stunted sagc-bu-hes in my stride, ti.l I reached tho arrayo. Then ver tho bank, nnd down, at oi:c llying leap, 1 went; and now, noticing, to my rLht, a detached main of rocks, piled up in a pyramidal form, I turned sharply, gnino t them, and, cliwnbcring upward, stood in n place of safety. It wns only about three feet ncro-n, but dearer to me, ju t then, than all the 1 road nrren of my fnihor's faun at hum-. From tlii, my "coign of vantag--," 1 now in rked the surging mob of cattle come crowding to th) brink of th'.- nr royo and tl e", ns Iho hundred in the rear pressed forward, I saw the front ranks, by tin dozen, pidiod olT into tho gully, slipping, sliding, piling in?, one alter another, till tho ravine seimed half tilled with them and th) white dint, roio liko mi t from tho pit of a vast, cataract. All around that litt'o crag upon which I half sat, ha'f lay, liko tin exliMi ted swimmer ju-t i scaped from a huagiy ca, heaved and bi.iowed tho tempo -tuoin bovine maelstrom with "A roar I.ikeHeean on it-i wintry sli"ie," their white horns ll idling liko tho foam on tho I Makers. Tho sight of no, perched up there, seemed to madden tbein. Tho foremost, impelled by tho weight of tho swaying thousand! be hind, were forced closa a;ainst tho rocks, while those in tho rear gorod viciously with their horns a thoso in front. 1". very where about me was a tu multuous throng of clashing horns, t03S lug heads nnd writhing bodies, sotn lit luMy through clouds of dud. I wns snfo for the time being, and in no great physical discomfort; yet 1 could but wonder what Iho outcomo of it all would b?, or how I should ulti mately escape. lint suddenly, abovo tho dull roar of the surging, bellowing throng, I heard tho sound of yelling voices down tho arroyo. Tho cow boy i wero coming I and in a few miuut-is Li'tle, "liob,'' '"Charlie," and "Kid" rimo insight, ri ling nt full speed, their long cattle whips cracking liko pidol-shots ns thoy rharged upon my besiegers, whilo they whooped in tru" cowboy polyglot: "Hi! hi!" "Vara! vara!" '"Who haw!' "(lit!" '"Vamos pi-a-n-a!" "15r-r-r-r!' "Sjc-ah! Sce-nhl' ' ( lang there!'' "lloop-la-a-n-a!" At the sound of tho voices and tho cracking whips, nnd nt tho siulit of tho charging vnqueros, tin cattlo on tho outskirts of th crowding herd became panic-stricken, turned anil scampered up tho arrayo, or climbed the shelving bnnks and dashed away across tho val ley. Tho fright soon communicated itself to lha rest; and in a lew mem "nts all this thronging mob of stock had melted nwny and Wire courting oil in nil direc tions across tho plain forming what is kii'.wn in cattlo parlance as a "blazing st ir." Tho siega being thus raised, 1 de scended Irom my little natural citadel aid looked up my gun, which had been fairly trampled into tho earth and h id both coc!s brokon short oil My 1 inch tf gatr.o bad ftred still w.rc; and, rathor inglorious' y, I mounted bihi id C'harlio and rodo down to tho corrals, fully resolve I to follow his advice, al though, ns ho ut it, it had a strung flavor of an Iri-h bull. Said he: "Tho next timo you go out shooting hero afoot, you'd better Irivo a boss under yc." Youth's Compan ion. Tho A f liiii n Hiilter I'lant. An F.nglish gentleman, wlwliv d for somo years in Suith Afr'ci, chatting with a New York Telegram reporter, said : "Wait till Irado gets lively between this country and Africa, and tho Orango j county dairy mon will havo lomcthing besides oleomargarine to Ii lit. "There's a butter plant over th re that turns out regular premium butter. It grows wild iu tho con dry arou id tho equator; a twig of the treo when in b:af looks not unlike a twig broken from tho Scotch pino, only instead of tho hii it'll of Doedlosat tho oad, a htrich of long mil row leaves spring out. "Tho fruit m liko an olive. Tho ker ne's aid dried in the sun, and then boiled in water, and out of them the na tive i make butter as linn and sweet ns any Orango county butter you ever saw; it's whit", though, not yellow. It don't havo to bo suited and it will keep for a year. "Its manu'acturj is a big indu ir? in Africa. In India, too, where d IT rent species of tho plant grow, tin i. utter making is larg-ly carried o.i. S 'ino of the trees thero aro grown in plantations on tho coast, others grow on tho mouu tnins, and aro .V) feet, or more, in hei-.dit. "They say tho butter is good f"r rheu matism and all sorts of contractions of the muscli-.s, and t hey "i it f"r lamp oil and for soap. Tho wood is valuable, a's, nnd, nltogetln-, the butter true in't a bad thing to have around. "Ono of tin? species, thntgli, sort of mixes things; it's n dairy and ili-tillury all in one; buttor is ma b) from th) seidi, andas'rong int xic it i a ; liq'wr from tho ilnwcr. AYho.i Afiiei is f lirly opcao I, thero'U bo lots of ipi -or things brought to thj Ameririi mar ket.'' Whi-kors llooiiieil. "All hair to be cut quite short" is the order is-ued by tho commander and adju'aut of tho Second Kittili-ia of the Kssex Volunteers iu vi-w of tho iipproncbi ig cncaiiipnio it nt I'olchos ter, nnd so fnr no K-s-x mn i w 'io has a sp ilt of military ardor i i lii n is , likely to object; but tin despotb: de- ciee goes on to say that "wli-.ro pos- sibbj tho inustaclio only li to bo i worn," nnd it w-oil I be in vain to at tempt to conceal that these words havo S rend coustern.iti'm i i tho vo u-iteer ranks in th it couity. The quilifying cxpres-ion "when possible" is n little vaguo. Sm h is the pr d . of man in his whiskers that there ure doubtless II. sex volunteers who would regard the cut ting olT of those ornamental growth.! as absolutely impossible; but tb-ro can 1 e little question that tho saving clause means only that the inn tucli"!ess mem bers of tin i-oijii will bi excused fir appearing with a smooth upp-r lip. In oth r wotds, t ho whisker! of th) bat talion lire a", re a ly as good g-ae. It is a daring step. 'Iho fu-t N tpoleon was never so near his tall ns wli-n ho ono day decreed a wholesale) sacrifice of the pigti i s of his Cuir issiers. We pro--iiiiic that tho commander and ml jut int uro prepared to put down any attempt at revolt. They may probably c. u it on the sympathy aid support of the whis kerlcss mrmbrrs of the battalion. London N w.s. A New York Nabob. WiUiamIlowcllofNewY.uk, at 3!i has won a fortuno and is o:ie of the ac knowledged powers of Wa 1 strut. Mr. Howell was a poor I "it veiy ambitious boy. Ho entered Phillips llvet. r acad emy somo years iil'o. F r tho ti r-1 month he lived on 11 cents a day, his food 1 cifg oat menl and comment, with the toughest kind of Icef-teak cure a week as a rnre treat. The si con. I month ho iticcecded in getting fairly good day board in rot urn for the caro of a hor-e. At the end of this month be wus still belter IT for ho found board nnd lodg ing for doing nil tho odd chores around the house and thus ho supported him self tlirouih Kxeter. At Yalo he earned his way by tutoring and writing lor papers. As for Ins social st ar.din;-, says tho Philadelpbi i Times, it is only nec cssaiy to say lint be is a membci of tho Skull and Hones society, tho ri ;ht to wear the badge of which is ono of tho most desired honors in college. His we ilt li today is estimated nt $10,01)0,. (lot). Cliinrse Historical )l el boils. Chinese Hi t iry ii divide. I into two part- -ono an i .xiet narrative of events, nnd tho other of whit th; Mnp-ror hn said or done. Mvery important public matter is recorded u i ler tho day on which it occurred. Tim II n peror h is, as usual, th" liot's shari o. tho talking, and thi ro i room for hi in t say a great deal ia o ie hu olr I a-. 1 twenty chapt r!, soma of III m vrj iu.ig. Tho histoiy is CJinpil)! Ly n perm inenl ri.mmtssion o' lil-rsry mm, who aro Mwayiat ivoik. upon it. ( IIILIIKI'N S ( !I.I MN. In ill III Til n't. V. rowed nli" il a little la ie - A -iv. et, eneli ml in e; -p t And wm kii iii!"" pei-uie s.ein I to take- In fnneyjiig wliat wis net. Inri :in it ion held its -way. V- thou ;lit lint 'n -ath tli- w it irs lav S niie aiii-.i-n? city, gran I and -il l, Ab hi! which is no -t. iry tol l. I ir vi-i.-m to i! a iniglily ran.;i. Wi" built IN liini.es w.m Irons strnnn"; A ts nipl-" le-u-.-l, with minnrot (II pait -ini never siH-n as yet. tili-t'n-ng with gems of solid g -l I; e tble-l the streets nith s i 1,-rs li..M, Wli i, Imiii' retiirnin from lie- wnr, Ti' phies and anus of victory b in-. V- nil -I, iu fa-t. a city Hi -ri-, limit- in wat-r, out of air. I'u-li ing HM.I-- a lily pa I - v To see our city ran.l, We looked below". I'was ttrmgelv sad: Notliing I ut a I ttlo bund I if fi-slii". niT" our soldi- i s tlii-ro. Swimming iu and out, lietwe'-n I trusses long of dm !;o.t green, Which iiiai!" up the city lair. !- Ilt. an l'liirr-l I'ultitt. A .Norwich Falls man has a cat of epicurean tastes. Sh at this season ol th; ycur furni-hes her kii-'ens with frogs' legs. Sho goes to the swamp a id catches the frog! and, amputating the hind logs, brings them home to h-r kit lens. She has done thii several yea--. No claim of extra intelligence is made for her, but she knows a good thing when sho sees it. IN'orwic'i H i.leli i. Itol.lii II i-iIIm-p.i.I In u l-.i'lul. In the d ispe; sary for a inia!. at the I'liiversity of L-ipdg thcrj might have been seen ii N ivember last, among 11) ether sick nnimais, alittl j robin. He was quite tho Hin ille-t patient, but in sulTorings ho appeate I to rise above them all. He had swa lowed a pin, pooi littlo thing, dining his hours of liberty from his cago, and it happeno I in ihU wise: Master P.)b was fond of a sproe, and it was olten dilli Milt to get him to be I, so that his mister often coaxed hint there by tho allurement of n Jni.it y, which on this occasion ho placed on a pin. Tin result w is terrible! How ever, the scionti-t! wero successful, and after n complicated operation tho pin was extracted and tin bird is as well as ever. Picayune. toil. One day foih potatoes woro wanted for ditini r. H oi was digging in tho bank with a broken -ban lied hoo which ho was allowed to ue. "Don," called gia i Ifath -r, "do you know whuro my hoe l i ' "No, grandpa,"' replied Pan, running to him, "I don't know where your long stemmed boo is, 1 ut here ii this short steuuued ono you may take." Another day ho hal been riling mi l when they reached homo grandpa com menced un haine-sing tho horse. 'flh," trie-'. Dm, "let mo help you undress biin." The fir-t timo Don saw an ox team it impressed him very strongly. "Mamma," ho said, nft r watching them a few minutes, "1 don't think cow hoisci nrj nice, do you; ' The next tini", ho remarked, veiy decidedly, "I don't like to seo horses with horn-! ' Int. lay Tot was .laving with her horse. She played the horse One rockin was kicking up its heels, and I want to tell you - 'he horse kicked up so high tho littlo girl and tho horse mid tho doll tumbled right over on the floor,- this is just a made-up story, ---and bumped the little girl's hea l. Wncn l.er mamma came sho was frightened. Sh said : ' i ill. my darling ! what have you been donigf" And she tai l: I have :u iibli d over nnd I broke my doll;' t,o, let mo see, sho didn't break her doll. Wasn't it a ..Tent wonder sho didn't break that dolli Sin; didn't even break one of her ribs. Hut she was frightened aw fully. And after that sh : went to Sunday school and sho had a party. Wasn't it good it didn't make her sick? Hut ono day the littlo girl hurt her foot on the regi-ter. Then she coul In't po to Sunday school. Si sho wrote a poem to h"r grandmother. Youth's Companion. llnw a Hedgehog Kills a Serpent. A foreign paper describes the pro ceeding ai follows: The hedgehog cautiously nppronched tho sleeping roptilo and seizid tho ondcf his tail be tween his tcith. Then ho rolled him self up into a compact ball nnd awaited developments. Tho snake, nwV-ened by tho pain, turned upon his cncinyand fought with his fangs. Tho hedgehog, retaining his hold, a'lowod himself to be dragged back and forth during tho struggle, nnd, meanwhile, tho serpent's jiwshad bcromo lacerated and useless from constant assault upon tho spines of its enemy. In a few minutes the serpent had becomo exhausted with his cIT-nts, nnd tho hedgehog, unrolling him elf, disemboweled the serpent and ato his meal. In this caso the hedge hog does not kid tho serpent directly, but obliges him to kill himself by dash iu upon thu sharp spines. "OUR FATHERS.' ralsc hlea About the Framers of the Const i t u t iuii . Thoy were a Youthful Set and not Venerable Sasos. The "F.-lh -rs of tho llcpublic" were not lbs sex agonal ians and Bepluagen aii ms of their era. On tho cnntraiy, s is II. P. ("lark iu America, they wuu as a rule n remarkably y uthlu' set ol men. It ii the ""';;, queues aad knee breeches" which havj c.iiiiud the mi-ap-t preh iisini. The pictures in the school : hi-tory show whito-haited in-ii who J bear every appearance of being "well , up in yeais," and tho child instinctively thinks of thum as ol I. Almost super I human wi-dom ni required todis ' charge their almo.t impossible task, nn I it c on-equ ,-ntly h erne I as tliMigh they ! in 1st hive pos'iMse-l tho requi ito wis ' d oiu an I experience of tho ivoill. If I the question weiensk -d which of the j t w.i bo.li the convention of ll-"T or tho I'liite I S ates Senato of I showe I the highest iiverago of age, doubtless nine persons out. of every ten would answer that the framers of tho Constitution were much tin older. Foi ty -one deputies from thu virions statM f ubseribed their names to the ceo .. itu(io:i on the IVthof S jp'.ember, l.""7. The i irth day. of all but f uir aro known. Of these '.',7 there wer; but live who wi ro as old as lit), and in tmth one of these live did not complete his sixtieth year until the month after the convention dissolv :.. TheNi slor of tho body was 11 njimi-i 1'iaiiklin, who was moro than M whin it lied, linger Shermnn cam; next iu seniority, atlli'i. Then follow.. I t wo mem b; r -, each in their sixty-fourth year, and the deputy woo was just turning iiO. Hut only otii--i.x:h of tho whole number were entitled to bo called old men. Turn now to th i other extr m -. .Ton n'h hi Dijton of N' -w -ler i .-, lucked everal inontln of b-in ; ",T when tbo n.iiv ntio-i met; William -I ickson of Pc n-ylva ;i , was Lut .; (Juries Pinekney o: South Carolina, only ".".; AI- xa idei II iniiltoa of Ne k York, was iu' a few months past llo; Kufus King of M i-si.i hu ett i, :;o; ii iivir.neur Mor lis o! N -w Y'.-rk, o"i, and .lamos Mali sou of Virginia, :;i! Twelve of the wero under ij nnd -O lis- than l"i years old. A lull thirl wer; thu - within tho class, which, in speak i ig of ago nowa days, we call young men. Tho average ; go of the whole number fell just insi le I") years. It wiii'd be a waste of space to argue thit the y-ung men of tho convention did 'heir full sharo of tho work. It is enough to have cited tho gieat names just in ntione I and to add that the tonuiiilti-e to whlih the instrument wa! referred lor final revision consisted of Johnson, aged sixty; llimilton, thirty; O iiverneur M n is, th irty-ti ve ; M idi-un, thivty-six, and Ki ig, thirty-two. liin croft calls M idison "the chief author ol the Constitu' ion." II nnilton's work i i Iho Federalist is com ;. led to have been the most potent agency in rommcii ling the instrument to the country and se curing its ndoption. M ir.-hail, ih -n only thirty-three, I urn i - ho I th; power lul assistance without whi.-h Madi-on ceull not b iv i .secured thu narrow ma jority by whie'i their State was per suad d to accept it. The Constitutional Convention was not uniqiiJ ns a lield for youthlul nchievement. .1 -IT rson was only thirty three years old when he wrote the "D elation of 1 idepemlcnci'." llimil ton was made Secretary ol the Treasury by Washington, and began his career as a linineier at the age of thirty -two. At tho same time King, sine; ho repre sented Massachusetts in the C-m-t ilu tionnl Conveution, was elected I -lite i Slates Suiator at thit ty -four. Thirty bud been fix d as the ininiiii nn ngc for Senators, and half of tbo e first elect ;d w.-re between thirty nnd thirty-five. A few years later 11 jury ( lay came to the S-nalc nnd was admitted without thought that he was not eligible the fart being th-.t he did not reach the ago of thirty until moro than three months later. No limit of ago for the ju hciary was tixed in tho Constitution, but if there beany place in the government wbcro maturity is demanded, it is on the b-nehof tin Supremo Court. W ish ingtoti appointed as ono of the early justices Jaims Iredell, who was lut lill years obi; John A Urns gave a place to Hushrod Wa-bington nt liil, and Jell orscn mimed William Johnson at only ;!'. This was simply the adoption by tho Federal government of Iho same principle which th- S'.nios had applied to tho ch ece of judges, .lohn .1 ;jy who wns mad first Chief Justic e of the I'aited State! nt L! had been app dated Chief Ju. tio of N w Yoik when but HI. Iredell hal been ju Igo of the Su perior Court of North Carolina when only 27. The truth H that whit we have cum; to c.-nsid- r the r-peci il era of old men was real y the most remark dilc period iu our hi tory lor youi; : en. Th j : jnved a ehaace u cento v l'o such as t young men havj r.cver had since the civil war bro.odowi, temporarily, sumo of the I timers against youth in public life, but ilu controlling forces wero wielded by in-" ti whti-e av-rago age wai a iitiin'ier of e irs gre it -r than that of their gran-Ilather!, who hel I sway dur ing the 1 v ilutionary peiiol. The youngest mm in the I'nito 1 States S -nnti) tod ij- - l 'una of We t Virgini i was :;.' years old w h- ti he took bii icat, an 1 no o ly so young h 1 1 been seen in th; bo ly lor a bug p-nod before his appoara'ic -. II" is row 10 and nobody else ii th- boly of 70 members i ) so yo ing, a'thoit-h as w; have M-)n, one-1 bird of the Constitu tion il ('invention w-re under In. More l linn half of the latter bo ly, il ha I cen shown, were lesi that -l"i years old; only 21 of the present 7b sni.t irs, or bat a tr ri 1 over a qu ut-r. ere less t h iti 1) years old w hen th-v nut -r-d t o ( h mi- J bev. Til - average age of th" 1 oinle ; t 'day is o" years, again -t an aver.ig" of o-.ly )"i years for t h- C mv--!i!it"i of i 17-7. "Slow-goi i we are i'o-l to rail the ! w iys of t he ci ghteent Ii c ii'iry, "a tn-t age" is the common ib--c; i ..t ion of ".ir own iv-tiud. I). th t x p: e i.'.n ar-- T si i i lending. i r con -ei v i' ive an-n-t-'r! : lushed th- ir boys thr at -h c iliege .hir ing I li.; ir teens; two ui.-"Iims ol the constitutional r invenli m h id gradu itod J at is, one nt IT, an I tiiree at 1''.. N-w j Yorie college wi I lo.t a Inn' a boy oril ; he has complete 1 l.i- li;h-eith y -ar, m;-I the average age of gradu i:i in at both Ilirvarl and Y ile is between '..'' and years. i A Luke nl Hair Dye. Mono hike in N vn.la t mist it ut. teir of the greatest i.aturn'. dep o-its of hair dye i i the known world. A whit hairc I old Hodiemri who went down to tiie l ike .luring this slimmer was so pleased with the bathing to le had th'-re that he went in for a swim recu- 1 larly every evening i.fter linl-hing lit- -he's work. II-' was ib.wn at the bike two weeks and when he got back bis friend i hardly knew him. II; lelt H i lie a w hitc-haircd old man, and he came back a golden ! boid-.; and apparently a j man of only mid lie age. I Ail who b:, th- i i the w it-rs of that lake becoitr-blonde- and it' Iho bathing n per-islcd in for any length of time tlcv .-et to be re-1 In-n 1- i. A mm last : spring rente 1 the I. -viving tauh on j the north .-id.." of th; lake. II) has! three .-tiapi-ing daugh;rr:. A- soon ai j i the water bcc.iiu-) warm enough th ' girls dai'y went bathing in th; inko J taking for th-ir 11 --ruiii 1 gambols a I time wh-ii the "men folks'' wen; all nit on th- lanch nt -ork. h -n they , ; begun taking their. lips in the lake the I i girls were brown-baited 1 ut they soon , found thun-elvcs becoming blond's. ! This ..j d. Ii,:h'c 1 th-"in th it th-y began ' bathing twice a day and between times' j washed their ln-mls in water from tl.J i luke. Virginia t I'y lint r prise. A (.eiicloiis H.ine. i Coj'i-nhage:-. Ii.ei.mark, i- f "i t uunte I enou-gb I i p.-.s-ss a woithy ci;;. -n, re .marks tho -in I'tinii-co Chi.uii.l-, .lacobscti by name, who wuld .-. m to ben suit of 1'eabody nnd M n n-i.as and I H'a'k. r relied into one. II i- a egreat j I rower, -is bis father was bt-loro bini, and Hko hi- lath-i he -b ligh' s lod. eote bi enorm -us profit s I., the goo I of his j Ii How -c" un 1 1 y in- ii. When tlieold mri , died he left his big brewety and all III j np urtonii'ir 's nt Cirlsburg to the ua I ' tion, as well ti con-i lerable sum to . be used in keeping it going in ciso of a se vere common i il cii-H. To his son, tin; present M. Jicols'-n, ho only lelt .some if ''o'l, mi' l or so, for tho fact was the latter had !or .some ye-.rs been bri w ini on his ow n acc ount and po--e-sse I a . business we'd nigh equal lo bis father's ia importance. As to bis wile, the old man left her as her portion all the beer w bit h i hiinced to be in stock on tin; day of his death, and ibis pt.-ee. 1 equiv alent to a legacy of l .' i.o.iu legend of Indian Vampunt. 1 An hnlimol t he ( ).) and ig i I e-s-rva tion in N-w YorK g.-n - to a h-gi-dnti vo commit teem iu the following tradition concerning the wampum: "Tin re i. a tree set iu the .-louid an I it touches the heiv-ps. Fader that tree -it- j this wampum. It its on a log. Coals I of lire n ro iiiiqu.-nch ible, and the r-ix Nations nrent this counc il tire hel l by ; this trine. To-do-i la-bo, n member ol the Hear clan, is tin great chief heir, lb; has a 'lerend int in our tribe tody; bis iimii ; is Frank I. gan. One of the uses of the wimipiiu is for a symbol iu the election of oih.vis Tho wanip: in I bearer keeps the tr-ntiesnf tho naiion." New Jersey's 1'irsl lion. The first iron mmlo in New J-rs'-y was nl a p'acc just south of Trenton I from the i mi mile or bog oro t lint nbo un Is in that section, nod the first forgemasler was (inventor Lewis Motris, who caino lo Monmouth ficun Hiirbadoes beforo j the year Hls-0. When tho revolution , came on the iron men had grown ski'l ; ful enough to make cannon and shelU j for the Continental-, also big shallow I puis i a which to evaporate sea water and supply -ill when th; foreign article was tut oil'. Chicago Herald. The Two Lives. Aiiiopr tlie lonely hills they played; No ntlii r bairns they ever knew; A little lad, n little maid. In swe- l companionship they grew. They played mining the terns and rocks A childish coineily ..f life -K.-pl Iciti-e and milked the crimson docks Ami called eneli other man nnd wife. Th- v wi nt toM-hool; they used to go Wiili in in-about each other lail; Then ll.aseii heads ill rain or snow, W ere sheltered by a sinlo plai I. An 1 so nnd so it came to pa's They loved eneli olh-ri leth'-y knew; lli-In-art was him a blade o" ) l ass. And h.-i-s w is like its drop u' dew. I In- -ars went by . th- olwingcfiil years Hi . ii,-lit lamer lil-, mid toil for life; 'hey puled in the dusk with tears - Th v called i-aeli otlu-r limn niul wife. "J l,..y iiiiiin-ied - she nnotlier man. An I In-, iu tinie. niiothei" mind, The .1. t i- ends lis il l..-aii .'.ci nig tl;- lonely hills the." pe -1' - I V i ' 1 1 -. i ii i iiiiton. Ill MOKOlfS. In th- - w in. Tho -hark. A pi ,-tty h ud tub -A Tu-hi-h btt'i. A beastly jim- A deraiel ciicn ti.ii i. i',l s ,-i .leut-.l . i'i e , tire" oll'llii 'S ::i - i-l - t-,1. When iiargo m- ts b-,-.- th e.i c mo the tug ol uumeici". Its et:o"igh it y u hav-a p.i-sin- BC quaintanc o with a lailioid tmn. Cats in j the poets of the lower nol-inals-th-'j" alone i u'.'iv.ite the m-.-ws. Tin most confirm -d old salt on thj s a may be too i-c-di when ho (gets ashor". .M ist soa cap! ins mc called ''j"l!y old sa t ," btit some of them nro rather peppery. Tin; condemned ir.ur ler -l's voice is tremulous ai d hii-ky, sitnply Luciuso he cannot clear his t hru .t. i've kissed her in all kind- "f v-Tses, I've kissed liei ill pros- III! its s'in k"d As hijgh as Hi- ,-nies uf my otli.-e, I'.iit never have kissisi her in la.-t. .bihiiiiy Pim p - y - I' i. can you ti H me wht MlK i "I. XXXVI, oa that, building mean? Mr. I 'l mps-y We 11, about all I can make out of it Johnny, is "M.-dicil Cel.cge." Wli-:: th; first Napoleon, hnving abandoned Mo. cow, arrived at tho ferry on the Iliver Nicmcu, lie asked the ferryman, who did not know him, if many French d-.-rter! had crossed over. '"No," was the reply, "you aro the first." "Thero is no nnro flourishing busi ness in tho world than iniae," sni 1 the life m-ntiinoc agent to his intended vic tim. "Yes," siiid tho victim calmly. '"I see you keep ll mi-hing both hands nil the time; but my dear young friend, that doesn't convince me." "Why can't they make these dum mi s in .re litelike-,''' sai l n facetious chap h ilting with a fnen 1 in front of a clothing store and slapping a figure a vigorous blow on the cheek. '1 he ".lummy'' turned su Ideiily, let fly his left, mil knocked the facetious t hap off his pins. Ih l'itler c oncluded that tho dummy was a little too lib lik-. A Chinese IJomanee. From Chi N in Fu com ;s these stories which il.u-trat-." Cuinese lile. First Is iho man i igi; of the dau jhlei of tho liovernor, Clung .o. Years ago, when hi- ex- llency was an c tin i il of much less importance, he became acquainted with a person of the rank of prelect, who hal a son who soeme 1 worthy of being engaged to his daughter. Sltieo then the prefect died, while Chang Yao ad vance I from one position to another, until by a rare fortun he has become the liovernor of Shantung. I he one family became poorer and poorer, while the u" ii r gained a relish for pomp and wealth, ea-e and honor. Tlie intended son in law being urged be personal Itioi Is, appears at last, at th : li 'Vcrnor's y mien. H nig dressed ii unseemly r isiu ne, be was ignore I by some, bill at last :r"t bis letter In to tho (Jovernor. The Oivernor se in -d to f,.r:et Ihi plan.il th; past, but in dm tune t.iitii) I" th ) c inclusion that it wns better lo follow i ill the engagement than bring himu lf I ito disrepute. A house was secure I, and in a few days now a week ago tho intirn oge occurred. AH th - inferior otlieiais appeared reidy with presents, and now the young man in higher up in the world. Such is n romance of Chinese life. San Fran cisco Chronicle. Tlie l.reiitesl Living Novellsls. As to the question, ' Who is tho great st living novelist .'" which it under ili-riis-ioii among literary people, Iho Critic of Hi-ton mentions Hlackmore, Wilkio Collins, Hlack, Stephenson and li-orge Meredith ns each lik -ly to bo supported by their I nnds of followers, in lviglainl ; and Ilowclh, Junes, llrot llarti) and Cable, in this country. Hut he-id ti To'stoi, in Ittissiit, whom Mr. HoWelU" opinion 1ms long siico ele valid to tho presidency of ii-lton, there lire D.iudet, Dumas, Fetiiil I, . !a and lie Maupassant, in France; (idl.,-, VnbliM and Valera, in Spain; F linn, in Italy, and lijornson, iu Not way. A- .... L .