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.PITTS BO RO1, CHATHAM CO., N. C, JUNE C, 1880.
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Under tho Leave1.
A carpet nil of fml 1 brown,
On Ilia giny bough n ilovc (hat grieves;
J)ntli seem tli Lore to l'itv his own,
Hut tho Spring violets nestle ilowu
Under tint leaves.
A lir'.iv anst 'iti nml and gray eyes,
Locks ill wliii-h fnri her silv(r weaves;
llopo h'i'iii 'Hi ' iln I no more to rise,
Hut ( il lit knowcth on what wis i
LoVo (or Ixiv miii liini' waiting liua
Ui dor tho leaves.
IViltittm II. (.'iti-ruth. in .Scrilmtr's.
An Extraordinary Talo.
The l'crt of Spain (Trinidad) Gnvtte
publishes tho following extraordinary
account of the depredation and capture
of a monster innkc:
"During the lust two months it has
h:'ea a nintter of frequent complaint
anting I he inhabitants of tho districts
cast and north of Arima ttiat their do
mestic an'mils of nil kin Is were being
lost in a stra-ige, unexplained manner,
usually at night. Scarcely a day seemed
to pas i w ithout a goat or a pi', a calf
or a donkey being reportc I missing, and
latterly even larger animals, gome valtl
ublo mules and horsn, ha 1 gono to join
the smaller domestic fry that had d sap
pearc 1. Among the sufferers, iMr. John
Agi.stiui of Aripo, lost two mules within
live days oa his cocoa planta
tion, irid Mr. J. (i. de (inline, in vis
iting some young cicoa cu'.tiva!ion of
his in Turute, had lost his horse which
he had left to gazo for only half au
hour, a' a distance of about a hundred
yards from the spot where he was talk
ing with a contractor. At lirst the peo
ple of the district, were incline 1 to lay the
blame on thieve of a novel and daring
description, but the evidence s ion be.
came clear that it was some wi.d, mon
strous animal that was winking the
havoc among the stock. A strange
feature of these depredations was that
no trace of blood was ever found at the
spit visited, or in the neighborhood, to
how sign of some struggle with a giant
cay n hi n or carnivorous beast, which the
monster was at Ihst supposed to le.
Besides no animal of the si.e rcquirc.1 to
cany off a hoi so or mute was known to
exist in the island.
"In many of the cases, however, it
was noticed that the ground under the
cocoa tress and the forest undergrowth
showed signs of having been crushed,
not trampled upon, by the body of some
smooth but gigantic beast. The people
begin to watch at night, no alarm as j et
making known the passage of the mon
ster ou his raids, s.ivc the barking of
dogs, a few of w hich had also disap
peared williili-in.il howls. It was also
noticed that the trace through the vegc
titiou always stopped at streams, mil
seeine 1 to vanish altogether after that.
This feature win t ie irly eitablishe 1 in
the cisu of the Aripo, Turure, nud Ariiua
Rivers. Up to Saturday last the biast
had succeeded in eluding not ice, trans
ferring his a'.tenti n to qu li ters unvisited
by him, as if aware of the watch kept
for him in thi so ho had already vi-itcil;
and the neighborhood of streams con
tinued to be his favorite resorts from tho
mountains north of Arima and Turure.
"Oa Sunday morning the inhabitants
of Arima were thrown inti consterna
tion by tho hows that three children had
disappeared in tho ward of Ouanapo
during tho past week, and they were
supposed to have become the victims of
the raiding monster. Tiieir names wcro
given M Maria Concepcion, Marc An
toino and Carmen liiptista. Tiie grief of
tho parents and relatives of the missing
children was described as heart rending
in the extreme. Mr. Harrngin, the
Warden, accompanied by the magistrate
and others, hastened at once to visit the
scenes of tho casiinltijs. The news was
telegraphed to Port of Spain, and the
Warden was instructed by the (iovernor
to continuo his efforts to tracli the
monster, especially by collecting nn
armed posse and instituting energetic
pursuit.
'Later in the afternoon news was
brought from Arip'i that two children,
Paul and Rose Lcgroud, brother and
sister, had been lost, oao on Saturday
and one on that very morning. In this
insUuoc the mother had been tho terror
stricken eye witness of the carrying off
of her little boy aged three years. It
seems that while sitting in a state of semi
stupor, mourning the loss of her little
daughter Rose, live yean old, who had
d.sippenred in the grounds round her
hut Saturday at noon without any trace
being fouud of her, she w as start led by
the screams of her chill Paul, who w:.s
playing a few yards from her. 1! in ted
with horror, "he then saw her child en
veloped in the coils of tho uyur part
of the body of a cob ss.it snake, which
glided away with its prey into the
depths of tho forest. A number of
rtsidents of the district, armed with
guns, to whine ranks new accessories
were continually coming, began to scour
the country after the snake, among
them Jofe Coneepcioii and Paul I.e
grntid, Sr., fathers of two child vie
tims, on whose grim features was writ
ten r ipouchlecs dcltfuiinatiou to wtcuk
vengeance deep and diro on the fiendish
serpent. Dogs were libeially used in
the hunt, but as often as tho scent was
obtained and followed for a short dis
tanco some stream would disconcert the
hopes of the pursuer. A tendency was
noticed, however, on the pnrt of the
many tracks to show nn unmistakable
direction toward tho mountains north of
Arima.
'The wildest and most absurd rumors
now began to be propagated about the
doings and victims of the snnko. II
was given by one cocoa contractor, who
saw him gliding oil with his favorite
pig, at least one hund.'ed foot. Hut il
was gathered fn in Catherine Lcgrand,
who had seen him at close quarters on
the occuslon of the carrying off her
child, that hs must be something be
tween forty and fifty feet long. It was
nlso surmised from the imperfect de
scription she gave of the approximate
color, ringr, and spots of the snake, that
it w.is a survivor of the extinct race ol
gigantic 1 1 nil lints or local anacondas, oc
casionally to be met with in tho old
days in the Oropouche, Arima, and
other rivers of the idntid.
1 'The excitement in Arima wns raised
to the highest pitch on Tuesday when
ncwi was brough'. that the grcnt serpent
lind been seen on the Arima heights, and
that two more children, Juan Castillo
and Pah! '.i Hernandez, had been carried
off by him. Tne report of the occur
rences slated that the snake had been
distinctly seen cn two occasions; that,
consequent on the nlarin given on the
lirst occasion, the eople were on the
qui vivo, and that a hunter, K.mmanini
Ctiideron, had twice fired with flirt into
the beast as lie had half swallowed the
eruhed body of young Hernandez., but
with the only effect of hastening his pro
gress in the direction f Moite llleu or
Blue Mountain. The wiudeii thought
tho news seiious enough to request,
through the colonial secret ny, some as
tance from t lie port of Spain, with lilies
of greater penetrating power than the
guns used by the majority of the pur
suers. Accordingly Si rgcaitt (iiplnn
was sent to Arima by the afternoon train
with six policeman, nrtnel with Martini
Henry rilles, and his excellency the gov
ernor added the consideration of these
extraordinaiy occasions lo the order of
the day of the initial agricultural hoard
which I.e d i:s lirst niee ing on Wednes
day at noon, when the colonial secretary
brought forward the question if the
great snake, stilling that he bad obtained
all available informal m from the War
den up to date. He then described the
ravages i f the monster, and concluded
bv a request for suggest ions from mem
bers as to the speediest an I best way of
ridding the sulleri.ig d strict from this
plague in serpent form.
"Dr. de Vcrteuil stat 'd as his opinion
that the snake was evidently a Htiillia,
or as the old native name in full used to
be, TctnecuiPc ihuiln, with the strength
of five men. It ha I probably after feed
ing on deer and other f rest prey, be
come ncqu tinted with domestic animals
in the opening of the country by culti
vation, mid from that p:iint to becom
ing a man-eater was only a step in its
amphibious c'ntcne It wariness was
no doubt due to tin instinct in avoiding
danger, as denote I by watchful prepar
ations on the pirt of man, so observable
in the case of other well-known pe-ts.
He thought the shooting down of the
monst'-r at the earliest opportunity the
clear course to be pursued on tho occa
sion. "A long discussion ensued n the
subject, and the b aril adjourned on
Messrs. Devenish nnd McCarthy stat ing
t'.mt they would join in the pursuit of
the monster, nnd report fully on the in
formation they gath-rcd at the next
meeting. At tl P. M. Thursday morn
ing a motly cavalcade was seen issuing
out of Arima in a northerly direction.
They were the Warden and his party on
their wny to the llluc Mountain, in the
nei 'hborhood of which search pirtiei
had located the sunk" the day before.
He had been seen by one of the hunters
to enter the (iuichnro caves in the hill
separated by a hollow from tho moun
tain, nnd a cordon had gradually been
formed round the lit' I to prevent his
sallying out. The Rev. Cure of Arima,
whom they nu t ( n the wny, further
told them that he had heard the snake
hid tried to issue from the caves on the
southern side, but had bc.it a ret teat in
these dangerous recesses on being gleet
cd with a volley. With t lie Warden's
party were also the Colonial Secretary,
Mr. McCarthy, Scrgt. (iiblan, the armed
police from town, and guides from
among tho residents of tho Arima
heights. Hut other parties were also on
the warpath, mid the pnrty received
several additions on the way. Prom nil
reports it was now clear that the lluilli t
was at bay. Hut how best to engage
him nn 1 destroy him in the deep cavi
ties of the hill, where there wa even a
rushing st renin and a km I of Stygian
pool, was the excited subject of discus
sion on the w ay.
"'1 he following plan of eamaig i
was, honcvv , finally iigr 'ed upon, lie
wns to bo shot down when nnd where to
bo seen, and dogs would bu use.l to
trace his exact haunt and give notico ol
his coming in c:ne of a rush outward.
Resides the guidei, .Mr. Dovcnlsh win
well acquainted with the immense cavo
where, heiides the weird (iuncharo, the
great serpent had now taken up his
abode. These caves, like many otheri
in this island, had long been known to
be tenanted by the gloomy ( iiicliaro or
Diablotin. It wns nlso said that besides
their having entrance! in each side ol
the mountain a foaming waterfall ex
isted in the concavities of tho interior,
nt the foot of which was a large pool,
the waters of which were supposed to
(low through dark and sinuous subter
raneous passages to bee mc on tho level
of the valley a tributary or perhaps the
head waters of tin Arlin i rivjr itself.
"The Warden's party having reached
the enves nnd an ither large party hold
ing the entrance on tho valley in the
northern side, a fort of forlorn hope by
tho Wnrditi and principnl for members
of his party was organized for gradual
entrance into the caverns as far as the
light of day pencil' i led, preceded by a
couple of dogs held in leadi by guides.
Nothing was noticed for some minute!
us thopirty stumbled their way over the
nr.igh rocks, save the murmur of the
fall nnd (lie mournful half screech of
the dismal (iuncharo bird, so oxprcssivo
ly rendered by the Spanish word 'llante.'
Hut as they drew nearer the pool nt the
foot of the waterfidi the dogi began to
get excited and to evince a decided in
clination to run back. There was sulli
cient light streaming through tho en
train es to distinguish pretty clearly nil
objects in the interior in the direct lino
of the entrances. The paity halted,
both on nccount of the unruly disposi
tion of the d gs and because one of the
guidei stated lie had seen something
moving in the pool.
"With rill.-s cocked, nil cyci wero
now fixed upon the pool. Tho dogs
now began to howl, and whether tho
noise roiiiel the terrible ocupant of the
caves or ho otherwise bt'cam s aware of
the existence of the party, the head of a
monstrous snake sod le:ily appeared oa
the surface of the pool, and two large
and lustrum eyes became fuel with
diabolical gl 'am on the intruders. An
angry hiss, like the plunging of a red
hot beam into the pool, is. ii'd from the
h.deous head. A muttered signal, nnd
a volley rang with reverb 'rating echoes
through the cave. Large stones fell upon
the roof, and the startled (iiiiicharoi Hew
wildly in nil direr;; i-ms, uttering their
dismal screech. Toe Iluida had not
been killed by the bullets aimed nt his
head. With great rapi I ity he seemed to
uncoil his length from the depths of tho
pool, and with fully twenty-live feet of
his body rai-ed and curved forwatd as if
to dait nt his assaileis, lis seemed to bo
emerging from tin pool.
"A few whispered words notified hnlf
the pnrty to aim i.t his heal nnd the
other half at the cen'ral part of his body.
The second volley produced the desired
effect. The colossal snake leaped wholly
out of the pool, and with n few tenable
convulsions, in which he Inshed the
water nnd the floor of the cavern, lie
sank quivering to the ground, a third
volley for a (piietus insui ing his certain
death. This fact was then mado sure
of, and the caves were soon invaded by
the pursuers.
"The monster was dragg'd out into
the level and found to measure 17 feet,
tho thickest pait of his body having a
diameter of two and a half feet. In
color, he was yellow in the under part
of his body, dark above, with dark
rings encircling the body, between
which semi lunar gray disks -served ns
spots to variegate the skin, lie was
opened with the mnchclas of some cocoa
primers under the direction of Mr. Mc
Carthy. In him there were found the
hnlf -digested body of a deer, and a num
ber of forma pauperis forms, probably
swallowed by him, wit 'i the b dy of
sonic unknown and unfortunate cocoa
contractor.
"By 0.30 P. M. the joyful concourse,
dragging the monster, reached Arima,
where the necessary steps were taken to
preserve the carcass for display in the
Council Hall of Port of Spain. The ex
citing occurrences connected with this
monster are still the subject of general
Uncus' ion and gossip. The island has
not for a long time been disturbed by
tragie incidents of this extraordinary
nature.
Average Life of a Horse.
According to the 'ic.'i, the possible
length of the life of a horse is far beyond
the average duration of it. A horso
fifteen years old is u.ually accounted of
little value and, in a rule, it would bo
difficult to give away the survivor of
eighteen or twenty yeirs. H it a huso's
useful life extends to thirty or forty
yinrs, and if the animal is used with
care, it may do valu ible service dining
all this Ion.; term. It may bj noticed
that nl1 lh reo r I -d inst.mcei of vrey
it?1 1 horse g to h w that tle ir lives
weie slioiteai d by some miscliauce, Slid
nut by old age.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
A I.ITTI.K PLANTER.
Pmvn by the wall where the lilacs Rrow,
Iiijjgiiu; awny with tho garden hoe,
Toil 11 ; as busily as ho can -Ka;er
and mrnest, ileur little man!
Ski n nnd shin;;! nee lying by,
With a hit of evergreen, loiijj since dry.
"What are you doing, ileir?" I nsk.
Ted f ir 1111 liistnn stops his task,
(ilancs up with a sunny Kiuilii
Dimpling his rosy clie-ks, th - while:
"Why, it is Arbor Day, you voi,
And 1 111 pi inting a next year's Christmas
try.
"For Inst year, auntie, Johnnie Dunn
Hi n't have even th smallest one;
Ami I almost eric I, he fcjt so bad,
When I told 'bout the splendid onnwehnd;
And I thought if I planted this one hero,
And wntere I it every day this year,
It would grow real fast I think it might;
(His blue 1 yes (ill with an caer light),
Ami I'm sure 'twill l though very small,
A great deal b -Iter than none at nil."
Then something suddenly e linei botwii'ii
My eyes 1111 1 tlie bit of uitleTed green,
As I kiss the fa i of our Teddy-boy
bright nml glowing with giving joy.
And J'llmuv Dunn, it is plain lo me,
Will have his next year's Chris inns tree.
VuiitliH 1'nmininiuH.
IIOW TITK CONDt'l Toll STnl'S A Til A IN.
A!! of ur boys a:id girls havj no
doubt noticed that when the conductoi
of a railroad train now wants to stop ot
start it, he pulls the cord as he used tc
do, but no bell rings. In other words,
it is a bell-cord 110 longer, but a whistle
cord. All signals are now given to tilt
engineer (or engine driver, as they mort
properly say in Kighmd) by means of f
small wlii.tlo connected with the ail
reservoir which oper: te. tho brakes. Il
is no longer uecesiary t run the cord
th" entire length of the train. Kach cai
lias its own cord, and whoa that is pulled
11 valve is opcaed and the air rushes out
into the whistle. All the car nro con
nected with the engine's air reservoir bj
means of a lmo of rubber hose coupled
under the platforms. The same hose
conducts the air by which the brake!
are controlled. I'ltUtttb thia Timet.
TWO SM.MIT JUKI'S.
Birds of many curious kin Is are found
in Australia which c.iuiiot be found any
where else. One of them is the bower
builder, or walk builder, as it is called.
Il bull Is a long walk or bower with
grasses and sprig, an 1 then collects all
sorts of little things to decorate it.
Uaudy feathers lei like particularly for
tbii purpose, but does not disdain shells,
lib'iched bines, n pipe bowl, a pmknifi
or any small object that he can find. So
well is liii propensity known, that when
person"! lose such things in the bush
they gener illy I'm d them in the bower
bird's walk. It is evident that the bird
takes them purely as ornaments, for he
live) entirely on seels and fruit.
Another noteworthy bird native to
that far oil laud is tho
lyre bird. He cannot only imitsto the
notes of nil other birds, but also nearly
every sound made by man. Settlers
are oft ui deceive I by him, and many
amusing stories nro told. Sometimes n
111:111 working on his clearing hears
som b idy chopping w )o I a short dis
tance away, an 1 a dog barking nt his
heels. He goes in search of the intrud
er, and finds afior a long walk that tho
vre bird his been making giini of him.
A tna i using a cro:s-eut saw hears some
b.idy doing the samo thing, and after
Fcarehin u.iuecpssfiilly for him, dis
covers that it is tha bird. i',c iyni6.
IMU.I.S.
A writer in Stini-Y, treating of tho
antiquity of d. IN, sas that those which
wi re in use among the children of the
ancient Mrvptians were made of wood,
and might be mistaken for modern fab
ric!. I'lidoubteilly they were dressed by
the llgvptian girls, as our girls nowa
days enjoy dressing their dolls. Thero
were even sonic the hands nnd feet of
which could bo moved by means of
strings. O hcrs, made of painted wood,
were very imperfect in form and had
strings of bends instead of hair.
In the museum of l.eyden there is an
ancient toy that looks as though it had
been bought at n Christmas fair. Thero
were tiguies of animals with movable
mouths, nnd balls of leather. Among
(reck and Roman a i tiquities, dolls nrc
found male of wood or clay, nnd others
of wax nnd ivory. Doll's hon es with
lead furniture; tho snving-liox with a
slit on top; toy cows, horses nnd hogs
nil these were known to tho children
of a icient R ime, as they arc to our
own.
The women of Bagdad believo that a
doll in iv eventually cone! to life mid harm
the' children, nnd therefore they pro
vent their use. The girls, however, p'ay
wit li cushions nnd piec es of wood instead.
In Siberia urn! Aicttc America ivory dolls,
clothed in furs, of beautiful workman
ship, lire found. In Peruvian graves,
dressed dolls of il iy ; nud in Africa, th.
girls play with wooden or clay figures.
Closed v lieu it is wet Tho envelop
TREE PLANTING
Made Becoming by The Great
Waste of Timber.
A Plea for Genera! Observance
of a Tree Planting Day.
The original glory of America wa its
trees, which covered most of it like a
mantle, and gave sustenance as well ns
shelter to its numberless inhabitants.
No other land has such a large number
of kinds of trees. Coil iting only those
that a'tain a height of thirty feet, (ireat
Britain has twenty nine varieties of na
tive trees; France, thirty-four; nil
Kirope, about sixty; while tho I'nited
States has more than three hundred such
varieties, nearly half of the trees of which
average a height of fifty feet.
The forests above ground, nnd the
forests below, now existing in the form
of coal nnd petroleum, constituted the
capital upon which the business of Am
elica was o iginaily founded. The first
undo life pos.jhle here, ii'id then iu tho
fulness of time tin y made it compara
tively easy for .in advanced ami highly
civilized race to settle and sub duo the
land, and plant nations upon it.
We have but t know the history of
any settlement in the New World to
perceive that, without the forest nnd thu
life which the forest nourished, civilized
races co ild not have established tliem
ic'vei 111 America.
Hut the pe ple have wast 'd this rich
inheritance with fearful rapidity. Leav
ing out of view the necessary destruction
of forest; by the settlers of the country,
there is at this moment in the United
States ns much wood in the khnpe of
fences as could be grown on twenty five
million acres of land.
The timber is cut from forty thousand
neres of forest every year for railroad
ties; six hundred thousand acres arc de
nuded every year to get a supply of fuel;
and seven millions of acres moro for
timber nml boards.
At the rate of d-strtiction twenty
years ago, it is comp iled that the United
States in the year l'.t23 would not have
had left one acre or accessible timber
land. We should have stripped the
wilderness bare of its garment of trees.
Happily, many substitutes have been
found for win d. Wire, w ithout the
odious nnd cni'd barbs, is fencing mill
ions of neres, nnd fencing them well.
The legislatures of several Western
States havi! acted boldly and wisely in
promoting the plantation of trees, nnd
every year Arbor Day, at leas', call the
attention of the whole country to the
importance of tree- planting.
Mr. Hela Hubbard of Detroit, in his
"Memorials of Half a century," predict!
that in another quarter of a century the
Western State will be abundantly pro
vided with forest, and that the Kastern
Sta'cs will be the treeless region. We
hope tint both sections wil I be wise in
tune, and plant trees wherever nature
favors and circumstances justify plant
ing them, and where is not this true?
S une kind of a tree will grow anywhere
except on the bare rock.
Tiees prow with startling rapidity
when once they get a good start. There
are woods within a few miles of Chicago
which really look like the priiiievd for
est, although not forty years have rolled
nwny since the land was bare, flat prai
rie. Mr. Hubbard, the worthy nud in
teresting chronicler just mentioned, hns
proved by experiment on his own laud
that our forest trees will more than
double their size in ten year. Of one
of his plantations he repoits;
"Kach tree had in the first ten years
considerably more than doubled in tho
diameter of trunk, and at the cud of the
second decade the elm had treble! and
the maple quadruple I the original girth."
In other words, the wood of his trees in
creased sixteen tiu.es its original bulk in
twenty years.
There is many 1111 abandoned hill farm
of New Kngland that only needs to be
planted with the right kin Is of young
trees to become in twenty ye irsa valuable
property, and a rapidly increasing proper
ty, besides contributing its quota of c.iol
ness, moisture and protection to the sur
rounding region. The mere planting of
the roadsides with trees would be a boon
to man and beast. 1'owM ('omjuinin.
, (Jiieen Victoria Frighten a Nurse.
; A humoi'o is stoiy is told of Qieeu
j Victoria's soj urn at 1! arritz. The
queen, during one of her walks, met a
I nursemaid an 1 a baby. Her majesty
I stopped and made some pleasant speech
j about the baby, wheroup hi the uurse
! maid a i K iglishwonian was so over
whelmed with awe and cou fusion that
she turne ! and II 'd, leaving tho baby
with the queen, who had to fend her
ecntlcniaii-iii-waiting in It it pursuit.
When the maid had been induced to re
turn, tlie queen asked her to whom tho
baby belonged. ' Dr. M.," replied tho
nurse, naming the l'.nghsh doctor In
Burnt. "Then 1. 11 Dr. M. that I
think ho his 11 very pretty baby," said
the queen.
Ingenlons lb vice of Thieves.
A new device of the thieves, nnd one of
grcnt ingenuity nnd boldness, is reported
from London. A well-dressed man nuide
a considerable puichase of Finall uit'cl s
of valuo in a store. When the parcel was
made up lie said he would pay for it, nnd
take it with him, instiad of having it
sent; then suddenly seiz.'d it and dashed
out of tho building nt tho top of his
speed, closely pursue 1, of course. A
few yards from the door he ran into the
nuns cf a policeman, who brought him
back, nnd still he would carry him to
the station-house, where the shopman
was to follow and m ike the charg).
Neither policeman nor prisoner was ever
heard of again. The policeman was a
confederate. This was, perhaps outdone
in Paris a short timo ngo. An Italian
boy with a violin coin 's in to buy thoso
preparations of pork, dear to the French
stomach, known as " charcutcrie." Ho
hns not enough money to pay for them,
and lie will leave his violin iu pledge
until he brings bnek the balance. A
well-dressed mm arrives shortly after
ward, sees tho violin while ho is m iking
sonn purchases, examines it, nverconi;
by its ago nud bcau'y, nnd proposes to
buy it, nn 1 makes u large offer for it.
The gentleman thereupon leaves a bi 1
for it if del.vered to him, Lord ,
at the Grand Hotel. The charcutier,
much excited, buys the violin from the
boy when he returns for half the offer,
and starts with it for the hotel. No
such pcrs 111 is known there, and he h..s
a ten franc violin for about Zo'1 francs.
There is probably more mind put into
Parisian swindling tliim that of any city
in the world. It almo-t ta'ies the rank
of 11 fine art, and makes our "confidence
games," especially the one in which the
elderly gentleman goes to sec u perfect
stranger's new picture, or sei him to re
ceive his money for hi lottery ticket,
wear a very coarse and clumsy nir. We
tiny ndd, however, in justice to our
In me practitioners, that they have already
imported the Paris tiick, which was
lately attempted in Brooklyn, with the
chnrnctcr'stic local variatioa of fnlc
diamonds in place of the old violin. I! ,t
iu Hrooklyn it failed. -V't Yo.k iVsf.
Primitive Postal Service.
The postal arrangements in Morocco
are indeed of tliJ most primitive nature
111 this strange country, throughout the
length and breadth of which publi,'
prayers are still offered up in all the
mo.'ques on every Friday for th- re
conquest and lecovery of the kingdom
of (iranada, whence the Moms wore ex
pelled over four centuries ago. Tlie
postal service is performed by c iricrs,
Kan, naked, half-starved Arabs, whose
food consists of a little "douta" cake
and a few (late. At night they halt
only for a short rest, and in order to
waken themselves at a c Ttain time they
fasten a cord to one of th 'ir feet and set
fire to it before going lo sleep. They
cross forests infested with wild In nrs,
climb mountains inaccessible to mules,
nnd swim rivers that horses could not
pas. They run the whole distance nt a
sort of jog trot, traveling sometimes for
whole days beneath a burning sua with
out seeing a tree or a drop of water, nnd
when they reach their journey's end they
start ."gain at once to go back. A mule
takes five days to re ich Fez fr.on Tan
gier. A couiier covers the distance on
foot in three days and a half. Such a
thing ns a mail cart ha never been sen
or even heard of in Morocco. ladee l,
there nre only two conve auces 011
wheels iu the whole empire, one of
which is tho carriage preseatel to the
still a'l by (i'lcn Victoria. It is kept at
Mequinez, mid bis maj s'y invariably
li es it when residing in that city; he,
however, insists that the coachui in shall
run on foot beside the horses, since it
would never do for a mere subject to sit
on a more elevated seat than that of the
F.mwror. -Vc lnk Tumi.
A Dog's Remarkable Intellltrence.
Mr. D. W. Austin of Faruiington,
Me., lias a young F.nglish field spaniel
that exhibits almost wonderful piwcrsof
intelligence. For in addition to nn abil
ity to do nny trick that any ordinary
dog can perform he will do these extra
ordinary pcrformnncM: Told to die he
will drop down and become perfectly
rigid and apparently lifeless an, I 110 sort
of temptation avails to move him, not
even rear bits of meat or game will se
duce him to come to l:f", but up n tell
ing him, "Tom Adams is coining''
1 Farmiligton's undertaker), he will leap
up alt life and animation again. Told
to say his prayers he will stand upon his
hind legs mil clasp his forcpaws to
gether in an attitude of deep devotion,
and nothing ran distract his attention
until the word "Ameu" is pronounced
by one of the spectators. In addition
to all this he is so polite a dog thu. ho
will not enter a door until invited to
come in, but will stand looking wistful
ly in waiting for the word of invitation.
Although only a dog yet he exhibits
murks of intelligence and politeness that
it would be well if some two-legiged mil
mals would try and imita'c. 1a. W tut on
(Me.) Journal.
I'niler tho Lnnrol.
Uiirlsr the laurel last year's May,
We sat and talked till the day went oirti,
And you bound my temples round nbout
With a wreath of roses twin'i! with bny.
Itos s for love ami bay for fame;
Fort he c istliest treasure nt life'seoinnmnil,
A woman's heart you had laid in my hand,
And time, would give me a soun ling nonio.
Under the laurel hush, all hush I
Memory lurks iu the luurcl bush.
I'lidor the laurel breezes blow
Soft as they did in last year's spring;
Hut, O! what, a different song they siiiE.
For ( ), wlmt 11 different tale they ku w.
Live, ah, love! it is l.fe'sono worth.
Hoses for love and buy for fame.
Yes, time has brought mo a sounding
name,
Hut, lovo they have laid it under tho earth.
I'nd- r tho laurel hush, nh, hush!
Memory lurks in the hiural bush.
Under the laurel next year's May
Comes there a May to an aching heart t
Ye , and a hope and a glad fresh start;
Thro' the struggling years in tho narrow
way,
I will sit, j erhaps, ns t day and sigh;
Hut, only u few more siuis iu the west,
Let the years and th laurels do their best.
And under the roses together we'll lio
Under th.' roses, snfe at la-t,
When the crown of bay to the years is
east.
Oixlla K. Hill in Atlanh.t CuustitutiuiU
HUMOROUS.
Up to dofs Telegraph operators.
"A dead give away" Bequests by
will.
Oklahoma is doing a land office busi
ness. School teacher: "Now, Hobby, spell
'needle.'" Bobby: "N-e-i-d-l-e, needle."
"Wrong. There's no 'i' in 'needlo'"
"Well, 'tain't a good needle, then."
Miss W bash (of Chicago) "I'm not
going to let Charley flirt with that girl.
I'm determined to put my foot down on
it." Miss Castiquc "How cruel you
are. That would be a crusher."
"John," said a Milkman to his assis
tant, "go down and buy those two
cows we were looking at vest ;rdny, drop
in at tho store and order feed for this
week, and get a new sucker for th
pump."
'Bromley, did you tell Jones that 1
never told the truth:" "I siid, on tho
contrary, that you occasionally inadvert
ently told tho truth." "Well, that's!
something cl-e. I won't allow nny
man t intimate that I'm a constitutional
liar."
l!roiuiPto:i "Miss Briter passed quite
a compliment on you yesterday, Cadlet."
Cadlet "Aw yes? There are lots of
the lidies who do that, don't you
know ?" Pifounstoit " 'M'iim. Sho
said you were the most ladylike young
person she ever met."
I! ibby had been imparting to tho
minister the important and cheerful In
form it ion that his father had got a new
set of false teeth. "Indeed, Bobby,"
replied tho minister, indulgently; "nnd
what will he d with the old set?" "Oh,
I s'poso," repliel Bobby, "they'll cut
'em down and make mo wear 'era."
Our Future Lumber Supply.
tiov. 1! :s-c'l Alger, of Michigan
recently said the Nicaragua!! Canal pro
ject would be, in a measure at least, tlio
solution of the problem of the future
lumber supply of the United States.
' Very few people appreciate tho ex
tent and superiority of the Washington
Territory lir," he said, "and the only
rcaon it is not now brought Fast is the
necessarily high freight rates by nil.
Suae of it now finds its way to New
York by vessel but the voyage is a long
one. For several years appreciating tho
fact that Michigan and Wisconsin pino
binds were being rnpidy exhatis'el, I
have had my eye open for new fields and
three yi ars ago I vi-ited tho Washing
ton region, making a personal examina
tion of the field. I think I am a fair
judge of timber nnd I don't hesitate in
pronouncing the product of tiles'? ro
gions in every wny snpeiior to our
Northern pine and o'her countries re
cognize the fact. While I was in Tnoo
111a I saw nine vessels bound for Kng
land, (iermany and China loading at tho
wharves. If the canal is built an enor
mous lumber traffic by water will spring
up and it will possibly come just at tho
time we need it most."
He was asked when ho thought tho
present fields cat would bo exhausted.
'In one wny," lie snid, "that is b ird
to ray. In Michigan many owners havo
not good facilities for cutting the tim
ber, while others are rapidly clearing
fields nnd moving to new one, but,
judged by the output Inst year, it will
not last more than eight years. In Vrw
consin I presume it is the same. We al
ready feel the effects of the slope tim
bi," continued (Sonera Alger, "in our
own business. Fourteen years ago wo
supplied almost wholly tho ship-build-iug
firms of New Kngland and the cast
with spar and musts. Our tralc in this
direction has grown les and less until
nt p : c-.cn t we have altogether lost it.
They all come from Washington Terri
tory, which supplies better ones than wo
over did. "