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ftp Cptpm 11. j. LONDON, KDITOH AND PUOPTtlETOR. LUTES ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One squa-e, ontf insertion One square, two insertions One squaro, one raunth 1.68 - S.50 $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance. VOL. XIV. PITTSBOItO CHATHAM CO., N. C., EPTEMBKR 17, 1891. For larger advertisements liberal ecu racts -vil! ! ma le NO. 5. Beyond the Start. Jteyoiul the stars, beyond our night, Above those si ent worlds of light, There in so much for wlich we care; Ohr best nnd deepest love Is there, In Hint vast realm that knows no lib-lit, C'oM gl tt'rin' orbs of radiance bright, Look down In pity from your height, Anil (ell us (if th.it laud lo f:ilr, lUyoml the start. IVnili know not mercy In hid in it: lit; 11 Is hand I'arth's tains', b oom doth blicht; Kut mi II I we trust and kneel In prayer; There 1.x no f innlnc. no despair, ISut fiife. t safety M is rl'lit, Hi-j ond the stars. JCIara 1. Wood, in tti. Churchman. IN THE ORCHARD. it v ru.isitts ASIIKTON. It is a gcinlo May day, and tho lji;Io blossoms nro breaking whitoly over llii trees in thn Cavnii iiflm or chard. Kli'iib) Islam is never luxur iant mill in May is often grugglng her favors, lint this spring k!io hccius lo liiivo b-'ivi no: 1 1 by a kindly ca price, iiinl a loi ns herself for tlio benefit of her children. One docs nut Imvo (o bo of ilia noil, however, to bo grateful for Iter loveliness, und Miss Humphreys, though mi alien, isuwaro of her privileges. S!i" is silt iit on a Hat stone, resting nti'l bilking over past times willi Iht companion, u man vhiim ono would describe ns long rather than la!!, and who is occupied in making vxcnviitioiM on u small srnlo anions tint roots ot tlio live under which ho is silting. I never con! I understand why Iho Deiini-ons asked m! on their i:irly at all," Min Humphreys is Faying. "I was on excessively bHd terms with Charles Dciiuison nt tlio time" her companion looked up significantly "and Cu rio nnd I quanelled every day niul several times an evening. I went because I was utterly bored with lift just then, u ml intended to bo moused hI any cost and I was."' She met ili.i young man's eyes for a mo. incut and ili. u turned away and went on: "Ii you remember our im promptu bull? You played fiddler " 'And you iltineod with Chailcy," finished tlio other, "with whom you were on such excessively bad terms." Dolly laughed. "Yen, with all his lull lis ho danced like n '' "Dream," cut in tlio young man, sarcastically. That is the coi rcct ex pression." 'I never knew you to have su.;h an envious and bitter turn of mind. I Iho-ight you wero above it." '1 find in .he course of thirty odd years that I am above nothing, but chcnling at cards and telling tub-s," was the unswor." "Dear mi! I What a gloomy out look for Mist 1 .l uici-!' said Dolly; but the cons'rnint of her manner took the lightness ftin her speech, and Aikens was as serious ns he answered, "Ye, but Miss Dolmcr doct not ex pect much. Dorothy flushed. "Tim fool?" she enid in het soul ; outwardly sho was silent. "I remember," began tlio young man, ilow!y, trying to paint in words tlio picture that rose before his eyes, "that night in Hid big west room as though it was yesterday, tho roaring lire snapping and blazing on the wide hearth, the "hrislmas holly j-reeu mid dark everywhere, its glistening floor and the old square piano pushed up in the corner, behind which it was my hard necessity to sit and play while you danced, Io!Iy." His dark eyes, in which tho pup a -ecuicd points of light, flah-l into h.rs. Whose fault was ihat?'' alio rc tnrni'd reproachfully. "Your," came tho answer billorly "yours yours. It was all In your hands, and you chose to throw mo away iiko n " "Much!" sho interrupted, thn beau tiful color mounting to her cheek. "That is not tru", and you must not say it.'' llo was rahii airaiii ind wen! back to lii reminiscence. "It was wet and cold and b'uMor iug outside, and I spent ten pleasnnt minutes standing in thn rain to cool filT some of my superfluous spirit." And be smile 1 sadly. Ho wa what most people did not cure to look nt. without being ugly. No one could bo ugly wiili Hint straight flae-c.u nnsn nml the ehn euni and lire of h's eyes; but the long, rather haggard face was thought sinister, and tho thin lips cold and hard. "Iid you enjoy those dances, Dolly?'' Ho leaned for ward nnd looked into her eyes. "Yes," she answered, blushing. 1 loved the movement, nnd 1 knew nil the time" "That I WHscnting my heart out," I ho interrupted, scornfully ; "and yon liked that almost as well as innking a fool of IVor ('barley Dennison." Don't," said Dolly ; "jou hurl mu and you Imvo no right." "No, 1 Imvo no right to upbraid you, poor girl! You had too many lovers and loo light a heart not to make some of the ni unhappy. Only I wish I hud not been ono of tho eunVrci's; Unit is all. Oh, Dolly, I think I could have withstood you, if it hadn't been for that day on the rivet- in the nulumii, wlion you tried your bet to wilo tho heart oul af inc, and " "Kailtdl" ald Miss Humphreys, stendilr. "I have never had your heart, Mr. Aiken; it has been in your own undisturbed possession ever since I have known you. If you had cared you would never have gone away from the Dcnnisons' without a word." His eyes blazed, but he said noth ing. "This It nil very unprofitable," she went on, leaning back against a tree; "let ns change tho subject." Aiken's ryes wandered awny through the orchard. "Ity all means," he said, nnd then again fell to study ing hoi face. Two years nnd over since they had parted that Christinas day, and he had never seen her since. Two years had made a change. Two years ago he had a cherished theory that it would be iuipos-iblu to bring tears to those brilliant g ay ryes. Somehow today (hat theory was destroyed. Two years ago sho could Inuh at yon, mystify yon, nlliiie an 1 deceive you, but love you never, s he believed. "'T's summer, fiery cummer, I'pon thy clinks linine; Tl winter. Icy winter, In that little heart of thine." Hut In-day to-day! Suddenly n hope, n slight but exquisite hope, stirred within him. A slow firo of passion darkened his searching eyes. Miss Dohncr, to whom ho had intend ed to propose, in the eourn! of week Miss Dolmer to w hotu he liad paid a number of busiiioiis.ii!,o attentions sank swiftly out of xight. Ho re- i lucmbercd a di cam he had the sum mer before in which Dolly Humphreys had been walking by tho sea and he li.ul kicd Iter and vacd to spend a week in utter misery in blotting oul every memory thai crowded into view. 'Where wero you last sunimnr in August?" he asked. "I was at tho tea-shore," nho answered, and colored n little, that same delicate, pink that he remembered with a vividness that was half joy, half pain. "I spent hours literally on tlio beach. Nobody else had any lik ing for it, they preferred gnyer spots, but I became quite a solitary last sum mer, and used to watch the waves through I lie long a teruoou. Mamma got rather nervous, for 1 refused any company, und she was divided be tween a fear that I whs tuHctingaii in eligible suitor or getting a bit touched in my head. 1 will say ihat sho might have had some reason for the latter theory, had 1 told her what iiueer fancies 1 had, for I got quito under tho Iiifluenro of tho curling green waves." "A modern Lorelei," said Aiken. "I was iutlc.il more like n ship wrecked mariner," said Dolly, smiling softly. "I had ono iibm that I re member, that if I wailed very patiently tho waves would wash up at my feet a treasure. What the treasure was 1 did not know, but si inething that wou'il it juice ine forever." "The Jewels of some poor mermaid who misl: 1 1 them," suggested Aiken, watching her with hope growing in his henrt. "1 had a fancy, also," went on Mis Humphrey, rather shyly, "thalsouio of my old friends might tutu tip; you niiiong them. That you might suddenly appear walking along tho month tawny sand, and we Would have a friendly tnik together." 'If I had only known," said Aiken, between his teeth. "Hut." he added, smiling a li.tV. "I wouldn't have come as an old friend. I never was one." Dorothy looked into his face with a hurt wonder, which t h mixed as he added, "I was your lover, dear." "What were you doing all last Milli liter," she said, hastily, leaning for ward nnd setting six small stones in an i veil row, while her checks again colored pink. "I worked, '" was the brief answer. "All tho time?" raising soft pitying eves to his. "Mos: of it; but I did not mind the work; it took my tlrnights from olbrr things, and I had nothing pleasant to ; think of." j What a niealiK'holy young niati!"' a ,t.l l II, I, ..,... I ; . . I ..V.... I .liould have paid (he sea a visit lis I dltl. and found solace for your ills." 'Did yon need solace also?" asked Aikon, eagerly. "Were you not happy too?" "What an impertinent question!" nnd Dolly laughed n little. "Why th -it M I not bii h ipp ?'' "I thought I hoped," went on the yojng man, carnct!y, with intense plcnding in his ores, "(hnt perhaps yon wero lonely, too. That perhaps you had a little of (he hcnrlncho (hut was with mo night and day, mid has been these two long years and more. I hoped that you perhaps regretted your cruelly to mo at tho last, and would at least let mo try again. 1 I know I Imvo no right," ho contin ued, "to cherish my hopes you cer tainly did your best to crush them out but we had been so happy before 1 grew quito mad about you, and you had seemed to like mo then, aed so it suddenly comes to mo that now, after theso years, you might give me uuothcr chance. Cod knows I ask nothing better than to spend my heart and soul in trying to make you love inc. Speak, Dolly, givo mo somo uiuvfor. Am I gono mad again, or '' Ho diil not try lo touch her hand or make her look at him, but waited in a passionate silence that somehow made itself felt in tho quiet spring air. Slowly Miss Humphreys heaped her six little stones one on tho other, and as they fell lo the ground sin turned ami looked at him nml smiled, a wistful, deprecating smile that steadied his hot itnpulso to express his uttor joy, and yet gave him full mensiiro of it. "Djii'I say anything now," she whispered. "I could not hear to hear it;" nml her eyes asked for a merciful gentleness from him, and not in vain. Controlling himself, ho turned nway from her and looked about tho or chard with happy eyes that noted every beauty of color and form. "We have never been together any where in the spring, havo we?" he said, still looking away lo the flower ing trees. "In tho summer, in the aii'iimii, in tho winter, but never in the spring. I sec it all with new eyes; 1 always have seen things diHereiilly when with you. Today thn apple blossoms arc a shado iikto pink, the sky a deeper blue, than when I walked here yesterday. Will you go down to the luko witli me? There is a boat, and I couhl row you in and out tho little islands that are still brown witli hr-t sununor's leaves. Will you come ?'' Yes, 1 will come," sho answers, smiling, and springs lightly to her feet. "Which way is it? I havo never staid here before, you know." "That little path through tho trees. Itut first I want you to f-ire mo some thing. ' She raises frightened eyes to his. ''Neil her your money nor your life don't be afraid! but that violet in your dress." Dorothy looks down at it, and draws her breath quicker between her parted lips. And if I do?"' she said. "If yon do," ho returned, "I shall ask you to givo me the wliito hau.l that picked it." With a swift movement i.ho took the flower from her dress, and held it towards him. and Aiken caught her hand in both of his, and raised it to his lips. Harper's Weekly. (rafting Teeth. Much has been written of late about skiu-grnfting, and a Heading physi cian bus even succeeded in transplant ing a mustache to the. upper lip of a woman, lint there nro several local dentists who have met with remark able success in grafting teeih. Tho piocess is known as implanting, Mid should not be confounded with either transplanting or replanting, both of w hieh havo been dono for yenrs. In implant'ng a tooth tho gum may have cntiroly healed over; in fact, a tooth may be implanted years after its pre decessor bns been removed. Willi tho aid of cocaine tho operation is not at tended with any great amount of pain. Tlio gum is thoroughly saturated with cocaine and an incision is made expos ing Iho jawbone. A socket is then drilled into the hone and a tooth, after having been placed in an antiseptic so lution, is tilled into the socket and lightly bound in ils place. Toe wound heals quickly, nnd in two weeks the grnftcd tooth partakes of nil (he nnluro of a perfectly natural tooth. Phila delphia lie oid. A Hit of True 1'oliteiiess. Some time ago a friend of (he w tiler gave a dinner to which a young nan, his wife nnd their little child were invited. The child was a very precocious, bft'hful nnd intensely sensitive littlo one. During the din ner sho upset a glass of water upon (he table-cloth, and hastily noticing the looks in her direction, her littlo lip quivered and her eyes filled witli (curt. At (hut moment my friend, who gave the dinner, knocked over his own glass with a crash lliat drew every eye in his direction. He laughed over the matter and said It made no diflcreiice, etc., and succeeded iu withdrawing tho attention from the child, who soon smiled again. That I consider to have been the perfection of politeness. Farm und KiicniJe. tlliniKEVS COLL'MX. Ai ritA AND OVK1A. Apricots sail nc"S, lluiublsbcts and brer, Cliimjnn.pos ami ensci, linflodils and ilecr; Elcphniits and enemy, Knrl'clown mi'l frilN, (iooscberrlvs otid Kuiuiiil, Heliotropes nnd bills; Inuij-in ami innsmen, Jackanapes nml Jinn, Kai f-arnos nod kiln-men, Lollipop" ami Isnih; Marrowfats nnd motion, Nannygoats and nulls, Obelisks anil ocean, Tacka'es nnd palls; Qualities anil Quakers, lluttlctnake anil reins, Fii(.Mrluin am! Mi.iki.TS, Tamarinds ari l trains; Unicorn" ami under, Vortices and vIbIs, AVblppoorwtlls ami wonder, Xylographs and xyster; V.ilnt'lians and Yclept, Zodiac and zone, The rn you have the alphabet, Learn It. Don't be a drone. New York World. A l.AItlil'. UAKIlKN. Cathay chains the largest gardon In the world, us well at tho largest In population. It is culled the "Garden of China," nnd has an area around and about Shanghai of 60,000 tquaro i miles, or us huge ns tho Stales of New : York and lVi:n-ylviinin combined. It : is nil meadow laad, raised but a few feet above tho river, and having lakes, ! ponds ami canals. The laud is under tho highest tilth, three crops a year being harvested therefrom. All this j land is spared for (his Immense gar- ' den, yet the population is so dento I that iho tourist sees such numbers of j blue-blotied men nnd womon going about that he fancies each day must bo , a public holiday. Detroit Free l'ress. I'AltCMAI. IXvrlNtT IS lllf.HS. A 1'ortland (Me. ) paper tells tho following story: "A woman living on ' one of Portland's elm-shaded streets noticed a couple of young orioles that , had fallen from Iho nest to the street, . where they wero in imminent danger ' of being run over or devoured by tho 1 numerous cats nnd ih" in tlio vi cinity. She ascd tho lies I man that came along to watch Ihuii for her while she rushed into the house for a lia-ket, in which sho carried them to tho top of the shed and left them. In a ' short timo the parent birds had found their lost babes and carried them away. 1". ich placed a wing un der ono of the little fellows nnd then each one Hipped its ouUido wing, two wings serving for both, nnd thus they j safely supported their precious bur den. How they found tho littlo ones ' s quickly is wonderful, ns the top of the shed was quite a dislanco from tho street." THE f'llll.li I'LIIFORMI'.ltS. Tho scenes in the dressing room of a circus are bo:h iiovjI and pictur esque. The huge tent is divided, first into two main npurtiiieiils. Ono is the green room, as it were, whero tho ring horses nro kept ready for tho rMers. Here the properties are hand ed oul, and the matron of tho ward robe spreads out tho glittering covert for tlio horses and other paraphernalia tlint help so largely to make tho circus performance a speclaclo of dazzling i beauty. Tho other portion of this samo tent is divid d up by strips of canvas stretched from one of (he main poles to the side walls, forming a scries of Y-shaped rooms, ono of which it de voted (o the men, another to tho wo men and a third to thn ballet girls. A little p s! in tho ccntro of each, with a looking-glass not larger than one's hand, serves as a common dress ing table, where the paint and pow der and other finishing touches of tho "niako up" arc applied. Tho clothes are thrown carelessly upon the tops of the trunks, which stand in long rows ngninst the canvas walls, or are pinned directly to tho canvas itself, says tho Cincinnati Commorcirl (la zetto. v The child is dressed for tho ring. It comes (o tho edgo of the canvas wall, pokes its littlo head through, kisses its mother good-bye, and away : it goes into the ring upon atrnlloping horse or around (ho hippodrome truck i nt break-neck speed upon one of tho ' ponies. If it comes back snfely it is kissed again, (hen patted upon Iho heud and trundled oflf to the enr by some aflcctiotiatn companion, and put , into its littlo bed with just as much : solicitude as the fondest mother iu the hind might givo to her dimpled dart- j ing, though it were cradled iu velvet. An old Australian who is in St. Louts says (hut the thrilling glories i ah Mil the boomerang are (he purest j fiction. Tho weapon is merely the native's tomahawk, nnd Is in more j dangerous than a combined club and hatchet would be iu auy skilled hands. TUB CELLAR. A Part of the House Which is Often Neglected. Some Practical Hints About its Proper Arrangement. When the house-keeper has bought, Intilt, or hired her house, after due coni. location of the family needs and tastes, mid after careful examination of the locality and construction of the chosen liome, her earliest attention should bo directed lo tlio cellar, as that part of the home which is most offii neglected, and where order and convenience combined add no sin ill amount to the comfort nnd licalthful licss of all p u ts of the house. The arrangement of the cellar takes time and attention rather than nuy great outlay of money. The windows should first he seen to. A stulIV, uii ventilated cellar, full of dead air, is fin abomination. The windows should be so hung (hat (bey can be removed fioiiilhe iiidde, and during all but the extreme winter uioiiths shouM lie taken out, and even then in mild days they should he opened in the midd'c of the day. The outside of tho w in dows should he protected by galvan ized wire window netting, costing two nnrl a half cents the quarc fool. A heavier, eoarsci -meshed quality can be itcd instead, if great strength is desired. This quality costs six cents the square fool. The hal:hwiijs of ci'y h'Mi'e, are troublesome in cold weather, i'olh the rear and front hatchways admit a great deal of wind during the winter, iu spite of the Wooden covers lb it are; lilted lo (hem, and make the kitche i and dining room tl ors draughty and cold. This can be rome lie 1 liy oveiiu the iron grating over caeli baiclivay with several folds of old carpeting or furni ture sticking, und then filling the cover down lightly. The hatchway on the sunny side of the house inu-t ho frequently o; eii"d fur air. Tiie cellar should he thoroughly white washed, two heavy coats being enough. Ail (he cellars, and many iu the cntulry towns and vilhti-i., are cemented, which under most condi tions is the safest and cleanest floor ing. Hut in the country, w here the ground is not poisoned from leakages of sowers or the foul gases of cess pools, and where, yet farther, Iho ground is dry and sandy, a cellar bottom of well-beaten earth is not un wholesome, and has a mysterious capacity of keeping fruits and vege tables beyond that of cemented Cellars. Such a cellar should havo hoards for wnlks to bins, barrels, und cupboard, to keep the l.onsi-mother from fret ting over the dirt "tracked up." If thco boards aio occasionally turned over when swept, there will bo no trouble from dampness or "saw bugs." liaising them up slightly fiom the ground bv inch cleats na'leil to (he under sidn of the boards is another and better method. In a cellar where there is a furnace, it is n great help to household maii ngement to have n portion of tho cel lar divided from the furnace portion by a tight board partition, with a pad locked door opening inlo it. The boards used may be rough nml cheap, costing two cents a fool ; but the par titions tnu-t he tight, so ns not to ad mit the warm air from the furnace. I'ndcr ordinary eircum-laiiccs the ex pense need not tie over ten dollars and in many cases even less. In this cold cellar the vegotab'cs aud apples, butter and preserves, may be kept, and even in the city the inieom fortablo habit of living from ban 1 to mouth might be changed to a great degree. Here the time-honored vine gar barrel or keg may have its place, giving out its supply of "puro cider" vinegar whenever ne.vled. Near by should be (he swinging shelf aud cup board, and the old-timn feeling of plenty and comfort, which iho memory of the wel'-lilled cellars of country homes always brings, would return to the household. Harper's Weekly. A Promising Outlook, (us Snobberly, who is a poetry stricken youth, applied lo old Mr. Hondclippcr for the hand of nui'li ter Lucy, who was iu the room at the time. "What are your resources?" asked old Itomlc'.ij per. In the lirs( place, I've sent my ap plication to President Harrison for a position in ono of the departments." "Have you nny other resources?" asked tho prospective fa'hi-r-in-Iaw. "You bet I have. I'm seriously thinking of giving up smoking." "Pa," exclaimed Iho young lady, ' that's enough for us to begin with, Isn't it?" .Texas Siflings. Ynlne of Machinery. Few persons have any corrrert idea of iho difficulties which wero met with sixty to seventy years ago in making suitable tools aud machinery from inotul. There were no planing, boring or shaping machines; the turning sstti't and tlio drill-borer were about all (ho devices which could bo called into use by the mechanic of that lime. Inventors had to make by hand tho machines they invented, with the aid of other machines in making the indi vidual parts. They had to invent somo tools so as to bo able to inako certain parts of their invented ma chin". When (ho celebrated Lnglish machinist Clement entered a shop us master at Louden in 1811, ho found the tools so poor nnd defectivo that Im bad to spend days iu making such ones as were needed. James Watts, the inventor of the steiim engine, could not get his liisl machines in woikiug order i i consequence of a lack of somo contrivances. Tho first cylinder which ho had cast was not light, and was on one end five milli meters wider than on tho oilier. A good cylinder should not show moro d'.fl'ercticciu w idth than one-half milii llieler. And then the cost of work at. that time was extravagant. Whit worth, one of Iho oldest manufacturers of working machines in Knghiud, says that tho polishing of cast-iron cost .: per fqiiiiro foot forty years ago, as the work had to be done by hand. Tho manufacturer Perry paid for the first steel pens $1.25 apiece, but still theso pens wore not so good tu quality us those which are made today. Aflcr tlie factories had been established, (ho prico of a steel pen wa still if I, thou fifty cents and then I went y 11 ve cents, w h di price was kept up for some time. Today one can get a gross for that price ; till owing to our ! perfect machinery. New Orleans Delta. Fastest Train in tlio World. Ilnw many people are aware that the fade-t rhfdulfd train in the world rims between Washington and Jersey City every day? Tho train Is tho P.altiinoro and Ohio, New York nnd Washington limited, nnd it uses the tracks of the (' -niral Knilroad of New Jersey nnd Philadelphia nnd Heading between Jersey City ami Philadelphia. The Utter roads furnish the locomo tives on this part of tho line. Notwithstanding the glories about trains running !)0 miles an hour in Fugland, nothing of tho kind is pro vided iu the time tables of the London and Northwestern and Oreat Northern, which admittedly have tho fastest scheduled trains in the kincrdom. The fastest (rain on the Northwestern is tho celebrated Scotch express, which makes the run of 4K miles from Lon don (o K liiibttrgh iu 8 1-2 hours. This is at a rato of 5LC miles an hour, il lowitig for stops. The Iloyal liluo line trains make (ho run of 22G miles between New York and Washington iu ."i hours, which is at an nverage speed of 61.9 miles nn hour, with cor responding allowances for stops. The Scotch express does better than 61.C miles an hour between certain sintions. Its best run is the 76 1-1 miles from Hitgby to Crewe in S6 minu'es, nn average of 63 miles an hour. Hut the Iloyal lllite line also makes some smart run. On the P.al titnore and Ohio road, between Haiti more and Washington, it averages fin miles an hour for tlus greater part of ihe 40 mile", while (he Heading and Jersey Central engineers, in places, rush nlong at 76 to 80 miles nn hour, and do it every day. It is said that the Cro'it Northern has lately added a still fasler train than the Scotch ex- press of Ihe London and North- we-tern. It averages 54 miles an hour, but only for a distance of 106 1-1 miles. New York Sun. Six Suits in One Hay. I On one day, during his Blay in Fng- land, Kmperor William changed his clothes exactly six times. lie wore I four different, uniforms in Iho course ; of the day aud two dill'erent suits of plain clothes. Why the empoi or should have arrayed himself as a Hritisli ad miral to visit Albert Hall it as incom prehensible as Ihe reason which in duced Iho Prince of Wales to inako iiim-olf uncomfortable by putting on a hot, unattractive nnd anything but becoming Prussian uniform. Tho cmpwor'e announcement niude at usual nt the last moment that he ished the Albert Hall visit to be an allah1 of "semi-t ate" caused infinite trouble and incoiivcnieiico to all con cerned. Chicago News. Very Topular. ToKling Yoc wouldn't class the hen among song-bird, would you? Dimling Whj not? We are all foud of her lay.--Truth. ! Sleep's Lullaby. Dear Sleep, thou art my merclfulles friend. When, tired of all. nitihlly I come to thee; Tliou art su patient ninl good to me. How g-ently do thy faithful hands extend The old sweet welcome, motherly and mend My broken toys of hope, while at thy knea Quite fi.r-.-ct the hurt fill. tilings lo be. And win u 1 feel tlite touch my brow anil bei.d To kis mine eyes, 1 love ! put my hand le'ii thine own tn fuel tl.at thou art near. To nestle closely to tliy peaceful breast, And bear that lullaby about tlmt land t-iim; of so i-ofily, wbere there is no tear, And where the weary are tor ays st rest. John II. Homier. In the Independent. 111101101 s. Whipped cream is apt to becomo sour. (irasg makes no noi'fl, yet many people heard it mown. Women may not bo deep thinkers, but they tiro generally clothes observ ers. In casting about for a national flower tho wall flower, as usual, is quito forgotten. While a woman seldom understand! herself let her alono for seeing clear through any other woman. Kngaged couples may not avcrags larger than other people, yet they are often distinguished by their sighs. If we could only 6ce ourselves as others see u, tho probability is that most of us would look tho other way. In tho slang of the day to say that a thing "has no Hies on if' is to com pliment it, bul it is no compliment to fly-paper. The most attentive men to business we ever knew was he w ho wrote on his shop-door: "(imie to get married; return in half an hour." Trembling Youth "Madame, Hove you to distraction. Will you bo my wife?" (iirl of the Future "You may leave your references and call again." "I never knew ( 'unleash to havo but one failing," said a friend of his to a businesi man. Ves," replied (ho busi ness man, "that's about all; but 1 understand be inline a great deal ot money out of that." A Haltiinorc lady, with her little daughter, tie:!, an acquaintance and stoppedtor.sk after a mutual friend. "She i verv iil,''said the acquaintance; "indeed, she lias been next to death's door with that fever." Mniiunn, said the w ise little maid, thoughtfully, as they walked on, "if that lady you were taiking about is next door to death, why doseu't she move?" IMvul of the Mafia. Tho Infamc Legge, which was dis covered a short time ago, in Atidria, Italy, is an organization similar to tho Maia Vita, although far less notorious. The confiscation of the account books in tho house of a member led to the revelation of interesting details of its management. A can lidtac for mem ber-bip received instruction iu fencing nnd shooting for t?2 monthly. Aftor acquiring the necessary amount of; skill for .his murderous calling ho be came a "neophyte." The chief, dur ing tho ceremony of udiu'ssiou, cut the candidate in the breast with A dagger, and then tho candidate, with his hand on the bloody weapon, swore) loyally to ihe society. The steps of promotion were indicated by the titles "neophyte," "regular," "the initiat ed," and "chief." In Hartetla Ihe In famc Leggo bad a woman's branch organization. Tim first arrest of members of the society took place in Andria. In one hour fifty of these declared highwaymen and murderers were captured, and the work of hunt ing them down is still iu progress. The name, of the society means, literal- I ly, Infamous Law." New Orleans Times-Democrat. While Money Paper. Notice has been issued from Ihe Treasury Department regarding dis tinctive paper for tho obligations and other securities of iho I'nitod States. Tho silk thread paper adopted in 1885 will bo u'cd uuiil the present supply is exhausted. The new matcrinl for I'liileil Stales no'.es, National bank notes und certificates is a cream-white bank note paper. Ils distinctive fea ture consi-ts fif a localized red and ! blue fiber incorporated in the body of ; the paper, whiio iu tho process of manufacture, bo placed as to form a perpendicular stripe on cither side of the center portrait or viguetto of each note and other obligation. The dis tinctive paper of similar quality with water mark, U. S. T., D. so placed therein that it may show on each sep arate cheek or draft, nii iptcd in 1885 ! for United States checks and drafts, will be continued ill use for that ptu I poie. Picayune.