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PITTSW)RO CHATHAM CO., N. C., JAN'TAKY 28, 1802.
NO. 22.
ForlargaT advertiseirine liberal eon
i net will be made.
To d Southern O'trl.
flrreyrs
Would match the Southern skies
When Southern skin are I'luest,
Iter heart
Will always take its part
Where Southern hearts are truest.
Ilr'silit penrh,
1 lie i;uh of Southern girls,
Her wfntiii!!! smile disc'oses;
Her checks,
When admiration steaks.
Wear only Southern roses.
Her voice,
Py nature and hy choice,
K'en those who Know her slightest
Will find
Ah soft ns Southern wind
When Southern winds nr ligbUst.
Her laugh,
As llglit as w ine or rhnfl".
brinks clear, at witty sallies,
as brooks
linn bubbling throu','h the nooks
Of all her Southern val rys.
Such youth,
With all Ha charms forsooth, -Alas,
too well 1 know Ill
Will claim
A song of love ami fame.
Sung by some Hunt hern poet.
Hut she
In future years, maybe,
These vcixs mtiy discover,
Ei'inelimc
May r ml this litt'c rhyme
Sung b; a Northern h.vir.
Jamet (i. Harnett, in the Century.
The Young Man's Mistake.
my in. i ts jni!Kr ,u.vrs.
'Oil, hut you'll lie sure to make
your fortune, Jason," ianl Annie
Day roll, enthusiastically.
"I shall make a try for it nt nil
events," said Jason Trowbridge, rath
rr conceitedly, adjusting the lavender
iikncrUh Ihiit II o iliiinty tinkers of
bis lictroilicil lutl Mitchod for liim.
Ho was a lull, handsome young
man, wiih curly brown hair, n pink
niul white complexion, mi l nuexqu's
ile iiltlo shatowof n mustache on
bio upper lip; the only son of u wid
owed mother, ami the Apollo of the
village mythology. Such youn fel
lowii arc very npt to be a Iiltlo
spoiled, niul someiimoi more tliiin n
hi (Jo.
'I wili I - ii Id go to the city," said
A ii 11 i o, discontentedly. In her mind's
ye, pretty Anniu Dayrcll saw her
dnisv-likc loveliness eclipsed by the
tparklo niul style of city belles. She
remembered how, in nil l lie novels
kho had rtuil, the wealthy merchants'
beautiful daughters in vmiably fell in
love with tlio courageous young 'pi
ranti for fortune. Ami what woman
r ii M lu blamed for falling in lovo
with Jason Trow bridge? Already
Amiio felt tho envenomed dart of
ica'otisy tearing at her heart.
Jason will take you ihoro ono day,
hit ilcnr,1' said Min. Ti owbridgecom
tlaceiuly. "It isn't every young man
lli.it enters life under umpires like
llioeo of our Jason. Hut then, you
ice, the 1 cad of tho fluu tided to be u
college mate of my poor dear hus
band." "Mr. Ahvaync?'' said Annie.
"Yes, Mr. A 1 way lie. The Cim is
Ahvaync & Alfnid."
Annie listened in reverential silcnco
lo them items of information, wliith
flic heard nt least a score of times be
fore; but then it was such a privilege
'o be allowed to co.no nnd help park
Jason's trunk and mark hit cuffs and
foliar?, and follow him from room to
room, like a patient, adoring little
fill, as she was, that she would scarce
ly havo found tho multiplication table
itself tedious.
.So Jason went to reek hi fortune,
like him of the Gulden Fleece, nobody
knows how many centuries ago.
It was qttito true, ns his mother had
said, that his debut on the grand stage
of the world was surrounded with
more favorable circumstance, than
that of many young men of his ago
ml qualifications.
Mrs. Trowbridgo, anxious that her
only child should succeed in life, had
wrilten a long letter to Mr. Ahvayno
recalling to his memory the gay young
collegian of Ihiity years ago, and beg
ging his interest, and Mr. Ahvayno
had responded with a brief, brusque,
n.iie, which people told tho widow
was characteristic of the rich mcr
fhilllt. Send the young fellnw on,'' it
aid; "I am willing to try what
mettle he is made of."
That was rather a slender founda
tion whereon to build, hut it was
enough for Mrs. Tiowbridgo and
A"iiio Puyrel! nay, even for Jason
himself.
"He's an eccentric feilow," reasoned
the young man, "with lots of money
nnd no son of his own; it sha'l bo no
fault of iiiiuo if he due. n't tnkn n
fancy lo inc."
Thus he meditated as he elbowed his
Way through the crowd nt Albany to
(ret hU ticket. At the same moment
lie felt a hand laid lightly on his arm,
and he was addressed by a feeble-look
ing old man in a l" 1 1 ci nut coloroJ
suit and a knot ted cane.
"Would yon p'eiisi got my lickot
for mc, sir ? I mn not so spry as
soiim- of these travellers, nnd 1 hcliivo
our lime is limited."
"Get your ticket yourself I'' sharply
fl allied back .lasow Trowbridge, aggra
vated cspcciully by mini rough hoot
being placed just then on his tiht
pntent leather boot. "I've no more
lime to fool av ay than yon have."
And ho caught at the slip of paper
pnsliod (oward him by tho oflicinl, nnd
rushed madly toward the tin, ion door,
ncaily upsetting the old man in his
hot haste.
"Kvory man for himself and tho
wlialV-his-iniiui! take the hindmott!'
said Mr. J.ison Trowbridge to himself
as he seated himself in the cars, pant
ing and breathless. "Thai's my
motto ! A fellow that expects to get
along in tho world, must expect to
push!"
And he unfolded a newspaper nnd
began to read.
Jrau'itally the journey drow to a
close; tho cars dalnal across Spiiyleu
Pityvil Creek, and Jason Trowbridge
felt himself breathing the cloctrieiilly
charged nlmosphero of New York.
Ile seated himself in a hark.
"Diivoto No. Ki f tli avenue,"
said he, lof.ily thinking lo hiui'cif
lliot it was always best to make a
favorable lir-t impression.
"Yes, yes!" answered the hnckmati
gi inning ; ho knew n green country
youth when ho saw him, spito of tlx
assumed familiarity with city manners
that sal so awkard'y on tho traveler.
"IHicctly, sir; but here's another
passenger "
"I object!" said Jason, indignantly,
ns he caught sight of the obnoxious
buiternu!-ci!oied suit at the door, "I
won't be j itnuied in with other passen
gers I'll have tho hack to myself."
"Werry well, sir," said the disap
p( iutcd driver, slamming tho carriage
door to. "You'll have to get lomo
other trap, old gcu'Iemaii. My fare,
he's very genteel nnd exclusive!"
And away ho rattled ovor the pave-
IIK'llts.
The journey was a very brief ou
so brief, in fact, that Mr. Trowbridge,
would havo rebelled against the de
manded faro of livo dollars, had it
not been for the false shame which
taught him that it was not ''tho thing
to dispute, with ft hackmau." So he
paid it, Iiltlo as ho felt able to afford
the unnecessary outlay, and hesitat
ingly ascended the brown-stone steps
which led to the stately residence of
the head of ill o great mercantile firm
of Ahvaync & Alford.
"Y'es, Mr. Ahvaync is in." At least
so said tho colored man in n white
piou, who admitted him, anil indi
cated a ch.'iir in tho hall wherein to
wait, while lie carried in the card.
"As If I were a book agent or a
peddler, selling soaps or china re
iifiits!" Jason snid, indignantly, to
himself.
IVc.-ently tho colored man came
back.
"Will you please walk in do library,
miIi?" he said; and Juson Trowbridge
followed tho sable guide across a
wide, sof ily-carpoied corridor into a
large room, lined with books, and
furiiisho I in black walnut and polished
green leather.
there slooii n abort stout man,
looking as much like a farmer as a
merchant, and there to our hei oe's dis
may in ono of tho easy chairs sat the
identical buiteriiut-couted individual.
"How do you do, Mr. Trowbridge?''
aid the great merchant prince,
brusquely nodding; "glad to see you,
for tho sake of old acquaintanceship
with your fathor. This is my father, "
inclining his head toward tin' old
man, who was resting his (bin on
I ho knotled stick. The cldor smiled.
"I havo met the young man before,"
said ho, shrewdly.
"Kh! whore."
"At tho Albany depot, where ho re
fused to aid mi) in getting a ticket,
and nt the station in this city, where
he declined to allow me to shaie a
hack with him. I dare say it was all
right enough. Old ago cannot always
expect courteous recognition from
youth."
"Ah!" Mr. Ahvayne knitted his
heavy brows, and Jason felt as if his
blood were all turning lo red-hot
lead.
"I I didn't know," ho began,
stnmiiieiiug and stiitloring awkwnrd
ly enough. "If I had supposed that
il was Mr. Ahvayno's father "'
"(.'iicuinstancet would have altered
cases, fh?" said the liie.rhant dryly.
'1 regret, young sir, that I havo no
more lime at my disposal just now. If
you w ill send me your address, in a
day or two I'll see what ran be done
for you."
An Jason Trowbridge found him
self bing bowed politely out of Iho
Fifth avenue mausion, while a dark
presentiment look possession of his
s .ill that the star of his destiny was
somehow being overclouded.
"Why couldn't I have had the com.
inon sense to treat the old emlgor
civilly? 'he nsked himself, ih sp dring.
ly. "It would have been so e iy."
"Il is always easy to be civi:;" but
Mr. Jason Trowbridge had found out
this important fact a little too laic for
his o vn advantage.
Three days afterward he received
a unto from Mr. Ahvayno, stating thai
ho had no silu.aiic.i vacant, which
wou'd bo appropriate to Mr. Trow,
bridge. And although no allusion was
mado to Iho old gentleman in Ilia but.
ternut-colorod sui, Jason Tiowbi idge
knew what il all meant.
Ho had made a mistake at the out
set, which is ihiIkt different from
making one's fortune, us nil tho world
knows. New York Weekly.
Singing ISnby lo Sleep.
"Sometimes," said an experienced
nurse "the numerical system of sing
ing is decidedly useful. Many n
mother in singing a restlef.s child to
sleep has sung the same song over and
over again repenting the verses indef
initely. I'sually this form vt ryth.
luetic repetition is effective; there are
few chiliiien that can hold out against
it If the voire is genllo and the sing
ing is routiiiucd without a break and
a gradually deeieasiiig volume of
tone. Hut occasionally it happen
that just m the child Is nbout to go to
sleep there ii a bih-f period when its
senses, though veiled by drowsiness,
arc really remarkably ncttto nnd when
iho work of hours may be easily up.
set in nn instant. A iinimeutnry halt
in the singing may awaken the child;
tho almost imperceptible riutlo attend
ing the bending forward lo see if Iho
child is asleep may have the saino ef
fect, and (hero cines a tiir.c when
even the words of the song strike tho
sensitive nerve with wakeful rather
than wis:li restful impulses. Here is
whero tho numerical system may bo
used lo advantage, substituting for
the regular words of the song, with
iheir dissimilar and ihorrforc some
what disturbing sound waves other
words more noarly uniform in charac
ter. "Suppose, for instance, the mother
is singing '(irnndfalhci's Clock,' and
that she has Icon singing for an hour
or an hour nnd a half, and has re
peated it say bcveaty or eighty times.
At tho critical moment between wake
fulness and sleep she glides genlly
into, 'Thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty
three, thirty-four, thirty-live, thirty
six, thirty-seven. '
"The similar sounds which these
words produce make but tho faintest
ripple on the sensitive ear, ami gener
ally ten or fifteen verses of the song
so sung nre enough for tho purpose.''
New York Sun.
(Jueer Antipathies.
"Talking of peculiarities of np
petite," Mid a citizen in conversation,
"I know a man who has not cntcu a
mouthful of mcnt in twenty years."
"A vegetarian, ch?'' queried a lis.
tencr.
"No; he took a suddou dislike to
meal of any kind, and gave up eating
it. Hut he could not toll him-cif svhat
caused the change in his appetite.
"My wife can never cat an oyster,"
si'd ono present, "without her skin
breaking out with purple spots ns
large as dimes. Siio feels no uneasi
ness, but naturally docs not like to bo
spotted like a pai d."
"I was acquainted with a woman
out west," said another of tho party,
"jvho broke out with prickly bent
whenever she. jaw or lasted goat's
milk cheese. Her husband brought
some into the house mid hid it in a
cupboard. When ho approached it
she began to shiver, nnd declared that
she fell the strange prickly sensa
tion." " If I did not know that I hero was
no checso in the house I sliould think
it was that,' she said, nnd then her
husband acknowledged that ho had
done it to test her. The physiological
effect satisfied him that it was not in
the imagination."
A strange nutipathy was then re
lated by a young doctor present.
"I had ordered a pair of new nnd
fashionable trousers when I was lakeu
ill with a severe attack of jaundice.
The garments were miido and sent
home, but I was too sick to wear
them, and after looking- at tlieni and
seeing that they were just ns I ordered
them, I laid them away. When I was
well I wis about to wear them when I
recalled all tho symptoms of my iil
uess, and I could not endure tho sight
or touch of them. I tried again and
again with tho same result. There is
no law in mnieria medica to account
for such a manifestation." Detroit
Free l'lcss.
f-HJLDKKVS (OM.MN
RAM.E SUNU.
l'.re the moon beeins to ria
)r a star to shine.
All Ihr bluebells clou their eyes.
So rinse thine,
Thine, di r, thine !
Ilinls are sleeping in the nest
' Mi the swnviiiR bw,
Thus, niinst tiie ni'ither-bn ast
!So sleen thou,
Sleep, sleep, sleep I
-Thomas Dailey Alilricli. In Independent.
TIIK IIKS SI'iHf.
Ono day last summer, w rites ft cor
respondent, when I was pii knicking
near mi old farm house the lady who
lived (hero t'dd mc this story about
one of her Leghorn liens : The hen
hnd been very troublesome. Slio
would insist upon hatching eggs, and,
ns her owners did not want any chick
ens, I suppose, she got restless mid
thought, "Well, if I can't hatch egg",
I will hatch something rUc. I don't
enro what it isjso it is a bit like e'gs.
Hut I'll not give into them nnd givo
up altogether si'lmg on something."
So she roamed about oil tho lawn, and
nil nt once she ciuiu; upon w hat looked
to her very much like two green eggs.
These were tipples that hnd fallen
off the tree over le r head; but bens'
mental capacity are limited ns you
know, nod she never thought of that,
but cackled away as if to sny, "' iood
gracious, how very fortunate I nin!
II will bo so nice to sec what conies
out of green eggs that have a Iiltlo
black dot at one end, and a liny Inil tit
the other." She thought the stalk was
a tail, and admired it very much.
And there sfco eat. day after day, ni
sweetly content as hens can be, and if
the apples had not got bed and been
taken nway, I dare say sho would ho
sitting on them still, poor thing!
f Brooklyn Citizen.
ii Witts un iui:i;s.
Tho other day 1 heard somebody
speak of "oysters hanging upon the
brunches of trees on tho borders of
the Chesapeake liny."
"That sounds like a fairy tale,"
thought I to myself.
I determined to investigate. So I
said: "I always supposed oysieis
grew under Iho water. I never knew
they hung iu clusters on tree branches
like apples. Curious sort of oy.-iers
thoso must bo which irrow on tree1'
along tho banks of the Chesapeake!"
"Chesapeake Day has liiu finest kind
of oysters," said the Talking Man.
"The reason they arc sometimes found
growing on tree branches is this. The
spaw n of the oyster floats about in iho
waier, tossed by wind and waves. It
has the quality of atiachiiig its-nif
firmly to any solid substance it touches.
Sometimes it might be tho boltom of
a ship, a rock, or a treebianrli. You
know the bottom of a ship often nee H
scraping on account of (he shell-lish
adhering lo it.
"Now iho braii'thos uf trees oflcu
droop into the water. They lo it
along the borders of tint Che-upcako
the same as on the banks of any other
river or buy. At high tide such
branches will bu covered with water,
nnd when the tide go' s back, Iho
In -.'inches como to Iho surface nguin.
"Tho spaw n sticks on those boughs
when they nre beneath the waves. In
a few days Iho tiny oystrrs Lcgiu lo
develop, and before long at every
low tide the branch can he recn hang
ing out, with little njsters growing
nil over it.
"Sometimes a branch which is often
under water will bo nearly overcd
with small oysters. It looks very
odd, of course, but it's a common
sight down there.
"(irow? They don't grow very
lare, to bo sure. To attain pofeciion
atl oyster must always be under water
and these hang half the timo out of
it. When they are exposed too long
to the hot suii they die. Their weight
often causes them to fall oil'.
'Little oysters are sometimes trans
planted. Not oil' Iron branches, but
from the beds til the bottom of the
bay. They are plan'ed in oyster-beds
in other places where, in a couple of
years, they grow to maturity.'
"Il sounds funny to talk of picking
oysters oiTt res," said I, "or even of
seeing t lie in grow there."
"Funny enough. Hut they do grow
thore. I've seen it lots of times,'
aid ibe Talking Man. "That's tho
way queer stories get about. Nome
body hears of a thing mid doesn't
understand the sense of it. And most
people never stop to ask what it
means. They either repeat tho story
for a marvel, or say they don'i be
lieve it. Harper's Young People.
A (treat Comfort.
Conductor Wo have missed tlm
connection, and yen will have lo wait
at this station six hours.
O'd Lady (who is a little iicivouh
hi the railroad) Well, I'm safe for
ix hours anyway New Ymk
weekly.
iVIi(;i:I) WANMiRHKS
! Where the Birds Goto Pass the
Winter Months.
The Curious Instincts of the
1 Foathored Songsters.
In the course of the last fifty years
a considerable number of European
I song biuls have been turned loose ill
tho woods nud gardens of tho New
World, but, with rare exceptions, they
nil disappear before the end of the
second winlcr. Only four out of fifty
Knglish lnrks brought to Maryland in
lfeV!) were seen the next spring, and
no nightingale has as yet managed to
survive nn American blizt ml.
; The faiiiiro of those ex periinenls
may, however, bo duo to tho cireuiu
I Btance that tho assisted immigrants
were taken to the wrong sido of tho
l'ocky mountains. Like the (itiSgon
, farmer w ho hoped lo find the elimali
of Son hern Franco in Southern Michi
gan, they owed their ruin to a misap
plication of geographical fact. A
trip of boo tubes will carry a HritUh
bird lo mi almost winterle-s one.
j 'The migratory birds of the Ka-torn
slates htivo R curious habit uf follow ing
cs'.abiished lotites of travel.
Countless thotisa ids of water bird-,
for ins niice, cross the Mexican border
near the inou h of the l!io (irande,
! probably to avoid the bioad sand
wastes that skiit the upper river valley.
, Farther cast there is a brackish estu-
nry almost devoid of island", so that
the lagoons of the d l.a ullord the
, only convenient resting place for
' legions of swamp-loving Wanderers.
A similar bird trap i found in a low
gap of the Sierra Nevada, near the
eastern border of I'lumas county.
. The feathered inhabitants of Colorado
; and Nevada could reach the tropics
I only by a L'ih'u mile trip across barren
' table-lands, without waier and wood;
so soinu of Jhem have found it the
best plan to follow Horace CieelevV
advice and enjoy tho comforts of
protracted Indium summer by going
West.
A few species of F.astorn wood
birds como to grief in trying to pass
tho winter in tho southern Alleghanies.
liobins, for instance, flock by thou
sands to the hill country of eastern
Alabama, whero they Hit nbont the
woods iu ijiieft of cedar berries, nnd
arc killed in such numbers Mint iu the
course of years they will become as
scarce ns the traveling pigeons of iho
Mississippi valley.
Some of our shy woodbirds avoid
human habitations in their wander
ings, but the wisest go where gun
powder is dear and pass tho winter in
' the swamp forests of Yucatan or even
'. farther south, in tho pathless woods
J of Guiana and I'.asleru Hrail. A
IJelgian nobieman once uianagod to
1 catch 200 storks and labelled every
: ono of ihcin w ith a piece of paste.
board giving the address of the ex.
1 perliuenter and requesting to inform
him where the bird had been caught
1 or killed during tho winter season,
Thcso curious passports wcro at.
j taehtd iu a conspicuous manner to the
neck or legs of the birds, nnd ono of
I them returned next spring with n
! lnesfnc to the effect that ho had been
i caught in a meadow near Sidi Helbez,
, in Western Algeris. Two years after
another of tho original tickets i inn:
- back by mail, with a note stating that
' the winged messenger had been shot
at Fort George, near the mouth of the
Senrga'.
i Cranes, storks nnd wild geeso fly
fast enough to iimko tho trip from
j Northern Knrope to Africa in a week,
! but most of them lake a midway rest
' north of the Mcditeriaiiean. The reed
: swamps of Hie (.uadiana river, iu
. Southern Spain, are nil alive with
migratory birds in November, and the
1 water fowl of Northern ltussia winter
on tho shores of the Caspian, where
' snowstorms may occur now and then,
but where wnlcr-birds are, on the
I whole, much better oil than on the
' desert coasts further south. San
' Francisco Chronicle.
Artificial Main.
Professor lldwin J. Houston has
made public ibe results of his investi
( gathms on the subject of producing
, artificial rain. He slalcs that there
. are meteorological conditions that
probably frequently exist in roitain
latitudes in which heavy riins might
be artificially produced by mid-air
1 disturbances, when, without such d;s
, lurhances, no rainfall would oc-ur.
j Should for example, a layer of waim,
moist nir exist between the earth's
' fur face and n higher layer of cold,
I moist air, separated by n coniptn at ive
! ly thin layer of air, nud should such
j conditions exNt as to maintain the two
j layers separate, then tho breaking or
I iercing of the inlermcdinto tepitrat-
ing layer mig.it permit. such an ilpriish
of the win iner nir through tho open
ing tli;1! the liberation of its stoied up
energy through the condensation of its
mohiure would result hi the produc
tion of mi extended area of low bar
ometer. Iu other words, tho artificial
rupture of the separating layer would
result iu the foi mation of n true storm
centre and a heavy rainfall of consid
erable dimensions. Professor Hous
ton formulate-, tin; following conclu
sions concerning Iho artificial pro
duction of ruin : First, that rain can
never bo made to fall at will by mid
air explosions on any part of the
earth surf. ice, irro pective of the
climatic, coinl. lions there existing;
second, thiil during cerlaiii niotcoio)
logical conditions mid-air explosions
may result in rainfall over extended
areas; third, that Iho liberal ion of
cm rgy neeessery for nu b rainfalls is I
due not to mid-nir explosions but lo j
the energy stored up in the moht air
from which the lain is derived; !
fourth, that tho meteorological condi- 1
lions which must exist fur the success- :
full action of mid-air explosions
would probably in most, though not :
ail, c.is..s themselves lesult iu a 1
natural production of rain; lifth, that I
a comparatively high difference of
iectric potential belueeu different I
parts of Iho nit, or between the nir
and the eailh, i possibly favorabio '
when taken iu connection with other ;
meteorologicni conditions for artificial i
rain-making ; sixth, that an undirected j
mid-air explosion is not ns likely to I
pioiltii'o rain as an explosion in I
which the main tendency of the
energy liberated is to cause a general I
upriish of the air. Chicago News. !
Snakes Unit Fat Fgifs.
Ir. Hiickland mentions that the teeth
of si rpents aro not always found iu
their mouth.. There is a snake iu
Africa that lives upon the eggs of birds
which he purloins from Hie nesls. It
has ,, teeth in its mouth, bu. they ,
.., n . I, I I.. I...II.. .i 1
tire developed in its belly, being formed
iu a vi ry curious manner. They aro
not true teeth, but certain little hones,
parts of tho vertebra', me made to
serve a like purpose, ono projecting
from the rciiier of each vertebra. The
ends of these bones pass through the
wall of the stomach, being covered
with enamel like real teeth, so thai on
looking in!) (he stomach a row of
what looks exactly like teeth is seen at
its back part. The eggs then swab
lowed by the sunko goes down iulo
the stomach and is broken against Ibe
teeth by the pressure of the abdominal i
walls. Hying thus brokou the con- '
tents ol the egg cannot escape, ns i
would have been the ca-e if it hud been '
broken in the moiiih.
It is led generally known that the I
remarkable Australian inammnl known !
us the oi nitlioryiichiis, which lavs eggs
and has u duck's bill nnd webbed feet, i
possesses a poison npiaralns much
like thai of a snake. The male of '
this animal has a gland on die back :
part of the thigh, coiiimunic.it ing by j
means of a duct with a sharp spur, 1
very like a cock's spur. This spur is j
perforated like the cobra's tooth, and j
he poisonous secretion of the gland is j
thus transmitted into the wound made ;
by the spur. f Washington Star.
A (liinese (.incriior.
Tthniig Yao, I he Governor of the
Province of shantung, win died re.
cenlly, was one of tlm highest digni
taries of the ( cle-lial lluipiic. He
bail a highly advent urous career.
H un in lowly position, he was oh
liged to flee iu his youth on nccount i
of having murdered the tormentor of
nu old man. He became a robber
and soon stood at Iho bead of all the
brigands who made the province of
Huiinu unsafe. When, during Iho
rebellion, the chief town of tho
province was threatened, the Governor
issued a proclamation in which he
promised the hand of his daughter to j
the man who would save the town
from the enemy. At the head of oiu) i
bandit". Tabling bent off the attack of
the rebels, and led home on the next
lay, ns a reward for his bravery, the j
ilinond-evi'd beauty. Then he made 1
rapid progress. He was not able to ;
re d or write, but was of great inleg- 1
rity, nml died poor ns he was born, t
lie was called by his people, on nr-
count of his charity, Tshang, "Ibe ;
bine skv." It is said, however that he I
was not always just toward Kuropenns,
and especially the missionaries. I
A Terrier Line-Carrier.
Ono of the Knglish electric light
companies, whose wires are carried in
underground conduits, has a novel
method of drawing wires through tho
conduits.
A small terrier has been so trained
that when a light cord is at Inched to
liim he runs through the conduit from
one manhole to the next, dragging the
;ord with him. Now York Journal.
Kill Mini Grow Old.
An oM man stood in Ihoimlitful way
To nnlr h uruup of children play
l!i uenlli the hen li il boiiphs of trees
Thai echoed soft the passing breeze.
J.mi years ajro in jnvt si:rh woy
Ib 'il passed hi- school-free hours nt play;
lint now his I, loo, I runs s'ow and cold.
Fur lliiims i'li;iii;e not, but man grows old.
'J'hrt iishes of his K'.iMen hair
t'luiii round bis temples white and spare,
Ilis cheek was lean, his eyes were dim.
Hut I but old pust comes buck tohini;
Aid ns he paused he seemed In see
l.'oimd, bovis, faces brivbt with tflce.
lint now bis blood runs slow and cold.
Tor things change not, but man grows old
Tl e old sei-nrs wasen ilmii-lits that palti,
Of life sh tft s iit for little pin;
if steps thai to fal-e luu.-ii swung,
(if aiurrv words on hee lle.-s tongue;
And then a flash of man's small worth.
Ills little span of life on earth.
K en now bis nluod ran slow and ecld,
For things change not, bu! man prows old.
- Madge Mertoa.
Ill MOKOI S.
The smallest boy frequently gots
the biggest spanking.
A slow matchThe courtship of a
Gas I. I'n I young man.
liashful young men ought to prac
tice sparking with dumb-belle".
Many people who never saw a lire
escape have seen one break out.
Patient Say, doctor, w hat do you
do for a luadnehc? I)oi lor Nothing,
it docs for me.
Although managers pay a popular
singer big pri'-is, they do not cor.ceal
the fact that they want her services
for a ong.
Smart Child- Mamma, what are tho
teeth of the wintry bia.-l for ? Self,
possessed mother To make a cold
snap, i ii y child.
II be long-di la.ied millennium
Would Mfm less dimly far.
If man were only half as good
As their suectl.t in t- think they are.
Mm
slrate (to prisoner) Havo
' ; u k ?
'
l a
barber ) Yes, Your Worship.
Your hair wants cutting!
Patient lioetor, 1 fancy, somehow,
I've s;ot .i touch of the gout. Poctor
Fancy, my dear sir! If you bad,
you wouldn't fancy you'd know.
Gay I'achelor 1 1 ) you think there
is anything iu the theory that married
men live longer than unmarried ones?
Henpecked I'licnd (wearily) Oh, I
don't know seems longer.
Yoiiul' ( 'i imsonback W hat. kind
I of nmaltress is thai I sleep on? Hoard'
ing-hoiiso mistress Il was bought for
a hair ma: tress, and a good one, too.
Well, it must be getting baldhuudcd.
'I: was all very well for the. poet to
talk about a perfect 'woman, nobly
planned,' "' said Mr. Arreers, sadly,
"but the trouble is that il lakes such a
lot of money to carry out tho plan."
"What w as the most successful fu
iiernl you ever saw?'1 "Wc'l, I think
(he bist-allendi'd one w as that of a
man w ho had spent most of bis lifo
practicing the cornel with his w indows
open."
; liciiinrknhlc I! ii ins lu Arizona.
Antiqtiai ians are very much inter
' csted in tho discovery of an aborig
: innl fort hi the valley of tho Gila,
about ninety miles below Phernlx,
Ariz. The discovery was made by
some miners w ho bee mio lost in the
i desert. It is thu largest nud most pe
culiar struct ure found in Iho valley.
The ruins lie about four and one-half
1 miles back from the Gila Hivcr, and
cover about a mile square, lu the,
centre is tho fort still ill a remarkable.
! stnlo of preservation. It coveis an
area of about six acres, and is built in
a very peculiar way. The first tablo
is about twenty feet iu height nnd is
i niaile of dirt, with a wall of boulders
laid in cement nround tho outside.
On top of this, nnd of the same height,
; though only half the size otherwise,
I is the second fable, walled up as the
first. On this is a smaller one nf the
' same height, and on lop of that is thai
fort proper, constructed of stone. The
I edges of the tower tables wcro used
i ns gardens, nnd around tho walls aro
: hundreds of boulders brought from
. the river, doubtless for iho purposo
of casting down on the beads of a foe.
Iu tho t p fort are many skeletons anil
human bones, and iu all probability
the place was besieged and Iho people
died of starvation. A ditch four anil
one-half miles in length runs by the
base of this structure and brought
water from the Gila. It is well de
fined and about thirty feet in width,
though no water runs through
it. Huston Transcript.
An Kxlemleil Fxniiiinntinn.
Ho Aro yon sure I am the only
man you ever really and truly loved?
She Perfectly wire. I went ever
the whole list only yesierdny. Newj
Y'ork Weekly.