North Carolina Newspapers

yMtoilil " II. A. LCWIX3IN, EDITOR AND I'KOl'METUK. HATES ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One sipiare, one insertion One Ripiare, two insertions One sipiare, ouc month tl.C 1.5 - M0 $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advanot. VOL. XIV. IMTTSHOIK)1, CHATHAM CO., N. C, JUNK 1802. For larger atlvertisenieola libersl con rac.U will bo made. mm NO. 12. 0 Mom, Hon'! Tell. 0 moon, did you sou Hy lovei iiinl me In I hi' vnllt')' beneath llii sy sinore Irve! Whatever In fell. O iiiiiiiii' iliin'l li II : 'Tas nothing amiss, jtui know very well. o iiionn ! yon know, I.oii)! your a;ii, Villi lell ( lit' sk lllld dctf lllll'd hl'luw. Of H tail IllUlt I night, Hy jniir own sweet liht Vim met yum Eiirtj niioii on i'ntnio height. Ami then, U inoiiii ! You gvr him a boon Yon wouldn't, FiuMiie.hsvf grunted st no. n. 'Twas nothing amiss, Bi lnon'y llii' bliss Of giving .mil diking an liiniirriil kiss Pome churlish lout Who wu.- inn about Wi n! u!t iiml 1 1 1 1 j I I I . iiinl go ii got oul , Hut for hII Ihi' gold TIio Sf.1 noulil hold, O nioDii ! I wn.ildn'l have gnue all. I told. (, iiiuuii, 1 1 1 1 1 t tell Whatever I t fe l My hoer and me in the le.ifv dell. He is honest and true, And remember, Ion, He only behaved like jour lovei ami you THE KAROO EOK ADAMS. It V W. A rl l( l is. A broi; ymng missionary lately relumed from Siain told I ho following dory : I wu u member of Ilin limit new while nt college mi l when I sinned for Siimi us n missionary inimediiilcly after graduating, I look wiili mo the single-lowing shell in which I hud do no my individual training fur tho crew. Tho missionary station to which 1 was nssiirncil was in tho l-ugo town of Aslicntuu on tho Monaui Hiver, oine miles above Hingkok, tho rii -ital nml chief cily of the country. Tho lown was nut nt all important ex cept I hat there was a celebrated teni ilo there in which woro kept several Bail oil while elephants. Il was a Stronghold of heathendom, ami 1 1 to little ohupel of thu tuissioniiiv station looking aii ins tin; river at Iho huge pagoda of while elephants wns quite largo enough for its humble cougre gnlion. Tho river wah nearly n half mile wide and utloidctl u line oppoi (unity for exercise in my slid I. Every after noon at ii bo ut four o'clock I look a row, nml I often hovcrcil lirur Iho bank upon which tho whito elephant pagoda stood, watching tho snored creatines hh t hoy took their daily bnh in the river. 1 never dined vonluic very nonr, for tho pliosts of Ihe pugo da boro no love toward the ini-sinn-8ries nml con li 1 ca-i 1 y do me some linrm; they would justify themselves to Iho town authorities by fin ing thai they were preventing mo. from work ing spells against I he. elephants. As it was sacrilege for n huniati be ing to mount the bucks of tho while elcnhnntt each ouo was driven to I be river between two common elephant. A sort of roll n i woul around iho ele phant's neck, 'l'o the sides of this collur wero fastened two chains, nml the other ends of Iheso chains were fastened to similar collars about the necks of the attendant . elephants. Priests sat upon the bucks of iho com mon elephants, and by driving I hem tor word or stopping I hem could lead or hold buck the white elephant. Tin chains were very long, in order to give tho while elephant pleniy of freedom when taking hi bath. In general thev walked between their attendant!, dot il" enough, and the drivers held tho slack of iho tliuins coiled in their l:i n- Amoiif Hie few European lesidents of tho town was n young English ui'M chant who, having been a member of the boat crew at Oxford, and owning a shell, fell bound to show England's superiority over tho I'niied Slates by beating me in a boat race on the Menatn. Ho issued a challenge and 1 ac cepted. Tho appointed day came. Tho cotine wus to be a two-mile iretch np river, starting two miles below tho missionary station. Tho nice was a closo one, but my constant training told, and 1 left my adversary behind several hundred yards before reaching the goal. Hut for tho honor of America, I wished lo Iiiako tho defeat as severe as possible and 1 relaxed nothing of my ctVoito und shot last the buoy far ahead of the Englishman. Tho inomeutiiiii tho boat hail gathered curried it along in the placid water and 1 lay upon my ours scarcely ablo lo move. 1 wus completely exhausted. All at ot.ee a tremendous bellowing vanned mo to look up in alarm. . ,Fn awaies, 1 hail floated qilitu near ibV I Mil ing-plaeo of tho whito elephants. tno ohl fellow was in tho river, bel lowing with rago, hile on the bank were bis two attendant elpbants tug ring and straining at the chains iu the vain riVenipt to mule him come out of the water. The elephants of Siani ( lain a 1 1. 1 per Ihan the elephant of any other country, mitt this white ele phant was even larger than most Siamese elepliiiitH. Observing how (irmly Iho old fellow was planted in (ho river snnd, and that, tho other ele phants hiboied under Iho ilimulvituf agr of Handing on die sloping bunk, i concluded that lie would protract Wu hath as long as he chose. All at oine iho atleinlaiil elephaii's reused their struggles, and a cry of terror burst from tho lips of one of the pricMl, nml whu'ever 1 hud be lieved before I nm now certain thai Ihofe while elephant pilosis love ami venerate iheir charges. 'See! the karoo bokadnnn!" riled the priest, 'Mho. whito king's life is iu danger!'' Floating down tho liver, directly toward tho white e! .-pliant, wu- a pieco of wreckage, part ofu broken bamboo rafl, ami lying coiled upon it were two of that hideous, lerribly venoinn variely of water snakes, (ho karoo bokmhiiii. If iho wreckage kept it course ii would float against lh rleplnui's side. If ho moved he might extilo the vin. tliei ivo snake ami receive a fatal blow. Tho priests on attemlanl elephants halted (hem, but still the while ele. pliant bellowed nml swayed from side In side. Truly, the whito king's life was in danger. I grasped my our and forced the stern of the shell abonl, and hacking water, I ciiino up lo the rafl with its filial freight, andiug plnr the point of tho boat against it gently pushed it before inc. out into the an ient of the river. A shout of thanksgiving roso be hind me a I drifted along down stream, watching tho serpents on the rafl at the stern. Tho rreutures moved uneasily ami slatted at mo with their unwink ing eyes, ami at last one dropped over board and sank beneath tho ipiict sur face. 1 thought of the stories I had heart! of Iho quarrelsome anil revengeful disposition of the karoo bokiidam, how if disturbed it would follow bouts for miles, watching for a ch ineo to leap over Iho thwart and attack tho row ers; how swift, how tireless ami how terrible il was. Even Iho books at the station corroborated tho stories of tho unlives; from quaint old Mouligny's Voyage em Siam," to the latest mil in :il history from Loudon, n'l agreed in their stories of the malignant. dreadful karoo boka lam. Ami vol I did not believe these stories. I derided to anger the serpent and seo what ho would do. I picked up a heavy piece of wood 1 1 Kit was floating iu the river nml threw it at him. striking him full on the neck. With an angry hi he raised his bead and then deliberately cast himself into tho water and started lo swim along the side of tho boat toward mo. Tho sholl snt low down in iho wnter and ho could oasily roach me, so 1 seized tho ours und took a strong pull. TIio bout shot ahead, hut on cuuto iho snake, swifter than before, and I took another pull, hardly believing that the reptile was renlly following me. Hut my doubt was soon laid it rest, for he darted along on the sur face, straight in my wal.e. I bent to the ours ami made the shell go as fust a my weary iiiusc'cs would allow. Anil jet the snake seemed to gain, and as I knew that in my tired condition 1 could not long keep up the race, I decided to inn ashore. Hut the shore line was be hind a forest of tall reeds growing far out into tho river and tho snako could kill me at his leisure while my bout stuck iu thorn. I thought of striking him with an onr, but there he was a few feet be hind the boat, and before 1 could gel an oar out of its cumbrous fastening be would be upon mo. and even could 1 get the oar out in time it would be too long and unwieldy at closo ipmr ters. My only hope, was to make for the first practicable landing .and there was none nearer than the bashing place of ihe white elephants. Il was my second race that day, and the victory mount more than glory. 1 I ut forth all my remaining strength, thinking with chagrin how easily I could leave the snake behind if I r. ero not so utterly exhausted. On, on, tirelesly follows the wrigg ling, hideous death, mid 1 see the hor rible bead get nearer the stern. li .pusses tho stern-posts, and 1 mark its progress by the copper rivets in tho side of tho boat. Hi no-e is opposite tho lint rivet, the second, the third; 1 give u mighty pull ut tho oar , and it fulis bark behind the boat onco more. 1 hear the splashing of water. 1 glance up. I am nearly opposite th& elephant's bathing place. The old whim elephant i still iu Ihe water, Iho alleuilaut elephauis by his side. I niu-t make a turn to pas them and reach l he shore, and as I loso headway in the turn tho snake will oveilako iih". Something flushes past my eyes ns I puil hard on the left oar to make Iho turn, and the snake disappears. The head priest of the temple stands ci cot on his elephant. As my bout guiles Iho shore, tho severed body of the karoo bokadnm nml a bamboo spear rise lo thu eur farii and (lout down tho river. One good turn desei ves nnothor, iiiul the whit: elephant priest hud saved my life. The Siiinieso have a i in ions method of tew aiding a person w ho discovers a w ild w hile elephant or stives the life of one, ami so I was laken to tho tem ple and my minilli and ears were lilleil Willi gold. Eor tho lirst tinio in my life I regretted that 1 had small ears. Null .--Tho karoo bokiulaiu of Siain is a very thick-bodied snake, some four feet long, covered with im bricated sriilos. It is of a grny color above mid yellow benenlii. Its head i marked by a maze of criss-crossed lines that give it a very strange and terrililo appearance St. Louis Uo public. The t'ishiiur Itml. A rod lo the angler is what n gun is to Iho huntsman ; or tlm nxo to the woodsman. The angler can fish with a 'polo." cut from the alders fringing the slreniii ; tint huntsman ran shoot with the bow und lliul-lieailcd arrow, used by tho Aiin't icati aborigines, and the woodsman can cut with llio axe of the "stone age;" but Iho success of the iiMr of Iheso pi imitive implements, ami Iho pleasure experienced in tho use thereof, will bo in a degreo as fur from perfection a the rude tool em ployed. Who invented, or first used tho tih ing rod is a problem not yet solved. If the inventor's name hnd been handed down to postoiity ho would linve been sainted centuries ago by the unanimous vote of a respectable and cultivated minority of men wdio have treasured nml wielded this pleasure gi ing scepter. While lishiug ami fishers nre often mentioned iu both sacred and profano history of ancient days, there is little, if anvlhiiiL'. lo bo found relating to j roil. Even Iank Walton writes but lilllo concerning tliein. In his fifth ilny discourse with Venator, he gives instructions for painting Iho rod: "Which must he in oil; you must fust make a si.e of glue and water boiled together until the glue he dis solved ami tho size of a lye color; Ihon strike your sie upon the wood with a bristle, or a brush or pencil, while it is hot. '1 hat lieing ipiite dry, tako a little while lend and a little red lend und a little coal black so much a alto gether will iiiako an ash color; grind these together with linseed oil; lot it be thick; ami lay it thin upon the rod with brush or pencil; this will do for any color to bo upon the wood." In 'he fourth day lulls, iu which ho iieats of lly fishing, he says: "First, let your rod bo light and very gentle ; 1 take tho best to be in two pieces." While Inm unable to give an au thority for it, I have no doubt Walton meant by the word "very gentle," pliant or limber. The fust master of the art thus, iu one line, gives us tho three most important qualities of a lly rod. American Angler. HeniHikahle Training Ihe- Eye. The enpacity of the human eyo for special training is even greater than that of the hand. A young lady em ployed in one of (lie clipping bureaus in New York city can see certain names and subjects at a glance nt Ihe pane of a now spnper. They are the names and subjects she is paid to look up through hundred of newspapers every duy. What iho ordinary render would have to rend column after column lo find and then might miss -she sees at what seems the merest casual gluiico at tho shoot as soon as it i spread out before her. " They stand right out," said sho, laughingly, "jnt as if they were printed in bold black type and all the rest wus small print. I couldn't help ceing them if 1 wanted to. When I begin to look up a new matter and drop nn old one it bothers ine a little the hitter by being iu my mental way all the limo and the former to le hiinied; but in a few days one disap pears and Ihe other appears in some mysterious way, 1 can't tell bow. 1 iisetl to think bank cashiers and tellers weie a remark able set of people, but I now find that the eye is much quicker than the hand and is suscepti ble to u higher training. " l'ittsburg Dji-pttUU. uimtKKVs roi m.. MY TliOl t u.nr'H. Ili):h on the imiple sn inint;, To usher In with siii):iri; Tin- wedding of Ihe I'unn With the Hew up m t tie lnwn, oil cheery lltlli poet! Although you do not know it. And see nnhndy lieu you, I heiir you I hear mi ' Dark, from the iri.h:ird hidden, A serenade unbidden! And hy this dainty t hie, Itoliin, I know ir urn. No, you cannot di i ive mi, Prilcndiiig thnt nm Irnic me; I found ynu out. vmi dear, yon I hear vou I hear you ! No iv on the lueielow flour, The si arlet Iroiiliiulour Siii h melody is IcIIImk The sun forgets its M'ltiiiK ! Vou luusii.liealinu heuit ' lining your I ttle part, Vmi shall he seen nml henrd. Thin. i:h you are hut n i i I . so mi or. never, fe ir ynu. I hear vou I hear you. - M 'baric- II. I'rundall. in St. Nirholis. I IIU,'-, IHI-. T I K I V t liilii. A New , ork newspaper man dis covered in Centrul I'Kik n dog that ran talk. Tatter is a red-headed fox lerrior, whito otherwise except for a blnck-tippctl tail. Tut lets' muster is civil engineer, which is as far a his identification goes. He is teaching Tailors to talk. The dog can be seen any nflornoon, the reporter says, go ing Ihrouh his daily lessons. When he is lold lo speak ho settles hiiu-clf on hi haunches and looks iippealiug ly at his master's mouth lo catch the movement of his lips. When he said "please" today it sounded like "woese-e," tillered most coaxingly. " Thank you"' was "wung-cow," brisk, lively and witli a rising intloctiou on the Inst word. "I nm sorry'' wns ut tered ns distinctly as any child could do it, except (hut tho dog whimpered under thocH'ort. He said "I am glad" in Ihroo clearly enunciated sound. Having gone thus far with his lesson Tutters darted away to chase sparrow s. His master is fullv convinced that he will yet set up verbal communication between himself and his dog. He told the reporter that he intended ex hibiting T.itlers in the t'entrul me nagerie when bo had gone u little fur ther with his lessons. A ,'t I I I! I'l T. 'Every kind of beasts," says I'm Scripture, "ami of birds, nml of ser pents, und of things in the sea, is tamed, and luilh been turned of man kind." Creatures w hich live chielly iu Iho water, however, are not often ndopted as domestic pels, though some o f t lie in are more easily tamed than most people imagine. Seals muko very nflei tionato and gentle pels, and an English newspaper, the Newcastle Chronicle, gives an account of a pet otter which belong to a lady named Leather. The mother of this otter had been killed by dogs, nnd Mrs. Leather took the little fellow in his infancy , christ ened him "Muses," and fed ami petted him. Moses soon caiiie lo know Im perfectly well, nnd would follow her from room to room. lie drunk milk w ith great avidity, but also showed a fondness for trout and rnbbils. So quickly uro an animal's habits changed by domestication thnt Mrs. Leather found great ditlioulty in j teaching Moses to swim. For six weeks he refused to go into tho water but eventually he I oeiuno an expert j swimmer. j Indeed, he lives in Ihe edge of the , river most of the time, but is tame, ' comes out at Mrs. leather's call, nnd j will follow her on a long ramble. Sometimes he comes lo (he door of the house and w histle to be admit ted. Onco inside the bouse, he visils hi friends iu the dill'ereiit apartments, or lies down and waits until they come, often milking a pretty little chirruping noise to tell them that be desires their presence. They pet him and fondle him as one doe a favorite dog or kit ten, and he evidently enjoys Iheso at tentions. Hut if Moses i fond of his friends, he is very quick perhaps too quick to discover an enemy. In these cases he tnews like a cat, and uses hi sharp teeth with very unpleasant ctl'eot. His acquaintance must be made by a stranger very quietly and cautiously. He never forgives an injury, but i very grateful for a little kindness, and intensely devoted to lln.se whom ho really considers hi friend. He is never happier than when he is lying coily by the fire, basking in its pleas ant warmth. - Youth's Companion. The Tnrnimc Hown of (cuiu. VVuggs (lo young matron with the perambulator)--liood morning, Mrs Fiillblooni! Are you taking the s in ul for an airing, or the heir out for a nulling'' Mis. Fullbloom Xcithci. Ms. Waggs. Haby is a girl. Life. COWBOY SPORTS. Contcits of Skill by Champions of Rival Randies. Marvelous Feats of Horseman ship and Revolver Shooting. Even the festive cowboy has his hours of relaxation, although per rhunce his more civili."d fellows of ! 'Mho states" would iironoiineo the sumo fraught with danger and replete with malic on i 1 1 1 en t i n to do "groat ! bodily harm'' to the participant. Hut i among the legitimate sports in w liich the rowtiovs nre prone to indulge, I iiside from the not infrequent inter vals when they reach a lown and r'nlu ! around yelling like t'onianchos und chasing all law-abiding citizen into 1 their siiheollurs during their visilu , lions, may bo mentioned their occn i sioual contests of skill at riding, shooting, und roping steers, got up ! between the raiichmeu of rival camps. A ceilaiu euriy-huirotl, spectacled i young lawyer of staid demeanor I yesterday described such a scene in j which he had participated in n certain sense, under conditions thai the local scribe was not to mention his name, j "It was about five year ago,'' he begun, "when I was roughing it on Morgan Hill's ranch - n little patch of soino I'll, 000 aero.- some sixteen miles out from Snn .lose. Mine host's out lit of rnnchers were exclusively Mexican, and an intense, albeit a friendly rivalry, for a wonder, existed betw een them and the American cowboys of u neighboring ranch. One Sunday morning our boys and their neighbors of 'the Stales' met at Madrono Station, and, as usual, loud boastings were heard on each side as to their superiority in all Hint the cowboy holds dear, namely, riding, shooting and dexterity in wieldiiiL' the lasso. A mulch was I finally agreed upon between one Lu ! ens Padrone of our camp and n picked j man from the American camp for u contest of skill on the points ot rid ing and shooting. Our Mexicans put up as wagers everything they had, that is to say, their loose coin, blankets, lariats, bridles, saddles, 'real genuine Mexican plugs,' ns Mark Twain would stylo them, and nil. The American boys saw the anlc and cheerfully raised thetn to tho extent of all their wordlv possessions. One Mexican put up bis silver-mounted rovolver ami favorito bridle with mo for enough coins of iho realm to stake nil on Padrone. Of course 1 was glad to see the contest, and also am rejoiced to say that the champion f:oui our ranch came out victorious. The lirt lest was to ride around a post about xs inches on tho circumference of u I"-fool cir cle and to girdle the aforesaid post with balls from a revolver. Padrone won both the toss and the mutch, averaging at least '.'0 balls out of the i0 shots allowed. He won the second contest also iu fancy riding, but this was duo in the main to the superior intelligence and training of hi pony, a little bay and while broncho, which nppoared ns meok as Moses, but which hud tho temper of Satan when iiroiicd by its master. It really came up to tho ideal of the 'cow boy's pony' ami was able to 'wheel on a quar'or. This contest embraced seemingly mar vellous font of horsemanship, such as the picking up of handkerchief. or small coins while galloping ut full speed, the vaulting in and out of the saddle and many other inaiin-uvres- -common enough iu the West, but which would be worth a small fortune to a performer iu n circus doing Ihe 'cllete Eust.' " St. Louis licpublic. I'roi: Oil ns mi Embrocation. The colored people living in the swamps of Missis. ippi and Louisiana make, in a crude wuy, many strange medicines for tho diseases prevalent iu that malarial climate, but the one in which they have most confidence is frog oil. At this season of the year every cabin is supplied w ith one or more bottles of the oil, ami it is freely Usui for the chills and fevers that in variably follow the receding waters of the rprlng fieshets. All the "kids" who nre too small to work in the fields aro kept busy catching frogs. The oil is usually tuado by the old women and the black doctors who practice a mild form of Voudno ism. Frog oil i inado by boiling frogs and .Unison weeds together. Tho frogs arc taken alive and thrown into a ket tle of boiling water and a weed is added from time lo time as the co ik ing process goes on. Oil niHilo from dead frogs, they say, is of no value. ! A tiro mado only of pine knots is J used to keep tho kettle boiling. From tlo'ee to four dozen frogs nre required to make quart of oil. They are boiled until they become a shapeless mass of flesh, which, with the exception of the skins, is perfectly while. One or two .limsoii weeds, cut into small pieces, are added. The juice of the weed has an oily Kppoiirunct; nnd mingles with Iho fat boiled out of the frogs. When the boiling process is com pleted there is a thick, greasy looking muss in the kettle. It is allowed to cool nnd is then carefully strained and buttled. The oil is dark green in col or. It is very thick and gives out an offensive, odor. It is applied externally in most cases, being rubbed freely on nil purls of the b -i.lv. but sometimes (decolored patienls tnke small doses of it inter nally for the rucking pains in the sloniaoh which follow a prolonged at tnek of malarial fever and chills. They say that it is an infallible remedy for Ihe malarial rheuiiiai ism that often accompanies or follows the terrible fevers. For this it is nibbed freely on the ntl'urted joint!) morning nnd night. The colored people say thnt its i fleet is quicker und belter Ihan rattlesnake oil, n hich is much ii'od in Arkansas by bulh colored peo ple and whites for all forms of i heu matisui. HriiinN Wilder Itcil nml Summer Halli Tho hour makes his bed for the winter in n number of different vvnys. Sometimes lie crawls ilown in n hole, crevice or -enve and snuggle under dead leaves mid stick At other times, when trees fall down nnd make tangled musses, he crawls in the thick est part. He has also been known to gather great bunches of laurel boughs and pile them iu a heap: then climb on top ami sleep, lotting the snow fall l ight on hint. When the bear is en gaged in making his couch he make a pile of brush six or eight feet in diam eter and three or four feel high. Ho will often strip a young tree so baro of leal and branch that it looks like a llagpole, with only n small tassel on top. In the summer he has a private bath. He goes to some swamp nnd ' with his strong claws dig's down into the black mud until he has hollowed out a little place which soon tillers full of a black ooze. Here the boar lie j and wallow s through the dead heat of ' a summer's duy in the forest, when not n lenf in the woods stirs and the earth and the animals on it bake and i swelter. Ke.atcn pal lis uro generally 1 found to lead to each one of these, show ing that the bear love his slimy baths above all things. lie takes euro of his claws iu the sumo milliner i;, which n cat does Scarred trees can be found in the wilds, showing thai the bears stand on their hind legs and claw down the bark. In the spring ami early sum mer iho bears live on roots and sprouts and tender leaves, together with the grubs nnd worms which they ct by turning over the Motion in the valley-. Houlders too heavy for a man to lift are found rolled recklessly about by bears in the pursuit of grubs. Of course when n bom- find a bee tico he is u happy animal. In the late summer nnd fall he resorts to the beiry patches and Si rub oak ridges ami feasts on the berries and acorns. Hut when he first ionics cut iu the sprino he is verv hungry and will ont auvtli'iu: he can . lie will dine on dead horse, or wid si, al n pig from a pen or a calf from a stable, but when other food is plentiful the black boar will never touch flesh. Hunger will drive him to il, but of bis own frie wilibepiefen a diet of vege table. -New York Tribune. Mow lo I liid Precious Metnls. Andrew Thompson has made an in strument resembling in its appearance the oil well locatet, which will locate I...I.I ,M- silver n.-i 'I'lii- iiiRli-nnient i will acton those metals whether in ore deep in the earth or iu the shape of coin or jewelry, tiold and silver in nicy was placed on the floor and tho instrument quickly located it. Tho coin wns then placed high above the floor, nnd its loention was quickly and accurately determined. It wa also tried on gold and silver ore with tho same result. Munv inducements linve been olleresl Mr. Thompson lo disclose the secret of the little machine, but he refused all oilers, some of them very liberal ones. Ho hits selected a well-known resident of the South Side lo whom bo intends, before ho dies, to impart the secret of the unaltruclive-looking but most po tent machine. The gentleman desig nated to receive this important trust as yet knows nothing about the instru ment except its etlects. lie can bundle it with as much dexterity as Mr, Thompson, but possesses no knowledge of the machine other than that im parted in this article. Pittsburg P.st. Why Ho We Worry 1 Whj do we worry aliniit the nest ? We only slav for n day. in ii month, or a r.ir. nt the Lord's behest In this habitat of duy. Why do we worry about the road, W ith its hill, or deep ravine' In n dismul path, or a heavy losd, We arc helped hy hands unseen. Why do ive worry about the yenrs Thai our feet hao not j-t trod? Who labors with courage and trust, nor fears. His fellowship mih i"d. l In lu st w ill conn- In the i:reit "'to he;" It is ours to serve and wait. And ihe wenderful f'lture we soon slinll K"e. For death is but ihe ate. -itr:ih K. llolton.in Knr and Nr. in innoi s. A ' i hcsiiiiii'' is the story that an other fellow tells. The foiger is not wholly bad. He is ever ready lo wiile a wrong. (iciierallv speaking, when you think you are ill trouble the trouble is it! you. The inu'oh-iiiakiug mamma is the ti lb- help uiale nf the man with the li iliindancv of daughters. Last but not leased," said Iho land lord dolefully, ns In; gazed on au empty house he hud on hand. Hoe I'.-ingli! command the respect of the 'iiiiiiuiiity "Yes." replied Cuniso; 'but it doesn't obey." l.nesof iinai men nil remind us We i in make "iir Iocs -uliliine It the public can but tnid n Wa-tin;; breath and loads ol lime. "Ah, I ;im gaining ground rapidly," a- the man said w hen the dust storm covered him with layer after layer. Il is curiou- how a woman who screams at a mouse, is not startled by a millinery bill that makes a man tremble. The giinll'o is a timid animal. His neck i so long that when his heart come into his mouth it lakes him half a day to get it hack where it be longs. Culler Your next-door neighbors appear lo be very quiet people. Mrs. Spinks- Yes, tho wiills uro very thin and I s'posc tho ii can Ihings keep quiet lo hear what we say. The Perishable I'enrl. Pearls are. very perishable, iny Worn. in. They cannot he considered a lirst-rate investment like diamonds. Alter a time they decay. Sometimes a line specimen will lose its lustre and beauty within a few mouths, so that the possessor of such treasures does well to keep them put away in a sealed place. They are lery delicately made, consisting of thin tlims over laid one upon .mother, with more or lops animal nutter between the layers, and it is no w onder that they deterio rate. After being bui'uv.l iu tho einuud for a while they are found worthless. I'hose whiih arc dug out of Indian eiuvos - -oine nf them (if great size and doubt less of wonderful beauty w hen tin y are new are utterly value ' less, even when they are not pierced. I .Nevertheless, theie i a puro and 1 evanescent benny about them which seem belter to beiMino the maiden than any otli r sort of jewel. Nothing varies so much in valuo us pearls. With them fashion uHecls the market constantly. Sometimes white ones are sought, while oilier lints at intervals are in demand. For some your. past bin. k pearls have been the rngo. A line specimen worth I' 1-0 will fetch i'-jno perhaps, if anothci i an be got to match it pci tocllv. A Solid Siher liailroiiil Pass. The .-iiverloii 1! lilroad and the Kio C ramie Jvmthorn companies, of which Olio Meal is president, have a com bined mileage of '.''-' miles. Mr. Menrs issues the most beautiful annual passes used on any road iu the world. This i year the pass is a highly polished solid j iiUer plate, made of Colorado silver j j.y native workmen. The border is in artistic Mexican filigree silver-work. The name of the recipient is engraved on the centrul plate. There arc no sordid, cautio iary "conditions" on the reverse side of this dainty pass, warn ing the holder that in accepting this ho releases the company fiom all lia bility for personal injury." This in vitation is ns generous and free ns the winds of the Colorado mountains through which the road rune. St. Louis Uepublic. Oier Exertion. Stna'l Hoy (who ha been playing ball for six hours) My log aches. Anxious Mother What have you been doing? Smal! Hoy I dunno. I did a ex rniple on the blackboard yerterday. Good News.