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VOL. XV.
PITTSBURG1, CHATHAM CO., N. C, DECEMBER 1, 1892.
NO. J I.
Klugtngr by Mm Way.
TTc sung the blllhe-lieartcd robbiu
Slugs In a summer day.
liimlndful that any listened
To the mtiilc uf his lay.
Tlic joy of life and of living
Seemed voiced in the simple strain
That filled tbe air with sucb sw retnrss
As the fields have after rain.
His weary and toil-worn iielgt-bor
Heard, and was glad to hear,
For Into bis Ure of labor
It threw a thrill of cheer.
It lifted his thoughts from sadness.
It eharmed away his rare.
And the music and its gladness
Brought blessing unaware.
We may all be sinners, my brothers.
Of songs to help and cheer. '
The strain may not be lofty;
There may be few to bear.
Hut into some life the music
Of the song we sing may full,
Brave with its faith in the goodness
Of tbe God who is over all.
Let tbe joy of our lives run over
Our lips in a cheerful song.
And the world may have more of sunshine,
And the faint of heart grow strong.
fing, for the joy of Kinging,
And sing your cares away,
And share with others the gladness
That comes to yon day by day.
Kbcn K. liexfon!.
MISS GRAYSON'S ADVICE
For (wo vvliolo years Captain Jump
ison had been t lie idol of the spinster
of Uuiiboroiigh-by-lhe-Sea. Cheery,
good-natured and good-looking, his
privalo means wore, limited, if tliey
extstod at nil, and his pay was insuffi
cient to cnablo him to indulge any uf
thoso expensive tastes which rurc
young men from tho milder delights
of tea and tennis. lie neither hunted
In winter nor played polo in 81111111101-;
and he was always ready to dance
half Ihe night at tho Buuborough bull.
11c really was a very nice man indeed;
every one ngrecd that he would make
a very nice husband for any 0110 of
the young ladies of Buiiborough to
whom he might iliiully determine to
offer himself; and for two years he
distributed his favors freely, but with
absolute impartiality.
"There is safety in numbcisiuid the
coward knows it," said Miss Grayson,
of the Valley Collage, to Maud Oak
ley, who had been unbosoming Iter
soul to her. MUs Grayson was the
kindest of elderly Indie where young
people's lovo affairs were concerned,
and Maud Oakley had known her
since, she (Maud Oakley, not Miss
1 1 .1 V8011 ) was a baby, "Cowards! ''
said Miss Grayson again under her
breath, anil Mis O tklcy sniH';d depre
catingly. Sho had been talking to
Miss Grayson for an hour and had
told her sympathetic listener a good
deal Hint was, in the language of the
Ttilgar, "slalo news." Miss Grayson
was ipiito aware (all Buiiborough
might have told her) that Captain
Jumpison had quite recently shown a
distinct preforenco for the Oakley
family. He dined there whenever he
was asked and had won Genera! Oak
ley's confidence by delicately express
ing unbounded belief in his stories
not always an cny task; lie
had bojn most attentive to old
Mrs. O.ik.cy during nipper time at
several balls, and his visits to the
home for ii o'clock lea hi I not been
limited by invitations issued to him or
conllncd to those occasions when Gen
eral and Mrs. Oakley were at home;
but thoro wcro two Miss Oakleys, and
to which of them Captain Jumpison
intended Ids attentions to be devoted
was a question which Buiiborough-by-the-Sea
would have liked to have an
swered. It was not strange, however,
that the public were puzzled when
Maud Oakley hail had to confess to
MUs Grayson that she had no very dis
tinct idea whether her sister Geraldiuc
o:' herself was preferred by tho man
to whom alio had unreservedly lost her
heart, though she admitted she had her
fear.
"Geraldine has Dr.Covordale," said
Maud. "She would bo quite happy
with him."
'Quito so," said Miss Grayson. "It
never rains but it pours.'
Maud had wondered whether it had
ever poured" with suitors in SI ins
Grayson's young days, and said noth
ing. Can't wo make Dr. Coverdale pro
poso to her?" said Miss Grayson.
And Geraldine accept him!" added
Maud doubtfully. Miss Grayson was
a determined-looking old lady, but
even tho seemed to consider tho pro
ject impracticable.
"Iid you ever try boohoo with any
one?" said Miss G:ay-on.
"What !'' said Maud.
"Boohoo, boohoo, boohoo," cried
Mitts Grayson, excitedly; and an elder
ly lady who had selected tho precise
moment to bo announced by Miss
Grayson's pretty little parlor maid
very nearly liiiel And tied, Sho
came in, however, and her imprcssiou
that MUs Grayson had gone demented
was confirmed by the apparently im
becile laughter with which her greet
ing was received.
Maud rose to leave and Miss Gray
son, who had recovered her presence
of mind sufficiently to inquire after
her new visitor's husband (ho had
been dead seven years), accompanied
her to the front door.
"Don't you understand, you silly
child?" she said, kissing her nfl'eetion
ately on the doorstop. "Cry, cry, cry
your eyes out ; not one of the wretches
in a baker's dozon of them can Bland
tears." And tho kind old lady re
turned to pacify a justly indignant
widow; while Miss Oakley walked
home, with a light breaking slowly in
on her us she pondered tho somewhat
enigmatical advice she had received.
Meanwhile Captain Jiinipison was
striding down the flinty road leading
from the barracks to Iiunborough as
if he trod on air. He scarcely knew
how he had transferred himsolf from
uniform to his newest mufti; but be
tween his beating heart and the tweed
coat which formed its outermost
covering he could foel tho communi
cation which had that afternoon
altered tho course of his career for
ever. "On Her Majesty's sorvicc"' it had
arrived; and "on Her Majesty's ser
vice" it informed him ho was expected
to proceed fortwith to a somewhat
distant portion of her dominions
where, in return for a salary exceed
ing his wildest dream, ho was to
perform duties as to which ho still
felt vaguo. Hut they probably in
eluded the dispensation of substantial
justieo Willi lavish hand to sundry
swarthy fellow-subjects and the in
struction of the m ile portion of them
in the use of obsolete weapons a id
tho evolutions of an improved drill.
The -climate well, every rose has
its thorn, and Government House and
his society would reconcile Geraldine
Oakley to a bursting thermometer aud
a die, of quinine. She could have her
sister to stay with her if she folt lone
ly ; he was quito fond of Maud, though,
of course, she did not care for him;
did she not ahvays'rctire when he
came to tea and leave him alone with
her elder sister, and always refuse to
give him more than four dances iu one
evening? Hut Geraldine was dilleront.
Dr. Coverdalo would do very well for
Maud when Geraldine was gone.
There tho was Maud, not Geraldine
standing on the top step wailing for
him as he almost ran up tho garden
walk.
"How do you do?" she said shyly,
as she u-hercd him into the drawing
room. "I will go aud toll Geraldine
you are here?"
He was delighted; could nny thing
have been more thoughtful? Hut,
oddly enough, sho did not go. She
sat down, on the contrary, and began
lingering a "chair back" nervously.
"It is a tine day," sho said, and
then stopped.
"II ing U" ho thought; "I meant
to tell Geraldine the news first, but
there's no harm in beginning with
her."
So he began, pulling out his official
letter to show her.
"I have como, Miss Oakley, to tell
you some news and ask you to con
gratulate me."
"What!" she exclaimed, "are you
engaged to be mar"
'Olt, no!" he answered, "not ex
actly that is, not yet in fact, I mean
not exactly."
Aud he got very red, tin 1 so, curi
ously enough, did she. She looked
very pretty blushing, and with her
lower lip quivering a little. Geraldine
was not so pretty us Maud, he admit
ted to himself as lie looked at her.
"No," he said, "it's tho appoint
ment 1 told you (or was it your sis
ter?) my uncle was dying 1 0 get for
me the very thing 1 have been want
ing." And ho proccded to paint Ihe
charms of tho new career opening be
fore him in glowing colors. He said
nothing about the quinine. When he
cane) to an end of all tho details she
was silting, with an expression of
deep interest, looking at him, and lie
felt that had sho only been Geraldine
that very moment would have arrived
that precise opportunity not always
easy to obtain particularly in a small
villa. "And so," he said, feeling he
must In ing ids talc to a conclusion
ami give her an excuse for going to
fetch her sister "and so, Miss Oak
ley, I leuvo Hunborough very soon,
aud have conio to say good-by."
"tiood-good-boo-hoo."
She did not hit the precise note
which had startled Miss Grayson's
visitor; but the effect on him was
even more electrifying.
"My goodness!" lie mm mured.
"Boo boo, boo hoo o." And
he buried her head in the sofa cush
ions. '
For a minute ho said nothing; his
first inarticulate cntrcatv to hei died
on his dps before her s orin of grief,
so he bit his mustache in silence. Thou
he friv.it door slammed; Miss
Geraldine Oakley was going out for a
walk, totally unaware of his arrival.
Could he stop her? He could hardly
open tho window and shout. Ho
moved towards the drawing-room
door, but lie ha J to pass tli: s-fa. and
as he did so the girl on it rose, ns if
she, too, half da.ed, was seeking a
way of escape; and us thoir hands
met 011 the door handle she sank sob
bing into his arms.
"Don't, don't !" she whispered,
hardly articulately, but ho was doing
nothing from which he could desist,
for ho could scarcely let her drop on
the floor.
"My goodness," said Capl. .luinpl
son again; "will no one come?" Hut
the house was still, aud he reflected
that perhaps it was as well that no one
should come in at that juncture at till
events, not without warning; and so
there was another pnti-e broken only
by her sobs. He could see her sister
through the muslin blinds. Sho was
looking over the garden gate talking
to some one. Would she change her
mind and bring whoever it was in to
tea? If she did, Mau l would surely
hear I hem entering ihe house and re
treat. But Geraldine stood talking at
tho gate. Only the rector wore a high
hat at Buuborough-by-t he-Sea and Dr.
Coverdale.
"Click !" went the garden gale ns
Geruldine pa-sed into the sunny road
way. "Hoo-hoo!" It was a very gcntlo
one this lime, from somewhere near
his walc.li-pocket.
"Click!" went the garden gale, ns it
swung back on its hinges.
And Capt. Jumpison surrendered at
discretion. St. .lames Budget.
The Oldest knovtn Inscription.
In the palace of the Louvre, Paris,
in that position set apart for Hebrew
antiquities, may be seen tint famous
"I'illar of King Mesa." it is fash
ioned from pure black basalt; meas
ures forty inches iu height, twenty
eight iu width and fouriecn inches in
thickness. For 2H0O years this famou.s
historical "stela" rem ii noil iu one po
sition in tho "country of tho Moar
bitcs," on tho shores sf the Dead Sea,
at tho 6pot, ns is supposed, where tho
frontier of their territory joined with
that of the tribe of Iteubeii. It
boars upon its faces the very oldest In
scriptions that have yd been deci
phered, char iclcrs, wolds and
sentences that were "graved then on"
at a time contemporaneous with the
Bible, nine hundred years before tho
birth of the Savior. One remarkable
thing iu connection with this antique
pillar aud its history is the fact that it
was not buried in the sand-, as most
well-preserved ancient relics liavo
been, but remained standing erect in
tho full light of the day for twenty
eight centuries. The lirst news of Iho
whereabouts of this nncieut pillar was
communicated to M. Gionnout-Gau-neau,
ono of the. French Consuls at
Jerusalem, in 170. The great his
torical value of tlic lind may ho judged
from tho fact that many of the in
scriptions supply fads that have been
wholly omitted from the biblical ae
c itints of the wars between King Mesa
and tho Israelites. s ' Repub
lic. The Fastest of Sailing Ships.
I'ulil the Guion steamer Arizona
was launched the record lor the great
est number of miles covered from
noon to noon was held by a sailing
ship. This was the Flying Cloud, than
which no faster ship has ever sailed
the sen. Many famous ships have
been built in America and sailed un
der our flag. Mystic, Connecticut,
once turned out craft remarkable for
their speed, about the last of which
was tho Twilight. There, too, was
launched the Gamecock, 11 well-known
tea-clipper, rnd probably tlnl last sail
ing ship out of New York possessing
a well-fiirnishod armory. There, too,
probably was buill a certain ship
which was owned iu Middiclown.
F.verything connecied with this vessel
was carried out in deli nice of all su
perstitions concerning Friday. Her
keel was laid on a Friday, tio v;
launched on a Friday, named Friday,
commanded by a man named Friday,
and sailed on a Friday and was nevor
after heard from. A titling and proper
end. New York Post.
What Peter the Great I. iked to Fat.
Peter tho Great disliked to havo
many attendants round him while he
ate "listening lackeys," as ho culled
them. Ho loved a dinner composed
as follows: A soup with four cab
bages in it, gruel, pig, with sour
cream for sauce; cold roast niiat,
with pickled cucumbers or salad;
lemons and lamprey ; salt meat, ham
and Llniiburg cheese, -j Chicago
Times. '
riUI.IMtt.N'S (OU MS.
Tt'MMV's 1 ii.wksi.ivim; tkimt.i.f.
"here's going to he turkey and din k and
ham.
V nd salad and ice-cream and pudding and
jam,
tud oysters and tarts and chicken pie.
V lid custards with frosting piled up high!
Ill dear! how I wish 1 was bij its a man!
'or 1 want to eat just all that I can.
ud to think of those tarts aud custards
and all,
And 1 oh dear. I'm so dreadfully small.
I Youth's Companion.
A THANK srt'VfNU T"ltr. )
"Kulh! But! vi wake up! wo
will certainly leave ou at home if
fou aro not ready iu time."
Kulh Calit well sat up in bed and
ilowly rubbed her eyes. For a mo
ment she could not understand what
it all meant. There were her two
listers, Amy and Hertha, flying around
(Citing dressed, aud it was evidently
jarly, because il was still necessary to
lave a light.
"OL! 1 know," she thought, as she
iprang up. Aloud she added,
"Thanksgiving, isn't it? Why 1 for
fot! We arc going to grandma's,
iren'l we!"
Amy stood before tho mirror comb
ing her hair. As I!uth spoke she
turned and said, "Well Bull). You
ilid succeed in gelling awake? I have
iliakeu you aud I don't know what I
uavcu't done to wake you. 1 thought
(on were going to sleep all day."
"Well you never mind, I am awuko
at last. Let us see who will be down
ilairs first."
Huth fairly flew into her clothes
and won (lie race. Then came 1111
sarly breakfast. At length everyone
vas ready. Thoy climbed into the
wagon, and in a few miiiuie were on
j ;hcir wuy to grandma's.
The farmyard gate was open wide,
i aud as they drove iu grandma came
uut on the porch to greet ihem. Her
! lear old face was wreathed in smiles
j is stic wclcomod her son ami his fain
j ly back to Iho old homestead. Mr.
; Caldwell attempted to help Mrs. Cnld
j well and Ihe children out of (he wagon
; hut before he could help them the
girls were out aud on the porch bug
giug and kissing their grandmamma ;
j then away ink) the house, going
! through the same performance with
! their cousins and uncles and aunts. In
I 1 fow minutes Mrs. Caldwell, r.,
j same in, followed by her son aud
i daughter.
1 All of Mr. Caldwell's brothers and
sisters were at iho old homestead,
j They were sitting in tho large, old
1 fashioned ki chen, talking and laugh
' ing, whon Both said, "Grandma can
we go up in the al'.ie and dress in
I those cloths that your grandma and
I grandpa used to wear?"
J "Yes, certainly, my dear,'' answer
; cd thoir grandmother. So with u
I happy "thank you" they trooped
j away, up the littlo attic stairs,
i Iu tho big garret stood several long
j trunks, and with a shout of j y the
children ran toward them. Iu a very
short linio every one of them stood
: with open lids, and old silks, brocades.
powdered wigs, and various other
things we'-" being dragged forth once
more into iho light of day. Tho ehil
drcd arrayed themselves in these, and,
if fifteen minutes later a person had
looked into that attic ho would have
beheld a scene, which dated back a
century or two. What fun they had
up there.
Il was about half-past eleven o'clock
when tho hall door below suddenly
opened. Looking up tho oldeV people
beheld two figuro standing 011 the
threshold.
One was decked out in knee
breeches, powdered wig, fancy waist-
i coat and buckied slippers. The other
I wore a pink brocade, powdered hair
1 and high-hcclcillippers and carried in
j one baud a lace handkerchief, yellow
with age, which she waved gracefully
as she made a pretty little courtesy
and said: "Whon dinner is ready, wili
you please call us?" Then she turned
ami taking Iho hand of her escort
tnado a low bow and disappeared.
"Amy and Harry did that well," said
grandpa.
At noon the "old folks" marched
solcmiy in and took their places at the
table. For dinner thoy had pumpkin
pio, turkey and all Thanksgiving
dishes.
That evening they knelt around tho
fireplace and with earnest voices,
which told of grateful hearts, thauked
God for thoir blessings during the
past year.
Homesick.
Mrs. Slimdict (to new boardei):
Bid you sleep well last night, air?
New Boarder: Not very, Mrs. Slim
diet. That bed reminded me so iiiuc.
of home that I felt sort o' hoincsicK.
"Indeed I AY hero i you home?"
"In the Uoeky Mountain."
"THE HOLY CITY."
A Description of Mecca, Its
Streets and Buildings.
Vast Numbers of Pilgrims
Visit It Annually.
Mecca, the city to which Moham
medan worshiper make annual pil
grimage in vast numbers, is described
by Charles Dudley Warner iu Har
per's Magazine. We quote from iho
article us follows
Mecca, sometimes called Oin-el-Kola
(the mother of towns), lies in a
narrow nindy vulley running north
and south, among barren hills from
two hundred to live hundred feet iu
height, about forty-six miles from the
Bed Sea port of .ledda. In Burck
hardi's time the town, including the
suburbs, occupied the broader part of
the little valley, extended up the
slopes, was not more than three thou
sand five hundred pace in length, and
had an cs imated stationary popula
tion of thirty-three thousand; the per
manent residents aro prolmbly now
about forty-live thousand.
It is described by Buickhardl as a
luind-omc town, the streets broader
than usual in Oriental cities. The
houses aro built of gray stone, many
of them three stories high, with win
dows opening on the street; many
windows project from tho wall and
have elaborately carved and gaudily
painted frame work. The houses aro
buill, as usual iu the F.ust, about
courts, with terraces protected by
parapets, and most of theili are con
structed for tho acc.Jininodaiion of
lodgers, so that the pilgrims can have
convenient access to their separuto
apartments. The town, in fact, is
grcaily modili'd to minister to Ihe
gieat influx of strangers in tho allium!
Hadji. Ordinary houses have apn'
J menti for them, iho streets are broad
j to give room for the crowd of pil-
griius, and ih) innovation of outer
J windows is to give the visitors a
I chance lo see the procession.
1 The city lies open on all sides; it
, has few trees, and no tine buildings
j except (lie great moque. It is not
I well supplied willi water, and iu the
I hught of the pilgrim ige this fluid bo
j conies scarce and dear. The wells arc
brackish, and there ure few cisterns
for collecting rain-water. It is (rue
llu.t tho flow of tho holy well Zem
Zt'iii in the mosque is copious enough
to supply the town, but there is a
prejudice against using the walcr for
eomj.ion purposes, and besides, it is
heavy and '.a I for digestion. The
Ust water is brought 111 an aqueduct
i from the vicinity of Arafat, six or
I seven hours distant, lint the conduit is
' in bail repair and unclcnned, aud this
supply often gets low. The streets
aro unpaved, and 11s the country is
j subject to heavy rains, alternating
! with scorching heat, I hey are always
j either cxec-s.-ivoly muddy or inlolerar
j blv dusty.
I The fervent heat of the town is al
j ways contrasted wi ll tho coolness of
I the elevated e'ty of Medina. M jliiitn
; nied said that he who had endured the
! cold of Medttiu and the heat of Mecca
I merited llie reward of paradise. Siid
I den and copious storms of ruin frc
! quetdly delude Mecca; sometimes the
1 whole town is subinerg-nl, houses are
swept away and lives lost, and water
has stood in Ihe moquo enclosure as
high as tint black stone in the K laba.
Although Burckhardt says he eujoyo.l
I his stay there nnd was very couiforla
; ble (the lladj that year was iu No
vember), his experience is not that of
j most pilgrims. Harper's Magainc.
Telegraph Lines in the Tropics.
The business of telegraphing ha its
difficulties and is prolific of exaspera
tions in this town and country, w ith
dead wires and live wires, cosmos and
tangles, cyclones and bli..anls, and
auroras and "I'lis," Telegraphic
commuuic it ion anywhere is subject lo
interruption from a hundred aud 0'ie
causes, and few peop'a who kie'ij
I about the service are aware ot '.he
1 dilljciil'.;es to te evor;ctiio in main-
I uivinj a pevfett electrical circuit.
I
j But iu the tropics the maintenance of
a telegraph 'ino in good working
order is a constant up-hill tight against
all manner of inlcrrupiii.g enems
that linemen and operators in this
latitude never dream of.
J In Brazil Ihe wires get tangled up
1 with the cable-like web of au im
mense spider, which, dripping with
dow or rain, makes cross connections,
short circuits, and grounds almost
daily. Ants often destroy the poles
in a few weeks, donkeys swing 011
the wires and break; them, and in the
forests creepers ai.fl rope-like withes
overgrow the poles and wires every
few weeks. All this is more or less
true of all Central nnd South America.
In Cuba there is tin on-hid that iu
crusls the wire and causes leakage. In
the West Indian Islands the .1 oh 11
Crows, or turkey buzzards, make life
miserable for the telegraph and te'e
phone people. These big, heavy birds,
the only scavengers, are around in
great numbers. They roost en the
wires or fly up against them, nnd in
variubly break theni short oil'. In one
large town the telephone lines that
ran by (he public, market had to be
put underground because the buzzards
congregated there in great numbers,
rested on the wires, and broke them
almost nightly. On the pampas of
Argentina the herds of practically
wild cattle rub and butt against tho
poles, and frequently break them
down.
For some years it was altogether
impossible to maintain a line of tele
graph through Persia for more than a
few days ut a time; the natives regu
larly destroyed it us a device cf the
evil one. Finally the Shah issues 1111
edict making the loss of an ear the
penalty for a lirst offence of destroy
ing the telegraph lines, Ihe loss of it
hand for the second, and death, by
being bitriecd to the neck in the sand
beside the telegraph line, the pena ty
for a third oflenco. One-cared men
were common iu Peisia for several
years, for the Shah was determined to
introduce civilizing influences. New
York Sun.
The Interior of Greenland.
Greenland, a great continental is
land, lying bet ween the northern hinds
of Furopc and America, and uncon
nected with either, is almost M'JO
miles in length and 700 in breadth,
with an area of 820,000 square miles.
Its interior is covered by a vast ice
cap, many hundred feet inlhicknets
in some placos not less than S00O feet,
''com this inland ice great projections
"iid down the valleys and mountain
. ges toward the sea. These aro
glaciers and are really ico rivers, find
are iu slow bai eon stunt motion.
As they aro pushed onward into tho
sea, or into Ihe deep fjords which indent
the coast, great fragments of them
break oil and float away south as ice
bergs on the Arctic current, and be
come the terror of mariners in the
North Atlantic. When tho explorer
climbs tho slope of these projections or
glaciers, he linds himself ou tlioli.n l
glittering ice of the interior at an ele
vation of 2o00 or :0"0 feet above tho
sea level. Tho "great aud terrible
wilderness" of ico extends in all direc
tions as far as the eye can reach. In
winter and early spring a thick coat
ing of snow covers il, which the heal
of summer only partially molts. No
signs of a living thing is here; noth
ing to break tho monotony, but hero
and there Ihe surface is lorn by crevas
ses, into whose awful depths the
streams from the melting snow plunge
wiih tullcu roar, ."such is the interior
of Greenland. New A'ork Tribune.
London's splendid Police System.
"Nothing ot all 1 saw iu F.urope," j
said Mr. II. W. Crawford to tho Cin- j
cumuli Times-Star, "Impressed inc.
more than the splendid police system ;
of Loudon. The street in front of the ;
Bank of I'.uglund is crowded as you
never see a street crowded here, bin 1
the multitudes pass without interrupt- !
ion or entanglement. The police
stand in iho midst of the crowd of I
vehicles and are supreme in authority.
If au officer tells a cabby to stop, he.
slops. If ho orders him to move 011,
he move on, and the luckless driver
who by neeideni or design bru-hos an 1
o tlieer with his wheel, funis liinisi'f I
deprived of a license tho following '
day. In America it would be 1111 possi-
ble lo establish ouch a respect for au- I
ihority, bill 11 is a good thing in its
way. I havo seen 111010 scrapping on
the streets of Cincinnati in two days
than 1 saw in three months iu the
Luropeaii cities.''
The Bark Most Popular on the Sea.
On Ibe. Celifouiian coast the b irkeu
iii:e U a favorite ng and many of
tbc'it cross a sky-sail yard. There is
no rig which combines so many a l
vantaues us Ihrit of the batkentiuc for
otl-sbore vessels of from four to seven
hundred tons register. Of course, 011
ihe eastern side of theso I Hited Stale
Ihe forc-and-afi schooner wii h a va
luing number of iua-t. .floats pre
einiiien'. Il is said that .Icrseyincn can be dis
tinguished from 1 ).)wneasters by the
number of different colored headings
011 the sides of their schooners. Ital
ians, Austiians and Scandinavians ad
here to the hark rig, and four out of
live of their foreign-going vessels are
barks. Their smaller craft aro goner
ally hcrmaphrodile-brig rigged. Take
the sea-faring community the world
over and Ihe bin k is still tho predomin
ating rig. New York Posl.
A Song of Liberty ..
Across the liuid from strand to strand
l.oiid riliK the bugle notes,
And Freedom's sini e from isle to i.-lj,
Like Freedom's haulier floats.
The p!vi t vales ting " Liber! .)!'
To answering skies serene;
I'lie mountains, sloplm: to I lie sea,
Wuvc all their llas of jjrecn!
The rivers, dashing lo the deep,
Still echo loud ami Ion;,',
Ami ali their waves In glory h ap
To one immortal son.'!
line song of liberty and life,
That was and is to be.
Till tvnii! Hags are trampled rngs
And all the world is free!
One song the nations hail !he notes
From sounding sea to sea.
And answer from their tlnilliiii? throats
That song of Liberty!
They answer unci echo comes
From chained and irouhlcd isles.
And roars like ocean's thunder drums
Where (lad Columbia smiles.
Where, crowned and great, she sits In statf
Iieiieatli her flag of stars,
Her heme's blood the sarre.l flood
That crimsoned all its b:irs!
Hail to our country 1 strong she stands,
Nor fears Ihe wardrum's beat ;
flu; sword of Freedom in her hands -
The tyrant at her fei t !
I Frank I.. Stanton, in Atlanta Ouistilu
tioll.
Hl'MOHOl'S.
The man wi'h plenty of fat mort
gages lives 011 the lieu of the laud.
"I ha'c a high duty to perform," ai
the balloonist said before he made at
ascension.
He Hailing, let me assure you of
the depth of my ulleciion. She Ah!
No bottom to it?
Il may not be uniu'crcsiing to not!
that in Algiers siUliers were always
employed by the dev.
Money iu y be Ihe root of evil, bill
poverty is at best bill a rough-skluneti
encourager of virtue.
Some bathers have very few brains,
i but we must give them credit for f
' good deal of head-work.
St. Louis boasls of a man who hai
' lost two legs mid two arms. The)
I say he is not half a hud fellow.
I At u natural history exaininaiion.
J "What is the animal capable of tin
! closest attachment to man?" "Tin
j leech."
Customer Havo you any frcsl
I maple syrup? New Grocery Clork
I No'm ; but I can mix some up rigU
I away for yo 1.
I "Where ye goin', .Johnny?" "Dou'i
I bother me. Fin a relief expedition, I
! am." "Aro ye playiii' North Pole?'
I "Naw. Fin goin' to tho drug stori
for paregoric.
Bei th Well, I have vrealy changed
my mind once more. Algie Bertie,
tleah boy, 1 hope you didn't get ono o;
those stroiiy ones that you won'1
know how to 11 so.
"What was Helen crying abou.
Polly?'' asked Polly's mamma, as tin
little one came in from the playground
"She dug a great big hole in tho gar
den, and Iut mamma wouldn't let hoi
take it into the house with her," sail
IVIiv.
Co-operation in Itoad Makiinr.
The new system in New-Zealand o'
consi rnciiug roads and railways is !v
what are c.uled co-operative contracts
In these, a small pany of men, gene
rally siN iu number, is allotted a eer
tain section or li-nglh of road or lino,
one of ihfm is idee cd a "ganger" an
trustee for ihe others, to deal for then
with Ihe Government. The Govern
ment engineer states a price for th
portion of woik, and us this is doni
by on unprejudiced officer il is genu,
rally accepted without murmur by tin
men. The re-ults usually have heel
very satisfactory. Progress pa menb
are made fori uigh! ly , for the bench
of the men's faini ic, and the whoh
amount is paid up in ca-h on (lie woil
being pa-scd by the engineer. It ii
the intention of the Government t
provide sma I farms of ten or ji flees
acres each for these workmen in vil
luge settlements, so (hat they limy b
induced to make their homos in coun
try districts, and thus iu some dcgrei
neutralize the cetitt aliziug tendency o:
1110 lern industrial life.
Pecan Culture.
Pecans make a prolitaUie crop, an
Ihe largest "paper s'lelled" nuts briuj
very high juices. The trees will bca:
a little fruit iu from eight to niin
years, but a paying crop will not bi
produced before ten or fifteen year
Tho pi. inting ot the best nuts is tiluioa
a sure investment, and although the)
do not proihiro for so many years, th
irfound need 'not stand idlo but can bt
planted with other crops until tot
much shaded by the trees, when it cai j
be used as pasturo land.
Tho pecan nut is little knowi
abroad, so that lliero is no danger o)
overstocking the market. Americai
Farmer.