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II. A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1,50 PER mi Strlolly In Advmet. 'Tls Better to Hope. Better to hope, though the clouds hang low, And to keep the eyes slid lifted; For the sweet blue sky will soon peep through, Vflien the ominous clouds arc drifted. There never n night without a day, Nor n evening without a morning, And the darkest hour, the proverb Buys, Ihe hour before the dawning. Detroit Free Press. Deacon Brackett's Proposal. "Will, Willi-' cried Dolly, running in great haste, down (lie lunc one bright spring morning. 'Whoal tiooil morning," sa'ul Will, pulling tip tbo douem's oKl horse Steady at tlio guto. "Much obliged to you, I'm sure, for coming down here to sec me," as lie wailed. 'Don't tenso, Will; I had a reason for coming, of course. Is Deacon Bracked at homo today V "Yes, and likely to bo for awhile. Ho cut hit foot yesterday, chopping up in Ilia birch pasture. " "Is it a bad cul, Will?'' "No that is, only a fl:sh wound, but it will couliue him to the house for a week or two, 1 suppose. Are you coming over to soc him'.1" No, of course not; but Aunt Se lena wanted nic to ask." Oh! then she's coining!" tingly hilling u:i the truth, can she be c u;iiig to sec the un wit "What deacou for?" Well," replied Dolly, "I suppose she wouldn't want anything said about jf, but we heard tho deacon wauted lo sell tho ten-acre ti-sld, and Aunt Se rena will pay him us much for it as any ono el 10 can all'ird to. It joins her lot you know, and she always said it ought to belong to tho farm." "Sj thut's it,"' said Will; "didn't know, seeing it's leap-year, but .-ho might have some idea' 'Nomense! 1 wish !u h id, though. Sho said only this morning, jokingly, she'd a good mind to propose to tho first single 111:111 she me', for hired help's worse than no help, and it will take all tho crops she eau raise to pay for ruining them." 'That's about, tho ease at home," exclaimed Will. ".Miry .land's mother taken .sick and bent for Inr this morning; I've just carried her to Ihe depot, and the deacon's lame, and that leaves him with 110 housekeeper." I)or-o-:hy!" called her Aunt Serena from the door. "The clo'es are bilin' ii' tho butter has come." 'And I'm coming! (iood-by, Will!" "(Iood-by, Dolly; I guess, Miss I). une can buy the field." Dolly ran into the house, and while tier mint stamped (he golden bails of butter sho deftly linked, wrung and hung the snowy clothes 011 the line. "Aunt Serena, asked Ddly at dinner, just as her aunt poured out the second cup of ten, having noticed this was her most communicative time. Deacon ltrackelt is a nice man, isn't he?-' Law sakes, child, there ain't a belter nowhere about. Sapin is a food calkilator; where you find one man his equal, you'll tind ninety .nine win ones." So I thought," observed her niece. "1 wonder why he never married?'' "I can't loll ye that, I'm sine. I'rap's tho deacon's a little too particu lar. 'Taint every woman could suit Lim, brought up as he was." "No, I don't know of but one, and Dial's you, Aunt Serena." Don't be foolish, Dorothy," said Miss Dame, sharply. And Dolly, sat ilied that her aunt would say nothing further on the subject, maintained :i sagacious silence. In the meantime Will had hurried homo, where ho found the deacon ly lug 011 tho lounge, gioaniirg dismally with tlio pain in bis fool and the gen eral condition of affairs. "Did you get I lie liniment, Wil liam?" queried he, anxiously. Yes, sir; here it is. Shall I bathe your foot now?" "No. You may loosen the bandage a bit, though, of yer a mind tew. How on airih we're goiu' lew git along till Mary Jano comes back is more'n I know." Well," answered Will, after an in spection of the larder, ''there's plenty of cold bam and inrec loaves of bread, and I cati boil eggs and roast potatoes, o wo sha'u't starve for awhile I guess." "Mebbe we might git Brother John's widder awhile." "Can't," said Will, promptly; "she isn't at home." "Then it's 110 use going for her.'' groaned the deacon. Not the least," replied Will. "By tho way, when 1 came by the Dame's place, Dally came down to Ihe gate and said her Aunt Sorena was coming over here this afternoon."' (Kb Citim VOL. XV. "Coudu' here this artcrncon?'' echoed the deacou. "It's about that fonfiin', 1 s'poso." No," suid Will, t guess nol-1 think I that is," then desperalc! "it's leap year, you know." "And what of it 'iU? ' queried Ihe deacon, obtusely. "Nothing only well, I heard Miss Dame said she'd a good mind to lake advantage of it's being leap year. You sec, she's plagued about getting help and her farm does need a man lo overlook it." "William," said the deacon, blush ing like a school girl, "you don't never mean" "I do, too," returned Will, not daring to meet the deacon's ey. "Well, that beats all!'' But Will was already out of hear ing, having gono to the woodshed, where lie was alternately splitting wood and chuckling with laughter at the "good joke" ho imagined he had on the Deacon. For he knew well the man's nature. Bashful to the last de gree In the company of the opposite sex, the mere idea that Miss Serena might bo coining with matrimonial in tentions was enough to overwhelm him with confusion. Meanwhile Miss Serena, having flu ished her dinner, thought she'd "bet ter set off at once, not thinking best," 11s she informed Dolly, "to givo Ihe Deacou tew long a time to think it over and set his price.'' So from his window, U Deacon, who was nervously watching tho road with a sinking heart, soon perceived Miss Serona steadily approaching. In deed, had it not been for his lamoncss, I nm not sure but he would have taken ignominiously to flight. As it wa, he felt he must "faco the situ ation." "How do yc dew, Deacon?" was M;ss Serena's salutation, as she cor dially shook his gingerly outstretched hand. Cijod arternoon, Miss Dame; won't yo hev a cheer? " "Thank ye," said she, "I can't stop to set long, though I ain't in 110 great of a hurry, either, but secin' as I cum 011 bi.ucss, 1 might as well cum tew the 'pint!" The Deacon winced, and Miss Serena, misiuking the expression for a spasm of pain, exclaimed: "Your foot's powerful bad; ain't it, Deacon?" "Considerable so," the deacon ad mitted. "What air you usin' on it?" in quired Miss Serena. "I've been wettin' it in this lini ment William got to tho village." "'I'othocary sturl," said she, snif fing at it contemptuously; "hev yc got any arniky Mowers in the house? " Tin: daacon thought likely (liar might be some somewhar, and, having procured them, Miss Serena "reek'ned she'd bettor lay oil' her bon uit and shawl and sot 'cm steeplu'." 'Mow long afore you expect Mary .lane hack? ' asked she. I can't loll," said Ihe deacon, "fur her mother's look down with scialik rootnutiz and Ihar's no knoivin' when 6he can get away." "Well, you air nnforlinit," ex claimed Miss Sciciia;"sceiu's I'm here I'll tidy up a bit for yo." So, Utile thinking the words sho had spoken in jest to her niece that morn ing had reached the deacon's ears, she sot 10 work and soon restored the household to its wonted order. Thar, now," said she, shaking up ihe pillows on tho louugo; "scorns to me you'd be more comfortable here, deacou." "Mebbe so," said he, hobbling along to the lounge, lying 011 which he iiieutully decided; it had rested him jusl to sco Miss Serena work. Then Ihe deacon romcinhered that she was called the best housekeeper for miles around and that her butter and cheese always look the premium at the county fair. To ho sure, it must be hard for her to look after everything in doors and out. There ain't many woman," thought the deacon, "could 'a done as well as sho ha." "Now, Deacon," said Miss Damo, having, as sho expressed it, "straight enc.l the bouse out a bit," "you want to mix equal parts of alkyhol with Ihe arniky when it's steeped enough and it 'ill bo master good for your foot, I'll warrant. Well, I declare," she went on, "in all the timo I've bocn here, I hain't done my arrant 5 it. I've been thinking, deacon, see in1 your land jincd mine, ef you want ed' "I do," interrupted the deacon; "what this place needs is a Mistress, and cf you're a mind tew cum" "What?" exclaimed Miss Serona. "As Mrs. Deacon Brackctt," be continued. As this was the first offer Miss Se rena ever bad she hchavH creditnblv. PITTSBOUO', CHATHAM CO., N. 0., .JANUARY 12, 1893. for ilie prompt it y answered: "I'll cum, deacon." So Miss Serena left the houso Tvliere she had been living so many years to pass the remaining ones at Deacon Brackett's as tho deacon's wife. But tho Dame homestead was not long un tenanted, for the next year Will and Dolly were married and moved there. But neither of them ever knew wheth er Aunt Serena proposed to the (lea. con or the deacon proposed to Aunt Serena. Waverly Magazine. Poison for Apache's Arrows. i We arc ind. Ud to L. B. Hawi-s, ! recently in the government Indian j scrvieo in Arizona, for a graphic de scription of the manner iu which some 1 of Ihe braves in the Apache region prepare their deadly arrows, says the Pomona (Cul.) Progress. Although j the Apaches havo had little or no use j for their poisoned weapons for years, j dill I,n.n...n nf n ti-il.nl Instinrr. ; each summer season go through an annual preparation of (heir arrow tips as carefully and methodically as if an old-time war were near at hand. The work on the arrows is ono piece of labor thai tho Indiiiu brave will not lonvo lo tho squaws, lie gathers a do. 11 or more rattlesnake heads and puts them in a spherical earthen ves sel. With these he puts half u pint of a species of largo red ant that is found in many parts of Arizona. Tho bi:e of tlits ant is more poisonous than thrtt of a b -o. Upon these he pours a bit of water, and thou soals up with moist earth the lid of this vessel, lie then digs a hie two feet deep ii tithe ground, in which ho builds a ro;iring fire and puts in some stones. When the interior of tho hole and the ston . are red hot ho makes a place in tin bottom of the earthen vessel and p its It in. About it and upon it he puts the coals and hot stone., and upon the top he builds a tierce fire and keeps U up for twenty-four hours. Then he digs out his vessel and, standing h with a long pole, he disengages ihe top and lets the fumes escape. The Indian insists that if Ihe fumes should come in his faco they wou'd kill him. Thomas left at the bottom ofthj vessel is a dark-brown paste. To tet tho efficacy of his co.i coction Mr. Huwks has seen an Indian with his hunting knifo make a nit iu his bare leg, just below the knee, and let the blood run down to his ankle. Thou Hiking a slick, he dipped it into tho poison and touched Ihe descending blood ut the ankle. It immediately began to sizzle, as If it were cooking tho blood, and tho p it in followed ihe blood right up (he leg sizziing its way, until the Indian scraped the blood ofl with the knife. Tho savage assured Mr. Hawks that had he Mowed tho poiscn to reach the mouth of tho wound he would have been a dead man in twenty minutes. Older Thun Their Husbands. Mahomet was only 25 when he mar. ried Kudypb, his first wife, who was fiillv So fltllv 40. Anno Hathaway was seven ycais older than Shakespeare. Dr. John son's wife was double his age. She was just 00 at ho turned the rounding point of 30. Howard, the philan thropist, hail a wife who was "2when her husband was but '.'5. At the lime of Jenny I.ind's mar riage her age was given as Id years Ihe senior of Heir (ioldschmidl. A singularly happy marriage wu thai of the la'o Uose Ten y Cooke, who died last summer, deeply lamented by a comparatively young husband. Another charmingly felicitous inar riugo in the literary circle of talented New England womm is that of Klizi both Smart Phelps, who is idolized by her young husband, thc I! ;v. Herbert Ward, African missionary and writer. (ieorge Kliot, late in life, choso Mr. Cross, iheu in the thirties, to accom pany her down the shadowy path of old nge. The Baroness Burdett-Ciutis makes 110 secret of the fact that Mr. Burdclt-Coiilts is much her junior. And so Ihe list might go on mill i plying iu iiumbcis until ono might fancy that half tho marriages were in reversal of the first line of thc old couplet, which runs: Msn for height; woman lor vouib; Woman for beauty; both for truth. And, when tho list is closed, one must add tho wonderful and historic record of the beautiful Mine. Kocam ier, who died at seventy-two, leaving a young husband of twenty-four to mourn her loss. Now York World. o Mistake. "F.inily," roared Mr. Wiuteibottom from thc head of tho stairway, "these socks you've laid out for 1110 arc not mutes." "Neither are your feet, dear," an swered Mrs. Wintci lottom, sweetly, from the hall below. Chicago TrU lUIM. lUILDRES'S lOl.l MX. ABT I.OI'ISF. I'm In love wltb you. Baby Louise. With your silken b:ur sml your soft bluo eyes. And the dreamy wisdom that in tlii ni iles, And the faint, sweet snh'e you brought from the skies, (io.l's sunshine, lisihv Louise! When you fold your bands, Lain Louise, I Your hands, like ! fair the fairy's, so tiny and I With s pretty, innocent, saint-like sir, Are you trying to think ef trniue an get I taught prayei ! You learned above, I'.aby Louise? J I'm iu love with you, fishy Louise! Why? you never raise your beautiful head' ' tome day, little one, vour check will grow I red ' '- I With a linsh of delight to hear the word I said, "I love you," Baby Louise! Do you hear me. Haby Louise? I have sung you praises for nearly an hour, And your lshe keep drooping lower and rep droopi lower, And you've gone to sleep like a wear? flower, Ungrateful Haby Louise! Marin ret Ly tinge i siN;iNi Miff.. ! A four-footed creature that sings if ! certainly curious enough to have it j existence doubted, and many ncoido ! uo 1101 uetiere that sticli a thing as a : singing mouse has ever been seen or,, more correctly speaking, heard. It j has, (hough, and in a certain house, j beloved of mice generally, what I sounded Jiko the voice of a very j small bird was often heard in tho j wall. A trnp was set for tho uproar, j ions ones that kept up a coiistanl i quaking and gnawing, besides nib. bling every viand that l Hoy ould j possibly got ai ; and one night the I dainty bit of choose lured into cap- j tivity a mouse that looked like oilier 1 niico and acted like a wren. Sneli a j quivering, musical, little warble could scarcely come from any other throat than that of the tiny bird. But it was soon proved beyond a doubt that mousio did it himself, and , that ho must be the very singer who j gave the mysterious wall concerts, so the next thing was lo make him a j cogo. It was quite an uncommon one, as uncommon as he was himself ! a glass globe covered with netting. A warm nest was arrange. I iu ii, and ' the curious little performer took very j kindly to his luxurious quarters. He ! bad, of course, the best cheese to nib ble at, and lie evidently considered himself in clover. He put on airs, too, and seemed to know when he was being watched. At such times ho would raiso himself ti, mid try with all li s email might mid main to act liko a canary. Sometimes ho would hold up one paw, and then he was a full-fledged prima donna, send ing lorin such loud no'es lliit it was; almost startling to hear him. j But an easy life did not seem to 1 agree with tho (iniu-iiir little rodent. m, ,b, he 1U(, 0. thc h()!o .( ,0 ju ,10llllllc . frecdmn, 1.1 1 where lie may have left "his young I barbarians nt play."' In a few days ho died without any apparent cause 1 and ihe experiment of caging a sing-! ing mouse was altogether iinsuives 1- j fill. i Oilier four-fooled warbler have i 'e'en kepi in good condition for a 1 much longer time, giving abundant ; opportunity (0 make some very inter- '. sting discoveries in regard lo their j imiMcal organs. They do not, it ap pears, sing with their throats, like j other songsters, bui with iheir noses, j Tlicir vocal cords aro vibrating folds of the skin nt the outlet of each mis- : Iri , nnd tho performer can vary tho j tone from high to low by using more or less force in expelling I lie air. When quite by himself the sound pro- duced by the singer resembles that of : uu .Kolian harp; but in a cage, when the small prisoner is often ringing fo1' i effect, the notes arc lunch bolder. j A cat purrs very much iu the same : vny as a inouso simrs, and bolh arc ; signs of comfort and satisfaction. But ' the mouse's song, uuliko that of the ' cat, has given rise to many absurd ! superstitions, and houses have nc- j tiuired the bad reputation of heiii" 1 '.taunted because of singing mice in the walls. Tho soft wailing sound which tho song then assumes is said to come from the uneasy spirits of thoso who have been murdered; and the servants who are frightened by (he singing moiiso could never be made (o believe that the continual picking and stealing from the pantry aro done by the linger himself and his near relatives. r American Farmer. Fvideiice of (ood Faith. Father Does that young man mean business? Daughter I guess he does, father. He is gelling so familiar now that bo wears tho shiiio necktie twice in sue ?ession. fCiothler and Furnisher. CAVALRY HORSES. How They Are Obtained For the Mounted Service. Like the Raw Recruit, They Must Be "Broken In." j Horses for lire cavalry servico are purchased mostly in St. Louis, and j occasionally iu Louisville, Kansas ! City, Omaha, Sun Francisco, and I other points. Tho prices paid f.T ( lie 111 under the contract system range j from $140 to $175. They are usually shipped iu herds of from thirty to I sixty direct to the headquarters of the I regiment for which they are designed, I without being put through any course j of preliminary training for the new : life they are to lead, and after a few j days' rest aro delivered to tho various I troops whoro remounts arc needed, ! due regard being given to color. I The arrival of a herd of new horses nt a cavalry post is always a source of I much interest to the garrison. Ofli:ers and men particularly tho latter '"kc the first opportunity that occurs o visit Ihe corral or stables, and have a look at the recruits, as they arc justly regarded, and their qualities, good, bad, a d indifferent, arc commented upon and criticised by all hands, from Ihe dignified commanding officer do wn lo ihe young imp of a trumpeter born and bred iu the service. Liko the newly inlislod soldier, when he first enters the army, w here everything is so different from the life he has been accustomed to as a civilian. Ihe "recruit" cavalry horso is snrrouil ed by things new und strange lo him, ami it takes some time for him to be. come accustomed to tho routino of Ins military duties and the regular and ordoily manner of his now cede of lite, llis sial.ie, whero he una some scores 01 his companions urc House. 1, . ii usually very good nowadays, a!, though it is not very long ago w hen at some posts tho buildings and ac comodations fur thc horses left much to bo desired In their general adapta bility for thc purpose required. Before dawn of duy tho horses arc awakened to be led, and the recruit frequently has his digestion im paired by Ihe shock and fright caused him by the sudden boom of the morn ing gun, and the unaccustomed clang ing trumpet notes, as thc field music" ians sound reveille But he soon be comes used (0 this, and eventually recognizes many of (he calls, particu larly Ihoso referring (o anything affecting him individually, as "stable call" or "water call," t'.ie halt, tho ad vance, and others, and I have time and again noticed the impatience of horses on herd to return to the picket line I when stable call has been sounded in I ramp some distance away. That the sound conveyed a (liitiin t menning to i them other than the frequently recur- : ring calls of the camp during dav i w,,,,;,,tl,ey 1ICV0P "0,i'",i' w,,s ,vMl' 'he action of the hor-o tln-ii rest lav. lit les-nes., their raised heads, and eager neighing. Horses that have become panic stricken "stampeded" Ihe soldiers say aro often recalled by the quick sounding of "stable call" by 114 many trumpeters as can be assembled at the moment. I know of an instance of Ihe kind where six troops on herd were "stampeded" and were galloping madly away, utterly beyond tho con trol of the herders, when the trum peters luMily sounded "stable call." Like human beings horses have their leaders; how so'eeted, I will not ven due lo state, but in every troop cer tain horses lead thc rest; and 110 soon er had thc notes of (he call rung out over (he din and roar of the furious ril-.li of Ihe horses, when tho leaders, circling around the camp several time., finally brought them to their several picket lines. Harper's Weekly. Magnitude of the Imposition Buildings. Kvery one who has not hecn these buildings thinks he knows exactly w hat they aro like, and does not want to hear anything more concerning ! 'bem. 1 knew At least one man thought he what they were like before he saw them, and certainly dreaded being told again In bewildering sta. tittles of Iheir area, height and cost. But when I saw them around the la goon, in front of the main entrance, I wauled ( be left entirely alone with them, a 0110 wants to be left alone in front of a beautiful landscape or a ijrcut picture. Thero is no use of my trying to say why this was so, why they arc impressive and dignified and beautiful, for I remember having read all this before of them, and of not considering it at all. Their inngnitudo and their beauty, not on account of (heso qualities, but in Sjpitc of them, are not things of NO. 20. which the best writers on architecture of which I nin certainly not one can give any Idea; neither can colored prims with palm trees in the fore ground and blue skies above, nor even photographs which "never lie". You can hardly hope to givo another per son uu idea of anything unless there is something with w hich he is already familiar, und with which you can muke comparison. In this caso you can only compare the World's Fair buildings with Koine us we believe it was in its grandest days, and with those days we cannot cluim to be inti mate. One of the Spanish legation put it this way. "The Chicago build. ing," he said, "are the buildings wo should have eecn in Paris; those of the Paris exhibition are those wc might have expected to find at Chi. cttgo.'' That Is exactly right, and one of tho secondary surprises of this wonderful white city; that the city of art and letters of the Madeleine and of the Beaux-Arts should have fallen down and worshipped and Kiflcl Tower an K lison electric lighting, and that the ciiy of grain-elevators and pork should have reared a second city as classic in its bounty as the Athens of today, and as true in the detail of a cornice as it is grand as a whole. Harper's Weekly. Decline of the Bow. The bow, once the world's rhiet weapon, is now almost completely a thing of the past," said MajirD. C. John -on, now a guest of the Laclede Hotel. "Tho more or less noble red man of the American forest now car ries a Winchester and metallic cart ridges, the Autraliun bushiiian is armed with a musket, and even the Congo natives blaze away at each other with villainous saltpetre. Ihe bow is 110 longer a military weapon of any considerable people. KvC(( ( lipl,em.s l0 bfi cqi ,,,.,! with a repeating rifle and is blazing away at ihe stomach instead of the heart. Wo are accustomed to think of the bow as a harmless kind of weapon, lit only for small beys to shoot woodpeckers wiih, but I tell j you that in the hands of u skillful ' archer it is one of the most terrible . engines of destruction known to man. I have seeu uu Apache Indian drive it J barbed arrow clear through a tivo-j year-old buffalo and bring him down j as though struck by thc bolts of Olym- j piati Jove. 1 would rather be struck j by a miiiuiu bullet than with one of those mctiiLpoiuted darts. . History tells us that when tho Ito- j mans invaded Paithia under Cassius these Apaches of the lvnt drove their arrows clear through them and pinned 1 them to the earth. I would back a ' regiment of skilled archers to whip an canal number of soldiers armed with j muzzle-loading nm-kets. The tire I would be equally accurate and effective ' mid much more rapid. I cannot un derstand how !l e "'d flint lock came to supplant the bo - u"ic- ;. 'i i men were charmed by t's r.ts i old Kn-.i-h l".wu,.,ti cn-ii I SOImCi not I ; i'O 1 1 ! ill. bow Ulysses was a weapon w..a ;.'.' '---j might well fear." t. I.oun (llohc I Democrat. The (;lant Birds of New Zealand. The discovery of thc Diuornisby the illustrious zoologist, Kicliard Owen, is famous as one. of Hie most notable feats in the history of science. Fioin 11 single imperfect bone a fcmui broken at bo h ends he deduced thc fact that an enormous bird of (ho stiiithions order, but far exceeding the ostric'i in size, formerly inabiled New Zealand. This discovery, pub lished in lbo'J, nrousod much interest and led to further inquiry. Four years Inter, Mr. Owen was able to show, from a comparison of many fragments of skeletons that hud icaclied him, that there had been at least six Mieeies of iheie gigantic bird. With additional materials, he, in 18."iot had increased Ihe number of species lo eleven, classed in tin 00 genera, and varying in size from a kind no larger than the great bustard lor about five feethiiih) to one, the DinornU gigantcus,al lea! ion feel in height. Still later re searches have shown that even this stature was in some instances sur passed, and that birds must have ex isted in New .'aland whose height attained fourteen feet, or twico that of the largest ostrich. Scientific Ameri can. Looking Into the Future. Miss Twitter I want to ak you o question, Mr. Doinbey. I hope ah you won't think me forward. Mr. Dombey Have no hesitation, Mi-s Twitter. Miss Twitter I urn going to have some handkerchiefs embroidered, and 1 was wondering whothor it would be safe lo have tho initials of my maiden name placed on them? The Million. Stye dtyatljam Rworfc KATES ADVERTISING One square, one insertion One square, two insertions One square, one month 41.00 1.50 8.60 For lsrgar advertisements liberal ccn racta will be made. Youth and Age. When all the world is young, la 1, When all the trees ureRreen, And every goose a Bwan. lad, And every lass a queen. Then hey for boot mid horse, lad, And around the world away, Young blood must, have its course, lud, And every dog his day. When all the world Is old, lad, And nil the trees are brown. And nil the sport is stale, lad, And all the w heels run down, Creep home and take your plae there, The spent and maimed ainoui:, Viod grant you find one face there. You loved when all was young. ,' 'buries Kinsley. IllMOKOl S. Tho luzy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it. "Is Miss Hinote a good singer?'' "She must be. Kvery other girl in the choir seems to dislike her." He (anxiously) You arc not your own dear self tonight, sweetheart. She (passively) No, darling, I am yours. Doinbey Bigley is an unfortunate combination. Anson How so? Doin bey I If has a qiiail-on-lo;ist appetite attached to u liver-and-uacoii income. "Do you quarrel with your neigh bor yet about his doi coining over in to your garden?'' "No, that's all over now." "Buried thc hatchet?'' "No; buried the dog." Mrs. L'arls Your daughter has been studying painting, has .h.: not?" Mr. I.ninode Yei. You should see somo of the sunsets she paints. There never was anything like them. wth he, "These tombstones lines I read Are just a Utile chaffy ; The epila h I llnd indeed Are mainly epitullV." "What's the mutter with the baby?" asked a lady of a little girl, whoso baby brother alio had understood to be ailing. "( nothin' much," was the unswer. "lie's only hatchin' teeth." Friend So your mother keeps the strap she whips you with in the wood shed. Don't you think that's a queer place for it? Tommy Oh 110; that's where all tho burning material h kept. Major Costic That young Chappie sor doesn't appear to know his owa mind. Col. Sarcust I'm glad to hear it, for I have frequently heard bis poor father caution hmi against form ing undesirable acquaintanceship?. Agatha .V.sthcte If there were only something in this mundane world that would solace all these vague yearn, iug's sr.tisfy one's wildest longings and fill the in-hing void within? Charlio Koplcto Wh it is the matter v ith pie. A Famous Letter to Washington. The Philadelphia ll-c.rd says tha' thooiiginal draft of the llcv. Jacob Duche's famous letter to C.cneral Washington, dated October 15, 1S77, l"i eonio to light in a local collection .t.li- document1' 'lll-tMMO icci ' .,.! ::,i!a l-i. Dn.' .: of Chi.-t At the Lev;. u V "'.ii ' ' Ihe lulus,, redcoats inarched into Philadelphia and lo k possession of the ity the alarmed rector suddenly found himself to be a most di voted Itoyalist. (iftieral Washington was Ihen encamped in lieiidquailer- in Worcester Township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, and to him Dr. Duehes dispatched a Idler, which now in printing takes up nearly eight quarto pages, urging him to re turn to ihe l.osom of good King (leorgc. Washington immediately reeled the cpUlle to Congress as a letter of a very curious and extra ordinary nature.'' (Mil Uses for FciilhiTs. One of the oddest ues for feutheis is to recover women from fainting spells, by burning them. Probably tlicir effectiveness for this purpose is largely imaginary, but faith in their efficacy is wide-spread and persistent. An ornithologist ai the iceeiil conven tion iu Washington mentioned tin; fact that sailors make tobacco bags out of the skills of the feet of the idbu iross. They also manufacture pipe stems o it of the radius w ing-boiics of that great sea fowl, which are more than a foot long. The wing-bone of tho wild turkey is used for 11 whistle, with which iq orlsmen imitate thc cry of the gobbler more accurately than is possiblo with any other iiistruuien'. Boston Transcript. Method In It. "1 thought you did uot like Wil. iioinsou? " "Neither I do." "Well, he telhi me you sent his boy a Christina gift ?" "Yes, I found one of tho most mad dening hand organs you ever listened to an I sent it up."