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$l)c lwtl)am fkcorb. ii. js.. ixmroiv9 EDITOR AND PHOPRIETOU. RATES ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER" YEAB Strictly in Advance. one square, one insertion One square, two insertions One square, one month 1.50 - 2.00 For larger advertisements liberal con racts will be made. VOL. XV. riTTSB01lO CHATHAM CO., N. C, JANUARY 26, 189:',. NO. 22. Hope. Ylnt wilt thou do when faltb Is Ami hope Is lca l Ami love's wing broken? W i!t tliou lit in the grave of the past and gill') While Hie mourners weep Ami end rites nrc spoken? Nay, nay fure forth, though the night he black Ami Hie Sturm's red rack In the nky Is burning; Tor the sun shines somewhere, from gloom released. Ami the heart of the East Tor the tiny is yeaniin. Uarriet Monroe. FOILED. Their is a kind of lmlf way condi tion, in which wo may bo said to be neither awake nor asleep, ci n-cions nor unconscious ;isli;cp enough to dream, a:!il awake enough to know wo dream. At such lima wo hear sounds, as it were, with a doublo souse a seine of reality and n senso of fancy. .Such w;is my cond'tion on the eve of an event thai will ever lie niomor ab'c in my history. hint gouo to spend a few days wiih an uncle, liv irgiulho Western part of Peiiuyl vaniu. I had rea-hod his dwelling Into in the day, after a long, fatiguing ride, and Iiad retired to rest nt an early hour. 1 had fallen asleep quiet ly, mi 1 for a time had slept soimdiy ; but hnd at length reached tlial inter media'o state, he ween Iho world of dreams and the world of reality, which I have allnnpted to describe. ll was then that my waking sen-c heard the noiscof someone slowly and gently pushing open the door of my apartment and gliding with a soft anil stealthy tread, and my sleeping fancy showed lite a huge panther creeping cautiously over t ho dry k'aves and tin ony !i the slightly nulling bu-hes, to pounce upon a doer di inking at a clear and bountiful spiing. Suddenly tlie panther undo his spring and stunk : he deer, and at the same insiaut 1 was startled into clear conscion noss by hearing a sound a of some person in the room sinking Ids foot against a chair. 1 sprung up in hod and looked urmiad in bewilder ment. Wlicro was 1? I could not remember. 1'ho win. low being i lu only ol joct 1 c iil.1 flea: ly perceive, 1 stared at thai, and died to recollect whero 1 was a id what had happened to bring mo there. It was a pa'uful t Il'ort, for in - whole system seemed enervated by a strange dread, and the perspiration came out of me in b.ads. 1 believe there aro few things more trying to the nerves than j;i-t such a situation of body and eoudiiion of mind, and I do not think 1 ever suf fered more from a fc.tr fu 1 uncertainly than during' the few moments 1 rc mum. d in that (untiling perplexity. Al length, like a ray of siml'-Iii struggling through the obscuring mist--, I e.Might the remembrance of leaving home; and Ihcn, in an instant, all the incident of the day 11 idied upon my mind, mid 1 knew myself to be under the roof of my ttnclu's dwell ing and in an :ipartnieul whero 1 hid never slept before. So far id! was well; hut what were those sounds that had so Strang '!)' mingled with my wak'ng and sleeping perceptions, and had al last arouse I ine with sm-h a peculiar seiisafo:i of impending evil? Were they mere fancies? or lad some midnight robber or a-si-sin tlole into my room and concealed him self near my bed, or under it, ready to execute his wicked design at the first safe opportunity? The very thought of this latter made me shudder, and I was templed to call aloud for help; and only the foar of being ridiculed for my temerity, in case nothing sinister should be dis covered, deterred me. What should I do? Should 1 .e! out of bed and search the apai tnn-nt in (ho darn (for iiiiforiuna!v I had no menus of stt ik ing a light) and thus lisk putting my- excited to a degree that made me feel self in the power of the unknown? or hH if a "hint's stiengih had entered should I lie down and pretend to J ';o "'J' slender frame, 1 saw him sleep, bill keep all my si: ises on tliJ ! thrust his hand into his bosom and alert? 1 decided upon the l.i'ler produce a long, formidable butcher course; and all' cling to yawn, in a j knife, which ho elevated over the drowsy, stupid manner, I throw my self back upon the pillow, and in a short time pre'endeil to snore. There it was, as I lay with my eyes wide open and my hearing on the stretch, I saw the figure of a man, slowly and cautiously rise up from tho foot of my bed, between me and tho window, and there stand for some j seconds, as ii listening and consider- I ing. I was frightened, 1 conies-. ! Cold chills went over me, and my hair j seemed to stand on end. What did it j mean, unless robhorv or murder, and perhaps both? And wha should I do? Keep quiut and watch him. till certain of his evil intentions? or spring up and give the alarm al unco? mid per haps get shot, stabbed, or throttled for doing so. lie was tathcr i vor medium sive, and I somewhat under, and I had reason to bolieve I was no match for lino in physical strengtli. While I Was thin sonsidering I saw him make a slight movement and caught the glimmer of a light just in tims to dose my eyes before it stream ed upon my face from a dark lantern. 1 was evidently not the person ho sought, for in a moment or two the light was 'shut oil,, and I saw him turn and leavo tlio room with a stealthy step. Where was ho going now, and for what wicked purpose, and what was ihc proper courso for nic to pur sue under the circumstances? Surely not to remain there, trembling like a coward, while- a midnight robbery, if not murder, was being perpetrated! 1 hastily arose, half dressed my sc'f and glided out of the room after hiut. At the cud of a passage or cor ridor 1 fancied I heard a door pushed slowly open, ono of the hinges milking a very slight giating sound, only audible (o a keen listener, as 1 was at that inomen1. 1 advanced wi h a cal-iiko step, and now that 1 felt I was about to surprise instead of being surprised, my blood quickened with a boldness 1 was far from feel ing a few moments before. On reaching the door, which the villain had left open to favor his own retreat, 1 paused and listened, hold ing my breath. I could barely hear the soft, stealthy step of the fellow as lm moved slowly forward in the room, and also tho long regular breathing of the sleeper, which 1 now supposed to be my uncle, who, being a widower, was probably sleeping al ue, though he had two sons in the hou-e. What could tho burglar in tend robbery or murder? If the for mer, why had he not attempted to sea'i-li my clothes while in iny cham ber? And if the laller, perhaps it was a watchful providence that had brought me into a position to prevent it by surprising him at the critic;.! moment and giving the alarm. Besides my ui.cle, my two cousins and myself, there were two servants in ihc iniiii M'Mi, one of the latter a young, athletic fellow, so that 1 had hopes of securing the intruder by timely aid in ciuo 1 should not prove strong enough to overpower him .-done. My uncle, however, was turned of CO, and in Mich delicu'e health that for three mouth he had not attended the court, of which he had been the presiding judge for several years, and of course 1 expected little or no assi-tanco from him my main dependence being upon myself and others, whom I hoped to get upon the scene in lime. As I remained listening, and con- si. luring a'l the chances for and against hi o in the sudden attack I had resolved to make, I heard a slight click, and .w a gleam ot tigiit thrown upon ine lud from the dark lantern of tho vil lain, who stood near the foot of it, and between me and the sleeper, the i;h! beyond giving his dark figure a bold relief. To art a ilistine; view of tlie face of t in sleeper bo now ad vanced along the side of the bed with great caution, shading the light with his hand; a id to be ready to lake him at a Midden advantage, in case he should turn, I stole hi alter h:m, and ciine close lip behind him without being discovered. 1 now perceived it w.u indeed my uncle who lay there asleep, his face turned toward the side where the villain stood, who, as well as I could judge from a partial view of his features, was regarding him with an expression of fiendish hate, lie had evidently found tho person he sought, and was prepares! to perpetrate one of the darkest ciimes known to the law. If robbery had entered into his calcu lations, it had taken a secondary place. murder was ;ho lirst, and that of a particular individual, for the special purposo of revenge. As 1 now stood closo behind him, leeper, with Ihc unmistakable inten lion of plunging it into his neck or breast. Now wis my lime lo ac! for nn otlu r moment might be fatal to my kin-mil'. and wi.li load yells of '.Murder! murtler! help! help!-' 1 clutched him by the throat and jerked him backward with all my might, This staggered him a. omul and nearly overthrew him, and beforo ho could recover from his surprise i.n.l regain his equilibrium, I struck him three limes in the face with my list and kicked him on co in the stomach, doiiblin; him over forward nud send ing him down with a heavy crash, his knife in one hand and his lantern in the other. Still shouting murder and help, alternately, I now, by a most happy impu'se, turned, dragged tho clolhos from my uncle's bed, threw them over the assassin's head, as ha was attempting to rise, and then beat him backward with a chair, and en deavored to twist them about his nock and arms, and so entangle, him that he could not iiso his knife and might be easily secured. 1 had just succeeded in doing this when my cousins appeared upon the scene, in a terrifically excited condi tion, and tho whole house rang wiih alarm. As it was now dark in the room, the hinlcrn being buried with the villain under the clothes, I shout ed to ono of my kinsmen to produce a light, and told the other to ttiko a chair and boat the struggling object on the floor as long as lie should find any resistance or movement. in a short timo wo had tho villain secured and so tightly bound hand and foot that he might as well have been a dead man, for any power ho possessed lo help himself.or to do any one an injury, and then I related to a group of excited listeners all that I knew of tho mysterious and terrible it Hair. Edward," cried my uncle, grasp ing my hand and speaking in a voice half choked with emotion. '-I do be licvo the good tied sent you here to night to save mo from an awful death, and my gratitude for my deliverance Is more than 1 can express; but why anyone should have sought to murder me I cannot conceive, as I have always aimed to do justice t- all, and till now was not aware that I had a malicious enemy on curly." Well, I'll tell you, then, you old gray-headed scoundrel," grow led tho in Hi in, as he lay writhing on ihc Moor and gnashing his teeth. You once had it in your power when sit ting on the bench to send me to the penitentiary for any term from three year up to ten, and you made It ail the law would let you. I swore then if ever I got out and got a chance I'd cut your heart out, and I'd a done it tonight if it hadn't been for this young, meddling fool!"' 'Well, your confessed wickedness only proves 1 was right in giving you the full extent ot the law," rejoined mv uncle; 'and if lain not groatly mistaken, you will be perfect y harm less whon the law shall have done wiih you for the pres -nt offense. Al though in this case 1 shall not sit in judgment i n you, I have reason to be lievo your sentence will bo for life." It was; and nine years after, the villain 1 hud so providentially captured on lhai eventful nigh', breathed his last within the walls of his prison. XeW Yolk Xi-wi. The Motto on (lie ( lock. Tho following account of the origin of a well-known motto for a time piece, whether true or false, is worth recording: I S-ine years ago a new clock was j made lo be placed in Temple II iil, j says iho Manchester Time. When j finished the clockmaker was desired to j wait on the benchers of the Temple, who would think of a suitable motto ! to put under the cloch. j lie applied several tunes, but with- j out getting (he desired in formation, as j they had not determined on the in- sciiption. Continuing to importune . them, he at las', came when the old benchers were met in the Temple Hull ' and ha. I just sat down to dinner. j The workman again requested to be j informed ot the initio, due of the; benchers, who thought the appli"tUion ' illtimed, and who was fonder of cat- ing and drinking than inventing ong- l iual mottoes, testily repliod: "(io' about your business." The mechanic, taking this for an ' answer to Ids question, went home and j inserted at the bottom of the clock, j 'Go about your business," and placed 1 it on iho Temple II ill to iho great stir- j prise of the benchers, who, upon con- ' sidering the circumstances, agreed that j accident had piolueed a belter motto j than they could think of, and evti since the Temple elo.-k has continued to remind the lawyers and tho public I to go about their business. Excessive I'off.'i-Ih'iukiiig. I Coffee-drinking to excess is getting , more and more common in (ho city, j Hundreds of customers come in five, or six limes a day, drink olf a cup of collec and go out without eating any- ' Ihing. Coffee is evidently used by these as a meat as well as a beveraire. ' I for from tho frequency of their visits it is very evident they do not get a meal bet wcon breakfast and supper, which it is presumed they eat al home. The habit is evidently a Tory injurious one, for not ono of the hab- j itual coffee-drinkers is healthy, nearly all boing nervous and sickly. Some ( of them earrv the liauil so fur thai Ihey even go to I wo or three restaur. ants in tho course of their rounds. fSI. Louis Ulobc-Petii'HTiii. (IIILDKEVK (01,1 MX. A TIIEK-TOAll'S TA I S. "Seurious like!" said the tree-told, 'I've twitti red for rain all day ; And I got up soon, Ami hollored till noon, lint the sun hit blazed nwav Till I just climbed down in a ennvlMi hole Weary of heart mid s'ck of s.iail 1 1 ozed away for an hour, And tackled the tiling a:iin : And I sum; and sung, Till I knowed my lung IVasjiiBt shout to give in; And then thinks I, if it don't r?in no it, There's uothiu' In eiii(;iii' anyhow! " ecc in awhile some fsrnier Would come a-drivin' pnM, And he'd bear my cry, And stop and sIkIi, l'ili I just laid back at list, And hollered rsin till I thought my th'oat Would burst wide op4Mi nt eery note! 'Hut I fetched her! ob, I fetched her! 'Cause a little while ago, As I a kind o' set with tine rye slu t. And a sinniif soft tmd low, A voice drapped down on my fevered bruin, Say In', 'If you'll ju huth I'll rain!'" f-'t. I.ouls Uepubl'c. now mii take 'rums wkai.s. The curious way in which lish oat is a study. Some fish have teeth and somo have none at all. In seme the teeth is found upon the tongue, in some in the throat, and in some in the stomach. Somo draw in the food by suction; the sturgeon is i. lie of ihis class. The jelly fish absorbs all Its food by wrapping its body around tho prey it covols. Detroit Frco Press. TO MARK MUONI.Kilir. Skating by moonlight is a very at tractive sport, and as tho moon is not always on hand it is great fun to lit on an old soil of clothes and curry a torch. To make a torch, shred out a piece of old rope, then lay (ho low tlat on the ground, forming a baud about ten inches broad. Dust (his over with powdered rosin, and then take a pieco of an old broom shaft, mid having poured some tar over the low roll it round the shaft, bind ing it tight with thick- wire. A large Chinese hint -i n answers a well as ll lurch on a calm nigh'. New York Advertiser. (iKKKTINnS SF.ST IIY A STOUK. All interesting story is told in a foreign paper of a stork that traveled wisely and well. For years ho and his uiato regularly built their nest in the pnrk at Schloss I'uhlcbcn, near iijrliu. The owrer of the custle, de siring to ascertain whether (he same blork always returned ther.-1, ordered that a steel ring, on which was en graved tho name of the place and tho date, 1890, should be fastened round the bird's ieft log. Lit spring the tork came back as usual to the park and upon its other leg was a ring of silver bearing the inscription: "India sends (iermany her greeting.1" Our Animal Friends. A ItlVKU OK INK. A curious phcnoincu occurs in "Daikest Africa," where runs a small water cjurse which the chemistry of na'liie has turned into a stream of real ink. The formation is obtained by the union of two sin ill rivuleU, of which one is strongly impregnated with iron to a high percentage, while the second brook, percolating through a peat marsh, rbsorbs gallic acid. Xu lure knows no wa-te nor man cither, when ho is pressed to it hence loiters aro comfortably written with this singular ink of Mother Earth. A gcntlomnn returning from Algeria, the neighborhood or this chemistry shop, found it in common use there. New York Tress. t'.l.owisr, SO A I III IIH1.KS. There ate many ingenious and pleas ing tricks to be p'ayed with soap bubbles. Take a wire ring and hang n large foap bubble from it. This may sound hard but it is easy lo do. He careful to remove with your linger the drop of water which will hang at the bottom of the bubble and which will weaken it. l'ut your blowing tubo through the bladder gently and blow a small bubh'e. It will fall to tho bottom of the other and stay there without breaking it. You must be careful lo blow the smaller bubhlo lighter than the larger. In order to do this shake out the water from your tubo beforo blowing Ihe smaller bubble. Here are some hints for getting a good mixtnro from which to blow bubbles: Dissolve about an ouuco of t'10 strong est washing soap in a pint of distilled water, or, in the absence of that, rain water. Cork it well and keep in a cool place. At the end of eight days it will be in good condition for use. Only pour out as much at one timo as you need for your experiments, ll may thus bo nmde to l:mt for a very long time. New York Advertiser. DIAMOND BACKS. K Turtle Which is tho Delight of Epicures. Soma Interesting Facts About This Toothsome Terrapin. Tlie diamond-backs arc one of ihc smallest of the forty-two species of turtle and tortoises found in tl.o I'liited Stales, and Ihey vary greatly in external uppcarance. The diamond shaped scalo on their backs, whence comes their name, is common alike to the Mississippi mid the Massachusetts terrapins, but there is a vast ditl'jr ence in their edible qualities and in their value. The Northern tliauiond back during the winter season bur rows in the shore mud a foot or more and hibernates. Shut out from tho world iluis it beconios fat, heavy, ten der and juicy. When iho tide goes down women, children and the ancient fishermen, who can no longer buffet Iho seas for fish as in younger days, walk along the shore and probe down in Iho black, oozy mud with sticks for the sleeping diamond-buck. l!y tho peculiar liorscshoc-shnped depression on the surface they cun generally tell where a terrapin can be found, and if it is a tive-potiml count it well repays a day's labor looking for it. The search for diamond-bucks along the shores of New Jersey and Long Island is prosecuted with great energy just beforo tho holidays Thanksgiving and New Year's when particularly good prices reward Iho successful soarchers in the mud. Down in tho South, especially along the Culf Coast, the catching and feed ing of diamond-back terrapin in pens or "crawls" is a lively industry. Fish ermen catch them in their nets and also nab them when they crawl up in the salt grass on exploring tours, and put them in the pons, where they aro kept till the terrapin season, from October to June, when they are boxed i.p and shippod North. Hut these Southern terrapins do not begin to rank with tho Northern product. The season is that the climate docs not force the Southern diamond-back to burrow in the mud (o sleep and fatten during (he season of frost and snow. Instead, the Southern specimen is up and about every day of the SGj, running and scuttling mightily for a living. Even in tin "crawls," where they are fed on crabs.oysters and lish, they aro moving about continually. Tlie result of so much cxerciso is to mako them touli nud stringy, scratches arc plentiful on their sh.d's, and they have corns on their feet. And this greatly lessens their market value. Tho diamond-backs grow at the ralo of one inch a year. Tlicy are fully grown al ten years. Their propaga tion is slow. Like the green turtle they lay their eggs in the sand, just above the high-water murk, ami leave (hum for the sun's wnrimh lo hatch out a little brood of diamond-backs that lose no time in scuttling down to tho water after they hurst iho sholl t'.iat contiiioi them, lint the diamond back will lay only a few eggs, where whero the green turtle will de posit a thousand or so in a season. This natural fact hastens Ihe extinc tion of the species all the more quick ly. The females attain a larger size than tho males, mi l ure much more highly prized than the bulls in mar ket. Tho average length of the under part of the shell is seven inches, and tlie weight of the terrapin ranges from one-half a pound to live pounds. Tho fixed standard length for salable females is six inches. Those rouchmg this limit are called "counts;" live and a half inches arc classed as "short counts;" below that length ihey are "heifers" and "bulls.'" Here arc somo prices on terrapin furnished by Wallace Hlackford, who Bays they aro 50 per cent, higher than five years ago: Terrapin of the fust class, .8 each; counts, a dozen; short counts, t?24 a do..n; heifers and bulls, $2 to t?ti a dozen; California counts, tj-.' a dozen; Carolina short cuiiits, $15 a dozen ; Mississippi and Texas counts, .1S; MiisUaippi and Texas short cjunf, $12. New York Tribune. Crossing the Tropic of Cancer. A Brooklyn physician who has re cently visited the capital of Mexico took a snap shot on his way south at Ihc Tropic of Cancer. This imagin ary line is worked where the railroad crosses it by a pyramid that was built in 1891. The idna was suggested by Ciov, Guiterrez of the S ato of Sin Lnuis I'otosi, and under his energetic initiative tho pyramid was soon built. It is about fifteen feet in height, and the longitudinal centre of its base is snpposod to coincide with tho Tropic of Cancer. O.'i one side of the pyra mid arc the words "Tropico da Can cer; Zona Torrida." On the iithcr sido is an incription to the c licet that the pyramid was elected in J8'.H under tho direction of D.m Tomas Milan, the Superintendent of the Mexican National iiailroad. In South America I hero is, near the coast, a serios of stone pillars extending for somo dis tances showing the position of the equator. All passenger trains on the Mexican Central pau-e a minute at this pyra mid to enable passengers to look at iho spot whero they leavo ono geo graphical zone and pass into another. As a matter of fact, however, tho country where the Tropic of Cancer crosses tho railroad is far more tem perate in climate than it is in north ern Mexico and southern Texas. Tho railroad has been carried up grado until it has reached the olevutcd pla teau of central Mexico, where wheat and other products peculiar to cool, temperate climates are grown, as well as many sub-tropical products. All who seethe Tropic of Cancer pyra mid, therefore, may derive from it the interesting information that a temperate or tropical climate docs not depend entirely upon disinnco from tho equator; but is largely in lluenced by elevation nbovc the sea; and the great Mexican plateau, on ac count of its lofty altitude, is a more temperate region than a large terri tory north of it, just as tho great pla teau of southern Africa, extending far north, canrics a comparatively temperate climato far toward the equator. New York Sun. Jay Gould anil the Farmer. "I remember once a stop in Butler County, K i-isas," says a railroad em ployee of the late Jay Could. "Tho afternoon was awfully hot. but as thu4 always-present breeze was blowing over ihe prairie, Mr. Could stepped out for some air. He stood in tho shade at one end of tho depot talking wiih an old farmer. Tho farmer looked longingly at tho private car and finally said to Mr. Could: ' -lie yon ridiu' in that oar?' " 'Ye",' replied Mr. Could. "Courso you ec Jay Colli, I, (hen?' " 'Yes, sometimes,' " 'I s'pose he keeps pur.'y select and don't mix much. What kind of a lookin' feller is he?' 'Mr. Could evasively inquired if his questioner had not seen Jay Could, as be had been through there several times. " 'No, I never seen him," continued the farmer. But I'd ju-t like to. D'ye s'pose he'd give a feller a chance lo spoak to him? Am" I he stucK up?' "The anxious man was assurod that Mr. Could often talked with citizens along his road. ' 'Can't yer fix It for me?' earnestly inquired the t::au. "Mr. Could smiled a little at this but he did not have the disposition to carry out the jolo and reveal himself. Our train was ready to leave, and he excused himself and slopped on the platform. He shook hands Willi hit now acquaintance. "The station agent knew Mr. Could, and as soon as the train moved he told the man to whom he had been talking. Mr. Could disappeared in the cur with just a faint smile ou his face. 1 watched the station. 1 never saw a more dumbfounded man than that fin mer. He stepped into the centre of the track, and with both hands in his pockets, legs spread apart, mouth open and hut on the back of his head, ho gsz-id in nmuzement at the depart, ing train. "The station agent afterwards (old me that for miles around that man's talk wiih Jay Could was a household story. A Child Heroine. A stork farmer iu West Virginia has a story to tell of a little girl which might be related of somo brave hero ine of a novel, writes Anna Leach. Only a country child l'J years old, but she showed a presence of mind and a valiant heart possessed by very few men. Walking along a country road with twoliltlo children, she heard be hind her ilia running hoofs and pecu liar voice of the crosse-t bull on the farm. There was no way of escape. The fences were of barbed wire, closo and high. Alono she might have lorn through, but with two babies! ( juick ns a lla.h her mind had to work and her motions to follow the thought. She pushed the children ahead of hor, then turned to meet the infuriated animal. Standing like a rock until its lowered head was within arm's length, she hacked her lingers in tho ring in its nose and led the cowed and . helpless creature home. It was Yiclor Hugo said of another French author that he "invented anew shudder." A Utile I.ovc Somr. The love that beams In my defrest dresrai Hath none of the world' s mad blisses; Its wayward wiles, or Its splendid smiles Vor it comes from a wife's sweet kisseii! The songs that flow from my lips are not The songs that I dream or render; 'J'liey are roses sweet from a garden spot -KiBsed by a wife's lips tender! And not to me shall their glory be, Though the world should bow and bearh ; Of song I sing, 'tis a holy thing J-'ur she taught my lips lo sing It ! O, storm and -strife of ihe world's mad life, Win n I fide from your gtooin and blisses, Let luy heaven above he the Hps I love .Sweet with a wife's sweet kisses! -Frank h. Stautotiju Atlanta Constitution. 1ILMOK01S. Cood life-preserver Food. A file of police is apt to rasp the feelings of the mob. No mean man has a right to wish ho bud never been born. Let other peoplo do that for him. "What's that noise upstairs?'' Nel lie is singing to kill lime till her beau comes." "Well, time seems to die hard, doesn't u?'' She What did papa say when you told him you wished lo marry ino, dear? He I don't remember what ho did say, darling, but I know I felt hurt. Do you really care for Harry?" asked the postmaster of his daughter. "Yes, papa," replied tho maiden noftly. "Harry belongs to the first class males." When the sky Is nil dark and forblddin And the rnm drops incessantly pour, The joke of the stolen umbrella 1'oesn't cau.e us to smile any more. Patron My gas bill is too much for last month. Clerk I don't seo how that can be. Fatron l'ossibly not from your sido of the desk, but look at it from this sido awhile. "Could you make it convenient to lend me $100, Jack?" "I don't know. If 1 should lend il to you I should be a man of some distinction." "How Is that?" "One out of a hundred." . Tommy Paw, ihc teacher fays that if a man gets dyspi-psiu it may make '.dm b ildheadod. Is that, so? Mr. 1'igu I guess so. Tommy Then if a man t loo much pic would lie bo pie-bald. "Oh, my Irii-mls, there are some spectacles that a person never for gets!'' said a lecturer, after giving a graphic description of a terrible acci dent he had witues-ed. "I'd like to l.noiv where they g'ts'em," remarked sti oid lady iu the audience who is always losing her glasses. The ( harm nfllie VrcKc. "Can you c.rcss some idea of the i ' mysterious charm of Arctic voyaging? What picture is did, t vivid in jour mind, doi-lor, when) on think of the lonely northern rt-giolis? " asked ail I interviewer of the explorer Nau'on. "I think of the Ai ctic summer sun,' j replied the explorer, gnz'ng through . the window at the poll ing rain. "1 j think of tho Miu-hiiu! nllci'ted from mountains of snow clad ic shilling up in litile lakis of clear, lip'ing water, where hundred.) of seals piny- ' fully splash tin- water into glistening ! sprays of rainbow hues. What is tho ! charm of the Arctic? Health, glorious ( health! Yvur muhc'i's tv.ivh with a desire for action. You cat like i horse and sleep twelve or fourteen hours w itliout a ilrctim. Beforo von I J is the vast unknown; all around you is silence ami solitude. Na! lire's 1 mighty aspect is the charm and fas cination of the Arctic regions. "But will not time hang hrnvily upon you during the long winter night? The brilliant scenes of summer w iil have vanished? " 11a! You thii k the Arctic night is ! one long spell of laiknc? In winter I the scene is almost lis beautiful as in suinmer. The nights uie i-b-ar, ihe : moon and sit. is shine bright upon the sea of soft white snow. Wo shall ; atways be occupied iu liking our soundings and repairing Iho snip's year, or in playing chess, di mights or dominoes. We shall take some miisi- cal boxes with "is. I have one now in i Norway. It foiincrly belonged to tho i 1 I-fated Jeaunetle expediti m. 1 bought j il from some Es kimos to whom it had j been given as a present. New York I Recorder. Witnessing French Executions. Public executions in Paris prove very profitable to tho owners of house. commanding the scene. Win dows are let out for the occasion, tho landlord watching for the first sign of the execution uud then at once .ending word to the persons who have ,i, ed the room. If r.n ordinary ci iu.- nary ina! is executed the chargi is usually bout ! per p'ace, but should the of feiidce have committed any rcmaika hie crime tho price rm up to $;!0. Chicago Times.