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VOL. XVI.
PlTTSBOIlO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, OCTOBER ID, 1803.
NO. 8.
The Word lie Didn't Say.
When wo went lo campniei 'tin' I hart n
word to buy
Jlut I kept a-pulling' ros"s like they nil wiis
In tho way!
An' I did say : "H'ro's a red 'nn ! nn' ) his
violet ain't It blue'"
Jlut what I wanted most to say was ''ain't
us sweet as you !"
I ra'jollwt. 'twni rainiu' ; iv, 'pears like
the suu was out,
Fur I s 'cii your curls u-shinln' on your neck
an' roundabout :
Au' th" moon was no. she wasn't !-iTou't
think the moon had riz!
(Winn n filler's got n sweetheart don't she.
turn that hoad '
When we went tocanipnicetin' here goes!
1 hn I a word
To say to you, and that was j'S tho one
that wusu't heard !
liut, since ymi ain't hero IWteniu', with
them bright curls round your brow,
I'll ay. I love you ! nn' :tu' an' I'm lov
ln" of yi.ui now !
-Thank I.. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
A TIGER'S PLAYTHING.
BY (TIAPLES P. P.OBERT9.
In Imliii onep I wont out on n hot,
dusty iluin near the Ganges, with mv
rill1) and one tialive servant, to see
what I could shoot. It was n dismal
plu.'e. Here and there were clumps of
t.ili grass nnd bamboos, with now and
then at imarisk-troo. Parrots screamed
i i the trees, nnd the startled caw ot
e.mio Indian crow mn.le me pause nnd
look around to see what had disturbed
them.
The crow? almost nt once settled
clown ngnin into silence, and ns I saw
tio sign of danger, 1 went on careless
ly. I was alone, for I had sent back
my servant to find my match-box,
which I had left at the place of my last
h'dt ; but I had no apprehensions, for
I was near the post, nnd th? district
Was one from which, as wan supposed,
th tigeri. had Kvu clunred out some
years before.
Just as I was musing upon this fact,
with a tins? of regret because I had
Cme too lut-i to h ivo n hand in the
cV.it.iiice, I was cm di- d to tho ground
by a huge tins.-, which seemed to have
been hurled ujuii mo from behind.
My hci'.d felt as though it had beta
dadied w ith icy or scalding water, nnd
(lit. ij everything turned black.
If I was stunned by the shock, it
Was only for an instant. When I
Opened my eyes, I was lying with my
face in tho sand. Not knowing where
I was or what had happened, I started
Ij rife, when instantly it huge paw
turned me over on my back, nnd I saw
th? great yellow-green eye i of a tiger
looking down upon mo through their
t irrow black slits.
I did not feel horror-stricken ; in
net, so far as 1 can remember, I felt
only a dim sense of resignation to the
inevitable. I a!so remember that I
noticed with curious interest thnt the
nninial looked rather gratified than
ferocious.
I don't know how long I lay there,
flnpidly gazing up into t lit? brown
eyes bit presently I made n move
ment to sit up, nnd then I saw thnt
I still held my ride in my hand. While
I was looking nt the werir.nn, with n
Vague harassing sense that there whs
ti:nct!iing I ought to do with it, the
li ." r picked me up by the left shoulder
nnd made oil' with mo into the jungle;
r.nd still I clung to the rille, though I
had forgotten what use I should put it
to.
The grin of the tiger's teeth upon
fc:y shoulder I felt but numbly, nnd j
yet, ns I found utUrwnrd, it was so fur j
from genle ns to have shuttered the
bone.
Having carried me perhaps half a
mile, the brute dropped me ami rais
ing her bead lit'cvd a peculiar, sett I
cry. Two cubs appeared nt once in
answer to the summons, nnd bounded
up to meet her. At the tirst glimpse j
of )ni however, they sheered oil' in
alarm, mid their dam 1m l to coast them !
for some minutes, rolling mo ou r j
softly with her paw. or picking me up
end laying mo down in trout of them, j
before she could convince Hum that 1
was harmless. J
At last the youngsters suffered them- j
selves to be persuaded. They threw 1
themselves upon mi: with eager though
liot very dangerous ferocity and be
gan to inaul and wony mo. Their
clawn and teeth seenied to awaken mo
for the first timo to a sense of pain. :
I threw ofi' the snarling little animals
roughly und started to crawl iiw.iy. In
vain the cubs tried to hold in The :
mother lay watching the game with
satisfaction.
Iustinctivelp I crept toward a tree,
nnd little by little the desire for es
cape began to stir in my dazed brain. .
When I was within a foot or two of the
tree the tiger msde a great bound, .
seized me in her jaws, and carried me
back to the spot whence I had started
"Why," thought I to myself, "this
is just exactly the way a est plays with
C mouse !'
At the sinie, m nif nt n cloud seemed
to roll o.T my brain. No words of
initio e in describe the men-ail cless mid
sickeliitig horror of that moment when
realization was thus suddenly flushed
upon me.
At tho shock my ritlle slipped from
my relaxing lingers ; but 1 recovered
it desperately, with a sensation ns if I
had been fulling over n precipice.
I knew now what 1 wanted to do
with it. The suddenness of my ges
ture, however, appeared to warn the
tiger that I had yet n little too much
life in me. She growled mid shook
nit; roughly. I took the hint, you may
bo sure, ami resumed my former atti
tude of iitttpidity; but my faculties
were now nlert. enough and at the
crudest teusion.
Agniu the cubs began mauling me.
I repelled thein gently, nt the sani"
time looking to my rille. 1 saw that
there was a cartridge ready to bo pro
jected into the chamber. I remem
bered that the magazine was not more
than haf-enipty.
I .started once more t" crawl away,
with th" cubs snarling over me and
trying to hold me ; and it was at this
point I realized thnt my left shoulder
was broken.
Having crawled four or live feet, I
let the cubs turn ine about, whereup
on I crawled back toward the old ti
ger, who Jay blinking and actually
purring. It was plain that she made
a good meal not long before, and was,
therefore, in no hurry to di.,pateh me.
Wi!iin about three feet of the
beast's striped foreshoulder I stopped
and fell over on mv side, as if all but
exhausted. My rifle-barrel rested on
a little tussock. The beast moved her
head to watch me, but ovidciitiy con
sidered me past ull possibility of es
cape, for her eyes rested us much upon
her cubs as upon me.
The creatures were tearing at my
legs, but in this supreme moment 1
never thought of them. I had now
thoroughly regained my self-control.
Laboriously, very deliberat-ly, I
got my sight and covered n spot right
behind the old tigress' foreshoulder,
low down. From the position I was
in, I knpw this would carry tho bullet
diagonally upward through the heart.
I should have preferred to put n bullet
through tho bruin, but in my disabled
condition nnd nwkward posture I could !
not safelv t: v it. j
Just us I was ready, one of the c:ibs j
got in the way and my heart sank. .
The old tiger gave the cub n playful
cull which sent it rolling to one side. !
Tho next instant I pulled the trigger ',
and my heart stood still.
My aim had not wavered a hair's-j
breadth. The snap of the rifle was I
mingled with lierer yell from the I
tiger, and the loug-bm red body straight
ened its; If up in the nir and fell over
nliiiot-t on lop of me. The cubs
sh-'cred off in gl i nt consternation.
I sat up nnd drw n long breath of
thankful relief. The tiger lay beside
me, stone dead.
1 was too weak to walk nt once, so I
leaned against the body of my van
quished foe and rested. My shoulder
was by this time setting up an an
guish that mnde me tnink little of my
other injuries. Nevcrthi h.-,s, the seen'.:
about me took on glow of exquisite
color. So great was the reac'.ioii that
the very sunlight seemed transfigured.
I know i fairly smiled as I rapped
the cubs on the mouth with my ride
barrel. T felt i'o inclination to shoot
the youngsters, but T would have no
more of their ardent attentions. The
animals soon realize'! this and lay
down in the sand beyond my rem h,
evidently waiting for their mother to
reduce me to proper submission.
I must h ive lain there half an hour,
ami my elati-oi wa:' mpidh subsiding
before tho agony in mv shoulder, when
at last ley mni. Gunjeet, iipp. aieii.
trucking the tiger's truces with steal
thy caution.
He h id not waited to go for help,
but had followed up the beast without
delay, vow ing to save me or nverge
me before he dept.
The cubs, on his approach, had run
oft' into the covert, so we si t out at
once for the po-l. When 1 got there
1 wa in a raging fever, which with my
wounds, kept nr; laid up tor three
mouths.
On my recovery, I found thnt Gun
jeet leid gone the next day and cap
tured the two cubs, which he hail sent
down tho river to Benares, while thr
skin of the old tiger wa- spread luxu
ri'iusly on my lounge.
Von will not wonder tint the sight
of a cit playing with a nions; has be
come soiiicwlmt disiasteful to me sinee
that experience. I have acquired so
keen a sympathy for the mouse!
Youth'K Companion.
The difference of a farthing per;
pound iu the total trade turn-over of j
sugar in the United Kingdom for n !
year uieiiss no less tuna $15,ytiO,00i. j
( onceining a .Marvellous 74iisiciuit.
From his earliest childhood Olrt
Hull was exceedingly sensitive to lnn-
sic. His uncle who belonged to a
quartet club, used, wlu n pluying on
the violoncello, to put the little fellow
in the empty ensc, and keep him there
until his nervous excitement made it
impossible for him to remain. Ju
spito of this exeitenn nt, he narrowly
observed all that the players did; he
Knew the sounds of the notes long be
fore he could name them ; and when
nt thoago of five hisunele made him the
proud possessor of a little sera) of a
violin which he ri ceived with kisses
and cmbruees--to every one's amaze
ment, he played upon it at once w ith
reuinrkabli: correctness.
His next violin was given to him,
nt his earnest solicitation, two or three
years afterward, by his father. He
could not sleep for thinking of it.
When he heard his father and mother
drawing the deep breath of sleep, he
rose and lighted a candle, and tiptoed
to the room where the dear violin lay,
in order to open th" case for one de
lighted look. "The violin was i;o red,"
said he, as Mrs. Childs reported, "and
the pretty pearl screws did smile at
me so! I pinched the strings, just a
little with my fingers, It smiled at ino
ever more and more. 1 took up the
bow mid looked nt it. If said to me
that it would be pleasant to try it
across the strings. So I did try it
just a very, very little. And it did
sing to me so sweetly! Then I did
creep farther away from the bedroom.
Af first I did play very soft. I make
very, very little noise. But presently
I did begin a capriceio which I like
very much , nnd it did grow ever
louder ; nnd I forgot it was midnight
ami everybody asleep. Presently I
hear sonic thing go crack ! Aud the
next minute I feel my father's whip
across my shoulder.-!. My little red
violin dropped on the floor and was
broken. I weep much for it; but it
no good. They did hnve a doctor for
it next d.iy, but it never recovered its
health. "
Ilis father had meant tint he should
be n clergyman, and in duo time the
boy was placed nt the University of
Gotfingeii. But it was quite useless
study or not, music would get the
upper hand. From Ilnrper'sWeekly.
j
'U! Refused a Dukedom.
An American girl iu London fv itcs j
to The New York Press : j
"I saw Mr. Gladstone crossing Pic- '
on Idly Circus about 1 o'clo "k this nf- j
t moon. The crush was treuiemlor.s i
'mses, cabi vans and struggling hu-
inanity on foot 'stopping the way.'
But everybody, from 'Hobby' on
guard to the gamins cryinsr the evt-
ning papers, recognized the 'Grand
Old Mm.' Instantly hands were raised
and trnttie suspended until the Fremier
of F.nglaml had safely passed the
London Rubicon. F.very eye was cen
tered upon the octogenarian. The man
about town withdrew his ardent ganing
monocle from the passing tailor made
girl ; the 'city mini' turned and for
the moment forgot his stucks and
shares ; Lady Clara Vore do Yele
di igned to bestow a passing glance
from the soft cushions of her aristo
cratic lolling barouche 1 veil fancied
I saw a turn of the eye from her pow
dered footman; 'Tommy Atkins' of
the Grenadier Guards was for once ob
livious of the charms of tho blushing
nursery maid, and raised his hand in
rcspeeUul salute, while the 'rag tag
nnd bob toil' in wild excitement
thronged iu procession like the color
ed population of Washington after a
brass baud, and every now aud then
it becroruckod voice bawled forth : 'Hi,
bos, t here goes old Gladstone!'
"With iimift'ected dignity the first
man in Finland yen, perhaps, in all
lh woild moved through the crowd,
eyes keen and bright and step as elas
tie as a youiigman iu the primeof life.
Paintings, photographs, engraving are
but p'joi poiliayals of Mr. (ilu l-toue,
for they show n spare, loose jointed
old man. w ith few remaining evidences
of vigor. .1 Jut to my mind his 8:5
veins have not dimmed, nor custom j
staled, his wonderful virility. I sawn '
riuidy, well knit man. erect and glow- '
ing with iinimation - one who in nil re- j
(poets give the world 'assurance of a
iun. For sixty years he has been j
a luminous ligure in the world's histo-
ry" : I
Vn Over-Supply.
"So," he said hudiily, "von send
i,i( v.vay." She could not deny it.
"Am T to hnve no assurance from '.
i
you.-1 I
"No," he answered. j
"And why?" !
Been use von have more assnrano.
n w than you know what to do with."
And Algernon has not yet deterniiu-
I
e l whether to show his desperation by j
j.iiningthe army or smoking cigarettes j
--We.-hiijytoa Sti-r,
( IMLPRIX'S ( OLI MX.
StSSIE S At TEHVjon ill.
t nderneath the plum tree,
Iluinty us could
htood a tiny taldo
Only spread for thr",
lialiy JJess, the ho-tes-i,
Vtry grandly dr ssed,
Ilolly as the handmaid.
Grandpa as th" gue-t,
"I'leasn to taken nkio.
They are very line :
Only huked this morning.
Have u glass nf wine'
(servunt, do mnke hii-te, !i"W ;
Dring the fruits und , like.
) hope, Mr, Unmdp'i,
You'll a supper mnk".''
Then were plum-tree hlosseum
S 'rved on blades of grass,
Pubbli in the fruit dish,
Tea wtne in oaeh'glans ;
Till the hcisttss, rising.
8aid,' I plainly sev
1'ou must. Mr. firuiidp i
I onie again to tea."
- I i.oiie.vi v. .1. liovi k in I' rank l,"; Pc -
THE I. RAVE Of A i AirilFfl. I'O'i.
Prince Llewellvn was n mnn vf note
in the time of King John of England.
loader among the Weh h prii;e s, he
occupied his I' fhgelert house onlv in
the hunting season. One year, while
living there with his family, he re
turned from 1 lit chase to meet his
Inmnd Gelert running toward b:m,
with lips and fangs running blood.
Reselling the house and finding his
child missing, and the. child's cradle
smeared with blood, he turned upon
the dog nn-.l slew him. When he lab r
discovered the child living and wel
he saw that Gelert had really saved
him from death by slaving a wolf that
had stolen into the house. Iu remor-o
for his hnbty deed. Llewellyn expressed
his sorrow in the loudest terms, and
ordered his servants to erect a monu
ment over poor Gclcrt's grave:
"And now a gallant tomb they raise
With costly senlj.tnre decked,
And marbles sUri'd wbh hi pniisi
Per (1 d'Tt's Loses .rop'"t."
I fenr, however, that when 111" ) oet
wrote then, lilus he lied not visited
Bethgelert. For G lert's grave, al
though romantically situat-.d. isdeeked
with no costly sculpture, 'lhe grave
stone itself is n sb-e'er upright rock,
standing under a large spreading tree
near tho centre of !' h vel lield. Al
though undoubtedly placed in it pre
cut position by hummi hands, it is t;li
iu its rough state. No chinl has
touched it. Tho grave is enclosed by
nu iron fence, and during the summer
months hundreds of tourists on their
way through Suowdoiiia make n point
to visit it. Harper's Young People.
QrEER THlNliS .ViOlT !'P.O(.s.
Frogs ure mainly juice. If they try
to make more than r. shoit journry
awny from moisturt. m a drought,
they will perish for want of water;
nnd then their bodu- will dry away.
The frog's bones are so soft that he
scarcely leaves any ski lelon.
A frog meets w ith l euiai -kable changes
during his natural life. He begins as
tin egg and batches out ns a li;h. Thai
is, . adpole, or polliwog, at first lius
gills, breathing wat r alone. Jn his
roily days, however, the tadpole soon
loses the outside part e! his gills arid
breathes air ; so that he lne. to come
to the surmoc of the wall r every few
minutes, like a porpoi.-c, b get a fresh
lulpi of breath.
Ibiring the lirst part ot his eaner,
he swims by sculling with his Jeiigtui'.
After a while his hgs begin to grow
out, bis tail bee omes.-horter nn I short
tr. nnd when he is n complete frog, he
has no tad nt all, but swims by kick
ing. When half frog and half lad
polo, he still has a good deal of tail,
and, in addition, big hind legs and
mere sprouts of fori legs ; so that hoi
u very funny-locking fellow. A bull
frog tadpole nt this stage seems "nii
ther of hei'veti nor of earth."
Again, the tadpoleents water plants ;
but when he becomes a frog, he feeds
on animal life. Tadpoles cut the : Tot n
moss or "scum" that we see so often
on logs and plants in a stagnant pool,
and they show e good appetite for soil,
decaying water-growths. The fouh r
the pool, the happier the tadpoles. As
they are numerous, ami thus devour a
great amount of nuitb r (lint would
make it very unhealthy to live near a.
stagnant pond, they are really useful
creatures.
In cijitivity they will generally tat
meat, whether good or bad, ns well an
bread and bran dough ; and, as a
special r lisb, will sometimes lunch on
one another's tails.
Th" common frog gets his final
shape in the tirst season ; but the bull
frog goes under the mud for the win.
ter, while still a tad) ole ; and it taken
at least nnothcr summer, nnd some,
times more, before h" his full right to
be c illeil a frog. II is s.ini four
years from tho egg in getting (ull j
-row th, nnd does not become old for
nbvUt ten yens more, St. Xjobolae. j
LOSS OF THK JAPAX.
A.n Ocean Horror Recalled by a
RurvivorVs Tragic Death,
Two Thousand People Imprisoned
in a. Burning Steamship.
Upon what slender threads hang
the sequences of history ! It so hap
pens that one of the half-score souls
that escaped alive from the burning of
the Pacific Mail steamer, Japan, in
the Formosa Channel, early in Octo
ber, 1872, was George Lavender, re
cently found murdered in IVtroit.
The horrors of that dreadful scene so
tilled the rest of this wretched man's
life that he rarely spoke of his fear
some opcrieiices. and shut out a
much ns possible from his mind's eyr
the bewildering, bloody glare of sen
and sky in which nigh 2, 000 men,
women and children fled from the
flames to the sharks, only to postpone
the inevitable. This is the tale ns
George Lavender once told it. viwing
that he would never ng.iiii follow Ih
sea. The Japan was a side-whei 1 ship of
some :i,8'li toiis. one of the magnitt
eant fle' t then trading between Sun
I'raiicisco, Yoeohama and Hong Kong.
She left Snu Francisco with a full cargo,
and carrying 2,001 passengers, most
of whom were Chinamen returning to
their homes with th" competence
they had earned in th- States. Her
crew were Chinese, and in spile of the
prohibition against gambling, fautan
was soon nil the rage forward and be
low d-.eks. Tho Chinamen would
crawl into a space timbered oft" in the
forward end of the guards, mid piny
until driven away by the heat. They
cut a plunk out over their heads, to
let iu air, and bribed the deck hands
to keep silent. It was it grand moon
light night on tho I'neirie, the wind
just freshening ns the ship entered the
monsoons in the Strnits of Formosa.
Her square snils were set and sh- was
howling oil' some thirteen nul-'s an
hour, when all hands retired for the
night. "I went to the guards," said
Lavender, "to call the Chin anion to
the w-nteh, and as I opened th -i door
of the stnlilo in which a number of
cattle were feeding, r. den so black
smoke lolled onf, followed by she Is
of flame. I crawled into tho cattle
pen, and there, through tho window
they hud cut for ventilation, I saw five
Chinamen wedged in the grip of death,
each trying to force his way out of the
gambling hole, each determined to s-U
his life dearly. The flames were even
then loasting (hem--their bur-ting
eyeballs crackling in the heat! Th-ir
henrtri-nding s Jiriel-s ring i;i my ears
vet .
"I rushed back ond"ck. The whole
i rowd of Chinamen. some ISOO.l should
suppose, had burst out of their quar
ters aud were rushing around like
jellow demons iu the litrht of the
great tongues of Maine which now start
ed up in every direction. WhenCnpt.
Warsaw jumped fioin his bed and cut
the tops.nl halliard.:, ha ordered tin
wheel down, thus bringing the ship's
head to the wind, driving tli (buir s
nnd smoke info the tire nnd engine
rooms and forcing the engineers and
firemen (o flee for their lives. Th"
cubic passenger.-, men, women and
children, rushed from side b side of
the doomed vessel, shouting with thai
awful hoarse cry of tetror w hich one
who hears nmy never terg-t. for 'the
boats, the boats !'
"Three boats were got into Ihr water,
but they were swamped. Mnnv juoipcd
on tho life rafts, to be inslimtlv
washed away. At that moment the
forward half of the ship blew up, nnd
400 human beings were hurled instant
ly into the death pit. Their cries in
the vortex of tlame were bevoiid hu
man nduninee. One m safe on
deck, saw his Wile Hi the rlaming abyss,
and leaped to her side to polish with
her. The cattle, of which there were
several hundred on board, had worked
(heir way loose by this time, ami
swept across the decks, a living hurri
cane. Youth and age went dow n be
fore 1h"ni, nnd those who turned to
flee from (his new horror were either
impi.led upon their horns or (lushed
into the fumnee beneath. Suddenly
the survivors, about 1,000 in number,
seemed stricken by h merciful Provi
dence with the loss of reason. Their yells
of fear wero changed into rt'ieks
of laughter, a laughter that chills my
blood to this day. Hy scores and hun
dreds they leaped over tho bulwarks
into the sea, aud tho Japan gave a
sudden lurch to port which told that
the end had come. With eight other
men I paddled away on a raft from
this mountain of llames, whoso heat
hud already charred our clothing from
our bodies, and tho dead were so thick
in that water that wo could bnrdlv
keep our paddles clear. We got
about 300 yards away when there was
another explosion, the vast coiie o!
fire nnd tlame shot sideways and dis
iippcared beneath the deep. All that
night we drifted, dodging the sharks
which had gathered in countless thou
sands, ami in the morning we were
picked up. Capt. Warsaw was suspen ded
uft( r the hearing at lhe United
Slates Consular Oflice, the survivors
told conflicting stories and the matter
dropped out of sight. Hut the fact
is, the Japan was tired by Chinese
gamblers.- New York Recorder.
The Snake KillingSecretarj Ilird.
As soon as it discovers a snake it ad
vances tard it without hurry and
without hesitation, and when within
striking distance it immediately ele
vates its breast and the feathers of the
n ek vnd without losing any time de
liers n blow with its foot. If (he
snake has avoided the blow and nt
ti in j t - to -ti ike ii. return, th" bird
interposes a w ing, thus receiving the
deadly fangs harmlessly upon the
long feathers, and immediately strikes
again.
Th" light is then virtually over , for
if the secretary .gets in a single blow
the snake's back is broken, and the
bird, like lightning, plants its foot
fi i ml v on tin- reptile's neck and head,
pressing (hem into the ground, while
it delivers the coup de grace with its
beak and then deliberately swallows
the snnke whole, beginning nt the tail
and just before the head disappears
giving it a parting rap on the ground.
Hut th. re is nothing refined about
the seen tary bird's appetite, for one
writer says he found lu.-iile one three
serpents "us long us hi.s arm," eleven
lizards seven inches long, twenty- one
tortoises about two inches in dinmeUr,
"besidesa large quantity of grass-hoppers
and other insects;" or in other
words, seven mid a half feet of snake,
six and a half oi lizard, three nnd a
half of tortoise, and, say a yard of
mi. Iluneous trilb s!
The s - en bay bif,i jK roP cied by
(he (.'ape authoril ies for the immense,
public benefit it confers in eating
poi-onous snakes, nnd a penalty is at
tached by law to its destruction. And
it it were necessary hundreds of eye-witne-ses
could be called to prove its
right to the title of 'Scrpciitiiltl!'.."
Curioii-lv eiiiiu.ii, too, this bird cm
bo lriim d and is trained to protect
poultry yards, not only from suakes,
which are all too fond of eggs, but
from other birdsof prey. St. James's
Hiuig. t.
Siiidiglil and Shadow.
"l)o not symp'iibize with mc,"
laughed Miss Benson, one of the in
structors in the Wtsfern Pennsylvania
Institution for the Blind. "Remem
ber. I do not fully know iv hat I mis.f.
I have always been sighth ss, nnd nev
think of rev fh-lvicncy ns a calamity.
Of course, there are times when I long
for sight with a longing thnt is almost
a pain. and yet withal, I sin such a
coward that I will not submit to nn
opei-iit ion th::t might possibly benefit
one of my vc. or nt h nst, I snypossi
b!y. but 1 r, iMy fed llii-re in no hope.
' l he possibility is simple based en
the fad that with my h tt tye 1 can
disl urge. I -h colors. That is. if a bril
liant tint loll before that eve I
know thai tie n is n difference from
the monotonous shadow. The same if
I go into the sunlight. I know thai
there is illumination. I was born
with sight, but win u n little child I
was si i iel,( n w ith meie-ies, which (lis
cis" b it me blind. I have grown up
in datktiess and am so accustoni.id to
it that 1 seldom think of blindness as
an infirmity .
"Were I incapable d Inking care of
mvsi If. probublv I would f, e more
keenly the !e-s ol sieht. I have always
b. ell of a light he.-irb d di-positio!i.
proie- to look on the bright -i,)e of
t'lings. if you will excuse the pun. nnd
rcidh do eiijov mv mission m life. My
eves do not pain me or burn as tiny
do thoie ot so many of the blind. In
deed, one reason why 1 am afraid of
undertaking lhe operation for the left
eye. which some vi my friends so much
advise, is the fear lest some injury be
done thai will in-an future misery. If
I undergo any op: rat ion it will only
be to jdea-e my friends. I have no
hope of sight myclf this side of tho
grave." Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mu-t Spare (Up .Crocodiles.
The city authorities of Bombay re
cently ordered that means be adopted
to kill all the crocodiles in the vicinity
as dnngerous reptiles. The health officer
of the city bus entered nn earnest pro
test against this order, declaring thnt
the crocodiles tire the best and only
posbiblc scavengers of tho water reser
voirs, whero they dwell, speedily mak
ing nway with ull obnoxious sub
stances, and saying thnt if they are
exterminated tho consequences in the
health of the place w ill be more se
rious than In? Jikcs to coutoraplate.
On the Old-time Pereh.
Jit But there yester even' bennatU the listen
ing vine?,
Where still lhe mornin"-glory above the door
way twines.
And the nightingales were? ingiu' just as thej
sung of ynri.
When first she said "I love you," hut no
sho loves me more!
Tho same old pin -e ; the rocker fn which sha
sat while I,
Half fearful that the stars would hear the gry
I eret in tho sky,
i I-;ui"d her way just a little, mid said, "1 leva
I you;" Sure,
I I meant it then, mid loved her f rue, but now
I love her more!
The old 'lays sORtned to come again while sit
ting side by sid"
Whero first she said she'd tie uiy wife w8
didn't call it "bride"
I told her then, "How sweet you an1!" an
felt my pulses thrill
With all that sweetness close to me but now
I she's sweeter still !
j We t'ked it ever sitting there, n".ir lovo'8
own happy bonis.
I And "nee more fell the first fweet joy that
I ( ".me', of hol'bu' hands ;
I Hhe seemed to be my sweetheart still ---'twas
I all just as before
' Kui we clasped each oiler closer, and wa
hived each other mere'
Allantn I'cn'titutien.
HUMOROUS.
Nothing rattles a great bdle like a
i proat ring.
"She's as pretty as a picture." "But
j not ns her photograph. They never
are."
j Cobble "How- do you find trade?"
! Stone--"That's the great trouble. I
can't find it."
Dudeleigh 'T gave myself nway
: the other night." Pi nelope "Wed,
don't worry over it. Yon aren't out
j anything."
I "I hear friend Rudiger has pit mar
ried to an Italian holy." "Ye, ho
went to Italy to save h is lungs, aud neivv
he has lost his heart.''
I. .iimcy's the roll 1 to wealth ;
It'll WllHt we'd Ilk" t" llllV fve.-lle'l
I..tnri .;,!!i where v. c I'V s'efiltb
fan (iii' kiv cut ;e-r.,-- Ce- )i. ,.
A h' alt Ii join nn! snys vou ought to
take throe-qjiarlci s of nn li e,)- for din
ner. It in well also to add a few V'g
1 etables ami a piece of ine.it.
' b'h igh -oii "My poor ii i ling. Now'
i that v o-.i ure pontiih ss, v.hnt joy is
tie lo in life for .-nV" Mr-. Bloi-h-son
"A lot oi it. I (I'U -hop, ciin'8
i IV"
i Tramp "Madnm, have vim nu nv-V
! Lady of the house "No." "Hnve you
,lsav?" "No, I have no saw," "Then
; give mo a little something to eat,
please."
J Sho--"It wjll Vic a pleasure fer mo
I to share your trouble" and anxieties."
He "But I haven't any." She
: "Oh, you will have them when vo aro
married."
j "1 dote upon oakc."said the languishing rriiild,
I "So n. l ie. so stat' ty. though few.
, Tell me new, Mr. Jones, what's your fuv'rito
trec'i"
I And he tenderly answered h"r, "Yew."
I He- "Wifey, love, I am taking part
j in a balloon accent to-morrow." Sho
j - "! have no obj ctions, love, only
' don't forget to bring m- something
i nice when you come back."
! Her Adorer "N"o. s;r, it i- not for
I the sake of vi:lir dnughtt r's luotiey
j that I love her. It is on account of
i her sweet temper find charming man
j tiers." Her Father "If it is not for
i money v mi wish to marry I. can let
, you have tin n'ece ; she has a mndl
j swerter teO'per and li more y wh'it
i evt i."
' I'oisnning ns nu Art.
j Sv sit unit it- poisoning, ns far ad
! Luropenii eoiintriis are concerned,
has long ago ci n-i-d io ixist, s iys the
London Standard; but we are remind
! ed bv the lepoil of the Government
Analvst of Hoinbav thnt the practice
still largelv obl'ims in India. So fnr
, ns can be galhered lhe ei iuie- in many
eases si i in to la wholly without nio
' live, and lhe erpe1 rutoi s are rnreiy
made aiin liable to justice. Arsenic,
! as being the cheapest and most easily
- obtained, is the agent ino-t commonly
employed, and as it volatilizes at
, cry moderate heat, no trace is left
j when the body is burned. Opium ami
j strychnine are also used, and occasion
i ally powdered glass. Secret poison
I tug has In en practised ill nil ages, joul
j in iilnio-t ull countries, nnd num; roim
i instances of it are mentioned by the
classic writers. lmiiig what may b
called the poisoning epidemic of the
seventeenth century the practice be
came a regular branch of educnlioii
among those w ho professed a knowl
edge ol inagic.
As t t .lititrlcberry.
"Jinglelierry is a bright fellow. Ha
can bilk very brilliantly for an hour,"
sii id lliitkawny.
'Perhap.. I met him at the begin
ning of bis second hour," said Daw
, Philadelphia Record.