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X V AiWl AJ-iJ AW' IB 1111 II ; 1 1 I II II II tl II H irifitfi&iir BESTJRE YOTJ JRH1 RICEHT ; THEN O-AHEAD -D Crockett. TARBORO', N. C., ; THURSDAY DECEMBER 10, 1885. NO. 60 rKOFSMONAI A It D. iNK PQWELL, ATTOKXE Y-A TLA W N. C. plUXS NAS22, . , . v TARBORO, H-C helices in aU the Courts, BUto "w6- " qBORGK HOWARD, . Attorney" and Coumelor at lawt TARBOEC N.C. t-sr Practices in all the Courts, 8Uto and federal. -. - ' nov.6-ly. 1NDREW JOYNER . ATTORXBY-J.T-LA Wt Ti fn tore . ourts ot Edgecombe. GREENVILLE, N. C ill regularly attend the Superior ODun. Office in Tarboro : G M. T. FOUNTAIN, vrroBNET AND COTJNSELJjOR AT LAW, 4ii Tarboro, N. a, Office over Insurance. Office of Cant. Orrcn Willi was- feb31-6m . Gilliam. : . Domu Gn.T.TAit ILLIAM & SON Attorneys-at-Law, . TARBORO, N. C. 'Will -practice In the Counties of Edgecombe, ijaliiax Pitt, and In the Court of the first Judicial District, and In the Circuit and npreme Courts at Raleigh. , Janls-ly. J AS. IOBKUBET, Attojrney-t-l-awf TARBORO - - X-c' wnmlt. Naah and Wil- oo. Loans negotiated n raODable tern"- I L. BRIDGEBS & l0N Attorneys-at-Layf TARBORO, i lry A ROMAHTIC 6T0ET. P v mm. PATCHED ELBOWS. jQOSSEY BATTLE. ; Attorney at Law TARB05O. - - N. C. (Battle -fc Hart, Rocky MounVN. C., Practice ta the conrts of Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson aat Halifax counties. Also ia the Federal sad 3upreme Courts. Tarboro office, up-stairs over new Howard building, Maiu itxeet, epp. Bank front room. apr 1 8 j-jR. H. T. BASS . Offer? WnrOLW"-!! aerVIea ta lh 'tens of Tarboro and Ticinity. Office in T. A. McN air's drug store on Main Street JJK. 1. N. CARK, . burgeon ggJJ Dentist, TAHBORO, N. C. Office L vdie, irom 9 a. m. till 1 p. m. aad .on. i to 6 p. m. lNext door to Tarboro House, over Royaler & Nash. R. W. J0TN1R, : SURGEON DENTIST Has pontianently located in Wil- will VtA .fceatfy and sruUv perlormea ana Teeth ertracted without pain. Office da Tarboro etxeet, next door to Post Offie- Jan"A bm L. RAVAGE, 1. Sale, Exchange eed btaoies, obser Gkanvill TABBO , "J"1" 8tables are the nd have acapadtv of i f"ock. Givetffacail. U A St. ASDKKW STKUTS 0 M. C largest iathe State Amar tea car-loads laniar JUTHER SHELDO, DEALEB IN SASHES, DOORS, "LooV, mother, those interesting elbows are out again ! I don't know what old Toppleton will say." As hespoke, Dave Baldwin turned about and showed his mother the rents where two very active elbows had worked them elves out of the prison. Mrs. Baldwin waa frying griddle-cakes for Dave's break fast.. She looked up and said in her pleasant way? WelL Dave, the thing that made the trouble will cure it. Work did it, and work will curt it, and next month you will be able, from your earnings, to have a uew coat, so that again you can say, what made holes will cover them. In a few minutes I will sew up those holes." fSorry to make you so much trouble mother. I'm an awful box." Thereupon Mother Baldwin told him aba would stop his mouth with a griddle cake if he did not stophat style of talking. . 'M shouldn't object, mother, to looking as well as Frank Thompson." "I should tt I thought you got your dothes the same way. I was at the Thompsons the other day, and Mrs. Thompson a-roaned and said she should be glad when Frank got his bills paid, but elsrks must dress in any store, she sup posed. Before you and Frank went into Toppleton's store you and he were glad to pick greens In the city lots and bring them home for dinner, and I would rather you'd be a little dandelion-picker for life, rather than having you owing everybody and never paying them." To this sentiment Mother Baldwin gave emphasis by the vigorous . landing of another griddle-cake on Dave's plate. ."I think young people ought to grow up with a horror of debt, for it is one kind of dishonesty If you owe people because you have bought something you know you may not pay for. Then, if you expect when you buy to be able to pay. but still don't pay, and so keep people out of their just due, after a while conscience gets easy on this debt subject, and says; Oh, any time will do,' and who knows? If I get easy about what I owe a man,, I may get easy on the subject of taking something out right from him. No, Dave, I want to bring you up right." Still again did Mother Baldwin give em- pbasis to ner words by the prompt and hearty landing of a griddle-cake on the hungry boy's plate. roars gouu, motner. you give 'em big aad hot. I'll promise to be honest." "If you don't, young man," said Mother Baldwin,, with a ringing laugh, "you may speak for -another cook. The very first evening I possibly can, I will engage to cover those active elbows with two as neat patches as I can put on. They will do till . Vn can bay a new coat.' jjiave and Frank that morning walked together to Toppleton's "Dry Goods Bazar," wKera .cey were clerks. Oh. oat is a beauty!" exclaimed Dave, noticing on1 of Frank'ssleeve-buttons. The kIvIm wtu tha. ok a oiue Bione in a cross form, set withfu a rich gold band. "Like itf" aa3ea nwii. -xne uuues .T think tt very floe. When I sell 'em a piece of silk, I Just carelessly lay my hand m ft and say: 'It shows well against , I a i -te -fast rreatatiKlA jewwry,' mtm " J"- rti Kt have cost something." Hem wUf Taint paid for yet, but that is all right. By wearing it I'm adver tising Jewelry for the Ann where I got it, ru1 that is DAY." "Don't know about it, but seems to me I feel easier when I pay for a thing," Oh. nonsense." replied Frank, sharply. He did not wish to be reminded of the anbiect of debt, and why should his old companion in days of dandelion picking worry him with his sensitive conscience? TKt niu-ht Dave's mother covered tus "enterprising elbows" with two very neat patches. Only a pair of sharp eyes would have detected these Honest covers. av. Dave." said Frank, the next day, eveine closelv his fellow-chfrk, "are those patched elbows paid for?" "Patched elbows?" asked Jim Blake, a clerk, with a rough voice "Paid for? Has Dave anv strantre notions aboat the sub ject of debt?" "Yes." suid Dave, coolly and pleasant ly, and I am not ashamed of them, or my clothes either. " Indeed 1" said . Frank, contemptu ously. "Come, boys! Attend to your work I" exclaimed a voice. The clerks all looked up. It was Top- nleton himself. There was an awful si- Innce in that Dart of the store. " Guess I made a mistake," exclaimed Trunk. "Til look out for the old man next time." serious mistake, that night, Top- nleton thought somebody was making. a imost all of his clerks had left Chanc inir to look out of his counting-room he jaw an arm that, reaching round the cor nrr of a set of shelves on which were ex pensive broadcloths, abstracted a frag ment and then was quickly withdrawn. Indeed r thought Topple.ton. " That was a neat orjeration". Look here ! What AiA I nee on that arm. or the wrist, ra ther t Something blue t Humph !" ' The next day the clerks wondered why Toppietoa seemed to be bowing so much vhan near tnem. sraomnK uuwu u utc lavel of their hands. ' "Funny," said Jim Blake, .'I thought Joppleton wopij turn cannibal and eat my Vanria fvdav." ' thought he was going off with my ..-i remarked Frank. '.'He SSCre ft pretty pattern, and eyed tnem rovewws1 to to follow to pay for what you buv as soon as possible. I wish one of my clerks had followed that rule ; but I suppose you know about it and I won't say anything more on that point. I came to say that I thought young David was a trusty boy, and I would like to promote him. There is an open place In a higher department, ana be is welcome to it." The next day Dave took his new nnsi tion in the store. Various exnlanaMnna were given by his fellow-clerks. "There," said Jim Blake, "I can ex plain it alt It is owing to the fact that Toppleton heard our talk in the store about patched elbows.' I mean to put a patch on mine right off." He did not by any means, but the next week bought an expensive suit which, at ine ena or two years, he had not paid for. THE HHIDOO JUGGLES. . One of the Bloat Singular Men met - Imdla. The, juggler is Deihaos the most am. herrttjsha--Bftr5fe-d &k&te&to guiar man to oe met tTItat Charmlag Little Eetta Bays About Herself and Some Aetreasee -. She Baa Met. i Lotta is one of the few actresses who look very much the same off the stage as on, and it is much the same with her man ner. She is bright, sparkling, effusive,' She gesticulates a great deal in eonversa. tion, is restless and moves about in her chair, is quick and impetuous in her move ments, and her small coal-black eyes snap and sparkle like electric flashes when she talks. Although she is probably dose to thirty, she does not look "over twenty, which is in part owing to her good color, petite figure and. peculiar Titian red hair, which of Itself gives her a Juvenile appear ance. Many of the erroneous Impressions J arxmt JjOtta's age grow out ol the tact that she has been on the stage since she was eight years old. Her mother stm ac companies her in all her travels, and is usu ally witn her at the theatre. fcasvwe! with in all India. His tricks outvie in neatness of execu tion and in wonder all of the most fa mous prestidigitators of Europe and Amer ica, roeir paraphernalia consists of an old leather bag, and their dress of a rag across their loins. . They crenerallv travel in pairs, one being the musician and the other the performer. The musician's dress is certainly grotesque, and consists of bright yellow or faded ereen cloth wrapped around his body and between his legs in many a fold. Around his waist he slings a drum, and fastened to his chest in such a manner that it reaches his lips ia a reed instrument, supplied with a variety of different sizes of pipes on which he can blow notes, in a variety of key, widely separate, from the squeak of a pig to the melody of a bagpipe, and about as musical as either. Shaking out his bag of dead men's bones, leather strape, conches, baskets, garden pots and rubbish, the juggler proceeds- to the execution of his tricks. He turns an innocent strap into the most vicious hiss ing serpent, and affrights all those stand ing by; he runs a sword through an empty basket, and human gore gushes out profusely ; fixe is emitted from his nose and mouth, and after swallowing a pound of raw cotton, fine thread is drawn from his ears and nose; this is all done by a half naked man in an open plain. But perhaps the most interesting and oft-described tricks which may with justice in this connection be repeated here is the mango trick. Taking up a common garden pot, the Juggler hands it over for inspection. He then scrapes up some of the earth, and filling the pot places over it a shawl, and blows on the earth, also repeating a prayer. This he continues tor a few minutes, and suddenly taking away the shawl shows to the bystanders the sprouting head of a green and tender .plant. Again he covers the pot and blows, and again uncovers.' There is a tree in miniature, with shapely leaf and blossom, and again the tree has grown to the height of four feet, with full turned fruit and bark, and then he blows on it, and before the eyes of the spectator the tree has vanished and the garden pot and earth are there alone. BUILDERS' HARDW tSX, ! PAINTS, OILS, G tVA -SS, Aad Building Material of every descr iption fV tJ tiff that thief . . . HMU. 08. 1 16 W. SIDE VARKET 1 JQUAR B 49 ROANOAKS AV? L, NORFOLK. Novemberl882. 18,1-y. A, WILLIAMSON, -ManufaCjy, Mi Hi:-M8 Harws, i Opposite HrMoB, ,i8 &BBOS., TARBORO . IHRUER'S TONlf J. JV.C if VOIl Ira .'- . .' ' - UX -d require a Viii ;. i t rKK s Tokic at once it i 'y save yours. t nt8c? XACO., New York, TOppiewn i-- - . off frnm .rve aTunexrctad UlBV BK.ML ' That nigtt. when almost i -t.-A that, aama arm Ocuaivuj -wi-flah tnnd the comer of the shelves ' v.i. .nrfed the exuensive cloths, ail Win- vv w i j JZa was indead an "unexpected v. . Tt u viirorousir grappled by . x,iAAm nnder the counter. " and his amV.' r"wr;rdr that Frank had a ehan to or 'do any work to Top- pieLou o Tp.wwin said to The nexx eveniufs : Ws mother: "I am sorry to fPorttatmy elbows show a rent, not in the patohes, but one side." . J "Don't you worry. I saw it was gwlng the natches on, out i way Yiucu M. - - .. ennldn't mend it then. I'll Slip thmnch it in a iiffy. Let now." What shall I put on t" Oh oh throw on my sack, U you ... -'t do better. You needn't be ashamed . IV paid for," said the debt-hating moth . ne od evening." rt wi s a man's voice. In astonishment vl Mother Baldwin looked up. Dy w me, You did not seem to hear jfcxea. front door, and as it was "Lr itJht I would step in and rap i a . a'YtfcmAfMv1 Data. "P'JnV xW vixm'tl" Then Dava ' !CJarJ boldly axul manfuUy, array, ed a neeaie me taxe n A Terr Cnrloaa Epitaph. . The subjoined epitaph appears in Mr. James Payn's novel, "Thicker than Water." In his stoiV twa ladles are " rambling about a country churchyard and come upon a tombstone to tne memory of Sarah Dempster: Here Ilea a poor woman who always was tired. Who lived in a house where help was not hired: Her last words on earth were: "Dear friends. I am Bolns. Where washing ain't done, ndr sweeping, nor sewing: But everything there is exact to my wishes. For where they donteat there is no washing up dishes. I'll be where load anthems will always be ringing, , Put having no voice I'll get clear of the singing. Pont mourn for me now, dont mourn for me nerer. I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever." One feels with what delight many a poor woman would hail the prospect of "doing nothing forever." The; wife of an ordi nary laboring man spends ner wnole time in cooking, scouring, washing, mending; except on Sundays, and perhaps on Satur day nights, she never stirs outside her own dwelling. The proverbial mill horse, compared with her, leads an easy life, and the want of rest, want of color, want of freshness, material and mental," always strikes me as about the saddest wants in a working woman's life. Therefore we must not blame poor Sarah Dempster if doini nothing for ever ana ever " was her ideal of happiness in the future life. Lon don Society. A Systematic Traveller. "Yes," said an elderly and sedate pas senger, ,"I am a commercial traveler, but not one of the new school. I belong to the old regime. My tendency is toward quiet modesty and Blow going. Besides I am very methodical I work by system. My route is laid out to cover just nine months' travel every year, and year after year tt is the same. My sleeping ear berths are always engaged a year ahead. always have the same birth, ride in the Pftrna hack and have the same room in the same hotel as on the former trips. This s ajj arranged in advance. When I call Tipon a customer and "get his order I tell ym that at the same hour exactly one year hence I will be with him again. At every hotel my room is ready for me with a fire in the grate, my dippers before it, jny dressing: gown hanging In the ward robe, pictures of my wifa and family upon the walls and my letters emd telegrams upon the centre table. TO, too,' is all arranged months ahead. "I have four sets of sllpvs, gowns, pfctures, ete., and as soon as I leave a hotel these are packed up and sent ahead at me by express, to be arranged previous to my arrival in another hotel. I even etder my meals a year in advance, and "By referring to my schedule can tell you rUt.!n a minute Where i wUltQineanu t win eat anv mven uuy wimiuo of course I am" called a crank, but t iieiitrst in these things ; it costs but ittt.ua.nd makes travel for me a constant ,1-a.nre. The mreatest satisfaction I have L ne u in carrying out these precise iTximna m. but I scet off here, tiiKn t ea mv hackman with the MU , . . ,.,W, mmm in ti n carriage reserveu tor iup t""- J ordered exactly a year ago." ner proiession, ana believes that' as. her mission is to be funny, she- couldn't be funny If she got married. -. Lotta is down on English burlesque actresses and French comediennes. She Is a robust American, and has no patience with the tendency to exalt things because they are foreign. "I can't think of a good low-comedy actress in England,M,'8he said recently. "The best burlesque actress in London is Nellie Farron, but I don't count the burlesquers. Mrs. John Wood is of course splendid, but hers is the highest of, high comedy. If Chonmont could have come to this country ten years ago people would have been wild over her, but she Is too old to play now. Judic is the best the French have now. When I saw her ten years ago she was fine, but lately she has grown big and stout and matronly. Things have reached such a pass in France that an actress cannot raise a laugh unless she is vulgar. Judic's forte lies in sing ing coarse songs in an innocent way. The great success of Madame Nitouche was not so much owing to Judic as to Baron, who, as Celestin, the organist, was inimi table. The reason I took up the play was that it afforded opportunity to introduce the prankishness of a roguish girL which is my special line. But I hate coarseness, and if I had my way would drive every vestige of it from the stage. I am glad to say vulgarity doesn't take in this country. Morally this country is as much ahead of England as England is ahead of France. You can always judge of the morals of a country by the morals of the stage. The moral couilitioii of the Eig ish ste is something frightful. It bor ders on moral leprosy. Mrs. Kentlel is the only decent -actress of prominence on the English stage. On the stage as anywhere else, whoever degrades herself just does that much to degrade her profession. "Nothing struck me so much when I was in England as the intense prejudice of the people. They can tolerate nothing American. They unobediently hate us. There is the dramatization of Little NelL which John Brouham made for me. To suit the English I had to have Mr. Dickens rewrite It, but I knew if would be no good without the supper scene and other parts written by Mr. Brougham in it. After the first act which he wrote, Mr. Dickens went out of the box at the first performance. He was afraid the supper scene would not tao but it did, and. was the hest thing in the piece., It's no unc Uukih, we ii ah? original people, and If we want to be sno- ceseful we must continue to be original and depend upon our own resources and. not copy the English. The great trouble with! our stage to-day is that it is aping the English and following too closely old traditions. When I went on the stage I did as I : pleased, and followed out my natural impressions of how things ought to be done. If somebody had told me what to do I would have been like the rest of them. If people like me, it's because I'm myself and try to be original, and not do things because other people do them. mv SJS wir. T.Tppieton. Excuse Fact is, Mr. Toppletonv I nw Just To c.d he he bo apologies, madam, i innhiir ana ruws .r..i..i- v.4m von bav Mr. blm nrVil t WM ' that U not a totf mo. Kvolntion in music". "I tell vou. Bromley,' Tve married on ano-eL" "O, no doubt, wait udiu you vb i been married as long as I have." "She's all smiles, Bromley j never a cross word. Her voice is as sweet as the sound of a harp, ller t "Oh, she reminds you oi a narp, does she Inside of a year sne u re mind you of an accordion," "Because shell mane m iu.ua, noise when you attempt to snut ner up," Sunday is tha golden clasp which binds together the yolume ot tne I week. It is also a-good time lor one I to pull off his boots and try all the bunion remedies accumulated during I the precading bis days. "Jim." The other day a second-hand dealer in Michigan avenue bought the household furniture of a poor family compelled to leave the city. It was such furniture as only the very poor could get along with, and among the rubbish was a little old cart, minus a wheel. Next day after-the furniture was purchased a boy about twelve years old hung around the store for a while and finally asked the price of the cart. He was told he could have it for ten cents, but this was apparently a greater sum than he could raise. He dis appeared, but an hour later he returned and was skulking off with the cart when a pedestrian nabbed him and returned him to the store. "Don't send me to jail I" he pleaded when the dealer spoke harshly to him. "But you are a thief 1" "Oh, no, sir I I took the cart, but .lt wasn't stealing. I never stole anything in my life." "Wasn't it stealing to take the cart away?" . ' "I hadn't the money and I was afraid you'd sell it. You see it belonged to Jim." , "Jim who?" Jim , sir. You bought all the things out of the house. They didn't mean to give you the cart, but it got mixed in. Jim give it to me." "I didn't Bee any boy around there." "No, sir, because he died two weeks ago. On the very day he died m he " - Here the boy lost his voice and the tears fell fast, but after a time he went on: He give me that cart, air. ; We used to draw wood in it It was everything Jim had in this world, and itf s all ril ever have to remember him 1 : Don't have me ar rested i" 'You may have the cart, my lad,' kindlv replied the dealer. ; "And you take this quarter," added the pedestrian, "and get a new wheel maae.': "Say ! I want to chip in there," said a shopkeeper who had heard the story, but the lad seized the cart and made off, calling back in a choked voice : "Thank everybody I I don't want any monev ! It just killed me to think hadn't anvthina to remember Jim , by, and didn't even know where they buried him." Detroit Free Press. The Woman of 8teuaFr Th Tirraine neasant loves to narrate the story of the "Woman of Stenay" who offered a barrel of wine to a detachment of Austrian soldiers, saying: "You -are thirsty, friends. Drink, you are welcome to all I have," drinking, as she spoke, a cupful to their hpndr. Tbe soldiers accepted with pleasure tne proffered drink, and. in a few minutea four hundred men were fVrithering n agony on a ormnnd. Then the "woman or. tenay" mm with her dying gasp, shrieked out s You o. ail nolsonedl Vive la France!" and 1-iaMr n. wirnsfi. This is the legend of Lorraine, and the memory of its heroine is revered by the Deasantry as highly as that of Charlotte Corday. Conflagrations In New ?erlt, Chicago Hoeton and Other Cities ' New York has had its share of the great ares of history.. As far. back as 1741 there , was a conflagration which was traced to incendiaries, and seven persons were hanged. i In 1776. a fire destroyed 493 houses in Broad way," laying an eighth of the city in ashes. Two years later flames Which started op an East River wharf, de stroyed 80tf buildings. In December, 1804, forty warehouses in Wall and Front streets were burned. The conflagration of 1835 destroyed the business portion of the city east of Broadway and north of Wall st reet. Six hundred and ; forty-eight large ware houses were burned, and the loss was es timated at $18,000,000.- In July; 1845, the same district was visited! by another: ftre, attended with alossof 15,000,000. In 1848, 609 houses in Brooklyn were destroyed by Pre- . , . San fmrriw'n . isiui cfofxtimveri H flra -'Jwioe a " year regularly frcm the tin? of the discovery jf gold- Irt -I84 till 1 853, owinii to the crowded condition of the wooden houses. Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, was bunting when Sher man entered it Feb. 17,1865, and very lit tle was saved. Richmond was fired when the Confederates evacuated it' in April, 1865, and the entire business portion of the city was burned. Charleston; C, was reduced to ashes in 1861 by an accidental fire, and in 1865 there was a fire, followed by an explosion of a war powder magazine and 200. persons were killed. Portland, Me., was half destroyed on July 4. 1866, by a fire which started from the explosion of a fire-cracker. The most destructive conflagration which ever occurred in the United States, was that of ; Chicago, Oct. 8-10, 1871. It broke out in a shed near the lumber yards In the southwest part of the city. The legend is that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a lamp when young .people- went out to milk her at night in order to make an oyster stew. : The conflagratioD swept over 2,100 acres, destroyed 17,450 buildings,and 98,500 persons were made homeless. Two- hundred people were burned of killed by by 'falling buildings. The floss was $198,000,000. Boston was in 1873 visited by a confla gration second In extent only to that in Chicago. It began Nov. 9 and ended Nov. 11. Seventy acres were burned over, and 800 buildings destroyed. The value of the property burned was t80, 000,000. Fifteen lives were lost It was. said to have been started by a hod-carrier dropping a coal from his pipe. London, Paris, Yeddo, Constantinople, Moscow, Copenhagen, and Carthage, Bagdad and Nineveh have also been licked up. by flames in their time. November, 1885, will long be remembered by the citizens of Galveston on account of their great conflagration. Tne Printer. A printer is the most curious being liv ing. He may have a bank and coins, and not be worth a penny; nave small caps, and have neither, wife nor children. Others may run fast, but he gets along best by setting fast' He may be making impressions without -eloquence t may use the lye without offending,' and - be telling the truth. , . While others-cannot ; stand while they set, he can set standing, and even do both at the same time ; use' furni ture. and yet have n- dwelling.; aaay make and put away pie, and never see a pie, nacu im ext. it, uuniig mg uui ; be a human being and a rat at the same time ; may .press a great deal, . and not ask a favor: may handle a shooting-iron, and know nothing of a cannon, gun, or i pistol. He may move " the lever - that moves the world, and yet be as far from moving the globe as a hog with his nose under a mole hill ; spread sheets without being a house wife. He may lay his form on a bed, and yet be obliged to sleep on the floor. He may use the f without shedding blood, and from the earth may handle the . He may be of a rolling disposition, and never desire to travet He may have a sheep's-foot, and not be deformed; never be without a case, and knows nothing of law or physic ; be always correcting his errors, and growing worse every day ; have em- without ever having the arms of a lass around him; have his form locked up, and at the same time be free from jail, watch-house, or any other confinement More than a million head of cattle wintered in the Territory of Wyom ing, and the general "round up" o this enormous number will begin about the middle of May. '; . ; Tka sun shines for. everything, the flowers smell sweet tor &U noses and the nightingale warble for all ear. ' An Awful Calamity. An old negro, with an air of utter dejec tion, sat on a bench in front of a cabin. Someone, seeing that he must be miserable, stopped and said : "Yon do not seem to be enjoying your self, old man." No, honey. De- time fur my 'joyment Udunober." "What is the matter?" Wife dun dead, honey." "I am sorry to hear that and I assuse you that you have my sympathy." "Thankee, san." "A man loses a good friend when his Wife dies." Dat he do, honey ; dat he da I has faun' dat out ter my sorVlet me tell yer, an' now my good days is all gone, - "What was the matter with your wife?" "I dunno, honey. She. tuck sick one night an' she died de naixt ebenin'. It wus er awful blow on me, fur dat ,'oman wuz earn in' (15 ebery munf. It wuz awful hard fur ter die jes' arter de white folks had raised her wages. - 'Peared like long e she wucked fur $12 er munf she kep" her helf, but de SI 5, 'peared like,, wus too much fur her. Yas, sah, she was snatched off atde berry time when-she' wuz -tie mos' use ter me. I doan kno W whut's goin" ter come o' me. Ill hab ter go ter Wtwk, Tee afeerd." Arkansaw Traveller. - London's Tim System Prof. Loudon's proposed system ot time, en the cmmai. plan, -provides mat the present day of twenty-four hoars be devided into ten divisions, so that eacn hour-would correspond to two hours and. twenty-four minutes, this hour would be aeain devided into a hundred divisions, called minutes if necessary, each minute oh the new system thus corresponding to 1.44 minutes; again. this new minute, division-to be subdivided for accurate measurements into one hun dred divisions, called seconds. The ad vantages arising from such a system, as enumerated, are, the abolition of the so called. A. M. and P. M as .has already been accomplished by the 24-hour system all the advantages derivable, from the adoption of any system based on the scale of 10 namely, the inconveniences arising from the continual use of vulgar fractions and the use of symbols for each unit in the ordinary affairs of life; and, finally, the fact that the time in hours and min utes, which for all practical purposes is sufficient, is indicated immediately by the clock this latter being considered a soecially important advantage, as, by the present system, tt is always essential to multiply by five in order to know the true time, Tlablta. - If vou have a piece of work you can't get done just give a party of boys an idea that you don't want them to do it A Pennsylvania young lady significantly added to her wedding invitations the line, -fNo pinkie dishes as presents." SAILORS' 8trPERSTJTI0NS. Strange Fancies That Make Tars Fearfnl. As a rule, seafaring people are supersti tious, and, from the time of the ark down to the present day, mythical, tales find cir culation among the mariners of all climes and countries, and ghostly ships, strange tales of the sea, form a large part of sea literature. The literature of the Norsemen is full of strange fictions of ghostly ships and wierd happenings of sailors. Lieu tenant F. S. Bassett, U. S. N., in an inter esting article on the subject, Bays : "Many fishermen believe that boats which men are drowned from are afterward unlucky. Fishermen at Bridport, England, think boats are less lucky when they do not kneel in launching them, as formerly, and they carefully turn them with the sun and call on the name of God when they first lay hands on them to launch them, even gelng so far at Redcar, in Yorkshire, as to change the crews once a year for luck. The Northmen 'jelieve- If their offerincra for botoIs $ purgatory-were not accept-4 able, m spectral bark would sail into the wharf with r crews of the souls of those who had perished years before at sea. Friends on shore recognized lost ones, but at midnight the bell would strike and lights and ship disappear as suddenly as they came. Beliefs in ghostly ships are not confined fc ancient mariners, and strange sights and unearthly stories are given common currency by sailors to the present day. The story or the murder of the passengers of the Dutch vessel Pala tine, the burning of the vessel by her murderous crew, and reappearance off Block Island, where she was burned, is now well known, and. only last, summer the writer talked with sober-minded men and women of that island, who avowed that during the winter of 1881, on a cold and stormy night, this mysterious vessel made her a pea ranee off the harbor, with her mast and rigging all on fire, ex actly as told in the original story. She was in sight some time, so they said, and when last seen was running directly into the teeth of the gale then blowing from the east A fisherman returning to port one night from a day spent on the fishing banks saw bark heave in sight Thinking she might want a pilot, he made for her, but before he could get alongside she came directly for him. As she approached he noticed that she was of a strange and antique build ; her ceils were old and her rigging was about used up, and not a soul was to be seen on dec Frightened at this strange sight, he started to run in for the land ; but the bark followed, rapidly came up with him and, as she went by, strange voices in an unknown tongue issued from her decks, and a frightful heat seemed to come from her. As she was then running the fisherman knew she would strike in a few minutes ; but all of a sudden she disappeared from sight To the hour of his death this old fisherman .. believed that he bad seen a spectre ship. Boston Herald. .1 Tonne Indian's Romantic History. A tall young man, with a complexion of the rich color of the ripe chestnut and with limbs as cleanly cut as those of Michael Angelo's statue of David, called upon President Cleveland the other day, and asked the appointment of a cadetshlp at West Point It was young Hole-in-the Dny, the sou of the noted Chippewa Chief, and now the King of aU the Chippewas. Met him this morning, says the Washing ton correpondent of a Wester paper. He is about eighteen years old, is over six feet tall, and he has an eye like that of a young eagle. A romance clusters around him, and it was at Washington where bis father, the noted Chippewa King, met the woman who became his mother. It was in 1867 that old Pole-in-Day then came here on business with the President He was made much of by the newspapers, feted by society, and at the National Hotel, where he was stopping, he was spoken of as the rich Indian King, who owned the greater part of the lands of the Northwest At this hotel there was a pretty Irish chamber maid who did up l he old chiefs room. The two met. They looked, and from their eyes sprang love. Chief Hole-in-the-Day, who had met the belles of Washing ton, passed them by, and chose the cham bermaid. He proposed. She accepted. They were married, and she went back to Minnesota an Indian queen. From the marriage sprang this boy, who has now in herited his father's position. The old King begot the jealousy of some of the Indian tribes by his union with a white wife, and they suspected him of treacherously giving away their lands. They assassinated him. Mrs. Hole-in-the-Day still lives. Her boy has the true military bearing about him. and he looks and walks like the king that he is. He dresses in American clothes, and talks pure Anglo-Saxon . An Antiquarian and Ilia Find. Several years ago a collector of ancient curiosities entered the taproom of a village In Tyrol while his horses were being fed Here he saw a stone wedge lying on the table. The shape and rude workmanship, as also the hole for the handle, left no doubt in his mind as to its being a stone axe of the flint period. The son of the absent landlord was at once cautiously questioned. "My boy, whose is this stone?" "Father's." "Is .it for sale?" "You'll have to ask father, but he won't be back from town before to-morrow." "Where did your father get this stone from?" - "He brought it down from that steep hill yonder." "Are there any more Stones Hke this oner" "Yes, lotsP' WhatI yet? My boy, will you, take me at. once to the spot? Here's a florin for you.'? "Certainly, sir j much . obliged.'! It. was a hot, toilsome Journey for the antiquarian up that steep, ruttired MIL but the prospect of fresh spoils nerved him for the task. Bathed in perspiration they both reach an Immense heap of stones. There Gnadiger Herr, help yourself 1" "There are plenty of stones,, but I don't see any shaped like the one at the inn!" "Why, sir, father shaped it himself to use as a matchholder, as the pot ones are always breaking." Tableau. The most expensive book ever pub Hshed by a single individual is Lord Kingsborougbs 'Mexico.' It has seven volumes, with 1.000 colored il lustrations, and cost 300,000. . If the whole world -were put into one scale, and your mother into the other, the whole 'worlfl would k;ct the beam. Suggestions for a Novel. , A gentleman recently opened a letter addressed to his son containing suggestions rrom a mend to he latter for a novel which he (the son) was privately writing, The father was exceedingly surprised and frightened upon reading the following dreadful words ; Dear Bob--You really must show more caution in constructing your plots, or the governor will be sure to discover t he dead body of Geraldine in the cellar, and wen your secret wui oe put Xou con. suited me about the strychnine. I certainly think you are giving it him in rather large noses, jmuy put ner mother In a madhouse. It will answer your purpose well to have the old girl out of the way. I think your forgery is for too small a sum. Make it for $3,000. Leave the rest of your particularly nice iamiiy circle to me. I will finish them off, and send yon back the fatal dagger' afterward by book post Yours, JACK." The real price of everything really rnRts to the man who wants to ac quire it, is the toil and trouble of ac quiring it. Partiality in a parent is commonly nnluckv. for fondlings are in danger fn he made fools, and the children that are the least cackeved make the best and wisest men. Cardinal M'Closkey'a Early L,ove,"Wtio wa the Nleee fa O.iwn. From ttie Chicago lutr Ocenn. In the death of Mrs. P&nnelia Crane, aged 92, Chicago has lost a most remark able character. She was born at' Truro, Mass., and at the age of 15 married Mr. Charles Adams, a distinguished connection of John Qnincy Adams. Her husband was captain and part owner of the. Ploughboy, a sailing vessel running between. Boston and Baltimore. In those days a trip of such a character M'as considered a - risky under taking, and much anxiety was felt for the safety of voyagers. At the age of 19 she was taken to Baltimore by her husband and placed in care of an old family friend, while he was to .make another trip to Bos ton and back. While on the way a terrible gale sprung up, during which the Plough boy, with its Captain and all hands, went to the bottom. At the house in which she resided in Baltimore were quite a number of xnungj)eoplo who were fond of pleAsure, tnd:;wbo made "the hotise reeoid -witb their merry-nia&ing. . , - . Her great sorrow at the f ate she felt had befallen her husband moved her to seek a quieter abode, and the place selected for her ' by her husband's friend was none other than the residence of the mother of Cardinal McCloskey, who lived a retired widowed life with her son. The Cardinal was then preparing for the priesthood. The two women became endeared to each other, and the young student, it is said, looked with favoring eyes unon the youthful widow. Being one of the most studious of young men, his attentions to Mrs. Adams were marked by a quiet but most sincere regard. So far did he forget for the mo ment his theological prospects that he pro posed for the band of the widow m mar riage. In speaking of the affair in after time-Mrs. Crane used to comment upon the depth of devotion the young student evinced for her. She not being of the same faith, he intimated their difference in the matter of religion need be no bar, as in the event of her consent he would arrange that matter satisfactorily. "So," the old lady would say, "through my de clination of his proposal the Catholic Church gained one of its most notable dignitaries." She did not marry foriseven years after the death of Capt. Adams, and then wed ded Mr. Joseph Cvane, of Quincy. Mass. In 1852 the family canie to Illinois and settled on a farm at Plato, in Kane county. Her second husband, though an old man at the time, went on the call to arms in the Eighth Heavy Artillery, and during a campaign through Kentucky in 1872 died at Bowling Green, he being 64 years of age. The widow came to Chicago and lived for 23 years with her daughter and son-in-law, Mrs. and Mr. Edward Smith, at No. 292 Fulton street She had been sick for about ten weeks before her death, but to the end retained full use of her faculties. Her death calls to mind the fact that she was a niece of Queen Fanny Young Kekelaokalani, of the Sanwlch Islands. Queen Fanny being the mother of Queen Emma, who died some years ago. Her uncle, John Young, who was a seafaring man, ran away from home when young, and took to a sailor's Ufa On one voyage the ship was wrecked, and the crew made their way in boats to one of the islands. Knowing the man-eating tendency of the Inhabitants, Young hid himself in a hogs head that had floated ashore, and thus saved himself from the fate of hi com panions who were sacrificed to the appetite of the natives He was discovered soon, however, and hisdiscovrer was the future Queen Fanny, then a member of the King's household. Young afterward mar ried her and was raised to the position of the King's adviser. Through Young's in fluence Christianity was encouraged, he being the first that was able to do anything in the direction of civilizing the people. He built the first house on the island, the ruins of which are still sacredly preserved. It was made of cocoa wood and dobey, with the aid of a boat hatchet saved from the wreck and a wooden trowel, and was white washed with lime made from coral fished out of the sea by the natives. Young's life was so full of good works for the people that to this day they will raise their caps and kneel in front of his tomb. There are many interesting relics in the possession of the family on B'ulton street, among Vhic h are a photograph of Queen Emma and one of the rums of the old Young house. PARAGRAPHS. "That man never loses at play ; I sus pect him." "Bnt" said the cool listener, "if he did not defend himself he would always lose." Two women in Florence, Kan., ate arsenic under the impression that it would improve their complexion. It didn't, and it was only by prompt medical aid that their lives were saved. The basket given by Washington to one of his messengers, David Eaton of New Hampshire, as a despatch box, is preserved carefully by his daughter, Mrs. Burke, of Portland, Me., who is now 86 years old The peerage founded in Japan for the purpose of forming an upper Chamber in the Parliament which is to meet in 1889 consists now of 1 1 Princes, 24 Marquises. 76 Counts, 324 Viscounts, and 74 Barons. or a total of 409. One-fifth of all the coal produced in the United States is found in four counties, of which Pittsburgh is the business centre, Nearly one-third of the product is con verted into coke. There are 100 coke- makers, 12,000 ovens, and 113,000,000 to' vested. Six thousand men are employed. A Binghamton N. Y., commercial agent wore celluloid collar. - The train on which he was riding slacken. T .'J-;.whm. he thrust his head out of "iUCecL will be fit learn the cause. - At that instant a spark from the engine struck his collar and ign ited it. His whiskers were scorched, but fortunately he escaped serious Injury. A section of the Milky Way has been ad mirably photographed at the Paris Ob servatory, showing about 5,000 stars, rang, big from- the sixth to the fifteenth magni tude. To similarly represent the whole of the Milky Way 6,000 similar sections would be required, representing 20,000,000 stars down to the fifteenth magnitude. 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