THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
VOL. 111. NO. 39
THE
Charlotte Messenger
IS PUBLISHED
Kvor> Saturday,
AT
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
In the Interests of the Colored People
of the Country.
Able and well-known writers will contrib
ute to its coluimis from different parts of the
♦vjnntry, and it will contain the latest Gen
•era! News of the daj.
The Messenofr is a first-class newspaper
and will not allow personal abuse in its col
nmns. It i 3 not sectarian or partisan, but
independent—dealing fairly by all. It re
•serves the right to criticise the s* ert-onungs
of all public officials—coniro.jKl.ui: the
worthy, and recommending f«*r such
men as in its opinion are liest suited !•» serve
the interests or the peop|»».
It is intended to snpp' v the h*rur felt need
of a newspaper to a-v - «h« rights and
defend the interests of th«» Negro-American,
especially in the I’bdmont section of tho
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Two well-known cattlemen of Hen
rietta, Texas, have contracted with a
firm in Montreal, Canada, to furnish
them by June 15t.6,000 head of cattle from
yearlings to six-year old cows for S9O,
000. The cattle are to be used for breed
ing purposes. The Galveston Newt say>
that this is the first sale of cattle eve)
made direct to Canadian buyers, anc
Texans believe that it will develop into >
brisk trade. _
In answer to the question, ‘ ‘ What
tpeed is attained by the fastest steamer in
•he world?” the New York Sun replies.
“The ordinary good torpedo boats in
foreign navies make about twenty-two
miles an hour over the measured mile.
There are a few, including the American
boat Stiletto, that can make twenty-fin
miles an hour. The fastest boat in th«
world is the French torpedo boat Oura
pan. She is credited with about twenty
nine miles an hour. At that rate sh«
would move as fast as ordinary passengo
trains bttwceg New-York and Chicago
average.” ....
If any person fond of travel has a fancy
to explore a savage country it may bo
wise to first estimate the cost. The
luxury comes high. It has been esti
mated :hajj the average expense incurred
by exploring parties in Africa ib over sls
a mile. Stanley's trip across the conti
nent is said to llavc cost about $60,000.
Dr. Holub, who was recently killed while
working his way from South Africa tt
the Great Lakes, took with him an out
fit that cost $25,000. The money ex
pended by most important expedition,
varied from SIO,OOO to $40,000. An ex
plorer's force of-porters and other nativ>
assistants varies from about forty to 2s(
souls. Mr. Stanley’s present expedition
includes about 1,000 persons, and his
'raveling outfit ami trade goods have cost
something Over sloo,ono.
Th* Chicago Herald 6aysthat after tak
ing amount of stock the navy of the
United States is found possessed of the
following craft:
First rato wond* n steam vessels 1
Second rate woolen steam vessels II
Third ra’o wojden steam vesvds. —2t
Fourth rate wooden steam vessels.. <i
Fourth rate ironclads 13
T0ta1..., 5J
Os r. e nden vessels requiring extensive
repairs in order to place th'-m in conrti
tier: for service there are three flrst-c!as>
vessel* and three second eiass. Os iron
ve-sels in the same chmnie condition there
arc also three, while all told seven new
vessels ore on the stocks in various stages
of incompleteness. These swell the navy
list to the magnificent total of sixty-one
v< sseis, not one of which would be able
to cope kith any of the great war ships
of Europe. But this does no! exhaust
the list. Perish the thought. There are
thirteen harbor tugs enlisted in the navy
and eleven sailing vessels. Thclatterare
of no scut of value save for the uses and
abuses of training schools, and are per
manently anchored at Newport, New
York. J*. rtsmoutb. Mare Island and else
wher<- But they are down on the list
just the cam”. Adding the tugs and thi
tubs to the aggregate of sixty-one resseii
already figured out and the sum total ii
eighty five craft of ail sorts and condition.
This is the showing of the United Stater
navy compiled from the last official report.
On the whole the figures are neat, but
not gaudy. They aw respectable enough
*s fig-urts, but are not cabulated to strike
terror to the heart of the foreign toe.
REMOTELY AKIN.
Our friends an* like the buttercups
That turn plain fields to gold
With bomty manifold;
While Love is like the sweet wild arose
Which fills a hidden place
With fragrance, color, grace;
Nor yet the dower scorns
Os beauty saving thorns.
And Friendship is a country rich
In meadows, waters, woods—
A land of quiet moods;
But Lore is like a mountain fair;
Joys, tumult, dangers flow
Adown its sides below,
While high against the skies
Its solemn summits rise.
Or, Love a summer sunrise shine*,
Ko rich It*. clouds are hung,
So rich its songs are rung;
Ami Friendship's but broad, common day,
With light enough to show
Where fruit with hrambles grow;
With warmth enough to feed
The grain of daily need.
And Love, a royal river, flows
To give, to strongly bless—
Or blight, with swift careas;
While Friendship has a lake's repose;
A lake that placid lies
Beneath the placid skies,
Aml holds the heavens anigh
To soothe the downcast eye.
Or, I/>re*s a church. dear x bsautiful;
And Friendship is a hom*
Where one for rest may coroe.
Take praying spire. Love, too.
Has entered in the blue;
Midway its ''’ear bells round,
Sweetening the air around,
While noises of the street
About Its portals iwet.
—Boston Transcript
THE TELEPHONE GIRL.
' Weil. ” said Roland Wayne, when he
cams into his office after several days’
illness with a wretched neuralgia, which
aff.-ted him whenever the east wind
hlew, -‘you got some one for the tele
phene—did you. Burns?”
"Yes. sir,” the clerk replied. “The
young lady has been here since Thurs
day.”
■Young My!” exclaimed Mr. Wayne,
testily. ‘Why did you get a woman? A
broker's office is no place for a woman.”
‘•Why, you see. sir,” said Burns, with
an obvious embarrassment and apprehen
sive glances toward s light oak partition,
behind which the new operator sat in
can. eaiment. "vou didn’t say anvthing
tiling about that—only that Mr. Richards
bad his hands full with the wires, and
that there’d have to be some one to take
charge of telephone; so I—”
‘•That is just like you, Burns,” said
Mr. Wayne, stamping back into his pri
vate office. “Any one else would have
known better.”
“Why, you see, sir,” said Burns, de
fensively. as lie followed hint back, “I
didn’t think it would make much differ
ence. The young lady is very capable,
and she seemed to want the place so
badly. She is very poor, sir, and sup
ports her mother. I know something
about her, you see.”
“Gh! Some flame of your, I suppose,
Burns? Very nice arrangement for you,
no doubt.”
“I bc<; pardon, sir,” said Burns, in an
offended manner, “X am a married man.”
“By Jovei so you arc!” said Roland
Wayne, with a laugh. “I had forgotten
tltat. Well, try her, anyhow. Where’s
the maiL please?”
“I tell you what, Bums,” one of the
other clerks observed, when that individ
ual finally emerged from Mr. Wayne's of
fice. “the boss is a fly humor, isn’t he?”
“He’s all right,” Burns answered,
warmly. “He has given me a ticket to
Atlantic City, and two days off.”
The clerk whistled.
“Why. I thought he was going to take
your head off.”
“You don’t know him. lam sure it is
no shame to a man whose nerves are al
ways twinging with neuralgia if he loses
his temper now and then.”
Roland, meanwhile, had taken up his
pen. and was writing a lengthy account
of Brisket r- new deal in P. Y. & M.:
"If the cat jumps this way,” he said,
i:i conclusion, “the bears have got him
■ ire. Danbury is on our side. Jle has
given Brisket the cold shoulder, and, if
I’m not mistaken, somebody will get wo
fiilly left. I don't intend that it shall be
I. If everything goes as 1 think it will,
1 shall pocket $200,000, and then I am
going to get out of the brokerage busi
ness. It doesn’t suit roc, and my health
is so poor that I must get away some
where or I slial! go to pieces.”
“I beg pardon, sir,’’ said a soft, trem
ulous voire at his elbow. “I am Miss
Archer, Mr. Wayne. ”
Roland dropped his pen, and rose po
litely A he saw a slight, graceful figure
in black standing before him.
“Be seated. Miss Archer,” he said, with
a smite which no nun could have with
held when he raw the fairness of her
young face and that shy, sweet finish on
her cheeks. "What can Ido for you?”
“I tat the telephone operator,” she be
gan. rapidly, and with a nervousness she
could not conceal. “I—l could not help
hearing v hat you said to Mr. Burns a lit
tle while ago, and -and I came to say if
ton are not satisfied to have me stay in
the offi.c yon need only sav so."
“Net satisfied!” Boland echoed, in
manifest confusion. “Well, reaiiy yon
know I have not given you a trial; and as
to what I said a little while ago I am sor
ry, Miss Archer. I am afraid you will
nave to set it down to neuralgia. lam
quite willing to have you stuy, if you
will."
“You are very kind,” she said, lacing
and titilaci-g her fingers in some confu
sion. “1 should like to stay—indeed it
je very important that I should have this
CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1887.
position, or something else. But if what
you say is true—if a broker's office is no
place for a woman—l—l think I would
rather not stay.”
How Rowland Wayne abused himself
when he thought of his careless words,
and then marked how her lips quivered,
how her eyelids drooped to keep back the
unshed tears!
“I think I 6poke too hastily, Miss
Archer,” he said. “A lady’s place is
where she makes it. We are not a lot of
savages,” he added, with a warm smile.
“If you remain here I think I can insure
you courteous and considerate treatment
on the part of every one in this office. H
such is not accorded you, you have only
to inform me, and I will know the reason
why.”
"You are very kind,” said Jtiss Arch
er, with a bright, fleeting smile. “I
should like to 6tay. I really cannot af
ford to resign my position.”
“Then stay, bv all means,” said Ro
land.
And, to the edification of his clerks, he
got up and opened the door for her when
she went out.
After that he often caught himself
listening to the soft yet distinct voice in
another room holding conversations over
the ’phone.
When he was at home xvith one of his
attacks of neuralgia and had to communi
cate with the office by wire he often re
marked how well he could hear Miss
Archer’s voice, when all the other’s
ebbed away into a Babel of sound.
1 ‘Burns did a fine thing when he got
that girl in the office, he mused one day,
when he was kept a prisoner very inop
portunely. “I don’t know what we’d no
without her—now especially, ft’s bad
enouhg as it is, I couldn't have had this
attack at a worse time. But I guess every
thing is all right. Danbury’s good for any
amount this side of a million. By Jove,
though it would be rough on me if any
thing went wrong now 1 It would clean
me out completely.”
He was walking up and down the
room, trying to repress the nervous agita
tion which attacked him.
“Seven o’clock!” he said, glancing at
the time. “The office is closed long ago.
In another hour Brisket will sign over
those bonds, and then—Hello 1 what’s
that?”
The shrill alarm of the telephone sum
moned him across the room.
“There is no one at the office, he
thought, taking up the receiver. I won
der what’s up now? Hello! Wayne!
Who are you?"
“ft is Helen Archer, Mr. Wayne,” said
a voice which he knew quite well.
“Why, tvhat are you doing in the office
at this time of night?” he exclaimed in
voluntarily.
“I am not at the office—that is, not
at your office. lam at the Central Sta
tion. Can you hear me?”
“Yes.”
“X have something important to tell
you. Our wire got crossed with Mr.
Brisket's to-day, and I could hear every
word said over it. I could not understand
what they were talking about, only Sir.
Brisket was talking to a man named
Danbury.”
“Danbury!” exclaimed Wayne, in
great excitement.
' ‘They were talking about bonds, and
said a lot of things I couldn’t compre
hend ; but at last your name was men
tioned. ‘This will put Wayne in a hole,’
Sir. Brisket said. ‘Yes,’ said Sir. Dan
bury, ‘it’ll bury him alive. It is a good
thing he’s shelved to-night. There is no
danger, I suppose, of his getting wind of
this before 8 o’clock?’ ‘No danger at
all.’ There will be a new deal all around,
and we’ll boost the market over Wayne’s
head.’ Do you hear what I say?” she
interrupted.
“Yes, yes!” Wayne said, excitedly,
“What else?”
“Nothing more that I could under
stand, except that they were to meet at
the Continental Hotel to-night at 8
o'clock. I came here because I was afraid
to talk from the office. I thought some
one might get on your wire, ana I have
you here direct. That’s all. Good-by.”
For Roland Wayne to dress and leave
the house was a matter of a very short
time after he had received the message
from Helen Archer. His illness and the
danger of exposure were quite forgotten.
He was present, vexy unexpectedly to
Mr. Brisket and Mr. Danbury, at the
evening conference at the hotel.
It was a stormy scene that ensued be
tween Roland Wayne and these two men
who !iad combined against him.—a scene
from which the young broker issued pale
and exhausted, but still triumphant.
What had passed no one knew, but the
next day the street was electrified with
the new’s that Wayne was closing up his
business affairs to go abroad.
• 'That will throw us all out said Burns,
gloomilv, and Helen Archer heard the
news wfth a sinking heart.
She was late that night in going home,
having some small errands to attend to
on Iter way; and, moreover, her steps
lagged with the consciousdess that she
had bad news to carry to her poor, ailing
mother.
“You arc late, Nelly,” Mrs. Archer
said, as she came in. “This gentleman
has been waiting to see you for some
time."
It was Roland Wayne, who rose and
held out his hand warmly.
“Miss Archer,” he said, “I have come
to thank you for the service you did me
last night. Thanks to you, I have saved
my fortune from ruin most absolute. If
it had not liven for your foresight and
prompt action I should have been a beg
gar to-day.
“I—l had no idea that it was so se
rious as that," Helen said hastily. “I
am very glad I could do you such a ser
vice.”
“I shall never forget it,” Roland said,
with a steadfast look into her soft gray
eyes. “And Ihave learned a wholesome
lesson. lam sick anrl disgusted. Last
night I had expected to make $200,000
by one transection. To-day 1 find my
self thanking heaven, and you, that I got
out without losing anything. lam tired
of such chances. Ido not feel that I can
enter into contracts with men like Brisket
and Danbury without compromising my
self; and so I have decided to get out
altogether.”
“I understood that you were going out
of business,” said Helen, quietly.
“Yes, I am. I shall close up the office
as soon as possible.”
“I expected that; and—and I don’t
wish to trouble you, Mr. Wayne, but if
you see an opening for me anywhere,
would you be so kind as to recommend
me?”
“I have just been talking to your
mother," said Roland, bowing to Mrs.
Archer. “I am going abroad. Sty health 1
feouires it; butldo not like the idea of j
going alone. I want you and your mother ;
to accompany me. It will do you both
good—indeed, you need it as much as I !
—and I won’t take a refusal.”
This is how Helen Archer took her first i
trip to Europe.
When she came home Roland Wayne j
had given her a situation as—his wife.— |
| Chicago Herald.
• The United States Cavalry Service.
“People have an idea that the recruit
| ing offices of the United States army taks
most anybody who comes along,” said a
j newly-enlisted man in the cavalry service
| to a New York Mail and Exprm reporter.
“But that is a great mistake. I took
pains to find out something about this
when I entered my application and
learned that only one man in thirty ot
those who apply to enter the cavalry ser
vice are able to successfully pass examin’ !
ation. Instead of jumping at a man, at J
J people suppose, they put him through i
I the most rigid and thorough examine
i tiems, and after it all they ask him ovet
and over if he is sure he knows his own
; mind and is fully satisfied to give hii
I services wholly to the army for five years, j
You have got to be sound mentally and j
| physically, and your eyesight and hear- !
ing are put to very severe tests. Thi
way they tried my eyesight was this: A
t man balding a pack of cards stood at t
I distance of twenty feet from me, and thi
doctor put one hand over one of my eyes.
The man with the cards held up one’aftet
another in quick succession, and I had to
call off the number of spots on aach card.
If you fail in telling one card correctly
you are rejected. In testing my hearing
they turned me so that my back was
toward the man at the other end of th«
room and the doctor placed his hand ovet
one of my cars. Then the man called of?
in low, monotonous tones an improvised
and incorrect multiplication table, such as
8 times 8 is 86, etc., and you must repeat
what he says without the slightest hesita
tion, Men often get caught at this, bear
ing only part and supplying the rest as if
it were correct multiplication. I learned,
too, that some men during the five years
i save as much os SI,OOO, becoming teach
' ers and doing extra duty for which there
jis extra pay. Others lend money on in
terest to their comrades and make a good
deal that way. Besides this there is a
; sort of savings bank established by the
| government which pays interest on the
■ savings of the soldiers. One can also
save on the allowance for clothing and
j the home fare allowed after your term of
j enlistment is over. Three-quarters of the
Western ranchmen, I am told, arc ex
soldiers who have invested their savings
,in land out there. A great many who
enlist in the cavalry are well educated, col
| lege-bred men.”
A Senator’s Narrow Escape.
United States Senator Fair, of Nevada,
relates an interesting account of a nar
row escape which ho had from a most
horrible death. He said: “This hap
pened on my last visit to the Sandwich
Islands. lam a very expert swimmer,
and nothing pleases me better than a
piunge into the salt water. The temper
atnrc of the Islands is delightful, and I j
j could not resist the temptation to take a
swim. I prepared myself and plunged j
| in. After I had been in the xvater for
j half an hour I pushed out over and be
-1 yond one of the reefs which surround the !
| Islands; All at once I realized that some
, thing was going on on the share.
! “A number of the natives appeared to i
I be greatly excited. Suddenly two na
| tive girls swam out behind me, with
| long knives between their teeth. I looked j
j around, and, to my horror, I saw an im- j
mense shark of the man-catcr variety
making for me with terrific speed. An
instant later the girls had dived and the
i shark had nearly stopped. The water
around him was red w ith blood. The j
] girls came to the surface, and again they :
dived and plunged their long knives into 1
: the monster. At last he laid stiff on top :
jof the water, quite dead. The natives j
! dragged him ashore and found that he
> was one of the largest of his species. If
it had not been for the wonder,ul bravery
of these girlß I should not be here to
night to tell you this story.”— New York
\ Telegram.
A Powerful Explosive.
If melinite, the new explosive invented
by a French chemist, is all that the gov- I
ernment of France claims, it will revolu
tionize warfare. General Brialmont, who
lias recently been experimenting in Bel
gium idth the new explosive, has advised j
the Roumanian Government to suspend
I labor .on the defensive works around
Bucharest. He asserts that it will be
I necessary to devise new plans to with
stand the new explosive. If Bucharest, <
one of the very strongest fortresses in
Europe is unable to withstand the force
, of melinite, the coast fortifications of all
the world may be considered worthless.
; It is worth while to bear in mind, how- j
ever, that bluffing is a favorite move in
the game of European diplomacy just at
present. Russia, for instance, claims
the invention of an explosive a trifle of
ten or fifteen times mure powerful than
melinite —A’ete Fori Commercial.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Ch ristianity was introduced into France
in the fifth century.
A Louisiana (Mo.) man had the hic
coughs for fourteen consecutive days.
The manuscript of a famous sermon
which John Knox preached in 1565 hai
been sold lately for $1,046.
According to the Australian Consul at
Yokohama, the earthquakes of Japan de
stroy a city every seven years, on the
average.
The eyes of poisonous snakes have been
found by Dr. Benjamin Sharp to have
elliptical pupils, while in the harmlesi
species they are circular.
Cardinal AYolsey, who had risen front
*his lowly station as the son of a butchei
! to be the High Chancellor of England
; under Henry VIII., died in 1530.
The first country to issue stamps foi
i cheap postage was Great Britain in 1840.
| An unused stamp of that date is worth
about S3OO. The rarest postage stamp
j known to collectors was issued by ths
Postmaster at Brattieboro in 1846.
In feudal times, when a country was
about to engage in war, the kin" sum
moned his vassals; these, generally the
chief nobles, summoned their retainers oi
liegemen, and the latter called out theii
farmers and yeomanry. The army con
sisted of freemen, each armed at his own
cost or the cost of his superior.
Napoleon Bonaparte was at. the height
of his power in 1811, at which time the
French Empire extended from the borders
of Denmark to those of Naples, and his
kinsman held the throne of Holland,
| Naples, Westphalia and Spain. What a
| contrast to the sovereign sway then exer
j cised is the loneliness of his exile and
j death ten years later at St. Helena.
A well-posted railway man says that the
obligatory tooting of a locomotive on ths
New York, New Haven & Hartford rail
road, in an ordinary day’s run, involves a
I waste of steam requiring the consumption
j of 280 pounds of coal to renew. He esti
mates the whistling expenses of thatpar
ticular railway at $15,000 per year. There
is a similar waste in the blowing of the
whistles of stationary and steamboat en
gines. It is a matter worth the serious
study of practical roilroad men, whethej
they” cannot devise a cheaper noise with
which to give notice of the approach of
trains to stations and grade crossings.
The Ditty of Personal Service.
When Christian men and women begin
to recognize the duty of a personal ser
vice, all weeks will be weeks of special
blessing, and every service will be a tri
umph for the Lord, ‘ 'For you must know,
Mr. Lewis, it is a rule in our church that
when one brother has been converted he
must go and fetch another brother, and
when a s.sler has ncen converted, she
must go and fetch another sister. This
is tiie way ono hundred and twenty of
us have been brougfit from atheism and
Popery to simple iaith in the Lord
Jesu9 Christ.” So said a member of
ono of the slruggling Protestant
churches in Paris. And struggling
though it is, that church is triumph
ant, bccauso personal service is thus re
ceived.
Nothing can take the placo of this
personal duty. Many a church which
men call prosperous, and which is pros
perous in external ways—in congrega
tions, easy finances, large gifts—is ter
ribly weak and languishing spiritually,
because to so great degree its members
are willing to do anything but make
personal approach to others for Jesus’
sake. What a record of spiritual pover
ty it is, and a record so often mado that
the making it seems to be a kind of
matter of course—a church with, say,
000 membeis, and with additions by con
versions of from a half dozen to a dozen
in a whole year. The reason is plain.
The hindrance docs not lie in God, it
docs lie in that church. As a general
| basis the membership is willing to do
\ anything but search out men, one by
I one, and personally and lovingly press
! Christ on them. —[Rev. Dr. Wayland
Hoyt.
Savage Foes of the Congo.
, “The most dangerous savage foes we
have to fear,” said Stanley, the explorer,
I “arc biiffulo. Wo lost five men during
my last visit to the Congo from these am
j inals; three were killed by crocodiles, one
by a hippopotamus and one by a buffalo.
There ore large numbers of hippopotami
along the Congo and its tributaries, and
thousands upon thousands of crocodiles,
i The latter are by far the most insidious
foes wo have, because they are so silent
' and so swift. You see a man bathing in
: the river,” sanl Mr. Stanley, with one of
j his vivid, graphic touches; “he is stand
! ing near the shore, laughing at you, per
haps, laughing in the keen enjoyment of
his bath; suddenly he falls over and you
see him no more. A crocodile has ap
proached unseen, has struck him a blow
with it* tail that knocks him over, and
he is instantly seized and carried off. Or,
it may he that the man is swimming; he
is totally unconscious of danger; there is
nothing to stir n tremor of apprehension;
1 but there, in deep water, under the
■ shadow of that rock, or hidden beneath
the shelter of the trees yonder, is a huge
' crocodile. It has spotted the swimmer,
! and is watching its opportunity. The
swimmer approaches, he is within strik
ing distance, stealthily, silently, unper
cetvcd, the creature makes for its prey;
the man knows nothing until he is seized
i by the leg and dragged under, and he
knows no more! A bubble or two indi
cates the place where he haa gone down,
and that is all."
It is a curious fact that the physical
condition of steel is unsettled for many
hours after being rolled. Finally it comes
j to a state of rest, but any teat of ita
quality before that period arrive* is mia
lcading.
Terns. $1.50 per Aim Single Copy 5 cents.
IMPATIENCE.
Like to Impatient children when the sky
Frowns on soroo morn of longed-for festa
day
To cheat their happy hearts ot outdoor
play,
We fret when scuds of ill above us fly.
And every cloud and menace magnify.
Till thus we waste our manhood's strength,
as they.
Their zest for pleasure in some indoor way.
Our age scaroe wiser than their infancy.
If we could chafe and chase the clouds afar.
Rather than borrowed gloom upon them
bring,
Our gain its lack of grace might palliate.
But leave us yet with manliness at war.
That brave defianoe to all fate would fling.
And by endurance make us strong and
great.
William C. Richards, in Harper's.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
A good thing to tie to—A hitching
I lost.— Merchant Traveler.
The body of a fish is a great puzzle, be
cause you can’t make head nor tail of it.
— Siftinge.
Our present fishery trouble would seem
insignificant if somebody would invent a
boneless shad.— Puck.
“Heavens! Look there!” “Where!”
“There—that messenger boy running.”
1 ‘Sh-h 1 It’s his regular meal time. ”—PitU
burg fyiepatch.
In this country there are two hundred
thousand men blowing in brass bands,
and twenty million blowing at them.—
Danville Breeze.
Probably this world couldn’t get along
without cranks; but sometimes it can’t
help thinking it would like to try.—
Somerville Journal.
A married man in words unkind
And with much emphasis avers,
His wife destroys his peace of mind
By giving him a piece of hers.
—Merchant Traveler.
Husband—“lf you only had the ability
to cook- as mother used to I would be
happy,dear.” Wife—“ And if you only had
the ability to make money enough to buy
things to cook, as your father used to, I
too would be happy, dear."
Fogg has said the meanest things any
was was ever capable of saying. When
Mrs. F. left him alone in ths house th*
other evening she remarked: “You won’t
be lonely, dear?” “No,” he replied; “I
shan’t miss you at all. The parrot, you
'know, is here.”— Boston Transcript.
“Give an example of an immovable
obstacle,” said the teacher. And the
smart bad boy at the foot of the class
suggested three girls on the sidewalk.
The teacher, who usually had to walk in
the middle of the street herself, sent him
right up to the head of the class and told
him to stay there for a week.— Burdette.
“Be kind to the mutnala out on the farm,
Let thorn see a kind smile on your face
wreathing;
Oh, let the horse pause in the plough aa be
plods
to'the rooster who’s whmiuf ’ his
An/'b/kind to the rake when it’s teeth
im?.”
-Puck
••• ■■■■
Trees and Blizzards.
I have been much interested in watch
ing the effect of tree planting upon the
blizzards. The blizzard drives along the
ground, and it has for ages upon ages found
no tree to halt or veer it. The settlers on
the plains planted trees, however, and
these trees now stands as obstacles to the
full sweep of the ice laden wind. A few
days sgo as a blizzard swept over the
country, I passed through a loosely plant
ed grove of trees, cottonwood, silver ma
ples, green ash, etc., and noted with
pleasure that among the trees the violence
of the wind was greatly reduced and the
flakes of snow dropped lazily to the
ground, where they rested as contentedly
as if they had fallen upon the tree cov
ered hills of New England. As soon as
I had passed out of the grove I had to
face again the furious flakes, driving hor
izontally in their mad career over the
earth. As often as I passed through a lit
tle grove of trees I found that I left the
blizzard; but as soon as I emerged from
the sheltering trees, the blast struck me
again in all its fury. This bit of experi
ence is duplicated thousands of times
every day upon the plains. The tree
planter has routed the blizzard wherever
be has set his little army of trees. The
blizzard tyrant no longer rules as wiil
over all the Mississippi. Valley. Wher
ever a grove has come into existence
there the blizzard scepter has been
broken. True, he rules as fiercely as
ever outside of the groves, but as these
enlarge hia dominion contracts. When
once the groves arc approximately con
tinuous, and when once they have grown
to greater heights, the blizzard will be a
thing of the past. The settler upon the
plains need not fear the blizzard for more
than half a dozen years, if he calls to his
aid the friendly cottonwood, maple, ash,
ind elm. They alone can vanish this
error of the Western Winter. Let
■very settler's motto be: “Trees rather
ban blizzards.”— American Agriatlturitf.
They that are in God, being united to
him through Christ, can never by any
power be separated from him. Death,
that is the great dissolver of all other
unions, civil and natural, is so far from
untying this, that it consummates it; it
conveys the soul into the nearest and
fullest enjoyment of God, who is its life
where it shall not need to desire as it
were from a distance; it shall then be at
thu spring-head, and shall be satisfied
with His love forever.—[Archbishop
Leighton.
Cornelius Vanderbilt’s new milk house
will have tiling on it whiab cost over
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