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VOL. VII.
KERNERSYILLE..N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1887.
NO. 28.
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WORSHIPED AFAR.
Queen Hermentrude a garden made,
Vith bosky paths and pine tree shade
And orchard bloom and lawns displayed.
Frm banks of earliest celandine
Till apes jyrew purple on the vine.
Bummer and spring their wreaths entwine.
In fair Junej mornings after mass.
When; rose-leaves fleck the dewy grass,
The queeu and all her ladies pass.
And when the lengthening evenings fall.
Ami tre the dark the blackbirds call,
Iler voice is sweetest of tb:in alL
I am the crippled lad to wait,
And summon forth the porter straight J
Should aught assail the postern gate.
Ami once a wild boar of the wood
With staff un J shout I sole withstood.
Until my feilow's aim was good.
And Lremeniber how she smiled.
And spake Lke music meek 'and mild.
Thou bast a warrior s soul, my child.
Yes-! I could stand, though death was near,
To spare my lady's cheek a tear.
Or save one thin she holdeth dear.i
William Woterficld in Temple Bar.
THE WHITE CAT
cat. In tho case of
were disappointed. ,
went off very badly.
We called her tho Duchess, bo stately
and handsome was she; and we were all
very fond of her. All but my old friend
Tom Harding.
Directly you saw her your admiration
was caught; 'she -was bo large,- her coat
was so luxuriant and white, and her tail
was 'so splendid. You would exclaim:
"What a magnificent creature!" And
when she walked sedately to you, placed
her great, soft forepaws on your knee,
and with a gentle whimper gazed for a
moment into your-face before proceeding
" to the hearthrug, you would say delight
' edlv: "What a mrfect lady! What
charming manners! She almost speaks!"
We -that is my wife and" I were ac
customed to remarks of that kind. All
our friends made them upon first seeing
"The Duchess." We expected them; we
,1 Kked forward to them, and they grati
fied us; for not having at that time been
blessed with children, we lavished much
of oar spare affection! and pride upon our
Tom Harding we
The introduction
When our favorite
was presented Tom regarded her with
positive aversion; when she rested on his
knee he brushed her off as though she
had been a snake, and rising abruptly he
walked to tho window.
-My wife and I looked at each other in
Bilent surprise. She raised her eyebrows,
- and drew down the corners of her pretty
mouth as though to say, "This friend of
3-ours of whom you have talked so much
turns out to Iks a perfect brute." I could
only reply with a shrug of the shoulders
which said, "My dear, I don't under
stand it at all." Nor did I. I "had not
Keen Tom Harding for several years, but
I remembered him as a really kind heart
ed, generous fellow rather inclined to
be melancholy, perhaps (his mother was
Irish and wrote poetry!) but certainly
witli nothing of the "brute" about him.
When Tom returned from the window
he had another surprise for us. He had
- consented to stay a few days with us; he
now announced that he had overlooked
(hi his eagerness to be with me, his old
friend, of course!) Certain very import
ant engagements, and that, in fact, he
would be reluctantly compelled to return
to town that very evening. My friend
excused himself, addressing my wife,
'whose regret was not more than cour
teous, in nervous, almost- pleading, tone.
Oh, he was so sorry! I didn't believe
liini.
"Tom, my boy" we were sitting, with
the decanter between us, after my wife
had left the dinner table "Tom, my
" boy, I said, "you have no very import
ant engagements in town."
mat was my opinion, ana i took an
old friend's privilege of expressing it
bluntly. - '
Tom started and colored slightly.
"What makes you think so?" he asked,
trilling with the nut crackers.
"I don't know exactly, but I'm. sure
I'm right. You told Gertrude a fib be
'careful or your glass will be over but
you haven't the courage to brazen it out
-. with me?"
"Nonsense! Why should I tell vour
wife a hb?" - "
"Why, indeed!' It was very wrong of
you take another cigar if that one won't
burn you can only make reparation by
telling her husband the truth."
"My dear fellow, I have nothing to
confess," said Tom with slight irritAbil-
. 1 ill
it v as ne cut aoout nait an - men oit a
fresh cigar. (How I do hate to see good
cigars mutilated!) '
"Confess why you changed your mind
about staying so suddenly. Come,
added, as he made no reply, "111 help
you. Someone in this house is obnox
man, perhaps Loth. When X have ex j
plained you won t think me worse than
a fool." I
He tossed off another glass of wine,
and turning his face away from the wan
ing daylight, began his story, which, ta
be frank, I was very curious to hear, not
withstanding my generous proposal to
change the subject.
" "I am going to tell you of an incident
of my childhood's days, which, however
strange and unaccountable it, may appear
to you, is true in every particular. Of
that I solemnly assure you. The lapse of
years has not served to confuse or alter
the slightest detail in my memory. The
episode in all its horridness is as clearly
and vividly stamped on my mind now as
though it had occurred last week, instead
of nearly twenty years ago. I wish to
God it were not!
"I was 12 at the time a wild, impuls
ive, yet nervous and highly impressiona
ble boy; an only child, as you know.
My people always took me to some sea
side place during the summer holidays;
but in the summer of my 13th year tho
governor was unable to leave town and
my mother preferred not to leave him.
It looked as if I should have no sea
breezes knd bathing that year, when
an invitation for me arrived from a
maiden aunt, who had taken a cottage
for the season at an east coast watering
place. I was not particularly drawn
toward Aunt Maria, but I was desperately
drawn toward niggers, yellow sands,
wooden 6pades and sea water. I begged
my mother to let me go. Aunt Maria
received me next day. "
Tom paused to fill his glass. I was
wondering what all this had to do with
my beauti f ul Duchess.
"Aunt Maria," he went on, "was 50
and .fussy. She professed to be fond of
. children, and to understand them. The
profession was utterly hollow, as was
proved by the fact that children didn't
like her. With children and animals
love l)Ogets love. Aunt Maria, was a dis
ciplinarian; children must hot talk at ta
ble, and all that sort of thing. Her ar
bitrary, old fashioned rules were more
especially irritating to me, because every
thing was so different at home. Perhaps,
being an only child, I was a little spoiled.
However, as I spent at least ten hours of
the day in the open air I managed to bo
tolerably happy
1
"Failing grown up beople, I determined
to explain the situation to a youngster of t
about my own age, Nvith whom I had
struck up a warm friendslrip. He was a !
bright, bold eyed bov, strong, rough and j
unimaginative a true young Briton.
.j "W hen I had finished my story this .
young gentleman's eves sparkled.
6 'We mutt kill the brute, Tom,' he -said
with decision. '
"At first I shrank from the idea and !
suggested the "adoption of some milder
measures, but Masteij Harry insisted, de
claring stoutly that the only way to get
rid of a cat was to kill it. i
"In the end my friend overcame my ;
scruples. I consented to the death of the ;
white cat, and we discussed the modus
operandi. Children are savages!"
Tom paused here1, turned hia face
farther into the gloom, and cleared lib
throat before preceding.
"Several methods of killing , tho white
cat were suggested. "lie continued, speak
ing with grim debwration, as though he
PHASES OF HUMAN CHARACTER.
BolGsli reople TThom YFe Mt Every Day
and Everywhere Lack of Courtesy.
There are some people who lire in thij
world as a cucumber grows in a garden.
They cling to their own vine and serve
no higher end than rotundity and relish.
There are others who live in the world
as a summer breeze lives in a meadow;
they find out all the hidden flowers and
set the perfumes flying. There are oth
ers who live as the sea lives in a shell:
their existence is nothing but a sigh
There are others who live as the fire lives
in a diamond; they are all sparkle. And
there are others, and they outnumber all
the rest, who live as a blind mole lives in
the soil; they see nothing, feel nothing,
suffer and en joy a little now and then,
perhaps, but know nothing to all eter
nity. . Such people walk Jhrough life as
the mole walks through the glory of - a
summer day, or burrows beneath the
dazzle of a winter storm. Their only in-
were deriving a savage pleasure in scourg- terest is in the question, "Wherewith
ing himself. "We would drown her in ' shall we be clothed, and what shall we
the sea; but that would have necessitated have to eat?" Life to them is merely a
a great walk along the coast to escape fattening process. They remind one of
observatioH. The same objection applied prize beef at a county fair; tomorrow
to the plarof throwing her from the cliffs." brings the 6hambrs and the butcher's
"At last Harry hit upon what we con- ax, but in the serene content of a well
sidcred an excellent idea. His father had ( filled stall and a full stomach, they take
a pistol which he kept in his port- no thought of the future,
manteau. Fortunately, he was accus- We meet such people every day and
tomed to leavo the portmanteau open, everywhere. "On the streets they may
The arrangement was that in the after-' 6e a brute tyrannizing over a helpless
noon Hairy would contrive to secure the beast of burden, or a mother (?) yanking
pistol. Then we would seek the white i a sobbing child along by the arm, as full
cat in the neighborhood of my aunt's j of ugliness herself as a thundercloud is
cottage, and, if. luck attended us, we ! of electricity, or a man following an in-
would carry her to a field at the back and j
-shoot her. Nice boys, weren t, we?
"Luck did attend us luek in the
shape of some mischievous cruel imp of
darkness. Harry managed to steal the
pistol a revolver it was, with five cham
bers, all loaded. I curse his father to this
day for being such a careless idiot.
Harry, who was very business like,
brought an old sack with him. We
found our prey, after a long search,
sleeping in the warm 6un on a low wall
at the rear of the cottage. She evidently
belonged to one of the neighbors, but her
ownership was never discovered. Harry
pounced upon her before she could es
cape, and after a short! but sharp strug
gle, in which we were both severely
-'Only one of my aunt's absurd rules 1 scratched, we had her secure in the
nocent young girl with the devil in his
heart, or a big boy tyrannizing over a
smaller one; and they pass it all by as in
differently as the mole would sneak across
a battle field the morning after a battle.
They have too much to do themselves to
waste time in remedying other people's
grievances. They think too much of per
sonal reputation to involve themselves in
an altercation with defilers of the inno
cent, and tramplers of the weak. - They
are too respectable to get mixed up in
brawls, even if the disturbance is brought
about by the devil's own drummers look
ing up recruits among the championlcss
and defenseless working girls, or the
parentless. and homeless children of a
great city. '
e meet them traveling throuch the
Talae of Alcohol la rever.
There is a large number of drugs which
will depress the tempera turo when t-tVn
internally. They differ widely among
themselves in action upon the organs and 1
tissues 01 the body, but have this one 1
point in common. Thus alcohol, when
taken in full doses, will lower the bodily
heat, even in health. The man who is
"dead drunk" freezes to death much
sooner than one who is sober, other things
being equal, for this reason. Hence
Arctic explorers are compelled to abstain
from alcohol whenever severe cold is to
be endured, however much they may en
joy the cheering influence of a moderate
amount of it in their daily rations when
safe on shipboard. Advantage is taken
of this antipyretic effect of alcohol in the
treatment of exhausting diseases accom
panied by a high temperature. Alcohol
aids tlie action of the heart, drives more
blood to the surface where the heat can
be lost by radiation, and is a true food in
such affections. It is actually burned in
the place of tho foods that cannot bo
digested and taken up, and in this way
prevents loss of substance which would
otherwise be consumed.
In fevers there is increased combus
tion, otherwise there could be no increase
in the heat produced, and materials for
this unnatural fire must be had. If not
taken in as food, tho bodily tissues aro
destroyed to keep up the combustion.
Alcohol is often the only food thaj can bo
absorbed into the blood. Its value under
such circumstances cannot be overstated.
Alcohol given in disease as a food or as
an antipyretic has never been known to
cause the alcohol habit. The latter arises
from the injudicious employment of it in
neuralgias, dyspepsia and chronic affec
tions generally. Only the most urgent
need for prompt support justifies tins use
of alcohol or opium in long continued
diseases. A pernicious habit is easily be
gun in this manner, and the physician is
but too often the one to bo blamed for
such a misfortune. Globe-Democrat,
HINTS FOR COFFEE DRINKERS.
Ji. Ix-a.llo j Dealer Glvee Ills Opinion.
Y!.crf ike Ii.t Cere U llal4.
"It's a curious fact, said one of the
vcVrar. f the cole trade, "that prion
of ail coff.-cs sold in tlile coantry arc Uwd
upon tho prices gicc:i for a coffee which
is never even mentioned by retail licutcs.
That is Brazilian. All the coffee grown
in tint ctrriro is called Rio or Sanies,
niter Ilio Janeiro and a neighboring ort.
With other coffees we uiakcafpecialty cf
seating where each is grown, but cot with
Rio. These ceffee-s are graded by num
Uts from 1 to 10 according to tlieir ex
cellence, and the price. of ctlier coffees
NOTL5 OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Diamonds are found at j rvtt la fir
counties cf Califoniu as fvUoi: Am
ador. Butte, El Dorado, Nevada and
Trinity.
Three thousand men hare been em
ployed cn the Canadian Pacific snow
shods Kince prin Tt ti-rst and
trongest sheds aro ctvm tLu Sakirk and
Rocky mountains.
' A curious device recce 1 j roiea--np la
New York I a dock iwjiedina rrrra-
ecntation of a bascbalL coTvrcd with
are tygulated by what thes fetch. Tike j "hite leather. Tb dial is imbedded in a
tl.c r cotlecs may lm roughly clavufud as
Jav;s and Central Americas, and the con
rnmj lion of each in tlds country may be
set down ;ts Riob3 Javas 1 1-2, Central
AjRcricas 1 in relative rcportkn.'
How it." asked the reporter, that
Rio U never named by retailers''
"There u a prejudice against it, and
millions cf ivple ore drinking it in ig
norance who have in their imaginations
forsworn it. How can it 1j t tlu-rwie
wLeu they insist ujkii cheap coffee? "Uos-t
of it is hold. irha nearly all of it is
scM. by reciters under a "firm brand.
The northwestern rtntes, Wisconsin, Mui-neiiT-i
and far off Colorado, are jieculirtf".
They will not touch poor or medium Rin,
and there h no fide there save in high
priccu Cen ut; Americas and Javas and
the very best tieciahies of liioa.
cave me anv serious trouble. It was
that children should manage to go to bed i stron string,
sack. Harry tied up the mouth with I mountains or loitering by tho 6ea. Their
' exclaimed Tom
view to lading his
"Who can it be?
banteringly, with a
confusion.
Our beautiful cat chanced at that mo-;
nv.Mit to leap from the lawn to the win
dow sill.
'Th Duchess," I said quietly, point
ing with. my cigar.
Tom-Hardi'i' turned pale yes, this old
friend of -urine, a full grown man, actu
ally turned pale at the sight of a white
cat on a window sill. It was most ex
traordinary. So great was my surprise
and curiosity that I let my cigar go out.
The Duchess eyed us calmly for a few
moments, and then jumping down' she
walked over to Tom with the evident
intention forgiving creature! of mak
ing another attempt to cultivate lus ac
quaintance. . Tom rose and walked to
another part of the room.
"For once your grace has failed to
conquer," I remarked,. stooping to caress
my favorite. Then I led her to the door
and bowed her out.
I was a little anno-ved, and I suppose
Tom guessed it, for ho said when I re
turned to the table: "I am afraid you
are offended with me."
, "Not with you, but with a mystery.
1 hate niysteries-rbut let us cliange the
subject." '
"No,." he replied, nervously; "I owe
you an explanation. This disagreeable
incident has forced a confession upon
me." '
"Let us change the subject," I re
I was beginning to pity him, he seemed
o uistressed.
"It is too late," he said . in .almost de
spairing tones "I must explain, or you
Will tliink me either a brute or a mad-
without the aid of a light. Now to this,
as to the. rest of Aunt Maria's rules, I
was quite unaccustomed; but beyond
that I was, as I have said, a nervous
youngster, and I had a rooted dislike
out of which I have never reallv grown
for being in the dark. Not, mind you,
that I was a coward. I would risk my
neck climbing a 'dangerous cliff , and at
school stand up and take a hiding with
the roughest of them. But in the dark
my youthful nerves were, unstrung, or,
perhaps it would be more correct to say,
they were strung to their highest pitch.
et I was not frightened of bogies or
burglars. I was frightened of being
frightened. Queer, isn't it2 but you un
derstand me."
"Yes;" I grunted. It was iisychologi
cally interesting; but I didn't see the
connection with my cat.
"One night" I pricked up my ears
and leaned forward; we were evidently
coming to the adventure "one night."
continued Tom in lowered tones, "I went
off to my bedroom as usual without a
candle. It was a pretty little roonl on
tho ground floor, with a window opening
into a garden. I was trying to forget my
nerves by. whistling an air I had heard
the niggers sing on the sands. People
who are nervous in the dark have various
modes of conduct. Some are furtive and
.quiet; others are noisy end defiant. I
adopted a medium course. I affected
tranquillity in a whistled melody and said
my prayers aioua.
'?It was about 9. o clock and not par
ticularly dark. I could see dimly most
of the objects in the room, but the bed
was in deep gloom. Suddenly I heard
something, an unusual noise, in the room.
I had ceased whistling for a moment
while I stooped to unlace my boots. ; My
heart seemed to stop beating and a chill
shot up from my back to the roots of my
hair. The sound came from the bed.
What I was always dreading had hap
pened. My sensitive nerves -had been
startled shocked in the darkness."
"And what was it?" I asked, much h
terested. t
"A white catl"
"Was that all?"
. "Wait!" exclaimed Tom impatiently.
"I recovered my courage in a moment,
walked straight to the bed, and discovered
that the intruder was a cat. I lifted her
gently in my arms and carried her to tho
window, where I found that she was pure
white,, and very beautiful, exactly like
your Duchess. I would have caressed
her, being fond of animals, but she strug
gled in my arms, and after scratching
me slightly, managed to escape through
the window into the garden.
"The next day I had forgotten all
about tne cat. I went to bed in the dark
jat the usual hour almost too tiled to be
nervous. I again received a shock. Just
as I. was about to get into bed something
lumped to the floor, and rushed to and
through the window.' I crept into bed
with my heart beating violently, although
I knew it was only the white cat, who
had apparently taken a strange fancy to
my bed. j
"The same tiring was repeated on sev
eral succeeding nights. I went to bed
expecting it, yet it never failed to affect
my nerves in the same way. You may
think this strange but it is true. The
very anticipation of the incident aggra
vated its unpleasantness. 1 began to dis
like my bedroom, to dread the hour when
I must retire to it. I grew to hate the
white cat. Had she allowed me to touch
her, to talk to her--in short, to make
friends with her it would have been
different, for I was reallv fond of animals.
But she invariably fled from me ghostly,
silent and swift. I can only suppose that
she had .been accustomed to ill usage.
She feared me and I hated her. Children's
passions are strong .-in proportion to the
immaturity of their reason.
"The time came when I felt that I
I had hung back at first with a sort
of shame a faint sense of the brutality
of our behavior. But the struggle Lad
driven all this away. The native deVil
ry of the boy was ablaze. I was furi
ous, exultant; I drowned the hideous
muffled sounds that came from the sack
with wild laughter; I danced round tho
wriggling, writhing mass, and when we
had dragged it into the field I snatched
the pistol from Harry, who was very
quiet, to have the first shot. I fired
kneeling close. It was the first time I
had fired a pistol, but felt no shock. ; I
remember a strange, piteous shriek, and
the sack dancing weirdly in front of me.
I fired again, and remember a. low grat
ing wail, and the sack being troubled for
a moment and then still.
"Harry took the pistol from me," con
tinued Harding, wiping his forehead,
"and went? home. I went on to the
sands and tried to play with the boys
there, but couldn't. I was feeling hor
ribly sick. The voice of the white cat
buzzed in my ears. The heaving sack
bobled about between my eyes and the
sunlight j
"At supper my aunt noticed that I
looked -ill and made me swallow some
medicine. When I had crept to my
room I sat down in the darkness near the
open window to try and cool my head,
which felt like splitting! But it waa at
my heart that the chief agony lay the
agony of an unbearable burden, tho
crushing, suff ocating,weight of shamej of
fear, of remorse. Can a child know these
things? you "mav ask. I answer' that I
only use for mountains is, that they may
carve their precious initials on the high
est peaks, pick wintergreens and blue
berries, and display their fashionable
suits and striped stockings. Thej' look
upon the sea as a big bathing tank, and
the sky, with all its splendor of eloud and
its glorv of sunrise and sunset, as a
barometer to forecast the weather. We
uieet them in business relations, and they
never believe that courtesy and business
can go together. A merchant in his of
fice or a lady in her parlor will bluntly
refuse to buy of a worn out, discouraged,
heart sick book agent, ignoring the fact
tliat a smile accompanying even a refusal,
acts like a spoonful of sugar in bitter tea,
and costs less. Even a .-lady" clerk, be-
nina a coimter, win oe naugnty ana un
accommodating and insolent to tho
woman who comes to buy, forgetful tlmt
a customer will go a long distance out of
her way to deal with a polite and well
mannered clerk, and that, like honesty,
politeness is ever the best policy. And,
on the other hand, a woman Ehopier will
be whimsical and captious and trying,
forgetting that the girl who serves her
has human blood in her veins, and often
carries a troubled heart behind her 6mile
or her frown. "Amber" in Chicago
Journal.
nit . f 1 i.i r0 V I -1,
The Boston Advertiser reports that Iowa
fanners ar writing to Vermont with re
gard to purchaiiiig farms there, and it
aj tliat already a movement ha art ia
from various direction tliat tids fair to
ecttle tl problem cf the hiil towns cf
New England by re-wi-lin them.
An old timepiece b tJown in a Phila
delphia window. The front of the clock
is a large, round warier. The hours are
marked on a dozen oymtcr shell. A small
1'late, garnihed with slice of le xnon.
conceal the works, and the handt are a
knife and fork. '
The summit cf invention ha been
reached in the mechanical ano player,
by means of which, as claimed by the
maicers. "anybody, without the least
"Wliat do you mean by Government I muticai knowledge, can rJar anr nice
Javas-?" 1 of music" This will hhut no tlwt rw.
uivwc xDiM wiu anus cd tne con-
servatoric and end the rianoarte teach
er to the poorhouse, but will jve a boom
to pianoforte factories.
did; but I was not then a clu'.d. ! A
France Tobacco Monopoly.
Everything connected with tobacco is
in France the strictest of monopolies. The
government is the only grocer, the only
dealer, the only buyer and importer, the
only manufacturer, the only mercliant
and the only retailer. Its agents, with
unlimited capital, are heavy purchasers
in the open markets of every tobacco pro
ducing country. The weed is shipped by
the cheapest methods; the manufacture.
although ox the highest grade of excel-;
lence, and directed by aboard of scientific
chemists and others whose lives are de
voted to . the study of this one especial
plant, is so concentrated, and the whole
mercantile business so admirably man
aged, that although the government re
ceives such enormous profits, tho con
sumer can buy a better cigar and abetter
smoking tobacco at the same price in
Paris than anywhere u. the world.
For example, you can gc t an excellently
made cigar, guaranteed by the govern
ment to bo of good toljacco, for one cent
at any 6tand, the article Bold and .the
prices being the same at every dealer's in
the country. This one cent cigar is in
appearance quite as good and in flavor
sujjerior to any five cent cigar I ever saw
in the United States which L, however,
not saying much and one is sure of not
being poisoned by some horrible chemical.
The next grade costs a cent and a lialf,
the next two cents and the highest priced
cigar made five cents; this last is an ex
cellent article, but if one wishes a better
the government will sell you cigars it
imports from Havana and which it guar
antees. Of these imported articles Paris
consumes about Jf500,000 worth yearly.
tu. J. Uiddlc in (J lobe-Democrat.
crime had aged me. I was an old man; a
murderer! Perhaps I was unlike ot)ier
boys. . I . felt that I would have given
anything, suffered anything, to have un
done what I had done torture, or even I
death. !
"I sat for a long time, and at last, sick
and dizzy, I slowly undressed. Then I
thought, with a faint gleam of hope,
of my prayers. I .sank down ;by
the bed, first sitting, then kneeling, and
tried; but nothing my mother had taught
me would meet such a case as that. (At
last a few tears came arid opened a way
of escape for the fearful weight that was
stifling me. Soon T was Eobbing wildly
and unchecked, and beating my wet
face with my open hands. Once in my
paroxysm I stretched my arms over the
bed: thev encountered somethini- soft and
tPrror. rl TPnt tho of tho rofth tun0 of mg are settled
' .- : -r i :"i are never broken, and it is not
W 11U i LI1C1V.1I1L1 Dill If Ik.. ilUUl liUlIUUl r w , . , .
into the room with a Candle, and there,
coiled up in the center of the white
quilt, which was stained with her blood,
lay the body of the white cat.
"The fastening of the sack had become
loosened in her struggle; she liad escaped
and crawled to lier favorite resting. pLice
to die.
What I have told you," concluded
Tom, rising to go, "is the solemn truth,
so help me heaven!"
Should tlris .reach the eye of Thomas
Ilarding, whose story I have taken the
liberty of telling to the world for the
sake of its moral, I wish him to know that
there is now no just cause or iniediment
to his paving me a visit, and that I should
be delighted if he would do so. The fact r
An Arab' Cotirtaltlp.
Hie Arab loves as none but an Arab
can love; but he isaL mightily excita
ble and .easily won. An Arab sees a girl
bearing water or brushwood; and in a
moment, almost at a gLince, is as madly
in love as if he had passed j-ears cf court
ship. He thinks of nothing eL-o, cares
and dreams of nothing else but the girl
he loves; and not infrequently, if he i
disappointed in his affections, he pines
and dies. In order to commence his suit
he sends for a member of the girl's trilw
who has access 'to the harem; ar.d, first
insuring his secrecy by a solemn oath.
confesses his love and entreats his confi
dant to arrange an interview.
The confidant goes to the girl, gives
her a flower or a blade of 'grass, and
says: "Swear by Him who made this
flower and us also, tliat you will not re
veal to any one that which I am about
to unfold to you." If the girl will not
accept the proposal the will not take the
oath, but nevertheless keeps the matter
perfectlv secret from all. If she is favor
ably disposed to the match, she answers:
"I swear by Hun who made the flower
hold, and us, and the place and
These iths
long 1h
fore the ardent lover Iwcwm the happy
husband. Philadelphia Cull.
Why, the Dutch govennmnt holds
four public auction sales of coffee at Ba
tavia, in the inland of Java, during each
year, and the coffee U fold in piculs or
bags weighing ISO pounds. At Umo
sales the coffee is classified according to
the locality where it is raised, and we
wholesalers buy it as interior or Ankola,
or Ayer Bangies, or Mandeling, and on
each of these occasions from 20,000 to
23,000 plcul are disposed of. This sys
tem makes the Dutch government re-p-oriible
for tlie quality of tho coffee,
and tin? title 'Government Java is there
fore a good and significant one. Java
coffee improves on the voyage. I can
show you .samples of some which were
shipped as green as so many aquamarine
stones, and when we received them tho
berries were of a golden color, and had
ripened beautifully. Tliat enhanced tho
value three cents a pound. '
"How do you get your Java here? Do
you own the shiw that bring it to this
port?"
"No; and isn t it a dreadful com
mentary upon our system that though
the consumption is so large of Java it all
comes to us in Dutch. Swedish- Nor
wegian or English sailing vessels? Thero
is not a single American vessel engaged
in transporting Java coffee, to this coun
try. Ceylon coffee we don't use, for the
bad kind is not worth liaving and tho
good kind is monopolized by the Eng
lish, and very costly it is. What Moclia
we use comes to u through English
scjurces. Our flag is liardly known in
eastern waters today. I may tell you
that we who are in the business have not
a very high opinion of Mocha. Somo
people are crazy alout itt but we think
tliat a matter of pure sentiment, and
believe tliat Mocha obtained its reputa
tion by being tho first coffee brought to
Europe. It has all. the appearance of
being a wild berry, and our experts say
that it cannot La dilinp-nUhJ fmm iKn
wild toffee of Hayti. This, no 'doubt, is outLcni tat If cent.
awiui Heresy, but that's the way coffee Rapid pUotocraphy baa made
men ioojc at it. in l ne norUiwettern I rrotrries durinir ta L
Bridal parties who visit Washington are
disappointed because they cannot ascend
to the top of the Washington monument.
Congress made no appropriation for fur
nishing steam power to run the elevator,
and unle8 a special meaturo ii lntrcluced
at tho next session the top of the shaft
will be inaccessible during another fiscal
year. - .
Among other relics of the mound
builder discovered near DcviT lake.Dak...
by Professor Montgomery of the North"
Dakota university, ia what be calls a
wcrificiid mound, in which, seventeen
inches from the surf ace, are well easily
found because of a lining of lime about
the aide and layers of bark en the bot
tom. They are deep enough to hold
bodies in a sitting posture.
The Prussian army list for 1887 con
tains two field tnar&bal, the crown prince
and Count Moltke; fifty-nine cavalry and
infantry generals: eventy-ix UeuUuant
generals, and 117 major general. The
cavalry staff consists' of fifty-five colonel,
thirty-eight lieutenant colonel, and 200
majors, and in the infantry staff Uiere
are 1C1 colonels, 172 lieutenant colonels
and 700 majors. The number of officers
shows an increase of tixty-ix as compared
with last year.
In 1880 the number of persons receiv
ing interest from registered United States
bonds was &0.802. Since that time $300,
000,000 of those bond have been paid
off. and it is figured that the number of
holders has been reduced to about 5(7
000. Of these holder 28.C1S held be
tween 50 and . f500 &ch, and Z2.MI
held less than I2.&00 each. Tho New
England state held 17 per cent- of the
whole, the middle stales 07 per cent.,
the western states 13 per cent., and the
A Confederate Solctirr' Life.
The life of a soldier was niady up, in
the main, by eating and ht-j ing, and
marching and fighting; but Uk. fut was
eating when he could. In the pursuit
of this species of happiness Iris skill r.iid
ingenuity knew no hmit. ' The old tin.v
southern negro was proverbial as a thief
and noted for strict attention to bu&inefs
and great fertility of resource in that
bine, but the average southern sokLcr
rnnlil i-nwilv ilioimt hint a.t hi faro? it.
pastime. Like the schoolboy, who robbed i Tribune.
A Highly rrlxed Delicacy
One of the most highly prized delica
cies in the country i3 what is known as
the country ham. The hog is killed by
the old farmer and the ham and shoulders
cured and smoked in the old smoke houso
iu the old fashioned way. When properly
prepared a country ham will keep for
many years. I liave often gone to a
country wt-dding cr anniversary, of a
wedding, where tho j ivee de ui. tance.
as the French tav of a luntiful spread.
has been a ham of venerable age. I have
seen them cut when they were as old as
twenty years. Of course the ham is by
that lima quite dry, like jerked venison
or dried buffalo tongue, but the meat is
very sweet and nutritious. When such a
ham is lioiled, like a desiccated fruit, all
its pristine freshness and tenderness como
back, and the cnly difference lit ween it
and a modern packed ham i.i that tho
country ham is the better. Globe-Democrat.
A Moat rathftic Incident.
One of the most iathetic incidents of
the Exeter theatre fire was the rescue of
a woman, who was earned out or the
furnace of flame ujon the Uick of a
brave man. He was with his wife at the
play when the f.re broke out end fuc
ceeded in dragging her part way to the
door, where the fell. Thtre was an in
Itant.of despair and lewiMermcnt, and
then he tn.itthed a cowcrir.g f. rni from
tho floor hi tho dense crowd u:.J fciruggkl
through the smoke and l.uLr.eM to reach
the ttrcet with a Jiri. -ki-.g woman em his
back. At last he was out of danger and
ibreathlealy lowered Ids burden. Alas! it
: was not hLi wife. In the roi: fusion anil
i darkness he had rescued a stranger and
left huwife to he trampled to death in
, the lobbies of the theatre. New York
a henroost at Chrii-tnias, he Ktole tartly
for fun and partly for profit, but tho
aninio furandi, Um "furious intention."
is that a year after his last flying ykit
we were blessed with a baby boy, upon
whom we lavished all our affection1." It
was then tliat we 'discovered that the
as the lawyer rendered it, was lacking.
He reasoned about it as the negro did
who was caught stealing corn from l.iJ
master's crib:. "Massa .nigger, mi
Duche was of an elilT jealo!" Hewa. fighting flr the pec-e
".i ,f, I tion in kind, if not in money, was justly
either she or the baby must go.
I need not say which went. C.
dor Chambers in Belgravia.
Had-
could bear the visits of the white cat no f into tl
longer. Something must be done for my
relief. Had my mother been with me I
should have confided my trouble to her
at once, but she was in London. As for
i
a man
armeU
le
Onftlangbt on the Stingray.
.y after day, and for hours at a time,
sits on a wharf at ban Diego, CaL,
with a four lined harpoon. At in-
I Domestic Affairs.
Drooklyn llu-band (to wife; Have you
iyour household accounts for tle week
tnade up. my dear?
j I3ro klyii Wife Yes. we owe tlte grocer
$0.40 and the butcher t-"5.C0. Tlien thero
jis coming to us lialf a iund -f butter
from Mr?. Smith across th way, three
teggs from Mrs. Jones around the corner,
(.quarter of a ound e-f tea from Mrs.
.Hobim-on next dour, a 1-usl.elof eoal from
states now, where there seems to be a
"singular appreciation of really good
coffee, there is no demand for Mocha."
Which do you prefer?'
"As a general thing I like the flavor of
Java, which is very pleasing and full of
aroma and is soft and smooth to the pal
ate, leaving no after taste in the mouth.
Ilioa are strong and coarse and bitter, and
leave a somewhat muddy after taste,
which no doubt comes from the Brazilian
coffee plantations being on low lands.,
Costa Itica is fine in flavor and excellent
in aroma, but it leaves an aeid flavor in
the mouth. The Guatemala coffees are
very superior and are making their way
among connoisseurs. They are about on
a par with the LAguayra coffee from tlo
neighborhood of Caraccas. Uiere is a
grade of Laguavra which comes from the
neighlorhood of Puerto CalUo and i by
no means so fine. The great exiiortation
of Venezuelan coffee, howeve-r, is from
the Maracaiho region and thia is full of
aroma but rouglier than Caraccas, and it
leaves somewhat of a disagre-eahle after
taste, at -least some does, tliat probably
which is raised upon low land. You may
lay tlii down as a law, tliat the higler
the elevation at which coffee is grown,
the finer it is in every way."
"Which is the coffee that is grown at
the highest elevation?"
I should -not wonder if the highest
coffee plantations were found to be on the
slopes of tlie Himalayas in India, but that
very fine grade of English coffee does not
come to us. We have, however, some
grown in the neighborhood of Bogota in
Ecuador at an elevation of 8,000 feet
above the level of the sea, and it ia ex
quisite to look at, exquisite to smell and
I exquisite to drink. The berries aro a
bright green, transparent and waxy, and
of remarkable uniformity of izc. Come
of this coffee goes down a river near Bo
gota and com- to Panama by sea. but
some of it is packed on the lack of bur
ros or small hardy donkeys, not mule,
and U carried over tlte mountains by b.nd
to Panama. Each burro carrk two Lac
weighing fifty pound each, and urfcus4
its roth through awfully precipitous roads
with cheerfulness and ddigence. ' I was
'down in that part of the world, and ii
sned to iim? tliat tlte d.mkey was far
aliead f the mule for uactaia work."
New York Tribune.
great
progress during ta last .ten year. No
where is it more apparent than in the
T4Ktcsjraphing . of projectiles. photo
graphs of the projectile . from the pneu
matic gun at Fort Lafayette, ia New
York harbor, showed an apparent con
densation of the air just ahead; and now,
m some photographs, of projectile fired
from a Werendler gun at Puth, Hungary,
with a velocity of 1,500 feet per second,
the projectile appears to be enveloped ix
layers quite hyperbolic in form.
. There is one peculiar superstition
among teombcUnien that does not lose .
any of it interest by age. , Whenever a
minister and a white horse haj j-n to
make the trip at tlie same time on a
steamboat, there i always an accident of
some kind to follow. It may not be al
ways to the steamboat, but it is certain
to be to the boat or oma of the paaseo
gers. This rujcTstiikm is so Urong
among the deckhand that they w ill posi
tively refuse to go on a boat which car
rks a minuter aad a white horse. "
0.
his due; and 60 he collected his taxe
formality of a receiit. Cor. Philadelphia T.omkinies on the street rJv
. UV ass WU V KS c. 14 "T 1JU
Times.
terval
Tbe Deeert ! nioftsoniiag
The desert of Sahara is slowly becom
ing inhabitable with the aid of science.
the weapon leaves his hand, darts j The lower Sahara is an immense basin of
water, and a squirming stingray artesian waters, and the t rench are form-
ve, and I
j " - " ' x aV a a, VUA
; coffee pot from Mrs. Brown. She's liad
it since yesterday. New- York Sun,
is brought up. lie never Fpeaks to anr 1 ing Iresu oases with skill and success, so
one, and does not encourage conversation that the number of
from others. Many years ago be was stung increasing rapidly.
bv a stingrav, and was laid, up for a long ; thirty years fortv-three oases liave 13,000
Aunt Maria, I instinctively felt that she 4 time. Since then all bis time is devoted inhabitants, 120,000 trees between 1 and
would pooh-pooh the whole thipg- in j to an onslaught on he fob. Ifow.Vsrir 7 years old, and ICO, 000 fruit recs.
fine, that she wouhj.not vmderstiftd me. 1 Sun. " ' Chicago Times. m' '
Wounds ( tfce Y.jr.
Some German investigators hve calcu
lated the relative liability of injury to tbe
'eye, Cndirg tliat if all itfirts of the bodv
cult i rate. 1 tracts is were cqtially exposed to injury, wound
Alter a penou 01 ui tne eve weald Lear to wtaii.cis e f other
CMyrtl from llrataeaUn.
At tnis time &7U.000 adult convert
from the heathen world are in fall retu
rn anion with the Church of Christ. Thene,
with their families and dependents from
Christian c&mur.itie, scattered ovct
nearly ' every jortion tf tlie habitable
gkstje, number in tle
2,b00,000 soul.
aggregate at kat
Tlw average American w CS 1-10 inches
tall and.weigl ViO svA the avcrag
r.i.,hJ.manj4 rjj incites tall and wegLj
(arts the pre- ortion ef one hi about 600; ! icci.d. .
'as a :r-.tur of fact, tho prrii:m is I .
)4bout thirty-aix la l.WV. BoOon Ctrl... J . .. f.v ! a J:ri-. :1 in hydro-
"Budget
inaaaca f a rrah Craem. -
If. Andre Kron has'iioc'dod to lire per-
tnanently in rarls. TMi an Interesting
samounoement to society; because M.
Kron is one of -the richest men in the
world, and will douUlea live in a style
betting Lis wealth. The story of his
rise from poverty and obscurity to wealth
and honor is a curious one. It was lathe
reign of Czar Nicholas. - VL Kron was
tlen a young man a tailor's clerk, I be
lieve in St Petersburg. .One summer
tbe weather was unusually hot. and an
epidemic of fever broke out In St. Peters
burg. People died by thouland. It was
a veritable pestilence and. threatened to
depcpulate the city. The doctors were
powerless to check it. ,
One day M. Kron wTote in one of the
papers that all the trouble was in tho
water the roue drank. It was drawn
from the Nrra,.andali the sewer) cf the
city emptied into the Neva; consequently
trie opto were arm ting enJuted sewage.
It i a remarkable ocriraentarr nnon
Ruoan' intelligence- that '-no ooe had
tliought ct this before. But mow Cxxr
Nicholas read M. Kron's suggestion and
at once ordered a rood water surrJr to
be sexnircd. nomader what it inirht cost.
The imperial engineers went to work; but
met wuh obstacle . they could rot over
come. Nicholas aect them ta Siberia nd
set other to w ork on tle problem. They
failed, too, and were sect to feibcna, and
a third set'of sgineers went at it. They
cot only failed, tot they convinced the
czar that it was an impossible task, and
be decided to abandoo it, Tl.cn M. Kron
came forward. lie organized a com pany
and caninl tbe work to complet'on.
Thereupon the czar bestowed a deonration
spon Lim with- lis own hand and gar
him a fortune of 3,000.000. axl the
czarina wrote Lim an autograph letter of .
thank. Tbe enterprise wai of course, a
profitable one, apart from the royal favor,
and IL Kron is now said to be worth up
ward cf 100,000,000. I'Sixi Cor. Chicago
Tribune.
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Idaho rabbit cars are called "pumtj
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