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W. FLETCHER ACBBON, EDITOR. C. V. W. AU9BON, BUSINESS MANAGER. VOL.111. PL VMOUTfl, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1892. NO. 37. 4 - a V LOVE'S SEASOM Love doth a tenant of the spring become: Ofsammer hoars when skiesof brilliant blue Tempt hpa and katydids to gardens new wnen the woodpecker with his dintant dm Is heard, and when the cricket'i restful thrum Mokei autuma musical; when Winter's few DMights of Nature blossom into viow: Lots maks the year, complete, its constant home. Whate'er the days or months for ui unfold Lots has one season io its rounded rhyme Lovs's eon turns darkest skies to brightest Sold, . And makes of time a period sublime; from cradle-uymn to be Is at Life's night tol'ed Whern Loved wells itis summer all tho time Dexter Smith, in Boston Transcript. A Moccasin Aim, tie Eolys ST RICHARD M. JOHNSTON. j. vurjr wen rememoor ijitue Joe Hobby, who, when I was a child, was one of my father's near neighbors and friends. He was not so very, very little. They called him so in distinction from a T li i , . big .cousin of. the same name. : Every body hked him. Even Maggy Tiller over and over again said that she thought a great deal of Joe. Yet she gave her uanu in preierence to the big cousin, and so Little Joe, sorrowful as it all was, had i 1 A - 11 ' iu uBur it as wen as ne coma. Maggy, noticing at her very last refusal how hardly he took it, offered the consolation; which at such a time, if a girl would "uij imwui ior. a moment, is the very poorest to bo thought of. She told him to nevermind, for that it wouldn't be so very lone before he would find a cirl to : suit him to a t, and then he would be just running over with joy that he hadn't ,. married Maggy Tiller. Indeed; Maggy was very sorry for his distress, so she must say something, and she didn't know of anything better. Then he rose, ana, alter shaking good-by, said: "No, Maggy, I can't get you; but I'll never marry anybody else." He went to the . wedding, and with the other guests extended congratulations, and partook with reasonable zest of the good things. Afterwards he was as good a neighbor as before, and a good cousin to both. My father said, but of course onlyin the family, that if ho had been in Maggy Tiller's place he would have taken Little Joe, and " let Big Joe go somewhero else; for in his opinion Little Joe was more of a man; and so, he sua nected. thought Macr'rv's mother. How ever, he added, nobody can ever foresee , what girls will do in such cases. Joe Littlo Joe, I moan tried to go aiong aDout as ne naa been doing betore his bad luck, as he called it; for he never denied a singlo thing. But he was as healthy in mind as in body, and he ieit that it Moggy ana the other Joe could do well, so far as he was con cerned, thoy were welcome to do so. In deed, he was a better friend to them than . Jim Hobby, Bier Joe's older brother. whom Maggy had oast aside also, and who in a pet wont off and married Mandy urake, wno wasn t as pretty as Maggy and had rathor poor health besides. 1 And they did do well, -that is moder ately well. If Big Joe's industry, man agement and prudenco had corresponded with his physical , proportions, they would have done splendidly. As it was, out of the good piece of ground which they owned, they made quite enough to live on, and perhaps a trifle over: but ' not nigh what Little Joe, who continued to live with his mother, contrived to put aside yearly for rainy days. The two' families lived only a mile apart, and visiting continued to be kept up the same as if nothing had happened. In decent time after the - birth of their baby, Little Joe went over there and handed around his congratulations again. When the baby was 'named Jo he had to congratulate again; and he did so, like the man he was.' It may have seemed to him somewhat monotonous whenever he was thero that tho father was ever lastingly saying that in some points, in deed in almost every single blessed point, be had not a doubt that that baby was ahead of anything of its age that could be found in tho wholo State, let alone the county. : 'Why, Joe," ho said, more times than his hearer could recall, "Maggy'll tell ?'ou herself that sometimes 1 have to oosq my mule from the plough half an hour before the dinner-horn dIowb, I .want to see him so bad. Look'ee here. Joe," he said nigh as many times to tho baby, "you know who that is sitting in that chair? You don't? Why, that's your cousin Joo, samo name as you. Not named aft or him exactly, but ail the sumo. ABk Cousin Joe if he don't wish ho had a Joo like you." . At such times Maggy smiled a, littlo scold; but it did no good. . He would go on about it, and keep at it, not even stopping at tho dinner-table, occasionally getting up and nicking Little Joe getup, repair to the bed or the cradle whereon that baby was lying, and note how, when he was not crowing, he would be trying, just for the f un of it, to ram his fists or the covorlet into his ever-open mouth. And then somotimos ho would crown all by crying to tho youngster about thus; "Going to bo a big man some day, aren't you? a heap bigger than Cousin Joe." Such things he did often, not from any thought of malice towards his cousin, but out of mere exuberance of tho conscious ness of his superiority to him. Littlo Joo endured it all, and did what he could in simple ways to help them along. Once, when tho baby was thought to be danger ously sick, he went there at nights, and, while b father slept, watches with the mother during the silent hours. Before Big Joe was awake next morning he would be cone to bis work. During that time Jim Hobby never once came there; His wife did, and wanted to help; but nggy knowing that she was not strong enough to do any good, thanked her and sent her home. One would think that such as that ought always to come to an end. Some times it does, as in this case itdid. Eatly in August, when the baby was only a few weeks old, Big Joe got sick himself. People said it was from having had too much Fourth of July, " Whatever was the cause, no sort of medicine, old women's nor doctors', could cure him; and so he died, leaving Maggy a poor, lonesome widow, With her baby she moved back to her mother's, and it was not so very long before she began to look as bright as ever, and perhaps some prettier. I could not undertake to say exactly how Little Joe felt on the occasion of his cousin's death; but he said and he did . what was becoming, no more, no less. He helped to nut him awav decently, and then helped Maggy to do wnat was to be done betore she could get back to her native place. As for the baby, while he did not because he could not show the pride which his father in dulged, yet be was even more considerate of its wants. It was only a few minutes' walk to the Tillers', a"nd he went there almost every day. The devotion shown by him to that baby was not without its return, as it was not long before the lat ter sheved himself to be as well pleased with his cousin's society as ever he had been with that ot his father. Even Jim began to take an interest which he had not shown in his brother's lifetime. During the summer days of the follow ing year, when Maggy s work took her out of the house she put the baby in his cradle, which she had removed to a nice spot in the shade of a large Mogul plum tree that stood not far from the dairy. Occasionally she went by to see if any wood-insect had invaded his couch, or, if ho was awake, to have a little chat by way of reassuring him against any sense of abandonment or too profound solitude. tor be was not one of those exact ing babies who are everlastingly wanting to be waited on, and shaken up, and sung to, claiming: all the attention they can get, and more be sides, not only in the day, but in the very night. What that baby wanted, after his ' many meals and his as many sleeps, was the consciousness that con genial society was in convenient call. His , health was as perfect as the very morning, and whenever he cried you might feel sure either that a pin was sticking somewhere, or that something else was the matter which no grown-up person could be expected to endure with out complaint At such time, when Lit tle Joe was there, he hovered around that cradle as if the most precious of his treasures lay therein. Such devotion, in all the circumstanoes, must have touched any heart, unless it were of stone. Yet when, towards the beginning of the fall, Little Joe began to plead as once before he . ul done so all in vain, Maggy cried and begged him to stop it. He did as he was bidden, but with an inward resolve not to stop for good as long as things stood as they wero.' For she Bhowed as plainly as day, even to the humble Little Joe, that she didn't want him to quit coming to the house, particularly now that Mrs. Jim Hobby had died, and so another gloom had been thrown over the family. Liittle Joe would nave been ashamed to be called a hero if he had known what that meant. Yet in the action which I am now going to tell, my father used to say that there was as heroic behavior as much of that one reads of in tho careers of thoso who subdue Nations and bring home spoils with in- hmte Manslaughter. Among venomous reptiles in the South ern States, next to the rattle-snake the one most dreaded is tho moccasin. Its bite, except upon very young persons, is seldom fatal; but very often its victim has to lose sorao portion of the limb which has been struck. The most prompt roHtment is nocessary to prevent much uffering and other serious conseauences. I shall let Littlo Joe speak for himself about an encounter which he had with one of those reptiles. , One morning, having come over to our house on some little matter about the line-fence, as ho was ascending the steps of the piazza" my father said: ' "Uood-morning, Joe. Why, hello! what's the matter with your thumb, that you've got it wrapped in that cloth?" "Mornm , squire, . then you hadn t heard about my snake-fight?" No, indeed, i ve been away from homo for a couple of woeks, getting back only last night. It seems you got the worst of it." I did for a while: but I come up with him before it was all over." "My goodness, man! But I'm very lad it was no worse." So am 1 thankful to boot. What time it lasted, it was a right serious busi ness, countin' in my skear, and Maggy's too." "Ay, was Maggy in it also?" "Not in the fight, she wasn't, but in the skear she were, worse off than me; faot is, she couldn't help it, bein of her own baby." "My. my: leu mo about it. Smoothing tenderly , the cloth around is thumb, ho began: "It was on Thursday three weeks ago. walked over to Missis Tiller's, I reckon the Bun were about a hour or a hour and haff high- Maggy were a-sweenin' the front yard about tho gate. Her ma were rone over to Mishit Keennm's. and the baby were layin' in the cradle asleep under tho big plum-tree, you know, squire, there by the dairy. " Very well. Finest Mogul plum-tree in the neighborhood. " " Jes' so. Well, soon as I got in the yard, and shook hands with Maggy, I went on silent to see the baby, who him and me are first-rate friends we are." "So I heard. Go ahead." " When I got there, Io and behold, there were a great big full-grown high land moccasin quiled up on the baby's breast, all eiception of his head and his neck, which stood high up, and his eyes a-viewin' of the child, like he were studyin where heJd begin on him. I holloed out, I did, and Maggy she cornea runnin' up; but I pushed her back and told her to stay back and keep silent. She done it. She put one hand on her brenst and lifted the other towards the sky. At that minute Jim come in the gate, and he run up to see what were the matter. Then he told me to stay there and watch the snake till be could run in the garden and cut a forked stick and prong him with it. So Jim he left, and the fight begun. Soon as the thinsr saw me. he whirled his head aw&v j from tho baby for a strike at me. And, squire, it were the fieriest, beautifuilest I thing you over laid your eyes on. He were certain, well us I were, that it were I a life-and-d ath case: because there wasn't any chance for him to get away into the woods, and I no doubt he saw fight was in me. But I didn't have one blessed thing except my hands, and if I'd had a stick the question would been what to do with it, him a-layin' there on the baby. To make things worse, he woke, the baby did, and he begun a smilin' at me, and I were skeered nigh out of my senses, thinkin' he might kick or throw up his hands, . so the snake would turn on him again. Then I got mad, sure enough, and I said to myself , 'No, sir, not that baby. If its got to be anybody, it shall be me.' Every time I made a grab at its neck, he dodged and Btruck at me. Well, sir, it's wonderful how supple the thing were. I thought I had him once or twice, but he slipped from my fingers like a piece of ice, and mighty nigh as bold, and several times with hiB strike ho were in the width of a hair of gettin' me. All of a sud den I thought of my hat, and thinks I to myself, 'Blast you, I'll try to hive youl' And I done it, after a tew wipes at him; but as I was pressin' him down he put his tooth in the ball of my left hand thumb. But I grabbed him by the tail, give him a whirl or two like a whip thong, then, fetchin' a jerk, Blung his head off. You know that's the quickest way in the world to kill 'em. Then Maggy come up, she did, and she snatched up her baby, who was kickin' his level best at the fun; but I told her to lay him down for a minute, take a twine string out of my coat pocket, and tie it tight around my thumb where I were holdin' it. For don't you know, squire, it come to my mind that very minute of Jay Roberts losin' his whole thumb three year ago that a moccasin bit, and that under the water? Yes, sir, that it did. Maggy screamed, but she done as I told her. Then I told her to go and make a pot of red-pepper tea, boilin' hot, not thinkin' there .was a drop of sperits in the house. Soon as she got away; I hauled out my knife. I give it a wipe or two on the bottom of my shoe, and then Well, squire, whoever thinks there's fun in cuttin' off their own thumb at the j'int, they're welcome to it. But I grinned and got through with the job, and by that time Maggy's ma got back. She told Maggy to fling that ?epper tea away, and then she got out a evel tumblerful of whiskey and come out and made me drink every drop of it. And then, while Maggy was fixin' to tie up what was left of my thumb, she, a knowin' I couldn't carry all that load of whiskey, she made me go to bed, and.tell you the truth, squire.I never remembered another thing till next mornin' daybreak, when I woke up, callin' for water." ." But where was Jim all this time? " ' " They told me after it was all over that Jim came back with his forked stiok, a-sayin' it took longer than he thought to get one to suit. Miseis Tiller said she thanked him, and told him that he better put it away kesrf ul, as it might come in handy next time." "That's Jim; that's exactly Jim," said my father. "But, Joe Hobby, don't tell me you came away from that house with out getting Maggy's word, after what I told you of the importance of being brisker in some of your ways, especially since Jim has become a widower." "Oh, no, sir. I thought it were a good chance to follow up your advice, and I put in for her as well as I could; and she Baid that, in all the circumstanoes, she wasn't sure but what it was her duty." "That's good! that's first-rate! " "But, law, squire! she declare she must put off the weddin' for at loast one whole year." "Nonsense! You tell Maggy, from me, that, after all you've done for her and that baby, I say that I think it very hard to be putting it off so -long, and that if any accident was to happen to you in all that lonesome while she'd never forgive herself." He carried the words, and in a few days afterwards reported that thoy had compromised on Easter. Lippincott. TWO OPINIONS. "Yes," said the village oracle, as he looked around the grocery store and fixed the power of his ye on the only man pYesent, "it's my belief that the world is growing worse, and that even in this vil lage there's a deal of evil that every man in it would thieve if he got a chance present company excepted, of course." "Well, now," responded his auditor, "my belief's just the opposite. I don't think there's a man in the village would thieve if he got the best chance in the world present company excepted, of course." , - There was no more to be said, New York Press. fHE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY-MEN OF THE PRESS. Same Thing He Couldn't Afford To On Ono Condition Two Opin. ionsAnd That's a Fact, Etc., Etc. SAME THING. "I see," he began, as he entered the ffice of a plumber, "that some one has invented a cut-off or valve or syphon by which a water pipe is prevented from freezing,' no matter how much exposed." "Yes," softly replied the plumber. 'Good thing." - "Very likely." "Come into general use?' "Yes." "When it does you plumbers will have to take a back seat, eh?" "No. Takes two pounds of solder just the same, and we get in three hours' extra work." Detroit Free Press. BE COULDN'T AFFORD TO. Mr. Suburb Well, I was never more surprised in my life. I had a long and serious talk with a stranger whom I met on the train, and who do you think he was? Editor Weekly Fun Give it up. "He was Mr Button-buster, one of your chief humorists." "What about him?" "Why, he didn't crack a joke all the time we were together." "His jokes are worth $5 apiece." New York Weekly. ON ONE CONDITION. Tramn to ladv of the housed I'm starving to death! Can I die out in the barnyard? " Lady of the House (graciously) Yes; if you won't crawl under the barn. AND THAT'S A FACT. Although it causes one to sneeze Much more than one is pleased at, The grip is plainly a disease That isn't to be sneezed at. New York Press. UNSELFISH. "Your husband borrows a great deal of trouble, it seems to me, Mrs. Blue.'' "Yes, but he is unselfish with it. He always shares it with me." BIS ACTIONS BELTED BIS REPUTATION. "I've always heard that you were of a generous disposition, John," said the maiden, as her lover almost hugged the breath out of her"but I can hardly be lieve it." "Why can't you?" "Because I find you always near and grasping. " New York Press. THE PARTING. It was 5 o'clock p. m., and George Montgomery had been spending the after noon with sweet Lilian Luray. "Good-by, darling," he said, fondly, as they stood in the darkened vestibule. "Good-by, George," she murmured, nestling her head in the time-honored place. "Good-by." "Good-by." "In every parting, dearest, there is the image of death," he whispered, hold ing her close and kissing her passionately, "and we may never meet again." : "Oh,George,darling," she said, clinging to him most fiercely. . "Who knows, my own what may hap pen between this hour and when we meet again ? " : "Mizpah," she breathed, and threw her arms about him convulsively. "Yes, darling," he spoke tremulously, "let us keep that word as our shield and armor." , "And you will come back to me; to your own little loving Lilian, George; the same beautiful and brave George yon have always been?" "Trust me, Lilian, darling; trust your J George." ' i "Oh, darling," she said, strong in the faith of women, "I do trust you. How could I love you so if I did not?" and she kissed him fondly. "Then I shall come again, Lilian, my own." "But when.George? When?" she asked anxiously. "At 8 this evening, darling." "Oh, George," she wailed, "will it be bo long as that ? So long, so long?" He took her in his strong arms, tenderly. "Darling," he whispered, "make it 7.30!" And it came to pass as he had spoken. Detroit Free Press. DESPERADOES ' EXCHANGE REMINISCENCES. "Yes, I was a great desperado in my day," said the reformed train robber, shaking his head sadly and with , much humility. "I once held up a whole train load of passengers single-handed and alone." "That was quite a feat," said the re tired auctioneer, with a dreamy .far-away look in his eye, "but I once knocked down a whole railroad." Chicago Tri bune. ' THE SOWER AND THE REAPER. Old Moneybags, his whole life through, Worked stormy days and sunny; And now bis heir is working, too, To spend the old man's money., SUITABLE FOR THE OCCASION. "Chicago won't be satisfied with trac tion cars during the celebration of '93," remarked the Snake Editor. "Won't eh? Hadn't heard of that," re plied the Horse Editor. "No; she will adopt the Colum 'bus." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, BAD MUSIC. May Now, wouldn't you call Profes sor Poundcroffski's music heavenly? Frank Possibly; it's certainty quite unearthly, " " HAD A BETTER JOB. Employer (impulsively) Miss Do Pinkie, Clara, will you marry me? Pretty Typewriter What? And give up my 120 a week salary? Not much. New York Weekly. AFRAID OF IT. you pass the "Will butter, Mr Wickwin?" "Not if I see it in time to turn and go the other way, madam." WARM ENOUGH. New Boarder (shivering) The house seems very cold, madam.. Mrs. Slimdiet Does it? Why, I'm as hot as fire. "Hum! Pardon me, but whydoes the end of your nose look so blue?" "Oh! that comes from my aristocratic ancestry." Good News. A SMART HUSBAND. Mr. De Fashion The paper says sealers are disappointed at the low prices obtained for skins in London this sea eon. Mrs. De Fashion That's splendid! You know I need ainew Mr. De Fashion The paper says the furs are very cheap, dirt cheap. .p. r did o Mrs. De Fashion I never did care muoh for seal-fur. It's too wd AB8ENT-MINDED. "You did not attend Blogster's fu neral?" "No," said the absent-minded man. "I was so busy. I'll go to his next one, sure, busy or not." Indianapolis Journal. THE FLOWERS OF THE FAMILY. The youth was most prudent and careful In making a choice of a wife, So he married "The Flower of the Fam- ilv And she is the thorn of his life. IRISH PUNS. Charles Lamb made some famous puns, and his mantle seems to have fallen upon his namesake, Charles Lamb Kenney. The popular journalist was dining at the house of a friend, and by chance swallowed a bit of cork with his wine, which gave him a severe coughing fit. "Take care, my friend," said his next neighbor, with a very brilliant attempt at witticism, "that's not the way to Cork." "No," gasped the sufferer, "it's the way to kill Kenney. London Truth. MONET EASILY EARNED. "What? Another new dre?sl" said a married man to his better half, as the parcel was opened. "Don't distres yourself," she replied. "I paid for this out of my own pocket." "Oh, indeed! But where did you get the money from?" "I sold your overcoat," was the oool reply. MRS, SCRIMP'S GARDENING. Old Friend Did you have much of a garden this year? Mr. Scrimp (of Scrimpville) No; it didn't amount to muoh. In the BDring I irave a erand erarden digging tournament, the young men who dug the most to have the pick of the girls tor tne evening, ana it worked well, but it cost me 'most two dollars for refreshments. Then I had a planting bee, and that wasn't so expen sive, only the planting wasn t nan aone. Later on I tried to gtt up a wedding festival, but somehow the VOUJlg folks sort o' lost interest, and I gave up gar dening in disgust. ssevr iotk vveeRiy, THE REASON. "Why is tho road to destruction broad, papa?" "It has to be, my son, to accommodate the travel." THE BLIGHTED YOUTH. ' I paced the floor in anguish wild, Or sat in deep dejection; I felt extremely sad and riled, I had had my first rejection. I went to bed and groaned all night, To die my aim was steady! But I fell asleep at broad daylight. And slept till lunch was ready. KNEW THE MEN., Salesgirl I wish to resign my place. I'm going to be married to Mr. Clipper, of the ribbon counter. Manager My dear child, that is no reason for stopping work. Keep your place. Salesgirl (a close observer) It won't do. I'm afraid if I don't knock off and do nothing, he will. Good News. AFTER THE BALL. She Has papa asked you about your income? He Yes. She And you told him that little fib about the large salary? He Yes. She I'm so glad. He Well, I'm sorry. He borrowed 150 from me on tho spot. Mr. James Brown, who lives neai Bealington in Braxton County, W. Va., has probably the largest beard in this country. He is 6 feet in height, and has neither shaved nor trimmed his beard or uioustacho for thirty years. The ends of his moustache extend beyond his fingers' ends when his arms are out stretched. Ho carries his wonderful beard and moustache braided and tucked inside his shirt, but does not hesitate to show it to any ono who may desire to pee it. NOTES AND COMMENTS. No handsomer fish swims than the rain bow trout of California. It i not only, handsome, but 'game," and as a food is toothsome. The enterprise of stooUng the rivers of Arkansas and Missouri with the rainbow trout is reported to be most gratifying success. It bids fair to become one of the most desirable variety of the salmoDidae for. pond and stream oulture. This trout grows and breeds fast. The oflice of the United States Fish Commissioner at Washington is re ceiving a great many requests tor speci mens. The discovery that alloy of nickel adds immensely to the resistance of steel armor has given a boom to mines of that metal. A body of nickel owned by e. Canadian company has been purchased; by an English syndicate for $2,000,000, , the consummation of the bargain evi dently being hastened by the results of experiments made in this country. Nickel is a comparatively scarce metal, but if the demand for it is considerably increased, as it promises to be, no doubt additional deposits will soon be discov ered.. Those who have studied the wheat problem most thoroughly anticipate that the high table lands of Mexioo will be the next competitor of the wheat grow ers of the United States. Mexico is largely in the tropical regions, but it has every variety of climate, and on its high lands wheat is a certain crop.: Its lack of railroad facilities for marketing its1 product has kept the wheat growers of Mexico from exporting very largely. But there must soon be railroads, and then Mexioo will becomey a wheat ex porter on a larger scale than now. " !. The Pacific Medical Journal recently contained an editorial article on the rela tion of color-blindness to accidents on sea and land which deserves more atten tion than it is likely to receive. The point made by the article in questional that whereas the most rigid inquiry is in sisted upon land, as in the case of loco motive engineers and firemen, - nothing of the sort is required at sea, the conse- . quence being that men are on the look out who may be entirely unable to dis-, tinguish between the red and green lights , of an approaching vessel. One of the oldest libraries in the ooun- . try . is the Charleston library of South Carolina, whose charter bears the date of , 1748, when George II. was King. The original charter was incorporated in the General Statutes after the war of tbw Revolution. A bill to incorporate "the trustees of the endowment fund of the Charleston Library Society" is now be fore the State Legislature, the trustees believing that a permanent endowment will attract the gifts of men of means to the old library. Under the terms of the act the society is authorized to hold real . and personal estate to the valueof $250, 000. According to all accounts there has been an important increase in the flow of natural gas in the Western Pennsylvania fields during the past three months, duo to the bringing in of a number of , new wells which have been producing largely. The new discoveries have been mde principally in the Allegheny apd Wash ington fields, southwest of Pittsburg, and some of them have been in virgin territory. . At Graperille one well is thought to have opened an entirely new horizon. If this opinion be correot the development possesses great importance, : since tne wells of that productive ; dis trict have hitherto drawn from one reser voir only. ; . The World's-Fair directors are making a fight against a company which proposes to erect an "Eiffel" tower on a kite con tiguous to the exhibition grounds. The company offered to construct the tower on the grounds, but the directors wanted 50 per cent, of the receipts, and, as an of fer of 25 per cent, by way of compromise came to nothing, war was at once de clared between the two parties in inter-, est. The company then leased a tract at Sixty-third street and Grace avenue, and were boasting of their victory when the directors notified them that the erection of the tower proposed would be in conflict ; with the ordinance regulating the height of buildings, and declared that a protest would be made before the Public Works Department. Local observers of the merry war predict that the result will be a compromise, and that the Fair will have a taller tower than Eiffel's after alL The Chesapeake Bay Dog Club, of Baltimore, is arranging for an exhibit at the Columbia Fair in Chicago, to be il lustrative of a typical Maryland sport, the shooting of wild ducks. The club proposes to place on the lake at the fair a double sink box and a complete stool of 500 decoys. Anothev stool of def'-, not so large, is to be properly laid for a bushwhack boat which is also to float on the lake. A third lay-out will be in front of a ducking-blind, and a fourth around a tub. The sink-box and the tub are strictly Maryland institu tions. It is intended also to have a big fun- skiff, in which will be mounted the ig gun formerly used by the father of the great Havre de Grace gunner, "Wash" Barnes. The bushwhack boat and the big gun-skiff will use the stool of decoys alternately. One or more expert duck shooters will be in attendance to give exhibitions. J. D. Mallory, of the Chesapeake Bay Dog Club, will supply from his kennels several of the true type of Chesapeake Bay dogs. The .intelli gent work which the dogs can do while in the water will also be shown. When gunning from the blind the dog will bo made to retrieve some object which will be thrown overboard for him. The true type of Chesapeake dog is rare, and the animal will doubtless attract attention, A "toiling" blind will also bo erected, and one or more "tolling" dogs wll be worked from the blind.