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rm yt im iEANER vol: xil. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1886. NO.. 42. A NORTHERN LEGEND,: It was on a wild, wintry night In the polar resworn of the most nortiiem estu ary of Hudson's bay that I was reposing, - i . i i . niui sirorcnea out on tne gray mnueer row mat sepvated me from Hie most eunoiis of all conches, a bed of rw, while the half flickering light from a native stone lamp that looked like half of a huge' clam-shell, with the straggling bits of light along it edge; threw its yellow, jaundiced hues against . .- a number of queer feces fat. dumpy ones that looked lil.e obese Mongolians painted up to imitate the facial hues, of our own Indians.. Back cf this group of Equimaux for such they were were the weirdly white wails of the snow house, making the domicile look not unlike a little ova!-domod, egg-shaped . - pea built of tombstones. The little" chil' dren weia asleep' in a cozy corner, un der the reindeer robes, a great shaggy black musk-ox skin being between them and the walls of tiie snow house, while the few Esquimau men in the place were tutting on the edge of a bed of snow, their feet Bwatbed in skins, dangling down to the floor of the ss mo white ma terial, where a few dogs were prying tneir noses around to catch a bit of el . or walrus meat; 'or they were sitting a la Turk upon it, all of them with their anna withdrawn from tiie sloeves of . their coate and crossed upon their bare breasts underneath, and each and every one en jiving a pipo of tobac.:o while , tntm warminjr"their handi. . As the white smoke htsily ascended and drifted away through the little holes in the top of the walls of .mow, I lizard the group, one by on, tell their curious . stories of the JUorualashaae, their dangers ou the fl ws of ice, and the myths anil blends of tl great north land, and one of them, the Jgpud ' of an old walriw hunter of the tribe, I must tell: Far, far in the mythical past, wben the ancestors of the- Innuits, or E-qtu-inaux, first came to this land, the blasts ' of winter and its' weary league of ioe and snow wero unknown. Summer reigned throughout the year, aud the walriM crawled upon the r-cky islets and the slopping shores. mslad of cakes and vOi!tffl jes of ice, and were there e- i cured, by- the merry hasirtod hunters who never knew of famine from the fickle Storms of winter. Seals sported in the pretty little fiords, and with spears aiKt light akin canoes tiny stio- censfuHy hunted tiiom the yaar round. Flowers grew upon tho banks of the lakes, and ice was unknown upon their waters, --while in myriad drovws the eider (hick - and guillemot aud eoocy goose floated upon their boooms, and their clamorous voices CUc-i tbe air. Ftkii. Uke to lake their tnany droves waad rYred at their pleasure, , bat south ward tlvfy never liad to go to avoid the cold, or because tvieir swimming place, wore oovered with ioe; ' and tiieir garrulous darter could be heard in any month in tiie year. Clouds- never darkened the sky, and the sun never set, but hwu&g . around tiie hjrUou, undiuiuieJ br iniots. like some aleepincs reulinel guarding a sacred spot. It waj the grandest time the earth Lad ever sen, so all agreed, even t he bcSUita aoi tbe birds and those that livd ua3er tbe wntervt along tiie la.id. nhd so thought the poor Linuits tbe Esquimaux call theuiselven). who had coil-.' from a far off slhurn desolate and devout of all such brightness and plenty. "Who reigns in this fair hjadT asked our Innuit forefathers of the pcaeelni inhabitant. Tiie deity we now worship - In Me'aifuKBlraddiKlhtil.yife-My tufmii.f mm. we hare kid raony before, but Hi a tiie cxmnvry was ir-er so pijierciHi under them. Once rylud tiie rt4ndws' god, but to (ilnase tliem lie made ail tiie water fcito land bearing sweet grasxes for them tu eat, and all the lake were made into mere paddles, where the Keindeer could drink., and everything WfaS given to graea,- so tbe seal au-1 tivs waJras and the polar bear rufT.rad more than the rein deer gained. T.ten the god of the wholes ruled over ail, and the waters com menced creepi up .over the Uiad to p!coe them, and soon eerytiiin tJKTeou wuai i have been dritriyxl had not the itiuMli-ox"n sn-'oach-d hitn. and , bock afc-sin increasnd th hurt until the poor Hal and walrus wee onoe ui"re ' in a-.'ony for a place to r Kntil Tornar-i- tk, cliief (Uh-vviiiat-tik)f all thegodn. hfrd tiM-ir cries, aa-t ielt tiie uuny pnwl iy and eternal plenty, 10 th footsore pHgrhns were contented, and their sod of two moods they gladly for sook for one with but a single mood, and that one tn Mo&dfast and genial; Though they willingly quit their atle gianoa to their old-time. god. the aban donment was not mutual, and a soon ui he knew that some of. his subjects were gone he searched for them far and wide. Ho sunk part of jiis l.ind tinder the great water that he might pursue them in a boat. II? called on the sun to give him constant liht that he might look for them in all the corners of the universe. Iis travels bvoujht him to the peaceful land of Aksliamak, guided thither by the search, and the dazzling power of his sun that earoe with him overwhelmed the rays of the ever-shining orb of the country. ' Ilj demanded in thundering tones his long-lost people, but the grent eider duck only drew them closer under her wings and vowed that all were entitled to lier protection as long-as she was able, and that only Tor naTsiik could command otherwise. -Then begsn the grand war of the gods which is hot oven yet decided. MAny are the messengers that have bpen sent to Tornanv.k, but no reply comes to them, and slowly the strength of the btmggling eider deity wanes. First the angry one swore wo.ild devastate the fair land of Akshar.iak and make it. a des ert uninhabited hy living thing. His sun battled long with that of the eider and won the first "great victory, for the lat ter wa8fthorn of its fiery hair and bright myo, and wandered in the heavens aa the silvery moon, with just enough light left to illumine the brurht snows of the cheerless winter time, and even then ho weak at times that it. must concen trate all its flnme on one edge to be ewn by the Moved people of Akshsniak, so tlwy will not lose heart an they would if it disappeared altogethi r. and they uifoht not st it if it atti-i; led to illumine its whole face at mese de- sfiondcnttinm, so wi-k and diffused would it be. Like a great gladia tor dying in an unequal struggle, it al ways jirtsents that brilliant edge dim as it is compared with yore, to its hated rival, that it, may think it yet full of life. Theii. when its victory wai almost compile, the sun of the Innuits re teated to it own land to the far south and withdrew its warm rays and those it hod captured from the despoiled cnptive, and the air became so chill tnnt seemed that everything munt perish with the cola. Thett tho great eider god made wings from tho ocean waves for her subjects, that they might fly south to tho warm sun; for as the wavos rise and tall, so did the wings she made from them, and ti;:r owners to the more gc-iui clisue. First she made those of h-r own kind that is. eider ducks and by the j time "they were completed tho Innuit ud, seeing tliat his own people were not comizi 'rlrst. as he thought they would, to avoid the pla-e ef cold, and lint wanting the otht-r life it Aksliamak ia his south land, stilled the waves with wintry sheete of ioe. and no more wing (M'-jId be made. He wantt-d his laauita, but not tiie other kinds ef life from a land heiiatt-d so. From the crystal ice, the corpses of the Waves, tbe.eidfr god yet yed to make more wings for h mibuM. and put them on the ptar miin. th'it they migbt travel, txi, but tlirr c ulJ only fly the thickness of the ioehTgHfrom whieh tiiir winss were cut, and the god of the south laughed loud and long. So swift was his breath in these convulsive gasps of mirth that the Ian I of Aksbaraak was swept m if no bUck darkness and loved the whits '.ight and he made the polar bear as white as the snow to eh'ow that they be longed to his Mlowing. ' Afterward came the hares and wero made white. Then came the wolves, and their conta were changed, but as nomc of them al lowed themselves to be caught by hi renegade children the Innuits and trained to draw their sledges over the snow, he changed- his mind and made them a light gray and turned tho dogs black again, and told the Wolves that until they brought back their . erring brethren he would not make them pure white. So to this day tho Esquimau dogs are dark, the wolves from which they sprang are nearly ' white, ' and wherever tho latter meet tho former ihey kill them and surk their blood. Then came the ptarmigan, tho timid bi-d, and waa made white; but 89 fearfulwas- it that-the eider god -would take away even the short wingi It had given it thai when the eiders returned from tho month they found tho ptarmi gan in a dusky coat, and not until they h.;d gone again did it put on its new feathers of white. And so the wily fox. fearing that tho eiders would not supply it with all tho eggs it could est in the summer if it wore the enemy's imforin, returned to its coat of blue dnring that time," and with ntanv sly winks and hypocritical -asKumptiona put on ita white fur as soon .as .the last of them were gone and com menced worshiping the southern god so far away. But tho musk-ox. and the walrus, andths big whale had all ruled under Tnrnnrstik and loyally believed that he woul I be back and restore- the old manner of things, and thoy.all re tained 1 heir old coata 'of black. "Give me siimethitig," bt'ggcd the musk-ox. "with which to chew the winter's hard gra-is." His prnyer was to the southern god and he made him teeth, but made them white and ro that all the others could tfecy "Give me something to search for the mussels and clams' that since tho intense cold have burrowed deep in the bottom of the eea," be seeched the walmi, and he made him tu-ks, but he made them white. 4Give ' me -something, oh! southern god, in which.I may wrap myself to keep me from freezing', in your chilly waters, " sk"d the whale, hiid he covered him with a foot or two of fat, but he made it whit", as his emblem. . Most loyal of all to the eider duck were the InfVntts, who had been the .1 JOAQUIN A3 A 8TORY-TELLER. Th rl of h Mlerrru Writ, of Half , Cattle niut pattle.naka. My present letter 1st rom Eugene City, fr', where jnxtalhor settled down riparly forty yvirs ago, aud where I have done more work with Iho hand that pens thexo linos than any man I know worked liko e man while slill a lad. Lord! thoio -days when my brot' a :ind I mod to ns-j with the sun and go out and hit He" tho - half-wild .Spanish cows! What battles wa poor barefooted lads did have! Tlinse Spanish cows were terrib'y vjcious brutes. Thoy had long, sharp horns, and would fight like bulls. In fact, I have B3?n my poor ... brother have mivdi more perilon ilifhts in tho corral xwith these Iee!:, ' bmg-laggod, sharp-horned and viol 1111 cows than ever I haw iu all tho bull-ligiits of Mjxio) or Spam. AN ACTRE63' MAKE-UP. pjales, so long and furious, were com- uenxed. Tueu the great - elder thought her httle ones raut p'r Mi, for they could 'not fir south; but she aroee high in the heavens, and plucked from her breast until it waa bare the wlute down that, falling as now, covered all the hui t, and into this the Innuit pilgrims and the hares, the polar bears, tiie ermine and mtny others burrowed and kept warm, and to this day the eider du-k tiiui prnfett her nest and young. Tnen by the motion of her great wins", reaching frim the morning sun to the fading twilight, she created the north wind that swpt the edges liare of snow, so tlie'muik ox and reiiidi-r might find a lictle foo 1 lo keep them living till the sun returned, and tliat bful down the snow till her new acquisition, th IiinuiU, could cufitinto caue of all the wrangling that was end ing in the destruction of the country, and against thorn and their god all the wrath of 'the grr-at southern deity waa lield. Hi told all the a'tvaiU an 1 birl that ii-vt!! th-vbcc;--.i" ' .-, oc;- - L. to Uiu, s.u.1 becamo white, he woi:ld not convert Aksliamak into an Eden as of yor?; but if by the tinio his sun waa weary of viniting the cold northlatid tiiey had not relented he would send peo ple whose faes were white to tliat bud. and when the dark-faced men and women and dark-skinned animuls and fmhns were all dead Aksharnak would be as before. And now. tny friends, whooe father's father's father told this so very ioug ago, and whose listeners Icughed at tiie thought of su: b curious ppopleas thode with skins on tin in like the polar bear, let uis s.iy 'tlia: the white, men from the south are truly among us, aud it is too late for us to repont, but' over our bodies will bloom many kinds of brilliant flowers that" we see not in our summeni now, and on our graves will shine a never-setting sun."' And in the silence which followed this narrative I could not helo but think thut iksrahuKpTpr pjuHy or jssft'teaiiy-tt-taitjr bo worded, wheuier m legeu-f. story, or plain facts, this simple people, too, like all the others of bur continent, recouUv their inevitable extinction before the ad vancing march of the whites. Frederick Schwatka. Tlieae cows httd ben brought tip from- Mexico for the Msouris. Their long bottlefor their yoimir, gonnration after generation, with wild btatts, had madii them trim-limbed aud shtrp hornnl as antelope, almost. No wise or woll-rugu-l.ated peiipleever attempted to mjlk them lieforo nor after. But wo were pointed immigrants.. and no ouo camft by toull us better. Besides that, butter wai f 1 1 luuinil & ml .. r. p . . uin. ... x see we got these wild cattle from the old settlers for taming them. Wo timed them, but they boivj a good mny hole in us before we got thorn ituh-lue 1. Kick? I liav4 boen doubled up in the fence corner for an hour at a tiin like a jnck kuife! But as for butter, you might as well milk a strap. Tim milk wns J.hin, and watery, what little we got away With. ' . r-' Oh. th-so oows! I tell you, candidly, an old blue cow with big" white "eyes which I had to mill:, used to watch with her big eyes till I got the dipper full. And then, just na I would let go of her to go and pour the milk uwny in the' pail, she would hoist her right liiu 1 leg, aud whack! On my honor, that whole spring through, we , three boy, were none of lis without a skinned nose, a peeled shin, or a broken rib. . B it, after all, the worst pirt of the whole business whs the hunting up of those wild cattle twice a day mid driving them into the corral. .They would run for miles and miles every day. Tiiny would let their little ca've-t starv? anil never come near them. And run! They would . nm like drer. Only deer run from you. These wild, high-headed, and sharp honied cows would ran toward you, And tliis w tho way wa would get them homo run like whiti'iia-la toward ho.uo, aDd the cows after ur.l 1 .. .. , . 1,:., .., .v.. u i.:l.l.. ! part of hulling them up. The whole ! land was alive with rattlesnake, 'fue grass was tall and thick, and we poor J boys were on foot, and barefooted. N 1 monev had our imrentj to buv either shoes or horses. And such ratilesnakos! .j "l aitoiition to scrubbing their faces Wero I tell you thut I have seen knots he perfonuance. They do wash of rattlesnake us big as a barrel roil the paint oir, but oftentimes being In a down tho little rocky hill known as hurry they do not wash hard enough. -Kattle-Hnake Butte" you would hardly There is an art in 'making up' as well as care to believe mo without tho solemn Ul ctiug." Xew York Mail and Ex- vfhst L U.d o Beautirr the Ikla mm4 "Nothing is so exaggerated or myste rious to the otitaldo world at the 'make up' process of aotors," said a prominent member of tiie profession yesterday to a reporter. . "Well. I rtppoae actresses adopt th same process on fashionable womanf "Not a bit of it. ' Actresses have to follow simple and quick methods to make up for a stage appearance. The actress who wishes to make a go4 ap pearance usually washes her face la water and then iu bay rum. Oriental cream or whitish liquid is next applied with aspongo. When tho' face is dry! it is then powdered with the softest chamois skin. Then the background, as it were, is- ready, and ermine is deli cately distribute I with a Ann, . velvet sponge ovor the features. Tho lips next receive attention Uy the hnmccpathio ap plication of a red liquid. All this is done with incredible swiftness 'and without any apparent effort to obtain artistic ef fect. The particular part of ths toilet now begins penciling the eyebrows. A small camel's hair brush, of the best quality, is moistened with the finest In dia ink, and. work ou tho eyebrows ia fairly iuauguratod. A delicate line is also drawn under the humcs on the lower lidThis fa the way the actrtws prepares to nwko her appearance uopa the stage when bIiu is jiei-bonating a character that does not require her to look older than she reully iu.In that case, of course, she uses co-mifttcs aud puulito produce wrinkles nn J the nvcesiuii-y aged appear ance. Sji'Vi jHuicils N;f. i are frequently used insle id of ludm inJc to eucil the "eyebrows. v , yj0 (.iianiolling procoss.'whfch origi nated in Franco, i- vwry rnrelyx resorted to on account of its 'baneful ellocU. It gives the face a ghost-like, waxy kjok. and is far lleni being bciunif ul. Ii is a perfect art, 'though, and, dreqUontlyM very old. actresses can bmld a new and youthful face for the stage nith enamel. Used to a great extent it Hits the H): e-,of the skin, and poi.wm the muscular glands, producing dinuaso. 8 m- of the grout and Huuces.ii ul actresses, licuvcvr. have outfits tlmt a harem of Oriental women might envy. To eiiunior.ite a few articles: glycerine, Imlia ink, pow ders, carmine, lead pencils, sponirct, powder puffs, criirtpci- friz"ra, chauioU skin, p'itfi, braiili, nail-pins, pirsm of teel for short curU, tooth panto, bay rum, Florida walor, arsenic, nail-brush, tweezers for pulling out gray hairs.card a:uon seeds, dyee, aromatic pills for the bivF.'h, inv'snrators, sheet of zinc for culling the hair, two hand-glasses, be iidos other arti;Jes. The effect of long years of painting a face is quite vktble and noticeable by the generally dead iip pearauco of the skin. I would advise every ntltor and actre to pay a great 1-in-ls be ruled t- pUve a rulT over thia J Mxks and inte their Louies from it. Itiat would do litr. T'W deti- of a'l tne anini.ds and bir.ln aud iavt- prt-ewd tieir cla.uis ta role, and evoryoai- tito-.u;iit wirely the oonteet would l0 nairowed "down to a choice among the m re ag gr.ire animali and birdi, buf all were 1 unbounded and (turprise-.l to see the modest eider duck selectel from -the great throng. Me-ali-tuk, aaid Tornar- ttockward and forwarJ the war wat waged, the eider duck god slowly losing in the struggle. - Even tiie nmon had to travel so-i(h at times, so cheerless was it in its former land, but slie left some of her rays and pluoed thoin in the sky as th northern light t; show that she would return. Every sprini the Innuit go I would re- all so tumor to see what destruction lie bad ao-omidiihad during the winter, and j-JF( when all the life of Aksharnak tltourfbt that the good old time might return, southward he would go, and leave them In darknew aad U-rri 'le cold once mora. BvJcward and forwcH he went, but each time he left them lie stayed away a little lunger, and great GtKift Nrw. for tk jfte.ilo.s. It comes from Turin, whers it is pro posed to publish a newspaper printed iu luminous ink. so that it will be possible to read it in the dark without lamp, gas or candle. Restless nights therefore lose their terror, for it will bo pw-ililo for the wakeful to lie in bed aud lead. We could name certain contemporaries which if printed in the above fixhion. would unmediaUdy induce tleep if taken to bed by the mmi olstinately wakeful individual. Iindou x:iety. la U'arJ Off The a.tvio9 of the Brussuls veterinary proftsors as to bow people should ward off attacks from d"g is rather didii ult to follow. The dog is supiiobed to snap at the uncovered part of tho body. Therefore, "hide the hands an 1 take care of the face," ia the sapient warning. Put your hands in your p-n-keU and you can not protect your face. Tuat ia the dj lemm t, and a g xhl many people wdl he bitteu before it is settled. Brooklyn Eagle- ' - Vmmd Itn.alaa Noroll.t - . Tolstoi, the great It ixsian novelist, live in 00 run ion couutry house, con tacting of ot4 instnensa room an 1 fillwl with all sorti of nncrssary articles, in cluding librarias of useful books and manual tools. Ills ciiil lren work in When ak. needs many lakes in which to breed j turn and watch and search the land fluid wise her young, and this creates a reat deal of Land to inclaw the lakes, and on this land would grow the grans for the grazing animals. Ttie sea and iw Inlets and iu fl k.U would be needed, for here the full-grown cidori love to cn- HMonln .n.-l J in. ITT M Ml ttlM dlUlCinif waves, and the seal and the narwhal and : tho aralrua need not lament. v , So Uie deity ol the ewer oucks wa , .uU, turn at tM bench or at tJ.e desk, made god of all, lomarsux renaaineo " " , tlx. one quiu hi. m muU UUh- the other kmng tbem to see the cnecu ana m ... r yi ( k,Tr. ,w intelle-tul tuk and Ukes th. FreaIw..ttM.c,mUWmentanJs..pb LiUW with debght . by ! ,lUce. XuUaf literarr work, were an that when hh left he Md tl that wer. left m U wm try time to lh. .o.iX-Chi- that he exiected it wouia ie a long time 1 " " ' - " Ufore he again vuuuxl tbem, o ure ' nwdrrr god had been so partial to tbe was he of Uieir -continued happiness, reindeer at the expense of others, and and he has never yet returned. Sur h the god of tha wbale. to thoaa great was th. cab.mr.ded era of faappiaea J B-dw-s so t' eider dock, seeing ber own when the first Innuiu hal come, an era J kind wU aide to endure the present which was gladly haded, ant with state 01 imnga ny njing uu m wimer Uin; an-ither U a wud horse caught on loyal y they atuuiied theuiitelves to the and returning ia summer, became. afr . tho lieadwatrrs of ths Niobrara, and a wonbip and respect of their new lover- I r hard fight to av. all ia her land, third is a muetsac; from the Braao. river, ien. They bud left behind tbem a dul j son ewhat reconciled to tiie new order of j Xraaa. They are designed as arwimeas deitT good and bad. united in one, and he thiturs and began to rvlsx her efforta , r borw-s lined on our fruutier. Cjicjuo cago Tribune. assurance that the f.icl is not a jest. Yes, tiie truth is, we used in spring to go in great parties, Indians and all, to kill raulosnaaeri. But how snakes, wild cows, tall grass, and all are no more. The cows could never be tamed, and as time went by all tho old "iSpaiiiith" stock of rattle was driven to California and butchered, aud what w,v called "Amor lean ca' tlo" took their place. As for tli-j rattlesnakes, strange to tell, they began to dhtapjiear as soon as hogj were intro Jiwf l iiUjthr .smiTy. A r.tlh1 Wttiit will fly for his life from a hog. I doubt if a snake will striko at a hog under any circumstances, for I never saw one try to bite a hog. But I hare seen hogs pursue, capture, nnd eat rattlesnakes dozens of times. Joaquin ll.iler in Chi cago Ttuics. The Wont Nut Told. There really are many things which' can not be portrayed in the public prints, and though there is a widespread howl about the evil elfocts of the publi cation of the debasing "ixmsationiU ex aggerations," which are the leading feature of seme joarna!, they db not, appalling as they are, HI the whole truth. 1 will confess that there is much that is uiitnw that b:.ii. its way into the newspapers of the priMuut (fiy. b it lliero is much that miut necessarily be sup pressed trotn public view. News)iapers are uot. as haw often been ae-r!et, mirrors of the wont form of life. They may not be mirror of the bent, but they certainly du not present it in iu lowest an-ect. . There m no question but that foracity containing 1,UOU,000 of inhabitants Philadelphia tl comparatively free from the order of crimes tliat never reach the. public ear; that is, there are fewer hidden crimes in this city than other, of large population a -fact due to its wide expanse of territory. Still, I am con vinced that tliere has been many a foul deed committed within her ho indaries that bas not yet and never will become known. You have liule idea of the crime that occurs without detection, A police of.lcial, who luu been iu service for years, and who ia a very cle ob server, told me that the world h-od but a feeble roooepliori of what was transpir ing in it iu tni 1-oe. Philadelphia CulL Hltl.l mt ih uuw Dm On tiie northern slope of the Alp. the acme of j. rpi-tuai saow reaches down to alxmt 8.000 feet above sea level, and on i the sontii side to about ft, WO feet In ! press. A Brlt.r slantal Dts.tton XasilwL If you will carefully inquire among young inon whose spare hours are spent on cards and loafing (I mean our clerks, apprentices, and otherwise reputable fel lows), you wiil find that they do not know how to get rid of spare time in a profitable mnuner. They have no taste for reading formed, above tlmt very reading which encourages, a waste of hiiHUnt Tlw aalvttioa nf our hoys and girls lies ia awakening an interest iu some intellectual and manual study tliat they can easily indulge whflrno held by work. By miniul study I msaa one that occupies the hands as well as the brain. One of tho best saved fellows I know is this boy John. lie Is busy at a desk as accountant for ten hours a day. But wlinn not there he is alisorbed with ornithology. He shoots his own speci mens; he has made hluisolf master of taxidermy; can sketch admirably; has his portable photographic ' apparatus. His ro MU is a tnuoeum. Damn that boy you can not. His taste, are up. Ht books are associated wltb his work. We mutt think how to hare more Johns of this sort We must, if possible, have created a higher average cap icity to read that i, a better mvnt.ol digestion. I haw before inea pilo of recent issues of novels, mrstly in a dies p. popular form. I ran not help thinking that, taking tho pilo as a whole, it could not improve the mental octionof Tom Jones, who is j'lnt now spendiug his highest in tellectual f-rf rt i-t . g"Uin a fat sow witn hr litter rady for tiie count fair. Tjm talks pig with enthusiasm. I should not like to se him (firs over hi pre-eot t wtes for the average culture of thi stack of stuff. Cor. Olobe Lhuilocrat. B uf 1 1 far the ArU.U. Three Amrr.cxa horses are to be shipped to II m Bonlienr. O le was bred I U 1'yrerwe. the anow-line is at a hight j ok. out out liar hand to take them, but I 1 .--.a aa o-j. m a. i iL. t - v autn.. o..7 ww v.i.u. a . oulck tide of the Himalayas, 12,BfJ feet, and Cood far ths Bnf. At one of the north-shore resorts thi people in the town will tell yon some very funny tales of the to speak po litely piggishnes. of a family noted in p-ttht of liUtrature and wealth in the society of this city. They tell, for In stanceone of many that though their pasture lands are covered with berries that no one pick they put a sign np "So berriss picked on these lands." One djiv sioii nnor r h i l,lrn rd tha toarn pa ked some berries, and in selling tbem f Babylon on the Hudson. Whether Hugo went 10 the boue on the ssUte where tha berries were picked. Tbe Uay came to the door, and being asked to buy re plied tartly: "Give those barrio to me. Biiy them, indeed ! They belong to us" a crrv of BeflGARa, Kaapalltsas Unexsmpled. . for IlaaatS, Crnltr Immaralltr and LasIsM. The Neapolitans are nearly all beggars. No city in the kingdom is more popu lous or more poor. The mixture of the Moorish blood with the Italian has pro duced a race among Europeans, at all (rents, unexampled for beauty, cruelty. easy immorality, and Intolerable : lazi ness. As you wander along the streets you hear snatches of Moorish music mixed with the true Neapolitan refrains. and you see faces, especially among the children of 8 or 9, of quite 'incredible beauty. Tlicro are the familar charac teristics of the beautifully set brow, the facile smile, and the eyes, sometimes brown, sometimes blue, always, expres sive, and everything set off by a rich varnish of dirt. - But, with all this, there ia a cowardly skulking and a brutality that is not Ital ian but Oriental. No eight is more com mon along that billy road loading from the famous Santa Lucia to the height of Posilhpo - than to see miserable little homos, all bleeding and lame, tottering unuer ine snails 01 a can weigneu oown with eight or ten corimlent Neapolitans. who flog it and kick it till it swerves and falls. At the corner of one well known street there is a bird-shop where you may buy nightingales, gold- (inches, and robins, .sometimes a crowd of gamins is collected to witness a little surgicul operation. Some char coal burns in a brusicro. and the opera tor thrusts into it a needle with a wooden handle. He then takes from a cage a rerently-rnught blackbird, and with the ted-hot needle puts out his eye. It needs much skill skill that only comes from practice to do this successfully. An unsteady band would prematurely kill tho bird. In most instances, where the operation is successful, the birds do die. but that is only after a couple of days of agony. You will see the patients in cages hanging round the shop, with the sightless eyes swollen to the size of a pea, but in the rare cases of recovery the bird . sings briskly through the twenty-four hours, day and night being, the same to it If a stranger approaches the children leave the bird torturer to beg for soldi. The fat, round cherub faces are thrust into- your own;' the lit tle hands point to the mouth, and you hear the familiar cry that is translated: "I am dying, I am dying of hunger; give me a halfpenny." The truth is the children live ou the strangers. Sturdy, well-to-do women; with bold, laughing faces, beg penceand are im pertinent and shameless if thoy - do not get them. In Italy no families are so targe as the Neapolitan, and no people marry so freely and so young. A fam ily of seven ia usual; a family of ten is not" unusual.' The Neapolitan house wifo of this poorer class bas no care. She make no attempt to "fairs le menage." She gives the little ragmuffin a soldo or two to get Ids dinner, and, like young Norval. his only care is to increase his store, which he does by begging; thus the parents di rectly encourage their children, and the police authorities a most respectable ; tiody in cocked hats look on and do not j interfere. The result is just what might lie expected. Naples is one of the most populous cities' in Europe and one of the loveliest Its harbor gives it direct trade with all quarters of tho wond. French men and Germans and Lombards and English take the opportunities which the Neaitolitans are too lazy to accept The place has a bad name, and deserves it In all countries there are thieves; but in W'rt"mtBlsJ4nJrth' of tfauiee kJ tli stranger be in such constant fear of be ing robbed. It is said that things are improving.'- But to Jong as shameless. audacious, and insolent begging is per mitted, so long as the children are al lowed to swarm about the streets with out the slightest attempt at their reclama tion or their education, the degradation of the beautiful city must remain a con stant blot on the Italian government Naples Letter. Jama Farias's Famllr James Parton has two children, one of them a boy. but they have come late. His first wife was Mrs. &ra Willis El- dredge; anny Fern, with whom ho led a rather inharmonious nre, as any one might imagine who knew that way ward, whimsical woman, eleven years his senior. His second wife was her daughter, and as they were married in Nrwburyport he was distressed to learn afterward that the marriage was illegal by the laws of Massachusetts. No one had any idea of ita existence; but some discovered the unpleasant fact Parton had lived most of his life here, and no New York enactment hinders any man from wedding his deceased wife's daugh ter if he be so inclined. Indeed, it is a thing not likely to happen, and would oot have liappened in this case save for rare combination of circumstances. He bad adopted a little girl, daughter of Mortimer Thompson (D-waticka), and the sister of his present wife, who had kept house for Parton and taken cars of the child. Parton. wlio is entirely do mestic ly nature, is happy. In hie sec ond unioo, and enjoys bis family ex ceedingly. He also enjoys the tran quillity of tbe old town on tbe Merrimac, which is the antipodes of tbe modern A LOUHMANA 0ftfiOL&' Divine she moves, resplendent, brbH w lis enarms met spoajc a sons And not th day; aar attant sight. Is falrsr, till when bath la on Do m and make the seatbera With ssftened alow and Ugfalea So fair the trtnfbbng star-beam laaa Tbe sky and rest upon th glada. Yon flash that rTehly dyes the wast Upon ber ebsak hath left lie glow . You fleecy eland upon her breast "Hath traced its faintly tinted snor ' Above yon ereseent orb the star ' -That shines alone in evening shy Hath lsnt its luster from afar To light the darkness of her eye. From shadows following fast the flight Of day down to the oceldaat. Like plumes .that waft tbe wtags ef - night, ', Her tresses' flowing wealth was a at . . With rounded fnrm and rosy month, --- And am'rnua Aphrodite', arao. Her bloom Is of foe fervid sonth, Her beauty of its fabled race. K. A. Wiucreo A LETTER FROM A BULLET. ou toe Bun river, in the Rocky moun- 1 tiled tbem according to bis varying moods half the time lie was gracious j and half the tune he was angry. 111 f ! the tone tiie ktu shone andftalf tiie time j it was night I Half tiie year be seemed morose aad j tbe days were short and tbe niirhts we:e , 1 h,,t When the flowers came and 1 with th-ia the birds be was as nenud aa j forever, anv and ilie days lengtbene I at t. ex- J and ert yensauf the night But laue w ter- "t scsJ, The others that so hal not treated so well bri-sn to complain -those thai she had net given wings to eacape th- w in ter and had left to do as best tiiey might Then when the god of the south was hi Herald. Cray Catllvattaa la etraHa. Australia will henrer pay nvire at tention to th9-r-ttrv'ti-n of crops. In Akahamak one summer the pUr bears ! addition to tiie prxiucla now groarn ssked if Uiey could womb p him aad , Uiere. a commission has lately rrcom-L-aretbe eider dock deity's allegiance j mended the increased growth of the on the north, IS.tVO; at the equator, in tli Andes, 15 -9 f4; in Bolivia, 18. BJOfcitratha wertim Cordillera, end 13.S2J m tiie ea-ii: in Hum: 14 TW too quick for ber. IL turned tbe berries out into the dust re marking a he did an, "Pick them then; I did!" Home Journal. Trry Tula Skeat-traa. A piece of ir-ra rolled in th ne feet; in lliili. near &antiig., !2.7tfeet; ! con nulls at Nile the other day and be said be would try tbem PTTTt the olive, thn caper, th eaator-otf ' Otyr Uxur loyalty, but they most wear j fJant medicinal ruubarx madder, rape, j ful. 1 k uniform of siala lie hatad 1 indi aari mostayj. E.hngw 1 Vase in Norway. 5 WJ f.-t in tiie middle pop- ; tfcm. and 3.9 fer in tbenorthera i tremity; in Kin.c listka, 8.100 ' feet; in Alaska, i,VJ0 feet Arksnsaw Traveler. James Partoa says: "Nme of tbe Olympian gvn?i w t at once s graoe- o healthful aaJ so innoceot as cv hail." rTH is as thin as a sheet of ordinary paper. It would take IU sheets to constitute one I ich ia thickness. Tie mill made tht ueet just to aea how thut tJy could roll, Hsdon Budget "Li Nature" claiurs that a mvhiia of 'one-b-wae power would kee, JT.OOO.OOO wakius rioi):cj. Part 00. a bright little fellow, will to literature when be has' grown np can not Le tolJ. Cor. Chicago Times. Haaad the Jmmgm WeaM CaaaHar. a'udge Have you anything to say be fore tbe court passes sentence upon you? Prisoner Welt, all I got to say ia I hope yrr bonor'il consider tbe extreme youth of my lawyer, an let ma tiff easy. Puck. Italian physicians are very fully treating lockjaw from wound by keeping tha patient in a state of perfect rest in a room spreially prepared foe preserving absolute silence. One prac titioner reports recovery in four out of every five cases. Arksnsaw Traveler. Churches ta this country are estimated to use (W.tWJ gallon of wine every ysar for aaciauiantal purpose. A Beelegaa Oeaeral Mahaa a Mall Ca I1 .: of a Lewies BU.Ha. - ... k The museum of the Berlin general pnstofflce has received an interesting ad dition to its treasures. This is a parch' ment letter found ill the city archives of Cologne, and which had been enclosed in a hollow bullet and fired out of tbe beleaguered town of Neues in 1471. to let the friendly forces of Cologne know of the terrible plight to which the citi zens were reduced. Charles the Bold of Burgundy was carrying on war against the town of Cologne and other Rhenish confederated cities, and had hemmed in Neuss so closely that the inhabitant were brought to the last extremity. An army of observation of the confederates, posted beyond " the. Rhine, watched Charles' operations, hoping to get an op portunity of relieving the town. The letter is from the commander, the Landgrave Hermann of Hesse, who de scribes how the besieged are destitute of food and ammunition, and nave only stones for weapons and water to nre upon. , They have no medicines or sur gical appliances, and so . the sick and wounded die without assistance. Some are for surrender, ana he lean that traitors may betray the place. They Bad a few days before lost 100 man ia re pulsing on assault of the Bnrgnndiana, The letter mentions that tbe besieged had previously fired off several other law ters, some of which had fallen into tost Rhine, and they were expending their last powder in firing off this one. Lon don Times. - The fiasmela la Blaxtaa. Ex-Oonftneamaii J. H. Rica, of Maine, who now makes his home in tins sity, was recently in Mexioo, aad he ia sex - thuslsatie ever th proa pacts ef. that country. "It's soil 1 Certi!." Its aaid far , "and labor is ebesp. Of eouraa, it h not of such labor as we get in th Coiled States: but men work there for IS aad. 80 cents a day. It is a country ef greet ' poasibilJtiaa. It ha a population ef be tween 10,000,000 and 11.000.000, th actual number Is not known. One-half tiie people are mixed blood aad one third pur Indian. Oas-sixth of the) Mexican are Europeans, ths Spanish element predominating. Although overs' adult male ciuaen bas th right to rota, less than 80.000 Tots wer cast at th last presidential lection. That is a isa number of vetee than are poHed aa a . single congrcesioaal district in towa. The great crop there is corn, bat wheat, lurar. tfsiaano. beans.- auffaa ass, assi-v be raised to a large extent It only 1 American enterprise to .make the 1 try very rich." New York. News. The Kansas Cora Crafk Th oorn crop of Ksais this yeas SI much leas than that of last year. And yet ssys TU Topska Capital, th yield ie estimated at 120,000,000 1 or 12.000,000,000 ears of measuring twelve inches in length. Th) crop, if strung upon a twine ia th so nor that bead are jnag aposi a thread, would make a string of oorn x.TTTYf miles in length, and would encirc! she earth ninety-one times. If laid aid be tid this string would maks a auhd fleoC two and one-half inches in thick nsss and 835 feet wide, running entirely around tbe earth at the equator. ff rehanga. Art atadaate to parte There is no longer any free ednoatinsj for art students in Franoa. Messrs. Cab- anal, Gerome, Jean Paul. Laurens, aad Hubert will not be obliged to devote weekly some hours to the inspsotioa of th work of pupil at th Beaejt Arts. According to some versions, for ah af fair is not a yet publicly canvassed, that change has been made for two Masons one to shut out foreigners, and especially Americans; the Char aa endeavor ta limit th number of art students, ia th hope of a better and more restricted art development Th Argonaut. Way Uaat Hata the Baislsas. Liszt hated the Russian, bees one when be waa at Durpat a uni varsity tows, and idolized by th woman, a usual a jok was put ap oa him. Ha was playing an adagio. Th andiavtos was moved to team. A voice exclaimed! iL Liazt yon bav robbed me of say peace of miad. Take my bfealaa." Lint, surprieed, stopped playing, looked roaad, and seeing a lady famnng. rashed to bar cm, Lol th lady waa a yoaasf camp of a student ia attira. Tableau, and disgust of th great ton Herald. Daat aaalrae T. Boat aaalya yoor pieasnrm if yea want to be happy. Just enjoy them aad dont study into them too drawl. Wheal you get right up to th raiabew tea beauty dieeppears aad yoa find yasneeif ia tbe midst of a aaaty shower.-flomm ule Journal. Crows have been kaowa to frstheea serves from parssitaa by ataadiag erar aa ant bill and snowing tbe aal to da aaw Travaler. A New York Chinamsn mast aoup g plate. oeUs r
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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