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. THE opiole. : , " :
In and out "monstho cherry Iflares ;
Flasbine a dart of Uvtng flame .
He slns. tuiil bis ckul sons nerer gricToe
, Ita merry rofrnln t 'er the saino: ,
"Cheer, cheer, cueer, .
- Cheer no, -....'''
' Chwer! -" . ,
fa the dim. gra Ughtof early dawn "
nooaroUnaiO t!ie laggard sua; ':
St lie n crentng jhodowa stretch o'er tbe laws ;
Ulk vesper warbling can scarce be done:
' . . "Chcor, cbner, cheer,
- . - Cheer up, . ,
- . . Chtser!" ". " '- , -
There's a pendant nest m the cherry tree,
- ' A grave little mate and Urdlings four;
Huw can yon loavo them to sing," and ha y
A-tiltinjtoni swaying but sings tho more; "
"Cheer, cheer, cheer, ; , x
- Cheer up, a '
Cheerr .... , .
Tnero's plenty of time In this world to sing,"
His block bead bobs as much as to say
And then how tho lingering echoes ring .
As bo flutters his wings and flies away: r
"Chpcr, cheer, cbeer, . .' ..
Cltecrup, . . -
Cbeer I" ' " ' '
b'riofe, wTtS you T)raiisl'oTflata8riti
And notes that are ever so clearly glad, -Thro'
sun or shade you sing the same,
If life bo bright or If lifo be sod:
. "Cheer, cheer, cheer, v:.
Cbeer up,
. Cheerr
Good nousekaepmg.
Bill JENKS' STORY.
It was Into in October, and tine mount
ain air was chilly, but the fire which we
had built, and which reached up with its
long tongues of flnme. half way to tho
dark pino top above, made the camp
comfctattov"Wfr'4-'3toppedfpiLti
night just off tho great Dead wood trail, a
dozen miles from that place that great
wagon road which . leads, from the gold
mines to civilization, over - 200 miles
among mountains and across plains, over
government land ami through Indian
reservations. :
."I'm goin' to bed an' to sleep- to
night," said Geno Brooks, a freighter,
with three great freight wagons and
twelve mules, which ho drovo alone, as
fa customary; "I set tip all last night
tellin' you fellers stories, but you can't
rope me in that way to-night." We
had fallen iu with Gene on tho trail the
day before. "Wo looked at tho fire, now
bnrnine: lower, 09 we listened to the
night wind, unfelt below, singing
through tho pine tops the same low, sad
refrain which the wind and the pines
ever sing.
"Handed if. there ain't a stray mule,"
said Gene, as he strained his eyes through
the darkness toward the trail.. "Looks
somo Iikoono of Bill' Jenks' Jeaders, too,
but Bill don't lei none of lus mules get
away. ' 'Sidev he's gone to Sundance
this trip, though it must be 'bout time
for him to get back ho hurries long
kinder fast now lie gets lonesome, I
reckon. I b'lieve I must tell you 'bout
Bill 'fore I forget it," and Gene cut oil a
chew of tobacco with a pocketknife and
rolled over and kicked his toes Into the
ground as he gazed at the fire, while the
pines ceased their complaining song for a
moment, and the murmuring of Bear
Butto creek came to our ears as it bub
bled along over the rocks a few yards
awav, all grayish, milky white, mud
dled" by the silver mining along its head
waters in the Galena district -all tho
streams in the Black Hilla run either the
Kimo grayish, milk white or blood red
Silver or gold mining. . :
' "You heard me mention Bill last
night," went on Gene. "He's a good
one ain't 'fraid of nothing that walks.
Been freghtin' ever since I have nine
year. Got a twelve mulo outfit three
wagons. Bill ain't exactly quarrelsome,
but if ho haa got anything agin' anybody
he don't go round tryin'" to forget it.
More likely lie jumps the feller an
cleans -him out. Bill ain'tjaeyer been
licked on tho trail.. Catties u gun to it
wagon to use in cases of necessity. Good
feller if you know how to take him I
never had no trouble with him but a
little queer an' not a man to monkey
with "less you're lookin' for mighty
lively exercise."
" Gene meditatively took off hishat and
blew the dust from the wide brim the
red, powdery dust of tho trail, tho
dust that is blown hither - and
thither, on everything, through every
thing;' that is stirred by tbe treas
ure coach apd passenger coach, maia
train and bull train, by the passing
breeze and the gale as it sweeps down
out of the canyon and whirls it along in
great clouds that shut from sight coach
and wagon train, dusty passenger and
dustier driver. Then he began again :
Well, bout two year ago we was all
freightin' from Pierre nearest railroad
town then, you know. Them was lively
tunes atr Pierre. Killed a man every
night, buried him the nex mornin', or
mebby the day after, 'cordin' to bow
busy they was. 6
'There was a girl at Pierre named
Pearl Queen. Least that's what thy bills
aid her name was, though I al'ays
thought it was a little mixed Txiut it
bein' right. She acted at tbe Alhambra
theatre, you see. Danced on hex toes
remarkably pretty like. She'd been
there some time, and we. all knowed her
more or less. She was a little thing,
tuidlhV young, I jedged, though I al'ays
calculated she looked a little sort o'
faded. She was kinder quiet, though
she had a pertty peart took, too. They
said she shot a feller at Sidivey, but Pete
Ferris said it wa'nt her a tail, so X don't
know nothing 'bout it.
. "Anyhow, Bill Jenks got a'quainted
with her one trip, and they jess seemed
to mucbuly GUI in love with each other
at first sight Well, we didn't pay no
attention to this, but we wa'nt quite
ready for what foUered. Bill got a load
of meruh'ndise for Lead City, an' the
nex' mornin' pulled out, an' the pint is
right here: 6ettin' up on the saddle on
tle near white mule was Pearl Queen,
fas' 'ail she'd al'ayi been there; an BUI
was walkin' Toogskie, mebby a little
ekaer'n pen'nU, vsrearin at tbe mule
Jes' W he never pulled out no other
war.
Well, we all looked an' that's "boat
all we did do when we see 'em comin'
there happened to be quite a lot of u in
canip there an' we was jes' hookin' op
li.il bad camped down by the freight
bouse. Pearl had on a new caliker
dress, m-istly red and pretty like, an' 1
noticed s'oo 'pe31 rather better lookin'
than giu'ral 1 thought. VS Smith was
caiu;?! with us; Lc"s one these 'ere
smart Ajpcs. an' oghtin man, an'
didn't like Bill none too weir, nohow.
Ho steps up when they comes along, an'
says he: 'Mornin', Bill.' 'Mornin', Big
Smith,' ays Bill, and stops his team. '1
see you got Pearl Queen with you,' says
Tig Smith. 'It does 'pear that way,'
says Bill. 'I b'lieve I'm somewlmt
a'quainted with Pearl myself,' aays Big
Smith, kinder 'smart like. ' '1 'low you
don'tknow anything bad 'bout her,' says
Pill, bitin his teeth together hard.
Well, I' Crack I an. Bill hit him
ono on the jaw so we could all hear it,
sayin' at the same time. 'What is it you
knowr Big Smith fell like a log an' lay
there for 'most a minute, Bill all the
time waitin! for an answer. Pertty soon
Big Smith got so he could kinder roll a
lTttle, an' then said: 'Bill it ain't worth
mentioning' Then Bill whistled to his
mulea and went on. ' -
"Nothing but fights for Bill Jenks af
ter that. He had to stop anMicfc-the
man that kep' the Red Corral 'fore he
got out o' town, and he pounded two
freighters at Willow Creek, an' at Bad
River he an' the man that run tbe road
ranch there fit twenty minute!, an' Bifl
finally got him up on the bank of the
stream an shoved him in an' that settled
him. He would meet a man, the man
would say something about Pearl or go
to grinnin, an Bill would stop an' step
up on' whale him, come back, kinder
mop off the thickest of the blood with
his sleeve, swear at the mules an' go on,
while Pearl reached down an' patted him
on the shoulder an' cheered him up.
"Pearl stayed with him right along.
She didn't ride' on the mule so much
after the first trip 'cept when they were
goin' inter town, when Bill always Jiad
her ride it, so that if there was anybody
''rbuTid wantecfte rnofaeaayTeniMlM,.thAk
she would 'tract their 'tentjon an' they
would make 'em, an' Bill would stop an'
have it out with 'em. 1 But it wasn't long
'fore folks got over saVin' much in Bill's
heariu' awful unhealthy practice. One
day when they was pullin' into Rapid
City one of these pictur' men tried to
take their pictur' with Pearl on tlio
mule, but Bill caught him at it an' went
over an' kicked one o' the legs off his out
fit, an' as that only left two on it, It
didn't stand very steady, an' tho cuss
looked kinder sheepish, put it under his
arm an' made a sneak.
"Bill al'ays fixed her up a nice place
to ride in the trail wagon, an.' when she
wasn't there or on the mulo she would
walk 'long by his side. I s'pose it was
very pleasant for her to hear Billswearin'
at tbe mules all day, 'cause she thought
a heap of him. When one o1 the rest of
us camps, of course we al'ays hare to
rustle 'round an' cook our own bacon, but
she done his cookin' right along, an' good
cook in' it was too, 'cause Bill asked me
to eat with themsov'ral times. Biscuits!
w'y she used to make biscuits that tasted,
w'y.'durn it all, they tasted 'most like
they used to at home I Bill an' Pearl
al'ays got along powerful fine together.
They wasn't married reg'lar, you know.
Bill said he didn't believe in any such
monkey business, an' I reckon she didn't
neither, Imt liill tola me it was going to
be a steady thing; an' it was.
"Well, it was a hard life for the girl,
al'ays on the road cold an' stormy
through the winter an' hot and dusty
when summer come never sleepin' in a
house an' not liardly ever being in ono ofr
all, 'cept occasionally mebby' a store, or
freight depot, or something. But she
seemed to stand it first rate an' not want
nothiu' else. Bill was mighty careful
'bout ber stayin' in the wagon an' keep
in' warm in cold or rainy weather, so I
dim no, mebby the life was Txmt as easy
as any she was used to. : Her V Bill was
al'ays happy anyhow, an' I s'pose that's
a better record than some folks that live
finer an' ore more solider married can
8l)OW.
Well, I reckon there aint so very
much more to tell, though it's kinder
Ui !! it a tail: Ono nis-llt,
'way long this summer I camped back
here, near Sturgis. I got up early and
pulled out for Dcadwood, not thinkin'
'bout anything. I'd gone six or seven
mile an' was gittin' long fine, when I
come 'round a bond, in the road right
'mong the biggest of tbe mountains,
when what should I see but Bill Jenks'
outfit camped ahead a ways. It wa'n't
no reg'Iar campin place, an' I couldn't
make it out at first, but then I see Bill
a-walk in' back'ards in' for'ards. side o'
the wagon with something white in bis
arms, an then, says I, 'I know what's
up. Git, you mules 1' An' I clim' on tbe
near one an' hit each of 'era a crack
with the whip, an' I'll be hanged if I
didn't come np to where he was on the
trot! I stopped an' was goin' to yelL
an' then I thought I hadn't better 'cause
it might not be tbe thing for such an oc
casion, Then I was glad I didn't, 'cause
as Bill come over, I saw tears in his eyes.
First I thought he felt bad, then I 'lowed
be was glad, then I didn't know; but
Bill steps up side the mule an' I'll be
teetotal! y blanked yes, sir, I will if he
didn't turn back some sort o' soft cloth .
on the bundle an' showed me the all
firedest, blankest, smallest, little cuss
baby, you know that you ever seen I
That's .what he done, an' my
eyes stuck out a foot, though
I knowed, soon as I seen Bill
walkin' what was comin', too. Then
ays Bill: "Gene, that's my boy. Don't
be look yw' like vaeP I was stuck for a
nsWnte 'cause I oouldnt see's it looked
like anything 'cept jea' baby, but I
braced up, an' says I: 'Bill, he's the pic
tur of you 'cept his eyes he' got bfi
mother's ejres.' 'Yes,' says Bill, 'his
mother's eyes, an' tnebbe ber hair, too,
only, it's awful abort.' Then I started
to say something, but Bill stopped me,
an' says be: Pearl is awful sick, an' I
want yon to get onto one o my mulea an
ride on to Dead wood ku' git a doctor to
come down.' -
"So I done so, rout' tout as quick as
anybody ever did with a tnnkr that was
kinder set sg'in goin' any bow, an' got
back "way ahead Of tbf doctor. When I
come np there was nobody in sight' I
waited a minute an' didn't bear nothin.
Then I tapped a link on the trail wagon
an' Bill said, Come in sorter choked
like, an' I put my head tinder the canvas
at the back end.
'There sat Bill en (he bottom of tie
wagon box with .the baby on one arm,
while he war a-kxsUn' down at Pearl
ber head way adayin' in his' lap an' ber
face was so white that It scsrrt me. Then
lie opened her eyes, an' at first they waa
big an' wild hke. bi4 they got sofur an
lie looked ftl roe au' saiJ awful weak,
I could jes' hear It: Gene,' says she,
.'look after Bill a littlo an' cheer him up
when I'm gone.' An' then she looked at
the baby with her big eyes an' up nt Bill,
and tried to raise her hands, un' Bill saw
what she wnnted on' put one of her arms
round the baby an' the other up 'round
his own neck an' h-aned over, an' I come
away qnick's I could an' went "round to
the mules an' tried to make b'lieve I was
fixin' the harness or something. A mule
is very cheeriii' on Buch a 'caslon. An'
aftr a few minutes Bill come out with
the baby still on bis arm the little feller
never whimpered an' he set down on
the wagon tongue an' his head kinder
dropped In his han-1, an' says he: 'Gene,
there ain't nobody to take care o' me n
the boy uowt' " -
"We waited while an'- then I got a
feller that came along to drive my outfit
an' I took Bill's, an' he got in the wagon
an we went to Dead wood. The next
day was Sunday an' we had a funeral.
Ev'ry freighter that couTd hrwaff there;
an' lotd of other, folks that knowed Bill
come down where we held it. I had a
preacher, too; Bill was doubtful, but I
told him it .'u'd bo better. When he
come Bill took him to one side, an' says
he, 'I want to tell you 'fore you, begin.
You know -who I am an' who .shewas
my wife you've heard our story. Now
I don't want you to preach no sermon,
'cause you might say something ng'ui
her when you didn't mean to an' it would
be bad for you, an', of course, me, too;
so jes' read a little out o' your Biute I
reckon that's all straight talk an' if . you
must say. something jes' say she was
squar' an' never went back on Bill
Jenks!' ,-
"So that's about the way it was; the
pafaclier read some an' then he sung' a
song I heard at church when I was a
Taoy.anme ofTis
Big Smith whistled the tune kinder soft
like, an' looked at the ground ; an' then
the preacher said that her that was gone
must have been a good woman or the
husband she left would not mourn her so
much an' so doop, an' then he put on:
'She was always true to Pill Jeuks,' an'
that was nil. .
"We bnriod her down the gulch, a bit
off from the trail in a little park 'mong
some pines Bill wouldn't have nothing
to do with the reg'Iar graveyards ho
said folks might not want Jier there, an'
they needn't have ber. He dug the
grave himself, so it would be right, he
said. He sent clear to Omaha after a
headstone an' it's a beauty nicer 'n any
they got in the buryin' grounds
'The baby, hey? You bet he's all
rights the preacher's wife took him for
a while an' then Bill got her an' her bus
band to go with him an' take the Iwihy
down ' to his folks in Iowa all Bill's
fam'ly down there are a good deal more
on style an' all that sort o' thing than he
is, an' they got lots o' money an' were
tickled to death with the littlo cuss, on'
are taking the best kind o care of bim
on' when he gits big are goin' to send
him to school, an' give 1dm an edication
an' a big start in life. The old folks
wanted Bill to stay homo too, but he said
the life would kill httn it was so reg'Iar,
so he's goin' down - to see the little feller
once a year.' I wonder when he grows
up an' gits wenrin' fine clothes an' one
thing V another if he'll ever know any
thing 'bout the start he hod way out hero
by the trail in the big freight wagon all
covered with dust? Oh, 'nothcr thing.
Bill named him . William Queen Eugene'
Jenks nothing ornery 'bout that name,
is there? Frederick H. Carruth in Now
York Tribune.
Tho Implantation of Teeth.
: Iu Dr. Younger's experiment the tooth
to be replaced has long been extracted,
and the socket tilled up with bony sub
stance. . Ho drills into tho jaw, gouges
out a now socket, and tlieh, hiking a
t'JOth that has long been extracted, he
cleans it thoroughly, soaks it in bichloride
of mercury, aud inserts it in the socket
nisi turiiii'd. Jufa new twtirin tin (
becomes firmly anuliored, and as service
able as the original one before it became
decayed. Dr. Younger holils that tlte
tootli is held in its place by Die soft tis
sues surrounding it, and tliat the artificial
socket has nothing to do with anclior
ing it.
Tho experiment deacrllied above was
performed by Dr. G. M. Curtis, of Syra
cuse, N. Y., who afterward extracted the
implanted tooth, and sent it to Dr. W.
M. Gray, tbe mfcroacopUt of tlie surgeon
general's ofuee, who lias made a very
careful examination of It, ' His experi
ments proved beyond question tliat tbe
tooth so implanted is revived, the circu
lation ia established between the socket
and the implanted tooth, and that the
socket does take an active part in anclior
big the tooth. A tooth so imilanted fct
much more firmly anchored in the jaw
than one of .the originals, and, in the
case referred to, tbe tooth was hold so
firmly tliat Dr. Curtis broka It in ex
tracting 1L Dr. Gray does not doubt
that the soft tissues do take an active
part in tho operation, but be has proved
his propositions in regard to the bone and
tbe tooth beyond ail question. Uall'a
Journal of Health. .
Aa Orator's Oood Tale.
There is no doubt that one of the most
useful qualifications of an orator is a
good voice. Burke failed in tbe house
through the lack of it, while William
Pitt, through the possession of it, was a
ruler there at tbe age of 21. lir. Lecky
ays that O'Connell's voice, rising with
an easy and melodious rwell, filled the
largest building and triumphed over the
wildest tumult,' while at the same time
it conveyed every inflection of feel
ing with the most delicate flexibility.
The great majority of celebrated orators
have been aided by the possession of a
good voice. Webster's voice, on tbe oc
casion of hie reply to Senator Dickinson,
had such an effect that one of hie listen
ers felt all the night afterward as if a
heavy cannonade had been resounding In
bis ears. Garrick used to say be would
give a hundred guinea if he could say
Oh!" as Wliiteficld did. Mr. Glad
stone's voice has the anusio and the reso
nance of a silver trumpet Gentleman's
Msgs vine. .
A Uckaaaae Heart.
"Children," said a New Jersey school
teacher, "always be cbeerfpJ. Whatever
falls to your lot to do, do it cheerfully.
"Yea, indeed, dear teacher,' responded
a bright Utile Runway scholar, even the
Vkeeters sing wben tbey are at wcrk."
Now York Sun,
OUIET RESTING
Family airaves on on Old Farm Tbe
' Modern Cemetery. '
Somo Df us, perhaps, may remember
to have seen a cluster of many family
graves in an uncultivated nook or dell of
an old farm, where somo of tlio less com
mercially valuable, but equally beautiful,
original dmbertrees have been allowed
to grow undisturbed, till their very size
makes the few brownstone grave slabs
seem modest and nestling to the ground,
and where, tho cattle having been kept
out, the wood violet and other shy wild
plants add their delicate charms, whilo
they also mark the peaceful beclusion of
tlie spot. Such simple and yet dignified
rural furnishings are in harmony with
tlie purpose to which the place Is dedi
cated and to the feelings of the sympa
thetic visitor to it, and leave the imagina
tion free to conjure up, if it will, roman
tic visions of the past. In such a spot
the-thouglit--iHight-eMU,..
that here was indeed a restful place in
which to have laid away tlie mortal re
mains of a few of those weary human
beiiiRS whose life struggle it was to sub
due nature to their own aims, and who
yet finally succumbed to her and whose
aemoins became a part of her. .
' How much more appropriate to their
lives ' are such graves, with such sur
roundings, than Ihey would hove been
in some great cemetery, where their
modest little gravestones would have
been put to shame by scores of big, stnr
ingly white Egyptian obelisks, broken
topped Greek columns, Roman urns,
weeping Italian angels, Renaissance can
opies, Gothio spires, and all the other1
kinds of showy monuments, and where
all restlessness and seclusion are annihi
lated by rows UDon rows and scattering
swarmictoryjade, white, marble I
gravestones, ail set up on edge so as to ue
as conspicuous as. possible and looking as
if they would be heaved out of plumb by
every frost. Such stones have, in fact,
the very uiimonumental quality of being
in a state of unstable equilibrium.
And as if all these . white monuments
and gravestones -wero not enough to
frighten nature into submission, innu
merable fences are added, mostly of tbe
sort which may be described as the
'this-ls-tho-most-show - you-can - get-for-your-money"
cast iron fence. And, as
iron rusts into a color which is some
what harmonious with nature, such a
catastrophe is carefully avoided by paint
ing all ironwork a gloomy block, a vivid
white, or by gilding it. like a cresting
over a chromo tea store. The managers
of cemeteries seem to be proud of these
private fights with nature, and do all
they can to aid and abet them with their
ribbon gardening and by planting all the
most artificial looking specimens of "na
ture's bright productions" that skillful
nurserymen can induce to grow. They
have no limiting rules as to showinees,
but are only too glad to sell lots to those
who will spend most in making a show
that will advertise the cemetery. J. C.
Olnistead in Garden and Forest.
Calcutta and Its Assoelatlona.
Calcutta cannot fairly bo classed among
thoeo places which attract one at first
sight. The Hooglily river, upon which
it stands, might more justly bo called
the Ugly river, and the city itself Is
merely a big, showy, flat, dusty, thor
oughly modern town, wliicb, being
neither so ancient nor so conveniently
situated as its two great rivals, Madras
and Bombay, might well secut to have
become the metropolis of India by mis
take. But if there is not much romanco
in its outward appearance tliere is more
than enough to the associations connected
with it.
Not ten minutes' walk from thlsiiotel
Jn which I write lies beneath tlie shadow
of the shining dome and jaunty pink col
umns of the new' tmntofflce tliat fatal
spot where 123 English prisoners died of
suffocation in one nhrht, cursing with
their last breothjhesavago despot whose
leinfieet
cruollv fiat lilillUMl Uoau tu
ages the terrible name of tbe Black Hole
of Calcutta. - In the very center of . the
bustling and populous business quarter
once stood, if native tradition may bo
trusted, tlie gloomy temple of the demon
who presides over secret murder, whence
the future capital took its name of "Kali
Kuttah" (Kali's shrine). David Ker in
New York Times.
Oldest Chime ef Delia,
' Tlie oldest chime of bells in America ia
the chime of eight on Christ church.Salem
street, Boston. They were brought frotn
England in 1744, and were procured by
subscription, Mr. John Rowe giving tlie
freight Tbey . cost 300; tlie charge
for wlieela and putting them in place
were 03. The inscriptions on them are
as follows: The tenor first ays: "This
peal of eight bells is tbe gift of a number
of generous persons to Christ church in
Boston. New England. Anno 1744, A.
The second: "This church was
founded in tlie year 1723, Timothy Cul
ler, doctor in divinity, the first rector, A.
R. 174 1." . The third says: "We are the
first ring of bells cast for tbe British em
pire in North America, A. R. 1744."
Tlie fourth exclaims: God preserve the
Church of England. 1744." The fifth
commemorate "William Shirkty,- Esq.,
governor of IdaMchnsett bay in N. L..
Anno 1744." The sixth ball telle as:
The suherrititkm of these bells waa
begun by John 11am mock and Robert
Temple, church wardens, 1744." The
seventh saysi "Since geryjosity ha
opened our months, our tongues alia II
teed aloud Us praW. 1744." and the
eighth cooclodes: "Abel RudlialL of
Gloucester , rast ue ail. Anno 1714."
Boston Herald.
Knot Da Better Trassted.
We need and must have greater phys
ical endurance, troogrr mental powers,
better executive abtiity. In tbe good
oil time of slow communication, a
clever man competed with but a few of
hie immediate neigbburs, and easily rose
their superior. Now be .finds in any
field be enters thousands who contend
gainst him; he must, therefore, bo bet
ter trained, and intellectually better
armed than bis father before 4n'm waa,
else, so far from making iiroftTesa, be
cannot even hold hi own, but must be
crowded out or trampled down in the
fierce centcsi for supremacy. Frances
Fisher Wood,
Tt is pood to pet ahotber away over
night It all straightens out in the inorn-
A Snake Charmer Faffe a Victim.
. India has just lost a snake charmer,
ono Kondajee Muboojee, who. fell a mar
tyr to his belief in his own power A
lad" 0 years old, named Vittoo Heorroe,
was bitten by a cobra at Mazagon, Bom
bay, and. as usual, a snake charmer was
at' once sent for. Kondajee arrived at
the spot in half an hour, but the boy was
already dead. Tlie snake charmer in
quired where the - cobra had taken
refuge, and, on a woodpile being pointed'
out, he removed the wood, found juid
seized the snake, and endeavored to make
it bite the dead boy, declaring that if it
did so the child would at once be re
stored to life. For two houraho perse
vered, but the snake refused to strike the
body, and at lost, irritated beyond en
durance, turned and bit Kondajee in the
hand. Tlie snake charmer calmly placed
the snake in a copper vessel arid then
sat down. A vehicle was sent for and
the man placed inside, but by the time
Tbe story testifies strongly to Tho belief
of the snake charmers of India in their
power over tlie snakes, and in the exist
ence of a superstition that the second
bite of a snake will restore the life that
the first has taken away. The apathy of
the Hindoo is evident by tho fact that
the snake charmer used no effort what
ever to save his own lifo. Whether M
thought that be was proof against its ill
effects was not stated in tbe evidence
given at the inquest held on tho body of
the child, but It is clear that he had no
belief in the virtues of any antidote or
modo of treatment It is most probable
that he was confident in the power, of
tlie drugs, ointments, or charms he had
previously used to protqpt him, or tlie
evidence of the spectator showed tliat
upon finding the snake in the woodpile
bejiad,eud It .without the slightest
neeitaUon. It is certainly singular tnatr
a man accustomed to handle snakes
should have been so convinced that their
bite bad power to restore life as well aa
to cause death. Foreign Letter. ,
The Arabs In Central Africa.
The havoc qf Arab traders in Central
Africa is vividly illustrated by tlie fact
that one of the tribes Bishop Taylor in
tended to reach when he started his mis
sions three or four years ago was wiped
out of existence some timo before the
bishop's missionaries finally arrived at
the borders of the desired country. The
bishop was attracted to this region by
Lieut Wissmann's description of the big
city of the Beniki, where Dr. Foggo and
ho traveled for miles along one street .
Camping at the further end of tho town,
they were visited by about five thousand
of tho Inhabitants, whom the travelers
described as a gentle, cheerful and in
dustrious people About the time Dr.
Bummers, of the Taylor missions, reached
the adjoining Tushilango country, Lieut
Wissmann again visited tlie Beniki re
gion, where all was silent in tbe big
town, tbe huts in ruins and the street
overgrown with tall grass. The Arab
from Nyangwe had swooped down upon
tho peaceful snot and had killed, captured
or dispersed the inhabitants.
How to put an end to the terrible out
rages of tho Arabs In Central Africa Is a
problem that is beginning to give serious
concern to all the promoters of white
nterprises In Africa. New York Sun.
Bints Concerning; Exercise.
It is a positive advantage in the amount
of work accomplished if we turn aside to
rest after, meals. But by rest I do not
mean doing nothing except digest, but
digestion is advantaged by light exercise.
Exercise for this purpose should be of a
sort that give pleasure, and is not a task.
Exercise that give no thrill of delight is
at least defective, if not radically wrong.
To walk a mile as a duty is nearly value
less. To ramble in pleasant woods for
on hour, as a botanist, exorcises the
nerves rather than the muscles, and is of
vast value. What, then, is our physi
ology of study in relation to digestion!
Ill Lu mii tuuuh SBf Sft "f lltaniry
work, a book, pen, or even newspaper,
for two hours after eating. . For the same
reason you should not lecture, sing, or
preach under the same, conditions. 12)
Work your brain with impunity for'
govern! hours after such rest (3) Such
rest should not.be absolute indolence, but
light exercise, and pleasurable. (4) Do
not go from study to the table directly.
There should be a brief reaction before
dining. M. Maurice, M. D., in Globe
Democrat .
Emperor Kero's Canal.
Among the most important publio
works in Greece b tbe canal through the
Isthmus of Corinth, of which Gen. Tun
Is the De Lreseps. It waa begun in 1882.
and was to be completed this year, 1888,
but it will not be finished for several
years yet It ha the same breadth and
depth as the Sue canal, and ie about
four miles long. The deepest cut is 250
feet It passes through solid rock, and
iu aides are a yet left almost vertical. It
b to be lighted by electricity. Tbe cost
was estimated at $7,000,000. ThU canal
will save vessel from Trieste or Brindisi
to Athena cr Constantinople about 200
ruOea; it will save ships from Gibraltar
about seventy Ave miles. It has been
dug largely by Italian. Turks and Monte
faegrin. Few Greek bare been em
ployed; they do not take kindly to such
work. Tbe canal carrie out a plan that
waa cherUhed by many of tbe ancients;
tt actually follow the coarse which was
orveyed bv order of the Iperor Nero.
Thomas D. Seymour in Bcnbner'a
Flgurei on Tariff Law Operation, ;
' Very few peraon nnderstanit and
none.ua) v B'prni,riiu " r'"""'
(he present tariff Inwv The following
table, laken from the law nrrw in force,
illustrate very clearlv that- the law
fro rued hy the repnblfrans and now
advocated by them, was not made in
thrt interest of nr poorer classe of
citizens, , whose .Interest ; republican '
speak era are wont to bring nnder their
tender gnardinnship. The figure after
each article Indicate t fie per cent of Ha
Value which is charged as a tax for the -government.
If the article is Imported,
and a a tax t the manufacturer, in
thisconnlry. "'" '
Oitar of rosea, free orange-flower
oil, free : diamonds, 10 per cent ; gold
studs, 25 per cent; Ihreadl ce, 80 per
ccnt;finert shawlr, 41; olives, free,
apices, all kind, free; castor oil, 180
per cent linseed oil, 62 ; window gins
87ihore shoe naifsjf 16 ; spool thread,
61 ; common woolen shawl;- foT'wnr-'
stead stockings, 73 ; common ctolh. 89 ;
corn starch, 85 unit 83 ; silk Blocking,
60; Broadcloth 41. ; ' ,
ContrsRt the lift n little. The diinV
can get bis "otlar of ruses" free, wuile
Ihe poor prolific farmer pays 180 per
cent on trie castor oif, needed for hh
children. The Moated bond-holder
pay ten per cent, on hi thousand ,
dollor diamonds, and 41 per cent on bl
fine broadelotbs, Ifie poor farmer payf
iiAiidiit n KU hnrosi ahne nails'
and 80 percent on tbe roerse fchawl
. .. . . ,. .
he buys for nis wiie anu uangu.rra
Pittsboro Home. . ,
The aafar 1 ramr.
The imgar trust In the United State
exists, like all other trust, by reason
sugar refineries and the wbleale gro
cers in the large etue nave wraneo m
tmist Tha oliWt Is te nut un auear.
They are aiming to get 1 cent more per
pound. The Jjouisviue vourtrr nmrmw
says of Ibis conspiracy agalnrt the pen-
til J ' '' ':' :''
"One cent added to the cost of tho
sugar consumed in the United- States'
represents a tax of $31,000,000 a year,
or 12,600,000 a month, or 1662,000
week, and it is all a result of the edict
ofa clique of sncar refiner in New
York. The enslavement of tbe antlou
to capital is proceeding apace. Tbe
rises and fall of Bugar are no longer,
regulated by the natural operation of
demand and supply in (he market in pro
ducing prices, but It is now all the work;
ofa central junta of heslhnu a dozen
millionaire refiner ojierating through)
supplementary combinations f whole
sale dealers and brokers." . y
Now what are the people doing J
Are they consenting to u?h wicked
frauds and schemes of plunder? Ar
tbey not aware tbat a dozen sucb trust
are formed by the Monopolists to grind
the fact of the poor and make thw
rich richer? - .
The conspirator will put t31,000,fXht ,
note money In. their ewn pockets.
Where does-lhe money como from? Oi
course from the consumer, Tbe Cea
tier Journal aays :
"When the ceutral Junta Issue art
edict raising the price of eugar a eentr
a pound, it lays a tax of fifty-two cent
on every inhabitant la the UnitM
States, of all ages, cxe, aad national- .
ille.. '
The hydra-headed monster, tha
Trust, will not be f tronglod so long a
the American people vote for meu for
office who favor Proteotion, which U on
'ly an other uame for liolbe y. They
are one and the same things Wilming
ton Star.
The Ceeaseeelitaa CbstracMr
- , lferk, :
The grand prize has been carried off
by M- Dctaille, who painted for this
salon a Ug pietnre which be named
The Dream.'' It is a clever painting,
but not a masterpiece, aad it mixes np
realism and dreamland. We are shown
a camp of soldiers, er rather soldiers
wrapped np ia their rags and asleep on
a moor, or, at any rate, what seems in
the moonlight a wide plain. The arms
re tacked and dak are stretched from
tack to stack. bVntinels pace np and
down. Far off tlie military incendiary
baa been at work, and tbe moonbeame
struggle through a lowering sky. One
man stand at aotne. distance to ate the
dream, which appears tn clouds tbat take,
the form of a triumphant army of the
great Napoleon, The standards which
waved at Fleurua, 2tareugo and Aoster
lita are borne by tbe spectral liort so
spectral that at any moment it may be
dispersed by a suoiclieam. Paris Cor.
I Aionaut - '
Few people have an Intelligent con
ception of the cosmopolitan character,
of America's great commercial capital,
TtiwsfM!Etf N:Yftrk iil.valn9
exceeds 1,600,000. Of this number leM
than one fifth were born of American
parents. Not half of these were bom .
of If ew York parents. ThU cosmopol
itan character assorts It sell everywhere,
permeates eyery Industry. One mb
easily meet tbe representatives of fifty
nationalities in the course,cf an houi'-4
troll. One squallld rookery which I
bad occasion to visit lately sheltered
families ol a dozen nationali'.le Irish
German, Busian Jews (two or three
families to a room twice the size of a
piano forte and ioeoueeivable in Um
gloominess and nastraew), Bohemians,
Poles, Greek tenement cigar maker,
Scandinavians,- Italians, Americans,
Negroes sod Chinese. One finds the
same thing on tbe blight side of .life.
A very small percentage of New York'a
famous preachers, lawyer, physicians '
literary workers or even shopkeeper
are "to the manor born." Take
great newspaper, (be Star for instance
I remember very well some one a kintr.
me if I were a "born New Yorker,", in
the reportorial rooms of the Star one
evening when I wa attached to thai
department of the paper. ' North Car
olina," I answered. The nan sitting
next me was asked the same question.
"Wisconsin." And so the word
went around and a sort of informal
census was taken. Of tbe raensberw of
tbe city taff present on that eecusioa
three were Irishmen by birth, two En
glishmen, eoe each Scotchman, Welsh
man and Frenchman, two Canadians,
three from New York. State, outside
tbe city, two Miseonrian, two Mary
landers, one each from Tennessee',
Maine. Mississippi. North and South
Caiolias, New Jersey, California, Wis
consin, New Brunsw ick and Louisiana
not a solitary reporter bora iu New
York city happened to be present,
though, of course, there were several '
oa tbe staff. While we were wonder
ing at it all, two of tbe Star'g staff" ar
tist entered. One of them was born
In Vienna, the other in Warsaw..
AVw Turk LHler.
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era that 1 have a positive remedy for t i
aoovaosrooa dm-e. tty im timely
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txl:le af my remedy frrk ut any of your
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