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VOL. XXVI.
SALEM, N. C, JULY 18, 1878.
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THE TWO ROSES.
Two roses once In my garden grew :
Tlie ne was brilliant and rich of hue ;
l'rouil of tier beanty and perfume rare,
ijhe Spread lier sweets to each passing air ;
Tlif oilier, timid and chaste of mind,
Shrank from the kiss of the fickle wind ;
I'rittNl in the pride of her virtue meek,
rshs veiled the blush on her modest cheek.
1 azed with the glare of her gaudy bloom,
1 trunk with the breath of her rich perfume,
1 tended the one with ceaseless care ;
I marked the growth of each beauty rare,
And dreamed that all on some future day
Would own the power of her peerless sway.
At length my flower, that I loved the lcst,
1 sought to take and wear on my breast.
That won from her parent stem to part,
Mie might rest awhile on .my lovlug heart.
But flown was lure of her witching spell.
As fluttering to earth her petals fell ;
Her heart was rotten and dead at the core
And I knew that my foolish dream was o'er.
I saw how poor the full-blown blaze
That bad charmed my senses and won my praise;
And I thought at last of the timid flower
Which had pined unheeded for cooling shower. '
But drought unslaked bad her life-spring dried ;
. So, fadiiy; and faded, she drooped and died.
I saw too now, with awakening eyes,
How near I had been to my longed-for prize ;
One half of the care 1 had spent iu vaiu
( are that had brought me but grief aud pain
If sK!ut on the rojse that had pined away, ,
Would have reared a flower so chastely gay.
That the joy of Its countless charms untold
My care had repaid a thousand fold.
Ah ! how oft in the toil and strife,
The chances and Changes which we call life,
Uy slight anil neglect in time of need.
We kill the flower, and we rear the weed ;
Then we see it, aud know too late.
We blame not ourselves, but curse our fate.
For no solace have we on which to lean.
When we know w4tat we long for might have
been. ' '
' . Chamher Journal.
"JUST SO."
I hated Aunt. Margery's parrot. Its
screaming, croaking voice, its gurgling
asides crooned as-it sat on its perch, stirred
up something in me evil and vindictive,
perhaps. I h;ul ho natural inclination to
pets.
Often when I had been over wearied at
.i 11 c l. : .
till.: urn Kill in-m-Furte, , line isiiit Ol Si
lu iis scratching for a living had irritated
me with a sense of overwork. But they
at least came honestly by their living. I
resjected them; but this pampered, over
fid thing made my flesh crawl as it clung
ogling to its perch, or dropped lazily down
to pick' up a bit of cracker, nibbling thereat
with an uncanny chatter.
No; I did not like pets. Aunt Margery
did. This ugly foreign favorite had ab
sorbed all her affections, I thought to my
self bitterly, as I watched it that morning.
She caressed the creature; she spoke to it
endearingly; but for her own kith and kin
she had nothing but everlasting fault-finding
and ceaseless exactions. .
A few tears dropped ;down upon my
hands as I sat there.; The parrot, blink
ing down upon me, drew up one skinny
claw, scratched its emerald head, and
screamed, "Just so!" pet phrase which
served it to express the most subtle mean
ings, apparently, and with which it seemed
to jeer at my emotion.
This was the third morning I had wait
ed for Dick poor Dick, - light-hearted,
high-spirited Dick! who had taken up
his cap and left alter his last word-battle
with Aunt Margery. .
, This blow had taken the sunshine too
utterly out of my life, and there, as I sat
at the window, I mentally shook my fist
at this gibbering thing, so sheltered and
favored while he j was adrift where?
What would become of Dick ? oh, what
would become of Dick?
The lad had always had some business
in the city that sat lightly upon him, com
ing and going at his leisure; but now for
three whole days his face hail not light
ened the gloomy house. The longing to
know jot" his welfare, the yearning to see
him, had grown intense and intolerable. .
And now, rendered irritable and dis-
tmn ir)it lr mv o itwi nt T liorl miAiinln.l
1,1 an v 'j 1 MJ uuAiuj j x uau iuaiicicu
with Aunt Margery myself 1, to whom
her invalid state had hitherto-excused, so
much, who had been her patient nurse so
long, and her acknowledged peace-maker
iHJtwt en herself and the outspoken, impo
lite Dick.
I had fallen from my high estate; I Was
an outcast from favor not worth so much
in Aunt Margery's eyes as this leering old
jtarrot.
Well, I need sacrifice myself no longer.
I was free, to go away. Oh, how useless,
how mean and degrading, seemed all that
I had subBiitted to and suffered! It could
benefit Dick no more, and, in his absence,
dropped its splendid apparel of self-sacrifice,
and revealed i itself a beggarly and
sordid tameness of spirit.
Outside of this narrow groove where I
had grubbed and vegetated there was a
thrilling, splendid reality of existence. A
sort of Winged feeling look possession of
me us I contemplated the possibilities of
the future.
The psvrrot put up his elfin claw, blinked
at'the from the corner of Ids eye,and cried,
"Just so!" as he Hopped back into his
open cage.
From the window where that cage hung
I could see the glowing gardens and pleas
ant iawns stretching below, and in the
. wistful hazy distance the city seemed to
shadow through the bright busy city,
where every one was astir and at work.
Dick was there, too, somew here. Dick
did "business" easily and irresponsibly as
a bird. M
Why should not I do business? I began
to take account of Stock to make a mental
estimate of myself. It is surprising, in
this commercial valuation of ones self,
.how iKjrcentages shrink. A little hazy
knowledge of history, a little nebulous
ncquaintance with general literature, a
light touch upon the piano all these
iliititm look nainfnllv threadbare on exani-
p ... . " ,
ination, like stage properties seen uy uay
light, I could not settle upon any specialty
in which I was preeminent.' I must leave
my future to fate, and I did so with the
delightful insouicance of youth.
So the early dawn found me at the gar
den gate, face to face with the kindling
morning, the garden quiet and odorous. 1
felt a sort of sinking at the heart not quite
in -nrirrlnnf with mv entftrnrise. liut
the bustle about the depot, and all the
sights and sounds of travel, . speedily
' dispelled my grief, and once in the cars,
my spirits rose to the occasion.
Oh, I would do something, be some
thing yet! and I nibbled a bit of cake, by
way of breakfast, care -free and happy and
confident.
The city was quite inspiring as I entered
it so delightfully active and bustling that
it took my breath. People were coming
and going purposeful and businessful;
everybody seemed to have his eye on
some goal ahead to be reached in a given
time.
I only walked leisurely along, enjoying
the scene, and wondering to myself if I
should know Dick should I meet him in
the whirlpool, or would he know me.
All these faces were strangers' faces.
Of all these people not one had anv inter
est for me. The gay scene dimmed for a
moment, and for a moment I felt the chill
of isolation, as the crowd swept by. I
wondered was Dick as lonely, as wistful,
as I.
The question was answered by a sudden
heart-thrill, for there, lusty and ruddy,
stood Dick lefore me.
I fear I clasped his hand with unneces
sary fervor as I said :
"Oh, Dick, where did you come from?"
"Where did you come from?" respond
ed Dicki sharply. '
"1 Well, Kichard, I can't stand Aunt
Margery any longer I can't! no,and I've
left, Richard."
"Left!" echoed Dick, thrusting his hat
back from his forehead, and plunging his
two hands deep' down in his trousers
pockets. -There wasuoBf of that cheery
jingle of small change in them with which
Dick was wont to playfully salute my ears.
x ms silence was ominous.
"Where to go to?" added Dick, after a
long, portentous pause.
"Going to look for business."
"Ah!"
"Dick, how you talk! Put your hat on
straight, and walk along. Everybody's
looking at us." :
"My dear,'' says Dick, facetiously, and
laughing now and showing his white teeth,
"that remark of; mine to which you take
exception was prompted by the fact that
I'm out of a job myself. Suppose I was
in a quarrelsome rnood after leaving the old
lady's, for when Lawyer Gudge set upon
me alout neglecting the correspondence,
copying, and the like slavish business. I
turned upon tlie old brute, and we had a
blow-up. I'm out on the world, dear,
with a capital of twenty-five cents to be
gin on."
For two homeless waifs that sum was
not extensive. I took my purse out of my
pocket, never a heavy one at any time;
but now O fate! O evil, careless fate! a
hole revealed itself in the silken tissue,
through which had slipped noiselessly a
nursling of a gold piece which I had cher
ished there, wrapped in a bit of paper, for
a whole twelvemonth.
I looked in ni- friend's face blankly. I
was no princess, it seemed, coming to his
rescue with golden gifts, but an added
weicht about his neck.
"Dick," I faltered, meekly, "I'm in-
my shoes, I slipped softly through the
long, deserted jwissageway to my own
room. The door ocned with a treacher
ous creak that seemed bent to betray me.
It appeared an age before I was fairly
within.
STANLEY THE EXPLORER.
tending to work for a living."
was the answer.
at?"
I can do 'most any
Might
thing,
"Of course,"'
I inquire what
"You know
'Jenny, child," said my companion,
looking down upon me benignantly, and
stopping short in his walk (Dick always
awed me when he assumed this elder-
brother aspect )-!-"Jenny, child, it's a hard
driven sort of a world you've put your
tiny self into ra place where it's a very
hard matter to get a footing, and where, if
your foot slips, you're sure to be carried
out into deep water."
Dick's face darkened as he looked at the
tide of people.
"Whatever's a fellow to do?"
, Winding up his discourse thus abruptly,
my friend pulled his hat down over Ids
eyes, and glowered from under it like a
highwayman.
1 listened to this talk of Dick's, humili
ated and ill at ease. Was I, then, a mere
aimless waif a mere bit of drift-wood
afloat in this human torrent? Even Aunt
Margery's chafing and chiding were better
than this nothingness.
I began to feel very weary. . A remem
brance of my quiet room and of the bls
soniing apple lough that hung over the
window vame tome vision-like.
"Dick," said I, abruptly, "I'm going
back."
"All right, little one," patting me pa
tronizingly on the shoulder; "the very
best thing you can do."
"Not to stay. Dick," said I, vexed at
the alacrity with which he accepted the
proOhition. "No; I have an idea in my
head."
."Look so,' responded Dick, senten
tiously. "Dick, listen to me" authoritatively.
"I shall sleep at Nurse Catterby's to night,
aud if you meet me there I'll have some
thing to help you "
"My darling!" cried Dick: but I repelled
this later exhibition of ailection.
"Put me in the cars, my friend; I'm
hungry, you know, but there's no time to
lose."
In my feminine fertility of resource I
felt myself infinitely superior to this help
less, good hearted lump of a Dick, and I
nodded my head to him gayly at partisg,
without thought of failure.
In my, room at Aunt Margery's there
hung a grand old-fashioned time-keeper
with a gold coin attached to its heavy
chain, and a big seal wherein glowed a
ruby. Secretly I regarded this as my own,
for it had once been my mother's, an heir
loom of the family, the- source of endless
disputes, as I had heard, .between the
grasping elder sister and the younger.
My mother was of a high spirit, and
finally, in a fit of utter weariness and
vexation, flung the watch, with all its
glittering appendages, at her sister's feet.
Aunt Margery had never returned it
that was not her way but it had never
leen wound up since that day, and long
after my mother's death it hung silent and
shining in the room devoted to my use
perhaps a superstitious offering to the
vexed spirit of the departed.
I had determined to go back without
being seen, if possible, and get this watch,
appropriating it, as I felt sure my mother
would approve, to aid myseii ana my
friend in our sore need.
The ride seemed a long one; the road
wound about in a manner I had never ob
served before, with a persistent dodging
at the end. that gave me ample time for
revolving ways and means for carrying
out my scheme, till finally the moon shone
out on the last evolution; anu leaving me
cars I trudged on afoot until the sentinel
poplars guarding Aunt Margery's gate
with their long black shadows came in
view.
It was with a beating heart, notwith
standing my bravery, that I took the key
of the side door from my pocket, and
entered the familiar domicle at night-fall
like a shadow.
It was easy enough to obtain access to
the inner part of the house from here, for
most of the doors were carelessly latched,
and I was not likely to meet any servant
at this time in the evening. I remem
bered a certain wide window-sill in the
hall. CToninrr toward which I sat down to
rest myself, with a curiously scared and
hunted feeling, which had not entered
into my calculations' when I planned this
audacious expedition. Then, removing
. This was my own pretty, pleasant little
room, the shelter where I had so often le
taken myself from Aunt Margery's rasp
ing voice and incessant fault-finding
where I had dreamed day -dreams and re
velled in mightly visions. This cherished
and familiar little nook had chilled to me
in one day's absence. It had given ps
session to a horde of shadows that, mock
ing and gesticulating, flitted to and fro in
the uncertain light. Perhaps the breeze
blown branches of the elm outside played
me this trick ; but it confused me
strangely, and rendered my search for
the watch a long one, till it seemed as if
some tricksome self had rllched it to dis
tress me. At length, however, my hands
touched and grasped the treasure ; the
lieavy clialu ..glided, with, snaky coolness
through my lingers, and I thrilled from
head to foot with a new and strange sen
sation. For at that very moment 1 heard
the door shut witu a snap. This noise in
itself was not startling ; no one was likely
to hear it save myself; but it announced
that I was trapjedt a prisoner, snared in
my own net ; for the door closed with a
spring, and I had lea the key oa the out
side. I put my two hands to my head and
thought desperately for a moment. There
was no possible egress now except through
Aunt Margery's room, with which mine
was connected by a narrow passage. How
could I "hope to puss through without
waking her? For just one instant I felt
like despair. How was I to help Dick
now? It must be done, however. I
gathered up my courage ; I remembered
the indignities I had Urne, the need
of my. friend, the absolute rightfulness of
what I was doing, and, strong in resolu
tion glided across the hall silently,
slowly; lest the ghost of a foot-fall should
rouse the vigilant sleepers within. There
was something dreadful in this, after all.
This strange advent among familiar things
that look on the intruder with sinister
eyes is -not a desirable experience.
True, I was on a mission of mercy ; but
this fact failed to supiwrt me as I stood
poised on my aunt's door sill. A weak
minded doubtfulness creeping in for a.
moment paralyzed my activity. This
bauble had been in Aunt Margery s pt
session for years. Was it mine? was
it hers? The "sacred rights of property"
I had heard talked of to often : were my
mother's sacred, or my aunt's t Ah 1 what
would become of all the property in the
world if rightfully divided ? Would then
Dick go out starving and houseless from
Aunt Margery's surplus of luxury? Dan
gerous speculations, but brief. I swept
them all aside like cobwetm. Never
should I desert Dick in his time of ne.tl.
Stepping on ' tiptoe in my unshod feet, I
essayed to convoy my beating heart as lar
as possible from the higholdfashioneil bed
stead. It almost seemed Aunt Margery
might hear it in her sleep. The low night
la nip sent a thin thread of light across the
floor ; it rested on the heavy drapery f-s
tooned to the ceiling, which gnve this
couch an awful dignity in my old childish
days. And there, just opposite it, I
stno.1 transfixed. There lav Aunt Mar
gery, with eyes wide open, looking out at
me. I returned the gaze steadily, fro
zenly. I know not how long we might
have regarded each other thus, but the
parrot, in his covered cage within,
eroaked uneasily. Aunt Margery turned
sleepily on her pillow. " You are late,
.Tennj-" she said querulously. "What
kept you so, ; child? Hand me the cam
phor yonder,' my head aches dreadfully."
I handed the camphor silently, and of
habit proceeded to bathe her hands ami
forehead as Usual, and then came the
usual innumerable orders. A little warm
water from the lath room, and a little
mixture from the medicine chest. Her
pillows needed adjusting, her lamp needed
trimming," and thus was I chained to her
side a prisoner, with that doubtful time
piece in my pocket, and my brain dizzy
with schemes for escape. Oh, what
would Dick think of me, recreant, that I
was in his time of trial? rtoor Dick,
watching vainly all this time at Kate Cat
terby's cabin, or wandering on the road,
mayhap, all the long nightfall, meditat
ing on the faithlessness of woman ; then
in the morning, discouraged and hopeless,
he would drift away somewhere out of
my reach. I hardly dared think of this
contingency, lo let go my hold on lick
was to give up my hold on life. Utterly
exhausted with the long watching, I fell
asleep at lstst, the heavy sleep of youth
and weariness.
I was aroused from this dreamless slum
ber by a sudden loud crash, a rapping
and tearing at the window.-
Aunt Marsery started up aghast.
"Robbers IV she exclaimed, clutching my
arm. But there never could have been so
bungling a roblteras this. I stood up and
faced the intruder with wide-staring eyes.
"All right 1" said a loud, cheery voice.
"The confounded sash I" And there stood
Dick. j
"Why, bless my heart, auntid, I beg
your pardon. But, Jenny girl, I've ln-en
walking the road till I couldn't stand it
any longer.: Thought you'd been robbed,
or waylaid, or something "
Propped up on her elbow among the
pillows. Aunt Margery looked out ma
jestically and interrupted this tirade.
"Richard," said she, "are you a
fool?" :
" Couldn't exactly state to-night auntie.
Ilaven't time to analyze. I only came to
look after i Jenny. She's all right, it
seems, so 111 bid you good-night."
"Dick,": said theTnvalid, shaking her
long forefinger at him authoritatively,
' you'll stay just where you are. I can't
do without
A LOVE STORY KUXNIXQ FROM NKVT
YORK THROUGH THE HEART OK
AFRICA.
The New York GmjJiic kits:
There are few men to whom life should
apparently be so pleasant as Mr. Henry
Stanley; there are fewer, however, to
whom it seems to lie so bitter. All
English is ready todo him honor; he lias
been overwelnied with praise and con-
fr.itulation;the Queen has received him,
arliament has thanked him; the two
great journals for which he has made
his explorations have amply rewarded
him. But he is sullen, morose, dis
contt ntcd and savage.
Mr. Stanley has had a romance; it ended
unhappily lor him, and this has soured
him to the heart. Before he went ujon
his second expedition to Africa, hie met
and fell madly in love with the charm
ing daughter of a weirfthi-citizen of Jew
ish extraction, whose name is perhaps
best known in connection with the erec
tion of an extensive but unfortunate
opera house. Mr. Stanley's passiou
was deep and violent, but tie was told
that he must wait, and ' that an im
mediate marriage was out of the ques
tion. He was anxious to win -even
greater lame and misfortune and lay
them at the feet of his beloved.
It was at this moment that the second
African expedition was proposed to
him; in it he saw the coveted opportu
nity for distinction and reward, and he
eagerly embraced the perilous commis
sion.
Throughout the whole of that terrible
journey through the jungles of Africa,
amid all his : toils, dangers, sickness,
and disappointments, he was sustained
by the thought of his love, and by the
confident hope of receiving the reward
which was dearer to him than the ap
plause of the world or the riches of
Golconda. lie gave the name of the
young lady to the most beautiful lake
which he discovered, as he gave it after
ward to the handsome loat in which he
made a part of his exploration the
Lady Alice. At length tlie source of the
Congo was found; the great deed was
accomplished; and Stanley returned
with a proud and happy heart to the
coast. At Zanzibar a packet of letters
was awaiting him, and he hastened to
opeu them, hoping to find some mes
sage of love and affection from the
mistress of his soul. A fatal blow
struck him. One of the letters con
tained the intelligence that Miss Alice
had been married several months.
From. that moment Stanley was a
changed mah. His delight in life was
wholly lost. His natural good humor
and buoyancy of spirit gave place to
long fits of melancholy, alternated with
violent outbursts of petulauce and an
ger. This, however, was Mr. Stanley's
second love affair. He had experienced
a previous disappointment, but it had
not deeply wounded him. Chancing to
be on the islaud of Crete, he saw from
his window a (irevk maiden in the gar
den of the opposite house, aud at once
felt that his fate was sealed. She was
about fifteen years old, and Mr. Stanley
has since declared that never lefore
nor smce has he beheld so sweet and
lieautiful a creature. Heatouce sought
out the American Consul and revealed
to him the state of his heart. The
Consul, who had himself married a
Greek lady, bade him not despair, took
him forthwith to the house of his
cost too much and take too lonr to pre
pare separate steel-en craved dice for
every stamp; so a case-hardened steel
die is made, down at the Continental
Bank Note Company's, all carefully en
graved and cut away to perfection, and
then a steel plate softened for tlie pur
pose, is by machinery rolled over lite
die which leaves its impress every time.
soft voice attuned to her , aroratioh,
would excite the envy of many city
belles, and charm the eye of a connot
vur in -arrh of a wnitive rose to
complete the latct work of his earL
Sme days since, while looking after
her woolly wards hc di.covtrrela full
grown wolf of the carole tprcies. and
an uncommonly lare rie. tU-alihilr
until the entire plate U hardened and U approaching the flork, whenhe put her
ready for use one for eycry printing
press in the room. These are hand
presses, and the cylinder that makes
the impression is merely turned by a
single whirl of the wheel, obtained by
the leverage afforded by the projecting
spokes or handles. It is all done
in a supnsingly quick way ; and there
horn, to his sped, and the wolf, feeling
that his sanitary condition in that
locality was very unsatisfactory, the
race and chase commenced, over the
hills and prairie, neillier showing any
indication of fatigue, until finally le
was comp iled to condrr him-tf "run
down." Now came the "tuir of war
Is no 'lst motion" of wheel, cylinder or I and any one who has ever seen a cavote
elbows. I at bay wiannin ami tnarlin?. holding
.:. ' "
The ink varies according to the kind
of stamp. Some of the praises are
printing the red 2 cent stamps, some
tbu 3 cent groen oae, and others dif
ferent colors. Two-thirds of all tlie
stamps, says the superintendent, are
the 3 cent green ones. The "ink," a
queer substance in bulk and qut-crer
still when seen on the ink table and
roller, is made by the note company,
and its secret is theirs. All they know
at the printing room is Uiat some kinds
have "laundry blue" in them, and that
all kinds are made with reference to
canceling to the effect of the dauby
canceling- tamp used in the pt-oth-e.
For the orange-toned 90 cent stamps
(these are the highest denominations 1
saw), and also for oue of the vermilion
stamps, a peg or two below that, the
materials are imported from F.urojc,
and mixed in New York. All the
others are wholly made here. The dif
ferent colore 1 inks are apparently about
the consistency of ometyle of news
pajicr ink; but not by a'll means so
sticky. Tlie "printerrwho brushes off
the plate the moment before it goes into
the press, does it all in six swift mo
tionsthree with a sort of cloth, and
three to (conclude) with his bare hand.
The operation, for deftness and celerity,
is like one of Heller's, the inaztcian.
The ink is rolled over the plate with a
roller made of Canton tlanncL
The printers are paid by the hundred.
Precisely how much they earn I could
not find out, but it ought to be good
wages, for they "worked like leavers.
There is no idling or play in that room
nor anywhere else in this busy estab
lishment. The blink paper, all num
bered, is charged to the printers to
whom it is delivered, and the plate? are
also numbeied and charged to them.
When not in actual u.e the plates are
kept carefully locked up in the safe
a little room in itself.
OVER TWt MILLION STAMPS A DAY.
Each of these eleven presses turns
out 1,200 sheets a day, or 7,2u0a week.
Each sheet contains 2i0, and as they
are delivered to the postmasters only
in sheets or 100 it follows that each
sheet must be cut right through the
middle. This is done by hand. A girl,
with a long air of shears, cuts them as
accurately as a ruled line, showing
what a good eye and rapid hand can do.
There is no room in tlie crowkd sheet
for any error, and the girls make nraie.
One girl whom I watched for a while,
cut "0 sheets a minute 11,000 a day I
It was a silent cut, cut, cut from
morning to night working as if her
life depended upon it. She sits at her
work. The girls are all busy at a va
riety of process's in the preparation of
the stamps, all of which require a deli-
ins poiuoa airaini a a oxen tiova. can
realuue her situation as the aggressor.
Nothing daunu-d, however, she un
buckled her bridW ruin, and with the
ring at the end, and this only, made
good her position, anil, without alight
ing from her saddle, she had soon dis
abled her foe, saved her lambs, and
deprived him of at least one toothsome
morse L. Then she started out for the
nearest neighbor to the battle ground,
nearly two mile distant, for assistance,
but found no one at borne who could
assist her save another girl, who
mounted another pony, and, armed
only with a dull knile, these two young
eirl were son galloping over the
prairie to save the scalp fur which the
county pays a "royalty" when pre
sented to the proper oCktr. When
they returned the principal of this Red
Riding Ilond ecapade had partially
rvcovi-red from the effects of the "lU
unpleasantness," and was moving off.
At Ui'ts juncture he was azain invited
to remain, while one girl threw him
down and .he other proceeded to ad
minister Western justice by st-arching
for his jugular vein with the knife.
Such instances of feminine bravery as
this are rarely met with, even cm the
frontier, and when a young? girl per
forms such an act as this it is certainly
worthy of commendation, as it was
regarded as only a simple duty by her,
and as a prou-ctioo due to the dock of
mutton and beauty she had cared for
so zealously.
A scientist says an?U ,wonas do
not sufier wlen put oa tlli.k;
It is said that an rucalyptnj In ll
lM w ill rid it of mntuiti.
Ofinratlng t-am power It tlie
rays of th sun has lcn sucrtvsfoHy
trie! in India. j
Qiaracter give srlara In youth
and awe to wnnklM skin ' and jny
hairs. . ' .
Knnui U a malady for which the
only rvmedy Is work; pleasure is only
a ilLutiou.
Fare lard and work hard hm
you are young, and you will have a
cliance to rrt when you an old.
ftrn tle haU4-4 w alM cottf ains
i ie ino-4 money. rrver Juigv a iu-in
by tin? shine on bis naU j
Iali-tir U rnlua. Iticace U
rwwer. With time and pat Urncr llir
muIU-rry leaf l-rcorops Mtiu j
Heavy clouds oft en brinjr softening
and fructif)iug ah-imt-r. wlen light
ones are empty and pa over. j
When men crow virtuous in thHr
old a thy are merely making a mctI-
liow
CATCHING LIONS.
FIVE WERE CAITl'RKD FOR A
PARI THEATRE.
A corTvspomlent writing from Tar is
says.
Macomo, a large, powerful negro of
Central Africa, had been informed of
the nightly presence of a lion in his
neighhofhood. He lost no time In
arming himself with a long cutlaM,
and, dragging a young ox after him,
arrived at the ajiintcd place. At the
usual hour his majesty appeared. The
moon was at Its lull and the strange
trio saw one another as iu broad
day.
The lion gave utterance to a deep,
Mgnilicant growl, hmked from the man
to the ox ami rlourUht-d bis great tail.
Macomo remained -rfrctly quiet for
an instant, then suddenly plunging hU
cutlass into the ox, he rabnl him in
his vigorous arms and threw him at the
lion's fret. Tlie wild lat made a
bound, sprang upon the LU-eding body,
caressing it for a moment as a cat due
a mouse, anu then, irtvlng exnreaniou
inamorata and nresented him to her
mother, who was a widow. Stanley cacy of touch as well as swiftness, and
could speak no Greek; the mother no their wages average 8 a week, or a lit-
Knglish;the Consul was the interpreter.
He did his work so well that at the end
of an hour the maiden was sent for.
Stanley was forbidden even to touch
her hand; but he conversed with her
with his eyes, and they soon understood
each other well. At the end of a week he
was an excepted lover. At the end of a
fortnight the day for the wedding arrived.
All this while he had seen the young
lady once a day, always in the presence
of her mother. On the day before the
wedding he had been permitted for the
first time to take her hand and to im
print upon it a chaste salute. ;
The morning of the wedding arrived;
Stanley was dressed for the ceremony
and was awaiting the happy, moment.
There entered to him three (i reeks,
whom he had not seen before, and an
interpreter. They were introduced as
the brothers of the bride, and they pro
duced a paj-chraent which the intrc
prcter explained. It was a deed of
settlement, binding Stanley to pay so
much a year to the mother, so much to
each brother, and so much to his wife,
and to plank down the first instalments
on the spot. In vain Stanley explained
that he was worth nothing and could
not pay; the brothers looked daggers,
the interpreter frowned, and the scene
closed by the arrival of the Cousul, who
with difficulty got Stanley out of the
clutches of his tormentors and shipped
him off to Athens. He did not see his
beautiful (ireecian maiden again.
POSTAGE STAMPS.
THE PROCESS OF MAK1XC1 THEM AN
INTERESTING DESCRIPTION.
The process of making postage stamps
for the government, as seen at an es
tablishment in New York city, is thus
described by a recent visitor. After
the paper.is "wet down," as the printers
say evtry hundred sheets being
Jenny I find ; she can't do counted, and the number marked by a
tie over.
From the printing room and the dry
ing room (the latter an insufferably hot
laee when the sheets are placed in
rames on drying racks! they go to tlie
gumming room which is abo a drying
room; but not hot the drying being
aided by revolving fans affixed to a
shall, which send their influence
through lofty piles of the gummed
sheets in frames. The gum used is not
gum arable that would in drying
cause the sheets to curl and crack but
is simply a kind of potato starch. It is
made 1 believe in Providence. A girl
swiftly adjusts the edge of a heap of
frin ted sheets so as to slide them all
nto place while she deftly daubs them
at a single stroke with the mucilaginous
substance, which she applies with a
single motion of a wide brush. This is
the substance you lick tomake it stick"
on the letter you drop in the poat-oflk-e.
The sheets are dried in woodeu frames.
SMOOTHED AND COUNTED.
After the gumming and drying, the
stamp, in sheets, are flattened out and
made smooth by ttcicg subjected to the
persuasive power of a hydraulic press,
the force being tons. They are put
'in thin boards, which divide the several
packages. And after they come out
they are taken out and counted again
by girls seated at tables, who also
swiftly adjust them in even hcape while
counting. I jet one of the damsels
make a mistake, even of a single sheet,
and she necessarily discovers it on the
final footings and adjustments. Then
there is a careful going over all these
weary piles thousand of sheets till
that lost sheen is found. IfhedoesuH
turn up then the piles are turned around,
and gone through with from the edge
on the side, not the opposite edge and
lo, the delinquent is prolathly found lo
have got turned under, and so did not
report at muster, for the count is done
at the edges.
without you. it appears.'
"Of course not," said Dick, deliber
ately taking a chair. "I always was an
appendage of Jnny's you know, and
shall be for the rest of my natural life,
I'm afraid."
"Just, so!" screamed the parrot, one
bright sunny morning, as I stepped down
stairs in a floating bridal veil, and with
my mother's watch in my girdle, Aunt
Margery s wedding gin, Dick was wait
ing for me below, with teaming face and
arms outstretched.
Sir Henry Thompson, the famous
surgeon and artist, will probably lie
brought forward as a candidate for the
University of London at the next elec
tion. If I he standi, it will be at the
special instance of the medical profes
sion and as representative ol their
claims.
projecting tag it is taken up to the
printers. Each sheet is of the right
size for making 200 stamps, of the ordi
nary size. Curiously enough, none of
the gentlemen of whom I inquired
seemed to know what paper mill makes
the paper ; but it is made especially for
the purpose. The printing-room is
crowded with hand S presses used for
printing the stamps ; no fewer than
eleven presses being in operation. JLach
press lias three persons in attendance
one to "tend press," one to ink the
plate, and one the 'printer" to
brush on an the ink (in a wonderiuily
swift and dextrous way), from the sur
face aa soon as it is put on.
The reason of this, which would oth
erwise be a piece of self-etultificalion, i
that tlie stamps ate "counter-sunk " or
cut in, and the ink is not wanted above
them, on the plane surface. It would
A GALLANT HUNTRESS.
HOW A KANSAS SHEPHERD OIRL DI--AULED
A CAYOTE AND D1PATCIIED
HIM.
A correspondent writing from Eureka
Kansas, says:
Five miles from this city lives a pros
perous farmer named llobert Iy, who
is engaged in raising sneep, navtng a
large flock, which range at large over
the hills and prairie, where their white
forms may be seen dotting the surface
and rendering it the beautiful scene
which nature with her lavish hand has
intended. His "boys are all girls,"
and one of his daughters, Mary Belle
Loy, barely fourteen years of age, is the
shepherdess, whose rosy cheeks, sun
burnt face and craceful form, as she
mounts her
to stifled growls of joy. he drank the
blood and enwhed the Uwes. And
Macomo what was he doing all thh
time? Seated quietly a few tes from
hi guest, he opened a little sack from
which he took a bit of corn-bread and
dry figs, aud began his own frugal re
past. When his hunger tecan to be satis
fied the lion raised lit head and looked
at the man. Their e)es met. Those
of the lion were filled with surprise.
Those of tlie man were calm and smil
ing. The lion returned to hU supr.
When lie was completely satKfk-d he
roe. Macomo did likewise. Tlie lion
made three or four steps toward Ma
como, who remained motionless, and
looking once more at his ox, which
was but irtiai!y devoured, his eyes
seemed to say: This belongs to we."
Macomo bowed. A last glance, friend
ly this time, and tlc lion quietly went
his way, leaving Macomo to return to
his home.
On the following evening, at the same
hour, the African returned to the place
of meeting, where the lialf-devoured
carcass still lay, and shortly afterward
the lion made his apivaranre, but not
alone this time. As the hunter had
foreseen, he came accompanied ly
family and friends. They were four in
numU-r 1 lions, a lioness and liou's
whelps.
The repast was serve" I, lit not as on
the. previous netting, in the oten air.
Macomo had built an arbor, covered
with vines, Utnana and uhn leaves,
and into this pretty dining-room his
guest entered fearlessly. Then crawl
ing noiselessly within reach of a hidden
spring, Macomo touched it, and his
four lions suddenly found themselves
imprisoned in a strong iron cage, whose
lars luul l"en hidden beneath green
leaves. Friends were near at liand to
aid in- removing the four lions upon a
cart, and they were about to commence
their work when. they perceived a new
lioness, crouched down upon tlie sand
licking her whelps between the iron
Urn. When the men raised the cage
utmn tlie cart she looked at them be
seechingly, and when they all marched
on she followed at a short distance
with drooping head and tearful eyes
And thus it is that we have five lions
instead of four at the Theatre Forte
Saint Martin, five terrible, ferocious
beasts, ready to revolt at any moment,
and, although Macomo enters their
cage and dominates thcra to a certain
extent, they have not forgiven him for
taking advantage of their confidence in
him, and would ask nothing better
than to treat him as Lucas was treated
tiy his seven lions in the last days of
the old Hippodrome aim ply tear him
to pieces.
ucc (o iicni oi toe tievti a leaving
Ixok will Into thjwlf ; their Is a
sourre which will always spring up if
tltou will always search there, j
If at any time you are pred to
do a thing hastily, l careful ; fraud
and deit are always in haste;) diH3
denre Is tlie right eycjjf prudence.
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James I.mlrt, the brave Scotch
man Cliarh- TUade'a 'Hero and
Martyr" died iu liLguw asliort time
ago. j
B i ween novels and Wks of devo
tion is this d iff t-renre; thai more read
the former than buy them, and. more
buy the latter titan read tl em.
No man should be punished for his
crimes 1m was trained to crime from
his rhildhooiL As well blame tlt
young jockey for hi lwleg-i. J
There is no merit where there Is
no trial; and, till exjrrience tamj
the mark of strength, coward! may
I has for heroes, faith for fabH-lKL
Sorrows gather around oul as
storms do around mountain; bat, like
them, tley break tlie atonu and purify
tlie air of tlie plains lneath them. ,
Alas! if the principles are it
within us, the height of stalkm and
worldly grandeur will as soon add a
cubit to a man's stature as to his lajv
pines. J
In a recent trial in England it.
came out (liat economical band -leaders
were In the habit tf lmjing " dummy
violins" upon the managers w intra
they had contracted to furnish with
musicians at so much a head. Th
dummy violin is played with a grased
how by a man who knows nothing of
musk, and renders no audible sound.
An extremely simple inethM of
testing tlie genuineness of diamonds it
given in a letter to the I,ondon , TWa :
If tliespecimeu is immersed in water,
should it t a diamond it will sparkle
with aUuol undiminbdied light and
brilliancy of color; but if it 1 "purl
oin, whether iste or r-k crystal, tlie
"lire of the jewel will W completely
quenched. j
Edelweiss, the precious J Alpine
UoKSom. for which every tourist in
SviiUerland strains his eyes and sjTains
his knee. Is not ao seusitlvo a plant
but tliat it can le transplanted to Eng
land and forced to bloom. In 1?70 a
young lady carried a plant fmm tlie
iligi to the Ldaud and confided it to a
gardener in Cranford, who lias suc
ceeded in making it Uootn this spring.
In a Pennsylvania towa an owl
tfiok pns!esjion ol a box in which a
lair of martins were buildisg their
nest. and. when Uey returned at night-
would not let them enter. The martins
flew away and soon returned with a
whole armv of companions, who went
to work and plastered tin entrance to
tlie box tightly with rand. When tlie
box was ci-ned, a few days later, the
owl was found dfad. j
Wlien Waterloo bridge was lnlt
over the Thames, Uty year ago, tlie
masonry was taken only two feel below
11m: bed of the river, and started on
piles. The river is now efcht f-t
dei j-r than it was then, and tle wooden
Upward of 4tM,391 persons were
employed in English coal mines in
177. 30,141 less than in 176. and
pony, who kno wswdl the 1 1 or 1 in 4U0 died by accident.
crulclies appear to have safTered froni
undermining, and are now considered
unequal to Mipijrt the suj-rMruelure
aboe. The engineers reeorornent!
that tlie wooden pier 1 fenced round .
with wrought iron caissons !Cld with
concrete till the whole is a solid mass,
which, it is stated, will render the
bridge perfectly aaf
Titer died a few days aco at Hart
ford, CJoun., a man of mmc means lit
clouded Intellect, who fori the last
thirty years bad done nothing hi
considerable mean allowing him to
live In leisure but walk up and dawn
the streets, removing carefully from
the sidewalks all stray pieces of orange
neel and banana skin. Ia early life his
lady love broke Iter leg by slipping on a
piece of orange I el. and eventually
died from the effects of the accident.
This affected his mind and j led to hl
unwlhsh occupation for the rest of his
life. There is a field In Cleveland for
some one with a similar life-purpose.
Some years ago, Sir ioha Hersehel
made the following calculation : " For
the benefit of those wIkj discuss the
subjects of population, war, stilenee,
famine, Ac, it may l as well to men
tion that the number of human br ines
living at the end of the ld th cenera-
tluD. commencing with a single pair,
doubling It at each generation (say in
thirty years), and allowing for each
man, woman and child an average
smce of four feet in height and one
foot square, would form a vertical col
umn, having for its base the whole sur
face of the earth and sea jspread out
into a plane, and for its height 3,I74
times the sun's distance from tlie
earth." Tlie column of human strata
thus piled one on the otlier would
amount to 4Ca,7tO,(M),000,aX
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