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" V .. . . .- , ' - . -- ., ' ' J . " , , . . ... If. JOB PRINTING I3rz:'i3jn7:?isicxi U pptt4 with ail nr i-t tBUnl. am u tmllf pefni to do wik. wtu MtATNIM, OlftATOK, VERY LOWEST PRICES L V. & E. T. BLUM, PUBU8HCR8 AND PROPRIETORS. TERMS: -CASH IN ADVANCE. Ons Oojy on rear, ........ . " " six months, " " three . ' ' V 2 SALEM, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1885. NO. 1. lb r i a m r r 1 v I ri i I - . 'A a " ! 1 : ' " ; - .. . ' , ' ! ! - Mr to cIt m trUJ ttsart VOL. XXXIII. ' ' ! ' 17 i i f i A COMPENSATION. The truest words we ever speak -. Are words of cheer. i Ie has i shade, 4ts valleys deep; But round our feet' the shadows creep, To prove the sunlight near. Between the hills those valleys -sleep - The sun-crowned hills, j And down their sides will those who seek With hopeful spirits, brave though meek, , Find gently flowing rills. t For every cloud a silvery light; "I "' -. God wills it so. '.:.!'. For every vale a shining height: U ' A glorious mora for every night; And birth for labor's throe. For snow's white wing, a verdant field; A gain for loss. t For buried seed, the harvest yield;' ' " .For pain, a strength ajoy revealed,5 A crown f or every-cfown. ;j ; 1 LACONIC WOOER. AbjSail Widgin, a buxom widow I four and forty, sat sewing in the win ter sunlight which fell through the stand or geraniums and petunias before her sitting room window. A cheerful wood fire burned tn the hearth, its flames re jected in the glistening brass fire dogs - glistened only less brightly than the sun beams themselves. ., ' Mrs. Widgin.was a roly poly little voman with snapping black eyes,cheeks like Baldwin apples and hair in which only a few white threads -disturbed the raven gloss. There was an air of de termination, it is true, in her . firm lower jaw, but this waa so overshadowed by the general posiness and jollity of her -lace as-to be hardly perceptible, and even a close observer wuld have pronounced -Mistress Abigail, as she sat placidly sew ing m the afternoon sunlight, a dame as gracious as she was comely. The clock in the corner ticked monot- onously, the cat on the hearth rug al ternately slept, and then, awakened by a sudden snap of the fire, awoke to purr lustily until drowsiness again overcame her. The widow, sewed on with perfect composure and scarcely a firmer curve of the mouth betrayed tha fact that she was keenly debating some important matter in her mind Only from time to time her" glance was raised raised to the dial, and when at length the sound of footsteps crunched on the snow without was Jieard, the quick, comprehensive survey which the black eyes made of the room indicated some desire that everything! should be I right and trig lor the coming! guest, and showed, moreover, that the newcomer had been expected. A moment Liter arid Tilly, the trim maid, had ushered into the room a dap per little man with a markedl y leal air shrewd, twinkling eyes, and a shining bald spot on the. top of his head. v i" Good afternoon, Mr. Sharperson," the widow said, brisklv, rising .with hos pitable alacrity. "I began" to f;ar you were not coming." . Good afternoon," the gentleman re turned, allowing his hand . tc be shaken vigorously. " "Sit down by the fire,'? piirsued the ' widow, bustling about with the desire of doing something, yet not quite knowing exactly what to do. " It must be a cool day for all the sun. The snow crunches too much for one not to know that. You , louna it so, didn't you?"' she concluded. knowing by experience tbit nothing ; nuuiiui a uxrecc question was nk el v to 1 elicit a response from the taciturn law- yer. . ' : : I . - "Yes," he answered, briefly. "Uncommon cold, I should say." : went on . Mrs. Widgin, seating herself (opposite her guest and spreading out her iplump hands to the blaze as if talking of me tciupcravure maue ner more sensible otit. "Colder than usual lor the sea son, dont you think so?" "Perhaps." "Oh,, it certainly is much colder." No response. "But then it is, after, all, the time of year, wnen one expects severe weather. o:n i : ... f OLiu uu repiy. " 'The days begin to len know the proverb, 'the cold begins to 6trengtnen. ' " Still unbroken silence -on the lawyer, and the hostess to abandon the weather for a isinc tonic. the part of was forced more prom- - "You brought the papers for me to sign, i suppose, Mr. bnarperson." "Yes." "Of course, you know tl at they are all right. I trust it all in your hands. I never did know anything about mort gages." . Itwjas in Mr. Sharperson's mind that for one who knew nothing about legal documents the widow had managed her property with remarkable shrewdness, but it not being his custom to waste sut Jjerfluous words by putting his thoughts nto speech, he made no remark. "F will sign whatever you tell me to," his client continued with really touching confidence. 1 "It is hard for a woman to have nobody but herself to lean upon. I'm sure you don't know what I should do without you." i Again no response. "I quite depend upon 'you. " Still no reply, unless a faint' niff, more or less scornful, might be so cond-is eied. ' ; " "Where are the papers?" Mr.' Sharperson ros'e with , great delib eration, and from the -"green baize bag which, i oh , entering, he had deposited upon the table, produced a small pack age of legal papers, f He turned again to the window and, firb, his eye dwelling appreciatively upon the cherry Dropor tions of both, as, without speaking, he handed the documents to Mrs. Widgin. "Are there four of them?" she asked, with some appearance of surprise. "I only expected three." "Four," he said, but he volunteered no further information. The widow unfolded the papers while the lawyer watched with f professional narrowness, and as she looked them over the color flushed yet more in her some what florid cheeks. "Did you succeed in selling that ten- x iir a. ra an acre iuu w jjit. v uouuouieai - sne ex claimed. "How ' perfectly splendid ! Why, ' Mr. Sharperson I am positively getting to be quite !an heiress. Isn't there some mistake?" "No." ; I "And the sale is really made!" "Yes.?'., . ' : ; f "For three thousand?" . . Yes." . ' '"Mr. Sharperson, I have: the greatest mind I ever had in -the' world to kiss you." ; "Do." The widow was so astonished at hav ing elicited a monosyllable of such a character from the bachelor that she al most forgot to bridle, but fortunately remembered in time what was expected of her sex. , "Really," she simpered, "you are pos itively dreadful 1 I wouldn't have be lieved it'of you 1" " She paused to give him an opportunity of adding something more, but Mr; Shar person had already exceeded the ordi nary limits of his habitual reticence, and by a not unnatural recoil was now more silent than ever.; "I shall soon begin to look out for for tune hunters," remarked Mrs. Widgin, archly. " I hope you'll protect me from them when they come." Mr. Sharperson's looks expressed such entire willingness to undertake the defense of his fair client that he evidently did not feel it necessary to put it into words. : "I don't know," pursued the widow, gazing abstractly into the fire, "but I saall hive to look about for somebody to take care of me. What do von bt Mr J Sharperson . ! " . ; "Certainly ; you. You know my busi ness affairs perfectly, and can advise me better than anybody lean think of. Now to be perfectly frank; what say you to my being married again?" ) - "Nothing." j "Oh, you think I ought not to talk; so plainly about it. Well, very likely not, but you'll at least allow that there might be circumstances which would make it best for me to 'marry again." Ill "Yes." J 6 . . 1. j j -"I've been a widow five years, and i the right man turned up Mi She paused with the secret desire to shake the gentleman opposite, to see if by thaj - operation his taciturn tongue might hot be loosened. "If." echoed he significantly, as she paused. ' j "Why, of course," she retorted, Mvou will allow that there must Un a ri'r, man somewhere, if one could find him." .Voo ' "And, rjerhaos. concinuea she, a mischievous smile. revealing to 1 the dimple, lawyers eyes quite new hitherto whollv unsusrjected. m ; her cheek, "and perhaps you would even icl mo come 10 you ior legal advice in mv choice, if I paid well?'-' "Certainly." I ? " Well, then, advise,." cried the widow desperately. . - i . She had been perfectly sure for two or three" months that Mr. Sharpersea was longing to propose to her could he! but get the words over his tongue, and she had said to herself that this afternoon he should do it if feminine wit could devise a way. Anything short of deliberately proposing herself she was prepared to do and she began now to fear, lest! she should be forced to even that extrema measure. ; ( Now when everything had been so ad mirably worked up to a speaking point for him, instead of uttering the decisive word the lawyer only smiled ahd.j was silent. To tell the truth he was as eager to get the important question asked as was the widow, could he but overcome his natural laconic habit and the bash fulness which just now exaggerated it, Mrs. Widgin's mouth set itself n trifle more firmly than before. J " That is always the way if ,ne really wants advice. If I didn't you'd proba bly be ready enough to give it." This was so obviously absurd that they both smiled, and both, pretending to move nearer the fire, moved their chairs a little nearer together. i "I see," Mrs. "Widgin said, with an air of mock despair, "I shall have to make it a catechism. Do you think I had bet ter get married: yes or no?" " Yes," he replied, with a significant smile. - . "Have you any idea where I had I bet ter look for a husband?" ! "Yes." . "Good! Now we are eettincj on. Where is it?" " - "Here." , - i Here in Westerlv? Oh. verv wpll Mr. Sharperson, but who is there in Wes- terly for me to marry? I assure you I wouldn't think of Mr. Smithers, with his five small children ; I never could en dure Mr. Green, the tailor; I'm sure you don't mean me to marry Mr. Church, the butcher; and Mr. Stinchfield is too odi us for anything. You see, don't you, thatl cahTt marry anv one of them?" "Yes." "Well, who else is there?" "Me." ' , "You!" ' . "Me." . j It was dene at last, and if the lawyer could but have so far conquered the habit of half a century of bashfulness as to fol low up his advantage, everything would have gone on swimingly. He was, however, almost stupefied by his own temerity, and while the widow on her side of the fireplace cast her eyes down coyly, believing that now at least he would take the initiative, Mr. Sharp erson on his side none the less abased his glances out of sheer bashfulness. "Heavens 1" thought the widow, slily reconnoitering out of the corner of her eye, "have I got to get up and rush into his rms? Was there ever so aggravat ing a man created?" .... j She coiifhed softlv. she ttatfprl fha 0 j j y hearth with her trim slipper tip, secretly ueierminea mat nouung snort 01 the most absolute desperation should make her break the silence this time. ; At length when there seemed an emi nent prospect that the pair would con sume the remainder of their mortal . istence in staring wordlessly into the coals, and iustaa the widow rpTinf1 tn- ' - - v,v kuat, point when she felt that she must speak ur gu uiu, mr. ouarperson aia renew the conversation. 1 "Well?" he queried. ' i "Well" she echoed. . i "Ehi" ; r The lawver was whollv nnni,n..,i . J J ""(ISUMCU for havinsrthe burden of th tallr tv,. upon him. and berond this rftthr"in W HMf AUUV herent exclamation could say nothing '." "icure ana loOKCd ac ner taciturn wooer. "I must sav." she observil Jit, touch of sarcasm in her have seen more ardent lovers." ' t Mr. SharDerson looked .th PT altoaVia1 at this, and indeed began to feel that if his suit for the rich1 wirlnw'n Vionrl " i.O w have any chance whatever of success it must be urged with more vicorJ . ti aroused himself by great effort and with vim ritl "That showed it more." ; -uome," the widow thought wit some complacency, "we are getting on : it is something to elicit a speech of that length from him." j i Aloud she said: ' ' "Very well, that showed it more, if you will. How am I to judge," she con tinued, smiling,, and glancing up in!a manner which no man with blood in his veins could have resisted, how am I o judge but by what I see?" j x uijcjxj uuai ptisuu vouiuuuea the most remarkable deed of bia entire life. .He rose from his chair with tha ! For reply Mr. Sharperson committed J u l la Tr . ' '" " " utmost aeiiDeration, took a step across the wle hearthrug to the side of his hostess, threw his arms around her neck arid kissed her with great heartiness and apparent satisfaction "Mercy!" cried Widow t- Widgin, making ineffectual efforts to disengage herself- "Who gave you leave to kiss me? I never saw such impudence." N But the other, having once tasted tha sweets of her lips apparently enjoyed them far too well to abandon the feast so easily, and proceeded with unction to kiss her again. "I declare," she exclaimed, yielding with good grace to what she evidently could not help, "by the way you go on one would actually think we were en gaged." Whereupon the lawyer gazed at her with great satisfaction, and proprietor ship shining in his twinkling black eves.1 , "-. j "Weare," he8aid.'--Po'cWr?jr. j Pay of BaseballPlayers. v It was confidently expected by base ball managers that salaries for, next season would rule very much lower than they have been in the past, but present indications are that they will be much higher than ever before. Good playen are much sono-ht aftr .Timi 'i?.,-i,- , - O wwu.. w AkVUl&Q, when he announced his intent inn tt leaving Buffalo, was beseiged by all the leading clubs. Providence wanted him, Boston would have been glad to have had him, St. Louis offered him the man angement of a club, New York: and Cleveland did the same and the Athlet ics of this city, showed their faith by offering him a salary of $4,000 to play and manage "the nine next vear. ' To the latter Mr. O'Rourke "wired a reply that he would be delighted to play m;the Quaker city for the sum of $6,000 per year. This figure was not favorably Considered by the Athletic management, and so O'Rourke signed with the New York club. His salary Is to be $6,500, the highest ever paid to a ball player. Pitcher Mullane, who is to receive $5,000 from Cincinnati, is the next high est 6alarieo player in ' the profession. Ward, of New York, is said to receive $3,400, and "Buck" Ewings, the New York catcher, is put down at $3,000. Radbourne, the Providence pitcher, is said to have received an offer of $6,000 foT next year, provided he can got his re lease. Foutz, the S. Louis pitcher, is to get $3,000 for tvrtrling the ball, be sides the $2, 000 it cost to buy his release. Fred Dunlap has a two years' contract with the St. Louis Unions at $3,400 per year, and George Shaffer also holds real estate security for a big salary with the same nine. Among the other players who have secured contracts with the Union clubs, with salaries all over $2,000, are Brad lev, McCormickBriody and Glasscock, or Cincinnati. Anson holds an interest in. the Chicago club and besides is paid $3,000 as manager and player. Anson entered thi profession eight years ago, a green country lad and is said to have maae f IOO.Uuo in that time. Stovey and Knight draw between them over $4,000 out of the Athletic treasury and Taylor requires about $2,000 to support him.i i The players who are to receive $2,500 "f : ne" season are numerous. Larry Corcoran, the Chicago pitcher, is to get $2,100 and Morris is to receive the same amount for pitching in Pittsburg Barkley, the crack second baseman from Toledo, struck St. Louis for the same amount and was signed without much talk. Hackett, the Boston catcher, would not sign for less than $2,000, and Manning, of the same club, was offered thesame amount by the Philadelphia club, but preferred to remain in Boston. The new players developed durin" Jasl 6eason are demanding and receiving bih figures. Joe Gerhardt, of Louilvilfe, wanted $4,000, but has signed with the cw or ciud ior one-naif the amount. Philadelphia Time. J In a Panther's Claws. j A Bombay shikaree narrates how he once actually fell into the claws of a pan- tner, and lived to tell the ta'.e. After aescnbmgjhe incidents of the hunt up to the time when the beast broke cover, he says': ' "I had to wait until the panther (was within a few feet of me, and 1 then put my rifle down to hi s head, expecting to roll him over like a rabbit (as I had suc ceeded in doincr On othpr oonn.qirknal 'and then placed my seco.id bullet nrettv much where I pleased. To my horror, there was no rep:rt when the hammer fellf" The next moment the panther, with an angry roar, sprang on t me. Hanging on.with the claws of one fore paw driven into my right shoulder' and the other round me, he tried to get at my head an neck, but I fortunate! j pre vented this by raising my left arm which he instantly seized in his huge mouth. I shall never forget his sharp, angry roar, the w.cked look of the green ish yellow eyes within six inches of mine, the turned-back ears, his foetid breath upon my cheek, and the feeling of his huge fangs closing to the bone through my arm above the elbow. 'Lsndeavored, by giving him my knee in the stomach, to make him let go. Those who have ever kicked a cat can imagine what little effect this had. It was more like using one's knee for a football than anything else. The pan ther, with a roar, gave a tremendous wrench to my arm, hurled me some five paces down the side of th hill nrnh my face, bringing my head in contact wun a tree. Stunned and insensible, I lay SOme Seconds nn tha Trnnnl in tl. brute, thinking me dead, fortunately did nut worry me, out, passing over me, went for the retreatinrr nolim rnnstnhio -Vir had brought me into the dilaculty. I remember when I came to, raising my head from the cronnd. Ipnninrr mv rnm. head against a tree, and smiling with a cerium iaenng or grim satisfaction, when my eye cauerht the retreating form of the constable and. the pursuing panther down the hill, and I thought the police man's turn had come. VThe civil surgeon of the station probed the teeth wounds in the arm, and found that af the back of the arm ran right to the bone and was an inch and a hlf deep. The two wounds on the in ner side, in or close to the biceps,, were, one an inch and a quarter and the other an inch deep. The claw wounds on the right shoulder were not serious, and had fortunately just missed the large artery near-, the eollar-bonc, injury to which would, have resulted in my bleeding to death in a very, few minutes. Times of India. ... i - ' i ; Four sisters named Carr worn nurn at Joliet recently, and the clergyman I - f v..v.iui.u u vciciuwum 19 now called a patent Carr coupler. Ycrge uauy consumption Of eggs throughout the United Statesls reported to be about 45,000,000. , tv. j .. . : 11 U M 1 m I 1 1.1 T" nnn w - ' 11 . mmmm A XAV SAVED rS)XTAIOVS FZ. XXS BT HIS BOO. wn Siie in (he taikatrhcwma t aatrr-Adreninrec With Rav enous Animals and Prairl Fire. Philip Baird, a man of about forty years of age, arrived in St. PauL Minn., recently an his way East, and told a Day reporter a pitiable tale of suffering in the western part of Manitoba, In hia, own words he says : "I went out West four years' ago and settled on a claim in the Saskatchewan district, near the Bow river. I had con siderable money, and noticing the splen did quality of the soil, decided to con sume it all in improvements. Part of my land was wooded, and I soon had a nice garden laid off and a log cabin built.' All I had around me was my dog, the most trusty and affectionate canine I ever saw. He was as large as the shep herd dog and had proved his devotion more than once. He was a .vellow dog. Prospects were very encouraging for me after I was there for two years, having in that time got possession of a horse and some rough agricultural implements which I made mysolf. - My crops were splendid on what ground I could culti vate, and I always found a ready market at Foif Walsh or F.irt M.T.ovrl Ksf K piacea several aays' journey. I always made preparations in the fall u th. T r would not be compelled to go to either uiumg me winter, as a jour ucy in ine winter meant the of one s own deaih sentence. It wm.i3 . be impossible to pitch a tent for the night during the journey in winter, and then one had no protection against the wolves, which were very fierce and dar ing. It was the winter of '82, about the middle of February. I lxmm sitting around the cabin with nothing to wWUtj iuj iuiuu. x uciermmca io riSK ma. 1 determined to risk would be subject to and Fort Walsh. V prepar - id fi.ino-i.UnWpVi ' an aanger I make a trin to Ing myself and fixing a blanket around uiy nurse, i sei , out, leaving my dog to take care of itself at home. The day I set out was a very fine one and the ther mometer could not have registered below zero. The snow was light and I reached the fort in three days from the time I left. The mounted police at the fort were much surprised to see me and were persistent in their efforts to detain mc from undertaking the journey homeward. But I was not to be deterred, and I set out on my return, but took a different route,- I had bought myself a sled and a few buflalo skius, beside some ammuni tion to provide against an attack by wolves. "It was the third night after leaving the fort, when I was about to rest my horse,' that in the distance I heard a savage howl that stirred my blood. Oh, but what a shock, that one cry gave me. my uiooa ran coia tnrougn my veins, bo well did I know what it meant. My horse understood its meaning, too, for he picked up bis ears and gave a low whinny. He did not need any urging, but started at full gallop and nearly blinded me with snow. I was about forty miles from home, as near as I could judge, but my hopes of ever reaching it were slim. At all events I determined to die game. The cries came weaker and weaker, and I dared not look behind, but only kept asking myself what 1 had to live for and who would ever think what became of me if I should furnish a feast for the ravenous beasts. . At last my horse began showing signs of exhaus tion and I looked to my fire-arms. I had two pistols, two barrels each, a rifle and a shot-gun together, and a fine revolver of six chambers, and then if it came t close quarters. I had an axe to defend myself with. After I had made prepara tions I ventured to glance behind. There they were, onlv a few hiinAnwi yards off, coning like race horses. There was not over a dozen of them and I felt, that all hope was nut lost. My noble steed made a last effort, but the wolves were soon up with us, so taking my rifle I aimed at the head one and "had the satisfaction of seeing him give a leap and fall. About half of his companions fell on him while the others continued after me. When they were within a dozen yards of me I discharged my shot-gun among them. It was Charged heavily with buck-shot, and two more fell. The others stopped to devour their companions and I was alone. But it did not last long. I had not proceeded over a mile when they were again in hot pur- suit, jut uorse couia not iro anv further from fatigue, so I re-loaded my rifle and fthnt-mm an1 aa-ailiul 4 1 . rr -.r ...... . f IUU UUKt. 1DPV appeared more ravenous than ever; but courage and aim did not fail me and I fired right and left among them. Thev were all right around me and one big giant beast leaped up to grab mo. but he fell from a bullet in his head. I looked forward and' shot one as it was seizing my horse. There were only two left. . t j: . i i r . uj. m. uiBjji.i:iieu one in a Hurry, when on turning around I noticed two rolling over and over in front of my horse. . Great Scott! if I wasn't aur- prised to see my dog Yellow in fierce conflict with the remaining wolf. He soon had it at his will and strangled it to death. Such a warm greeting I had wun me pw leuow; never was a friend mose welcome, i was not fully per suaded how the dog found me until I wento the fort the next summer, when they told me that my dog had been there and had only left after satisfying himself that I had gone. "I only tell jou this," said the narra tor, "thinking it might interest you about what I have really to sav occurred last August. "I had onlv pot mv harvest rialf r1r.no t j " . hnVhtlv ninmJn.tiwl T t.a.La :.. ' mMnin;.un. m.ri- .ii k. Z ' f - .u m& IWkC kV j a . 11.. - urcsa ituu gci my waiiet oi money, near ly $3,000, and get out oi the cabin. It was as I suspected, the -dreaded nrairiM fire. Away in the horizon I could notice its rapid advance. I knew that my only way of escape was in hatv flight iv a J o -J horse was roaming over the prairie, and T aaiiIJ IT l . , i r v wuiu uui auoru io iook ior mm, so along with my faithful dog I plodded my way as rapidiy as possible toward the Bow river. The distance was ten miles, and whether I could mtV it or nnt f did not take time to consider, but ran as I never did before Itnv T lutrl th distance is a problem to de. I reached the bank of the river as the raging flames were within a hundred yards, and as I was standing there .dazed my doe took hold of me, aad with, a sudden jerk pulled me headforemost into the river. The cool waters 'revived me, and I stayed there until the flames leaped the id-'er and were licking up the dry grass fie other side. Several buffalo were in , ' :r having been driven by the flames. . had no home any more, and knew not what to do. I wanted to go back and look at the place where my home was, .fcvAxjuAvii vu.iig iucic iwr vmv Ul UlVUlf U downed upon me that I had no means of sustenance, not even a firearm to assist me in securing game. I started down the river, intending to keep bv its course unil I reached the Saskatchewan, thus making sure -of something to drink if nothing to eat The route was a good f Lthe longe8t. h the safest,-and I plodded on. That night I was tired and hungry when I laid dj?wn to rest. Strange to say I slept sound and awoke with a prodigious appetite. .To appease it Biy dog had a fine prairie rabbit lying in front of me. He had not touched it himself after killing it, but by the wist ful vay he watched the dead animal I kne .v be was as hungry us myself. I 8 ha -od with him and continued on my wa;, I reached Fort Walsh in five days aft-rmy dog always having something frefc each morning that would last us tha rest of the day. I told a voun" cap tain by the name of Forbes of my mis fortunes, and he was so pleased with ray dog he would not allow me to take him with me to the East, but kept it himself. I has my money yet and intend to go to Elmira, New York, where I used to live." Awfil Poverty In Naples. A letter from Naples, Italy, says: The great problim with the government now is W. v J : i w . ,uX j 7'2l Tv now iu uiatmuowei napies, or to spread t. . . - w -.WWIAUX hills the surplus nonuUti imia me sirpius population which over- jcrowas the basement of the city. The i basement iaa Hirtv Inctinitinn r x- i ' In 81Dgle rums 00 the ground floor or in the cellars vhole fumili the cellars vhole families live trether wSK llnnlr.-. V:-I "i gva.i, luirKu ana pigs. They are so poor that they cannot pay for better qiarters. It is not a depraved taste which makes them crowd in these dark and dity holes and keep their lit tie ones in he gutter, it is only need. The Nm iwI tana nnf K.a . ' r-i .' T , . " , i Z' W! Cln "S? " i P-rent, when the b ages are .carcely one franc a d, They ow best tcarcelv anm frn t.t There is no :itv in Italv hin w.rr. . so low as in Naples. The best skilled workmen the tailors, shoemakers, type setters, job printers, masons and car penters ercn in the buiiest seasons scarcely get thirty cents a day, while the second-rate workingmen must get along with ten cents a day or less. It is, therefore, impossible for a Nea- Eolitan to pay more than $1 a month for is rent The condition of the women is simply dreadful. A poor mother is obliged to gc- work outside of her home for her bread and for that of her children. Hatmakcrs, dressmakers and flower-girls make only $3 or $4 aynonth. The great majority of the women are obliged to go out to service as domestics. A servant girl gets ten francs a month, without any dinner. Some have two or three houses in which to do housework for $1 at each house every month. They are con stantly running from one house to another, and scolded and threatened in each place they go. Many of these mis erable creatures have children to nurse when they go home at night, a baby, per haps,' that has been left the whole day in the arms of a little sister. The poor mother, goin home without sufficient food and half exhausted, has to nurse the little one, and at thirty years of ago looks as old as if she had suffered the wear of sixty winters. How very, very many of them have fallen victims of the cholera! Children in Naples are considered a sort of burden or hindrance. When a boss takes a boy to work merely to pay him his daily bread, a another is happy, and when a little girl makes five cents a week by hard daily work, the work of a resrul&r servant phi. the mother i enu&l! delighted. No wonder the government is taking up for serious consideration the question how to lodge a little' better this immense crowd of human beings, swarm ing like ants in the filthy, dark cellars and rooms of the Neapolitan basements. An Evening Call. A resident of Chateau avenue, re cently made up his mind to move, and, as he had become PTeatlv Attshvl tn the frame houee in w hich ha lived. h determined to take the structure with him, together with the furniture it con tained. YntrrdiT inon)in(r tn )l j , -""f w u programme he had formulated, he had .1.-1 - i . lueuouse piacea on rollers ana started on its iournev. - As darkness clou! in on him before he could complete his uo uuu oecnurr io lei ine I nouse remain on a side-track of the Mis I SAliri T'ilfM ftftilwav frkmnanw swa T J v " J over nieht. The track was in an out-Af-th. way place, and he quite naturally sup posed it had been abandoned by the company. - . In fact, he was so well satisfied that the building was perfectly secure that he and his children went to bed in one of its apattments when the time for retiring muho tuc umyyj utmtiy were i enring away and dreaming sweet dreams, one oi tha locomotive of the Missouri Pacific company atruck one aide of the D,lilding n(l came out at the opposite 8ide Pasinff through the parlor and j cruaning through the floors and walls, ! e dreamers, who slept in an adjoining amvea. wniie ine Psdpv lamilv were - w aaa eaaa BUJUIHIUZ room, were ahaken out of their beds, and me engineer ana nreman in charge of the engine were almost frightened inte spasms, but, as luck would have it no one was injured. St. Levi Globe Democrat. A Judge's Riddle. One of the most distinguished Ameri ca judges, while sitting with his family, was roused from his book bv the lous shouts of his ch ious shouts of his children at a - vers bHj rhymed riddle which one had made, and said he coul could male m. Kr one about anything m the room. "Oh, do P was the cry, when he immediately wrote down these littts: Mv first connects related words; My second forms the aharpent swords; My whole supports the forest's pride, Dispensing heat on every side. This was more than half a century ago, and the answer may be well known to riddle people; but it will be new-ta most people. Every Other Saturday. The answer to. the riddle evidently ii "Andiron. w En. Dog Barber Shops. A barber shop exclusively for dogs and puppies, where any good, respectable canine, who has the money, can get s share, or a shampoo, or a hair cut, it about to be opened in this city. Dog "cUpping." or hair cutting, is getting to be an important branch of the barber business. Fashionable dames have their pet poodles shampooed and combed everv day, and the swell ownera of ex penaive pugs or skye terriers are regular patrona. Philadelphia Ann. uig uv mure. npn r n a fiMt ODD WILLS AND BEQUESTS. cuxxotb rzoArxcs xsrr st ccx. txio rxopts. A Blbnleae Krrraara lg-acr Sir. t tTiii-nuak Jle la Drawlag- UJlla. Among the curious wills and bequests thst deserve mention is that of a French merchant who,in 1610,left a large legacy to the lady who had jilted him In order to express his gratitude to her for her forbearance and his admiration for her tagacity in leaving him to a happy bachelor life. Jasper .Mayne. who died in 1C20, left to a bibulous servant an old portmanteau which, he wrote, the legatee would value when he found that it con tained something which would enable him to drink." The "something" proved to be a red herrings. .A. Scotch gentle man having two joung daughters be queathed to each her weight, not in gold, but in 1 bsnk note. The elder seems to have been slimmer than her sister, for she only got 12-56,000, whi.e the younger received $287,720. An an nuity of $250 was bequeathed to the bellringera of Bath Abbey by Lieutenant Colonel Nush, "provided they should muffle the clappers of the bells of the aaid abbey, and ring them with doleful accentuation from 8 a. m. to 8 p. on each anniversary of hi wed ding day, and during the same number of hours, onl with a merry peal, on the anniversary of the day which released him from domestic tyranny and wretchedness. Bequests of bodies for anatomical purposes, or of skulls as curiosities or relics have been sufficiently numerous; but unqusuoa ably the most curious will of this sort was that made by Mr. S. Sanborn in 1871, when the testator left his remains for dissection and provided that the flesh stripped from his bones should be used to fertilize an American elm, and his Skid tO be COnvertAil inln tvt ifn.m. beads, inscribed with the Declaration of , Independence and Pope's Universal Prayer, on which "Yankee Doodle , should be played at Bunker Hill annual ly on the 17th of June. A testator cannot, it need scarcely be mciua iu uriwm up m Will. j "My black and white horW do not bear the same meaning as my "black and 1 , 9 - - . 1 H(W ! A near friend of victor vousjo, ine pbuosopher, Iot a large legacy through a trilling accident uu ucui. vuunn imcnaea to include his name in his will, but there was no f sumjed paper in the house, and he . told his servant to obtain some. 'The servant said he would to I morrow and on the morrow Cousin died at dinner, just as a west of EngUnd ' millionaire was choked at breakfast with a fijh bene, with the unsigned w.l. which would have altered the disposition of his i csiaie lying on the Should irmtat thA T.m. Eldon. who. when a vrrr Hrh patronage came into his irtft, havin" re- ceived the news while riding withthe relative upon whom he intended to be- stow it, wrote out the appointment while uu muuic, icst ne snouia oe thrown from his horse be lore he got home. An officer in tK ln!;.. . - who had not much to leave, but was on friendlv terms with iwn r t;. kmii... officers, made a will, leaving his property, consisting merely of penonal belongings, to be divided between them. The testa tor came unexpectedly into i oniine, out he forgot a and never made another. the will made under such cumstances held good, and his aged mother, sisters and near relations were left out in the cold. Of bequests to animals a few may be mentioned. In 1781 a peasant of Tou- louse made his horse his universal heir Doctor CrUtiano. of Venice, left 000 florina for the maintenance of his three dogs, with a condition that at their death the aum ahould be added to the . university of ViennaT, A Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, in 1813, left $1,000 a year to her ' parrot, and the CoCnt of Mirndft! h. ..... V. . :.iJ k i ijuwium a coosiuerauie teeacy to a pet - carp. Lord Chesterfield left a aum for the support of his favorite cat, so also did one Frederick Harper, who settled AA - .. .. . . . e-jw a year on nia "young black cat. tho interest to be paid to his housekeeper, Mrs. Uodgea, as long aa the cat abo'uld remain alive. The most singular of these wills, however, waa that of a Mr. Berke ley, of Knightsbridge. who died in 1803. He left $125 to four of his dogs. Dur ing a journey through Prance and Italy this gentleman, being attacked bv bri gands had been protected and saved by his dog; the four animals he pensioned by his will were the descendants of this faithful friend. Feebog his end near Mr. lierkelcy desired that two arm chairs micht be broircht to his hrd;d four degs aeated on them, receiving their 1.. ... t.:v I . . k, .. i... , . . . . p.- last Caresses, which he rtnrn1 with v-l ...i. , ----v best of his failing strength, and died inr SltS ? ?Cll la V be ordered that the busts of h four An .h..M tx t -"7 w .mt . iu iluuq aoit piaceQ el the four corotrs of his tomb. Philadel phia Record. ITaklnj Oae't Self at 1T11L An old problem of the psychologists has been revUed by a letter to La 2iture written by a French business man, who mentions that for years be has been in the habit of waking himself at any hour in the morning he wished, simply by im press ng upon his mind before going to sleep the fact that he must awake at that hour, and saying further that he baa sel dom varied five minutes from the moment which he had assigned himself. We have a very distinct recollection of many instancea in which we have our selves tried the experiment with succeai, and at one time, when it was necessary for a considerable friod for us to wake on certain days of the week at a very early hour, to Uke the first train to the place where our services were then needed, we had an opportunity of study ing the circumstances under which this species of self-control is.most easily ex ercised. During this period we found no diffi culty in waking regularly within five minutes of the time necessary o en&bfe us to reach the train comfortably, al though for a portion of the time this in volved getting up long before daylight; but we discovered a' so that in order to wake with precision at the right moment, and to rest tjuietly until it arrived it waa necessary to look at our watch just be fore going to sleep. If we neglected this precaution we were apt to sleep un easily, waking- first an hour or more before the proper time, .and allow ing ourselves in consequence only short naps afterward until the minute arrived for getting up. What ever part of our mind it might have been that took charge of waking us seemed to bfgin it a count of the hours from the time at which we composed ourselv vs to sleep, and if we did not inform ourselves of this our conscious reckoning was cor reapondinglj uncertain and the effort to wake vague, but if we took a clear note of the time in the evening we could sleep peacefully through the whole of the al lotted interval, sure of being aroused at or very near iu expiration. Another con dition of waking we found to be the oc currence of some small external event, through which, as it were, the internal effort could take effect upon our rnae. A very trifling circumstance the flutter of a leaf outside the window, the chirp of a bird or any other of the unnumbered sounds of early morning was sumcient, if it happened at the right time, to wake us by a sort of magnifying procees which at that moment gave the power of start ling us by a noise which would at other times be unnoticed; but without such sensible impression we think we should not have waked. In fact, on one or two occasions we remember to bare lura fressed with a dim consciousness o wait ng for something to happen before wak ing, and a moment later a trifling sound would open ours rises with a littleshock. To t4e necessity of wsitiag far this im predion, small as it might be, we were disposed to attribute the variation of a minute or two either way from the exact moment aa.gned for waking, which might otherwise be ; kept with eiact punctuality. American ArtMUtt, Tlrtlma'ef Xorpkla. A well-known New York physician relates the following in illustration of the terrible and insidious power of the morphine habit, once it has been formed - "A lady in a distant city, connected with one of the oldest and best familie in this country, was sutfering from a disease which her physician could not. or at leant did not, cure, but gave her morphine to keep her comfortable. The habit grew until she took eight to ten pains a dy. Her frienis finally sent her to roe, and after relieving her trouble I began the process of curing the opium babiu At last she became, as we both thought, entirely cured, bat soon a slight craving for it reappeared and grew until, unknown to me. she succeeled in get ting a supply and was soon about as bad as ever. This supply was cut off, the desire was successful y com batted and a year passed without her touching It or eipehencing any desire for it. One day i " nine oroDcnuis. i i Priptlon in hich m she called witn a little bronchitis. I a bitle pareiroric. This she eal.ed for agAin and again, taking larger doses each time, until she was on the verge of re-estaulishing the pld habit. 1 d srovercd this, forbade the use of the medicine and again she recovered. A year or two afterward, when I had almot forgotten her. she cjme to me with a sprained joint. . I posiuon oi nis .7. , : - table. People i M110" opium. hen she ducov nple of Lord ' ,n" ,oe immediate! began taking rt. the liniment internal! v. and strain the the liniment internally, and strain the ; lnirst 'or ,tl drug was awakened. This ' WM detected, and when I upbraided her i 'or dece'Tin5 me she aaid that I was as mucn in the. wronS as she was for giving . . . she was honest and truthful hut In r!a respect she would do anything to get the drug she loved so much." And Dr. Quinlsn of the same city says: "Administered hyrjodermically.its electa arc felt at once and consequently more sought after by. opium-users. Iu effect is terrible. The victims lose all sens owa- cne oroae ine needle, and 1 WM called to give her a hypodermic ""j1'00- I found her dull, torpid and n'"nrelc o Prepared my ayringe, j wben be aaid : 'Excuse me. doctor, but ' 1 iU uke il nU-' Thinking it a mltr of delicacy I acquiesced, and she relm She returned in a few minutea f actiTe M possible, her eyea bright and ; her """ M "imated aa ever, the M f t01 he hJ b"ken my needle. CDC Dma aioien ir, ana pushed her own ' t i. . i .. . . . ' hmken An i mm ui I f V.,.K uiu&rn dub in mv r v itr nniMfifi came next day with a new one. but of course I refused to receive it. The hab it is a frightful curse," sadly ended the doctor, "and numbers some of our most brilliant society ladies among its victims. " Greatest Saeker In tke Ceaatry. A well-known merchant of New York city is aaid to be the greatest smoker in the United States. He is a tall, stout, good looking man, weighing about 50 pounds. According to his own state ment, he smokes a dozen prime cirara every morning before breakfast. How many he demoluhea during the rest of the day is not recorded. Last summer it waa this gentleman's custom to go to business every morning i irvm uuRu rouniy, traveling uown me .... i' .. , nrer oo ids James sup boat. As toon as he got on board he placed a ! baskefwhich he InvariaEly; .i . f' ooor. men ne iiiica ine lid and produced therefrom an immense cigar-case, a piece of wax can lie, aad a box of matches Having placed these hand, he unfastened his cuffs, drew them off, and laid them in the basket. Then he removed hjs necktie and collar and deposited them by the side of his cuffs. Then he unfastened his capacious vest and allowei the breeze to fan his prodigious chest. He was now ready for business. He, lighted a match and ignited a piece of wax candle, which he laid in a aecure pot. Ne it he drew from his cigar case, three, fonr.or five cigars, aa the fancV took him. Producing a rubber band from his vest pocket, be cunningly twisted it around the cigars ao aa to unite them all abreast. Then he put the amafl enda in his mouth aad applied the wax candle to the other end, passing it alowly from one to the other of the cigars until all were well lighted. Leaning back he enjoyed life, sending clouds of smoke into the air. He has made a great variety of answers to persons who have questioned him aa to his passion for smoking. To one he aaid: "My doctor tella me to smoke. To another. "I smoke because mv wifa aaya I mustn't. " To another, yit a none of vour rjtiin,?with wakI k.r- w . - w w w twi 9 "business' seldom tolerated in print. Those who know him sav he is a verr jolly man and a skiliful business man ager. He is nearly fifty years of see. Urooilyn Eagle. Pleasure is seldom found wher it sought; our brightest blazes of gladness . . r . . . arc common ij ainaiea oy unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odors from time to time in the path of life grow up without culture, from seeds scattered by chance. According to the latest tests by the finest instruments, an electric aigaal travels at the rate of 16,000 miles per second. THE TONCOt INSTRUCTED. Guard wU thy hps; Prov. siuVS What evCa from the toexw may now; "U f-aCt. wb4 ktW may hm Incurred, Byxrn Incautious, hMty word. 1 lfarkTt,33,XZ Be slow to speak, look well wittio, Prov. To check what IWi may bad letta; -Jems 1,31 And pray unceasinxly for aid, CoLlv. Ls uaawmrsa, lbo be betrayed. . Lake zxJ, 14. "Condemaaot, to man -Jw It. X Is ttven ais brother's fault, to sran; iCor.lv, The task Is thiaa, and thitM aloo Matt. vB, X. To scarrh out and subloe thin owa. John will. T. lado!c no murtBartas;; oh, restrain I Cor. vu. 10. Thorn lira, so real to cofop!ara ; Lam. IU.2X And, If tfcy can be nnmberal. count Psalm cLL, X. Of oo day's uwraias the araouaL Lam. Li, C3. Bhua vain disrwa&joa, trifltax thoe; Titus. Hi, Dwvll no oo earthly hopm aad a b s.am; -Dwil vt,T. L words of wiljm, iimIm krv, JauMsiU.9. Thy bsart's true rsoovaUon prva -Lukevt, Bi God bafora thM: tnrr waA I . Om. rrU, 1 Thy lips proaouace by HiabWI; I ra cuaix, C Oh, couUst thou rsaUse this lb m jtt, ! Hu. sil.SV What rare, what caotioo, woul I be taa.h;! I Lake ail, 11 The time is short,"' this &sy anay be - lCXr.rd,SI , The very last aeUtel ta tbr E v, la Bo speak, that sV.wl lat thou svt ar sp.ak I more, 1 CU. lv, . Thou may's not this day's vocvfai oVplura I'ujea. ziv. la nt'XOB OFTUE DAT. Head - Work Sham pool ng. A footpad The cork sole. Where here's a B.ll there a I WilL Eipenftiveaweetmcale-Unejed words. " The widow's favorite rn.ia.cal instru ment Cast a net- A great deal of the time of the young men of the present day goes to waist. It is but natural that girls who ate powder ahould alo wear fangs. Baaa always follow the use of powder. "Wbt do you think of this recep tion Pva-kcd the leader of a vigilance committee, aa he pUocd a rope around a horse thiel s neck. "I wou.du t mind it a particle if it were a little less cor dial,'' was the significant reply. i The postmaster general of Victoria, Auslraia, has decided to try, in several districts, a postal delivery system by tri cycles and if it proves surcresful he will ettend it over the whole colony. We suppose the postal districts will be called . wheel boroughs. I "Humph r said one little girl to her playmate, "I guess your pa is nothing but a drummer, and I wen't speak to you." "I don't care.' aaid the other, "yeur fa is nothing but a drum. "My pa a druml" "Yes; he's got a bald head and nothing in it but noise. They were dircusting their natatorial capacity. 'Swiml Divel Why, I can remain under water twenty mi nates at a time. 'Only twenty minutes? Why, the other day I stayed under the water a who e hour. To be sure, it waa beaue 1 fell into a doze and overslept myself, but still (The other liar faints.) A boy waa caught stealing currant and was locked up in a dark closet by the grocer. The boy commenced beg. ging most pathetic! I v te be .releaseJ, i and after much persuasion, suggested : "Now. if you'll let me out and tend for mv father, hell pay you for the currants aad lkk me besides. The grocer cuuld not withstand this appeal. "So the Arabians go to lodges aad come home late, iust as you do, said Mrs. Mannerly to her husband, who was of a convivial turn of mind. "1 dont know, he stammered. "But I know they do, for I read in a paper that when aa Arabian enters his house he removes his shoes and keep on hie oat. ThU'a what yoodo when yon come home late from the lodge. A Lien Tamer's Tterre. Forbes, In his "Soldiering and Scrib bl'ng, ears: Crockett mde the greatest name lot himself of any lion tamer, not in England alone, but also in France, , Germany and America. I remember well the time when the six U-ns were . loose at one time in Ast Ley's. The Ban gers had sent the beast op from Ed mootun the night before Nebidy to this day know how they rot out (.' their dens ; but it was thought al time that some of the rrtrftsna whom the maaajrer was verv napoooar. .he ued to fine them so unmemlesAJy had" let them loose malicious! r, tha they might get at the horse. There they were, anyhow, loose aad mad Kq the place, smelling the bom anI toUd to get at them. They had alread v kil I sd a j man, and half eaten him. when Crockett arrived; without halting aa instant. Ee astnea in among them single-handed, with only a switch in his hand, and I'm , blest if he didn't manage to dea them all i single handed. That waa a serv fee you. At that tha Crockett avr drank, . .j -r Jin Empersr Am ' A favorit amusement ef Dom Pedro IL, of Brazil, ia to lesv his gorgeous turnout la a aide street, and, accompa nied by a grsyhaired chamber lain and a stalwart life guardian, walk the d.stsaoe of a square or snort to a manufactory or other establishment, and surprise the proprietor aad emplojea by lua auddca and uanounced appearance among them. Of course he is given the liberty of the establishment, and he take his time la examining the machinery and xaodas operandi. With a kind word pf encour agement and commendation, he go away, perhap to pay a aimi'.ar visit to another establishment. These vtsita he make impartially to the mechanical aad mercantile establishments controlled by foreigners as well aa natives. t . i