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YOL. XXXVI.
SALEM, C, THUESDAY, APEIL 12, 1888.
NO. 15.
JOB PRINTING
A weather record kept at Quebec
shows that the- climate of Canada ha3
not altered in the last!200 year.
The Chats worth disaster, of last fall
has already cost the railroad company
over f :100,000. Theculvert which caused
the accident cost about $400.
j tif the seventy-six United States Sena
tors only thirty have received a classical
education, and of the 333 Representa
tives hut 108 have attended college.
i C. J. Jones, the Buffalo breeder of
Kansas, recently sold to Austin Corbin,
President of the Heading Railroad, six
head of Buffalo. They will be sent East
and put on Mr. Corbin's place on Long
Island.
DESTINY,
Like a shadow that flies from the sun god, we
slip out of life and are gone.
The place where we were is vacant, for
who will remember till noon.
The drop of daw like a diamond which
pleased at the glimmer of dawn?
And when the singer has left us, who cares
to rememeber the tune? ' . , . .
In the leaves1 deep drift In thef forest what
bird is seeking the one
Beneath whose shelter she builded her tedi
ous love cradling nest? " .
icnas lived, it was used, tas perished;- now
' lieth its iise being don&i t
Forgotten of (sunshine and songster in the
dust whence it came. It is best.
lenting in the harsh, stern faces of Ma
captors, no softening of their grim de
termination ; and not a syllable of dis
sent was uttered when our leader spoke
again, and said sternly ;
'Mercy from us you will not receive.
You had best , pray for it from your
Maker. In an hour's time you will be
in his presence." .
As Tom' spoke, the poor wretch gave
one despairing look at the unrelenting
faces of tne men. grouped on their ponies
about him, and;- meeting with' not a sign
of pity, felL with a hopeless groan, face
downward upon tbe grass.
'1 reckon we had better leave him Dy
himself fur awhile, boys. If he has any
praym' to do, I allow he kio do lt.better
without a auiiencef so let's-draw off
t - i m ... i ftnieee tin niB time a tin
jjui, wo, o sunns irom me lears iai, ana i i 7,; , , t - .v i-V t
we murmur: -."Soon ftnAwettit' : inow oppoixm anu-ueusau.
If ten of the richest men in this coun
try, says the New York - World, should
withdraw their capital from railroads
mines and factories more than 800,000
men would be thrown out of work, aud
more than one million people would suffer
by it.
The Richmond Iitligious Ilernll has
raised the inquiry as to what proportion
of the beneficiaries in our Southern Bap
list colleges use tobacco", and what the
indulgence costs. One estimate places
the number at fully one-half, and $15
a the annual expense to each devotee of
the weed.
i
: The immigration into the United
States in the seven months to January 31
was 23,945 persons, against 206,908 in
the same time last year. Here is an ad
dition to the population in seven months
su licient to make a city asJarge as
Buffalo and twice as large as either
St. Paul, Minneapolis, or Kansas City.
These friends whom we loved, who Ifiyedus.
and shared in our pleasures and mirth.
Our names are lost in the silence death bring-
eh, and no regret
Endureth for us, low lying in the green-
gemmed bosom of earth."
Oh, mortal, accept the omen; we live, we are
used, and we Tall
As the leaf before us has fallen. We pass
from our place and are not.
The living have grief sufficient, content thee
' to fold in thy pall '
Remembrance and sorrowful grieving, and
be of the living forgot.
Clare St. George, in Inter-Ocean.
suggestion came from old Jake Lape,
and-it was autPiT upttfl w lfa aleillyYrWiB'
immediately moved off for a distance ot
a hundred yard3 or so, rand left the
doomed man alone to make his hnal
preparations for death; Although we.
fully intended to hang him, we all felt
that it was no more than right to tdiow
caused all the trouble belonged as much
to Bailey as if the flank of each-of them
bore his brand and no other. '
The revulsion of feeling was simply
tremendous. The very men who
ten minutes before had been .ruthlessly
intent upon hanging Bailey now crowded
around him, begging forgiveness, and
vying with one another as to which
could do the most for him. i
Such of us as owned none of the
"strays" actually felt mean, and jealous
of those who did until Tom Anderson
suggested a way in which we too, might
give vent to our generous impulses.
"Boys," said he, "there s none o' my
critters in Bailey's bunch, but next spring
I'm a-goin' to brand twenty calves for
that little girl in the pictur and it's my
intention to take care of them and their
increase for her until she's growed up.
"Now you re shoutin'. Tom I 111 do
the fcame. chimed in another."
I'll co twenty for the little boy 1"
shouted another; and so it went until
each man of us had made a liberal con
tribution.
Poor Bailey was entirely -overcome,
and no wonder. To escape hanging so
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FR03I
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Pleasures of Travel A World
Misery Jones is Married
At the Party Active and
Passive, Etc. Etc.
of
How sweet it is in foreign lands
To meet a friend who knows you.
"Who rushes up with outstretched bands,
Ana almost overthrows you.
But oh, how sad, when that same friend,
Whose lovous trreetinzs thrill you.
Exclaims lis you both hands extend.
: Lend me ten dollars, will you?
Journal of Education.
New York city educates about three
hundred thousand children annually, in
one hundred and thirty-four school
buildings, covering an area of thirty-five
acres. These buildings placed side by
side would extend more than two miles.
There are about four thousand teacher,
iind the annual expense of these schools
is about four million dollars.
The barb-wire industry is in a fair
way of being overdone. According to
ihe Iron Age there arc' forty-four manu
fauturers in this country who own 2,191
machines. It is estimated that in 200
working days, running single turns, they
will make 300,000 tons of barb wjre,
while the consumption ranges from 133,
0U0 to 150,000 tons a year. -
ONE TOUCH OF NATUEE.
BY Jj. D. LEECH.
It was in the early seventies, and I and
my two partners were running a cattle
ranch located on the Big Medicine River
in southwestern Kansas.
The recently tinished Pacific railroads
to the nortjh of us had driven the buffalo
pretty well out of the southern country,
and the millions of acres of rich grasses
which had pastured countless thousauds
of these animals for untold ages past, now
lay open to the herds of the cattlemen.
We were amonj the first ranchers who
entered the new field, but at the time of
wnich l write nearly one hundred cow
camps had been established within
radius of fifty miles of ours.
,One of the most recent arrivals in the
neighborhood was a New Englander
named Bailey, a ouiet. rather delicate-
looking fellow of about thirty five, who.
a 3 L-ar uciorc my story opens, had come
on the range, bought a counle of him-
dred head of cattle, and located a ranch
onineiNorth f ork, about twenty irjies
wesi oi our camp.
xauey was a sny, reserved sort ot
man, and although hospitable enough
when visited, evinced but little of that
whole-souled fraternal sociability which
generally characterizes the lordly riders
of the range. This made him very un
popular, and with the exception of an
old Mexican herdsman, who served him
in the capacity of cowboy, he had few
friends aud no intimates.
We are all entirely too ready to believe
the worst of any one whom we dislike,
and cowboys re no exception to' the
rule.
So when, one autumn afternoon, big
Jim Smith, the boss herder of the circle
bar
those who had been bent upon executing"
him eagerly competing with one another
as to which could show him the; greatest
kindness was enough to upset any man
He tried to express his feelings co
herently, but could not; and we left him
in the midst of his tears and protcsta
tions of cratitude, and rode -off to the
nearest ranch to procure food and rest
for ourselves and our ponies before start
ing on our homeward journey.
Bailey is at present one of the wealth
iest and most popular cattle-men in the
Southwest.
His wife did not die, but recovered,
and now resides with him at his ranch
on the North Fork.
We cowboys kept our word ; and the
It seems, remarks the New York Sun,
t, a xt . ..ju .i, I tor ranch, came thunderinjr up to the
... , ,. I dug out, with his pony all afoam, and,
namely, pots, pans and kettles, which
an- made in the prisons, and at last they
saw that they were cutting out profits so
tiutt the work was nolongei self-support
ing. Then they formed a combine, and
up went pot and kettle prices.
A novel idea is to be carried out at
Presbyterian Church at Bethany, Pc nn.
at a date set for celebrating the lifting of
its mortgage. A mock funeral service is to
be held, and the mortgage is to be sol
emnly cremated; amid the thanksgiving
of the consreation, after which the
ashes are to be deposited in an urn pie
pired for that "purpose. A funeral ora
tion will be delivered, and the" pastor
w ill recite a memorial poem.
It would be almost impossible, says
Franklin S. Pope in Scrifmer'g Magxzine,
to catalogue the number and variety of
purposes for which Ihe electric motor is
now in daily use. ISome of the most
usual applications are forH printing
presses, sewing machines, elevators, ven
tilating fans, and machinist's lathes. At
the present time every indication un
mistakably points to the probability that
within a very few years nearly, all
mechanical work in large cities, especial
ly in cases in which the power required
docs not exceed say 50 hdrsc-power,
will hp performed by the agency of the
electric motor. It is an ideal motor, ab
solutely free from vibration or noise,
Perfectly manageable, entirely safe, and
w ith the most ordinary care seldom if
ever gets out of order. Indeed there is
no reason to suppose that the limit of 50
hor-c-jowcr will not be ve'ry largely ex
cceded within a comparatively short
period, when it is remembered that
scarcely five years ago the production of
a successful 10 horse-power motor was
considered, quite a noteworthy achieve
ment.
calling me outside, told me that Bailey
was runuinsr oil a bunch of steprs in
which there were a lot of stravs belong
ing to other ranchers, and that the boys
had eotten wind of it. and were organ
izing a pursuinir nartv to catch and han jr
him for cattle thieving, I did not doubt scene.
A. 1 1 . . I
uie accused man s guilt.
Ten minutes later I had belted on my
revolver, saddled my pony, and was
galloping like the wind for the appeinted
rendezvous, all too ready to take ray part
in the anticipated '"hanging-bee."
We were a wild, rough-looking set who
met that evening at" the 2-X ranch, and
started out on poor Bailey's trail. To
tell the truth, we were most of us as wild
and rough as we looked.
There were fifteen in the company
altogether, for the mo-;t part owners, or
part owners, of ranches, and the rest
cowboys. We were all well mounted,
and each was armed with knife and re
volver, while from every saddle-horn
hung the ever-present lariat, the all-im
portant item, next to his pony, of a cow
boy's equipment.
lom Anderson.astranmnir Missounan.
who fan the 2-X brand, and who was the
acknowledged master-spirit of the range,1,
fell naturally into the leadl upon this
occasion, as he did upon all others where
intrepid daring and unyielding firmuess
were required.
lom was what the cowboys call a
"holy terror." He did not know what
fear was; but, though relentlessly fierce
and cruel when enraged, he had a heart
mat was as tender as a child's in some of
its moods. He was a lion in both looks
and nature, and we all admired him, and
generally submitted, without question, to
nis leadership.
uur party rode over sixty miles that
night, and just as it began to grow light
next morning we came up with JBailey.
He and, his old herder were engaged in
cooking breakfast over their camp-fire
when we appeared upon the scene, and
we did not wait for them to hnish their
meal before explaining their business.
fierce and haggard from our hard
night-ride, we . were an ugly-looking
crew, and it was little wonder that poor
Bailey looked scared as -he rose and
timorously greeted us with a "Good-
f-J I A
him all the politeness and courtesy ad-1 narrowly, and five minutes later to have
missible under the circumstances.
Shortly after we rode off, Bailey rose
dejectedly to his feet, thrust his hand
into his bosom, and drawing forth what
looked, from a distance, like a letter,
dropped upon his knees and pressed it
again and again to his lips with lm
passioned fervor. Afterward he re
plaeed it in his bosom, and, bowing his
head, spent the remainder of his last
hour seemingly in silent prayer.
When the time had finally expired, and
we drew near the kneeling culprit to
finish our dread work he arose to meet
us with an air so. calm and gentle, so
utterly changed, that it astounded us,
for we had expected to meet with tears
and supplications and struggles.
lie ottered not the slightest resistance
when we bound his hands securely be
hind him, and, lifting him upon his
horse, drove with him down to the creek
bottom, where a scraggy cotton wood had
already been selected to serve as a gal
lows.
Bailey was driven under the tree ; the
noose of a lariat was quickly placed
about his neck, and the other end thrown
across an overhanging limb, and made
fast to the trunk. Old Lape had his
"quint" raised in readiness, to bring it
down across the flank of the doomed
man's pony at the word of command ; all
was ready for the final; act, when Bailey
raised his head and spoke.
Calling Tom Anderson to his side, he
said: "lom will you do a favor lor a
dying man?"' -
"What is it?" was the xrruff renlv.
"I want you to promise to see that my
family gets what little property I leave.
They are poor, and will need it badly.
Tom; so, please promise, l know you'll
do it if you say you will
"Well, Bailey, Til do it, " that's all
you want. You may rest easy on that
score ; 1 promise, answered l om, in a
softened tone. I S
"Thank ytra,- Tot and now, just one
thing more, please," continued the
prisoner eagerly, "reach into ray bosom
and get the picture that s there, and let
me have another look at my wife and
children before I die.
We all of us sat grouped about on our
ponies under the cottonwood during this
scene, and, as Tom Anderson complied
with Bailey's request, and taking a pic
ture from the prisoner's, bosom held it
before him so that he could look at it,
the surrounding group iof rough cow
i bovs became utterly absorbed in the
A World of Misery.
'TrJmp (to fussy eld centleman) .
"Will yeu please give me ten cents, sir;
I'm starving?"
Fussy Old Gentleman (producing
bill) "Dear me, starving! Can you
change a dollar?"
Tramp "Yes. sir."
Fussy Old Gentleman (pocketing the
change) "Dear, dear, starving! Bless
me, but this world is full of misery J" :
Epoch,
hills and yet more sandy hollows, and as
the horse with which journeys to and
f io were made was a native of the Cape,
and prcnatally disposed to sloth, there
was often much uncertaintv about the
length of time required for the journey.
On one occasion Airs. Blank was very
anxious to catch a certain train, and as
that event seemed from the leisurely
gait of the horse extremely uncertain,he
urged Mr. C a-o-eboom to make the beast
go faster. The coachman plied whip and
reins with no apparent etTect, while the
lady alternately examined her watch and
encouraged the driver. At last, however,
her patience became completely ex
hausted, and espying a place in the tough
hide of the tol d brute where the har
ness had chafed, she cried out ve
hemently :
"Hit him on the raw, air. Casscboomi
Hit him on the raw !"
"Ma'am, " responded Mr. Casseboom
with unmoved gravity, -Sn
CCRIOCS FACTS.
the raw till we come to the hilL JJotton
Courier.
There are 2,750 language.
A storm moves thirty-six miles per
hour.
The death penalty was abolished in
Michigan previous to 1850.
A Maryland father can 'bind out" his
on; a Maryland mother cannot.
Book-keeping was first introdued into
England from Italy by Pccle in 1560.
The Japanese have' only one swear
word and that is no more expressive than
our 'by-gosh."
Julius Ilildebrand. who for sixteen
years was the body servant of Bismarck,
is living in Chicago.
Signals to be used at ses were first
contriv.'d by James IL, when he was
Duke of York, in 163.
'"Tit-1 XUacV, wf JtiU.., If.
and sometimes wears, a pair oi shoes
U sppU4 with all ainmry ssaUrtel,!
U rally fHfuW l do week wttfc
MCATHEM, D IV ATOM,
AnAfVwm
VERY LOWEST PRICES
a.
atwsteltn ms a trtaj n "
tracttac wtla aaye
SHE MARRIED A SCIENTIST.
Ota, she said thm oervr marry any Tom, Dick
and Harry,
She'd wed na famous scientist of karn
iag and renown;
But ber Tom was quit commercial, and of
Agassis an inerscbel
Ha was igaoraat, she !, ai any circa
clown.
3o she gave poor Tom the mitten, sad as soeek
as any kitteo 1
II went to making money and forgot bis
wild despair;
Forgot, I say; at any rata be basteoed tod-genc-rata
Into a sordid business man, a triCing mill-
iooaire.
But she wed a scientific, awl his tastes wr
quit terrific 1
For various kinds of Inserts aa J for toad
ralUa-
Jones In Married.
"Jones is a very brave man," remarked
one traveling man to another. "lie dis
tinguished himself in the war."
"Yes. I know of only one thing that
he is afraid to do."
"What is that?"
"Hmg his own door bell at three
o'clock in the morning." Merchant
Traveler.
At the Party.
Admiring Mamma (pointing
daucrhter) "Don t you
nie looks so much better in that dress.
spring after the lynching affair saw sev-1 Mrs. Greene, than in any 6he has ever
era! hundred calves branded with the I nan t
initials of Bailey's son and daughter and
turned loose on the range.
With his share of them and their
progeny the boy has stocrea a Dig
ranch of his own; while the snare-ot
the little girl, -who is, by tfie way, one
of the loveliest prairie flowers that ever
graced the plains, makes her one oi tne
richest heiresses in tae btate. ioutn$
Companion.
Mrs. Greene (with emphasis') "Why,
my dear Mrs. Scott, I don't think any
thing could improve Nannie's appear
ance." It was meant as a compliment, but the
fond mamma took it otherwise, and now
they don't speak." arer' Bazar.
morning, gentlemen ! " as we advanced
The War Department has prepared an
interesting tabular statement showing
the number of army officers born in each
Slate, Territory, and foreign country.
Of the States, New York takes the lead
with 417, Pennsylvania takes second
place with 370, ami Texas and West
Virginia come in for 3 officers each in the
service, and Nevada has but one. Of
the Territories, the Indian Territory has
only 1, New Mexico 2, Utah 3, and
Washington Territory 4. Four officers
were born at sea. Of foreign countries,
Ireland has the largest representation,
having 83 officers in the array who were
born within her boundary. The follow
ing is a list of the foreign countries rep
resented in the American Army and the
number accredited to each: Asia, 1;
Austria, 1; Belgium, 1; Canada, 17;
Chuta-Nagpoor, 1; Corfu, 1; East In
dies, 1'; England, 23; France, 9; Ger
many, 32; Hungary, 1; Ireland, 83;
Malta, 1; Italy, 3; Netherlands, l;New
Brunswick, 2; Nova Scotia, 5; Poland,
1; Prince Edward Island, 1; Prussia,
IT; Sandwich Islands, 1; Saxony, 2;
Scotland, 15; South America, 3; Swe-
ueo, 8; Switzerland 8, &4 Wiles,
and drew up around the fire,
.0 one answered his salutation; it was
received with grim, ominous silence.
"Just take care of him. boys, while 1
ride out to the cattle and see that there
is no mistake about the strays. We
want to be certain he's guilty before go
ing any further," said our leader; and,
as he spoke, he and several others of the
party started toward a bunch of cattle
that were grazing upon th prairie not
far off, while the rest of us kept guard
over Bailey, who had now grown pale as
death, and was trembling in every nmo.
In a moment Tom and the others re
turned, and, as they approached, Tom
said : "It's true boys.. There's a dozen
strays in the lot, and no mistake," and
turning, without more ado, to the
cowering culprit, he added, with a harsh
abruptness that was simply terrible:
"You. Uailey, are a cattle-thiet, and we
have come after you to hang you. You
knew the law of the range when you
broke it, so you must abide by it. You
shall have an hour, and an hour only, to
prepare for death."
As his doom was thus spoken, Bailey,
poor wretch, was completely . overcome
with terror and dismay.
"O bovs. boys, don't hang mel You
mustn't hang mel" he cried piteously,
falling suppliantly on his knees. "I
swear I am innocent 1 I call on my Maker
to witness that I intended to pay you for
your cattle. Oh, have mercy, and don'iJ
hang me!" and he broke completely
down, and wept like a child.
Sat it wm to uh, . Tim wu no re
Not a whisper was uttered, and the
noise of the restive ponies, as they
champed their bits or stamped impa
tiently upon tne greensward, alone DroKe
the solemn stillness.
With a look of unspeakable tender
ness, Bailey glued his eyes upon the
photograph and held them there for
fully a minute.
Then his head dropped suddenly upon
his breast, and, with a groan, he cried
out, in despairing accents :
"O boys, boys! it's hard to die and
leave them all alone; and to die in such
a way, too! It will kill poor Mary, if
she's not dead already; I know it wilL"
He no longer looks at the picture, but
Tom Anderson himself was gazing at it
instead. . Long and earnestly he looked
at it, but did not speak a word. Then
he handed it to old man Lape, and it
passed from hand to hand until every
man in the party had taken a long look
at it.
, A sweet, gentle woman's face looked
smilingly forth from the midst of the
card, while over each of her shoulders
peeped a chubby face tilled with childish
elee and innocence. On the border of
the card was written, in a clear, delicate
hand: "Come home soon, papa; we're
so lonely without you." )
When the picture had gone the
rounds, and Tom Anderson returned it
reverently to Bailey's bosom, the culprit
raised his head and said :
."It was for their sake, boys, I drove
the cattle off in such a j hurry. I got
word yesterday that my wife was dying,
and I took the first steers I could find in
order to get the money to see her. It
was wrong, I suppose, but I would have
naid vou for every head I took when I
came back." ! j
Like a flash j Tom Anderson's knife
was out of its sheath. A quick stroke,"
and the rope about the - prisoner's neck
was severed. Instantly Bailey's pony
bore him aside, and in his place, facing
the crowd, on his mustang sat Tom,
with uplifted hand and his eyes fairly
biasing with fierce excitement, while we
were tod much amazed to either speak or
move. t - j
"That man ! speaks the truth!" he
shouted. "He never intended to steal
them cattle. But whether he did or not,
it's all the same to me; the man that lays
finsrer on him must do it over my dead
body. If I had a wife like that lady in
tbe pictur' an' she was sick, I'd steal
every critter on the range to git to ner;
an' the man sa dog that wouidn i. n
any man here thinks different I'm ready
to fight it out with him right here and
now."
For a moment there was no response,
then old man Lape spoke up :
"Well, Tom," said he, "ye needn't
talk to mighty fierce, as no one's goin' to
fieht ye, I chess. Not that we're skeered
of -ye, Tom. You mustn't flatter your
self by thinkin' that at all, but we all feel
about the same as you do in the matter.
Leastwise I do, and to show Bailey that
I believe he's innocent,! I hereby make
him a present of them three steers o'
mine that's in his bunrh.
"Bully for you, old man I them's my
sentiments; and I'll chip in the steers
that belona to me, too !?' shouted Bill
Smith.
, "Same here!" yetled Dutch Frank,
rubbing two big tears off his cheeks with
his errimv hst. .
"I'm with you,boys i" snouted anotner.
"Me. too !" said another, and a minute
lter tmry one of tta "itrsyi" ttot b&d.
Highways.
So, the known ocean paths are the
highways which the ships of the world
have the right to pass and repass without
tolls. Such ocean paths, like highways
over the land, have always been regarded
as inherently incapable of private owner
ship, and from this cause water freights
have universally been maintained at the
minimum.
Highways are of great antiquity. They
must have existed in ancient x-gypt in a
high degree of perfection, for the Egyp
tians had hard, paved roads over which
they carried immense blocks of stone for
the pyramids. Hichwavs also existed
amonsr the ancient Tlebrews, for in
Judges v. 6. Deborah sines of aban
doned highways: "In the days of Shan
car the son of Anath. in the day of Jael,
the highways were unoccupied, and the
travelers walked through the by-ways."
In ancient Greece and Home road build
ing was a great science, but the Cartha
ginians seem to nave exceuea an omera
as builders of great roads. The general
reader will recall the Roman Via Appia,
Via Aurelia, Tyrrhean coast roads, and
the famous Flamminian way. Koman
military roads were very numerous.
Humboldt says that the ancient Incas
built wonderful roads, and he refers to
their mountain roads over the Andes. ,
The evolution of the road and the evo
lution of road vehicles have necessarily
been simultaneous, the crowth of the
vehicle demanding such a modification
of the road as to render it useful and
safe. Chariots are the most ancient road
vehicles of which history speaks. The
first chariot was made by Erichthonius,
of Athens, 1486 B. C, and the earliest
purposes to which transportation was
applied were war and agriculture, war
first, and most universally. ) In England
the eariiest vehicle was the "carretta,"
in the Thiiteenth century, used chiefly
for women. Next came the two-horse
litter of the Fourteenth century. High
ways themselves are, in England, said to
be "of immemorial antiquity, or else
created by act of Parliament."
Horses and camels are found in abund
ance in the regions first peopled by man,
and riding on the backs of animals
doubtless preceded the custom of driving
domestic animals harnessed to vehicles.
The various methods of transportation
have necessarily been determined by the
climatic conditions of the countries
where travelers have journeyed. lhe
known methods of transportation may be
briefly summarized as follows: Riding or
driving horses, mules, asses, oxen,
camels, elephants, dromedaries, reindeer,
dogs, sometimes ostrich iiding among
Africans of the interior; snow skates, in
Lapland; Bkating on frozen canals in
Holland, with buudles on the head, and.
I lastly, oriental palanquins. Ihese
methods have often involved tne use oi
peculiar vehicles, such as the Syrian ox
cart, the two-wheeled French brouette,
Both Active and Passive.
Pretty School Teacher "James, is 'to
kiss' an actiye or passive verb?"
James (oldest boy in the class)
Both."
Pretty School Teacher "How is that,
James!"
James "Active on the part of the
feller and passive on the part of the girL"
Pretty school teacher blushes and
marks James "perfect in
Wathinjtun Critir.
The Liongetl-For lietter.
As the last note of that touching little
ballad, "The letter that he longed for
never came," vibrated on the evening
a'r, she turned to find a tear trickling
down his check.
"Ah. Mr. Sampson," she said, sympa
thetically, "you, too, have 'longed .'"
"Yes," he replied, huskily, "two
vears ago a very dear friend of mine went
West on twenty-live dollars which I
loaned him, and for aught I know he may
be dead. Ejioch.
He Got I-cfi.
" Coal for sail," read the sign over a
door on the wharf.
" You spelled that wrong, old man,"
aaid a nasser-bv to the proprietor. It
should be s a l e,' instead of s-a-i-1. "
" That's where you got left, my friend.
My customers are all shipowners, and
they buy coal to use on shipboard, so of
course ifsfor s-a-i-l, ain't it? I'd have
made it 'for sailing vessels,' but the
board wasn't long enough." Dannille
Breeze.
Generonltv.
Generosity of a man who was ap
proached and asked to subscribe to a
charitable object :
" What do yo;i want? " he inquired of
the man who held the subscription
book.
"One dollar"
' And what for! "
"To bury a policeman."
The man fished out a five-dollar bill
and handed it to the man.
"Bury five,''hesaid. Chicago Tribune.
Wanted A Thumper.
A farmer about fifty years old stopped
a number of people on Monroe avenue to
inquire his w.iy to a gymnasium, and he
was finally atked if he was going to take
lessons in boxing.
"No, not exa 'tly," he replied, "but I
want to see a thumper."
He was directed to the right pl.ice,
and after looking the establishment over
he said to the proprietor :
A lire out ni-re uuui iuuuctu m .....
I've got a hired man who has got so sassy
that I can hardly live with h'm. He's
got too big to lick with a gad, and I've
got to cuff him up to a peak. I want to
take a lesson with the gloves, anu wnen
I go home I'll astonish John Henry with
a bit of science."
.v . i. 4V- -i
th!L that X.n Pd & lc5 m dollar, "d the
think that an- . t ... ,iv:
and put on the glovca. He was shown
how to po-je and how to hold his guard,
and then warned to look out for himself.
"You play you are John Henry, tho
hired man," he said.
"All right"
"You've been fooling your timo away,
and I've called you a lazy coyote."
"You have sassed me back, and I go
for you like this and this!"
And the old man struck right and left
and followed the boxer around the ring.
He was doing noble work when some
thing shot over his guard and hit his
chin, and he went over like a log ami
laid there until they threw water on him.
Then he rat us looked about in a dazed
way, and feebly inquired:
"What was it!"
John Henry hit you."
"He did, ehf Then that settles it!
Here's your dollar, young man, and
here's the gloves. If I'm liable to get
such a lick as that I'm going home to
tell the hired man he ran boss the whole
ranch and be hanged to him I" Free
A Hint to Inventor.
First Yankee "What puts you in
such a-good humor tiis morning?"
Second Yankee "I've just got my
patent for my new ink eraser. I wouldn't
take $0,000 for it" ,
"Did you get a patent last year for in
venting an indellible ink:''
"1 did, and I sold it for $30,000, and
now I've invented anj eraser that will
even remove writing done with my own
indellible ink."
"What are you going at next!"
"I'm srointr to invent another indelli
ble ink that can't be erased with my new
eraser. I tell you, there is money in
this patent business if you go at it right"
Sif tings.-
A Horse that Draws Drinking Water.
The sagacity exhibited by some of the
horses employed by the fire department
in New York is very remarkable, and
their exploits have been frequently de
scribed in our daily newspapers. But
for the first time we read in one of our
evening contemporaries of -a horse in the
service of our ambulance corps, which
is not far behind any hre engine horse we
have read of in point of intelligence.
The horse pulls the ambulance in search
of patients for the New York Hospital,
and during the whole period of his
philanthropic career as an ambulance
horse he has never once been given a
drink by any of the stable hands. He
believes in the maxim thst God helps
those who help themselves, and helps
himself accordingly.
A Telegram reporter went down to see
how he queuched his thirst, and was
pdified bv tho intellectual behavior of
the animal, which he describes as follows :
There is an ordinary faucet with the
pail under it in the stable, and to this
faucet the horse made a uce line.
First he dipped his nose in the pail to
see if there was any water there, but
finding there was none, he proceeded to
open the valve by turning the handle
with his nose. He did not turn it on
quite enough at the first attempt so he
gave it another nudge, and held his nose
under the spigot while the water poured
over it to his apparent immense satisfac
tion. "But what a lot of water will be
made by his father 51 years ago.
Over 1,000 skunk skins went out of
Bcranton, Penn., for Germany the other
day, where they wi'd be made into grena
dier caps.
Warren, Penn., claims the oldest
mnnber of the O. A. It in the country.
His name is D. T. Van Vcchten, and he
was born in 1700.
The City of London, Engltnd, proper,
covers an area of 122" uarc miles.
Philadelphia covers more territory,
spreading over Yl'i square miles.
Notaries Public were first appointed
by the Fathers of the Christian Chun b
to mae a collection oi ice acts o.
memoirs of martyrs in the first century.
Recently an elk was shot in Galicia.
It is now 130 yean since the last of these
animals was killed in Austria. It is be
lieved that tho one referred to had come
from Lithuania. ' .
Three men. over six hundred miles
part, invented an egg beater on the
same day and their snplications for a
patent arrived in Washington within two
Lours of each other.
An Englishman has given op his home
facing Hyde Park in London because a
strange lady used to walk in the park at
10 o'clock every morning wearing green
gloves on her hands.
There is in the vicinity of Vanghns
villc, S. C, an infant a few month old
whose mother is seventeen, craodmothei
thirty-two, grandfather thirty-seven and
great grandmother fifty-one.
A New York merchant estimates that
3,000.'000 bushels of peanuts were con
sumed in this coontry last year. The
cost to the consumers was 10,000,0)J,
fully half of which was profit.
An old man living near WataK Ind-,
cut a railway telezraph wire, run the line
into his house, and wa utilizing the
electricity as a cure for rheumatism when
the linemen discovered where the break
was.
Martin P. r.ogan, casher of the Plant
ers' House, in St Louis picked out a
handsome peail from the shell of a clam
he was eating in the Planters' House cafe
the other dv. It is about the size of a
. - . ... . ,
mall pea, and a jeweler says u is wonn
$30.
There is a woman at Port Jarvia, New
York, who goes into coovuls'ons eerj
time she hears any one sing the air ol
" Did Lang Syne," and a neighbot
woman has just been mulcted in the tunc
of $400 for singing it with mV.it e aforethought
At the trial of a"Wooster, Ohio, man
for murder, it was brought out in the
course of the testimony that at the out
break of the war he had himself con
victed of stealinc sheep in order that he
might avoid military service by going to
the penitentiary.
Raw silk is said to have been first
made in C hina about 130 B. C. It was
first brought from India in 274, and a
peund of it that time was worth a pound
of gold. The manufacture of raw silk
was introduced into Europe from India
by tome Monks in 550. Silk dresses were
first worn in 1455.
Another edition of the Siamese twins
has just seen the light of the world. The
wife of a poor workman at Misslitz, in
Moravia, was delivered of triplets, two
of the babies grown together by the rits
and having a common breastbone. The
rest of the two little bodies is periecuy
developed in every part
And fawtead U plan a1 picture.
snake and boa ctmstriotors ,
He'd take into hi sitting room toornameait
the same-
alU-
As a sealoos decorator be prefwTed aa
gator '
To a statue of Minerva, or a bostof Henry
Clay;
AnJyouooshttobw bim talk awbua of
bis bouncing baby crocodil
That be played with in b. jarlor Jwt to
white tne tiro a way ;
Andhtbradl caprlio, a very c farming
fUow. '
Through dressing room aal bedroom
to noorbaUntly drift;
And aa elephant's proboscis aad two young
rhinoceros'
Be prrratd to h cbd-lren as a fitting
Christinas gift
Bot be roW his wife's piano to boy ir-aro-
To f!ihi bippopotamtt to ca bis
arb arbr.
And a shark ate np bis baby, for yoa know
bow baogry th-y be,
And be went an 1 pawoed Lis overcoat to
feed bis rattlesnake.
Mil ASD POINT. :
I'd fitting garment I aw suits.
When a man i attacked by a bull
dog which be turns to stone, docs the
dog become a petrifaction! J"
G'Utllt.
The woman suffrage movement in thU
country is forty year old, and there are
ome women who have courage ti ad
mit that thev helped start it.
"What a picturesque little cottage!
A veritable bw ss chalet" "A
hallhe.do yoa ca 1 it! T my mind
it's more like an Irish shant he.
" Hesa perfe-i stick
Tbe Mlbrst kiwi of catch."
And she ail brimstone
both wi'.l make a tuaicn. J
Harper a Raxur.
There is no virtue ia vinegar," say a
scientist None, ch! It dor what
many so-called men do not do-supports
its aged mother. Blg'-a to JsjnJ-
lican.
The bsgpir were invented by the
Romans, savs a recent writer, and not
by the Scotch. If this U true, it relieves
the Scotch of a serious responsibility.
Lot-on Coir'xr.
Father (Sunday morning) "Wake
lAhn It's time to iro U cnurcu.
Ves. father, uoi
sleep jut as well
wasted when ho leaves it running the
moment he has had enough 1" ejaculated
the reporter.
"Wait and sec," answered the driver.
And there was no water wasted, for the
moment the horse had concluded his
drink, he went at the faucet again with
his nose and shut off the flow com-
iletely.
Does he always ao man gain
queried the newspaper man.
"Certainly." answered the driver, as
he patted his four-footed friend on the
shoulder. "As long as I've known him,
that horse has ne.-er had a drink that he
did not draw from the tap for himself,
just as you have seen him do this
time." Hcincfic American.
In the Family Circle.
Mr. Oldsportte (facetiously) "My
the Italian coach of the Sixteenth .cen- dear, you complain that I do not read
tury, tne Maltese ' caiesse, " me nuwiau aioua, us x wu.c uiu. aw.
te'.eea, which is a rapid cart, or tne many choice item ior your euiuinuwu
modifications of vehicles seen in all ages.
Chicago Current.
- Extraordinary Old Age.
The most extraordinary British ex
amples of longevity are those of Thomas
Parr, who died in 1035, at the age of
152; Henry Jenkins, of Yorkshire, who
died in 1670, aged 169; Mr. Fairbrother,
,who died at Wigan, May, 1770, aged
133; James Sheilie, an Irish farmer, who
died "in June, 1759, aged 136; and
Martha Hannah, of Cullybackey, Ire
land, who died in 180c. aged 12B.
But Great Britain and Ireland are not
the only countries that breed cente
narians. In 1800, Elizabeth Haywood,
a free negro, died in Jamaica, aged 15u;
in 174a, a Portuguese gemieman, iu
Homem da Cunha Deca, died, aged 129;
and in 171)0 a Portuguese lady, Joanna
Francisca de Piedade, was still living
at the age of 120. CasteWs Journal.
here's a
When
foul flies are squarely muffed, the fielder
muffii g the same shall be charged with
an error.' There, can your feminine
mind grasp thatf
jlr8. O. "Certainly, my love. Now
let me read you a sweet thing from my
paper: '1st row Slip the first then by
turns purl 2 stitches and knit 2. 2d
low Slip the first, then knit 2, put the
wool over.
hv knitting 1. 3d row Slip the first
then by turns purl two stitches, and
knit together the next put over and the
slipped stitch that follows It There,
can your mighty masculine mind en
compass that!" East End (Ca1.) Bul
let in.
How to Get a Cinder Ont or the Eye.
Nine persons out of every ten, with a
cinder or any foreign substance in the
eve, will instantly begin to rub the eye
with one hand while hunting for their
handkerchief with the other. They may,
and sometimes do, remove the offending
cinder, but more frequently rub till the
eye becomes inflamed, bind a handker
chief around the head and go to bed.
This is all wrong. The better way is
not to rub the eye with the cinder in at
Lirlngoa Ywleanle Isles.
Bonin Islands, discovered and settled
by the Japanese 250 years ago, and de
serted bythem fifty years later, are situated
between the twenty-fifth and twenty-
seventh degrees of north latitude, and
east longitude about 140 degrees 23
minutes. There are more than forty
islands, large and smal!. St John,
being the only one inhabitable, boasts
about fifty people of double nationality.
governed by no law except the preciri
ous one of "every man for himself.
While peace generally prevails, griev
ances are not infrequently wiped out
in blood, the assassin having nothing to
fear unless the victim has a friend to
avcnjre him.
This group is a volcanic formation,
and the scenery is wonderful. 'High
mountains whose heads disappear among
the clouds, deep valleys worn into fan
tastic shapes by the heavy rains of Janu
ary and February, perpendicular bluffs
and level plains, smooth gravel beaches
and bold rocky shores, form a contrast so
-wild and picturesque, ao terribly en
chanting, that one expects some great
and instantaneous change, some wonder
ful phenomenon, a falling of these fright
ful precipices, a rising oi tne irnuiui
oice from up uir
whats the use! I can
here." i-iflvg.
Bobinson "How about that note I
hold of yours. Brown! I've got it so
long that whiskers are beginning to grow
on it" Brown- "Why don't jou get it
shaved, thenr Harper's Bazar.
Oocecooking was tbe pronrr tbin. J
Tbpn Browning drove the women mad ; j
Poor liuldb s gone to Ml n:s wiag
Bat whisUing I the coming fad.
ti.nl o Conner.
"Bob, yoa sav that you believe most
diseases are contagious. How long hae
yoa entertained such notions !" "Lver
ince I sat alongside of a bloe-eyed (prl
and caught the palpitation of the
it knocking loudly for admiioa
int the Cnion. Nothing should avail
except a ticket inscribed as was Art cm us
Ward free passe to bis lecture "
Mormons: "Admit bearer and one wife.
Stflingt.
mxrwcrau
' Too may wak us," tbe mn-trrs aii, , ,
- When the coffee on. and th table spread.
The new girl answered: "U 1 be Uts
Ia rettin' up, ye nee-tn't wait; j
1 ami rerUkeier whin I ate." "
Detroit Frm JVrsa.
A young man in a railway carriage
making fun of a lady hat to an elderly
gentleman on the scat with- him.
"Yea," said the elderly gentleman,
"that" my wife, and I told her if she
wore that bonnet some fool would mk
AMU V
The Handsome N tine? Tree.
"The demand for nutmegs is increas
ing every year." said an importer to a
reporter for the Jf"l Erj-re re
cently. "Sutmegs come chiefly from the
Malty Archipelago. The three little
islands composing the volcanic group of
Banda produce the nutmeg to per.Vetion.
The soil there seem to bo petuiiaily
adapted for their cultivation, i he isianu
is shady, and the excessive moisture (for
it rains more or leas every month in the
year.) seems toeiactly suit the nutmeg
trees, which require little or no atten-
They floumh all tne year rouna.
ip the first, then knit 2, put the all, but to rub the other eye as vigorously
er, slip 1; repeat from: finish as j
The Busiest Soul.
When you see your best porcelain piled on
the rug.
And the ratsnrt snilled into vom hat
And your stock of molasses poured out of
tne jug '
In the eyes of the tortoise-shell cat;
Juniper vs. Tlllywajr.
.- Maw !" shouted a St. Louis wharf-rat
of nine summers, bounding eagerly into
his mother's prcsem e. "bay, maw, mis
Juniper is scrubbed her floor, an' is called
all her young uns in an' is washin' all
their han's an' their faces'."
"She is, hey!" said Mrs. Tillywag.
"Well, you go an' tell jer brothers an
sisters to come right in here, while I get
a rag an' a pan of water. I'll let Mis
Juniper know I kin put on style well as
she kin. I'll let 'er know who's had
raisin' an wno aiu t. i n ""-j "
When you doze on the lounge in postprandial my y0Ung uns' faces, but I'll comb their
rest, heads too- an' then I'll wash my win-
And are awakened to feel like a wreck. Q. there's snow in the eel Ur
With your medicine bottles piled up on your
cnest.
And a handful of salt down your neck;
When you see the gas globe o'er the floor
swiftly roiled
Like a ball there's abundance of proof
That a baby some eighteen or twenty months
old
If the busiest Wul 'r9th the root
1 " 'v.'- : -fiarpfr'iBa?rf
wot 1 . , . . ,
when a Juniper gits ahead oi a miywag
on style an' manners." TidBiU.
Holding Something In Iteserve.
Tha mad from Mrs. Blank's immer
cottage Ton Cape Cod) to the nearest
station lav oyf 'ccsw-w adT
vou like.
A few vears since I was riding on the
engine of the fast express from Bing
hamton to Corning. The engineer, an
old schoolmate of mine, threw open the
front window, and I caught a cinder
that gave me the most excruciating pain.
"Let your eyo alone, and rub the other
eye" (.this from the engineer). I thought
h was chaffinz me and worked the
harder. "I know vou doctors think you
knnwitalL but if you will let that eye
alone and rub the other one the cinder
will be out in two minutes," persisted
the engineer. I began to rub the other
eye, and soon I felt the cinder down
near the inner canthus, and made ready
to take it out "Let it alone and keep
t tha well eve " shouted the doctor pro
tem. I did so for a minute longer, and
looking in a small glass he gave me, I
found the offender on my cheek. Since
then I have tried it many times and have
advised manv others, and I have never
known it to fail in one instance (unless it
was as sharp as a piece of steel, or some
thing that cut into the ball and required
an operation to 'remove it). Why it is so
I do not know. But that it is so I do
know, nd that one may be saved much
suffering it they will let the injured eye
alone and rub the well eye. Try It-,
Medical Bvnmary .
tlOtL.
plains, a grand mingling of the whole, for and ripe fruit can be picked every month.
tk ixnnnt thm oiT the id that tbe I The nutmei; tree is very handsome. It
laws of gravitation are at fault, and .that
a crash may be expected at any moment
Pure springs of crvstai water far up
among the cuns sena ciown leaping
brooks and rivulets, which, runnmg
through some volcanic rupture in the
mountain, are scattered in finest spray,
but gathering again, ripple on their
rocky course, seeming to smile as they
glide more smoothly among tbe cabbage
trees, watering theloholla, mulberry and
banana, spreading over the pebbly beat h,
and mineling with the waters of the har
bor. And such a harbor, landlocked
with perfect holding ground" from ten
to thirty fathoms below the surface. A
hundred ship would "swing clear with
their "right bower" a cable's length
ahead.
Green turtle are taken by thousands,
and form the principal flesh food,
although wild hogs are found among the
hills in large droves, and dee are plenty.
Twenty kinds of fixh are caught alon"
the reefs and shores. Onions are raised
in large quantities, sweet potatoes and
yams are cultivated to some extent all
of which are exchanged with passing
vessels for Spanish dollars, and the dol
lars hoarded, for what! Kennelec (He)
Journal. -
The nutmeg tn-e is very
grows to a ht-ight of about twenty or
thirty feet bearing small yellowish
flowers. The leave are gloy and tho
fruit is the size and color of a peach, but
rather oval. It is tough, but ben ripe,
splits open, and it shows the dark brown
nut within, covered .with crimon mare.
Thia mare covering is valuable, and
finds a place in the spice box of eery
good cook.'
A Fatal Feast of Saasa-e.
Trichiniasis is making a terrible on
slaught on the population of Cunewslde,
near Loeban. Saiony. The fire brigade
of the city gave a ball, at which little
sausages were served, and every one who
partook of them was prostrated with
trichiniasis. The batcher who supplied
them maintained that every hog he
slaughtered was duly examined, and he
taid the penalty for the miship by suf
fering a severe attack of the diaease upon
his own peron. In some houses ten
persons were laid up, and altogether two
hundred were stricken, ten of whom
have already died. The government has
delegated a comm'ssion f doctors to
assist the sick and find out the caose cf
the visitation. C'-uaj Herald.
Albert Durer gave the world a proi h-
An early rumor -Ths fint yjest it Ma I ecy of future wood engraving, io 1527.