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VOL. XXXVI.
SALEM; K. C, THUESDAY, JULY 12, 1888.
traetlag vita eoyeoe elee.
NO. 28,
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It is. Aid 'nere is a single county 01
F.nva th.it raises more wheat each year
than all the New England States.
An English authority computes that in.
the lust three or four years more pigs
luivc died in the United States from
rlu lot a than have been raised in the
5iitUh Isles. ':"'.''..
Swiss engineer named Ritter wants
the rity-of. Paris to adopt his plan for
il:aining an "inexhaustible" supply of
water from the Lake of ; Neufchatel,
Switzerland, 312 miles .away. The cost
j8 giveu at about $GO,000,000.
The new metal 1 turrets with which
France has been experimenting have
proved unabttf to stand the new project
tiles hurled by the modern high explo
sives. This', says the; Londou Timet,
condemns all ironclad ships without
giving them a chance of showing what
they could do. : :
A Florida radish is one of the phe
nomena commented On by a Southern
euhangc.' It is said; to weigh four
pounds, and to measure 'six inches in
diameter at the largest point. The body
proncr measures thirteen inches, and the
ta root is thirteen more, making its total
length twenty-six inches.
THE BEAUTIFUL
Beautiful faces are those that wear-
It matters little if dark or fair
Whole soulod honesty printed there.
Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes where earth fires glow,
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs of birds,
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.
Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministry to and fro,
Down lowliest ways, if God wills it so.
Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceaseless burdens of homely care,
With patience, grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful lives are those that bless :
Silver rivers of happiness, -
Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.
Beautiful twilight at set of sun,
Beautiful goal with race well run,
Beautiful rest with work well done.
Beautiful grave where grasses creep,
Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep
Over worn-out hands oh, beautiful sleep)
THE HEIRESS.
The National Cemetery at Frederck9-
burg, Va., is the third in siae, there being
over i.000 soldiers buried there, drawn
from the neighboring battlefields of
Chancellorsville, Spottsylvanta and the
"Wilderness. The cemetery itself lies on
the battleheld or t redericksburg and in
the midst of most solemn associations
jet only two Decoration Day services
h ive ever been held there. These were
in 1SS audl34. ' !
It is said that the primrose was not
Lord Beaconsfield's favorite flower at all,
although the English; political society
that perpetuates his Tory principles takes
its name therefrom. The story that it
was arose irom the fact that the Queen
sent to grace his coffin 'a wreath of these
flowers, with a car4 bearing the in
scription, in her own handwriting, His
favorite flower." But she meant the
favorite of her own i husband, Prince
Albert, end not of Beaconsfkld. :
Some idea of the extent of the use or
natural gas in Pittsburg,' Penn., and
vicinity, and the profits of the business
, may be had from thereport of one of the
companies just presented. It states that
on February 29 the last ojf the treasury
i.tock had beensold, so ; that the entire
.THpital stock of $7,500,O0J is now sub
jCrlj to dividends. Rents operating ex
penses, interest and taxes for the year
araounted to 0.G3 per 'cent, of the earn
ing, or $ 1,709, 70.t4V Monthly divi
dends of one per cent., amounting to
142,626.50 have been j ;paid. The nura
be.rof house connections made from the
lines oi tne company during the year
1W was 4712. ' A year ago the com
pany contracted to operate the lines of
two other companies. I The united busi-
ncsi of these three companies amounted
on March I .to the (supplying of 67i
manufacturers and 111, 955 dwelling
house", and, through pther distributing
companies, the supplying of 113 .facto
red and 10,961 dwellings, or a total of
5!3i707 contracts. '. i '
."The spiritualists of France," says the
New York Commercial Advertiser,'',ha.ve
lately been celebrating .the anniversary
of the death of their great apostle, Allan
Kardec, who was removed an almost in
appreciable distance frOm this world in
ltfttl). It will probably surprise mot
people to learn that ! about a hundred
spiritualist journals are how published,
, of which M. Birmann, who spoke at the
Kardec celebration, gave some account,
and that, accordingj to his estimate,
there are about two million spiritualists
in the world. . What; seems unaccount
able is that more of I their journals are
published in Spanish than in any other
language. One is printed in Hindostanee,
fourteen in France one is issued at
Geneva, four in Belgium and one in
Buenos Ayres. The Sphinx, the great
German spiritualist jorgan, is published
at Leipsic, and is said to be 'purely
scientific,' being problematically so and
according lo the science of the ; late ill
fated Dr. Zollner, who, if we remember
rightly, was a Professor at the University
of Leipsic, went mad over spiritualism,
and died in a lunatic asylum."
r
The New York Suits resident corre
spondent at Stuttgart, Germany, sends
an extraordinary account of precocious
depravity. A boyj of eight, living in
the little village of Oberndorf, became
the possessor of a new pair of boots
which excited the envy of a comrade of
twelve. Th;s premature highwayman
led the little proprietor of the boots into
a denrted quarry, crushed in his skull
with stones, took off the coveted boots,
put them on, walked home, and supped
with a good appetite. The body was
found, and the boots, of course, revealed
the murderer. The boy's monstrous de
pravity appears to be hereditary, as hia
father had just finished a term in prison
for homicide. To: set off this tale of
youthful wickedness, here ia one of even
more precocious heroism. : An inquest at
Bristol, England, on the body of Frank
Jenkins, aged si x- months, moved the
jury to a vote of admiration for Johnny
Jenkins, aged four years. Frank, hav
ing been - left to play with a lighted
lantern, 6et himself on fire. Johnny, who
was in charge, took the baby but of his
cradle and dragged him down stairs,
fhouting for assistance. A neighbor
who came and put the flames, put was tQ9
jut to ya the $dl&
BY EMMA A. OPPER.
She was known as Aunt Lucinda by
all Boynton, because that is what Ph cbe
Williams called her, and Boynton liked
to do what Phoebe Williams did.
When Aunt Lucinda and Phxbe had
bought Squire Branch's house, and come
to live in Boynton, the general verdict
had been that Aunt Lucinda's niece was
an uncommonly pretty girl. A few
weeks of acquaintance had settled the
fact that she was, moreover, a remarka
bly nice girl ; and Boynton had never
nao occasion to alter its decision.
What, alas ! had been a powerful con
sideration with a certain portion of the
town was the well-grounded belief that
rnoeDe was Aunt J ucinda s heiress.
There was no proof of it, since nobody
had mustered the courage to ask them;
out it was a self-evident fact.
She was, confessedly. Aunt Lucinda's
ole living relative. What was more
ikely.mpre a matter of course, than that
the fine old house and the rich furnish
ings with which Aunt Lucinda had em
bellished it, and the solid fortune which
tne proceeding bespoke, should, upon
aunt lucinda's demise, become the
property of her niece. Nobody doubted it.
ut course, tne bright and pretty heir
ess to a delightfully mysterious fortune
had plenty of ardent admirers. Just
which of them were admirers of the for
tune and which adorers of sweet Phoebe
Williams herself was an ever fresh sub
ject of speculation and conjecture in
Boynton. Truth to tell, it was a puzzle
to Phoebe herself.
Nobody would have believed that she
was greatly concerned about that Or any
thing else, however, who had seen her
on a certain winter's evening when all
the youth of the town had 6warmed to
Aunt, Lucinda's for a candy pull.
The heiress's entertainments wereJre-
quent and always lively, and nobodywho:
was invited ever had a previous engage
ment. .. r
Aunt Lucinda, in a. '.shining black
satin and a white lace cap and a very
impressive figure she was, being a hand
some old'lady roamed about from room
to room, smiling on this one, conversing
for a moment with that, and patting a
third on the head or shoulder.
She was a very cordial old person, and
very popular in Boynton, being second
in the hearts of Boyntonians only to her
niece. 1
Phi be was in her element. She wore
a red dress with profuse colored head
ings, which shimmered and sparkled as
she flitted up and down, and in and out,
like a moving flame. '
Her costumes were a perpetual wonder
to Boynton girls, and indeed she would
have excited admiration anywhere, as
would also her pink-and-white complex
ion, her long-lashed eyes and her fresh
lips.
The qaidy had been boiled to precisely
the proper point, and had been set out
on the Bnow in pans to cool just enough
T 1 i - . .
lor puuiug, ine waning company nning
in the time with a lively quadrille or
two.
And now the front yard was comforta
bly filled with giggling girls, in carelessly-adjusted
wraps, and young men,
with hats stuck hastily on the backs of
their heads, somebody having suggested
pulling the candy out of doors, for a
change.
Everybody clutched a generous bunch
of it in greased or floury hands; shoul
ders bent to the task ; elbows worked in
in and out, and tongues chattered.
Phoebe Williams sJood by a snowy
evergreen tree, with Harrison Bclding at
her side. He was tall, good-looking and
altogether quite distingue, so Boynton
thought.
He was Colonel Belding's son, and pros
pective heir to a property of no mean
proportions. Boynton girls admired and
coveted him, but he had hardly looked
at one of them since Phoebe iWilliama
had come to town. '
"Charming night,PMiss Williams," he
said, shoving a cuif to a safe distance
from the sticky substance in his hands.
"Yes, delightful," Phoebe assented,
lilting her bright; eyes to the starry sky.
"Wasn't I lucky?"
"You're alwavs lucky," Harrison re
joined, bending his own fine orbs upon
ner. "iwisniwasl" he added, enig
matically. "
"Why, aren't tou,. Mr. Belding?" said
Phoebe, in pretty concern.
"I don't know !" Harrison burst forth,
boldly.. "It's for you to decide."
"Why, what can you mean?" Phoebe
murmured.
"Well, I mean this," Harrison re
joined, determinedly 'that I shall con
sider whatever luck I've had so far in
life as nothing worse than-nothing if,
to crown it, I can't have you. Miss Will
iams Phceoe you must have known
this. Come; give me one word of hope.
I can't live without it!" .
He came closer to her, with a frantic
but unsuccessful effort to free his hands
from their sticky bonds.
Phoebe moved back gently, with a
timid, upward glance.
"Oh, Mr. Belding shei? began, de
precatingly. "Don't say no don't, Miss Williams
Phoebe !" Harrison implored.
"But I can't say yes," said Phoebe,
softly. "I don't know, Mr. Belding,
whether I care for you or not."
"But you don't know that you don't,"
cried her lover, tearing frenziedly at his
auorary shackles.
"N-no." Ph'ibe admitted, with her
eyes cast downward.
. "Then I can hope !" cried Harrison,
triumphantly: "and I'm confident, Miss
Williams Phoebe that you'll decide
favorably. $lw4j 1tw m !
nobody could make you happier. I
may hope for a speedy answer, may I
not 1 may call lor it soon t"
"Yes," Phoebe responded, sweetly.
He did look very handsome standing
there, tall and manly, under the stars.
Phoebe bestowed a faint smile upon
him as she slipped timorously away.
Eben .Lake stood leaning against tne
fence. He interposed himself in Fhxbe's
path, with a calm! smile of proprietor
ship, and Phoebe stopped, not quite un
willingly. I
Eben Lake was, in a sense, the pride
of Boynton. He had been uncommonly
bright at school, and an admiring uucle
had sent him to a law-school, whence
he had emerged with high honors. Now
he had a lucrative practice in the largest
town in the county, and was known
among his fellow-practitioners as a
sharp fellow; and he was not yet
twenty-five. Boynton was justly proud
of him. - I
Stop here, Miss Williams 1" he com
manded. "I haveb't seen anything of
you all the evening" 1
"Oh, Mr. Lake, I danced a quadrille
with you!" said Phoebe, reprovingly.
"Oh. I don't coiiLt that!" Eben de
clared. "To tell the truth, Miss Will
iam's, I don't count anything, unless--unless
it has a meaning, and you under-
A -1 mi : 1 A J
stano. it so. inerei do you unaersianu
tnatr
"1 don't know, I said Phoebe, some
what unsteadily. J '
Another! What was she to do?
"Well, I'll explain," Eben proceeded,
with professional calmness. "1 mean
Miss Williams, that I waut you to marry
me. ' I have had this in my mind for
some time in fact, since I first saw you;
and it has lately occurred to me to settle
matters. I don't need to tell you of my
esteem for you of my love ; you must be
aware of that. May I not hope that you
return it if"
He was pulling his candy with strong
hands and perfect self-possession. Miss
Phsebe glancing upjat him from beneath
tne pink scarf ou her soft hair, felt
thrill of admiration for his strength acd
his' cleverness. She hesitated, prettily
"If you want time to consider it,"
said Eben, reassuringly, "you shall have
it. I know this may seem sudden to
you, but my feelings would not endure
a longer repression. ,1 shall return to
the city in three days. You will give
me my answer before I go, will you not?
You will never meet with one more de
voted to your best happiness, Miss Will
iams!" i .j.
"I appreciate the honor you do me,"
Phoebe murmured !"but I will take the
three days, please, to think it over."
4 Eben waved a courteous hand.
"In three days I confidently expect to
be engaged to the piettiest girl in the
State!" I i
He smiled, tenderly and triumphantly,
as Phnebe fluttered! past him, her color
heightened and her lips parted tremu
lously, i
John Wells was i standing in the mid
dle of the snow-piled flower-bed, in
solitary state. Phoebe paused at its
'edge. . pj -y. -
"You look like patience on a monu
ment 1" she declared, with a half hyster
ical laugh. i '
. "I 'don't feel unlike it." said John,
joining her with a long stride.
"vvnjr lJioebe jctemanded, calming
Oh, yes, quite correct, Mr. Belding 1 1
Aunt Lucinda had nothing."
Harrison paled, reddened, and moved
uneasily from one foot to the other and
back again.
"I hardly know how to put it, Mlsa
Williams." he stammered; "but this
ah intelligence naturally affecta my
plans as regards yourself. Naturally,
Miss Williams naturally, you must admit"
Phoebe rose.
"You mean, Mr. Belding," Bhe said,
pleasantly, "that you wish to withdraw
the proposal with which you honored
me the other evening?"
-1 well, but you must see. Miss
Williams," Harrison faltered, with his
eyes on the floor, "that a fellow that a
man "
I see, certainly, Mr. Belding," said
Phoebe, quite collectedly. "I am glad
to be able to release you. lie assured
that I do it freely 1"
Mr. Bclden, passing down the front
steps, met Eben Lake coming up. He
Carried a satchel, and a cane and um
brella strapped together, and he bowed
before Phoebe, in the parlor, in a hur
ried way.
"I am on my way to the station, Misa
Williams," he informed her; "but I
wished to assure you of my deep sym
pathy in your bereavement."
"lhank you!" said .rnocDe, raising
her candid eyes to his.
But Eben avoided them.
"Forgive me for mentiouing such
thing at such a time, Miss Williams," he
continued, hastily, "but as this is my
only chance is it true that your Aunt
Lucinda was not possessed of the for
tune she was generally believed to
have?'
"Perfectly true." Phoebe rejoined, in
mild tones.
Eben took out his watch.
"I have not a moment to spare, Miss
Williams," he said. "You must over
look my abruptness ; but I am forced to
tell you that the matter I mentioned to
you theother evening, is or at least.
that I no longer desire to proceed in it,
if you will consent to my withdrawal.
am exceedingly sorry at being obliged to
say this, you know, but '
He was already half way to the door.
Phoebe followed him with calm eyes.
"Certainly, Mr. Lake," she said, quite
cordially; and the door closed behind
him.
Five minutes later the waitress won
deringly admitted a third gentleman.
"I couldn't stay away any longer,"
said John Wells, standing close to
Phoebe, with both her hands in his. "I
am &o sorry for you, dearl May I call
you that? Will yeu let me take care of
you now as well as I can? I can't be
sorry Aunt Lucind i was poor, because if
she hadn't been well, you knew how it
was, didn t you? Perhaps it was foolish
in me false pride but I couldn't help
it. If I had known, though, that you
did care for me, I guess I'd have risked
it -in spite of your thousands 1"
For there was no longer a doubt in
his bounding heart; the tenderness in
her soft eyes settled that. Still, there
was an expression in them which he did
not understand. He started back: sud
denly, "Have I made a mistake?" he said, in
confusion. "Has everybody made a
mistake? Was Aunt Lucinda rich and
BUDGETOF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Peculiar People One "W Enonh
A Great Commercial Troth
Betrayed the Old Man
Short in Experience. :
There was a young doctor of Skye,
w. uuw paiieuts seemed destined to die:
T) . . A. I 1 r a .
Ajui, ue leis mem one day,
Trt flm fiahincr t.hov no vr
And they all got well, just for a guy.
There is au old man in Dulnth,
Whft mail. n V. : 1 i .
muo ujiiu, miuu ia ii is voulu .
ipai ne never would he;
finw Via' a Inn tr n rr t-s, t i a
He's so tired of telling the truth.
There is a young girl in Cohoes,
uf uuu as irt sn as a rose;
- . sue ciphers in Ureek,
And She 8teaks Vnlnnulr
And she'll die an old maid, I suppose.
There was a y6ung man in Japan,
ii uo wrote verses alter this plan;
rus me populace rage.
As you may suppose,
Anu mey wipea out that wretchel young
iiihii.
Somerville Journal.
One AY as Enough. .
Agent "Can I put a burglar alarm in
your nouse, siri"
Citizen "Nop; I had one once."
Agent "What was the matter?
Wouldn't it go off?"
Citizen TOh, yes, it went off easily
enough. Burglar got into the house one
night and arned it off." New York Sutu
A Great Commercial Truth.
Johnny (whose father is an editor)
"Say, Mr. Storekeeper, do you keepsu
gar, ica, cauco and tningsf"
Storekeeper "Certainly, my boy."
Johnny cs, and pa says you will
keep um unless you advertise." Sil-
mgs.
Betrayed the Old Man.
"These fish,my dear Mrs. Hendricks,
remarked the minister who was discuss
ing a Sunday dinner with the family
are aeucionsiy iresu. i am enjoying
them very much."
"They ought to be fresh," volunteered
bobby, who was also enjoying them
"la caught cm oniy this morning."
Bangor Commtrcial.
Where Colors Come From.
A well-known artist cave me some
curious information the other day re
garding the sources from which the
colors one finds in a paint box are d
rived. Every quarter of the globe is
ransacked for the material animal.
vegetable and mineral employed In
their manufacture. From the cochineal
insects are obtained the crorceous car
mine, as well as the crimson, scarlet and
purple lakes. Sepia is the inky fluid
discharged by the cuttlefish to render
the water ouaoue for its concealment
when attacked.
Indian yellow is from the cameL Ivory
black and bone black are made out of
ivory chips. The exquisite Prussian
blue is got by fusing horses' hoofs and
other refuse animal matter with impure
potassium carbonate. It was discovered
by an accident. In the vegetable king-
uom are included tne lakes, derived
from roots, barks and gums. Blueblack
is from the charcoal of the vinestalk.
Lampbi.u.k U soot from certain rcsJonn
Bubstanccs. From the madder plant.
wnicn grows in Hindoos tan, is manu
factured turkey red. Gam bo ere comes
from the yellow sap of a tree, which the
natives oi oiam catch, in cocoanut shells,
waw sienna is the natural earth from
the neighborhood of Sienna. Italy.
hen burned it is burnt sienna. Raw
umber is an earth from Umbria, and ia
also burned. To these vegetable nicr-
i -vi i jj.s t
uicuiauinj )iuuauijf uu miucu inula 1UK,
which is said to be made from burnt
camphor. The Chinese, who alone pro
duce it, will not reveal the secret of its
composition. Mastic, the base of the
varnish so-called, is from the gum of tho
mastic tree, indigenous to the Grecian
Archipelago. Bistre ia the soot of wood
ashes. Of real ultramarine but little
found in the market. It is obtained
from the precious lapis lazuli, and com
mands a fabulous price. Chinese white
is zinc, scarlet is iodide of mercury, and
cinnabar or native ermillon is from
quicksilver ore. Luckily for the health
of small children, as my friend the art
ist remarked, the water colors in the
cheap boxes usually bought for them
have little or no relation, chemically, to
the real pigments they are intended to
counterfeit. ikin Francisco Examiner.
TTOBDS OF WISDOB..
Work, for time ia flying.
The only disadvantage of an honest
heart is credulity.
A man may say too much eve n upo
the best subjects.
Labor rids us of thrco evils tedious-
nes, vice, and poverty.
You should forgive many things in
others, but nothing in yourself.
The one prudence in life is concentra
tion; the one evil dissipation.
When a thing is well meant we should
always take it that way, if we possibly
can.
Men are won, not to much by being
blamed as by being encompassed with
love.
Silence never shows itself to so great
an advantage as when it is the reply to
calumny and defamation.
The art of exalting lowliness and giv
ing greatness to little things is one of
the noblest functions of genius.
Forbearance and self-control smooth
the road of life, and open many ways
which would otherwise remain closed.
As riches an 1 favor forsake a man,
we discover him to be a loot; out
nobody could find it out in Lis prosperity.
When we desire or solicit anything,
our minds runs wholly on the good side
or circumstrnces of it; when it is oV
taineJ, only on the bad ones. :
How often we sigh for opportunities
of usefulness, whilst we neglect the
opening in little things vhich would
lead to the accomplishment of most im
portant usefulness.
Short in His Esperiencc
nappy Young Husband "Belle and
get along very amicably. Not the
slightest coldness has occurred, and we
have been married almost a year."
Wise Father "Did you ever
match any trimming for her?"
No, 1 haven't."
"Then your experience hasn't com
menced yet," Life.
try to
down under the friendly glance of John's you're an heiress after all?" .
feleasant ;erav evesi arfd taking a bite "No. nol" cried Phoebe, followin
:from h'er'lcandy, which was getting hard.
'Wew" said John, slowly, "when 1
have to stand still
to Belding or Lake
and see you talking
or anybody else, for
that matter, patience is all that keeps
me well, sane!"
He laughed apologetically as he said
it ; and he said no more.
Phoe.be found herself wondering if he
never would say any more. Not that she
wanted him to. t Two proposals in an
evening, and those Unanswered, were
quite enough ! j .
But John had said things of the same
kind before, and always stopped short at
the most incomplete point.
Not that John Wells flirted. N05
Phoebe knew better than that. But he
was a clerk in a hardware-store, and the
sole support of j his mother and two
younger sisters ; and Phoebe was au heir
ess! - it-"'
No; silence had been John's role hith
erto, and he had told himself, sternly,
that so far as Phoebe Williams was con
cerned it would continue to be.
"Don't you think it's pulled enough?"
said Phoebe, for want of something bet
ter to say, holding out her stiffening
twist. "I'm going to eat mine. See
everybody is. j Why don't you eat
yours?'' I
"I don't feel hungry," said John, so
berly. ; j ii
But he looked hungrily at Phoebe,
nevertheless. ; i -'j i
"You can have mine then. Will you
eat that?" said Phoebe, breathless at her
own daring, .j !j
And she thrust it into his hand, and
saucily snatched his own, and ran away,
leaving the young man red and trem
bling with a pleasure that was half
pain. j j .fj '
'Three days afterward, Boynton was
shocked and sympathetically grieved by
the news of Aunt Lucinda's very sudden
death.
Shocked and grieved, but alas, for
human nature ! far beyond these emo
tions in depth and intensity was the as
tonishment and horror which greeted a
second and complementary piece of in
telligence. . -I
Aunt Lucinda had not possessed a for
tune, and, as a natural consequence,
Phoebe Williams was not an heiress I
The report was well founded. Phoebe
herself had told Judge Campbell so with
her own lips, when- he had called to as
sist in the funeral arrangements, and had
put a delicately-framed inquiry on the
subject. ! !i
Aunt Lucinda had had no money!
That was the news which set all Boyn
ton agog. Where had the fine house
and the finer furnishings come from?
What had they lived on? What would
Phxbe do now? Boyton well-nigh lost
its reason in the breathless discussion of
these sphinx-like riddles.
PhTbe Williams sat in the richly-furnished
parlor, late on that exciting day.
Her sweet face, sad and subdued, was
sweeter than ever in its black rushings.
Possibly Harrison Belding, who stood
before her, thought so. If he did, how
ever, he gave no sign of it.
'I was dreadfully shocked to hear, of
your aunt's death, Miss Williams," he
was saying, in properly-modulated tones.
'Accept my heartfelt condolence !" i
"She was all 1 had," said Phoebe,
gently.; l don't know how I shall get
on without her dear Aunt Lucinda!"
Harrison cleared his throat nervously.
''I you will excuse me, Miss Will
iams, if I intrude upon . your grief
with' an apparently inappropriate matter,
but-;-pray excuse me but is the report
that your Aunt Lucinda was penniless a
correct one?" ! "
f'A.unt Luanda? Phoebe repeated.
him . as he retreated, with both hands
round his arm. "No, shehadnt a cent.
but I've never let her feel it. I've taken
care of her for a long time, aud gladly.
The money's mine, don't you see? I've
been an heiress for years. And I dont
think much of Boynton for not know
ing it."
"But " said her lover, slowly.
"But what? but nothing!" cried
Phbe, tenderly. "You've asked me to
marry you, and I'm going to do it, and
I shan't let you off. I thnk it's you I've
liked all the time, dear . '
Everybody in Boynton knew the facta
of the case within twenty-four hours.
How ever it leaked out concerning Har
rison Belding and Eben Lake was a mys
' tery ; but those enterprising youn?j men
did not hear the .last of the subject for a
long and heart rending time. Saturday
Better Than Ether.
Surgeon "Now, my man, I am about
to amputate your foot."
Well, go ahead."
'I would advise you to submit to being
placed under the influence of an anaesthetic.'
"Hang your anesthetic ! But I'll tell
you what I wish you would do."
"Well''
"Have somebody bring me the score of
the ball game by innings while you're at
work." Ntbraska Journal.
Obliging.
Jones met a blind man in the street
the other evening who, with stick in
hand, was carefully thumping his way
along. Presently he saw him stop.
"is this yc ur house?' a$ked Jones.
"Yes, sir."
"Well, then," remarked our friend.
always ready to do a good turn to a fellow-creature
in distress, as he placed a
box of wax tapers in his hand, "here's
something to light your way up stairs.1
Judge.
The Grief of a Cowboy Do.
A cattle man from Arizona, William
Wilson by name, recently paid a visit to
San Francisco, says the New lork bun,
and brought with him a dog that would
have delighted the heart of the author of
"Sartor Kesartus." For . the animal
flaunts a real Carlylean contempt for the
fripperies of civilization and the useless
adornment 01 clothes.
Mr. Wilson sent Nugget, the dog, to
board with a dog fancier in a canine
boarding house, and then went to a
clothing store and exchanged his cow
boy's rig for new clothes of the latest
cut. The next day he called on Nugget,
but Nugget would have none of him,
The master whistled to the dog, petted
him, and made every effort to make him
understand that affection was not
changed, even though clothes had been.
The dog looked up at the silk hat which
had taken the place of the broad
brimmed slouch to which he had been
accustomed, sniffed at the dude-like
cane, and surveyed the light trousers
from several points of view, and then
walked off to the corner of the room, lay
down, and gave a long, mournful howL
Mr. Wilson tried to coax him out of the
corner, but could not. Nugget would
look up at him with a knowing expres
sion in his eye, and occasionally give
the feeblest little wag to the end of his
tail, but he could not be induced to re
consider his evident determination not
to recognize his master in any such
ridiculous attire as that.
Mr. Wilson went to his hotel, donned
his cowboy rig again, and then returned
to Nugget's quarters. The instant the
dog saw him he was almost w Id with
joy, and his delight at seeing his master
again clothed as lie thought a man ought
to be was almost unbounded.
Imperious Hired Help.
First Dame (a few years hence)- "How
are you getting along now, dear?"
Second Dame " ery nicely. . I have
secured the services of a person to come
in once a day, make the bed, dust the
bric-a-brac and clean the silver. For a
little extra she also lists the clothes for
the laundry. "-
"How fortunate you are?"
"Yes, indeed. That leaves me nothing
to do but sweep, cook, wash dishes,
carry coal and scrub." ihtuiha Wor,'d.
Sailors In Arctic Seas.
"What do we do with so many old
papers? Send them up to the Arctic
Ocean."
It was the proprietor of a San Fran
cisco outfitting store on Pacific street
and he was answering the inquiry of tho
Examiner reporter as to what he wanted
of 5000 old pictorial and story papers for
which he had advertised.
"To the Arctic Ocean I And what do
you do with them there?"
'We send them up to the sailors on
the whaling vessels. About 300 sailors.
engaged through us, are up there over
half the year, and to each one of these
we send at le ist fifteen papers every sea
son, lhey are glad to get most any
thing in the shapa of a paper, but most
of the men like magazines and such
papers better than anyihingelse."
"Do you depend entire. y on the an
swers to your advertisements for your
stock of papers!"
"No; we go to each one of the news
papers in this city, both weekly and
daily, and get back numbers. And then
we send to each of thesailors a few of the
current issues of the city papers. These
papers here came in answer to our ad
vertisement," and he put his hand on
stack three feet high. Some of the num
bers dated back eijjht or nine years.
"Those letters, do tl-.ey also go? ' A
long box full of yellow envelopes, each
with a superscription to somebody on
some whaleship, "Arctic Ocean," lay be
side the papers.
"Yes, we send each year one letter to
each man. Of course they like to know
what is going on here, and we write a
general account of matters of interest
and personal gossip and whatever we
think the men would like to know.'"
"You don't write a different, indi
vidual le'.ter to each man, do you?"
"Oh, no. We bunch them as much
as possible and make the same letter in
duplicate do for several men. These let
ters are all ready lo be sent up next week
on the Bear, but it will be about a month
before the papers and letters are all fixed
up and started off. The men exchange
their papers and letters, so that what we
send keeps the entire fleet in reading
matter through the season."
Opium Cultivation. :
Opium occupies the first place in the
foreign trade of Persia. It insures the
largest and most direct cash return to
the producer, and, as a natural conse
quence, the area under cultivation ia
increasing greatly. 1 he two principal
markets are Hong Kong and London.
The quantity of morphia contained in
Persian opium is 11J to twelve per cent,
while in other op um producing coun
tries it rarely exceeds 9 per cent. l a
paver somniferum, or white poppy, of
which opium is the inspissated juice, is
grown principally in and about Ispahan,
lezd, and Shiraz, that of Ispahan being
superior both in quality and quantity
The preparation of the land begins about
September 5, and consists in plowing.
harrowing, fertilizing abundantly with
ashes and detritus, and laying oil into
squares to facilitate irrigation. After
sowing, the fields are irrigated three
times, at intervals of fifteen days. After
that there is only more irrigation
about the middle of the winter. In the
spring, irrigation takes place on March
20. after which the land ia repeatedly
harrowed and hoed in order to extirpate
all parasitic weeds. The planta are
thinned, and then watered every ten
days until "flowering begin, wben all
work must cease. When the heads have
formed and have fully ripened, a last
flooding is given. Then six slight in
cisions are made at abcutthe junction of
the stem with the head. This should be
done at noon. The juice that exudes ii
collected the next morning, and the
morning following at daybreak. When
these first .incisions have ceased dis
charging, others are made lower down
and the operation may be thus thrice re
peated, the opium obtained after each
successive incision being proportionately
inferior quality. Next, the planta them
selves are cut down and the heads sold,
the natives use the seed on bread as
substitute for butter. The end of May
the season for harvesting. Chem'ut
and Druggist.
A SPRAY OF APPLE BLOSSOMS.
They lay on the broad, low window ledge,
Where the band of a little child
H?d placed tbem dewy, and fresh, and
sweet
And the grandmother had smiled, '
And softly stroked with her wrinkled band
' The curly, tambled bead ;
And then the needles bright were still;
Unrolled the snowy thread.
For, borne on the breath of the apple
b'oom, ,
Bbe lived in the goMen pst;
Sbe saw an orchard where blossom snows
Were falling thick and fast
Falling upon the fair, bent head
Of a maiden in girlhood's prim. f
Reading a letter, worn and crease 1
From folding many a time.
"When the apple blossoms are here onoa
more,
I shall come bark, Allaire
Shall come for my answer." The scented
wind.
Which ruffled the maiden's hair.
Brought to her ears a weii-known voios, 1
She turned in a startled way
'I have come for my answer; what is it.
dearr
What could she do but lay ,
Her hands in the eager, outstretched onesf
Ah! life is sweet in J une.
When hearts keep time to the lipoid Bow
Of life, and light, and tune;
And wben, in her snowy, floating veil, "
She stood on her bridal morn.
She would have but the tinted apple bloom
Her white robe to adorn.
Through the open window the western wind
Blew soft on the wrinkled face.
Wben a smile shone, sweet as that could be
Which had Ut her girlhood grace.
A little v6ice called ber truant thoughts: '
Grandpapa sent me to see
If you knew that the clock has been striking
six!
And he wants yon to pour his tea!"
Good Housekeeping.
Half and Half.
Young Wife "John, I wish you would
rock the baby."
l oung Husband "What 11 1 rock the
babv for?"
Y. W. "Because he is not very well.
And what's more, half of him belongs
to you, and you should not object to
rock him."
Y. H. "Well, don't half belong to
you's" , . .
Y. W. "Yes."
Y. H. "Well, you can rock your half
and let my half holler." Viet eland loicn
Horrible Hevenjse.
Omaha man "Did you go to Mrs. Do
Fashion's boarding house to-day f
Wife "Yes. She refuses to take us
because we have a child ; but I got even
with her."-
"Gave her a piece of your mind, eh?"
"No, indeed: that wouldn't have done
any good. I told Miss Fad there was a
room vacant at Mrs. De Fashion's, and
she went around and secured it; paid for
three months in advance."
"Who is Miss De Fad?"
"She is one of those art enthusiasts,
She hammers brass." Omaha World.
regular
1)0 Figures Lie I
Let us seel
Two women had 30 chickens each, which
they took to market. They ageed to di
vide equally the proceeds of their sale.
One sold her chickens 2 for a dollar,
getting for the 30 chickeas $15.
The other sold hers 3 for a dollar,
getting for her 30 chickens $10.
This made $25 realized for the 60
chickens.
The merchant called on to divide th
money said :
You sold your 30 chickens 2 for a dol
lar, and you Bold your 30 chickens 3 fa
a dollar. That makes 60 chickens at thJ
rate of 5 for two dollars. Well, 5 inU
60 eoes twelve times twice twelve is 2
That makes $24 dollars your chick eni
have brought." But, as shown above,
the women actually had $25 in pocket
Anl vet the merchant's fi&rurea weri
rtchtl
pq figure Jiel 4aa ComHM
In a Big Pickle.
Brown "I hear that Jones is com
plicated financially."
Robinson "Yes, he is in a
pickle."
"May be so, but he's not in as big
pickle as he was last summer."
"I didn't know that he was financially
embarrassed last summcrr
"I didn't say that he was. I merely
said he was in a biff ruckle last summer.
and so he was. He bathed every day in
the Atlantic ocean at Long Branch
That's being in a big pickle, ain't it.
Sifting.
A Nervons Dinorder.
Lady (to physician) "I wish you would
stop and see my husband, doctor. He
suffering from some nervons
tronb
PjAsTcian "In what way does his
ousness show itself?"
,ady "He jumps every time the front
or bell rings.
Physician JWell, I will stop when I
am passing: but 1 m inclined to think
madam, that your husband ought to see
a banker not a physician. lui-bits.
Remains of a Ruined City.
The surveys at present being made for
the Kansas City, LI Paso and Mexican
Railroad, which will be built in a diag
onal direction through New Mexico from
northeast to southwest, promise to bring
to the light of modern exploration
some regions of remarkable interest
which have heretofore been closed to the
scientist on account cf their inaccessi
bility. The sun eying parties have passed
along the lava flow which by the local
population is called the Molpais, which
is proKaoir me mosi unique 01 its Kinu
in America. It consists of a sea of
molten black glass, agitated at the
moment of cooling in ragged waves of
fantastic shapes. These lava waves or
ridges are from 10 to 12 feet high with
combing crests, and the whole formation
presents the appearance of having been
made at a comparatively modern period.
The lava flow is about forty miles long
from northeast to southwest, and from
one to ten miles wide. For miles on all
sides the country is the most desolate
that can be imagined. It has been liter
ally burned up. It consists of fine white
ashes to any depth which, so far, has
been dug down. To the north of the lava
fiow,and lying in a country equally deso
late and arid, the. surveyors have come
upon the ruins of Gran Guivera, known
already to the early Spanish, explorers.
but which have been visited by. white
men less often even than', the mysterious
ruins of Palenque in Central America.
Only a few people at Socorro and White
Oaks, New Mexico,' have been at Gran
Guivera, because it is at present forty
mile3 from water. The surveyors fo.ind
the tuins to be of gigantic stone build
ings made in the most substantial man
ner and of grand proportion. 'ne of
them was four acres in extent. All in
dications around the ruins point to the
existence here at one time of a dense
population.
No legend of any kind exists as to how
this great city wa destroyed or when it
was abandoned. One of the engineers
attached to the surveying expedition ad
vances the theory that Gran Guivera waa
in existence and abundantly supplied
with water at the time the terrible vol
canic eruption took place. New York
Timet.
One of the plans by which the Indiana
hunted the buffalo was by stampeding a
herd and driving them over a steep
precipice to sure death below.
South American Mosquitoes.
One of the pests of life in Soutk
America is the ubiquitous mosquito.
which there attains such an enormous
size and venom that his victims are num
bered by the scores, xsot long ago a
herd of valuable cattle taken from the
United States to a ranch upon the Mag-
dalena niter became so desperate under
the attack of the mosnuitoca that they
broke from their stalls, jumped into the
watci and all were drowned. Passengers
intending to make the voyage usually
provide themselves with protection in
the shape of mosquito bars, head .nets
and thick gloves, and when on deck are
compelled to tie their sleeves around
their wrists and pantaloons around their
ankles. Even these precautions arc not
always effective. Large as the insects
are they seem to have the power to creep
rough the smallest crevice, and it is
often necessary to change one's clothing
four or rive time a day on their account.
Day and night they give the sensitive
skinned travelers no rest. I have been
solemuly assured that very often when
they have attacked a boat and driven it
captain aud crew below they have
broken 'the windows of the cabin by
plunging in swarms against them and
have attempted ' to burst in the doors
Although this may be aomething of an
exaggeration it is nevertheless true that
frequently horses and cattle, after the
moat frightful sufferings, have died from
mosquito bites on board the vessels.
PITH APPOINT.
A plane talker The carpenter.
Diamond dust Money paid for a soli
taire.
The way of the world Twelve ouncea .
to the pound.
Artists ought to know how to draw.
the color line. 1
Cats are the poets of the lower ani
mals. They alone cultivate the mews.
Vitltb-irg Chronicle.
The painter of still life should natur
ally look for his best aubjecta among the
moonshiners. Bo!on Port.
When a burglar breaks into a house ho
generally steals up stairs, and everything
elte he can lay hia hands on. Uje.
New York has a baseball club called
The Girls." It is doubtlesi referred to
as the Femi-nine. Norrittown HeraM.
How astonished some dead men would
be if they could get out of their grave
long enough to read their epitaphs.
Lljr.
The judges are now nearly as well paid
as the baseball players, but the game is
not nearly so interesting. Joruhla
Neics.
" A ki"s gees further thai a blow,?
Said Kit, the little wfzsird. j
It may perhaps.' was John's rep'y,
" L'n.eas the blow's a blizzard.
Wnidringto Critir.
Fair Friend "And do you ever soak
your brushes, Mr. Palette:" . Artist
"No, I'm happy to say I nevcr.wa re
duced so low aa that," liar card Lam
poon. The cooking-school lectures are closed
until fall to allow the pupils to experi
ment on the new compounds and give the
dyspeptks a chance to recover. Do-ton
Glo e.
Judges should certainly wear robes.
It doesn't seem right to be sent up for ten
years by a man who wears a three-button
cutaway coat and a speckled trout waist
coat. Life.
If, with the poets, we believe . f
That Adam sinned to be with Eve, I
We're sure the sacrifice be made
Kve's daughters nobly have rrpaid, :
For ot r all the earth since then 1
They kindly stooped to marry men.
Jioslo Courier. '
"Speaking about cluba," remarked Mr.
Cumso, who had just been elected a
member of the Manhattan, "they are the
sign posts of civilization. Y011 never
hear of savages forming themselves into
societies for mutual improvement and
pleasure." th, nonsense!" replied Mrs.
Cumso. "lve heard 01 Indian ciuds
ever since I could walk." Tid-Jiit.
Baltimore counts on a million popula
tion ten years nence,
Miss Glasa has beeq married ta
Brittle in Pittsburg.
Mr.
A Curious Talisman.
Dr. E. B. Scribner has a curious watch
charm, of Oriental pattern, set with a
peculiar stone, bearing some resemblance
to a moss agate, which was odco the
property of the Khedive of Egypt. It
was presented to a friend of the doctor's
by a ruler of that country, aud by him
presented to Dr.. benbner. 1 he stone is
said to have come from the bottom of
the Jed ea and to have been lor years
the talisman of one of the Chiefs o: the
Stranglers of India. The man became
a prisoner of the Khedive and the stone
one of his treasure. It was presented
to the American in recognition of the
latter's bravery in saving the life of one
of the Khedive'a favorite courtiers, who
was rescued from the grave in the Nile
by the American. LouucilU Courier-
Journal
A Fanner's View or Freaehln?.
Weu, wife, toarn sermons seems to me.
Art like the ridin' plow:
They're easy, purty kind o' things,
But dont go deep somehow.
They take ye over lot o' ground.
An' science styles is such.
Both in the sermon an' the plow.
That one don't feel it much.
To-day our preacher skinned along.
An' 'peared to do a neap,
A cuttin kivrin' of the weeds
Heoughter plowed in deep:
An' wben be halted at the end.
An' got his team ung-ared.
The deril laiTed to see the tares
A growin', I'm afeard.
This scientific plowin , now.
An' science preachin', too.
Both run too shatter for the work
The pint has got to dot.
You've got to let the trace out.
An' change the e'evis pin.
Then hist the handles bold 'em tight.
An let the Dint CO tit.
La a, Cafe, i Omaha World.
.The Colored Republic. 1
Mr. Charles 11. J. Taylor, ex-Minister
to the Republic of Liberia, puts the.
value of the private property in that
country at $1, 001, 000, or $1 jer capita.
The "nat.on has a bonded indebtedness
of $2,0'K,000, and over $7,0OO,0OJ
have been sent to it by benevolent per
sons in this country sxd England. There
are about as many Cabinet Ministers sa
in the United States. . There are only
four post offices in the country. The
navy consists of two gunboats, presented
by the English Government, which are
rotting on the sand. Some time ago the
President of the United States recom
mended to Congress the giving to the
infant republic of two old war vessels,
but the offer waa rejected unless crews
and provisions for ten years were pro
vided. The army consists of one regi
ment, numbering 417 men, of whom 3Vi
are oificers and 2 J privates. The Presi
dent's body guard numbers 19, of whom
17 are of&rera. In home of the countiea
there are not enough citizens to hold the
offices, but in the others there are just
about enough to go round.
Class distinctions prevail to the extent
they did in the Southern State during
slavery t me. The citizens domineer
ovet the savages and often use them
crucllv. Their boys- make the young
tax ages carry them on their backs to
school and do all kinds of work for them.
Candidates for admission to the Bar are
required to read the first chapter of
John's gospel and to spell the columns of
words in Webster's selling book as far
aa 'publication. They must also read
the Laws parsed by the last aevaion of
Congress. The Legislative Assembly
consist of two branches, the Upper
House having eight members and the
Lower House thirteen. The annual ses
sion generally lasts two weeks, and the
laws enacted fill about three pages.
Atalanekr.
Consular reports show that the average
wages of women employed aa c!oak and
d res-makers in the large cities of Ger
many amount to from 41 to $2 a week,
while makers of underclothing earn ahut
$l..iO to $2.50 a week, but work Lanier.
Few of there workers think of having
what is known in this country a "a
square meal" oftener than once a week
oaSundfj. - .