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SFh(j (fj-halham Record.;
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PITTSBOHO CHATHAM CO., N. C, AUGUST 17, 1882.
NO. 49.
lite Light or Hope.
Tim course of tlio wt ariet rivur
Ends in the groat pray .
Tho acoui, forever ami t'vor,
Strives upward to lliotroe.
Tie rainbow, tho sky adorning,
Khiues promiso thion di tin- norm;
Tbe glimmer of coming morniug
Through midnight gloom will form
By time all knots are rivi n,
Complex although liny bo,
And ohcc will at last I o given,
Duar, both to you and to mo.
Thon, though tho path may be drrary,
L )ok onward to thn goal;
Though the heart and tho head ho weary.
Let faith inspire thu mml;
B"ck the right though tho wrong he leniilui;
Kpeak tho truth ut any cost;
Vain in uli weak exempting
When once tho hi m in lost.
1,0 1 etio'ig hand and lc n eye ho n a ly
For plain and ambii-dicd fo ;
Though anient and t.niey i-to.vly
Hear I 1-st until tin; c!oo.
Tno heavy ilotid nay ho raining,
Hut Willi evening cornea t!in light;
Though tho low wiihIh aro Complaining,
Yrt tho minrio gilds the height:
Au-1 lovo lias its hidden tn ai-uro
For thu p.i'l' iit and iho pure;
And time givea liin fullest moa-uno
To the workers who endure;
And the Word that no law huth shaken
Ha tho future pledge supplied;
For we know tliat whim wo 'awaken"
We shall I e "siilielied.-'
PLODDING TOM.
"Tom Dunn, do yuu know your lu.s
son yet?" Tho question, uttered in nn
irritated tone, aru from a young man
who Lad been reading a i,pw. upnr,
waiting fur tho tardy hoy of bis eiuss.
'No-no, Mr, I don't believe. I do.
quite," was the hesitating r- ply.
"Are you nwaro w hut tiu.o it Is ?"
"O-.ie o'clock, sir."
Tom knew that well en-ngh Ut.l
not his eyes lingered r,n tho hands of
the old moon -fucod clctk, und thei.ee
gone roving out the windows to where
the fields wero sleeping in tho u inday
haze? And then he was no huncry.
"Tom, come hei.. I ran t under
stund whnt makes ynu fo stupid." said
the master; and taking tho hook ho
hastily proceeded to leview 'tlio lessim
point after point.
"Do you uuderstmd this?'' ho asked,
"nd that, and that?'
Tom's brow lightened. Ilo v. as
pleased with himself when thi'i.cs 1. oVtd
clearer, aad all doubts vaui-hol.and hw
hearly "Oh, thank you, sir," inado the
the teacher miilo.
"You are very Flow, Dnun, v.'. r
alow I do not think I ever paw a fi llow
just liko you; but I think what yon
learn you learn.
Thatwa ju.st about il. What Tom
Dnnn ttew ho krow theroiiRhly.
"Well, if tl.ero it-n't Totu, just r.s din
ner is douo f cied his (-inter Annie.
"And every bit of the pudding roup,'
nail Osear, tho next eldoNt liiothor. "I
nwdo euro you'd slay all'day."
Toor boy 1" nighed Lia mother; "lie
is always behind in everything. Ewr
sinco ho was a baby ho has beeu blow."
Tom sat down, however und ato the
scraps contente Uy. If had always been
his lot to eat eerupa, XoL-ody M-emod
to think that Tom would earo what ho
ate,
"I don't know what wo phull do with
that boy," Dr. Dunu often said, when
talking over the prospects of their chil
dren. "Charley inclines to tho law,
and Oscar will bo a doctor, but whai
ability has Tom for anything ? Ho is
so slow and plodding; so little ambi
tious, that I am diicjuraged whou 1
think of his future."
'Toor Tom!' slid Mrs. Dunn, be
tween a fcign and a lungh ; "ho is Iho
bluck sheip of tho family. When ho
was a little follow I used to bo startled
by the owl like wisdom of his faco. I
never thought then that it was dullnns.
He Cun't help it. His motions are slow,
his mind is slow, but I hopo he wi i 1
make his way in tho world."
Tom was the butt of tho family, but it
did not seem to anger him at all. He
know he was Mow. Charley con hi play
brilliantly, tdng a song with excellent
effect, play any game well.
O-ioar, his younger brother, was fam
ous for his com ositions and his power
of elocution. All the rent outstripped
biro, an 3 yet he plodded on with
patience.
"Going to the theatro to-night?"
asked a well-dressed young man of Turn,
as they left a store together. This was
four Ytars later, and Tom was a clerk
in Tolman & Tolman's great etttablihh
ment, and so slow and undemonstrative
that the clerks were always chaffing him.
He thought for a moment, and finally
said,
"No."
"Have yon been?"
"No."
"Then you don't know anything of
life"
"Then I don't want to," said Tom.
"By the way, where are you board
ing?" asked his friend, pullirg on a
pair of very tight gloves. Tom never
wore any.
"At Glen's in Holbrook Street"
"Oh, but yon are slow ! Why, that's
way down town."
"That's why I board there. I only
pay four dollars a week. Good evening."
"The meanest fellow I ever met,"
said Dick Dalton, as he planted his
lancy eaue, as heavily as its frailty
wonld admit, cn tho sidewalk.
Tom gained his boarding-honso, a
tall, rusty looking tenement, in tho
fourth stury of which was his room.
It was a desolate-looking apartment,
for bbvo iu the coldofct weather, Tom
never hud a tiro. Tht ro were three
shelves full of excellent books, and on
a table was something that looked like
an aruiehiiir. Bits of pine, and a paper
tilled with rawdut kept them com
pany. Of conrso Tom got frugal meals in
this place. A widow und her daughter
kept tlio Iioupp, letting tho rooms to
loil(?erri ; but Tom's quiet ways had
wo: an ertranoo to their hearts, und
tlicr took li ra lu tht ir table for a small
consideration.
Tom rau up (stairs whim ho reached
lioiue. Ho did not run up u'aird in any
other place-, but thoro was uu attraction
theio which was Letter than the amuse
ments to which his acquaintances do
voted themselves.
Just as ho had seated hinuelf at the
tablo aud takon tip a scrow hoiuo one
kuockod at t!o door. At thj low "come
iu," his el.lot brother preeoutol him
self, dre.si i d in tho height of fashion,
handsomo, nud even imposing iu ap
pearance. "Will, Toiu, theso are your lodg
ings, my boy," fcaid tho young man.
"Not much blylo about them, I must
nay."
"Ni.t much, tail Tom, "cheerfully.
"Haw you jnr.t couiti from homo ?"
'Yen, und everything is g-.iug on
a'iour tlio t-auio. Fa her is mighty
pleaml that I havo got myshitiglc np."
"Are you prospering V ' aked Tom.
Wil li ; Hidi-Inng gianco at tlio ivory cane
a id l i 1 gloves and thu gold chain.
"Oil, so so. Oi course it has taken
some mi tit y to furnish my ollko."
"I iluuii-ht fathor advanced you live
hundred dollars."
' Ho hu did. Tho old gentleman was
very good to mortgage tho property I
stippes') yuu uro iutorui-d of the, fact
but things atoi-o espeuf-ive."
'What things ?''
"Ail things. Ta get business, now-a-dayr
n fellow must mako a show."
"And so you smoko toa-oont cigars,
give a supper now und then, treat your
eonipnuious aud go to tho theatere."
"Oh. Lung it, your blood is water,
Tom; and besides your position is dif
ferent from mine. Things aro expected
from mo. I must go into society. By
and by I shall got a case that will pay
mo tidily for all these sacrifices."
'Sacrifices 1 ' repented Tom, in a tone
that made Charley's blood run faster, so
t'nit ho said to himself with an oath.
" Tho same old slow boy, with no
more brains than an ox. You ure
itili at the machine, I soo," ho said,
aloud.
"Oh, yes. It costs next to nothing
aud if it does not como to any
thing, it gives mo something to think
about."
" Yon don't say that you ever think,''
was tho sarcastic response.
" Well, now aud then I Uu," was tho
slow rejoinder.
Charley rose, nauntorod about the
room for a few moments, and then
stood still, his handsome face red
dening.
"I tuy, Tom, can't you loud me ten
dollars I I am out of cash."
" I uevor lend," said Tom.
Charley's breath grew bhoit and
quick. Home iusultiug speech was on
tho end of his toni'ue, for he folt both
rage and contempt ; but Tom wont to a
de-sk aud lifted the lid.
"If a five-dollar note will do you
any good, you aro quito welcome to
it. It is all I have by me," fid
Tom.
" Well, you are a good fellow,"
gasped Charley, his tongue yet hot
with tho words ho had intended to
bay.
Tom went onee or twice to his
brother's office, and did not like it.
"Why do.-s tho young lawyer spend
a hundred dollars in pictures, and why
does ho keep the company of such men
as I havo met there?" ho asked himself,
indignantly.
f,?.One day Tom received a letter from
his brother Oscar.
"Dear Old Tom, I expeot I shall
have to leave college. Th'ngs are going
wrong at home. I don't suppose any
ono has told you. They seem to think
yon have all you can do to take care of
yonrself, and so you have, I suppose.
Charley has been au awful weight upon
father, and this year the crops have all
failed, aud father is disabled by rheu
matism. I don t care much about
myself. I only studied medicine to
please father, and should rather be
almost anything else. I think I could
write for the newspapers. Can't you
get me a placo in some store ? I could
wtitu evenings, and live with you
Think it over, for I am sure father is
goirg to lose all his propetty. Charley
plays billiards, and, I am afraid, cards.
Write me as soon as you can what can
Le done.for me."
Tom wrote in less than a week. His
employer wanted an under salesman.
Then ho Ret himself to look into his
father's affairs. Everything was going
to ruin. The farm was to be sold; his
father and mother were nearly heart
broken, and no ono for a moment
thought of looking to him. But never
theless he laid his plans. To pay the
mortgage was quito impossible, but he
hired some comfortable rooms in the old
lions') where he stayed, sold what could
be sold from tho stock of tho farm, hud
tho necessary furniture brought to towu
and installed his fathor and mother in
a comfort. iblo homo. Tho old folks
learned to depend on him, and lii! sister
fouud a situation us bcok-keepor.
Ono day u gentleman culled upon Tom
aud was invited into his room.
"You huvo been at work fifteen years
on this maohiuo, you say?" remarked
tho gentleman when ho had exumiuuii it,
Tno speaker was u bu.sino?s uinu.
whoso favor was almost equal to a
fortune.
"Yes, sir," said Tom, quietly; "I was
always a plodder."
"Well, you havo plodded to 6omo
purpose," was tho answer. "I am sure
thoro is money enough in it to malm
you a rich man."
Tom grew very red, and tho room
seemed to go round for a moment.
"Thank yon," he made reply. "I
should like to be rich for tho t-uko of
other.-."
And so, eventnaily, plodding Tom
won the rao : and became tho piuoticul,
efficient, prosperous mau of the fuiuily.
Hoarding One's Self.
It is generally supposed that working
gins who essay to board themselves in
the city are necessarily deprived of many
comforts. Not ut all. A good manager
can live cheaply,, aud well in this man
ner. Wo recall to mind two gir.'s who
loft ploasaut country homes to find their
bread in u grout city. They had not
money enough for first-class board and
lodgiug; so they hiicd the cheapest
room they could find in a good location.
It was not eauly reuchod, being ut the
heud of four flights of siuii.-; und
though stairs ure not as u general thing
considered as help; to stieu th, they
took them as a necessary evil, and made
it u point of economy to traverse them
us few times in tho day us poEsiblo.
They began by provid.ug themselves
with certain inexpensive household ar
ticles; a toasting fork, an alcohol lamp,
two sauce pans, one tin for heating
water, and a second cne lined with por
lain for making tea und chocolate;
plates, knives and spoons. Itlore, as
they were not ill bred in table manuals,
they also purchase forks. They took
breakfast ut one or another restaurant
when in a hurry; but as both were,
from habit and principle, early risers,
breukftutt wus ofti-uer prepared iu their
own room. If you wonder how that can
be quito compatible with tiie most
dainty cleanliness, the unswer must be
that the care with which it id done uiunt
be proportioned to the difficulties ot the
case. To speak plainly, they covered
the bed iguominiously with a largo,
bright blanket, bought for tho occasion,
opened the windows for a thorough and
prolonged sweep of fresh air, while they
used their Indian clubs, and then pro
ceeded to tho serious matter of broak
fast. The uninitiated, who are iu the
habit of thinking of Hour by tho barrel,
and milk by the quart, may not be awaro
that fine white bread can be bought for
five cents, aud a can of condensed milk,
delicious for use in tea and ci'ffee, for
twenty. A small leaf of bread lasted
these two peojlo for two meals and a
euu of condensed milk, in daily use for
ut least one meul, for they both drunk
tea and coffee) was only empty at the
eud ot t. e mouth. Their lull of fare
was considerably varied; there can now
be obtained cans of prepared soup,
twenty-five cents worth of which prepa
ration has been made into six pints of
nourishing, palatable food. Tiie.ro ure.
canned meats of various kinds, most do
licious chickens to bo fouud at moder
ate prices, aud boiled eggs are not to
be despised as articles quickly and sat
isfactorily cooked. There were some
gala occasions when with more time
than usual at their disposal, they in
dulged in delicious cream toast. The
cream was milk, to be sure, bnt care
fully made, seasoned, aud enriched by
a piece of butter, the bread in thin, ar
tistic slices. It was suoU soa-it as ro
restaurant, even the most aristocratic,
ever furnished, and tho cost was never
more than fonr cents apiece. By this
it may be seen that that tho personal
serving of one's self means neither slav
ery nor starvation.
A Formidable Weapon.
A cations piece of artillery has ar
rived at Windsor Castle. Tbe weapon,
which is believed to have come from
snmo Eastern oonntry, has seven barrels,
the bores of which are rather larger than
those of ordinary rifles, laid horizon
tally upon a woo. ten carriage, the cen
tral one being longer than the rest. At
the breech is a groove for a train of
powder to the touchholes, so that nil
the barrels can be discharged simultaneously,
IX AVJ'lti.MiK MAItKKT.
How llio High Price ol Urol tin Aliened iho
llmie aud 0:t l.amhi-r Truili-.
The market for the harvest gathered
in the streets of New York is somewhat
dnll at present, as many of the pro
ducers aro out of town, resting by the
wayside and visiting farm houses. The
demand is fair, and dealers expect a
livelier business in tho fall. The fol
lowing are tin; 'atost quotations, tho
price per pound being fiven in each case:
Old rubber overshoes aud boots, 2
cor.ta; broken f.lass, half a cout; hemp
string, 3 iruii; rags, 1 rents; paper,
a half to one ivid turoe-qnartor cents;
lo id, t cents: brass, '.) cents; copper, Vi
cents; old stovo pipe-i, one-third of a
cout; nails, old kettles, and nil old iron,
ono half cent; old boots ard idiocs, ono
quarter cent; tin, ono quarter cent. Tho
sit ply of tin i. very largo, and tho mar
ket is glutted.
"What U done with old tin ? ' a whole
sale dealer was asked.
It is cast into sash weigh tH."
"How is tho market for old bones?"
was asked.
"Fair but quiet. Trices rather firm
uow ut thirty c -nts a bushel. Bones is
high, I reckon, 'ciuso beef is high, bnt
I tell you th-y n.ust como dowu. Shin
und knee bones of prime quality demand
brtiter prices, b'li if beef do:.'t como
down they'll kiil tho market by this
YuuUt o bone-- hand-mndo bene, like."
"You lue.iu c.'lluloidY"
"You've (.'ot it now. It's just us good
(or buttons and knife handles."
"What is the mott popular article in
your line ?'
"iJottlos, of cmu'so. Soda water and
beor bottles mo worth a cent taeli.
Somoiimes thev run np to two conts;
chaaipane bottles briug more. Ttioy
aro M-ut back to bo filled !aiu."
"Shipped back to Europe ?"
"Now, dou'i. Yes, yes, to Europo,
but on aceuuut of tho strikes they don't
get further thaa Iiobokon."
"What becomes of tho old shoes?"
"Scut to tho mills. What mills?
Pepper mills them that's poor. Oh,
thoy mako lino pepper if wi ll roasted.
The others go to the sole leather mills.
They aro ground up and pressed into
koIo leatner. Big bubiLoss while beef
is high."
' Old straw is sixty-five cents a hnn
dred weight; hardware paper, ninety
cents; newspupors, 81.70, light print
paper, 81; n a ila paper, $2.12; mixed
rag?, S2, and all-wool rags, to. Care
ful junk dealers, who assort their wares
ready for remanufacture, mako a good
profit. Some of them are very rich
men. S. Y. Sun.
i rust it Hoy.
Somewhat more than fifty years ago,
I was uppointod a midshipmaa iu the
navy uud sent to New York. I was only
fourteen years old, aud being of a deli
cate make an 1 small stature, did not
look more thn i cloven. My previous
life l.nl been r.pent in Ihe country, and
I knew nothing of cilj ways or businoss
proceedings. Bay-day was tho thirtieth
of the month, but I wanted some money
on tho twentieth, aud passing through
Wall street I went into a broker's office
and mid,
"You lend money hero, do you not?'
"Yes."
"I wont to borrow twenty dollars for
ten days," 1 said.
I did not then understand tho quizzi
cal manner wi;h which the broker look
ed at me for a few momeuts bofore
replying,
"You shall have it, and I won't charge
you interest for it either."
Ho gave mo the money and I signed
a receipt , and, I need not add, tho twenty
dol!axs woro promptly returned at the
expiration of ten days. I am sorry tha
I havo fsrgoltun the name of i ho broker.
I mentioned tho incident many years
aftorwurd to a gentleman who said it
wus the most extraordinary story he hud
ever henril of Wall street broker, of all
men.
Tho other c iso bappended in Wash
ington about fifteen years n.0. I was
standing in the porch of Williard's
Hotel, when a littlo boy with a bright,
honest face said to mo,
Tleuse, sir, lend me twenty-five cents
to setup in business? I want to buy
some newspapers to sell."
1 replied,
"My boy, I haven't got twenty-five
cents, but here aro fiftv cents, aud
when you waut to return it you will fiud
mo at this hotel."
"Thu k yen," ta:d the little lad. "1
will bring it I a -k."
I ni'Vcr expected to see him or the
money again, and considered it a dona
tion; but in the evening as I was walk
ing up and down in the entrance hall
smoking, my coat was pulled by a little
newsboy, aud I turned and beheld the
youngster who Lai applied for a loan iu
the morning, with tho same bright face
that attracte 1 me then.
"Well, my man, what is it?" I said,
as though I didn't know him.
"I have brought you back your fifty
j cents, sir," mid he, "und I am ever so
much obliged to yon. I have made
more than u dollar clear profit with your
I money."
Hie Brain.
Dr. n. W. Mitohfdl of Now York, iu a
lecture on the "Brain aud its Wonders."
tu'd that the cerebellum of the brain
presided over the or, nn of motion, nud
that it could be removed from animals
without taking away their intelligence.
The offect, however, would be thnt they
could not move. The samo symptoms,
ho said, could bo observed in man under
tlio ibflnence of alcohol. If tho latter
takes too much of the stimulant his
cerebellum and tho litllo cells of which
it is compof.oil refiuo to do t!e:r work
and tho mau staogers. He clai-..eiitlmt
a person learning to play ru tho piano
und a woman thria.liugn uei-di-' were,
regulated by thtir cerebellum, and iiih
out its usMsiit'ieo could do nothing, lie
said that the medulla oblongata was tho
ruo.st vital part of tho whole sy.iteui,
und if rau through with u Rnifo life
would bo destroyed in un instant. Ad
vahta :o bus been tukeu of this in the
process of hanging people, nid the gar
roto hud been introduced on the tame
principle. Ilo claimed that tho brain
could no - get along without nerves and
that it 1 n twelve i airs of them. The
first three nerves wotc of special sense
olfactory, optic and auditory. The
ollaclory nerve wa-; not very well defined
iu man, n: it wai not necessary, but it
reached its viiy highest dcvi lopm.-t.t in
dot;s, en's ai.d ini-n. Ir was none per
ceptjiilo in iho rat than any oilur
animal, und tho I loud hound came next
in order. Alter desciibiu;; the optic
nerve the lecturer mid that the seuso of
hearing was less developed in in in thau
in the animal. Ho oinn uHe.d that ii
either of tlu thrco nerves mentioned
were cut there would Lo no senso of
vain nud that the only result would be
tho destruction of tho Rcnso of smell,
sight or hearing. Tho fifth nerve, ho
sniil, cenfe-rs Bcnsibly ou the face, uliI
when irrituled gives rise to intense puin.
He insisted that the pnenmo-gustric
nerve was the great vital nerve of the
whole body, and said that if it were
divided our respiration would naso ut
once. He then explained the working
of tho spiual cord uud its connection
with tho brain, und concluded ' v r "it
iDg the ell'ects of a cohol, chloroform,
opium and sirychuino on that oruu d
the bi.dy.
l'utlence.
Men as a race uro not so patient as
women; perhaps ono of tho principal
causes is that man is more belll-h than
his gentio counterpart. A man grieves
most at his own misfortunes, w hile wo
men, with tho generous movement ot
their eo-ils aud pliancy of their gentle
hearts, are toncheid inoro ,by the trou
bles of other people. Btcaute women
do not sull'er as much as men, it must
not bo inferred that they tlo uot feel so
much. No one ever accused Women of
unfeeling stupidity. The fault if any
thing lies in tho opposite extreme an
over refined dolicacy. Now, sensibility,
whether of joy or misery, urines iu pro-1
portion to our ingeuuity or dehcacy of
mind. Aud no ono ever yet doubled
that the mind of man is coarser thau
that of woman. Afflictions, therefore,
full not bo heavily on his as they do on
tho more roilned disposition of womau.
Nay, how often is one of tho oppoBito
sex touched by a lino distress that a
man never fools. Thus tho iudjc inge
nuity and delicacy of miiul which sheds
such lovely lustre around eveiythiuij iu
her days of prosperity, and imparts such
an exquisite relish to every j v when
sho does rejoico, casts a dot per shade
on her soul iu adversity, und i,ives a
keener tdo to pain aud iuistry. Mark
her when visited by calamity. How
violent are the tir.t starts aud sullies of
i e-r grief! But how soon, after adver
sity, with its slow, cumbering motions,
and its foul and rugged fun, steps has
trodden over tho smooth and pleasant
surface of her soul, deude-niug its ac
tivities aud making all its powi n sU.id
still does patience, truusm tliug its
kindly and enlivening beams, comfort
her spirit, and s soothe it us lo make
it discontinue its course of L'!''f and
even become sereue and bright; so the
tender grass, beaten down upon the
earth by the heuvy falling of u shower
of rain, will again, I v tho clear shilling
of tho sun, spring off his blobs nus.
Kerenue ami (iratilud".
Revenge lives longer gru'it.nle. In
eloiso Mr. Smith's uoto to kiep him
irom bankruptcy, and in h t.iutith he
will havo forgotteu all aio:. it. mil
Mr. Smith s nose, und hu will lierish a
a secret desire to burn your hoiis i down
the revt of his life. Revenge is a pas
sion; gratitude only a Hcntttm-iit. All
can.hate, but only one mau iu a hundred
possesses sense enough to be thankful,
and in these Inter dayH it wo ihl foem
that the one had fled to tho m umtaius.
Corn is not easily id-.-nMood, and
farmers who chooso to mix their neigh
born crops with their own by night can
hardly t-ver lie convicted. In this di
lemma, a stcret society at Ewing, Ind.,
whips every man suspectd of corn
thieving in that neighborhood, each
member strikiug ono blow, so as to
equalize the leepcnsibility for mistakes.
Moori-lt Mtive 'ill.
As every niuu may huve as m ny slaves
iu his Larem us he bus money enough
to buy, the sluvo market is well patron
ized. The court in which this is usually
hel 1, rn three days in every week,
opens out of u labyrinth of email, nar
row streets, wLioh form the bazaar or
general market of tho city, a j laoo in
which thn higher cIukh of Mom1 would
not ou other occasious deign to be seen.
As the afternoon wtuis on, however,
they may be Keen ambling down on
their gayly caparisoned mules, with u
slave walking buhiud thorn, to tho t n
liaueo of tho court, wheio they dis
ciouut and recline, in picturesque
groups mound the tnclcsi:re. About
the same time arrive by twos und threes
thoso who uro to bo sol 1, being placed
by the sidesmen in some small roe-esses
or stalls opening onto the court. At
tho i-alo which I witLe..Si d there wire
about til iy f.r sixty purse us for sale, of
both sexen und all uies, most of them
black us ji t, nud iroru their features
evidently of the Sondun, some of whom
weio to bo sold only in lo'b, with two
or three children. These weio the
drudges for house uud field work, the
price of whom is always moderate, and
commeiisnr.itii to tho amount d woik
they are likelv to bo U lo to perform.
But besides then! V.ei.n t u female! flg
ui'eu who cvidenliy exoitod no hiuaii
amount of iiiloie. t in tho gray beunled
old Iduor.t who formed not a small pro
portion of the purchasers. Ou-j oi thoiu
was a closely ve iled Moorish girl, whr.se
featured wore roveulul ouly to inquiring
customers, but who from u pas.-ing
fclae.ee did not appear to be li ii.at kuhie
for hev bt tmty ; t he other wus a reully
pretty giil from iho province tf Hu-'.
w hoso rose;-colored t allau und gice-n silk
head dress contrasts a picaMinily wirii
her olivo complexion and long, black
lushes. They we:o all uea'ly ihes;id,
bearing no sign of ill treatment or tcaut
nourishment, und were treated with ell
consideration both by salesmen and
pnrehaseis, though tho examination
made by the latter of tho teeth, arms,
etc., of thoso thny bid for was very re
pulsivo to those uuaccuslomeil to biieh
sights.
A Violent l'rocoedlng.
A Cincinnati man recently distin
guished himself by leading his wifo oui
of a theatrical m tiueo by the ear. He
defends himself us follows: "I feel
that 1 have accomplished much good.
My wife is not the only womau iu Ciu
cinuati who Las neglected Lcr children
and her household affairs to visit niuti
nees onec or twice a weeek, but there
uro hundreds of them, uud it is time
that, husbands and n'.l ers entered their
protct. She knew tho characters and
plots of at b n-t u hnudrrd plays, and
was forever talking about them. She
gave me no rest, und was worse thau a
stage-struck youth, who is eternally
quotiug from tho druma. Niav'y every
move I made, or opinion I expressed,
hhe likened me to soiuo character she
had seen atttho theatre. One night 1
had the toothache like thunder, mid wu
walking tip und dowu the siting-ro ini
tloor with iny hand up to my jaw, when
ahepeeptd in at me, uud utter lookinc.
a moment, said, 'Hello Hamlet, to pull,
or not to pull.' His chief grievance,
howover, was that she called him
"Toodles," and tl at poems to have been
the inciting ea'iso for bis laid in the
theatre. As ho enjoys publicity so
so wi ll, perhaps he may be lmppiei
Ftill when the stage) struck wife hues for
i divorce.
rtiolish Fxlrtm'gitncp in I'mietnls.
Chicago is noted for Iho almost houii l
le s oxtruv.igui.cp of its fumrul expens
es. Boor people I'VoTwUo'ni themselves
in dt bt iu orer to pay Lr-LOf to tbe nirm
ol j of the dead, whom ten obeli they
neglcetid or loid.td eildiy ou when liv
ing. Now this very fact shows that the
practho is not io much tut of love and
ntUetion as pr ceiling from a sidlislmefs
which i eis credit reflected on the living
iu piisaj i.eriiiili i .supposed to he intend
ed to revi si-lice the dead. It has been
fated that )ahori:i men are ne t seldom
j le ried at nu t-xeti.-e rf Irom sixty to
one hundred dollri.s. Iu iuntainivs of
I persons belter off in this world's goods,
capes, gloo., flower.., carriages, mag
nificently appointed heniscs, slid richly
I copipui boned horses uro indulged in,
Tho exilellielv pour, even, di:.'dedby
dumb snows," uu.l blinded to
their puvtity by their grief and tears,
wildly rush into the most ridiculous
displays of exuavagance. Iu some eaes
it is wiltnl, in still others, the more re
suit of foolish and silly rivalry between
families nn.l neighbrus.
Mali iinoniiil Induct incuts.
Tho East Mississippi Co operative
Endowment Association of West Foiut,
Miss., purports to be chartered by tho
State, aud, iu aldition to the usual
matrimonial department, with its pro
mise, of $1,000 within sixty days after
receipt of la'.isfaetnry prooi ot nar
riage of the benetic'ury, has also a birth
department, holding out to parents the
glittering bait of 81.0(H) or 82,000 for
each child born to them.
Among the Ilo worn.
The woodhiiieelliuhi Iho urbur uVr
lis tendi iln flinging to thn walls,
And forming l.oiy g ild n IihIU ;
The routs richly I'l -o:n oi.ee morn.
And 'mid tl.o while mien 'gain I soo
A face, uud l,ar " iny In in t ia true."
JIi i vleridi r hand had plueked the lo-o,
And bade me trust tho tale il told ,
Hut when thopoisiiw did unfold,
They si one d to w.n.ilroii: ly di:e!o-n
Tlct in oiii hvi M a thought had grown,
"Una In Uc! he lorn that i-onies illiltuonu, "
II"W hhall I o'er f' i;:' t that le ur,
When o'er iik aivhe-l t'ie HiuUing akir !
Forget that bill li, those don neui-t eyes;
Forgi t th-pinl: -'I (Oieeiilv ll.e.vi r I -Tho
l.iuU 111 it (availed, in ti-nd'iwl tolio,
" My love I'm- yi'ii 1 thus will own.".,
The In leilinjje mid ivy, too,
l.:,i-lyiar lie I i-pal.e tin ir ne.vlie lun:!it,
An I 1 lln -ir ii ii in i r- m.IiJ.V su:;;.
Till j',n puN Conn (i tie- ll. iiiio anew,
.V-w phh.x e li.vo in our boijiiels,
Win'.- 1,-,' ilily j le.'u tht sniiiiie.r days.
II- Is rf th the loll' il of Wllllel' 1mI.iI
H.'a eiii V r-i-y lips in re walt-il ;
V- I t.i. li funi I ihoilghl tin y had rovvaled
Wnvu 'round our lieartn ii golden baud.
That through llei tin nil;; years v.ilJui.ii 0
Ai both oui pall.W.v-, ;l t. lIHllie.
' -... .!..! ..
V A it I Kill-is.
Au futile R.iHMuii .;uaid, With its
iiou cutumifioiii-d c Hi vis, hiii been
seiiteii'-ed to Sil'eii.t f.r life, for con
spiracy to steal ,i tr.A.tliu it bad hjcil
bi lit to protect,
I'leaclo r (arriving divi, chi d) "What
thai I I do, Mrs. Mc'Jr-'goi ? 1 am wet
through aud tltioiign." Old Scotch
ffom.'U "(i -t into tho p".l'it an puiious
yo can Ye'i; Lo dry ono' there.''
James Meining, J.d- u lib e.-tor in tho
city of Oitifigow HiViV, h-iM just, been
convicted by the S.:ot.:h Uigh Court of
Justiciary of emb zding $.'5,217,155, and
sentenced io eijhl month'.' aojirirou
uient. Wo have (.-rent svuirulhy for the bach
elor, who, when dying, li it all las pro
perty tn threo ladies who had refuseel
all his offers oi inarriaeo. "Nobody
can toll, ' howhi-m-iv.l, how much those
ladies l,ao contributed to uiy happi
ness." "But you know, pa," srid tho far
mer's duUiihier, when he r-poko to he;r
about ihe addresses o u neighbor's son,
" that ma wautu mo to many a man of
culture." "So do I, my dear, so do I,
aud there is no letter culture iu tho
country than agriculture."
The youngest bride ever hoard of in
tho Uuited States is Mi-s Catoe, who,
though oi ly eh veil years and seven
mouths of uge, was married to Thomas
Payne by a regularly ord.i uod minister
u South Can linn. Her husband is
bowed under I lie weight of only twenty
years.
Japan is prmiiuvl u count ittitioua.1
fovui uf government at tho end of t ight
yt ats. By way of preparation for that
even', the Japanese Minister ut Berlin
has been instructed to n.r.lto iv careful
study of tlio Prussian sy-tein or govern
ment, which is likely to be tiie one
chosen us u model.
"Murder? Your honor, it wasn't
a murder, it was a suicide. Ye'i seo he
wanted to kill himself, aud hadn't the
courage to, so Le uslcd rue, uud 1 sui
cided him." "But, why did you then
ta'so his watch and poeki I book?"
" Why ? Bt cause Lo Had no further use
for them that's why ! "
" Ma, haven't I been a nul good boy
since I've been gcing to Sunday
school?" "Yes, my Limb," nuswerod
tho mali-rnul parent, fondly. "And
you trust mo now, don't you, ma?"
"Yes, ibirlini., yes." "Th"!)," spoko
up the little innoci nl, " v, hat nuikcs
you fcpep tho preset ves leek' d iiji iu the
pantry the n'oe as ever ? "
Mi-s Moire's Hit : Miss Brown, who
is no louuer young, wus chiding Miss
Midio for her foolishuesH in carrying a
purns.ol, which Mi's Brow:! nod was
use less, inula piece: of affect at ion, " I
never cany a i nra -ol," she said. ' No,'
replied Miss Metro; "people tn the
shady side of life have i.o use for
them."
A pretentious perr-im sh'oI to the lead
ing man of a ermuiry viilige: "Uow
would a !iet uro by me on Mount Vesu
vius suit the inl iibithaiits of your vil
lage? " " Very well, sir ; v. ry well, iu
deed," he answered ; " a lecture by you
on Mou:d Vesuvius would suit Ihom a
grrut deal better than a lecture by you
in this village, sir "
A Mr. O.-itc'i has s'arted uh " rival to
Orcur Wilde, and is dvixwing crowds to
his ii's'lietio lectures iu IiOiulon. ne
pronounces tho prereut mule attiro
idiotic, condemns ha', coat, and vest,
uuil reserves spi cial bitterness for
trousers. Ho peps in for Knickerbockers
aud stocking, no shirt front, no coat
tails, ami no pockets.
Tasha is a Turkish title given to Gov
ernors of provinces. Ministers of state,
and navul or military commanders of
high rank. Bey, or Beg, is a title of
honor given to tiie sons of a pasha, and
to army officers holding thn rank of
colonel. 1 1 means lord or commander.
I n Tunis and Tripoli the snprome officer
of the State is called the Boy.
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