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A Western Maud IHulb r.
Mill Muller, so the gossips say
Flirted in quite a shameless way;
Hut Maud with a laugh, pronounced it fudge
Yet we eaughthtr wiuk at the ratty Judge.
And Ihe Judge but wo mention this tub rose
Hlushed up to the roots ol bis bulbous nose.
ill he craned his nock, and, in pausing by,
Oave a sinister wink with his dexter eye.
(plinth Maud to bornoir, as on elio paused,
"I've his royal nibs in tow at UbI;
"My mother shall war a sealskin sncqne
Mj pa swing out iu his broadcloth black;
"My brother shall Hip his hink y--kiiiH,
And my sister rovol in gay Imastpiua 1"
Cjumh iho JuiIkp, as ho sauntered listless on,
"She's a rattling gyiil; you bet I'm gone .'
"No doubt my last wilo's ma will kick,
And my heirs cut up tho very Nick;
"Hut Iho' I'vo known her a short, snort spoil,
Yon bet I'll havu her iu spitu of -wi 11,
"No matter his word 'twas short and stouf.
And tho uamo of a place that's now played out,
According to Ilecehcr. Alack for all I
The maid and the JiicIkc uu'ur wedded at nil,
l'r he pawd in Inn clu cks from too much gin
And tho run i il gicw lmg and lank and thin,
And eke, us her chances liuihieieil anay,
Him lOUHtd to flirt lid begun to pray.
dud ,'ittv tliomaid hiiiI pilly the .Indue,
And these daysol t addle mil ImihIihiiiI lude,
For ull siid nordsfroui a heart bereft.
Till) saddest alo these; "You bet I'm led."
BARNEY'S PATIENCE.
Dis nanw was Ba.ney M icFJuhorly.
Ho wai a mini well built an l muscular,
a mechanic working for 11 vo dollars per
day, and beaming among hid follow
laborers us a bright ami shining light ;
all deemed it a delight to busk iu Bar
noy's eternal fljw of sparkling wit when
tho day's work was dona, Thoro could
never bo enough praiso for hini. He
was termed "tho cock of tho wulk," a
hail follow well mot," indispensable as
a coujpiiiiioD, a lady's rutin, a iiue
danoir, and numerous other things at
tho mention of which a miilo of satis
faction spread over his handsome fuco
in acknowledgement of tho compli
ment. In his mily .you tli Harney was "his
father's own by," und grew up to be
his counterpart, iio reuiamlx red that
worthy as tho "guy old uiun," but his
mother, who was mouldering iu a neg
lected grave, ho could cull her to mind
only when an opportunity oll'crud itself
for niukiug some period in her life the
li.ltt of a joko. With him it was rotue
day, go day ; his nature craved a loader
ship in some capacity ; ho loved iluttory
as he loved to flatter ; whys, wherefores,
and possible ooueoqticnocs worn not to
be considered J he could yiild to Ihe
emptttions of the hour ; tomorrow
would take oaro of iiue If.
At tho uge of twenty-tight Burney
was a married man. His wife, a deli
cate little woman, h id been an orphan
from her childhonl. At tho tiruo of
her christening her parents had held a
t-hurp argument as to whether the infaut
should be culled rrudeuco or Patience,
and though her mother, woman-like,
had the I ant word, her father conquered,
and she was named Patience Trod
weighty. A kindly but iguoruut neigh
boring family had taken her homo at
her parents' death ; they weie nil poor,
and nothing of oocseqnouce wai left
her; but thnso people, poor though
they were, had given hnr some educa
tion, and Patience had a flue sense of
duty.
When t-ho was sixteen, only one year
prior to tho opening of our story, tho
old people persuaded hor to niirry the
dashing Barney, then on a short visit
in the country, and who was smitten by
her beauty of faoo and form. He would
settle down and behave himself when he
had a wife, they said, and Patience,
with childlike, obedience, iu gia'itndo
for J ait kindness, and reluctant to dis
please her beuelaotors, who had a flock
ol children of their owu to support,
yfe'lded to the plan, and accompanied
Burney to the city an his wife.
Barney had worked rather steadily in
the meantirao, even with lata hours and
dissipation. They lived iu a small,
one roomed tenement, and boarded two
blocks away at the cheapest restaurant,
while he labored to get out of debt.
Then they might start housekeeping on
a oheap scale, and gradually build np
home comforts, Patienoo thought, while
the added her little mite by knitting
wool shawl?, which wire sold at a store
on commission.
Bat the year wan at an end ; their ex
penses were only third share ol his
wages, yet thoro was never a dollar for
her needs and tho debts had increased.
There was a mystery somewhere whioh
Patience quietly thought must have
some connection with his attendance at
numerous Cre company meetings, wbich
detained him until twelve at night.
But she made no complaint ; the room
ers in the lodging house were all labor
ing men ; her room was too small to
entertain her friend, if she had had
any ; her only exeroise was the walk to
her two daily meals aid baok ; no one
tried to make her acquaintance ; she
never obtained glimpse of the land
lady, but frequently heard her snappish
orders to the frowning Mongolian oham
bermaid. Her life was almost nnbeara
bly dull, but then she had never had
the advantages, the close friendships
and pleasures of other girls, and she
would thus, in hope of abrightor future,
tolerate the present.
Were only those troublesome debts
diminished, instead of making daily
fresh developments, then tne struggle
would be a comparatively cany mutter.
With bitler sighs and lonely tears she
longed for the day when her cage should
moauuro more than ten feet square ;
when the should have two windows,
and no longer be compelled to look at
tho tin patches on the neighbors' dilap
idated roofs, when she could afford a
book or paper to read, and to eat three
timos a day if sho felt so disposed. In
view of that hoped-for time, had it been
approaching ever so slowly, s'ae could
have kept np a brave heart ; but to see
it receeding made her concern for the
future djflicult to hide in tho presonoo
of her jovial aud care free husband.
What had she done to be thus tried?
the childish wife of seventeen asked
herself despairingly. Would Ho who
murks Iho sparrow's fall not pity her
iu her time of need ? The faith she hud
beeu taught in Providence as a sender
of relief to the disheartened at the
eleventh hour she fult, in spito of her
efforts to support it, was slowly dwind
ling and dying within her.
These were her reflections as Patience
sat daily working by the dark little
window. The chill of November weather
numbed her fingers, She hoped the
next trifle of money realized from her
shawls might bo spent in procuring
wood for warming the room, and put
ting tho box stove standing in the
corner once moro in use.
" W.by didn't yo come to work this
moruin', Barney V" said a fellow work
man to Mr. MacFlaherty, coming from
luncheon on a bleak, snowy day in Do
eemember. " Why, whut ails ye ? ye
are smilin' all over I "
!' Congratulate me, Fatly I've got
an hoir. There is a boy up home nice
as you phubo. Now, I waut to know
what do you euy to that, old fellow ? '
' That's way up I You're tiled up in
Lusiuosa now, Barney. I'd like to see
him, so I would; but I don't suppose
yiur wife would let uny of us follows in
up thero. But it's time I was buck to
my work. You'll be dowu to-night,
uud give tho boys a shake, won't you,
Barney ? You know we've got to huve
a bouncer to tho health of Master Mac-
Flaherty."
"I'll set np tho drinks, Fatty rest
easy on that. I never went buck on my
friends yet, did I ? That boy'll cost me
plump one huudied dollars, but that's
all right. Tell the boys to prepare for
a jamboree at Barney's expense. Go
'long, Fatty."
Tho third day dawned upon tho little
stranger, uud sent its uooustomed dim
light into the window aud into
Patience's rooai. The last oaudlo hud
flickered ont tally iu the night, and the
infant had cried for nourishment and
other attention which its mother was
uuable to givo. At nine tho doctor
came-a cross old man of fifty, who
evidently knew bin cuso was a protitloss
one. Inside tho door he hesitatod a
moment to contemplito tho contents of
the scanty quarters, and then, with ill
conoealed displtasuro, burst forth :
" No the yet? Didn't I say distinctly
that a tire must be made immediately,
and kept going iu this weather? There I
Well, if here don't lie my note of direc
tions in the identical pluoe 1 dropped it
twenty-four hours ago I Well well 1
that's encouraging I "
' I'm so sorry, doctor," replied
Patience, in a choking voice ; " but no
one has been horo since yon left. My
husband failed to oomo home last
lust night. I've no food for the hungry
bube, aud I don't know what I'm
to do."
" And have yon had nothing to eat or
driuk in that timet"
" Nothing since the tea he brought
me bofore yon came yesterday."
".Well, than, how do you expect to
nurse the baby or nurse yourself?" said
he, impatiently. " Lot me see it,"
stepping to tho bedside. " Oood
heavens I not a dry thread on it I As
col l as ice, and eating its fingers up 1
And 'you," oatohing hold of Patience's
wrist, " are freezing, too. Well, what
else could be expected ?"
" I believe, doctor, that some wood
came tor us yesterday It was left out
the bank porch, and if I only could
have made the Chinaman hear me call,
perhaps he might have built a fire for
me."
The Mongolian was soon summoned,
and, when the room was warmed to a
comfortable temperature, the surly doc
tor proved himself not quite as heart
less as he had tried to make bolieve.
The infant was tenderly stripped,
bathed and made comfortable, while
the servant went for refreshments for
its mother.
"I'll ask the landlady to call in
occasionally as I go downstairs," said
he, in a pleas-inter tone, giving the babe
into Patiunoe's arms again.
"Oh, no, doctor; please don't do
that. She would drive nx out at once
if she knew the state of affairs."
" Well, then, I'll report yonr hus
band's doings to the police," said he,
with renewed impatience in his voice.
"The drunken scoundrel was ravin.;
through the streets last night liko a
madman, with a dozen of his clique
following at his heels, and all howling
like a pack of wolves."
"Oh, for mercy's suke, doctor, don't
do it I" cried the despairing wife. "It
would do no good, and Barney don't
mean to be ankind to me. You won't
do it, doctor, will you ?"
"Well, all ritfht thou, I won't," was
the angry reply. "Jf you liko his
tioatment, I unsure you I shan't envy
you your lot ; but this is my lust visit.
I have got no business where there is
no one to carry out ray instructions.
Womon a:o fools ; nutnral fools I Oood
day," und before Patience could speak
agaiu the irate doctor was gono.
Early in the afternoon Burney stag
gered into his wife's room with eyes
half closed, faco bloated, and the fumes
of brandy enveloping him like a cloud.
With a delirious look and thick tongue
he made an effort to Bay,
"How is our boy, Patience ? Is he
getting big aud fut? Hero is a rattle I
got for him to play with. Lett's i;ive it
to him. He's a tine follow I Let me
kiss my littlo son."
With that ho lowered his head over
the infant, now in quiet shimber on its
mother's arm. It fell heavily, and in a
drunken stupor the father lay insensible,
the weight of head and tdioulders on
ihe frail little infant. Frenzied wiih
fright ut the danger of her child, Pa
tience shrieked for help ; her every
nervo was strained to hold him off, aud
the strength of her arms was superhu
man in one in her condition. After a
few moments' struggle sho cast the
murderer upon the floor. Then, look
iug upon the lifeless body of her child,
she wailed as if bereft of reason.
With tho grief-strickeu mother two
months parsed somehow, no oue knew
how ; she did not even know herself, us
tho greuter portion of tiiat time sho had
been in kind insensibility. Hho remem
bered some one beside Barney hud
made efforts to euro for hnr, a oolorcd
wumun, who for a few weeks hud been
hired by him to utteud her. This
woman's nursing hud brought Patience
back to live. Burney was overjoyed to
see his wile improving, and ho poured
into her ears his repentance ; but it
savored much of his natnral shallow
ness. However, hud it hud a tinner
foundution, it was too late. Hho loathed
him as she might a snake thut hud
stung her child. Never could she look
npon her husband without a fancied
recurrence of that awful hour.
Daily the invalid gained strength un
der the devoted but ill -paid caio of the
colored woman, who persistently con
tinued to call a couple of timos a day.
Her husband hud long since gone to
his work again. At last she felt herself
able to walk out of tho room, the ver) at
mosphere of which seemed impregnated
with a waking nightmare. It was the
dut.k of evoning ; Patienco Trod weighty,
attired in her best robes, bade furovvell
to the MacFluherty domicile, descended
the stairs, stt pped into the street, uud
went bnt it don't nntttor now where
she went.
Barney fouud abundant sympathy for
the loss of his Patience iu his K How
workmen, and a balm for his wounded
heart in the cup put to his lips by fair
und graceful women, earning their sup
port by the sale of their smiles, little
witticisms, aud social toleration of tuoh
as ho.
Patience's life, after her flight from
her hubbaud of a year, was neither a
happy nor a long one. When she bade
farewell to all earthly trials sho was
followed to her grave by women, some
of whom were pure in hoart, sincere in
tender sympathy, capable of a fine
sense of right, and had souls full of
true kindliuea. Bat others of them
were only out for the sake of parade;
women such as nature had cot deigned,
on the day of thoir oreation, to endow
with a partiele of the worthy instincts
given in groater or less degree to most
all creatures both human and animal.
Moral : Know yourself aud the
natnre of the beast ; tame yonr lion
first ; take the place of the proverbial
lamb last.
An envelope marked as containing
$5,000 was found to hold nothing but
blank paper, on being delivered by an
express messenger at a Fort Wayne
bank. The pnEzlinsr question for a
jury to decide is whether the money
was in the package when the compauy
received it or a fraud was perpetrated
by the bankers who fent it. Positive
proof of either theory is not obtainable.
"He did dishonorable thing to me,
and that's why I shot him," said Patter
son, after firing on Burke, in Indiana
polis. Burke's displeasing aot was to
advite a greenhorn, whom Patterson in
tended to rob, to leave most of his
money in a hotel cafe before going out
on spree.
A or III Candina Venice,
Probably Morehead City is the only
citj iu the world without m wheel in it.
I do not think there is a wagon or a
buggy horse in the town, and very lew
in the conntry. Everything is done in
boats. Thore is not a house iu the
county that a boat cannot get within a
mile of. Not a doctor or lawyer owns a
horse they praoti.:u in boats. Tke
people go to fuuoruls in boats, and
when they arrest a man they carry bim
to jail in a boat.
The main export of the town besides
truck is fidi, but the lidi caught here
embruces everything from a whale to a
t-hrirnp. L:it year two or three whalos
were taken off this coast, aud a whale is
worth fro ai $1,200 to ft'-i.OOO. It is said
they got between the shore and the gulf
stream, and in trying to beat ont to sea
are sickened by the warm water. They
turu in shoro again, aud strand them
pelves. Along the buys and inlets
mackeril are raught iu large quantities
in net. But this wholesale fishing is
l. cither pieturoHipio nor interesting. A
pretty sport practised along shore is
spearing flounders. A small row boat
is put adrift. A mun with a flambeau
walks alongside up to his knees iu
water. In tho bow of the boat sports
men stand with slender gitfB.
Along the bottom, by the reflection
of the light, cau be seen white flounders
half buried in the sand. They remain
perfectly still while the gig is poised
above them, aud never movo until they
are either speared or missed. The only
drawbick to this sport is that occasion
ally your torch-bearer is stung by a
stingaree. A slinguree is simply a
long buggy whip, broken out with
smallpox und tilled with steel springs,
aquafortis aud needles. When he hits
you, lockjaw is the mildest result. The
" little uigger " contingent a'uout More
head makes its living by crabbing.
With a little boat, hardly bigger than a
tub, they go out in thi surf, aud, flop
ping iu und out like amphibia, soon
come in with a bnshel or so of the
ugliest-looking and sweetest-tasting
things that swim the water.
One other very important industry of
this most interesting placo is the ruising
of "marsh lackeys." The marsh taokey
is a shaggy pony, hardly larger than
tho HUetland, light built and hardy.
He lives iu tho water, and will not eut
corn cr buy. Ho is brought up on the
niurah grass, which he eats between the
tides. Thoy cost literally nothing,
breeding in droves like wild horses.
Each drove has its leuder, who selects
tho euting grounds, uud decides when
the tides uro going out or coming in.
Once every year tho ownord have what
is called a "pony penning." All the
ponies along the coast, running into the
thousands, are driven in by boats, aud
either branded or sold. They briug
$15 to $.'It) apiece, aud it is a tribute to
their utter wilduess thut a " broke "
puny thut is, ono that can be riddon
or driven is called a "trained tackey,"
and brings $70.
They are iu greut demand in the mid
dle part of the State, eating little and
doing a heap of work. They run down
to skiu aud bone before they learn to
eat coru or hay, but then fatten rapidly
and lose tho uly, reddish color the salt
water gives them. There are men who
buy them in luigo numbers, train them,
and take them to the mountains aud get
fauoy prices for thorn. As I write there
is a drove of taokeys marohing in slow
und sedate procession against the hori
zon. The leuder, bearing his responsi
bility with dignity, pioks the way care
fully, and Lisoompany follow with a
blind sense of oontldouop. The water,
as it splashes about their legs, glistens
like showered silver, and their red sides
shine against the sun like bronze. On
they go, ad birds beat homeward in the
twilight, growing smaller and more
indistinct as the; plod their steady way.
At last they are but specks above the
water, moving dumb and patient to
tome well desired goal.
Leaves lor lietldiiiK.
In the soaroity of rye stiaw, and the
absdnoo of saw-dust, and other material
for bedding cuttle, we bavo been foroed
to use forest leaves to keep the horse
and cow in eleunly condition, and on
the whole are much pleased with them.
The gathering was from the road Bide,
and along the walls, where brush and
leaves had accumulated for years. A
few basketfuls wore put under the ani
mals every morning, and kept there
until they were well satnrated with the
urine and then thrown out into the
manure heap. With a plenty of this
material, kept dry under a shod, and
used abundantly, there is very little
loss of liquid manure. As an absor
bent, it is much more effective than we
expected to find it. Leaves have a high
reputation as material for the hot bed
and the compost heap, and are worth
the labor of gathering, in most cases for
their fertilizing properties. Cords of
them are going to decay in the sight of
almost every rural home, and it is the
rare exception that they are utilized.
Meauwhile the fields and garden are
famished for want of manure, or sup
plied with concentrated fertilizers ; at
ut forty dollars a ton. American Agriculturist,
What Napoleon Ale.
The supply of fresh provisions was
derived from Brazil aud O.ipe of Oood
Hope, and as the sheep and cattle had
to endure a long voyage, they arrived at
St. Helena lean and out of order and
never fattened after landing, as the
island furnished no means of restoring
them to condition. The flesh was in
variably tasteless, sometimes even quite
unwholesome. St. Helena furnished
no game. A few red partridges and
pheasants arrived twice or thrice a year.
Chinese pigs alone arrived fut and
lovely, and M. Chandelier reports favor
ably of them. Ha says thut their flesh
was delicious, und that it gave him in
finite pleasure to prepare pork griskins,
sausages and black puddings, all of
of whioh Napoleon was very fond. Fish
was scarce, none of tho European kinds
visiting the island. Oysters, crabs, lob
sters or any kind of shell fish, were not
to be had. Only two kinds of fish were
at nil tolerable; one is what the French
called the "bonne femme," and the
other, which is long, like an eel, but
not thicker than tho little finger, is
called the needle-fish. The only fruit
of any value was tho b.maua; this Iim
utilized in fritters, or iced with mm.
The climate was so vuriable that neither
citron nor oranges could ripen; grapes
und upriuots never came to matutiiy;
upplos, ptars and peaches were as bad.
Napoleon's breakfast consisted of sor
rel pottage, or any other refreshing pot
tuge, breat-ts of mutton boned und well
grilled, served with a clear gravy, a
rout-t chicken or two griskins, and some
times a plate of pulse. For dinner he
had a pottage, remove, two au trees, a
roust and two side dishes of sweet meats
or pnttry, of whioh he was very food.
This was always served on plate. The
removes n:ied to puzzle M. Chandelier,
for he often had nothing for the pur
pose but large pieces of beef, mutton or
fresh pork, with sometimes (by a happy
chance) a goose, a turkey or a sucking
pig. Madeira, Tenorifl'e snd Coustnn
tiua wore the wints bupplied to the
suite of tho Emperor. His own drink
was claret, and thut he drank very
moderately. Napoleon's cook is parti
cular to record in those "Uenimis
oences" whut dishes his master pre
ferred : Boasted fowi, pnllets minced
"a la Marengo," "a l'ltalienue," "a la
Provencale" without garlic; fricasseed
fowls sometimes dono in champagne,
which was very dear in the island, us
much as twenty t-hillin is a bottle. He
liked puddings "a la llicholieti;" but
above all, ho preferred sweet things and
pastry, such as "vols-an-vent," "petites
bouchees a la reine," and littlo cakes of
maoaroni prepared in vurious ways.
The cook was unable (he relates wi'h
much sorrow) to make those us good as
he ought, beciiusu'tho macaroni, though
sent from Naple.t, grew stale cu the
passage, as did the Parmesan. As
Napoleon's health grew worse ho was
more difficult to please, aud poor M.
Chandelier found his skill aud in
genuity taxed to do this. New Oi leans
Democrat.
riimitle.
Animals and plants aro, alike, indi
genous to the location iu which they
are produced. All plants and animals
aro adapted to tho soil or climate iu
which they received their life. To
transplant a shrub from one climate to
those widely differing, is unuutural, and
must be, in a measure, unfavorable to
growth. Tho same must be true of
man, the abruptness of any change from
one climate to another in luaiked con
trast, cannot bnt be nnfavotablo to
health and vigor. The acclimation when
there is an extreme of temperature,
must tax and waste vital force. We
may safely change our longitude, select
ing a sou-side residence, or a more ehv
vated location, as the circumstances may
demand, but when the latitude is chang
ed, to any great extent, wo shall find
ourselves exotios, subject to the couse
quenocs of our imprudence.
Ha is indeed foolish, ignorant of the
laws of the body, who supposes thut
he oan find a location or a climate in
which he can practice self-indulgence
with impunity, violating any or all of
the laws which Qod has instituted, and
then avoid the just penalty. These laws
know no exceptions, tolerate no uri.it oc
racy, exercise no compassion, grunt no
pardons. Obedience is the synonym of
health, disobedience decrees pain and
suffering. All climates in the mutter
of longitude are adapted to their in
habitants, and only demand right living
save in a few tioeptioi al oises to
seour a good measure of health better
than the average iu most communities.
If we adapt ourselves to these laws,
the olimate 'will adapt itself it ueed
be to us, granting all of the health we
may live for, or decree by our obedience
to Qod's requirements.
"I like to hear a baby cry," said a
crusty old bachelor. "Why ?" he was
asked. "Because then the little nuis
anoe is taken out of tho room."
Sir James Alderson, Physician Ex
traordinary to the Queen is dead. Bliss
the extraordinary physician of Ameri
can Presidents, ia still alive,
1 he Cypress 1 imiier of Louisiana.
A wood in which Louisiana has a
great interest is cypress, which the
State grows in larger quantities than
any other in the Union. We have val
uable cypress swamps along the Atolia
fulaya and. its tiibututies, and scattered
throughout the southern portion of this
Btute. The merits of this wood huve
only recently been discovered. When
the sawmills at Beaumont aud Orange,
Texas, began manufacturing cypross
lumber they found very little demand
for it, but they huve since quadrupled
their product ion and find un easy market
for ull they can mw. This lumber is
just beginning tc be introduced into
the Nor tin rn markets, and its advan
tages a-'o now acknowledged.
Tho wood is fine grained. After ex
posure to the air it becomes of a dim
reddish color. It possesses ""gfeat
strength and elasticity, and is lighter
an I lets resinous than Iho wood of the
pines. To those properties is added
the faculty of long resistance to the
heal und moisture of u Southern cli
mate. The) color of the bark und pro
perties of tlm wood vary with tho nature
of the soil. Trees growiuft near the
na'ur.d bed of rivers, and surrounded
l.u'.f the year with water to the height
of three or four feet, huve a lighter
colored bark than those standing ft hero
water does not reach them, and the
wo. id is whler, b ss resinous, and
lighter. Tbeseare calbid white cypress.
The others are darker, and so culled red
cypress,
Along tho Mississippi river, from the
deltu to tho mouth of tho Arkansas
river, grow larRO cypress swamps, just
back of the cultivated laud. In these
swamps, where, on the deep, miry soil,
a new layer ol vegetable mould is every
yeur deposited by the floods, the cyp
ress attains its greatest development.
The larv t trees are 120 feet iu height,
aud from 2't to 40 feet in circumference
above the conical base, which at the
surface of tho earth is always three or
nir times as largo us tho continued
diameter of the trunk. Th-ibe felling
the trues build scalT dds live or six feet
high, upon which they stand to chop
lowu thoso huge Southern vegetable
monsters, inn base is usually hollow
for three fouvt In of its bulk, its stir
fucu is longitudinally furrowed with
deep chuuuels, the ridges of which
servo as cramps to lis it m-re firmly iijj
the loodo soi
In the prepurulion of thn wood, both
vurietiiw, white und red, should be cut
iu winter, and seasoned until perfectly
Iry. It in exlen-dvely used for building
mrposes. Bool's covered with cypress
shingles from timber cut iu winter will
lust for forty years. The boards are
preferred to pine for tho inside work of
trick houses und for window sashes and
;unels of doors exposed to the
weather. Cabinet makers use it for the
inside of mahogany furniture. It has
men used for the sides of vessols, and to
limited extent for masts. Lirge
ttnnks are frequently made into canoes,
some of them thirty feet long and 11 vo
feet wide. Thev uie more solid uud
tumble I bun thoso of any other tree. It
makes tb best pipes to convey water,
especially the red variety.
This truly excellent wood is now
used for various purpose, and there ih
increasing inquiry for it. Boat
builders u e it to a considerable extent.
.Many of the small boats belonging to
the meu of war in the United States
semen uro ooiistrnctjd ol cypress ;
much is tisod f ir water tanks, sugar
coolers, und cisterns, on account of its
durability; somo enters iuto tho con
struction of houses und house finishing,
it being excellent in ceiling, and large
quantities uro made into shingles and
railroad crossties. The Lehigh Valiey
Bailroad C inipauy ordered 75,000 of
those ties to be used upon its road this
season. In some instances the shingles
are manufactured with tho lare end
finished round uud octagonal, that the
r.of may present a liner appearance.
These kinds are used npon churches in
the rural distriois, und npo-i villas where
the builders wish to display some taste
in lines that vary from the ancient
straight and conventional methods
Some claim that shingles, properly pre-
propured, will last 100 years. They uro
certainly verj durable. Wood taken
from Biihniertfed swamps, which has
been in c intact with the decaying in
fluences of mud and water for untold
centuries, is found to be in an excellent
state of preservation. Cypress logs
have been titkn from the soil deep un
derneath Now Orleans in good condition.
Evidences ate abundant and conclusive
in regard to tho lastiug properties of the
wood, llcncd it is fradually creeping
into use more and more each year.
Already it is being used in many houses
in Now York city in finishing, with calls
for more. Five million shingles is the
estimated amount of consumption in
the New York market, with an increaf-
ing demand. At least 8,000,000 feet of
the wood will be required to supply
the market in r!li" i ties the present
year, and about 2.000,000 feet of hi tu
tor general use. It is exported to some
extent to Cuba, Franoe, and England.
Lumber has )oen sent abroad, but iu
no great quantities.
Let Me bike a Hero Fall.
I can- not whnro my plane may be
AIniK life's hat tin lino;
I would UiHt fri ti ls anil fioalixll are
At falu I'll ne'er lepiue.
l-'er wliernsoe'er a man may be,
Tho' he be K"'a' "rsuiull,
Ho still cau live with bravery,
Or like a luro fall.
Ci Yea, comrades, may w always be
Prepared fur any call;
Ever courageous trim and froo,
Or lilio bravti l.i roi a fall.
AUc.iiiU'it All tho ruler's placo;
lint by our acts we'll show
That tieacli'i-ons fuus we'll promptly face
Wherever we may no;
Vuu may not ov'ry baltlo win,
liut yun can strive fur all;
And if you facn dealli 'midst tho din,
Then like a hco full
Tin" greatest mon were those who foil
fu battles lii rcu at.d hot;
An 1 not thn boasters who still toll
Abi.ut .ho "hail of shot."
It is I'unngh if you wcro there;
The world c' r honors ull
Who face a danger anywhere,
Or liko bravo heroes fall.
VAKIUriKS.
Mis. Myra Clark (l.n'nes has become
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un iiclive mennicr oi mo wuuiuud
National Lib ir League of Washington.
Silence that dreadful belle," said
Spicor, us tho beauty of tho hotel
howled an operatic air in the parlor.
A young Vi'giuiuu hus invented a
machine called the " lung destroyer."
It cau tarn out 1.0 'J cigarettes a
minute.
Mis. Kate Chaso Sprague bud six
pianos iu the pallor. It is not sur
piisiug thut her husband applied for a
divorce.
Boucher thinks no torment cun surpass
that of buy fever. Mr. Boeuker is
evidently coming around to Bob luger
soll's ideu.
Mayor Baker, of New Orleans, is in
New York gathering attractions for the
Mardi Gras festivities in the former
city next February.
An Ituliun oran grinder, enraged by
bad business, smashed his organ with
uti ux at Springfield, Ohij, aud made a
bjullro of the pieces.
Scene: A fashionable restaurant not
far from Madison Square: "What makes
that uun siniek sor" "Sli ! He thinks
he's driving horses."
Some philosopher has observed that
-g0 0 a g00li conversationalist, one
must needs bo a good listener." This
is especially true if the conversation is
to bo by telephone.
"Yes," said Brown, "poor Johnsbnry
is sinking fast. His mind is fast leav
ing him." "Nothing very alarming, is
it," remarked Fugg. thut u tuuu should
free his mind?"
Visitor: "Ain't them pretty old
ilucks for u base ball nine?" Ktctor:
"My dear Mr, they're not bull players;
it is the theological iuculty of my col
lege."
Au exchange contains an article on
"Young women Who Die Early." This
fiequeutly occurs; but the oases of old
women who die early are very few in
deed. There is still standing over the spring
at Soldier's Rest, Clarke county, Va.,
thn log-cabin built by Gen. Morgun and
occupied by Washington as bis head
quarters when ho was a surveyor iu the
Valley ol Virginia.
Intermarriage between whites and
blacks is a peuiteutiary otleuoe in Texas,
and those who break tho law usuully
take oaro that there shall bo uo evldenoe
of the coremony. But Eldred, a Dillas
lawyer, made a public wedding on
taking a mulatto for a wife, aud, in
oouseqiieucK, is uow in jail awaiting
trial.
The American Itrakt iiiaii,'
A good many harmless, but none the
less undeserved squibs uro fired by the
newspaper press ut the passenger traiu
bi-ukeman. The average brakeman is
defeotive in elocutionary training, and
does not undert and the oratorical charm
of a musical voice and a distant clear
out articulation in announcing Buck
names as "Shickshinny," 'Patagum
pus," "Squaw lUnoh," "Smelfungus,"
"Bat River," "Shoekmanchnnk," and
like specimens of railway station nom
enclature. Tho defect is in his educa
tion, and is more a misfortune than a
fault. Let the fiinny itomizer try his
v-cal cap.aeity at repeating day in and
day out, with monotonous iteration, the
same set ol names, aud he will in a
short time have what news-boys and
street hucksters have, a partial paralysis
of the tongue that would make his
syllables tun together automatically iu
spite of himself. This, we imagine, is
the cause of much of the inooherenoy
complained of in the tmoounoement of
stations by brakemen on passenger
trains. It cannot be denied, however,
that many brakemen are inexousably
careless in this matter from pnre in
difference and laziness. We are re
minded of one of this kind who has
served for several years on a local triti
in New Jersey., who sings out with a
wearied drawl : "Staash Marksetete,
N uke,"' whioh, being interpreted, means :
"Next station, Market street, Newark,"