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VOL. V.
PITTSIK)U0 CHATHAM CO., N. C, JUNE 14, 1883.
NO. 40.
The World Is Growing Better.
The world it growing beltert
Though it lakes a wider eweep,
Thn liuiiil ol a: n ily labor
With a Iricmllv liunl we greet)
V9 will iv t drink iliebiitcr
When so little make; it sweet.
The world is urowii'R itcher.
In w ul ill brought from tho enrlh-
I'm', Letter f.ir, l li Hellenics loiind
I i ii i it's ul stmiiu;; worth.
Fur liiililo deed air It mored more
'I Im i tlinplc c'ni'i "I I irtli,
11:0 v I'M ig'il x Utler!
W iih fewer mjty creed, I
t ''" 0"f hum in Hiivings
To ntis cr liniiiiiii ih'ciFk.
V: h i. ". i l:iivr ii nei rsl
Ac 11:1' .'Will l' pi '.CI ii' sue J j.
A SCHEMER FOILED.
"Papa is not like himself. He never
was harnh t me before," murmured
poor Kate.
"Yet yon must not bo tinniintlful
that, your father believes he is acting
for your best interests," was the rather
doubtful remonstrance of Mrs. Scott.
"Papa is acting entirely under the
influence of Percy Talbot," the girl
asserted excitedly; "if he were not, ho
would understand how grievous it
would bo should I marry a man whom
I detest how utterly impossi
ble it is when my whole heart is given
to another. Oh. mamma, surely you
cannot blame me?"
What could the gentle wife, the
troubled mother, say ? slm lovel her
husband, unreasonable as be might be,
(he idolized her only chill, and she
shrank from holding either blamablo.
So she remained silent, while two big
tears rolled slowly down her fair,
faded cheeks.
"Mamma, my dearest, you do not
Manic me, do j'oii?" pleaded Knte,
crossing tho room and throwing her
self on her knees b;'.-ide her mother.
"It would break my heart to give up
Kobprt! I love him so dearly oh,
mamma, so very dearly. Yo:i like
Robert, too, and so did papa before
this Percy Talbot came here to make
nothing but trouble' for us all. And I
have fancied sometimes that you dis
trict him quite us run 'h as do. Yon
do nut really wish 11 to marry him. do
you?"
"Your father is determined that you
shall be his wife, Kate," said Mrs.
Scott, winding a kindly arm about the
slim, kneeling figure, and drawing the
pretty, brown head to her bosom.
"I know. And if I disobey him, he
declares ho will no longer recognize
me as his child," returned Kate with a
little gasp of anguish; "he will send
nie away from him, from my home,
and from yon. Oh, mamma, it is hard!
And yet, if you would not blame me,
if you can trust me, I had rather go.
After a time papa might relent, and
wish me to come back to him."
The mother sighed, but she clasped
the pretty pleader more closely to her
tender heart, and fondly kissed the
sweet bright face.
"I do trust yon, Kate," she answered
with much earnestness. "Always
remember, darling, that wherever you
may be, 1 shall trust my daughter to
do the right. If you choose to go
rather than become Mr. Talbot's un
loving wife, I shall not judge you too
harshly; and it may be that sometime
the storm will pass over, and that this
trial will end happily for us all."
After such a concession the mother
could scarcely refuse to acquiesce to
anything her child might decide to be
best. And so Kate took her last re
gretful look of the dear familiar rooms;
with quivering lips she kissed her
weeping mother; and then in the
early, quiet morning she left the
pleasant house, the doors of which, as
it might be, had been closed upon her
forever.
"She has made her choice," her
father said briefly in grim anger; "and
henceforth she is dead to me."
From his home, his heart, his lips,
he had banished her; and he forbade
the mention of her name in his pres
ence. And for Percy Talbot he began to
manifest singular partiality a special
liking that was frequently shown by
considerable monetary favors. Per
haps he fancied that he owed some
sort of reparation to the luckless indi
vidual who had been so signally dis
dained by his handsome and refractory
daughter!
"It seems strange that a rich man
would borrow such sums, and- so
often," Mrs. Scott ventured to observe.
"You know nothing about such
matters, Maria," was the sharp re
sponse. "Talbot can be trusted with
anything. He is a shrewd man too,
and if our last speculation succeeds, I
(hall be as rich as he is."
"What speculation, Peter?" his wife
inquired uneasily.
"1 doubt you wjuld understand if I
should tell you," he unswered testily.
He had yet to learn that his own un
dentandiog of the speculation into
which he had been persuaded was
somewhat deficient.
It was the "oft-told tale" of the cred
ulity of one man and the duplicity of
another. And there came a time when
Peter Scott knew that he was beggared
when he discovered that all his little
fortune, earned by years of honest
zeal, h.td been, by . some milnnrr of
chicanery, transferred to the possession
of Percy Talbot.
"My dear sir, it is one of the freaks
of fortune and is neither curious nor
uncommon," Talbot said blandly to his
victim. "In my career as a speculator,
I. too, have sometimes lost even to
my last farthing. 1 have been left
with nothing, absolutely nothing but
my debts. Hut t never lost courage;
n-r must you do so now. Beside, If
you will bring back your pretty fugi
tive daughter and induce.hiT to become
my wife, I will make you a free gift of
the property that once was yours."
For a moment Kate's lather regard
ed his interlo'iitor with a fixed and
scathing gaze. The scales had fallen
from thoso tired and troubled eye.
"My daughter," at length lie enun
ciated, with a dignity that was majes
tic, "was wiser than I she could not
be deceived by your pretensions as I
have been. I may be a pauper, sir, but
I shall still be honored that I have a
child who would prefer death to
marriage with such as you."
He turned away haughtily and went
back to the home that was no lunger
his. Hut the shock had been too
sudden, too overwhelming; and an
hour later ho lay writhing in mortal
agony at the ve:y gates of death. In
bis delirium he raved pitcotisly of his
folly, and of the man whom he had so
trusted only to be befooled, robbed and
insulted. And to his disordered senses
his bonny Kate was everywhere pres
ent. He would listen for her gay
voice and ligK footsteps; he seemed to
behold her blight and beautiful image,
and he would pathetically entreat her
to forgive him for his harshness and
his great mistake.
Meanwhile, Kate was far away, and
not altogether unhappy. She felt that
somehow, in a blissful time to come,
she would be providentially guided
back to contentment with her beloved
ones.
fne morning a visitor was an
nounced, and with much surprise she
turned to stand face to face with her
old suitor, Percy Talbot, as
ever, sleek, smiling, insignificant.
"You wish to sej mo?" she queried,
coldly, startled by something oddly
assured and exultant in his aspect.
"I wish to discuss a matter of busi
ness with you," he returned, glibly, as
with great nonchalance he appropriat
ed a cosy chair. "Will you not be seat
ed, too? Where are the roses of your
cheeks, Kato? Are you ill, or has my
coming disquieted you ?"
She wits pale with anger at his inso
lence, at his stare of ardent admira
tion; and she trembled with vague
alarm before his strange- hxik of
triumph; but she stood quite still and
regarded him with calm inquiry.
"You may not be aware of what has
happened at home," ho pursued, still
with the heneyed voice and hateful
smile.
"Xo," was her simple utterance.
"My mission is not a particularly
pleasant one," ht. continued cautiously;
and you make it harder for me, Kate,
you seem so indifferent; and I have
only come to serve you. Your father
is very ill; he may not recover."
Yet she remained silent, watching
him with her scornful, questioning
eyes.
"And beside," her visitor went on,
with a semblance of the sympathetic,
"he has been unfortunate in business,
and everything he ossesscs will be
sold at once if there le no friendly in
terposition. I alone have power to
aid him, and I will do bo if you oh,
listen, for I love you, Katet If you
will be my wife, I will stop this sale,
and your parents shall still have their
home."
He had arisen and approached her
with outstretched arms; but at that
instant the door opened to admit one
whom he had not anticipated meeting
precisely then and there.
"Ah, Mr. Merle," he articulated,
with extreme politeness. "This is in
deed a surprise."
"A mutual surprise," Robert amend
ed drily. "My wife and I had scarcely
expected a visit from yon."
"Your wife," he stammered, in swift
confusion.
"With mamma's approval, Mr.
Merle and I were married the day I
)eft home," Kate explained, civilly.
"Ah! then I have come only to con
gratulate you," he succeeded in saying,
even as he recoiled tliseomtitted liefore
the contemptuous scrutiny of Kate's
handsome young husband.
But he had no desire to prolong so
unsatisfactory an interview, and he
speedily departed.
"Be CODiforted, my dearent," Hobert
enjoined her when the guest had gone. I
''I have foreseen this day of troublo :
for your father, and providentially 1
have been given means to help hiu
Would you care be b-fk in trio old
home, Kate?"
Would she care? Had she not
longed every hour for month ; to behold ,
the dear old place? And tho beloved,,
familiar face? ,
And while tho train that born her ,
homeward was rattling across the i
white, winter world, her parents were
making ready to leave the house where !
they had lived all the years of their 1
wedded life. Everything had been
sold. The ominous red Hag yet waved
over the entrance, about which was
a melancholy nnd suggestive litter.
Inside, in the only apartment safe
from intrusion, lay the unfortunate
man, sufllciently convalescent to realize '.
that all his gains bad been taken from
him, and still weak . enough to hold,
valueless the life that had been regiven
bim.
"We are n t jet so old, Peter you
and I, that we n.el fear beginning
life anew," his wife lo ingly reminded
liini. :
"But what will give me back my (
child?" heaskel fretfully. "What will
restore to me her affection, just as
fond and just as trusting as it was
before I drove her from her home by j
my severity?"
"Our Kate wjll never reproach you,
Peter," was the soft reply. "And all
is well with her. I have hidden some
thing from j'oii, dear souk thing that
once would have angered vou. but that
now maj' comfort you iu.-lead."
Just then a carriage rumbled to the
door. The purchaser of the propcrtj-,
that had been bought by prox had
arrived, and directly was admitted to
the room.
But the sick ma:i was greatly per
plexed when he beheld Kobert Merle
standing before him.
"A little b'g.iev. not altogether uti
expected, tame to mo just in timc,'x
plained Cie generous young gentleman,
"and I bought the old place as a gift
for my wife."
And th"ii, l:ke a blight spirit, Kate
glided in and dropped on her knees
beside her father's couch.
"O, papa, forgive ir.e," rhe tried,
with her sweet face pressed upon the
yearning hands that clapped her quick
ly. "Forgive yon, dear child?" ejaculat
ed the father, like one amazed. "It is
I who should 1 eg to be forgiven.
But I scarcely understand what it all
means. IWs it mean that you and
Hubert and mamma were all leagued
against me?"
"I am afraid so," was the roguish
confession. "ButHobtrt had a little
secret of his own, though," she added,
with a happy glance toward her man
ly husband, "lie kept me quite in the
dark alo,it his legacy and his pun-huso
of the old place until he had brought
me here--brought me back to the old
home that shall slill be yoiir.-s. papa."
How CoHs are Taken.
A person in good health, with faip
play, says tin l.ciidon I.nwtl, easily
resists cold. lint when the health
Hags a little, and liberties are taken
with the stoma di, or the nervous sys
tem, a chill is easily taken, and accord
ing to the weak spot of the individual,
assumes the form of a cold, or pneu
monia or, it may be, jaundice. Of all
causes of "cold," probably fatigue is
one of the most efficient. A jaded man
coming home at night from a long day'j
work, a growing youth losing two
hours" sleep over evening parties twi
or three times a week, or a ng lady
heavily doing the season, young child
ren over fed and with a short allow
ance of sleep, are common instances of
the victims of cold." Luxury is favor
able to chill-taking; very hot rooms,
soft chairs, feather beds, create a sensi
tiveness that leads to catarrhs. It is
not, after all. the "cold that is so much
to be feared as the antecedent condi
tions that give tho attack a chance of
doing harm. Some of the worst
'colds" happen to those who do not
leave their house or even their bed, and
those who are most invulnerable are of
ten those who are most exposed to
changes of temperature, and who by
good sleep, cold bathing, and regular
habits preserve the tone of their ner
ous system and circulation. Probably
many chills are contracted at night or
at the fag end of the daj, when tired
people get the equilibrium of their cir
culation disturbed by either overheated
sitting-rooms or underheated bedrooms
and beds. This is specialty tho case
with elderly people. In such cases the
mischief is not always done instantane
ously, or in a single night. It often
takes place insidiously, extending over
days or even weeks. It thus appears
that " taking cold" is not by any means
a simple result of a lower temperature,
but depends largely on personal condi
tions and habits, affecting especially the
nervous nnd muscular energy of the
body.
"YAXKKE DOODLE."
Interesting; Fact About the Origin of
thr Term.
Tho fiood the Rhine-eorijj !ri to Ocrmnn
henro,
Or llntie Marsoillniia to Franco's firry blond j
The good lliT anthemed harmony iinpnru,
"(bid neve the Q loctt," to Kn.4l.t1 ' field mid
fljiwl,
A homo-born blefwing, Nature's boon and
ArlV
Tho Mime heart-cheering, spirit-wai n:iiR good
lb ns end ours, where'er v:e wnr or woo,
'lhy words nml music, YmiVeo Doodle: do.
-erfr.
The origin of "Yankee Doodle" isby
no means as clear as American anti
quarians desire. The statement that
the air was composed by Dr. Shuck
burgh, in 1755, when the colonial
troops united wth1he British regu
lars near Albany, preparatory to the
attack on the French posts of Niagara
and Frontenae, and that, it was pro
duced in derision of the old-fashioned
equipments of the provincial soldiers,
as contrasted with the neat and order
ly appointments of the regulars, was
stated some years ago in a musical
magazine published in Boston. The
account there given as to the origin of
the song is this: During tho attacks
upon the French outposts in 1755, in
America, (lovernor Shirley, nnd ieu
eral Ja-kson, led the force directed
against the enemy lying at Niagara
and Frontenac. in the early part of
June, whilst the troops wen stationed
on the banks of the Hudson, near Al
bany, the descendants of the "Pilgrim
fathers" Hocked in from the Eastern
provinces. Never was seen su-h a
motley regiment as took up its posi
tion on the left wing of the British
army. The band played music as anti
quated, and outre as their uniforms;
officers and privates had adopted regi
mentals ea'h after his own fadiion;
one wore a flowing wig, while his
neighbor rejoiced in hair cropped
closely to the head; this one bad a coat
with wonderful long skirts, his fellow
marched without his upper garment;
various as the colors of the rainbow
were the clothes worn by the gallant
band. It so happened that there was
a certain Dr. Shackburgh.wil, musician
and surgeon, and one evening after
loess ho produced a tune, which he
earnestly recommended as a will
known piece of military music, to the
officers of the militia. The joke suc
ceeded, and Yankee Doodle w as hailed
with acclamation as to their own
march. This account is soim'what
apocryphal as there ii no song; the
tune in the United State is a march;
there are no words to it of a national
character. The only words ever af
fixed to the air in this conntrj'. is the
following doggerel quatrain:
Yankee Dooille r:nnc to (own
Upon n li lie i my;
lie pluck u fentliei in his hat
And cull' d il unio n oni.
It has been asserted by English
writers, that the air and words of these
lines are as eld as Cromwell's time
The only alteration is in making
"Yankee Poodle" of what was "Xan
kee Doodle." It is averted that the
tune will be found in the "Musical
Antiquities" of England, nnd that
"Xankee Doodle" was intended to ap
ply to Cromwell, and tho other lines
were designed to "allude to his going
into Oxford, with a single plume
fastened in a knot called macaroni."
Tho tuno was known in New England
before the Hevolution, as "Lydia Fish
er's Jig." a name derived from a fam
ous lady who lived in the reign of
Charles II, and which lias been per
petuated in tho following nursery
rhyme:
Lucky Lockit loM her pocket
Kilty Fisher found il ;
Not a bit of money in it,
Ouly binding round i'.
The regulars in Boston, in 1785 and
1776 are said to have sung verses to
the same air:
Yankee Doodle fame to town
For to buy a fire-lock
We will tar and leather biin
And to will John Ilnncnck.
The manner in which the tunc came
to be adopted by the Americans, is
shown in the following letter of the
Rev. W. Gordon. Describing the bat
tle of Lexington and Concord, before
alluded to, he cays:
"The brigade under Lord Percy
marched out (of Boston) playing, by
way of contempt, "Yankee Doodle.
Tney were afterwards told that they
had been made to dance it. It is
most likely that Yankee Poodle was
originally derived from Holland. A
song with the following burden has
long been in use among the laborers,
who in the time of Harvest, migrate
from Gcrmanj', to the Low Countries,
where thev receive for their work as
much buttermilk as they can drink,
and a tenth of the grain secured by
their exertions:
Ynkrr didel, doodel doun
Didel, dude) Unter,
Yank viver voover vown
Eoltennilk und ranthei.
That is buttermilk and a tenth.
CLirrisas FOR THE curious.
Small flocks are attached to tho
principal lamp posts in Amsterdam.
Dynamite is safer to trans j ort than
gunpowder, a-cording to English ex
perts. Along the roa 1 from Mobile to Mont
gomery there are mill's of turpentine,
orchards.
Fail-mount park. Philadelphia, is
the largest park in tho United States.
It contains J'.i'.'l acres.
Darwin asserted that monkeys Hush
when angered, and the ob ervat ions of
younger natnr.ilNts confirm him.
The use of joints only became gene
mi when forks were substituted lor
lingers in the reign of Elizabeth.
The first work lavonng me use or
Saturdav as the Christian Sabbath was
published in Ps2 by Theophilus Bra-
bourne, a clergyman. '
Tho Fv" Pivssr of San Antonio,
Tex tells of a snecies of ants found in
that state which make a honey equal
to any that is produced by lyes.
Stone mortars, throwing a missile
weighing twelve pounds, are mention
ed as being employed in 7."7 A. D.
and in 1J:1J A. P.. it is incontestable
that the Chinese besieged in Caifmig
fu used cannon against, their Mongol
enemies.
Some of the best Iinglisl. jockeys are ,
women, daughters of farmers. "'
country squires, who have l.t their 1
fortunes. 1 nev nave neeu iiri iiMuui'.u
to ride to hounds from their childhood
are perfectly fearless, and their light
weight in the saddle makes them desir
able as jockeys.
There are ninety-one city companies
in London, ut tnese, twene, ine
mercers, grocers, drapers, fishmongers.
goldsmiths, skinners, merchant
tailors, haberdashers, sailers, iron
mongers, vintners and chit h workers
are styled honorable. The wealth of
these bodies is enormous.
English gentlemen of ijueen Elv.a-
b -th's time were accustomed to wear
handkerchiefs in their hats as favors
from young ladies. These articles
when wrought and edged with gold
were worth from live pence to twelve
pence each, their Milne w as not great
even in good Queen Mess's time, when
1 penny was a penny.
The Bayeux tapestry contains,
besides the figures of ."iO.'i quadrupeds,
birds, sphiuxs, etc., the ligures ol i2'l
men. '2&2 horses, .'" dogs, :t7 buildings,
41 ships anil boats and !'. trees, or a
grand total of 1512 figures. The tap
estry is diviibtl into seventy-two sepa
rate compartments, each representing
one particular historical occurrence,
and Hearing an explanatory Latin in
scription. The Chinese and Egyptians reckon
ed bv the lives of their kings. I he
Komans began with the founding of
their city 751 B. C. The Greeks
counted the years by Olympiads of five
years each, beginning with the first
Olympic games, in TT B. C. The
Mohammedans reckon front the IlightJ
of Mohammed to Medina. Savages
notch upon trees a mark for each year
us it passes.
An ApcravntliiK Little Wretch.
Some of the city stores are constant
ly annoyed by children coming to the
door anil asking for cards, empty boxes
ami that sort of thing. The clerks
are, of course, down on the youngsters,
and tho warfare never ends, Tho
other day a little girl opened a store
door, and sticking her head in, called
out:
"Saj-, mister, have you got any
empty boxes?"
"Xo!" said the clerk, not very politely-
"Cot any cards ?"
"Xo!"
"Got any almanacs?"
"Xc!"
"Got any empty bottles?"
"Xo!"
"Got any pictures?"
"Xo!"
"(Sot any sense? "
"Xo yes no yes jmu miserablo
little wretch!" and tho clerk (lew 011
of the door; but the youngster w as in
the next alley making faces at him.
and he came back madder than he had
been Bince his salary was reduced.
Xo Use.
A citizen of Brooklyn who had been
run down by a bill collector, used some
pretty plain language, and wound up
with:
"It is lucky for yon. sir, that duelling
is not permitted in this country."
"Would you challenge me?"
"Certainly I would."
"Oh, well, it w ouldn't be of any use
to do that," was the calm reply. "You
couldn't get credit anywhere within
fifty miles of Brooklyn for enough
powder to kill me with!" Wall
Htrrtt. Nr.
CHII.DRETS COLUMN.
t'au't Calt'li It.
Children, what is it that you ran
neer catch, even if you were to chase
after it, as quick a.s possible, w ith the
swiftest horse in the world?
Vou can never catch the word that
ha once gone out of jour lips.
(line .-qiok'ii, it is out of your power;
do your best, you can never recall it.
Therefore take care what you saj
for "in tin- multitude of words there
wanetb not sin; but he that n-frniiieth
his lips is wi.-e."
How a nird Oul Hill fit flic .UonUfyn.
"Of all the hanging nests, commend
me to that made of grass by the baj'a
sparrow of India. It is one of the
most perfect bird-houses I know of.
nn s,.enls vUy t,i no
mile n a real lems
1 hri -place to
It is entered
through the long neck at the lower
end. The bed for thf eggs rests in the
bulb, or expansion at the middle of the
nest, where there are actually two
rooms, for the male has a perch divided
off from the female by a little partition,
where he may sit and sing to her in
rainy weather, or when the sun shines
very hot, and where he may rest at
night. The walls are a lirni lattice
work of grass, neatly woven together,
which permits the air to pass through,
but does not allow the birds to be seen.
i The whole nest is f rom fourteen to
ej n im.h(.s .m(1 in(.,1(.s
wi(l ;it t10 ,hi,.k(,,t It is ,,
,ow oycr t)((; WJltOTfwnVi wc s)lilli
presently see, -an 1 its only eiitran-e
is through the hanging neck.
" Why do birds build hanging nests ?
"Those birds that do make hanging
nests, undoubtedly do it because they
think them the safest. Bird's eggs are
delicacies 011 the bill of fare of several
animals, and are eagerly sought by
them. Snakes, for instance, live almost
entirely upon them, iluringthe month of
June; squirrels eat them, raccoons also,
and opossums, cats, rats, and mice.
But none of these animals could creep
out to the pliant, way ends of the
willow branches or elm twigs, and
cling there long enough to get at the
contents of a Baltimore oriole's nest.
"In the country where the baya
sparrow lives, there are snakes and
1 opossums, and all the rest of egg-eaters;
and in addition there are troops f
monkeys, which are more to be feared
than all the rest together. Monkeys
aro wonderfully expert climbers, from
whom the eggs, in an ordinary open
top pouch nest, like the oriole's would
not be secure; for if they can get any
where near, they will reach their long.
slender fingers down inside tho nest.
The baya sparrow discovered tins, ami
learned to build a nest indeed on all
sides, and to enter it from underneath
by a neck too long for a monkej- to
conveniently reach up through. Beside
this, she took the precaution to hang
it out on the very tips of light branches,
upon which sho thought no robber
dare trust himself. But she found
that the monkeys 'knew a trick worth
two o'that.' Thev w ould go to a higher
liinb which was so strong, nnd one
would let himself down from it, grasp-
ing it firmly with his haml.s then man has all his sleep in him, and sure
another monkey would crawl down ' ly it is then unscientific for him to in
and hold on to the heels of the lir.-t . flict upon his system strong tea or cof
f.ne. another would ro below him. and fee. At tea time tea or coffee may well
so on until several were hanging to
each other, and the lowest one could
reach the sparrow's treasures. He
would eat them all himself, and then
one by one they would climb up ovci
each other; (and last of all the tired
first one. who had been holding up the
weight of all the rest, would get up.
too. and all would bo noisily off in
search of fresh plunder, which, I sup-
pose, would be given to a different one,
the rest making a ladder for him as
ijef,)rc-
"Xow the cunning baya sparrow
saw a way to avoid even dangerous
trickery. She knew that there was
nothing a monkey hated so terribly as
to get his sleek coat wet. lie w ould
rather go hungry. o she hung her
nest over the water close to the surface.
:n;it!
to rea h up into her nest from below,
as he must do, for fear that the springy
branches might bend so far ns to souse
then, into the water.
" The sparrow has fatrlv outwitted
the monkey ! "
The Greatest Tramp.
One Christian Frederick Schaefe.
Hessian, who recently died in New into my study or laboratory is the best
South Wales, was probably t he greatest and wholesoniest drink, and after few
tramp of the century, lie begged for ' evenings it w ill be as much relished as
fotxl and clothes, but w ould not accept . the usual draught of tea. The hot Wa
money. It is supposed he w alked more ter assists to complete the digestion of
than V"0,0 ,H miles in making success- !residual food, acts upon the kidneys
fully the tour of Germany. France, and rinses out the effete matters, and
Spain, X ort hern Africa, Turkej, Italy, thus will be found to wake one upsuf
Grceco, England, the United States, liciently, and neither to injure the stom
Xew Zealand and Australia. Occasion- 1 aeh nor to keep the brain awake after
allj', when absolute necessity required, ; bed-time. In cold weather warm wa
as for instance on shipboard, be would ter is by far the best drinking at din
doa little work, but his apparent feeble- ' nertime, and in hot weather a draught'
ness always excited pity and saved him 1 'if warm water is far wholesomer and.
from hard" labor. He was honest and , rnor0 tooling than cold or iced water,;
harmless. ' BrHitth Jwfwtl.
1
Delay.
To. morrow, morrow, not to day'
l i thus the idle ever ny:
To-iiK'irnw I will ititivo nnew.
To-monow I will sei'k iiis iui:U''i,
To.iimrrow 1 will i-lmn --eduction,
To morrow this and that w.l! do
And wherefore not to-day? to-moi roT
For Ihco wiil also ho loo niuiow;
T"pv'i- day itiita-k a' bit'
Whatc'cr is ih no is done lot over,
Hum much I know; but vliits wver
May b ipto-iuorrow, know I not
On! on! or thin wilt be relrea'ins!
K01 all our inoinnn'a qniikl H''cti!J.
Advance, nor back n urds more incline.
What wepnssosi alono I otitis
The use wo make ol 'i.-" i.t hour,;
for can I call the fu'.uii.' mine
And every dy thii vainly 11 1 'in-',
la 111 ill" viihimo ol my be.n
A page unwritten, blmk nnd void.
Then write on iHnnsu'.lii d past.-
Dcrdu to bo rcud by coming
JJc every day alike mp'.oj ed'
riXOENT PARAGRAPHS.
A nobby thing in Hoots. A bunion.
A relic hunter-A lellow endeavor
ing to capture a widow.
Flattery is called "taffy" because it
makes a man feel awfully "stuck
up."
The eye is sometit called the
window of the s.nil, consequently
a black eye inn-t bo a stained win
dow. If any merchant doubts the efficacy
of advertising, let him put a two-line
notice in a local paper .dating that he
wants to buy a tl"g.
A rede inade "! Sunday i void,
which may account f-n' men sleeping
all through iliun h -erviee. an I
making no note of what, flu' prather
says.
A man who had tried it says that
the only reason why a sufferer's bejel
don't come oil when haing a tooth
pulled is because tho to-ith gives way
first.
Human nature illustrated: jJany
iiudges bis mother's elbow. "Mamma,
stop Tola from killing that ily 011 the
window." -What for?" ' Because I
want to kill him myself."
A western merchant says that when
he w ants a rest be does not find it.
necessary to go t the sea-sido and
spend all his profits, but just takes his
divert iseinents out of the papers, and
then he has an easy time.
A lady poet asks: "How ran 1 tell
him I love him no more?" There are
divers ways, li" he lives out of tdwrt,
and economy is an object, she might
apprise him of the depressing fact by
a postal card; or get her brother to
tell him; or wait until a telephone lino
is cs,.li,ji!i,i.,l; but if she wishes him
to receive the news as if by magic, she
-hould divulge the state of her feel
: ings to a conpleof members of the sewing-circle.
Mliat to Brink.
A physician writes in the WorM of
veei11 souie very interesting things
things regarding what to drink. Tho
habit of drinking strong tea or black
?offee lii'eeily after dinner isespceial-
ly bad, and certainly interferes with di-
gestt.-n. At breaktast time a healthy
be indulged in moderately. The bulk
if the day's work i.s done; the body not
' unly wants rinsing out, but fatigue is
felt, which may well be counteracted
by the ui3 of a mild stimulant such as
tea, and bed time is not yet. so near
that sleep is interfered w ith. Most na-'
lions that drink coffee largely get sal
low skin, and I am inclined to think
that the carbonaceous matter of tho
roasted rofrce.whcn s. largely and fre-
' quently taken, may perhaps have some-
thing to do w ith this. For hard work
ing people who are not corpulent I
should suggest the thiek-llake cocoa as
the healthiest and most nutritious
breakfast beverage. For those who do
not want fattening drinks, and who of-
,.n cannot digest cocoa, I should say
(,rjnk w,(t).r .,, l)rt akf.ist. Those who
' rx rr, 'ivr r r
main meal need a diluent drink an hour
or two afterward; and, if they drink tea
it keps them awake or makes them
1 irritalile and nervous. I find for my-
. . ,. ,
! Sl'h ' hat 'bninjr y ' " obliged
to do w hen I have done my work (7.30
1 p m .) and often needing to work from
a : to 11, a tumbler of hot w ater brought
'Ik. ' " "linwwiil iihiii o