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VOL. V.
PITTSB()R CHATHAM CO., N. C., AU.UTST2, 18?.
NO. 47.
Tnr larger a-lvrrtlfH-meutalllieriir nnti.i.-i iilt
llalMVay!
Huts ycu Imgo'lon !ino wo nloml
Dotween (lie light, ilmt night of Spiin2,
The river rolling to the (1 101I,
So mil tho liir.li, th' y iltircil not xin;?
n love wiu ever ilri-iiin'il like llii,
lt.niiitli (he i-hiiluwa ill' the park,
llpin-trn m v liitjtrr unci 11 lita,
lit-twecti I lii' d.n li-lit mill III" il.irk!
Tlierp lin.l lif i ii tinil.li- llu's was rest;
There hiul boon msii ii this w pi-nco:
Hin miii-hi! iljing in Die wont
Mmln Nuiiire sih anil wlibpers cense,
I only It'll wlmt 1 Imil loiiinl,
Vim only knew wlmt 1 wunM snyj
But im Iiiiir firoko I lie pence priilnund
Ililwun ilin l,iikn8 Hiul tlio iliiy!
How will il cnil? I raiinril (HI;
1 i i-Ke-l it iiiiiny mouth fio,
ffiTnrn thr Imiviw nl Autumn lull,
Ami clinii;''! lo Winter' wustn ol miovy.
Yet wpslitii'i wnlrliiii ill I ) pi 'pi
Ol eti'titin r t i in i Im priimisi! Imi W!
No Imp, 'tia iiolliiii;.! inuH vnit
Xli'twren die il.iv hlil ml I Mm il.uk'
Clrmnit Smlt.
A BITTER CUP.
Mr. Martin had just crniw in to tea.
It wa. (inn (if those sultry summer
evenings when the leaves hang stirless
ly im tlie trees anil the dull electric
fires Ma'.e along the east, forebo lers of
storm.
It hail been very hut all day, the
farm hands ha ! lagged at their work
nn the low laii'l meadow, ami all tho
world's whi"-ls sccniel to revolve as if
hey were weighted. Mr. Martin was
cry tired, and, withal, a little cross.
Perhaps Mrs. Martin win tired, too.
She, poor soul, ha I been iil since four
o'( -lot k in the morning. She had wash,
f d, taken rare of four cows' milk, pre.
pared three meals for the hungry
'arm hand... lieen up in the quarry
woods to search for a family of ad
venturous young turkey-chicks, sooth
ed the sorrows of a teething bahy, and
mended up the suit of clothes which
l'etsey Bliin, the tailoress, had declar
ed "not worth a needleful o' thread!"
liecanse Thomas, her hu.slanl. had
said that "willful waste tvm wof il
v ant," and that there was a deal of
wear in the suit, yet, if only there was
a stitch taken here and there.
Hut her chei k wa-pink and her ' yes
sparkling when Tlinma came iu, for
all the heaviness in her heart and the
dull pain in her b;ck, for little Fsther
had come home from boarding-school.
Fsther, the youngest sister of all, the
('arling of the family circle from which
Mrs. Martin came tho ju t for whom
they all had s-raped and pinched so
thai she, at least, might have a "Boston
education."
And Fsther sat in the window-seat,
grown into it blooming young woman,
with bronze-brown hair lying in Huffy
masses over her fair forehead, porcelain,
l ine eyes, and a dress all trimmed with
lililion hows,
"Look, Thomas!" cried Mrs. Martin,
excitedly: "it's Essie! Fssie come
home tw'o days before we expected her!'
"Yes, I see." suul Mr. Martin, in the
cold, measured tones which always
dampened his wife's enthusiasm like
ho iiwnv drops of freezing water.
"How do you do, Fsther i Kuth, what
are you putting cold chicken on the
table for? Corned-I'cef is plenty, I am
sure. You had a great deal better
t-ave the chh ken for the men's break
fast. Working folks have hearty
appetites."
"Esther is fond of cold chicken,"
whispered Mrs. Martin. "And"
"So one need want anything better
than good corned-beef," judiciously
pronounced Mr. Martin, "Put the
chicken back into the pantry, and the
apple jelly with it. Cood stewed goose
berries are relish enough for anybody.
We must economize in little things as
well as large ones, if we don't want to
end our days in the poorhouse."
And Mrs. Martin sorrowfully obey
ed, while Fsther watched her brother-in-law
with large, grave eyes, betoken
ing inward surprise.
At the end of a week, Mr. Martin
addressed his sister-in-law with serious
purpose.
"Well, Fsth-r." said he, "you've
"cen here a week now."
"Yes." said Fssie, "Eve been here u
week."
"A week is a good long visit," re
marked Mr. Martin.
'It's long enough for some things,"
said Essie.
"Mrs. Martin thinks she would like
to have you slay." went on Mr. Martin,
after a puzzled glance at the. blue, shin
ing eyes. "Ami although, of course,
every one adds to the expense in a
family like this, I've no' object ions to
giving you a home, provided yon are
willing to earn it by hard work.
And"
"Stop!" cried Fssie, jumping up,
"I haven't aked you for a home yet.
And I don't mean l". And ynu art
only making me th" offer becaus
Doctor Jorlan says Kuth will brea';
down unless she has a strong mui-i-servant
to help hrr with the lioii-',-jvovk.
But there is no money tint
would hire me to make myself such a
drudge as poor Ruth is."
"Hoity-toity!" said Mr. Martin.
'Young woman, you dou't consider
who you are talking to."
"Yes.I do," said Essie, with emphasis.
"To a Bluebeard, to a stock, a stone, a
man who is grinding his wife's life out
on the pitiless wheel of money-making.
So, I wouldn't livo as Kuth does, not
if you would put mo in a palace!"
Mr. Martin grew green and saffron
by turns.
"Humph!'' said he. "Fine idea you
have got at this fashionable boarding
school of your.. Well, if you don't
like my offer, you're nut obliged to
accept it. He a line lady, if you please,
and see where it will land you."
By w ay of answer, Essie marched
out of the room with all the dignity of
a royal prince y. She only stopped in
the kitchen long enough to kiss Kutl.,
who was ip the midst of a baking.
"Poor darling," said she, "How I
wish I could carry you off with me.
Eor stay, I won't!"
"Life is hard work, Essie," said Mrs.
Martin, beginning to cry, in spile of
herself; "and it's a woman's duty to
help her husband."
'And I mean to help mine - when I
have one." said Fssie, blushing bright
ly. "But not by wearing myself out."
Mr. Martin shook his head.
"If Stephen Smith is foolish enough
to marry that saucy gip'v, she'll
lead him a pretty life," said he. "I
wonder if she exped to sit on a
satin s'if.t all her days, wi'h a rose
in her baud, and her hair fri.led, in
that preposterous fashion, all over
her eyes? But 1 warn 'em, they need
never come to mo for help! Esther
has treated me with too much iiisolen' e
for ine ever to receive her again,"
"I am sure she did not ni"an any
thing," said Mrs. Martin, apologetically.
"Well, then, her words belied her
meaning." remarked Thomas M.utin,
grimly compresuiig his lips.
But Stephen Smith was apparent
, ly undaunted by the possibilities of
I ruin predicted by Farmer Martin, for
he married Fsther and went to the
( ity to live, within three months,
j "I give 'em just a yc.ir to come
' back here an I ea' humble pie!" s aid
Martin, vindictively,
j "Oh. Th"in.u; don't talk so!" said
j his wife, "(hie would think you
j would be glad to have some evil
j befall tin m!"
j "And so I should." said Martin,
, viciously grinding his teeth together,
i .'That girl needs a lot of humbling.
! and I hope ..he'll get it."
I Three years afterward there came
; one of those terrible droughts that
I undo a farmer's life-work In a sea
J son, and sweep away his prospects as
t an autumn wind sweeps away a sere
j forest. The cattle died, a pestilence
broke out am ng the dock of sheep,
j which Thouia Martin had just bought ;
a high wind blew his best barn over,
' and disaster stare I him in the face on
every side.
"It's no use talking," said he. "I
cannot meet this year's interest on the
inoi tgag '. The pla e will have to go."
"Oh, Thomas!" groaned Mrs. Martin,
who, poor soul, now lay all day on a
hard wooden lounge, anil grinned to
see how wol'ully she was needed at the
helm.
"I can't help it," said Martin.
"Everj thing is against me"
"It's only live hundred dollars," said
Mrs. Martin. "You might borrow it.''
"Who'd lend to me. I'd like to know ?'
said Martin, remembering with a sigh
how he had hardened his own face
against every humble suppliant in the
golden days of his prosperity.
"There's Esther's husband," suggest
ed Ruth. "I've heard that he's doing
well in Boston. And, alter all, Esther's
my own sister."
Mr. Martin's features contracted int o
a hideous grimace. Of all tho bitter
cups which circumstances had held to
his lips of late this was the bitterest.
But it had to be swallowed. There
whs no help for it.
"I didn't suppose Smith's folks lived
as genteel as this," said ho to hiinseif.
as a neat maid led him across an
octagonal vestibule, Moored with black
and red marble, and flagrant with
(lowers, under the golden fringe of an
antique portiere, into a large, tastefully-furnished
room, where the sing
ing birds, the open piano, the low satin
sofa all betokened no lack of money.
Yes Mr. Smith was at home, lie
had not yet gone to the store, and pres
ently he came in, waving welcomes to
the man who had married Essie's sister,
"Lend you a thousand dollars?" said
he. "Of course we can lend you a
thousand dollars. What is money for
if not to help each other with. Oh,
yes. We've a snug little sum laid up
in the bank, and we live very comfort
ably. My business? Yes, it's tolera
ble, butit never got us all thesethings,"
rl, uicing at the soft arabesques of the
( arpct, the graceful folds of the crim.
m silk curtains, and the easel Ailed
with proof engravings. "That, is my
wife's doing."
"Eh?" said Mr. Martin, staring
around him.
"Yes," said Smith, with a certain,
quiet satisfaction. "Fssie is an artist,
yon know a designer. She invents
patterns for the paper-hangers and up
holsterers. They are glad to pay her
fifty dollars a week."
"Fifty dollars a week!" exclaimed
Thomas Martin. "Why that's more -fifty
dollars is, 1 mean than poor Ruth
made by all her poultry for a year.
Well. 1 never!"
In all his life he had never reapectcd
Essie as he respected her now.
"She has money laid up," said
Stephen Smith. "And if she's the girl
I think she is, she won't grudge it to
help her sister's husband in a pinch."
(all and bitterness --gall and bitter
ness! But, thought poor Martin, with
a sigh, how was Stephen to know all
that was come and gone?
Fssie's light step, on the passagiv
way, sounded at this instant ; and she
came in, dressed in a picturesque
brow n linen blouse; her hair still shad
ing her forehead, like a fringe of lloss
silk, after the old, graceful fashion.
"Yes," she said brightly, when her
brother-in-law's errand was staled to
her; "Of course you shall have it. I
owe you as much as that, I think,
Thoinai, were it only to erase from
your memory that la.it scene of our
parting. How defiant and insolenl.it
was, to-be-sure!" and she laughed the
sweetest of mellow laughter. "But I
insist upon il still, that my theory was
correct; a woman can work, without
becoming a drudge."
"Perhaps she can," slowly and un
willingly admitted Thomas Martin
"perhaps she can! But, it didn't use to
be so, in my mother's days."
And he sighed to think of poor Hath,
broken down in the meridian of her
days, by the cruel necessities that drive
tlio wife of an American farmer to her
doom. Was it his own fault? Per
haps it was.
Essie's thousand loan was the straw
which saved him from figurative
drowning. lie paid th" interest,
bought a new flock of merino sheep,
and weathered the storm.
And the next year when Essie camo
to the farm to assist her sister, for the
first time she found Ruth sitting on
the piazza, and watching the little
punks play in the sunshine with listless,
heavy eyes.
"Yes," said Uuth. "I can't work any
more. But Thomas is very kind. Ho
don't grudge the hired girl's wages
and he is always saying he wished he
had taken more care of me in the old
times. But it's too late now. You
were right. Fssie, when you said you
wouldn't stay on here, and help with
the housework."
"Yes." said Fssie, fondling the thin
hand, which lay on the arm of the
rocking-chair, "I think I was right."
') Fund Uki as.
The Viceroy ami the Buhy.
A characteristic anecdote is related
of the late Lord Lawrence, when as
the new Viceroy of India, he was re
turning to the country in which his
bet years had been passed. He was
in bad spirits, partly from sea-sickness;
partly from the lack of friends and con
genial natures around him, partly from
the feeling of the heavy responsibilities
w hich he had assumed in comparatively
weak health. A lady was returning to
India with her infant child, which she
utterly neglected, and the baby took its
revenge upon the passengers generally
by squalling day and night alike. They
complained in no measured language
to the authorities, "Steward, throw
that baby overboard!" was tho cry
which came from many a tenipest
totsed and sleepless birth. But the
nuisance continued unabated. At last
the new viceroy, perhaps he saw in the
child, half-unconscioiisly, a slight rt;
scmblance to his lost Bertie, gave it a
large share nf his attention, and would
take it for hours together on his kneet
showing it his watch ami anything
that would amuse it. The child took
to him, as he to it, and to the great
relief of the passengers was always
quiet in his presence. "Why do you
take such notice ol that child? ' Asked
one of them. "W hy, to tell you the
truth," said the viceroy, "that, child is
the only being in the ship who I can'
feel quite sure doe not want to get
anything out of me, and so I take
pleasure in its six lety." How imp h
of the kindliness and simplicity of a
great nature is revealed by this simple
story.
Areinl Trips.
Two successful aerial trips hae
been made by M. Poinpeieu with an
elongated balloon, and on the second
ascent a change in the course of the
air-ship wut obtained by simply mov.
lug a rudder with which it had bee
provided
BART.
lie Went Down Town H'ltll (irniidnn,
but Won't Ho Any Mors,
(randpa loved the bahy. The baby
is three years old. with the prettiest
big blue eyes, the plumpest, reddest,
cheeks, the dearest, dimpled mouth,
and the eunningest ways in the world.
Baby has sturdy little legs, and resl
I less, strong little arms, and is an exam,
i pic of perpetual motion. Baby's grand
I pa accompanied him on various walks,
i but, grandpa's ambition was to take
baby down to the store, where tlx'
j boys could see what a phenomenal
child he is, and wh.it cunning was he
has. One morning crandpa dressed
j baby up, and when "lie started away
i with grandpa be looked, with-bis wavy
I golden hair, bright eyes, and liltle
I brown cloak, like oire ol Ka'o (ireen
j way's creal ions imbued with life,
j When the passengers iu t It- car smiled
at baby and remarked how sweet he
was, grandpa was happy, and ( hucKI'd
, as he thought of the enjoyment ol hav-
ing baby w ilh him at the store. Once
! at the stole, baby was the centre of an
admiring crowd of grandpa's business
! companions. Baby was shy at lirst,
j and one fat list was pushed into the
j little mouth, w hile baby's eyes were
i cast upon the floor. Pretty soon.
though, baby regained his usual spirits
and started "ii a tour of iiiveMigaMon.
IIislir.it venture was to pull over a
lot of ledgers and account lucks that
had been undergoing an iinesiiga'i'n,
and on top of this pile ho poured the
contents of a big bottle of violet ink.
Pursuing his investigations further,
baby found himself iu the office where
the brightly varnished :-ale, with its
impossible landsi apis, at once attract
ed his attention. The heavy iron door
was closed, and baby, by standing on a
chair, could just reach th" i ombinal ion
knob, the brightness ol which had
caught his eye. lie played w ith the
pretty knob, turning it round and
round ever so many times, and laugh
ing to himself. But the man who
came to open the :-afe, and who was in
a dreadful hurry, didn't laugh, for the
lock had been worked for years on a
part of the cuiiibinat i"ii and baby had
destroyed it ( oinplelely, and three
hours were required to lind it again.
Out in a back room baby found a ham
mer and some lacks, and Idled some
new desks full of pretty tin tacks.
Then following the promptings of his
busy little mind he pulled a piece of
string to see what was on the other
end of it. There was a mantel orna.
ment belonging to one of the boys on
the other end, and when the baby
pulled the ornament tipped over and
xv as shattered. Baby was frightened
at the muss he had made, and hid him
self in a box that stood on end near
the door, and that had been used to
hold soft coal dining the winter,
(iramlpa found hi in there, but in what
a plight! His little face and hands
end his beautiful white die: s were be
grimed with the nasty coal-dust-(irandpa
brushed him oil' and washed
his face and hands, and made him
somewhat ju'esentable. alter which he
set him down in a big hair, and told
'him to set still. Baby sat :till about a
minute and then slid down out. ol the
chair, and wandered away into the back
'room, where he suddenly spied a little
dog curled up asleep on the top of a
box. Baby stood on his toes, got a
good grip on doggj's tail, and pulled
The dog woke up. And the next inin.
ute baby's little legs were working for
Hear life as he lied towards grandpa's
quarters. Grandpa met him, kicked
the dog, and quieted baby, tried to
patch up the places in baby's dress
where the dog's teeth had made ragged
rents, and began to club himself for
bringing baby down town. Finally
baby rapped the climax by upsetting
on himself a can of lard oil, and grand
pa quit work for the rest of the day
wrapped the baby in thick brown pa
per, tied a string around him and took
him home. It will be some time be
fore grandpa will take his pel down
town with hint again. Baby had a
good time, though.
The Ureal Pork Speculator.
P. D. Armour is of sturdy Scotch
Presbyterian stock. He was born in
one of the central counties of New
York, on a farm among the hills. It
j was the highest ambition of his hoy
j hood days to earn money enough to
j buy the farm adjoining his father's.
AVhen the gold fever broke out he was
j still a mere stripling; but, full of
I youthful enthusiasm, he started for
, California, driving a wagon across the
I plains and mountains. He remained
i there three or four years, and in that
; time saved a few thousand dollars,
j ile had cash enough to buy that farm
and settlo down. He had no sooner
reached home than he experienced a
sudden revulsion of feeling. The
streets of the village looked narrow,
cramped and dull; the house appeared
mean and dingy. He only remained
oil the farm two or three days, and
then betook himself to inciiitiati
Later he drifted to Milw aukee, and at.
the close of the war he sold a gn at lot
of pork at t a barrel, and bought il
again at $H to l'., r a iing a profit
of about a million. To-day he i.inl. -as
the wealthiest man in Chicago, b: ing
rated by those who know something
of his business at 2r.H0iUM or $:!',
i N H i,i)i in. His transactions are colossal.
Ilis linn employs between Ti.t'iio and
i'i,n"'l men, and on his pay rolls are
about titty men who rccicvo salaries of
.", '" and over. He i not yet lifty
live vi ars of ag".
m ss At ni: or tiik ('mm;s.
Ill oiol .! WlKH l.lKl lie llllj.
Vt Im llaii' no lloii'. ihi" "t tlie
,rv Vol It Too ml.
A New- Yell; reporter de.i iibes the
method I y whi- h the uniim, lcl dog.,
i aught ill the sheets are killed at the
pound, on th" Fast river. Xinet two
dn:;.t were disposed of mi the day of
the reporter's v i--.it . Inning the lore
noon a number of people ( allcl at th
mind to claim their animal-, lost the
night before while dissipating on the
streets. While the weather w as yet in
that uncertain state between a heavy
downpour of di'i Jug rain and a sep.i.
ration of the clouds hr the admission
of sunshine, an old gentleman iu a liir
en duster and a toll hat. with a l ine
gingham umbrella in his hand, w as tie.
si ried by the keeper peel ing anxiously
over the outer wall. When questioned
he admitted that he was in search of
Frank," who had mysteriously disap
peared from home. It required a good
deal of pcrsua-ion to induce the old
gentleman to enter the do r o cr wlio..e
portals might be appropi ia'dy insiril.
ed, "Who enters here leave; hope be
hind." ( he e inside, he kept very t lose
to the side of I he keeper and wa ; very
reluctant to survey the pen., in which
Ti number of restless and protesting
dogs wen- cimlined. Finally, when
half-way through the yard, he recog
nized his pet spitz, shut up with half a
dozen ragged and dissipated-looking
canines, among whom he w as lolling
in utter ignorance of the fate he was
barely escaping. Ile sprang about the
pen in great delight when be saw his
master, and w hen the latter had paid
ihe neies-ary for his redemption, he
ai compauied hint up the street w ith
liis tail elevated in triumph at the sue.
ce.-sful rescue.
While a dozen or more were saed
from an unhappy fate by tho.igtitl'ul
masters, the others did not fare so
well. About two o'clock in the after,
noon a huge hon age four feet square
wa wheeled into the inclo-uire. and
the door unlinked. A number of d igs
who had watched the pro ceilings with
tongues protruding thi'-;:h the bars
of the jiens evidently began b suspci t.
theapproaih of a x i.-lt-tit death, tor
they sit up a lugubrious bowling, and
communicated tlnir tenor to their
companions. In an in taut tin- xard
rc-oiiinh'd with weeping and wailing
and gnashing of teeth. A Hack and
white spit, was lir.-t seized by (he les
and thrust, into the cage, l inn nting
the error of hi w ays at the top of bis
Voice. A poodle followed hllu with
piteous jelling protests, and then half
a hundred curs of nioiigi-. I breed were
sent to join their co upany. The spit '
seemed to resent Ids forced companion
ship, and engaged at omein a pitched
battle with a big yellow dog. whom he
drove into a corner, where he licked
his wounds and how led dismally for
succor.
When the cage was tilled it was
wheeled along a short railroad t ra- k to
the water's edge, where it va attach,
ol to a large ran". An executioner
stood at t iii-1 rank, and when the sig'
nal was gi en, he let golds hold and
stepped back upon the platlonn. The
cage swung out over the water and de
scended amid jells of rage, cries of
fear and barks of derision. As it be
gan to sink the dogs fought desperate
ly for tho upper places, an I it disap
peared with the disreputable spitz, at
the top of the cage, battling fiercely
with a black-and-tan w ho disputed his
supremacy. A choked wa 1 Moated
over the white-capped waves, and the
checkered career of the unfortunate
canines came to a sudden and unex
pected termination at the bottom of
the Fast river, amid the sea-weed, pcli
bles and tiishes.
After the lapse of a few minutes the
cage was raised and the wet, limp bod
ies thrown into awaiting cart. The
unhappy dogs who had witnessed the
departure of their comrades from their
I ens in the yard were I hen taken out
and treated to a similar exit. One of
these that wore a huge Spinola collar
snapped viciously at every dog as he
was put into the ( age. Another went
at his antagonist savagely, and they
sank beneath the restless waters lucked
in a fierce and passionate embrace.
When the pens had been implied the
carcasses were taken to Barn n island
wtiere they will be boiled down and
converted into soap and phosphate.
SUKXTIUP SCRAPS.
1 Jupiter's spot, on which the earth
would only make a small pad h, i.
growing fainter.
In France wonderful results art
being obtained in the work of vaccinal
ing livestock against disease.
M. de Lesncps states thai the evapo.
rating power of the sun is less on t lit
site of the proposed island sea of the
Sahara than c.t the Bed Sea. and lif
' does not anticipate that the waters
will dry up.
M. Tae hini ha siio'cnde in observ
ing the solar prominences upon thf
very disk of tin- sun. By enlarginp
the op(ning of hi ; spectroscope lie ha
been able a few Cnies to recognize on
the edge of the spots these grand
eruption' of hydrogen and the mi
know n ..lib-tain e helium.
The camphor tree has rei ently been
iiitiiiliiced irilo California and promise-
Well. It resembles the l.ioiel sol
what. It grows well all along tie
coa-.t, and one tree al S,e r.iiic tit ha?
already utlamcda h'-ight of thirty feci
It :s i a -ily propagated li"in :-ei I ot
cutting-.. Besides producin-r the will
i kiinwii drug, the tree is valuable a
timber. A non-con liielor of electricity ha
; yet I i be I. mil I, for all sub.-lani
hitherto discovi nd are eondU' to of
1 the force under certain I- icwii i nde
tii-ns. but those wbii h nlli c a gn a'
resistance to it serve Ihepurpo. " ol
' noii-ciinduclors iu pra'iiic, ,ith"U-.di
' they in. iv all be cither 1 1 -e l a g I
1 or bad condui tors. Th" be.-t i on.
. 1 i tor know n as yd is silver. 'I he
: woist conductor is par.Mline.
A llo) s Sci innii that Soii-l II v.
It was tho first effort he had ever
mad" o speak in public. Ii was in a
j union praise loccting.follow ing a great
revival, in a colleire town The boy,
blushing and agitated, yet, wi long to
; add his word of advice and thanksgiv
ing, began abruptly:
"My dear brothers and si -tel ., I hope
yon will all take hold; and when you
get hold, keep hold "
! The youth vva - :" i "lit'l ed. t!i.M lo'
repealed the saioe words over and
over, apparently unable t stop, or to
tabli ,i new scnteiee. Seine of the
voting people, who had religion, but
were not oil enough to have pity or
consideration, began to laugh, when a
big hearted man (none other than
Brother Ben. Bristow, of Covington',
st nuk out with the always appropriate
ejai illation. ' Thank Cod!" and then.
Willi that great ineloilieii - Voice of lo;.
began the hymn "Am I a soldier ot
the Cross V"
Finding this inquiry the youthful
' disciple sank, red and per-piring, into
his seat.
I am imi eitain w hether ,uiy hone.-t
effort is fruitless. That poor lad
thought, li" doubt, thai that was a
failure. 1 have often wondered
1 whithcrheeverliinl it again w hether
he did "keep hold." The talk of the
lollege professors and the ministers of
the evangi lii al churches assembled in
that union meeting have faded from
my reinclnbiaui e entirely, but the r
boy's w ret oheil exhortation remains at
Icasl in one heat t.
The Mowers of rhetoric may dei orate
the Compel fabric, but add nothing to
il strength, nor i an golden
glint of man's astheth upholstery
make more gratilul the shadows of
thegre.it roi k in a weary land.- tin-
iilltlllli t'nlll'H lil'lll liil'iltl.
Selecthis a Horse.
The 'in I'iil'l Hini rmi, i. than
whii h there is no belter aiillmiily on
the subject says; In bnving a horse,
lir-t look at his bet I and eyes for signs
of intelligence, temper, courage and
honest v. If had qualities predominate
in a horse, education only serv es to en
large and intensify them. The head is
the indicator of disposition. A square
muzzle, with large nostrils, evidences
an ample breatbingapparatiis and lung
power. Next, see that he is well un
der the jowl, with jaw-bones broad and
wide apart under the throttle. Breadth
and fullness between ears and eves are
always desirable. The eyes should be
full and ha el in color, cars small and
thin and thrown well forward. The
horse that turns his ears bark every
now and then is not to be trusted. He
is either a biter or a kicker, and is sure
to be vicious in other respects, and, be-in-..'
naturally vicious, can never be
trained to do anything well, and so a
horse with a rounding nose, tapering
forehe.nl. and a broad, full face below
the eyes is always treacherous anil not
In be depended on. Avoid the long
legged, stilted animal - always choos
ing one with a short, straight back and
lump, withers high and shoulders sliqi.
iii". well set back, and with a good
ih-pMi of chest, fore legs short, hind
legs straight, with low down hock,
short pastern joints, and a round mulish-shaped
foot.
To a lai).
Weo, lillle I mill .-" wIim I "I In"',
Wilh hIvi i sp ile's mi I IiiiIi ol yclliw
Wlmt u"nlle riil, i-i rn . iiIm iih -Uv ,
I las x.i.i;lit vein i H to lii..l n miili-.'
Who ennpt join i-Ii-ikIni i-pnUei iipnit,
Khi-Ii Kin- wiiiie di al n- -iinul -iik-o ii.iiiii"!;
Ami lio was lie Mm luvi I one. ( laiinl"K
T!l elioii esl i liatiilicr in ln-1 lieall?
() liny 1 1 ii i i ol e,.i!...ii Inn-,
Kisl ly li(-r Iiii",cih' Icn Ii-i pie-i-ii'3.
Ki ill yd, iiiiiiliinlii, Iic'h v imly h""'""
II tiut jon 'i()'hc-it'l weiu I rue.
You ilie. del ween lnu lingi'r ''.f,
Sweet iiyp.iv maul nl wis.loiii muir;
IVay, in il wnitli a ilcitli nu liaio
'lo lieu llio niivi! of In- lip?
F. I. Slur mini in Ike Crnlm y.
IT'WJKST PARAGRAPHS.
It never perspires but it pores.
The provincial iues--a cider mill.
The czar will last a long time. He is
bound in Biissia.
A summer resort. Borrowing our
neighbor's lawn mower.
A imin w hose best worKs are always
trampled under foot - A carpet manu
facturer. "No, sir, said the pji-sengei ,.o tne
ship's doctor. "Fin not seasick, but I'm
ilciu cdly disgusted with the motion of
; the vessel."
When a man does not get up with
the lark in the morning, the pn sump
tion is that he was out, on a swallow
the night previous,
Ilnrju r'x Jinpir says "a widow snouid
be married in a bonnet." Harper is
poking" fun at the widows; of course
they prefer to be married in a church.
With the man of to-day life is a pa
thetic, heroic and unavailing struggle
against balilhcadeducss. Jt is a waste
of time, money and ointment to strive
against it.
"May I h ave a few tracts?" asked a
traveling quack doctor of a lady who
responded to his knock. "Leave some
tracts? Certainly you may," said she,
looking at him most benignly over her
spec-; "h ave them wilh the heel to
' ward the house, if you please."
An Englishman shootingMiiall gamo
in CeriuaDv remarked to his host, that,
there wa a spice of danger in shoot
ing in America. "Ah," said the ho..t.
"you like danger mil your sport V Ien
ymi go out shooting niit me. He last
time I shoot mine brudder -in-law in do
schti'inaek."
"Well." remarked a young M. just
returned front college, "1 suppose that
the next thing will be to hunt a good
situation, and thi n wait for something
to do. like Patience on a monument."
"Yes." said a bystander; "and it won't
be long after you begin lief ore the
monuments will be on the patients."
Ti'iiliiiiie,
This word the plural of trichina,
has its accent on the second syllable.
It is from a Cn-ck word meaning "hair'
and is the name ol the hair-like worms
.sometimes found in the human mus
cles. The word "spiralis" is generally
attached to il. and refers to the man
ner in which the para -it e lies curled
up in his t iny capsule.
Win n fully grown, it would take
( ightee i of the males, phe ed end to
end, t make an inch. The diseaie to
which tin y give rise at lir.-t often
mistaken I-t iiiiisi ular rheumatism
i called I rii hiuia.-is, sometimes trichin
ia -is.
It was net until I s that the para
site was toiind in man. Pin ing the
next t w enty liv e years it was proved
that there wa-a connection between
Ihe disease in man and that of a hog.
and in l'iT the parasite was found in
the muscles of the latter. Whence
tin-hog ha. derived it is an unsettled
quest ion.
As long as the hog live, the parasite
remains dormant iu the auiiual, likp.
the chrvsali-i of the butterlly. But
when the bog's Mesh is eaten, the tiny
capsules then are dissolved by the di
ge. tie juices, and trichinae are set
fne.
A single meal may introduce many
thousands of them -over a million,
says one writer into the stomach.
Thus introduced they live from live to
six weeks in the intestines, each one
producing meanwhile a brood of at
least one thousand live hundred. The
latter soon migrate towards the mus
cles, following the course of the blood
vessels and nerves, and reaching their
goal about the tenth day.
Here, in live or six months, they pass
into a sort of chrysalis condition, to be
freed from it only by the gastric juices
of some other being. Similar migra
tions may follow, wave alter wave
More or less, however, are swept out
of the intestines, possibly to lind their
w ay back to their ancestral home in
the swine.
The trichina-have been found in ev
ery land. They have also been detect
ed in the cat, dog, rabbit, rat, mo use,
marmot, the wild hog of Europe, and
, even in the hippopotamus. Youth'
Companion, '
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