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VOL. VI.
I,ITTSr,()K() CHATHAM CO.. X. C. OCTOUMi II, I8H:S
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No. r,.
The Skein We Wind.
If yon mill I, to-day
Should stop and lay
Our lifework down, and let our hands full
where they will
Fall down to lie quite still
And if gome olher hand should come and
stoop to find
The threads we carried, so that it cohM wind(
Dofjinning where we slopped; if it should
cotne to keep
Our lifework going, seek
To carry out the good design,
Distinctively made yours or mine,
What wonld it find?
Pome woik we must he doing, true or lalsc;
6ome thien'ls we wind; some purpose so
exults
Itself that we look up to it, or down,
As to a crown
To bow before, and we weave threads
Of d fluent length and thickness -some mere
slu ed a
And wind tlicm rrund
Till all the skein of lite is bound,
Sometime lorgeliinj; nil the; time
To aak
The Ttne ol the threads, or choo e
Strung stud to use.
No lifinil but winds some thread;
It cannot etuml quite still till it is dead
fiat what it pins and winds n litllo skein.
God mndp ntlt linnd for w ork i.ol toil stuin
It n quired, but eret.r hand
Spins, though but ropes of sand,
j It love should come,
Stooping alioro when wo are done.
To find bl ight th ends
That we have liel I, that it imiy spin them
longer find lint shredi
That break w hen touched how cold,
Sad, shivaiing, portionless, the hand w ill hold
The broken sliretle, und know
Ficsh cause for more.
HIRAM'S VISIT.
"Going to git married, be yon,
Hiram ?"
Iliraii) Honeydew colored at the ab
rupt question, but he answered, truth,
fully:
"I don't see what else I kin do.
Aunt Teggy. Sister Susan is bent on
a-niarryin' the school-teacher an'
a-goin' off to the IMack Hills or sotn'ercs
away out of all creation. An' hero's
all the fall work a-comin' on -that
medder hay to stack, an' corn to cut,
pimikins to getker an' all them wind
falls an' Siberian crabs to make up in
i ider fur the apple-butter, an' no help
to be got fur love or money. An' it
ptands to reason I can't tend tho farm
anil cook the vittles, too. So J t bought
Boon as tli rash in' was over - you've
promised to stay till then. Aunt Peggy
--an' then I thought I'd gi round
Bom'eres nigh about Clover Creek,
where some of our kinfolks live, an'
Btay a week or so, an' git a a some
body that can hottsekeep an' the like
do the milkin' an' churnin'. "tend to
puttin' up fruit, makin' appU'-butter,
take keer of the chickens an' ducks,
an' do the cookin' an' cleanin'. Sister
Susan was a 'powerful good housekeep
er, an she couldn't be beat a-coekin'.
either. If I could lincl a good sort of a
woman that 'nil cook ekal to Susan, I
wouldn't mind a marryin' her."
"Humph! So yon expect to git a
wife an' a gcol one. too, in a week or
two, hey? You're a gump, Hiram
Honeydew. an' notion' else, liesides,
you'tl ought to git a wife you could
keer fur, as well as a good hottsekeep.
er. Housi keepin' an' cook in' ain't
everything. I tell j on. There's sech a
thing as affeckshin between man and
wife."
Hut Hiram scouted at this idea.
"One woman is the same as another
to me," he returned, loftily. "I want
a housekeeper, an' that's why I'm
a-goin' to marry at all."
"Wal then, Hiram, if you're bound
an' determined to go an' hunt up a
wife that a-way,mebbel kin help you a
little. I knowed the folks about
Clover Creek like a book when yer
Uncle Kli was alive, an' we lived on
the old Honeydew farm. An' thar
was Mahala Xtitter. She married Job
Perky, an' they bought a farm on
Clover Hill, t'other side the creek
There wan't nobody could beat Mahala
a bousekeepin' them days, an' most
likely her darter, Marthy .lane, hes
tuck after her. They are sort o' kin
folks o' yourn, too. Mahaly was yer
Uncle Kli's own cousin. An' ef you
like, I'll write 'em a few lines, an' teli
'em you're a-comin, an' sort o' perpare
'em, fur nobody likes to hev conip'ny
unexpected."
And so It was settled, much to
Hiram's relief, and he whetted his
scythe and went out to mow a feed of
green clover for his horses with a
lighter heart than he had had for a
week.
For he had made up his mind (hat if
Martha Jane Perky was as good a
housekeeper as Aunt Peggy said, he
would bring her homo with him ns
Mr Honeydew in a week's time, if
she was willing.
i And no doubt she would be, for
Hiram was quite a good-looking man
with plea.mnt brown eyes, curly brown
hair, and a thick, brown moustache.
Moreover he was "well-to-do," and
almost any of the girls in his own
neighborhood would have jumped at
the chance of presiding over his broad
acres and picturesque cottage farm"
house, half buried in sugar-maples and
tall Lollard poplar-trees.
But to Hiram, its to most others,
distanco lent enchantment to the view,
and he was "hound and determined, as
Aunt Peggy had said, to seek his fate
in some of tho wido old farm-bouses
dotting the fertilo borders o Clover
Creek.
"He'll be a mighty good ketch fur
you an' no mistake, Marthy Jane,"
commented Mis. Perky, when Aunt
Peggy's letter bad been duly received
and read. "A mighty good keteh, am
you must do your best to ketch him.
"fain't ottt n a gal has sech a chance
throwed at her head, an' if you'vo got
a mite o' pluck about you, you won't,
let them stuck-up Hriggsos git ahead
of you. Pelilah llriggs would give
her cars to git ahead of you, I'll bet a
button;-'
To which bit of logic Martha Jane
assented, with a toss of her head, and
the asui aneo that Pelilah Hriggs, nor
no one rise, wasn't a-goin' to git ahead
of her.
t'iiweucntly, when farmer Perky
drove his gray team to the gate, with
lliiam Honeydew on the seat beside
him, the neoes-ary preparations had al.
readv been ma le - doors scoured.
baking done, and a substantial country
dinner, with a dessert of apple-dump,
lings and sweet-cream sauce, ready to
be served.
While Martha .lane, in a pink plaid
frock, with tinted rallies, stood waiting
to welcome the expected guest.
"She's mortal htiiuly," thought
Hiram, as ho sal smoking, after din
ner, on the porch, and mentally review,
ing Martha Jane's narrow forehead,
hard black eyes and high-colored
cheeks. "Hut. then. I ain't n-lnokin'
out fur beauty, ait' if she .- : me
other ways, 1 reckin 'I ain't no great
matter how she looks. A gnl with
them kind of eye an' a mahogany
colored skin kin do the . hop's an
make butter, an' -d h. a- good a II she
had blue eves an' g' ld v -loohin' hair,
lil... timt j-irl tl'.s llitly. that
bro'tght In tin- dumplin's an' passed
round the dip fur 'ein .it dinner In-day.
She's the I: i r 'd girl. I reckin. "I" any
rate I ain't got time to hunt round
much, an' I reckin Marl by .lane won'
mind changin' her name to Honeydew
afore long, an' l'e go to hurry up
1 ain't got no time to waste a-'ourtin'.
I ret kin if notion' happens we kin be
married in a week, an' git. l ack home,
I don't bke to stay here a set tin" round
doiu' notion'. uilh all the tall work
agitttn' I t hind at the farm."
"Oh. dear!"
lnvn through the )nng grass and
crimson t lover-hob;, under scrubby
haws and tall per-hnmmi trees, went
llitty MavK a deep raped sii'ilmnm t
shading her iolel eyes and tangled
yellow curls.
She was after the cows, standing
knee-ib ep in the tall aftermath, where
they had been tinned lor past n rag.'
after the meadow hay was ml.
"Oh, dear;" sighed I illy again, "I'm
so tired, anil here's the cows to drive
home, milking to do, sponge to set for
the baking to-niort ow . and goodness
knows w bat el so. and Mi!"
She , tai led back, with a little scream,
for seated on the fence, und'T the
shadow of a i riinson-leafed sassafras
tree, sat Hiram Honeydew, coolly
watchiii;; her.
Kilty's cheeks turned from pink to
scarlet as she met the admiring glances
of his fraek, brown eyes, and hcr
heart beat ras er than common.
Hut Hitty w;n a sensible girl, so
she said, "(loud evening, Mr. Honey,
dew!" ipiite coolly, and began driving
home the cows.
Hut Hiram sprang down from bis
perch on the rail fence and followed
her.
"Let me help you, Miss llitty!" be
begged. "I ain't used to loalin'
around, doin' notbin', like I've been
fur some days now; and it'll be a treat
to drive home the cows, ex en."
So they walked together through the
velvety aftermath, dotted with st arlet
butterlly-wccd, and crimson-pctalcd
"nigger-beads," the lowing cows filing
slowly home, laily chew ing their cuds,
and switching their tails at the Mies.
Hiram letdown the bars, and turn'
ed the cows into the yard, while llitty
brought out the milk-pails from under
a bunch of burdock-leaves, w hero she
had left them.
And somehow, in spite of the milk
ing and setting the sponge, and doing
up the chores, Hitty's heart beat more
lightly than it had for many a day.
And instead of one week Hiram
Honeydew stayed two. but still Martha
Jane had not been invited to change
her name.
"She's a mighty good lions. k" pcr,"
thought Hiram, meibtatixely. "If
little llitty could only cook an' house-
keep as good as her. I don't
know"
He ended by building a castle in the
air, whernin llitty Mavis, xvith her vin
let i yes,and"goldy"eolored hair, was th'i
chief figure.
"llitty Mavis!"
Martha Jane's bard, black eyes look
ed harder than ever, and her sharp
features scented sharper still as she
bounced wrath fully into the kitchen
where llitty sat slicing a bowl of
yellow Crawford peaches for supper.
"Voit kin pack up your duds and
go! You a-settin' up to ketch a beau,
as if Hiram Honeydew would look at
Volt."
"I - Martha Jane, what on earth do
you mean ':"
Hitty's eyes expanded, and the pink
in her t hecks deepened to a glow ing
scarlet.
"Vou know well enough what t
mean!" sneered Martha. "Vou
needn't to look so innereent, like butter
I wouldn't melt in your mouth, an' oti
; a-stiainin' every nerve to ketch Hiram
: Honeydew a-cajolin" him to help you
milk, an' drive up the cows, an' the
1 like. It's jest like your owdacious
; th'in's, an' you kin pack up an' leave--
right away, too!"
! "Hut 1 don't know where to go!"
Kitty's heart beat lik- a fiighten-d
i robin's at the thought of being driven
j ft ietidlcss into the world, but Maltha
j Jane was implacable.
"It's nothin' to me where you go. so
' you leave here," she sniffed, as she
, lloimeed angrily away.
"tin wilh me. Kitty!"' said a tender
voice; and Hiram Honeydew stepped
suddenly into the little kitchen. "io
xvith me, llitty, and be my wife."
IliiK's cheeks grew redder than
' before, but sho did not draw away
from his offered embrace.
"N'ot gone yet ?" cried a shrill Voice,
as the door was jerked viciously open.
, "liidn't I tell you to pa. k up oh,
Mr. Honeydew. you here? Come and
have tea - we're a-waitin' fur you."
"Kvctise uie!" was the cob I reply.
"I shall just have time to take my
wile that i.. In be -ocr to the par.
.-onaue. Will yon come to the wed.
ding'.-"
Hut. with a scornful sniff and toss
of her le a 1, Martha Jane lloumcd oil"
again.
i "An mi you didn't marry Mahala's
darter, after all!" cried Aunt Peggy,
who was waiting to r ito tlcm.
"N-no!'' stammered Hiram. Kilty
kin learn to keep bouse, 1 reckin
"l-earu"." cried Hill. "Why. 1 did
all the housekeeping at Aunt Mahala's,
She is my aunt, though they wouldn't
let me call her so. Marthy Jane never
did a lick of work iu her life."
And so Hiram Honeydew get a wife
and a housekeeper all in one. after all.
Harvesting I liioiichnnt I It o Wold.
That the harvest of the world, or
the reaping of the cereal crops on the
earth, takes place in different periods,
on account id" the different latitudes
and ci'iise'iicnt different seasons, is a
well known fact; that these periods
embrace altogether more than three
fourths of the year might not be
known. In Australia, New calami,
the greater part ol' Chili, ami some dis
tricts of Argentine Kcpuhlic, the har
cst lakes place in January; in the
month of l'cbiuary it commences in
Ka.st India, and progressing toward the
north, terminates in March -Mexico
1'gypt, Persia and Syria harust in
April; the north Asia Minor, China.
Japan, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, and
Texas in May. The following coun
tries reap tlicii harvests in June; Cali
fornia, .'-pain. I'oitugal, Italy, (ireece
and the south of 1' ranee. In the other
parts of Franco, in Auslro-Kunga"
it, the south of liiissia, and the great
er part ol thel'iiiteil states the crop is
gathered iu July. In Hie month of
August the following countries har
vest: Belgium, UiTinany, Fngland, the
Netherlands, and Denmark; iu Sep"
tember, Scotland. Sweden, Norway
Canada, the north of Hitssia. the latter
continuing until in October.
A Hen Had lies Snakes.
On the farm of (ieorge l.ogan. near
Lebanon, in the county of Waiter,
Ohio, a hen has long evinced an ardent
desire to become a mother, by persis
tent efforts to hatch door-knobs and
anything else that bore the remotest
resemblance to an egg, that her owner
I'm. illy had pity on her, and placed in
her favorite barrel fourteen curious
eggs that he bad discovered in turning
a 1 arrow. Then he went off tocam
meeling and thought no more about
the matter uiitif his return, when he
was amacd to find that the hen bad
hati hc'L into this wicked world four
teen little snakes for which she was
caring with the utmost affection and
solicitude and from which she received
constant demonstrations of dial alltc.
tiou. Next.
1 THE T.VPU AMO.NtJ MAORIS.
! Wi i'oIiik mill l.niiuliDiit lit t Inn i h "n
of Some JlnmHM-rri- IM-iiir vci-niis rmi-
llMllltlHIII.
The Maoris are a people w ho le t
only weep in church at the pathetic
passages, but laugh uproariously at
anything in lessons or sermon that
tickles their fancy. Mr. Kay has seen
a cluin h full til' them waving their
arms, stamping their feel, grinding
their teeth with rage, w Io n the t readi
I cry ol Judas was beim; related. To
such people Christianity came as anew
form of tapu (taboo). They are ready
for any number ol ' ite and ceremonies,
and it was only m-u I hey began to
read for themselves, ami In contrast tic
teat bings of the Hook w ilhthe conduct
of the land-grabbing .i.'o h.is r-'und
thein; when, niorenver. their implicit
faith in the inbsi iiiary had been weak
1 ened by the coining iu ol rival faille,
I each claiming to be the miiIx true way.
thai they got to be eclu tie, i i j u lip
the New Testament, in its preelical
portions, and MM.ing by ih- Md. be
cause it allowed polygamy and rcw-nu'e
ami strictly fmbade the alienation ol
i land.
! This tapu had man;- uses. A river
xa.s tapu at certain si ;isnii-i, so as to
; give a close time for lnh; a wood tv;is
; tapu when birds wcie ne.-t ing. fruit
i ripening, or rats t tleliiu. ies in the nld
Mauri cuisine i multiplying. To tapu
' a garden answered ti I Captain Cook
j brought in pigs--far u tter than the
; strongest fence. . jrjrl, taptnd.
' would be as safe amid 'he wild lieene
of unmarried Maori life as if she had
I been in a nunnery. Tapu wu pmba
, bly never intentionally broken, so weird
: was the horror which surrounded it
I Hut in this c.t c sinning in ignorance
! was no ex. use; and tho most furious
iwais were those which arose from
; breaking it. The sign of tapu was
; easily set up a bunch of ilax or hair.
a bone, a rag on a curved stick, tha1
j was enough. To lift it was line Ii
i harder, needing the intervention of the
j tohnnga ('priest i, w ho. by muttering
! incarnations, and. above all, by making
1 the tabooed man ea: a sweet potato
i t knmera i charmed H aw ay.
1 Many a massa re of whites was due
. to an un witting infrinireiiient of the
j tapu. The historic massacre of lu
I Fresno and his er. w was brought about
, by a deliberate lireaeh of tapu; and
, such outrages on naCv f.-rlinv: were
j so dangerous that tlnvcriinr Ma '.piai ie,
!" Sydney, in trh d to make every
j skipper in the New Zealand trade sign
in bond for v.Tiiiitinnt to ill -treat Maoris,
j not to break lajiu.'imt to trespass on
'burial grounds, not b kidnap men or
. women. Hi-, ellorts were fruitless.
Maoi is were line, stunb fellow s, ami
I though there :. a - yd. no Kanaka
j labor market in ifuet n -land. m nccns
j kind at all iu fad. a ship that mi
j short -handed wa- ten ::lad to get some
of them on board by any kind of de ice
I The worst thing connected with the
I carrying off of nat i e women wastli.it
j the p. or creatures wi ie irem-rally put
! ashore in some .her p ut of the island--'
. '.. among erieinie.. Tin-re ;,Ia ci y
i or worse, was sure to be their fate,
i Another nunc for bloody reprisal was
the treatment, ni the teen who were
j taken on board. "I'm a chief," said
j one. who xas being driven by a rope's,
j end. w hen incapable through scasiek
i ness. to some meiii.il work. "Von
i a chief!" scollingly leplied the master
j of the Ib'Xil. for that was the nam.' "t
the ill-fated ship. "When tun come
to my country you'll find I'm a chid.'
was the reply. The !od happi tied to
sail into the harbor of hargarmi. the
very place to w hich the dogged ehie
; belonged. I le s,i 1 1 bis t ribesnieii
! his scored hack, and thev .wod en.
gcaiu e. for e en a blow to a chief i .
an insult that can only be wiped out,
with blood. The captain and part nl
the crew, leav ing smne nity soul, m
the ship, went ashore to scled Cm
ber. The. Maori wavlaid and mur
dered tljem, dlcssing IhemseUcsjn
: their victim's lot lies, went at dusk to
the ship, climbed on board, and killed
every one except a woman, Ict i inl I-
, roll, and a boy who had I n kind to
the chief during his distress. The
' esse! was plundered, and the chief's
father, delighted at securing some tire,
arms, snapptd a musket over an op.-n
! barrel of powder and was blow n to
pieces with a doen ol his men.
Tapu was successlttlly broken by
the early missionaries in the Havel
Islands. One of their settlements was
up the Kerikeri river, the tapu of
. which for lish during the close months
1 was very vexatious to tiiem, for it
blocked up their only road to To Puna
jlhe li-ad station. Stores must be had;
ami at last, in defiance of tapu. tbe
manned a boat and rowed down, aei.l
the rage and terror of the Maoris, In.
'expected to see them exterminated le,
the offended atua ( spirits i. W hen
i the mission boat came b.f k it w as
Ueie.l. and the crew bound readv C be
I slain and eaten. Happily, to eat tin
stores seemed the proper way of begin. '
ning. and tho-.e stores were partly tinned-meat,
jam . etc., ami partly drugs,
1 1 ;i i ii -r gieedily devoured the former,
the plunderers duly fell upon the latter,
lint-hing off tic jalaji, castor-oil, salts,
and so forth, as part of the ceremony.
The result may be guessed. The
"niana"' of the missionaries began to
work mightily, and with grovelling
-mpplicat mis the anguished Maoris re
leased their prisoners and sought re
lief. The w hole tribe was converted.
How could they help it V Had md the
gods of the stranger proved their
superior might by utterly disabling
th -e who had stood forth as the
a . ciiii' i i, their ow li insulted deities
Wnnih'i Till Precocity.
Oliver Madox Crown, a son of the
w "II -know u at ti-t. w as bom in 1.V.
II" -ci-ms to have been a precocious
1 1 1 ) I, though hi- pricosity never t"ok
the Im n nl hoi k-h ai ning in any shape,
and it was not M. Wa six that he
began to read. Hut if backward with
hi- bonks he win a born artist, with
pencil and paint-brush liist, as alter,
ward with his pen. When he was
eight he had c pb ted his first piddle
in water-colors, and when he was four
teen he exhibited "Chiloii Keceiviug
the Infant Jason from the Slave" at
the Hudley gallciy. lie painted three
other notable pictures: "Obstinacy,"
'Prospero and Miranda" and "Silas
Mai nor." Hut Oliver Madox Mrown
w as beginning to show himself as an
artist iu the world of letters. Hcfore
he w as foui teen he had written some
sound-, ol singular beauty, and at sev
enteen he had writ I en a tale called
"The I'dack w an." w hich w as fust
gi'.i. tithe world as "Cabriel len
vcr." The history of this book is
rather curious, t diver had shown it
to Mr. William-, who was connected
w 1 1 1 1 the llllll of Mllltn, IJ'ler Co.,
and Mr. Williams had been much im
pressed with it and was anxious to as
sist in it s publication. Nothing could
have been kinder, but nothing h'.-s ju
dit mils, t han Mr. Williams's conduct
lleiir.st insisted on the singularly pic-
t un-sipie nan f " I he I'dack swa;:"
being altered into the v cry "unmeaning
one n "tiahrie! iienver." He then in
i.i.lednn the beginning ol the story
being alii red; on a dc-eiteil wife being
change I. on groini.ls ol propriety, into
a de s ii. d cuii-iii, an I on the terrible
tragedy at the end becoming a com
fortable marriage - in sh"it. w ith the
be-t intentions, he did everything pos
sible to spoil the book. He watered it
and toned it down, but the strange,
In i. e power ol the plot and the vigor
of tic writing -till remained. It was
greatly injured as a work of art, but
a a w.rk of imagination it was a re
markalile pro,liii tinn. It was not, how
ever it i nuM nev er be an agreeable
lo. k. It was too crude and violent.
S-olue of e scenes Were simply liori!
hie, and some of the incidental re
iu, ti k seel I to show a st range know I.
ch.o which repelled sympathy. Hut
when it was known that this was the
wuik ol a lucre buy the feeling ol dis
like passed oil into a stronger feeling
of wonder and admiral inn. What was
painful and repulsive was the fault of
an unfortunate story. The cs.entia!
n, alter vv a the literary power, which
in in t,t prove itself c.ptal to very great
ellort-aud might product' works of
l.t-t'tig v able.
Mock Speculation in Japan.
The Japanese government forbids
.tncU speculating, and the authorities
r. i nl iy d' tei mined b ai l'csl at the
.-ante moment all offenders on the stock
exchanges at o-aka. Yokohama an I
Kobe, as well as mi the rice cx hanges
it I'nkio and 'me otlur important
i enters. Tim police received their or.
dels only i'ii tho morning of the day
l.xcd, and iu : tti'iig fni i -e. all wearing
: I. sort nl di-gllise, proceeded to the
v ii mil v of the exchanges ami mingled
w it ll the crowd so as to escape nbscr
ali. Mi. At a little alter 1 1 o'clock all
was in readiness, a sign was given. and
bebile the ainacd spectators could
make out what was going on the exchange.'-
Were ill possession of the po.
lice, the doors locked and the prisoners
secured. All the books, papers, etc..
were then taken possession of, and the
police's w hole "haul" removed to the
central police station. Over 7m de
liii'jucnts were sent to prison, their
obelise being 'speculating in margins.''
The Strotictst Electric Light.
The strongest single light that burns
in the I nited states is suspended in
lien! of the Philadelphia l.'ecord build
ing, ninely-live feet above 1 he Chest
nut streel sidewalk. Its power is
e .iial to liouiH candles. At niglit the
entire block between Ninth and Tenth
streets, is made sol ghl that under the
powerful rays of the lamp a person
standing anywhere within these limits
i an read editorial print with case.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Mosquitoes are act used by l'rolcsor
A. P. A. King of originating and dis
si -minuting malarial disease.
Hy a comparison n analyses of soils
Iroiii 1 1 1 1 1 t t . 1 vineyard-, the last i
porl of I he scniii.di llorlieiillural aso
ciatioti shos that the sod mi which
the grape-ciops fail are deficient in
lime and put ash.
lYnfossiir Hclgado ol l.i-bmi has
i nine to the com In-imi ' hat the ance-tnr-
nl the Hindi i n I'm-tngu'-se were
c mil. d-'. lie has inund the. remains
n I lpi pir-uns win is" b"!c:- "'tre
blacken, d by lit" -ph h-ngUi'. ! to
- cine the miriow nel L.-atiiii' ether
ju.bibitabl" im irks "I Ii t x ing "i ml as
t I lor man
Jhc ih c e .; - iu ii I i 1 1 g e t r in.i'l' -vas
in the I'aeilio ... can in I -T I near the
entrance to Itehrin r's sea. The depth
was lf''.-" fathoms, and the.ast was
made fmm the Cpited Mates ship
T'use irora. The hallow e-t water in
the middle nl the Atlantic. 7 ;1 l ilh
niiis. showed Ih" exislome ol -obina. j
'rim. mountain- lt'.-Vi''. feet high.
Heir Wieh r. experimenting at Tub
ingen, has discovered that th- growth I
of plants is more rapid under itiinin
ished atmospheric pres-airo all olbei
evtcn al conditions being the same
than at normal pressure t in lie
ether hand, increasing th" ptcs-ure
lessens the iat"i.f gmwth. th- nnn1.
mum bring readied at t vv n nr t wo ate1
one-hall at inosphcre-.
I leaf-mutes have been taught t"
speak and to understand speech by
noticing the movements of the lip.
H is stated that M- W'ancrkc has pro
duced photographs slewing tho foiu,
assumed by the lips for cadi .-mnd. :
and that these pi'turcs have enabbd,
inexperienced persons tn reeegni e tin '
different articulation. vnch plmte- i
graphs ought to be of gn at abm in
giv ing i nst rui I 'on to deaf - mutt s.
lr. Hicincr in a ib-mian journal
advocates exercise iu the high, line an ;
of tin- mountains as the best piotcctin',
agaiu-t the disi a-e. contracted mcil v ,
hie The charai (eristic- ,. the mom;- ,
tain climate arc the low temperatttie ,
and air pressure, the low relative In
lltidlly, the high per cent, ol n.olie.
the stlong liirht and isol.it n-n. tin
trccluiii Imiii dust and bacteria. All
tin sc act Well on the bodiiv heali;
The lungs work with grt at i r st length,
the heart beat- ia-ter. the I I I circu
lates more ipuckly, appetite is incrca-
ed. pcl-piratiotl becomes freer, the
muscles bccnlue lllnfe em'rget ic. all-:
the whole body gains in strength an !
endiiram .
A Fruitless Search.
one day there vi-iled li iddha a v.
man who had lost her only child..
AVild with griei sheb,..L:,d the prnpb
rt tn uivr back the bltl" one to hi",
lie looked at her tenderly for a hai
while, and tilt It said. "Co. mv d itlgli i
ter, bring me a mustard seed lroiu .
house in which death had mv er enbi
, ed, and I will grant thv wish." A
l woman at one began In t search, 'dc
W"llt ffolil house to Iimiisi', ;.IUll.'
"Crant me. kind people, a tun-t.ii
seed for the prophet to bring ha' k n.v
child to me." And when tlev la.
granted her re-pie-t she a-ked, "An
yon all here aioiind the hearth l.ithei
tuotlicr. diildrcu none mi-.iig-'
. Hut the people si k their Ilea I . w it I
sighs jttid looks ol sadness; and lar an.
wide as she Wandered there alw.iv
w as a v aeiiit chair bv the In-art li. II i I
gra luaily. as she passed on. the wave
ol her gnel subsided b, P re the s l' .i
i,'soi io ev ci v w iicrc; and Iii r lit ,i '
I ceasing to be oci ii pied With Its ov i
1 Mdlih end, itow ed out m -t i on.
veariniigs nl sv iii pat h.v with t he -i 'd
w ide siillct ilig. I'l ai -ol anguish Wen
t hanged to tear . of pity, pa- ton in.lt
ed i nl o i on i passion . she I or got In r w i
sorrow in I,., iking upoiitli.i! ol nilnrs
and in In-ltlg hci'si If for i ll,. : -'
she li all.v Inund her-cll
The liilliience of I in est-.
The intltii nee of forest . upon , )
I mate and Icililitv is as vet but p.. ilv
lllldcrstnnd by i veil the mole proles
sional class , f farmer-. It is a pmb
lent that ran besolved onl.v by obscr
Viltloli.s extending over t olisideiabli i
I Jteriotls of t line. ', lilt t he inlllleli. e j. ;
I plainly disenable and it. explanation
..simple, strip the hill- ot their pro
: teding loresls, and the thin en erjn:
of sod which overlays their rocky slnnef
will soon be washed down int.. tin
' valleys and into the beds n stream-
and rivers. Periodical Ire-hets wil
result which Will eventually (arrv
j away the bi-sl soil trotu even the ;tb 1
j leys. One auth'iiity declares that it
the destruction of the hill forests p. ,
j continued in Ohio, ball' the an a i.i ,
I that state will be sterile in less than!
titty years.
I Cniimcticut devolcs '.'.t.uii i aeie- to-'
I the cultivation of the oyster.
Loveliness.
)u, i I knew a little prl,
Very ,liiin;
1 o n ijlit ny lu r Imir to curl,
All in vain;
I in In i i-hicli un lint of i'i-e
l':i'. I iei.1 liliehe.1, m wiimlit reposes
,'-l'l' VMIS plltill.
linl tin- tlionnlitH tlmt tliioiifili h-r brain
t nine ini.l went,
As ii nnitietie tor m,
Ai.;;i1h soul;
S,. f'lll ninny n Ili lllltCOllfl thitiR,
In le t viiiiii;; sdiiI hlnsKUiiiiiU!,
( :ive i-nnlt'iit.
I.ii-ij' 1 lit n oil t wild lull of K,ECP.
runt ami true;
Aid in time tl.u lintiicly luco
I..ivclitM' r;i't'W
Wilh i lii iivcnly rotlimiff lriht,
I nun tlie soul li lln tc 1 liilt
Minim;; tlneilll.
Pn I I , li v., ii, lilllc I'll'!'1,
I'l un or "t(ii ,
II ("in ili. ieliis lint ini li'filel,
"ii mo sine
Ol Ilic l.nclliicss ol worth;
And lint I'l 'iuty nut d (fiirth
W ill ein Inn.-.
lllMOROfS.
firien coin- a young bunion.
Iligh-toi,e. The r-creech of an
Klgle.
When dnc.t a tree feel contented?
When it i sappy.
Th" only difference between one
yard and two is a fence.
.lu-.t soiling as woman retains her
maiden name, her maiden aim is to
change it.
latnlc" a-ked the teacher, "whit h
animal ana- lies him. t lf most to man?"
Kindt', alb r rome reilection -"The
lecth, sir."
The tail"!''., apprcnth c, when com
nuiicing hi- trad", finds there is truth
i:i the text that ' Wha a man sews he
-l.all also rip."
.- imp savs that when ho asked
tii. gii! vv ho is now his wife to marry
him .die -aid, "1 don't mind," and she
ii'M r has needed.
A Lowell man had his head frac
luied by a hath tub failing upon him.
This w ill teach him hereafter not to
fool around a contrivance that he is
ii"t familiar vv ith.
"Yes." said the father, "I like to
l ave nit daughter have a beau on the
seme nl economy. Jf she didn't, some
oiieiif the family would occupy the
parlor and burn the gas."
A vo'tiig man who vent into the
kitdiin. where he -aw his girl baking,
ami inadvertently sat down on a hot
pie ju -I tioin the nvi'i,, now boast,
that h" descended from the upper
iTUst."
W hat arc you going to do when
cell giovv lip if Vou dnll't kllliW how
t- cipher':" adn'd a teacher of a slow
ley. "I'm going tn be a school teach
er and mal-.t the boys th the cipher
ing," w ,e the reply.
The '. . ..',',' Mn),Ui!y ask:
What are crowds'.-" It is not quite
iiriain how seicm e will handle this
.i.e-lii n, but the avirage common
:-t n -e t tliieitctl iii.iti knows that umler
some i ireinn-l am i s tliree is consid-cle-I
a i lovvd.
Seiiiliug I'll i'ii- Head Hack to I'll i mi.
Wong I'oo, the editor of the Chinese
A iie i it an. published in New York, ex.
plains why Chinamen wish to be
biirinl iu their ow n country. He says:
"II any one going back to the old
country ha-; dead lriends here he takes
lliciii along. 1 do tint believe that
uioie than live per cent, of the China,
men w ho die in the I 'nited States are
permanently buried here. Friendless
(Yb.tini. .in- bit here, ami no one
cares whether they go to heaven or
not." 'Cannot one of your race get
inln I '.ii .n 1 1 uiilc-s his bones rest in
Chinese snil." "No, sir; Chinamen
believe that the only road to heaven
lies thiough lie ir country." "Hut if a
good, v n l 'ions Chinaman who has
kept his pigtail and his conscience in
tatl tins in a strange land, will he be
excluded trom heaven because he is
poor and friendless?" "That's the
doctrine," said Mr. Wong. "Accord
ing to Christians, no man can be saved
except through a certain belief, no
matter bow good he is; according to
I'hinaiucu, there is no salvation outside
of China, one belief is about as
rational as the other." "When you dig
up the remains of your countrymen do
voit have any services at the grave?"
'Wo burr a little incense-paper, maybe,
mid take a drink, just ;us Americans do
on all occasions." "What docs the
drink signify?" "It's what you would
call a toast. We th ink peaco to tho
soul d I In1 departed, ami a prosperous
journey to the body. IVe use any
li tior that conies hanoy. Sometimes
da. or whisky, or in extreme cases,
water." 'How are tho bodies pre
pared for shipment?" "They aro em
balmed if they are fresh enough. If
i" t tiie meat is scraped olT and the
bene" only are carried away."