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IMTTS!U)KO CHATHAM CO.. X. C. (KTOWCK 2.", 185.
) -J- orUrgtr flYi'rtlsenmnu liberal coutrtU wll
A I'oor JIaiiVncallli.
A poor man ! Veuj 1 must cunti'M
Kd ttbiiltli nl guli) do I po-K-ss)
ifo pastures line, with Blitzing kino,
Nor liulils 01' wnvinc .'mill him mini' J
Nil loot of I'at or tallow land
Where rihlliil'v in)' lev! miry slniid
The whi J claim it ii" my own-
liy died uiiil titlo riiinu ulouc;
All, poor indeed ! perhaps you say
Hut Hpme mi' yntir cimi iis-inn, pr.ij !
When I c.iu't lull-, Willi you, I wink
In Nature's company, mill tnlk
Villi (inn wlio will nut slight or slur
'J In? i-liilil forever ilair to her
Anil one who nnswers back, lie wire,
With smile fur smile, though 1 inn poor.
And whilu coniiiitiiiinf; thus I count
An iimor w-utitlh tt l.iiu amount
The wealth ol h 'iii'Ht purpose lilcl.t
Willi IVnui)' i iiviroiiiiicnt
'J he wenMi of owin imiilit to il iy
Hut dihts tli.il I would flniHy pay,
And wealth ol thank Mill uni x;.ii s.-e.l
With euiinil.ilivu iiilcte-t,
A wealth of, pntit-nie nml eonter.t
For nil my ways improvident ;
A 'ailh Mill fondly eMTcfeil
For all ii y pi. ins unrcadi. I;
A we.ilth of pjomirei that Mill,
IInw e'er i Inil, 1 hope to II I;
A wealth of eli.it ily lot th'sii
Who pity me, my IIIH-J'Ml ilntae.
A poor mini f Ye;. I lined v n s
No wealth ol i;oM ilo I p -m'v;
No pastilles lino, with iiiziiK kiiie,
Nor li M of waving ii: f n mil mine
Hut nh, my fiii ml ! I've vunl h, u ni l!
Ami millioi nii'1'3 luih; condescend
'!' l)i' a 1 1 the kueo mid envy mo
This opuloueo of poverty!
J. IVIrli-o.nh liilnj.
THE PRAIRIE FIRE,
"Oh, ilailily!" called a clear, girlish
voice.
"Yds, Lindy; what's wanted."
"Ma wauls In know how long it'll lie
'fore you're ready."
"(Hi. tell her I'll lit' al tin' door liytho
time she gets her things on. l!e sure
yon have tint butter unit eggs all ready
to put into the wagon. We're ntakin'
too late a start to town."
Iluttcr and eggs, indeed! As if Lin
tly needed a ri'iniiiiler uIIht than the
new dress for which they were to he
c xchanged.
"Klmer ami 1 can go to town next
time, can't we, ma'." she asked, enter
ing the house.
"Yes, Lindy; I hope so," was the re
ply. "Hut ilou't bother mo now; your
:t is coming already, and I haven't my
shawl on yet. Yes 'Wilbur; I'm lieref
.lust juit this butter in, l.indy, I'll
carry the eggs in my lap. Xow, l.indy,
don't let Klmer ilay with tho lire or
run a way."
And in a moment more the heavy
lumber wagon rattled away from the
door, and the children stood gazing
after it for awhile, in half-forlorn man
ner. Then l.indy went in to do her
work, Klmer resumed his lay, and
coon everything was moving along as
iheerftilly as ever.
After dinner, Klmer went to sleep
anil Lindy, feeling rather lonely again,
went out-of-doors for a change. It
wits a warm autumnal day, almost the
perfect counterpart of a dozen or more
which had preceded it. The sun shone
brightly and the hot winds that swept
through the tall grass u.ade that and
all else it touched so dry that the
prairie seemed like a vast tinder-box-Though
her parents had but lately
moved to this place, Lindy was accus
tomed to the prairies. Hie had been
born on them, and her eyes were fa.
miliar with nothing else; yet, as she
stood to-day with that brown. unbroken
expanse rolling away bt fore her untl
it reached tho pale blush gray of the
sky, the indescribable feeling of awe
and terrible solitude which such a
rene often inspires in one not familiar
with it stole gradually over her. lint
l.indy was far too practical to remain
long under such tin influence. The
thickens were "peeping' loudly, and
she remembered that they were still
without their dinner.
As she passed around tho corner of
the house with it dish of corn in her
hands, the wind almost lifted her from
the ground. It was certainly blowing
with greater violence than during the
morning.
Oreat tumble weeds went dying by,
turning over and over with lightning,
like rapidity; then, pausing for an in.
bt ant's rest, were caught by another gust
and carried along, mile after mile, til'
some fence or other obstacle was reach
ed, where they could pile up in great
drifts, and wait till a brisk wind from
an opposite direction should send them
rolling ami tumbling till the way back.
Hut l.indy did not notice the tumble
weeds. The dish of corn had fallen from
her hand, and she stood looking straight
ahead with wide-open, frightened eyes.
What was tho sight that so frighten
ed her?
(Inly a lino of lire below the horizon
Only a line of lire, with forked flames
darting high into the air, a cloud of
smoke drifting away Iro n them. A
beautiful relief, this ic";M. changing
spt-da ' 11 . the I'l'o.,.: : i .;.'.;o:i;, i I
tint plan I .
liut the scene was without beautv
for l.indy. Her heart had given one
great bound when she lirst i-aw the red
line, and then it, seemed to cease beat
ing. Hie had seen many prairie fires!
had seen her father and other men light
them, and she knew at once the danger
her home was in. What c-uld she, a
little girl, do to save it, and perhaps
herself and her little brother, from the
destroyer which the south wind was
bringing straight toward litem?
Only for a moment l.indy stoodt
white' and motionless; then with a
bound she was tit tin; well. I lei
course was decided upon. If only time
and strength were given tier lraw
ing two pails of water, she laid a large
bag in each, and then, getting some
matches, hurried out beyond the stable.
Hie must light lire with lire. Thai
was her only hope; but a strong, expo.
ri need man would have shrunk front
starting u back lire in such a wind.
She fully realized the daiig-'r: but it
w as possible c.-i-ape from i,; hi t u ise in
citable destruction, and she h.-silated
not tin instant t iatt"iupt il. '.ml in is
ly starting a blaze, Mie stood with a
wet bag ready to siii. ther the lir-t un
ruly llatiie.
The great lire to tin- MiuMiward was
rapidly approaching. Prairie chi kens
and other birds.ilriveu I rotu (heir nests,
were living ov.r, uttering distressed
cries. The air was full of si,i"ko and
burnt grass, and the crackling of the
llames could plainly be heard, it wa ;
a trying moment. Tin- im iv; "d roar
of the advancing lire warned I. in -Iy
that .--he had but very little time in
which toconiph li' the house an I barn;
still, if rdie hurrie 1 1 o iu-ich,s!u- would
Iiim; control of the lire .-he had : tailed,
and witli it all hope of safely.
The heat was tnt"li-i', the sieol.e
suffocating, the rapid swinginu' of the
heavy bag must exhausting, ln; sin
was uneous'-ious of these tilings. Tic
I extremity of the danger ins' in-d her
with wonderful strength and endur
ance. Insti ad of losing courage, she
increased her almost siipi rhuiuaii exer
tions, and in iiiotlcr brief iut ral the
task was completed. N'oiie too soon,
either, for tin' swiftly advancing col
umn had nearly reached the wa ering,
struggling, slow-moving lino l.indy
had sent out to meet it.
It was a wild, fascinating, half terri
ble, half beautiful scene, 'flu- tongues
of llaine, leaping above each otht r with
airy.l'antastie grace, seemed, cat-like, t i
toy with their virtues before devouring
them.
A sudden, vioh-nt gu-d of wind, and
then with a great ciai kling roar the
two I ires met, the llatttes shoot ing high
into the air as they rushed together.
For one brief, glorious moment they
remained there, lapping the air wilji,
their fierce, hot tongues; then suddenly
dropping, they died ((iiickly out; and
where tin instant before ha I bei n a
wall of lire was nothing now bid a cloud
of blue smoke rising from the bht- ken
ed ground, and here and there a sickly
llauie finishing an oli iin.ile tuft of
grass. The lire on each side meeting
no obstacle, swept ijiiicUy by, and
l.indy stood gazing, spell bound, nfler
it, its it darted and lla-lcd in terrible
zigzag lines farther and farther away.
"Oh. Lindy:" called a shrill little
Voice from the 'house. Klmer had
just awakened.
"Yes, I'm coining," Lindy answered,
turning. Hut how very iiteershe felt:
There was a roaring in her ears louder
than the lire had made; everything
whirled before her eyes; and the sun
seemed suddenly to have ceased shining,
all was so dark. Reaching the house
by a great effort, she sank, faint, dizzy
and trembling upon the bed by her
brother's side.
Klmer, frightened and hardly awake,
began to cry, and as he never did any
thing in a half-way manner, the result
was unite wonderful. His frantic
shrieks and furious cries roused his
half-faint ing sister as effectually as if
he had poured it glass of brandy be
t ween her lips. She sooa sat up, and
by and by color began to return to the
white face, and strength to the ex
hausted body. Her practical nature
and strong will again assorted thein
sehes, and instead of yielding to a foi l
ing of weakness and prostration, she
tied on her sun-bonnet firmly, and gave
the chickens their long delayed dinner.
J5ut when, half an hour later, her
father found her fast asleep, with the
glow from tho sky rcllccted on her
weary little face, he looked out of the
window for a nn-incut, picturing to
himself the terrible scenes of the after
noon, iind then down at his daughter.
"A brave girK" he murmured, smooth
ing the yellow hair with his hard,
brown hand - "a brave girl"'
A Long llranch hotel clerk has
made himself famous and popular by
kissing babies (a-f" not limited i. and
has leeched n,. in;, tmr.dilo e,,,i
h'.ei.t . fr.-lu a 1 1 1 1 1 in ; -pa e!i! s 11:1,
in! I. Mow ' l!,!.. - a, " w.V. u -ilvli ;
UlOllglt tO tUllltllL'UeU UU.
W II V 'ill FY 1.0SK M-UVE.
ISiinillilu nil 1 nului- l.;lit nml llay.-
All l''tiuint'l' luioim.
"Oh, yes, engineers do lose their
nerve," said Old Throttle; "especially
one who has it night run all the time,
I You see in the night time an . iigineei's
I eyes, thoughts and all art.' confined ton
j very small space; it's nearly or quilt
dark inside the cab, and if ids ongim
is workin' till right, cairyin' her wa-
ter, good lot of steam, and the lire-
man wide-awake and lively, that engi-
neer don't, have much to do with his
eves, only to look out ahead over tin
little space made bright by the bead
light, and his thoughts :.re naturally
coulined to what his eyes take in. In
the daytime it's different, he can look
around and see lot's goin' on. lie no
tices tint this field of 'tat 1 ts look good
and vviecl r ; if his little at eh at ho
Will turn out its well; he sees a fi ller
li.dtin", and renu inbeis the la -I me: s ol
tr.ait he caught in the h' hola; he
sees a woman and a baby in the little
w hite house near the big curve, and
liU lit nights ily had. t i his home and
his w ifo ;tn I children, and h" wonders
whal i Icy are doing j;;.-! now.
Aad this he can lake in, and be
t -infill" to bu.-iue-s si rid Iy, hut in Hut
n:glii-liiif all i.' changul, and his vis
ions an I tin lejtls, as I said, ;ro coii
iinelio tie- small spot undo visible
and distinct by tic h'-adiyht. mid his
id. as naturally follow the rails. lie
felileml el's (hat tin' culvert just ahead
is the very pl.e-e thai was washed
mil last spring, and nothing left under
the tics and rails for len r fifteen fed :
true, his engine jumped the chasm,
and only live ears loaded with express
iiialbT and I ag :age went d iw n and
were smashed and pih d on top ol each
other, but it might have been the ten
ears of emigrants that were coupled
in the nar, and it isn't plea'ant to
thin!: of what might have been.
".lust around the curve is the place
w lu re his engine struck a draw-head
some careless hraKouian hail left lying
on the track; his engine only turned
over on her side, and fortunately thy
air-brakes had so stopped the traiii
that no further damage was done, bill
he shudders as In; recalls the sensa.
Hons he experienced while the engine
was turning over and crushing its
mad way through the ties, and 'tisn't
pleasant to think of it. He Hies over
a huge embankment at a pace of for
ty miles an hour, and thinks ol tint
feelings that were his on a certain trip
last winter when a side rod came crash
ing through the side of the cab, w hile
passing over tho'snmc embankment.
"In the cut just ahead is where, on
the last trip, a watchman, intent on
watching it train on the opposite track.
! had forgotten the express was due,
and the horror and agony depicted on
his face as the pilot threw him high in
; the air. w ill never be forgotten, licit h
I cr w ill his mangled and blond stained
i body, picked up and cared for a. soon
; as the train could be stopped. Ami
j so on every mile of the road something
! of (hit kind is brought to iiiiud, as hi t
j thoughts follow the circle of light
j ah a I, w hich lla-hes and changes con
' stantly. now .shining on a bridge, now
showing an embankment, llashes its
I rays now on a house and through trees
I and foliage, and if the man is easily
worried or hollered no gets very ner
vous indeed, and wishes he wa; at the
end of tin- trip- an v where off the rail.
"Why. I've known men to give up
the best trains on the road and big pay
because they had to run in the night
time, and take I rains thai were much
harder to run and poorer pay, simply
because the laltir run in daylight.
Yes, engineers do somd lines get fright,
cued and lose nerve, and it is not to be
wondered at when we think of his
standing one hand on tiie throttle and
tiie other on the reverse lever, w ith his
thoughts going back to incident and
incident of his busy and ha 'union-,
life on cadi curve and straight line of
the road, as revealed by the head-light
of his engine." I'ort .b rvit v. X.)
A Itiirninir .Mine,
A correspondent of the Indianapolis
.lotirnal. travelling from liisuiaivk to
the Little .Missouri, saw a burning
mine. Hesavs: "11 gives off so sul-
phurotis an odcr that I at fust thought
the heat due to the decomposition of
sulphides, lint, t he glow is red; little
sulphurous acid h formed; you can
stand over the crevasse w ithoiit fear of
either burning or siitloc.it ion. Sulph in
ks volatilized and reerystalized on tho
edges of the crev ices. There is no i
smoke; the air 'tiivers w ith the heat.
The burning area is from ten to fifteen
rods s.piare, and has been on lire . ince
the first visit by white men, and im one
knows how many centuries before. It
is only one of a number of liresthat
an-I now n on the Had Lund-." The
wnlefgoes oil to sav thai tie- l!sd
l an- proba'uy the ashesot cxtim t
tu.d lirti.
TIU1MNU IN DIAMONDS.
Tlie t.rius Hi coiiiliin a knn of CiirrciifV
ftoiuv Trick 111 Hie TrHilc,
A recent ad erliseic-iit in a inorn-
ing newspaper to the effect that f-Mi'i,.
tint) worth of diamonds and jewelry
were offered in exeha'ige for real es-
tato, prompted a rep it r to impure
w ho ha I so large a sb i. i f gems for
trading purposes. It
from the broker who
transaction that tie
the property of a di.
w ho desired to lessen
,va aertainel
managing the
diamonds wen;
iioud merchant
is stock, an I it
f the year took
shing that end.
anejnd trades,"
being the dull seaso!'
this means of nccom
"1 do not often iiavi
said the broker, "but I h ive managed
several. I trailed for several houses in
diamonds not long ago, the largest
amount being ST-",""". This was ail
paid in diamonds. A few wicks ag
I tra led a $Jo,m lot of diamonds for
a house thai belonged lo a well I. noun
society lady. After the bargain ha I
been closed, the diamonds deposited in
my safe, and the deed brought out lor
her signature, she u-ked ti si- (ho
, stories. They were in a small paper
' box, and when she saw them she e-
claimed, -Is tha' my h iii-e in tint'
1 little box ? I won't sign (lie deed.' She
did sign it, though, I ut n it until after
much persuasion."
A uii-niher of a linn of diamond im
porters said thai then: were just two
houses in this country who import-d
over iji'iiiii.K ii) worth of ilia imnds last
year through (lie c islom li i ise. He
was sat isiie I tha neither of these es
tablishments V.'.l. (li'p S.'ig i:f ii
sto. k for anything excepting money.
'I iaiiioiiis are largely used l'-r trading
purposes," he slid; "ilcy bring a read;,
sale and comman I a :-'ap!e pric .
Tin-re is, however, much difference
between fie selling and buying prices-
' and it takes a pr-'tty sharp an I ex pi
diced buy, r to avonl a deception in re
gard to the true value of a Mole. A
short t iic ago a gentleman bought
It mii I worth of stones from us for
cash. A few (lavs afterward he re-
turned and said that he w .uld pur-
chase isl'i.1,110.1 v.orth of stones, pro
v ided we would v ahu- He at at ten per
cent limn! than ifi.it if our opinions
J were asked by any person wanting t i
I buy tlieui. We refits d. as a matter ol
. course, and he left the olliee. Lad
j week a wealthy genii, :nan calle I mi us
; and asked our opinion of the value of
a number of diaiuou Is he had with
him. lie said that he I oan-'d a eerlaiu
sum of money mi them, and, as the
loan had not been returuel, tie- stones
' wen- forfeited. We examined them
and found that ho had loaicd much
more than they were worth. T ir i
1 astonishment we ton. id that ail of our j
if lot ii i sale were included in the lot. j
We told him of this fad. and described j
the man, whom he n a lib recognized, j
I'm glad,' said he. -lit.it 1 didn't Id i
him have any more money. I otfered j
to lend him from ;-b '.out i sjoii.om
on diamonds, pmv i.le I he w on Id let me
call hero and havelhem appraised.' I
explained then how the scamp had
trie I to bribe us to help him cheat, and
the loam r has pi rmauenlly
front the diamond l i oness,
are tricks in all tr nl s, ) 1 1 1
there are none to excel tln si
business." XlH' '''.,
retircd
There
I think
in our
Prices of Tnitlei-s.
In an article in Harper's .lA.v.-.'
on horse fanning in Kentucky. Wil.
liam II. Iiishipsays: Kadi blue gras-.
breeder of proiiiineiii e has his regularly
printed catalogue of slock ii vised
v early, generally with a wood cut of
his best stallion on the cover. Some
as (leneral Withers, insert the selling
prices, from which -no ih v iat ion" is
advertised. In looking over such a
catalogue from i?lii' up to sjoo i are
found t i bu demanded for the younger
animals, with proportionately more for
older ones that could be at olt'-e made
useful. I hit when a horse has really
entered the ranks of the great liyers,'.
there is hardly any limit to his v alue.
One vv ith a record of -J::it may be esti
mated in a general way worth i',
(M U. From 2:o0 down to J:J' $Hniii
lua be added for each succes-ive sec.
j ,). y hen we come into the teens
.,,( n, Ur the head of the record, jug.
! Kljlu? w;., and diamonds is a
; ,.,,ars,. occupation in c parison. Mr
ihmner is said to have paid '. '..imiii for
Dexter, and ifdii.Oiiii for b'arus, an.
Mr. Ynndcibilt sji.'K.noti i,,r Maud
Hut this last was before she had mad
her great time; now tliatslc has mad
it von are told confident iallv that a
person stands ready to draw his check
willinglv for $7."i,ihhi w henever he can
get a horse that will lead her, and give
him the distinction of having the fast
est trotter in the World. Hut how
does it pay? Well, it pays fust in
stock raising, it pays next in the op
portunity to take purses and stakes af
forded by the great system of racing
circuits; and no doubt even those gen-
tlemeii who withdraw from racing and
do their driving in private life, iind it
pay in a pleasure and Improved health
frutii this kind of recreation, extrava
gant as it is, which they might not bt
able to procure, so well from the ex
penditure of e.putl sums in any ulhc
direction.
The Voracity of the Pickerel.
Of all fresh water fish the pickerel i.- i
most paradoxical and singular its b
some of its traits, says a writer for .tin i
New York EreHinj J'jst. The grey- i
hound of our rivers, no lish living !
mutches him in the speed with which I
he darts through the waters. Yet ly.
ing perfectly still, runiitiatHigalorig the
edge of some shady water nook, In
may be touched almost with the hand
before he lakes. Might. He likes cleat
weedy waters, yet his linal refuge,
when hard pressed, is the muddy bottom
in which he plunges and disappears
I aving behind only a cloud of dingv
water to mark his refuge. Some inci
dents to prove his loinpreheiiisve and
enduring appetite will, I am afraid,
make the veracity of the lish discount
the voracity nf the writer. Neverthe
less they are rigidly true. Manding
knee-lecjt in water, I have known
pickerel to pass I i t ween my legs in
pursuit of the bait. I have seen tlu ui
take a big shiner when gorged with a
protruding lish almost half as large a
till -nisei ves; to seize licfcely a law
bail just after breaking successively
two snells that were afterward found
in the 1 1 it ii 1 1 ) i with their two hooks
and baits attached: to swallow snakes,
fr igs, inic, and any living thing not
toiva t that has cuie within lea -h of
their insatiable maw. The piikerd i
an inveterate cannibal, and an oblong
slice irom the stomach of one of his
ou n kin I is a line t daiut v and taking
bail. Fishy as sound some ol the
newspaper stories of pickerel gorged
and strangled in the attempt to swal- j
low a big victim, there can be no doubt
that many of them are ti list wm ti.y. !
A single reminiscence may be cited to
prove the pickerel's gullibility and ap
petite. oine tell years ago I caught
one of these lish, landing him on a
smooth, grassy shore, ten feet from the
edge. In taking hiln off, he broke the
hue just above the sinker, which was.
some two feet from the hook. As the i
broken snell wits somewhat frayed, I i
replaced it, and while doing so the lish
Mopped into a uiiiskrat hole, which had
one ol its extremities under the bank
at the rivet's edge. 1 'resent ly Mr.
Pickerel appeared in the stream, tra. I- :
ing two feet of sued and the lead. He ,
instantly look a second bait and was
readilv lauded again. That i h-Ii pick-
etcl had been dancing for fully a min
ute on the grass and had found his
way through a dark hole for ten b et
to the stream, not to spiak of his
other enlivening, though not instruc
tive experiences. I have also caught a ;
do en hand-due pickerel in a small
riv i r pool in which some youngsters
were bathing, the lish shooting I'm ly
into the muddy water among the
sport iv e lads, to snap the bait. Any
angh r experienced in pickerel fishing
can no doubt recall similar incidents ;
without straining credulity hall as
hard as this fresh water shark s! rains
his guild. :
IM-
Origin of llliic (ilas.
It is possible that the finest speci
mens of this grass tire to be found in (he
wooded pastures of Kent ucky, w here (
the soil abounds in lime. There is no
good reason for I cliev dug, howeven
that this grass originated there. The.
I'll'eelers' liiiylh, in discussing tin
matter, says; We suppose it will conn i
to be known by its true Knglish name, !
meadow poa. The name Kentucky 1
blnegrass and .lime gras- are nidi Iter. !
enth applied to a variety of the poas,
especially to the v ar.el ics "pratensiV ,
and "coiiiprc. sa." There is no ant lent if
information that the grass w;s origi- .
nally distributed I rem Kent tick v ; on
the contrary, it seems to be a l'a I thai
the seeds vv ere carried hv the Kentucky !
cavalry of Hen. Harrison, on their
return to Kent ucky. alter the siicccssiul
campaign against the Indians, in which
their savage power was broken in the
west. This grass was found growing '
in dense pastures in eeiittal Indiana,1
furnishing forage for the horses alter all
other gras was killed, and undoiil teilly i
c-.Hitrihutcd tothe successof Harrison's
campaign. It is. in fact, one of the
most widely distributed of any of the'
natural grasses of the Fnitcd states, '
wherever calcareous, firm, sandy soils
are found. From the fact that, as a
rule, the soils of the west contain plenty
of lime, it is one of the best grasses for
cultivation, in all soils not strongly
liable to heave, and is indigenous from
Tennessee and Kentucky, north. The
Mat-stalked poa t compressa), taking its
place, and is often found growing with
il, in the north. This Mat-stalked poa
js indigenous to lighter soils than "poa
piatoiisis," Kentucky blnegrass, or
green meadow grass, as it is indiffer
ently called.
I'HII.IHCKVS COM'.MX.
M'lml Mie l.ni he It
f!fiH Pns-'y Knt on 'he lowe-t limih
Of a wavii n hit Koi v n ee,
Wlipeiin boiilv, "i'ii i.iuc )oii now,
You piy iilile loliin, im ii -eel
'J ho old hen wall Ii. ,s l.i-r . l.ei., Iliti teen,
Anil has mu-Ii a Icailiil -A'ay
Ol Hying t one, that I li iveu'l M en
A hit i f Ire-It meat to- lay.'
l!ul Ma-ler Koliin Iwio, i - away,
As .-Ik- sti-aliiiiiy i-iei , - aion,;,
Joining in lis the iii! ;i Ii :.n i j y
t.'liii i iiji ti nun li'.ii -i.i..',
t till lll ili -.t n a s eiici- aiii' !i':ii:i
lilt ol his fiiui'V eye.
A-iftOfliy, " Vi el wit', t:U-U Hie, then?
Well, lll.'litlllll, - .1 .ee in '''
"1 have lour i. :. ." .-id I'.i sy I al,
'An. I y i, -n, l.a-.. is i. M o;
I latVC pliillj. .'1: VV-. -il I en. I e r l! :it.
And ll.c.v'il v. tie li- lo r ' 'I ' o .;
I'll! -t.el H '. , fl'i, ?l; l '!.!.: -
I I. lew 1 - .e:;.;. .-. ; . ;
ISllt till- ...i . teee.l-l .,. j,,. , .;, a . .
' Ilii' hu' hnl vo l I c ' ti -. we
-).,:... C,;,;,;, -i.
A IIi lUi ii nl l.o I.
The kiu.-lisie-r i ml n-unled as a
dangerous bird. !.' .... ... i ' t ri'ielof
lliilie once b.ei il i.e ! I'emai kabh
adv cut lire vv ith etc. h'b- s.-oiii t
mi the --bore ..; a riv ; ! .iw le
these bir !- t'yi'; .: : - .:.- v..it. r .ii
n dly tow; : I hi, a. 1! wa'- i. d
approach, i -.p. ,-tii' i rv t.
see il i ban .. :t r- -, I .',
astoiiislmn li,e bi:i', : .-, r in" :s '.
liter to the I .;.:.! I. r I- it. i at;
straight at i.i- I.i : I'. I r
filed wiiii pa1-:- :!..;,. v
raised h.s I,, i t-. ' l I i i ( ';.
"Thud."' - a:c !! ., .' ' I
ing lo he e-r- t;:- ! : ;.! I ; :i .
shock; ,:;l. t". . .:.'':;. ' I
again to I. wii g as : ; I
around a !-tid i t I i.-u . . . ; '.i
SlloWy IW I i.; ... I I I .' ! Ill s
Upon the h. .. ,, : v i. ie
Ihev are c r -itching f. : s . :.- t i.
feeds watcilH b'i .v . '. .
si umps or s .is. l'.'u ; ... ii...: ut.
Hut to sup;. ,.e : :,. k;,i'f' ,',i r
may ha1 e i .ii. y , ; , :. i ! r .i
stump Weld I II t I -' e i 'o b,.,l si.liy
e. liter t I the ! ii I , r lie .'.:-!. s'.
.Y .".. s
Tioiou. l.i'ii:! .-I ill 'rniiits.
" ( Mi, l epa. si v, h: a en at ugly
(..it i: ii.. g. i a : : . i,.: i.iii him 1,1-
f. ire he gitsavif." i i l,:t le Tommy
Cray, its lie w a s.ii'.!'.:' i . tic ear, leu
with his fill. '!'.
"Wll do Voil wish to see him
hide I ir" said i.is la! li. r.
"Oh: beeaiisi l.s is such an ugly
thing, an i I a,n ali.ii i he will cat up
everv I hiug i.i He : aid .-u. Y..11 l.itovv
we killed several bim.. and worms
which we I" 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 h. r i.i t evi iiing, I
alll SlU'e tlli ' lelt'l i Ic e!, Wlll -f tllall
thev."
"We I ilie 1 the bug-, and Worms be
cause tin-;, were di .-I ;'ov i:,g ourii.iweis
-1 1 1 1 1 ege'.bei. I'll i- p. ,o' t oili I Hover
ileslroysapla.it : auv I ind about the
place. l'--.i . he 1 , 1 ne , ' niir be-t
friends. The ii.s. rts thai ;ile lining
so much b:ii !:, in ur garden are jii.-t
what he uses 1' r !.i f..o I. I I avo in
llollbl that he kill I lore of thclil eVt 1'V
llay than we did la t evening. Ii volt
1 an I'm I a live bug, pl.ee it near him.
and si e vv hat be w ,11 ,.i."
Tommy Fokcd about, at d soon found
three I 'It .s. W hi !i he l,ti "I lie II' t hi
toad, ami tin 11 -'. I b.i. !, a slnat dis
tance to see l!,e le .'It. -o,.n the bile,
began !" m.'.e iiv.i.v. Tic ! a 1 saw
them, and ma ie a .pii-'k f rwaid 11 in.
lion of his ,ea 1. ,. ... ,,;!
tongue, alii ill ' lUt ; . ,! e tVn., oin
by i lie, il.l ' h: . i s.si! ii. 'I',. 11, in;,
clapped hi - han i - W .'ii d"!i'il.
"i low cm si1- h a chuo-i -1 in
fellow H-e hi, head and t n-1 u- s
llilllbh '?" sili I I'oflo.v: If. 1. 1 he l.lll..!;
to find more I01 d fir him.
The next evening '! ..muiv vv. ut
again into the g.ii.!e. ai d 0..11 found
the object ol i i- a.', h ready lor h:
supper. At t in- I .1 i was shy. but
he soon leai o d lo i! . 1 .11 w hi!.. Tolu
my placed tie- ... .! n ai i,.m. Tie it
he Wollld dill ' ol.! hi-. Leg::". .I::d I III
the bug- vv I..1" 'I'--.. '. 1,1:1 1 I..- e by.
Finding' Hi. 1' :he bo;. ' 1 l-.ot hurt him.
he soon In i all fear, and became a
gr. at pel. Toiumv named hint Hum.
pv, iind sav she would nd have him
killed now ir auditing. ( I.HU,
(his.
The nigltt ingale's habit of singing
at night, and the ima giuarv -a b.e-s of
its song, are ae -ountc l for by a legend
to the ell'ei t III it ill ancient days the
nightingale and bliudw "no had only
one eye apiece. The bird but rowed the
reptile's eve in order to go with two
to a feast, and altei w ards refused to
restore il. The blindwoi m uwed ven
geance on il 1 p rlidious irii ud. Con
M'lptcntly the nighlingah is ii'r;t:t to
go to sleep al night let the hi im! W of ni
should aline', it in its sbtod.ci ,u,
ill older to l."cp (self aw ike it sing ,
resting its breast against a t horn, tin
pain caused by which renders its sing
ing sad.
At Rest.
Ah, silent wheel, the marry brook it dry
And quiet hours gl' !e by
In thiuih ep vide, where on the merry stieara
.Siiny 011 through (loom aiM (tegn;
Only the dove in some leaf-shaded neat
.M annum ot rest.
Ah, vveiuy vnyngcr, 1 lie cloning day
Shim -4 on that t inn. tail tiny,
Wiici ii thy etorm-beuU'ii soul Ins longed to he;
Wild hlast an I ungiy sun
Touch not this lavoie l shore, hy slimmer bins!,
A homo ol rust.
Ah, I. v 'rod heart, the jirass is green nnd deep
Wl.ere I in 111 art laid toth-cp;
Kissed liy soli winds, ulld washed liy j;en'l
sliowi I-",
'J'lioa lia-,1 thy crown ol flowi-m;
I'm I In art, ton lon in this mini wnrld oppref t,
'I11I.U now thy lv-l.
I, tun, .er(.exeil with stiifeof gnol mid il1,
I... 114 to In- s le an I still;
le. .1 1- j le-eiil with 1111; wliiio 1 pruy
a! I niny win the dav ;
1. 1.11! li.Vel. Lianl Ilie Ihy last nill lllld licit,
J In- "lit of i-r
Stiruh Du lm U-
iir.Mtdtors.
O.i'eial reports slate tha. the Hritish
eeii-iis embraces 17,"'',"J 1 women.
Who Woilidil'i be a ec-Us.
sir Wall 1 Hah igh made his way to
loitttite and lame by jiohtt ticss. He
ua not one of the Kliz.al cthan lulls.
ang is always objectionable. In-,-t.
ad of sav dig "a dead give away"
von should say 'a peslhuuiciis dona
li'.i;." fh billow in 1 is extracted from a
smart I ov's i ieiipoi.it ion nn ''Hahies":
" I ie- :, ether's I. cail gives 1th joy a(
the h.f.v's l-t Utb."
"N.'oii mu-d be 11 .piarrel-oiiie fellow,"
siii I a j hi'eiioliigisl lo ;i I, sill wleie
bump he wa- examining. " ay that,
a :aiu and I'll III "-!; you down,'' was
ii,. response
la is id' sh-ep, it is said, is making
nu n siua.l and puny. That is a fad.
.It! t look at the difference ill Hut
I hvsi.pie of a delicate scholar ami the
robust night policeman.
A man had jii-l said b a friend
"Let's take another " when his
v. ile t limed the corner, but his duty
to his w ife vv as ml forgotten "view
of the political situation," he added.
An old ha. hclor at a wedding-feast
had the heart h ssness to offer the fol
1 'wing toast : " Marriage the gain
through which the happy lover leaves
his enchanted regions and returns to
earth.''
It's very easy to start falsn reports.
.Ins! because a woman, while buying
a I room, wanted one with a heavy
and strong handle, it was reported
around that she was in tho habit of
beat ipg Iter husband.
I'licle- "Now, what would you say
if I give you a shilling apiece'," Mas.
ter .lack- "I'd rather you gave mine
to sis, uncle, and tell her to buy me a
hilling cannon, as pa said the first
iie iiey 1 got should go for that win
dovv I broke:"
The whistle of tho loeomotivn is
In aid :!.:!ii'. yards, the noise of the
train J-si 11 1 v aids, the report of a inns,
kd and bark of a dog ISOt) yards, the
roll of a drum ltii'it yards, the croak
of a frog '.'Hit y.inls, a cricket's chirp
soo yards, liut the sound of a dinner
gong is heard all around the world.
j The Caterpillar King.
I "Kegalis," said Mr. Kllio , an
I entomologist, to a New York Triliiinc
' reporter, "is the king of caterpillars)
I There are some points about him which
j are peculiar, one of the strangest being
his belligerency. liirds are actually
I afraid to attack him, and even the
mocking-bird, which is hold and
i rapacious and loves thick, juicy cater
) pillars, is often beaten off by this
j singular worm. This is, you will note,
I tiie worm of the fable, that turns
; against the aggressor. Tho regalis
! meets his foe with his horns, with
vv hieh he endeavors to hook his adver
sary somewhat in the manner of a can.
! laiikeroiis cow. lie is well provided
t Willi these weapons. He has four
i principal ones live-eights of an inch
j in length, four shorter ones, two that
prolude, and one at his tail. The first
: eight are grouped upon what we term
(he thoracic segment, by which we
mean the part which in the perfected
animal will become the thorax. A
caterpillar is built in thirteen segments
and on nearly all of these in the regain
is an arrangement of six black, sharp
ev il looking spines. When a bird at
tacks this caterpillar king he not only
attempts to gore him, but he spits at.
him a shower of saliva aud fragments
of tin-leafy food he has been devouring!
precisely like the llamas and vicuna"
in Central Park. These Innocent-look"
ing creatures with their lamb-like eyes
ciiini' up to be fed and caressed, and
then suddenly assuming an offended
and injured air, they spit right in the
laces of their benefactors. I frrlPve to
say that the regalis has the same vil
laiuoiui Labi