Mhm Record.
CWfim
H. A. LONDON, Jr.,
AD v iiKTISINCl.
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One avian, two tmarttone, LM
OMBnare,oti. munth, 1st
MTTSP.)!i) CHATHAM CO.. N C. JANUARY 31, 1881.
NO. 21.
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TERMS Of SUtfSCRIPTIONl
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Owt.HT.tlnwim.mtl'.. VC)I. VI.
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The Fountain or Lire.
Die Fountain of Llfo! It prklos,
Its diamond Jets on high,
Till lu waters, clear and peaily,
Reflect on the azure sky.
The Ornybeard tits and watchos
His treasures with jealous caro,
Walclic. and waits fur visitor.
Visitors pure and rare.
For lie who would drink of the fountain
Must puss the portal of blue;
lu pasi-nge is rock and craggy,
Surrounded by precipice.
And he who would drink of its n;o
Hint sprkle.8o o'ear and IurIi
Mu-t live the lilb of the righteous,
For tlio lighieons neTerdio.
Philadelphia Vail.
JOAB'S RUSE,
It was a bleak, bitterly-cold Decem
ber night. The frozen houghs of tho
buttonball-trea rattled in the keen
blast. The ground was tight-fettored
in a cruel black frost.
Xow and' then the sickly moon
struggled through tho bars of cloud,
illuminating the dreary landscape for
an instant, and then, as if discouraged,
vanished onco ngain into tho Muck,
vaporous masses.
Joab Millson sat before tho
looking into its blazing heart,
feeble candle burned on tho table,
otherwise the farmhouse kitchen
lire,
A
but
was
quite dark.
There was a tall, wooden clock in
one corner, garlanded with the bitter
sweet berries which had not yet lost
their autumn splendor, and a monster
Jerusalem cherry lice, studded with
tiny scarlet globes, occupied the win
dow. And honest .loab had just laid aside
the last week's paper, with his spectacle
case on topof it, as his wife came down
stairs.
He looked up.
"Well," said he, "how is she?"
".She's dead !" said Mrs. Millson,
"Pear, dear !" said the kind-hearted
old farmer. "Dead, is she? And poor
little lris-what is to become of her?"
"I think you'd a great deal butter
say poor mi," exclaimed Mrs. Millson,
flouncing into a chair, in extreme irri
tation, "with three weeks' board tin-
paid nnd not a cent left !" j
"Not a cent, eh?" repealed Mr. Mill- j
son. !
"Sho told me a deal just before she :
died," said the farmer's w ife. ".Shu ran i
away from her friends to marry Iris' i
father, and he died and left her w hen I
Iris was a baby. And then her folks
wouldn't have nothing more to say to j
her. And she has supported the child '
ever since, the best she could." j
"Poor thing !" rcpt ad d Joab. whose
heart was as gentle as hismanners,
were uncouth. "I might ha' knowed
from the haggard look in her fa e that '
she had seen trouble."
"Three weeks' beard, to .say nothing
of the medicines I paid for, and the ;
doctor's bill !" said Mrs. Millson.
"Folks oughtn't to be : ick if they can't
pay their way ! It's what I call down- !
right swindling !" j
"Where- is Iris?" asked JoaK
"Asleep, upstairs."
"Don't she kuuw her mother is dead." '
"Xo !" snappishly retorted Mrs. Mill- j
son. "Whore- was the use of calling i
her? Ain't there trouble and confu- j
sion enough a'ready ?"
"Poor dear !" said Joab, tu 'chauically j
rubbing his knees "poor dear ! It'll'
be a blow to her." j
"I shall see Mr. iriggett up at the
asylum, to-morrow," said Mrs. Millson.
"Of course, the town will bury Mrs,
Ilrooke."
"That's 'most a pity, ain't it, my
dear?" said Joab. "She was a proud
spirited erector, that Mrs. Ilrooke,"
"Poor folks hain't no business to be
proud," said Mrs. Millson.
"Rebecca," said tho farmer insinuat
ingly, "couldn't wo"
"No, 'we couldn't !" sharply inter
rupted his wiff. "We, indeed ! with
that thousand dolla's vou owo to Mun
son Miner, and the mortgage on the
farm eating up our means as fast as
ever it can. Haven't we done enough
for this womnn a'ready?"
".She paid her board as long as she
could," mildly expostulated Millson.
"Then she'd ought to have left off
livin when she couldn't pay her way
no longer," said Mrs. Millson.
"Yes, but- -"
"I've niade up my mind," shortly
enunciated Mrs. Millson. "This here
house ain't a free charity. I shall see
the selectmen to-morrow, and Mr.
Criggett into the bargain. I don't
suppose I'll ever get that board money,
but I don't mean to throw another
cent after it."
At that moment it little, shivering,
white-robed figure appeared at the
door the figure of a child of ten, with
auburn gold hair t-trcamiug down her
back, largo blue eyes, and cheeks crim
soned with grief and terror.
"Mamma !" she cried. "I dreamed
that mamma called me!- and they
won't let me into the rooiu. Oh, Mrs.
Millson, is she dead?"
"Iris, go back to your room at once !"
said Mrs. Millson sharply. "Yes, of
course she's dead ! What else would
you expect? lo back to bed you
can't do no good !"
But the honest fanner, melted by
tho child's look of wild, dumb distress,
opened wide his arms.
Iris Brooke Hew into them, and burst
into a wild tempest of sobs and tears.
i with her face buried on his shoulder.
"Xow, what n the use of that?"
slid Mrs. Millson, impatiently. 'If
you wa to cry a gallon measure full,
you couldn't bring her back; and iVs
downright folly of Millson to encourage
it."
"But what a:o 1 t i do without
mamma?" plea ted the child. Where
am 1 to go?"
"To the asylum, to-be-sure !" prompt
ly answered Mis. Millson, heedless of
her husband's gestures for silence.
"And be thankful that the town find
so good a home its that for you. Now,
Millson, you needn't be gi imaeing at
mo in that sort id a way. Facts is
facts, and I'm only speaking for the
child's own good!"
"I'd rat her die," breathed Iris in so
low a tone, that only Joab Millson
heard the idunld 'ring syllables. "Oh,
please don't si n I me there!"
The child's pathetic words served
only to strengthen a resolve that was
gradually forming in the farmer's
kindly heart.
"lle. l.y," he ald next morning, to
his wife, "don't send to the asylum
authorities until I have been to the
city. I'll siv Mrs. Brooke's folks. You
say you found their addre-s among her
papers?"
"Yes," said Mrs. Millson. "Hut sho
told me herself they wouldn't have
nothing to say to her since she married
against their will. Where's tho use of
spending time and money to"
"Death is a wonderful softener,"
said Joab. "1 shouldn't bo surprised
j if they'd bo willin' to do something for
; the littla gal, arter all. Anyhow it's
worth trying for."
His expedition, however, proved ut
terly fruitless. Mrs. Brooke's relatives,
a sour-face 1 old nvii I and a tlinty
hearted .ship-broker -were inexorable.
"Sh" made her own bed," said one,
Now let her lie upon it."
"1 warned her just how things would
: turn out," said the other. "I told her
; I wade I my hands of her and her
I concerns. And 1 am not one to go
I back from my word. What's that you
say? 'I'll.' little girl is not to blame? I
am ted chopping 1 igie with you, my good
man. I am s ingly stating my determi
nation to haw iioihing to do with cith
er Charles lirooUe's wife or daughter,
(iood mi n:iig."
Joab Millson came back home with
his mind made up.
" !ii'-!. :s iii'r.V," said he to himself
"to t il a I t 1- lili a 'pious fraud, the
elder wo.il-i call ;, I "sp .-e - or to be a
;l!l .h 1 r'i'c. (ue thing's sartin! I
aim g'tiii' to li t bitle Iris be sent to
any a ylu u! And llebecca s one
them wo i.i-ii ;i, has got tube managed.
"Well, ' Mrs. Millson said, as he got
onto' box wagon that had
been sent to the depot to meet him,
"What did they say?"
"Wi ll," said Joan, with n little twist
of his features, "it aint convenient
for them to receive Iris just now. lii;t
we are to keep her."
'in what terms"." said Mrs. Millson
crisply.
"Six dollars a week," declared Joab,
inventing as he went on,
"That ain't unreasonable," paid Mrs.
Millson, complacently, "But about
her clothes and schooling?"
"Oh, we're to supply all that, and
they'll pay us!"
"They give mi money to pay for it,"
said Joab, who had stopped at the bank
on Lis way back and drawn out all his
little floating balance of cash.
"Well, I declare," said Mrs. Millson,
with a gratified lok. "1 wish we'd
thought of applying to them before.
They seem inclined to do the right
thing."
Joab screwed his face into worse
contortions than ever, the minute his
wife's back was turned.
"I s'poso I'm a mis'able sinner," be
thought. "But there ! What's a fel
low to do, with Iris' big, mournful eyes
looking up into mine? I've lied like a
trooper; but I declare to gracious, I'd
do the same thing over again to keep
little Iris out of the asylum."
And looking toward the child, be
said, uhuul:
"You'd rather stay with us. Iris,
wouldn't yon?"
Jm nestled fondly up to his side.
"You are good to me," said she.
"Hut I would starve sooner than go to
those people who neglected my poor
mother in her worst need."
So Iris Brooke grew up, wild, lovely,
untrained as her beautiful namesake
along the river shores.
And Mts. Millson looked out as sharp
as ever for the main chance; and hon
est Joab, discouiaged by poor crops,
haunted by persistent creditors, and
perpetually puzzle! to keep up the
mystery of Iris semi-annual allowance,
scarcely know which way to turn.
But thero never yet was a secret so
profound that a woman will not lind it
out. And one unlucky day, Joab was
driven by dire, necessity to confess all
to his wife. The hank money was
gone the mortgage was to bo fore
closeddebts gathered darkly around
them and the whole conspiracy came
out at last, in its full enormity.
"I )o - $ ou -mean," said Mrs. Millson.
with ominous distinctness, "that all
these years you have been supporting
Iris Brooke out of your own im ny,
and pitying for her schooling? And
buying her gowns and bonnets for her,
which were a deal too nice for her sta
tion in life?"
"Don't speak so harsh, Becky," said
the poor man, faintly. " There was no
ono else to do it but me. .she has been
a real comfort to us, you know, and'
"A tostly comfort !" Mrs Millson.
"But it shan't go on untitle r nmnii nl.
Oh, how I have been deceived !"
"Don't tell her, llebecca," falterei,
Joab. "It ain't her fault, .she nevei
suspected it."
"It's any one's fault to be living on
charity," shrilly uttered the old woman.
"And us without a cent, and home
less. How are wo to live, do you sup
pose."
"Tho Lord will provide," said Joab,
feebly.
"Fiddlesticks!" said Mrs. Millson.
"You've done all this to keep her out
of tho poorhouse. Xow, who is to
keep yon and me oil the town, I'd liko
to know ? '
Just then the door opened. Iri.
Brooko herself came in, out of tin
breey, golden November a'lii. sphere,
with an open letter in her hand.
"Oh, father! oh, mother "' sho cried,
radiantly, "the day of magic trans
formation is net over yet. I am not
Iris Brooko any more; I am a good
fairy, and 1 have brought you money,
wealth, case and rest, in your old days.
Look ! it's a letter from a lawyer in
New York. Uncle Sea! ord is dead and
he toro up his last w ill, the week be
fore he died, an 1 never made a new
ono. An 1 I am his h ire.A oh. what
shall 1 ever do with lil'ty thousand did
lars, mother - iharesl, best. if friends--but
to give it to you, who befriended
me when 1 was alone ami friendless?"
And sobbing with joy, sho flung the
letter into, loab Mdlson's lap, and knelt
down beside him, covering his bn wri
hand with kisses.
Tho old man looked exultingly at his
wife.
"Didn't I tell you," said he. "that the
Lord would provide?"
So the matter settled itself; and the
declining years of the old couple were
brightened by tiie love and devotion of
Iris Brooke. And then, mid not until
then, did Joab disclose to her the sys
tematic deception I," ii.nl prit tici'd fur
so many years.
Sho looked at him wi'h large lumi
nous eyes.
"Dear father," said she, "1 can't love
you any more than I did before; but it
I could "
And the tears ended her sentence in
a torrent of mute eloquence. IhUn
Forrest u'ruo.3.
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AttRKR
What II I. nml Imrfi I ouml-Th T"f
lu Wlilrli It I. rm.
A gentleman well acquainted with
the curious substance known us am
ber, said to a Philadelphia 77 won re
porter: "In oldon times ttuibur was
much more esteemed than gold. Its
natnro was known then, and two thou
sand years ago, Pliny tnld them it was
fossil rosin of an extinct con:fer,'--Um
ihillei. It Is fo ni l in many
countries, hut tho givah d deposits
have been found on (lie nhonsuf tho
Uallic, whe-o man) thousand yoars
ago a conifer forest extended from
Holland over the Ceninn Coast far
into tho adiie ei.t. countries, II w as
the rosin that dropppel from these
tree: just as we see similar deposit of
gum on our spruce and other trees of
to-day. As it ran down it entangled
insects, caught lizards in its sticky
embrace, holding them fa-t, and final
ly burying them up, hanleiiinr and
preserving them intact for unknown
ages, (in ,' o the finest deposits U lo
cate 1 in the II.iuptvat rland, where on
the Poiiicrauiau plains tho peasant
taku it I ron i the surf ice clay, and near
Brandenburg pieces weighing lour
pounds have been found. The pi n u
sula of Saudaud is noted for the rich
ness of its deposits, and formerly all
tho amber le ro was claimed bv the
Crown, the tinder t being carefully
watched bv gendarmes and receiving
one-tenth of its value."
"A ro largo pieces rare?" aked the
reporter.
"Yes," was tho reply, "both rare and
costly. There is a piece weighing
eighteen pounds in the Berlin museum
for which floi." was paid, an 1 previous
tothis $0000 wits ivfiuod for a thirteen-
pound lump found in Prussia. In the
earliest days amber seems to have ex
cited the cupidity of man. I luring
the reign of N'eroan expedili-ci was
sent to the Baltic coast which brought
back l-'l.OOO pounds of it, including
ono specimen that weighed thirteen
pounds. This was nearly all obtained
in the regular vein or bell, that lies be-
ween Pilluu and i!ro- llubeii
icken, on the Prussian coast. Here
are regular mines for the workers of
amber. They evteti I to it depth of -100
feet, penetrating under a stratum
of Mind, and then into a .st'a'nm of
bituminous wood forty or lifty feet in
thickness. These old ti links or re-;
mains are more or less impregnated
with amber. The supply d ies not di
minish and pices are washed up after
storms, showing that the ancient for
ests are now under Wider far out in
the Baltic, and thu gum being broken
off during storms rises and is washed
up. Such great 'iiiaiitities came ashore
formerly that tho peasants ii.:ed nets to :
catch it and dredges w ere used to drag
tho bottom of the sea.
"Tho mines all along the Baltic ,
coast yu 1.1 yearly about ;!')0,n.t
pounds, and some one hits estimated
that the amount still in the amber dis
trict is worth ,' '. The vast
amounts taken seem iucreirole, yet
probably since the begintr'ng of this
century 2''i0 tons have been unamcd
and for the last 30 00 years over 00,000
tons have been taken from tho Baltic
locality, aud made up into jewelry '
and articles of luxury. As the amber
is taken from the mines it is pla. ed in
baskets and stowed away in vaults
arranged according to. the size and
quality. In tho vaults of Fatcher
Douglas the records can bo seen of
mining as early as l,"o0."
"Is amber found in this country?"
asked the reporter.
"Yes, it occurs at (iay Head, Mar
tha's Vineyard, and Camden, X.J. In
the latter dace, some years ago, sever
al barrels were taken from the irreen
sand, but burned by mistake, or rather
through the ignorance of the finders.
At tho present day it finds lH gnatest
value a an adjunct to the smoker's
outfit, but in olden times it was consid
ered a jewel and worn as such. In an
Irish tumulus a cup of amber h is
been found that would hold a half
pint. Tho C;ar (if of Kiissia possess
es a tea set cut from amber blocks
that are probably worth much more '
then treble their weight in gold.
"For commercial purposes tho raw
material is separated into different
classes. The finest generally goes to .
Constantinople, there being made into j
mouthpieces. The next class, compos
ed of small pieces, is made into beads.
They find a lively sale abroad, but go j
off rather slow here. A set of ambtr j
jewelry pin, earrings can be bought
very reasonable here, but at present
there is no call for it. The low price
is on account of there being no duty
on it; curiously enough, it conies un
der the head of gum and is admitted
free. For the last year nearly 150,000
worth of it was imported, showing
that there is some demand for it; but,
its 1 have said, it comes from
smokers. The dealers here buy it by
weight; where about two bundled
and fifty pieces make a pound it is
$1.50. but w here four pieces go to the
pot nd It runs up to $50 or ?N'0. as thi
ca:o may be. It has many colors,
lire n is most valued, though otV rs
pr. f r Ida -k, t'.at matches well wi'h
colored in fis hauin. The ro.d antl er
yi-llow. how over, brings the be t pric";
tho cloudy is pietty, but not so valuable
The Icy End.
In the winter of "73, a man at( uint
ed to cross tho froen surface of thu
Merrimae. When about !'"i fo-1 f i t
tho shore he broke through. A work
man in ataw mill nrir by seized a
plank and thrift it out to the drou n
iug man.
Vnf '..rliuiately, one end of th" plank
wi'.s cvci-cd with i - e, an I '.li.it -'' '-lie
Woil.maa, in hi ' ox- it ic .d, h el ex
tended to the fcli-ogiihug iiiau. lie
caught hold of it . v r.il linn -. an 1
tried to pull him ii If u,i I th !'jli-l "C
B'lt at each atb mpt In hind -:'!: ' 1
and he fell hack in'... IV w it. r. At
la.st h- cried in llieag my ten-, r
"l'or hien y'., sake 1 '.i't f.-.e a t!-'?
tho icy end i i the plank ! "
A pcrpk'X'cd st ii.li .-!!, o if,1 went to a
college pr s-.-ii' f : !:"';' in fl cm-tain
study. -I am wili.ng to help you,"
tho professor said, w th chilling cour
tesy, "bill i f i -e,;i'-' yn:i know th.it my
time is fully o-cupicl, an I I can't mvo
special intention tu every .tadent
i What
' The
yo.ir dlilicultv V
tilde!;', statcl what had per
plexed hill). (Hi that'.i nothing," an
swcr3d thu prol s;. r. "yen don't H'"' 1
my help to g 't oat of that ui:!'c ulty.
Still, when v-ii real I v lie a -sisiauoa
I ccitaluly will ni'-'c it- ,Vi
won't forevt that tiiv t in
i. li'it yuu
is v. tillable."
Thu student bo
,v I !o- thanks and
le , i ihg the he!;'
; departed, without
he really nee led.
'I he i-y ,-:id of lh-
ut t-j li '.n. From t'a.-t
plank was held
day ho bitterly, though tin. u.sll classed
all the college pr ifev;..rs together, a--cold
and imsymp.tl'ietk I to larricl
this prejudice through his college course
because ho had been denied ,i little
j sympathy,
j A few yea
a a young minister
and his wife bc-an tlcir work inn
growing westen town. 'I heir people
wero attentive and courteous, the sal
ary was a up'.e, an I a new chinch cit.
i lice was creeled. But in .-ss than a
year the minister en 1 bis w ie ...nght
a smaller chinch and a lower .-.ilnry. A
friend, .siiri'rise.l at the change, ask'-d :
"What was the matter? MdYt tie
climate suit you ?
"Perfectly."
"Well, wasn't your church luiii, oni
ons? "
"Yes."
"You had n fa r salan ? "
"Yes, niorothiiii 1 get ti'. w."
"Why li joii h ave, th"!i?"
"Because iny will an I Iweret'rcd
of liv.ng in a moi.d r. !rige;at. r.
I'.vcrv one was kind, bet it w is a kind-
ness wrappe-i
in e e,
s ii hey
We had
...niiy."
bad I e n
I li.d v- -fe.
were afraid it wo-il
help enough, but n
The icy end of tin
extended to the iiii i!;
A ('niitiiuii II.iI 1 1-
A New York cunv:
ll V.-'ii;!".
i onth nt tell.s this
st-iry :
"Huntington, the N"
v York railway
lnagnaie, is a very iii'iltou man, a
Wall street t peiator t. -Id me recently,
"lie never gets left w here prudence
will save him. I'm' instance, net long
ago an atiuaintaiic..' of mine who lal
been having some transactions with
Huntington, went into h;s oilico and
attempted to carry a icrta.n point by
persistently claiming that Mr. Hun
tington hail said so itii-1 so during a
prcvio is conversation.
'My memory is very poor mi such
tilings," said the magnate.
"Mine is excellent; it i ns fresh us
if it Were yc-'ei day," remarked my
ne.'piaintaiicc
"The lad is, my m.'O t ry n v ) .n.r 1
daro not ti list it, and I never .!puto
my fi i mis in whom 1 have i te.r.deiu -e,"
continii"tl Mr. Muntimiton.
"Thank you, thank you; I know 1
am right!" eja (dated my now run-
fldent acquaintance, w ho was delight-
fully thinking that by this little stroke
he would be it few thousands better off
than if he hadn't suspci ted I lie rail
way man's defective meinoiy.
"Very likely you're right - very like
ly," quietly said Mr. Huntington. "But
William! William, br.ng vonr book,
turn to Jan. 1, lS';d, and see w hat it
was 1 sai l to Mr. W."
The stenographer stepped out from
behind his little screen, brought out his
littlo book, and my friend's little game
was up.
"Your memory isn't as good as you
thought it, was," saiil Huntington.
"William, perhaps you hail better
w rite out what the gentleman has been
saying here to day and read it to him
so he won't forget it."
As Huntington gunnel at this cruel
sarcasm my iliscimiiite I friend sudden.
l reiiciubi re 1 he ha 1 nu engagement
with his brother, and lni..tened away.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Kn'-ts get tangled worso by toying-Kindue-;?,
pn farmed by rule, i.- no
kindness.
Sho neglect her heart who . lies
her glas3.
Industry is tho ci, . ;, H ; : of honor
and indu.s'ry.
Impatienco dries the blui.s - .-r
than ago or sorrow.
To succeed it is re. c-ifry to have
tho air of succeeding
Love, faith, patience the thr-- es
sentials to a happy lit".
We blnino others for slight th:ng:-.
and overlook greater in ourselves.
There are in woman's eyes two sorts
of tears, the one of grief, the other of
deceit.
Women are happier in their illusions
than iu their most agroeablo expe
riences There are no pr rso-.s nv re solicitous
about the preservation of rank than
those who have no rank a' all.
Xo a-;...;, will b- consid' red as
bla.ncl unless the will w.i', s i, for
by the ,ii '. lie (l"t H .1 i Oi. I. lied.
power i-irns a deaf ear to tho
reproaches f th s- who nr.1 without
thu power of redress li- t.n ir wrongs.
They w ho il l ,st !-. 'lli-i themselves,
do so mostly iii the .-crest way of
proving how iic-le ' ami . an lid tiny
are.
I. is th? gre .t art and ph:h-ophy of
lifo to Iil.iUe tho best of the present,
win tlier it be ,o id i r hud, to lit ar the
one with resignation and ate re-o. and
to enjoy the other with thaiiAluOies:
and mo !! at ion.
Every man hai in lu.i own f d'h.
cno'.'gh -in his own n.in ! ti. ml !o
ciioii 'ii --in tin; peri. i nt. i. ice i-f his
t!i, 'it . tic;: ieii -ics ciiot gli in l.i- own
fort iirn-s evi.s i-noiigli- - w .tho'it in lad
ing it her j e-ipleV. b'.i -i:i'1
Winn! rfiil Western Wilier.
H e pr,n! the following st .ry to
-show that theiii lof Western wonders
has not hi en i eat hid : "Thcie is said
to If a p.-:i i i-.i-:; r Turkey Creek in
Wauio Coii.ily th.i'. pes e is the rc
inaii.ai.le power lhc 1. add oil e
(if draw ng things up to it. They .say
it is d.mireron.i for peoi k to go near
Ihopond lest it draw then it t i it an I
swallow them up. Th-1 way tho fe.
liiark.i'.le nature t f tie p.m 1 was first
discovered, is as follows; A fanner
moved to the neii.libiiiiir.ud i.f the pond
and soon discuvcrcl that by some
mean or other he coiil I raise no stock
As fast as he turned h ssto. '; out they
would mysteriously dis;i;.;-ev. never to
be seen ng.vn. On'- t'ay p happened
that h" wn- parsing along and riw a
flock of his .shetp, whit h approached
the on-! to f;et water, one by one pass
Irom the !...-, k into th- water, and dis
appear Lcu nth its surface. It is said
tho tree lor raids around 'ill ban
toward the pond, btillg IHibient ed by
Its altia tivc power."
Live for Sinai thin :.
ThoUvtii ! id it.-ii hrca'.hc, move
ar.il live. pa;.s of tie- it t't "i l ie. and
li ro heard oil" n.i n: -fe. V.'hy ? I le-y
did n-t a p.nti. i. of .;. la t wo. 1.1.
and lion were ! .- .! I tie :,.
Collld J-.li! to tin - :.. I'M. ::-s f
tiioir rclciiiptioi; int it lint1 th y
wrote, not a word tiny ;-;inko eoild
recalled, iiml so they pt i . - 1 their
light went out in t!:e darkn- -. mid
they w ere not rctm-mln red more than
the insets of yesterday. Will you
thus live ail-1 die? l.i c hi : fine' h ill:.'.
Io good, and leave behi i i oii a in :i
um.-iit of virtue that th. '.iil (.f time
can never destroy. Write your n.i.ne
by kindness, love and it -.ivy on the
hcii'ts of the th i e-ai. !s yon come in
Contact w ith yen by car, i d ; i w II
never be f.-i . '-.!' n N'.i. v-ur n.i oe.
you r dec'b, t.ll '.. -is I- . i h ,m t:-o
hearts ol tlio n yon ie iv.-he.ti.i I .e. ilie
stars on the brow f cven ng i.ot d
deeds will shiie- a bt dit mi the r art u
ns the stars of hi-avcn.
del. I in New SmUli W.de..
.Notwithstanding the search for gold
has been camel on ( .r thirty years in
tho colony of New sotith Wales, new
dcpos.ts are Continually bi ing discov
ered, some of them in 1 i alities which
were supposed to have Lt i n thorough!;
cxaoiimd. Some ol tne fields recently
iiiscovcre.1 preini-c tu epial i l cxtei,'
and richness any discovercl in tin
rarlv (hiy, while the iiliicsl field ,
though apparently exhausted, so far as
the miner, unaide I by i.ipitnl antl skill,
is capable of exhausting them, yet ion
tain deposits of goltl wlihh w ill yield
a rich harvest to the skilled miner w ho
shall bring to bear upon them appli
ances such u.s are being sin ccssl ulu
employed els. v.h -re. tiuld lias alway -been
fouid in a -iociatiin with certain
fot illations, and th extent of coiiiittv
ocilple 1 by these is seventy ilioiisaiiw
s.jiiare lud s, or tie. il ly oiie-luiii tli of
the whole art not the colony a o n
aiib r.-'de jt-r!l. " f-rh'. h lire not L;n
touciied by tho pick, ami ham oe..
The Three M '"or s.
Tli( fli'tcfitno wooiig r!i --'.- r .
Ati'l Mender look in ! c
An I thonmi'li'ii lt-'e, i I .'' ;; ' '
Twm tli swci to-l . i, , - I: i ! e e 1. :
An 1 lei tin-" el-- "Hl-O'i '' '"
I I..!... 111? i..Vl, u. il .bv I - - ill '
Tlio H-Cf.i ' ivi'le- oi tit; ".'i.il i 1
Willi tie in-.--' i.fii i'-w ! ' " u"!dft
i
At. i Hie tni.iii.-i n ; ti. 1 ! !T
U.i I to- linli- l"c t It'-r );'"' 1 . : o- -' :
Aid l.er t,l llne'li.-i .It - ' 't'-oO '
"I t.att- l.ti. mil let l-.vi !;::"
. ft- '-
Wiu-.i r,,im. tin- il-.i-t, will, bi-im'litt ; l-l-.-:it,
A ltd v.-.ii.i .;, tlie sin o .tun le :ott.
Whii never a t-V.i. t i- '"! 'i''.
TikhiIi sim km h t' woimt wn- 1)11
11 icli.
"TltUll lilt., O I t-l't, KM. 1 i '(! O'l-t !! j
Ami luiiinijK will I si ' i !i l'-c-"
iiiMoitors.
Makes tracks The ridroid builder.
Brought down the lion I liO build
ing mover.
A bad ch rk is the w n nu man in the
write plrn e.
Edis..n says it is ma b's "lights" but
his liver that is troubling him-
Josh Billi'c;s lias made his success
by throwing a peculiar p -!l over the
public.
Horse-dealer: "Why do ;. '! want to
sell that pretty col'. '; He i.i u d broke
yet, is he?" Owner: "Xo; but I fun."
Women never will bo paid as much
for lecturing as men, s.mply be am
they have 'lone s" inm-h i' i to
nothing-
Tho High School girl heard Amy ro
n. iii k yesterday: "Uli, keep dill; you
make me tired." And she promptly
informed her she should say: "Desist:
you fatigue inc."
"Do you believe in woman's lights?"
she demanded, jai bmg him in the ribs
witli her umbrella. "Yes," h" replied,
as he moved to a safe distance, "I be
lieve in woman's funeral rites,"
"Love lightens labor." "Yes, it
does," is Burdette's conmvnt; "and
when you've taken a fat girl out for a
sail, and the wind goes down to a dead
calm, and ou have six miles to row
against the tide w ith a steering oar and
a canoe paddle, 'labor lightens love,'
now you bet your blisters."
A scientist has discovered that there
is three cents worth of gold in every
ton of st ii-w. iter. Maybe there Is, but
it is not. tie -light the information will
lead to the establish) u nl. of a factory
or mill, to gd ihe gold cut id the sea
It Wftlld keep il lllilll too bllSV, sorting
over a ton ol v.alcr. to find the three
cents.
"I know of a woman," '-ail the good
deacon, bea.tiing mildly through his
spectacles, "li . wants to be toicmost
in all good work... but she is ,,i mortal
slow that she never ffts ih. re till the
good works h"i nil d'iie 'low? Why
she's so si.iw that iV'n f l1 ii'itb-rtakos
to malic an omelet, th ejg- spoil be
fore she i an brt a', tie it. intothe dish."
And the dca-on sighed until his sus
penders r.cscd his troiis rs el. an up to
his Knees.
Prepared for a Whippim:.
When llcv. Dr. Fid; was the pre
siding o'ticer of Wilbraham seminary,
there wa- one boy as full of mischief
as a boy only can lie He taxed the
well known clastic patience of Dr
Fisk to the hist degreo. Finally the
doctor said to him, after a e.iji.t.d a't
o' misconduct. "You must prepare
yourself l- r a seven- wlupj in.'
Vlien the appointed tunc tame the
doctor w is mi hand, more iiiecteil. ap
I aren'ly, than the irrepressible mis
chief maker. After a solemn iks-cours"
in that most meitimr lone of voice that
no inie can ever forget li . has heard
it, the doctor drew bis rattan and l tid
it with considerable Miction in on tho
boy's back. Nothing but du t follow
ed the blow. The subj. ct of the disci
pline was entirely at his ease, and
quite unconscious ol th" stroke.
"Take oil your co.it, sir," was the
next command -for the do tor was u
little roused. Again win tied the
rattan uro nnl the boy's shoulders, but
with no m ire effect. "Take off your
e.t, sir!" shouted the doctor. Off
went tho vest, but there was another
under it. "Off with the other!'' and
to the astonishment of the n Iminist ra
ter of justice, he exposed a dry codii.sh
defending the ba :k of the culorit liko
a shield, while below there was evi
ilcntly stretched over other exposed
pm lions of the body a stout leather
apron.
"What docs this mean?" ."aid th
doctor.
"Why," said the rogue, in a particu
larly humble and persuasive voice,
"you t.dtl me doctor, to prepare my
self for punishment, and I've ). .w th
Ir i! I could."
It v 'it if th" 'I'lestlon to pm sua
tho act of discipline any farther at that
time. And it is doubtful whether it
'as resumed attain. ( hrMiun HW.Zj,
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