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hjtt.jwWl'iM'''Ml"- ' u I- -. ' 1 i $l)c -Xljatljam ttccciifc. QLIjc Cljatljam ttccorb. II. A. ioitioiv, KDITOK AND PUOrKIKTOK. KATES AD VERTISIN C TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, (tin1 siimri'. " insertion One sipmre. two insertions Mil' Mpl.'lll'. ('Ill' lliolllll - 1.00 l.fiO One copy, one yi-nr One copy, fix moiit lis . . One ropy, three months $ 3.(11) 1 .00 rui For lin ger advertisements libcuil con tracts w ill he mailt'. PITTSBOliO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, JULY 17, 1884. NO. 45. VOL. VI. ri I 1 II 1 1 Afler n Utile While. Alter ii little while, 'fliongli y.niili i-, hri;V. a 1 I n-ji- i 'Ire Wiiywnrn m rp-t ; ol I hit we:iiy AihI 'iK- In tin- .-.liailuw IiiiiiI. 'I lm KN'iit in llicli' jjrp itncss will titt iiwnv, I'liu I'oi ii mill tin' Imiiihli- n well us tlii'.v, .M'lri' n lilllc while After ii I II lu while. T"nii";li I In' t .tit--, iimy iisi i-h-Hsphhiitid flow, ml tin' scifoes fimii', mill the m':iiiij )!ci, l It We p;ISK In I 111' slut. low 1 in I. "I'll khiitwill tep IVi H 1 1 liis re-iul llii'iini' Tojoln that IhroiiK lo llii' nn-:il union. I""- After it lilllc while. After ii tilth1 while, Thoiich our lives In- -nn-h nc, ni iniyhp tours. Yet tin' I'll. I will co up, when lln- nilil appears, Ami mi' p.i . to tin- j.h.1 'mv lun.l. I.ikl' II UHVI'Ict lo-t I II II -l n in -t i I'M so l, J he b;int nlll hi h 114 will l'ol-;(otl'-tl hi) Alter 11 lillli' while. After 11 litlln while "flip miiiiU ot iili' will In' 1111 111 i 1 .... , Ami tin' t I I iu1m' h 'al 1 1111I Mint -low, Whi'ii i'.r 'ii- to the -h:i low html. A ill IllPi-l nl I- I'.'ll luck Ion well I ol'li'llt. '.ml till' 'lii.i slur 1 i 1 from tint ihiiksoiini niJi! After 11 little while? .1 VV. Mmov GLITTER AND GLARE. "Not even (o make my last hour peaceful, Allan Y" "Father, it wuiilil darken my whole lut lire." 'It wnitlil glorify it, my sun! I have lived many years anl met su many women that, their hearts have heen as open I 'onks to me; Imt in no clime, in no lain! to which I have traveled, have 1 found the purity, the perfection of innocence, tin; warmth of heart, the nohility of womanhood, which is the portion of my ward, my adopted child I would iaiti !" ive to your run? this fair young blossom, which have iroardcl so r.irefully, my son. Lying upon a bed from which I will never rise, Allan, 1 would fain give to your keeping a treasure beyond aught 1 ran leave you; a noble-hearted, true-souled r'liil'nrter." "Father," the young man's toaes vi brate! with oiuntion, "you have Wen so kind to me always; you have taught 1110 to discern lie! wren right and wrong; would there lie no wrong in I his V would I not slay the fairest hopes of my life ly t onsenting? This girl is nothing to me ht my heart find its own mate, father! It pains me ni'iri; than 1 ran tell you to refuse your slightest wish, lu;t I cannot bind my youth in fetters that would so surely vhufe my manhood. 1 eunnot woo this girl or ask her for my wife! 1 jiniiot, father!" Von refuse what would have lieen i richer possession than all the wealth if the Hreenies! Hut, on the brink of death, I aunnl quarrel with my only hild. Thank heaven that l.rolinu knows nothing of this! You will he t brother to her, Allan? Her father was one to me she will be lonely -.vone, when I am dead!" "I will promise that, gladly," the v.'i'.ng man answered; "I can promise h it, father! Lcolino shall have my n'-t and temlerest care." From the donrway a slight form laried then a form which ri''itli 'r the tl ing man nor his son ha I seen; and a .;irl, with white, ijuivenng features, and (i.irk, ilistendeil eyes, lied from the larkened chaiiilirr. An hour later and Harold lM'reine w!ii.-percd fa ntly: ' Allan, give me your hand. Call Leoline." And Allan grew white, a torching a silver bell which would summ m Ins father's ward, he bent ovrr the fare on the pillows. Through the long hours they wa'rhcd there, tliese i wo, and in the gray of the opening day they knelt t yet her over the b idy of tint dead, the girl M:i!'biug passionately, the man shaking in his silent grief. On the aim face of Harold lrerme lay death's gray shadow. On the heart of the girl who knelt there lay one as daik and dreary, but w ithout its cnlm; for with her whole heart she loved this man who scorned to rail her wife! Left early an orphan by her artist father, she had beea taken to this home of luxury by her father's friend, and she had grown to regard the voting heir as a sort of hero worthy of her worship -u knight who would some time atoop to her a :d glorify her life with his affection. When she left her knees her girlish face was set and white with her great anguish, but calm through womanly pride and stooping to kiss the forehead of her guardian, she left the father to liisson and glided out. And that night there was excite ment and fear in the Hreemo mansion Leoline F.lmar rmild not be found, search as they might. In the light ' that summer -lav she had gone forth, bearing with her naught save the memory of Allan's words: "I do not love this girl! Let my heart choose its mate!" Allan sought vainly for a trace of her, and wondered as vainly w hy she had (led. ., "All gaslight and glare!" thought Allen lret me, half wearily standing among the gue.-ls in the rich salon of Madam Kiviere. Tim ocean, which laved the rocks below Dreeinu hall, rolled between him and his iioinc; but wider, darker, drearier, w in the di is ion between him and the youth in which he had refused to wed his father's ward. His hostess, noting the look of wea riness upon bin face, tapped him light ly with her Ian. "There is one here who will not bore you,'' she said, laughingly. "You have not met the beautiful artist of whom we all talk because we find no subject so agreeable? Then I will give you a new delight." and, laving her jeweled hand upon his arm. she led him across the wide ro un to where a regal woman hell her mint. Where had ho seen that lace, he wonder 'd, bending low before the stranger, who received him as a iiueen might. It was dark and calm, but the great eyes, all gloom and power; the red lips, with their delicate curves; the white brow, from which Mowed back a mass of dusky, unrippliiig hair, struck on him like the memory of a half-forgotten dream. "Have I met you before?" he asked her, later in the night. And he fan cied that the dark eyes saddened as they tinned on him. "Would you have forg itti u joe?" she asked with a slow smile. And he told himself, w ilh a new thrill at his heart, that he never Would. Once looking on that lovely face would leave it engraved on his heart forever. For three months from that night Allan lirecme siiileied the agony of an uncertain love. His heart win tilled with the glory of her beauty, filled with hope and fiai'. So many beside himseif sought the smiles nl this regal, dark-eyed woman, whose bru h had made her famous. Al'd iheii, one night, when he found him-ell' alone w ith hrr among the bloom and perfume of a coitsc! vatory, again at one of Madame liiwcre's balls, where, amid -glitter and glare," he had first seen her, a beautiful iiieen, he laid his heart at lu r feet and t rem I 'led, because she w as so long silent. Within the music swelled; the laughter of the guests reached theai, sift, sweet, mirthful. lie bent bis proud head in meekness, waiting; for lu r answer. Hie lifted her drooping eyes and laid a fair hand on his arm, a neiiiiilous joy touching her warm lips. "Allan," she said softly, "when 1 went forth from the home your lalhei left you 1 had liohopeof th s. 1 loved you then, Allan, and 1 heard you say words which 1 have never forgotten. I heard yor te I your father to let your heart choose its own male. Are you sure sure, A 'Ian! that your heart has chosen l.coline F.lmar?" 'l.eolinc!'' he cried, shrinking, "(( are not L-oline!" "1 have not been called so since that summer day, w lien a heart-sick, hope less child of seventeen, I knew 1 loved you, Allan, and you gave me no return! Cut, if you love me 1 am doubting still, Allan---" "Oh, do rot doubt my love!" he whisperr.d, taking lu r hands, jnid draw ing her toward him; "1 was then a thoughtless youth, ;ind my father's wish to bind me seemed rruel. I am a man now, and my heart has spoken! Is not the man's love more worthy in your sight than that of the boy could be, my dariiiig? If you loved inethen, do not tell me that I caused that love to die!" "Does love ever die?" she iuestioaed, gently laying her beautiful head on his bosom; "no, Allan I have not forgotten; it was that love which drove me from Ireenio Hall; it was that which kept me strong, when I found the world so cold and hard to me! It was that for which, when 1 had gained friends and fortune, I refused a coronet! Ten years stretch drearily between to-night and lint summer day, Allan, on which 1 took my young heart from Ureeine Hall and bore it far from yon, with the hope that 1 might teach it to grow calm; but I could not calm it. my dearest; it would quiver and thrill at taoiight of you, at the sound of your name. You will have to loe me well to erase those sad, sad years, Allan!" His eyes were misty ai he held her to his heart and laid his loving kisses on her beautiful face. My love! my love!" ho said sadly; 'was it bat a memory of my coldness, my blindness, that you could take with you? How can I ever win your com plete pardon for the past?" 'Hy loving me well," was the low t uied answer. "Had you but remained!" he whis pered, "my blindness could not, h.ivi: lasted long. I would havewakeael to your worth; would have sought your love, long years ago, ley peerless darling!" "Allan," she said gently, passing her jewelled lingers through his hair, "we seldom realize llii! truth of tie) port's words; " 'That 1- 1'i-t whi.'li lii-lli iii'iiir.-l.' Hut Allan Hrecme, looking down lovingly upon her face, told himsell that he must have been blind in his youth to have looked with in lilT -renci) on beautiful Leoli ie F.l -ti.tr. -t'liilu-iMihiti Cull. About liug!iter. A really musical laugU is pernaps rarer than a really nut deal void. Th; giggle, the snigger, the half-choke I laugh are cmum m enough; but how seldom do we hear that melo lions sound, the laugh in its per feel i n. It should not bo shrill, nor too loud, nor loo long. It .should not bear any double meaning, any hid lea s..re ism in its mirth. It shonll not be so h;)isteroin ;n 1. 1 exhaust the laught-r and deafen tin; listeners. There is llio loud guffaw of the vul gar, and the laughter which appears likely to tear the laugher in pieces, causing him to wipe his eves alter the explosion isoer. There is the laugh of embarrassment, when a shy person, at a loss what to say next, "remarks to he," as Artemus Ward descnb -s it. There is the schoolgirl's giggle; and the schoolboy's sniggle, a-, he rellects mi some recentl v-perpcl ral -d, but si ill recollected, piece of mischief. There is the chuckle of the successful man. All these laughs b".ir s Hue family resemblance to each other: they all, in their degree, express sensations of pleasure. There are darker descrip tions of laughter. Ther-' are laughs more cutting than the bitterest speevh es, more alarming than the cruelest threats. Satirical laughter is most of fensive. A laugh ran convey contempt which words would fail to expro-o. Is any one proof against being annoy ed by ridicule? Kvtnadog is sensible when he is laughed at, and re-ruts th" impertinence. Some animals are, in deed, ipiite as sensitive to derision a human beings, The laughter of the unbred which finds open aiuasi in 'lit in the minor tiMii'ilei of their neighbors --say the ridicule lavished mi se.i--ick arrivals at a pier, or on hapless foreign ers in an altercation with a ca'mi in, or an old g"iitleiiian who fads down a slide - also ranks among "laughs offensive."' Tue.i there is the la'igh of inere luli. ty. When Tom goes to h:s rich old uncle, full of glow ing ile-criplioiis of the p'Tfcti'ins of the lady to whom h" is engaged, or of the appoi a'-meat which be i-xpects to obtain, does the old gentleman damp his nephew's ardor by a long harangue? No, he only gives a dry laugh; and Tom's hopes of a che 'k fall rapidly. Too rare laughers are as unpopular as too ready ones. A teller of good stories never forgives the man who (bus not laugh al his jokes. Many per sons have made their foi l lines by laugh ing at judicious moments; applau ling some poor jest, or becoming convulse I with mirth at a dull pun. To be duly appreciative of his patron's wit wa an important part of the duly of a hanger on. With what ready laughter are a schoolmaster's witticisms received by his class! Teleprapliing Willi Teeth and I'yelbls. .1. T. N'orris of Springfield. O. the detective, does a trick that probably no other man in the country can imi tate. He takes a silver coin, usually a dollar, and places it on his tongue be tvvren his teeth. With his tongue he strikes it against the teeth with the sound of a telegraphing instrument, the opening and closing of the circuit being exactly imitated. N'orris Used to be an operator, and by means of the coin can telegraph words so distinctly that any telegrapher can easily read the message. In this manner ho tele graphed fifty words a minute. A A'i iiililinin reporter wroto out a message mi a Western I'nion blank, and hand ed it to the detective. The two ope rators in charge at the Southern took down the words as fast as N'orris pn dueetl them with the coin. The message was rapidly sounded and written down, and all three copies coincided exactly. Mr. Xorris can stand up before a tele phone, and in this novel manner tele graph a message which any telegraph er can read with great facility, lit", the most wonderful thing is to see him telegraph with his eyelids. The dots and dashes of the telegraphic alphabet he indicates by more or less rapid open, ing and shutting of the eyelids. In this uiiinner he can converse with an t xpert without uttering a sound. .S7. Louis Hfjmblkan. ' TKItKIISI.E X ITKIM I.YCF.K I S 1), 111 I'ouer of AnnlhilAiliMi lrovrl lv Mauv lt.rniir.il I iiil.illrm. "Attending the frigli'ful d"a'ln th i so frc.iiently follow tin- handling of nitroglycerine, in the oil regions," said Myron K. l'aige, formerly an oil operator in Pennsylvania, "there is one ; feature, the mysterious nature of which is startling, n nas pu.'UM ward. If the matter hnd t-een reuueeu . i)rick Those of the well-to-do nier scientific observatioi and study, and I to atoms, however infinitesimal, in j chants are. piile modern in appearance do not believe to-day that any satisfac. falling back upon that spotless snow There are six picturesuiie, well-built . 1 I . I" If I - .. ..., . torv explanation cm be uiveu ol it. ! This singular featui'- js the almost . complete annihilation of matter, es j jiecially of the human liody. which, in a majority of ra'. results from a ! fatal explosion of t ;s deully com- pound. ) "I had a teams! ploy poor Haul' once in my em- France. Like al' ; men of his kind in the oil country' there was nothing ehher above, below ' or on earth that be feared. He was i in the habit of carrying irtro-glycer- j ine to any we'l w here 1 wanted to u-e it, and he and his companion. Warren : .lack, actually got so reckless in hand- ling the st nil' that the other help I ha I j would not stay at work when they knew Hank was coining in with gly i cerine, but went to a safe distance until he ha 1 depisited the explosive they r.'ipiire l, an I ha I gone away, i ''Hank and Warn n actually us 'd to j unload the stuff the same as : they would a lot of bricks. Hank I standing in the wagon and throwing a j can to Warren some feet away, and I Warren catching it and pl.e-iug it on the ground in time t i catch the next 'one that Hank tossed him. As it : takes a man with a goo I S"t of nerves to even ride in a w.i,m:i when he I knows then) is nitro-glyeerine under the seat, this manner of baudlinj a compound that the slightest jar fre- (piontly explodes, will give you an idea of the sort of nerve these t wo men had. Karh one knew that if Warren hap- poned to miss catching a can, there j Would not be enough left of them to : cover the bottom of a snuff-box, but j hey had the daring take the chances. j "No one ever knew w hat caused it, i and no one would ever have known who it was that was wipe I out, except . thy first fruits uuio the Lord, tlnni Ir-iin tlm fact that lin y knew who it "halt offer for the meat offering of thy was that would be coming that way first fruits green ears of com dried by with nitro-glyeerine just about that I iiro,even corn heated out of full ears." time, and from om; or two things we '. Leviticus, xxiii., 1 1: And ye shall found; but when we heard the cxplo- eat neither bread nor parched corn, sion that day we said: That's Hank's ! nor green cars, until tl e selfsame day last trip" The glycerine had exploded : that ye hate brought an offering unti about a ipiarter of a mile from the your Cod." (ienesis, xxxxi., o icon well. We walked down there, l'here eerning Pharaoh's second dream r was the usual cellar that a few cans of "And he slept anddreaiue I the second the stuff alwavs digs w lieu it goes off time; and behold, seven cars of corn ; ami tin! usual lot of limber felled j Three hundred feet oil' to the right of ' the road, in the wood--, we found a I wagon tire. We found the tail of one horse, and portions of th hotly of au nt her. In another part of the woods a 1 man's knee was pick -d up. and, al- j though we searched over an area that i p. would have been impossible for uuy of the wreck to ha'-e been thrown. ! that was all wo found except Hank's i greasy old cap lying by the side of a ntuiiip, and his wat -h hanging on the ! limb of a tree. I "As thoroughly as that does nitro- glycerine do its work. All who have had anything to do vv itli it in the oil j regions have had illustration after j illustration of its annihilative power I The iron frames of wagons, and even nitre-glycerine safes, have been re moved from human vision by an ex i plosion as effectually as if they had never been forme I. Look at that poor reckless devil, (ieorge lioran, who ' disappeared at lied Ito.'k a few year j ago. lie was walking along with two I or three cans of glycerine slung over his shoulder in a bag. To rest him , self he shifted the bag to the other j shoulder. Induing so he jaired cans together and disappeared, wilh a goodly portion of Hed Hock. That ' I man weighed allot 2t)d pounds. All I that the most thorough search ev er re- ' j covered of that 2'H) pounds of llesh and I , lion) was a part of one foot less than j tme pound! ) 'Some savants have attempted to ' explain the mystery of this eharaeteris- j tie of nitro-glyeerine by the theory ; of instantaneous vaporization of mat- j ter. That might be true as to llesh, but could the great masses of bone in the human body ba vaporized in the IvvinkHngof an eye? Could iron be re duced t- vapor in an instant? It doesn't seem so to me. "Others offer the theory of atomi.a tion id' ma ter. This theory was dis proved by another most melancholy icciirrenee in Alleghany County. X. Y'.. two or three years ago. This cas was not characteried by such utter annihilation as others. Charles P.er ridg', a well-known oil man, was blown an bv iiitro-glveerine. The ground troaiul was covered wiin spotless, new- j fallen snow. On either side was a j tigh a id abrupt hill, only a few rods j of perhaps 1W) pounds weight. The ' 1 1 . . remains of the poor man were searciieu ( for carefully and long, for he was ti j good man and a popular one. Tlu . rollin in which they were borne to tin; 1 grave, contents and all, weighed i"1' ! fifteen pounds! Now for the atomi'a- tion theory. The greatest force of n, mtro-glyccrine explosion is always up- some trace ol them miisi nave occii 1 seen upon it. lint it remained a- j spotless as before." .Vc l'7." ."' ! ', I Tlio Itoinance of Iiuiinii oi n. . i Comparatively few even of those to, wnoni corn is one m me most, coiinnoo ; ol all (injects, ami who are. in ok. j habit of handling more or less of that j noble grain every day. know how ro- inantie a history it has. While then: j is no ipie.-tion as to its anti.piily, there is much doubt about tin place of its ! origin. It has been found in the tombs I and ruins of South America, in the ' caves of Arizona, mid in the mounds : of I'tah. The Smithsonian Institute has an ear of corn found in the toinl of a mummy, near Ariipiipi. l'cru, and Harwiti mentions the head id' a stalk found imbedded in a sea-drift eighty, live feet ah ive the level of the sea Petrified stalks and ears were found, perfect in appearance, in work- : .. ... . i .. i in .K ipimrj i . " to: :.. t ... t .. ...i.. I toil.. Illinois. in a iieai oiii usi-mi .on. manual, issued by .1. ('. Vaughan, it ! is said that those who claim Asia for j the origii'iil home ot maize, point te i the representation of the plant found j in an ancient Chinese book in the 1'nv : al I ibrary in Paris, and tell of t lit '. grain being found in cellars of ancient : houses in Athens. Itifaiid speaks ol .finding the grain and ear of maizt within the tomb of a mummy at ; Thebes in is I'.'. Some, like Corbet t, ' claim that it is the corn of Scripture, and in support of the claim ipiote tin billowing: "Audit came to pass that He went through the cornfields on tin. sabbath day; and His disciples, as the went, began to pluck theiarsof tin corn." Again, from Leviticus, ii., 11: "And if thou oiler a meat tillering o' came up upon one stalk, rank and good." dob, xxiv., 21, says the wicked are "cut off as the tops of the ears i corn." All uniiiipeai'bable historv ol Indian 1 , corn can never be vv rit ten. as the sub- : jpet is full of coiintcrfacts, coni radio , , : tions and specula' ions. Learned thoritiis, both early and Iai .l;il.. -,u (., il- ..ri.on u.,10.. ban claim- " " . . r . : mg it a native ol Asia.oiii 'rs oi .uieri i I 'the Niiiiihcr Mae. ! The number possesses some Miiarkable properties. If the nim ; Cossacks, and as their wealth depends I digits. 1, L'. d, I, .". il. 7. 'd. be added tipon the number of lenses and cattle ! together the sum will be l"i. which j- . they own. this is a matter ol eonsidera. j equal to live times nine, and the sum bte importance. ; of the digits of their sum, I and - b The i'iiku:i are beginning to eulti nlne. If any number is subtracted ! Vate the soil, but the principal and I from another having the same ibgii.- ! tnost industrious farm-is in t he dist ri.-t. in a different or !er the remainder will iuv tin- s,-op. i or i uniiciis, mcmb rs of ibe divisible by ;i. and the sum of tin ; n peculiar religious set exile I fio-u ! digits of the remainder vv ill also be di-j liiiss.a. of th s-there vv. re in 1:( j visible by !. Subtracting 2,!''.".tidl ; about J11'1 in the Yautsk Cavern j from T.dtil.ilJ'.Mhete remains I. :!','. i.'.i.'V ' ment. About six Pid"- Ir.cu Yakutsk i The sum of the digits, I, :t. ti, !,'.). .1. ' there is a v Wage built by the seopri is l'i, which is divisible by '.. If any Ii 1, in nil l .l i.l I lit- O tlm Ullhi nf . . .' '. ". till- lleu- Ol lelll-S l"l HIV 'l OIIUI I i will he divisible by Ix me tunes Pi,. .. digits of this product is 27, a multiple hie. of !. If a number be subtracted from I H"h of these classes of i xilcs are in another having the same digits in a dustrioiis, thrifty and scrupulously different order and one of the digits of 'dean people, who have built them thereniaindcreraseil.it can be found '-"elves neat houses and mills driven by in the following manner: Add to-. horse power. A large prop.rtion of get her the figures of the remainder ! a', carpeiiteis. bricklayers, iron that are left, divide the sum by it, sul- workers, etc.. and as they are. as , tract tlu ligur. that remains alter di-'class, honest people, employment is ! viding by ., from and the last re. tnainder will 1m the digit or figure sought. If there was no remainder 0 or '. was erased. Ask soni" on. to write down a mini- her and subtract from it another rom- posed of the same digits in a different 1 , ..... ... . order, without letting you see either ot them. Tell him you want all the tig - tires of the remainder but one. l.y the nliovn rule von can soon lin.l tm, tigure you have not seen. The feat will appear ipiite mysterious to the un initiated. Here is an example Sub' trading l-MvUt from 2:11. loll, the re mainder is 7-FtJ. The sum of the Hj,,,, 7, ,,, , :i, js Ki. Hi vide Hi by t, we have a remainder of 7. seven from V leaves 2, the other figure. .... Tlie llllinhilniil.. KrllulOH anil Or llm tin ,,i v.hui.k, iitri. The City of Yakutsk. Siberia, is builj , the bottom lands of the Lena, thi i,uffs which usually run along tlm river banks l eing here about six mihg UiHtant. The houses are log built, with the exception of two a school and ? j warehouse which are constructed o 1 jj ,., n.n,.S i.si(h's two old. un. lls(.,j chapels. Near the center of tlm town is an old log fortress, built by the coriuuering t'ossaeks OoQ years ago. ,. . ' " " , 1 he inhabitants are lor the great"' y . . . .)ri.r,.r u yourta of their ancestors to the iiioi'i comfortable and healthful llus-ian lo ! house. Around each house is usually a large open space resembling a ban. yard, in which horses and cattle a:o kept and storehouses fur merchandise are located. There are two school?: supported by th gov eminent one l'"t boys and the other for girls -besides one maintain!1 1 by the city and a fourth for orphans, supported by pri vate subscriptions. A hospital is als-i provided, and attached to ii is a small lions for the insane. The mail ar. rives from the south once a week, ex ec it during t lie spring break-up and in the fall of the year, w lieu the Leu; freees Thence the mail is sent, om e a l.lo.ith, 1 1 . Vercl,. ,vaif-k illld Kolvmsk, - - and om e a year, by w ay of Okhotsk to Petropauli iisky, in Kamsehatka. The garrison consists of l!11" soldier--; who are principally (.cciipicd in guard, ing tin! prison. The pay of ti e llus-ian soldier in Yakutsk is ninety copeck? (about forty-live cents) per quarter. His ration money, three and a halt cents a day, is turned into the coinpa ny fund for purchasing provisions. For uniform he receives one coat, one pair of trousers and one pair of bootj Annually, and an overcoat every twj years, lb- is permitted to do outside Work, his earnings being divided sa that he receives one-hall, while one" piarter goes to the company fund and the other to the comrade who perform-! his military dutii s while I e is absent. The Cossacks, desei'ii'laiits of 1h ioii'Uerors of tlie Ynktiti, about two hundred in number, are variously em ployed as orderlies to tin Coventor police master and other ollicials; as es forts to the political exiles on their way north to Yerchoyansk, Kolymsk and other mi! lying settlements, and in carrying the mails where no regular po-ts are established. The Cossack's term of service is twenty-live years They are usually industrious and well to do, as laud is given them which liny have the opportunity to cultivate while they are not on duty. The lands in the vicinity and south nf V:ikn'.k c oci'Killv the bottom I . . ".,-,., lands ol the large nveis. are vcrv pro- j ... ... ... . . . . . I luctive. Melding in the short summers . ,. ' . .. , , , ,, ,. toliiclliues as much as lilty bushels id wheat to the acre and oilier cereals in proportion. Pc sides, the uneiilt i v atcd 'lamu lisMing largelv of numberless islands in the Lena, in the immediato j neighborhood of Yakutsk, yield a rich ' harvest of hay in the month of August. i Thev are generally a.-sigm-il to tlm j and called Man ha. I'pnti the inliab:- t...,,, .' ft.;,. iP'ure 'III. I IOIOO .'il.4 '', , .7, ...... , , . UCIOIieiOj; I" .1 -' ' I IV O , 11 .1 ' ; believers, who live near py.uie i,usi.ui ; given tV them in prelereiice to ail j ethers in Yakutsk. I I-"'-1. "'" " ' "' principal ! part of the population, are called in 'their own language tlm tribe of sadia. Their i iplexion is a dark yellow, and in theii almond-sluipcd cy.s.as we!! as their language, tln v give lin outrov ert- livil,(.ni.,'. r their Mongol descent, j Their language belongs to the same I family us that of the Turk and Tartar, , In fact, the farlars. of vv hi. h t here are a greai manv nv in in Yakutsk as ils. vei v oiiii klv leurn to speak the Yakuti tongue in roiiscpieni e of this intimate relation of the languag 's. The Y akuti are engaged principally in raising horses and cattle, but in vil lages and towns they are tradesmen, and as such are iiotoriou-dy tricky, grasping and unreliable. ,inl. istltutUt'. You or I. TP c Pol. Id kliW H'hii-li of if. ihirliii!.'. wonl.l l.p fii't top". Who w.iiiM U lii-l t" Incus I Ii"' sc IliiiK ti.tPi Ol.l '-U'l' llh'liP up"" lbi- oilier "i'lc It' ! t-iiilM Knott ' It' it wrre von, Mi'.nM I Ik .-.lib. I pill,' 'li':l,i i" vi'-w? Mllllll'1 i HO I 'e lo V..II IH"ie "U -XtfS'f III .-;io;il. I 'li- .'il. '! ol.n. IHIV .l-s II ll Wile '.'l' If it well' I. Mioilld I ill'.;..p.u tl.e inoieelll--l;piK hv? Shi.lll'l I more r!o-el follow ( i' I s r.'Ul 1 tic till. "I wilh sw. i lei . h oily toman II it wi n 1 ' II w i l know' W o i-iiniii.t. 'killing; mi I li- h'-t'.'r so. I -hoiil l lur ju-l ii- I lo-'l i . n 1 walk ii'.oii- the -;one old -linnl'liii ' -II I ,.,.ild know. 1 would II 't kll"W Whirll ol il;llli': '. Mil I"' lil-1 to . I only ui-h the -,'K. e lllll.v let he loll llrlwieli I In- I'.nliii.'llll I tile 1 line. -"liy. II ll Wlli-ll ll wh.'K-.ol how wi're called to H" I w. id l not know. iimoitors. Kvery one has a right t' drop a Un to a lish. A political convention is usually born wilh a caul. A ' popular chord" out West is tie: one the crou d docs the lynching with. lire'ch-s of promise - Tlios the ailor siid he would have finished on sal unlaw The "loo solid llesh " which SO both ered Hal ib t was probably a tough beefsteak. It oiiuds paradoxical, but a sick Indian can In al the same time a well read man. No ma'ter 'mw old the attractions of a lin n igerie may be. you are just i li' d in expecting to find among the at lea-t i ne thing that is gnu. An article containing a dozen hints on how to take care of a burse is going the roiin !s of t he press, but there is not one hint as bow to get the horse. Wagner's music is called the "music of tin f iture." because you can't get the nnis of il out of your ears for two weeks after you hear it. More umbrellas are made in Phila delphia than in any other city in the country, and yet on rainy days um brellas an ju-t as scarce ih re as ail' where else, A dude w ishing tobe witty, accosted an old rag-mau as follows: " You take all sorts of trumpery in your cart don't you?" Yes; jump in! juuij in ! " An attorney-nt-law. who wished to show his smart uc.s by .piizing an old farmer, began by asking him if there were many girls in his neighborhood, "Yes." replie I th.-old man: "there's ji dreidi'ul sjeflit of Vm -so many that tin-re ain't, half enough 'respect abb' husbands for 'em ad. and so some ot '.-in are beginning to lake up will; lawyer-!' " I'm- attorney didn't "fol o up l.. silb j.'1'l." An Indian l.nve Story. The Indian, true to his traditions, is full of romance. When Miss Alice L. '. lioiiine, one of the clev erest teacher; at the Lincoln Institute Indian school i at Wayne, l.i was returning from in O ikota, after se- I liosebud Au'enc I led ing a lot of Indian girls, she stopped i with the party at a bouse mi t he plains .wailing for a girl vv ho was to be brought to her at that point. There also happened to be waiting ther' from an t!ui territory, on his way east, Ki I win Ast ley, t he young son ol an Indian chief, who was going to the Indian school at Hampton lo he edu cated. The iii'iineiil he laid eyes he her l.il win fell desperately in love with Hattie iioiicula, one of the biggest girls in the party, and by strungi! unanimity she f. 11 desperately in love w ith him. They were very much to gether all the wav coming east, so ;uuch so that Miss I'.oiime had to interfere. ' When tiny separated it was with evi dence of distress on the part of both, ind they have correspondi d regularly ever since As neither of them liar progressed very far in the mastery o! written llngli-h. they have recourse t i liiodil'n at ion of the traditional picture wiiting of Iheir savage ancestors, since her arrival llatlie has been urallgely alUictcd with lovesiekness ' It appears that with an Indian this is i malady of more c iiisoipienrc than isual. Anyhow, one nigiit Hattie, j laving meantime refused to eat or dudy. declared that she must die, and ' 'iirrying a bread-xnife vv ith her from 1 .he table, declared her intention to cut 'ser throat. This was going too far I Mid discipline had to be resorted to, j she was given a good shaking and told if she talked of suicide again she would je thrashed. This appears to have had ! die desirei' effect, and she has calmed ! Jown, but says she will not be happy 1 antil she has "Kdwin. her brave.'' Hattie is about seventei n years old and F.dvvin a few years her .senior. I'ltUf irljthin Thru)