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" BRING MYRTLE
A iiuinliiT nl letters witi' a wail ills'
Ciiloni'l llaldane. command. mt nl'
.'e.vly, on his ri'luni I'mm i i (-. 1 -i.o
was unmarried, lii Ii iiii'l rather
dislinguidied-luiiking. II. will there
fore surprise no one Unit In' win accus
tomed to ii'i-civi' a ijre.it many sweet I v
scented. ilL'lii'iili'ly-:ii'iiinj;i'.iiiiiii"il. pret
tily worded letters from lln vatio.H
members uf tin- liiir sex w ith x Imin In
win acquaint, il. Among Hi-' little
li-up wlii' Ii lay before It i in was mi"
conspicuous I'm' its careless liaii'l writ
ing ill i' 1 rough ctivcl"i"'. Oddly
t'lioiili, this wa- tin' ''ii'' Ii" selected
lii si fur perusal, scrawled nil llii- lip
uf tin.' envelope wi-io t In-.-i- wnrils:
"Jlri.-i M;ii '-."
Colniirl llaldane put up his gentle
manly cyt .lass, and held hi- li'-ad a
little i'ii mi'' siii; hi- twi-te-1 his irmi
gray inou-tit-hc into a yet more
poignant cxpro-i-ioti a hi' iuspi-rtcil
Ihusc rnrinii" words: "liihrj Miilh."
Who via; Myrtle V What was Myrtle?
Ilmv in. my times In- read ;ui'l ro-rc.id
that message In- w as perhaps unaware.
Itul it was useless, "liring Myrtle''
remained mi I hi' lip uf til" envelope, illl
unsolved enigma.
.slow ly he opened the letter. II was
an invi'ati'iii to iiltt'iiiooii ti-.i a' Hie
Whites peupli' he knew slightly, ;is
he know so many in Hie ho.iv ily-garri-soiled
naMil iin I military town close to
Hie hiirr;i-ks ;it Newly.
The letter was from Miss l'loreneo
While, who wrote in her mother's
name.
lie e.illeil iii ii isioii uf l'lorelli-e
White. Tiill -m l stat'-ly, ii f,'irl with a
mass of p'I'leii hrown hair, rolleil off
her foreheii'l; ii i rl he luul ;reiitly ;ul
mireil, iis oil" iul'iiires ii serene iiiiil
lovely litiiilsriipe, a irl whoiiiii'le him
fei'l jirovokui-,'ly fofiyish." HIr
yoiiiiL,' hiilies ralth'il away ill him, its if
hi were a siih, iiskeil him toplay tennis
with them, ami tieate l him like a mere
yonngst-'r. It'll t'lii yoiinj,' l.il y hail
plaiTil him, with ilue rearil to his
'Miiph'Nion, in a shadowy comer of tlio
drawing; room on one or two invasions
when he had taken "tea" there, and
had introduced him t some ilecp-toiU'd
matrons, a- if in that direction lay his
natural li.n, and !l"v this stately
youn; lady sends him the jocular
jiodcripl bidding him "Itrinj; Myrtle!"
t'uloncl ll.il'line silt down in the
coinl'orliilile red velvet chair which
lac d the parade ground, and coin
iiiauded it rtun view of the pver-coin-paiiionahh)
sea. The little rippling
waves had an expression of infant
hiniles to-diiy, ii i nt the luioyant (doiuls
were chasing one iinother like school
I i.ns on a coininon. How innocent
iind tail- was the world of nature! lie
hit dreaming over his problem "ISring
Myrtle" iiiiie happily.
A knock with the knob of a stick on
the door breaks into his retlections, and
Captain Milton enters with his cus
tomary oil-parade familiarity.
'Well, old fellow, what's up 'i Sea
mid sentiment, eh? It's fatal to sit in
Unit attitude, looking at the sea.
Wnat's up, I ii.sk you ?"
Colonel I laldane roused himself from
his reverie with an effort; ho gently
tapped his left hand with the letter
which yet remained idly between his
linger and thumb.
".lane!" he said, addressing Captain
Hilton by his nickname. "Jane! what
on earth does it mean when you receive
h message from a young lady lo 'lirinj
Myrtle'? " and he handed the envelopo
to Captain Hilton.
.lane, who had a rolling eye anil a
rollicking smile, took the envelope
daintily, and, after reading it, pressed
it to hi i heart, and said, with a strong
brogue: "Why, man, it's a proposal!
What do the ladies wear on their
festal brows, and twist about the llovv
ing satin of their bridal gow ns but
myrtle? 'Bring myrtle,' 1 tell y ou, is
a proposal a bona tide propositi. I
wish you every joy! She is a sweet
jrir), if a bold one."
VOL. VII.
Without a word, Coloiicl llalilauc
sprang, in a melodramatic manner, at
the throat of Captain Hilton, and held
him with a grip uf iron.
"Mow dare you speak uf Miss White
like that? Hie is the must distinguish
ed girl uf my aciiiaintauce. A pulogie! "
Captain Hilton rolled his eye with a
ghastly appeal on Colonel llaldane.
when the latter its siidileiily reliiXi.'d his
grasp and said.
"l-'orgive me, Hilton; but really 1 -1
object I i such an unseemly idea."
"I beg your pardon, colonel," said
Captain Hilton, stiflly; "but I object
equally to being throttled. Allow me
to wish you good morning."
"Stop, my friend," s-iid Colonel Hal
dalle, i-onfiiseillyi "I don't know what
is (he matter with ni"! I'm half a-deep,
1 think. .Sea and sentiment, as you
said jilsl now. Come, my friend!
tell mo what on earth Miss White
means?"
"Means? Something '" "iii'l
Hilton, viciously: -but whether sprout
ing in a tub, after the fadiion of the
blossoming shrub, nrdoiie up in a glass
rase after I he artificial iihhI", .' know
not. I wish ymi goo I morning, col
onel." And with tli.it he retreated to the
mess- room.
"Illossoining sliUi," miii inured
Colonel Ilahlano. "Mess his Hiber
nian wit! Dtircka! Now I have it!"
And with that he sat. down at his
writing-table, and penned the follow
ing letter:
"An .V'A'Vi'.v .V". in, .!. iinr I' '''
l'n)in'ii;i- i'ii .1. nt'iii Atii" .1" in iiiis."
'Send the finest dowering myrtle
ymi possess to the following mldre.-s.
Mi...s rioivnce While. The range.
Port i I'Ijwii. Sii-- c. The myrtle imi.-t
arrive on the afternoon of .September
the 7th, oiii! week from this date"
Then Colonel llaldane rang the bell
hastily, and told his man to p.ist the
'ett'-:'. This done, he placed the note
from Miss Florence While in the
pocket, ol his t'rogged co.it, and then
proceeded to read the rest of his corre
spondence. I
Tiie afternoon of the 7th duly ar
rived, and w ith ;i strange palpitation
at his heart I a sensation which ought
to have aroused his suspicions as to
the evaet state of his sll-eepl ibilit ies I,
Colonel 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 " drove up in his little
hooded carriage, with the tiger jump
ing up and down behind, to the gales
uf The ( i range,
"Here comes the jug in the poke,"
said Felicity White, a younger daugh
ter who was given to tiling her brains
in oil hand criticism. "If a man will
drive a carriage with a hood, what is
one to call him. but a pig in a poke
you know? lie is fidgeting at the gate
ino.-t awfully, Florence; do come and
look."
"I like that hooded carriage," said
Florence. And then she tinned with
ready grace to meet Colonel llaldane,
who had ju-t entered the room. "Fe
licity and I weredraivn to (he window
by tin iuagnctics.1 intluem-e uf your
charming little carriage." "ho said.
1 so admire your 'poke.' "
"Io you?" sitid Colonel Haldaue,
gratefully. "It is very kind of you!"
who answered to thu ubiquitous name
and then he looked steadfa-itly at Flor
ence, absolutely blu-hing its he did so.
Florence, catching the glance inter
ro,'atiV' Wits arrested in her unliable
intention of transporting him to the
other end of the long, lone drawing
room, and introducing him to Mrs.
Darlington, the rector's wife. This
agitated gentleman did not look exact
ly in a lit state to be discoursed to
about winter blanket clubs and work
ingmen's clubs and friendly societies.
It's ;ill very line to talk about lead
ing an tmpuled existence, like .lane
Austen; but irlii on earth did Colonel
llaldane look at In r with this un
fathomable glance from bis undeniably
line gray eyes? What did it mean?
she fell away from hint, musing, and
turned the outward machinery of trite
commonplaces on her greeting of (he
numerous guests, who were now rapid
ly arriving.
The Whites had just started a page,
of "Tommy;" one of those specimens
much adapted by ambitious matrons as
iin improvement on parlor maids; a
creature raw olf the fields, with the ex
pression of iin animated turnip and
brains to match. In the midst of n
buxz of voices intermingling with the
frou-frou of rich dresses. Tommy sud
denly darted into the room, and made
straight for Miss Florence White, car
rying in his lobster-colored hand a book
suggestive of the P. 1). Company.
Colonel llaldane, from his solitary
seat in the deep recess of the bay win
dow facing the entrance to "The
(irange," felt an awful sensation come
over him. Was this the myrtle arriv
ing, and had the Menton folk absolute
ly charged the carriage to Miss White?
What should he do? He shrunk be
hind the deep amber of the curtains,
(lieu as suddenly emerged.
PITTSHOIKV, CHATHAM CO., N. C, FKHRUAKY 12, 1885.
"Ilring Myrtle!" these were her own
words, and he made a violent rush
across the room to her side.
"It's the myrtle," he said, breathless
ly. "Allow me! The stupid people
have made a mistake," he continued,
incoherently. "The idea of charging
the carriage to you!" ami hn threw a
sovereign into Tommy's bashful lingers-
Miss White looked at Colonel llal
dane with ever-enlarging pupils, lie
h id returned lately from F.gypt, had
been indefatigable at. the bombardment,
of Alexandria, had had iin illness on his
return, ami she iciiieinbered hearing
that he had been obliged to have his
head shaved. She continued lo look at.
him quite tenderly, as these thoughts
llitteil phantom-like about her.
" Thank you, Captain llaldiine," sho
said. "You have saved me the trouble
of fetching my purse. This is a new
hoy country manners, yon know he
wants Instruction." and, smiling pleas
antly, she moved out of (he room after
Hie vanishing figure of Tommy.
!n the round, roomy hall stood a
huge tub mat led up and bearing the
iiitiuo "An Mvosotis, it Meuton," etc.
"It's a dowering iiiyrlle. miss," said
Tommy; -the biggest the carrier says
it ever fell lo his tluty to deliver."
"Fetch a pair uf gardening sci-sors,
Tommy," said Miss While; "ami
another time never venture to bring
P. I . C. books into the drawing-room,
'in to the housekeeper with that kind
of thing."
Tummy took the color natural to
him in yet deeper hues, and ran for
the sci.-.-ors. Mi.- s White soon snipped
the detaiiiii'g .-(rings, and gave way to
;t very natuial delight as the starry
blossoming iiiyrlle Wiisexposed lo v ievv.
"Very odd," she thought, "it's ad
dressed unmistakably to mo. Poor
Colonel llaldane! What does It
mean ?"
Thinking again of the shaven head
and the bombardment of Alexandria,
sh sighed it little pensively and some
what compassionately, and then re
turned to the drawing-room j st in
t iin.3 to escape the entry of Mrs. i;in
vers, whose forest cart drawn by a
lovely pair of Welsh ponies, she saw
turning in at the gates. That lady
now entered, followed by her insepara-
hi mpanion, a perfect handy hin-
luont, ii loli'.'-bodii d, low-legged. Ilap
earcd, pedigreed creature, which
rejoiced in the possession of seven
pries.
Florence immediately math' a rush
at. the dog.
"Ah! you have brought Myrtle. 1
was afraid when 1 saw you this morn
ing that ymi would forget, though I
mentioned it in my note."
lioth ladies had moved in the direc
tion where still sat Colonel llaldane,
plunged in startled relied ions, in Hie
rei ess of the window. W'as this long
hacked, low-legged, llap-eared dog (he
the honored object of that message?
"(if course, I brought dear old
Myrtle," retorted Mrs. Dan vers. "I
should siilloi ate at an afternoon if I
hadn't a hit of natural life, like that
trusty Scotchman about me."
"Now it's explained!" said a deep
voice from behind the amber curtain,
and Colonel llaldane came forward
once more.
The hesitation of his manner had
vanished: he wa ; smiling serenely, and
his eves were fixed with an expression
or perfect understanding on the coun
tenance of Miss While.
"Ilring Myrtle!" he continued, laugh
ingly. "This is Myrtle! Kival Myrtles
(here may be, but this form of Myrtle
can't be improved upon!"
Again Miss White's pupils 'enlarged
sympathetically. Worse and worse!
Poor Colonel llaldane! She tremble. I
for his reason. Not so Mrs. Dan vers.
Fixing him vviih her bright eyes, she
said:
"What is explained? Confusio; of
circumstances?"
"Confusion of envelopes. Bring
Myrtle was scribbled on the wrong
huvk that's all," said Colonel llaldane.
With a sudden illumination, Miss
White sank down beside Colonel llal
dane in the recess, with a deep blush
of mortified confusion.
hoes that account for the prescm-ii
of the (lowering myrtle in the hall ?"
she asked, after it moment of horrified
silence.
"Yes. Charming Mistake, for me,"
muttered Colonel llaldane. "(iave me
an opportunity that I - -" and he
looked at Mrs. hauvers, who, with a
finesse worthy of her, dashed away to
the other end of the room to meet the
extended hand of an apropos acquain.
tanee. lie went on smoothly enough
now "an opportunity that I wanted.
Will you one day wear a sprig of that
other myrtle forme. Florence?"'
Miss White didn't say "No;" so she
evidently intended to sav "Yes."
Froen carcases of sheep are now
sent by the hundred from I'liieuos
Ay res to London, iind the business is
growing rapidly.
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ki:im;im; nm dystkks.
j Moil uf 1 1 - Puiiipcs, (ii n( Thfir
Mel liuMs 'I' Wi . U.
Hiiplsliips of Tlioso wlin Bring tli" Tontli
j some Oyster fmiii His Be 1.
j Faeh pungy engaged in dredging
for oysters is provided vvilh two
j il redges. They are inni instrument,
'with a chain netting made in the
1 form of a pocket. The mouths of
! these pockets are provided with teeth
for scraping up the oysters. The
dredges have ropes alt ached to them
I vvhi' h are fastened to iron winders
! pli c 'd amidships on both the port and
1 starboard sides of the vessel. These
I winders aru iron and provided with
cranks. 'I hey are securely fastened
, to the decks. The dredger loves a
I Rl i IT breeze, lie cannot Work to ad
I Vantage without it, and if it blow s a
1 half galo he likes it the better. When
the boat reaches the place where it is
i proposed 1 1 work the two dredges are
I thrown overboard and hiiuhd along
I the bottom by the Vessel. K'leh
; dredge will Iml I two and a half bushels
' of oysters, bul they arc rarely drawn
up full, ec 'pt on :iu especially line
bed. The speed desired by the dredger
! is two miles an hour. The sails urn
therefore trimmed to keep this speed.
Four men are required ill each winder.
When the dredge is supposed to have
oysters in it four men seie the two
iron cranks of the winder and begin
the laborious tit.sk of winding the rope
around the cylinder until the dredge is
drawn up. It is h inl work, I tell you,
and often very e-ul. Sometimes the
crank may led like lire and take the
skin off the hands. 1-1 very drop of
water which strikes the decks and
clothing of the men may be freezing,
but they have got to work all the
same. Oysters sell better in cold
weather, and that is the time to catch
them. The captain takes part with
his men. Mis place is ;it the tiller to
steer and have general direction of (he
built. Woe to the men at tho cranks
when the ropes slip or the dredges
strike a snag on the bottom. The
cranks are snatched from the men and
fly around with lightning speed, often
resulting in broken arms, legs and
lacerated bodies. I once saw a crank
I knock the top uf a man's head off as
; clean as it could have I n cut with a
! siiw. Accidents from the crank are
i frequent. There is not a day passes
but some poor fellow on the oyster
grounds receives a wound from it.
j The ilredne boats go out from .the
I harbors, where (hey spend the nights,
I at ;t verv early hour in the morning.
and vv ork as long as they can see in
(heev clung. They stop for no weather
except it heavy gale ur furious snow
storm. They will often work in it
young hurricane under a windward
'shore, vv hen they can only carry a lit
tle piece of mainsail and jib. The
men arc compelled tube mi deck in all
; kinds of vvcitl her and work like be;iv
: ers. They get soaked with rain and
; have their clothes I're ve on them.
They sometimes have their tars, no.-es.
hands and feet nearly eaten off by the
j frost and have to put up with iincom
! fortable sleeping quarters at night.
; As many of them have not got a
j change of clothing, they he down in
their froen garments at night and
thaw out. So this process of freezing
I during the day and thawing out at
j night goes on, and it is n-i wonder that
many of (hem die of pneumonia and
other maladies incident toso rough a
J life. It too often happens (hat when
I :i man gels sick he is put ashore at
: some point by his captain, without
' money, and left to shift for himself as
best ho t'iin. Hut on the other hand.
! some of these fellows who come to the
I i ity with such titles are deserters from
their vessels. The only time that
dredgers have a picnic is during the
'prevalence of a s'.orm so violent that
j the boats are compelled to lay in har
! her. The men thvn lay about tiiecab-
ins and foreea-tlo smoking, sleeping
and drinking, if they can get the
liquor. Tho food on t he dredge boa's
is coarse, but substantial. They have
collee. corned beef, pork, bread ami
cabbage. They also have soup.
The pay of a hand on the.-e ve-sels
is about $1 to ifjn per month. Some
few experienced dredging hands will
get as high as $'' ami $1' per month,
sometimes the crew agree to work on
shares ami divide the proceeds of the
ve.-sel-kad of oysters among themselves
as stipulated in their agreement. -Hultinvw
smt.
The Way Clear.
Attorney "My dear madam, I find
that your estate is heav il v encumlu red
You will have enough left to live on,
but you must hu-hatid your re
sources." Vidovv "Welt, my daughter Sail is
my only resource now."
Attorney "!'.: actly. Husband her
a..1 soon a.-' possible."- iil.
St IKMIFIC St KAl'S.
The U iin ins used water clocks lf'
P.. C. In llJ'ithe striking dock was
invented by ii Cisteicean monk. J
The light of iin electric lamp trav
els at the mi e of l7,'Jnii miles a so''" :
ond; that of the sun 1 si 'i,.Mii i, and
that of a petroleum lamp Is'l.Tim.
Two cases of the successful joining
of divided nerves have been reported
o the. Paris Academy uf Sciences,
function being restored in one case to a
li'-rve which h:il been divided for
lilteen years. i
snails are possessed uf remarkable
vitality. Mr. 1!. F. C. Stearns has
mentioned one which lived without
food from IsV.i to l-ii."i; and another
w hieh appeared tube in goon health
after a fast of two years two months
iind sixteen days. Huth "f these species ;
inhabit nearly rainless regions.
A Scottish physician dm-larcs that of
' all the strange joiirmyings uf needles
in the Mesh which have come under
his observation, (he strangest occurred
in a lady patient, who a year ago
broke ;i needle in the first joint of her
left thumb and a few days ago re
moved it from her right furelingi r.
i Among the recently proposed appli- 1
. cations of luminous paint i-the mak
ing uf luminoii-. tape fur military use
in marking out projected earthworks
at night, such tape would expose no
ray of light to t he enemy. The paint
has also I n plan'd on glass and used
for inspecting the interior uf boilers,
has been applied to compasses and to ,
wates-buckt Is to make them visible in j
the dark, and has even been placed ou
the hack of glass with which an F:ig
lish railway carriage has been lined.
Were (he human inhabitant of the
globe :ts nuinerousasthehiimblest of our
servants, tln earthworms, every acre i
of laud would have to sustain a great
city. In his memoir, showing the
importance of the work d ine by the
worms in lilting the soil for the use
of plants, hiirwiu estimated thai
ssfi of the treat ii res existed in an acre
of old pasturc-lan-!, while llenseu
gave the number for garden soil as
M!,7tl7 per acre, llecent researches by
Mr. T. A. I'rqiihart indicate that
these figures arc much too low for
some localil ies, ;is in a pa-lure near
Auckland. New .calami, he has found
otSl-u per acre, with an aggregate,
weight of more than ii,Vi pounds.
Pa in iiml the Weather.
; It is generally known that depress
! sion ol spirits and rlicuiiiati - pain
have long been associate! with a falls
ing barometer am! storm-brewing
condition -usually severe neuralgic
attacks coinciding with usually intense
storm development. To estahli-h in
his ow n case (his relat imi uf pain and
weather. Captain Catlin. of the f. s.
Army, made a regular and detailed
record, in connection with the weather
variations, of the variations of his
neuralgic pains. From the published
account. Captain Cat tin's foot was
crushed by a shot it: I si; , and it was
necessary to amputate his leg below
(hp knee. He continued to experience
sensations of pain, as if in the lost
member, these sen- itiont being great
er or less, according to the atmospher
ic disturbance. Arranged in monihs,
March naturally took the lead as a
pain producer; then came, in order,
.lamiary, November, heeemher. May,
February, April, August, October,
September, duly and dune, lie traced
the average distance of the stonu
centro ;it the beginning of the pain
attack, by investigating sixty well
defined storms in ten consecutive
'months; it was ilsii miles, ranging
from two to 1,'jmi miles.
Hie Oriirhiiil .liulue l.vncli. J
Who the original Judge Lynch was !
- if such a personage ever really j
existed is a mystery. The earliest I
date a.-signed to this exhibi-
tion ot a developed "iron con.
science" h, according to the Calvvay !
Council Hook, (he year 1 1'.'S when an J
lri-liman in municipal authority in '
the county of (ialway, and named
.tames Lynch, hanged his own son out
of a w indow for despoiling and mur
dering strangers, "without martial or
common law, to show a good example
to posterity." Another ancestral
derivation is to be found in one Lynch,
who, about I''s7, was sent to America
to suppress piracy. As justice was
not administered with much rigor or
formality in the colonies, it is presumed
that t li is Judge Lynch was empowered
to proceed summarily against the
pirates, and thus originated tho term.
The opinion which traces tho exprcs.s-
, ion t a Mr. Lynch, founder of tho
down of Lynchburg, in Virginia, is
! entirely unsupported by any authority
i beyond Ven'ity of name; but it is
curious to remember that so long ago
as the reign of Kichard II. there was a
current doggerel distich: "First hang
and draw; then hear the cause by
Lydford law."
V )
JM J. J).
WHY TIH.Y liT SI'l-AK. !
A otuiy Al"'iit Two W.'-i-
l'l I I I "i 'I 1 1 Hill..
How a Unite St ate i Seintni- M.nl" a
Enemy nf Hi.s Pari nor.
For years it has I n known that
there Wilt bad hi I bel w ecu s,.1Mt,.-
hall Voorhees and liayle-s W llanna,
s:iy a Western paper, but the cause "f
il has always been misunderstood. A
great many ersoii have ih-cribed it
lo political j'iiloii-y, while another
class havf been equally certain that it
cituie from i-adi envying the goo I looks
or oratorical powers oT the other. Hut
all these conjectures are wide of the
mark, and we bel bound ( give K
the World this long concealed s- ( let.
When John I'.row n raided Harper' .
Ferry, han Voorhees and Hayles? '
llanna wire law partners, iind Ash bel
P. tVilliird was Coveni'.r "I Indiana.
They were all I ! ra'- and Iriends.
iovernor Willard's bri'tlier in-lavv, 8
boy of ( went;-, named Cool., was onf
ofMrown's r.ii'li-is, and w as api inc. I
by the state uf Vug lii t.
The tJ.iViTllor was liolllled tifth
capture of Coo' , ami determined ti
make a respectable legal defence 1". i
him. lie i mployeil V lu e-.V llantia
who were to proceed i! olicelot hiil h s
town, Ya. Voorhees. being at Indian
apolis. started eas, with Willard on 1 1 if .
Ilrst train, and llanna wa- telegraphei'
to follow. The Coveru"!' and Voor
hees reached llaip'-r's Firry, and at
mice mounted the stage for Charles-'
town. A lew hours later the (rain
bearing Colonel llanna arrived, but
too late t'-r the .-(age, and the great
orator found that he would have some
tin hours to wait.
Now. Unless is always a hemoi rat,
and though he was employed to ileieiul
an Abolitionist, he wa; ready to gatlu i
in material for his speeches in the next
campaign; in lad, he was determined
(o make some striking features out ol
the very case he was engaged in. Si
he started out, and soon succeeded in .
piircha-iug one of the de-per.uo pik'- j
which th" Urown parly had carried ,
and then he scooped in a copy u
'Helper's Imp'-iiihng Crisis," a work
only to be found in Ho- hands of iinii
shivery people. :
shortly alter the stage came in. arm .
Colonel llanna went up to g out
to Cha' lcstow n. Ilythis time suspi
cion had pointed to the strategdh .
heuiocra' its a member of the Po-own i
party, and the oilii ials finally ih-cidef
to call him to account, lie vv its very
gracious, iind informed the gent leim-i
who he was; but the long hair, tl.t
pike, and the book, seemed tu contra-
lid th" statement (
Alter consultation between tin
I'llicial-. M:. llanna w a- iiilormed that
ho would have to go t i t hiirlestow i
under arre-t. and if Mr. V" rhees am'
(biveriior W ill ir I iilcutiliul him, it
would be all right. With smiles. Mr
llanna told tlu in it would be all rigid,
and that he would willingly accept tin
conditions.
When the stage leached Chillies.
town, Mr. llanna lear 1 th.it Yo..r
hees and Willard had gone to tin
ciuntry t.i dine vvilh 11 hi. Charles . I.
Faulkner. The oilieei- refused to g.
out in tin' lit ry. but linally allowei'
Mr. llanna to lure a man to take a
note out to hi- friends. When tin (
messenger presented tin' note, it ill'
unco occuired to Voorhees (o play a
joke on llanna, so ho wrote on tin
back of it that he did not know any
such person as Hayless VV. llanna. and ;
expressed surprise that the note ha I ;
been sent to him. The messenger
returned, and the indignant oiliceis.
feeling that, thev had been tiilh-d with,
at om-e locked C .l Hid llanna up with
the lirovvn party. About two o'clock
the next morning Yoorhoos and Wil
lard returned to town, and were h"i'ii
lied to lcard1h.it llanna was in tail,
bin they dc(crm;ne. I i carry out tin
joke, and went ova r t.. the jail. A
they approached the jail door, hay-less
greeted them with a pitiful appeal :
'say, boys, this joke ha- gone loo
far already; get me out of here."
lloth Wilkin! and X ooihets looked
astonished, and declared that I hey had
never laid eye-on I'.avle before, and
returned to their hotel. Ikiyb-ssd
up an unearthly how I, and -howi rcd
all sorts of maledictions upon the
devoted heads of Willard i'U.1 Voor
hees. until (he inmates took refuge in
their cells, i eclai ing that llanna was
l madman. The uproar attracted the
attention ol the sheriff, an 1 aroused
all the people in the immediate neigh- .
borhood. until Willard and Voorhees
concluded (hey had all the fun (hey
lesircd. and sent for the sheriff, ex
plained the matter, and Kay less wa-rolea-pd.
Voorhees tried to explain
the joke, but the cursing that llanna
gave him is said to be st ill echoing
through the Virginia hills. From that
time to the present, that night in Vir
ginia jail lias rankled in the bosom of
Kaylcss llanna, and hits kept alive tho
lire of his hale for the Tall Sycamore,
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-A close call" Mint the d""-,"
The prettiest thing in dry goods -A
woman.
A (also count -The kind that rich
American girls geneially many.
The hand oig.in i-an exception to
therulelii.it one g 1 tutu de-erves
anot her."
Father-and sun- ami brothers may
suffer for tin- want ol an oven oat, but
uncle.- II'V er.
We should think that a little dog
that runs about all day in the streets
would spoil his pant-.
I nl.l; ;. Mull - till- ll Ill l ..I ll lilt"! .
I l.ll 1 "llili-;. I. Ml-1- !"-l-'ki-II -lion .
I'iO ! ll" l i I it ' I . I'itl till- .-lllli-
I'.IV til" lltli" '-iii li'll Illl".
".h. Mis- he smith, arc ymi going
to have a goo.e at dinner (u-d.iy 'f"
Yes, I hope so; you'll come, won't
y ou r"
"You may -peal-." sai , it fond
mother, "about, pcqio ha v ing strength
of m iml. but vv lieu it come- t .1 -t reiigt h
ol'iloii't iiiiud, my sou W illi. no surpas
ses everybody I ever knew,"
He had iin ii'ibiiru hatred girl, and
promised (o take her out riding, sh,.
met at the door when he drove up,
and he exclaimed. "Hel.o! ready ';""
she misiin h I'siood him, and they don't
speak now.
A I' ll 1 tatlu r pre-cuto I Lis fotn
yciir obi h iy with a trumpet, with
which he was greatly infatuated All
day the boy tooted away delightedly,
and at beiltime, win 11 hi- gram luiot In r
(old bun !' put the trumpet down and
say hi- prayer-, the little fellow -aid:
"(Hi. un; I'll tell you what Id'- do.
grandma: you pray and I'll keep on
blow itig."
The fly iin-i i-j of Hie Face.
An Italian author (signor M. P.
Mantegaa, professor of natural his
tory at the museum of Florence 1 has
just contributed a very remarkable
V. l'lliie t" the list ol scientific wolks.
Maud giiV.i's wol k is devoted to the
subject of li U 1 nan physiognomy and
the expression of the emotions; it ileitis
very amply with one very iptere-iing
question whether it is possible to
mask one's feelings by force of will so
completely as to deceive the keenest
and most experienced observer. Civil
ized, and even uneivilie 1 people, have
been steadily training themselves to
master all outward signs of emotions
as far back as history 1 irds -tho
fashionable man of Paris, London or
St. Petersburg (rie.s to appear as im
passive as a god; tho American, less
hypocrit iciil, aims nevertheless to culti
vate something of Indian grav ity and
stoicism. What are the results of tho
long continued effort of man to master
feeling and to hide what Nature seeks
to express under all circumstances.
They are sometimes very wonderful;
but M. M.integaa does not believe
that they are ever wholly successful
not withstanding thai tho capacity for
sclf-c'inque-t may have increased
steadily through genjr.it ions. Woman
succeeds, indeed, better than man: and
the uninitiated may be deceived by
either, but the experienced physiologist
can never be wholly duped by the Im
mobility of a face or the tt;irlesHues
of an eye.
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