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PITTSBOltO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, MARCH 5, 1885.
NO. 2.
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A Itevlsed F.illll.ui.
Mary, Mary, iiii!eroiitrary,
How I'oes your ni.lt'ii jxrmv ?
Iliiri'il rose tinil sweet niitmiieitn
Make quite 11 -ninnicr show ?
Twice seven ilnv niiier xvc linvo mot,
Hut it seems terns ngu
Mary, Mart-, ho colli nuy,
Why 1I0 I love you o !
Mary. Mury, hi yon" niry
NllllllllCI (JOW11 l' MHIW,
I'u'ilinjj fiiigftmt 1 1 lair,
'l"hroii;h mir In mihh yon 1;
Full of -HI mil I luil of r-iro
Will yi 11 heel my woo -
Mary. Mury, s i contrary,
Why 1I0 I ! yuii mi !
Mary, Mary, in llie ilaiiy,
Setting paii'i in row,
linliiiK keys nut silver lii'll ,
Maivliui;; loan. I fro,
l.eai net in nil your liou-elmM a.'clls-
(Wi-uyoa arc, we (row.)
Toll ini", Mary, Mill contrary,"
Whv ilo I lovo yon o !
Ah! my Muiy . comes ii luil y,
Whispers soft mill low,
All theswe t it i nl sii'l leu Inilll
lle:ir to henit must owe j
Jto it joy or ho it rnlh,
I inly llus I know,
'Tin Ii'.'c.iiim! yon am eontr iry
Thai I love yon so '.
S. Vii'iivs H.irrisn-i in I'urrtnl.
THE ALARM.
"Hm-glars!" cried Mr. Jones.
'I5uri'ijir.-i!" screamed Mrs. Jones.
'Hurglars!" screamed tin.1 Misses
.Tones, 'lSiirglars'" screamed Master
.tunes, as one i'ftrr tho nthrr lights
flashed in tin upper rniiius and hastily
draped form appeared at the It ilmoui
doors like the signal figures of a ba
rometer. Junes anil son, following oueh other
down stairs, one with a poker ami the
other with a rriniiet-inalli'l, found the
street ilonr open, saw a silk umbrella
ar.il two hats vanishing around the
eorner, and yelled "police!" but only
the echoes answered; and, ultir a
t nreful search i f the house and some
lamentations over the hats and um
brella, the Jones laiuily returned to
their pillows, though eaeh one declared
net morning that lie or she, had not
dosed an eye.
"And the worst of it is," said Mrs.
Jones, "they'll he liere again. When
burglars determine to enter a house
they always do it."
"I know a fellow who has a splen
did dog that he'll sell." said Master
Jones. "Thi! liereest. fellow; hit o a
piece nut of you as soon as look at
jtyui. I'll gi I him if you like, and we
can turn him into the hall nights."
"Thank you," said Mrs. Jones. "I'd
as soon have my throat cut hy bur
g!nrs as be torn to pieces hy a savage
dog."
"Hut. he'd know us ail In a few
days," said young Jones. "l'a, don't
yon think it's the best plan!--the big
gest fellow; you ought to hear him
howl."
"A dog is impossible in a city house
with only four fed of garden ground,"
said Mr. Jones; "but I'll buy an alarm
and a pistol, and keep it loaded under
tny pillow."
Then I shall sleep elsewhere," said
Mrs. Jones. "So, I'll sit up all night
every night until 1 die, before, that
shall be done."
"AH women are idiots,-' said Mr.
Jones.
"All men are crazy,"said Mrs. Jones.
"Hut you shall have your way and
shoot your family if you like. That
always comes of having lire-arms
about."
"Let them eoine in and murder us,
then," said Mr. Jones. "I suppose
you object to the alarm, too."
lint finally the alarm was decided
upon and purchased and attached to
idl the doors and windows on the
lower lloor, and two days after this
was done Mr. Jones, being obliged to
leave home on business, congratulated
himself upon his promptitude of action.
"With this alarm you are quite safe,
my dear," ho said, as he took his de
parture. "The minuto you hear it
open the windows and scream for the
policemen."
Mr. Jones then stepped into the car
riage, which whirled him to the train,
which conveyed him to a distant city.
There ho bocanio very much occupied
with certain important affairs, ami
when he had been absent a month for
got all about the burglars, as well as
nil about the alarm.
The letters from homo did not men
tion it, and so it passed entirely from
his memory; and, as at last he found
himself on his homeward way upon a
night train, which he had taken quite
unexpectedly for he had written the
day before that he should not be back
for a week it ocrurrnd to him that
g arrival would be a delightful sur
prise for the family. lie had his
latch-key with him, and he quite
chuckled over the thought of letting
himself in and being found snug in
bed next morning.
"Won't there be a time!" said he to
Jaiaaself. "Ma'U reani Thegirla 1
can hear 'em laugh. And Sara will
pretend not to bo astonished ha, ha,
ha!"
So, with his portmanteau In his
hand, Mr. Jones, having reached
homo, ascended tho steps of his domi
cile and deliberately but softly pro
ceeded to open his front door.
As he did so tho alarm was sprung,
a racket and jingle tilled the house,
and simultaneously with that, Mrs.
Jones, the Misses Jones, Master Jones,
the cook, the chambermaid, and the
waiter thrust their heads out of their
respective windows and screamed
l'olice!"
Almost as they did so two clubs
struck tho pavement and two giants
in uniform seized Mr. Jones by the
arms.
"Ah, got you this tune," cried one
of them. "We've been looking for
you for some time, too."
"Let me go," said Mr. Jonos. "1
live here. It's a mistake."
'Yes, I've no doubt it's a mistake,"
said the policeman.
"lint tell them -tell them; let me
oiler proof," pleaded Mr. Jones.
"They all know me; tell them its Mr.
Jones."
"He says it's Mr. Jones," cried tho
policeman to a nightcap and shawl at
the window.
"My husband is in Chicago," said
Mrs. Jones.
Hut she peeped out nervously.
However, she did not recognize her
husband. Mr. Jones had left home in
a tall hat and overcoat, but during
his absence he had unfortunately pur
chased a t raveling "ulster" that touched
'.is heels, and a cap. lie wore both,
as w as natural upon a midnight jour
ney. "No, I never saw that object before,"
said Mrs. Jones. "Do take him away."
You'll appear to-morrow V said
the policeman. "You'll appear against
him, ma'am ?"
"Decidedly. I shall consider it my
duty," said tho lady, and shut the
window.
Then Jones remonstrated with the
policeman, and begged him to have
Mr. Smith next door called, and was
told to hold his tongue. Jones was not
a mild man. In a few minutes his
wrath boiled over; he attacked the po
liceman wilh his umbrella bravely and
was totally defeated. lie arrived at
the station-house with a black eye and
a bruise on his forehead, and frothing
at the mouth with rage, and was
ocked up after having been recognized
by several experts as "Tommy the
Tapper," a noted burglar, for whose
arrest a large reward was offered.
Ilis valise was taken away from him,
also bis watch and pocket-book. He
was shut up in a cell w ith an intoxi
cated tramp who had arrived at that
stage of delirium tremens at which
snakes are tho favorite delusion, and
who took poor Mr. Jones for one, or
sevoral of them, and insisted on tread
ing on his head.
In argument an i single combat
with this gentleman Mr. Jones passed
the hours until morning, when he was
taken from his highly perfumed se
questration and dragged through tho
bleak streets to a court of justice,
where he attempted to explain matters
once more, and was still explaining
them without producing the slightest
effect upon any one, when his wife
and son arrived.
Kvcn then tho ulster, tho cap, and
the black eye deceived poor Mrs. Jones
for a few moments, and, but for Sam
there is no knowing what might have
It-come of tho unhappy gentleman.
However, Sam came to his rescue, and
tho three went home togetherln a cab,
Mrs. Jones moaning and wringing her
hands all tho way, and Mr. Jones
threatening to suo for a divorce.
Ilo furgave his wife at last, howev
er, but he never forgave tho alarm
which he demolished forthwith.
The Toner of London.
London Tower is on tho same side
of tho river as Westminster 1'alace,
but two miles or inoro distant, at al
most the other extreme of the city, tho
east end being below London Bridge
and the Custom House. It is the only
fortress of tho metropolis and is of
very ancient origin. Shakespeare and
Gray among tho poets, in well as other
writers, attribute it to Julius Ca's ir,
but apparently without good authori
ty. It covers about twelve acres of
ground and is surro.inded by a garden
occupying the site of the old moat. It
was formerly entered on the river
front by tho Traitor's Gate, through
which prisonersof Stato were conveyed 1
after trial, being brought in boats
from Westminster; but this is now
closed up. Tho White Tower, one of
the most famous portions of tho build
ing, was built by William the Conquer
or, and still remains unaltered within,
though Wren remodelled it externally.
The recent explosion occurred in St.
John's Chapel, one of the finest and
Dut perfect specimens of Norman.
architecture to be found in England.
The lower lloor of tho tower is known
as (ueo:i Elizabeth's Armory, and the
upper Ihnr contains rooms formerly
used as a Council Chamber and ban-queting-room.
Xear tho Traitor's
(ate is tho ISloody Tower, in which
the two young sons of I'M ward IV
were murdered by order of Richard
III; this the Duko of Wellington
thought tho securest prison ho ever
saw. IS 'aueliamp Tower was tho
prison of Anne Holey n and Lady Jane
Gray. In tho Howyer Tower the
Duke of Clarenoo was drowned in a
butt of Malmsey wine. The histories
of Catherine Howard, Walter lialcieji,
William iiusscll, Somerset, Thomas
More, William Wallace, King John ot
France, and many others add to tho
tragic interest of tho place.
Within the prison fort res ', too, are
the Jewel Koom, containing the rega
lia of Hritish monarchs, an I the Ar
mories, where are to bo seen a re
nowned collection of ancient arms and
armor. The crown jewels are enclose 1
in a huge glass easo for the inspection
of visitors. Among them are Victo
ria's coronation crown, which cost
$t;miMMlj thi-great ruby worn by the
Mack Prince; the crown of Charles
II: the Koh-i-noor diamond; tln silver
baptismal font used at the christening
of the royal children, and many other
famous objects. In the Armories are
the suits of armor worn by Henry
VIII, Charles I. John of Gaunt,
"tiui"! honored Lancaster;" Du.llty,
Karl of Leicester, Kliabeth's favorite,
and a historical collection of anus ami
armor from the thirteenth to the eigh
teenth centuries. To tho northwest
of the Tower is Tower Hill, on which
the famous scaffold was reared. Va
rious portions of the Tower buildings
have of late boon used as barraeksand
arsenals, and vast quantities of muni
tions of war are usually in store
there.
The Siirnal Service Corps.
The observers of the signal service
are live hundred in number. Kadi
candidate for enlistment is required to
passu rigid examination, both mental
and physical, after which he is enlisted
and ordered to the school of instrue.
lion at Part Myer. Virginia, to undergo
a special course of study, calculated to
still further lit him for his new duties,
This course covers about eight months,
at the termina ion of w hich he is again
examined, and if found properly quali
fied is announced as an assistant ob
server and ordered to some observation
station for duty. If he fail at this
final examination, he is discharged from
the service. As vacancies occur in the
list of observer sergeants, those assis
tauts who have shown themselves best
qualified for practical service, are pro
moted to that grado and generally
placed in charge of an observation
station. Two sergeants each year-are
promoted to tho grade of second lieu
tenant. 1 Set ween the grade of
second lieutenant and brigadier
general there aro no interme
diate grades. Tho service, it is
maintained by Gen. Hazen, is often
severely embarrassed by not having
a full complement of tried and ex
perienced ollicers. The present plan,
it is held, also works injustice to the
men whoby faithful work and riiligtnt
study have gained the rank of second
lieutenant and who aro debarred from
further advancement.
Many stations arc maintained at iso
lated points, viz.: Mount Washington.
Pike's Peak, Sitka, Alaska, and Point
Harrow, tho most northern point of
North America. It is considered de
sirable to obtain a series of unbroken
observations covering a long period of
years at these points. At soino of
these places, the observers are often
imprisoned by tho snow for a great por
tion of tho winter. They are provided
with comfortable quarters, plenty of
provisions, and reading material.
W'axhhutitn star.
ColTee Lore.
Coffee comes to us laden with the
fragrance of ( riental bazaars and the
romance of the "Arabian Nights." Its
early history as an economic product
is involved in considerable, obscurity,
tho absence of historic il fact being
compensated for by an unusual profu
sion of conjectural statements, and by
purely mythical stories. Throwing
legend aside, the use of coffee seems to
have been introduced from Kthiopia
into Persia about tho year 875 A. D.,
and into Arabia from tho latter coun
try at tho beginning of the fourteenth
century. Notwithstanding that its
use as a beverage was prohibited by
the Koran, it spread rapidly through
tho Mohammedan nation, and it was
publicly sold in Constantinople in
1554. it easily found its way from
the Levant to Venice, where coffee
houses were established as early as
1615. A Jew named Jacob opened
the drat coffee-house in L'ngland, sell
ing it as a common beverage at Hallo!
College, Oxford, in the yeai when tin
Long Parliament met.
SrSI'EXDKD ANIMATION'.
Mow Mony A ninmb-i Pass the
Long Winters.
One of tho Most Ciiriout and Undol jr
miue.l Faoultios of the Brute Creation.
Pew subjects relating to the habits
of the brute creation have excited the
curiosity and comment of naturalists
so much as the faculty a number of
them have of going into a state of
somnolence during a portion of the
year. How do they exist during this
period. What organs are Mi-;pcPilcd,
and what provision has been made to
prevent dee:iy are questions asked.
Some declare that the migration of
birds to warmer climes at stafnl peri
ods bears a reseinblaueo to the hiber
nation of certain mammals, That
hib.'rnaiion occurs among animals in
warm climates has been discovered hy
South American travelers. There are
boas and turtles in the region of the
Orinoco, b it h land and water turtles,
and many speci.-s of small serpents
which lie torpid and motionless i-i the
hardened ground throughout the hot
and dry season. Then the Indians
hunt them for food, and, knocking oil
the dry cakes of mud, revivify, cook
and cat them with a relish. The
learned German savant Alexander
Von Humboldt relates that on one oc
casion a huge crocodile decided to
wake up in the im-lnsuro when) his
party wen? encamped, and shaking off
the mud in which ho was incased,
crawled away life-like and natural.
M. Dumeril, a Preiieh naturalist, has
seen a run pie of mud-fishes of the
Gambia go into their summer sleep, or
prolonged siesta. For several days
they began secreting from ill ! general
surface of their bodies a thick viscid
mucus, and soon after they buried
themselves in the soft mill at the
bottom of the tank. In a short lime
the mud became hard and cracked, and
the inoistiii'eilisappoared, leaving them
in their dry case of earth. In seventy
days they were taken out alive. Kach
was surrounded by a cocoon formed of
the hardened mucus secrete ! by their
skin, and serving a3 a protection
against the too great evapora'ion of
moisture from the surface of their
bodies. As they entered the inn 1 they
left behind them a tubular tiail of
mucus which formed a communica
tion between the sack inclosing the
lisli and the outer air. During tic
greater portion of their retirement no
water can reach their gills. Their
swiir-bladders, however, receive blood
by a special arrangement from tho gills,
and thus act like true lungs, which in
deed they are. Thus there is a fish
which for a portion of the year is a
water-breather, and for another period
an air-breather.
H its, which are by some allied to
birds, retire to the nun's of caves or
ledges of r icks, or to ul I chimneys of
uninhabited buildings, where they pass
tho entire winter in gloomy retire
ment. Tho hedgehog wrap-t himself
up in leaves and lies undisturbed under
the hedge which in summer ha shelt
ered hint from the rays of the sun.
The ju'iipiiig-moiiso of Canada has
been found securely wraop d in a ball
of mud which had hardene l, and a
workman's spado breaking it, disclose 1
the retreat. Snails seek a quiet crev
ieo or nook, and wholly drawing
themselves in their tiny shells draw a
sort of curtain over tho opening, and
no matter what tho temperature in
dulge in a prolonged sleep. Tho tor
pidity of bees is well known. The
habit is also peculiar to crickets and
spider. S mio of the infusory animal
cules have been found to have sus
pended their vital functions when they
have been dried. In tho gutters nf
housetops and in mosses aro frequently
discovered lifele s substances which a
warm rain at once livens. Moisture
has boen known to revive animalcules
after a torpidity of twenty.seven
years. Sir John Franklin froze fish so
stiff that their entrads could bo taken
out entire, yet when they were thawed
out by the lire they recoven-d their an
imation. Toads and frogs havo been
found imbedded in blocks of sandstone
and coal, and even in trees. There is
record of a toad that was found im
bedded in an oak where it ha I lain
for eighty years. John Murray de
clares in the Miijucin-f Natural .
tory that he has a toad in his posses
sion, preserved in spirits of turpentine,
taken from a cavity of solid rock up
wards of two hundred feet deep. The
(pace was quite suilicient to contain
the body of tho animal, and the gen
tleman who presented it to him saw it
alivo forty-eight hours after its de
tachment from the rocks. A live toad
was liberated from a picce'of shole in
the Pendarran Works. Glamorganshire.
It was of a large size, but weak. It
had no vision or feeling in its eyes.and
over its mouth was a membrane
which prevented food being given it.
IN spine was crooked in consequence
of the confined space where it had
lived. How it had continued t live
,was a marvel.- Cincinnati Enquirer.
Jid.es in the I niteil Stales Senate. I 1
A Washington letter says that 11m I
u. .(.. .,.,. n.,f ...,f.i!n a in.iro an. '
wearied student or a inoro restless I
wag than Senator Garland. Alter '
hours spent in abstract study, he will !
bound up like a ball when the tension j
is over, and refresh himself with a i
series of practical pranks, sparing no
one within the range of his sallies. .
He hits home with tho most grotesque '
solemnity, but never in malice. His
special delight is to get hold of some
dismal personage with no more juice ;
in him than a boarding house steak, 1
and, after testing him wilh son.o
insanely ludicrous yarn, enjoy telling
how "he looked at me as if I was a
case of yellow feser and he was a
freezing ship."
He is alwavs on the lookout for some
terrible retaliation, and it is a
letter d.iv in the senile when
tho
biter is bit. On one occasion, when an '
important measure was before the j
senate, Mr. Garland delivered a care- .
fill an I exhaustive speech, to which '
close attention was given. About ten i
minutes sifter he had finished an I
when, so to speak, "his brows were
Ii 'iind with victorious wreaths," Don
Cameron went over to the Arkansas
senator's side of tho chamber, and
said:
"Garland, when are you going t :
speak on this question?
want to
hear you." j
"Good gi acious!" remarked the sur- :
prised senator. "Why, I just got :
through! Where were you?" !
About live minutes later, Mr. Whyle, 1
of Maryland, who had not been in the '
senate during the speech, had the job !
put up on him and asked the same
queslion in good faith. "Why, I just :
finished, Whyle. Look at the Ruhi'I ,
in tho inuring."
Another live minutes passed and '
thon Huller. of South Carolina,!.
another sleepless wag, went m 'ckly up .
to Garland and asked when he was!
going to speak to tho bill. Consider- i
ing tho source of this last inquiry the
remark was in the nature of an eye- 1
opener, and Mr. Garland tartly replied: !
"If you have any more of 'em, ISutler,
bring thehi on in a body. It saves -time."
A Story of Washington Serial Life. again.
Where the social lines are drawn in' Well. I know the ground pretty well.
Washington is thus keenly described , and could drop t wenty feet out of th"
by a clever correspondent: barn w indow and strike on a pile of
A man may make his fortune in ; straw so as to land near the goal, touch
junk, old cloth 's or street sweepings, it and M the crowd in free without
any place else, and with his money , letting found out. 1 did this several ,
come to congress anil gain entrance to times, and got the blinder, .lame
the great social circle for his family, Hang, pretty mad. After a boy has
but if lie made his money here society j counted live or six hundred, and w ork
would scorn him utterly. There was.cd hard to get in the crowd, only to
a woman here once, the wife of awes- ' gel jeered and laughed at by the boys,
t'iin statesman, who, a d zen years j he loses his temper. It was so with
before her appearance at Washington James Cicero Hang. I know he always
managed a laundry and bote, and : hated me, and yet I went on. Finally,
drummed up her patrons at the depot in the fifth ballot, I saw a good chance
from the omnibus steps. She was I; - to slip down and let the crowd in
miliarly known by her first name again as I had done on former ccca
everwhere. Together the couple ae- sions. 1 slipped out of the window
quired a fortune, and taking a house and down the side of th" barn about
as soon as tiny reached Washington ' two f. et, when 1 was detained tin
they fed the multitude an I won their ; avoidably. There was a "batten" on
way by terrapin and champagne to the the bam that was loos? at the uppei
place the ambitious wife coveted, end. I think 1 wa wearing my
Her grammar was beyond all parallel father's vest on that day, as he was
and her language was not always away from home, and 1 frequently
marked w ith propriety. Though her wore his clothes when he was absent.
nianneislackedtlierepo.se and polish ' Anyhow, tho vest was too large, and
of the Vcre de Veres, every one Hocked when I slid down, that loos-' board ran
t) her house when it was open, danced up between the vest an I my person in
for her favors, ate and drank of her such a way as to suspend me about
abundance and went away to ridicule eighteen leet from the ground in a
her. Foreign ministers and attaches prominent but very iinc.iinlortabl
would go there, but only the uninar- , position.
ried men, as the ladies of tho foreign
circle did at least d.'aw the lino at tho
e-laundress. After a season or two
the stateman's wife broke down and,
plaintively saying, "I have overdone,"
retired from active life and felt the
keen sting of disappointment and
what she called ingratitude at the way
she was passed by, overlooked and for-
gotten, when no longer able to minis"
ter tothoso who had rioted at her
expense.
How to I'ress Warmly.
A person with much less weight or
costliness of clothes provided he or
she was dressed correctly for tho cold
?ould face the still, frosty air with
out either red face or benumlvd hands,
and yet neither be dressed in fur,
carry a muff nor wear a veil. It is so
important to know where to put ih
watmth of clothes that a suggestion
just here may save some suiTering.es- ; who said he ilnln t want to see a good
pecially among children. There an ( barn kicked into chaos just to save a
three outposts of the body that need to long-legged boy that w asn't worth
be g iardod from the cohL Thoso are over six bits.
tho knoes. tho wrists and the neck. It affords mo great pleasure to add
well up to tho ears. If these are that while 1 am looked up to and
thickly and warmly covered the rest madly loved by every one that does
of the clothing does not need to be so not know me. James C. Hang is the
very heavy as is supposed. The most breet president of a fractured banki
important or all to In protected is the . taking a lonely bridal tour by himself
knees, and especially for the very in Kurope and waiting for the depos
young and the elderly. It is asto iish- itors to die of old age.
ing what comfort is given by thoso j The mills of the gods grind slowly,
knitted knee-caps that lit into the ( but they most generally gi t there with
stocking. This can be drawu over both feet. (Adapted from the French
them, if preferred. by permission. )Jlill Nye.
noss noY.
Hdl Nye's Henlillis
oof His
y lol Day. ,
!
Tho Trouble Ho Evriemvl from tho ;
"Battel" on the H.mu j
j
Dear reader, d you remember the 1
boy of your school who did the heavy
fulling through tho ice and was always
about to break bis neck, but managed
to JVe through it all? Do you call to
mind the youth who icu r allowed
anybody else to fail
nit of a tree and
break his collar bono when ho could
1 atti ml to it himself?
Fvery school has to securo theser-
: vices nf .such a buy before it can sue-
j reed, and so our school ha I one. When
I entered the school I saw at a glance
! that tin- board bad neglected to pro
vide itself with a Imv whose dutv P
was to nearly kill himself every few
days in order to Keep up interest, so I
applied lor the position. I secured i
without any t rouble whatever. The
board understood at i-nce from my
bearing that 1 would succeed. And
I did n i' b tr iy th ; truit tlcy hal re
posed in me
ISefore the first term was over I had
tried to climb two trees at mi--e, and
been carried honieon a stretcher; been
pulled out of the river with my lungs
full of water and artificial respiration
resorted to; In en jerked around over
the north half of the country by a
fractions horse whose halter 1 had tied .
to my log, and which is now three .
inr! e longer than tho other; together :
wi'h various other little early eccen- '
tricitics which I cannot at this moment .
call to miiiil. My parents at last got
sothal along about 2 o'clock i m. they
would look anxiously out of the w in
low and say: "Isn't it about time for
he boys to get bore witli William's re
mains ? They generally get here before
2 o'clock." i
One day live or six of us were play,
ing "I spy" around our barn. tine
shiils bis eyes and counts l"", for in
stance, while the ethers hide. Then'
be must iind tho rest, and say "I spy'
so-and-so and touch the "goal" before
they 1 1. 1. If anybody beats him to the
goal the victim has to "blind" over
I remember it quite distinctly
ames ('. 15a;i; came around where lit
could see me. He said: "1 spy Hif
Nye and touch the goal before him.'
No one came to remove the barn. No
one seemed tit svmnathio with me in
tny great sunt wand isolation. I'.very
little while James C. Hang would conn
around the corner and say: "( h, I se-.
ye. You needn't think you're out ol
sight up there. 1 can see you lea!
' plain. You had better conic dow n anc
! blind. 1 ran see you up there!"
I tried to unbutton my vest and get
down and lick James, but it was no
use.
It was a very trying time, I can
remember how 1 tried to kick mysell
loose, but failed. Sometimes I would
kick the barn and somet nn- s I would
kick a large hole in the horizon.
Finally 1 was rescued by a neighbor,
The Surprise,
.ley met Snrnnv in H la, ,.
hen- liie l'1-.llli-he- ililel lat'O,
Very -ci-li t, Hill iin-l sweet,
S.iln il , till ell I'l'ol. iti,n:4 feel.
' Why lilt here.' " !,, , x'iiHle.1,
rid;
' Why art here?
;, Vill' tW silll il.
" I ealil here to wee," lil Joy.
I ' ul aie ever my eiiiplin ,"
MilllllMi-.-.l S.tir.iW, "yet I M-p
Tear- Ii- Ullil'-I'll' Wi le to tl
Collie, ulll, II, , iee, lOel lie talillt
Ih.'l l.i e.e-e thy Ileal I o'elllalllll."
,lov -al .lownal oni,w'- feel.
All-! .i- -.alli.'!lt a 1---iH -weel.
I '.i.ii mil I lie m-i Li- Kin-1 ret iii ii . -
' oir . art I M to W n n '
Na : I In n tin , jet awhile,
I'll' l'e 1 ;i i , -1 , 1 thee hurt to Mule" "
:- I iee III ,1 Iii .in- the I l.ate Im II
I'. 'Mi'l I' no -I,-! ion- Kill ,
Siii.i-lii.it Ihhii lh, v -i, i-xi li OI.'O
Tear- an I -mile", 'ti- imtlini -tiaiij;"
II -o'im l.iie- a i . -h-l heart
,N-.io e e.m e ll I i- I aill :iiar .
Kl-t'l .'. ye'WIC
III MOKOI S.
Men of n 'ie the I ank eu -biers.
The bill c .Ih-, i-n-'s work is always
lull In l.'ie he gets his pay.
A spring poet sings; "Will they miss
lie, I wonder?" If Hoy do, tiny ought
lexer to lire alio' In-r gun.
Tho arc guiim d-ixvn to dinner. He:
'May 1 sit on your l ight hand ?" She;
"i ih. better lake a chair." He takes
tine.
- "Your father is worth at least
half a million," said he l.i his jealous
sxveethearl. "That, is true." she mur
mured. "Ami el xou iloabt my love,"
he re died in an injured tone
Webster's spelling book, it is said,
still sells at the rati -of a million copies
a year. Though not so exciting as
some novels, it nex ortheii ss throxvs a
potent spell over the reader.
Scene--A railxxay train. Dialogue
bit ween a husband and wife, xxlio
hax e eujox ed -evi l al years of wedded
lilis-: The wife "My dear, let mo
.-co vioii now -paper a moment." The
husband -Certainly, my dear, as soon
as we come to a t uniicl."
A country girl xxrote to her cousin
in ISrooklyn to come up and spend a
ihoiiI h no the farm; ihey were going to
have hii -king bees and tlead loads of
fun. T he lirooklyii girl replied that
she would not come, as the last time
she was there she was stung by a
horrid bee and didn't want any inoro
of it.
The ling in riiieniciaii licliirion.
Apart from conjectures, our know
ledge of I'ho iiiciau religion is desper
ately meagre and the role played by
the dog is yet to be knoxvn On the
general principle that tin Pho-nicians
borrowed without stint from F.gypf
wo may snpp "o that the dog-hcade l
deity was not left without his share of
honor, and the dogs that were so care
fully embalmed in the Cynopolite
Nome may hax e been held sacred in
I'ho nieia. .Kiiau tells us (II. N. xi. -S)
that at .I'.tna, in Sicily, there was a
highly honored temple of Hcpha'stus,
containing an unqui-nched and sleep
less lire, and about the temple and
grove were "sacrc.l dogs" that xvel
i oined those who entered the precinct
W ith pious hearts; hut they would bite
and rend any one that came with
polluted bands, or from wicked associ
ates. Again he relates (II. N. xi. -J")
that in theCitv of Adranus, in Sicily,
lucre xx .is a temple of the deity Adra
nus of great fame, to which "sacred
dogs" were attached, not less than
l.omiin number. They acted as servi
tors and attendants of the god, and
surpassed in beauty and size the fa.
in mis Molossian broei'. Muring t lu
ll. iv they welcomed all that entered
the temple and grove, whether native?
or sir, infers; at night they played tin
part of the good policeman. Appar
ently, the excellent cheer that was
furnished at the temple was accus
tomed to pioduoc its elicit upon tht
visitants; for .l'.liati says that such as
were quite intoxicated and could only
stagger on their xvay.the dogs conduct
ed to their homes very tenderly am
safely, but such as were violent am;
noisy, they jumped upon and tort
their clothing, till tliey were brought
to their senses; while thieves and pick
pockets were torn to pieces without
mercy.- - A"' 'rli I'usl.
Thief Jargon.
Here is an extract from Michael
Davitt's book on P.ritish prisons, "A
pickpocket told ine the history of hi;
arrest one day in the following lan
guage: "1 was jogging down t
blooming slum in the Chapel when I
butted a reeler who was sporting i-,
red slang. I broke off his jerry and bon
ed the clock, which was a red one, but
1 was spotted by a copper xvh claim
ed me. I was lugged before the beak
' who gave mo six doss in the Steel
The week after 1 was chucked up. I
did a snatch near St. Paul's, was col
lared, lagged and got this bit of scvet)
stretch.' "
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