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!)t l)atl)ctttl ttcrorfc. II. A. LONDON, KD1TOII AND PltOPKIFl'oU. KATES Dl ADVERTISING TERMS OF SU3SCRIPTI0N, One square, one inertion Onc 8iiinrc. two insertions One square, one month f1.no 1.50 - 2.50 Ono copy, mic year Oil'.' Copy, six III. 111! lis . One copy, I luce months 2. HO $ l.oo VOL. VII. 1MTTS1H)IU) CHATHAM CO., N. C, APRIL 2, 1885. VM '( For birtrer advertisements liberal con- 1MJ. 'tract" will In- made. - :.o' To His .Namesake. Heaven nmkc time licttci limn thy nntnn, C'liiM of de.ir hopes' For thoo I nnive Whiit riches novvr brought ; nor lumo To morlul lonyilig guvo. 1 pmt tho filgn's thought of old Hod inukK (hce beautiful within' And let ihinc r-yo 1 1 lo good behold n cverylhine; euve bin. John !. llhilticr In llooit Vh'tr. "UNCLE STANTON." Tho first timo I saw Undo Stanton he whs standing at the open doorway (if hi shop, rubbing his hands on ti leather apron. His face was stained with the black dust of the forge, and great beads of perspiration rolled down on his brow from under his confusion of hair hair so thick that I used to w onder the possibility of a comb. He was short in stature, with a small fea tured face and restless blue eyes. He was bent by toil, and his careworn ex pression gave emphasis to a nervous habit of twisting ono coiner of his apron when he idled for it while. He wiis it shabby old man, but on a Sun day (it was always called "the Sabbath" at the "(.'enter") he would don a threadbare suit of ill-titling broadcloth in which he was very ill at ease. I'.verybody about the Center and for that matter, everybody else for miles away-- knew him as "I'nele Stanton." lit was generally respected, and I doubt if there were any so well in formed in tho rise and decline of the old phv'e. Yet ho had not always lived in the (.'enter. Years ago when .loo Wheeler died, there appeared to be no one tit hand to tako his place at the forge. Joo had built tho shop in the early day? when tho Center promised to be much more than the pivot whose radius was then marked by "Kirby Hun" and Deacon (Ircene's vineyard. The dear old Deacon! 1 can see him now with his freckled face, and hair as red as the autumn color of the leaves which used to full from the big maple tree in front of my old home. Tho vineyard was on Hie mdo of the hill, steep enough to free it from stones mid brush, yet not so steep but the Deaeoii could keep his foothold, anil work nil through tho hot summer days. Hi w often ha e I seen him with his head bobbing above the green leaves, ned how often have 1 heard him ask fur the folks at home, with "God's blessing upon them!" Well, Joe had mended the wagons ami the ploughs, shod the horses ami been considered "pretty handy" fur many years, but it did not occur to one that a time would come when .lop's tools would lie idle for the want of his hands to use them, .loo had provided for this emergency. "I've writ to I'nele Stanton. Marthy," he sai l to his wife when he found himself no longer ablo to rise, "lie's a sari in tort of a man, and a good one to take hold of the smithy. I never seed a .imo when he missed, the mark be aimed at, and I've kaowed him, Mar thy, a powerful long while. You see we growed up together, he was on common sharp, and likelier n'me, bin I got the start somehow and went away, and Stanton's been trudging along the same old rut." So it came about that four days after Joe Wheeler had been put in the little yard back of tho Methodist Church whose steeple covered with rusty tin marked the Center for many miles, the big, creeky doors of the shop once more swung open, tho smoke of tie Torgo w as seen curling out of the tall red chimney, and I'nele Stanton grate fully welcomed his first customer. We became acquainted easily enough. My first visit tt the shop was with handsome gray Hilly, who had cast a shoe, lean recall even now the noise )f his hoofs as they clattered over the oaken Moor, and tho wonderment ex. pressed in the glance of his noble, (.Tight eyes, as I'nele Stanton bent town and critically examined his hoof, hilly had a great many friends, and 1 iielieve it was never decided which was the better animal, mine or the lean lark bay which the aggressive Mr. Mullens, the uieit peddler, constantly :lrove. "They've had a bad time over at the Kiiby's, 1 heard," I'nele Santon said '.o me, as he paused over u shoo which ne was hammering into shape. "Two funerals less'u a week. I didn't be lieve liubo would pull thesecou.l girl :hrough he ain't much on fevers, not so much as young Hawkins. He beat the world on fevers. Xow, there was Southworth's boy over at l'ine ville; t'want a week before he wan up'n about, and that gave Jim a sett in' up They ought to iave had Jim, to my thinkin'." And so I'nele Stanton would tattle on. Tho gossip of the village all came to him somehow; ho never for got what ho heard, and .very little happened in the place that did not in some shape or other reach I'nclo Stanton's earj. Concerning himself, I however, he was strangely reticent. Sometimes I would stop at the shop door in the early evenings when tho sun wits setting back of the hills and throwing its golden mellow on the roofs of tho farm houses and lingering in tho tree tops. I'nclo Stanton al ways sat there smoking his pipe, and when he hud no one to talk to would gaze off upon the toad In dreamy si lence. Ho always had a cheery sort t f welcome for me, and l used to think that ho was freer with me than any une else. Perhaps it was because I w as very young. Ono day--it was a year or mom nf ter I had made i'nele Stanton's ac quaintanceho said to mo suddenly, "Davy, my boy, the world isn't so very big, and the people in it often run amuck when they don't ealkerlate." Wo were lounging at the doorway, and I'nele Stanton was seated on the raised Moor with his bat k against the easement, pressing down the tobacco in his pipe with the end of his stubby linger. "What is it, uncle?" I queried. Tin re seemed to bo something on bin mind, and I fancied he wanted to talk to me. "Sit down here, lad, and I'll tell you a little story. It's a story there's none left to tell but mn, and I'm agoin' to let ye hoar it, Davy, because you'vo bin good itnd because in y'r face I've found the only comfort I've had many a long day. You don't know how those eyes of yoiir'n have gone to my heart how they've brought me back to when my boy Harry was so much like von that sometimes when I've looked at you I've stopped my work ami let my irons grow cold." Had he forgotten what he was about to say? lie had paused and was searching bis waistcoat, pocket, for it m ilch, and his head was bent down. As he relit bis pipe and pulled it into a glow I saw that his eyes wero moist ami his hand w as treinliling. I edged c lose to him, and placed my hand on his arm. "He w as a happy little chap, Davy and the folks o' the village used to till us with feelin's sort o' pride like, by the things they would say of him. You see, In.' was sinarler'n a whip, and if thar was nnythin' agoin' on among the young folks Harry w as at the head of it. Will, he growed up and got to readiu' ail kinds o' luniks with larnin' in 'em that set his mind a wanderiu', and then somehow Harry was changed like an I didn't care for our Old-fashioned ways; he wanted to go to tho big city, and at last one day he went." Did he run away, uncle,'' I askult "run away itnd leave you?" Yes, ho ran away, Davy, bavin' me an' mother; mother who loved him and who used to pi ay for him every night until my heart would get to bleedin'! He ran away, Davy! lie didn't come to us like the little man he UM'd to be, but he stole away one night, it was just after harvestin' time, and then, but he never writ to us -never writ to mother!" The old man t niched his eyes with his apron and drew hard on his pipe. All this was years ago, but I have not forgotten the t'.eep impression it made on me - his sad, vvurn facet which seemed so much more troubled than ever before, and the nervous twitching of his hands, all of which l scarcely realized then. I can see it all now; wo two sitting there in the old doorway, tho sun setting back of tho hills and ihe long shadows streaking the road that fell away from the shop into the little valley below. "Don't tell me any more,'' 1 said, "if it makes you feel so bad. Listen; There are the cows over at tho Dea con's; they are coming in for tho milking." He jiaused and then went into the shop. He raked the coals at the forge and covered them up for the night. I fancy trat be did so that I might not discover his agitation. "He never writ to us," be presently resumed, "but Joo Wheeler did, and when that letter came which told us how Harry our little Harry had been put in jail for a crime, it broke poor mother clown. Hut we never knew what eamo of him. Thar' was nothin' .we could do; we were far away." "Oh, uncle, and you have never seen him since that time?" 1 asked, feeling a great lump in my throat. "Seen him, Davy ? Seen him? The world is wide and the years have been long, but Davy" He turned away from the forge and came near lo me. "Davy, I seed a face last night out on the road thar that kep' me awake tiil the light came in my winder this niornin'. I seed a face that's a bin growin' and agrowin' on me; it t'want a ghost, Davy, but it was him, him! my Harry!" It was dusk when I left Uncle Stanton that evening. 1 helped hitu close u d the blacksmith shoo and walked with him down the road to Joe Wheeler's old house, where I'nele Stanton boarded, and when I started back again to rny own hamblo home I remember that I was so full of thought j that mother, who waited me anxious- Description of the Tluco, I'.i Inhabitants, ''. said: j m,i Hoiwo and Traffin. "Davy, I didn't hear your I'.ippy ' whistle as you came along: what I Khartoum may l.o callol the (late of makes you so late, child?" Central Africa, lliiropeun civilization How well I remember next day with enters at ono side of -.he city and its drizzling rain an I the wet leaves ; African barbarism coinjs in at the of the big maple tree which were other. Ileyond Khartoum from the tossing against my little window when ' north few tourists have ever made j I awoke! Iliad slept very late, and their way, and beyond Khartoum from : whilo I made my hasty dressing j the south few savages h ive ever ven mother called me. Deacon ( ircene's , lured. From the south t lie Nubian rusty top buggy was standing at the 1 sends his stores of ebony, ostrich feat It ! tloor when I went down and t good ; ers, ivory, skins of animals and other old man was telling a piece of news ' products of llieeqiiatorial lake district, j that had aroused the Center to an ex- i while from the north tho trader carries citement which is noi, forgotten to this I grain, cotton, gum, lSriimmagim knick . very day. knacks and bends to feed and clothe I'nele Stanton was dead! the ".savages pouting at the line." As ! "We don't know how it all was, the entrepot of the urodiirts of Central Davy, he said, turning to me. 'Most I likely it was his heart that did it i You see -well, it couldn't have been an hour before candle-light when Mar shy Wheeler heard it noise in I'nele ) Stanton's room, but afore she could ! get her lixin's on and get her old bones up the stairs i! was all ove-. I'nele Stanton was on the lloor, gone beyond help. The window was open and the little box he used to keep his money in Wits gone." ! And this is all that ever came of it. Nothing was ever tlise ivered; nothing was learned if the thief. lint some how or other when I think of Hi it summer evening, when I'nclo Stanton told me of a face he saw, there comes ; over me a slnnliler--a suspicion Well, I won't write here what I think. Could it be? V Mr II'.i in ' Lira ili h: i A Lawyer's Trick Fvposfd. ' A correspondent of tho Chicago ! Times relates some interesting anec ; dotes of old (Joy. Allen - "lilse-up William Allen," one of the most noted I and popular political characters ever i produced by (Hiio. One incident is particularly amusing. At one time (ien. Murphy, a celebrated advocate, practised in Chillieotlic and Sunt hern Ohio, the defense of criminals being i his forte. His power w ith a jury was I almost irresistible, ami tho facility i w ith which he wept in behalf of his I client carried everybody with him. A notorious horse thief had been in dicted itt Chillieotlic, and, of course, had retained (Ien. Murphy. Tho pros ecuting attorney secured the services j of Allen to help him convict the rascal I if possible. The evidence was heard j and it made a pretty clear case against I 'he accused. The prosnetitor opeiu d for the State and was followed by (ion. j Murphy in ono of his most eloquent j and tearful efforts. The jury, like the j advocate, and a large portion of the audience were in tears, but Allen sat boll upright, with a stony and danger- oils glare in his steel gray eyes. When (ien. Murphy had concluded, and sat wiping away his tears and sobbing, Allen arose and said: j "(ientlciuen of the jury, it seems j cruel to say anything to break the j charming spell that the learned conn I sel has woven around you, or rudely I dispel the tears that ho has drawn like pearls of humanity from your eyes. j Your tears have been responsive to j his, but pfrhaps had you known Hie i fountain whence sprang his tears, i yours would not have welled tip re sponsive, (ientlemen of the jury, let me show you the fountain of tho learned counsel's tears." Saying this he reached over the table with his long arm and fished some thing out of (ien. Murphy's coat pocket. Holding aloft a big red onion. peeled to the quick, he went on: "I was aware that the onion was tho symbol of tho Fgyptian mysteries, i but not until now did 1 know that it I was the imbalance of (ien. Murphy's I tears and mysterious power over a I jury." ! The prisoner was convicted without the jury leaving the box, and it was years before (!en. Murphy got over the clever expose. Vocal Vitality. A lady w as singing at a concert, and her voico was, to say tho least, very thin In places. "Ah!" said hor husband, who after the manner of husbands who have musical wives, thought her vocal powers were great, "what a fine voice she has!" "Very fine," replied a strange man i by means of straps in connection w ith Lvni,.h no mjerobes existed. In the at his side. them, which pass ov er the pully mount-1 ,,olirst, o( S((m, Iennirk3 sl,Ki;t.sttd i,v "What timbre!" continued the hus- e.l on the front board of the vehicle. the ,.om,m,niciition M. Pasteur declar band. j Tho driver's hands are quite J ,. , ,, for his own rnrt ,)( Miewd "Considerable timber." responded free and may bo inserted in the pockets ; t,,.it lif jt.iplf W0llU bo iu,p0MiDift for the stranger again, "bet too r-vtny of his grcat-eoat. I he apparatus can ! animwi., (cA im absolutely pure food -cracks in it for weather-boarding, bo attached to any vehicle in a very j ()l.t f0Hi fm frni" ordinary mi and not quite enough for a paling few minutes and can be used by a very I ,1,. and ho announced his inten ftnee." , young person. When the driver leaves j tjim of submitting his theory to the The husband remained silent during ( the vehicle there is a gentle bearing on ,ost of practical experiment if his other the concluding portions of the enter, j the horse's mouth, which tends to 1,8 allowed him the time necessary talntuent. Merchant Traveler. ' keep him quiet. Ctw. IVs Majasim. I for the purpose. '" Tli ; CITY 0I; KIIAKTOI'M. Town in tin boiidan wlicrnOoidon P'oll. Africa, Khartoum is a place of souie commercial importance. Among the :1i'i,iiiiii peiqile who make up its popula - lion there are many Creeks and Ital- 'aits, while two or three Americans here lind profitable investments in fur- nishing beads and other trumpery to the savages f nun Khordofau, F.l Obeid and Dafour. The traders sell canned fruits, meals and vegetables and make the Dongoloweo howl through the streets alter taking soma of their raki as a refresher. Arabs in their bour naises, Turks with the traditional fez, Copts with tlwir bashe, and llirhareen Arabs with their knotted and combined locks of hair, standing up likeiiiills of the porcupine, wander through its ir regular, narrow , ml badly drainod streets. It is no wonder that Khar toum is unhealthy. When it rains, great pools of stagnant water are forni'-d, iind from theso fevers are gen erated and the deadly miasma does its work among the people. The street that borders the river side looks down upon the water from an elevation along w hich stately palm near to his f.ic, so that he could feel trees and large gardens of citron and j tho heat. Whether the operation orange trees stand. Many neatly I would have been performed or not I whitewa-hed buildings stand along the jain unable to say. but there was no river bunk, and these are relieved by j nec, ssily, for the instant he fell the the unpaids and iiio.-.ques which give j heat, be shouted: the air of a ciiy in I pper F.gypt, likri ( lb, don't, doctor dear, please don't ; lienisooef or llhoda in it large way. j rm t dumb. I will speak I will. There are, nf course, the characteristic, j indeed." mud houses, the tropical foliage, the I "And he left the hospital that very palms and the weeping domes, the ! afternoon." l'hihitl'liiit Tim---. dedebalias hauled on the beach for re- pairs, the bales of cotton heaped on' Old Firyptiiui Skill, the shore, the sacks ol gum, the tusks j '''I"' i"u-ieiit I'.gyptians excelled in of ivory and the stevedore population j nil''' mechanical work, ami it might who brave crocodiles lor their paltry l'"" 'ue of our masons and stone paras. j workers to equal them at the present The palace of the (iovernor is an 'my. Mr. Kendrick, in speaking of the ugly looking building lacing the river. easing of the great pyramids, says : and the helioeted and casqued negroes)"1'111' j"'"' iro scarcely perceptible, who form the guar 1 of honor, are ani1 not wider than tho thickness ol dressed in white uniforms. An army ! silvt'r paper; and the cement so tciia. of men as largo as the army of the N'ious that fragments of the easing I nited States is engaged in eapt tiring stones still remain in their origin; j the negroes of the l'pp:-r Nile, and it is j position, not withstanding the lapse ol ...id that 1-IO.OuO slaves, worth about j so many centuries, and the violence by tsiiit a head, yearly pass through the j mYh they were detached. All the tortuous thoroughfare of this gateway I ''me work of the interior passages city. The Turk, with his Moslem re- j "here granite is not expressly m-n-ligion, sees no great harm in tlto itntl. i'C tlio s.tiut- s-tono. ;unl liu trallie, for he is taught polygamy and isheil w ith the same beautiful exact the .servitude of one race to another, j w- M tlu' ia quarrying was At Khartoum the harem is regarded j displayed more in the extracting of the as a sacred institution, as the Koran is limre blocks out of which obelisks and the inspired law of the majority, j eolossal st at lies were hewn. Obelisks F.wn if tho mountain passes of ninety and statues forty feet high. Abbysinia were sealed up, thesoaports ' each fashioned out or one stone, were of Hie Capo of (iood Hope blockaded, : not uncommon things; and the blocks and all the outlets of Central Africa j selected for these monuments were not barricaded, yet it is believed that tho chance splinters from barbarous efforts same silent caravans will be found I of splitting and smashing, but t lean starting over the deserts, and thosaino slil't,s separated .sfnurfum n t in from slave-dealers sneaking through Khar- . the native rock, after being selected toiim across the lied Sea or the Per- nnd accurately defined. And bow was stan liiilf. For 4'K) miles south of Khartoum the White Nile is covered with rich cotton fields, which slope away from the banks of the river from live to fifty miles into the interior. The resources of the country are iiu ineiise, and Khartoum is destined to play an imporiant part in the develop ine'.itol'thoresoiirecsof Central Africa. Drivitip; Without Hands. A new method of driving horses by means of the feet, so as to keep the j hands warm in cold stormy weather, has been introduced recently. The method can be used either with nr without the ordinary plan of hand driving, the latter being resorted to in genial weather if preferred. The feet est on a firm board, and tho horse is guided by raising or lowering the toes, thus bearing on one or tho other rein The Dumb Made lo Speak. "Nearly every hospital and house of correction in the country has its regu lar attendance of malingerers," says a physician at the episcopal Hospital riiiladelphia. "Smie are most cun ning in their schemes to become patients. The comfortable bed, the good food and the kind attention they receive arc the temptations to try theso deceptions. "Why, I once saw it case of feigned muteness. A youth of 17 was brought to us. His parents said he had spoken well enough until he was 11 years oh', but since then he bad never spoken a word. He had his hearing perfectly. Wo tried a good many things -galvanism, tonics and even, because we thought it wits stubbornness, we had a clergyman to talk to him, but all was of no avail. At last we canto to the conclusion that tho young rascal was hoodwinking us, and we deter mined to try it trick upon him that j has been tried with success before, ; Two of the physicians stood at bis ! bedside, as if consulting about his j cas.'. One of lliein said in a loud j whisper to the other: "Well. I'll tell you what we'll do, First of all we'll cauterize the whole ! of the under surface of his tongue, 1 and, it that does nut succeed, w e will cut out his tongue and examine it, under a microseupe." 'Then, turning to an assistant, be continued: "Mr. Wilson, please get the iron red hot We will use it, at once upon this boy." "The fellow didn't say anything, but he tried by signs to beg the doctor not ! to perform the operation. Tho iron was brought, and the surgeon began arranging tho patient. 'The sight of the instrument on its spirit llaine, al most. ;it a white beat, brought forth a terrible cry from the boy, the first sound in six years. Then one assis tant held his legs, another his arms, a third his head, and a wedge was thrust into his mouth. Still not a word. The hot iron was lifted and broiifrht this done - by dri iinr in huge iron wedges'! No, indeed; that would prob ably have split the stone. Uy infinite labor, then, in chiseling and sawing The old Fgyptians knew a trick some what cleverer than that; they cut a small grove along the whole length of say, one hundred feet, and in t n is in sert eda number of dry wooden wedges; then they poured water into the groove and the wedges expanding simulta neously and with great force, brokt away the large fragments as neatly as a strip of glass is taken off by a dia mond.' Microbe. At the last meeting of the French Academy of Sciences M. Pasteur read a letter of M. ltuteau on tho utility of microbes in the system of creation, the writer maintaining that vegetation would be impossible in a world In i CMITIWiS FOB THE ITBIb . The caterpillar has 1,o0ii muscle This gives it four muscles to each leg When you hire a servant in Mexier it is with the understanding that her J entire family reside with you. The legend of tho Wandering Jew I originated in the Fast, and was tirst ; brought to Ku rope in th1 eleventh I century. j There are sit least a do.en species ol I fishes which are alone among animals j in the possession of electric organs -! truly the most remarkable weapons in the entire animal armory. Dr. Max Hertels, a distinguished (ierman anthropologist, has within the last four years investigated t wenty-o ie well authenticate! cases of persons having been born with tails. "Wiseacre" comes from the old Sa on, Weisager, loeaping philosopher, wiseinan or wizard. Having been fre quently used ironically, it came finally to be used in that sense only. An Mnglish physician has been try ing to count the hairs on the human head. He quotes the averag' number ol hairs p :r sq ii ire inch at 1 "'!', and estimates about 1 25,1 mi hairs for th nt ire head as a general rule. The juice of the curious ink plant ol New (irana la requires no preparation before being used for writing. The color is reddish when first applied to paper, but soon becomes it deep black which it very durable. This ink is now u-el for public re Mrds and docu ments. To "sit above the sail" is an old say ing. In llngland, formerly, it was the custom in noble families for servants to take their mails in the sanii hall with their masters. A I.irg? s ill cel lar win placed In the mid lie of the table, and it. was custom try for the servants and p ur guests to sit below this. To "sit above the salt" therefore w;is a mark of honor. The latest thing in clonks comes from Itiissia. It is a little timepiece about eight inches high, on a base live iip hes in diameter and covered with a Klass globe. All the works are plainly exposed. The pendulum is a solid brass wheel, supported at, the centre, or bub, by a slender wire. It does not swing, but revolves from loft to right and right to left, lieing a 4m '-day clock, the winding of it is a small item. It will not vary five minutes in b1' days. No temperature affects it. Taking His Master's ITace. With the peasantry of Spain the donkey is a petted favorite, almost an inmate of the household. 'The women and children of the family feed him from their hands, itnd talk caressingly to him. A peasant had for many years carritid milk into the market of Madrid t o supply a set ol customers. Fvcry morning be and his donkey with panniers well loaded, trudged their accustomed round. One morn ing, when lid was attacked by sudden illness and had no ono to send with his milk, he decided to trust tho don key to go alone. Tho panniers were accordingly filled with canisters id milk, and the priest of the village wrote a request to cust micrs to men -ure their own m lk and send back the empty vessels. The donkey was in structed, and set off with bis load. The door bells in Spain have a rope hanging outside tho house, to which is appended a wooden ban lie. or the hoof of some animal. The donkey stopped before the house of every cits t omer, and, sifter waiting what he deemed a sutlicicnt time, he pulled the rope with his mouth. When he had ! gone the entire round be trotted home j with the empty canisters. lie eontin : tied to do this for sev.'ra! days ami never missed a customer. i'mtH j Mii!in:iti. Hawthorne and Hie Fit. I A ily, says Hawthorne in a letter ti bis w ife, is the most impertinent and indelicate thing in creation the very ypeand moral of human spirits whom ' one occasionally meets with, and who, j perhaps, aftor an exisui.ce, trouble I some and vexatious to all with whom i they come in contact, have been doomed ! fi reappear in this congenial shape Here is one intent upon alighting on i my nose. In a room now- in a human j habitation- I could find in my con. science to put him to death; but here we have intruded upon his ow n do main, which h holds in common with all the children of earth and air, and we have no right to slay him on his own ground. A Luxury. "Father what is a luxury V" asked little Johnnie the other night as he wrapped himself round the parlor stov e. "A luxury 'i Why, it's some thing wedon't really nted, you know --a thing we can do w ithout." "Well, theu," replied the logical youth, "what a luxury a mosquito-net must be in winter!" Life. Little by Utile. 'j'lle by l't Hi" time pus by i'.im ii you mis it, lon if you tib , l.ittluby littlu mi 1k.mii ii day, bout! Willi the yciils Unit lmve vimi.-brd on r l.ilib: by little llio iw-f is run , Trouble mid vnitiny mid toil iu dono 1. lib- by little lb -kie yrow cb-ni , l.itlli by little I be sun comes nt-iii ; l.itlleb;, hltle I :llt dllVS sllllb' Oil!, t,l:i M, I libier on oi i 1 1 mi l doubt ; Little by little I In- -e."ls wi! bow ln;o ii b.iunlipil yeibl will K'ow. I. idle by little Ihu wot 1 I row sti-.)ii , I'illtlll the buttle tinbt Ol wrulli I . i 1 1 i - I y I ! I if III'- w ion uivt' w.iy ; f l.ilt c by lillletbe liiibt Iims.-w.iv; 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 by 1 It 1 if :t 1 1 lollill ouU ' '-llllle 1 1 lli-lir tile .-billing eii.ll. iii Monors. The Mjyi'tiaii injunction - mummies the word. Fvery dog has his day and some of them want the night too. Jt has been remarked that some give according to their means, and some according to their meanness. Woman is it perennial dynamiter. Husbands are always blown up. Some explode occasionally, and go on a bust." What the poet wr ite : ' Her cheek i were like the red, red rose." How it appeared in print : "Her cheeks were like t he red, red nose." It is strange that there should bo any marine disasters between New York and Ifoston. when all the boats iro through Long Island Sound. "How did you begin life':" tho young man asked the great man. "I didn't begin it." truthfully replied tho great man. "It was here when 1 got here." There r.re 2, To") languages. If one man could talk them all he could not. adequately express his feelings over the shock of his first sit down on a rink tloor. A Michigan cow has sixty horns, A young man who was recently hooked by this accomplished animal thought ho had sat down on a pin cushion by mistake. A fellow in California placed n re volver to the mouth of his sweetheart and fired. The teeth of the young lady resisted the ball, and no damage was done. The question now arises, was the the girl arm..! to the teeth or not? A new game is played as follows: A number sit round a table and write on slips of paper guesses about the weather to-morrow." The one guess ing right wins. Any number can play as there is weather enough to go around. Jones Yts. sir, it's mighty hard to collect money just now. I know it. Smith -Indeed. Have you tried to co'l-'ct and failed? Jones th, no. Mtiitb - How then do you know that money is hard to collect? Jones I tecause several people have tried to collect fr..in me. Makini; a Hon. In public, the bow is the proper mode of salii!ation,also,tinder certain circum stances, in private; and, according to circumstances, it should be familiar, cordial, respectful, or formal. An in clination of the head or a gesture with the hand or cane suffices bet ween men, except when one would b.' specially deferential to age or position; but in saluting a lady, the hat should be re moved. A very common mo le of do ing this in New York, at present, parliciilaily by the younger men, is to jerk the hat off an I sling it on as has tily ;is possible. As haste is incom patible with grace, and as there is an obi pantomimic law that "every pic ture inii-t be held" for a longer or shorter time, the jerk-and-sling manner of teni iviug the hat, in salutation, is ' n"t lo bo commended. The eiupressi I ment a man puts into his salutations 1 is graduated by circumstances, the j most deferential manner being to carry j he ha' (low it the full lngth of the arm, keeping it there until the person saluted has passed. If a man stops to speak to a la ly in tho street ho should rem tin uneoveted, unless the conversa tion should bo protractel. wdiich it is sure not to be, if either of the party knows an I cares to observe the pro priet tes. A well-bred man, meeting a lu'y in a public place, though sho is a near relative wife, mother, or sister and, though he may have parted from her but half an hour before, will salute her as deferentially as ho would salitt a mere acquaintance. The passers-by are ignorant of tho relationship, and to them his deferential manner says: 'She is a lady." .Vfiv I Ayns. Froniotitiir Harmnny. "I thought you were not going to light with Jones any more," remark ed tne politeman to another. "I am not. I am ready to bury the ,.atchet." "Well, what are you waiting for?' 'For Jones' head to bury It in."