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NO. .')('.
Mini lug.
Itnid il in the nioiiiiliiiii 1'idi.
I miv i( on lliu inoiiiiniiii si:in
The Ut tilings iinv iihiiIiiI hilU
Ait1 lliosi' which en-iy mi Hal dines.
The grii-s i Bolter to tny trend,
f-'nr rest il vii-Hs iiiiiiiiiiilu-i't'd fei-t ;
Sweeter to nil- lliu wild km; red,
liii'inisc it iiitikv tht' whole world niiwl .
I. in i I. ii com.
Fortune's Frowns and Smiles.
Mrs. Hriggs lial made :t iiii.sl uk.
he owned as much, herself. And a
mlstakeniist bo very patent, indeed,
before Mrs. Hriggs would own to it.
For sho was one of these high-nosed,
domineering females who pretend to
an Hlmost superhuman foresight, ami
believe that they can road character as
if it were an open book.
"I never was so disappointed in a
girl in my life," said Mrs. ISrij.g. "I
thought she had some grit about her.
Hut, there! I might as well hae an
old dish-rag in my kitchen as Meta
Milton!"
Meta herself, if the truth were to
be told, was equally disilluionied.
Miu had faneied that life in the coun.
try was nil roses, new-mown hay and
nightingales; and when it came t o get
ting tip before daybreak, churning by
tin; hall-hour in a blue-mold-smelliiig
cellar, scriilibing kitchen Honrs and
baking hot-cakes for a tableful of
tihirt-sleeveil farm ban's, she was com
pletely taken aback.
There w re no lanes wherein to lin
ger at dusk ( Mr. Itrig;,'s was a great
deal too careful of his land to let any
part id it ru: to ua.-tc,no pictures-pie
eld well-sweeps or ivy -clad ruins.
Cabbages grew in rows; onion
patches tiling their perl ume on the air,
and directly in front of the main door
there was a held of monster tobacco
leaves.
"And ef you've got any time to
spare." said Mr. liriggs, "you'd better
lay it out in pit kin' them plaguy big
worms i'lf the terbarker, instead o'
cuttiii' round the country alter will
llowrrs!" Metahad been a shop-girl in a liridge
poit store before she came to her Cousin
liiigg-'. Her health ha I failed; the
doctor had advised country air. new
milk and change ol cue.
Mr. liriggs, on being written to, had
unw illingiv consented that Meta
should spend the summer there.
"She iii'i-a be a poor creetur, indeed,
il'he c.o'.'' earn her board and a little
iieue iiilo the bargain," said Mrs.
liriggs, who was one of those griping,
grinding ta-kmi-tri sm.-s who think of
trade and profit alone.
lint Meta hal not passed triumphant
ly through the ordeal. Perhaps she
had l i t oily regained her strength.
Pi rhaps sh'j hal become discouraged
with the endless trealmill of work
which Mrs. liriggs provided for her.
She was a pale, pretty girl, with fair
hair, large, sorrowful blue ryes, and a
cul-T that came and went with Dicker
ing brilliance.
"And it's my opinion," said Mrs.
liriggs, who was in the habit, of living
around the hoiisn with her hea l tie. I
up in a cotton pocket handkerchief,
"that she spends a deal too much time
a-iKin' up and prinkin' before the
gl iss w bite lace at her neck every
day and a ribbon how and white
aprons of an afternoon. Che ked
gingham is good enough for me, and it
ought to be for her!"
At the end of the urst month, Mrs.
I'uiggstold Meta, with engaging frank
n i 'vi, that she had not proved equal to
the emerge!., y.
"I guess we don't want you here no
more," said Mrs. liriggs. "You ain't
got no more strength than a rabbit, ami,
anyway, there ain't no calculation
about you. You may do very well as
a store-gal, but you won't never earn
your bread at general housework."
Meta sighed.
"lint what am I to do?" said she.
"Where am I to go?"
"That's your affair," said Mrs.ltriggs,
Ami then she went to take her
bread out of the oven.
John Perkins, the nephew of the old
deacon who lived in the brick house on
the hill, and had more money than the
best arithmetician in Yellow Plains
could count, came the next day to drive
Meta ami her poor little trunk to the
stage-station.
John had seen Meta at church, lie
had stood beside her more than once
at singing-school; and one night, when
the cattle were obstreperous, he had
come to the rescue, and helped Meta
drive them home.
So, when Farmer liriggs sent over
word that his horse was lame, and
u'-ked for the loan of Deacon Perkins'
roan rob to carry Meta Milton to the
station, John himself had volunteered
to act as chaiioteer.
ti ing away, hey'f"' said John, w hen
tliey had ridden a short distance in si
lence. "Yes," said Met!1, sadly, "I am go
pi-, away."
t ' Didn't like the folks," said John.
"1 tried to like them,' said Meta;
"bu' Mrs. Hiiggs was not suited with
me. The washings weie too heavy,
and it gave me a pain in the side to
lilt the tubs."
"You il'i look rather slim,"' observed
John.
And he chewed a straw in silence
for some time before he asked, with
some abruptness:
"And where are you hound for?"
"1 don't know," said M'da. "1 can't
go hack to the store because my place
is lilh'd up; and it's very hard to get
work anywhere at this time of year.
The doctor said I ought to stay a year
at least in the country; but Mrs.
liriggs has got another girl and"
Here John Perkins suddenly arrest
ed the course of tin' roan-cob, and be
gan '"-ning him scientifically around.
'I'ea- dear!' said Meta, "have we
got into die wrong road'"
"Xo," aid John Perkins. "Not as
I know of. Hut if the doctor said you
ought to stay a year, then a year you
stay."
lint where?" said Mrt.v
"Wi'h !'' said J din Perkins. "I've
took a notion toyon, Mela. The lirst
time I ever set eyes on you, I said to
mysi If, "Here's the gal lor me!' And
it you'll marry me, Meta, I'll do my
best to take care of you and be a good
husband to you."
"Hurry you!" repeated Meta, and
she looked timidly into John Perkini'
hoiie.st gray eyes, and t In n -she added:
"Yt-s, Mr. Perkins, I will!"
'"shall we go right to the parson's?"
said John.
"I I suppose so," said Mela.
"It's the best way," said John. "If
I begin a job, I generally like to go on
with it."
s-o they were married. Meta went
hack to Mr. liriggs' house, until her
young husband could break the news
to his uncle. Mrs. liriggs received the
bride with some faint semblance, ol
Welcome.
"John Perkins is a likely fellow,"
saidshr, "and the deacon is the richest
man in Yellow Plains. 1 will allow,
Meta, that you haven't done badly for
yoursell. If you'd told mo what you
was calculator lor- "
"lint. I was not calculating," said
Meta, indignantly. "1 never thought
ol sm h a thing, until John a -ked no
lo be his w lie."
"That'll do to ted," said Mrs. liriggs
w itii a dry chuckle.
Meanwhile, John went bravely to
his lim b-.
'I'lielc," said he, "I guess you'll
have to spare me a bigger room drier
this."
Iteacou Perkins, a dried-up, with
ered old man, with a strong likeness to
the chimpanzee tribe, looked up from
his account-book with a snarl, which
revealed a set of ragged, yellow tieth.
"A bigger room?" said he. "W hat
for-"
I "There's at least a doen rooms in
the house you don't use," said John,
I "and they'd be all the belter for being
1 occupied; and besides" as if Ibis was
I a mere incidental fact "I've, been get-
ling married!"
j The deacon dropped his spectaclc
I case, and as John picked it up and
j handed it back to him, lie added:
"To Meta Milton."
j The deacon's little eyes glittered like
I very small gas-lamps, seen through a
I November fog.
You've married her, have you?"
i said lie.
"Yes, sir," said John.
"Well, then," said the deacon, "you
can take her somewhere else and sup.
port her, for I'll never see nor speak
to either one of you again as long as
1 live!"
Ho you reallv mean it, uncle?" said
John.
"Am I in the habit of joking?" said
Mr. Perkins, with an ugly grin, that
inado him more chimpanzee like than
ever. "If you're ho very independent,
you can go and hang out your (lag of
freedom at your leisure!"
This was rather hard on John, who
had always been taught to reganl him
self as his uncle's adopted child.
Hut lie was too proud to sue for a
rich man's favor.
"Just as you please, sir," said he.
"Hut won't you let me bring Meta to
see you ?"
"No, I won't!" said the deacon.
"Oh, John, I have ruined you!" said
Meta, when he came back to tell the
I ale.
"b'uined me, puss?" said he cheer
fully "not a bit of it! You've been
the making of me. It ain't good for
nobody lo hang on the coat-skirts of a
rich man. I'm more independent now
than I have been for ten years. If
Mrs. liriggs will let us stay here for a
few days "
"I couldn't, possibly!" said Mrs.
liriggs, freezing visibly. "If your
good, pious uncle discountenances yon,
i ain't for me to set myself up ag'in
i. judgment"
"Very well," said John; ' partner
lirake wants a h m l to help clear ii
the maple hills this winter I'll eiigagi
with him. My Mela shall have a good
home somew here!"
When Mrs. liriggs heard that John
Perkins had rented the little one
storied cabin by the railroad, and fur
nished it for his bride, sl.f- shook lur
head forebodingly.
"If Meta can put up wall a hole like
that, she hain't no proper pride," said
she.
lint Meta was as happy as a lark.
It was a humble home, but it was
her own. And John came home to it
every night, with a face as cheerful as
the dawn.
"1 wish it was a palace, puss, for
your sake," said he.
I couldn't be happier, John, if it
was," Mota brightly answered.
"And you don't mind your Cousin
liriggs passing you in the street, with
out speaking to you ?"
"Not in the least, if yon don't mind
Deacon Perkins returning your letters
unopened."
"lie isan ill tempered old crab," said
John, w ith a hearty laugh.
"Andehe," merrily retort"d Meta,
"is a venomous old go-sip."
While the public opinion of Yellow
Plains unanimously condemned Mr.
and Mrs. Perkins to the poor-hoiise in
the course of a brief time.
"lie hasn't a cent of capital," said
one neighbor.
"Ami she ain't no management and
never had," said another.
"Ituys bal er's break and makes her
pie-crn -t with butter instead u' drip
pin's," said Mrs. liriggs. "Did any
one i-ver hear of .such shilt'esstiess? 1,
for one, wash my hands of them."
I'util, one day. Deacon Perkins died
silting in his chair, with his spectacles
on his nose,
"We'll go to the funeral, Mid a," said
John to his wife, "t if course he has
left all his money to the I Jat taw-niche.
Indian Mission, a-, he always said he
would. Hut he was my uncle, after
all.'
"Very well," said Metiv. "We'll go."
All the neirhborhooil was there, of
course 'Ihe richest man in Yellow
Plains did not depart this life every
day. lint every one looked oddly up
on the young couple a they entered,
and Mrs. liriggs studiously evaded
tliein.
When the burial ceremonies were
over, Mr. liriggs sidled up lo the law
yer, a fat man, with a .shining I. 'lid
lead and a white moustache.
"It's about the mortgage, Sipiire
Co te," said he. " That one thai. Dea
con Perkins had on our farm. I do
hope the Cattawooch'!!! India is won't
be particular about takiu' it up jest
yet, because times is hard, and I ain't
noways prepared. The interest is a
little behind, to be sure, but- "
"What have the (iattawoochue In
dians got to do with it?" said the
sipiire, crisply.
"Why, they'ro Ihe heirs, folks tell
me," said Mr. liriggs, uneasily twirl
ing his thumbs.
"Not at all," said Mr. Coyte. "The
(lattawooche Indian w ill w as destroyed
long ago; and Mr. Perkins never
made another. The heir to all the
property is the next of kin, his nephew.
John Perkins."
Public opinion changed as quickly
as only public opinion can do, when
this piece of news became bruited
abroad.
Kverybody discovered all of a sud
den that they had always sympathized
with the dear young couple -that John
Perkins was a noble fellow, and his
wife Meta one of the salt of the earth.
Ami Mrs. liriggs came humbly to
the redbrick mansion on the hill to
see Meta, and beg her to intercede
with her husband in their behalf.
"About the mortgage," said she,
"that Deacon Perkins had on our farm.
It's over-due, and liriggs hasn't been
as regular with the Interest as I could
have wished; but I do hope, Meta, he
won't be hard with us!"
It was a bitter pill for Mrs. liriggs
to swallow, but Meta did not exult
over her (alien foe.
-( if course he w ill not bo hard w ith
you, Cousin liriggs," said she, kindly.
"Are wo not relations? And now yun
must sit down and have a cup of tea
with us, and John will send the box
w agon down for your husband to come
and spend the evening."
The tears came into Mrs. liriggs'
eyes.
"I do feel sort o' faint," said she. "I
never slept none last night, thinkiu'
what would become of us if the old
home was took away. Hut I'm ab
right now, Meta, thanks to you!"
And she said, when sho got home
her fireside:
"If ever coals of lire was heaped on
a human head, Meta Perkins heaped
'em on mine this day."
"She's a good gal," said Farinei
liriggs -"a good gal!" Htlen bii
IIDW IS Vol R l:.Clvl'.fi.T.?
A Curious Si Kii) t ili- Fuel nut
fiiMjtTitlly Known,
I
riie Length of a Man's Spied Column nu
! In lex to His Character,
I -
j When a person compliments another
I ay saying he has a gom; deal of "back
j noiiu" he con.es very near stating a
I scientific truth without knowing it,
I perhaps. At least, so remarked a
1 naval medical ollicer to the Washing-
i
, Ion Shir the other day, as the latter
J stopped to chat in the r xiui of the a
' val F.xnuiiiiiug Hoard. "Step up here
I i moment," continued the ollicer, con-
liicling the reporter to a measuring
rod which stood in one corner of the
room. This rod, besides having the
movable arms with which a man's
height is guaged, had another interme
liato arm below, by whii'h the length
:if his legs is determined. The ililfer
?nee but ween these measurements, of
lourse, shows th" length of his body
ind head. "There," said the ollicer,
liter tiie reporter had .subjected him
self lo Die measuring process, "you are
sixty-nine and live-eiidith inches tall,
tour legs are thirty-three ami live
ighth inches long pretty good legs -ind
that leaves a length ol body thir-y-six
inches. That's very good, above
;he average."
"Well, what does it all mean ?" asked
he reporter.
"lioiler powei," remarked an oihcial
tvhn was standing near.
The medical ollicer enlarging on the
iglire thus sugge-teil pr led-
That's it. You see (putting his hand
in his head ) here's the governor.
Here," lie continued, lowering his
lauds to his chest, "is thu boiler. 'I he
lings and the heart are here, and he
ow are the abdominal organs or vis
era. Your mouth and nostril are
alow ers. You shovel in coal take
"ood -in your nioiitli. It is turned
nto steam -blood mid goes out in
very direction, you see, toward the
air face. Now the man with a long
tody has a great deal of boih rsurlace."
"Then the man Willi coii-idc rahlu
tackbotu! is stronger than the one who
as not ?"
"Well, that is one cir. iiui -tarn e to
je t'otisiih red with other-., ol course.
The man w ith backbone is apt to have
greater power of resistance. He can
ndurc more toil and can resist disease
otiger. Why, there are no men in the
ivar so gold for a long marea as your
luck-legged fellows with long bo lies.
The long legged men could not stand
t."
"There was a case here md long ago,"
2oiitinued t lie, ollicer, "w hich would in
licatethat a man's backbone had a
real deal to do with his general cliar
icter. A n ollicer, w ho was esamined
'or promotion, was found to be pliy-i
?ally, mentally and prolesdonally un
it, and also morally uniil. He was
lropped I roiu the service. When we
iiiiiiu to tako his measurement we
found he had the shortest backbone of
my man in the navy who had ever
been examined. Ho did riot have great,
physical power of resistance, you see.
When he graduated at the Nav al Acad
emy ho stood very high. When he
had to do duty it is probable that his
stiength failed him and lie resorted to
stimulants. The taking ot stimulants
became a habit, and gradually Id led
his intellectual powers. His mind be
ing weakened, his uior.rls were soon
undermined. All of this, you see,"
laughed the ollicer, "came, of course,
from having a short backbone."
The A enure Sgv of Animals.
The average age of cats is l.'i years;
f sipiirrels and hares T to S vrars; a
bear rarely exceeds Jo years; a doj;
'lives JO years; awolfjd; a fox 1 1 to
lt. Lions are long-lived, the one by the
Dame of Poinpev living to the ago of
7(. Klephants have been known to
, live to the age of ou.
j - When Alexander the (ireat had con
- ipiered Poms, King of India, he took a
, great elephant which had fought vali
j antly for the king, and dedicated him
' lo the sun, and let him go with thisiu
! MTiption; "Alexander, the son id Jupi
i ler, dedicated Ajax to the sun." The
, ilephant was found with this inscrip
, Lion dad years after. Pigs have been
Known to live to the age of Jo, and the
' rhinoceros to 2'J. A horse has been
! Known to live to the age of tij, but m
I i-rages J.r or .'hi. Camels souiel iines
J live to tho age ol i'; stags are very
long-lived; sheep seldom exceed the
tge of lit; cows live about lo years.
Cuvier considers it probable that
.vhales sometimes l, e l.non years. The
lolphin and porpoise attain the age of
10; an eagle died at Vienna at the age
if 1 I ; ravens have frequently reached
he age of lot'; swans have hern known
o live to the age ol duo. Mr. Master
mi has the skeleton of a swan that at
ained the age of 2tH. Pelicans are
otig-lived. A tortoise has been known
. live to the aire of P'7 years.
I.ii uses ip College,
Although the difference In the
amount ol money which students at
different colleger spend is very great,
there is not such a disparity in the
necessary expenses as many people sup
pose, say the nrruiil friins-m. At
the city colleges, such as Harvard,
Yah'' and Columbia, the nccs.-ary ex
penses may be about 1,1 oo more than
at Amherst, Dartmouth, or Williams;
but this slight increase is more than
counterbalanced by the aid which
larger colleges uil'er Indigent students.
Harvard has at hcrdispos i! schol
arships, varving in amount from to
i"iO, averaging about il'-i'i. In the
frcdiiunu year there are two assign
ments made ami it is possihl lor a
hard student to receive filnd in scholar'
ships during the lirst year a sum more
than sullii'ient to pay all bis expenses.
Here aid is given to stmb'-its who are
needy and w ho stand high in tlieil
I'lass -s: but in almost all other colleges
those who intend to study for tic min
istry are the favored ones, ;md at
some colleges it is impossible for any
others to receive the slightest as-ist-iime.
Ici 'iii rent, board, and tuition
are ihe principal items in the neces
sary expenses, and ol the a- room rent
varies Mie mod. At Amherst a stu
dent pays from tos'", f,.r a single
room; at Williams, J."i to 1 t ; at
Yale, to .iloo, h 1.. Ht Harvard
the rent vau'es all the way from .fit
to id' to, with very few de-irabh rooms
lor less thai! f I.Vl. I If roiir-e if I wo
students room l"genr the rvpinse
is reduced one half. The ilillcreiii in
the second item, board is ted nearly s
great, the large numbers at the cdy
colleges rendering co operation mm h
easier and maiding the students to
procure better board at less cost. It is
posdble to get a good board for ? I a
week here at Memorial hall as could
be got at Audtcisi or any oile r college
for ijo or ?-d. Tuition ranges alt the
the way from ?IJ per year at itb'ilin,
ii.. to jJon ,,i t ulmiiliia, al lirouu,
llowiloiu, I 'ri in ot i i.i, and Williams it is
fl'; at Anihci'-t iclon al Yale, $lo.
and at Harvard c-l-'i". Ii adding to
these main items id'epen-es utl.er
neces-ary items, such a-- clothing, I ml,
washing, hook.s.eic, we can arrive at
what may be called the minimum ex
pense at the various college-. ta-
tlsticsh.ive I ii caret ally prepared al
this point, and the I iIIowiiil' may l e
said to be the eryiea.t annual e -peiidil
ure which willcirry a student
through the several college-; H iivard
S-; Yale, IJo: Amherst, Williams,
ami oth'T colleges ol t In- same stamp,
about d7-'i.
I ife on Sixpence a Hai.
An Fnglish author, ha- wiitteu a
pamphlet telling how life and heaiih
can be enjoyed nu a diet cn-ling only
a sixence a day, which w.itld be
about twelve cents of American
money. It is not the pamphlet which
we have now before us, bill a letter
from Dr. T. Ii. Allinson to the . hut
Tim", in which he sas that he has
lived for a month on a purely vege
tarian diet, doing his usual amount of
work, and even gaining in weight.
His breakfast consisted of a porridge
made of a mixture of wheatuical and
oatmeal, bread fried in relined cotton
seed oil and a cup of cocoa. For din
ner he had a thick vegetable soi.p
with bread, potato pie, vegetarian pie
vegetable stew, stewed rice and
tomatoes, followed by a dessct of
plum pudding, stewed rice and fruit,
baked sago, tapioca and apples, stewed
prunes, tigs and raisins. At tea he ate
bread and jam and stewed fruit, lie
would not have us umler-tand that he
ate all these things with each meal,
but the above was the bill ol fare from
w hich hu could pick ami choose. He
thinks there is more nutrition in such
a diet than in the use of Mesh, which
contains To per cent, of water.
Furthermore, lie speaks correctly in
charging that the nitrogenous sub
stance of Mesh taxes the liver, kidneys
and lungs, and induces bilious troubles,
hemorrhoids, stomach catarrh, gall
stones, rheumatism and gout. He
thinks that the incrcese of cancer in ry
be traced to excessive meat diet.--Jl.iiltli
Moul hh.
Ihe Oldest Itaiik Note.
The oldest bank note probably in
existence in F.urope is one preserved
in the Asiatic Museum at M. Peters
burg. It dates from the year l i'.t.t i.
C, and was issued by the Chinese Cuv
ernment. It can be proved from Chi
nese chroniclers that, s early as Jil'dT
II. C. bank notes were current in
China under the name of "Hying
money." '1 he bank note preserved at
St. Petersburg bears the name of the
Imperial bank, dale and number of is
sue, signature of a mandarin, and con
tains even a list of the punishments
indicted lor forgery of notes. This
relic of -,i h m years ago is probaMv
written, for printing from wooden
tablets is said to have been introiluc. d
In China in the year It ki A D.
i nn; i i.oatim; i,.kdi;.ns.
i
A S'li 'i i-iii'i Si.hl Ncui' Mi
' ( it v i d M XI'.').
I'la'fli Where Iiriici dm V.v.":ilil-! an l
Flowers f i row Luxuriantly.
j "We visited the celebrated lloaiing
1 gardens," writes a correspondent in
Mexico, "w hen a tract of vegetation
composed of reeds, water-plants and
bushes, interwoven and 1 iced together,
becomes so dense that it will bear a
supei-iructiire, strips ol tail' twenty
to thirty yards long by two vards wide
iire cut I ioiii some suitable linn place,
' lloalcd to il down the canal and laid
upon it; tiiis is repeated several times,
I tmd thus an island is sccim-ly raised
'two or three feet above tb level ol
Ihe wa'er, a little soil is spread over it,
and il bee .lines n cliinauipa. r lloatiti'.'
garden, on which Indian corn, vege
tables and ilnwiTs are grown. The
'gardens vary in size, ('pan loa to Joo
' feet in length and from twen'y to I'"'
( in widi h, according to the nat tire ul the
vegetation whi' h supports t hem.
I "To s eiire these gardens in their
1 proper places long willow poles are
' driven through them into I ' ground
below, w here they s ooti ta'-.e root. Th"
poles also throw mil roots into the
beds of the ilo it ing irardi ns, and so
hold them steady.
"We took a line of .-treet cars and
Were landed near an old !-paiiish
bridire, alongside of which we found a
liiiinhi r of miserable il.it -boats covered
with awnings, with a seat on each side
covered mill re i ciln I. Weleddour
iio-es a-well as our breaths. I 'pen
leaving the city the laual i. lined o'i
both sides Willi beanlillll trees of II, e
species of Ihe Weeping willow, oldv
that they are .pi t lad. I h" City
Mate, or local cu-..in house, is I hen
pa-sed. Here are to be -ei-n m iii;.
.boat- laden with luiub-r, lir. wood.
! Vegetables, frillls, lloWers, etc., ;ll'
ing to pay toll. lame da ly revenue
is derived Irotn this source by the go
' eminent. The slal wait Indians -w ill
ly polo the 1 1 mi the st ream loi
lipoid ten minutes 1 1 , and vanta
Anila is re.iclie I. This i- mi old In
ban village, wh c!i h i- undergone Ic.n
r no chanues for tin- la-t :ioo y, m,,
f Uel-Xcept the public School f,i' boys
Hid gil ls, and a small chilli b. It is a
. favorite pleasure resort for theinhab
Hants nf Mexico, especially during the
I minmer months, and is rendered doiil -
ly attractively by the nuuicroii- chi
iiampasor floa'ing gardens found in it
i vicinity, on which are trrow u in n
markable abundance veg I ible- id a!
kinds and beautiful flowers, whir', an
t
' sold lor a lucre trnle.
I The water in tic i.ilKil vva. the
' color of di-h-water. At -anta Anita
i
Vie entered a liaiToW 'lib '' n-t wh:r
1 e gb bn our boat. The lit t b- bo.v
! w ho pulled t he boa! vnth it b ug pole
! worked manfully. We p i e I by i
j number of Women w ,i -lung cloth' s :
Hi i batiks, an I using ailal -'mica-a
washboard. The gardens surpii- a
' and plea-ed us. Ili-re was a -ma'.'
j -trip of laud of, -ay, Jo I eel wideb.
I loo deep, surround'-1 by w ater, pro
during the liiie-t. it onions, aiioMic
cabbages, anoMier rid. -he-, anothet
carrots, another ilovvcis, and soon, foi
' at least a mile a succession of tin
! best cultivated Hardens I i cr .-aw
These Mexican Indians are the In i
i gardeners in the Woiid aside Ir 'in tie
((iennuns. Their ta thols arc rud.
1 b .t they know how to cultivate the,!
: garden patches. U'i our return vv
met boat loads of bov - and girls sine
J ing and laughing a they slow ly glid"'
! along. It was mc a Venetian scene,
i but it -bowed that the brow n-.-h"iil
j deled, black-eyed Indian gill coiif
dream and talk of love."
! Ili't tliiiveii'- Luck of II iir.
j llCI'tholCII took a I. cell llel.eht
I practical joking. The wile of a piano
I forte player and composer m Viciin.
i had such an ardent desire to pus-e.s ;
j lock ol liccthov en's h lir tha' she in
iluccd lu r hii-baud to a-k a mutu i
; friend to endeavor to get the giv.O
j comp iser to gratify her wish. Tie
j friend proved too bind id a practa i
joke to be a loyal messenger. lie p.-l
1 Sliadcd liccthoVell to send tor .1 loik
I id coarse gray hair rest inbling hi
j own, but cut li'i'in another head i
billy goat's, and clipped from a billy
goat's beard!
The lady, thinking she had the gen
nine article, was a-proud as a peacock
but lu r joke was short-lived, lor an
other friend, a parly to the trick whi't
had been practiced, informed her o
the deci'i lion.
'I he husband of the deluded and dis
tressed lady wrote an indignant letiei
lo lieethovcn, upbraiding him; and ,-i
fa.rly was the i ipos-r shinned in
theiliseourlesv and uiikindn si of tin
jest in w hii h he had joined that In
W roil- a letter of apology ,i Uie
grie d lady, enclosing a real lock o
bis lia r, and theucelortii refused tin
vis.it; ot the instigator of such tuigal
laul pi Helical joking.
'Papa Ciim'I Mini Me."
' . la c . lo I le u ,n Ihe hull;
I . i ! V .-I -HI el -il'.el l.iildl, lh:ll is ii 1 1 -
udci. I' bill, I- I ll'l liei k ll.'l I Ilieli-Jlt.
I've l,. s j;l. I I U'.i M -. M-I V I'l li'l.
I -.o hill" lliill-l- i wee I.i. ii I.i -ell'Cll.
!;... . I, iiii iimi - i-Luii lo i.i- -e n.
'VV I.i ii- i- no i ic. i. i'l- I vi- mi I -oi'll di'V?"
l'.l I cull I 1,11 I nil-' ' till- J.letll li'- -iy
III II lie-' I ui.hlil III II- Il iliV IMII lie'"
'-.Sol In il e I'll! ii nil. I let oil tile -t in
'I I,' II I lici-- I ci , under I He -ul:l unit ellilil n'
Ilic .lei hoi.- i. i- h.c.v lii.ioliiiii.- .M.lilit;
'I Ul, il! I !e Hi III- lOElh-i IiiV lll-ik C il-' llll tiht,
lion,,. .; ihl.el In mid lone.
Wl. Ii . ,,. i i .i I Undum, iii .illili' -IC'CVII--
.X I,, fi,i;r,; HnlkUli.
' lUHOKlltS.
A '1' iler in w ild a nnuls say-: that
girulles i-iiiue high.
tie ire Wadiingioii was the origi
nal t :"', eminent I 'a p.
A giri I,, i'. i,e a good violin player
ami yet nut I e able to draw a beau.
Actual occurrence: Kittle girl at
i'1'e.ikf.ist table Mamma, this is very
old l ibtei ; I have loiind a grey hair in
it.''
A cow n killed for itself while a
seal is killed f.-r it- skin. It i.- all the
same to l'ic:n both, relatively, how
v er.
A m. or ' o-ifi al to live in an oleo
liinr.Nii Mie b -ardiug bouse dies not
know "ii which sid" his bread is but
ler. I.
"I d ni 'I fi-el well," was the remark,
ol t In-i ii pentei- ,is he separated the
cm -iil.il- -.i.v lio.n li s baud and found
he a. miu 1 1 i hive lingers and a
thumb.
A liio'ln i .sent her boy over to the
, neighbor'.-, t,, a pail of sour milk.
When told that i hey had only sweet
milk thai morning, he said, "Will, I'll
i w nil. till it j sour."
"Did y,,ii not , dear, at the party
la-t evi ning h"H gi andly our daughter
, laia went in1. i th.- room':'" Hus
band t w it h a gi tint i -I ih. yes, Clara
i an sv.eep into. i room grandly i Hough,
lilt When II collie:, lo sVVl Cpltlg ollt a
room .-lie I .n'l their."
" h.V do Villi set sll'di ;i lollgh
in- i ii Li bue inc" indig.-mtly ex
cl. limed a I nr damsel in a icstaurani.
the oilier day. 'Age before beauty,
alvvavs. y,,i know lua'iiia." replied the
pollt" a!lendaiit, wh i well knew how
lo -ere his eiii'lo.ver and a lough
chicken al t he -alne t Hue,
file I ill. me Vender.
j "-oiiio venrs ago, when I lirst saw
, him, he had a number of .small plaster
bii-l-oi a -miling ihild's I.i, r. The
workmanship was much belter than
;ihe ordinary character ot such arti
cles, and the face wit-, repealed with
suilicieiit initio nine in hall adoen
bil-ts to s-lo'W that they were all copies
ef some III" lei.
'Air tlnsc likclie-ses of any child,
i. r lie re tain head-'r" was asked of
the image cinba'.
" l ad rr, my bit le girl Tita." said he,
and he laughed and showed a set of
w otidei I ally white and perfect teeth.
Dors it look like herv"
"tih, vies," he exclaimed, w it It an
earliest protest in his tone against the
i 1 1 1 1 1 ; i .t 1 ii ol that bis art was faulty.
A few days ago I saw the same man
w il h a basket I ul of small cads on his
' arm. "-topping him from idle curios
ity, one of the heads was taken from
the basket and examined. It wasTi'.i
again, ju-t as -he had been years ego
ilic-aiiie smiling, happy child-face.
You still copy your daughter's lace
as it u-cil to be'r said the writer.
: The in. in looked surprised, and then
his face clouded.
' on told me once long ago that
this was your little girl Tita whose
lace you modeled. Has she not
changed, and does she not look older V"
He took oil his tattered hat, and his
voice t leiiiblrd as he answered:
i "Tita ees dead, but I see ye face in
e clouds, signor. she i i s dead, and
no changa."
thcr-lmes for Siniiehiiilv.
A through train on the liock Island
stopped a few moments at Idiolewood
station the other day. A passenger
got oil to walk around a little. As
thetrain began to move again the pas
senger jumped aboard, but just then
he ill- vi red thai he had but one
ov ershoe. Thinking that he had drop
pel the other Home place on the phit
! form, and, a- the train was going jt,m
last for ban to jump oil and recover
il, he pulled off the remaining slu
j ami threw it nut on the platform, ex-
claiming: "There, that makes ag I
i pair of ov ershoes I'm somebody." di
j tering the car he pmc. rdi d to ids seat.
There to his gn at a-i "iii-hinciit. was
his olher over dioe. A look of intense
lisgUHt came upon his f.K'e, but he did
lot hesitate, (iiih-kly picking up the
lone arctic be hurried lo the platform,
j brew the shoe as far as he could hii'-k
owanl the other one and shouted: "liv
iminy, there is a pair of overshoes for
ioiueboibj. -1 7i '.' Ili'inlit.
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