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VOL. VIII.
lTITSIi)li CHATHAM CO., X. C, MA V 27, 1880.
NO.
I)c l)ntl)MU ttccorb.
fttattem
Forward.
Push on, bravo bart, nor yet despair,
Though dark ami dreary swiii tin- way,
Tby sun will 6hin from skies as fair
As ever graced tin- coming day.
And ever keep before thine eyes
The heroes of the mighty past ;
Think how they strutted for the prii,
And thou shall surely win at last.
Push on, as som? brave swimmers do,
Over storm-capped waves of life,
Strike out against the undertow,
And come off victor in the strife.
Push on, and win a lasting name
The nations of the earth among,
Nor stoop to use as stops to fame
Tby fellow men who round you throng.
Pit h on, and when thou gnin'st the day,
Heiin-nibcr these brave words of mine;
Itcar up beneath c:i.-h darkene 1 ray,
Thy sun is waiting but to shins
Willi tenfold glory from above.
Thaf hour i,s darkest next thediiwiij
fciiitvss is e 'i tain. Do not fear.
Put let th" WHtehward be-Push on.
.ni7, (An ii'iico in Ihhuil Five Vrsft
THE SQUIRE'S APPLES.
"Such pre tty apples!" cried Limn t
Dessoir, ecstatically. "With red clucks,
just as if a fairy pencil had painted them,
find tlelieiou., bloomy st eaks here ami
there! I should like to ropy them on a
pimple or apmelor something, if only
one could be sup- of iTpioilm big those
1 dirut lint- of ro e Mini white!''
"WeF, I declare!" said Hose Hebron,
the country cous;n, w hom she was vis t
itiir, laughing with a merry, thrush-like
laugh, as (he (wo girls sat on a Inoss-manii-lcd
builder i.mh r the boughs of
the lady-applc-trce, with here and there
ii yellow leaf fluttering dreamly down at
their feet. "Who would tl renin of such
ii poetical description applying to the ap
ples that mow in Squire Sundford's or
chard r"
"Wasn't it g I of liiiu to allow us to
gather them;" said I.iuncl, trimming the
side leaflets off a lovely bnnicli of vcllow
golden-rod.
'1 shall not believe that tin y are ab
solutely mil's though," declared Hose,
"until I see them in the old apple-b n t
home."
"Why not ;"
"0!i, Squire ( V lric is cr centric!" Hose
answered, caivlcs-ly.
"C ilric! J, that his name."
"Ves. 1-ii't ii an odd relic of the
Saxon I im.-v Implied If i-e.
"It's a Very r en intic name," n marked
Limi t, wrinkling her brows in pretty
en i-idi ration of the rpilhct.
'" isn't romantic,'' uhservc I Kose.
"Isn't he J But why not :"
"He's so oi l ! Thirty, at least !" I( ie
responded, with an emphatic nod of tin
head. "Horrid ogre!" said Linnet, who was
in her seventeenth year. "Come, Ruscy,
let's o home. I'.n as hungry as a canni
bal ! Gathering apples is suci hard work !"
She skipped ahead, with her yellow
tress s flouting behind, like stray strands
i f sunshine, and her white dress rus ling
over till' drifts of perfumed Ieav.sth.it
carpeted the path.
Hose fol'owed, ' with affectionate eyes
of admiration.
"What is the difference bet ween me
and Linnet?'' she asked herself. "My
dress is white also; my hair is as "olden
as hers. Why is it that she is like a
flam ing; sprite !, a plod I i ii iff human bo-iu.-i
f '
IV.or little lto-y! She did not realize
that Linnet I . -- i r had grown up in an
al tog. thei different .ttiunspheiv; that Lin
net had iincnnseioiidy modeled her dress
from the jjr.iia fill robes which her father,
the artist, kept to drape his lay-figures;
that her eye had been trained, her taste
cultured, in every possible point.
"He's only a poor strii-Tgling aiti-t !"
Firmer Ib-hiou ha-l been wont contemp-toii-ly
to ob-erve, when he saw his blot h-cr-in-lrv's
name among the li t- special
ly honored by tic Academy of Design.
"Il- 's a good follow enough," Lugi-in-D-
s-oir airily remarked, when bis agricul
t Uliil conn clioii happ ned to be men
tioned, "lint he ha-u'l an idea be
yond his own fat cattle! lb-don't live;
he only veget it si"
Linnet, h nvever, the bright, mother
less young beauty, was a great favorite of
the kind-heart" I Hebr.nis; and when she
had so ethusiasticiilly admired the beau
tiful p'n'i-and -white lady-apples on Squire
fci'iiidfnrd's tree, Mr. Hebron had gone so
fur out of hio way to ask the sipiire for a
barrel.
"Just to please the litth- irirl," -iii I he.
"She thinks a drill of pretty tilings."
"Shi; is ipiite welcome,'' said Squire
Saiidford, with formal politeness. "If
you will scud a han't 1 to the tree to-morrow,
Mr. Hebron, it shall be tilled for
your niece."
And when the sipiire said this he pict
ured in his mind's eye the aforesaid nice,,
as a romp of eleven or twelve, with
shingk-d hair, freckles and preteriuitural
ly long arms.
All night long Linnit Dcssnir dimmed
of the buly-apples, and w hen the sua
rose, a sphere of rubied tire, above the
eastern hills, she jumped out of bed mid
dressed herself w ith haste.
"I can't sleep another minute," sai
he. "It's just the very sort of moriiiu .
to walk nut across the woods and look a:
the lady-npplo-treo, w ith the little sprim
gushing out so close to its roots, and th
bhc! asters, and thickets of golden -rod
by the stone fence. I won't wake Host
Itosy was up late hist night, putting la
bels on the quince jelly. I'll let her
sleep, and go by myself!''
Hut Miss Hebron was no more of a lag
gard in the morning than was her city
c u-in. At .seven precisely she knocked
at Linnet's door, but the bird had llown.
"How provoking!" said Hose. "Hit
I'll follow her. Sin- must have gone to
try to make that sketch of the old mossy
rock close to the h.ily-appIo tree! I won"
der if she knows that my father has pss
tured Ajax in the adjoining Held?"
"Aja.x'' w s a savage, beautiful bull,
who was at once the pride and torment
of Farmer Hebron, and a thrill of terror
came i lit Hose's heart as she made all
iced to follow the dewy track of Liu
net's fool -tcps over the grass.
As she reached the bell of woods close
to the apple-orchard, she paused in dis
may at the sound of a sweet, high pitched
voice.
It' Li'inet!" she involuntarily x-c'aiin-il.
" And she".- scolding some
body. I) ar ine, wh-mi can it be .' Sure
ly not Ajax !"
"You are a thief!" she could hear Lin
nit exclaim -"a robber! Let that bar
rel of apples alone. I say. I don't care
whether you arc Sipiire Sand ford or not.
That barrel ol apples is mine!"
And as Ho-e drew m ar, she could see
this dimpled young Ama.oii resolnt- Iv
defending tin barrel of apples, with her
single strength, ag.iiii-l Sipiire Siudfor l
and his stouli-st farm laborer.
Sin stood there, with one slight hand
on the red chicked fruit, which was
brimming over the b.-iirel-hoops, ami be
fore her the tall sipiiiv and his herculean
ii' l-de-cainp were helpless.
"If you will allow mc to explain
pacifically began the sipiire.
"I ill allow not hing !" declared Lin
net. "I repeat, these apples ure mine !
Touch them, at your peril !"
Thus fur the joii g heioiii" was a urn
quen ii. Hut alas! in tiiat v- rv moment
I i f victory Nemesis w;is at hand. There
I was the dull sound of trampling hoofs,
' then a sullen bellow, and Ajax hinisel'',
I bur-ling through a weak spot ill the
fence, w as upon them.
Linnet Dessoir collapsed, silo speak,
at once. Sh" forgot le r heroism, her
dignity - evi rything but her danger, and
ll -w, for rescue, to S.piire S iidfoid,
shrieking :
"Save lie ! save n:e !"'
Th-' farm hand dogi-l b hind the
wagon; but S iiire San lord iiev. r
ipiailcil, but bebl her n solutely in bis
.11 Ills.
"Do not be afiaid," In- said, almost as
if In ha I been - pi akin r to a liighleie. il
i liild. "Nothing -hall harm you, little
one !"
For an in-tanl, things look vi ry black ;
then Sipiire S.indford spoke gently once
more.
"Do not hold my arm -o lightly," said
he, "Let me get at my revolver. I 11111-1
shoot the brute! No, don't be so terri
fied. Do not you hear me say that uoih
ing should harm ijh ;"
And then the piobl-in resolved itself,
us problems often do. Ajax. butting his
hu;re head against the barrel of lady-apples,
si nl tie in rolling in all direction-,
and caught his horns in the barrel itself,
effectually blinding him. He set off at a
w ild gallop dow n ihe hill, bellow ing as
In: went, and there In ne t hi-, fate in the
shape oi two or tiii'cc un-ii willi a run
ning noose of rope and a good stout
chain.
"Ibllo, pet!" shouted Farmer Heb
ron's voice. "What's the mutter.' She
hasn't fainted, has -he. Mpiircff"
And Linnet, realizing that she w as safe,
blushinly withdrew' fr.i.n.Mr. Sandford's
sheltering itrnis, an. I ran to her mu le.
"1 am much obliged to you, sir,"
she whispered. "And please - please
don't mind what I said about the apple-.
Ynil are iililr welcome to t Ill-Ill .' '
"Hey; Apples!" said Mr. Hebron.
"Why, Linnet didn't you know that I
carted the barrel of apples that Ihe
sipiire gave you home last night."
Linnet grew crimson all over, and lied
to Hose's faithful breast lor consolation.
I I shall never dare to look that man
in the face again," she bewailed herself,
"Oh, dear oh, dear, what muni he have
thought of me!"
Hut of course Mr. Sandford considered
it only righ and proper to call that eve
ning, and impure how .Miss Dessoir
found herself; mid really the meeting
was not half as embarrassing as Linnet
had fancied it would be.
They hud a good laugh about Ajax
and the apples; and Linnet confessed
how dreadfully frightened she had been.
"And with reason," said Sipiire Hand
ford. "Then? was a second or two in
which c were in very serious danger."
"Hut you will forgive me about the
apples?" said Linnet, with pretty, coax
ing earnestliess.
"Oh, yes, I will forgive you about the
apples!" Sipiire Sandford laughingly
returned.
And in that moment Linnet thought
what a very pretty color his eyes were,
decided that he couldn't possibly be
thirty years old.
r
"Isn't it strange," said Hoe Hebron,
"that we have lived neighbor to Kquire
sandford nil these years, and he has nev
r been more than ordinarily polite to
ic? And here comes Li. i net, and ipinr
cls with him at five minutes' notice, and
-alls him all sorts of names, and ni
they are engaged to be married, and
am to be the bridesmaid."
"Not at nil strange!" said MK Dessoir.
"To me it seems it i, ice and natural as
possible. Hut you are mistaken about,
his age, Kosy, He is only twenty-nine.
And if he were a hundred and twenty
nine. 1 should love him all the same."
"Of course," said Hose; that is what
all engaged girls say." -- Fnre.-t
i r i nt.
Turkish Public Amusements.
The public amusements of the Turks
consist of imijil it y '1111111, n;.!-;,'. nn 1
the imililiili, Mcydaii-oyoonoo is a sort
of low burlesipie, acted by men only and
without a stage, the changing of cos
tumes being effected behind a tempora
ry screen. The kara g'eo, is the Turk
ish 'I'liiuh and Judy.'' rendered in
shadows, a white sheet being stretched
across one of the aii-'lcs of tin- room di-
: a'.'onally, forming the base of a triangle,
behind which the pirfornier takes bis
: -laud, and by the force of a strong light
, casts the ".shadows of coining events" on
the sheet. And the nieddah is the fa
mous story-teller of the Last, The ab
sence of works of fiction, and the general
ignorance of the people, who do not
even know how to read, make the narra
tives of the meddahs ijuite acceptable to
tin- public, wh- flock to hear lli. in for
pa-time, for the Jove of the marvellous is
too powerful ill the warm and imagina
tive nature of the p-ople of that sunny
clinic to remain without sonic dctclop
lueiit. Hence their popularity. Then,
again, lhc.se meihlnhs are not destitute of
dramatic power, entrancing their atten
tive audiences by the magnetism of high
ly a rough! fiction, exaggerated descrip
tion, and ,1-ffective mimicry. Indeed,
some of them have ac -piired a renown for
heir specialty. Fi Ahmed, or Lady
Aluie-d, is so named on account of his
successful ability in "taking off'' the la
dies, and I'i.i j. mill U noted lor the "pa
ll;, lie." Thcv exercise
,ii
I:
I lii.iln of their own, and are by the cx
j cited fancies of the people invested willi
a genii-like power, as they condense into
i a passing hour the sci n.-s of an eventful
lite, or detail the enchantments of fairy
j doin. In fact, these meddahs occupy
! tin-Orient il lecture ji Id. and mi festive
j occasions provide a mo-t welcome part of
: the entertainment. Their tales, gcneral
! ly vulgar, to irl public taste, are often
u-'t devoid of some good moral, and
! their i omii alitia.s hold uji sum popular
vice to public derision. JI.,i r'.i I'.i .ir.
Ill nil African Purest.
At this juncture the native guides ar-
rived, having followed in our foot-tcps,
; anxious to th,. n -ult of our sclf-guid-
ance. Wishing to transfer my le-pon-i-!
bility to other should -is I ofTeri d them a
present of cloth if tiny would lead us
through the trackless forests to the pre
cincts of liomho; whence I knew we
could liud our way unaided to TaM-il.-i.
Tin'V consented and once more weeuleri d
th" dusky woods, following a igag
course by means of the r ugh paths
w hu h elephants had ju-l in .do. illh ii
the long stemmed flown-, and crush) d
-lained glass would In- slowly i i-ing erect
again from ihe prostrate position into
which they had been trampled by the
j fei t of the clumsy proboscidians, tln-e
j lords of the l'ore-t who had ju-t pre, i dol
; lis. III. 1. e.l, llolll time to time they
' would mal:e their presence known by
'sonorous trumpeting, but as liny wire
j ipiite n ware of our proximity they look
good care to conceal their huge bodies.
! The undergrowth was so dense that voii
might have touched an elephant in your
glopings before you saw him; but above
this dense tangle of six or seven feet in
height rose the straight smooth trunks of
Mipcrb trees; inilccd, the timbir i saw
here whs except ionnlly line. The gloom
of the forest was j 1 1 1 1 ii - i li. 1 1 by the enor
mous masses of orehilla weed w hich grew
thickly on the upper branches of the
trees, in such a manner a- t i suggest a
gray, green cloth being thrown over the
foliagi'. Tin' density of the woodland
growth was alino-t appalling; we fell like
insect creeping and twining through the
interstices of the mighty trunks. As we
preferred to go w hither tin-elephants hail
forced a way, our course was naturally
an erratic one, and several times the men
lay down in despair to pant and rest.
. 11. Julin.-li,i,.
An Kxe uliui Se-sion.
She was the daughter of a S.-nalor ami
her sweetheart had been to see her every
night for some time. Her father became
somewhat aiaimcd, mi. I this morning he
called her into his -tody.
"Will, papa," siie said sweetly, "you
sent for me. What is il 1"
"My dear daughter," he replied, "I
believe Mr. Illauk has hi en to sec you
cvrry night for some lime past;"
"Yes, papa."
"And he whs here last night J"
"Yes, pupa."
"Well, daughter, I want to know
what occurred between you during your
protracted interview in the parlor. I ask
it, my child, because I have especial rea
sons for wishing to know."
"Dear papa," replied the girl with
tears in Iter eyes, "I do not doubt your
right to ask what occurred there; but,
papa, it was an executive session; nnd,
papa, you would not have mc divulge tht
secrets of such a inci ting, would youi"
The old man never said a word in re
y. Wathington Critic.
A TALK ON Til I KYI'S.
i
Wlint.n City Points Inspector
i Knows about Tlioiu.
No E-j! lei- th in other Men, bud Helps 1
i by Timid People's Foare.
! "Many people have an idea," said In-
spector Steers recently, - that burglars,
j Mid other lawbreakers, whose line of busi
. ids- is attended with personal danger,
are built mi a different pattern from the
I average human being. They arc supposed
to be without fear and to carry in their
- nature- a large amount of terrifying mate-
rial, ready to be set off at a moment's no
i lice. They are supp d to be rough,
gruff and careless of human life. This is
Irii ' in some iiist.inei-s, but in the gn at
; majoiily of case- thieves differ little in
j tin se rcspci-ts from the ordinary i j u.
Tiiey d-ni'l like to work, are hiy and
tin ir org. in of a ipii-itiv--ness is not regu
lated by a cultivate I conscience. It i
ilillii il't to uudei'sta ul why a man with a
wile and family, who moves in good so
ciety, has an income large enough to live
in comparative luxury, and is respected
by everyone, becomes a thief. He has
even thing to make his life happy, and
yet wiil give it all up to have n little'
more money. It looks a good deal like a
disease which comes over a man, and he
cannot help giving up to its influence.
Prisons arc f-iil of just such people.
"Thieves when committing crime al
way have in Inind a way to e-eape if de
tected. 1'hey do not w ant to be caught or
killed. Tin y will take desperate chan
ces to get away. If a life stands in their
way of escape, lin y will take it, not as a
mailer of hatred or pleasure, but as a
part of their uluilition and trade, lint
this in every case i- only a last re-orl,
and no thief w ill add murder to his crime
unless certain he can gel away. As a
ruie they nre not to In- b are I. A show
of nerve will always imbalance them.
This applies particularly to the police
man, liven though they know that they
have an advantage over a man who wakes
up suddenly jn the night and finds a
stranger prowling around they will re
spect and fear liiiu, if he doesn't show
any sign of fright. Sealed people help
along their business. Hut a policeman is
on n:i npial footing with a thief in re
gard to being awake and sinned. If lie
i- pot -c-miI of the real genuine n rve, the
ca-e is - oon settled, .Old the lln'ef will us
il. illy siiircuilcr without trouble. Hlull'
will not do. A thief cm s.-,. n lurking
sen-)' of fear in an olli. .-r'-. In-art, and
will make things lively il he liud- il. A
ipiii t determination on tl Ilio r's pari,
that in. lie. He- a supreme i onlidencc in br
own ability to take his ui in or men into
custody, a-if it was an cM-ry day affair,
is what takes the starch em -if tin- bold
est rascals.
"Policemen Ireipicntlv get into tight
places. W'I.eu tll.-v get out of t llclll
I alive, am1 think what tle y have gone
: thioii -h. 1 have -iceu the most stout
i hearted of lli tn shake a litil-. A good
1 man will never know hi- danger until it
I is over. If he should stop to think when
! there ale many i bailees against him, he
would be Ii U. !y t ) I--- his grit, lb
i nui-t think and act liK--a ll i-li. Iluut-
ing lor a thief in a dark hoii-e is what
will try a man. The rccollectioii of
piaccs 1 have been in at tinn-s during my
j long experience as an ollieer will bring
! on a chill of fright. 1 wi ll remember a
; lively buielar I wa nt after many years
I ago- An alarm had been given, nnd I
! iiad him located in the second story of a
high building', lie was c.i'mly picking
! out the ino-t valuable articles to take
away when I surprised hint. He was a
tall sinewy and slippery fellow, and at
Ihe first s, ,nii. I 1 made he made a leap as
j il shot from a cannon. l p the st-i-rs he
flew like a streak, and I went alter him.
i lie evidently knew th. building; I did
1 not, and hit every obstruction I could
fuel. He gained the inof when I was
' half way up the stairs leading to the
I scuttle, and when I got there I could just
I see his figure in Ihe darkness going like
, the wind. 1 followed him without hesj.
tation and whi n he got to the side of the
! house hi- stood a second mid then jumped.
I was going so fas that I want right off
the hou-e without knowing where I
would laud. Il se. uied in the cmil'ii-iou
as if I went down lift v feet, before I
stun k anything. Then 1 landed Mpian-
on my feet with a force that i rly shook
my teeth out, I thought for a moment
that I had fallen between two houses.
was light on the thii l"s heels ami before
he could take a s, p, I caught him. I
was sore from that fall and 1 did not put
a tender grip on the fellow. He did not
struggle ami I took him in ipiii tly. The
next day I went ar ilud to look nt the
houses, mid found that I had pimped
from oue roof to another, it distance of
from fifteen to twenty feet. I never got
over the shock from that jump. My
ankle was severely sprained, and though
many jcars have since pissed, the ankle
is still barometrical indicate) an ap
proaching storm and is exceedingly pain
ful at times in damp weather. Xt if
l'ml TrUnin,'.
1 xpi I ieueeil.
"Are you pretty well acipiainted with
your mother tongue, my ho) f'' asked the
school-teacher of the new scholar.
"Yes, sir," answered the lad, timidly,
"Mil jaws nn- a good deal, sir." Jlnr
Umj'vn free l'rem.
Mississippi Jug Indiisliy. j
A correspondent of the Atlantic Cm
'il utinii. "writes from a Mississippi town
as follows: Five perambulating liipioi
shops have been corralled in Lake county
and turned over to the I nited States
Maishal Freeman. The four-mile law
flourishes in all i s pristine glory at Tip- 1
t mi v il lc, and the amount of "smiling
done has been large. The imir-Jial re- ,
i cived complaii ts from the temperance
people of Lake that there was more
drunkenness, more hoodlumi-m and mure
ruffiiiisiu than when saloons were pi-i
milted; that then- were no places where
liiptor was sold, and yet barrels of it
were consumed every month. This pe
culiar statement led to an investigation,
it was discovered that whiskey was"
shipped from Memphis in bottles, jugs
and kegs, nnd in considerable iplaiititv.
to Lake county, but the mysteiy was
how it found its liery way inlo the
throat of the people. Tin- invitig.-ition
leslllted in the discovery that there were
alooiis iii Lake county, about seven in
all, and that they wen- unlio n-ed, Mid
moved about from place to place. No
rent was paid, no shelter being necessary.
Then; was no bar. and yet plenty of bot
tles. The proprietors of these gin mills
carrie I their saloons about w ith them.
Their cunts were provided with pockets,
si-wed in the lining, each pocket contain
ing u flask. If a Tiptonvillian happen
ed to be dry it was only iiecessaiy for
him to waik along until he nn t the ino-t
corpulent-appearing man he ever saw,
w ink his eve and w alk behind the near
est house. In a twinkling a flask and a
tin cup would be produced, two or three
lingers swallowed, a dime handed over
and the saloon moved on in search of I
other dry nu n.
I seful llinls. I
When a selling In n is too indisposed i
to stay on the in-st continuously, h i her ,
red alternate days and lie the rooster on 1
the nest while she's resting.
The soot can be thoroughly swi pt out :
of a chimney by dropping a goose in it at ,
the top. The goose, in vainly striving to
fly upward, thoroughly cleans the chim- j
m y with its wings. j
Hy immersing the entire body in soft ;
tar before taking a bee-tree, one can n n- j
der himself invulnerable to the assaults j
of the bees. j
You call smoke u rabbit out of a hoi- j
low by smoking a cigarette i-lo-e enough
to li t the stench enter the hole. i
The scent of whi-ky on the breath I
can be subdued by sine iring asafietid.l j
on tin' moustache. j
When your bedfellow snores and re-
fuses to hush, trump up a counterfeit i
nightmare and straddle li s neck. If )
this does n't stop him, kick him out of
bed in such a way that his head will I
strike the floor lirst. The resulting cere-
bral agitation will keep him awake for 1
the rest of the night and give you a :
chance to iloe a little.
If you make a habit of keeping live
mice in your pockets, your loose change I
will be comparatively safe from your en-
ti-rprisiiig w ife. I
If you taken small step ladder with
you into the theatre it will be vi ry si r- 1
viecable when the s,ige is barrii ailed i
from view by a big hat. j
Freckles can be i. moved from tin face
with sand paper. I.ii,.
Making II Hindiiitr. 1
"I am a lawyer's daughter, you know, i
(iiorge dear," she said, after (ieorge hud
proposed and had been accepted, "and
yon wouldn't think it strange if I were 1
to ask you to sign a little paper to the 1
effect that we are engaged, would you.'''
tieorge was loo happy to think any- !
thing strange just then, ami he signed i
the paper with a trembling hand and a
bursting heart.
Then she laid her car against his mid
dle vest button and they were very hap
PJ' "Tell me, darling," said I ieorge after
loliy delicious silence, "w hy did you
want me to sign tlmt paper? Do you not
repose implicit confidence in my love for
you:"
"Ah yes," she sighed with infinite
content, "indeed 1 do; but tieorge, dear,
I have been fooled so many times."
I.ir.
What n Moorish House Looks Like.
The common type of Moorish house, as
built iii Spain, had an outer door stud
ded with thick nails ami furnished with
great knockers. This led to a long, dm k
room, ceiled w ith open timbers, boarded
or panelled bit ween, and opening into a
central court, over which was an awning
in hoi weather. This court was surround
ed by open passages, their roofs support
ed by wooden posts or granite columns,
and the staircase to the upper Hour rose
at one angle. The woodwork was gen
erally well wrought, with moulded ends
to the joins and moulded plates.
A hure Purr.
"Are you the proprietor of Dr. Coffin's
Celebrated Consumption Cure?"
"Yes, sir the present one."
"Then your naine, 1 presume, is Dr.
Collin ("
"No! I succeeded him. Dr. Collin is
dead. He died hist Fall, of nn incurable
nuihidy."
"Ah I I hadn't heard of it. May I
n-k what he died of i"
"Haven't heard? Ho died of con.
sumption," putk.
IIIII.DIIIIX'S tOLlMX.
I-ltilir I't-fri.
h in" y-ni's ago I ow ned a hi-rsi-,
' rites a corrc-- dent of the St. Louis
tjlvl,, J), i,r.i( i, with which I undertook
:o drive to a neighboring town over the
tills in the winter. A spot of hidden ice
.uddenly tripped her, and for a time it
a.-is impossible for In r to get up. Hut,
y efforts that entire!)- exhausted me, I
innlly got lu r on foot again. She never
'orgot it. My approach to the stable
Has invariable welcomed by cordial
leigh.-.; and. that not sufficing, the
would put her head affectionately on my
dioulih r or under my nnn.
On one i i a-ioii my n t Morgan i ailed
me, while I was engaged fifty rods from
tin-barn, with loud ami persistent culls
lh.it I instantly iindeivtoid meant troll
die. O dug hastily to the stables, I
found the cows had broken down a door,
mil wen- capable of doing m schief. A
...on as I approached tin- horse gave a
-atistinl whinny, followed by a long
-igii of relief, and went locating verv
.pii'-tly,
A Vuiilitf ftoblrmuit.
In an elegant palace-car entered a
weary faced, poorly dres-ei I woman, with
thne little children -one a bain-in her
inn-. A look of joy crept into her face j
i. - he - tt !)-! -low ti ii! one of the luxii- j
rious chairs, but it wa ipiiekly dispelled j
I- she was told by the conductor to go
into the forward ear,
A smile of auiti-t un lit was seen on sev
eral fan s a- the frightened group hurried
nil to en. it one of the common cars.
I 'poll one young face, however, there
was a different look.
"Auntie," said the boy to the lady be
side him, "I am going to carry my basket
of fruit and ibis box of sandwiches to
that poor woman in the next car. You
in- willing, aren't you?"
lb- spoke eagerly; but she answered:
' Don't be foolish, dear; you may need
them yourself. And perhaps the woman
would not want them."
"No. I donot need them," he answered,
decidedly. "You Know I had a hearty
breakfast. The woman looked hungry,
iiinli', and so tired, too, with those
three little children I'll In- back in v
minute. I know mother wouldn't like it
if I didn't try to be kind to those who
nn- in trouble."
Auntie biu-h-il a t- o from her eye
aftar the boy left her, and said, audibly,
".lu-t like his ili iir mollu r."
And a minute later. s the conductor
passed tin' mother ami time children,
he saw lie- family fi ti-t ing :is perhaps as
tin y had In vi r before
"Hod bless h s dear little h art," said
the poor mother, and so say we.
A M'oililt-rful Itemrily,
Any young bilks who are suffering
from the same complaint ns the little
prince in the accompanying anecdote, are
recommended to try the same medicine.
It co-ts very little, and is sure to effect a
cure.
I luce on a time there was a king w ho
had a little In whom he loved very
much. So he look a great deal of pain
to make him h ippy.
Ih gave him beautiful rooms to livi
in, and ph tun s and toys, and books
without number, lb- gave him n grace
ful, gentle pony, that he might ridi
w lieu he pl iisi-il, and a low-boat mi a
lovely I. ike, and servants to wail upon
him wheiover he went, lb- also provided
teacher-, who were to give him the k now I
edgeof things that would make him good
and great.
Hut for iiil lliis tin- young prince was
not happy, lb' wore a Irown wherever
he went, and was idwiiy- wishing foi
sometime; that he did not liae.
At length one day a magician came to
the court, lie saw the scowl on the Inn's
face, and said to the king:
"I can make your sou happy and turn
his frow n into smiles. Hut you must pay
me a good price for telling him the sc.
cret,"
"All right," said tin' king; "whatever
you a-k I will give."
So the price was agreed upon ami
paid, and then tin- magician look the boy
into a private room, lie wrote some
thing with a while substance upon a
piece of while paper. Next he gave the i
boy a i an. II d t I i him to light it ;
and hold it under the paper, nnd then
see w hat he could read. Thi n he went
away.
The boy did as he had been told, and
the white letters on the paper turned into
a beautiful blue.
They formed these words:
"Do a kindness to some our- every
day."
A Sin prising (leeiiri enre.
Smith : I never was more surp-ised in
my life limn 1 was last night.
Jonf.s: Indeed! What was tiie cause? 1
Smith: As 1 was passing along the
street two ladies came to the dour of a
house, oiii- evidently the hostess, ns she
had only n shawl wrapped around her
head, the other a visitor. As they
reached the bottom of the steps the visi
tor said : "Well, I've hud a very pleas
ant time, tiooil-night, Mniy," nnd the
other said : "(loud night, Mehitable,"
and so they palled.
Junks: What, without anothor word!
Smith: Without another word.
Jonkh: H'm! I guess they were men
in women's clothes. Motion Courier.
TV Wind ILlby.
In fumin-r the little wind baby
Is pleasant us ever you please.
And then is tin; time that, we call him
A wphyr, iohI sometimes n breeze.
Jn nut mini he gits a bit rougher.
And blows Hi" leave hither nnd yon;
Jn winter In- piles up tin- snow-drifts,
Ami thinks it most capital fun.
lint Miiieli comes, and then the wind baby
Jin- nothing- no leave and no snow.
Jyott hear him seroam down through t!m
chimney.
"Come out 1 Oh, you daren't, I know:-'
Ymitli'ii ('iiHii'ini'on
III MOKOI S.
An n'sier covers a multitude of patches.
The telephone o rator has a perpetual
holler day.
A young lady wrapped up in liersi If ;8
a delicate p.-in i !.
Two heads are li' iti i than oil'.' on a
freak hi a dime inn-emu.
Whi'ii the heart is full tin: lips are i-i-ient
: when lie man is lull it is different.
John loi-kiu wants the sewing ma
chine to go. L' t him put his ba t on the
treadle ami Work it, then.
Tin- man who in ver does any harm
might craw 1 into a cave ami stay there
ten years without being missed.
Whi n tin- -ingle young l idy works the
unmarried minister n pair of slippeis she
is try ing to w in his heart by rapturing
ills undcr-lauding.
A sniiill c iild beingask' d by a Sunday -.chm
J t -acher: "What did the Israelite
-1 nfl-i- tl y h.,. .-ro-s.-d t,.. ,, Sea;''
answered: "1 don't know, ma'am, but
I guess they dried themselves.'
An Illinois i ditorihdiacs a philanthro
pist as a so-alous person bent on doing
tie- greatest po.s-ihie good to the greatest
pos-ible number with the greatest possi
ble amount ol ollnr people's luuney.
"How do you do, Mary? I've been
Hying to catch up with you for half an
hour. I knew you just in soon as 1 set
eves on that bonnet. I've known it us
long as I can reiin inbi-r. " It is such re-nia-ks
as this that lil! the female heart
with bitterness.
A Chicago boy of fourteen year re
cently ran away from home to become a
pirate king. lie was captured by n
policeman and returned to his parents.
He didn't become that kind of a kingi
but alter n brief interview with his fnth
In- v.iis ni hing.
fiuiiig lo Sea in a Kbit hunt.
Ileeeiitly the pilot nt Madsport on the
AP-ssiv-ippi river, noticed it singular
looking craft, with two sails and a jib,
making it - way 'he- n the jetties to Sea,
but paid no paitictilnr attention to it.
Tin .e was a In nvy sen mi at I ho time,
and when she li.i I got about live miles
out into the gulf the pilot boat ruder
writer caught sight of her, nnd, seeing
that she wiis ill danger, went to her as
sistance. On reaching the strange craft it was
found that her rudder was broken and
she was iiniuana rciibh - in fiu t, that she
was an old-fashioned scow or llatboat,
with two short masts -md n jib. The
calking was coining out of tho Beams,
slu- had no bulkheads or strengthening
braces, or an similar del ice of iiiar.iie
architecture. The only living things
aboard were one man, bis wife, two ehi
dri ll, and a dog.
These adventurers were all the way
from some interior point in Arkansas, on
their way to Florida, w ithout know ledge
or even i hart, chronometer, or other
maritime appliances. There mis no
water aboard, and but little provisions.
The captain of this nondescript must
have been reading some dime novel, and
probably thought he could hitch up at
night, gel Wider and provisions, and go
ahead W believer he desired. He had, he
said, been six yi ais building this craft.
The people aboard were rescued from
death, and brought to th- city.
"Wife Iiiiei tho Milking."
"A little story" brings to nniid with
ii newiil fon e the old proverb, "truth i.i
stranger th u I'n ti m." We were talking
of what disposition to make of a kicking
cow, wl - ii our hind man said:
"I guess lean find n customer for her.
Thcr s an I 'shniiin up in It who
bought a cow of ore of our neighbors.
He told the Irishman that he must tell
hi .1 one tiling about the cow before lie
elo-ed the bargain --that the cow would
si'inctiiiic.) kick."
"The tender "liod-onbiiii 1 protec
tor" of our sex replied :
"That makes -;o difference; my wife
does the milking."
I have often he id sm h things told,
and have sometimes thought they must
have been made up "to po nt a moral or
adorn a tide." Hut this is n fact; for I
questioned the man lib .ut it, and he said
he knew it was true. Mr,nunn't Journal.
Itrnicmherlii? Faces a Specially.
Mr. Smith jut evening party) Well,
having a pleasant time, Mr. Hrown?
Mr. Hrown Ah, let. me see, where
have we met hi-fi ire? Your face is very
familiar, but for ihe life of me I can't re
call your
Mr. Smith- -My name is Smith. Wo
xv -re int-ootii'd to each other about fivo
minutes ago in the pa. lor.
Mr. Lrown Ah, yes; a . wo were. I'm
n poor lund to remember names, Mr.
Sriih, but I tit ver forget fsico. JVi
York Hun