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NO. 27.
Strictly fn Advance.
Sergeant Jasper at Fort Moultrie.
Whmx Charleston built for the Briton's
sport
Tlie spongy, hardy palmetto fort,
And the .hip with their topsails taut and
thin
Honnod over the bar at break of day,
(Inn and swivel and culverin
Sit. nit ins their murderous roundelay!
When the hissing shot was immured for
pv.d.
Ti-m' at'tt'i" 1 'mei m tne soft, sly wood,
vtMinirHi shell, from the Morel aud's deck,
Strut-!; the patriot staff, and snapped it
N.it ir. the middle, without one fleck,
Ami whivletl the flag from the rampart's
height.
pf William Jasper saw from his post.
Air?, his youns blood seething, still as a
fthost,
ST.iilit through the perilous fire leaped
down, .
Leaped down, and back, by a leopard spring,
The smoke in his eyes, erect and brown,
All in the leat of a swallow's wing.
And heUl close, close, as ho climbed aloae,
Tho tanner sacred and overthrown;
And quick, with that steady hand of his,
Notching its loops on his ramrod bare,
With a "So, my beauty!" and one frank kiss,
Flung it again to the glad, free air!
Then tho friendly tides turned clean about,
An I slipped from under the frigates stout.
And Sir Peter Parker's crippled fleet,
With its disembarking, bewildered crew,
Groped and fumbled, and got its feet,
And reeled oif into the soas anew.
'Tis the eld tale; how ours sat down
At dusk in f eir fair, beleaguered town,
We seal their valor, repeat their vows;
We keep their memories east and west ;
We sinj their praise through the happy
house;
But of Sergeant Jasper, who knows the rest?
Who asks it? Peace to his ashes cold
The Carolinian grasses fold!
To the fond boy heart, in its little hour
Symbol ami vision of loyalty,
H -image! The root whereof he was flower
Bi-ars hun Jreds, happily, such as he.
It emjwrors sle?p in their gorgeous fame;
V r us, forever, some quiet name,
In which no armorer's skill is versed,
T"t mock it history's calendar.
And mice through its ordered page to
burst
Like a headlong, glorious August star! ,
Louise I. Guiney in Boston Post
Fate of John Eamsay,M. D.
BY W. H. S. ATKINSON.
I am a physician. I have made a life
long stu-ly of the humaa brain, and
may, perhaps, l.j pardoned if I say that
my opinions upon diseases of the mind
now carry considerable weight among
members of the profession.
It is only a week or two since, I was
called to a large asylum for the insane in
Northern Ohio to examine a. case which
baffled the skill of the local doctors.
A!ter disposing of that matter I took an
unprofessional stroll through the insti
tution in company with my old friend,
the superintendent.
The asylum over which I now made a
tour of inspection was a most beautiful
building, resembling in its appoint
ment the homes of the wealthy and
opulent. We wandered through room
ufter room and along successive halls
and corridors where men and women ia
every stage of insanity passed the time
in various harmless amusements, or were
re&tlessly confined in the care of ward
ers and nuries. Of all the misfortunes
to which humanity is heir, this loss of
reason is, to ray mind, tho saddest by
far; and, though I might be expected to
have grown hardened by long years of
familiarity with all phases of weak in
tellect, I never cease to feel devoutly
thankful for that greatest of all benefits
conferred upon men by a beneficent Cre
ator a sound brain.
We had passed through tho greater
part of tho enormous institution and
wero approaching that portiou of the
building set apart for the rcsiJence of
the superintending physician my
friend, Dr. Habcrshon. Taking from
his pocket a key, Dr. Habershon in
serted it in tho keyhole of a door. Be
fore turning it, he looked at me in a
strange manner and said: "If you
were not an old med., Hartly, and as
fnmiliar with strange cases as I am my-r
H-lf, I should warn you to keep your
'ountenance and betray no surprise on
e.iterhg here. And I speak, anyhow,
f-o as to be on the safe 6ide." So say
ing he turned the key in the lock and
opened the door. Wc quietly entered a
very neat but plainly furnished room,
ncl I confess that, although I have
witnessed queer, weird, wild and, oft
Hiqcs blood-curdliDg sights, I never felt
startled in all my life a3 I did at that
moment. The room was not by any
means dark, for it was well lighted by
a large window running all along one
sde, but placed above tho reach of a
roan, even though he should stand upon
u chair; yet at the farther end of the
oom I noticed a student's lamp burning
fver a plain pine-wood table, upon
which rested a human skull and some
wiiting paper. Seated at this table,
pencil in hand, was a man about the
fame age as myself and Dr. Habershon
(40 years) gazing intently upon the
skull. What startled me so severely
as the fact that when I had last seen
that man more than fifteen years 6ince
1 had seen him in exactly
uch a position, with precisely similar
surroundings. And yet, what a dif
ference! Then he had just graduated
at the head of his class from our col- j
lege, and was looked upon as one of the
most promising young physicians in tho (
country now, he was a hclple3s maniac!
"Ramsay?" I involuntarily queried,
only partially believing my own eye
sight. Habcrshon nodded. "You need
not speak to him; he woa't r.ply. It is
just 6 o'clock. He will sit at that table
gazing ct tho old skull until daybreak
and then he will throw himself upon his
bed and sleep until noon. That's the
way he usod to do, you know, and
humor him all I can. Poor old Ramsay;
1 owo him a good deal, you know,
Hartly. You remember all about it?"
"Yes I remember the story, though I
had almost forgotten it."
Ramsay, Habershoa and myself were
all students together in Philadelphia.
We were in the same classes in college
and jointly occupied tho same suite of
rooms. Furthermore wo were all mak
ing a specialty of studying the human
brain, and the only point wherein we
materially differed from each other was
that Ramsay knew more than we two
fellows together.
True, Ramsay was, in regard to his
theories and speculations, what many
people would call a "crank'' but thon
successful cranks aro esteemed to be
geniuses, and certainly Ramsay was, in
my judgment, quite as near the one as
the other.
We three fellows all fitted in the
same social set, and although both Ram
say and Habershon knew good and
beautiful girls by the score, the fates
decreed that they should fall in love
with the same young lady. And yet,
strange enough, they never displayed
bad feeling toward each other, nor ever
sought to make the lady's position an
unpleasant ono on account of the rivalry.
It seemed to me, an onlooker, as though
there was a tacit understanding between
them, that no undue influence should be
brought into, play, but that, knowing
how both loved and admired her, the
object of their admiration and esteem
should be left quietly to choose between
them.
Grace Thorneycroft was a most beau
tiful and estimable girl and, though I
have been an old bachelor all my days,
I do not wonder that any man should
have sought her for his wife.
One day Grace, with her father,
mother and a brother, were down to
Atlantic City, where they took a sail
boat and wont out. A sudden squall
overtaking them tho frail pleasure boat
was upset and Grace was the only mem
ber of tho party who escaped with her
life. She was picked up ia a fainting
condition and tenderly cared for, but
when restored, physically, it was found
that her mind was shattered she was
insane. All that wealth, combined with
skill, could do was done for Grace, but
it availed nothing and tho physicians
and friends at last gave up the case as
hopeless. Habershon was himself al
most crazy wjth grief and could not
bear to go near the poor girl. As for
Ramsay, he shut himself up in his den
a small, barely furnished room wh3re
he was ia the habit of pursuing hU
studies and experiments. There was a
determined expression on the fellow's
face and when I looked in on him
(which was seldom) he was always bu?y
with his papers and book3 sometimes
engaged in dissecting the brains of dogs
and other animals, and once examining
a human brain.
He seldom spoke or even so much as
remarked my presence, though once he
said in an excited tone: "I shall cure
her, Hartly it shall bo done at any
cost."
So for days and weeks ho sat over
that bare pine table gazing at tho skull
in front of him ever and anoa rapidly
penciling dia r im j of tho human brain
and of the nervous system.
Late one evening I was sitting with
Habershon when there came a rap at
tho door and Rimsay entered. Ho wa3
very quiet, but knowing him as well as
I did I could tell he had something
beyond the ordinary on his mind.
"Boys," ho said, "I think I have
found what I have been searching for
I think I can cure Grace. I say think,
because, after all, it is only a theory of
mine and may utterly fail, but I think
not. Perhaps you 6ay I should not
theorize and experiment on a woman
whom, as you know, I love. Well, it
won't do any harm to her and it may
do her all possible good. To-morrow
morning I shall try to do thi work."
Then turning rr.orj particularly to
Habershon, he continued: "Ed., you
and I both love Graco Thorneycroft.
Now, in tho presence of Hirtly, here, I
want you to promise me that, whatever
the coasequjnecs of my oporation, you
will care for Grace as long as sho lives,
and, if necessary, care for me, too."
I think neither Habershon or myself
understood tha purport of theso words,
when thoy were spoken, though their
meaning was clear enough later on.
However, Habershon gave the request
ed promise and we parted for the
night
The next day, ia the forenoon, Ram
say, in the presence of the two physi
cians who had been in charge of Grace,
began his operations. I was an inter
ested observcr from a distant part of
the room,' "but HaTejhon could not be
.induced to be prcefjrrC Ranjsay told
tho older doctors that if his. theory
prov-d perfectly successful in practice
h-s would be able to give lm method ot
cure in writing for tho benefit of the
medical world at present, ho said that
it was utterly impossible for him to in -
telligently explain his idea?. However,
he guaranteed that the attempt would
be perfectly harmless to tho patient and
tho doctors stood by ready to pre
vent any undue or dangerous experi
ment. For myself, I have rot the least
idea to this day just what the means
were which Ramsay employed to pro
duce the end he had in view, nor have
I any theory to advance. Tho whole
thing was a strange affair to me then
and appears j ust as strange when I look
back upon it from the present moment,
with all the experience which I have
gained with fifteen years' practice.
Ramsay Ant of all administered a
draught to Grace Thorneycroft, who
was seated in a reclining chair. A few
moments later he made a small incision
in an artery in the patient's right arm,
which movement he followed by mak
ing a similar incision in an artery of his
own left arm. The two arteries he
then connected by means of a small sil
ver tube. Facing his subject, Ramsay
tapped her head, near the base of the
brain, two or three times with his
knuckles, and then gazed into her eyes.
Ten minutes passed slowly by and no
perceptible difference was noticeable in
Grace's condition. Ten more minutes,
and a gleam of intelligence seemed to
be forcing its way into the face of the
poor girl but, strange to relate, a wild,
far-away look was settling upon Ram
say ! Another ten minutes, and Grace
Thorneycroft recognized every one in
the room, including myself, while John
Ramsay was led away from the newly
conscious girl, a raving maniac !
As I have before remarked, I havo no
explanation to offer I can only chron
ica bare facts. Ramsay was a man of
genias, surely, though in the one act of
his life in which he proved that genius,
he partially failed; and, in that by
iosing his mind he was unable to give
his theories to tho world, his genius
will never benefit posterity.
Habershon married Grace Thorney
croft two years later, and they have al
ways taken the best of caro of the man
who saved a woman's reason at the ex
pense of his own. Detroit Free Press.
A Successful Crusade.
Every afternoon, between five and six,
an under-sized man with a nervous but
decided air boards a Wabash avenue
cable car at Washington street and rides
south. Probably not one out of twenty
five of his fellow passengers recognizes
him as the hero of a desperate fight
against the City railway company.
Chicago grows very fast, and the sensa
tion of yesterday is hardly the memory
of to-day. This is D. B. Fisk. When
the City railway company, about a
dozen years ago, jut "bobtail" car3
(cars in which passengers drop their
passes through a slot into a box), on its
lines, Fisk, single-handed, began a cru
sade against the bobtails, and ceased
only when the cars were removed. How
did he go about it? He simply refused
to pay his fare except to a conductor.
The drivers on the line came to know
him and ceased jingling their bells
for his fare. He used to enter a car and
offer to pay the fares of all the passen
gers to a conductor. The result was
many a carload of people were hauled
free. Fisk found a few nervy followers;
the newspapers took up the battle, the
public joined in, and the result was the
complete subjugation of the company
and the removal of the obnoxious ve
hicles. Tho fight, it i3 said, cost the
company hundreds of thousands in lost
fare and cars left oa their hands, which
they were obliged to sell at prices away
below their cost. Chicago News.
Warming the Shivering Poor.
In many cities on the Continent in
days of extreme cold, the municipal
governments, from a fund previously
set apart for the purpose, place at inter
vals among the crowded neighborhoods
of the poor large iron braziers, which
are kept filled day and night with hot
coals. They are circular upright recep
tacles, about the size of a barrel, with
an open top and with holes pierced in
the sides for the purpose of a draught.
They are placed upon the pavement near
tho sidewalk at the corners of streets,
where crowds may collect about them
with the least obstruction to traffic
During the bitter cold weather crowd)
of half frozen people huddle about these
braziers. Boston Advertiser.
The New Universal Language.
"I love, thou lovest, she loves," in
Volapuk, the new universal language, is
"Lofob, lofous, lofof," and "They will
have been loved" is "Pulofoms."
"The knowledge of one's self is the best
foundation of all virtues" is, in Vol
apuk, "Itisevam ebinom stabin gudikin
tugas valik."
Indignant
After church:
Spoggs Was it not disgraceful, the
way in which Smiggs snored in churcu
to-day?
Stuggs I should think it was. Why,
he woke u all up.
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
My Owlet.
What, not up yet, my sleepy head?
More than an hour ago
I called you from your little bed,
You're very slow.
You're like the owlet in the tree;
When night comes forth he flies
In the dim dusk, seeing easily
With his round eyes.
But when the morning shines he creeps
Into some bark-hid chink,
And there the whole day lopg he sleeps.
Without a wink. j
'Tis very plain his drowsy, plan
Suits you. So take your ease
And sleep, my towsled little man,
Long as you please.
And when your comrades come to play,
As they are sure to do,
I'll8ay: "My owlet sleeps all day
I thought you knewi
Clara Doty Bates, in Wide Awake.
A Rescue in the Alps.
During one of the vio ont storms in
the Alps last month Grand, the keeper
of the hospice on the St. Bernard, was
seated by his warm stove when his faith
ful dog becamo excited, showing that
some traveler was in distress, With
lantern and fog-horn Grand iinnv-'di .tely
went out into tho stormy night and
soon found a man half frozen and car
ricd him to the house. After having
recovered consciousness the travclei
said there were four more men lost in
the snow his father, two brothers, and
a stranger. Grand and his dog rallied
forth again. After a search of a quarter
of an hour the stranger was found and
taken to the house. Again mm an. I
dog proceeded on their errand, and after
a long and weary search succeeded in
finding the fathor and two brothers
close together in the snow. One of
them was so weak that Grand had to
carry him; the other two were able to
follow slowly. After four hours' hard
work, the hour of midnight being past,
Grand had all the moa with him around
his cheerful fire.
How a Baby laug-lia.
The laughter of a baby is a real laugh.
It is a deep inward chuckle gurgling up
from the very centre of its coutentratcd
and intense life as from a fountain, and
rippling and flowing from it to the
extremities of it3 small being. All the
baby is alive with laughter; he kicks,
he prances, spite of flannels and swad-
dlings; his ten toes are all awork and
aquirk; he thrusts out from the shoul
der; arm, forearm, wrist, fingers and
thumbs are all at wist and alive with
some incommunicable joy; the eyes
shine, the little toothless mouth is
stretched to its widest, while subtle and
swift movements play over the facial
muscles till they seem shone upon with
lambent, gleaming lights.
What i3 the baby laughing at? He
knows, dear heart; so do the angels and
good spirits, but they never tell ; and
shall mortal man essay to spsak when
such as these hold their blessed peace?
Be sure of this, that as the acorn holds
the oak, so there may be folded in the
heart of an infant the wit of a Rabelais
or a Sydney Smith. But it is doubtful
if conscious wit manifests itself much
before three yean of age. Until a child's
mind has mastered the common relations
of things he cannot flash out those new
and unexpected relations those un
usual combinations of ideas in which
is the essence of all wit. Harper's
Young People.
A rachne and the Spider.
Everyone has noticed the cobwebs
which hang upon each shrub and bush
and are strewn in profusion over every
plant of grass on a fine morning in au
tumn, and, seeing, who can have failed
to admire? The webs, circular in form,
are then strung thick with tiny pearls
of dew that glitter in the sua. No lace
is bo fine. Could any be wrought that
would equal them in their filmy delica
cy and lightness, it would be worth a
prince's ransom. But for such workman's
touch is all too coarse. It is possible
only to our humble garden-spider,
known to scientific people by the more
imposing name, Epeira diadema. These
spiders belong to the family of Arach
nidse, and the ancients, who were great
lovers of beauty, observing their webs,
invented the pretty fable of Arachn'.
Arachne was a maiden who had at
tained to such expertness in weaving
and embroidering that even the
nymphs, leaving their groves
and fountains, would gather to admire
her work. They whispered to each
other that Minerva herself must have
taught htr; but Arachne had grown
vain as she grew dexterous, and, over
hearing them, denied the implication
with high disdain. She would not ac
knowledge herself inferior even to a
goddess, and finally challenged Minerva
to a trial of skill, saying: "If beaten, I
will bear the penalty." Minerva ac
cepted the challenge, and the webs were
woven. Arachne' s was of wondrous
beauty; but when she saw that of Mi
nerva she knew that she was defeated,
and in her despair went and hanged her
lelf. Minerva, moved by pity for her
vain but skillful opponent, transformed
aer into a spider, and she and her de
fendants still retain a portion of her
marvelous gifts of spinning and weaving..
rSwiss Cross.
I NORWEGIAN SPORT.
.Tie National Pastiriie
of the
Sturdy Norseman is
"Ski."
iinding on the "Skis," He
Glides Down the Mountains.
"Ski" running is to the Norwegian
rhat base -ball is to the American, or
rickct to the Briton the national
port. It is also something more; it is
necesjary and practical mode of loco
aotion, as is skating to the Dutchman,
nd snow-shoeing to the denizon of tho
tnadas. Broken by hills, and crossed
y valleys, the Norwegian fatherland
trhen wrapped ia its winter mantel of
leep snow present) difficulties to trav-
lers requirincr extraordinary means to
urmount. Heavily drifted, the roads
ecomo well-nigh impassable to horses
or long periods, and then the only
aeans of communication from farm-
louse to farm-hou3c and hamlet to ham
ct i3 pedestrian. In this strait the
turdv Norseman binds unon his lens
lis long fleet "skis" and flies easily and
;racefully over tho drifts and shoots j
ike lightning down the hills and steep
nount lin sides, and out of stern neces
lty ha3 learned to draw a vigorous
musement. The history of tho "ski"
s the history of the wonderful people
vho use it as a birthright Norse
nythology is full of it, and some of the
nost stirring passages in Norwegiaa his
ory draw thtir romance from tha bold
,nd daring feats of hardy "ski" runners.
The "ski," pronounced softly and de
iantly "chrt, " familiar and dear to the
ainner as his sweetheart oftentimes, is a
ong and narrow strip of wo-d, often
line, better of hard wood, made with a
mrling nose to override the snow, and
scaring near its centre a strap and rest
for the foot of tho rider or "runner."
The length varie3 according to the
strength of the runner and the pur
pose of the ".ski," seldom exceeding
;en feet, however. For mountain and
lense forest traveling they are made
ihorter and for military manoeuvres,
when worn by soldiers, are of unequal
length to facilitite turning readily.
Generally they present only the wood
m surface to the snow, but some-
;imes. especially whea designed for
sravel where many hills are to be as
cended, their bottom j arc covered with
ieer hide, the hair pointing backward,
ind acting as a secure anchor against
retrogression. They solve the problem
jf walking on the snow on thj same
Drincinle as the more clumsy and
slower plaited snowshoo familiar in
American forests, by dividing the
weight of the wearer over a large sur
face. The American snowshoe is also
in use in Norway, but, as was remarked
by an expert runner, "it is too slow for
men, and we give it to old women and
put it on horses."
The feats of speel and dexterity per
formed on their "skis" by expert run
aerB are wonderful. Oa a level surface
they move as fast a3 a good horse, but
it is coming down hill that they show
their mettle. Curving gracefully over
tho crest, as the slope grows steeper
they gather speed like lightning, until,
with full headway, they shoot through
the air with the speed of a railroad
train, fairly taking away the breath of
the daring runner with the rapid motion.
A well authenticated account is current
in Norway that one Finnish woman, a
very expert runner, one day triad the
descent of a peculiarly steep mountain
side, and attained such fearful speed
that when tho30 who awaited her at the
end of her bird-like flight received her,
she stood bolt upright oa her "skis," .
dead, the breath literally ravished from
her hps by her rapid descent. The
"hop" is the most difficult and danger
ous of the many feats of thj ".ski" run
ner. In descending hills, broken spots
and small precipice3 are often mot with,
' and over these the care ful and the timid
runner 3 simply slid?, but expert
and venturesome runner j augmeat
the danger and the excitement
at the same time by leaping into the air
just at the verge of the cliff, landing
far beyond the point where the sliding
runner would alight. In the races and
games with the "skis," a "hop" is gec-
; erally made by building up a cliff with
! snow at some convenient point of the
declivity, and this is made high accord
ing to the skill and diring of the run
ners. One moment oa the earth, a
sudden spring, and away he flies through
the air, 50, 70, 100 feet, enough of a
fall, one would think to break every
bone in his sturdy body, but landing
safely and gracefully and shooting away
on his courso.
As a natioaal pastime ".ski" ruaning
has attracted the widest attention in
Norway, the royal family lending the
enthusiasm of their presence to the
yearly carnival. lathis country it is
only recently coming into notice, and
Minneapolis i3 entitled to the meed of
having been tho home of the first "3ki
club ever organized in America Min
neapolis Journal.
New Jersey swain (calling on his
girl) What makes tho housj shake so,
darling? Girl Its pop, up stairs. He's
got the fever 'n agne agia.
The Wild Animal Trade.
"There is scarcely anything going on
in tho trade this year," recently ob
served Mr. F. J. Thompson, who i3
perhaps the largest wild animal dealer
ialhc United State', and who resides in
New York. "You see, this year," he
continued, "is the presidential year, and
like theatrical business, our trade is
seriously affected. In off years circuses
and other shows put in their heaviest
work, while in yean like thi3 the coun
trymen, when they have a holiday, in
stead of going to the circus go off to a
mass meeting or to see the parade.
"But the wild animal trade has never
flourished as it did before 1873," added
Mr. Thompson. "It was during the
war times and immediately after, when
every one wa3 flush of mney, that the
greatest seasons were exporienced.
Then there were hundreds of circusas,
big and little, and various side shows,
which patrolled tho country from ocean
to ocean. Out in tho wast, too, many
of the small shows had er;'mblinr at
tachments, which helped materially to
rake in the money. A proprietor of
one of these thought nothing of paying
$1000 for any animal which happened
to strike his fancy.
"But many of these parties made
money so fast that they shortly closed
up business and quit. Then came the
financial crash of 1873, and the stagna
tion of every kind of business, and the
failures of most of these circus and
showmen remaining. Thea tho new
men who came into tho buunoss di I not
have much money, and could not afford
to buy large numbers of animals or very
valuable specimens. So it has been ever
si'jee, with a consequent stagnation in
animal trade.
Another thing which has aff.cted the
business a good deal i3 the crowing
scarcity of certain kinds of wild ani
mals, and the closing of some of the
depots for their collection and ex
portation. Nubia and upper Ejypt,
for example, for a long time were the
great headquarters for the supply of gi
raffes, elephants, hippopotami, and the
double-horned rhinoceri, with many
other wild animals, but since the
troubles there, subsequent to tho death
of Gen. Gordon at Khartoum, absolutely
nothing has been received from this re
gion, which is now barred, for an in
definite period by the impending Italo
Abyssinian war. And then again the
depot in Sou h Africa are beginning to
close because the hunters have to go
such immense distances before they can
reach the lairs of the wild animals, hun
dreds of miles from their former haunts.
The cause of this is the extermination of
all kinds by tho so-called sportsmen,
who pour into that region like they did
into the United States whon the buf
faloes roved tho plains." New York
Sun.
Bill Nye's Cow For Sale.
Owing to ill health, says Bill Nye, the
humorist, I will sell at my residence in
town 29, range 18, west, according tc
government survey, one plushed -raspberry
colored cow, aged 8 years. She
is a good milkster and not afraid of
cars or anything else. She is a cow oi
undaunted courage and gives milk fre
quently. To a man who does not feai
death ia any form she would be a great
boon. She is very much attached to
her home at present. I y means of a trace
chain but she will be sold to anyone
who will agree to treat her right. She
is one-fourth short horn and three
fourths hyena. I will also throw in
double barrelled shot gua which goes
with her. In May sho generally goes
away somewhere for a week or two, and
returns wit 1 a tall, red calf with long,
wabby legs. Her name is Rose, and I
prefer to sell her to a non-resident.
An Expensive Request
A Philadelphia lawyer was appointed
solicitor for a certain business house ir
that city. At the end of the year ht
was asked to send in his account, whict
he did, by lumping everything, simpbj
saying, "So and So, Dr. to Professional
Services, $2000. The manager was j
great stickler for form, and sent bad
the account, asking for an itemized
statement The lawyer did as requested,
and at the bottom tacked on the follow
ing: "To preparing itemized 6tate
ment, $100." After a murmur of horroi
and astonishmont, it was paid.
The Cost of a House.
People who are going to build maj
like to know that "a three -thousand
dollar house" is one that the architectu
ral paper says can be built for $2, 850.
37; costs $3,100, according to tho ar
chitect's estimate ; is worth $3, 700, the
carpenter says, to build ; increases in ex
pense to $4,800 during the process ol
erection, and makes you draw your
check for $5, 953. 28 before you move ii
and get your first bill for repairs.
I Journal of Educ ition.
Rubber Overshoes.
"What becomes of all the rubbei
overshoes?" . The factories in Nauga
tuck alone turn out 15,000 pairs o'
shoes daily, or, counting 300 working
day3 ia the year, 4, 500, 000 pairs. Con
sidering what rubber shoe3 are made o!
now a days, perhaps it is not so re
markable, alter alL Ansonia (Ccnn.
SmtineL
Diedrich and Gretchen. . -
Sat a prince within his cast le, . ;
Sad and lone;
Far beneath a winding river s
Danced and shone.
"AhP he sighed, "I wish and pray
I were happy now as they
Yonder peasants on their way."
Paused a peasant, gayly humming
Simple song,
Glancing upward toward the castle
Grim and strong: j
"Would that I were there,'' said he,
"Ah, how happy I should be,
Feasting, singing merrily!'' '
"Nay," said Gretchen, now beside him11
"Covet not;
Thou art happy, honest Diedrich,
In thy cot,
God hath given thee thy place,
Castle walls would pale thy face,
Waste thy strength and mar thy grace.'
Sunday came and bells were tolling
Soft and low;
From the castle walls a cortege
Moved, and slow.
"Diedrich," said fair Gretchen, " see!
Whom thou envied so, 'tis he,
Wouldst thou prince or Diedrich be?"
" Diedrich ever with my Gretchen
By my side
In the cot if thou wilt grace it,"
He replied.
"Yes," she whispered,"thine,commandl'
Then he slipped a golden band
On the blushing maiden's hand.
M. J. Adams, in Courant.
HUMOROUS.
A hotel call-boy never takes affront
when the clerk yells "Front 1""
The English language sounds odd to
a foreigner, as when one says, "I will
come by-and-by to buy a bicycle."
Did you ever see a doctor kick a
banana peel off the sidewalk, or tell an
acquaintance that he was sitting in a
draught?
A laundry which stands in tho shadow
of an east-side church, Buffalo, bears
the appropriate legend on its sign board:
"Cleanliness is next to Godliness."
A sportsman is a man who spends all
day away from his busine3 , $2 for pow
der and shot, and comes home at night
tired, hungry and ugly, dragging a
a fourteen cent rabbit by tho ears."
A scientist says: "If tho land were
flattened out the sea would be two
miles deep all over the world." If any
man is caught flattening out the land
shoot him on the spot. A great many
of us can't swim.
Timid Young Suitor (who has won
consent of papa) : And now may I ask
you, sir, whether-ah-whether your
daughter has any domestic accomplish
ments? Papa (sarcastically): Yes, sir;
she sometimes knits her brows.
Charming young hostess: "Why,
Major, you are not going so soon?"
Major (who prides himself on being one
of those fine old-school fellows who can
say a neat thing without knowing it):
"Soon? Madame, it may seem soon to
yoa ; but it seems to mo I havo been
here a lifetime."
"I saw you looking on at the tobog
gan slide in the baseball park on tho
west side yesterday," said Brown to the
Chinaman who had just brought in his
laundry. "What do you think of to
bogganing, John?" "W-h-i-s-hl
Walkee backee milee!" said the China
man. The man who makes your knuckles snap
And says, "I'm glad to meet you,"
Is very frequently a chap
Who'll readily forget you. , . '
The First Razor. '
The earliest reference to shaving is
found in Genesis xii: 14, where we read
that Joseph, on being summoned before
the king shaved himself. There are
several directions as to shaving in
Levitt icus, and the practice is alluded
to in many other parts of scripture.
Egypt is the only couatry mentioned ia
the Bible where shaving was practiced.
In all other countries such an act would
have been ignominious. Herodotus men
tions that the Egyptians allowed their
beards to grow when in mourning. So
particular were they as to shaving at
other times that to have neglected it was
a subject of reproach and ridicule, and
whenever they intended to convey the
Idea of a man of low condition and
slovenly habits the artists represented
him with a beard. Unlike the Romans
of a later age, the Egyptians did
not confine the privilege of
shaving to free citizens, but obliged
their slaves to shave both board and
head. The priests also shaved the
head. Shaving the head became cus
tomary among tho Romans about 360 B.
C. According to Pliny, Scipio Afri
canus was the first Roman who shaved
daily. In France the custom of shav
ing arose when Louis XI1L came to the
throne young and beardless. Tho
Anglo-Saxons wore their beards until,
at the conquest, they were compelled
to follow the example of the Normans,
who shaved. From the time of Ed
ward IIL to Charles I. beards were
universally worn. In Charles H.'s
reign the mustache and whiskers only
were worn, and soon after this tbe prac
tice of shaving became general through
out Europe. The revival of the custom
of wearing the beard dates from the time
of the Crimea, 1854-55. (Penman's
Journal,