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P1TTS1K)R() CHATHAM CO., N. C, MARCH 27, 181H1.
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Look Vp.
By night the heavens cradle roe. !be while I
I droaru my dreams,
'And when 1 waken, air how small my lit -'
tie chamber seenis.
it on your sou! the changeful world casts
daily doubt and terror,
Look up to the eternal skies where never
Mar makes error.
ON THE TRACK.
The night w tlark, anl a drizzling
rain was f al iug when I arrived at the
little railroad station at Hi mil's Piai
rie, ami the first man I met there was
Abe Wilder, the drawbridge tender.
dismounted and fastened my horse, and
the one I ha! I ecu loading to a tree on
the shelters 1 side of t lie station buildiug.
I had coma la the station full of
eagcrne-s to meet my wife, who had
been awn on a visit of a couple of
days to her sister in II . We had
beon man ic I only a few months, so that
her short aM-.-usa from our pretty home
03 tho prairie had been greatly fell by
me, and lover-like, I was full of long
ing and unxicty for her safe return. So
my disappointment was all tho grcittr
when Ale told me the train on which
she wa oming back to me was two
licurs late. Hut, to while away the
time, Abo pr iposcd that I should go
witli him to tlia bridge:, oaly a short
distance down the liack from th ' sta
ll'. n. To this I consented, the more
readily because A'o had b.vn m rival
for Annie's lovi) beforo we were mar
ried, and my whining her heirt and
hand seemed to mike him very unhip
py and down-hearted for a t:mo; but
for all tb:.t he h.id shown mo no ill
wil'. Oa t'le contrary, hit had ap
parently bvo i t h-j mist sincere and
heart-felt congrat I'utnus an I well
wishes for our fu urn hnppiuoss and
wclfaie. Sowh'n he asked uio to go with
him to tho bridge, 1 did not hesitato to
mcept the invitation.
We walked down the track side by
sid '. 1 tlid most of the talking, for he
sccui:d uneasy aud nervous, and I
thought that in this way I Could best
culm him, and make hint fo 1 less cm
barasscel. The di-tancc from the station to the
bridgo wat only about trn minutes
walk, aud we arrived there without any
interruption. 1 notice I, however, that
Abe. became mcro and more excited
every moment, an 1 was about to ask
what troubled Inn, when ho turned
upon me suddenly, his eyes ablazi with
the light o f innducst.
"Curse you!'' he hissed, grinding his
t tli and bending his face cIojo to
mine. "You have robbed m of all that
makes lifo worth living. Tonight you
shall prove to in; if you are worthy of
that love."
Wo were standing in front of the lit
t'e house at the end of the bridge, and
the light from the open doer fell straight
upon his face.
"What do you mranl" I cried in hor
ror, for I could sea that a madman,
bent upon iimo fiendish purpose, whs
standing before me. His face was
flushed and swollen; tho veins upon his
neck mi l forehen I stone) cut like
cords ami pulsed feverishly; his glit
tering eyes were red nud bloodshot,
while hia lips were drawn anil pile, and
bloodiest.
"What do I me in?" he mocked.
'Just this: I would givt my lifo for a
smile for only a smile from tho woiniiu
1 love. Now I want to see what you
will give for her life."'
"Abi, you aro einy," I cried with
as steady a voice as I could command.
"Right you aro. Crazy, mad, iu
ssiie, aud ycu havo helped to iniket me
o. Only for you I might hav.i been
the happiest man on earth today. If
you picvj tonight, however, that you
are worthy of tho lovo of which you
cheated me, 1 11 forgive you, and die
with yen."
"Well," I said, "If I had thought
that it was to l'sten to this non'enso
that you inv ted mn to come with you, 1
would certainly have refined. So I will
bid you good-night."
I turned to walk away; but in a mo
ment ho sprang upon me and with n
blow from a coupling-pin he was hold
ing in his hand, ho felled me to the
ground, intensible.
When I returned to consciousness I
found myfcif gagged, and bouud with
chains to the irou laiis, and so sccuicly
that I could not move my feet or body,
but my bands were fiee.
I locked up an 1 saw Abo standing
above me, watching me closely with a
demon's leer upon bn face.
When he saw that I recognized him,
he sat down on tho ground beside nio,
and rubbed his hand in glee.
"Iliad it all planned so nicely," he
said in exultant tones. "It could not
fail to catch you. I have been planning
and planning, and wailing and waiting,
ever since the night you and Annie
were married. From that night, some
how, 1 could not bt.-liofo that joii loved
her a' dearly and deeply a I did, and 1
could find no rest night or day for that
thought. Tonight, however, I shall
satisfy myself, and if I find my sua
picions were fa!:.e, and you love her
belter than your life, 1 will die with
you; if, on the ether hand, tbey aic
true, I shall not hesitate to kill you as
one usurping a place that belong to
another."
I could not answer him, and when 1
attempted to removj tho geg from my
mouth he beat mo with a stout 6tick
over tho arms and hands uutil 1 de
sisted. 'Hi. ha, ha!" he laughed. "You
sec I had it figured out very closely,
even to the providing of thissticc for
keeping you in order. You mud un
derstand that I intend to do all the
talking, and want you to pay strict
attention to all that I say. Wo have
an hour or more to wait before the train
conies along, si that wo neei not b iu
any hurry. (Still, I suppose you are
somewhat curium ti find out what I
intend doing w.th you; but wait with
patience and you shall know all about
it in good time. I have to go and set
out the lights on the bride now, so
that when the train comes tho engineer
can see thein and ci mo right along
w ithout nuy fear of dinger. But be
fore I leave you I must fasten jour
band, so that you can do yourself no
harm."
Ho then fastened stout cords around
my wrist aud bound my arm to the
rails also, and in such a way that I
c u'd not move an inch in any direc
tion. Then he left me.
1 could see him lighting anil placing
tli'' lantei ni on the bridge, which bo
did in un easy, leisurely way, which
wa a torture alone f ir mo to behold.
M ; hands and arms were becoming
tire ! and began to ache, so I bent my
fingertips downward to find som thing
to rel them upr.n when they touched
some ill ug i moot h and cold. I man
aged to turn my head far enough
nrmind to see what it was. It was a
pistol lyiug on a croi-st e just under
my hand. I could uot reach it, how
ever, to grasp if, and I know that evm
if I could it would le of no service to
me, bound as I was, hand and foot. I
strained my eyes to sec if I c mid p i
sibly move it some where where it
would le out of sight of Abe, and
where I could reach it again if my
hands wero fieed once mere. Yes, if
it ccu'd be made to fait of! tho tie on
the sido nearest to mo it would be in
darkness, and witLin easy reach of tny
hind. Hut could I get it there 1
strained every muscle to make iny bonds
as loo.io as poss.blo, then I bent my
hiud dow nward an 1 with a snap of my
linger I scat the pistol spinning round
aud round and the next moment it fell
over the edge of the tie and wa hid.
den in tho darkness.
1 had barely succeeded in hiding tho
weapon the best way I could, when
Abo rcturne .
Now everything is ready," he said.
"AH we havj to do now is to wait, and
while we aro waiting I will tell you
what I have planned to do, with your
niMstanC!1. A I snid In fort, I don't
think that you love Ar.nie a well us I
do, but I nm going to give you a c'uinre
to prove that you d and this will be
tho test: The train with your wife on
board will be along hero in lcs than
half an hour. You arj lying w ith your
neck on the ml, mil the wheel will
piss over you, and, of course, yon are
lend in the twinkling of an eye, and
tho train will pas on in snftty. En!
you can save yt'iirelf if you like.
This rope" (an 1 he hcl I the, end of ono
up before my fac ) "is attache 1 to the
end of a bar of iron swinging on a
pivot at tho other end of tho bridge.
If you pull the rope tho iron will
swing ac.ro-3 the track, anl upon strik
ing against a piijt r'ghl opposite will
tumble oil tho piv.it ski I re-t tquiroly
ncross the rails. The engineer, teeing
tho signals all clear ahead, and being
two hours lute, will c nit right on with
more tliau usual tp.'cd, and llnio will
bo a terrible jar and a crash and the
train i wreckod; but you havo saved
vour neck. Veiy nicely planned, isn't
it?'
When ho pause I to sen what iff el
thi speech had upon me, I jerked my
arms a if trying to get tlicm free.
"An, yes! I'll unfasten your arm
now," he said, an ! in a mnii5nt he cut
the ropes that bound them withakn fe.
Then he continued: "Yes, l i xp ct
you will wnut to use your arm h-foro
long, and having them stretched out in
that way is up", to maka them st ff nnd
useb'S."
When my arm were freo I attempted
unco more to rim vo the gig from my
mouth; hut as before ho beat mo with
a stick until I desiste I.
I wa lielple. Minu'e after minu'o
passed, and I knew that tho Iraiu woul 1
come along presently. Ev.'ry in mien t
I imigincd that 1 foil tho vibration of
the wheels along tho rail under my
head. Aba was sitting besidu me,
listening intently for tho first rumbling
sound to rei.ch his ears. When he heard
it I knew that Le would place tho tops
in ui hands and give me the choice of
wrecking the train or losing my H'a.
I shall not attempt to describe thi
thoughts and feeling that went through
my brain and body, for that wero im
possible. l'rcsently I threw out my hand and it
fell upon the pistol, which I had for
gotten nil about since Abe's return.
Now, however, my fingers grasped it
firmly and I began to think how I could
use it to save myself nnd at tin saint
time avert the dangir to the coming
train.
1 never knew how it happcnel, but
in a moment my hand lifted the weapon
into the air. Ale saw it, and sprang
to his feet, and in ado an attempt to
tnke it away from me, when it explod
ed; then he staggered backward a few
slept and fell to the groun 1.
When the noise of the piitol shot
stopped ringing in my cars, another
sound leached them. Tho rumbling of
the train came to mo along the rails
from the distance. A few minu'es at
the most, and it wou'd be up n me. I
tore the gag out of my mnuth and
shouted.
I yet held the pistol in hand.
What use cculd I make of it! I could
put an end to sny life. But tho rush,
ing, rumbling wheelsofthe train would
do that for me, and only too soon. 51
eyet fell upon the signal lights on the
bridge and anew idea struck nic. I
turned my head and saw the headlight
of the locomotiva not far away. Tlio
next moment 1 raised the pistol, took
good aim and fired at the signal lantern
on the bridge, but mis-ed it. I filed
again and ajain until the pistol wa
eiiipt-, but with the same result, for
the 'nntern wnsstiil gleaming brightly,
swinging to and fro in the wind, as if
beckoning tho train to tome nnd de
stroy me.
The glare from the he.nl light of tho
locomotive seemed to bo right above
me, tho roar of the train drownel my
voice, and the jir of the rail under my
head felt like an electric current run
ning through m body. I closod my
eyes nnd waited for the end.
Suddenly the jar and noise stopped,
and shortly I heir 1 voicoi close besido
me. I looked up an I saw some people,
bending over m ; but I w.m too weak
to speak. Tliey released me from the
rails ami carried me on board the train,
and I knew nothing more for many
slay.
When 1 returned to consciousness I
wa told that the enginicr had seen
the flashes from tho pistol when I fired,
and had succeeded in stopping tho
train when within a few feet of where
I lay; but not before it hail run over
the body of Abe Wilder.
It was several months Lefore I recov
ered sufficiently from the shock of that
hour of terror to move about. It mad)
mo an old nriu in uppearaure; for my
step are feeble, ni cheek nra sunken
aud shrivelled, and my hair is white as
sn ow. Timet- Vi mo:rat.
A Nation of Bather.
Among the working classes in fiam
even the fo.toons of cobwebs rarely
uttnict attention, though they may bo
black with ago and dust and smoke (for
theie are no chimneys to the houses,
nnd the cooking is all done inside).
And yet in their own way the hiameso
are a very cleanly people.
They aro a nation of bathers, and,
frcm infancy, nlway induigo in a
regular plunge two or throe times a
day. The children oro amphibious,
and rather morn at home and iniuh
happier in the water than in tho hou-e.
While the fastidious Amoiican house
keeper, who is forever busy with mop
and brush, wou'd be shocked lit tho
untidy domestic habits of tlu ts auiosn
matron, she, in turn, would consider
the nnti-1 athiug customs of the aver
age Americans ipiilo a r-puldve; nnd
with good reason might plead that if
oarclesticss were excusable in either
case, the house woul 1 suITt less from
neglect than the person of its occu
pant. A rosstim Hunting Hog.
I.oui Crawford, an obi colored man
living on a farm five miles from Bir
mingham, Ala., has a freak of nature
in tho shape of a razor-back hog, for
which he ha refused f 10(1 cash. Tho
bog is a natural-bom possum hunter,
and uncle Josh lu.s no less than fifty
bides this season as evidince of his
bog's pro we s. He was in Birmingham
recently with his ikins and his razor
back, which follows him around like a
dog. T.to old mm tell a very simplo
story of how he discovered the animal's
queer instinct. Oro night while going
through tho wood le discovered tho
hog under a tree giutiting furiously and
rear ng tip against the trunk. Ap
proaching the tree and looking up he
discovered a big. fat wi sum. Having
a similar cxperenco several times he
came to the conciu-ion the animal was
a natura born possum hog, and, mak
ing a pot of it, ho took it to the woods
frequently with spleudid success.
rHII.DRUVS (OIIMX.
A MIMlKF
A liitle rloud, one siirum-r day.
While roaming o'er the sky so blue,
KfKun to scowl and pout, and say
" h. dear! what is there 1 can do?"
Now. jurt below it, midst the corn,
An old man stood, with hoe in hand,
In tatteicd l io'.hiiip. all forelom
He seemed at work upon the land.
' Ha' ha'" the cloudlet laughed, and aid.
"Now, here's a chance to have some fun'
I'll rain upon your hoary load.
My ancient fuend, nnd make you run."
Hut though the cloud raine l hard and fast,
The farmer wouldn't budje a bit,
Till in a pet the cloud at laM
fried out. ' I ntversaw nii-b tiritl"
Iteeause the farmer wouldn't scare.
It sulked and frowned the livelong day,
JIow could it know the figure there
Was just to keep the crows away"
Jtf: Trn'-'.
HOW 1IOH11V MAW. IMF. WoF KI.FP.
Hobby Sevcrns had a great ambition
to bo a huutcr, or cl e the ambition
was so great that it had U dby haul
and fad. Anyway, hunting was bis
one nnd ouly thought and th- ma by day
and by night hunting red wild ani
mals, of course; and a mouse running
ncross tho room af or night wou'd have
upset hi courage, quite.
' Oil, w hen will I ever be big enough
to have a gun? ' ho dcniandc 1 of mother
one morniug cot so long after Cliri-t-mas
had collie and p no, and still found
him pining for the pin he dreamed of
almost constantly.
J)ocs my little boy really think ho
would bo to ninch happier hunting
fictco wild animals than tiring hard to
barn his lessons and please and h:lp hi
mot he. V nske I moilier, with one of
her looi.s that "went right through,'
os Hobby said.
"Not all the time, of couri". mam
ma. I'd stuly and work, too; but if I
only had a gun!''
"I have heard," s ai 1 m jther, thoug'it
fully, "of a way of vanquishing wild
beasts without a gun, which fcems to
me a great ileal braver."
"Oh, you mean killing them with
swords and spears lik 'h nvaget do, "
sniff 'd Hobby, in did.iiii.
"No," siid minimi; "1'vo heard
that if a man is brave enough to stand
firm nnd look a wild b ast in the eye,
it will turn and flja from him, which I
should think would bs all on could
ask."
"WhcwT ' wm all H ibby could say
at first le this astonishing statement.
"But, minimi," be gathered himself
together enough to sny, at last, "how
would any ono ever get skins and tusks
and things in that way?'
'You see, 1 was thinking about a
man who was too brave to butcher nni
mals just for the inonoy he could get
for their hkius; but who would only
want to conquer his real enemy for Ins
own safety, you see, and uot for tho
sake of taking life. I think there aie
things a tcrriblo as wolve for a boy
to ovcrcomo. I'd rather hear a wolf
snnrl than a there's company."
Hobbio went away looking pretty
much a ho might if hj had got hi
gun nnd had fired a double charge, and
it had kicked and upset H ibl (Severn
completely. Miybo he was upset in
somu of his notion about 'things, any
way. "Seo here, Kite!" he wa just bo
ginning to sny in a very snappish ton
he ha I us 1 very much of late whon
anything went wrong with him. "I
wish you wouldn't be forevtr "
Why didn't ho go on and finish his
fault-finding? Why did h1? slop on
tiptoo opposito the parlor door?
"A perfect bear about the bouse," ho
heard the glib voico of Mi,. Tel man
rattling off with "(His" nnd "Alts"
and "dear nvtb" and "dread fills,"
plentifully besprinkled.
I don't see how ths poor woman
enduro such a life ; and thi boys arts
like a pack of snarling wolvo. "
That wa all he wanted to hear,"
"bears nnd wolves." In some one's
home, right in that town, tool "Yet
nnd in this house," he thought, "If 1
didn't sec ono poking hi head over the
banister just now. H ibby Keverns,
you'vo just got to be bravo now and
look that wolf in the eye until hosklllks
away. "I say, Kit-," he rupoited aftor
a minule, in a tono so different from
the first, that a stranger would have
thought Kate had one cross nnd ono
pleasant brother; "if you can get any
good out of that old geography, look
at the picture until your eyes are
tired."
And Katie eyed Hobby in such a
wistful, surprise), p'.eised way that ho
slipped up and chucked her under the
chin, and add :d, ' but what do you cyo
mo that way for, S.si"
"'Tituse you're such a dood Webby
'is time," wa the gnil. less answer.
"Then 111 keep on hunting wolves,"
said Hibb to himsulf, "and maybn
this is what mil her meant, anyway."
Xem Tori Ohs rr.
Harvest time is the hay -day of the
Tear.
CRANKS AND CROOKS
How the President is Guarded
Against Their Visits.
S'x Officers Scrutinize Every
Whits House Caller.
"Why should not any p-rson who
happened to be so disposed attempt to
assassinate the I'resid-ut at one of his
riccptions?-' queried a repiesentat ive of
the Washington St jr.
'Simply for the leason that it would
be very d tlicult for any individual so
inc lint d to n nth the picscnee of Mr.
llairison," replicl the White House
usher addre-sed. "You don't seo why,
but that i beoiU'O you never looked
nix ut you when you havo attend " I
n reception at the executive mansion.
How many llicers do you suppose
surveyed you critica'ly while you
were passing into the cloak room? fix
in all. Not one of these men but ha
bad year of experience, iu the police
service. They are so tiaincd every
man of them that they ra i to 1 at a
glance j ist what sort of person cich
gu st who enters is. Ttvo classes of poo.
pie are chi'll to be looked out for
crank and crooks. The crook ore
iend.lv disreiuible by the educated eye
tin ir aspect ulwa; s bctiays them. A
for the cia:ils they aro distinguislinb.e
with cii il rea li tcs. The tak of
making them t ut is rendered easi-.r, to
login with, by consideration of the fact
that three- fouilbs of all mild lunatics
r.ro tray on religious topic?, of curse
cure lu a while n visitor gt ts ;n hoie
who is not entirely sane that is una
voulalda necessarily. But it it n very
exceptionable ca c. A' nn almost in
variable rule I can tell a crank nt the
fitst glance, nnd if I do not another of
the guanls will." Tho typical crank
is almost unmistakable. He, rupposing
him male or female, for that matter
has Utile chance to pas the sentries nt
the door and beyond. Kach of those
sentries, nni rt fr -sis his nculenes of
j inception, is a man of grent iuuculir
strength. Come lit r , Jiml''
The guard cal'e l up one of his fel .
Iowa and I ado b in di uble bit arm. It
was as lianl as a rock and ns big as an
ordinaiy man's thigh.
' This is the sentiy who stands at tho
beginning of the reception line in the
doorway," he continued. "Suppose
thnt you are a crank, how far do you
think you would get in an assault upon
the I'resident before you arj grabbed
nnd disarine 1 and thrown out into tho
si n et to bi carried oil to the nearest
police station? Not very far, I gueis.
I tell you the President is as closely
ft ititi.'d in the Wh te Houso as if it
were tho strongest castlo that ever ex
isted. "The minute we seo a person whosj
appearance does not satisfy m entirely
we n.k him whathis business is. Unless
hi reply is satisfactory wo pursue the
inquiry. A mm c ilk'd here the other
day to see the President with a tin bix
under his arm. I prcsed him closely
nbout his errand nnd ho finally said he
had a new kind of religion iu (ho box
to show to President Harrison. That
sotted In in. Once ill a while, una
voidably, a drunken man gets into the
White House at a reception or soin
such entertainment. It wo ild astonish
you to see tho way in which a person so
i.ff. cted by litpior i thrown out, being
passed along from one guird to another
until he reaches tho driveway. It is
clone so quickly, practice making per
fect, ns to excite no nttanti in. Per
haps tho funniest of all the ipi-or peo.
p'c who come to the White II ime aro
those who demand permission to visit
tho most privn'o rooim f the President
on the ground that they, as representa
tives of the public, inn the establish
ment." Tliey Are (iood Swimmers.
In many patt of New Zealand horses
are kept by the government for tho ex
press purpose of taking traveler ncross
rivers in which fords will often change
every week, and it is beautiful to see
how bold, ami yet how sagaciously
cautious sucli horse often Income.
"If you hive got the sense to lot the
old horse alone, he will take you ov.r
nil ri;;ht,'' is the marching orders
usually given to the trawler mounted
on t no of th .'P. hor-cs, to cross a river
in which no man nnd no boat could
live, and iu a country where mora
colonists havo been drowned in fresh
water than in nny other part of the
worl !. Too rapid an 1 too full of
t inber and rocks f ir any boat, too
beniimblngly cold for the b-sl swimmer
and the best human lung in tho world
to live in them a quarter of an hour;
these rivers, fl n tied with snow water,
can often only bo crossed by a very
powerful, surefootcl, courageous horse,
that knows where to swim and where
to walk, or by one that has a rider on
hi lack that cm hn him and consult
him by turns.
M u in unfit d fals.
A rat 4o00 years 1 Id is not altJ
gether a fa miliar ol j i t to Englishmen,
and ton sc.iicely bo regarded as nn
every-day visitor to thcsi shores, Pnyj
the London TV' graph. The arrival,
thtrefore, of ll'J tons of n:rh cats in
Liverpool if nu incident that cannot but
lay a heavy strain up in the British ca
pacity for rxpei iencing um ifr. meat.
Not the least aslou shir.g feature of this
unique event is that tho cou-igumcnt in
tpiestion, described with commercial
crispuess as "a parcel ofcmbalmel
cats," consists exclusively of fciu)
mummies, aj t!y. but u c dentally,
t u led fiom a catacomb in centinl
K.'.vpt. Tin re are no lower than ISO,
1100 tif these swathed and spiced re
mains in the "parcel" that reached this
country a few days ago, sad they have
already been sold for fertilizing pur
poses to a Liverpool manure merchant,
the auctioneer who disposed of them
Using one of the deceased cat's heads
as a hammer wherewith to knock down
the "lots."
According to a correspondent, it ha
long been believe 1 in Egyptological
circles thut a huge cat cemetery was in
existence "somewhere al oil" on the
left 1-.11k of the Nile. O.u day lust
autumn a fellah hitsbun Iniau, while cu
gaged iu the igricu.tural pursuit of
d igging at a pliicc called lt-ni Hassan,
il.tct m rod 111 s r.rc cnt burial giound
by a very simple process. 'I he toil
which he was tinning up su Idenly gave
w: y under him, ai.d l e fell into a pit
which, 01; !ui ther cxauiinuti ui, pr ved
to be a spacious subtcri aneao cav:, ten
anted l y unci unit d legions of dead
cat. Evciycneof the e corpses had
been sedulously embalmed and swad
dled, so to speak, in cloth cerement",
;a tho vciy be-t style of the under
taker's cri.f., a practiced iu the land
of the Pharaoh some 2J center e be
fore tho commencement of tho Chris
tian era.
The news of this strange discovery
spread swiftly through Beui Hassan
nnd the ad ji.n.ng districts, whence
laborers toon flocked to the new y
opened cave and set to work w ith nvght
ami main to disinter its venerable occu
pants. Why these cats had be n iiiiiin
initied, and xthen tbey had o m to le
arranged so sy. -tciii.it ic ally ia ilieir sub
terranean quarters, were secondary con
siderations, nilurally enough, to the
bucolic Egyptian mind :u fact, "llm
sort of thing no fellah could under
bland;" but the jicdsants of the Nile
arc keenly alive to the commercial valuo
of embalmed "cats and dogs and each
(discener beast, to which Egyptiin do
tards once tl.il bow," riilur as high
class naiiuro or ns a peculiar
ly quick nnd frag: an. com
bustible. With exemplar,- p'omoti
tudo ami dispatch, threfore, they
dug up somo hundreds of tliousanls of
umm mies, several "lots" of which
were purchnsj 1 on Ibn spot by local
farmers, while others found their way
down river to tin storehom ;i of an
Alexandria merchant. This wmthv,
being of a speculative turn of mind,
shipped t lu-m off to Liverpool "on salt,
or return," wh ire they fetched a trill)
less than la ton. T.iin, for a matter
of thiee "ponies" or so, a llritish
"bone-buyer" has bacoine the. solo
possessor of near y "iltljOJd fine ci J
crusted E-vptiaii cats, each one of
which, at the time of its tit: cense, had
been deemed worthy of special eiub.il 111 -tut
nnd honorab'e sepulture, accord
ing to the ntcs of Memphis, Bubistis
and Thebes, "in that iaso madn and
provided."
Tho Stitches in n Shirt.
The following singular calculation of
tho number of stitches in a plain shirt
ha been made by a Leicester scam-tress:
Stitches in the colbi'-, four rows, ".OHO;
cross ends of same, 5"0. buttonhole
and sewing on button, l.V.I; gathering
ueck and sewing on cot In r, ll'OI; slitch
iug the wristbands, 122N; end of w ri-t-bandc,
PS; buttonholes in wristbands,
14; hemming slit. fit; gathering
sleeve, 810; setting on wiist
band, MtW; stitching on shoulder
straps, 1MS0; hemming the bosom, .'I'.'ll;
sewing in sleeves and making gusset",
305'; sesving up sub) scam of sleevos,
255-1; cording bosom, 1101; "tupping"
the flceves, 152ti; sewing all other
seam anl setting sidj gusset. 1272;
total number of stitches, 20,010. .
.twin I! j:h'ic.
Nothing Like n Change!
Dr. Knowall Jty gtod sir, wha
you want i thoroujh alteration of cli
mate. The only thing to cure yon is a
long sea voyagel
Patitnt That's rather inconvenient.
You see I'm only just home from a sea
voyage round tho world. Ixndo
Punch,
A Sure Slsrn.
Mcrritt You aro getting q lite a
nun. Little Johnnie Yc. JIa has
stopped cutting down pa's clothes for
me. Kpxh.
Beginninir Anew.
Trery day is a fresh beRimiin?.
Every morn is the world made new.
Vnti bo are weary of sorrow and siuninp
Here is 11 beautiful hip.- fir you
A hope (or me and a liojie for you.
All the past things are past and over;
The tasks are done and the tears are shedJ
Yoterday's errors let yesterday cover.
Veterd.-y's woun-.li. which smarnd anj
bled."
Aie healed w ith the healing whith night
ba shed
Yf-terday ii" is a part of forever.
Mound up in a sheaf, which ioi lulls'
I lit-h'. ,
ith irlad days, and sad days, and bad days,
which net r
Shall visit us more with their bb-om and
their bbt-'bt.
S Their fullness of sunshine ot sorrowful
Mi;ht.
I
Every day is a fresh beginning:
I Listen, my soul, t the glad refrain.
I And. spite of old sorrow, and older sin
' ni up.
I And puzzles forei v-ted and possible pain,
j Take heart with the day. and btyin apain
III M0KIH S.
! ( old as it may le no man cares for a
coat on his tongue.
Mr--. Lirnkin- (read ng the finnncial
page 1 What are stock quotations, any
wnrf Mr. L. S vi k quctitii n? Those,
from Shakespeare.
First Boarder There's a good deal
of l.eat in this soup! P.'coud Boarder
Well, you should Lij thankful that there
is something in it besiles water.
She Como 111! Ymi must excuse us.
I've been up ill apu for twj days 114
Yes, 1 heard you had three otbef
beaux. You're up in ariin too much
Ye, Augiis-ir, we believe il is bct
lor to have love 1 and lost, than never
to have loved at all. It i better foi
the jeweler, and the florist, and tho
messenger boy.
.Man of the House (coldly) To what
nm 1 indebted for the honor of this
visit? C.lb r (with folded document)
To the f'nm of All w ood A Co. - o 3.
I'm their new collector.
Mistr 'ss I nm very much disgusted
with you. Servant What is tho ninN
let? Y iiat have I done.' Mistrets
You us,.d the suite brush in shining my
shots that you did on your own.
' If it is due that men in a way par
take of the natuic of what thoy feed
on," said the hungry bocrder, "tho
men in thi house certainly cught to bo
plucky,'' nud once 111 -re he sighel as ho
tackle I the inevitable fried liver.
Husband (rending paprr) I sea they
have arrested some men for shooting
birds on th'! wing. Wife Sirvcs them
right. Tiiey shou'd shoot them on the
lir.c I or on the foot. You men have no
idea how ugly n spoiled wing looks 00
a ha'.
In a Birmingham (England 1 hotel
thcro is an announcement, that ail pro-
; fune poisons will bo shown to a room
kept purposely f"r swearers. A
I driiukcu man was rricntly reminded of
j this rule, and ho asked to hi taken to
tho np.iitm -nt. II; was told to go to il
by a certain tlo.tr. It w 11 t lies dour to
1 the street.
Mrs. Tracy's Cliurlly.
Tho sad death of Mrs. S.-cretnry
Tracy nnd the unselfishness of htrlnst
hour, oils to inuid an incident which
came to my knowledge two years nga
through a womiii whom sho nilcd
Mrs. Tracy was known to ba most cou
sc ent iously charitable, but few under
stood how thoroughly the concealed
from her left hand that which her right
h ind did, an I it pained her to hear
some 0110 commenting on the luck of
leal charity displayed by the rich
their deeds of chanty costing thcitl
nothing inasmuch as no personal sacri
fice was involved. The words clung te
Mr 1. Tracy's mind nnd she decided that;
her next act of chanty would cost l.r'r
sonic trouble. The woman to whom I
havo above referred was ono of Mrs.'
Tracy's humblest pensioner! and at this
time she was greatly in need of careful
nursing, for her disease w.n cancer and
of a most painful character. Day oTter
tiny, Mrs. Tracy went on foot to the
poor creature's hull"1, cared for her ia
every way, swept and cleaned her room
and saw that sha was comfortable, re
turning to her homo with some triflingi
excuse to account for her nb-ence. Ilef
protege would never have known tho
cause of so much unselfish kindness,
had she not one day remonitrnteJ with'
her for what seemed needles waste of
time and labor. To relievo her mind,'
Mrs. Tiaey told her that it was her only
way of reilly paying her debt to God.
Mrs. Tracy's last act of self-sacrificing
kindness to her husband, when in the'
midst of smoka and flames, attests thai
sincerity of those word. Kpoeh.
A Reasonable Objection.
Biardor Wo are raising a subscript
tion to get a rocking-chair for that:
poor lodger. Won't you givo'some
thingt
Lao J lady Not much. His roomj
Is r!gM oVer nilns. pfch