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VOL. XII I.
PITTSBOKir, CHATHAM CO., N. C, FEBRUARY 26, 1891.
NO. 28.
To the I nattalnabte.
htnr. how m iny tbe songs t bring to you,
Woven of drram-stun"s, pleasure and rain,
All the song, of my life I sin? to you,
And you hear, and answer again.
Though no rhyme do your dear lips say to
rue.
Til. my poet, sweet songs you brine,
When you sniili tben the angels play to me
Times to tin' silent eongs you sing.
All my soul goes fortb in a song to you,
All my deeds lor your fake are done.
AH my laurels and bays lirlong to you.
In your name are my battles won.
Just by living you make my life dear to me,
Though your Hp never (.peak my mime:
'Tin your bands thai in dreams appear to
me,
Ilriiighi;- mcnll thai I ask of fame.
What llouxli here you are wholly lost to
roc,
Though ou mver will know or fee.
Iliougli life's pain lie iliis worship's cost to
me.
Am 1 no' richer limn great kings be?
Have 1 not jmi.in tbe holiest heart of me
Von. in the eji wlii'b eo you alone?
filiall I not iie to your .--ml, which is part of
nie.
Till you shall nict me and know your
n "Ml?
;K. e;liili in Longman- Maga-inr.
A FAMOUS DUEL.
I he duel vvliieh gave the field of
lilii'li! sburg. iirnr Washington, ils
fiiritlit ninl world-wide notoriety was
that of .lame Barron ami Stephen
Decatur, both nice is in tlio I niicil
States Navy, on llic 'J'2t of March,
1!K'. In tl e long ninl bloody record
of the !." inf-ci itoil upon I lie history
of thi; I'm ft half century of our national
existence, this melancholy mid unfor
tunate rifl'.ir ranks second only to that
in which tin: hiii ruled Hamilton lout
hi iifc ft Wechawkon in tl. At
the lime of hi dentil Stephen Decatur
was Ihc most In illiant and conspicuous
figure in the American navy, nnd few
men in any of the walks of public life
attracted a larger share of ubiie at
tention or had a stronger hold upon
the nfle. lirna of the p( ople. Ilia
domestic relations were as happy and
charming as his public career was
brilliant. On Lafayette square in
Wn-hiiigtou he built the comm diou
and elegant mansion which still bears
liis name. Hum were divpln-cd tlic
trophim of Ini prowess mid glory.
Hcic the accomplished wife who adored
liini dispensed a hospitality ns relincri
ami eli-aul as it was. hearty itigueri
the q tii-en of n circle that for brilliancy
and accomplishments ha never been
exceeded in. Washington.
To tint careful reader who follows,
the long correspondence between tlio
two the conclusion is almost irresisti
ble that nlihongh the challenged party.
Decatur wnt, in fact, the aggressor.
Tho culmination of the quarrel be
tween the two men was the result of a
long, series of events, extending
through several years. Singularly
enough, its origin may be found in
certain event largely iiislrumeiital in
bring on the war of 1HL.'. In 107
Barron, who had attained the iHiik of
Commodore, was pithed in coinuiaiid
of the I 'nited States frigale Ches'i
pcakc It wan just when our n flair
with France had assumed their most
threatening s ect when war with
that power seemed imminent. The
Vessel, after it'al -i omg hasty repairs,
bad been huniediy manned, provi
sioned r.nd mdi red to hen. Her decks
were encumbered with stores, nnd
lier crew were unririilcri in their new
quarters anil duties, dust on! from
tho port of Norfolk it was overhauled
by the British ship Leopard of fifty
guns whose commander demanded
certain alleged British deserters said
to be among the crew of tbe Amer
ican. Barrow refused to surrender tiie
men, and thereupon Hie Leopard
opened lire, killing three and wound
ing eighteen of the Chesapeake's men.
Wholly unprepared for action, the lat
ter vessel was forced to strike her col
ors, though her crew managed to lire,
one gnu by a coal brought from the
cook's galley. Thereupon the British
commander boirdcri the American and
carried off the alleged deserters. His
action was afterwards repudiated
by bis Government, the men were re
stored to tbe Chesapeake, nnd a money
indemnity wa paid.
This outrage upon onr flag excited
universal and burning indignation in
tbe public mind A court of inquiry
was ordered to investigate the nuVir,
and upon its recommendation Barron
was tried by a court martini. By thai
body he was found guilty and su pend
ed from rank and pay for a period of
five years. There i little doubt now
that tliis sentence was wholiy unde
served; that the fault lay not with the
commander whose vessel went to sea
unprepared for action, but with tbe
superior officer who issued the ill
timed order. As has so often been tbe
case, public clamor demanded a victim,
and Barron must meds be o fit red up.
Decatur was a member of both the
court of inquiry and the court martini.
B, rron believed be should not have
served on the latter after baring
fo; men nnd expressed nil opinion in
tlio former. Alter his suspension
Barron went abroad and remained
away for a number of years. When
the war of WJ wns over ho returned
to Ibis country and applied for restora
tion to active service in the navy, tlio
term f his suspension having expired.
This application Docatur, now in
tho zenith of his power, opposed with
all his influence. The Hi st in the long
series of communications which passed
between the parties was from Barron
lo Decalur, dated Hampton, Va., Juno
P ll. He writes:
'Sir: I have been informed in
Norfolk that you could insult me with
impunity, or woids to tliat effect. If
you have said so, ou will, no doubt,
avow it, and 1 shall expect to bear
from you "
Iecalur replied :
"Sir: I have receive! your com
munication of tin 12tli instant.
Whatever 1 liuvu thought or said in
tho very frequent and free conversa
tions ! have bud re-pecting you and
your conduct, I feel a thorough con
viction that I never could have been
guilty of s much egotism ns to say
that I could iiisn.t you (or any other
man) with impunity."
I'roin this point the ctnTC--poudeiicc
continued nt great length, and with
cver-iiurcnsing mperity on both sidos;
yet through it all one cacnot but let
his sympa liy go out to Barron, lift
was broken by years of ill health and
bowed down by the weight of a sen
tence which he felt to be unjust. Ho
was so nearsighted that to his friends
( not to him-clf, an encounter with
pistols uiiiit have scunrul the idieerest
madness. It whs to thi infirmity be
alluded when bo wrote: ".Ml I de
mand is to be placed upon equal
ground with you; such ns (wo honor
ble men may decide upon as being
ju-t and proper." Continuing be say;.:
"You bine hunted me out; have per
secuted me with all tho power and in
fluemoof your office, and have de.
dared your determination to drive nie
from Ihc navy if I should make any
effort fo be employed ; nnd for wh .t
purpose or from what other motive
than to obtain my rank 1 know not.
If my lifo will give it to yon, yon
shali have an opportunity to lake it.
And now, sir, I have only to add that
if you will make known your deter
mination and tlio name of your friend,
1 will give that of mine in order to
com b le the necessary arrangements
to a final close of this affair."
Decatur evidently d'.d not intend to
give th" other tbp slight advantage of
bc'ng tbe challenged patty, for be
writes in reply: "I reiterated to you
that I have not challenged, nor do I
intend lo challenge you. It
h evident that you think, or your
friends for you, that a light will help
you, but in li 'bting you wish to incur
Ihc least possiblo risk. Now, sir, not
believing that a light of this nature
w i l raise nie nt4 all in public estima
tion, but may even have a contrary
efl'ecl, I do not feel al ail disposed to
remove the difficulties that lie in our
way. If we fight it must be of your
seeking; and you inn t take all tbe
risk and all the inconvenience which
usually ut tend the challenger in such
cases.'' Ilisa singula: fact in that
this unfortunate iifl'air no tliicdlv
worded challenge ever passed between
the parlies. In reply to the foregoing
Barron wrote:
Sir: Your letter of the JlMli ulti
mo I have received. In it you say
that you have now lo inform me that
you shall pay no further attention to
any communication that I may nitk
to you. other than a direct call to the
field ; in answer to which I have only to
reply that whenever you will consent
lo meet me oil fair ami equal grounds,
thai is, such as two honorable men
may consider just and proper, you are
at liberty to view this as a call. The
whole, tenor of your conduct to mo
justifies ibis course of proceeding on
my pari. As for your charges and
remarks, I regard Ibein not, particu
larly your sympathy . You know not
Mich a feeling. I cannot be suspected
of m iking the attempt to excite it."
To this Decatur replied:
"Sir: I have received your com.
munication of the t '. ti, and mn at a
loss to know what ymir intortion is.
If you intend it as a ch.-illenge, I ac
cept it and refer yn-i in my friend
( omniodore Bai- bridge, v ho is fully
authorized by me to make any
an angemenls lie pleases, as regards
weapons, mode or distance." This
note was dated .Ian. CI, lSi'O, and the
fact that several wcks intei vened be
tween it and the fatal Hireling uonld
seem lo indicate that some difficulty
wa experienced by tlio seconds in
a ianging such terms as wi.uld put
tin; parlies upon something like a fuir
aid equal footing. It was finally
g ii d that tlic wo'ijmus should b 3
, ,.r.,i ,!,. t'.r .ljl-;i, i ! i pncC.
It wtw further settled, in concession
to Bairon's iii'iv nity, that each parly
after being placed sliouid raise hi
pistol mid take dcii'ieratc aim at the
other before tho word to lira should
be given.
Lew words were spok"ti after they
took their positions. Barron said:
"Sir, I hope on meeting in another
world we shall be better friends than
in (hi." To which Decatur respond
ed: "I have never been your enemy,
sir." At tho word both fired, appar
ently it the same instant, and both
fell. It was first thought thai Decatur
was killed, but after a little w hile he
revived somewhat.
William Wirt, who was then Attor-ney-lieneral
of the I'liited Stales, and
who bad tried to prevent the meeting,
writing n few days later of the melan
choly nllair, says; "Decatur was ap
parently shot dead : In- revived, how
ever, after a while, ami he and Barron
had a parley as ihcy lay on the ground.
I i. Washington, who got up just then,
says that it reminded him of the clos
ing scene of a tragedy--Hamlet and
Laertes. Barron proposed that they
should make friends before they met
:u heaven (for he supposed they would
both die immediately). Decatur said bo
had never seen his enemy, that ho
freely foigavc him his dca h though
h'J could not forgive those who bad
stimulated him to seek his life. One
repoi t mivs that Barron exclaimed :
"Would to God you had said this much
yesterday!" It is certain that the
parley was a friendly one, and that
they parted in peace. Decalur knew
he was to die, and his only sorrow was
that he bad not died in tho service of
bis country.
Decatur was placed in his carriuge
and (aktii to his home in Washington,
w here ho died that night ut 11 o'clock.
Among thoso who followed hi re
mains to the tomb were the President
of the 1'uitcd Slates, the members of
his Cabinet, the Foreign Ministers re
sident at Washington, and many other
dialinguiblieil officers and cili.ens.
After a long and lediou illness
Barron recovered from his wound,
but bo was never restored to active
duty, pasing the icniainder of hi ser
vice on shore duty and waiting order..
He became senior officer of tho navy
in 18:19, and died in N'ofiolk in 1S5I,
thirty years after the fatal duel. Ma
gazine of American History.
A Wonderful Submarine Boat.
A submarine boat is being con
structed at tho Detroit boat works
which promise realization of doles
Vernes' dream of the Nautilus. Tbe
builders have been ordered to keep
quiet, but it was learned on reliable
authoriiv that tho design was submit
ted to Secretary Whitney, and he had
j about completed arrangements tobnlld.
i when Scerelarv Tracy succeeded hi in
and work was stopped. The boat is
I like a double pointed cigar, ll is
j forty feet over all. sixteen feet from
' top lo bottom, mid nine feet beam,
j The motive power, electricity, is a
i storage bnliery anil the boat can be
submerged by simply turning a switch.
The craft is built of li-iuch oak and,
instead of being siukable of itself,
I will immediately tloat.
Motion is given by screw propellers
I on either side, which work on a
; movable bevel shaft. The inventor's
assistant claims the motion can be so
I guaged by the screw that the boat will
j remain at any depth anil easily make
; a speed of ten mile an hour, l i.like
; other boats which require ballast to
sink tlicin, and sic liable to slay sub
; merged by the breaking of the engine,
this one would immediately rise to the
top if anything should break, the mo
tion of the screw being all that holds
it down.
The boat can be sunk, either bow
fn sf or bottom first, by changing tho
angle on which tho screws are set. ll
is claimed (hat the air in (he boat will
last two men twenty-four hours with
the aid of chemicals to purify it. The
inventor has money enough to com
plete the boat. Washington Star.
The Fooil of Hie future.
"I believe," said Dr. James K. Sul
liv in, "that in lime a chemical food
will be invented or discovered upon
which the human race will subsist.
It has been demonstrated that a clean
er and purer article of food can be
made from cnnicals than the average
varieties now in use, and it is in my
opinion that a perfect food such as
milk is loan infant, will be produced
at some lime, and that all the natural
fooiU will be considered superfluous.
Important Consideration.
l ledgely- I lovo you. Alice I will
you be mine
Alice What are your ideas regard
ing rings?
Flcdgely Diamonds.
Alice Take mc. Jewelers' Cir
cular.
( HILDREN'S I'OLl'MN.
HOW AN AM.FI. IOOKS.
."amis, Inuling his motlier'n lwnrl.
S:.ys "(i.Kid-uiyht" to the Wg folks all.
Throws some kls-es from rosy lips.
Laughs with glee tlivougli the lin'ite-l hall.
Then in his own crih, vvnrin and deep,
Jamie Is tucked for a loin; ni.-l't's sleep.
(icutle mother witb fond caress
Slips her hninl thrniin'h his soft brown hair
Thinks of hii fortune all unknown,
Speaks aloud in an earnest prayer,
"Holy aiij-els keep watch anil ward,
ioU'c (rood angels my baby gunr-1 !"
"Mamma, what is an ancel like?"
Aked tho Ixiy in a wondering tone;
How ill they look if they come here.
WiiiclcnK nie while I'm all alone?"
' Half with slirinKinf- and fear spoke lio;
j Ans-.vcrcd Hie mother tenderly :
"Prettiest laces evr were l.tion.
Kindest voices and swe ete-t eyes,"
liniie, waiting fur nothing mere.
i ried n itli a look of pleased surpnj'-.
Love and trust in his eyes of Mm.
'I know. iiKtinnin; thrv're just likeioiiV
- -! Farm. Field nnd Stockman.
lilt. I!IMV ANSWI.lt.
Will llohlen was small for bis years
and lame, nnd no! only that, but just
a little peculiar in his ways "queer,"
(he other boys culled liini.
But, perhaps because of his inlirmily
and that be could i.ot play boisterous
games, Will was fond of books, and,
though only J, knew a great deiq
more ihuu to look at hint one would
have thought likely.
Tho other boys found Ibis out, and
quite often u-ed lo lease him with
questions more or less difficult "lo
stump him," ns they said.
One day at recess Tom Harris, a
frith.- envious of Will for being the
leader in almost every study, began
plying him with perplexing questions
--mental arithmetic, capes, capitals,
boundaries, facts in history, ami so
on.
Will was good natured, and stood
flu- bantering, answering so rapidly as
rather to disconcert Tom till the ques
tion, "Who discovered America?'' ho
gave the answer.
'A boy named Kit Pigeon."
"Kit Pigeon!" burst out Tom. And
all in a chorus said "Kit Pigeon!"
with I he greatest scorn iinagi liable.
"Stumped," said Tom; "you're
flumped for once, AVill llohlen."
"Ob, no," said Will.
. But the others declared be wn, and
made such a noise jeering that the
teacher came to the door lo seo what
it all meant.
Tom Harris, glad enough, 1 expect
for once to get the better (if his littlo
rival, spoke up and told what had hap
pened. "As if everybody didn't know bet
ter than thai," said be, exultantly.
"Kit Pigeon, indeed!"
"Stop ii bit! Stop a bit!" said Mr.
(iridium, witn a smile. '-d Will says
Kit Pigeon discovered America! Well,
he's not so wrong, of tec nil, as jou
seem to think. Now, nlin did you
say it was, Tom?"
Tho reply came promptly: "Chris,
topber Columbus," and tlio others
chimed in :
"Why, of course, it was Christopher
Columbus!''
"Ah, just, so," said .Mr. (irahaiu,
"but Columbus was a boy once, wasn't
he?"
Yes."
They all agreed to that.
"And so 1 suppose 'bey called him
something else besides Christopher for
short once in a while. Isn't that
likely I'"
The boys thought it was, and one of
theui whose name, it happened, was
Christopher - said most of tho boys
bad nicknamed him "t hrisly,'' but
that hi uncle .lack always called him
"bit."
'That accounts," said Mr. di-aham,
"for part of Will's extraordinary
siatcuieut. As for the. Pigeon, that
does seem rather strange, but Colum
bus' real name was Colon, which means
pigeon. So, you sec, it was Ihe boy
Kit Pigeon who grew up to bo known,
as tbe fashion was in thnso days, by
the Latin name, Christopher Colutn
bus."
Since then Tom has slopped trying
to "stump'' Will llohlen. (inlilcn
Days.
Comfortable Indian Houses.
In the warmer districts of New Mex
ico and Arizona tbe Apache. Warm
Spring Indians and Navajo livo in
very comfortable houses built by using
sapling for walls, with heavy branches
sloping down lo the sides from a cent
ral ridge pole. Most of these dwellings
are square in shape, and some are as
large as thirty i r forty feet on the side.
By some ingenious plaiting; of the
' branches of the roof they arc piacli
callv water-tight and strong enough lo
withstand the heaviest storms, liaised
bed frames aro arranged around the
walls of ( lie interior, and a very com
fortable mattress undo of leaves Ii
uocd. New Yoik Times.
1 An old bt-ttlcr (Quicksand.
FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
A Succinct Account of the Or
der's Origin.
The First Meeting Held In West ern
New York in 1875.
Tho story of the origin of the Farm
ers' Alliance as told by F. P. Boot, of
New York, who claims to have been
with it nt the commencement, is about
this. "In January, IH70, a call was
issued by Ihe Wes'ern Now York
Farmers' Ciiih for a meeting of the
farmers of Munroc county at Kochcs
ter, to orgaui.-! a farmers' Association,
llarly in February following, the
meeting assembled and effected an or
gnni.ation, with onsnluliiin and by
laws, (o he known as the f armers' A
linncc. Its chief object Was to i fl'ect
legislation in tin: interest of the i-gri-
iilturisf, not by distinct patty in t'on,
but through each political party to se
cure nomination and election of candi
dates pledged Id support such just and
equal I w-. as would bear on the in er
cts of agriculture ; also lo -cure
equal representation of Ihc fann
ing class in the Legislature of the
Stato. The first organization embraced
only Monroe county nnd could be of
no general benefit. Hence, within a
short period we issued a call for n
meeting for State organization at
It ichcster, which brought together re
pr'sent.nivo farmers from other parts
of tl.c State, and a Stale alliance was
organized on the model of ihe county
alliance, with recommendation to form
county alliances throughout Ihc Slate.
Tho first nnuu-il meeting thereafter
w as held ut Syracuse, N. Y, when (ho
first Alliance ad-liejs was given by the
President. The objeu's specially aimed
nt were a reform in assessment and
taxation, equal lailroad freights to
dripper, and, especially, pro rata
freights lo all way freightage taking
extra cost of handling, the enactment
of laws to authorize co-opera: ive farm
insurance, togo:hcr with other reform
in legislation, nnd to favor equal rep
resentation in i lie law-making jiower
of tho Slate. The second President
elected was Hon. Harris Lewis, of
Montgomery county, representing the
eastern portion of the S:ato, and mak
ing the interest of the Alliance extend
throughout tho State. This organiza
tion extended to oilier Statu, and in
1878orlS70 a call wa made for a
national meeting (o bo held at Chicago.
At that meeting a Monroe county
fanner, W. ,T. Fowler, who gave
special instruction in Alliance work,
was elected President. From that
time) onward the organizaion spread
throughout the West and South until
it lias become an acknowledged power
in the political status of theso States.
It has been claimed by some Western
writer that the Farmers' Allianco had
its birth al Chicago, when Fowler was
elected President of the National Al
liance, hut this Stule organization had
been running some four years prior to
the Chicago meeting. A. A. Hopkins
gave naino to Hie organization, of
which fact I have personal know
ledge, having been a member of the
committee with Mr. Hopkins
that reported nauin and constitu
tion f.n- the association. Courier
Journal. Keeping the Rooms Sweet.
Those who do "light housekeeping,"
as it is termed, in small room-, where
they must sleep, cook and eat, often
complain that in spite of continual
airings there is a disagreeable odor.
One nice way to rid yourself of it is
this: After the usual morning's airing
take a shovel, or iron dish, ami make
a close pilo of bits of paper, and on
top sprinkle giated orange peeling, or
tiny broken pieces of it Then set it
on fire nnd let it burn slowly, or us
long as it w ill. Save and dry your
orange peeling for this purpose, ns it
imparls a delightful, fragrant odor to
a room. By the way, a very small oil
stove w ill not only beat a little room,
but more cooking can be done on it
(ban is generally supposed. A lady
whose homo i ono "hall bedroom,'
has made a beautiful little silling room
out of it and heals it with a i 0-cent
oil stove. It costs her cents a week,
a she burns that amount of astral oil.
She can also cook a small chicken on
this stove and recently stewed ono de
liciously by putting it in a deep oval
dish. ( Ival shaped dishes arc best lo
rook in whenever the small one-wickod
stove i of the same shape. New
York News.
He Had a Hill.
First Swell Here come Lunnent,
the tailor. He looks as if he intended
to speak to us.
Second Swell (nervously) Let's
turn into this side street and hide in
some alley-way. 1 I don't lik lo
iissoc ate with people in trade. New
York Week!..
An Onyx ledge Found hy Chance.
A rich discovery of on; v was made
during (he last of tile jcar. It caino
about in a peetilai way. and ha caused
much interest, especially ns in the
known world up to this time there are
but threj onyx mini's. One of these
is in Mexico, ami onyx from it i- used
by Lucky Baldwin to face Ihe counter
of bis $ S,00i,f0O hotel at San Fran
cisco. One of the other mines is in
Missouri, but the vein is small. Tho
third is in Germany, and is now about
exhausted. Tho discovery here was
therefore at a most opportune lime.
I tirinj the closing days of the ex
position nt Spokano Falls, State of
Washington, U. 1'. Bealc, a sculptor
and marble dealer of that city, noticed
among the exhibits from Douglass
C 'unty a peculiar looking bit of rock,
lie picked il up, exaniinod it, and
a-ked soine questions about it. Tho
limn in charge taiil it was merely
crysiali.cd limestone, pretty to look
a', but would not mnko good lime
Mr. Il.ale lonkci! it over again and be
gan to be itnprcsM-d with the fin t that
it was onyx and Hat, too, of a most
superb kind. lie divulged hi con
viction lo no ono. Lut made careful
inquiry and found that it came from
near Weniilcliic.
impressed wills tlio fact that thero
was a big bonanza in it, he struck out
for Wenal chic, oxer 100 miles away.
Without much difli-lllty he found tho
formation of which ho was in search.
He discovered along a reef of rocks
several small caves in which were
numerous stalactites. Breaking them
off he found iliein to be onyx of a fine
quality. He look specimens back with
him, polished (hoin aiul exhibited Ibein
to capitalists. During the hist of No
vember he returned again. lie had
discovered that Ihc ledge was on 320
acres of unsurveyed land, and he and
others took up clniins.
It issaiiltlmt the onyx i eqinl to
any ever found, anil that it w 1 ie de
veloped steadily. Should the discov
ery prove what it is believed to be, its
value will transcend thai of Riiy silver
or g-old initio in the West, however
rich. Ml. lions of dollars would not
more than express it. Seattle (Wash
ington) Telcgra; h.
The Lady and the Leopards' Heads.
A passenger in a Brooklyn street
car the oth-r day was surprised, not
lo say startled, on glancing up from
the newspaper ho was reading, at seeing
opposite him in the car and just over
tho top of his pnper tho yellow-and-black
head of an enormous leopard.
The animal's tars wcro laid bark and
its lips drawn apart in an ugly snarl
thut showed its long white teeth, and
ils blazing yellow eyes glared fiercely
a' the astonished passenger. The man
dropped his ncwupapcr rather sudden
ly und was confronted by another i air
of staring, yellow eyes and more
gleaming teeth. His surprise was
very evident, for he had been com
pletely absorbed in his newspaper, hut
be quickly recovered and smiled when
he saw a very pretty pink and white
human face between the leopards'
brads. The head formed part of the at
tire nnd not a small part ol the adorn
ment of a pretty young lady. They
were real leopards' heads, tho fur a
bright yellow, dotted over with big
black rings, and they had belonged to
two full-grown animals. One was
made into n cap, which tilted closely
over the lady's head. The upper row
of sharp teeth, two of which were
about an inch and a half long, nearly
touched her forehead, while the great
yellow eyes glared fiercely down from
the crown of her head. Tho other
bend, which was n liltle larger and of
even more ferocious aspect, was made
into a muff'. Bih were exceedingly
lifelike, and the effort was quite novel,
and at fii't glance rather startling.
The same lady was seen the next day
wearing a wrap made of leopard skin,
a-id l he man who had seen tbe heads
found himself wondering if there was
not perhaps an interesting story of the
lady's prowess as a huntress connected
wilh the trophies she wore. New
York Sun.
Jndlciil Robes Come Hieh.
There is a little old woman in
Wnliington who enjoys all tho gossip
about the going out and coining in of
justices of the supreme court. She is
the court milliner, and for .'in or 4'
years bus made the gowns which tho
judges wear on the bench. Justice
Brown was sworn in in a borrowed
gow n, bis own not being ready. The
old woman had taken the measure
ment, and probably could have had
tho gown ready if pushed to it,
but she does not believe in doing
thing in haste. For each of theso
new gowns, niade of black silk, she is
paid $100, and her profit is about $75.
Just why the fee ! $100 no ono
knows, except this is the sum that
tradition calls for, and tradition is
everything in the supreme court.
Recompense.
There is no joy hut has its drop of sorrow,
No song but h-cs an undertone of pain.
Our yesterday, today, and yet tomorrow
Has e'er its Biitisuiuc Interspersed wftb
rain.
We chase the brightest sunbeams, and they
lend us
Full often where the deepest shadow lies.
Wc fret at file, but never will It lieed u,
"r turn Ihe course of fortune otherwise.
We sigh because too heavy seems life's bur
den. The path too rugged for our weary feet.
We weep Ix-cause too meagre seems oul
guerdon.
And long for wayside cool and meadoW
sweet.
And yrl we rise by obstacles surmounted,
By burdens bniw ly borno and foes o'er,
thrown.
Fach seeming hindrance lliny bp counted
I nto t lie higher realm a stepping stone.
Worthless the gold while yet untried by tire.
The limn statue grows by many a blow.
II- who ba much to meet may inucli Bpiri.
He of the cm n way must stay be low.
HIMOROIS.
Broke n-hoarli'd lovers should bear
in mind that (.'lipid is a capital tinkor.
j "When I drink much I can't work,
! undso 1 let it alone." "The drinking?"
j "No, the working."
j At I'O a man thinks bo knows it all;
1 nt o) ha merely thinks he could have
known It all if he had tried.
I Johnson And so Jim son has gone
I to his reward? Bronson Yes,
i poor fellow! I'm afraid he has.
It is one of Ihn solved mysteries how
two person can exchange rubbers and
, both iiiviiriab y get the worse pair,
j A little girl sent out to look for eggs
, returned without success, complaining
j that all the )us were standing about
doing nothing,
j Young Man Yes, 1 can mimic
I anybody. Did you ever sec nie lake
i your diiugliier ofl? Old Gentleman
I No, but I'd iiko lo.
I Aunt Mary: Poor Bess, does yonr
toolh a -he yet? If it- were mine, dear,
I'd have it out at once. Bess: If it
I were yours? Well ami: ic. so would I.
I Blim'ier I hear that Flnxon
write p-o-iry. Bones Out his
fiends are doing their best lo contra
dict thi- report.
Wiggins It's sai.l that Goodfcllow
absolutely throws his money away.
Do you believe il? Stiggins Well, I
heard he lent you some last night.
Sophomore I hoard one of the
girl undergraduates make a truly wo
manly answer tho other day. Junior
-Indeed. Sophomore Yes, the
professor ill astronomy aske I her why
t e '-at th ;oe around the sun 1 Junior
What answer did 6bo make? So
ph iniore Bcciiise.
A Toy Butterfly.
It is little things that make big
money. Fortunes have been lost in
coloss.il patents and millions have
been made out of articles retailed on
the two-foi-fivc basis.
A pale-faced Japanese has been
coining big money for the past week
on Kearny street selling toy butterflies
at two for cents. A siiarpassistant
captures the insects" as they return
from a (light as high as the tops of
Ihc telegraph poles, and so saves them
from the predaceous and insolvent
street Arab.
Asa triumph of simple mechanism
and an exhibition of manual dexterity
in construction, a modern watch is not
to le compared with these semi-barbaric
painted trifles. There is nothing
lo ihc whole concern but a strip of
tissue paper gaudily painted und fash
ioned in tho ihspe of a butterfly. Tlio
framework is composed "f one stripof
bamboo bent into the shape of a long
I ', and another strip of a bow stripe to
si releh i be pinions. The head of the
buitci fly" i a bit of light wood, in
which is an elastic spring. The pinions
arc shaped on the Archimedean screw
propiiler principle All the proud
owner has to do is to turn Ihe body
round half a score of limes and lei go.
The pinions revolve, the uuficrfly goes
up with a whirr thirty or forty feet in
tbe air, and, vvhn the force is ex
hausted, falls light as down or a squir
rel from a tree. San Francisco
Chronicle.
Food of Humming Birds.
The food of humming hiiris consists
mainly of insects, mostly gathered
from the flowers ihey visit. An acuto
observer writes that even among the
common flower-frequenting species he
has found tin- alimentary canal entirely
filled with insects nnd very rarely it
trace of honey. It is this fact doubt
less l lull ha hindered almost all at
tempts a keeping them in confinement
for any length of time nearly every
one making the i xperimcnt having fed
bis capl :ve only whh sirup, which is
holly insufficient as sustenance, and
eeing therefore tho wretched crea
h;iet. gradually sink into inanition and
lio of hiiuyer. Chicago Herald.