North Carolina Newspapers

wttati 11. A. LONDOIS, EDiToit and proprietor. HATES TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ADVERTISING Ore square, one insertion One square, two insertions One square, one month ll.Wr l.M - S.CO $1.50 PER TEAR Strictly fn Advance. VOL. XIII. riTTSBORO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, JULY l!, 1891 For largar advertiscmcota liberal com act 4 made NO. 18. V Since Life is Fleet. Fill the swift years full, my dear, Since life is fleet; I.ove, ami hold love fast, my dear. He is so sweet; Sweetest, dearest, fleetest comer, Fledgling of the sudden summer. Love, hut not too well, my dear, When skies nre gray. And the autumn winds are here, l.ovo will away; t lectest, vaguest, farthest rover, When the summer's warmth Is over. I.oi.'se Chandler Mnultou. TOM, DICK AND HAERY. ISY ANNA Sill II IIS. I mil Tom! Hick is my brotlinr, nml wo m-o the orphaned sons of Richard Hope, who went down with the Saurv Jane willi his wife and llie fortune ho hud made in ( 'aliforuia, when wc were but six ycar old. W were twins, mid dinging to each other, wero picked up by a passing steamer uiiil carried to New York. I was old enough to know iiud tell tlnit wo were going to visit our nun!, Mrs. Dresdale of O.ikhtll, nud kindly strangers saw Unit wc arrived there safely, forlorn little orphan beggars. Hut fresh mis fortune met us, for our aunt tiled one week after the gave us n tearful wel come. Wo had n real claim upon Cyrus Dresdale, being only his wife' nephews, but out of his great irencrous heart lie gave us the place of sons in his home. hear I'nelo Cv! Never were boy a made happier than he made us for lour years, sending us to school nnd giving us every pleasure boys tie light in, and, above nil, such loving companionship as few enjoy, even with their own father. Then the change c hup. Fiiclo Oy married again, and his wife could mq endure to have two great rude hots nhout the house. Kvery day, every hour, we committed sonic unpardo'i. able oflense, and found all pleasures restricted. First, our ponies were M'UI: then our rabbits and guinea-pigs were hided ; then we were moved from our large, beautiful room to a miserable little attic where we baked in fu. miner end froz- in winter. Inch" Cyrus stood by us as far ns bis quiet, peari'-loving disposition iiliowed, but his new wife ruled willi a rod of iron, and, at hist, seeing we could not please her, he .sent us t-i boarding-school. Ibune-slek for week, we were thoroughly happy af terward, an. I wanted for no pleasure I'nele Cy could give us. 1 cannot dwell too long on our boy-life. Inn we, Dick and myself, cm never fur. get the U id u s tif Fnele Cyrus Drcs tlule. We i -amo to Oak!. id sometimes for n brief h :iday, and this brings ine to Harry. Hariii'l D.csdale was the only child of our dear i'ne'e t'jrus. ant! Has born jill one j car after his second marriage. It w.is uncle htms.df who gave her her nickname, greatly to Mrs. D'i's lal ", d'giist, hut, us he Fa id: "Really, my dear, I must complete tho trio, Tout, Dick and Harry." Wc were t went y-ono years of age when I'liele Cyrus tool; us into his I study one morning and made a brief speech t lint 1 shall never forget. 'My tle..r hoys," he said, "for you arc a dear to me as (n. and have made ind proud of you many times I must m-iiI)oii away unco more. AVo will not talk about the leason, but you know it is not because I do not love you. You have good education, good morals, and I am not afraid to trust you. You, Tom, will practice your profession, and Dick can go into business, since he wishes it ; hut you will each Iiud leu thousand dollars in tho (i Rank that is your own. I' will keep you from want until you make more by your own talents and exertions. Coti c sometimes to see mo; do not forge', that I love yon." He broke down there and wc hung about him as if we were still little boys, full of love and gratitude, and keenly awnro of the cruelty of separ ating us front lit tit. Oil to the great city, where Dick opened a drug-store ami I put. out a doctor's sign. We bad both sludc. d medicine, but Dick would not pi act ice. Ilia was a delicate, sensitive iiatuic, most unliko my own, and he could not bear the sight of suffering. We were unlike in all things, and no one would have guessed we were twins. 1 was tall, strong and dark, not in the least handsome. Dick was slender and fair, with a rare beauty of face and a gentleness that was almost womanly. Wo had been seven years in tho ci-y and once more were ut homo at dak bill, when we could spare a vacation, for Mrs. Dresdale was dead. There was nothing said, there could not be, but WS knew Unit we were welcome, and WC stole many a day to run down to visit dear I'nele Cyrus, ami, it initsi b (old, fell in lovo with Harry. Can I make you sco her, this coutiu who was not our cousin? lirown, curling hair shaded a face of ptiro oval shape with delicate, regular features, fircat blue eyes, soft, wistful, innocent as a babe's, lighted her beauty, and her smiles displayed perfect teeth, .She was not tall, but her figure was grace ful and prettily rounded, and her bands and feet wero dainty as a fairy'. She was frank and sisterly willi u and always gave us cordial welcome, and we never guessed each other's de votion, because we could not well leave the city at the same time, Did; leaving mo in charge of hi store and clerks, and taking my practice in return. ?sot until I'ne'e Cyrus died did we know that we both loved Harry, and then a crushing blow fell, l-'or it win found, after our uncle was buried, that ho had left nothing of a once noble fortune. Nothing for the deli cately nurtured child who had never known a wish tiugratilicd. Harry's aunt, Mrs. Lei burn, look her home, and the beautiful house at Oakhill was sold. After all the confusion w:u over and there came a breathing spell, Dick took mc into his canli deuee. Like blows from a hammer his words fell on my heart. Tom," he said to me, "I have been over to see Harry, l'uur little girl, she is very, miserable. All her bright, pretty smiles are gone, Tom. It would make your heart ache to see how pale ami sad she is." h! Had it not already made my heart ache? She has lost the kind st father, Dick," I sai.l. And, as if that was not sorrow enough,' said Dick, "Ihey arc not kind to her at Lev burn's." "Not kind to her!" I cried. ! thought they fairly wor biped her." 'So they did when they 111 uig'it I'nele Cyrus was wealthy. Nw they tell her every day that she must Iiud something to do sumo work to earn a living." -Ncvor!"l cried. -Why, Dick, wc owe everything to I'nele Cyrus and wc are not poor men now." Then Dick said, in a faltering voice : D.i you think, Tom, it is too noon nftcr her loss for me to tell II. inv how I love her to ask her to be niv wife?" The room seemed to be reeling wound me; Dick's face grew dim; his voice sounded far away. He loved Harry! And I was only waiting un til the first billei ir'ss of her grief was over to ak her to In; my w ife. Fool that I was! Wh.it was inv homely fare compared to Dick's beauty; my quiet ways against his grace and ten- lernpss? Iteforc he spoke again I had r.'rovcred from the sleek hi-t words ive inc. and resolved to keep my secret. Let htm win her if he could. I dared not think of my own chance if she if fused him. Time enough for that. Day after day be sought her, yet kept silent. Little guessing ihe. tor. Hue be inliictcd, he told me of his wrong, but ever with tho same re frain. "She gives me no chance to tell her how I love her, Tom! she U like a sister, only." I kept away, but my hope grew stronger. If she loved Dick as a sis ter, might it not be that I homely ami quiet n I was had won the deeper lovo I craved. My patience must have been great in those days. Kvcry lonely hour was tilled with dreams of Harry's fair, sweet face, her low, musical voice, her bright, winning grace. I recalled every lov ing word she had ever spoken to nie, every caress slic had given to me. 1 knew that even i i her childhood I had given her more than a brother's love, and I saw that her mother had dreaded lest she should love one of the penni less boys who were so dear to their adopted uncle. Wo had begun, Dick and myself, to turn some of our investments into ready money, to make a fund for Harry. "She shall have the twenty thou sand miclo gave us," we mid, although it would cripplo us somewhat fur a lime to take so large a sum out of our foi times. Nothing bad been said to her, for we were afraid the would re fuse to lako it. Wc waited for Dick to speak, but wc gathered the noney together in bank. It may have been the longing for a home that first suggested to us the idea of investing part of Harry's money (wc always spoke of it ns hers) in a house and some furnituie, each hoping to sh'iro it with her. The tiiM real brightness that cumo into her dear face after her father died was when we told her wo were going to housekeeping, nnd begged her to help us select nud furnish a hotUQ. Again, I rstarved my own heart, and sent her with Dick hou-c-hunting, until they selected a house that seemed the per fection of a modest home, most unliko the beautiful Oakhill mansion. Hut it was Harry's own taste that selected the furniture, suited to the small rooms, but good in quality, and Harry said: '-river so pretty !" "It was all ready and paid for, and live thousand dollars still In bank, when wc all went over to admire the final ellee'. We were standing in the pretty parlor when Harry sa'd. softly: "I hope this wi'.l be a happy homo for you, boys, nnd that thcie will soon be the sweetest ot wives to chare it with you. And iijw, today, yon must give me your good wishes, too. I inn going to be married." 'Married !"' Who said The voice was choked and very hoarse. Not mi no ; surely not Dick's. Papa knew," said Harry; but wc wero to wait until Charlie was a little more prosperous. I was not sure" and Harry's eyes dropped "w hether my loss of fortune would not make me less attractive to t 'hai I e, but I wronged him. We will be very poor, but 1 hope I can help him, and we have made up our minis n it to wait for nionev. S une dav wc in iv invite you to our house, but in the meantime you will come to see it. where wc arc boarding, will you not?" I answired, pilyiiiir the ghnsily white lace that Dick had turned to th,. window. And 1 continued my an-wer by asking : "Who is Charlie? You for-.'et we have not seen him, nor, in 1 ed, teen you a mtii'i in wo wjuM have wished." "( hat lie Foster, a clerk in a bank, Dick has met him." "Yes," Dick answer. d, in a liv voice. "A tine fellow he is, loo, Harry. Come, T. in, we must be going." N"t a word was spoken until we stood face to face in our own room. Then Dick looked m in the eyes. You, too. Tutu?" he said. "I neve r dreamed of ihat." 1 wanted you should have the lirst chance. Dick. I.ut u is ail over. Shall we take Doctor Mertoti's oiler?"' For we bad an opening that prom 'scd well in ami; her city. It had scarcely been considered, but it came as a relief, and we accepted it. Our wedding present to Harrv was the house anil the live thousand dollars, her father's generous oaft 0 ,,s in ihi pas'. It is man v long years cinco that wedding d iy that we faced nianfu.ly. ami we are rich men Dick and mv self. Hut we never married, and our inonev will go to I Lu riot FoMcr's tluee hoys. Tom, Dick and Harry. The Ledger. Chinese Truck Farms. Hew I". D. Kfbey, of Montana, has written an iire resting article in refer ence to Ohiiir.'c truck farms in that stale. He sajs (hue are some (ifiy farms carried on by this chos of peo ple in and around Helena, the faiun, varying in extent from onc-lifih of an acre up to twenty or thirty i cres. In fact these Chii. amen have moiiopo lucil (hi; small gaiileiiin hn-iiiess in and around that city. Their field w oi k is somewhat peculiar, and adapted to a land where rain seldom f .,11s. F.v. ry. thing must be so arranged that it ran be irrigated. Wheie less ihan half an acre is under cultivation, the Chinese lle hand sprinkler. I- icqueiit ly they rent a few acres from a man who has an unquestioned water right, survey the land i iuvfully, and bring the water in a ditch to the highe-t point of the patch. From lh"se they conduct the water in smaller ditches anywhere they wi-di, the patch being plaited out as regularly as city squares and streets. Frtch plat is wide enough to bo reached half way across by the gardener on one side and by his hired m ni on the other. The water is run into these ditches and little side branches, and from them to the vegetable beds to soak in until the whole is thoroughly wet, w hen (he wa'rr is turned oil' to another bed, and so on until tin: wh ile lield is well watered. This requires the time and labor of two Chinamen on a large place. The rents paid by Chiuaiiieu arc cnotiuoiis. They lake from three to ten years lease and pay ff:i per acre, in lots of ten acres tir more. Alt Important Animal. Teacher John, of what ate your shoes made? Hoy Of leather, sir. Teacher Where does the leather come from? Itoy From the hide of ihe f.x. 'teacher What animal, then, sup plies you with shoes and gives you meat to cat ? Hoy My father. - N w York World. ' I ClIILlUtEVS COLUMN. nfa nr.v cook. t had a pain in my hueliend, 1 had an ache in my tlumih, And. "Oh!" said I. "I believe I shall cry Tj think of the bread ami pudding nnd pie 1 must make if the cook doesn't come.'' Harkt a rut. tat, tat ! i,i t tie threshold A dear little maid .Moo. I In her grandmother's veil. An 1 oflered for sale .Some fresh mud pies in a shabby tin pail W liieh sl:e said were exceedingly good. I bought them and paid her in kisses. And declare I such a cook I'd employ ; Then she i rt'.-re I to bake a delicious mud cake; And in.- forehead and thumb forgot to ailie As I thought of the feast we'd enjoy. -Anna M. Pratt in Ymitli'k Companion. At l i; iion hi i wn Kill-: vil lliii:Ks. Fveryoneat llrussels will remember t wo superb white horses whose tails swept the ground, running by the side of each other in Ihe Hiissian style. Whether driven or ridden they always went together, and wero so fond of each other th it they could not be sep aralid even to go to the farrier. For twenty years these two noble animals had never been parted until about three weeks ago, when one of them died. As soon as bis body was lying dead in the siali c, his companion became dejected, and, when il was taken away, he refused to ctr. In vain was the attempt made I ) deceive him by pulling another animal at his side, as this was nil to no pur pose, for he would not touch his oals, and iti a week ho died. Our Dumb Animals. (.At l. lit is a i:ts slnltM. One beautiful afternoon, two girls, Klsie ll.iiuuion.', and Alice Leu, set out in pursuit of wild flowers. They walked till they came to a w tmd where the (lowers were plentiful, and after picking all that they deired, started for home. They had not gone far when it com. ' lueiiced to rain, an I looking around for shelter they saw something at a lit lie distance which looked like a farm house. I'pon coining nearer they discovered that il was a very old house, which appeared to be entirely descried. The door, hanging on t hinge, stood in vitingly open, and they ran in quickly. I f the exterior of Ihe hoii-c was for lorn looking the interior was more so, for t tie w alls were decorated with cob. webs, the floors c vered with dust, nnd the panes of window-glass either cracked or broken. There was no furniture in the hou-o, and the girls, looking around, taw a pair of ricketty stairs, aad w ere wondering if anybody had ever gone up them, when to their disnr.y they heard footsteps approach ing. Hurry Alice, somebody is coming. Let us run u,i stairs! lie quick! oh, I : in so frightened !" I'p the siairs ran the girls without looking back, and had barely reached Ihe top whe i the intruder entered. They crept noiselessly to the corner of the loft, which was very dark, having only one w indow. Hearing footstep, beneath, Klsie .aid: "Oil, 1 do believe he is coming up stairs !"' I do not think tlia' lie saw us," answered Alice; "but hti-h, he may bear us." They hoard heavy footsteps below, and then a gieat noise as if tho body had fallen to the (loot then silence. "If we keep perfectly still, he may full a-lcep, and then we can get out of here," whispered Alice. Perhaps it is a tramp, "' said Klsie, crying, "ami he may conic up here anil see us, and kill us. () dear! 1 wish I had not ecnio here. And per haps we will have to slay here all night. Do you think we could jump out of this window, Alice?" '(Iraeious, no; we would surely break eiir bones and then, besides, be would see u. Oh, I wonder bow much longer we must stay here."' Meanwhile the rain fell in torrents, nnd as it was getting late the girls were more frightened. "Oh, I hear him move. Suppose ho should lake a notion to romo up here," murmured KNie. Finally, about six o'clock, the rain stopped. The girls wero very hun gry, and so frightened that they could scrcely speak. Now they heard steps and held their breath; bo was getting up, and then a footstep was heard outside. Alice rim to the window, and look ing nut commenced to laugh very heartily. "Come here," she said, but Klsie was loath to leave her corner. See,'' she exclaimed, dragging her to the w in low. An 1 what d you think sin saw? Not a trafip, but a cow that liko them had taken refuge from the storm. I Tail River iMaiS.) IVcwier. THE FIG TRADE. Where Figs Come From and How They Are Imported. California Has a Substitute for j the Turkish Fruit. 'I would not give a tig for it." Th! is mi old expression. You hear it every day. It was evidently lir-t used by some one who had the idea that a fig was not a valuable article. One i tig is not worth much, but when ou rca'i.e that the people of Ihe ( ailed Stales pay about $I,cimmmmi for the tigs ihey consume in a xearjouwill roalizo that a lig is worth something lifter all. Nearly till the tigs consult ed in this cnuntiy are imported from Smyrna, Turkey. They grow in clusters on a rather small lice with spreading branches, which, when laden with fruit, oflen touch the ground. The . tigs arc picked by hand ami dried by a ' process of evaporation. They are then dipped in n solution of sng.:r, dried aga'n, paced in boxes that con tain from one to twenty pounds and then are ready for ship ment. These arc the belter grades of figs. The cheaper grades mc shipped in bags and baskets, and af.er reach ing this country are used by candy in li u f a t ii i i r and dealers, w ho steam ; them ami sort out the best, liVh they : pack into quarter and half-pound luxes. The leftise tigs tl,o-e not til I" r anything else arc ground up and made into "lig paste" nud ether sltill" of the k'nd. There is also a iniinu faclu ed lig, which is made out of gr iiind-up IL's, g ucosc and stiga". The only ihings figgy ah nit them arc the seeds and Ihe grecr. leave packed in the boxes v "nh tin in. The seeds arc genuine the haves are not. Alum! liflcen ligs m ike a pound, i and ahull t live ami a half millions are imported into this country every year. Toe boxed ligs cost ll.e iiuporli-r from II to I, " cents a pound according to the grade. The importer s(.;s thi-m to the jo'd'er, who pav s a. i advance of from one-half to one cent a pound 0U llieui. The jobber sells them 10 the retailer, getting about the same advance in price as the importer. The retailer sc'ls them to the consumers, making the largest profit of nil. lie gels an ad.aneo of from " to cents a pound, and sometimes more. Hotels I use large quantities of ligs. They are tei veil just as Ihey aie taken from the box. I b alers in tig. have l hem graded into what they call choice, Loudon layer, and fancy, with prices respectively 14, is I-'.' and "t cents. New York i the g eatest ii i-t ri lnt ing point for imported ligs, although a large quantity is received through Hoston dealers. The duly on ligs is uov i! 1-" cents a pound. It was raised a half cent by ihe McKiulev bill. Large quantities are -Vppcil from C'ali forni.i, Ihe only place in the country w here tigs are raised to any extent. Within the last live years the cultivation of ligs has become quite an industry in California. There are plenty of lig orchards (hen- and lariie quantities of ligs have been shipped to the l ast, but there is very liltie de mand for t'eni. They are dry am! when packed are very dark blue tigs with thick, tough skin- ami lin y have scarcely any seeds in them. They taste quite different froir the white Smyrna lig. Fi nil dealers say that Californians have not yet learned how to cure ligs, but that they arc improving, nnd that it is only a question of time when they will drive the foreign ligs out of this market, just as they have driven tint prunes and raisins. California con sumes most of its own ligs. About halt' a car load 1."i,immi pounds was shipped to this city la-t season. Most of these are still in the ha uls of the dealer. Tacy hf.ve a way of preserv ing fig'" out there, and scrvlnsr them willi sugar and cream. This makes a delicious dessert. The California diied ligs sell in (his maiket at from (' to '. cents a pound. S.uue entei pi i.-iug California!) has prepared w hat is called crj slidized tigs. They arc put through a preserv ing process nud then they arc packed loosely in one and two pound boxes. These are tho most expensive tigs in the market, as they retail for 60 and P't cents a box. (i recti tigs considered quite a delicacy in Califor nia, where they arc eaten like any other fruit, either from the tree tr with cream and sugar. New York Kccordcr. Tricks of Shoplifters. An old trick, which is now too well known to be p:nclised safely, consists pi carrying around a ladies' hat box half of the cover tif w h'eh is hi 'ged io that it can be lifted up and stolen articics thiubt in. A common trick today is to pick up an r mpty paper bag, such as is u rd in the store, and tlislend it by blowing into il, so that it has the appearance of being full. The air l replaced with spoils at leis ure. The shoplifter's pocket is a weil knnwii device. It is made of muslin and was originally so big that, when fastened under the dress at Ihe waist, it reached below her knees. There is a long opening through Ihe dress ju-t below the Waistband, sometimes big enough to thrust a baby in. This opening; is covered from view by a (lap of Ihe waist, which, however, can bs lifted up. Sunn times t lice poc kets are found with almost enough merchandise in side lo start a Hiiall shop. Large pockets are seldom used nowadays, because most stores nre so carefully watched that professional shoplifiers are perforce contented with smaller daily hauls than formerly. Uesides, modern fashions do not per mit of the safe gathering of much bulk about the person of the shop lifter. What tlo shoplifters do with their i-poils when they arc s. loaded up i that wiilkin ' is uncomfortable? Dc- i s 1 tective Cutis, who has had a lar.c ex j jici iencc in one of Nc' Voik's big j gest store, one day followed two wo men who, ho was sure, had been j shoplifting for several hours, yet so ' cleverly (hat he could not gather evi- deuce enough lo warrant their arrest. I When they left he foilowed. They ! went up aside street and entered one ' of those side entrances to a saloon leading into a i small room partitioned j IT for women, tjuirk as a thought ; Deflective Cutis ran in the front i j door and said to the bartender: I "See here, you know me. Lend mc I your apron. 1 want to wuit on (hose I women." Tying on (he apron the detective answered the call of the women and served them with beer, lie waited a few minutes, and then went in to find 1 1 10 in pulling out nil soi ls of merchan dise and making them into bundles. "Oil," said he, "want any more beer ?" "No," said the women. "Keen shopping I see." "Yes." 'I iot all those things nt the store, eh?" 'Yes. hut what's that to you?" It's this much to me," said tin mock bartender. "I'm tho store de tective, and I want you to go back with me and pay for them." Shoplificrs who steal for busine-s and take as much as they can get dis pose of their stealings about their per- sons only temporaii while in the store. Once outside, Ihey Iiud sf.mc quiet place in w hich to disgorge, and an ange their stealings, ami the pii vate rooms in saloons are very con venient for ihe purpose. rXew York Sun. tine tif Nature's (omeyards. The Had Lauds of Dakota." sai l Prof. .1. I!. Wilkinson, "are good for nothing on the face of the earth but fossils. It is a fact that every portion of the hills thetc, however, are absolutely tilled with eviden-es of an imal life. Fossil insects, lUlics, birds, Ihe bones of the elephant, the masto don, of tho lion, the tiger, and of seoies, if not hundred-, of extinct an imals and species, are to be found in ! ihe same hillside. In one dcelivitv, wli .'ic the rain had washed away the underlying earth and a heavy slide had orciincd, I found in a space not exceeding thirty feet square ihe fossil remains of seven distinct species of mammal", of seventeen species of lish, and of live varieties of birds, while the shellfish ami insect remains were too numerous to count. !y what great natural convulsion this district w a made the graveyard of millions of animals ii is impossible to say, but nothing short of a tremendous and widely extended calamity could, in one comparatively small tract, have destroyed as tunny nuiiiiaU as must Inivc perished there." t, lobe-Democrat. Shortest Horse Hallway. The shortest horse railway in the world is probably to lie found in New York, along the sunken road llmt be gins at Mlh street and Fifth avenue and ends at 0lh slreet and Central Park West, less than half a mile. The line is three avenue blocks long, and consi-ts tf a double track. Its equip ment is two small cars, two lanky horses, two car honks and ajdayed-out piece of broom. Two conductors and , two drivers man the road, and tho 1 fare is five cents, ns much as on the i elevated or the other horse car line ' from the Mattery to Harlem, ten miles. ! i From all appearances the lino is doing : a pit) ing business, it being largely pat. j ronized by people in the Kighlics on both sides of the Park -New Yoik : Kccordcr. My Lost Song. Oner a song fame to me: 'twas silvsrf thing, All rippling with mucsic, like brooklets in -May; A fragrance breathed through, as of flower, breath sweet. And light uleatned around it, more g!ow i'ig than day. It bad come in a dream, and w hen I awoke I hastened to w rite it; for certain I knew That by it the world would be brought near er illilMII And thrilled by n glimpse of the food aud the true. Hut ere I could put inv drtaiu-theught into form, 1 lust it. anil knew it would never be beard; For a child, playing near me, bad blotted th page. And I killed my sweet song witb a swift' angry word! . How many such songs nre thus lost to tin world .' How we fling a vay gifts that are sent from above. A II because, in our hearts, w e arc not always ruled liy the master of all that is beautiful I.ove, l.Mvrtle I herrvmaii in Free Press. HUMOROUS. A dollar in the pocket is worth two in the hand. Hiches have wings; they ore caglc'i wings to our coins. In politics it is always best for a man to refuse what be cannot get. After a jolly dog has had his day ho usually goes to the bow-wows. it is so much easier to tell people how good they should be than it is tot-how them. The man who avoids mistakes by never trying to do anything, makes a big mistake. It is surprising the amount of (rouble a man will euduro before it reaches him. Now that they are making clothes out of wood fiber, a new kind of inoth will have to be invented. At the sea -bore, between the sea swells and the land swells, tho land lord's pocketbook swells. Tommy says that when bis teacher is piovoked he knows that she is well provided with eholer iiud cuffs. There's nothing liko sticking to a thing w hen you apply yourself to it, as the liy said when it alighted on the liy-paper. .Iiidge And he took you by the throat mid choked you, did lie? Pat -YK sort be sqtiaed mc throat till Oi to'ht he'd nick cither out of me Adams apple. Mrs. Slimpiirse What is the price of this suite of furniture? Dignified Cieik This is not a suite, madam. It is one of our fL'.l si ts. The suites are on another floor lt" a piece. A Petrilb'd Salmon. Henry Heiison of ilaydeti Hill, J.a-scn County, Cal., has in his pose6 sioii a specimen of petrified salmoti. The former fleshy parts resemble crystali.i'd and variegated quartz, re taining in part (lit: yellowish color of the salmon, and what was formerly (he skin of the lish is now a sort of a porcelain as hard as pure wliito (lint. The texture of the entire specimen is that of hardest quail. It was found on a hillside at about l.'.oo altitude from the floor of "Big Yalloy," and wiis evidently petrified nt the point where found. This would indicate Ihat Ihe salmon formerly inhabited the ancient rivers, the be, Is of which now form pai ls of the straia of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and in which niic idit channels now lie the rich dc posits of California's gold. These ancient river beds, as is well known, are found at various heights above the sea level, and in some places but a few hundred feet below the crests of the highest ranges, and per. haps hundreds of feet below the pres. rut formation of the surface of the earth, and running entirely independ ent of any present formation. To de. tcrmiuc w ilh certainly that this salmon inhabited these ancient livers would be an interesting fact, as it would fix nt a much later dale thnn is now gen cialiy supposed the geological period when, by mighty upheavals, these old river courses were changed nnd oblit erated from tho face of the earth, and gigantic mountains formed in their steal. St. Louis Kcpuhlif. Keep Hiisy. Tho secret of success in li f o is to keep busy, to he pcrseve r ng, patient ami untiring in the pursuit or calling you are follow ing. The busy ones may now and then make mistakes, but it is better to risk these than to be idle and inactive. Keep doing, whether ii be at work or seeking recreation. Motion is life, and the busiest aut the happi est. Cheerful, active labor is a bless ing. An old philosopher says: "The lire liy only shines wheu on the wing; so it it with the mind. When once we rest,wc darken." British Printer, i