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VOL. XV
PITTSBURG1, CHATHAM CO., N. C, OCTOKKR 27, 1802.
NO. J).
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Tlio LiuhI of I'seil-To-He,
Ttryoml the purple, hazy trees
of summer's utmost houndaries;
llcynnd the sands, liryoml the sea',
Itryond the range of eyes like these,
And only in the reach of I lie
Knraptured gaze of memory,
There lies the lai.d Ions hut l me
The land of ITsed-to-l'.e.
A land enchanted, such as sw
In golden sens ulicii sirens clung
Along their dipping brinks, ami sun;
To Jason in that mystic tongue
Tltt dazed men with its nielodyf
O, such a land, with Mich a sea,
Kissing lis shores eternally,
Is the fair t'scd-to-lte.
A land where music ever girds
The air with liclls of singing birds.
And sows nil sounds with such sweet words
That even in the lowing herds
A meaning live" so sweet to mo
Lost laughter ripples Irinpidl.v
from lips brimmrl o'er with all the
K'eo
Of rare old ISed-to-Hc.
O land of love and dreamy thoughts,
And shiiiii-f fields and shady spots,
(if coolest, greenest, grassy plots
I-lnibossed with wild forget-me-nots.
And all the Mucin that cunningly
I.ift their faces up to me
Out of the pas:; I kiss in thea
The lips of t'sed-to-lle.
J love ye all, and with wet eyes
Turned glimtneringly on the skies.
My blessings like your perfumes ris
'J ill o'er my soul a silence lies.
Sweeter than any song to mo
Sweeter than any melody
Or its swiet echo, yea. all three-
.My dreams of Csedlo-l!o.
.lames. Wliitcomh Hiley.
TWO PAINTED DOORS.
Mr. Miiner boarded nt Number
Three Simson Terrace. (There was
no terrace, but the 'Squire thought the
inline sounded sonorous and pleasant,
so lie had christened hi live lit lie cot
tages '-Simpson's Teri':ie.'') lie
boarded wiih Mrs. Cliipley and her
two dauy liters, Mind and Marian,
who felt it a great distinction lobe of
any service, however slight, to the
pastor.
Maud gathered fresh flowers for
the study table every day; Marian sal
up l:Uo (lights to iron ami mend table
linen so thai the good man might have
a clean napkin every day, atid to darn
his stockings so that you euuld not tell
mended plncjs from the whole, nnd
llio little widow herself exhausted
every culinary its urce to humor his
dyspepsia, and to contrive t'ninly
dishes out of I ho least possible foun
dation. To these three simple women
Rev. Milo Miiner was like an em
bodied saint.
"And now 'that Mr. Miiner is safely
gono for tlio day," said Mrs. (''Dip
ley, "wo'll clcau the sitting-room and
whitewash the waFs. Run to Dix
ey's Maud, for a lump of tiuslaol.ed
lime, nnd oh, by the way, bring some
cornmeal, dear. We'll have hasty
pudding for dinner, and cat at the
kitchen table, Hasty pudding and
milk will do for us women."
'Of course it will do, mamma,"'
said Maud.
"1 j.tst like pudding and milk," cried
Marian, jumping gleefully up and
down, "and although Mr. Miiner h
such a dear, good man, yet is a sort
o relief to have him gone once in
awhile, so that we can clean house nnd
cat hasty pudding and milk. Oh,
Maud!" sho whispered to her a'sth tic
sister, ns Mrs. Cliipley went nut to
hang tho big kettle over t lie lire, "I've
such nil idea In my head! If you'll
only get little grass-green paint,
ready mixed, when you are at Dixey's
and a mcdium-si.ed brush!''
"Orcen paint, Maiian? What
for?"
"Hush! don't let mamma hear!
I'm so tired of hearing this called the
house with the blue door."
Maud obeyed; although the elder in
point of years, she had long been ac
customed to be domineered over by
pretty, positive Marian.
"Rut it is tlio strangest thing,
Marian," siio said, as fifteen or twen
ty minutes later, she handed over a
mysterious tin can and an oblong
paper parcel to her sister; "Joe Dean
is out now painting his door blue."
"Tastes diil'er," said Mai ian, shrug
ging her shoulders, now invested in a
prctornaturally shabby old calico
gown, suitable only to tho extremist
exigencies of house-cleaning time.
"Blue is a lovely color, but as Ap
plied, to a house door, I am heartily
rick of it. Joe Dean has no more
taste than a Newfoundland dog."
'Ths Deans are expecting city com
pany to luncheon," said Maud. " They
sent to borrow the butterfly china
plates this morning."
"It must bo nice to havo city com
pany," sighed Marian.
"Oh! but to think of tlio work ot
it!" said Maud lifting both her hands.
Mrs. Cliipley came in at that mo
ment also clad in what Matiau called
her "scrubbing regimentals," and
wearing ail old olive silk handker
chief tied around her still blight "Jid
glossy hair, and tho thrco set them
selves determinedly lo work.
Rev. Milo Miiner, on reaching tho
railway station, received a telegram
that his friend, 1'rof. Klingeiiburg,
could not possibly meet him that
day.
"Very good," said Mr. Miiner, "I'll
just step hack homo and get a inouil
ful of luncheon, nnd then I'll go to
look over those ancient manuscripts
with '. Hodges. He has been urging
me to do so for somo tunc past, and I
may never havo a better opportunity
than this."
Mr. Miiner lucked the umbrella
under his arm, lipped his black, wide
rimmed hat. over his eyes anil set oil'
on a swift swinging stride back to
Simpson Tei race. The bine door
stood wide open, so he walked in
without the least ceremony.
"Fresh paint !" he said to himself,
elevating his thin nostrils. "If there's
anvthiug on (lie face of tlio earth I
deles', it is fresh paint. And I've got
it all over the skirls of my best dies,
too! Where is Mrs. Cliipley? What
line become of the girls? Nobody
ever seems to be in the way when
they're wanted. Hut, fortunately,
here's luncheon ready spread. 1
wonder now how il hap ened. How
could they know I was coining back.
Cold roast grouse, with currant jelly
chicken salad pickled oysters
really, now, this is something quite
beyond tho ordinary run of cur bills
of fare!"
The pastor sat down and ale witli
an excellent appetite. He made a big
hole in the chicken salad mound; he
picked the bones of a crisp, brown
groiic with genuine satisfaction; he
buttered a tl iky biscuit and added to
its flavor by several spoonfuls of
amber quince preserve.
"All the s.i in'," said he to himself,
a he wiped bis mouth with a damask
napkin, and rose from his chair, wi'h
another glance at the vegetable-shaped
watch; "this sort of thing is quite
beyond Mrs. Cliipley' menus. I
thought she had better sense. I must
really speak to her about it. In the
meantime 1 must mako good speed if 1
expect to have much time at my
friend Hodges' place."
Away he trudged, much onit'orted
and sustained as regarded his inner
man.
"Joe! Joe!-' shrieked Miss I'ran
eesea Dean, c- tiling into the room a
few minutes later, "what have you
done? F. lieu up all the company
luncheon? Oil, you greedy "
"I didn't do no such tiling," shouted
,Ioo from an upper room, whero he
was transforming himself from an
amateur journeyman painter to a
modern tennis player. "What nre
you talking abou' ? '
"Some one litis eaten his All!" cried
Miss Franccsca. ".hist look nt the
lab'e!"
"Then it's some tramp sneaked in
through the door that I hit open to
dry the paint,'' bawled doe.
And while the Dean family were
endeavoring to rep.vr damage', the
task of house cleaning went swim
mingly on at the. Cliipley domicile
only two or three doors away, the
girls and. their mother scarcely taking
time to sit down and eat their hasty
pudding, which, by the way, got
se irehed 'hrotigli Maud's over-devotion
to putting the chinl. cuitaius at
the pastor's study windows.
Rut hasten as they would, the newly
whitewashed walls were scarcely dry
and the ftirnituro not yet rearranged,
when dusk descended on the scene and
Rev. Milo Miiner nine in.
Oh, tako cire, Mr. Miiner!" cx
c'ainied Maud. "The door, the paint
is frosh."
Mr. Miiner solemnly advanced into
the area of tho lamplight, and, twist
ing hiiu-clf around to gel the skirts of
his coal, eyed them disconsolately.
"Moic paint," said lie. "Rltte
paint!"
"No," said Marion, "(irecn."'
The two colors were ludicrously
alike by lamplight. The groci might
be mistaken for a lively blue the blue
for a dull green.
"Illue!" said the pastor, firmly.
Do you think I haven't the use of my
"eye?"'
"(ireen," persisted Marion. "1
know, because 1 put it on myself."
"It is not well," sail K"v. Miiner,
"for the young to be positive."
"Rut truth is truth," said Maud.
"And while I'm about il," said Mr.
Miiner, now thoroughly exasperated,
"I deem it my duty to remonstrate
witli you concerning the extravagant
and un wan anted style of diet in which
you in lulge during my absence !''
"I don't know what you mean,"
said Mrs. Cliipley, feebly tatching her
breath.
"Hasty pudding and milk can't be
called extravagance," hazarded Maud.
"Scorcind at that," murmured
M iriau.
"Roast grousj nnd currant jelly,"
taid the pastor. "Chicken salad and
sponge cake. And here again I
trust to the evidence of my eyesight
till set. out on your old butterfly
pattern china, I know because I ate
it myself."
"Vou you got into (he wring
house," gand M and.
"It was the house with the blue door,"
serenely uttered Mr. Miiner, as if (his
was nn incontrovertible argument.
Marian clapped her hands hysteri
cally. "Mainmi," she cried "Maud, Mr.
Miiner, who a!e up Miss Dean's com
pany's luncheon. That was just what
Franccsca Dean told met hey bad pie
pared! And on our biitlci fly china,
loo!"
"It was Ihc house with the blue
door!" stubbornly iepeatc.1 Mr. Mil
tier.
"Hut doe Dean painted their door
blue, today !" exclaimed Marian, "Am!
1 painted ours green.''
The pastor sank limply into r
chair. "Then," he said, "I've got
green and blue paint both on (he skirl t
of my coal and I have made a dread
ful blunder in the bargain ! And 1
iiittst go at once and apologize to (lie
Dean family ; but not until you, my
kind friends, have forgiven me for
my meddling interference.''
"Rut really," said mischievous
Maud, "hasty pudding isn't an ex
travagance." Mrs. Cliipley nnd Marian hastened
to deprecate the pastor's humility, and
he went sadly to make his pence witli
Mis.s Franccsca I (can.
"It is kind o' queer," said Deacon
I'liilpoll, talking the matter over some
days afterward. "The dominie, ho
plumb admits that he's soil of absent,
minded, and needs a wife to keep him
straight. And l'il bet even on pretty
Mis- Maud and Frnnirsca Dean."'
The deacon, however, was wrong
for once in his life. Pastor Miiner
did get married, but it was neither to
blue-eyed Frnncisca nor dark-orbed
Maud. Dike a sensible man he pro.
posed to Widow Cliipley lieisclf, and
was accepted at once.
"llul if Mrs. Miiner does not ob
ject," he said with due courtesy, "I
should like to have the front door
painted blue once; more.'" Homo
Queen.
The (untile ltiisiness in Kussiii.
Russia burns more caudles to her
population than any oilier country in
Furope. She uses about f.o,noO,iMH
pounds of caudles every year. At tho
door of every great cathedral there are
candle peddlers, who have counters
before them and who sell candles to
the worshipers as fast as they can
iiatld them out. These nieti are die-sod
in the uniform of the church, and they
tako in pennies by the bushel. 1
watched a couple of lliein for a long
time at the entrance of the Kn.an
Cathedral in St. 1'etei fiburg, and in the
course of half an hour I saw tit lea.:
;!') men, women and children buy
candle'. The interior if t'lis rhincS
is as large as the hall of the House of
Congress. Its halls were hung with
golden icons and there were j'weled
icons on the pillars and set into th
solid silver altar of the back ot I lie.
church. Reforei a- h icon there wa-.
silver candlestick. The tops of Iheso
candlesticks were in the shape of a
disc, and each top had a number of
holes in which to slick can-lies. Tlio
worshipers (rolled from one of these
candelabra to unot her, lighting a cm
die before each nnd pulling it. up to
burn before the picture.
There were pt obably ,"i00 candles
burning at ono time in this one church,
nnd when you remember that this goes
on all over Russia every Sunday and
every holiday an I during most of the
days of the week, y 1 1 can see, where
the candles go to. A largo part of the
candies used are made in bouses nnd
not in large factories.- New York
Press.
Infection in Paper Money.
TI.0 possibility of infection being
conveyed to a large number of persons
by means of paper money has ot'to.i
been suggested, and an examination
of Ihc notes of the Hank f Spain cur.
rent in Cuba, which has recently been
published by Drs. Aeosta and Kossi in
the Cronicl Medico-tjuirurgieo do l;
llalmna shows that this form of cur
rency is indeed liable to contain septic
germs. Tho notes chosen for thcii
experiments wcro some that had been
in use for a good while, and wcro
such as represented values of a few
penco only. It was estimated that
two notes, weighing altogether about
fifteen grains, contained moie than
19,000 germs of various kinds. Cul
tures wcro made in broth, gelatine and
Mgar, nnd these were injee ed into the
peritoneal cavity of rats and guinea
pigs, most of which died within twenty-four
hours. ffnyifji
I II 1 1. 1H UN'S ( OM M.
AT TIIK Ml SHM.i:.
The eat on his fiddle thrummed hey-diddle
diddle,
In measure delightfully g-iy;
And three little kittens waved wildly flieir
mittens,
And murmured: "Row well lie does
play I"
While puss stamped I hoots, thump,
thump, on the flour.
As a delicate hint that tlii'd like some
more.
The pussy who fell down Hint ho-rid wi-P
Arrived, rather damp, toward th end.
With Pussy Cat Mew, dre I in pctticial
new.
And Puss from the corner, her friend.
Only one sent regrets: "tselly grieved l-i
have been
At London detained hy n mouse and the
(Jiieen.''
New York Adverli-er.
A T"t a tiiMi i i;n M'sinr.
Perhaps one of the most touching
instances of appatenily ill-sorted
friendships is that of the well-know n
lioness which died nt an advanced ago
in the Dublin 7, lological iai dens in
lsTti. So feeble had slut become lh:
she was unable to repel the rat,, which
found their way lo her quarters and
continually annoyed her by biting her
feet. It was finally resolved to intro
duce n good ratting terrier into her
cage, anil litis was done with a result
thus graphically described : "Th
dog was naturally received with an
nogry growl; but as soon as the lioues,
saw how her companion treated his
tirat rat she began to undcr-taiid what
the terrier was for, and immediately
her behavior towards him w;is
changed. She now coaxed him to her
side, folded her paws around him, ntid
each night the little terrier slept nt the
breast of tho lioness, enfolded with
her paws, and watching that his natu
ral enemies did not disttirl) the res! of
Lis mistress." New York Post.
XIOIII. AMI Ilt;i! Ulll.idilA.
I.ike many other religions concep
tions of the ancients, the myth of Ni
ohe and her children Mas probable
based upon nature. F.very Milium1!'
the cruel situ god sends Irs lie y ar
rows and destroys inneh, of tnotliT
earth's choicest bloom, and in the fall
she weeps over her loss. To eiubo ly t Wis
idea the old (Jreeks are. supposed to
have created Niobe. There are many
legends about her. Utit they all agree
in t lie loss she sustained the loss of
her children.
This is the myth: The g-dde-.
Lcto had but two children, Apoilo and
Artemis, while Niobe had a very
numerous family. Proud of this, she
seolled at Leto as the mother of only
two. Apollo and Artemis then slew
till her children with their arrows.
Niobe, after vainly trying to protect
them, wept over their dead bodies
until she became a rock, which still
weeps incessantly. There tiro two or
three rock masses in the vicinity ot j
Smyrna in Asia Minor, which bear a
close resemblance to a woman bowed
as though in tears, and these have been ;
pointed out by the very credulous a- ;
nil that remains of the sorrowful god
dess. N.Y. Voice. i
i
W it I' A Ml hi N NN"I l".
,'ueen Victoria, says the Household
Monthly, isn't allowed lo handle 3
newspaper of any kind, or a maga
zine, or a letter from any person ex- !
eept from her own family, and in
member of the royal family or house-'
hold is allowed to speak to her of any ;
piece of news in any publiraihui. All
the information the ,neen is per-1
milled to havo must fust be. stiainei!
through the intellect of a man whosr
business it is to cut from the paper;
each day what he thinks she won il
like to know. Those scraps he fasten!
on a silk sheet, with a gold fringe al
about il, and presents it to her unfor-'
lunate Majesty. Tho silken sheet will. 1
gold fringe is imperative for till com-'
unifications to her Majesty. j
A:iy one who wishes to send Hit
(liiccu a personal poem or comniuiii- '
cation of any kind (except a peisona
letter, which tin poor lady isn't al
lowed to have nt all), must have it
printed in gill letters on one of tho-t
silk sheets with a gold fringe, just s(
many inches wide, and no wider, al:
about it. 1
These gold tiinimiugs will be re
turned to him in time, as they are cx-1
pensive, and tho (J u eii is kindly am.' (
thrifty; but for the tjiiecn'.s piesenct
they aro imperative.
Hurt His Feelings. ,
Weary Wiggins I've been in ,
suited.
Tired Traddlc--Who insulted you!
Weary Wiggins That mill painlei
old granger over there II red nit
twenty-live cents a day to poee fur :
scarecrow in his corn patch.
I The nails on amputated lingers, i
I lias been observed, continue to grow
TUB PYRAMIDS.
Something: About Egypt's Hucc
Piles of Stone.
i
ClimbirtR Up and Entering One
of tho Groat Edificos.
Thousands of years beW there
were any dwellings on the stvfi since
eeenpi'd by Jerusalem, Koine and
Athens, at the very dawn of human
history, when all the rest of the world
was still wrapped in the thick gloom
of prehistoric barbarism, a vast town
of huge buildings rose not far from
hc present city, on the other side of
the Nile, which was dotted with tho
boats of the ancient inhabitants. A
forest of venerable date-trees easls its
shadows upon the black soil, beneath
which lie buried the builders of this
city of a world gone by, of which
nothing remains luil the vast ceme
teries, their position marked by tin
avenue of monuments. The famous
pyramids of (ii.eh, opposite Cairo, on
the borders of the desert, form the
last of these necropoli.
Kvery one is familiar with the ap
pearance of Ihcso strange pyramids,
llii .- huge paradoxes of strictly geo
metrical form, so vast and so lofty
that it was not until after fifty-eight
centuries of development that the hu
man race succeeded in erecting a
building of greater height, whilst tint
loftiest pinnacle of the most aspiring
(iolbic belfry, however light and airy
it be, did not soar higher than the
point of the pyramid of Cheops bc
foie it was blunted by time. Nothing
could be more confusing to the eye
than the general appearance of these
heaps of stones, in which no artistic
iiiiiccption plays liio slightest purl.
Tl.e eflects of perspective in these
lin -s of mathematical regularity nre
most bizarre huge bare triangles, the
outlines shortened or lengthened)
marked out like a diagram by the sun
into flat bands of light and shade, the
reflections in the sand of the four
mighty angles varying according to
the time of day. The sloping sides,
which at a distance appear absolutely
plain, are, when approached more
nearly, discovered to be broken
up into a series of project
ing stones, like, a huge stair
case worn with uge. It is somewhat
diflicuit lo judge nt first sight the size
of the pyramid, and the best way lo
iiii:. sure the height is by climbing it !
It is. al a corner whete the stages,
which seem lo have been made for a
race of giants, are divided into smaller
steps, either for Ihcsako of mortals ot
b-sir stature or by the action of lime,
that the a-eont of lite great pyramid
of CI p is made. We start, puHicd
from behind by one Arab guide, and
dragged from above by another, with
our eyes fully occupied with the
dangers of the climb. Completely
exhtii.sted, altogether out of breath
and with knees too still' to move, we
pans s tit last, feeling as if we had
sculed all three monuments at once.
I'.ut looking round, we liud we arc
scarcely otic-1 hi id of I lie distance up,
and see our fellow -climbers looking
like c iltercd ants u pon the huge tri
angular mass. It is not until tin1
platform at the top is reached, ami the
lunge aro tilled with the pure air of
the heights, that any real idea is ob
tained of the monument of Cheops.
And what docs this huge edifice
eontniii? We must go down again lo
find out.
The entrance, which was walled up,
is nt a eoiisidei able height from the
ground, in one of the faces of the
pyramid, and looks like I he porch of
a cave cut in the living rock. A dark,
gloomy-looking door opens on lo a
low narrow passage, with Moor, walls
ami ceiling till lined with granite,'
polished ti.l il is like ice. An Arab
guide, with a candle in bis hand,
hoists you on to his shoulders ami
pl'iuges with you into the slippery
corridor, which descend rapidly lo a
bole in the rock on a level witli the
soil, going up again at the same
;.u:?le. This opening gives access to a
bare room, in which is a square hole,
one the ic.tiiig place of the mummy
of one i f the Pharaohs. 1 he rest of
the interior consists of two or three
narrow passages, resembling cavities
made in oak timber by the teredo,
with two other chambers similar to
that known as the King's, all faced
with granite, witliQitt a moulding or
ornament of ai;y kind; airless enclos
ures, whore no chink admits a my of
light or sunshine; huge masses of
compact liinestcue, wrtpi it utter
night nnd silence. Such is tho stmige
monument to but'd up which Cheops
caused mountains of stone to be re
moved by v.holo nations of people,
who perished at their task beneath tho
vhips of the eon"i&t guards.
Ni'iftis of a Mild W inter,
"Snipe Hew South two weeks later
than usual th's fall, and that is ono
rcasoii why 1 predict that next winter
wilt be uncommonly mild," said, an
old Lackawanna Valley (I'enn.)
weather prophet. "Swallow- stayed
.North three weeks after their regular
limo to leave, and that is another good
sign of an open winter. Robins aro
still bore, and I am glad of It, but
they would have flown South ten days
ago if they hadn't felt it in their bones
that we are going lo have a late fall
and a warm winter. A woodcock
that I shol the other day bad only a
few feathers on it, and that's another
sure Vigil of a warm fall and a mild
winter. My wagon wheel ran over a
cock partridge in II uiiiiig Rrook town
ship last week, and when 1 picked up
the dead bird 1 found that it was .cry
thinly feathered. Si much for the
silent language of the birds as a fore
east of tho weather for six months.
"Now tako the animals for more
signs. I trapped a coon in my eoru
liehl the other night. He was as poor
as a crow, and that means that thi
weather will bo so mild next winter
that be will bo able lo be afield (very
day. instead of having lo hibernate,
as he did last winter. At this time
last fall the coons were as fat as pigs,
and they lived on the fat while they
were cooped up in the trees on ac
count of the cold weather. Next
winter the coons won't have to lie
dormant at all, and bears will roam
over the terub oak ridges from Christ
mas to Faster. The fur of wood
chucks is much thinner than usual
and that is a sure indication (if an
open winter.
"I'nUlcsiiakes arc crawling over the
huckleberry patches as lively as i hey
were in mid-summer, ami that is
another good sign that the con"
sumption of coal will be much smaller
next winter than it was last winter,
lilacksnakes arc also as thick ns they
were two months ago. hist year they
took to their dens the 1st of Septem
ber. "liuckwheal is poorly filled every
where, and that fact tells me that the
winter will be so warm that nobody
will hanker for pancakes more than
once a mouth. Ail the signs in the
bird, the, animal, tie; reptile, nnd the
vegetable kingdoms point to a milder
winter than we have experienced in a
decade, and I predict that coal- will be
lower before New Year's." New
York Sun.
An Incident of the Cottonwood Fight.
It might be (if some interest to your
readers to learn of the freaks of two
bullets that eanic under my observa
tion in lstsT, during the Niv Perec
Indian war in the Cottonwood tight.
F. A. Fenn had a bullet cut four
holes in bis pantaloons without draw
ing blood, and one turned both lip?
and loosened a front tooth. This was
kissing a bullet in reality.
About one week later I was running
a race with some fifteen or twenty In
dians; the goal was a small mound;
whoever readied the mound first could
hold it. We had some friends coining
on the trail, which passed in -l al the
fiAit of the iitoiiiul. Tho horse I was
riding was quite fast: I had got a
hundred yards or so ahead of my com
panion mill stopped to take a shot at
an Indian. Alter 1 shot I jumped on
my horse, just as n young fellow came
up. We were on the move, when he
said, ''Lew, I in shot." 1 asked him
if he was hurt bad. He ntid. "No, I
have caught the bullet." "All right,"
said I; "put it in your pocket."
1 let my loose run, and soon l ft
him, for I had 'be (rail and the Indi
ans bad the grass, 1 reached the foot
of the mound, when the nearest Indian
was about 1 .'" yards from the foot on
bis side. The mound was tolerably
steep and about lo" feet high. I let
my horse climb as fa-t as he e -mid.
When I reached the top I jumped oil,
nnd the Indians were on the rim to
gel out of the reach of my long-range
It-'iningtoii. I opened lire and kept ii
up as long as they were in sight.
When the excitement was over the
young fellow showed me where he
bad been shot. The ball had just
gra.ed his arm, making a blue streak
about live inches long, and had struck
his gun-barrel (when- it screws iutc
the frame) and raised a dent on the
inside of the bairel as large as a pea.
it then glanced ami fell into his lef
hand. The gun was ruined, but i1
saved his life.
The shot had been tired at me, ns
the young fellow had not been in
sight for tin instant. -f Forest and
Stream.
A Purl i in; Shot.
Yourg Callowc If il is all over be
tween us 1 suppose you will reluri
my ring?
Prunella Here It is. I supposi
vou want to pawn it.
Not So WVic .hfler All.
The world is wide they say,
And each may (' his wav.
No need is there of strife,
And one for peace may pray
In all his daily life.
If might distasteful lie
A near thee pass it hy.
And thy aspirin:.' ga.n
Turn upward lo the sky -
To what thou fain wouldsl einls
So may we all he taught :
i-'o train the early tlioii-lit
In good ami niieeful ways,
That all. as pi op'c ouht.
May live but happy d:ns.
1 truly 'ike the plan,
Jt hath a hroadeu'd span
lieaehin: to heller thlii1',
Far better even than
The warrior psa!iui-l sings.
Put somehow I can not
To such a quiet lot
Attune my rebel fate,
For.iust as sun as shot
I meet whate'i r I hat-.
; I . -fruit Tril.nnr.
Ill MOHIH'S.
audiod opinion '1'all'y.
Km bed evils- Poor n lations.
Not tiecessa: ily after a bird Iho
man who goes out for a iark.
The fellow w ho ii ai t ies the "reign
'ng belle" often has a stormy life.
Il is sai l that the guillotine is (he
most successful remover of dandruff.
I You li- Pa, give me an example of
in "floating debt." Pa (-ally)-. My
yacht.
j "In order to live well," said the man
who rejuvenates wealing apparel, "1
j in n-t be careful to dye well."
! ..That dark-haired lover of yours is
badly Miubuined." "Yes; I call him
i now my little black and tan."
I Husband My dear, there's a bur;.
j Iar in the room. 1 have no revolver.
Wife Then look daggers at him.
! Persistency is the road lo success.
' The only known exception to this ruU
j is Iho ease of a hen sluing oti a china
I oe-
j Holts do ciiliee. It jam w as fire,
Nn yoiiics'cr would desire it.
' M ike pleasure ikUicult and see
How much a man requires it.
! "Young Whiz is living a ralliei
; fast life now isn't he?" "Yes, he liai
i io, yon know. He's a conductor on an
' express train.''
If the orator is referred to as t
! word painter, why not refer to the
' lecturer in a deaf-and-dumb iiistitutt
j ns a sign painter.
j liivcrs The cholera bacillus, il
' seems, is shaped like a comma. Hani. I
Then why don't the authorities i,uoe!i
",:s tail oil and bring it to a full stop,
j stje 1 don't b lieve you love me at
' much as you d-d before we wok
married. lie Jul as much as 1 evct
! did; perhaps not as much as 1 said I
did.
! lVofcssor Wait, wait. Y'ott ari
playing that part too loud. Don'
hang so. Maiden Oh don't worrj
about that, professor, the piano is )
hired one.
Tiie Widow Doyou think niarriagi
1 is always a failure? 1 ' n 1 Ii m'li Al
' wins a failure! Well, I should say
not. Why, I know n case, wlrrc tin
i wife fairly idoli."s her husband, aid
he why, he can't keep away frou
I her a minute. Tt.e W ,dow ltlcss me
' How long have they been married
' lhillincli - Nearly a wei k.
Skeleton of a Snake.
! To the ca-ual ob-civcr the serpen
I is a helple s eicature of imperfect or
' gani.aiion, while in reality his skele
I ton is a marvel of ineeh in ieal eoulriv
auces. Ti ue, lie possesses no fret
but Nir l.'ichard Owens say-: "Th
serpent lias neither hands nor talons
vet it can oulw resile iho athlete
i crush the tiger in the embrace of it
j ponderous overlapping folds. lt
! from licking up its food as it glide.
idling, the serpent lifts up its rrushei
1 prey and presents it grasped in Hi
.-oil ns in a hand to the gaping, slimy
! dropping m nitli "'
Profess ir llilley icgaids (he vertc
i br;e of a snake as Iho uio( perfpr
! piece of anatomy in the world. N
mechanism is so simple, yet so thor
I (High. The skeleton consists of
j skull, ba-'kbone and ribs. The dilb-r
cut vertebra' are connected by joint
j and two ribs are attached, one o;
j each side. These form a number
legs, as it were, by menus of wlui'
i the body assumes those sinuous i in vo
fv'hich one cannot fail to admire. Al
j movement is in the hoi i inlal plane
I no motion being accomplished by vcr
I tieal undulations.
(If the fifteen hundred snakes know.
lo naturalists, only a very few nr
1 poisonous in lecd, these arc the c
ceptions. 1 here are liflcen variolic
to be found in America, and but Hun
of these arc venomous tho rattle,
snake, the enppcrhend atid the vatc
iijocca-in. New York Herald.