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VOL. XVI.
PITTS1K)R0 CHATHAM CO., N. C, FKMUJAKY 8, 1801.
atettam
NO. 21.
A Henri's Sonir.
A raindrop Ml from lli" leaden sky
Ami a gray bird sang wIk-u the ilny wasnigh.
Tin1 orysliil drop wn lost in the rain
liy nn arrow'? thrust Urn liinl was sluiu.
A ti'arilrop fi-ll from n heart's overflow.
Ami a maiden's s"iig was sad and low :
For tlin mm slio (liviii'i I h i trim mnl s'rong
Proved false to singer, iiii'l to song.
Ai.nr.iii' II.Minv in tod"y's.
WAS IT A RUSE?
11 Y S. A. W KISS.
Alien Wren whs n very pretty little
woman a willow of thirty or there
abouts with soft, appealing brown
eyes mnl a dimple in encli cheek, mitl
the more Mr. Powers looked at her
across tho liouriling house table the
bettor he liked her.
He wan himself a widower of forty,
and had been paying some attention
to n maiilcii ladv with milium hair and
sharp Mack eyes, who, lie considered,
would lie n good manager for his
household ; but from the moment
when pretty Mrs. Wren healed herself
opposite him at Mm Brook's table,
imd said, in her sweet, low voire, "Tea,
if you plrasc, with sugar and ereaiii,"
he felt nu intiiitiveeonvirtioii that this
whs the woman whom a kind fate had
especially designed for him.
From his landlady he gained some
information one'Tiiing: her; that she
had been recommendr I to the hiiiiiuh t
boarding-house by Mrs. Prook'sowu
pastor, whose relative she was; that
(he had lost her husb-.iiil nearly two
years since1, and win very well oil' as
regarded money; and finally that she
resided with a sister in Mr. Bower'
own city all of which was very satis
factory to Mi1. Powers.
Ho, forthwith, lie commenced nn
assiduous courtship of the widow, and
so favorably wire her attentions re
ceived that one old bachelor Mr.
Boggs -w Heeled a silver dollar with
another old nentleinaii Mr. Wingo
that the couple would be engaged be
fore the end of the fecund week.
As it happened, it was on the very
evening of this wager that Mr. Powers
and the fair widow were seated ill a
little rustic summer-house on tin1 lawn
as the sun set slowly beneath the dis
tant mountain tops. She w.is looking
at the evening star and he at her.
"J think," she siid, pensively, "that
that must be the star of my destiny,
else I would not love it so."
"And I believe yon are mine," he
answered, tenderly, "else - may say
it, Alice?"
"Say what?" she answered, inno
cently. "You know - that I love yon mi!"
Her Ion": lashes drooped.
"We have known each other for so
short a lime," she murmured.
"For a whole week, dearest, and in
that tiino have become better ac
quainted w fth each other thiiii would
have been possible, in months of or
dinary intercourse. Oh, Alice, say
that you w ill be mine !"
And when, an 1 r thereafter, the
couple returned to the house, mid en
tered the Mippcr-l'oom in the full lure
of the gaslight, Mr. Wingo quietly
slipped a silver dollar from his pocket,
and with, a sigh, laid it upon Mr.
Hoggs' knee, under cover of the table
cloth. Of course Mr. Powers called upon
his betrothed as sion as she returned
to the city, and between them ar
liiugeineiit.s were made fur a speedy
marriage.
Put in all this lime ho was pur
posely nursing in his breast a guilty
secret which the widow little sus
pected. For not once had he hinted
to her that in the homo to which he
proposed to take her he hud three
rough and unruly boys to whom she
was expected to be a t.unler mother,
"It will never do to let her know it
before we are-engaged," Mr. Powers
had at first said to himself.
Ami when ho found himself en
gaged, ho was still haunted by the
doubt whether sho might not, forget
ful of her plighted word, be tempted
to "throw him over" when she found
out about those terrible children.
Put at last matters hud progressed
So fur all but the date of tho mar
riage being fixed that he felt that
he could not longer, w ith propriety,
withhold from her a matter which so
nearly concerned her.
"Alice, darling," ho said, ono eve
ning, with a sickly smile, "I have a
little surprise for you. I have been
6o absorbed in you that I forgot to
tell you about my my three little
boys at home."
"Why did you not tell me before?"
"Because ahem ! as I said, I was
thinking of you only. Put surely,
darling, you w ill not object to being a
mother to my poor motherless little
ones? You cannot care so little for
me, Alice, as to make this a ground
,or refusing to become my wife? No,
ho I yoiirn is too noble a nutur' for
that!"
Dear little thing-!" she said softly.
"Of course you will bring them to sec
me."
Accordingly, when she lict entered
the parlor to receive him, she beheld,
seated in a row on a divan, three well
grown boys, all of whom regarded
her with looks of undisguised hos
tility. "Alice, my dear," said Mr. Powers,
advancing to meet her, "these are my
motherless little ones w ho will, I trust,
be a help and comfort to you. This
is George, the eldest, twelve years old.
Come here, George, and shako hands
with this lady. She is to be your
mother. "
(t.'or.Jie favored his future stepmother
w ith a liendis! leer, which caused her
blood to run cold at the thought of all
that it might portend.
The second boy refused to shake
hands, and the youngest, aged eight,
muttered sullenly :
"I ain't ngoiu' to call her mother."
Mr. Powers sought to excuse his off
spring, hut the look which he private
ly cast upon thrln win indicative of
future vengjiir.1..1. An 1 wh-.Mi (K'orgj
knocked a vase off a t ilde, an 1 B'gie
shrieked that Arthur was sticking pins
in his bark, Mr. Powers thought it
time to go.
"Please wait awhile," tho Widow
' Wrru gently said; adding with an
arch smile : "As you gave me 11 little
surprise yesterday, I have one for you
to-day."
She 1 ft the room; and presently
tlu le whs a sound in tho hull of light
footsteps and a surpressed giggling
and whispering. Then Mrs. Wren rr
appeaied, clo.ely followed by the lit
t Ic girls, t ho youngest of w hom she
led by the hand.
"You have brought your boys to see
inr," sh.- siid smiling; "and now,
pray allow me t introduce my own
darlings - Helen, Ko.-a, Agnes, Lily
and Mio ie. Helen is the rides!, ten
ye us old, and dul ling little Mario not
quite three. ltosa is like her father,"
here the widow looked pensively at
the little one and sighed -"and Agnes
and Marie are thought lo resemble me.
lo you think so?" sho added sweetly.
To depict in words the expression
of blank surprise and dismay upon the
fire of Mr. Powers would be impos
sible. lie t-f u PI only stare and me
chanically shake the hand of each lit
tle girl as she was presented to
lion.
Then the widow led them to the
corner where the three boys sit ; and
five minutes Hereafter the two young
e..f girls were crying, the next two in
a high state of in l'gn itioii, an 1 tin1
eldest engaged in a struggle with Mas
ter (J urge, who was trying to cut of
her ringlets with his pocket-knife.
"Oh," siid the widow, anxiously,
"I am afraid I hope do you think,"
turning appeiilingly to Mr. Powers,
"that they could ever get on together?
My little pets are very good and ami
able ; but, you Her, they are not ac
customed to boys."
Mr. Powers answered vaguely, that
"he hoped so. "
Put all the way home his mind was
in a dazed and agitated state, us it
dweltuponth.it group of right chil
dren i:; the Widow Wren's parlor.
Might children boys and girls and
none of them aliovo twelve years of
age !
He thought of the family board,
with four seats on each side, and tie;
constant squalibing of which it was to
be the scene; of th- family pow.and of
how people would smile as tho infan
tile procession tiled into it.
Good heavens ! it would never, never
do! He hated to give up th widow
and her fortune, but the sacrifice must
bo made.
And ho, before a work had passed,
he had written to Mrs. Wren, express
ing his fear that, under the unforeseen
state of things, their marriage would
not be as happy or as advisable as he
had at first anticipated.
And Mrs. Wren returned a cheerful
reply, agreeing with his views, and re
leasing him from his engagement.
And thenceforth, for six months,
they saw and heard no more of each
other.though Mr. P iwers often thought
of tho pretty and amiable widow and
her comfortable fortune, and wished
that those live children had never stood
in his wav.
It was on a pleasant day of the fol
lowing spring that Mr. Powers, with
his three boys, stood in the waiting
room of a railroad depot, awaiting tho
arrival of an up train.
He was sending off the two eldest to
a boarding-school.
Suddenly he heard a voice w hich sent
a thrill through him, and turning, met
tho smiling eyes of the Widow Wren,
looking prettier than ever, as she
frankly held out her Land.
"Quite a time since we last met!"
f ho said, cheerfully.
"Quite! mnl I need not ask ho
you have been. You look as bloom
ing as your own loses?-' he said gal
lantly, glancing at tho bouquet which
she carried.
"You have your boys with you, I
see. How they have grown!"
"And your little pets how are
they?"
"Oh, blooming as lilies? There
are two of them, Helen and Marie,
with their mother."
"Their motlioi !" echoed Mr. Pow
ers, following the direction of her
gin nee to where a lady, with two chil
dren stood talking with a nice-looking
gentleman.
"Yes my sister. You knew they
were brr children?"
"Really, I you never told me so,"
he stammered.
"Didn't I? Put of course you
guessed it, as I was living with her."
And she looked admiringly at hei
bouquet.
Mr. Powers felt half stunned.
What a dreadful mistake this had
been! What a dreadful blunder he
had committed ! Put was it too late
to undo it? Might it not bo possi
ble And just here he caught the shriek
of the approaching train.
"Do you still reside with your sis
ter?" he asked, hurriedly, but with nu
earnestness which spoke in his eyes as
well as his words.
"Oh, dear, no at least 1 shall not in
the future." She turned to the nice
looking gentleman, who had ap
ploaehed. "Let me introduce von to
my husband, Mr. "
Mr. Powers did not catrh tho name,
and, in fart, hardly knew what he
himself said or did, so da.rd and bi
w il leivd was he.
I!" hears some one say, "There is Mrs.
Wri ii, who was married last night."
And us he st 1 looking niter the re
eding train, it was with a feeling 03
though he had been robbed, cheated,
over-reached in some venture in which
he had expected to draw a prize.
"She certainly only called them her
pets, her darlings," he reflected, in ho
slowly welided his way homeward
"What an idiot I was! Put I wonder
whether il was innocently done on her
part, or a trick, a ruse, to get rid of
me and the boys?"
And to this day Mr. Powers has not
been able to satisfy himself on that
point. Saturday Night.
( oi n null the ( lift" Purlins.
In the houses of tho ancient elift
dwellers, in southwest Colorado and
northern New Mexico, stalks, husks,
tus-i Is, cobs and kernels are found.
That someof this material is as old
as the buildings is proved by tho
fact that the stalks were used in the
construction of the floors, being im
bedded in the adobe. The cobs wire
also utilized to till up chinks in tho
walls. They were about three feet
ong. These Imbibitions have been
deserted for at least 500 years. Fur
ther south is the land of the living
cliff dwellers, in the Sierra Mrtdre,
between the Mexican states of Chihua
hua and Sonora. There re ide on
dill's on in caves, savages who worship
the sun and plant a little maize on tie'
steep hill sid without cultivation,
though otherwise they do not till the
soil at all.
During the long winter that fol
lowed the landing of the Puritans, in
lti'Jt), they subsisted in large measure
on corn purchased from the uborigi
nese. In the next year nn Indian,
named Squanto, taught them how to
plant it and to fertilize the soil with
fish. Thus they wore enabled to grow
about twenty acres of it. The Indi
ans had many ways of preparing maize,
mixing with it beans, chestnuts and
wortleberrries. They made a pottage
of it by boiling it with fresh or dried
meat and dried pumpkins, sometimes
sweetening it with maple sugar. Thry
also boiled pounded hickory nut ker
mis with thi1 meal, and sometimes
they made a bread composed of corn
meal mixed with smoked oils and
oysters or clams. Washington Star,
( lull of Wearers el Weeds.
A Widowers' Association has been
formed at Dresden. No man can join
un less his wife is dead, and should he
marry again ho becomes merely an
honorary member. One of the prin
cipal objects of the association is to
help new members that is to say,
new ly-mado widowers by looking
after their wives' f-.iueriils nnd putting
out his children, if ho has any, to
nurse. Servants and governesses are,
moreover, engaged through this novel
agency. There is also a convivial ob
ject in view, and the widowers meet to
gether for mutual sympathy and en
tertainment. l"p to the present time
there are forly mrnibrrs.
Tho most extensive history is that
of Gibbon. It covers the events of th
world for 1,201) years.
(HILI)KEVS (01-1 MN.
lieu. aw.w.
Boll y.i;r ball f snow. children.
Hull your bull 'if snow !
Tin1 more you roll your sir w l-all up,
The bigger it will grow.
lioll a kinit thought roini'l. children,
iioll it id' iimiiifl!
Cntil it gathers all kiri'l thoughts
Thai gentle lieiiris have found.
St. Nh hi.las.
A imn u;'s rim niMi.
A Russian doctor has b ru experi
menting to li ml how far some of our
domestic animals ran count. The in
telligenrr of the horse, as t his is show u
in mathematics, seems to surpass that
of the cut or the dog. The instances
given by him are interesting, but be
fore they are accepted as authentic,
they should b 1 vi rifted by th" obser
vations of u ituralists whose skill and
earu are unquestioned.
He found a hois" which was able to
count the mile pn.its along the way.
It had been trains 1 by its master to
stop for feeil w h"liev: r they had cov
ered twenty-live vn.-K
One d.iy they tried the horse over a
load where three t ibe mil -posts had
been put III bet v. e'M tile 1 ':il ones,
and sure enough, th 1 horse, il se nvrd
by this trick, stopped for his oats at
the end of twonl-hu vi-r-ts instead
of going the usual twenty-live.
Th" same hois,1 was necust une'l to
being ted every diy at the ttroke of
noon. Th- doctor obseiAeil that
whenever tie- clock struck, the horse
would stop and prick up his curs as if
counting. Jf he is -ird twi he -mkes
he Would tint oil c intent -illy to hi:
fed, but ii' their were fewer than
twelve ho w e.ild resignedly go i-u
working.
The experiment was made of stak
ing tweho stroke-at I h1 w I on", t one,
whereupon the hor-e stinted tor his
oats, in spite of the fact tlud he had
been fed only an h inr before. Ww
York News.
ktkanoi: ei.Ai i-.H wukiii: !ouv; u;i:
KIT NO.
Nooiie ever t'p-s of hearing by
what wonderful i.kill and research
some of the most famous musical in
trunieiits have been found. The ex
perience of a violin di a'er, w ho is also
a skillful workman, serve to illie-trnte
the method pursued in the purchase of
decrepit violins. Oner a year or so,
says a correspondent of the Saturday
Review, the dealer takes a tour. When
he comes to a town lie en t1 rs n lnrber
shop or grocery store, mid inquires
who nre the people who own violins.
A li'imbrr of names are given to him,
nnd he piirsui s his invest ligations w ith
varying success.
Not long ago a barber in Ohio told
him that a certain fame r used to have
n violin, but Id thought it had been
broken w ith constant usage and throw n
aside. The dealer visited the fanner,
and after some parley induced him to
produce the fragments of a violin
which "mother" had saw d. A glance
at these told the dealer he hud found
a treasure. He wet one "f the pieces
in order to examine the varnish, and
it shone w ith a beautiful reddish yel
low hue that delighted his heart. Tho
head-piece was the genuine article.
The in st r miii'iit , when put together,
would be of the most gi a -eful typo
and of the best kind of w orkmanship.
The farmer gladly parted with it in
exchange for a new violin and ,i!H,uud
it passed into the dealer's hands. Now
he has the instrument hung up in his
shop, and apparently it is without n
flaw. The color is beautiful, like
that one so-.'s in some old portrait ; its
form is extremely pleasing, and the
price of it is S20it.
A violoncello ow ned by a prominent
musician was picked up in this man
ner for a mere song. The dealer
learned that a retired sea captain had
an old 'cello. 11" made an investiga
tion and found that the instrument
was covered with n coat of hideous
old yellow paint. The dealer looked
over the debris carefully, for the in
strument was broken a great deal, and
soon learned that the wood of which it
was constructed was oxer two hundred
years old. After a time ho succeeded
in purchasing it. Then lie took it to
pieces and removed the paint and old
glue. The workmanship w as of a char
acter that delighted the enthusiastic
workman. It was made of Italian
spruce, the kind of wood used in all
Cremona instruments by Strndivai ins.
This wood enuuot now be obtained.
It was made in KH5. The musiciau
who now owns the instrument cheer
fully paid $7011 for it. I Harpy's
Young People.
Soni he.
"Fitzgoobor was roiisidrrably put
out the other night when he went to
call on his girl."
"How?
"Sy her futhel'." - Atlanta Coutii-tutiou.
AX 0CHAX CAPTAIN.
The Qualifications Necessary for
a Steamship's Master.
It's a Hard Climb to Iioacli This
Snug Berth.
Few people have any idea of what
is required of a r ipt iiu in command
of one of an ocean steamship com
pany's vessels an I of th iliflieulticN
nnd hardships to by experieiic al and
surmounted before ho is intrusted
with thi1 first command of one of the
big coastwise liners. Of course tlun
must be vessels and steamships, and
there must of course be somebody who
can bo put in coiuni nid of them and
for the time have control of their
movements within certain limits. But
these capt'iius arc trusted in the do
main of thrir commands, on that deep
which rarely gives up its dead, with
vast amounts of life and property,
and while in thos" days of rapid pro
gross ships are being built to weather
almost any gale and to live in almost
any sea, and when tho practice of navi
gation is reaching almost to perfec
tion, it isouly long years of practical
experience, coupled w ith sound w is
dom and a talent for navigation that
constitute the I rosary quajitiiei-
tions of the master of a large aed well
equipped steamship.
"What experience did you have to
have before you obtained your com
mand?" was asked of one of (he. c.ip
tnins the other day.
"Well," he replied, "one doesn't
get to be a captain in a d-iy loo a year
ortwo, for that matter. Seita ring life
is a hard road to t ravel, and a hard lad
der to climb. J was for eight years
before t lie mast before J obbioo -1 a
position oil on. of these .hip. I'io
the greater pai t of that time I (died
between the rigy-iny; and the decks nf
a schooner that ran between Pin and
this country. I tellyoil it whs a hard
life, too. A common sailor is more of
an intelligent machine than anything
else. He must always be II red ami
ready to set his iron machinery in
motion at a wmd from his superior.
Heady to ob"v any call, he must be
able to stand any hard -hips of (lie
sea, and i po-r himself to all
kinds of ivas and weather, ami
that, too, for a mere pittam fa
living, which hardly seems to warrant
the sacrifices made. You don't go
right from the mast to tho captain's
berth, either. It's a gradual promo
tion when there is any promotion at
all, to the position next above, ami the
promotions are often two and three
years apart. I was second and first
ollicer between three and four years
before 1 was given a command. Put
a man who has worked hard for the
promotion appreciates it and exerts
his best efforts to give good s-'rvice,
for a captain never cm be too certain
of retaining his oflice. "
Probably all captains on such ves
sels had similar experiences. Thry all
no doubt had to toil before the mast,
where merit is not recognized quite as
quickly as experience and duration
of service. But merit will tell in time,
nnd, in connection with experience,
lays the foundation for promotions in
regular line until the he id command
is reached. The captain's work is by
no means an easy one. A tremendous
responsibility rests ou him, and there
nre times when, besides his mental
work in governing, tho fchip, his physi
cal strain is greater than that of any
of the men under his command. Sa
vanuali (in.) News.
No Wonder the Sen is Sail.
Imagine 4,. V;) quintals, or ."iiil.ium
pounds, or ;J.VJ tons, or lb! cords of
cod and pollock, all neatly piled up in
one building, and you w ill have be
fore you the largest stock of lisii in
the city of Portland at the present
time. It has all b-eii brought from
Nova Scotia mi l Newfoundland since
the 10th of October. There is
pile of fourteen tons of specially sel
ected codfish. They were big fellows
when taken from the water, and
weighed then from forty to eighty
pounds each. Now they weigh from
twenty-live to thirtv-live pounds
apiece. When they had been stripped
of the skin, carefully boned, trimmed
into slices of faultless Mesh like so
much clean, clenr bread or cheese, and
parked ill boxes maiked "boiieh ss
lish," they will weigh but from twelve
to fifteen pounds apiece. Such is the
shrinkage of an eighty pound endli.-h
into the perfect food product. Ill the
trimming process about twenty pound-,
of "scraps" are removed to every P'M
pounds ot the boneless slices. This
is, of course, good food tissue, though
it looks decidedly like "leavings."
It is i old for about eight cents a
pound. Country tish peddlers buy it
sometimes in Jtli) and 150-pouud lots,
and sell it to farmers and villagers to
make into hash for about ten cents a
pound. The skins are packed in
barrels mnl sent away to Gloucester,
Mass., where they are made into glue.
They bring about a cent and a half a
pound. The bom s sell for or $'i
a ton, and are hauled over to Cnpe
I'.lizabeth to be utilized as a fertilizer
for cabbages. Lew iston, (Me.,)
.foiirmd.
A Mine of Ice.
An "ice mine" is reported from New
York Gulch, Meagher County, Mon
tana, in early thi vs the gulch turned
out -,,."ll,IMM worth of gold, but of
late years it has been nearly deserted.
Last summer two piosportors uncov
ered the mouth of an old shaft and
glanced down it. They saw the ice,
w hieh rearheil up to w ithin four feet
ami eight inches of tin surface.
Thev considered it curious, nnd
thought what a good place it would be
to keep their meat, butter Slid other
food from spoiling, while they were
working in the neighborhood. They
lowered their provender into the ice
mine with the best results.
Natuialiy they told of their find to
other miners, with the result that for
ii radius of liner or four miles around
tin millers came to the ice shalt, low
ered the beef and other provisions
into the mine, putting their tag on it,
and hoisting the rope from time to
time as provisions were needed. If
is a godsend to the miners, as it rn
nbh s f hem to keep lilt at flesh ill the
hottest weather. The miners are un
able to gie any solution to this strange
phenomenon. Tin1 format ion of the
gulch is shale, reddish in color and
full of fissures. It is supposed that
gusts of air from cold caves innv have
underground connections with the
shall, and rapid evaporation near the i
toi may explain tl iitinnid forma- !
tion of ice there ns it i. cut away- -
I Northwest Magazine.
IHsjlineiiriiiHT of (oinic iii Ainrrira. I
It is really appalling to compare the i
eiioi in. nis amount of gameoii thiscon
tiie nl at tin- beginning of th" century
with the wretched remnant of to-day.
At that time tin1 American buffalo
roaun d the prairies in countless thou
sands, ami was jiiobably the most nu
merous large auioial in tin worM, nnd
now but all Americans kimw the
shameful story of its exb i iuimitioii.
Little mole than a hundred years
ago gnat herds of elk swarmed in the
Kentucky and Illinois hunting
grounds, and even as late as 1H.V) n
few could be found in the district
n nth of the Ohio Piver. Today their
fast-diminishing bands are confined to
the m iniitains of the Northwest. The
hi sad story of fast approaching ex-
tiii 'tioii is true of tlie other game ani
mals, th" antelope, bighorn, mountain
go it, and the various kinds of deer;
in fact, it is true of all our larger
mammals. Many persons lhiug to
day will see tin ir ti mil disappearance
in a wild statr. (Century.
The Western Wolf is a (award.
Colonel dim Struthers of Montana
was in the lobby of the Shorehani last j
night, and talking of .wolves and ante
lope, he said: "No. sir; the wolf isn't
such a desperate creature ns fiction
and the imagination of sometime
sports have made him. The prnrie
wolf will sin ali around camp at night
and steal scraps, but as to attacking
anybody he isn't as hydrophobiaenl
as the civilized cur. The timber wolf
hasn't the most courteous disposition
ill the vest, but he is cowardly, and a
gootl gun can stand off a whole
menagerie of them. They come out
of the hill timber at night and go for
a calf or a heifer, but thev don't like
mini, ami will only touch him as a last
re-ort. Out in the west we roll our
seUes up m a blanket right on tho
prairie and sh ep t lie so i p of the right
eous, and no Little lb d Puling Hood
business bit aks ..in i. st. .- Washing
ton Star.
'I hr Man iii nn ami S.
Those p. oplc have only twelve
sounds in their language. live of which
are consonants. A Kanaka can swim
five uiih s easier than he can give the
sound of 's' or '.' I cannot recall
inn, rell those considering them
selves quit e pi olieii lit ill I'.uglish.w ho
call make even a list at the sound of 's.'
Asa matter of practice. tiiejllawaiiun is
sosimple a language it bt comes largely
the common language of all foreigners
.Chinese iiml all. Lnglish as she is
spoke there, is badly l ing-streaked
and speckled with Hawaiian. Puf
fa lo F.xpn ss.
I iuilllsli Love.
He - "If you loed me you wonM
neirry me while I urn poor."
She - "You do me injustice. 1 love
von too much to have your precious
health risked by my cooking. Wait
ii i it i 1 yon can afford to keep servant."
.-I Life.
When We shall Veet.
Einls in tUe blossoms shall sing to th"
kies
V iieii we -hall meet ;
IVf.f'1 shall climb to you lips an. I join
eyes
Waves of gla l rivrs in nieloiliis ri-;
pence after i initiir. ami smics nfirr signs,
When we siai in,.,. '
Earth shall be beautiful, life slmll be '.lest
Win n we shall meet ;
Over the ilesiilate thorns in the breast
There shall be raiiiimt roses of rest
lirik'ht from (foil's gar."iis -but (io.l know
eth best
When we shall n t !
1 hank L. Si anion, in At In nl a ('uisiitiitl'.u.
Ill MOltOI S.
And it came to pass Tho counter
feit bill.
A "It is when in trouble that he
knows the valueofa wife.', P. "Yes;
he can nit all his property in her
name."
"Ah, there's no happiness like do
mestic happiness ! " "I know there
isn't ; that'stheiriiKon I'm never going
to many."
Bagley l.re yo ii square with tho
landlord yet?" Praee- "Pretty nearly,
I guess; 1 haven't paid her a rent in
two months. "
"Hohbic," sain the visitor kindly,
"have you nny littb- brothers and sis-
t.fs?" "No," replied wee Hobble,
solemnly, "I'm nil the children we've
got."
"Och, Patsy ilallint, are yez
drowned?" iiskc-1 Mrs. Patsv, as her
husband came home dripping. "No,
in.'adr, but 1 wint down twice before
I iver t an p," said Patsy.
"Mamma," said Willie, looking up
from the letter upon which he had
been industriously at work for some
time. "How do you niake an X? I
want to write the word uirrinato."
Lady to African trav. bn- "Is i
tui" that in Africa wom- ii possess cer
tain privileges?'' Traveler "Quite
Cue. For instance, alter a battle tic
victors always rat the women first."
Lightning recently struck a tele
graph pole un. I inn idmig Ihe wins
t nn office nt I'rest.iti, when the oj -rrntor
seiif.sl at the instrument ex
citedly tcle-Taplcd : "Doll't send i n
fast !"
"Why is if that tic custom ..f turn
ing 1 1 the frowsers is so universally
popular among our dudes?" "Well,
vou see, it is the only method of imi
tating the Lnglish that doesn't cost
nn thing."
He courted a girl by tfl".h..ie.
If-cHll-d li"r ' hi darling.' In- .t," "hi
own" ;
And the girls at th no-,-,1 ha I M- ..( lurk
Watching lli phv "f "l. ciri. ..parks.
Watts "I'm ' inclined to believe
that tinancinl depies-iun would he i
good subject for the faith cure.''
Potts-- "Faith cur.
Watts "Yes.
Laying on of hands, you know. There
nre too ninny of them being laid oft
just now."
Mrs. Spryte "Yon needn't lime
told me you Aei'e a bacheloi," Mr.
Singule "How did you know it?"
Mrs. Spryte- "You stick your legs
out under the dinner table. Not used
to having Yin kicked to remind you
nut to talk."
.I.'liiiliy -"Pa, this book says that
some of thise 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 s have In i n
resting in theirs, pulchres for unknow n
ages. Pa, what are unknown agi sV '
Pa "Ask your mother, or Aunt
Mai in, or one of your sister-, ask any
woinnn. 1 can't tlmoi any light on
the subject. "
First Tramp "These Fifth Avenue
people are very n ureas, him Ide with
ns." Second Tramp "Yes; ueet
give money, ami lecture you for being
dirty." First Tramp -- "Ami yet,
when I rang and asked for a bath
only, I was refused. "
Ivililin seiitim-nlally ! "Oh no;
have no desire for great wealth. I
should be very happy as the wife of n
noble breadw inner. " (i. oige ipracti
cully) -"And 1 should be happy, very
happy, ns the husband of a good bread
milker." She concluded to learn.
A melancholy author went to Duinns
nnd moaned that if he did not raise
'MM francs he was afraid he would have
to charcoal smoke liintst If and his two
children. Dumas rummaged his cof
fers at once, but could only liml 20Q
francs. "Put 1 must have three or 1
nnd my little loves are lost." "Sup
pose you only suffocate yourself and
one of thrln. thru," said Dumas.
A Freiirhman was teaching in a
largo school, where he had a reputa
tion among the pupils for making
some queer mistakes. One tiny li
was teaching a class which was rather
disorderly. Whnt with the heat nnd
the troublesome boys he whs very
snappish. Having punished several
boys, nnd sent one to the bottom ot
tho form, he at last should out in
passion: "Ze whole class go to it
bottom!"