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VOL. XVII.
PlTTSIK)RO CHATHAM CO., N. C., JULY II, 1805.
NO. 10.
A Prayer.
Dour Lord! Klud L jriM
Gracious Lord! I niy
Thou wilt look ou nil I lovo
Tenderly today.
Weed their liOJirts of weariness
Scatter I'vnry earn
Iowu a wake of angel wluga
Winnowing tlio air.
Drni),' unto tlm sorrowing
All releaso from pnin ;
.tit tin' lips of lauliter
Overflow again !
And with nil tho lun-ly
oh, divide, 1 pray,
This vast moa-niro of content
Tlmt is mine today.
Jambs Wiiiiimni ltn.KT.
A Mountain Courtship.
IIY W. J. I.AMITON.
Hii-mii St'-hbius was by all t 1 I n (lie
bent looking girl mi (iriiHsy Lick,
without In-ill-? remarkably beautiful,
fur beiuty is not 11 noticeable charac
teristic of mountain women, old or
young, ii ud how kIio had ever come to
marry Loin Sknggs was a wonder to
in-', for Loin win I v nil odd tho
homeliest man on tin; Lick, mid home
liness in a characteris' io of inoiintiiiii
men. 1 know Lotn quite well, 11 in I
liad befriended him on many neon
bions, even loaning; him money
enough to got married on, iih hisortq h
wero not in and lm was want of fund-,
and when I hoy hud been married
about a month I linked him how it
happened, llo was a good fellow all
over, was Loin, us guilolesH iih a baby
and an hoii.'Kt iih tho sunlight, and
when I asked my question ho blushed
and grinned.
"Sho was tuck by my good looks,"
ho laughed.
"Of coins.', of course," I laughed
back; "anybmly ought to nee that,
but my eyesight is weak. Tell 1110
what you d d to win h-r'r"'
" didn't do liothiu'. Colonel. I
jist wuz."
"That won't go, Lemuel. You are
licit tho kind that win that way; you
must havo made yourself nttraetivj in
Homo other way.
"Hope to die, Colonel, ef I did,"
ho insisted. "I jist wnz ami hIio got
tuck.
" Uidu't you court her pretty
Lard?"
"Did I?" and ho drew a loug breath
Dt) of relief at the thought of its being
over. "Well, I should buy I did.
Why, I como mighty nigh murtgid
gin' tho fiirm to git her tiling she
didn't seem to want when I'd give 'em
her."
"What did you i,'ivu her?"
"Everything, Colonel. It got ho
bud to'rds tho lust the old folks at the
Htoro told me ef I'd lump my dealiu's
they reckoned they could let me havo
'oiu for wholesale prices. "
"She couldu't Htand your liberality,
Lorn. TIiiiI'h what got her."
"Not a bit uv il," he contended.
"All tho time 1 was takiu' her ali
torts uv tilings, sin- wii. uiakin' eyes
at every feller that come alone; and,
Hurler cxpoi'tin' mo to keei ll lit v end
uv tho swingle tree, jist eao 1 kinder
Boomed to hanker utter doiu' it thai
a-way."
"iiul you kept at it?"
'I reckon not," ho laughed. "All
uv a Kiidden 1 Hot in for .Mary Fnmcl,
and givo the htoro folks a rest on buy
in'." Then what happened?" I inquired,
with a hope that 1 would now gel
home information.
II" laughed a low, gurgling laugh,
Bitch as a boy would give vent to when
caught in som)of his natural depivd i
tioitH.
"Well," ho said, ".dm kinder
pwappod eends on t'other fellows, and
Swung 'round my way, Init I wuu'l
f;iviu' a inch, an I I didn't havo no
talk with her for might.v nigh two
weeks, and then one cveiiin' us 1 wu.'.
piissin' her hoil-con my way lo Mary's
and she kuowed it, I se.-u her hang u'
on the gatelookiu' mil into the future
or Homethiu' uv that soi l that 1 seen
a pii'tor uv oiie't an agent w u. sel
lin'. ' 'Oood eveuin',' nays I, not oH'erin'
to stop.
" 'liood eveuin',' h iys hIic. 'IVnrs
to mo you're in a powerful hurry.'
"Kinder,' says I, sla '!uu' up Home.
I promised to lk-down to MuryVliout
this time.'
"Hho kinder looked down at tho
ground when I told her that, and
kicked a little rock out of the path
that Muz lyin' tlnir, and I felt like a
Bhocp-slcalin' dog fer Htiyiu' what I
had.
" 'I reckon you'd better be hurry
lu' idong then, for Mary ain't the
kind that likes lo be kep' wnitiu,' snya
nlie.
" 'I H'pose,' hiivh I, 'that you don't
keer ef I htil and talk to you fer a
in unto, do you?'
" 'I ain't keeriu;' whit you do,'
f-ny she, kinder sullen.
" 'You look like you wua expootiu"
Homebody yerHclf,' nays I, feeliu' t-3 of
I'd liko to ohoko whoever tho fuller
wuz.
'Thal'n what,' Hays ahe, and I felt
more'u ever like choking Homebody.
" 'Who iH it?' bays I, watchin' tho
streaks uv laugh 'round her mouth
and eyes.
" 'Hint's for mo to know and you to
llnd nut,' say Klie, hiughili' right out.
'"I reckon I'll be gniu' on down to
Mary's, say h J, tlii 1 1 k i 1 1 that 1 wu.'nt
in ii k i it liothiu' haiigin' 'round Susan.
" 'Mebbq you wouldn't ef you
kuowed who wiiz eoniiii' nays hhe,
kinder reneliiu' over tho gate.
" 'Well, tell me,' hiivs 'J, 'and hoc -f
I'lUtiy.'
'"1 reckon not,' says hho. Kt ill a
naggin' me, 'meblio they wouldn't liko
it!'
" ' W ho's they ?' Buys I.
"She giv) a little chuckle, and I
come ii) In tho gate and rested my
hands on it to oue side uv her'n.
"'i'ap and mother,' hiijh hho.
'They'vo goiio down to the hcIiooI
Iioiis') to preaehiu' and won't bo back
till S o'clock. '
" 'Ain't you kinder lonoHonie wail-
in' hyer by yerself Siihsii!' sayHl, ha I
way tryiu' to mil tho gate open, but
who held il hhet'
" 'I reckon I wn.,' hiivh hIio. 'TIiiiI'h
why I come out and hung ou tho gate,
It's mighty still like in tho houso'
"Vou reckon you wuz?' hiivh I,
'Ain't you now?' and I chuckled my
Hclf for ketehin' her.
" 'lr'uns I am and p'r'aps I ain't,'
she sniggered, ami tossed her head.
"I tried to open tho gate, but bho
held it shot."
"'l-f yjii want iuo to htny, why
don't you bay h i?' hays I gettiu' ugly.
" '1 reckon you kin ef you want to,'
HayH ahe, mighty jiesky.
" 'Siuau,' HiiyH I, 'wh it'u the use uv
fooliu'?'
" 'Foolin' about what?' euys bIu.
" 'About iuo ami you,' nays Jl
'"I ain't a fooliu',' hiivh hho.
'"You air,' bays I, 'and you know-
it.'
"Kl'you don't liketne, L:m Slinggs,'
havu hhe, briu lliu' nil all over, 'you
kin go 'Ion j. I didn't ax you to atop,
did 1."
'"Uut I d-j like you, Susan, Hays I,
gettin hkeert, anil try in to jmll tho
(j'uto opeli Ho'al could git cloi't enough
to her to coax her.
" 1 reckon you liko M-.iry Fiuuell a
sight bettor,' H-iya ahe,' holdiu' tho
gate iig'in' me.
'"I reckon I don't,' says I, and I
could feel tho gato give a little.
"'You wouldn't talk that a-way of
hhe wuz in hi-arin' distance,' says hIio.
" 'Wouldn't 1?' siiyn I, and I heaved
and sot ou the gate, but it didn't move
a peg. 'You jist fetch her up hero
and see ef I wouldn't.'
" 'So, you jist go down ihar,' auyH
she. 'That's whur you utarto I fer.'
"M didn't do liothiu' uv tho sort,'
says I, gettiu' dosjiriter every minute.
'"You told mo you did,' says bho,
and I could feel the gato give Homo
and then shot up ag'iu.
'"You oughter know, Susan,' Hays 1
si-lions, 'ihat I wu. jist a-fooliu', and
I could feel tho gate a giviu' way and
hhcttiu' and then giviu' way ng'in.
"'An' you niu'1 lyin' now, Lem !"
s.ivs she, a heap sight suiter than any
time in her life.
"'('oiirso 1 ain't, Sushi,' sivs I,
and the gato coino open about n
inches.
" 'III I only thought you wu.on't,
I. -in' siys she lettiu' the gate slip my
way a lectio niolo every liiinilte.
" '1'ini know 1 nin'i, Susan, sayH I,
giiu' the gate thi- strongest pull yit.
'V..11 know it, anil you know I nevi r
give a sn ip uv my linger fer any other
gal in these p il ls and t h it all the
I line I've liron u-!i m'.ei lu' afi.-r you
and w ii ii 1 1 ii' you for lav wife, but you
kep' fooliu' wii Ii 111 1 all along, and
huliit' my heart mighty nigh and
uiakin' me waul to go oil' and chop a
tree down on myself. You know it.
Sits in you know it,' an I hIio li'isled
her hands and tho gilo Hwung wide
open.
" 'What about M'ary?' mys she,
standi. 1' (hur b 'fore iuo lookiu' swect
er'n p-'iielies and rosios.
" "lorn M iry,' h:iyh I clean fergit
tiu' my iiianuers and I retch nut botli
hands fer Susan.
" 'Oh L 'in !' nays she, and well
Colonel,' ho laughed us his honest
fa i reddened h "iieatli its saffron hue.
"I reckon you'ru old enough to know
t lie balance. "
"1 wouldn't bo surprised Lem," 1
replied, bin-long just a shade myself
as a memory or Iwi cauio slowly back
from the rosy pist.
Ho looked up muling.
"And hay Colonel," h.i Hnid, "I
uu.u't any puttier that night than 1
w iz la-fore. "
"Coiiih off, Te'iniiel, " said I slap
ping h in ou t'ae back, "it was ho dark
Su.nu eoiildii't hco you. "Now York
Sua,
A Dlvcr'n h'xperlonce.
"I aiipposo there is a comic Hide as
well us a tragic to divingV" a New
York Tribune man asked u local
diver.
"Yoh, sometimes," ho replied. "I
remember a cuso whero a diver was
Hont down lo recover a body from a
wreck, very much against hiH will.
Homo diverH are very much afraid of
dead bodies and never handle them
when they can poHKibly avoid il. He
wiih olio of this kind, and tho wab r
being very thick, ho wont groping
gingerly around in the cabin. After
feeling around ho found a body, and
fastening a small linn around it ho
gave tho signal to haul it up. When
he followed and took oil' his helmet a
largo hog lay ou tho deck. Ho had
tied tho lino round it, think iug it was
the body ho was looking for. After
that ho was always known as the
'pork' diver. Sometime, especially
in tropical waters, the bottom of tint
Hea is a lovely sight. I have seen a
forest of kelp and seaweed gently
waving with tho tide which looked
liko fairyland. Tho dun li ;lil an I
tho bright-colored lish darting nb nil
make it look all tho moro beautiful.
A bit of Honweed on land doei not
amount to much, but if you see a
regular forest of it growing it looks
very diU'orent. If you Htand Hlill foi
a minute the lish will swim all round
you and examine you just as a lot of
human beings would look at some
strange iiniinil. At tho slightest
movement they whisk their fulls and
not a living thin;? is to bo hocii."
"Aro divers Hiiperstitioiis as n
rule?"
"I should 8iy tluy wore, I suppose
tluy are the most Kiip rstitiom lot of
men in tho world. S.m.o will not
tlcHi'eiid if they hoar a dog howl dur
ing the day, others won't go near a
drowned body, in fact all have fancies
of Homo kind. I havo an impression
myself that I shall go down one of
theso days without coining up again,
but a iiiau has to live. It takes the
lifo out of a man somehow, diving
docB, and I never knew a diver who
did much smiling. They un all rath
er Hjbcr-fiicod men."
Saving the CiIoin.
I'rom time immemorial the nrmioi
of every warlike people havo set the
highest value upon tho standards they
bore to battle. To guard one's own
Hag against capture is tho pride, to
capture tho ilag of one's enemy the
ambition, of every valiant soldier, lu
consjipieiice, iu every war between peo
ples of good military record fonts oi
daring performed by color-bearers are
honorably common. Tho civil win
was full of Hiich incidents. Out ol
very many, two or throe taud uu
oipoeinlly noteworthy.
Ouo occurred at l'rodoriokHbiirg on
the day when half tho brigades oi
Meagher and Caldwell lay ou the
bloody slope leading up to tho Confed
erate iutrotichin juts. Among the as
saulling regiments wiih tho Fifth Now
Hampshire, and it lost lHii out of 'Mi)
men who in n In tho charge. The sur
vivors fell buck suddenly behind ii
fence, w it hi i easy raugo of tho Con
federate riile-pils. Just before reach
ing it tho last of the color-guard wa
shot, iiinl the ling fell in the open. A
Captain Terry, instantly ran out to
rescue it, an I, as ho reached it, nas
shot through tlio heart; another Cap
tain, Murray, made the same attempt,
ainl was also uuieii; ami ho was a
third, Moore. Several private soldirs
met a like lute. They were all killed
close to the ling, ami their dead bod
ies fell across ono another. Taking
advantage of this breasl-wol'k, I.ieii-
t .mint Nettletoii crawled from behind
the fence to tho colors, and boro back
tho blood-won trophy. Harper's
lioiiud Table.
'I'liiniinr What is I'luniiiy."
O io would think it was past plow
ing tiiiio in tins iniinuie an. I ho it. is
in the ordinary houso. Hut Washiiig-
touiaus who have recently chanced
along Ninth Htreet have seen ahight of
"plowing what is plowing." as one
jolly farmer was heard to comment.
What was to bo seen was a six-
abroiist team of immense draught
horses straining their weight on a big
plow right down tiio middle of the old
cobble-stoned car-tracks in tho middle
of this blreet in the very heart of tho
city, and turning up tho rough, time
worn pavements as if it were loam,
while six braw ny colored men assisted
two at tho plow handles, two to drive,
and two to "ride beam. ''
Conscience alivo I 11 -min.le I mo of
the davs when, as a lad, I used to
ride beam" behind my uncle's four
big oM-it in his old stumping held.
Out such is progress, for this city
plowing is to make way for the new
underground olectrio trolley mottM'
for ouo of tlio streetcar lilies.-Wash-
iutou 1'utLiliii ler.
CMLDltE.VS COUMX.
I ll li t IlliOWN KV1.1.
Hrllit little lfrown eyes from ijiibylnul
Is winking ami Ijlliiklnu' a lae,
I feel the loai'li of a il niple.l liuiul,
Ashe elainliers upon my kini;;
The tiny lingers tug at mv In-art,
And I fold lilin in my einbra--'-.
The sweetest picture in all the world
Is my Jirown Lyes' dear little f iee.
Litt'e brown Kes, 1 am nil y.au- own
ling fondly to me, lialiy lmy. -Yi
.ii- iimtlii-r'H lap Is your kingly throne,
V.nir stihj.vfs In-art i. fu I of joy.
Take all the treasures "t lif away,
I ask no', wealth or stall.. n grand,
Jiut leave, O heavn, I liinii'.lj- pray.
Little lirewn Lyes i .iin I; iliylali I.
-Jons T. liriiKi:, in Huston Traveler.
A lllllils 1-lisTIVAIi.
Thi" htlle girls of .fap.in celebrate a
dolls' festival on tho third day of tin
third mouth in l.:wt year. This festi
val is a most iinporlait. a Hair, and i;
kept up for three days. All the dolls
aro brought mil and dressed in their
best. In Mr. Iloarn's delightful
book ou .In in n he t-lls in about Ihl.
fostival. He siys these ilolls oft.-n
represent gods and go IdeHses tin
the Seven Co ls of (i.,. Luck, the
iod who Loves L nighter and (he
iodof lioiiutiful Writing. Mr Ileum
asked one little girl, when he discov
ered that some of the liltlo girls be
lieved their ilolls c.uld live." "Why,
if you love it well enough il will live.
How cm a doll live?" mil she nu
Hvvered, "Why, if you lovo it well
enough it will live." Il is this lovo foi
their dolls tint makes tho little Jaj li
no .e gii-1 1 t ike sueh good e tro of them ;
find it is ouito u common thing to fun I
a little girl playing with a doll that
h-id been used by her mother, grand
mother and her great grandmother.
In tho gardens of the homes of the
poor people in Japan are trees which
they worship. When a doll is brok
en (for even in Japan little girls some
times break ilolls), they do not bury
them nor throw them away, but they
carry them out to these snered trees,
and put them up in the limluorat the
foot of tho tree, or in the shrino ; so
that even when they are useless as
playthings, they are btill objects of
euro to tho little Japanese girls, and
Mr. Ileum tells us that sometimes you
will seo a n-)w doll, or a doll in per
fect condition, in one of th -so hhrines
or trees, and then you know that the
little girl is dead, and that her moth
er has pu! it there. Now York Ho
colder. ToVMAkllllS or 1VH H,.
Continuing her story of the toy-inukt-r.j
of tho Tyrol, thu late Miss
Amelia 1!. M Iwards in her "l.'titrod
don Peaks" mentions many nu inter
esting visit to the homea of th ; work
ing people of St. U.rieh, where so
liiuny toys are made.
In ono house, runs the account, wo
found an old, old woman nt work.Mag
daleiia Pauldatif by nam . Siio carvnl
cats, dogs, wolvi-H, sheep, goats and
elephants. Hho has made tluso six
animals her whole life long, and hIio
has no idea how to cut anything cl.-ic.
She makes them in two si.js and she
turns out as nearly at poisiblo a thou
sand of I hem a year. Sen has no
model or drawing of any kind lo work
by, bill goes o u steadily, unerring, us
ing' ttouges of different sizes, and shap
ing her eil-, d igs, wolves, shei-p.goats
and elephants with an ease and an
amount of truth to nature that would
bo clever if it were not utterly me
chanic il. M ig.l ilcua I'alilauf learned
from her mother how to carvj these
six aniiiiils, and he:- in it her hid
leal ne. I, in like miiiii.-i' from hi r
gi-andiii ilher. Migli e ia has no
taught 111.) art to her own grand
daughter, and so it will go on being
traii liiilled lor generations.
Ill another hoii-.e Miss Illwal'iU
found the whole Inmily cut ving skulls
ami ero--.boni", for living at tin- buses
of erueilUoN, for the wool carving ol
(irodner Thai is religious in its mil lire
as well as amusing. In other housi
there were families I hit etrved rock
ing horses or dolls or other toys, and
in still other lunis -s there were fami
lies of p. lintels.
"Ill one lions'," says the gifted nil
thoresH, "we loiiii-l about a doen
girls painting gray horses with black
points. In another hou-e they painted
only red horses with while points. It
is a separate branch of the trade to
paint, saddles nud hea I ;ear. A good
hand will paint about tu'elvo dozen
horses a day, each horse beiug one
foot in length, and for tie-so she i ;
piid .Vi soldi, or about hfty-aix
cents. "
t'licle Sam's Coll nu Seed Oil.
The l uit -d States exported two and
a quiiler million gallons of cotton
hcod oil to U -mi my last your. Six
million gallons wont o Holland.
Oerniany has put a duty of 2. 50 on
ca di 111) ) pounds of tho oil. Chicago
Turns II oral i L
FIRST OF NATIONS.
Wealth and Power of the United
States.
Conclusions Ue.i'Jlioci by an Eng
lish Statistician.
Mr. Michael i. MuUiall, fuo Kug
lish statistician, has ju-,1 writleiia very
Hlrikiug article on "Tho I'ower mid
Wealth of the United Slates."
lu this iiotable article Mr. MullutU
says that if we take a survey of man
kind in ancient and mo I -1 1 1 times as
regards tho physical, lu'-ch iuieal and
iiiti-licf tual force of nations, we tiud
nothing to compare with the United
Slates today, and the facts show that
this country possesses the greatest
productive power in the world.
The Iviglish still ist ieiali shows that
our absolute etl'-'tive force ii now
more than three times w hat it wai in
J Still, and that out nitty poises-ies
as much energy as ( 1 rent liiitain, l-r-maiiy
and France eoll'-eiivi-ly and that
the ratio following t each American
is more th in what two Ivi-gli-dnnon or
(cermaiis have at their disposal. lu a
careful comparison ho mikes it evi
dent that an ordinary farm li-iml in the
United States rain s us much grain as
three in Ivigl in I, live in (i. 'runny or
bix in Austria. One uiiin in Ami-rica
produce as much Hour as will feed
li ."(, whereas in Kuropo one mati
feeds only Ihiity persons.
Mr. M'lllmll c ill s atl:ution to tho
fact that the int.-ll -etual power of the
republic is in proport ion to its indus
trial and mechanic il power, eighty
sovou per o-iiit of t!i .' total popula
tion over tlio age of t mi Ii iug able to
roiid ail write. 11 ) d 'daros that in
the history of the hu u in rae let na
tion ever before i iss ,'sso 1 1 1,D )t),0 )J
instni'.'ted citiz ins. JI i proves by tho
postollico returiM th it iu the uiiiuber
of letters per eiie'.i iiiliabitiiut this
country is f ir ah si 1 of oilier in! ions.
According to his ligures, the aver
age auiiii il increment of the United
Slates from IrtJl to was $M,
0)l),000, ami ho adds that the now
weulth added betwo en ISdd an I IS'.).)
was no less than forty-nine milliards
of dollars, which is on ; milliard m iro
than tho total wealth of (in at lii itain.
Our rural weulth has ipi idrupled iu
forty years, while tho urban wealth
has v-.tiltiplicd siteeii fold. Since
lSli1), persons of tlu urban classes
have accuiuulitt id wealth more rapidly
than tho rural workers, a fact which
explains the rush of p ipulatioii to the
cities and towns. The author shows
iu a series of figures that the rise iu
wealth and ineroii-io iu wage's cam ) al
most hand iu haul. In dealing with
the development of farm values, ho
buys that if the United Stales had no
urban population or iiiiiuiifiieturin
industries, the u lvaii 'e of agricultural
interests would lu enough to claim
tho admiration of mankind, for it has
no parallel iu history. Atlanta Con
stitution. The Indians Kegiii tied II As Sat -nil.
Tim white buck of Nevada County,
probably the last of its kind in Cali
fornia, has fallen belore a huntil's
gull. It's htuH'-'il hide is ou exhibition
iu L old's gun sloie. Il was hot nil
Indian hunter who killed it, for no red
man would have dared to draw a boa I j tjr,,, e.,.itleiucii en,.s the sin pi ising
upon tho bo ml i fill creature for fear of total of II'JI, ninoiig whom are no h s
a cursj falling upon Ins family and his Mn f,Vl. ei-m-nos, eigiit.-, h, niennnl
tribe. The Indians- m thai locality generals, mio u-c a Imiral, nil - leal
believed that the while deer contained 'admiral, (weuly-six miijor geni ials,
the spirit of one of theil great and ; Ii It v- two colonels, forty Ii. uteiiint eol
good chiefs, nud In kill it would have Hi, ,-ls, I Inrl v -ei-.-ht cuplaiu--, mvi-iiI v
been worse limn murder. Fur several ! majors and twi nt -ihii e i'u-t In uleii-
years the itnim il h id been oeensiou. j mils. People gone: nl"oa I to I ut
ally seen by the Indians in th" uioun- of th" wa of r i . I it imi-, an I s, , I.
tains in various pu t oi lh
con ut r v,
but they rarely spoke of
the whites, feiiriiig the lattel
It to
would
star! in pursuit. A few while men
saw It bill none were verv desirous of
taking its lite because of its beauty. It
weighed about li'i pounds ami its hair
and hide were in pure while. Near
tho horns the hair was tinged with
gray.
It reipiirod unto large Winchester
bullets to kill it. The hunter ran
across tho annual on a mountain side
and op -no I tire. Altlioui wotiu led
by tho lirst bullet the doer hounded
into a sin ill clump of brudi, the only
shelter within a niihi. l-'ioui his posi
tion on the hillside the. hn itor p oii-ed
shot aft -r shot into the thicket when
ever h i could catch a glimpse of the
whl.o hide. The wound 'd cre.itii'o
u is afraid to leave th- hit dies and
make a run for shelter .1 -e .ei- in the
mountains, and it was lib-rally burned
to death with hot lead. The last shot
entered tho heart. S in Francisco,
Call.
A new cruiser for tho Argentine
navy, the lla -nos Ayres, ha. j ist been
launched in Kuglainl. She is to make
twenty-four knots au hour.
A Marine Wonder.
One of the marine wonders of lu
world in thegriat 15 u rier Hoof of Aua
tralia. This stupendous rauijiuit of
coral, btrotchiiig in an almost unbrok
en line for l,-o0 miles along the
northeastern coast of Australia, presents
features of interest which lire l ot to
bo eipui lied ill any other quarter ol
tho globe. Nowhere is the notion ol
the little marine insect, which builds
up with untiring industry llne-i;
mighty mountains with which the
tropical hens are studded, more up-pan-lit.
liy a simple process of wcretioii
tin-re has been reared in the emirs" ol
countless eeiitiirii s nu adalii-ilitini.
wail against which tin; billows of tin
I'aeilie, sweeping along iu an uninter
rupted irse of several llniM-aml
miles, dash t lieiiei-lves in i in ll- el mil
fury. Inclosed within tin- range ol
its piji.-etiiie iii-ius is a calm inland sea,
dotted wiih a multitude of c oal i - h is,
alid pies iiting at evi ry turn object
of interest alike lo the niil.iirn.il
tliu- llei- and the in hi of si'lelM'e.
Ili-re may be wilu -se-d lh" pioe --s
by which tiie w ivy gelatinous m is.
hard -ii-i into stole-, lle-n serves us a
eolh-el iu g groim 1 for lh - ll-it-um and
jetsam of Hie oe an, it it. I ultimately
ilevelopes into an ishiud covi red with
a luxuriant m-iss of tropical gio.ith.
Ib re, again, may be s ii iu the n.-n.-iie
dejit h . tif placid p ml-i extraordi
nary forms of marine life, uglow with
the most brilliant colors, and produc
ing in their infinite variety a bewil
dering sens ; of the v.ist:i"ss of the
ocean. London Public Opinion.
.Moullon .Metal as n Cargo.
(ileal pots of III illllou lintal go
daily skiiiiming along the line Kiil
roml from the Cleveland 1! illing Mills
Companies cent nil blast furnace ti tho
Newburg iu ills as sedately us if this
trnllie were of long st iudnig. The
ilan, put into opeiatiou last M hi lay,
is u perfect success.
It takes just lift-en minutes for tho
metal, after it is poured into the big
ladle cars, to reach the mix r iu tho
mills, some, live niiKs away. Kighl
trips are made a day, as follows: At
(1.2 1, N.-Ji) and .'' o'clock iu the
iu il lilu-.', al 'J. 10 and I, IU o'ciiii'A iu
the afternoon, and three trains ut
night. These trips aro mile ut u
time when the trucks are practically
cleared. Thus doluys are avoided,
which would bo expensive, for if long
continued the metal would cool and
tho purpo'-o of the special delivery
thus bo iloleati-d. At the rolling mills
the car is raised on a hoist to the
mixer, the ladle is dipped by machin
ery, and the liquid lintal pound
into the iiii.x i'. U -In veil of their
load, the cars limbic hack to the liu naco
at their leisure in time for the in xt
trip.
About ollil tons of hot metal i. thu-.
carried every day ovi r this long rail
load route. The Clevelaii I Ii illing
Mill Company h is to pay a pretty liu
lire for this freightage, il is said, but
there is economy in the operation.'
Cleveland lend r.
A lletiicd" Nu it.
Wiesbaden, hiviu.; l iag been the
sojourn of numerous pi -ii-inin d it t mv
ollieeis, has lan ly i iirued the mime ot
I'ell'-loliiipolls. A rdlllgtoil ieeelll
census, the number of these re
some ionic. I place where a lew
1 111. 'Il I lis em be spetlt III II li tiled Will,
i
; should tn Wiesbaden N'. w O'leans
Picayune.
lb-si I at loll.
"So you are Innri led nl hi t, ale
von, Jen?" said the la-gc, lymphatic
lady, and the otn r p i . en -.-r, ,.u
the cur got ready to hnici.
"Yoll bet," Ii plied th- Id ie-e, ,
lady with lh . lai-;.- red h.H. ".l id
the reg-lur 'Piseopalian c en n ny,
too. "
"So you proniised to love, honor,
nud obc, did ye?''
"Oli ves; lm' when they coin i to
the 'obey' part of II, I said 'I will ' us
loud us v oil please ; and then lllidel
my breath I said 'not.' "-Cincinnati
Tribune.
Tin' II lies in Swiss ( lii'i'.c.
A Midisou street deihr a .sent tint
most ol the S.v 1st chee.e oil -red III
thin maiki't n m i l i iu this e.uutiy,
and adds thu' the h 'st imported Swds
cheese has few holes iu it. Il was a
Hibernian waller who oneo boasted
that the holes ill til- S.v.ss clieeto
which ho serve I were th imported
part of it, the choeso being mudo iu
Al4erjc4. -rt,iiioago Tnbuuo
Song oT the Thrush.
Tho lio-n Ii upon tin' apple boiigli
Asway ei.c'.i tardy dayhreiik now
Itaili a li'-.v s nig within bis lie. nth,
'J'ailglit hy tlio lin-e.e.s of tlieKoatli.
(if ..i,sen--d soil In- softly sing-:.
(iri-'ii in , mid happy garden filings
Vak"-roli:n on the sheltered side
Ol h -i! : . where while violets hide.
Jlis ear I n l to the rugged Imrk,
lie lien's Hi-- snap stir in the dark,
Ho feels a vital pulse iniluc
The braii'-h'-s wet with inornim; d"iv
And hore th" l"W"-l twig d'-si i-nd-i:.irtliward
to iiiei t il jjrusy frit-lids,
Thi'iiiKh hud and b'a-l" a tri inor shoots,
And thrills ii'iimm the upple ro"ts ;
And i-V'-rv I r'.-it Ft l-ian.-li vilaat" ',
yii"k Willi a lllllli'.ll I. loss. MM fates
And iu tin- gray, e.vj taut Ini.-h
One In a s the sin-iiii; of tin- Ihrn-h.
- Mil liviei.v ill the Loii'lini S tat-a.
IIUMOItOlS.
A Turn Figure. The Milliner's
liill.
Teinj nary insanity is ott'ii cinid
by nu acquittal.
A l ug.- majority of those who think
they need coaxing really require club
bing. (In" ad vantage of si-iiiiuiik iu stones
is that their length depends mi tho
list- m r.
"Whit is the iMb-reiico between a
Woman nud an umbrella?" "Vou call
sli 1 1 1 ii;.' an umbrella."
itigley "Are yoli a married man?"
Ashl.-y "No, thank fortune." "Why
thank fortune?" "I'm a widower."
"I guess 1 know why they call idols
idols," sail liobbv. "It's because
they sit still all the time mid do noth
ing. "
" on were always u fiiult-ii uder, "
growled the wife "Yes, dear," re
sponded tho husband, luerkly ; "I
foil I d you."
lie w.ll In- In-anl from in lliis world
'1 In- ui..ihi-r proudly said.
If" wit -. II- mowed tie- lawn eii.-h iimni
Lie folks wen- "lit of l .1.
Tommy's Pop "Well, my boy,
how high are you in school?" Tommy
--"Oil, I'm 'way up. Mv ela h is oil
the top lloor. "
Hi ".Miss (iiillcy really tloes.i't
look a day older than she did six yialii
iigo." Shi'- "According to her .statistic.-!
she isn't u tluy older."
The Toucher "My word is just ns
good lis in y note any day." Tho Un
touched (grimly) "Yes, that's what's
the trouble with your notes.
"Iid yoli say, sir," bai l the excited
statesman, "that it was an impossibil
ity for me to tell the truth?" "No,
sir," replied the other, "i merely
said it was uu improbability."
Six Months utter Marriage "Wee!,
wee', Sandy, how d'ye like tin- 111 lie
lad.ly?" "Ah, wool, Abe, I'll nao
di ny t hat she busline coll vol sat iolial
power,."
Ilobsoii -"lon't t,ii think that
Martin gill is (rightfully dull?"
Johnson "Well, hiinbi. Vou should
have s- en the Way she cut Iuo oil the
avi lllle ealerday. "
Ihssl, "Whell he said to llle,
'Vou :ii the I'll si gul lever loved,'
he sei in. d to be sllii'i re. Mabel -
"lie has probably said it so often that
hi' Ii tidy In In Vi s it. "
breathe., i,.n. a ,;, wiih , ,u I sn dead
W ho ..l- Hot wh"li III" peanuts seed
I'.ien lm ,, ., ,ei I ! ,;,) , l,...i,-at h the shad"
Tiie iiiI.-;iiii.. l.-in .Ha. e'
"Aii," inquired I! ibby, "hasn't
pa a queer id-a of In it n?" "Well,
I tliinU not, I!.. bin. Why?" "I
heard linniay thai I he w eek oil spent
ut the sea-'-hole seemed like heaven
lo 1 1 1 lit. "
"What Is oiir l h a of a dude?'' he
udo d of a In lehl Washington girl.
"A dude," she answered, all- i lotloo
ll"li, "1 a i.Miii ; iu in who i-n't good
for un. thing i xc.',.! I" han a elirys
:i 1 1 1 h- 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 on. '
" i e i li.s,. lri n -, ji, the same ut
the In. II. on of tin- b ix as tluy are oil
top?' a died Alls. II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -. "Ves,
llldecil, 'in," replied the Vellilel. All 1
he told the lllltll. The box Was only
one la v el of h : i i.-s deep.
" lloW ilo you like Mini- new neigh
bor. All. Slm..k?" "Il-'s u most
ehirmiiig man. Why, last evening
he II .lolled lo lilt' . ; ! it 1 1 1 1 1 1 i my I'VU-
liilion theories lor two hours nud
in r chipped in II Wold."
"WII," sinl Kill Vuss, "Uv,)
t tkeli a pow h - 'or my head idle, a
pe i ; , . . ,y liver, nu I a cipsule for
in v eoiii-, foil. Now, what puzzles
me I , It-i t do the things know tho
1 1 - -1 1 1 place to en to niter I hey get iii
.l.le ?"
Supt-ri n il) ol the t en.
tiet a move on moi, my hoy. Kecji
pu dim .
I.. moi know why lh" p -ii is iil.vays
sjej-eo as mi ;hty ? is becauso
the pei n co istiinllv sin v.n ; nhea-'
a:i 1 making Its nun k.
vi I be other hand the pencil huH to
f - Ivockliltill Tl'.bmio.