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"LIVK AND LETLIYE."
VOLUME I.
DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. 0., THUESDAY. JUNE 25, 1891.
NUMBER 18.
G. K. GRANTHAM, Local Editor.
Site (Ecutr'al crimes.
Published Every Thursday
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ALLIANCE.
The County AUiiin-'e .meets on the 2nd
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
DUNN CIRCUIT.
i asm'k. v mtrges iniun, L'nu Sunday night
anl ith Sunday ami ni;ht. Sunday School
very Sunday at 3 oV-liX-x. Prayer Meeting
every YVedne.-day uight. Black's Cliapel, 1st
Sunday morning. A vera 's School House, 2od
Suii'tay morning! Elevation, 3rd Sunday
in. truing. Henson, 3rd Sunday afternoon.
Missis,,,,,-; Jiajitidt (y.n,xh, Crr(hn(jftX. C
- Kkv. V. P. ;at.s, Pastor.- Services
"iii Sunday morning and niht. Muulay
S. ho(d every Sunday morning at ii o'clock.
Prayer meeting every Thursday night.
. rny!!trini lU-.X. (J. A. J ! OV'f; IC, P.A.STQR.
Services every l.t Sunday morning and night'.
SiMi lay Sehool overy Sunday morning nt yj
n'e'ock.
Jit-ipIrTl cv. J. U. TiNfLi-, Pastor.
S.i vices every .".id Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School i:.;o o'clock cva-rv Suudar.
1 r.iyer meeting every
TUursdav niffht.
Fife 117 Ilip'.ixl-
Hew K. A. Johxsox.
Pasioii.
Services every 3rd Sunday. Sun-
dny School every Sun lay morning.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
I.icrnow Loih.k No. 115, I. O. O. F.
Pegu'.ar meeting everv Tuesday night. F. P.
.lories, N. O., I. V. Taylr. V. (J., (. K.
(rantham, Secretary.
Palmyra Idci: No. H7. A. F, and A.' M.
Ki uuliir meeting, 3rd Saturday morning and
Friday night before l-t ISmdav. j.
Tal,r, W. M., F. P. Jones. S. , J. L.
Phillips, .). W.. K A. lohnson, Treasurer, S.
AV. Parker, f e retary; V. A. Jtdin)(n and
l.l.hiige L-r, Siewait ; 11. J. Norn's, Tyhr.
The New Orleans Picayune predicts
that the next move against immigration
will le aijaiust the Japanese. California,
it seems, is threatened with an influx of
a ciass of Japanese who, the San Fran
cisco papers think, will piove as objec
tionable as the Chiuese, and an attempt
has been made, in a test case involving"
four wouicu Av".io recently landed, to stem
the tide.
The Atlanta Constitution observes: In
iS!U we ha 1 $52 per capita in circula
tion, and the failures of that year were
only 032, with $47,333,000 liabilitities.
In ISSi) we had less than $7 per capita
in circulation, and there were 13,277
failures that year, amounting to $312,
4iH,74S. So when we have plenty of
money in circulation the country is pros
perous, but when the circulation is con
tracted our business interest go to
j-.ua.sli.
"
The e?evated railroads in Ne-v York
City, which cost less than '17,00a,000,
are stocke 1 and bonded for more thin
860,00,000. The steam railroads io
the country cost,' on paper, savs General
Hush C. Ha wkins, in the JWrf.l Amcri
om, $9,931,453,146, of which two-fifths
represent water. The street railroads of
the couutry, horse, cable and electric,
have not cost over 6110,000 per mile
but they are stocked and bonded up to
about $400,000.
It is proposed to establish a Japanese
"colony in California, the projector being
an ex-member of the House of Represen
tatives in Jpau, who has wearied of the
tumoil.in his native land. He ha inter
ested several large capitalists, and is. se
lecting able-bodied farmers to form the
first group of colonists. "From present
indications," comments the New York
Tribune, "a law, will soon have to be
passed excluding the Japanese, for every
etearaer sees a large number arrive. They
are flocking into Ila waii by thousands,
and they have been attracted here by th
high wages."
Iron corrodes wlih groat rapidity at
or about the temperature of boiling
water,
APPLE BLOSSOMS
TVe stool within the orchard's jloom.
In youth and courage higu.
The apple bouhs in clustered bloom
, "Were just a nearer sty !
And one, a maiden in her -pride,
A quaint old ditty sang,
With glance, halt thy, at; him beside;
And thus the burden rang;
O true heart, 'tis long to part!
Apple boughs are gay.
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
One lingered when they turne 1 to go,
Whose path lay o'er the sea;
A look, a kis, a whisper low,
And flight 3d fast were we.
He would return to claim my lovo
When spring buls openel agaiu,
And distant came, bsyond the grove.
The woods of that refrain :
O true heart 'tis long to part!
Apple boughs are gay :
' fiweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
A ring upon my finger shon?,
He vanished in the shad?,
And the sweet stars looked gently down
Upon a happy maid.
That ring is like n star at night;
And in my loneliness
The pressure of its circlet light
Has seemed a soft cares.
. O true heart, 'tis long to parti
Apple boughs are gay,
Sweet buds gro.y, blossoms blow;
That art stiil away.
I stand within the orchard's close,
Beneath the guardian trees;
And thrice the apple blossoms' snows
Have floated to the breeze.
The summer glows, the red leaves fall,
" Ihe winter hearth-fires burn;
Spring comes, but never to my call
Or prayer dost thou return !
O true heart, 'tis long to part!
Apple boughs are gay.
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away. '
They say one should be patient; yet,
If groping lost in night
Forever, can the soul forget .
The loveliness of light?
I sometimes think that in yon sky
Thou art so far from me! v '.
And then, when I to God would cry,
I cry, instead to you;
O true heart, 'tis long to part!
Apple boughs are gay.
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow;
Thou art still away.
To smile, to jest, to walk my way
Ob, that is not for me!
To live till I am old and gray,
And no'er thy f ace to see ! . '
Thy voice I O Love, art thou a dream
By God in pity given?
Clasp, clasp me close, lest joy extrema
Should open the gates of heaven!
O true heart, no more to part !
Apple boughs are gay,
Sweet buds grow, blossoms blow,
. Where our glad feet stray.
Elizabeth W. Fiske, in Boston Transcript.
ALMOST-A CRIME.
It seemed as if Providence had deserted
Randolph Perry in his old age and ut
terly cast him off. For his was, indeed,
a bard lot. We do not often find a case
of such great hardship in human affairs;
for, although he had begun life with the
brightest prospects, with abundant
wealth, a pleasant home, a loving wife
And children, his seventieth summer
found him stripped of all save the roof
above his head, and seriously threatened
with the los of even that.
Twenty long, weary years back bis re
verses had begun in the sudden and dis
tressing death of his dear wife; and this
irreparable blow was soon after followed
by the elopement of his daughter Annie,
the pet and darling of his heart, with an
artful scoundrel with a sham title, who
had probably left his native land across
tte sea upon compulsion. The poor
father heard of her but once afterward,
and that was when the news of her sui
cide in Manchester reached him. This
visitation humbled him almost to the
dust, and brought with it a sickness that
laid him prostrate for a twelvemonth,
and nearly cost him his life. .
lie rose from his sick bed and ap
peared to the little world of his acquaint
ance only the wreck of his former man
hood. His first inquiries were forSi r.eoo,
his boy. No one would answer him at
first; they looked pitifully at him and
kept silent; but when he angrily de
manded to know the truth, they were
compelled to tell him that Simeon, his
only remaining hope, had heartlessly de
serted him during his sickness, and, as
was supposed, had gone off to sea. Ran
dolph Perry did not die with this accu
mulation of griefs; he lived on in a
hopeless, morbid kind of way; but no
one had seen hun smile since he was told
of Simeon's desertion. That was nearly
twenty years back. He 'had dwelt in
the house where he had been bereaved
ever since, with no society sava that pf
the woman who attended to his small do
mestic affairs.
This beautiful mansion, standing high
up on a knoll that overlooked the sea,
surrounded with spacious and cultivated
grounds, had been purchased by Perry
of its previous owner, who was his
friend, aud upon whose assurance that
the place was unencumbered and free
from all legal claim he implicitly relied.
That friend had died penniless two
years after; and; now, as if x.3 remove
from his dreary existence the hist ray of
sunshine, he found himself threatened
with total deprivation of his estate. As
unexpectedly as though the heavens had
dropped upon his bewildered head, he
was notified by a lawyer in London that
he held for'ono of his clients a mortgage
upon the place, executed by the vender
a few months before the . sale, upon
which the principal and interest
amounted to quite the value of the
place, and that immediate satisfaction
v.as demanded and expected.
Then followed a tedious aud vexatious
litigation, which resulted in establisV
iag the mortgage and declaring the pe-
enniary ruin 6f Randolph Ierry. It
was the last drop in the wretched suffer
er' cup of gall. The littles means that
he could command from his broken for
tunes had been swallowed up in his un
successful defense of the suit.
The hour was about twilight; the un
touched meal had been cleared away, and
the old housekeeper had retired to her
chamber. Perry sat in the front room,
in a low chair by the window, and,
absorbed in his misery, he noticed noth
ing of the storm that was coming up.
He had n!r sat thus more than half an
hour when he heard the sharp unlatch
ing of the gate, and the quick step of
feet on the gravel ; and then there was a
knock at the door.
A tall man stood without, his garments
clinging to him m wet folds and the
water running from them in streams.
The old man help up the candle to his
face and saw a prominent nose and a pair
of keen eyes under a wide hat, and for
the rest there was a handsome, rather
benevolent, mouth, aud a mass of au
burn beard. The man was
him.
a stranger to
'Good evening, sir," he said, in a
bluff, hearty voice. "May I come in and
get dry? Such a ducking I haven't hid
since Lfell off Freehaven Dock, long ago.
Will you allow such a wet rat in your
house V-
';Yes, come in,' Perry replied; and
ushering the stranger into the room, he
brought some kindlings and light wood,
with which he soon made a lire in the
fireplace.
The stranger took off his coat and vest,
and squeezed the water from them, hung
them on a chair, and addressed himself
to the drying of his extremities. The old
man looked on in moody silence, and the
stranger was compelled to make the first
advances.
"A nice place you have here., I should
think. I saw it from the bottom of the
hill, before the storm came up."
"Who are you?" Perry abruptly
asked. "Do you come here on any busi
ness? Have you anything to do with
that lascal Murch, who has robbed me of
all my property? I don't know, sir; per
haps I do. you an injustice; but I have
become embittered against everybody.
I'll ask you kindly, if you came here
spying for Issai Murch, to leave peace
ably and now,"
'On my honor, then, sir," replied the
other, much surprised at the questions,
"I don't know anything of Murch, and
I'm above spying for. him or anybody. I
came into Freehaven, down below here,
this afternoon, in the steamboat, and ex
pected to walk over to Westlock before
the rain came on. I got caught, and I
made for the first shelter I saw. but if
you'd rather I would go"
"No, no," interrupted Perry; "I
wouldn't turn a dog out into the storm,
much less a human being. Stay till you
are dry, and the rain is over ; and that, I
think, won't be before morning. I'll
give you a bed."
Finding the old man but little inclined
to talk, the stranger bade his host good
night and went to Che room assigued to
O sJ
him
It was then about ten o'clock. ThN
storm was at its height, and it continued
for an hour longer, when it abruptly
ceased. The suddenness of its cessation
aroused the occupant of the raom, and
wearied with hi9 stress of emotion, he
took his candle and ascended the s.tairs.
He had no heart for anything but his
own dreadful misery; andme would pro
bably have forgotten the' presence of a
stranger in his house but for a ray of
light issuing from the keyhole of the
chamber which he had bade him take.
Randolph Perry paused, and merely
obeying a sudden impulse, 6topped and
placed his eye at the hole. He had not
the least curiosity about this man, and
his act was certainly without motive.
But his eye had but singled out his guest
from the other objects in the room when
he concentrated his attention upon him
with the greatest eagerness. He saw him
sitting by the table, his back to the door,
and the candle before him. Four or five
piles of bank notes, new and crackling,
were before him; and he counted them
over rapidly," replacing them all in an
oiled-skin wallet beneath his pillow. In
a few moments more the light was ex-
tinguishei and the heavy breathing of
the sleeper was heard.
Silently did the listener gain his own
room; aud as he stood there he was a
man transformed ! Could he have seen
his own face at that moment he must
have been terrified at the fiendish pas
sions that peered out from it. He
straightened up his bowed shoulders; his
eyes lost their listless, hopeless expres-
sou ana Durnea-witn u Daieiui ngni;
and even his shrivelled, wrinkled cheeks
flushed with the shame of the dreadful j
sin witii which he was struggling.
For Randolph Perry meditated murder.
With this horrible resolution formed,
the old man rapidly proceeded to its ac
complishment. In his bureau drawer
lay a sheath-knife eight inches -in the
blade, which he had never carried since
boyhood, and opening the drawer he
took it from it sheath, and holding it up
to the light saw that it was sharp. The
demon must have had full possession of
him in that hour, for he smiled as he
observed the glitter of the bright blade.
Placing it in the breast of his waistcoat,
he softly left his room and traversed the
passage. Listening at the door of his
victim, he heard his steady, regular
breathing, and noiselessly unclosing it
he entered aud advanced to the bedside.
But his eyes lingered upon the talle;
he could not withdraw them. They
rested on a large family Bible, the gift
of his wife in happier days, and it now
lay open, as the hand of the stranger
must have opened it, to the sixth chap
ter of Matthew. At the top of the page,
he saw drawn with a pencil in bold let
ters, but with irregular and wavering
lines, as if by the hand of a child, the
beginning of the thirteenth Terse:
"And lead us not into temptation."
A change upon the instant came over
Randolph Perry. His face turned dead
ly pale, his limbs shook so violently that
the light in his hand was extinguished ;
and, with all purpose of crime banished
from his heart, he feebly tottered from
the chamber that had witnessed this
strange ecene back to his own room,
where he sank on his knees by the bed
Fide and penitently poured fourth hu
soul in secret thanksgiving to heaven fot
his deliverance. ,
.
As Randolph sat at breakfast with his
guest, a chase drove up to the door, and
from it alighted Mr. Murch, the hateful
agent. He entered without knockiug,
and unceremoniously addressed the old
man, paying no heed to the stranger. j
'Your time is up to-day, old fellow, j
and if my client still owned the mort
gage, my business here would be to turn
you out. But he don't; he's sold it to
somebody whom you'll probably see here
soon enough. I was going by, and I
thought I'd call in and congratulate
you."
"Heaven will be done I" ejaculated
Perry covering his face.
"It's just about time it was," Murch
rejoined, with heartless insolence.
"YTou've given trouble enought about
that mortgage, and it's quite time you
was set adrift on your travels."
"Leave the house, you scoundrel!"
roared the guest, jumping up angrily and
menacing Murch with his fist.
"And who might you be, my lad?"
the latter sneeringly asked.
"I am the owner of the mortgage, and,
I am able and willing to punish you foi
your cruelty to this old man."
And seizing the agent by his coat
collar with a grip of iron, the strong man
spun him about like a top slamming'
him with no gentle force against the wall
till the breath was knocked out of his
body; and then opening the door, he cast
him out into the wet grass. A minute
later the crestfallen agent rose and limped
out to his chaise sore and bruised and
humbled in feelings. It was his first and
last visit to Woodhampton.
The stranger reclosed the door and
knelt beside the astonished old man and
took his hands.
"Don't you know me, father?" he
asked in a trembling voice. "Will you
take back your prodigal son who de
serted you so cruelly? I never was bad
at heart, father; it: was Robinson Crusoe,
more than anything else, that made me
run away. I've come back now, after
years of wandering, with money enough
for both of us. I've paid the mortgage,
and I want to live with you here, at
Woodhampton. My heart has been
yearning to you ever since I set foot in th
house ; I've been .ready to reveal myself a
dozen times, but it faltered on my lips.
Forgive me now, father; forgive me,
and let us dwell in peace and forget the
past."
His voice failed him and his head sank
on his father's kneej and the glad old
man bent over him with streaming eyes,
fondly smoothing his hair and faltering,
"God has given me of His bounty when
I deserved His curse. May my Father in
heaven and my son on earth forgive
me
Curious Test for Ability.
A well-known down-town contractor
has a peculiar theory. It is necessary foi
him to employ a great number of men in
his business, and they must possess cer
tain nualifieations in order to crive satis-
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faction. First and foremost a quickness
olthought and action is indispensable.
Everything else is subordinate to this.
"And the best place in the world to
find the very men I want is in a
restaurant," said the man a short time
ago to a Times reporter.
The reporter did not see why this
should be so, and the. man went on to
explain.
"When in a restaurant," said he "you
see a man take up the bill of fare and
spend half an hour looking through its
contents you can put that person down
as a man with no decision of character.
The man who goes into a restaurant,
throws his hat at a peg, and gives the
.waiter his order as soon as he is seated is
the man for me. You .can depend upon
it, that man can be trusted to know
what he is doing, and is the proper man
to put in a position where decision of
character is an essential qualification.
"If I were the General of an army I
would submit all my officers to this
crucial test before intrusting them with
any important separate commands."
New York Timet.
Weapons of To-day.
The energy of modern artillery is some
thing appalling, and threatens to destroy
friend and foe together. A sixty-seven
ton gun on the British battle-ship Tra
falgar was pointed directly ahead and
fired with 630 pounds of slow-burning
powder and a 1250-pound projectile.
The blast produced by the rush of powder-gas
and the shot was so tremendous
that the plates of the forecastle were
forced in and the deck-beams bent out
of shape. A hint of what the effect
might be on the enemy will be given at
the Naval Exhibition, where will be
shown a projectile that has been fired
from a 110-ton gun. This remarkable
shot is said to have been driven in suc
cession through a twenty -inch steel plate,
eight-inches of iron, twenty feet of oak
balks, five feet of granite, and eleven
feet of concrete, finally lodging at a
depth of three feet in a mass of brick
masonry. Trenton J.) American.
Pickpockets Are Born.
A man must have the physical endow
ment to be a pickpocket, just a a man
must have a certain mental endowment
to be a poet, says a noted criminal in the
St. Louis Globe-Demtcrat. The lining of
the pocket must be taken hold of about
an inch from the top on the inside. It
taust be drawn up easily and quickly at
the same time.
Not more than half a dozen move
ments of the fingers should be necessary
to get the lining out far enough. With
the lining, of course, will come the
pocket book, and this should never be
touched by the fingers until it is almost
ready to drop into the hand of the thief.
Borne experts never touch the book
until it is in the hand. Now, the fingers
to do this should be slender; not neces
sarily long, but thin and flexible, and
the best pickpockets are those whose
finger ends are naturally moist.
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.
The Little Bee Consistent Through
out The Old, Old Story Revived
All a Dead Loss, Ktc. Etc.
How doth the little, busy little bee
His fervent sting insert .
And wake the bard who 'along the flowers
Doth dreaning lie insert.
Xeio York Herald.
CONSISTENT THROUGnotT.
He "She is, par excellence, a woman
of fashion."
She "Yes; she doesn't even wear the
same complexion twice." Judge,
THE OLD, OLD RTORY REVIVED.
Bashful Young Man "Ahem Sally
ahem "
Sally (encouragingly) "Well, George?"
B. Y. M "Saljy, do you 'spose your
ma would be willin' to be my mother-in-law
?" Continen t.
A UNION OF TYRANTS.
Mrs. Youngwife "O John! I have
such terrible news."
Hubby "What is it, dear?"
Mrs. Youngwife "Our cook is going
to-marry the janitor. Whatever will be
come of us?'' Pari-. V
A CAREFUL MAN.
Minister "You are to marry Miss An
tique, 'eh?"
Cholly "Ye?. What is your fee for
performing the ceremony?" M
Minister "Three dollars. If I have
to kiss the bride, twenty-five dollars."
Truth. ' N
AN OVERCROWDED PROFESSION.
Fannie "Father Mr. Bond proposed
to me last night.",
Father "Wha'tis his business?"
Fannie "He's a broker."
Father "What kind of a broker?"
Fannie "He's a dead broker."
Continent.
ALL A DEAD LOSS.
Hicks "It's too bad we are not a
family of Esquimaux."
Mrs. Hicks "Haw would that benefit
us any?"
Hicks "Johnny furnishes blubber
enough for the whole family." New
York Herald.
NOT THAT WAT.
Good Man (sadly) "Ah, my son, you
have been to the circus; it pain3 me
greatly to think that one so young
should have crossed the threshold of in
iquity." Bad Small Boy "I didn't cross no
threshold; I crawled in undet the tent."
Continent.
SHOCK TO THE SUMMER BOARDERS.
Mr. Summerboarder ' 'I was startled
by the dishonesty of these "people last
night."
Mr. Citicaller "Indeed."
Mr. Summerboarder "Yes. I saw
them watering the caws before they
milked them." New York Herald,
HE DIDN T STAY.
"Have you noticed the beauty cf the
sunrises this month?" he asked, as he
hitched his chair a little nearer to,her3.
"No," she said, "I have always been
asleep at that hour, but I will have an op
portunity of noticing the next one if
you are going to stay .till then." New
York Press,
CLERKLY DIPLOMACY.
New Apprentice- "I waitt to get to
morrow afternoon off; whom ought I to
"ask?"
Old Apprentice "Can't you see?
there's a little misunderstanding in the
office yonder, and the partners are at
each other's throats. Ask the partner
that wins." Fliegende Blaetter.
HE WAS A STATER.
He had staid and staid the night be
fore until the girl was mal enough
to say anything, and she did the next
day when she met him.
"I had a perfectly delightful time at
your house last night," he-murmured,
when he met her.
"Time?" she said, curtly. "It was
more like eternity." Washington Star.
HER LONG TONGUE. . .
Doctor Mixwell (who has asked Mrs.
Whiffet to put out her tongue) "You
say your husband is very nervous and ir
ritable?" Mrs. Whiffet "Yes; terribly so. But
I'm not ill."
Doctor Mixwell (calmly) "I think
I'll prescribe a long sea voyage."
Mrs. Whiffet "For John?"
Doctor Mixwell "No; for you."
Judge.
SURE TO TURN UP.
Slimpurse "What are you doing in
this outlandish neighborhood?"
Shortpurse "Waiting for something
to turn up." .
"Huh! There won't anything turn up
here."
"Yes, there will. My landlord threat
ens to put me out to-morrow, eo I've
been hunting for another place. Pre
just got the refusal of this miserable
shanty, and have sent for my wife to
come and look at it. The something I
expect to see turn up is her nose when
she sees it." New York WteHy.
HOW SHE BROUGHT HIM ROUND.
Mr. Chugwater "The idea of shot-
ting
up the front of the house to
make folks think we've gone to some
fashionable watering-place for the sum
mer is all blamed nonsense, and I won't
have it done."
Mrs. Chugwater (changing her tac
tics) "AH right, Josiah. I'll give up
the idea. The girls need , the piano
practice, anyhow, and "
"Does the piano practice go with the
front of the house when they do this kind
of thing!"
'Of course.
"Then phut "er np. Saniantha
cr up." Chicago Tribune.
shut
BORROWED THE LAWN-MOWKR."
Suburban Resident "Good morning.
Tommy. I've concluded not to go into
the city to-day, and I wish
your father to let me have
morer. He borrowed it of
you'd ask
the lawn
me several
weeks ago."
Neighbor's Small Sou "Papa's
just
gone to the city.
"Well, you,, can get me the lawn
mower, can't you?"
"It's locked up."
"Locked up?" .
"Yes, sir. Papa said he was afraid if
you got it back you'd be waking up tho
whole neighlwrhood at five o'clock every
morning, like you did before!" Good
Netcn. . r
A DANC.EROUS EXPERIMENT.
City Physician "I confess, Mr. In
land, that I cannot tell as yet what is
the matter with you. You say you were
in perfect health when you left Inland -ville?"
Caller (weakly) "Perfect
perfect." '
"How Ions: have you been
health,
in the
city?"
"Bout three days."
"Did you come on specially impor
tant business, and have you been troubled,
by unforeseen difficulties?"
"No. I just came here to see my sis
ter off to Europe, that's all.''
"Been frightened in any way?"
"No."
'How have you passed the time?"'
"Just! walking about quietly, looking
at the streets and the people."
"Humph! Very strange. Then you
hadn't even a commission to execute, no
purchases to make?"
"No. I spent my whole time trying
to do what my wife said. She told me
to watch a'l the well-dressed ladies and
give her a description of the latest fash
ions." "Ah! I sec.
York Weekly.
Brain 6train."- New
A HUMORIST 8 POACHED EGGS.
Mr. Eugene Field has two boys who.
are almost, if not quite, as irrepressible
as their gifted father. Ope day Mr.
Field brought home an" armful of eggs
and said that these were what his ap
petite craved for dinner. Then, while
.dinner was being made ready, the poet :
read the Behring Sea debates, his young-'
est son, Daisy (so called because that is
nothing like his name) looking over his
father's shoulder and spelling out the
words. . .
"Papa," said the lad after a wbifc,
"what does p-o-a-c-h spell?"
"Poach, my son." . -
"And what does it mean?"
"Why, to poach is to steal, ,? said the
father, not wishing to bring confusion to
his son with a. strict and complicated
definition.
Then Daisy went into the kitchen and
watched the process of getting dinner.
Before the meal was ready- some un
expected guests arrived, but would not
listen to Mr. Field's pressing- invitation
to join the family at dinner. Finally
Daisy added the force of his invitation
to that of his father's.
"You'd better come," said he; "we're
goin' to have eggs stolen eggs papa
stole 'em.'.' Detroit Free Pros.
HER FEMININE CAPRICE.
She "Oh, don't you think Miss
Browne is the nicest girl in the world?"
He "Why, yes, of course, if you
think so."
She "And her eyes! Oh, don't you
think they are splendid?"
He "Very."
She "And hasn't she the cutc?t
little mouth and the kindest; dearest
face?"
He "Yes, indeed."
She "And such beautiful complex
ion! And what hair!"
He "Very beautilul!"
She "And, then, isn't she graceful,
and doesn't she waltz divinely?"
He "My, yes."
She "And isn't she the sweetest,
sweetest girl?"
He "Yes, indeed."
She "Anddon'tyou think she kcows
an awful lot; and don't you-oo-ooo-ooo-t-h-i-n-k
?"
He "Why, what's the matter, 31a
ble?" She "O h! I t-h-o-u-g-h-t y-o-u
1-o-v-e-d me, Tom?"
He "Why, so I do."
She "W-e-1-1, then, how can you
bear to talk bo a-b-o-u-t t-h-a-t h-o-r-r-i-b-l-e
o-l-d u-g-l-y Bro.vna. girl?"
! Sheffield TeUqraph.
lUpenin? by Electricity.
Major Frank McLiugh'.in of Oroville,
who, by the way, ia one of the largest
orange and olive growers in Butte County,
has hit upon a novel feature in the culti-
1 vation of the orange. He has 'been ex
! pcrimentiog for a year past with electri
city, and has concluded t. employ tnat
agency in maturing his fruit. - He claims
that a fine wire wound about the trunk
from tree to tree and connected with a
battery of a few jars of chemical elec
tricity, will suffice for 100 trees; that the
expense will not exceed five cents per
tree, and that the result will be a larger
crop and earlier fruit by several weeks.
The idea is a new and novel one, whether
practical we are not prepared to say.
Mr. McLaughlin claims other, fruits can
be greatly accelerated by this method
also. It is an experiment that will no
doubt be watched with great interest by
our horticulturists, and who knows but
what by the use of electricity we may;
not be able to ripen out fruits several
weeks earlier than we do at present. Our
present system, of pruning and propaga
tion produces the earliest bearing results,
now we must look for an early maturing
agency. The electric theory would seem
to be able to drive the sap and substance
to the top cf the tree faster than nature's
laws, and thus produce an earlier fruit-.
iag. Suiter CaiJ) Farmer.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Electrical tanning is satisfactory
A lighthouse burner is equal to 8,000,
000 candles.
An Italian hat invented a new fuel
prepared from lignite. It has been satis
factorily used for running locomotives.
The largest telescopic lens ever ground
in this country is now in course of polish
ing at Greenville. Penn. It, measures
thirty and one-half inches in diameter,
five and one-eighth inches in thickness.
The application of the microscope to
machine shop practice, for the purpose
of proving whether surfaces -are true, is
pronounced by exerts as being the best
method of obtaining accuracy thus far
suggested.
An apparatus for testing the smelling
capacities of individuals was recently ex
hibited in Paris. It is said to determine
the weight of odorous vapor existing in
a given quantity of ' air. The invention
is called the olfactometer.
a man named Jones, of Cardiff,
Wales, is said to have patented a sewing
machine without shuttle or bobbin. The
'thread is supplied directly from two
ordinary spools and sews through tho
assistance of a rotary looper.
Moulds for casting iron can only be
made in sand. Iron and other metallic
moulds chill the ircn, and k does not
fill well. The great heat at which iron
melis will burn any other raaterUl, or.
willlstick so as to break the mould.
One of the novelties at the St. Pan
crasj Exhibition, in London, lately, was
a sausage machine, driven by electric
motor. In conjunction with this ma
chine it has btn proposed to employ
an electric heating attachment, whereby
tbcjsavory dish can be delivered cooked.
A successful exhibition was given in
Philadelphia recently, of the system of
storage batteries for propelling passen-'
ger tailway cars, as introduced by Messrs.
Wright & . Starr. A special feature of
the new system is the recharging of the
batteries 'by a retrograde movement of
the motor.
Tho run from Baltimore to Phila
delphia of the Royal Blue Line Express
is mjade, behind what is said to be tho
largest engine in this country. It weighs
187,
ing
eter
000 pounds, and runs on lour clnv
wheels six feet six inches in diam
It is black, without a particle of
briciht color about it.
Aj new method of ventilating railway
carriages and preventing dust from en
tering with the air has appeared in
France. The more quickly the train
moves the more rapidly the apparatus
works. The air is made to traverse a
receptacle containing water, which cools
it and relieves it of dust, after which it
goei through another filtering before en
tering the carriage.
State Katomoloist Lintner, who -wot
sudmoned toCatskill reccntlyto examine
a new pest which was ruining the pear
crol of that place, finds that an area
three miles in diameter has been occu
pied by the most dangerous fruit pest
that has visited the State in years. It
is the Diiploais Pyrivora, or pear midge,
whijeh is common in Europe, but first
mae its appearance in-this country ten
yeaj-s ago at Meridcn, Conn.
The great electric searchlights of the
modern man-of-war may have an offen
sive as weir as defensive value. There
was a sham attack upon Cherbourg the
otlur day, by a squadron of the French
navy, and during the manr-iyrea the
torpedo boat Edmond Foutaine was ruu
into by a cru'ner andsetto tha bottom.
He officers report that they were s5
dazzled by the satchlight of oue cruiser
that they were utterly unable to see the
ship that struck them, and so could
make no effort to get out of her way,.
Poisoned by Dje in Her tilore.
Hit was the poison from the glove
thit caused her death," said Doctor
James P. Way, shortly after H o'clock
tht other morning. Lieutenant Cos-
grpvc, one ot the oldest officers in tho
police service, receive! a message tnat
hii wife was dying. A le.y minutes alter
hd
reached his hom-3 his wife' lay deal
his arms. Mrs. Cgrove, who is
in
twenty-eight years old, went to a ball at
Anollo Hall, on Blue Island avenua.
That afternoon she had done some
shopping along State street, and, among
other things, purchased a pair of black
kid glovesT She wore them to the ball
that evening.
; On removing them she found they had
slightly stained hvr hands. The index
fidger of the right hand had been
prickel by a needle. In the morning
the finger was swollen and painful.
Thursday noon the hand became affected,
anjd that night a pkysiciiti was called. .
Doctor Way ordered the hand and arm
poulticed, but . the poison had reached
the shoulder. At 2 o'clock, when Lieu
tenant Cosgrove went on duty, his wife
bade him good-by, and seemed in ex
cellent spirits. At 9 o'clock she was
dead. Mrs. Cosgrove suffered some time
ago with heart-failure. The rapid blood
poisoning that Bet in from -the affected
finger, proved fatal before it wasjdeemed
even serious. Chicvo Triltfne.
A Remarkable C3e.
- i
In November, 1839, Thomas F. D.i-
vis.
a brakeman of the Georgia . IMcanc
Railroad, was struck by a projecting
rcick in Tates Cut, Ala., while climbing
up the side of the caboose, and wa se
riously injured. The rock which pro
jected struck him on the side and hip.
His injuries beside bruises were of an in
ternal nature. He suffered a great deal.
Attending physicians soon discovered
that Davis's heart was moved from the
left to the right side. Hi entire insides
were . disarranged and began moving
from one side to the other. In the course
ot time his heart moved eight incnei
from its normal position and was on the
right side. Davis dwindled from a hearty,
robust man to an invalid. The other
night he died. The case is pronounced
a jmdst remarkable one by physicians.
Davis was about twenty-five years old,
aad unmarried. New OrleoM T'n-