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THE TITMICE OF NEW BERN. AN EPISODE OF THE WAR. In sight of the spires of ISewbern town, Where the guns of Fort Thompson were frowning down, The men in gray, The legends say, Threw crumbs to titmice that came that way One bright spring morn new-mated bliss In the haunts of death. Strange irony this: Seeking a place for a young love's nest, They chose a cannon as suited best; Then with a flip, Flip, flippety, hip, Hoppety, hippety, trippety, trip. In the mouth of the implement made to kill They built their brooding nest with skill, Before the battle of Newbern. But so it happed ere the work was done, And the bird home ma le in the mouth of the gun, J he men in blue Came marching through, And balls and she is hissed, whistled, and flew; And the men in gray fired the chicadee's gun, Which scattered the birds1 nest just begun, Mid the fire and smoke, when a solid shot Dismounted the cannon. The birds, harmed not, With flutter and skip, And a trip, trip, trip, A hippeCy, hoppety, flippety, flip, Had flown with the screech of the first wild shell Far into the woods where 'twas safe to dwell During the battle of Newbern. And on that day, so the soldiers say, After the blue had succeeded the gray, The birds once more Came as before Back to the haunts of those men of war; After the smoke and the carnage and death. Almost in the cannon's fiery breath, And went to work their nest to repair, With their hoppety hip, And their busiest skip: In the new dismounted cannon they'd trip, Beneath the mild spring sun in the South, Rebuilded their nest in the cannon's mouth, After the battle of Xewbern. These small chicadees they cared not a mite Which soldiers were wrong and which were right, The blua or gray, Who came that day, To wrangle and slay in their own rude way ; They only sought for the ways of peace, And waited aside for the noise to cease; Then built in the gun they had used before, And showed contempt for the ways of war, With their hippety hip, Flip, flip, flip, flip, With their teetering tip and hoppety skip; And this is the legend the soldiers tell About the titmice, and what befell After the battle of Newbern. Was this a presage of what would be, This home rebuilding by bright chicadee? For they display The blue and gray In the feathery suits they wear every day. Was this an auspice of what would come After the hush of the rifle and drum, When war and its horrors had passed away, Commingled as one the blue and the gray, With a hip, hip, hip, And a brotherly grip, Joined in to rebuild what the war let slip? Was this a lesson of life to be Taught to men by the small chicadee, After the battle of Newbern? Harry J. Shellman, in Harper's Weekly. h- k,0H! I SAY, BILLY.'' BY MARGARET KYTINGE. The old man had gone to his lunch. He wasn't an old man, but that is what everybody in that vast establishment, from the senior editor down to the printer's devil, called him behind his back. In point of fact, he was a young man, not more than three and thirty, though in consequence of his dignified bearing and exceedingly grave, quiet demeanor he might have been, and usually was, taken for five years older at least. He was a tall, slow-mo viner, good- looking man with an air of suppressed ; power about him the sort of man it was hard to think of as once having been a small boy in knickerbockers, let alone a baby in long clothes. He had dark- j blue, rather near-sighted eyes but woe to him who tried to take advantage of i their near-sightedness straight, dark hair, a firm, well-formed mouth and Strong, decided chin. And when he spoke, which was, in business hours, at least, as seldom as possible, it was in a j slow, measured way that at time became a drawl. Judging Mr. William Enderby by his manner of speaking and moving, one would have come to the conclusion that time with him was a minor consid eration altogether. But was it? 1 should think not. Next to the old man the clock reigned supieme in that great pub lishing house. But, whatever feeling everybody enter tained toward the despotic clock, it is certain that everybody, though more or less in fear of him, respected, yes and liked the old man. He was so thor oughly honest and honorable meant what he said did what he thought right and exacted from no one in his em ploy a jot more than he thought it his or her duty to do. In proof of the latter assertion he did not exact from some of them as much as he did himself. Well, the old man's carriage had rolled away, with the old mau and the senior editor in it, to the hotel where, they both being bachelors, they took their midday meal, and, as it rolled away, the doors of the editorial rooms, that had been shut, opened, and those that had been open, opened still wider. These cubby holes formed a semi circle around the main o nce and were directly opposite the sanctum sanctorum of the old man. At the large table in the main office McGregoi Douglas, picker up of considered literary trirlea and writer of crisp paragraphs, had his place. "What's the news, Douglas?" called a voice from one of the cubby hole3. Douglas, a long-limbed, bright-faced young feliow, threw down the exchange he was perusing with lightning glance and replied, cheerily: ''News as is news. We're to have a funny depart ment exclusively for women. Nothing tv; be admitted in it but the queer thoughts, sayings and doings of the un fair sex." This announcement was followed by questions and exclamations in voices from all the cubby-ho.es. "Great heavens! it will take up the whole paper." 'oh! come: ar'n't you fooling?" "Whose idea is it?" "How do you know?" "Who is to have charge of it?" "Give me time and I'll tell you," said Dougias. "It's the old man's idea. I heard him talking to the senior about it. In fact, I deliberately listened when I should have been minding my own busi ness." (Cries of "shame! shame !" from all the cubby -holes.) "The old man," Dougias goes on, "thinks it will take. So do I." "That settles it." "How much space is it to occupy?" "Are we to be enlarged?" "Doubled, you mean; no, less will do." "No, indeed, for 'rum creeters is women,' as the dirty faced man in Pick wick observed." "Go on, Douglas, Dougias, tender and true." "I'll go on if you stop your racket," says the "tender and true." "Two columns is the limit, and it is to be edited by a woman, and she is tc have a seat at myable. " "My dear boy, cut your throat at once with youu scissors." "Our funniest artist looks like Hamlet wonder what she'll look like." "Sharp as to bones as well as to wit." "Of uncertain age." "One of those clever, ugly faces." "Why don't the old man put her over in the corner with the fashion editor?" "Because, I suppose," answered Douglas, "it is intended that I should niri Vior Vw Vjanrlinrr r,ivr all tVio niifior funny, purely feminine articles I come across to her. And she'll be here to morrow." "So soon, puir, bonny Scot. "Won't it be funny, though, to see the old man bending gravely over her, looking as though he were about to de liver a funeral oration, and bidding her in s-l-o-w m-e-a-s-u-red tones to be funny?" "Ten chances to one he'il frighten all the fun out of her. We're used to him and don't exactly tremble with fear at his frown, Ben Bolt," said Dougias. "But to a stranger and a woman it strikes me he'll seem well, rather ice bergy." The next morning at 9 o'clock precise ly, the editor-to-be of "The Woman's Funny Department" arrived. She was not sharp as to bones. On the contrary, she was plump enough to make you for get she had bones. She was not of an uncertain age. On the contrary, she was not more than two and twenty. She had not a clever, ugly face. She had a clever, pretty one, with the sauciest of tip-tilted noses, the most mischievous of sparkling? array eyes, the wickedest of i time, when it appears in print," said that gentleman with more than usual , sternness, and again withdrew. But the very next day the excessive comicality of another joke struck Miss Burr with such force that another peal of laughter responded to the blow. And again Douglas, forgetting the reproof of the day before, threw himself back in his chair and prepared to listen, and again silence rek;ned in the cubbv holes and again the witticism was read and again it was greeted with sounds of approbation, much subdued it may be confessed, from the semicircle of unseen hearers. Lo! the result. A notice printed in large letters and pla ed where it could not fail to be seen by ail parties inter ested: "Reading of matter intended for publication in the" no matter what I never intended to gi ve the name, "dur ing office hours strictly forbidden." "Horrid old thing," said Miss Margery Burr when she beheld it. "I don't know what I'm going to do. It will be impossible for me to keep ail the funny things that pop into my head to myself. Something dreadful will happen to me I know, if I'm compelled to. Something that won't fit into the 'woman's funny department' at all. Oh! I shan't be ablo to do it, I know I shan't. I shall be obliged to break that rule even though I'm discharged without a recommend the moment after." But she managed to keep it for two days. On the third, Douglas, feeling the table that m as between them begin to shake, looked up to see her in a parox ysm of silent la ughter. In vain he shook an admonishing finger at her. In vain she struggled to obey the admonishing finger. Open riew her rosy little mouth, and out gurgled the not-to-be imprisoned laugh. Then she began to read, but Douglas scissored away as though his life depended on the number of interest ing items he secured from his exchanges during the next five minutes, and scratch, scratch, scratch went the pens in the cubby-holes as though the lives of the holders depended upon the number of words they scratched off in the same amount of time. The door of the sanctum opened. Mr. William Enderby appeared on the thres- j hold. Slowly he advanced toward the Did It Elect Harrison? Tho fr.Ur.wrir.tr unnPATtd in M.IIUI paper: "Members of tha Democratic party bare been using all subterfuges to account for their overwhairoinc defeat, and numer ous are the causes alleged. I was talking with several of the van quished on Fourth Street the other day, op posite a bid board, and one of the party ex claimed: "If it had not been for the closeness of the National Committee in the expenditure of money, we would have elected our man. Tb RnnWuan; advertised tneir man nae a The Palm Tree. Among the Indians of Brazil then i tradition that the whole human rR sprang from a palm tree, says i i Magazine. It has been a symbol o: . cellence for things good and beau; i Among the ancients it was an em of victory, and. as such, was worn by the early Christian martyrs, and has be, found sculptured on their tombs. The Mohamedans venerate it. uerta n trees . l i . a. I a. 3 X circus." Several ot tne party remarkwi mb saia to nave oeen prupaguieu irum -no advertisinz was done except small an- orif inallr nlanted bv the nroi.he-'. and a few noanceinents in the papers. "hangers'' on the dead walls. '"Hangers?" said our informant, "w hat do you call that tut a circus poster:" point ing to a twelve-sheet medicine poster on the biil board, bearing the cuts of General Harri son and his grandfather. "If the Democrats had advertised like that, Cleveland would have been re-elected. The poster referred to was one of the famil iar black and white Log Cabin Sarsaparilla posters sent out by an enterprising firm en gaged in the manufacture of old log-cabin home-cures, under the name of Warner's Log Cabin Remedies, and among other equally valuable articles includes the famous Log Cabin Sarsaparilla. which is everywhere re -ognized as the best of all spring medicines and stands without a rival for the cure of all disorders which are the results of impure blood. The spring time of the year is the season when the system needs renovating; the long winter has caused the blood to become filled with impurities. 1 here exists no better means to aid and strengthen the system at such an urgent period than the use of Warner's Log Cabin Sarsapanlla, which speedily restores the blood to a pure and healthy state, which in sures health and happiness. The reputation of the firm puttine out the medicine is above reproach, and is the same firm which manufacturers Warner's Safo Cure, the standard remedy for the cure of all those diseases peculiar to the kidneys as well as those which are the results of disease in those organs, and which has met with such phenomenal success for the past ten years. We understand that the posters referred to made their appearance in many parts of the country sometime prior to the Chicago Convention which nominated General Har rison as a candidate for the Presidency hence the use made of the portraits of the Harrisons, father and grandson was either the result of remarkable political foresight or in accordance with the historical associa tion of the old Log Cabin with the name of Harrisou. 'Oh! I say, Uilly, " For burst out don't be so outrageously cross once the old man's equanimity was skaken. And no wonder, for never be fore in all the years of his life had any one dared to reply to him with even a suspicion of disrespect. A strange look came into his face and for an instant he regarded Miss Margery Burr so keenly and steadily that that im pertinent young woman almost suc cumbed under his gaze. Then he turned away and descended the stairway that led to the street. It was well that he did so as soon as he did, for if he had not there would have been a man in convulsions in each one of the semi circled cubbyholes. immediately upon his departure Miss Burr arose, donned her hat, jacket and gloves, shook hands in the gravest man ner with Douglas and also departed. Two months passed away, during which McGregor Douglas took charge of the "Woman's Funny Department," thereby subjecting himself to endless gibes and jests on the part of his cora- tiny white teeth, and the darkest of dark ' patriots. But he consoled himself with Eating Mnskrat. "Did I ever eat muskrat ?" said Depu delinquent. Slowly she raised her eyes ty Register James A. v lsger. "Well, to his face ana then, as he looked at her, with something very like a frown, she daughter, art held sacred and the fr sold at enormous prices. The day u Q which Christ entered Jerusalem, ridi upon the colt of an ass, is called Pa Sunday, being the first day of the 11 . Week. In Europe real palm bra;u h -are distributed among the people. Goethe says. In Koine, on Palm Sunday. Thev have the true pHm. The cardinals bow reverently And sing old psalms. Elsewhere these songs are sung mi l o'.ire branches: More southern climes must be content w tta the sad willow. The books relating to the reli;i n Buddha were nearly all of them written upon the leaves of the fan palm, and by miss:onaries they have been used in the place of paper. The noble aspect this tree, together with its surpassaig utility, has caused it to be called "the prince of the vegetable kiugdom,' snd it has been immortalized in history, mythology and poetry. South Dakota's Hoom. South Dakota is now engaging public at I tion through her recent achievement of ttatt -hood, as well as by the phenomenal gr .. .. and the rapid development of her wonder) i' agricultural resources, and the advuni offered to home-seekers and persons desir. safe and profitable investments. A new pamphlet containing recent letters citing the actual experiences of reliable resident?, av.d other valuable information relating to Dak. ta, will be mailed free upon request by E. P. W EL BOW, No. t'2 Fifth avenue, Chicago, 111. with auburn hair, arranged in puffs and fluffs, and curls and whirls in the most bewil dering and bewitching fashion. A profound silence reigned behind the doors, or rather the half open doors of the cubby holes when she made her appearance. As for the puir bonny Scot, he arose hastily, upsetting the mucilage bottle as he did so, and lifting a pile of papers and magazines from the chair she was to occupy deftly deposited them on the crown of his brand-new hat which lay on the table before him. In a few mo ments the old man came in, bowed to the funny woman in a cold aud formal way, introduced her to Douglas as Miss Margery Burr, give her a few direc tions in his time-isn't-worth-anything voice and disappeared in his sanctum. Miss Margery Burr proved a great acquisition to the paper on which she was engaged. Her witty articles were quoted far aud wide, and she edited the witty articles of others in such a skillful manner that they were twice as good when they left her hands as when they came into them. "The Woman's Funny Department" was a success a grand success. Miss Burr knew it was, and she knew she had made it one. 2so one appreciated her more than she appreciated herself. Her own jokes amused her immensely, and she had a way, when she had written something that struck her as irresistibly droll, of bursting into the jolliest of musical laughs, and then reading it in a clear, musical voice to McGregor Dou glas. And the moment that laugh was heard, that was nothing heard in that se.aicircle of cubby holes until the point of the ioke was reached. Then various j height of sounds of merriment escaped from them. "Ha! ha', ha!" "He-he-he." sHaw-haw V "Good," etc., etc., etc. The fourth time thi? performance took place the sanctum door opened slowly and the old mau came quietly out, but mot so quietly, however, but that five or six pairs of ears caught the sound of hi3 footsteps and drowned them at once in the loud scratching of pens, at the same the thousrht that the old man had told him that it was only to be a temporary charge. It was a bright June noon. As usual, the old man and the senior editor had gone to lunch, and also, as usual, when his carriage had rolled away a chorus of "What's the news, Douglas ?" from the doors of the cubby -holes greeted that estimable young man. For a moment he did not answer. His eyes were fixed in wide-opened surprise on a society item in a pacer he held in his hand. "The news?" "Well, brace braced? One- "The formal announcement has been made of the engagement of the lovely and tale ited Miss Margery Burr to Mr. William Enderby, proprietor and manag ing editor of the ." Detroit Free Press, should remark. It's the nicest, gamiest and most delicious meat you ever put into your mouth. But you have to look out when you catch ;em. See that fin ger?" Mr. Visger held up the index finger of his right hand. It was all scared and mutilated at the top. "I had speared twenty-six muskrats that day, about thirty years ago. It was down on the Hirer Ecorse. When I had speared one fellow I took hold of him by the head instead of the tail, and he nearly took that finger off. But I would sooner eat one muskrat than five pounds of porterhouse steak. When the boys used to go on a muskrat hunt in the old days, and catch fifteen or twenty apiece, they would sit down in the muskrat houses play cards to see who would win the lot. It generally ended by one man winning the whole pile, and he would go staggering home under a load of 150 to ;0C rats. Detroit Journal. A bill recentlj' brought into the States General of the Netherlands by the Minist er of Justice, makes provisions for the prevention of excessive labor of youthful persons and women. To-Night and To-Morrow Night. And each day and night during the week y a can get at all druggists' Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, acknowledged to be the most success ul remedy ever sold for the cure of Coughs, Croup, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Asthma, and Consumption. (Jet a bot tle to-day and keep it always in the house, so you can check your cold at once. Price 50c and $1. Sample bottles free. The business of the London Stook Ex change amounts annually to $22, 500,000, 000. A Radical Cure for Epileptic Fit. To the Editor Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease which I warrant to cure the worst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir tues that I will send free a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will giTe me his P. O and Express address. Reep'y. H.G. ROOT. M. C.. 183 Pearl St.. New Vork. Catarrh Cured. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsome disease. Catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy, at last found a prescription which completely cured and saved nim from death. Any sufferer from thisdre;il ful disease sending a self -addressed staiuj i-rl envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Wan:i St.. N. Y.. will receive the recipe free of charwp. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle. Spring Sickness .11 at lengtn ne yourselves, -two three - exclaimed. Are you May be avoided by taking tne popular spring niedi .cine. Hood's Sarsaparilla in season. If yon nave not felt well during the winter, if you have been overworked, or closely confined in badly ventilated rooms or shop3, you need a gooi tonic and blood purifier like Hood's Sarsaparilla. Take it early and you will ward off attacks of disease or escape the effects of impure blood and that tirei feeling so common in the spring. Do not delay. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla now. "I wish to state the benefit I derived from Hood's Sar.-aparilla. I have used it in 1 he spring for three years for debility and can say that I gained in flesh and strength after using one bottle. It also cured me of sick headache." Msa F. H. And sews. South Woodstock, Conn. Hood's Sarsaparilla $1; six for 5. Prepared only 4potfcecaries, Lowell, Mass. Doses One Dollar Sold by all druggists, by C. L HOOD & CO. too Hood s Sarsaparilla ispiepared from Sarsaparilla. Dandelion, Mandrake, Dock, Juniper Berr.es. aud other well known vegetable remedies, in such a peculiar manner as to derive the full ss-dicinal value of each It will cure, when n the power of medicine, scr ofula, salt rheum, sores, boil pim ple?, all humors, dyspepsia, biliousness, sick head ache, indigestion, general debility, catarrh, rheuma tism, kidney and liver complaints. It overcomes that extreme tired feeling caused by change of cli mate, season, or life, aud imparts life and -trenth to the whole system. ' For five years I was sick every spring, but last year b-gan in February to fake Hood's Sarsapariba. I ur-ed five bottles and have not seen a sic day since." G. W. Sloan, Milton, Mas. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1 ; six for $5. Prepared only by C. L HOOD & CO., Apothecaries. Lowed, Ma. IOO Doses One Dollar Curious Vigil in a Cemetery. A temporary frame hut just larire enough to hold three men stands oddly among tombstones in the middle of the little cemetery at Fifty-sixth and Market streets, Philadelphia. It rets over the newly-made irrave in the plot of Solomon R. Fridenberg, the Chestnut street jeweler, containing the body of his son, Mone S. Fridenberg, who died three From one side of the hut weeks ago. protrudes a stove pipe, from which moment that Douglas seized an illustra- I tion designed for a transfer and snipped it in two with a great appearance of in terest in his work. But did Miss Margery Burr bend quickly over her writing? No, sir. No, ma'am. She looked directly I at. the old man. her loner silken iashes I well uplifted from her mischief -full gray mands. The arrangement is simply to eves, and said: "Oh, Mr. Enderby, .put beyond possibility the disturbance would you like to hear it, too?" "I of the body by grave-robbers for what- J shall be content to enjoy it at the proper ever purpose. New York News smoke may be seen curling every even ing. On the other side is a window in keep ing with its size. The interior shows a stove and a bench, and, protruding through the middie of the floor to the four feet, an iron pipe two inches in diameter, in the center of which is an iron rod of the proper size to be moved easily up aad down inside the pipe. Toward evening the superin tendent of the graveyard, Charles Kreuger, or his son goes to the hut and, entering it, builds a fire in the stove. As soon as the sun is set and darkness is coming on two aged men come to the iron cemetery gate, and, being admitted by them, listen intently. With each movement of the rod there comes a sound like the tap of metal against wood, faint and deadened by distance, and the two men look at each other and decide that the body of young Mr. Fridenberg has not been" disturbed. 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