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SALISBURY. K C, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1888.
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Father Time.
Above the world I sit and sail
Moving on, moving on ;
The things I pass no more avail,
They bide their years, decay and fall,
While I keep moving on.
Down on the world I look and smile,
Moving on, moving on;
The scythe I bear 6mites all the while
Cuts as it may for good or guile,
While I keep moving on.
Over the world I glance my eye,
Moving on, moving on;
Good doe-Is mature, the hopeful try
rThc just alone shall never die,
While I keep moving on. ,
Around the world I sit and roll,
Moving on, moving on;
Ripening fruits for sacred goal,
Perfecting hope3 of the dying sou
While Z keep moving on.
Beside the world I sit and hear,
Moving on, moving on;
Bounds of joy or s dniss drear,
Filling the spacj around the sphere.
While I keep moving on.
Above, around all worlds I ride,
Moing on, moving on;
Watching in all the swelling tide
Of human love and human pride,
While I keep moving on.
When stars go out and worlds stand still,
Alone I'm moving on;
Obeying God's eternal will,
I tease not when all else is still,
But yet keep movins on.
Mms Time rolls on,
Ever on and on;
Above the earth and o'er the sea,
'Mid lightning's flash,
And thunder's crash,
Moving toward eternity.
Wm. A. Wheildoa.
A Thief Among the Bees.
Tho .Holden brothers, Roswell and
Frank, went to California-fro'm a New
England town, in IbSl, for the benefit
' of .AwaU'Va'iltli, upoa medical ad
vice; and subsequently they found
themselves engaged in the business of
bee-keeping near Los Augeles for cir
cumstances, accident rather than do
sign, fir-.t led them into it.
The children ha I inherited a consti
tutional tendency to pulmonary dis
eases, which had already begun to de
velop itself ia RowlII. Indeed, he had
become so far an invalid that his friends
deemed it unsafe for him to set off on
so long a journey alone. After many
family deliberations, itt was arranged
that Frank, and Ellen, their sister,
should nccompnny him, and remain one
winter, if not longer, injthe west.
Llthcy; means were, limited, Frank
and Ellen began, soon a ter arriving in
California, to look about for some way
to earn a living. Raswcll, too, as his
health improved, wished for something
to do; and at length tboy wcr?, by
chance, led to buy thirteen hives of
bees of a lady who herself formerly an
invalid had been employing her leisure
in apiculture, but now was about re
turning to her home in New York.
With these thirteen hives the- young
Iloldens entered upon- the honey-'pro-ducing
business early ia 1882. For a
year they resided in the vicinity of Los
Angeles, but finding that the bees, as
the riunJbcr of swarms increased, were
unpopular among their neighbors, they
were led to move from so thickly inhab
ited a district, and lived for a time near
Mojavc.
Thence, however, early the following
spring, they again moved to a tract of
unoccupied country farther back among
the mountains, in a kind of long defile,
or crooked valley, inclosed by a wooded
range on cither, hand, but which, from
the great abundance of wild flowers,
affords good pasture for bees. Here
they are at present dwelling, and it is
from a number of letters from them to
their friends at home that the present
sketch i3 compiled.
The weather there h so favorable and
the climate so mild that bees require but
little feeding with artificial sweets,
though, of course, more honey can be
produced for market if, at certain times
of the year, the swarms are thus pro
vided with food.
The hires are .arranged so that
drawers, or boxc, when filled with
honey by the bees, can be withdrawn,
nd empty ones substituted in their
Swarmsfpf bees vary ia sizs and in in
dustry as iioney-gathercri. Some swarms
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produce in a year not more than twenty
J pounds that can prudently be with-
drawn from them; some, indeed, from
ceitiin causes, will not even gather
enough honey for their own support.
Other, swarms produce forty or fifty
pounds, and still others much more.
The Holdehs have now between two
and three hundred hives, having made
it a rule so far to keep all tho new
swarms which come out, though a few
hava escaped. The care of this nu
merous colony occupies all their time
and attention, and they hire two Indian
girls to assist them to watch tho nu
merous sub-colonies which they have
established in diff erent parts of the val
Cjt generally within a mile of each
other. For it will not do to have all
these two hundred swarms, or more
collected near one spot, on account of
the pasture supply of flowers bciDg over
fed, and the bees having to go too far.
The 'whole number of swarms is di
vided up into groups of ten or fifteen
hives, and these are often shifted from
place to place as the season passes.
For moving a sub-colony to fresh pas
turage, the boys have a platform set
upon four wheels, and drawn by two
steady mules. Then, ift.-r the bees
have entered the hive at night, they are
closed in, and the hives are transferred
to the platform. Very carefully then,
and slowly, so as not to jar the hives too
much, the transportation of the colony
to the distance of a mile or two is ef
fected. At the time of this story, some tim3
in March or April of last year, the
Iloldens had pastured out ten hives at a
point higher up the valley than any
they had previously occupied. In point
of fact, the new pasture was in a branch
of the main valley. Hither they had
come up from their bee-sheds next be
low, two m les distant, with a load of
hives, and built a "rest" for them near
two large oaks great tree3 with wide
spreading branches that nearly touched
the ground on tho north side of the
intervale, at the foot of tne mountain.
It was a favorable location, for on the
south side the bees had the entire val
ley, well stocked with flowers and
flowering shrubs, outspread before
them; and so secluded did the place
seem that the young apiarists judged it
entirely safe to leave the bet s to gather
honey here, unguarded, for a few days
at least.
Having seen to it therefore, that the
hives were well placed, they returned
down the valley to their shanty-house,
where their sister and the Indian girls
looked after the few simple domestic
affairs of the household. In fact, it was
quite their custom thus to colonize a
new pasture, and thus they had met with
few losses. Honey in small quantity,
had ben stolen from them on one or two
occasions and once a number of deer, ia
their flight across the valley, had upset
three or four hives.
But on this occasion they met with a
mishap; for oa going to the place two
or three days afterward, to see how their
swarthy "Italiins". were prospering,
Frank -found one hivo upsat, and
another of the tea rni-ssing altogether.
From the latter circumstance, as also
from certain marks and traces in the
grass, resembling footprints, ho at once
concluded "that some thief had
"jumped'' the hive.
A few days before they had heard the
report of a gun teveral times, faint and
at a distance, and had conjectured that
th?re was a hunting party, either of
whites or Indians, on the other side of
the mountain.
"Some of them have probably been
spying about and got their eyes on that
row of hives," was Frank's thought.
Whether tha rogues would rest con
tent with the honey of one hive, or come
back after more, was what no one could
guess. The brothers, however, deemed
it prudent to expect them again, and
would have gone up and drawn the re
maining hives down to camp, if the
two Indian girls had not been sent down
to the postoffiee a little settlement
twelve milc3 away with the mules, to
get the mail and a stock of groceries..
Roswell therefore proposed that, af
ter supper, the' should take a little
shelter tent which they had, and go up
to the new rest, in order to pass the
night where they could guard the hive3.
For by this time tho older brother had
so far recovered his health as to bo the
stronger of the two.
As Ellen did not like to bo left , en
tirely alone she proposed to accompany
them. They accordingly set off, tak
ing along the tent, thrc3 blankets and
a Winchester carbine.
Arriving at the rest just at dusk, they
pitched their little shelter tint near the
trunk of one of the oaks already re
ferred to, and in such a manner that the
ends of the drooping branches nearly
or quite concealed the te t from
view.
Tho night was warm and the place
was quite dry. Accordingly they did
not kindle a fire, but made themselves
comfortable with their blankets under
cover of the tent and the sheltering foli
age of tho tree.
They had really no serioti3 expecta
tion that tho thief would come back;
and after a time all three of them fell
asleep, for E.len Holden had become
quite accustomed to this free, out-of-door
life. They slept thus for three or
four hours.
During tli3 early part of the night
there was a moon, but lha moon set to
ward midnight; the stars, however,
gave some light, though everything
was rather misty and dim. The now
somnolent and quiet hives reposed on
their rest, a few yards from thj tree and
the tent.
At length the sleepers were suddenly
roused by a heavy thump, followed by a
grating noise and a deep humming
sound from the hives.
They all started up and listened in
tently. ' 'Something's afoul of the bees, Ros,"
whispered Frank.
Roswell, starting up, took the Win
chester and paeped out amongst the oak
branches. What looked like a tall,
"slouching' man was in .the very act of
taking one of the hives in his arms,
despite the loudly buzzing bees. As
Roswell stared ia astonishment, the
sturdy pilferer did actually clasp his
arms about the hivo and raising it off
the rest, started to walk slowly ofl
with it.
"It's Boms Indian, I guess, by the
looks of him, " muttered RoswelL "I
don't just like to fire at him; he don't
seem to have any gun. But let's 'go'
for him and give him a good thrashing.
Frank, agreeing at once to his propo
sition, snatched up two stakes which
they had cut for the tent, and handing
one of these to his brother, who laid
down the rifb, both young men ran
quickly, but . stealthily, after the
heavily-loaded thief, wl o was shamb
ling awkwardly oa ac oss tho open
ground, beyond the rest.
The grass wa3 thick and soft, and they
were not long closing ia with the
marauder.
"You scoundrel P yelled Frank.
"Lug off our honey, will you? ' and
drawing off with his stake, gave the
thief such a tremendous whack across
the back and shoulders as t o knock him
half-forward over the hive.
"Take that 1"
Drawiag off again, he was about to
repeat the dose, and Roswell on his part
was just getting in a blow, when the
supposed "Indian" suddenly came
round on all fours and give vent to a
growl which made the whole valley re
echo. It was a grizzly 1 and a3 he growled,
he ros3 oa his hind legs and "lunged"
at Frank.
Prodigiously astonished, Frank gave
a long jump backward not so far, how
ever, but that one of the ugly creature-'s
paws raked along his right side and sent
him rolling over and over again on the
ground.
Roswell, too, had executed an almost
equally long leap backward, and ran
plump into Miss Holden who with com
mendable foresight, had come quietly
after her brothers, with the Winchester
in her hands.
"Here, quick, shoot I" she exclaimed,
thrusting the loaded piece into his
hajhds. Turning oa tho instant, Ros
well fired one, two, three, four shots
inljo the bear, now in the very act of
lunging rgr.ia at Frank, and with such
effect that the animal fell, roaring and
whining, unable to rise for another
lunge.
A few more shots finished it.
Frank, though considerably bruised
and shaken up, was not seriously in
jured. "Ellen," exclaimed Roswell, turning
to his sister, when the bear had been
fairly floored and Frank had picked
himself up, "Ellen, you're a brick! You
got round just in the nick o' time l"
"Well," said she laughing, "when two
fellows go after a grizzly with a couple
of sticks, it's a good " plan to have a
Winchester not far . behind." Youth's
Companion. -
Ventilation of Bedrooms.
Dr. Brown-Sequar.1, who has been
preaching that bad ventilation of sleep
ing rooms and poor and monotonous
food are tho great causes of phthisis,
treated of that disease at the last meet
ing of the Academy of Sciences in Paris,
taking many of his examples from Eng
land. Wherever population is dense,
and sleeping rooms ill-aired or over
crowded, consumption prevails. Dr.
Bailey reported that ia the Mill-bank
Prison there were, out of one hundred
deaths, forty -five from this disease.
According to the illustrious French
doctor a room in which a consumptive
person sleeps is reeking with contagious
germs, if the air he exhales is not
carried off.
But how to get rid of it in ill-built
homes or very cold weather, when it is
as dangerous to open windows as to
keep them shut? To meet this difficulty
Dr. Brown-Sequard showed the Acad
emy an apparatus of his invention. A
reversed funnel, the shape of a lamp
shade, is placed at the end of a tube, so
arranged in its curves and angles that
when it is placed beside a bed the re
versed funnel will bo above the sleeper
and draw up the air he breathes. The
other end runs into the chimney of the
room. If there is none it ii taken
through "a heating apparatus to an air
hole. The heat is great enough to burn
the disease germs. i
The Pig and the Lady.
A Lady who was Passing along a Lane
came upoa a Pig rolling in the Mud and
called out in disgust:
"Wretched Creature but what a Mis
erable Life you must lead 1"
"On the Contrary, no one takes
more Comfort," rejoined the Porker.
"But you roll in the Mud."
' 'Just like a Pig. Had Nature in
tended me to boss a greenhouse, I should
not be here'
Moral: The above happened a hund
red years ago. All the pigs of today
want to be Canary Bird?. Detroit Free
Press.
Backing a Horse.
''Did you ever back a .horse, Darrin
ger?" . "
"Only once, Bromley."
"Did you winfr
"I lost 50. I backed him into a
shop windowon Chestnut street Bos
ton Budget. .
"HIGHBINDERS."
An Outgrowth of Chinese Life in
San Francisco.
Secret Societies for Purposes of
Murder and Blackmail.
The Highbinder societies in San Fran
cisco number about fifty. They are an
outgrowth of the life of the Chinese on
this coast, as none of them were organ
ized in China. When ih.j coolies first
began to flock here in great numbers,
allured by the offer of high wage3 to
work on the Central Pacific Railroad,
the lawless element among them saw
the j. opportunity for blackmail and
general cspi na ;e, and began the organ
ization of th.3 societies that have proved
the source of most of tha Chinese crime
committed on this coast. There jwcre
already in existenco then what .'were
known as the Chinese Six Companies.
These were societies formed for the
mutual protection of members, for aid
to the sick and destitute, and, most im
portant of all, 'for the transfer to China
of the bones of those who died. The
companies represented tho two districts
of China which contributed the greatest
number of coolie3 to this country, and
no Chinese ventured to come to this
country without joining one of these com
panies. The companies did much good
in early days in enforcing order, and in
punishing any crimes of it3 members,
but of late year3 their power has been so
much encroached upon by the high
binders that little remains.
Nearly twenty years ago the first high
binder society was founded.. It was
known as the Cuee Kung Tong, and it
was regularly incorporated. This parent
society is very wealthy. It owns a hand
some brick building on Spofford alley,
in the heart of Chinatown, and hero are
'the headquarters of the officers, the
large meeting room, and tho Joss, be
fore which all new members are initi
ated and all oaths take a. O-ie enters the
door, which bears plainly in English and
Chinese the name of the society, and as
cending a flight of stairs reaches the
main audience room, where state coun
cils of the society are held. This is a
handsome apartment fitted up ia the
celestial style, with heavy old oak
ranged around the wall ; a large table
stands in the centre directly under a
costly lamp, while Chinese paintings
and mottoes from Confucius and other
moralists cover tne walls, for your high
binder is nothing if not moral. Near
the head of the,stair3 is an enormous
boxwood tablet, let into the wall, on
which are engraved th.3 name3 of ;:tli3
1,20) charter members of the fraternity,
with the sum of money that each con
tributed to found the institution.
At whatever hour of day or night one
may enter this room, ha will find in the
small rear offiea . some one to inquire
about his business, and to answer any
questions. It seems that the Ch3e Kung
Tong boast3 of over 4500 member3 ia
this city alone, while throughout the
United State?, South America and Cuba
the roll amounts to 15,000. In all it
has 390 branches scattered over this
great territory, but each reports to the
parent society. Every six months four
"headmen" are chosen by election to
conduct affairs, and under them are
thirty-three "hatchet mea," or active
police, who are under oath to obey im
plicitly any order of the headmen. The
Chee Kung Tong for many yea-s was the
most influential of the highbinder so
cieties, but many of its most active
members have started other associations,
and now the palm of supremacy in
local power is disputed by the Ga Sin
Sea and the Bo Sin Sea.
Whatever, may have been the prin
ciples upon which Chu Kung Tong was
founded, it is now carried oa mainly
for purposes of blackmail, like all the
other highbinder organizations. Many
reputable merchants have been forced
to join these societies, to escapo the
exactions of highbinders, but the lead
ing spirits ia each are mea who recog
nize no allegiance to any government,
and who obey no laws but those of their
own making. Over the halls of most cf
these societies floats no flig but that of
their order, while not even the com
mand of the consul general the vir
tual representative of the emperor
could stay any order that had gone forth.
The power of these societies, there
fore, is very great, and no earthly au
thority can stay their vengeance. What
this vengeance means may be seen from
a typical case. We will say that a Chi
nese, through jealousy or other motive,
kills another Chinaman, and that he
and his relatives refuse to make good
the loss to the dead man's kindred by a
money payment Then the society to
which the murdered man belongs issues
an order proclaiming the murderer and
putting a price on his head. Every Chi
ness in tho country is warned against
harboring or aiding in any way the
fugitive under pain of the vengeance of
the society. The proscribed man can
not get any assistance, in thi3 country,
and he is unable to escape, as every ave
nue is closely watchad. Payment of the
fine imposed, suicide, or death at the
hands of the hatchet men are the only
alternatives. A more perfect system of
terrorizing the timid or the obstinate
was never devised, and the Chinese who
have escaped tho death sentence by dis
guise and flight may be numbend on
one's fingers.
In conversation with Leo Ah Fook,
who is the head man of one of tho
strongest of the highbinder societies, he
smilingly admitted that murder was oae
of tho fine arts in which his society ex
celled. He explained the method of
initiation and the penalties that followed
the breaking of any of the rules of tho
order. The . neophyte who is to be
initiated is taken before the great joss
of the society, and kneals before the
burning punk and incense in the sacrad
bowls that adorn the altar. An attend
ant, with face concealed by a hideous
mask, holds a naked sword to his neck
while a second presses the point of an
other weapon to his neck. In this posi
tion he takes the oath which binds him
to obey without question any order of
the society's authorized loaders, even
though the order be to murder his best
friend. Corporal punishment is fre
quently inflicted here also, and torture is
applied to extract evidence from wit
nesses, precisely as it is in China today.
-San Francisco Chronicle.
Keeping the Oyster's Month Shut.
Oysters cannot be kept without a
thorough knowledge of their habits.
They feed twice in a day of -twenty -foui
hours and then just at that stillness
preceding the turn of the tide. At eg
other time, except when feeding, do
they open their mouths. When taken
out of the water they naturally attempt
to feed at regular intervals, and as soon
a3 their mouths are open the liquar is all
lost, the air takes its place, and tha
oyster is covered with a thick coating
of slime. This is the first stage of de
composition, after Avhich the oyster is
of no account. Just so long a3 its mouth
is shut it is fit to eat, and a means by
which this can be accomplished has been
the study of some enterprising men for
a considerable length of time. In 1831
Mr. A. A. Freeman of Philadelphia
shipped to Denver, Col,, some oysters
with their mouths fastened by means of
the patent wire spring Yankee clothes
pin. Upon their arrival in the latter
city tho oysters were opened, and were
found to be ia aa excellent stale of .pres
ervation. Mr. Freeman immediately set about
finding some device less cumbersome
than tho Yankee clothespin. Tie finally
hit upon a practicable plan. When the
mouth of the oystor is closed, it feeds
upon the liquor ia the shell, and will
keep thus for a considerable length of
time. Mr. Freeman's plan is to fasten
the oyster securely around the mouth
with a stout wire. This is done by tho
hand and a pair of pincers, and as it
can bo done very rapidly, great "quanti
ties arc wired every day. Mr. Free
man has established at Oxford, f Talbot
county, the American Patent Lock
Oyster Company, with headquarters at
Oxford and office at Philadelphix Al
ready he has shipped car loads to De
troit, San Francisco, and other cities,
with satisfactory results, and some are
even on the way to London. Ho is now
completing arrangements to send next
season shipments to Paris, Rome, and
other cities, and if the attempt proves
successful, the American oyster will be
eaten in its natural condition and with
much gusto all over the world. Balti
more American.
Tea Drinking: in Bnssia.
In Russia tea is drunk as beer Is in
Germany or wine ia France. It may be
called the national beverage, and there
are especial saloons or restaurants all
about, both here and in St. Petersburg,
for tea drinkers, both rich and poor.
The truly Russian restaurant is very dif
ferent from the European ones. The
waiters are all attired in white from
head to fuot, with a large black purse
at the waist, and are always all men.
There is generally a large barrel organ,
which gives out the latest airs. It is
wonderful how much tea a Russian will
drink. The writer entered one morn
ing one of these restaurant3 with a
young Russian. Tea was ordered, and
one glass followed another with the
Russian until he had drank seven. He
said he had often drank eleven, and
that fifteen were not too many for an old
hand. The tea h drunk alone or with
lemon, and the sugar eaten from the
hand. A peculiar kind of bread or roll
is eaten with it. Albany Journal. ' .
A Wonderful (JrapeTine.
Mr. A. F. Tift, has upon his place in
Key West, Fia., a wonderful grapevine
covering a great trellis. This vine beara
four crops every year. The grape3
grow in exceedingly compact clusters,
many of them weighing as much a3
eight pounds and the vine is literally
loaded with bunches. It 13 a native
of the West India islands, probab!y
of Jamaica. As an illustration of the
dense nature of the bunches, the
grapes grow so thick upoa them that
the center grapes frequently cannot
reach the sunlight to mature. The out
side grapes can be picked off aa
needed, and the mass of grapes beneath
the outside layer left to ripen. Chica
go Tiroes .
SCIENTIFIC SCEAPS.
Paper containing ligneous substances,
such as straw, wood and jute, is rapidly
discolored by electric light The yel
lowing is due to the phenomenon of oxi
dation. . -:- .. .- '
German experiments have shown that
cast-iron pillars remain nearly upright
and sustain their load in very hot fires,
while those of wrought iron bend to
such a degree as to be: valueless as sup
ports. . '; , ;
Tho old ilea that sufferers from heart
disease should avoid physical exertion
has been dispelled by Prof,. OerteL who
has successfully employed regulated
exercise in the treatment of some forms.
In a large proportion of cases, - the nu
trition of the cardiac muscle, as of the
muscular systemgenerally, is thu3 im
proved. After many years of experimenting,
with the object of increasing the speed
of vessels and lessening their draught
by a change in the formation of the hull,
a Pennsylvania inventor has succeeded
in constructing a boat which he claim3
fulfils the desiderata so long seught,
and is in entire accordance with true
scieatfic theory. . .
A singular freak of nature originally
discovered in Western Australia is like
ly to remain unexplained. It consists of
"nine fine pearls adhering together in the
form of a Latin cross seven in the
shaft, and one on each side'of the second
pearl. A suggestion is that a fragment
of seaweed in the shell of the oyster
formed the frame on which the cross was
built. J
The most convenient way to fumigate
apartments where there-is diphtheria is
to drop a small pinch of sulphur upon a
hot stove, if there i3 one in tho room. If
there i3 no stove in th3 room, a few
coals oa a shovel or other convenient
utensil may be carried into tho room
and the sulphur dropped on tha coal3. -j
A little experience soon enables anyone i
to determimo how much sulphur to burn
in each room.
Attention has just been": called in a
scientific paper to two races' of men that
must soon become extinct. It is con
fidently predicted that at the present
rate of decrease the Maoris of New
Zealand, now reduced to less than 45,
000 men, from 100, 000 in Capt. Cook's
days, must have disappeared by tho
year 2000. The Laplanders are esti
mated not to exceed 30,000 ia numbers,
and are gradually becoming fewer.
Dr. T. Langdoa Djwu, iaq'uiring in
to the cases of idiocy, has found that in
temperance of parents is one of the most
considerable factors in producing the af
fection. His view is confirmed by some
French and German investigators, one
of whom, D, Delasiauve,'has said that
in the village of Caremet, whoss riches,
were ia it3 vineyards, . ten years' so
briety enforced by viae disease, has a
sensible effect in diminishing tho cases
of idiocy. Nervou3 constitution and
consumption exercise important in
fluence. -
A Wealthy Woman in Rags.
As Roscoe Conklin, Joseph H. Choate
and William M. Evarts were leaving the
court house ia New York City, after a
big trial tho other day they encountered
a decrepit old woman ia the corridor.
She grimaced and tho eminent jurists
raised their hats and bowed with court
ly dignity. A half-dozen big tenement
houses, a bundle of government bonds
and sharas In an uptown avim?8. bank
represent the old woman's worldly pos
sessions, and yet she can neither read,
write nor cipher. She is the best-known
character in the offices of the city gov
ernment. When the late William M.
Tweed first came into power "Aunt
Sally," as she is called, used to ped
dle peanuts and apples in tho
various offices. By careful
economy she had saved a little money.
Tweed, who would do anything for any
one he took adiking to, advised Sally
tn nut. hnr Uif.le enTinrrj infn i "btio "
a '
which he promised would turn out
welL Sally made several hundred per
cent, profit on her investment. In
those days every politician owned a
high silk umbrolla. Sally mado 5 it her
business to become acquainted with every
politician, lawyer and office-holder
of consequence, and at stated
times visited them to col
lect discarded hats, umbrellas and'
other articles of wearing apparel. She
carries on that business to-day in con
nection with her peanut and apple
trade. Tho hats and umbrellas she re
pairs herself, and sells them often for
half their original cost. Coachmen, hack
drivers and colored dudes are her be3t
customers. Her income from this source
alone i3 very Lig. She adds several
thousand dollars yearly to her fortune.
Iler age is a mystery. Some of the old-
timers say 6he is over a century old, and
that she 13 a witch. She dresses in rags
and always pleads poverty. The records
in the Register's office show that she fa
worth at least a fifth of a million.
Mail and Express.
A Young Esrg.
Batchelor B. Why, Mary, that's a
very small egg! -
Mary Yes, sir; but it was-only laid
this morning, sir. Life "
Some Days of 1 ; .
Some day, some day of days, tv J t 4 : -street
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With idle, heedless f-ce, r -Unlooking
for roch grace, .-,
I shall behold your face I , - .
Some day, soma day of days, thus we may -
f meet. V " ' ; 1 ;
Perchance the son may shine from skios of . .
May, . . - "
Or winter's icy chill , - -
Touch whitely vale and hill. - " ;
What matter? I shall thrill v - -
Through every vein with summer on that -day.
"
Once more life's perfect youth will all eons , -v-back,
And for a moment there v ? - s
1 shall stand fresh and fair, ' V -And
drop the garment care; . , ..
Once more my perfect youth shall nothing
lack. . V
I shut my eyes now,v thinking how't will b
How, face to face, each soul
Will slip its long control, t
Forget the dismal dole
Of dreary fate's dark, separating sea. V
And glance to glance, and hand to hand f aif
greeting naPU
The past with all its feare, " at eg ., . y
The silence and its tears, 85
Its lonely, yearning years, rJ 01 Plf y
Shall vanish in the moment of tW ... i . t
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HUMOItOUS.VWLY.
sou.
.t aol.
In months" of sun, so lnr1. ?
- iho AU
01 rain snau ue nappy. jjre
"My first purchase is my"rn
cobbler, who was just st'i
It doesn't abbreviate a thr
note to have the indorser rlake a minuto
of it. z
If there isiany one who should ba
"rapptuGoldumber' it is the man who
snores. C
At midnight: Young Bore O, dar
ling Miss Ada, I'd do anything for you. ,
Mios Ada -Rjally? Well, go home.
" Customer: ' I should like to look at a
.fat goose." Shop boy: "If you'll wait
a minute, missus will be here directly."
Nothing is more annoying to a young
man who has a bunch of key3 at tho
end of his watch chain, than to be a3kcd
what time it is.
"I'm goin' to leave, mum!'' " "What
for? I am sure I have done all the
work myself, in order to keep a girl.'
"Well, mum, ther work's not done to
suit me !"
Mrs. Popinjay Now, dear, you won't '
forget, will you, that to-morrow is the
twenty-filth anniverjary of our wedding
day? Mr. Popinjay Dunno. Guess
I'd better tie a string around my finger.
Teacher "JohD, what are your boots
made of?", Boy "Of leather.'5 "Whcro
does the leather coma from?" "From
tho hide of the ox." "What animal,
therefore, supplies you with boots, and
gives you meat to cat?" "My father.1 -.
"George, there is a sadness and mel-
ancholy in your eyes to-night, and your
cheeks seem blanched." ''Yes, Naomi,
lam far from being happy."- "Confide'
in me, dearest. Let me share your sor
row. Have tho bulletingsf this cruet"
world cast a gloom over your soul?"
"Well, not exactly, but ytfu see these
shoes are new and they pinch like th '
deuce."
Just tack thisdegend on your door
For those Who're going through it,
"Pie: so take this door along with you
As far as you can do it."
A Unique Farm. Lease.
A doctor in Kent county, Delaware,
leased his farm last year. An ironclad
leaao was drawn up, bat at the end at
tho year the tonont was unable to acttl
his account. Aa attompt tr uccure. hint- -self
developed to the doctor the fact thai
all the goods of his tenant were covered
by a chattel mortgage held by some one
else, and tho doctor was "left." He
again leased his farm, and here is a
copy of perhaps the most unique leasa
on record.. The names given aro &
titious:
"I, John Smith, do hereby rent mj
farm, consisting of 240 acres, more or
less, to Abel Youagman for tho year
1888. 1,-on my part, agree to-do the '
best I can, and I hope God Almighty
will let Abel Youngman do the best he
can.
Distilling Gold. -It
has long been known that gold u
to some extent volatila at high temper
atures; but it is evidently far more
volatile than has hitherto been believed,
Mr. Crooks mentioned incidentally at
the Ia3t meeting of the CSemical So
ciety that he Lad found gold to bcil
violently when heated m the oxyhydro
gen flaine, and, in fact, to be so volatile
that there would seem to bo no doubt
that it might bo distilled in an apparatus
similar to that employed by Stas ia dis
tilling silver. Athecajum.
Choosing Live Fish For Dinner.
A correspondent writing from Russia
says that in the dining room of oae of
the large cafes of 3Ioscow there is a
pool of fresh water in which fish of
various kind3 and sizes swim about.
Any patron of the restaurant who may
wish a course of fish for his dinner,
goes to the pool, picks out the partic
ular fish which strikes his fancy, and ia
a jiffy the waiter has captured it with,
dip net and sent it out to the chef.
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