VOL. I.
SALISBURY, . X. C, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1888.
NO. 40.
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: She Came From the Clover. ,
She was brought to the city as flowers are
, brought
"- You will find not a fairer one all the world
over '. '-.
But none of the city's hard features she's
caught,
You can tell by her face she was born 'mid
the clover. '
Her voice Is as pure as the bluebird's low
note ;
In the morns when the rigor of April'
abating,
And her laugh has the thrill that you hear
from the throat
Of the bobolink, joying in May and the
mating.
Her teeth areas white as the liquor which
flows
"When milkweed is wounded; her lips have
theredness . '
Of the prickly-aSh berry of scarlet which
glows
Full of life, though about it be autumn's
gray deadness.
And her breath is as sweet as the liverwort's
scent
That is borne with delight by the wooing
March zephyr.
And her eyes have the softness and pleading
ness blent
In the big, melting eyes of the Innocent
heifer.
-Her warm, fluffy hair has a touch of the
gold
In the silk of the corn when it's near to
- the reaping;
Its meshes the gleam of the summer enfold
For it would not depart-in their perma-
nent keeping.
Her thin little fars share the hue" of the
pink
The wild pink that grows by the creek's
shallow waters '
And her cheeks all the blush of the mse by
the brink
Of the same little stream Nature humors
her .daughters. ('
She is fair in the drawing-room. O, she
fair!
is
But she's strayed from her home, has the
beautiful rover,
And she's brought a reflection of vall that is
there;
You can tell by her face she ' was born
'mid the clover
Stan'ey "Waterloo.
All's Well That Ends Well.
' Mr. Perry was an old bachelor and
Miss Briggs was an old maid. He lived
in the brick' house on the hill, and she
in the cottage opposite, and they were
mortal enemies. II o - despised her be
s .i
cause sue kept two cats and a canary,
and she loathed him for hik affection
for a huge mastiff and an old knock-
kneed horse.
"Why on earth the man don'tTtry to
get a decent horse is mora .than I can
imagine!" she would say, as he plodded
up to the door. "I believe that he
is too mean and miserly to buy one."
Miss Bnggs would have hardly felt
pleased had she ka own that Mr. Perry
rode back and forward on this worn-out
piece of horseflesh for the' purpose of
annoying her.
: . ' 1 hey never spoke, but yet the
;: managed to keep up ; a perfect warfare,
' b7 disagreeable manners and rathful
i i. glances.
She sat hour after hour beneath the
-Canary bird in the window, with her cat
perched upon the sill and her knitting
? ; in her hand, throwing glances of scorn
t ; to the opposite side, where he, with
4 cigar and newspaper, received and paid
j " them back with interest,
r - " His detestable dog came over and ran
! through her garden, destroying all he
V beautiful tulips and hyacinths, and she
gave him a hot bath which sent him
' " howling to his master, and" when said
master remonstrated, sent word that she
"would treat him worse next time.
Her little red row hmir
his enclosure and devoured his turnips
and cabbages, and he led her home and
informed Miss Briggs that a second of
fence would give her a comfortable
pasture in the pound.
For two years they lived and fought,
and no one could bring about peace be
tween them. It was a pity, the neigh
bors all said, for Miss Briggs was a dear
little soul, and there was not a finer
man ia the country than Mr. Perry.
, "Julia, my love," said Mrs. Perkins
one afternoon, as she entered the cozy
parlor, "I am going to have a party,
and I want you to come down in the
afternoon to tea and remain during the
. evening. Every one will be there."
, -"Will the old bach over the way be
there . J
i "Mr- ,Perr? V yesl We could
fHot get along without him."
i Then that settles the matter I
fBhaVtgo." . "
"Xow, Julia", don't be so foolish! Tf
you rcmaia at home he will think that
you are afraid of him.",
; Miss Briggs thought the matter over."
, fW ell, it would look a little like that,
"ttnd she would not have him think so
for the world the conceited wretch!
; Mrs. Perkins went home, and it was
arranged that Miss Brigg3 was to spend
1 the afternoon and remain for the party.
: She was a pretty little woman, and it
was always a puzzle to every one why
she never married. She had a round
. rosy face, clear brown eyes, and beauti-
ful hair, and if she was 30 there was
, not a smarter woman in town.
.She stood before the looking-glass
m the chamber, ana lastenea her lace
''i, ii i. t j
. collar over ilia neu. live uicsa vilu a
J?Jftin gold brooch, and began" to think
that she looked verv welL There was
a bright healthy fltwli upon her cheek,
and her eyes were full of life and beau-
ty.- : ; v: K'
She walked into Mrs. Perkins -sitting
room and found her awaiting her
with a smiling lace. She thought that
she must be in a very good humor, but
said nothing, allowing " the good
lady to smile as long and pleasantly as
she wished. . - '
She understood it all when supper
time cams and Mr. Perkins entered,
followed by Mr. Perry. This was a
well-laid plan to make the two become
friends. . . ' "" '
. Miss Briggs bit her lips and inwardly
vowed that nothing should tempt her
to "give that man" her hand in friend
ship. She hated him and always
would.
He wa3 placed directly opposite at
the table, and many times forced to
pass the biscuits or preserves, and Miss
Briggs accepted them, although she de
clared to Mrs. Perkins after supper that
they nearly choked her.
Before evening they were both per
suaded to overlook the horse and cow
difficulty and be civil, and Miss Briggs
wa3 frightened when she , found her
self talking to him with easy and pleas
ant familiarity.
The party was a success, and although
the sport3 were generally monopolized
by the younger portion, they: found
room for the old maid and her enemy,
and several times thev found them
selves doing most ridiculous things in
the way of paying forfeits. -
At the end of the evening Miss
Briggs wa9 at the door ready to depart,
when he called :
"Mis3 Brigg3, I am going right up
your way. Will you ride
Would she ride behind that old horse,
and beside that detestable man? She
was wondering whether she would or
not, when Mrs. Perkins came and tri
umphantly led her out and packed her
into the carriage.
It was as dark as pitch, and they had
to let the horse go his own way and
find it the be3t he could. He did so
very well until they reached the cot-
and then he was bewildered.
Mr. Perry spoke, jerked the reias,
but to no purpose. Ha than took mi t
the whip.
Whether his natural dislike
to that article or the memory of the ia
dignitie3'he had suffered from the hands
of the owner of the
cottage
overcame
him. it is hard to demdp hut t oil
events he kicked up
his
heels, ran a
few yards and fell,
overturning
the
buggy and its precious contents.
Miss Briggs was up in a moment, un
harmed, but Mr. Perry wa3 silent as the
grave. She ran shouting through tha
darkness until Mr. Perry's "help" came
with a lantern to her assistance.
They found the poor man half dead
beneath the carriage, and while Dan
w
was at work, M133 Briggs ran home for
her own servant. After much hard
labor they succeeded in extricating him
from the wreck, but he was senseless,
and they bore him home and sent for
the doctor. Upon examination thev
j
found his leg to be broken, and thus
Mis3 Briggs' enemy was at her mercy.'
The days and weeks that followed
were dreadful ones to the sufferer, but
Miss Briggs never left him. Day and
night she stood beside him, and her
plump hands administered to every
want. I
He forgot the cow and his turnips.
He forgot the cats and the canary. He
only saw a little patient woman, with a
pretty face, trim figure, and tender
hands and would you believe it fell
in love with her. '
How could he help it? She had sat
by him through the dreary days of pain,
she had brought him her preserves, and
nice invifToratincr corals. She had, in
- 0
all probability, saved his life.
What could he dot Nothing but fall
ia love.
"Miss Briggs I" he said one day when
he was able to sit up.
"Well, Mr. Perry?'1
"Youhave been very good tome, and
I feel as though I owe you a great
deal."-
"There! now stop just where you are.
you owe me nothing."
"But would you mind if I trespassed
a little further on your good nature?'
"Not at all"
"Well, Miss Briggs, will you take me
in charge for the rest of my' life?"
"What?"
"Will you marry me? There!" -Miss
Briggs blushed, and her answer
came thus :
"I will marry you."
There was a wedding in the church a
few weeks later, and Mrs. Perkins pre
pared the wedding supper.
Mr. andMra. Perry live in the brick
house, and the cottage i3 rented to a
young man and hi3 wife, to whom Mrs.
Perry bequeathe! her cats and the
canary.
The mastiff and the knock-kneed old
horse are with thsir forefathers. Bal
lou's Monthly.
Encouraging Home Industry.
Mr. Gotham Would you like to see
"Pygmalion" tonight. Miss Porcine?
Miss Porcine (of Cincinnati) Yes,
very much, Mr. Gotham.. I believe in
anything connected with
the great hog industry, Puck.
'QUEEN KABUTU:
A Powerful and Ferocious Fem
inine Potentate of Africa.
A Consul's Unsuccessful'. At
tempt to Interview Her.
1 met the other day, say3 a London
letter to tho New. York Times, Mr. H.
her Majesty's consul" at Zanzibar, on the
east coast of Africa, who told me" the
following tale of this redoubtable per
son, which well nigh outrivals Mr
Rider Haggard's "She." Mr. H.'s juris-'
diction extends over an area of "2,000
.miles, all of which he is supposed to
visit in his official ; capacity. - Lying
toward the interior of the country 4s a
range of impregnable mountains, . over
which reigns supreme a rich and power
ful Queen Kabutu by name. So ter
rible is her reputation, and so greatly
feared is she by the natives far
and wide, that she is -never called by
her rightful appellation, but is designat
: ed as "The Woman' Who Lives Over
Thers," with a wave of the arm toward
the frowning hills. This queen has two
8 on a, who rule provinces under her to
the north and south. She is particular
ly antagonistic to white men, regard
ing them not only with abhorrence but
with an implacable hatred, dubbing
them as monsters, wizards and dealers
in magic. And so -well is her warlike
attitude toward them understood that
no white man ha3 ever dared to
penetrate into her presence, or
indeed, desired to do so since
instant death is the least evil that
would follow on his temerity. Mr. H.,
however, was determined to interview
this queen of the mountains. Ha there
fore started inland with a strong armed
guard and twenty interpreters. It was
a long four days' march through tho
jungle before he reached .the outlying
territory on, the south, over which
reigned the son of this terrible monarch.
This king being of a more pacific na
ture and possessed of considerable curi
osity, consented to receive the white
wjzaru, ana even went so iar as to say
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he would speak a good word
for him to the awful Kabutu,
and, thus encouraged, the consul pro
ceeded on his way. But after another
day's journey his interpreters came to
him in great perturbation and told him
they had received secret warning from
some friendly natives that Kabutu was
preparing to greet them in her own pe
culiar royal style a dungeon for Mr.
H., with perpetual imprisonment to be
terminated only with execution, and the
slave stakes and torture for his servants
and guards. On hearing those san
guinary prophecies, 32 of his men at once
deserted and fled, preferring possible
death in the trackless jungles to falling
into the hands of "The Woman Who
Lives Over There." Mr. H., thus rendered
almost defenceless, and though know
ing himself to ba in the greatest danger,
dared not show tho least fear or appre
hension. ' He prepared to push on
further, and would undoubtedly have
fallen a victim to Kabutu's cruelty had
not a messenger arrived secretly from
the friendly son, entreating him to go
no further, and saying that hi3 mother's
rae and fiiry at the white monster's
presumption knew no bounds ; she was
already gloaimg uver me
varied forms
of torture where with
He further offered at
to punish him.
the risk of his
own crown, to have Mr.
H. conducted
back in safety; but the journey must be
performed at night and with the great
est circumspection. Taking all things
into consideration, Mr. H. decided to
accept the friendly King's offer, and
quietly moved off and out of
the dangerous neighborhood. His
way lay for miles and . mile
through dense jungles and morasses
before the borders of civilization were
reached. , The ferocious Kabutu still
remains un vanquished and unseen by
the white man, but Mr. ZL, who returns
to his consulate in August, intends in
October to push his way into the very
presence of the terrible one. In those
delightful regions pounds and pence
are unknown and of no value, the, ac
cepted currency being beads, handker
chiefs, and colored lines; and so par
ticular and fussy are the native mon
daine3 that to offer a bead of last years
shape, a handkerchief of last year's
color, or a calico of last year s dye, is a
dire offense and of about as much good
as a bag of stones would be. The cli-
mate is charming, the verdure perpet
ual, and noxiouj insects are unknown.
China's JBiggest Opititn Den.
The Nan-gin-tsin, the greatest opium
den ia China, is situated in the French
Concession ia, Shanghai, and within a
stone's throw of the wall of the native
city, within which no opium shops are
supposed to exist. The throngs visiting
it represent all stations of life, from the
coolie to the wealthy merchant or the
small mandarin. It is with difficulty
that one gets inside through the crowds
of people hanging round, the door.
Those who have not the requisite num
ber of copper cash to procure the bane
ful pipe, watch with horrible wistful
ness each of the more affluent pass in
with a nervous, hurried step, or totter
out wearing that peculiar dazed expres
sion which cornea after the smoker's
craving has been satisfied, and his
transient pleasure ha3 passed away! "One
requires a" strong stomach to"; stand the
sickening fumes with which the air in
side is thickened. The clouds of "smoke,
the dim light from the numerous
colored lamps, the numbers of reclining
forms with distorted face3 beat over the
small flames at which the pipes are
lighted, cause, the novice a sickening
sensation. ' " . . ; :
The average daily receipts are said to
be about f 1000. The smoking apart
ments are divided into four classes. In
the cheapest are coolies, who pay about
8 cents for their smoke. In the dear
est the smoke cost3 about .14 cents. The
drug supplied in each class is much the
same both in quality and quantity ; it is
the difference in the pipes that regulates
the price. ' The best kinds are made of
ivory, the stem being often inlaid with
stones and rendered more costly by
reason of elaborate carving ;the cheapest
kinds are made simp'y of hard wood.
The rooms are furnished according
to class. In the mo3t expensive the
lounge upon which the smoker reclines
i3 of fine velvet, with pillows of the.
same material; the frames of each couch
are inlaid with mother-of-pearl and
jade, and the whole air of these rooms
is one of sensuous luxury. There are
also a number of private rooms. Ia the
poorer section will be seen many wear
ers of the tattered yellow, and gray
robes of Buddhist and Taouist priest.
Women form a fair proportion of the
smokers. The common belief i3 that
the opium sleep is attended by a mild,
pleasurable delirium, with brief
glances of Elysium; but this is the ex
ception, not the rule. People smoke
to satisfy their craving begotten of
previous indulgence. There 13 accom
modation for 150 smokers at a time,
and there is seldom a vacancy very
lonr. The stream of smokers cms m
w - --O i
from early morning till midnight,
when the place closes; "the cloud of
smoke go up incessantly all day long.
The Earth.
Journeying in Siberia.
The entrancing iaterest and "delight
ful perils of a midwinter journey
through the heart of Asiatic Russia are j
described in the New York Graphic.
The tour began late in December, owing
to the tardiness of winter's icy breath,
and the route lay from Vladwostok
5000 miles across ice-bound rivers and
snow-bound roads to Ekaterinbufar. A
sledge, rude and clumsy, had been
packed with deerskins, 3heepskins, fur
lined mitten?, dogskin socks, camel
hair stockings, felt boots and other req
uisites for keeping the cold out. The
tourist3 stretched themselves out on
these comforters, while yenshieks or
drivers curled themselves ur on the
comfortless box-seat and the start was
made. The rjostina svstem nf RihD? i
wonderful. AH across the continent
from the Pacific to the Urals and be
tween all important towns, at distances
varying from eight to twenty miles, '.are
post stations, where, on presentation' of
his pass, the traveler can demand the
use of horses to carry him one stage
of his journey. If horses are not forth
coming the travelerj can livo, board free,
at the station until the animals come.
The road is marked out by small
tree branches and hundreds of persons
are employed at the beginning of every
winter ia thus searching out the way.
The thermometer fell lower , every day
untif it registered 62 degrees. On
waking in tho morning the ice over the
eyes had to be thawed out with the fin
gers before they could be opened. Ia
this way an average of over 150 mile3 a
day was made. In nine weeks from
Vladwostok Ekaterinburg was reached.
It cost Uren, one of the travelers, his
life, the journey having sown the seed3
of consumption which he survived only
a few months.
Snake-Eating Snakes.
A letter just received from Mr.
Pringle of Louisiana, the well-known
snipe shot, whose wonderful bags were
reported some time since in your paper,
contains the following extract, which
may prove interesting to some of your
readers: "I was walking across a very
boggy marsh, whera there was a good."
deal of water, and was stuiibling along,
not with my former youthful agility,
when I came near stepping on a snake
in coil, whit is called a "cotton-mouth
moccasson," whose bite is not fatal,
but somewhat poisonous. There being
no stick at hand to kill him, I stepped
back and shot him, cutting him not
quite, but nearly ia two, and exposed
his 'innards' as the negroes say. My
man Caesar exclaimei, 'Massa, he got
another snake in himl and so he had
one as long as "himself. I pulled the
swallowed snake out, and held him by
the tail along side the other. The
swallower was about 30 inches long and
very thick, and the swallowed 1 1-2
inches shorter, only that the latter's
head and neck were doubled, so as to
be forced into the othcr. "Did you
ever know of one snake eating another?
They say that dog will not eat dog, but
it seems that a snake will perform the
operation on another snake. Londca
Field.
SCIENTIFIC SCBAT3,
The mean" height ofthe land above
sea-level, according to John Murray, is
2250 feet; aid the mean depth of, the
ocean is 12,480 feet. - . '
Earthquake sounds frequently precede
the shock, are often heard during its
progress, and sometimes after the earth
quake proper has ceased.
1 Occultations of stars by the ' planet3
are extremely rare, but Dr. Berberich,
of Berlin, believes observations of them
would be very important,- throwing
L'light on the extent and density of plane
tary atmospheres.
A furred tongue is not necessarily an
alarming symptom. To some persons
it is normal to have a clean tongue, and
to others equally normal to ha ve a coat-ed-one,
so that it is impossible to fix
any degre3 or limit of coating as a nec
essary p. accompaniment to perfect
': health. ' v- - - - x - J'. . ' -
According to Mr. Lockyer, the
meteors, which we have been accustomed
to consider trivial or incidental matters
in planetary, and1 stellar systems, no
more" important than the dust which the
housewife raises from parlor and cham
ber, are really fundamental and basic
elements of the universe, capable of
generating comets, planets, ' suns and
stars. '..
-Experiments have been made in
transplanting the beautiful Alpine
Edelweiss into the mountains of Bo
hemia and other places. In its new
homes the plant seems to be changing
its character, and in the mountains of
upper Austria it has become transformed
into a new species, bearing red flowers
Instead of the beautiful ermine-like
white blooms.
The geological effects of ice seem to
have been greatly exaggerated." From
personal study of living glaciers in
Norway and similar experience by
others, Professor J. W. Spencer de
clares that the potency of land glaciers
to act as great eroding agents, capable
of "planing down half a continent," or
ploughing out great valleys or lake bas
in?, or even of greatly modifying them,
is most strongly negatived.
The factory at Oerlikon, Switzerland,
has entered into negotiations with a
large Milan firm to erect an electrical
installation capable of transmitting 250
horse-power a distance of about 600
yards, with a guaranteed yield of 78 per
cent. The motive power is to be fur
nished by turbines driving two Oerlikon
dynamos, the current being transmitted
to the two motors in the factory by
three wires, as at Kriegstettin.
Celluloid has recently been u?cd as a
substitute for copper ia sheathing the,
hulls of vessels and has been found to
answer the purpose admirably. Plates
of this substance have been applied to a
number of vessels and allowed to re
main six months. At the end of that
time, the part of the hull left uncover
ed were found to present abundant col
lections of marine vegetations, while
the celluloid wa3 intact and free from
wch vegetable masses.
America Lucky Day.
In Europe and the eastsrn part of the
world Friday is generally regarded as
an unlucky day, and those who are any
way superstitious will object to com
mence any new enterprise or to do any
thing of importance on that day.
Strange to say, Friday has exercised the
mo3t important and beneficial effects on
America, and may be regarded as her
lucky day. There are maiy citizen?,
mostly those of foreign birth, "who still
abhor Friday, although it is shown that
the most important events connected
with the discovery of the New World
and the independence of the United
States all happened on a Friday.
It was on Friday, the 3d of August,
1492, that Christopher Columbus set
sail from the port of Pal 03 on his voyage
of discovery. Oa Friday, the 12th of
October, of the same year, . he sighted
land. On Friday, the 4th of January,
1493, he set out for Spain to announce
his glorious discovery. He landed in
Andalusia on Friday, the lath of March,
1493. On Friday, June 13, 1494, he
discovered the continent of America.
On Friday, March 5, 1497, Henry Vlf,
King of England, sent Jean Cabot on a
mission which led to . the decovery of
North America. Oa Friday,
November 10, 1565, Melendez
founded St.. Augustine, the
oldest city in' the United States. On
Friday, November 10, 1620, the May
flower landed the Pi! giini Fathers at
Princetown. On Friday, Decembsr 21,
1620, the immigrants reached Plymouth
Hock. Oa Friday, Feb. 22, 1732,
Washington was born. On Friday,
June 17, 1775, the tattle of Bunker
Hill was fought. Oa Friday, October
8, 1773, Burgoyne surrendered at Sara
toga. Arnold's treason plot was dis
covered on Friday, September 23, 17oU
Cornwalli3 surrendered at Yorktowa on
Friday,
Union.
ia October, 1731. Church
Xot Very Select.
Visitor (to convict) Your fate is a
bard oae, my friend; tut you have
plenty of company ia your misery.
Convict Yes, sir; but the company
i3 a little mixed. Life.
PEARLS OF THO UGHT,
Humble usefulness is better tkia
learned idleness. -
Action without reason is like a setting
hen without eggs. ? ? -
Ten cent's worth of do is worth many
dollars of promise. -
Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune
is in his own hands, .
Jlen mayjbend to virtue ' but virtue
cannot bend to men. v v
It is better to scratch; for a living
than to itch for fame. r
; Who is the greatest liart He who
speaks most of himself.
There's many a good bit o work
done with a sad heart.
Act well at the moment, and you havo
performed;- a good action to all
eternity. :. ''
Economy is half the battle of life, it
not half so hard to earn money as to
spend it well.
Learn to thiak and act for yourself.
B 3 vigilant. Keep ahead of rather than
behind the time. " ;
Over-anxiously to feel and think what
I one could have done is tha very worst
thin one can do.
. Despair and postponement are cow
ardice and - defeat. Men are born to
succeed, not to fail. ;
It is not so much the dew of heaven
as the sweat of man's brow which rend
ers the soil fruitful.
Strange Breed of Cattle.
A strange breed of wild cattle is
found in the 'high hills skirting the
Umpqua valley, Oregon, says a letter in
the Boston Transcript. In the moun
tains, near Riddles and Rosebud, they
are probably most plentiful, but they
do not venture down in the valley much.
They stay on the hills and get water
from the living springs which rise there.
For the most part they are concealed in
the dense growth of oak and fir in these
mountains. There is- a heavy under
brush, too, so that it is a hard matter to
get them. They go in bands of six or
eight usually, but at night a herd of
forty of fifty get together and lie down
in the same yard that i?, they sleep in
the samo spot, which is usually a seclud
ed place among the trees; A band of
wild cattle have been known to get to
gether on a cleared place like this every
night for a couple of years. ''When
feeding, there are always few -bulls to
act a3 sentinels. While the cattle craze
in bands of half a dozen or so, .they are,
nevertheless, .close to other bands, so
that at an alarm from any one of tho bulls,
which leisurely feed on higher ground,
they all run away together. The cattle
are of all colors and wilder than deer. It
is a hard matter to get a shot at them,
for the reason that their scent is so
keen. They can ' smell a man a long
distance off. The. got wild in 1833,
when the old man Riddles and two 01
three other3 of the old settlers came to
the valley. Their cow wandered off and
could not be found. After two or three
years all the pioneers had to do when,
they wanted beef was to rig out two or
three pack animals and go up into the
mountains. The cattle had to be killed
on sight the same as bear or deer, for i
they could
than deer
no more be 'driven down
could. Once killed, they
were quartered, packed on the horses,
and carried down. They have been
hunted a good deal of late years, so that '
there are not as many as there used to
be. A peculiarity about these cattle is
that their eyes and horns are jet black.
The retina, iris, and the whole apple of
the eye are one mass of black, -You
can't distinguish any difference- in any
part of it. The horn3, too, while being
black as ink, are long and sharp.
Brought to bay, the Oregon wild cattle
are very wicked fighters."
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Custom of Shaving the Beard,
The cu3tom of shaving the beard was
enforced by Alexander of M -.csdon, not
for the sake of fashion, but for a practical
end. He knew that the soldiers of
India, when they encouiterei their
foes, had the habit of grasping them by
the beard, and so ordered his soldiers
to shave. .Afterwards shaving was prac
tic:din the Macedonian army, and then
among Greek citizens. The Romans
imitated the Greeks in ths practice, as
they did ia many othir things, and
spread it to the different European na
tions yet barbaric. In the middle ages,
at the time of the renaissance, shaving
was introduced, and the habit was . re
tained, though classicism gave place to
romanticism, and that, ia its turn, was
repleced by realism.
The beard was a source of trouble to
Peter the Great, who simultaneously
with the introductions of his great re
forms in Ru?sii, tried to iaduco hi3
people to imitate tha shaving nations.
This innovation was resisted by his sub
jects with the utmost persistence, and
they preferred to pay a heavy fine rath- I
er than suffer disfigurement, as they be
lieved, of the image of God. To tha
Russians of olden times tha beard was a
symbol cf liberty. In several countries
of western Europe and ia the United
States the beard was restored to honor
only about thirty or forty yean ago. .
Commercial Advertiser."
HUMOROUS,
Failure ia the yarn trade Wfltinff
unsuccessful novels. -- .
Many a widow's weeds' ate vilted by
the simplephrase, ."Wilt thou?' ')
Why does the ocean get angry ? Ba-j
cause it has been crossed so often. ,
ne attempts' 10 argue wiia a .
If ayoung man feels that his. lifo is A
blank he should try to fill it out and
have it sworn to. " I '
It doesn't matter how tough a young j
man may be, a good looking girl is very
likely to break him up. x - -'
The bank cashier has run awavL
What, run away 1 where has he gone tot
Where has he gone? -To Canada,
Because there's there a place Toronto.
When' you are at sea and ask a m0
at the wheer how she heads, and h
tells you, "Sou'-sou'-east-by-son," yojf
get all the news there is in a small cora
pass. , '
The 'festive" goat is browing j ,
On the hoopskirt in the lane,
And the organ grinder's grinding
v: In the street his plaintive strain.
Visitor : Your new house is' verV
pretty; but you .will have trouble to do
anything with the garden it's so small"
Country Host: "Yes, it "is small, bu
then, I shall put in f olding-Jbods., . f
An hotel located in the West, is beinr
advertised as follows: "There is n
gilt-edge business about this house, anc
if you want to eat pie. with a knife you
cn do it without fear of being ostra
cized from sociaty." "
France's Sinking Shore. ' x
Just lately, on the coast of Brittany,
one of those geological discoveries has'
been made which suggest to the mind
periods of time making the longest hu-'
man life appiar.but a span anijl exhibit-'
ing processes quite dwarfing 'the mosti
ambitious human-achievements. This'
is the disclosure, by. the displacementr
of a mass of sand, during tha 'last- high1
tide3, of a forest that must hava been
buried for: some, twenty centuries at
least. The situation "is 'just opposite
Saint Malo at the foot of ' the cliffs "of
Saint Eadgat and Saint Lunaire. Tha
forest is supposed to have once extend
ed from-Saint Malo to boyond Mont
Saint- Michel. This, discovery ia . con
sidered of great scientific", interest, as it
affords a remarkable illustration of- the
gradual siaking of the French shore.
The. progress of this sinking during the"
last 2, 000 years is clearly found in an
old map found at the Abbey of the
Mont Saint Michel. Within no mora
than seven centuries back as many as
seven parishes are sail to have disap
peared by the subsidence of this region;
And in the Bay of Douarnenez there i3
known to have existed in the fifth cen
tury quite a flourishing town palled t
the scene of a , famous " tragical
legend. . Even now, at low' water
may - be. seen the old walls
of Is, which are called by the inhab
itants" Mogber Greghi (wall of thj'
. Greeks). The -people of tho country'
pretend that they can sometimss hea
the old church .bells of the submerged'
city ringing with the motion of the cur-'
rent. : - ' ... , " ' ' I ".
French geologiitt estimate that tho'
gradual siaking of the soil of Brittany,!
Normandy, Artois, Belgium and Hol-j
land is not less than seven feet a cea
tury. At this rate it is calculated that'
ports will be destroyed, and Paris itself
will hnve become a maritime city; ,1a
another ten centuries it is predicted that
the French capital itself will have bo
come entirely Bubmsrjd, excepting,'
perhaps, that the tops of the Pantheon,
of the Arc de Triomphe and other such
monuments may be discernible at low
water by the peop!ewho will then b
living. London Globe. . . .
Tfie Club as a Weapom
From the earliest timea the club wag
A favorite military weapon, its piimitivo
form being simply of a straight stick,
much heavier at 000 end than at tha.'
other, and adapted for uso eithor byne
or both hand. With improvements in
other styles of weapons, however, cam?
the mace... The ma2e is a shafted'
weapon, consisting of a wooden handle,
fitted into an iron h?ad, the latter being
of many different stylo-?. S-nn) maoes
have phalanges 01 the sid;s; others are
round liko an orange, and furnished
with shirp projecting points; while oth
ers again are ia the shape of two im
perial crown placed base to base. "
The mac3 whs a horseman's weapon
"ueaally fastened to his saldle during
the mirch, and in anaction susnended
1
'i
ty a ccrci round uu wrist, it was a
favorite weapon for fighting: ccclesla3-r
'tics, of whom there were masy.during '
the middle age?. Piiest?, by a caaoa
of the church, being forbidden to U3 ,
the sword, the mace, the lance, tho hal-.
berl and several othor weapons of this
description, wore allowed to' tako the
place of tint weapon, whfc1! in alt 5ags, .
has been typical of w.:r. A modifica
tion of the mnce was a plain hammer or
maul, frequently carried by long bow
men. It was a simple mallet, of wood
or of iron, with a handle four or fi'va
feet long, used as an offsnsivo weapon at
close quarters. Globe-Democrat.