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S 5 in PUBLISHED ETEBT THURSDAY BY J.J. STEWART, Editor and Proprietor. . SALISBURY, N. C. PRICE OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year -.'.$1.50 tlx Months ....... 1.00 tliree Months. . ............ '. ... . .50 ' IST" Advertising Rate by Contract, Reasonable. - Entered in the Post-Offlca at Salisbury; M AOcd-dMi m&tter. . The first thing Explorer Stanley did when he reached the coast of Africa "was to ask for files of newspapers for the past three years. The world's history for that period was a blank to him, and he will have to do some hard reading in order to understand the situation. One method. ot "preventing fires seems to have been overlooked in the discussion' which has followed the disasteVs in Lynn, Boston and Minneapolis. It is the French regulation which makes a tenant oi house-owcer financially responsible for damage by fires that spread, beyond his premises. It will, perhaps, interest some readers to know how much fuel a locomotive burns. On freight trains an average con sumption may be taken at about one to one and one-half pounds of coal consumed per car per mile. With passenger trains, the car3 of which are heavier and the speed higher, the coal consumption is greater. A freight train of thirty cars, at a speed of thirty miles per hour; would, therefore, burn from' 900 to 1350 pounds oi" coal per hour. 1 It is estimated that our American tour Jsts in 1889 spent ninety million dollars in Europe, and it is almost certain that scarcely a bagatelle of all this will ever float back to our shores. This is an enor mous amount of money. " It is double the amount Uncle Sam has on deposit in all the National banks of the country. It is nearly the sum which Secretary Noble estimates for the entire pension list in 1890. It is far more than it takes to run two or three department of the Govern ment for a year. It is aboutinie, the New ToTTdegramePrS i n 1 iTTrrt:gii i f fhp wnfpr onfl nro. vented all this flow of good cash to Europe. Dr. Alfredo di Luy, of Rio Janeiro, believes that the climate of Brazil is de generating to Europeans, especially to persons from the north. He has noticed that Brazilians in general arc more pal lid, and are less vigorous and energetic, than persons coming from temperate and , cold climates. The degeneration of the ' Portuguese race may also be noted in Rio de Janeiro. An anemic condition, caused by malarious influences, is com mon among them, and, while it does not kill by itself, weakens the hold on life and '. greatly increases the infant mortality. The children of Portuguese and Italians do not -seem to fare so badly as the chil dren of parents coming from more north ern countries. r Even in conservative England the times are indeed changed. The cane has always been considered as necessary a part of the schoolmaster's possessions as the spelling book and corporal punish ment prevails there to au extent that would not be tolerated here. A school master was recently sued by the father of a pupil whom he had unmercifully beaten by caning, him on the hand, and . the magistrate gave judgment against the pedagogue on the ground that caning on the hand was attended by a' risk of in juryj and there were "methods of cor poral punishment quite as available, efficacious and not necessarily attended by any T wajcu tbe defendant migM have used." . There is vast deal of frmt; among the womea of tlie Countrv Th Ladies' Hermiuge Association, with headquarters at Kaillc, Tenn., has undertaken to raise aillnd for tte serration of Andrew ve homestead. The . lutentW to TOake the. Hermitage, like Xount Verno a Mecca for patriots. lrs- . Baxter is the President of the mocia tion. . The Mary Washington lonUmen Association, of Fredericksburg, Ya. .; t i Viands of earnest women, who wish to see the. grave oi5e - Erst President's mother markey as ipprdpnate monument. Mrs; Jam Powef Smith, rrc Va U thePjresiry " ' YaUni formerly a United States . editor a'awan, from Louisiana, and now r of La- Patrie. the leadinff French Liberal pape )er in Cannon hx made a dis v-uvcrjr xnat "aJ nave irreat import on me relation httween this country and SaVS that V.. - u A nAr..- Canada. He all her rights m . , Aenca to the United btaces by a formal v . ireai UUiU1aU, American war so that xne united states is still now the imfnrAl otector of the . . . . naaians against Jbngland, sbould any attempt be tuiaju iict iu ucpiirv .luein of the rigats to their Ifaith and lan guage con- f erre to them by the treaty of 1763 iue xreuca Vanamaus oi Jjiannoua are t . conseq Kntly starting a ;; movement to frame a feclaration of grievance and f or- ward it u the United States Govern ment, with an appeal for protection igainst any Jaw forbidding the use of the . French language in that province. rm. X' v. n J; -r ?a During 1889 there were no fewer than 439 suicides in- the Austro-Hungarian army, of which number 23 were officers and the remainder non-commissioned offi cers and privates. According to the - latest records the number of Indians in this country is 250, 000, and the reservations which they hold comprise il6j630ji03 acres, or 466 acres for each man, -woman and child. The flag of the three Americas which floats over the headquarters of : the Con ference at "Washington, has a blue field decorated with our eagle guarding the Western Hemisphere, surrounded by a symbolic wedding ring, while "the back ground is formed by golden stars ar ranged in the form of a southern cross. The Chinese are fairly overrunning the Sandwich Islands. They number one fifth of the population and nearly mon opolize many branches of mercantile busi ness, while there are six Chinese mechan ics out of every seven of this class on the islands." The natives feel their predomi nance keenly, but as the Chinese are the most vigorous and progressive race the islanders will 'have to submit to the logic of events. It seems to be their manifest destiny to give place to a stronger people. The indolent islandera of the Pacific are no match for the hardy and energetic Chinese. Even vegetation seems to acknowledge that this is the age of electricity. There has just been discovered in the forests of India, a strange plant, whiph possesses astonishing magnetic power. The hand which' breaks a leaf from it receives im mediately a shock equal to that which is produced by the conductor of at indue-, tion coil. At a distance of twenty feejf a magnetic needle is affected by itjrirtf it will be quite deranged, if. fought near. It is shunned by birds and insects ; its power is increased during ajCtorm; yet all magnetic force is lost wh& rain falls, even though the plaat.be sheltered by au umbrella. There is a strong probability that the five Republics of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Sau Salvador and Guatemala will shortly becomeCne Republic, which will be known as the United State? of Central America. The President of the union will hv charge of the diplomatic r antMwTt: a relations of the five Republics only for the first ten years of the federa tion. At the expiration of that .pejiod a constitution embracing all political, com. mercial and other relations, will be adopted. The treaty has been signed by Honduras', Guatemala and ,San Salvador and Costa Rica, it is expected, will do the same as soon as Nicaragua ha3 signed. The post schools of the army may re ceive some attention from Congress dur ing the current session. It is not likely that any attempt will be made to carry sut General Lew Wallace's idea of con verting every military station into au academy; but, according to the New York Times, this view is gaining adherents that a somewhat better use could be made of a part of the time of the enlisted men than employing it in endless repetitions of rudimentary drills. The recruit must of course be made first of all a good soldier, and have such daily training as will keep him a good soldier; but it is not neces sary to-look at West Point to see about what proportion of the day is really re quired for that and how much is left for mental improvement. Men of the present day who attend concerts and are debarred the plaasure of seeing the singers by the high-hat nuisance, may take comfort from the fact that their grandfathers and great-grandfathers suffered a similar infliction. In the European Magazine, published in London, for December, 1783, is the fol lowing: "It is the fashion in Paris for the ladies to wear straw; hats of a mon strous size, made in imitations of the arc ostatic globes ; on which account they are called 'les chapeaux au ballon.' It is to be hoped that the whimsical mode will not be introduced among the people of England, as it would prove still more inconvenient at the play houses than the late high heads." And again we read: "Woe to the frequenters of the play houses if the new French balloon hats are ever brought into fashion here in their present form." But they were. The proposal of Secretary Tracy to al- Uv men to enlist in the navy for life and xhen to insure them retirement alter thirty years' service seems, to the New Yfk Tim, "to be a very good one. There is no reason why Jack Tar shou;d at have the benefit of a retired list like hls brother of the land service, audit is M1 excellent nle with' the plan to couple uiofisin-pc tn insure lonir and faithfu sPrvir-f, Tf nt fWp pnd of four he k l!sllouM tire of pii life ehliitment, JS- Hn to have-a full chance to put' an i - and be disrharrrpd : and' thi l)o discharged; trpuon wiu Invent him from being aiarmou at the a life prospect of entering, into to besin with. But if he does t;i ----- u L four years, h, ;c t ;"lse :,nr,neeted . l0rfeit the privilege r"- ;t life the other h:r.i v , . enlistment. On to be allowed a , . t'ce m each twelve. uu. mm. uiatc thes se leaves for as i , loher, and then r .... v j, cation with- -jul iorieuing-ina iigats. "rile system is we should w;?:;" east ha-e the ef- luuucmg vuugrcss to , tired ,.J, oiisn re- i'jr' i or tne eniisiea ea of the navy. THE THINGS THAT NEVER COME - OU R WAY. , : Tfe sometimes talk about this earth ; As being such a dreary place -Of happiness there's such a dearth, ' While sorrow meets us face to face. . But joys surround us oft, and yet TTe're every one constrained to say ,i 'Twould be mors pleasant could we get The things that nevercome our way. It always seems to us as though, While, fortune is to others kind, We're never given half a show - To win the prizes we would find. , We toil in vain to grasp the gold Which falls to others in their-play-Across their pathway fate has rolled The things that never come our way. We think if we could but design The comforts that enrich and bless, The siin would much more brightly shine Across our path in happiness. But yet we very dimly see We may be wrong. Ah, who can say? Our fives may more triumphant be That things have never come our way. Chicago Herald. AUNT BATES. The periodical visits made by Aunt Bates to her friends and relatives were as inevitable and as much dreaded as the equinoxial gales. This slangy generation wouhi style her a ''sponge,'' but the sentiment of hos pitality was strong among the people of the Sooth in those Mid days. Aunt Bate3 had a fair, "faded face that bore traces of former beauty, and usually wore a lace kerchief, disclosing her withered neck, because, as she was fond of telling the girls, her "swan -like throat'ad been the toast of all South Carolina. As regarded her character, lie, posi tively refused to take. a hint, and nothing ever put her out of countenance. She went from hvrse to house, bearing tales, d would have beena perfect fire-brand L-if her reputation had not been so well- known. It seemed doubtful if Aunt Bates were capable of a sincere emotion of auy kind, but she seemed to feel a sort of pride in the beauty of her two grandnieces, Cyn thia and LauraLemarc. They were the children of her nephew, the son and namesake of her favorite brother, Philip, whose praises she seemed never weary of chanting. "Honey," she would say, "there are no men nowadays, as fine and handsome as Philip and your poor deceased pa took after him. When I was a girl and .he wa3 a baby boy, I used to take him out with me, .and, honey, a handsome young gentleman sent me a beautiful copy of verses comparing us to Venus and Cupid." One fine day Aunt Bates appeared at the house of her cousin, John Dalrym pie. She was his favorite aversion, and when he found she had come , to stay 'he col lected all the clocks in the house besides borrowing several from' the neighbors. These he; wound and regulated so that they would strike at all hours of the day and night, and set them about Aunt Bates' sleeping apartment. It is needless to say that her slumbers were not peace ful. "Honey," she said, the next morning, at breakfast, "I don't think it agrees with my health to sleep in a room that has so many clocks in it, so I'll just go on to Sabina's. She is always begging and praying me to stay with her. No butter, honey, thank you, though it's a great temptation when it's as beautiful as yours. How do you make it so beauti ful, honey? I never see any like it any where else." Shortly after this Mrs. Dalrymple heard that Aunt Bates had remarked to another victim of her visiting mania. "I'm just starved for butter, honey, because I've been staying with Jane Dalrymple. I never eat butter at Jane's. She's too fond of print, honey. These . blue-stockings are always poor housekeepers." Aunt B-.ttes went to stay with Sabina Lemarc, the mother of Laura and Cyn thia, as she had announced her intention of doing. . Sabina was a widow and in reduced circumstances ; for when her husband had died three ;or four years ago, his affairs had been found to be in the greatest con fusion. Comparatively -.little was saved from the wreck, and Sabina was obliged to leave her plantation home and move into a little brown house on the outskirts of Beechville. It was quite a mortifica tion to Aunt Bates that her favorite -grandnieces should not be able to dress as handsomely as their wealthy cousins; but small as the house was, jit was the headquarters of all the young people, and Laura and Cynthia never lacked admirers. Sabina was a sweet-tempered woman, with a fat, dimpled, cherubic tace; but she confessed that Aunt Bates always "upset" her. She groaned in spirit when Aunt Bates announeed cheerfully: "I've come to stay a good long time, honey. I know you. and the dear girls have been lonely without me." Shortly after Aunt Bates's arrival, Mrs. Lemarc was called from home by the illness of her mother. "Set your mind at rest, honey," said Aunt Bates. "I'll look after the young folks, and keep house for you. And, by the by, though I don't like to speak of it, don't you think it would be just as well to make the servants sweep under the beds? There's always a: coat of dust as thick a3 a blanket under every one of them. Of course, honey, you don't mind me telling you; for you wouldn't like strangers calling you an untidy house keeper." Mrs. Lemarc's round, sweet face turned very red, and it was with difficulty she repressed a sharp answer. Aunt Bates's relatives treated her with a great deal of generous forbearance always ' saying, "Oh, she's poor,' you know, and has no home." - It is doubtful whether even legacy hunters could have endured her imper tinences, had she been wealthy. Now th3t Laura and Cynthia held the reins, the little brown horse was gayer than ever. One evening they were play- inr blind-man s buff, witn all its atten dant noise and merriment ; and Aunt Bates took occasion to remark, during a Laura, honey, I feel it myuty tr write to your dear ,ma to tell her how iiaujtt. . ' w 7 - - - - j r beautifully you are taking care of every thing. She'll be gratified, honey she;ll be very much gratified. " "Then she re tired to the kitchen, and said to Lucinda, the stout cook. Lucinda, you had better send word to your mistress to come home rio-ht away, if she wants to find anything left of the house- These young people are the most torn-down pieces! , gut Lucinda, tossed her head, and sniffed audibly. AU the servants detested Aunt Bates, for she never gave thena anything but innumerable orders. Presently, the young folks dispersed, and none were left but Laura, and Cyn thia,, and the three IIarrisdir?isters who were going to spend the night. Relieved to find peace Aunt Batc3 settled herself in front of the fir?, in the most comfortable arm chair, and placed her feet, cased ih shabjry black satin shoes, on the low fender. - At this moment Frank, . the man serv ant, came in with, an armful of logs. He waited for some minutes; but as Aun Bates did not take the hint, and - remove her feet, hp coolly stepped over them. - "Frank, honey," she said, in mild re proach, "you oughtn't to step over Annt Bates's feet." - , Then she turned to Nellv Harrison, a fragile girl with a delicate hectic bloom and a slight stoop ; and remarked : ' 'Nelly, honey, I should think you'd try to sit straight." "Well, it seems as if- I can't, some how, said the girl, good naturedly. ;Ohr honey ! you ought to see a cousin of mine, Amanda Lemarc. Such a grand figure of a young lady, honey! Why, she's as straight well, as straight as I am. She has the deportment of a Queen. That's what they used to say of me that I would grace a throne. I think, honey, if you could once see Amanda, you'd try not to be so stoop shouldered. Some Hoiks might be ill-natured enough to say you had a hump. But as for Amanda " " Why, Aunt Bates VI cried Cynthia, ih open-eyed wonder, "Amanda is high shouldered, and pa used always to say she walked like our old red cow." J "DidJhe, honey?" asked the unabashed old lady. "Well, perhaps I've forgot ten how she walks. It might be her mother I was thinking of; but, at any rate, it runs in our family to walk grace fully and to be slender and distinguished looking. You and Laura favors the Lemarcs, but you are nothing like what they were in my young days. It's a blessing, you didn't take after the Gar netts.. Your dear ma is Dainfullv stout. and has about as much expression iu her ! face as a pan of skim milk. "Please don't make such remarks about ma, Aunt Bates," said Laura, indignantly. "Honey, it isn't back-biting your dear ma to tell the truth about her. Unless she is puffed up with vanity, she must know, honey, that she is too fat and has no waist." . "Ma's just right,'? contradicted Cynthia. "Well, honey, your saying s6 doesn't make it so. You. girls of the present day have no idea what grace or beauty is. Oh, honeys ! you should have seen Aunt Bates in the bloom of her girlhood. They called me the Mountain Rose, and duels were fought about me by the dozen. I i was as fair1 as a luv, with larsre eyes as ! blue-las forget-me-nots, and hair like sunbeams. Besides, every one said I was as graceful as a fairy. I have had many romantic adventures." Here the girls exchanged expressive glances. They knew what -was coming. "One day," Aunt Bates continued, "a3 I was on my way to school, I met such a handsome young gentleman oh horse back. He looked at me fixedly and ai? ter he had passed, he kept turning around to get one more glance. After this, I oft4d met him, aad, one day, when I dropped my satchel of books, lie leapied f rom hi3 noble horse, and handed it back, to me, with a courtly bow. This led to an acquaintance that ripened intpf an engagement with the full consent of my parents, honey. . . " His name was Harcourt de Percival. tt j ji i i j.? ri j tie wrote xne most ueauuim poems, auu he used to brinar tnem to me, tipm "in mf n t fl wo .would- read them together.But he got a b'rain-fever-and died. For 'two years I mourned him as a widow ; but, one day, the servant came and told me a gentle man wanted to see me. As I entered the room, I nearly fell in a faint, for I thought that Harcourt de; Percival stood before me. For a moment he stood transfixed with admiration, of my beauty." Here Kate Harrison' suppressed -a giggle. " And then he said, ' Madam, my late friend, Harcourt de Percival, left me in his will a manuscript collection of his poems, which I believe you have in your possession." " Why was he so long in coming for them?" Cynthia asked in an artless tone. " Don't ask such silly questions. How do I know? I was not so bold as you girls are to begin cross-examining a gen tleman. As I was saying, I gave him the poems and we became very good friends. And, honey," concluded Aunt Bates, im pressively, "I married Uncle Ba.tes be cause he looked so much like Harcourt de Percival I'V Aunt Bates's visit was a lengthy one. It lasted until spring set in, and was en livened by many eccentricities. On one occasion some visitors inquired whether Mrs. Lemarc had had any peas from her garden. Before she could answer, Aunt Bates stuck in- "Peas, honey? Why, we've had peas peas peas until we're sick of peas." "Aunt Bate3!" Sabina remonstrated, "we haven't had any p3as at all," '"Wettf Sabina, but we will have," re torted the imperturbable Aunt Bates. At last, shs left the Lemarcs, after having "worked up" every mm. woman and child on the place into a state of ex asperation. "AuntBate3 is a regular torment," cried Cynthia. "Hush, dear!" said her mother. "You know she is poor, and she was really fond of your father." "I believe he i3 the only person shq does not abuse,'' said. Laura. After this, Aunt Bates decided she wnnlrUtrw KnnrrKnar for a time, SO , " r a tin she went xo interview Mrs Bond, an old friend, on the subject. . "Oh, Mrs. Bates!" cried Mrs. Bond, who knew her well, "I am afraid our house wouldn't suit you. It is a very lonely place." " Honey, there's nothing I like better than peace and quietness, which good ness knows I didn't have at Sabina's." "But. vou spp Mr. Bond is so Often , -m. awav. .inrl thpn T Viop nothing for din- ner but a cup of tea and some bread and ' butter ' ' Honey, there's nothing I relish more for dinner than tea and bread and but- i ter " Besides, I would have to give you a room upstairs, and you would find it fatiguing to climb so many steps." '" Honey, there's nothing so nice as an upstairs room so" cool and airy!" , "But Mrs. Bates, there's another thing," said Mrs, Bond, driven to 'des peration, "Now mindj I don't say there s anything in it, but the negroes declare they see strange sights here at night. You know we are very near the grave yard." Aunt Bates's face changed. She was a bundle of superstitions, and had .a de cided fear of ghosts. "Well, honey," she said, 1 "I reckon,on the whole," it wouldn't suit me to live with you. It would be fatiguing to climb so many steps, andJ don't think I could get along just with tea and bread and butter for dinner particularly as Tvo heard people -say your tea is .never. 'any thing but hot water." " r As the price Aunt Bates, wished to pay for her board was a very small one, she had some difficulty in finding a place. ;- At last, she, settled herself with the Taskers, a poor family living in the vil lage,' and there she was. seized with a dangerous illness. v ' She lingered painfully on the confines of death-for some weeks. Sabina would have taken her home ; but she was too ill to be moved; so Sabina and her daugh ters paid her frequent visits, though Aunt Kates s tongue had forgotten none of its sharpness. Toward the last, her mind wandered back to the days of her girlhood. She was a child again, and she called upon "PMlly" to look at the dead bird she had found in the grass. The little brother and sister were at play together once more. . r Then, she talked in babv-language to the second Philly, and often cried out "I've remembered your girls. It was for them, Philly all for them." When the end approached, her mind cleared, and she faintly asked the doctor how much longer he thought she could live. He replied that, " n all human prob ability, she could not live an hour. j " I'll have two hours," said the un daunted Aunt Bates, and she did. "After a long silence, she beckoned to Sabina to stoop down that she might speak to her. " Sabina," she whispered, " what's the price of butter just now." Sabina drew her head up abruptly," and faltered. "I I don't know." " You were always unpractical," re- marked Aunt Bates in a barely audible; voice. : These were her last words. After, her death it was found,- to the amazement of her relatives, that she had left Cynthia and Laura 30,000 apiece. While every one believed her poor, she had pinched and hoarded had dressed meanly and made herself a by -word for their sake. It was the only blossom of love that sprang from the grave of the lonely old woman. Times-Democrat. Can Birds Count? Having studied Sir J. Lubbock's inter esting book, I remembered a fact ob served by me, which, though not con clusive, seems worth mentioning, says a writer in Nature. I was amused some years ago to observe the feeding of the young in a sparrow house near an upper window of my house. The old sparrow alighted upon the small veranda of the bparrow house with four living canker- Worms in his beak. Then the four young ones put out their heads, with the customary noise, and were fed each with a caterpillar. The sparrow went off, and returned after a while again with four more living"' cankerworms in his beak, which were disposed of in the same man-. ner. I was so interested and pleased with the process that I watched it f 6r some time and- during the folio wii 1 w. w days. A fact which I have not seen noticed here in the extensive sparrow literature is that for a number of years sparrows begin to. build nests of dry grass and ' . . . . . . . , t The fjjifce I - . saw Avereliirjxicla&i4Uiirslaced on the tripod of twigs. The entrance was on the inner side, near the lower end ol the balls. Last year I observed anothei form of the nests. A strong rope formed of dry grass, as thick as a man's wrist and as long as the forearm, is fastened only with the upper end to strong branches at the tops of high trees. The rope's end has a rather large ovoid shape, with the entrance on the inside near the end. Of such nests I saw last winter about a dozen. A long pole near my house strongly covered by a vine (celes trus scandens) had such a nest for three years, used every year. In the sparrow houses around my lodging the sparrows stay throughout the winter; commonly one male and j three females in every house, till in the ' it n ' m 1 . 1 spring xne supernuous lemaies are turned out. The Horse Perspired. I had the opportunity, says a writer in Chairiberas Magazine, of observing the ef fect on a horse when ridden near a mount ain lion. I was late one night in the autumn. 1 was riding along a lonely mountain road, and when onlybout two mile3 from the town or mining camp, I heard the cry of the mountain lion. My horse at once showed fear and refused to move forward. His trembling was so intense that he fairly shook me in the saddle. To whip and spur he paid no attention. Indeed, it was only by the strongest effort that I could prevent him from turning and bolt ing in the direction wc had come from. A crashing in the bush a short distance in advance of me increased the horse's fear and restiveness to such an extent as al most to unhorse me. We both knew full well what that crashing meant, but I also was well satis fied that the beast would not trouble us, because I knew that only a short distance across the hill was a slaughter-house, whether I judged he terror of the moun tains was journeying. Although quite a cold night, I found my horse sweating as Ireely because of its fritrht as if I had K . . -r r . t j. : t . c UV.AU I UL 1UI MMMMlO. Wonders in Watches. 'Those foreigners," said a New York jeweler to a Tribune reporter, "have re cently made remarkable improvements in watches "and clocks, whhh sooner or later will bring about a complete revolu tion in horology. A journeyman clock maker in the neighborhood of Lyons has invented a method of making a lady's watch go without being wound up dur ing a whole year, a man's watch during three years, a pendulum of middling size i twenty years and a public clock for a j space of 280 years; .' " h " "He manufacturers watches of so small a size they are worn in finger-rings, tak mg the place of a sea!,' and require wind ing but once in fifteen days. Of course you have heard of the watch worn by the Empress Marie Louise on the . forefinger of her left hand. That was a rare jewel, and was said to have cost $50,000. Ten dollars will buy one like it now. "There ia one great drawback to these watches : They can be wound up only by the inventor himself, or those acquainted with his secret. The works are inclosed ' in cases hermetically sealed." , W0EDS OF W1SD03I. The innocence of the intention abates o thing of the mischief of the example When you're right you can't be toe radical, and when you're wrong you can't be too conservative. - The true , reply . to the question.' Is life worth living is: It. all depends on the kind of life you live. " Never let a day pass without thinking seriously, if only for a moment, of death. It will rob it of more than half its ter rors..'. ' ' ' - ",-'"'. To be able to endure honest and kirn', criticism requires quite as much wisdom as to be able to make honest and wise criticism. The individual right needs no label, for it exists in the consciousness of doing right, thus proving that the only method one can determine what right is, is by doing right himself. Wherever the most individual liberty is recognizea, in ine same proportion greater progress takes place and greater security to'life; also the pursuit of hap piness is less disturbed. The persons depending upon external appearance for their respectability would doubtless dispute the importance ol beinc honest, but for the fact that their position can only be maintained by de ception. Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body none. This proves that the health of the mind is ol far more consequence to our happinesi than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more atten tion than either of them receive. Imaginary evils soon become real one? by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees some thing like a face on the wall of the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, md agreeing with what he fancied. He Did Whip the Grizzly. Colonel Thomas f". Barr, Assistant Ad voeate-General of the Army, arrived at the Grand Pacific last evening, says the Chicago Trilnine. He is going out with General Crook to investigate the Leaven worth prison, but when he met the General in the rotunda of the hotel the trip was dismissed with a word and the evening passed in discussion of bear hunt- "I see," said Colonel Barr, by way of opening the conversation, "that you say no man ever engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with a grizzly bear and got away alive." "Yes, sir, I said tlAt,' the General re plied with emphasis. "And I will even go further.- I will state that I don't be lieve there would be enough left of a man who would do .that to build a tombstone over." Colonel Barr smiled and said: "Gene ral did. you ever meet Tom Selkirk in the Bad Lands?" "The Scotch Indian trapper?" "Yes." , "I did." "Strong man, eh?" "Strong, indeed." "lie whipped a bear single handed' "Don't believe a word of it.'' "But he did." ' ' "Now;, Colonel, I've been hunting bear know better than to tell meihatJ: '"But it's a fac-" "How.ik4-liS doit?" . lihoked it to death." - General Crook arose and frowned. "Colonel Barr," he said, "I have al ways esteemed you a gentleman and an officer, 'a'nd walked away. Colonel Barr sat still and grinned. The General walked around the hotel for two or three laps, then came back, and with his hands buried deep in his pockets stood in front of the Colonel. "Barr," he said, "as man to man. How old -was that bear?' "About two months.-1 reckon." The General took vthe Colonel's arm without a word and executed a right face. The pair marched due south twenty-five feet, wheeled, and moved west until they were lost behind the red cedar partition, and shortly thereafter this conversation floated over the partition : "Well, General." "Colonel." And then there was deep silence. A Mathematical Prodigy. Sam Summers, the colored prodi'v,was in Shelby ville yesterday! and, as "usual, entertained a large crowd, who were testing him with all kinds of mathemati cal problems. Summers is a colored man, thirty-four years old, without the slightest education. He cannot read or write, and does not know one figure frojn another. He is a farm-hand, and, to look at him and watch his actions, he seems to be about halfwitted, but his quick and invariably correct answer to any example in arithmatic, no matter how difficult, is simply wonderful. With the hundreds of tests that he "has sub mitted to, not a single time has he failed to give the correct answer in every in stance. Somexamples given him on yesterday were ; How much gold can be bought for $792 in greenbacks if gold is worth $1 65? Multiply 597,312 by 13. If a grain of wheat produces seven grains, and these be sown the second year, each yield ing the same; increase, how many bushels will be produced at this rate in twelve years, if 1000 grains make a pint? If the velocity pf sound is 1142 feet per second, the pulsation of the heart seventy per minute, after seeing a flash of light ning there are twenty pulsations counted before you hear its thunder, what dis tance is the clond from the earth, and what is the time after seeing the flash of lightning until you hear the thunder? A commission merchant received seventy bags, of wheat, each containing three bushels, three pecks and threequarts how many bushels did he receive? And so on. With Robinson's,Raysand other hi-her arithmetics before them, those who have tested him as yet have been unable to find any example that with a few moment' thought on his part he is not able to cor rectly answer. LouinilU Commercial Paintin- With Sand. Parisians have lately been entertained by a. remarkable artist, who displays Won derful sklUm hi? pecular form of pal ing. With plates of various colored sand before her she takes the sand in her rilt hand and causes it to fall ta beautifuJde sigru rupon a table. ; A bunch of -rapL is pictured with violet sand, a leafS green sand, the stalk with hroZ sand with the same dexterity and delicacy. n . WINNER "MEANING; tr mv mind a legend, a thing There has come to my wondrous music that rings. If b. puts from hi. heart's innr chamber 1 Heet.tthrohia If thruSHatred. aUthouS. -toyouandme . Let us look in our hearts ana .q nure hearts enter hi . tbe dwelling of To a soul it it ba already, w- thoughts of shi? ttl,et us look in our hearts and see ,, . ... . . ti,a angels could ring If the twilight bell of cue ' for us you and me. PITH AND FU1JNT. The storm cloud should ' have a sky blew color. 'I . An- American whaler The Hoosier schoolmaster. The weigh .of the unjust Fifteen ounces make a pound. "Do you think bicycle riding is f all in rr off ?" "Yes, mostly." Bazar. . It isn't the "if s" of life that worry the ratter-searching gamin. It's the but. Mrrchant Traveler. It takes more than a well starched shirt front to make a polished gentleman. Kearney Enterprise. In milking a cow sit on the side furth est from the cow and near a soft spot m the pasture . Milwaukee J3 luff. The easiest way fora gooa wne to get r,wmtlv is to ftractice what hei husband preaches. AtcJnorrrte. Some men's affairs don't get siraTgui. ?ned out until about the same time- they do themselves. Burlington. Free Prm. Daughter "Whenever I attempt to wear those tight shoes I have a fit." Mother "You mean a misfit." Town Topics. Baseball and football have their seasons of popularity, but as a steady favorite the'fishball excels both of them. Bostm Bulletin. Jasper "Where is that very obliging clerk who waited on me the other day ?" Clerk uOh, that was the boss.'' New York Sun. Common courtesy, is quite distinct1 from a matter of common curtesy, but some people don't seem to know it. -Merchant Traveler. She (at the piano) "Listen! How do you enjoy this refrain?" He "Very much! The more you refrain the better I like it." Musical Courier. Life's full of compensation.. We see as we go along; If the coffee is week in the boarding-house, The butter is always strong. Boston Courier. "Will you think of me after I, am gone?" she asked, "Will you love me as ty 1 1 rY V art oc vrut ' y he said jv rrnTcekr. "Will the comlnsr man write?" "He will, indeed. He'll write just - as bad poetry and miserable uons3ase as he does to-day, Unless he changes his mind, and doesn't come.'' Pud: How provoking it is when you want to give vent to wnt tern par by slamming a man's office d Jjr behind you to have one of those "air'f arrangements close it for you ever so gently. Berkshire NewsZ The Weather Bureau has invented a new storm signal. It is of a yellow color, and denotes that the weather man feels in his bones -that something or other is going to happen' soon. Chicago News. - Political Kicker "I wonder if them fellows in City Hall see the handwriting on the wall?"' Janitor "I think not, mister. They have just whitewashed all the rooms in, City Hall." Loicell Mail . The woman who ask for samples of silk Make the dry goods merchant feel lonelv. For he is ia favor, with his friends of thatitk, ur a lear-on ior revenue only. New York Herald. Mrs. Wickwire "Oh, this is too b.irj.i Mother writes me that Aunt Ann's miucl is entirely gone." Mr. Wickwire "I aiij not surprised to hear it. She was nlway Terre Saute Express. A traveler had just returned (ror voyage around the world. He was luded with questions. "But how yvu uiauae to gel along in tnost C( tries where you didn't know the uage?" idiot. " asked a particularly braii Why, as tnere are dumb le in all lands, I followed their example iuuge. A Wonderful Lily. une sometimes hears of the wond-f un productiveness of the golden lilv iiur- Auratum,'LindIey. Some years aan'' instance was recorded of one stalk, ider cultivation, bearing no less, than ,trty five flowers. This happened at Pfc"r, in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1886. Thr:r ord is quite beaten by a plant in thf r den of a foreign resident at Karuif a, which is now bearing no fewer thau'ii7 seven flowers on one stalk. Thcstit self is sir feet high, and toward thfp per end it flattens out, the buds .hi.n like keys on a board. The upper trem ity is cleft. Room is thus allow! for the remarkable luxuriance of flvf-rinic just described. In the Far EaU I Se;, " temberl6, 1872, it is stated : "Thi. 14 summer there grew ia the garderof Mr. G. C. Pearson on the Bluff (N 111), xokohama, two stems from o bulb, dinary ijhteen One was a fair specimen of the nowenng of the plant, having flowers upon it; but the othe broad flat stem about an inch half in width, but thin as a lath, h ao less'- man sixty-three buds, of whicl were in full flower at one tim fty-two Weekly Mail. Am Extraordinary M. Lsobirs Slaton. who died j ' v " - , Y ctr m i man in- may respects. He w? '-ilt: one years old, and had lived 12 1 house for sixty-one years. B wife he had seventeen childrer m J 7 J'f second fifteen. Around his h--- i." he died were seventeen of ! - nin' Jt" ;'" living children. He had gaail'' too numerous to mention. S1Vt f nearly every one some of the !M wbu u he owned, and his children .'W11 close about him. - He was - six f1 Ul height and had been sick only a few hour 1 A X - r 1: V
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