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or. 1- 4 ' - . " T ... t - - . v. V ... ' - A I . .' .:..-:.!. ..'. . , .... .... . .... ... The Best We Can. Whra things don' t go to salt us, Why should we fold our hand, A?fy?"VNo nae'io trying, jjjte btffies all our plans.", Jjet'ntourourage falter, faith In pod and man, Ar W tfiisihouKht be steadfast i "I'll do the best I can.". It cTotids blot out the sunshine HAlong the way you tread, Don'l grievfc in hopeless fashion " And sigh for brightness fled. ' Beyond the clouds the sunlight Shines in the Eternal Plan; " . Trutt that the way will brighten, Arid do the best you can. Away with vain repinings; Sing songs of hope and cheer, Till many a weary comrade Grows strong of beart to hear. He who sings over trouble Is aye the wisest man. He can't help what has happene But does the best he can. 4 Fo, if things won't go to suit us, Let's never fume and fret, Tor finding fault with fortune . Ne'er mended matters yet. Mate the best of whate'er happ Bear failure like a man; And in good or evil fortune Do just the best you can. JEben-E. Hezford, in Saturday Night. THE STORY OF BIP. 'Bin's s'.orj is well known in Cumberland valley, where he lived the for many years, and died not long a"0. o aaid Samuel Looran of Franklin county. jPenn., "and it is one of the most re markable narratives of slavery, times Jeter jtelated I have heard the old man jwu me siory wun tears in nis eyes many and many a time, and no one who ever lenew him could have ? the slightest doubt of its truth. Bip was born in Africa, where, as he believed, he was the son of a king or a chief, for he re membered that his father and mother - jt i L ........ . lived in a bark hut surrounded by ; smaller ones, which ware occupied by many women and children, his father's jtut always bsing approached by others in a most deferential manner. His brass metal imoiuer wore immense crold or thoops fk her ears and bands of m her arms. ? . His father wore a big yellow ring in 'his nose. "When Bip was Shout iixtJoliM ho afterward cil reflated, Tilajfather's household and imany of the tribe were overpowered by a horde of strange blacks and taken tive. ' They were bound together d drivou for ,d ays until the came to e seashore. There they were por ioned amoner anutnbar of whita men. jte first Bip hifii trjx seen. The cap tires were takei away ;in boats. Bip eyer saw his father again. He and his pother were packed ;vTJith : hundreds of 5ters onj board a vessel, and they were many' days on the water. The vessel at mut ianuea ana tne. negroes tnat were till alive were taken, ashore, and Bip hia mother were selected from heSbr a white man and taken aWay. Jt was l&Ugf11 after eara tthat Bip ;inew and appreciated the fact that he land his parents and their tribe . had fallen victims to the African slave trad ers, and that ho and his mother had feeen gold into slavery to a Cuban planter. rAt the agt of 15 Bip, which name had boen eriven him bv his Cuban . s ' ... - ncr wa,5 sold, with a -loi of 'otaef young negroes of both sexes, to a slave jlfader. Bip' s mother was at work in the sugar field when he wai sold and taken away. He never saw or heard of her again. The herd of young negroes was taken to New Orleans, where Bip vaa sold on the auction block. He was put to work in; the sugar fields, but jwhen he was 20 years old he became thO property of an Arkansas cotton lanter. He wai taken to the -Arkansas plantation, which was not far from Lit ' tie Rock. His new master proved to be a kind one, but Bip felt that ho was toot born to be a slave, and he was dc- fonaiaed to escape from bondage, even, Mhe risk of his life. Late ons night jjnjbj fall of XS21 he made a break for libeYty. Hfl never knew exactly the toNite he took, but he turned his f ace, as itear northward as he could calculate and blindly followed that course. He traveled all night, swimming rivers - and f floundering through swamps. Ia the. daytime he hid among the dense brakei, and satisfied bis hunger by digging turtles from the snud and eating their raw meat. He travelled in that way for three nights aad just before daybreak on the morn ing of the third he came suddenly upon aclearing. He saw at once that it was the home of a 'f ace camper." In those days that "part of Arkansas was ;wlld and sparsely inhabited, and settlers Xrom oiner aiaies bqu oiuer pwrnous i Arkansas gradually were taking up land and clearing the country into plantations. The settlers usually lived driag the first ycara of their occupancy ia what was known as faca camps, their firt-crcrKciiablinff them to put up bet- A wAllincra. The fsce camp was a " - O" - - - xiide board hut or shanty enclosed on tS three sides. The side facing the south was left open, the climate, even in winter, being mild enough to keep as airy a habitation as a face -camp en tireTy comfortable. The shanty was roofed with boards, and, as the whole was built with slight frame walls, it -was nUhe most secure dwelling in the -Tliif- Wftrlor of one oi these - oamps was severely simple. It con . nuttvu ".- . sAttlftr bed. a table ana a beach or two, and a loft for storing mfHaIm af hemehold US9. The ... t w m '- f ms a rodo board bunk in oao cor. - cl. y Ei2a iui U tho aHa oa oaf end i -.m ..' a na.- - mm t altnllir fimllar The loft was buk, built three or four feet abeve the bed. , "' r The , face camper,' during his first year as a settler, depended, ia a great measure, cn game for the sustenance of himself and family. The woeds wete filled with'-4eer, bears and other wild animals. When a deer or otlwr animal was killed the jdressed carcass was suspended n a pole in froat of the open end of the camp, the pole being supported Joy long forked sticks driven in the ground. The .face -campers rarely owned slaves while they were making their clearing?, but they -always looked forward to the day when they would become masters. As a rule they were hard, ignorant ' people, and their reputation alave-holders wai such that even the -slaves of the cotton planters . on the ' lowlands pitied the negroes of a face camper.1 So, natur ally, when Bip came suddenly at the home of one of this class he was greatly alarmed, and made up his mind to get away from that locality as oon as possible. - The moon was shining full and bright in the shanty, and Bip'eould see the bunk and. the: outlines of its sleeping inmates',- and the loft above it. . As he stood peering out of the thicket taking a hurried view of the curious scene, ait trly ' and ominous growl canje-from the shanty. Suppose ingtat his presence had been discov ered fcScamper's dogs, . Bip Was drawing -back hurriedly to escape from the sppfcvwhen he discovered that it wa something else that had aroused the dogs, put of the shadows 'on tho op posite aide of the opening came two dark objects towards the deer, and two huge bears were revealed in J the moon -light. They did not stop, but slouched impudently along to secure, tha object of their visit, the deer's carcass. Bip could not overcome his curiosity to watch and see what the result of this invasion would be. As the bears shuf fled up to the spot where the deec hung two dogs rushed out of the pen camp. With furious barking and loud yelping theysprang upon the bears. 1 4,The noise awoke the awjier of the camp, and Bip saw him spring from the bunk. At the same time the wife and the faces of three! wild and startled-looking children rose up in the bunk. The woman and the children began to scream and cry. As the set tler jumped out the bears made a rush for the dogs which retreated to the shanty. They almost ran over the man as he approached. He ran back and helped his wife and children from the bed o the. bunk overhead. The next mo ment man, dogs, and bears were closed to-, gotber.in- one indiscriminate'; struggle. Feeling that whatever the result might be his own safety lay in escaping from the scene without delay. Bip! hastened into tho forest." Ha had jnot gone far when . it V occurred to him that a fellow man's life was undoubtedly in peril, and that it was his duty to aid him in preserVJnf it, no matter what the consequences might be toj himself. Without an instant's further hesitation he turned and dashed back through the thicket. He cleared the opening at a bound, and the next second had joined the settler and his dogs in their contest wjth the bears. The settler was b:n pressed by the bears against the board wall at the foot of the bunks, and the frail shanty was shaking andj swaying threateningly. The man's wife and chil dren were shrieking frantically in the loft. One dog had been killed and the other disabled. j ilBip closed with one of the bears at ... .1 once. Mis knuo was a keen, long bladed dirk, with two edge3. He thrust it to the hilt in the bear's breast as the animal lunged up against him. The blood followed tho blade in a stream . .i The bear staggered back. Before it rallied Bio turned to the other one. It had knocked the settler to the ground, whero he lay stunned. In a" second more ino Dear wouia nare . torn the man s inrcac 10 sinngs. -slash of his effective weapon With one Bip sev- ered the big arteries in the bear's neck, and laid the windpipe open. jThe bear raised up erect on its feet and .fell over backward with its whole weight against the side of the camp. The shock was more than the structure could stand, and the shanty came down with a crash, bury ing bears' and all beneath a pile of boards and scantling. The next that Bid knew it was broad daylight, r He a . w was lying on the ground on a deerskin. He was sDre and lame but managed to get to his feet. A big-whiskered man, a pale, weeping woman, and two frightened-looking children were grouped near him. By the side of a ragged pile of . boards that had been the face camp, lay the carcasses; of two huwe bears. The bier -whiskered man came forward,, grasped Bip's hand, and o told him he had saved his life. The man, his wife, and two of the children had es caped from the wreck of the shanty with but slight injuries, strange, as it seemed, but the other child had been killed. Bip felt that he would be safe with these people, and he told them his story. He then learned that the face canmer was Israel Vawn. a noted re- r , ' I ligious enthusiast, who had settled in the wilderness to form the nucleus of a colony of his followers. Bip helped rebuild Vawn's camp, and when it was done Vawn made him promise j that he would remaia at the campiuntil the set tler made a business trip to Little Rock and returned. When Vwn came back he placed in Bip's hands . a bill of sale for himself from his: master. Vawn .had purchased the young negro J and given him his freedom. The orer- joyed Bip remained in Vawa's service, add was given the &ame of fiolomon Vawn. Israel Vawa died about the time the war of the rebellion began. Bip, or Solomon Yawn, came North and settled in the Cumberland valley, whero he worked as a farm hand until he died some months ago, nearly SO years old. He is buried near Mont Alto, and his grave is oa land, I be lieve, formerly owned by Thaddeus Stevens.' 'if. T. un. A London Doll Shew. A doll show on a gigantic and some what original plan, which has been or ganized in aid of the new hospital for women in Euston road, will be opened in the spring. The different sections allow of great. variety in doll dressing. Ladies in the dress of the period morning, evening, bridal or court; gen tlemen dolls ditto, little girl dolls, and the babes in long and semi-Ion gelothes, dolls in the garb of professors, priests, official robes, in state, parliamentary, civic and legal, academic, scholastic, masonic, dolls in naval, military, postal, or police uniform, dolls in costumes of the pantomime, sirens of the ballet, dolls in working' dress . of all kinds, artisan, domestic service, or trade, are to be included in the various classes. A special section- wm. be formed by dolls, ladies and .geni in sporting dress, hunting, shoo! fishing, golf, tennis and boating garb. Others again will represent heroes, heroines of history, fiction, the drama, a speeial claas being assigned to char acters of nursery romance. For "cele. brities of today" a double price is offered, and a section of dolls in a gro tesque, suggestive or emblematic dress of any kind offers a wide field to the fanciful. A special nurses' section will comprise dolls drcjsel as patients and nunes, and others are exclusively limit ed to children and pupils of board, charity and industrial schools. For" the best doll of all a priza of five guineas is offered. Pall Matt Gazette. A Magician's Story. 'While in India," said the magician Keller recently, 'I saw many things done by the native masters of legerde main that completely 'stumped' me and some scientific gentlemen that were with me. The mo3t wonderful performances were in hypnotism. 'Framjse Cowasjae" Jeejeebhoy, a millionaire Parsce merchant, son of Framjee Cowasjee, the founder of the Bombay Institute of Physical Inquiry bearing his name, gave me his word for this remarkable story: , Vln the north of India was a famous hypnotist who possessed the power of hypnotizing himself. His wife, who kniw his secret, was accustomed to re vise him whenever he exercised .his ex ceptional power. He killed a man and wai sentenced to execution. Several days before the time for the execution he hypnotised himself, passing into a condition which, to all appearance, was death. - So perfect was the semblance that the English Government physicians who were called in officially certified that he was 3ad and ordered his body cremated. But at this point his wife appeared. Sae.was stricken with grief, moaned and wept until the hearts of the authorities were touched. She was permitted to take away the body for private cremation. Then she revived her husband, and together they es caped." Chicago Tribune. A Child's. Plea to a King. King Leopold of Belgium is the hero of a pretty story. Some six years ago a seaman named Frank Moore deserted from the steamer Bhyniand at Phila delphia. He was lately arrested at Antwerp for this offence, and heavily sentenced, whereupon his little niece, Bessie Keim, wrote to the King, be seeching her uncle's release. This letter related that six years ago her aunt was dying, and that her only prayer was that she might live to see her brother Frank, who, on arriving and hearing this, entreated of his cap tain permission to visit her, which being denied him, he desertel. Little Bessie gravely concluded: "Your Majesty, if you had been in his place. would not you have done the same! I hope you will pardon Uncle Frank for eserting and 'me for writing.' Not long afterward the ehild received a letter from a high official, saying that the offender had been released, "out of compliment to his Majesty's little friend. ' . - A Lively Kind of Stick. John Hall of Hopkins ville washout oa a'hunting excursion yesterday, when he attempted to cross Pond Jiiver, which was so badly swollen he stooped to gather up a stick to measure the depth j of the water. He suddenly became aware that he had grasped a large black snake instead of a stick, and ere he could drop the serpent it struck at him. and only his presence of min i. saved him from being bitten. After a sharp battle he killed the snake and brought it home with him. It is nearly a yard in length.- 2$athviUe American. Too Compatible. No, Hiram," said the young sadly, "I cannot be your wife. are to compatible." 'Compatiblel" he exclaimed. "Isn't that the very reason why r -4 'Not in onr .case. I should probably insist from motives of economy on dispensing with a servant and doing my own housework, and yen would probably let me do iV Htram." CMgt Triiuni. NATIVES OF ALASKA. Facts About the People of the Big Territory. Not Handsome, But Possessed of Good Qualities. Ia appearance the natives of the In terior of Alaska are generally very dark omplcxion3, with large chsjk bones, large mouths and a sharp chin. , Thi" says Lieutenant Caatwell in his notes obtained while exploring the Kowak Sivef, 'gives the face a Tery triangular appearance, very different from the round face of the Esquimau. Their hair is; black, and the hair isorn long, except in front, where it is trimmed across the forehead on a' line with the eyebrows. They are quick in their movements, aetivs and strong in youth, but grow aged-looking rapidly." Very few 'men of middle age were observed. The face3 of the women are more oval than tho men's, and their color is ligh er. Their hair is parted and worn in two braids in the middle i hanging in front of tho ears. The: in-"- terior natives are reterrea to4 as better morally and m points', of " honesty and sobriety than;, thef people of the-coast Thoyhjtdiftf -Taws;" except Noo by otJTas they; would have others do to 4hem. They; were universally kind to the aged and jhelpless, very hospitable, curious to a dfegree, but never intrusive. In the interior the people did not fol low methods Sof the Esquimau coast tribes in choosing an omailik, or chief trader and general business ag3nt. . In all discussions; regarding the welfare of the community, the women and the older ones in particular, joined, and the men received I their opinions with re spect. They were generally guided by a kind of moral code, as Lieutenant Cantwell says, in all matters regarding one another's welfare. No punishment was recognized for the commission of crime, but on the other hand there was seldom any committed. As to diseases, the Lieutenant found pulmonary complaints and rheumatism very common lamong the natives, as well as weak and inflamed eyes. Epi demic diseases jvery rarely occur, though smallpox sometimes reaches these peo ple through the natives living on the Koyukuk riverj . Beyond the simple herbs known and used by the "shaman," or medicine -min, in his cantatioas, but little is known of the art ot healing. no lormai lunexai ceremonies are per formed by the nland tribes over their dead. The body is generally taken to some secluded spot, usually oa a bluff overlooking a rjiver, and laid, on the ground. A conical shaped structure of spruce logs is built over the remains XT .! ' 1 .' pd a tree nwr by is tiripped of branches and a spiaU piece of cloth tied' to it marks; the are left the sled. spot, near which household utensils and some of the weapons of the de ceased. No one ever visits the spot thereafter. It is tabooed. The natives partake eagerly of such articles as floury tea, rice, condensed milk and other dishes, but they despise salt pork and wpuld rather starve than tcuch it. In meat, they eat t wolf, muskrat, addition to the reindeer he flesh of the bear, fox, beaver and mountain sheep. In the Rummer salmon is al most the sole food. The ' flesh of the seal and white whale is eaten by the summer sojourners at the coast; Wild currants are found in abundance and h the onion, celery and parsnip grows wild in abundance, as well as a species of wild rhubarb The tender v roots of the willow weire also cooked in oil when the natives were much in need of food. The upper waters of the Kowak abound in wild jduck, geese and swans, and cranes also pould be found. Tho birds are boiled after . being skinned, and astonishing ;to note, the head, feet and intestines were . The considered L:eutenant the choice morEcb. says these tidbits were laid before him on one occasion, , All the tribes! dress Very much alike. Their attire consists of an outer and . .. s . . . . inner coat or parica of deerskin. tight fitting troiisers of and boots suppliedwith gin, the soles j being hair sealskin deerskin leg- oi walrus or inner garments white whale skin. The ' t are worn with the fur next to the body and the outer one with the fur outside. i Hats or caps are jnot worn by either sex, but the outer garment has ahood, which can oe arawn over me neaa. a piece of some long haired fur is sewed around the edge of the hood to protect the eyes from flying particles of snow." A belt is worn by the women to confine their outer gaimnt3 or ' parkas " around the waistband this enables the nat.ve mother tq carry underneath the fp'.ds of her offspring her "parka." Socks made of soft tanned skins are i - worn, and mittehs of reindeer skins, with the hair turned in, are worn winter and summer. Thread is made of deer sinew, and the women, in addition to their other arduous duties, make all tne cioming ana Keep it in order. His Share; of theBurden. "George," proachfully. said iurs. - uaztey. re- 1 'before wewerc- married tyou always insisted packages for me. I-' on carrying my "Yes. " renhedi G "but I didn't - t have to pay for em then.' ' 2f. Y. Sun. as the baking ". 'It is time to powder said to biscuit. lh m fit if: A Born Musician. ! A day, or two' ago a natural- bora mu sician cams in on the Georgia road. He had with him a hand-made - xylophone, as rough and crazy an instrument as 8 musician ever tried to play, but the mu sic was wonderful. The bars, except two, were made of common yellow pop lar, whittled into proper dimensions With a pocket knife. Two bars were of walnut. All the bars were connected by a cotton string. The base of the in strument was a coarse, pine plank, and between this board and the bars, form ing a cushion for the bars was an inch thick padding of jute, or old ropes threaded out. The musician med two mallets little balls of poplar on han dles of convenient length. Around each ball was a band of flannel cloth, to soften the note. Ha made the xylo phone himself, and said he had made four others and sold them. The addi tion of the walnut bars was a very re cent improvement, and he seemed to bo particularly proud Of that part. The musician, dressed like a cowboy with bead-strung sombrero and big yellow boots, looked a3 little a musician as his instruments a xylophone. He plays altogether by air. He whittles out "his bars without any rule, whatever, judg ing entirely by the sound. The tne,'' hV says,: depends on the kind of wood, on'ithe length and. on the thickness. ; The width has yery little to do with it. Poplar has a nice, mellow sound, and goe3 through nearly the whole scale. Then another thing that changes the note is the way the grain runs in the bar." He played ''Dixie," 'Climbing Up the Golden Stairs." and a number of other familiar tunes. He is wonderful- ly apt at catching a new tune, and can follow one's Whistling almost faultlessly. " Not only that, but he whistles beauti fully. He has a knack of whistling like three or four men at once, carrying the air and bass all at once, or warbling' like a room full of mocking birds. He kept a crowded car well entertained be tween Covington and Atlanta, and gathered in a liberal lot -of dime3 and quarters when the hat was pas3ed7 around. Atlantt Constitution. 5 Carious Swedish Custom. A curious custom of the Swedes, and one which appears especially peculiar to Americans, is the adoption Of a new name upon reaching majQrv- ;, This is not always, perhaps notgcTaHy, done, but the young Swcde?;feei5fhat he has as much right to d: 8S:itl8tiUcd in twice their weight of water" own trade or occu. If the naine;A his father gave.. hiroVeca fooVTulgar or not romantic engprej it and takes anotfieS? It is apt to b3 .cohfhaSSStaW ther addressed as Ndsia, aid the kQz&& Tlp.rnraf rnm nr .Toncon e t such is f re- quently the case, more is thought of it than of a di names among other tablished in the Uni owever, the tendency among andinaviahs is to th countrv. and ioiiow tne custom o adhere to thepitern name, which, in- deed, under our ffcws cannt be given up for- another Iwithout certain legal formalities. 2sm York Star. - . Well Matched. There are now living in Washington - t i a 11. " 3 a married couple, raui ana AiDina Hellmuth, who were born at Baden, Germany, within four miles of each other. Even through their childhood, playing in the streets of the same town, they were strangers to cacu other. In the course of events they came across, the ocean to the land of promise, and at d.ffsrent times and by different paths they drifted to Washington, where they me t and loved - and weJJed. Upon comparing notes to take out their mar riage license the discovered, to their mutual surprise and gratification, that they were not only natives of the same placJ, but rejoiced in exactly the same ages to a day. . v A Hen as a Dentist Mr. Gecrge E. Heath Lvei in Han over County, a short distance. from Ash la'nd. Mr. Heath has a hen that wantei to set. Saturday morning he went to his hennery and attempted to take the hen off her nest, when she flew in his face, pecked him iu his mouth and took out a tooth which had been troubling Mr. Heath for some time, and which he intended having extracted. Richmond (Fa.) State. ' . .x Wit That was Appreciated. Tompkins Pshaw I Brown's no wit. There must be ai element of surprise in what a man says to make it wit. Don't you agree with me? Wilson Perfectly. That wa3 a clev er witticism you got off the other day. Tompkins I forget. What did 1 say! Wilson You said, 4 'Here's that five I borrowed from you." Harper Bazar. Strictly Business. Isaacs Ve re have you bejn for the bast veckf Jacobs I vas in Boston. IsaacsDid you go there for pish- ness or only bleasure? Jacobs I went dere to get married. Isaacs So it vash a pishness trip, after all. At the Photographer's. The professional beauty Will my pictures flatter me? The poseur Ah, madame, that ques- I on I must answer ia the negative. I 2tf opto. IF fferVniCft in Christian I I ii Miff i ti ATTAR OF ROSES. The Cost of this Perfume and Its Preparation. it Takes 50,000 Roses Make a Single Ounce. 'Here yare, gents I Here yare!" yelled the street 1 fakir. "Here y'are, gents I The real, genuine otter of roses. right fresh from the otter, the only living animal besides the mu9k-ox that gives up perfumes for the hanr kychifl Here y'are! Otter of roses, Iresh from the otter 1 Five cents a bottle 1" A young man in the crowd became seized of an idea. He went to the nearest drug store. 'How much is attar of roses a bot tle?" he asked of the druggist. 'It'll cost you f 100 an ounca," said the drug man. 4 'The genuine India attar of roses is worth $100 an ounce." "Got any?" asked his visitor. 'Kot today," said the druggist. 'We're just out" "What makes it cost so much!' J- "Well, one reason druggist, 'it takes is," replied the 50,000 roses to make a single ounce of attar. If you can buy 50,000 roses for less than $100, then maybe you can knock the price of attar down. Attar of roses, young man, ain't milked out of cows. It is made in India, although if they only knew it, . they could make it just as well in California. The same rose grows there from which the attar is distilled in In dia. I have -seen huge hedge rows near Samona, in California, so dense . with these roses that the odor from them on a warm, sultry day caused, a feeling ol peculiar faintness and oppression to the passerby. This is the eflxct of the at tar,' which is distilled by the heat and moist air, and is held suspended, as it wese, in the atmosphere ' "There is money in that cause of faintness and indolence; but: in this country not .only the sweetness, but the great vaiue of the flower, is wasted on the desert air. In Northern India the roses are regularly cultivated. They are planted in tows in fields, and re quire no particular care. When they begin to bloom they are plucked from the bushes before midday The work is done by women and children, who seem to regard it more as pleasure than a pursuit of labor. The rose leaves are "Which is then drawn off into open yes- sels." These are allowed to stand over night, being coverd up with cloths to protect their contents from dirt and in- Vi'J'i-' 'it - ' ; a.L r xu iiju morning . iuu. suriate ui the water will bo covered with a thi oily film." This is -the jr are attar roses. It is skimmed off.iaSp feather and drnnnfid int(t vlala. TA. :. :--x-r--. , -1 rocess continues da'ly oiil tuc ros cease to bloom. 1 , don t see , why a essence or oil that requres the distilling of 50,000 roses to fill an ounce bottle hasn, t a right to have a gocd price set upon it Don t you think so?" yew York Sun. Tart of His Education. A St. Paul merchant gives the fol lowing to a Pimeer-Prest reporter as the reason why he cat a pice 5 of goods in two and sold one portion at a high and the other at. a low price: 'Twenty- five years ago I was a sub-clerk in a general storj i Ivtlamazoo, Mich. The head salesman sent ms down -stairs into tho grocery , deraatmeat to do up a pound of tea for a prominent social leader. In forty-five minutes it cam? back from the house with an order to change it. What doc that head sales man do but shakj th3 tea out of the brown paper, do it up in silk tea pap3r, tie it with a colored cord and eead it back to the lady. It stayel this time, and she afterwards told me that that was the kind of tea she always wanted to fill her orler3. That, my. boy, was a part of mj c..;rly education." Soldiering in the South West. A young AUentown man, who ifc serving on the plains as a private in the Tegular army, wrote home the other day from Port Huechu?a, Arizona Territory, that many people in civil live would be glad to sit down to such meals as he is getting to eat. He say that there are in the ranki many pew ons whom he is proul to call his frienls. 4,There is," he adds, a very large library connecJei with our troop, and we git a' I the beit Eastern dailies'" This account des not accord with the gloomy descriptions of the life of a p-iratc soldier in the Unit ed States a:ra which have bem print ed in Eastern papers. Rj-illy, the only way for a newspaper writer to learn the facts about army life is to enlist. Philadelphia 1'quirer. Cinderella's Slipper. The story of Cinderella and her glass Uppers is known to every child where he English or French language is spoken. Some one of an icconoclastic turn of mind has been hunting up the origin of the charming fairy tale, and finds that in reality the slippers which play so important a part were in the original made of fur, and not of glass. The word used is vair (fur), but some translator or printer carelessly substi tuted for it the similarly sounding word verre (glass), and poor little Cin decella's slippers have from that day to this been made of the most uncom fortable material that could well be chosen From Night to Light. FriendCou fie sad, you say? Tour grief once in the past, All shall be clear to you; The sorrow shall not last, But then be dear to you Some coming day. : So consolation find; Yield not thus to despair; Believe joy waits for you, And, in the future, there Opens her gates for you. Be then resigned! George J5 HUMOROUS. If experience is so great a teacher, why do we speak of a "green" old age? t fc The only way to be happy on five hundred a year, is to live on four hun dred and ninety-nine. First Little Girl Is your doll a French doll? Second Little Girl I do't know, she can't talk. No wonder the toy pistol cannot be exterminated. . People are always teaching the young idea how to shoot. Customer How is venison now ? Butcher- Venison isn't deer, now. Cus tomer That's what I thought. Give me some veal. ,. . Some men will get up out of bed at night in the coldest of weather to go to a fire who cannot bo induced to get up at 7 to start one in the stove. Mrs.. Bloodgood Whatl not an open fireplace nor a stove in the house? How does your father warm his slippers, . Willie! Willie (ruefully) Warms 'em on me, ma'am. A delinquent walks , into the prison carrying his head high and with a cer tain patronizing air. Pointing to the constable who is leading him by the arm, he says: "Allow him to pass; he is with me." That is not more than half the com position," she said, as she turned on tho piano stool. . 'Sball 1 play, the -rest?'1 "Yes," he replied, abstracted ly, "play the rest by all means; play all the rests you can find." "Miss N how could you think that I had ever said in. company, that you were stupid; quite Jhe contrary, whenever your name was' mentioned I was always the only one who didn't say so." ; : ' : " ' - An agricultural journal advises: "Grind your own bones." When a man is in such a condition that he he has no further use for his bone3, he 'is alto gether too exhamtgl- to p'jiud them. . He sometimes "grinds his tceth,,,cTli there he draws the line iu th3 matter of self-bone grinding.; - ' A Czar's Cur for Obesity. Peter the Great was ' once traveling i incognito in a-part..of Finland, just some naval works. MIc met aixoyer-fat A man who told him he was goiog to S! Petersburg. , "What for?." ' said zar. vio consu c a doctor which has boomr verv IIDIUCUIIC. AMI I I .i in... Muling . tor there?" "Jo.-' . " inea . I w g".ve you a wonl to my friend, Princ? Mcnschikoff, and he will introduce you to one of the Emperor's physicians." The traveler weut to the Prince's house with a noec. The answer was not de layed. The next day, tied hands, and 'feet, the poor man was dragged off on a cart to the minei. Two years after, Peter the Great was visiting the mines; he had forgotten the aJvoatur-j of th over-fat man, whgn suddenly , a minct threw down his p'e'e, rushed up to him, and fell at his feet crying: "Grace, grace! what is it 1 have done?"' Peter lookcl at him astonished, until he re. membered the story, and said: "Oh, so that is you? I hope you are pleased with me. Stand up. Hw thin and slight you have bcomeT You are quite delivered of your over-fat; it is a first rate cure. . Go, and remember that work is the best antilote ajainst yout complain l !" . -: Early Kiting Bird. The thrush isauJibW about 4. 53 in ' the morning. - The quail's whistling is heard in woods abouto' clock. the Th blackcan turns un a -..) on OVUUb aijjr-fti tj awn summer morning. By 4 thelackbiid makes (& wood resound w;th his melody. The house sparrow and iorutit- comr last in the record of early' lising birds. At short intervals after 4 3) the voices of the robin and wren are heard in the land. ' The greenfiich is the first to rise and a ing as early' as 1.30 n a summei morning. The lark does not rite until after the chaffinch, linnet and a number -of othei hedgerow folk have leen merrily pip- ; ing for a good whie. Not a Poor Man' Disease. May I inquiro your occupation!' asked the doctor. "I am a clerk oa a-salary of $47. 59 a month. ' i ' ; ' Your ai ment, sir," sold the doctor, with decision, "is not gout. It is'sim ply an aggravated esse of ingrowing toenail." Ch'cagi Trilune. A Shrewd Janitor. ' Friend of. janitor And way don't you make the little devils quit hiding down the baluster? Janitor Not for the world would top them. They save me tha troubU of polishing tho brasi railinj. V. 0 " it '4
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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April 3, 1890, edition 1
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