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111 Mill TIL - - UHED EVERY TIIUJISDAY XT .t,Uuu"") T r - v u uv riKi i liner m hi r i 1111 iriin . SALISBURY, N. C. - TRICE OF -SUBSCRIPTION. One Year $1. SO ! Six Months. . Throe Months 1.0') .50 - 13T Advertising Rate by Contract, Reasonable. Entered in the Powt-Oatoe t SdL.brjr u ...... H lr. matter In England women patentees are far more .numerous than, they are hera, etafoc iho C.hlrncrn Herald. As ii rule. f OMIVJ vw O - -- , the inventions of our women are for the j attire of women. . - -. Mayor Powell, oi the United Stato Geological Surrey, says there are, ncarij 1,000,000,000 acres of arid lands sus ceptible of cultivation in the United States, '-of whicVjy 120,000,000 , can ba irrigated. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph estimate? that "the South hai paid a larger part of her State debt during the last tea years than any other section more that a fourth-of the total of $107,000,000 but her debt is still far the largest." It is claimed that gray and roan horses are longer lived and give more service than horses of other colors.. This claim is said to be based onoa the esnerienCe 1 . I Paris tramway compauies and corrobor- J ated iu New York. Bays are rated rexl ! to blacks. Bhck hoofs are commended. A new religious sect in Iaflia h at tracting much attention. It is called Ary Sornaj, and it has arisen in Punjab. Its purpose.is to oppose Christianity,, and ii cucjpavoring to restore the worshij. taugrJ in the ancient A.edas. In ordw to prevent the children of Hindoo pa rents from falling into the hands of th missionaries, the sect is starting orphac isylums and schools. This is the first effort made by the natives of India tc provide homes for helpless and neglectee children. It is said that a' man severely afflicted with deafness can hear when riding in a rumbling car. The philosophy of this phenomenon, as stated by an aurist, is due to the well-known counteraction o! the noisy motion on the drum of the eai that is the rumble of the heavy wheel on the track causes the drum to vibrate, and iu this way producing or ex siting the capacity to hear. Instead of raising the voice when speaking to a deaf person in a moving car or vehicle the voice should be low. The project for a railway to Alaska is about to take definite shape, announces the New York Witness. Application wit 'be made to Parliament at the next ses sion for the passage of an act ineorpora-' ting the Vancouver, Northern and Alaskt 'Railway and Navigation Company, wit! power .to build a railway from- Van couver, or. some other point on Burrarc Inlet, on the banks of the Fraser River, by way of Seymour Creek Valley, Pern bertoa Meadows, Chilcoten Plains anc the head waters of the Frazer River tc points on the Parsnip and Peace River, with branches in a northeasterly diree- tiu tlic Si.-ena and EjjAkeen Rivers tc the boundary of 'Alaska. A writer in the Ledger- say3 that the restaurant kitchens in Paris have comt under scientific scrutiny. -They are, ir. realitv, often unfit for human beings ta enter. Placed underground, they only receive air from small windows on a level with the" ceiling. These are often hermetically closed because the neigh bors complain of the, smells that escape therefrom. It" they are opened, they let down a cold draught, which is more than the cooks, overheated by the tire, can endure. Other kitchens open intc little back yard?, that are so small, damp and foul, that such ventilation is, per haps, more injurious than beneficial; and there are other vile conditions too gross to mention. The cooks, driven to desperation by the horrors of their situation, appealed to the doctors; the doctors, after sufficient inspection of the kitchens, appealed to the Paris Municipal CouncjJ, and tho Council, after proper examination, issued an order to have the kitchens enlarged, ventilated, purified and reformed altogether. '' ' The Chicago Herald says: "A gamble) once objected to life insurance because, as he said, he didn't care for a game that one had to die to beat. Ordinarily life insurance is that kind of a game, but a physician, Dr.' SIocun, of San Antonio, Texas, -has just one to the grave with . . i r r 3 the distinction of hiring yvw twVettei of a smart life insurance company. Twenty-five years ago, while practicing medi cine in this city, he was giving up by the ' doctors as a hopeless consumptive. An insurance company, in which, he carried a 10,003 policy, believing that Tralcss it could compromise ii would soon be called on to pay the claim to his bereaved fami ly, offered to give -him $5030 ia cish if he would call it quits. The doctor ac cepted the offer, went down Soutb,in vestcd the money profitably, and sifter twenty-five years has died -nacjf con sumption, but of cancer of the. stomach. Even so careful a concern as a life insur surance company, with its cautious actu ary and learned doctors, may occasional ly suffer, in common with the rest of U3, from the inaccuracies of medical sci- once .-';'" - - f The German Emperor lias now taken T into his own hands the management of his private .fortune, and it is asserted cltat a short time hack he negotiated a loan of 50,000, assured by a mortgage. The Latin Union, a European League, is' constituted of France, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Switzerland, and their coins are alike in weight and fineness, though different in name. Spain, Servia, Rus sia, Bulgaria and Roumania have adopt ed in part the same system, but- they Lave hot joined the "Union." Chis i3 from the Chicago Times: 1 'Th United States Fonetik kompany met at the Grand Pasific hotel and elected Jon 3. Kendal prezident. Thissosiety wants eongrcs to giv it $5,000,000 for 10C skools for the instrukshun of the peeple in the nu siense of fonetik speling. Such a demannd iz.abzurd, az it iz az eezy az roiing off a log to spel bi sound. Just tri it wuuee. We doo not need'skoob foi such a ridikulus purpos and the peeple ot to rize in thair mite and te Uhkel Sam so in plane words." In 1873 Congress attempted to encour age the cultivation of timber upon thi public lands of the United States, ob serves the San Francisco Chroniele,'b providing that every person who should plant, protect and keep in a healthy growing condition for tea years forty icres of timber on any quarter section ol :he. public, lands should, at the expira ;ion of ten years, be entitled to a patent for the Whole quarter section. There ivere some amendatory acts passed 'after ward, to the same purpose, but it wai 'ound that nearly everywhere the timber-, culture acts were used only as a blind, tt secure title to 1(50 acres of land, and no ;he Senate Committee on Public Lands aas reported a bill to repeal all the timber-culture acts, exceyt as to Nebraska, where the law seems to have been carried out in good faith. In the biography of Matthew Calbraitl Perry, the following statistics are given: The United States employed in the in vasion of a sister Republic about one hundred thousand armed men . Of these, 20,690 were regular troops, 56,926 volun teers,, while over 15,000 were in the navy or in the department of commissariat and. transportation. Probably ns many as SO, 000 soldiers were actually in Mexico. Of this host 120 officers and 1400 men fell in battle or died of Wounds, 100 of ficers and 10,000 men perished by disease. These "figures, by General Viele, are from the army rolls. Another writer gives the total in round numbers of Americau war employes lost in battle at 5000, aad by sickness 15,000. About 1000 men ol the army of occupation died each month of garrison fever in the City of Mexico, and many more were ruined in health and character. In all, the loss of man hood by glory and malaria was fully 25, 000 men. The war cost the United States directly, a sum estimated between 8130,000,000 and $166,500,000.' In cluding the pensions recently voted, this amount will be greatly increased. The wonders of the cotton plant art only coming to be fully understood, ex claims the New York JSreics. A few y ears ago the seed was thrown away as of no account. Now that seed is one ol the most valuable parts of the plant. The seed furnishes an oil which, when re fined, is sold as pure olive oil, and which, enters into various food products. The cake w-hich remains when the oil has been crushed from the seeds is a high grade fertilizer as well as a high grade cattle food, aud the hulls have recently beer found as nutritious a food for milk cows as ensilage. Recent inventions and ei- - periments have also demonstrated thai the cotton-seed hull can be used for mak ing the very highest grade of paper stock, including the best grades of linen and ledger paper. It has been ascertained by these experiments that when the fibre of the paper stock is extracted from the halls the residuum will make the best liquid fertilizer of any known product. Last, but not least, this perfect fertilizer will be very cheap. What th? next discovery J will be ia the direction oi utilizing cot-ian-seed' i; of cour.-o a matter of doubt. All this means more industries to . tho South and greater prosperity, to ,tha nation.. "The-Austraiians are likely to become in time the greatest sporting people in the world," said a naval officer, who ha? had a roving commission for six years, which has taken him pretty much all over the world, to a. New Orleans Times-Democrat- young man. "I have just got back from the big . island in the South Seas, and I am more impressed with the admiration of its people for grit and pluck iu an athletic way than I am by any other national characteristic there. When 150,000 people will turn out to see a boat race and not only one, but a dozen or two duriug the year ;it is easy enough to see that the love of athletics is more than skia deep. That is about the num ber of spectators who can be depended upon to patronize' a big boat event, while ail around athletic exhibitions in any of the big centres will draw crowds of from 15,000 to 20,000 people. Duncan C. ilos?, who, though a man of -a good deal of daring and enterprise, found difficulty in making : a living hore, can make hundreds of dollars for every exhibition he gives in Australia, and he is at it pretty much all the time. Nobody knows ex actly to what to attribute this love ol athletics in that section of the globe, but it exists, and is the most promijignt characteristic of the dodIc'I THE SEA. Dawn is dim on the dark soft water. Soft aad passionate, d?.rk and STpeet; Love's ovm self was t'a3 deep saa-'sydauhtsr, Fair and flivIes from a23 to . Eailei of a-1 whan fa 3 world waaCJden, Loved of lovers wbosa names bebfea Thrill men's eyes as with light cf olden ; Days mora glad than their fli4ht was He? t. tSo tbey sang; but for men tha'JWe her, . ,So-ob that hear not her word I I vain. Earth beside hsr feai heaven abV her Saembut sbaoows that wax anvans, Softer than sleep are the sea's care: Kinder than love that betrays and bke?, Blither than spring when her flivverf-al ' tresses Shake forth sunlight with n;ne aid rain All the strength cf the waver, that lerisli Svvell3 beneath me and. laughs ani sighs. Signs for leve cf the life they cherysh, Lsughs to know that it lives arid dies; Dies for joy of its life and live" XhriUed with joy that its briec daath gives. Death whose laugh or. whosV breath forgives Changes that bids it subside and rise. Algernon Charles Sivin.bur.-ic. ANNE. Ten years ao the railroad running south from Calhoun was five years in the future. A stage waa run iu its stead; but little Dorsey, two miles "and a half southwest of Calhoun, being without means of mail transfer, sent and brought its mail by a daily pedestrian.' For a vear this servitor -was Anne Davis. I lie employment or a woman was new, but Anne's sharp need of the slen der salary gained her the appointment. A small privilege, most girls would have reckoned it, that of tramoiu five lonely miles a day in all weathers; but to Anne it was a boon. She walked homeward on a rainy Oc tober morning. The mail had been late, and she was afraid Sammy and Polly might bo homo frsm school, and wanting their dinner. The road was beautiful in summer, but now there was mud to plod through, witk raia dripping from the trees. Anne wore of necessity an attire of short skirt and boy's boots; the mail-bag was slung over her shoul der, and her face glowedj warm under her soaked hat. "Little late?" said the postmaster, smiling over hp railing, lie looked af ter her as sue hurried away, and wel comed the ypporlinity- for spetking which the picsenec of an out-of-town farmer afforded. "That's the best girl I know," he said. 'Don't know as you can call her a girl she dees as much as any woman. Way of it is, her mother had been a widow half a dozen years, and she died a year ago, and now Anne's head of the family. There's a boy a year or two older that aint at home, lie's been wild, Jim Davis has, and made his folks considerable trouble. He's in Ingleby now; got a job in the tool factory. There's two chil dren, and nobody but Anne to do for 'em. And now she's took the mail . carrying ; she needs the money, but it's pretty hard on a girl. Well, she does as 'near what's right as she knows- how, Anne Davis does."' ' Anne reached home before the chil dren. They found her with; her wet clothes changed, the. kitchen fire crack ling, and the table set. Sammy was nine years old and Polly seven, and their re alization of trouble was small. They loved and trusted their elder sister, and took no worry to their small selves. To-day they were, full to the brim of a fascinating subject. "We're going to the fair '" said Sammy. "Mrs. .Baldwin's going to take us all in the two-seated buggy to-morrow afternoon." It was the county fair, ten miles away. They had been once, and had magnified memories, and their good fortune over whelmed them. Their happiness wa3 Anne's, and their good times were not many. She kissed them a.s she bundled them up for school again. Polly's shoes were too large and Sammy's coa too small. They had been given them by neighbors, and Anne had not the false ipride to refuse the help she gravely needed. Sammy stopped iu the door. "Anne, there's Uncle Elias," he faltered. v A lit tle old man with a bundle was coming through the gate. Sammy and Polly, meeting him, hur ried on. They could never rid them selves of the idea that Uncle Eiias was of the bugaboo "codger" species'; but Anne met him on the step and took his bundle. "Tolerble, child," he responded to her querry as to his health, and they had no more conversation till he had dried himself, eaten his dinner and filled his pipe, and Anne had cleared the table and sat down with some work. The old man puUtid away sleepily in his hot corner. He was nearing eighty, and had lived for some years on the char ity of his sister, .Anne's great-aunt, who helped Anne little and grudinsly. His visits to Dorsey were the bright spots in his life. "Jim, you know,", said Anne she had been barely able to wait before be ginning the subject "Jim is in Ingleby. He's got a good place in the tool factory; he's sent me some money once." ' 'I'm glad chi'V' said' the old man . "I guess he's a good boy.'' Anne dropped her work. All her soul was in her face as she looked at him. It was not hard to see that here was touched her greatest love and her greatest hope. "He's a good boy, Uncle Elias," she said. "Hh would never have done any wrong if he hadn't been led into it." "NGr nobody," said the old man, sol elrnly. - "But Jim I wish you could know how good-hearted he is, Uncle Eiias!" the girl cried. "He was so good to mother! lie never meant to hurt her. It was Hiram Meeker and that bad set; he got to going up town with them even ings, and doing what they did. O Uncle Elias, I can't forget it that worst night, when they'Vl all been up to the saloon and came home late l" can't forget!" "No. Your poor ma!" "It was that that stopped him; he didn't want to hurt mother. He was better after that, and ever since." But a shadowouher face found expression. "I'm afraid, Unc'c "Elias. They're a rough set in the factory; I've always heard so. - It won't be Hiram Meeker, but it might be somebody else. Do you think so?" she said, wistfully. "Nobody's gpiag to make him do wrong if he wants to behave himself," said the old man. "He'll mean to," said Anne. "He promised mother." Uncle Elias, his withered face red with the comforting heat, blinked at her. "Your heart's sot on him," he said. Somebody outside was calling her;' it had fitoiped raising. It was is. Bald win in her buggy. Shs talked about the fair; she knsw the children vrwld be tickled to go," and it would do good. Teen, with an Jun willing sne proancea a newspaper. "I don't -s'pose there's a thin to.worry about," she said. "If you go to fret ting, I'll be sorry I spoke. It'. an Ingle by paper. There's a fuss at the' factory; the hands .are on a strike, but I don't s'pose Jim's mixed up in it."' "A man shot !" Anne gasped. "A foreman. Shot, but ain't dead. I shouldn't wonder if Jim had kep' out of it; he wouldn't been likely to throw up a good place the minute ho got it." "No," said Anne, but her hand, hokbj ing the paper, trembled. "If wo hear any more we'll let you know, but' don't you go to fretting," Mrs. Baldwin repeated. She drove away, and Anne, remembering her fire a.? she turned back, went to the wood-shed. The clouds had broken over an autum nal yellow sky, and a cold wind was springing' up. She had piled her strong arms full, and was turning, when some thing crouchpd in a coiner rose. ; "You needn't be scared " ii said. "I ain't going to touch you." It was a boy, under-sized and slight, but a look at his face showed Anne that he was older than herself; He looked like a tramp, with his bundle done up in a handkerchief and mud-drabbled clothes. . "Do you want anything something to eat?" she said, gently, for she thought of Jim. "Come in and I'll give you some thing. You're cold." His teeth chat tered. He followed her in, and she drew a chair and brought him food. He pressed forward to warm his chilled hands, but ate little. His eyes roved uneasily, and at an abrupt movement of Unce Elia3 in his sleep he started. "Every woman so far's been afraid of me," he said, in sullen tones. "They needn't be. I ain't a tramp, nor a thief, nor a murderer. That's what they say I am," he ended, narrowly eyeing her. Her first thought was that this was strauge( foolish bravado, but the boy sat bitterly smiling. His face vas a weak and yet a bad one ; his eyes had a shal low yet a hardened look. "I can prove it easy enough," he went cn. Desperation and a pitiful wistful ness mingled in his face. "Do you know how far I've tramped since yesterday?" he demanded. "From Ingleby. Thirty miles." . - '"Ingleby?" , . - v "I've had a job in the tool-factory ovejt there!" Whatever his confession was, he wavered on the verge of it, in dread of its effect. - "Did you know the other hands? Did you know Jim Davis?" Anne questioned, eagerly. v The boy gaped at her, his face chang- ing. "Do you?" he demanded, heard he come from round here, know him?" "I You "Yes." Something held 'Anne saving more, and the boy went on from hur riedly : "They think I shot McCormick! They believe it, because I haint kept straight since I been there. Well, there's others been bad as me, aud worse, and Jim Davis is one. I know Jim Davis. We was thick enough one time. Now . he turns on me; sneaks out of this, and lays it on to me., I'll live to get it back on him!" said the boy fiercely. "They think 'twas me at the bottom of the strike," he went on. "It wa3 Jim Davis more'n anybody. He said we was slaving for starvation wages, and he'd put in for more and see it through, and he stuck to it. I'd backed out more'n once if Jim Davis hadn't kep' us to it. It was him heading us when it happened. He wanted to go up to IvIcCormick's and get a fuss going ; he thought 'twas Mc Cormick -holding the bosses against us, and he was down on him. He wa'n't quite sober, you see. He was the one that called McCormick out and went at him about leaving town or getting hurt, and then when McCormick talked back and showed he Wa'n't afraid, Jim was crazy. He took out his pistol and fired, and it hit him in the side and he fell over. Didn't I see him! I,didn't have a pistol; any of the fellows knew that. They could prove he's lying if they wa'n't a set of cowards! Wei!, he settled things for me, Jim Davis did. He said I shot him, and the whole town thinks so. I might 'swell done it, I wouldn't baenno worse. I was right up with Jim" Davis all through, like a fool. Seeing I didn't," said the boy, his voice hoarsened by his dreary monologue, I hadn't ought to pay for it. I shall, if they get hold of me. Some of 'em said I better get out the way and I did. They'll be after me "fast enough, and then, Lord knows!" The poor girl who had heard him sat still, benumbed wdien he had d6ne The fire's crackling and Uncle Elias's peace ful breathing were all that . broke: the silence. Jim, whom her love and hope had. hops been centred in! How much she had loved him and hoped from him she' had not realized till now; now that her ten der trust was betrayed . as she had never dreamed it could be. JimJ kind-hearted Jim, with his honest eyes so like his mother s, the mother never again to hurt. he had promised That he had for bad been alive, gotten! This, if she would have killed her. What had led to it? It was strangely unlike Jim this awful thing. He had never been riotous and bad; never a lead er in wrong-doing, only a follower. But off in thjat rough place alone, with bad companions and coarse influences it had, she felt, transformed him, and so scon, into something different from the brother she fcad known. Yet she could not doubt the bfjy. He was a poor little specimen, of humanity a coward 'now, that had lately bsea a ruffian and 'bully. But one look into his miserable face assured her that he told the-truth. "What are you going to do?" she said at last, in a voice which did not sound like hers. - "I'm going to get caught and took bapk to Ingleby' he answered, "and if McCorinick dies" he stopped with a stare, "I'm used up now, I can't get much further. They'll track me easy enough. Jim Davis '11 put out, and they'll have me back to pay for what he's done." "He may tell them," said Anne. Bat the boy's reply was a sneering laugh. How long she sat, looking down at the floor, bright from her yesterday's scrub bing, she did not know. She hardly knew the train of her thoughts. All that seemed plain to her was the duty which was forcing itself upon her. Was it a duty? If it was, had she strength to do it? She had found strength so far for all that had come to ker hand, and it had not been little. Ber --' ! V I V i mother s words,a2most fcelL153-11830676 left her: "Do Trhat yonlWis right Ance. Bo strong ccongla1' it- There is no happiaesa far us but inv42i2 ur aurv." r But this was like nothing: she had ever known- He wa her brotier, though he had sunk so far from her as ta do this thing. He was Jim, and she could love him no less, nor ever would. What was this boy to herf He was in nocent and Jim was guilty; and he would suffer and Jim would go free. She pit ied tho boy. But could she? O Jim! O Jim! Finally she went and stood before the boy. 'If they don't find you when they come after you," she said, her voice trembling, "that will give you a chance, won't it? Then they might find out who did it!" "They'll find me," he returned. 'You don't ask me to help you." "I didn't think you would," he said, blankly. '-. "I will" Anne said, slowly. "Yor didn't doit, and you shouldn't suffer foi it ; it couldn't be right ! I could hide you here till they have come and gone, and then you can go home. You must not pay for what he did. If I can save you from it I will. There is a gar ret room nobody. goe3 into, and nobody will know." Uncle Elias was stirring wakefullyand she could hear the children's voices. She opened the stair door hurriedly. The boy looked at her as he passed up. She was feeling chilled and strange, so long had the tension been and so great her effort, but the boy s face, with its' half -abashed glow, sent a warm thrill through her. . 1 "I'll never said. forget you for this," he Her: decision and her deed gave hei Strength, of a kind. S&e went through the day as she would - otherwise have done. She get supper, attended to the children s wants, and all the evening talked with Uncle Elias. When the children were in bed and she had helped Uncle Elias up stairs, she made up a plateful of food and took it up to the garret room. The boy was asleep, with the hard line3 smoothed out of his face, its badness softened. She left the plate beside him and stole away. Early next morning, as she the fire cooking the breakfast, wheels, and saw Sammy run t yard in answer to the call of a mud -splashed buggy. He d af teij a word, and Sammy rani "e wanted to" , know if boy tramping through here ei"tS"x said, round-eyeu. "Itoldhydw; His sister looked awav from him Where was Jim? $ It was not tilV' -" 'Jihad gone to school and UncUr5Lllaa"but for an airing that ,she could go to the garret. She took the remains of the breakfast, and told the boy of the man in the buggy. "I'll go, then" he said, with a long breath. 4 'I'll cut over to the north road and keep on there; and he'll go back without me. Me! they'd better get after the right one." . She stood in the door, a few minutes later, and watched ,hioi go. Then she put on her mail-carrying uniform of short skirt and boots, and went on het daily journey. . Yesterday it had been raining, but she had been happy; to-day it was fragrantly warm and sunny, but all the light was gone out of her life. Suddenly at a turn in the road she saw coming toward her rapidly a figure, the; sight of which made her gasp aud stand still. "Web, Anne! I thought I'd meet you somewhere along," a hearty voice called to her. ' 'I got , into Calhoun on the morning freight and I started right home. I'll turn round and go back with you, Anne. Here, let me have the mail bag." Her brother kissed her. Without a word or a question she knew, a3 she looked at his smiling, fresh face that all that had beto cruelly weighing her down was the nightmare it had seemed. ' Her eyes filled with tears as she looked at him, tears of thanksgiving so great that hei heart seemed to stand still with it. . "What have you come home for, Jim?': she whispered ; they walked on together. "There's a strike at. the factory," he said. "There's been a rpugji time, one man's been hurt. I wasn'tTm it, Anne. About twenty sot us wasn't. We didn't join in. The foreman and manager knew it, and they've promised us work light along and first chance for more wages. There aint anv thing doing iust .now, things are so stirred up, and the ones that lived near enough have gone home till to-morrow. I started the minute I could; I've been homesick enough for you and the children, Anne." He turned to her, lifting his hat from his warm forehead and' eagerly smiling. She took his hand in hers tightly, and told him all her strange story in one trembling breath. "6 Jim!" she said. "And I believed it all!" He paused for a little, blankly. : Anne, he wasn't lying," he said. "It was Jim Davis shot him, and everybody knows it now. Anne, I wish you could see A,th other Jim Davis. It's been a sort of s joke with the fellows, our name being alike it ain't so uncommon and us being so different. He's six feet, and the roughest-looking you ever saw. He shot McCormmk, and he laid it on Mat Demming; that was Mat De'mming thct came here. I know him, but I don't train with him. EutMcCormick's better, and Jim Davis ain't so seared, and he let out that he did the shooting. He's arrested, but he'll get off, that's what they say. I'm sorry for little Mat Dem ming, it was rough on him. But it's ths bad company he's been in, and "Anne," he broke off, "I don't have anything to do with that crowd. I've kept straight, and I will! You needn't have believed it. I know why; butyou needn't have, Anne. I'm done with it. Don't you think I've got a spark of man liness in me, to see you working here like this, doing things no girl ever did before, and not do my part? "Didn't I promise mother? Anne, you needn't be afraid. You won't ever have to worry about me TotLllis Companion. aam never . Hiparian Accretions The rule that the owners of land bounded by running streams are entitled to the additions to their land formed by the current of- the river is not changed 01 modined by the peculiar character of the Missouri Biver, which frequently causes sudden and sometimes material changei ir the adjoining land. The rule is ap plkabia to land3 adjoining that river and to changes suddenly made the same as if such changes were the result of slow and imperceptible accretif;nj4---Vajw Farmer, 1 I IfOEDS OF If rott want to be hajrrov, be. thankful? W oras witii gold iQtnem are., nevei wasted. " . Grumblen and growlersWye no lift ing power. " ' - . We often pay the most for what W. need the least. Love is free, but it take3 money to.ge': to housekeeping. We never really kno;v a thing, until we can tell it to others. The man who is always looking; foi mud never sees the sky. . . Nobody has ever built a house, that time couldn't overthrow: The man who has a high opinion of himself don't know himself..' The man who lives only for what he can see is very short-sighted.. . 'Look out for the man who. is. always boasting of his own goodness.. If you seek the world's blessing; you will be sure to get its leprosy. If we would always succeed,, we must always love. Love never-fails. The man who nurse3 grief is as fool ish as the one who feeds, a tiger. Any fool can ask questions, but it takes a wise man to answer them. We are all the time making character, whether we are doing: anything else not.. We are not ignorant because nnf. Ipnrn but: hpvinr wr fnr VC much. To run on a rock ir wreck a shin , iust as surelymtly will do it purposely. It won't do any sroo. to whitewash the well curb so Ion in the water. there is poison The easiest troubles is to ur vour own other people. :u" Some men can d with ajacx: knife than others can a full set of carpenter's took. One of tne times waea Tht tO remember to love your m rour- ra?ry 10 inuvr-ra prospective c tomer i 3-to purchase a full throated mock 2 bird. J. liC UUU1UUS MUUU UUJCUlCjft ; he had heard, that birds of that never lived for more than five yearj ; that they often died -within a much shorter period, and that he was unwilling to expend his money on a songster whose voice would be so soon hushed. It was in vain that the shopkeepei argued that the tale of a mocking bird's years was much longer than was generally supposed, and that the five year limit wa3 a mere superstitious fiction. The preconceived notion was indestructible, and the anticipated customer left the shop unconvinced. ... As I passed on I was reminded of an incident related to me on the occasion ol a visit to the Poet AVhittier at his home at Oak Knoll a little over -a year ago. It was te Sage of Danver's eightieth birth day, and while he was receiving a grouj: of literary dignitaries in his cosy parlor I was having a delightful chat with hi charming little eighteen -year-old niece Phebe in the library. Phebe's love for the domestic pets is only second to that for her uncle, and il was with intense pride that she exhibited the great black cat, whom she christened Rip Van Winkle in Joe Jefferson's honor, and the mocking bird, whose songs ia many keys are scarcely less tuneful than those of the gray bearded Quaker. The cat and the bird are in perfect accord, and together with the magnificent Newfoundland, who is always at Mr. Whittier's side,, form, as Phebe says, 4 'a perfectly happy family of three." "How old is he?" Phebe repeated, when I asked about the bird's age; "oh, he is ever so many years ahead of me," with a blush and a laugh, and then she told me of a visit paid to Oak Knoll some lime before by a rafrt'r, pretentious Boston gentle man, whq had remarked a3 he entered the library: "Ah, I see you indulge in the luxury of a mocking bird. Well, sir, mark my words, you'll not keep him long." ' To this sage observation Mr. Whittiei replied dryly : . "No, indeed, I fear not He has been in he family for more than twenty-five years now." Whether this bird is still in the land ol the living is more than I can tell, but the fact of the possibility of a mocking bird's longevity is, to my mind, well established, if only on bright-eyed Phebe's authority. Nev) TorTc Herald. The Queen Joked Gladstone. Upon one occasion, writes Eugene Field in the Chicago JSreics, having been invited out to dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone entered a, cab and attempted to get through Piccadilly. That thor oughfare was unusally crowded at th time, and after floundering about in the rank and rile for two hours, ,the worthy couple were compelled to abandon their purpose, turn off at a side street and re turn home.- This was considered quite a joke on the "Grand Old Man,'' and hh acquaintances guyed . him a good deal about it; moreover, the press got hold ol it aud dished it up ad nauseam. The re sult was that Gladstone finally got very weary of the joke and he began to evince temper w-henever it was referred or al luded to. On the occasion of the next reception given by the Queen to the lead: ers of the Liberal party, her Majesty, who had been treasuring up the disagreeable jest for several weeks, seized upon the opportunity to say to the ex-Premier: "I hear, Mr. Gladstone, that you recently had an amusing experience in Piccadilly' ; pray, tell me 01 u m oner tnav L.maj. i snare the merriment whicn it ha3 given others." Mr. Gladstone was greatly nettled, but he had to keep his; temper. ' t . - t IT 1 uay it p.ease your iJiajesty, mum, siid he deiiberateiy and a. most stcruiy, "there was. a departure, a misadventure cud. a return; and thai avis the long aud short of the matter, mum." The Laud of Snail Families ' A law pa si el in France, designs! to give certain advantages to ' 'fatliera ol more than -evtn children, ha3 brought out the facts that in Franca there are in round numbers 2.900,090 household? in which there has been no child; 2,500, 000 in which there was onlv one; 2. 300,000 of two children each; 1,500, 000 with three each; about 1,000,000 with four; 550,000 with five; 330,000 with six, and 200,000 with seven or Agot St as 10 wayr try to xott- ten" Rita tfs TAJz . He smiles in & wi From a comedy newt ne saysoe saw tna;i Tou gi veJiim a story V To set all who heard Be nods half approval an A . ' i.Tt 1 rt . TThosa heart ypu re seeirins to SSesEMEg oniytp wisn you a retrain. You soek for some phrase not totally trit?, And eren the thesaurus explore: t's aH of no tu . Yon see sfcej ' 4 . . Bov sad it must be to .r5 like thU With nothing on earth to enjoy And never make anyone happy yourself, Ad ojjly find things to annoy. His life like an orange whose juices Are gonej Tis a drv. empty shell, and i 1--- ua mnfh to be nitied vMatned- The man who ha Til AND POINT. A standing invitation Get up.. Weather reportA thunder clapv Not a play of wc.ds The panto mime. A hand -The glovers news- paper Sts the ball a rolbng lko batsmai .1 when he hits a grounu -r. "Can you break a ten for me?" "No. I'm broke myself." Bo&ton, Courier. Life is far from extinct in the mati who appears to be dead in earnest. Detroit Free Press. , A fruiterer can hardly be called a time-serving fellow when he is out of dates. Tankers. Gazette. "Johnay, hov? many seasons are there?" "Three pepper, salt and de baseball season." Epoch. - - j ably that i our time Democrat. Awkward MissLTtli an umbrella "Beg pardy11; "Polite Gentleman "Don'tne'ntioa it. T have iumtliw rw left.' t l " f tr 1 itt -1. J York Weelc'v "What was the trouble between you and x-onr lifimi TWTi-iip?'' "iv., v.. "iu . no was altogether too cold." "Isce. Aau you Sred him." Boston Courier. Restaurant Guest. 'Everything you Waiter. "Here is the mustard anifpep pep, sah." New TorJc Weelty. Queer thing, confidence. As long as another man has your confidence yoi keep it, but the minute you . withdraw it you lose it. lerre Haute Express. "There's nothing half so sweet in lifa As love's young dream. So sings the maid whose lover treats lier to ice cream. Bqston Courier. First Man (excitedly) "Our restau rant is on -fire." Second Man (calmly) "Come, then, hurry up, and perhaps at last we may be able to get something hot." - dining with him) "Well, sonny, what part of the ciiicku' would you like?" Boy "The whole of it." Detroit Fce Press. Tangle "What a pretty little car riage Miss Tiff has!" Mrs. Tzmgle "Ye?, that must be the carte blanche she told me her, papa' had given her." Mun ieifs Weekly. A fast young fellow, about to marry, speaking of his intended, .said to a friend of his: "In short, she has everything iu her favor-r-fortune, wealth and money !" Times-Democrat. If, in the heat of a family quarrel, the 'angry wife makesa move to pick up a flatiron, by no means is this to be taken as implying a willingness to smooth things over. -Detroit Free Press. General Tscheng-Ki-Tongs recently married a young French woman residing ta the south of France. She will be able to use the downtown end of her name to curl her hair with. New York He rail. Steersman (during excitingyacht race) I "Man overboard! Shall we stop or let him drown?" Captain '(promptly) "We mu3t stop and pick him up. It's 'iainst the rules to drop anv ballast, dur ing a race." "I want to know when you're agoin' to pay this here -bill. I can't be a-run- nin' here every day in the week." "Which day would suit you best?? "Sat urday.", "Well, then, you may come every Saturday." Judge. Indignant Landlord (to tenant of flat) "I thought you said that all your children werC grown up, and here you've got three noisy babies in the house?" Tenant "Yes. These are my grandchildren." Munsst Weekly. Dentist's Daughter (who hears her father approaching, "Oh, dear Edward, .here comes my father. If he should find .us together, we are lost.- Oh, he is com ing! You will have either to ask for my hand or let him pull out a tooth for jou." llalflloUday. Senior Partner (to head clerk) "You'll jxcuse me lor mentioning it, but- er four face is hardly as tidy as I should ike to see it." Head Clerk "I'm letting 3iy whiskers grow, sir." Senior Partner "So I see ; but I can't permit employes :o grow their whiskers in business hours. rney must do that in their own lcisura nmel" Pici Me Up. Saw Only One Siamese Twin. The other day a pompous little fellow in a railway car was boasting. of the great, men with whom he wastm intimate terms. He was in constant correspondence with Blaine, had lunched with Mark Twain, was 011 friendly relations with W. K. Vanderbilt, and, in short, knew every- laing aou everyoouy. At length a quiet individual at the further end of the car broke in on the conversation with the J question: "My dear sir, did you happen to know the Siamese twins?" Our hero, who evidently had a talent for lying, but no real genius, at once replied: "The Siamese twins, sir? Yes, sir. I became very intimate with one of them, but I never had the good fortvme. to meet the other." rTQnse-a-W&ti. - u . i - - - .J injure.. mr ucai r J?L- 21 1 it.
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