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. r ; ;;. , (Jj ' 7 t t i Lctc b not Ires. 7, . eii.not free to take, lite sun ;and a!f, - -cr giyca away lor naught to any one. vt is no cciarion right for men to shared- UU all things precious it Is sought and If another is more loved than yon. Gay not. "It Is uninst w ur.i,. r -J-as earned more lore than I it is her doe; When I deserve more it will come to me." ut if yourlonrlng be for love indeed, Til teach you how to 'win It a sure way ; love and be lovely, that is all you need, And what you wish for will be yours some - . day. . .j-ISusan Coolidge', In Household Coal .'. pariioh. ; . THE DEPOSIT. .In one of the great merchant cities of Southern Germany dwelt the Lady Ida, fatherless and motherless daugh tcr of the' highly revered .Burgomaster Trottenbeim; Beautitul, rich, her own indulgent '"duenna, she could . bo. want for adorers, conspicuous among whom were three youths un equally endowed with the gifts of for tune There could be no question ol. -thevweaUb of Waiter son of the most opulent jeweller of the city; or of the poverty of Alexis, who seemed to pos nothing but the paper on -which v3ya8 continually inscribing a new urart or ms one sonnet, never to" be iinlihed in this world. jOut of Adelbert's property men only surmised that it was risked in adventurous speculations, and that his fortune alternately soared and flagged like a pitching kite, Perhaps, how ever, those who knew most would have marvelled least at the expression of absolute despair which darkened ymtf Countenance as one day ;hc .crept Jlnto a sombre thicket of yew, a pistol an uis hand. , ' j "It is over!" he cried. "She has flouted me to my facet Adieu to the last hopo of repairing uiy losses, ap- Tft5ncr m v or.il 5f nro nnrl toJMkI vn w J - Q J ' WV W .. I. V. V.tM V..M ing that fearful deposit ere thcday of reckoning, now so near at hand I I should die of fchamc then ; -better die of shot nowl" P And lie pressed the muzzle of his pistol to his temple. Ho was in dire earnest another moment would have becnrhis last when the pistol was "wrenched from his hand, and a wcll Jiuown voice exclaimed r 4IIold I or at least declaro first, for the information and, it may be, the cousolatlonof thy friend, whether Ida lias rejected thee. - v "She has not, "Walter,", relumed Adelbcrt. lNot the pang of unre quited love, but the goad of accusing conscience, chases me from this ter raqueous world. Hearken, "Waller! it imports thee to know, for thy in- heritaiice will he curtailed by my im probity. Trusting in the honor of his old friend's son, thy father has advanced "me 50,000 ducats upon the aecurity.of a scaled packet, whose con tents I have fabled to' be family jowels, mysteriously intrusted to me. Oh, Walter, Walter, tho sweepings of tho streets were precious in compari son, Now go and denounce me to v thy father go and betray mo to Ida." i am a geuueman, saia waiter, Btifily, aud walked away, carrying the pistol with him. Tho wretched Adelbert remained the prey of tortur ing thoughts until a dismal sound struck upon his car, and ho ilod pre cipitately as - Aexis entered the grove reciting the latest version of his son net." 'When Walte'r, on his part, had quit ted tho spot, he was tingling all over with the glow of a magnanimous ac tion, or at least profession, which in Its effect on the inner man is much the inmA tiling. lift liml tint. Iinwovni- proceeded far eio 'he encountered a back and a white personage, neither of whom, indeed, had quitted him !. during his interview with Adelbcrt, ' tr any of -us at any period, but of . j ' tinctly conscious. The black spirit thought that 50,000 ducats was a great deal of money, to which his white comrade assented, but added that hon or was perfectly inestimable. The black spirit had much to say nbout AdclbcrtV iniquity, and the white about Its retribution. The ques tion of Walter's duty to society was fully considered from opposite points of view; aud thon the black spirit in troduced tho Lady Ida, and, by de picting her in the character of Adel bert's bride, removed tho debate from the i calm of ratiocination to the re gion of sensuous perception, where ! the whito spirit was at singular disad vafitage.V - -Aud as tho arguments of the black geutleman and people of his sert are invariably found to gain in weight the longer ononis willing to listen to them, Ihnn xriltnnt marvel, indirious reader. r J to meet Walter next morning in Ida Bloon,imakiug & clean breast of Adel .t's breach of honor, but silent as to Ida, however, soon made him con fess that his knowledge of the secret was derived from Adlebert himself, d inliniof a1 vonr TklninW that shft MV. 9 J 1 J &sidered his tho meaner action of SS' LadJ',,, pleaded ' the impas- l w aiter, 'alio west thou nothing verwhclminsr might of self- Wouldsk thou have Bumiaiv Denoiain? n in tho wiles c jSSjndler "4x pllna allegiance to con yenllonsnayevcn to' saactionV other wiso nperaUve? Kot of such clay is thy Walter fashioned. Show him the law that restrains,- the obligation that debars him from seeking thy weal through evil report and good report, and he will rend that law and spurn that obligation as he shatters this ves sel and tramples upon this quadru ped." Ida's vase of flowers, lay shivered upon the floor, and her little dog writhed and howled beneath Walter superincumbent boot. He was evi dently beside himself, and Ida could only recompose him by commanding him to depart her presence, and never return nnlcss he brought the false packet with him. "To what end, Lady? When it has been opened in court tbe cheat will be manifest to thee and to. the world.' 'And how know I that it may not have been tampered with meanwhile? Produce it tomorrow, or see my face no more." . -" . - Walter meekly represented that the deposit was not in his custody, an argument manifestly devoid of weight, lie promised obedience' and departed. On his way home he had much fcom tnunication with his black companion, and ere the prescribed time this ex cellent young man had.possessed him self of the packet by mean3 of a false key. lie hurried to Ida with his prize, and placed it in her hands. She wavered him. back while she broke the seals. To his amazement, tbe first indication of her sentiments was a fit. of laughter, but her expression be came tragic when she had satisfied herself that the contents were indeed but paper. She turned fiercely upon Walter,who found it advisable to quit her prcseucc with expedition! "How awfully fond she must be of him." he 6oliloquized. 'Would I had known it ere I satis fied my finest feelings for hcrsake! And yet what a 6crapo I have got in to! The packet is in her hands was that is to say, five minutes ago; for by this lime it is probably in the fire. What will become of my father when it canuot bo produced? And, more especially, wht will become of me? Wretched WaIterI lucky Adelbcrt! un grateful Ida!,r; ; i, . "Make a counterfeit," advised the black spirit. 'Confess everything' recommeud- cd the white. ' . "I am sure I can't," replied Walter to the latter suggestion; and "I don't think I cau" was his response to the first. He was, nevertheless, revolving a scheme for the acquisition of Adel bert's seal, when a knock came to his chamber door. 'Enter," he cried, and one of Ida's domestics presented the packet, with the seals so cunningly restored' as to leave no trace of opening, along with a billet from his mistress. Walter read : 'Forgive my impetuosity. In my agitation I did not stay to gauge the intensity of thy affection by the enor mity of thy turpitude. Whensoever tho contents of the packet are publicly evinced mere paper, account me thine." Walter heaved a sigh of speechless joy, and hastened to replace the pack et in his father's coffer. At the seme moment Adelbert, alone in his cham ber, was holding a phial of pofson to the lamp, whose rays lent a balefnl glitter to tho adder-hued fluid. An empty globlet gaped for the deadly potion. Adelbert's fingers dallied with the cork, when a hand smote upon the door without, and he hastily thrust the phial into a draw. "Pardon tho intrusion," said aAlcx-, is, entering, "but thou mayest proba bly wish to hear my sonnet, which is now completed to my satisfaction, excepting thirteen lines. Moreover, the Lady Ida has intrusted me with a letter to thee." Adelbcrt eagerly broke the seal. The missive contained nothing save a delineation of an ' anchor, the em blem of hope. "Does she, can she know?" he speculated. "Is she a witch, or is Walter a traitor? IIow bcit, tho phial may rest where it is?" The great day had arrived. The court was thronged with merchants and lawyers. The parties concerned were present with their notaries Adelbert pnlc as" death. Walter's father flushed andfidgety. Walter sardonically calm. A magistrate read the formal notice that, the pledge not having been redeemed, the packet was now to be opened and its contents made over to Walter's father, subject to three days' grace of redemption Adelbert's heart might have been heard to beat all over tire court but for the buzz of excited whispering. Trembling with eagerness, the old jeweller brokp.the seals and cut the silken strings, and held np a mass of paper, scored with blotted and erased characters. "Alexis' sonnet, by all that's bluel" cried Walter. "Is this all, wretch?" shouted his father to Adelbert. "Wretch, I 6ay, is this, all?" Adalbert mado no reply. "lua has mocked me," he thought, with inexpressible bitterness. "Villain, you shall swing for this I M thundered the old man as he dashed the papers on to the table. A ring as jl of metal smote upon every ear, and one of the fifty outstretched ; hands grasped and held 'ujp a brilliant ob ject, flashing and sparkling in the sunshine that streamed through the court windows. "Heavens i" exclaimed the aged lapidary, "these are the family jewels of the honse of Trottenheim! " "Which," said a clear voice in the remote part of the court, "I lent to Herr Adelbert that he might impledge them for the sum he needed, and which my lawyer will now redeem for the same with a deed of interest" "Lady I" shrieked Walter, "how long have these gems -" but his father checked him angrily. Ida hur ried blushinr from the court and Walter sank back murmuring, "Aw fully fond of him." The word was taken up on all sides, and as the stunned and slowly reviv ing Adelbert found himself surround ed with old and new friends congratu lating him upon his triumph and the near prospect of a wealthy and devoted bride, he could not but repeat to him self, "How she must love me I" Ira escaped as soon as he could and hastened to Ida. He fell at her feet and thanked her for his life and honor. Then he urged her to wed him. 'Not for the universe, Adelbert," answered Ida, very sweetly. The discomfitted suitor could only stammer, "Wherefore?" ' '.'Because compassion is not neces sarily love; because I may have de sired to humble, even more than to help thee; because Walter would un doubtedly hang himself; lastly, and this, indeed, is the principal and most conclusive reason, because I have been these three weeks privately married to Alexis." Illustrated News of the World. Old-Time Carrier Pigeons. There is nothing new under the sun, not even military pigeon posts. An old accouut of a voyage made in the East, that of Labrogniere, our Paris correspondent says, is soon to be pub lished. M. Letifur, who edits it, con tributes a prof ace, in which he says that in the 13th century these birds were used in Syria and in Egypt for the rapid transmission of news. The Caliphs made the pigeon post a regu lar institution in tho Nile delta. Ptolcmetes had a department at Cairo for the registration of the grenealogie8 of pigeons. Hour Eddin, in 1169, made a pigeon-postcode, and ordained that the central office was to be in the citadel of Cairo. Tall towers and pigeon-houses were built along the route of his whole empires and to its utmost extremities. The towers were to servo ' to enable the pisreons to reconnoitre from cages the neighbor ing country and the pigeon-houses for breeding. Penalties were imposed for killing a pigeon and prices were Set on the heads of birds of prey likely to molest them. There were six pigeon-posts between Cairo and Damascus and ten between the latter city and Behnessa. London News. The Maw of Paris, There is no city in the world that keeps such accurate records of the entry of food and fuel supplies within its borders as Paris. This is due to the fact that a high import duty is levied on almost every article of do- UIC3UI. U5C I11V.U 13 UlUUgUl tU LUIS city. During 1891 the total amount of coal consumed in Paris was 3,279,- 000 gross tons, of which 1,512,000 gross tons were brought to the city by river and canal; 1,767,000 gross tons were of French origin, 647,700 gross tons came from Belgium, 418,500 from England, and 129,900 from Ger many. Tho 6mall amount of charcoal used as fuel iu Paris will bring the total consumption of fuel to three and one-half million gross tons. The yearly consumption of coal in London is twelve million tons. Boston Tran script. , The Yankees of South America. "The Chilians are the Yankees of South America," said Victor P. Hart. "They are alert, progressive, ingeni ous, aud give the almighty dollar hot a chase as any people on earth. The women are remarkably beautiful, aud the men as fine a lot of fellows can be found on the earih. They are, for the most part, tall, broad-should crcd, supple as Hindoos and brave as lions. It is peculiarly fortunate that the United States did not hecome em broiled in a war with Chili, course, such a contest could have Of but one result, but it would not have been the walkover the people ot this coun try supposed. The Chilians are only a brave and warlike people, but their mountainous cnuntrv affords every advantage for defence. It is full of Thermoplyaen passes, where a handful of men could hold a mighty army at bay. It o2er3 abundant sites for fortifications as impregnable Gibraltar and Quebec as "All this talk about tho Chilians disliking the American people is veriest nonsense. They regard the the United States as the grandest country and the Americans as the greatest people on earth. We should cultivate the Chilians. They are a deserving people, and the glory of South Amer ica depends chiefly upon them." St. Louis Globe Democrat. The German navy -six yeisels, c; for conefbat, rep; now "possesseg eighty either afloat or ready representing a total of 219,063 to ' -I THE PEANUT TRADE. All Interesting Chapter on j Great American Delicacy. The Peanut's Adaptability to Many Useful Purposes. The news that there is a iliortage in tne peanut crop 13 likely to agitate a great many persons in Gotham, where j the habit of eating peanuts is more general in certain districts than in San Francisco, Chicago or St. Louis,which J are the three foremost rivals to the j metropolis jn the consumption of tho I leguminous nut. The peanut eaters j or me great cities arc provided for chiefly by the crop yielded by the pea- nut farms of Virginia and North Car- ohna. This crop, it is announced, has inis year fallenlshort of 40.00.000 bush- els, and there is a consequent advance I in the wholesale price. The quoted market rate is now five cents a pound, but the numerous Italian Counts who are interested in the retail trade still adhere to last year's rate of ten cents qvarc, and are therefore entitled to and will doubtless receive the gratitude uivjoinams peanut eaters, par ticu- jr uu me Bowery, -where a supply of peanut has from time immemorial been part of the theatre outfit of the humble and enthusiastic patrons of the drama. In times gone by certain residents of the metropolis, suffering from lack of knowledge of the c?reat American nut, have affected to despise it, and to scorn the taste of those who chose it as a delicacy. But it is worth noth- ing that the peanut has risen superior to this mistaken nreiudice and has XOrCeCl the rpanpph nf mnnv urlir thought contemptuously of it by be coming an object of art as it were. Every New Yorker accustomed to use hi3 eyes arouad holiday times has seen the proof of this in novel ornaments that have appeared in the shop win dows. With a paint brush skilfully handled, and bits of bright colored cloths or silks, artist3 have been able to metamorphose the peanut into an object that unites humor with an inherent beauty of as pect that is remarkable. Peanut dolls and other things have now a rccosr nized market value as curios, and it is a fact to the eternal honor of the low ly nut that artists of local renown have not thought it derogatory to their art to busy themselves in the absorb ing .pastime of peanut decoration. Peanut dolls are found adorning man tels in many studios, aud . elaborate art works, in which the peanut has played the moat important part, are exhibited in costly gold frames. Those who think slightingly of the peanut forget its adaptability to many. useful commercial purposes. The nut has long been valued for its oil. The seed contains a fluid that is an excel lent substitute for, and is often sold as olive oil. By heating the seeds be fore pressing them another sort of oil is secured that is useful in the making of soap. The seeds themselves have also been used in making certain kinds of chocolate. Those who would speak contemptuously of , the peanut are undoubtedly ignorant of the fact that the vine that bears the aet is in U- self an interesting curio in Northern climes, quite as much, indeed, as the cotton bud and branch. If the dried vine be varnished and painted and the unt cn hied, a parlor ornament is obtained that is sure to attract the in terested interest of the owner's visi tors. These decorated vines are so seldom seen in New York that they may be classed as veritable curiosities. The mere method of growth of the vine has always been au interesting study- to botanists, and especially to those -who have acquired a liking for that fasciuating science. The a peculiar pod, which, after the vine has flowered, is gradually forced down into tho ground hy a curious propnl sion of the vine stock. Once safely under trronnd the pod eularges and grows a thick netted shell over tho fruit. No other plant has this singu- !. ,Wflloninr its fruIL Added to its many other uses the iAiCLliVHl VI UWiw"i o P,,ni ho. late revealed a propertv x . - - a a nroniixrfl of intoxication that i,o.., the resnect of those I'.v.v.. who are -accustomed to dally with the w: i, i. tnmm will IT VfU 1UI uwiTluy UUHI. - r c-k .u- fmit of thP. TM-annr has a romnrphMsire faculty for ab- sorbin- alcohol, and preventing it from demoralizing the nerves of the stomach nnrl nrssctting the thinking machine. It is estimated, for exam ple, that if a man dnuks a quart of champagne and eats a pint of peanuts, the peanuts will overcome the inebri. ating quality of the wine without cur tailing its exhilarating effects. At ten cents a quart the population of Um city are getting something which, con sidered -as a luxury, is well worth the money. -New York Sun. - The Great ff11 of China. . The Kcenerr from the Great Wall is Tery fine. The xllg i here a di viding line between the high, rugged hill of China. wUica tower above u ou the one hand, nd the great sandy plains of Mongolia 3 tbe other, with dim monnf.;.nmmiU bevondinthe far distance. Over these barren, rocky spurs and accUrities, ascending I iu irregular curves uiu -1o,i,tB im serried battlements clear-cut azainst the sky on the topmost ridges, des cending into dark gullies to appear again rising on the other side, the endless line of massive stone and brick runs on and on until lost to sight behind the farthest range. And so it goes for miles and miles, cast- ward to the Pechili Gulf, and west- ward, mostly in two great, rambling lines, along the border of" the Gobi Desert and Kausu.uutil it ends among the foot-hills of the Nan Shan range. However we may regard it, whether as a grand conception for the defence of an empire, as an engineering feat, or merely as a result of the persistent application of human labor,it is a stu- pendqus work. Xo achievement of lne present time compares with it in magnitude. Hut it has outlived its usefulness. T,ie powerful Tartar and Mongol hordes, whose sudden raids and iuva- ions it was built to resist, are no more to be feared. The great Genghis and Kublai could not lead their people to gory conquest now a3 they did cen- l""ea ago. The Chinese civilization has endured, while the ouce conquer- lnS Mongols, the people who in their brightest days established au empire from the Black Sea to the China coast, and a court at Peking of such luxury and spleudor as Marco Polo described, arc now doomed to pass away, leaving nothing behind them but the tradi tions, and records, and rmns of a brilliant past. The wall stands as a sharP liue of division between the tribe3 c the north and the Chinese, The latter though repeatedly subdued and forced to bear a foreign yoke. have ehown an irrepressible vitality to rise use a phoeuix, and to reassert their supremacy and the superiority of their civilization. : Century. Chinese Motions of Color. The philosophy of Chinese house- paintiug is truly curious, though per haps the interest which attaches to this subject lies more in tho restrict tions imposed upon the man with pot and brush than in the free exercise of a decorative art. For among these Celestials art is eminently utilitarian. Ve enjoy our colors; the Chinese put theirs fo work. More, in house-paint ing, green aud red are, so to speak, de rigucur; other colors would be un- propitious,' unlucky, ill-omened. And even if the average Chinaman (bal ancing himself as best he can tipon tho superstitions and practices of ages) is ' ignorant of the precise grounds of his belief, he adheres none the less rigidly to the canon. As Pythagoras taught that music f&s the first cause of the universe, so the Chinese have pinned their . faith to the absolute efficacy of color, endowing it with powers quite beyond the laws of chemistry or physics. Indeed, poor John may be said to live aud die by the color scale. No color, not even imperial yellow, lies so near the heart of the Chinese as ed. True, they do not, as did the Hebrews, smear the blood of the lin tel, but they havo a custom of much the same import Any one even su perficially interested in this curious people must have noticed the little pieces of red paper red peach paper it is called by the Chinese which, cored all over with characters, are attached to the door-posts of their dwellings. The impression is general that these bits of paper in some way indicate the business or employment of the occupant. But Ah Sin him self will tell you that they are "just lucky." This is as satisfactory a reply as could be expected from him under the circumstauces; the mystery of life is not easily expressed in a couple of words. But why red peach paper.' Harper's Magazine. A Phisiological Fancy. It is surprising how many people belive that the entire body of a man is renewed every seven years exactly This used to be taught in books and, although not orthodox now, is still ac ceptcd as gospel by many, lo show ts inaccuracy one has only to bit a I - ' nail on his fmSer hard enough, form lDat ca8e uie inJnrea Jeci wm corac I ir- j v . , i. ru aim ue rcPiaceu u.euure,Jr I T . r .1 cw naiu luls Pce uccupieu I V . t . . . ven years sucu an accuieni wouia bca tiresome affair; but as any I . . mechanic will tell you, it only occu- "ca TCI " we- growth h more rapid in summer than winter, but never taking more ' than four mouths. So far as the nails are con cerned, then, the renewal process is repeated about twenty-one times dur ing the regulation seven years, and the theory is thus destroyed, even if no other proofs of its falsity were forthcoming. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Even Some Men are Vain, They were talking of the vanity of women, and one of the few ladies present undertook a defense. "Of course she said. "I admit that women are rain and , men are not "Why," she added, with a glance around, "the necktie of the hand- omest man in the room is even now ?P the back of his collar." And then she smiledfor every man present I bad put his hand up" behind his neck! I prake's Magazine MAN'S HUGEST WORK. The Wall of China and How it Was Built Long Ages Ago. A Monument to the Worst Hated Monarch in History. The most gigautic monument that any king or emperor ever left behind him is the Great Wall of China, The Emperor Chin Shih Huang, who set up the wall 2000 years ago, though he was as great a man as Caesar, or Alex ander, or Napoleon, is detested today by millions. So it is that the hugest work of men's hands in all the world, stretching half way across the conti nent of Asia, preaches the same ser mon in stone through ail its length that you will read, written in words. In George Eliot's 'Itotnola" the sad fcolisbness of a selfish life. The Emperor Chin Shih Huang was not a wicked or a vicious man. He did more for his people than any ruler before or 6ince, giving them a good government, roads and canals, aud drove the robber Huns out far away to the North. So great was ho that the name of his dyuastythc Chin dynas ty has ever after been given to all the country, "China." But he was not satisfied. He wished all future generations to think of him as the first emperor of the Chinese race. How could he do this, when, scattered all over the land, there were books and histories telling of the great deeds and sayings of teachers kings before him? There was aud only one way. lie ordered all books in the empire j to be burned, especially every copy of the famous writings of Mcncius and Confucius. "Strange as it may seem, this was done, and so thoroughly that Chinese scholars believed that not a single perfect copy of these books es caped destruction, and what exist to day are only such portions as could bo written out from memory. Even this destructive edict was not enough. There were men living who could write new histories and all such scholars, to the number of nearly 500, were burned or buried alive, 60 that neither book nor teacher might remain to tell the world of any great Chinese before him. He built the Great Wall (though be died before completing it) to make his memory glorious forever after; it only keeps fresh iu every Chinaman's heart the national hatred for its builder. It was when Carthage was just be ginning her last great struggle with Rome that the wall was being built. and it still stands, though iu ruins, . and is still something strange aud ; wonderful to see. The top of the wall is a paved highway "wide enough for six horsemen to ride abreast," exactly as, the old geographies used to say wnn penect tmtn except mat no horse could mount its long flight of steps, sometimes hundreds of feet in height, which were built because the mountain side is so steep that au even . incline would be as impassable as the : dizziest house roof. Everywhere on its outer side the wall is more than twenty-five feet in height, faced with stone and topped with brick battle ments in which frequent embrasures for arches tell of the preparations once made for its defense. The inner side, from which no at tack was feared, is not so high above the ground, and is pierced by occa sional doorways leading up to the top of the wall by a flight of vaulted steps. Towers arc placed at intervals of a few hundred feet; being no more of use to shelter the soldiers of long since forgotten armies, they now furnish rare quarters for qamping out. Altogether the wall is more than 1500 miles in length; that is, it would reach on our continent from the southern part of Florida to Hudson's Bay, croosing all mountains on its way, aud not turning aside for any obstacle. And whether build of granite, as in its eastern portion, where, standing on any peak, you can follow it till bidden in the clouds,.or m . . oi common earin, as on the great desert where it has stood undisturbed in solemn silence, still it remains the greatest work of man in all the earth. New York Press. Wonderful Just the Same. iucuiumiuer uau uuisneu an es pecially miraculous story of some of his personal experiences, and had stepped just outside the door of the moking compartment, where he could near tne comments of his fellow travelers. "Goodness me' said an up-couutry fellow, "what a wonderful man that chap is." "Huh' retorted a rival drummer, "notning wonderful about him." "But," pcrsuted the green-lookin man, "jut think of all that happening to him that he told us about" "Do you believe that?" asked the other one in a pitying tone, "wbv there wasn't a word of truth iu any of it." The countryman never turned a hair. "I reckon not," he replied solemnly, "but a liar like he is is a wonderful man to me anyway," and the drum mer gave a warning coogh and came back into the smoker. Detroit Free Press. i Love Sent. whvdoiil,ecJ5?'8weel a I cannot tU W" n A . but I know The love 1 bear u -UU1 w. . Ilowdolklovvllothee.dear? Love's sigis re lu au e world, So plain thai be bo .rans may read, . i. .uvavs is unfurled. ills uauiiLi WhenthoulrtgonWUc, Jfo beauty in w-'r;"""8' o melody in on2 oil Xowusfcio their w.Bgs. Howdolknpetbede By the new jy By all I mcao i"J By deeming ol all womankind- Perfect andlpurc, ou?e UI taoe By finding lit worthanviog, dear. X fcUOW IUUU 4' -1 iue . rIorenceA.JoBcs. x 1U M0R0US. Bom leaders of men Vo:r.ea. Visiting a chair fair is like going into the highway and uuytray. MontroseWhatever came out of your engagement with Miss Tone? Van AVa flies 1 did. The man who is so poor that he can not get credit, has a Tery fair chance of one day becoming rich. Teacher In the sentence "The sick boy loves his medicine,? what part ol speech is love?'' Johuuy It's a lie, mum. Venerable Gentleman (palling Jamie on the head) And how old i the little man? Jamie (with pride) I'll be 10 in less than five years. Mr. Munn (to his daughter) I sup pose thisforeignoraSjshasnt a cent. Mfsf lmh2 L JW?C ha9 pa. lie has a lovely English accent ... t W- 'Mr. Scrugkins was very affable when 1 called on him." "You must have struck a tender chord." "Xo; 1 paid a bill." That's what I mean t ; , a legal tender chord. "Are you aware," said the man in the rear, fiercely, "that your umbrella is poking me in the eye?" "It isn't my umbrella," replied tho man in front with equal firmness;- 'It's a borrowed one, sir." "William," she said severely, "how many more times are yon going toafek me to marry you?" "Clara," $aid he, I caunot answer that question, but I think I'll not bother you much longer. One of the other girls I'm proposing to shows sigus of weaken-' ing. The Small rind the Great. One night a man took a little taper out of a drawer and lit it, and began to ascend a long, winding stair. "Where arc you going?" said the taper. "Away high up said the man, "higher thauthc top of the house where we slcepr." "And what arc you goiug to do there?" said tht little taper. "I am going to show the ships out at sea where the harbor is' said the man. "For we stand here at the entrance to a harbor and some ship far out on the stormy sea may be looking for our lisht even now." 'Alas! no ship could ever see my light," said tbe little taper. "It is so very small." flf your light is small," said the man, "keep it burning bright and leave the rest to me." Well, when the man got up to tho top of the lighthouse for this was a lighthouse they were iu he took the little taper and with it he lighted the great lamps that stood ready there with their polished reflectors behind them. And soon thev were burning steadily aud clear, throwing a grea't, strong beam of light across the sea. By this time the lighthouse man had blown out the little taper and laid it aside. But it had dono its work. Though its own light had been so small, it had been the me3n ot kind ling the great light iu the top of the lighthouse, and these were now hin- ing brightly over the cn, so that ship far out knew by it where they were, and were guided safftly iuto the har bor. New York Voice. Tact and "Bad Breaks." KM Perkins gays: Tact is the nht thing at the right time. When a young collcyiaie stepped on a young lady's fool in a Harvard street car the beautiful girl offended, but when that collegiate bowed sweetly, and said modestly: "Beg ten thousand pardons, Mis? your foot is to sma11 1 couldn't see It, why, she could "avc k5,ea h'lax- . 'How' different was it with Keuben Bradshaw, who bad never been off of the old Litchfi trsu One day he met an old flsso, Lacy Bradbury, In Ilartford. Ue not teCa bcr for fifteen years. Well," sjitf Benben. taking1 Lucy warmly by tbe hxod, "you are still Luc v Bradbury. rey ?" "Yes," she rttiUtd "IliU hncj Bradbury. w "It isn't je 'n31' I know," be rejoined, meZ t0 Mr "MnS compliments "TUat I''" h adt,ed nervously, tbat 10 Lad not pressed mWscl!jr io tLc T had intended 41 mcaU "iat y0ttare not toblame,f2ko(tr l0tttC0aldn,t help It-eri U U Was fault ; of the young Ttr J"," LewentoViafVaai perspiration. ted gW. Ever Te mel 5 ?: tTer,Kcrublic you. f St. - UDltTTr MWV --WMttl&r
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Feb. 23, 1893, edition 1
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