North Carolina Newspapers

n- rr e ' 4 1 A EMOCRAT PUBLISHING CO., PUBLISHERS. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE II.50PER YEAR. VOLUME I. SCOTLAND NECK, HALIFAX CO., N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1885. NUMBER 32. nn L WEATHER, Jay Vto wfeen the ben the are gray " falling, ' , . can rou hinder an old regret , ior long dead, and a Hope long J - A . milliner rising out or usgio" " a to tou, with a voice so sbrill, .i on.l ctiins t.hn Willi ;f scares me rwwi. ,.., this, when the sun is hid, and your heart are housed tcr Andyu ' memories J " mtr .. n.AAanltr nnt: vniir lid. ,A ir,i oil imnla. lad sorncfflins j -- - 1 ike (nst 01 1 OUMluur wo-.n-vnri , L. vho is iii fault, but the dim old day, dsrk for labor, too dull for play! . tv.i thai b Murrnl and SrraV. fc a i;y 111"5 iu,c" " VThen the rain drips down in a ceaseless fashion, dream, that you banished and put away. m back to stare in your face and say Mute eloquent words of passion; the whole vast universe seems amiss, hir, who can help it, a aay use mis Ella Wheeler micox.. HE PURSER'S STORY- 75Y LUKE SHARP. 1 1 don't know that I should tell this lory- I When the purser told it to me I know was his intention to write it out for a lngazine. In fait he had written it. Id I nrjJrrst;uid that a noted American fnraziae had offered to publish it, but nave war.nuu 111.11 ihuh.iiic iui ut-i Iirce rears aua l nave not yet seen me user's story in it. I am sorry that 1 id not write the story at the time, then kraaps l snoma nave caugnt me cx- ujsite peculiarities ot the pursers way telliDgit. 1 hnd myself gradually tor- ktting the story and I write it now for c ear I shall forget it, and then be har asstd all through after life by the re bembrance of the forgetting. Perhaps after vou read this story you ill s:v there is nothing in it after all. A'cll, that will be my fault, then, and I nn only regret that I did not write down hhe story when it was told to me, for as E sat in the purser s room that day it Kerned to me that I had never heard any thing more graphic. The purser's room was well forward oa ihe Atlantic r team-ship. From one of the little red curtained windows you could look down to where the steerage passen- erswcre gathered on the deck. When I the bow of the great vessel dove down :to the big Atlantic waves, the smother of foam that shot upward would be borne a'nng with the wind and spatter like rain against the purser's window. Something ibout this intermittent patter on the reminded the purser of the story iid so he told it to me : There were a great many steerage pas sengers getting on at tueenstown, he said, and as you saw when we were there it is quite a hurry getting them aboard. Two officers stand at each side of the gangway and take up the tickets as the people crowd forward. They generally have th.dr tickets in their hands and there is no trouble. I stood there and watched them coming on. Suddenly there was a fuss and a jam. "What is iti" I asked the officer. "Two girls, sir, say they have lost their tickets." " I took the girls aside and the stream of humanity poured in. One was about Hand the other, perhaps, 8 years old. The little one had a firm grip of the elder's hand and she was crying. The larger girl looked me straight in the eye as I questioned her. "Where's vour tickets?" "We lost thiin, sur." "Where?" "I dun no, sur." "Do you think you have them about jou or in your luggage?" "We've no luggage, sur." "Is this your sister?" ! "She is, sur." "Are your parents abroad?" "They are not, sur." "Are you ali alone?" "We are, sur." "You can't go without your tickets." The younger one began to cry the more ud the elder answered : , ".Mabbe we can foind them, sur." They were bright-looking, intelligent children, and the larger girl gave me such quick, straightforward answers, and its-emtd so impossible that children so joung should attempt to cross the ocean without tickets that I concluded to let them come, and resolved to get at the troth on the way over. 'ext day I told the deck steward to wing the children to my room. They came in just as I saw them the y before, the elder with a light grip on 'he hand of the vounger, whose eyes I wer caught sight of.- She kept them resolutely on the floor whilo the other ooked straight at me with her big, blue eyes. ' ''Nell, have you found your tickets" t No, sur." "What is your name?" Bridget, sur." "Bridget what. ''Budget Mulligan, sur." 'Vhere did you live?" "a Kildormcy, sur." !.lJrhere did TOU ?et vour tickets?" rom Mr. O'Gradysur." Aw 1 knew Kildormey as well as I a!,w this ship, and I knew Q'Grady was ; s?nt there. I wculd have given a buoaaealat that moment for a few Mrdg w,tu him. But I knew of no .v'Ugans tbere although, of course, "re might be. I. was bom myself onlv a ' 7 m from Kildormey. Now, thinks jafflmySQlf' if thc8e two children can a purser that's been twenty years ln A,,antic when they say they C 6 fro!n his own town, almost, by the itllecrs ,uey deserve their passage, over Dip ?cean- I had often seen grown peo w try to cheat their way across, and I hii none oJ ttem succeeded on my 4 Where's your father and mother?" Hoth dead, sur." Who was your father?" wlWas & Pin8honer, sur." ' .r Jxere dia be draw his pension? t aonno, sur.", . llltri J";"-Sur you get themoneyto buy hl! S5!,bor8V8Ur' ANiMr.O'Grady w hat neighbors? Name them." '-. in " "hesitatingly named a number. v wnom I knew, and as that had frequently been done before I saw no reason to doubt the girl's word. "Now," I said, "I want to speak with your sister. You may go." The little one held on to her sister's hand and cried bitterly. When the other was gone, I drew the child toward me and questioned her but could not get a word in reply. For the next ddy or two I was bothered somewhat by a big Irishrran named O'Donnell, who was a firebrand among the steerage passengers. As we had many English and Ocrman passengers, as well as many peaceable Irishmen, who complained of the constant ructions O'Donnell was kicking up, I was forced to ask him to keep quiet. lie became very abusive one day and tried to s'.riko mo. I had him locked up until he came to his senses. While I -was in my room, after this little excitemont, Mrs. O'Donnell came to and pleaded for her rascally husband. I had noticed her before.- "She was a poor, weak, broken-hearted woman whom her husband made a slave of, and I have no doubt beat her when he had the chanec. She was evidently mortally afraid of him, and a look from him seemed enough to take the life out of her. "Well, Mrs. O'Donnell," I said, "I'll Jet your husband go, but he will have to keep a civil tongue in his head and keep his hands off people. I've seen men lor less put in irons during a voyage and handed over to the authorities when they landed. And now 1 want you to do me a favor. There are two children on board without tickets. I dou't believe they ever had tickets, and I want to find out. You're a kind hearted woman, Mrs. O'Donnell, and perhaps tha children will answer you." I had the two called in, andjthey came hand in hand as usual. Th elder looked at me as if she couldn't take her eyes off my face. "Look at this woman," I said to her; "she wants to speak to you. Ask her some questions about herself, " I whis pered to Mrs. O'Dounell. "Acushla," said Mrs. O'Donnell with 4-infinitc tenderness, taking the disengaged hand of the elder girl. 'lell me, dar lint, where yee are from." I suppose I had spoken rather harsh ly to them before, although I had not intended to do so, but however that may be at the first word of kindness from the lips of their cmntrvwoiuan both girls broke down and cried a if their hearts would break. The poor woman drew them toward her, and stroking the fair hair of the elder girl, tried to com fort her while the tears streamed down her own cheeks. "Hush, acushla, hush, darlints, shure the gentlemin's not goin' to be hard wid two poor childher going to a strange country." Of course it would never do to admi that the company could carry emigrants free through any matter of sympathy, and I must have appeared rather hard hearted when I told Mrs. O'Donnell that I would have to take them back with me to Cork. I sent the children away, and then arranged with Mrs. O'Donnell to see alter them during the vayage, to which she agreed if her husband would let her. I could get nothing from the girl ex cept that she had lost her ticket, and when we sighted New York I took them to the steerage and asked the passengers if any one would assume charge of the children and pay their passage. No one would do so. "Then." I said, "these children will go back with me to Cork, and if I find they never bought tickets they will have to go to jail." There wete groans and hisses at that, and J gave the children in charge of the cabin stewardess with orders to see that they did not leave the ship. I was at last convinced that lhcy had no friends among the steerage passengers. I in tended to take them ashore myself be fore we sailed, and I knew of good hands i in New York who would see to the little waifs, although I did not propose that any of the emigrants should know that an old bachelor purser was fool enough to pay for the passage of a couple of un known Irish children. We landed our cabin passengers and the tender came alongside to take the steerage passengers to Castle Garden. I got the stewardess to bring out the children, and the two stood and watched everyone get aboard the tender. Just as the tender moved away mere was a wild snrieK among me crowucu passengers, and Mrs. O'Donnell flung her arms above ner neaa ana cricu in mo most heart-rendiug tone I ever heard : "Oh, my babies, my babies." " Kape quiet," hissed O'Donnell. grasp ing her by the arm. The terrible ten days stiain had given way at lasi, ana the poor woman sank in a heap at his feet. - . Bring back that boat," I shouted, and the tender came back. - "Come aboard here, O'Donnell." "I'll not!" he yelled, shaking his fist at me. "Bring that man aboard." They soon brought him back and I gave his wile over to mo care oi iub stewardess. She speedily rallied, and hugged and kissed her children as if she would never part wim tnem. So. O'Donnell, these aro your cnii- dren?" "Yis. they are; an' I'd have ye know I'm in a frae country, bedad, and I dare ye to 'ay a finger on me." Don't dare too mucn, l said, "or in show you what can be done in a free country. . Now if I let the children go will you send their passage money to the company when you get it!" I will,-' he answered, although i Knew he lied. ' "Well," I said, "for Mrs. O'Donnell's sake I'll let them go, and I must con gratulate any free country that gets citizen like you." Of course I never beard from O Donnell since. Detroit Free Prets. A gentleman of this city has a small hov who imitates Georee W When a gentleman called recently me lamer saia f .. . i .1 .1 cigar to offer you," looking with regret KB 111111 - at the one he was smoking. Now was it.a amll bov's oDDortunity. "I know where they are, pa,", he said, dragging Ann a draw and bringing out a box of a choice brand, Detroit . Free Preu. The population of London by the cen- 8us of 1851 was 2,3z,boo; ioi 989; 1871r 3,254,200; 1881, 3,814,571. HUMOROUS SKETCHES. A Follow to Be Triiuteil. ''What do vou think of BliffkinB, Brown?'" "Pretty lair sort of fellow in his way, believe." "Do you know him well?" "Oh, yes! I am very well acquainted with him, indeed." "And you consider him a man to be trusted ?" "No doubt of it." "What do you base your opinion apon?" "Personal experience." "How's that!" "Well, I began trusting Bliffklns snort ly after I became acquainted with him, and I am trusting him still." Detroit Journal. An Abaont-MlndeA Barber. "Yes," said the proprietor of an up town barber shop, "Jim was a good workman, but I had to get rid of him." "What was the trouble?" "He was too absent minded an for getful. One old fellow, with a head like a billiard ball, he never failed to ask if he didn't want a shampoo. Another bald headed old chap got mad because Jim insisted upon sell in' him a bottle of 'Elixir' that was warranted to keep the hair from f allin' out ; an' a young man, who was slightly under the influence of beer, fell asleep in the chair an' Jim shaved off his moustache. I had to call in a policeman then. He cut the man's ear nearly off while watching a dog fight in the street, an' sometimes he would nib hair oil all over a customer's face in stead of his head, an' fill his cars full of lather and forget to wipe it out. Jim didn't mean nothin' wrong, but as I said, he was absent-minded. You remember when old Deacon Jones died?" "Yes." "Well, the family sent for a barber to shave him, an' I told Jim to go up. It was that job that lost him his situation. He did the work all right, nobody ever found fault with Jim's work ; but when he had put on the nnishin' touches and pulled the towel off the poor old deacon, he turned 'round an' shouted, Next!" so that people heard him a block away. So I told Jim that I guessed I'd have to let him him go. New York Sun. Sentiment and Reality. The handsome young lady and the awkard man of pretended sentiment sat on a moss covered bank. All day he had annoyed her with his attentions. "Miss Mabel, do you like poetry?" "Yes." "I worship it; I live on it. See the picknickers out there. They shout and romp as though the air itself were not full of sentiment of soul breathings." "What business are you engaged in?" she asked. She knew, but wanted to hear him say. "My business perhaps is more lucrative than congenial. I operate a bone mill." 'What?" "Yes. I grind up bones. The pul verized bone is used upon the land. It makes the flowers brighter, the corn more luxuriant. Miss Mabel, you remind me of spring." "Why?" "You are so gentle." "You remind me of spring," sne said. "I do!" He leaned forward to catch the words. "Yes; you are so green." . A Rlsrgcr Fool Than Ever. "Arc vou interested in the subject of steamship navigation, sir?" said a wheezy old man with a wandering eye, as ho took a seat and made himself at home in the private office of a State street busi ness house the other day. "No, sir. I am not," said the head of the firm, rather curtly. "If a man was to tell you he could build a ship that would cross the Atlan tic in twenty-four hours, what would you say?" inquired the old man, leaning for ward to catch the answer. "I'd say he was a fool," responded the merchant with emphatic promptness. "Well, sir, I can build that ship." "You can?" "Yes, sir, I can." "Then, sir, permit me to strengthen my previous remark by saying that I con sider you a blamed sight bigger fool than my first observation indicated." "Why so, sir?" "Because you don't build it. Good- day, sir." The old man picked up his hat and slid out. - Chicago Ledger. Olt on a Tonr. "Hi! Hi!" yelled a boy in an alley off Clifford street yesterday. A second boy. who stood on the cross walk, meandered down and asked what was wanted. "Put your eye to this knot-hole and tell me what you Ece." "Nuthin' but a man sittin' out in the back yard." "Don't you read the papers?" "'Course I do." "Didn't you see in the papers three or four days ago that this feller got married? Name's John Blank." "Oh, yes." "And it is said the happy couple had started on a bridal (our to Omaha " "Yes." "Just went as far as Chicago, and headed b:tck fur home. Got here in the night, and walked up to the house to escape observation. That happy couple has trot to put in about ten days around here with the front door locked and the curtains down, and some morning you'll see a great stir and learn that they have just returned after an enjoyable trip, Say, Jim!" "Yes." "Don't get married.' "Never!" "If you ever do, don't try to Omaha the public." - "I won't." . " 'Cause truth is mighty and must pre 1 VUL i vail, and deception must sooner or later ffraSs." Detroit -free i reus. A Tale of a Tunnel. A newly married couple were en route to Washington by the Baltimore & Ohio. There are many tunnels on this road the other side of the Ohio river. All through Ohio the face of the young man wore occasional looks of pain, despite his great iov ITe teemed to - want something. Annnentlv he Yearned. Over in West Virginia the train entered a funnel. Upon emerging into the light the young man's face was seen to wear a studious expression. He was thinking. At first he seemed perplexed, then interested, then triumphant. He had had a revela tion. Then he smiled with a firm, manly, continuous smile, and his eyes peered ahead for the first sign of a yawning cavern in the mountain side. The bride was happy and demure. WhlBh shad ows rumble darkness. The veil is drawn. It is another tunnel. Light 1 again, ana me young man looks happier than ever. The bride's cheek distorts & fentlo blush a modest, experienced lush, discoverable only to the initiated and envious. No perplexity, no anxiety now. The revelation has been tested and found a success. There are many tunnels, but not enough. If the whole line were a tunnel the bride and groom would not care how slow the train Eroceeded. The man who has not lived to less the builder of tunnels does not know what happiness is. He is but lit tle above tho brute which never troubled the Creatar for passing clouds over the moon on prayer meeting night. But our bridegroom was not one of these parties. He appreciated all the blessings which man and nature had bestowed upon him. He did not miss a tunnel. But ail things must have an end. Day light always comes to the newly married. Strawberries and cream must be paid for at the cashier's desk. Within the bliss ful cucumber hides a microbe. Our young husband goes for a drink of water While on this errand his eager eye catches the signs of another tunnel. Of course he fears his birdie will be sore afraid if left alone in the darkness, and he hastens to her side. Quick are his feet, but faster moves the train. Darkness gathers while he is yet half a dozen seats away. But the brave man does not falter. He gropes along, he reaches the seat (or minks he does) and slides into it. Deep are the shadows, and hums the train. A scream, long and vigorous a sound of scufllihg a thump or two and the bright light of a May day breaks upon the scene. The young husband Iranti cally endeavors to disengage himself from the grasp of an angry colored woman sitting in the seat just behind the bride. He at length succeeds and retires sullenly to his seat. The tunnels come and go, but their shadows are scarcely deeper than those upon the face of the young honeymoon. Chicago Herald. Origin of "Hail Columbia." In 1798 "Hail Columbia," appeared. Iu the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, music was made to take a part. The Republicans at the theatre called for "Ca ira," or the "Mar sellaise." The Federals wanted the "President's March," "Yankee Doodle," or "Stony Point." Feeling ran high. While the factions wrangled the benefit night of a favorite actor drew near. No man knew better than he how to profit by the popular will, and at no time in the whole course of his life, had he so fine a chance of profiting by the popular will been ottered him. Politics ruled the hour. The city was full of excited Federalists, who packed the theatre night after night for no other purpose than to shout themseves hoarse over the "President's Mr.rch." He determined to make use of thia fact. He would take the march, find some one to write a few patriotic stanzas to suit it, and on the night of his benefit sing them to the house. Some Federalists were consulted, were pleased with the idea, and named Joseph Hopkiuson as the man best fitted to write the words. He consented, and in a few hours "Hail Columbia" was pro duced. The night of the benefit was that of Wednesday, the 25th of April, and the Gazette announced that the per formance would comprise a comedy called "The Italian Monk," the comic opera of "Rosina," "More Sack," an epilogue on the character of Sir John Falstaff, and an entire new song (writ ten by a citizen of Philadelphia,; to tue tune of the "President's March," will be sung by Mr. Fox, accompanied by the full band and a grand chorus. 'Firm united let us be, Rallying round our liberty; As a band of brothers joined, Peace and safety we shall find." "LoDg before, the curtain rose the house was too small to hold the thousands who clamored to be let iu. Those who got in were too excited to wait quietly for the song. At last the comedy ended, and Mr. Fox appeared upon the stago. Every line was loudly applauded, tho whole house joined in the chorus, and, when the verse, 'Behold the .chief who now commands was reached, the audi ence rose to its feet and cheered till the building shook to its foundations. Four times the song was encored, was de manded again at the end of the panto mime, and again at the close of the play. A few called for "Ca ira," but were quickly put down. The words of "Hail Columbia" were printed in full, in the newspapers of the following day. The Uazette hoped that every lady in me cuy would practice the music, learn the words, and sing them at the next repe tition ; then perhaps the -two or three French-Americans who remained might leel the charm of patriotism and join in the chorus of the song." John B. Me Master. "Happy-Go-Lucky.' The earliest use of this expression if found in a "True and Just Relation ol Major General Sir Thomas Morgan's Pro gress in France and Flanders" (Arber'j "English Garner," volum IV., pages 640-41, published in 1659), as follows: "Then the French fell upon the othei half-moon, but were beaten off. The major general considered that that half- moon would gall him in the daytime, and therefore did speak to the officers and soldiers that 'it were best to give them a little help.' The red-coats cried : 'Shall we fall on in order or happy-go-lucky? The maior general said : 'In the name ol God. at it, happy-go-lucky!' And im mediately the rod-coats fell on, and were on the top of it, knocking the enemy Wvcherly also uses the expression in his "Love in a Wood," 1672: "If I get into Mrs. Martha's quarters you have a hundred more; if into the widow's fifty happy-go-lucky." St. Louia Glob Democrat. .: '- : Thero is a salt lake in Hidalgo county. Tex., which is one mile in lengthy five miles in circumference, and from three to four feet deep.- . Its bed consists of crystals of pure salt. TIMELY TOPICS, The total annual catch of menhaden In the United States is about 700,000,000. This seevs to be a great number, but blue fish alone are said to consume about 3,000,000 menhaden every day of the summer months on the coast of New England alone. As a matter of fact, menhaden arc so prolific that they are practically inexhaustible. The proprietor of a household article recently informed the publishers of a well known monthly magazine of large circulation that the insertion of a small advertisement twice in tho pages of their magazine had brought in more than eight thousand inquiries. Aud yot some peo ple are still wondering if newspaper and magazine advertising pays ! The supreme court of Pennsylvania & decided that tho sale or purchase of a life insurance policy is illegal and void even when made in good faith and as sented to by the insurance company. The ground stated is that such transactions amount to gambling on the duration of human life, and are therefore contrary to public policy, just as other wager ing contracts are. J Paris is cleared of rats by her muni cipal council offering a premium for their skins. Two years ago the premium was three dollars per thousandr but it has recently been raised " to ten dollars per thousand in order to get the city cleared of the pests. The rats are of the Nor way kind, and breed four times a year. The skins, when collected, are sold to glovemakers for four cents each, and 20,000 skins arc said to have been made into "genuine kid" gloves last year. People with very large noses may be interested to learn that an English doc tor claims to have discovered a method of reducing that organ. The process, which he calls "multiple punctiform scarification," consists in rapidly prick ing tho nose with a number of minute double-edged steel blades fixed in a han dle. From 500 to 3,000 punctures ore made at a sitting, and the operation is performed every week or two for some months; meanwhile the organ is kept well anointed. At first sight the opera tion does not seem attractive, but the doctor says.it "is not painful." An Iilino s law fines every engineer $100 and his railroad company $ 200 for his failure to stop his train not less than 200 feet from railroad crossings, draw bridges, etc. the money going to the informer. It has been the habit of some persons to watch the trains and measure the distance. If the engineer went over the limit at all complaint would be en tered and the informer pocket the cash. One man is said to have $200,000 worth of claims now peuding. An amendment to the law proposes to interfere with this "home industry, by ordering trains ' stopped anywhere within 800 feet, and turning the fines into the -county treas uries. Cocaine, the new local anaesthetic which has suddenly achieved such an excellent reputation, has been known as such for a great many years, but lor a long time was found to be too expensive for general use. The great progress now is the cheapening of the product. Its properties are due to a substance nearly identical with theine, the active prin ciple in tea, and it is, indeed, obtained from one of the tea plants, the mate, of Paraguay. This is know botanical ly as ervthrbxvlon coca, cocaine, of course, being derived from the specific name. This plant has long been known to the Pataguayans, who chew the leaves, as deadening the pangs of hunger. Mexico has established a central na tional bank. It is chartered for fifty years, and becomes to ine nation sud- stantially an institution like the banks of England and France. Its notes are the only ones to be accepted by the gov ernment, and it has a monolopy of cir culation through the tax on the circula tion of other bank notes imposed by the national banking U.w. . The bank is ex empt from all taxes except real estate, and stamps only are required in dealing with the public, business with branches and agencies being unstamped. It takes the place of the Monte de Piedad as a place of deposit on account of the gov ernment, pledges of good faith for con tracts with the government, and of iu- dicial money to be deposited with bank ing institutions. A London doctor has publisher some i curious comparative statistics on the longevity of public and professional men. lie found that tne average age at death of the twenty-five American states men during the last 100 years was sixty nine. The average of an equal number af English statesmen was seventy years Li 11.. .! . i aia f latter did more work at an advanced rri. :.. r v He thought the as compared with American political life was brought out by comparing tho ages at death of members of the British parliament with those of the United States Congress who died between 1860 and 1884. Of our Senators, fifty nine gave an average of sixty-one years; 146 Representatives averaged fifty-five years, and the average for both w.as fifty-eight. The 121 members of parliament averaged sixty-eight years at death. A letter containing a draft for $5,000 and interest since 1860 has been received at the United States treasury depart ment, to be added to the conscience fund. It comes I rem an unknown man, who says he was a telegraph operator in California in 1866, and that he received a dispatch on the first day of his service, which was from a New York postoffice inspector, warning the San Francisco police officials to be on the lookout for Charles Emmons, who had stolen $5,000 from the New York postoffice. , The operator writes that he put the dispatch in his pocket, because it flashed across his mind that Emmons was the real name of one Hastings, whom he had met on the passage out, and . who bad become a good friend of his. On showing the dis patch to Hastings, the operator found that his suspicions were correct, but kept the secret,; and Emmons, alias Hastings, afterward died . at Nevada City. The letter ends as follows r. "A few years ast by the death, of a, relative, I came into an ample fortune. I desire, there ' fore, to make restitution to the govern ment of Mr. Emmons peculations, In which I considered myself an indirect accomplice. The sum inclosed is tho amount of principal and interest to date." Tho "Rose 'Doctor, I thought Fever." you would never come. 1 can t stand it much longer," said a young man to a Cincinnati doctor. "I've got such a pain in my head. First it was a headache, then my head got cold and the pain concentrated between my eyes. When I breathe through my nose it feels as if my brains were being pulled out." f'Hinnnh I" Raid tho. Anot.rr "lwfn in the flower show, have you?" "Yes," said the young man in sur prise, "I've . been thero two or three times." "Well, you've got rose fever. Some times it's called hay fever. Some flower has poisoned you. Had a lot of patient? like you this week." When the patient had been prescribed for and had departed, the writer, who had been somewhat surprised at the di agnois given, remarked : "Were you jesting about that nianV complaint?" "No, certainly not. I have had a num ber of patients this week who have had the same trouble. Some of them have not had as severe an attack as this man has, but complain of unusual pains in the head which they cannot account for. It is a queer disease, and yet it is per fectly explainable on a natural and rea sonable basis. Plants and flowers possess in nearly every instance some good or bad property. A child at plav in the gar den may take a fancy to eat the leaves of 1 the seeds of a pumpkin and no harm re sults. The next minute or two the lit tle thing changes its food to jimson seeds and then there is a funeral. In sme cases it is the root only of the plant which is poisonous or beneficial, and it may have to be treated in a com plicated way before its qualities can be extracted. In other plants it is the leaves alone which contain the properties, and then again in many other instances they are contained in the flower. It is not, perhaps, the whole flower which is of use. It may be the corolla, or the calyx, or the stamens, or the pistils, or the petal which are charged with good or evil. And then, too, as you have often heard, no doubt, the same flower or some other vegetable matter does not affect all people alike. Hay and rag weed are the best known causes of this species of- catarrh, and its name, 'hay fever, has been given to it on that ac count. "There is no determining what flowers have and what they have not in this in fluence. Some people are affected by tuberosos, others by lilies of various kinds.. I know a big, strong man who is thrown into perfect agony ,by the slightest smell of flaxsaeds when pre pared for a poultice. Another man of my acquaintance would be made violently ill if buckwheat flower is cooked in a build ing where he is. All these things are perfectly explainable on scientific grounds, which I don't propose to enter into now, but if you will inquire among I the people who have been to tho flower show I am sure you will find many who : have had sudden headaches and trouble with catarrh after leaving the flowera." Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. Caring Khenmatisin with Celery A German' correspondent of an Eng- J lish paper writes as follows : I have had ' a severe attack of inflammatory rheuma tism, and was healed in two days' time by a soup made of the stalks and root of celery; therefore I desire to make this simple remedy known through the columns of your valuable paper, for the benefit of all sufferers from gout or rheumatism of any form. I was induced to try it by seeing the following notice : "Numerous cures of rheumatism by the use of celery have recently been an nounced in English papers. New dis coveries or what claim to be discover ies of the healing virtues of plants are continually being made. One of the latest is that celery is a cure for rheuraa matism; indeed, it ' is asserted the dis ease is impossible if the vegetable be cooked and freely eaten. The fact that it is alwav3 put on the table raw prevents its therapeutic powers from being known, lhe celery should be cut into bits, boiled in water until soft, and the water drank by the patient. Serve warm, with pieces of toasted bread, and the painful ailment will soon yield. Such is the declaration of a physician, who has again and again tried the experiment and with uniform success. At least two thirds of the cases named heart-disease arc ascribed to rheumatism aud its agon izing ally, gout. Smallpox, so much dreaded, is not half so destructive as rheumatism, which, it is maintained by many physicians, can be prevented by obeying nature's laws in diet." Here in Germany we boil the root and stalks, as the root is the principal part 1 of it, and afterward eat it as a salad with i ., ' . . T ..u :. I oil and vinegar. I received such imme- diate benefit, that lam anxious to let all the rheumatic sufferers know of it. How Bronze Statues are Cast. A New York artist thus describes the process of casting or molding bronze statues: The statue is a seated female, half draped. She Jias bare feet and raised arms. The drapery is full of nar row deep folds designated to t how and emphasize the movement of the figure. The statue is cast in plaster as soon as the model in clay is finished, and is handed over to a bronze founder "art founder" he will probably style himself. The first thing he will do will be to cut off the arms, because it is so much easier to mold them separately. Then he will probably cut off the body at the line of the drapery; then he will likely cut off the plinth. All these pieces he will mold and cast separately. They have to be then cleaned up with chisels, punches and files to remove the lines left on them by the seams of the mold, the latter having been made of many pieces fitted to each other in the same way as pieco molds are made in plaster. . In some English country houses now people draw lots as to whom they shall sit next at dinner, and, on the whole, it answers very well, and gives much more variety than going in order of rank. Sixty-eight thousand miles of aubma rine cables are nm in us WHEN THE BABT .CAME. Always in the house there was trouble and contention, Little sparks of fooling flashing into flame, Signs of irritation, So sure to make occasion For strife and tribulation till the baby came. ' All the evil sounds full of cruel hate and rancor, All the angry tumult nobody to blame! All were hushed so sweetly, ' Disappearing fleetly, Or quiotod completely when the baby came. Faces that had worn a gloomy veil of sad ness, Hearts intent on seeking for fortune or fop fame Once again were lightened, Once again were brightened, And their rapture heightened when the baby came. All affection's windows opened to receive it, Pure and free from Heaven, and give it earthly name. Clasping and caressing In arms of love, confessing That life had missed a blessing till the baby came. Homes that were In shadow felt the gentle sunshine, Smiling, as if anxious their secret to pro claim ; Grateful songs were swelling, Of mirth and gladness telling, And love ruled all the dwelling when tha baby came. Hearts that had been sundered by a tide of passion Were again united in purpose and in aim In tho haunt secluded. Peace divinely brooded. When discord had intruded till the baby came. Little cloud dispeller! little comfort bringer! Baby girl or baby boy, welcome all the same? . Even o'er the embers Of bleak and cold Decembers, - Some fond heart remembers when th baby came. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Women, as a rule, are not inven'ive. They have no eagerness for new wiink' les. Paradoxical but true When a carpen ter goes on a strike he doesn't use his hammer. New York Journal. After all, the English campaign in the Soudan cannot be called a proprieties undertaking. St. Paul Herald: Hyperbole: Auctioncr (selling town property) "Why, gentlemen, the very atmosphere's worth the money." "Well, my young gentleman, how would you Uke your hair cut?" "Oh, like papa's, please ; with a little round hole at the top." Did you ever really know a woman too busy to run to the pailor window to look at a neighbor with a new bonnet.' Pall 'River Advance. When a girl marries a profligate he rings her hand on the wedding day, and not long afterward she rings her own hands. Cdcaqo Ledger. LIFE. Day breaks upon the world, And people rise from sleep; Man goes off to his toil, . And woman stays to sweep. Boston Courier. An ass may be able to get a satisfactory banquet out of thistles; but if he under- 1 . , J 11.!.. -1 .1 !it x I I tOOK a guou mm suau wuu uic uuueo well exposed, we should bet on the shad- Pud: An anxious inquirer asks: "Where would you advise me to go to learn how to play the piano?" To the woods, dear; to the deep, dark, damp, dangerous woods. Button Post. There is considerable likeness between babies and wheat. They both are cra dled, raised, threshed, sold, generally ground up, often badly mixed, aud even' tually planted. Puck. Insanity, says a writer, is much more prevalent among women than among men. We don't wonder at it, it's enough to break down any woman to have a man night after night get into bed without taking off the shams. Rockland Courierr Gazette. "Will the hair grow after death?" is a question that is being agitated by scien tific people. This depends a good deal upon whose death it is. We have known a "man's hair to grow right along, after his wife was laid away in the silent tomb. Sitings. "Yes, it may be angel cake," said Jones, who had been persuaded by his best girl to test her culinary abilities, "but for the last two nights since I tasted itp've seen more little hobgoblins, snakes, wild cats and spooks than would crowd a seven-story pandemonium. St. Paul Herald. Just as a lover had dropped on his knees, and began popping the question, a pet poodle, who thought the proceed ings rather strange, made a dash for him. With a remarkable nerve for a woman the girl reached over, seized the dog by the nec k, and, at the same time, calmly uttered: "Go on. George, dear; I'mlist- j ening to what you are saying." Chicago j.rwune. -"I like the mild spring air," said Deacon Gilpin, as he sat down on Squire MeGiU's porch floor the other morning for a friendly chat. "How fresh it makes everything seem. Do you know of any thing fresher than the gentle spring zephyr? " "No, I don't know as I does," replied the 'squire, "unless it is that 'ere paint you're sitting in. 'Taia't been on the floor over two hours. "-Marathon In dependent. - ... IMPROVED QUOTATIONS. Roll on, thou giddy roller-skater, roll! Tea thousand folks fall over thee in vain. Too late I stayed forgive the crime Unheeded flew the hour; How noiseless falls the foot of Timet Your father's has more power. There is a tide in the affairs of men That goes to par and tumbles back again. I shot an arrow Into the air; It fell to earth I knew not where: But the man whose hen it chanced to kDl Came in next day, and I paid the bil). ! 4 n i i 1 ! : i 1 -i i