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The Reason.
Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor any -utward part:
No, nor for a constant heart!
For these may fail or turn 111
So thou and I shall sever.
Keep therefore a true woman's eye,
And lore me still, but know njt
Why! '
So thou hast the same reason still
To dote upon me ever.
South Gaston ,N. C,
January 7th, 1887.
Editor Democrat : Of all the
systems of education with us, the
common school for all the children,
supported by public taxation, is far
the most important to the State,
when judiciously administered.
Of course both elementary and
higher schools should be keptx as
near the people , in their local, ca
pacity, as is consistent with useful
and judicious administration. Even
State eoatrol should, I think, be
confined to things that are general
and useful, and national aid, if in
vited at all, only at the most critical
points for the sola purpose of stimu
lating local effort, without any as
sumption of national supervision or
cont-ol. Of course popular educ
ation as thus defined, has its general
function in the elementary training
of miad, discipline of character, and
imparling necessary information,
which every one of ordinary com
preheasiou, well admit are as- es
sentially necessary and due to the
humblest citizen, as well as to the
renowned statesman.
Of the whole number of children
Ot tl-e Stat, enrolled iu the public
and private schools to-day, it is
safe to say that nine tenths will turn
their backs upon the school house
by the time they are sixteen years
of age Our parament concern in
our system , should be, to do the
best thing possible for this mass of
children, whose average schooi life
is not with us more than four years.
In higher education is invited the i
co-operation of every effective educ
ational appliance.
In t.us field there is no excuse for
idleness, but an ample field for the
display of individual genius, corper-
ate enterprise,of home and neighbor-
hood vffort3.
It will. I imagine , be admitted by
all hberl and patriotic thinkers,
that there is necessarily no conflict
of interests between these different mature a plan, enact a law, plase the
methods necessary in achieving the teacher in the school room, and an
grand result, tor any private and officer at the parent'.- elbow, and en
pubhc school with us must finally force such elementary instruction as
adjust itself to the conditions of our the State should deem necessary,
society. But it is needless for me to say, this
It indeed would be a calamity if, is not our plan not the Southern
in the face of the invading host of plan.
illiteracy now advancing in solid Ii has been said, that no where in
phalanx to capture our institutions,- our whole country, has the more
the champions cfthe various de- enlightened classes of society, so
partments of school life of any por- great an influence for good, as in the
tion of our state.sbould permit them- South ; yet after all, its power is
selves to be drawn into a side issue only moral and its only successful
that shall for a moment divert implement U agitation,
the attention of the people frotnthe Any one can lead the horse to
great question, that towers immeas- water, but I defy all the world to
urably above all others, whether of make him drink unless he is dry.
church or State. Let us examine and look
I propose to give my idea how, well to it. Until this" is
tinder the present status of things, done, and that in the interest of the
the people of the State may fairly masses, our whole school system,
and firmly place on solid basis their
educational system ; for I contend if
the people of this State, with all the
help that Providence may vonchsafe.
can establish their final educational
system upon a true basis, which
shall be developed as the years pass
by, it will have accomplished one of
the grandest works for this people
yet known to Christendom. In this
matter J do hot assume to appear as
an outside architect, flourishing an fogies deemed impossible , the ne
ideal plan of my own, or insisting cessary means will flow in to
upon any excellence of plan of my nlp rar this grand edifice towards
own origination. heaven. Bear in mind; this grand
I wish to speak of nothing but what awaening is not to be achieved in
has already b2en experimented on the main by laborers from without,
and found successful. Certainly but it is a duty devolving and de
under average condition?, what has volved opon the intelligent masses
been accomplished by some, can still at home in the neighborhood, in
be accomplished by others. the family. Every community has
So my purpose will bean honest its own plan for raising a' popular
"effort to voice the achievements of breeze. Every popular , device, not
successful educators, comparing injurious to the cause and wrong in
notes and cheering each other on, in itself, should be brought in requis
rearin the mighty structure now tien to accomplish the desired end.
the result. of their noble efforts. The The press of the State has here an
firstabsolutely indespensable pre- ample fitl I for splendid work, and
reouesite to our success, in this slrmll take up the theme and
ereat work of educating the masse?,
consists in a general awakening of
the people
of all classes, to the ap-
paling dangers of the, illiteracy re
vealed though half concealed by the
last census.
Until the wbolt people of the
State, understand and fscevthls
state of fact there can , b no gen-
eral or efficient development of educ
ational reform. The superior class
of the State, during the past twenty
years, under circumstances that
would have appalled a less resolute
and determined people, have inau
gurated and put in operation in
every county in the State, an ef
ficient 8yitem of public school, and
havs rendered snore efficient and en
larged their old system of secondary
and higher seminaries of learning.
And it can be said without the fear
of successful contradiction or dis
paragement that no body of super
ior people, so few in numbers, have
ever male an effort, so heroic,, with
such an auspicious outlook, as the
people of this and the other Southern
States of this Union. This year, it
is safe to say, , that North Carolina
will expend in her publ'c schools of
all grades not less than $700,000.00
and from the public prints the same
liberal spirit seems to pervade
throughout the otherSoutheraStat.es.
Still, this is onlj the beginning
and is, at best, so obviously, in
adequate to accomplish the result,
that it does not become us to waste
time in extending congratulations,
but to press onward to the still
more important work of the necessary
awaJieninq of the whole people of the
State f ro n their lethargy and lake'
warmness on this momentous subject.
For, be it understood, hav-3 lies the
cause of the in efficiency of the work
ing, often the discouraging failure,
of the best plans that may be sng
gested or adopted.
In every community, there are
men of more or less wealth and in.
fluence not yet aliv to this power,
ful necessity of the people,
. In ihis, 1 speak what I do know
It is Dainfully true that there are
many reasoaably prosperous and res
pectable parents, who seem only
concerned for their own children ,
not over and above intelligently in
formed of the demands the puolic
have on them. And yet, there is
that mighty army of those to whom
the priceless booa education is
only a vague name at best with
them only a name to charm who
either care nothing for education or
school, or abuse it by ignorant in
terference with every thidg laudably
attempted therein.
it is not my purpose here to give
my opinio of compulsory'' educ-
ation ; but in Prussia, the method of
dealing with, such a situation of
things as above cited, would be, to
rom the clapboard cabin in the
sequestered nook, to our State Un
neisity, will be as a frail bark,
o3sed upoa the waves of a treacher-
ous, tempestuous and boisterous
ocean.
When this, is accomplished, there
is bound, in the nature of things, to
be an usberd of improvement.
Better teachers will be in demand
and in innumerable ways, now, by
through its columns .echo and reecho
the same continually from Cherokee
to the Seaboard. Every newspaper
in the State , village, secular, or
religious, should be brought into the
work, and e induced to blaze with
the best columns that the ablest
friends to the cause e an iodit. ,
Agaio,it seems to me, that the pulpit
should speak out in unmistakable
terms for that general enlightenment
of the masses, withoat which, even
the church itself becomes a ''dark
cave of superstition.' Every candid
ate for place of public trust, from
the President down to district const
able, should be forced to face the
people, and toll them what he
knows of education. ,
It will be very convenient indeed,
fifteen or twenty years hence, for the
young lawyers and ambitious yonne
men of the State to pull from their
pockets "a ringing speech'' in behall
of fie boys who pass in the ballots
which will decida their political
fate. So. if the great men of the State
stand still and ponder over uncer
tainties, and mighty doctrrs have
nothing to sav of their own, and the
''great stars of fashion'' have no use
for themes so common place, as "the
education of the ignorant masses,"
then let every earnest worker in this
glorious cause, come to the front,
and undaunted, m season and out of
season, plead for the grand consum
mation the awakening the masses.
Now my friends ponder- well what I
have 8'iid.
Think what may not the foremost
men those who are competent - to
the task , with their thrilling elo
quence ,nay, what cannot those noble
women, before whose social powers
we all doff our hats, achieve, if ouce
moved by the proper impulses, as
workers in this grand revival for
enlisting the whole people in the
supreme cause of educating and en-
lighttning our fellow creatures.
Surelv it would ee?m needless, to
invite so susceptible a people, to
come forward and labor for those
whom we hold dearer than anything
on earth. We want North Carolina
only as God has made it, nd as the
providential schooling of the past
has left it, and only contend that its
peop.e shall give themse'ves. just
as they are, to this glorious crusade
against ignorance and to the leva'
tion of the. masses in the scale of be
mg, knowing that ignorance leads to
vice, and vice leads to ruin.
T. II. C.
THE PIIEOJIEnfAl. cixy.
To all It may concern:
I took my departure fromSueiland
Neck, N. C just one year ago, and
after a few days travel I found my
self far away treading the soil where
the orange blossoms blow.
I have been requested several
tim03, to write something ofFlorida,
and the city in which I live, and this
is the result. If the editor of the
Democrat will kindly allow me
space in its worthy col a cans, I will
endeavor to Ull something of Or
lando, and its surroundings. Or
lando has very appropriately been
termed the ''Phenomenal City.''Like
unto the fabulous cities of the Ar
abian Nights.it seems to have sprung
from the earcb, and it is not difficult
to believe in the patent magic of
genii; and to attribute the unusual
growth and activity everywhere ajr
oarent to the influence of some
mystic enchantment. Less than
five years ago a handful of houses
erected in the wild desolation of the
piney woods comprised the then
existing town, a mere hamlet of un
pretentious cabins. Scarcely a
hope was entertained j in those days
for the future of this secluded child
of the wilderness , and it would have
been a bold Kan indeed to venture
to predict the brilliant fortunes hid
den away in the approaching period
of the next few years. But the star
of its destiny was in the ascendant;
and out of the cracker settlement
was soou to develop a typical Amer
ican town, full of life, energy and
business. Attracted by the great
beauty and exceeding kealthfulness
of the adjacent countiy snd the
superior quality of the soil, as in
dicated by the scores of magnificent
orange groves scattered throughout
the country, a few far sighted busi
ness men c&st their fortunes here
and with unprecedented energy. they
ievoted their time, labor and capital
to development and to the cause of
Orlando. These pioneer fathers,
prominent among whom we - note
Maj. R. M. Marks Mess.J .H Living
ston & CeMess. Sinclair and Mills,
early wrought many lasting im
provoments. Through v their con
stant and untiring efforts, a tide of
travel soon found its wa .into the
eountry, and to Orlando as the cen
tral - point. A - golden harvest of
Northern capitil poured iV from
every side, and property advanced
i v value and elegant residences were
built for the many families that came
to establish Nouthe',n homes. Busi
ness developed with startling rapid
ity, fortunes were rhade.and fortunes
were lost to those without capital to
invest. The car of success uoved
steadily forward unchecked. The
little hamlet grew to a large town,
the town matured into a charming
city of not less than six thousand
souls ; railroads were built and mills
land founderies were put in oper
ation, , An opera house, banks, a
fine market house and armory, and
numerous handsome blocks were
erected. Hotels and boarding houses
were soon emnipresent, churches of
nearly every denomination were
early represented, and societies ofcurling her hair around a hot poker
every description were organized.
Telephonic and telegraphic commun
ications were established, a street
rail way was built, and Water and
gas companies were incorporated.
In a short time nearly every branch
of industry was found flourishing
and in a healthy condition. Five
years have passed, and at the com
mencement of this year. Orlando is
acknowledged to be the most flour
ishing city in South Florida, its
growth and development have teen
truly phenomenal, and it is not
strange that travelers hurries along
its busy thorough fares oeholding at
every turn signs of rapid and endur
ing improvements, should look with
wonder and astonishment, and re
cognize in this prosperous, progres
sive young city the future metropolis
of Southern Florida, the delight of
tourist and travelers and the iiridt
and hope of business men and cap
italists. In regard to climate, there
is but one Florida. We are shut in
from the bleak chilly winds and
furious soow storms that are now
abounding in other states. A few
evenings since I had the pleasure of
taking a moonlight row, on a beauti
ful lake near the city limits known
as Roe!c La'se;'' it wa a lovely
evening, the full moon burst forth
lrom behind the clouds and threw
its silvery ra'S across the bosom of
the deep, as we glided along, sui
rounded by the fine orange groves,
of which the oranges with the bright
moonlight flashed like millions of
fire flies on a summer's eve ; all was
calm, and quiet, not a' ripple on the
water save that of the rush of the
"gater." A tow of this description
can oe enjoyed only in Florida m
the bleak month of.Tanuarj. Hon.
R. R. Briders of Wilmington, N.C.,
President of W. & W.& C & A.rail
roads N. C , left this place j-esterday
for Tampa, Fla af-er spending a
dsy in t'ie "'Phenomenal City." Mr.
Bridgers and Dr. Thomas of Wil
mington, are making a tour through
Florida in a private drawing room
car. Tar Heel.
" Orlando. Fla., January 15th, 1887.)
A HITTER'S STR4GE
LUCK.
A gentleman residing near the
Napa and Sonoma county lines, and
whose name we withboli by request,
tells the following story of a re
markable shot: He was out in the
mountains in quest of the festive
buck, Monday, and had experienced
poor luck until about noon, when
he spied a tall , magnificent deer
raising his proud head over a rock
pile at a distance of about 200 yards
from hi". The branches of a young
madrona tree formed a natara!
bronze-red and green frame above
the animal's bead. He hesitated
for some time in doubt of chancing
a shot at that distance , the position
of the target being so unfavorable.
He decided to risk it, however, and
blazed away. When the little wreath
of smoke had cleared away he found
that the proudly created head had
disappeared. He made his way
rapidly as possible to the spt and
found his game awaiting him. After
performing the customary surgical
operation . upon the deer's throat
with his hunting knife, he com
menced to look for tBe deathwound .
What appeared to be a bullet hole
was found in the centre of t! e deer's
forehead.
In passing Lis hand carelessly
over the wound he detected .a rough,
sharp proturbance. Thinking it was
a piece of the shattered frontal bene
he tried to withdraw it. He was
uuable to move it at the first at
tempt, and commenced tugging in
earnest He finally succeeded, bat
to his snpprise, it was not a piece of
the skull. It was a splinter of mad
rona wood, four inches in length by
an inch and a half or quarter of an
inch thick, gradually narrowing tm a
point at one en J.. Upon a careful
examination he found that his bal
let had not; touched the animal, but
had struck one of the limbs of the
madrona tree about six inches aho e
his head, chopping out the splinter
that had killed the deer. The splin
ter withdrawn from the animal's
skull was fitted to the limb above
and the, result proved bexond a
doubt that the deer was killed by
the splinter of woody Sonoma (Cal)
Democrat.
A Fable About u Hoy.
A r it of a boy observed his sister
and when he saw her golden ringlets
curl up like Georgia pine shaving?,
what he considered an over bright
idea struck him.
''The folks next door say their
pug is better tl.a i our bull dog, be
cause it. tail curls over its back so
tight. . I am just going to curl the
bull dog's tail now, and run him np
and down in front of their house
and then maybe thev won't feel so
big." . .
So he brought the clog, in, and
heated the poker until it was almost
red in order to get a good curl.
Grasping the doj's tail, he quickly
wound it around the poker . bit it
was uot wound around the poker
half so quick as the dog was wound
around the boy. He picked him up
by the small of his back, and shook
him very near into the ague. The
boy was then obliged tf lie in bed
until hie father couli afford to get
him a new suit of clothe, which was
a month later .
The moral of this little fable
teaches us two things : first , that
bright, origin il ideas are dangerous
in the hands of people who don't
know how to use them, and second
that when we experimeut with a bull
dog we should muzzle him beiore
beginning.
BILL NYE
Ile I Study ins; Zoology in
rVorlla Carolina Mountain.
Thre is no place in the ULited
States, so far as I know, where the
cow is more versatile or ambidex
trous, if I may hi allowed the use of
a term that is far abore my station
in life, than here in the Mountains of
North Carolina, where the obese
'possum and the anonymous distiller
have their Louies.
The life of a North Carolina cow
is indeed fraught with various chan
ges and saturated with a zeal which
is praiseworthy in : the extreme.
From the sunny days whe she
gambols through the beautiful val
leys, inserting her black, retrousse
and perspiration dotted nose into
the blue grass from ear to ear, until
at life's close when every part aad
portio- of her overworked system is
turned into food, raiment or over
coat buttons, the lifd of the Tar heel
cow is one of intense anxiety.
Jackasees in the South are of two
kinds viz: Male and Female. Much
as has teen said of the Jackass pro
and con, 1 do not remember ever to
have seen the above in print before,
and yet it is as tri'.e as it is incon
trovertible. In the Rocky Moun-
tains we call this animal the burro.
Thtre he packs bacon, fl jur and salt
to the miners.
The miners tat the meat and flour,
and with the salt they are enabled
to successfully salt the mines.
The burr has a low contralto
voici whic 1 ought to have some ma
chine oil on it. Tl.e voice of this
animal is not unpleasant if he would
pull some of the pathos out of it and
make it more j"yoU9.
Hvre the jaekai-s at times becomes
a Cu-norker with iLe cow in hau'ing
tobacco and other necessities ( f life
into town, but he goes no further in
the matter ol assistance. He com
pels her to tread the cheese press
alone and contribute nothing what
ever in the way i f assistance for the
butt r industry.
The N01 th Carolina cow is fre
quently seen here driven double or
single by means o" a s nail rope at
t ached to a tall, emaciated gentl -
roan, who is generally clotl ed with
the 'divine right of fuffrage to which
be adds a tmall pair of ear bobs dur
ing the holidays.
The cow is attached to each shsft
by a small singletree or ewingletree,
by means ofabi Odd strap barn sV
She also wears breeching in which
respect she frequently has the adyan-
I tage.vf her escort; t -rr ! r
1 think I have 'never witnessed a
sadder sight than that of a new
milch cow, torn iway from home and
friends and kindred dear, descend
ing a steep mountain road at a rap
id rate and striving in her poor weak
manner to keep oa. of the way of a
small Jackson Democratic wagon
loaded with a big hogshead full of
tobacco. It f eOiBs to me so totally
foreign to the nature of the row to
enter into the tob icoo traffic, aiine
of business for which s'ie can have
no sympatic and in which she cer
tainly can feel very 1 ttle interest.
A great many people come here
from various parts of the world, for
the climate. When they have re
mained for one winter, however tliey
decide to leave it wLere it is.
It is said that .he climate here, is
very much like that cf Turin. But
I did not intend to go to Turin even
before I heard about that.
Please send my paper to the same
address, and if some one who knows
a good remedy for chilblains will
contribute it to the Sabbath Globe ,
1 shall watch for it with great inter
est. Yours as here 2 4,
Bill Nye.
P.S. I should have said in relative
to th cow of this State that if the
owners should work their butter more
and theis cows less ".aey wo; '.J con
fer a greit boon on the consumer oi
bo',h.
B. N.
w:althy negroes.
Colored Citizen Worth fi-oi 1
Half a Million lvvn.
JoLn W. Cromwell, a negro jour
nalist in I'll lade lphia , says the At
lanta Constitution , has compiled sn
exhibit of the the busines" condit on
of his race in America.
The Carolii as take the leal in
the number of well-to do negroes.
North Carolina Las twenty who are
worth from $10,000 to $30,000 each.
In South Carolina the negroes own
$10,003,000 worth of property. In
Charleston fourteen men represent
$200,000. Thomas R. Smalls is
worth $18,000, Charl'-b C. Leslie is
worth $12,000. The family of Noi
settes, truck farmers, are worth $15o,
000 . In the city savings bank the
negroes have $124,036.35 on deposit.
One man has over $5,ooo. He re
cently biught a $lo,ooo plaatation
and paid $7,ooo in cash.
In Philadelphia John McKee is
worth half a million. He owns 4oo
houses. Several are worth $1 00.000
each.
The negroes t New Fork own
from five to six million dollars' worth
of real estate. P. A.White, a whole
sale druggist, is worth a quarter of a
million, and has an annual business
ot $2oo.03. Catherine Black is
wortb $ I5o,ooo.
In New Jersey the negroes own
$2,ooo,)03 w jrth of real estate. Bal
timore has mor e negro hme-owners
than any other large c ty . Nineteen
men are worth a toUl of $8 o,ooo.
John Thomas.the wealthiest.is worth
about $15o,ooo. Less than one
hundred negroes in Washington are
worth a total ot $l,ooo ,000.
In Louisiana the negroes pay tax
es on $ 1 5,000,000 in New Orleans
and $3o.ooo ,000 in the Slate. Ionie
Lafon, a French quadroon, is worth
$1,000,000. The Mercer Jiros..cloth-
! iers. carry a stock of $300,000
Mis
souri has twenty-seven uegroes worth
$1,000,000, ia amounts langing from
$20 ,000 to $25,000.
The richest colored woman in the
South, Amanda Eubanks, m tde so
by the will of her whire father, is
worth $400,000, and lives near Au-
ansta. (ia. cuicago. ttie uoin 01
D 7 i
eighteen thousaad colored people,
has three firms in ousinass whose
proprietors represent $20,000 eaoh.
one $15,000, si.d nine $10,000. The
F.natlalTA Furniture Company is
worth $20,000. A. J. Scott has $35,
000 invested in the livery business,
and is worth $103 ,000, including a
well-stocked farm in Mi -hijan. Mrs
John Jones and Richard Grant are
worth 870 000 each. A. G. Whi e of
St. Louis, formerly purveyor of the
Anchor Line of steamers af t-T fiuan
p.ial reverses, has. since the age of
45, retrieved bis fortunes and accu
mulated $30,000. Mrs. M. Carpen
ter, a Sau Fransisco colored woman
had a bank account Of $5,000, and
Mr. Mary Pleasants has an income
from eignt houses in San Franchco,
a ranch near San Mateo, and $100,
000 in government bonds. In Marys
ille, Cal., twelve individuals are the
owners of ranches valued in the eg
gregate from-$150,000 to f if 0.000.
One of them Mrs. Ptfflry faredin,
has beside, a bank account of $40,
ooo. ;
These Htatistics show thatth-V
brother in Hack is making some
headway in the world. lie is learn
ing to "tote his own skillet"
Star.
We have no great ror.fioence m
improvement of morals and sup
prension of crima as long as three
evils exitt: Ilie one man pardoning
power; the j resent system of jury
trials as juries ere ct nipost d ; and
the sympathy for crim and crimi
nals that prevails to a greater or less
extent in every community. Let a
villain slay his fellow-man let the
murder be of the most fi-Midi Ji, dev
ilish kind, and then allow a year or
two toelaS3,and a strong pub
lic sympathy for the incarnate devil
is created iuevitably and to punish
him is to punish a martyr. This is
perhaps natural. We all know how
softening, how alleviating 19 time.
The mother who briesu iter t 11 ler
est, best loved offspring can look
without hea t laceration upcu the
dear dead one's little shoos and
stockings and toys two or three
years after death, whereas theii very
?igit tore the heart slri igs intlie
e irly days of bereavement. Punish
crime when it is fresh if you would
prevent undue s, mpathy for vil
lains and shut out sentimental gush
is the way of petitions. L?t justice
be done though t lie heavens fall.
Let t'lt laws be execute I faithfully,
firmly, fairly. '.Vilaain.ton It tr.
How to Sweep.
Sweep vith a long, steady stroke,
taking usre to form a nabit of -iais-in
the brorm at the end of the
stroke ia such n way as to prevent
dust raising. Watch snie women
sweep as if they were digging; a
sill ill cloud of d. 1st w.ll follow the
enl )fih hn-ona every time it is
raised. Be careful to o into every
craer with the end of vour b ooib.
and to brush all dust from between
carpet or matting and skirtinjj
board, as here is where moths love
to harbor. S reel) from all sides ofl
the room to te ceutjr. This sweep
ing to the center instead of I he do)rl
may strike some rsaders as un in
novation, but if they will torisider a
moment they will see tha1; there is
ho reason whatever for dragging the
dust all over the room. Sweeping
toward the center of a sixteen feetl
sqare room, you only sweep the dustl
eght feet ea 'b way.insteaa ot carry
ing it before the broom the wholcl
sixteen feet. Short quick strokes oil
tl.e broom are sot to scatter thel
dust, especially when ths stroke endt
with an upward jerk, as I have o.ttil
leen it do when the broom is in thel
hands of vigorous girls who imaglnsl
thev are setting over the grcuncl
much more rapidly by hurried tnovel
J c" cr
meats than they would if they toolj
greater pains. But hurry is wol
speed ; some women are quicii atul
thorough, others sIjw ana ttiorougni
hut the one always hurrying is rarel
v either ouick or thorough; all
makes work all the time she is doin
it. Hartford Sunday Globe.
in Optical Delusion.
The storv of the twins is the 1 all
jst. A father ot twins was natura
v verv Droud of them, and whel
i
they came to a prssentabla age II
7 'J J ,
naisted on a friend calling to Stl
them. Tiie friend agreed, and uamd
the day. The twins were dresl
ed in their best, out side by sicl
in an ani chair, and awaited inspel
tion.
Now , the friend had benn lunc
ng very heavily, a id drinking ve
freelv. an l. conseauentlv. his v
ion was not as perfect as it ought
have been. However, he went
r M.
aelnnire the twin?, ana was ususrl
into the room where ther we
There,' exclaimed the proud fath
did you ever see anything to matl
th&tT The visitor, conscious of t
possibility of an optical delusi
ouietlv reoliel, -Quite right: rt';l
splendid child.' The Whitehall
view.
Where He Had Canvassed I
Publisher ''You think you
canvass for my paper with sucjje-y
Applicant "Oli , ye,-str.''
Publisher "I'll engage you,
I'm rather impressed ia, your fai
Rv the wav for what papers h&
you canvassed ?"'
. "For none, sir."
"Eh? why, you gave me to undej
stand you had experjeMCeas, a ,C&
vasser?'' .
-In a nork houses suv' used; rt I
canvas hamsPbiladi'C.
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