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VOLUME IV
SCOTLAND NECK. N. C. FRIDAY. JANUARY l:j. 1.Sn
Nl .Mbl'.i: 10.
Love's Triumph.
Wba th morn broke clear a.-H the sun rose
bright.
And the sea, which bad ts" 1 through that
terrible oh'tit,
( )a tii.-it riK-i;-lournI shore,
Ya:-e-l to sur?i !n,l to (-well in waves movm-
t:u,: t: lull,
reused to toss its foam angrily up towards
the s-ky,
Oaed its horrible n nr.
Then she stoje from her rot, with her babe
ir' ly i essel
Oainst her heart, which had wildly throbbed
in 1 or bre-at
Tlo-eu-h tbe wearisome night;
And she moved to tb cliffs, which stooel high
r,n! st,
And, wiili widc-st firing eye,-, looked out on
the dee-j.
In tir- clear morning light.
That v.i-i sen w.-n as smooth as a lake that's
at V" t ;
Not. u M-;ivt' conM lio sH'ii ujon its broad
brca-t.
As it roiled to the land;
Yet if iir-ntly swept far up on the beach,
IWery thus it cam-) up striving higher to
reach
Upon the bleak strard.
For a iao: i n ut her heart was filled with af
fright, Whiles she gaze 1 on the sea, lit by morning's
clear light,
And miw far and near,
On the breast of the deep, bits of hull and of
niat,
Which toi l of the tempest that o'er it had
passed
In that night bleak and drear,
Twas h'-r fisherman husband for whom she
feared ;
For his boat on the ocean she eagerly peered,
Hut no sail was in sight;
Then her eyes chanced to turn from the sea
to the land,
And she saw a man's form lying still on the
sand
In the clear morning light.
Mnrnelhing strange in that form for a breath
stopjied her heart,
Something known in that form caused the
life blood to dart
Through her bosom once more;
Vera moment she scarcely could gather her
breath,
J'or A moment her face was sis ghastly as
death.
As she gazed at the shore.
Then she rushed to her hut, took the babe
from her breast,
And, leaving the child in his cradle to rest,
She hastened to go
IXm-ji the path, that was cut in the clifT's
rugged side.
To the sands where the ocean's still rising
tide
Came steady and slow.
With a fast beating heart along the dry
beach,
Which the incoming tide was trying to
reach,
She flew o'er the ground;
In the lo.-;n which lav there, as if dead, on its
sbie,
In the '.-pot where 'twas left by the last rising
tide,
Her husband was found.
-At his side in an instant she dropped on her
knee,
And eagerly jieered at his features to see
Were he living or dead;
P-ut she saw that his face was as ghastly as
dvith,
And there came from his lijs not even a
breath
As she lifted his head.
Then the shirt o'er his breast she tore quickly
apart,
And her quivering hand she placed on his
heart
For a moment's brief space;
As 'he felt his heart's throb, uncertain and
slight,
Her breast filled with joy, her eyes shone
with a light
Which transformed her ace.
He was ghastly and cold as he lay on the
sand
At the spot unto which he'd been swept on
the strand
By that terrible storm,
But her far-art leaped for joy in the breast of
tb'it wife.
For .sivj"d felt his blood throb and she knew
there was life
In that almost dead form.
'With the strength of a giant, born cf her
love,
She carried that form to the cliff top above,
From the surf-heat en shore:
And she dared on the way not a moment to
rest,
Lest the heart that so faintly beat in his
breast
Should cease evermore.
To their cot, near at hand, her burden she
bore,
Andj though her f rame shook as she entered
the door,
Her heart did not quail;
Yet she sighed when she'd placed his form
on the tied.
For his eyes were wide staring as if he were
dead.
And his fuce ghastly pale.
With the courage of love she fought for his
life,
With the vigor of love she entered the strife
And conquered grim Death ;
For she saw. in good lime, light gleam in his
eye.
And she heard with delight from his bosom a
sigh.
And she felt his faint breath.
liove had won, as oft times it had won bo
fore; Love had won, as it will till our loving is
o'er,
Till we pass from this earth;
Strength had come to her arms as her hus
band she bore,
Strength had come to her frame that she'd
ne'er known In-fore
Till love gave it birth.
New York (iraphic.
A LITTLE HERCULES.
Away back in the sixticr-, 1 was finan
cially interested in two or three Texas
enterprises with a man named George
Sloane. That w is his right name, but
in many localities in Texas he was
known only as Nervy George. I have
seen a great many statements concerning
his adventures in print, but all more or
less exaggerated, Some of the adven
tures which cimc about while we were
in company I will now give to the press
for the first time.
Sloane was an Ohio boy, and I made
his acquaintance a'id chummed with him
in Andfrsonville prison. We went
West together after the war, and at
that time he was only 27 years old. He
was o feet 7 inches high, weighed 1G0
pound-, and was the sttongest man I
ever saw outside of a professional
wrestler or cannon-ball tosser. His
flesh was so hard that lie could crack a
walnut on his leg. On two or three oc
casions I knew Turn to break the bones
in a man's hand by a single grip. He
took no training of any sort, but the
strength and ruggedness were born to
him. As if not satisfied in making him
a young horcules, nature gave him the
most wonderful nerve and courage. He
once told me that he would give 100 to
realize for live minutes what fear was.
I saw him in some of the hottest places
a man could get into, and I never saw
him falter or hesitate or make a mistake
in doing just the right thing.
One afternoon, after we had finished
up some business in Dallas and were
ready to go, we entered a saloon. It
was full of gamblers, cowboys and rough
characters generally, and every man
wore a revolver in plain sight. We
were sipping our drink When a burly, big
ruffian, who Was a lighter from way
back, intentionally fell against Sloane
with considerable force, and then stcod
off and leered at him and said :
'Tin waitin' fur ye to ax my parding
for that, banty."
Sloane never carried a weapon of any
sort wdiile in town. lie looked the fel
low over in a cool and qi iet w ay, and
finally asked :
"Did you intend to insult me, sir?"
"Insult ye?" echoed the other. "Who
talks of insults? Why ye little game
cock from somebody's barnyard, I'll
give ye two minits to get down on your
knees to me."
"If you do not beg my pardon before
I finish, this glass," replied George, "I
w ill make a wreck of you."
By this time everybody in the saloon
had crowded around us, and it was easy
to see we had no friends there. There
was something in Sloane's eye and tone
which cautioned the big fellow, and if
left to himself he would have retired
from the scrape. But he was egged on
and braced up by the crowd who ached
to see a row, and he stepped back a lit
tle, drew his revolver, ami growled.
"Now, bant-, get down on your mar
row bones, or you'll take a dose of
lead."
Sloaue leaned on the bar with his el
bow and sipped his wine slowly, paying
no further attention to any one. He was,
perhaps, a minute and a half finishing
his glass, and during the last half min
ute he was covered by the man's re
volver. When he set the glass down he
wiped off his mouth, returned the hand
kerchief, and then turned and advanced
upon the ruffian. The man fired point
blank at his head, cut off a lock of hair,
and the bullet killed the bartender.
Before he could fire again George seized
him, one hand on his throat and the
other on his knee, lifted him high in the
air, and held him thus for ten seconds.
Then he gave the body a fling upon
some whiskey barrels ten feet away. It
was an astonishing feat of strength, and
the silence of death fell upon the room.
When it was broken it was by a man
who had tip-toed over to the barrels to
look at the ruffian, and who hoarsely
whispered :
"Great heavens! Tom is as dead as a
fish!''
So he was. The iron fingers had
choked the life out of him as he was held
aloft, and when he struck the barrel al
most every bone in his body was broken.
George stood there for two long minutes,
looking fron. one to the other, and then
asked :
"Does anybody else want mc to go
down on my Knees?"
Never a man replied. Never a hand
was lifted and we went slowly out and
mounted our horses and rode away un
molested. A month or so later we were at Waco,
and one night attended the perfor
mance at a concert hall. A rougher
crowd couldn't have been brought to
gether." In the first five minutes of our
stay, I sawr three tumblers of beer shot
out of the hands, of waiters, and a hat
was knocked from the head of one of
the stage performers by a bullet. I
scented a row and wanted to go, but
George asked me to wait a bit. Direct
ly in front of us sat an outlaw from the
Indian Territory. He was in an ugly
frame of mind aud anxious for blood
letting, and pretty soon he turned on
us with.:
"Which of you vermin spit on my
hat?"
"Neither of u, sir," politely an
swered my friend.
"You are a liar!" shouted the man, as
he rose up.
"No shooting! No shooting!'' called a
hundred voices, and the stage perform
ance was suspended to see the row out.
We were chock up to the side of the
hall, with a wide aisle in our front. Re
treat was cut oil, while wc could be ap
proached by three men abreast. We
put our backs to the wall, and I ea'le 1
out that we were unarmed and wanted
fair play. Twenty people shouted back
that we should have it, but in place of
two men approaching us a whole half
dozen jumped into the aisle.
"Leave them all to me," whispered
George, and he obliged me to do so by
stepping in front.
The crowd came at as with a rush,
sleeves rolled up and fists clenched.
George stepped out to meet them. Bill!
Biff! went his iron knuckles, and every
man was knocked down insidi of forty
seconds, and that before one of th"in
could get in a blow. Then George
picked each one up in turn, gave him a
shake which elicited a howl of piin,
and flung him among the spectators.
Not one of them came back after more,
and no one else in the audience cared
to meddle with us. It was over in five
minutes, and after the stage mauager
had tendered us a vote of thanks, the
performance went on. Three of the
five men received broken limbs in the
toss, and one was made a cripple for
life by having his spine injured.
One of the nerviest things in Sloane's
whole career happened at Navasota, on
the Brazos River. We were sitting on tho
veranda of the hotel, when a fighter en
tered the village on horseback, and
armed with a AVinchester and two revol
vers. He took a drink or two, and then
started in to capture the town. There
was only one street, and he rode up and
down this at full gallop, firing right and
left and uttering terrific yells. In live
minutes he had the town. People dis-
appeared from sight with amazing celeri
ty, and everybody was thoroughly
cowed. The fellow fired two shots
among the sitters on the veranda, and we
stampeded. I own up I had no desire
for a closer acquaintance with the ruf
fian, and I was among the first to eek
cover. When we were all inside I
peeped cautiously from a window and
saw Sloane still outside. He was on his
feet, leaning against a column of the
veranda and smoking a cigar as coolly
as you please. I shouted for him to
come in, but he phook hishead. Appeals
were made by others, but he turned a
deaf ear.
The cowboy had by this time reached
the lower end of the street and turned
to come back, lie came at full gallop,
but checked his horse in front of the
hotel and fired three shots at Sloane
from a distance of fifty feet. The first
zipped past his ear, the other two cut
cloth without drawing blood. We were
looking full at the shooter from the
windows, and as he fired his thir 1 shot
w ithout bringing his min a look of won
der came to his face, and he bent for
ward for a closer look, and shouted:
"Who are you, man or devil?"
George sauntered along to the st"p,
slowly descended, ami sjpproached the
man, and as he came near enough he
grabbed for him. Next instant the cow
boy was pulled off his horse and bei sg
literally mopped all over the rotd. ile
tried to use a weapon, but was disarm !
with scarcely an effort, aud when Ge; rgo
got through with him he lay as one d i-1.
Rifle, revolvers, and knife were broken
and flung in a heap beside him. and
George sat down on the steps ; finish
his smoke. He had kept his cig.ir a!i .ht
through the fracas. I personally inter
viewed the doctor who was called to see
the cowboy, and he gave me a list of the
injuries, as follows; Left arm broken,
thumb on right hand broken, three
scalp wounds, right shouidev probably
dislocated, three teeth knocked out, live
bad bruises on various parts, one eye
closed.
The fight did not last three minutes,
and yet the little ginnt laid the fellow
up for three good months and tiugiit
him a lesson he never forgot. I saw and
talked with him a year Inter, and he told
me he never was so scared in his hie,
and that he was not yet entirely well
from the drubbing. New York tnin.
Stowaways.
Stowaways trouble English steamers
more this year than ever before. To find
ten or fifteen of them is a common thing.
They make friends with the men who
load the vessels, and are put away wher
ever they can bo secreted. In ves- js
that bring over brick the loaders- w ill
build up a little room around two or
three men, and in several case-, lnun
a dozen to two dozen men have thus
been secreted. Most of them are tramps.
They only remain in their hiding places
till the vessel is well out to se.i. when
they make their appearance to !. sup
ported during the rest of the voage.
Philadelphia Call.
The Tired Boots.
A little Boston boy. ; get! siXi js t,f a
very imaginative t nq :T;!iii"::i. Quite
recently his mother noticed that at bed
time each night he laid Ids little boots
together upon their sides, instead of set
ting them upright.
"Pray tell me why you always place
your boots thut way?" s;dd mamma; and
the child replied :
"Because they must be tired walki-g
so much all day: I ly thim si.; wajs no
that they can rest."
PATAGONIA.
A. South American Country That
Exists Only in Name.
How Its Marauding Savages
Were Severely Punished.
There used to be a placj called l'.ita-
j gonia. It appears on our geographies
now as "a drear and uninhabitable waste,
upon which herds of wild horses and
cattle graze, that are hurled for their
lesh by a few bands of sivage Indiana
of immense stature." 1 am quoting
from a school-book published in 18o,
and in common use in tW country. The
lame geography gives similar informa
tion about "the Argentine Confedera
tion." It makes the Argentines roar
with rage to call their country "the
Argentine Confederation." A bitter,
bloody war was fought to wipe that name
off the map, but our publishers still
Insist upon keeping it there. It is not a
confederation; it is a Nation, with a big
"N," like ours one r.nd inseparable,
united we stand, divid ;d we fall, and
all that sort of thing---the Argentine
Republic. To call it any tiling else is an
insult to the patriots who fought to make
it soj ana a ref ection upon our own in
telligence. Several years ago Patagonia was di
vided between Chili and the Argentine
Republic, the Miaisters from the United
States to those two countries doing the
carving. The summits of the Cordil
leras were fixed as th-- boundary lines.
Chili tcok tn Strait o: Magellan and
j the stri along the Pacific coast between
j the mountains and tho Sea. and the
Argentine Republic tho pampas, t he
archipelago of Tieiv.i d.-l Fuego
being divided between them. Sine !
the partition ranchmen have been pudi
ing southward with great rapidity, mid
now the vad territory is practically
occupied. Tuer.; are no more wild
cattle or horse -s there than in Ivans as,
and the dreary, uninhabited wastes of
Pat agon i i have gone into oblivion with
the "Great American Desert." The
remnant of a wst tribe of a'Uvigines st ill
occupies the interior, but the Indian
problem of the Argentine Republic was
solved in a summary way. There was
considerable nnnoya .ce on the lrontier
from b inds of rovi sg ivages, who
used to come north in !": winter time,
6teal cattle, rob and despoM, rind the out
posts of civilization ere not safe.
General Roca was sent with
a brigade cf cavalry to the frontier,
to prevent this sort of thing.
East and west acr ops the territory runs
the Rio Negro, a swift, turbid stream
like the Missouri, with high banks.
Fifty miles or so from the mountains
tho river makes a turn in its course, and
leaves a narrow pathway through which
everything that enters or leaves Pata
gonia by land must go. Across this
pass of fifty miles General Roca du ; a
ditch twelve feet deep and fifteen feet
wide. The Indians, to the number of
several thousand, were north when the
work was done, raiding the settlements.
As spring came they turned to go south
as usua', in a long caravan, with their
stolen horses aid cattle. Roca gal
loped around their rear, and drove them
tight and day before him. When thev
rcached the ditch they became bewil
dered for they could not cross it, and
after a few days of slaughter the rem
nant flint survived surrendered, and
were distributed through tho army as
soldiers, while the women were sent into
a se"' '"-'la very among the ranchmen they
had robbed. The dead animals and
men were buried together in the ditch
and there has been no further annoy
ance from Indians on the frontier.
The few that remain seldom come
northward, but remain around Punta
Arenas, the only settlement in the Strait,
hunting theostrich and other wild game,
trading the skins for whi-key, and mak
ing themselves as wretched as possible.
The robes they wear are made of the
skins of the guanaco, a sp ei s of the
llama, and the breasts of young ostriches.
There is nothing prettier than an ostrich
robe, but each one represents the slaugh
ter of from sixteen to twenty young
birds, and they are getting rare and ex
pensive as the birds are being extermi
nated, as our but! does have been.
Harper's Magazine.
A Driver in Russia.
A driver in Russia holds t lie- reins in
both 1 ands and carries no whip He
manages his horses entirely by talking
to them, mid if ho bcloni's to an aristo
cratic family, he never raises his voice
above a e 1-lned tone. His talk, how
ever, is curious. If the horses go well,
he praises and flatters them, calling
them ail -oris of affectionate names; but
if they are lay, it is quite different; he
then scolds them roundly, shames them
aud e. lis hard names. It sounds very
droll to people whose coachmen guide
ftlmo-t cntneiy by reins and whip and
scarcely op-m their lip-.
A Characlei Nl i,- of Fish.
"Fish make vciy oor correspond
ents," observed Squildir.g.
"Wherefore.'' asked McSwilligau.
"They are never anxious fo any one
to droD them a line."
l'ellcins ftobbed by Ma t.ull. '
Two immense pelicans found ihc: ;
way ia through the Golden Gate e n
Thursday mc-mincr, and lmmediitelv :
con;mcr.C'rd fidnnj opei ations ell 1--rt '
Point. They were apparently very -uc- j
cessfu! for a while, an 1 had it &u t
-lr j
own war
Their sense of iht imt !? j
.. .. . ...
exceedingly kcea, m ther rose ;a tar air
to quite a height, then graC -fully r
about until they saw a fih, when the-y i
suddenly descended, and, like a ill h,
thru-t their bills into the bfiny deep,
seldom failing to secure a catch. Tney
evidently thought they had a good thing
of it, but as with mortals sometimes, th-j
good thing eiid not last long. A small
fljck of voracious sea gulls ob
served the pelicans at work, and flew
toward thent to hare in the plunder.
As soon as a pelican lowered for a
fish and caught it, the sea gulls
swarmed about the li-hcr, r.nd with
ear-splitting clatter attempted to seize
the game, ia which they were tfsiialiy
successful. Other gulls, attracted by j
the struggle, continued to gather,
until a large spice in the bay was liter
ally covered with them. Some sharp
practice then commenced, forcibly
reminding the observer that "tho
struggle for existence'' was aa -bitter on
sea as on land. At times a pelican
would rise with its phi id r
and soar away up in the air
to enjoy it, but 100 gull follow I
in close pursuit, and being, evidently,
swifter in flight than the pursued, soon
overtook the larger bird, and encircling
it literally tore the fish to pieces. Tho
struggle lasted quite a while, tho gulls
in tho moautime screaming thenis 1 ve s
hoarse. They kept worrying and at
tacking tho p-.dicans until tho latter
seemed to leave in disgust, and sought
peace from their tormentors by living
out to sea. The sea gulls act j?s if they
had a in mopo'.y of the bay, an I eveiy
intruder from the ocean is jealou ly
watched and either driven out or ac-
tua'ly worried to death. Sin Francisco
1 Kxamiuer.
First Run on a Rank.
The extravagant luxury of the court
of Charles tho Second, combined with
its utter want of principle and inca
pacity to carry on the memorable con
j test with Holland, purduced the first run
upon bankers that ever was made. The
extravagance of the court had dissipated
all the means which parliament had sup
plied for the purpoie of carrying oa
offensive hostilities. It was finally de
termined to ware only defensive war;
but even for that the vast resources of
England were found insufficient, Tho
Dutch insulted the Ibitish court, sailed
up the Thames, took Siieerness aud car
ried their rav..gos to Cinthtm The
blazo of tho burning ships was seen in
London; it was rumored that a foreign
army had landed at Gravescnd, and
military men seriously proposed to aban
don tho Tower.
The people, accustomed to the secure
reign of Cromwell, were in consterna
tion. The moneyed portion of tho
community were seized with a panic.
The country was ia danger, London it
self might be invaded. What security
was there then for tho money ad
vanced to the Crown? The people
fiock d to their debtors and demanded
their deposits. London now witnessed
the first run upoii the bankers.
The fears of the peopie, however,
proved groundless, for the goldsmiths,
a the bankers were then called, mot ail
d m inds tint were made upo l thorn.
Conii lence was restored by royal proc
lamitiou that the demands on the ex
chequer should be made as usual, and
the run collapse 1. Free Press.
The Land of Torn.
The vicinity of the Rlack Forest, says
the American Agriculturist, is a veri
table land of toys, while the pleasant
town of Sonnebcrg has been termed the
great toy-ca pita!, nearly everyone of the
inhabitants being engaged in the manu
facture of playthings. Wooden toys are
the specialty, and each family has its
own particular branch. Thus one
makes nothing but animals, another
nothing but wagons, etc. Rich toy
passes through half-a-d- ,-n hand, and
even the tod 1 i ig little one share in
the work. Half a million do lars" worth
are -diipped from there; c vtiy year, and
as they come to us through Holland are
called ' Dnteh toys.'' Ibnee the old
couplet :
"The ehil Iren of England take pleasure in
breaking
What the children of Holland take piea.-uio
in making.''
Conversing With Flowers.
The young people in Tahiti have a
custom of conversing with flowers, not
unlike the Orientals. If a coolness has
sprung up between a young pair, the fe
male will separate a flower parti-. dy
; down nie centre. ei,e nan oi tne iun
rl wer l- inl:ided to represent the man,
! and the ethr half the woman, and it is
! meant typically to imply that, though
: separate bodies, they are joined together
at the heart. If the lover puts the flow
er in his hair, it is a sign that he wishes
o preserve her favor, bnt, if he tears it
a-under, if ii a token that he has lost
is regard for her aud wishes to be en
iicly sepaiato'.
MIKNTUM SCRAPS.
The
of force certed by beat
, , , -
v x ;-insi
and contraction
mtu;s.ii
to that
thirh would
. , , m..,ch or rMnpr it to
th-
s-i-ne tv'.ctit bv mechanical raran.
,. ,
Armrili v to tu .i'n.i-n
G'.o It a
.
of win wa.
ctt rv of AH'cruM;.-. r.e.ir Arie. a-d it
r
ce-.ten:s were an V,yed by lUrthclot.
). well-known Fu'lich chftnbt. The
ara'?i- !.''- that the liquid had re
tained it i:e us charter con
tained 1 2 per ceut. of alcohol.
In a san '.pit ncu Omaha two
enor
mous teeth have l-rii dug up. Tbe
liatu.-a'i't w!i i tells the j-tory of their
di-cov. ry s th it they must have be
jonged " s mic animal that was at lcaM
" i times is 'arr ns th modern ele
phant." and that ate timber us a steady
diet. Maybe tho existence of such nil
ammai n
.!!! - for the vast prairies tu
the Wc-t and that h star ved to cleat h
when the supply of timber gnv out
The eider-ducivs are numerous every-
wheie m .Norway. Being the producers
of the valuable cider-down, which is a
staple nrticle of trade in Norway, they
ftre rigorously protected by law, and
arc in consequence so tame, as in many'
places to approximate to domestic fowl.
The 1 iids are regarded with far from
friendly eyes by the iishei men, by ?ea
fOa of the damage they work among the
spawning beds of the fish. Lobsters in
particular, suffer severely from their
depredations, the 'fruit" of alien lobs
ter being an especial dainty to the eider
duck. A striking fact de luccd from enerva
tions rec orded by the late Dr. Parrott is
th" rapid growth of the brair in the first
half year of life as compared with tb
increa?" in height and tbe growth of
other organs. Taking tho total growth
between birth nnd six ears of ngc ns
I'M), the weight of the heart increases
1 1.43 in girls and llS in lxyB during
their first six months of life; the height
increases 20 8 in girls and 11.4 in boys;
while the w eight of brain increases 27.41
in girl and 2:5. ol in boys.
It i, stated that the name of "ale" as
applied to malt liquors was probably
first introduced into England by the
Danes, asthcord "ol" is still used
among the Scandinavian natives as the
name for malt liquors. I'p to that time
the Anglo-Saxon word "beer" had been
used; but it fell more and more rapidly
into disuse with the extension of the
word "ale" until the reign of Henry the
Eighth, when hops were introduced
from Germany. With tho hop came
the German word "bier, and the re
vival of the ancient discarded "beer"
to denote beer made from hops as op
posed to that made without them.
A Curious Custom In Algeria.
A correspondent ten Is to London
Notes and t ieries particulars of a curi
ous Passover custom in Algeria. He
savs: "During the Passover week, in
the present year, I noticed that many
of the houses in the Jew quarter in
Oran and in Tiemcen were marked on
the outside with the
impressions of
the human hand. These impressions j
were in different colors red, black, i
yellow or blue; and in no instance, as j
well as I can recollect, were they cither !
upon the side-posts of the door- or upon ;
the lintels, but always upon the walls of
the houses. In some c ises there was j
one impression only, in others there
were as many as five; and, further, in
others they were arranged somewhat
in the form of a branch, having three
hands at the summit and three at each
of the sides. At Tiemcen I saw a man
marking an impression with a brush and
ordinary red p li lt. This cu-tom does
not appear to be known among th : Eng
lish Jews, for. after many inquiries, I
have, met with none who has even heard
of it." The correspondent asks: 'Is it
not an outgrowth or survival from that
ceremonv which was performed on the
night of the flight of the I-raelites from
Egvpl? and in iy not the braiu h-hke
figure be symbolical of the bunch of hys
sop;'' A Mac hi ne to Net Type.
A machine to rt ty pe, or rattier by
the u-e of die- pre p ire a matrix r'-ady
for stereotyping, is de-r ril-ed i n Wood
and Iron. The die-, ninety-one in num
ber, compri-ing all the character that
would be u-ed in a printed article, are
impressed agai.it the matrix by elec
tricity. The machine i- -omc-thing like
atvpe writer. Detroit Free Press,
l oin my Knew.
"Ye, Tommv,"' said thr teacher of
the infant class, "that i right; vege
tables coine from the ground; an'l now
can Willie Walik-s tell us where meat
comes from:'
"Yes-uin " responded Willie;, with
the air of one familiar with the Mibject,
"meat comes from he butcher's."
Epoch.
Not Too Old.
Farmer I gu --s that hog's too old
to eat. What sh id we do with hirn?
Hired Man T-o oil to eat! Not
much he aia t. H cats mor-'n more
CVeiy 'lay. -New If.iven News.
Ihe Itrcoklrt.
I
Tb b:tl brvrk. u.t tr'.jV.s,
1 h: fc-irr: on tbru;t. 4t at niffet ;
1 :-':; ni line " .11. i -r. !,-
Wit;,- .x.;:it t: , u f. .iUl V. Lni ftow taxi
1!
: rtoT bank I j,,.-!
' .r ,! '
k .tK v i ;.
'1 is m f 1 1 si
rn a d
An 1 ::i va
K.-:V- t, n i
in
"A XK t: -!;?; a a t.tt . i : !,
I k-.. n : t " .'..
Hut 11- !... r to !!- I rht
Wi'.i gui I-, 1 i-i , mv .mr sr fcb-t
Ki . ;.i IL" tirm!i of t.,wlh
ii I'M tutors.
We are rdl foil uri-teller. That l,
we can tell a fortuti" r)ifn we tee it.
W-men are the b- .t detector of coun
ted its when the ce..nt. rfnti are not
men.
The price of rubber goel rrmalr.i
very firm. One wouiu m.na.
would be elastic.
A law prohibiting the ir.te:nprat
hoarding of wealth miht preent mon
ey from becoming ti-ht.
jt ,,1 to aee family rrl'f foM at
nMiioij but the mo. t p tit f u! tUn undei
the hainmcr it p-cnera'ly your thumb
nnl
It is no ue fi r a piano to be squire of
upright. Mr. Tu';m-;c is authority fo
saving that tin re w id be l one e'( thttv.
iu heaven.
Matistics show that girls who work
in a match factory do not grt married
any quicker than those? who work at
othi r place.
The mot dud and oiekemng thud is
that produced -hy the dropping of an
old-fashioned copper c id into a church
,.iit t Unit ion Pox.
Th loV who .orols nt the sight of
m istard piaster i the same hid t but
fe.ricvslv f,,rth tc t okle a bee's nr-t
wiih a handful of wilh.-.v iwibhev
In his vab du tory the retiring rdltoi
and propiietor of a Neva U journal
fays: "Thanking cv-r-in 1 I'geiit pub
lic for not having mobbed me long
since, I am r-inierelv their to scre,M
etc.
A DMiiigiiMicti Family.
"o your hi;' Hie ail throu h college,
an they? ' a-ked Mis. Nnii-y of Mr.
J.ofty.
"Ves, indeei," replied Mrs. Lofty.
"The dear te'low 1 I am so prom! of
j them ! I! ich of th in ma I hi- mark.
Unlv think of it! (borc-c won thr gold
i me la 1 for being th best polo player in
i rlass;
Indeed!"
"Oh, ye s, ii ml Harry wn never beaten
once nt hwn Mir.p duiing tic 1 i-t two
ye.-,,-, h- w s ir: .'.lege lie has ever so
manv badge, and m dais "
"II w fgrntify irig to you 1 '
"Indeed it i-1 And my an Will
went ahead of his whole e !a-s at base
ball and is re.-arded as the n,et promis
ing first ba,e the toiler ever turned
out! We nr- all o pr. udofhim! But
aii our hopes are center d in our son
T ee, who LT-ol ia?ed two yHs ugo. He
i (,(w, (;U, v.j,,cr j ,.v-ry boat race,
he lias rowe-d; and, only think of it, we
ued to ready fear that it was a wa-teot
time and money to rend him to college
at ail. He seemed so indiffe rent alout a
college education. Uut he has turned
out grimily 1 We fsr- so proud of all ou
,(lVc; ?I) -tre.it Free Press.
A IlriHiarit I.U'ht In Alaska.
The- Riirora on the Yukon river in
Alaska, eluring the winter month, 1
r-aid tc be very briilUnt and remarkably
b-,u?ifi:l. It commences in th early
fi;1, and ia-t, with mor? or I en bril
limcy, thr.ueh-ait the long Arctic wia-?e-r.
It !genTili ' onim -'if e Rt th! set
ti f;f the sij-i, tl.on 'h in mi 1 winter it
t.a-vi-
. at limes i . so or i gut mar. n w
hi.- ut noon 1 i e th'; sun was shln
. , . t -1 . . i i : .1 r,
jeg
Orl 'tit V. lie rav, oi oiiv uii
j-h-ot forth wi'
a ej-iiek, ej n v ri rig mo
I 'ie-'ed and form
; ir. on th'- heaver.,
i ! i:K a girdle of
tion, UT: th s U
;tc .t are h e: 1 ;
It o'.o w- f r a i i -.-t.or
ils'.e-d gold : t
i u ib -1 iin, great
.-!,r1,'t- of ii d'oo forth. Thest
rov i m m th -. or bright ornngf, green,
r i:;'- . lose, e"o -. and ' ron-on, are SUS-
1'
li ll'l W .1 V e I I A --II
heaven
1 e
. I.
. iivi-ib'.e hand,
of e x' rao -linary
orm i -i
I ice
Not on an Fmpty stomach.
x ;e ,-r ..ne !'' m-'h'-r. "Torn-i-
thit a gi'-en j.erMifim on you air
tn y.
tat i
"Y ', raw."
"D-'ii't you know it ain't healthy to
cat j." n p r-i ' inons or. an empty
it'.mu' h.'"
"I ai.n't ' stin' ti.i- ,t".:i j er dim in on on
f,n empty -!''). ir " I ate a -: of 'em
b or- I tackbd this or. Texas
; I i-igs.
Months After M.irrfaye
ii W i. v d v-.'i i ook
o unhappy,
(b-.-rgef Dor.
now I
II- -Yes, 1
: v' .j knew we are one,
' . ard that ! ef ore, but
to ., vi g the weekly
w
;.' . it ' .-me,
i. ! I bi
tlllf. . SO.
i th- I u hyr i
; SlftitS
uon't seem to