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VOL. IX. PLYMOUTH, N. C, 'FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1898. , JVO. 21.
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A FIELD FLOWER'S COMPLAINT.
If I had been a snowdrop,the first one of the Would you have gathered In your hand each
. year, fallen rosy leaf,
Would you have thought me beautiful,being And said a gentle word for life so beautiful
the first, my dear? and brief?
If I had been a royal rose, grown higher
than your heart, But I that fain would oe a rose and wear her
Would you have bent your face to mine and royal red,
drawn my leaves apart, A field flower among field flowers, I lift my
loveless head :
Until they dropped about you feet, and all Among the tall dead nettles, white campion
my heart lay bare ? who will heed ?
I A broken heart, a golden heart, for you to White campion shrinking faintly mid dock
" leave or wear and silverweed ?
Nora Hopper, In Black and White.
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I The , Busi ness Way.
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Jack wanted to, but Lady Mary
didn't, and that's the way it all came
abiout. Jack swore she was the very
daintiest, sweetest, loveliest girl on
earth, added a great deal more of
love's hyperbole, and entre nous
even soared into poetry occasionally,
vhen he read to Christopher Colum
bus, her pet bull terrier.
But as Christopher wrinkled his
nose decidedly and his tail did not
show the least intimation of a wag,
Jack tore it up the poetry, I mean.
' The trouble was Jack wanted to pro
pose and couldn't. For never did he
bring up the eventful subject but Lady
Mary would go off at a tangent, possi
bly because Jack was using round
about ways.
As Jack confided to his chum (who
shall be nameless for various reasons) :
"Do you know, II., if I speak of sun
sets, she will immediately have a wild
desire to discuss ethnology or irreg
ular Greek verbs, and if I should ever
Mention love not that I ever have,
y an know but if I ever should, hang
ne if I don't believe she'd ask me
how my liver was. "
By which it can readily be eeen that
Lady Mary and Jaok were on the best
of terms, and 'the very intimacy seemed
to preclude the possibility of anything
more.
One afternoon I was lying on the
river bank industriously rishing, while
Jack sprawled upon the grass alter
nately reading and scribbling. Then
he looked up and observed compla
cently: "Now, I flatter myself .that's
rather good. Listen, H. :
"The weary sun has sunk to rest,
And with him fades the dying day.
Come night, come hour I love the best,
Fit time love's winning words to say.
. "Pretty good, eh?"
"Good? Qh, Lord! You want to
change those last two lines. You
should say:
"Alas ! still lives a love-struck crank,
Who can't say what he wants to say.
"Besides, 'best' isn't good gram
mar, if you're comparing day with
night." -
"Hang it all, H., Tennyson himself
could not please you." Then a long
silence which he at last broke with:
"Say, do you think she would have
me
9i
"Oh, take a run around the block!
How do I know? There she comes
now,
and I give you fair warning if
you two
my fish
poetry."
stay
here
and scare
tell about
all
the
away
I'll
Divinely tall and most divinely
fair was Lady Mary. She came trip
ping sedately over the tender grass,
the mountain winds kissing a delicate
peach blossom into her cheeks. Jack,
with his customary'facility.rose to his
feet and the occasion to play the gal
lant. Neither of 'em paid the slight
est attention to me. I was supposed
to be dead. .
J ""Jack," she said, sweetly, "I want
vou to row me up to the store. Will
you?"
Of course Jack acquiesced, and the
two of them got into the boat and
started." 1
Jack is a finished oarsman, at least
he generally finishes it in about ten
minutes. I knew it was to be inter
esting, so I gave up the fishing and
watched them.
(Mem. later: They have drifted
' down the river, both behind Lady
Mary's parasol.)
Now, Jack being one of those fel
lows who believe in never losing an
opportunity calmly rowed the boat
out in the middle of the river and
then, as I predicted, shipped the
oars and opened the conversation.
"How well we get along together
in a boat," he remarked, gazing senti
mentally at the cliffs.
"Yes," abstractedly, "but I wish
you'd row up to the store. I don't
&waut to waste the whole afternoon
Jcclrifting like this."
, "No, of course not,"
waiving up
Then, "I
euddenly. Two strokes.
wish we cc-'d always
"Thev-W-;.W
new people coin-
"in.
'Mr. Eg- I
-with a
'-'-'jiter-
Jack came to me disconsolately.
"I wish I was dead," he said. I
told him how annoying it would be to
me to have him lying around dead.
He said I talked like a fool.
"Jack.my dear boy," I said, patron
izingly (I am two months older than
he), "the next time you try to pop
the question ba like a bottle of ginger
ale. Go off with a bang and let all the
fizzle come afterward.''
"I never thought of that," he an
swered thoughtfully. "I wonder how
it would work? By George, H., you're
a trump. I'll try it."
That evening they were both down
by the spring, and I hid behind a
tree. I didn't hear the first part of it,
but I got there just in time to hear
Jack say: "Lady Mary, I love you.'
Will you be my wife?"
"With pleasure," she answered,
gayly. "You silly boy, why didn't
you say so before?"
"Just what I told him," said I, com
ing from behind the tree.
"Did you? You dear boy, you may
kiss me for that. Keep still, Jack."
And I did.
SENATOR MILLS' STORY.
Abraham Lincoln's Sweeping Pardon to
John L. Helm.
Senator Mills has a new story about
Lincoln. It was told to him by a
son of John L. Helm of Kentucky, who
lives in Corsicana:
"Old John L. Helm," said the sen
ator, "was a famous character in Ken
tucky. He was, if I remember right
ly, a governor of the state, but at any
rate his position was a most prominent
one. When the civil war came on
Helm wa3 a rabid secessionist. He
could not praise the Soutli too highly
and could not heap enough' abuse
upon the North. He was too old to
go into the war with his sons and re
mained at home, doing all he could to
hehp the confederate cause and harass
the Yankees who invaded the state.
Finally he became so obstreperous that
the federal general who was in com
mand near Helm's home put him in
prison. The old man's age, the high
position which he occupied in the
state, his wide connection and espe
cially his inability to do any harm,
were all pleaded in his extenuation,
and he was released. Instead of profit
ing by the warning, the old man be
came more persistent than ever in his
course. Once more he was clapped
into jail. This happened two or three
times, and finally, while he was still
locked up, the matter was brought to
the attention of the federal authori
ties. Even President Lincoln was ap
pealed to and asked to commit the ar
dent southerner to an indefinite con
finement in order that he might be
curbed. x
."Lincoln listened to the statement
of the case with more than usual in
terest. Then he leaned back and be
gan to speak with a smile upon' his
face. 'You are talking about old man
John Helm? Well, did you know that
I used to live when I was a boy in
Helm's town. He was kind to me.
He seemed to like me as a boy, and
he never lost an opportunity to help
me. He seemed to think,' said Lin
coln, with another of his almost pa
thetic smiles, 'that I would probably
make something of a man. Why, when
I went out to Illinois, poor and un
known, that man gave me the money
to pay my way and keep me until I
got a start. John Helm? O, yes, I
know him, and I know what I owe to
him. I think I can fix his case.'
"And then," said Senator Mills,
"Lincoln went to his desk and wrote
a few words. The bit of writing ,is
treasured in the Helm household to
this day. Tfiis is what the president
wrote: ,
" 'I hereby pardon John L. Helm
of Kentucky for all that he has ever
done against the United States and all
that he ever will do.
'Abraham Lincoln.'"
Washington Post.
Dangerous to Wear.
Men exposed to the rigors of the
Alaska winter never wear mustaches.
They wear full beards to protect the
throat and face, but keep the upper
lin clean shaven. The moisture from
?'the breath congeals so quickly that a
JVoustache becomes imbedded in a
Mid cake of ice and the face is frozen
,'Vore a man knows it.
''IV, Kiclily Deserved.
y(r wife got even with that bur
V,1 set the burglar alarm going
. v? baby."
V-Vdo?"
v : vt;nm in by the collar
v "U Vck the baby to sleep
v u ) Free Press.
OLDEST AMERICAN CITY.
REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES RECENT
LY MADE AT COPAN.
The Mysterious City of Honduras, the
Cradle of Maya Civilization Remains
of Great Temples and Palaces -A Huge
Structure 800 Feet High.
The Central American explorer,
George Byron Gordon, contributes an
article entitled "The Mysterious City
of Honduras," to the Century. This
gives au account of the recent remark
able discoveries made at Copan. Mr.
Gordon says : .
Hidden away among the mountains
of Honduras, in a beautiful valley
which, even in that little-traveled
country, where remoteness is a char
acteristic attribute of places, is unusu
ally secluded, Cojmn is one of the
greatest mysteries of the ages. After
the publication, in 1840, of Stephens'
account of his visit to the ruins, which
made them kuown for the first time to
the world, the interest awakened by
his graphic description, and the draw
ings that accompanied it from the
skillful pencil of Catherwood, re
lapsed, and until within the last de
cade writers on the subject of Ameri
can archaeology were dependent en
tirely for information . concerning
Copan upon the writings of Stephens,
which were regarded by many with
skepticism and mistrust. Not only do
the recent explorations confirm the ac
count given by Stephens as regards
the magnitude and irujjortance of the
ruins, but the collection of relics now
in the Peabody museum is sufficient
to convince the most skeptical that
here are the remains of a city, un
known to history, as remarkable and
as worthy of our careful consideration
as any of the ancient centres of civili
zation in the Old World. Whatever
the origin of its people, this old city
is distinctly American the growth of
American soil and environment. The
gloomy forest, the abode of monkeys
and jaguars, which clothed the valley
at the time of Stephens' visit, was in
great part destroyed about thirty
years ago by a colony from Guatemala,
who came to plant in the fertile soil
of the valley the tobacco for which,
much more than for the ruins, that
valley is famous throughout Central
America today. They left the trees
that grew upon the higher structures,
forming a picturesque grove, a rem
nant of which still remains a few
cedars and ceibas of gigantic propor
tions, clustered about the ruins of the
temples shrouding them in a sombre
shade, and sending their huge roots
into the crevices and, unexplored
chambers and vaults and galleries of
the vast edifices.
The area comprised within the limits
of the old city consists of a level plain
seven or eight miles long and two
miles wide at the greatest. This plain
is covered with the remains of stone
houses, doubtless the habitations of
the wealthy. The streets, squares and
courtyards were paved with stone or
with white cement made from lime
and powdered rock, and the drainage
was accomplished by means of covered
canals and underground sewers built
of stone and cement. On the slopes
of the mountains, too, are found nu
merous ruin, and even on the high
est peaks fallen columns and ruined
structures may be seen.
On the right bank of the Copan
river, in the midst of the city, stands
the principal group of structures the
temples, palaces and buildings of a
public character. These form part of
what has been called, for want of a
better name, the Main Structure a
vast, irregular pile, rising from the
plain in steps and terraces of masoury
and terminating in several great pyra
midal elevations, each topped by the
remains of a temple which, before our
excavations begun, looked like a huge
pile of fragments bound together by
the roots of trees, while the slopes of
the iyramids and the ten aces and
pavements below are strewn with the
ruins of these superb edifices. This
huge structure, unlike the great pyra
mids of Egypt and other works of a
similar character, is not the embodi
ment of a definite idea, built in accor
dance with a preconceived plan and
for a specific purpose, but is rather the
complex result of a long process of de
velopment, corresponding to the
growth of culture and keeping pace
with the expanding tastes of the peo
ple or the demands of their national
life. Its sides face the four cardinal
points; its greatest length from north
to g'outh is about eight hundred feet,
and from east to west it measured
originally nearly as much, but a part
of the eastern side has been carried
away by the swift current of the river
which flows directly against it. The
interior of the structure is thus ex
posed in the form of a cliff one hun
dred and twenty feet high, presenting
8, complicated system of buried walls
and floors down to the water's edge
doubtless the remains of older build
ings, occupied for a time, and aban
doned to serve as foundations for more
elaborate structures, but sculptured
monuments as well. The theory
of development, though at cannot be
set aside, seems inadequate to explain
this curious circumstauce; and yet
there is just enough difference between
these art relics and( those of later
date to indicate a chaiige in style and
treatment.' Whether on not this change
continues ia regular j seauence lower
down has not yet been determined.
If, as I am inclined to believe, we
shall find, ; away down in the lower
levels, the rude beginnings from which
the culture of the later period devel
oped, we shall have pretty conclusive
evidence not only that Copan is the
oldest of the Maya cities, but that the
Copan valley itself, with the immedi
ate vicinity, was the cradle of the
Maya civilization.
Art of Climbing Stairs.
One of America's leading physicians
is quoted as saying that few people
understand the art of climbing stair
ways without making themselves tired
before reaching the top. Says our in
formant on this subject:
"Usually a person will tread on the
ball of his foot in taking each step.
This is very tiresome and wearing on
the muscles," as it throws the entire
weight of the body on the muscles of
the legs and feet. You should, in
walking or climbing stairs, seek for
the most equal distribution of the
body's weight possible. In walking
upstairs your feet should be placed
squarely down on the step, heel and
all, and then the work should be per
formed slowly and deliberately. In
this way there is no strain upon any
particular muscle, but each one is do
ing its duty in a natural manner. The
man who goes upstairs with a spring
you may be sure i3 no philosopher, or,
at least, his reasoning has not been
directed to that subject. The doctor
might have gone a little further in the
same line, and protested against the
habit which many persons have of
bending over half double whenever
they ascend a flight of stairs. In ex
ertion of this kind, when the heart is
naturally excited to more rapid action,
it is desirable that the lungs should
have full play. But the crouching po
sition interferes with their action, the
blood is imperfectly aerated, and there
is trouble right away. Give the lungs
a chance to do their work everywhere
and at all times."
American Colleges.
The number, large and small, of
educational institutions in the United
States aspiring to the name of college
is far greater than any one would
imagine who has not specially inves
tigated the subject, and it is fair to
say that some of the smaller and
newer ones are doing equally good
work with their elders. According to
last year's statistics (1896) there were
478 "universities and colleges of
liberal arts" in the United States. Of,
these, Ohio has the largest number of
any one state, 40; Illinois, 31; Mis
souri, 30; Pennsylvania, 30; New,
York, Iowa aud Tennessee, 23 each;
Kansas, 18; Indiana and Kentucky,
15 each; California, 16; North Caro
lina and Texas, 13 each; Michigan and
Minnesota, 11 each; Nebraska, Mary
land, Wisconsin and Georgia, 10 each;
Massachusetts, Virginia, Arkansas,
Alabama, Louisiana and. South
Carolina, 9 each. In the total num
ber of students, Illinois leads with
13,252; Ohio comes next with 12,806,
and New York third with 11,615. Mas
sachusetts has a total of 6244, and
Pennsylvania 9048. The older and
best known institutions are: Harvard,'
Cambridge, Mass. ; Yale, New Haven,
Conn.; Princeton, Princeton, N. J.;
Dartmouth, Hanover, N. H. ; Brown,
Providence, R. I.; Cornell, Ithaca,
N. -Y. ; Columbia, New York city;
Amherst, Amherst, Mass. ; William
aud Mary college, Williamsburg, Va. ;
University of Virginia, CharlottsvilleJ
Va. ; Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. :
and others. Boston Transcript.
The Sword of the Shah.
A Sheffield firm has been by special
firman appointed goldsmiths and sil
versmiths to his imperial majesty and
to the court of Persia. They are exe
cuting for the shah an imperial sword,
designs of which have been approved.
The blade is double-eged, of the finest
steel, inlaid with gold. The weapon
has a broad flute down the centre and
is of scimiter shape, terminating in a
fine point or clif. The scabbard is of
royal scarlet Persian leather, with
mountings in gold filigree, while the
hilt is of ivory, inlaid with gold ara
besques and inscriptions in Persian
text. Thj cross-bar and head of the
hilt is studded with diamonds, rubies
aud other precious stones. Paris Mes
senger. Animals That Never Drink.
There are many kinds of animals in
the world that never in all their lives
sip so much as a drop of water. A
parrot lived for 52 years in the Zoo at
London without drinking a drop of
water, and many naturalists believe
the only moisture imbibed by wild
rabbits is derived from green herbage
laden with dew. Many reptiles
serpents, lizards and certain kinds of
frogs and toads live and thrive in
places entirely devoid of w ater, and
sloths are also said never to drink.
CJueer System of enumeration.
The Indians of Guiana have a queer
system of numeration. They count
by the hand and its four fingers.
Thus, when they reach five, instead of
saying so, they call it a "hand." Six
is, therefore.a "hand and first finger."
Ten is "two hands," but twenty, in
stead of being "four hands" is "a
man." . Forty is "twomen," and thus
they go on by twenties. Forty-six is
express , "two men, baud and first
finssr. . ' -
KENTUCKY GOOSE FAEM.
RAISING CEESE ON A LARGE SCALE
FOR THE NEW YORK MARKET.
How the Long-Necked Fowl Are Collect
ed and Made IJeady for the Slaughter
Flock of 5200 Birds Habits of the
Noisy Creatures Clean Birds.
"Where do the thousands of He
brews in New York city get their fat
geeseJ
They got 18,000 of them in 1897 from
Kentucky. They are being shipped
by eel Benaker of Cynthiana, Ky.,
writes a Chicago Record correspond
ent. Renaker has the most unique
establishment of the kind in the West.
On the Licking river, just above the
town of Cynthiana, he has erected a
large wooden building, 80 by 150 feet,
aud two stories high. The floors slant
gradually to a common centre, so that
they can be flooded, and thus kept
clean. There, are troughs placed at
convenient points to hold food for the
geese.
At present there are 5200 geese in
this building in different stages of the
fattening process. They are gathered
from all parts of the state, and when
they arrive they average in weight
from four to eight pounds. They are
first placed in the large yard in which
the building is situated, where they
are furnished an abundance of water,;
that they can clean themselves. With
in a few days they are placed in the
house in the fattening pens. It re
quires four or five weeks careful feed
ing to fatten the geese. The estab
lishment is provided with a steam
corn mill and corn sheller. The corn
is purchased from the farmers in the
neighborhood and is shelled and
ground into meal. The cobs run
down a chute to the furnace and make
enough fuel to run the machinery.
The meal is mixed into a dough and
in that form is fed to the geese.
In an interview Mr. Benaker gave
the following interesting facts regard
ing geese, their habits and the man
ner in which they are marketed:
"A goose is the cleanest fowl alive.
I have been in the poultry business
since 1871, have handled all kinds of
domestic fowl, and have studied their
habits closely. They are constantly
at work keeping their feathers clean,
and if furnished with plenty of water
they are never seen except when fit
for dress parade. They are equally as
careful regarding their food. On one
occasion we bought a lot of corn
which had grown musty and the geese
would not eat the dough made from
it. Nor will they eat dough after it
has soured. On this account we have
to be very careful to mix up no more
dough than the geese will eat in a
day.
"Another thing peculiar about geese
is that they eat a great deal more on
some days than they do on others.
For instance, it frequently requires 30
or 40 buckets of dough a day to a
given pen of geese. Then for a few
days they will probably not eat more
than a dozen buckets. When fur
uished plenty of water and wholesome
food geese fatten rapidly and have no
disease, but unless they are afforded
an opportunity to keep themselves
clean and furnished with pure food
they die rapidly. They are sold by
the pair and they average when fat
from 14 to 38 pounds.
"We sell our geese in -only one
market New York city. They are
shipped in poultry cars and are fur
nished with au abundance of water
and cornmeal dough while they are on
the way. The reason they are shipped
alive is that ' Jews cannot purchase
them after they are killed. In 1896
we shipped about 12,000 geese to New
York city, and in 1897 we handled
18,000 of them. The capacity of our
house is about 5500. It requires three
men to attend the corn sheller and the
mill and to feed the geese. We have
waterworks connections and keep the
house clean by flooding the floors.
"No, I don't think there is another
establishment of the kind in Ken
tucky. There may be a few in the
West. I think that more geese are
raised in Kentucky than in any two of
the Western states. You know our
farmers are mostly descendants of,
Virginians and Marylanders, who
settled here 100 years ago, and who
raised their own geese to provide
feather beds for their families. This
habit ha3 been continued to the pres
ent generation and there are fewfarms
especially in the older-settled sec
tions of the state on which there are
no geese. Although the cotton mat
tress largely ha3 taken the place of
the feather bed, the wives of Kentucky
farmers continue to raise geese as
their mothers and grandmothers did
before them. Thus it is that we are
enabled to gather so many geese at
this point.
"Yes, the business is peculiar, but
it has its fascinations. Geese have a
great deal more sense than they are
given credit for, and they learn to
know their attendants and seem to ap
preciate the care and attention they
receive. We have several different
breeds in Kentucky, of which the
Hong Kong is the most popular. The
old-fashior ed blue goose is quite nu
merous, and many of these have been
crossed with wild geese, the wildbirda
straying away from their flocks during
periods of migration from the south
tetha north ia the early'spring.'V .
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A Brazilian doctor says that coffeo
ia a certain cure for anaemia.
Trolley car ambulances are to be in
troduced in the city of Pittsburg, run
ning independently over all the street
m v fi'n ill- u no t rt
Miss Eleanor Ormerod declares that
the English cockroach is in danger of
extermination before the hordes of
imported German black beetles.
What is probably the largest loco- .
motive in the world has just been com
pleted and weighs, . with the tender,
over 285,000 pounds. It is for use
in Mexico.
Munich used to be notorious for its
excessive tvnhoidJ' leath-rate. it
being twenty-nine per lorOOO in 185&T
With the introduction of a pure 3V.aier
supply and improved sewer systeni.it
him fnlleii t.rt loan tlinn hvn nor 1H OOO
. ,.
The Semaine Medical publishes de
tails of the successful experiments
made in Naples by Cantaui in making
guinea pigs immune against the influ
enza poison by vaccinating them with
sterilized cultures of the influenza
bacillus.
Professor George Lincoln Goodale of
Harvard university says that there are
now about 200,000 species of plants,
divided into flowering and flowerless
plants, and although nearlv all of the
flowering varieties might be used for
food, only about 1000 are so used and
only 300 are frequently.
In a paper read before the Paris
Academy of Sciences, M. Jacquemin
communicated the results of experi
ments showing that leaves of fruit
trees, vines, etc., develop a strong
bouquet of the fruit when soaked in
alcohol. He thinks the quality of a
poor vintage might be improved by
the addition of some leaves during
'ermentation.
Systematic Farming.
George G. and J. Carroll Hamilton
of Flat Creek, Bath county, are among
the most extensive farmers in this
section of the country, and they are
also very successful. And why? Be
cause they go at it in a business-like
manner. These gentlemen own and
manage four large farms, one in this
county, one in Bath, one in Ohio
and one in MissourL They employ
Colonel Gumf, an expert bookkeeper,
whose duty it is to keep an open ac
count with every field on each of
these farms. Reports are made to
the colonel every day of the amount
of work done in each field and every
thing in the M ay of cost to produce
any article in these fields is charged
up to it, just the same as a mer
chant would charge you with any
article you might purchase from
his store. So when the crop is sold
they always know whether they have
made or lost money. This is a system,
we venture to say, very few farmers
in Kentucky practice, and while most
every farmer will admit that it is a
good one, still very few of them will
follow the example of these gentle
men. The trouble with a great many
of our farmers these days is that they
like to be in town too much. If they
would stay at home except when they
have business in town they would be
better off. Now, we don't want our
friends who are landowners to take
offense at this, for we are interested
in their success. When the farmers
are successful everybody will prosper,
and that is why we make the sugges
tion that they give their land more
attention instead of sitting around
on drygoods boxes in town whittl
ing sticks. Mt. Sterling (Ky.) Sen
tinel Democrat.
Bnt the Dog Would Not Keep Still.
A dog caused some commotion at a
prominent East Side church Sunday
evening. He sneaked into the church
and kept fairly quiet until the bass so
loist was singiug a beautiful selection,
"Wait Thou Still." But the dog did
not heed the injunction of the singer.
He barked right out in meeting, and
some of the audience smiled. Just as
the singer concluded his song the dog
gave forth one sharp vigorous bark, as
if of approval. The singer did not
show any sigus of interruption, bnt it
certainly was somewhat trying on his
nerves to sing while this dog was
walking up and down the aisle. The
nrpftfl)fv Raw the. dno" lipfnrft liabarkpd.
and so ludicrous was the situation
that the preacher could not refrain
from laughing. The dog was hustled
out of church, but not until he had
entered a protest in the shape of barks
and growls. Columbus Dispatch.
An Ancient Deed.
A New Haven man ia the owner of
a valuable historical document, the
deed of forty acres of land in Portland,
which was conveyed in 1733 to the
Bev. Moses Bartlett, for a considera
tion of $500. The paper is intact,
save where it has been folded. At
the conclusion are affixed twenty seals
of twenty Indians. The seals are of
red wax, aud a coin was evidently
used in stamping the seals, as slight
traces of a crown can be found in sev
eral of them.
An Karneit Bidder.
"Daughter, do you think young
Tompkins means business?"
"Of course, papa; I have just .re
ceived his sealed proposal." Chicago
Record.