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Till) Carlerol Express.
CORNELIUS WIiiLINGHAM. Editor.
For the cause that needs assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
or the future in the distance,
And the good that we can do.
Bartersvlle, : : Georgia.
THE WARMER WBEDETH A LI„
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Mj lord rldas through his pair gate,
Mjr lady i weep* along in at*
J The sage thinks long on many a thing,
And the maiden muaee on marrying;
The minstrel harpeth merrily,
The sailor plows the roaming sea,
The huntsman kills the good red deer,
j And the soldier war* without a fear;
But fall to each whate’er befall,
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The farmer he must feed them aIL
Smith bammereth cheerily the aword,
* Priest preachetb pure and holy word,
Uaine Alice worketh broidery well,
t j Clerk Richard tales of love can tell.
The tap-wife sells her foaming beer,
Dan Fisher fishes In the mere,
And courtiers ruffle, strut and shine,
|, s }. While pages bring the (Gascon wine;
But fall to each whate’er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all.
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Man builds hie castles fair and high,
A Whatever river runneth by,
Uw Great cities rise in every land,
Great churches show the builder's hand,
Great arches, monuments and towers,
Fair palaces and pleasing bowers,
Great work la done, be’t here and there,
And well man worketh everywhere;
But work or rest, whate’er befall,
The farmer he must feed them aIL
~ Char let O. Leland.
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A BRAVE ACT.
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‘ the many frontier army posts
isY one known as Camp McDermitt, ir
Nevada, located upon the stage-road
from Winnemucca to Boise City, and
distant some eighty miles from the line
‘6l the Central Pacific railroad.
ft is near the mouth of a little ravine
In the very heart of the Winnemncca
hunting-grounds, and the Indians of
that tribe, governed by a chieftain of
the same name, made their headquarters
at the time of this occurrence within a
mile of camp upon a small stream.
Peace reigned, and the red men, with
their squaws and papooses, were ac
customed to make tri-weekly visits t<
the camp for the purpose of receiving
from the quartermaster the rations al
lowed them by Uncle Sam, of bread and
neat.
The usual force at the post was about
■ixty men, and, in 1869, a single com
pany of cavalry, commanded by one
Capt. Wagner, was in occupation of Mc-
Dermitt. The other officers of the com
pany were Lieut. N , a young man,
and the surgeon.
Winnemucca, Chief of the Indians,
was the father of a daughter who pos
sessed wonderful beauty and a fine mind.
Desiring to fit her for a position in civ
ilized, rather than savage life, the sa
' chem had sent her to San Francisco, where
•he had received a thorough educa
tion.
Returning to her father, he had ob
tained for her, through the assistance of
his many friends among the whites, the
position of interpretress at McDermitt.
In 1869, she was stationed at that post
in quarters of her own, a well-dressed,
handsome woman of about 22 years of
age, receiving a monthly salary of S4O
in gold.
With all the arts of her wily nature
the girl sought to win the affections of the
only bachelor officer in camp, whom we
will call Lieut. Nemo, and within two
months the young fellow openly avowed
his intention of making Sarah Winne
mucca his wife. 1
His Captain, as became him, argued
against this strange mesalliance, but,
finding Nemo thoroughly in earnest, and
waiting only for some passing minister
to tie the nuptial knot, he dropped the
matter, and would have given it no fur
ther thought had not his attention been
shortly thereafter jailed to it in anew
and startling way.
While the lovers yet awaited the com
ing of a minister, the wife of the sutler,
whose store was just without the limits
of camp, informed Capt. Wagner that
she had discovered a plot among the
Winnemuocae to murder the garrison,
sack the post, announoe Sarah Winno
muQoa as their Queen, and begin a war
of extermination against the whites
throughout all the plain country—and
fjieut. Nemo, carried away by his infatu
ation for the Indian girl, hkd agreed to
join the savages.
So monstrous was the story that at
first the Captain refused to believe it,
but in hurried, frightened whispers the
sutler’s wife told him that she had over
heard the plan discussed by the Lieu
tenant with some warriors beneath the
store-window the evening before, and at
last the officer was forced to admit that
the danger aotually existed.
“ When will this plan be put into ex
ecution ?” asked Wagner.
“ To-night, t moonrise !” returned
the other. “ I dared not go to your
quarters, sir,“ to tell you of it, but had
to wait Until you came here. The Lieu
tenant is on duty, you know. He will.
C4ll in the sentinel, house the guard,
spike.the howitzer, and then the Indians
mil come !”
i. I—and it waa already dusk 1
The commapder’s voice was steady as
hi* remarked, “Very well. We will be
l a|T^ V *° r iem ‘ Show no signs of fear,
* keep-within .doom after dark, and
by remdj to fly, If necessary. SpeAk to
ab on of what you have told me, ’j
Thlfc, %conoernedly smoking, lie left
the store and pAcceded toward camp.
Supper was offer, and some of the men
were lounging about the parade-ground
as the Captain entered.
Quietly calling a trusty to his
aide, he said: •
“After guard is placed, and just be
fore moonrise, which is at 11, take four
men, with their arms, and go to the
stables. Close the doors and remain
until morning. Open to no one but
myself. Do not . communicate your
duty to any except those whom you take
with yon.”
The man touched his hat and moved
away. This was to prevent the false
Lieutenant from stealing the horses,
should he choose to attempt it, instead
of capturing them. Then the Captain
passed on to his own quarters.
The hours fled—9, 10, 11. In fifteen
minutes the moon would rise.
The autler’e wife was right. The sen
tinel was “off duty,” and the guard all
within doors. Not a living creature was
to be seen, and the cold starlight fell
upon as solitary a group of adobe build
ings as if the post had been deserted fot
years.
Suddenly, however, a single figure ap
peared. In full uniform, with sword and
pistol-holster at his waist, Capt. Wagner
emerged from his door, and, silently
crossing the parade-ground, turned with
rapid tread down the stage-road toward
the Winnemucca camp.
The distance was short, and, just as
the first rays of the rising moon tinged
with spectral white the dark carpet of
sage.-brush that .covered all the plain,
the officer found himself upon a slight
eminence overlooking the teepee huts of
the Indians.
This was the sight which met his eyes.
Around a council-fire were gathered
the chieftain and warriors of the tribe,
all arrayed in war-paint, and fully armed,
and in the midst, upon a pile of blankets,
stood Lieut. Nemo, his sword drawn, his
arms outstretched, his head bare, evi
dently engaged in the delivery of a stir
ring address to the savages about him !
Wagner’s heart leaped within him.
Drawing his own sword, he hastened
forward, quickly passed the line of
squaws without the circle, and, before
the Indians had the slightest thought of
his presence, hurst through their ranks,
and appeared alone in their very midst!
So great was the astonishment of the
braves that no one moved or spoke, and
old Winnemucca, even, bowed in token
of fealty to the army blue of the officer.
The Captain, however, did not notice
him, but, advancing until directly in
front of the dazed Nemo, he cried in
ringing tones. “ Sir, I demand your
sword ! ” *
As if in a strange dream, the Lieuten
ant slowly extended his weapon toward
his officer. The latter took it from his
hand, and, breaking it, threw the pieces
upon the ground.
“You are under arrest! March be
fore me to camp! ” he said; then, turn
ing quickly toward the astounded In
dians, in threatening voice he Con
tinued :
“The man who moves dies ! Beware
of the chrbines in the sage-brush be
hind you ! Winnemucca, treacherous
chief! I command you to appear be
fore ‘me to-morrow !”
With these words, driving'Nemo be
fore him, the brave Captain retired from
the circle 1 , and disappeared along the
road toward camp, while, after a little,
the savage?., thoroughly • frightened,
crept quietly to their huts, regarding
with suspicious glance the shadows o*
the sage about them, the council-fire
was extinguished, and night and silence
again reigned.
The revolt was at an end, and scores
of lives saved by the quick wit and won
derful nerve of a single man.
Sarah Winnemucoa afterward married
Nemo, who was simply dismissed the
service as crazy. The old chief and
certain of his warriors were sent to the
Presidio dungeons at San Francisco for
a time.
The uprising at McDermitt soon be
came mere matter of army rumor ; but,
had the officer in command proven less
able to cope with the dangers of the
hour, that rumor would have been his
tory written in letters of blood, even as
the history of the terrible Modoc war,
or Custer’a fateful campaign.— Youth's
Companion.
amor with watkjr.
Am using, incidents sometimes- occur
during the heat of an engagement,
which cause even the fighters to pause
aud smile. During the fight between
the Confederate ram Albemarle and the
Union vessels, the following incident
happened, which illustrates the power
of the imagination :
The ram had fired a shot, which rico
cheted across our deck, carrying with
it a stream of the cold water of the
sound. An officer .commanding a di
vision heard the yeport, the whistle oi
the shot, standing with his back to the
ram. The water, with considerable
force, struck the gentleman on the'baek'
of the neck, running and trickling down
his back. "Wilh'V he threw up lhs‘“
hands, * Murmured* “ ffiy God ! I’m
•hot!” and fainted dead away.
THE Mv£E tjNfXttA?E ft
Mr. Adolf Sutro, in hi* lecture before
the Bullion Clfib, ’says ifthe following
kind words of mules : We have bee!
using iniiles for yeats, and have fotind
out that they are tolerably good ani
mals; but there is a prejudice against
innlesy v jough they, are very intelligent.
I think that I could wtito a chapter on
their traits, as I have had ft Vety fitttm
s\ve experience with them. It has been
said that they have a strong propensity
for kicking; I have never soen them kick
when in the tunnel. They become very
tame when under ground; in fact, they
become the miners’pets. The mefi be
come quite attached to them ; and as the
shift-iimles pass along by the men at
lunch, they will often receive from one
a piece of pie and from another a cup o'
coffee, etc. When a signal is given to
fire a blast the mules understand the
signal, and will try to get out of the waj
of it just as the men do. Of course,
under ground it is very dark, and the
mules become so accustomed to the
darkness that even when they go out
into the sunlight they cannot see very
well, and when they go back from the
sunlight into the mine they cannot see
at all. So we are in the habit of cover
ing one eye with a piece of cloth when
ever they go out, and keep the covering
over the eye until they go into the tun
nel again ; we then remove the cloth, so
they have one good eye to see with. We
had to adopt this plan for preserving
their sight, because the mule is so stub
born that he will not pull unless he can
dee liis way ahead. We have found out
another thing about mules. We tried
horses at first, but we found that when
ever anything touched the ears of a
horse he would throw up his head and
break his skull against the overhanging
rock ; but if you touch a mule’s ears he
drops hik head. For that reason we
could not use horses. We employed
‘mules, and they have answered very
well. .
THE WIRST CASTING.
Cast-iron was not in commercial use
before the year 1700, when Abraham
Darby, an intelligent mechanic, who had
brought some Dutch workmen to estab
lish a brass foundry at Bristol, con
ceived the idea that iron might be sub
stituted for brass. This the workmen
did not succeed in effecting, being prob
ably toe much prejudiced in favor of
the metal with which they were best ac
quainted. A Welsh shepherd boy named
Jolxn Thomas had, some little time pre
vious to this, been received by Abra
ham Darby into his workshop on the
recommendation of a distant relative.
While looking on during the experiments
of the Dutch ‘workmen, he said to Abra
ham Darby that he thought he saw
where they had missed it. He begged
to be allowed to try; so he and Abra
ham Darby remained alone in the work
shop all night struggling with the refrac
tory metal and imperfect molds. The
hours passed on and daylight appeared,
but neither would leave his task, and
jusf as morning dawned they succeeded
in easting an iron pot complete. The
boy entered into an agreement with
Abraham Darby to serve him and keep
the secret. He was enticed by the offer
of double wages to leave his master,' but
he continued faithful, and from 1709 to
1828 the family of Thomas were confi
dential and njuch-valued agents to the
d< scendantsof Abraham Darby. For more
than 100 years after the Right in which
Thomas and his master succeeded in
making an iron casting in a mold of fine
sand contained in frames and with air
holes, the same process practiced
and kept secret at Colebrook Dale with
plugged keyholes and barred doors.—
London Family Herald.
THE WAT OF THE ROAD.
The' Scientific Farmer says one of the
anomalies in American customs is that
of the driver of a wagon sitting on the
right-hand side, while Jhe always turns
out to tho right when - passing another
team. It matters not whether he bo on
a broad, safe thoroughfare oi* a narrow
lane or crowded city street, his seat is
the same. Thus situated, it is very dif
ficult to see the exposed wheels in pass
ing, those which require the eye of the
driver. Doubtless this is a prominent
cause of the many collisions between
passing teams, and the wonder is that
more do not happen. The custom was
brought over by the pilgrims, but, like a
Dutch sentence, the parts gQt' trans
posed in' the translation. Across the
pond the driver sits on the right, but
always turns -to the left. In copying
the practice we retained the useless
part, and changed the essential, for.
some unexplained reason. Possibly our
fathers thought to be consistent in the
matter, and, rather than be right-hand?
od hr- eitting while left-handed iD the
driving, changed the latter to'suit. At
ail events, the thing as now practiced is
Very inconvenient, and is a worthy sub
ject of reform in this year- when reforms
are so much in favor* And since it is
easier to change our position on the seat
than altering the custom of turning to
the s right, let* us henceforth hand our
friends up tp. the right side of the wagon;
w hile we drive? takp the opposite s\d£i
■ TkM moat 'unfiring, obstinate place-"
seekers at tha Federal capital are said to
W wooten.
A BEAR * flOHt WttU A fAXTUMR.
Ptfet iftertart ■ in
SnHivaa coiiiiy, N. m .rtjpn iN w
some <fler b&t lyingfat th#mouth %fa
device in some rocks. He knew that it i
blurt be a pafither’S deri; and that the
bones’ were the telfflmnlS M tk the '
occupants had mado os a deer
captured. Stewart hid himself behind
a tree anrl awaited development*. Im
agine his fcittprtfft when lie saw a big
bear come out of the cave, ten
der its arm a panther kitten, which was
squalling and kicking with nil ite might.
The bear rose on ite haunches and, giv
ing the kitten a bo* or tyo on the ears
with its fofe party scpiCeaed it to death
and threw it on the ground. The bear
then returned to the cave, and in a short
time came out with another kitteq under
its arm. This rtcts treated as its com
panion had been. What me future in
tentions of the bear were Stewart never
found out, for the second kitten had
barely been killed when the mother pan
ther appealed ou the scene. Tliis seemed
to take the bear oy surprise. The old
panther saw her kittens lying on the
ground. She bounded first to one and
then to the other, smelling and licking
them, and uttering plaintive cries. Then
she turned to the bear, which had re
mained in the erect position it had as
sumed v&gn squeezing the second kitten
to death. With a yell that almost froze
the blood of the hunter, used as he was
to the fury of panthers, she sprang upon
the bear and fastened her claws in its
*
shaggy coat and her fangs in its throat,.
The bear hurled its antagonist ten feet
away with its powerful paws, and then
attempted to escape a second attack by
flight. But the panther w r as upon it
again in an instant, and a terrible com.
bat ensued. The bear endeavored to
catch the panther in its hug, but the lat
ter was too agile, and with every spring
upon its huge enemy the panther in’
dieted terrible wounds with, its sharp
claws. The blood poured from a dozen
great gashes in the bear’s body* and at
last the panther leaped on the bear as it
stood facing her, and, fastening her
teeth in its throat, thrust the long, sharp
nails of her hind feet into its vitals. The
bear fell to the ground dead. As the
panther was returning to its dead kit
tens Stewart shot her through the heart.
A ORE AT PAXTHER HUXT.
Cyrus Dodge, of Sullivan county, N.
Y., probably killed more panthers on one
single hunt than any other hunter that
ever lived; He killed seven in less than
one hour. He was hunting one day in
the spring of 1818* and when in the
neighborhood of Long pond discovered
a panther’s den. It had two kittens in
it, the old panthers being away on a for
aging expedition. He took both the
young ones and started home with them,
placing them inside his hunting shirt.
He hadn’t gone far t>efore he heard the
mother yelling behind him. He knew
he was in for a fight, and placed himself
in a position to do his best. Pretty soon
the panther came tearing along through
the woods. When she .caught sight of
Dodge, she bounded to within thirty feet
cf him, and crouched for a spring. He
shot her, but did not kill her. Her
•erics were terrible, and Dodge knew
that in a short time any other panthers
there might be in the vicinity would
soon hasten to the scene. She was dis
abled, and other shot put an end to her.,
Then DDdge made for the pond, which
was a half mile or so away. Cries from
all sides told him that he was not yet
through with his work. By the time ho
reached the pond, he could hear pan
thers leaping through the branches of
the trees, A panther will not enter
water. Dodge waded put as far as ho
could and prepared for business, Within
gunshot of him, he discovered five large
panthers in the trees. He killed one at
the first fire. The loud mewing of tho
kittens under his shirt could evidently
bo heard by the old panthers, for none
of them left the spot at the sound of the
gun. They bounded frantically in the
branches, and two of them rushed to the
water’s edge and shrieked and lashed
their tails in, fury. Dodge shot both of
these, and killed the other two, and two
more that. reinforced them, without
leaving his tracks in the pond. The
skin of the largest of these panthers is
still preserved by the family. Dodge
took the kittens home, but, as they grew,
they became so savage that they had to
be killed. * *
POWERFUL MACHINERY,
Speaking of the machinery used ill
oitr Western mines, a prominent mining
engineer recently said that in soma of
the. deep mines there fere employed sin
gle engines capable of raising a column
of water weighing 90,000' pounds a dis*
tance of 1,600 feet, seyen times a min
ute ; also, that safety . cages used ir
mines travel at the rate of 3,000 feet s
minute, and propelled by a single en
gine are able to hoist 1,200 tons of ore
a distance of 1,500 feet in one day.
Thai was a witty man who, being de
tained in a enow blockade, penned a
dispatch, which ran thus : “My dear
sir, J have every* motite for visiting you
except a locomotive.” So was the other
wbq, under similar circumstances, tele
gr’ajyhtcf to his"hrm m ftew.York : “I
shhll not be in* tile office to-day, as I
have hot got home yesterday.”—Hart
fold Post,
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- , f WIRE.
Tins mistaken Idea is entertained by
.jnany Americans that the wine consumed
In this country is mainly a spurious
article. They imagine that if they were,
for example, to purchase a case of cham*
pagno, the probability would be that
the bottles would be filled with some
species of cider charged and clarified to
make it resemble champagne. People
•of this way of thinking usually talk aa
though all the good wine in Europe was
consumed by a limited class of Euro
peans, and ob though the dregs and re
sections were sent across the Atlantio to
be augmented by artificial compounds
in this country. Ab a matter of fart,
this opinion is wholly erroneous. The
wide market in this city contains just as
good wine as tun be had anywhere in
Europe. The customs dues, as they
apply to wines, at the present time are
favorable to the importation of high
grades of rtliiss, for they are fixed with
little regard to valile', and hence it is
relatively cheaper to buy a
than a low-class article. Formerly’,
when an ad valorem duty was applied, a
large amount of cheap, sophisticated wine
was sent to this country from Cette, in
France; but now this trade can no
longer be carried on with advantage to
the compounders. Our Government ex
acts from those who put up American
champagne with French labelß a pay
ment equal to the amount of duty
paid on French champagne, and,
though the internal-revenue inspect
ors may be evaded when this
business is done upon a small
scale, the amount of this spurious fluid
which finds its way into the market must
b* small. Wft ere it would be chiefly
met with would be in those places whero
gentlemen have no business to go. Tho
champagne houses at Rheims which havs
the highest reputations look to the
American market for some of their best
purchasers, and a dweller in this city
gifted with ordinary sense, can buy just
as good champagne as any obtainable in
Europe. There is possibly no city in
the world where a much greater variety
of wine can be obtained than can be had
in New York. All of the great wine
producers in Franoe, Germany, Italy,
Spain and Portugal have agents in this
city to whom they make direct ship
ments. There is no doubt certain classes
of wine which do not go much beyond
the country in which they are grown,
but tlieee can usually be had in New
York, by order, if any one cares to pay
the prices asked for them. The labels
on bottles count for very little—-if cham
pagne is accepted—and those who buy
wine would do well to purchase it in tho
cask, and have it bottled. The tern:
“ Chateau wine ” is a mistaken one, foi
a large portion of the wine sold in bot
tles under this designation has no true
flaim to the distinction. But the title
has been so much abused that it has
now, in France, fallen into contempt as
a method of defining the grade of wine,
for the “ Chateau wine ” of one proprie
tor may be in every way inferior to t
common crus grown in a neighboring
vineyard. —New York Times.
A TOUCH ANTAGONIST.
“ Mick, I heer ye wor in a fight last
| night.” * .
h “Be jabers! I wus thin, an’ I mot
I the toughest ctrril I iver faced in me
| life.”
“ Where did you meet him ?”
j “Outside of Barney Scully’s, an’ he
was as tliiu as us both put together.”
“ Tell us all about it, but give’s no
j lies. ”
| “Now, Timothy, you niver caught a
: lie cornin’ out o’ me mouth.”*
“ No, Mick; for; begarra, they fly so
last that it’s the divil’s own job to catch
i *.liem.”
“ Well, I was cornin’ out o’ Scully’s
party full of Land-League entangle
ment—”
* ‘ What the divil’s Land-League en
tanglement?” interrupted Timothy.
“ Whist, yer sowl! It’s the polite
I name for .whisky, sure. Well, I was
cornin’ out o’ Scully’s, an’ jist as I got
outside I ran agin a thin man, and, be
the powdhers o’ pewthur, he downed me;
l jumped to me feet, an’, seem’ he had
somethin’ in his hand, I sez to him, sea
I, Lay down yer stick, bad luck to ye,
and fight me like a man.’ ”
“ Why, you fool,” said Timothy, “it
was Scully’s pump ye wor talkin’ to. I
was there and saw the whole thing.”
‘‘You did, Tim? Thip, bad scran to
qae, if iver 1 hit a pump agin.”
* 4' ' . * i
A CLERICAL CONUNDRUM.
“ Does yer know de difterenee between
your sermon last Sunday and my big
rooster ?” asked Uncle Mose of Parson
Bledso, of the Galveston Blue Light
Colored Tabernacle.
“ Between my sermon and your big
rooster ?” queried Parson Bledso.
“Perzackly.”
. ‘‘ Gib it up, Uncle Mose.”
: De rooster makes me open my eyes
when lis asleep, and your sermon makes
me shut my eyes when I is awake.”
It took three men to hold Parson
Bledso until Old Mose could make his
escape. A. meeting of the elders of the
Blue Light Tabernacle has been called
to consider the resignation of the pastor.
—Galveston Netvs.
Every harness-maker leaves traces of
his work behind.
PJLEASANTHIES.
Anecdotes of great men all remind us
it is easy to lie.
There is a *‘tied” in the affairs orf
men that leads on to baby carnages,
As a rule the flower of the family doe*
nothing toward providing the
bread. • * *
Western settler (overwhelmed by
spring freshet)- —“ House gone ! Stock
gone l Barn gone ! Guess I kin stand
it, though ; old woman gone, too.”
<r It is harder to get ahead in this
world,” said Clorinda’s young man as
her father assisted him out of the door
with his boot, “ than it is to get a foot '
A little girl, being asked on the firs*
day of school how she liked her new
teacher, replied: “I don’t like her;.
site is just as saucy tome as my mother.”
‘ And now, Lord, what Bhall I say?”
were the words of the minister at the
close of a long prayer. “Say Amen,”
said softly a little oherub of the cong*.>
gation.
“Brilliant and impulsive people/'
said a lecturer on physiognomy, “have
black eyee ; or, if they don’t have ’em,
they’re apt to get ’em if they’re too im
pulsive.”
Mother reading : “And every morn
ing and evening Elijah was fed by the
ravns, who brought him bread to eat.’
Lucy, aged four : “And was the bread
buttered, mother?”
Said Fogg, smarting under the hands
of the barber, “I wish you were where
your razor is.” “Where is that?
asked the. tonsorial artist. “Under
ground,” replied Fogg, with a snap.
n k wears a penuj flowsr in his coat,
Ladida,
And a penny paper collar round his throat,
Ladida;
In his hands a penny stick,
In his tooth a penny pick,
Not a penny In his pocket,
Ladida.
“Mabel, why, you dear little girl,”
exclaimed her grandpa, seeing his little
granddaughter frith her head tied up,
“ have you got the headache?” “ No,”
she answered, sweetly, “ Ise dot a pit
tori.”
The cool-headed fellow is the bald
headed fellow. He is modest, too, for
he never puts on hairs. He is a brilliant
man, too, for he always shows a shining
front. His genius will live after him,
for there is no dyeing* there.
A poet chimes, “I do not dread an
altered heart.” There’s where most
people will differ with him. To have
one’s heart altered—a piece chipped off
here, and another there, so that it will
be altered in form in the shape of a tri
angle—is a very painful operation, and
it is to be dreaded every time.
Little Bertha, who lives in Cam
bridge, visited her aunt, who resides in
lioxbury. Upon her return she was
asked if she said her prayers when she
Wits at auntie’s. With wide-eyed as
tonishment at such a question the little
oue replied: “Why, mamma, Dod don't
live in Roxbury.”
An intelligent witness was on the
stand in a Deadwood lawsuit, and the
lawyer asked him: “ Do you know Jen
nie Drysdale ?” “Yes, sir.” “What’s
tier reputation for truth and veracity ?”
“ Well, her reputation for truth is good,
but I can’t say as much for her reputa
tion for veracity. I am afraid it isn’t
first class, ”
OUT IX THE WOOVB.
It is the easiest thing in the world
(says an old hunter) to get lost in the
woods. I have known instances where
men have lost themselves within two
miles of home and wandered about for
two days. The moment a man realizes
that lie is lost his mental faculties seem
to desert him, and he becomes almost
insane. The right thing to do is to pre
vent tliis mental demoralization. My
method is this: If I find that I am.
“out of my reckoning,” don't know
where I am, and begin to feel nervous,
instead of rushing about and so becom
ing more and more bewildered, I lie
down flat upon my back and close my
eyes, or only look upward, and endeavor
to fix my thoughts upon something lie.
side my situation. For instance, I com
mence to quote poetry, scripture, some
thing I have committed to memory, and
which always interests and pleases me
to repeat; or I imagine an interested
audience, and talk away like a candidate
for Alderman. At the end of fifteen
minutes I can get up with a perfectly
“level” head, examine trees to see on
which side the moss grows, or on which
side tho branches are longest and most
plentiful; decide upon a course and go
directly where I wish to go. This plan
has helped me out so nicely that I give
it to my brother sportsmen, asking them
to remember it and give it a trial if ever
they get seriously uncertain of their
whereabouts. It is an excellent plan,
when lost, to kindle a fire at once—for
the sportsman is never without matches
—then if you travel in a circle you will
know it. And always, if night is com
ing on and you cannot decide with rea
sonable certainty upon your course,
build a fire and stay by it until morn
ing, or some one comes in search of you.
Lost or found, shooting or fishing, a
sportsman’s motto should be, “Keep
cool.” He cannot afford to lose las
head.