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THE SIN OF OMISSION.
It isn't the thing you <io, dear
It*fc (
the thins; you leave tinriorto,
'fc hiob (fives you a bit of heartache
At the setting of the sun.
The tetidei* word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
7 he flower you might have --ent. doar,
Are your daunting ghoststc-night.
Th<* stone you m ght have lifted
Out of a brother's wav,
The tut of hearthstone counsel
You wrre hurried too much to savj
Tha loving touch of thi haiwl, dear,
The g-*nt;r» an-1 winsome tone,
That y- iio-1 no time nor thought tot
With ironb lee enough of vour own.
Ihe little a- ts of kindness,
Ko easily out of mind;
Tho hain-f i to Ik? anzel*
Whh-b ever y one may find—
Tliey come in night and silence—
Each ctiill, reproachful wraith—
NV hen hope is faint and flugging,
Ami a bligiit has droppcl on faith.
ror life is all too short, dear,
And sorrow is all too great.
To suffer our slow compass .on
That tarries until too late.
Aiul it s not the thing you do, dear,
It h the tiling you leave undone,
Which gives you the bit of hearta-'he
At the setting of the sun.
Christ inn Leadtr.
THE NEW CURATE.
“You i,t'' have n 11 i: ' ,n '"Ia , ’
that's j, ’
i a,l i'’' l j
told. ) i ’.
W'hv don’t \ j •'( '°” r 'i*!' llm
Mattie' \ mi t’lii-i.. ^u,d • nS w.’-Mt a r ,r ’
the n st of | s x ,s no
old l»v an- i-d'V" a 1 1 ,, -
Khe l<--ti 'T-,'," - »h - „• . | ' . 11 % ,u ' a '*
sin- Ntiokc tl iiMvl'' i!
I run or her ivOf i ", gnat poke
l, ()| , f * V | i'i' ?w ’, | 1 ■'»li! trrr
ev.--"th'at in ,, jr r,’. v i V.V'-M-d 111 r - * ■ 1 :
j t, | v v 'V
4 L, ,, ,l,,tl ,m ..... -
W-VS „ ' s ‘' l , 't-oM^ua.ver ( gray or
„ ‘
N ..." 7/ “ ,, . "'HTalor .
«h, I! '• w.thoiit tins
; , ? " s , ,ri ' n W hai harm
" a
.'ll' I,, Mll ' . a, pcared, and how
!ini’ ' 1" < a ". y ll, ° ' * 1 vvo, ! df> r '
fill ,lf r n V 0r, "i ' n °w n'cc , y
she i,.m .| | rn! j ' K
li-..me, |M d„n -\Ve-| 1
don’t mind Udling'yoi io,,ri ' or “Ti leicv e ’ d ,
say, but, of ,« nin’t
n'i * "'f W |‘i , *7 , 8
vVii '
bet ween in " " ni,: Wl11 g ()
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f , v 11,10 r ,si s; "! y
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7 llttS M i ,rC, ' ly
v \ I x '! '!“ " 1 ', vu8
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to remind me of my «</.>• i «tDiI7l~
ing seriously c.f it Twenty-six f \ ! m
vei voting y old to be sure and vet not v «i-v J
to mi unmarried woman 1 m,,
bo content with fewer lntimls* ihe fle'lil ,<
quests. I m st, steo out of -iu
it were mis'to and leave the rom-iin i* .i \\... '
dre vomn'er mil f i„', | M ‘
It mattered iPitle i. mi« ! wh< ihnr it,,,
newemate was vouno a , I 7, !i
n portly old fellow wiih n u ;r,. .! n
'
giovvn diuuri.tors \t h i
this interfering ' ofll ' •" . " „ U ' lU wbubad . ',
I , I , V- r 7, - , r u P .
1 0 1!i• her lhai >ii ,v ri n f 1 '„„ ,1 nuP
t< ntion of v C ttin.r niv ( hi) for v
not even for tlie new curate - so «» v imr ^ i
went back to m\ work and the rose?
“There, Ji’att'ie don't business reti iled of
course it's nobody's m-iilY if vm,Ve
g,dug Stk.i to leave voui-elf „mi ,i“i't nl I ,!! ; i t
mv advice
time frett inr lie 1 , 11(1 worrvimr' over
J'rcston for ain't worth nohow ”
File shook her he i.l wise v •iml was
Off before I had time to recover from the
cruel thrust that h id noned the t° old *
wound Hi) licit 1 rest on and t he i ms
I lud tried to "ti ml mv hcart'to
trample under loot the old love I'oll’v I con hi
hau-lau died at „,v mrlisli L as if i
were a Team until a though word
had brum n... ht 1. back U, the nast Tike tlu-dc-i.l
... or
that needed but a ,r entlo fil breeze to ni-il "hike c
it ^
from' hinds i ?!ne *
droppc.1 it; “ I rum mv 111 ) munis, une by oy one one
7' 1 ,’ nan, 1 ,'""7 attei ,l ' all, a 1 ', s fl as ' u covering 1 WA . 8 on ’y my a V" face k
w! iniv bands. 1 sobbed:
Robert, o Robert: Why were you
It all came back to mt ‘ that visit to
Aunt , Mar In, where I first Robert
met
I k s mi ,n \ ung student just returned
from eo rue. 1 cannot tell all those
i pb . h.'ppj da> dreams; how I loved
him ami waited for the happy day when
he would ask me for that love. He read
m> ansu i r in my tell-tale face before my
Up--uttered it.
>°, engros-ed with Robert’s society, _ I
took little heed of other matter?, scarcely
giv ad\. ing a thought to the fact that a young
i lie daughter of a deceased friend
of mi aunts, was going to make her
i"ine with in Flic came, l rom the
moment I I. oked upon her lovely face
mv happiness was gone. 1 was a pretty
girl, fair, and fragile, yet one might as
w, ; I compare a s-mple little daisy to a
full-blown poppy or a rich red rose as
my fra 1 beauty to this girl’s exquisite
loveliness.
Fer a time h s love was unchanged. I
] h i"r-' Kl V7. my I? ,i8h h r rt 7 m y
! 1 : u ' Y'l" “ 1 " At times 1 would find ,
,.'ase\< s xv Hudenn" from me and
,ng “ l,ulll| g'' ” n Hie beautiful face
of Ka h’.eon 1 ee. 7' n ptn could resist
■
that " , ,V, U ,'‘77' uiatlng ^ ie
' ‘V” ut tbe . d [ 00 l dng
til j ,V k 1 1 t.inh the , trembling ot'
u j J “ ’ ,' n j '’ a 1 P lalu, y t,ia: sbe
, . >
Vi 7 '' 7 ' i r, .I. i. In ni) mad . jealousy
I gi ew almost to hate the child. He
lov ed me be ore ^ c came, with her beau
i " Vt .7 ’j u" t: s v!' u ' e j :lnd '"k to 'h . r ‘t °hmeof she did that not
sec that wo were betrothed ? 1 praye l
that she might go away and leave us to
ourse vos onoo m re and Robert would
g< ” 1 -o:,d way>. His ca
i(-M - n t ro giow ii'g coltior, his kisses
' i' j ' "P''k« '* “ g ot v ms '"hing seeming R°th ncgleot. my
. 1;l !" ' t "7 a , - 'k'ngtonii'y j at me.
tnM ., a ° you know,
] : ‘ j '
ni > i 7 r ' ' 1 ll ou art> day. growing
mai. r . .un . < e.rer to me every ’
or a t me . " a-oo l- e i. trying to be
sati- - i si! >ut a snare ot h--love.
ewiiesenei i the garden, one af
erno n, (ai i v m t u> autumn, Robert,
su.-iLv i .T n:ii ! .‘! ivome U , • ni a , C diess j " "f cf ,°° soft , ln ® Indian l ‘ nu -
mu * -' ov,r ,: id ust paid her a
-
. winch
1 mu ‘ tc ' ‘•omp.iment. oi she
" a ' al’o ! iu make a gracious reply,
when a.:nt . .ai th.G-ame o us.
hol'cit. s.ie sa" . placing her hand
fondIt on ins s bou.dcr as -lie spoke,
•will you ga tier somegr pes forme! 1
find that some of the bunches hang too
higu. Ihe girls will go with xou and
hold the basket.
lie rose to comply with her request.
Kathleen was at hi? side iu a momeut,
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTII. GA • 1 TUESDAY U'Gl'ST 14, 1888.—EIGHT PAGES.
while I refused to join them, feigning a
severe headache.
“They myself. do not want me,” I reasoned
within
I watched them as they walked away
together, he carrying the little wicker
basket, and she tossing her bright curls
with that coquettish air that came so
natural to her
lollow J/'L'T them; 11 tel it . 1 y° must u t w have ‘ iat tempted been some me evil to
genius. Slowly I followed down the
pathway, taking every precaution, how
ever, not to be ob-erved. Seated upon
a little rustic bench, I could see every
movement of my lover and Kathleen.
How lovely she looked standing in the
orchard, the sunlight falling athwart
the lovely upturned face, on which
smile rested! Never was seen a fairer
vision. Her sleeve of soft texture fall
ing back showed the shapely, out
stretched arm.
Sometimes a peal of merry
would fall upon my ear. They did not
miss me— noteven Robert: he was content
with Kathleen.
1 he basket was full to overflowing,
and still they lingered. One bunch of
luscious grapes, the last gathered, was
in Robert s hand. He stooped to place
it with the others, when their eyes met,
their hands touched. Was I cl reaming?
Alas! no. 1 saw him stoop and ki»s her
fondly. 1 waited no longer. With a
c.y^ of pain I turned and fled to the
seclusion of my own room, where I
S( >bbed out the trouble of my young
heart, with only God to hear me.
1 went away quite unexpecteclly. 1
was homesick, I told Aunt Martha. I
left a letter for Robert, giving no ex
planation of my conduct; should sunnly telling
"*m it was better we part. 1
Wus a proud girl and would not stoop
to acknowledge a rival. the
remember taking ring he had
K ‘ v, ‘ n ,n ® frwm m y ha “ d “ and what a
struggle , it cost me to place it with that
letter—the last 1 should ever write to
Robert.
m e t( J m0 ^ hpr * who was
quite an invalid , 1 and needed all „ my care.
I ncvcr h f u<1 I 1 "™ Hob ert save unce »
ihrough , . Aunt Martha, who . wrote:
M,i course, Mattie, you ve not for
gotten Robert, Whom, to speak candidly,
you treated rather unkindly. He has
gone to New York to practice medicine.
He is doing well.”
An old newspaper had fallen into my
hands, where an account was given of a
brilliant reception. Among the guests
were the names of Dr. Robert Preston
and wife. I knew it was Robert and
nw 'vin"' ‘ " n Tl\ .n" 7 T j”* v/Ti 1 " 1 ?®’ '- ’7°
tfor , f g, anted i that Aun Marthas kmd- A
n<SH °. f heart prevented her from again
referring forever. to The tlie past. I c losed my heart
world will ne\cr know
me flattering as a disappointed woman, I thought,
myself that l had quite sue
ceeded in deceiving humanity in general,
until the gossip had come upon me with
lir " c words > ,,ri "g‘"g t0 ilfo tho
^ ^
+ * * * * + *
“Going to service. Miss Kenwood?”
** was my neighbor who asked the
question, Marcia Hall—a dear little
R d,d wdb the utmost faith in mankind
iu general. 1 smiled faintly as I caught
sight of the new bonnet with its dainty
ribbons, evidently got up for the new
curate.
“Voung and foolish,” thought I.
“Wait until she’s six and-twenty, and
I’ll w or she will not buy a new bonnet
fer all .he n w curates In'
bright Slowly we walked to church on that
Sunday morning, Marcia chatting 1
gaily and I, dressed in the plainest of
d,(!SSC ' a - walking silently beside her.
1 had not fully recovered from Mrs.
Briggs’s ued unkind remarks, her and was de
tem to show my disinclination
to “ sct m y ca P.” a3 sbe termed it, by ap
pearing in an exceedingly really disappointed, unbecoming
K'’"' 1 '- 1 W; ' 9 in
< atching a last glimpse in the mirror, to
flnd that > notwithstanding my plain
V 01 ' et and six-and-twenty years, I
wus stlU a P re -ty woman, and to hear my
mothe,: sa >’ as 1 su ’Pl ,ed to kis? her,
“ 1,ow "ell you’re looking, Mattie!”
,Iow crowded the llttle villa g e cliu rch
was ~ fllled to overflowing. that Mrs. Every one
was there, even hateful Briggs,
caught aghmpseof the great poke bon
“ 1 «»»“•* “> X‘*-,
1 hey were singing as we entered, yet ,
l scarcely heard them, feeling rather em
barra89, ‘ d a ‘ anting late to be gazed at
)v the entire conarcnation "among
"
1 sank wearily the soft cusli
j ong ,ri, u ti v kindlv”nroTered iakin»- refuse behind a
nalmleaf | fan bv a port
v Now°a c ld «cntleman beside me.
hush, a slight flutter "arment" amoncr
the eon»reaation no'w a rustle subdued" of
with and then a whisper
as 7iancel, tlie ]ndld t was rolled close to the
and the new curate ascended. •
“lie’s lust lovclv ” whispered Marcia
^ i )U Hjnir softlv M^Yvenwood at mv sleeve “Do look
”
l kept mv eves downcast. If even*
woman in the congregation "determined" cast glances
0 f admiration ' l was to do
otherwise
“\m I mv brother’s keenerwas the
t e\t. Clear and distinct were the words
0 f t he sneaker. The first words had
caused my heart to beat wildly. How
like that voice of Ion" a> T o that rich
so ft voice that pleaded for mv love! j ;
Hsteued like one in a dream,until I raised
mV eves ” to see before me—Robert Pres- ■
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1 ^
’ Robert Preston. Changed, to ,__i be
^ "-There ,___. ,
’ «uf"
were lines of care and
fering on it now, while the dark hair
W as streaked with silver.
Was Kathleen dead? 1 wondered. Had
j ie g; veu up his practice? Was he happy?
Fifty different queries crowded upon my
memory. Why had fate thrown us once '
In °re together after my bitter struggle to
f or g C t?' One thing I was determined 1
upon : I must leave the village. I dared
not trust myself further. Reason as I
W ould, my heart told me that I loved
hira st ' U /
it was all over! I could hear the
whispered comments of the worshipers
on the eloquence ^re of the new curate. The
singers f chanting in that nasal.
dn vvliug ^nd tone so natural to village ""
choirs> still I sat dreaming.
“Are you "then, coming?” asked my com
panion ; as I arose mechanically to
obey, “Don't you like him, Miss Ken
WO Q d ? Do tell me! Y'ou listened at
tentively, and once, as I looked at you,
i thought you were going to faint away,
TOU looked so pale. Are you ill?”
• Yes, 1 like him,” l added aloud, while
my heart whispered: “God pitv me, I
love him!”
We were out once more in the bright
sunshine, coming quite composed unexpectedly
upon a little group of the
wealthier members of the congregation,
gathered around the new cunvte. They
b ad learned he was a man of wealth and
standing, choosing his calling simply think as
a matter of taste. Someone—I it
was the pastor's wife—presented hands touched, me to
b j m Our eyes met; our
as, resting those serious eyes upon me,
"
sa i d;
“i have had the pleasure of meeting
Miss Kenwood before.”
j cmno t tell how it happened that we
wen? all walking out through the church-
] yard toward the highway, aad I found
mys lf alone with Robert. He wa*
the first to break the silence. It pained
j mark, me to think it was a common place re
;
; ‘“How is Kitthleen r” I asked,endeavor
j ing to show him bow little I cared fot
the past, and how, without betraying the
,
slightest emotion, I could inquire after
his wife's health
, “Kathleen: ’ He looked dazed at the
I question. “I believe she is well, but not
happy, believed poor girl.*
He she was well. How strange'
Had he grown weary of her as of rues
Was he utterly devoid of honor?
“Not happy?” I said, as I toyed m-rv
ously with the roses in my bodice. “She
should be very happy a 9 -as—yout
wife,” I faltered."
“As my wife!” he said, gazing in
blank aina ement. “D d yon—oh,
I Mattie, you have jiulg. d me wrongly.
I "
, never married Kathleen.”
■ He loi/ked like a mm upon whom a
sudden truth ha l dawned, or one ae
eused of a great wrong who could prove
his innocence.
It was in the twilight before service
that he told me it all. The notice con
cerning Robert Rreston and wife referred
to his cousin. He had entered the min
istry from choice, as he had come into
a large fortune through the death of his
uncle. True, he had admired Kathleen
as a man would admire a beautiful wo
man, but he never entertained the
slightest feeling of love for her.
The scene in the orchard was but a
simple ruse gotten up. by Robert and
Kathleen to excite my jealousy, little
dreaming of the serious result.
Kathleen made a most unfortunate
match, like most beautiful women, mak
ing a poor selection from her many
suitors. Poor girl, what a dear, kind
letter she sent to us, telling how happy
she hear "
; was to we were reunited!
“.Just to think of it! - ’ said Mrs.
other Briggs. “He had came back to her after the
girl given him the mitten. 1
wouldn’t take him. Would you?”
We can afford to laugh at her idle
« ossi P- we are so happy, Robert and I.
I smile proudly to think that without
“setting mv cap” I have captured the new
curate, after all.
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The Simple 1 Natives of Jamaica. J
T , { . ,,
yo V rk O
(h their articles’for (imows They ^whieli m.ke n.-mv *
Cou«rIit tt sale ’ can be
for very y little \ Thev utilize the
fhem lc , y j u m . inv vav ? m ikiim-from
liaD, pretty fans, ornamented with
gav wools, and dainty little baskets with
p.^dlcs and covers. ‘ These they weave
f _ • f xvhite’ , nvikinn- the body of
the basket with a "colored bolder
0 f strina dvetl * red and yellow or black
T] n „,: r i snmp n f
V • , tinv vinaierrettes and
| rosarv be ids made from “ JauSSy tluTroot of the
wTth are done
car vines in relief almost euual to
, ncntly a people of expedients, and are
very clever at adapting the various tropi
cal growths to their need?. Living
often far from a railroad and on an
island where needful things cannot al
ways be procured, they set their in
, genuity to work to furnish substitutes.
The coarse, fibrous network which hangs
from the base of the cocoa leaves, they
call “cocoanut sirainer,” and use to
strain milk, rum punch, coffee, etc. A
cucumber-like vegetable, full of soft
fibre, they call the “Dish-rag” plant,and
scrub their kitchen utensils with it.
They cut the husk from around the
cocoanut, ravel it out into a brush and
polish floors with it. They wrap the
leaves of the cashew tree around meat to
make it tender, and hang butter in a
draught in a porous clay vessel, which
they frequently wet to insure rapid
evaporation, and thus cool it in the ab
sence of ice, and have hundreds of labor
saving plans of a like nature. and They are
clever at making pottery, use the
clay “yabbas,” a kind of earthenware
bowl, in lieu of pots and kettles, doing
most of their cooking in them. They
make them of all sizes, for beating up
shape cake, washing tea-things, jars, and also in the
of large for various purposes.
Pitchers for water and filters are also
made in this pottery some of which are
exceedingly withears graceful both in moulded shape and
ornaments, of corn on
the sides, and other designs.
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Majilton, J the Man Monkey. *
7 7 ^hf’nrazni . . , , ,, 7,^?Tci , „
„ Jocko, the^Brazilian in Ape, was Henrj
Eceeh, an Englishman, whose protes
sioual name was Otto Motti. JI is body
wa s°f the size of an ordinary man s, but
klS a 7 oot ?? g ’ ^ et suc 1
was his agility that he could outrun on
^ foiirs, a very tair'runner. His skele
VYiHo'n’ Ron Ion. 1 llie Ravels i'a’vpl 111 !?! afterwaid M w-ml^Yntro intro- 11
^luced but lt was the left character to Majilton in their to pantomines, bring it to
P e '7? f ct i° n ‘a He had wonderful strength
7 7 S bauds and could waLc with his
hands hanging under au ordinary flooi
joist, his whole weight depending on the
o n P between his thumb-; and their op
P 0Sni o Augers with perfect ease; and he
occasi °u a Ry astonished a Inaggart of the
®j P rn ac ^ k sslon i°pe, b or J walking on the hawser on his with hands which on a
tbe circus was towed by a steamer. Ibis
singldar facuRy niade nim aa expert
p * imbpr ’ and be w° u, d run up and down
the interior of the circus and leap the
rail °Y, hede f and ruaalo ng thei " wi ^ h
au agility ^ that no ape could 1 excel. He
fair1 rolled with lau S ht er when lie told
^w 1? lie ' frightened people on the Missis
. ... leaped ,
7 iem, m° CC r h ia^ S l^ ermg n - * am l f *1 gnmacmg, |
1 ’ . .
i7m‘lr>'lv' U Pf e ti 7 .• 77. - !1 ? hroug vthe |
ie m ai ant |
.o-', 7 i n • 77 T , ecem
j "
, ^ bar l e8t
7 n 1 a m ' ° 77. 3 a 1U P anic in ° tne a ,
T P n nf , ,
^ 57 1C r ‘7- . U v 1 -7 om ^ stuffect a J a r
1
> , , 'ftn, . his .Tocko act,
in
J?? bcb f id .7 t fl 7’ J umpm 8 to tbe
7 j ? nc 77* iew 1
‘
. l° , • Jt . tbe
° l ’ T omaQ
pl e ti‘777 ,? L h,1 C T the t aadieace ,D
; 7 1^/77 r 7 °* f terror and mdlgna " I
** * rtc riS '' I
A Famous Pear _ Tree Dead.
The world-famous Endicott pear tree,
planted by Governor John Endicott on
the ancient orchard farm at Danvers New
Mills in 1630 er 1633, is dead. Tradi
tion has it that 1630 was the date when
the venerable tree was planted, but there
is also evidence that Governor Endicott
did not break up tbe ground for his
orchard until 1333. There is no doubt, :
however, of the great antiquity of the
pear tree, and that it was from 2-50 to
260 years old when its last vital spark
went out. The tiee stood on the north
bank of the river, about half way between
the Mills and the railroad track. It had
but one rival—an ancient pear tree at
Truro, on the sand-of Cape Cod, planted
prior to 1644 .—Boston Journal. I ■ ; ■
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The ivy planted by the Y'ale class of
’83 on Ivy day is a most aristocratic
plant. It comesdireet from the castle of
Henry IN. of irauce, at Pau.
SALUTATIONS,
FRIENDLY GREETINGS OF DIF¬
FERENT NATIONS.
Ludicrous Phases Of French Putic
,i| lous Politeness - The Malay
Smelling Salute-f ho Alarm
j . s , r , , Weiemn %
Among the Anglo-Saxon and race, astypi
fled by the Amer cans .English, s iys
the London Glebe, the most common and
general salutation is that of shaking
hands. Cross the channel, however,and
one recognized ls.iu a land where hat-lifting It is first the
salutation. appears at
curious to a native of American or Eng
lish soil to see a net too clean Coal-heaver
Or peddler solemnly raise his head cover
ing—it does not always amount to a?
much as a hat—to au equally dirty
brother workman, with an air many
young dudes might envy; b it in time
one fails to notice such shop, things. Onen
tering and leaving a no matter
how small, the polite man again uncov
era his head, while each of these actions
word is always accompanied greeting. The by an appropriate
of peasants in
Spain, in the country, salutation on meeting a
st'anger oiler him as a a por
j tion of the bread they always carry w ith
them. Of course it is refused with
thanks, and "i eat would be the aston
ishment of the would-be donor were it
accepted. In Germany—in fact, pretty
well all over the continent—to jas-a
man or woman on a country
road without looked saying a friendly
greeting is doing upon as would ver,
; impolite, and the person so
J ! certainly be regarded as a stranger,
Among the French and Pelgiaas espe
daily the habit of men embracing one
another is quite common, a father and
son, or two intimate friend.?,
nothing of falling into each other’s arm?
and kissing in public. Colder tempered
I nations consider such effusions unneces
sary, and believe there is just as much
j feeling in the warm grip of the hand and
few words of welcome. The Malays and
i other Polynesians salute by smdlmg.
This is performed of" bv rubbing noses A
former resident New /ealand says
that on meeting after an absence of some
time two Maories seize hands and rub
noses violently, at the same time loudly
weeping, presumably from th? pleasure
of seeing each other, or India perhaps Bud fiom
the pain of friction. In the
‘^ists salute by lowering the palm of
the right hand and bringing it up to
ward the face at the same time saying,
“Ram, ram chair.” The MahomeJan
do the same, but simply say, “Falaam.”
This is only done in either case by men
bers of the same faith. The salutation
is always made, too, with the right hand,
to use the left being considered an in
^lt. These eastern nations have
a strong olijection to uncovering the
it exceedingly disiespectful go entei the
presence of a superior wit 1 the feet
covered. The Chinese have a regular
code of salutations, eight in number,
which define the proper amount of rc
spect to be paid to different individuals,
The one which is perhaps most familiar
^ aQ d ranciseans is that wne.i at the
new year the Chinaman clasps his hand',
together, and, gently bowing wishes hii
D’ffnd the compliments ot the season.
Ewo curious greetings which the^e
people have among t iea ’’.?, ; ^ :%.nnu tli >ew
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of asking each other: eaten
rue?” and “Is your stomach i^good
orde1 /’ d he Japanese show * aspect on
meeting by bending the knee, though in
^ 1( ; street they ouly make a feint of so
doin S- Ilus JS the general salute, but
there are many others which are required
fr 01 ? mferiors on encountering those m
higher - positions A stranger coming
among the Moors for the first time would.
perhaps, be astonished and a little
Lightened by toward seeing one of tnern rid.ng
at full gallop him, as if he were
£ ills tcnd tears ^ g might i^J^w^inwS pernaps be increased
when this horseman when twmos*
ploS f to hl ® a lWent victim sud
d enly reined . up and discharged
a pistol over his head Recovering
would, ^“ l j d unit that that tlihTs^he this is the MooSh’wav Mooi.sh x\ay
»' «dcommg n.ganger ; ^t'ves of the
Gold Coast have still another mode 0l
salutation. 1 hey lower their robe from
the left shoulder with the right hand,
and gracefully bow, thougn it it is a
great man the v salute > and lhf T wish to
-
be particularly respectful, the wholerobo
is removed, exposing the breast. Egyp,
tians greet one another with a remark
peculiar to their country: “How goes
the perspiration?” The military salute
re qired in nearly all civilized countries is
nearly the same. Perhaps in Germany,
h °wever, the regulations are somewhat
more stringent. A soldier on meeting
the Emperor has to stand still, face
about, and remain with band raised fes
from twelve to twenty paces before liii
majesty he approaches to the same distance
after has passed. In Belgium an ob
p cer bag t G do the samefor the King, anil
subalterns for Generals, though ten pa ct
only are required for the latter case. Sob
d ; ers carrying anything so that theii
hands are occupied sajute with their eyes
—that is, they-turn their heads in tha
direction of the person coming and going,
French oificers raise their caps to each
other, but the privates dc as the private.'
ia o’her armies do
Art Preservative of Patent Leather.
„ Yeg> the trade in pate nt leather
shoes is increasing every year. Why
gboxiidn’t- it?” remarked a shoe dealer to
a New York<St/« reporter the other day.
“Patent leather shoes look well and
wear well if proper care is taken of
them,” he continued, ^but a good many
people don’t understand how to take care
0 f fine shoes. It is a mistaken idea that
liberal applications of sweet oil will pre
gerve tbe leather. On the contrary, it
tends to obliterate the enamel aud rot
the shoes. Particularly is this true in
bot weat her. Some men buy a pair of
line shoes and bathe them in oil im
mediately. The heat is, of course, at
traded bv the oil, and in a few weeks
his shoes "are not fit to be worn. I hold
that patent leather is economical, and
men who wear it continually in footgear
gave its price in shines. A shine every
morning is a comparatively small matter,
but it amounts to $ i 7.25 a year, and by
wearing patent leather shoes in the
spring, summer and fail a person saves
enough to keep himself in heavy shoes
for two winters.”
“But how can you preserve patent
leather.”
By using p’ain water on the shoes, and
wiping them with a dry linen rag. A
dose of oil after the shoes have been wet
is a t well enough, but should not be re
sorted to too frequently. A fine French
patent leather shoe cannot be made for
less than ?7. and it is folly to purchase
shoes that look well in the shop and are
sold at *3 or * 4. They will wear fora
week, nerhaps, but seldom time longer than
two weeks. I tell you the is coming
when patent leather boots will be worn
as much in this country as they are iu
France, and then the occupation <?f the
bootblacks will begone. _
l POPULAR SCIENCE.
The piedonviiatiug color of Mars is red,
wh'le that of our planet is ,«rreen.
Meteorites are said to sometimes at
ta'n a velocity of 180,000 feet pei
second.
A rich mine of quicksilver has been
di-covered in the vicinity of the town ol
Fa'uc, Mexico.
The common practice of , raising faint
p’g persons to a sitting Or upright pa
sition is oft?n sufficient to destroy the
spark of life which remains.
The use of powerful artific ial light in
s'-a-fishing. night, to attract fish to the surface
at h is been put to a practical test
j iu the North * ca. with apparently sue
cessful result.
j Forr-e cxp'r’inents have been placed
on record, iu which a number of e <^9
j xvcre hatched out in a magnetic field.
with the result that the chickens were
all more or less deformed, blind deaf oi
p im
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e.-ently at a Moscow sunset, the rays
i °* l ll '’ sun ' v cre iutercepted by a cloud,
, through peculiar property in
:;r * <l some
j the it.nospa -c the entire c ty was col
j u: ® 1 a vivitl purple hue. I his strange
ia ' 1 ^ for eight minutes.
Sponges are marine animal , not fishes,
however. The breeding time is in
-ping; the young sponges swim about
for some time, but finally I e.-ome fixed
to rocks and grow. The sponges we use
ar - jbtained principally in the Mediter
rauean Fea and among the Bahama
Islands.
Aluminum is coming into use as a
material for dental plates. It is nearly
?s Sight as rubber, wci’dit but lit ! c more than
o e eighth the of wold, has neither
odor nor ta to, is not a Tec te;l by the ele
merits of food or the secretions of the
mouth, and costs, bulk for bulk, about
one sixth the present price of silver.
A . Leckenzaun .. , efcctno T . bout , , has , la . . ely .
. & cen constructed in Newaik N. J., and
»succtsdul trial trip from that place to
^?w ^ oik ‘ recently ^ took V? place, hheisa
' ™ La V ^ d '/ lcet dce P-. W' 1 i on S
l u “? 0I f and a r ' n her .’ b;ic '' , t0
[ nder th e m are storage batter.es.
I h- motors aie alt under the deck.
A poison of any conceivable descrip
tron and degree of potency which has
been intentionally and accidentally swab
lowed may, it is said, be rendered al
lowing most instantly harmless, by simply swal
with two gills of sweet oil. A person
a very strong constitution should
take nearly twice the quantity. This
oil will most postively neutralize every
form of vegetable, animal or mineral
poison with which physicians and chern
In generating steam, experiments un>
der various boilers show 1000 feet of gal
to be equal in heating power to from 80
to 1 Jo pounds of different kinds of coal.
One pound of coal equals in value 7|
feet of natural gas. The latter explode#
violently when mixed with 9 to 14 parts
of air. fi\ h n burned with pure oxygen,
the flume temperature of the natural gas
is estimated at 7100 degrees centigrade.'
When burned with just-enough air to
secure perfect combustion, the tempera
gnde tnres ar« for *Ktim* natmi. ? o 2388degrees and 1700 degrees
for Siemens.
People do not generally understand
that the skin shares in the" function of
res pj ra tion, and that if this is interfered
-with death is apt to ensue, though this
is due not so much to asphyxia as to
some form of blood-poisoning caused by
t j ie eonstituents of the i perspiration be
ing ing rcab8t , rbed into the loo d. A strik
illustration of the necessity of leav
j n g the skin open to some extent to the
actiou of air is afforded by the fact that
a child who was 7 oated with gum aud
then l covered with gold-leaf, to represent
a cher ub at the coronation of Pope Leo
x., died a few hours after the operation,
A g j railar fate near i y be fell Gustave Lore
j n the davs of his vouth, when a passing
caprice made him go to a fancy ball as
4l . n Monsieur Core;” but as in his case
tho {hoU gilai „ did as „„ ly Partial, he sharp survived, iU
h ho not escape p a 1 .
‘
En‘icing Trade With Music.
The latest fad to entice trade is to en
tertain would-be customers with music.
™
a «WlH» "oS hldi. i
Strauss heard the delightful strata of
waltz. Iu an alcove of a store
XYXi'eX a harpist, two viol'nists and a flutist were
i* rr ,a!n r
that usually furnished by street players.
The old saving that “music hath
charms to soothe the savage breast,” was
hardly bit applicable to this particular
crowd, certain it is that hardly a
man or woman in the store failed to
show the pleasure he or she experienced
while waiting for the clerks to open and
d splav new pa kases of goods! The
women were particularly delighted with
the mus e. Feme of them walked about
more gracefully than thev otherwise
would have done, others still hummed
the strains as though thoroughly ac
•quamted with the music, while bespoke the eves
of many flashed and their eves
thedel ght thev were experiencing.
AU this while the proprietor moved
about as though wls unconscious of the
pleasure When he affording his patrons
spoken to about the music he
;>1 j |.
“Yes, I suppose it is pretty good music,
but I don’t know much about it and so I
keep my mouth shut. But I’ll tell you
■me thing: It is a right good advertising
mhenie, and my business has almost
quadrupled sin e I engaged idea the orchestra
;eve a! weeks ago. My was laughed
rtaliit e at the start by my neighbors,
but now th y fully realize that I am mak
ng a good thing out of it.”
•■ What kind of music do they play? ”
“Oh, ail the popular music. I told
them to play nothing else at the start
unt l I'd see how’t would work. Later
they may sandwich , ... in a , few classical ,
pieces.”
Russian Ovens in Alaska.
3Iir.ers in Alaska, says a Sitka corre
-poncleat of the Chicago Newt, find nc
difficulty in keeping their cabins warm
and comfortable by making use of Rus
sian ovens, which are very simple the to
build, as they are made of stone in
shape of a large box stove from three to
four feet long iiiside, from eighteen to iB
depth" .verity inches wide, and the same
with an iron plate on top to cook
on. The chimney is built of the same
.terial. Miners who wintered here last
. inter and the previous winter went out
erv day to cut their regular firewood,
• iid so far no frozen iimbs have occurred,
.ndians travel and live in brush houses
all winter. They subsist chiefly on dried
moose, caribou meat, and fish.
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The only Michigan . nomi
man ever
nated for the Presidency was defeated.
LOCI STS.
j INSECTS THAT INFEST THE
j LAND AT STATE!) PERIODS.
j Tlie Pest a» Rrsorihe.l by au Ento
I mologist—Evolution fiitl Trans¬
formation of the Pfljm' -
Their Visits Inevitable.
j Ofte of the most remarkable thing about
the seventeen-year locust i? that it is no
i locust at all. Prafeseor O. F \\ c?*.«'Ott,
known among theseho .. b- ? of Uliuago,
declares the H mi l, as the g:v it “bug
tnan,’ - has made the seventeen-} ear locust
a special study. Nfouutaiy
. U The Rcfehy locust is a
locust,” remarked foe Professor, ••It's
a plague for the vegetable's,- but it fur¬
nishes a sort of animal food in nbiru.
John the Baptist lived on thi- kind of
locust, taking them with a d easing of
wild honey. Professor U. V. RiU-v. the
United Mate? entomologist, fed ou
locusts as meat food for a week, aud he
seems to have relished the dish iu a gre st
way. though he complains that the hind
legs are rather chippy. 1 think the
farmers out West, instead of complaining the
about starvation caused by locusts,
ought to have gathered, coc'ked and
eaten them.
“'The seventeen-year locust is not,
properly speaking, n locust. Oicada
septemdeeim is the correct name of the
iusect. It belongs to the same family
as the species called harvest tiy. though
the latter is never so abundant a- the
former. The seventeen year fellows
were here in ’ T1 and and they were
prophesied lor the presen year with the
same assurance as an astronomer predicts the
an eclip.-e. The cicada— to keep
proper name, does not devastate crops
at all. It prunes the trees so to speak,
defoliates the smal'er limbs and twigs,
ljut even here it do s no great harm,
The male puts in an appearan e first, and
later on comes the female. The hr. ter
sfays a little longer than the former,
Either of them stays only about thuty
days. That is the working tfio period ‘ ot
their career< the balam . c of e , cntcen
years is speut in operations necessary for
the propagation * interesting of the specie . ' I he
latter par! < f their existence
may be briefly described as follows •. The
small eg g S are deposited by the female the in
twigs. Under the invasion of
foreign substance the twigs d o and
break off. While on the ground, the
larvm hatch from the eggs aiid crawl in
to the ground, where they tlm.e and
grow for seventeen years. i caching
maturity, the pupa emerges from the
ground, and climbs up the itself nearest tree bark. or
shrub attaches to ihe
Then its back splits open and the winged
insect works its way out to liberty,
leaving the lifeless case attached to the
shrub.”
It has been discovered that besides
the seventeen-year broods, the appear¬
ance of which was recorded as long ago
as 1633, there are also thirteen-year
broods; and that, the though both some
tunes occur iu same states, yet, in
general terms, the seventean-jear broods
may be said to belong to the XoiJie.u,
7 ie LEirteen-year floods to toe
Southern States It so happened that
^be largest broods ot either spec.t-sap
peared simultaneously Such in had the summer that of
^b8. time not taken an place event since 10 + up nor to will
,,
it occur again t 11 bO _0. J here areaoso
uie^r no broods, po.ecpublod.ffc.-cu, ^ b,-t
the two other tnan in the time
maturing. will
Tiie true cicada septemdevim
measure on an average one and one ha t
mches fiom the head to the tip ol the
c ^ s « d wings, ami almost ali^iys expands
°- v f r | i? ee 1G ’’ lie wl ‘ 0 }7 ' i'!
^ dali u \ e . orange-brown ot t ie abdom en color, is moie and ^ in oi the le.-s male n o: «a
more especially, four or five of the seg¬
ments are edged with the same color on
the back. The smaller form is on an
average only two-thirds as large, and
usually lacks the dull orange abdominal
marks. The two forms show no dlsposi
tion to associate together, and produce
very different sounds. They frequently before
appear in small numbers the year
or the yeai after their proper period.
In regard to the burying process spoken
of by Professor Wc>tcott it has
been observed that after a series
of heavy rains, the pupas have continued
their galleries, usually subterranean,
to from four to six inches aboveground,
lea ? ng an 0, ' : f, ce of egre8S ? itb the
s ” rfa " e ' T T “ the U ‘\ er end ot thcsa
Swat°g hei,? apprSing 3ow„ “imo f ol
«"*»*•- "““ backed ,o be
the ounce as .“Utd'Sd'o^ela usual ami unaerweut Xk men
! egulav transformation. When ready to
sssnrjKCT'M _
!'» tbo I.upa ,kh. is left ad
‘, enng ' lhe option of emerging from
papa generally takes place between and
the hours ot s.xaod nmer.ii., ten
^unites after the pupa >k.n burs s on the
back the cicada will have entirely freed
^elf from it. Immediately after leaving
th .®,P“P a skin tbe bod 7 1S foft and white,
"f lth the exception ot a black patch on
the prothorax. The wings are developed
m less tba “ an bour » bu ‘ the n: ! tl ‘ ra
colors , ,of the body ate not acquired . till
several developed hours have, cicades edapsed. somewhat Ihese ie
c : eatl r v are
full but tor sooa a day become or so ' ll after °. i ' e act transforming, \ ve bot 1 in
A'ght , : and their muscles ' harden,
song, as
Ihe males alone are capable of “sing
and they are true ventriloquists,
’J^ f uced rattling bv a noise system they of muscles make is in pro- the
lower part of the body which work on
the drums under the wid^s o\ Eitern&tely
tightening and loosening them.
Jast as the sting of a bee will affect
some persons n gh unto death and have
no effect whatever on others, so the punc
ture of the beak of a cicada will be more
serious with some than with other-,
though there is no poison gland attached
to the beak.
Irishmen and the Sea.
Anthropologists ,, , . say that , as a race
Inshmen have never taken kindly to the
sea and never wil do so. Ih.s may be
a libel upon an island people, but there
are some curious facts in support of the
accusation, if such it be Irishmen make
better solaiers than sailors, and if they
possess the Greek gift of oratory they
hardly add to it the gift of seamanship.
Whether such a generalization be im
perfect or not, it is singular that Irish
fishermen do not strike people as a
cessful, thrifty, and enterprising. The
sea is with them in calm and sto m, if
there were romantic tendencies to
stirred by it. But the fisheries languish,
The men want boats, nets and piers, it is
said, as well as good markets and
lessons in the art of curing. They ar«
also hampered shore-owning by the fish royalties
claimed by the landlords,
about which wc do not hear half as much
as we ought British to do. Possibly it has been a
part of policy to prevent a de
velopment of the Irish fisheries.and what
we witness to day is not a racial defect
but a repressed instinct.— Pall Mali
(ja.ette,
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A GREAT INVENTOR.
He had a startling genius but somehow It
i didn’t emerge.
Always on the evolution of things that
wouldn't evolve;
Always verging toward some climax, but ha
never reached the verge:
Always nearing the solution of some theme
he could not solve.
And he found perpetual motion, but a cog
win'd set awry
Burst his complex apparatus and he could
not get it fixed:
Aiul he maJe a life elixir—if you drank you'd
never die—
But the druggist spoiled tlie compound when
tbe medicine was mixed.
And lie made a flying vessel that would navi¬
gate the ait*.
A gorgeous steamer of the heavens, a grand
aerial boat.
A matchless paragon of skill, a thing beyond
compare,
And the only trouble with it—he could never
make it float.
And lit? found a potent acid that would
change red dirt to gold;
Rut the tube from which he poured it had
some trouble with it’s squirt,
So the gold held in solution and would not let
go its hold.
And the dirt in dogged stubbornness it still
continued dirt.
And he made a great catholicon to cure all
disease,
A general panacea for every ache and pain,
Rut first he tried on himself his stomach
a'-hetoease,
And it killed him very quickly—and he did
not try again.
— S. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
PITH AND POINT. •
A country seat—The top fence rail.
A patient man—One in a doctor's office,
A doctor must understand all tongues.
Imaginary scholars—The pupils of your
eye?.
Ball players are capable of base in¬
gratitude.
A man in liis cups might as well be a
tumbler.
The high old time—The ancient clock
iu the steeple.
ing Working like ahorse—A lawyer draw¬
a conveyance.
When a thin man visits you, lodge him
in the spare room, of course.
A sick burglar is very loth to call a
doctor for fear that he may give him up.
“Mine, miner, minus?” This is the
upshot of speculations in mining stock.
What are ministers good for? They’re
good because it is part of their business.
The exact quantity of the lion’s share
is not stated, but it is all tbe lion can
get.
When a woman is trying to write a
letter on a half-sheet of paper much may
be said on both sides .—Naio Haven News.
“Talking is cheap,” they say;
That’s not so clear.
Just hire a lawyer
And you’ll find it dear. t.
— Judqi.
That one swallow does not make a
Summer may be true, but one mosquito
can make it hot enough for anybody.—
Life..
Smith—“I gee bv the papers that tho
Dey of Algiers is dead.” Jones * rin
glad to hear it. It’s time deoth took a
Dey off.”— Siftings.
“Maclame,” said the tramp, “I’m not
a vegetarian.” “Ah? No?” replied the
lady. “I thought you were. You look
like a beat .—New York Sun.
A correspondent wants to know tho
difference between a dog-watch and a
watch-dog. both Well, not much; they are
kept on the bark .—The Ocean.
This world is but a fleeting show,
And no wise man regrets it,
For man wants little here below*,
And generally he gets it.
—Somerville Journal.
Mary—“Oh, Sadie! This loose tooth,
I declare I’ll put it out.” Sadie—“Oh,
no, Mary,don’t! Ma’llmake me Wear it.”
(Sadie gets all her sister’s cast-offs.)—
Siftings.
Ingenious thing, this English Jan
guaget When you hear a citi en say:
“Oh, he’s a good man,” you can’t tell
whether lie is talking of a pugilist or of
a deacon.
A criminal lately executed in England
protested his innocence on the scaffold,
and his last words were that he was a
good and faithful subject of the Q.ueen,
The subject then dropped.— Siftings.
“Nothing is ever lost,” Walt Whitman sings;
But poets have peculiar views of things;
Few will agree with him who’ve had ill luck,
When they the frisky tiger tried to buck.
—Boston Courier.
President McCosli, of Princeton, says
he expects every fresh student who en¬
ters the institution to rhyme his name
with “by gosh,” and it is only rarely
that he is disappointed.— Detroit Free
Brest.
E’en with scratches and I ruises, 1
And covered with loam,
Though it’s nearest tlie umpire,
There’s no base like home.
—Life.
The King of Dahomey has had an um¬
brella made for him twenty-one feet in
diameter, the handle being twenty-one
feet long. He is determined that no
one shall take it in mistake of their own.
— Chicago Journal.
Brown made a bet with Wagerly that
he could cause nine out of every ten
men who passed a certain building that
day to touch the structure. Wagerly
accepted the bet. Brown simply hung
out the sign “Faint.”— Judge.
A lover called upon a Miss,
And thought she looked bewitching, ‘
He longed so much her lips to kiss,
He chased her round the kitchen,
But fell against the red-hot stove
As soon as he had kissed her,
And though found the he burn thought blister. the kiss was bliss,
He a
— Siftings.
Overtaxing his brain. Old Mrs. Bently
— “Did you hear, Josiah, that the young
student who has been boardin’ at the
Kendrickses . is verv £ sick?” Old Mrs.
Bentl f « Y j h ard what - s the
troub e with him? » ()ld . Bently _
,. studyin J . too hard I s’pose. | r ihe doc
tQf /__ he , 8 t itlf )rmatioa of the
brain y7te E J h ,
‘ -^ 1SS Howjames, ’ said the agitated
y° un o man from Jersey City, ’Of you
OIli y could look with some degree of
favor feelings upon but me! illy”- I know^ “N I certainly express my do
ou
not express them welly, Mr. Ferguson,”
J' e P i ed tb e coldly critical Boston young
^ ad J> “ and it would be better, perhaps,
to change the sub ect. ”—Chicago Trib
une •
Mr. Hoar—“I would like to ask the
Senator from l lorida what is the mean
ing of the provision that the Academy of
Dental Science shall charge nothing for
aov service rendered to the < overnineut
of the United Ftates?” Mr.Call- “That is
a literal copy ot the law in regard to the
; National Academv of Sciences.” Mr.
Hoar —‘ ; Does it mean that they shall cut
the eye teeth of my honorable friend
fpoin Iowa gratia fiV