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EXAMINE IIOW YOUR HUMOR 18 INCLINED, AND WHICH THE RULING ^ASSIGN OF YOUR MIND.’
VOLUME VI.
CANTON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MORNING. MAY S. 1888:
NtTMBEft VX
THE TRUTH MEEKERS.
Eternal youth in pushing tipwnrd still!
Is the load lighter from the toil of ngas?
Doea it get near the summit of the hill?
And will ye toil on ever, oh, ye sages ?
When to the top tlio giant ma-s is ta’en.
Will it fall hack and crush yon? nay to
know
JYrcbaneo were worse than this sad work
and pain.
Tush on ! I’ush on 1 Oh, mortals onward
ro !
Immortal love is watching o’er each pang—
Though ye aro blind—from lifo’B ob
scurity—
W'hnn on the vorge the quivering mass doth
hang.
Love will appear and your poor hearts bo
free!
What do wo know—if’tis not love is near?
What liopo have wo—but that love will
awake
The Bnllen surges of lifo’s ocean drear,
A glorious sunriso? Break, oh, morning,
break!
WASHINGTON AND TELL.
BY HARRIET B. WATERMAN.
Louis Granton was the son of a Swiss
watchmaker who, with his family, had
lived for a year in America, whioh coun
try Mr, Granton liked, beenuso he was
paid muoh more for his work than at
home.
But Mrs. Granton was very homesick
most of the time, and Louis did not like
Americn at all. To begin with, it was
provoking to be obliged to speak broken
English, when be conld talk faster titan
any of the boys, only they were too
stupid to know French, which was not
so clumsy as English, and was, besides
his native language.
Then, too, the boys called him
“Polesky,” which made him very mad.
A colony of Foies lived in poor littlo
tents near the river. From the sound of
"sky,” which ends many cf their words,
the boys hod contrived this nickname,
whioh it was the custom of the sohool to
apply to any foreigner.
Bnt Louis had objected to it more fu
riously than apy of tho others, and, in
consequence, the name had staved his.
If they had called him “the Swiss," ho
would hav^ glorjed in the title; but,
after he had a great mauy times ex
plained tho immense superiority of the
Swiss over all the other people of tho
earth, it was very provoking to havo
them continue to call him “Polesky,"
simply for tho sake of teasing him.
At the end of the year he had quite
mastered the languago, which at first
seemed so difficult; but with tho boys
he was still at enmity, and, therefore,
still wretched and unhappy.
At noon of February 22d tho boys oi
tho Madison sohool were assembled on
the playground in solemn conclave.
They were just out of school; for tho
Board of Managers had broken the laws
of the United States, at least so John
Drew, whose father was a lawyer, de
clared; they had only allowed tho after
noon of Washington’s Birthday for s
holiday.
The boys had seriously thought ol
playing truant in a body; and nothing
bnt the assuranco of John Drew, whe
seemed to have inherited a great deal
of law, that they would lose tho whole
of the next Saturday, which was not o
a national holiday, had prevented.
As they talked, Louis Granton joined
them.
“For your groat Washington." he
said, scornfully, “a half-holiday suffices.
He is worth but as little. In Switzer
land we have so many great men that
we have whole holidays all the time.”
“You better mention Switzerland in
the same day with America 1’’ said
Archie Emerson, whom the boys called
the “Speaking Trumpet," beoause he
was always ready first with a remark.
Louis looked quite like a prize-fighter,
as he jammed his cap a little tighter on
his head, and said: “America in the
same day with Switzerland ! I think not
indeed.”
“Switzerland in the same day with
America, I said,” responded Arohie.
“Switzerland would be hardly big enough
to piece out a State with over here. We
wouldn’t take the whole country aH a
gift.
You know nothing about it!" said
Louis, still more angrily. “You have
do Alps, no waterfalls, no chamois.
Your country has nothing but bigness."
“Yes, we have,” asserted “The Trum
pet,” “the highest mountains and big
gest waterfalls; and just because the
country aronud here happens to be
rather flat, you think it all is. You
don’t know.”
“I have seen Switzerland, and I have
seen America,” said Louis, with a very
grand air. “You have not seen Switzer-
laud at all; then you cannot talk of it*
The people there aro braver than any
others, of course. I have heard it told
many times, and you will find it in the
books written, how all the world once
fought against the Swiss, and tried to
oonquer them; but the Swiss killed them
all, except those that ran away. ”
“Not tho Americans,” said Archie.
‘Nobody ever beat the Americans."
“No, not the Americans,” repeated
Louis, in a scornful tone. “There were
no Americans big enough to pay us for
tho trouble. The Swiss do not flghi
babies. Whom’ havo yon like William
Tell ? Who in America can use a bow
like that, to shoot the applo from the
bend of his sou? Who,” getting more
excited, “who that could stem a boat on
Lake Genova in such a storm, and then
dare to jump ashore—who—Ah 1 there
are none in America.”
“Now you just take that baokl”
screamed “Tho Trumpet,” whose rage
was olso rising. “You don’t know what
yoifro talking about. I guess you novel
heard about Washington crossing the
Delaware, in a littlo bit of a boat, with
his wholo army, when it was just full ol
floatiug ioe, where your old Tell daren’t
stir, and cold as anything, lots ooldor’n
Switzerland ever is; and standing up
every step of the way, with his hat off.”
In his haste Archio wns drawing hit
facts from tho engraving of Washington
crossing the Delaware, whioh ho had
seen at homo, rather thau from the
pages of history. However, ns Louis
prided himself upon his ignorance of all
American heroes and heroisms, he was
not prepared to deny one statement more
than another.
At this instant John Drew spoke:
"There’s Professor Wilson motioning
us out of tho yard, boys," ho said. “I’ll
tell you what,” and he turned to Louis:
“We’re goiug to skate down to Brandon
Poiut this afternoon, and you can come,
too; aud down there you fellows oan
fight it out. If you liok we’ll give three
elieers for William Toll, and, if the
‘Trumpet’ does, we’ll cheer for George
Washington; only you fellows must
cheer, too, whichever way it is; and
we'll see fair play."
This arrangement being satisfactory,
tho boys separated. Louis walked home
feeling sure that William Toll's reputa
tion would lose nothing in his hands.
Ho attacked his dinner as savagely as
ho meant to attack George Washington,
and subdued it ns thoroughly as he
hoped to subdue him.
He did not mention his intention to
his mother; for, being a woman, she had
queer prejudices against fights; but he
kissed her good-by with a tragioal air
whioh nearly told the whole story.
He said only that he was going on the
river to skate, and she, woman-like
again, kissed him and said: “Ah 1 that
river is so wide and big; I do not love
it; hut havo a good time with the rost,
ruy child,” for Lonis had been too proud
ever to speak at home of his sohool
troubles, and, of oourso, she uovor im
agined him as other than a favorite.
When he reached the river bank lie
found the boys all ready to start, and he
quickly put on his skates and joined
thorn.
As was fitting,-the representatives of
the Swiss nud Amorioan heroes led the
way, Louis a little ahead of Archie.
They had passed tho fine houses, and
were just opposite the miserable Polish
quarter, when Lonis skated into a large
nir hole, and immediately after him
Archio Emerson.
The Upper Mississippi is frozen dur
ing five months of most years, and the
ice is : so strong that the river becomes
a regular highway for teams and bur
dens of the heaviest kind. But, how
ever cold the weather may be, aud how
ever clear and thick the ioe may be,
there is at all times danger from air
holes as they are called—sometimes real
holes in the ice, but more frequently
places which only skim over with a thin
covering of ioe which never hardens.
The air hole into whioh these boys
pluDged, however, was due to the holes
which the neighboring Polos had out
to servo as wells. There were so many
of these that the ice between was muoh
weakened, so much so that when Louis-
skated upon it, it was very muoh &s if
he had skated into open water.
Alas ! The swift running mountain
stream in his Swiss home, for whose
sake he so despised the sluggishness of
Amerioan rivers, had been no swimming
Bohool, and Lonis in the water had been
perfectly helpless but for Archie, who,
though not far enough behind to keep
himself from going in, had seen in the
instant before that the hole extended
nearly to tho shore. Otherwise the situ
ation would have been quite hopeless,
for, onee under the strong ice on the
other side, the best swimmer conld not
escape.
The other boys could only look on in
horrified silence; for to approach the
thin ioe meant only danger for them
selves, aud.added danger for the two.
How he did it, Arohie never knew; but
he seized Lonis, and made away with
him to the shallow water, from which the
two freezing, trembling champions were
taken, more dead than alive.
An old woman in the nearest cabin
called to them to come in by the fire,
and the whole skating pavtj crowded
into tho little room. Louis sat a little
apart from the Others, though near tho
fire. He and Archie looked'very absurd;
for tho woman had insisted on clothing
them in some of her husband’s garments,
while their own wero drying, 1
But Louis’s face, even above the
funny coat woh very sojier. At last he
said, slowly, “Throe cheers for George
Washington ! It was muoh to cross
the Delaware; as you aay, your rivers
aro very big.”
“Tlireo cheers for William /Tell add
and the Swiss !" yelled tho boys, in re
ply.
Lonis could hardly believe that he
heard rightly.
When they told the old woman of
their dispute she stiTaightoued her form
until it was tall and imposing,, and her
eyes flashed until sho was no ’longer old,
only terrible, as she said: “Yon boys,
yon do not know whi it eour age is. It is
ray people who havo taught the world
that.
“To fight and kee p y our high snow
mountains, as did your little Bwiss peo
ple, that is well; and to fight for your
dig land, and win it, as yon Americans
did, that, too, is well:; but to tight and
lose, and still to fig 1 at for the right be
cause it is right, though novor to lie
won, so my Polm havo done, and they
are bravo.”
And the boy* looking at each other,
did not deny h< jr.
On the way I .omo Lonis said: “Boys,
you can call me ‘Polesky’ overy day in the
week, if you like”; but “The Trumpet”
said: “No, ]( shall call you William
Tell" ; and th e rost joined in with his,
“Three cheer a for Billy Toll 1 Glurrah I
Hurrah! H nrrah I" by which name
thoy call hi m to this day.
Tlffi SILVER QUESTION.
IlOW TIIH MKMIIKKS OF UONC KI.NN
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llrnnutit to l.ltilit.
THE FACE OF THE GLOBE.
•low .>lncli or It In Wnlrr nml How Dlucli
I,it ml—InicroMlitff Notra*
El Mat* IPs French Lio*tennnt.
Oliver Pi dn, the Frenchman now in
the MahdRs camp, and to whose coun
sels mne h of the false prophet’s recent
success la credited, is a brilliant Bo
hemian. He is about forty-five years
old, was 1 n urn in or near Paris and was
educated b i the schools of the city, in
1869-70 he. was promiueut in that Com
mune and the attempts to overthrow
Napoleon ] HI, writing for the papers
and taking part in the street-fighting.
He was 11, dashing and handsome.
During the Franoo-Prussian war he was
a captain ir i the French army and at the
same time newspaper correspondent.
Later, in 1! 173, Marshal MaeMahon sent
him with B oohefort, editor of 7/a Lan-
(erne, and other Communists, to the
penal colon y atj New Caledonia. lie
was one of the little band that escaped
from there in 1875 and came to this
country. 1 'hen he went to London and
Geneva, fa) lowing a journalist's career
until the t reaking ont of tho Russo-
Turkish wax . Pain was among tho first
correspond* its on the ground, but soon
began to tute e an aotivo part on behalf
of the latter oountry, both by counsel
and arms. IHe was taken prisoner by
the Russians., suspected of being a spy,
and condemn ed to be shot; but there
being great d loubt that he was one and
the fact that he was a FrencBman saved
him. After a severe imprisonment ho
returned to Paris on the granting of a
general amne sty to the Communists and
wrote for se veral of tho leading news
papers. On the breaking out of the war
in Egypt he was sent there as a corre
spondent at his own request, as he
seemed noveif to be so happy as when
in the midst of turmoil and excitement.
While there jse changed his mission and
formed the brilliant idea of penetrating
to the camp of the Mabdi, which he
alone succeeded in doing of all the cor
respondents sent to Egypt, and this in
the faee of id most insurmountable ob
stacles andjin spite of hardships and
terrors whi«m would have appalled the
heart of nly other man but Pain.—
Boston Pint.
(Jen. Corse’s Wound.
New York Trilmnr. |
InWio vote of tho House ou the silver
quesjon some curious features aro
fouun, Couuting tlio pairs announced,
‘285 Wrtubers wore recorded, 125 for Mr.
RauflaH’s motion, nud 159 against it,
tlio Speaker did not vote and 40
re wero absent, 20 of whom were
d by Republican and 20 by Domo-
votos. Though no pairs were
.ally nunouncod for theso, probably
ot them woro paired on political
questions, but not on the silver bill.
Two of tho Rapublioau nbsenteos woro
frou^ Massachusetts and 0 from Ohio,
wittkfi others from tho West and 7 from
tho Sioutli. The iibseuee of Mr. Ror-
sheiyner ot Now York Stato, Curtin ol
PeqkiHylvaiiia, Hurd, Jordan and Paige
of Gifaio, and Morrison and two other
members from Illinois, was noticed
amopg the Democrats,
Reckoning Maryland and Delaware
with the Eastern Htatos, their vote was
thin divided: For Mr. Raudall’s motion,
48 Republicans, 38 Democrats aud Mr.
Lytaan ; total, 87. Against it, *2 Re
publicans and 3 Domoorats, includ
ing Mr. Bayard’s representative from
Delh#aro ; total, 5. Tlio other Southern
States, including Missouri, voted as fol
low*: For tho motion, 4 Republicans
aud 10 Democrats; total, 14. Against
it, |7 Republicans nud 77 Demoernts;
totAl, 8-1. Tho vote of tlio Solid South
wnapthas east almost unitedly against
Mr. Cleveland’s first expressed desiro.
In this computation, Messrs. York and
Oohiltreo, who were elected mainly by
Republican votes, are reckoned with the
Republicans.
The Western vote shows curious
atreaks. The eutire vote of the Paoiflc
States, 7 Democrats and 1 Republican,
was recorded for tho coinage of silver
nud against the motion. Kansas, Ne
braska and Colorado voted solidly
•fUnst Ahe i notioq. and G out of the 7
ltjpublicans of Iowa, with ft Detibonfts,
vcfietl thu same way. But in the north
ernmost States n different division pre
vailed; in Miohigan 3 Republicans voted
for the motion, and only 1 voted with
G Democrats against it; in Minnesota
3 Republicans voted for the motion
and only one against it. Bnt, ou-
rlously enough, in Wisconsin Demo
cratic confidence in Mr. Cleveland seems
to have been developed, possibly by
Cabinet hopes, for 5 Democrats from
that State voted for tho motion and only
1 against it, while '2 out of 3 Republi
cans voted against it. In Ohio, 10 out
12 Democrats voted against tlio motion,
all the Democrats of Indiana and all but
one of tho Democrats of Illinois. TIiiih
tho vote of the West, including tho Pa
cific States, stood as follows: For tlio
motion—15 Republicans and 9 Demo
crats; total, 24. Against it—28 Repub
licans and42 Demoernts; total, 70. Thus
with the immense preponderance of sil
ver worshiping Democrats at tho South
the majority against tho motion was 34,
Speaker Carlisle not voting.
It will interest many to know that of
i22 Democrats who were paired or voted
against Mr. Randall’s nation, 78 havo
been re-elected, and 44 have not. But
of the 58 Democrats who voted, or were
paired for the motion, only 20 havo boon
re-elected, and 38 wero not. The Re
publicans who have been re-elected wore
more equally divided, 38 for the motion
and 24 against it, while 11 Republicans
and 12 Democrats (including Mr.
Carlisle) who were absent without de
clared pairs were re-elected. Of the
members Of the next House, therefore,
23 did not vote, 102 voted against Mr.
Randall’s motion, and only 58 voted for
it. But some of the Republicans who
voted against Mr. Randall’s motion
would have supported a direct and
straightforward proposition to suspend
tho ooinage.
The Commercial Gaielle says: Gen.
Hickenlotper tells a good one on Gen.
was at Altoona that a rifle
one alongside of the head,
an received word from Gen.
his ear and a portion of his
were gone, but that he was
hold his position and fight
as possible Sherman got ovet
, full of anxiety for him. Ro
>rse with his head nwathed in
bandagjs, and in his anxiety to know
the n»»re of the injuries, impatiently
ordei4| the surgeon to remove the
clothjif This was done slowly, and with
great irmality, and. there was revealed
a alig/t scratch of the cheek and a hole
in tjlear.
Shjrman looked intently at it, aud
ealmp remarked, “Why, Corse, thoy
came mighty near missing you, didn’t
they/ 1 ’
Saved From a Life Sentence.
The last proceedings have finally been
held in the famous Mack murder ease,
which took place July 14, 1878,
in Jonesvillo, Wis. Mrs. Mack,
charged with murdering her hus
band, was tried, t oonvicted, and sen
tenced to the Stato prison for life, but
the Supreme Court granted her a new
trial, and on the second trial the jury
disagreed. Since then Bhe married the
principal witness against her, which
renders his testimony worthless against
her. She made an application to have
her bondsman relieved by giving her
own bond in the snm of $8,000, which
was granted. She having married tho
State’s most important witness and the
other witnesses being widely scattered,
it is not likely {that the case will ever be
o&lled.
STRAY BITS OF HUMOR
It is estimated that tho proportion of
the surface of tho globe covered by
water iH to tho land surfaco as 278 to
100, and that tho averago height of
laud or continents over the world above
sea-level is somewhat less than 1,000
feet* Tho great mountain chains by
which tho continents nre more or less
traversed form mere narrow ridges,
which rise in no ease more than 29,000
feet, or aboutOj miles above sea-level,
aud odd Imt comparatively little to
the mass of ground above tho sca-level.
Ou the other baud tho coutour lines
of the oooauio basin tells a very different
talo of tho great snbinarino depressions.
Honndiugs recently made in tlio North
Paoiflo Ocean have shown that its mean
depth is not less than 15,000 feet, nud
that of the South Pacific about 12,00(1
feet, while the moan depth of tho North
Atlantio is found to bo 14,000 feet, and
of tho South Atlantic 13,000 feet. It is
only iu high uorthorn latitudes, in tho
North Atlnutio and North Pacific, that
the soundings give evidence of shallow
er seas—of a mean depth of about 8,000
feet.
TIiub it is seen how small the masH of
land projootiug above the sea-level is,
compared to the moss of water filling tho
depressions below that level. Taking
tho avorage depth of tho seas aud ooeau
at 10,000 feet, aud the height of the
laud at 1,000 feet, tho maBS of tho land
above water oompurod to tho mass of
waters filling the ooeau troughs is
nearly in the proportion of 1 to IK).
It is curious that tlio doepoat sound
ing recorded in the Northwest Paoitlo
registered a depth of about five miles
aud a quarter—a depth whioh closely
corresponds with the elevation above sea-
level of tho loftiest known point of land,
namely, the summit of Mount Everest,
in the Himalayas, whioh is 29,000 feet,
or very nearly five miles and a quarter,
We must remember, however, that tho
one measurement is that of a mere
peak, while the othor probably givei
the depth of an extended trough.
Wo-"may tfcwa reaSaa bow- ixregular
are the oontonr lines of the globe, and
how deep the depressions and abysses
conoealed from oar view by seas and
oceans. Could all these waters be
drained off from the surfaoe, our earth
would present the nspeot of a solid
sphere, everywhere wrinkled and deep
ly pitted. Nevertheless, its actual di
meusious aro so great that mountains
five miles high and ooeau troughs live
miles deep bear no greater relation to
the bnlk of the globe than the irregu
larities on tho nkiu of an orango.
IN TIIR COLUMN# O*
.KXIIIUNIIKM.
The Flrrmnn RtlltMd-O* lk» H»ll»l
Minli-i I’nt on Record—II* wee India-
mini-Found III lion*. Hie.
A Parisian Newspaper.
A FIREMAN WHO nESlONBP.
“What caused you to leave th# flM
department, Jim?”
"Oh, I got sick of it.”
“What was the trouble?”
“Well, I’ll tell you. I worked fon*
years to get on, aud then I got right off
again. It wasn’t what I thought it was.
I’d watched the boys working lots of
times, and I'd boon around visiting them
at their houses. I kinder thought I'd
liko it. When I got my appointment I
felt that I was fixed for life. Tho sco-
ond night after that an alarm oame iu
for us about plovou o'oloek, and out' we
weut. When we got to tho fire, whioh
was in tlio collar, tho captain made me
go down aud hold a lantern. Tho ther
mometer was about twenty-five lielow
zero, and just as I started to go up tho
back stairs a stream hit mo in the month
and knocked me down so qniok that I
couldn't tell what struck me. I lay
there senseless with the hose playiug on
mo for a littlo while—long enough for
mo to freeze fast, any way, aud when I
tried to get up I couldn’t. I was all
oovered with loiolos, and the whiskers
of mo wore frozen so stiff that I oouldn’t
get my month open to yell. I began to
think I wns done for, when one of the
boys stumbled over me, and getting a
lantern, found out who I was. They
had to ohop me out with axes, aud wheu
I walked off I looked liko a snow man,
That sickened mo of the tire department,
ami I resigned the next day.’’— Chicago
llerald.
FAMES or TU FAIR.
When two lady friends enter a street
car together they generally go through
with a funny little formula lor the sav
ing of each other’s credit for generosity
and for appearances generally. “Now
mind, I’ve got tho change,” says one aa
they hail the oar. “Have you? Well,
m have J. I can pay the faro,”
answers the other. By thia time the
ladies are seated, and both begin to
fumble leisurely,in their satchels for
that ehange. “Now, I’ll pay,” exclaims
one, and she fishes out a dollar bill and
looks helplessly around for some man to
pass it up. “I want change, anyhow."
The mouoy is passed up to tho box, and
in tho meantime the other lady quietly
deposits two ufekels in tho box. “Oh,
you mean thing I” cries the street-oar
guest. "Never mind, I’ll pay coming
homo,” and then they fall to talking of
somo absent one.— New Orleans Pie-
auune.
When tho late M, Villemessant, tho
proprietor of tho Paris Figaro, died ho
left tho paper to tho three men who had
done tho most to aid him. But there
were mdny old contributors on the pa
per—men with well-known Dames, who
mado an outery at this division ol the
property. They insisted that thoy
ought to havo been consulted, and thoy
threatened to found an opposition
Figaro. This alarmed the three prin
cipals, and thoy made a proposition to
the effect that they themselves should
take each $35,000 out of the concern
yearly, and that the other men should,
each havo a salary of $7,500 for th#
work they were to do, and at tho end of
the year draw a like sum out of the
profits, thus insuring them $15,000 a
year each. Yet these men do not write
an average of more than half a column
a day each—if, indeed that much, so
that they havo a very easy timo of it.
It is one of tho conditions that when
any one of them dies his share goes to
tho others, so that the last survivor will
have an enormous income.
Two Heroes.
The Portland (Ore.)Ncwssays: There
are some interesting side points relative
to Funk’s poor, starving babies, who
wandered away in the hills of Mehama
Sunday morning. They were not found
till Monday noon. A shepherd dog
which was a household favorite followed
aud guarded them during the long,
dark hours when the rain came unceas
ingly down. No doubt tho faithful crea
ture protected them from the many wild
animals in the deep woods. Bat ths
heroic act of the older ohild, whioh the
wires failed to correctly record, remains
to he added. Ho took his own little
coat from his shivering body and put it
on his weaker brother, saving him from
freezing, while he endured, in a cotton
shirt, hours after hours, tho keen blasts
of that mountain storm. Think of this,
from a child but six years old, and Jot
any who can say he is not as much of a
hero as any of tho full-grown Spartans
of old of whom the classier, so eloquently
fell.
ON Tfl* SKATES.
I want to lie a skator,
And with tlio i-katem gilds,
A pair of rollers.on my loot,
A hwcci girl by my side.
lie tried to ho a skater,
And bravely ho struck out.
The doctor says: “In three months
Again lie’ll bo about."
—Norristown llerald.
QUALITIES OF SOUND.
Mrs. Minks—The nurse seems to have
trouble with tho baby to-night. He is
crying yet.
Air. Minks—Yes, bless his little heart-
I wonder what ails him ?
Mrs. Minks—Oh 1 nothing serious.
How sweetly shrill his voioo is ! So clear
and musical.
Mr. Minks—Yes I—but hark ! Those
sounds do not come from our nursery.
They come through tho walls of the next
house. '
Mrs. Minks—Mercy 1 So they do.
Why can’t pooplo havo souse enough to
givo their squalling brats paregoric or
something, instead of letting them yell
hke screech owls. — Philadelphia Gall.
HE IS PREPARED.
“I understand your son is about to
enter college, Mr, Derrick 1”
“Yes, oh, yes; Arthur will take a col
legiate course.” i
“Is ho prepared?"
"Well, I should remark ! He’s been
a captain of his home olub for over a
year, and they tell me that he’s as good
a foot-ball kicker nearly as a profes
sional. He may be a little baokward iu
rowing aud climbing greased poles, but
lie’ll soon pick up, you know.”— Pitts-
tiurg Chronicle.
ANOTHER ONE PUT ON RECORD.
When I Was at Washington I said to
the engineer of the little building at the
foot of the Monument:
“You havo a mighty tall ohimney for
such a small factory.” ,
He silently chalked ^ mark cm th#
board wall behind hinu^;
“What’s that for ?” f inqaired.
“You are the 17Gth person who made
that remark,” was his answer,—Detroit
Free Press.
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