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Village of Haverotraw, on the
. manufacture* more brick* than
(jrtlftier place in the world.
U3pain celebrated the sailing of the in-
cible Armada as well as England.
Spanish claim that the fleet was
[ply.a fishing excursion.
punctilious French highway robber
ted to apologize to his victim, and
lictim noticed - the fact that he was
j egged. He gave the police this
jer and the right man was soon in
ive author called Roe,” was
tnold’s sneering allusion to
elist who so soon followed the
tsh litterateur to the grave. E. P.
accepted the designation and wrote
jtobiographical sketch under that
ling, which was completed only a
llays before his death.
lore is in Lake County, Mich., a co
stive telegraph line, which began
/o farmers connecting their houses
i wire, and which has extended, un-
l)w it has sixty-five miles of wire
jinety offices, two-thirds of which
farmhouses and the others in
J where farmers trade.
A playground—oft with Clouded skies,
Th»t o’er the rosebud* weep,
Whore little troubles take the weight
Of sorrow* far n or* deep;
Where loved toys areak in tiny hands—
Sad symbols of
When hope shall <
la life’s swift
A battlefield wht
And unseen h<
With truces all
With the wil<
Strife that leavJ
time
leat and joys depart
[iising prime.
Is) forests meet,
contend,
short, they seem
trife to blend;
none of us unscathed,
Where’er thelnnstery be;
But who, till til Great Day, can tell
With whom I victory!
A graveyard, /here On every side
Pate monur.j nts arise
To show howl rief is human life,
How vain i all we prize.
A graveyard? sited by memory,
Where phlitoms lightly tread,
B. each on/ points with finger raised
' blue.a'§sb overhead.
-Camilla C'rosland.
ex-Confedorate colony in New
■continues to grow. At almost
[social gathering may be seen • one
men who won the title of general
l.thev wore the gray. She Southern
|ety, started a short time ago, now
. membership of hundreds, and will
Lhave a building of its own.
“PAMELY’S GRIT,"
BY H/.RUKRT II. WINSLOW.
The narrow Missouri prairie lay bathed
in sunshine, its green waves dotted with
brilliant 1 flowers. In the surrounding
woods, too, the flowers grew and budded
and blossomed in due season, although
no human eye might be gladdened by
their beauty. A few farms interrupted
the stretch of unbroken sod, their pio
neer abodes near the wooded bluffs skirt- j
activity to an unaccustomed degree, and
impressed the country visitors who
loungod about the attractive resort* of
Bluff City with a sense of its metropoli
tan grandeur.
“Right smart o’ folks hyerin ther city
to-day (” ventured Hy Todbeater to the
overpowering clerk.
“Full to the roof,” he responded,
loftily, his thoughts limited to the pros
perity of the hotel. “Got a case in
court, Mr. Todbeater?”
“Naw,” replied the settler, shambling
across the room. “Mought kev hed ez
well ez not, too. Duck Hawkins’s sheep
they’ve been runnin’ in my pastur’ half
ther time lately, an’ I’d ’a’ sued ’im fur
it sure ef it hadn’t been fur Pamely bein’
so sot agin it. Pamely haint no orpin-
ion o’ ther law, she hain’t. I ’lowed ther
lyin’ roun’ loose, ef it ain’t ez slick ez
Duck Hawkins’s! It’ll bring er big price,
sure oz shootin’ 1”
“When d'ye find it out—ther lead ore
bein’ hyer?” questioned Pamely.
“Jest ther other day; I wuz a-sayin’
ter myself: ‘What’s the reason ther aint
lead ore on this hyer land ez well ez
over in the next county?’ an’ hyer it ez,
fer true. Ye kin hev everything ye want
out in Montany, an’ gran’daddy kin hev
cbicken-flxin’s every day. T —--
she dipped a
tprned away,
fresh
“I monght er knowed Pamely'd spile
the trade some ways,” he finally re
marked, quite crestfallen; “she’s thet
full ’o notions.”
“It would be better if you shared some
of them,” said the Captain, severely.
“For her sake I will let all this pass; but
I advise you to keep clear of sharp
strangers who make a living by drawing
weak men like yourself into some
„ swindling scheme. I will bid yougood-
I reckon ye day, sir.”
contented-i It was a bad three months for Pamela
e man. i that followed,and would have been more
girl, earnestly,as so, if Miss Colby had not opened for her
pail of water and a new life by means of books and news-
by means ot books and news
„ ,, , | papers, and made gran’daddy jubilant
Pamely 1 O Pamely. sounded shrilly , over a weekly consignment of dainties
tJrough the open door of the cabin. j from “the citv.”
1 “rnmin* I 5 ’ firing PornnKr Vinclnni'n^on ' It. A 1. . ..... «
“Cornin’!” cried Pamely, hasteningon ]
wa’n’t no reason why I shouldn’t hev a : through the shadows, slowly followed
— *'■“ by the shuffling foot-steps of- Hy Tod-
heater.
Her care rendered the old man com
fortable for the night. In the morning
she waited upon him through the simple
breakfast, and then followed her brother
as he went to the smoke-house across
from the kitchen door. Gran’daddy was
case in court cz well ez some other fel
lers oz hezn’t no more proputty’n I hev.
I guv it up, though; no use tryin’ ter
fight Duck Hawkins ’n’ Pamely et ther
same time."
“Hullo, Jim Carroll!” cried the clerk,
familiarly.
A young man of easy appearance en
tered the room, and at once greeted Hy
Todbeater as an acquaintance. He was
well dressed and even attractive, if one
avoided looking into his eyes. He drew
the settler along hurriedly toward one of
the row of wagons encircling the square,
and then told him to stop a moment be
fore the most pretentious store. He came
out with a large package in his hand,
and took a seat beside the settler.
“Drive on?” he said hilariously.
“You’re a rich man Hy Todbeater?”
“I allow it’ll be all right ef Pamely
don’t”—reluctantly hesitated the other.
“Ob, I’ll see to that!” said the young
man, with grffld confidence. “I’ve got
*e Portuguese Government hns
pht out the tobacco manufacturing
panies of that country, so that the
fion of tobacco will henceforth be
fnment concern. There will
be no Cigarmakers’ Union
v, but the workers will get a
hen too old to. work, as is the|
He French Government tobacco "
ing one side of the plain.
In the doorway of a primitive log man ’ Wltn g rftt confidence. “I’ve gol
cabin.a young girl stood, with her apron ! omelhln g here that’ll make it all right,
filh/ *ith wild l owers freshly gathered , , a lurthday present, you know. She
Sb^ At down on the rude step, and be- I told “ e il was to day » and 1 had this a11
& to arrange them with evident pleas- i ready : .
/ ■e, if with little reference to the laws I . - s J aw « r0 Pped in astonishment;
'A color. , it W! ‘ a a new idea to him. He clucked
The monotonous creak of a rocking-! to old sorrel > and slapped the lines
chair sounded within the room. It sud-^ lazily ’ eviduntly overcome with the
denljstieased and a piping voice called eQ , deav ?V° & ras P a11 the new ideas
shirpij^ “Pamely! 0 Pamely ” which had recently been thrust into his
/■TatTight hyer, gran’daddy! D’ye ^accustomed brain,
want me." responded the girl, dropping Granddaddy sat beaming over a dish
Kcrap/ronful of flowers on the step, and , of ( f *f r at tot P omd « e -
varning quickly around. 1 V " r “ r “
tine day, however, Hy came borne with
less shuffle and more manliness in his
demeanor, and walked straight up to
Pamela and astonished her by a clumsv
caress.
“I reckon ye wuz’bout right, Pamely,
arterall! Ther new railroad ez cornin’
hyer, an’ they ’low ter pay me er big
price fur the northeast corner fur a sta
tion. Land’* riz all eround and they’ve
somewhat deaf, but he rarely failed to i got er boom in Bluff City. Duck Haw-
hear distinctly any words not specially j kins hez hed hard luck out in Montany an’
designed for his benefit. j wishes he hedn’t sold bis farm. I wuz
“We’re on the las’ piece ov bacon, Hy;
an’ Hy, say, ther’s nothin’ wrong 'bout
sellin’ ther farm, ez ther?" she queried,
tremulously.
“Who’s ben a-puttin’ fool-notions in
ter yer head ?” excitedly questioned the
man.
that republican simplicity
"Tcteri'e the journeyings
ain t! no sich posies ez we hed in Indiany
whefil was a boy.” Pamely turned toward Jim Carroll,
like’em, gran’daddy. They make , entered the open door without the
me [feel better to hoi’
i knock. A blush covered
f-l edf fe* * birthday present. That
wjfa|t money could do.
to hoi’ ’em in my hands.” | jormantj
'You mought be doin’ somethin’ fur her cheek)*, but her smile vanished while
yetfole gran’daddvy’stid o’ wasting yer j ahe 0,1 ^ oliair for the guest. T . _ „
tjfiliR-oa-thet—t4:.*bii’-q«cra»euslt plead ' iJb 1 baven’t.. forgotten your •^^_hoUr later Jim CarroL again made
the old man. 1 birthday '^ al .^ ed ’f dy -
S ?“ y -. . . _ ■ hn i-i Hamdlv sstw Captain Golby’s car- j
“Nobody hez; but Hy-*Jim Carroll’s
hyer talkin’ ter ye so much—’n I wisht I tude -
he’d go erway.”
“Shol” said her brother, derisively.
“Jim’s er friend ter me—he’s, goin’ ter
bring Cap’in Colby out ter buy the farm
tt r-day; an’ don’t ye go an’ spile the
trade like ye done ’bout ther ole sorrel
las’ fall—tellin’ the Melhodis’ preacher
ez how he wuz lame half ther winter—
ye hear, Pamely?”
“What fur sh’d I spile ther trade?”
asked the girl, with a penetrating glance.
powerful riled, but I’m mighty glad now
ye hed the grit.”
Like many other men Hy Todbeater
believes in the success which follows
honesty. If at any time his conscience
fails to perform its duty, a box of lead
ore in tlie wood-shed is a constant re
minder to keep him in the path of recti-
You.UCt Companion.
tyueer Deep-Sea Fish.
“The absence of sunlight, the tre
mendous pressure of the water at such
depths and its quiet stillness are the
causes which make the vast physiologi
cal differences between the fish at tne
bottom of the sea and those near the
surface, with which, we are the most
familiar,” remarked a prominent sci
entific man to a reporter for
children Have grown
away.
My little children have grown away,
Grown away from the land of play,
Grown to be men and women tall,
With passions and loves and hates and a"B
That comes to us when we grow away
From childish play.
My little children that were so dear,
How can I help but wish them here
With arms round my neck in the old loving
way
1 have not known for many a day,
Not since home was my kingdom, precious
and sweet,
Filled with the music of pattering feet?
Those feet that led them away from me
Into the world and over the sea,
Leaving me here in my lonely room
That even in sunshine seems full of glo<5m,
And so very Idnely I needs must cry
For the days gone by.
I thought I should be the first" to go,'
And I cannot but wish it might have been
so,
But the Father of love, who dwells in the
light, . r
Took some of my babies out of my sight— '-
Took them away to his Home of Rest, *
And I know, though I cannot tell why, ’twas
best.
So I’m trusting our Lord and can clear'.y see
That in that dear land our honm shall be,
And though the children have gone away
We shall meet again, oh, blessed day,
When he will call—to heaven we come
And find once more our happy home.
—John A. Clark, in Good Housekeeping.
_ _ w w t)l6 XfiW
“Wal, see ’tye don’t!” briefly retimed ; York Mail and Express,
the settler, as he shambled off to the
barn.
“Many of the most wonderful pecu
liarities of the deep-sea fish are due to
Pamely slowly re-entered the cheerless 1 the absence of sunlight,” he continued,
rooms. If the farm brought a good price “and some of them are totally blind,
she might have as comfortable a home as being absolutely without eyes or having
some or her neighbors had, and every- only rudimentary ones, like those which
thing to wit gran’daddy. Perhaps even ar e seen in fish which inhabit the streams
—-her_thoughts reverted to a vision of of caves where the sun never shines. On
loveliness she had seen in Captain Colby's I the other band, there are some varieties
carriage, the graceful girl who never \ which have eyes of abnormal size, in
e anything less elegant than the
rino dress which Jim Carroll had of-
s ye gittiu’ hungry agin
“I reckon I mought starve ter death
’most any time ef ’twa’n’t fur ye, Pame
ly. Hy, he never done nothin’ fur me.
He birung me well water yistiddy, when
he knowed he’d orter went ter ther
spring.”
“Hy hez ter work hard, ye know,
gran’daddy.”
A sharp expression came over the
grandfather’s face.
“What’s thet slick chap frum Bluff
City a-doin’ roun’ hyer all ther time,
Pamely;”
The young girl grew pink and then
pale under the keen scrutiny o{ those
aged eyes.
“He's goin’ter buy Duck Hawkins’s
farm, I allow,” she replied, pulling nerv
ously at her apron strings.
order that they may collect all the rays
of light that penetrate the deep. Ex
periments show that the light of the *un
cannot penetrate the water beyond a
depth of about 200 fathoms,and that just
that. depj_h the light .is but a
is total darkness
along the road from “Yet these creatures, living far away
overcome with etn- from the light of tne sun, must have
ous surprise.
Her .lingers seemed unable to loosen
the cord. He snatched it from her to
tear off the wrappings, and held up and
allowed to trail on the well-scrubbed
floor the bri.liant folds of a new merino
dress.
Her dark blue eyes grew round and
black with astonishment and admiration.
She glanced down at her faded enlieo
skirt, and the contrast seemed too great.
Never in her life had she possessed such
a beautif.il gown. Then she lifted her
face to look straight into the heavy
lidded eyes of Jim Carroll. A sudden
change came over her; she shrank back
awkwardly.
“I reckon I don’t want no new dresses
jist now, Mr. Carroll. Yer kin give it to
barrassment, for beside him sat the
young lady. Stopping before the door,
the Captain asked politely if his daugh
ter might remain there while he looked
over thetfarm.
some means of shaping their course in
the search for food, and nature has so
well provided for their needs that they
are actually a light unto themselves, like
lanterns; they have certain organs that
Pamely .pulled her faded skirts as low emit a phosphorescent gleam to light
as possible over her bare feet, and in
utter confusion placed a chair for the
visitor and retreated to the further side
of the room. The young lady moved
her seat over by gran’daddy’s side, and
them on their way. Some of them
carry tiny torches in the form of tentacles
that rise from the top of their heads,
while others have little rows of luminous
spots along theii sides. Imagine the
with the instinctive deference due to age . fairy-like torchlight procession miles be
low the surface of the sea, which flashes
here and there through utter and impene
trable darkness. It is thought by some
that many of these fish are entirely en
veloped in light, and sometimes when
luminous
addressed her conversation to him
“I am glad you have found lead ore
' on your farm,” she said, very sweetly,
! “because it will bring you a better
I pri ce -” - — -
I “Yaas, we’re wantin’ some money brought to the surface the
I right bad,” he replied, flattered into cou- s P ota still glimmer faintly.”
i tidential fraukness by the attention.
! We wuz well fixed back in Indiany, but
j Hy, he ain’t nigh so smart ez his daddy
| wuz, an’ we’re lackin’ fur things ter eat ;
an’ drink an’ wear. I haint hed no de-
I cent terback ’n my pipe goin’ on three
!t was late in the evening when Jim months—thet’s what I haint!”
... _ _ __ w Pamely blushed painfully, and sudden-
Then a trouble! expression t^ le rails of the zig-zag fence behind the ly retreated to the other room, makin
“What uz lie come hi or fur ter buy some one in Bluff City ez needs it.”
Duck Hawkins’s farm? We' haint got bhe *«rned hastily, entered the other
Duck Hawkins’s farm done up in er room ’ closed i he do ? r ’ and left the
bundle anywheres roun’ hyer, hev we yo «>'g'i' aa , suffering the hhmiliation of
Pamely?” ’ defeat.
■ ships
repu-
I globe
Famous
yde, now a anchor
really mde the
hncisco, a listance
Wisand riles, in
fine weaker was
(passage. It took
la from Fran-
thirty-tl ee days
Jllorn, an thirty-
lalkland (lands to
lydo w:s built in
hails rom New
Imcd by Benjamin
“O gran’daddy,” laughed the girl, i It was late in the evening when Jim
merrily, “yer alius i-ayin, somethin’ thet C arroll left I!y Todbeater leaning against
funny.” Then a troubled expression the rt
drove tho dimplcoutot'herround cheeks, barn.
“1 dunno, rnaly; but lly, lie’s a-talkin’ “Have it all ready,” he repeated, as he stove,
about soilin’ourn, too. lfcallows ’(would turned away, “I’ll bring the captain out
be better to sell out, an’go West. He in the morning.
could git heaps more land out West.” “Yo'as,” drawled the settler, “I
The old man po inded his knotty reckon it’ll be all right ef Pamely”—I
hickory stick on the pine floor furiously, slunk around the barn in the path
“Ef Hy Todbeater pulls up stakes an’ in g to the spring without compLeti
moves agin, I’ll make back tracks for sentence.
Does the appearance of any of these
deep-sea fish resemble the species
familiar to us near the surface?” was
asked.
“Yes, for the majority of the deep-
sea fish which have been brought to the
lose
surface show a greater or lese resem
blance to our common kinds, and there
are many indications which point to the
pretence of important work about the conclusion that many of them were once
* . • 1 i a n t n T ♦ n IV tv tM)) 1 tVAV 11A V) A T t hi)
It seemed a long time before the Cap
tain’s return, accompanied by her broth
er and Jim Carroll. Hy called out. for
Indiany, thet’s what I will!” ho declared,
with vehemence.
The edge of the woods was full of
by the window. He repeated
the request more roughly, as though
fearing disobedieuec to his orders, but ,
inhabitants of the upper portion of the
water. It is said even now that there
are evidences that the halibut is being
forced downward, and if that is the
characteristics, and anothc: species will
be added to the deep-sea tribe.”
The First Cattle Show.
It is said that “Alfred the Great, of
th clt shadows when 1 amcly hastened . this time she placed the deiired articles
“O gran’daddy, ther aint nobody there along tlie same path to gratify gran’- ; on the table and turned slowly away. 1
ter take keer of ye! They’re all dead an’ daddy’s desire for a drink of water from Captain Colby’s daughter, glancing^
gone; ye ll hev ter go’long er Hy an’ fhe spring. The moon had risen and a sympathetically toward her, noticed that !
me!” the stooped and pressed her red silvery ray penetrated tho overhanging the girl was becoming more nervous England, inaugurated the first catt e-
lips against his withered check, and foliege, and fell on the clear water as the _ . - - i , i_ a. ‘- w '- : -
smoothed his
brown tinge
on a corner t = a
stepped briskly around "the room, paus- ’ water’s edge,
ing one moment to place the flowers in ■ it before, anc
a broken pitcher half full of water from U P> surprised to find it so heavy." It was
the spring. j rou^h and gray save on ouc side, which over^the pieces in bis hands, “and they
“I’m fifteen ter-day,” she said softly ! exhibited some silvery bits of surface, indicate quite a vein.” The captain bent
to herself, placing the pitcher on the pine was “bout to retrace her steps wdien 1 J 1 - 1 -
table. Some vnguo connection between a datk figure crouching behind * tree
tho birthday and the blossoms existed in caught her gaze. A quick throb of fear
her youthful imagination; why, sbo could | was followed by surprise whan the flap-
not have explained. No celebratiou of i l'> n g straw hat revealed to her acute
|y studed in Ger-
sumbel of people
Atjjche Berlin
| obligatory, and it
military circles
> There i* m Ger-
and^or Russian-
‘ ice air the prin-
paroful eye upon
English army
held out to
and, according
^rual, many young
ager to learn the
rben they happea
fcwn where no in-
Lthey spell out the
lid o¥ » English
any such anniversary had ever been ho s. vision the identity of the prowling in-
Ccrtainly, hard work and premature care dividual.
had been her lot tho past three years,
slouching around the entrance to the
“Palace Hotel” of Bluff City, five miles
away. If any ono had asked h m the age
of his young house-keeper, who was also
his sister and the only ono left, he would ; under the trees.”
S roBably have been unable to give any
efiuito reply. A sense of inferiority to
Her brown bauds were 1 show in the fall of 888—probably in
a fright- September, as that month has been for
I centuries the popular season for English
any such country fair*. Alfred was born at W ant-
water’s edge. She bad never discovered I price if it wasn’t for tlie presence of lead ! age, Berkshire, in 8 ti’, and in 872 he
it before, and now stooped and picked it ore,” said the Captain. “These are cer- succeeded to the crown of his brother,
.... o.. it i ii. i t a iuiy very good specimens,” turning Ethelred, as King of the West Saxons.
In 886 Alfred became sovereign of all
England, after a bitter war against the
invading Danes, whom he conquered.
During the ensuing years of peace he
encouraged husbandry and other art*,
rebuilt his cities and founded wise lavs
and institutions. Alfred dio^i in 90\.
Sixty years after his death agriculturivk
fairs were introduced into Flaw'
which country has ever since been;
brated for its farming.
What ’n ther world er ye doin’ out
over and dipped the pen in the ink
bottle.
•‘Stop!” cried Pamely, triumphing
over all shyness and fear, as she sprang
forward with outstretched hands: ‘ ‘Ther
ain’t no lead on ther farm 1”
There was a moment’s silence. Cap
tain Colby held the pen motionless inbis
Hy Todbeater at that moment was hyer this time er night?” she questioned, 'fingers; even gran’daddy’s rocking
I allowed yer wuz roun’ with Jim
Carroll. ”
“Naw,” sheepishly replied her brother;
‘it’s thet hot I reckoned it ud bo cooler
chair was still. Then lly Todbeater
sprang to his feet,
“Gall” he burst forth, “air ye struck
Sll i y ... ,, , , . ; instrument by means of which the rain-
Parnely stood speechless, her eyes fixed | 7 i,„
The Pluviometer.
The pluviometer is a rain guago, or aa
PITH AMT POINT.
A vacan.t lot—Dudes.
The age of humor—Badinage.
Food for reflection—Brain food.
A twenty-dollar gold piece and a re
liable watch always go for what theii
faces indicate.
The widow of a railroad baggage-man
always refers to her deceased husband as
her ex-checker.
However extravagant a contortionist
may be be always manages to make both
ends meet.—Life.
The earth is but a shallow crust,
Around a core of heat and flame;
Some people on it don't ask much;
The crust is good enough for them.
—fielroit Free Press
The largest umbrella in the world has
been made in Glasgow for a King of
East Africa. His Majesty seems to be
making preparations for a long reign.—
BotO\H ILerald.
one motli to anotuQji ’
to keep in clothing. ’ And he disap
peared within a fur lined overcoat.--*
Western Rural.
’Twixt sail and sailor what may be
The difference! tell me, l implore:
The sail, you know, gets full at sea,
The sailor—he gets full on shore.
—Judge.
Violent rainstorm—crowded street car
—handsome lady and gentleman on
platform. Gentleman (to those inside)
— •‘Can you squeeze a lady in there?”
Chorus of Male Yoioes—“Yes, cer
tain v.—Neic York Xeits.
Teacher—“Knipke, who reigned the
earlier, Titus or Vespasian?” Scholar—
^‘Titus.” Teacher—“Mistake.” Scholar
(quickly correcting himself)—“Vespa
sian.” Teacher (sternly!—“Kleemiller
has whispered to you again.”—FLegends
Bhutter.
Customer to barber—“Shave down
please, as it makes my face sore to shave
against the grain.” “I’d just as soon
shave ‘down’ as not,” replied the loqua
cious torturer, “but I caD’t find any on
your grizzly old face. The down du
your jaw turned to bristles years ago.”—
Daivsri’le Breez .
Business—“The doctor has ordered
me to the mountains for my health.”
Romantic—“I envy you. Glorious
scenery! Mountains lofty, imposing,
appalling, tremeu ” Business—
(testily i—“Yes, I know; but how are the
prices;” Romantic (airily —“Oh; like
the mountains, like the mountains.”—
Idea.
“It was a severe punishment,” said
the father, se'.f-reproachfully, “but,
swers the purpose. It kept John Oom
ruuniug on the street.” “You didn’t
cripple the boy, dhi you?” “No; I had
his mother cut his hair for him. A ou
ought to see the poor boy.” And the
proud father wept bitterly. — Chicago
Tribune.
The Swiss Good Night.
“The Swiss Good Night,” refers to the
custom of the Swiss mouutaiaeers of
calling through their speaking trumpets
at dusk, “Piaisethe Lord Grod.” One
herdsman starts the call, aud. his neigh
bor* from every peak, echo it. The
Anunxl* are prolonged by reverberation
irom one mountaia to x auother. After a
short period, which is sOupLiaetlto have
been devoted to prayer, a nerdam^a rtffir
“Good Night" This, too, is repeated,
and as darkuess falls, each retires to his
ut These calls may be beard for miles
nd arc re-echoed from the rocks, for
>«fce minutes after the original call has
ed a fay.—Detroit Free Press.
reply. A sense of inferiority to i skeeters, Hy; what’er yer doin’with thet
thd inhabitants of Bluff City, against! ther fire-shovel?”
■which lie struggled with backwoods | “Jest bed it iu
bravado, lent additional awkwardness to
his demeanor.
The hotel clerk, with his hair plastered
iow on his forehead, aud a cheap pin
glittering on his bright blue tie, seomed
a consequential personage. Yet the Pal
ace Hotel was far from palatial, with its
two low stories of wood, its whitewashed
interior, its meagre air of bustling im
portance, its seedy boarder* and stray
tne added dignity of
swelled all
travelers. Only the
the County Court in session
“Ye mus’ wauter be eat up by ther ; on the floor.
“Dou’t be afraid, my child, what do
you mean?” said the captain, kindly.
“It wuz. all ’long er Jim Carroll!'’ 3he
half sobbed; “he brung it there!”
Then she looked at her brother.
“0 Hy, I couldn’t help it! I hearn
ye talkin' roun’ ther bam ibis mornin’
when I went ter hunt eggs fur gran’
daddy."
Hy’s wrath for once overcame the iwk-
wardness of his appearanoe; he to* ered
high with unut&red rage and tun :d to
Jim Carroll for assistance in this unex
pected emergency—but that young man
had discreetly vanished, never to return.
iu my hand an’ brung it
’long; diggin’ ter see ef ther mought be
any gold roun’ in these parts,” he added,
with an awkward chuckle
“Did yo find any rocks like this hyer?"
she asked, holding up the shining bit
she had found.
“Heaps on ’em,” said Hy, seemingly
an tious to make a virtue of confession.
“Got ’em in my pocket,” and he pro
ceeded to pull out a handful of similar
pieces. “Fact is, Pamely, this ez vally-
ble land, havin’ sich sights o’ lead ore
fall of any area may be determined. 4 It
is a cylindrical vessel in shape, and has a
horizontal base surmounted by a funu^t-*
shaped tip. A glass tube allows the
water from tho outsido to enter the. hot-*
tom of the vessel. The water also falls
into tho funnel-shaped top. Tho guage
is placed in an open space, free from the
disturbing influences of winds, and when
the water has risen one inch in the tube,
it is estimated that one iuch of rain has
fallen over the given area.—Detroit Free
Press.
It is estimated that about worth of
dairy products are consigned in this
country for overy dollar’s w ?rth of beef.
ififohlc Memory ot a Savage
MtfTat, the distinguished African
oMIX and father-in-!a\v of Dr.
•gttiikp. once preached a long ser-
‘ o acrowd of natives. Shortly af-
- m finished he saw a number of
Afi'csns gather about a simplo minded
youSsr oavage. Ho went to them and
dis. vered that tho savage was preaching
hf« ; rmon over again. Not only was
ae re ]ir>ducing the precise words, but
anner and gestures of the
Rehoboth, Sunday
ipiitatiBf Urn man
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