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1 social philosopher foresees the day
,heo the primary school desks will be
supplied with type writers instead of
piling books._
Theic is an interesting freak of Mature
tMarysville, Cab, in the shape of a
a calf, heads being set
double-headed Byron, two rival Cali
on one neck. Rut a
fornia town, sow looks down on Marys
ville because of its wonderful pig, which
iastvvo bodi es and one head.
A large vault with walls b *»»»*
ailed with skeletons of human beings
lias been discovered in an Indian mound
which overlooks the Missouri rivet from
ah’ll near Jefferson City, Mo. The
skeletons are thought to bh the remains
of the mound Asrilders, although tins re
markable si-afe of preservation in which
hey are found would indicate that tiiey
are of more recent date.
The New York Tribune says that:
'"Attention is being called to the fact
that most of the prominent men in this
eitv in every walk in life, wore born and
bred in the country. Indeed, New York
city might almost be defined its-a huge
caravansary in which innumerable coun
try boys abide while they are making
(heir fortunes. The same is true of otlici
cities. It is said, for instance, that nine- -
tenths of the clergymen of Louis.ille,
Ky„ came from rural homes. All the
judges; all the leading lawyers; all the
well-known journalists, nearly all the
bank presidents, physicians and promi
nent merchants and manufacturers of
that city were country boys.”
A celebrated physician has remarked
that every house ought to lie pulled down
at the end of the sixtieth year, as it has
by that time absorbed all the diseases of
those who have lived in it, believing that
wood and plaster absorb gases, foul ait
and feverish exhalations as readily as
milk or water does. But as it is not
practicable to tear down houses every
half century or so, it is to be considered
if ali the wood used in their interior con
struction and all the plain surfaces of
plaster should not be so thoroughly
oiied or varnished that the power of ab
sorption should be almost entirely de
stroyed, and the character thus so
changed that destruction would no
longer be desirable.
George S. Rogers is one of the oldest
pensioners in the United States, and is
also one of the oldest .Methodist minis
ters. He was born in Farquar County,
Virginia, in 171)3, and while very young
went with his relatives to Kentucky,
where he lived w-hen the war of 181”
broke out. He at once volunteered and
went into the ranks of Captain V. S.
Grayson’s company in a Kentucky regi
ment. He served through the war with
out being wounded, and then returned
to Kentucky, where he has since lived.
More than a half century ago he was or
dained a minister of the Methodist
Church, and until a few years since lie
preached to the people of his congrega
tions in several small towns of the State.
Of late he had spent most of his time in
Shelbyville and Brooks Station, Bullitt
County. He has been on the pension
roll for a long time, having been allowed
the service pension allowed to old sold
iers of the second war with Great Bri
tain, and until recently went in person
to draw his pay from the Louisville office.
He still reads and writes without the aid
of spectacles, though he is compelled to
wear them when walking.
The man who wrote a letter in the New
York Sun a few days ago, asking every
body in the country to send him one
cent in order that he may thus acquire a
fortune of half a million dollars, recalls
to that paper ati inc dent in the life ot
the original John Jacob AMor, millionaire.
A ragged beggar called upon Mr. Astor
one day at his office in Prince .street and
asked for alms. Mr. Astor re'used to
give him anything. The beggar per
sisted in his appeal; the millionaire was
firm in his refusal. The beggar became
peitinacious, and spoke of his hunger as
he stood in his rags. Mr. Astor appeared
to be unmoved. Finally the beggar, in
turning to leave the office, put in what
he regarded as a clincher by saying:
"Remember, Mr. Astor, that though you
are a millionaire and I am a beggar, you
are driving out a brother, for we are
brothers ail the same, as children of
Adam and the Almighty.” "Ay! a !
Hold a minute," cried Mr. Astor. as fie
pricked up his ears, put his hand in his
pocket, and took out a cent. "That is
so: we are all brothers. Now, my
brother, I give you this cent, and if you
get all your other brothers and sisters to
give you as much you will be a richer
man than I am.” The beggar slowly de
parted with the money in his palm and a
thought in his head Mr. Astor had
told the truth, though his millions num
bered over twelve at the time.
" Oar Ambition is (o make a Yeracions Reliable in
GRAY’S STATION, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1888.
'CAlMLY to sleep.
vTe lay its calihly down to sleep
When friendly night is come, and leave
To God the rest;
Whether we wake to smile or weep,
0/ wake no more on Time’s fair shore,
He knoweth best
So sinks the sun in western skies
When day is done and twilight dim
Comes silent o <<>.
.So fades the world's nldst luring prh
On pj'ps that dose in deep repose
Till wakes thedawA.
£»£££££&* So cool low:
and
Have we found life so passing fair,
So grand to be, "so sweet that we
Should dread to go!
Some other hand the task can take,
!f so it seemeth best, the task
By us begun;
No work for which we need to wak
In joy or grief, for life so brief,
Beneath the Sun,
—Louise ChaAdltr Monitor.
THE WOKE OF GHOULS.
There is one crime which stands out in
the minds of the mas-es above all others
on the calendar-even above cold-blooded
murder. That is tho crime of grave rob
prisoner bing. The average jury will acquit a
of almost anything else, undei
ber one plea or another, but the grave rob
can make no plea nor find an excuse.
The man who disturbs our dead will
ever be considered a ghoul, and the pub
lic will cry out for revenge against him.
Some years ago. when I was in active
detective service in one of the Middle
States, a certain locality became infested
with body snatchers. It was a large,
populous county, having many deaths
and a score of cemeteries, and before
any Weil organized plan to capture the
scoundrels had been conceived, they had
robbed upward of a score of graves.
The detection of such plunderers would
seem to be a very easy matter, One
would argue that nothing more would be
needed than to set a watch on a certain
cemetery, or on two or three of them,
and that the fellows must certainly be
bagged. Although they are nearly al
ways men of the lower walks of life, they
are by no means deficient in native
shrewdness. They know what detec
tion signifies, and they take more pre
cautions than a housebreaketx
The local detective talent had ex
hausted itself without result, and when
I received charge of the whole matter I
soon realized t hat I had a sharp lot of
rascals to deal with. They had stolen
bodies from cemeteries eatefully watetied,
and they had shipped them-from stations
in ail sorts of disguises. Every body was
going direct to medical colleges within
a radius of 100 miles, and it was evident
that the officers of those institutions
stood in, and would throw every obstacle
in my way.
The sheriff of the county gave me the
services of ten deputies as a starter, and
after I had made the circuit of the
county and noted every burial place, i
posted the men. two at a place. In each
instance they were to watch all night,
and they were in no ease to inform the
public of the nature of their work.
With the six men posted in three differ
ent villages, I had the poorest luck.
Almost the first move they made was to
give themselves away, and f presently
learned that not one of them dared enter
a grav eyard after dark. They had con
tented themselves with skirmishing
around, and during the first two week*
of their watch, bodies were stolen from
each graveyard. The four other depu
ties were on guard at cemeteries in larga
faUhfiffljgthat‘fhc.^ghouls'were "lirid at
suffered' tervinTcitv oftmoV the*others, ^ “pTd
more than any of and
I believed the town to be the headquar
ters of the gang. I had to reveal mv
identity and and my purpose to the trustees
the superintendent, as a matter of
course, and thev were astounded at the
idea of mv watching alone. There had
been a watch, composed of the grave
digger, two they constables had hung and two police
men, but together, and
graves had been opened almost undei
their noses.
At the hotel where I boarded I gave
out that I was a night telegraph operator,
This accounted for daytimes.' my bein'' absent at
night and sleeping I entered
the cemetery only after dark, and always
left it in the gray of morning, old, i located
all graves under'six weeks and kept
track of every new one made, and after
a couple of nights I felt quite at home pretend in
the city of the dead. I don’t
to say I didn’t feel a bit pokish and
that now and then the vision of a while
headstone through the pines did not
give me a sudden start ol’rie but I was there
on dm V and for an t and pride
would have kept me there though Turn, s
ghost had challenged me at every
It was now th - middle of October, with
a great deal of rain and hi'di winds, nights’ and
I look b-ick upon those Ion" if and
shudder I w as armed with double
barreled shotgun 5 and a revolver and
carried a dark lantern and three pairs o;
handcuffs M v instructions V were to cap
tore or kill, and knew that the body
snatchers went by twos and threes.
h,,r t „ r j.—.
to the breakin" o da-. I was on th"
move through’t'ne im/dev-elopin" cemetery nothin* getting main
alarm- nVdit White until the
-ixtii th'-~nlace 1 had been watt h
intr bodies had been i stolen at
almost anTl every oh be/ause -r place ’believed the count v
hung on l the
ghoul- would soon make a change. On
the sixth dav the body of a -uieide wa
hu’i.-d He wa-a fine, his'brains, lar'-e man, who
had e-t a bullet Into and,
Lein" a - range,, had been bur ed at th.
e» peiise of the city It was quite iikeh
that the ghouls iiad a spotter, and very
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probable that they would seek to snatch
thisbody. On that sixth night I posted
myself behind a monument, just across
one of the cemetry stree s from the new
grave, and for live hours I did not move
afoot. I had calculated where tb@
hers would come in, strict I foil so Sure
they would come that 1 was not surprised
when midnight brought them. They
flerhaps mistriisted that the cbmettTy was
wutcb.cd, for they cSirte airing ail Softly
as !nd ans. They were three in number,
There was a patter of rain on the fallen
leaves, with occasional gusts of wind
harassing heard'them the trees, and 1 neither saw
nor until they were close
upon me. The grave had been located
to they a certainty time by one of the number, and
lost no in getting to work.
One disappeared to the right, and the
other to the left to act as sentinels, while
the third pulled off his coat and began
work with a shovel. The manner in
which he worked proved him a profes
sional. He went down to the coffin like
a He rabbit did digging a the burrow full in length sandy of soil,
not open
grave, thereby dug having all the the head dirt to
ihrotf Out, but down to of
the box, and l plainly heard the hollow
sound as his shovel struck it. He then
threw away the shovel for a crowbar,
and in two or three minutes had split
open both box and coffin. It seemed to
me that the man must be a savage as I
heard the wood splitting and breaking,
and so great was my indignation that 1
could hardly prevent myself from leav
mg my post.
I was there to capture not one, hut all,
and yet I did not intend to betray myself
eveu when they had secured the body,
The man came out of the grave and
tered a low whistle, and in a minuie
joined by the other two. He had
a rope to the neck of the corpse, and
three now took hold and drew the body
from the coffin and out of the hole.
sack liad been brought along, and
cadaver was put into this and tied up
The shoveler started to fill in the grave
but after he worked a minute one of tb
others observed:
"Oh, let that gol He is only
pauper, and no one will care whether l
is in or out.”
body, Thereupon third two gathered of them seized tooif, tit:
the up the
and as they moved away I follow*!
them. A horse and wagon were waiting
outside the fence, and as soon as ajbt the
body was dumped into the vehicle lin
<f oats in a bundle, which had
brought along for the purpose, w*e
thrown in on top. When the wag n
moved off only one man accompanied .
The others went in different win.
to meet again at some rendezvous, aim welt
followed after one of them. He
straight for the suspecting town, never once i—v) look
ing back or Day' that he brcakS
be shadowed. was just g
as I saw him enter an old tannery on tile
outskirts of the town, and I knew that
the wagon and the other men would soon
show up at the same place.
Au hour later 1 was at the place with
detachment of police, and we made!
a wonderful haul. Four wagons hat !
come in from different parts of t h
county, three of them bringing one sub
ject each, and the fourth having two
The five corpses were not only there ii
their sacks, but we captured seven met
whose work was not yet finished. Thev
had the bodies to ship away, and wen
making ready to and box marked, them up. and Tie tb
boxes were there
ghastly contents were to ffo away bv e>
press as a patent preservative of egg..
Wc did not secure the men without a
fight, wounded and and in the melee of the a policeman ghouls killed., w,is
one
When the;, had been taken to jail I size!
rnc ermvd up couldT and selected one man wh)
1 believed enough be induced to peach
He was ready to give the an<|
thing away, in order to save himself, furl
l, le h< ; a ? d }**, nroofs lie
”»*»*»“ . that*community.’ . ‘'There state of
was nn
organization numbering fifteen men who
! llade Tody-snatching almost their sole
business. The agent of the express com
J b w ,X "- V sh £. 'PF ot sf d ! f, ™ ‘ om wch .^ 13 r othce h ead % 1 T h h JZZ m “' y
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sen ?. er on f’ e ,,™j d 1 “„*? ill
c: ' pibu T The h a 1 m R 1 was a JFILlrs
Me , tamper, and . the others , , were bummere
a ." d 1 oafe ”’ most of wUom h 1
time .
!1 ‘ P nson -
By patient work and jiersever.ng effort
I got the whole lot behind the bars, and
^ b<;n at half of them were ready
to turn State’s evidence, i hey had beei
at w °fk for upward of two years, and re
ceived delivered the fixed price the of $‘>r, for ever 1
body at express office. rings i
there were earrings or finger (
g oId secured filling, the find body. belonged long to tho
wbo the For a tim
g lcat pains were taken to fill in th j
graves and obliterate all traces of the: ]
work, but they finally became so bo! .
that the desecrated graves were left, opr ;
and few precautions observed. In tl ■
two years this organization had robbe
over ~*f>0 graves. The arrests and trial {
created intense excitement, and one grajl
(he results was that almost every
in the country under three years oid wj
opened by friends of the deceased, j
large number of them were found empq
1° some eases costly monuments hB
Teen only erected empty at the coffins. head of Only graves the hoj <*•
'"g permitted
participant evidence, and was he to free turn to Staffs tJk
was very :
with me concerning his horrible 1>- j
cation. I !
“It mav be but against the law.” becali wl >» j i
said to me. ‘ it seems a pity to a-' j
so mu h material. When a subject III It
bring in cash what’s the use of
ting him waste away in th" grotfl i.Jut t
Ycl people'don’t people have feelings that about grJ '
if know the aoive is
n.pty they are just as well off, t
are a great deal better. Ion rail I a j
horrible trade. IV ell. it struck a-uJc*. me bat
way but the 1 first got time over I handled it. It don’t <1 to j !
soon lal
Iihvc too much feeling in bu: ine*s I
ters.”
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7 <y
Candid in its Conclusions, and Just in its Yiess. ”
t learned from him that the organiza
€on knew that all the cemeteries and
graveyards were being watched, hut
ii made little difference with their
vrofJt
J ** It is easy enough to frighten a
certairt Rntehmiui that away,’’ he added, "and Uni
hindered none of the lilcu Under you
have Us at all. "Me and my
gan|> JlaiiRvillc went for Over the to the' of graveyard at
found that corpse had a young man. the
We you two men on
watch. They were not in the burial
groundnut When 1 put» roosting sheet around on the fence, and sud- and
me
lonly showed up they took to theirlieels
n away to make you laugh. We got
>ur subject, left the grave open, and
.■our men filled it in by daylight rather
than have it known we had been there.”
“ Did i von ever take a body except at
nigh ft” asked him. *
" Yes, several. Saturday afternoon is
the very best time to work a village
rr ‘vefybody iveyafd, if it is rightly situated. Then
is busy, teams arc passing
dbiifg this ..roads, and no one Observes you
oo elfsely. & It is Saturday but seldom that a
Ittncral held bn afternoon.
n.eyejtjier bury on Friday or wait until
iimdqy. that day, No and one goes to the graveyard
>« three good men can get
n their,work and feel pretty safe about
t. One of the bodies shipped off last
seek was got of a Saturday afternoon in
Brownsville. That's a village twenty
ouj.lniles jetting away. that It body. was a It bit exciting, that, of
of was
woman who had died of cancer of the
we had been keeping track
Ifer case for a whole year. We meant
have her when she went, and she was
buried on Friday and we got there Bat
unlay after dinner. We had a lot of
ty-tw hay to throw over the sack, and we
drove through the town as bold as you
please. There were three of ns* and
'virile two stood watch 1 flung the dirt
out and split the coffin open. Just thert
there came an alarm. A chap, who turned
out to be a brother of the dead woman’s,
w,Centering Wo badly tlie graveyard rattled, and by the gate,
were my two
comrades bolted across lots. I plucked
ep courage after a minute, and, going
flown to meet the fellow, J asked who he
was and what ho wanted there. He had
come, he said, to look at the lot and
measure it for a fence. Then I put on
l Tat I was the gravedigger, and that 110
o fa could come m under tho new rule of
,, ,e tnls tces without . , a permit, and , when ,
<' began to bluff at me 1 hauled off and
knocked hnn in aheap, lie went a Way
mad •* a hornet, but I knew ho
v, "‘ dd " t return for an hour, and lung
! «gh before the thaUimc filled we had the body
1 ' a® grave with up. of the I exchanged
coats one men, and
1 the wagon right back through
U3>- . a f'>-well AS* tf* covered ‘ '‘-l with iClF hay,
byl yo't--_.-Ust - - --j know that a man with such
a load as that behind him cant beex
N easy m his mind. I had got be
the town, when a couple ol men
! a,n<! a “ ,cr "! e - One was the
sheriff himself, audhe at once.put me
,IIK < j wrest. It seemed that a rig of the
had been stolen from a farmer a few
awny flic night before, and flic
-'Terifi had got trank of my outfit, arid
"as sure it was the one. Nothing I
<>,dd sa Y had any effect on him, and 1
to turn around and drive back to
and the jail. They were about to
me up and take the rig to a stable,
} »en the farmer happened of to come and up
lv ^ s f? ofc V s out^t, course,
hve minute the Sheriff was a i( olo
’Dzingtome; but it was such a close
f dl did not get back toils
*'gular beating foi two hours. \\ lule
ii e rig stood in front of the jat a dozen
surrounded it, and several of them
e< !. ° ^ Tandluls of the hay. Had
discovered the sack audits contents
could have saved me from going
a limb .—Ann 1 Sun.
A Wonderful Horned Hen.
Walter Lewellin, of Durham, N. C„
i,„ s the greatest curiosity of the county
j„ the shape of a Dominique hen, which
! WSS,!SS,:S ,,n each side of the head a horn,
curled up like a ram’s. A few days ago
the ,K:n ’ wh “ ;h W(!, « hs ‘ ::o P° und »> a ‘
,a, ke<1 il valuable horse an ' 1 g«rod 11 so
u . rr jbly that the animal had to be killed,
11 has also Caused the death of a number
of calves and pigs in the same manner,
It laughs very naturally and merrily when
it gets a pig into it, a but tight is kind place and children cotn
mences to maul to
school and delights its back. in t rott This ing information them off to
on we
get principally makes from a Philadelphia
paper, which mention of the hen
and her horns. We have taken the lib
erty. however, to interpolate a statement
0 r two which the paper either accident
ally overlooked or for some other reason
negle ted to mention. In referring to
matters it is always best to let the
reading public have the whole truth and
not simply a brief and garbled statement,
may be productive of misleading
inferences.—Off Cih, Hli:~arr/. !
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Dinners
The fees demanded by eminent New
prominent York lawyers lawyer arc relates seldom small. A '
that in a mat
services ter of litigation of distinguished he recently called Wall in the |
a street
whose career in public life has
given him great prominence The affaii
terminated m a settlement out-.ide of the
court, pending which some dinners were
at whi- h the principals and theii
came together. When th « j
bankerasked for his bill from the attorney
figures were fib.Util). It struck th< ;
of money that this was a trifle high, | j
he asked for an itemized account.
itemized bill read as follows. i
To ,. etajner .......................|5,0d
attendance on five dinners at Del
monico's, *2J)00 each............ 10.C0
—
Total............................ W,m
The banker is not likely to invite jaw i
yers to dinner hereafter. ,
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Evil-doers try to get others to do evil;
thev do not like to be alone.
Those who would be kept from harm
should keep out of harm’s way,
Cleverness is a sort of genius for in
St hand. rffmentality. It is the brain of the
There are those who never reason on
what they should do, but on what they
have done.
He who says there is no such thing as
an honest man, you may be sure is him
self a knave.
through Most of the shadows that cross standing our path
life are caused by in
our own light.
apprehensions, Better to be despised than ruined for loo anxious
by too con
fident a security.
Even reckoning makes lasting friends
and the way to make reckonings even is
to make them often.
The first duty of a wise advocate is to
convince his opponents that lie under
stands their arguments and sympathizes
with thcii feelings.
A good touted child is a fortress f I
strength between its parents and sin,
The barest stump is beautiful when over
run by the honeysuckle.
Be cheerful, and seek not external
help, nor give the tranquility which
others give. A matt must stand erect,
not bo kept erect by others.
Ho who longs after good precepts is
quickened in Iris imagination and
strengthened in his expression. The vine
which grows in the sun is the fullest in
sap and sweetest of fruit.
A New York Swell’s Apartments
lie had three rooms, and the principal
one, very much to my surprise, Was used
as correspondent il dressing-room, writes the New York
Of the Argonaut, Mr.
Bellamy sat in tho middle of it, mate or
blankets less enveloped and in tho bath-gowns,
side of the rugs. Along the wall, on
one brass shelves. They room, were about two long
were the
height On these of a shelves man’s head from the floor.
stood about twenty
pairs of boots of every conceivable
design, from heavily built alligator skin
winter brogansto the Ugliest of dancing
pumps. There were slltfipars of half a
dozcu different shades, anil beiwath the
lower shelf was an ebony stand piYw’.
half afoot high with over-gaiters. They
Were white duck, mauve, brown, mooso
skiti, blue, black, checked, and every
other design Die known to the bootmaker.
} tha ? rom fheru. cffkndqlior, in the middle of
fitive romn, brass ring. hitgg It a huge and mas
ln- eirciumfel-ence; vras vftas*Jiaid abopt, foul
and in a
zontal position by brass cbritis
above. Over this ring were hung
least two hundred neckties of various de
signs. It was a remarkable exhibit of
neckwear. The whole of the western
side of the room was taken up with a
wardrobe with glass doors—really an ex
act copy of a liarness-case in the average
stable. In it bung the harness of the
man of fashion. Every coat and waist
coat was on its own wire form, and in otic
corner there a was series of presses that
looked like young cider-mills or amateur
cotton-gins. The machines consisted of
two boards, polished and well-ribbed black wal
nut forced together, and held in
those place with a screw and a lever. Between
boards were pressed some dozea
of pairs all of trousers. There were mirrors
of kinds around the room, a linen
closet, an enormous chest of drawers, a
rack of canes, and a sort of a show case
for hats.
"What do you think of it?” asked
Mr. Bellamy radiantly, after he had ex
hibited all these details.
I told him if was the most completely
furnished apartment, of the kind I had
ever seen.
“And it’s so lovely and big, you
know,” said Mr. Bellamy genially. "I
awnt 1 literally cawnt dress anywhere
rise, nnw-a-days, since I’ve got nceus
Mmed to it. ”
A Detenu hied Suicide.
Some Wallachian peasants were one
lay working in the field near the banks
of the Maros. Suddenly they saw a
llranger rush frantically through the
aeld,and plunge headlong into the river.
dripping: They pursued, departed,and and dragged him out.,
he they returned
to again rheir appeared, work. and Shortly the afterward second he
for tiaie
took a suicidal "header.” Again the
peasants snatched him from the raging
torrent, and returned to their work. Yet
i third time they saw him enter the field;
but on this occasion he did not make tor
the river, but, elimbing up a tree, rlelib
tiralely proceeded to hang himself from
one of the branches. This time his for
tner preservers did not interfere, and he
drained the cup of his fate to the last
drop. Presently a deceased, crowd of the rel itives
and friends of the from who
had aHCB P ,:,l j arrived, beaded
by the parish priest, and roundly abu-d
the peasants for permitting the late Is
mooted to kill himself. I'he peasant
naively replied that they bad pulled him
out of the river twice and as he win
dripping wet, dry. they thought he had hung
himself up to —Arpma //.
Tile President's Staff.
The President s allowwl flio f .(low
sen mg et named ary at- corpyif a Hilary assistants: ot A an private ass.st
:lt " private secretary $1, at *?'-■.”■»" u steno
grapher at <> r, live me-scngeis at
L « steward ; two doo, -keep
' tut, u-hes at >
usf 13n r " i ,l watchman wabhman at at... f- Ofi 1 1 .
telegraph haa he Ta« operators and minor clerks
‘ Mr incidental expenses,
^,000; for . White House repairs, carpets,
i tr -' $12,^00, fuel. $/,>)()): a gjeenhouhe,
^1,000: gas, matches, livery, $13,000.
NO. * )
The slumbek song.
“ Hush-a-by, baby, hush-a-by.”
At bowered casement she rocking sway*,
Tenderly hushing her baby to rest,
Its fair head R i,lo ' ved m K "' h f r Umsfc;
-
Down sinks the sun in a ruddy haze.
Iiush-a bj, baby, hush-a-by.
“Hnsh-a-by, baby, lmsh-a-by.
Swiftly the purpling sliailows creep,
The call of a lonely night bird rings.
And softlv the mother vot-lts and sings,
As baby lashes are dropped in sleep,
,r Hush-a-by, baby, hush-a-by.”
*• flush a-by, baby, hush-a-by.”
Ah, never more will that Imv refrain
In cadence sweet to my hw-iriug creep,
For singer and balie are both asleep,
And know, in sleeping, nor joy nor pain:
Rut e'er as the evening shades grow deep
i Ah, heat tr may ache and tho eyes not weep)
The empty rocker f note with pain.
And long for that slumber s .mg again.
** iftish-Bt-by, baby, hush a by.”
—Mary C. Hunliitytan, in GW ifouscfcee/r
tug.
1’ITII AND POINT
Ea vega toppers lei elcs.
Current evens—Whir! pools.
Even' .a doctor who speaks only one
language may yet understand a great
many tongues. ff.".’ I'd/’e Suit.
How to make a Japanese fan But you
don’t have to make a Japauv-e fan. He
fans all the time, anyhow. Siftiuys.
Smith—“Brown is a mere bag- of
wind.” .Jones—“Mow can he be any
thing else? Jlis wife is always blowing
him
He (desirable catch) "How slender
Miss Willoughby is!” Sim- “Yes, and
they say her mother was just like her
once. She weighs ”10 how.” Life.
It. is popularly supposed that corpora
lions have no souls, but this cannot ap
ply in the case of a corporation that ma
oufacturca shoes.- lioim-hr /\>»t Krprm.
Cashiers, from medical report-.
Are seldom very strong;
Their longest ages are but short—
Then- short ages are long.
- Till-Bit s
"How are collections to day?” nsked a
man of a bill collector ye today. "Slow,
very slow; can’t even collect my
thoughts,” was the reply.- lit'shnrgl
Vhruit irh .
When lovely buys woman stoods to folly braid.
Ami a remnant Ntriji of
What charms can soothe 1 st ini-laueholy shade
Un learning sbec in’t .Vi match York the (iru/i/tic.
tw
“1 shouldn’t, rare to marry a woman
who knows more than I do,” he remarked.
“Oh, Mr. l)e Sappy,” she replied, "I with
a coquettish shake confirmed of her bachelor.”— full, am
afraid you are it
hjpeeh. . >♦ „
Pol icemau- “Here, what arc you mak
ing all that noise through the streets
for.-'' Fish Peddler—“I ain’t making it
through the streets. I’m making it
through —la—la --fresh this ’ere iiora. Fresh Siftingi. fish! tra
fish l — Te.run
“You seem to be enjoying yourself,
Bobby,” dinner remarked one of the guests at
a party. “Yes,” assented Bobby,
with his mouth full, “1 am makin’ the
most of it, ’cause after pa an' ma give
a big dinner like this, it’s days.— always
cold pickin’ for the next thirty
llurper'» Bazar.
Scenes in Japan.
We had boatmen take us over tho
water, ali the skirting moss-covered the shores and temples touching that
at little
are dotted along the shores. There were
no priests, no signs of life or occupancy
at any of the little temples, but from the
curious way in which one boatman was
tolled off to watch us it was not intended
that the shrines should suffer any loss
or desecration, nor their altars be be
spoiled black wooden of one images of the with scores which of little they
were decorated. From the water
Chuizcnji village appears as a small yel
low spot, between the unbroken slope of
Nautasian and the great lake. Its line
tea-houses rise straight from the water’s
edge, each with a triple row of outer
galleries looking out upon the beauti
ful view. Tsutaya, Idzutniya and Naka
marya are the names of three of these
pretty inns, and life in them is much
quented more Japanese at Nickko. than at We the have mueh-fre- chairs
inns
and tables, but there the foreign conces
sions cease, and we look out for our town
knives and forks, bread, butter, milk,
beef, or go without. We sleep on the
flour, wash our faces in a common basin
on the inside gallery of the house, and
go about in our stocking feet in the
house. When we want a servant wc slide
a screen, clap our Hey!” hands, and a vigorous,
long drawn “ announces that the
rosy-cheeked mountain timid has heard
us. The gentle rocking of the house
tells that the vigorous nn idea is running
up the stairs of the fragile budding.
The washing of the ree and vegetables,
and k:t ! lien utensils, and the family
clothes, of pier all goes on from the little planic
a that runs out from the lowest
floor of the house. Kin-h hotel has a
similar pier, and there are sociable times
when each pier Inis one or more maidens
washing rice in bamboo basket-.. One
morning look at sunrise I > lid the s iven to
out on the g ore,ft, panorama of
green mountains wreathed in rov colored
clouds and reflected in the nlill mirror of
the lake, and saw a solitary figure stand
ing at the end of a pier, i r.th brush in
band and lost in contemplation of the
scene. The servants of the houses take
the whole Jake to wash their faces and
brush their teeth in each morning, but
now that the nights and mornings are
almost frosty th'-y do not plunge in to
do it.— OM/e-JJemirm'.
These two things, contradictory as
they may seem, must go together—
uanly dependence and manly independ
ence, manly reliance and man!-.- self-reli
ance.
