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a j f*- % VOL. 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 OttMTY * i 0 iSMAfiJ .A • % 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 - 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.” ❖ 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/. ! _ _______ 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.