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“Our Ambition is to make Yeracious l ? ■'Vy-.-Y Conclusions, and Just in its Yiews. ”
a Work, Reliable in its Statements, Candid in its
VOL. I.
Statistics show* that there are 182,000
churches, 82,000 ministers, and 19,000,
000 members in the United States.
Leading British military authorities say
that England’s war resources are not
sufficient to withstand attack from for
eign
The Dakota farmers who have survived
the blizzard are happy in the thought
that the moisture from the heavy snow
fall will give the early wheat a good
start. .
Mr. Froude, the English historian, in
a recent work asserts that the retrogres
sion of Jamaica and other British pos
sessions in the West Indies has been so
rapid that the Government is seriously
asked to govern these places by commis
sion. _______
A scientist claims that the bituminous
coal field known as the Pittsburg is
practically inexhaustible, according to
the exploration. There are 10,000,000
bushels of coal in the barges at Pittsburg
awaiting transportation as soon as the
rivers are navigable to the south and
westwar d.
Game Warden Collins, of Connecticut,
comes to the defence of owls and hawks
by saying that the examination of over
200 specimens of these birds by rniscro
scopists proves that they live on small
birds, frogs, snakes, mice and grasshop
pers. The “small birds” are mostly
sparrows, and very few game birds are
eaten. .
Francis La Flesehe, of the Omaha
tribe, who is employed in the Bureau of
Indian Affairs at Washington, is the
brother of Inslita Theambn, aud is three
fourths, not full-blood or even half
breed, Indian. La Flesehe was edu
cated at the mission school of an Indian
agency in Nebraska, and was appointed
by Secretary Kirkwood to a place in the
Indian Bureau. He has made an efficient
clerk. On several occasions he lias acted
as interpreter between bis people and
government officers, and has al-:o been
sent on several missions to his tribe.
An example of deterioratioii in values
is shown in the sale of the Great East
ern for less than $100,003. The origin
nalcost of the vessel was three and a
half million dollars, but she was a gigan
tic failure from the start. The building
of this ship, however, was of value in
demonstrating that there was a limit in
steamships iu the direction of size. She
has been of use also in the laying of the
Atlantic cables. While those who in
vested their money in building this ship
lost heavily in the venture, they can
console themselves with the fact that
their loss was not altogether in vain.
Authentic estimates of the peace effect
tives stationed in the frontier provinces
of Austria, Russia and Germany show
that Russia has 315,500 men, with 089
field-guns; Austria, 38,000 men, with
100 field-guns; and Germany 98,200
men and 338 field-guns. A comparison
of the military situation ou the Russian
side of the frontier with that on the
German side, taking the forces within
territories of about equal area, shows
that the Russians within 119,311 square
kilometers have 123,275 men, 24,198
horses aud 2,711 guns of all kinds, while
the Germans, within 119,456 square
kilometers, have only 81,714 men.
14,520 horses and 238 guns.
The city of Mexico is madly devoting
Itself to gorgeous spectacles, in which
the central attraction is bull-fighting.
Sunday is the chief festival day for this
sort of thing, and half a dozen “rings”
attract multitudes. Saleri, a Spanish
bull-fighter, noted in his own country
for daring deeds, was imported by Mex
ican enterprise to add zest to the Sab
bath circuses. He was “famous” chiefly
for that particularly reckless accomplish
ment which consists in infuriating the
wild beast and then evading its onslaught
by nimbly leaping over its head. His
first experiment at an introduction of
this into the Mexican Sabbath programme
resulted in his being gored to death.
Another imr.nrtmt P ntiotp P has hopn
p.aceu , at tlie of of . the .
mercy one pow
erful associations of capitalists known as
“trusts.” The Great Sugar Trust, re
centlv em y organized or^mzett on on the tne principle principle of oi the ne
B ibber Trust, moludes twelve of the
nineteen large refineries in the United
States-seven in New York, four in Bos
ton ton and and owp one in in St. et Louis r nnia Fsch Each rpfin refin
ery has put its entire capital stock into
the Trust, taking certificates in payment,
and the organization controls millions
of canital 'The mirnose K is the “rcrula g
tin tion » of r the production and r price of
sugar. Whenever production is too great
for the demand, or whenever there Is a
scarcity of raw sugar certain of there
fineries must ^ shut U down and not start
d •
GRAY’S STATION, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. MARCH 31, 1888
MUTABILI 1 Y.
I walked by the salt sea—
A wave earuo leaping up to kiss the strar ■
In dimpling ecstasy,
Then died away upon the silver sand.
Far o’er the mountain’s height
A shining cloud came floating like a dream,
Then vanished from my sight,
And left no trace of its translucent gleam,
I watched a being fair
Unfold in beauty—innocent and free,
Yet e’er I was awaro
She, too, had vanished from the world and
mo.
—Ada Iddings Gale, in Current.
IN A BLIZZARD.
ry MAirr ‘ Y tv mm ivn ‘
, ... g up type ’, the j office _
tbn m o
A v! 0l fi day in
'•!’ when I heard a voice at
t > °' v s ?-’ 1 n g : Hello, beagraves!
, 0 “ 0< ) down . yer claim?’ The
. through
J ,", ft3 \ a at mo his
.. 11 Y v" ; s 100 c my head, but
on ? t° r r ™ to come in, which he
■ i .if* 8 ™ i™!*? caa
-
ch' 0 r remons , ^ rilte i with . bim for
“
his r ,
°" A . “Oncst Moore.
t n ? a " man, I
-
c n want to take advantage of any one,
no e\en a arummer for farm machinery,
i.nu tact is, ,1 m dangerous. M liy, there
ala a ,aan ln “ lls * erntory that would
‘Y m fi t0 ou " on the prairie with him
U , Yu!y , i< ;' V ,ny rccor( I’m sure death.”
'
\\ hat clo | you mean! Explain y’r
,. T ... c been out oti that pre
eruption *• oi z mine • promptly at the end of
eve'y thirty days since the last day of
October, aud every time it stormed. The
nrst time it rained, the next time it
snowed aud bio wed, and the last time
Murray and 1 went out to the claims we
spent three days in his twelve-by-four
teen shanty with the horses. W hy, I
can t go to Heron or to Belleplaiti but a
terrible storm sweeps down on the poor
peopH Iherelore the boys fight shy of
ule -”
Moore was whistling , through _ his teeth
at my yarn. He didn’t put much iin
portance upon it.
‘‘Oh1 know all about that; but I
don’t scare worth a cent; and besides,
look at the sun sh ning out there. Now
you after get dinner. your toggery on and we’ll be off
rustle—i’ll Bailey's going too. Now
see ye later. ’
This settled the matter, and accord
i“gly possible I got things into as good shape as
in the office, and went early to
dinner at the Western House. The boys
at the table weie also talking about
going the out on their claims, and cursing
find office, because of the ruling
which obliged them to be on the pre
enption once a month, no matter what
the weather might be.
“1 guess we’re about all in the same
fix,” said Adams; “there s Bailey and
Moore and Shelby, myself and--”
ou bet I am.”
“That settles my hash; if Seagraves
goeq l don’t, you can bet high on that.
I’m not ready to turn up my toes for the
coyotes to gnaw.”
“Gentlemen, I’m sorry for you,
I’m going to breuk my record or try a
dying.”
And about 2 o'clock, belling Moore’s
little team, well nigh buried in blankets
and robes, we drew out of the main
street aud headed west amid a chorus of
veils:
“Git Eli!” “Seagraves is sure
death: push ou the reins,” et cietera.
The sleighing was excellent, and the
vast level plain, as bare as the bosom of !
a frozen sea, was sparkling under a brill
iant sun shining lrom a deep blue sky.
Our course lay straight into the wilder
nest to the west, a distance of nearly i
thirty good miles—an easy trip if the roads
were all the way.
Bailey and Moore kept up a lively chat- !
ter over their huge buffalo coat collars, :
and hailed every passing tean with jolly
shouts, and when we were about ten
miles on our way, Bailey said: “I guess
Seagraves lifted will head escape aud this time.”
I my took a look at
the northwestern sky; then said: “No,
boys; “we’re in for it sure.”
And we were; for, borne on the wing
of the north wind, a great lieecv dome
of cloud, slaty blue fieloiv and silver
white above, was rising, vast, wide as
thenorthern horizon, seamless, dim, and
noiseless, sweeping with the speed of a
shadow upon us. The day was yet brill- 1
iant, but the frost-white edge of the
cloud had already slid across Hie face of
the sun, making the depth of the dark
blue dome the more ominous and stern,
It would be dark i.r two lioms.
“Well, boys, the blizzard is coining,
sure, and there are just two things to do
to pash on as hard as we can for the -
claim, or turnback.”
“There’s no turhing back touched to this
crowd,” Moore replied, as he
the ponies with the whip. 1 submitted,
though with some misgivings. I am free
to confess.
The road was < r ettiti" worse noiv as wc
were .rc-ttino- anefbevond bevoiul the settlers’
fc i mri ti e s the travel to and
' and
f rotn the town Houses <ncw more
more infrequent the wind began to ri e
and the L" snow to sift along insidiou-lv! the plain,
Yinot modical]v V et
, u ,j before we knew it the road
was full of drifts The further we went
to the west the wilder and more bare the
prune nrairie became became- soon soon we we would wouia be tic out- out
®Vo off at a imint about
.. ■■ w orf r we readied Moore's
claim His claim lav four miies due
le smith from a l certain corner Z, stake which
^ were to ^*„' erv ^ ^ ut as wc
c t We and I
deter mined to keep bim with us, and r.ot
allow of his making the venture short, at night, and
Accordingly looked Wo«re immoral! puffed up friend.
we both .- at our
Bail* y was a brave man when there was
anything he depending on the venture, but
as rose to his feet and looked around
him he hesitated.
It was a fearful scene. As far as the
eye could penetrate the stability of the
prairie seemed changed to the furious
lashings of a foam-white waste of waters.
Great waves of snow met, shifted, spread,
raced like wolves, joined again, rose,
bulfeted each other till puffs of fine snow
sprang into the air like spray, only to
Sail and melt in the sliding streams. All
less, was unreal, impenetrable ghastly. No sky but a form
mass of flying snow;
no earth except when a sweeping gust
laid bare a long streak of blackened sod
that had the effect, the terrifying effect,
of a hollow, fathomless trough between
the hissing waves, and overall the night
and tempest were speeding like the
flight of twin eagles.
Our companion sot his teeth, and
made as if to spring out and set forth,
“sit down,” we shouted. “Do you in
tend to commit suicide?” And, 1 with a
lau;h at his relieved toward expression, we
pushed the ponies on the west.
“We must be merciless now. We are
too far on to turn back, and if we are
not delayed we can reach the shanty be
fore deep night,” I shouted in the oar
of our driver. There were now but turn
shanties where we knew of people living,
and both of these were some miles from
our destination. One of these we soon
reached after passing the corner stake
alluded to. Ii was a small frame shanty
banked to tlie roof with snow and sods;
indeed, the roof was also of sods, laid
on for additional warmth. It was low
and mean-looking at ordinary times, but
now, as the door opened and the red
light drifts glinting streamed through out falling over the
the snow,
it had a singularly attractive look. The
house was full to overflowing, we were
told, and there were no places for our
horses at all; they would have to stand
out if we stayed. “But we ain’t goin’ to
stay,” said Moore, grimly, as trail, he pulled be
out into the road, now a mere to
followed with the greatest difficulty,
Just after turning into [this faint track
there came a team of horses rushing to
meet ns. As they passed us at a swift
gallop we saw that attached hand-sled, to the liar
ness of one was a boy’s upon
which a long plank was bound, and
lastly in a young fellow lying atop, on hill. his
side, the way boys coast down
He had a round red face, on which was
above a fearless bis laugh, noble aud lie aud shook plunged the reins into
team,
the darkness of the east on his way to
the settlement.
The storm had steadily increased in
violence, though each stage seemed the
limit of its fury. The cold grew ever
bitterer, aud the the night filled the was air, almost and upon could us,
snow we
see but a few rods inany direction; but
our only resource was to press on, out on
the prairie, wrapped in madly swirling
clouds of snow. But we were all West
ern born, aud not only knew our danger, tiail
but how to meet it as well. Our
was now entirely lost, and there was
we had beeu following a furrow which
had been plowed along the section line,
and we must now leave that and bear to
the southwest.
Therefore, taking the wind (which
we knew to be in the northwest) on our
right shoulder, we struck out in a
straight line for the place where we
knew the shanty belonging to Moore
must be. We ought to come passed; near if
enough to it to see it as we
not—well we didn’t like to think of that.
As our course must be made with the
greatest care, Moore drove, while Bailey
and I took turns in rigidly aud keeping walking the
wind upon the right ear, in
in the track behind. The track we
kept straight in this way, and increased
our chances of finding the house.
We were now moving in a circle of
half-light, outside of which, x hundred
feet away, was darkness. Within this
half-light all was distorted, fantastic. A
sage-bush, a clump of weeds, or a tuft of
grass assumed huge proportions, gloom looked and
through the treacherous
like a barn or a stack of hay in the far
ther reach of the eye. A bit of shingle
not fifty feet from my eye looked so like
a cabin on the side of a distant swell
that I called joyfully to my companions
that I had found the house. further It fright
ened me when, a few steps on, I
< ame to the wind-blown bit of wood,
and my vision of the house and the
8hotvy hill faded out into the depths of
thestorm. The snow flew so thickly
that we could not see the ponies at times
as they labored heavily though the deep
snow, for we were on the unburned
prairie now, and the snow would was mid-leg
deep. At intervals we stop, and
go as far as we dared to the right and
left, and stooping the down, look Our under the
snow to discover house. course
since ieaviDg the section line was so slow
and painful that it seemed as though we
had been traveling more than an hour,
and finally Moore puffed of grim up resolution and turned
to me with a look on
his face that told that v.e had arrived at
the same conclusion.
“Seagraves, we’re in for it. We’ve
passed the shanty without idea. seeing it. ”
“ That's about my And more
Gian that; I will notyoa ingle step farther
in that direction. There i nothing but
a trackless prairie out then:. Our only
hope now going is till to turn strike to the the southeast settlement, and
keep the ponies we
If keep up, we're all right.”
“That’s about the size of it, if we’ve
gone by the shanty, for my claim is
about the last one in the township, ^ and
^ ^ ^ So we - d ttcr
turn aud strike for the Norwegian settle
meat south of here. But
Bailey? ’
True enough! I sent my eye
the circle: he was not in sight. While
we were talking lie had lost sight of us,
and making auetour to see the house
possible, might be ahead or behind us,
we could not tell. We looked at each
Other an instant tu fear, then halloed in
chorus. No reply. If he were to
south, liiscries could not reach ns; and
if to the north, ours could not reach
him. Agdn we shouted and again lis
tened. Ni reply, though we strained
our cars in the steady ceaseless roar and
scream of he storm. For the first time
I-was afra'd. In such a ferocious tern
pest and ii such deadly cold a man could
not live tag. We took turns in shout
ing, but no reply came, till a hill in the
wind not only left the air clearer, but
softened he tumult in the ear, aud we
heard a faint cry in the distance—
had “Help!” It seemed so far oil that it
no non: force than the cry of u
kitten. Vo could not tell whether it
was on tkt earth or in the sky, or whethej
we imagimd it, but soon it came again,
“He’s at cur left,” said Moore, pulling
the horses about, and following the cry.
At every fnv rods we would stop and
shout, and listen for his cry, which grew
each moment stronger. But he was not
approaching us; lie was waiting for us
to come to him. Soon we were within
speaking distance, and he was directing
us where ti find him. It was strange
that he didnot approach us. We thought
he must have met with some accident,
when suddenly he stood beside us. With
a single word, “Follow me,” he started
off, the horses following him. We could
not see him, but we knew he was on the
track of something. banked Soon, wo with came upon
a small bam heavily snow,
and with hoarse cheers we shook hands
and yelled: “I told you so!” We had
hit the barn, and the house was near by
and easily reached.
Without stopping to talk of our good
luck, we sprang out, aud in a few mo
merits the ionics were safe from the bliz
zard, their noses deep in some hay
oats. After rubbing the ice and
from lation their coats, and starting the
anew in their stiff and weary legs,
we gathered our robes and things in
arms and made for the house, which
reached in a breathless ruu.
It was a frame building, 18 by 24,
Moore had erected for a summer
mere shell of a thing, with the
only one thickness of boards on
and through there which banking, the snow the drifted; cold
as was no
air also streamed up through the floor;
but relatively it was a palace. It was
shelter and light, for there was a stove
and some kindling, and a box of coal,
We need not freeze for one night any- the
way. We soon had a tire roaring in
rusty stove, and a light in an unwashed
tubular lantern. We also found a coffee
can, and soon had a can of coffee siz
zling on the stove. Then we took the
time to ask Bailey about his adventure,
ft seems that in making a detour he had
caught a glimpse ot the barn, and
though the storm the next moment cov
erecl it, yet he determined to push on a
w farther and make sure of it.
Luckily he did not get ended quite fortunately, out of ear
shot, and the whole
but it was a big pies risk to run. As our
frozen mince began to warm up
and the coffee to send off a fragrant
steam, Moore sang, exultantly,
We made a great picture as we sat
a,,(m ud the red-hot stove, with our lur
^‘ a l )R an '^ buffalo overcoats on. I lie
lantern threw a red light over us through
its smoky side, and the open jaws ox the
coal stove though brought out every the line witches ol our
faces as we were m
Macbeth huddled around the caldron,
P n oll J' heads the silted snow tell at
intervals like showers ol red flakes of
R°W, while the frail structure creaked
groaned in toe blast, the siunv
lashed the windows, and rushed like a
pack of wolves about the door. Alter
“’°d anil warmth, we sat thus talking
and singing till we felt weary and s.eepy
w “b the cold*; and then our host led us
'<> the upper story of the house, where
the bed stood which Moore used when
he came to sleep on his chum, and upon
this wo piled our blankets and robes,aud
then under them.
hen I awoke uio next morning all
wa ® still still as the grave; not a sound
save the heavy breathing of creaking my com- of
panions _ arid the occasional
the wood under the terrible cold, as
Mill ns though the snow had buried us
d® e P under its soft weight. And f
s 'iall never forget how it looked as 1
stepped No out would into the morning dream air. that the
one ever
night before this calm plain had been
lashed and duven by rule an appalling night tern- !>c
peM- 1 lie terrible of the
f°re seemed almost a dream. 1 here was
no receding swell upon this ocean, as
' l l K ’ n ^ <: Atlantic; on the contrary, it
looked so marble-liko and still that cine
could hardly imagine it ever being
moved again. The brilliant sun flashed
from millions of ice-points on the snow.
making a broad way ol dazzling gold
ana diamonds—a loyal wry for the corn
ing of the morning. Its glory was al
most, not quite, a compensation for the
experience of the previous night, 'ihat
night, as we sat around the cannon
stove in the Wamburger grocery “with in
Boomtown, Mooie told our story
trimmings,” adding among other things
the actual fact that, the thermometer was
thirty-eight below zero. Thu other
trimmings which were not facts I will
not mention. Moore is a good fellow,
and undoubtedly regrets the exaggera
tions which the enthusiasm of the mo
ment induced— JIarpir’t Weekly.
wCleveland's * Tired Arm '
“I should think your arm would be
paralyzed,” GU,e,I),„,orr.d Qlabt-Dmocrat a Washington ventured ventured correspondent
of of the the to to say say te te
Mrs. Mrs. Cleveland Cleveland after after one one of of the the shake- shake
band receptions at the White Home.
‘‘It istirc-d, ’ she replied, "but it is,
curiously enough, the left arm, not the
right. Gencal Grant was troubled in
the same way-the arm that tired was
the one not shaken. This mysterious
puzzle can be left to the physiologists. ’
-----——----
There are 10,548 more men than women
i B yf an itoha
Cl’It IOCS FACTS.
Morphia was discovered in opium by
Sertuerncr in 1803.
There aro $1,000,000,000 worth of
diamonds in the world.
Two hundred thousand infants under
two yeavs old aro believed to bo farmed
out in France.
The art of starching linen was intro
duced into England by a Mrs. Dinghoin,
a Flemish woman, iu 1553.
Postmasters say that more letters are
mailed in the month of September than
in any other month in the year.
this A third of the said whole have wheat been product sold of in
country is to
six days’ time in New York City.
It requires ten ears to tako $2,500
worth of grain to market, while the same
value of butter can be carried in half a
ear.
Mrs. Eliza Waldron, who died in
Akron, Ohio, a few days ago, nine weighed feet
3115 pounds and measured
around the waist. Fhe was fifty-four
years old.
The harbor of Charleston, S. C., used
to abound with blackiish. but the earth
quake seems to have seared them away,
for since the great shake up hardly one
has been caught.
There are lace curtains in I he parlors Balti
of Robert Garrett’s million dollar
more mansion which cost $200 a yard.
Some of the carpets on the floors are act
ually worth their weight in gold.
A Maino man who_ owns a big and
shaggy and black Newfoundland had dog,
cut off the dog’s hair carefully, it
carded and spun, ami got two ami a
quarter pounds of jet black yarn as soft
as lamb's wool.
An Orlando (Fla.) newspaper man has
substituted a pair of sand-hill cranes for
watchdogs, and he finds that their loud
clear note of warning when a tramp or
a burglar comes near, is au effective
means of protection.
The petrified remains of a buffalo of
great size were dug up at Belleville,
Kan., recently by workmen who were
excavating for a coal shaft, The re
mains were found at a depth of 0 leet
below the earth’s surface and were iu a
fine state of preservation. India
The first Europe;-r. settlements in
were those established hy Yarco de Gama
at Cochin iu 1502. These were l’ovtu
guese settlements. The Dutch obtained
a footing in India, iu 1002, the French
in 1044. The English established facto
ries at Surat and other places in 1012.
Mr. K. It. Hammond, of Summerville,
Ga., cut down au old oak tree on his
plantation tlie other day and found iu
the heart of the tvee the blade of a
knife. The rings on the tree show that
it is at least fifty-eight yens old, and
the knife blade must have been broken
oil in it when it was a sapling.
One of tlie paviug professions of
Paris is said to be that of trunk packer.
In many of the little trunk shops you
can hire for lor y cents an hour a man
who will pack your trunk artistically,
folding expensive gowns and other gar
ments in tissue paper, and stowing away
delicate bric-a-brac in the safest way.
A Word lo Stiorers.
It is perfectly true that no one ever
heard of a snoring savage, In fart, if
the wild man of the woods and plains
does not sltej. quietly, he runs the risk
of being discovered by his enemy, and
thcscalpof the snorcr would soon adorn
the belt of his crafty and more silent
sleeping adversary. Iu the natural state,
then, “natural selection” weeJs out
tho-e who disturb their with neighbors With by
making night hideous have snores. changed
civilization, however, we
all this The impure air of catarrhal our sleeping af
rooms induces all kinds of
fections. Tip: nasal passages are tlie first
to become affected, instead of warming lungs
the inspired air on its way to the
and removing from it the loaded, dangerous the im
purities with which it is nose
becomes obstructed. A part of the air
enters anti escapes by way of the mouth.
The veil of the palate vibrates between
the two currents—that through through tho
month and the one still passing
tire partially closed nostrils—like a torn
rail in the wind. The snore, then, means
that the sleeper’s partially mouth impartially closed, and open, that
that his nose is
his lungs are in danger from tho air not
being properly warmed operation and purified. of these
From the continual
causes—the increase of impure air in
sleepirg rooms and permitting habitual
suorers to escape 'killing and scalping—
s-.mc scientists have predicted will that all
men (and the women, too!) teeth snore. and
It goes along with decay of the
bald headedness.— Fireside.
Fish Living in Hot Water.
There is a pond on tlie Lay ranch at
Colconda, which is fed by the waters
from the hot springs. This and pond the has an
area of two or three acres, tern
perature of the water is about eighty-five
degrees, and ;n ome from places the where bottom the
hot water bubbles up
the temperature i; almost up to the boil
in- point. Jleeenily the discovery has
been unde that this warm lake is lit
e-.-aily alive with carp, some of which are
more than a foot long. All efforts to
cat h then) witli a hook and line have
failed, as they will not touch the most
tempting bait. A few of them have been
shot, and, contrary to the general sup
position, position, the the fie-l, flesh was was hard hard and and palata- j.alata
hie. hie. How How the the fish fish got got into into the the lake lake in is a a
mystery mystery unsolved. unsolved. Within Within 100 10i) feet leet of of it it
are are springs springs which which arc are boiling lulling hot, hot, and and
the ranchers in the v i noty n-e the water
to sc-.id ing: in the butchering season,
_N,/r,r Slate.
——— —
According to a Boston statistician
“the co.-t of the femes in the t'nited
i* “‘.omil
debt.’
NO. 21.
FORGET ME NOT.
Like tho breath of the roao3, sigh
To slumber against your cheek—
Like a heart pulse, softly dying,
—By passion rendered weak—
Like a whisper faintly heard,
The recoil of a tiny word—
Into the distance flying
Dearest, I hear you speak:
Forget mo not—forget me
’Tis pleasant pain to part
When love is not forgot;
Forget me not—forgot me not!
Your words aro in my heart;
Forget me not—
Not like an organ, pealing
Down the cathedral aisle
To the black-robed fig ire, kneeling,
With tho more than earthly smile
But an echo that no man knows,
That lingers, and thrills, and goos
Into the distance stealing—
1 boar you all tbo while:
Forget me not—forget mo not
'Tis pleasant pam to part
When love ts not forgot;
Forget me not—forget me notl
Your words aro In my heart;
Forget mo notl
Like a liymn of gladness, sbowtr.
The strength of the holy spo'J
Like tho toarful joy outflowing
At tho chime of tho vesper 'icll—
Like a prophecy, told anew
But ever and ever true—
Into the distance going—
I hear your sweet farewell;
Forget me not—forget nr
’Tis pleasant pain to nart
When love is not forgot;
Forget mo not—forget aT
Your words are in my heart ;
Forget me not! —Boston Pilot.
PITH AND POINT.
Always ou top—The roof.
The game of authors—Reed birds.
Ofttimes it gives ft man a cold chill to
get “tired.”
Was Noah's celebrated vessel lighted
by an are lamp?
Cleaning upsets two things badly—a
bouse and a watch.
It’s a warm day for a man when he
makes a cool thousand.— Life.
The unlucky man declared if it should
rain soup he’d just about be out in the
field with a hay-fork.
'There are some people who don’t want
the earth. They belong to cremation so
cieties.— Hodtenkr Ptrt-J'J.r/ircs.i.
A wise reflection by Jones: “Doesn’t
it strike you as rather odd that while tho
papers are daily commenting on the de
cease of celebrated men they never an
nounce their birth?”
Frank .James is clerking in a store in
Austin, Texas. When he reaches in his
pocket fora lead pencil and shouts:
“Gash!” all the customers jump to their
feet and throw up their hands.
4< Fire! J> bIio yelled in his slumbering 1 ear
At the morning hour bewitebiu 1 ,
With a sudden spring be was out: “Where?
Where?”
Mlie replied: “Make one in the kitchen I’’
—Detroit Free Press.
According to a Tucson paper “ Chief
Hole-in-tbe-Snow hankers after mote
scalps.’’ Ip, noble champions of Yankee
Doodle! Let ms wipe .—Birmingham the ground with Be
this red hanker-chief
public.'in.
Mrs. Cassidy—“Why don’t you come
down and see me, Mrs. McGinnis?” Mrs.
McGinnis —“And it’s you that’s talkin’,
Sir*. Cassidy; and not a sight did I see
of ye sine : last Aister! Sure, if 1 lived
as near to you as you do to me, I’d he
droppln’ in every week.”— Graphic.
In Washington: Katharine—“Well,
Charlotte, 1 hear you are to be married?”
Charlotte— “ Yes; Katharine—“Will it takeB place very
soon now.” you
elope?” Charlotte—“ Of course I won’t.
I’m not in the chestnut business. I shall
get married in tlie regular way and startle
society.” Wuslnnijton Critic.
In the low ceilingert roof of a strange hotel,
When a man is changing his shirt,
Amt jatis liis tumb in the much plaster above,
Hr growls, but is not hurt; train
But in hustling the collar ou for a
That’s nearly due by tho clock, button
How mad ho gets when the goes
clown, in his soc-k.
Deep down, ’way down —OU Cit Blizzard.
)
A tall Missourian called at the distric
school, and, eyeing tlie teacher sternly,
said: “My hoy Henry tells me you
whipped him last evening.” “ Yes,”
as--ented the teacher, edging toward the
door, “ hut lie deserved it, 1 assure you.”
“And he says you used a rawhide on
him.” “ Yen, sir, but-” “And you
slapped him with your hands as well.”
“I did, but I assure you--” pointer: “Assure
nothin’ Let me give you a
When he you doesn’t have to punish for that rawhides.”— hoy use a
club; Journal. care
Nebraska Stale.
Buffalo !■ arming,
Much has been written about the terri
bleloss of life in tlie being Northwest due during the
tlie recent blizzard to
scarcity of buffalo robes, which con
tri bu, e the only defense against the
rigors of that country. It is true that a
buffalo robe or coat is now beyond the
rea ,-h „f those with slender purses, andit
j s true that for certain purposes the
bufVa i 0 hide and fur are superior to any
o!ill:rs . This leads me to the suggestion
that if some of the great cattle kings of
the West would buffalo give up raising they cuttle
,mdgo into farming would
find it only an immensely would profitable hide obtainable business,
Not every
And a ready sale, but the meat would
find a market in the cities, and the refuse
of the carcass could lie made into the
dozen articles of auords,-- profitable Globe-Drimr^t, cominerxe that
the steer now