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YOL. I.
The British Government is about to
abandon the island of Ascension, 730
miles south of St. Helena, which it
s ei/ed in 1815, solely for the purpose of
preventing the possible escape of Na
poleon.
The new Orphan’s Home at San Diego,
Cal promises to be one of the most im
portant aud best-endowed charitable in
stitutions in the Union. In addition to
thc Home proper there will be an educa
tional and technical school. Four cit
izens of San Diego have subscribed $2,
000,000, and the city has given 100
acres of land in the city limits, worth
nearly $1,000,000.
One hundred and thirty miles ot
electric railroad are now in operation in
this country, and nearly 200 miles more
are in process of construction, The At
lanta Constitution prophesies that “thc
electric motor will at some time do away
with steam, and ihe many improvements
now being made in the application of
electricity gives room for the belief that
the day is not far distant when such
practical application of it can bo made as
to make it the general motive power
throughout the world.”
AV. A. Lyman, of Milford, Conn., is
making the smallest possible specimen of
an engine. It will be made with a silver
half dollar. The boiler is to hold about
eight drops of water, but with four
drops the engine can be worked several
minutes. When finished, it is to be
placed in a glass case three-quarters of
an inch in diameter aud an inch aud
one eight in height. Some of the parts
will lie so fine and delicate that they
cannot be made without the use of a
magnifying glass.
The French have discovered an an
nexable island in the Pacific, declares
the New York Times , and have straight
way proceeded to annex it. Their ac
quisition is llaratonga, which lias an
area of possibly fifty square miles. It is
more of an island than some recent
British annexations, since it at least can
and does support a population of several
thousand natives, who live in those set
tlements. Karatonga is a leading island
of the Cook or Uervey group, made
very well known to the world through
the successful labors of missionaries,
who have converted a great part of the
neoQje to
The Mexican paper, Diario del Ho jar,
tells of a large railroad contract for the
construction of a road by an English
syndicate, from Espcranza to Oaxaca,
which was signed a few days since in the
City of Mexico by General Pacheco,
representing thc Mexico government,
and Mr. Louis Pombo, as representative
of the syndicate, by which the govern
ment guarantees to the company 8 per
cent per annum of thc net proceeds on
the capital invested in tlie building of
the road for a term of fifteen years; the
total proceeds from the stamp revenue of
the Mate of Oaxaca to bo appropriated
to this purpose, as also 8 per cent of all
the customhouse collections throughout
tlie entire republic.
So vast have modern fortunes become,
■remarks the New York Pun, that the
term millionaire lias taken on a new sig
nificance. A millionaire no longer means
a man who possesses one million of
francs in France, of lires in Italy, of rou
hies in llussia, of dollars with us, but,
according to “the modern phraseology
started by Sir Morton l’cto and Janies
■McHenry, and adopted in England and
file United States,” lie is the possessor
•°f £1,000,000 iu England, $5,000,00 ) in
’his country, and 25,000,000 francs in
i'ranee. Following that standard, M.
fie \ arigny estimates that out of a total
°f 1 00 thc proportionate number of
millionaires in the different countries is:
i-Qgland, 200; United States, 100; Ger
many and Austria, 100; France, 75;
hussia, 50; India, 50; other countries,
125.
The Charleston News and Courier
t-lairns that Claflin University, located at
Grangeburg S. C., is the model tiniver
sitr rtf tv, e o ou tn * tor colored . people,
1
there ___ P eo P* c a . the recent
-
mencement exercises. The 1 niver
f ffy has seventeen teachers, fourteen
superintendents and 945 studr-nts ’ it PV ' .
ceeds in si/o m C r amous school , . at Ilamn- TT
ton >ia. Y \r More than , five hundred students
actually pay for their own education by
the work of their hands In the rurnVu.
lam ’
are six- courses °f f stuay, , - ... .
strum- cuon in nine different industries,
m-ented by rep
nine special schools of agri
culture, carpentry aud cabinet makbU
Printing tailmi nn shoemakin i , S’P alnt ' n S
and srraini ? blacKsmithing, ,'-> merchan
“‘»mg and domestic economy. The
I Diversity was ”•*» founded iounaeo 1,V by Mr. n Claflin, fl;
- a n
ofp Jn ^ * s upheld by Louth
r ’
v_ ,. whicli
J iDci, giv63 it fiiuuiciai
assistance and moral
"Our Ambition is to make a Yeracious Work, Reliable in
GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1888-
THE MAJORITY.
How fare they all, they of the pallid faces,
Beyond our power to beckon their return?
How is it with them in the shadow places?
How shall we learn
Their solemn secret? How can we discover.
By any earnest seeking, the true way
Uuto the knowing in what realm they hover,
In what high day,
’
They are forever hiddou from our si bt;
We question vainly. Yet it somehow pleases,
When they have spoken the last sad good-by,
It somehow half the pain of parting eases,
That in the sky,
In the vast solitudes of stars and spaces,
There may be consciousness and life aud
hope.
Ami that when we must yield to death’s eni
braces.
There may he scope
For the unfolding of the better powers;.
So sadly stilled in this life of ours.
—Tracy Robinson, in Boston Transcript,
THE CANNOH’S M0UTK
BY F. A. MITCItEIi,
First, They said it was a forced march.
some soldiers on horseback went
tearing by with a terrible clatter, leaving
a cloud of dust behind them, then it was
all quiet for an hour. I heard <t tramp
ing, and looking up to thc crest of rising
ground to the north, saw the road
packed with soldiers cm foot. They
came quickly up, and I scarcely had time
to see what they looked like before those
in front had passed. They didn’t march
like soldiers I had seen in the city on a
gala day, when I was a little girl; they
hurried along, each man walking as lie
liked I wondered how they could
go so fast, they were loaded down so.
They carried great heavy knapsacks and
blankets, sides their and tin pans and canteens, be
muskets. They look more as
if they were going to set up house-keep
ing While than to war.
I was leaning on the widow
sill, looking out and watching them, 1
saw a young officer ride into the yard,
just as if he belonged to the place—or,
rather, as if the place belonged ' to him —
and back toward the barn. Two soldiers
rode dose behind him, and they got
down oil their horses aud went into the
barn. I thought at once they were after
our horses. My pony was there, and
I made up my mind they shouldn’t
take him without walking over my dead
barn. body. I ran down stairs and out to the
If I had been making a forced
march myself 1 couldn’t have gone faster.
Before 1 got there they had two horses
out, farm and were I harnessing marched straight them to the
the Officer wagon. up to
and asked him what he was
dd.vrgr'-' .....
He was a trifle startled at seeing a girl
standing before him, looking as if she
intended to make a resistance.
“We’re ’pressing all the horses and
wagons we find along the road,” he
said.
“What do you mean by ’pressing
them ?”
“We’re ’pressing them into the ser
vice.”
“What for?”
“To carry the men’s knapsacks. They
can march faster.”
“Do you think it makes it any more
respectable to call it 'pressing?"
The officer’s face was flushed. I
thought it was because he was ashamed
of his work; but I soon noticed that he
was in a burning fever.
“You shan’t take my pony, anyway,”
T cried, going to a man who was leading
him out of the barn and seizing the
halter.
“Nevermind that horse,” said the of
ficer; “it’s only a pony. Take it back
into the stable.”
The man obeyed at once. They har
nessed two horses to the wagon, and
led the team into the road. As thc
soldiers marched past it they threw their
knapsacks on the wagon, and it was
soon loaded, and one of the negroes
drove it away.
Just then an officer came along with
a number of other officers and a train of
i horsemen following f him •» 1 noticed . * ill that
lie had stars on his shoulders, and wore
a straight sword instead of a crooked one
lme tne rest.
“Captain,” he said, looking at the of
ficer who had taken our horses and
wagon, “you'd better not try to go any
farther.”
“1 can go on, general. It’s only_ in
termittent.”
The general cut him short with, “Stop
where , you are.” „ He „ spoke . so sharp , that .
1 though, he was going to bite the cap
tain s head off. I wished the captain
had the courage to answer him, but he
hadn t. The general and those who
were with him rode on, leaving the sick
man sitting on Ins horse looking after
them, to take care of himsc.lt as best he
could. I noticed lie wore the same orna
meat on his . . cap as those , about , the , gen
era j— a wr eath—and I concluded he was
oneoi . them.
There was an interval in the passing .
regiments, and no one was near but the
captain and ine.
What are you going to do : I asked
him.
I was sitting on the fence, with my
dangling. It wasn’t a very graceful
position, but I was only a country girl
then, and didn t know any better.
“I don’t know,” he said, wearily; “I
suppose I must ride back to A-.
There’s hadn a hospital been there.” and ro1
If he ' ,t; a Vankee a ’
ber, or a ’presser, which is the same
thing, I’d have asked him to come into
the house at once, he looked so sick.
“Aren’t you ashamed of yourself,” I
said, “to take horses that don’t belong
t0 you?”
j( e did look ashamed. “It isn't a
pleasant business,” he said. “You’d
better get that pony of yours out of the
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m
way; there’ll be more troops along here
by-and-bv.”
\Y hen he said this his voice
so I made pleasant, and he looked so sick,
up my mind to ask him in. But
I couldn’t bring myself to speak kindly
to hint. I couldn’t forget that he was a
Yankee soldier.
“Come into the house,” I said, sharply;
He looked at me out of his melancholy!
feverish eyes.
Y-and “.No, 1 thank you. I’ll ride back to
he turned his horse’s head
to ride away.
I called to him to stop, He obeyed
me, and I went out into the road and
took bold of his bridle.
“What do you mean by that?” he
asked, surprised.
going to ’press your horse.”
“What for?”
“•To keep for the safe return of those
you’ve taken.”
He looked at me sort o’ dazed. lie
put liis hand to his head, and didn’t
seem to know what to do. I led his
horse up to ihe veranda. lie dismount
ed and walked feebly up the steps and
sat down on a bench, while I took his
horse round to the barn.
had Well, typhoid the captain was put to bed. He
fever, and a very bad case
it Was. Occasionally, when
Would come into the neighborhood,
wound mount my pony, and ride
to their camp and ask to have a surgeon
come and see him. Between the sur
geons and my nursing we got him
through the crisis. I nursed him for
six weeks. Then lie became con
him valescent, and it was very nice to have
sitting up in an arm-chair and ott the
veranda looking so pale handsome,
I used to sit by him with my work, and
he seemed so gentle and so patient—not
at all like he appeared to me when I
first saw him riding back to the barn to
’press the horses—that of I began to feel
sorry he wasn’t one our own men in
stead Yankee. of being nothing but a detestable
One day while I was sitting on the
veranda beside him, sewing, he said:
“Miss Molly, are you still holding my
horse as a hostage?”
“Yes. Ours haven’t come back yet.”
“Don’t you think you could let me
take him when I get well, if I should
promise to go and find your horses, and
have them returned?”
“I’ll see about that when you get
well.”
He’d been talking already about going
On to join the army, but I din’t think
him well enough, and didn’t mean to let
him go. He couldn’t very well go
without his horse, so I wouldn’t let him
have it.
“Whathostage do you require in token
of my appreciation of your kindness since
I’ve been sick?” he asked.
“You haven’t anything to leave. Be
sides, I’ve done very little, I’m sure.”
somewhat He thought sadly: a moment. Then he said,
“Y'es; there’s one thing I can leave—
only one. I’ll leave that with you.”
1 couldn’t think of anything be had
except his revolver, and I was sure he
wouldn’t leave that. It wasn’t appro
pi iate. 1 waited for him to tell me, but
he said nothing about it then.
At last he was well enough to go. At
least he thought so; I didn’t, lie was
still as weak as a kitten, but I saw how
anxious he was, and I didn’t oppose him
any longer. So one pleasant morning,
when the air was soft and the roads were
dry, I told one of the colored boys to
bring the captain’s horse round from the
barn.
The captain stood on the veranda ready
to mount and ride away, liis blanket and
rubber saddle, poncho be were had strapped left them, behind and the his
just as
horse was so anxious to be off that the
boy could hardly hold him. The can
tain took my hand in his to say good-by,
and looked straight into my eyes. I
lowered them to his spurs.
“You’re a good girl,” lie said. “I’ll
not forget your kindness.”
“Oh, J would have done the same for
one.”
“Any one?”
“Any one.”
Then I asked myself: “What did 1
want to say that for.”
™
1 ’ ' l I ' ‘ P u 'l[ n
much , kindness—a • , mere bagatelle, , „
j could have bitte n ln y tongue off. He
j j to make a rcturn-to pay 1 3 for
h d donc for him .
“Yon will find it,” ’ he added, “if you
thc shrewdnc ss to guess b where it
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With that he gave my hand a pressure,
and looked long and steadily into my
eyes. Then he mounted his horse and
rode away without once looking back.
As soon as be had ft gone l commenced
to think what hc cou mefln about leav
j n g a hostage. I was sure he wouldn’t
oder any thing very valuable. He must
know j wouldn’t like that; but I thought
be m ight leave some little trinket lor me
to remember him by. I ransacked the
room be bad occupied, looking into
buleau drawers, into closets, any place
the ingenuity of man could find to hide
anything. I even looked behind the
pictures hanging thc on the wall. Then I
went all over house from attic
Then ce ii ar recalled _ Not his a thing words: could 1 find,
I “IS you are
shrewd enough to guess where it is,” and
wea t a ll over my search again. AtlastI
gave it up. “A pretty way to treat me,”
p grumbled, “after that taking care of him so
i on gp> j vowed if ever I should
gee him again he should tell me whether
he Lad really left anything, and what it
was<
* .,* ’ * * * * *
„ ?iU , ! ‘u,
front. , ‘ ? Stragglers, f, r broken-down i „, horsey
wagons, ambulances from which now
and a ghastly face would look out 1
days. ( ^ e >* g °Thevard' The yard, \he thebarn, ^barn'^the the kitchen kitchen,
were full of men. They first day they
drank up all the water in the well. J hen
regiments marched almost as fast as
wkeu they were making their forced
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Candid in its Conclusions, and Just in its Views. ”
uarch South. Vi st0 They L” passed th on by thq j
un St ’ Ul Pl K>t u ® cre ? t of lbo
i up the road. 1 here they began to ;
tig with spades and shovels, and the I
next morning long when I looked out there 1 |
vas a hue of forts, and the Yankee
f»g „ flying a , above . them, , and, , great lioav- ,
msPthe black mouths of cannon frown
i ^ < 0 "," at uS * !
While 1 was looking . I heard some- j
ning rattl e far down the road. It,
sounded like emptying a barrel of stones ;
nto another barrel. 1 lieu another rat- j
;le, mingled with a constant dull doom-|
(ng. All the morning the sounds kept j
Joining'nearer, till at. last 1 could dis
inctly bear the loud reports of
f. iced j a muskets great stir all in fired the at forts once. above, T no- j
lloisemen were galloping back and
forth; new guns were every moment
,trusting out their ugly mouths, and
men were marcning and countermaicli
ng. I could hear their officers shout
tug gibberish at them, which they must
lave been.liid.au or ( liiueso to under
itaud. hen more soldiers passed the
jouse from the > outli, tued, dusty,
grimed, wounded some and of them running some
All passed tottering steady along behind slowly,
in a stream the
forts.
house—he Suddenly a hosreman dashed up to the
was all dust and dirt, and his
horse was covered With foam, lie threw
himself from the saddle and came up on
to the veranda.
Good gracious! the captain.
“Come away from here at once,” he
said: “our men are retreating; we are
going to make a stand behind the
works. the You are is directly in range, Bo
quick! fire liable to open at any
•moment.”
Then there was a scramble to snatch a
few things. One took a lamp, another
It a pitcher, seemed another if everybody a photograph album.
as took the most
Useless thing to be found. All except
me were hurrying down thc walk to the
gate; I stayed behind. The captain tried
to make me hurry. lie was stamping
Up nnd down on the veranda and through
ihe hall, almost crazy at iny delay.
“Come, be quick 1” he said, as
as if he were the general himself.
“Captain—” I said, hesitating. impaticn
“What, is it?" he asked,
“The “What hostage.” hostage?”
“That you left when you went away,
couldn’t find it. Must we leave it.”
He looked at me a moment as if he
thought burst I had lost my senses; then he
into a laugh.
I never could stand to be laughed at,
and just then made it was particularly mind that obnox- he
ious. I up my
Should tell me wliat I bad bunted for,
ind tell me there ana then.
“Never mind that,” lie said, seeing
that I was irritated. “Save yourself and
A will be in no especial danger. “
..pji n( , t ] tavu whatever it is,” I
said, resolutely.
“Come, come! this will be a battle
field in a few minutes.”
“I won’t stir a step till you toll mo
what I want to know.”
“Nonsense!” he said, severely.
The more severe his tone, the more
resolute I became. I stood stock-still.
“For Heaven’s sake!” he urged, be
coming really frightened; “the gunners
are standing with the lanyards in their
hands ready to tire.”
“Let them fire!” I folded my arms.
A volley sounded a short distanco
down the line of forts to thc west. Tito
captain “Do come,” tried to he seize pleaded. my wrist.
“Tell me what was the hostage,” I
said, stubbornly.
“Here?”
“Here.”
“No, no; this is not a fit place to tell
you that. For the love of Heaven do
come vowed away!” would him die
I I conquer or on
the field.
“You shall either tell me or I will stay
here till the battle is over.”
He looked at the frowning forts
anxiously, then back at me.
“Y T ou must know?”
“Yes.”
“Now?”
“Now.”
“Well, then, Molly dear, I left you my
heart.”
“f stood as one who sees an engine and
coming straight down on him, sud
whose limbs are paralyzed from the
denness of the discovery. Merciful
Heaven! what had 1 done? What stu
pidity! The blood rushed in a torrent
to my cheeks; I covered my face with
my hands,
“And now, sweetheart” taking one of
my hands from my burning cheek and
leading me away—“if you’re satisfied
about tile hostage, we won’t stay hero
any longer.” explosion in
As he spoke there was an
the forts, and it seemed as if a dozen
shrieking cats were whirling of over would our
heads, I almost wished one t hem
strike me dead. The captain led me like
a child toward the forts through smoke
and noise and confusion. I didn’t think
of the battle that was opening; I only
thought how immodest he must think
me, and that he never would believe I
could be so stupid as not to know what
he I meant have had by leaving a hostage. for that
to suffer all my life
one mistake. I never can have my way
about anything; for when my husband
finds all other expedients for
to be failures, he invaribly taunts me
non’smouth.— with having forced hi.s secret Weekly. at the
Earner's
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Experiments by Karg, Kolliker,
Abey demonstrate that the skin of a
person transplanted on thc skin of
colored man becomes as black
of the African. On thc contrary, tJ.e
of a colored man inoculated on' the
of a white person ] oges j ts
becomes as white as its surrounding
The new St. Catherine’s Light, Isle
Wight, -will be the most powerful
trie light in the world.
The Climate of Siberia.
From George Kcnnan’s account of the
"Plains and Prisons of Western Siberia”
in the Century we quote the following:
“It is hardly necessary to say that a
country which has an area of five and a
ba if million square miles, and which cx
teilds in latitude as far as from the
southern extremity of Greenland to the
i9land ot Cu h a , must present great diver
sities of climate, topography, ^ and vegeta
tion> and cannot everywhere a barren
arctic waste. A mere glance at a map is
suf ticient to show that a considerable
pald 0 f wes | cra Siberia lies further south
than Nice, Venice, or Milan, and that
the southern boundary of the Siberian
province '. of Semirechinsk is nearer the
( quator dlan Kapleg> !n a country
which thus stretches ftotn the latitude
of Ita)y to the mtitude of central Grcen
j and ono would naturally expect to find,
aud a sa matter of fact one does find,
n ,nny varieties of climate and scenery,
j n gome parts of the province of Yakutsk
i bc mean temperature of the month of
January is more than 00 degrees below of
/ero p a i lr while in the province
Bemipalatinskthcmeantcmnwatureof the
month of July is 72 degrees above; and
such maximum temperatures as 1)5 and 100
degrees in the the shade are peninsula, comparatively east
common. On 'Taimyr permanently
of the Gulf of <)b, the
frozen ground thaws out in summer to a
depth of only a few inches, and supports
but a scanty vegetation of berry buslies
and mo s, while in the southern part of ,
Western Siberia watermelons and canta
loupes are a profitable crop, tobacco is
grown upon thousands of annually plantations,
aud the peasants harvest more
than 50,000,000 bushels of grain. The
fact which l desire especially reader to that impress Sibe
upon the mind of the is
ria is not everywhere uniform and homo
generous. The northern part of the
country differs from the southern part
quite as much as the Hudson Bay. Terri
tory differs from Kentucky; and it is as
great a mistake to attribute the cold and
barrenness of the Lena delta to the whole
of Siberia as it would be to attribute
the cold and barrenness of King
William Laud to the whole of North
America.
“To the traveler who crosses the
Urals for thc first time in June nothing
is more surprising than the fervent heat
of Siberian sunshine anil the extra
ordinary beauty and profusion of
Siberian flowers. Although we had
been the partly prepared, the experience by our voyage which up
Kama, for
awaited us on the other side of
mountains, wc were fairly
upon the threshold of western
by the scenery, the weather, and
flora. In the fertile, blooming
presented to us as wc rode swiftly east
ward into the province of Tobolsk,
was absolutely nothing even remotely
suggest an arctic region. If we
suddenly been blindfolded the middle and transported of to
in a sunny
noon, we could never have guessed had been
what part of the world we
taken. 'The sky was as clear and
and thc air as soft ns the sky and air
California; the trees were all in full leaf;
birds were singing over the flowery
meadows and in the clumps of birches
by the roadside; there were a drowsy
hum of bees and a faint lagranec the of
flowers and verdure in the air; and
sunshine was as warm nnd bright as that
of a June afternoon in the most favored
part of the globe.”
The Coenilie Ilahit.
Dr. C. F. Belcher, of St. Louis, said: in an
interview in Chicago recently,
The cocaine habit is now as regularly an
accepted disease as phthisis than or gout. dozen We
have in St. Louis more a
cases of it men and women who have
let this fatal drng get tho mastery of
them, and who have been completely
wrecked by its effects. One of our phy
sicians is among the number one of the
brightest men in the profession, treated Deis
now in an insane asylum being
for this habit. Cocaine is worse than
alcohol and opium pul. together. the It robs
a man of his will power from start,
anil changes him into a drunken bea t
after the first exhilaration passes away.
I do not know of any drug which moral seems side.
to attack so severely man’s
The cocaine us r becomes a villain as
naturally as a chloroformed man goes to
sleep. 1 In loses his sense of right and wrong
and is violent, passionate and brutal.
The effect is the same in both sexes, i
have studied cases enough to know that
cocaine must affect that part of the
brain, if there is such a localization,
where what wo call man’s moral quali
ties abide.
Training Athletes.
It is weil known that pugilists, pe
destrians and others who perform in
public feats requiring great strength and
endurance undergo beforehand severe
training to develop their powers to the
utmost. The rules laid down by their
trainers are very strict and rigidly en
'forced. The following are a few with
regard to diet: Little salt. Xo coarse
vegetable. No pork or veal. Two meals
a day—breakfast at 8 and dinner at 2.
If supper is allowed at all, it must be a
very light and simple one several hours
before bedtime,and is not recommended,
it is reckoned much against a man's
wind to go to bed with a full stomach.
No fat meat is ever given, and r.o butter
and cheese, both of which are considered
indigestible. Dies and pastry arc
allowed. Meal must always be taken
fresh, and not seasoned. Salt meats
not allowed. Puddings and
dumplings are considered unfit to
eaten. The trainers say “people may
well take earthenware into
stomachs.”
_
The London and Northwestern
way Company has begun to lay
along the Shropshire Canal in order
try the substitutmn of locomotives
lwrses for caQal boats -
NO. 40.
HOW IT HAPPENED,
I got to thinkin’ of her—both her parents
dead and gone—
And all her sisters married off, and none but
her and John
A-livin’ all alone there in that lonesome sort
o’ way,
Ami him a blame old bachelor, e firmder
ev’ry day!
I’d knowod ’em all from children, and their
daddy from the time
He settled in the neighborhood, and hadn’t
ary a dime
Er dollar, when ho married, fer to start
housekeepin’ on! —
So 1 got to thinkin’ of her—both her parents
dead and gone!
I got to thinkin’ of her, and a wundem what
i she done
That .-ill her sisters kep’ a-gettin’ married, one
by one.
And her without no chances—aivl the best
girl of the pack—
An old maid with her hands, you might say,
tied behind her back!
And mother, too, afore she died, she ust to
jes’ take on,
,When none of’em was loft, you know, but
Kvaline and John,
And jes’ declare to goodness ’at the young
men must be bline
To not see what a wife they’d git, if they got
Kvaline!
I got to thinkin’ of her; in my great afflic
tion she
Was sick a comfort to us, and so kind and
neighborly—
She’d come, and leave her housework, for to
help out little Jane,
And talk of her own mother ’at she’d nover
see again—
Maybe sometimes cry together—though, for
the most part, she
Would have the child so riconciled and happy
like, ’at wo
Felt lonqsomer’n ever when she’d put her
bonnet on
And say she’d railly Uaf to bo a-gittin’ back
to John!
I got to thinkin’ of lior, ns I say—and more
anil more
I’d think of her dependence, and the burdens
’at slio boro—
Her parents both a-bein’ dead, and all her
sisters gono
And married off, and lior a-livin’ there alone
with John—
You might suy jes’ a-toilin’ and a-slavin’ out
her life
Fer a man ’at hadn’t pride enough to got
bisso’f a wife—
’Loss some one married Kvaline and packed
her off somo day—
So I got to thinkin’ of her—and it happened
thataway. Whitcomb Riley.
James
PITH ANDP01NT.
Vein expectations—prospecting for
gold.
A foot-note—“Please use the door
mat.”
Marked intelligence—A ; rofessorwith
a black eye.
That things are mixed up slightly
When Everybody “live knows, beet” ill the garden
a
Of a * ‘dead beat” grows.
—/lansville Breeze.
“All roads lead toroam,” remarked a
tramp, studying a guide board.— Boston.
Budget.
A Jaw prohibiting the intemporate
hoarding of wealth might prevent money
from becoming tight.
A cradle in a house may or may not bo
a boycot. It is just us likely to be a
girl’s nest.— Picayune.
Bride—“Give me a kiss, Harry?” I
Harry—“No; that I cannot do; but
will loan you one -if you will return it.”
— Tidbits.
The Empress of Japan is taking lessons
on the piano. The Mikado’s fifty-seven
physicians arc giving him every atten
tion .—New York World.
Although he covets it from life's birth, brief
Ami covets it. through span,
Man never, never gets the earth,
Jt is the earth that gets the man.
— I.alior Leader.
“Have you Browning?” she asked at
the village store. “No,” replied whiting, tho
clerk; “we have blacking and
but no browning.”— Life.
“Gentleness cannot be kicked into a
cow,” says an exchange. Neither can
tenderness tr there wouldn’t be so much
tough beefsteak .—EnusoUle Breeze.
“What does menu mean, my dear!”
“Food for me an’ you, ’tisclear."
“Whai. does meander mean! Who knows:”
“When me and her out walking goes.
—Mercury.
Seals Very Foiul of Salmon.
Thc baby seal recently added to tho
free menagerie on Morrison street has
seemed content to bask in the sun, eat
the salmon given it, and whine for
more. Saturday, however, it seemed to
wake up to the exigiences of life, and
concluded it had to hustle, so it rolled
into the tank and started to catch one
of the fish, and the way the pair went
around the tank was a caution to alL
observers. The seal weighs pounds only of 10
pounds, but it cats four sal
mon per day and looks around for more.
From this a slight idea may be formed
of the amount of salmon consumed by
the thousands of seals and hundreds of
sea lions which haunt the mouth of the
Columbia, and it would seem that while
the Legislature and the United States
Government of are endeavoring in to keep up
the supply salmon the Columbia
by means of a hatchery they might help
the matter by taking some steps to ex
terminate the seal and sea lions.— Port
txind Oregonian.
A correspondent writes: “How Ion
can a man walk without a rest?”
can walk without arrest just- so long
he behaves himself.
