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VOL. I
The Narrow Way,
Tell me, ye saints
And kings of old,
Where shall we find
The land of gold ?
The heavenly land,
With joys untold ?
Hear what the Spirit
Hath to say ;
"It lies beyond
The gates of day—
J ust at the end
Of the narrow way.
“They who shall choose
To walk therein,
Must bear the cross,
And cast out sin;
And life eternal
* They then shall win.’*
..
There are sharpest thorns
In this narrow way;
There are blackest clouds
To hide the day;
15ut hear what the Spirit
Hath to say;
‘‘Cheer up! cheer up!
Oh, heart of gloom 1
For every thorn
Shall roses bloom
In.the garden of God;
Where there is ro mi
*‘A crown for him
Who day by day,
With patient feet
That never stray,
Baareth his cross
In the narrow wav.”
THE STRANSER.
It was year3 ago, Bessie, when I wa3
but eighteen, aud just engaged to Frank
Fenton. If you want to hear about it,
sit down on the stool at my foot, and
prepare to be bored,
We had been sweethearts for a long
time. Went to church and singing-
school together; rode, walked, danced,
aud took long rows on the river which
ran past my father’s house. In fact,
this had beau going on for so long a
time that we finally decided that we
might as well be always together, and
so the preliminary arrangements were
begun, aud our wedding-day drew
near.
Wc lived on the banks of a river—
one of the loveliest streams in Lousiaua
—a quiet spot some distance from any
plantation; but as soon as our marriage
took place we young folks were to re¬
move to a neighboring parish, and
thither Frank wont, shortly before the
wedding, to prepare our new home.
He left me busy as a be* with the
trousseau and arrangements for the affair,
which was to be a grand one for the
country, as my father was a well-to-do
planter aud I the only child.
He had been absent about a fortnight,
and I was expecting him back daily,
when one day father came, with a
troubled face, into the room where I
was sitting, surrounded by lace and
muslin and dainty necessaries of toilet,
which were ju-t as much the fashion
then ns they are now, Bessie, popular
cant to the contrary, notwithstanding.
“Lottie,” said he, hurriedly, “I’ve
got to go ever to Squire Bint’s to see
about Seine titles. I came near forget¬
ting the appointment, an ! I’ll have to
hurry right fast to get tHere on time.
Can you do without mu?’’ I laughed
and nodded; then suddenly an uneasy
feeling took possession of mi. I re¬
membered the money—quite a large sum
—with which F.auk aud I were to “be-
gin the world,” and which lay securely
hidden away in tho house, the nest egg
of our future fortune.
I knew that I was destined to a lonely
night of it, for father could not pos¬
sibly return within twenty-four hours;
the servants had all gone to a “break-
dawn. ” on a neighboring plantation,
except an aged crone, Aunt Dinah by -
name; my mother was an hi void, weak
and neiVoiis; 1 felt that, alone as I wa’,
the cutlook was not very enlivening.
Father observed my troubled expres-
sion.
“I don’t sec how I cun help it,
daughter,’’ he said gravely. “Tuis is
a very important matter, and admits of
no delay. It is the fault of my treach-
crous memory; had I only remembered
the engagement with the fquire I would
have kept some of the seivants at homo
as protection for you.”
But I was uo coward, aud so I kissed
him and laughed away iiis anxiety, and
saw him depart w.th assumed cheerful-
ness ; but a3 he rode down the avenue
which led to the outer gates, I saw him
turn in the saddle and gaze after me
anxiously once more.
I returned to my houseliol l duties
and my pleasantjtask am : d the billows
of lace and muslin, and so sang and
worked the long, bright day away.
It was nearly sun-et.
I had persuaded mother to lie upon a
couch, which I had pushed out upon
the vine-covered gifl’ery, and seating
myself beside her, I began to read
aloud some wild old tale of super-
natural horrors, upon which I had
stumbled. Before-I hal half finished
I hal worked myself into a state oi
nervousness, an 1 as 1 noticed the piling
face of m; mother, I tossed the book
upon the table, with a contemptuous
expression, and arose to make her tea.
THE ENTERPRISE. «
At that moment the guto bitch
clicked, and as I turned in its direction
I could not repress a cry of alarm.
My eyes fell upon a strange sight.
Tho figuro of a woman—a very dwarf
in size and stature—clad in a fade 1
black dress, with a battered bonuet
upon her head, and a torn shawl about
her tiny, stooping shoulders.
Slowly and hesitatingly the creature
moved up the walk, uutil she had
reached the gallery.
Hero she paused to gaze curiously
upon us, with a pair of round, bead¬
like black eyes.
Then she spoke, in a voice clear and
well-modulated;
“I hate lost my way, ladies,” she
said, beseechingly, “may I crave a
Dight’s shelter?'’
I glanced at my toother. She was
pale and trembled violently.
I had Conceived an unaccountable
aversion to the small stranger; but who
could have the heart to turn a woman
away into the pathless forest, with night
coming down, dark and threatening,
for the sky was overcast, sad there
were signs of an approaching thunder
storm, and the wind moanel drearily in
the boughs of the pine trees.
So I told her that she might remain;
but I resolved to know no slumber that
night, but to watch the long hours
through.
My mother must not bo alarmed; so
sending the stranger to tho kitchen with
Aunt Dinah to get some refreshments,
f coaxed mother to take her tea, and
carried her off to bed in triumph.
It was 10 o’clock before I loft her
sound asleep and stole off to the kitchen
to take an.observation. Oa the thresh-
old I paused, my heart beat wildly, my
brain seemed oa fire; I trembled so that
I could scarcely stand; I pushed the
door ajar and glanced in. What a
sight met my astonished eye3l The
dwarf was standing erect, and young,
and lithe; the woman’s garments ha l
been discarded, and I saw before me a
maD, small, but muscular, and with a
diabolical face. lie was stooping 1 ° over
the form of Aunt Dinah, m one hand a
vial, which he held to her nostrils. 1
comprehended the situation at a glance,
Aunt Dinah was drugged; even the frail
protection of her presence was gone
and tho next step would be mb scry,
perhaps nn.rder.
The villain replaced the vial in his
pocket, with a grin on his ugly face.
•‘There!” he ejaculated, “thut will
work. With the old woman out of the
way, the rest is easy. Lucky tlyit I
know where to look for the rnouey ; it’s
in the old woman’s room, I saw the gal
put it there. Let me see, right hand
corner, top drawer iu dressiug table. ”
It flashed over me then, my own
carelessness, when father had givon the
pocketbook into my keeping; the open
window near us, and some gay words
that I had uttered, all came back to mo.
I was so frightened, it seemed as if
I should die. Thea calmer thoughts
succeeded; and I resolved to fight for
j that money to tho death. Softly I stole
away, and re-entered my mother’s
apartment, Taking the pocketbook
from the drawer, I hid it in my bosom;
and then, piusing, to assure myself
that she still slept, I turned to the hall
where our small provision of fire-arms
were stored. O'.i, heavens! They wero
gone! A low, horrible chuckle fell
upon my ears, The robber stood at
my side, a look of triumph on his hate¬
ful face.
“Well,’ he sneered boldly, “where
is it?’
“What do you mean?” I gasped.
“The money, of course. I’ve just
been to the old woman’s room, but I
find you’ve been too many for me.
Now, girl ’ ho stepped closer to
me and raised one hand threateningly;
his awful eyes glared into mine; his
lips, as they opened, resembled those of
some huge wild animal. “I know-you
have the money; hand it out!’ 1
With a low cry of fear I turned and
fled. Back to tho large, old kitchen,
my heart surging aud beating madly, I
flew like the wind. Old Dinah still
lay upon the floor in blest unconscious¬
ness. I shook her and called aloud
and shrieked for kelp, but no other
sountl broke the stillness save the low,
dreadful laugh of the robber, who had
followed me.
; “Stop that noise? he growled.
“You’re wasting breath, you know.
S-e’s drugged, aud won’t wake till I’m
safe out o’ this. I want that money.
Give it to me and I promise to leave
you iu peace; refuse, aad-’’
I thought of Frank and our future.
“I never will!” I oriel, a. bravely as
I could. Again, that horrible, mock-
ing laugh. He sprang forward and
seized my arm; one hand passed a'round
my waist aud held me tightly, the
other prepare l to clo.e about my throat,
Just at that moment my eyes fell upon
I the huge brick oven; something
[ known in these days, Bsssie; an itn-
I menre structure occupying one si le of
, kitchen. I nodes . t that the w.dc
the
door had been left open, and a tu lden
CARNESVJLLE, GA., MON DAY, JANUARY 13.1890.
thought—an inspiration—darted into
my mind. It was worth risking at all
events.
The villian’g hand was pressing closet
about my slender throat; I felt a dread¬
ful, choking sonsalion. I was sure that
i should die. Now—or never—I
thrust ono hand, quickly, into tho
bosom of my dress, and snatching the
pocket-book therefrom with a quick,
sudden movement, I throw it into the
oven—away in—I could hear it fall
upon the bottom, with a heavy thud,
for most of tho monoy will in gold.
With a horrible imprecation the wretch
released his hold, nud, darting forward,
sprang into tho oven. I darted toward
the hups door. L seized it in both
hands; with superhuman efforts I
pushed it shut and slid the heavy bolt
into its place. I was saved! Then I
sank upon the floor in blissful insensi¬
bility.
I was aroused by the pressure of lips
upon my own; and felt my head
pillowed in somebody’s arms. Iopcned
my eyes. Frank was holding mo close
to his heart, his face pale and anxious.
Ho had returned unexpectedly; and see¬
ing a light burning in tho house—an
unusual occurrence at so late an hour,
for it was midnight—and fearing that I
was ill—he had ventured to stop, j
told him the whole story; and, old as I
am, I have never forgotten the look on
his face as he clasped mo to his heart.
It did not take him long to ride to the
nearest town and summon the sheriff
with a posse of men. The oven was
opened and tho wretch within, insen¬
sible and half dead, was dragged forth
and away to justice. He was proven to
bo an old offender, and soon received g
long sentence.
I was quite the heroine of the country
around, for a long time afterward; but
heroics were not in my line, and I never
wished for a repetition of that night’s
experience.
A Steamship Stoker’s Life.
The stokers on one of the groit ocean
steamers work four Iiouim at a stretch,
. temperature , . from , 1 £j to ,
in a ranging
1(Jy a 3 Tlie qlIarters are close,
^ must uko cnve lhat whil(J
fcediog onc furnace their arms arc not
burncd on th(j onc Mlind thom .
y eutilation u {urnhhed through a shaft
reacMag down t0 the middle of their
quarters. Each stoke- - tends four fur-
naoe!) gp3ndmg p . rhap3 two or three
at ca ch. then dashes to the air-
pipe to tako his tura at C oo ing off, and
waitg for anotller caU to his furnaces.
When the watch, is over, the men go
perspiring through long, cold passages
to the forcastb, where they turn in for
eight hours.
Ono man, twenty-eight years old,
who was interviewed by a reporter, had
been employed at tlio furnaces since ho
was fourteen years old. He weighed
ISO pounds, and was ruddy and seem¬
ingly happy. II3 confessed that tho
work was terribly hard, bit “it came
hardest on those who did not follow it
regularly. But if we got plenty toeat,”
ho said, “and take care of ourselves wo
are all right. Here's a mate of mine,
nearly seventy years old, who has been
a stoker all his life and cm do as good
work as I can.”
Stokers never have the consumption,
and rarely catch cold. Their grog had
bsen knocked off on the English and
American lines because the men got
drunk too often, and the grog did them
much harm.
“When I u ed to take my grog I'd
work just like a lion while the effee!
lasted I’d tnrow in my coal like a
giant, aud not mind the heat a bit;
but when it worked off, as it did in a
very few minu os, I was that weak that
a child could upset me. Take a man
dead drunk before the fires, and tho
heat would sober him off iu half an
hour or give him a stroke of apoplexy. ”
Effect of Great Altitudes on Dogs.
A former Bostonian who is now in
Colorado, many thousand feet above
the sea level, is in grief over the loss of
two handsome dogs which he took out
there with him. They were, he writes,
the pride of the mining camp where he
was located, aud they seemed to be in
excellent health until the week before
their death. Everybody prophesied
that the San Juan country would not
hold them long, but I had begun to
feel perfectly safe about them. At first
the change in the altitude did not seem
to affect them so badly a3 it did me.
Of late, however, they felt unusually
sleepy and languid, and began to ex¬
hibit symptoms of an alarming nature,
and they startled the camp by rushing
around and snapping at the air in a
manner quite sugg-stive of the rabies.
They ended by going into convulsions
and were shot by a badly frightened
miner. Cats and dogs, as a ru e, live
but a short time when takcu to these
h’gli altitudes, while men, on the other
hand, often find them more healthy
than the sea level. Why the man can
live where the smaller animats cannot,
ig a , n . ltlcr which has uevor yet been ex- •
plaiue 1. — Boston Advertiser.
PERSIAN PENALTIES.
The Different Methods by Which
They Are Carried Out.
The Bastinado, Mutilation, Im¬
prisonment and Death.
The commonest form of punishment
in Persia, says Thomas Stevens in
Youth's Compmion, is the bastinado, or
healing on tho bare soles of the feet with
willow sticks. 1 saw this punishment
inflicted upon a peasant for soino small
ofleasc.
The culprit was laid or, hit back, his
feet were lashed together and held solos
uppermost by passing through a loop iu
a horizontal pole. A kindle of sticks
that had been rendered pliant by soak-
i ig in water was brought agd placed
clo-e at hand.
All being ready, two farrashes seized
each a stick and proceeded briskly to
belabor tho upturned feet. Thcpeasant’s
feet wero hard and calloused from
habitually walking barefoot, and under
theso conditions his punishment was
probably less severe thnu it seemed.
The flagollation wont merrily on un¬
til fifty sticks had boon broken over his
feet. Now and ihea the man would
squirm and give a sorrowful groau of
“Al-l-ah!” but it was oasy to see that
much of this was hypocritical, When
at length released, he rose to his feet
and limped slowly away, ono of tho
farrashes fetching lum a smart cut
across tho shou.dors to accelerate his
pace.
Fifty sticks is cons idered a very light
punishment; sometimes several hundred
are administered, in which caso tho
punishment is, of couiso, severe.
It is not regardod as a disgrace in
Persia to have been bastinadoed. -Most,
of thosi sj dealt with are simply men
unable to pay their debts, No ono is
exempt from tho bastinado except royal
personages,
Sometimes the Shah, displeased at
one of his ministers or high stato of¬
ficials, orders him to he bastinadoed.
The official, perhaps a dignified old
geutleman, with a venerable, flowing
beard, living in a luxurious palace,mas¬
ter of fifty servants of his own, meekly
r cceivcs his punishmeht at tho hands of
tho king's farrashes, aud deems it no
disgrace. Nobody points tho finger of
scorn at his neighbor who has been bas¬
tinadoed, for none know upon whom
the displeasure of the “powers that be”
may next descend in a like summary
manner.
Sneak thieves are punished by mutila¬
tion. For the first offence they arc de¬
prived of an car or tho joint of the fore¬
finger. This is usually a sufficient
warning, hut if brought up a second
time, off comes the light hand. The
hand is laid on a block and chopped off
with a sword; tho wrist is then plunged
in a kettle of boiling tar to stop the
bleeding.
When the Indo-European telegraph
lino was built through Persia, the
natives us3il to cut and steal the wire
for miking bracelets. This caused so
much annoyance to the tolcgraph com¬
pany that the Shah ordered tho hands of
all persons found wearing telegraph-
wire bracelets to be chopped off. This
terrible punishment soon put an end to
the practice of stealing wife.
In travelling through Persia I saw
many people with the right hand miss¬
ing; they are generally found begging
on the streets of the cities.
The punishment of death is inflicted
for murder, highway robbery, treason,
and also for robbery from royal persons.
Desperate criminals arc sometimes made
examples of by the most ci uel punish¬
ments.
No female prisoners were in tho jail
we visited. Women are never incaresr-
ated in a public prison in Persia. A few
days' forcible detention in the hotlie of
a priest is the usual punishment inflict¬
ed upon them for small offences. When
their crimes arc such as to merit capi¬
tal punishmsnt, however, uo mercy is
shown them because they are women.
Near the city of Shiraz is a deep well
into which women guilty of certain
crimes are cast alive. The woman is
conducted to the well, seated on a don¬
key, with her face turned toward its
tail. She is followed by a hooting mob,
who fling mud jit her and jeer at her
misery. Arriving at the well, she is
made to kneel down at its brink. A
word or two is uttered by the priest,
tho executioner gives tho wretched wo¬
man a shove with liis foot, and all is
over.
One Dark, Black Night.
A long silence had fallen on the
group around the little stove in the back
of (ho Oklahoma dry goods store.
Each of tho rough ® citizens had told his
story . related , . which , . .
or some experience 1
befell him,and , the , silence ., that .. , , fob ,
once
lowed.aa incredible J yarn of tho lion.
Jim Janks was intense.
.... I ho stranger from f the List had ns-
tened throughout in a list.ess,
ing manner, and yawned exceedingly
when the others laughed. Tho silence
thickonod with tho smoke, and as they
looked at ono another in tho growing
darkness for oncouragemont to broak it,
Mr. Alike Swipes with a alight hom,
said:
“Wall, now, wo’vo all lied our say.
Lot tho strangev say suthin.”
All oyes were turned toward tho
stranger, who had come from tho East,
He pleaded iguoranco of a good story,
but they persisted. They weren’t par¬
ticular. After a moment’s deliberation,
during which all snugly placed them¬
selves in their favorite nttitudos, tho
strnugor conscutcd, and began iu a mo-
notonous and sing-soug voice as fol¬
low? :
“Ono dark, black night a band of
robbers gathored around a camp tiro in
the heart of the Harz Mountains, in
Germany. They had just roturnod
from a plundering expedition, and were
resting themselves, The camp firo
throw a’flickering light ,ou the weird
scene. The captain of tho band was
standing in the shadow, lcauiug against
a tree, his hands resting on his gun.
His oyes wero bent on tho groua-l, and
his face boro a troubled expression.
Suddenly he turne l, and walking to
where his lieutenant stood, mid to him:
“ ‘Scuddy, my boy, tell me a thril.
ling story. ’
“Scuddy settled liimsslf ou a log
seat, and told tho following thrilling
tale:
* ‘One dark, black night a band of
robbers gathered around a camp fire iu
tho heart of the Ilirz Mountains, in
Germany. They had, just returned
from a plundering expedition, and wero
resting themselves. Tho camp firo
threw a flickering light on tho weird
scene. The captain of tho band was
standing in the shadow, loaning against
a tree, his hands resting on his gun.
His eyes wore bent on tho ground, and
Ids face bore a troubled expression.
Suddenly he turned, and walking to
where his lieutenant stood, said to him:
“Scuddy, my boy, tell me a thrilling
story.” Scuddy settled himself ou a
log seat and told the following thrilling
talc:
“ ‘One dark, black night a band of
robbers gathered around a camp tiro in
the heart of tho Ilirz Mountains, in
Germany. They had just--. 11> A
sudden click was hoard in tho store,
followed in quick succession by two
more clicks. Silence again foil on the
group. Tho little oil lamp which had
hitherto lighted the scene want out, and
all was dark. Somebody struck a light,
and in tho glare it was found that the
stranger had disappeared.
“Huh,” muttered the Hon. Jim
Jenks, as he pocketed his shooting-
iron. “lie saved his skin this 'ere
time .’’—Neio York Sun.
Japanese Babies.
In Japan you can toll a baby's ago by
its hair. Tho fuzz is shaved from tho
rcalp of the Japanese infant as soon as
it is born; when it grows to the ago of
a certain number of m mths a ring of
hair is allowed to remain surrounding
(he bald oasis of the crown. A few
months later a little tuft is blocked out
i n tho center of this oasis, and a palm-
tree like wisp grows upm it. Then
other little wisps are allowed to come
down under the car, and, at last, tho
hair is grown all over the head. This
siiaving of the hand makes the hair
very stiff, and the Japanese has his
head covered with stiff, black wires.
He looks as if his head were ono gigan¬
tic cowlick, and he has this crop to the
length of about ono inch, The old
fashion of shaving a strip from fore¬
head to crown, aud of wearing tho hair
long, and doing it up on tho edge of
this bald strip in the shape of an old-
fashioned door-knocker, is being dons,
away with in the cities, and you find it
only in tho back oou itics,. and in those
who pride thcinso.Ves < n belonging to
the old regime. — (h urier- Jou na.1.
Cleanliness a Modern Virtue.
The E iglish upper classes are clean,
but cleanliness of any high degree is a
very modern virtue among them. It is
an invention of the nineteenth century.
Men and women born at the close of
the eighteenth century did as French
people do today; they took a warm bath
occasionally for cleanliness, and they
took shower baths when they were pro¬
scribed by the physician for hoalth,
and they bathed in summer seas for
pleasure, but they did not wash them¬
selves all over every morning, How-
ever, the now custom took deop root in
England because it became one of tho
signs of class. It Was adopted as ono
of the habits of a gentlemau .—Pall
Mall Bu lget.
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Little Boy—“Did ., you ever see my
, big . brother , , John? r , , Hcsadistantrela- TT , ... , ,
. „ unne . ,,
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Visitor—“A distant relativef"
Little , Boy—“Yes, „ ..... indeed. Ho lives
in ® an * ianCHC0 „
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SCIENTIFIC SCR A Pi.
An English ti.li culturist has found
that a six-pound eel contains about
11,000,000 eggs.
Gen. Rosancratis, Register of the
Treasury, lias decidod to introduce the
use of cieclricity iu his oflico us a mo-
tivo power to ru i tho punching ma¬
chines for cancelling the redeemod
treasury no!os.
Measurements of a quarter of a mil¬
lion if soldiers have shown that males
do not reach adult ago until about 28,
ami Professor Binder's observations at
Harvard prove that full mental power
is not reached before 25.
Tho simple method of treating driiit-
enness practiced in Norway and Bwcdon
is reported to be very effective. The
inebriate is placed in confinement and
fed only with bread soaked in wine,
which in eight or ten days creates a
positive loathing for strong drink.
A German authority affirms thut oaks
are more frequently struck by lightning
than beeches, because the leaves of the
beech aro covered with a fine down,
which is a bettor conductor than the
smooth loavos of tho oak. Experiments
with electrical machines confirm the
theory.
Dr. Dornil of Paris has discovered
that ice is often a medium for transmit¬
ting infectious diseases, and particular¬
ly typhoid fever, lie cautious people
to use artificial ice, made from boiled
or spring water, and condemns ico ob¬
tained from ponds or rivers liable tv
contamination.
The magnetic needle points in the
same direction as to tho magnetic poles
in alt parts of the earth. The magnet"**
poles do not correspond with the axis
of the earth, which makes a variation
of the needle at places not on a meri¬
dian which coincides with both poles.
The needle is never inverted, but dips
as it approaches the magnetic poles.
A substitute for whiskey as a remedy
for rattlesnake bites has been discov¬
ered. A man in Cljnton County, Mo.,
was bitten on the leg by a rattler while
in tho woods two milds from home a
few days ago, wiped tho blood off with
a leof, and taking a big cud of tobacco
from his mouth hound it on the wound
witii a piece of bark. After reaching
home ho bathed his leg with ammonia,
and has suffered no ill offect other than
a slight swelling of the bitten spot.
A Horse’s Memory.
“Say, friend, you're on my horse,”
Bftid one gentleman to another as he
refned his horse before the door. “Your
horse! Oh, no; why 1 bought this
horse two years ago!’’ “You did?”
answered tho other; “well, I lost my
horse—it was stolen—just two years
rg took place under
is conversation
the far-spreading oaks of an old-time
plantation home. A planter was sur¬
prised to see his horse return home
after two years, and ridden by agentle-
plan who evidently had bought the
horse in g iod faith, After some con-
versation the old owner of the -horse,
with much earnestness, said: “Well,
sir, if you will dismount, unsadd e tho
horse, and lie don’t go to the fence,
take the bars down, walk to the well,
and if ho don’t fiul water in the backet
Lt it down the well, and then walk off
to his old stable, I will give up and that
horse isn’t mine 1” “At your word;
the horse is ycrurs if he does nil that,”
c iod tho visitor, and leaping from the
horse, unsaddled it. What was his
astonishment whoa the horso went
Straight to the fence, lot down tho bars,
crossed over, went to tho woll, and find¬
ing do water let the bucket down and
then, as though ho had left home but
yesterday, walked to tho old stable 1
Tho animal remembered the trick and
the owner recovered his horse. There
are those living now who can attest to
tho truth of this story, though it hap¬
pened years ago.
The People of Siam.
The Siamese are very jovial and light
hearted, and greatly addicted to public
jhows as well as tho gambling houses.
They have their fill of spectacles when¬
ever a member of the royal family dies.
It cost $500,000 to duly cremate one of
the king’s children a while ago. A
special temple for the cremation services
is built for each defunct royal highness.
The temple is a very gorgeous affair,
hut it is pulled down as soon as the
royal clay is reduced to ashes, The
ceremonies include processions, music,
the king on his golden chair, an im¬
mense display of royal banners and
mourning, and all the pomp and cir¬
cumstance needed to impress the event
deeply upon the people. Of course the
nobles cannot afford funerals on suoh a
lavish scale, but they spend all the
money they can on them. Tho masses
flock to see the show as our people do
to a circus, while it will probably be
the r own late to be burned at the cost
of a few cents, or flung to the vulture?
and doge .-—New York Sun.
NO. 2 .
In Happy Days.
The harvest moon stands on the ses,
Her shining' rim's a-drip;
She gilds the sheaves on many a lea.
The sails on many a ship;
Glitter, sweet queen, upon the spray,
And glimmer on the heather;
Ilight fair thy rays to show the way
Where lovers walk together.
Tho red wheat rustles, and the vines
Are purple to the root,
And true love, waiting patient, wins
Its blessed time of fruit;
Damp of all lovers, lady moon,
I.ight these glnd lips together.
Which reap alone a harvest sown
bong ere September weather.
—Edwin AraoM.
NUMEROUS.
Of interest—A pawn ticket.
Food for tho blind—Sea biscuit.
Soothing-syrup manufacturers are paid
considerable hush money.
Tho average college oarsman is uo
chicken; uo, not when ljo is in his
shell.
“I’ve bad a great many trials in my
time,” remarked the veteran criminal
sadly.
Crusty—Bo careful, waiter, your
thumb is iu the soup. Waiter—I don’t
mind it, sir, I’m used to it.
“Iwill toss coppers with you,” re¬
marked one stoer to nnothcr as they
made for a couplo of policemen.
Ho (fondling her hand)—Your little
hand is never chapped, is it? She
(coyly)—No; I wish it might be. And
then he popped.
The , burglar who was [caught in
a shoe store after midnight asked to bo
discharged by the judge on the
ground that it was a fitting place for
everybody.
Tho Toronto Globs tells of a man who
has cooked his own breakfast for fifteen
years. Apparently hollas no regard for
Shakespeare’s famous receipt; “If it
were done when 'tis done, thea ’twere
well it wore done quickly."
Car crowded. Ail fat poople, very
fat. Car stops, very thin man gets in.
lias great difim ty iu squeezing himself
into n bit of a seat. He gets angry and
says, “People ought to pay fares ac¬
cording to weight.” Fut neighbor
answers, “If they did, the car wouldn’t
stop for you.”
They beggsd him to play a little,
lie seemed to feel bashful! at first,
but after a while bogau to paw the ivo¬
ries vigorusly. “What power!” said *
listener to the owner of the piano.
“Yes," exclaimed the latter, in alarm;
“ho seems to have considerable muscle;
but ho ought to know that this isn’t •
gymnasium. ”
Sales of Cats.
As to tho cat as an animal mechan¬
ism, it is perfect, and luilt especially
for business. Considered in a useful
sense only, tho cat really does more
service to mankind than tho dog, and
if there were not millions of cats there
“would bo billions of vermin.”
In judging cats, the total points
being 101), the credits aro given for
head, eyes, fur, color, form, tail, size,
and condition, but nothing for be¬
havior. It really is too bad, not in
keeping with the age in which we live
iu, to reckon for nothing the morals of
tho cat. Tails in cats aro of different
standards. Somo should be thick,
some thin, but tails ought always to be¬
gin in a massive way, like a well-bred
lady’s finger, and taper clown to noth-
iug. As to “markings,” only an ex¬
pert can determine the mysteries of
them. If there is an American cat
lover who can show a black and white
cat with “white tip on a black tail”
let him rejoice, for he has a cat of cats.
Something we all know, or ought to
know, is this, that the white cats with
blue oyes are invariably deaf, and a
deaf cat is a nuisance, because she or
he does not know how to regulate her
or hi3 - vocal powers. Theso unfortun¬
ates never aro conscious that tho music
they make is fortissimo and Wagnerian
all the time, There are occasional
white Persians with blue eyes not deaf.
A good Angora, with fine manners,
jg worth $55.
There are many nice Persians in the
United States, and Cincinnati is head¬
quarters for this breed, We cannot
say that Persian cats or Persian men
have very reliable tempers. Wc have
had personal acquaintance with some
Persian cats of a most gentle and lova¬
ble disposition, while others have be¬
haved in a very vicious manner.
Charles James Fox, who kept his
eyes open, once made a wager with
that scapegrace, tho Prince of Wales,
that he (Fox) could see more cats on
his side of the street than could his
gracious prince. Fox counted thirteen
cat 3 and the prince but one. The
,
roval personage asked for an explana¬
tion of this apparent miracle. Mr.
Fox said: “Your royal highness took,
of course, the shady side of the way,
as most agreeable; I kuew tho sunuy
side would be left me, and cats always
prefer the sunshine. ”
