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cfifbf*i . *«®WtW(;fy into
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siting 1 fern/**1*allswcrcd,
smiling at !
nivnni d. '“1 see a
ItisnTe oTflns dismal hole is a imser-
• -'l * W».^ » li pe s t j W wtf a i b r miserable jn-
habitan s,” lie went on, soberly.
“There is no escape, no hopo for them
—they are dead! But wait; you shall
hear the story. I have a notion for
Mgmo-nigin -
He - threw away ids cigar’and ‘was
siiosit for -some < momenta, while his
A ali&bt.jJw]v w?inan te
a seat by bis side and laid one hand
caressingly on Lis.
Andrew .had^ maiaied.her abroad
’S-ntfliacf ii?veF¥($cA]e$ Iftlrnatlfennlitr.
“1 will tell you of a strange^.ad.YfJV)
ture which befell a—a friend of mine
—Hal Andrews. It happened while
he was stopping at Benares, the sacred
city of the Hindoos and the stronghold
kfcdaffy fin'd superstition, wheii
making a lazy pleasure tour of Asia.
“Benares had a peculiar fascination
for him, as the oldest known liabita-
^tioqc^f izitngea, man *i1{e ,.oii i.nrreS’f the gjobc, hV'iV and the
ivas fcspe-
• , i
4 »V“More ,(#100 l^.-watched, tho
pyres along tlie river. Tln?6(i pyiv£
art^£%’F|sidh!e'bott«'rtr ones fivM’feet
long, with shorter ones across nmil
they reach the height of three feet,
then the naked body is placed thereon,
more logs are added, and all is set on
lire. When burned the ashes are care-
fully collected and thrown into the
Ganges. ^
.^Widows werS formerly burned
sfiiVfr witli their dead husbands, blit it
is now a matter of choice, and—
strange as it may seem—many of them
choose that horrible death to (lie living
death of being without enste or friends,
as a widow must.
“One mpriHugcis he- was . watching
futiepl peculations, jhe ^ corpse sud-
f ncro was a stariica (‘0111111011011 arnon^
the howling relatives. ' **
“Mud was hastily thrust into nose
and mouth, but. still the ungrateful
maiden would not die.
“At last she sat upright, and the
relatives fled, the spectators shrugged
their shoulders and turned away, and
four native police advanced and bound
the maiden, in spite of her cries and
entreaties.
her ? ‘ Hal asked,
MmBg’fiffrr'iy, of a-byslander*
“ ‘Oil, no!’ was the indifferent an-
ewer. ‘Sbe is already dead, aud must
go to the Crater City.
“ ‘Is there, then, a city of the dead
where unfortunates who e‘eipe the
P ?»%arts j.'nnt »n|il dwdt v*e nl U'^ , ' nil '"r
Jiiffm.'(’ asked Hal again.
‘“There is.’
“The answer was persisted’ given yclnotaxtuy •i
‘“Where is it?’ Hal-
“ ‘No one cau tell.’
“The answer was significant and
‘“You no 'one will [oil mo;
will fiad oat!’ cried Hal, hot!/.
•■■‘It i* a shame an outrageT
“ ‘Vety hkelyv
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ENTERPRISE. »
"Ami with another shrug of tho
shoulders the mag turpod away, after
giving Hal n fevr last words -of ad.
vice: *■.
• .fU/Dou’t 6ay too jnuelt about it
w,hHS! you stay in .India,'
■*“But the scene haunted Hal. Tito
maiden wavppung and.beautiful, for
Pi ,doo vvoineii tiro among tho . most
“ ‘Y\ fiat horrible death ....... in life I’
p,
hc SkWfediJS lm ffionnted-lils horse anti*
rode out into the surrounding country,
foij&ived closely by Baba, his lihtiye
servant boy, who 1 was devotedly at-
taohed to. him. -. ;
l ’H*.folV>wGL(ikmg .the course of
,h WuV !' is ’
C WCrC
yvitli covered-from . the JoYely tlie,semWiene.e maiden, who^Jtad oj' rc-
to met^a worse fate (ban the funeral
-pyre.
“Suddenly his liorse shied and
dashed madly nliehd, regardless of ail
efforts which llal made to control
him. _. -.
“Baba uttered a cry of dismay, and
dasiiing along as fast ns possible, tried
teep him in sight. • ••*«' •*
“On rushed the frightened horse,
while Hal tried in vain to check him—
HpiU'idoapiiig; sandy judge, thorn rilong
the rise, until—Hal gave a low cry of
incredulous surprise—the horse snort¬
ed, end turned to flee, tlio sand gave
way under Ins feet, and Hal knew no
more after the fall.
“YY’licn lie recovered consciousness
cHougli to feel au interest iu his eur-
lie saw a wretched village
$iu’roun<l(s/d j by a natural barrier of
sand on three sides, and by tho river
iu front.
“.A jiumber of half-naked people
crowded curiously around him, and
among them was the maiden of tiie
funeral pyre, lie was in the city of
the dead It - -
“The day passed slowly enough, and
night came.
“As Hal was meditating upon the
efffmcgAof escaiiej'a soft voice near
him said, in broken English and Hin¬
doo, of which he knew enough to un¬
derstand tho meaning:
i « l Do you wish to escape? It is
useless. This is tho city from which
none ever return.’
“ ‘There is—there must be some
ly.' way of escape,!' cried Hal, impatient¬
•
*. •The sand barrier prevents all es.
cape by land; and see,’ the maiden
continued, leading him to tho river
bank.
‘ •The river was lille'd with number¬
less .crocodiles—great,
creatures—waiting vicioully for any
attempt at escape; and, besides these
hideous sentinels, a boat filled With
native soldiers was anchored near by.
‘You .understand?’ said the
maiden, significantly, as llal sauk
back with a groan.
“Two days passed. Hal made des¬
perate attempts to scale the sandy
-Walt, but in vain, as the maiden
watyhed .him with sympathy, aud the
rest of.the miserable creatures viewed
his struggle* with the calm indifference
born of tfio despair resuttiiig from
similar trials.
“The third night came, and as Hal
paced the circuit of the inclosure, he
heard a low whistle.
“Looking up, he saw Baba's eager
face peering over the sandy bank,
while a coil of rope fell at his feet. ' ••
“A soft sigh near by told him
his companion in despair had; seen his
chance of escape, also.
“Gently with swift, eager fingers
Hat fastened the rope around her
waist, rfliispered a few directions,
and gave Baba the signal to draw her
up.
« ‘£hc r „ reached the top safely, . , .
. again
the rope'fell, 1 and Hal took Ins own
• moment , for . from ,
(urn, not , too soon,
a
•dll joints of the miserable village,
eager, howling wretches came hurry¬
ing to take the chance of escape from
him.
“‘Hurry, master I’ said Baba; ex¬
citedly. ‘Tomorrow’s sun must see
you far from Benares, for dead peo¬
ple must never return to mingle with
the living, and you have seen the
mysterious city.’
“Fai hful Babat lie had diso-
heyed the laws to save Ids master, and
no wonder (hat.be wished to leave t^c
place. lie
A’fhere is little more to teli.
reached—they reached the frontier m
safety, for tho maiden accompanied
hint. If she had remained, she woual
have been returned to tlie dieadcd
Crater pity, or else doomdd to a living
death the funeral pyre. ’
upon
“YYhat more?” I demanded, as be
stopped, with a significant glance at
p is wifc .
“Nothin’■—except this,” he an.
swered emphatically. “Mv name is
Henry Andrew Johns. Sometimes I
have passed under the name of Ha j
Andrtws, and my wife was a Hindoo
midden before an Eng.Uh education
CAItNESVILLK. GA„ FRIDAY, JANUARY it. 1891.
changed her views of life. 1 '—[Satur¬
day Night.
Japanese as Metal Workers*
Tho Japanese are past musters in the
trea ment of alloys, bpth in texture
and color/ and no better guides exist,
6uys the Jewelers’ Review. They
achieve their grand results by (ho
simplest means—a judicious blending
of various metals, inlaying and pick¬
ing. Copper is ; the basis of their
chief alloys, and by* incorporating
with it certain proportions of gold and
silver; they obtain remarkable results
in color through the prickling process.
Rut .not only do they get striking
eflepts from their alloys and- picking,
their mode of working up the metals
is a thing to be-studicd. • 1'oir instance,
they will take six or seven plates of
different metals ami alloys, weld them
together, and then, by drilling, punch¬
ing up ami tilling, get a surface in
which all the metals show in a manner
which is truly wonderful. 1
By the range of tints at their com-
inand they can work out on a metal
scold’s of animal life, land¬
scapes, etc., with effect; never dreamt
of by metal workers in the western
world. Among • some examples t&
ccntlv shown in Ihiglflitd was a knife
handle, on which was a representation
of a duck dipping its bead under the
water of a stream on which it was
swimming, the .arrangement.; of fixe.
different alloys by which it was com-
posed and the picking being so well
arranged that tlio neck of the duck
was seen as under the'water when tho
handle was held in a certain light.
Another example was a sword hilt
which some minnows not more than
one-sixteenth of /in inch ju length,and
each having a pair of gold eyes, were
swimming upon a gray stream, the
effect of their, being actually below the
surface of the water being suggested
with marvelous skill. Imitations of
wood grain and marbles were also
'shown.
Evolution of a Farm Hand.
Eben D. Jordan, the famous dry-
goods merchant of Boston, is like so
many prosperous people In Massachu¬
setts, a native of Maine* Left very
poor and fatherless in an obscure vil¬
lage while a boy, he was bound out to
a farmer in the neighborhood and got
a rudimentary education at an adjacent
district school. At 14 he went to Bos¬
ton to seek his fortune and eventually
found it. Getting nothing,to,do there
at first he went to work on a farm in
the vicinity at a month, aud, three
years later, was employed in a mer¬
cantile house in the city at .$275 a year,
which lie considered aflhreuce.
Before, twenty, he had awakened a
strong interest in Joshua Stetson, then
a leading drygoods merchant, by his
industry, energy and intelligence, and
Stetson backed him lii soding up iu a
small business for himself at Hanover
and Mechanic streets. The steamers
from Maine and the provinces then ar¬
rived at Boston'very early in the morn¬
ing, and young Jordan, in order to
secure (he trade of the inclining pas¬
sengers, opened his shop-by 4 o’clock,
•and-tlnis did considerable business be¬
fore breakfast. As a result it became
popular and .made money. .He ad¬
vanced step by step until his present
firm was formed and housed in Milk
'street. ‘ * t ) m r.’ - *
Ten years later tho present big es-
tablishnient jn YVhishingfon street was
occupied, and has gained a national
reputation. Jordan, now 67, has
made up for his lack of early advan-
tages by reading, association, expe*
rience and travel, and has shown
great public enterprise and large pri¬
vate benevolence. He is descended
from Robert .Jordan, a clergyman of
■ '
of E|) ® |and who emigl ° . aM
two and a half centuries ago.—[New
. . Advertiser.
York Commercial ,
Ripening Lemons in Florida.
English Industries states that a
business, resting, strictly on chemical
principles and needing nothing but a
little capital to develop it, is said to be
practised in Florida.
It consists in avoiding dependence
upon the slow and imperfect ripening
of lemons by the sun’s rays by picking
the fruit while green and exposing it
to the fumes of burning, sulphur,
whereby its color is changed to a rich
golden yellow, infinitely more attract-
ive than (he natural hue.
“It is true that the interior of the
j cmon ; s practically tijo free from juice, a
fact W !tic'h hypercritical might
a slight drawback; but this is,
aftei . a i| ; a trivial matter, affecting
bnlv the consumer,” is the salvo applied
y lft conscience.
She Was Talkative.
Sauso—Mrs. Chunk) always uses the
right word in :hc right place.
Rod:—She could hardly help doing
so, seeing that she uses every word in
the language in every place—[New
York Herald.
CURIOUS REMEDIES.
Queer Tilings Utilized as Medi¬
cines by the Chinese.
Poaris for the Liver and Salted
Scorpions for the Smallpox.
The medicines of Caucasian civiliza¬
tion aro derived from many a curious
origin, but if you want to find funny
things utilized as remedjea.for-disease, in
you will discover tho'ni the Chinese
phai-ni.*eo[i(ein.
- Medical selcneh imtliat ebnnlry has
been somewhat impeded by the respect
which the Chinese pay to a dead body..
Worshipping tlipir ancestors ns they do,*
their ‘physicians Wit id’ never tliiult'of
cutting up a corpse. Cofcrequefrtly
they know nbthingof anatomy. Sucli
knowledge on the -subject as they pre-
t«hd to-possess- i« derived, tvecording
to their own acc.jiiut,front a matr born
some ccnttwics ago, who had the mis¬
fortune to be of a transparent consis¬
tency, physically speaking, as if ho
were mnde of glass, so that it was pos¬
sible to see just how things went on in
his ipsidee.
From observation of this extraordi¬
nary freak it was discovered that cer¬
tain channels ran to each part and
extremity of a human being and that
by these channels it was poesiblo to
convey any remedy that might be
necessary to any organ or member re¬
quiring treatment internally. Ever
since then celestial dootors have been
able to tell jiist What sort of .pills or
deeootibns were intended for the cure
of tiiis or that disorder . r ‘- The glass
man doubtless suffered from tlio- ex¬
periment tried upon him by science,
but uiedicarknowlcdge was benefited
inexpressibly. it
Probably tlio Chinese pharmacopoeia
is more elaborate than that possessed'
by any other people. Physicians in
the flowery kingdom mix up together
such extraordinary things for remedial
purposes as we shonldnever dream of.
One of their cures for liver complaint
is obtained by administering the fossil
teeth of various animals, which arc
known to them as “dragons’ teeth.”
Antelopes’ horns, powdered, they be¬
lieve lo bo excellent for rheumatism
and glno from (he Jiidcs of asses is
supposed to be an admirable tonic and
diuretic. The shell of a certain fresh¬
water turtle made into jelly is a sure
thing for “misery in the joints.” A
decoction from the hedge hog's hide is
excellent for skin diseases, and tigers’
bones mixed Jfjth hartshorn and ter¬
rapin's shell in the shape of jelly is a
first-rate tonic in cases of discaso of
the bones and of ague.
Dried snakes, the Chineso bclievCj
"are irood medicine where a complaint
is difficult to diagnose, for the reason
that the serpent in life inserts itself
info all sorts of holes and crevices and
is likely after death to seek the utter¬
most parts of the body. Such concre¬
tions offline 5 hutte'C as are formed iu
the gall bladders of cows cure St. Vitus’
dunce and smallpox. These same con¬
cretions arc the very things that ore
known by peoplo iu this country as
so-called “mad-stoncs,” used'-for ap¬
plying to snake bites. The" pig-tailed
orientals believe in the effectiveness of
dried toads as a tonic and think that-
caterpillars arc a sure, remedy for
bronchial troubles.
■Salted scorpions, they assert, arc ad¬
mirable for smallpox, and silkworms,
as well as tho skins wbidi locusts leave
011 trees ou vacating them, are sup¬
posed to have wonderful medical vir¬
tues. Bones of the cuttlefish or sepia
are believed by them to have virtues
in the treatment of caitcdr. They
think that the sepia is a bird trans¬
formed ill to a licit. ’ They use clam
shells for a cathartic and maggots to
cure dysentery, Powdered fossil
crabs apj, in the opinion of their phy-
smfails, an’ J kntidoto for poisons of all
sorts and seed pearls cure troubles of
the heart and liver.
A favorite Chinoss remedy for
various disorders ia made by inclosing
any sort of bird or other animal within
a case of moist clay and burning B
until tlio body of the creature Ls re"
duced to charcoal. The charcoal thus
obtained is administered with expecta¬
tion as tq, its effect according to the
nature of the animal burned. But of
all remedies believed in by the people
of China tlio ginseng takes the lead.
So much so, in fact, .that $1,000,000
worth of ginseng is exported from
this country to China every year.
AH primitive races which have any
acquaintance with the remedial value
of the ginseug regard this peculiar
root with an especial awe because of
the rude likeness which its shape bears
to (ho human figure. The most prised
ginseng root of China bears a really
surprising resemblance to the human
form, and brings a much higher price
‘ban (He American product on that ac-
count. Physicians among the celestials
divide v.p the root anatoniicnlly, as it
were, prescribing portions of the body
for this compiuint, of tho legs for that
disease, of the arms for another, and
sO on.—[Washington Mur,
American and English Girls in Gormuuy
Tho Get’imiu girls are beginning to
complain with .considerable bitterness,
notes Eugene Field in tlio Chicago
News, that American and English
girls are encroaching upon their pre¬
serves. Very many ‘Americans and
English send their daughter* to Ger¬
many to bo educated; tho pretty dears
not only master the langnago in a
short-time—quite ns quickly and ns
easily they make a conquest of tho
hearts of the suseeptiblo Genuan offi¬
cer. Tho number of array officers iu
Germany with American and English
wives is very, large, and tho fad ap¬
pears to be increasing.^ In Dresden,
particularly, the English and Ameri¬
cans aro in great demand ; the native
nmtlchcn (bo she ever so pretty) seems
to have no elmuce at all. lit Berlin
there is a fancy for a peculiar style of
feminine beauty ; the Berliner admires
brown eyes and liair and a dark, clear
complexion; these features argue
amiability, fidelity iu\<l ge.ntle breed¬
ing, they claim. The German girls
complain that the American girls tiro
natural adepts iu affairs of the heart—
that they seem endowed by nature
with all the avis, tlio audacity and tlio
confidence of tho average young
widow.
YVearing Shoes Alternately.
It is true economy for every person
to have several pairs of shoos, and to
wear them alternately. In tlio first
place, by so doing, corns and other
soreness of iho members maybe’ ‘to a
considerablo degree avoi led. Those
come from coutiuous friction or pres¬
sure at a certain point, and, as no two
pairs of shoes “bear” on the feet
quite alike, tlio cli&nge breaks up tlio
continuity „and obviates or pre¬
vents tho unpleasant result.
It is also better for the shoes thom-
selvcs, says Go:d Housekeeping. Do
not wear them in ordinary weather, if
the best service is desired, more than
throe or four days, or a week at most,
before giving them a chance to become
thoroughly dry. Many, if not most
feet emit sufficient moisjure to 1 affect
the shoe, giving it the sticky, unpleas¬
ant feeling which is so familiar, but
to which we not ofteu give a second
thought. Contrast this feeling with
that of a shoe which lias beeii staird-
ing unused for a week or a month,
and notice luw grateful the feeling of
thorough dryness in the • last named.
Perhaps the reader never thought of
that before.
Thc Cat in Railroad Construction.
The eat in railroad' construction is
something new.'’ Yet a little girl’* pet
tabby was successfully impressed into
the service of the cable car company a
day or two ago. It was necessary to
get a line through the main pipo
through wiiieh the cable is to run.
Where tho cable tracks cross tho
Northern Pacific the thing became a
puzzle. A inau ’could not era'viM
through, and there seemed no way of
stretching the cable.
The cat was then brought into see-
vice, a long stj'ing was tied around
her neck, she was put in the main pipe,
and some one yelled “scat.” Away
she went, and in a jiffy she was clean
through the main pipe. The string
she had pulled through with her was
attached to the rope, and everything
was lovely.— [Spokane (YY’ashingtoii)
Spokesman.'
A Frozen Corpse.
In the doorway of a fqrnitiirc store
on Howard street, in Baltimore, Md.,
in plain viqw of passers-by, stands an
ordinary-looking refrigerator th'atcon-
tains, and since Aug. 21st has con¬
tained, tho dead body of an infant.
Although nothing lias been done in
the way of embalming or otherwise
preserving the body, tho flesh is just
as solid and odorless as if death had
taken place a few hours before. On
this fact tho inventor bases his claims
to a most valuable discovery, By a
very simple arrangement ho has ob¬
tained this startling result at little ex¬
pense. He expects to apply it to a
coffin.—[San Francisco Chronicle.
Which Grow Faster, Boys or Girls!
Quete'et lias expressed the opinion
that, as a rule, boys in growing keep
ahead of girls, but recent measure¬
ments of 21,000 children of both sexes
made in the Freiberg (Saxop) district
are against this conciusiou. Tho boys,
up to their eleventh year, wero found
to run about 0.0 to 0.9 centimeters
taliei- than the girls- They were then
overtaken by the girls, Who surpassed
them in height till their sixteenth year,
when the boys again grew faster than
the girls and came to the front.
SCIENTIFIC SCltCl'S.
Tho world's death is 83,033,033 per
annum.
It is estimated that the Utile word
“hello” makes at least 13,000 indenta¬
tions on a phonographic cylinder.
Broca, the French anthropologist,
declares that the broud-bcaded race
now represented by tho people of
Central Franco are the true Gauls or
Celts of Caesar.
A physician lias compiled some very
elaborate statistics to demonstrate that
men of thought live, on an average,
three years and a half •‘longer than
men in the ordinary vocal ions of life.
A French doctor has recently been
collecting statistics with regard to
those of his patients who complain of
nervous affections, with the result lhaj
he has opine to Hie conclusion that the
prime cause of all the evil is the prac¬
tice of reading in the train.
M. Crocq has argued strongly to
the Belgian Academy of Mediciue in
favor of bleeding. By it he arrests all
rases of pneumonia, from which live
to thirty-five per rent. of deaths result
by usual treatment,and cures rheumat¬
ic fever.'
: V Cardwell,-at
' Consul Gcnornl Cairo,
reports that'the artificial hatching of
eggs wa* k no nil lo the auccnt Egyp¬
tians, and that by their process, Imndod
down from fatin' to son, 13,000,000
marketable chickens,are now produced
each acajou,. ,
The now-completed . Fm th Bridge/
in .Scotland, has been provided with
an indicator which records the number
of trains passing, the daily contrac¬
tion or expansion of tho bridge, auil
the behavior of the bridge while cadi
is passing. ' ' *' '
A very interesting-article by Ilcrbort
Spencer appears Iff'ibU mouth’s num¬
ber of The Popular Science Monthly.
In it he argues against Darwin’s theo¬
ry limiting! the origin o4 music to the
early expression of amatory feelings,
aiui-chsiins (w it the -broader deriva¬
tion from voice-sounds. caused by all
kinds of emotional excitement.
Repented exporiin£Ui,s hayo been
niade in this country and in France
during Hie last year to see if a live
oyster could feel pain.. In no one in¬
stance has it beon shown (bat he can.
lie is composed of a fabric which lias
no sensitiveness, and the only result
of a shock of electricity is to make
something like a grin crawl over him.
A patent lias been taken out for a
process for utilizing the resinous matter
present in tlio needle-like leaves of tho
order of Pinus. By extraction with
alkali a resin soap i. formed, from
which the woody iibro can be removed,
and which on the addition of fat and
completion of (he saponification, yields
an ordinary soap containing resins
and fatty acids.
Bismarck a Fallen Ido). .
“The most curious t.iing I saw,”
said Chauncey M. Da pew, ‘-was tho
ehniigc which lias occurred in Germany
with reference tq Bismarck. Three
years ago lie was the one great figure
of all Europe. Today there are few
so poor as to do him reverence. Au
indication of this alteration of senti-
nuiiit is tlio large sole in Germany of a
i}t|Ie t.-lt-k xvhicli is intended to belittle
the ex-Chaneelior. It ts -a pofcelaia
satmor, on tho insido Of which, near
the rim, is tlio question: “YY’o ist
Bismarck?" “Where is Bismarck?”
The apparent answer is .that lie is
nowhere, for the su;facc of the saucer
seems-to be perfectly plain. One who
is not in the secret turns tho toy over
anil over again, but fails to find tho
solution of (lie puzzle.
The answer to tho question fs found
by rubbing with a lead pencil the in.
side of the saucer until it is entirely
black', when the features of the Prince
“ppcar. YVlien the graphite is wiped
off tlio picture disappears. A ; 'few
years ago the maker or seller of such
a toy would-be severely dealt with,
hut now the joke is laughed at by
pretty much the entire Nation.—[New
York Tribune.
(ia rnets (heap as Dirt.
• “YY"here do garnets come from?’!
was asked of a traveler for an Eastern
jewelry firm.
“Garnets I Why, they are as cheap
,
as dirt in the raw. Y r ou can buy all
of tlie rough garnets you want for
from 10 to 20 cents a pound. The
cutting is what makes them valuable.
The majority of them are found in the
oreluean or granite formation and in
porpbyriiic formations. You find tin
aud you’il find garnets. When those
three C'ornishmoa brought seven tons
of (jure cgssitrite ore from Coin wall
to salt a ‘fake’ tin mine in the Black
lIJls they did not forget the garnets.
They shot tlie earth full of tin ore aud
garnets with shotguns and realized
about $1,200,000 on the deal.”— [Chi-
catro Tribune.
NO. 1.
The Last Sweetheart.
Gran’pa’s looks are white as snow.
Those he still possesses,
Ghosts of curls of long ago,
Wraiths of boyhood’s tresses.
Wrinkles o'er his features thin
Zigzag without pity,
hike tlie streets and alleys in
Famous Boston oily.
Time has bent htajonu with yuars,
And his legs are thinner
And less comely than the shears
Used by any tinner,
busty was he once and gay,
Full of manhood’s graces,
But of that long vanished day
There are now few trace#’
Yet he in his youthful pride
Pleased the fjur sex greatly;
Many lassies for him sighed,
Many Indies stately.
Hearts once throbbed amd aehed for him
Tears wet silken lashes,
But those eyes iu death are dim
And those hearts arc ashes.
Grati’pa has one sweetheart yet,
Daintiest of creatures,
Whose two eyes of deepest jet
Still approve his features.
Nellie Is her'name, you see.
And if I remember
What her ago. Is, she was three
Some time fast December!
Oft her hand, so chubby.fair.
O’er his face she passes
Tenderly, and with great caro
Not to touch Ids glasses.
Oft his form I’ve seen her scan
And I've caught lmr saying:
“Uran’pa’s sueii a handsome man"—
Thus her love betraying.
•— [George Horton in (Ihieago UersM.
, *o.
HUMOROUS.
Penned by night—Tlio pigs.
A front stoop—Bowing to your
partner.
JIqw to get some large bills for a
small oue-j-G o to law.
It is a habit of sainls and pugilists
tp. bo strong iu the right*
Families arc a good dcjil iiko clocks.
Too much regulation may uiako them
go wrong all tho lime. , .
lie tried at whiskers, then aUbeard—
Dead failures did they droop.
Hevbhly now a lofre' mustache.
And e’en that’s "in the soup!”
Landlady — “That new boarder
needn’t try to make me think ho is a
bachelor, lie’s cither married or it a
widower.” Millings—“How can you
tell?” Landlady—“Ho always turns
his back to me when he opens his
pockctboolc to pay his board”
Old Gentlerr.au (at bis daughter’s
wedding)—My dear, I don’t you/ sec how
I am to get along without Blrdo
—Never mind, pa. Since tlio cere¬
mony was performed my husband has
confessed that ho hasn’t enough saved
to go housekeeping, so you may not
lose me, after all.
poet once, a worthy man,
IVbo after years had won the fame he
sought.
I wished him joy. He blushed and wrung
my hand ■
And borrowed dollars from me on the
spot.
tt:
New York’s Fire Chief.
Hugh Bonner, Chief of the Firo
Department of New York City, is tall
and broad-chested, lie Is quite tho
Ideal hero in appcaranco. Ills man¬
ner is agreeable. At a fire he is tho
incarnation of authority, coolness nud
decision while activity Ji. needed.
When the danger is over (be, Chief re¬
tires, perhaps to the sheltered seclusion
of a convenient doorway, aud scans tho
general situation . until satisfied that
there is nothing left undone^to prevent
a recurrence of tho conflagration. A
fireman's life Is one of never-ceasing
watchfulness and the Chief, in partic¬
ular, Is practically never off duty. No
work is more trying than •his. Hugh
Bonner was born iu Ireland, r but he
came to this country when yet.a child,
and lie is a thorough . Amorican. In
common with most members.; of the
force, lie has several gallant rescue*
to liis credit. It is jti.ot^generally
known, however, that he is an invent¬
or. ' ' • - >li
Some of the most useful appliances in
tho departmontworaoriginaledby him.
Among them, an espoeial|y ; p6fcful on*
is a circular net by which persons
jumping from roofs or- windows can
be caught with copiparative ease.
Then of there which is the roof-cutterj do by much the
use one man can as
work as half a dozen formcMy did,
tho combined battering-ram'- and a
wall breaker, the collar and snb-cellar
pipes—ingenious contrivamfcs that
enable firemen to direct-a" stream of
water-into.cellars so densely filjed with
smoke as to be absolutely impenetra¬
ble. A devico which provides a new
thread for the nozzle of a hydrant, in
case tlie thread has been twistiid-r-for-
merly a very frequent sourerof dan¬
gerous delay—is not the ieasf-Valuable
of the Chief’s inventions,-which are
far too many to catalogue.—r.fEpoch.
The Unexpected Sometimes Happens.
“’Here, Bobbett. HeVe’s that tea
dollars I owe you.”
“What? Well, I’declareA-you are
a genius. You’re always surprising
your friend*.”—[Epoch. <:?
*