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VOL. II.
Spinning-Song.
Bkenng Mar the hearthstone, and plied
her spinning-wheel,
And blithely went her little foot as If she
danced the reel.
I watched her lissom fingers as amid the fiax
they flew}
And as she lithely drew the thread I felt my
heart go too.
O love, love, love,
To Borrow near akin,
I dread your wilea,
I Bring naught but smiles
Or shun me as I spin.
6he sang beside the ingle; no lay of bird was
sweeter;
ller song had swing of daisies and wild rosc-
breatb in its meter,
The hsppy embers seemed to glow the
brighter for her singing.
And merry shadows round the wall In silent
flight went winging.
O lore, love, love,
i To happiness a-twln!
; The saddest room
: Bursts into bloom
When love peeps in.
She «ang amid the firelight and gently bowed
her head;
It may have been the glowing bent or some¬
thing that I said—
Her gay voice caught a quiver, and her wheel
went slow and slow,
And as I leaned to listen the words came
sweet aud low:
O lore, love, lore,
I fear the world's wide din.
Defend from fears
And griefs and tears
The trembling heart you win 1
—[Samuel Peck, In Boston Transcript.
LOST: A BABY.
Ono morning Mrs. Sackott put
Julia carefully into her carriage. She
lucked her up with rugs, ginghams
ami shawls. Meg often wondered
how the baby could breathe; but
Julia was fat and hearty, ami Meg
knew that she grow heavier,so it must
have agreed with her.
“Keep where it’s pleasant, and sun¬
ny, and take good caro of hor,” snid
Mrs. Sackett.
Sho said this every day. Meg took
as mucli care of Julia as any well-
meaning but careless girl of fourteen
does a baby. At tlio crossing she
thumped tho carriage down into one
gutter and banged it up out of tlic
other. The baby was used to this,
and only opened iier eves wide and
gasped on arriving at the opposite
side.
Meg was just turning the corner
when alie heard her mother's voice.
“M-c-g!”
| “Yes’mP
! “Stop at Hurd’s and send home
three pounds of brown sugar and a half
pound of teal”
“Yes’mi”
Meg thrust her elbows through tho
handle of the baby carriage and cro¬
cheted as site walked. Crocheting
tidies was Meg’s favorite pastime.
She always had a tidy under way.
Hurd’s was a corner grocery, with a
door opening on each of tlio two
streets. Meg wheeled tlio carriage
elose to the show-window ami fastened
the wheel with, a stone so that it
couldn’t roll off.
Julia sat still, gazed with attention
at tlic resplendent advertisements of
Jcnks’ soap and Tompkins’ ginger,
although she must liavo known these
placards by beurf. Babies have to en¬
dure so much which they do not un¬
derstand that it is not surprising that
they become philosophers.
Hurd’s was crowded, as it always
was in the morning, but Meg did not
object to wait ing. She chatted wit Ii
Kate Alien and Lou French, and even
drew out her tidy and did two rows
before the salesman had time to attend
to her.
Then siie ordered sugar and ten
with ns grnud an air as that worn by
Mrs. Ponsonby, who “resided” in a
four-story brown-stone house on a
stylish avenue, while Meg Jived in a
“third flat.”
“Wait for me!” said Kalo Allen.
“I’ve got to go to the butcher’s.”
“All right,” answered Meg.
She waited, and when Kate s'arled
sho walked with iner, talking briskly,
down (he street almost a block before
she suddenly cried, “Ob, I forgot the
baby I”
“What baby?” asked Kate.
“Why, I had our baby with me,
and I’ve gone and left tlio carriage
outside the store.”
“There wasn’t any baby at the door
when we came out,” replied Kate.
“Sure enough,” said Meg, “there
wasn’t.”
She gazed in bewilderment at Kate’s
round eyes, and then cried:
“Ob, I know, I came in at the
othor door—that’s it. She’s round on
Harrison street.”
The giris ran langhingly back and
turned the corner. There was no baby
nor carriage there.
They stared at each other, and Katie
would have laughed but that Meg
looked so solemn.
“Perhaps you didn’t bring hor.”
“Yes, I did I I left her jud hero. I
know I did I”
THE ENTERPRISE.
“Could tho carriage liavo rollod
down tho street?”
Meg looked up and down tho street
iu vnin. No carriage was in sight.
•‘Perhaps a policeman thought sho
was lost and took her to tho station-
house,” suggested Kato.
Meg began to cry. Kate’s words
seemed cruel.
“Run homo quick and tell your
mother about it I”
Meg took Katio’8 ailvico. She ran
fast, for sho was frightened. Mrs.
Sackctt heard her story, and gavo her
a severe scolding for carelessness.
“Some boy took it to searo you. It
must be about tho neighborhood. Go
and look!” sho ordered. Sho was a
hard-working woman, and treated
tilings in a matter-of-fact way.
But when Meg camo back to report
that no one had seen baby or carriage
anywhere, Mrs. Sackett becamo
alarmed. She forgot to scold this
time. Sho put on her bonnet and
searched tho street thoroughly. She
inquired at all the stores, and even
went to tho police station.
Coming buck from her fruitless ex¬
pedition she dropped wearily into a
chair by the door. Meg could not
bear to seo her mother’s white face.
She picked »p her hat and crept down
stairs.
An organ man was playing a lively
tune and Lou French's little sisters
were dancing to the music. They
enme up to ask Meg “if the baby was
found,” and Meg, without looking at
them, choked and rushed down tlic
street. Sho walked on in a breathless
state for several blocks, and happened
to pause for breath just where there
sat, on a doorstep, a boy about twelve
years old, with a woebegone and tear-
stained face.
Meg looked at him and asked ab¬
ruptly, “What’s the matter? Have
you lost a baby?”
“Lost a baby I” shouted (he boy, in¬
dignantly. “You clear out of Ibis!”
lie seemed to look as if lie thought
she was making sport of him.
Meg was glad to “clear.” Site had
only spoken out of the abundance of
her thoughts. Sho walked along, sur¬
veying absently the windows siie
passed. Sho wondered if alt tho
babies who lived in 1 hose houses were
safe, or if their parents were hunting
for any of them in grocery stores and
poiice stations.
At the next corner she stopped
again. Tlirco women stood there
talking. Said one of them, a smalt
women:
“I told her, says I, ‘Sirs. Smith,
you’d better report it at tho station-
house. It belongs lo somebody that’s
looking for it, of course!’ says I.”
“Siie' wouldn’t take the trouble.
She’s too elegant!” remarked a stout
woman, sarcastically.
“That’s so,” replied the first speak¬
er. Siie said: “Let them that lost it
look for it. Jimmie brought it home,
and lie’ll have to amuse it till tlic
mother comes." “It serves Jimmie
l ight, though,” the sUut woman added,
decidedly. “A pretty trick to wheel
home Die wrong babyl”
Meg felt faint. She leaned against
the railing. Whose baby were they
talking about?
“Where was liis own?” asked Vhc
third woman who didn’t seem to
understand tlic circumstances.
“Why, you know lie left it beside a
store while lie played marbles, and his
mother came along aud took it home
to frighten him!”
“Ha! ha I ha!”
“You may depend she was mad,
though, when ho brought home a
strange baby.”
“Hal l a I ha!”
Could two babies bo lost in one day ?
Meg stood in doubt a few minutes,
while the two women discussed tiie
Story. She remembered tlic little boy
whom siie had seen up Hie street and
stepped boldly up to the talkers.
“Will you please tell me who's found
a baby?” she asked.
The eyes and tongues of all three
were directed at her at once.
“Why!” “Well—have you lost
one?” “Mercy on us! do you know
whose it is?”
Meg colored, but stood her ground.
“Somebody wheeled our baby away
while I went into a store on an errand,”
site explained. “We’ve been looking
for her all tiie morning ”
The threo women were delighted.
They all insisted on escorting Meg
down the street and into tiie right
house. The mournful little boy sat on
the front steps, his attitude showing
his thorough disgust with life.
“You’d belter get up and take care
of your twins, Jimmie! ” laughed the
sarcastic woman.
Jimmie looked at her. his counten-
ance expressing unutterable things.
“Come Jimmie, come,” cried the
sharn * little woman; -take us upstairs,
we want to sec vour mother.”
“This young lady has lost her babv.
CARNESVILLE, GA„ FRIDAY, AUGUST
Jimmie,” said the tall woman kindly.
“Perhaps it’s tho one you’vo found."
Jimmie's face brightened, lie stole
a glance at Meg,remembering siie lmd
spoken to him. Ilo turned into the
house and led tlio way upstairs.
“Here’s somebody como for that
babyl ” ho announced gruffly.
Ho throw open tlio door uiul imme¬
diately got behind it, whence ho could
easily observe proceedings or escape
if lie should find it prudent.
“I thought somebody would come,”
exclaimed a drawling voice. “I knew
(lie child would bo called for. She
evidently belonged to nice people.”
The speaker rocked herself In a low
chair. Her hair was in papers and
sho wore a pink wrapper. In her lap
lay an embroidered tidy, at which sho
took languid stitches. It may bo re¬
corded here that Meg gave up tidicB
from that day.
She did not stop to examine tlio
lady, however, but snatched up one
of the two babies who crawled about
tlie lioor and bugged and kissed Julia
more lovingly than sho had ever done
before.
Jimmie, behind the door, was si ai¬
ded. He wondered if lie should feel
the same affection for Lauretta if sho
were lost for three hours.
The three women all talked togeth¬
er. Tlio lady in the rocking chair lia.
tened complacently, convinced that
sho had done all that could bo expect¬
ed when she allowed tho strange baby
i« creep on her carpet till called for.
“I told Jimmie," she laughed, “he’d
have (wo babies to take care of, in¬
stead of one.”
Jimmie bad disappeared into the
lmll.
“I think I’ll take tlic baby homo to
mamma; she's fretting about her,"
said Meg, holding the baby light,
“WeTe very much obliged to you for
keeping her here.”
Mrs. Smith bowed politely, Sho
indicated with her forefinger where
Meg would find tho baby’s clothes and
w raps.
Meg dressed her and carried her
carefully down stairs, followed by t.
cheerful “good morning from Sirs.
Smith. With a light heart siie tucked
Julia once more into her carriage.
Jimmie stood watching her from th*
door.
“Say 1” be called, “Arc you really
glad to get that kid back?”.
Meg laughed out of her gladness.
“Why, of course!”
“Did you feel awful bad when you
found she was gone!”
“Of course,” said Meg again.
“What made you do such a stupid
thing as to wheel homo tho wtong
baby ?”
“Oh,” ho said, grinning, I didn’t
bring her homo!” He lowered bis
voice. “I was playing with Bob
Price, and I sent another fellow, and
be didn’t know her,you seel”
“Good gracious!” exclaimed Meg,
looking at Jimmie with horror.
But Jimmie was bursting with Ills
wrongs.
“Perhaps you think you had the
hardest time of it, but if you bad lo
amuse an extra baby threo hours,
you’d know finding a baby was worse
than losing one.”
Meg was so impressed with his air
of conviction Hint siie said not a word.
—[Motreai Star.
A Big Spider.
In the jungles of Sumatra is fonnA
an enormous spider, which mcasnrej
three inches across the body and sev-
on across the legs. It is black in col¬
or, with rod and yellow markings. It
spins a geometrical web about four
feet in diameter between two trees,
which web is strong enough to knock
off a pith hat. In one case tlic web
was extended between trees at least
twenty feet apart by a system of guys
and stays, of which not one was un-
necessary or out of place; and be¬
sides, was stretched in a vertical di¬
rection by two good sized pieces of
wood—ax chips, in fact—slung to its
lower margin. Some of tlie Sumatran
spiders are of such extraordinary and
unspiderlike shape that only drawings
could give an idea of them. One spe¬
cies, about the size of tiie garden spi¬
der, iias a hard, shelly body, with a
pear shaped projection on each side,
which as well as tlic body, is covered
with spikes.—[Picayune.
How lo Test Death.
The difficulty of distinguishing cor-
tain forms of comatose sleep from ac¬
tual death has suggested all sons of !
ingenious tests, such as holding a
bright looking-glass in front of tiie
nostrils, or forcing a spray of water
against tho closed eyelids. A still
more decisive experiment, however,
consists in injecting tiie pale skin of
the upper arm with a strong solution
of ammonia. If a spark of life lingers
1 it will betray itself by the appearance
j of a red spot.—fNew York Telegram.
AN ANIMAL TRAINER.
He Quit Teaching Boys to Join
a Circus.
His Remarkable Success With
Rats and Mice.
Signor Dominie, biographer of
clowns, bnre-bnek riders anil circus
pooplo generally, lias written a cur¬
ious lot of reminiscences of the Rus¬
sian Duroff, the most famous trainer
of trick animals in tho presold gener¬
ation.
Duroff was originally an instructor
in Latin and modern languages in a
Russian high school. He practised
then ids powers over domestic ani¬
mals—first of all, bis dog—and decided
that the docility of dogs.
cats and geese was far greater
than that of school children.
He iias never altorcd bis judgment iu
this respect. Ilo quit teaching boys,
therefore, and joined an itinerant cir¬
cus, to the scandalizing of his former
colleaguos.
Domino mot him one morning in tlio
empty ring of the Circus Schumann.
After talking a few minutes Duroff
said:
“And now you must excuse mo for
an hour as I have a class to instruct at
this timo.”
“But surely you haven’t gone back
to teaching?” exclaimed Domino.
“No, no; you don’t understand. I
have just begun teaching, in fact. The
recitation in question is by my rats
and mice.”
Domino got permission to listen to
the recitation. Duroff fetched a lead
chest and sot it down in the middle of
the ring, lifted the cover a little, and
tlien began chirping, trilling, and
whistling on a little lead flute. A
mouse stuck its head through tlio crack
under flic cover, tumbled out and
trotted gaily over to Duroff's feet.
Another mouse followed, and then a
big rat plunged out into the ring. It
marched gravely up to Duroff and
scrambled round tlio bottoms of bis
trousers. More rats and mice fol¬
lowed till some thirty were scratching
and squealing at Duroff’s foot. The
clown stepped a few yards backward
and bis little flock followed, He fed
them cake and retreated again. They
followed and lie rewarded them as be¬
fore. Thus lie led them round the
ring several times. When three or
four of them fell behind the proces¬
sion to play or tight, lie attracted their
attention by tossing sand at them.
Finally he invited them to come up,
and in an instant they wore on his
shoulders, in his coat pockets, and
racing up and down the back of his
head. He caught tlirco rats by the
tail, swung them round, and let them
shoot off into space. The instant they
struck they were back again. They
ran back to Duroff', climbed to Lis
shoulders and got tlio same treatment
again. After an hour of this the flute
was laid aside and the rats and mice
were packed away for the day.
Duroff was tho first man to train a
pig to grunt accompaniments to songs,
dance round a ring, and jump and
waltz to orders. He had then also
taught a rooster to crow at command,
and line! iustruc'ed successfully a
goose in the business of fetching and
carrying. Domino, after discussing
these triumphs of training, askcdDur-
off whether or not lie ever tired of his
new occupation and wished to return
to instructing boys, as lie had once
done in the Russian high school. Dur¬
off did not catch Domino’s exact
words, and answered:
“Instruct children? Instruct ani¬
mals? These arc two processes which
can hardly be compared. The diffi¬
culties vary so—there is no compari¬
son.”
“You misunderstood me,” explained
Domino. “1 acknowledge that your
work now is much more difficult—”
“More difficult? More difficult?”
shouted Duroff. “You must be crazy.
Why, it is easier, indescribably easier.
I would rather tcacli ten pigs than a
singlo child. I would rather teach
five geese than a boy. A pig or a
goose never forgets,is never impudent,
is never noisy. But a child! Willi it
you never know where or bow (o be¬
gin, and when von stop—bumps!—all
forgotten. r —[New York Sun.
Poison of the Teeth.
Biling the nails is an exceedingly
dangerous practice, as tho biter never
k"™* when to stop, and at any mo¬
ment is liable to bite into “the quick”
and cause blood poisoning. Even
when the ntmost care is taken of the
teeth, a poisonous secretion is apt to
collect on them, and the entrance of a
minute portion of (his into the cucu-
Elion may prove as certainly fatal rs
the pus on a surgeon’s scalpel.—[Gin-
a’nnati Enquirer.
The Forestry Building at the World**
Fair.
Chief Buchanan has sent out letters
to nil of tho state boards of agricul¬
ture advising them as to the design of
tbo proposed forestry building at the
World’s Fair. The building will bo
about 200 by 500 foot, and will occu
py a commanding position on tho lake
shore. It will bo (losigncd to illustrate
in its construction and arrangement
the forestry wonltli of tho world. Tho
architecture is of a rustic, character
and will make a bountiful effect, A
feature will bo tho wide colonnade
along the front of tho building and
across either end. Tho supporting
columns of this colonnade will bo
trunks of trees with the bark on, rep¬
resenting the characteristic woods of
the United Status. This will not only
add to tlio unique beauty of tho struc¬
ture, but will fin-nigh (he states an
opportunity to show spocitnens of
their treos. These tree trunks will be
twonty-flvo feet long, about twenty
inches iti diameter at tho base, taper¬
ing gradually to tho top. Kacli trunk
will liavo attached lo it a tablet on
which will be engraved tlio name of
the state furnishing it, the name of
tlio troo, and (lie estimate of tlio
quantity of such timber in tlio state or
territory. Chief Buchanan asks each
state board of agriculture to send on
three of such troo trunks.
Nine Rules For Bui hers.
Avoid bathing within two hours
after a meal.
Avoid bathing when exhausted by
fatigue or from any other cause.
Avoid bathing when the body is
cooling after perspiration.
Avoid bathing ailogotlier in tlio
open air if, after having boon a short
timo in tho water, it causes a somo of
chilliness and numbness of tlio hands
and foot.
Bat ho wlion tlio body is warm, pro¬
vided no timo is lost iu getting into
tlio water.
Avoid chilling the body by sitting
or standing undressed oil (lie banks or
in boats aftor having been in tlio
water.
Avoid remaining too long in tho
water; leave the water immediately if
there is tiie slightost feeling of chilli¬
ness.
The vigorous and strong may bat lie
early in tho morning on an empty
stomach. Tho young and those who
arc weak had bettor bathe two or three
hours after a meai—the best timo for
such is from two to three hours after
breakfast.
Those who arc subject to attacks of
giddiness or faintness, and those who
suffer from palpitation and other souse
of discomfort at the heart, should not
bathe. — [St. Louis Republic.
“Tlie Cart Before tho Horse.”
Tho following are specimens of
curious compositions: “A man was
killed by a railway engine running in¬
to Victoria, supposed to bo deaf.”
A man writes: “Wehave decided to
erect a school house large enough to
accommodate 500 scholars five stories
high.” On a certain railway the fol¬
lowing luminous direction was
printed: “Hereafter when trains iu
an opposite direction are approaching
each other on separate lines, drivers
will bo requested to bring their respec¬
tive trains to a dead bait before
the point of mooting, and be careful
not to proceed till each train has
passed the other.” “Wanted, saddle
horse for lady weighing 950 pounds.”
An editor gays: “Wo have received
a basket of grapes from our friend
W., for which lio will nccept our
compliments, some of which are near¬
ly two inches in diameter.” A news¬
paper contained this: “We have two
school rooms sufficiently large to con¬
tain 300 pupils one above another.”
—[London Tid-Bits.
Touglicning Glassware.
A simple method of toughening any
glassware is to immerse it in a gallon
pot of cold water in which a halt-cup
of salt lias been dissolved. Let the
water boil thoroughly, then lift tlio
kettle off the fire and allow it to be¬
come perfectly cold before you re¬
move tiie glass. When tlio water is
perfectly cold takeout (lie glassware,
wasli it and wipe it dry. Glass treated
in this way is protected against
changes of temperature and sudden
drafts, which, striking againd a super¬
heated lamp chimney, are liable to
crack it.—[New York Tribune.
A Harp of Wood.
Two Frenchmen, tiie brothers Forre,
j have invented a new kind of harp,
made entirely of wood. Instead of
strings, tiie inventors use strips of
American fir. The sound is produced,
as in the ordinary harp, by contact of
tlie fingers; but the players wear
leather gloves covered with resin. The
: tone-of ul.c instrument is o. romaik.
! able l.untv.—(Boston Transcript.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Hope against hope, and ask till y*
receive.
A good man is novor improved by
bocomiug a better.
Sllenoo is as deep as eternity;
spooch is as shallow as time.
Charity is not tlio only tailor wboie
garments cover a multitude of sins.
Tho thought of tlio private philan¬
thropist may mould u whole commu¬
nity.
Tlio great secret or success in life
is for a man lo bo ready when his op¬
portunity comes.
There probably never was a man
who bolievod ho had friends who wore
as good to him a» bo lo them.
A loud necktie doesn’t necessarily
indicate a depraved heart; tlio wear¬
er’s impulses may be bettor than Ills
taste.
One great reason why somo men
practice generosity so little In the
world is their finding so littlo there.
Generosity is catching.
Somo pooplo do not hesitate to rob
Potcr, but they do not rob him for tlio
purpose of paying Paul any more.
They say that Paul can wait.
As loro is the most delightful pas¬
sion, pity is nothing else but love
softened by a ilogroo of sorrow. Ill
short, It is a kind of pleasing anguish,
as well as generous sympathy, that
knits mankind together and blends
them in a common lot.
A Pioneer Palace Fur.
Our wagons, or the “Heed wagons,”
as they were called, were all made to
order, ami I can say without fear of
contradiction that nothing like our
family wagon ovor started across tho
plains, it was what might bo called
a two-story wagon or “pioneer palace
car,” attached to a regular immigrant
train. Tho entrance was on tlic side,
like that of an old-fashioned stage
coach, and one slopped into a small
room, as it wore, in tlio centre of the
wagon. At tlio right and left were
spring scats witli comfortable high
backs, where ono could sit and ride
with as much caso as on the scats of a
Concord coach. In this little
r om was placed a tiny slieot-
iron stove, whoso pipe, running
through tho top of tlio wagon,
was prevented by a circle of till from
setting lire to (he canvas cover. A
board about a foot wide extended over
tho wheels on either side the full
length of tlio wagon, thus forming the
foundation for a large and roomy sec¬
ond story, in which were placed our
beds. Under tlio spring seals were
compartments in which were stored
many articles useful for tlio journey,
such as a well-fllJcd work basket and
a full assortment of medicines, with
lint ami bandages for dressing wounds.
Our clothing was packed—not in Sar¬
atoga trunks—but in strong canvas
bags plainly marked. Somo of
mamma’s young friends added a iook-
ing-giass, Imtig directly opposite the
door, in order, as they said, that my
mother might not forget to keep her
good looks, and strange to say, when
we had to leave this wagon, standing
like a monument on tlio Salt Lake
desert, tlio glass was still unbroken.
I liavo often thought iiow pleased the
Indians must have boon when they
found tliis mirror which gave them
back tlic picture of their own dusky
faces.—[Century.
The Way to Get Money.
The mnn who wants more money
will find no royal road to the wealth
lie covets, no patent method for its ac¬
quisition. Ho must give something
for it to make it honestly his own, and
the man who sots himself earnestly lo
do this will find that all financial sys¬
tems will head to his conquering will.
The gambler, whether ho plays his
game in tlio exchange, at a faro table,
in a policy-shop, or with smaller stakes
in private circles at baccarat and pro¬
gressive euchre, will find the issue pre-
curiotts ami unrewarding. Tho way
to got more money without any loss of
pence or self-respect is to earn it by
toil of brain or sinew, and the funds
thus acquired have no gnawing teeth.
All other wealth eats like a canker.—
[Forum.
Why They are Failed “Special Trains.”
“Do you know how trains running
on telegraphic orders came to be called
specials?” asked A. J. Applegate, a
telegraph operator, of The Man
Town. “Well, when I was operator
at a little town in Nebraska op the
Northwestern road, some years ago,
they were called wild trains. A roan
got hurt by one, ono day, and the jury
w ),o tried tiie damage suit that
lowed returned a ‘verdict for — data-
ages in favor of---, wlto was
jured by one of them wild-cat trains.’
Tho company immediately called
trains specials.”—[St. Louis
NO. 34.
Don’t Kick.
Though tho weather be wot
And your clothing bo mussed,
Be a brick;
Don’t grumble and fret,
For the rain, don’t forget,
Ii laying tho dust.
Don't kick.
Though the weather bo hot
And boiled lie your blood
Till ’tie thick,
Be content with your lot,
For the sunshine is what
Is drying the mud. .
Don’t kick.
Slinking of tho shifting weather,
Tell you what 1 wish you’d do:
Wish you’d please inform me whether
It Is (hot) enough for you.
It is (cold) enough (or you.
—[Detroit Free Press.
HUMOROUS.
Tho soa lias n net population of sov
oral thousand millions.
Sometimes when a man is put on
Ida mettle tho malorial is brass.
Tlio boo which gets into tlio politi¬
cian's bonnet is never a humble bee.
Wedding rings are not put on church
bells until after the marriage core ■
mony.
Miko: Fwlmt’s a microbe, Tat?
Pat: Sure, 'tin the most invisible tiling
yc Ivor saw.
“I try to dross in style,” moaned
Jagson, “but niy means aren’t equal
to the extremes."
The mail who is horn poor ought to
make a good balloonist, ilo is
until rally an heir o’ naught.
Judge—I understand that you pre
fer charges against Oils man? Grocer
—No, sir. I prefer chhIi, and ilmL’s
what I had him brought here for.
Ethel: You don’t think 1 am grow¬
ing old, do you? Edith: Not at all.
You liavo been twenty-live for tlio last
eight years, to my certain knowl-
edge.
“George,” snid tlio maiden fondly,
“did you hear Willie’s firecracker just
now?” “Yes, Miss Matidie, 1 did.”
“Didn’t It pop gracefully?” It was
enough.
A story describing a lovo scone be¬
tween the hero and heroine says:
“Ho wooed her with a will.” ’flint’s
a good way, especially if tlio wooor
is old and the will is in her favor.
She—Do you evor see Mr. and Mrs.
Cliapley since their marriage? lie—
Oh, yes; it is a case of two souls with
but a single thought. She—How love¬
ly 1 He—Yes, she married a dude.
lie—Then you reject me? She—I’m
•orry, very sorry, but I must. Ho
(desperately)—Then there is only ono
tiling left for me to do—that’s all.
Sho (anxiously)—Oh, wliatdo yon in¬
tend to do? He—Propose to some¬
body else.
Cowardice of Crowds.
The Spectator has a paper called tho
“Cowardice of Crowds.” Tho writer
is deeply impressed with tlio very
strange story of the poor woman who
had a lamp thrown at her and was
burnod to death while a little crowd of
people looked on and did nothing,
writes Waiter Bcsant. Ono poor
woman alone attempted to put out tho
flames. It is a horrible story, but I
should not Imvo made it the peg for a
paper on cowardice, bccauso I think
that cowardice had nothing whatever
to do with it. Why cowardice?
Tboro was no courage wanted to tear
off your coat and wrap it around tlio
burning drapery of tlio unfortunate
woman. Presence of mind was Jack*
ing, if you please, but not courage.
Presence of mind, which means readi¬
ness to net for tlio best on a sudden
emergency, will provo to be wanting
more and more ns wo depart more and
more from the primitive conditions of
man, which is one of being always
hunted for food by wild beasts, al¬
ways hunting for food, and always
fighting. In that condition man is
full of resource, contrives a thousand
stratagems, and meets a thousand
dangers. Remove from him the habit
of hunting ami tlio necessity of fight¬
ing. Make his life assured and easy,
and lie will infallibly lose the readi¬
ness and the resource—in other
words, the presence of mind—,of tlio
savage. This, in fact, wo have done.
In moments of unusual, unexpected
dangers, w r e are paralyzed. This is
my reading of the conduct of tiie crowd
which looked on while a woman’s
clothes flamed up and burned her to
death.
The Oldest Mall Farrier.
The oldest mail carrier in tiie United
States, perhaps, is J. D. West, who
carries (ho mail from Kodron to An-
nora, Ark. He is 81 years old, and
rides a mule 21 years of age. West
mounts his animal with the agility of
ahoy, and carries the mail six days iu
each week with tlio utmost punctuality.
Ha is a native of Tennessee and-
fonglit as a volunteer through tli*
Mexican war.— rCliicago Herald.