HIS FIRST SHAYE.
THE FIRST TINIE A YOFNG NUN EN¬
TERS A IIARBER’.S SHOE.
His FeeMnjf. nt thP Tiinp, nnd the Expert.
enre he tines Through Before t omiii*
° uu
tEiS oUowhie
“The first time in a barber’s shop is an
event of importance in every young
man’s life. He will wait, in some cases,
three weeks after determining to do it,
uuu uu the eventful day he has been
known to sneak by the shop seventeen
times, summing np his courage for this
trying ordeal. On entering the door he
feels that every one in the room knows
that this is his first appearance, and
that they are microscopically searching
for his beard. The barber gives him a
hard look when notifying him that it is
now his turn. But he is determined to
put on a stiff upper lip, as worldly
people say, and go through the opera
tion with the stoicism of a veteran. He
is remarkably sensitive to ridicule, and
not for the world would he have the
barber know that this was his first shave.
Bo he sits on the arm of the chair, in
stead of on the seat, and in getting
down lies too far back. When told to
bring up his head, he hastily does it,
and knocks over the stool in the opera
tion. This causes the blood to rush to
liis face, and the embarrassment which
produces it is not at all modified by de
tecting the barber exchanging significant
glances with the operator at the next
chair. When the lather is being put
on, he cannot control the working of his
Imagination, and he finds himself pos
Bessed of an irresistible desire to smile
sheepishly. This proneness to grin is
inexplicable, but it is inseparable from
the first shave, and the victim is obliged
to resort to every facial artifice to over¬
come it, and then doesn’t succeed.”
The above is true to nature, but it is
not nature enough. The writer should
have gone on to state how the young
fellow feels for about Bix months before
he gets up courage to go to a barber
Bbop, and how he looks at that cater
piller-looking, mouldy-complected stuff
on his upper lip. He sees the fuzz on
his lip before anybody else does, and he
wonders that all the world is not on to
it. He goes closer to his girl, on Tie
way home from school, hoping she will
aee it, and if she does, and speaks of it,
before he has called her attention to the
phenomenon, he is very happy, and
votes her one of the most discerning
women in the world, and he resolves to
make her his wife, if he lives. After his
girl has spoken of the hair on his lip,
the boy feels better, and when he goes
into the presence of grown people, he
expects they will at once stop all con¬
versation and call attention to his lip,
and when they go on talking about
something else, he feels hurt, and when
some one tells him to go to the door and
let the dog in, or bring in some wood,
he feels crushed, and thinks such re¬
marks should be addressed to children,
and not to men who have hair on their
lips.
From the time a boy first notices the
flew on his upper lip, to the time the
moustache is unmistakable, which is
about a year and a half, he is miserable.
He does not go to a barber at first, but
©onfides in his father, if he has one, and
the father finally gets out his razor and
ahaves the boy’s upper lip, for a joke,
partly because he was a boy onoe him¬
self. But during the operation the
father makes the boy feel Bmall by tell¬
ing him that the razor is spoiled, the
edge all taken off, and finally paralyzes
the youth by showing him the lather in
which there is not a sign of a hair.
After this operation the boy rubs his
fingers on his lip and he can feel the
beard, and it is harsh, and pricks his fin¬
gers, and he wants to go right off and
rub that lip against the cheek of his
girl, to show her that the world moves.
Then he waits weary months for it tc
grow out again, and wonders how it is
that people recognize him with his
moustache cut off. When it comes out
•gain he takes his father’s razor, while
the folks are to church, and shaves him¬
self. His parents know what he has
done, when they come home by the
blood on the towel, and the court-plaster
at the comer of his mouth, where he has
gouged himself while trying to look
cross-eyed in a mirror, and shave him¬
self left-handed. The next time the
beard oomes out he calls up all his reso¬
lution and goes to a barber, and this is
where the above quoted remarks are
pertinent to his case. But the writer
above has not told half of the annoyance
the barber gives the boy. The first
thing the barber does is to put a doth
•round the boy’s neck, and take down a
pair of shears. Though the boy’s hair
may be as short as pie crust, the barber
pretends he supposes the boy wants his
hair out, and the poor boy has to strug¬
gle with his Yoioe, and bring it away
ont of his throat, and say he wants to be
shaved. The barber lays down the
bears, comes np to the trembling boy,
laid ont in a chair, looks at him, and
says, “Where?” That is the trying
lime for the boy. He feels that he would
like to murder that barber, and he would
give all he has got if he could get ont of
that shop, but he has to put his finger
^ Then 1116 barber “ 0h >” m 9
tone of voice that sounds as though it
was a11 be coald do to kee P from 8DOrt '
hig right out laughing. In about two
seconds the barber has the boy shaved,
and says “next,” and the boy gets ont
of the chair in a profuse perspiration,
though it may be the coldest day of
winter, and when he pays for the shave
he is proud to notice that the barber
charges him full price. It would kill
him to have the barber charge half
rates. Then he goes out, and as he
steps on the street and feels of his lip.
Qe wonders why people do not notice
t bat he came out of the barber shop. In
time he becomes a regular customer of
the barber shop, and eventually raises
whigkerS) bn t he always hates the bar
^ that shaved him first, and treated
bim so disdainfully, and always patron
^ a riva j Bbo p_
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The ‘ . 3 of Ttv0 Braye >Ien> ‘ *
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tbat deS p er ate battle of Murfrees
bor0) 0 r as some call it, Stone River, on
the 31st of December. 1862, says the
Xew Orleans Times, a gallant and daring
charge was made by Breckinridge’s
brigade on the masked batteries of Gen.
Roseerans, so placed as to do fearful
W ork. The charge was one of the most
desperate of the war, and among the
foremost in it was the First Louisiana
Regiment.
In this regiment a brave soldier and
intrepid officer was Lieut. J. B. Trist, of
New Orleans. Manfully he went forth
to the terrible ordeal, and while leading
his men was struck down, mortally
wounded. It was impossible to with
stand such a rain storm of missiles, and,
decimated and tom, Breckinridge’s brig
ade was forced back. The Federals
swept over the fields, which was covered
with the dead and dying, and while the
bloody work was still going on, one of
their number, Sergeant George W. Kent,
who was afterward First Lieutenant of
Company B, Eighty-eighth Illinois Vol
unteers, saw poor Trist fast sinking from
his wounds, lying od the field. Sergeant
Kent went to the side of the dying
southern lieutenant and gave his parched
throat a resreshing draught of water
from liis canteeu, and then, to protect
him from the cold, carefully wrapped
him up in some blankets picked up ou
the battlefield. In such a bloody hour
such brotherly attention met with a
grateful response in the heart of the dy¬
ing man, and taking off his sword, he
presented it in almost his last words to
the succoring Kent. The war went on,
and Sergeant Kent became Lieutenant
He treasured the sword dearly, and
when the contest ended, he had Lieut.
Trist’s name, date of battle, etc., en¬
graved on the scabbard, intending to
preserve it as a souvenir of the war.
Some months ago, thinking that rela¬
tives of the dead lieutenant might desire
to recover the sacred relic, Lient. Kent
wrote to the Association of the Army of
Tennessee, and the family was put in
communication with him. A few days
ago the sword reached New Orleans, and
the brother of the gallant dead officer,
Mr. N. B. Trist, received it, twenty-one
years after the battle. Lieut. Kent, of
Gridley, Ill., will ever be remembered
here with sentiments of the warmest re
gard.
The Adirondack Region.
A bill to establish an Adirondack res
ervation, which was drawn np by th6
Chamber of Commerce committee, was
presented to the Legislature of New
York State by Senator Gibbs. It pro¬
vides for the appointment of commis¬
sioners to learn the value of the forest
lands in the Adirondack region owned
by private persons, and authorizes the
Legislature to appropriate $500, Q00 for
the purchase of these lands, for the pur¬
pose of adding them to the State lands
in the same region and thus forming a
reservation. The lands are to be select¬
ed in the counties of Washington, Sara¬
toga, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Franklin,
St. Lawrence, Hamilton, Fulton,Oneida,
Herkimer and Lewis. It is plainly
stated that the lands are to be selected
mainly with a view to protecting the
water supply of the Hudson, Black and
Mohawk rivers. Moreover it is desired
to secure a supply of ’water sufficient for
the navigation of the Erie and Black
river canals, “for the preservation of the
public health, for the protection and
preservation of the valleys of the Hud¬
son, the Mohawk, and Black rivers, and
their tributaries, from inundation.”
Ccba owes $90,000,000, and no
friendly bankrupt law there for her to
crawl under.
TRADITION OF EL MAHDI.
genehai. stone’s i.ectcke on the
falne prophet op the sufda.n.
_
A Enrions Arabian Eesend-Foresbndowing
the End of the world and Christ’s Tri
umpu-A Wicked conqueror.
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tbc B^^oldi Pedestal Fund on “ El
Mahdi , in the Soudan. In his lecture
General StoDe said: ~
It is probable that ten years ago
Mohammed Ahmed, the poor and un
known Koran reader, far up on the
White Nile, little dreamed that his deeds
would be discussed to-day in every part
of the civilized world. The Soudan
w as firmly held by a hand of steel,
though gloved in velvet—that of the
Khedive Ismail. Mohammed Ahmed
must have been well aware of another
Soudan Koran reader who shortly be
fore assumed the same title but was
quickly conquered. Mohammed Ahmed
proclaimed himself under more favora
b!e circumstances. In the place of
IsmaiI ’ wbo had been driven from
E STPt b J the two great Powers repre
Bentin g bis bondholders, there reigned
his sou, Mohammed Tewfik, whose
hands were held by England whenever
he desired to act vigorously. The
weakness of the government favored
the appearance of a strong man who,
appealing to the Arabic and Islamic
sentiment, could unite the people. He
came in the presence of Mohammed
Ahmed—El Mahdi. What is meant by
that name?
“Sitting one day in my office in the
War epartment in Cairo,” said the
General, “a confidential secretary of the
Prime Minister hurriedly entered and
informed me that a rebellion had broken
out in the Island of Abo, and that a
man was calling himself the Mahdi. As
military measures became at once nec
essary I desired to know the meaning of
the word. After consulting a transla
tion of ihe Koran without attaining my
object I applied to an intelligent Mus
sulman, and from him learned that
there was nothing in the Koran regard
ing this personage, but that tradition
maintained that during the last days of
this world an Arab false prophet would
rise up who would conquer—first, the
country occupied by the Arabs, then
Asia Minor, and then the rest of the
world; then once in possession of power
his ruling would be bad. but short, inas
much as Jesus Christ would then appear
on earth, near Jerusalem, and call from
their graves the great and good war
riors of all times; that on reaching the
grave of one such he would salute the
ancient with the Islamic salutation, “Sa¬
laam Aleickoom,” whereupon the old
warrior would arise, fully equipped, and
join his forces; that with this invincible
army constantly increasing, Christ
would march on Mecca, occupy that city
and there proclaim the truth of the Is¬
lamic doctrine, with peace and good will
to all men.
Such being the belief of the Arabs, it
is easy to see how dangerous it is to the
peace of the world when Mussulmans in
all countries become persuaded that
Mohammed Ahmed is really the Mahdi
of their traditions. Had he been de
feated at the outset he might have been
proclaimed a vulgar impostor, f@r he
was unknown outside ot the Soudan;
but circumstances favored him. First
he obtained a local prestige. Then fol
lowed the troubles in Cairo—England
and France each striving to create Eu
ropean domination. Following these
was the open rebellion of Arabi Pacha,
when, from April, 1882, to October, no
one either in Egypt or Europe thought
of Mohammed Ahmed. The shrewd
chief took advantage of the situation.
Availing himself of the fanatical influ¬
ences by which he was surrounded, of
the manifest weakness of the English
government, or the inability of the Khe
dive, he concentrated his forces, made
an onslaught, aroused his masses and is
now in a commanding position.
The Khedive aud his ministers were
prompt in the recognition of the perilous
the danger, but it was impossible. Brit
ish bondholders were pressing for the
payment of their semi-annual coupons
and the British government itself was
exacting in its demands for the money to
pay the expenses of the 10,000 British
troops constituting the army of occupa
tion. It was a moment when a little re
taxation of the purse strings, the taking
on of a little more pecuniary responsi
bility without actually expending a
penny would have made the Khedive,
his government and the wisest of the
Egyptians the grateful friends of Eng
land. The British government allowed
the opportunity to slip, and it will hard
iy return.
In conclusion General Stone paid a
handsome tribute Jo General Gordon aa
ft soldier and a man, but strongly depre
cated the act of the English government
mco=,peiii ng hi m to. M bmittothed m -
gers of his mission in going single
handed and alone to Khartoum,
gtop that Congh .
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Coughs and Colds are prevalent now.
especially among children, too often
from the ignorance or carelessness of
their elder guardians. Many mothers
their children suffer as providential and
unavoidable. A cold is by no means
aI W B d «e to exposure. Indigestion,
constipation, a lack of scrupulous clean
liness, the unwise habit of sleeping in
much of the clothmg worn during the
day, nnaired bed chambers all, or any
of these things may have far more to do
with your child s tendency to cold than
the keenest breath of the bracing winter
aar - And in great measure these things
are under your control. Mothers should
understand that it is a fact, whether
they can see it or not, that numerous
colds and sore throats are directly
traceable to indigestion and dietetic
errors. Quantities of greasy food, fried
meats, pastry, and the like, ill-ventilated
rooms, and continued constipation, have
to answer for many cases of croup, and
putrid sore throats. All these things
weaken the system and render it far less
abie to resist changes of temperature.
G^e every bedroom a thorough airing
every day, more especially if several
children are obliged to Bleep together,
or their parents. This is to be
avoided, if possible; if not, always lower
a window slightly from the top—or if
this cannot be done, raise it from below.
There is frequently bad air enough gen
erated and breathed in the sleeping
apartment of a family with small chil
dren, to supply them all not only colds,
but with a number of so-called “ma
larious” diseases, to last a year, perhaps
longer. Neglect of bathing is another
prolific source of colds. A child from
three to ten years old should certainly
receive an entire bath twice a week in
winter. A warm bath at night, taking
special care to avoid any chill after, will
frequently break up a sudden cold,
Keep children from playing in chilly,
unused rooms in autumn and winter
weather. Let them play out doors as
mu °h as possible, taking care to have
their feet warm and dry, A flannel suit
and ru hbe r overshoes will often save
muc h medicine and doctor s bills. Keep
them warmly clad, but do not be con
tent with thick coats and worsted hoods,
N^hile short skirts barely cover their
knees >. lea ™ g tbe b “ bs chilled.—
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mencan gneu t urxa
A Matter of Principle.
“Say, Uncle Mose,” said young Jack
Snow as he met the old man; “Who
am dis auntv-monop’ly I heerd some ob
de folks talkin’ about ?”
“Hush, chile, doan go ’rotuT ’spo’sen
yer ign’reuce like dat. Aunty-monop’ly
ain’t nobody bnt jes w’at sum people
b’leeves. ”
“How’s dat ?”
“W’y, yer see, w’en a man has all dere
is, dat’s monop’ly. An’ w’en you doan
b’leeve in one man habin’ all dere is,
dat’s aunty-monop’ly.”
“How’d dey git to callin’ hit dat way,
Uncle Mose? Doan peer to hab much
sense in hit, no wav. ”
“Now jes hole on, an’ let me ’splain.
Dere was a ole nigger name Monop’ly,
and he had a power o’ chickens.. An
dere war ole Aunty-Monop’ly as hadn’t
none, and she war ’posed to ole Monop’ly
habin’ all dem pullets he’s ownse’f. Dat’s
de way hit fust started, an’ now w’eneber
a man hab all dey is, dey says he’s ole
Monop’ly, an’ w’en anudder one ain’t
got nothin’ and wants to diwide, den dey
say he’s old Aunty-Monop’ly.”
“Is you fer Aunty-Monop’ly, Uncle
Mose?”
“Now, see yer, chile, dis am a mattah
ob princerple. I’se got a lot ob chickens
an ’ a cow, darfo’, on de chicken and cow
qustion I’ze monop’ly. But Roschile,
be bab a bank, an’ a railrode, darfo’, on
de bank an’ railrode question I’ze Aunty
luouop Monop’ly iy ebery euery time. ume. Dis uis yar yar fing nng am am
a mattah ob princerple.”— Texas Sift
ings.
Penobscot, are occupied by fifty or more
Maine fanners, sailors, and fishermen,
who are catching smelts. The industry
there is profitable in January and Feb
rnar ^ on ^ v .’ a “\i tben * or ^ ol ] r b( ? ars
ada v ' tbe of tbe tlde -
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Tbe ^ through holes m the ice,
“«* get an a J e ^ e *** P ounds ada ?
‘ ae u e a are an on oar s, limp
] 0IU ie Wa < ~ T ’ a e N reeze
hey are packed m barrels and shipped
to Boston aud New York, where the
P n ^ e 18 m eig ° cen ft P oluld -
It Might Have Been.— Poor Mr.
yillard 1 If he had even the empty bot
tle8 that his distinguished guests
emptied last summer on the trip to
Oregon, he could sell them to a junk
8 b op and realize quite a handsome
competency. But he can’t have them.
—Peck's Sun,
KILLING a WHITE DEER,
A Superstitious Woods, nan’s
pending Fvil, Dr ead o) ,
It ^ind h b perstltl0D forti
of am tha^a linen
aware Valiev Of the D
dC a W£llte teer is
an , , a misbj . i'tuiie, ^ S:lpr
, ° W E °t death is si
° oaa wbo may kill
. 0Le .
bacher hafi &laa Boh,
clearin „ at Himter- ^' m
n a
region (jQ the bordej , wii
Penn Qn Tuesday uzeme Count
_ Co “P
big gOD he wason V. a QJ»ii
j n the woods when thicket^ a'ar ''V° 'i° " ' ^
sprung G ut of a ,a lu ^4i
' lir
or gQ awa _ wa
and ’ c ®$
a j cT anu a
^ ^ be deer ak b { ed ’ ; #>
g _ air^ V
pHpped and it fell. The ^
^ va j n re „ a j n dg p . . ^
bacher and the boy ran t* ° tl ^
kill the doe with their axes
Before reac biug the deer Vftwi v
saw tbati j t W as a white one
BU p e rstitious belief as to tlie s hi/^ , i
of the animal common amon®
Rohrbaeher determined tt/rescJ « 1
deer and place it where it would
seC ure. He hurried his son back to ft!
house to get a rope and an empt- h
The latter he threw over the deer'- Wl 2
and in spite of its struggles, tied fo
with the rope. The two then iv -,]
to the clearing and released it in thi
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cattle shed. Rohrbacher’s intenti onw
to keep it there until the snow went: !
and then let it return to the woods,
Last Thursday Rohrbaeher went t
the shed to throw down hay to th
cattle. As he opened the door the win"
caught it and blew it wide open. Th
deer had retired to the furthest part a
the shed at the entrance of Rohrbaeher.
but seeing the door open sprang towar
it. As it passed Rohrbaeher he hastil
raised the hay-fork he had in his hand
and mechanically thrust it at the fa,
The three long tines were buried kpki .uail
the animal’s side, and as the
jumped out of the door they broke itiil
its body. The deer jumped the log!
fence to the cow yard, ran a few yards]
and fell in the snow. Rohrbaeher ha
ried to the spot and found the deer 'lead.
He had evidently driven the fork
tines into its heart. About noon ®!
Thursday Rohrbaeher went to where
some lumbermen were chopping in the
woods. He was nearly crazed. He told
the men of the capture and death of the
deer and begged some one of them to go
to his clearing and remove the body,
He declared that he would not remain
in the neighborhood, and that, having
killed a white deer, his doom was sealed.
A chopper took the deer into the woods,
and removing the skin, subsequently threw the carcass.] sold
into a swamp. He
the skin for $10 lumbering to a commercial villages. traveler] Bohr-j
in one of the removed!
bacher has sold his goods and
to another county and is in constant!
dread of impending evil
Gladstone and the Boston Girl
A Boston girl of unusually ingeuuoua
manner __and frank nature has, wt ot
from the other side, added to the
ready handsome list of evidence natural posi®j of j
sions and graces, strong tondsk
plomacy. A party of ' j
sweet Portia among them, eiattrc
s o- : 1
morning the private groun
Gladstone, craving, of course, the g
fortune of seeing the great staten®
Fortune smiled their wishes. {
on
coachman spied the gentleman approve
ing, and so obligingly and ostentatw- l
stopped his horses that there was no a*
temative, had he indeed wished !
the host’s advancing and greeting
visitors, England?!
<<rr Have you been long in
be inquired, graciously. B. ft;
“Oh, no 1” said the darling
“we only landed this morning, ^
came __right here the first thing ■
Now, who, I ask, could withstand s®
Surely not amau. 1 - 1
flattery as that? kina'
certainly not Mr. Gladstone -------- - , He
“““““J forgot that there “*• - only two p ^ s jj,]
were
drives ~ - out - of - Liverpool, - ■ ’ one -— “ a ” ve ,,rT U ^* j
g ' too goc od 01
, d ffer wa8 feet,
too (Rg^ctive to lay at her
Speaking of t>r e ‘ !Ci
^ Business.— C
of promise suits, the Kennebec ^
Journal says: “ It was not very
gince tbat a >VOU miles ng from lad* An ^
less than a hundred
bought a breach of promise atle
against a quite weaitayf >
man> % ho ijad been wooing her- thej
35 ,000. This became
foundation of a large fortune.
stances, had tvf ° who brothers were employee “ f^iiy 1 j fie ^ day
like thousands of other x,or8 ^ c " ti -je
.
brothers entered into nsrn
So,000 as capital. They w fix®*
.
and to-day are one ofthe we¬ ber
-
*n the State, employing a
of men.”
