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VOL. IV-NO, 49. NEWS GLEANINGS. Tennessee hast forty marriage associa tions. 'Seventy gold mines are being worked in Georgia. Abbeville, Ala., has a colored citizen worth $20,000. Six negroes sit on tbe grand jury at Brownsville, Tenn. Augusta, Ga., has $6,000,000 invested in manufactories. Two thousand Choctaw Indians still live in Mississippi. A large car factory is to be establish ed at Danville, Ga. Chattanooga has the finest union de depot in the South. The largest peach orchard in the world is in Alabama. Pepper pods weighing a quarter of a pound grow at Waldo, Fla. Cedar Key,Fla., shipped 4,000 pounds of turtles one day last week. The cotton crop of Florida will be about the same as that of last year. Chatham county, Ga., has shipped $50,000 worth of cabbages this year. One of the richest mica mines in the world has been discovered near Athens, Ga. Five hundred thousand dollars will be invested in a new cotton mill at Sel ma, Ala. The population of Birmingham, Ala., is estimated at from 8,000 to 12,000 Quite a margin. The authorities of Madison county, Fla., will abolish the license of SSOO for trading in cotton seed. During the ten years from 1870 to 1880 Tennessee increased the number of her farms forty per cent. A Chili squash, raised as an experi ment by a Monticello, Fla., farmer, weighs nearly 200 pounds. Senator Brown is the largest individ ual tax-payer in Atlanta, Ga , and he pays taxes on $329,500 worth of real a B d personal property. A mystsrious rot has made its appear ance among the Tennessee vineyards, and it is feared great damage will be done the heretofore promising fruit. Within the neighborhood of Talbott’s station, Jefferson county, Tenn., over five hundred sheep have been killed 1 and as great a number crippled, by dogs i in the last twelve months. A canal to be built at Rome, Ga , on the Etowah river, will be four and a half miles long, 262,96 horse power and have a fall of over twenty-six feet. It is intended for manufacturing purposes, and will cost $350,000. A. M. Page, the hero of the great Lowndes’bond robber vat Clarksburg, W. Va,, who succeeded in getting away with SIOO,OOO in money and bonds, has just been released from prison after serv. ing out seven years of an eight year g sentence. Au inexhaustable mine of corundum stone, the next hardest known substance to the diamond, has been discovered in Butts county, Ga. It resembles the sapphire, is susceptible of high polish, and is valuable in many ways. Lorentz Rothenback is the modern Samson, who labors in the iron works at Cedartown, Tenn., and amuses himself and delights the natives by carrying a pair of 500-pound car wheels, attached to the axle, around the yard with per feet ease. ■ ii' i ■ The Art of Mezzotint. These attempts at revising the art of mezzotint as employed upon original work have a special interest besides that which attaches to them as experiments so far successful and promising to be still more so. They show the de sire to cultivate a very beautiful and refined style in which English artists, inspired as they were by the beautiful pictures of Reynolds and Gainsborough, more than a hundred years ago, arrived at the highest perfec tion. That the method should ever have been suffered to fall into disuse, and be supplanted by the more mechanical and less artistic work produced in various forms by various tools used to cut into the plate in a more or less stiff and un pliant manner, is much to be regretted, a painter’s method, more and broader in .d one, Giro fore, that en ■HtaV ' to give full expression to ..’■''"'l'- the beauties of light and MMHKl'dl \ ■■harm ~| gradation and ; possible to a niono- ’ nt ®lje Bolton Strong. "THE NIGHT COMETH ON." Deep down ’mongst the reedy hollows, And away thro’ the meadows low. Swift o’er its shining pebbles, Pausing not in its ceaseless flow, The brook that comes down from the mountain To the ocean must speed its flight, As the brightness that dawned with the morning Must die on the threshold of night. The ferns by the brooksido growing, And the reeds as they murmur and sigh, And the willows and meadow grasses Keep time as the brook sweeps by, And the ocean is calmly waiting, But never a ripple will tell, When the wavelets the brook is bringing Shall be merged in its long, low swell. And there eometh a royal sunset That lighteth the funeral pyre Os the day as it glides down the western sky And dies in its crimson fire; And night with its swift wing mounting, The brightness sweepeth away, And setteth the seal or darkness On the tomb of the vanished day. And so it but little recketh How radiant life’s dawn may be; It as surely wears on to the gloaming As the brook tloweth on to the sea. And however fair be its evening Its brightness will soon be gone, And the waning light and the gathering gloom V ill whisper: “The night cometh on." —Anna Alexander Cameron, in Our Continent. AMERICAN MONEY AND ITS USES. The unit of the American money ta ble is the mill. It is not coined now. They tried it once, but it was discov ered that all the pastors in America were getting their salaries in that coin. To save these very estimable people from starvation, therefore, the coinage of the mill was stopped. A cent is used to drop into the out stretched hand of poverty and the tin cup of the melodious organ-grinder. It is also used to run the Sunday school, support foreign missions and bribe children of six years old and un der. It isn't good for anv other pur poses west of the Mississippi, but fur ther East, down in the cultured region round about Boston, in the plane of high political morality and general purity of New York, and generally all through the barbarous orient, it is used to buy newspapers, many of the news papers in that land being sold for a cent. It will, also, in that favored land, buy bananas and oranges, and as sist 'in paying street-car fares. It is also used largely as change. When a man buys a New Hampshire rock patch—sometimes called a farm eleven and one-quarter acres at $l9O per acre, the buyer will wait in the of fice three hours and a half while the real-estate agent shins around and gets change for a two-cent piece, in order to make even purchase money. In the far-West, the cent, save that which is worn by the guileless Indian, is almost unknown. It takes ten mills to make the United States cent. One gin mil! does the work for the Indian. The next coin in the ascending scale is the two-cent piece. It is twice as Worthless or twice as useful as the cent, according to the accidental or oriental locality of its circulation. In any State it will buy a revenue stamp to put on a bank check, and this causes it to be in such constant and heavy demand in the I newspaper offices that it always com mands a large premium. The, nickel is worth five cents, and stands on the verge of silver money. It is used to play “crack loo” with, and is also largely employed in “match ing.” It is invariably lost when you match with it. Its principal use in com merce is the purchase of schooners; like wise schnits. If tbe coinage of the nickel should be stopped for two weeks three-fourths of all the beer saloons in the United States would go into bank ruptcy. The nickel will buy a newspa per anywhere in America, and but for the strong demand on the part of the beer garden, it would scarcely be ap plied to any other use. In some places it will get a “ shine” with the heels left 1 out. It will pay a street car fare in any place in the world except Philadelphia. A dime is the familiar ten-cent piece of commerce. It is always made of sil ver, all others being imitations. A dime will buy a five cent cigar with a red pa per collar on. It will secure you admis sion to the side show. It will a! ■ > buy a drink of whisky that will burn a hole through the sole of your boots. It is also largely used for the purchase of fine-cut tobacco. Efforts have been made to utilize it as a purchasing power for ice-cream, but as it will only buy one small dish, it has been a failure in that direction. It is the most inconvenient coin known, and is disliked greatly on account of its supreme selfishness. It will not buy two of anything, except malt liquor and the fatal brand of al leged cigars known as “tufers.” It is used to a considerable extent in the pur chase of cigarettes, by young men who are not yet able to smoke tobacco. A quarter is a real coin. It is worth two dimes and a nickle and has some style about it. It is the purchasing equivalent of three domestic or two im ported cigars. It is an aristocrat at the cigar-stand but a plebeian at the theater. Laid in the honest palm of the hotel porter, it makes him übiquitous: devoted to the waiter, he becomes a horn of plenty and fastens himself with a death like grip to the back of your chair. The quarter stands in the best silver society and shrinks not from even the dollar. He is convivial, social ami friendly, and is the easist to lend and handiest to borrow in the whole lot, hence he is nexer still, and is largely known in society as “lemmea quarter.” You can buy something of anything for a quarter, and hire a boy to run an errand nine miles away for one. In general, it is worth thirty cents, because whatever is sold foi a dime, you can buy in threes for a quarter. Very often, ! indeed, have efforts been made to enlist ; i, . ,< i cm s an i ito lies,a-in oi the < w. ter in t ■ e ■ a ise oi foreign missions, |-u: it isn't that kind of a bird, it feels DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1882. that it has grown too big for that sort of thing, but is exactly the correct size and proper age for the porter of the sleeping-car. The half-dollar is a rather more lone some coin than the quarter. It is a t ail-brother to the dollar, and it is prin cipally devoted to sustaining Mr. Bar num's g eat moral show In some arts ol America the half-dollar is nev r s< en and never known to exist, save ■n y on the day the circus comes to <>nn Sometimes, by exerthnr itself strongly, it can buy a pound of butter, and has been known to procure a pint of strawberries late in the season, but hu effort is al wavs fatal, and the half dollar is its own sacrifice, in connec tion with the quarter, the half-dollar sometimes goes into a pool and forms a combination known as “six bits” the world over, gave only in York State, where it is called “six shillin’.” In this State, also, the half-dollar itself is fre quently designateo by the awful title of “four shillin’.” After a half-dollar has once been called “four shillin’,” and you can prove it, it will only pass for forty cents out West In the United States the dollar varies in value from ninetv-two to one hun dred cents, the greatest Republic on earth having experimented with several kinds of dollars before it learned just what it wanted, and it hasn’t found out what it is yet. A dollar will buy any thing in a 99-cent store, and it is con sidered the proper plaster for the head waiter if you are going to stay three or four days. When made of silver, it is a splendid thing to throw at a dog, or carry in your pocket when you want to drown yourself. It is used to subscribe for the Washington Monument, and it will buy enough fire-crackers to go around one boy on the Fourth of July. When the dollar is twins, it will take you a weekly newspaper for a whole year, or a sleeping-car berth for one night. W hen we get among the dol lars. we are in the very aristocracy of money. The five-dollar bill is used to bet on the wrong horse with. It is also popu lar as a borrowing medium Saturday afternoon, and it pays for a livery “hoss” all Sunday. In domestic affairs, it is generally understood among men that with five dollars a woman ought to run a household of eight children and (wo servan's a whole week. The same bill will keep up with the man’s per son tl expens nearly a day and a half in good weather. It will also buy a unm a new hat, or a new buckle for his wife’s old one. When the five dollars is a gold piece, it is handy to give to a beggar or street car conductor for a cent, after dark. A ten-dollar bill is the alternative of ten days; you pay the one or get the other. It will aso buy live red or ten white chips. The twenty-dollar bill will buy your wife a new bonnet, and its brother will enable her to make the children—if there is only one of them— look half way decent. The uses of the twenty-dollar bill are very limited, and this piece of money itself is very shy and hard to find, hiding away in banks and fire-proof safes, and only' capt ured by long days of hard labor on a full hand. It has been said, and is still claimed by some writers on finance, that there is a SIOO bill. This is an awful lie; the extravagant coinage of the wandering brain of some financial editor, who has gone mad by the compilation of bank reports in which sums of one thousand and even two thousand dollars have been mentioned. One hundred dollars! Why, there would be no limit to the pur chasing power of such a coin. It would buy a new press and a new dress for the paper, put up a new building and hire a funny man at each end. It could put a new organ in the church and pay the pastor’s salary with one hand tied be hind it. It could buy a railroad ticket that would carry you farther than a pass. In the hands of wicked and de signing men it would be a power peril ous to the safety of the Republic. Why, it would buy two suits of clothes, and plank the money right down for them. A SIOO bill! The very nature of the state ment, its wild, uncurbed, limitless exaggeration brands itself with its own hand, as a measureless lie. $100! When men allow themselves to be dragged into such absurdities by the heat of discussion it is time to close the debate. A SIOO bill. Why, man alive, the President of the United States never had that much money. One hundred dollars! — Burlington Hawkeye. It all came about in this wise: The man with the red nose had been giving his experience at the prayer meeting. He said he was the vilest of sinners, and altogether unworthy of saving grace. He was followed by a modest little gen tle man, who remarked that he could corroborate all the dear brother had said. Indeed, he would go further, and say that the brother was the meanest and most rascally old curmudgeon in town. Then the first speaker jumped for the modest little gentleman, clear ing three settees in transit; two young fellows in the corner started for the settee-jumper at the same instant; Deacon Jones flung the pulpit Bible at the head of the foremost young fel low ; Sister Brown pulled at Deacon Jones’s coat taiis ; the lights went out, somebody hollered ,‘fire,” the whole de partment came galloping up to the meet ing-house, three streams were on before you could say "Jack Robinson,” and everybody was drenched to the skin. You wouldn’t think so much bother would be raised just because one brother wished to help another to give a good experience—now, would you.— Bgftqn 1 JYanscript, A Steam-Plow at Work. A Fargo, Dakota, letter to the Boston Journal says: “ After ail that has been done with reference to bringing out a steam-plow in this country, it remains for an ingenious Englishman to invent and place in successful working a steam plow. Mr. J. G. Allen, of Leeds, En gland. agent for John Fowler & Co., the manufacturers of steam-plows at Leeds, is accomplishing some excellent work on the Aurora farm, belonging to Captain Thomas W. Hunt, at Blanchard, Dakota. It is attracting a great deal of attention, and farmers are coming long distances to see the plow at work. Two enormous traction engines are placed about 300 to 500 yards apart. Beneath each engine and belted to the boiler is a steel drum about five feet in diameter. To this drum is attached a steel cable about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 500 yards long, and capable of sustaining a weight of thirty tons, which drags the plow to and fro across the field. The plow is a frame-work of iron resting upon two large wheels; on each side of this frame are firmly fixed six plows with colters that cut six fur rows sixteen inches wide each time the machine crosses the field. On the ar rival of the plow at the end of the fur row the gauge changes position, and the plows that have been in the air are low ered and ready to start back. One man is sufficient to guide the plow, and, seated over the body of the machine, directs one of the two large wheels in the furrow last turned by means of a hand-wheel. Each engine is of about forty-horsepporer,w r er, and weighs about sixteen tons. When the plow reaches one side of the field the engine on that sides moves ahead eight feet, the opera tion taking three and one-half minutes only, and the plow is started back to the other side of the field. The plow will break from twenty-five to thirty-five acres per day, according to the soil, location, and lay of the land, etc. It also does harrowing.” A Brave Man. At Brother Barnes’ mee't'ng last night, there was an episode in which a colored brother and the highest judicial officer of the State gave a public exhibi tion of the fraternal relations existing between the white and colored races in Kentucky. While the evangelist stood with outstretched hands asking: “Who will trust the Lord?” Judge Thomas F. Hargis, of the Court of Appeals, was moved to confession and took Lis seat on the front row of chairs. Shortly after thero passed down the aisle a penitent, blacker than the midnight eyes of the sable goddess. Then came others who Brother Barnes observed were careful to choose seats as far away as possible from the dusky brother. Stopping right in the midst of the sing ing, Brother Barnes said: “My dear friends, you see that this colored brother has come forward to confess Christ, and you are staying away simply because you don’t want to sit beside him. Here he sits alone on this front row, and all that have come for ward have been careful not to seat themselves near him. Any man com ing forward despite the prejudice against color and taking a seat by the side of this colored brother will be a brave, noble man. I know that in the eyes of society there is a difference be tween you and him; but, dear friends, before God the difference does not exist. He was born this way. He cannot help his color. Still, he has a soul to save. If you stay away now it will prove the success of the devil’s device. The devil knows Frankfort people and has taken this advantage of their prejudices. Oh, my friends, this same devil is a sharp old fellow, but I’m going to get ahead of him. He doesn F t think anyone will have the courage to sit next to this col ored man, and, friends, will you let the devil triumph? A brave man, remem ber, is he who takes a seat, alongside the colored friend who has come forward to confess Christ and save his soul from the peril of eternal damnation.” At this Judge Hargis arose, and. taking the sable penitent bv the hand, sat down in the chair next him, Brother Barnes in the meanwhile looking on approvingly, ard, with a quiet smile of happy satis- ■ faction, exclaiming; “The Recording Angel will note this in the Book of Life, praise the Lord!”— Frankfort, (Ky.) Dispatch. FltU C to £ Chair. In a fashionably-furnished store, I didn’t at first know what to make of the actions of a young woman. She was elaborately gotten up as to clothes, and had some advantages in the way of natural good looks, so that she was altogether a thing of considerable beauty. She was in an upholstered easy chair before a big mirror, and striking various poses—now lying back on the soft stuffing, both her arms spread out negligently; now leaning against one of tne sides, with elbow supporting her body; now sitting bolt upright in the middle. All the while she regarded her reflection in the glass with a critical air. What do you sup pose she was atP Why, getting herself fitted with a chair. She knew how hard it is to be graceful in some of the chairs of novel shape, and was bound to have one that would help instead of hinder- i ing her in posing prettily before her ! visitors. When a girl sets out to be a fascinator, you understand, she must ■ use all the devices available for that purpose. So this creature was neither lunatic nor fool, though the appear ances were a little against her. I hung about covertly, and saw that she finally / i bought the . hair, with the >”' n 'l , I the sides should be lowered two inches. , & i Cincinnati Knower. The Folly of Being Swindled. There is an entire class of confidence games that appeals not exactly to our dishonesty but to our avarice; to our desire to make money faster than by tbe ordinary "slow-coach” ways—to make money by going a little out of our regu lar line of business, by agencies of some kind, instead of farming. For example, about half of the farms in a certain township in Ohio were sold under mort gage a few years ago, and society and the church were Convulsed and almost disrupted, as follows: A fine, ministerial looking gentleman came to town and lectured on temperance, lie was a good talker, and won the hearts of the good, religious, temperance people in that rich and moral farming township. He staid in the region some time, no one seemed to know, or at least say, why. In a strictly confidential way he ap proached one after another of the solid farmers, making each think he was the only one to have a chance at the bonan za. It was this: He was indirectly in terested in a patent for the manufacture of an improved spring bed or mattress, far superior to any other. County and State rights were sold for its manufac ture. A very few Western States were still unsold. If Mr. A. wanted a certain county in lowa for SSO, with the refusal of the State at the same rate per county, he could have it, and the chance to go out and prospect on the ground Coun ties would sell readily at S2OO to $250 each. The thing must be kept strictly quiet and confidential, or so many would rush in as to swamp the thing. So farmer A. buys a county or two at SSO, payment on his return, provided he sells. No possible chance for a swindle. All perfectly plain and clear. He had best not let it be known why he goes West, or even that he goes at all, if pos sible. "The still sow eats the corn,” you know. So he goes, readily finds a purchaser for his county at $250, comes home with S2OO profit, mortgages his farm and buys the whole State at SSO per county; one hundred counties at SSO cost $5,000. One hundred counties to be sold at $250 will bring $25,000; profit of the transaction $20,000. 3o after a few weeks, his arrangements are all made and he sets forth to sell the rest of his counties awl finds no buyer! The man who bought his "trial county” at $250 was a "pal” of the ministerial temperance lecturer who sold it to him for SSO, and didn’t ask his pay until he had sold. And it developed slowly that nearly half the farmers in this town had bought counties. States, or parts of States, or had discounted notes given by others in payment of county or State rights. " The man” had taken teams, notes, money, mortgages, anything in payment, and before the final collapse and expose had turned all into what ready cash they would bring, and left the region. Here the appeal was made to the avarice of these farmers. They left their regular business of farming, which they understood, and went into a doubtful outside speculation which they did not understand, in the hopes of sudden wealth or competence. They found the scripture true: "They that make haste to be rich tall into a snare.” As a rule, it is best to avoid outside speculation, even agencies of an agri cultural character; to have nothing to do with the wonderful, the astonishing, high-priced seeds, plants, agricultural or horticultural discoveries, blight proof pear trees, curculio-proof plum trees, Russian apple trees that bear all years or in all climates (and sell at $1 a piece) ; Bohemian oats that will make us all rich—and the seed sells at $lO per bushel, under an association which you are urged to join. Then there are agencies offered to you as “tie most influential farmer in town,” and on which you are sure to make enormous profits. You are to sign an order for so many wagon jacks or patent cultivators —or "Revised New Testaments,” (for this is one of the latest and most pious dodges) or "farm diaries” or what not "to be paid for when sold.” That "order” turns up in three months or so as a judgment note for S3OO, which you have to pay. "To be paid for when sold” means when you are sold.”— Cor. Rural New Yorker I Two-Handed .Swords. The claymore, once famous in Scot tish history, was a very long sword,with a hilt so large that it could be grasped by both the hands of the warrior who wielded it, and when this tremendous weapon was swung around by any of the brave “ Scots, wlia ha’ wi’ Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has atteu led,” there was every reason for the opposing soldiers to want to get as far away as possible. Long, two-handed swords were in use in various parts of Europe during the Middle Ages, but it is from Scotland that we have heard the most about them. Some of the German swords, used by the mercenary soldiers in the French re ligious wars, were enormous two-handed weapons, with sharp points, jagged edges, and great spikes near the base of the blade; but these heavy swords were used only by soldiers who were uncom monly strong and skillful; for any awk wardness on the part of a man swinging such a tremendous blade was apt to in flict as much injury on his companions as on the enemy. Some of the long swords of the Middle Ages wore used more for show and ceremony than for actual service. The sword of Edward . the Third, which is preserved in West- ■ Abbey. I. 1 weighs poo' l ' ■ Kina in :t‘ s.-ud, was TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR. PITH AND POINT. -In some parts of South America the banana skin is converted into a ma terial of which ladies’ dresses are made This is probably the kind that the lady slips on easy.— Yonkers Statesman. —You can never entirely discourage a New Jersey man. When he comes down to his last dollar he picks up a spade and goes out to dig up some of Kidd’s buried treasure.—Detroit Free Press. —“ Is this my train?” asked a traveler at the Grand Central Depot of a lounger. "I don’t know,” was the re ply. "I see it’s got the name of some railroad company on the side, and ex pect it belongs to them. Have you lost a train anywhere?”— N. Y. Graphic. —lt is stated that a railroad brake man has become an operatic tenor, and has been engaged for next season at SSOO a week. He won’t have to learn the Italian language, you see. lie has merely to speak his lines as he does the names of stations and everybody will think he’s speaking Italian.— Boston Post. —The peculiar costume of the dwel lers in Arizona is thus graphically de scribed by a "tender-foot;” "In ordi nary weather he wears a belt with pis tols in it. When it grows chilly he puts on another belt with pistols in it, and when it becomes really cold he throws a Winchester rifle over his shoulders.” —Seth Green says fish can not shut their eyes. Fogg says this explains why they always succeed in keeping off his hook. Whenever he goes fishing, the fish are all eyes and no mouth, and every eye wide open. He thought they kept their eyes open out of pure cussed ness ; but, now that he knows that they can’t help it, ho simply despises where he hated them before. — N. Y. Inde pendent. —Well, my little girl,” said a New Haven gentleman, to a friend’s “preciousest,” “aren’t you going to sing for me?” "No, sir. I’m not a singer.” Now, I thought you were a little singer.” "Oh, no! I only sing a little to my dolly.” "But I’ll be your dolly.” “You’re too big. I guess sister Jennie wouldn’t mind if you was hers. She said you was just splendid.” Sudden rattling of the dishes in the back room—where Jennie was busy.— New Haven Register. —"The latest agony,” says Jeems, "is the way I felt this morning. My wife asked me for a XX bill—a twenty, you know—and I cut the matter short by telling her that it could not be did, for the simple reason that I had only a matter of a dollar or so in my pocket. ‘I knew you’d tell me that,’ she said, ‘and it’s true, too.’ And, as I looked up in amazement, she added: ‘I looked in your pockets last night. I’ve got the twenty.’ Oh! boys, how I felt! But what could I do?” —"Heart-disease,” said Jemmie, as he assisted Patrick to up-end a barrel of cement, "heart-disease is one of the worst diseases. Some people never know they have it till they dhrop down dead.” Thrue for von, Jemmie,” re plied Patrick; “and those people who Know that thev have it have to be moighty careful wid themselves. I knew a man wonst that had it, and he was always obliged to dhrop work about five minutes before he felt it coming on.” — Somerville Journal. ■ 'SJ A Ludicrous Stage Death-Scene. Camille died last night at the Chest nut Street Opera-house, not only music but to the ’ > of the audience as welt at Calera seence was marred by i >a w)th L A accident. When the cu.m, m. &o, the last act, with Camuw Orleans lying on a couch partly tMi furry robe, and the de, pjv.sup't. ready gathering on her was still and expectan —— - the death-chamber GJ and the dying woman greet him. At that an ominous creak, and < ports of the couch g;w actress seemed to grasp poiiS! instantly, and attempted t< difficulty by heaving a longMfflW and throwing herself back, but the ac tion onlv made matters worse. lhe death-bed gave way at one corner with a crash, and the audience began to titter. Nichette, the maid, enteied at this junc ture and kneeling in front of her mis tress began her part, but the couch giv ing evidence by numerous groans of its instability, she arose and wheeled a chair up for the dying Camille’s accom modation. By this time the audience had fully appreciated the funniness of the situation and were laughing yey audibly, but when Gaston approached, and he, together with the maid and the dying woman, could not control th° ic countenances, the audience _ fairly roared. Camille, after dying in Ar mand’s arms was deposited in the easy chair instead of on the couch, and ap peared as a very smiling corpse.—Phil adelphia Press. Too eager: The cresent shape of the first quarter of the moon hung like an electric lamp in the Western sky, casting a subdued, cool light upon the path they had chosen. They walked with slow and measured step and said little. The scene was raptiire-inspinng. last she, looking up ixito his face with a sort of a scared-to-deoth-hke-a-yoimg fawn look,, "Albert, how . like this we’ve taken— K*'’ thin I iff tow iloii t. ~/>,<£■ <*r Ut too fCOO. f