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. i LINCOLNTON NEWS <dl'>-}IK/1 !*»' . V VOLUME IV. • A M (dbbtaftS Dear to the Hear*. How 4$ar to our heart ls the building eprnqr he U surious to O, tfie^Btf-winded poet, the ImJ The A se^ium-bound «vt« poet—let liirei hang in tho And , f “^k^ m “- e ' i <V ^ k ‘ et did his How tweetiy voioe floated ont on the airt(! j That JfWr'y 8rruttea ol4f:u»«y proud rooster. as as a Bqt, knight; iltt—MUiiOh htt hwlu’4 .He Me aud the Coroner said he was tight. ' How dearly-beloved was the moss-covered cat Then died of sore-throat in the meeting How dearly and muchly we loved the f young The •Bin*,! brasa-thi-oated , ~ i .i the dark; doglet that howled in ■ He waastmngled todenth by the noo»e in biS 1 -Jpfi^inded iiowti deep bj the side of his —Ra!^h E. Hoyt. •taftEj^otHrG'ARrrisT* r The tiny afiattmcnt was evidently the ;sister’s only room; for in the centre, up¬ on a floor So sfSbtlasalV wfiite to make a carpet seem like a needless luxury on awro )P#te4nnch which Maudie - =+wri mm II „ now sleeping quietly on the couch, |h|n Uariwe-^ snowy pillows .Os I are JO fS not whiter ; Like some lovely marble image she looks; amLwereritpiot cotljd for the, |ej fluttering : efsiy mistaken But here comes Maudie. %ith a light to the sleeper. MABfcUfffovfe Alta ainftfiTent, , listen¬ ^ ■ ing fitted to spirit-lamp qtttot'’ breathing; then liiing she polished a over which a copper kettle, it was "'soon • trfWBPtik bubbling away tbe merrily, oti it) as, going though .g« was t(4 do. It rotjscd the sick gifl. She opened Mr eyes abd Sifiiled, as Maudie said brightly: “Now for a cup of tea, ARa. See what I have brought you—the cunning est little glass of currant-jolly! They qall it a‘ptcnic’jar; and itgiy.es areli?u to these crisp milk-crackers, and this nice butter. Just look how yellow ft Is —like pure gold.” Alta A« Maudie displayed hand her treasures.' put OBt -her languidly for the plBtt which bet stater offered . her. fill la g. the.rpoiB.wHU, ifa. pjea^nt arypt*.. Ma udfe took then- one Precious, cup,. Wtftcn’fiadbeiShgeatblft'rgraiulmothor. in just the put and the* right-proportion.of iheliot sugar cveam. it. and coaxed poured drink Doldng over Alta to it. 8h* tIMtol* A. few Aiomthffils before she noticed Maudie -.was not eating. Then she said: Maudie? ’fWtftl has Has become walk of your tired apjietitc. much your you so that yon cannot eat?” uNo,” was -tiie careless answer;—“I- 4 have had my lunch.” If she hail told the whole truth instead • of a part of it, Alta’s relish for her frugal meal would have quickly vanish¬ ed. Maudie had only eaten a few soda 5 crackers spite of since her cheery early ’morning; and project in ways, if tiie which filled her mind should prove a failure, she knew not from whence would come the next month’s rent for $(Vti*l their nap (fast th<l$|i§|fe|«fotf* room, or the fevv things 'nJ But she was brave and hopeful, and that is half the battle. One day while passing the she ; had stopped fashionable stationer, a moment Mp boxes of if tastefully Wiiidoxv, arranged «U»oted ‘Papoterio. -by, the -toiSMfite if* th# pflbfeagtSi df -ehve^opcs ,1 were fastened together by bands, bear vafiofis' patterns—the' intricate Persian, or graceful groupings be S tics Y r 4' e As Maudie looked, a conversation, ■which she h..d once heard between her SttJHJdKraasirajm ■ Artists designs, were employed and "were to sometimes originate these teifJ liberally d, common cop mo pel <a |tu#? >f l# #! the faculty N n 510 She was a little child when she heard this, and thought at the time what a pleajanteway for ekeVat it would be to earn quite lUongt;, 5 that age she was a proficient in drawing, and loved dearly to steal away by herself, with pencil and life” Her talent had mJ takaj^ier besn-f ostfc-ed fencl./ ’ fiy lie# . | father, who had given her lessons from home to hunt up,-hoc. box ot water board wbicli had remained useless °f Wff and unthought-rff at the bottom of a packing Alta’s eyes followed her movements sketchod witli languid interest graceful as wreaths .shp ..rapidly and some vines from the originals in -memory’s cabinet. ‘ ■ One of them—a delicate cluster of trailing arbittns—well she remembered the gay party who had sot out to find under the shy tl® 9prink4&o|uif(^irt.lh, show. ■Htfines and liars* ir jhkunts’ con¬ tended fyr the mastery as she woi'ked; predominated, for her dis as essentially sunny. pleasant Alta thought it merely a diversion fof fier young Meter, for Maudie nad kept the studiously knowledge concealed of their urgent necessity felt such sympathy for from her. She a the stricken girl that she was absolutely ptotfierly in ner care of her. After Maudie two or three had days of steady 'num¬ in¬ dustry, ber completed a of ddftlar specimen whose pictures, window and, had going first t® tile sug^este^l her plan, she asked for an interview with him. an old gentleman, with a ■e. wBo so won her confidence that she made ni known her errand with but a treffiot. listened had explained kindly aud courteously until she her motive in calling head^ upon him. Then he shook lijs “Why, child” said he, “the best artists i«»4be city- do not consider it be Bi trade. ath tlieir dignity to design for our An amateur would stand but little chance.’* Jfaddiq’s Heart was in her throat, but sheiSkid stuM.i)v: Jou make up your mind as to , “Yes; but before 1 do so, you must promise not to feel bad if I cannot pass a favorable opinion. A stranger rarely finds the merits in our productions that we do ourselves.” Hi- intentions were kinder than his words, for lie was really attracted by the voting face with its earnest eyes s lbokiu£up,at him so frankly; and he did not wish to raise her anticipations and then disappoint looked her. her So lie at drawings, care¬ lessly at first, then with unconcealed surprise. After a time he tinned to "Do you fell nte these designs arc yTulV'hVn*” , M Maudie blushed, but said resolutely. “Indeed;’shy yourself they are mine, and no one but and my sick sister has had a glimpse of them. ’ i f'Bless ine, child, how old are you?” “Sixteen last Match.” , The old .gentleman scrutinized tho ikatohes adjiifl, this ti ne closely and carefully. *T Then knew he said: see you what you were capa bfe of better than I did. These,” laying hw- full Pi -tijjon her portfolio, “are wonderfully well-done!” well done. Wonderfully— ’ AUlie firought out these last words -slowly and rapidly. emphatically, Maudie’si mercuryj spirits rose ns as the does under the influence of unclouded; sunshine; and well they might for the stui qf independence and prosperity had arisen for her. Mr. Beunclerck offered to write her a Ifitter of Introductiori to the firm who supplied the papeterie, snyiug that he thought it very probable that they Would at once secure her services. gke waited long enough to receive the precious letter, and then hurried home to tell Alta that she had an errand which might defaiu her a few hours. and not to worry if she stayed even longer. " She met with success. Her drawings proved the-open sesame” to a eompe teu.ee earned easily aud pleasantly. IhiiTeacies Sgjiy gould uow procure the needed for Alta, which had been out ivneb before, hoping they might restore the bloom to her pale cheek, But. (be poor girl was suffering from a Wound which struck deeper than a nwre physical watched malady, so the loving sister in vain for the roses of IniOJth. ' j Maudie *• .. Now that was secure of an independence;' she took Alta into her confidence, amHtrjnutitsd a spurge of pleasure to the sick girl to fear' the’ young artist’s off-hand description of the various people site met with m her One day, peregrinations. Maudie took her portfolio to town soiling w:th her, of her as she larger had airospoct paintings of some to be copied as chromes. Among? them she had inadvertently left a picture of her sister, Alta. ' hit The tb ;wrings gentleman wfc* who absent, usually and the inspected senior partner sent word that he was very folio much and engaged, would but to send if the in paintings the port he see were satisfactory, so she need not lose her time by a useless journey. Maudie seated herself to await his _ She heard the murmur of voices iu the inner office for a time, then an exclamation of surprise, followed by eager and questioning. Then entered. rapid foot sti-.ns ~l*‘MisaMaudie, a gentleman am am I I so so fortunate?” fortunate?” sfioife shorn! ijp by’ wifirpTeasure; with approached ached his his but but face face its its exDression expression absolutely absolutely measure: changed as Maudie rose, white to the lips, and py tioned away his outstretch “Mauuie listen to me. Nay, I will be heard. There is surely some terrible mistake, cruel alike to me and Alta. A'siGod is my witness, my life, sinqp I ’““you, Mira has been a blank." I hate,,not place unvisited where I, othpa a chance of hearing from you. y«i pot believe me?” ’'|g* decided. Many ie stood for a moment un Ho sa vv hor change of expression, and glitepaOJiiwr bantL k»e*y my little friend had not turjed heart. ttfitor Come, to take me in to her Alta.” kind true me -Did you not receive Alta’s lettey, ath, and our changed, tl er ... Alt ., ” , *<M»Wodufio g qfieonly girl suffered of youl . acquaintance." She has Sfiie a.-living is fi|deda death |p.nd iu thinking invalid.” you fafaq. t an “No matter—she is Alta, That is enough tvotiid beithe for me. sfttrie My rose of girls! She if in my eyes -evea disligured " beyond recognition ° by* v nf |. >> MauJiJ was convinced. “But bo/came my pictures?” Tho in with a note from Mr. Ogden, of saying that ho would take Iwo the oval landscapes. So MMtdie took ner portfolio, and started with tho impatient lot or for tho replaced pleasant suite (ft rooms Which, Which had their one attife room in we found them. “Had it not been for your business, ability; Miss Ma udie I should never have discovered your retreat Think of it! If we had been separated by a single knowing partition, and unk and still passed on uu nown ! was your DJlYOTKD TO 1UK INTKBI ST OF LINCOLN COUNTY. LINCOLNTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1888. piclure wa&rng of Alta which told me who it was in my friend’s office.’' “Alta’s picture!’’ “Yes. So that was an accident, too. Well, Providence befriended me. Thq oversight was for my special benefit.” Need we say that Alta recovered as i| by newed magic her when hope and love were re-, in heart by the return of het lover—faithful and true? After his explanation, the sisters wondered that they had not thought it to have been the true state of the case; of but slights they had and had coldness some bitter apparently experience from devoted friends after their change of circumstances, and when time had passed on, and Ernest Monteith failed them, Alta had too—judging turned the by wall his and silence— hoped to for death. When Ernest came home from his studies on the Continent, he had gone to their old home and found them gone. Ernest Monteith and Alta St. Clair are now married lovers. Maudie make9 her home with them; hut, true to her independent spirit, she continues her congenial labors. One of the pleas¬ antest rooms in Mrs. Monteith’s house is appropriated to her use as a studio. Her pictures are the fashion, and she has orders enough ahead to fill her time for many months. How true it is that who our help Heavenly themselves! Father helps those QUEER APPETITES. The old saying that what is one man’s meat is another map's poison is realized in the opposite tastes of people. The Englishman will not eat a squir rel, bnt will gloat over a meal of bama cles and periwinkles, the latter a species of sea-snail that adheres to the rocka The Hollander relishes a feast of de cayed bread shark, yet looks with horror ou and butter. The Japanese have a prejudice against milk and beef, but will enjoy stewed or roasted rat. The Turks shudder at the thought of eating oysters. The Digger Indians the Pacific of slope rejoiced in the great locust swarms of 1875 as a gracious dispensation of the Great Spirit, and laid in a store of dried locust powder sufficient to last them for several years. The, French will eat frogs, snails and the diseased livers'of geese, but draw the line at alligators. Buckland declares the taste of boa constrictor Sir good, and much found like veal. Robert Schoniberg monkey very being palatable, carved though looked he says that be fore it disagreeably like a roast child. Quasi the fermented cabbage water of the Russians, is their popnlar tipple, It is described as resembling a mixture of stale fish and soapsuds in taste, yet, next to beer, it has more votaries than any other fermented beverage. A tab low candle washed down with quasi* forms a meal that it would be hard to be thankful for. Iu Canton and other Chinese cities rats are sold at the rate of $2 a dozen, and the hind quarters of does are hung up irt the butchers’ shops commands alono®ide mutton and lamb, but high. er price. The edible birds’nests of tha Chinese are worth twice their weight in silver, the finest variety selling for as much as $80 a pound, The j negroes of the West Indies eat .their h ytr fi “W ** and palm worms fried in own fat, but they can not be in, duced to eat stewed rabbits, In Mexico" parrot eaten, but they are rather tough. The Guaehos of the Bad da Oriental are in the habit of hunting skunks for the Sake of their flesh; la Kasfcaskia, a tovm.bn the banks of the fried Mississippi, rattlesnakes "Musical Jack,” qr. skinned, aud showing decapitated white and a meat as and firm as a chicken, is a standard dish. The octopus, or devil-fish, when boiled and then roasted, is eaten in Corsica and esteemed a great;delicacy, In thfeTbcififc lslantlsand West Indies lizards’ eggs are eaten with great gusto, The natives of tbe Antilles eat alligator eggs-, and the eggs of the turtle arc popular every where, though up to the commencement of the last century tur tie was only eaten by the poor of Ja m&ica. , Ants are eaten by variops. np|kws. In Brazil they are served with a resin¬ ous sauce, and in Africa they are stewed with grease or butter. Th e East In dians catch them in pits and carefully wash them in handfuls, like raisins. In Siam a curry of ants’ eggs is a costly luxury. The Cybn the bees after rob bing Caterpillars- them of tl ' siri > ;rs are dainties to the African bus After they have ind the silk from the cocoon the Chinese eat the crysalis of the silk worm. Spiders roasted are a sort of dessert with the New Caledonians. The Viennese are the great snail eaters the itotfce Danube, world. is The town of Ulrn. on the principal place where snails *a're fattened for the mar kefc Those whiqfi are fattened on Strawberries command the highest priSe, whitofiO.OOcMhre.annually export Afciean snail, that attains a length ot eight Cock’s inches, is converted into sofip. conjbs arc considered a deli¬ cacy in the Paris restaurants, while the Briton swallows shrimps in their en¬ tirety. ,, Mr*. Wheedle ,, ■! . was just . . kxkkiug , , . at your ^oiildntjet insurance An policy, .Vt^ qnd I find should that 1. a ‘K J (Hl commit mrtoide. Why don t vou change it info. some .other ofifitpuny?” Mr. W. JW* m J^ r l y 00 d «!i 1 " ant "If W ;~ to faityowa sack Of cfaqse -k.«d, not, WNiknl* Charlie; to * ami $9,000 would »- a g«d R be a ^ to * -Poston Transcnpt. ” pupil i . # , ,, ...— A in one ol our.public schools, remarked one day last week, while re citing tiolls history, that “tho first couscion H has Congress suggested met in Philadelphia.” been that it was also, fitedast opo —Cape Ann Breeze, Grand Chief Arthar. Twelve years ago the grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers resigned. His order was in just such a condition as Mr. Powderly, in his late address, said that the Knights of Labor are now in. There were too many strikes, and it was not possible for the chief engineer to control tbe die membership. The great Pan-Han trouble was on then, and everv state, almost, had an engineer's strike. j t was during this crisis that P. M. Arthur, He the present radically grand chief took the helm. was conservative. He held that men should work until they found their differences could not be settled by arbitration, rather than strike until they were adjusted. diplomacy Bv a little he fixed up the Pan-Handle trouble, and then made a tour of the country. Wherever he met the officers of the road the men were justified instances and work he was resumed. In several found the men had violated the principles of the orgwniza tions bv striking without exhausting all resources. In such cases the men were forced to apologize to the company and go to work, or suffer the revocation of their charter. Mr. Arthur went all the ■way to Maine to defend an engineer who had been arrested for interfering with the mails by refusing to take out his engine. Although the man was liable, Mr. Arthur paid his fine and the expense of the trial, amounting to $3, 000. Then he prosecuted to the bitter end a defaulter who had run awav with funds belonging to the insurance depart meat of the brotherhood. All this was a revelation to the order, which had be fore believed that the grand chief was simply the boss striker. He was re elected and But few strikes followed. There never has been a strike on any road by the engineers under Mr. Arthur after tiie company consented to an m terview with him. He will, ahvavs make concessions. The doctrine which he has taught the order is “come, let us njason togfclher.” The order was in verv good shape when the trouble arose "in 1876 on tho Grand Trunk road. Mr. Arthur went with liis committee of thirteen to Mont real, but his request for a conference was spurned with offensive words. Ha called his committee together a»d coun-’ seled them that duringthe strike which he was about to order no violence should be done to any one not to prop erty. No engine was to be "kiUeu” nor derailed. Every engineer who waa put up by the company was to be taken down by the men by their contracting to pay him regular wages for doing nothing. The men struck, and for three days not a wheel was turned on the road. Then the company sent for Mr. Arthur and his committee and treated them like kings, conceding brotherhood everything, For eight years the has not had a strike. Mr. Arthur ran an engine from Al bany to Schenectady on the New York Ceutral for twentv years. His engine was the “William "H" Vanderbilt,” the crack engine of the road. It was then that he and sixteen other engineers wer® discharged for daring to ask for passes for tlieir families. They had no organi zation then, but a few years later they concluded to ask for enough more wages per day to pay fare discharged for their wives. The same man who them Mr. Arthur was glad to grant proud the increase. order. is very of his which is verv extensive and wealthy, He does not believe in general order* —the banding together of engineers and shoe-makers—but believes that every branch of skilled labor should look ont for itself. He says America is proud of her railroad engineers. The brother hood, offences, discharges and for lie, drunkenness the anil other says traveler goes darkest to and bed in his sleeping-car in the stormiest night that ever blew with just as much confidence in liis safety ns he would at the fines* hblel. This assurance, he believes, is largely due to the work of the brother |ioqd. Mr. Arthur's greatest work now is ni editing his magazinefbf worid-widc, engfneers. Its circulation is reaching 20,OOu copies. Facts About the Eye. „ There . w no . cute . foi u color , „ blindness. . ih ® f; 3t .^- e of color bl,ndne8S wa8 repotted m blindness Hw. dtte exhausboa is- to of nerve fibers. lour out of every 100 males and one in every 400 fonm>s are color blind. , Itis nosignateariis color blind be cause he can not name every color. nitr to 20.000 small T eyes. te’- It is n8 really ^ ooimwked of evefi. Wo do not need light to see eertem objeots. A sharp blow on the eyes often causes a man to “see stara The cause o! color blindness, aside from natural causes are alcohol, tobae co and diseases. It is m many cases hereditary The writer saw a rannwlte was color blind take 100 colors and divide them into four groups, black, yellow, white and blue. It is nonsense to believe there is any particular way Whether to rub the eyes. It makes no uiffeivnee ytm move from or toward tbe nose or up or down. The cat. horse and birds have a third eyelid, which is used to protect the eye from too much light. Man has a third eyelid in the corner of the eye which is undeveloped. The defects of the eye are numerous, but we are pretty well satisfied with it. Every one has a blind spot in th® eye. This is proved by shutting one eye and lqpking at an object. We can not The see it fully'. of the change the use eyo enps to fonn of the eye in hope's of bettering the sightis ridiculous. They draw the eye out of shape and often cause blindness, Thousands of these cups are sold every year.—A. Y. Mail and Sxpress. uotft'Kcuper liepresentatives, imt®, or tne c,onnecttc«C House of has ten cart¬ Gage ridges in that the were carried by Jude B. retreat from New Londou in the war of 1812. They are hand¬ made, the wrapping being pieces of newspapers, and the round balls ara kept in place by tow strings. Mr. Gago .when ninety years old gave the relica Jto Mr. Date. Unnot iced Da ngers. Some years ago the "'hole country was ? tartlet * b J Hie »ml«len death of a P roml J l ® n * man ln -' e ' v York. had moved into a new and beautiful home ■- V *. or two ? e ‘ ore ' was nterary work, occupying . a Bt| my on tee lower story in front, ap P* r ® aU y tbe mo.-,t desirable pact of the house. I he at tend ont physician early c “ ar g®« tne trouble to sewer gas, but no defect in the pipes coul.l be found. After “ lg death a more thorough examination u^ VP a boot of stagnant water under “J**. .. ^ *' AO w ?J l( ' er that he died. The ™y 3terious providence which removed “>m was a mystery no lor ’?® r Vine of the professor-sot- Harvard toi , ege has lately been seriously ill, mam tln 8 ab I. symptoms of arsenical , For time his poisoning. wine recovery ’vas in doubt But when out of danger a mo8t careful search after the source of ?“* P 01800 resulted in finding the arsenic 1? P a P er "* ,aa S l n? s - ■* tie beauty o. *, he « and ^ £ ree “ P, r ° - “ cea D )' arsen ' c - No wonder that that tate . aroused, and that the > s citizens aema , '} tl a iaw w hich will prohibit the sale of a R such dangerous hangings -tnese two cases are typical. Far too man y houses, both in city and country, ? re P° sl ti'®ly aangeious. Many city houses stand on made land, or at least “at which was formerly swampy lue walls, when there are any f°r houses often stand on posts alone * re “ui t of solid masonry, but with no celn ® n elt “er outside or in. buch walls are .P® rous » an ‘^I soak up water nearly as raputly as a sponge. 11 slowly * nc kl ? th laa l* . r forming , a fine s soil in which ail manner of fungoid growths flourish. The rooms over such places are firatr c aa s i l8 ®a 3 e riders, and ev erv home fu. 06 Ir, -‘ c l u e “ exammea to see .u- - doe> , at t “ 13 source . danger not ex , then, arain , . pipes otten .. , leak ., the in ® 6ilar ana basement. lhis adds to the danger bends, stagnant to the rooms water above. from the 1 he sewers two a “d the water filtering slow ly m thiongh wax work in eoneert to sap the lite enret Jf® asea*. i. 0nes ’ and to “t them to xne walls or tee rooms themselves in far , to ® man y houf j®s are disease brt^d er8 ',, A nesU :ina P a l X!r u P° n “‘ e wall makes , a loom . inviting, and adds J° tbe “ onl ® co '“ fort - Bat - onfortnnate JT- * rol even “ poison, vvhen ami t ie goo'! pajver P a P is t; r made oun flee 80 jnade, tached the is jus pas t e e wuth home which for , the it minute is . at organisms which produce certain dix I his is bad enough where there ls onl > a single layer ot paper, nut, vv ben ’ as and . ls en the case, spread several layers of , P a F r paste are upon the 8ame w ’ a 'l< °f ou ® anotner. the danger is multiplied many times. Such tilth. T ” "tasses undoubtedly of filtering plain he be9 t 1S the P , . ea , w f., AU ,,, cas f hke these demand caution. , Those Tn who are responsible for the 0n J*v c:l “ not .t?° care ^ u ^ u h ea ‘, °™“ t& e ilte OI loved ones, ’ - , ^ parfictilarir, depends these upon k, rl £ ld e * c lon of a ‘ l lu r “S R lace ? of d,s ^?? e and bre ? d f rs of death - .^ ut v ’ should be, and is, consistent - * lth Perfect safety m the home.-Te rxjjin, in 1 e turren . The Grant Monument. h«fort T . , tne !nm -;-— wholly subscribed ia there will- be time carefully to con- 81< ? er wbat form the memorial should t a ke, and the other question which the death and burial of General Grant have bropght ‘“ould prominently bo forward, whether nation not a common a , > ground, saiito, in which lb® great heroes should be buried, and w hicb would become at once a shrine “f national pilgrimage and an ever-re ne w»ng fountain of national union and patriotism. -inore is one obvious objection to E ^!i h a sc ' s that th ® c ^ uas of distinguished , citwenaitoanch l nation al sepulture mwt bo determined by Congress, inevitable and the result would be al most that mere partisan feel mg would largely determine a qnes turn decide. wmch There such feeling be can considered, not justly is to I*) of 80 such ’ national shrines ^iu throughout distribution th® com try by the burial Ifount of every Yurnoi) great citizen at bis home. u a temple and a monument which even the Capitol would not be if the dust of oth?r great Americans wew deposited in its crypts Like the battle-fields of wb >ch are scattered over the old thirteen States and each of which is • consecrated held of patriot- _ ism, the graves of famous Amermans cheruhed amid the local scenes of their lives would be alters of enno land bling patriotism everywhere in thf bly, It is objected, indeed, and veryforci- , . that they are not cherished, but fall often into most unseemly neglect, Wherever this is true, it is a caustic reproach of the neighborhood or of the But it is hardly a reason for national interment that a great man’s kindred are negligent of his grave, ln a little town among the hills of western Massachusetts there is a mou umeut to the the “ever-living memory” of the sons of town who died iu the service of the Uuiou. it is not a shaft, not a statue, not a pyramid; it is & grauite fountain, tho stone forming a low and modest monument, while tho water flows from the four sides into convenient basins, and upon the sqnaro sides of the stone superstructure are engraved the the soldiers, brief inscription and th® names of it stands in tho midst of the village street, and the man who stops to drink aud to water his horses reads the names and the in scriptlon, aud the man and beast re sunra their journey refreshed, the man perhaps reflecting that even so the self sacrifice of tiie soldiers refreshed the streugth of his country and of man kind suiving for still higher and truer liberty. memorial of Grant be of May not a practical a kind which by its benefits to his countrymen may recall and sym bolizc his immense and modest mag nanimous services to his country?— harper't George William Curtis, .in Magazine for November. Carious Coins. “What is that curious-looking cop „ er pj ece ?” asked a reporter of a deal i,j ' 9r ; n 0 co j Dg “That is the Roman Aes, a coin which wa3 in ase in Rome about 2,200 years ago. It is an original; it could not be spurious, and for the reason that though the coin itself, so far as its outward shape is concerned, might be counterfeited, it would be impossible to imiiatc :he red patina, or coating, upon it. \ ut: see, this coin has two coatings of colored matter—one green tlld the olitcr red. Well, the green -an bo imitated by modern ingenuity, t>n the red stuff can not be put upon ;ounterten coins bv anv process at present Itnowa to the world.” “Where do you get those ancient co j Q . that were in use so many years a g 0 ? Where are thev found?” ' ••Well, you see. people in those an oient limes did not have banks and bauk vaults to deposit their wealth in for R safe-keeping. As you know, the oma ns were almost constantly at warfare with others, and those who had money would frequently hide it in the earth or secure it in the walla of their dwellings when they went to the wars. Those who were killed left, quite ofteD, no trace of where their wealth waa hidden, and so it remained to be resurrected by some modern relic burner. A great rnaoy ancient coins have been found also in riverbeds. 1 think that in manv instances they were put into rivers by "people who wished to have tneir history remembered by the coming ages. There have been coins found in the Thames near old Loudon bridge bv which we can trace many ol the Roman emperors. The f uct te a t they have thus been found i n order seems to clearly indicate that tRey were deposited ou purpose bv per sons desirous of perpetuating the names of the rulers. Thus, by these CO i Uj 0 f ancient Rome, many things pertaiuing to that great empire which ruled as mistress of the world are made known to ns. Many things are indeii blv impressed upou the mind bv glauc iu g at these coins and afterward be do coming believe interested there iu the subject. I not can be a better educator of the history of anv country than a collection of" its coins. The symbolic devioes and inscriptions upon them have a priceless value iu fixing u „ 0 „ the m ; n a the great facts and eD ochs to which they refer. Not only does this apply to ancient coins; it is equally true of modern coins. Here is something that to the thinking man iu dicates a great social and business rev olution in the manner and customs of the people who use it, for here you see a suecimeu of the largest coin ever known to be in use anv where.” The reporter was struck with amaze ment when informed that the huge squarc copper platter-like affair was a coiu “Yes, Proceeding, Swedish the dealer said: it is a piece and gen eral j weighs v weighs 6f from C to 7 it pounds. This 0 ne pounds, is lo) inches bv 9J incaes long, and is a very rare coin . was U mde during the reign of Frederick, king of Sweilen, in the year 1723. Iu the center of the piece, inclosed in a circle, you see tho stamp * -4—doler,’ and underneath the word , s u mvut - (silver moU ey), and . iu each of the lour corners, and in or der to prevent the coin being clipped. they were .”—Huston stamped with the royal coat of arms U obc. -—- » - h M . . . •“* I * • A poultry-raiser out on the country e( jge 0 { the Seventh ward is an egg u)i ser . To eat an egg is, accord.ug to jjj g wa y 0 f thinking, an unwarranted extravagance. "The philosophy of egg-eating,” he reasons, "is the de- 8lruct j on 0 f the hen tribe. Eggs arc on |. means of propagating the ttibe; is it not gallinaceous them?” murder, then, to destroy Somebodv was speaking to him about Christopher Columbus. The poulterer took the direction of the conversation in his owa bands and impatiently said: -I don’t put * much faith in the f Colambu and the e gg,-you ^ J know! U hfl mado the sta[ ead ^king it,-but if tho story is true.! c ^ eQ dc W!ia au elienl y t o mankind Think of lhe wauton destruction of an !&» aml it i ong Une '■ c f possible pro ^ ^ , j have been counting th^t it up o? f 8nd x fin d that if egg was a ema i 9 _ aDd the chances are that was _ if hatched , and the chick cared for , would have produced by this time gixteeu hundred trillion of chickens, who w cantf se eggs dozeu. would now whde be the retailing chickens. ai a it dr08 sed and marketed, would net 2( cents a p 0und _ m aking a grand aggro National „ ate 0 f capital that wm,id pay off the debt, convert the heathen in all foreten lands and buy euouo-h votes to elect Jeukius or any J other man gov eruor of 0uia It W !ttl awful f t . ar . tful waste that little trick of CoIuiu bus .hntianapolis Sews. _______ rrosimiue* »eei. If the feet get verv much chilled a number of times, or frozen, they should; [*• put into When tepid frozen, water until feeling re-1 tut us. thev are generally; verv- white, all of the blood having been) driven from the surface, and if frozen' repeatedly, beeoirie tender and painful., of! They swell with every odder change the weather, or crack open and bleed between the toes; again, the heels andi large toe joints are the only parts aU fected. except a general heat and swell ing. or painful itching. The sVes, feet, in! the morning, are vervsore; yesterday, which; were comfortable enough arej at least three numbers too small to-dav. If the large toe ioints remain swollen tliol for several weeks, they press against shoes and form very painful bunions. A hot borax water bath of half an hour, with a thorough nibbing with glycerins is good. The feet should be thoroughly! glycerine drv (or well applied, dried) and otherwise warm before they will; tlm( is loosel stay damp. Then put on old, stockings, made and keep warm. each A of prepara-l tion of Jwo ounces rine and coal oil, with one teaspoonfulj of carbolic acid, is said to be good, ajrt plied with the hand twice a day for five minutes .—Pauline Adelaide Hardy in Good housekeeping. ^ NUMBER 33 Four Literary Marriages. William D. Howells, who wedded the sister of Larkin G. Mead, thesculp for, divides his time between literature and his family. He is so much in lov* with his wife that some of his friends say that he sees in her all the line varieties ol her sex, and from her fashions his interesting heroines, look ing at her from different angles. He does not need, like Goethe, Balzac, and so many literary artists, to woo women to pluck the embellishment out the mystery of their hearts for of his fiction. To him his wife is representative of whatever is womanly in woman. This is the loftiest idealization of mar riage. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, tlw novelist, differs from the most non-lit erary wives in the circumstance that she is conspicuously—they might say foolishly—in love with her lord. They are as intimate in every respect as they can be; they have no thought or feei ing that they do not share. They might be The termed late a connubial H., pair of spoons. H. Mrs. Helen Hunt, whose second husband wasWill iam S. Jackson, had many of the traits ascribed to genius, but indifferenc • to her husband was not one of them, They were very foDd of one another, and he always was her la-t court of ap¬ peal. The same might bo said of Jul ian Hawthorne, J. IV. DeForest. Mark Twain (Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, or almost any writer. If there has ever been a time when ink caused matrimonial discord it has long gone by, especially in this eouu try. . Edmund Clarence Steumaa. win. made a love-match when a mere boy, running away with the pretty girl who had fascinated him. Mis kept up the romance ever since; and he is now, ai though comparatively He young, a gt'aud father. does not, after the manner of many singers, reveal all his poetry to the outside world and preserve bis prose for indoors employment. What ever he writes his wife nears first, as she is, he says, his gentlest and yet most Harriet exacting Prescott critic, (Spofford) has writ ten from her early girlhood, change of circumstances haviug thrown the sun port of aud the family mainly upon her. A P 0 ® 1 a geuius.she might be thought to be one.ot the most wayward, emo tional, inconsisteat creature who could never who would possess be permanent fueling and ble of wifehood. constitutionally But iucapa true the fact is that she is domestic to the core. She and her husband. Richard S. Spofford, went to school together, were in love with one another as girl and boy, and are as much iu love lo-dav as when they were in their teens. Her nature is wholly monandrous. She minks there is but one man in the world—iu deed, there is but one for her-and that man is her husband. She is never quite content in his abseuce, and wel comes him on his return as she proba i° bly did when ^ he had first literary* declared his ve * *^ ut * e > loo » though he seldom writes, having the duties of **' s profession to engross his time, They are an idyllic couple iu their af faction, dyed though they be iu ink.— Philadelphia Time*. A Manager’s * ""-i I.iiekv Number. ■ Col. Johu MeCaull, of the Broad Street Opera House, is in no way an old man. except that he is a disbeliever in many popnlar theories'of modern times, one of which is the fatalism of the num her 13. He declares the dogma of one. ph>' a dozen beiu^_* combination of misfortunes is heresy. To the energetic manager of “The Mikado” and "Black Hussar' the number is full of charm :l,u ' hick. This was the conclusion that the Tim<js gatherer came to, after a short talk with the Colonel. Thecon versation was brotlglit ftbout by the hap py manner hi which the colonel had written an acceptance to a dinner to be given by the famous-13” Club of New terk. "Colonel, do you have no feeling ol b ‘ iir lo sit ''°wn with a company of thir tecu’*” was the query, This made the managerial Napoleon ««Ue, and he remarked; -l should certainly feel uncomfortable with any other number around the fes ^>1 hoard. Some peopto lose their ap. petites when there are thirteen at the b a8b and sit a whole year expecting At two of the ' most enjoyable »<*“« 1 ever sat down to there were just thirteen in the company. They were U'ivcn when we opened -The Mikado’ *>ssbn hem “At the supper given the night before 'hit opening with the D'Oyley Carte Company there were just thirteen gen Cu m u from Japan, and maids from telmol, Meet; On including the night the Jaughter-in-law- of opening our we entertained Sir Arthur Sullivan at [inner ami we had thirteen at the table, lll<1 > ! »' gh’at composer thought it so unique that he wrote home about it. ••This was certainly a ‘pretty how Tve do’for nervous folks, and a kettle M fish for people who ai;« superstitious. VV e did not have such bad luck, after ill. We opened with a $1,800 house and plaveil a successful season of thir teen weeks. -I never understood why thirteen was fact aiv magical that number until I recalled the I was born ou the 13th of the month. I was the thirteenth John iu :ho family, went to school until I was 13, ami married thirteen years after that time. “In looking over the register of the boxes 1 find that we opendd with a box part; of thirteen, aud oitt of 110 we had during the season there Were eighteen that were composed of 13 people. I be liove iu 13. It knocks out the biblical 40 and 7, and to say nothing of the mokes’ suggestive 4-11-44. I take good rare that my shoemaker puts 18 buttons mi ineftes my shoes and always wear my scarf 13 long. I am ‘ an original 13 man. Here is mv Coupe: I’m off for du-Broad Street Statin®.!’ On the lamp of the hack was the mys tical number 1$.—Philadelphia Times. | A portrait of the Chevalier de la Lie zerne, from whom Luzerne Com ty, in Pennsylvania, was named, has I een pre sented Hifltowcal by Eckfey Society. B. Coxe to the Wvom ing ________ A