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COLUMBIA SENTINEL.
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HARLEM, GEORGIA.
The latest theory regarding the origin
of natural gaa is not that the gas isa pro
duct of petroleum de|Meita, but just the
reverse, namely, that the petroleum sup
ply is a product of residuum of the na
tural gas.
The Suez. Canal co-t h than $100,000.-
000. Two hundred and seventy fiv
millions of dollars ha e been expended
upon the Panama Canal, and the pm
pent is that the project will have to b<
abandoned.
An official report to the British Govern
ment states that the yearly cotton crop
of Japan is about 131,000,000 pounds.
The manufacture of the staple is of the
most primitive description. It is almost
entirely a domestic industry, gin, spindle
and loom being found in the house of
the farmer on whose land the plant is
grown, the female members of the house
doing the spinning and weaving.
A lately dead woman of Rn< inc, Wis.,
must have been a very popular person.
After her death recently, the bereaved
widower invited all who had been kind
to her in her last illness to attend a litttle
banquet in her honor, ami it is estimated
tliat 3,000 persons congregated to take
an active part in the feast. The guests
celebrated with such enthusiasm that
the town became a very bright rod before
morning.
The Virginia (Nev.) Entrrjrriu says
that “about three thousand head of sheep
are now finding abundant pasturage in
the vicinity of thia city, where twenty
years ago a whippoorwill could not fly
over the country without carrying a sack
of provisions Grade dly the summer
season here has changed. We now have
considerable showers and grass where
but two decades ago all was drought and
barrenness. 1>
Occidental statisticians have long been
accustomed for some reason to regard
with doubt the periodical reports eon
cerning the population of China, but in
asmuch as the Chinese law requires every
householder to hang at his front door a
list of the inmates of his house, it seems
as though it ought to bo easy to make an
accurate census. By one whic h the offi
cials of the Empire have recently afford
ed, the population is 450,000,000.
Dainty wreaths of flowers, the work of
hands that lost their cunning 3,000 years
ago, have lately been found in a sub
terranean gallery near I'hebes, where,
with the royal mummies they adorned,
they had remained undisturbed during
half the whole period of historic time.
They partially retained their fragrance,
and even their color had not entirely dis
appeared. They must have been a costly
luxury in the country described by the
prophet Zachariah as a region where there
is no rain.
The relative increase in population in
Canada is much less than in the United
States, Indeed, it could not be other
wise while so many of those immigrants
who seek Canada as a place of settle
ment move from that country to the
United States every year. It is a fact
that the number who leave Canada to
settle in the I oiled States exceeds the
number of those who, emigrating from
other countries, settle in Canada. “The
United States," says the Cultirutor, “of
fers better fa' ilities for the improvement
of the condition of the intelligent and
industrious immigrant than Canada
affords.”
The Farm* rs' Alliance of Texas, with
a membership of 250,000, and perhaps an
available capital of not less than $50,000,-
000, have formed the project of establish
ing extensive manufactories at Marble
Falls, having purchased the water power
there, and it is now understood are pre
paring plans and making arrangements
to utilize their purchase. Their move
ment in this enterprise, the Galveston
.V,, . thinks, deserves success, and is a
commentary u|»m the want of enterprise
of the men I ant class, the capital class,
mid all classes that usually claim a
monopoly of foresight, enterprise, energy,
ami activity.
Americans arc not much given to sui
cide. The avetagc American appears to
p efei working luium If to death or dying
ot <lys|M-psia. Only Spain. Hussia and Scot
land how fewer t ases of self destruction
than the United States. The number of
. suicides each year |ht 1,000 inhabitants
La- been .. mputcil with tolerable ac
curm y, as follows:
Spa n 14
li : >s:a ... 25
Unite i States
It'lv ST
I old M
II aim 71
S imfi avia sa
\ list i i 98
(irmatiy 146
France 152
S vit.erlaud 2iW
iHinmuk .M 0
IDEALS
Thera is but one bird sings like that!
From I'aradise it flew.
Out to the world,with wavering plumage gay,
When on creation's glad, awakening day
The morning wore the dew.
It is not nightingale or lark.
Oh, a diviner bird!
In mom touched forests, sweet with night
and dew,
In dawn spread meadows, when the Spring
goes through,
Its voice was never heard.
Its nest! In boughs of fadeless bio
Nowhere that we can see.
The winds have never found it. and the rain
Os wasting autumns ts-at the leaves in vain
On that immortal tree.
Its ago—its country! No man knows.
Born for the world s delight.
No bird that goes through splendors of the
dawn,
Or homeward comes, down quiet twilight’s
dawn,
Has wings for such far flight.
Can no one find it! All the world
Is seeking it afar.
Each in his turn has cried, “Lo, it is mine!”
Oh, liitter-sweit! Still is the joy divine
Farther than flower from star.
—Juliet C. Marsh. in the Century.
how iFended.
BY WILLIAM 0. FATTEN.
I can not fell exactly how it began. In
the sime manner, probably, as all such
quarrels begin—a hasty, careless word, a
hot reply, and from this it grew rapidly.
They had been married nearly a year,
and this was their first disagreement.
She had been a poor orphan girl, but
Harry Barnes had met her, fallen desper
ately in love with her pretty face, wooed !
and won her. He was an energetic and
rapidly rising young lawyer in the thriv
ing little New Englund village of Fair
mont. Already he had gathered together
enough to purchase a pretty little white
cottage on the outskirts of the village,
and here they lived, happy for awhile, as
most young couples are. Then came the
shadow.
. After the first little disagreement the
cottage home did not seem the same to
Harry ns before. In some way the climb- j
ing vines over the door seemed to have
lost their beauty, and seemed useless
and in the way. More than once he was
tempted to tear thetft down. The sing
ing of Ella’s pet canary, that had once
seemed so sweet, annoyed him now.
Everything seemed to go wrong. Harsh
words sprang to his lips, and took the I
place of loving ones he once used. His '
wife frettted him, and seemed incapable
of doing anything right. And she went
about her day duties with a little heart
pain that she kept carefully concealed.
Things were as much changed to her as
they were to him. She could scarcely
believe Harry to be the same person who
had w ooed and won her a few months
ago. More than once she was tempted
to go to him and ask him to forgive her
if she hml done anything wrong, but
pride prevented. She hid her pain, he
made no attempt, to control his selfish
ness, and each day they drifted further
apart.
When ho came home from his office
duties she used to run to meet him, and
he would catch her in his arms and kiss
her. Once he had delighted to call her
pet names; now she was simply “Ella.”
Once when he had the time that he could
do so, he would take her out ou pleasant
walks and long drives; but now he had
no time to spare.
Time after time she thought this all
over, and cried in secret over it. Her
face began to have a sad look that he
stupidly attributed to a morbid condi
tion of her mind. Neither of them un
derstood the other.
"Ella, where is my light coat?” he
said, one day. “It is fearfully hot, and
I need it.”
"I don’t know where it is," she re
plied; "I haven’t seen it.”
“Now what's the use to say you haven't
seen it? I hung it up only a day or two
ago, right here, behind the door, and
now it's gone. You must have removed
it.”
She went calmly on with her work, as
she replied, firmly:
“I tell you, Harry, I have not seen
your coat. If you had hung it there it
would be there now. You must be mis
taken.”
“Oh, yes!" ho exclaimed, angrily; “I
am always mistaken. It isalwaysmo;
you never make a mistake! I know I
hung my coat behind this door, and, as
it is not here now, you must have re
moved it. I will get along without it
to-day, but I hope you will hunt around
and find out where you have put it, so
that I can have it when I want it next j
time.”
With these words he departed, leaving
«n aching heart behind. When he was
gone she searched for the coat but could
not find it. When she found that her
search was useless, she threw herself
upon the sofa and indulged in a good
cry.
When Harry came home at night, she
said:
“1 have searched the house from top to
bottom and cannot find a trace of your
coat, Harry.”
“Oh, you needn’t have done that,” he
replied carelessly. “I’ve found it.”
“Yon have. Where?”
“At the office," he replied. “I took
it down the other day and forgot all
about it.”
She could not help giving him a slight
shot.
“Why,” she exclaimed, "I thought
von k ew you left it hanging behind the
door!"
>he had no more than uttered the words ■
before she regretted them. He made no
reply, but a dark frown gathered on his
face. She saw the dark look, and longed
to go to him and ask him to forgive her
hasty words: but the old bride conquered,
and she went about her work, trying to
bum a merry tune.
Ti e following day was Sunday. Harry
and Ila always at: nd®d ehur. h upon
the Sa.‘bath. Fra while after their
marr age be seemed to delight ingoing
to . lurch, and every one said he v.as
proud of his pretty wife, and went m re
to let people have a glimpse of his prize
thau to hear what the minister ha I to
say “Folks will talk!" Now it was
with the utmost difficulty that Ella could
Induce him to go at all.
‘•Sunday it a day of rest," he would
grumble. “This tramping half a mile
to church and sitting in one of those
straight-backed pews to listen to a dry
sermon, is a little too much of a good
thing.”
Nevertheless, he would consent at last
to go.
To-day, all though the sermon, Ella
imagined that Harry was looking at
Sadie Palmer, an old flame of his before
they were married. Os course, Ella was
restless and uneasy, and when she saw
Miss Palmer bestow one of her sweetest
smiles on Harry, to which he replied
with a nod and a genuine look of
pleasure, she was thoroughly' aroused.
Her heart swelled up, hot with anger
and jealousy, and seemed to beat like a
trip hammer,
“The bold thing!" she exclaimed,
mentally, “to look at Harry like that!
And he seemed to be pleased. I believe
he thinks more of her now than he does
of me!”
When the meeting was dismissed she
stopped a moment at the door to speak
to a friend. She turned just in time to
see Harry handing Mrs. Palmer and her
stylish daughter into their handsome
carriage, drawn up at the foot of the
steps. Her face was very flushed when
she joined Harry and walked slowly
away with'him to their little home.
Miss Palmer proved a bone of conten
tion with them.
“I don't see what you can see about
her to admire 1” exclaimed Ella, in reply
to a compliment Harry had bestowed
upon that young lady.
He opened his eyes widely.
“You don’t! Why, I admire her good
looks, her ladylike manners, and, most
of all, her even temper.”
She laughed disdainfully.
“ You may laugh as much as you
please,” said Harry, warmly; “ Sauie
Palmer is a perfect lady.”
“A lady!” cried Ella, scornfully.
“ She is a bold thing, and I don't care
if she knows I think so. A lady ! ” And
she utters another scornful laugh.
Harry closed his lips firmly against the
angry words that came surging up to
them. He clenched his hands tightly
behind his back, and walked on in
silence.
Thus matters processed for some time,
the quarrel growing warmer and warmer,
with no signs of reconciliation between
them.
One day Harry came home at noon,
tired, and in a very bad mood. He
found his dinner far from being ready.
“ Hurry up, Ella,” he said. “I have
a lot of work Io do and must hurry hack
to the office as soon as possible. I don’t
understand why you should be behind
hand to-day.”
“I have been cleaning, and have had
just all I could do. I don’t see why
you should be in such a hurry to-day. If
you can’t wait take a lunch.”
He proceeded to do so, and, as he
munched the cold bread and butter, he
said :
•“ You are getting a little careless
about the meals, Ella. I must have them
regular. Sometimes my business is such
that I can’t spend the time to come home
here and wait for a meal to lie prepared.
You must pay more attention to this
matter.”
“I can’t do anything to please you,”
sbo cried, ; etulantly. “You are always
complaining.”
“1 am not," he answered, sharply,
“ami you know it. Why do you say
so?”
Ella was fully aroused now.
“Perhaps,”sarcastically, “perhaps you
would have got some one who would
have pleased you better if you had mar
ried Sadie Palmer.”
“Very likely,” he said, and was sorry
for the words as soon as they were ut
tered. He could not stay there longer,
and so he hurried away to his office.
The long afternoon dragged away
very slowly. More than once his thoughts
turned to his little yellow-haired wife,
and he wandered if his harsh words had
hurt her very much. It was very late
when he finished his work, put away the
scattered papers, and hurried home to
supper.
As he drew near the cottage, he
thought how Ella used to be standing in
the doorway waiting for him, and. when
he appeared at the foot of the long path,
she would run to meet him. lie looked
for her to-night, half hoping that she
would run to meet him as of old; but
the cottage door was open, and no Ella
was in sight. He paused upon the steps,
hoping to hear her singing as she went
about her work ; but no sound came from
within. With a sinking heart he en
tered. The things were in about the
same condition that they were when he
left at noon. The supper table was not
set, and no smiling little wife was wait
ing him. He wandered through the
lonely rooms.
“Ella! Ella!”
Only the echoes answered.
“She is away at some of the neigh
bors’,” be said, with sinking heart. “I
will wait here on the doorstep till she
returns.”
The sun was sinking behind the west
ern hills. A smoky haze hung in the air,
giving the last beams of the setting sun a
dull red look. Oh. how quiet and lonely
it was!
He sat there upon the. steps, buried
deep in thought, while the sun went
down and the shadows gathered. He
lived over his life since he and Ella were
married. He saw them all then—his
faults and his wrong-doings. He
aroused himself. The palemoon was up,
and the evening breezes were whispering
among the vines and flowers above his
head.
“Where can she be?” hesaid. “Imust
find her.”
He thought she might be at Saul
Bond’s, and started out across the fields
to make his way thither. This ■•short
cut” led him through the village grave
yard. He hurried forward with anxious
ha-te. picking his way among the graves,
to find his dear little wife, 'suddenly he
paused. Leaning against lhe white
headstone of one of the graves was a
dark form. The grave was that of Ella’s
mother, and instinct told him that the
dark form was that of Flla. She moved,
and distinctly he heard these words:
“Oh, mother 4 mother! I am so un
happy! so unhappy! He was so kind
once, but I cannot please him now He
does not love me any more. Oh,.what
shall I do?” Then followed a burst of tears
ami sobs.
He s'ep;<ed quicklv forward, saving:
“Ella!”
She sprang up and stood before him in
the moonlight with bowed head and
clasped hands. He came to her and took
both her cold hands in his own.
“Dear Ella,” he said, and his own
voice trembled, “come back with me. I
have been a brute to treat you so.» Ella,
I love you more than all the world!”
“Oh, Harry I” she cried. “Don’t you
care for Sadie Palmer?”
“I wouldn’t give my dear little wife
for ten thousand Sadie Palmers. We
will begin over again, little one, and I
will try and do better. I am all to
blame ”
“No, no, Harry; lam to blame as well
as you. I -”
“Nonsense!” And he stopped her
mouth with a kiss.
And this is How It Ended.
Sam Jones's Sayings.
The Baltimore-American gives the fol- I
lowing extracts from three sermons
preached by Rev. Sam Jones, the I
Southern Revivalist, in that city:
You can’t make friends with God un
til you're sorry enough of your sins to 1
quit them.
If a man repents he don't have to try '
to believe; it comes of itself.
God can’t give you faith; you’ve got j
to do that yourself. God gives you I
sight, but seeing is your job. God gives I
you taste, but do you ever ask God to
taste ham and eggs.
You may call this silly talk, but I'm
talking to a silly crowd.
Foolishness is what you rub on foolish
people.
A man once said to me: “Mr. Jones,
when you have converted the hypocrites
come and talk religion to me. These
hypocrites are in my way.” I said
“they wouldn’t be your w’ay if
they hadn’t got ahead of you. Ain't you
ashamed to let hypocrites get ahead of
you ? ”
I’ve got more confidence in bread pills
administered by a praying doctor than
the finest science given by an agnostic.
I understand why old Bob Ingersoll is
an infidel; it pays him SSOO a night to
deny God, while he would not get $lO a
night lecturing that there is a God.
1 wouldn’t give ten cents a dozen for
Christians who won’t pray in public.
There are a thousand differences be
tween us, but we are astonishingly alike.
When an engineer gets down from his
cab to oil his machinery I notice that he
pours oil out of the same can upon all
the parts, great and small alike. And so
the Great Engineer of the universe pours
the oil of grace from the great heavenly
storehouse upon the great and small
alike, and makes it as easy for one per
son as another to do right. If there is
any one here who is not what God in
tended you to be it’s because you won’t
give him a chance.
I am getting sick and tired of this cant:
“It’s so hard for me to do right.” You’re
good for nothing, that’s what’s the mat
ter with you.
I know it is a heap easier to be a gen
tleman than a vagabond. Lvq tried both.
Blessed be they who give, and blessed
be those who do not give, for if they are
blessed they will give.
The last step, the last thought on
earth, means good bye to the last oppor
tunity.
God speed the day when the church
will kick out every man within its bor
ders who deals in futures. The church
and the preacher who depends upon such
sort of people belongs to the devil from
hat to heels.
Brother, if you are not afraid of God
you will have good reason to fear every
corner of the fence.
God does not care for present events;
He looks out for final results.
I’ll make my bones ache dancing the
pigeon wing if it will help me to heaven.
■The curse of all the churches in this
country is that they have got thousands
of inemb is who have never been con
victed of sin, uni' h less converted to
God.
Whenever anything is wrong quit it,
and quit it short oil'. A good many want
to taper off in sin. They taper oil gen
erally to the big end.
The sooner you die, the sooner you’ll
get to heaven if you’ve been a good man.
No mm is going to growl on getting into
heaven ahead o! time.
Don’t consider yourself safe till you
get the c.
Heaven is just on the other side of
where a fellow has done his level best.
The man who think’s he safe, and lies
back on his< ars loses heaven right there.
If I ever fall I’ll get up and run right
or.; and if 1 can’t run I’ll do some tall
crawling.
You take Baptist water, Methodist fire,
and Presbyterian “hold on to what
you’ve got,” and you've got a sight.
A (Janine That Catches Fish.
J. N. .McConnell, of Crawfordsville,
Indiana, is the owner of a dog that he
values very highly. It is a full-blooded
Scotch shepherd, about one year old.
The canine is a smart one, and seems to
understand every word that is spoken to
it. Among its many accomplishments is
that of being an expert fisherman. He
will take a position in a drift in a small
stream running near Mr. McConnell's
house, and by making a racket will scare
the fish out into water where he can see
them. Then, diving suddenly, he will
bring a fish up in his mouth. This
operation he will repeat until he catches
as many as he wants. Spectators on the
banks in nowise embarrass him in his
piscatorial pursuit. The dog is very
fond of fish and eats all that he catches.
That is the only objection to the whole
proceeding, as his owner thinks that he
could supply his table with fresh fish the
year round if the dog could only be
taught to retrieve, and he will give a few
lessons in that art. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Prison Labor in Germany.
Complaints of competition of prisor
laborers are common in Germany, where
the labor of prisoners is farmed out by
the government. Os 27,051 prisoners in
Prussia liable to hard labor 17.630. ot
seventy-three per cent., were let out. O1
the remaining 6,182, or twenty-five and
one-halt' per cent., were employed in and
about the prisons. Most, of the prisoners
employed outside are engaged in manu
facturing industries. Only a small per
centage are employed in agriculture ot
other outdoor work. This kind of labor
is cheap. The contractor feeds the
prisoners, and in addition pays ths
government a su n varying with tbs
kind of empl mcni. hut generally rang
ing from ::d. to fad. per head per day.—
Bradstreet's.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,
One of the glaciers of the Kinchin
junga. a peak whose summit is 28,000
feet above sea level, has a vertical height
of 14,000 feet.
Experiments have recently been made
in Egypt, on the line of railroad between
Cairo ami Alexandria, in using petrole
um as a fuel for firing locomotives, it is
claimed with success.
The Bo tree of Amarapoora, in Bur
mah, is about 2,170 years old, and it can
be traced in historic documents as far
back as 182 A. D. Other trees arc believed
to be older. African and Californian
specimens being computed at 5,000 years,
but there is no certain evidence of it.
Two skeletons dug up several months
ago in a cave near Orneau, in Belgium,
appear to belong to the oldest race of
which any records exist. These prehis
toric individuals were contemporary with
the mammoth, and inhabited the coun
try before the great ice age. They were
short and thick set, with broad shoul
ders, supportinga long and narrow head,
with an extremely low forehead.
Professor Bolton expresses the opinion
that the crowning glory of modern chem
istry is the power of producing, in the
laboratory, from inorganic matter, sub
stances identical with those existing in
the vegetable and animal kingdoms—it
being known now thatthe same chemical
laws rule animate and inanimate nature,
and that any definite compound pro
duced in the former can be prepared by
synthesis as soon as its chemical consti
tution has been made out.
The International Institute of Statis
tics has just had a convention in Rome,
and one of the most interesting points it
established is the fact that the death rate
in Europe has been very much reduced
during the past century. People are liv
ing longer and are more healthy than
they were one hundred years ago, and
this happy result is attributed to the
progress of medical science, and espe
cially to the energetic sanitary measures
that have been adopted everywhere.
Cultivated in groves, the average
growth in twelve years of several varie
ties of haul wood has been ascertained to
be about as follows: White maple reaches
1 foot in diameter and 30 feet in height;
ash, leaf maple or box elder, 1 foot in
diameter and 20 feet in height; white
willow, 18 inches and 40 feet; yellow
willow, 18 inches and 35 feet; Lombardy,
poplar, 10 inches and 40 feet; blue and
white ash, 10 inches and 25 feet; black
walnut and butternut, 10 inches and 20
feet.
The particular office of flies appears to
be the consumption of those dead and
minute animals whose decaying myriads
would otherwise poison the air. It was
a remark of Linmeus that three flies
could consume a dead horse sooner than
a lion could. He doubtless included the
families of three flies. A single fly, the
naturalist tell us, will sometimes pro
duce 20,000 larvte, each of which, in a
few days, may be the parent of another
20,000,’ and thus the descendants of three
flics will soon devour an animal much
larger than a horse.
During the last twenty years various
attempts have been made to produce a
paper barrel that would answer all the
purposes for which the wooden barrel is
used. Recently a barrel has been pro
duced from paper pulp, its general ap
pearance being What of the common
wooden barrel thickly varnished, while
only five pieces are used in making
it. It is bound with ordinary wooden
hoops, and the head is of one piece,
so constructed that it fits into the
barrel air-tight, and it is held firmly
in place by a hoop without the
use of nails. The body is seamless, and
the interior and exterior are glazed with
a substance which renders the barrel im
previous to moisture, so that liquids can
be transported in it without loss.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
It is a curious scientific fact that all
the elements of the poison found in a
rattlesnake are inherent in the common
Irish potato.
Books and papers were formerly sold
only at stalls, and the dealers were,
therefore, called stationers. In time a
certain class of the goods so sold came
to be known as stationery.
Trevethick in 1810 made the first
locomotive steam engine. Till his ex
periment it was imagined that turned
wheels would give no locomotion, and
this mistake obstructed the introduction
of steam navigation by revolving paddle.
A leaf of the giant water lilly has
been known to measure twenty four feet
nine and one-quarter inches in circum
ference. its weight being nearly fourteen
pounds. One of the flowers was four
feet two inches in circumference, with
petals nine inches in length and weighed
three and a half pounds.
A remarkable drinking contest took
place in a saloon iu Carson, Nev., re
cently; remarkable because the liquid
consumed was water. The wager was
S2O, and the man who won it drank
eleven large glasses' of cold water and
was none the worse for it. The other
fellow drank nine glasses and became
ill.
In 1776 cottan spinning was performed
by the hand spinning w heel, when Har
grave, an ingenious mechanic near Black
burn, England, made a spinning jenny, .
witheight spindles; and having per-!
milted one Peel of that plaoe to view it
as a curiosity, under the pledge of
secrecy, the latter appropriated the in- !
vention, and Hargrave died in poverty.
Women do not attend funerals in |
Mexico, it is against the rules of society,
and the reason is said to be that they cry t
too much. A wife cannot go to a hus
band's funeral nor can a mother follow :
her babe to the grove. One of the !
prettii <t customs in Mevico is the
universal respect which greets a pa-sing
funeral. Every man, from the million- i
aire to the half clad poor, take- off his
lint till the sad train has passed. Well
«lre-scd senuras bow their heads and j
cro-s themselves, while Indian women
kneel in prayer.
In 1795, Sir Walter Raleigh used ma
ho.reiy plunks to repair a vessel. An in
feri. r kind of mahogany has been found
in A tri' a and certain parts of India, and in
A n eric i cherry and w remit have super-
M (li <ltli < -ood, in a degree. Still, ma
iling y : mains of gre.t coiutuercial
value. I
DREAM islands
They tell of a region, long fabled in «
Wb^ cIOU , lsllev^d
Where tbe fruits are of gold
’ And the earth, never old
In perpetual spring ever laughs at age hna rv
lOf the men who have followed the ,
dying, un **
To discover that laud which stiff west wai ,
lying, vw’eni#
None have come from the qu« t
With green laurel on crest-
But .till west, like the breezes, our Wlsh «
sighing.
Have they found that land with ite mvrU(!
flowers, •
And there linger, enthralled in its mmsxw.nu
bowers:
Or by lotus fringed brook
Never care for, nor look
To the east where lies home with itstroubl
its showers! “
With the breath of the lotus they
sorrow ' J
And they joy in the present; no trouble the,
borrow; ’
Does the sky’s brightest blue
Or the fragrance of dew
Augur anght, in those isle., but the gladdest
to-morrow!
—Chicago Currtnt.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
he idea of laughing in your sleeve
originated with the funny bone
The man who had rather be right than
be President never lacks opportunities -
Boston Traveller.
“There is plenty of room at the top "
said the hotel clerk as he ordered the
porter to put up another cot on the roof
—Hotel Mail.
No man can realize how easy it fa tc
pass the contribution box around and f t.
get to chip in until he tries it.—L»i».
•ville Democrat.
A man takes pride in saying he has s
mind of his own, and yet when he is
angry he take pleasue in giving somebody
else a piece of it.— Boston Courier.
When L was young, and all was well,.
I used to live on tick;
As merry as a marriage bell,
Until my wife took sick.
Then I was broke: my darling wife
From day to day grew sicker.
And I was forced, to save her life,
To live upon my “ticker."
—Detroit Free Pjess.
An enterprising* physician in Aus
tralia advertises: “I will pay one-half
of the funeral expenses in cases where I
am not successful.”— Philadelphia Call.
Father of fair one—“We close up here
at ten o’clock.” Brass-headed beau
“ That’s a good idea. It keeps fellows
out who don't know enough to getinsidi
earlier. ” Tid-Bits.
It is said that the trout are “rising"
very freely in Mooselucmeguntic lake
this season. They evidently prefer to
die in a frying-pan thau live in a lake
with such name.— Harper's Bazar.
The days are glad with balmy airs.
The skies no longer frown,
In meads the dandelion wears
Again its golden crown;
In pools we hear the gleeful shout, ■
Where merry boys have met,
And at the beach the signs are out
Os: “Bathing suits to let’’
—Boston Courier.
A lady on Woodward avenue has a lit
tle boy who is inclined to freckle and has
been told to keep on his hat when out
in the sun. Last week she engaged a
servant whose face is quite roughened
with smallpox. Robbie looked at her
very closely and then said to his mother:
“It’s too bad. Ain't it, mania!” “What’l
too bad?” said his mother. “That her
didn’t keep on her hat.” His mother was
puzzled and said: “Why should Mary
keep on her hat!” “Cause the sun’s
jammed all her freckles in.”— OetiDit
Tribune.
Way Down Upon the S'wanee River
Onceover the bar at its entrance from
the Gulf, the Suwanee River holds its
way with a deep current, in places of
forty feet, far up through the forests of
the best hard pine in the State. It is the
Penobscot of Florida. It has some good
land upon it, where plantations have
heretofore been made, but after awhile
generally abandoned. The mosquitoes
and malaria guard iu the main entrance
othei than lumbermen, anglers and tour
ists. This dark river has, too, its ro
mance, as being the place which gave
rise to a melody which, like “Home,
Sweet Home,” the affections of the heart
will never let go. For it was here that a
French family in the time of LouisXD.
came over and settled upon the Suwanee
and made a plantation. After a while
the father and mother and all died save
one daughter, who, disheartened and
desolated, returned to France, and there
wrote, adopting in part that negro dia
lect which she had been familiar with on
the plantation in her girlhood, a feeling
tribute to “the old folks at homi tn
their graves in the far-off country.—
Buffalo Courier.
A Novel Cane.
“Would you take an umbrella or a
walking stick?” said a sea captain visit
ing a Call man the other evening.
the two were preparing for a walk
don’t think it'll rain, but since you hive
I an umbrella anil want to carry -ometw-,
: you’ll have to carry that.’’ “Ch, no f
| sponded the captain; and calmly
screwing the shade end of the uinbrei
he withdrew the central stick, and • l - J
| up a cane with a silver head.
I paper man was surprised, but stiff m ■
I so when the captain unscrewed aga*
and drew a pipe from the top of the can-
! the handle of the latter constituting «
I bowl of the pipe. “Isn’t that a tme trar •
ing cane?” added he. And with the C'
man still admiring they walked down -
street. — Philadelphia Call.
Too Much For the Conjurer.
A Turkish paper says that
Herrraan, the conjurer, who re e- •■.
died at Carlsbad, was a great fayj •
with the late Sultan Abdul Aziz, and ■ ■
to get a thousand pounds ('Turkish • _
each performance. Once, after ex
ing two pigeoas, a white one and a ,
one; he managed to put the black h
the white bird, and vice versa, wtucn
pleased the Sultan that he ord ' rei
black slave and a white
brought in. and requested that
be repeated with them. Herrma.
forced to acknowledge that he con
do it.— Epoch.