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1. la writhe to tUa ofie* ■hraya giva yaw. 1 Boafawa tottara tad oomamaka- Uoaa to ka paVHahad ahoald b« written oa aaptonto abcaU, and tba object of each daarfy indicated by neoeaaary note whan nyairad. t. Artiriea for poblioation ahoald be written in a clear, legible band, and on only one aide of the paget 4, AH change* in adrarttoementa mttat raeh na on Frtedy. VOL, VII. NO. 10. BARNWELL C. H., 8. C., THURSDAY, JUNES, 1884. 12.00a Year. i of tba writer, not gnWlcation, bat ana Addjwa, TEEnanm, f&M BABY’S PEA YER. Sha knelt With her iweet hand* folded; Hbr filr little head bowed low; While dead Tine* tapped at the window fold the air Wa* thick With mow. Without, earth dumb with winter; • . Within, heart* dumb with care; - v. And up through the leaden eilence Boee softly the baby prayer. “Bleee all whom I lore, dear Father, • Aiid help tec be good," she said. > $l»eti, stirred by a stiddeu fancy; She lifted the ahlning head. * i)id she Catch on the frosen maple Some hint of the April green, Or the breath of the woodland bloseoms, The drifts of the snow between ? ,l ThAbeautlfuI trees;” she whispered, •‘Where the orioles used to sing; They are tired of the cold, white winter, Oh, help them to grow in spring; And the flowers that I lowed tp gather, *»rd| biitog them again in May, The dear little rioleta, sleeping Down deep in the ground to-day/ Ah, earth may be chill with snowflikee, And hearts may be cold with care, But wastes of a frozen silence Are crossed by the baby's prayer; Aijd Ups that Were dumb with sorrow . In jubilant hope may sing; For wheii earth is wrapped in winter, In the heart of the Loud 'tia spring. TAKEN AT IIIS WORD; A Wort or MAh Ur*. npelled to li^ake nt dnu gioriona was the case of General Cjiar- ln«, who for nearly twenty years held hia own against all sorts of odds In war, business and love. Hia was one of the brigades upon which the commander of the army in Varginia always de fended when in extremity; his very re treats, when he was com kheth; were fcior* dbftAn. lhah other men’s battles. In business he was as determined and nnyielding as in war; he was courteous and consider ate to all his rivals, but fad one cared to j)irbVoke him to earnest opposition. In society all women were at his feet; no body ventured to rally this handsome fellow^ whoae keen e*e end fl*4tt fejo^.th seemed to make him a king among his fellows; to receive a smile, a compli ment, or a courtesy from him, was blis* supreme. But one day the General got his tnatoto ije nbvbr had been in love—he heTte had flirted with any of the ladies, some fretty, a few sweet, many good, Vho had been almost thrown at him H* Ihelr parents or themselvee; bat the very first evening be met Miss Leah Mil- liaen his heart surrendered—nay, desert ed in a manner most abject Mite Mil* Been, although of pleasing face- <hd WAs ho there beautiful than Some of hia acquaintances, fut aha impressed eVery opes inVludino Weneml GharthS, her air of superb repose—an air the elect of which was enhanced by regular features, and by stature somewhat above that of moat women, Chartns adored Mtm Millishnst sight, fora %ilh the characteristic impatience of the sucoeesfql soldier and man of ,af- fafts, he bade baste to t»II hot sb. kis kfaitehteht did not seem to at all surprise the lady; neither did it appear to afford her any special pleasure. She acted very much as if such communications were too frequent to be startling. The General wife astonished And provoked at her indifference, tie had Bo good An Opinion of himself as to hare i&igtntd that whenever be might offer hb heart to a Woman, the gift would he accepted With deep Assurances of gratitude and humility. He felt piqued by Miss Mil- iisen’s demeanor; he wondered whethet she knew that he was offering affections that never had been lavished on any other woman, and that he was guiltless of the faults that make many young men not desirable aa husbands. Did she mis take him for one of the overgrown buys who infested aoeiety because they were not oM enough to join clubs and go into 'business? k The General grew so angry that tor A little while he forgot to he a gentleman, tie said to himself that if that proud girl did not caTefor Mm 1 u '•nuld manage to live without her. ^ even negated to e«k her out at f’c mxt social affair at Which they tolb » present. Bu *’bcu, agnto, he was brought face to face with her, as he was obliged to be at din ner one evening, for the space of two hours, bo confessed, all to himself, to unlimited idiocy, and determined tq <nAke anolher attack. If Miss *Ofald not be conquered, why, fbefr-the Gen-, eral would himself ^folate without re gard to teraas^. £ would be a new sen sation, whife 'to th e prisoner of such a being ^oold be anything but nncom- forte^ie, he thought. So, again the General pfopO&ed, and agate Mias Milliseu listened politely but eatotly. He asked if there was anything tn his character or social ttandteg. «o which she took ukneptkm, and she quickly assured him, with a smile-such « smile T-Jhat there was not, Bui levs, •he implied marriage—and the had •ser.vmy fiends who had been made un- -^ewpj by marriage, teat aki haudefer- Tiined not to imperil her own future by haste and thougbtleaaneaa. -- 'Thia very discreet speech only in* •*™a«d the Geaeral’e eageraem, and caused him to multiply his avyrntoiiuia regard, tiu would make ft his life- work to minister to her happissss he Mkh Upon which tea told ueu’s ideas ed So Ghartu* solemnly prdthiAed that shh should control her own .life if she would marry him, and he would he obedient to her eyety wish; Then she expressed feat of poverty. She hid known so many couples who began their married life amid comfort and luxury, and were reduced to misery and social ostracism by unwise business ventures. The suitor promptly agreed to make his wife ■ole owner of his house; to leave her in undisturbed fefcftot til her OWn marriage portion, tthfok she frafakly admitted Wbuld be hut a few thousand dollars; and to pTotebt her against ffn*nc4*l trouble in the possible event of his death, by insuring his life heavily for her benefit. Miss Millised listened attentively, looked thoughtful, felt pleased And did not hesitate to show What she felt. The General saw he was progressing well, so he followed up hi* advantage by ask- -ing=— — “Is there anything else I can promise or do to gain yonr consent ? You have only to name it 1” Miss Millisen thought carefully for a moment or two, bnt was obliged to an swer* . , “Nothing whatever. I will take yoti at your word.” "Then I hope to one day oall you Mra. Chartus.” At last Miss Millisen found her natural feport Untrustworthy* she troubled a little, blushed a great deal, tried to speak but could not, noting which the Gen eral’s mercy took the form peculiar to lovers on such occcsio**s; The wedding speedily followed. On this subject the couple were in entire ac cord. Where they were to go on their bridal tout Was a subject of discussion for A lirae #hile—only i little w!H!<5; The General Wanted to travel Westward— there he had large mining interests—but the lady preferred Europe and reminded her coming lord ot his promise to fdrthe^ her happiness by consulting her desires. So to Europe they went; the cost in actual cash outlay and business losses oonsscjueiit Qn Ipng abfwnoe, being equal to aoout one-haii ilis brifleCroote’s business capital When General and Mrs. Chartus re turned to New York their friends re marked to one another that the bride wiis to stately, hAndsoflie afld self'CoU: tained as ever, but that the General seemed rather plder than before—as he certainly was. by A few months, and that he was not quite so positive as in tia bachelor days. In society the change was declared beneficial; the same was said in business eircles, for there was not the old trouble of being held at arm’s length in everything that involved dol lars And cents. At home, however, in the handsome ponse presented by tlw General to his bride, the change in the hosi and the lack of change in the host ess were most noticeable. Mrs. Chartus re- oeired all friends and risi tors with her su- pelb old-time tepdas* Abe heVer Was thore attentive to obe gHest than ahother, afad she always waf spropulortsly respectful ana courteous to her husband; but the General had lost his ancient tenacity of opinion; his apparent disregard of what other people might say or think; even on subjects which he fully understood he ho longer expressed positive opinions, be seetned always Apprehensive ol what the effect of hlB words might be tipon hil wife; iiadito who had tliistifcbessfullv aspired to Mrs. OhartteCspositiob exhib ited much malioiotu delight at the change in the General, Ttut married women and Oharins’s old friends pronounced it a burning Shame that the General had de liberately wrapped himself around a woman’s finger—around the finger of a woman who seemed unable to compre hend the honor imposed upon her. „ Meanwhile Phartufi devoted hltoflelf more closely to business than ever; lie seemed almost frantic to his deette to make a greet dual *f fconby. So, like taVfet then who ate in too much of a hurry, he made some serious mistakes. He pinned his faith tod his capital bn the Twin Angel. Sifter Company; borrowed Wtohby when his own was exhausted in maintaining the stock at high figure, and lost nearly everything when th« final and inevitable slump bain A. He Was mined { he had absolutely nothing left bht his office ftinutUM And bis wife. ff 9 ueVotad A **eteM hbftr tWfi to tetitoA^tion, but recovered fife hplrito quickly as hs thought he saw a silver lining behind the edge of the cloud.- His wife—his Leah—the fair wo man whom he worshiped, yet, who, somehow, bad hover been footle to him than ah ektrefooly eiyl! tod reputable ao- tptotetofett—his wile would now become wholly Ms own, for had hbt beard that troubfo Always breaks |hc bonds of A woman’s heart? He hurried tq htt bame, 1 he manfully, honciUy, told every thing. His wife listened attentively, utd he looked eloeely for a sign ot lym- pethy, but he saw none, On the oon- trery, Mrs. Ohartus’fe face grew hard tod fixed, and at last she mid: SiiPP” ’Itoto “Jou must havs considerable money J L<mh ’ ’*** Ura.Gen^ri; I have added several thousand dollars to your own propsrf^ y*, ^w," “Certainly^ His. Chartus. “but ‘•A that he “Of ootxrse not; I merely meant toe temporary ush of it, to a loan to me, would save us from annoyance at home -until ” “Remember,” interrupted Mrs. Char tus, “that you promised I never should have any annoyance about money mat tors. I took you at your word." "Thanks,” said the General quickly, “for reminding me; a thousand thanks. But I suppose I may at least count on your sympathy ?” “CertSinlV—at least I suppose so,” said Mrs. ChariUs; “but this affair is going to be dreadfully annoying. Peo ple will talk about il; there toe plenty of women who are hateful enough to come here for the sole purpose of making Cutting speeches. Oh, dear—how did come you io db it? ’ “Never mind,” said 6h Art us ehortly, and between his teeth, as he turned and left the room. The day was too far gone for regular buslnsss. but he ‘determined to visit all the hotels where broker* and speculators congregated; he had no money—not enough, at least, to operate with; bnt he had knowledge of some things that were going on “in the otreet,” And wits ^esperato enough to do anything for anybody of a^afnft Any body for the sake of recouping himself. Bnt fortune frowned on him; every one knew he bad l>oen “in” Twin Angel stock; everybody knew what had hap pened to Twin Angel, so everybody worth talking to let him alone. tJoWfl town next day ho had a similar experience. Then ho became desperate; he borrowed d ihbusaww dollars from a personal friend who knew nothing tibot^t the stock market, and went into the Exchange to make a “quick turn,” but his baud seemed to have lost his cun ning for he lost it Sll. From bhing desperate he began to be frantic; looking his affairs squarely in the face, he found that all the money he had in the world, or was safe aif hav ing, was about fifty dollars. He was now quite equal to speculating with other people’s money, bnt, unfortunately for him; his customers had deserted him. The General locked himself in his ot to a must SLOWLY BUkNEt) TO DEATH KofrltTKBN ndMATEN OF A 91ICH1UA.N ALMSHOfTtsE rKHISIl BY riHK. AwakMMl from Bleep by lbs FUnea froii Tbelr BMa-Tbres Isaase Fatlaata A mane tba Naaiber—All Aaaiataacr Bea. Af-TfS laiyaaalble—A I'hleaara Uatal Ua- e«. •troja« floe and subjected searching interview. hia memory Something l)e d'*n« or h« would not be able to look his wife in the late. Hod ht etet im agined that she had been so literal ai heart about tfao conditions of their mar riage he would haVa—bi»t never mind; she was his wife, and he adored her. That evening the General made a careful collection of his most portable personal property—watches, diamond sttids, ffokt-headed fcrtflesj etc.; and early ill the morning, before toy onfe whom he knew frAs awake, he visited places wnere three gbld bs’fe todicate the n|i tore of the business done within. At the end of his tour he had nearly three hundred dollars in his pocket, enough to opefate slyly in. securities in which he had faith. Suddenly he remembered that a payment bit, a life insurance policy was past duo, so he hurried io bo'f it; and by so doing he almost emptied his pockets. What to do then he scarcely knew; he paced the floor of his little office, his brow contracted and his countenance Bo black that even tho cm • nipreifenl taatch-Vender was frightened away by his appetojtood. Suddenly a t digraph boy entered with A message; and Chartus read: “Hurry home; hate yotl forgo*,ten this is my reception day ? Lkah.” Chartqs uttered a great oath, and then foil to the floor. The telegraph boy called for ceip, whibH Booh arrived but was of no nse. Mrs. Chartus was remarkably hand- Fome in full mourning, and she did not forget her httsbaUd'S good qualities, for she wrote to a friend: “The General promised to hi tod do Nhutefw f asked, and he always kept his word. An wasn’t it providential; dear?—he paid a pAstdtie premium on A ten-tbouaaod- dollar life insnranee policy the Very day he died 1”—2'Ae Hour. AS-». taoplc 6^ Meilfcd. The population of Mexico, says OhArlrs A. DakA, is CdUufioidy esti- hiated ai nlilo or ten millions. No cen sus has been taken, but this estimate is probably not exaggerated. Tho great mam of the inhabitants are Indians, and in race and habits they ate nifoilaf to the tiuebfo, Bulii, and Navajo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. They are generally Small in stature, sober, heneat; ihdustriottSj tefopetoto !^a inteUigent. .**■ inore peasantry Can scarcely DA found. Their virtues are their own; their vices are of European admixture. School education has done little or noth ing for them| but of late years efforts have betefa taadu to establish schools for their benefit. Thev seem very capable, of being instructed; and if, as we trust, there is a bright future for Mexico, it lisa in the development and education of tL# native raoe. The ruling classes in Mexico are mainly of Spanish aqd mixed blood, ^he {nfo President Juarez was a pure Indian, but the number of educated people tph nothing SpunJah in thefc origin, gBHt be very small indeed. Among the civil and military hmettoti- off 4i U Fourteen of tho forty-five imruAi of the Van Buren County Almshouse and Insane Asylum in Michigan, were burned to death on Wednesday morning. The buildings were completely destroyed and nothing was saved The asylum consists of g forge tWd- story frame ho nse, a two-story frame addition on fhe south, the Mttef recent ly erected, and a large building situated some little distance away, used as a resi dence for Superintendent Cash and his family, the keepers wnd the hired help. The oldest building. was uandminalad. the jail, and in it were confined the violently insane. The middle or newest building was Comparatively empty. The addition to the main building Contained a better class of patients and it was here that the loss of life occurred. The fire was discovered about two o’clock and th^ alarm was given by a man named Halsey, Oho Was sleeping in the main building, and who was aroused by the cries of the inmates in the addition. Hearing the roar of the flames he rushed to the door leading into the hallway anj threw it open, when the smoko and flames burst into hifl fa*e abd nearly stifled him. He strut thejfoor, and, running to the fro»t part of the ’build ing, aronsed the inmates, who only had frnfflctont time to escape in their night dress. When those who had escaped had ooi- looted their scattered senses, it was found that the Addition, in which were confined the paupers Awf toote iAtionsl patients, was totally enveloped by the flame#, attd all thought 6J rendering assistance to the fourteen unfortunate*! eonffrtM therein was out of the question. The were compelled to stind idly by and gaze at the onward course ot the flames, .ebbte tVh lond. sesjhing roar of which oonld be plainly heard the oFonising, blood-freezing shrieks of the poor idiots who were being slowly Imrnod to death. Every now and then a figure could be seeh St one of the upper windows, the night-dress already btirned and the eyes of the unfortunate almost starting from thefr socksfo and showing in strong re lief to the f&cfe, already Mac^ened tod scorched by the flames. Of the two tit three persons who were thus seen all appeared to be totally bereft by fright of whatever little sense they possessed, for after ah agonising glance out upon tho crowd they turned and with a maddened yell fait backward into toe angry fur nace. ^ Boon the cries grew less frequent .in^ after a time ceased altogether, and the spectators knew that the inmates were past all agony. The flames swept on, however, tmtil the Woodwork was <to- •ttoyed And then began to abate. Final ly, with the aid of fhe onlooSete, but 0<rf until it had consumed everything within its hot grasp the fire was extinguished and the work of looking for tba bird in* began; With but one exception there was no recognition possible, all that re* wainfed of the bodies being a mass of charred and Withered teones,Which when pnt together, only partially fliled a smafl box. Jt is now thought that there was less Battering Imtrig thk inmates than at first supposed, as those who wefe se^n at the windows are supposed to have been the only opes who were not smothered in their bed£ by the smoke before the Tames had reached them. The patients in the so-called jail build ing managed to get out alive. The build ings l>eing of wood and Very dry tie flames seemed W env^Jou em ip An in stant and burn tnem oht bt existence Al most as quickly, The superintendent’s family had barely time to escape. Hia daughter Wte fll with typhoid fever, and great difficulty was experienced to re moving her. A bov named Parker jumped otU of a second-story window and re ceived stone slfsht injuries.. The origin of the Are is unknown, bnt Is ofelleyfedto have beCn the work of a crazy pauper. Titled Serrshij; Lately iu a Roman court a handsome young man of 2C tod his t> wife of 17. Were charged with theit. He had heec cook and she housemaid in an Irish gen tleman's family. A robbery having oA totyred, the ytotog Aohpfo Wete stustieetsfl and imprisoned. When brought before i the bench both hurst into (ears. As soon as they could be calmed, the young man, as usual, was asked his name, and, covering his face, he replied that b%was Count Rieeardo Strofod, a legitimate de- scendaht of On* of the most illustrious families in Italy. The Wife is afofr of a sery good family. They had fallen in love with each other afld run away, traveling about in disguise in order not fo be discovered. At last, being penni- lese, they entered fhe above family ae •errants. Fortunately, their innocence was proved as clew as day. The doto- cidence of their tight Mtothe day of THE HOT ANUS. A !.«■■«■ fa Koal LU> that May ha Sea# te ASvaalaae. The express-train was flying from Cork to Queenstown; it was going like sixty—that is, about sixty miles an hour. No sight of Irish village to arrest our •peed, no sign of breakdown; Cud yet the train halted. We looked out of the window; saw the brakeman and a crowd of passeh^ere aathcring around the loco motive, and a dense smoko arising What was the matter ? A Aot cuttf I thought then, as I think now, that is what is the matter with people every where. In this swift, “express,’’American life,we go too fast for our endurance. We think ourselves getting on splendidly, wheh, in the midst of oar successes, We come to A dead halt. - What is the mat ter ? The nerves or mUeeles or brains give ont; we have made too many fetev IttijotM tn an hour. A hot axle.! Men toake tho mistake of working according to their oepAfcity of endurance. "Can I ran this train from BprihgfteM to Boston at the rate of fifty miles an hourf svys an engineer. Yes. “Then I will run it, reckleflS of consequences 1" Can I be a merchant, and a pYfiffldCnt of a bank, and a director in a life-insurance company, and a school-commissioner, And help edit a paper, and supervise the politics to otir Ward, and run for Con gress ? “I can 1” the man Mys to him self. The store drives him; ths batik drives him; the school drives him; poli tics drive him. He takes all the soold- itigs And frets and exasperations to each position. Borne d#y« at the height of the business season, he does htlt come to the store. From the most important meeting of the bank directors he is ab sent i*t the excitement to the most im portant political oarrVcss he fails to be at the place appointed. What is fbe matter? His health has broken down; the train halts long before it gets to the Station. A hoi a*Ul Literary men baVe gfeat opportunities tohnfng fft this day. If they take all that open, th*} ate dead men, ot worse —living men who ought to be dead. 'The pen runs so easy when you have good ink and smooth paper, and an easy desk to write tfO/ awd the consciousnes to an audience of one, two, tff three hundred thousand readers. There are the reli gious newspapers through which you may preach, and the musical journals through which you may sing, and the agricultural periodicals through which you can plow, and family newspapers thtougb which you may romp with tbe whole household arortnd the evening stand. There are critiques to be Written, and reviews to be indulged in, and poems to be chimed, and novels to be constructed. When out of a man's pen be can shake recreation and friendship tod usefulness and bread, he is apt to keeb ft stndtfnff. Ha great afs the invi tations to literary work/ that the profes sional men to the day Ate overdone. They sit, faint, and fagged out, on the verge of newspapers and books; each one does the work to three. And these □fen sit dp tote nights, and choke down ohttokfl to meat without mastication, and scold their wives throligh irritability, and maul innocent authors, and ran the physical machinery with a liver miser ably given out The driving-shaft has gone fifty times a second. . They stop at no station. The brain and the digestion begin to smoke. Stop, yd flying quills i “Down bfake I” A hat axle! Some of our young pedple hate read -till they are crazed—to learned bladt* smiths, ttho at the forge conquered thirty languages; olid til shoemakers, who, pounding sole-leather, got to be pbffosoahers; and ol milliners, who, while their cdstotilers wen at the glass trying on their spring hafo, wrote a VdlQipe to first-rate poems, The fact is, tiO blacksmith tolghi to be troubled #ith ttiote titan Are languages; and in- Ste^fl tfl sNoefffakert beoonfing pbitoso* phers, we ifottid Irk6 to torn our sur plus of philosophers into shoehtoke+s; Add the supply to poetry is so much greater than (he demand, that we wiAfa milliners would stick to their Uttsfeeas; Extraordinary examples of work and en durance fffoy fle as much good. Beoauss Napoleon slept only four Stffr# a night, hundreds to students have tried the ex- p6ruilent; but instead to Aosterlitz and Earagossa, there came of it only a sick headache and a botch of a recitation. • T. b« T^Vrf tAhMActt, in Jlomt Science. THE UTOLCTIOV IN SPAIN. Ths Blakk Hm# that to Cants* I ha »Jav- : smM sa Maah Tia a hia. In spite of (be external appearance of tranquility which nkgm throughout Spain, there are abundant symptoms that those who hold property and are on tho side to law and order consider themes] vee by no means secure in the face of certain political forces which are at present making themselves felt in Spain. The fact is that widespread dis content is prevalent, and the sore oonse* qaeties to d boon tent—the formation of secret sodettes—is progressing to an ex tent which has assumed a very serious appearance. It may be remembered that la the early pert of last year the attention to the Spanish authorities was called to the fact that a secret organization was in ex- tstenee, which had for its object the overthrow to the present form of govern ment and the substitution for it to a so cialistic Republic. The name by which the society was known was tba “Mono Negri'’ It came to light that the Mono Negra wa# divided into minor so cieties or circles, numbering 300 each, in every circle 190 members being the mete rank and file, bound to obey with the most unquestioning obedience what ever orders they might receive from their acknowledged chiefs. Tbe remain- ing tan members formed a junta or eemmittoe, which would alone commu nicate dtreatly with tbe Provincial Council, from whom it received orders. Last summer the governaeeat decided on bringing the leaders to trial, and in tba result twelve were sentenced to pmni servitude for various terms ol years and fourteen were condemned to death. The latter sentence was ap pealed against, and, th# eaae having languished for several months before fhe tfopreaae Court, the death sentence has been Ootsmuted, in tbe case of two of the offenders, to bawishment for life to Fernando Po. Although tbe results to last summer’s trials has given A aa* vere check to Spanish nihilism, tba so ciety still exists; its objects are still the Mtiae, and in ajferet conclaves the lead ers mart 4a discuss their plans to future action. The pobay to the Mono Negra now seems to be to hide Ms time util the government is weakened by intea- tine toUBmotioM or by some military procunciaiiffonto, when, undoubtedly, the secret organisation will be again gal vanized into active life. An uneasy feeling also prevails in dip lomatic circles regarding the state to the army, on the fidelity to which the safety to the government absolutely de pends. Yery lately H ha asm i known to tba military author!tiee that a secret so ciety to a political nature existed in the different regiments, and, oa a searching inquiry having been instituted, it waa discovered that it Already had its ramifi cations throughout the greater part of the army; and not only ao, but that a considerable number to the junior offi cers had bean affiliated So far the ob jects of tba society are the substitution of voluntary enlistment for compulsory service and Increased pay for the diflsr- •rent grades; but the fart is pretty ap parent that the army is now master of the situation, and that whatever political party coquets with it successfully will ‘or a time rule the destinies of Spain. THE HUMOROUS ?J A FKVT CLIPPINGS VSLAT WILL A SMILE. CAOTEU a amm* unre. Blink (an exchange fiend)—“That W»# rather a curious achiavsmsut lor an editor.” Blank (an editor)—“Whit wref “I see by thia paper that the editor to s Colorado journal has killed aduun mon bear weighing 1,900 pounds." “That bear must have oome into thu office to look over eacfcaajpaa.”—PkUm> Oall nUBFCL Mr. Finks (reading)-"‘It learned that th^^gfed but monopoly whidMontrols tba saoqne btwneas gats the finaat from the natives for forty oenta.’ ,f Mrs. Finks—“What r "Forty cents." “Ah 1 out that out, quick." “But for what?” “I want to send the item tc odious Mrs. Minks. She got a sacque last Christmas.’ hiht to nm OTmawuaaan. Country Doctor—“What you sir, to outdoor exercise. You walk thirty or forty miles u day." Country Editor—“But it to iapoatobte. I have my paper to look after." Doctor—“If I aa not much; you recently engaged a stranger to ceptkmal intelligence to asah your writing and collect bilk." Editor—“Yes, that to true." Doctor—“Wall, let him do all writing and you do all the collecting for a while." They wan sitting in the parlor sag she was getting sleepy. “What time to it?” she asked. He looked at hto watch mi that it looked five minutes of 11, then, being struck with an idea, “Why to my watch like you, my pelf “I don’t know." '“Because it to very pretty," ha repHad. “And why to my wateh like yuuf she asked. “I don’t know, I’m sura. Why to your wateh Uka me, asy dear f “Because it won’t go," afe with a yawn. Tbe young man than want Oil City BliztarxL to the year the poti- 9tr Artor Lawrence. Lawrence Bartett s boyhood to men tioned in the Lyndon (Vt.) Vnion thtis ? “People fenditar with Lyndon Corner in the yean between 1840 and 1850 will re member Lawrence aa one of the ‘gamins’ of our street Hto lather waa a tailor here, having hto shop in a tittle room below the Gaboon office, while hto family lived in the rickety basement be low M*« Hto two bbys were George and Lawrence. Lawrence was, a bellig erent chap. When other boy# were running away from rhetorioak Lawrence was on hand, and seemed to enjoy it A little before 1860 tba family disappeared from the village, and that waa the last heard from them till Lnwrenoe began to appear in the theatrical world.” Thu young lady who can part a potato M«ve minn!rtto“ Ths turtles dram la ths pulseless bay, The cricket* creak hi Ms priekful hedg*/ Tbe bullfrogs boom ta ths And ths whoops* whoops Its vaipsr kjr Away laths twilight soft sad gray. Two lows stroll in ths gleam* His haa# in her n and hark in hk- Bhe blushed deep-he is talking bk They bag sad pop as t They i It’s kls whsa they get bask hs Down by the little wicket gate, Down wnere tae owepfst Wy grow, Down when ths i A box-toed psrsat lias ia wait— v to —Jbr the i Throwing the Boomerang. Tbe boomerang is s piece of thin wood about an inch and a half wide, an eighth of an inch thick, and perhaps twenty inches long; its shape varies, sometimes being like the segment of a circle, at others like a man’s arm bent at the elbow; bnt the w»y of using both these forms k exactly the same. The weapon to grasped at cut* oud ** ths ‘it IiAbci, frith the ooaeore»Utoh»?* r ‘ most, and the black man take# a no,- Sudh as the ordinary Englishman does When he to throwing a cricket ball On A ftdffou he stops, and sway flys the boomerang, straight M one might suppose, but revolving oa its awn axis rid ffutekly that in tbe air it looks tike s circular piece dftftMSd) thk motion gives it the wonderful power of flight which ilurt really be seen to be believed. *At first the odtifoe to in a direct tins from tbe thrower at such a height as he may require, but as it draws toward ths limit of its dtoteoos it swerves slightly to the tight sod making • semicircle owning beck Oti Mi eSuetly opposite course te that which it took oa the outward jour ney, generally falling within a few feet of the thrower. Daring the flight the retofving of the boomerang eauses a pe culiar purring sound, not unlike the hum of atop. v \. l Auftker HauIa. . Harper'• Bator aaysr-The smelling bottle eras* has beau a vary fashions bk one with young gtoto in Washington to the past few mouth*. It to a costly feMhioo. Oca bails now has hsr seoood bottle presented within thiv# month* each of which coat ffiO. under bar carriage whaato in coming from s party one night, and its gold top with her ini Osteon it eaped Let ths crickets Brisk sad The whoopee won Is Their tuneful throbs will ne'er Tbe planted polo sad lb* Thsglqum Of the lover's TUB OHAME Mr. B.: “Ism fearfully tired of thu routine day after day. I do I could hove a change.” Mrs. B.: “What kind of a < “(tit, anything at ad, just by way of variety; something novel, you know u strange experienoe of some sort" “I think I earn suggest a novelty which will be a change lev both of ml * “That’s a dear gtri. What k Hr “Try coming hams sober.” uu First Citizen—(Contemplating aamt bouquets in a florist's window)—“flam are are such beautiful things * ftoeond Citizen—“Yes, and yet thag ere tika whisky in oua raapsrt." First Oiiiaen—“What rsapsst do ywMr refer to?” Beoood Citizen—“Thay gar, #0 doss Whisky."- Otf rick. Mr. B.—“Isss ths railroad agents have baan holding a rnsatt Mrs. B.—“Are ths man whs tofaind tbe window and ealtod passenger agents!" “I believe so.” . “Well, I dqu*t see how th-*y can d« anything si * misting " "Why no* r “They can’t talk.” “Can’t trittF* “Kou Tkrj can’t Ao I _ jl^L