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VOL. XLIX. CAMDEN, 8. C., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1800. NO. 2.
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LOVE UNEXPRESSED.
The sweetest notes among the humeri heartstrings
Are dull with rr i.
The sweetest chords adjusted 67 the angels,
Aro clogged with dust.
Wo pipe and pipe again for dreary music,
Upon the self-same strains,
While sounds of crime and fear and desolation
Coaio back agaiu in sad refrain.
On through the world we go, an army marching.
With listening cars.
Each longing, sighing for the heavenly
music
He never hears;
Each longing, sighing for a word of comfort.
A word of tender praise,
A word of love to cheer the endless journey
Of earth's hard, busy days.
1 uvj love us ana wo uu'jw u; uua auiuces i
For reason's share. 1
Why should they pause to give that love ex- :
pression 1
With geatle care?
Why should they pause? But still our hearts 1
are aching 1
With all the gnawing pain 1
Of hungry love that longs to hear the music J
And longs and longs in vain. s
"-"'We love them and we know it, if we falter, '
With fingers numb.
Among the unused strings of love's expres- ]
sion,
The notes are dumb. ^
We shrink within ourselves with voiceless ^
sorrow,
Leaving the words unsaid,
o 1 c
And, side by side with those we love the
dearest,
In silence on we tread, ' (
1
Thus on we tread and thus each one in silence i
His fate fulfills, j
Waiting and hoping for the heavenly music 5
Beyond the distant hills; ]
The only difference of the love in heaven t
From love on earth below
Is, hero we love and know not how to tell ]
And there we all shall know. <
?Constance Fenimorc Wcolson.
buried" treasure.
In 1865 I went to Hong Kong in the
interests of a certain English manufacturer,
and it was a year and a half later
when I one day received a strange visitor
and a strange proposition. I was in
charge of a large warehouse, and one of
my Chinese employes brought in the
stranger, and explained:
"I told him you would have nothing to
do with him, but he insisted on coming."
The stranger was a half-breed of some
sort, gaunt, ragged, and evidently hard
up. As soon a3 we were alono he intro- J
duced himself as Semyo, and stated that '
he was from the Island of Luzon, one of 1
the group composing the Philippines. (
He belonged to the native uonulatiou. *
but hud Spanish blood in his veins. lie 1
had once been a man of importance, but '
the Spaniards had robbed him of his l
power, and afterward feared his influence
to such a degree that he had first 1
been imprisoned aud afterward banished, i
He had been carried on a native craft to (
Japan, aud then left ragged and peuni- 1
less, and had been more than a year 6
reaching Hong Kong. "While he had
only a fevr shillings in his pockets, he had '
neither come to solicit charity nor a
a place to work. He had a straight, 1
square business proposition to submit. If I
I approved of it, well and good; If I I
did not, then he would be no worse off. 1
? When he realized that Spanish influence I
was plowing his downfall, he made such t
prep' dons as he could to meet the in- f
evi" ic. He was a very wealthy man, 1
n ne quietly went to work and con- i
. ted everything he could into money, s
gold dust and jewelry. He had got
about $90,000 together when the ruling 1
power pounced upon him, but not quick f
enough to get it. He had cached or t
buried his fortune, and though he was
nbusca ana threatened by tue Spaniards ; <
for mouths lie would not' betray the
secret. j'
To get that money by his own individ- j 1
ual efforts was utterly impossible. The ! 1
moment he set foot on Luzon he would j1
be arrested. He must have a partner ; 1
who would furuish a ship and crew, and j1
he would go along to mark down the j
spot where the treasure \vos buried. ' i
I looked upon the man with pity and '
upon his project with contempt when he '
first began talking. When he was through i5
I had agreed to think it over. There is !
a fascination about buried treasure or a ]
sunken wreck that will enlist capital to '
the detriment of honest speculation. I 1
was noted as being a conservative man, 1
and the idea of my going into any such j
venture would have been regarded by my i
friends as evidence of approaching men- 1
tal calamity. I went to the American j'
Consul, and in a roundabout way he con- j '
firmed a part of Scaiyo's story. He had 1
heard of him, and heard of his being deposed
and banished. Then I went down
to the wharves, and almost the first man
t ..e ,
? IttU ?w3 CIAO JLUlUVlTw V-.l|Kam IJ1
a brig called "The John,"' which was
then having some repairs made. Shehad
beta running in the tea trade up and
down the Yellow Sea, but now, queer!}*
enough, the Captain informed ine that he
thought of taking a inn over to the
Philippines and try lor a cargo on his
own account. The products of the
islands are ebenv, logwood, gum wood,
bamboo, cocoaauts, all sorts of fruits, i
cotton, tobacco, indigo, coffee, etc., and '
many trading vessels are employed in the j
traffic. His craft was manu.-.l by a mate
and four sailors, and I found all of them 1
to be Americans. When 1 came to ex- j
press my surprise at this ho explained :
"You see, they are runaways from j
American war vessels, mate aud all. I
huve picked thc:u up one at a time, and !
as cone of them has a wife back home ;
they are content to stay with me. I've '
got a Chinese cook, but outside of him I !
v'ant no truck with foreigners."
I outlined my story to Captain j
Wheaton, as he introduced himself. He !
heard me through without interruption, j
and then quietly said:
"Dou't sound so very tuny, hut 1
won't tell you what I think of it until I
lmar the heathen go over it himself.
When I'm lookiug square at a man I can
tell whether he's bamboozling or speaking
the solemn truth."
I made an appointment, and Semyo retold
his stor_v in the presence of Captain
Wheatou. When lie had retired the
Captain drew down his right eye,slapped
his leg and whispered:
"Colonel, it's a go! The heathen's
talking straighter than a straight-edged
board, and it we can come to terms, I'm
in with the deal."
There was very little higgling over the
particulars. It was agreed that Captain
Wheaton and myself should bear all the
expense of the adventure, and if the
treasure was secured each of the three
should have au equal share. We
gave Semyo money to get himself into
decent shape and then looked to the furnishings
of the briar. She was already
provided with small arms and cutlasses, '
hut we added to the stock, aud thou, at
the Captain's suggestion, bought a carronade
which had been lying in a warebouse
for two or three years. With it
ivc got a carriage and ammunition, and i
t>y the time the gun was aboaul the brig
ivas watered and provisioned and readyto
sail. Her clearance papers were for
Manilla, in ballast, and the day of our j i
.ailing Captain Wheaton brought on ; :
joard a short, squatty, bescarred white i
nan, who had just been turned out of
inil, and who proved to be an English
cut-sticks" from II. M. S. The Temp>st.
It turned out to be the luckiest
hing in the world that we found him,
'or he knew how to manage our carron-,
ide and made it keep us out of an ugly j'
icrape. I
It was only after we were out of sight !
>f the Chinese coast that Semyo gave us |1
lie exact locatiou of his treasure cache.
\Yc were to round the Bashec Islands, 1
ying off the north coast of Luzon, and
trike the coast at a river called the
Batanen, after another island. Four miles '
ip this river, which is navigable for 1
ibout twenty miles, was the cache. We
iad a run of 350 miles across the China
5ea to the Bashces, and along this north
roast we found several traders. In order
:o appear all right in case we were boardid
by any Spanish vessel in those waters 1
ivc laid in some cargo here, and took j
mr time about sailing to the river.
After we had passed the Babuyan Isl- I
inds and laid our course to the south, we
laught sight one day at noon of a felucca
ipproaching us from the east, having
rounded the cape. She flew the Spanish
lag, aud Scrayo said that she belonged
:o the coast service. She had the right 1
;o board us and examine our papers, and
while we had no ferr of her on on; own
recount, it was probable that Sernyo
would be recognized the moment they set '
ivc on him. We had our plans laid be- 1
"ore she tired a gun as a signal to us to
acavc to. Scmyo was hidden in the fore- j
leak, and we burned sulphur in the forerastle
behind him. By leaving the scut- '
,'e open the fumes were drawn away from :
:he fugitive, and could be scented all j
ivf?r the brier. We hove to at the order [1
>f the felucca, and were presently j1
joarded by a Spanish Lieutenant. He j'
vas a very pompous chap, and it was 1
irobably his intention to do a great deal 1
>f bossing around, but as lie came over :
he rail a current of air carried him the
imell of sulphur, and he exclaimed: 1
' Good gracious, but is your brig on j j
ire in the forecastle?"
It was explained to him that we had I
ost a man of some malignant but uu- J(
mown disease, and were fumigating the '
wig. Two or three of us were feeling !
jadly, but hoped to escape the disease
jy steaming in the "vapor. "We were a (
rader, and offered to open the hatches 1
md show our papers, but he was in a '
lurry. lie didu't even notice our car ouade,
but backed to the rail and defended
to his boat, saying:
"Oh, you are doubtless all right, and
! hope you will lose no more men. As I
'or me, the services does not demand ]
hat I run the risks of epidemic." i
Two days later we came to anchor in <
lie river nnnnsite a snot nointed out bv '
_ri L? I ? ?
Sanyo. The bank of th'j stream was 1
ougk and broken, but thickly wooded. '
Forty rods iulaud was a hif hway running i
mallei with the stream, out this was
liddeu from us. On the far side of the
ugh way was the ruiu of an old church,
md in this ruin was the treasure cache.
\s many boats were passing up and down,
it was prudent that we resort to deception
to prevent suspicion. We got
down a topgallantmast, slacked away
some of the rigging, got a stage over the
side for the carpenter and appeared to be
lying there for the sole purpose of making
repairs. We were soon boarded by
natives anxious to furnish cargo, and on
the second day a Government gunboat
passed us without scemiug to take auy
iuterest iu our case. Scrayo had to lie
concealed in the hold during daylight,
is men were oomiug aboard who knew
him well, and it was about mionight on
the second night after our arrival that
we pulled ashore for the treasure?tint:
is, two men pulled Scmyo o!f to the bank !
to see if it was all right, and it did not j
1'ilff him mnnv minutes to make a dis.l- I
grcenble discovery. A party of woodcutters
had encamped close to the ruin,
with every indication of a long stay.
Semyo was positive that he could not
get at the cache without being discovered,
as the party had two or three dogs
in camp, and he was sharply challenged
as he scouted around.
Next day, after some conspiring on our I
part, the Captain and I went ashore to
the camp to make a bold move. There
was a gang of thirty natives under a
Spanish boss cutting ebony, and they
had a large lot all ready for shipment.
This gang had been sent from the province
of Zebu, where the owner of the
tract resided, and an agent was daily expected
to sell the output. The boss, we
found to be nu ignorant, good-natured
fellow who could neither read nor write.
While 1 claimed to be the real owner of
the land on which they were then at work,
the Captain offered to buy some logs on
the sly. Between us we got him to remove
his camp a mile away and to accept
about $80 for logs. We not only accomplished
this during the day, but showed
_??. friendship and good will by sending
a keg of whisky to the camp, and by
night the boss and his^ang were as drunk
as lords. As soon as it was dark four of
us pulled ashore with Scmyo, and he led
us a straight trail to the treasure. It
was buried in two earthen jars against a .
bit of wall, and one of the camptires
of the g:.ng had been built within
ten feet of the spot. "We had the jars out
and on board the brig in half an hour,
and an investigation proved that Semyo
bad rather figured under the actual
amount. "\Yc had neither seen nor heard
anything to alarm us, but it appeared
that we had been observed pulling back
to the brig by a native boat, aud that
its occupants were meddlesome enough
to board a Government felucca lying
six miles above and report our action as
suspicious.
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AUUUL V U IIUL"I\ 111 tilO liiv/i uiu^ uiv
felucca dropped down with the tide,
came to anchor about two cable lengths
away, and sent a boat to board us on the
quiet. They were foiled in this by the
anchor watch, who stood them off until
the brig wa3 aroused. The jars were
placed in the cook's galley. Semyo
secreted himself in the hold, and then
the occupants of the boat were invited
to come aboard. The officer in charge
was a Lieutcnrnt, and he was in high
dudgeon over his reception. He demanded
our pr pers, inspected the cargo,
and pointed to the carronade as proof
that we were suspicious characters. lie
went off to report, but was in no hurry to
return, and soon after daylight we saw a
boat with seven or eight men leave the
felucca and pull up the river. The tide
was still running and there was a fair
breeze, and we determined to cut sticks.
Semyo said the boat had gone to callage
about four miles above, probably to consult
civil or military officials, and that if
we were seized it would be all up with ail
of us.
The felucca, as we could plainly see,
had two brass six-nounders. but wc
could not say that she would attempt to
stop" u*. The minute we begaa to make
ready we saw an alarm on her decks.
Before we had the anchor off the ground
3he sent a boat with the command that
we must wait the return of our papers.
We weighed, however, let fall and sheeted
home, and while they were yelling at
us we headed down the river. We were
well out to sea when we espied the
felucca following, and as she sailed two
feet to our one she was within range
before ten o'clock. If captured now the
SpUnish Government would hang us all
for conspiracy. Wc cracked on everything
in the shape ot sail, loaded our
carronade and paid no attention to the
felucca until positively obliged to. Her
gunnery was so poor that we wondered
if her guns had ever been fired before.
She had at least twenty shots at us, but
the closest call was when a ball passed
through the flying-jib. She wasn't over
a quarter of a mile away when our English
gunner sighted his piece and brought
down her entire foremast, and everything
with it. The mast was hit about six
feet above the deck and broken off, and
the felucca at once fell off into the trough
of the sea and confusion reigned supreme.
We kept our course, knowing
that she could not follow us another foot,
and when clear of the coast, headed up
for Shanghai. Arriving there, the brig
rtrns rerminted and renamed, her bier pun
dropped to the bottom of the harbor,
ind no one could have mistrusted her.
[ saw the "outrage" detailed in a Manilla
paper two or three wcek9 after it oc
curred, but if the Spanish Government
ever investigated the occurrence, none
cf its movements came to my attention.
We got ?32,500 apiece out of the little
transaction, and the last I knew of
Scymo he was a tea trader in Japan.?
Xew York Sun.
Edison's Ways.
Edison is a count, a millionaire, and
the most famous living iuventor. His
present wealth, which amounts to many
millions, is as nothing compared to what
it will be in the next few years, but he
still works away in his laboratory, and
conies forward to meet you in just such
i suit of clothes as be wore twenty years
ago. As compared with Edison's dingy
little shop of twenty years ago, out at
Mcnlo Park, in which he used to cat
his bread and cheese seated on an old
picking-box, talking over the work in
hand with hip two or three workmeu,
the prcseut surrouudings are fabulously
luxurious. Everything shows unbounded
meaus, which may be the case when we
remember that his famous laboratory
costs 6200,000 a year to maintain. But
the master mind is still the same. When,
he works it means work for his men. In
the old days at Menlo Park it was no
uncommon thing for him to remain at
the beach for forty-eight hours at a
stretch, sending one of the hoys for
crackers and cheese when he felt hungry,
and not giving up until his assistants
had actually fallen asleep standing
up. To-day he is just as interested.?
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Galloway-Hide Robes.
The hide of a good Galloway steer wil
make a iiner robe than a buffalo, it being
of a better color. Buffaloes being a thing
of the past, the supply of robe3fro:n thai
source is limited for all time to the supplj
now on hand, but the demand for robes
will go 0:1 forever. Why, then, is there
not gootl money in raising the longhaired
Galloway cattle and making the
hides of the steers into robes that arc
worth $20 or more each, while the carcass
is us fine beef and worth as much as
any your butcher ever put on his block.
?Picayune.
A Gill's Big Siloes.
A Keokuk (Iowa) letter says: "There
is on exhibition in this city the pattern of
the insole of a pair of shoes made at Knkoku
for a girl living at Rainbow, Mo.
The gir. for whom these shoes were made
is only seventeen years old, and is seven
feet seven inches in height and weigh?
235 pounds. She has had many offers to
pose in a museum, all of which she lr,
rejected. The insole referred to measure
I'.fteen and a half inches in length and si>
and a half inches in width.''
"SPORTS OF PERSIA.
ORIENTAL METHODS OF KILLING
TIME.
The Koran Forbids Games of Chanco
?Male and Female DancersAthletes
Who Eat Six
Meals a Day.
Excepting this great religidus drama
I or passion play, called the Tazieb, the
Persians, says S. G. W. Beniamm in
the Mail and Exprets\ have no dramatic
amusements. They partly make up for
this lack by listening to professional
story-tellers and strolling musicians; they
rre also addicted to card playing, although
with much less variety of games
than with European cards. Games of
chance are forbidden by the Koran; so
also are pictures or sculptures of human
TIIE STOr.Y-TELLEK.
beings; but the facile, pleasure-loving
Persians have found means to evade the
precepts of the Prophet on these points.
A Piruan baud of cards is complete
with a set of four, all face cards. Persian
cards are all painted by hand on little
tablets of papier mache, two inches long
and one iuch and a quarter wide. The
design is executed in water colors, sometimes
on a gold ground, and protected
by a glossy coat of thick varnish. Tho
back and edges are always black. Some
of thesf cards arc very expensive, a pack
costing as high as $10 to $45, although,
of course, such expensive sets are for the
wealthy. But whether for rich or poor,
Persian playing cards are made by hand.
"When they iirst came into use lit is difficult
to ascertain with precision. The
chief game played with these cards resembles
brag or poker. It is always
played for stakes, and the'sums lost or
won in the houses of thChobility arc
sometimes large.
As for the Persian dancers, there is
little to be said about them that can lend
to an introduction of that form of the
cntcitainment into the United States.
TVi/iit nrn r\TT.fncc;ririf?lc Virmicrht lin tn thn
, 1..VJ ?.?. j" r
j business from the cradle. The female
| dancers are practically forbidden to exercise
their vocation by the present law
of Persia, but the law is a dead letter in
A STREET DAJCCEIt.
1 one respect. These women are invited
| to dance in the harems before women
j only, and if they do not dance before
I men they arc not molested. Their figures
are supple and their movements are not
without grace.
The mule dancers shave their faces
j smooth and the head from the forehead
to the nape of the neck, the latter a
custom of all Persians; but the side locks
I they allow to grow down over the shouli
ders to resemble women. They also
wear skirls, still further to carry out the
! resemblance. Such is the absurd inconj
sistency of the Orientals that they would
i be shocked at the impropriety of any
j one dancing for pleasure, much less in
i company with dancers of the other sex.
The Kara Enenz or Black Eyes offers
one of the most amusing sources of popu|
lar entertainment in Persia. It is an
{ itinerant puppet show analogous to
j Punch and Judy. There is the same
I little booth,-the grotesque cions moved
by human hands, and the comical conversation
in squeaking falsetto. The
Kara Enenz is undoubtedly very funny,
and gives immense satisfaction to the
idlers in a Persian market place. Whenever
it appears a crowd collects, listening
with rapt attention and greeting the
coarse sallies of wit and satire with peals
of laughter and earnest expressions of
"Barikallah!" and "Bah, bah, bah!"
Next to the Tnzieh, the least objectionable
and most popular sport in
Persia is that of athletic exhibitions. As
one strolls about the streets of Teheran,
iiie often sees a crowd collected intensely
absorbed in some exciting scene. On
j approaching and peering through a
i chink in this animated mass one finds
that they are gazing on a wrestling
match. Such is the steadiness of the
climete that almost the whole year
around such exhibitions occur out of
doors under the clear sky. But these
are the cheap shows, witnessed chiefly
by the lower classes, the performers being
altogether second rate.
If one would sec the athletes of Persia
at their best,he must sec them in the covered
arenas where they perform to what
in Boston are called "cultured audiences."
The professionals of Persia form
a class by themselves, as distinct from
other pursuits as our actors, as carefully
trained, dieted and disciplined as champion
oarsmen. The athletes of Greece
nnd Rome thought, to maintain their prodigious
strefigth by regular,frequent and
violent exercises in the gymnasium.
THE SALUTE,
B'.it the Persian professionals follow
quite another course. They avoid severe
exertion and fatigue. They eat five or
six times a day, and arc warmly clothed,
especially during the cold season. On
ordinary occasions they go abroad but'
once daily and then toward evening, and
walk with great deliberation. When tne
period for practicing or for exhibiting in
public approaches the Persian athlete lies
in bed for several days gathering force
for the contest of strength.
The public exhibitions are held in
places especially constructed for the pur-'
pose. The aicna or pit is excavated at
least five or six feet below the surface,
and the earth is beaten hard and rolled
smooth. The spectators sit Persian
fashion on their knees and heels on tho
floor of i gallery built around the arena
nnd carefully protected by an awning or
roof from the elements. The arena,
whether oval or round, has an average
circumference of 140 feet.
When time is called the athlets run
forward and leap from the gallery into
the arena, sometimes alightjp^ and bal-ancing
themselves some moments on one.
leg, "a remarkable leat. Their skin is
! oiled to enable them te elude the grasp of"
their opponents. A number enter the
I arena at once and begin with prolonged
1 exercises with heavy Indian clubs, which
they swing in every position, gradually
j increasing the weight, until toward tho
i nlnan nf tViic nrnpfino nliiVta r\f nol' orrv
j \*L\JB\s VA KUIO |/iUV?IVV VAUWM VA UUU UIVJ
Bometimes wielded in each hand weigh-j
ing sixty pounds. This club exercisei
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A TEnSTAN* CLUB SWIXGER.
continues over two hours; the raovciments
are made to the accompaniment of
music, and toward the close the strongest
athletes stand on one leg and balance
ahe clubs at arms' length for several seconds.
This species of exercise is of great
antiquity in Persia. The athlete who is
.able to outlast all the others in the club
game is accounted the victor, and receives
substantial rewards from the spectators.
After this sport is over the wrestle,
begin. "When they are ready to grapp'
each places his right hand on the head
of the other as a salute. They thea
.grasp each other with deliberation, pineling
one arm over and the other uudct
'the shoulder of the opponent. Then the
struggle begins in earnest. With us th?
chief object in wrestling is throw one',:
Vmtagonist, and on the back, if possible,
lit is quite opposite in Persia. There the
ivrncflnr rlnnc hie hncf f/\ r?n hie
hands and knees, and his opponent tries
to prevent him. The victor must meet
all new comers until he meets one both
stronger and fresher than himself. Cases
have occurred of Persian athletes who
have successively overcome every ani
tagonist who has presented himself atone
exhibition of strength, men having been
> known to conquer from twenty to twenty,
four contestants in one afternoon. Pros!
cnts are showered upon each victor, the
i one remaining last in the field sometimes
receiving hundreds and thousands of
dollars from the wealthy and enthusiastic
spectators.
This sport is highly esteemed in
i Persia, and men of rank and physical
strength sometimes condescend to enter
| the arena and try a bout with the pro.
fessional athletes. The latter arc shrewd
1 enough on such occasions to cede the
victory to their wealthy antagonists, who,
flushed by their success, present costly
gifts to their professional antagonist.
The Father of the British Fleet.
On April 12th SirPro^o William Parry
Wnllis, R. N. G. C. B., senior admiral
of the British fleet, entered h'.s hundredth
year. He may well be called "The
Father of the Royal Navy," having
actually entered the service before the
end of the last century. He was born
on April 12, 1791, at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, son of Mr. Provo Featherstone
Wallis, chief clerk of the Naval Yard
there. In 1795, a child of four years,
his name was entered on the books of
one of the King's ships, and toward the
nnrl nf IfiHfi lin inmnrl tVin Plnnnntrn tvifrli
SIR PROVO WILLIAM PARRY WALLIS.
which ship, in 1804, under the command
Df Captain Robert Laurie, he first went
:o sea. This ship, a few months later,
in the Atlantic Ocean, fought the French
frigate Villc de Milan, was defeated and
eaptured, but was recovered a week
ifterward, by the British frigate Leander.
The young midshipman "Wallis became
i lieutenant, and served in several other
ihips during the French war. In 1813,
when Britain was at war with the United
States, he was second lieutenant of the
frigate Shannon, under Captain Broke,
which fought the American frigate Chesapeake
oil Boston Harbor. After that
famous battle, which was a British
rictory, when Captain Broke had been
wounded and his first lieutenant killed,
ihe command of the ship, with its prize,
ievolved on Lieutenant YYaiiis. lie was
promoted, and was afterward employed
.n different naval services, on the coast
>f Mexico, in the Mediterranean, and, in
1857, as admiral and commander-in:hicf
on the southeast coast of America.
?Once-a- Week.
International Boundary - Lino Monument.
The townsite of Blaine as platted
:rossc3 the boundary line, a portion of
>t lying within British Columbia. This
international line is not an indefinite,
tangible line as is generally supposed,
but is accurately and carefully located.
It is possible to lAy a penny?if you have
one?so that it will be half in the United
States and half in Canada. A number
of yeara ago a joint commission surveyed
i line westward from the Lake of the
Woods and erected an iron monument
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BOUND A BY LINE MONUMENT,
every uiile. Through the forest they
cleared a strip twenty ieet wiue, assuuigux
as a string, and in the centre of that strip,
at intervals of a mile, stand monuments
I like the one shown in the illlustration.
i On the Canadian side is inscribed
"Treaty of Washington," and on the
United States side "June 15, 1846," the
date of the treaty. Every visitor at
Blaine becomes interested in this boundary
line running through the town, and
especially in marking the course of the
cleared strip as far as the eye can see.?
Seattle (Wash.) West Shore.
And Yet Ho Was Not Happy.
City Visitor ? "What makes little
Tommy cry so, Mr. Leeks?''
Farmer Leeks?"Wall, the fact is, he
went out this morning to find a hornet's
nest for his natural history collection,
aud "
City Visitor?"And the poor boy
couldn't find one?"
Farmer Leeks?"Naw; the poor boy
found one."?Lippincott.
1 think I could go near to be a perfect
Christian if 1 wero always a visitor, as
I have sometimes been, at tlio house of
some hi1-h ion able friend. I can show a
great deal of self-denial where the best
nf everything is uged upon me with
iiudly importunity.
HEARD IT BEFORE.
Tou tell him a joke you relied on as new;
He smiles in a wearisome way.
From a comedy new you recite him a bit;
He says he saw that at tho play.
You give him a story that never yet failed
To set all who heard in a roar;
Ho nods half approval and turns him away,
And murmurs, "I've heard it before.
The girl whom you woo in your tender est
tone,
Whose heart you are seeking to gain,
Listens coldly to all you may have to protest,
Seeming only to wish you'd refrain.
You seek for some phrase not totally trite,
And e'en the.thesaurus explore;
It's all of no use, and you bid her good-by?
You see she has heard it before.
How sad it must be to go onward like this,
With nothing on earth to enjoy,
And never make anyone happy yourself,
A.?d only find thincs to annov.
His lifo like an orango whose juices are gone,
'Tis a dry, empty shell, and no more.
Alas I he is much to be pitied, not blamed?
The man who has heard It before.
?Washington Post.
PITH ANDPOINT.
A standing invitation?Get up.
Weather report?A thuDdcr clap.
Not a play of words?The pantomime.
A hand organ?The glovers' newspaper.
Sets the ball a rolling?The batsman
wLen he hits a grounder.
4'Can you break a ten for me?" "No,
I'm broke myself."?Boston, Courier.
Life is far from extinct in the man
who appears to bo dead in earnest.?
Detroit Free Press.
A fruiterer can hardly be called a
time-serving fellow when he is out of
dates.?Yonkers Gazette.
"Johnny, how many seasons are
there?" "Three: pepper, salt and do
baseball season."?Epoch.
"Beckley and his wife get along nicely
dow." "So? Which one is dead, hg or
she?"?Boston Transcrivt. '
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A man was arrested for taking medi*
cine the other day. He took it when
the apothecary was not looking.?Boston
Bulletin.
"Oh, every dog has^ts day." Probably
that is the reason why so much of
our time goes to tho dogs.?TimesDemocrat.
Awkward Miss (with an umbrella)?
"Beg pardon 1" Polito Gentleman?
"Don't mention it. I have another eye
left."?New York Weekly.
"What was the trouble between you
and your beau, Mamie?" "Oh, he was . ? ..
altogether too cold." "Isee. And you
fired him."?Boston Courier.
Restaurant Guest?"Everything yon
have brought me is stone cold." Polite
"Waiter?"Here is tho mustard and peppep,
sab."?New York Weekly.
Queer thing, confidence. As long as ^
another man has your confidence you
keep it, but the minute you withdraw it
you lose it.?lerre Haute Express.
"There's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's younc dream."
So sings tho maid whoso lover treats
Her to ice cream.
?Boston Courier.
First Man (excitedly)?"Our restaurant
is on fire." Second Man (calmly)
?"Come, theD, hurry up, and perhaps
at last we may be able to get something
hot."
Mr. Smith (to neighbor's son who is
dining with him)?"\Yell, sonny, what
part of the chicken would you like?"
Boy?"The whole of it."?Detroit Free
Frets.
Tangle?"What a pretty little carriage
Miss Tiff has!" Mrs. Tangle?
"Yc3, that must be the carte blanche she
told me her papa had given her."?Munsey's
Weekly.
A fast young follow, about to marry;
speaking of his intended, said to a friend
of his: "In short, she has everything in
her favor?fortune, wealth and money!"
?Times-Democrat.
If, in the heat of a family quarrel, the
angry wife makes a move to pick up a
flatiron, by no means is this to be taken
as implj'ing a willingness to smooth
things over.?Detroit Free Press.
General Tscbeng-iii-Tongs recently
married a young French woman residing
in the?south of France. She will be able
to use the downtown end of her came to
curl her hair with.?New York Uerald.
Steersman (during exciting yacht race)
| "Man overboard! Shall we stop or
I let him drown?" Captain (promptly)?
"We must stop and pick him up. It's
against the rules to drop any ballast during
a race."
"I want to know when you're a-goin'
to pay this here bill. I can't be a-runnin'
here every day in the week."
"Which day would suit you best?" "Saturday."
"Well, then, you may come
every Saturday."?Judge.
Indignant Landlord (to tenant of
flat)?"I thought you said that all your
children were grown up, and here
, you've got three noisy babies in the
i house?" Tenant?"Yes. These are
: my grandchildren."?Munsey* Weekly.
I Dentist's Daughter (who hears her
| father approaching',?"Un, near Jiuwaru,
here comes my father. If ho should find
us together, we are lost. Oh, he is com- .
ing! You will have either to ask for my
hand or?let him pull out a tooth for
you."?Half Holiday.
Senior Partner (to head clerk)?"You'll
excuse mc for mentioning it, but?er?
your face is hardly as tidy as I should
like to sec it." Head Clerk?"I'm letting
my whiskers grow, sir." Senior Partner
? "So I sec; but I can't permit employes
to grow their whiskers in business hours.
They must do that in their own leisure
time!"?Pick Me Up.
A giant named Catoni, who was more
than seven feet high and proportionately
stout, has just died in Italy after having
collected two thousand dollars from a
museum in Pkome for the right to his
skeleton.