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. . v. ^ -?: i "W VOL.XEIX. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1890. j 1.',1" _ 1 . l'l >1 i! ' ' ? I III II .1 I ' ' - I I I I I I I " ' ll T? VQUAL IN THE CRAVE. Croesus is dead: remove his robs And strip him of his gold; The Reaper grim Ivas come for him, His form is still and cold. The crimson stream has ceased to flow, The haughty head is lying low, lie's done with worldly pomp and showy Here rests his pulseless mold. Vpon yon bier a pauper lies, His soul has taken flight; His senseless elay wears no display? Ah,-Mis a sorry sight. His unsuccessful course is run, With tribulation he is done. His perfect rest is just begun? The rest of death's long nigbt. Lay this one in his marble tomb And you one iu the ground; O'er this a stately shaft uprear, O'er that a simple mound. But which shall sleep the sweeter sleep? W'.bh'btirst shall break the silence deep? Ab 1 they are equals in Death's keep, Till Gabriel's trump shall sound. -Frank V. 11 Vic,h. in Drakes Magazine. pearl\T ordeal. BV nrCJ.KN KORttEST GRAVES. "Arc you better to day, Katie?-' "Oh, yes. Pearl, ever so much!" The em crful 3Iarch sunshine streamed id at the window, where Pearl Plavfair had pinned up a piece of blue paper muslin to serve as a temporary curtain, and wrote its glittering autograph on the < arpetloss floor that Pearl had stayed up 1 the uight before to scrub neatly, so that ' Katie should not feci the room neglected. The two chairs were wiped free from 11 dust, the tinv stove shone with newlv- ' applied coat of blacking, find thechronio "Angclus," pinned against the wall over the wooden mautle, gave an air of refine meat to the sloping-roofed apartment. Katherinc and Pearl Playfair were all alone in the world. Their* father had been a hard-worked bank-clerk, who found it impossible to save a cent before Death presented its account and bank; rupted him at once. Their few distant relatives had distinctive! v given them to understand that "blood was not thicker than water," and for more than a year these two brave young girls had fought their own battle with the world. Katie was a "trimmer and finisher" in a fashionable dressmaking establishment. Pearl was errand girl and generally useful hand at Miss Thorburn's famous millinery. "Next year," she said, brightly, "I can go into the show rooms and get a dollar a week more wages! And won?t I be rich?" j But when Katie's dreadful cold deepened into u cough, and the doctor said she must not leave her room, Pearl found her twelve dollars a month sadly insuffi cient to ir.cct all exigencies. ( The good doctor spoke to the kind 3 little druggist on the corner, who put c the medicines down to cost price; the s baker's wife slipped in mauy an extra 1 sponge-cake and Vienna roll among the 1 frugal orders; the butcher saved his 2 choicest bits of meat for beef tea?for 1 every oue in the neighborhood knew and sympathized with the Playfair girls. i But thiogs had to be paid for, never- I theless. And the tooth of poverty bites 5 sharply. 1 Pearl stood looking at Katie with solemn, questioning eye?. 1 "That is what you always say, Katie," ' 6aid she. "And I know your cough was bad last night." "Did I disturb you, dear?" 1 "It isn't that. But, oh, Kate, to see you growing paler and thinner every day ?to know that you have to stay alone here so long?" "But I don't stay alone, Pearl. Mrs. Nippert comes in ofteu aud little Allic 6mith." "And that isn't the worst of it, Katie. The coal is out, and I can't pay for any more until niy Saturday night wages comt in." "It's lucky that the sua shines in so ' bright." said Katie, honefullv. "Never c mind the coal, Pearl; I'll cuddle down < in bed, with the blanket shawl over me, 1 and I'm sure Mrs. Nippert will make my 1 cup of tea on her stove when noon comes. 1 She's alwavs so thoughtful!" 1 O i Pearl went to her work with a heavy 1 heart. Ou the way she was joined bv 1 Joe Vail, the foremau of the box factory 1 that supplied the patent receptacles in * which Mr. Fitwell's gowns were carried 1 home to her customers, and in councils { of war rejecting splendid toilettes he had become acquainted with Katie. ] He was a dark-haired, swarthv-com- ' plexioned young fellow, and itis eyes sparkled as he saw Pearl Playfair. 'How's your sister, Pearl?" said he. s 'No better? Oh, I'm sorry to hear it! I say, my sister's come up from the old j homestead to keep house for mc this ' wiuter, and she brought a barrel of jolly ( Spitzeuberg apples and some home-made ' currant jelly. Would Katie try the jelly, do you think? Wouldn't it do her good? ' I'll send my sister around if?" t :'Oh, thank you, Joe? This evening, ' please!" said Pearl; and die secretiy rcg- ' istered a vow that she would somewhere ! or somehow beg or borrow a ne;k of coals, so that these kind people should r.nt finrl tliPin rtlitolnt hIy* ik \iwl 1 > Katie thought Joe Vail had entirely torgotten her," thought she. "As if any 1 one could forget Katie!" Jliss Thorburn was very cross when at j last Pearl reached the store. Her best i: customer's carriage had beeu seen across : the street at Mademoiselle Laviguy's rival I store, and the new Paris fashion ]dates I were delayed iu their arrival more than a J week. "Late again, Pearl Playfair!" said she, 1 sharply. "it's o?lvone minute past seven, Miss Thorburul" pleaded the girl. "And I wish you distinctly to understand," snapped Miss Thorburn, who hud been peering through the windows,"that j I don't allow my young women to ga'li- 11 vant through the streets with young .m a j1 on their way to and from the store! It j isn't respectable, and?" | Pearl colored vividly. l ' It's a friend of mv sister,51 said she. "He v:;>r-" " . jVIiss Thor.mrn glared at her. "Oblige me,"' said she, "by remembering that I do not permit my young j women to answer me back 1 Here's Miss : Deusel's bonuet. Take it at once to i No. GU Caravan square. She'll be furious because it wasn't sent last night." 1 Sixty Caravan square was a stately l brown-stone house, with vestibule doors I of gorgeous staiued glass and tloor of < mosaic marble, covered with rich Persian rugs. j Miss DeDsel was not in, but Paula and I Florine, her younger sisters, ran to re- j ceive the hat. "Audrev will be so ancry bceausc it i didn't come in time for Mrs. Jay's musical! j breakfast!" cried Paula. 1 These two pretty young maids, in their pink and blue cashmere tea-gowns, their ! \ flowing gold hair aud dainty, red-heeled i slippers encircled with gold Cmbroid- j ery?how wfstlully Pearl looked at them t as she crept quietly away in her patched boots, her faded cloth jacket, which had 1 come down to her from Katie, and her j poor little kuitted Tam O'Shanter cap! I How nice it must be to be rich!" I thought she. ! ''Let's have a look at the hat, Flo,'' ] said Paula?"right here in the diningroom, where the beveled mirror is. An- ] drey never lets us see her pretty things." : Florine opened the box. 1 "Oh, isn't it exquisite!" she cried, i "All rosebuds, with strings of pink faille, and the sweetest jeweled poniard stuck through the side! Are they real < diamonds, Paula, or only Rhine stones?" i "Rhiue-stones, of course!" said sage < Paula. "Who ever heard of real din- t aionds with a thirty-dollar bonnet ? But isn't it a beauty? Let us try it on, Flo. 1 Oh, take care!" i For, in handing it across the table, Florine had dropped it. The effort to i recover it only succeeded in overturning | i tall tlask of Bordeaux sadad oil upon ,; he rosebuds and pink faille. j I Flo aud Paula looked aghast at each j itlier. jr "Hush!" cried the former. "Sonic N me is coiniug. Put it back into the !' wx, Paula. Take it up to Audrey's j t :oom. Shell tlnnn it was an acciacnt. i )h, how could you be so careless?" 4,I wasn't careless,'' sputtered indiglaut Paula. "It was your fault as much is it was mine. What will Audrey \ ay?" i Two hours later the reception bonnet; c vas brought back to Miss Thorburn by ! i Audrey Denscl herself in an olive plush- I n ined carriage, attended by a French t naid, and Pearl Playfair was summoned t it once. t She came, innocent and eager, only to )C angrily dismissed from tLe establish- f nent. In vain were her protestations I 1 md entreaties. \ "If you didn't do it, stopping at some \ ?f yourgrocer-and-bakerfriends' places," \ ried Miss Thorburn, "who did? Do a rou suppose Miss Denscl poured grease i >vcr her own reception hat? Silence, I 1 av! Leave the house at once, and do t lot presume to ask for either wages or t eference from me. I consider that I un treating you with extreme kindness iu ( lot sendiug for a policeman." 1 Pearl went home, feeling as if she were t n a dreadful dream. Her situation was 1 jone, and without references how could t he expect to get another? And who < vould find wood or tire for Katie? I TVip elder sister listened to Pearl's < liteous tale with dismay, but she put the iravest possible front upon it. "Don't sob so, Pearl," she soothed. 'We shall Dot starve; something will lappcu to protect us, dear, don't be ifraid. Who is that Mrs. Nippett is ;alkiug to outside?" "It's me?Janie Vail," said a cheery, xudial voice, 44with some apples aud ionic made jelly. Joe, my brother, says rou are his friends. I may come in, uayn't I?" And Janie entered, rosy and smiling, tvith a refreshing air of the country ibout her. "Oh, yes," said she, nodding her icad and glancing about the room, so f :old, so cheerless, so neat, "nobody can 1 :xpect to get well boxed up in the city 1 ike this! That good wornau outside s :ells me that the doctor recommends :ountry air. I think, Miss Playfair,that 1 f you will visit ray mother at the old \ "arm for a mouth we shan't know you ji when you come back. I hope you like c :he country? Joe does. It's Joe's lighest ambition some time to buy a lice farm of his own. As for the little girl there," noddiug her head at Pearl, i 'she can come and stay with me while :i rou are gone, if she don't want to lose I ler place at the bonnet store." t Pearl hung her head. 1 "I have no place now to lose,'' said r ;he. "I was discharged to-day?" "i Just then there was the sound of solid c footsteps on the stairs and hard breath- < ug, as if the steep locomotion were a de- i tided effort?aud in trudged Miss Thorn- 1 jurn. s "Is this Pearl Play fair's place?" panted 1 she. "Do people hereabouts live at the < lop of all creation? Bless me, where's ] the fire? Is this sick girl your sister. Pearl? Why didu't you tell me you had < * sick sister?" I Pearl shrank back, growing very pale, j 1 "Have you come to?to arrest me?" j' she gasped. | i "My dear, it's all right," said the obese milliner, beginning to recover her I 1 breath. "Miss Densel's two little sisters i caine right back in the carriage, crying I ic hard as ever th?v caultl. Tliev had ' heard what hard luck you had, and they confessed?dear little things!?that it was all their fault. It seems they were looking at the bonnet in the dining-room j I ?and a cut-glass tlask of oil was some- J i how upset?and they were horribly fright- | ened, and meant to keep it n secret; but i wueu they heard Miss Densel's story, i they couldn't bear to think that you were < blamed, and owned up at once. So I've ! < come ?.!1 this way, my dear, to let you j know. And you must come back at j, once, for it's our busiest time, aud you | can have Miss D.der's place in the show- '! room?Miss Hater's going to be married ?at two dollars a week more. And you ! mustn't mintl tvliat I said to you when I was Vexed; for an old woman's tongue can't always be held responsible. Ila, ha, ha!" "Oh, lam so happy! so thankful!" gasped Pearl,while Miss Thorburn trotted around to the side of Katie's bed, to askher a string of kind, motherly questions, whose trend they understood better an hour later, when a basket of fruit arrived from the nearest grocery, a cold roast fowl from the restaurant, and a pail of oysters from the fishmonger. < "How good people are?how very good!" said Katie. "And I was just beginning to think that heaven had forgotten as." She was well enough, u.uder the sun?hiue of all this kindly remembrance, to ?0 to ine Villi ilOOiesieuu ivuum a vuj few daj-s. Janie accompanied her thirther, "just I to settle her," and of course Joe had to uo, too;. while. Pearl was takeu into Miss Tborburn's own family during her sister's absence. "I can't have her staying all alone by herself," said Miss Thorburn. "She's a great deal too pretty; and what's the best of it, she don't even know it. I've i taken a great fancy to that child. I shouldn't wonder if I some dav adopt her!" But when Katie Playfair came back in May, with cheeks as pink as the mouutlin daisies themselves, and Miss Thorburn broached her ideas, the elder sisier refused the offer, with many thanks. "I couldn't spare Pearl," said she. "I ?I am going to settle on a farm in Drauge "ouuty?the great butter-making cgion, you know?and I want Pearl to ?njoy the buttercups and the roses and :he youug lambs with me." "Going to settle, ch?" said Mis Thor>urn. "Oh, it that's the case, I make 10 further objection!" "Yes," said Katie, blushing charmnglv, "Mr. Vail has a contract as caricntcr to a railway repair-shop there, ind Pearl and I are to live always in the icautiful country." "Well, my dear," said good Miss rhorbnrn, "1 hope you'll be very happy. V.nd mind, you're to take no thought ' ibout the wedding bonnet. I'm going i o make you a present of one, all rimmed with white lilacs." A won in n snaKcs uinonice. Tiierc was a great commotion near the volvcs' cage in the Philadelphia Zoo one light. A long, deep chest toppled over in its side, the lid Hew open, and a big ,'ellow snake, with open mouth, glared iround. Seeing that no enemies were ormcnting him, and recovering his lose empcr, he dragged himself lazily from he box. With the dim flickering light of the lickeriug gas-jet glinting on his shiny tack, the snake made his way towarl the volvcs' dcu. Embracing one of the vhccls, lie gradually made bis way upvard, and was just dragging his tail icross the iron bars to the top of the vagon when one of the wolves spied it. iVith a snarl, he leaped for the bars and ook a firm grip of the snake with his ecth. lu an instant the scene changed from juiet to pandemonium, the other wolves lowling and dashing themselves against he bars in a fury of rage, while the long, it'uc body of the snake waved and iwisted like a willow wand in the hand >f a drum-major. Its body was useless jelow where the wolf had gripped it,but --2 -1-1 ? ilenlf ornnnil thr* irAf) J U1U t\ I V 1WU|J1LI^ UOVII uivux%? % ? w v ? irakc-rod, it managed to get a coil iround the wolf's neck. ]3y this time,which was not more than hree seconds from the time the first noise ,vas heard, the head keeper cried: Bring the ether!" to the watchman. There was no time to be lost. The wolf's ?yes were protruding from his head, and he bones could almost be heard to crack is the snake exerted its great strength. The snake's eyes glittered and its jaws noved nervously from the pain the wolf ,v;us inflicting, but both were nearly motionless. A sponge saturated with >ther was applied ou the end of a pole to he nostrils of each combatant, and in a ew seconds the snake fell iu au inert leap on the floor, just as the wolf reeased his grasp, reeling from side to iide. The snake's wounds were dressed and | ic was hustled back into hisbox,and the volf, who was weak but unhurt, wa3 illowed to recover at leisure.?New York Tonrnal. A Brigade's ltecord of Endurance. Professor N. S. Shalcr, in his ethnographic researches, sought the record of i body of troops whose ancestors had >eer_ for many generations upon Ameri ar. soil, and he found it iu the First 3rigadc of Kentucky troops ^Confeder.tn\ Tn i7ni/ !''? Iin sava- "On Mar ,vv; *" ??j 1864, (his brigade, then in the army >f General Joseph Johnston, iuarchecl rnt of Dalton 1140 strong, at the beginling of the great retreat upon Atlanta, before the army of Sherman. In the subsequent hundred days, or until September 1, the brigade was almost contiuujusly in action or on the march. In this period the men of the command received LS60 death or hospital wounds, the dead counted as wounds, and but one wound being counted for each visitation of the hospital. At the end of this time there ivcrc less than fifty men who had not been wouaded during the hundred days, fherc were 240 men lett for duty, anil less than ten men deserted. A search into the history of warlike exploits has failed to show me auy endurance of tic worst trials of war surpassing this.1' Girard College. Girard College, in Philadelphia, was rounded by the bequest of Stepheu Girard, who left $2,000,000, besides the I roceeds of a ecrtaiu portion of his estate, for the erection and establishment [>f a college for orphans. This editico, cf white marble, built in the G'orinthiau style, is admitted to be the linest specimen of Grecian architecture in America. It was begun in 1S33 aud opened in 1848, having cost in its construction almost ?2,000,000. A marble statue in the lower vestibule covers the remaius of the founder.?Brooklyn Citizen. A SEALSKIN SACQUE. ' f ' : ' ' . Fr.OM. ITS OWNER'S BACK TO BEAUTY'S SHOULDERS, AH Climes Contribute to Supply the JLViuahtls' (if ' Fashion?The -i Great Seal Grounds in , Alaska Waters. . In a bTg fur store one may see at this season of the year prepared pelts fromab most every section of the globe. The remote regions of North America contribute the skins of the seal, beaver, ermine, ! badger, lhink, otter, and, the white, [ black, brown and silver tip bears. The | furs of the blue fox, black fox, white THE SEAL AT HOME. bear, sable, sea ojtter, chinchilla, martin and ermine come from Russia and her Siberian possessions. But these regions do not supply afl&bnt iashion craves for. In every furrier'rf store are skins from South America, iau^ralasia, China, India, Africa, ThiWt and the wmld-famed vale of Cashmere.} The fur tradedof the far eastern countries is a pccpfmi* one. The fair at Nizhnee Novgorbjl is the Mecca toward which many caimans wend their way. It is held during ^he month of August, and while almoft every conceivable _* v _ r 1.j^ r article ui jnercuaiiuisi; in uenn. iu, lurs form the grcst bulk of the trade. At la-t year's fair fihe whole offering of 720,000 Bokhara ox skins was taken for the American market at advanced figures. Novgorod,"* too, is the mart for As( rnkhnn. The great European centre of the trade is London, .whither nearly all the the furs go at some stngo of their existence. The busy season reaches itsheight during JIarch, and at that time dealers from all parts of the world are to be found in the British capital^ The aggregate ol the trade is enormous, one house alone being credited with doing a f ii!2K,^uuroou~~ r?" NT/art to London comes Leipsic, which is the chief depot for the Russian trade. The fur seal is now found in but few localities. Alaska furnishes the greater portion by far of the world's product, and London dyed Alaska sealskin is beauty's pride. Early iu June the shores ol the Fribylov Islands resound with the voices of the seals, which gather during the breeding season. The history of the discovery ol tnese lsianas reaas use a romance. For years Russian vessels had searched for them. Captain Fribylov CLUBBED TO DEATII. spent five summers trying to find the home of the seals. During the sixth he was at one time driven from his course by a violent storm. As the tempest subsided he heard a most welcome sound? the roaring of the seals. lie returned with his ship loaded to the gunwales. He tried to keep his secret, hut other captains followed him and were soon staring the furry treasures. The islands arc about fifty miles off Alaska Cape and in summer are wrapped in a <lensc fog, which probably accounts for the fact that they were so long undiscovered. They are rocky and barren and surrounded by shoals. During the breeding season the seals congregate there in countless numbers. It is said that no less than 3,0U0,000 have been seen on St. Paul's Island at one time. The breeding season begins about the 1st o. .lone and continues uutil August. The pups arc brought forth singly and when a few da*s old are left 011 shore iu charge of the fathers, while the mothers go a-visiting'. They return in about three days and bellow about until they find their husbands and children. They remain long enough to nurse the young and then are off again for another three days' gossip. The sealers go down to the shore 1_ *1... ruinliniiclv fret be (uri) in j twccn the seals and the open sea ancl drive the victims inland a half mile or EC. Gr??f rare ha? to be taken not to alarm tne seals, Tor should they get heated the skin is of no value. OdIj the males between two and four years of age should be slam, but oftcu great numbers of younger ones are killed. One blow on on the head is sufficient to cause death, and almost before the animals arc douo breathing their skins arc off. An expert will remove a pelt in from three to five minutes. The skius are taken to the salting house, salted, laid in piles and counted by the United States Government officials before shipment to San Francisco, where they arc again counted by the Collector of Customs, and the tax collected before they can "be shipped to London. In Loudon they are plucked, dyed and made ready .for the inanufac turcr.. A cargo of sealskins is very valuable. The steamship St. Paul ori one I rip took 100,000, rated at $1,000,-. 000, making the average worth of each, skin $10. "The process of prcpariri& the 4kin for market is a difficult aud delicate, oue, re? quiring long experience, cunning.Lands, strong muscles and some brain. power.. Furs gain in value by, manipulation from twenty-five to sixty per cent., add a very 6light mistake on the part of the work] men will cause a yery. serious deterioca, tion in value. The proper curing of the ' fur consists merely in exposing the skin I to the air. The first process is known as fleshing. The skin is stretched on a sort of bench, and gone over with the fleshping knife, which removes the flesh and , grease. The Bkin is' next' sohfcetl in a tub of clear water for eighteen hours, or until sufficiently softetfed. Then follows another fleshing; During these* operations the fur loses much of itsi v i. 1 1 - | gioss, wnicn is restorcu uy a muiwu^u treatracut with oleaginous substances. Next conies the tanning. A mixture of mahogany, rosewood, ebony and cedar sawdust is sprinkled over these skins and pressed in by being trod upon. This is called the foot process. In the case of the coarser furs, small bcauis?the ends THE PELT OF COMMERCE. of -which are wrapped with skins?operated by machinery do service. Then the fur is taked on aboard, and combed over and over until each individual hair stands I smooth and straight. The long hairs are plucked out, except in cases where fashion demands that a few be left to indicate genuineness of the article. Imitation seal is made from the skins of cats, muskrats and foxes. It is colored and trimmed in such a manner as to deceive any but an expert. "Boinctintr* tim ??carried so far as to sew.in the long hairs to allay the suspicions of the skeptical. Now comes the dyeing. Formerly the pelt was dipped into a vat, but as the dye quickly rotted the skin other meaus : had to be resorted to. At present the j dye is applied with a stiff brush, which goes to the root of the hair, out not further. The making of the fine seal brown color is a monopoly. The shade is known to the trade as "old Apple dye." Its history is said to be as follows: About 1831 a man named Apple worked in a London refinery as a sugar baker. One day two fellow workmen? an Austrian named Philip Danowitz, the other a Frenchman, came to him. At home Danowitz had been a dyer, while the Frenchman had been a weaver. Together they had made some experimenta with dyes, and had by accident stumbled unon a beautiful seal brown. TI1E CI.OAK OF' FASHION*. Neither, however, lmd any money tn i continue investigations. Apple had i saved a few pounds, lie bought oft the ! frenchman, and together with Danowitz set about trying experiments with a few sealskins. They were eminently successful. The furriers were quick to sec the commercial value of the secret, and soon arrangements were niadc whereby a factory was erected and business begun jinenrnesl. Apple was a shrewd fellow : and scoured an interest in the business. | Danowitz was r#:lc foreman, lie gave [ the secret to a lei low workman named I live?. By him it was imparted to one j George Simmons, who revealed it to a . man named Wiuchelow. Wi'h Winchclow its spread ceased, and the closest of corporations was formed. So well j guarded is the secret that the owners do 1 not hesitate to sell the dye at a guinea a ' gallon. I After the dyeing comes a curious ' operation on the garments not yet made up?the patching. An expert carefully goes over every skin, cutting out each defective part. To (ill these holes with patches that cannot he detected is by no means the work of an amateur. Deft lingers have heretofore been required to do the sewing, but now the expert matches the patch, and the sewing is done by an ingeniously contrived machine. Fox, raccoon, bear, monkey,' chinchilla, beaver, coney,' lynx, squirrel nnd'nuy long fluffy 'for caii be' Sewed at will; The pretty' effect- of the tipped furs is obtained by scwing iri' long white hairs at regular interval* throughout tho p'ctt.?llcoo'rbfd C'iliicii. : : ... .? The United States Life Saving Service is under the control of the Treasury, uot the!War Department. The headquarters are-at Washingtpn. There is a corps of inspectors, superintendents, station-keepers,and crews extending'over our entire coast line, together with a Board of Life Saving appliances, composed of experts selected from-the rfevenue maripe ser.-,; vicje, the army, the life saving service and civilians* v . .. ; j v ? r-? " : -Anstiu Corbin's Bpar. Colony. Austin Corbia,. ex,-President of tho Reading Railroad Company, has,imported a number ,of wild boars unci sows frbtti i tlie Black Forest of Germany aid'tufned 'i thcm.riut to pas'tiire fh his' own forest of { 2l,0b0' :icies iri1 New' Hampshire, where I he has had such wild game to hunt as j caribou, elk, moose and deer, but Doth JJI.ACK FOREST WILD ROAR. Id^; to test the metal of the hunter. The member of Mr. Corbjn's boar colony that is depicted herewith is not full grown, le stands 2 feet high in front and 18 nehes in the rear. lie is 3 feet long, (is bristles stand out on his body like uills. Their color is a mixture of dirty . ellotv and dark brown. The eyes are arge and dark brown, uud the snout is as black as coal. This is the first attempt rn intrndnop th<> \rilrl linurii fit' (rfirmfttltf into this country, and is undertaken in the spirit of a sportsman who, now that the panther has become scarce and the bear almost extinct in the American forests, thirsts for game that will bo worth the hunting. A Leaf From a Dime llomance. Skipper (to Pilot)?"We mus' land quietly on der shore, an' creep widotit noise up to der house an' carrp off der girl an' valu'bles afore dey kin giv' der * J alarm; cioes yer unacrstun j Pilot?"Aye, aye, sir." Skipper?"Do der job neatly, an' name yer reward, it is your'n!" Pilot?"Speak not of reward ter me, it is?ha! 1m!?rervengc I seek. Ha! ha! ha! rervenge!"?Life. A Mammoth Cotton Tree. The royal palm is the most beautiful tree of the tropics, but there are not many of them in Nassau, and they do not there reach the great size they attnin in the Carribbean Isiauds. The monarch of all trees in Nassau, however, is the mammouth Ctiba, or silk cotton tree, standing in the yard of the public buildings,says a writer in the Illustrated American. Nature has made this tree evidently with reference to the hurrican zone, its THE MAMMOTH SILK COTTON TREE. flanges projecting six or eight feet on every side, forming braces that make it proof against the highest winds. This specimen is not onl,* a blessing for the shade it gives, but a godsend to the scores of natives who are daily in waiting for their friends to be put Mi rough the police court near by. They Miinge and chatter under its branches, ,ind thank God that they arc free Britons. Remarkable Lakes. Tne deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal, in Siberia. Its area of over 90U0 sq. are miles makes it about equal to Lake Erie in superficial extent; its enormous depth of between 4000 to 4500 feet makes its volume of water almost equal to that of Lake Superior. Although its surface is 1330 feet above sea level, its bottom averages over 3000 below the same level. 4 :? 1 1_I.^ .uv, 1. Aiuencu HU3 JI JCINU UIIUUII^U its waters are not as deep as those of tne Siberian wonder, also bears a uuiquc distinction. It is located in the Yosemitc Valley, and is called Mirror Lake. On account of the height and sheer descent of the surrounding mountains, the sun does not rise upon it until II :30 o'clock in the morning and sets seventythree miuutcs later.?Hi. Louis liqmb I lieun. Workmen have drilled to a depth ol nearly one thousand ouehuudred feet for water at Calvary Cottage, Wis., and have not yet been rewarded. -- - ! A Georgia farmer has bought, only I fifty-five cents worth of meat during I twenty-five years of housekeeping. : SINCE SHE WENT. HOME. S * . I S* - . i>? wv.l i: ! I . Sipce she yent home?' " ilJ/ The evening shadows longer liiigrib here,11"''--- ? i Thp winte^ days fill so fnuch 'of'the year, i ' *; "?1 .:J And even summer "wlndii hire chill anddrear. I | ''"'Sinfce showent home.[ ,r:..ii j' " ; /i.. , .?, I 1 .! I' i ..:-r ,S^?c? she went home-:-" The robin's note Has tiducheda minor strain."-" The old, glad songs'brehth'e'buta feulrfefrain, i<-; And IdUghtef isbhs with Hidden,'bitterpain?,,i .. . ?sinc^g]ie:weQt'home.-.-fw;/!i., j I'-.. ]l, ' - . -it , . ... . ;i -1 , , Sin?e she went heme?" l "' ; How still the empty rooms "her presence ' blessed. * '">j. .!)-,? u?->tu Villi HntoucHed the pillow that "her dear hend .tij I i "'"pi'essW,J,,: '" ' ? .,}, . |? Jljir lonely heart hath no where for, ta.iK# , ji Since she went. honje?.;,.., . j ' 'Since dhe went home ^ ji ,The lOfl'g dtiys have crept a Way. like.years.. ;..i j I The sunlight has been, dimmed with,,dopb^,: |. : I: - ' >.m> ^liy.yjjwtlt.1 ... Andtffle darknighfs ,ha.ve i^inedin, lonely v|v ; ;*j ...iews j . -i ,, ,. | Sin^? she .wenthoine. _ , i .. ?The RpundL Table, PITH AN1) POINT. Never mind?Matter. Scraps of history?Battles. Used up?The umbrella.?Life. It is an odd man who never tries to get even. "I am paned by your conduct," as the window sash said to the glaizer. i J Women govern in two States now? I Wyoming and the married state. A watch manges to keep up with tho. ! flight of time because it has pinions. j I An appropriate crew for a jolly boat ?Rowers of laughter.?Texas Si/lings. Women are the most consistent Pa| trons of Husbandry.?Pittsburgh Ttle, graph. j There's nothing so touching as a man's i hands when he sees tho sign "Fresh | Paint." A man usually leads his bride to tho | altar, but after that she takes the lead, j ?Statesman. "11 - t--1 : 1 J flia i lie IUUI IS JJieaacu mm umugn , buv wise man dissatisfied. Score one for the fool.?Texas Si/tings. It is a good idea to suffer with the .toothache occasionally. It proves to your friends that your teeth are real.?Epoch. The critic who declares that the American belle is inclined to be idle and listless never saw her chew gum.?Chicago Times. Yeast?"Does Crimsonbeak ever give a thought to the poor?" Bacon?"Oh, yes! frequently. But that's all he does give."?Statesman. "Yes, I'd like to meet some one who Js&f faafl ?Detroit Free Press. ' "What a talker Mrs. Frakshus is!" exclaimed Mrs. Dinwiddie. "Yes," replied Mr. Dinwiddie; "even her teeth chatter."?Chicago Inter-Ocean. If a man could live a thousand years, he would probably spend the last fifty fretting over what he might have done in the previous wasted cirae.?PucJc. "Aim high!" the scholars tell us; But when to war we go Those military fellows They tell us to aim low. ?Chicago Post. Fond Mother?"I think Violet's voice ought to be cultivated abroad." Sensible Father?"Anywhere would 6uit rae except at home."?Smith, Gray & Co.'s Monthly. "Why did you yell 'Hay' at the horsecar?" "In the hope that the horses nr/M?irJ Vioor mo nnd stoD. The driver ! wouldn't pay any attention to me." ? i Harper'i Bazar. I "Aren't you ever overcome by some j undefined longings, Mr. Snapley?" j "H'ra! No. I have much more trouble j with very clearly defined shortness."? Harper's Bazar. Old Mr. Close?"Hello, doctor. Ohr by the way, what ought I to take for a ( bad cold?" Physician (who knows Close)?"You ought to take medical advice."?Munsey's Weekly. This season's sensation at Cadillac, i Mich., is a seveutv-five-pound squash. Last year it had a horse which climbed up-stairs each morning and kissed the chambermaid.?Chicago Herald. She?"How charmingly Mr. Gabley talks, Mr. Greeneve. There appears to ' be no subject he is not informed on." j He (madly jealous)?"Says he inherits i the gift; his aucestors were barbers, you i know."?Racket ; Mamma (to little Nellie)?"Would my t ~:-l lilro f/-v rrn nut -with in?mmn Jlltlt gill iliVV V~ ...... | and look at the stars?" _ Little Nellie? j "Oh, yes; and I want you to show me the dog star, mamma; that is, if it's muzzled so that it can't bite."?Epoch. 4 Cross-examining Couusel?"Isn't your husband a burglar?" Witness?"Ye-s." ! Cross-examining Counsel?"And didn't i you know he was a burglar when you married him?". Witness?"Yes; but I was getting a little old, and I had to choose between a burglar and a lawyer.'' ?New York News. Scientific Pareut (on a stroll)?"You see. out there on the street, my son, a , sample illustration of a principle in raeI chanics. The man with that car pushes | it in front of him. Can you guess why? Probably not. 1 will ask him. Note his auswer, my son." (To banana peddler) ?"My good man, why do you push that inctciH nf milliner it?" Banana V.UIV g c Peddler?"'Cause I aiu't a horse.' ? '''licago Tribune. I The World's Silk Crop. ,?V. I The production of silk throughout tho I world last year is estimated at 11,706 ! tous, as aguiust 11,548 tons in 1888, 11,888 tons in 1887,10,594 tons in 1886, aud 9002 tous in 1885. The average of j four years from 1885 to 1888 was 10,748 | Ions. The 1SS9 crop was rather above ; it, although scarcely any silk was produced in Syria and other parts of the Levant.?New York Fost.