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TRI WEEKLY EDIT] N WINNSBORO, '5.C., NOVE1MBER 11, 18. CUPID'S CONFESSION. "Cupid. what are those arrows for Tnat in your quiver lie?" He shrugged his dimpled shoulders And. smilizic, made- reply: "To pierce the tender mortal heart That flies from love in vain. These little shafts are made for that: They give delicious pain." 'And what do you do w'th the golden bow Your chubby flngers hAl l?" Anti then he smiled a pitying smile And said. 1 use this old But very useful artiale To speed my arrow straight. To cleave in twain the tender heart And make it seek a mate." "And now these fragile little wings That from your'shoulders sprout, Their use I also fain would lnow?" His laughter rippled out. "I dse them only in one case: Wnen two fond hearts I tie. And poverty enters at the door, I from the window fly." -Now York Press. THE SPY. The room was dingy and but poorly lighted. Around the long table in its centre were gathered the conspirators --the men who had sworn to kill the Czar. A strange appearance they had in the fikeing candle-light; some with fierce faces, marked by the bitter lines of- hunger and hate; some with the enthusiastic anl rapt expression o dreamers-, others wvth the cold impassivity of great generals. One of the last-mentioned, colder, more impassive than the rest, sat at the foot of the table,facing the president. His manner showed not the slightest nervousness. -Yet in an hour he meant to betray the men who sat about him to the horrors of a living death, on the bleak p!ains of Siberia, gaining thereby the lasting favor of his im i)eritl master. The blow that would ruin his comrades would make him. The clock siruck eight as the -presi dent rose to speak. "Brothers," he began, "we have all sworn the same sacred vows, we nave all stooi the severe tests of our order-we can all be trusfe It be comes .y duty, theref eak out.' e my prisoiers!" said the 2oicer curtly. "By what right?" e-:claimed the preaident. He alone s'eemed cool; the rest stood as though paralyzed. Ignor ing the president, the officer glanced at the others. 'Line up against the *well!" he ordered. Silently they obeyed him-powe less to resist. The soldiers raised their guns,a-id aime~l thorn at the de i'nseless breasts of the prisoners. Again the president spoke:. "What do you mean to tdo?" he c.ied: To elec-ute you at once," returned the officer coldly. Then, to the soldi crs: "Take aim,' Fi--" Stopl" The cry rang out loud and clear in the deadly stillness of the room, and the spy sprang forward from where he stood against the wall. "Get backi" said the officer, sternly; but the spy continued to advance. His coldness, his impassiveness, had dis appeared; his face wa's yellow with fea'; his teeth chattered. "Yon must not shoot me:" he shrieked "I am of yoursehl!- It was I who informed a;ainst these men! if you kill me it will, be murder:" He groveled on the floor at' the oficer's ~ eet. The doomel men lookel at the miser-able wretch with bitter contempt while in the presiden't eyes there was somnething that looked like triumph. "An agent of the police!" said the officer doubtfully. "You have your credentials?" ~ "Yew.-yes!" screamed the wretch, tearing a piece of paper from his pocket and handing it to the o~icer. "It is there-it is there!" The soldiers, drooping their rifles, sprang upon him, and bound him hand and foot. "Brothers," stid the president to the amazed men, who still stood against the wall, "brothers in a great cinse like ours we can-not be too care Lu!. This little scene was devised to discover what traitors we had amibng us. it has succeeded. You who have proved faithful are quite safe." "The men looked at him as though they could scarcely cr-edit thsir senses; -thea one or two began to sob, and one man laughed. $ "And this spy?" he qnestioned. A fierce murmur ran r-ound the room. "Kill him--kill him!" ihey shouted. The president raised his hand. "stop!" he cried. '-The man is n mine-ne to punish as I see fit. Leave him to me. You will accompany our brother Vassoloff"-indi-atin'g the pseudo-o!fier- "lo a place of re fuge. Fromi our friend's admission, we are no longer safe here." The conspirators turned, and silent lv went out. Then the president was alone with the spy. He stood looking alt him for a moment. a eruel smile on his 'white inrddfae Presntlv he took from his pteeket a long fuse,placed one end in the powderkeg, and wound the other ebout one of the tallow candles, an inclh from the burning wick. Then he pla'ed the candle in front .of the spy's fce, where he could almost touch it! and turning, went to the door. It the threshold he paused. "You., fate will be a lesson to your fellow-splies," he said-and was gone. The spy iieard his steps is be went down the passage. He counted them till they ied away in the awful silence of the nig t. Then he looked at the candle. low long would it take an inch of tallow to burn? The police would not ciome till nine. He looked at the clock. Twenty minutes past eight. Woild that inch of tallow last 40 minutes? If it should not, would being blown p be so painful? He looked t the candle again. It seemed to me away before his eager gaze. He tri d to shriek, but could not. He becalme unconscious. He dreamed of hi' mother, dead years before. He thought that he was a child again, an( that she had taken him on her lap,X nd was telling him the old stories that he loved. It was summer, and he tould hear the reap ers singing. He laughed with happi ness. He oifened his ves. The darkness of the room frigh.ened him, and he tiied to call his o her. The gag was still in his mouth, llnad, like a flash, the whole dreadful sickening truth came bach to him.* The hands of the clock pointed to 2 minutes before nine, and the candle was more than half burned. Again he looked at the <lock. Ten minutes before nine The candle seemed to burn lowei. Would the police come in time? #1e strained his ears to hear their comi' g, but there was no sound. It was five minutes o nine. He tried to pray. At last Lte could hear the soldiers approa-hi g, but the clock was striking nine! A knoch on the door and the fame ad touched the fuse. He watched th spark as it crept, like a snake, across the floor nearer, nearer, to the keg He tried to scream. The sound of a door being broken upon! The footst s of men on the passage, outside th , door, but the spark had reached they keg.. A :flResh -.. :A second later, when the soldiers ntered, they saw a sight tha fright even them. A dead may, bound ged, lay upon the flor . His een with terror, is hair and his eyes red, :taring, On the floor -as the e fuse haI b traed, ia powd keg, dof -igh'.I ack r to been cussioin the rounding Church town, Penn., where nearly every farmer Lelongs to a religious sect. The firmer whose horse was stolen made no efforf at all to recover the beast.. He did noj make his loss Iknown to his ntighxbors until they had iuq1uired. what had become of his big roan. Then he said- that one tight somebody broke open his stable door and took the horse, but nothing else. The newa -sdoii spread and a township constable captured the ani mal on the Welsh mountain, but the thief escaped. Whea the constable took the horse back to the owner, the farmer said: "I do not want the horse. The man who took it must have more use for the animal than I had or he would not have been driven to steal. Giv-e it back to him.. If he wants my Iharness. and wagon', let him have them also." The farmer was a min of his- word, and the horse was le t'away, atn.l-is still in possession of the constable. IStrangely enough, nearly every. man belonging to his special sect ap'proves his action. They refer to the Bible as their authority. One passage cited is Matthew v: 40: "And if any man will sue you at-the law and take away thy, coat let hi have thy cloak also."' As these sects never go to -law.' they simply believe that ifgny man takes their coat they should also freely give their cloak; ,or if-any one takes their -horse, they should also let him have their wagon. Once a thing is stolen froin them they will never re ceive it back as their property. The same~hingI hldgod with the womefolks. They woilil not think of~ receiv bac-k agn n property stolen fromgtem, nor do they want any dad tpurste'afiief, or to have any one hand in his pinishment No matter how muc~h a farmer may owe on his land, ha will bear his losses by theft without a muirmur. The fai-mers of these-seets sometimes go into debt when b -ting land. - In almost every thing el~Te they pay as they go. s The-question as to receiving back a stolen horse has cre.ttel a division in some of the'otliefseits, however. The peopleghofa~. receiving back the stolnniiirgne that the Bible does not say~that ivhere a thief steals your property yos' shall not receive it back; that not to take back stolen goods and not- to punish thieves, is. simply encourkging and inviting such crime; and that it is wrong for a man in debt not to take back stolen properjy which he cannot afford to lose, and ~which may interfere with him in the payment of his interest mxoney. A Familiar Character. Friend--Considering that your liv cone, I don't see how you contrived to get such a reputation as a philan thropis. Mr. Spendall-Oh, I never give anything; I do the hat passing-Xew York Weeki. FOR FARM AND GARDEN. Pack ing Eggs In Oats. Eggs have been packed in oats for years, but'the practice has gradually fallen off, as eggs stored in cases from the best storage houses have Leeu im proved in piality from year to year. ats, iT dry Nill absorb moisture from the eg quite rapidly and are ob jectionable on this score. If the oats are rot dry, the germs of mold are developed rapidly, and as Ihe moisture is given oft by thleeggs the mold will grow, causing the eggs to become musty. In using :ats they shoul: be at the co.rect degree of dryuess. Growtih on Newly ClearEd Land. The growth of young trees and weeds oi laud uwly cloared is not readily explained, but the United States division of forestry offers the following: Sunligk: is neces~sary in order that most plants germj.-ite and grow. Plants like the p6l.ar and the Canada thistle Eeed profuseiy and the floor cf forests, in regions where these p'auts grow, is annually covered wit'i countless numbers of seeds, largely brought there by the wind. The dense growth of the for est prevents the seed from growing. When the trees are cut dowu, the sun light enables the seeds on the giound to germinate and grow into thrifty plante. The rirc fruits of cherry andl elder are eaten by birds, and the hard seeds a-e scattered over large arresi. As the young plants are unable to grcw in dense shade, they do not: a pear until after the forest ha been ,ut down or other% ise destroyed. Caltivatiofi of Corn. A Tennessee farmer asks when hould one stop cultivating corn. If the cultivator teeth are not allowed to go more than about two inches dee, ind as the corn gets large they do not go too clore to the stalks, cultivation may be continued to advantage as long s a horse can get through the crop ithout doing material inury. Of ourse, this is on the supposition that he crop is cultivated regularly about ce a week, when the land is dry nougb. If one should fail to stir the round for two or three weeks, and hen should go in and cultivate, some lamage might be done to roots that lad grown up near the surface. But t regular, frequent shallow stirring of he surfa-e can do no harm, no matter iow long co atinuedi, and innch good nay result. Weeds are keptidown, iuc1r. water s saved from evaporation, the air can et ino the siAL better and thus hel ;he 4 "M* 01 some, : ant food may be made available for that and the following cropthat would not be of use if cultivation was stopped eajier in the season. There a: e tons of U, - gen, phosphoric acid and pot ash in an acre of almost any soil that you cultivate. But-r.ature has locked up these elements for plants to fee.d on, and each year only makes a small amount available. If you want more you have only to work for it under staugly, and you can get a reason able amount. And you can get it usually for much less than it would cost in purchased fertilize: s. It is only jithin a few years that learned professors have begun to un de:stand how much plant food, in an unasailable fo m, there was in the soil, an I to advise farmers to mnana;e so as to get morec of it. Short rota tion, with its frequent plowing of the sail. and then long cont'nued cul tivation of theO corn, potatoes, etc., will help about muaking plant food ava labe for wheat, rye, crimson clover,or whatever crop may follow to occupy the g~oaind as soon as corn, etc., d'e. -T. B. Terr-y in Practical Farmer. The Causes of Chicken Diseae. Ncar-ly all of the diseases of chick ens, suomer or winter, can be put under one or t wo classes: inherited or c~usal by unatural conditions of foo:1. If we classify thema thus broadly it may simplify maitters for some so they cen more intel'igently stamp them out. The first class some time in the re mote p)ast must have been undtr the second class; 'that is, all of the dis eases that could be traced back to un natural or nnfavorable conditions of food. Bnt tha: was so long ago that we must take cognizance of the i heritel diseases. These are quite nurrous, and it is fifcult to stamp themn out. The only' su:-e wvay to do it is lo breel from chiekens that hav-e no taint of inherited disease about then. The time must soon conme when poultry raisers will pay more atten tion to this sub ect. At present we. raise chic-kens with little regard to the health of their ancestors. Often the eggs are. obained fromi Eources that are not well known. That is, the chi -kens will be crack ed up as being first class so far as pedigree and breed go, but little is said about the dis eases that have been acquired and are nowv hereditary. We must inquire into this quest'on in purchasing breed ing hens or eggs. A disease that is transmitted down through one gene-ation to another- of. chikens is just as apt to become epi demi'e as any which attack cattle or human beings. The best and about the only way to stamp oat cortagious or inherited disease is to deet:-oy all the crea'.:res that showv symptoms of it, an: then breed careinliy fr-om those that do not have it. The other wide class of chieken dis eaes, which indludes many of the in he: ited and epidemsic ones, co-mes from causes tat can11 generally be reediedi. Filth, dirt, unnatural food and carroundings generally, es peally in winter, are the primary often be inherited, but it is also ac quired by exposure to dampness and unsanitary pens. Leg weakness is characteristic of some breeds of fowls, but it is also due to overfeeding and a lack of lime-forming food. Bowel trouble cories from improper food, al though this may in time be trans mitted by inheritance. Lice come from poor winter quarters, and they may in time start up numerous dis eases that will greatly increase the mortality of the chickens. Fo it is possible to go through the whole list ard show that all of then are due to one or the other of there two causes. -Anne C.Wobster in American Culti vato:-. Form and Construction of Sio. The round bilo seeams to be the ideal form. In this the entire absence (f corners redtus the waste very ma terially, and the space contained in the silo is most econo:nically used. Alter the round, the square silo is the next most desirable form, while the rectangular is the least desirable. The nearer the rectangular silo ap proaches the square, the better it will be. The smaller the proportion of si lage exposed to the outside walls, the smaller will be the loss, hence large tilos are more desirable than small ones. It has been found that the loss of food constituents is much greater near the exterior of the mass, while at considerable distance from fie out ride walls, t bc loss is greatly reduced. In all cases the silo should be deep in order that the pressure caused by the we'ght of the silage may be heavy, an important condition to aid in the ex lusion of the air. The first silos .constructed in this country were made almost tntirely of mafonry. It was thought that solidly built and cemented walls of stone or brick were essential t) the preserva ion of the fo-Ider. It soon became evident, however, that wood silos when carefully constructed wol(1 make as perfe:t a silo, as far as the preservation of the fodder was con erned, as those made of masonry. There is one iery mate-ial advantage found in the more solid form of slo. A well made silo of stoire or brick is ractically indestructible. On the ther hand, the wood silo is more or ess attacke.1 by the acids of the si age, and this, together with the ex. reme chauges of moisture between he empty and filled condition of the silo, causes a somewhat ra-i decay. [n all cases the-silo should be firmly Md snbstantially constructed. The pressure on the walls is so great that auch care needs to be exercised in a ing the studding suTlciently heavy r~d close. to prevent ny tendency vood, the aterior shoulil l;e covered least two tkicknesses of boards, with one or'.two coverings of tarred paper between. A wood pre servative made from gas tar, applied while hot, has been very successfully used. The more completely all of the wood work is protected by some preservative the more will it resist de cav. A round silo made of staves is a new form which has come into use within. a few years, and seems to have many desirable features. It is built on the same plan as the large water tanks ceammonly seen along railroads. The staves can be bought all cut and sawed to the proper leugth and bevel, and by the use of heavy hoops can be esily and firmly put together. Com mon steam piping, wvhich has been drawn down and threaded to take a nut, may be used in i.lace of the strap hoops. By passing the threaded hoops or stea-n pij~es through a solid piece of oak about four inches square ou opposite sides, and by using heavy nuts and washers, the structure may. be quite easily and firmly bound to gether. If it is found that shor-tly after filling, the pressumre is becoming very great upon the sides of t e silo, the nuts may be unscrewed, and the whole structure slightly loosened. The staves will fre-uently so shrink as to leave air spaces betwee'1 them, while the silo is empty, but there is no gr-eat disadvantage if a ready-means for tightening and loosening the hoops is provided. With this form of silo there is some danger of the silage freezing in a col climiate, nless a cheap cover-ing with a li ning of leav-es or rawdust is added. In the const-nuction of the silo one of the most imnportant par's to be es pecialy well made is the bottom. Thai shou:ld in all cases be first well stoned, then grouted with a mixture of coarse gravel and cememi, and fin ally covered with a smooth covering of Portland cement. The essential points in the construdtion of the bot tom of the ailo are to provide thorough d:ainage atnd to make it a proof agains t rats.-(C. S. Phelps of the Connecticut Experiment Station. Stable Hlnts. Have the stable well drained and suficiently lighted. A wet and foul stable predisposes to g-ease and cracked heels. Dampness is ver-y pernicious to horses, and induces rheumatism, coughs and colds. Never havegyour horse's heels close lv trimmeci, nor the hair cut fromn the iside of his ears. No more nails than are absolutely necessary should be employed to at tach the shoe. Nails weaken the hoof by breaking and splitting its fibes. Horses should not - be fed directly they leave woik. Thea the stomach is fatigued with exe:-cise. and they can nt relish or digest their food till r~r covered. - Every stall shpuld be at least six feet wide and nine feet long. This will enable the hiise to turn around without bruising~mself and to lie down and stretchimnself with comr fort. STORY OF A LEAD PLNCI SOME INTERESTING FACTS CON CERNING A FAMILIAR ARTICLE. How the Pencil is Made and Where Its Component Parts Come From-Muich of the Work Done by Girls-Its Name a Misnomer. An industry for girls that is seldom exploited. but one whose results mil lions of people are daily testing, is the putting of lead into pencils. Although no implement is more familiar than the pencil, few people know how it is made or where its component parts come from. The following interest ing facts make one feel that in the manufacture of even so small an ob ject a big field geog: aphically, his torically and geologically has to be covered. "The pine or cedar, the former for cheap pencils, the latter for more ex pensive ones," said a well-known manufacturer of lead pencils, "arrives at the factory in small blocks or slabs, a little longer than a penci', a little wider than six pencils, and of proq.per thickness. If they are to be colored they are first dyed. All are treated to a process which removes the essential oil and which seasons them per-ectly. "The source of supply for the cedar is Florida, and so great inroads have been made upon the forests for the miaafactire of pencils that the wood is becoming exhausted. The name 'enad pencil' is a misnomer and hails from the sticks of lead which were the primitive pencils. The 'iead' is graph ite or plumbago, and comes from the province of Quebec or from Ticon derogp, the latter having the largest mines of the kind on this continent. "One factory turns out 30,000,000 pencils a year. The graphite is first reduced to an impalpabe powder by grinding. Water is then addel and the substance is run through mixers in a fluid sttte in order to combine with it whatever quantity of c'ay way be necessary to give it the grade de ired. The more clay the harder the lead and vice versq. A fter this mix ing has been done, which is performe.1 entirely by machinery, the mass ii taken from the mixers and run through filter presses in a way to exclude the water and reduce it to a doughy con sistencv. In order to make the mix ing still more thorough, thi3 doughy mass is then Rassed through dies, by which is meant plates with numerous mall perfo:ations under great pres sure, from which the lead-as I shall all it iir deference to common phirase nl6gy-issues in tiny rods or wires, in general ap raa not-_n1jke the Tead-tnat is .pIVnto Me but, instead of- being dry an rittle, baing still in a moist or soft'condi tion. "Ihe material receives this treat ment repeatedly through dies 'with apertures of different diameters. un til finally, when the mixing has been satisfactorily completed, and the mass is in proper condition, it is pa-sed through a set of dies of the exact di ameter of the lead that is to go into the nencil. Deft fingers take the product in this condition, straighten out the leads and cut them to lengths of about three feet. At this stage it is still coniiparatively soft and pliable. After being cut the leads are allowed to dry, and are then cut to the re quired pencil lengths and packed in crucibles and burned for several hours in order to extract the last degree of moisture that remains and to bring the lead to its final condition. The leads are now ready for inserting in the wcoden cases and are sent to the girl!d room. The slabs of wood are put through a machine, giving each six grooves, square or round, and at the same time smoothing the face of the wood. "The girls are seated in groups of three, wi~h slabs, 'leads' and gluepot before them. The first girl takes a grooved strip in her right band and six leads spread fan shape in her left, and with one motion fills the six grcoves. The next girl coats a groove strip with hot glue and hands it- to No. 3, who takes the filled strip from her other neighbor and lays the one upou -the other. The filled and glued strips ars piled together and left in a press to dry. After that they are evened offunder a sandpaper wheel ad cut into single pencils, when they are shaped and varnished ready for the market.--Nev York Tribune. Italian Noses Win Medals. In Italy the formation of the nose is considered one of the most impor tat of physiological details. There is a "cult of the nose" in some sections, and this finds expression in "nose cmpetitions," in which the owners of the feature receive prizes accord ingly as they can present it in great est p)erfection as regards type, size, beauty and olfactory power. The best ordered and most con clusive competition of this kind was held recently at Milan. Thge whole pro ceeding was controlled by a committe and the examinations were conducted in a "Nasoteca" furnished with draw ings and water colors of hbads well provided with noses such as wrould have gladdened the artistic sense of a Crauo. The competitors numbered 36, but only 23 appeared be fore the examiners-. The fi:st prize--a gold medal-was won by a Venetian, Fortunato Michiel utti, a vender of matches, whose ncse was found to be of formidable pro portions, long, well pmar'ounced, ':g gressive, trench.ant,like a knife blade." The second prize fell to Antonio Pozzi, possessed of a nose "domineering, assumning, with nostrils wide and cavernous." The award for this was a medal in enamel, while the third prize,a silver medal of the first order, was adjudged to Carlo Ascant for the refined, symmetrical proportions of "'3 nasal feature, "One o that I ever haL personally acq the white-haired dry reflectively, "was a cha Snoggles, who was in the s pany with are in the arniy dun civil war. The poor fellow is long ago, I believe, and I don't want to injure the feelings of his friends, but the truth of the matter was that when Snoggles slept there was mighty little rest for any one else in the neighborhocd. "The minute he got to sleep he would roll over on his back, open his mouth and tune up. He would begin with a noise something like a man gently scraping a fiddle bow across the strings, and as be went oa the sound would gradually rise higher and spread out and increase in volume until the whole tent was packed so full of it that the sides bulged out; and then he would suddenly wind up with a snort that fairly shook the ground. ". aturally, this was rather wearing on the rest of us, and we tried vari ous schemes to break him of snoring, but without success. Finally, we hit upon the plan of tieing a piece. of hardtack to a string, attaching the other end of the string to a pole, and then after dangling the crac-ker over the yawning cavity until it was in ex actly the right position, dropping it gently into his mouth. This wnld tickle his palate and set hiiM to cough ing, and as it would take him some time to settle down and get his snore foundry going at fall blast again, the other occupants of the test would manage to get a little rest. But it used to puzzle Snoggles greatly to know why he had these sudden choking spells ia his sleep, and he finally consulted the companfs surgeon, who examinel his throat and told him there was nothing wrong the- e, and that his choking must be all in his imagina-io,. "'Imagination be hanged!' growle I Snoggles. 'I reckon a man's imagina tion don't set up nights tryin' -to choke him to deatb.' "Well, he began to suspect what the trouble was finally, and one night when we were trying the e-acker game on him as usual, he suddenly shut his teeth on it, and the next instant he was up spitting up hardtack and harder language out of his mouth, and as socn as he got fuJf awake and had secured a club we d to fly for our lives. "Snoggles went" to 1 ca ta t next mrozyj and we promptly entered a counter complaint against him for his dci:iboli cal snoring, and the matter was finally settled by giving Snoggles and- that double-bass snore of his a tent all to the'mselves off-at the extreme eige of the camp. "A third of a century bas passe] since that time, but never have I for gotten San Snogles' snore; and frequently on a summer night, when I am awakened by the loud rumbce of thunder overhead, I spring up in my.I bed, and for an instant I have all I can no to keep myself from imagining I am back in company G's tent on the Rappahannock listening to Snoggles' slumber-annihilating midnight solos. -Woman's Home Companion. Chinese Use of Fans. Considering that the Chinese use fans for nearly everything, it seems strange that they do not use them in the form of punkahs, as the Hindoes do. They. show such resource in the ' emloyment of fans that it is certainly . not through Iacc of inventive faculty, that the large revolving fan is not in vogue. They have "snap fans," bear-. ing on the leaf an accurately drawn-up guide to this or that pleasure resort; they have fans which bear the picture or news of some given event of im-' portance to out-of-the-way padts of. China; they have fan-shaped dagge-s and clubs cunningly contrived after' the style of walking-stick daggers;! they have even the quaint original of the autograph fan which has lately' found its way into English favor, bu't as to the punkah, they will hare-none! of it. This may be accounted for by the fact that a Chinaman does not. like to, be fanned at the top or back of his head. His tight-drawn, straight hair offers no protection whatever against a good punkah breeze, whereas the? Hindoo, having a gocd covering of loose han-, even when not turbaned. does not suffer from chills of the scair. An inventive and enterprising Celes-' tal, overlooking this fact, once fash ioned a punkah on a large scale. It consisted of seven large wheels ten feet in diameter, joined together so that one man could tarn them all on a single crank. Such a seven-fold paddle-breeze contrivance would cer-, tainly create a breeze in which no fly could live; but it never came to any thing. It was, apparently, the last of is race. The .Warkcsmanl Presses the Button,. A new triggerless and hammerless gun that has been invented by a man named Thompson of Birmingham,Eng land, if it fulfils all that is expected of it,should become popular. Instead of pulling a trigger one presses a but ton. The mechanism of the lock is of the- ordinary hamnmerless character, and is worked by a button which is in the small part of the stoek, rrotected by a light guard similar to those used for hamnmerless gun. There is only one button for a double-barreled gun, and by an ingenious arrangement it, can be worked to fire both barrels right and left or left and right, as the case may be. The idea of replacing the trigger by a button is not original but it seems that no one has been able carry it ont neieticallJy heretofore. rhe They I'll lt I've tol "This marked the >ff his hat. Mr. Pitt trikes now ven the lig "My husban ways maintains ents." "701 reur husband is "ay, n, w pessimism?" "My Eon, it is one of the results of natrimony and mil'ners' bills. Now on't ask any more q' estions." "How's basiness?" 'askei the deal r in ofc3 supplies. 'Just moving eplied the sto age man, "H.iow is it with you?" "Oh, stationery." "She sail she -was shocked," as erted the girl in blue. "She must iave got hold of a live wire,'Y re unel the girl in gray promptly. "Mummy, can I have that year that ras on ti-e dining room si4ebt ar,1 thiis norning? 'Cos-" (Pause.) "Be 'ase what?" "'Cos 'e eaten it!" .Arid when rm gone." be, tremWing, crid - "Will you remember me?" - 1 will," the wea-y girl replied: .'Just try it once and see." "Why do you think she must ha e ,icked up her musical educaton her elf?" "When slie, sings I can a lerstand nearly every word she ays." "Didn't he once say he would neier' peak to you again?"- "Yes; bu aw I had-a cold, and he couldn't x ist the temptation to tell me of asnre :2re." Mrs. Catterson-What a pity are no chillren.. Mrs. Hatte don't kn -w. f I did211a.e rouadnt be able to take ins a ;ive part in the motkers' congres "2ist !" whispered the fist ) ice,; "the s a.. remoe e t At orney. oa say ouh to see ss Biingsa' weia U house at the time the1g~jkj<w omxiittei? Witness-Yes. sr :AS torey-Thenhow di& it hafpin taw -. when the prisoner dashed intAothe room and assaulte. -you, younaiid through the window and- wenihom making no attempt to de'end thei r give The alarm? Witness-I thought it was her father. - The Goat an4 the Firemewa. A big white billy ,goat broke into No. 7 engine,house at full trot and halted Leside the hose wagon. Whoa the men recovered the whole company made a rush for him. In the ensu ing excitement Driver Weinekmin bumped his forehead- against one of the sliding posts and Pipema Snyder took a heavy fail over the goat itself. When William was finally secured by four firemen a council ot war was held. While a billy goat was unfit for engine purposes, he was not to be lightly considered. Accordingly, at Pipeman Seymour's motion, Captain. Watkins ordered the visitor inte custody in the hayloft, and as-no one seemed responsi, ehe began to execute i own order. And only after .a violent struggle, 'with the captain pulling him by the hoins, and eymour pushing hini in the rear, with the rest of the company assisting in divers ways, he was firally landed in the lost and tethered to a post. - The company was .suddenly called downstairs, and when they returned to view their acquisition they found he hadeaten all the feed in his reh and chewed the tops off Fipesa Sope's gum boots, which he' h'ad ca: efully chosen fr om a long row itanding against the wall. He had also overset a big bucket of 'water and Girenee: the spick-and-span wagon of the ma' shal which stood below,. and the company was quite willing to tura. him orer to Mr. Herman, of the In epenent Ice company, who called to aim him. -Baltimore Ne'ws. Facts and Th~eory. There are facts that will not fit into any theory, but which keep pop ping up at us from the most uinex-. pected places. Notody can tell where they come from or why .they are- here, but here they are. Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of im~erfectess. 'We are surprised at our own versatility in -being able to fail in so many different ways. Every ing is under the reign. of strict law, but many queer things happen, never theles. What are we to do with all the waifs and strays? What are we to do with all the sudden incongrui ties which mock at ogi wisomn -and destroy the symmetry~of onr ideas ? 'Ibe solemnly logical .intelligence ignores their existenee. An amateur philosopher once gave me an eeray-in which he proved that anima's sufer no pain. I venraznd to point'out t few indlications to the contrary. He replied: "Impossible! Anima'suffEz o pamn; if they did, it wouki-beean. trary to my, syste iofiloha' -Atlantio -Mouthiy -- .