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S_. Sir Eoui~iuw *rmwrat. "The World is Governed Too Much." Y . BIOSSAT,.Bnsiness anager. ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1889. VOL. XLIV.-NO. 36. ROMANCE OF A BUTTON. He was about to say adieu, Was thinking of some word to flatter When from his overcoat there flew Abutton with a dismal clatter. geblgshed, but she. with woman's tact, iftshbe saw a good joke in it, ~ slaughingly: "There, now, I'll anct your tailor's part for just a minute." le doffed the coat and watched her thread The needle with her head low bending. "oNw, do you KnIow," he softly said, *I have an awful lot of mending?" "'A bachelor, we'll say, like me, is at the mercy of his tailor, jndthen there's something else, you see, (At this he turned a trifle paler). 'My heart needs mending much, I fear, "Do you suppose that you could do it?" Well, Idon't know." she mused, "but, dear, rll give my whole attention to it." -Ladies' Review. DICKY AND BILLY. The Latter Innocently Led the For mer Into Danger. All that summer Dicky and Billy had been inseparable friends-ever since the day when, bereft of mother, broth ;ers and sisters at one cruel stroke by the falling of a giant tree, little Billy had been brought to the house a badly frightened and very noisy little ball of yellow down, looking more like a wad of wet and tangled cotton than a lineal descendant of a champion Pekin duck. "What a pity." said Mrs. Gilson, Dicky's mother, as she placed the lonely orphan in a snug nest before the fire, where the genial glow would grad sally dry and enliven his bedraggled feathors. "There were nine of them this mnorning-such a pretty little flock -and the old duck was such a pet! :Well, well, I don't reckon the little thing will live, but still, we can lot him take his chances." "Watch Dicky, or he'll kill him afore night," remarked Mr. Gilson, laughingly; "thinks there never was sech a purty thing, Dicky does; keep him away from him, mother, or you'll have no duck." "What's the difference?" growled old man McCrory, the hunter and trapper `who made his home with the Gilson's, L!be boy might as well kill him as the arnmints. Why! sech sign of 'coon as there is alonr the edge of the bottom! an' mink tracks till you can't rest! no dangerthat the bird will ever have ter die of old age." Butif Billy merely loved his young friend for the sake of the dainty tid bits that" they shared together, the same charge could not apply to Dicky. Billy was his only playmate in the long hours McCrory's big, good-natured bound, Track, was absent with his `master in the woods. When Track was at home, Billy was often neglected -for never was there such a good, playful, giant of a dog before-but zhen the hound was absent, then the baby and the duckling were is inseparable as brothers. Dicky's tonme was at the verge of one ; the many great swamps of the Southwest. Years before his father .lad cleared a farm and built a house son alow mound near the confluence of a river and a smaller creek. In the dry season of the year this culthvated mound was a little sunshiny paradise ls a wilderness of canebrake and cy preas, but with the heavy rainfall that ~ilght come at any time, the swollen streams overflowed the neighboring low-grounds, and Gilson's hill as it was called became an island and sepa rated from the narrow highlands by a :deep strip of water, which was many cads wide at the narrowest point. Afew yards from the rear of the ;house was the boat landing, where froma one year's end to another, the Ihalf-dozen skiffs and dugouts owned by Mrt. Gilson and his friend McCrory lay 'oating in the submerged grass and weeds, or high and dry on the bare Sround, just as the stage of water lalanced to be. And here, one morn ag in August. the aquattic instincts of the restless Billy led him to wander, tad close in the rear followed the traw hat, and long, linsey skirt of his Miend. "Billy," called the child, with im Pressive severity, "tum bat here to me. O0'll dit d'ownded if oo do in dar!" But Billy knew better than that; he Walked with grave deliberation to the Water's edge. wet his throat with a few drops, then lay one side of his head -ad neck in the black ooze, as though trying a mud application for the ear ache; and, as if satisfied with the re mlt, shook himself gaily, waded fur ther out and floated like an autumn leaf on the bosom of the waters. S"Oh, ducky, ducky! Doo tumrn bat," tried the anxiouse baby; but his appeal was utiolced and in vain. Never be fore, in Billy's recollection, had he en joyed himself so well as at the present oment. The choicest morsel of cake epie could hot have enticed him to &e shore. PDicky stood with his little bare toes wthe water and rubbing his eyes say Iply with his fat, dimpled fslats. His lwas gone-;yes, he wasl--he knew never come back any morel If he SOnly catch him once. ck could get in the boat, per be could regain possession of his ing his hat in his haste he about, and made his way stern, and the added weight swung the bow clear of the around into deepar water. Smischievous flirt and a 'he runaway Billy darted far Mud as Dicky reached out to ' caught at a hanging bush, eiously exerting his baby m Lhsaw with delight that the as moving, actually following ~ l1 him d'wee'ly," mur. 1*' ** • look as though there was some chance of it, for the water of the river, rising ge rapidly had left the channel and was w cutting across back of the hill with a s5 current quite strong enough to swiftly waft the young voyager beyoud sight gi and hearing of his home. Fortunately, however all voyages must come to an end, and, a half-mile h from the land, the pilotless craft, l1 caught by a cross current swung up to i a huge floating cypress tree, caught in P1 a trailing grapevine and was held hard and fast, and after circling b' around for a few minutes the now U weary Billy, after a great deal of s climbing up and slipping back. man- h aged to get upon the log where it sat and picked and arranged its glossy feathers until Dicky, at imminent risk of falling into the water, crawled upon the cypress and cuddled down by his side. An hour later, when Gilson and the trapper McCrory returned to the hill n they noticed at once the absence of the skiff, and upon reaching the house found Mrs. Gilson in despair at the b unaccountable absence of little Dicky. "lie ain't on the hill," she sobbed, "I've been everywhere, Oh, my baby -my baby-I jest know he's drowned j -or a bear has got him!" "Taint a b'ar," dissented McCrory, "ye can't fool ol' Track! Ef a b'ar d hed ben on the hill he'd a tol' it. No h the kid's in the skiff. It's gone-tho' a how he ever made out tow paddle off, t( blest if I know." v "The current would take him if he gI got clear off the bank," eagerly sug- t gested Gilson, as they hurried to the sl landing. "Ef he stuck ter the boat ii he's all right." m "Yhar's his hat," announced the P1 trapper, pointing to the little straw vi fabric caught in a clump of bushes. k "Come, brace up, Miss Gilson! taint w no sign the boy's in the water jest re kase his hat is. Whar's that Billy it duck P-don't know, eh?-well I dew. tl He's with the boy, an' that's a sure le sign that they're both all right. Ef c( Dicky warn't thar, the duck would come back." ti There was sound logic in this rea- b soning, and both his hearers knew it. s' McCrory and Gilson sprang into a boat t( and pulled out from the landing. E "Let her float with the current," a said the trapper, "it's a slow way, but the only safe one. Let that paddle w alone, Gilson; yer excited like, an' a might guide her wrong. Ef I strike a ti straight shute whar I kin gain time C; I'll sure gain it." u It was the only course to pursue. Every thing depended on following ex- e actly on the trail of the missing boat. To miss it either way meant death to G th poor lost baby-death by starva tion or drowning. Suddenly McCrory leaned forward and caught Gilson's arm. "Not a word! Silence; I see him, but if you want ter save his life be quiet. Look yander ter ther'left." A floating cypress, with a boat tan gled in the vines beside it. A sleep- e ing child crouched upon the rough bark, his shoulders resting against a supporting branch. In his arms, hugged up to his breast, a little white duck, that watched the intruders with a bright and curious eyes; and over head, d something Gilson paled and gasped for breath. "My God!" he breathed hoarsely, "is the child dead or sleeping?" "Sleepin' as yet"-gritted the trap- b per- "but of he wakes, an' moves, it is death." It was a terrible sight-the sleeping unconscious child, and coiled on a branch a foot above his head, a slimy hideous serpent-a monster swamp t moccasin. "Your rifle," whispered Gilson, "surely you can kill the snake without theboy. I'd try it-but-my God! I'm d shaking like a leaf." "It's an awful risk," murmured the other, "not of hittin' ther kid-thar's a no danger of that-but of ther snake ain't hit in the head he'll sink a tooth in the lad jest for spite." o "It's the only way," persisted the t anxious father, "you must shoot, and a at once. Heavens! if the boy should n move!" "It's mighty nigh like bein' my own . kid," murmured McCrory, and his h hand was seen to tremble visibly as he drew back the hammer of the rifle. a "Pardner, I kaint dew it." t "Curse it. you must; don't fail me i, now Ed."McCrory! Your hand is steady h enough when no one is concerned but v yourself. Didn't I see you shoot a pistol out of Jack Sny's hand when your life depended on it?" "But I was mad then, and when I'm mad I kin shoot ther best" 1 A strange gleam shone in Gibson's eyes for a moment. "You are a coward, Ed. McCrory. n A coward and a horse-thief like your u father before you! Give me the gun t: and I will shoot the boy through the headt By the gods, he shall not fall a prey to that devil yonder; give me the gun, and whdn it is all over I will ] settle with you for going back on a ij friend in trouble." But the trapper' shoved him back, and again the rifle was raised, and , this time not a tremor agitated the h long barrel. Yet in the short space , that had elapsed affairs had assumed f a more fearful shape. The child had awakened, and caught t sight of his father, and was rising to f his feet, and the hideous fangs above o were bared for the fatal stroke. o Would McCrory never fireP An in- t stant's delay just now might mean the I difference between safety and death. Already it seemed too late, for the a boy's head seemed to partially shield e that of t.e serpent, an injst~at and s then-- Ia Boy and snake were in the water to gether at the crack of the rifle, and with a horrible fear at his heart Gil son urged the boat forward. You've killed 'em both, Ed," he gasped, "I don't blame you, but, oh, my God!" He dropped his paddle and covered his face with his hands. McCrory leaned forward and pulled some object into the boat, then he touched his com panion on the shoulder. "Thar warn't mor'n a inch of room but I got thar," he said, with quiet ex ultation, "'thar's a few hairs close shingled, but nothin' wuzz. Lordy hear the kid blow the water out of his moth an' yell." "Thar ain't another man in Arkan sas that could have made that shot," sobbed Gilson, as he pressed his res cued child to his heart. But McCrory, his usual self-possession returned, merely reached one hand for the long necked, garrulous Billy, and without as much as a glance at the writhing coils of the decapitated serpent, stepped into the skiff and led the way back to the hill.-S. D. Barnes, in Yankee Blade. THE EDITOR'S DUTY. Hie Does Not Represent Authors, But a Large Circle of Readers. "I wonder," said Eugene, with a sar donic smile, "what reason of personal hostility to me the editors of our mag azines can have? I have sent articles to all of them, and, although I say it, very much better articles than they generally publish, but they are all re turned. Now the editor of a magazine should be above personal likes and dis likes, and judge articles upon their merits." Alas and alas! that was probably the ground of the editorial verdict in each case. With a clear knowledge of what he wanted, and with an immense supply of papers al ready accepted and paid for, the ed itor, always on the lookout for some thing better, did not find the price less pearl in Eugene's essays, and courteously returned them. * * * One shrewd author, of a detective turn of mind, determined to ascertain beyond question whether his manu script had been examined, and if not, to put the delinquent editor to shame. He carefully united some of the more advanced pages by a delicate thread, wholly unaware that his happy device was as ancient as the competition of articles for acceptance. When his ar ticle returned to him he searched eagerly and found his secret thread unbroken, and invoking the shade of Junius, he composed a withering epistle to the editor, as if that per sonage had been a very Bedford, or Grafton. or even the King himself. The fact of the unbroken thread was undeniable. It was as intact as when the subtle-minded author placed it. Not only was it unbroken, but it had not been even seen by the editor. With the frankness of Mr. Parnell con fessing that he had purposely de ceived the House of Commons, the editor, but wholly without blame, would have confessed that he had not seen the thread because he had not ad vanced so far in reading the manu script. "And yet you pretend to ex amine manuscripts carefully!" thun dered the indignant author in his let ter. But let him reflect. Does he sup pose that it was necessary to read the whole of his letter to ascertain that he was exceedingly angryP Certainly not. The author would hope not. The letter blazed, and was intended to blaze with wrath from Alpha to Omega. Very. well. Then was it necessary for the editor to read every page of the manu script essay to perceive that it was not suitable or available? Must a man eat the whole apple to ascertain that it is puckery, or sour, or tasteless? Does the good author himself, in his more lucid moments, read the whole of a dull book to discover that it is not in terestingP What plea could an editor urge upon a gentle reader who should justly com plain that the editor had governed his conduct by pity for the writer instead of regard for the reader? He has en= tered into an engagement of honor with the reader, but he has no engage ment with the writer of any kind what ever. He has promised the reader to make the best magazine possible. He has promised nothing to Triptolemus, who offers him a dull paper upon the sesthetic sympathies of penguins. Trip tolemus thinks it far from dull. But it is Mr. Editor who must decide on be half of the gentle reador.-George William Curtis, in Harper's Magazine. Income from the Moose. The few moose yet in Maine's woods bring no inconsiderable money annual ly to the State. I have been told of one man who has spent$5,000 in Maine trying to kill a moose, and he has neither secured the moose nor given up the task. It would be greatly to the benefit of hunters who wish to call moose if the law was changed so as to make September an open month, for only during the September moon is there a reasonable prospect of success in calling. It was once my pleasure to meet a sportsman just in from moose calling. His Indian had called a inoose to the water, but was unable to get him to come out of the bushes, and a shot into the shadows was unsuccess ful. Said the hunter: "I have never seen any sporting to compare with this. I could hear the moose comirng for an hour, and when he came down off the hills to the water I could think of nothing but a locomotihe off the track and running through the woods I have killed no moose, but that ex perience was worth all this trip cost me. It fairly made my hair stand on end to hear that moose come. Yes, sir; it was worth $150 of any p.an's mlonley,"-Forest a4D Strena REFORM THE TARIFF. A Doctrine That Should Be Persistently Preach-sd in the New West. In this political off-year the Re publican managers, when not ran sacking the Government departments for spoils, are devoting their atten tion to the four new States of the Northwest. The campaign, which will close on October 1, promises to be of absorbing interest. If by a sudden and unexpected turn of the political wheel the new States should choose Democratic Representatives and Democratic Legislatures the Repub licans would find themselves in the minority in both houses of Congress. President Harrison has betrayed ex treme solicitude in regard to the con test, and Chairman Quay has called into frequent consultation Clarkson, D)udley and other manipulators of elections to consider the best means of saving the new States. At the outstart it is felt by the Re publican managers that the methods so successfully practiced in some of the old States in the last election can not be applied with advantage in the young and uncorrupted common wealths of the Northwest. While fat might be fried in considerable quanti ties from the protected trusts and other monopolies, it could not be put to very effective use. The purchase of "floaters" in "blocks of five" is not feasible, since very few if any of this class of voters are to be found in the new States; and, in any event, the experiment would be ex tremely hazardous among an impul sive people, who frequently use young trees for executing speedy justice upon malefactors. Nor would "walking delegates" of labor organizations, supplied with the money of tariff-fed monopoly, be able to mislead or cor rupt many voters in the new States. In view of the ineffectiveness of the usual Republican campaign methods in this contest, it has been proposed to overrun the four new States with an army of Republican orators be tween this time and the election. Among the speakers already booked for this Western campaign are Joseph E. Cannon, J. C. Burrows, Benjamin Butterworth and other Republican members of Congress, who will make the welkin ring with their shouts for "Protection to American Industry." This is a ground on which the Democrats are more than a match for their political opponents, and they should not delay to take possession of it. The ablest representatives of the Democratic doctrines of tariff reform should meet the champions of tariff spoliation in the New West and dis cuss the issue in the open field. John G. Carlisle, W. C. P. Breckenridge, George F. Hoadly, S. S. Cox, Senators Voorhees and Turpie of Indiana, Beck of Kentucky, Vest of Missouri, and others who know the West and the sentiments of its people, would no doubt cheerfully give their serv ices to the cause. In the great debate in the last Congress the superior strength of the advocates of tariff re form was manifest, and it would be no less so in this Western campaign. The Republican leaders in the new States would be only too glad to escape this issue and make a post mortem campaign upon the achieve ments of a party from which they have inherited little but the name. But the fight for revenue reform should be forced upon them, in spite of their repugnance, in every district of North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington. There should be no repetition of the blunder that was committed in the Northwest last year, when the Republicans who fled in dis gust from the tariff platform of Chi cago were permitted to make their campaign upon the dead issues of slavery, sectionalism and civil war. No portion of the country has a larger interest in this tbe burning question of American politics than the New West, the people of which must pay heavy tribute to the tariff spoilers for nearly all the commodi ties they buy, and sell their own prod ucts in the open markets of the world in accordance with the principle of free trade. For this reason the Re publicans of that region should be held down to the issue, no matter how much they may attempt to wriggle away from it. The New West is a field that lies almost fallow; and the Democrats and adherents of the party of tariff reform would be utterly want ing in the courage of their opinions if they should neglect the opportunity that is offered them for its cultiva tion.- Philadelphia Record. INCREDIBLE BARBARISM. Some Exceedingly Interesting Phases of the Negro Problem. Our readers have been kept advised from time to time of the remarkable developments of barbarism that have been taking place among the legroes in Liberty- County and other sections of the State. These negroes are not less civilized than the average negroes in the coun- I try districts of the South. The white people of Liberty County have long been noted for their piety, their re finement and their entertainments. They are desoended from Puritan stock, and from the settlement at Mid. way have sprung some of the most distinguished men of the country. Statesmen, soldiers, lawyers and liter ary men have come out of Liberty, and there is no reason to believe that the negroes thpre are any more ig norant than the average of their race in any part of the South. If they are, it is not because they were left to themselves as slaves, but it is because they have deliberately relapsed into barbarism. Never were there rnora fortunat' care and keeping of the pious and re fined Puritan families of Liberty. A Their spiritual as well as their tem poral welfare was looked after most assiduously, and, although the negroes si then largely outnumbered the whites, ,s as they outnumber them now, the mis- I sionary temper of the white people of fi Liberty did not permit the blacks to f suffer for Pack of religious teaching. f But what is the result? Not many p weeks ago a white man from Ohio made si his appearance in Liberty County, and tl he was at once hailed as a Messiah by the blacks, whlo left their work and IE followed him about the country. This a man, who is as crazy as a loon, told f the negroes that on the 16th of August n he and his followers would ascend to Heaves. On the strength of this the tl blacks left their work by the hundred II and followed him about the country. p Labor was demoralized, and the ne groes were so wrought on by their superstition and their religious fanati. t cism that the white people feared the d worst. Finally the Ohio crank was captured and lodged in the lunatic asylum, but no sooner had be disappeared than his place was taken up by a negro justice of the peace named Edward V James. This negro went into a trance, and when he awoke he announced that the spirit of Dupont Bell had en tered his body and that henceforth he d was to be theleader. This statement was accepted as true by Bell's fol. lowers and they flocked after James, who, at last accounts, was going through Liberty County demoralizing f the blacks and raising pandemonium. No sooner had James announced t that he was Christ than he stripped off his clothes and carried on his work C unembarrassed by garments of any t kind. To his principal disciples he gave the right to set up harems, and he himself has in his train a number of concubines. Children have been sacrificed by his orders, and a number of negroes have been beaten to death under the pretense that they were possessed of devils. Where this out burst of fanaticism will end no one knows. t These manifestations and develop ments are but a part of the negro problem with which our Republican friends deal so lightly and flippantly. I They are only a few of the results that grow out of a situation bristling 1 with dangers that are by no means of I a political nature.-Atlanta Constitu tion. NOTES AND COMMEN TS. -The new-found Republican har I mony in Virginia is of a character to be appropriately celebrated by a scalp e dance.--Providence Journal. - - We are glad to see that the pro- E tectionists of the country begin to re alize that the only way to successfully I beat the trusts is to reduce the tariff. I -New Haven Register. --Query: Would it not be better I ) for Corporal Tanner to make a bluff r at attending to the business of his of fice than to expound pension theories I at picnics.--Buffalo Express (Rep.). --We fear brother Halstead's chances of the Senatorship are not brilliant. There is a good deal of money and a good deal of mean man - agement against him on both sides, I r and he has poor prospects in his own party while it makes of Foraker an J 1 idol.-Boston Herald. --The Republican press fondly I hoped for a victory in Kentucky. Until I the Republican party becomes a tariff reform party it need not look to Ken tucky. The Kentuckian has no love of being robbed, and he feels some in terest in the general welfare of the country.--Louisville Courier-Journal. -Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, has I written a letter explaining his article on prohibition in ,the Forumn. From his explanation it would appear that SMr. Ingalls has been paid for the arti- I cle, but is still in doubt himself as to what side of the probibition ques- I tion he wrote in favor of.-Chlcago Times. - -There are very few woolen manu facturers in this neck of woods who are not now ready to admit that free wool has become a necessity. Withoutit the wool business will ultlmltely fall en tirely into the hands of foreigners, who have the pick and choice of the Sworld's wool supply. --Philadelphia SRecord. S---From Columbus, Ind., comes the information that a catfish weighing one hundred and four pounds has been Scaught in the White river, and this is said to be the largest fish ever caught in Indiana waters. The smallest fish ever caught in Indiana is supposed to be holding public office at the Nation. al capital just now.-Chicago News. 1 --A few weeks ago this paper pub. e lished an article denouncing the ap e pointment of James T. Morgan to the Soffice of Indian Commissioner in place s of that sterling Democrat, John H. Oberly. By mistake this article, an fI honest and able Democratic produo~ t tion, was credited to the Indianapolis a Journal, Mr. Harrison's home organ. r The commente, it is hardly necesarye Sto state, first appeared in Consul-Gen-. Sral New's esteemed contemporary, a the Indianiapolis Sentinel. L- ---In the pig-iron, high-tax and ! free-whisky platform adopted by the SRepublicans of Pennsylvania the coun ]try is congratulated upon the grieat , victory of 1888, which was "won with a Pennsylvania platform and aPenn - sylvania leader." Probably it is near 5 enough to the truth to claim that the c ignorant and immoral platform fm 0 minated in Chicago in 1888 was a a Pennsylvania affair, but what haver a Dudley and Harrison to say to this brazen: atteopt to confer all of the ' bays upon, iatt 8. Qrutw-a i i o a e~i~ad MEDICAL PROGRESS. An Explanation of the Marvelous Process of Skin Grafting. When large areas of skin are de stroyed, as happens in the case of severe burns or extensive injuries, it is sometimes months before the sur face is again covered with epidermis. Repair may have gone on till the sur- a' face is on a level with the surrounding parts, and all that remains is for the skin to creep in from the edges; but this process, especially in persons 0' weakened by long confinement in bed, (' Is very slow, and the constant dis charge of matter from the open sur- s6 face causes irritation, as well as weak- 0 ness. It has been known for many years k that a flap of skin might be lifted from a its place and made to adhere in an ad- A joining spot, provided its connection with the surrounding skin were not a cut off. But now we can go farther o than this. In 1860 a French physician n discovered that small bits of sound a skin might be snipped off and applied to the surface of the sore, and that fi under certain conditions they would b adhere and form new centers from a which the process of healing might go d on. e In order to have a graft "take" well, s the surface of the ulcer must be in a suitable condition. If it is rough, or e discharges too freely, or projects too o far above the surrounding level, there b is danger that the small bits of skin p will fall off. The process is as follows: The sur- b face of the ulcer, as well as that of the sound skin from which the grafts are to be taken, having been carefully cleansed with carbolic acid, or other solution that serves the same purpose. the bit of skin is picked up in a small pair of forceps or on the point of a needle, and is snipped off with a pair of sharp scissors or a small knife. Only the superficial layer of skin is taken, and if this is properly done there is no bleeding. The bit of skin, which is generally not larger than the head of a pin, is t then placed firmly upon the ulcer, with the cut side down, and preferably about a quarter of an inch from the free border. A line of grafts may be placed at equal distances completely across the denuded surface, and thus a bridge of skin is soon formed, for the grafts spread and unite, and thus con vert the original ulcer into two smaller ones. By a similar process these two parts may be again divided, and the process continued till the whole sur face is covered. In a few instances larger portions of skin have been made to grow to the ulcerated surface, but in general the smaller bits cause repair to go on as rapidly, and are more easily applied t and cared for.-Youth's Companion. TOWED BY A TARPON. i How Two Hen' and a heavy Boat Were Carried Along by a Fish. The other rod lay between me and my boatman, under his supervision. I was reeling in my line after a short abortive cast, when suddenly Pierce made an exclamation, ant I turned.to see his line running out rapidly, so rapidly in fact that the handle of the c reel knocked a piece out of his fore finger. He reached me the rod,. and just after 1 had seized it, taking care to exert no pressure, a large silvery t mass leaped out of the water straight r into'the water and fell back again..' "A tarpon, and a big fellow," cried t Pierce. In considering any statement as to I the height a fish jumps out of I .water. it is important to know whether E the narrator has included the length I of the fish in making up his figures. That is to say, if a fish is six feet long I and jumps from.its native element so that the tip of its tail is two feet clear of the surface, good story-tellers will claim that it has jumped eight feet out I of water. Others will take oath to I only two. It is sufficient to state that the tarpon in question juimped either two feet or eight, according to the in- I dividual preference of the reader. At that time he had taken out with veloc- I ty about fifty yards of line; the leap terminated his first rush, and I had an opportunity to reel in about a fourth of the amount before he started off again. Meantime my man had hauled up the anchor and we were in process of being towed by the big fish, whose frantic efforts to escape were making the reel revolve at a famous rate. From long experience with sal mon, I knew enough to keep the point of my rod as high as possible consist ent with the heavy strain, and the mo ment the rush diminished in intensity I clapped my finger on to'the leather drag and resis'ed stoutly, reeling in every inch of line that I could recover. But before long he was off once more in mad career, and' dut of water vi oiously shaking hilhead in determined efforts to spit out the hook. His faUl. ure to dolthis after sserle'of endeaV ors showed that he had swallowed the bait, and that my chief eoncern how p should' be as to the strength of my tackle--Seribner's Magazine. Better Than a Safety Vault Highwayman (halting lady in car riage)-Stop, Madaml Your money or your lifet i Lady-My money is in my pocket, sir, and as neither you nor I can find it inside of ten minutes, and there is a large party of brethren touristsrcor Ing up the hilL I would advise you to let me pass. . y o ... u. - f...lghwaryman -Thanks,tnadam, youm advice is worth heeding. Good-day. -Man : psur live on thene. PITH AND POINT. -When you introduce a moral lee son let it be brief. -Fortune does not change'the char acter, but it reveals it. -It is not good that repels or evil that attracts, but the monotony of good and the variety in evil-Atchison Globe. -What a glorious world this would be if people lived up to the epitaphs on their tombstonesl--Rutchinson (Kas.) News. -Most men's experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed. -The character of men placed in lower stations of life are more useful, as being imitable by great numbers. Atterbury. -Every man has his chain and his clog, only it is looser and tighter to one man than to another. And he is more at ease who takes it up than he who drags it. -Man doubles all the evils of his fate by pondering over them; a scratch becomes a wound, a slight an injury, a jest an insult, a small peril a great danger, and a slight -sickness often ends in death by brooding apprehen sions. -In all that we do we have a right to consider the effect it will have upon our characters, or upon the upbuild-. ing and development of our higher natures. No man is required to do what will belittle him.-United Pres byterian. -If a man wish to rightly grow in grace he must aceastom hinself to.see and look at the. larger things ia life, and the larger world 'in which, he lives. A constant, attention to the lit tle will dwarf him, and finally unfit him for his place among other men. -He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others white he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead, and by an egotism that. is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure and the highest happi ness hereafter.-Colton. -Men may experiment in oertaia lines in social interoourse after mas terng the forms long usage hasproved good, but to cling to peculiar ways of their own, that are not agreeable or that fail to show the heart's kindness, limits the man's power as the use of' a cradle in the' wheatfleld limite the man who scoffs at the self-binder his neighbor uses. -It is not usually those who are in the direst poverty that are the most in veterate borrowers. It is: much more frequently those who allown"ds their desires for superfluities to outruii their ability to obtain them that resortY·. ' this dangerous and insidious practiee. All such desires grow by what they. feed on, and become more and more exacting; while the strict rectitude which can not brook the long continu- ance of a debt is gradually impairedt Once a Week. NO ED CONCORD MEN, The Eeoentrioltt of Hawthore. thoseai ; mad Several .theri . Mr. Edward Waldo Emtheron's book on the Concord life of his father, Ralph. - Waldo Emerson, says that Emerson never could read far in the books of his illustrious fellow-townsman. Na..i thhniel Hawthorne. Thisis somewhat remarkable, perhaps, since Emersoi showed no lack of appreciatilon of men I or works of genius. Though these two greatu men li ved for a long time in the. same oOinin . town, they saw very little of each oth or.. Hawthorne, who was very aibyl only once visited Emerson's. house. Mr. Edward WaldooEmerson's volume tells the story of this visit: "To cover his shyness, he took up a stereosoope on the center-table and be. . gan to look at the picture. Aflter looking at them for a time, he aired where these views were taken. "We told him' they were pictures of A the Concord court and town houses, the common and the mill-dam, on hear ing which he eopressed some-surprise and interest, butevidently was as in familiar with-the center of the village where he'had lived for years as s deaer or a wood-thrush would be. He walked shrough it often on his way to the ears, out was too shy or too rapt to know' what was there." . : .:. Thoreau, another famous resident ofi ·Concord, was' note so neilOsdoofo of what the town contained. Th~igh ie: pitied the people who "never ~swate. a Sman's Pond, or Ninehoere Corsne, or Becky Stow's Swamp," he also -ad a spot in his heart for the town itself. ' r Though he said thiat "the ma wiho shoots the buffalo lives better than the. man who boards at the Graham House," he nevertheless knew his way to -the SGraham House. It was not however, that. he :ever I went there for convivial purpose.l. was quite too abstemiou, as wellt" :s . too little fond of society, lot thtI. a Emerson sild of him: "He was bred to no prof- lOn;t he p never married; he lived - he never went to church; he ahee-i used to pay a1 totheo ev tste' o. fleesh he drank no "wn,.wa .srer knew the use of tobacco; and, though a naturaUits, he used ,isither trsp nor SSeveral of the fsaiouis men who have . lived at Conicord hare possse ':the aeccentricity of genius. Their I however, should snotf nsueOthof 1 imitate their.e eotr i aSt may often beesyniS bys * u regularities, of conct, but l convin e. no 0o11ei of O4 o;~ W :-*. Sgeoatus by th.4$ooe oebe a-I muchb~ttevtthhip '