The Times-Picayune from New Orleans, Louisiana • Page 3

A TRAIIP. BT BOSS TERRY COOKE. mst it. I was a trampf In the of to day I bate to admit it, but I I I hail been a macnxaiac. witn a trentl wife, good wages, a pleas VTj IDCV tney were ut minions oe bat I did not think of them.

I ore mrans man many others se are enough wanted, cried I not ire 6. was rtTsLa ttm dying. I know nothing could TS 6S vcneleas bat one day when I went tothe Charleston steamer the day flerT that thought ont Tr I run wiim i in iiih ii nn 'zFtataa 1 ked up town brought on i (m to Florida for the winter. i vere clear and gray too, and her id in soft "bawls and lying back in a carried by two servants; a kind ZeA nnrse was wiin ner ana ner nus i bends her. 1 had a glimpse at her ttKnnas 1 passed through, the cabin, ttLed before the rest of the smrtrn came aboard.

If I could have that fur lined cloak and that chair I would have done it as it it had this woman done to hare 1 and my pauens who wire noui I. kmt thinking of all this brood tisr and night as wages grew lower 1 work less, and faded a tray. a rood woman, 'that wife of andnot a bit afraid to die; bat i via afraid to leave me in the furious raesa ox my conaiuon men. day I came home and found her than ever. I had brought her an bat she could not taste it.

I sat wi by the loauge and she pat her thin, Tunds in mine. i Frank, she in a whisper. Xiea 1 am dead try to oe gooa try to or God. I coouin'S taic aoout it, arbst I have prayed. God is good, nV.

I knw it I am eouuc home." 1 eocll not bear this. I did not believe Goi good, and Annm dying while At ether woman was saved by the ner I tad good a right to have ai Lawrence! I knew afterwards that I da Utxnries he lavished on his wife I A Bseieaa as ui tstnusv susiri inu nrann fooa I gave mine. She oied be Annie, and away from Mm. I cptd doTO to kiss tut wife and stop com such talk. Her lips were cold krt hand.

crew chill in mine her it gray eyes looked at me with one i look ox love, and then tiiBhad gone away Veil, why should 1 wort after that I to hear Communist harangues, and jned the stal old story that property, i i robbery. Why was Mr. Iiawrenc6 i audi poor It was an outrage! Ho L7 nred me a living, and wemld it as well as he 1 did not stop to dfr that he was once poorer than I had worked successfully for his xf, or to ask why society owed me a ig. took the specious argument of agopies for what they were on the uce. They.

suited my fury against iind my ignorance of God too well id bt adopted. It' was May when the works closed, and I had not ed there for two months. I had on what fe dollars I had left after jt vis buried, and now and then I i porter's job, for I was as strong as sc. Still. I always expected to go i to the works if the worst came to nnt, and when they closed nv for of orders I felt as if I had nothing tj in the city for, and like a great others I made up my mind that I via born in the world it should a free living.

went on the. m'i say I liked it at first; it wasa iwhiis before I could sleep well in under an old musty hay stack. iiad srit enough left to persist, and jstL, the fresh air, the trees; and i tod creatures, all so different from puny shop and dirty streets, did itrrvan pleasant. I suppose this iliie changed me inwardly, too. I I a feel more like wild oeast.

I i to see women shut and lock the vbea saw me come into the itad hand out the food I asked for rash the window. How I used to item I I don't wonder. I was big, 7. negd, and full' of bad thoughts icoved oat in my face, and ran over 37 hps. I would not have stopped at ttaj down any man who came ayway.

but they generally let After a while I got ti aerer loaded. 4ut it was iust aa r' 2 aeare the women with, and many fetched me warm food and drink I I let them see it. I did like to see a tarn, white and shiver. I was so "7 vnh everything that I liked to lad fears everybody I could, jicfal and hurting one. 1 ii tbont as near my state then as I 1 tramped all summer.

I did not eien about Annie. I didn't like affjwd enough, reasons. By 'Sep I bad tot away np into Vermont, hillfs and began to think I work back to the city, when one IiUmped at an old red farmhouse a Tyson and Ludlow to get some vx a little sort of a stoop built 2er the roof of the ell partL aad ftea door opened into it. There of bright "milk pans standing waU to son, and a bunch or rJfr hanging up by the door. A yauow cat rn away when it' saw f.d ma.

from under a bench in, PKcSod. It was a poor place cr tooted thrifty and comfort edyand youncwomftaj iuorttirectiy. never aw face; her eyes, were brawn, ted straight at' yon like a rob was as pore andelean'as, and her Arm cheeks showed a even color of pink. "Her hair My, so shining, her calico gown fkaproo so perfectly neat, trxat ea somehow as if she was just 1 anything iLlf e.lt vdirtT tt so bad the I looked at her. she said, in a cool sort of do you want anybody something to eat," said" I nejer give to tramps." she an any change of tone.

to ha ve it said as crossly iT8 Bothing for you." said she. Amoved. np, Vre got to have my K6 14 forme I called ont with an oath, ary pistol and handling it as Ettle darker at that, ee was not seared a only said, very quietly witt work, neither SZm 7 opinion, miss, but' li'mk world owes nwaliv' bound to.have I growled 8he, answered. Wliat' lor the world to put is in 1 answer this nTnnKnn i. I HWMUUll.

some dinner. "4 not tri VA vim tlmly jwu ur, sue Baia, ec "If you were 'ZI miood, it it was coar warmtli what I that I conic us 1 or feeble or crippled, helpless ia I i any way. it would be different bat 1 you are a strong, likely man, and yon wui your uving jusb as weu as crfn." I looked at her slight straight figure. Do yon work for a living I asked. Tes; I have worked ever since I was six years old.

1 was bound out then, aiMl I worked at whip braiding. I havent any relations any near ones I mean; there ia nobody to take care of me. I have to work and am glad I can." v. I swore a very common oath, calling on God to pnuiah nte if I would stand I er face flushed. "Don't do that again!" she said.

"If jwu nauk ui ue cau uuuu oiitau; he hears such requests gladly. Uodi your father He does not like to punish yon even if you ask him to; he'd ever so much rather forgive you." I never was ho taken aback. "Look here." I said, after a moment, "don't yon think it's outrageous that a pretty behaved girl like you should be working fcr a living when there's thou sands of women no better than you be roiling in tneir carnages No God put me here and them there, God knows best." WelL yon seem to think God knows a 1 good deaL I claim to know some things myself; and I. believe folks all have equal rights." "Do yon she said, so do I some rights, eights to get ready to die, and to serve God while we live." She stepped out of the door and picked up a red leaf from the grass. Can you make such a leaf as that she asked, holding it out to me.

Why, I knew I couldn't; and so did she. "Till you can, I expect yon had better believe God knows more than you do." I turned and went ont into the yard. I couldn't stand her talk, but I could not get away from it. I never seemed so mean to myself he fore. Here was strong, healthy, even a skilled workman, tramping about the country begging.

I never had called it begging before, but I knew now what it was, for I seemed to look ont of her eyes. About God welL if there was a God he must know more than I did or he couldn't be God perhaps I had made a mistake after alL Jim Lawrence must be a rich man be cause he had more brains than I. with tho same chances and who. was to blame about the brains I sat down by the little pond there was near by and fell to thinking, when all of a sudden 1 looked down into the water and saw a tramp a big, dirty, ragged tramp! Good Lord it was me I wondered that the girl had spoken to me at all. and then I thought what An.

nie would have said to me like that. The blood seemed to ebme to my head. I tried to be honest, inside and look thin KB sauare in the eve. I could not heln seein ir how little crood I had done mvself bv leavmir work. I nsed to be a geod ioolung sort or a zellow wneu was demned up of a Sunday not like this great brute staring up at me out of the still water.

I couldn't do much that minute, bat I CO tun wish my zace, sua uiu. 1 1 It was just a beginning, you see then I got tip on my feet and tramped off to ward Luuiow. An 01a woman a mile further on gave me some bread and milk because I asked for it civilly suppose, and by night I had got on to the station next below Ludlow, and see ing some hands at work loading np a freight car I put in and helped. One of thexn gave me my supper for that, and let nis sleep in a barn it did seem bet ter than beesane. The next day 1 sold my revolver and sot a jacket, and before ions sot a niaoe on the freight line where I could work my passage back to the city I could get a lodging there I knew, for I had two dollars left alter buying toe jacket.

I found the Indion works shut nn still, but I hunted out Mr. Lawrence. I told him all about it all but that sirl and ne gave my nana sucn a grrp: "My wife's mme too." he said: and then he sort ox choked. Somehow, for all be was a rich man with a great house and J'a poor devil of a tramp, there seemed to be something we had to gethtrj I remembered his wife's great sad eyes and hex tired face money hadn't saved her after alL and his business kent him to home he didn't have hold of her hand when she died. WelL he sort of cleared his throat then.

and he saidr I'm' just going to dinner. Seed come around to my office on Front street in the morning and 111 find yon a job.f And he said it so hearty like I knew he meant it. I He was aa good as Jus sot work from hint right off, and after a while, when I could buy decent clothes. took to going xo meeting xor coma not set what that sari said, I swore, eut of my head. I have scot a Bible, too.

I know Annie would like that; but I to shut it up quick one day when it opened at a sentence about the horrible pit and the miry day." I had bees there myself, you see i So me tines when I have laid up a little moneyand I guess it won't be long first, for when all is said and done, I never was one to axing nor yet to gam ble I mean to go up to Vermont and iind that girl, and maybe I can have a home. I hope she won't know me again. 1 hate to Mae anything from her clean, clear eves; but I don't see how I ever can tell her that I was that tramp. Handel's DneL There is a storv told and believed in by some of his more old fashioned biographers and admirers, of a strange chance by which Handel's life was preserved, dur ing a duel which he fought in his earlier cays, xie onenaea tne vanity 01 a musical rival. He was challenged.

A duel took place with swords, and Handel might have received a mortal wound but for some obstacle which impeded the point of hia adversary's weapon. The commonplace allegation is that tne obstacle was only large metal but tf.iv' but it is. however, asserted Ly some contemporaries of Handel that what rsaxly saved his life was a thick musical score which he carried doubled up inside the breast of hia coat. Such a career ought to have been, preserved a musical score. If such a story had told of olden days, we can easily imagine how the muse of the shell herself would be described as having placed the proper obstacle in the right spot so that 'music might save the prcJom life of music's most favored son.

Handel's score will always preserve his fame against the sword thhists of time or change or envy. He is popular is tne truest sense of the word, and especially natural and. popular in England." Even at itsr loiuest passages his music has in it the tones which touch every ear and every heart. It is strong and sweet. has passion withont over refinement of xubtlety.

It epeaks in especial to the devotional moods of the human mind. It is not fantastic, although it is fancifuL It is not morbid, although it sometimes reaches great deeps of melancholy. It is always healthful and elevating in the appeal it makes to human feeling. The noblest passages ef the Messiah. are not more admired and more appreciated than the warlike appeals of Juda Mao caiavs or the exquisite brightness and playfulness of some of the familiar airs in Acis and Galatea." Handel's is the figure to be the centre of a great nQTial musical festival.

London Ae. Take Lyons Hatrlctva Elixir, htvalaable tonic is an If you have an eruption of the rlson's Dermacurawul cure It. skin, liar Parole whisky sola by ail druggists. 'siekt in he an on all hia he a to all tie our a had the an do and to had French and "Rnglfah Contrasts. In that amusing novel of Albert Smith, now so little read.

"The Adventures of 11 r. Ledbury." Jack Johnson, landing wih the hero on French soil, explains to him the difference between the manners and customs of the French and English. English soldiers," says he, dress in red coats and blue trousers the French in red trousers and blue coats the English take the left in driving and the Frencbthe right then the English allude to the pawnbroker's as my while the French call the same institution my aunt's. Plenty more instances mi ght be added to these. If von enter a British inn it is the landlord who receives you, while the landlady is in the kitchen looking after the joints and rolling the puddings but in France all the ornamental functions in a family business are discharged by the lady, while the man does the hard work.

It is the husband who cooks, and the wife who sits behind the inn. counter airing her smart silk gown and cap strings; and since this puts one in mind oi dinner, note how the Britisher drinks beer with his meal and wine after it, whie'x the Frenchman does jnst the reverse. When a Frenchman has well dined or breakfasted, imbibing the choicest vint ages oi xsnrgunay ana Doraeaux, ne thinks 'nothing of going to the caf 6 afterward and tossing off a few bocks to "cool" himself; while the Englishman considers the after dinner period specially favorable for the tasting of claret and port. On their visiting cards Englishmen put the word Mr the French do not and the latter when leaving cards upon the members of one household do not follow the English plan of leaving as many cards as there are Sersona in the family, but turn own a corner of the pasteboard and make it do for the whole connection. As a French girl has no social status, and is not said to be out when she has danced at her first ball, she does not put lier name on her mother's cards, as is the custom with us.

Nor do the French daughters of the nobility sport titles. The daughter of a duke, unless the latter be of royal or imperial blood, is sim ly a mademoiselle ana wnen a ench widow with a title gets married she sinks her title and assumes the plain name of her husband. The Duchess de Persigny, who not very long ago married a bachelor of rofurier extraction, is known now simply as ATme On the other hand, the Tench laws of nobi liary succession in the male line shed dignities on all sorts of persons, who would remain untitled in England. The. eldest son of a duke is a marquis, the second a count, the third a viscount, the fourth a baron, the fifth a chevalier; while some of the sous of these have the right to bear titles, all of them to endless generations may sport the honorinc de." it must be remember ed, however, that there are dukes whose eldst sons are nrinces.

and the second sons daks for example, the Brogliea and and JLnynes while there are princes whose eldest sons are dukes. The French laws of succession, though capricious in some things, are regular, on this point that all the progeny of nobleman are noble to time eternal. To call an Tngiuhmfn a melon, or to say of a countrywoman that she was a good cow like creature would be no very grave offense; but applied to French people these terms would be deadly in soltsj You must not call a Frenchman a canary either, nor a turkey cocc, the latter term meaning much more than it does in England nor must you say of a lady that she is a wren (linotte), this be synonymous in French to saying that she is a simpleton. The similarity in the sound of English and French words often causes foreigners who visit France to make mistakes; thus they wQl ask for an appartenent when they do not want a suite of rooms, but one single room and say that their style of living is luxurieux when they seek to convey that it is luxurious, the French for which is luxueux. Again.

ther mistake bonnet for bonnet, which must be rendered chape an, vicaire for vicar, which is cure, while curate is vi caire 1 ana discussion ior discussion. whereas this word rench. means an angry wrangle, xrenenmen are great kissers and shakers of hands, but the latter courtesy is not practiced between the sexes. A xTenchman bows to a lady without extending his palm, and would be thought very forward indeed if he tried to shake hands with unmarried lady. He might kiss a married lady, however, on ew Year's day, or in an outburst of great emotion an other occasion, without anybody even the husband demurring and he may embrace members of his own sex at times.

A French grown up son kisses lather, and alludes to him as "papa," and, aa everybody knows, a son must ask. his "papa's" consent to his marriage, no matter how old he may ba. Stamps are not sold in France at stationers' shops, but at tobacconists'; and the persons who keep bureaux de. tabao are quasi ofncials appointed by Government. They sell postage stamps, receipt stamps, papier timbre' on which bills must be drawn, and wax matches, which yon buy in other countries at the grocers', A French grocer, by the way, dislikes to be called an is a marc hand de denrees oolo niales, iust as a door sorter is not portiere but a concierge This last named functionary expects to be' addressed as sir; and Indeed' it is safe use this style of appellation toward Frenchmen, while as to women of every degree, even to street apple women, it is absolutely binding to give them the nrenx of madame or mademoi selle, as the case may be.

In when you. want to propose tea young lady, yon do so in person in Prance decorum requires that you should use the Intermediary of a third party and when your petition is accepted you are required to pay youx first visit to your be trothed in evening dress. This is the ceremonial garb of France. A French man puts on a swauow taii ana a wmte to call unon a minister, to attend a funeral or. to get married, and he is equally nice in minor points of sartorial etiquette, for if a well bred man it would not occur to him to pay a visit in any garb but a frOcK coat.

To conclude' with these differences between French' and English, it should be mentioned that neighbors laugh at us for being so mealy mouthed as not to pronounce the word trousers in company, while we bathe freely at the seaside without don ning drawers. The 1 rench, more rational, name pantaloons when it suits them, but they only go into the sea with a very full equipment, in the way of coa tame London Aetna. A strange occurrence hannened a few weeks ago at St. Cierge. a village in the Jura.

The principal room of an inn there, known as the Cerf, was lighted by hanging petroleum lamp, above which been placed, for the protection of ceiling, a metal plate. In course of time the woodwork above the plate became dessicated, and one evening last week it took fire, and when 'the Inn keeper and his family retired to rest was agiew a tact, however, which they not seem to have noticed. From the ceiling the fire was communicated to the room above, and was first discovered by nAlffhTuiV wYlA ...1. immmin serving smoke issuing from, the door. gave an aiarm, wnen aa none ox the in mates could be roused, the door was broken open.

The fire, having gone on smouldering without bursting into name, had done little material damage. was easily extinguished but all the people in the house the landlord, his wife and sister were dead, i the manner of country people, they, had firmly closed their windows before going bed, and the smoke having no exit, asphyxiated every one of them. 1 Brodls's Cordial, for cholera Infantara and summer oompJalats. Haunted Cave. GfcMta, Weird LUfcta.

mm Other DXraCa TOmcs. la Okie Cavrav rCorrespoadsBee Clevalaad Herald. Yonr correspondent having heard cer tain rumors of the existence of a haunted cave and a treasure in the vicinity of Mount Kebo station, on the At lantic and Pacific Boad, about six miles from Youngstown, yesterday visited the place in company with several others. Being directed to the gentleman who owns the land on which the haunted cave is situated, the party hied them selves thither. The gentleman, who lives about a half a mile south of the sta tion, was found and questioned as to the authenticity of the report concerning the cave.

He at first wus auite reticent on the subject, but finally, being pressed cat by the anxious news men, leatne way to the cavernt relating on the way the following Darticulars: Aiany years ago, wnen tne country in the vicinity, ot Mount Kebo was out sparsely settled, two men, one a peddler and the other a friend of his, camped one cold winter's night in a cave. The ped dler had been to this part or tne country a trading expedition, and was return ing to the lias onr foot, with $13.000 quite an amount of money in those days that he had realized from his venture. The money he carried in a leathern belt that encircled his waist, and it consisted entirely of gold coin. His companion was well aware ox this, and coneocted a plan to rob, and. if necessary, murder the peddler.

Accordingly, nn the night ouestion. after the peddler had gone to sleep, his friend stole np to him and tried to disengage the' belt from around his His eftorts awoke the ped dler, who immediately on 'becom ing conscious of the presence of the villain, grappled with him. The would be murderer drawing a knife plunged it again and again into the body of bis victim. Then, securing the money, he buried the corpse in the cave, and hid the monev in the floor of the cavern six feet from the grave of the peddler. Not waiting for daylight he struck across the country in the direction of Cleveland.

The night was bitterly cold and the snow deep and soft. He was unable to proceed very far on account of a numbness in his feet. He reached a settler's, where it was found that both his feet were frozen. A surgeon was sent for and amputated both the members. From that time to the day of his death he was the inmate of various alms houses and the object of private charity.

He kept his dreadful secret locked in nis own breast, and revealed it to no one till on his death bed in Cleveland, some twenty years ago, when he made his niece his confidante. That lady with her husband, who, by the way, was in rather straitened circumstances, visited Mount Nebo and was able to find the cave by means of certain marks the murderer had left on the trees in its immediate vicinity. Bat how an almost insurmountable obstacle stood in the way. The cave had fallen in, and thirty tons of rock rested on the crave of the murdered man and on the buried treasure. Thoroughly disheartened, and without means of prosecuting the search, the niece and her husband returned to Cleveland.

From that time to the present various efforts have been put forth to unearth the hidden treasure, but all endeavors have proved fruitless. Some years ago a gentleman who claimed to be a medium "visited the spot. He was gone from the house of his host but a bhort time when he returned with his clothes torn and his face terribly lacer ated. According to ins statement, he was approaching the cave and was crossing a grassy plot that overlooks it, when he felt himself raised with irresistible force and dashed to the rocky bed of the stream. He.

was impressed that if he stayed and searched for the gold some one would be killed inside of a few tlays. bo he left. A gentleman from Youngstown, with commendable nerve and courage. visited the cave at the dead of night, and was peering into the crevices of the rock when a ghostly, wavering light suddenly appeared, having its source. apparently, under the mass of debris.

He left. too. A party of gentlemen from Y'oungstown built a fire near the cave one autumn night with the intention of searching for the gold at midnight, and were warming their hni on one side of the fire when they were startled by seeing a man standing on the opposite side gazing at them intently. Immediately afterward he vanished into space. They fled rather precipitately.

By the fame the narrative was concluded, the party had arrived at the haunted cavern. A pile of rocks and rubbish was all that was to be seen of the cave. Excavations have been made which, extend far. back under and through the rock. The host informed the correspondents that he himself had found human bones not far from the cave, which, he dad no doubt, once belonged to the murdered It is a singmar fact that the trees surrounding the old cae are in a state of premature decay, presenting much the appearance of having been scourged by The facts above can be authenticated by any of the residents of Mt.

Nebo. The gentleman who owns the cave desires his name suppressed, solely for the reason that his time is taken up by his daily duties, and he does not wish to be bothered by treasure seekers and inquiring correspondents. Conversing by Aakdng QuesUona. Those are not the most agreeable companions Whose conversation diietly consists of interrrogatories. Yet many persons would be very silent if they did not largely pad their small talk with questions.

If we analyze the short batterings which are constantly going on in the streets, in clubs and in society, we shall find a great proportion of them consist of remarks about the weather and Neither meteorological inquisitorial conversation is particularly enlivening, but we readily admit that society would not get on very well without them. The wisest of us are sometimes at a terrible loss for something to say, and we have had occasion to wish society would agree on same commonplace remark which might be made at any time when it seems desirable to speak and there is nothing to be said. Mohammedans have a great advantage over us in that respect. Not only have they, their pious stock observations ready for use whenever it is fitting to speak, out they maintain a dignified silence between times. There are certain monastic orders, again, who have one invariable remark wiit never any of the members meet in their convents and, better still, this remark has but one rejoinder.

It may net be exactly inspiriting to have the words Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return," constantly reiterated when meeting one's companions; but of the two, we think it would be less wearisome than the perpetual Are you going on anywhere 7 which one hears at evening parties and other remarks of the same type. 'l There are two kinds of questioners who torment one in society: One is the being with the pTeternaturally inquiring mind, the sort of creature who is never happy without knowing the when and wherefore of everything; the other is the person who asks questions without raring an iota to hear answers. It is hard to say which of these two kinds of eatechists is the greater bore. There is little i. satisfaction in being tormented with such questions as, "Can you tell me who the lady is that is sitting next bnt one to the man who is leaning on the piano or "There is a man with a light moustache by tkat lady in blue.

Can yon tell me who he is You cant see' him now, he is behind that tall man. There, now. you see him! No, not the man with the eyeglass." It is wearisome, too. when people pester one for authoritative information as to the dotngVef one's mends, after this fashion: "Tell me. ia there any truth in the rumor that How ard Jones is going to bay the property or "I want to know whether Lord A is really going to marry Miss The most irritating of all crass examiners of this kind are those who ask what things cost.

It is popularly supposed that in good society sucn questions are never asked; but there are. unfortunately, too many exceptions to una ruie. mere are men wno want xo know.wnetner tms or that is very expensive, nether they eouia gee racn a tnmg ior aoout a nun red pounds, or. perhaps they suppose mat a picture nice toat would cost quite a thousand pounds, wouldn't it 1" When thev come to see von. thev inquire what sort of rents houses are let for in your part of London, and they con sider vour cnamnagne Derter man some which they lately purchased at 90s.

per dozen "Probably yours cost more There is no limit to the inquisitiveness of some neonle. Thev want to know the name ef your doctor, the address of your taiior. your weignt, your neignt ana your favorite newspaper. It is necessary lor their peace of midd that you should ten mem wnere vou end vour servants. where you buy your bread and where you go to church.

Ther must know whether vou smoke before oinir to bed. whether you tip railway servants, and whether you ever chastise your children. ne catecmsts wno do not listen to your replies are not much nleasanter companions. Do we not know for a certainty when wesee some people approaching that they will ask us how our father ana motner ana brother are, without caring a straw about the answer They go on iiae.maemnes. we known mat.

when we shake hands with them, we might as well be pulling the string of mechanical toy. They will smile and bow and say; "I nope you are very well and how is your wife, and how is your little boy the latter ouestion be ing asked with a peculiar half conde scending, half jocular tone of voice, which some how or other is especially irritating. Ninety nine out of each of the many hundreds of neoDle who ask each other during the London season bow long thev have been no. and when they are going down, neither care for nor remember the answer for half a min ute. The Saturday Renew.

To Cure Fits of Sneezing, A correspondent of the British Medical Journal says; During the recent rapid changes of temperature I caught a severe coin my ueau, accompamea oy almost incessant sneezing. My unfortunate nobe gr.ve me no rest. The slightest im pact of cold air. or passing from the out side; air into a warm room, equally brought on ht or sneezing. in vain 1 snuffed camphor and Pulsatilla: the.

11 glit catarrn still tnumpned over me. At length I resolved to see what the maintenance of a uniform temperature would toward diminishing the irrita bility of my Schneiderian. membrane, and accordmglv Dluffsred mv nostrils with cot ton woo Well, the effect was instantaneous; I sneezed no more. Again and again I tested the efficacy of this simple remedy, always with the same result. However near I was to a sneeze, the introduction of the pledgets Biuppvu once, nur waauiere any inconvenience from their presence, making them sufficiently firm not to tickle, and yet leaving them sufficiently loose to easily breathe through." This is.

reauy worth knowing, for incessant sneezing is among the greatest of smaller ills, and it seems only a rational conclusion to hone that in this simple plan we have the most efficient remedy against one of the most distressing symptoms of hay lever. That Deceiving Hammock. 1 I've been a fool growled Harper yesterday as he untied a parcel in his front and shook out a new ham meek Here Fve been lopping around ail through this infernal not spell when 1 might just as well have been swinging in a hammock and have my blistered back cooled oft' by the breezes." Any" one can put up a hammock. All vou'vei got to do is to untie about 500 unravel: about 500 snarls, and work over the thing until you can tell whether the onen side was meant to go up or down. This puzzled Jarper for 1 uny twenty xuwubes, vut ue uuaiij gut it right and fastened, the ends to two convenient Then he took off his hat' and coat and rolled tn with a firreat siirh of relief.

No. he didn't quiteroll in. He was all ready ta when the har mock walked away from him. and he ro ed over on the grass and dth a croouet ball under came to a stop tne small oz ms back. "Did you mean to do that called a boy who was looking over the fence and slowly chewing away on green apples.

Did I Of course I' did! Git down off 'n that fence or 111 call a policeman Vr The uoy slid down and xtarper brougnt up a lawn chair for the next move, its the easiest thing in the world to drop oft a chair into a hammock. Lots of men would be willing to do it on a salary oz ten dollars per week, ine trouble with Harper was that he didn't drop all his body at once. The upper halt got into. the hammock all right, but: the lower half kicked and thrashed around on the grass until the small boy, who didn't miean to leave the neighborhood until the show was out, felt called upon to exclaim You can't turn a handspring with your bead all wound up in that ere net, and I'll bet money on it! Harper suddenly rested from his labors to rise up and shake his fist at the young villain, (but that didn't help the case a Hd hadn't got into that hammock yet. Ha carefully looked the case over.

and decided that he had nis plans too high. He therefore lowered the net to within two feet of the ground, and he had it dead sure. He fell into it as plump as a bag of shot going down a welL He felt around to if he was all in, and then gave himself a swing. No person can be happy in a hammock unless the hammock has a pendulum mo tin. This hammock of Harpers was just getting the regular salt water swing, when his knots untied and he came down on the broad of his back with such a jar that the small, boy felt called upon to That ain't no way to level a lawn you want to use a regular roller;" After the victim had recovered consciousness he crawled slowly out, gently rubbed his back on an apple tree, ana hlowly disappeared around the corner of the in search of some weapon which would annihilate the hammock at otto sweep, and though the boy called to mm agam.

uu again, aauug u. minstrel performance waa to follow the regular show. Mr. Harper never turned his had nor made a sign. Detroit Free Ladies." savs the London Truth.

who wear" Jersey bodies on all inap propriate occasions should invent some way oz nsoing out tne condition ox tne garment after sitting or kneeling, or. indeed, after anv nose save standing. A lady coming out of church just in front of me' last Sunday was walking in charming ignorance that this manly gar ment had turned up at the back and disclosed all the wondrous machinery ox clothing underneath. As this is not the first time I Jha ve been placed in this uncomfortable position. I.

nut forth this mild caution to the wearers of such gar ments." 1 Parole whisky a good household medlcma Am on ar the ancestors of M. CnaHemelV Lecour. the French Ambassador to England, were two fraudulent bankrupts a forger. has had. on that ao dount, no little trouble in obtaining recognition of his talents and public sexviccSk Iioniaiana Zrwa.

Mrs. Culberson died recently in Union paxisn, agea years. Carleton, an employee of the Mor gan rtoao, was recently seriously in jured by being thrown from a hand car near Carenero. The FarmervOle Gazette, Union parish, is mzormea tnana numoeror letters con taining money sent from that place to new urieans, were lost Detween Monroe and this city. We notice that the levee 'in front of the Superintendent's 'residence of the Union Oil Works has caved considera bly since the river commenced to recede.

ana oexore tne present rise, xne ballast with which its outward front had been faced, has tumbled in, and taken with it a considerable portion of the original embankment. Gretna Courier. Among the best and most earnest people in this parish there will be great disappointment and some disgust if the mass meeting to day does not in unmis takable and empnauo words, 1. jsxpress its approval of the action of the committee in so far only as they appeal to tne people. 2.

Katiiy, confirm and heartily indorse the nomination of Hon. John 6. Billia for Congress. 8. De nounce in no measured terms the selfish.

disloyal acts of those individuals calling themselves Democrats who have at tempted to sow discord and distrust in the ranks of the party in the district. ana wno xor tneir nerBonai ends or gain are jeopardizing tne success ox tne nom inee oz tne narty. lafavette Advertiser. learn that a duel, which it is said that a minister of the gosnel is the challenging party, is to take place on the Louisiana and Arkansas line. One of the principals is a well known citizen oz laioorne pansn; tne otner a citizen of Columbia county.

We de precate duelling sunder all circum stances. And when a minister of the gospel so far forgets his calling as to at tempt to settle outerences by this barbarous custom, a Christian communitv ought to turn their backs on him. We tmst there is some mistake in the report given to us. I'armemville Gazette. Historical Fortreas of Janina.

Iiondoa Globe. July 3. Among all the Turkish nosaessions wmcn me junropean Areopagus nas just gracefully given away none probably will touch the national sentiment more than Janina. the stronghold of the re nowned Ali Pasha. The celebrated mountain fortress is said to occupy the site of the Temple of Dodona.

but it has no classical interest in itself. It came into existence under the Lower Empire under the title of Joannina, or St. Johnstown, and is now locally known as Yanina. Its modern history dates from its seizure by the young Albanian chief tan, who, by a rare combination' of diplomacy and reckless daring, obtained from the 'Porte a con tinuation of his conquest. The readers of "Childe Harold" will remember the portrait which Bvron sketched of this remarkable man when he visited him at his birthplace of Tepelen.

His enterprising career began, while he was yet a boy. and after making himself master of Epirus, and portions of Acarnania and Etolia, he annexed the Pashalik of Skodra, and reduced the towns along the Gulf of Arta, one of his most daring exploits being the storming of Preyesa. Though at one time tn league with them, he subsequently gained much credit from the Porte by breaking the power of the Klephts, the robber clans of whom we shall probably hear again before the Gteco Turkisu boundary finally settled. Had the Turkish authorities ventured to avail themselves freely of the extraordinary influence which their formidable vassal had ao auired. thev might have succeeded in crushing the Greek' revolution, but the fall of All Pasha proved the opportunity for wmen the Greek patriots were watching.

As Janina was the scene of the rasna's early triumphs, se was it of his death. Wnen his "law less law" had become embarrassing to the sultan, newas attacked or the Ottoman troops: and having been shut out of the fortress by his own followers he retired to the little island on the lake which lies at the foot of MetyikelL And here his wild career was terminated by assassination in nis eignrv second vear. In its 'palmy days the Pasha's capital boasted a population oz au.uuo. xz the Greeks make good their acquisition Eu rope will look to them to tulhu the boast ot whicn they are so prodigal, and restore somewhat of its lost prosperity. Why Strawberries are Red.

All ripening fruits and opening flowers nave a natural tendency to grow bright rea or eurpie or blue, though in manv ox mem me tendency is repressea oy tne dangers attending brilliant displays of color. This natural habit depends upon the oxidation of their tissues, and is exactly analagous to the assumption of autumn tints ty leaves. If a plant, or part of a plant. is injured, by such a i a i change of color, through being rendered more conspicuous to its zoes, it soon loses the tendency under the influence of natural selection in ether words, those individuals whieh much display it get killed out, while those which least display ic survive and On the other handy if conspicuouBness is an advantage to the plant, the exact opposite happens, and me tendenev becomes de veloped! into a confirmed habit. This is the case) with the Htrawberry, as with many other fruits.

The more bright colored tthe berry is the better the chances: of getting fruitlets dis persed. Birds have quick eyes for color, especially for.red and white and therefore almost all edible berries have assumed one or the other of those two hues. So long as the fruitlets remain unripe, and would therefore be injured by being eaten, the pulp remains sour. green and hard: but as soon as they have become fit for dispersion it grows soft, fills with sugary juice and acquires its ruddy outer Then the birds see and recognize it as edible, and gov ern themselves accordingly. tSL James? a Gazette.

yj 1 1 Aebraska Sunday school was on a railroad excursion. A boy leaned out of a car window and fired a revolver at the same instant that a girl put her head out at another window, and the bullet killed her. vK. 1 The larcrest number of votes polled bv anv candidate in the last English election was polled by Mr. John Slagg, M.

P. for Manchester 34,918. Mothers never fall to recommend, malt Bitters as noarlshiag and strengthening. TJKTVEBSTTT OT LOOTBIAltA. The third sesaiun of this educational last itution Is to befcln on the 1st ef October, with the academical department and high 'school under charge of experienced teachers highly versed In tbeir respective branches ot learn inf.

The tuition la S10 for each Quarter ss ntofl, which aggregates a moderte umXor the entire term. Patents and gaardlaoaare directly interested In the opportunities offering by the university. For catalogues, address Academical Department, P. O. box 673, aa per advertisemen t.

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directly on the Jackson Soote, 12a miles from the city, and in a perfectly heal thiol eountry. Bee advertisement for terms, etc. Build up your nervous system with Harrl son's Cod liver Od and Lhne. TMX JJiCHBISHOP AJTD 6ZL tiLAM. BT OLIVES WKSPSK.

HOUOCS. Idonn tMnklfeel much olders'rmawa I'm rather gray But se are many young folks I meet eaa everyday. I eonteaa rm more particular ia what I eat and But one's taste Improves with culture that is alllt means. I think. Can you read as eaee you used tof Well, the printing is so bad, Ko young folks' eyes can read it Uka the books that ones we had.

Are yon quite as quiecof hearing Please to say that ones again. Don't use plain words, your Reverence V. Yes, I often use a cane; But It's not because I need it no, I always hkedastlek; And, as one might lean upon It, 'Us as wall it should be thick. Oh, I'm smart, I'm spry, rm lively earn walk, yes, that I can. On the days i feel like walking, Jast aa well as you, young man.

Dont you get a little sleepy after dlnner every dayf Well, I uobw a little sometlaiea, hat that always was my way. Don't you cry a little easier than some twee ty year aft 1 Well, my heart la vsry tender, but I think 'twa always so. Dont you find It sometimes happens that you eaa'i recall a name Tes I know each lots wot people bat my memory's not to blame. What! You think my memory's falling 1 Why, it's just as blight aad clear I rr member my great grandma 1 She's beea sdead these sixty year 1 1 your votes a little trembly Well, ft may be, now and then. But I write aewell as ever with a good, old fashioned pea; It'a the Gillette make the trouble aot at all mv flnjrvr enda That is why my band looks shaky when I sign ior aiviaenas.

Don't you stoop a little, walking It's a way iveaiaays naa I have always been round shouldered ever since Xwae a laA. Dont job hate to tie your shoe tringst Yes. I own it that la true. Don't yott tell old stories overt I am no aware 100. Dont you stay at hems of evenings 1 Dont you love a cushioned seat In a corner, by the fireside, with you slip peas on your feet Dont you wear warm fleecy flannels Dont vou muftis up your throat Dont on like to nave one help yoa wham you're putting on you coat 1 1 Dont yoa nks old books you've dogs eared, vou can't remember when 1 Dont yoa call it late at nine o'clock and go to bed at ten I i Howmany eronies can yoa count of all yoa used tu know That eallea you by your Christian nam seme nlty years ago How look the prizes to you that used to flro 1 tout brain You're reared your mound how high is It above iha levwl nlain You've drained the brimming golden ouw tnat mane your iancy reei.

You've slept the giddy portion off no tell us now you ieeii You've watched the harvest ripening tux every stem was croppea. You've teen tne rose 01 neat toty fads till petal dropoen. You'tb told your thought, you've done your task, vonrve tracked your aiai round I backing down Thank Heaven, not yet! I'm naie and Drug ana souna. And good for many a tussel, as you shall uvetosee; My shoes are not quite ready yet dont tnins youTe na or mei Old Pair was ia his lusty prime when he was older And where will you be If I live to beat old Thomas Parr Ah, well I know at every age life has a certain charm i You're going i Come, permit me, please, I beg you'd taie my arm. I take ywar arm Why take your arm I'd thank you to be told; I'm ola enough to walk alone.bnt not so very old! AtUmtie Monthly.

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Ziocast Street Mission. School. Bsfreshments and musle. Karnes oC. reoepUon oomnilttes will appear next Snaday.

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