LOSS AND CAIN.
Who wing his love shall lose her,
Who loses her shall gain;
For still the spirit wooes her,
A soul without a stain,
And memory still pursues her
With longings not in vain,
Heo loses her who gains her,
Who wades day by day
The dust of the that stains her,
The griefs that leave her gray,
The flesh that vet enchains her,
Whose grace hath passed away.
Oh, happier he who gains not
The love some seem to gain,
The joy that custom stains not
Shall still with him remain,
The loveliness that
The love that ne'er can wane,
wanes not,
dreams she grows not older
He
The land of dreams among:
the
the songs be
world was cold
sung,
he behold her
I and
Andrew Lang
THE RAID ON THE STILL.
wind young
te,
than
Mrs,
Mrs,
“Take
hoped
Jonat
Samuel
yourself
CONV ers
with one
ing ou in the mountain
nothing
sharks
revels
ked uneasil
these
could
officer
tells Jonathan
girl Jona
and told him he w
asi
fur
jut
miserable out
ity. He
lad a terril
sSWer
him
sake.”
and
things
judginent day
and no
since.”
Mrs. Jackson sighed softly to herself,
Mrs. Pearl's eyes were wide open with
and she wondered how
true story of Ike's dissppearance had
remained a secret so long
“Getting dark, Miranda, and [ guess
I liad better be going up the road.” and
Mrs. Jackson bade her friend goodby,
The November sun was gradually
disappearing behind the mountains
and the long shadows of the fading
sunlight cast apectral figures here and
there among the trees,
Mrs. Jackson then lighted the oil
lamp and wade ready for the evening |
supper. Presently the sound of a con.
veyance was heard in the roadway,
and Jonathan Jackson and his daugh-
ter Alice alighted, They had been down
to the village, a ride of twenty miles
over the mountain roads, to provide |
themselves with some necessary sup- |
plies
“What's the news in the village, Jon. |
athan?” inquired his wfe,
went
le hlow
e back h
for
[ke did not strik
Alice's
his hand
. ry hii
mutter something,
tut lad raised
that he would even up
Jonathan, if it took until
Then went
ever
the
SWoOre
with
he
heard
away.
one has of him
surprise, the
about the revenue officers, the<gi 1
font take much stock in the stories.” |
And Jouathsn relapsed into a moody |
silence,
The rest of the meal was eaten in |
quiet, and after the dishes were cleared |
away Jonathan sat comfortably by the |
fire and smoked his pips. as the No
vember evenings were becoming chilly
and uvplesaanut,
After an hour had passed there waa |
the sound of a horseman approaching |
near the house, and a moment later
Jonathan rose, surprised, from his
“Does Jonathan Jackson live there?”
inquired the newcomer,
“My name Is Jonathan Jackson,”
swered the master of the house, “What
And Jonathan
an
your business?"
‘I am making a journey over the
HE
at le
moment Jounthan
sed: then
while
Jackron
bade
went
For a
he fhe
looked surpr
stranger enter, he outside
put up his
In the light of the room the stranger
appeared to be a man of some thirty
of He
beard of luxuriant g
cenled would b
ervd a
horse,
possessed a dark
th
ave been
years
nge
row which con
what consid
were it bereft
hirsute appendage, The gue
fire and Kept his
handsome face
seat near the
a few minut
i es Jonathan re
urned and joined the family circle
os
vou
appears 1 te
to day
1
niured
stranger, |
in the :
ve
H
vou ave
iZgerous tr
en in
Arthur
a strapger. Only for a moment did the
two men seem to converse, amd soon
When
as
the newcomer had disappeared
Riis
mith reached Jonathan's house it w
but shortly after Alice arrived
ni had
nore equently than
The reports of the revenne
officers infesting the
tain boon
for
monn § =tille
fy
f
some time
mountains had be.
come jess freq nt. and the stills were
being operated with a greater degree
of security
“We had better getting the
mountain, lad.” Jonathan one
evening in December. Supper had been
prepared earlier than usual, for Jona
than'<® still worked in
growing dusk
“I'll follow you in half an hour. Feel
rather badiy to-day, but believe I'll be
all right in a short while,” Smith an-
swered indifferently,
Very well, Smith. I'll expect you.”
and Jonathan departed
be up
sa id
was to be the
Probably some twenty minutes had
elapsed when Bmith left the house, and
leisurely made his way toward the se.
eret still. Alice watched the stranger
Closely, and when Smith had dsap-
penred she threw a shawl over her
there was an unpleasant chilli-
ness in the mountain air-and followed |
The old mill which concealed the
still was some three-quarters of a mile
from Jonathan's house, ard as Alice |
proceeded on her way she sccazionally |
the forms of
with herself. Ounce a strange man
He
some one whe was returning from a
visit to a nelghboring mountatueer's
home,
Noon
In
HE fist
thie
1
i
the girl reached a.d mill,
ening
disappearing
faint
the
Smith, the
Kun
the
the ov twilight the ing
Ww behind
leaving an glare in is
it
, golden light
Hountains
wae, which up cone with a
siranged
standing motionless in front of
then
Iu ths
t day
ich in past anys
peering anxiously now and
mse undergrowth on
3
Ww li
for
Jacksot
had farnished the mot tie
wheel Allee
tently for a
n approached him and
shoulder
hound
VE power
moment
laid hea
qutly on his
Wily ido Yoil
f recov
ol id Indifference
“You know me
Vroug
cand looks
You
sane
topped eve
master moved or seetnedd
§
he point of awakening
Passed a School of Whales.
The unusual sight
Friday off Cape Ha
Davie, of the
« last
Captain
Bendo,
of a school of large sperm whales dis
porting the
Philadelphia mov
ing along at
in the distance appeared like rocks on
an unknown A slight breeze
springing up, a of water
spouts appeared tvhales started
Wis witness:
tteras by
i
jritish steamship
themselves at sen, says
Levord The ¥ Wore
a slow, steady pace, and
shore
number
The
in pursuit of theses svidentle deuiviane
to have the spouts break over them.
Ax long ax the Bendo was in sight of
them the big fish could be seen playing
about like children in a bathtub,
scl that might happen to strike the
school.
State Care of Drunkards,
A bill has been introduced into the
Austrian Parliament to appropriate
funds from the imperial treasury to
build asylums for the care and cure of
Iabitual drunkards. The bill provi®es
that any habitual drunkard may be in
carcerated in these asylums upon com
plaint made either by the victim's rela.
tives or friends, or by the town authors
Hos,
VENOMOUS PESTS.
INSECTS AND REPTILES INFEST THE
LONE STAR STATE.
A whole Family Killed by a Centipede that
Fell In a Coffee Pot-Fight Between a
Blacksnake Rattler--Red Ants,
Screw Worms, and Horned Frogs.
“1 ®p
while there learned mae
and a
f
ait a number of years in Texas
i of
rept is
and inter
ont In re to the JOR
that
5
NEW
gard [EE
and insects of state,” sald ou ol
gentleman ton York Bun reporter
a few days ago
“The
centipede,” continued
h Is common to that state
the
nanny country
ionnlge ingects of its class are
to thelr affars
Os
‘ 1
Whit
nly
Most dangerous insect 1
While other
Hg OW
iy trying to
ke ts
question of & Httle while
and the rattler |
govt
str auniagonist
fed Was over.
and almost lifeless in the oo
King snake
snake held the rattler te
and
queeze, aneoiled itself and gracefully
blag Kk
y ake sure of
For some time
hiz work, then giving it a parting
glided into the bushes
beard of the
unobtrusive in-
“Nearl? everybody hase
tarantula. It ix a very
sect, Keeping close to its nest, and is
neeal itself when a man
The tarantula is nothing
Ww hose
disposed fo oo
pron chrs
more than a great big spider
body full of
persons who have been bitten hy one,
but prompt remedies were applied and
the effects of the poison neutralized be.
it mixed with the blood It
jw poison I have seen
fore in
bite will prove fatal unless antidotes
are used in a reasonable time, and even
then it makes the victim so «lek that he
thinks he is going to die,
“The big red ant, a very harmless in.
sect fn this latitude, is a terrible pest
in Texas, They live in great armies,
and when they take up their residence
in a place it is wll nigh Impossible
to dislodge them. The ant mound is a
familiar object in the sandy portion of
Texas. Inch by inch the industrious
little ant burrows into the earth, bring.
ing out the soil, grain by gral, and de.
positing it on the outside, until a
three or four feet above the surround.
ing surface. On the summit is the en-
trance from which the paths radiate in
every direction and extend nobod:
Around the entrance,
wivell at any
ittle
there,
knows where,
hurrvine to and fro, enn Ix
ft hiorse
and
numbers of
busyhodies, scurrying hers
as if important measures depended on
haste, A favorite place for the
make thelr beds
they the greatest
|
vegetation
their
Hots the yard,
nie
near
five
10 is
where nr
just
will
Mite NO row
thelr
foragers
beds, as they are pretty ad
and get about every green
within a reasounble
he sting of the red
He, Their beds
ex, small children frequently
In less
will
plant or shrub
(isinnee, apt ie
being close
minute
d's
into them thnn no
Ants cover a oh
thie
stings frequently
n hundred
hod 3
nny
nnd combined effect
throw
into un sii that
victim i jd
EVAPORATED FRUIT.
A Drusken Desperads Borrifies a (
Hunday-school
While conduetis
John F
ado named John Haslin
curred without previous warning. No
passed betweon the men i the
nation the
inrge
K
Killing was the
1s wed by the report
trated fourm
with
head
ons terrible
of! Col,
standing ov
Ald SOK
fmol
Has
chester
stry That Crown Us
Around Rc
returned
of Post
be was in
EEE
the
interested in the
The foreigner
traveler from
in
wster
Hgner
talryving industry
tliat
York
ie
il
fearned the was
New
quired he
and he once
Knew Row
was located. The American smilingly
said that he did “Well” the
Frenchman, “all the people over here
know a great deal abotit Rochester, It
must be a great place, 13 the people
do anything aside from drying
fruit?” Being assured that the city
was one embracing a great many vari
ous manufactories and noted for other
industria he « pressed surprise, He
actually believed that nothing was
done by the inhabitants here except
the preparation of dried fruit. 20 well
known the Rochester product—
Rochester (N. Y.) Post-Express,
#iate nas
where
said
there
is
Wanted to See the Dispatches.
Kir Robert Low, telling of the diffienl-
| ties he had with the field telegraph in
the Chitral campaign, =ays the native
chiefs were at first very distrustful of
the wire, as they thought it was a
mark for parceling out the country
among the soldiers: but on being told
that it wax to sed messages to the
seat of Government fo India they
agreed to guard it. After sovern! days’
| close watching they saw no signs of
any dispatches passing along, so they
took it away to watch the messages
more at their ease. Their Investipn.
tions were interrmpited by *he return
of the engineers to see what had hap
pened to cut off comnnunieation.
mes
4
lear
jams
Mess PP
LARD
Best re
re
{ ‘rude
fined
BUTTER
Under Fi
Creamery
Fae Cro ¥
ne
Rolls
CHEESE,
CHEESE. N.Y. F
N. Y. Flats
Skim Cheese
ancy. .§
EGGS8-Kiate con®
North Carolina
LIYE POULTRY
CHICKENS Hens
Pucks, por
TOBACOD,
TOBACCO-M4, Infer's..§
Sound common
Middiing
Fancy
15
300
6 00
16 09
LIVE 870CK.
BEEY — Dest Dosve 8
SHEEP
Hogs. . .. neinuss
FURS AND SKINS
49 =
40)
350
MUSKRAT
Raccoon
Red Fox . ‘ra
Bkunk Black......
Opossum “a
MAN. ...onnniis
CRB. . co oonsnns
mn @
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FLOUR-8Bouthern
WHEAT --No. 2 Red......
RYE Wastern .
CORN--No. 2
OATE--No, 3,
FLOUR Southern... ....
WHEAT No. 2 Red. .....
CORN-—-No. 3.............
OATS No. 2............«
B R—State
EGUS Penna, Baie.
ras
400
700
1202