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LA PLATA. MARYLAND. AUGUST "a. 1894.

Nls' Dady drank mechanically.
Thp she smiled and thanked Martha,
as s. nestled her weary head on the
sofa pillow, a homemade affair, full
of hr-ncedlcs.
Mutha came out to the cool, green
shadow of the hop-vines again.
"Aothel,' said she, Miss Dady
ain A e-gettin' much better.
said Mrs Barst W, 81 don't
think she is, poor ctestlr."
"Do yea suppose she is very poor.
moiher?'
'%al, I don't reckon she's got
muea means, said tie old woman,
''else she'd ha' gone to Watch Hill or
Bar Harbor, or some o them high
I'glrlcla pl fnvgad of comm to a
cheof~corner like this. But she's a
nice pleasant-spoken woman, and I'm
proper sorry for her. But amt it
queer, though, about the lighthouse
people hayin' boarder?'
MS Morton was sayin', mother,
id Martha, as she broke off little
greet curl from the end of the hop
yinep that he'd lost great lewsuit
and gas very poor, and his health had
suffered That was the reason he
wanted sea air, and that was the rea-
son, too, IA he didn't care to go
where there lots Of folks
Aia't peg a.aueer?" said Mrs.
Barstow, scfsSS ing her nose thought
fully with the end Of her knitting
needle.
Upat the Cliff House, where they
had two sorts of butchers meat
every LAY, and ice cream of Sundays, "
grizzle-headed little attorney was
talking to his friend, the legal lumin-
airy q the village, after very much
the same strain.
"lhe longer l live" said he, "the
more become convinced of the odd
ity Of human kind. Now there's Nor
timer Clagett-you know about the
lawsutof Glagett versus Clagett, don't
your
"Ihave heard Of it, yes.
swell, he's Just gained it"
.'No-has he?"
"And the strangest thing of all is,
now he's got it he won't take it. For
twelve years he has been contesting
the thing -and the Gleason Clagetts
have been Sighting him tooth and nail /;
and pu that the courts have decided
in b favor, DE throws the whole affair
Vth, 49,.
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was to land at the lighthouse. II ono
of those sharp, jagged lodges sb.rld
saw its way through the bottom of my
bont, then good-by to the red sunset
and the sweet salt air, and the evening
star that shines over yonder like tne
point of silver spear sBht l clin
do nothing-I can only wait. "
Even while these disjointed reaec-
tons passed through her mind allitle
boat had put off from fhe slar
stone foundation stairs q on liebt-
house. and was pulling steastils Seward
her. In its bow sat sallow-com-
plexioned man, witt face like the
pictured prince of don Qaixote.
at isn't little girl, he said aloud,
as he ueared the drifting boat. ut is
woman-it is Edith Baa
And she, looking intently at the
man who was coming with long, even
oar-strokes to rescue her, smiled to
herself and murmured.
cit is Mortimer Clagett.
So they MET, these parted lovers,
the last representatives of the rival
sides of the famous lawsuit of "Clagett
vs. Clagett.
"There is no use trying to run away
from me, Edith,' he aaid. even
the elements conspire against you"
$50 you are the Don Quixote Of
this lonely tower" said Edith, with a
smile that had somewhat of its old
sparkle. "But you will have to take
your own fortune, for / will touch no
more of it.
"On one condition, said Mortimer
C!agett, 81 will accept it all-that you
are to be mine also. Edith, am
speaking from the bottom of my
heart. | mean it all
eff saving my life counts for any
thing, said Edith with culver in
her voice, "you have earned all that
You ask. Dear Mortimer, fate itself
has taught us that we ought not to
continue this old feud any longer.
So they sailed out of the purple
sunset glow back to the peaceful shore
once more-back to hope, back to
peace, back to infinite happiness.
"And, said Mrs. Barstow, exultant-
", eff any one doubts that this ere
sea air is good for weak lungs, let EN-
just look at the way Miss Dady's pick
ed up since she came to Barstow' i
Cliff"
But Martha smiled. She was more
keen.sighted than her mother. Shs
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The witch Tree Of NerAaa:

s'I think the most remarkable tree ]
ever saw, " said 7. L. Hughes, Of Den.
yer, who was at the Lindell Yesterday,
"grows in Nevada, and IS called by the
superstitious Indians the witch tree.
1t grows to a height of six or seven
feet. and its trunk at the base is about
three times the size of an ordinary
mans wrist. The wonderful charac-
teristic of the tree is its luminosity,
which is so great that on the darkest
night it can be seen plainly at least a
mile away. A person standing near
could read the finest print by its light.
Its foliage is extremely rank, and its
leaves resemble the bay tree in shape.
size and color. The luminous property
is due to a gummy substance, which
can be transferred to the hand by rub
bling, together with its phosporescent
light, while the light on the leaf dis
appears. The luminosity is thought
to be due to parasitic growth. The
Indians will never approach it even IN
daylight, with such superstitious awe
do they regard its mysterious light
ST. Louis Glohe-Democrat
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something nice!" said Mrs. Barstow
"That's her boat now-p'raps you cam
see it out by the Point, like little
black speck dancin' on the waterl'
'.She must be quite sailor" said
the city boarder, listlessly.
"She is that!" nodded Mrs. Bar
stow eve always said she'd ought
to be a man. She don't take no inter
est in the homework, and she's per-
fectly happy on the water And that's
one reason I've tried my best to get
the lighthouse.
ITO get what?" said Miss
Dady.
''There was woman kept it once, "
explained Mrs. Barstow. ''rhe Wi
dow Wells Aud the light never
burned steadier nor brighter thin it
did the seven years Sarah WellI lived
there. SO didn't see why couldn't
be Iighthouse-keeper when old nan
Dawson died. But Cephas Morton,
he had more political influence than
our folks had, an he got it. An I'm
a-tryin to make the best of it.
Miss Dady sat there, listening
dreamily to this old woman's clipper
ing, cheerful talk. She herself had
been so near the end of all things that
all else seemed of little interest to
her Life, love, youth, all had float
ed away from her and left her strand
ed like wreck on the shores of time,
She looked languidly up as Martha
Barstows boat-keel grated on the SAN
and that young person walked vigor-
ously mp the beach, with the strong,
swinging footstep which belongs only
to youth and vitality.
"Mother, what do You Think
cheerily cried out Martha. "They'ye
| got boarder ut the lighthouse
"La, mel" cried Mrs Barstow,
with her kuitting-needles suspended
in midair. s'Who'd want to board at
the lighthouse Out there in tho
middle of the sea, with nothin' hui
sea-foam and gulls to look at !"
"I'm sure don't know" said Mar
tina Barstow. ''But he was a-3ettin
there on the iron top gallery, a-lookin
through spy glass, when I drew III
alongside of the landin'-place.
"How did he look?" said Mrs.
Barstow, who possessed all the curios
ity in regard to the details that gener-
ally actuates people in her walk o.
life.
"Tall and thin and yellow faced,
said Martha. Like the pictures o
Don Quixote in the big book on SPUR
Seeley's parlor table"
ga furriner, most likely" said thI
old woman. "But. Ia, he won't n
suited with Lorena Morton's cookinI
She allays scorched everything 81
laid saucepan to. I wonder wha
ever induced boarder to go on
there
Miss Dady rose at this point AM
went slowly into the house.
81 think I'll lie down little while
said she.
Hadn't ye better hev glass
new milk first?" Martha asked; al
she ran after the boarder to get it 4
her.
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NO. 80.



some time but SO distant seems the calm
and placid bay,
With its crystal waters sparkling in the glow
of perfect day,
~ soul will find it, landing whore blooms
loves roses sweet.
s att ring flakes Of ha2nes3 in profusion a.
ny feet.
i-s9se me-but so dreary seems the path that
must tread
With its Joys all dropped and dying, its gleam-
inss long since fed,
My soul will reach the haven with its songs
Of endless bliss,
And lose itself Ia rapture as it feels the well
come kiss,
some time-but the beaming shines now dim
lythrough tho night.
My star will shed a radiance-throw a halo
sweet and bright
" snide my tumbirg footsteps DER the
rough and cruel road.
To where dear hands will gladly take away
ny weary ioadi
EDWARD n. WooD, in Atlanta Constitution.
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The pl nsnres Of .Imng. '

II ali our bones were funny bones,
o, wouldn't it be jolly?
II all our tones were sunny tones
Thered be no melancholy.
There'd be no melancho'yif
Our tones were always sunny,
And life would be 50 jolly IL
If all our bones were funny.
II all our skies were cheerful skies
o, wouldn't earth be gladdened?
fall our eyes were fearful eyes,
0, wouldn't life be saddened2
Life would be sadly saddened II
Cur eyes were always fearful,
And earth be gladly gladdened il
II all our skies were cheerful.
II all this and that were thus and 50.
o, wouldn't it be clever?
But ''iis, my dear, won't make 1t so,
Though we may .ir' forever.
But while ifs" won't our wishes bling,
We'd all be less contente1,
Ard life would be prosy thing
II "iIling were prevented !.
Chicago Journal.
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The moder A.,5r is a iack-oi-all.
trades. He il be good deal of a
soldier; and Il bake a soldier of tho
old-fashionc,l was an accessibility ;
he would has esented the very at.
les -. -
But now "A rust mnrr.f2asd dun
on shore, and know the manual Of
arms" and Il bayonet drill like a
member Of ssimsnt for ''sbore
duty. He be called upon to
perform At time. The officers
may even be cal Cd npon 10 ride; and
you know ther IS an old adages that
used to run. g awkward as sailor
on horseback, y
He must b IN artillerymau and
know how to III IDLE the howitzer and
the rapid-fire rs and the rafting
Gatlings. \ EyhtSshon he has to be
his own horse an pull the heavy
pieces the way they,do frc-engines in
the country II hand
He must be 4 machinis.. and know
the ponderous and yat delicate ma
chinery Of the r~ach-loading guns in
the same way that mn engine-dflyor
knows his engihe. lie must be able
to use his monkey-wrench and oil-con,
and keep the great guns bright and
clean by const IT polishing He must
know something Of electricity, and
how to manag1the big sharklike tor
pedoes that ar discharged under wa
ter from tubcsFn the ships sides, and
the search-light that turns night into
day. He mus be coal-heayer, and
turn to and hdlp coal ship And
besides all thi5 he must learn what
every sailor heb 70 knew-how to tie
knots, splice rfpes, use a paint brush,
wash his own Clothes, drill with cut
lass and pistft Tow boat, and know
how to signal, like telegraph oper-
ator, with tae "wigwag" flags. So
you see a sailor is a pretty busy man,
and on many ships he never has to
furI a sail or go aloft at all. In fact,
nearly third Of the crew is employ
ed about the engines. Every man
has his ship number; it is GU his
clothes, and his locker where he keeps
them, on his hammock, and stamped
on his magaz ne riaa and accoutre
ments- He has his station in case OF
fire, and Wien gong into action or
manning the pumps Everything must
be likessff $3.50. no matter what
ssaz { = ,..-.'i''' 4 = aRs-
''s Founs
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tonic, love was better one still.
The Ledger.
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Easily Sati fed.

re sitting on the esplanade,
They wf he white sailed yachts as
watching ed the moons track, when
they cross y said:
he studded it must be delightful sail
81 thin h lovely night.
ing on SUI ovely, l should think.
"0hl I | had yacht l would
81 wisA sailing every night
take you would be just lovely"
"ThatN kind OF rig would you
"Whaj cutter or yawl?"
prefer Nnk, she murmured as she
81 NH round, 81 think would like
glaneess'I mack. =
a little Dt one. Truth.
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Ill MOR0US.


n KISS is sometimes merely penalty.
Applicant-Do you need a cook?
Nistress-Y Yes; if did not wouldn't
keep one.
A young woman hunting for some
eggs remarked that they must have
been mislaid
'Does your new dress fit you well,
Clara?" "Oh. splendidly. 1 can
hardly move or breathe in it. "
''what checked me in my fond address?
What knocked each pretty image DOWN.
What stopped my Elens fatering Yes
A caterpillar on her gown.
Biggs-"George Washington never
went fishing" Barker-"How do you
know" Biggs-"Because he never
told lie"
Miss Beauti-"Ho do you like my
new Photographic" Little girl-'Tt's
perfectly lovely. Did you really sit
for it yourself?'
"Tnat's a curious paradox, said
Hicks, "What is?" queried Hawkins.
"Of'er timid man an affront and he'll
be taken aback. "
Among life's thorns, alas, we find
In all too frequent growth,
The girl who neither sings nor plays
And thinks she does them both.
He-You don't catch me in any such
scrape as that. I'm nobody's fool.
She-Not at present; but somebody
may marry you yet
,s ;s'I 3. 70 s'asss.s sass ma iE-Mns a
IT. must have BEEN feel sure he
never took second
"What is the difference, said the
professor, "between music and noise?'
practice is noise and playing is
music, said one of the afflicted.
Herdso-How does it happen that
DR.. Emdee is so popular with his lady
patients? Slidso-He tells them all
that they are ''too young to die. "
A man may cruise along the coast.
And on the land have lots of fun;
But the time he needs vacation most
Is when he's just returned from one.
Quericus-How did such place
ever get the reputation of being
great health resort? Cynicus Two
or three prominent men died there.
She-Men are as faithless in love as
women ever are. He-I believe you
are right. know Miss HILLS father
has just broken off her engagement to
me.
He-Funny, isn't it, how we men
get baldheadedand you women don't?
She-I don't think it strange You
know we women never get old enough
for that
Old lady-Poor man; so you've
been living on water for three days.
Here's quarter. Rollingstone =
Yes'm; l was workin me way on
canal boat.
How many. fooled by slight success,
To false conclusions jump!
For oft budding genius
Grows up blooming ehump.
Mrs. Vokes-Mrs Carson knows.
how to manage her husband. Mrs.
Crummer-How does she do it? Mrs.
vokes-She gives him the impression
that he manages her.
The wife (exuming her PRESENT.
You say this is diamond, dear. For
a diamond it seems to be rather dull.
The husband Yes. dear; but you
know everything is dull just now.
"The gentleman you see pacing ? ,,
and down yonder as if he We're men
tally deranged is Schmidt, the famous
accountant. "What is the matter
with him?' "He was trying yester.
day to unravel the complications Of
his wife's housekeeping book.
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Nothing Lacking.

zen Great place, this town Of
amt it? Travellers all seem to
itor enthusiastically should
n u Why you've got IS lines of
ad that man can get away from
u Puck:
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ple. use Of Hapshnrg.
The II On Hapsburp.

The On Hapsburg, riding to
Rudolph he from hunting, came
his Swiss ho carrying the sacrament
upon prizes The priest on foot was
to sick ma river Rudolph imme-
stopped by united, set the priest and
diately dism horseback and led the
sacrament rein to the sick mans
steed by tt declined to take the horse
house. He fy use, but gave it to the
again to da service of the church.
priest for Il firing this deed, Werner,
Rememb fof Mainz, in 1878, pro-
archbishop Election of Rudolph as king
cured the bans and Kaiser. Hence
of the Rol E source and fount of the
we have Y erial house Of Hapsburg.
proud inn hances the legend in one of
Schiller en- his ballads, "Der Graf
the best rg. Itmay be mentioned
Won Hapsb ate heir to the imperial
that the Austria was named after his
throne OF ancestor, Rudolph. De
illustrious Press.
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TcO Much.

Newlywed Henry, I think
M real mean.
rou kNewlywed Well. what have I
ion Newlywed- Mother writes that
n i letter asking her to come and
in you said visitation" instead
see EBit, and now she's not coming,
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Decidedly in ilonht

villager-How do you like
First neighbor?
your nell yillager-Can't tell yet
secoI like him or hate him.
whethe1 500"
"Whfrst thing as did was to put
"Thdr-board fence, and l haven't
upa EIe to discover whether it is to
been chickens in or my chickens
keep iNew York Weekly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-01-18
IN SOUTHERN ITALY.
Passion Procession of Taranto, with Lif
Size Eipurps nf Christ

Passion Procession of Taranto, with Life
Size Figures of Christ
On Good Friday, March 81, we drove
into Taranto to sec the Passion process
sion, says traveller. 1t passed very
slowly down the Corso in the midst of
a great moving crowd. The members
of the Confraternita, with white hoods
and wells, twisted wreath of tiioi'n-
stems around their foreheads, white
soutane, blue sash and very pale lemon
colored cape, marched barefoot before
each of the palchi, or platforms These
were carried on the shoulders of four
stalwart brothers of the order, assisted
by four men in civil dress. Life-size
6gHes, realistically painted, told the
history of the Passion in six tableaux
First came Christ, kneeling in the
garden, while white-robed angel
stood beside and offered him the cup
Then terrible Christ at the flagella-
tion pillar, his bones laid bare at the
shoulders, knees, ribs, the pallid flesh
torn with livid wales and bleeding
wounds. Then Christ, robed in the
purple with the crown of thorns-the
Eco Homo. Then the crucifixion. Then
the black bier with huge black cross
above it. Then the chief piece of the
whole show-a dead white Christ, COW
cred with n veil, placed upon rich
mortuary bier. Besides the usual bear
ers, four gentlemen of the city, in full
dress, held the four ends of the pail.
Among them was the magnificent
Marchese d'A--, with his grand
swagger. "Che bella presenza!" said
the people. Their lackeys in livery at
tended these four noblemen.
The procession was terminated by a
Madonna Dolorosa, in rather fashiona-
BILE mourning, holding red heart in
her hand. Priests and other brethren
of the Confraternita closed the cortege.
Three brass bands, sounding lugubri-
Gus and impressive strains of music,
with cavernous drums and clashing
cymbals, kept upa continuous plangent
ululation as the pomp went slowly by.
1t was evening ere it passed; lighted
lamps and wax torches made the two
last tableaux more impressive Fort
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most singular things. Nobody knows
what they ore or how they were made.
SAT first it was thought by some that
the spirals were caused by some sort of
a burrowing, the theory being that
some animal had burrowed, rabbit
like, and that the hole had filed with
silicious sand and hardened. But this
theory wouldn't do, because it ap-
peared that whatever the spirals were
they were Of marine formation, and,
whether animal or vegetable, had
grown under tho sea.
From all we could gather we arc
inclined to believe the corkscrews are
q curious form of the sponge, yet even
that is by no means certain. If they
are sponges they would, under the
spectrum, show certain specks which
mark the sponge, and once Prof. Bar
bour thought he did see one or two, but
he couldn't be sure of this. Other re-
markable things werc what we found
imbedded in them and forming part.
Once we found the skeleton of little
animal like rat and at another time
we found the skeleton of snake"
The corkscrew region extends from
the Niobrara river to the Pine Ridge
and almost to the Hat Creek basin.
The corllscrews are almost as true aS
if made by lathe, and are right-hand-
ed and left-handed indiscriminately.
The great transverse pieces called rhi-
zones, or underground stems, project
in all directions out of the banks and
bluffs like logs. Some are as large as
ordinary barrels, others as large as
hogsheads When half disclosed in the
bluffs they look like large sawlogs.
A singular thing was found in the
use of the plumb line. corkscrew
over s feet inches long was tested by
the line and it was found that from
top to bottom the whirls of the screw
varied but onc-eighth of an inch in the
case of one coil, in Others still less.
Generally speaking, the corlsscrcws
are of marvellous perfection, and they
are so great as regards size as to utter
ly dwarf man standing beside them.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY,

Senators james y. George, of Mis-
sissippi, and A. II. Colquitt, of Georgia,
and ex-senator S. Il. Maxey, of Texas,
oil of whom were officers in the confed'
crate army, are on the Mexican pension
roll.
PROF. Cunning, NJ. D., to whom Mr..
Gladstone has rendered a baronctcy, is
an eminent Irish physician and pro-
fessor in the queens college at Belfast.
His daughter married son of Sir
Charles Russell,
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams has
written book entitled "Massachu-
sets; It's Historians and It's History"
He convicts the state of long practice
of religious intolerance and historians
of ignoring the discreditable fact.
Van Roberts, hotelkeeper at
Rush Hill, Mo-, has fallen heir to $780,
900 left him by John Bennett, who
died at Las Vegas, N. NJ. Roberts
saved Bennett from drowning in the
Sangamon river near Decatur, H.,
twenty years ago.
Clarence King, formerly director
of the United States geological survey,
well known as man of science ahd
of letters and conspicuous in the social
and club life of New York and New
port has become insane and has been
sent to an asylum.
Prof. Weinhold has been elected
rector of the university of Berlin to
succeed Prof. Rudolf Virchow, whose
term ended at the beginning of the
present semester. DR.. Virchow has
been appointed a member of the uni
versity senate by the new rector.
Charles /. Nichols, who died re.
Gently at Lyons Farm, N, j., was the
original promoter of the elevated rail
road system, He was made secretary
of the New York company, but was
ousted when the Gould management
took possession of the 'watered" cor
poratlon.
Daniel Webster liked to make re-
marks of character intended to puz-
zle simple minds. Stopping to dinner
one day at country inn, on his way to
Marshfeld, he was asked by the hostess
if he usually had good appetite.
Madam" answered Webster, 81 some
times eat more than do at other times,
but never less. ."-Argonaut.
No matter at what time of the day
you call upon Pension Commissioner
Lochren you will find him smoking,
and not a cigar either He is devoted
to his pipe, and it is an elaborate affair
of briarwood, and as large as teacup.
He receives no visitors until he lights
this pipe in the morning, and receives
none after he puts it out at night.
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, whose
entertaining books of travel are we'll
known, is the first woman ever invited
to address the British house of com
mons. She had remarkable expert
ence of travel in Koordistan, and was
summoned before the English parlia-
ment to tell what she had seen of
Christians in that remote country.
Miss Ella Knowles, who was de-
feated for the attorney-generalship of
Montana by small majority, andwa
then appointed assistant by her sue
cessful competitor, recently secured, in
favor of her state before the interior
department in Washington, a decision
involving about two hundred thousand
dollars worth of school lands in Mon.
| tafla,