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••And she lias turned Ayainirt tuortoo. Have youauyhere about your bouse, tbrni-" aaid the young man. unidst v,'trrjate*. ami comfort- ' "Yon sha'n’t blame her, po*c lamb." aides. itLicb vou looked nt five minntes aaid Mim. Mumf*.rd. "A girl like that br-fon- baying. peA»pd,'onc of th.-e old ! MytYtag to«° vvttb one who pw-v - tw: ■ w* umtt.

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TAMES MECRAY, M. D. BK8IDCBT PHYSICIAS omcB-Paaai »?, orr. Oonuhiaa l 'CAFE MAY CITY. £tt.eSi.'STtW'“* AT NlOUT. at tauMenoe. Bo. 4 Berth hi

tally little diamonds were marked thing? niton i*nr memory nometimi* that, oat. amidiit chat and lanrULir. by half a rt? he went, he taw the pretty honsehold dozen ladies! Did you ever in childhood 1 picture in* had la**t wen bemuth the roof ■dt ppoa the l»*d and h<*ar the history of ; that now refused to welcome him, ns the various ]d<*<-e» of chintz? ' ! plainly a* we see things in dreams; hi* "That* a jiierp of your first colored j hive, with her dark cutl* about her face, drev; that I laid when I was a girl; and the needle in h<r hand* and the that waa your jm mini other's morningj r-keiii of thread about her neck; a bright gown: tliat i> 1 jadee Mis? S gnvtr" laiSpJmraiag upon the table and on the me." 1 haveslK* rd such a htidory many ; oth^Ande Uimx-lr ,cutting piecr-a for a time, and littl picture* used to pass patdfiwork fnrtu a jiasteboard jiattent, d**fore my cyca ’ nth the word*. I could I and laying in a littlelirilllant pile aqnarea Xo just h*.w gVindina looked in the and triangle* on which were a m*o and nK^nifW* gown. D ccfuld see rnywlf a-, a butterfly opfin a flowering branch, a baby, taftn^Lefahiig stepe in the blue | IrottePfly on k flowering branch and a frock. It wemed so fnnny to have been ] fall blown r-p?*, alternately, a baby—when I wa? an important |.-r-' * ■* 1 * * * * Km of 6 Year* jt doesn’t aeem. half *0 ; A w.**tex»i editor speaks of a wind that funny lu'iw^for I~\nvo b.*-mn to doubt I "just sat up on it* liind leg* and howled." arnether SshaB ever beVnything <•!?■'. ' Snch a win*t(J muat have been that was and to lAiow ju»t how m>nV big babies j bowling through the bleak NIaiite connthere nnTin this world. j try twenty yAan frvim the night on Dear LhP?]atchwork quilt*! We've , which Harry Martin turned from the lost somuthiug in lining them, I think, 1 NIumfonl»'donr\uid went his way alone, and probably Mr?. Mumford thought no, | The inn or tavi-rji or hotel, whichever too. for whVnt v.T any of ln-r rUildren it was. which l«>re the name "T-Jolliyer" w.*n* found sitting with those idle hand*. I upon it* signboard, twas not expecting Iit which Dr Watt* derhtrra tliat Satan any gnnrta that night, bnt ner.Tthclwa always limb. - nan*' mischief, she in- i one came to it* door*—came late. too. as varialdy remarked: -You'd U tter get the dock* were striking 10 and |*sqde yjtar icti-hwiirk." 1 generally thinking of lied. /WPV-ulway? obeyed, those thine little ‘ The gm-st was a man of 40, with a snd girls. Lucy. Ruth and Olive, and there j sort of face—a face with a story in it. were piles of quilts in the up-tair* room i But he waa well drvoged and evidratly When.- spare l«?lding was stored—<inilt* ] 0'i poor traveler. Ho had supl>er in the of many colors, quilts of only two. quilt* I list Jurlur. and meanwhile a 6re waa with large, square blocks, and qnilu tnade in the lust licdroom, in which, with'intricate patterns, like a Cdiim*»e j when he maile lii* way thither, lu* f.rand imrrie; quilts that had been made by * buxom, youngish woman spreading an issqde in their ninetieu, and qnUto that j extra counterpane upon the l**d. had brill made by people who conld not -Good evening, sir," ahe aaid. taming yet say: "I am 0 years old.7 Piecing a ) toward him with a manner that bejpoke quilt was the find work and the last of j the landlady. "I thought I'd see that the members of the Mumford family. 11 you were conifvirtable myself. I never j think nn ancestor made eutne patch.* on leave everything to chambermaids. Isiord of the Mayflower. At least it was When I married a hotel keeper I mads id so. j np my mind to help him, and then*' When a young per*, imnarried a dowry j snch way of making guests ft

of quilts had always been provided—always would 1*.* while Mrs. Mumford lived. When Olive was 15 she had been told that thewhitc and Turkey red quilt which her great-Mrandmother had made was to be among her share; as the eldest daughter of the boose. She laughed then

and said;

-I shall always stay at home with you, mamma.' i shall be the old maid'dnnghA year afterward Ac did not think this, whatever she might have aaid, for

feel that Ac waa

lunger a child, j&k^ho Jyjjl meniarry

MnJtia, who had pul ring on'-Olive'X'finJtt*

well her aevrnto^Ith birthday

find her n

"Nothing lil/* seeing your children settled lief ore i|>u are broken down your-

. mother, and thereupon

teach Olive the higher mys-

teries of pastry. Plain coolring every

iri of that ~

conraged os turning them over to help. And I've given you my prettiest quilt, too.” said she, with a liKle laugh.

"There's an honor."

. The gentleman looked toward the bed. The quilt -was a patchwork. It had a wide striped border, bnt in the center the blocks wen* all the same—bright chintz alternated with white—a butterfly on a branch, a rose, a butterfly

branch, and a rose again.

The man took a fold of it np in his hand and looked at it a* men do not, -. often look at patchwork quilt*. Thu

woman bubbled on.

"We're great for patchwork i

family. Such a pile as we had of these quilts at home. Sister Ruth had twenty when she was married, bnt I had fifty. “Ty other sister gave me her share. Booing

~ married a hotel keeper, and she

thinksMuJl never marry. Oh, dear! There's a stoS^iu a good many quilts, if

yon did bnt know it; and there is a star?

- in this. It's the last one Olive ever

great interest in made. But I'm boring yon.

rnouroos, the principal one of which is a railroad company wiUt (3,000,000 capital, now engaged in bnilding a railroad around the cataracts, a distance of about 900 miles, from Matadi to Stanley PouL As the American flag, borne by Stanley, was the first one displayed to the native* in his voyage of exploration down that river, so the American flag

the first displayed on the waters of

the Ujiprr Congo. leadipg-Jbs vanguard

of commerce. The Sanfor^-cxj ’ expedition, organized the 28th o! 1888, launched the Fluriitvfbe first Congo, after a year of laborious et tran*]K>rting it, mostly in sixty p parcels, on the beads of some two 1

sand jKirtera. This was followed by the little steamer New York, and at the expiration of its term of two and a half yuan waa taken over by the “Belgian Company of Commerce on the Upper Congo." On tho 0th of Jnly, 1887, waa formed the Belgian Company of Commerce and Indnatry, which is the parent, so y> say, of the five or six Belgian Congo com panic*, all successfully working there. To show the growing popularity of Congo enterprise*, held in such disfavor when the Sanford exploring exjatlitiou waa formed that only one-third of its litll? capital of 3UU.0CW franca conld be obtained from Belgians, it may be stated that at a recent increase of capital of the Haul Congo company to S.OOC,UOU franca the public subscription waa covered ninefold.—CoL Henry Sanford

in Forum. OtiloroformlBg Wild Torkrj..

Jim White own* a patch of ground near this place. The surrounding forest ulxmnds in wild ‘ turkeys, and in the spring old Jim spends most of his timo hunting their nests and occasionally capturing the birds alive. This he accomplishes in a novel manner, yet the process is much more matter of fact than

his lady's handiwork. Harry regarded ‘'No.jjoon," said the gentleman. “Go

all tl.A littl/* ntio-m ttf c/.u-itt,- wlti/-*. nri Tilrti**#*-"

s au\ r -She an*. mr/li blocks, twieo was kui

I, please.”

••She w

d the

all the little pieces of sewing which passed through OUvc's hands with immense admiration, and the homely pat> work was just as fine in his eyes a thing else; and there was often talk about the pieces, and once or be had cut them out after the cardboard patterns, loving to meddle with anything that she was busy with, in old

true lover's fashion.

One evening, when bo went in. he fonnd the girl looking, as an artist might look at a rare old master, at a long Ith of -old fashioned, flower*?!

x.

‘Mother ha* just given me this

“Dislike a gown of

Aunt Hepsiba*. It shimmers like ‘ sec how fine it is. But fancy -earing such large patterns. Look! .t butterfly on a bough, and a rout, and c butterfly on a bough again, and then an-

other roue, like wall paper. The difli- 1 home next day, was no doubt true, cully will be," said Olive, pktpang to 1 employers advertised for him, but consider, "how to get the pattern into vain. And mother owned to sending patch srithonf spoiling it.” * him away from the door when he vatne "ITl help yon." said 'Harry: and to ; to see Olive. It u a aad story. Olfco work he went, and for a pleasant boor or can't aeem to like any one else, and the two he kept catting (latches. A bud an! (nxir fellow was so fond of her. Bo that'

a butterfly on one, a rose on the other, ; the story of the quilt."

,bud And. Iratterfly asid rose again. The woman stoiq>e<l and gave a little S"And he hi not spoiled one, mamma." | cry, far the guest had flung himself upon aaid Olive, in a tpsfc of pride. "I'm sui ! his knee*, and was kissing that patch-

dozen butterfiii- j work quilt as lovers kiss their sweet-

I t.«?rt.* ti-w

‘and she was "but 18. One afternoon

and her sweetheart cot out t

they were ‘parted. He

su?j>wted of a crime—of robbery, tar, tf 1 inustTay it—and she never saw him again. She knew that he was in rent. She said that all the angels heaven couldn't make h«r doubt it, tint no one else thought with her untila year had gone by, and then an old roufldentia! clerk, who was trusted in everything, being canght in another theft, confessed to that which my sister's sweetheart had been accused of. The story he had told to his employers of being knocked down in the street* of New York, where be went that holiday aftefnoon, and being thought drunk, and pat" into a si house, and being ashamed to give his next morning, and too sick to come

He first discqyert the turkey ’s roosting (■lace, and then, tinder cover of dark-im-w. he fire* a brush heap near the tree, which he has previously prepared, and while the turkey's attention is attracted to the llamas Jim creeps np to the tree with his appliance Used fur making the capture. This coxudata of several lections of strung bamboo rods, jointed like a fishing rod, aqd may be extended twenty or thirty feet In length. At the top end is seen red a usurer shaped vessel, over which a small bottle' is fattened, neck downward. To the oork is attached a cord, which runs the entire length of the rod. The bottle it then filled with chloroform, and under cover of dark shadows Jim noiselessly elevates the drag to within a short distance of the turkey's nose. He then pulls the string, causing the cork to withdraw and allowing the drug to Tall into the vessel. The fluid is at one* inhaled, and the bird presently drop* to the ground stupefied.—SL Lonis Globe-Democrat.

War is a frightful thing under all circumstances, and some of the-moat dreadful ware have been waged on the moat flimsy and foolish pretext, even if they had a pretext at all; but probably no stranger reason for war or peace waa ever recorded than has been noted by a French governor of the South Pacific colony of New Caledonia. -This governor, who was also an admiral of the navy, assumed hia authority while the natives of New Caledonia were still cannibals. There had been rumors of an Insurrection, and the admiral called before him a native chief who waa faithful to the French cause, and questioned their truth. /

ripe.”

are ret, far from being

te young things laughed 01

' — ■ 1 merrily away . meat, and knelt dojyo, beuide hi: .t where nobody put her hand nptAi In* tAonldcr.

—1W0. Capacity BOO., ‘Location cn?ci|xi* the New Dcj oL Neareit House to :be £arf. Btrlrtly Fint-e' - WALTER W. GREEN, o:

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CAPF. MAY, X. J.

C. F/WILLIAMS,

PROPRIETOR

the last. The next day Harry Uartin was missing, and with him.a targe sum of money from his employers safe. The new* spread through the country town like wild fire. Harry was on orphan apd the son of an old friend oi the bead of the firtn. It waa understood that they would be tbereifnl, bnt hia character was t.lighu-d forever. Noond doubted his guilt bnt (Hive. -She steadfastly declared him innocent. , Weeks pamed on and there was no news of him—at least none that reached the Mumford*' ears; but one night when Mrs. Mumford went oat" to the cow house to see that Cnumnie was safe for the night some one come out of the darknias and called to her. “Who is thatr cried the lady, her heart gi vjhg one great throb. "It'a 1—Horry," aaid a well known race. -Obf Mr*. Mumford. let me see

OHve."

"Harry Martin!" aaid Mrs. Mumford. “Oh! Harry Martin, year've made a sad home of miner And she broke into “And you all 1 aaid Harry, sadly,

would."

•Oh. Harry,"

"Oh, dear! oh. dear!" ahe sobbed, crying hard herself. “Oh, dear! I do be-

lieve it is Harry Martin."

And it,.was Harry Martin, who had horn to the far end* of the earth and had found gold, but not happiness, believing 'himself robbed .forever of love and of fair repute, and who had returned to find tioth awaiting himvlhrough the .means of that patcbworkXprilt, with its butterflies and flowering boughs and

“Lacy," aaid Olirc to her sister a few months afterward, "now that we are going to housekeeping I want you to give me one thing." "Anything on earth that I am," aaid Mrs. Jullirer. “I was thinking of a

silver service."

“Oh, Lucy, dear," said Olive, beginning to cry for very happrocus, “it'a only the butterfly quilt that I want The dear old quilt! Harry says we can't keep bonae without it, we both love it so." «. "Pve rolLvl il up for you already," *iid Mrs. Jolliver. "It seem* to belong

to yon, Olive."

And so today Olive's last baby tits upon the brilliant quilt, and trie* with his chubby fingere to puH therefrom tha

“Satan tempts qs ^1L I'm safty for. butterflies and roseaypp, bat you rant see OHro. Ms better j® New York Ledgw.

*.—Mary Kyis Dallas

The yams, ytmaa)^

"Yea Our people never make war except when the yam* are ripe."

“Why is that!"

"Because liakcd yams go so very well with the captives!"—Yoath's Companion.

Hie I ir.1 Mram.r on tb. Mississippi. In the year 1811 Nicholas J. Roosevelt built a steamer at PitUburg, after first getting a permit from Fulton and Livingstone. Fulton furnished the pi**? for the boat, which was called the New Orleans. It was a stern wheeler of about SflO tons burden, and waa also provided with tails, which •were used when the wind was fair. 'The hull of this pioneer Mississippi croft was. 138 feet in length, SU feet boom, and the cost of the whole, including engines, has been figured at about (40,000. Roosevelt and his family, with on engineer, pilot and six deck hands, left Pittsburg Oct. 11, 1811, and reached New Orleans two. weeks later. When the New Orleans . rode’ down the Ohio and oat into the broad waters of the MimtaMppi that October morning seventy-nine yean ago she marked a new era in the history of the “Great West."—SL Louis Republic.

Another detective camera that ha* met with considerable success lately it in the shape of on opera glass. It ia really on opera glam with the larger glasses removed and disc plates substirutecl. The shatter is in the smaller end and a nicely concealed spring operates it. The focus can be adjusted easily, as the screw in the centre it arranged for that purpose. Of course the negative* are small 1 bnt they can be enlarged by any of the many appliances known to the

ibatituted for the concave glasses ah the narrow end.—New York Evenjpg Sub. —^ v —" ' - ■*—-