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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1889)
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I hain't the heart to hurt it, rer the "Polly" ot its name Keeps it tender in my feelia's; fer my gal had its' the same. Z see her in the -redder like es she was in them days 'Fore the angels coaxed her from me an' they nusthed wmctn ways: Fcr I know my Folly loTed mc, an nothin' here r below Co aid hT made her leare me cryin like my """""" hart would break, you know. I could see her cow a-standin, er the tears ud keep away. Tes. I nu?h s'most can see her as she was one summer day A-lo:lf r.c' through the medder '&' a-stoppin' here and there To pull the dead npe polIjs" and sow the snu- Iin' air "With the brown sweds an the feathers; and they' Scat off like a dream Xr ft bubble es was sleepm' oa some idle, lazy stream; Then she'd watch m goin' up'ard in a kind ' wishful way - But what my jr.il were thinkin of I keau of ""S course, jes' say: But wnen oz-; night the acgels my little pewee took. Her face were sweet with smilm' that same sweet, yearnin look 6he had that day in summer when she blowed the poHy-pods An filled her arms with clover an lims of gold ins rods: An' so I leave 'm growin. n I reckon that they make aij little PoHy nearer. a'I love'm tor bar sake. S. M. MeMaaus. in X. T. Ind:pend:nt, MILTON DANFOBTfl. The Story of & Dream and Its Fulfillment. Written for This Paper. ILTOX DAXFOP.TH sat in a great arm chair in his library trying to interest himself in a volume of recent poems which he had pur chased that day thinking that h e .might find some thing in it to divert JjuAiHS-4 his mind from the unpleasant thoughts which for some time past had constantly Kept him com pany. Try as he ould. however, he could not force his mind into new channels of thought. The wrinkles in his forehead grew deeper and deeper. Disgusted at his failure, he closed his eyes and went over the events of his past life again and again, trying to find some reason why fate had denied him the happiness he craved. At last, throwing the book on the table at hb side, he rose and walked restlessly across the room to a little mahogany cabinet, and taking out a photograph which was set in a neat little pocket case, he looked at the smiling pictured face earnestly and long. then, with a deep sigh, he went to the fire-place and dropped the treasure into the glow ing flames, muttering as he did so: It i better so. Time will not heal the wound and to keep such a reminder would only aggravate it. No,' he continued, pacing-the room in his excitement. "1 can not under stand why fate has decreed me so little real happiness while it has showered tipoa me what men commonly surren der almost every good thing to obtain! Ts this the way a man should feel on the eve of his wedding? Oh! how shall I hide iny aching heart from my wife all the years to come? I do not love her now, and I know I never shalL The sweet face of her sister will always come between us to taunt me with my foolish love and still more foolish mar riage. I could not keep her from my mind even in the presence of my first wife, how then can I hope to do more with a second? 0 that I were out of it all out of myself!" Again his mind reverted to the past. Five years ago, he thought, I was married to as good a woman as ever lived: but I did not love her. for then as now I loved Gertrude Maybury with .all my heart and souL Three years after our marriage my wife died. I do jot think she ever knew but what a living lie! And how immeasurably harder it would have been had 1 not been convinced that I was doing it to save her life. What evil genius has been shaping my destiny that I should become en tangled in a second alliance in the very presence of the woman I love and be utterly unable to win her or to resist the influence which is soon to place her forever beyond my reach? It is as if I were being carried along by the re sistless current of a mighty river so swiftly that it is impossible for me to turn to the right or left, with certain destruction staring me in the face. Oh! Gertrude. Gertrude, you are as far beyond my reach as the stars- To morrow I am to become the husband of your sister Bertha; and thenceforth be compelled to wear a mask of pleas ant smiles. Why did I attempt to for get by engaging myself to Bertha when I knew, or should have known as well then as now. that I never -jan forget! I was beside myself, frenzied, mad, any tri?T-T but ia my right mind! M ',.''!&. I With as exclamation of despair to threw himself face down ward on a sofa. It vras long past midnight and Mr Danf orth had spent less tfian three hours out of the previous thirty-six in bed. It was no wonder, therefore, that with his mind so exhausted by constant worry he soon fell into a troubled sleep. At first he felt himself borne, against his will, by some invisible power up the steep side of a mountain, the summit of which stretched far above the clouds. Over clefts and precipices and huge boulders he was carried by his mys terious captor, expecting every mo ment to be dashed against the towering cliffs in front or into the bottomless chasms beneath. Finding that he was powerless to escape, he'eeased to strug gle and became passive in the hands of his captor. After what seemed to him almost an age, he found himself upon the summit of the mountain. jffH& J HE LOOKED AT THE SMILING PICTURED FACE." looking down the opposite side from the one which he had ascended. It was almost perpendicular. Far be low him was a thick shroud of mist enveloping the base of the mountain. As far down as he could see. sharp pieces of rock jutted out from the face of the cliff; and he knew that if he stepped over the brink he would be mangled beyond all human resemblanoa before he had fallen a hundred feet. He was given but a few seconds to contemplate his impending fate, when his captor again seized him. This time not to lift him up and bear him , safely over the place if danger as heretofore, bat to push him slowly, relentlessly, nearer to the awfal death which awaited him on the rocks below. He tried to cry out, but ap sound escaped his lips. He struggle! fiercely to free himself, but his limes seemed to be pinioned as tightly sb if they had grown fast together. After a time he resigned him self to the inevitable and seat up a silent prayer to his Maker far mercy. The next instant he was toi pling over the edge of the precipice. His captor had left him, but freedom was of little use to him now, and after one desperate, but unsuccessful effort to regain his balance, he closed his eyes, expecting to open them in eter nity. At that moment a hand, gently, but firmly, grasped his arm and drew him back to the rock upon which he had been standing. Turning quickly to see who had rescued him. he beheld the beautiful form of his angel wife. She was changed beyond expression, yet every feature was as easily recog nizable as when she was in the flesh. There was no sign of trouble or sorrow about her, no sign of disease, but to perfect physical form and feature was adced that heavenly grace which "passeth under standing.' The light of the old love was in her eye. unmixed with regret or reproach. Her general appearance and the expression of her features in dicated a condition superior to Dan forth's fondest imagination of heavenly life. As he saw her now, the embodi ment of happiness and contentment, he felt a satisfaction greater than he had ever before experienced in the efforts he had made to secure her earthly happiness. "I will henceforth." he mentally re solved, "consider those few years of married life the best spent of all my earthly existence.' With a graceful gesture his heavenly visitant bade him follow her. Taking another way. which soon left the moun tain far behind, they traversed quiet lanes and green pastures where the tink ling of little sheep bells, mingled with the music of running brooks, recalled to Danforth's mind the rural scenes of his early childhood and made him wish that he could return again in fact, as well as fancy, and be always a boy. But they were going with the speed of the wind, and these pleasant scenes soon faded and they found themselves within the limits of the city. On and on they went, over Danforth's home, over the business streets till they came to the Maybury mansion. Here at the lighted window in the second story they stopped. Look.' she whispered as she caused the curtain on the inside to move quiet ly upward. He obeyed without question and saw on the opposite side of the room a fig ure reclining on a bed in an attitude of deep dejection. Soon the figure rose, and. with quickening pulse Danforth recognized Gertrude Maybury. She was pale and sad, and her inflamed face and eyes showed that she had been weeping bitterly. Advancing to a table near the light she drew a photograph from her bosom, regarded it wistfully for a moment and then, kissing it pas sionately, she tore it into bits and dropped them into the waste basket. The curtain noiselessly resumed its place and Danforth turned to his guide. 'What does it mean?' he asked in a puzzled, anxious ton. "You are band."1 ns3 the reply. "She loves the man it ho. to-morrow is to become her sister's husband." The revelation was so -sudden, so un expected and carried such an endless flood of happiness into his hungry soul that he awoke with a start which nearly cost him his life. He was not in his own room, nor could he at first tell where he was. By degrees he became aware that he was in the open air and that he was hanging from the limb of a tree. The limb which he was grasping desperately with both hands, was swaying to and fro and creaking threateningly. As he looked around for some means of escape from his per ilous position, he saw light streaming from a window a few feet above his head. He could see that the curtain was raised several inches; but he was too far below the lighted space to look into the room. The limb to which he was clinging brushed against the build ing making a sharp grating noise which evidently attracted the attention of the occupant of the room for the curtain was immediately drawn down. Sud denly a dog began barking furiously in the yard below, and for the first time it flashed across Danforth's mind that he had been walking in his sleep, and had found his way into the great elm tree opposite Gertrude Maybury's window. He could understand, now, how his sudden awakening had caused him to lose his balance and grasp for support the first thing that came within Uia iciitu- But the limb was growing weaker at every vibration. He reached out his feet in every direction, but found noth ing capable of holding his weight. Then he tried to gain the trunk of the tree by passing hand over hand along the limb. His first effort, however, was the hairon the camel's back. With a crash that awoke the echoes, his sup port gave way and the unfortunate somnambulist fell to the ground. His last thought after the limb broke was of the humiliating position he would be in if be were discovered, then his head struck a lower branch with such force as to render hist insensible. When Danforth again awoke to con sciousness, he found himself in bed, in a strange room. Feeling a stinging sensation in his forehead, he tried to raise his right hand to examine it, but his arm would not move.. It was broken Succeeding better with his LOOK." SHE WHISFEKED. left hand. he found his head tightly bandaged. "Where am I and what is the mat ter?' he asked as a woman came to the bed. to adjust the corers. "You have been sick nearly three weeks," replied the nurse, "and you are at Mr. Maybury's. But you must be quiet- They wouldn't have you excite yourself now for the world. Take a good rest, then vou will be able to talk a little." Thus enjoined he held his peace and soon fell asleep. From that on his im provement was rapid. Had he been a member of the family the Mayburya could not have been more interested in his recovery. One morning he tried to explain to Mr. Maybury his pres ence in the yard on the night of the ac-J cident, but that gentleman, with a good natured twinkle in his eye, re plied: "No need of an explanation. Dan forth. You explained all in your delirium. I didn't know you were a somnambulist. But you were in luck that time if you did come very near breaking your neck. After you are married Gertrude will have to tie a string to you nights to keep you in doors." Why do you say Gertrude?" asked Danforth. his pale face turning scarlet. "Oh! that's all arranged." returned the old gentleman, smiling and rubbing his hands. "Bertha is glad to be re- J leased. You may have suspected that ! the wind had changed to another j quarter. So our timely discovery of your love for Gertrude makes it possi- j ble for all of you to be happy." What!' interrupted the sick man, "does Gertrude love me after all?" "Indeed, she does. Your dream, or vision, or whatever it may be called. so far as it related to her was perfectly true. But if she finds it out she will never forgive me for telling you. I ! watched with you a good deal during the first three weeks of your sickness and heard the whole story, dream and j alL So I took the liberty to learn how j the girls felt about it. I have said this to you so there may be no more misun-1 derstandings. You will not let them . know, of course." "Indeed. I will not. and may God 1 Macs -wrm f. lf..1..,M r.. !.,... ' made me the happiest man in the uni verse." Le Rot G. Davis. Fruit that is to be shinned some distance to market should be picked before it gets toe nee or u will ously damage im traasi. OjV ""aJ Y iWssav lB?ji? & Li OlCBBSssssssssssssifssssw -L THE DESERT'S MONARCHS. The Only lahnbitaaUeT tk Grwat fesUiara A Peculiar Kae. caravan may travel for weeks with out seeing a single person.and yet there is scarcely a square mile of the Sahara between the Atlantic and the region of the Nile that is not at some time passed over by some of the wandering tribes that make the desert their home. The regular caravan routes that tra verse it lead from Morocco to Timbuc too, from Algiers to the Niger at Tim buctoo, from Tripoli to the same re gion, or to the cities of the Soudan farther eastward. The population of the towns of the oases in the northern edge of the desert is the same as the native population of the rest of Algiers Arabs, Jews, Moabite merchants, ne groes, etc. About the outlying oases are the wandering tribes called Chambaas, who are nominally subject to the French and live in good understanding with them. The great desert unwatered region, nearly a thousand miles wide, that stretches its sandy wastes southward nearly to the edge of the Soudan, is overrun for it can not be. called in habited by the several tribes of the Tonaregs. who do not number more than 2,000 or 3,000 warriors, yet are the terror of all peaceful traders who endeavor to paw through their coun try to the cities of the Soudan. The Chambaas entertain friendly re lations with the Algier Tonaregs. but are bitterly hostile to the Poggars. who are their nearest neighbors. The Tonaregs are a peculiar race of people. They live principally by brig andage and laying tribute on caravans that cross the desert. They are sup posed to be descendants of a people that in prehistoric times emigrated from Asia or from Europe to the South ern shores of the Mediterranean and were gradually crowded southward into the desert. They are of swarthy aspect, tall, rig orous, supple and quick and energetic in movement. Their only clothing is a blouse and pantaloons of red or blue cotton and fitted close to the figure. On their breast is a sort of white scarf, over which is a belt of red leather sup porting the cartouch box, which is of the same material. The head is cov ered with a turban fastened about the forehead with a band of black stuff, while a black vest conceals the lower part of the face, leaving little but a prominent nose and a pair of unamiable black eyes. All are armed with a long barbed lance, which "neverTeaves "their hands. a two-handed saber and a poBiard. At! their saddle hangs a double-barrelled gun and a shield of antelope hide. .Thus equipped and mounted on their camels of the species known as mehari. which they guide with great dexterity, they present an imposing appearance and recall the knight errant of the Middle Ages. Their appearance is threatening, ana it is not surprising that their less war like neighbors regard them with ap prehension. The Tonareg moun ted on his mehari leans against the high back of his sad dle, and pulling his legs about the cross that forms its front, places his feet on the animal's neck, and guides it by a gentle pressure of the toes on one side or the other. Trained from its earliest youth to this manner, it responds promptly and turns in the direction desired, leav ing its rider the free use of his hands to wield his weapons. The female Tonareg guides her camel in the same manner, and some among them are so expert that they can play a lively air on the mandolin and compel the animal to follow it in a dance movement like "a well-trained circus horse. Owing to the scarcity of water, the Tonaregs never, wash themselves. Their filth becomes hereditary, even exceeding that of the most squalid tribes of American Indians. Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Russia's industrial Progress. A great impetus has been given to Russian industries within the last ten or fifteen years. Thus, in 1875. all the cotton mills of that country contained about 2.000,000 spindles, "while there are now, according to the latest reports, 115,000.000 spindles, divided between sixty-seven mills. The number of cot ton weaving establishments in Bussia is said to be 488. giving employment to more than 80,000 hands, the total an nual production being estimated at 56, 000.000 roubles. There are also sixty eight mills for spinning woolen yarn, employing nearly 5,000 hands, and producing goods every year valued at between five and six million roubles. The carpet manufacture employs some 800 hands, with a product valued at half a million roubles or more while 190 works, averaging 100 operatives each, are engaged in producing light woolen tissues. The flax industry is also pros perous, and there are twenty-four spinning mills, in which 21,000 hands are employed, and which have nearly 200,000 spindles. Silk manufacturers have been greatly developed and im proved of late years. The province of Moscow counts about 150 silk factories, with nearly 11,000 hands. There are about 600 dyeing establishments, em ploying some 30,000 hands. X. Y. Sun. p A New York physician reports that during an epidemic of diphtheria in that city there were five times as many cases on the shady side of the street as on the sunny side. People always fight shy of 4he young lawyer. He knows altogether too much about law to be of any prao tical use. Somerville Jarm il. ORIGIN OF CARDS. A track 'om la Exlatancs- SaU to Be a Thoasaad Years Old. The Royal Asiatic Society has. it is said, a pack of cards said to be 1.000 years old. and utterly unintelligible even to the most learned Oriental archaeologist of to-day. There are eight suits, of divers colors: the kings are mounted on elephants, the viziers upon horses, tigers and bulls. Some cards are marked with what looks like a pineapple in a shallow cup. others with the semblance of a parasol with two broken ribs. Of course the Chi nese, who. according to their own his tories, invented every thing before every body .else, claim the merit of hav ing first designed cards and developed the games arising out of them. The Emperor Seun-ho had many wives, who naturally found time hang heavily on their hands, so his most gracious majesty devised amusements for them. There are thirty cards in each of his packs three suits of nine each, and three extra superior cards. One of the suit is called Eew-ko-wan, the mean- ing of which every school-boy in China knows. In one thing the China- i ABAA.?r M UmrlnnA K aim n n ii il i sue. auriNsaa suo umuuur-tuur .vu.,.uulu-,..:iuc1Mi cards are round It may surprise some persons to be told that the queen in our flaiitn a- wv b 4 v 1 w van n . bw j .. - A,ui- cx.Cy suurc-u iuuu- vation; the hierarchy at first m purely military Kirg, Kmgm ana knave. The Italians were, it is said, the first to give her majesty a place. There have also been from time to time many changes in the suits. Old German cards have bells, acorns and leaves, instead of clubs, diamonds and spades. French writers have abounded in explanations of the meaning of the symbols, and Pere Daniel endeavors to deduce a military moral. The club, with its trefoil shape, is the trefle' or clover plant, which abounds in tho meadows of France; this shows that a chief should encamp his forces where forage can be found. The spade is the carreau or heavy square-headed arrow shot from a crossbow. "Cceurs,' our hearts, signified the courage of the sol diers. The ace is the Latin "as" rep resenting money, the sinews of war and so on through several stages of fantastic symbolism. The popularity J"11- M P?ntul as aeain- remem' of cards has been at some periods sc ' ber that one da-v. a Joun- man cazae great as to awake the censures of the me t0 S1 an artlfacil eye. and to have Church. The svnod of Langres in 1404 me insert lt for bim- Whea ne solemnlv censured the game of all I selected one he very solemnly stretched fours, and St. Bernadin so vigorouslv ' himself out on the floor, and. clinch denounced gambling at Bologna that J in? his teetn said Go aoead.' I said, repentant plavers made a big bonfiro Wbat do vou mean?' He replied. -I of their relinquished cards in the pub-' want Jou to insrt that eye.' I made lie square. At that period the pastime ' him &et UP and in an instant I had in must have had the charm of compar- serted the eye, and did it so painlessly alive noveltv. for there is no record that he didn't know it. and still stood alive novelty, for there is no record down to the end of the thirteenth cen tury of the general use of cards. They are not mentioned by Petrarch. Boccao-' cio or Chaucer. They could not have been known in France until the end. of the fourteenth centurv. for an ordi nance of Charles V. forbidding other games does not al games does not allude to them. Gen- tleman's Magazine. ROMANCE OF SCIENCE. How a Plaat Xeccmarx to Electrical Prog- reas Was Discovered. The discovery by Mr. Edison of the present form of incandescent light, be gan with a series of experiments on various substances to find a material suitable for the loop. This was the chief problem the "Wizard of Menlc Park' had to contend with, and he made a series of most costly experi ments before he decided upon the car- bon filament, which is the horseshoe shaped loop seen inside the pear shaped glass globe of the incandescent lamp. Thread loops and tiny card board horseshoes were charred into carbon for the loop, and found to some degree suitable; but Mr. Edison finally j concluded that the fiber of a certain kind oi bamboo was the best substance for the carbon filament. To obtain tnis. one oi nis assistants, air. xranh. ... ... -r T i I McGowan. traveled to and through the ' unbroken forests of South America. I The recital of his adventures sounds like a romantic legend. He encount ered all sorts of dangers from wild beasts, predatory bands of Indians, and the ravages of tropical lever; and after traversinir the continent from ocean to ocean, fording rivers, wading I swamps and scaling the Cordilleras. he has finally returned with a varied j ctnIr nT fihrnns material, which will be applied to experimental work. The J adventures of this champion of science were, for the year he was away, more thrilling than" those of the knights of legendary lore, who, to rescue some ' maiden or slay some monster, dared j unknown perils. He tells some strange tales of the people he met the courte ous Brazilians who rate a man's posi tion in society according to the value of the hammock he possesses rather than by his dress, and the Indians who are too lazy to work and keep feast day three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. and. except under compul sion, w'ill not work at alL Demorest's Monthly. m A Curiass of Human Skin. An officer of the marine infantry, who commanded the penitentiary of St. Mary a la Comte, in New French Guiana, lately died of diseases con tracted at that insalubrious station. The inventory of the objects he left be hind him comprised a very curious cuirass, with straps and other accesso ries. On examination it proved to be of human skin. A convict had died whose breast was covered with ex tremely beautiful tattooing. The com mandant of the station knew this, and had the man flayed before he was buried For a moment it was thought that this human relic would have been put up up for auction with the officer's other effects, but fortunately, it occurred to somebody that it was rather too dis gusting. It was known that the officer had worn the cuirass several times when fencing with is fn""- Notes and Queries. ARTIFICIALEYES. lost af Tia 9a11 Ars BIa er rinasai Gray ta Calar. I dropped into an establishment to day where glass eyoj are sold and asked the store-keeper to tell me what he knew about glass eyes and about the people who bought them; and in the p ourse of his conversation he said: "It is a singular fact that by far the greater part of all the artificial eyes sold in the country are right eyes, and blue, or blueish gray. eyes. At first thought that fact looks unaccountable, but to a person in the business it is not so. So far as Chicago and the West are con , cerned the color of these artificial eyes is due to the ethnology of the country. I The people out here, especially the ' artisans, are all English or Scandina vian, and belong to the blue-eyed races. The Italian, Spanish and other Latin races, with dark eyes, are in-lhe minority, and not addicted to danger ous employments. It is still easier to account for the fact that the artificial eyes sold are almost all right eyes. ' Nine-tenths of all the eyes destroyed are destroyed by accidents, and not by ' jaease and a large proportion of , arfi tfce evgs Qf ajjd destroyed in their business. In all . of mechaaical iu the rht fa the m03t and m(M I exposed. A maa h ieft eye, and aiming a gun closes puts his right eye. I close to the gun. A boy about to fire a percussion cap will instinctively turn his left eye away from it. Perhaps there is a sort of connection between the right eye and the right hand. Comparatively few women lose their I eyes, but when they do they are often times more anxious to get artificial eyes than men are, and will make all sorts of sacrifices to get one." The conversation about glass eyes was so interesting that I called in I again, in the afternoon, to tell my friend that I had heard that it was a dreadful job to insert a glass eye in the socket, and to ask him whether it was true. "Your informant." he said. was certainly in error in saying that it was painful to insert an artificial eye. Still, the impression has been made, somehow or other, that it is very there waiting for me to insert it. He then told me that he had worn a glass eye before, and that when the other was inserted, down in the southern part of the State, the doctor laid him. oown oa "" noor' pufc aia KQee oa U1S down on the floor, put his knee on his i CQe3t ana s01 seef" stoui iarm nanus to hold hi3 legs and arms. He also said that it hurt him dreadfully. I j have an idea that the doctor rolled up ' the poor boy's eyelids like a coat sleeve j in the oparation. I can't understand how any one who knows any thing about the business could represent the process as painful, and I am sorry to have it done, too, because it is apt to increase the fears of those who need' artificial eyes, and who would have them, but for the dread they have having them inserted. Chicago j journal. WHITE HOUSE CATS. A Whole Arsar of Them Was War oa Rats and Mice. There are almost as many cats about the White House as may be seen on a prosperous Pennsylvania dairy farm. The White House cats are not of es pecially fine breed. They are not Droud nor in anv war esneciallv distinguished from other cats. - .-- .- - irom otner cats, un less it is in their breeding quali ties. They are a promiscuous lot. in all colors that cats come. Most of them have attached themselves to the household apparently from a patriotic desire to serve the country, coming from no one knows where. Many new ones are said to have appeared at the mansion while Mrs. Cleveland reigned there, notwithstanding the playful hab its of the dog Hector. As far as is con- sistent with our form of government. they enacted Mother Goose's melody. The other day there was a great squall ing in the basement. A new family of kittens had appeared. "It is pretty near time to have a drowning." re marked one of the ushers. "We have to drown out a colony of kittens about twice a year." "How many cats have you, pray?" I asked. "6. between thirty and fifty old ones. The young no one can keep count of. When they get too numerous there has to be a wholesale killing. Two killings a year keep them down," The building is so infested with rats and mice that an army of old mousers is necessary to protect the larder and the conservatory. Most of the cats are kept around the conservatory to kill off the rats, which otherwise would dig under and destroy the roots of the many valuable plants. With such an army of matrons, of course the multiplica tion of little cats is marvelously rapid. Some of these days it may be a fad with young society ladies to have "White House kittens" for pets. This will fur nish a more humane way of getting rid of the surplus. Washington Cor. Phila delphia Telegraph. "Does Julia's singing annoy you? asked the landlady of a new boarder. after her daughter had been exhibiting her vocal powers at the piano half an hour. "O, no," replied the new s boarder. "I work in a saw-filing factory I and don't niad iL' N. Y. Ledger- f 0 v-'"e,'w,-'eg "SHV""V