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'ill hhaiham Record. - - a, f. H. A. LONDON, Jr., EDITOR AND moritlETOU. OF ADVERTISING. vv One square, one Insertion. One sqatre, two Insertions, -On square, one month, - H. " 1.50 2.50 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: O ic c '1 ' on .VP""". --- ,iwcopy ,ix months - t)uevft luouthf, m t2.00 1.00 .so "it VOL. III. NO. 27. PITTSBORO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, MARCH 17, 1881. H. A. L05D0H, Jr., Editor and fnblisber. For larger advertisements liberal contracts win Of Man. tool. Thy manhood is a glorious thin?, O taiii it not with l-iiK- or shame; Anl novcr lot misfortune wring From th.v true clasp thino honored name. I.t t no alluring sin lx'guilo Thy linn young stops to path ol ill. Though tickle fortune fail to niile, Supreme in manhood ftay thou still. fliv manhood, 'tis a seal He set. Thy mother's God, upon thy brow, An l n-'t a jowt h il ooroiiot Ha 1 ever such transcendent glow, While thy young heart is imdelilod, An l th-ei can.t rais- to man and Heaven An h net gaue. it s nnrv's c'.iil 1. Mill, not from pea- e an l mercy riven. True manlioo 1 is the itglit nlw Of Cm Fs own sons, then stain it not. For nvi r p nitintial moan Effaced one sin's polluting Mot. IioiiuTsefnl centuries will fail Th golden moments to restore. Then trust thou not to veering sail Wlit n h aving youth's enchanted shore. Let manhood be thy guiding star. In pure direction ever keep. It b ads to safety, and when far away Thy btiyhond's homo and those who weep F i th.v. h'vol wanderer, blest if timo shall tin 1 thee true to manhood still. The names that lead the poet's page y- t!is that Kept the upright way. - lhhh ';,,. JENNIE'S NEW DRESS. A M'llOOL (JIKIS VICTORY. Now, go on with your studying, Jen ny. It's useless to discuss the matter." Jvit, mother, I don't see " Of course you don't see, dear, but when your father has decided, hehasde- ided. you know. Don't think any more about it. Ooino, I can't spare you but itteeii minute. more. You must help me en Johnny's jacket just the button holes, my eyes are so poor." "Win- don't you get Miss Stitchson to make the buttonholes?" IWt ask me. What did your father -ay yesterday noon, and again ju:t now .tt supper-time? If you will make them 1 - an j,vt the jacket finished to-night. II" need ' it enough." X-w, mother Mayberry, it's too bad ! Tom's suit is shabby, but I don't believe he ares. One day won't make much difference, any way; and I will help on buttonholes tomorrow afternoon if Piudy don't come for me to practice that dm t with her." "X, no, dear. N-ver put off till to morrow what can be done to-day' grand ma's motto, you know. I wish you would bear in mind more than you do. There now you musn't say another word keep your thoughts on your lesson. I shan't speak for fifteen minutes." At this Jennie resumed studying, for she was as desirous as her mother was for her to be correct in recitations. She had" been dreading this last review- in lii-tory w hic h was to determine her rank in scholarship. And her father w as anx ious that she should stand high at gradu ?i"u. only three weeks hence. He had f vtn taken pains to go over with her all the battles of the rebellion and the events t-f the Franco-German war, dates w ere hkIi a trouble to her; and taught her an ol i method of Jus own for Mich things accurately. memorizing She went on patiently with the words d the book; but I am sorry to say her thoughts wandered to Prudence Winn's new dress, and to a small package in her l ocket which she had not yet had the tourage opportunity, she would have mM to show her mother; yet, which flie must see this very evening, if her long-cherished hopes were to be ful filled. A pencil was needed to mark the bat tle of the Wilderness, for her memoriz ing method, and in taking it from her pocket, out came the package also. Her l'ink cheeks took on a deeper hue as she hastily snatched at it before it fell to the floor, and there was a confused droop of lier quivering eyelids before her moth t r's questioning glance. Not a word was wM, but Mrs. Mayberry extended her lutud and Jennie dared not ignore the unspoken request. "What does this mean, daughter? Jori.oi ami Marsh's shop bill black silk dimples !" said Mrs. Mayberry, slowly, a she unfolded the little package. " "1 wanted to know what it would cost," ame the reluctant words, as the girl's nervous lingers turned and re-turned the l'ages of her history. "Other girls, lots f'f them, do." "Do what ?" "Send for samples " "Without consulting their parents? I "J ot, Jennie. How could you ?" I here was no answer, and the ques """ii was repeated. But before she had time to rq,lv Mr Mayberry and Tommy ho had Wu busy over an hour in the ai-D, looking after the comfort of the little heifer and Nan, her mother, and -ng that Jinks, the oldroan, and Daisy, 'h" pony, were all right, and everything about the premises snug and orderly 'me hurridly in. Mr. Mayberry, quick to read faces, saw 1 hat something unpleasant was under 'onsideration. Presuming it was the S!uite subject graduation and its expen- s-whieh had been talked over at tea- tlm. he said, "I've been thinking it all jver, jennie j can,t bear tQ Lave you f'l unhappy and dissatisfied, and in ?al of giving money for hiring music 'hat day and eveniug, I'll let the class ; have the use of our piano you and Pru die Winn can play well enough for any body who'll be there. How do vou like ' that? I'll take it to the school-house and back, too." Jennie did not answer. She had re covered from her confusion, aud only a ! sickly smile showed that she had under stood his suggestion. "A good idea, don't you thiuk so, 1 mother?" he added with a little chirrupy ! laugh, which Mrs. Mayberry answered ! with auother; but hers was forced and hollow. Tommy saw the samples of silk, still : in his mother's hand. "Something for my new jacket trimmings, isn't it ?" he ; said. i "Oh, no. Jennie, you may as well tell i your father all about it," was the response, in low, sad tones." Jennie began to cry. "Hi! hi!" said her father, cheerily, i "Tins won't do for a seventeen-year-old I young lady. What's up? I don't see any I thing to cry about. You're getting ner I vous, sis. Too much study, I'm afraid. I shall be glad when yott get through this terrible last term. But you're eom ; ing out well that's not the trouble, 1 . hope ? Let's run over the battles again, so to be sure of them." And he took up the book w hich she had pushed aside. I Mrs. Mayberry laid the strips of silk upon the book. "What do you think of ! those ?" sshe said gentlv. 'Those?" he asked. "Whv, what are ! they ? How come you by them?" "Is it best for Jennie to have a gradu ation suit like either of them ?" "Qur Jennie? Good Grandmother of Methuselah! Our little Jennie rigged out j like a fifty-year-old ? You're w ife !" Jennie had ceased crviug and now looked up anxiously. "Never was I more in earnest, John." ! "Well, I don't pretend to know about 1 these things. But you don't really want if. do you, child ? Such a gloomy thing. W hy, you ; bright and ought to have something j cheerful then, it seems to i ! me." "It woidd be very I Jennie, meekly. "Serviceable .how serviceable," said ?" queried her fa- ther. "Your mother's dresses are always serviceable, and they are not silk. And j then, look at the cost of it. Whew! Ten ; fifteen dollars, I suppose." ! "More than double that," returned Mrs. Mayberry. "That settles the question. Xo ; it ! will not be serviceable for my daughter j not at any juice." i "But, if I get the school at Stapleton?" asked Jennie. ! "Ah ! ! Time enough to talk about silk dresses w hen you've money that you i don't know what to do with. If you do j teach, you shan't begin for over a year." ! "More than half the girls of our class j will have silks for graduation, Prudy j says, and " "I suppose she will ; she looks like j that kind of a girl. And, as usual, her I father is going to borrow my mowing j machine next summer, and the new plough that I must buy in April. No, no, my daughter no black silk for you, yet. However let me see. I have it now ! One of my happy thoughts just in the nick of time, I declare !" He drew out his pocket-book, and from its folds took several bank-bills. "Mr, Simonds paid for his hay this afternoon. I'm rignt glad to get the money just now was intending it for a certain purpose, plan your mother and I made a while ago. But I've changed my mind within an hour, and, Jennie, if you'll wear the same dress you have got on now this neat gray flannel with the pretty pink neck-tie at the graduation, you shall have every cent he paid me to spend as you choose." Jennie looked troubled. "I'll be there to see," he added. "Moreover and likewise," he continued merrily, "Tommy and I will get as many spruce trees and as much evergreen to trim the school-room as you will accept. And motherll lend all her plants, every flower-pot, I've no doubt.!' "Certainly, with pleasure," responded Mrs. Mayberry. "The graduation, or commencement, rather for then you will really begin your life as a woman," said Mr. May berry, "ought to be a joyfid occasion. And yet a serious one, as you then lay aside childish things and take the first step toward the sober realities of life. And I want you to know, Jennie, that the first step will have much to do in deter mining your future course. Don't begin with show and extravagance then, even if you that is, I can afford it it would not be right or becoming." "Mike Brady hasn't any overcoat, fa ther, because Mary's got to have a new gown to graduate in," said Tommy. "And Mrs. Drayton told me a fortnight ago that Hannah had left the High School on account of the expense of graduation," said his mother. "Well I suppose there are others 'in the same box,' as uncle Russell express es it. He said to me the other day, that he shouldn't be able to take up his note as soon as he expected, next month, his twro boys' school expenses are so great this last term." "All the girls are telling me what they shall wear, and I thought I expected " began Jennie, in a trembling voice. Her father interrupted her, placing the bank-bills in her hand. "Think of it overvnight, dear. You have had good teachers, and are fond of them, I know, and are attached to your mates. Have had many happy hours in the old school-room, will wish to look back on the last days spent there with pleasant memories ; Spend the money it is yours now in a way that will give you the most delightful recollection." "Now please, let us drop the subject," said the mother, laying the samples on her work-stand, and taking up Tommy's jacket. "Am I to have your help on the button-holes, dear ?" she added, quietly. Jennie gave her a bright smile, gath ered up the bits of silk, went directly to the stove and threw them in the tire. "Button-holes, buttons anything you say," was her answer, as she seated her self on the stool at her mother's side, that both might sew at the same time. "How about your battles? Dates all right, daughter ?" asked the father. "Let me hear them." She recited them slowly, any correct ly, ending with a gay laugh, and "I was determined to have them all right." And vou have succeeded. Add ! another victory for General Good-Sense, at Mayberry Point. What's the date?" "Never mind. Graduation Day, we'll call it , perhaps," and having clasped her purse with a vigorous snap, there was a twinkle of its steel rings as she slipped it into her pocket, and then her skillful ! ) fingers ran rapidly through the mazes of i button-hole stitch. So Tommy's jacket was completed, and he was glad enough to have it ready to wear the next day. Graduation Day was remarkably fair joking I fr March. The sch ol-room was crowd j ed with the parents and fiiends of the pupils. Everybody admired the decora tions of evergreen and flow ering plants, j which Mr. Mayberry not only provided, ! but assisted in arranging. Not one of the pupils passed more creditably through the exercises than Jennie Mayberry, and certainly not one loke prettier than she in her modest gray dress, with a pink bow at her throat. j 31ore than one among the gentlemen ' visitors inquired who that handsome girl in gray was "And such easy, charming ! manners," added some. "And such a line scholar," said others. The music "only Jennie Mayberry's piano, and singing by the pupils," was liked so well that a persistent rno,y of the last song brought its repetition; du- I ring wnich Mr. Mayberry, bearing a 1 large package, passed slowly up one of the crowded aisles to the teachers' plat- form. When the singing ceased, all eyes j turned in expectation toward him as he j carefully unfolded a large picture from its wrappings. j It was a tine engraving, a portrait of ' Abraham Lincoln, in a beautiful frame. I "My daughter's gift to the school, in j memory of happy hours here passed," j said Mr. Mayberry to the principal. A complete surprise was this, and i everybody seemed astonished at the gen- ! erous gift. In a few words Mr. May- I berry told the story of its purchase, j Then it was hung on the wall back of i the teacher's desk. j And that is the way that the change in graduation exercises of the High School at Mayberry Point was brought about; arid why the pupils wear their every day dresses, and furnish their own music, and make the decorations them selves for that occasion. The reason, too, that there is less love of dress and finery among the young people of the place; and such good books in its school library; and so many nice pictures on its school-room walls; and those two Rogers' groups in corners. X E. Farmer. A Difference in Disposition. I know two girls, equally excellent and pretty, between whom a marked difference exists; one gains friends wherever she goes, and at once; the other makes few, and then only after a long acquaintance. Why? She looks at people with an eye of suspicion; she doesn't wish to be taken in; her glance at the person to whom she is presented says, "Now you are very likely not what you pretend to be, and you shall not find me a victim at any rate." She approaches strangers with clenched fists, as it were, and the inevitable conse quence is that they receive her in the same spirit. Nobody likes to have his faults suspected before he has had a chance to show his virtues. Her gentler friend, instinctively understanding this, receives every new acquaintance as if she had been waiting all her life for him especially, She sees the good in people and gives them the credit for it. The result is, uiai in ner presence an our good qualities come out, and we are bet ter for the time being, if not for always. Thus it is that she has so many friends, for while men and women laugh at her friend's witty sayings and applaud her keen criticisms, they do not care one tenth as much for her as they do for their amiable favorite, w ho believes there is some good in everybody. But our young cynic does not see this. She goes on believing that it is the fault of the world that she is not appreciated. I fear, if she lives to see threescore years and ten, she will never get the sweetness and beauty out of life which her friend has already found. Tragic Fate of a Young Huntress. Many stories have found currency of the bravery of a young huntress, Miss Lottie Merrill, occupying a hut in WTayne county, Pa. Some time since she was recorded as having killed two black bears, a feat most remarkable, considering that she was only 18 years cf age. According to the Elmira Gazette, she has come to a tragic end, and her heroism can no longer furnish materials for special despatches for newspaper correspondents. A party of hunters, it is said, on the evening of the 8th instant, found her cabin burning, and within it the remains of six bears and the charred bones of the youthful huntress. The explanation given is that she had killed a fine buck deer, and, after removing the entrails, had dragged it over the snow to her cabin. Six hungry bears followed the trail, and after devouring the carcase attacked the huntress, killing and eating her. An examination of the carcasses of the six bears showed that she must have killed two of them before being overpowered. The carcass of one bear had fallen against the closed door, imprisoning them all within the cabin, which took fire and burned the others to death. In the cabin was found one of the poor girl's heavy boots, with the foot still in it, a bent hunting knife near the bones, w hich, w ith the antlers of the deer, told a story that was easily read. Her funeral took place the next day. tlie remains being buried near her min ed cabin, and a hemlock slab, with the following rude epitaph, records her fate "Lottie Merrill lays hear she dident know wot it wuz to be afeered but she has lied her last tussol with the bars and theyve scooped her she Was a good girl and she is now in heaven. It took six big bars to get awav with her. She was ollh' years old ! A BinPs Wit. Some time since, while- riding slowly aiong a ciusiy macadamized road, 1 was j startled by the hurried flight close by ; my .side of a small bird which dropped j in the road a few paces ahead, and after a flutter in the dust sat perfectly motion less. I drew up my horse to watch events, when a nmment later a hawk swooped by, but missed its prey, and went ofl' iuto an adjoiniug Held. The sparrow remained still in its place, and all covered with dust, looked for all the world like one of the manv loose Rtones in the roads so much so, that no won der it should have escaped the sharp sight even of the hawk. But one explanation of such a freak seemed possible; and when we reflect that these birds generally take to the bushes or to the lichen spotted rail fences, when pursued by hawks, and that dust is not a constant factor of the environment, we stop to admire so bright a spark of intelligence kindled under such trving circumstances. The I-ash in Pioneer Days. In a lecture on "The Lawyer as a Pi oncer," delivered in Chicago by Thomas Hoyne, of that city, a contrast was drawn between some of the laws passed by the Government of the Northwestern Territory in 1791 and 1800, under the ordinance of 1787, and the legislation of the present day. Larceny was then punished by 31 stripes well laid on and the thief was remiired to restore the value of the stolen property; fail ing in that he was sold to any one who would pay it, for a term not ex ceeding seven years. I he torger was fined double the sum of which he at tempted to defraud an individual, and was set in the pillory for two hours. j. Arson and horse-stealing were punish- able by death, hog-stealing by a fine of from 50 to 100 dollars and from 25 to 39 lashes, and burglary by 300 lashes well laid on. She Paid a Commission. A Chicago merchant accompanied Milwaukee gentleman an old friend to his home, where he had been many times a guest before. In a conversa Hon with the charming daughter of his host, he rallied her on her contin nance in a state of single blessedness, She replied that none of the Milwau kee beaux were to her taste, and in an indifferent way inquired if Chicago had any nice young men disengaged Receiving an affirmative reply she re mained a minute or two in a brown study, and then brightening up said in a bantering tone, "Well, you are commission merchant: send me down nice young man and 1 will allow you a commission, of 10 cents a pound. The Milwaukee girl got her nice young man in due time. The commission chanres were iust 19 dollars and 50 o cents. Love Begets Love. One fact is self-evident, when we see twro persons engaged in the warmths of a mutual affection, that there are certain qualities in both minds which bear a re semblance to one another. A generous and constant passion in an agreeable lover, where there is not too great a dis parity in other circumstances, is the greatest blessing that can befall the per son beloved, and if overlooked in one, may perhaps never be found in another. JOHNNY SKAE'S BIG CHANCE. Worth 810,000,000 Two Years Asro, To-ilav Working for a (Sood Living. fYom the Vttrson Vity Appeal.) A little more than two years since Johnny Skae, whom everybody knows, woidd visit Carson several times a month, and as he passed down the street from the railroad depot, wTith an independent swagger, and a more independent look in his eye, men would enviously gaze af ter him and express their convictions that he would soon outstrip any single member of the Bonanza firm in the pos session of millions. This was when Sierra Nevada and Union were selling at from 250 to 300 dollars per share, and Skae was supposed to hold 50,000 shares of the stock of those twro mines. At that period he would have had no difficulty in realizing 10,000,000 dollars in cool gold coin for his stock; but no, he was ambitious, and desired no longer to play second fiddle even to such a colossal financial power as the Bonanza firm. He fancied that the prospective dividends of the Sierra Nevada and Union Consol idated mines would be greater bv ten fold than those paid by the California and Consolidated Virginia mines. John was over-sanguine; he imagined himself a 100 millionaire, whose millions were safely deposited in the bowels of the earth, Of that he felt certain. In the meantime he entertained his friends in regal style. He invited them from San Feancisco to participate in princely fish and champagne banquets, which were spread near the reservoir of the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Works, from which the luscious trout were taken, and in various other ways extended his hospitality to friends in such a manner that they privately called him "Prince John." In the midst of this, however, he did one prudent thing, and that was in settling 250,000 dollars in bonds upon his wife. Believing that the stock of the mines of which he was so heavy a holder was sure to reach at last 1,000 per share, he hypothecated the same to the Nevada Bank, and purchas ed several thousand shares on a margin. Soon thereafter the market crashed, and it was not long before his stocks were quoted at 50 and 60 dollars per share. Of course that nearly ruined Skae; but being a man of nerve and desirous of re trieving his lost opportunity, he kept on dabbling in stocks which at one time might have placed him in an enviable independent position, until he had lost all that he had saved from the first blow; and it is even said that the 250,000 dol lars which he settled upon his wife went the way of the rest. Now Johnny Skae is in Arizona, in place of living in luxury and superlative elegance, seeking a bon anza, which he probably w ill never find. It is only once in a lifetime that one man in a million is so enchantingly smiled upon by fortune as Johnny Skae was two and a half years ago. Women as Wives and Mothers. 'It is not good for man to be alone. We all need the motherly, and we must find it in a wife. Do you know what I think the prettiest story of courtship I ever read ? It is the account of Isaac s marriage with Rebecca, away back in the simple old times. You remember the j. ending of it. 'And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and Isaac was comforted for his mother's death.' There's the philosophy of it he added, "its the mother living again in the wife. The motherly instinct is in the hearts of all true women, and sooner or later the true wife becomes a mother to her husband. She guides him, cares for him. teaches him. and catechises him, all in the nicest way possible Why, I'm sure I never should know how to get along a day without Polly to teach me the requirings and forbiddens of the commandments, to lecture me for going out without my muffler, and see that I put on my flannels at the right time, to insist that I shall take some thing for my cough, and raise a rebellion to my going out w hen there's a north easter. So much for the body, and as for the soul life, I believe it is a woman who holds faith in the world it is a wo man behind the wall, casting oil on the lire that burns brighter, w hile the devi pours on wrater; and you'll never get Christianity out of the earth while there's a woman in it. I'd rather have my wife's and vour mother's opinion on meaning of a text of Scripture, than all the Doctors of Divinity, and their faith is an anohor that ahvays holds. Some jackanapes or other I read once, said every woman wanted a master, and was as forlorn without a husband as a mas terless dog. It's a great deal truer that evfirv man wants a mother. Men are more great them. make cosy, ness! forlorn than masterless dogs, deal, when no woman cares for Look at the homes single women for themselves: how neat, how how bright with the oil of glad The fact is, women are born comfort makers, and can get along by themselves a great deal better than We can, "Uncle Jtcob" in Mrs. Stotce's Story in Cliristian Union. Eastern Colorado is full of dead cattle, This is another of those delightfid sec tions of country where cattle are said to winter all right without special feeding or shelter. Gypsy Lore. Perhaps the reason that gypsies un derstand so well how to work upon the sympathies of others is because they are superstitious themselves. Some gypsies set their boots crosswise before going to bed, fancying thereby to keep away the cramp; a female gypsy carried the skele ton of a mole's foot, which she called a "fairy foot," because she believed it good against rheumatism; and it is a standing truth among them that children in teeth ing shoidd wear a necklace made of myrtle stones, which for a boy must be cut by a woman; by a man for a girl. An adder's slough or a bit of mountain ash is certain to bring good luck; and with the same object some of the children wear round their necks black bags containing fragments of a bat. In order to hurt an enemy, you have only to stick pins into a red bag and burn the same; others for the same end resort to the cruel practice of sticking pins into a toad till it looks like a hedgehog, and then bury it with certain observances. One old woman, called a ghost seer, carried in her pocket a little china dog dressed like a doll. "I mind," savs the trvpsv who tells the story, "she lost it once, nd she was in such an awful state till it as found; and she used to fancy it would talk to her when she wras all alone moking her pipe in the wagon. You should see a pack she had of very old fortune-telling cards, which was painted in different colors. She used to select the different ones for each day; some tinies,,she woidd have those with the devil and serpents on 'em, then she would carry those with birds and palaces." Now if superstition coidd be confined to the lower classes it would be something of a blessing. A Shake of the Hand. There is great significance in hand shaking, and many are the methods used to perform that operation. Some seize our nanci with a lervent grasp one 11 j 1 a foot extended and holding your eye with their own. Such is the salutation of the jolly tar, ready to share "the last shot in the locker" with the stranger of il , 1 rii -i ine nour. utuers, again, seize your hand with as much fervency, and may mean as well toward you; but they do not looK directly at vou, out past vour cheek, with eyes steadily set, as if look ing for some undefined ghostliness bevond, and seeming to converse with the same. Others give too great a show ol iervency to the salutation, causing your fingers to tingle with pain; you involuntarily glance at the injured hand, expecting it to have been compressed into one horrid, bruised, extended dexter linger. Others, again, add to this exhibition of muscular power, by swing ing vour hand up and down, a sort of intimation that they are about to "pump vou. Some give vou the tips of their fingers; others take the whole hand The most abominable hand shaking is that lazv. listless offering, giving no pressure, and averse to receiving any, We have shaken hands with such persons, and the memory of it annoyed v.s for an hour afterward. It was like touching a wet dishcloth, or a cold, quivering frog. An embarrassing shake of the hand is, when the party greets you hastily, yet silently, as if he felt guilty of boldness, or was not quite sure that he had not been misled by a resemblance. It is as awkward as a pause in conversation no one knowing quite what to say under the circum stances. A Horrible Case of Revenge. A horrible case of revenge occurred recently in Ohio, where a drinking man reformed and became an active worker in the cause of temperance and against the traffic that had well nigh mined him. The saloon keepers swore revenge they woidd either win him over once more to their thraldom or they would entrap his boys. At last after plying all their wiles and inducements, they suc ceeded in gaining one of his sons who was made drunk, and while in this con dition was taken to a low dive of illest repute. Then a row was forthcoming a beer glass thrown and the victim was the son of the father who had dared to take back his manhood once more from the dominion of these fiendish traffickers in human souls. He was carried to his newly beautified home, bleeding and mangled and in the delirium of drink and fever. Men were required to hold him by night and by day, and physicians after exhausting their skill were obliged to give over the struggle against a mightier man than themselves. A few days after as the bereaved father walked down the street, these triumphant Hends leered at him and cried out with oaths, 4 'We've got you now." Legalized murder is the name for this sort of crime, and a worse organization than the Klu Klux Klan is the perpetrator. Is it not time to swing aloft the 4 'blood v shirt" of a war more brutal than the rebellion, and nailing it j to the flag staff of our temperance army, j bid it wave till the last vendor of liquid t Ufa. I II BUlieuuuia IU uuumunj auu vvvi. Cliicago Signal. A project is on foot at Montreal for making a tunnel under Niagara Falls. Another bridal path. Nycum Advertiser. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The contractor for building the Cana dian Pacific Railway advertises that he will want 3,000 white laborers during the coming summer. There are now 569 cities in the United States supplied with water works, involving 13,000 miles of pipe, 10,000 of which are of cast iron. . The military prison at Leavenworth, Kan., is reported as having turned out in the last fiscal year 25,225 pairs of boots, and 31,220 of shoes. Joseph Fuess, a lad, whose arm was broken and his scalp torn off by the fall of a school house in the Erie school dis trict of Pennsylvania, has recovered a verdict. He sued for ten thousand dol lars damages. A writer in the Cincinnati Enquirer, after a critical inspection of New York women, says that the higher you go in the social scale the further you get from beauty, and that the Bowery shop girls are, in that respect, far superior to the "swell" young ladies. William F. Tolley, a bookkeeper at Kingston, N. Y., is said to be an electric al marvel. He is so full of electricity that when he slides across a carpet, even with his boots on, he can light the gas with his fingers, and when a person touches his nose or an ear with their fingers, a shock is received in the arm and a bright spaak is emitted. The Northwestern Lumberman, which is rendering an important service to the country by awakening j)eople to the fact of the ever increasing denudation of forests, estimates the loss involved by the fires of 1871, in Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York, at 215,000,000 dollars. In 1878 the woods on Lake Superior were afire almost continuously for 160 miles. Mr. Lawrence Oliphant, on his return from the East, declared that he saw the followers of a certain Sheikh Rusian Abouton, of Damascus, devour live scorpions and snakes, and then finish off by chewing and swallowing mouthfuls of glowing, red-hot charcoal. Mr. Oliphant not only saw this done, but felt the sickening smell of burning flesh as "they crunched the glowing morsels." Prof. Fort, in a paper on artificial respiration read before the French Academy, states that he was enabled to restore to life a child three years old three and a half hours after apparent death by practisiug artificial respiration on it for four hours. Another physician reports a somewhat similar case. He reanimated a person nearly drowned after four hours of artificial respiration. The person had been in the water ten minutes, and the doctor arrived an hour after asphyxia. Ten Cents a Day. No matter how large your salary, you will save nothing if you spend money too freely. Men are continually indulg ing in small expenses, saying to them selves, that it's only a trifle, you forget ting that the aggregate is serious, that even the seashore is made up of petty grains of sand. Ten cents a day is even thirty-six dollars and a half a year, and that is the interest of a capital of six hundred dollars. The man that saves ten cents a day only is so much richer than he who does not, as if he owned a life estate in a house worth six hundred dollars; and if invested quarterly, does not take half that time. But ten cents a day is child's play, some will exclaim. Well, John Jacob Astor used to say, that when a man, who wishes to be rich, has saved ten thousand dollars, he has won half the battle. Not that Astor thought ten thousand much, but he knew that in making surh a sum, a man acquired habits of prudent economy, which would keep him advancing in wealth. How many, however, spend ten thousand in a few years in extra expeuses, and then, on looking back, cannot tell, as they say, "where the money went to." To save is to get rich. To squander, even in small sums, is the first step toward the poorhouse. The habit of extrava gance is easily formed, but almost impossible to break up. Sulky People. Did it ever occur to you that sulkiness in its finished state is a rare accomplish ment? It implies the possession of varied gifts, among others that of com plete mastery of the five senses. It is for a man to be blind when it is desired that he should open his eyes, dumb whenever words would be acceptable, deaf to all allurements or submission, insensible to every effort at conciliation. It can create gloom, and having created it, it can perpetuate and deepen until it becomes a clinging atmosphere as un wholesome as malaria. It comprehends an absolute control over the facial mus cles, so that no softness or sign of yield ing, not a ripple of a smile or an ex pression of pleasure, may replace even for a moment the sullen apathy or illu minate the habitual scow l ol the con firmed sulker. In a word, it is the faculty of simulation to such a degree that a person shall appear to be blind, deaf, dumb, stupid, paralyzed, ill or dead, whenever and for as long as he chooses. What better illustration of misdirected energy can be given than that shown by the sulky person. if m if-? 1 mil: III t; 1 hi 'X. i'-i f - m i- I"'.. J IP 1
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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March 17, 1881, edition 1
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