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SThq 3f halham Record. H. A. LONDON, Jr., xxktob and rnoriurroB. or '(5 Ay 5 vv ADVERTISING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Knare. one Insertion, On iQuare. two insertions,- One square, one month, 1.50 - zx Osieorr. "iyr, ...... ,oo Cm eflpy, three inontLr, . TQL III" PITTSBOllO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, AUGUST 4, 1881. NO. 47. Yor larger advertisements liberal contract! W!l Cliff The Susrar Maple. AI0113 the vak and o'er the hill I eoe a blue and smoky haze ; The nftoruooua aru warm and still, Aud presage longer, vavmcr days. Tho blue jay on tho sumach bough U screaming with discordant uote ; The phu?be bird arouses nosr The longing heart with trombling throat. Tiio hills aro pimping through tho snow, i:d L'urK d feisoi s greet tho viow ; On byre, brown knolls h juaw berries glow, Or liv.y w,v tlow.-in il;ui;t in blue. The f'Ysh, v.v earth now hCi-nts the g?.le, As, rising rVoiu her m-j.uMkt, flhc eu'. ride her suov.y wit And ijiOL-ti her train, who wait tor her. .Now- MnnJi t?itf dro vs. team a.-d'-ep JW-.ro h- 1niUi't-laJei. sleigh, Vuil" iiiiKs tin: enifl et-.-l full deep To drew thr. erystal hap awny ; Tho stffc.iy drip rem woode:i lip llakea mimic in the toft spring air, Aud po'.iu th h'dr u bi.:ke ts tip And waste the nectar rirh and raro. Anon tint pungent moke-wrcfUhs riso Aro::u 1 tbr kt t tossing surg ; Hule youths attend the p::evitW- And i,sg!i th- llam.-s wifhfngg..iui-g Oh ! trnnsimitati'-'ii wondrous sveet ! ThPi ftoaU tht Mood of bare, hrown trees And in the crackling flames and heat Hrts portt-r those g-d ien grains to seize ! Oil, vaiiisk-a yyuta ! Oh, balmy days ! The odors rise of turly i'..-. rs, I tfe again through smoky haze The picture of those iiviug hours ; I hear .-.gain the wild halloa Of bo;, s long silent in the- t-!ab ; The fitf.il camp-liiv brings to view Gla i faces frvm the out r gl ira. They tell of ;ra eternal jWi, Forever bright with spriiiln:; tkw.-ra, Where monriiv- h an cadlwa riiu:, Ilxbteu. o !:. ( .. ; a-i:ig horn. It may h:- iIk :';:.;!: : strii'.t Hv.; store i tor us some .vrts awa;, ; . frusca ddlia of varia'y lie .May x kl.l f.iy r.a a Ivihtvr dav. A BOLD BACKVVOGDS BOY. Jail was eleven yean old and little Chlo, Lis sister, was two years younger. But this wai a great many years ago when their lather, M. Dunlap, had just moved into a township in the western part of Maine, which was then a wild, uninhabited region, save where here and there an adventurous settler had planted his little log hut in the heart of the wilderness, end laid bare a few acres of the forest as a nucleus of the future home of himself and thriving family almost always a small colony in itself. Ah, who can tell what homesick mo ments and longings for the old associa tions our pioneer fathers and mothers endured, coming, as did many of them, from wealthy States and pleasant sur roundings. There must have been a mighty attraction in the wild, free life of the backwoodsman and a genuine love of tho simple and homely joys of the rough Learthstono, to have held them in these rude homes, almost isolated, as they were, from the world. But they lived in anticipation, looking eagerly forward to a future of plenty, when the wilderness should become cultivated and fruitful through their first persis tent and hardy efforts. "With an energy characteristic) f the first settlers, Mr. Dunlap pushed his way on through toil, hardships and many privations, at firt felling and clearing a patch largo enough to put up a log cabin for his family, then by degrees cutting farther and farther into the primitive forest, till now quite a large track lay open to the Bun, a part of which was under tolerable cultivation, the rest laying black and still smoking from recent burnings. As before stated, Jad was now eleven. He was a dark-faced, sinewy lad, tough as a thong, inheriting much of his father's pluck and endurance. "What ever he undertook to do he was pretty sure to carry through. In these unsettled regions wild ani mals were numerous, especially the wild cat, lynx and glutton, or wolverine. These creatures often came into the clearings, and their frequent depreda tions becamo a great pest to the settlers. There was also an abundance of smaller game to be had for the trapping, and this fall Jad was anticipating no end of enjoyment in the warm Indian Brimmer days, trapping for "musquash" (muskrat) and mink along Kenny Brook, which ran pa&t the elf ai ing half a mile away in the woods. His father had helped him make his traps, and on his very first visit he was greatly elated by finding a sleek and glossy mink in one of them. This piece of good luck had set Jad half wild, for mink skins brought a high price at the "big settlement," twenty-five miles down the countrj, where his father always went to do his trading. Jad watched his traps eagerly, as a miser watches his money bags. But with all his vigilance, what was his dis may to find, one morning, in the trap farthest up stream, that a mink had been caught and taken out by some wild beast and devoured. The tail and little featherly clumps of fur lay scattered about the trap. Dire vengeance against the wild marauder possessed his heart. Little Chlo was a keen sympathizer in la troubles. She was also his compan ion in this trapping expedition, in which It wm hr duty to parry tb bait aom times a squirrel, oftener a trout caught from the brook. "What d'you s'pose got him?" asked Chlo, as Jad stood looking ruefully at the tail, which he held between his thumb and finger. "I don't know, unless 'twas a glutton or a wildcat. Pa says they are always nofin round to get the bait out of traps and what's caught in 'cm. Confound himl Seven dollars gone down his throat !" he exclaimed, wrathfully. "It is too bad," cried little Chlo. "Can't you catch him ?" Jad thought a moment. His father had a steel fox trap. He would set that and have the thief. Leaving Chlo, he hastened to the house, got the trap and raced back to the brook. It was set at last to Lis sa'ifaction and baited with a squirrel, which he had brought along to bait Lis miak traps with. He drove a stake uown through a ring in the trap chain, to as to hold whatever was caught. Two nays passed, and not a mink had been near, but the bait was gone out of the steel trap and also from two of the mink traps. With his usual persever ance Jad rebaitcd them and waited. The bait was again eaten out of the most of his mink trap?, and what was more exasperating another mink had been caught and eaten. Jad's patience now nearly gave way, and he was tempted to tear his traps up. But on second thought he resolved to try once more. He would bait only the fox trap. Jad did not visit the next morning, as usual, for he was obliged to finish har vesting the potatoes. But after dinner, his father having gone to assist at put ting up a log cabin for a newly-arrived settler, some two miles distant, Jad and Chlo set off for the brook, hatchet and lishpole in hand. As tho ueared the place where the fox trap was set they heard the chain clink ing. "I bet my head we've got him !" Jad cried, excitedly, dashing through a clump of cedars. Aud sure enough, there he was ! A big, round-headed wildcat ! At Jad's sudden appearance the crea ture bounded and leaped frantically to free himself, but the stake was a strong ono. After cutting a stout green club three or four feet in length, Jad stuck the hatchet beneath the strap which he wore for a belt, and going as near as he dared struck at the creature with all his might. He missed, however, and the cat darted round to the other side of the stake, bring up with a sudden jerk, where it crouched, growling low and watching the boy with fiery eyes and ears laid back. "Oh, don't go so near him, Jad !" cau tioned little Chlo, retreating across the brook. "He'll fly at ye 'fore ye know it !" "Let 'em fly !" cried the now excited boy. "He's going to get lm head cracked 'fore I'm done with 'im ! Take that, ye sneakin' thief P he added, ven turing up and biinging down the club with a quick blow, just grazing the ani mal as he jumped to the other side. Then round and round the stake they flew, Jad thumping the ground, trap, anything but the eat, which adroitly kept cut of his reach, all th9 lime furi ously snarling and spitting. It was hard telling which was pursuer as they gyrated about the stake amid a perfect whirlwind of dead leaves. But in an unlucky moment Jad's chain got under the trap chain, and, biinging it up suddeuiy, he threw the ring over the top of the stake. With a bound the creature was off, the chain rattling after him catching under roots and stones. There was not a second to lo.se, and the boy gave hot chase. They ran on for fifty rods or more : then seeing Jad so close upon him, the cat scratched up the trunk of a hemlock, trap and all, and from the branches glared at the panting and excited boy. Jad's courage was now up to the high est pitch, and throwing down his club he began to climb the rough trunk. "Don't go up there, Jad, for pity sake, don't !" implored little Chlo, now com ing up all out of breath. "Yes, aii' let him go off with pa's trap on his foot, wouldn't ye? Just like a giri 'fraid of her own shadder !" cried Jad, scornfully. "I tell yer, he's got to pay for them mink with his skin see if ho don't !'and he climbed on laboriously, giving vent to his indignation in threats which he meant to put into execution. Beaching the lower limbs, Jad grasped the hatchet firmly, ready for an assault. As he came within a yard of the cat it kept clawing and making attempts to leap down upon the boy's head, all the time growling fiercely. Throwing the hatchet back over his shoulder as far as he could reach, Jad struck at the big head in tie crotch, of the tree just above him. But the creature dodged the blow. He again struck and missed ; but the next time he was fortunate enough to hit the cat on the head, fairly knocking it off the limb to the ground, where for a moment it lay stunned and motionless. Jad slipped quickly down th trunk, thinking the Ytotory no won But tha animal, recovering itself, set upon the t oy with true feline grit, and the next moment they were engaged in a lively tussle, while little Chlo ran back and forth shouting for help at the top of her voice. The woods resounded with the con fused medley. Jad now found that he mut fight for his life, and with another desperate blow he again stunned the creature, and, before he could recover, the resolute boy despatched him. Dropping the hatchet, Jad threw him self on the ground, panting and ex hausted. Poor little Chlo now came timid ly forward, trembling and casting frightened glances at the animal, as if she lalf expected it would even now leap upon he r. O Jad ! cried the little girl, seeing the boy's tattered frock, "you must be awful hurt I And, oh, see your arm !': "No, I ain't hurt, neither," declared Jad, stoutly, sitting up, "not much, any way. That's only a little stratch!" regarding his arm ruefully. It was a pretty big one, however. Binding some birch withers firmly about the creature's hind legs, Jad, with little Chlo's assistance, dragged him to the house. "My patience alive!" cried the moiher, running to tho door, as she caught sight of the children. "Jad Dunlap ! you ven turesome boy ! where did you get that wild cat ?" "He got into our trap, an' then run off up a tree with it, and Jad clim' up after 'im," little Chlo hastened to explain. "I told him not to," she added, seeing the gathering reproof in her mother's eyes. "And you got well scratched," said Mrs. Dunlap, turning Jad about and eyeing his frock and bleeding arm. "I guess 'twill learn you to let wildcats alone !" "He won't eat any more of my mink, anyway," muttered Jad. He did not get much sympathy from his father, either, who chided him saverely for his want of prudence, and bade him be more cautious in the future, about attacking such animals. It took a long time to heal up Jad's lacerated arms and shoulders, end it was a number of days before he got over the soreness and lameness enough to visit his traps. However, Jad was not troubled again that fall, wh le two more mink were added to his little pilo of furs which he sent on hi- father's l-.md down to the "settlement" not Ion after. At Ilelhlehenu The Kev. Dr. Theodore Cuyler writes of a visit to Bethlehem in the Now Yoik Evtngelist as follows : Wa set our faces for the pools of Solomon, halting a few moments at the tomb of Rachel by the roadcide. The small structure was crowded with Je.ws, some of whom were phylacteries, and all were wailing, as they wail beside the remnant of tho temple walls. One old woman was weep ing and pressing her withered cheek against the tomb with as much distress as if the fair young wife who breathed out her life there forty centuries ago had been her own daughter. We found the enormous pools of Solomon (the longest of which measures 580 feet in length) were about half filled with pure water. We rode beside the aqueduct that leads from them all the way to Bethlehem. Down among the bleak and barren hills we saw the deep, fer tile vale of Urtas, filled with gardens and fruit trees. It is cultivated by the European colony planted by Mr. M s hullam. For a half hour we feasted our eyes with th3 view of beautiful Beth lehem perched on its lofty hill and sur rounded by olive orchards. So many new edifices have been erected for con vents and other religious purposes that Bethlehem has almost a modern look. As we rode through its narrow streets we saw no Buths, but an ancient Jew in turban, long robe and flowing beard, quite answered to my idea of Boaz. We rode to the convent adjoining the Church of the Nativity, where a rather jolly looking monk furnished us an excellent lunch. He then took us into the ven erable church that covers the subterra nean chamber in which tradition has al ways held that our blessed Lord was born. The chamber is probably a rem nant of an ancient khan once belonging to the family of Jesse and King David. I expected to be shocked by a sham mockery when I entered the church, but a feeling of genuine faith in the locality came over me as I descended into the rocky chamber and read, around the silver star, the famous inscription in Latin, "Here Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary." The three-fold argument for the authenticity of this site is drawn from unbroken tradition, from the fact that Bethlehem has never been over thrown in sieges, and from the other fact that the learned St. Jerome (in the fourth century) was so sure of the site that he came and spent his long, labo rious life in the cavern close by the birth spot of our Lord. I entered with deep interest the cave in which this de vout scholar meditated and prayed and wrought the Vulgate translation of God's word. My visit to the Church of the Nativity was ten-fold more satisfac tory than that to the Church of the Holy fSepulchar in this city, WARTS. The Way la Which Tbey are Removed With Nentucss and Dispatch A Peculiar Brar.cn of the Science of Surgery. A very handsome young lady entered the aesthetic office of a professor on Woodward avenue the other day, and asked the doctor, with an air of great mystery, if he ever cured warts. . "Warts," said the man of moles, "I should think I had bushels of them." "And, do they leave any scar?" "Not a scar" said the doctor ; "why that is the secret of my success ; any body can take off & wait and leave a scar, but I eradicate the whole busi ness and leave the skin absolutely with out a mark." "What is your fee, doctor?" con tinued the fair patient, who was as nervous as if she had ventured into a den of lions. "Anywhere from $1 to $25 according to tho size of the wart, the number of visits and the difficulty of operation ; if you will take a seat in the other room I will examine your case." The "other room" was a small office neatly fitted up with a she If full of email, fine instruments much resembling the tools in a dentist's office. A bargain was made as the little doc tor went to work with hands as soft and supple as a woman's, to eradicate that wart. The young lady pushed masses of blonde hair from her white brow, and lifted her pretty eyes to the doctor's face. "It is in the corner of that eye." It was plain to all observers that it was ; the defect was bigger than the eye itself. The wart was immense, omni present and overshadowing. The little doctor picked out a minute instrument and took the dimensions cf the wart, then he put on a tiny pair of forceps, and in a second the wart rolled off lite a traitor's head. Blood followed, which was soon stanched; but the root was yet to be killed. A small cold steel, wrapped about with cotton wool, was dipped into a white liquid. "Wliat is that ?" asked the patient who. ha only spoken in gasps of "oh's" and "all's" during the performance. "I gave a hundred dollars to find out," answered the doctor pleasantly, "couldn't tell for les." "But will it hurt?" "Very little," and be jabbed the base of the wart gently, "smarts a trifle that's all !" The jabbing process went on until the spot was ineenible to feeling, the doc tor meanwhile improving his time and keeping up the girl's 'spirits by telling stories of all tho remarkable wavts he Lad conquered. "Warts grow in classes," he said, as he dipped into the white liquid again. "There are nervons warts, indoh-nt warts, obtrusive warts, and obstinate warts. They are all of fungus growth, fed by vegetable impurities in the blood, for which they have an affinity. Young people are more subject tothemthanold. The majority of my patients are ladies. Ever see a lady that didn't have warts ? People with light eyes and hair are the most subject to them ; took a wart from the tip of the nose of the prettiest girl in Detroit ; youjs is most killed. A man came here the other day with fifty waits on his head cured them all. There 1 Look in the glass !" The patient did as directed. The wart was gone and a beauty spot of black court plaster was in its place ; her face was a celestial rosy red with delight, and she looked as if she could have hugged the little doctor, who prudently retreated to his salves. "You don't know the mortification that wart has caused me," she said, lay ing a generous greenback in his hand. "I never parted with anything so wil lingly ; a thousand thanks, doctor !" "That's the fourth I've had to-day," said the doctor, as he stuffed the green back into a plethoric wallet, "only one was a mouse." "A mouse, doctor?" "Yes, a mouse, a birth mark. The lady came up because she had seen two others from whose features I had taken a mouse. She had one at the corner of of her mouth, and there wasn't a sur geon in the country would touch it. There is her address confidential, cf course. You can see her in two weeks, and there'll be neither mouse nor scar. I make a specialty of warts and moles and birth marks, and I've had some be-a-u-ti-ful cases. It's astonishing how many faces I have an interest in, but I never seem to see them. The past is past, and it is business with me. Detroit Post. A doctor recently reproved a friend for his too liberal use of absinthe. "Bah P said the latter, "I've drank of it since I was a boy, and I'm sixty." "Very likely," replied the doctor ; but if you had never drank of it, perhaps you would now be seventy." Little Bobbie went to a show and saw an elephant for the first time in his life. When he came home his mother asked him what he had seen. "An ele phant, ina," he answered, "that gobbled bay with bJ Iron tail," liELIGIOXJS READ ISO. Stop. Railway signals are positive. At cer tain points are seen sign posts on which appeai-s this word "stop." It is unat tended by adjective or adverb. It is as condensed as a rifle-ball. The approach to a railway crossing or a drawbridge is guarded by the peremptory signal. We were riding on a swift train at high speed when wiih a sudden jerk the "Westinghouse" slowed our train to a stand-still. A look at the "block signal" ahead explained. The red signal was silent, yet "its voice was .heard" above the roar of our many wheels. It said "stop" as plainly as the sign-board with large word in black at the draw bridge. To a human being this little word is as positive as to a railway train. I re call a case. More than eighty years ago a boy went to Newark to learn a trade. His brave father was an invalid, but earned his own bread. The mother was dead, but not forgotten. When she died she told this son to fear God. The very morning he started the father had repeated to him that message. And yet one Sabbath he had spent in reckless and bad company. That night he did not sleep. He thought of the mother's words her dj ing words. The words of the invalid father were recalled. He was in good company that Sabbath night and the fruit was unto life. As he tossed and thought and wept tie boy said: "It is time to stop, and I will stop." And he did stop. A long life of hon orable usefulness followed. And was his the only good mother that has a son on the road to ruin? It is possible that some such son in the place of sin, if he would but listen, would hear her voice saying to him with such pathos in it, Stop I Or, as he was hurried along the "broad road" he has heard within his own heart, as distinctly as if human lips has spoken his own conscience the word Stop ! Congrega tionalist. Religious News aud Notes. A convention of Swedish Baptists has been organized in Kansas. The Kev. George H. Hepworth, D.D., of New York city, has been called to the pastorate of the First Congregational church, Meriden, Conn., at a salary of 5,000. Pope Leo has appointed Dr. McMullen of Chicago, Bishop of Davenport, a new diocese iormed out of the southern half of Iowa, and including the cities of Keokuk, Des Moines, Davenport and Council Bluffs. It is announced that Mr. Francis Mur phy, the temperance evangflist, has been recommended by the official board of East Brady, Pa., to the District Con ference as a suitable peison to be licen sed to preach. The Free Congregational society at Florence, Mass., voted to call Rev. Mr. Spencer and wife, of HaverLill, Mas, to become resident speaker-. They will alternate in occupying the platfoim three Snndnys of each month, the society supplying the other Sunday. Two large memor'al bi asses, with c vrved oak frames, have been placed in St. James Epit copal church, Chicago, in memory of Bishops Chase and White house. Each is inscribed "In memo riam" with appopiiate names and dates. St. James is the pioneer Episcopal church of the city and State. There were last year in the Church of England 127,786 confirmations. Of these 51,256 were males and 76,530 females. The largest number confirmed in any one diocese was in London, being 15,538. Cranes. Cranes of one or more species are found everywhere, with the exception of South America, the Malayan and Papauan Archipelagoes, and the scat tered islands of the Pacific. The com mon European species, celebrated in all times for its migrations "So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage borne on winds ; the air Floats as they pass, fann'd with unnnmberd plumes" was at one time very numerous in the fenny districts of England ; so possibly Milton knew the bird. The name is quite wrongly applied to the heron in Scotland and Ireland, while in America and Australia the white egret herons are also called cranes. Old JEsop's fable of the stork being captured in the evil companionship of the cranes, and being condemned to death for thus even associating with notorious plunderers of grain, indicates that he well enough knew the two kinds of birds ; far better, indeed, as Blyth truly remarks, than did that world renowned master of mediaeval painters, who commits the curious zoological mistake of introduc ing cranes instead of storks in his world-known cartoon of the "Miracu lous Drauaht of Fishes." In common with many other gregarious birds, cranes always place sentinels as a lookout, while the rest of the flock will trust fully repose, and they likewise leave them on the watch while on their ma rauding expeditions to crops of grain. WORDS OF WIjDOM. The necessities that exist are in gen eral created by the superfluities that are enjoyed. There are few occasions when cere mony may not be easily dispensed with, kindness never. He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. It seems that the men who arn't wanted here are the men who arn't wanted in the other world. What men want is not talent, it is purpose ; not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. There is no time in a man's life when he is so great as when he cheerfully bows to the necessity of his position, and makes the best of it. He who has been spoiled by success may readily be sweetened, but he who has been spoiled by non-success has lost wholesomeness forever. Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, in calculable as the descent of thistle down. Elephants in a Bath Tub. A recent issue of the Philadelphia Times says : As the three elephants in the Zoological Garden had not washed themselves for more than two years, Superintendent Brown suddenly real ized that it would be eminently proper to give them a bath ; but the difficulty was to find a bath tub large enough to accommodate the trio of monster pro boscidians. The sea lion pool or seal tank could not be used, as they are loo s-nall, and it was remembered that when Eupress took her last bath in the duck pond in 1879 she flopped around in such an extravagant manner and stirred up the mud so thoroughly that she came out far dirtier than she was when she went in. It was clear that if the ele phants were to bathe, a tub would have to be built. The work was begun in April, and, as it was finished on Friday, the bathers took their first dip yesterday morning. The bath-tub is oval in shape, ten feet deep, about one hundred and twenty feet in circumference and has a concrete floor and is lined with bricks. Half an hour after the elephants, Dora Pedro, Empress and Fanny, breakfasted yesterday morning they were marched from their pens to the bi iek-covered roadway which inclines to the water in the bathing place. Here Empress be came suspicious about the solidity of the roadway and stopped. The keeper, however, found several tender places on her body with his harpoon, and after two or three wicked snorts, which were echoed by her companions, she moved cautiously towards the water. The plane to the pool is only about sixty feet long, but so slowly did the bathers move that fifteen minutes elapsed before Jim press put one of her feet in the water, stopped, raised her trunk and trumpeted loudly. Tbis'cry seemed to dispel the fears of her companions, for an instant later Dom Pedro pushed his way to the front and went boldly into the water. Fanny plunged in next, taking a genuine ele phantine "header" and reappearing in the center of the pool Empress entered very slowly until her legs were covered, and then with a grunt, which indicated intense satisfaction, she toppled over on her left side and sank out of sight. Dom Pedro, after sousing himself thor oughly and going under the water sev eral times, waded to a place where the water was only about three feet deep and stood there lazily whisMng his good-for-nothing little tail at the flies, as he viewed with evident astonishment the preposterous capers Fanny was cut ting. The Dom accepted tho situation as coolly as though he bathed every day instead of once in two years, but the females fairly bubbled over with mani festations of satisfaction and they dived and spouted and snorted and trumpeted nearly an hour. A ter splashing around fifteen or twenty minutes Fanny walked up the incline and then deliberately rolled down into the water again. The effect of this newly-discovered feat must have pleased her intensely, for on com ing to the surface each time her piggish little eyes sparkled joyously and she scampered up the bath to repeat the novel performance. At the moment the spectators were most deeply interested in Fanny's per formances Dom Pedro showed his ill breeding by sucking a gallon or so of water into his trunk and, poking that member out horizontally until it was as rigid as a hose nozzle, he discharged its contents full in the face of an observing naturalist who stood near the edge of pool. The naturalist as soon as he re covered his breath used bad language and Dom Pedro bellowed as if proud of his performance. The keeper had some difficulty in getting the elephants out of the water, but he finally succeeded and drove them to their pens. On the journey, however, Fanny insisted on rolling in the dust, so that when she reached her apartment she was about three times as dirty-looking as when she went into the bath, but he will take another dip at one o'clock this after-epn, 1TE3IS OF INTEREST. A California pjrl of ten performs all the feats with a rifl that Carver, Paino and Frayne have made familiar. Social etiquette among the Indians is ' confined to one tiait. They never let a caller go away hungry, even if it takes the last dog. Isn't it wonderful how a thousand- dollar trotter shrinks away into the hide of a seventy-five dollar plug when tho assessor comes along? An Omaha man has beaten a prairie dog all to smash. While this animal will di 200 feet for water, ho dug 600 feet under a warehouse for whisly. The man who really "saw tho comet first" hasn't even mentioned it. to Lis dearest friends. He had been drinling, and he was suspicious of Lis vision. Plaster of Paris cats are no longer considered tony enough fur mantel or naments, but they must s'eat ! and give place to crockery dogs with yellow eyes. The only Ohio man who died sud denly last week was a chap who was try ing to occupy two seats in a passenger coach while four women were standing up. Rents at Long Branch are so exorbi tant this season that but few of the cot tages are occupipd, save by ex-Presidents and journalists on summer vaca tions. Miss Mary Wells, of Sandusky, Ohio, acknowledged to having a foot seven teen inches long and eight inches wide. That's a fair trotter for a girl eighteen years old. There are grasshoppers in Gallia county, Ohio, six inches long. Isn't it nearly time to put an air-brake on that State and hold her back in line with the rest of us. An Amiable Aliigator. The long wharf at Mandarin, Florida, stretches some six hundred feet out into the peaceful St. John's and hither repair the fishermen, after their night's toil in their row boats with their nets, to sell the quivering fish to the inhabitants and ship the surplus by morning steamer to Jacksonville. I strolled down the wharf in quest of a mess and met a tall, bony fisherman, on whose face the habit of fishing all night had left a very plain imprest n. "Haven't got a fish," said he. "No luck at all last night. I should have had some luck, too, if it w arn't for an alligator. He got in my net and it took me nearly all Light to get him out, and there were two of the prettiest schools of bass flopping by that I ever saw. Instead of getting a good lot of urn as I ought ter have done, and would hev done if it waVt for that alligator, here I am this morning with nothing at all in the boat except the thing." "Have you got him in the boat ?" I asked. "Yes ; don't yer want ter come down and 6eo him?" I followed him down to the end of the wharf, and preceding us went hU fisher companion, a lad of about seventeen. The boat lay moored to the bulkhead, and up above on tho wharf, under a shed, sat a half dozen negro women with their babies, waiting for the next steamboat. The boy, with an animated grin, ran down the flight of steps into the boat, and as we approached pulled out an alligator, four or five feet long, by a cord that was fastened about his neck, and held it on his knees, bending its tail around from side to side. The negro women, at the first look, grabbed their babies and fled in all di rections, notwithstanding the boy's good natured, "He won't hurt you." He picked him up and put him down, coiled his tail, rubbed his sides and put his big, ugly head upon the boat-thwart for general exhibition, and through it all the alligator was as quiet as a lamb. Indeed, he seemed rather to like the process he was undergoing. Perhaps he liked the jolly disposition of the boy. "Won't he bite him?" I asked. "No ; alligators won't generally bite," said my fisherman, "unless you tanta lize tun. That boy there," he continued, "is just like a baby ; jus' as quick as his head is down in the night he's asleep." Now this seemed just unlike most babies to me, I said nothing, while ho went on : "Last night, sir, after we ketched tha 'gator we put him in the bottom of the boat forward, and that boy there went and laid right down alongside of him ; and, sir, ef he and the alligator didn't sleep together, rolled in the same blanket the rest of the night." I looked in the boy's face for some trace of kinship to the ugly saurian, or some sign of that which had won its mild behavior, but the kind eyes and look of jolly good nature were all I could see. Possibly, if all the winter visitors to Florida were endowed with good humored, rollicking natures, the ugly biutes might yet be transformed iiito affectionate domestic pets, which we might lead about with a pink ribbon or dandle in our arms with interested love. Form tnd
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Aug. 4, 1881, edition 1
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