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ljc iCIjulIjmn Uccorb. II. I AIN1)C , i;iiTi'i; am ri;i'i!ii:rt'it. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, O.ie ,vpv, (Hi- copy. One -iy . sl months . tlllce months I . Ill Christmas Chimes. The meadows mo Imin u, the hills hip nil tnr, Anil up through thu vidti v tlm clem , t i-p nil Is singing n Christ urns -ong. bike llin Ming of the u in thu purple xholl, If we liit to its union it will -.ueitly ti'll The fccvrot it' kl u long. It tolU ofn time so tunny nml fair When wo iviiti'hi'tl tlm cloud-, ol tin1 snowy nir l'ortlii) inn. leers' tiny I'urin. Ami mw in out iliennis such pictures of light, As we In v llirimgli the hours ut ' t lie long, dntk night, Awuv hoin tho rloinU unci Morui. Such piel in eg iih glow in fury laic. When tol l nt tlm hour th.it day -light pule Aiil tin cinu-nii west glow- gi.iy, Win ii wo h-t lui the . hillin of liny holla I h .1 mo tiling; in tin1 i-hiulc ot liniiittc.l dell- And tiro mug hygitl'iin iind fy . It lings on tin.' heart H ti'inful ollangn I 'In iliiikcnt'il lime, eo mid, bo -timii1, W hi'ii our dream hud lost their light. Ii whispi'iH mil iiig to I lie li-ntti-- iM'i'R Hill sei-iot tliitt -iglt in cvcix hiei z I ill I Mi'v Winn into llii.' nigh'. h i-lin is el inirs' Ye tire mcny nnd iid, V, i- wound tin1 In-nit nml ye make it glad VVidi tin. mii'.ic unit- r tigmg niiil.es ; Anil tl:i wi iny hrint thill h:i- lili'iinicil mi long Take up tin ihicnd i f tin- hiol.i-n -cug Xli'l -Ulg III! It, i;nivi'l.li , I. i-lik". THE RED LIGHT. A- IIHI-I MAS M':v, It was Christmas Fve. Not imc of tho ideal Christmas Fves of puts anil rnmance writers, wherein tin1 moon is always at tho full, tho t ti'iw alw ays a-sparkle like pulverized diamonds, and t lie air always still and eoM and clear, hut a stormy twilight. With tho snow driving; steadily from the fait, the wind raw and biting, and tlm sky -what yon could see of it hi. irk as ink. I'.iit it was Christmas Fve. all the same, arid lii'ttha Minip.r's cheeks wore as red as the liitter-sw ei t hrrrk-s in the wooda ai he sat. a'l wraied up, in the train tha' was steaming; tiorihwaid, on her way to spend Chii.stuiits with hei Aunt Almira Iliins. Christmas in tht- country! To !er ,na. who hud lived all her life in the hriek walls and stone pavements of a city, tho very words seemed to convoy Mitnewhat of cheer and joyuiisness. And To rtha, as :il.e sal with her eyes clo.ed and her liMlo olnved hani'a "iifcly iic.-tlid into a jray squirnd iinilf, lieheld in In r mind's eyes great lites of logs ro.n -injr up wide-throated chinimyp. wal;s lesto ined with hem ocli lnuifjlis and Id.iek reen lulls of 'nistletoe; and she hail hall' inniposed a poem on Chiilnias and ils cherished !i isoiiat ions when the ntthles.se indue i r came .iluujr for her ticket. Ilnw f. r are we from Montconrt station y ' she i in pi i red, as she jjav e np li e hit of pa ii'lio.tid. "i l I'll' i.ji. Misi," said the man. ;s he hi itn'd on, with his lantern i;n Ii r l is arm "Half ;n hour yet." :e had never hi.-etl so far Irolll Now Vork in all her hie before. The li iviii ram in wlneli she had left her I, me h id i haasied as they proyr.-.s-O'd ',i l lhw ild into the steady lilll of sllow, which il itlerul around tin in like a ihite v. ,i ini .shi'uii I lint liertliu op r ' in cd little for I hi-. Had not Vint A luiil ii pioiinse I to send "be her Miiilli!iMt son, to the station ' Ih the pony to meet, her on the : r i iv.il of the si loriy train from Yew Ynrky And wa led ehedeo o have a lantern with a red gdass do. r to it. mi .-he could i-.li niily him at i neey !' e was very pretty as she. sat in h'l ebla. k velvet to'pie. with ils curl inu' pi u i ot' of c.irdin.il tod and the wine led ribbon bow at her throat I'lellywith the bloom and freshness of eighteen. Slie was dark, with largo hael ees. aimonil shaped and long 'asne I. :i eiejir. rosy bloom on either cheek, and wavy dark hair hanging mi sillun fringe over her broad, low forehea I- 'Mont- Court --station !'' bawled the breakniiin, putting in a snow powilered fur cap, and withdrawing it K 1 1 ii as ipiiekly as if hn had been a Miiigniiieil edition of the Jack-in the bi'X. which children iniieli rejoice at in I o iday time. And llertha Hooper ltnew that she had reached her dentin al ion. .stiff iind cramped from the length of time in which she had been Hitting in one position, Hh ioso up, with a little .steel-clasped traveling-bag in one 'iand and a dainty silk umbrella in the other, and made her way to the door. All she could see w hen she stepped out upon the wet and slippery plat form was a blur of driving snow, throth which the lights of the soli tary little country depot, gleamed (it fully. but Mie next instant something flashed athwart her vision like a friendly red eye and beneath the re flec'or over the station door she saw a tall line-looking young man, in a fur trimmed overcoat, a seal-skia cap set jauntily on one side of a crop of chest .ut curls, and a red-lighted lantern swinging Irotn his left hand, as he VOL. VIII. stood straining his eyes in the Morniy darknes.', as if to calch sight of some familiar face in the little crowd. 'Cousin Zehedee 1" cried llertha, aloud, and she rnadu one spring into the arms of this blonde-whiskered young giant. For had not she and .ebedee played dominoes and fox-and-geese together, in the days when she wi re blue ribhen sashes, and his hair was a closely shorn mat of eartoty red ? "Oh ! Cousin ebedee, I'm so glad to see you; and I hadn't any idea you had grown half so handsome !" And she gave him it great hug, at. the same time holding up her rosebud lips for a kiss. Hid. to her infinite amazement, the hero of the sealskin cap seemed u lit tie backward in responding to her cousinly advances. "1 1 beg your patdon." said he, slightly receding, "but I'm afraid there M some mistake. .My name is not ebedee and the lady for whom I am looking is some years older than you." ISertha Hooper started back coloring n ii J confused, iind as she did so, a fat, comfortable looking oi l lady camo trundling along the p'iitform in an India shawl and a boa of Uussla sable worth its weight in greenbacks. "Charlie!" she cried, "I thought I never should Iind you, Is the carriage herey" "All here and waiting. Aunt Hftie," responded the young man; but he still hesitated a serum as I'ortha ll 'Opir stood w ith averted face and moii.mless figure in the shadow of the building "Can I hoof any service to you?" he asked. 'If you are expe.'tmg friends who have failed to meet yo-i "Anvbodv here bv the name of lier tha lloo-oopery"' shouted a stentorian voice, and a tall, raw-loukiiig lad with a 1. intern also lighte 1 with red glass rushed shiulling around the inri.er. .ebedee himself ! red haired and shambling and awkward as he had been in the old fox-and geese days. "fill!" said he, catching np his lan tern so that the .-carlet bird's w ings dashed out like a spit of llai. p earce ly more scarlet, alas, than It' rtha's own face. -Hi re yen be! I'm a little late, for the r i.tils is so all lired had, and I couldn't start the pony out of a Will . Come on. I low de doy lie, yon v ry colli y" ebedee." said llertha. flinging almost bysti rically to her cousin's arm, "who's that young gentleman with with the other lantern?" "Kh!" said Zchtdee. "That feller with the old lady in a patchwork shawl y" Ye'." "Il's Charley lliin uni t, the squire's son." said Zebeilce. '.liisl come from furrin parts!" "."bedee," said llertha, with a curi ous little sound bit ween a laugh and a sob, "put me into the cutter, itick. and drive me somewhere. I don't ,,are where! Itecause " "Kh1" said "bedee. staring hard at. his cousin, ;is he packed the luillalo robe around her before t iio hing up the laggard old puny. "l!ec,iuse," added llertha, in ;i cies of desperation. "I took Mr. spe liar court for yon; and I hugged him and kissed him." "Is thai ally" said philosophical .ebedee. "lie won't care." "No!" said liertha. "hut I shall." "You ain't crying, ebedee, noting thn cousin's voice. How can I help H ? llertha. "1'warn't no fault be you : quiver said his '' wailed poor o'youin," said ebedee, consolingly. "t if course it warn't." said llertha, impatiently. -How was I to know that every lantern at Mont court had a red glasn door to it ?' And poor little llertha cried herself to sleep that night. The next m iming Christmas lUy, all snowed up into glorious drifts ev erywhereMr. Hal-court drove over to the Higgin.s farm-house. The young lady had dropped a fur glove on the platform, and Mr. Hareotirt felt it his du'y to restore it to her. And, moreover - here Mr. Charley Harcourt hesitated a little he hoped Miss Hooper would excuse him for be ing so stupid as to allow her to fancy him her cousin. "I ought t' have explained sooner." said he. "Xo, you ought not," "The fii'ilt was all mini "I don't recognie where," said he. And doned " "Of course you are !' said llertha. a fault any if 1 am par ' said 15 rlha. rosier and prettier than ever. "In that ca.se 1 am commissioned by my mother to ask your aunt's permis sion to take you over to help us linish deessing the church in time for morn ing service. My horse is waiting." "May I go. Aunt Ahiiira?" said llertha with sparkling eyes. tttatkm PITTSI$()R() ( if course yon may go, " said Ann i Almira. What was the end f it ally There is but one seipiel to stories like (li s when youth and bright eyes and hu man hearts are concerned. The next Christmas eve llertha Hooper and Chatley Harcourt wero married. Hut tho bridegroom persists in declaring that lierlhiidid the first of thelovi tiiiiking. And llertha cily laughs.- .Im.v i;m ll:,,!,. ' The Uliiiise-Tnwer on the Itliine. This tower is sittiiitel on an island ! in tho Whine, and is supposed to have ' been erected during the middle age I by some of tho robber-knights that ' then infested dormany. J he ruins have been covered with stii"co and converted into a wateh-towtr. Its name is popularly derived from the legend of tho cruel Archbishop llatto of Mayence. According to the story, as told in the well-known ballad id Southey, the crops of tho district had failed one year, and all the poor people wero starving. Hut the rich bis'iop had granaries filled to uvei Mowing, which he was holding in ordcrto pruiit by tho advanced prico of the grain. The wretched people bes night the bishop to give the'n tood from 1 1 i abutidant stores. To rid himself ol their importunities, the bishop a; pointed a day for all the poor to i..n,' to his bam and receive a portion i I grain. U hen they had ad gall crcd in the building, t he cruel pr-date ordered his servant to fasten the doors and "t file toil, thus burning the wretch ed beings alive. The next day a whole army of rats were seen coining toward the bishop's p:itav. He lied fci safety to this tower on the liliine, but they pursued him, swimming lie' rive;' and scaling the walls of theiow- er; iind making their way into the room where the terrified bishop w as I trying to conceal himself, they de voured him alive. This w as in I he year !'". A dillerent story i uii ei u ng the moit-e tower, howi-vi r, isgiv n in Murray's Hand-book of lieruiauy. This asserts that the tower was not built until the thirteenth century, moil! than J'mi years after the death of Itishop llatto. "It was intended, with the opposite castle of Khren i'els erected at about, the same time, as a watch-lower and toll house for col ecting duties upon all goods which passed the spot. The word iit"ii'i is probably an older form of imi'tlli, meaning duty or toll, and this name, together with tho very unpopular ob ject for which the tower was erected, perhaps gave rise to the dolorous story of llishop llatto and the rats." Iitln-Otnin. Fust Itailiond Time. "It's a foolish statement," said As sistant Superintendent (lowland, of the ('., Ii. .V Q, pointing to a para graph cut from a railroad paper pub li-died in Chicago. "I refer to this paragraph, which somebody has mailed me with a big interrogation mark on the margin: 'A train on the Wist Mior.' run eighty miles an hour not long ago. The last mail train on the C, It. A. . regularly makes s;xly miles iin hour on certain portions of its run.' 1 am astonished thai such a statement as this should appear in a railway paper. No train in America was ever run eighty miles an hour, nor no engine without a train, (if course our fast mail train doesn't make sixty miles an hour any portion of its run, regularly or irregularly. A mile or two here and thereon a down-grade may be covered at sixty seconds to the mile, but that's all. I havo run a train for twenty-two years and 1 tell you I don't want to ride eighty miles an hour or anywhere near it on the' best track the Chicago, liurlington A: (Juiuey has, and we have just as good roadway as there is in the I'nited States. I'.ighty miles in an hour is practically an impossibility with uir present locomotives and track. For years J tried to beat the record be tween Mendota and tialesbnrg. an hour ant! forty-six imnutes lor the eighty miles, with two stops, but we couldn't do it. When they tall; of their sixty miles sin hour you tell them they lie. Heats al! the fast run i ning slories that go around. The ' other day I read that a train in F.ng land regularly ran ninety miles an hour for 170 miles." Vhhujo Hirulil. Very Like a Tornado. "Papa, what is a tornado"" asked a youthful seeker after information. (Ilani'ing nervously around the room to see if the coast was clear he said:- "You have often heard your mother blowing me up for bringing company home without previously notifying her?" "Yes sir." "Well, that, is as much like a tornado as anything I know of. Hut you needn't tell your mother that I said so, however.'' AV"' )'" k .; mh-'. CHATHAM CO., N. C, liXI'I.ORKKS IN A Pl.HillT. ! U no v pectrrl Adventurfs in l.itilo-Uii'iwn Hrricoi .. I)i!eiiuna!i, Some nf them Riilieiiloni and j Others Diingvrnti". It often happens, savs the Yew York ! Sim, that explorers Iind themselves in u..nin im..vi....i..i . 1 i I .i..,l nnlnvu ' they arc quick enough to immediately extiicate themselves, the results are sometimes serious. I ient. Chey tie's adventure with a polar bear in the arctic regions shows the advantage of kcepirg one's wits about him in an emergency, Lieut. Chevne was an Fnirlish olucer i in one of the Franklin search cxpeifi a bargain was made, good feeling re tions. Farly one spring he was sent I established, iind the poor fellow , to with a couple of sledgenieu to examine gether with some of their friends from the condition of some provision depots a neighboring village, never rested un I hat had been laid down the previous I til Hayes was back on the ship again, fall. They took nothing with them ! but a tent and sleeping bags, rations of pemmican and hard tack, and a small supply of tallow to be used as fuel in thawing their peiiiiniean and boiling the r tea. ( me morning, after they had traveled about l-l1 miles from the ship, Lieut. Chevne was !tv;iknned by something pulling at the 1 corner of the tent. Ilap just in time white bear. an. I t!i retreat over t !i" i.' extricated hiin-"i!' lie lifted tho tent ' to frii'hten a luir 1 animal was in full : ' before Chevne had from hi- -leepin" ! bag. The party had more serious work on hand than boar hunting, and they would have ict the animal go if it had hot been suddenly discovered that his bearsliip hil l torn op -n the tallow bag and eaten evciy uuce of fuel. Here was a predicament. The men were live days' journey from the ship, the,""' members fudging themselves t weather vv. is terribly cold, and !hcV could not eat tin-solidly froen pemml- ; can. It was ticc-sary to get that till ; low back, iind -o 1 hoy tie, shouting to his comrades to follow, set out after the bear. Tli" chase was an exciting; and :tn iou s wi but the animal was ;it hist over. milled and kille I. Yo time was In..t in opening the creature's! stomal h, and the men returned to j camp in triumph with till the tallow ; of which the uufortujiatf brute had rob'ied them. I I luring last winter the .l.iine- broth ! cr- sueceede 1 in exploring a part of; somauli. i Fu.-t Alri. a, where sever- al explorers had been k I. The re- LM..n has remained ah I vvhollv mi known on account of the hostility of the natives. Th bravery of the Mes-rs. James's escort rapidly ooed (Hit as they advanced into the hostile; country. They rel used once or twice ! to go any further, and finally the brothers hit upon tin- expedient fori inl'u-ing them with a little courage, j A great noise in their own camp gen ! erally has an inspiring cllecl on the, natives el Alrica. The Jameses had! their sentinels lire their guns at fro i qiient intervals during tho night, i They report that this practice greatly ! pleased and inspired their people, who ', always felt more secure when firing. ! The young explorer. Thompson, two years ago, was considerably nonpluss 1 ed by a lot of smart and suspicious ! natives whom he encountered neari Mount Keniain Fast Africa, lie had a few tricks which he very impressive ly performed when the inhabitants ! were unfriendly, and it was necessary j to exhibit his great power as a wizard ! to induce them to sell him food. He j had two artificial teeth on a plate, iind j the feat that, usually overcame all op position when everything else failed i was to extract these teeth. These i Mount Kenia natives were verv much j pleased with this feat, but they said that, if he could take out two teeth he could remove the others also, iind they insisted upon seeing the entire show. Finally they not only refused to sell him food, but threatened to attack him unless he took his teeth out, and he thought best ti make a forced march one night to escape his loo ex act i n g acq 1 1 a i n t ii 11 ces. Mr. 'Thompson's white comrade, Martin, had a more serious experience with some suspicious natives, and per haps it served him right. He was telling a crowd of Wakwali girls thai he could do even more wonderful things than the leader had shown them. Holding out his hand he said he could cut Ins lingers off and put them on again. One of the girls sud denly sprang forward, seized one of the extended lingers and cut it to the bone with a native knife, she had taken Martin at his word, and was de- 1 termined to see the feat performed. curious public house is among the article ordered shipped. Yo'lnng lur Dr. Hayes stole a march on the latest attractions in Paris. Itiscalled ther was heard -d him until a lew Fsqiiiinaux who refused to take him La Taverne da Hagne. The walls are days ago. when In- wrote a loiter. a.v and his comrades back to Dr. Kane in hung with paintings representing the ing: Smith sound after the failure of horror of convict lile, interspersed "I have had ymir eu-sed n'd fountain llayes'sattempt to return to I'pernavik w ith port raits of notorimu Cimninn set up in the yard for Ihe la-t ten in. small boats. Hayes and his men I ully its. All the waiters are dressed in weeks, but not :i drop of water yet. expected to die of starvation unless the convict uniform and wear the chains At what season do they begin to Fsqitiniatix, with their dog sledges, and ) ts of t he regularo. The squirt?" assisted them to return north. The landlord is Citoyen Max imo Lisbonne. ; An investigation revealed the fact F.sqniimiux decline I to make the long one of the leaders of the itisurrei tioD i '"' n;1,1 i'""1" provision for oiirney in the growing darkness of the i'fl7.- t iwl;, Truth. ; water to run it. A "' 1 o . -Shi,. mot) DICCKMBKR 21, 1885. wMvr- ,,'i,"':,y natives drove' up to Dr. Hayes s hut with a sledge load or walrus meat. They were on their way home after a long journey, and they accepted the doctor's invi'a lion to tarry awhile. Kveryhody ate I heartily of the walrus meat, and then the natives, overcome with fatigue, hud down for a nap. Hayes and his men st'de to the hut. barricaded the entrance, and then drove off with the dogs and walrus meat. Thevha lgone several miles befme they saw the Ksqtii mau in full pursuit. The party wait ed for tho thoroughly angry natives to come up, and then told them plainly that they would never see their ib gs and sledge again unless they agreed to go with them to Kane's ship Finally The Thirteen" Superstition. In Paris 1 here are streets where 12 does duty instead of l'i; and the house holders who thus ingeniously sought to circumvent fate would not for the world let the proper number be paint- ed upon their doors. Some years ago 1 Pfihee Yapoleoti tried to laugh his countrymen out. of the superstition; ''tit his efforts did not benefit his cause, " ' har;u terist ic perversity, he ls'"1 invite twelve friends to ca r""Sl with him on flood Friday, whereby he gravely scandalied right feeling people, whatever their theolog ical view . In Auieric similar l ot less aggres ive attempts have been made to correct popular superstition, and numerous Thirteen clubs have been established. dine thirteen a' table on every oppor- tunitv. In France, too, there is a Thirteen club, the headquarters ol which are at M-nli-; and even in Fug land there i- a little coterie of thirteen men who dine monthly at a housi numbered thirteen, and pay thiiteen -hillings each for their dinner .md Id pence each to tho waiter-. Yet still the superstition is as lively as of yore all over I'.urope and America, and probably it will continue to ilouri-h and to make people uncomfortable un til the end ot tune. There are, in all likelihood, men and women who are ov,'n nmv "ndergmng vague unea-i- n,!s l,,''',,lse 'ss:' liM-n-l to b0 a ; '"I'lt'P ' thUeen.- fhil.i.hlj.hh, 'i,7.'. A .Machine that Calculate-. 'The calculating machine invcute by Prof. Thomson appear to excel, in its ingenious adaptation to a variety of results, even Habbage's wonderful apparatus liy mean. of the meie friction of ii disk, a cylinder and a ball, the machine j4 capable of e iei t ing numerous complicated calcnlat .0,1s which occur in the highest applo- it en of mathematics to physical ptoblt -nw, and by its aid an unskilled pet-on may, in a given lime, perform the work of ten expert inathctuat t.-ian-The machine is applicable alike i the calculating of tidal, magnetic, meteor illogical and other periodic phenome na; it will solve differential equations of the second, or even higher power ; or orders; and through this same won j tier fill arrangement of meihanioal j parts, the problem of linding the three I motions nf any number of innlo.illy : attracting particles, unrestricted by any of the approximate suppositions nqilired in the treatment of the lunar and planetary theories, is done by sim- ply turning a handle. .V- I'oi '. Sllll. Hooks for the Indian-. The only written language of the American Indians was in the f rm ol hieroglyphics, but this plan of picture writing was not much used among tin tribes of Xorth America. As the spok en languages of the tribes, however, have such a complete dialectic struc ture it was not difficult to give this a written form by means of the H..ioan alphabet. 'This has been done in uianv ' instances, and a number of grammars ; and dictionaries have been printed in 'dillerent Indian dialects, besides many ! other book. Several newspapers :ir . ,hjs(ilM0 ,, among the ( ivib t j?M ,iins of the West, and at mis -ion stations, in the Indian language. The Atees iind Tollces kept their his toriciil iind other records by means ol hieroglyphics in a very systematic manner. An Odd Public lluiise. NO. in. I X I )KK Till'. Mh'KOSCOl'li An I n '-t n imei 1 1 Pi mi i k i-'l In f"ref 1 1 ! ii 1 1 v r nun. JT.'VV t he Chi s is Usel ill D..'trting Fro- , ceries and Other (Irime-, I A Washington shrr reporter was sitting in I T. I .. M. M-naenei s mine. tillkinL' with him of the tnvsteries of t he microscope. I r. ch U'ller is called in as an expert microscopist in a great, many cases in the courts. "This little instrument, is a very valuable witness sometimes," lie said, as he put a slide upon the micro'-f'ope and addns et himself to the scribe. "It is exceeding ly inquisitive and uncover- a great many mysteries, not only of inanimate nature but of men. As its master I am informed of many furious things. Tragedies which it would not do to mention, have come under my notice through It. Nome very in' crest ing and curious incidents of a dome-tic character are brought to niy attention by folks who come to have microscopic analyses made. Xoi. very long ago tho result of one of these analyses came near leading to a tragedy. The principal thing an expert js called for in the e.irl- is to te-tifv to the blood 101 clothing or - mi" thing of that s.Tt in a murder trial, 01 as to writing in case; of forgery. I can t'-ll insian'lv whether a .-tain is blood or not. no m.it'er low d.m an I indistinct i i-, .md this i often m-iM, important, in tho detect ;ori of crime." "You can distinguish animal blood from human?" asked reporter "1 have frequently heard of expert witnesses testifying that certain stains were made by human blood. I Hunk they are vv mug to a-suiue to so much j knowledge. The little corpu-c.es ,. , sheep's or dog'- M md are as a ru f a eep s or dog- pi mi! are as a rule, smaller than those of a titan's, but ;t hits been discovered by 1 arefnl study that the large.-t of the sheep or other animals and the smallest of the in in liny be the same -i. ". Tbi-. "l course, doesaw.iy with all cerlamly '( distinction. A lord's bl.iod in iv be dist ingui-hed Irom human, because its corpuscles ar-! of ,1 different ,-lripe. r.tit, this does not. le--en the import am ('discovering blood -t iin- .m a murderd'- i lothinj.'. 'I In' olrcitn stances and other evidence w ill do the rest." "Soini of the 1110,1 inferos' in ; cases," he continued, "are tho-e of handwrit ing. I have made a very thorough study of this under tho mien .-cope, both as to individuality of form and as to various -orts of ink and the effect of time and condition upon them. I can readilv disii.vir forgeries, inter lineations or era-lire-. 1 d.. mil think I could be deceived in thi- utiles the; man that did th- work had the -ame i facilities (or doing it thi' I have for, detecting it that is. iinte.-s the forger, was a micro. c.-pi-t. lite e lse in I ' 1 w hich 1 test i'ii d was where a man was being -ne.l on a I .md lor ' lie acknowledged that he had signed il bond tor mi" "I the pa. !h s named in: the bond 1 induced, but c!a::nc I that the second ti.uee had been added since, i 'The iet;ion I.e -Igued lor, he -in !. was. reliable and iru-t worthy. I nt ll th er person w a- not. and he w . u!d 11 over . have signed the bond had his name been upon il a' the time. All the writing' on the ih euni' tit was in th.- - mi hand, and ap eared ti havebcen w lilt en at the same lime. I'ti ler a unci ..-c pe. I discovered bv the age id the ink that , ,(1,,,1, ni)m ,,., ,,.,. :(..i. .l ,. 1,1. f , , , that the pronoun 'him' bud 1 r en changed to 't beiii' w 1 enevcr it occur red in the bond. Another case I was called into was where an old man's name had been fi rged to notes 1 y bi son in-law. 'There were ninety notes of Jl.iiin) each vx Ii i Ii the old man pro liotiticeil forgeries, and on examining them I found them to be -uc'i With out knowing anything of his hid. its. I knew, a- soon a- I "inv his genuine ! signature, that be a! way w ro'e vv it h a ' gold pen. 'The forgeries were not wr.t 1 ten with a gold pen. and there were enough points ol difference for mete be able to distinguish them fiouithe genuine Ln every case." No Siplil I. About three months ago a man who seemed to know exactly whit he wanted entered a place in tins city where lawn statuary, fountain, etc., are sold, and -electing a fountain to please his taste, he asked the price. The figure named wa- paid and the l)c tCljniljnm Uciovi is at us A D V E If? T I SING f hii' sqimn. ciiinii-citiim- hie Mii:ii'J', vvoinsortioiis ( h:' iiiiin imc month . I.'.O For buyer advert i-H'iii' ti:it will 1m- made. nts liberal ( ol 1 (.ciitiaiis, Hiiv i, lit.- 1i:I-Iiiii with i hi ,i gnuu'-iiM t I ii. i ii Iv Inn e- ol Oii'ir lour tnr j -I,..,,,. . I In I in li.e l.ii-n -III-1 uimI jt.u'l'l ling ::m I h i.! lie -in to 'luv .i- I i.liy i I Jit-- ;;. lil :OI- ( hi lii-'i olli.'-l - ut' wind- -mm. I, i- .1 !. Nl.llllleil i : 1 1 1 M ; in rlel'l illllllli'l. I'.ii.l !,i,g .0; I l.li.wii , 1 the -lolling nun, W rli Imie el :.i.iiit--- mi. I nun i ol piun, I'm, 1 gent ne- ! le 1 Hi I I 'i 11 1 ini'l 0 h i i-'ii ii "iin, An I hoi I tin 11. i.p to Ih- I '.Ii ii.g -mi. I" g t! ,;l:i,. " ot I . I-l I ' . I'.etiile til. V S'.l.'li t .iOOp ill lliejl 'ill- k ' -.1 I g' lll iillH. All I I hold Ih. 'in . !o.e I g.-l I'l''''. WI I I.I- I. 'i ii'l line- 1 I I'ii-ii hi in.- Ill" ", W Hi- 110 l"Wi- 1- j, II !.. he lie T III I'", I "III g.-llllil l-. 1 i.onii dm viir of 111 me .1' Mil. Ih - Ion In. I.e h II it- llilll-l- to le- I linl- In" ll't.n I ol' ..ve 11- 11 ti li.i.'l -Ign M:.v 1.1. 101,1 11- :i I"' en o - 1:11111 I t 111. , III Mdl.'Ol S. All the rage A mad d-'g. As a general thing, wli.d a 10,11 sews he rips. The thermometer g.ii;i;i ti' t !!' y l degrees, so to speak. The man who i opposed to vac ina lion is probably to be pittid. Fven the most inveterate lope jcei- to taking a horn w dh a I nil li A voiing ladv ask- . "Ib.w cit! I ri move superfluous hair butter 'The man who .-aid " I den in her fate." vv as Ulib l,e le re 1 . a g.ii nleiitlv usirig llovv cry language. 'Th'' telephone is an at rangt men! by which two men iin li to each other w ithout becoming c -nfuseil. The king of wtden and Not way 1. a j I. 'The dictum that the king can do no wiong app ears to he exploded. "Hound again lie asked, as th" dun 1 1 1 his head in at the do..r. "Vim, and I'll stay 'round until I get square." "I 'sing tobacco in one form," ayt a hater of the woe I. "usually lead to the use of it in ariot in r." 'This i , doubtles- ti ue. for when ,1 man tir.t takes snuff he mu-t el-chew ! Why Johnny." exclaimed mamma, "aren't you ashamed of yourself. g"ing about with such a dirty fee ?" "No, 1 ain't," replied Johnnv, with a con -cious pride in ihe integrity of hi- in-tetition-; "you'd like to have 111" taken for ;i dii. I", wouldn't von y" Shying' llor-e- Neai'.vighled. "Why it is that shying in horses should he si . down to 'ill ugly dispo--it ion I don't know," said a prominent veterinary surgcu to a Now Yoii Sun n porter: "It must be because hor-eiuen don'l know what cl-u to lay it to. The 1,0 t is thill it seldom is net with iinle-s the horse :s hear--ightcd. I hav e test. -d " ores "f shy ing horses for nearsightedness, and in nearly all cases found what I expected. And now. when 1 am a.ke.l to gtvn points on buy ing horses, I gi'.e this aa one of the requisites: Never I uy a hor-e which is i: -ar -sighted. Ther iire, liovvi ver. two exception-to thu rule. If the horse is to hav o ,i m ile, then it do"sn't make any dilierenciv about the sight, due horse can gi blind if the other is clear-sighted. If the horse is to be used for riding t saddle be careful thai he is not near sighted, for he will throw ymi sooner or later. "The reason why a near-sighted , horse shies is very simple." the sur geon continued, "(if all animals tho horse is the most gentle and even tim id, lie sees a s'raiige object iind Ins; susceptible mind magnifies it into :i ni'Uister that is going to destroy him. A piece of white paper at the road.-.ido in the nlghl is a ghost and an old wagon in the ditch is a dragon. T ve ry horseman knows that if you drivo the animal close to the dreadful object the horse cools down at once. Iti. supposed that it is because the horso makt a closer acquaintance w ith thu object. That is taie, lull not in the sense in which it is generally under stood. 'The animal has not been ab! to see il fn in a distance, lie is near sighted." 1 ho Hitcr Hit, "(lb. ho!" exclaimed a suburban passenger milkman; "got a b. xc of chalk under your firm, haven't, you? Hotight it in the city and taking it out to the dairy, eh? Vow, will you bu kind enough to tell me what you am , going to do with it ?" 'Certainly, sir, certainly," repltel the milkman: "your wife tells tovr driver to chalk it down so often tha1; , he has run out of crayons, and I'm : laying in a new supply. If youM j come out to the farm I'll show yon, I your statement of account on thesidn 1 of the new barn. lihngo Henilil,
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 24, 1885, edition 1
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