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&l)c tfljntljnm Hccorb II. A. LOM)OK, EP1TOK AND l'KUl'IilKTOi;. JJATKS ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Onr square, one insertion One square, (wo insertions One square, one month 1.00 Lot) - sj-.oo One copy, "lip year $ '3. rti One copy, six moet'is - - I 0' One pnpy. three m, nt!: . . . VOL. VIII riTTSHOUO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, JANUAIiY 28, IFH NO. 21 Knr Ijiru'cr advprtimonts t.!:iral con tmrta will In1 m:il &l)c l)all)aiu Hccorb. Cite illlAil jr w f- v y o The Winter or t ho Year. It i tho winter ol the yrar O'er buried flown a tht mow rifta lie; The tortus hnve veiled with ashnn ftrny Tlie bluenosa ol ihw uiuuir eky. No hnmk in bnhlding ripples run, No hints nrc miiyinjr in the hedge. No violcln nodding in tin sun, ILii(tti the liiOMhU-t's fwzi n tvlpo; Vol unto It 0(108. l iokcti houghs. The prtcni'M mosses ehmrh cling. And lien- atrin winl! -lori.y verge, Soli flu.it imiheli(! :ir of ppring. t i lilt) w inter ol o'li lifi' OVr buried I oci tin; snow nfis I in, Ami -tonus have veiled wilh allien j;rny Tin Idiii'in'ss ol n clou .lb- ky, No VfiUt tq.s rrm-v the llin-liold Mono, No voice of lovo our utlcouifa i;rjet. fo f,fnili! liiind en jiij our own With r ouliid Miln'iit nn -wt fl, Y t linlo billiard and l itikcn ln-ait, jid iiiin wotd (1 j'ii'ini-0 clin, And lbi.it upon thm' Mnriny vitp, iltt-lti llo'!otii9 of rit'innl f.jnn. Luthrr 1. Rt'jj. The Workiogman's Wife. "Don't fall in lovo with her, Junius." "Your caution mini's too latp, old man. I'm in love with her already." Franklin Hartley looked solemnly at Pr. Junius Dale; shook his head as if to say, " "Lis true, 'tis pity; pity 'tis, 'lis true." 'My dear fellow," said Hartley, the aged mentor of the pair, "you cannot more alTord such a wife than you can afford a steam yacht or an ivory inounted billiard table." "There's no occasion to tell uie that," mournfully replied Ir. Dale. 'I'm quite aware of it already. If 1 was rich I'd marry Miss Clarke to morrowalways providing that she thought me worthy of acceptance; but as 1 am only a struggling young doc tor, I'll do my best to keep away from her fascinations in the future." "A sensible decision," observed Hartley. 'Jiut she is so pretty," yearningly remarked Dr. Dale. (J ranted.'' "And she sings like a nightingale." '.She ought to, with all the cultiva tion that her voice has received." 'And she has such a winning way ith her." "What difference does that mnko to yon?" said Hartley. "Haven't you re solved that hereafter she is to be noth ing to you?" "Y-yes; but " "Stick to your colors then, man," cried Hartley. "Clissy Clarke is noth ing on earth but a society belle. What you want is a helpful, willing, work ing bee of a wife one who cau aid yon with heart and hand to climb life's hill. You saw Miss Clarke at the Winfield inasquerado last night, in white satin and pearls?" "And ery beautiful she looked," cried the young physician, tiring sud denly up at the recollection of Miss Clarke's auburn huir, all twisted with ropes of seed-pearl, and violet blue eyes, sparkling with girlish animation "I)id she look like a poor man's wife?" "N'ot a bit of it." "Then be warned," said Hartley, shortly. "Remember the old story of the moth scorching its wings in the candle llame." lr. Palo was silent. He had prom ised himself the pleasure of a call on Clarissa Clarke that very nfternoon. There, was something about the girl that attracted him with almost mag netic force. The tender light of her eyes, the sweet intonation of her voice, the rosy flushes of color that over spread her cheek when he talked to her, were all separate attractions; and yet he knew that he, like the hero of French romance, was "a poor young man." He recollected, now, that he had even said something to Clissy about going to the Clarke cottage that day. "It won't do," he said to himself. "I had better keep away." And sc, Instead of following the dearest Inclination of his heart, he betook himself with Spartan resolve, to the public library. "I'll read up that case on the inves tigation of cholera microbes," he thought. "If a man expects to make any mark In his profession, he must keep posted up in these modern dis coveries of science," So he di appeared into one of the alcoves of the library, with his medi cal quarto and his memorandum book, and set to work in good earnest. Hut he had not fairly entered into the merits of the microbe question when the twitter of sweet girl voices from the adjoining alcove struck upon his ear. "Oh, Cllssy Clarke:" said one. "I called for her, and she wouldn't come. It was baking day, and there was Clissy up to her elbows In flour and spices." "Well, I never!" said the other, with "Oh, she does all the housework." 'said the first speaker, scornfully, "like any hired servant Even the flno washing for they only keep one little bound-girl -and Mr. Clarke won't we ir a shirt unless C'lissy has ironed it." "I low does she find time for her nrisic and oil painting?" asked the second. "Oh, sho rises at dawn, Sho says the hot time of the working-day is before breakfast. Sho finishes the housework, sews for the family --" ".Makes u!l her own dresses, don't she?" "Yes, and her mother's, too. That satin dress she wore at the party last night was her grandmother's bridal gown made over, and the pearls were borrowed from Miss Lay ton. It don't cost her anything to dress. (She'll take the horridest old affair and re model it with a scrap of ribbon or a panel of velvet until you'd think it was made by a French dress-maker. I declare, 1 wish I had her knack, l'apa is always grumbling about my bills. Hut that ain't all. lo you know, she gives Hessie. Laytnn music b ssons, and earns quite a nice little income for herself? And she writes book reviews and things for the news papers, and keeps Mr. Clarke in books that nay." Pear me!" said the other, with a yawn, ''who at tlm party last night w oiibl think it ?" "lliiiiiili!" remarked the other. "She'll live and die an old maid, see if slio don't. Such girls always do. Come, here are our novels at last. Let's go." The p-rfuiiieil silken flounces rus tied out of tli" library: the sound o i nattering voices died away, and still I r. Pale sat. uilh his penc il in his hand, staring down at his memorand um hook. It seeuie I that tho gloomy veil which droj.p.-d between him and his future life were lifted. In his heart he could have blessed tho agile ton .-lies of these idle, gossiping girls. Clissy, then, was no mere butterfly, but a tr ie, noble-hearted working girl! lie carried baek tho ponderous med ical tome to the assistant librarian. 'Much obliged," he remarked, suc cinctly. -Cot through with it pretty quick, haven't you?" said the assistant libra rian. "Yes, I've had very good luck this morning," said the doctor, cheerfully. He went straightway to the cottage on the outskirts of the village, where Clarissa Clarke lived. An apple-cheeked little brother came to the door to answer the knock. "Yes (Missy's at home," sai 1 he. "Hut she's fixing a chicken for papa's dinner. And then she's got my trousers to mend. Clisty can't come up stairs." Hut Dr. Pule laughingly pushed his way across the threshold. "I'll come in aid wait," said he. And in live minutes Clissy came in, looking even prettier, if it were a pos sible thing, in her calico morning dress than she had done in the white satin and pearls on the evening before. How he managed to speak out the dearest wish of his heart. Dr. Dale never quite knew. He had prepared a form of words on the way, but they vanished utterly out of his mind when the eventful moment came. He could only remember that she stood before him in all her fresh, young beauty, like a human apple-blossom, and that he loved her. Hut after he hail her hand in his, one arm caressingly thrown around her waist, he told her of tho morning occurence. "I'ntil then, dearest," he said, "I looked upon you as a sort of unattain able luxury a star to be worshiped afar off only. I knew that I was nothing more than a village doctor, with more ambition than practice for the present, at least Hut now 1 feel that I may venture to hope. Will you run the ri ".k cf sharing my scanty fortunes, Ciissy?" "Willingly, Junius," she answered, looking up into his face with her frank blue eyes. "And to tell you the truth," she added, smiling a little shy ly, "I'm almost glad that you are not a rich man. Hecause, dear, I shall be so glad, so proud, to help you a little in my humble way." So they were married. A few weeks subsequent to their bridal. Franklin Hartley married an heiress. "It's like Hartley," said Doctor Dale. "He always looks out for the main chance." At the end of five years, however. Franklin Hartley came back to his na tive village, a moody, and disappoint ed man. His money had all been dis sipated in unwise speculations, his wife had returned to her friends, minus her fortune. " 'A young man married is a young man marred,' " he quoted, gloomily. "Except, perhaps, in Dale's case. Hp seems to have grown rich by degrees. And he is happy, too, even In the oh acurlty of a country physician's life." ' Thanks to my helpful little wife," said Pale, with a glance of pride and tenderness toward 'lissy, who sat on tho doorstep with two chubby children playing about her knee. "We have worked together. C'lissy and I. and our reward has not been withheld from Josh Hillings and ttie Drummer. The late Josh Hillings was once on a passenger tr.iin bound for his old home at Lanesborough, Massachusetts. On the train were several commercial travellers, who, to while away the time, proposed h game of whist. A fourth man was wanted, and a gentle man sitting near was requested to take a hand. "N'o; I do not play. Pitt thero is an old fellow who is a capital player; try him"-- pointing to tho "old fellow," who sat demurely ou tho seat in front. "(lood player, is he?" said the com mercial man. "Then we'll have some fun with old Hayseed;" and accosting the quiet, farmer-like passenger tho young man, whose cheek was his for tune, blandly said: "My venerable friend, wo would like to have you take a band in a game of cards with us, just to while away the time. Will you oblige us?" Looking the young man in the face a moment, "old Hayseed" answered, "Ya-.is, we'll bo there in abaout three hours." "You don't understand, my friend; wo want you t take a hand " "Ya-as, the stand o' corn Is ery goo I uncommon handsome." The commercial man was annoyed. "Speak a little louder," suggerrted the gentleman in the seat behind; "he is somewhat hard of hearing." "My friend !" shouted the young fellow, "will - -you take a hand in - a game?" "Ya-as, game is onconimon plenty; all you want is - " "Oh, go to the leuce! You're as deaf as a post!" and the man of cheek subsided, timid the laughter of his companion. When Lanesborough was reached, "old Hayseed" arose to depart, when he quietly handed bis card to the com mercial man, w ho sat glum in his seat, and in a particularly comical way re marked: "Young man, when you trav el on your cheek, don't get hay-seed in your eye. Sn ! ' The young follow glanced at the card. The superscription was "Josh Hillings." Josh got off the train, and tho man of check had to tind a seat in another car to escape tho "run" on him by his companions, fftiiyr's Matctziiir. How Matches Are Made, The limher is towed in log-rafts down the greut water courses. When well seasoned, which occupies from one to two year, the pine is cut up into blocks just twico the length of the match, eight inches wide and two thick. These blocks are then passed through a machine which cuts them up into splints, just the thickness re quired for a match, only that they are twice as long. This machine is capa ble of turning out over two million splints a day. The old fashioned match was made by hand, amt coin pared with that, this number seems almost incredible. They are then set, every splint being separated from its neighbor, so as not to adhere to each other, by being laid across a ribbon leaving about a quarter of an inch between the adjoining splints. A pounder is then used, making them all uniform and even, and the bundled ones are dipped, at both ends, first into sulphur and then into the solu tion of phosphorous, and hung in a frame to dry. When dry, again they are placed in a machine which cuts the sticks in two, thus making two matched out of every splint. Fooling wlUt Kdiretl Tools. "I hear that little affair between von and Miss Montrose is off, old boy?" "Yes; she turned out to be a co quette, and I thought it was better to saw the thing off before it went any further. "Oh. that's it? However, you'd better look out fc.r her, because now she's slighted she's more dangerous lhan ever." "How do you make that out?" "Why, don't you see, she is now a cutlass. A Rig Heard. While in our otlice one day recently Mr. J. (1. Caldwell, of Towaliga, show ed us his long and beautiful beard, which he generally carries under his lothes in such a manner that people .! not notice it He only wears what ue known as chin whiskers. They measure M inches and reach to his knees while standing erect. He in .ormed us that lie bad not shaved in Irt years, but at one time by accident ibout 12 inches of them were burned At. Jackson (tfa.) Arjiis. CHILDREN'S COLl'MS. Thr I. IHli- Army. 'J Iitp' n lunnv liitlcnrmr, I ImH tn m mm. ttihci-bright; J 'hough it ct. ll Is in tvurliko column, Yet 'tii nevur known to light. Vcit slinip these little snliliuis; Alwuvs us .'ill, nuht and Jny; People think it iiite nn honor To he colled ns nent m they. f fien rnittst-'t when Ihey are nepded. Though they don't m.inh to nnd fro; It has ever heen n pu?!e To deteimillu wlieio they go. I inly pint iitrn n nshir.n' Yel lie very proud e might, Were we like this hide nnny. Always useful, neni nnd lirifjht. A vrury nxv f o 'frneh Iobm. Every boy and girl who own) a dog wants o know how to teach it tricks. .ir John Lubbock, that great friend of animals, tells in a paper read before a scientific assoch.tion in Scotland how li') trained a little, Mac; poodle named Van. Sir John prepared pieces of card board, ten inches lung by three inches wide.on which ,lu printed words such as "food." "water," "out,' "tea," etc., and no ono who had seen Van look down a row of cards and tind out the one he wanted could doubt that ho was able to distinguish tin different words, and quite understood that bringing a card was equivalent to a request. The cards were certain y r.ot recognized by scent, because he used a number of each. He suggested that uny ono wilh sufficient leisure might carry this much further, and that the attempt would be well worth trying. The interest was not to teach the dog tricks, but to ascer tain its meni.d condition. From this point ol view, lailiiro (if it could be so called ) w.is. so to say, as interesting its success. For instance, he had tried for three months to induce Van, when a card was shown him, to pk'k nut a corresponding card placed with others on the floor. lie did not, however, grasp tho idea, of course this might b i due to some special stupidity, or it might be that the same difficulty would be f on ud with other dogs. II" bail also a colly, but though she saw Van constantly bringing curds and re ceiving food, etc., for thong so. the colly never once thought of procuring food for herself in the same manner tVltiit t Saw in Hie lYooi. We were campingout in the woods, not far from the Canada line. In the party were my brotlur Tom. Mr. Hrisk. who was a sportsman of fame, and I'ncle Kalpli, who hated the sound of a gun. Ono day, as I was roaming through the thick wood, what should I see but a male deer, with branching horns, looking up at tho blue sky! I crept back softly to our ten', an., told Mr. Hrisk what I had seen, lie HPied his gun. 'What's that you say, Tom?" asked Uncle llalph. "Only this.'' Raid 1; "there is a line fat deer down by the brook; and. a.s we are all fond of venison, I think it's a good chance for Mr. Hrisk to get a good shot at him." "Oh! that's it, is it?" said I'ncle lialph, while bis eyes flashed with mischief. "Hy all means Id us kill the deer. Come, Hrisk. here's your gun?" Mr. Hrisk was looking at the bar ie)s and the caps of Ins gun to see if all was right; then be said to I'liclti llalph, "You and Tom had belter stay here; for loo many of us may startle the deer." "(io on." said I'ncle llalph. "He quLk, or you will lose your chance." Mr. Hrisk started for the brook, treading carefully, so as not to make a noise. No sooner was ho gone than Uncle lialph seized me by the collar, and sai.l, "Now, you young scape grace, come along with me, ami help me save the life of thit deer."' The old gentleman was yi earnest. He could not bear to see life destroyed, whether of bird or beast. He lived on vegetables and fruits, and believed that the loner animals have souls. AVe took a by-path to tho brook, and there lonud the deer quietly grazing. Justus Mr. Hrisk was preparing to lire, Uncle lialph threw a stone at the deer, and sent bun off ou a fast gallop through the wood. "Hallo! What did you do that for?" asked Mr. Hrisk. "1 did it so that you should not have a venison dinner," said Uncle lialph, laughing. Mr. Hrisk was pretty mail at first . but at last he joined in the laugh, and we all had a good feast on strawberries instead of venison. Thnmn Stafford. Why He Nol Weary. "Hagstock, I pityyoti I do indeed." "Pity me, sir! ' "I do. You live such a useless ex istence. You are languid ami weary, iiml have no occupation in life." "You are mistaken, Mr. Hudgc. My business is with my fellow man, I go about doing goo I." "Ah! That accounts for you getting tired so easily." Moxr. Tin-: hop pickers. irturpsriuo Rural Scenes in England's Hop Districts. lonndic x;Rtenc9 of the lloppenianl their Rigged Families. The race of hoppers is not unknown lo the most superficial of newspaper readers. Their sins and misfortunes .ire a fertile theme, and the paternal legislature has taken them in hand. Considered from a picturesque tour ist's point of view, the hopper is an unconventional-looking person, who camps about on the river bank in a manner not unsuggestivo of the abo riginal savage. "Camps" is exactly the right word, for rows of tents placed in a lino of military precision are to be seen in the fields. Here the hopper just come from Whitechapel -ooks his dinner at a gypsy-fire, and his squaw mends rags close by. In 'ithor places the gypsy-fires and rag mending goes mi under a convenient hedge. Elsewhere two old women, of witch-like features, may be found, with half a dozen children around them, squatting under the protection if a steam roller. Three crooked sticks propped up against one anoth- j i-r over about as much lire as would (ill i moiler.ite sized saucer stand in front, tnd at this kitchen they are cooking something mysterious in a passing it range fa.ihion. Hoppers are of all , v'i's, of both sexes, and, as far as can be seen, of various ranks. The great majority are ragged enough, though even about them there is a vague something which suggests 1 hat the rags are at leait partly voluntary. Many are obviously too well fed to belong to tho utterly poor who go half-naked; and if theirattire is of the roughest, it may be partly because they are too wise to camp out in more lecent raiment. They have bundle?, obviously full of something, with them, and a large variety of pots and pans. Now and then one sees men, snd even women, among them who belong, apparently, to the class of work-people in pretty regular employ ment. At times, to b sure, one catches tight of a close-eropi e I bullet head, suggestive of a very rec-.'iit ".six inoiiths;" but it is tho exception. On die wnole, the hoppers give one the im pression that they area much more or lerly body than seems consistent with j the nomadic nature of their tra lo. For j many of them, indeed, the Work is reg ular enough. There are some families which come yearly to the same farms, rid write carefully beforehand to ask when the hopping is to begin. On the whole, the hopping season seems to represent their month at the sea side n holiday of work under healthy condi tions. In tho rainy weather they must have a bad time, particularly .hose who are lodged in tents. A large proportion are put into long li tmuses, built for the purpose, and used for no other. These sheds are wind uul water tight, and abundant clean straw is supplied for beds. Though md luxurious, these houses are not actual ly indecent, and are decidedly superior : an average London slum. Doctor lohnson, who believed in thehealthi aess of Londoners, would have been gratified to learn that the Kent far mers prefer tho town hoppers to the :oimtry, or. as they are called, homo hoppers; because the. former stand had weather better than the oth ers, who have been accustomed to an ipen-air life all their days. In point .if character, the hopper reaches to a certain level of respectability. He or she belongs lo the race of Autolycus. They cannot resist any trifle they find lying about, but they seldom meddle with serious thieving. Yiolcne; is not unknown among them; but in the remoter parts of Kent, which may be Said to include the Midway valley, it is reported tn bo the exception. Mi:iu ?) . Work Sawd hy Ty-wWriling. A man of letters in New York was under contract with a publisher to write about :Ji,iKn words. lie, had prepared himself carefully for the task, but the contemplation of its manual labor tired him in advance, lie went to a type-writer's ollitv down town, where three or four indus:rious girls went earning their living, anil learned that he could dictate to one of them at tho rate of from l.sini to :l,ini words. The noise of tho clicking ma chines at first threatened to disturb his efforts at original composition, but before ho had worked half an hour he was used to it. The business of com posing and dictating the IKi.tHX) words occupied about twenty hours each, or live or six days of three or four hours each. At the end of each sitting he left the otlice with the completed manu script in his band. The result waa ac complished without fatigue, and its quality, he says, was unusually good for him. lie further testifies that, for the first time in his life, he has a "real izing sense" of what emancipation is. Chinese Military I'uy Dir. The Chinese soldier receives his pay once a month only, and Chinese month'!, it may be remarked, are much longer than these we are accustomed to reckon by. On the eve of the pay day, the captain cf a company, togeth er with his sergeant-major, goes and receives the amount requisite to pay his company, from his next superior oilicer. This is not paid to him in jingling coins such as we are accus ioined to, for China pos sesses n i coin age but in pure silver, which, however, has been broken intosoinewhat irregu lar pieces. The whole of the night preceding pay-day is occupied in weighing out. for each man the re quired ounces of silver, and this occu pation as may be easily imagined, is a very tedious one. and only success! ul ly accoiiiplishe 1 by infinite care, for. here a piece the size of a pin's head has to be chipped off. ;ind there a piece of larger dimensions has to bo added to mak up weight, and any deviation one way or the oilier means the loss of perh. ips a day's pay or more to some poor defender of the Celestial Empire. When the process of meting out is accompli. -lied, the silver is then carefully wrapped in paper, upon w hich is written the name of the in tended recipient. Ou Hid following afternoon the company is mustered, and the sergeant major divides the money, commencing with the first man in the company, ari l going on lo the last. When this division is con cluded the question is asked in .stento rian tones: "Has any one else a claim?" and the customary "No" hav ing promptly been gien, the men are then dismissed. Each ono now repairs to the nearest tradesman's shop where ho exchanges his silver. For one tael he receives 1 ll ' i small coins, perfora ted in the centre so as to allow of be ing threaded on a string, and having received the proper amount, turns homewards with a cheerful mien, but nearly sinking beneath his burden. The private rp cives three and a half t.iels, equal to about nineteen shillings. monthly; out of which he has to pro- j vide hisinself with clothes and food. This to us, no doubt, seems a very in significant sum, l ut wp must remem ber that Hip whole of a Chinese sol- : dier's .subsistence only costs him about ono tael, for he subsists on rice, abso- , lutely nothing but rice. His clothes, I too. also cost but. a trifle. Hut it is ! not pretended that a soldier can save pinch out. of such a slender income; I and it is invariably the case that when the next pay-day comes round the poor j defender of the Celestial Empire has ; not a cent in pocket, neither has ho j had any for some days past, so quick ly does money ini-H. even ill those ce lestial regions, i hii'iiik ili r . il. The Laugh Was On The Clerk. ' Ef it ain't, writin' an' it ain't print in', wai kinder stamps do you put on?" queried an urchin, whose head barely reached to the window ledge, at the po-totli, i yesterday. Tin' clerk at thu stamp window smiled at the youngster's question, and winked in evident enjoyment at the bystanders. Then he said: " inny. I suppose you' vo got third class matter?" "1 iluniio." was the du'oious reply. The clerk laughed, and repeated his winks at the interestel spectators w ho had overheard the dialogic. "Well," he said finally, and mimic!; ng the boy's manner, "ef it ain't vtntiu' an' it ain't print in', I guess we'll have to call it lliir 1-elass matter and sen I it along for you pretty cheap. What docs it eigh ?" N'lithin'," said the boy, as his m nth stretched into a grin that threatened to fracture his ears. "Nothing?" repe.ite 1 the clerk. "Ytiuip," muttered the boy, reeling his smile slightly. In that case, l hen, sonny," sai 1 tho clerk, with bilai ions animation, we'll send your package through for noth ing." Sure pop?" questioned the boy, as he edged back a little from the win dow. "Sure pop," repeated the clerk. "I pledge the honor of the government. : Hand over tne matter th.it weighs ' nothing." "Here it is, mister," and the boy pushed an inflated toy balloon through the window opening. "Mind yer, I'll 1 hold the gov'inent 'sponsible yer said ! so." And then the boy and specta- j tors did the laughing and the winking, and tho clerk devoted himself to chunks of language which weighed more than the mailable four pounds allowed by law. American Indian Paintings. The painted rock of Santa Harbara county, California, is 1"0 feet high, and upon it are many color paintings in a good state of preservation that are thought to be the work of Indians. There are two caves in this giant rock, one at its b;ise and another some sixty feet up, and in each of these are pict ures of animals. rreclous Memories. Death cininot tuku tho nn inoriel Ol thojso wo love nnd cherish; Their li:nne. whieli in Iho !ust wo lay, To du-t nciy ciumhle nnd decny, 1 rt wilh ns thoy themselves do stay; They do not, eannot pmish. IInw potent lire Ihy memories ' 1 i.ey innko hlen Imnd nt union; Foi oh iii'Ioic our .-l:i.U'inin eye The " eel familial' I' lins nnp, And deoly do we love nnd prizn '1 hose iiioiiient-, of cmu'itiini'in. liiinioit.il lire Iho memories If tlio-e l i ilenlh Ins tiikon; We tee tin-in, hear tliem, l.avc thorn St ill. t omncMid their presence ar our will, 'liin ehiimheri ol o n htuirin they fill, 'ilicv h iv not ui imvikon. -. M. OJfjri. HI 'M tutors. A valuable bird A gold eagle. Auctioneers have a nod way of re ceiving bids. A misplace 1 switch When the wrong boy is whipped. We tail to see any difference be tween a travelling dress and a walkin suit, l b' re is some hope, for the dudes at last. A Sacramento man has Invented rt call-wearier. A loveshk poet says that a kiss is "the meeting of two souls." Very rue, ai d it. is a protracted meeting, i. ). Evi I'vtlung is.i'l. 'berated nowadays A fs.iu'niiicisco man bought a cork leg in I al'tt rw aids ascertained that it was made ol pap.'l". "S;c. mamma 1" exclaimed a little irl. a; -.he looked out of the window during a snow storm, "see the popped rain coining down." ' .May I help you to alight?" asked Jiuison. politely, as Miss Lo Jones drove up in her carriage. "Thank you. I never smoke," she returned, coldly. A woman in (ieorgia lived 4 S days nn water and then died. Water is a pretty thin diet, for a fact, but wo know sumo' sailors who have lived nearly all their lives on water. Dry goods merchant - "You would like a place in my store, Mr. Shaw ni'il? Have you had much clerical experience?" Mr. r-hawmut "Well, no. The fact is 1 am not a church member.'' Surgery in a Menagerie. The Philadelphia Zoo's manicure op. prated on the leopard Fannie recently, ,ind reduced her toe-nails to a fashiona ble length. The nails had grown so long that they were burying them selves in the balls of the feet, produc ing a serious lameness, accompanied by irritating pain. 'J lie animal had lu r feet 3-u-ccsslully noosed and the paws hauled between the bars of tho cage, while a billet of woo 1 was thrust in her mouth for her to bite on. Keeper shannon extracted the sharp nails from the imlaincd fed, 'ind Head keeper l'.yrne rromptly clipped them oil dose to the quick, after which the handsome brute was released from ig noiiiinoiis confinement. The valuable chimpanzee has devel ope I an unexpected knowledge of den list ry. I'espite his warm cage and thu care with which he is guarded from draughts, be managed to cath a cold in his jaw, which resulted in a tooth ache. It was his lir-il experience and he did not like it. lie picked a thu ollending in ilar until, giving it an ex tra hard pull, it parted with the gum a id came out. This was a notch higher than the chimpanzee had ever tone l.pfoi e, and, as ho gazed at tho glistening tooth in his brown paw, a look of anxious bewilderment spread over his countenance, and his tinder jaw dropped in helpless astonishment. Ministers Adi Led Tn Hear Iteards. Dr. Win. MicPo-iahl. says in the London l.'iifit. That ancient and pious lather of the church, Terlullian designated shaving an a blasphemy ngains;. the church. It may surprise not a lew when I say that there can no longer be a doubt that tho bron chitic affections under which ministers of thagosp jl so frequently labor km often due to the violation of hygienic law. The fact that the Creator plant ed a beard on the face of the human male, thus making it a law of bis phy-ical being, indicates in a language not to be misunderstood that the dis tinctive appendage was bestowed for tho purpose of being worn. Ilesides, the Levitical law is just as explicit in forbidding the shaving of the head, except in cases of disease, as in the requirement --"lletnoinber the Sabbath day to keep it holy." More over, phy -ically considered, these views are corroborated by experience: for disease of the throat have in numerous instances been traced directly to the shaving of the beard, the liability dis appearing with its growth, and vice versa. Let all our ministers, then, disregarding fashion, wear beards; for the Hible and nature are in favor of it It j.' IP w - li pi- K. h
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Jan. 28, 1886, edition 1
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