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f)C !)att)aut Record ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One square, One insertion One square, two insertiousi One square, one uvmth - J.6I $1.50 PEE TEAS Strictly In Advmct. VOL. HI. PITTSliOIUr, CHATHAM CO., N. CM MAY 21. 1801. NO. 40. For larger advirtiscmenia liberal o acts -vill he mile. l)c l)atl)nm Uetorb. ilVA. LOADOiN, EDITOlt AND PliOrKIETOH. CWtoi . IVearest Sot Costliest. Fl...e arc vulvar things we pay for, bo lliey stone for crow ns of kin;; While the. precious ami tho peerless are un priced, symbolic things. Lovers tlo nut apeak will) jewels -dowers alone can plead fur them. Anil one fragrant memory eliorlshe.l Is Cir clearer than a gem. -John Boyle O'Kellly. Next Door to the Church. It was not t:ie rect . ry : that was on tho other side. It win a long, low studded, old-fashioned house, willi wide rambling piazza, and u lawn which ran up to the very church win dows, niul preserved it identity us a lawn, and d'slinct from a chureh-yurd by i lie intervention of a low iron fence. A gate in the iron fence, ami a box-bordered walk lead i iik to a little hide door in the north transept, ren dered tlio church easy of access, and left not the shadow of an excuse for any member of the Itirch family to stay away from service. Not that tho Kirch futility ever desired to stay awny fn in seivieo. finite the con trary. Mr. Dirrh, ln'iny senior war. den, took up the collection, mid could not ho spared. Mr. Kirch was god mother lo all the babies who came into tho world not sutliciently well supplied with that necessary article, and it was incumbent upon line to ho a properly shining example. John went to chinch because his father and mother and Kalherinn did, and he did not like to ho left at homo alone; nt least that is what John might have said if ho had been asked, but 1 doubt if it had over entered his head that h could slay at homo. And Kathcrini 'i K the: inc had loved t go to rhitrcli all through Iter happy childhood and girlhood ; and when slio came home from college this bright summer a sweet girl graduate," as John mock ingly called her sho loved ii more than ever. Moreover, Katbcriue loved to go into the great dusky church in the sweet summer nfu'riionns.wlicu there was no congregation lo disturb tho solemnity of the place, and when she could sit quid in a corner of a pew, and ihink her own thought and plan her own future. A glorious future it was lo be, full of noble sclf- incrilice and of toil for stiilei ing hu- I experienced. ! rounded by mountains so steep they inanity. And the sunshine falling ; After that, the happy days flow by j ,. mtiot hi climbed. There is one en upon the tiled lloor in wavering pa'ehes ! on swift w ings; the beautiful golden j (ranee to the spot and that is where of purple and yellow seemed lo her to ' summer-time was fast growing into , the train tillered. Neither water nor symbolize her dreams, The purple ; autumn, and the house next door to j vegetation is found there : hea-ts and in ant the struggles she soould have to ! the church had had more than its share ! birds shun the spot. Nothing but make; the gold, the joy w hich would ' of goo I times. But it happened that j sand abounds. Even the snakes avoid result from the brave conquering of J often Katherine would he missed from i the place, there not being enough in self. It was not very proli'able, und j her color symbolism was eerininly all wrong; but the afternoon in the old ' church were helpful, happy limes to her. Sometimes John would cuuiv too. Kut John was a useful tatber than no ornamental member of society, and he knew that his proper place w as In hind the organ, where be did not show, but where he rendered invalu able aid to Katherine. who, perched upon (he high organ seat in front, v. deed her ideals and aspirations in Ihe music she wrung from the heart of the great organ. These afternoons were even better than the qucct ones. The rector of St. Mark's was young, and new to the pari-h. lie hi. I beard linn Ii of Kalheriue before her return ' from college: too much, in fa.-t, to make him look forward Willi pleasure to Ihe prospect of Mich a parishioner, Katherine will bring new intel lectual life into her circle of young friends," said her mother, line will know the reason "Knllie for i lies,, new-fangled notions of yours." said ),er father. "My. but Kit! y knows : when a sermon is bad," said John. ' And oulside the familv it was the amo, until tie) nvuisicr groaned ill spirit. "A paragon in a parish is a positive pest," said ho to himself, uncon. scioiisly alliterative in his srorn. "I, at least, sha'l not bow down to this intellectual autocrat." The day of her arrival cnine. It wns Saturday. Mr. Carson was a fre quent guest at the hospitable mansion next door, and after bis late dinner he dropped lit to piv his respects. Bet ter get it over with," th night he. He wns not a man who fled from diu givcald i duties. As he stepped upon Ihe wide front veranda, a ti.'ure rose from a ham- mock at the end. and cine forward- , A little liguie, lender and graceful. The si tling sun behind fi ll upon the golden hair, making a shining halo about it. The rosy gown repeated the colors of the evening sky. It seemed to the young man that the hear! of the sunset bail embodied itsif. and was coming to uieel him. And then the brilliancy of (he sky faded, and tlo if was only a maiden with golden hair mid a rosy fin n standing before him, i holding out her band and saying: ' "Tlils i. Mr Cm i!i, is it not? ' Mamma told mc to expert you. She will be out very soon." Then, bustling, housewifely Mrs. Kirch appeared in the front door, with: Oh, Katherine, my dear, are you alone? Why, hero is Mr. (.'arson! And, Mr. Carson, this is my daughter. How glad i am to have, you know one another, after all you have heard about each other! Now do sit down, and talk and be friends." Kiitheriiie looked at the minister again, and there was a twinkle in her eye, and a curious lidle smile about the vomers of her mouth. Mr. Carson felt more tincoir.fortable than suited his priestly composure. What had Mrs. Birch been saying about him? Could it be that he had been held up before this charming maiden as a par don, until she regarded him as he had expected live minutes before to regard her? 'Kuf, indeed, Mrs. Kirch, yon do 1110 loo great honor,'' be said. ! trust that you have not given Miss Kirch a wrong impression. And then he wauled to annihilate himself for having brought down the flood of eulogy which kind and out. spoken Mrs Kirch proceeded to pour Upon his devoled head. And Kather ine sat demurely by and tried to look solemn and awed, as win proper in the presence of one whom her mother so revered, but n most nl surd little smile would play about the corners of her mouth, making the dimples come ft'id go in a fascinating way. Mr. ( a sou knew sho was laughing at him, an 1 he did not like it, but he liked to watch the dimples. Katherine had not expected to find Mr. ('arson a paragon, She knew her mother's fondness for clergymen of any sort, and especially for her own particular rector. . She knew equally well her mother's habit of seeing and talking about the best in every one, and she had come home prepared to meet a very ordinary young man. Katherine bad a habit, not inherited from her mother, of regardin most youthful members of the stronger sex : "It was u Mormon honor. Simply as very ordinary oung men indeed.'' I because some of tho immigrants had This was not because they did not ad- displeased some of tint Mormon in mire her, but p obably because they habitants along the route they were did. Katherino's ideals, you know, 1,.,) (0 their death by a Mormon guide, were very high, ami ihen she was In- j The place is lit! miles square and sur- the gayest of the parties, and would be discovered in the hammock, with Mr. Car. on on a choir by her side, engaged in earnest discourse. 'Oh, they're talking plans,'' said barren region they were led by their Toll ii . - she's going lo tenth poor j guide, who, il is claimed, had itistruc childreu in the slums of New York, tiotis from the Mi rmoii leaders to inis nnd he's going to he a vclehale," w hat- : lead the band and permit it to perish, ever that U, 1 heaid them this morn- j The travellers reached the centre, and iug. He's going to lend a life of stern ' around and around the enclosure they devotion to duty, be said: and Kittie wandered. The scorching sun poured looked soulful, and said so was she. Truly, if Kiltie weren't so jolly, she'd he n slick, and anyw.sy. she isn't so nice as she used to be. She's prettier, though, only Mr. Carson never no tics whether a girl's pretty or not.'' September came, nnd with it Iho time for John's return to school. The dnv before his departure be was lazily sivinging in a hnmmoek on the porch, I visited. During ail this time the ah when a voice cnl'ed to him: ', sence of the immigrants was not ex- " John, dear John, just one more fa- plained. Finally, when the Kansas vor he lore you go!" j l'acilic engineers were exploring the John knew well enough what was j unknown region they discovered the the favor she asked, and, after all, ! barren spot. The train was scattered tins was the first time, and she was a all over the valley. The wagons stood jolly sister, nny way ; so he came, not ungraciously, down upon the lawn to : Katherine, and together they went I in'o the church. i Ten minutes after the door opened I softlvnud Mr. Carson came in. lie I bad brought a new Te Den n for Kalherino to try; but Kalherinn was absorbed in her music, and had not heard Ihe opening door nnd tho enter ing footsteps and did not look around. The minister stood still. The church , was cool and d;ni after the sunshine j .intsiilis. The wnverino- nnlelies of 1 purple and .M lav in long lines 1 ,l,e fl..or. Katherine bad not ! told hi... her little conceit about the ! purple and gold. Sho knew that it was sillv, nnd he oulv thought vnguelv that the colors were beautiful, and that somehow thev reminded him of Knlherine; and then he looked at her. In the shadow of tho great organ she I '.at, grave and still, wi;h upturned ! ' i '""St. Cecilia," murmured the minis. ler, and he too stood very still for a minute. Then ho gave himself a little j hake and came forward. Mow be i was tempted to let his fancy wander, l.c-;-e in the obi church! 1I. knew his duly, the path be had laid out for himself to walk in, and it was a path of self-renunciation: but bow his de- terminations had been weakening uil through the blight summer time, and how ho had permitted this paragon ("for this is a paragon," said tho minister to himself; "though not the kind I bad expected to sco") lo set his heart a-flutter. 'I must not," he said. And he walked calmly up the long aisle up to her very side. Kut Katherine. turned and looked on him, anil smiled a grave greeting, her han Is still upon the Keys and a soft minor chord tilling the air. 'Katherine, my little Katherine said the minister. And his strong hand imprisoned the little one on the whito keys. Tlio eho-d became a sudden jumble, and then stopped alto gether. 'And when he called her little Knth- nine, and she didn't say anything, I! stopped pumping, sai 1 John, after ward; '-for usually Katherine. hales lo be called little." The sun streamed in through the nest window; the soft light fell upon Kaiheriiie'6 hair. 'The gol-l is llie color of your hair, and the other is the color of your eyes; and that is why 1 love it, dear heart," said the minister. "And the purple doesn't mean sor row," said Katherine, very softly; ''it means glory." Harper's Weekly. Led Into the Vallev of Death. 'There is also a Valley of Death' in America, although not many peo. plo are aware of its location," said Pol. Benjamin G. C.leaon, an old California pioneer who is registered at the Tie uont llou-e. lie said ho had read of the deadly placo in the island of Java. He. said if the valley in this couulry is not as ghastly it is as aptly named. "A band of immigrants known as the 'Montgomery Trnin,' consisting of nearly lot) families, perished in a val ley north of the old Mormon road in Utah about 40 years ago, and that is why the spot is known as the 'Valley of Death,'" continued theold pioneer. j the desolate region to furnish means of subsistence. "The immigrants were enroute to the l'ncilie coast, and it was to this down upon them, and children crying for water died on their mothers' breasts. Then the mothers with swol len tongues and burning vitals lay down in the sun to die. Strong men stretched themselves in death, and the animals followed. "It was thirleen months after the band perished before the place was re- complete, while the skeletons of men women, children, and beasts lay blenching in the sun. Chicago Tri- btinu. An Obedient Soldier. I In tho confu-mn of the engagement at Shiloh the captain of a Federal bat tery was commanded to stop the ad- j vance of a column of troops dimly j seen through smoke and dust. "(ieneral," he said, "those are our own reinforcements.-' You uro mistaken, sir,'' said tho t'c"'ral ,14, t,-v? ,, 1,9 1 lM Thc ,-ttl"ai" l''"ll.v o).Mii-.l ""'' ' ' "f llU cu, 1 ''"""K 11 lo oover- "c UC on0 of ,,1"1,8elf1 n"'1 ,lul,u" ,hu n"e 1,0 pouM- k,,ew 1,0 WM killin-' f,it ",,H' but ,vl,e" obc or' ue" 11 "as ,u" " ,u " " ",c" lltt,'r a,ul lu " "l" "C "ilU "W''"'" ' he scaled himself comfortably on the trail of a gun and m hU Il--L!' Francisco Kxam- I,,cl'- - . yvt, Seheuie, (irafion What do on think. Tom? Kill llluir, who we all thought so at tentive to Miss (iiddy, has gone oil and married iter mother! Wiggins Well, (hat was a nict scheme indeed for gelti m rid of a mother-in-law I lilll.DREVS COLIMX. rviiY's mhtiiuay cakk. 'Ciit-i iit-cad.iwcut," cried the hen ; "Sre, I have laid an egg. And there's another, and a third. Oh, conic at once, I big! Come ipiickly; nil these fresh egg take For little Patty's birthday eake.'' 'Yes." mooed the cow, "she's six years old" (And how she knew, I cannot tell;: "I'll give my very nicest milk, And ino-t delicious cremu as well; And with thorn, cook, please nothing iti ike lint little Patty's birthday ske." Tin n .bum s went out Into the hard And touko.it Dobbin from liis stall. "Xoiv we will to the village trot And buy the r.i-ins. nuls.aud all.'' Old Dobbin gave bis ears a shako; lie, tou, might help to make the rake. And now cook set herself to work: The cream she whipped, the esgs she buit, Citron and raisins stirred In thick, With all that Putty liked to eat, And in the oven put to bake That must delicious birthday cuke. At last lin n Patty's eake was done. All richly (.easoned through and throu.di, With on the top six candies, and Her name spell out in pink and blue. So that there mihl be no mistake, Oh, what a lovely birthday cake! MOW AM. Ill V fnilS AUK IIA'tt'llF.ll. Do any egg-laying animals deposit their eggs in a 'hot-bed'' of vegelnbio ina:tcr to secure the heat necessary for halehing them? Alligators nre hatched in hotbeds of mud and vegniable mut ter. 'Ihe careful mother slays near till she hears the young yelpers, when she tears open the pile and lends fifty or sixly young alligators to Ihe water. A MOIIY OK A ( AT. A strange story in which a cat is a pathetic character, has ronm lo light at I'aoli, (Ja. A little boy of that vil lage owned a cat that was a great pet in the family. Kut the cat would have nothing to do with any ono except the boy. The latter died, and for two weeks the cat would come ns usual every morning to llin door and, going in the room, would cry vor,. mourn fully and walk over the child' ho 1 hunting f ir its lost friend. Finally the cat disappeared, only returning orea-ioiially. At lat one of tho child's sisters saw the cat in the graveyard, where it remains, only returning for food. It keeps guard at Ihe hoy's grave, and can bo heard at night, cry. iug pitifully. a oitr.AT Mi. nr. The lii-ht I heard of it was when Fred cnine rushing in!o ihe house after breakfast. "The enemy!" he cried. The cneiny is upon u.'" "Where?' cried the other.-, of us, jumping up. "In the hattle-lield, of course!" he said; and he scicd his ll ig and rushed out again. We all followed as quickly i.s we could. I put i. n the helmet, nnd Max put on ihe drum, nnd wo let Tod dles have the bugle this time becaii'o he M just tumbled down, nnd he had ihi! hcartli-hrooiu, too, so be was all light. We ran into the field and found that the enemy bad taken up a strong position 'ebind llieobt cannon. (Ours is a real battle-tield. j ou know, and has been there ever since the war.) So we formed a line, and Fred made a flank movement to take lite enemy in the rear; but when he heard Fred cum" j ing, he chaiged on our line, and Tod" iIIim ran iivriy. hut M ix and 1 ictreat , ed in good order, and formed aain ) h.biud a rock, and began to shell him wi.h green apples. He Mopped to eat i he apples, and meanwhile Fred coin I jileled bis lla nk movement, and falling i upon (ho enemy's rear, whacked it vi ' elently with 'i slick. Having bis flag all I he time, nnd shouting "Yield, caitiff! j Vield, craven hound!" (I tell him that nowadays people don't say those j thii.gs in war, but be always pays that j Roland nnd Bayard did, and that what suited them will suit him ) Well, the enemy lurncd suddonlv ou Fred, and drove him back ngainst the cannon; but by that time we had advanced again, and Toddles was blow ing the bugle as hard i.s he could, which veined to dieoncert the enemy. Fred took ii flying leap from the can not. right over his back, and putting himself nt our head ml lied us for a grand charge. We rushed forward, driving the eii'Miiy before us. A panic seized him and he tied in d Border; we pursued I) i lit as far as the feme, and he got Ihroiili a hole and escaped, hut not before we each had A good whnck at him. It was a glorious victory. Fred made us a speech afterword from the cannon, and we nil waved j our well, wliat'-vor we had to wave, mid vowed to slay the invader if ho ever dared to show his no. on our side of the fence again. Ah, yes! it was a splendid light. "Who was Ilia enemy?" Why, didn't I say? Farmer Thurston's pig. of course! St. Nich olas. It is a heathenish fancy that of adopting black as the color for niuler-linen. A GOLDKN HARVEST. Picking Oranges From the Trees in Southern California. Gangs of Pickers Busily at Work in the Groves. The first picking of oranges in South ern California is made about the mid dle of December i i the San (inbriel valley, and from l lie first of January, for n month or so, and tho gathering continues unabated. A few weeks previous the wholesale shippers go Ihe rounds of Iho groves. Many of thein have arrangements from year to year with the owners, while man pro ducers prefer to make new contracts each season, Tho ngent inspects the grove and oilers so much per box or so much for the fruit on the tree, ami here the responsibility of Iho owner ceases. Tho shipper puis ou his pick ers, the grower receives his check mid another year is begun. The picking of Iho orange in large orange ( entros, such as the Sa:i (ia Irlel valley, is aanoiiuce 1 by an addi ti in to the floating population, (iangs of pickers Mexicans, Chinese, Amer icans, men ami boys gather from far and near, nnd the groves nre filled with gay laughter and song. Every body is at work, and if the crop, as it is this year, i.s large, everyone feels cheerful and court. lent. The orange grove of Ihe imagination is a stretch of trees filled with golden fruit whero one can lie in the soft gnus and luxuriate in the sight. 'I' he actual grove, while benulif ill lo the eye, is not a place for lounging, as Ih" ground is or should he kept ploughed continu ally and irrigated often bv floods of wider. Kut the trees arc attractive; ever green, often showing iipe ami green fruit and white blossoms at tho same lime, they arc an enigin i. A gang of men under the head of a leader or ovcr-eer lakes possession of a grove bright and early in the morn ing, two or three n o i being appointed to a tree, niul the picking begins. Tall stephidders en tide llie pickers to reach the lop branches, and each orange is carefully cut from Ihe tree, us if it is pulled and llie string broken it will soon decay . Tlio picker wears a bag into which the fruit is dropped, which when tilled is handed to th: washer or scrubber. 'Ihe hitler, generally a Chinaman, washes ihe black stain or rust from the fruit, polMiiug it with clolh, after which it is passed to an assorler. Sometimes :i simple machine is used, a runaway, so that ihe or anges of llie same si.c will all collect together. This) accomplished, each orange is wrapped in variously colored paper and placed in iho box leady for shipment. A counter keeps tally of the boxes, as sometimes the owner is paid by tho box. ns well as the picker. lu some groves various muehir.es are used Thus one patent is a knife on it long pole, which is connected with a canvas tube. The orange cut in this way drops into ih; chute, and by nn arrangement of traps drops from one lo another, mid finally rolls into a box uninjured. The ordinary method of picking, however, is by hand. The orange pickers are usually n jolly lot, there being h iinelhing about the business apparently licit enlivens the spirits and impar's an air of jollity to the party. Tim Mexicans and Ameri cans labor in harmony, but nn orange picking team composed of Ciiiuaiiien and Americans appear!, to work the re verse. The Chine-e picki r finds that his ladder gives w ay without warning, dropping him into the I horny tree or upon the ground- He is bombarded with oranges from unseen quarters, or fin Is his pigtail fastened Ion branch: in other words, nt a rule, hi. life in the orange prove i not as pleasant as it might be. He is strongly suspected by his fellows of w ork ing at rules that will not support a white man of fam ily, addicted lo taxpnying. At the orange picking time the coun try is n marvel to the Easterner. While llnndieg among Ihe oranges the picker looks away over grove after grove, fields of flowers, acres of golden esch choltzias, patches of wild daisies, blue, bells and yellow violets, and finally his eye rests upon tho Sierra Madres, or mother immutaiiis, rising but four or five miles distant, the garden wall of this modern llesperidcs. His no. tills inhale tho odor of the orange blossoms, while his eyes greet the snow banks ? a vigorous winter. The great peaks aro cnpcd willi snow, and the uplAud blizzard is raging with unabated fury. From the vantage ground of the orange grove the wind can be seen on .Ml. Sail Antonio whirl ing aloft the anew in gigantic wraiths, tossing it upward in huge clouds that rise hundreds of feel, to lie borne away over Hip lowland and dissipated. With eyes on this nrrde scene tho ob urvcr can scarce believe the facie, CAicc realize that he can by a single glance cneompisg winter nnd summer. Tlio orango picker, however, has no time to spend on the te-theiics of tho subject; ho is picking against time, and an eager East is waiiing. New York Sun. ;rnss in the Mle. The grass barriers through which Dr. Junker passed mea-iired 100 fe t lo a mile and a quarter in w'dih, an 1 frequently delayed him for hours on stretches that he might olherw io have put behind him lu a few minutes. Dr. Junker directs attention lo llm fact, however, that even grass barri ers are not an unmixed evil, since at high water their thickly malted sub stance serves the purpose of a liitei in clarifying tho stream, siys liill tliwaitc's ( ieogniphical Magazine. Soil happens that the White Nile is "iho clear," while the Klue Nile, in which the conditions nre uu fnvoi able to Ihe formation of grass barriers, is "lln dirty." The grass is swept into the slreain nt high water from the swan ps ami stagnant ponds alon.' the banks. Tl,i- ! grass grows together in ureal masses, j which, oii'-c floated in'.olhe stream, he j come welded by i.eU of inuumerab!i roots and smaller water plants, till I barrier forms ncros Ihe channel. Tin? ; force of the current increases I be coui j actness of the barrier thus formed, nnd brings it new in ilerlal from ah ive. j The barriers d.tler greatly ns to com i pactness; through some the Ismailia i cut her way slowly, merely with her J prow. Others were trauip-d dow n, j cut and loosened before her by lia j fives. Others, "like felt," as Dr. ! Junker says, were (inn against such I simple devices. Wire cables were 1 made fast to each of these massive j barriers near its edge, and at llie same i lime to the prow of the Ismailia. j The steamship then backed wati.r with all her power and thus tore loose ami set adrift down stream great J ( hunks of ihe barrier To thus clear j a river of a large bai rier is a huge iiii I dertakiiig. Ern-t Marno, for instance, ; w ith four steamships and several hun ; died men, was busy from Septembi r, I Is.!', till A ril, I1"', clearing his way in the Kiihrel label. The piercing of ! a barrier bv a sleamship bound down i " 1 i stream is frequently exceedingly peril- : oin, as llie loosened masses of malted grass, instead of floating off behind j 'be boat arc often driven back aguiuit I her stern till she becomes as firmly ! imbedded in the grass as she would be j iu nn ice field. Country Life in the Argentine. I In a new country the traveler must not be particular, much less exacting ; ! above all, he mu-t not expect to find : refinement among the inhabitants, I whose whole efforts barely nifli. e lo I sustain the combat against the ele 1 incuts. Still, 1 cannot refrain from noting the impression of sadness and disgust produced by the sight of the : tow ns and colonics of the pampa, and ; by n glimpse of the life that tho in habitants lead. Verily the majority live worse than brutes, for they have not even the cleanly instincts of the beasts of the tield. Their iiouvs a'C less agreeable lo the eye ihuiiun Esqui mau's hut. The way they maltreat their animals is sickening to behold, j Uarely do you see the face of a man, I woman, or child that does not wear a j bestial and feroi ions cxpsessiou. In tlio villages there are no clubi, no li braries, no churches, no prie-ts. rarely rvcii a school. The men and women work, eat an 1 sleep, and their only distraction is Ihe grossest boti:iiity, gambling and drinking in the pulperin, with occasionally a Utile knifing and revolver-firing. During my whole slay iu the Argeu'iiie, and in all the centres that I visited, I was str.;ck li the utter absence of m ual restiaiii', and by the hard materiality of the faces of (he people, from the hit'lie-t down to the lowest. Harper's Maga zine. One of Nature's Wonders. Naturalists say that the feet of i..c common working bee exhibit tho curious combination of a basket. A brush and a pair of pinchers. The brush. the hairs of which arc arranged iu symmetrical rows, are only to be seen with a high grade microscope. Witli this brush of fairy delicacy the bee brushes its velvet robe to remove Hie pollen dust willi which it becomes loaded while sucking up the nectar of flowers. Another delicate apparatus is the union-shaped appendage which receives the gleanings tint the bee wishes to carry to the hive. Finallv, by opening the 'brush'' and the "bas ket" by means of a neat little binge, the two become a pair of pinchers, which render important seivice iu eou structini; the cells for reception of tho honey. fSt. Ixruis Republic. How She Lost Hrr I.oTfr. Twas a summer ago when be left me bore, A summer of smiles w ith never a tear, fill I said to him wltb a tub My dear! Good bye, in y lover; good-bye! for I loved blm, oh, a the st irs love nig btl And my cheeks for him flashed red and white When b( firnt called me his heart's delight ; (iooil-bye, my lover; good-bye! The touch of bis hand was a tiling divine, As be sat w ith me ill the soft m ooashiiie. And drank of my love as men drink wine; (iood-byc, my luver; good-bye! And never a night as I knelt in prayer, In a gown as white us our own smils were. But lu fancy be con out an I kissed ra there. t.ood-hye, my lover; cool-byo! But now. oh (i i.l! what an emp'y pUsa My whole heart is! (If t lie old em brae And the kiss I loved, Iherc it not a trace; (loud-loc, my lover; gooJ-bye! He sailed not oer Ihe stormy sea. And he went not dowu in the w aves, not In; l!ut oh, In' is lost, for he in irrie 1 in"; ( ! 1-liye. my loicr: go.id-nye! r.l. W. Kiley, in Chicago Herald. lil'MOKOlS. There are no pieces left of broken silence. Tho heart of a city is probably where its heals cotiui from. No matter what t'io season may be, it is always spring with frogs. "Is your wife lecturing now?" "Well :ih not on tho platform." At iho present rate of legal fees none but a wealthy man can "keep his own counsel." Men may he just as willing to hato you for your virtue) as for your faults, but they seldom have the same opportunities. Mrs. Noear Do yon think my daughter will bo n inuician? Pro fessor I gan't zay. She may. She tell mc she gome of a long-lived fam ily. "Then," he said, after she had re jected him, "Ibis is iho end of A.l?" "Oh, not necessarily," she replied, cheerfully. "The world seems to be going yet." Hose 1 think I'll say yes. It it better to marry a man you respect than one you adore. Dolly Kut it's so much easier to love men than to re spect thctu. If there is hicIi a thing ns real, downright mortification on this earth, it is in the feeling of the man, who, himself intending lo cheat, finds that bo has picked up the small cud of a horso trade. Mamma You naughty girl! You've caleu every eookey there was on the plate. I told oii you might have three. Little Elith Ves, but you didn't tell mo which three; so to be sure I'd get the light one- I cat them All. The student burns the midnight oil, Pursuing wealth and fame. And every month he lias t pay A gas bill just the same. Air Currents Above l's. Mr. F. (hiltoii, in some recent re marks ou the importance of observing the upper currents of the air. said that tho great thing we now want to know is the state of the air above u ; for we are nt the bottom of an lerial ocean, and nil we know is w hat takes place at the bottom. Imagine how little a marine animal that lived iu tie1 bottom of the sea, having tin: same intelli gence as our-clves, would know of the currents above. That is precisely our position. We tiiider-taud only one horizontal sec ion of ibis superin cumbent mass. ('apt. II. lo.iibee of England, commenting on Mr. Gal ton's remarks, observes that it seems possible thai cheap balloons may be used to advantage where upper clouds are not seen, lie thinks this is proved by the adventure of nil apro nnut who went to Madras a while Ago and advertised an a-eeui, fix ing nn bonr when the sea breeze bad set in, v ith the object of being driven over the land. There were no upper clouds to show the motion of ihe upper cur rent of air. Mr. Kajley of tho revo nuo board of Madras feared that there might be an upper current of air which would lake the man out to sea. Ho took his glass ami watched the bal loon from bisollice window. At firs!, in the lower stratum of air, tho bal loon drifted quickly to the westward over the land ; but soon, giving a pecu liar twist, it moved seaward so quickly that although the man pulled the string of tho VAlve, allowing tho gas to es cape very freely, ho fell into the tea two or three miles from tho land. Boats in the harbor hurried out nnd saved him. Ooldthwnito's Magarine. Not Disturbed. "Store robbed last night." "You don't say. What wa taken?" "Nearly all. In fart, the only thing not disturbed was the watchman."-. fPhiladolphia Times.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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