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otH.WiiiViWt.iiWilit. &)t ljati)am fltcord Stye Ct)atl)am Hrrorb. HATES ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One square, one insertion One square, two insertions One square, one month . tl.tt l.M MO $1.50 PER YEAH Strictly In Advmei. For larger advertisements liberal cob racU will bo made. VOL. XIV. PITTSBOUO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, MAY li, 181)2. NO. 38. Of Ctaitam M. A LONDO N, " EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. The Gentle Ghost or Joy. A little while ago you know not I was I A little while ago I knew not you were you Iow the swift hours have run by Ami nJI tbc world is new. I hear the young l.irds alng In the rosy light of mom ; Like them 1 could take wing. And sing as newly born. A little while from now I shall lip far sway A little while from now your fate 1 Mini' not sre Hut within my hesrt a ray To light the dark will be. Do you not know that pain So ami, mo sweet, so coy, That comes, ami comes sgnin, The gentle ghost of Joy r All, Hint shall dwell with me, When vonr lace I do not see ! -Louise Chandler Moulton, in Independent. FOR HETTY'S SAKE. There he more heroes in this world, ficcoul i iiif to my way of thinking ihnn ever got talked on in the newspapers, or luve the Victoria cross presented to them, or havo hooks written about thorn nflcr they me (lend and gone. All the nine, I've never hecn able to make up my mind as to whether one ninn I've known was a hero or not. M.iylie I'm a heavy kind o' chap, nttil tilings ilnii't Ntrikc me so elenr as thev do others ; hut if I toll you the story just u it happened, you enu put what reading you like on it. I'm a minor dow-ii Staffordshire w-ay, hi ve heeu n ni i iht all my life, nud reckon I'm likely to stick to the pick til; some e plosion comes along and in k r-a mi i :nl of me. t worked with a gang iu tho Nino Pits eoliciy about fifteen years hack, nil there wns one man there who hailed from South Wales us I got pretty friendly with. I've I'iilli'd him a "mill," hut l don't know if the title comes rihl. lie wns more like a Kluiited hoy than a man, ami more bkc some tpieer unimal than cither. He was n dwarf. He had a monstrous large head and shoulders, nud puir of little, bowed, Iwisty legs no bigger than a child's of nine years old. His liiieked was crooked; he had a lot of hair on his face, as thoso Welsh men have, and l.!.. ryes had a look in them as I never pet lo tho bottom of tl.ey were deep set in his head, as lilaek and as bright as a bit of silk stone; and sometimes there would come a cloud into them and dull them, mill he would stare out before him at though ho were tianeeil; it was a sad look, too, as well us dull, and I never could mako out what he was think iuir of then. Von might think that, being so mis shapen and little, he wasn't much good in a coal mine; hut I can tolj you there wasn't a man of six foot among us stronger than he was. To have seen him swing his pick would have miulo you hold jour breath; he went at the work like steam, and he could walk, you sec, down some of tho narrow, low galleries where chaps like me would have to crawl. I lived along with my father and sister thu'ti. We were precious poor, nud father used to say he hoped Hetty would marry somo one able to keep her, and o give us a lift that way. Hetty was powerful pretty. I've seen a sight of women, as you may suppose, in six-and-thirty years, hut I have never soon one that could come near her for good looks. Itright and light sho was as sunshine, and she had a hit of temper, too. One day a new hand came (o the )it, .Inn Mir wood by name; a pleas amor man to look upon than dim you never saw. Sec him on Sunday going to chapel, clean and sniait, as straight as a pole, with liluo eyes looking so frank and smiling, and you'd say he looked a pirl in e. He had struck up a mighty affection for mo before he h d heeu a mouth in the gang. You would have thought 'twas a wonder ho hail lived to long without mo. He told mi' all about his friends ami such like inosl contiileinial, and 1 found out he had to keep hi. mollicr and hadn't a sixpence he could call his own. All he told mo I told Hetty, and she would li'tfii, with a lovely color in her cheek', and go on talking uhoiit him after I had sloppi d, 111 all of a Hidden it came upon me ihat him and her knew to much f each ther as 1 did, and in no. too, and liked what they knew In a degree that was eon siileralile. I was a ti lth' put out al nut it, for I knew ho Mn pour, and it would he a had lookout if thev was I me to gether; iil, - I've n'd, I'm heavy and blow in ill' I tlii ig, and I thought I'd better hold my tongue awhile longer. Weil, one day I ioii.i ml er it s clcai a icstcrday il wns leiwecn the lights on a Srp'.unbcr evening very quiet and still, the slais iust show ing out like Fparkles of diamond light wc got in the seams al times. 1 was smoking my pipe in our back room father was out of the house when 1 heard voices in the other room across tho passage, tt was .Matty and my sister talking together. Matty wns tho dwarf. He had n long Welsh name, hut wc called him "Matty" in the general way, because of his rough hair, and didn't teem to mind the joke. 1 knew his voice well enough. It was not exactly unpleasant, though deop, with sometimes a sort of crack in it, but anything like it sounded just then 1 never heard before. It made mo sit up and put my pipe down pretty sudden. "1 love yon!" ho says to Hetty. "I've loved you ever sinro I've seen you; won't you marry ine? I'd boa good husband to you." Sho went into a light kind of scorn ful laugh. "Marry you?'' she says. "Why, Matty, you must ho dreaming? Of course I won't.' And then I guessed sho gnvo hot head a toss, w ith a way she had. I got up and went a step nearer the door, for I didn't know how he might lake it, them dwarfs being uncertain creatures. Ho was silent a minute, then he says: "I'm stunted and crooked. I know, but I lovo you better than any other man will ever lovo you, and I've a .comfortable homo to oiler you." "1C you hnd twenty homes I wouldn't havo you," she answers quick. "So do say no more about it."' 1 think he moved around the room after that, for his voice sounded near to mn. He s,ioke short and savage like: "Jim Marwooil's tin man that stands between you nud me. lo you think I've been blii d? Do you think I can't see thai? Jim Murwood has got your heart; and do you think you will ever marry him while I'm alive?" I got a shiver down the buck, and felt round for my stick, for hit lone was awful, and 1 didn't know what ho iniIit do next. lle:ty never w as the girl to ho cowed, and she Hashed round on him the next moment like gunpowder. "It is Jim Marwooil that has got mv heart, and I have his, and I'm not ashamed (o say it before you or any man. 1 know you've got your cottage and your garden that you are so mor t il proud of, and we shall have to wait for years; hut you needn't think you'll frighten ue out of marrying him, for you won't; and if I don't many him, I'll never marry such a miserable, wicked, ugly w ret r i as you! Si don't (latter yourself I woit'd." And she gave a kind of sob, and hurst out at the door, and rushed upon our little flight of stairs, and I heard the door hang ami the key turn in her lock sharp and passionate. I waited, still as death, vondei ing how he would take on, and hearing no stir I kind of squinted round the door post into the passage. There he stood in tho dusk facing toward the open entry door and the starry sky. A d 'sperate, hideou, evil-looking thing, with his monstrous head and shaggy hair and his little twisted legs. There, was that dull, tranced look in his eyes, and he was staring before him like I had often seen him do in the mine. She shall never marry Marvvuod while I'm alive, tiod made me same as him," 1 heard him inuitcr to him self, and then he wont out. 1 saw him no more that night, and I didn't let on to Hetty 'hat I had over heard them. The next day we were all underground ns usua'. Somehow or other Many nud Marwood and I found ourselves alwavs pretty close together. lie seemed lo me to be hanging on I i Jim in a way I didn't like, homing what I had heard, ami I kept ns close to both as I well could, keeping my tools ready lo hand, ami watching the dwarf out of tho corner of my eye. Jim never looked Inller, mis hand somer, nor tlraighter than he looked that day. Happy he Was a-: n lark, w'.istling over his work and laughing as light-hearted as could hii. I couldn't he light, for there was a curious weight on my mind, a sen mi as if soiui mischief was going to hap pen before nightfall. I notice Ihat the dwarf scarce took his ej es oil Jim. except al 1 'J o'clock, w hen we stopped for our hits of food, imil then he sal in a corner by himself under a truck and scribbled on a scrap of paper, wilha queer sort of smile on his face. I hid the shivers more than oure, for he looked so evil and so black amniiir ihn coal heaps, and every now and thou he would talk to himself in Welsh, which I had In ver heard him do before, and it turned my blood cold, for it it sounded for all tho world liko tho jabbering of a maniac. In th! afternoon we got down to ft lower level. It was a dangerous part of the mine, as wo all knew, and we kept our Davy lamps pretty light, ' can tell you. "There's fire-damp about here," said one of the I'len. And a spark would settle the lot of us, wouldn't it?'' said the dwarf. They were almost the lirsl words he had spoken, and tho expression of his fao as lie said it made my heart give a turn. "All! Ihat it would," Jim an swered. A kind of sick fear enmc over nic that our lives were iu the dwarf's power, and hanging, ns it might he, ou a thread. Such n longing came over me for a mouthful of fresh air and the sight of the open sky as 1 had never known i:i the mines before. I'uoplo warming their toes at their handsome fires on the winter nights don't know what it means to us chaps who have tho digging of tho coal iu the depths of the earth, and who put flesh ami blood in jeopardy every hour to do it. Nothing more was said about fire damp, however, and that day, tho longest day I had ever known, came round to ti o'clock without an explo sion. The cages were ready for us to get up to the tup ot tho shaft, and most of the men had gone. "You go now," says I to the dwarf. "No!" he answers, "I'm going to stay a little over-timo to-night. You all go on, and send the cage down ngain for me. And look here, give this: to your sister Hetty, will you? and tell her to open it." He put a bundle in my hand, tied I up iu a handkerchief. 1 took it gin j gerly enough, for, with such sus I picions in my mind, I half expected it j might go off in my face somehow. Then wc touched tho signal rope, and up went Jim and me, and the dwarf stood underneath and turned his face up, watching us out of sight. Well! I felt more coinfortahlo when we put our feet on firm ground on top of the shaft, and then sent the cage down again for him. "Wonder what's in that bundle?" says .Hiii. "Maybe Hetly will toil you some time,'' I replied, little thinking how it concerned liim. I took it home and called Hetty to open it. Our cottagii wasn't far from the pit, and it coiildu't havo been above ton minutes since the dwarf had put it into my hand. Slie undid the knot, mid thcic if you would believe it were the title deeds of his collage and a do.en sov. crcigiis tied up iu a piece of canvas, and the scrap of paper 1 had seen him scribble on under tho truck. 'J'laro were ihesc words on it: What is hero is for you. 'Tgly ami miserable' I am, but wicked' I am not, I said you shouldn't marry him while I was alive and I shall keep my word. Think kindly of a dwarf if you can. iod ininlo mo as well as him.'' We hadn't got to the end of tho poor, dirty little letter when we heard a sound that made our hearts stand still a long, dull louring, shaking tho floor we stood on us if il was thunder under our feet. "An explosion in the mine!" says Hetty, with a faro as while as chalk. We rushed out. All Nine Pills was out ; men, women and children, screaming and running to tho shaft head. Hundreds of tons of solid earth and rock and ruhhlo had fallen iu, and under it all was the dead, crushed body of that poor creatine wo had helped to send from the world. II was no use trying to dig him out. Ho knew when he opened his lavy lamp and lie must havo opened it that human help could never reach there. Ho knew, when ho watched me and Jim go up in the cage, that ho was slaying behind for his death, and he went to it of his own free will for the love of my sister Hetty. Sho cried about it for a week and said she should never ho happy again, lint 1 think she is happy now, for she married Jim, oomn tho Kastcr after, and thev live in Matty's cottngo still, and the garden is all abloom with flowers. MiKlit Hate Hern Worse. She 1 am voty sorry, but our en gagement must cease. I enu never marry. lie My gracious? What hus hap pened? She My brother has disgraced us? He Oh, is that all. That doesn't matter. 1 feared maybe your father had failed New York Weekly. CHILDREN'S TOM MX. Of II CAKI.O. Our Carlo is sm h a cute little iln -1 wish you could see how ho hex's! He sits up ns straight ns a soldier hoy On his two little black html loirs. With a how-wow-wow! He naves his fore paws around in the nir -That's his way, you know, tosuy "please x n.i ;r I .1..,.', i.i... 1 1... . .. l .. ri,.i.i ,,ir I Why. he'll just sit there and lease, With a how-wow -wow 1 lint Carlo's a very polite little do.', In spite of all of his pranks. I For w believer I food him. ho never forgets j To wan bin wee tail for "thanks I" ! With a bow-wow-wow I I Kami. Field and Stock man. IT 1IKAII.Y KAIM'.li. It was in Cuba and I was in a rail way enr, journeying from Matanzas to Havana. It was springtime and the beginning of tho rainy season was nt hand. Tho people were looking for- ward to the first rain as I was going I to say, as wo do to the first mow ; but i that does not parallel their expecta tion, for they know that when it once begins to rain there is an end of their liberty. Tho first intimation that I had of the likelihood that something was going lo happen, came from my seeing a dense, jet-black cloud over against th) southern horinn. All around ine lay a peaceful and prosperous scene. Itc sido tho track were sonic hut-like cabins, with African women seated in the doorway, and fuiiuv liltlo half- naked picaninnios playing in the dirt, Hut tho black cloud grew bigger and blacker. It was advancing toward us with very grout and evident speed; and presently I saw that it was all fretted with blots of lightning, toothed with white darts of tire. Never be fore or sinco did I see such a dreadful display of tho electrical force. The holts were so close together that it seemed as if they must destroy every living thing in the pathway of tho cloud. When the black and terrible mass in the skv came still nearer, it seemed no longer toothed and fringed, but it spat the lightning with vicious force straight down upon the forest beneath it. Next came a sucking, roaring sound of wind, the sky grew black, and with tho last glimmer of daylight, before it vanished into night, I saw the giant palm-trees throw up their huge fan-like arms like mortal creatures that were hurl and panic stricken. Then the storm burst over the train, and through iis din I heard the crashing of tin filling palm blanches that had lueii snapped oil and thrown lo the earth. In anchor in i ti tit e the worst of the darkness was over, and in the half light that remained 1 saw such rain as 1 never had dreamed coiild fall from the sky. It did not appear lo fall iu drops, or iu "ropes," a- I once heard an Knglishmuu say of a severe down pour of rain, but it ilc-civided in vast thick sheets, layer unoii layer. You could see one tlrcknes-iiiiuh ing after the other as so many cieat plates of glass might he thrown down. It grew lighter still, and I saw that the beau- tiful jiahns were wrecked, and were 6till writhing in the r misery, tossing up their broad hands and thick anil", many of w hich were broken and dis jointed, while others ha! been snapped oir. At the fret of the julins thero wns no longer nny ground. The surface of the earth had become a hike. Tho water stood high iu the doorways of the cabins. The litter of palm branches floated about ou the rain pelted water. I remember waiting to see the train demolished by the light- iiing, but il was not, nor could 1 see that the tlery bolts had harmed any thing around us. Another minute passed, perhaps not more than live minutes hud pas-ed liucc the shower began, and the ilavlig it came hack grandly, disclosing tho great flood everywhere. A Cuban, silting on the other side of the car from me, passed me his cig.n ette-box ; and as ho did so he said in a labored etlort to be polite in foreign tongue: "I t'ink it will rain. W'at you t'ink:''' S Nicholas. HITS (IK COIN to MAKE A I'tSNV. A franc is a French silver coin equal to about nineteen of our cents, and divided into 1 cut centimes. Just think of being able to buy something with the hundredth part of nineteen rents! Ih'troit Free Press. The I'octN IHfllciilty. Friend You havo written a great deal of poetry, haven't you? Toot Quite a quantity; yes. Friend And w hat do you find to be the greatest trouble in getting it just to suit you ? Poet (promptly) (letting it accep ted. Detroit Fire Press, RICH REDSKINS. Sioux Indians Who Have Ac cumulated Property and Cash. They Live in Houses, Say Grace and Co to Church. As showing the value of these lands the Covcrnment pays to the Sisseton and Wappcton Sioux !?2..'0 an acre, or nbout $1, ,10(i,000. This means an averago of $ 'JOO to nu ll buck, squaw nud papoose in these two tribes, lie ides this, every Indian of these tribes, big and little, without regard to age, sex or previous condition, is allowed to retain lth) acres of their own selection. They are now choos. ing their lauds among the lakes that abound in tho western portion of the resveiation. These Indians live iu houses, have large herds of cattle and are members of tho Kpiecopal church. They arc a great deal like while folk', and yet they arc red Indians, just the same. They have not yet learned to appre ciate tho value of money. lie under stands barter and can trade horses, ponies or lands w ith great shrewd ness for any c Humidity that ho may want. Hut w lieu the white man puts money into the rod brother's hand the untutored child of the forest doesn't know what to do with it. lie usually getB rid of it as soon as possible, and for tho most trilling things. This lack j of appreciation of money wns shown when thev were paid the Ihat instnl meiit of .jiu,000 on their land. The payment was made not long ago at Watertown, and they gave up many dollars for the strangest ussorlmi lit of bric-a-brac you could imagine. One of the bucks, in exchange for a large wad of his land indemnity, be came the possessor of n hack which must have conic down from the seventeenth century, and now Mr. and Mrs. Wau-din-pi-du-ta and the scions of that house ride over tin: reservation the envied of the Sisseton PiO. At 'east they did until Mr. Ta-ciin-.lu-pa-ho-tan-ka came to Watertown and gave up .f.luO for a badly battered hearse. It is a sight to see the latter Indian gentleman with his new I urn- out, his squaw ami himself proudly j perched on the scat, the ribbons hold ing four fiery Indian ponies, while the family papoosse", six in iiumhci', aro squatted inside the hearse. It is now 1 conceded that the bravo who bought the hack is not in it, especially as the hearse has two sets of plumes, one while, used at night, and our black, used in day driving. A while ago a Yankee peddler came on the reservation with a large supply of brass clocks. They looked very gay and caught the eyes of the red brothers. When the Yankee left l lie I'CMTVation cveiy head of a family had a clock and he had a two-horse load of silver dollars. The novelty of a striking clock soon wore oil and the Indians wauled to see what was inside them. They discovered a wealth of wheels and lost no I i mo iu taking I Item out. Mauv of them m e j ",,w riehly pri.'-d ornaments, doing dutv as carrnii's, lianjiii'' from the ears of brave bucks and dashing squaws. Indianapolis Journal. What We One to the Arabs. It was to the Arabs and the Jews that wo probably owe the discovery of America. From them the Spaniards and Portuguese learned all that they j knew of civilization. Tin' Arabs from the ninth to the twelfth century were the rulers of the sea, the founders of j Kuropinui commerce. F.dri-i, the Arab historian, ilosciihcs the harbors of I A'iiici in, ill Spain, tilled w i h ihe ships of the I". ist and of Lisbon ( l'.-i lilioua). the centre of wealth and trade. I wo Mohammedan travellers, or one, w ho ; visited China in the ninth ceiiiuiy, found its ports freipieii e l by the ves ' scls of their country men, who sailed ; around the eoats of India, i'.drisi, I again, describes the Cnina seas, on- I ' known to ( ireek and K onan, ami the! 1 i 'hiiioso ships as the finest of their i ' kind. The adveii'iii'nus Arab sailors j 1 wcro found on every sea. , ! It is from tin iu tint Portugal ami I Spain learned the art of ship-build- j ing, as most of ihe other arts. . In 14'iC the Spaniards i ver) where clot bed , iu Arab dress, imitating the Arab 1 manner ridii g A r. .'n horses, and the kings surrounded by Arab guards, i wah how I and w ash hi- own face, Splendid Cordova and matchless nflcr which he resumes his chair ami (irunail k still tuled tho laMe of the the harbor d.csis his hair. This peninsula, F.ven Ihe chief tri m of I operation is regarded by the barber business am) of naval ntiairs, of police j as must important part of his vo ainl ti i.i nee, the Spaniards borrowed j cation, and he spends twice as much from the Arabs. The inar.u edi, an j lime on the hair ns be does in shnr- Arab cifin, was used in the ti if ing. When the tedious process is Cii'iiuihii-tii express all their moneyed ended the charge is ten cents in specie transactions. It was at Lisbon that ! or twenty -live cents iu the paper rur Coluiobns first planned his voyace. rciioy of the country. --National Uut long before, when Lisbon was a Barber. flourishing Arab city, intelligent niifl splendid, Kdrisi relates that an expe dition was sent out from its port to explore the dark and unknown ocean. The commanders were brothers known as the Alniagrurius, or the Wandering Brothers. They must have set fail before the year 1 1 ',0. They crossed the Atlantic, it is said, visiting unknown islands, and dis covering new lands. After a weary voyage of many months they returned in safety. A street was named after them in Moorish Lisbon, called tho street of the Almagriirius. l'ossilily the attempt might have been renewed, and a Moorish city might have sprung up iu Cuba or Hispauiola, at l'hila. delphia or New York. Itut soon the conquering Christian took Lisbon and checked its advance i:i knowledge. For many centuries it was given up to war and chivalry. At length it re. vived the Moorish instincts of trade and commerce. Lisbon beainc lh centre of discovery, and Coluiubi.s learned in its traditions, perhaps, the story of the Aluiagrurim. Harper's Magazine. Why We Have Leap. Years. Hill, to return to our Imp-years, why is it that there have to be such years that all of our years are not of the same length!' It arises from the fact that tho year does not cons t of an exact nuinhor of days. The length of the day and that of the year are the measures of the motions of the earth. The globe we live ou moves in two ways. It turns itself round like a spinning top, and at the same lime it goes sieadily forward like a bullet shot from a gun. It turns it self once completely round in twenty four of our hours ns shown by the clock ; this amount of time w e call a day. Its forward or onward motion carries it round the sun in a path that is nearly n circle; the time it takes to go completely around we call a jear. The first motion gives us day and night following each other in turn, the word "day" here having now a different meaning namely, not twenty-four hours, but the timo of day. light. The second motion gives us days, that is, periods of daylight, growing gradually longer and then gradually shorter, one end of the earth turning more toward the sun for half the time and the other cud for the other half; and this brings us summer and winter and the other sea sons. Now, the length of the year is found to bo nearlv :ul.1 1-1 times tho i ,,., ,, of ,,, lUv , ,.,. ,. !(i the year is IU'.'i days long and nearly six hours more. Il is these six hours that give us our leap-years, ami it is in the "nearly" that we find tho rea son for l!h"i not being one of their j llnlrri J ISl. Nicholas. I Vilapliihilih of Insects, j Insects, says American (iarden, nre ' particularly qualified to adapt tlicin : selves lo changed conditions. An in- scot fed upon wild plan.- iu ( 'oloi ado, : occupying a limited area which was j largely determined by the dislrilnil ion j of the food plants. A cultivated plant j closely allied to the wild plants was can ied westward to Colorado. Tho ; insects attacked it, liked il, and spread. Th" plant was ihe potato, and the insect became from that lime ihe potato beetle. A maggot lived in wild thorns. Kut il chanced to t ml better nud more abundant food in the cultivated apple. Il spread, and be cauin the apple maggot. A grub bored iu oaks and oilier forest trees. The forest lues were lessoned, and j fruit trees were increased. The insect alia. Ked the fiuil trees and became know n as Ihe flat-headed apple-borer. An insect iu I. mope lived upon flow ers of ligworl, occasionally attacking furs and clot li. It came to this coun try and attacked carpets, a habit which it does not possess iu il- native country. In America il is the carpel beetle. Instance of changes of habit nre abundant. ... How The) Shine in Culm. A correspondent iu the Wct Indies w rites us as follow s concerning the CiiImii timbers: "III lathering the pa. lient no brush is u-cd as with us. Instead a sort of bowl, made so that it fits about lie' net k is used. In this the lather is made and applied to the lace wiih the lingeis of the operator. Af it the usual method of shaving i ihe customer is invited to go to a The River. For centuries oorariw ard it bus flowed on, Through moorlaml wild, beneath the hills Kreat feet, I'ast orchards rich snd flowered meadowi sweet. Singing u happy lay ; the sun has shone In silver splendor o'er it, and the moon lias hla.oued silver etchings here and there Upon Its glancing waters: the soft air Has crisped it, and the winds ruado sullen moan Above it, like weird scirils scckitiR rest. So flows my life through scenes of joy anc woe : Around ine now sweet summer tlowen blow. And now I seem the dreary doerfs guest; Vet. like the river, over on I move To the va-t ocean of eternal love. William I 'owan. in Chambers's Journal iiUMoitors. In the spring the young man's fan. cy lightly turns to thoughts of loaf. It is hard for the averago husband to be cross to his wife when he wanUto havo a button sewed o:i. F.xcuse me, madam, I am afraid 1 very late. Hi, my dear Herr von Killer I, you are never too lute. The love of money is the root of all evil. It is always best to go to thf root of things if you would succeed iu life. Mairiages were never so much 8 failure lo u m in as wh'ii something goes wrong at home that he can'1 possibly blame on his wife. You seem lo hi' a man of exten sive views," said ihe talkative limn il the train. "I am," was the answer "I'm a stcrcoplic on lecturer." There ' an be no doubt that cverj wife in this land loves, esteems, spects and honors her husband, bu' when a moth'-r wants to he especially severe on her ollspring sho invariahl) remarks that he is ju-t like his father. The Ih'v. Ir. Primrose I heai your husband is dangerously ill. hope he's prepared if the worst shouk come? Mr. Surface I'm happy tc sav ho is. Pa insisted upon bis tak ing out an insurance policy before h married me. "I've got a wahing machine, h ro" began the inventor. T.c capitalist looked at him in tho cold mannei common to capitalists, and answered, "Well, if I were you. I'd run it right home and uc it." That night the An arc.hist Ihind received another npplica tion for membership. Something About Pineapples. The pineapple, it seems, llourishci only in a warm, moisi climate, when it is found growing wild: but i:i thi slate the fruit is coarse, blringv Ol.t sour, n verv poor i elation indeed o its elegant, cultivated cousin. Tin apple is learnedly denuibed as ": Sorosis formed by tlie calyxes am ( bracts of a close spike of (lowers bo coming succulent and combined. number of long, set rated, sharp pointed, ligid leaves spring from t h root, iu the midst of which a shor flower stem is throw n up bearing I single spike of flowers, and therefore a single fruit. From the top of tin fruit springs a crown or tuft of sinal leaves capable of becoming a nov ' plant, and generally used by gardener for that purpose."' I This fully explains Ihe stylo o ; growth; but it is not an easy thing l raise pineapples, and our Aniericni climate does not suit them at all They were taken to r.iig'nnd iu th sixteenth century, and planted in tin hot-houses of those w ho could atl'ori to cultivate expensive dainties: am I although thev lir-t appeared in IIol laud, where foreign plants are almos sure lo flourish, Lug and has enrrioi cfl the palm with its pineries. First the fruit was raised in pots of Ian bark, and took three years to react its pel I'ociion : but now it is planlei in beds of ric'i sandy loam, and i reulv for use in months. Then Lnglish "pines ' are even better line 1 Ihe West Indian fiuit, which neve had much cultivation until of lat yenrs, and they can often bo eatel from the core with a spoon. The fibres of the h af and Stem O the pineapple plant are very strong being used for lihiiig lines, cordage etc. When blenched it can be spin like ll.ix. and a very sheer and bcauti : ful fabric, which resembles line whit muslin, is made from it. In til Phiiltpine l-lands thi is called Pill muslin and ltitistn d'ananas "An i anas" being tho botanical name o the plant. llai p-r's Young People Not Treated Well. Prison Visitor Vou urc well treatoi i here, are you not? Convict No, I ain't. d am surprised. Tell me whs you wish the prison authorities lo i for your comfort.'' 'Lemme out." New YorkWeeklj 1lflSjws8y!(lglll
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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May 19, 1892, edition 1
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