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(2TI)e f)att)Qtn Bworfc 4 r M -A - LOND O IV , EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, RATES ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One square, one insertion One square, two insertions One square, one month tl.t l.M $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advanei. For larger advertisemento liberal oon racts will be made. VOL. XIV. P1TTSBOHO', CHATHAM CO., N. C., JUNK 2, 18112. (the mttttlt. o NO. 10. RrpD) mcnt. Ttcner.th tht' elm trees' arching shado, -As gayly ns tin flowers arrayed, A litll mail was M raying. A boy. outside this paradise, Looked in wiih longing, luiir.'ry eye, As II to join her playing. At length she aw lili earned gaze, Wui'espriti;inr ! vn the grassy wnys. 'Poor buy, - i ,i and lonely, Take this," she h spcred, low ami mock, Witb lips close pi esse 1 iigainst liis chock, "Fur 1 have kisses only." Years p-is-cl away. The rliil.l of ciyht I)icatut:a maiden tall, sedate, Villi lovers in n plenty. A sail; fin., in the garden stood; JtciJ" hi r, in a h ippy mood. Linger 'J a youth of twenty. "Pear May," lie s.id, with solemn faT, "1 trn-t m self to ynur kind grace. A nil Iiuniiily crao your pardon. I miiM return without .lelay A gift that you bestowed one day me in this same garden. "I've treasured it for many cars, My ray of hoi 'mill doubts ami learn ; I hope ; on never mi-scd it." She turned her face in mute surpri-e 1'u Im" ; the ro-jue. w ith smiling ej-ei Jloat i.lown and kissed it. Harper's Weekly. THE BLACK LACE DRESS. "Ami you're not going to llic dance, nficr nil, Katie ( '.u loton?" Henrietta I, iey was silting in (lie modest little Iliii cl.stoi-y back-room, w hich wan nil Iho homo that Katie Carleton had ; a square room, wi.li one bulging window, looking out upon (lie roof, ami the walls covered with a c iaie, ztg.ig pattern of crim son on a peu-grcoii ground, while tbo carpet, well worn in spots anil care fully darned, was of a nondescript color niul design jf rcat sprawling leaves mill scrolls bursting out in a tangled complexity wbieli woulil have Hindi; a designer's hea I swim. : Ititt Katie dr.etoii, liiiiulile little photopr.-iph-c. dorer Ihougli she was, wa young and pretty, with yellow hair waving away from her low, square foreheud, inched brow, and deep hazel eyes, while tlio confinement mid motiolony of city life had not yet stolen nil the. frcdi rose from her checks. For Kilie Carlcfon, like many Another, had left n emnf jriable, if not a luxurious fat in-hoiiso home, wiih the idea th.it fortune were to be picked up in (lie city as readily ns blackberries on a funny nIoiio wall Poor girl! She had found out her mistake soon enough, yet bIio had (too much pride lo return, a useless bur don to the honest old uurle and his six daughter, who made cheeses and raised poultry in the venerable pre cincts of Lldoi berry Kami. N-boly wanted a governess ; her lilt lo poems were roturned, labelled "Kespcetfully declined," from the iiev.spapi r offices; and the wa'er-oolorod draw lng, whereby she had expected lo take the artistic world by storm, huii in the circulating library window until their margiiM wore smoke-blackened nnd their hriylit eoloi y hopclesly tarnUhcd, without anyone ever lakinir the trouble lo nk the price. And at last, just ns K-itio was beiniiiiifr to wonder whether death by starvation wes really hi cli a painful end, some kindly s til told her of a chance lo get employment from a 'reat p'lotogriiph establishment in the lliwcry. Helta 1iey was employed there, too not exactly in Katie's humble capac ity, but ns the mi.irt young lady who received the customers, helped them with their bonnets and wraps, nnd answered general ipiostioii'. She con sidered it quite a e imle-eeusioii on hor part to pairouiz- Ka ie; and K-i'in had too few friends to be specially particular about their quality. Ami now, as Misa Licy sat opposite; her, in a lilac, poplin die, and with nil artificial bird in her hat, one could but think of a pnroq.iel lh.it had toinchow fluttered down into a uovc-eoie. "Xo," said K itie, "1 um not going." "1 know why," said Henrietta, spitefully. "It's beeau-ie. l'.van Merits doe.n'i iipjirove of fancy balls." "Mr. Merrio. ought to bo a better judge of what is and what is not proper than a mere country oirl like, me," said Katie, mixing a little mme ultramarine blue for the sa-h of a pudding-faced little boy wi li a cat in Ids arms. "Oh, 1 dure say!'' said Henrietta, tosring her hciid. "And you're really determined not to go." "Yes, quite." "Then perhaps you wouldn't mind lending me the black laeo diess you pasted the gold stars on when you did mean to go. I lind that llio lower flounce i completely lorn oil' my white tarlatan, and I really haven't time to plan nny new costumes." "Von are quite welcome to it, Hen rietta," mid Miss C'.ulctun, kindly. 'I can put on A little gold fringe and make a very decent 'Midnight' out of it," said Hctln, indiflerciitly. "Only, K itie, I think you are a goose not to go!" Katie did not argue tho question sho only painted quietly on and Hen rietta Lacv wcul away, "Oh, Mr. Merris!'' said she, radi antly, as, on ascending the steps of tho photographic saloon, sho met the handsome young foreman of the print ing oflicc overhead. "1 ve just come from Katie Cnrleton's. And you ouht to sec tho lovely dress sho has been preparing for the miisqiierado ball!" "Indeed!" Evan Morris's brow darkened slightly. "I thought she had decided not to go," "1 don't know nbjtit that,'' said Miss Henrietta, nrllessly; "I only know that she's got a beauty of a dress, black luce, all sprinkled over wiili gold stars!'' Mr. Meri ts passed on, r ml Henrietta entered the saloon, congratulating herself on her finesse. I've put a spoke in her wheel, I guess," said tho young damsel to her. self; "and serve her right for gelling DvauMerris away from mo, that had known him years before sho ever shttwed her piuk-aiid-white bnbyfaeo here. And I didn't tell auylhing but ihe truth, cither! I did see the dross there, and sho has been lurking it!' Kaiio I'arlttou expected Kvait Mor ris in vain that night. The little bow of fresh blue ribbon in her yellow hair wass nil in vain; the now rullle at her throat and the spotlessly ironed white apron wero donned to no purpose. She extinguished her little lamp at ton o'clock, and, creeping into her alcove bod, cried herself io sleep, she did not , exactly know why. The next night was the night of the ( much tnlkcd-of ma que) ado hall. Kvau I Morris hated ami dipicd these mis ' cellancous gatherings from tho bottom ! of his heart and yd, ju.it when oar j liagc after c imago was driving up, i and the crowd arriving, he chanced lo j be standing in the b. illiailily lighted street, leaning ngainit a lampys', . and moodily watched tho prettily a'. ! tired figures tht by. Suddenly he gave a start. There was the black lace dress, starred over with gold, ll'ialing across Ihe pave- incut, worn by a slight, graceful lig- tire, and leaving a faint odor of musk and pntchoiily in its pathway, lint I he did not see the ti i mil pliant 11 i-ll of J tho vailed eyes, as for an iiiitatil lliey rested on his face. "There sho go-s." he murmured to ' himself, us the d iphaunu folds i f j black and gold disappeared under the i decorated archway; "and there, be ' l ealh her feet, crash to ruins the air ; castles that my silly brain has been j building for ihe hut three months!" Si he went on his way, determined lo see or hear no more of pretty Kaiie (.'.iilelou, the yellow -haired girl who ' had somehow com rived to cat a j glamour about his heart ami brain dc J cidodly prejudicial to I lie inline n co of j Miss llcnric:la l.e y. Hut a man's resolves are made ! neither of gutta-percha nor adamant, j and ho could not help pausing in J slinctively in front of the tenement house in which Miss Carleton lived ; and as ho paused ho saw, llirouc.li (he ! big, brightly lighted window of the grocery below, the slender liguro of Kaiio herself, in a gray dress, like a t little nun, buying tho humble loaf of bread and loii-pciiuy worth of lea I which wero to serve for her morrow ' moruriig's breakfast, j "It can't be possible!" said Kvan Mcrris to himself. "No, it can't !" ! l'.ut jut at that moment K itie turned ! and lie saw her whole lace; a litilo sad, perhaps, but quietly self-contained and sweet. Involuntarily ho 1 walked in and held out his hand lo j her. ! Kate droj ped the. loaf of bread in j her einbarras-incnt. "Mr. Met l is!" "MUs Carle on !' "How came you here?" "I might, with bettor reason, ask h 'W oami! you here? For I was cer tain fifteen minutes ago," be added, seeing her surprised and bewildered face, "that I saw you cross tho pnvc. men, opposite Hebe Hill, in a black laco dress covered with gilt stars, and enter the bail-ro ini door." Oh, no," cried K uie. "I I had long ago given up all idea of going; and Henrietta Lacy asked me for I be loan of my dress, us she hadn't tilLC lo make up one for herself. It was llrnriot'a you saw, not me." "Henrietta, cli?" repea'ed Kvan Morris, slowly, as a certain light broke in upon his brain. 1 always suspected I hat girl was not quite straightfor ward in her dealing's and I'm sure of it now, Miss drleton." Then, after a pnude, ha usked: "Aro you discngnged this evening?" "(.lite." "May I como up and sit with you?" "I shall bo delighted," answered simple Katie, flushing all over. The next day Henrietta Lacy came around to Katie's room, with tho black laco dress folded up in a flat paper parcel. "I'm so much obliged to you, dear,' said she. "I had such a charming evening." "So did I," said Katie, who longed for some congenial car into which to pour tho story of her happiness, "Mi Mem spent ihe evening here.". "Mr. Mcrris I" "Yes. And, oh, Helta, only think' He has asked mo to be his wife, and wo aro lo bo married in February ; and 1 don't know how it ever chanced that so much happiness should bo ill sloro for mo." Henrietta Lacy bit savagely at her nails, ns she listened. So nil that plot ting and planning had bocu In vain, after nil. Ami the magnet, Love, had attracted Kvan Meiris to the right and rue, after all. Tho Lidgor. Colors ami (he F.yo of Man, Science gives us many interesting ilelaiis about what (he human eyo lias been ami what it may become. Tho most ancient written documents attest that in times most romolo only two colon were known, black and red. Avery long lime eiap'ed biforc tho eye t'ould perceive yellow, and a still longer tiurj before green could bo dis tinguished, it is rem irkablo that in (lie most ancient languages I ho term used to designate yollow insensibly passed to the Hignilicatioii of green. Tho (1 recks had, according lo tl o generally received opinion, tho color faculty very highly developed, and yet authors of the highest repute tell us tint in tho time of Alexander the (treat, Ihe (l.eek painters knew bit' four colors, namely, White, black, red and yellow. The ancients had no words lo designate the colors of blue and Violet, therefore they always re forr. d to them as gray mid black. It is (bus that the colors of tho rairbow weie only distinguished gradually', the great Aristotle knowing only font' of ili-iu. It is a well-known fuel that, when the colors of the prism aro photographed there remains otllsido the limit of the blue ami the violet (in Ihe spectrum) a distinct impression which our eyes d j not rec guiu as a color. Physiologists loll us that it is rca souab'e to stippo'o Ihut as the color organ in tin; human species becomes highly developed, and even before tho eye becomes what llu opticians would coniidcr perfect," (his outside band will lesolvc ilsclf into a color perfect ly di-cernil.le. Oily one speculation remains: When the educated eye of the year '2 " U has discerned and mimed this now indistinct color, will another shadowy baud appear (o bo classified among the colors .rnO or 1000 year later on? Philadelphia Press. The Weriiliinr-Kiiig Finger, There are facts connected with the ring linger, remarks an observant mor alist, which render it in a peculiar maiiner an appropriate emblem of matrimonial union. It is the only linger whero two principal nerves be- I long to two distinct trunks. The thumb is supplied with its principal : nerves from Ihe radial nerve, as aro niso tho fore-liugcr, the middle linger nnd the thumb side of Ihe third or ring linger, while the ulnar nerve fur 1 nishes the little linger and the other side of the third or riu linger, at tho extremity of which the two nerves are joiiud in a real union. It thus seems as if it wore intended by nature to bo ; the matrimonial linger. That the sido i of tho ring linger next to the little ; linger is connected with the ulnar ncrvo is frequently proved by a common ac cident, that of striking the elbow iigninst any hard edge, when, if tho ncrvo is touched, a Ih.illiug sensation is fell in the little linger and on tho same side of the rieg linger, but not on the other sido of it. New Orleans Picayune. The Luxury of the Law. 'Fen years ngo two Pennsylvania fanners got into troublo about a littlo patch of laud, I be only valuable thing about which was a cherry tree. Final ly one of thont chopped the tree down and the other sued him for its value, which whs assessed at $11.25, Tho caic has been tried several limes and a final judgment has just been rendered. The plaintiff won his suit and gels his $:! 'l', for which he has lawyers' fees . io pay amounting to f :!'.'.'). Defendant has to pay his lawyer if'.' 10 and foot the costs aiiioiiuiiiig to $W7 more. !S;lheso farmers pay for their fun and ihe tree n total of $l.,.r2, to say i oihing of lo. time and harrowed i (ccliugs. f Atlanta Constitution. (HILMtEX'S (OlFMN'. liFNTI.K BOYS MARK OrNTI.FMl "(ietitle boys make gent lemon," liraiulma said, .nid jolly nen : '(lentle boys arc just like K'i'ls Painty hands and sissy curls. Iinys must run and kno"k about, Kick and prance anil .tell and shout t There'a no fun in takini; pains, Utisliiu in wli-n'er it rains, Whining if you stub your toe. Such boys are sissy, don't you knowP' "A bov I know runs like a deer, lint lifts his hat when girls opprar; He laughs and yells ami knocks about, I 1'itttiiit! all eownrillp lads to rout, ! And yel tins boy will feel no shame When called away from romp or game-. Oh, there is mot her, Imu.tgn; j Mothers always stand lirst, you know!' j (lentle hoys make gentlemen.'' i Oraiitlma repenteil once airaiu. I Annie A. Prelum, in New York Observer j A ;Oll) i k.sson. I The Ittto K.lward Fordlmm Fuller i said that ho attributed his intense ; sympathy for animal stiHering to a whipping his father gavo him to teach him that his pony had the same sensi bilities as himself. 'Whether tho learned gentleman who related this circumstance concerning 11 early education in humanity meant to imply he could have been instructed in no other way, we do not know; but it is a well-established fact that military tdlieers, especially those who have seen active service, and have witnessed the terriblu KiiU'.uiiigs endured on the baille-lield, are noted for being tho most leuder-hearlcd men that adorn tho human race. A PATIIKIir M'NKI V STUV. A pathetic monkev slorv is told by "The Naturalist on the P. owl" in tho Times of India. Ho sayst "Oao morning, on a rocky hill sparsely covered with small trees, I disturbed a troop of monkeys which made a bolt over the open ground to some thicker f uresis in the valley be low. Three, however, disregarding me, remained In one tree, making liorrilne noises at something under' nealli. 1 soon dioovered that tho ob ject of their indignation was a lu uial looking bliiek dog, which was busily devouring something at the root of tl.e t ee. When the dog saw me it made oil', carrying in its mouth a black thing like a little animal, with legs and a long tail. I gu-i-ed it was a baby monkey and gave chase aR hard us I could, but the do made good its 'scape without dropping its prey. 'Coming hack to the tree, I searched tho ground, and found the body of another little infant sull warm. How did the poor little thin,' fall into the jaws of that brute? I have often seen mi infant of tho sain- si.e clinging to its mother in perfect rest ami security whilo she took most daring bounds from Ireo to tree. Perhaps the dog furpi'is-d the monkeys on the open ground, and pressed the mother so hard that she dropped her oll'ipring to save her own life. Or perhaps they were enjoying a picinc in fancied se curity, and had laid down their littlo ones when tho Zulu ruslud upon them. While I was examining the limp little body to sco whether life Was extinct, a pitiful wail told me that its mother was w atching me. Hho had retired lo another tree some distance oil' mid w as wistfully gazing nt me, wondering what I was doing with hor precious babe. I saw that there was no hope, hut I retired and hid myself to sec what she would do. Sho came down at oneu and ap proached cautiously, distrusting mc mid lumping mc in her mind, no doubt, with the brutal black dog. Then sho stood upon a stone, and standing erect, looked all round and gave a plaintive Fcreain. Where was her dnrlinf,? At last she found it and cuught it tip and pressed it to her bosom, lint it could not lay hold of her, it fell. Again and again she raised it and encouraged it to clasp her in its arms, as it had always done. "Sho diil not seem to understand that it was dead At length she held it to her bosom with one hand, and tried lo run on three, lest tho black dog nrghl return. When she git ton safe tree she clambered up as best she could, hugging her precious charge with one arm, and iiiere she gavo way to her grief, uud cried piteously, whi'cakitc sailed grimly round Ihe tree, as if claiming his own. I have often wondered what she did in the end with the little lifeless body; I cannot believe sho left it to the kite. It would not surprise me to know that she buried it. or 'aid it in some hol low and covered it with leaves and stones." John C. Calhoun entered the Soulh Carolina legislature) at ''." and Con gress nt 23. At 115 ho became Secre tary of War and occupied I lie office seven year. THE KEW NORTHWEST Characteristics of the Soil and the Settlers. A Land of Ready Cash, High Wages and Quick Fortunes, Ih'gimiiiig with the Dakota?, we enter the vast plains country monot onous, nil but treeless, a blanket of brown grass almost as level as the mats of grass that the Pacific coast Indians plait. It is only a little wrinkled in ihe finishing :,t the top edge and down in the southwest corner. On Its surface the houses and the villages stand out in silhoiietlo against a sky that bends down to touch the level sward. Hero we find the western edge of the lands which tho Scandina vians who have come among us pre fer to their own countries. Here we come upon the yellow wheat-tield.i that turned their kernels into millions of golden dollars last year. Here, also, we see the more than half savage cattlo whoso every part and posses sion, except their breath, is convened into merchandise in Chicago. The hard-riding cowboys aro hero "turned loose," anil ihe not less domesticated Indians in ihcir blankets tiro cribbed in the national conats. A great thirst would seem to overspread the Dakota, for the lauds are arid, while the people pos-ess prohibitory liquor laws, uud water that is poisoned with ulkttli. In the Itlaek Hills we prepare our selves for Montana by a lir-t glimpse tif mining. In Montana, whero the Very first merchant's signboard an nounced "iies, collec and pistols for fale," wc now see the legend "licensed gambling saloon" staring at the tour ists, who may walk into the dciu more easily than they can iu'o the stock exchanges of the F. ist. In Mon tana wo feel an atmosphere of specu lation. Lvory store e'eik hoards some, shares in undeveloped mines for his nesl-cog. It is natural that this should be. The stories of quick and great fortunes that da.e the niitid me sup ported by the presence of the million aire heroes of each (ale. Moreover, the very air of Montana is a stimulant. Perhaps it gathers its magic from the earth, where the precious metals are tlrcwn over the mountains, where sapphires, rubies ami garnets are spaded out of tho earth like goober nuts in tho South, and where men hunt for tin; diam uds which sciculists say must, be there. Montana is a land of ready cash and bi-li wages. Lumbermen and miners get a hiirh as seven dollars a day, and the very streol-sweopcis get twice us much as brooin-handlei s in New York. Here we lind wealth, poli-di and refinement, noble dwcliin-s, pala tial hotels, and numerous ciicics of charming, cultivated folk. Their mistake has been to d-sp'se agricul ture. They know this, and with tiiem, lo see an error is to repair it. The mining camp and California- colored chnraclcriMics. of the u.oiiu- i..; i if i....i...,., ......... ,i 1,111111119 11.11 .....II. ...I.. o,.,,.,.. ..... into Idaho, a baby iaiit born with a go. den spoon. The cattle ranges and cow boy capitals of Montana's gra-s-clad hills are repeated upon the gigan tic but virgin savannas f Wvoming. In Washington all is ditleronl ngai i. The forests of M due and of the ic giou of the Ureal Lakes are here exag gerated, the verdnio of Ihe Fast ictip pears and passes into semi-tropical and imvsi-nut freshness and abun dance. Here Mowers bloom in the gardens at Chi iimas, small fruits1 threaten California's prcsii-e and the aboigines are bow-legged, boating I tdiaus who work like 'longshore men. Cities with do.-u-storied build ings start up like Midden llioiights and everywhere is note of promi-e to make us belittle our Kisteru growths that startled the older world. Harper's Mtigu.ine. Florida's Spo:n;e Inilu-lry. The birth of the sponge industry of Florida may tie put down for the year I,S2, when oae Walter Lowe wont in ihe schooner Chestnut to Ancloie Key and in several days secured a oarg of sponges. These brought micIi profit that oilier men embarked in the Im-i-ness. The Civil War crippled the new calling. At its choc the baby in dustry got on its fiet, and has been strutting forward ever since. Some two bundled and lifiy vc-seN, from the yawl to the one-liniulred-lou schooner, employing nearly two thousand men, aro now actively en gaged in creating an annual levcuue of nearly $l,000.0i0. Sponges are found in the Atlantic as far north as dupiter Inlet. The in dustry at SI. Mark's, at tho head of the Apalnchieo'a (Wakulla comity) c-inpetes siMli in rank with Key West. Most of tho output goes to Sew York, about one-third being ex ported to (icrinany, France and Lngland. Statistics are very scarce regarding this valuable industry. Sponges aro caught by men who aro sent out in boats from vessels. F.ach bout is furnished with yawls and two men, one of whom slowly paddles tho boat along, w hile tho other eeatches the bottom of tho sea. For this he is provided villi a common water biukol, into the bottom of which a picco of window glass is fixed. When a sponge is seen ho takes the grapplcr, similar to tho-o used to grupplo oyBtcrs, and his helper so directs tho boat that the fisher can catch tho sponge and tear it from its fastenings. Tho bucket glass is used mostly iu stormy weather. At other times tho waters ore clear enough to examine the bottom at a depth of twenty feet. After the spongo is taken out of iho water it is cast upon the dock of tho vessel or upon the bench and exposed lo the sun from twenty-four to forty eight hours, until it dries. When it js cold, or is frosty, or blowing a gale, the sponge lives for four or live days. When dried the sponges urc placed iu "crawls," tnado by driving stakes in the water to prevent them from being carried away by tho waves. Iu three days they tire taken out nnd pounded with wooden clubs uud again east into tho crawls. This process of pounding and washing is kept up un til all the animal mailer is removed. The sponges ate then strung in j hunches and allowed to dry. When ! -old tho proceeds are divided, half go- ing to the vessel, the ba'ance to tho ! captain and crew, the captain gelling a small porccutago more than the ; others. The sponges are then trimmed down by men with shears, the looso pieces and tho roots clipped oil aud tho sponges dipped into lime water, iu a solution of one quart, of limo to eight i gallons of water. They arc thou , ready for the merchant. New York . .Mail and Kxpress. j A Hoy Colonist. ! The colonial fever has seized all tho (icrmaii nation ho thoroughly that! even schoolboys are infected with it. I dolm W ke1, a boy of twelve, was ' seized with the fever and ran away from his home iu ihe cily of lltciuen ! in August last. He Ira veiled on foot j southweitward, saw the cities along the Rhine mid crossed Iho river going , westward to Paris. From there he wandered south all the wny through ! Franco, crossed the vast mountain range of ih : Pyrenees in lite cold sea son, when the whole landscape is . covered wi'h he and deep snow, and arrived in ll.ncel uia iu Spain toward New Year. The cell iu the moun tains had caused him so much suffer ing that he was lather ufiuid with his tattered cl nhi.ig that failed to cover his nakedness, lo c uitinue his j iuruey at random, lie went to tho (i-Tiiiuu consul and made close in quires concerning the best road (o go to C uiierooii which is a (icrm.ni colony on the western r-ast of Africa, north of the Ilriiish posses sions. The qu- er inquiry regard ing a i' a I for walking aero.s the desert of Sahara was too much for ihe con-ui. lie examined tho littlo liauip and afterward pretended that he would show him the road, and look him to the steamer bound for Ham burg in Uorinany. lie gave him in custody to the captain, who took him back to Ihe fti lieil and. John's parents had believed him dead and were over joyed to have him back. He said ho was sorry lobe c -impeded to go to school agnic but as soon as he hud finished his studies ho would most ai-urcdly leave again for distant Cain croon. t "nic-igo I ler.ild. A Minister liagle. Unfold Hall. Ji., the 12-year-old mi of Mr. ll.iford Hall, killed an agio Ian week on bis father's 1 arm. The hiid was in a tree some dislaiuM away, when the little boy, who is an excellent shot, fired a charge of sho' at it fioin a breech-loader, shooting it pi the h-ad. Tbo b id measured six feel six inches from tip to tip. It was aiuacled io ill- place by the young iambs. The young hauler is very proud of bis trophy, and brought it to town on I i In to have it smile 1 and mounted. t ieoi gelo n (Ky.) Times. A Little Too Soon. Friend N wonder Miss Peautl won't look at ) on. It's your own fault. You act like a slave fawning. Hinging, kneeling before her, as if you didn't dare call your soul your own. Mr. Sadfello li.n't women like that kind of treatment? Friend I'm not until after mar riage. New York Weekly. Hope. Blithe poetess at the gateways of the ftKiM Pear sycophant, that dost so fondly cling To even our worst of sorrows! Bsik whose wing Pauut'e-sly voyages to illusion's goall Heedless if it brf shadow, if rock and shosl! White bird that carollest thine unweary ing Trebles of song, like those by new-born spring I.ured heavenward from some blossom-tinted knoll! Ah, Hope, thou art swet when mad sea glass wild skies, When war. pest, earthquake riots In bit ter glee, Or yet when tyranny tortures sod en slaves; Hut sweetest when thy shape phantasm! Ilies, A luminous dream named Immortality. Over the darkness of earth's myriad j graves ! - Hilgar f'awetlt, in the Cosmopolitan. HUMOROUS. The man who is shadowed is under t cloud. Xo wonder 'he minutes fly so fast; they arc making up time. When you see a man in ft brown study you may know that his goose is cooked. Th average garbage department is unequal to even the removal of sus picion. Lady (lo her legal friend) You won't charge for a question, I hope? Lawyer Oh, no; only for the nnswer. It is ciiriou how a woman who screams at a mou-e is not startled by a millinery bill that makes a man tremble. Shopper Are those fast colors? Clerk Well, I should say as much. You just wash it once, and ses how fast they'll run. A man never realizes how much valuable advice his neighbors have to give away until he announces his in tention to build a house. Hag'.ey The elephant is (he truebo hemian. P. race How is that ? Bag lev Ho expeds lo be supplied with meal on present ing an empty trunk. Mrs. Iirown I hear your husband was run over by a horse car last night. Was ho much hurt? Mrs. Hoggs I can't tell until wo agree upou the amount of damages to claim. My wife wa once my auto-rat, Hut now, alas; I've two, And a1! my priile Imi fallen flat At w luit I'm hade to do. Kit years she ever h id her wsy With some ri hellion, mabe Put uowjiist listen to her say, 'Come, hubby, mind the baby!" "What became of thai fool.Sapheftd, Who had more money than ho know w hat to do with?" Ihi-uness rami I don't remember him. Was he much of a fool? "Perfectly idiotic" The chances are that he has dropped into soeietv." Inthictivc Criminality. In a paper on instinctive criminal ity, Or. S. A. K. Strahau holds that Ihe criminal belong-, to a decaying race, and is only found in families whoso oilier members show signs of degradation; iu fact, ii is only one of the many signs of family demy. Be sides being hereditary, criminality is interchangeable w ith oilier degenerate conditions, such as idiocy, epilepsy, filicide, insanity, icrof nla, etc. ; Mid it is a chance whether the insanity or drunkenness, say, of ihe parent, will appear as such iu the child or be transmuted in (ran mission to one or other of the alternate degenerate con ditions. The present system of treat ment has proved a disastrous failure; short periods of punishment can have no ellec', cither curative or deterrent, livery thing points in the direction of prolonged or indefinite confinement in industrial penitentiaries. Popular Science Monthly. Best Purl of a Hide, F.xperiments were recently made to determine which portion of a hide of leather gave the best results when made into belting. Four strips, each eighteen inches Seng and two inches wide wore cut and carefully tested in a machine. Con; of the pieces from tho centre of Iho hide broke at a strain of 21'.'0 pounds, equal to 1-1,940 , pounds per foot of width, while the ; snip from the upper part of the shoulder parted at 11:50 pouuds. New York Journal, t ' ' ' " A Simple and K.ffeoluul Penwiper. ; A simple and effectual penwiper is ' made of common bird shot. Any little china or bronze jar will do for the ro cepuielc ami it .nay be as picturesque as fancy dictates. Fill it with the shot, and to clean the pen, thrust it up j and down among the lilile leaden ! balls. No chamois or cloth penwiper ; polishes tho steel to coretually and J readily as this. The little jar of shot will slso act as a paper weight, If I needed. York Tribune.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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June 2, 1892, edition 1
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