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$lic.il)ntl)nm ttctori). It. A. LOMJOy, feDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.5(1 PER YEAR St Icily in Advance. OF ADVERTISING One square, ono insertion $1.00 Olio Bquaro, two insertions. ... 1.50 Ouo square, ouo raouth 2.50 For larger advertisements liberal contracts will bo mado. JMTTSlUmO, CHATHAM CO., N. C, NOVEMBER UK 1890. NO. 13. VOL XXI Ctotpi FORTUNE'S FREAKS. KOMANTIC STOKIKU Olf MUX IX TJIK rOLUUAUO CUU) MINKS. Many Korincr Owners of Paying Properties Arc Now Poor Dps nml Downs o I Miner's lil'.c. Vf THERE nre 12.000 men iu Crip I pie Creel;, ami fully 10,000 of them nro mourning over the c, fortunes they have lost, writes Trunk O. Carpenter in the Washington War. Yon will meet every day miners who will tell you bow uonr they came to ow ning the Portland, the Independ ence, tho Victor, or other big mines which mo now turuiug out tens of thorn-amis of dollars a month. Sumo will whit-per how they solil mines for n song which arc now worth million?, nuil others will enrso their luck as they tioscribo the fortunes which havo tdipped through their lingers. I suw a man hauling lops at tho town of Victor, near Cripple Creek, tho other day, who sold a half-million-dollar mine to pay a grocery bill of 40. Ha was earning $3 a day, and he w.is working lor tho men who bought his mine. His namo is Jerry Wiuohell. Four years ago ho owned a number of tho best locations in tho Clippie Creek district, but now ha is is not worth a cent. The mine which went for grub is famous horn, It is known as "Tho Last Dollar." Win chell located it in lS'.il, a 'id not long after thut, when ho found himself iu debt to thu amount of 310 to 11. II. Mills, a grooeryniun, ho gave him tho mine to square t'uo bills. Mills was not satisfied with tho settlement. lie objected, but Wiuchell had no money and he ha I ti take it. Three years later, however, Uo sold tho inino for S7.",030, and tho purchaser re-old it a mouth or sonftcr that to Senator Wol- colt and others for $100,000. Now it is producing quantities of gold, a-ad no ouo kuows what it will bring in the future, 1 sat at a dinuer in Brown's Hotol, in Denver, ttio other day, bosido a florid-laced, luug-b.'odod mau from Colorado Springs. We soon began to talk of the mines of Cripple Creok. Tho (subject of tho Isabella Compauy came up, aud I adked him if ho knew anything as to tho Cripple Creek mines owned by it. "Vef," said he, "I should say I do. Their best mine, your know,. 13 the Buciia Vista. It pays almost all tho profits of the Isabella Company. Its veins has been traced for three thou sand feet, und it km already produced more than jfltnVJUi) worth of gold. I had a chance to buy half of that mine for S100, und did not take it. A mau in mv employ discovered it. Ho was one of those fellows who nro always hard up, nud uiie d.;,v he came to ma aud told me that his family were out of provisions, and that ho must have money. He spoko of the Buena Vista prospect and offered me a half interest in it for 100. I told him that I wonld give him the provisions, but I did not want tho mine. I saul I did not be lieve there was any gold in the Cripple Creek region. Tho result was that ho went away aud fold the interest to other partiee. Within two week those parties sold their half interest for 820, O00, oud a mouth later my mau got 810,000 for hi'i thare. The Isabella raining stock nt its prese.it selling value is worth more ttian a million. It has paid 3100,000 within a month it dividends, and I could Lave gotten one-half of it for Slut'. Oh, Lord ! it makes me eick when I think of it !" The Independence gold mino is said to bo the richest iu the world. It has, it is said, from five to seven million dollars' worth of gold in sight, and its owner, who was working at his trade as a carpenter five years ago, would not now sell it for ?10,000,000 cash. And still the independence has sev eral times been offered for sale and the offer refused. This was in the first days of it? history. Ono of Dave Moffat's experts told mo the other night how near he came to buying it. Said he : "It was several years ago, before the Cripple Creek region was tnuoh devel oped that I came there from Leadville to see wtiat I could find for MoQat. Eben Smith was with mo, and wo bought the Victor mine for $65,000, and have, as you know, made about a million out of it. Well, ono day 1 was walking about Stratton's mine, when I saw a miner whom I knew shovelling out ore and rock. I asked him whether the mine was worth any thing, lie said that ho did not think that it was worth much, and that titratton would never get anything cut of it. 1 wcut into tho building, however, and chipped off a bit of the 'III IJl..'1i2riJrPiSV-W''VSf a? n .- MlINf.INO oiu: riOM A JUNE. orc and put it in my pocket. That D'ght 1 had it assayed. It ran S200 to tho ton. I sounded Straiten aud found I could get thu mine for ?1I,000 cash at nu option of S?7"),0i)(l. replied thut I could not make an offer until I could go through the mine aud make a number of kh-uvs, and that while the riret ore might run good, that which I got later might not bo worth mining. This was agreed to, and I was just about to wiro Ebcn Smith v y. "l ". l'f . " " . S.Sa5;s-. BOB WoM.tCK 8 fABIS, rOVF.Ul'V OlU.CH. that wo had better buy the mine, when I got a letter from him, saying that tho panio had struck Denver. He said that everything was Mat, and that Mof fut h id written to him to go niov, and not to buy auylhiu ; fur a time. He told mo to break otl" anv negotiations I might havo and go off fishing until tho troitblo Mew over. I thought the mutter would keep for a month, sol went fishing. Thirty days latter I came back, only to find that Strnttnn had struck good ore, and that ho would not Bell at any price. Ho took out several thousand dollars that month, and now well, now every ono knows that the Independence mine is worth millions." As I havo 6aid, Stratton offered to sell out a number of limns during the earlier days of tho Independence, but at this timo there wcro none who had enough faith to buy. Now it is said that he is making such improvements that ho will iu time bo able to take a million dollars' worth of gold out of tho rniuo iu a single day, and that one of his boasts is that he will soon ship a carload of oro which will bo worth at least 8100.030. Ho has already shipped f 50,000 wotth 'of ore in a day, aud he is doing all he cnu to keep from allowiug tho mino to pay more than S12 ,000 a month.. Tho Portland mino was once offered to New York parties for $200,000. But tho experts who were sent there re ported that thero was only 37,000 worth of ore iu sight, una tho ew Yorkers refuse I the offer. The noxt '.until tho owners of tho Portland took ont$t0,00, an t sinco then it has produced moro than $2,000,0)0, It now pays $00,000 a mouth iu divi dends, aud I am told that it will, not withstanding its enormous expeusus, pay thirty-six per cent, this year. The Victor mine, which wan sold to Freuch parties for more than a million dol lars, brought, as I hnvo tol 1 you, the original tinders only Sj'J.O )0, and was refused by Wall street brokers at 8270,000. JsJ This mino pays two per cent, a month dividends on a capitali zation of 11 million. Similar stories might be tol l as to other mines, and all about mo 1 seo the funeral processions of thoso who are mourning tho "gold they did not get." During my ride to Cripple Creek I traveled with a very intelligent doctor named McDonald, who is getting fat off the "ouo luug" ;briga lo who are marching through different parti of Utah in search of health. Ho told ine how he was ollered only two years ago a one-eighth interest iu tho Auchoria Lelandmino for So'.iO, but had not the nerve to buy. This is tlio miue out of which Irving Howbiirt and others have made a fortuue. Its stock is very val uable, and thero is practically none of it ou the market. It was leased a littlo over a year ago to T. J. Maloney, bat the lease hai now expired. Maloney struck "pay dirt" as soon as he begau working. Ho found ouo body of ore of 1000 pounds which yielded him 83G,00. and ho has taken out, I am told, moro than $'J0n,0i0 worth of gold. Had Dr. McDonald invested in the mine his 5500 would havo made him independent of drug stores und patients for the rust of his life. Nearly every man who gets a mine at Cripble Creek has to fight for it. Stratton has had a number of law suits. Tho Fortland mino was for a long timo iu the courts, and nearly every good claim is contested. One of the queerest stories I hear is that of the Deer Horn mine, which now be longs to Stratton and others. It was located by an old c.aipouter named Sterritt. Sterritt had heard of Strat son's succes?, aud ho knew that Strat ton was a carpenter, so he thought if theluok was running with tho carpen ter trade he would drop his saw and plane and go to mining. He was about sixty years of age, and he knew nothing about ore or prospecting. He simply wandered about the hills in an aimless manner, breaking up a piece of stone here and chipping off a bit of rock there. At last one day on Globe Hill, back of Cripple Creek, ho saw lying on the ground a deer's horn. Uo was a rather superstitious fellow, and he thought that this was an omen that he was to dig thero for gold. Ho at onoe named his claim "The Deer Horn," and set out tho stakes which made it his own. Ho had no money, and he was compelled to do all the wor'c himself. He dug a tea foot hole, and then making a rn.le ladder, he went down with a bucket and labor- ionsiy carried tho tuck to tho tor, Alter a time ho rigged up a wiuulasi aud thus hauled it out. After soma weeks he hunt some of tho rock to Pueblo to bo assayed, a friend advanc ing him tho cash to pay for tho assay. The report was that tho best ore con tained eighty cents worth of gold to tho ton. In readiug it, however, old Sterritt mistook t'uo figures for fS in stead of eighty cents. "That isn't at all bad." said he, and ho went on min ing. At lat. however, he catuo to tha end of his "grub," and he walked otl to his home, thirty miles away, to work at his trade as carpenter for a week or so iu order to save enough money to go on with his miu. While he was away tho owners of one of tho stamp mills examined the mine, and when ho camo back they offered him u dollar a ton for all tho rock ou the sur face of his claim for a distance of 100 fict iu length, twenty-five feet iu width nud tix feet 111 depth. Tim Sterritt accepted, and ho was so. in making fromSlO to $lo a day. Iu tho meantime a speculator jumped hw mino, nnJ ho ha 1 to light for it iu tho courts. The other miners, howevor, taw tho injustice 01 tho jumper's claim nnd they burned him in elllgy and scared him so that ho did not dare to appear at tho trial. Whilo tho suit was peud- ing Sterritt shipped moro than S.O'IO worth of preciom rock, aud when ho was offered S1',000 for his mine ho took it and left for liifi old homo iu Indiana. Dunug tho namo year that ha sold it tho Dear Horn shipped 512(5,003 worth of ore. Within tho past few mouths it has been resold and it is now to bo operated in con nection with tho Summit mine, which adjoins it ou tho north. Its new own ers intend to put in tho finest of ma chinery and they claim that the mine contains a fortuuo in its immense bodies of low grle ore. It is sa.l to kuow that those who do the most for tha world often reap tho least roward. Marshall, who ditcov cred gold iu California, diod a pau per. Tho man who laid bare tho riches of tho oil fields of Pennsylvania was iu his last days depondunt oa charity, and Bob Womack, the prospector who first showed up tho riches of this Cripplo Creok gold camp, is now liv ing iu a littlo log cabin in eight of mines worth millions and struggling hard to got more than a living. His story is that of many miners, For twenty years ho has been prospecting, aud now, at forty-three, having found millions, ho is worth nothing. Ho came to this region ten years in ad vance of any one else and staked out a number of claims, among others what is now known as the El Paso mine, which is said to be worth half a mill ion. Ho owued this prospect for soino time, but could uot get oth ers to believe in its riches. He A RETORT OF f'Htri'LK CIWEK HOI.t. hid no money to develop it and ho finally sold it for S30 ). A few month!, after ho made the sale, ouo third of tho El Paso was 90II for 15,000, and it is now considered a very valuable property. It was Womack who tin t bad faith iu tho Cripple Creek gol l region. Ho held tho El Paso for n long timo bo f oro ho sold it au 1 ha worked on tho :attlo farm of Bennett A- Jloycrs upon which have Elnce been located some of tho best Cripplo Creek mines, in order to get the money to contiuuo his prospoctiug. Ho du',' holes all over this farm iu his search for gold. The owners of the far a laughed at him aud told him that 1 e imi.it cover up his hoies, as their c:t tlo fell into them, lie did t'm aud went on. From time to tiffio Lo took roek down to Denver to be assayed and ho fouud that it ran as high as .S500 per ton. After tho miners bo- gau to como to Cripple Creek ho gave away a number of claims which ho had on Uold Hill, aud some of these claims within a year afterward told for S10, 00 .. By tho timo tha camp was m full blast ho found himself worth nothing, and now ho says of himself that his old friends pa'-s him by with a sneer and thuso who havo tho most of the wealth which he has discovered do not even say "Havo a cigar, Bjb I" Coal Delerior.ites From Exposure. The result of reoent analyses show that tho loss of weight sutVered by coil from exposure to tho weather is con- sideiable. In some cases it reaches 3 5.08 per ceut., whilo tho deteriora tion in quality for purposes of fuel or gas making reached a still higher fig ureBoston Budget. Taken at His W'onl. ne "How would you like to own a er a little puppy?" Sho "Ob, Mr. Softly, this is to sudden 1 ' TL-RKAP1X TALK. A F00O. Dainty Worth Almost Its Weight in Gold. Most Expcnsivo Kinrl Caught in Chesapeake Fay, First catch your tertcpin. This re quires n golden hook if you oro not 1111 expert ougler in the waters of Chesapeake Bay, for the diamond- backed terrapin is mi uristocratie don isen i f those waters and worth almost his weight in gold to tho ppioure of the fashionable cafe. ThiJ aluo set upon tho terrapin prevsnts tho edibla reptilo from becoming food for tho massed, his scarcity enhancing Lis worth nml makiug him a more tooth some tid-bit for tho euuuiodj digestiou of tho professional dmcrout. the diamond-back terrapin is only mother namo for a small species of turtle, and time wae when the colored people of Maryland ate them after roasting them in their shells, nnd never dreamed of their valuo as food for a royal menu. Now a torrnpin farm is a mine of wealth to its pos sessor. A true story ie told of a poor negio fisherman who chanced upon uc&1. of diamond-boohs near Tangier Island in 189-1. Iu four hours bo took out twelve hundred dollars' worth aud stopped only when too ex hausted to work. Terrapins "in pound" present an in teresting but by no means au appetiz ing nppciii nd'. Tho poiiud is a placa where the fishermen keep tho turtleo until they nre shipped to some city to tho markets. Thero In a pre judico iu the miuds of the dealers against pound terrapin as losing somo of theii delicacy whon kept from salt water, iv.it only an epicure could dis tinguish a dilT'ieuce. Tho farms where they nro cultivated are floodjd with ben vater, so that the littlo ob ject preserves iu delicatessen quali ties unimpaired- Thero nre certain rules understood by thoso who purchase terrapin. They are careful to observe that the extreme tip or miU'.le of tho head is uot in jured, that the bottom of the feet nro cut worn off, that tho head is prettily shaped small, thin nud pointed, and tho eyes bi illiunt. The fuet should bo small and slender. Thoso who have seen these samo diamond-backs crawl ing over each other in the windows of risk stores did not perhaps appreciate their great worth. Cooking tcrrnpit. properly is such on urt that only a chef or a Mary bindi r should be p -Knitted to give in structions. It is r.itber hard cu the epicuro to bo told hot unless the miall bones of th tojinpin are left in ho will not kuow v hetier he is eating ttio genuine article or not. But it is absolutely truo that tho only people who can cook it as it demands are the Maryland cooks who learned from the eelured people, and their secret of success is to handle it as little as pos sible, nnd to serve it from tho dish in which it was cooked, thus preserving it native juices ni d aromas. Ou the terrapin farms of tho Cbesa peuke a peculiar sport is indulged in by the men, called "terrapin nicing." The turtles are let loose in a large touin, where at oue end u hot firu is blueing, protected by a guard. They nil begin a scramble for tho light nnd warmth, the men bettiug t n particular ones. They have uo continuity of purpose, nud are likely to branch off in a dozen devious oiite, but the terinpiu that first put,a its uoso against the fire guard wins tie race. Terrapin are rated nccordiilf to their value with a family pedigree tag, which simply gives the name of the state whence they come. First on the list for its terrapin is Chesapeake Bay. Next conies Lug Kland. Then Vir ginia, Charleston and Savanuau, Florida, Mobile and the gulf follow. Mississippi and North Carolina nnd other points south furnish excellent terrapin. Eighty dollars a dozen ia uot con sidered high for choice terrapiu nt certaiu seasons and ou special occasion-'. A modest housekeeper saw one crawling over some lobsters in a fish market, nnd out of curiosity iuqnired the price. "What time is it?" asked the mar ket man, lookiug at his watch. "You mny have it for $3, but if it was 6 o'clock tonight nud I only Lad that one I thou Id have tochargeyou more. 1 expect some in any moment." De troit Free Press. Oue on Mamma. 'Papa, what dues teacher mean Ly saying I must havo inherited my bad temper? ' "Sho means, Fanuie, that you aro your mother's own girl." Texas Sift-t Suicides Increasing lo Japan. Au essay oil tho piuvaltnco o( sili cM) in Japan has been written by Mr. fcaito Kokufu, 11 native statistician. The statistics extend over ten years, and hhuw that .suicide has beu ou tho increase iu Japan, both actually on l in proportion to thu total number of deaths. Iu I860 and 1880 tho miin- ber iu proportion to tho population . reached its highest. Mr. Saito ob- j servos that during these years thero wu4 a great rise in tho price of the; necessaries of life. In tho cast of Japanese women, tho ago at whiu! tuicido is most frequent is abuii' twenty; tho corresponding period with mm is twenty-live. Compara tively few women commit suicide af ter tho twenty-fifth year, but meu nn not safe uutii tbny nro past forty. Female suicides are rather moro than half those cf males, but with a distinct tendency to increase. From January to May aio the worst months forsii cides. The number mounts rapidly month by month from Jauunry to May, nud keeps high until July, fall ing to its lowest in November.. Tho suicides of December and January nro attributed partly to pecuniary troubles at tho close of tbi year, when all accounts are supposed to be closed nnd all liabilities met. A riso in July is attributed to'iiua'iciul troubles nt the ; hulf-year. In recent years the use of tho ; sword by suicides has decreased : greatly; hanging is tho method most frequently employed, nearly throe fourths o' the male suicides and near ly half tho females terminating theii . lives in this way ; but among women ! drowning is more common even tlinu j hanging. Firearms nud poison are very rarely used, probably because . they nro uot readily obtainable, while ! a Japanese of either sex always has n 1 long girdle aud always has water suf ' ficient in tho deep wells iu every vil j lago nnd ndj-uvnt to almost every house. The litrun s show that the number of suicides varies year by year with the pric of ric. Travel to Europe liHTPusiu?. Never lufofe, probably, havo so many Americans gone to Europe as during the List suinnn i-. The annual hegira of Americans lo Europe bus, in fact, become nu event of fur-reaching importance to Europo itself, main tains tho New l'uik Tribune. Its tradesmen grow prosperous from tho patronage of wealthy Americans. Its health resorts tin 1 their best custo mers iu Americans who halo wealth, but not health. Itsrailwiys nre able to declare larger dividend - becauso so mauy thousand Amei ii'uis travel on then as first clas passengers. Of course, if it were not for Americans many nourishing hotels would have to close their doors an. I a Rinal! army of guides nud couriers would have to go into somo other business, whdo List, but uot least, thj somewhat un conventional ways of a few Americans are t'u unfailing source of amuscmeut to our E.iropcan cousins. Not only are tuoro flourishing Ar.vricnn colo nies i, vlio larger cities of Europe, but they e,re ft-und iu its most remo'e cor ners, no that i&uzj cf them return Lome knowing much more of the Old World than they do of their own couutry. Nur is there any prospect that thiy preference of Americaus for Europe will die out. The Daily Messenger of Furis estimates that duriug the last summer Amenc ms havo left $103,000, 000 in gold in Europe, nnd there is every lensou to beli.ve that this enor mous expeuditute will continue to iu creaso iu tho future. How f omstork Lode Was Bisroereu. Iu January, 18j'3, a streak of warm weather tempting some of thein out, Coaistocl;, "Old Virginia," and se v eral others found "surface diggings" near "S.ipp. ry Gulch." They named tho place "(i jil Hill," nud, st illing out claims, proceeded to work the de composed outcropping over Crown Poiut, Yellow Jacket, B.-lchi r, Keu tuck, au l other great mines as yet un discovered. From the timo they started tho rockers, ming water from a spring closo by, (told Hill averaged twenty dollars 11 day to the man. June 1st, O'Biley and McLaughlin, whoie o'aiiil in Ml-! (.'anon pnid only two or three dollars a day, suddenly cut into the rock ou tho surface of Ojihir, at tho north end of tho C imstock, an 1 bjgin to tako out gold at the rate of a thousand dollars a dny. They had only been working t. few hours when Comstock happened Rlng, saw the valuo of the discovery, laid a general floaticg claim to a mythical stock ranch in the region, and fairly bluffed tho good matured discoverer into taking himself und Manny Tenrod as equal partners. "Kentuck" Oiborno afterward came in, and tho five took up tho original Ophir claim. Appletons' Fopulai Soitse Monthly. Tr.trt' orrsr. One brother was tall and sliin. The other chuliliy anil short Teddy sat looking nt thorn one nigh. Apparently lost in thugUt. "Mamma." h nk"d nt length. 'Which would you likth l-?t -For mo to grfw north und south. Iik Torr. Or like Willie, from fast to west " - A I". i'a vll. in Youth's Compni?. ' the rnon AND TFIE TOAP. The frog sat by u clear pond admir ing his rcllectiou iu (he water, . , 'Dear me! I hail no idea beforo that I was so haudiome,"' said the frog. "What nice cheeks I have, and ob, what au exquisite complexion," Happening to tnko his eyes off the water for a moment he saw bis neigh bor, the toad, also looking nt himself in it. Whereupon the frog hopped away chuckling. "That ridiculous old toad," he said to himself. "Did anyone ever henr of anything more aboiird? Who'll turu cocc.-ited next, I wondei?" TPS p-ST IU10KS Fort P-Ot , 1110111 is Wentworth Higginsoi', in Ladies' Homo Journal, names the best one hundred books (by American authors) for boys of from fifteen to twenty years. Tho first ten ou the list, after naming Bulliueh's "Ago of Fub'.o," he selects in these words: "Of the classic authors, Aldrich's 'Story of a Bad Buy' is already a child's classic as well, and so aro Cuuu's 'Two Years Bjt'oro the Mast' and Hawthorne's 'Grandfather's Chair,' Longfellow's 'Hiawatbn' is easy reading nnd fall of life. Park Plan's ( 'regou Trail' is the journal of a young man's trip iuro6S the Cont. neut fifty years ago when every' uiug was wild. Thoreau's 'Muiuo W.-ods' has the real flavor of the forest. Cooper's 'Spy' is a talc of the Ameri can Revolution, in which Washington appears as a hero. Irving's 'Brace bridge Hull' is a djlightful picture of country life, which I remember to have rend with delight nt twelve. Lowell's 'Biglow Papers' is loll of humor, nud though mnuy of it- allu sions will puss over a hoy's bead, yet thero nro plenty wh;ch he will under stand." TnE rnixEsn sc'HOot.noir. The Chinese school childreu hove instilled into them at nu early oge habits of hard, tteady study, says an exebauge. At tho ngo of five a boy begins his schooling. At day break ho rises and, nfter dressing ns quickly us possible, he s'.nrU break fastless to school. He is giveu a task and alter it is completed he is allowed nu liour for breakfast. Again, later, he has an hour for luncheon, bt he is at his study neatly twelvo hours n day, beveu days iu tho week. All this timo when he is not reciting his lessous ho is studying aloud at tho top of his voie.?. He is under the eye of his master both in school na 1 on his way to and from school. The lad is taught rudimentary astronomy, phy sics aud natural history, but greater ttress is put upon writing nnd his literary stu lie-. "A Thousand Letter," e poem, is the study that forms the buckbolio of his literary education. In it are tntight the duties of children to par ents aud all such matters. Whatever tho study may be history, classics or science every lesson is leernod and repeated word for word. A nov's rt'MI'OMTtny. In a public school in New England the teacher thought she would give out uaturil history subjects ns sub jects for composition. Iu this way she teaches them English orthography and natijral history all nt once. The common placj subject of "A11W" was given to a bright boy w ho said he knew all about it. This is the result of his efforts : "Aits" Thero is many kinds of Ants, My ant Mary Jane is oue of these kind. She is genily good ua tnred and when sha c imoa to seo My Mother she brings mo live cents worth of peuuts and tells mo Why James how you've prowed, but when I go aud sco her tiu.l dout only just wawlk on tho Carpet without Clocning my boots bin; is orliv mail. Auts liko to give 5011 Adviej and scold ut you like everything but their Hart is in tho Wright Plaieo and once I found a Ants nest in tho woods I poked it with a stick nud a Million Auts run out after ine and Crawled up Insido my Pants nud Bit me like Sixty. Auts nests nro good Things not to Poke with n stick Ants are very Iu dustryons in Steeling Sugar. I forgot to say that my Ant Martha liveR in Maiu she b is a buy of Just about my Aigo and Ho can stand 611 his lied Five niiuits aud how Do you supposo ho can Do it. I Do not think of Annythiug morn about Ants ut present. MrSKAL AFfllfAV wAnnuA. ICisawa volunteered to send two men with me to K-isi nibi's. Did not suggi'st any pay ; told i ff two of Li-j young warriors, and gave them in structions; they clapped their hands after each sentence to signify their ac ceptance of bis instructions. Two '.'.hers came of their own accord; t!:o only bugg"ge of ouo was two stick", upon eiuh of which were threaded four dry ro'is of fruit, which rattle. Tho youth owning this property bus long hair plaited into ropes, which lull to his neck, nn 1 term a bcteeii to his eyes He is constantly keeping the rattlo going, nnd singing (principal ly about me) iu a nio$t flattering man ner, in which performance his friend Joins; tint the latter eouliues himself to tinging; he has other mo for hit bund-, which carry two baskets full of manioc (lour, n baughi pipe and spsie rattles. For tho first hour they stave 1 at my heels. Allthetnu ! t hoy kept, up tho rattling and singing, and told me it wus wiiat they came for, and that they would thus euteitaiu 1110 until we reached Kasembi, four or live days off. I spoke to them firmly, but kindly told them their music w.is ex cellent, but must be heard nt a dis tance to bo properly euj ived. The listnuee 1 pointed out was about ten miles away. My musical friends took tho hint good uatiiicily, but at times they break out into their boisterous eutei taiumeut. Ceuturv. A BoVs' tlRtOlir tl'KA. A boy who lives on a big vegetable farm just south of Chicago is born to bo a great inventor. Thero isn't a doubt e'f it. This fall his father had a largo crop of tomatoes, covering several acres of ground. A few weeks ngo they began to get ripe iu largo quantities, and it kept several men biny picking them and packing them into boxes nud bas kets ready for shipment, says the Becord. But, unfortunately, thero were Cer tain biuall birds in the neighborhood that were ns well pleased with the tomatoes its was the farmer. And whenever tho men's backs wero turned down would como those buds in a pctfect siiarru aud begin to peek into the ripo red fruit. If thiy had con tented themselves with eating tin a fc big tomntoei it wuulda't havo made so much differe-nc, but they pecked into dozens of them, and when a tomato has so much us one littlo hole in it it won't sell. Ail this was very provoking o the farmer, but our boy found n remedy. It happened that ho bus a lively little black dog that was very fond of chas ing chickeus, and ho knew that if he could be kept iu the gar leu there wouldu't bo any moro trouble from birds. So our boy went out nml drove two stout stakes forty or fifty feet apart neat tho tomato bed, nn t be tween them be stretched a stout wire, on which he hud first threaded a small ring. At ono stake ho placed nu empty box for a kennel, and then ho tied the little black dog to tho ring. Tho next timo tho swarm of birds came for tho tomatoes that little dog ran out and chased them tho whole length of his wire, and ho kept right nt it until they didn't dare to como back. Lots of times ho would have liked to run away to tho house, but tho wiro held him straight to busiuess. Poor I,o at the Pontist'n. "An Indiuu camo to my oll'ico and had a tooth tilled and another ex tracted," said a Wate'ville Muiuo dentist. This dep' ,i went ou t' say that he had been practicing ileu tistry for over thirty years, nml ilm is tho first timo in nil his experience ho has ever done any work for an lu diau, or hud ever known of nu Indian having anything done to Lis teeth, Boston Herald. ... 1
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Nov. 19, 1896, edition 1
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