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- yn- : X n ft ft- - - v.- 1 A ANTHONY & CROSS, Editors and Publishers. TERRS: $1.25 Per Year In Advance. VOLUME I. CONCORD, N.C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1888. NUMBER 6, STANDARD. I Epitaph on The Honest Mao. nis was the common round of daily toil; "o great, heroic deed was bis to do, But from the dawn until the day was through , Ho trained the vine or tilled the fruitful soil No public place or share of party spoil Could tempt his honor or his soul subdue; But in the strife a goodly man and true Who feared his God and loved his life of toil. Though by the narrow limits Man. hath made To measure man, he is not connted great; Though human justice be for aye delayed, And deep oblivion be his earthly fate, God over all is just; his worth is weighed, Where gold is gold and nono may under rate, George E. Day. Tin Old Spinning Wheel. BY HELEN FOIUIEST GRAVES. All the nrjht before?, Rox Parsons had been planning this thiug. lie had lain awake, deciding upon the very words he should use, the phrases thit were most applicable to the case. And when at last he stood there in the grassy front yard of the picturesque old farmhouse, with the whitc-clovcr piaks blossoming in clusters at hi feet, aad Xannio leaning on his arm, it seemed a3 if tho cup of his satisfaction h id reached its fill. "You like it, ch, Nan?" said h?, glancing around in an apparently in different fa-hion at the low, shingled roof, from which the morning-glory vines tossed their purple cups, the stone door-step the old black-walnut tree in the door-yard. "Like it, Rjx?" echoed tho bride, en thusiastically. "It's a perfect picture! Who lives here? Can wc go ia, do you suppose? Could we get a drink of, water fioin that little, gurgling stream, whose waters arc as clear as crystal?" "Of course wc cm go ia," said Rex, with a shoit, odd hugh. "As for living here, there is no one liviug here at present. The Thaxtcrs hive just moved out, and th2 houso is sold to one Rex Par-ons." Nannie gave a great start. "Oh, Rex!' eric I she. "Do you , really mean it? 13 is it our house?" Rex fin lg his hat into tho air. "I really mean it," said he. "It's our house; I've bought it. Welcome, dear little Nan, to our new home!" And .Rex kissed Nan, and Nan hugged Rex, and they went all over tho house together, li';c two exultant school children. "Such delightful old-fashioned win dow?," cried Nad, "with the tcenticst window-panes one ever saw! Such loves of little closets! Such a grand chimney for open fire! and, oh, such a garret, Rex !" "With a regular old-tiaic spinning wheel in it!"' shouted Rex. "Only look there, Nannie! Why. Delavarde would give twenty-five dollars for a spinning wheel like that. It looks a if it might bo a hundred years old- I say, puss, when can you be ready to move in?' J "Tomorrow, if you say so," saidNan I ni?, clapping her hand. "Wo haven't I Euch a deal of furniture, you know,Rex; I and it will be such fun, camping down I in this dclightfu', old-timey place, like I a couple of gipsies. And Mrs. Dorokins, tue :anuiaay, was suocxiagiy cross,yes t'.'rday, if you remember, because tho parrot would persist in squalling when sho wanted to take her nap. It will bo such a luxury to have a home of one's own I" "You're sure you won't be lonesome here, Nan?" questioned Parsons, "You know I shall have to go down in the train that leaves Wayborough at eight o'clock, and I shan't b3 ablo to return I until six in the evening." "But how lovely it will bo on Sundays and holidays." said Nannie. "And then the long summer evenings, when we can tie up the roses and gather honeysuckles and watch the sunsets from the front porch, and feel that all the green, lovely things around us are our own. And I'll tell you what, Rex why shouldn't I invito Sophy Wilkins to stay with me here until I get settled? She has got so much taste about muslin ilrnnpria nnd rhlntr. ljimbrpnnina inrl j. " 1 1 all that sort of thincr, and she 11 be ever bo much company for me while you are away !" 'f "It's a capital plan!" said Rex. And so that thin;; was settled. I Fortunately, perhaps; for Mr. and I Mrs. Parsons had scarcely come to in habit their new house or, rather, the old houso which had newly becomo their own for twenty-four, hours, when tho conductor of the evening train sent a boy up to "Tho Gloaming," as Nannie had rcchristencd the spot from its orijj S inal name of "Grubb's Corners," with n note to Mrs. Parsons from her hus band. '3Iv Darling Nannie, " it ran : ' 'Our senior partner sails for Europe to-roor- i row, at noon. Wc arc going over all the books to-night, and I can't possibly catch the last train. Shall stay at a hotel. Such a lucky thing, isn't it, that Miss Wilkins is there to keep you com pany? Ever your d.voted Rex." I "You aren't afraid, Nannie, are you?' sail Sophy, a trifle doubtfully. "T I "Good gracious, no!'- said Mrs.J'ar 1 sons. "Poor, dear Rex what a shame' it is to make him work so hard ! I do , hope he'll be head of the firm one of these days, and then perhaps he'll have a little rest." Sophy and Nannie locked up tho house that night with great form and ceremony, and retired early, ia conse quence of the fatiguo attendant on tho sewing of carpets for tho room which had been old Mrs. Thaxtcrs "best par lorj" but which Nannie called her bou doir. At midnight so far n3 they could judge from tho sepulchral striking of a rhcu:natic old clock on the kitchen-shelf, a sudden wind arose, and Sophy gently touched her friend's arm. "Nannie," said she, "arc you awake?" "Yes. Why?" Do you hear the wind banging the doors up stairs?" "Hear it? I should think I did. Sophy, wo must go ur stairs and shut the garret window, or tho wholo house will bo blown to pieces!"' And so, clad in blue flinncl wrappers and crochet slipper, they crept up stair?, clinging ncrvoudy to each other, especially after a particularly energetic blast had blown out the fcoblo flnnc of their candle. "There's a moon, you. know," said Nannie, in a slightly tremulous voce. "Oh, yes!" said Sophy. "It isn't at all worth while to go back after another candle." But the light that gleamed athwart the dreary, gaunt floor, from the un curtained window-panes, revealed a sight that mado their flj3h quake. A tail, spectral figure stood beside the shadowy outlino of tho spinniug whccl. For an instant tho vivid moonbeams, emerging from behind the masses of black wi ld clouds, threw tho apparition into strong relief, and then all was darknon as a new rack of clouds swept over the pallid moon. Like flying birds the two wamon hur ried down stairs, palo with terror, never pausing until they reached tho kitchen, where some remains cf tho evening fire yet smouldered dimly. "Sophy I" criod Mrs. Parsons, ia an agony of terror, "what was that?" "It's a ghost!" sobbed Sjphy. "A ghost! Yes, I'm sure of it I didn't tell ycu before, Nan ni?, became I didn't want to make you nervous; but I'm sure the place i3 haunted! Such a rattling of chains " "It isn't chains," faltered Nannie, "it's ooly the window fastonings that have come loose, and rattlo against the side of the hou33. Rex say3 so." "And such dread fulmoanings through tho halL" "It's the draught from the garret windows." "But how do you account for that?" cried Sophy, panting upward with a trembling finger. And Nannie could only reply by hys terical tears and sobs. "No wonder Rex bought the house so cheap !"' said she. "I won't stay in it another night, not if I go out under the apple trees to sleep!" And she and Miss Wilkins sat up all night, trembling at every gust of wind, growing pale at tho sound of little mica scuffling behind the wainscoting. "I'll never, never spend such a night again!" said Mrs. Parsons, wringing her hands. When Rex came home he laughed them to scorn. "Sucn gooses," said he jecringly. "Batwesaw ifroursclves, Rex!-' cried Nannie. "With our own eyes!" added Sophy. "Depend on it, Mr. Parsons, there's some dreadful secret connected with that old spinning-wheel! Do get it out of tho house as fast as you can 1" "What nonsense!" said Rex. But nevertheless he ran upstairs to take, as he expressed it, "another look at the thing." Presently ho camo down again, rath er flushed, and inclined to-be angry. "Why couldn't you have told me?" said he. "Told you what?" questioned Nan nie. "That you brought that spinning -whecl down." "We never touched it!" shrieked Sophy and Nannie, in choru3. "Then, where is it?' "Why, up in the garret, tj the big centre bcarp, isn't it?" Rex stamped his foot ia vexation. . "There's nothing in the garret but your grandmother's old set of china, that- the expressman broke so badly, three bags of hops, hanging from nails, and an empty trunk,'' said he. Sophy looked at Nannie. . Nannie broke into a violent fit of shuddering. "There's witchcraft in it," said she. "I knew there wa3. " Oh, Rex, take me away from thi3 horrible place I I can't breathe easily under this roof!" "Stuff P cried Rex. Nannie began to cry. "You you said you loved me!" she wailed. - "So ldo!" reasoned Rex. "But you know, my darling, all this is so utterly unreasonable." Nevertheless, Nannie persisted in her unreasonableness to that degree that Rex, with his hands thrust irately into his pockets, and hrs hat balanced bellig erently on the back of his head, went down to see Farmer Thaxtcr, who, after parting with the homestead of his fore fathers, had stolidly set up in the general grocery, shoe, crockery and dry-goods line, about three miles down tho road. "Look here, Thaxtcr," said he, "this is a mean trick that you've served me." "Squire," said Thaxter, dusting his hands, after measuring out three pounds of black tea for a customer, "I'm hanged If I know what you're talkin' about!" And then, as succinctly as possible, R?x told the story of the ghost and tho spinning wheel Farmer Thaxter snrotc the pine counter with the flat of his hand. . "Wal.therel" said he, "Didn't I tell you so?- But you know, squire, what women folks is. . You can't .make 'cm believe nothin, when onco their mind is mado up; and Aunt Achsah would have her. own way, spite of all I said to her. Ye see, squire, tho old spinnin' whecl b'long-to her, and it was some how overlooked when tho other things rwas took away. And Aunt Achsah, she's that childish and old sho didn't give us a minnit o' piaco abaout that there spiunin'-wheel. "Says I, 'It ain't wtith nothiu' to us, nor to anybody elso.' "Siys she, 'Thero ain't nothin' abaout the place as I set storj by liks I do that wheel. Fm goin' to hev it.' " But wo didn't pay no attention to what she said, beiu' she was drctful old and queer. Last niht, mother woke me up, and says she : "'Job, there's a drctful chatterin' down stairs. I'm mortal sartia,' says sho, 'it's burglars. Get up and see, Job,' says she. "But it warn't burglars, squire. It was Aunt Achsah, a-trundlin' in that cvcrlastin' spinain'-wheel 0' hern, as she'd been across lots to fetch. And sho told mother afterwards how she'd hoist ed it outer tho window with an old clothes-line, and what a scare she'd had, with two wimmcn comia' with a caudle to see what all the noi?a was, an' how she'd hid nhind the chimney till they'd cleared out, and then crept daown the back stairs and got out by way of the harness-room door, where tho bolt rust ed away ten years ago. And I'm sorry, squire, you've had such an annoyance, but cow that Aunt Achsah's got her spiania'-whcul, I'll guirantee it shan't happen ag'in. And you may tell your women-folks so.'' Thus ended Nannie Parsons' super stitious terrors. "But I should have liked tho old spinning -wheel," said she, "for a relic." "It seems that Aunt Achsah Thaxtcr was of the sama- opinion," observed Rex, with a shrugof tho shoulders. Tangier Custom Slaves of every description crowd and quarrel a3 they fill their qu.;i:it earthen jars at oae of the broken down foua taini from which tho whole town ii sup plied, or go about tho streets carrying goatskins, from which they oiler water to thirsty passers at so much a drink. As their shrill voices proclaim tho freshness and coolness of their stock, one realises that he has before him an oriental custom which gives new mean ing to Iiaiah, liii, 1, whero the prophet calls out, as though hawking the "water of life:" "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come yo to the waters, coma buy, with out money and without price.?' These slaves form a considerable part of the population of Tangier. They are mostly of the deep 1 1 ick Guinea negro type, brought from across tho Desert of Sahar.i, thoug'i sometimes unfortu nates of other races arc kidnapped and sold into slavery. Public auctions are frequently held ia the main street of tho bazaars, at which children caa be pur chased for from twelve to twenty dol lars, while full-grown men and women are sold at prices ranging from fifty to one hundred dollars. Masters have ab solute power over their slaves, even that of life and death, and in case . of sale transfer them by means of a deed, just as wo transfer a farm. Under the circum stances, it is difficult to say whether they are real estate or personal property. Cosmopolitan. - The Color of the Eyes. M. de Candollc, a French investiga tor, has come to the conclusion from his researches that women have a larger proportion of brown eyes than men. He also finds that when both parents Jiave eyes of the like color, the chances are 88 to 12 that their children who arrive at the age of ten years (when the 'color of the eyes is fixed), will have eyes of the same color. When tho parents have eyes of different colors, the chances arc 55 to 45 in favor of bfown as asrainst blue or gray eyes ia tho children. Ho is also of opinion that the health of the brunette type, is, as a rule, superior to that of the blonde typo. Cassell's. A Smart Child. A five-year-old was put - to bed the other night a little earlier than sho her self thought desirable. Soon after she called for some bread and mdk, and got it. After eating a few spoonfuls sho lookeA up to her father with a most un concerned air and remarked: . "Papa, I believe I've heard you say it wasn't a good plan to retire immediately after eating. I guess I'll get up." A BORN DETECTIVE. A Young Woman in a -Big Store Who Makes No Mistakes. Her Chief Occupation Is to Look Out for Shoplifters. TheNew York Sun has an interesting account of a young lady employed in one of tho largest retail stores in tho city. This young woman is a born do tcctivc. There ha3 not been a case of shoplifting ia tho storo in question for ten months ia whill .-ho has not been cither complainant , or witness upon trial Of tho very many thefts discov ered but not prosecuted, few havo es caped her. She is not employod as a detective; but her bright eyes have been used so often ia tho interests of her employers is this line, simply be cause she saw tho opportunity, that sho ha3 drifted naturally from the work of a saleswoman to work of this peculiar nature. Sho still retains her placo bo hind a certain counter, but at her own discretion leaves hor work to follow a suspected thief or to patrol tho store in crowded hour3. Slic is likely, to be called at times to any part of tho store to catch up a thread of suspicion. On these occasions sho dropj the handling of her goods, turas over her customer to another, and promptly dons her hat aid . cloak to hover about the doubted, porson, make pur chases at her side, and follow her from counter to counter. A neatly dressed, attractive girl, with a knowing bonnet and an innocent smile, examining tho quality of cambric or buying a spool of cotton, i3 not an object of suspicion oa the part of the shoplifter. This is tho secret of the girl detective's success. The name of this young woman is Barbara FJeischhauer. She has boen eight years ia her present employment. Sho i3 a Jjwos?, of medi um height and good figure. She ap parently weighs 125 pounds, but ia reality has 21 pounds more stowed away which U pure mu cl?. She is a pleasant-faced brunctto with very black hair, strong, regular- features, aid largo black cyc3. To S33. her flitting from ouoter to counter no one would for a momont suspect that her whole heart was not cnrossd in the selection of a new gown. When she has satisfied horsclf about a shoplifter and has managed to get a saleswoman or a floorwalker as a wit ness, Miss Flcischhansr goes straight to tho goal. At the first movement on tho part of the offender the young detective is at her side. There is no scene. Tho challcngo is given ia a low collected tone. Tho straightforward determined glance of tho black eyes doci the rest. The offender, of course, declares her innocence but march 03 quietly up stairs nevertheless. Mr. Morrisoa is always at hand in case of trouble, but black cyc3 rarely need assistance. This girl detective is known to all the cost side polico and thoy havo a mighty respect for hor too. Oae of them ia tho Eldridge street polico station said: "Whenever I see that girl come in here, I know we'vo got a clear case. She's a cool on?. I vo never seen her confused, and some pretty good lawyers havo had their turn at her too." The amount of shoplifting done in a large retail ostablishnnat is enormous. Probably not more than one case ia a hundred gets into the courts. Oaly old offenders or people who aro evidently thieves by profession are dragged to tho police station. Miss Fleisch hauer is an adept in all tho tricks of the trade. The woman who flourishes a muff uadulj is very apt to have something ia it that has. not been paid for. Tho handkerchief counter is a great place for thievery. Oae large handkerchief spread out and thrown carelessly over a folded lot of others forms a cover from beneath which the others can be pulled. The shop-lifter's own handkerchief, dropped careless ly on a bric-a-brac counter is not always picked up alone. Wido sleeves are fa vorite devices of the shoplifter. An enormous pocket or bag under the drcs3. and reached through a fold in front, is a convenient receptacle for stolen goods. An umbrella loosely closed' is an ex cellent device. Four or five bits of jew elry may drop off a counter. If a couple fall by mistake iuto tho folds of tho umbrella no ono knows tho difference. All theso sorts of schemes aro absolutely unnoticed by the ordinary observer, even if he is on the lookout for them. .Tho detective, like the poot, ii born; and Miss Flci schhauer's case goes to show that, like the poet, he cannot escape his natural profession. Studying Yet. Smith Where is that promising son of yours? Brown Joe is at home. - Smith Ho was studying at Yale, was he not? : Brown Yes, and he is studying yet'. Smith What h he studying? Brown The want column in the newspapers. Ho is looking out. for a position as janitor or porter in a store. (.Texas Sittings. ; Medical Students in the Metropolis. There aro about twenty-two hundred medical students in New York, writes a correspondent of the Cincinnati En quirer. They come from all parts of the country; from Maine to Texas, from Massachusetts to California. Many of them arc graduate physicians, from -other medical colleges who come hero to take advantage of tho hospital facilities of the city, and to familiarize themselves with tho more recent systems of applied medicine and surgery. Somo of them are geniuses in their way. They seemed to have failed ia making progress in other walks of life, and havo adopted modi cine as a last resort. In appearance, they are unkempt with shabby coats and short trousers. They appear to bo per petually on the rua to attend a clinic, and yet' have plenty of time to absorb beer when invited. Poor men, most of them, who club together, hire apart ments; divide expenses on food and books, and rush tho "growler" ' at night with the enthusiasm of a Fourth Ward tough. A visitor to the Bellevue Hospi tal Amphitheatro where clinics are hold every day, can form some idea of the material which, through the process of evolution, makes doctors. Here aro collected dudes and country men, youths and men of middle age. Some of them will coatiauo to study for years ia vain, ethers are destined to shine ia their profession. Til's shabby little man who sr uint3 through his pair of bra3s-bound spectacles is astonishing ly wise and mirvelouily recondite on the subjects of bacteria, thrombosis and affections of tho anterior horns in tho brain. Sitting near him is tho maa whose head would delight any phrenolo gist, whose intellect seems seated in his forehead, but who attaches pore im portance to his pipe and bottle than tc the midnight oil He has mistaken his calling. Ho i3 a maa of talent, un doubtedly, but he should havo exerted it in another line. It costs about $1,000 to become an M. D. in New York. This inclules tuition, board, 'books and incidental ex penses. The Number Seven in the Bibla. Among the Hebrews the word for solemn swearing ii "septenare," or pro test by seven. Abraham, you will re member, appointed seven ewe Iambs as his testimony to tho covenant with Abimelcch. Tho Creator, rested from His work on the seventh day, and this day was called Sabbath or seventh. A leprouj person was either to I athe seven times or be sprinkled seven times with tho blood of a sparrow. Seven years was the period for repentance. Every seven years tho Hebrew servant demand ed liberty fcr himself. And the prophet praised God seven times a day. Cain, we aro told, was to be revenged sevenfold. The gifts of tho Holy Ghost were said to be seven in number, and ia the pres ence of the Almighty scvan angels stand, as we are told, in Tobias. Seven lamps burn before God, and throughout the wholo book of Revelations the 'number seven is constantly used. Jacob served seven years for Leah, and seven .nioro for Rachael. Thea there are the seven cars of corn and the seven kine. -It was seven people that possessed the land of Promise in Deuteronomy, and the story of Simson tells how he kept his nuptials seven days, and thea wai bound with seven green withes. Philadelphia News. How the Blind "See." I asked those who became blind in youth, or later, whether they were in the habit of giving imaginary faces to the persons they met after their blind ness, and whether they ever saw in their dreams, writes Joseph Jostroa, in the new Princeton Review. Some answered in very vague terms, but several un doubtedly make good use of thi3 power, probably somewhat on the same basis as we imagine tho appearance of eminent men of whom we havo read or heard, but whose features wc have never seen. When we remember how erroneous such impressions often are, we caa under stand how it often misleads tho blind. Such imaginary faces and scenes alsc enter into their dreams, but to a less ex tent than into those of the sighted. Doctor Kitto quotes a letter from a mu sician who lost his sight when eighteen years old, but who retains a very strong visualizing power, both in waking life and ia dreams. The mention of a fa mous man; of a friend, or of a scene, al ways carries with it a visual picture, complete and vivid. "Moreover, theso images, of his friends change as the friends grow old ; and he feels himself intellectually in no way different from the seeing. f Wanted to do His Best. "No, George, you know I am not so very extravagant." "I know,but haven't you got bonnets enough?" .. ' " ' . "They're all out of style, I want a fashionable bonnet, that's all I don't want tho earth, George dear, merely a fashionable bonnet" " "Well, if I can't afford to buy a fash. ionable bonnet from . your milliner, would you try and be contented with tho earth?" Merchant Traveler. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. It is said that scales tor weighing dia monds are brought nearly to that deli cacy of balance which would enable dealers to detect flaws in the stone bj minute variations in weight. They weigh accurately the C40th part ol a carat. Workmen' who were digging a ditch in Montgomery County, Ind., struck a stratum of earth resembling white clay, which turned black on boing exposed to the air. Pieces of it thrown into the fire were found to burn fiercely. The sub stance is supposed to bo coal of the first formation. The cost of mining and milling gold ore at the Spanish Mine in Nevada County, Cal. , "has been so reduced that ore worth only $1. 1G a ton can bo mined and worked at a profit of about fifty-six cents a ton. Tho cost of mining nearly 3000 ton3 was only 37 1-2 cents" a ton, and of milling it twenty-three cants a ton. Among tho "fowls of the air" are three, the eagle, swan and raven, which live to the ago of 100 years or more. The paroquet and heron attain the goodly ago of sixty years. Tho. sparrow-hawk, duck and pelican may live to be forty, while the peacock and linnet reach tho quarter century, and the canary twenty-four year-. Tho recent tearing down of a New Hampshire manufactory by means of dy namite, demonstrates a new use for the explosive. Tho concussion completely separated the bricks and did not seem to injure them in the least; the chargeB were put in holes dug in the foundation under the brick wall, and the number of cartridges were graded according to the number of bricks in tho wall to bo demolished. It is stated that soft soap with half iti weight in pearlash, one ounce of mix ture in about one gallon of boiling water, is found of great practical value ia engineers' shops, in the drip pans used for turning long articles bright in wrought iron and steel The effect of this mode of treatment is that the work, although constantly moist, docs not rut, and bright nuts are immersed in it for day3 till wanted, retaining their polish. The interesting fact is stated that so indestructible by wear or decay is tho African teak wood that vessels built of it have lasted one hundred years, to bo then only broken up because of their poor sailing qualities from faulty models. The wood, in fact, is one of the most re markable known, oa account of its very great weight, hardness, and durability, its weight varying from forty-two to fifty-two pounds per cubic foot; it works easily, but on account of the large quantity of silex contained ia it the tools employed are quickly worn away. It also contains an oil which pre vents spikes and other iron work with which it comc3 in contact from rusting. A celebrated physician has remarked that every house ought to be pulled down at the end of the sixtieth year, as it has by that time absorbed all the dis eases of those who havo lived in it, be lieving that wood and plaster absorb gases, foul air and feverish exhalations as readily as milk or water does. But ns it is not practicable to tear down houses every half century or so, it is to be considered if all the wood used in tho interior construction and all the plain surfaces of .""piaster should not be so thoroughly oiled or varnished that the power of absorption should be almost entirely destroyed, and the character thus so changed that destruction would be no longer desirable. Foods of Foreigners. Tho Germ ins, in their homes and restaurants, boast of having hams, sau sages, hares and many other articles of food imported with their wines from the Fatherland ; the Italians, even in Bcnl, exhibit various gastronomic treasures from Italy, and the variety of canned foods tho French always import is now supplemented by regular weekly consignments of what they call "cscar gots," which is to say snails. Bat the height of this love for the foods of the fatherlands is reached by the Chinese. If you enter oae of their shops in Mott street, you will see barrels of dried fowlp, dried fishes, dried beans, yams and fruits, dried eels in fact, the sup ply would equip the larder of a rich man's house. Yet nearly all these arti cles can be obtained here fresh for less money. New York Sun.' Pigs as Pets. Now that ladies havo taken to wear ing bugs and beetles on their arms and necks, we should scarcely be surprised to hear of any eccentricity in the tastes of the sex. Still, it is somewhat of a shock to learn, as we do from the Philadelphia Record, that Mexican women choose for pets, not cats or par rots or bugs, but pigs 1 It is quito com mon in that country to meet a woman leading by a string a pig that is as black'as he can bo, with which sho ap pears to bo on chummy terms; and loag after the beast has ceas3d his juve nile title ho literally shares her bed and board Golden Argosy. '- Beautiful Hands. Oh; your hands, they are strangely fairy Fair for the jewels that sparkle there, Fair for the witchery of the spell That ivory keys alone can tell; But when their delicate touches rest Here in my own, I love them best, And I clasp with eager, acquisitive spans My glorious treasure of beautiful hands. Marvellous, wonderful, beautiful Lands, They can coax roses to bloom in the strands Of your brown tresses; and ribbons will twine Under mysterious touches of thine Into such knots as entangle the soul And fetter the heart under such a control As only the strength of my love understands My passionate love for your beautiful hands- As I remember the first fair touch Of the beautiful hands I love so much, I seem to thrill as I then was thrilled As I kissed the glove I found unfilled, When 1 met your gaze and queenly bow, As you said to me, laughingly, "Keep it nowl" And, dazed and alone, in a dream I stand, Kissing this ghost of your beautiful hand. When first 1 loved in the long ago, . And held your hand as I told you so, Pressed and caressed it, gave it a kiss, And said : "I would die for a hand like this ! Little I deemed love's fullness yet Had to ripen when eyes were wet, And prayers were vain in the wild demands For one warm touch of your beautiful hands Beautiful hands oh, beautiful hands! Could you reach out of the alien lands Where you are lingering, and give mo to night Only a touch, were it ever so light, My heart were soothed, and my weary brain Would lull itself to rest again, For there is no pleasure the world commands Like the caress of your beautiful hands. James Whitcomb Riley. HUMOROUS. Told again Second-hand goods. Second watch Yes, I am. I'm all run down. Don't run against a chimney-sweeper; he's liable to bring soot against you. "Woman feels where man thinks," says a writer. Yes,, that's why man i3 bald. "He gave me somo pointers," said tho tramp of a farmer; "he jabbed me with a pitchfork." The fellow who wants to know how to know a bad egg must have lost two of his five senses. " No matter how prompt actors may be at rehearsal there is always one man who is prompter. A ton of diamonds is worth $30,000, 000. Don't let the dealers come the 1800-pound dodge on you. She "John, what is a coastwiso steamer?" He "One that knows how to keep off the rocks, darling." There is nothing under the face of the sky that can be quite so stuck up as a sheet of stamps, when it tris to. The obscure Arab who invented alco holic stimulants died more than nino hundred years ago, but his "spirit'' still lives. There is one article that the average man prefers to havo bogus instead ol real when it is presented to him. That's a dynamite bomb. "Tommy," said his aunt, "I hear your grandmother gave you a watch on your birthday. Was it a hunting-case watch?" "No," replied Tommy, who U seven years old, "it was a barefaced watch." - The Cyclone-Survivor's Large Bow. That eminent scientist, Professor Somebody, has been experimenting with some 6ort of a patent bellows, and finds it takes a current of air moving at tho rate of 150 to 175 miles per hour to blow itraws through a board as is frequently reported by persons who have wit. nessed a cyclone. Ha! Going to try to reproduce all the things "reported by persons who have witnessed a cyclone," professor? Better think about it a whilq unless you have the samo low regard for the truth that the persons who pass through cyclones always have. It's the good, professor, that dio ia cyclones; that hardened old liar goes down cellar and escapes. Just wait till about next June, and the Minnesota cyclone-survivor comes up smiling and tells how he was blown head first through a six-inch grindstone, and your straws and board won't be anywhere. Chicago Trib une. - : Almost, Bat Not Qaite. "Where have you been for the past two weeks?" said one traveling man to another, 'out on the road?" "No, I took a rua to New Orleans to see a young lady down there." " "Did you have a pleasant timer "No, not as pleasant as I expected. Her father doesn't hold me in tho high esteem with which I could honor him." "Then you were not wined and dined and feted?" . " "No, I wasn't exactly feeted, but I was booted on several occasions." Merchant Traveler. Arithmetic Laura- "So you are really engaged to him, dear? He is forty, you say, and you are twenty just twice as old as you; love. Dear me, when you are forty ho will be eighty P Clara "Good gracious I I hadn't thought of that." rBazar.
The Standard (Concord, N.C.)
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Feb. 17, 1888, edition 1
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