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. . '. ' " - .,-... ' 20$l A. HARRIS, Editotr Woirrr r FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. $1.50 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. CHANEL HILL, N. C.; SAT 17IIDAX , MAY" 29, 1880. NO. 7. ipiosT Tin IT. ' ; . , J ' Alcuoal time for the peetij white daialee Out oX tieir sleep to awaken at list, Aui orer the meadows,' with gTaasea-and cloyer, . j 1 . To bad and to bloasom and glow ao fast, Almost tuna lor the buttercapjellow. The fertu and. the flowers, the roaea.and all. To waken from el timber and mexrPy: fasten To gladden oar hearts vat tt:Vpt'oig' first AJmoct time for the allies to grow bluer And Ireezee to. soften' and days to grow long; . ... f For eyes to grow brivhter and bearta to grow ulaJder T Aud earth toJMJi heJjabllanl aouJ A.'o--t time ior ine aweetesi oi seasons: Si arer it cornea witU each new-born day, Aud fcoou the aoaila of the bcaut.ful spring time Winter' cold tthalows will chase awa! "I A Daring Deed. A vxxl many 3'ears ago I commanded tue Hipper, ship Typhoon in the. trade from Ixndn to China. One Summer we ha.i made a splendid voyage, without strik ing pky&iils or stemsails all the way to the (ape, and we were bowling across the In dian Ocean a thousand miles east of the M&urttus, before we met any heavy weath er. I had a number of passengers abroad, and several ladies, who found the time pass l-attv slowly, but they were all easy to manage except on party. This was composed of three young men two of them rot hers, and the sons of the head of our Lou, Grant.Perkms and Company. The iwoyoang Grants, like many other rich men's sous, were-very conceited the more, perhaps, because they'd never "done a stroke of work in their lives. Their companion was an army officer, on h car's leave, of the name of Ramsey, a nJble young fellow as ever I saw, but full of hi.h spirits. He was a man of very great strensrth and agility, and could baat any sailor in the ship climbing. You must know that it's an old sea cus tom that the first time a landsman goes up the rigging, any of the sailors can go after him, and if they catch him they can tie him there unless he pays his footing," as they term it, personal. But none of our fellows could catch Ilamsey. I have known him to scamper up the shrouds like a mon key, and defy them all to catch him, when the whole ship's company would come s wanning after him. lie went up the miz en mast one time, and they thought they had him sure, but the active fellow, seeing that every backstay was occupied by the enemy, slid down the mizen-rojoi-atay to the foretop gallant cross trees, and so down the jib stay to the end of the jib-boom; and ran on laughing. The two Grants were always ' setting Hauisey up to mischief of some kind, and especially when the ladies were on deck. A sneer at his not daring to do such a thing would always send Ramsey to do it. One day, however, they pressed him too tar, and the result was f had to stop all skylark ing in the rig ging. It had begun to blow a pretty stiff breeze at last, rapidly a gale, when we had to send down our sternsails and skysails, and it w as as much as the ship would bear to keep her royals spread. We were all. gathered on the poop deck, watching the flying-fish and dolphins, when Charley Grant, the eld er of my twq pests, observed: '?aptain,do you think you've got a man who would dare to go up above the roj-al yards to- day?" "Any one in the ship would, if I ordered him, young gentleman," I said.' Jut I would enly send old sailors to-day. It takes a man who knows how to hold on to furl the royal on a day like this." , " 'Bah, captain," said Tom Grant, the other brother, sneenngly. li's not half as bad as you make out. There's Ramsey, who never was at sea in his life, and I'll tat he can go up to the main . truck in a typhoon, leaving alone a breeze like this." "You sailors are a set of old grannies, any how." chimed in Charley.' "I'll bet Ram y can go to the main truck to-day.' "Indeed, and Ramsey isn't going to break his neck for you," retorted the young offi cer, langhing good-naturedly. ''I'm tired of" amusing you lazy people down on deck." "Quite right, 3Ir. Ramsey," said I warm ly. "You're a splendid gymnast, but I tion't like to see you. risking your life for nothing. "When I send the men up, it's on duty, and if they loose their lives it can't 'ta helped." . - "Bah!' sneered ill-conditioned Tom, "Uam&ey's turning prudent." "Well, suppose I am. Isn't it time ?" ked Ramsey. 4 'Too prudent by half," said Charley. "He' dare not go " "I dare go anywhere," said Ramsey, flushing; "but I don't care to. Go you." "Fmnot a fnmmiR crvrrmAst" said Char- sneering. 'I see you're only a fine ' father one, too for all your blowing. "Well, you see, words went" on, till joung Ramsey was fool enough to declare Uiat not oniy would he go up to the royals, lut that he would shin up the sky. poles perfectly bare of . rigging as they ere, and take a seat oa the main truck. knew him to be a perfect gymnast, or I ould have ordered him not to do it; but I oever thought that he would go higher than roj als, for the vessel was pitching and ljsaing so, that I expected he wonld see impossibility of the feat when he'got to royal yard. ' . R&msey threw off his coat and began to nd the weather-rigging, the ladies wav W their hands to him, while onry one was Jknt. This was Miss Emily Perkins, daughter of one of our houses who was go 5 to Canton to see her father. I noticed 't she was very pale as he went higher; lw or three times I was on the -point Jf calling Mr. Ramsey back; but he seemed 10 go up so confidently that I lost much of fcy own fears. JQ fact, so long as a man is in the rigging, it is easier work to climb at sea than when lying still in port, for the vessel being al ways keeled over on one side or the other, the weather-rigging offers an: easy slope. So Ramsey's task was easy enough until he got to the cross-tree. After that there are no ratlines in most vessels, so that a man has to shin up the ropes, and the masts ; were swaying about in dizzy. circles, the wind seeming to increase every moment. Ramsey reached the royal yard safely, and rested there forva few minutes. He seemed to be tired, as well ho might, for the swayiugof the vessel rendered it a hard thing to hold on. . I saw, however, that he was going higher. Come down, Ramsey ! " - I shouted. L"Don't make a fool of yourself, or you will 4xfhwnni- But he only shook his head", and turning to the bare, naked skypole beside him, com menced .the ascent. Certainly he climbed splendidly; but I saw that he was very much Jired. He kept on the weather-side of the mast, and got up the first eight feet very well, when the vessel gave a tremen dous lurch, that sent the main-truck waving backward and forward in oscillations of seven or eight feet at a, swing. The fearful strain became too much for human strength, and a groan escaped from the whole . ship's company as the poor fellow was swung around on the under-side of the mast, lost the grip of his legs, and remained, clinging desperately with his hands, swinging over the angry sea, less than a yard below the truck! Every eye in the ship was riveted on him with intense suspense,even the helmsman's. It was this that caused the accident. The steersman, in his excitement, had allowed the vessel to luff up into the wind, and her sails were all shaking, while the heavy sea made her pitch terribly. Keep her full, you, sir 1" I bellowed to the helmsman ; but it was too late. As the sails tilled againj the ship bowed over with a great surge, aud the next minute Ramsey lost his hold, and. feU' into the sea! There was a noise, I tell you women screaming, men shouting, Miss Perkins in hysterics, the sails thundering and flapping, as the helmsmanf-this time by my order threw the vessel into the winch I saw Ramsey come up, and threw him the life buoy just in time, and then a great wave hid him from our sight; We got out a boat as quickly as yre could, but it was half an hour before we got .him in, nearly exhausted, and it cost the boat another hour's pulling to get tq' the ship. ; After that adventure, I interdicted sky larking in the rigging, and even wild Ram sey never again repeated the experiment ot reaching the mam-truck. Bridal Costumes of Fernando Po. l As with us. the Fernando TV hrldH is rlad in white not the gauzy, flowing robe, how ever, Dut a plastering oi eartniy paste, re semblincr Blaster of Paris. She wears a bridal veil, too, composed of tiny, white sneus, strung togetner, ana wnicn cover the face from forehead to chin, while her plentifully perfumed tresses are-surmounted with an enormous helmet made of cow hide. The Fernando bridegroom is even more elaborately decorated. It is a work of time as "well as of art to take the necessary vows before the two mothers his own and his Intended's who act the part of priests. Like the bride, he is thickly plastered over with white tola paste, and he wars on his head anenormousdisk of white bamboo plate skewered to his hair5 with long pins, with blue and red beads for heads. His mar riage raiment is of strung shells, and it be -ing notorious that the instant a young man commences to make himself ready for mar riage malicious evil spirits are in close at tendance, and '.on the alert to baulk his laudable intent, as an antidote againft their malevolence he carries in his hand the whole time, and never; takes his eyes off a piece of yam shaped like, a heart, and in which the red feather of a parrot is stuck. The marriage ceremony is the essence of simplicity. The mother-priests place an arm of each round the neck of the bride and bridegroom, and deliver a short address to them on their respective duties, after which the calabash of palm-wine is produced, and the contracting parties ratify the condition by drinking the one to the other,- after which the officiating mothers-in-law pledge each in the remainder, and the ceremony is at an end. " Roasted to Death by the Sun. Tif Kohweinfnrth. in a lecture which he recently delivered at the Berlin Geographi cal society, on the subject of the latest ex plorations in Central Africa, gave his hear ra A thrillincr account of the mode in which capital punishment is inflicted upon crimi nals by the Al-Quadjis, a small tributary off-shoot of the great and powerful Djour people. The malefactor condemned to die is bound to a pose nrmiy onvea uiw mramH in anmermen Dlace where no trees afford a shade, and there slowly roasted to -k tW hv anv artificial means involv- ine a waste of fuel, but by the natural heat of the sun's rays as tney reacn me coin its equatorial regions. To protract his suf- ferings and avert ms too speeuy euu j stroke, the ingenious Al-Quadjis cover their ewing compatriot's head with fresh green leaves, which effectually shield his brain from Phoebus' darts. No such protection is, however, accorded to his body, which gradually dries up, shrinks together, and ultimately becomes carbonized. One chance of salvation is open to.; the roasting man, while as vet' he is not completely "done to death." If a cloud pass between the sun and his place of torment he is ai oncei loose from his. post and becomes the object of popular reverence, as a mighty magician in whose behalf the supernatural powers have deigned directly to intervene. But clouds seldom interfere with the adminis tration of justice on the days chosen for oublic executions by the Al-Quidji authori ties , at least that appears to be Dr. Schweinfurth's experience of African weather as far as it bears upon the judicial roasting of malefactors. Skipped the Town. "Talk about your hotel beats," said a clerk in one of the hotels of Cleveland, Ohio, the other evening ; "I heard of one of the toughest cases , which happened a short time ago. I got the first part of the story from the proprietor of a prominent restaurant,: to-whom the- fellow told a his tory of the affair before he skipped out of town. ' He said that one evening this fel low came in and sat down to a table, giving his orders with theiairof a millionaire.' : He was nicely dressed, and wore a long, hand some f ulster.; , After Ji . had finished' Jbis supper he started ou$ seeming to forget that he hadn't paioU. fjThp , proprietos stop ped" him with a remainder of the f fetj when it was found that the fellow was" a beat and hadn't a cent of money. The restaurateur was J angryj and aboutr to ad minister aldose? of leather beneath the tails of that elegant ulster, when the fellow begged off, and : said that he would ; leave his pantaloons with the proprietor as Secur ity till morning. The gentleman, in" order to test him, consented, and the fellow went behind the screen and divested himself of the aforementioned garment, leaving only the light covering of his underclothing. With his ulster buttoned close around him, he still had the appearance of a finely dressed -gentleman with his pantaloons stuff edm his boot tops. He left the breeches and went out. Entering a certain promi nent hotel, he walked to the register, en tered his name, demanded to he shown to his room, and instructed the clerk to have him called at eight o'clock in the morning, ail of which was complied with ; but when the boy called him at eight o'clock the air. about, that room was very blue with jprofanity, and the fellow oidered the boy to send the landlord up immediately. The, landlord, thinking something terrible had (happened, immediately repaired to the room and found his guest apparently in, a terrible rage. He wanted to knew what kind of a house they kept there full of petty?sneak thieves. 4 'Just look here," said he; "My pantaloons containing my pocketbook and wateh. are cone, and some one connected with this house took them, for they must have crawled in over the transom. 1 tell you, I'll give this place away to every man on the road." The landlord was consider ably chagrined about the matter, and sent out for a pair of - pantaloons, and, as the rest of the clot hes were very elegant, an elegant pair was purchased. The fellow was then taken to -breakfast aud shown the best attention the house could afford. : Af ter breakfast the landlord gave, him $20, as he had to leave immediately, and prom ised to leave no stone unturned until the thief was discovered. The ute young gerhlemanwent to the T-eslaurahtV redeem ed his pants, told the story, and skipped the town about $19,50 ahead." j Dangers Arisinsr from the Use of Chloral. Medical science in England has raised vigorous protest against a habit which has" grown up of late to great proportions in that country and of which we are not whol ly free here. The use of narcotics for in somnia is of old date, but laudanum, mor phia and other opiates have, been succes sively tried and condemned. The last fashionable drug to "medicine thee to sweet sleep" was the preparation called chloral; its effectiveness to the desired end and its perfect innocuousness were largely insisted on by patentees. But now thev medical boom has sealed its fate. The Lancet pronounces it as certain death, the general press are out in denunciation of its destruc tive attributes, and even Punch dignifies it by a cartoon in which a sleeping beauty "dreaming the happy hours away" is watched over, by King Death measuring out his minims of the poison. Chloral is largely used - in America, and some little caution' maybe suggested by an extract from the London Times, a paper not much given to alarmist sensationalism. The danger of the use of chloral seems to de pend cliiefly upon the treacherous character of its 'oftentimes poisonous action. It is not uncommonly recorded at inquests that the deceased person had for a , long period been a bad sleeper, and that he had taken chloral habitually increasing the quantity from time to time, but with no apparent ill consequences, until he was at last found in a dead or dying condition. The action of the drug appears to be what physicians call cumulative, so that ; by cdhsjant repetition the system may at last become charged with a fatal dose." r Jf A Loafer's Method. How the lilies of the valley, who neither toil nor spin, nor have any privatl means, manage year after year to enjoy all the good things of this world has always been a wonder to me. Sitting the other day. with one of these lilies, 1 ventured to ask him to explaia to me the mystery of his existence. "This is," he said, "how l provide myself with excellent dinners and pocket money. ; Whenever a new restau rant of any repute is opened I dine there twice, and pay for my dinners. The third; time I send for the proprietor, and telling hknthatl have forgotten my purse, ask. him to send a waiter home with me, when I will pay my bill. To this he object, I give him mv name and address, and the next day Lsend him the price of the din ner Then I dine two or three times with out' paying, and have thoroughly establish ed my credit, and I can dine lunougj. for a long period without being troubled with the bill. I at once inaugurate picnics, I beg each guest to hand me" his share of the bill, and I oceket the money, leaving the entire amount to be charged to me. new restaurant does not like to commence its career by suing a customer, so when at last the proprietor is tired of feeding me, 1 promise to pay him some day and then commence operations with one of his con freres. Jealousy, and a pleasure- in seeing those in the same business done prevents nv one who has been victimised from warning others against me. Blind tcair, the BHKineer. . Ope of the most extraordinary instances of victory 'over adverse circumstances is foun4 in the career of John Metcalf, of Jiaresborough, the well-known engineer and road-maker. He was totally deprived of sight by small-pox when only six years okL As a rule the loss of sight shatters the whole framework otmind and body, and the child grows up selfish and moody, becom ing day by day more silent, reserve )neryous and discontented. The very reve.ie of thia waVthe case of little John Metcalf. No boy ever entered into the sports of boyhood wi& a keener relish than he; he was a pro ficient climber and bird's nester ;' he knew how tcuide and manage a horse, and enjoy. a. gowd gallop ; he knew, how to swim, and on one occasion saved the lives of three of his companions, and on another the life of a man, -after whom he dived to the bottom of the river Nidd four times. Nor was he less apt at indoor than outdoor amusements he 'could play the violin with considerable skill, and amuse himself in such a variety of ways that time never hung heavily upon his hands. As he grew up he devoted him self to useful pursuits, made a little money. and was rich enough to, buy a horse of his own;- on which he constantly followed the hounds, and was as bold arid daring a rider as anv in the held, tie even entered lor a race, and won it, to the chagrin, of many who had laid long odds against him. Among the,, feats which proved his courage and sa gacity was a walk from .London to Harrow gate, a distance of 200 miles, on an un known road ; and what is more extraordi narv. and swould be incredible but for the good authority on which the story is told, he accomplished the distance in the same time it too a Colonel Liddle to perform the journey by coach. It should be mentioned that the roa'ds were then' in a terrible state of dilapidation, rendering coach traveling not only very slow, but verv hazardous work.' During this journey; with his mind undisturbed by objects which distract or en gage the thoughts of seeing men, Metcalf considered the state oi the roads, revolving in his mind whether' something might not be done, to improve them. Each fresh epi sode in the journey, each new difficulty such as. deep,, marshy places impossible for carriages j to pass, rivers with no bridges across them, steep declivities with ruts in them euffioient to try the springs of the strongest! vehicles impressed the thought more and more strondv oh4 his mind : and although when he returned home the time had not; yet come for the idea to be fulh1 developed, it was destined at a later period to bear fruit. In the meantime he employed himself in a variety of ways in order to pro cure a livelihood, and amongst other things plaved Jhe ! violin at dances and.public as semblies, kept a vehicle for hue, then start ed in business as a fish salesman, enlisted and gained'inany volunteer recruits; after wards dealt in hosiery, then in horses, and finally became a carrier between Knares- borough and York, starting the first stage wagon on that road. . ! Dime Novel Heroes. Four small boys started recently for Texas to hunt buttaloes and light Indians, and had quite a spirited journey unty they reached pier twenty; East River; : New York, when sundry policemen took pity on the hunted red man, also the, nation's few remaining buffaloesj and so changed the party's plans that Texas is not likely to be as rich in valor as it might have been. Other venturesome souls equally youthful have started West on similar errands; m deed, they have been so numerous ' that their fancies and experiences no longer raise a laugh; on the contrary they arouse sentiments that are any thmg but facetious. Nbae-tenths of our American boys are al lowed to select their own readirig matter, and they may be depended upon to buy whatever, within their means, is most ex citing. Generally they find it in serial publications, the contributors to which seem to imagine that nothing short of the sight of gore that of an Indjan preferred can j fully satisfy juvenile Ion-ring, so scores of stories are published which no parent, no matter however much he admires bravery, would allow his boys to read diji he know what they were. Boys demand spirited stories, and should have them; but are none of the other writers alluded to able t6 bid adieu to the Indianior a little while and "work up" some 4he actual adventures of everyday life in-respectable neighborhoods and among people who are not wholly vulgar and unprincipled ? Stor ies just as exciting and strong may be made from such materials, and boyish longings for heroic lives may thus be fostered with out recourse to dishonesty Or brutality-t- without destrovine promising ycung fives and breaking mothers' hearts. " Slam. Owing1 partly to. frequent lnter-marriage, nearly a third of the population of Siam are Chinese. On the river you see Chinamen plying their boats in all directions. On the palace boulevard and upon all the side streets they jostle you, carrying their bur dens or flitCng from shop to shop, the ma jority of which in the city they own. Throughout the country there are the Uhin ese who cultivate the paddy-fields, and who bring the rice and the timber to market. The traveler unacquainted wiui geograpny would certainly suppose Siam to be a Chin ese country. The Siamese :are extremely indolent. They h&ye long since learned that they can live in their genial climate and upon their soil with but a very infin itesimal amount Tof mental and physical exertion, and they have thoroughly and constitutionally reconciled themselves to fc .knafion. This makes them naturally indifferent to any propositions for the bet- terine of their condition, eunex aoi um ih or f5r the life to come, j. uv- mv- irrmmvident mortals. The sucu a"-- . ; . . , n,,TsA Hn all the work that is done, and fact rra iniTItT a firm foothold. Three times the present number' of people could support themselves in Siam, and fur nishrbeside their own subsistence, exports enough to provide themselves with the com forts and luxuries:of all other nations. 7 12 House Cleaning. Where hard-finished walls have already been kalsomihed the soiled coats should -be washed or scraped off before a new one is put on. This is the, most disagreeable part of the process. The furniture should be covered, as lime makes spots that are re moved with . difficulty, especially r upon black walnut. . Those who have tried paint on the walls of rooms speak very strongly in its favor. It closes up the poresof the plaster so that iU cannot absorb ill odors, it can be easily cleaned with soda and water (soap and water make it spotty), and it can be made of any "desired .tint. Perhaps some readers do not know what . active ab sorbents Daoer -and DhisierJ&xirrd tiiafc when they become thoroughly saturated"! with various effluvia nothipg but entire re- . - , , ... ... ,f uclOLau" . ,T er a room, mrnismn laoor anu material, for the old plaster which is removed and used for fertilizing purposes. Insects find rip, harbor in painted Walls as they do in papered walls, and when once the paint, is dry there is no question about the poisons used in producing desirable tints. Before paint or kalsomine is applied to walls every Crack and crevice should be filled with plaster or a cement made of one part water to one part of silicate of potash mixed with common whitirig. For the kalsomine put a quarter of a pound of iwhite jglue in cold, water over night, and heat gradually in the morning until dissolved Mix eight pounds of whiting with hot water, add the dissolved glue and stir together, adding warm water until about the consistency of thick cream; Use a kalsomine brush and finish as you go along. If skim mjlk is used instead of water, the glue may be omitted. In washing painted walls it i a good-plant to remove from the room everything that can be injured by steam and then hang sheets wrung'from hot water in the room The vapOr condensing on the walls softens the dirt and it may be wiped off with wool-' en clothes wrung from soda water. Ceilings that have been smoked by a kerosene lamp should "be washed off with soda water. If the wall about the stove has' been smok by the stove cover the black patches with gum shellac and they will not strike through either paint or kalsomine. Furniture needs cleaning as much as other ' Woodwork. It may be washed with warrh so4p suds quick ly wipeddry and then rubbed with an oily cloth. To polish it, rub it with rotteristone and sweet oil. Clean off the oil, and polish with chamois skin. For . ordinary wood work use whiting to rub the! dirt off dnd ammonia. , Mortar arid paintj may be re moved from the window glass with hot, sharp vinegar. .Grained wood should , be washed with cold tea. , Carpets should be thoroughly beaten on the wrong side first and then on the right, after which spots may be removed by the use oi ox. gall or ammonia and water. If paper has been laid under the carpet all dust Jnay be easily removed with it without raising any; The warmth of floors is greatly increased by having carpet lining or layers pf paper un rTfir it. Drain ninfis and all r1apfist.hat. ar aonr or iraDure mav be cleansed with lime water. copperas water or carbolic acid. Cop peras mixed with the whitewash put upon the cellar walls will Keep vermin away, Str0ng brine may be used to advantage in washing bedsteads, but alum water is also good for this purpose. Oil of lavender will drive away fleas. Hellebore sprinkled on the floor at night destroys cockroaches: they eat it and are poisoned. Cayenne pepper gate will drive them away. The same reme dy is also good for mice. If gut frames when new are covered with a coat of white varnish all specks can then bd washed . off with water without harm. Good fires ; should be kept up during hbuse-cleaning time even though the doors and windows be kept open, -and more than usual attention should be given to the provision of a nu tritious and generous diet. Under the most favorable circumstances house cleaning makes immense demands upon the nervous system as well as on the muscular, and good food at regular intervals will I be a great help in enabling: one to be patient and find comfort in the philosophy set forth at the beginning of this brief essay. )' Have Some Uoast Pis? ' : -7 f A Detroit Justice of the Peace Was the other day interviewed by a woman .about forty-five years of age, who announced that she would be married on a certain night at her farm-house, and his Honor had been selected to come out and perform the cere- many, one asKea now mucn me iee was. -i-. 1 1 t'. : 1 il A and paid it and took a receipt, business concluded, she sat down,' filgjH.! a short clay pipe with tobacco and indulged m a smoke. :"You won't flunk out on tmst ' sue said, as she rose to go; alter exnausimg me con tents of her pipe. j Oh no I'll be there, surel" "Rn'll T. arid so'll he. or I'll know the reason why ! HeTs been clawing off a little lately, but I'll make him toe the mark, see if! don't." A "I hope nothing unpleasant will occur, observed the court. 4 'I hone so. too, but I'm going to be pre- nared for a scrimmaffe iust the same, l ou always back the weaker sex, don't you?" "Y-yes," softly replied the justice. . "So do I, and I guess we'll be all right. Don't fortret the date." i His Honor went out promptly prepared - a z i. to perform the ceremony with promptness and good-will. He found ; about a dozen persons assemDieti at . me nouse, anu me woman looked gorgeous under jthe Ught of three kerosene lamps. She had her pipe . , , . i :.u - going, and ner lace was covereu wnu a bland smile as she shook nanos and saia : "Take a cheer. The old man isn't here -m' m a 5 yet, but I'll send for mm." unen, turning to a boy in the room, sne continueq : "Samuel, so and tell tne oio man n a timp to come in and be splicedi" Samuel departed on his errarid, and after the lapse of ten minutes he returned and responded: ? ' t a. 'The old man is over w via Kru-ita riff and la whittling out a in II 1MB LSWVSWW wooden cat, and I don't believe he cares two cents about being married to you or anybody else." I t ' ; The; widow refilled her pipe, took several strong whiff s, and then Said to a long-legged farmer who seemed hungry for the bri dal feast: - ' "Moses, you go over and 'tell Noabf I want him 1" Moses departed. He was absent ,ten minutes, and then lounged in and said, "Says he is quite comfortable where he is. Guess he isn't on the marry very much." ; - - . "Judge, " began the woman as shje look ed around for her bonnet, "you play a game of fox-and-geeseiwith Moses while I gok over and see aboui . !hi ,tting. , .There's going toWamarriage" here fo-hightt and I'll bet a new hoss-rake on itl' She was absent about twenty minutes; and then returned in company with Noah. He had neither coat nor hat on, and Qnly one boot, and both were panting for breath. 4G-go ahead, Judge I" she gasped, as she hauled the groom into the center, of the room.. "He heard me coming and got out and run fonr times around the orchard, but here heisl" . 1 - , "Do you want to marry this woman f " asked the official as he gave Noah a looking over. .: " ; ' : . "Yaas!" was the blunt reply. "Then why did you run away ?" ; "'Spose I'm . going to give right in the first time?" demanded the Indignant Noah. "I'll go and fix up and come back." "No, darling-r-no you won't, my pet amethyst!" chuckled the widow. "We'll be married right here and now, boots or no boots!" j H ' She crowded him against the table, Mo ses stood behind the pair to render any needed aid, and the knot was soon tied. As soon as the cermony was over Noah skipped out of the back door, but no one pursued. The widow called the guests to supper and remarked : . "Sit right down and don't worry about the groom. ' I've been nine years working him up to this and he'll be a little bashful for a few weeks to come. Have some of this roast pig, Mr. Court?" Individual Spanking. A widow living on Fort street, Detroit, has lately been greatly annoyed by several boys trying to steal her doves. The other day she looked out just as a boy about four teen years old was climbing over the fence, but as she opened the door he ran across the street. She thought moral suasion might help his case, and she called. ' Boy, will you please come over here ?" 1 ' 'Naw yer don't I " ; he growled in answer. "Come, now, be a good boy and coma here," she continued as a pedestrian turned the corner. " ' ' i ' ' "See anything green about me ? sneered the lad. f " J The pedestrian looked from one tq the other, and asked of the woman : . ' "Do you want him ?" , i "Well, I did want him to come over " "Then he shall come!" interrupted the man, and he darted across the road, seized the boy, and shook him up and said : "Won't mind your mother, eh? Got too big for your booti, have you ? We'll see about that!" i ; ' . "Ohi sir, I didn't want him hurt!" cried the woman as she ran forward. . "Jest the way with a motherjest like 'em ! No, I won't hurt him, but he, needs a sound spanking to take the sass out of him! Lemme sit down on this hoss-block! " You dasn't you dasn't!" yell6d the boy as he tried to break away. "Sir, the.boy isn't ," put in. the wo man, but the man interrupted : . "I heerd him sassmg you, and tliat's nuff ; come over this knee, young impu dence!" The boy hooted like a panther, the wo man ran into the house and locked the door, and in twp minutes a man and wo man came tearing down the street, and pitched into the spanker like tigers. They were followed by a boy of sixteen and a girl of, twenty, all belonging to one family, and they ran the man against a fence, over a hitching-post, across the road, and then got him down on a sand-pile, and clawed him almost naked. Two plasterers interfered until he could get up, and he went out ,of the neighborhood like a Texas steer, flf things are yet sort o' mixed in his mind, the explanation at the beginning of this ar ticle will make things clear. All boys need agood training, but one shouldn't get em misplaced. .Every hoy should oe spaniceu on his own individuality . i ? '. . , -Hotel Mysteries. 1 "Whv is it." asked the man -with the sample case, "that at the average hotel, the shortest man is always set down at the end of the - table, where there Is nothing, and where he can reach nothing else f " "And why," asked the sad passenger, "is the waiter always fluttering oyer some deliberate, fussy old gourmand, who is going to stop over three days anyhow, when you have only fiftee minutes and then have to run for your train ? " j 1 "And why," asked the tall, thin passen ger, IS tne Diacs. pepper cruet biwbjti u' the castor on the next taDiei"' "And why is it empty when you get it?" asked the cross passenger. I "And .- why," asked the rat passenger, "do the two young married people who ait opposite you always stop eating and gaze at, you with auch ( puuui reproacaiumw every time you look at them? ' "And why," asked the Draxeman, coming in to viigni me lamps, uuwu shave?' "And why," suddenly said the woman who talks bass, "don't men ever ai sense?" i .... . . The peaceful silence came arming into the car, noiselessly as a log, untu mo was full of it. And these questions are v unanswered conundrums even unto thW day, apadally the last at. A i ! i.m t i 1
The Chapel Hill Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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May 29, 1880, edition 1
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