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' . " i . - . i i . $1.50 PEB ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. JOS. A. HARRIS, Editor. FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. vox v: -. CHAPEL HILL, N. C, SAT IJItDA Y, JUNE 19, 1880, NO. 10. x V ONSFOItN. I nit not - keep thee, dear. I long hare known v- f' v-ti: '- An hoar mast coma for' farewell look and igh; - " ' - . ; A.i boor wherein lore blcasoms that hare blown ; ; Around our path, like ' summer flowers must die. , :-. And I hare communed with my wakeful heart, . '-... And thought of a 1 that I Would say to thee. Ere hand and lip from band and lip shoul 1 pait. And oceans r.ll between my lore and me, ltet as we stand upon the moor to-day. The sore0 and purp'e hea her at our fee', I have uo spiiit lett in me to say The words I meant to be so strong au ' sweet ; No eloquence to help ma at my need - 7 No words of tli e to thrill my last -G'-:d-pecd !" Yet staoding th- s beneath September's sky. With solitude around us, God above. We feel, with precious moment fleeting by. That silent farewell belter suite ih love. No honey d phrase can ease the cruel emar; pelt with the stroke fate dealHh us to day, 1 read each lunging of th y t nder heart, Ihou knowst all 1 would but cannot say. , 1 do not bind thee by a parting vow. Thou speakest not of faith tu'neas to me ; It is enough to be together cow, Ere yet between us rolls the riahty sea. S lent, alone among the moorlanl flowers, TasMtU the last of all our happy honis ! M2jor Boots. Once upon a time a certain gentleman, vho liTed splendidly and did not pay his debts, owed his shoemaker a large bill, and the shoemaker having been told to call again many times, and baring written notes without end asking for a settlement, re solved to disgrace his customer by expos ing him to his friends the tery next time he gave one of those large dinner parties which so excited the creditor's ire. Accordingly, having seen the wagons of the caterer stop before the door,and watched the waiters enter one by cne, Mr. Shoe maker, attired himself in his Sunday suit, and with his little bill elegantly written out, awaited the appearance of the car riages and when at least fifty had arrived, set down their burdens and departed, stalked up the doorsteps like a vengeful ghost, and ringing the bell furiously, found it opened for him with startling celerity, and stood tace to face with a tall, black waiter, white gloved and stately. 'Where's Mr. Cheateir ?" whispered the shoemaker. "Gentlemen's dressing-room, second floor hack," responded the waiter. y Some one else Lad arrived, and was treating on his heels. A vision of splen dor, in the most wonderful, soft, white wraps floated past him. "Ladies," front room, second floor, gen-. :!emen, back," repeated the waiter. Mr Shoemaker was hustled for ward, hat iu hand, and saw his delinquent .debtor in n the elegance of drVss-coat button hole dower, and white crava't, bowing to, shak ing hands with and smiling upon aristo cratic personages innumerable. The sight fanned anew the flame 'of the tradesman's just wrath. He marched for ward, planted himself directly before the elegant Mr. Cheatem, and stared him in the face. - But Cheatem did not wilt. He knew his gutst well enough and he understood his purpose ; but what he did say, was : "Beg pardon ; for the moment I've for 'zolten your name. 7 "Have you ? The n perhaps you'll re member me when I tell you that I made your boots.' "Now, if you'll trouble yourself to repeat these last four words rapidly, you will find that you don't say, as ycu believe you do : made your boots.'bnt, 'I maj ur boots. ' " Tie lucky Ch a em de't cted this fa't on the instant. 1 ''Major Boots!" he cried, demonstra tively shaking hands. "Dear, dear ; how could I forget you for a moment ! Delighted to see you delighted. Mrs. Chifflns, let me introduce you to my old friend, Major Boots." 'So glad to know you," responded the old lady thus introduced. J'm sure I've heard Cousin Cheatem speak of you - a thousand times. Bit down, do, and tell ' me who all these people are, I'm quite a stranger I've Isolated myself in Europe so long. Sit down, Major Boots;- hare is a chair." The newly-christened shoemaker hesit fed a moment, but it was not possible for him to cry out : Tm not Major Boots; I'm Clamp, the shoemaker, come for my bill." He found he had. not the courage,. He mmmoH M Via nndir t Vi vplvpt rhftir tO which he was motioned, and subsided into ansrrv R.lpnr while th old Iftdv went on : ;Oh Major, I always feel o privileged when I. hftv the onnortunitv to talk to a military man'. I adore courage. And were you ever wounded ? " Do tell me all 2.1 OM t if ' - . The bootmaker, finding it necessary to reDiv. said that he never had oeen And the old lady-went on : "Never! How charming! Bcre a charmed life." and all that sort of thinsr.' Do tell me all fthniit it " " The shoemaker replied "that there was nothing to tell."' On which that most gushing of old ladies fried : 'un, AlLHJJlf X WUU U;U1 mm mum Hke the modesty of you'celebrated military ucu. i ktjow you sxormeu reuuuuio ""-i lorlorn hopes, and were the oniy one left of vnur rorr! mpnf inrl all that. I'm Slim I rA .11 - V . t Ua 'imp I III. hpro la l nkk. - AolshMttvl P. n crl i sll - o VU1UUCI UUUUB) MJKlliv mm 0 officer, aid something awfully brave In In- a. uoionel let me made you acquamw With 1 a T vf niir ViraVPRt mill- "7 men. He's been telling me all about ttie wonderful thinira he did in the army. I jost like all you great men won't trouble himself to light his batttes over for an old woman." ,j 'Aw awfully, charmed, I'm sure," re sponded, the gallant coloneL "Awfully, aw. Must introduce you to my. brother, Captain 'Hobbs in the same wegiment with myself." ' j The shoemaker had arisen and was look-, ing down" on his business suit. .1 "I didn't intend to that is, I didn't ex pect to be at such a swell affair as this, "he stammered! 'or I I should have word my dfcssvjirit." j ,4Oh, my dear fellow, we always expect you I Amewicao "officers to be wough and wready.' We'd le disappointed if you were not. The : ladies,-you. know, adore wough and weady men. It's the particular charm of Amewicans." ' A way .bo led the bootmaker, who really began to feel that he must have been, at some period of ' his life, a military man. And after being introduced to Captain Hobbs as Major de Boots, who was "de lighted," found himself tete-a-tcte with a very lovely young French lady, who ad dressed him as 14General . de Buta,"and whom, at the request of his hostess, whom he had never seen before, and who had no idea who he was, he took down to supper. Somehow this stranger in his mixed suit, and with his sulky air, had been set down as a most eccentric and distinguished mili tary man by everybody. He was regarded with attention, listened to with reverence when he condescended to say a few words. The French lady introduced him volumin ously asQeneral de Bit a; and thus w.is he addressed thereafter. The waiters of fered him champagne frequently, and the bootmaker gradually grew exhileratcd. Never had he been present at such elegant festivities. Never had he partaken of such .viands been so overwhelmed with festivi ties. Never had so lovely a creature leaned on his arm. Never had he tasted such wine. At first it exhilerated him, then it mounted to lus head, and suddenly it ap peared to him that his host was a glorious fellow, and that he was under infinite obli gations to him. j Doubling his fist, he brought it down upon the table with a crash that made the glasses ring again. ! "Better man than Cheatem don't live I" cried he. 1 j T agree with you,' replied his neighbor, politely. . jAh! I adore such enthusiastic friend ship, such lof like Damon and Pythias in ze play;" ejaculated the French lady. j "Ho original! How delightfully eccen tric! A perfect military man," whispered others. ' ' Meanwhile the-bootmaker, staggering to his 'feet, made his way, as best he might, toward his host. . j Cbeatem," he cried, look here 1 Icame" here he reeled and caught at a table "I came to give you this before every (hie) everybody " '-And he held out his folded bill, which Mr. Cheatem instantly took. i "Now I I wouldn't (hie) do it for for" . Mr. Cheatem beckoned two waiters. j "My .dear old friend," he said, youre not quite well. Let these men put you in a carriage, and go home. I'll call on 3 0U to-morrow. So glad to have seen you. As for this pooh ! pooh ! ! The waiters led the bootmaker from the room, after their host had whispered a di rection to be given the driver. And Mr. Cheatem thus addressed his friends: I "You must not think ill of my old friend; for this little lapse of his. After the trials of military life it is only to be expected that his habits should not be I hose of quiet civilians, and 'tis his only weakness." One forgives everything in a soldier,' remarked a lady. - "A very ordinary failing for a. military man," responded a gentleman. "And to think the honest creature should have remembered so slight an indebted ness as this, and been so anxious about it," sighed Mr. Cheatem, as he put the shoe maker's receipted bill into his pocket. Curious Laken. -v .9 AToolfrmrTTYinfj! A lull in tJ .:. Usvttlanrl 1Q fl lfltiR Onft hllTld- 1U Vcl iicooiiii t., -vic-v., red and eight feet long and eighteen broad, ... t ' anA ia alirnva full1 wnlCfl never nccico, -- witnOUl m apwuou v DlV. 1 1112 l&Ke XI uccu -v . . . a. J M iir AoAOptDinorl o in able, but me contrary i uu About seventeen miles from this lake is another, called Locn a, covered with ice ail the year wound. On - . . r n;no lr I'nrtii era 1 the top ot a nage 01 iuuuuui -caUed Estrella, there are two lakes of great extent and depth, especially one of them, which is said to be unfathomable. V bat is most remarKame m mem i, are calm when the sea is so, and rough ... . i t. matoo it. nrn. when that is stormy, wuiuu mv r bablethat they. have '.ubtenranwus com munication with the ocean; and this seems to be connrmea oy me picwa they occasionally - cast up, though almost forty miles from the sea. There is also another very curious lake in this country, which, before a storm, makes ia frightf ul rumbUng noise that may be heard it the distance of several miles. And there a pool or fountain caUed Fervancas , about twenty-four miles from Coimbra, that ab sorbs not only wood, but even the lightest Ed? thrown into it, such as cork, fathers tr thp. bottom, and straw. eic wm "" v . ' , , . Biraw, added are seen no moic - , a remarkable spring near Eremos which petrifies wood,. or rather incrusts itwtt hnt th moat surprising cir- it t hi OAs ud water Cumsunee ia . , n:a enough in summer- to turn - several mills, whereain winter It is perfectly dry. . i i ntm anil 31 half i . , hirpa of three eiris. volk of olc; grated rind.and juice - i hif or tr) small or a iemou u - twentv Minutes stirring all the while. Very mAnU!;!"i i5 h aten as preserves. nc i :rvnt ovrr aiv - - - Traveling on a Hymn. Soon after Circuit Court Commissiner Randall had got seated m his office in De troit one day recently, there came a steady tramp! tramp! down the hall, and a solid, hearty voice led off with : j " There's a land that is fairer than day. . f And by faith we shall see it afar, j For our Father w s over. the way, j To prepare us ' - j "Good morning, sir, I am getting on to Nebraska." j 'This isn't the route, " replied the Com missioner, as he looked up. "I know it, sir, but I'm doing a little singing and collecting a little money to help pay my way." ! What do,you sing ?" j 'f The Sweet Bye and Bye.' That's my gait, and it has taken well so far. j We shall sing on that teautiful shora j The melodi m songs j " Been traveling on that hymn c5lar from Providence, and it has struck 'em every time." j "We don't think much of it out West here," remarked the Commissioner. j "Yon don't ! Why, there's nothing likQ it I If I had a brother, and he was a blamed heathen, and that hymn didn't melt him right down and make him confess to every mean act of bis life; I'd disown him ! Can Michigan people be worse than heathens ! j " 'And our spirits shall s rrow no more. Not a sigh " I don't believe they are." " I think you'll find that our people prer fer something lively, instead of melting We are not much on the melt, except in hot weather." "I will now slug the 4Sweet Bye and Bye,' " said the man as he put lus hat xn the desk. i "Don't." ! . V But I will. You've never heard it sung as it should be. Why, man, I cut across a corner of Connecticut in March and hardened old Sinners followed me for miles and cried like children ! In one case I went twenty miles to sing it to a backslider on his rying bed. " "Did it finish him?" , "No; sir! He got well. Why, when I got into Canada they turned out as if I had been a circus. i 'We shall Bing The melo . . tnat beautiful shore, "Say, what do you charge not to sing it?" interrupted the Commissioner. "As I told you before, we want somtthmg out this way more on the order of Old Dan Tucker, ' wi th a piccolo accompaniment. V "I don't know nothing about the Tucker family, nor nothing about piccolos. I'm square up and down on the. 4 Sweet Bye and Bye.' It fits me. We sing right upj together liKei twins. I'll sing it and collect ten cents. Ready; now" - ' f "Here's a quarter not to sing it." " Sa'," said the man after a long pause, "I won't take it !" No, sir. I'm traveling on a gait of my own. My particular lih is The Sweet Bye and Bye, as I may have incidentally mentioned before.! I've got the air right down fine, and I can knock the socks off any church choir in America on the chorus. Good day, sir I I might sell my vote on a pinch, but 1 can't bo bribed to give my hymn the cold shake. " In the Bw-e-e t bye and bye, - - li;me-bv . ; In the sweet in the sweet. ,We shall sing- '" j And he never halted nor looked around, although the Commissioner hit him in the back with a quarter. ' Deatn In A falace. Eye-witnesses say that te scene pre sented during the last moments of Menceaes Queen of Spain, was imposing in the ex' reme. A magnificent altar had been set up in the apartment facing the widely open doors ; it was profusely illuminated and lighted, and covered with flowers and tall wax candles. The Patriarch of the Indies, . the Archbishops, Cardinals, the clergy -of- the Royal Chapel and other church diernitaries, were grouped before itj reciting the prayers that went up without ceasing to tke throne of the Almighty,' imploring clemency for the living and the dvintr. The Crown Ministers, the Presi-! dents of the Senate and the Cortes, the King's gentleman-in-waiting, and the ladies-m-waiting of the yueei and Princess were all on their knees reciting the re- sponses. The King sat at the right of the! bedside, with the dying Queen's hand in his, and at the left was the Princess steadi-j y pressing a handkerchief from time to; ime. to the damp-brow already cold. At the foot of the bed, transfixed with grief,! stood the Duke and the JJuchess, and at a little distance the lovely group, the three. Infantass and Cristma, the Queen's youngest sister, all in white, and with their heads bowed in prayer. No soirid was heard in or near the death chamber beside; the low chanting of the clergy, the nuuv mured responses, and the sobs of the King,; WhO Wept COnuuuaiJjr oa luuugu xiio uwuk would break. His attendants had given nn Dressing him to leave the Deasiae, lor he had . energetically ueeimeu iui. would only leave the Queen wnen lire iei her. All wept; ail Doweu iu prajei u the decree of the Most nign nau gone m iu and precisely at a quarter past 12 o clock the Marquis of Gregorio pronounced the fatal words : zZl pana ha muerlor v. . Maiesty. Dead, mywrrf: Dead. Ivisnt lvevereuwa. ; . . . , Pounced by the Court Pcian-in-chief Celled forth from the : chamber a da k .. A nrroA thrOUffh th6 lOIty . . . t- . MAifl " rt IM.IH.1 nuiuo fiiiiien. ana witu 'v"" - : F IS reached the uttermost extremities of Madrid, when the passing bells began to toll and the minute gun announced that 2 'uSortunate young Queen bad ceased to exist. -' - : Uninvited guesta sit on thorns. 'Abe's Gone on Ton." - Mr. Coville's niecej an estimable as well as a pretty young lady, has been visiting "him for some time. Shortly after her coming a clerk in one of Danbury's leading stores made her acquaintance, and became at once her devoted attendant, very much to the delight of young Covilll. The clerk is very fond of good tobacco and smokes an admirfible cigar. The portion of it' that is not consumed when he reaches the house he leaves on the porch until he comes out again. The third or fourth 'time he did this young Coville detected the move, and lost no time in possessing himself of the" luxury, with which he retired to an out-of-the way place. When this iad been done several times, and several times the clerk had secretly felt for and missed his cigar, he began to growj suspicions and uneasy. Perceiving.; this, young Coville awoke to the fact that something must be speedily done to counteract the smoker's discretion, and the best way to do it was to so com pletely involve him in the meshes of love as to make the loss of . an unfinished cigar a matter of no account whatever. With this view he put himself in the young man's way at the store. The bait took. "How's Minnie?" said the clerk anx iously. I I "She's not very well,," said young Coville. ' I "Why, what's the matter?" ! "I don't know. I guess you know I that better'n I do," answered the youth with a facetious wink. it I know ? T mieiia on OVi etto'a orfinfl on von. "Shi" cautioned the clerk, looking around to see if ihey . were unobserved ''What do you mean, Billy f V and he blushed and looked pleased. . ; "Why you see, she's as chirp as can be when you're thers,'but when you ain't she's all down the mouth. She don't fix her hair, an' she ("won't see anybody, an! she goes around the house sighing, an hour without sayin' a blamed word to nobody, but just koking at the walL Then there's another thing, '' added the young man im pressively, she don't put cologne on her handkerchief only when lyou're coming. Oh, I know aUhing or two you bet." And he winked again. . To say that the clerk was too pleased and rejoiced for anything is but feebly express ing the frame of his mind. In the excite ment of emotion he gave young Coville a quarter. That diplomat hastened home and immediately sought his cousin. "Minnie," he said, "I have been up to Charlie's store." Have you ? " she said, trying to look very much unconcerned. "Yes, and I tell you, Minnie, he's just a prime fellow way up. But he's gone on you." "What 'do you mean, Willie ?" asked the flushed and agitated girL "I mean just what I say. He's gone sure. . He got me off in one corner and he just pelted the questions intomeabomvyou. By gracious, Minnie, it's awful to see ; how he is gone on you. He .wanted to know what you're (Join', an' if you were enjoying yourself, an' It you're careful about your health. He'd better be looking out for his own, I'm tbinkinV' The girl was pleased by these marks of devotion from the handsome clerk, but her heart failed her at the last observation. "Whv, what do you mean, YV'illie ?" she asked in considerable apprehension. ; "Oh, nothing, only if ' he keeps agoin' down as he is of late, it won't be many months before he is salted down for good," said the young man gloomily. ' "He told me that the things of this world wasn't long for him."' And young Coville solemnly shook his head and withdrew to invest the quarter. A great happiness has come up3n Char lie and Minnie now. Four times a wek he visits her, and four times a week young Coville pensively sits back of the fence, smoking a cigar and speculating on the joy ful future opening before his cousin and her lover. i Summer Diet. Thpri is a creat deal said in D raise of French cookery, but the demands of the in tence life Americans lead cannot be met by iere flavors and simulated dishes. ; Our palate may be cheated by the cuisinier, hut he cannot cheat Our stomachs. Food we must have-food that on analysis gives .. - - . mm 1 ' fibrin and gluten and aionmen, ana puis sucji rest' etnas into our mascles and our brains that we cannot choose out worK ana think. The hearty worker is invariably the hearty feeder. While it is right and proper to utilize everything edible, and wrong to waste what may serve a useful purpose, there is no economy so unwise as that which leads us to defraud our blood oy nning ine stomach with what seems to be food, but is lacking in the essential elements of food: In the summer time, iruits ana vegeiames naturally form a large part of our diet. When neither under-ripe nor over-ripe, nothing can be moie wholesome than fruit. But there are no articles of food1 more de ranging to the system than unripe fruit, or that verging on decay. In which the fermen tations of decomposition have begun. So far as possible? i-fruit should b6 eaten with out sugar. Sugar is carbon in a saccharine garb, carbon is heat. Curds are; very de lightful articles of food. For breakfast on a very sultry morning in July or August nothing can exceed a cream cheese for de licacy and satisfaction. The habit once foimed of eating cold dishes in summer, and the American idea that every meal must taste of -the fire, being discarded, large comfort ensues to the cook and .the eater no less. Cold tea and cold coffee,' if richtly made and cooled, are as refreshing & J . " ... 1 KoUOTO OTPS at and stimulating as luewm ! a -212 degrees Fahrenheit. Cold meats are as nutritious as warm; meats, and many vegetables are as palatable when they -ha ve been a half a day from the fire a. when first Soked. Salads of all kinds are especially Xlm warm weather, and should form part of every dinner. The Ma u Who Got High. A citizen of repute has for some time past been greatly annoyed at the slow progress made by the carpenters in building for him a horse-barn, and the said carpen ters have been highly incensed over his im patience. They left him, the other night on a scaffold under the eaves at one end, to which spot he had climbed, to sec if the cornice wasn't on bottom side up and when he wanted to come down the ladder was gone moved around on the side. The citizen looked down upon the cobble-stone alley, up at Jhe sky, and found himself left. He could have alarmed the neighborhood by one yell, but he didn't care to make a men agerie of himself. . He, watched the street forty feet away, and finally attracted the attention of a boy. The boy had the situa tion -explained to him, but he couldn't handle the ladder. When he found he couldn't, he sat dow on a bunch of shingles and folded his arms, saying : Well, Lmight as well stop around and see this episode closed out at reduced fig ures." " - : v . " Boy, won't you go and get a man to move the ladder for me softly asked the citizen as the distance to the ground began to increase in his estimation. '.Not much, you might fall while T was gone," was the cheering rep-y. . In the dusk an old ady stopped at the entrance of the alley to read the number of the house, and not being able to make it out she called to the boy. He beckoned her to come down there with one hand while the other was elevated toward the man on the scaffold. . ''Man up there highly dangerous trag edy ahead?" he remarked as she advanced. "Yes, he's right up there," she replied as she stretched her neck to view him. "Madam, can't you and the boy lift that ladder ' around here V anxiously inquired the citizen as he felt his knees going back on a solemn agreement to stand firm under him. v 1 ,"I am, no madam, sir I" she -resorted very promptly. ; " I'm almost a stranger in the city 1 Don't be quite so sassy in? your remarks, sir I" "I asked you if you and the boycoildn't move the ladder around here ?" he blf.ndly said. ..' Lifting a ladder is mighty hard o a the system 1" said the boy. V " What do I know about moving city ladders?" she called outy "and on earth makes you so anxious to your what come down here all Of a sudden ?" I will give each of you half a do lar," he suggested. "It don't seem to me that you ought to U9e such freedom with a stranger I" shouted. "I don't feel holden to do thing in this case, being as I don't she any- even know your name. What earthly object have you got in coming down here, any way?" .' , . - "Madam, ' I want to go home,' he answered. "Madani, again! I want you to under stand that my name is Thomas, sir ! If you can't address me as a gentleman should I'll see about it see about it, sir I" . "Name's Thomas, and I'll affydavy the fact!'' shouted the boy. "If T-o-m-u-s don't spell Thomas, then I want to see this government Mexicanized r The citzen kept his eye on the mouth of the alley and after a long minute the woman inquired : " Any more sass from up there ?" ," If so, we'll stop the press to anncunce the same," added the boy. Receiving no reply the woman walked away, but the boy stuck to the buudh of shingles like a bumble-bee to a Smyrna. fig. "Boy, I'll give you a dollar to call a mdn," said the. cherub aloft. r ' Make more than that as foreman of the coroner s jury, was the lonesome "Ill lick you out of your hide if It ever do get down ! " exclaimed the now indignant citizen. Ten minutes brought no change, bu eleven " minutes did. A private carriage come down the alley; and the driver! was known to the man on the scaffold. "James!" he called out, "James, jump out and shake that hoy there out of his jacket, and then-8 wing, that ladder arbund to mel" "My client files his1 objections and; de mands a chance of venue 1" observed!, the boy, and he skipped before James had touched the ground. '4 ,' The ladder was swung around, the man descended, and he was rubbing his head to get the 41 swim'' out of it, when a lonesome voice came to him through the V 3xkqess calling: - 'JNever mind: you'll probably oe run over by an omnibus to-mrrow! JuJticie is slow, but she alius gits thar !" False Teeth and Crutches. Among the passengers who boarded east-bound train at Holly, Michigan, other day were a bride and groorn of regular holly-hock order. Although the the the the car was full of passengers the pair began to ' 1 'V squeeze nanas ana nug as -soon as wev were seated. This of course attracteai attention, and pretty soon everybody was nodding and winking, and several persons so far forgot themselves as to laugh out right. By and by the broad-shouldered andj red-handed groom became aware of theKfact that he was being ridiculed, knd he unlinked himself to the height of jeix feet, looksd up and down the able and said: "There seems to be considerable noddinsr and winking around here because I'm hugging the girl who was marriedj to me at i clock this morning.15 If the rules of this railroad forbid a man from hugging his wife after he's paid; full fare then I m going to quit, but if the rules don't and this Winking and blinking isn't bitten sbOrt off when we pass the next mile-post, I'm goin to begin on the front seats and create a rising market "for false teeth ind crutches!" It there were any more wihks a vi:nVa in that car the firroom didn t wUVI ' . , eatch 'em at it Snakes Katlng Fisk. For a number of years past it has been pur custom, because unable to find any better way to dispose of the summer leisure, to do a good deal of fishing in the Potomac river., sometimes In the immediate front of the Capitol sometimes at the Little and Big Falls! above; and sometimes at tho Four Mile Run below. We have generally used live-baiti there; being minnows in any quantity along the edges of the river.. Three summers ago we went to catch min nows at the mouth of a small run called Gravelly creek, situated on the west bank of the river, just at the foot of the Arling ton estate. A short distance north of the run is the once quite celebrated Arlington springs, which is still a place of resort for large. numbers of Sunday visitors froija the city. To rcach the springs, except by boat it is necessary to cross Gravelly creek near its mouth, or go quite a long distance around the creek. ' To enable parties to cross the creek at the mouth, a passage way has been made, by a kind of loose dam of stones. At low water the creek here is some forty feet wide, but at full tide it is fully, sixty feet and four or, five feet deep. These loose stones form- quite an impedi ment to the tide, so that, when the tide Is rising, the waiter on the river, side of tfc dam is several inches higher than the water on the other side, and flows through arid over the loose stories quite rapidly, and the reverse is the case when the tide is falling. Vast numbers ot minnows are to be found at all times in the marsh along the river banks, and asl the tide rises they seek the runs to be found here and there to avoid Jhe white and yellow perch which prey up on them, and f it is while they are making up the creek that We catch the quantity wanted.' Onjs day, while catching minnows as usual, we noticed a number of snakes, the common water-moccasin, approaching the dam or footway of stone. The water yet lacked several inches of reaching the top of the stone wavJ although it was rushing in quite rapidly bull-minnows - mf - fand carrying with it many and small white pearch that. were unable to resist it. Watching the snakes, we saw. one after another reach the dam and take j their fetation upon it, sub merging themselves all but their heads, which were'raised about an inch above the water and pointed in the direction of the incoming tide. 'In this posilioa a aunted seventeen snakes, arangsd at uneven inter vals, in a space of less than sixty feet. We came to the conclusion at once they were fishing, and watching them with a good deal of iritrest. Pretty soon one head danted forward, going under thewater, re appearing in a moment with a very large minnow in its (mouth. The snake immedi ately loosened! its hold upon the rocks and swam for the shore, reaching which it -dis-, appeared in the bushes; and this was re peated at intervals by each of th3 seventeen snakes. When they returned from the bushes ; having made short work of their " catch," each snake sought his own par ticular location on the rocks, there being no clashing of! interests there. now Things go Wrong. ' "''.'I ' : - There are certain '- times in each rnau't life when everythingv goes wrong: By a kind of total depravity, which extends to things material, whatever happens seems to become a new wild animal in the mena garie, and one's life for the time being, is a fearful snarl. A friend of ours calls these seasons not inappropriately "devil's days." For instance, you hunt all over tho room for a pencil, jwhich you are sure you have seen within five minutes, and, having lost both patience and temper, find it at last , behind your ear. You are in a hurry and want a penknife. You always keep it'in one place, because you - know that some time you will get befogged, just as you are now ; but when you put your hand out to take it, it is not there. Then you fret and scold and vow that somebody has surrepti tiously entered the room and purloined it. After you have fumed yourself in a fever you look again, aud there it is, lying in its accustomed place, just as serenely as a child in its cradle. You were looking ' straight at it and didn't see ; it. Then the whole household, which you have sent to hunting it up, and each individual member of which you have accused of having it in his pocket, rushes in and asks you whore you found it," and makes you feel like an idiot when you 1 confess that it was just where they all told you it was. Things like these happen upon these illstarred j days and . emphasizes the advice to always keep calm yourself. Doge and Weather Dogs are not without their weather-lore Thus, when they eat grass, it U a sign of rain : if they roll bn the ground and scratch. or become drowsy and stupid, a change in the weather may be expected. As, indeed, in the case of the cat, most of their turn ings and twistings are supposed prognosti cations of something. ! There are numerous other items of folk-lore connected with' the dog, to which we can only incidentally al lude. Thus in Ireland it is considered un lucky to meet a barking dog early In the morning, and, on the other hand, just as fortunate for bne to enter a house the nrst thing In the day, They are commonly said to possess a wonderful instinct for discern ing character, generally avoiding ill-tem pered persona, and. making friends with any stranger who) happens to be of a kind ' and cheerful dispbeitisn. The life of a dog is sometimes said to be bound up with that of his master or mistress. When either dies, the other cannot live. It is curious that this faithful companion of man should have . Decome a term ox reproacn, ana oe used by most of our old writers. : This we find various phrases such' as "dogbolt," 'dog's face," " dog's leach," " dog-trick, V etc, all of which Were intended to convey the idea of contempt. In davt tone bv it . w mv w was a common practice in the country house for the dog to turn the srit at the kitchen . fire, a custom which is described by Dr. Cains, founder ol . the college Cambridge, which! bears hla nam. r aeaa he wouldn't tell mo about them pice a v- . - i
The Chapel Hill Ledger (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
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June 19, 1880, edition 1
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