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VOU XIL GRAHAM, -N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1886, NO. SB. A GARDEN STOIir. The story began on a piece' of ground, & perhaps I ought to say, in It. wher i . (here had been a flower garden for yean and years," of .the most old-fashioned sort. It always, seemed in th spring as if nobody need touch it, as if all the flowers had coma up and blossomed so many times thatthey taight be left alone to look after themselves. , She would not have a man about that - part of her small domain not she! Old Mike O'Brien had been a gardener . to a - lord in his native country, and might be trusted to tetke the whole care of her short rows of beans and forty hills of potatoes; - but she- never ,could. let hfra loose among the flower beds only bnco when she had to spend a great deal .of time with a sick sister and gave him patterns of three kinds f weeds, which lie might pool; even then, scornful as he was of her directions, she found the top of one of her best lilies, and nearly all the sprouts of her. favorite mist-plant lying with the pig- weed and rag-weed on the garden walk, , Sometimes she got very tired; but f fler all it was very' good for her to epend so much, fame out of - doors, and she had the ' prettiest sweet peas, and ' poppies, and marigoldsj in town. It was tier one great luxury and pleasure, and one friend after another found a chance to give her a rare bulb, or a slip from a mew geranium, or some rare-flower eeeds, as the years went by. ; v- The minister's wife had a' very rich cousin near Boston," who lived in a fine place, and wag mistress of a hot-house. Kins Dunning had once succeeded in making ' something bloom that the cousin's gardener had failed to persuade into flowering and there had tveiv more - than one message and tribute pass to and 'fro. It ww si great triumph, and Miss : Dtuining was asked - to write her course .. of treatment for the gardener's benefit! The mly pain she ever had all sum- . met in regard to her little garden, was Jier fear lent she should be indulging Jierself selfishly.' She really did spend too much,' according to- her slender "aneahs, in this gratification. She knew that there 'were oth.-r ways in which the money ;nlght do wore good, and if a contribution box passed her by. in church . after she had been buying a nev roe or a named geranium of high degree, she frit as guilty as if she had directly robbed it, and had been caught, by tlie deacons. . But, dear soul! she tried in many ways to give as many people as possible a 'hare in her joy, and the , whole country village was the better for her beloved ilower garden." Sick people and little children were sure to have enough of - posies; tlie pulpit in the old meeting house was adorned Sunday after Sun day. There was never a- bride or a fun eral in Littletowu' that did not depend, . jnore or less, summer or winter, upon Miss thinning's store of blossoms. This year she hud added to her bene factions. She had sent her name to . Boston as one kind soul .who would give a little child her bleeped country week. "No boy, " Miss Ann, had' written in her plainest hand, with two or three un-' derlinings, and if she had picked Boston . 4II over she-could not have found a httle maid that was more ' to her mind than, tlie one who fell to her share. Jime after tlie first of June; and she ws - little dismayed to be taked at her . W1MU. LJIIO W1BHDU Witt IUW CUU1U tlV least have got her weeditig done; but the spring had been very late. ' On the tint -of June itself, she had ' , gone to the depot to meet the unknown visitor, and the little white bouse was vut in as careful order for the reception of small Peggy McAllister as if she bad lieen Queen Victoria herself. i II. - Three ladies had read Mils Dunnfng's letter together in Boston, and had smiled , t it a little. The "No Boys" had divert ed onn of (Item particularly, and. she in stantly began to make a little picture fer herself of tlie dear oUl-fashioned coun- try-woman who had writlen the prim" -note. . ; ., ,. . , . . " "I can see just bow neat and nice the . - little house lit, and I know what grows in her garden. We must keep that place for a very - deserving little person. I really should love to spend a week with Miw-Anii Dunning myselr!" . l nxiieve i know just uie ngnt cnud, . - now," ail one of the ladies. 1' was at die Blank street hospital, yesterday, and one of the sisters spoke to me about a child for whom she evidently had . great nffecUon; a little Scotch girl at least her father and mother were from &sotIaud, originally. They bad both died and an aunt took Peggy. The si '- ten sent for her so I could see her. The mint anil the child were brought to the ' Jtnepital sick, early thi spring, and tlie poor woman died, but Peggy remains be . "-hind. Sister Helen asked . me if I couldnt find somebody who would bice to adopt her. She said she bad been so y Wear and uaef ut they should hardly know bow to do without her; -biit it is really no plnoe for her at 1 the hospital. - 1 ' thought she bad a sweet, wise bule face, (ut site needs son and air now. I never ' . thought of the country week! , Do let ns aamd her. Something may come of ill" This seems to be the very place," aaid the first speaker, smilin;. Tber were . used to Mrs. West's enthusiastic dascrip . tfast of- people, and to the sensible ' prompting of her warm heart. -. "I am going tJirough Blank street on rny way borne, said one of peggr'a ..- wooiu-oe uenefacrors, -ana 1 will see Sister Helen about it. If your -Pegg t-ome back w will try to find her a letter friend." - P.ww Ll. l',U, TV. .,.. O.. !... frnn to wonder what waa going to be come of bet; and whether there was . busy world. She bad been grieved enough when her aunt's housekeeping was - itTrn op, sua woes tney wens to urn hospital evetyth'nj bad seemed strange and -sad. Now, just as she bad learned to feel at borne there and to real y love Sister Ht4i and two or three of the ''! .t ItinJ ! i who nnrsed the 4 " - r . f 1 jaf pr t' " of the sick people themselves sho had1 found that she must go away, though nobody-knew exact!? where; She had tried so hArd to rnn ferrands quickly' and to wait Upon every one, 1 since" she had felt better and bod begun to miss her aunt a little less . aad not to cry -about her quite much,. She was a silanL Crave little child and old for hor years. She hoped' if he were very good and gave no trouble that Sister Helen would let her stay. It was, ' indeed, a great sorrow when she was told about, the country week visit. They said it would only be a week, and yot Peggy cried herself to sleep that night. She was to go on Saturday.- and Sister Helen was going to take her to the train; but Peggy could not bear to see children go by on the street when she looked out of the hospital windowJ"Jiey were -all going home; they had' fibers and sisters, she was sure. Noowy guessed in , those days how sod this little heart was grow . ing. It would have made the tears come quick to all our eyes if we had known her and had seen the poor child sitting alone on a Wide red seat in the cars. bound on her solitary journey.' We are so glad that we know already something about Alms Ann Dunning. - . ' - .' , - Only two business men and Pegjry herself were landed by the train at the Littletown station; but $11 tlie idlers in the village were tnere to look at thorn. The brakeiuan, to whom Sister Helen had spoken about Peggy, helped her down the car steps very kindly into tlie middle of the awesome crowd. Then Miss Dunning, . who was waiting, too, puxhed her way eagerly forward to say; This must be the. little girl that has come to make me a visit, " and tired, be-, wildered Peggy looked up with brim ming eyes into the homely, pleasant face, and said: -. Yes, - please," without . a doubt or fear. . . '"Hiked her the minute I saw her," Hiss Dunning wliiapered to everybody the next day, going and coining from church with. Peggy fast held by the hand. "She's so handy and sensible. I don't know as I ever shall aend tier back. She's got no folks. Come here from the hospital." . '': ' ' "And again: !; "You'd never take her to be a IJ-year-old. She's forever a-watchin' mo to try and get what 1 want and save steps. She set the table as handy as could be lost night; two hours after she come when I was busy cuttin' and bastin' for Miss Farley. You know she was called away to stay with hnr mother," and has ended up her school?" r . After such a promising beginning we need not be surprised that arrangements were' made for Peggy's further continu ance. And here, again, were solitary 'set in families Miss Dunning, the busy village dressmaker; Peggy, the lonely chilifwho clung to the new friend with double affection, because tlie little house was in a way so much like tlie two rooms in which she and her elderly aunt had lived togother. What could have been more fitting than their being housemates? .,.. : r. , , Miss Dunning did not prosper' the less though money was not too plenty in village where there was a younger and more fashionable person busy at hor 4 trade, and almost every one of her cur- tpnjers ftn4 very fe aF?. nw , titem herself after, good . Miss Dunning had cat and basted them; But she bad some good, generous friends, and at any rate never once thought about Peggy, as he did sometimes oabout Ue. garden seeds, thnt she was ashamed to look the contribution box in the face. Thia brings me hack again to the garden. There was one pleasant June evening just after Peggy came I know tliat it had not yet been decided that the visit was to last any more than a week when the new friends were busy together among the flower-beds. Bliss Dunning was right in saying cheerfully that this was a good growing year; flowers and weeds alike were springing up as close together as they could, and ' just before it was dark the good -woman told ber little guest that slie might take the old hoe and wage ur against a velvety growth of seedlings that spread from one side of the path nearly to the other. Nobody badtaxen the urae to attend to the dis orderly narrow path, there had been so much to do with tranplanting and more important tilings. Peggy s eyes shone at her first glimpse of the garden on Sunday morning, and she was prov ing liertelf a most apt scholar undet Una Dunnings instruction. She had seen the somewhat neglected hospital garden a few times before she left town. and already knew Ine names of many planU. She looked up In unmistakable dismay when Mia Dunning spoke; but she went dutifully to the aide of, the doorstep and brought the hoe: then she stood still and looked down at the green bit of sei-illing carpet "Hurry op. Peggy!" said brisk Miss Dunning. "It's getting dark, and we ara't near throeurh with what I set my self to do to-nbibt," 'Do you want me to kill them all?" whispered Peggy." "Did you see that rhey weren't weeds., I could find nice bUle places over there by the fence." "Mercy me!" exclaimed Mas Dunning, with great amazement "Wr can't save every sprout La she garden. I do have f eelin' ' for 'ear sometimes, but we miht just as well let 'em grow. up into a wilderness at once."; . They would all bloom and be flowers, wouldn't tbeyr asked Pcgy. timidly. Perhaps the poor child felt, aa if she had been saved out of jost each a crowd that nobody seemed to want. -"I wish I cooIJ put them In littU bo ass and lake them back to Boston. 'Tbey would grow, and he so pretty iu tbe boepitaL She spoke ae if she were asking the greatest favor in the worM. Til give yon better things than these," said Mrs. Dunning, with a sudden feel ing of desperate leaknsy at th men mention of hospital and Peggy's native -ity. "Wrii, you needn't murder the fvtnnrsend thinps to-night, aiyway. ify back srhes an. I I fer-l a chill: o vr iut f i ii, s" 1 y-u cm hr1? B' t t"I bmad to rise Wore we go to bed. o'clock now, If it's a minute! And Pepgy carried the hoe back again with a sitfh of relief. little the seedling poppies and mari golds and petunias knew about , their fate, when they came crowding up to- kgether through the rich, hard soil of the footpath that late spring; but this is what happened to them. Who ever thought of saring such lives but quaint little Peggy McAllister? But she dreamed that night about carrying a' flower-pot full of small green plants to everybody in the sunny hospital wards, to' stand on the tables beside the bed or in the windows, so that ' all the sick peoplo could Watch them crow. Slie did not know how she could really carry so many; but she waa sure Miss Dunning voukl let her, when slie waked up in the morning and thought about the dream. It took a good deal of courage to ask Miss . Dunning at breakfast time, and the kind little dressmaker laughed until Peggy felt that she must have been very foolish. "It's a reasonable dream enough, cer tain; hut, there! L don't know how I'm ever going to let you go. back again, you dear little thing!" she said to Peggy. "I believe I shall keep you all the time, if you like well enough to . stay?" and Peggy's wondering face grew rosy for a minute; then she dropped her head and felt as if she were going to cry. "Oh! pleaae do keep mc!" she said, and that was all dear, anxious, homeless Pi'KSX; u4 Jt . h Bav9 thought at that very moment to Sister Hoi en, whom she might never see again. But Miss Dunning, too, was very good to her. A few weeks later a whole company of flower pots that Miss Dunning gath ered from her own stores -and one or two neighbors', was sent to the hos pital in Blank street from Peggy. Slie had 'rooted the .rescued seedling anew, and tended them patiently until they were growing again. Perhaps some" day we will follow their fortunes and see who they bloomed for, and whether they bloomed well: But the happiest day of all was when a long letter came rKSTy from Sister Helen, with many messages ; in it from the sick , people whom she had lovingly remembered 111 her new country home. " "I declare!" said Miss Punning, "my garden is worth toiling over. Think of JOAQUIN kllcLER ON CALIFORNIA. all those folks in Boston being so pleased to have the leavings. Tlie Independent. The Toons; EaglUU. Lord. At a coming of ago of the heir there in a great celebration. This is of ceurxo far more of an event tlmn a meet of the hounds, for it occurs only once in a quar ter of a century. It is a feast for tenants and family relatives, intimate friends, and laborers on the estate. Tlie house is crowded with guests, and the neighbors of rank often open their establishments and assist in the hospitality. There are bootlia and marquees upon tlio lawn, an ox is roasted wiiole, beer and wine are abundant, and tlie best of humor pre vails. All olass.'S mingle freely, and tlie upper tenants are invited to the dining room. , A speech- is made by the heir, often on tlie steps in. front of the house, so that, more uiay sej and hear than can be crowded under roof or canvas. The father and mother and other relatives stand near, the flag flies over hi 111, tlie tenantry and retainers cheer, tho brothers and sisters are' proud, or envious, who can say which? and tlie young lord feels all hie grandeur and Importance, perhaps more keenly than ever again. The, re is a drive over .the estate, widen is everywhere decorated with Indications of loyal regard; presents are. made to the poor and their children; the parish church bells ring, and sometimes even poachers are forgiven or released. 'At night the great house and the village are illuminated. Everything is done to fos ter the feudal feeling that still lingers, and the paternal system and influonoo of the aristocracy are as conspicuous as on any occasion yet left in England.-'Adam Badeau's Letter. trr1cUoa Koodral to laoroaae Collfor. ata's AtrlonltonU Flwoorltr. . ..For 'forty years' the" American has foolishly fought tlie Mexican methods Df agriculture. He insisted that nature would provide the rain. Indeed, I mc heard a preacher, who was limiting rather against the priests than for his followers, insist from the pulpit tiiot it was siuful to irrigate. And his text was that "God sends II is rain on ' Uie just and the unjust." And so to day 1 look away, 800 tnilus to the south, ami lee a brown land gleaming and gli; tar ing under the precipitate sun. with the ,n U ,. nn.. .ut,t..M ....! I n .1 In 1A4 ,l green of heat. Not . spear of verJurol. Ind. days at he, houw. Not a sign of any green thing, save the lolemn and impressive old oaks that dot 6 THE FRANKEST BAD MANNERS. tfcowa by English rsople While Tlts . In( In America An Kxotnpto. Yea,-1 agree with you that English people are capable, ' somehow, of the frankest bad manners in the world. Have you herd any of the funny stories flyingjtbout (hat English couple touring amongst us a while ago? .Mr. and Mrs. ? They are both, you know, public character, both literary, learned in their grooves, Madame aesthetic. Monsieur, Reverend, philanthropic, and a musical enthusiast. A musical friend of mlno met them and was sufficiently fascinated by their converse to meditate inviting them to She mentioned this project to the lady who was entertaining them. "I have no (he : boundless sceno Tbo Kooord ml a I'lsoom. Eight hundred and sixty-six miles in four and one-fourth days is the record of a Newark pigeon; It was liberated at Montgomery, Ala. This time, it is claimed, is the fastest ever made in tlie world by a pigoou for 800 miles or over. the beet previous record being nine to ten days, also in tins country. This bird was batched April 6lh. 1884. from some German military stock. Before it waa six months old it flew in. different races under club rules, the great distance of 1.592 miles, the but race being from Morgan town, V. C, 533 miles air line, this being the farthest distance young bird were ever shipped. During the season of 18S3 it was left at home to do as it pleased. This season the bird was pot on the rood again. It was flown from Altoona, Pa., for the Verinder prize. It was liberated in rainy weather and did not letnrn. fast enough to win. It was again tried in the west, this time from Steabenville, Oliio, 333 miles. The bird did not come borne in good speed, but in ite race from the south it haa no bly redoentol itself. Chicago Herald. Kow Poo for Sorop Tla. It la only within a few years that any use waa found for old scrap tin. All ef forts to reclaim the tin by smelting were failures. "At last some one happened to think that to place b around tlie outside of tlie foundation walls of buildings, and to use it beneath the flooring of 00 liars, would be to render new buildings ver min proof. The plan was tried and was s big auccosa. Yoa can imagine how tired a rat would get trying to burrow through a lot of sharp and jagged tin. The) demand for scrap tin during the building season exceeds the supply. Globe-Democrat. la the Throe ftofoojlooa Tlie number of mea in the profession divinity, law, and fldictne-waa, in 180, of whom 44.618 were min- ktm. 137 lawvera. and 83.871 Dhrm- cians and surgwos, U,ol4 dec Hits, and 28,700 pharmacists. The American eolnoiota of Oreat Brit- sin have a popnlation of 1,375,000, and a c'.M off ?,n sheep, and cattle, and pigs. But many of the creatures must perish. The val lejTlsrof course-, ; sparsely settled. And how could it be otherwise where we have farms with 00,000 acres! But away over yondtrrbeyondtbe capital, lies tlie less fertile valley of Ban Joaquin, green, fruitful; restful; beauti ful and bountiful as In middlo May. An d all this because last year the obsti nate Ameriean idea . succumbed to the Mexican experience of ceuturiosi Ban Joaquin valley is irrigated. - A poor French family, escaping from death, brought a letter to a friend of mine near here many years ago and set tled down on the nearest--spot ot vacant ground he could find, And that nearest tpot was four acres of sand and gravel and ChapparaL It was so p:or ' and dusty and dry and withered, men tell me, that even the rabbits would not live there. But it was not more poor or withered than the weary family that hod worked its way hero on an old sail ship coining out from Liverpool for grain. And so they sat down on thee four dtx.aJiddustyheapsofsand aud--stono to stay. Let us pass over the wretchedness of the first year, during which time the man dug a well, put in a windmill; raised a rivulet of water, and then planted his stoneheaps in black berries. . ' Briefly, his four acres is to-day a big fortune. It is, literally, every inch a garden! And these four acres are all that this man can handle or cares to have. His one acre of moodow produce six crops of alfalfa a year. Ho now ha cows, horses, piys.- In fact, he gets more out of these four acres of sund and gravel than my good friend, Gen. Bid well, gets out of any forty acres of all his 65,000. And this is tlie way for Californians to make California populous and profitable to cure the country of tramps and communists. : And I now propose Uie greatest schome 011 this con tinent. Look at tho map. Liko a new moon tlie- vast level valley of the Sucre men to sweeps nwjy from this tip of the upper horn around past tho capital, Suo ramento City, then down to San Fran- Cisco, . Well, turn the Sacramento river out of its bed here ulxive ICcdding and let it flow down anil fill tlie hungry hol low of the moon! .Tlien will the fertility ami eternal, richness of Egypt be once more with us as of old. It is all very easy. - I urged this some thing years ago, have gone over all the ground, and know what I say. Of course I was laughed at year ago, and raWdeu" as a tuvet-H Mexiuuis, and ull that sort of argument And even now one little paper is pounding me for urg ing .'this greatest state measure, and charging uWwitb, having come tap from Mexico filled with Mexican ideas. But time will settle It all ray way and show tliat I am entirely right I am very am bitious, however, to shorten tlte time of suffering for those thirsty and panting brutes that stand in the burning dust under the noble old oaks over nil these tl on sand of square mile down toward Sun Francisco. I took a horse and rod out over the hot heaps of "tailings" that lie on the deserted and worked out mine this morning. I found tlie few farmer bo have settled down without first securing water for-irrigation not in good ltart Things are burning up where they are not irrigated. But whore water flow all thing are rank, and fu I, and fairly tropical. And so let me put down the invitation to this, or, Indeed, any part of California, with this qualification: Settle almost anywhere, for the land is all rich, and farm or grow stock, if you can have water. Otherwise it is too much of a lottery. You may strike a "heated term" like tliis, and have all your apple turned toashe. Thirty year ago, when I cam her, a great ditch flooded all the place. Water was sold at 75 cent per inch at tlie head of the sloping mining region. Then it was sold a second, third and fourth time, at scaling or declining figures, till it flowed into tlie Sacramento near thia town. Senator Jones, of Nevada, not long ago tried to restore the great ditch. But after investing a great many thousand he let his noble enterprise slop. And so the whole world is simply scorching and blazing and burning up. Small- farmer who hoped Uie ditch would be restored are sitting by helpless and discoursed. And the sight of Uin makes me cautious here today. The truth U. if all this country this side of Arizona, where the great rainfall find it limits must pin iu future to irrigation. All these rreat rivers must ultimately flow over these great valley. Then surely send-time and harvest-time shall not fait Bedding (Cat) Cor, Chicago Time. Poolis of the C So Ilooeov Of the Cascade Mountain in Oregon and Washington Territorv. there are fiv notalJe peaks. Mount Unnd, Adama. St Helen. Taoonna and Baker. R sing al nMHt from a era level t-, a 1 fchtof from 10.000 to 14.000 feet isolated and J rr dominaot they ar store iuipreojdv and beautiful than the prominent peak of equal hiht of the Rorky Mountains, which reach bnt a few hundred feet bove tlwir fellows. Chicago Herald. Tie common puUto is full of most dangerous narcotic properties, that art only renoVred umriyUt by the ook te-p " - n,i .uu.,r tti. 1 doubt you would make a visit charming ami sooner uie . . , , , . ,- ,' .... vo mem, ine lauy repticu,, out uciore you ask them, I think I ought, inhos pitable as 'it seems, to give you soma light account of our expersence as hosts." This visit to us was to begin at lunch time. It was almost tlie hour for that meal when Mr. , from whom they were coming to us, drove hastily to our door. "Have Mr. and Mrs. reached here yotr were almost his first word. ... "No, though I'm looking for them any moment" , . "Well, we're at an utter loss what to do. They left us this morning with no word as to their luggage, their trunks are standing open in their "rooms, noth ing packed up, even their toilet appa ratus scattered about ' Are we to have them packed, do you suppose?" Just then our guests came. Saluta tions over. - "Are our boxes como?" de manded Madame. Mr. interposed. "I have just driven here to ask about them. As they were open, and nothing packed, we did not understand your intentions about them." , "Why," returned -his late lady guest, "I expected your-iralot would pack my husband's things, and your wife's maid attend to mine." "Very good," returned - Mr. , Tlie luggage shall come at once." He has no vallet, and his wife has no maid, but somebody packed tlie boxes and speeded them here. - At breakfast next morning we had unbolted wheat gems. Both our guest declined them, but Mr. looked very curiously to see what we should do with them. - When one was broken open, -"Why, they're not meat!" he exclaimed. Oh, no. they re hot bread made of unbolted flour," we said. . "Aw! then I'll try one, he remarked. "I think its very stupid to travel in a foreign country and shun all the oddities one eucountvrs! Take one, my dear!" he added presently to h.s wife, "they're not so bad as they look!" For dinner we had turkey si very large one. Some of it was grilled for supper, and next day we had some in a salad for lunch. Mr. did not .under stand what thedish was. and I said it was turkey salad. "Aw!" he answered 1110, "turkey for dicker, turkey for sup- Philadelphia Cor. Providence Journal, fME 8COI$Pl'ONS OF" MEf66V llablts oT a Oommoa rest Bfftots of tho . . Sting Happy Family. , One of the moat common pests ia Mexico are. the alcarana, or scorpions, for during certain seasons of the year they are a numerous as flies around a sugar-house. They are within the cracks of the wall, between the bricks of tiles of the floor, hiding inside, your gar ments, darting, every where with incon ceivable rapidity, their tail (the "busi. nesend" which hold the stingy ready to fly up with dangerous effect upon the slightest provocation. Turn up a corner of the rug or tablespread, and you dis turb a flourishing colony of them; shake your shoes in the mornipg, and out they flop; throw your bath' sponge into tlie water, and half 'a dozen of them dart out of its cool depths into which they had wriggled for a siesta; in short, every article you touch must be treated like a dose of medicine "to be well shaken before taken," The average scorpion is mahogany Tiued, and about two inches long; lut I have seen them as long as five inches. The small, yellowish variety are consid ered most dangerous, and their bite is most apprehended at midday. In Du ron go they are black and so alarmingly numerous having ,. been allowed to breed for centuries in the deserted mines that the government offers a reward per head (or, rather, per tail) to whoever will kill them. Their sting is seldom fatal, but is more or less severe accord fug to tlie state of the system. Victim have been been known to ' remain for days in convulsions, foaming at the mouth, with stomach swelled as in dropsy; while others do not suffer much more than from a bee sting. The com mon remedies are brandy, taken in suffi cient quantities to stupefy the patient, ammonia, administered both externally and internally, boiled silk and guaia cum. It is also of use to press a large key, or other tube, on the wound to force out part of the poison. As most of my readers are aware, this tpecies of insect a genus of Arachnida, of the order Pulmonaria aro distin guished . from other spiders by having the abdomen articulated, with a sharp, curved spur at the wliich are two pores from which the venom flows, supplied by two poison glands at the base of the segment The. anterior pair of feet, or palpi, are modi fled into pincers or claws, like those of the lobster, by which it seize its prey, while the other feet resemble those of ordinary spider. Naturalists divide the genus into sub-genera, according to' the number of their eyes, whether six, eight or twelve. They eat the eggs of spiders and also feed on beetles and other insects, piercing the prey with their stingers again and again before beginning the mcaL When alarmed or irritated a scorpion "shows fight" immediately, run ning about and waving his sting in all directions, for attack or defence, evi dently aware of its Kwer. The young scorpion are produced at astonishingly frequent intervals, the -a.-' f0H A LITTLK BOtC -Touched with the mystto chrism of nriV seen hands, ' Girt ronnd wlih hop aa- with the Htfhf of day, ; -m May he go forth to walk-his fuftnre'WsV Across the ripening gold of fruitful lands, Unto the shore of pvrfeet silver simds, . Where Tim shall falter crumble,- and :'' decay:- - js And all the ale shall tremble with the? spray . - Of waves eternal breaking on the st rands.- There may he lay his btrrdctf down va& rest? , Then may hi Winter daws' a gal 3 to . . Spring,' . And while the sun goes down the crimson v west v i - 1 , And day shall glide aVay etr wistful - whig, ., Eternal love float o'er th purple breast . Qt that eternal . sea, and crown h;m king. ; ;. W. J, Hendersons ARABIAN TRIBAL LIFE. per, turkey for luuch; no wonder thjjj displaying far greater regard for call the turkey the American bird. j , . ;,.,,; .., Mrs. KltsalMtli Ifmrrott Mrowalug. Mrs. Browning's conversation was most interesting. She . never tdadu an insignificant remark. All that she said waa ftlm wottltrarinj wall compliment could not be paid her. : Slid was a most couscientipns listener', giving you her mind and heart as "well as her magnetic eye. Person were never her them unless public characters wore un der discussion or friends were to be praised. One never dreamed of frivoli ties in Mr. Browning's presence, and gossip folt itself out of place. Yourself, not herself, was always a pleasant sub ject to lior, calling out all Iter best srmpa.thiea in joy, and yet more in sorrow., .Books and humanity, great deeds, and abovo all, politics, which in clude all the grand question of the day, were foremost in ber thoughts and there fore oflenest on her lips. I speak not of religion, for with ber everything was re ligion. Thoughtful in the smallest things for others, she seerrftni to give little thought tonorself. The first to see merit all was the last to censure faults, and gave Uie praise that she felt with a generous hand. No one so heartily rejoiced at the success of others; no one was so modest in her own triumpli. She loved all who oirered ber affection, and would solace and advise with any: Mrs. Browning belonged to no particular country; the world waa inscribed upon the banner un der which she fought Wrong was ber enemy; against this she wrestled in what ever part of the globe it was to be found. Exchange. . Losoosjoa for Church CoasampUosv On Saturday night an interesting scene is to be witnessed in every town and village in Scotland. It is a stream of tlie native in their Sabbath elothos making for th small grocer. The puzzled -visitor little think tliat an in quiry Into the meaning of this would give him th secret of Scotland' reputa tion of being a kirk-going people. What every one ia off to buy is a bag of .pepper mint lozenges, and be al way s . tell the shopman to give him the change in half pennies. Tlie halfpennies are for tlie plate, th lozenge for church consump tion. Many pound of the kind known aa "xtra strung" are eaten throughout tb country at every service. There is a great art in slipping them solemly into your mouth, and long practice ha made soma devout people so good at it that they can do it though the minister ey be on them. Pall Mall Gazette. Chiaoae 111 oil m mt Cblaooe Origta. Pigtails, -it ' mvy n it be generally known, are not in their origll Chinese. When tlie prejnt ruh-rs of China, who are Manchus, seixt-d upon tb empire over twicentnrie ago, they issued an fihct com'iia:id:iig all Chines to shave their hea.l aud grow a tail like thent- elvr. There was a great deal of trouble I at first in enforcing such 'an order, but I the Chinese hav loo; afb forgotten th.-1 j tli appendage of wmch they ar now si prou I k a fcadg of ConqoesCNino ' taentU C-ntnry, f her olfrtiirine than their . vicious nature seems to justify. During their brief in fancy she carries them about clinging in great number to her back, limbs and tail, never leaving her retreat for a mo ment, unless, overburdened by their What a Traveler Raw Noar Slcton, la gyrls A rieasant Tlslt. . The Ghawarinch at -this season five1 in huts made of rush matting; tot sides, roof and floor. These village of cane are generally near the marsh. Tlie win-r ter houses of stone are nearer the bills One of the summer' encampments pre' sent a lively scene. Your correspond-' ent rode ahead of his party bn the way" up from the sea of Tiberias, on the iook out for a good camping-placo . for Sun' day. After galloping several miles alou the level-beaten track he saw a troop1 of about a coreof men, each with- a lofiflf spear. They were behaving like a: lot of schoolboys let out of school, on their way home. I rode up near enough to study' their behavior a little, with no intention of intruding, however; a I came in sight the whole troop halted, drew up in' military array and awaited me. As I rode up I found them a rude-looking company, but with a morry look in their eyes. They received ray greeting cor dially, almost hilariously, and closed upr around me. Their long spears I took to be fishing-spears at first which cruise. t them some amusement These s pears are extremityr-beneathfJonguglyJooking ' weapons, and ore curneu merely tor uuiuuse. iaw uitur were laborers returning from the field. In a mock heroic fashion one of tiumf handed me a spear and showed me how to shoulder it They proposed to escort me into the village in the . military" fashion. They were curiouconcerninj$ all the detail of my saddle an-.l equip ments, and especially ray field-glass an.f compass. They were certainly the morf unsophisticated human beings I over" met They were all Mustoms, and were amused at my pronunciation of the first? surat or chapter of tlie Koran. The could, not imagine why I was traveling-' alone and seemingly unarmed. When . told them that my camp wo coming be hind, they volunteered to show trie the best plane to ramp and to furnish food. As we noarod the village we saw a motley array of life;'-Hundred of eat tie, buffaloes, sheep, gouts, canieLi andr horses were returning from . their pas tures to the camp. Dogs were baiiny'- and down rail tnu whole nappy latniiy in a wad. The ungrateful children gen erally reword the maternal devotion by destroying Uie motluer a soon as they are old enough, tearing her piecemeal with the greatest ferocity. Betsy and I amuse ourselves by stu ly ing their habits, and, have becoiuo ex pert in catching them by the tail with lassos of thread, afterward suspending them in bottle "of alcobol to send to mi croscopically inclined friend. Happen ing to be out of alcohol one day, we put a captured scorpion into an - empty bot tle. Remembering it a week later, we went to look, w lien lot where one had been were now ilfty-seven; but whether it was only the mother and her children, or if the original scorpion had arrived at tlie dignity- of - a- great-grundparent in that length of time, was fond for -conjecture. Happily 'this rapi4ity of in crease is offset by their bitter enmity toward all. others of their kind, and tlie -perpetual warfare they wage upon one another thins their raukg more than any oilier cause. Scorpions are said to har bor an especial spite against brunette and to leave blonde people comparatively unmolested. Tlie Indians eat them, after pulling out the sting a "crunchy" sort of morcrau, as delightful, no doubt, to them, as are snail, frogs, crabs and similar delicacies to American appe tites. Fannie 13. Ward in Boston Trans cript 'ootoh Laa4 aa4 CatUo Coiapoaloa. There are in Dundee, Scotland, eight companio dealing in mortgages and cattle) in th western and northwestern states. In EJin burgh tlie re ar eleven, and in Glasgow three. The land and cattle componie in Uie United Kingdom operating" in the United States bold in fee sim pi 4.016,833 acres, and by lease l,44-79a acres. Their dividends in 18c3 averaged over 8 per cent, but fell to only little over 4 par cent in ISA Tb causes of tliis decline are found in the rapid growth of capital in the United State aad tb gradual decline in th rate of interest which ha occurred all over the world. Cliicigo Herald. . All th Co 14 oa Eoarth. 8ome one with a matliematical mind baa figured it out that all tb gold on earth to-day, in whatever shape-that la, mined gold, or, to put it ' plainer, the gold in us in all nations and the pro duct of all ages if welded in one mass, would be contained in a cub of less than thirty feet Exchange. young calve were cutting tip ail sorts of capers; young men, were ractij? horses. over the level award and brinitli: them short up; children were running about; women in bright dresses worn eiimitliiB f iltwys l a y-; "i-'M pended by means . of two upright poles or else were performing other housnliolU duties, - A flock of awes were find up iir a long row half on each jide standing facing each other and secured by a) lou.' ' rope which fastened their necks together and women were milking them from bo hind. Tlie men of the camp were mosc'y idle and smoking long piios. although during the day we saw many men plow ing. ; ' We passed a pleasant 8unday w ith those people and found them kind and orderly neighbors, and whatever eauibliw they had were at our disposal. Tho time will come when thia fertile pUin wili yield an enormous crop. The Jo: Jan1 descends 700 feet from tlve lake of IJiK leh to Tiberias in len than ti miin. ' Tlie whole marsh can be drained, and tlie innumerable streamtof water whic burst out all around the plain will en able the farmer to cultivate, the soil tfns .. year round. Syria Cor. Hartford Cvr- anf: 1 7 - Fact of tho Moaaoaftoo, After supper I went out t tlit Th Earth's lahahitaato, All the people now living in the world say 1.400,000.000 could find standing room within the-limits of a field ten mile eqoare, and by aid of a telephone r iiitd be addressed by a ' single speaker. 1 . a field twenty mile square they could I be" comfort i'y sen! Th Argo-n--.it. ..- - . . . t method of preparing fuel 'or tlie run use. In tlie first place a large ;. 1 cleared of gr.-is and rubbUh, r.vi .1. ;:-. this ia carried liay ni l refuse fri u sheen pens. This is spread evenly ovr- the cleared spot to the !-. ptii of t, foot Then a huge roller is xnr, ovr it after a rain, thus forming a soil-i ti..--. which is cut into square blocks of suit able size for burning and corded n; n small piles to dry, after wh'ch It hi j.-r up in long ricks ready for uin'.- r um. a tlie winter the horrioU .f the burning compost is avoided i ti outdoor furnace, which fat built inn :". walls of the) liouse and cx.11lu.onU.. with hollow space Ut the waU. t..'. - al lowing tli beat to pas entre.y ji.ou.t1 the room, keeping it at an miil.v xt. r warm temperatur, as my fri! u r . doctor informed me. Dakota t r. 1 V neer Pre. Why the Doctor Vfm U.cT.a.---l Dx-tnr (to wife, of pie: -P -ir Stubbs! He waisocti a nic-j ('-;. '-. And so you've" coin to tell mo - 1 .1 i, etir Mr. Stubb Oh, dew' no h- n ' dead. Why, be' up and around en ; clare h feel a Well a ever, v.-;, doctor, what' the ntottet f .. Doctor Nothing, Mrs. Si n-i'1.-ing. Pardon nry entttion but '. second patient who has nlijcU t! u:. . on me this week- -TiJ-b-.iJL The monks of Allotting, ia ft-iva. have in their keeping the near- iV in line of kings. The bears -re i-i ei' urns. . . . ... - Tbe hfnn who Is always liwii.L.; . trouble ia duarpointxl If ! a ' . . coin 10 jfricf. 'fiT O... ...r,j It .1
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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Oct. 7, 1886, edition 1
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