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Sfhj dhaiham Record. H. A. LONDON, Jr., KDITOtt AMD rBOPBIETOH. k $t djjhatfjam froijA I II or JLP . ADVERTISING. Om my tn, ona Uuertton, Jl-01 Ooasanan.twolusurttont,' . . . . ,8 OMnioara.iiiiu mouth, . 2.M 10 30 a2i''rdTrtl'MiMIt'1"n'c"'tractw" cox TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Onemiy, onej-f-nr, OnoM,)'.'t liMMUlm . n One cnpy, throe raoutb.",. Urn : r . 100 i VOL. VI. PITTSBORO', CHATHAM CO., N. C APRIL 3, 1884. A Mod: si Von ir,' Man. Oh liy .love! I urn tir- I i lei -yen-, Though us yf! ils wo k- inmili ar Imt four, l-'ir there'! so ninny e(nititi 10 woo ino Tint I tp-dly l-n"l kii"-.- what In d TIipiu U Uf:a, h i lorm-ei- i- tulliliij Of my Imply inou-t leluu ami li .ir; Anil linii-liv, win ilc-luf that llh cm. Hull I inpan S'ip like my eves n iu romc'tro; Ami Kllli-1, nil i say- I'm distn:.'ip; Ami ilcnnie vliocdis hip ler liitiih oil, ly Juvi', it i unit" m ei u h .kniii T'.l II I' 11 HV H- -111' IIS I 'On As iiiu.V' t . u I ;.hy in I niu 'lli' vi ' Aioi", vh in ilrli my liiwi t I'll- if'.- -'i I i li" -kp't In s n y I m p: Aii I tin1 1 li li Venn;; w .'l nv JSill I a tor, Wli i w rl.oi 1 1 ny i iii-ji' Ki'.irr; Ami mv ii i!p v.- II n 1 hp rojioin ;. Oh, l.y .love, lio.v I wish 1 could i-l'"'p, (l ll'IP Ill'Oill llllll' ii y ilttl.H lii'llS Xil1 ll-i tutl oi ihu ypir fct' inV-il i"f," Fur 1 ilon t nn I don't wmii to marry Ami to Ii vp lli- '.i.bi uarlili-.; hip vi, I ill, l.y ,l,ni", it iiiip nvpi'.i Ill-hum In n vpii -liy l"l .iv ,n i ' ii 'v A ij:,""--t j"i,iii; !' it y."i ttini. lliirT-'t li : nr. A FAMILY RELIC. "Yoi. I knew,"' ,-ai'l Aunt Nabby, in a Video illwilil its cheerful iS lh( cloak ol a ooii'aimptive raven. "The family is a'l broke up, a-t-I everything is scat tered. A:,d tli" lurad'ho was sold at am-tii n. ,Su-h a tiling never would have hii; p :i.' I if ' been at homo!" "I dari) say nut," said Mr. Wellwood, taxiing the feathery tip of his cigar against the Japanese a h receiver, and thinking secretly wli.it a fortunate thin it was for th. amicable settle meat of thu Wellwood est.UL' that Aunt Xal'l-y "AIi,;i:iil M.ui i" lu-r na.iio wua written in tliu family record had not he. :i at home. For she was a veritable thorn in 'he Bide of her r lat.on i -this querulous, ill-teinpere.l, domineering old lady. "Not that I caiu for the old chairs, and tal'les, and l e Iqtiilts," went on Aunt Nahhy, knitting energetically away at the silk mitten, which never seemed to grow any larger. "Sam -id's wife was a drealfnl poor housekeeper, and things were 'most used up, any how. J'ut there's one thing I'm deter mined to have !" "What is that r" said Mr. Wellwood, more in compliment to Aunt X..hhy's 6'iddcu stop than otr u- uny ,n tive curiosity on the subject. "The, old dictionary," .-ad Aunt Nabby. "What ! Thai old thing V" .-aid Mr. Well wood. "Why, it's the edition of 1840, and all bait ere I to pieces one cover gone, and half the leaves out '," "No matter," said Aunt Nabby, rescuing her ball of mI! from the paws of the irreverent l.itt n; "I want it And 1 mean to have it. And I want you to help me gel hold of it, Matthew." "I don't think it will ever bo jm -si-Mo for you 1 1 im 1 it." :-aH Mr. Well wood, thoughtfully. "Hut I will find it!" p.iid Aunt Nubby. "I must find it." "Why?" point-blank demanded Mr Well wood. "Ueeause," answered Aunt Xabby, 1 want it i'ur a family relic. I hain't got nothing to remind me of Samuel's wife. And that's what I've come on East for to get hold of that old dic tionary. I'm goin' out to Pelt's I'oiut to-morrow, to sen bquiro Sa ller ho was the lawyer that settled the estat", what there wa3 of it to settle aud he'll maybe know what became of the old dictionary." "I don't regard that as especially likely," said Mr. Well woo l. "How should he know V" "There a'n't no tel'ia' what's likely and what ain't," said Aunt Nabby! resolutely. And here the subject was allowed to drop. But when Aunt Nabby had gone up stairs to bed, with a pilch plaster in one hand, for her back, and a tumbler of boiling hot water in tho other, for her digestion, and a box of nervine pills in cne pocket, and a bottle of corn curer in tho other, Mrs. Well wood a shrewd, sallow-complexioned little woman, who hn l all this time been darning quietly away at a basket of stockings in the corner looked up at her husband with quick, intelligent eyes. "Matthew," said she, "what docs this mean V" "I think," said Mr. Wellwood, "that Aunt Nabby has some sort of method in her madness this time. And it is not for any mere sentimental associa tion that she wants to get hold of the old dictionary." "I remember it well," faid Mrs. Wellwood, thoughtfully. "A queer old book, with the edges bulging out, tho titlo-page gone, half the cover torn off, and a round black ring on the other half, where little lV.ly once set down a tin cup of hot salve. Do you sup pose, Matthew" "Aunt Xabby knew your Aunt Walker Samuel's w ife, as she always calls her better than any one else," interrupted Mr. Wellwood. "Sho was an eccentric old souL We were all surprised, if you recollivt at there being no inoivy saved up, noir' iteo.-;it-cl any where, liepeud upon it, inhere was any money to save" "It was in that old dii tionary !" cried Mrs. Wellwood, dropping her ilarning 'fcdle. "And Aunt Xabby knows it !" Mr. Wellwoo I nodded his liei.d, and smoked harder than ever as he stared into tho lire, its if : eo'.dng from Hie red embers counsel and ad h e. "Where is that dictionary ':" said he. "Goodness only knows !" despairing ly sighed Mrs. Wellwood. "Try and think !" -ageriy urged her husband. "iVrh.ips Mrs. (irubb wmilil know," said Mrs. VVYUwool. "She pu'-kwl all Ih things that were lelt, and locked up tho leiiise." "Write to her," said Mr. Wcliw.Mid. eagerly, "Or, no ! that would only ho uselessly arousing suspicion. Co there viuirsell, Sarah. Ask her to rome here, and make a visit." "What -Mrs. irul hY' "Yes, Mrs. Crubb." "lint, Matthew, she is such a dread ful old bore!" pteaded Mrs. Well wood. "Never mind that," said Wellwood, impatiently, I'.inging his cigar-s'uuip into the red-hot coa's. "Only think of tho fortune that may possibly reward our ell'oits ! Sarah, wc must get hold of that dictionary !"' So Mrs. Willwo.d went to Mrs (lo ir,'!! lirubb, and ' oiirUi'iiidy invited that la ly t" make her a visit. Mrs. (Irubb a.'iepted promptly. Sho had always want.el to visit tho city, and here at last was a golden opportuniiy. Mm brought her little, nephew and her two tall girls with h-r. "I know you didn't specially invito 'em, Nirah Ann," said she; "but tho i1c:ts will so enjoy the museums and the park and the ISrooklyn IJridge, ami all that sort of thing. And they won't i bo no nioro trouble than three kittens, i There never were such good children !" The three young !ruM'S w ere some, i thing wor.-o than a pestilence, Mrs, 1 (irubb was nearly as had. And at the ! end of a week, Mrs. Wellwood felt her j woo.l fell herself I ally qualified to enter ' a lunatic asylum. I But on tho !al day, while (ieorgo was smearing himself with bread and b'ltbT mi I leun-y in the kiO hen, and the two Missc (irubb were pounding ib'spera'cly away on the piano-forte, in imitation o' tho hand-organ man out fide, Mrs. Weil Woo l ventured to put (he fateful question which had .so long trembled on her lips. "The old ditclmery !" paid Mrs. (irubb, who was not over-particular re garding her pronunciation. "I. a, mo ! What would any one want u' tint old I rash V" "Well, nothing much !" ht sit ited Mrs. Wellwood. "ilut Mr. Wellwood is rather a hihibipe'.o " "A which?" s.'ii.l Mr. (irubb, with ( no han I ha k !' her i ar. "A collector of i id books," explained her hostess. "Humph !'' said Mrs. f irubb, scratch ing her bead with a knitting-needle, "11 1 was going to have books, at all, I I'd far and away ra'hcr hae new ! cn-i." "Tastes difler," said Mr.-'. Wellwood, with a pang, as one of the piano-chords I snapped rcsouudingly, aud Ma tcr I (ieorgo's voice washear I below in loud ; altercaMon with the t " k. "But where is thu old dictionary " j "Lesbia l-'idd has got it," said Mrs (irubb. "Mrs. Widker's grumtuiece- ! don't you know ?-Leopold Field's girl. She's a fio-tory-hand, up to Toko Hollow a drcadlul likely girl 1 Scon to be married to .e'-;t Ilamer. ley." "Are you sure of it'.'" said Mrs. Wellwood. "About the weddin"? Oh, yes! Zeke's tolks they set a dial ol store by Lesbia, and " "Xo. no 1" interrupted Mrs. Well wood "about the dictionary." "Sartiu sure," sa;d Mrs. (irubb. "I see Lesbia pick it otf t.i lloor herself, when 1 was a-puckiu' the woolen blank ets that Mrs. Seeder brought at auction Says she, 'I ain't join' to lav the ditclinery that Aunt Banner thought such a deal of sold for old paper,' says she. 'I'll keep it my3elf, jus to put me in mind of Aunt 1 burner an I I'nclo Samuel.' And she wrapped it in a bit of old calico I remember the very palm-leaf pattern on it and took it away, under her arm. What is it, (eorgie, darling? The hired girl won't irive you no more houev? rXever mind I Mrs. Wellwood'll give you some damsuiii preserves, I know !" As soon as Mrs. lirulib departed a period of time which Mrs. Wellwood began to fear would never arrive sho packed a little traveling-satchel to go to "I'oker Hollow" and see Lesbia Field, a relation with whom she had hitherto had very little acquaintance. Lesbia was at home a blooming lass, with cheeks as pink as roses, aud sparkling black eyes and sho was evidently much pit'led to account for this unexpected notice on the part of her city relation. But Mrs. Wellwood, while making I herself as agreeablo us sib'e. 1 ept I her eyes vigilantly on tho alert, and wa i rewarded at last. j For the.'e, on the top shelf of a little glass-fronted comer-cupboard was tho old dictionary it-elf, bulging le.ivcs( iios ing com r, ami an. "Oh, that darling old nli- of antiquity !" cri d she, nervmidy I'm ling of the tw enty -dollar-hill in her pocket, Willi which Mr. Wellwood ha I intra I -ed her, the last thing. "Aunt Hannah's dicta tiry! Oh, Lesbia I insist have that !" "Weil, isn't it funny?" said Lcbia, laughing over the chicken she was stalling with bread- iiucii for dinner; for pretty Lesbia w in cook, chamber maid, waitress and all, in that particu lar cHtaViiislum nf. "I had a letter iroin Aunt Nabby Wellwood, yesterday, about that dictionary, she wants it. she's coming to lay to sec about it." "lint prourse it to me," said Mis. Wellwood, roaiuly. "I 'ear cousin Lesbia, Mr. H'olhvi od is sn airJoiis to obtain it for his collection of antique publication-." "Oh, it isn't obi enough to bo of valuo as antique,' said Lisbia, who was "honest enough." "But he has s-.t his heart on It,' pursued Mrs. W 11 wood, growing moro earnest, as she heard tho rattlo of wheels in the distance, and beheld through tli! tiny paued window a depot wagon, bringing to tho scene no oiher than Aunt Xabby herself, "Po lit me have it, Lcsl ia !" Aud she pi ,ced tho twenty dollar bill coaxingly in Lesbia's hand. "But I shall be cheating yon," said Lesbia.looking at the bill in amazement. "Do let me sco Aunt Nabby about it first." "Xo, no !" taid Mrs. Wellwood, as Aunt Xal.by's voice was hoard without in high disputation with the drivel us to whether a coin sho had given him in payment was genuine or not. "(iive it to me now ! And hero ia my seal- skin cape you were just admiring It I'll make you a present of it, Lochia a wedding-gilt, dear." "You are very kind," raid Lesbia, with a radiant face. "Aud if you really care for the dictionary" And so it came to pass that tho dictionary was safe in Mrs. Matthow Well wood's pi sscssion, when Aunt Nabby buttled in, full of the iniquities of drivers, the inconveniences of traveling, and tho threatening twinges of her annual rheumatism. "What !" she cried, as her eye caught sight of the fat volume in her niece's lap, "you've got the dictionary, after all ! But of course you'll let mo have it, Sarah Ann?', "Certainly I shall not!" said Mrs. Wellwood, exultantly. ".Mr. Wellwood has set his heart on possessing it." "And I've just sold it to her," added Lesbia, helping Aunt Nabby untie her bonnet strings. The old lady heaved a deep sigh. "Wal, it don't matter so much," said she. "The main thing was to find the dictionary. And if you'll just let mo copy out tho rcceii t for making wai'.les, Sarah Ann, that's pinned on the pago W first of thu A "s, you'll see it'll be jest as good as if I had it myself." "The receipt forwaft'es !' cried Mrs Wellwood. "Was that all you wanted it for?" "That was all," said Aunt Nabby, briskly. "Samuel's wife, she was a dreadful good hand at waillcs, and she hp i er would give nobody the receipt But I knew while she kept it, and I was id ways tryiu' to get at it. And if you'll just let me copy it out" Mrs. Wellwood grew pale; the ceil ing of tho rttle, old-fashioned room seemed to swim around her. Was this the cud of tho dictionary mystery? Had sho entertained tho (irubb family for ten mortal days, had her piano broken, her china cracketb her nerves chattered, for this? Had she piiid twenty dollars, a sealskin cape and her traveling cxpi uses to Poke Hollow, all for a receipt for waillcs? The buzz c f conversation went on all tho same, and Airs. Wellwood recover ed at her leisure. Sho returned to New York that afternoon, carrying the old dictionary, although Lesbia en dcavored to induce her to remain, by the promise of wafiles for tea, made : after Aiint Hannah's famous receipt. And when Mr. Wellwood discovered that there were no thousand-dollar bonds, nor hundred-dollar banknotes hidden in the dictionary nothing but definitions, ink blots, and one or two cooking receipts pinn d to the pages, he indulged ic execration more deep than loud. "It's all that meddling old cat's fault," said he, referring doubtless to Aunt Xabby. "And I'll never hav her in the house iitfain." And he never did. But all that : didn't restore the twenty dollar bill ! and the sealskin cape. And innocent ! Lesbia was the only one who reaped benefit from the transaction, j I'llILIM'EVS C'i)KNEK. The Wlinl Mower. Winil-lloivpi-, Wiml-llonei', win im-ynti Iipiv? j 'I'll ir. ii n li ii-leious tiiim el tin- ye.ir l'or lioniii in linj;ili' ini'l O'li li-r us you 1o l.p on. on ilip lo.i.l -ii'i- in r,iih(,' rainiPiit j new; i l-'nr ;.iioiv-iM i- ipI ll'itici -lit'" ml in ll ii. i Ami llii-lnt iiml I In- tcm m wi'iuy to J lietir. ' I live jnii in it ri hup here. m1,- 'Inrliiiu' too noon? i Yoti would -ei'in iiioip ill ll"Hii nil li llu-ll-w pis ol .linn-. 1 i'WIiv Ii:iki I i-oiiii- Iipip1' i-'ai.l: ' Wliy '" ini'l i-Iip niiii cl'iiil.' As ll Ijri'PZP. torn lied liirr -i tp ii'h von 'Mini iIip tion; m.iy li "'im too. I ion lei uml iPl'ie-lipd ly ' ruin-: Ill" lir-l niil'iii:.' -m-w-d'ii loy win' 'IIip tin in '-o- I.'-1 n, y i i d!.. 1 inn liP!ii w i' li Op. Wii'd ihild' I i" i, ..; r.iw tho Wiml-lloiiPl i. .I'l'd her Iip i.I ai : I'eilini s to in"-. lln-di'lii-ilK. ,-p Pnld, lll-llill l.r 1,1 life to it Ii i- HnMi will: I,-. -ihi-i' I mil III , Si , !. h. A Hi iii'iili'iiilp I'm-itit. Th liidi iii ip .li i Jiiuiii"! says: At W M st. or, 't in the possc-sion of Col. Pain--. Ho i"' is :i piirrot whose may oi- in'-' r '.ding to tip- boyi IV and gii w iio read I, us j ui'ii:il. It is a gray Afric.ri arrnl, and at the time it win pureh.i-od in liodoii w;is war ranted to say ono hundred words. But now he goes far bey e.id tluil, iind has harntd to vary .sentences to suit tho oeea-ion. In the morning he greets the family with -tio,,l morning plea sant iiiorniii!,'." and thin, if no one pays any attention to him, ho repeals it, in a gruff and imp'.Tiitivo voice until In' gets ;i re oiiso. e imitates every sound that lie lu ar even (lie tones of the voices of individuals, so lhat the members nf the f.unilv in another room are often puyled. His eat lights are wonderful imitiiMons. IB- picks up snatches of tunes very e.i-ily, and bili'iis to whi-tl" whole tunes witli good epre.-,:,ion. livery luxury In' i ,iHs a peanut. One day he o,t a o.'.'inut through the wire lloor of ! his cage, lie tried in various ways in vain to get hold of it. and, after storm- inu around his cage, ho cjmuh as near to it as be could, and, in a wheedling tone said: "tood tuorniii":, peanut. Don't you wan; to i omo it,V" lie is fond of playing with an almond, using it a; a boy win. Id a ball, throw iug it, up and shouting, "I b llo," or "Oh" if it happens to hit him on the head. As he throws it he calls out "Hello, pea- nt." At night the canary bird's is put on the table by him, and he comes down from his perch as close as he can and calls in tender tone, "Poor little pussy." This is his term for any pet. He often whispers in a con fidential tone, an 1 laughs at his own joke, lie says: "How do you do? Is Polly well? Is Polly cold? What is the matter? What ails you?" etc., He has a great ileal of curiosity about tho telcphnno, answering "Hello!" and often calls out, "What's the talk?" He like to have his poll scratched, and in a cracked voice rings all sorts of changes on the sentence, "Do you want mother to s'rat'-li vonr poll?" , .1S Jmi to sav to the eat. "Poor. ; little pus y. do you want me loscratch you, poll?" He rcmcuibcivtl the fam ily that he lived with formerly, and calls their names and says, "Where is the little boy? Has ho gone to school?" Ho let out the fad that he hail been accustomed to be punished. Sometimes he bites tho wires of his cage aud makes t lion i rimi. and shouts, ; "Naughty, naughty, poily! Do you want the stick?" When lo- N punished lie cries out, "(let out! (io away!'' and stands on one foot, aud, holding up the ' other, turns it over and examines it. Ho shows a great deal of curiosity ' aim ut what happens in the house, and one day watched the opening of a Imx, and said: "What an you doing then ?" Be calls himself pet names, such as . "Folly Wolly," "You rascal," "You old I scalawag. Folly." In a thunder-storm . he was frightened and at a very loud I clap ho jumped on bis perch, and in a I tinman, frightened tone, cried out I "What's the trouble?" These are only a few specimens of the words and sen- tenccs that he has acquired, ami ho is j constantly learning and is often over , heard practicing the words by himself. No idea can be given of the wonderful i variety of expressive tones that he employs. His range is beyond that j 'ommolily used by ordinary people. j Cruel. Old Mr. Topeasy fell overboard the I other day. He was fished out and wan ! sent home, aud while tearfully re I counting his misfortune to his wife, J he said: "I swallowed about a gallon ol wa 1 ter." I "Then you know how it tastes at last," returned Mrs. T. j Ho wished he had been drowned. Tho oldest alphabet in existence is scratched on a little ink bottle found in one of thelireek colonitsin Italy, Und is supposed to date about ,'iin j. q THE ElUTOli'S CO.NX'IKM'L. rii I ntlirr of the "Itml Hoy" TiIIh I low lie Umr htiilo n lloiar. To-day a letter camo from the bnsi i ss cilice to tho editorial desk, and tvhtn the editor opened it, ami saw the late-line, "Troy, Alabama," his heart miotc him, and he reached out for his heck-book, instinctively. Then he stopped and read the letter and brea'h d eaii r when he found it w as only a .etler from a boy who waut"il the eli xir's 'lu'oi i.i;i!i. V,'!i d o'l1 I have L'iiiiM' I the ed'lor's heart to jump up into his mouth when hetcad that letter from Troy ? What made him reach for his i heck-oook ? Head er, young reader particu'ii' ly, the i-di-lor once stole a hoi ic ut Tny, Alaba ma. D le t hold up your hands in horror at. the deed, and say licit you have always mi-tru ted that the l aid headed man, w ith the pica '.nut lace, was a lou se I hii f in disgui-'c, for you never thought any su.-h thing. I'.e s:ies, a m ill was not eo. Isidore I a hol'.-e thiol' in Hills.' l!,i- , ': ,,, ;'l- ether man':, horse, li wa; m I -'il and a cavalry r -Minni ! whi-h t'u nht' r hi'liuiool, made a r.'d through Cat portion of Alab n;.i. and one ititi rnoon stopped at the 1 -a c'lfid little viihv.ro of Troy, 'lucre wa- a thin, pale, ner vous, rod-he, nled r.oi oii' m the regi ment w ho had 1 1 en riding a benl lu itrted, deceptiie, dia'.tl cid. disgu-'.-ing mule lor a week, amnio that didn't care whether .school kept or not, a mule lhat would not keep up with the procession, and tried bar 1 to leg Im hiud so the eonf-di rates w edd cap ture the red In iided s.-ld er. '1 o I eep up with 'he r. oiiuent it was nc i ...u-y In wear out a pair of spurs, n :; board, two l'i nco rails, an I Ih" i id, r. every blessed it ay. on the mule, and niu li of the hatred of mules w hich tho present editor has was born ol that experience. I hat evening Mi" nd !in gave of he. rations to a little i lore-l boy who loo'oil sieait. and told him to always l e a good boy, and learn to read, and be kind t i his id. I ma -ter, and he wi uid 1 1! all ri. M. whin tiie colored l oy told wIuih liicrowas a fine horse in a p:i: tin e, a few miles aw iiy, a "liirii r I n d," h " : ."d. i b mo is no person cce; i one who ha1 ro.'o a iniile a wxk. who e,m .(jqe i-ciiite a fine hop-o bo!oii;:in,' to the e; cine. The initio was sii bile 1, mid soon tho s ! dier und the colored boy, and another soldier and another colored boy were trying to catch I hid horse, o, be was ii beauty. As he giilloj ed acres; the pa-t lire mid neighed ami snorted, and puv i-n scallops, be looked like a p c lure. It Wii- not long before the red headed soldier's saddle was on the line horse, and the pro es i, n ro.'o up l y the planter's house. Ah. there was the rub. Tho i'ld mother and lather of the boy who owned tho line horse who was in tho coniv derate army, sa! on the veranda. They had seen the soldiers go through tho grannie, the smoke house, and ever thing where they could get anything to e.ii. and the old people had not murmured They sat, there smoking corn-iob pipes deling as though in war times they miet submit to war measures. Bui when the roil hoa do I soldier rode by on the horse, his lauteen and -..i' -re rattliii'.'. arvl the bor e looking -o proud, as though he I ad 1 on h l! out of the Wiir so far, and w as now gi bu rn fresh to put a Stop to it, the old folks s;iw the animal, the old l,.dy said 'O, pa, the Yankees have found Bub's horse,' and then they both burst out crying, "BuV."' the 1 rave young i n federate, was away with bis regiment, in id poor old pa aud ma had to sit there and see his liois. go on with the Yankees. The -diai s -ldier had a In a: I concealed about his person even then anil he thougiil ol' his old taller mi l mother in Wise n-in, and be had half a mind to take the horse back, not withstanding the fact that another soldier would take him in a holy min ute, but just then the bugle sounded for the "as.-embly," the soldiers yelled and spurred their horses toward camp, and tho new horse began to prance and wanted to go along xo bad, that the slim soldier "let him went," and a beautiful race it was. For nearly two years alter that horse was the constant companion of the slim soldier, who rode him about ten thousand miles more or lc-s, but there was hardly a day of all these long marches that he did not think of tho poor old father and mother of the soldier boy who owned the horse, and of their fears when they saw the noble animal go down the lane carrying a Yankee on his back, when they would have been delighted to have seen their own gray coalcd soldier on his back. And so it was. when we opened the letter from the boy who wanted our autograph, who was probably unborn when it was taken, we came so near putting tho autooraph on a check and sending it to the o'll people w ho smoked the cob pipes nineteen years ago and wept over the hor.-e. i.i yinu n thi; iohm ,mlk. A llfeii-lTnixr SniliM". Ilrm rlplloil nf I In I (Mill III' Itml lo I ill "You wantt) know how we fellows live in the fo'ciis'le, !o you?" said an old wpather-beaten .tack tar in answer to a query of a Xew York "lii'mnr re porter. "Well, we h.ii e n hard time of il taking it by and large. Take a man, for example, that ships for a deep Wilier voyage. He gets, say if Is. or ij-2'1 a month. The !''' n-'le is g m rally cronded to :, ;,! ii mid ain't lit for a dog toliie in at its bet t. Itschoi k-a-block full of r.d.i and cockroaches, with a .-nu ll of bilci -w iii, i, when we are in tho warm latitudis. that would turn the steini'cli ol iiiiv t hing except a shell bak. When we first leave port the grub is pretty lair. The 'silt horse.'or .-.ill beef you shore going folk all it, Is loniparatively fresh: thu weevils and worms haven't hud achan-eat the I. an! t,n!., and il.o water tastes sons thing like wavr. Once in a while we have o'l tommy," or sett I rea I. It's ait' r '.Vo' '. be 'ii to sna f"l' it month, oi m; weeks, ll.iM. v. enMi it. Why, I've i n lot id that i id, lhat the 'doc tor," a w eiill the co k aboard-ship, had to take it out ..f tho 'harness-cask,' in which it is !.i ; t mi deck, with tongs. We ! 'I t" like ii that way alter ll while. It's 1 '111 I" S!'C ,-ohlO of tllo.',0 co:i: tin.,' .lib r-. get bold of a piece of banl tack thai's double! the Horn Un or three t im s. I've seen 'em take a piece and break it on tk" i-dg'.'of a ?ea ilust with ii mail. ii sp ke or ii l.n laying pin and inioiuHy piik out the wi evils, li!'. -von. v" don't take such trouble alter uoo i.nriy taken to growing barnm 1"-. n our b.vks. We just soft, en it a bit in loi'fee and Ink.-it in wiciils ami all. I ih n't know how that is, but they ain't half so had w hen Veil got li: oil lo'ein. " on know when we art' in port, the water Crnks are cleaned out and w hite washed. .Mi r tho water lias Mood in them for thiee or four weeks, and we get into hot wciitlo r. it has tho taste of a mixture of whiii w ii-h and iron rust, and to say it's ikit.ii to ) ut it mildly. Yon ran g:i(si w k;,! ni- ' driekiiig it makes. ".-lsi-ro.git'roj folk- would th'tsk that tha' si r' i f Tub woijkl ;' retty hard, but vve ot , o used t ' it that we Won't h:ivn in-, tiling i Is I ke i.ear st I cm r i iiiu ' to being in a mutiny wat ideird a trail per from New York In shanghai. The salt junk gave out and the 'old man' fed before the mast hanns on tinned meats. Tho leys l'k-d it first .rale for a day or two, l-iil then they heynn to growl and sent ii man aft. Tin 'old man' said the men forward wire living in 'cabin grub," and wanted to know what ailed 'eiii. 'WeP, von Mr. sir, said the man. 'there ain't no chaw in the meat you send forward. Whin tho boys found out that it was all they could get, thf y ica !e the 1 e.-t of it. Why, there's loon chaw in lhat salt be f than lhf,e is m a piece of India rub 1 er, I've chawed on a piece for a w hole watch, and it was ns good when 1 went below iis it was when I went on deck. Thursday is generally 'ilull day aboard ship. Dull is hri class when you :it i.Sod to it. li is made of ilour and w .ter and silt. If tho 'doctor' is i'l :i f;o l humor, he puts in some rai-in-. Then it is 1 oiled gt-n orally in the coppers alone with the meat, and it is served to the men with a tot' of inokis-es. ' The grub :i n'l : erved as well a it is in a lost class tilting saloon ashore It's goin rally 1 rougbt into the fo'eas'le by one of the I oys in 'kids.' A kid is ii little woeilin tub. The meat U in 1 ig hunks and the men elcp it oil w it li their sheath knives. There ain't any cen moiiy. I very man makes a li.vn for the k:dl' and tim strongest .i'l'l quickest II 'jets the best p CCO of hilt. 'I be lei jjeueraibi gets w hill's left, if he a, n'l Miluit t noilgh to hook a piece hi lore he gets to the fo'caske, which ho most geneially is." Interior Africa. A mighty revolution seems to be im pending in the cent r of the Dark Con tinent. Tho valley ol the Congo is in habited by a colored race, who are not negroes. They are tall, with thin noses iind lips, and are industrious and warlike. Henry M. Stanley says there are I'.'.oih.i.ihui of them whom he is trying to civi'i e. The difficulty with the valley of the Congo is its re muteness from the sea coast. The val ley, a fertile aud populous region, is o'oO miles from the Atlantic ocean. Were a railroad built this distance be tween it and the coast, it would ren der available the wonderful resour ces uf Central Africa, and bring a country almost as populous in the I'nited states into the relations with the rest of th world. There is no reasn-ab'o doubt but that by tho be ginn ng of the next century measures will have been taken to open up Con go'and; and it is some con. fori for us to know in America that Henry M. Stanley, our countryman, has been tho (ir I to bring this marvelous region to tin knowledge of the outside world. Y mini: Hearts. Wll V I though tin- ii'iii" ii iv fl.vini! 1.1-1, Ami ,-iliei spi'iiildi' . Iliioii'li ilichiiii, Ami n ow V lis I nunc, ini'l w i inkle- In-t In siiipot 1'i ide'n iiio-i ji'iilomi-iiip; 'llril win, n-liii limi'P we i'oiiU-s, Ami "niowinK old " mu - iIipIoii-'iuT So I'kiin il t'lilli -li'uild not 'ii In-' ii.notlimi: ,1 1 1n- lii-nl In- uini!;: 'I bul v e li:ne eriei-,. to ii rpl I . I, mi lie union Inl of id! I!.., '. ., lliinj.- In lie ll'. l d t' l )Pt. ,,,, .in, ....-l n liiiii pi In lull. I is . I I, ll, .! i luile Ill" "i-l 1 in- dii -c- ,, i, mm -p hip mm. We I, li .1,1 old I ill"! illl'olll" I i-l. An 1 i i inn. .li ''liile the I" '" i" v.'i"S. v loin lite en e. tin. iiki "i ii r i-l 1 I nn. i I"' ..!- n.,1 Ii- jl V, lint I ii;;IiIpii nil em 1,' ro- i'i'P I'niil niu leulf-li'i'- lor.' h Iiiu mm','. 'llinol -till have loillis to !en, -o I-l, ih liniilii iipi'-i lip ini-'oiiij; I inil .ne l-iil .-. a ill I hem Ii b'ltn U Ion , ii i l l' tin Ii- ol t i.voiiii ,i'l..,v -li.iUlip .ri , Li I": I in i;H'C Wli. i, ,'l,-ai.' mil. niid i i i lire 'I'm. When lie,1 1 im . i ii the il o .. olk-l'liion. .Villi Ineoi'.l'l i liMill-a I'llll'.T. I llV MIll' 111' Iiml. lli'-ei- of'l'iin -o-'il. ',i .....t'eii;: sm.l-'i ch .. io. iv -lung. 'Jhiis'iu-p uml dp oli me I -n vi i hslood, An I ti'lMiiil he.it -'i'l'l pvpi' vouiii;. ,ii.-' M'o'Uy. HFMOIUMS. Tl'ir proper question to ask a young woman who is about to elope is, -'Poos yt or mother know your route?" In a tourt-liip the position of purser is nt-cii j-ii'il by a man, while woman looks after th" rigging and stays. "Yes." reniarkcl Mr. Holder, as he listened to the pitying ol a young pianist who had ju t leturmd from liiiroji". "ho is last but not Lis't." If it bo true (hat the phy-ii i.tni have plenty t ib ntt-iidmg to imaginary ail ments, it is equally true that the sick have plenty to pay for i.iiiiginary cures. Fiitti, it i- sad. i- inordinately fond of onions. It will b remember ed by those who have heard her that "he posses o . a rem u k. biy st rong voice. A iio-.v st ive has i n invented for th" comfort .-f mv'eis. D is to be put under tlie fee', with a mustard I'las'cron the head, whiih draws the h",it throu i'i ti.e w kol -ystem. Fu-iue-s 1. pretty good," said an iinileitii's r t i o'i interviewer, "but if lying w:is j sad n- H was in the days of v'laiii."5, 1 would have to en largo ni;.- w. I ks anil purchiise fifty more hears,. " A criii!'' i:k comiiig from th" field, bei'.l'j 1 i'V her poetic Cousin that she lo - :'n -h as itilai- y kissed with dew, Ml. - Well, it wasn't any feil'-w of that i. lie. but it w;is Move loins that kiss el me I tol l him that every one in b.wti vuhl Iind i' out." "Xuw . on niii-l i onv erse in nothing but French," - id .Monsieur the Fro lessor to hi- pupil-. Sib nee immediate ly tell on the i la.-s lor the space of a quarter of an hour, when the Profe-sor exclaimed. "What? Nothing bu sil ence? Zat is the very opposite nf From h." A innn w.'s quietly munching n piece of pic in a ',?', , wh':i a look of ilistres-. suddenly displa ed the sereno expression on his lace. Tiiking sonic thing from between his teeth and look ing a' it. h cned to the waiter; "Here, you, tin re's ii st"nu 1 found in this pie'" 'I lie waiter took it. chime I it critically, and handing it baik brieily said. "It's no good lo us you can have it." I'.ii'see Fitnt rnl ( err monies. I he funeral ceremonies ol the Par se" iin a tiio-t remarkable ii-age High upon the ridge ol the Malabar hill, Bombay, i il il- ed, on one ot the high -est and finest peaks, whore a splendid panorama of Bombay lies at the feet ' of (he admiring spectator, like the Bay of Naples Hum tho summit of l'osilip. po the Piiisee community possess a 1 beautiful garden full of palms and ' llowers. In this cemetery -tand the six dokhmas, or towers of silence .They are cylindrical, white towirs from thirty to forty leet in diameter a nl about the same height. The in side is divided, like an amphitheater, into thiecconcentriccircles, subdivided by radialing walls into a number oi , open chambers. Kadi of the divisions i hold i body, those of children in the center, those of women in tho second circle, and men in the outer ono. As soon us the whie robed servants ol the duel have received the corpse 1 which the relatives have escorted tc j the cemetery, they carry it, aoeompa ' nied by chanting priests, and place i in cue ol the open graves, where they leave it. Flocks of tho sacred bird of Ormm the lino brown vulture at once coi no down from where they have been sittingon the neighboring Palmyra palms. They ' ag themselves on tho l body inside tk -oolless tower, and in ! a few minii'i": .ic whole of the llesh is devoured. v 'ibers of black raven i ; finish off tin ender remains of their j meal. The on s are afterward col. 1 looted in the -litre of the tower.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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April 3, 1884, edition 1
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