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l)r dljatljaiw Eccori). II. .A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 5l)c !ll)crtl)am Eecort KATES i ii ii ii i 4 mi 1 1 ii v 1 1 ir 1 1 ii v 1 1 $ 2.00 $1.00 50 Fruit tftltc Topmost Bouglw "I want the fruit of the topmost lough. "Who cares for the prize that costs no ram? "What boots the bay on the light pressed brow ? Tis the iron crown as of Charlemagne; Tis tho palace girt with the lion guards, The Eden leyond the stormy sea; Lot tr-ose give way whom the toil retards, Hut the strife and tho heat and the dmtfor we! 'Tlicr is Al x uidcr's bitter tear O'er tlx- lack of worlds for the victor's thirst ; There is rroimvell stretched on his gorgeous bier, T;i1iin. his fn-Pt and his only rest! Tht're i Milton. Mind to the suns of Time, Mar eved in .iasjHT courts at last; Like the bird that Fteers through the azuro clime To the eyrie with bard-won repast. '1 want the fruit of the topmost bough: Let him who trembles desert the tray; I think of the crown on the victor's bicw, And not of the lions that guard the way. For the time is vhvt t and the arm is ftr.il, Ami the I ark may weather no other gale; And the dews of death may le gathering n w ; Jut my gazo is fixed on that topmost lough : ,lI want the fruit of the topmost bough. Ti a dizzy height and 'tis lonely there; Fat t' e I nv,.e. play o'er the weary brow, An-1 the truit of that boiuh is fair fo fair! Can I u-.'t and dream while a shred of life, While a spark f lvpe is left to me? I this the way to the meed of strife? L this the Eden beyond the sea? "In the marble etlUy and bast I re a! bur a dream of the pri?o I seek; !-"o: .-piiv of ir all. it i. dust to dust A willing mind, but a fram? that's weak. I'o 1 1 ail memorials like these A tittiiv prize for the deathless soul? Is tl;i- the ft uir I long to f.eize? h tiii- my star, my crown, my goal?"' Oil. v.erry heart of the toiler! turn From th-.Mnaneof d'tibt and tl.e dust of strife. And 1 k. for once, on the empty urn .n 1 the wide-strewn ashes of vanished life; Am I thess. beholding thy better hope, In ;;i: wa:d gaze and with dauntless brow, S-e th p. a' y gate which the angels ope TLis is the fruit of the topmost l ough! Wm. U. Chisholm in '. Y. Observer. A MINISTERING ANGEL. "Oh. Harry, how beautiful this is!" cried Sophie, Garland, clasping her plump little hands with delight. I never dreamed that you had prepared such a home as this for me."' "Love in a cottage, ch?" said Harry Garland, looking down with eyes of amused admiration, at his pretty young bride. "But you see, Sophie, I thought this would be so much nicer thau a town lK.ue: for the summer months at least!'' Clover dale was the prettiest of Gothic cottages, all embowered in blooming liir.es, fragrant tresses of honeysuckle and f -limbing roses. -There was a little lawn. diora close as green plush, a run ning brook bridged over, and the smallest of grottoes, where the drip of a cascade was lot among the ferns and irises. "It's most churning," said Mrs. Gar land, who had filled both hands with tu 'ip, daffidils and early ro?.'?. "I never dreamed of anything so lovely! auu mere is a cabinet piano in the drawing-room, and real stained-glass windows in thy library and the quaintest fcuu-di.il I ever saw.'' "And plenty of spare roon if my mother should wish to spend the sum mer with u-." said 31 r. Garland, care lessly. S:jLi. Vs face fell, all of a sudden. The roses and daffodils drifted to the ground; she came close to Harry and I rgan nervously playing with the mid dle button of his coat. "Harry," she said, ' I don't want to feem un gracious but but pru haps it is I e-t to have au understanding on this question at once.'' "On what question?" said Harry, somewhat bewildered. "0; the moth'r-in-law question," courageously answered Sophie. Harry burst out laughing. "My d ;ar child," said he, "who has l;-cn filling your innocent little head with nonsense?'' "It isn't nonsense," said Sophie. "Hut I have made up my mind never to 'ct our domestic peace be imperilled by 5uh an element as this. And I I .";tn't consent to receive your mother '"re, Harry." Mr. GarUnd whittled low and long. "The deuce you can't I" sai l he. "You wont ask it, will you, dear?" coaxed the young wife, in her sweetest fronts. "If you only knew my mother, So phiu" "But I don't know her," pleaded So phi, "and I don't want to know her." Tin sure you would like her, Sophie; ;"l I am positively certain you could Q 't help loving her." "As if tlK-rc ever could beany reiation ip nearer than rmed neutrality between mother and daughter-in-law!" witirically observed Mr3. Garland. "No, Harry, it is too dangerous an experiment to try. You will let me have my own way H this matter, will you not?" she added, caressingly, "it is the first favor I have Rsked of you." "Of course you are the mistress her ," 6 hI Garland, feigning an indifference tl-at he did not feel. "I do not intend t oppose your wishes in any respect," One copy, 011c year -One copy, six months . One copy, three mouths vol. x. And Sophie ttood on tip-toe to kiss hi.i., by way of reward. After this discussion it is hardly necessary to say that Mrs. Henry Gar land was not a little surprised, two or three days subsequently, by the arrival of a cab at the gate loaded with trunks and the appearance of a juvenile-looking elderly lady, very much powdered and frizzed, with an eighteen-year-old bon net and a parasol which a school-girl might have envied. Sophie started from the coscy nest in th3 hammock where the was reading Dante. "Mamma!" shi exclaimed. "Yes, darling, it's me," said Mrs. Percy, her mother. "I was on my way to Brighton, so I thought I would sur prise you and dear Harold. " Aud she gave Sophie a succession of kisses, which were very strongly flavored with rose-powder, an! beckoned the cab-man to bring in the trunks. "Four," said she." "And a bonnet box, and an umbrella-strap, and two traveling bags. I believe that is all. My darling Sophie! And the doctor says country air is the very thing I need to set me up." Mrs. IVregrine Percy was one of those old-young ladies who remind one forci bly of an tntique piece of furniture varnished up to look like new. Sophie Garland had never been in sympathy with her fashionable mother. She had married decide lly in opposition to that lady's wishes, and wa to tell the truth, rot especially pleased at her appearance on the scene at this particular moment. "iiut what am I to do," she said to herself. "I certainly can't turn her out of doors, though I'm sure I don't know what Harry will say after all those disagiccablc things I said about his mother. But Harry Garland was too much of a a gentleman not to behave courteously under any circumstance. He welcomed Mrs. Percy with genuine hospitality, and did not even notice Sophie's ap pealing glances when the old lady inci dentally let fall the information that, since she liked the situation of Clover dale Cottage so well, she should perhaps remain there all the summer, "just to keep Sophie company you know." "It is so good of Harry not to fling back my own silly words into my face," she thought with a thrill of gratitude. But at the end of a week Mrs. Pcre gii ie Percy sickened. "I hope it's not going to be anything serious," said she. Sickness does age a person so. I never had any wrinkles, you know, dear, before that last attack of neuralgia." But when it transpired that Mrs. Percy's ailment was a severe and con tagious form of disease, there was a general commotion at Cloverdale Cot tage. The servants gave warning, the neighbors kept away and poor Sophie was Avcary, worn out with nursing and fatigue, when one day a gentle little woman in black presented herself. "She will sec you, ma'am," said the little charity girl who alone could be in duced to cross the iufectcd threshold, and who loudly declared that "at the asylum she had everything, and wasn't afraid of nothing!" "I told her to go aw.tj, but it was no good." Sophio, pale and haggard, crept clown into the darkened drawing-room. "I don't know who 3011 are," said she, "or what your business is, but you had better go away. There is terrible sickness here." "I know it," answered a mild voice. 'anil that is the very reason that I am here. I am Hurry's mother, darling. I have come to help you." S, like a ministering angel, the "mother-in-law" came into the house, just as Sophie herself succumbed to the fell disease. No sooner did Mrs. Peregrine Percy recover than she packed her trunks and made off for Brighton as fast as possible. "One always needs change after ill ness," said she. "And the atmosphere of a sick-room always was most depress ing for me. I dare say that the good Mrs. Garland will do all that is necessary for dear Sophie, and I have my own welfare to think of." Sophie, just able to sit up in a pillowed arm-chair, her cheeks hollowed by ill ness, her large eyes shining from deep, purple circles, looked after the depart ing carriage, and then lifted her glance to the tender nurse beside her. "Mother," she said, wistfully, "you will not leave me?" "Not unless you send me away, Sophie," said Mrs. Garland, tenderly. "And that will be never," said Sophie, closing her eyes with a sigh of relief. "How very good you have been to me! "Without you I should surely have died." And even in her slumber she could not rest peacefully until she held Mrs. Garland's hand in hers. That evening, when Harry came home, she opened her heart to him. "Harry," she said, "can you ever for give me?" "Forgive you, dearest?" "For what I said about our dear, dear mother," fervently uttered Sophie. "She is precious beyond expression to me now. She has saved my lilo by her courage and devotion. And I feel that I cannot part with her any more. Would she PITTSBORO', stay here with us always, do you think, Harry?" ''I am her only son, Sophie," sai l he. "Yes, I think she will if you ask her." Sophie made her confession to her mother-in-law at once. "I was so rude, so selfish," she can didly acknowledged. But I did not know you then." Aud Mrs. Garland's tender kiss was a seal of the most loving forgiveness. Mrs. Peregrine Percy never has gone back to Cloverdale Cottage. "I don't fancy that stupid, monoto nous life," said she. "And my poor child is given up, soul and body, into the clutches of a mother-in-law! It wasn't for the want of warning, either. I told Sophie how it would be, but she never would take my advice." New York Journal. Morphia. Watch a morphia habitue deprived of the drug. The first slight uneasiness and sense of discomfort gradually passes into extreme relcntlessncss, accompanied by the most profound depression; the stomach becomes so irritable that nothing can be retained, and there is a nausea aud distressing sensation of emp tiness and sinking. The whole nervous system, which has been working so long under a deadening weight, abuses its liberty aud runs absolute riot; a breath of air which would bring relief to an or dinary sufferer is painful to him; so sensitive is ihe skin that a touch dis tresses, and even the eye aud ear arc in capable of tolerating tho moit ordinary stimulations. To these troubles h added sleepless ness; the patient cannot get a moment's rest; or, if he coul I close his eyes in sleep, horrible dreams and an indefinable terror takes possession of him, and makes him dread that condition which others look to for consolation and relief. Incapacity to take food, prolonged sleeplessness, constant sneezing, yawn ing and vomiting, painful acuteucss of all his senses and other troubles sink the sufferer iuto a couditiou of prostration and despair, only to be relieved by mor phia. Who then can wonder if the wretch yields again to the drug which has so long enslaved him? Hovering between a longing to be free and a feeling of in capacity to endure his agonies, he asks reproachfully whether it is true- that science Lao duauv.i m means 01 re lief, no substitute for morphia, which may be given him until the storm be past. No, we have no morphia at our disposal which will do more than allevi ate these sulbjri:i and if the morphia habitue wi.l 1j freed he must place him self under such control as can prevent his giving way under the tin!, as he almost inevitably will if left to himself. But severe as the ordeal is, he has this consolation aud tlm great induce ment to submit to it namely, that it is short. A few days will see him through the worst and although he may not be comfortable for a week or two his dis comfort is endurable and becomes less and less until it gradually parses into ease and health. - Nineteenth Century. Where Violins Are Made. It is truly astonishing how many violins there are imported into this country annually, especially if Ave con sider that there is really but one place in the world where violins arc made ex tensively. That place is Markneukirchen, with its surrounding villages, in Saxony, Germany. There arc altogether about 13,000 people living here who do noth ing else day after day but make violin, anel to go there and watch them is one of the most interesting sights I ever en joyed in all my life. The inhabitants, from the little urchin to the old gray headed man, the small girl and the old grandmother, all are engaged in making some parts of a fiddle. A good one consists of sixty-two dif ferent pieces. They are cut, planed, smoothed and measured, everything being accurate and precise with the model. The older men make the finger board from ebony, and the string holder and the screws. The small boys have to make themselves useful by looking after the glue pot on the fire and bring ing their elders things as they may want them. A man with strong, steady hands and a clear eye puts the different pieces together, and this is the most dif ficult task of all. Most violins are made of maple wool that grows in that part of the country or over the frontier in Bohemia. The women generally occupy them selves as polishers. This requires long practice, and a family that has a daugh ter who is a good polisher is considered fortunate. Even a young man, when he goes a-wooing, inquires whether the young girl is a good polisher, and if she is, it certaiuly will increase his affection for her at least twofold. Tho polishing takes a good deal of time, some of the best violins being twenty and even thirty times polished. Every family has its peculiar style of polishing, and they never vary from that. There is one that makes nothing but a deep wine color, another a citron color, yet another an orange color, and so on. Pittsburg Dispatch. Pretty slim board a shingle. CHATHAM CO., N. C, PATAGONIA. A South American Country That Exists Only in Name. How Its Marauding Savages Were Severely Punished. There used to be a place called Pata gonia. It appears on our geographies now as "a drear and uniuhabitablo waste, upon which herds of wild horses and cattler graze, that aro hunted for their fl -sh by a few bands of savage Indians of immense stature." ,i am quoting from a school-book published in 188G, and in common me in this country. The same geography gives similar informa tion about "the Argentine Confedera tion." It makes the Argentines roar with rage to call their country "the Argentine Confederation." A bitter, bloody war was fought to wipe that narao off the map, but our publisher still insist upon keeping it there. It is not a confederation; it is a Nation, with a big "N," like ours one and inseparable, united we stand, divided wa fall, and all that sort of thing the Argentine Kepuohe. To call it anythingelse is rn insult to tho patriots who fought to make it so, and a reflection upon our own in telligence. Several years ago Patagonia was di vided between Chiii and the Argentine Republic, the Miliars from the United States to those two countries doing the cirving. Tho summits of the Cordil leras wero fixed as tin bmndary lines. Chili took tin Strait of Magellan and the strip along tho Pacific coast between the mountains and the sea, and the Argentine Republic tin pampas, the archiptslago of Tierra dol Fuego being divided between thorn. Sine; the partition ranchmen have been push ing southward with great rapidity, and now tho va-t territory is practically occupied. There arc no more wild cattle or horse j there than in Kansas, aD(l the drear-, uninhabited wastes of Patagonia have gone into oblivion with the "Great American iK-sert." The remnant of a vast tribe of aborigines still occupies the interior, but tin Indian problem of the Argentiue Republic was solved in a summary way. There was i.TOoi.lopa!,!.. iuiuoya-.ee on the lrontier from bands of roviig sivages, wuo used to come north in the winter-time, steal cattle, rob and despoil, and t.ic out posts of civilization were not safe. General Roca was sent with a brigade of cavalry to the frontier, to prevent this sort of thing. East and west across the territory runs the Rio Ne.ro, a swift, turbid stream like the Missouri, with high banks. Fifty miles or so from the mountains the river makes a turn in its course, and leaves a narrow pathway through which everything that enters or -leaves Pata gonia by land must go. Across this pase of fifty miles General R ica du r a ditch twelve feet deep and fifteen feet wide. The Indians, to the number or several thousand, were north when the work was done, rai ling the settlements. As spring came they turned to go south a u.sun'( in a Ions caravan, with their stolen horses at d cattle. Roca gal loped around their rear, and drove them night and day before him. When tiny reached the ditch they became bewil dered for they could not cross it, and after a few days of slaughter the rem nant that survived surrendered, and weie msiriuuccct inrougli tin army as soldiers, while the women were sent into a semi-slavery among the ranchmen they had robbed. The dea l animals and men were buried together in the ditch and there has been no further annoy ar3c from Indians on the frontier. The few that remain seldom come northward, but remain around Punta Arenas, the only settlement in the Strait, hunting the ostrich and other wild game, trading the skins for whiskey, and mak ing themselves as wretched as possible. The robes they wear arc made of the skins of the guanaco, a specie 3 of the llama, and the breasts of young ostriches. There is nothing prettier than an ostrich robe, but each one represents the slaugh ter of from sixteen tn twenty young birds, and they are getting rare and ex pensive as the birds are being extermi nated, sis our l uff does have been. Harper's Magazine. A Driver in Russia. A driver in Russia holds the reins in both bands and carries no whip He manages his horse; entirely by talking to them, j'.nd if ho belongs to an aristo cratic family, lie never raises his voice above a well-bred tone. His talk, how ever, is curious. If the horses go well, he praises and flatters them, calling taem all sorts of aff?c:iontc names; but if they are lazy, i is quite different; he then scolds them roundly, shames them and calls hard names, it sounds very droll to people whose coachmen guide almost entirely by reins and whip and scarcely open their lips. A Characteristic of Fisli. "Fisa make very poor correspond ents," observed Squilding. 1 'Wherefore r' asked McSwilligan. "They are never anxious for any one to drop them a line." DECEMBER 8, 1887. Pelicans Robbed by Sea Gulls. Two immense pelicans found their way in through tho Golden Gate on Thursday morning, and immediately commerced fidiing opciations off Fort Point. They were apparently very suc cessful for a while, and had it all their own way. Their sense of sight must be exceedingly keen, as they rose in the air to quite a height, then gracefully circled about until they saw a fish, when they suddenly descended, and, like a flash, thrust their bills into the briny deep, seldom failing to secure a catch. They evidently thought they had a good thing of it, but as with mortals sometimes, the good thing did not last long. A small flck of voracious sea gulls ob served the pelicans at work, and flew toward them to share in the plunder. As soon as a pelican lowered for a fish and caught it, the sea gulls swarmed about the fisher, r.nd with ear-splitting clatter attempted to seize the game, in which they were usually successful. Other gulls, attracted by the struggle, continued to gather, until a large space in the bay was liter ally covered with them. -Some sharp practice then commenced, forcibly reminding the observer that "the struggle for existence" was as bitter on sea as on land. At times a pelican would rise with its plunder and soar away up in the air to. enjoy it, but 100 gulls followed in close pursuit, and being, evidently, swifter in flight than the pursued, soon overlook the larger bird, and encircling it literally tore the fish to pieces. Tho struggle lasted quite a while, the gulls in tho moantime screaming themselves hoarse. They kept worrying and at tacking tho policans until the latter seemed to leave in disgust, and sought peace from their tormentors by flying out to sea. The sea gulls act as if they had a monopoly of the biy, aul every intruder from tho ocean is jealoudy watched and cither driven out or ac tually worried to death. San Francisco Examiner. First Run 011 a Bank. The extravagant luxury of the couit of Charles the Second, combined with its utter want of principle and inca pacity to carry on the memorable con test with Holland, purduccd the first ruu upon bankers that ever was made. The extravagance of the court had dissipated all the means which parliament had sup plied for the purpose of carrying on offensive hostilities. It was finally de termined to wage only defensive war; but even for that the vast resources of England were found insufficient. The Dutch iasultel the British court, sailed up the Thames, took Shecrness aud car ried their ravages to Chatham. The blaze of the burning ships was seen in Loudon ; it wa3 rumored that a foreign army had lauded at Gravcsend, and military men seriously proposed to aban don the Tower. The people, accustomed to the secure reign of Cromwell, were in consterna tion. The moneyed portion of the community were seized with a panic. The country was in danger, London it self might be invaded. What security was there then for the money ad vanced to the Crown? The people iiockid to their debtors and demanded their deposits. London now witnessed the first run upon the bankers. The fears of the people, however, proved groundless, for the goldsmiths, as the bankers were then called, met all d mands that were mrsde upon them. Conii lencc was restored by royal proc lamation that C c demands on the ex chequer should be made as usual, and the run collapse !.- Free Press, The Land of Toys. The vicinity of the Black Forest, says the American Agriculturist, is a veri table land of toys, while tho pleasant town of Sonneberg has been termed the areat toy-capital, nearly everyone of the inhabitants being engaged in the manu facture of playthings. AV ooden toys arc the siecialt3r, and each family has its own particular branch. Thus one makes nothing but animals, anothci" nothing but wagons, etc. Each toy passes through half-a-dozen hands, and even the tod.liig little ones share in the work. Half a million dollars' worth are shipped from there every year, and as they come to us through Holland are called "Dutch toys." Hence the old couplet : "The children of England take pleasure in breaking What the children of Holland take pleastirc in making." Conversing With Flowers. The young people in Tahiti have a custom of conversing with flowers, not ?nlike the Orientals. If a coolness has sprung up between a youug pair, the fe male will separate a J.ower vrtially down the centre. One ha if or the split flower is intended to re; reseat hc man, and the other half the woman, and it m meant typically to imply that, thougi. separate bodies, they are joined together at the heart. If the laver puta the flow er in his hair, it is a sign that ho wishes to preserve her favor, bnt, if he tcar3 it asunder, it n n token that he has lost his regard for her and vrishes to be en tirely separated. NO. U. THE GREAT FALLS. Some Tragic and Dramatic In cidents at Niagara. Suicides, Strange Accidents and Remarkable Escapes. The number of suicidc3 at Niagara Falls have been very large. On one occasion a man leaped from the bridge, 192 feet into tho current, and i sup. posed to have died before reaching: the water. For 50 feet he fell like a plummet. lie then began to turn ovci and dropped apparently lifeless on the water. A woman who committed sui cide tested the current by throwing in her parasol before gathering her skirts together for tho plunge. In another case a man calmly undressed and went into the flood, strongly and deliberately swimming to the giddy verge. A brave swimmer tried to rescue him, but the man who sought death sped onwards tc it with rapidity on seeing he was fol lowed. He was soon where it was nol necessary for him to put forth another stroke. The torrent caught him, and he was at once be yond help. On one occasion there was double suicide, the couple being a middle-aged man and woman. Strange acci dents aro also reported. A lady stooped to pluck a flower on the brink of the Table Rock and was picked up dead from the rocks below. Another ladj stooped for a cup of water, lost hei balance and was out of reach and ovei the falls almost before her amazed hus band knew what had happened. In lSTe a very strange and foolish accident oc curred. An engaged couple went behind the Falls, into the Cave of the Wind; without a guide. The lady actually sought to bathe in a pool which even the guides never visited. Her lover lost his life in endeavoring to save hers. One very pathetic and dramatic incident is recorded. A young man caught up charming child, who was watching ihc tumbling waves. "Now, Lizzie," ho playfully said, "I am going to throw you into the water,' and he swuug her backwards and for wards. The child screamed, struggled and slipped from his hands. He gazed after her, and, realizing what he hac done, l?aped info the torrent. Rescue, of course, was hopeless, and he perished. Remarkable escapes have now and again been recorded. One was that of 1 murderer. The sheriff was close behind him, the river in front, and only the wires 01 me 01a image at Licwiston to help him across. Hand over hand he began the passage. His hands quickly blistered, and then they bled. Again and again bo rested his arms by hanging by his legs. At length he reached the opposite bank, and lay panting full hour before resuming his On one occasion a was at work on Second flight, paintei Sister's Island, when he fell into the water. He was carried towards the falls, and when only forty feet from them caught on a rock. After a time of terrible anxiety he was saved by ropes manipulated from the shore. A boatman was beino hurried along towards the rapids, when he threw out a little anchor he had with him. It seemed like playing for hh life with grim death as ho heard the anchor bump continually against the rocks without grounding. At length his fearful anxiety was relieved by its catching a grip, but all night through the boatman was tossed about while he held the anchor rope. When morning dawned he was saved by those on shore. An Army Ad venture. The TV. II. Upham who is at the head of the Upham Manufacturing com pany, which lost $900,000 by the great fire at Marshfie d, Wisconsin, was the hero of a singular adventure when a young man. He was a member of a "Wisconsin regiment which participated in the first battle of Bull Run, and was thought to have been killed. His com rades saw him fall, and none of them made any doubt of his death. Being the first victim of the strife in his own neighborhood there was a great public mourning for him. A memorial service was held in which thousand of people participated, au I many eloquent eulogies were passed upon him. Six months later Upham appeared in Washington with a party of exchanged prisoners. He had been desperately wounded and taken prisoner, but the Confederates had attended to hh wants, and when the exchange took place he was sent home. Wheu in Washington he was taken to the White House bv Judge Doolittlc, then a Senator, and introduced to President Lincoln as a soldier who had come back from the grave. As Upham was on all the records as dead, Mr. Lincoln ordered a correct entry to bo made, and then gave the boy an honorable discharge from the service. When he reic'n l home ia Racine he was the lion of the bur, and the people who had participated ;n the memorial meeting in his honor got up a jubilee which was hardly les3 numerously attended. Later on in tin struggle the fortune? of individual.) were not so closely watched. Chicago Herald. or ADVERTISING One square, one insertion- $1.01 1.50 - 2,50 One square, two insertions One Bquare, one month - For larger advertisements liberal con tracts will be made. The Brooklet L Thou littl brook, so clear and bright. That hurriast on through day and night; I watch and think with vain endeavor, Where com'st thou from? Where flows thou ever? II. "I come from out the rock's deep side, O'er flowers ai:d mossy banks I glide, And in my mirror one can view Reflections of the sky's deep blue. III. "As thoughtless as a little child, I know not where I flow so wild; But Ho who brought me to the light Will guide, I know, my eourso aright." From the German of Gootha HUMOROUS. We are all fortune-tellers. That is, we can tell a fortune when we see it. Women are tho best detectors of coun terfeits when the counterfeits are not men. The price of rubber goods remains very firm. One would think that it would be elastic. A law prohibiting the intemperate hoarding of wealth might prevent mon ey from becoming tight. It is sad to see family relics sold at auction but the most painful thing undes the hammer is generally your thumb nail. It is no use for a piano to be square 01 upright. Mr. Talmagc is authority fot saying that there will be none of them in heaven. Statistics show that girls who work in a match factory do not get married any quicker than these who work at other places. The most dull and sickening thud is that produced by tho dropping of sn old-fashioned copper cent into a church contribution box. The boy who quails at the sight of a mustard plaster is the same lad that goes fearlessly forth to tackle a bee's nest with a handful of willow switches. In his valedictory the retiring editor and proprietor of a Nevada journal says: "Thanking an ever-indulgent pub lic for not having mobbed me lon since, I am sincerely theirs to serve," etc. A Distinguished Family. "So your sons are all through college, are they?" risked Mrs. Smiley of Mrs. Lofty. "Yes, indeed," replied Mrs. Lofty. "The dear fellows! I am so proud of them! Each of them made his mark. Only think of it! George won the gold medal for being the best polo player in his class!1' "Indeed!" "Oh, yes," and Harry was never beaten once at lawn tennh dring the last two years he wras in college. He has ever so many badges and medals." "How gratifying to you!'' "Indeed it is! Ard my son Will went ahead of his whole class at base ball and is regarded as the most promis ing first base tho college ever turned out! We are all so proud of him! But all our hopes are centered in our sort Leo, who graduated two years ago. He has come out winner in every boat race he has rowed; and, only think of it, we used to really fear that it was a wtutcof time and money to send him to college at all. He seemed so indifferent about a college education. But he has turned out grandly ! Wc are so proud of all our boys. Detroit Free Press. A Brilliant Light in Alaska. The aurora on the Yukon river in Alaska, during the winter months, is said to be very brilliant and remarkably beautiful. It commences ia the early fall, and lasts, with moro or less bril liancy, throughout the long Arctic win ter. It generally commences at the set ting of the sun, though in midwinter it has at times been so bright that it was visible at noon while tho sun was shin ing brightly. The rays of lig":.t first shoot forth with a quick, quivering mo tion, arc then gathered and form a great arch of fire spanning the heaver.s. It glowtfor an instant 'ike a girdle of burnished gold; then unfolding, great curtains of light drop forth. These royal mantles, or bright orange, green, pink, rose, yellow and crimson, rrt sus pended and waved between heaven and earth, as with an Invbiblc hand, and form a spectacle of extraordinary povcr. Not 011 an Empty Stomach. Anxious Arknsawr mother. "Tom my, is that a green persimmon you air eatin?" "Yes, maw." "Don't you know it ain't healthy to cat grcn persimmons on an empty stomach?" "I ain tcatia' this green persimmon on au empty stomach. I ate a peck of 'em before I tkled tUf one." Texas Sittings. Six Months After 31arrhg. ic Yhy do you 1'ok t happy, 5corge? Don't jou know w aie one, now? He Yes, Pve heard that ofoit, but when it comes o piying the weekly board bill tho lend'ord don't seem to think so. Sifiiaas.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Dec. 8, 1887, edition 1
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