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Sljc Chatham Recorb I I. A- LOINDON, fcnfroii AM PROPRIETOR. JR RATES OF ft Ay Ay Ay y TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Ay v ADVERTISING One square, one insertion- $ l.Otf One square, two insertions - - 1.50 One square, one month - - 250 For larger advertisements liberal con tracts will be made. 0:k -,,'l,J yne 3ear - - - $ 2.00 0:-.' (,'T.V' s'x monlhs -$ 1.00 vol. x. PITTSBOItO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, DECEMBER 22, 1887. 0:i ' oiy- throe mouths - - 50 NO. 16. lic vuimmuiu miutu 1 ft 0 A Appointed. yn) mon wn forth on? summer hour, T; 1 1 were yoan., and brave and true; jV. ,.v:il lienrU, tvj brains of power, I" t.cr t' dare and do. y.j li I'.ill.nvcl right, each turned from I' i !IJ. ,1 -ir -v.' liw errors to outlive; Vh uzlit '' hojx? and courage strong w- life has to give. lVr Tin' A l ivt Vfxuntain yielded up .wo wA- nyally he quaffed; ,.;Vr .lr.ink a brimful cup jf. r, bitter draught. .c'l-'l but stones, they changed to x 1 1. !! YY:i'th r.n an 1 stayed at his commtnd; Th ib'' 1 11 :1 vl t0 would .An. J (i r iifi;:i hand. Xf,, 1 1 eiv nod one with leaves of bay; 11, air hh king, their honors bhared; ..!!; rtr 'd a barren way A:ili'' v mm kncworcired. .An 1 thi- life; to bow, one reaps; T run n breast one gains the goal; I uu'Ik nloa.l, the other weeps la :ri.:uili of his soul. 0:v mviii of fate the helpless toy, Til! r one's triumphant chain; C1 li ith ai'iointe,i one to joy, A; mt,l one to pain. 7h wi-1 imi that d th rule the world I- ;.'oiu far leyond our ken; but tv h n a'.l mvius to ruin hurled, . T haul is mighty then. b; !'- appointment I lflieve, Tr;'.-T:ng His l.ve. Wlieve in this: T n though from day today men grieve; An 1 life's voet fraitaje m:s. In "-:i" ?la I future they shall know W'h ji 'tfir -uh striving maj" not win; T . !' I.if-' v ill surely show il! tb'.'e things have lieeu. Youth's Companion. JACK AND JILL. Two l.- ivls standing ia tho bay-win-i '.v a i Kiatry drawntj-room; a glori ( S :i:;ni -r's sunset was gilding the :..:: ..t brauchvs of th-; trees in the old ::c i '.Mih its la t rays and the chim.s L tlie vi -l:go clrirch-towcr rang out t j.Lt o'c'"'.k. Their sound broke a long 'il-1. re, which h id reinel in the room ru.'l the yoiia man, tixiag bis eyes on l.! girl fompaaion, spoke hurridly. "1 di I not knc.v it was so late! I nvist he olT, or I shall mis my train to town, ai; I my rcuimeiit at Portsmouth, and all j Of a young curate, who cam 3 to the niy chances of getting on in the world, j parish, and after doing his utmost to Jiuf, by Heaven. I'll do even that, if you ! win Jill's love, left the place in anger n;il only iy to me 'Stay'.' " ! and despair, it is needless to write here: "IV it I don't say Stay, Jack; I say j his pi i le was, after all, more woumL-d (Jo, G., and (rod bless you!-' by the utter coldness of her mauuerthan There was a deep tendernoi in her I his heart smitten by it. ; -iv voice winch any man might have j At the end of two years the old gen h:r.i run 1 to hear, but, b:ca:is? .she i era', who ha 1" boon a long while a a "Mil. I r.ot grant hi:n his wish, young ! wi lower, died, ami Jill !e.nu-d :n more M.rrbtt found her h irdi anl crtid. now of Jack's welfare, for the hail was "A id Wii it's th? good of tli it, if you I y. .;r-.lf won't blc-s me, Jill? What iNe i:i tho world do I care for but "Then go and do your duty, and prow y ursc!f worthy of me!" "li lt if yo t wiil not promise me that y.u will 1)..- min h-i asked sadly. And Jill 'nt on to answer him in her sweet est. finnf .it w iy. 4 I li ivc told you, Jack, that, though I v i i I not promise now to ho your wife, I will jro:nis2 it to you in tlirca years, r Gorier, if you come home; aii l. ti l then, you and I arc both of us t 1 he free. I know my own heart well : - ; r 1 1 . and I daresay you think you k:c.w yours, but how can you tell with n iio:n you may f ill in- love while you :r: r.wayj Yon arc only one-and-twent; now, and I a:n almo-,t the only ;irl you hive ever known. How can you ti ll what tin world may have to t; ah you and show you?" "Oil, my darling! Xo one else in it can ever be the same to me that you arel'' "Well, then, if you think so after thr c years, I wili be your pro.u I wife. srtiy, if wo arc in earnest, we can be tin: to e.f h other without any' formal ! "'ini.f. t0 jn( usj nd, if we cannot, 'h a it will b;. ten times better for us 1 over t have been engaged. Now, -'o.-!y:t Jack,'' she added, after a i ''!'. "As you say, if you stiy longer, '' i wi.l realty be too late. Gaod-byc." "i'n;.r!j so calm and quiet. Ah, T' I. ifyo.t cared as much as I do!'' V.d he -eized her hand and covered it 'itli kis.04 !ie wits very calm, certainly, but for ri-'Int, when in nnoll o; moment he Vl-' uoric and there was no one to see i ' i e not ion, she threw herself on the " 'f-. murmuring between h':r deep sobs: '"il my darling, my dtrling! And he t! ks it is because I do not lovo him Am I right to treat him so? h it wise?" v'i she right ? Vas it wise ? At' J'1V rule sho and sent him away from !''''. And as ho 1 -ft her that Summer's ,v,"i:i. a bright, splendid, perfect ''-dit. whom any fair lady might well " l,: 'u 1 f, she never saw him again. And y-t it was because he was sosplcn 111 5 tint she had refused his pleadings. k was the only child of tho squire of - parish, General Marriott; and Jane A"nstrong, once named Jill by Jack ' M afterward universally called of was 'w eldest daughter of the rector. Tlw "etorv ff.ri. i x... .;,i..,. , j (,-.. v,v uouiiuuu oil in oy in- woods around the hall, and,. ;'"m ,,H'ir childhood, Jack and Jill hm: i ' ' n H'eutomed to play together du: -'; " holidays like brother and sjsttr. "When she was seventeen and he nine teen, he passed with credit into the en gineers, and went up to Chatham to study, and when he came back from his first term there, Ihe old relationship be tween the two was at an end, a change in it bci ig unavoi I able, if 6ad. Jill was shy and Jack officiously polite; wearing his best clothes when li3 was likely to meet her, bringing h.'r flowers from his father's conservatory and grapes from his vinery; and, in fact, making hot love to her, which state of things con tinued until the occurrence of the cene described above. . General Marriott saw it all plainly enough, but being fond of Jill, he was well pleased at the prospect of having her for his future daughter-in-law. It was Jill, only Jill, who saw any hazard in the engagement, although it seemed to her that her whole happiness depend ed upon it. It wa for that very reason she wished to win, not the rash, im petuous, boyish love Jack could give her at present, but the lovo of his future manhood, of his life. She was so well aware of all the advantageshe possessed; lm social position which would intro duce him into the best society; his physical beauty, 'hU winning grace, his ready wit, which would insure him friends and admirers wheresoever he roiijht be; was it likely that he would always rem iln true to the everyday English girl with no especial gifts? Yes, it was likely, Jill thought because she knew something of hU character, but it was not curtain, for he was un tried. Let him be tried, and then if he proved faithful, ha should be rewarded by a love as deep as the fathomless sea, as strong a? the elements themselves, and faithful unto death. Little did Jack know as he left the rectory gates, that such a gift was his already, whether he ever came buck worth to claim it or not. And so two years passed away while Jack was in India. They did not write to each other except on birthdays and special occasions, because Jill hid for bidden correspondence as likely to make him feel less free. From General Mar riott, she hoird of him every other wi-ek, and lie seemed to be well and popular and happy. entirely closed. At that time, too, the second Afghan war brokj out, and his regiment was sent to the front. Those wore aixious days for her, when she daily waited at tho rectory gate to meet tho old postman who brought tho morning pap.-r, and with trembling han Is would opon it to s.:e if any battle hid been fought and whit names among th killod or wounded cr sick. At last one evening her brother came back from a neighboring tow.i with the news of the defeat of Maiwand; he knew no paiticulars, and Jill had to wait till the next day in sickening anxiety. Jnic spc.t the night slccploss'.y, but not tear fully, lor, if h-r darling died a soldier's death, why sho, a soldier's sweetheart, must be brave, too if only she couid be sure sho was his s vcetheirt stili! Surely the war was a special eccasion which would have warranted Ids writing to her. Yet never a hue from him had come. The next mornt ig, when the postman put the paper in her hand, she leaned against an old chestnut tree in tho gar den and oponed it and read first, the names of those killed in battle. Thank God, thank God, ho was not among them! Then, tho seriously wounded. Ah! there it was, one of the very first Lieutenant John Marriott, of the Royal Engineers ! He was suffering agonies in a camp hospital perhaps dying, or per haps dead ! Oh ! why had 6he not gone out at the beginning of the war, with other ladi'.s as a nurse? Then 6hc might h ive been with him now, to win him back to life again with her care and tenderness, or to comfort him until the end. r Wish was vain as it was earnest! for sho was in her far away English home and must hurry into the schoolroom to superintend the lessons of her young sis ter, and into the garden to see about having the Autumn fruits picked for j im-makng; and to a dozen other small duties, which make up the sum total of a woman's d ily life. Two days afterward th?rc came great comfort for her in an Indian letter from Jack, written some weeks before the Maiwand disaster, and brimful of good spirits and hope, and these words were at the end of it: 9 "If I get through this campaign all right and come home again safe and sound, will my time of probation be over then ? Tell me, my darling, for indeed, Indeed, I am getting weary of it ! ' Aye, the time of probation was over, but would ht ever know it? After that, Jill heard nothing of him for over six month", and, although she had not seen any mention of hi" death. in the papers, hope, growing less and less, had almost left her. In spite of her good courage, it was with a white face and a weary step that she went about her duties; she, who was wont to be so cheerful in the days gone by, that . she had been called by the family, "Sun- j fshino I Sho had now a strange fancy for sit ting, toward sunset, alone, in the bay window, where she had last parted from her lover, and one evening it was a Sunday having excused hersolf from going with the rest to church on the plea of fatigue, she lay there in a rock ing chair, dreaming sweet day-dreams of that bright, manly young face which had looked so cntrcatingly into hers, and seeming to hear again his reproach ful cry: 44 Ah, Jill, if you cared as much as I do !" A day-dream, and yet a reality, for, as she raised her eyes. Jack, or else his ghost, was standing beside her! But it was no ghost wdio flung his arm round her neck, and repeated again and again: "My elarling! My Jill! my treasure!'' "Oh! Jack, Jack; I thought you would never come!"' "So did I," he said, solemnly. "But look at me, my dear one; I am not the same. I " Then she saw that the right sleeve of his coat was hanging empty at his side. "Xo, Jack, your arc not the sain?," she said, catching up hor breath, "for you arc mine now, whatever is in storo for cither of us. G.ily forgive me for not hiving trusted you sooner." "Yet that was well, my love, because, you see, if we had been promised to each other and I had come back to you like this, why you would have felt obliged to hive me, and perhaps perhaps ' "I should never have been so worth less as that, I hope; I ut doing without you has taught me to value you now, and if the lines have been hard M She was crying on his poor wounded shoulder. "Pleaso God, the hard lines are over for us both; for mo they are, at any rate," he whispered, looking down at her fondly and proudly, "for the angch are not rdl in heaven yet." How Licorice is Made. "It is almost an impossibility." said a well-known Xew York pharmacist re cently to a Mail an I Express reporter, "to tell how much licorice is really con sumed by people in the cil'y of Xew York. The amount is almost incredi ble, and probably reaches thousands ci pounds annually.'' "How is the drug obtained?'' was asked. "A sp cies of licorice is found on the shores of Like Eri?, though a good deal comes from further West. The plant from which it is obtained is cilled gly cyrrlnzi. It grows very erect, to tho height of about four or five feet, and his few branchoi. It boars a flower formed like that of a pc, but of a violet or purple color. Tho root in it) raw state is well known as the 'licorice root'of com merce. It attains a length of several feet and is often a i inch in diameter. When the root has attained the age of three years it is taken up and from this, before it becomes dried, is made the ex tract of licorice, sometimes known as Spanish licorice. Thi juice is prepared by boiling the root with water; the de coction is then decanted off and cv.ipo ratod to proper consistenco for forming the substance into sticks, fivo or six inches long and an inch in diameter; these are the Spanish licorice of com merce. Is not the article adulterated?" "Yes, it is often nothing else than a mixture of the juice with the worst kind of gum arable. Metallic copper scraped off the evaporating pans is very fre quently .present, and starch and flour sometimes constitute nearly one-half of the substance." A Sight to Feast the Eyes. There was a sight in Buckskin Gulch yesterday that would have made the oldest placer miner's heart leap with joy. The surface gravol had been washed off, and the large cut in the jagged bedrock for over 100 feet was a mass of glittering gold. In places where it had lodged in the crevices it could be picked up by the spoonful. About a pint of nujgets, from $20 to $50 in weight, were picked up in tho forenoon by Charles Dudley, and about twenty pounds of gold had already been taken to the bank, which had been scooped out of the potholes. No very large pieces had been found, the largest would probably not go over three ounces. The clean up, which will probably take two or three days yet to make complete, will be by far the largest ever made in the camp. It is estimated to reach 50 pounds, or in the neighborhood of $9000. Coour d'Aleuo (Idaho) Sun. Youth and Age. Omaha Child Mamma, that old lady in tho corner is L . Mam ma Hush. That is Miss Spin ster I You must not call her old. "I wonder how young she is?" "I don't know." "I ruess she must be about forty J yars yunS tier. Omaha Herald CHILDREN'S COLUMN. Tli a Ploughman. - He's a stealthy old follow, the ploughman. He comes when you're "cross," so beware And makes but the faintest of furrows At first, with his heavy ploughshara Butj little by little they deepen, Until, by-and-by, on your brow Are left all the marks of the furrows The ploughman has ma le with his plough. And then 'tis quite useless to worry, To fret, and to frown and despair. For every one sees the deep furrows, And knows that the ploughman was there. Youth's Companion. A Good Wish Gratified. Five little girls were spending a pleasant evening together and fell to discussing what they would most like tc have. "I wish I lived in a beautiful palace, with nothing to do but act as 1 pleased," said little Susie Blake, "Oh! 1 wish I was very, very pretty, so that people would look at mo and say, 'she's the prettiest girl I ever saw!'" exel limed Ella Dudley. "And I do wish more than anything else that I had lots of money," said Dora Kyle. ' ' I would like to be very smart and write beautiful story books," said Margie Wilkins. "Your turn now, Kate; "what do you wish for?" asked Margie, seeing that Kate hesitated. "I wish to be good sho said slowdy, "that all my friends will love me very dearly aud miss me when I am absent from them," said lit tle Katie Otis. "Why Katie!'' exclaimed four loviug voices, "you have your wish already; for only this morning we all agreed that the day would not be half so pleasant if you did not come," said Margie, drawing Katie's hand in her own. "Aud we each wished we were like you, because everybody loves you so," said Susie. Katie actually cried for joy to think her wish had so soon been granted. "Oh! girls, let's make a good wish next time; maybe it will be gratified," said Dora, to which they all agreed. Xow, it is in the power oi every child to be good so good that they will be missed and wished for when absent. Don't you think it much wiser to desire what, is possible than to make life disagreeable by wishing foi what is impossible? Bessie M, Laccy in Southern Cultivator. Something About Fir. ; It was a cold day. Fred w-s tired of reading, tired of looking out of the window, and so he poked the lire for a change. "I suppose there are a good many different sorts of fires," he said tc his mamma, as he laid down the Joker. "Yes, indeed," sho answered. "It is very interesting to know how people keep warm in all parts of the world, es pecially where fuel is scarce and dear. In Iceland, for example, fires are often made of fish bones. Think of that. In Ireland and other countries a kind of turf called peat is dug up in groat quantities and used for fuel. And in France a coarse yellow and brown sea-weed, which is found in Finistsre, is carefully dried and piled up for winter use. A false log, resembling wood, but made of some composition which does not consume, is often used in that country. It absorbs and throws out. the heat, and adds to the looks of the hearth and to the com fort of the room. The French have also a movable stove, which can be wheeled from room to room, or even carried up cr down stairs while full of burning coke. In Russia tin poorer people use a largo porcelain stove, flat on top like a great table, with a fire inside which gives out a gentle, spring-like warmth. It often serves as a bed for tho whole family who sleep on top of it. There are, besides,, .gas-stoves, oil-stoves, various methods of obtaining warmth by heated air and steam, and, doubtless, other devices that I never heard of. In some coun tries, however, no fires are needed. In looking at pict ures of tropical towns you will at once notice tho absence of chimneys. " Fred looked admirably at his mamma as she paused. ''There never was such a little mother," he said; "you can think of something to say about every thing." His mama was pleased at this pleasant compliment. "Oh!" she re plied, laughing. "I could go on and till you more about bonfires, beacon fires, signals, drift-wood fires, and gyp sy tea fires, but I have told you enough for to-day. " Our Little Oues, Something Pleasant. "Can't you say something pleasant to me ?" said a husband to his wife as he was about to start for his office. They had had a little quarrel, and ho was willing to "make up." "Ah, John," responded the penitent lady, throwing her arms around his neck, "forgive my foolishness. We were both in the wrong. And don't forget the baby's shoes, dear, and the ton of coal, ind we are out of potatoes ; and John, love, you must leave me some money for the gas man." New York Sun. Her First Sponge Cake. He How kind of you, darling. I will ilways keep it before me. She What do you mean? Why don't fou eat it? He Eat it? Great Scott! I thought was a paper weight, Judge, A-".MEDICINE DANCE. Terpsichorean Performances of the Kiowa Indians. Dancing Two Hundred and Forty Consecutive Hours. An Aoadirko (Indian Territory) letter to the Courier-Journal, says: By invita tion of Sin Boy, the chief of the Kiowa", I recently attended, with three other palefaces, the great medicine dance of that warlike tribe. Tho place selected for the dance was forty miles west of this place, on Rainy Mountain creek, a tributary of the Washita river. The place was well chos3n, with just timber enough for shelter, good grass and springs to supply drinking water The Kiowas formerly participated in this danca annually, but owiug to the scarcity of buffalo they have only had two in the past five years. One buffalo at least is essential to the nedicine dance, and they had to go 300 miles and pay $100 cash to obtain one for this dance. It was just sunset when our party arrived. A place was pointed out to us by one of the chiefs, our tepee erected, our horses staked to grass and our water-kegs filled. All of this work was done by squaws. We were invited to supper, and to our surprise were seated on the ground to a sumptuous repast, of which we showed our appreciation in a very decided man ner. One of our party could talk Kiowa, so we got their programme, and being weary from our day's travel, turned in and werj soon in the arms of Morpheus. We were astir by daylight next morning, and after a hearty breakfast of beef and coffee, but no bread, we proceeded to take in the sights. The encampment consisted of three hundred lodges arranged in a circle about one and a half miles in circum ference. In the centre of this eifele the medicine lodge was erected. It was a circle one hundred and fifty feet in cir cumference, with poles set in the ground about four feet apart, and green brush interwoven so thick that one could not see through it. In the centre Avas a polo about forty feet in height, on Avhich the buffalo hide was suspended; on the Avest side was placed the idol they worddp, which Avas a figure cut from stone, about thirteen inchc3 high, resembling somewhat a mummy. On either side of the idol Avas a cone-shaped pile of sand, Avith a small opening at the top, from which issued continually a very black smoke from one side and a blue smoke from the other. How this smoke was generated is beyond my ken. On the east side of the circle Avas an opening, through which old Sol threw his resplendent rays full in the face of the idol as he lifted his head above the eastern horizon. The dog soldiers Averc dancing. The dog In dian is one avIio dances four days and nights Avithout sleep. If faithful, he is honored among his people. The buffalo dancers come next on the programme. They dance four days and. nights with out sleep, but arc allowed to take soup and water occasionally in small quanti ties. Th?y, if faithful, are honored by the Great Spirit. The doj" soldiers had been dancing three days when Ave ! arrived, but one day of this avis enough orui. They d meed until, from sheer exhaustion, they Avould fall to the ground, AA'hea they would be caught up by two or- three stalwart bucks and carried to a hole of Avet sand and mud and rolled therein until they returned to consciousness, when they Avould again participate in the dance. Any one ot tne tribe that icit re ligiously inclined and that they would prove faithful, could enter tho dance, squaAvs excepted. We Averc not al lowed to cuter tho medicine lodge until Ave Avere dressed a la mode, that js, with i a sheet and moccasins on and hat off, when Ave Averc treated as their equals. The dancers Avere clad in sackcloth and ashes. 1 liev avotk themselves into a high state of excitement, singing, pray ing arid dancing. Srmo of them Avould be crazy for hours at a time. On the evening of the fourth day after our arrival, Ti-mu-da, the medicine chief, declared that the Groat Spirit Avore a smile, and then the dance Avhich had lasted tAvo huidie I and forty con secutive hours Avas brought to a close, the b .Tiling of the tomtoms having never ceased during the entire performance. Then tin donations of the Great Spirit began, but as our time Avas limited we did not stay to see the finale, but there arc thousands of dollars' Avorth of fine shawls, blankets, moccasins, robes, &c., deposited in a pile to decay. 1 flit lil IV winive in I ml in There Avcrvj in British India, by the census of 1831, r.o less than 207,388 widows under 14 years of age, and 78,- 976 of these were under 9. They can no lonsrcr lesr dly be burnt, but their widowhood is viewed by all Hindoos as the punishment for horrible crimes com mitted in some previous existence. They are closely con lined to one meal a day, Avhich they ca,t in .solitude; obliged to conceal tlumsclves in the morning lest the sight of them bring bad fortune ou the beholder; aud all this for life. f Albany Journal. Imitation Jellies. A year or two since a man in the town of Oswego found himself with a large crop of red currants, and, as the price ia the market was too low to permit him to sell them at a profit, he manufactured them into "jam," or "jelly," using the best of sugar, and producing a most ex cellent article, which he imagined would sell to families and hotels readily. He found the hotels suppliad with a cheap, impure article, manufactured frOm gluten and acid3 and colored to resemble somewhat ia color . and taste currant jelly, which the landlords told him answered every purpose, as the boarders didn't know the difference, and it could be procured at a rate much lower than he could afford to sell the pure, aeucioui, wholesome article, be cause they sold at retail an article which "answered the purpose" even lower than he could afford his at wholesale. The result was the enterprising . man, who thought he would do the paople a great kindncs by furnishing them with a pure, deli cious article of currant jolly at a cost less than they could manufacture it themselves, had a large quantity on hand to send to friends and to piss around "ia cases of sickness," etc. But we haven't heard of his manufac turing any more "pure currant jelly'' for market. A few vears since a gentleman ia Union village started the manufacture of apple-jelly, and he produced a very pure and delicious article, which should have commanded a ready sale at hotels, bakeries and in families, for the table and for pies, tarts, etc. But the business did not prosper, Ave think. At all events, it was suspended. An inferior article, made up largely of adu'tcrations, which "answered the purpose," took the trade OAvego (X. Y.) Times. The Discontented Bivalve. There was Once an oyster Avhich lay peacefully in its bed at the bottom of an ocean. "Alas ! ' it sighed. "Whv am I doomed to such a dull, unbearable ex istence? Here I am. with no opportu nity to taste the jo3rs of life and go out into the world to see for myself and penetrate its mysteries." "You don't know what you arc talk ing about," replied its next door neigh bor. "Your life is a most enviable one, free as it is from all danger and respon sibility." "Don't be a clam," snapped out the discontented one. "I long to travel. I have some ambition to rise in the Avorld." Just then an oyster boat came along and gave the complaining bivalve a lift. "Ah," it murmured, "fortune, favors me at last." A fcAV days afterward the oyster was drifting aimle33ly about in a restaurant StCAV. "Oh, why did I Avish to leave my home under the Avater," he sobbed, as he skipped out of the way of the spoon of the customer, avIio had paid twenty five cents for him. "I thought I was lonely there, but I did not know what solitude was until I came here. I never before appreciated its horrors till now. There is a remedy in suicide, and I embrace it gladly." Saying this, he climbed up on the side of the dish, where the customer could see him, and aams devoured. Nationality of European Monarchs. It is a curious fact that there is hardly a reigning monarch in Europe whose family is xf the same natioi a'ity, pur sang, as the people governed. The house of Austria is really the house of Lorraine, and even in their origin the Hapsburgs were Swiss. And it the Em peror Francis Joseph be ' not, strictly speaking, an Austrian, still less he is a Hungarian, although he is kiug of Hun gary. The king of tin Belgians is a Saxc-Coburg; the monarch of Spain is a Bourban; tho king of Italy a Savoyard; the king of Roumania and Prince Ferdi nand of Bulgaria arc both foreigners; the founder of tin Bornaadottc dynasty in Sweden Avas born at Pan less than a century and a quarter ago ; the czar is a Holstcin Gottorp, arid the king of tho Holsteiner. Even in our own royal family there is very little English blood left. The Hohenzollerns were originally Suabians, and therefore p rt!y Bavarian and partly Swiss. Xeither Avas the his toric house of Orange, inAvhich patriot ism has nearly always been the first in stinct, Dutch to begin Avith.-St. James' Gazette. Excellent Prospects. "You want the hand of my daughter, you? Why, you haven't anything to support her with." "True, sir, I am poor now, but I have excellent prospects." "What prospects have you ?" "Why,sir, if I marry your daughter I'll have one of the richest wives in town.' ' Chicago News. Comforting. Telegram of Poet to Editor Send me check for my poem "The Mystery of the Star?," or I shall starve to death. Telegram of Editor to Poet If you starve to death you won't need check. Yankee Blade. The Bain. The rain! the rain! the rain! It gushed from the skies and streamed Like awful tears, and the sick roan thought How pitiful it seemed ; And he turned his face away And stared at the wall again His hopes nigh dead and heart worn out, Oh, the rain! the rain! the rain! The rain! the rain! the rain! And the broad stream brimmed the shores, And ever the river crept over the reeds And the roots of the sycamores; A corpse swirled by in the drift Where the boat had snapt its chain And a -hoarse-voiced mother shrieked and ravel Oh, the rain! the rain! the rain! The rain! the ram! tho rain! Pouring, with never a pause, Over the fields and the green byways How beautiful it was! And the new-made man and wif o Stood at the window-pane Like two glad children kept from school, Oh, the rain! the ram! the rain! iJames Whitcomb Riley. HUMOROUS. Another Indian outbreak is reported in Arizona; it is Avhooping cough this time. A woman's scorn is not to be trifled with. Especially Avhsn you step on it in a croAvd. The pen is mightier than the sword, but an argument from cither is likely to be Arery pointed. "The hour of reckoning has come," said the cashier, as he opened his books and prepared to run up a column of fig ures. "I thought you took an unusual in terest in my Aveifarc,". remarked an un successful lover. . "Xo, indeed," she replied; "only in your fare wclL" RobinsonIIeUe, Jones! Been aAvay shooting for a couple of 'weeks, haArcn't you? Jones Yes. Robinson Well, what did you bag? Jones my trous ers. Caller (to Mrs. Hendricks) Your daughter's husband is an A. M., is he not, Mrs. Hendricks? Mrs. Hendricks (a trifle sourly) Yes, he is about 2 o'clock A. M. A scientific exchange asks: "What is rotary, motion?" Why, it is that ex perienced by a drunken man when lying flat on his back and clutching the side walk for fear he'd fall off. "What did you marry my son for?" fiercely demanded aa old gentleman of -a clergyman AATho . had just united his runaway scapegrace in the holy bonds. "Taa o dollars, sir," meekly replied the iominie, "to be charged to you." Cali forn ia S h erp-Shea rers. Still further south is theXejuil Ranch, comprising four thousand . acres. Chief among its possessions are the A'ast herds of sheep that Avander over its broad domains. Perhaps nothing is more in teresting than to watch the processes by which 'the wool is obtained. The sheep shearers arc mostly of Mexican origin, and when they put in their appearance present a- picturesque sight, with their gay neckerchiefs and swarthy counte nances. They would do avcII ia a pic ture, but as human beings they arc to be avoided. Cruelty and love of gaming are their chief characteristics. They snip, snip the sheep, and if they take out a piece of flesh Avith tho wool, they snip out another alongside, to make .it nice and even, meanwhile chanting some queer little rune. Then a vat of acids is prepared, into which they drop the poor creatures, old sheep and little lambs, thumping them down with poles, in order that they may be Avell immersed, not caring for the raw, tender flesh exposed by their brutality, nor for the feebleness of the j lambs, Avhich scarcely know which Avay to go. The old sheep, Avhich has passed through several seasons of this sort of thing, immediately swims through tho x&t to the place of egress, and passes out; not so the lamb, which struggles and strangles, Avith that cruel pole push ing it down under the bitter waters, not knowing what to do. Many of them are thus droAvned, and the imp-like shearer, uttering an ugly oath, fishes them out. At night these inhuman beings sit up and gamble away every dime earned through the day to the" sharpers avIio follow in their wake, but the next day go to work again, chant ing and snipping with accustomed celerity. Cosmopolitan Magazine. The Czar's Wrists of Steel. During the Czar's visit to Copenhagen a German conjurer was giving an exhi bition of his skill before a royal party at Fredensborg when the Czar took up tho pack of cards Avith which the presti digitateur had been operating and said: " I Avill shoAv you another trick, but I doubt whether you will be able to add it to your ; repertoire,'" The Czar then tore the pack of fifty-two cards in two without apparently the slightest effort. The shoAvman produced another pack and tried to imitate his example but in vain; only those possessing Avmts of steel can in this case follow suit. It is no trick, but the exercise of almost superhuman strength. A few minutes later the Czar called for a silver dollar and bent it .double between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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