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0 .... Ctljc l)atl)am Hccorb. EDITOR AND PROPRIJ2TOU. She Chatham Itcoro 4 2 RATES 04 or TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR Strictly :n Advance. At Sunset Time. CUi towurd the wt the pass ng day. As tbo' reluctant s-eiining, Sft tdolc to v licre ti c 11 me-clouds laj To whi'io tlu hun hung I paining. And yet she revmed full loth t go, EVn tho' the wot Id was tdmdowe 1 so, lint Kviked back Vr tho dimpled hill To whore the world lay dim and still, 1V whore the worl I lay dreaming. At simsot time we steal nw:y To where the sky is gleaming; To where the light that marks the day Is all cur htaven seaming. Arl yot e seem full loth to go, I'.Yn tho' the world is shadowed so. Vv.t U ok back, with ttgrttful eyes, To where the world in twilight lies, To where th world is dreaming. Julie M. Li pmami in Overland. The School Ma'am's Victory. The school director of District No. 19, Terry Township, were holding a meeting. Nobody would have thought it. Tho Chairman was leaning against hh front gate with his checked shiit sleeves turned back and an ax in hi hand, sur veying the other two members of tho Board, who stood outside the fence. It wai a meting, nevertheless; and its object was nothing less important than the selection of a teacher for the foil term. 'Lyman Doty poke to me about having tho school," s.dd the Chair, du biously. "Lyman Doty !" exclaimed Stevo Ten ncy, a stalwart young fellow, with thick brown hair, white teeth and a square chia to make up for his lack of down right good looks. "Why Lyme D ty couldn't teach a bily. He quit school before I did, long enough, and he hasn't studio J anything Lut potntovs and v.iuter whe at since, that I know of. Better btick to his farm cb, Larkin?' "Giles you're right,1' responded the third member of the Board, a little man with n cl ecrful face an I a tuft of gray hair sticking straight out from his chia. And the chairman nodded his agree ment. "Well," continued little Mr. Larkin, with an air of importance, "I've had aa application that I guess will suit. It's a sort of relative of ray wife's, and just as nico a girl ai ever was. Smart, too. She's got a certificate for two years, last examination. She'd mako a splen did teacher, Molly S inborn would." "Sanborn I' said Steve Tenny, short ly; "any connection with tho Sanborns over on tho river?' "That's where she's from," said Mr. Lai kin. "She's old Join San bora's girl him that died last winter." Steve frowned. "You won't put her into that school, then, with my consent!" he sail de terminedly. What!'' said Mr. Larkin, with a gasp, while the chairman -tarcd. "What would you think," the young man responded, "if a man sold you fifty head ol sheep at a gool price, and half of them died off i i the next week f a discaso he must have known beforehtnd? That was the trick. John Sanborn served me. And lie l: udicd ia my face when I w.iutcd my money back. No, sirl I can't conscientiously con tent to j utting any of tha Smborm ia that school. Bad lot, in my opinion! ' Mr. Larkin's tmall bright eyes snapped. "Old Sanborn wasn't too straight, and everybody knows it," he r.draittcd. "But what that's got to do with Molly is more than I can see. Shj's as fine a girl as you ever set cyos on; not a bit of her father about h r." "Well, well, fight it cut between you," said the chair. nan, good-nature I ly; and returned to his wod chopping. Tho tall young man and thj little old man w:i1kc1 up the street together, talking brbkly. Mr. Larkin was hot and indignatt; Stevo was cool and immoviMo. "There don't seem lo bo my incicy in you," raid the former, almo. t tear fully, us Steve was prcpaiirig to turn in at hit gate. 1 If th y'd been loft well ff, it would bo different; lut thy'ro poor as poverty, and Molly needs the place the worst way." You hadn't mentioned that," sail the young man, turning br.ck. "H that's the case Mr. Larkin walked awuy ttiumphant fivo minutes later. But Stevo Tcnney had surrendered with bad grace. "I couldn't hold out after that, you see," he sail to his mother, relating the story over their tea; "but I don't ap prove of it. There's not much good in the Sanborns or I lose my guesi!" School began two weeks later, when tho first cool wave was depo ulating front porches and increasing the attrac tion t ear kitchen sloven. Steve Ter.ney held to his opinion con crrain r the new school teach ir and acted accordingly. II . did nut call nt the schoolhome the first el ay, as was his custom, to leavj the register and see is anyt i was wa;:ttd tho chaiimin having turned these duties over to his younger colleague. Ho sont the regbter by a boy, n:ul was utterly indifferent ns to wheth anything was wanted. II 3 turned tin? subject when the new teacher wa- mea- vol. x. timed; and he avoided Mr. Larkin' s coinfortablo hom, whero tho teacher boarded. The litt'e man tva 'c ht a call, how ever, a month or so alter school had be gun. "Gu ss you'll havj to own up to be ing in tho wrong, Steve," ho began. "We haint had a teacher for ye: rs that's given tho sctisis clion that Molly does. Tho children rave nbeut her all of era." But Stevo was unimpressed. "My opinion has yet to be altered," he said rather stiffly. And Mr. Larkin lookod discouraged. "She ppokc about needing a new broom and water pail," ho said as he rose. "1 told her she'd better come to you about it." "That schoolhouse had a new broom last term, and water pail term before last!" said tho yeung director emphati cally. And Mr. Larkin took a discomfited leave. The next Suaday evening the young man, sitting i i the pew of a small woo len chutch with his mother, and al lowing his eyes to rove a' out during the rather long sermon, suddvnly discovered a tew face, and sat studying it for tho remainder of tho evening. It was that of a young girl not a re markably pretty girl, Lut fair and froih aud innocent, with a bright intelligence in her dark eyes and a sweetness in her lull li;s. "Who is she?' wa3 the first question after the services were cor. c'uded ad dressed, as it happened, to little Mr. Larkin, who had come in late. "That?" the latter asked in astonish ment. "Why, that's our teacher that's Mollie Sanborn 1 I am waiting to tako them hom " Steve Tenney found himself wishin : quito frequently after that that tho new teacher would como to him about the broom and water pail. Not that he should furnish them if he found that they were not needed, but he felt that he should not obj.ct to an in terview with tho school teacher. He even mentioned the subject to Mr. Larkin carelessly when he met him one day. Well, ycu see," wis tho res ponsp-jou "she soit of hates to coma to you. The way you felt about her having the school has got all crouad town, and I s'posc she's heard of it. Shs can't help what her father was, Molly can't, and she's real sensitiv.'' The young man looked disturbed. That J.fternoJn lie bit his work at an early hour aor, however, admitting to himself his purposo in doing so and 6trolIcd down tho street, turning off but he persuaded himself that it was not intentional in the direction of the school hous j. I niiojht as well go in and see abou that broom and water pail," he said to himself when hi sto d opposite ths little bare -looking building. And he went in accordingly. Tho littie tcaclr.T looked considerably startle I when sho opened the door to htm. She droppcl the spelling book !hc held, and her voice was hardly Ualy as shij expressed her gratification at fedng him. Evidently, Steve refi cted, some idiot had point. -d him out to Inr at church the other evening. Hj sat down in a front scat feeling m pleasantly ogreish. She was hearing tho last spelling class. How pretty &hc looked, standing there in her blue calico elrcs and white apron. What a sweet voics sho had, though putting out "hen, men, pen," to a lot of fidgeting youngsters could hardly show it to tho best advantage. When tho class was disnii sed, and tho last small slu lent ha I rushed whooping tlown tho street, the teacher and the you g director stood looking at each other with some nwkwar lness. "I thought I'd come in," said Stave at last, apologetically, "and seo if any thing is needed." II j did not mention the fact of his being soma six weeks late in the per formance of his duty. The girl dropped her eyes timidly. "I don't think so," 6he murmured. "What a brute she must thi tk me!'' Stevo reflected, with some self-disgust. He turned carelessly to tne corner where tho broom stood. "Isn't this pretty far gone?'' ho said, T'ith a conscience-stricken glance at its stubby end. And the littlo teacher nodded. "Your water pail seems to leak." the director went on, iidicating tho empty bucket and the wet floor. "Yes," the girl assented. Til sec that you have new ones," Steve concluded. And ho was rewarded Dy a datice from tho teacher's soft grateful eyes as she took her hat from its nail. He took her lunch basket from her hand as they started away, together, and having taken it, could hardly surrender it short of Larkin's gate. II; was a littlo reluctant to surrender :t even than. Pjt their first aw.cw.ird- -.8 had quite worn off; their walk had in far from ua ile is int, and they -re feeling very well acquainted. Hj walked homo ii an agrseablo ab ijntion, repealing to himself tho things sh) had said and recall! ;g her pretty way of saying them. He did not pause to cond ier that it was old John Sin bom's daughter ol whom he was thinking; hj was only conscious thit she was a bright young girl, whom it was charming to look at and listen to. His pleasant mood was ru lcly inter rupted by little Larkin, who dropped in that evening. "Lyme Doty couldn't have the j-chool," heobs-civcd, with a chuckle," "but it looks as though hs was going to have tin teacher!" "Wlwl? said Stev, with a sudden uitxplaiaablo sinking of tho hsait. "IK hinging aro and considerable, any.iow, said Mr. Lirkm. "Went to visit tin school last wjck and he was nskiug me today whether Molly's got anyway of gettiag homo Friday night. He sai 1 he'd just as lief take her in his buggy as not, M lly gener ally walks; but I guess shll ba glai of a lilt." "You don't mean to toll me," said Stive, warmly, "that she'd have any thing to do with him?" Mr. Larkin stared. What could Steve care with whom old John San born's daughter had to do? But he only said, deprecati igly: "Well, Lyme's a good steady lellow." "Humph!" was tho scornful rejoin der. The young man mused long and se- rioudy when hit visitor was gone, and went to bed with a lighter heart, hav ing come to a firm ccnclu ion. When tha new teacher closed school the next Friday night she was feeling rather worn out, as she was apt to feel at the end of tha week; nor did the prospect of tho four miles' walk homo serve to cheer her. She locked tho door and started down the path with a sigh. A neat little buggy was coming briskly up tho road. Molly gave a start ai the driver pulled up tha horio aud sprang to the grcund. Jt was the young director, and he was coming toward her. "I won't make any excuse, Miss San bor:),' he said, with a humorous solem nity. "I won't say lm going over the tiveron buiiness, and hippeacd to think might like to ride. Tho truth is that it's a carefully laid plot. Will yeu be an aider and abettor?" The little teacher laughed apprecia tively as ha helped her inti th-; luggy. I must stop at Mr. Larkin's and leave my dinner pail," she said de murely. Mr. Larkin was standing at the front gate. He stood staring at the young diiector as the latter assisted the teach er to the ground and sat down on the horse block waiting for her. "Lyme Doty wa3 here after Molly, just now," he said gaspingly. "I sent him down to tho school house." "We met him," sai I Stevj. "You ce," he added, making a bold attempt at carelessness, but speaking neverthe less, in a shamefaced way, and avoid ing thi littlo man's eyes. "You see, I feel as though it's my bounden duty to keep LyiEC Doty away from her. Puro impudence, his hanging around her that way." Tho little teacher came tripping back and the young director's buggy whirled away in a cloud of dust. "Steve Tenney's taking Molly home ia his buggy," said Mr. Larkin, joining his wife in the kitchen, and sinking d.zjdlyinto a chair. "I guess tho world's coming to an cndl" "Stevo Tcnney ain't a fool," his wife responded practically. "I knew he'd g t over that ridiculous notion of his and especially after ho'd seen Molly." "Says he's doing it from a sense of duty," said Larkin, chuckling slowly as the humor of tho situation dawned upon him. "Wonder how far his sense of duty will take him?" 'I shouldn't be f-jrpriscd at any thing!' said Mrs. Larkin mys teriously. The Larkins and, perhaps, Lyme D )ty were the only people who were surprised when the new teacher gave up the school it tho e: d of the term and was quiet'y married to the young ili rector. The chairman of the School Board is wondering over It yet. Hartford Times. An Attorney's Ruse. "How much will you -ive mo for this atlas of this city?" asked a Buff do at torney as he walked into a second-hand book store and handed tha owner the book named. "'Taii't worth much," answered the dcal.T, as ho turned over the leaves with an air of assumed indif ference "There's no demand f r 'cm. I bought one last eveaing and it's out side now. There's no elcmand for 'em ht all, and I shall think it is a gool sale if I get f 1 for the one I have now." "All right, here's your good sale. This is tho one you had outside," gayly answered the lawyer, as he thraw down a silver dollar and skipped out of the tore before the disconcerted proprietor ould interpose an objection. "I had oecn hunting for th it atlas for months i! d w uld have given $15 rather than not got ir," remarked the attorney as he :l c ully exhibited his purchase, Bab f do Express, PITTSBORO', CHATHAM CO., N. CHILDREN'S COLUMN. Blue-eyed Maude is the teacher; Clarence, Minnie and Bello Are the moit advai ced of her pupils The first clafs studying weiL Then there are the primary scholars Those dollies that sit in a row; And Robbie's the Superintendent Who visits llie school, you know. Pussy is studying drawing, Her paws in the crayon-tray; While Bose sits up on a hassock Ii ady his pa.Ofc to play. She has on her very best ribbon, With an eV-a frill of lace, While he wears & turn-down collar And a very Eolemn face! A mouse peeps out of the corner, From his hole just under the wall, And puss goes scampering after, Upsetting the dollies all! While Maude the dignified teacher Just screams, and jumps to a chair, And the grave little Superintendent Laughs loud at the funny nffiir! ilre orill in Loadoa. For the first time since the establish ment of the gardens of the London Z o logical Society a living gorilla has been added to the collection. It is a young animal, but as little is known of the hi -tory of tluso creatures, so rarely seen in captivily, and as it brought no certifi cate of birth with it from its native land, it is impossible to give more than a guess at its exact age. Although it has been scarcely a month in the gar dens it is rapidly recovering from the shyness before straagers which it ex hibited at first, and it feeds freely on almost every kind of fruit offered to it, showing a marked preference, however, fcr pomegranates. It has unfortunately arrived at an unfavorable time of the year for an inhabitant of the forests of tropical A'rica; but as it is placed in the same h usc and ued r tho same care as tho remarkably intelligent and well c ue.ated c'dmpanzee, "Sally," which has now lived exactly four ycar3 ia the garden, it may be hoped that it has a chance of doing as well as she has, and of proving even a greater object of in terest to visitors. Toe gorilla is male, and has received the name of "Mumbo." The Humming' Bird. There is no part of America where the bumiutDg bird. U act found. Five tp cies are found north of Texas, but tho greater put of this family belong to Mexico, tho West Indies and Central and South America. The humming bird is a very interesting study. Its flight is maivelous. It hardly ever alights, con stantly hovers over flowers, its wings keeping up a hum, by their rapid vi bration. The hover over flowers is designed not to smell their odor, nor to extract honey, as many persons er roneously suppose, but to capture in sects. To this their bid and tongue arc admirably adapted, bciug so long and slc.idcr, that they can reach into the deepest recesses of the flower, where the insects conceal them -elves. The humming bird is the only bird that has teeth, having short rudimentary ones, one of the arguments of the evolution ists that all birds sprang from the rep tiles, and originally had teeth. If you can find a humming-bird nest it will well repay the trouble of hunt irg for it. It is constructed of such fibrous matter a3 may bo at hand, as grass, stalks, cotton,- etc, and lined with vegetable down. Tho outsilo of the nest is covereel with mos, bark vi lic'iens, so that it looks no more than a knot on the branch u oa which it is built, while the whole is glued together wiih the saliva of the bird. The mate rial is generally wound in part around the branch on which the nest is built, so that it is firm and difficult to det; c'i. It is cup-shaped, and, in the smallest of them measures not more than half an inch across tho widest part. In this tiny domicile two pure white egg, very small, to be sure, but quite lsrgo ia proportion to the size of the bird, are laid, and after ten days of patient sit ting are hatched. The young arc able to fly ia a week, and another brood takes their place. National E lucator. Swallows Take to a Ship. A rather curious episode ia natural history occurred the other day on beard the French steamboat Abd-el-Kader during the passage from Marseilles to Algiers. Just as the vessel was about two hours out the sky became quite black with swallow. It was then about 6 o clock m tho evening. They alighted ia thousands upon the sails ropes and yards of the Abd-el-Kader. Alter a pcrlry survey of the eleck from their eminences aloft they descendctl coolly on deck, hopped about among the tailors and passcngerr, and eventu ally found their way into' tho cabins fore and aft. The birds were evidently fatigued, after a long flight, and al lowed themselves to be caught by the people of the ship, who gave them a welcome reception and provided them with food, which they enjoyed heartily. Tho little winged strangers remained all night on the vessel, and ia the morning at 7 o'clock the head lookout bird no doubt sighted the Balearic I les, for tho whole fl :ck made for land, after having spent a comfortable and rrcshing night on bjard ship. Lidja Telegraph. AyAyA Ay C, JULY 26, 1888. TRAINING ANIMALS. Qualities Requisite ir Training Dumb Brutes. Acrobatic Dogs, Bibulous Goats and Singing Geese. Duting tho recent dog show, says the Washi agtoa Star, a troupe of perform ing dogs att-act.d muoh attention. Professor J. W. H mptoa, tha owner and trainer of the perfotming dogs, whon questioned by the report.r a'out his dogs and his methed of training them, said : "This business of mine is one of the most interesting in the world. Few are in it, for tho simple reason that few people possess the knack of imparting knowledge to dumb animals. S me folks might try to train a dog forever and accomplish nothing."' "What quali ies must a 'man possess in order to be a good trainer?' asked the reporter. 'In the first place," said the Profes sor, muh decision of character, a strong will-power, and a cheerful, pleasant voice. Of all things the will plays the most important pait. It is by.it s use that animate may be most easily trained." "How do you coirmence lo train ani mals? ' asked the reporter. 'Taking a dog a year old, foi In stance, I first teach hi.n to mind. This might take six and e ven ten lessons, but don't start out to train a dog before you teach him to mind y.at. After he understands you are his master and must be obeycel, commence to teach him to sit up. Hold him ia the correct po sition against ihe wall, show him what you w- l-n , and concentrate your mm upon - doing it. Whon he has learn; to sit ip, try him standing on nis niu ... mis win come very easily to him. Then comes the waltz, you'll find that very hard, but persever ance and judicious training will accom plish even that. Teaching him to jump is the next thing and supplement this with leaping, if he be a large dog. Now, tnere arc a great many people, con tinued the professor, who try to teach a dog to jump by holding a piece of meat on the-other si le of aae and bidding the dog to get it. That's wrong and will ruin a good dog in a little while. If you want to tiaia a dog to jump, show him what you want him to do, and by a little patience you will see him perform the trick with ease and pleas ure. When a dog goes through his part of the programme ia a sluggish manner it is only a question of a few days when he will shirk it altogether." "You train monkeys also, don't you?" asked the report r. "Ye," said the Professor, "monkeys, geese, cat, goats, dogs, rats in fact, I can teach almost everything." "How about moc keys; arc th y hard totrti." "Well, ye There are a great many people who think that monkeys arc very easy to train, but that is a mistake. They will probably do what you want them two or three times all right, but they sooa forget. These monkeys," continued the Professor, "are great drunkard. Thii one," pointing to a wee bit of one clinging lo the clown dog's tail, is drunk even now.' The reporter looked, and sure cnou h the little fellow had a strange glare in his eyes, and was trying his best to dis locate the ehain that bound him to the box. "But the greatest drunkards in the animal world," sai 1 the Professor, "are gojit. I have one that is a very good performer, knowing how to count, stand up, jump through fire and do many other tricks, but he koows how to drink beer better than anything. But come this way and I will show you the great est trained animal ever known." ' The Star man followed and ia a pri vate room saw a full grown g.Jose j-trid-in around. The Professor w .s greeted with a series of di cordant cries. The croose was once a wild one and shot in Canada. The Professor passing bought her and took her to the theatre where he was giving an exhibition. It was here the thought of training her first presented it sol f and in less than six weeks, old "Moutry" that's her name could count, add, subtract, multiply, divide, tell the day of the week, hour, la fact, could do almo-t anything with figures. "Her greatest act," sail thj Profes sor, "is singing. I claim that this goose can sing a song, giving the proper pitch and I'll prove it." Taking the goose he placed him upon a small stool and gave the key. In stantly the goose threw up her head and quacked out the air of "Over tbo Fenc-e Is Out." There was a cat that followed the goose all around the room and when the reporter inquired about her accom plishments, Professor said: "I'm just training her. I am going to try to teach her to sing, and then by a few additions have a chorus of ani mals. Any one," said the Professor, "can train a dog that is, to a certain extent." "How?" queried the scrib "Procure your dog. If possible, pick . out one that in your judgment is intel NO. 47. ligent. You can easily do this by look ing him ia tho eyes. Teach him. as 1 have told you, to know and realize th.t you aro his master and mu t be obeyed. Tuo rest will follow. Dja't whin him unless ho descivcs it, and don't speak harshly, and. above all. don't over train him. The best of dogs have been ruined this way." The Hainan Heart In the human subject the average rapidity of the cardiac pulsation of an a iult male is about 70 beats per minute. These beats are more frequent, as a rule, in young children and women, an I there are variations within certain limit in particular persons owing to peculiari ties of organization. It would nof necessarily be an abnormal sign to find in some particular individuals tho habit ual frequency of the heart's action from 60 to 65 or 75 to 80 per minute. As a rule, the heart's actio i is slower and more powerful in fully developed and muscular organizations and more rapid and feebler in those of slighter form. In animals the range is from 25 to 45 in the cold-blooded and 50 upward in the warm-blooded animal-, except in the case of a horse, which has a very slow heart beat only 40 strokes a minute. The pulsations of men and all animals differ with the sea level al o. The work of a he ilthy human heart has been shown tc equal the feat of raising fivo tons four hundredweight one foot per hour, or 125 tons in 21 hours. The excess of this work under alcohol in varying guantities is often very great. A eurious calculation has been made by Dr. Rich ardson giving the work of the heart in mileage. Presuming that the b'ood was thrown out of the heart at each pulsa tion in the propor ion of 69 strokes per minute, and at the assumed forco of nine feet, the mileage of the blood through the body might be taken at 207 yards l cr minute, seven miles tier hour, 168 per day, 61,320 miles per year, or 5, 150, 8S0 miles in a lifetime of 84 years. Tbo number of beats of the heart in the same long life would reach the grand total of 2,869,766.000. Medical WorlJ. Prosperous Colored Men. Thc:e are nrobab'y over 100 colored men in Washington who are worth ov 23 noOeach. fiftv wtTth 10.000 each anl nearly 1000 who pay tax son 5000. George W. Williams -x-me-mber of the Ohio"A"sscmbly. and author of a history of the colored iact is said to bo worth 40.000. Fred Douglas has $300,000. J h i F. Cooke, lutil recently tax col lector of the District of Colunbia, him self pays tax :s now o i $25'), 000. John M. Langston, formerly Uaited Slates Minister to Havti. is reputed to be worth 75, 000. John Lynch of Missis ipj i, who was tho temporary chairman of tho Chic vi o Convenlion ii 1884. is very wealthy aud owu3 a fine planta lion in Mississippi. ISx-Congressmau Smalls, who is now contusing tho scat occupied by Colonel Elliott, has also ac cumulated quite a for. unc. Dr. Glostcr, who died a few years ago, left $1,000, 000: the wealth of Ids son-in-law was estimated at $150,00). John X. Lewis, of Boston, makes the clothes of the Beacon Hill dudes and does a yearly business, it is said, of over a million dollars. He was once a slave, and ragged and bare-footed, followed Sher raai and his troops in their inarch to the sea. Cincinnati has a colored fur niture dealer whoso check is good any day for $25,000, although thirty years a-'O ho was a Kentucky slave. The 7 " late Robert Gordon, of Cincinnati, owned a large number of four-story ic ilences at the time of ht3 death. (New York Tribune. How a Barber Lost a Fingec, The onlv curious ci isode that I now think of that ever occurred in my own dealings with a barber came about through my observing that the knight of the razor who was at work on mo had lost the index fi igcr on his right hand. I could not help admiring the dexterity with which hft handled the tools of hii trade despite the loss, and, observing mv attention directed tc his mutilated j hand, he vouchsafed an explanation. -I cut that e ff," he said. "How, by accident?" "No. I meant to. It is the triggei J w finger. I was drafted into tho army aad cut it off to avoid tho service. It didn't work thou ;h. Iho trick had been tried too often. They took to training men to use the second fiigcr. Some ot them cut that off too, but I couldn't spare another, so I ran away and came to America. N , I don't miss it now much, and I don't care if 1 can't go back. This is a pretty good place and the work isn't hard. Thank you, sir. Next! Worcester Spy. A Doctor's Odd Cane. Tho latest style of cauc is owned by a Portland physician who uses it for three purposes as a cane, as a protector and for professional purposes. It consists ol a bamboo rod into which fits a steel re ceptacle, shaped like half a tube ia the concave side of which are springs hold ing in place small vials of ammonia, morphine and needles and surgeons' thread, and, ia fact, all antidotes and surgical appliances necessary ia case 9f emergency. ADVERTISING One square, one insertion- - $1.0(1 ; One square, two insertion - - 1.50' One square, one month - - 250 For larger advertisements liberal con tracts will-be made. Origin or the Tides. The moon, a lady robed in white Rose o'er the bosom of the sea, And whispered, "Take niel by thy might Embrace me, seize me set me free From endless bon iago to the nightl" The brave se.a rose to do her will And tossed its p do arms high in air. Its dee ps responded with a thrill That shook cai th's coasts and islands fain Yet the pale maid rode higher still. The mad surge, wrestling with defeat, Threw foamy kisses high in vain. At last it sighed : "Ah! lady sweet, Thou art too great! but thou shall; reign My queen; my beirt shall rise to greet The daily dancing of thy feet." f America, UUMOKOUi Down in tho mouth The tongue. From pole to pole- A clothesline. A cool deed The title to an ice house. Tho right to pay taxes has never been, denied woman. Tho dynamite gun may be said to have several aims in life. A yacht can stand a tack without swearing, lew men can. Two of a Kind: Teacher "What is the plural of child?" Boy (promptly) "Twins." It is abiurd to speak of tha "fool prints of time," when it is well known that time flics. The preacher tclis you that you should marry for love, and yet he often marries for money. A Ivico to young . ladies who are set ting their caps: Use pcrcussioi caps, so that the "pop" may be heard. Some deem it quite an honor just to bo One of the "first setrlers"' in the town; The lest first settler, though, it seems to me, Is he that pays cash down. Doctor-- Did you take tho rhubarb I ordered?' Patient "Yes, sir." Doctor "How did you take it?' Patient "In a pie." Teacher "Sammy, why do you write your name S. Smith, Mai chert" Sammy "Why, 'cau:e pa writes his J. Smith, Junior. I was born ia March." Teacher: "Supposing that eight of you should together have 48 apple, 32 pe ichcs, 50 plunjs and 16 melons, what wcirhl each tf yon h ive?" Pupils (ii choru?): "The stomachache." "Is that all you can givj me ma'am," pleaded the tramp "a dipperful of water?' "Why, no, certainly not," re plied tho woman with tho big heart; "you can have as many dippcrfuls as you like." He was mumbling about tough steak -and cold collee, and making himself generally disagreeable. "Don't growl so over your breakfast, John," said his wife, "nobody is going to take it away from ycu." The Bishop of London has risen to be a wit. As he was taking leave of a parishioner with a very large family, the lady sai 1 : "But you haven't seen my last baby." "No," he quickly replied, "and I never expect tol" The Light of the Future. The primary fault of all our lights, electric light inclu led, is that there is so great a wjstc of energy in the form of heat. The glow-worm, the firefly, and a multilu le of other animals show that light may bo obtained without any more heat than that of tho animal body, and without any such danger as that so terribly displayed in tho burn ing of theatre'. Badziz3W3ki found that animal light is due to tho oxidation of two ki ids of organic matter, one con taining hydrocarbon and tho other aldehydes, or scmcthirg yielding al dehydes whea treated with alkalis. The isolation of these compounds is tut another step, and their application, both of them being steps that arc but smdl compare 1 with many that have bcea mitlj ii the chemistry of this generation. All oar existing arti ficial lights have another common fault. They arc concentrated forci of glarc. But for its cost tho best of all' is the wax or paraffin candle. A room lighted with 20 candles, well distribut ed, is incomparably better lighted than 5y one 20-cindle gas light or electric li hi; with the luminous upholstery I suggested tho diffusion, wu'dba still more complete than with the candles, it would correspond as nearly aa possi ble to diffusel daylight, and might be made to produce most charmingly ar tistic eff.-cts. Gentleman's Magazine. Quizzing a Country Boy. "Com try boys are r.ot such squash hen is as they sometimes look," said tha sociable drummer at th: Broezcl House. "Ojc day lst week I was out riding with a fellow who -eomed to think it hi mission to say or do something smart every minute. Presently we overtook a barefoot urchin driving a cow home from pasture, and ray companion reined u; the horse and spoke to him, saying, S iy. my little man, what tim3 will it be at 6 o'clock this afternoon?' With out a moment's hesitation tho lad answered : 'Twill be bedtime for hens and fools. Your not a hen, but 'twill be your bedtime all the same.' " Buf falo Express, . -TP. - t J t m m -4 . 3 Mil m .41 -'3, - -:4h v it:''
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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July 26, 1888, edition 1
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