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Mmmmmmm Cljatljam Record t)z !)otf)nut Uecorb, u . a i lots' ijo rs' , f EDITOR AND PHOl'I.IETOK. KATES A O VERTISINC TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One square, one insertion- Oue square, two niwjrtioiis Otie square, one month - 1.0 1.6 . .09 $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly !n Advance. For larger itilv-irtiseuiento liberal con -tacts will be made. VOL. XIII. lMTTsn)UO CHATHAM CO., N. C., JANUARY I, I8tl. NO. 20. If oura mmt o Hinders. A cricket foil on an iii.-ect Too LI for eye !o see, A field iimnse cal iiri'il llie cricki t A ml hushed It is minstrelsy. A gray shrike (otit on Hie Held nimit-e Aiul lump liim on a thorn. And n haw k came down on the cruel shrike From over tin- waving ecru. Anil a fov sprang out on the rid-tai'ed hawk Frm under a fallen tree. Ft r Mid anil hca-l, by lined im.l Meld, of cv cry degree. Pre., one upon the other, 'Tiv.i.s thus ordained to lie; My rifle luiil oM rrynard lw. An I I'eatli Death looked at inn. ! Kriii-st Mcli.itl'cy in llii'MSO Hi raid. A PACIFIOPARADISE. In tlii1 yo.'ii' i sO'.t ia linglishinau who h id lii'iMi n I'e-ident of Now i';i land for ton ears suddenly blossomed oul as mi inspired leader of nit-ti. His name was Meiijaniiti Murks, ami In1 wns anything lint educated and re ti in-. 1 . Ili- idea ;ia to scenic power and I arc for him-olf, but bo wa so good nt (li--i'in bling Unit no one mis trusted this iittl i 1 too lulo. By visions prop! i-i ii's and (low ui ight lying be in duced sisty-livu people til Set out with liim in search of u paradise on earth. A brig ea!!ed tin- Trtii' Mine carried Ihr crowd away, ami I was an tjii-i'ii-liec on l In- brig. She bail come out from llnglaud several years before, anil bait Iron sailing h tween Now Zealand ami some of the island to the tnirlli. Tin- day wo left I'overly Hay I was In years old, ami a stout lud for my age. Tin' iir.-t top wo mad'' inn at Sun day Island, li ii'li then ban about .' inhabitants. There was neither law, order nor decency among tboiii, but Murks managed to keep this fact from bis people. I'lmn a trading schooner tin iv ho got -uch in form ilimi as in duced liim t change (lie course t'i llie northeast, and we bore away for llie I'aiimoiti group. This group takes in, large and small, about 'Jihhi islands, and includes tho Mirqitesa, Society an t 'o k i-lanil-. It is on a direct oast au.l we-, line lielweeu l!iail and Aii-traiia, ami is from live to thirty decrees 1 1 1 1 ol fhe equator. We bail -is week' sailing after leaving Sun lay I laud, and there were frequent quarrels anion;; the elect. Man u oul'l baw ii lurneil if possihle, and h ul not M u I. po e-sed aieculiar personal mai'iidi-in the troubles would have i ecu inure di-a-lrous. ( hie in rn iue we si-hted liind dead ahead, and be for.' noon the people bad forgotten all lliidr ililicteiicos and were happy ajrain. Tlio inland is down on the newer charts a-. Tubai, but for many years was known as i'aritdUo. Wo came up with it at about '.' o'clock.. and Marks and others were rowed ashore for a i-il of inspection. The i-l.iu 1 is (hinooii mile lon by seven broad, but a I'a'e or so at either end is low and swampy and covered at biuh waiiT. There is al-o a larjjo niar.-li on the ea-lein -bore. After a day and a half spent in prospectin;; Mark decided that the island would do. It was linely wooded, bad many spring's and creeks, ami the laud grad ually ro-e to a plateau liigli and dry. I.viiij; so near the equa'or, there was scarce need of elothiiifr. and winter would be known only by three or four weeks of rain. It look us about it week to disehargo eai'ijo and jret ready to sail, as some of the sailors lent a hand to help build temporary shelters for the people. When the ship bad been cleared and everv bin;; was ready for saying piod by, the captain of tbo bri", whose name win I'artwood, who bad been reasonably kind to me, ordered me into the yaw l with another of the crew to pull hhu a-hore to deliver a bundle which had been forgotten. 1 noticed that the boat had her mast and sail l)iu in her, but this fact bad no iignilicaiiee to me just then. The people had setlied on the rising pound, a mile from the lauding', and as we reached the shore 1 was instruct ed locai ry the bundle to the -ett lenient. I started oil' erv briskly, and in the course of tw only minute placed the bundle in Mark's hand. No sooner bad I turned to go than I was rough ly neied, thrown, mid my ankles and band- securely lushed. I 'poll demand, ing iu explanation, Marks replied' "I gave the Captain to for you, and you belong to me. It U no use to raise a row. If you beha e yourse'f you shall be well treated; if not, yon will get badly Imiidlcl." 1 at once proceeded t raise a row with my voice, reviling the whole band after fo'a-tle fashion, but tiny turned to mi l beat me until 1 wh forced to ery for mercy. The (inly object M ai k could have hud in buying me was to ma; e me hi slave and drudge. The Captain did actually sell me for a t'.' note, as al le"e.i, and ill iiflel' V ears, wiieil 1 tot Lini into court in Wclimgi n, it cost hint C'Wl to settle inalter-i. AftH be ing licked into silence, I re.'ili.ed thai my best way was to endure what I eould not cure. The brig had gone, mid if I did not lake hold with tonn show of spirit Mark- would make 1 1 ui.eiidiirahle. I expressed sorrow a1 my conduct, pr iiuised to do heller, and was untied and put to work. All the houses were to be erected on one line, facing the south. That of Marks bad already been bi",'un. It wa the summer season there, and one eould bo out at night without the least inconvenience. A certain minibe, were to work at the bouses while oilicrs cleared land and planted crops, and even the children t; years old had tasks alluded them. While all were busy no one had time f u' regrets ami I think it was fully six Weeks before I received a hint that all was not sali factory. Kvery hut was now com pleted and the crops planted, but the people had conic to see that they were simply to make an easy living. They bad no u-e for manners, du -s, educa tion, or money. While they had no taxes to pay or laws to oppress iheni. they bad no deeds to the laud, and whatever Marks said inil-l be obeyed. lie did nut take on autocratic pow ers until all necessary work h i 1 been aei'oinpli-!ied. Then be proceeded to show biiu-e!f in his true spirit, lie was to be ho-s and idler, w hile all others worked ami obeyed. His argu ments were to go without dispute. Had be Hot descended to (lilies the people would have borne with him, but by and by he wauled to dictate in even the siualb'-t !' iuirs and one day there was an awful row between all bands. 'i-ts and clubs were used and ininy were injured, and the ie-n!l wa--eee-sion. Thirty persons withdrew from the Marks government ami sii up for themselves uu ; 'be louder-hip of a man naim-d They de manded halt' of i-v ei . .ing, :. 1 1 . 1 the Maiks faction had to grant it or bring on another fe.lil. Thus, in three mouth from lauding in ''I'aradi-"" we bad a slate of aHair- which would have di-giaeed an African village. Marks hud treated me fairly well up to the lime of the split. Mv m ui pathics; wi re w ith the other party, and learuiii;: of this, he lieil me to a I feu and whipped me until I fainted away. Ho then chained me to a log for a week, and when I wa released he forced me to drudge from daylight to dark. One dav I ran awav to the north end of the i-lainl, and for two weeks I kept clear of the ineii who were hunting for me. I lived on wild fruits and roots, and was enjoying myself iinme nci ly w hen caught. Mark gave me ano:her beating, and I was now set to work w ith a chain and clog attached to my right leg. There had been no lighting between the two gov ernments after the lir.-t cla-h, but the truce was full of anxiety. Mai k was delcrmined not to divide the throne with anybody, and after wailing about a innitli in hopes to ee the Maker faction return to its alle giance, he began to plan an aggres-ive campaign. I'lnler hi- direction a raid w a- made one afternoon on the bouses of the Maker faction, ami live lilies were secured. K ich ma i in the colo ny had u rille and more or less ammu nition, and the eapluie of the-e live gun practically di-abb d live of jhe facd 'ii. The men were out in the fields when tie raid wa-made, and. of course, tin if wives could make no defence. That evening Murks sent word to the Mukcrites that they itm-t come in and sign a paper n pinlia'.inir their leader, or he would treat them as mal contents and dangerous persons. They refu ed to a mini and that night 1 beard Maiks planning with some of hi men to commit murder. The sit ualii u is one which has many times existed. A lot of people go aw ay by Ibetii-elvcs to , -cape avarice and op pression and are invariably the vic tim of some of their own number. Marks wanted (he other half of the money back, and he wauled the oilier faction to humble it.-e'.f. I heard llieui planning that next day they would ainhu-li Maker and sle'ot him I dow ii without warning, and it wasj hoped the rest of the parly would then coiiie in. While. Marks had made a dog of me hiu'i bealeii me on the slighle-i exeiis,., 1 was not wa'ched o' tiighls. Th,. chain and clog had ul-o been lemoved. At midnight on this night I i ivpt mil of my lirtt-h hut and wen! and warned Maker of what was in store for him. lie warned all hi. adlien nn, ami the re-uit was murder, ju-t die same a- if I hud let Marks carry on' hi- pliu-. Next f.o'eniioii, as one of our parly, named He Moid, wa skulking in the wood- to gel a saot at , r, .nun mo i put a buil'l i-ilo hi in, and a i I old w a- j ent w tli a note to -a thai our side i could I' i :i : ii; !:..' do U . I Uf the I. illy men, seventeen bad i ;ouo with Maker, but live of thefe vcri! without li'i'-iirm . M u k- had lost a nun, but the extra guns mile up :'); it. After fhe killing both sides declared war, and both were anxious for further blood-hed. Ties women and children kept to the hoii-es, while he men scattered over the island and limited for each other. In the course of a week Marks los four nu n killed mil two badly wounded, uud the Maker side lost one killed and two wounded. While I lived with Marks, it was becun-e I was obliged to, and I was therefore treated a a non-oonibat-ant. Any message between the (cull ers was ral l ied by me. Abut ten days after the lirst killing Marks called me to hi- lioii-e mid told me to get the yaw I ready for a trip. The boat was lying in a creek half a mile away, and before the nipt me had been free to all, though I had always iteen taken along to uianago her. Mark wa not a married man. lie now prai-ed and llatlereil tne in the bighe-t terms, '11111 said he proposed I i go oil' in tin; yaw 1 lo soiu.' oilier i-laild, inking me along. No one else wa t.i go, a nil I Wiis.not to breathe a word. That evening-, a .-non as dirk, f was to carry all his bundles to the bout, supply her wilh water and pruvi-ions, ami then bring word to him when till wa ready. When night came lie got the men out into the woods to watch, mid I look from his hoii-e six rille-, all (he money, llin bedding', clock, clothing, etc, I supplied the boat with forty galh'tis of water and a lot of cooked and fresh piovi-ion.-, and by midnight I 1 1 : I Iter ready. I had had a plan of my own ever since Mark- opened his month. It wa very doubtful if he meant lo take me with liim at :.ll, hut if he did it wa more than likely t li.it he would throw nie overboard when be had sighted other land. Ii was '.' o'clock in ll e morning he ft re the tide (limed, ami (lieu I got into the yawl and let her drift to the we-t. I wa not yet out of hearing distauc" v hen Mark came down to the creek and called me. When daylight came and I got a breee I w as only three miles oil' shore and w a- n i doubt seen by ail our parly. I held to the norllnvesi, having a com. pass in the boat, and after three days and nighls of fair progress I reached another of the Ait-lral g.oup, eulliel the King's Park, and there found a trader, to whom I related all. After a short delay he set sail for the islam! I had lell, taking me wilh him, hut ow ing to contrary win.' we did not reach it for a week. War had been rile nieanwl.il'. Maik, Hiker and three others had been killed, two women ami two children had been wounded, and the entire parly now prayed to be taken oil' the island. A i rangemeiit.s were made with the trailer, and all were loaded up and carried to one of the Navigator island-, where some of them are still livng.- - New York Sun. The l irsl Pescenl In a lining- Suit. This lir-t plunge leaves no ag rceahle memories. They dies you a if you had lo endure ihe cold of Siberia, n precaution which 1 have found uscle-s in the M-dileiraiieau. With knit .V( oleu ho-,', cap and shirt, I have never felt the cold. Then come the ample coat, which we get hit through llie neck-hole, and the ca-iiie, whlc.i lesniiuds a if oue had hi- head in n kettle. Then they pir. on you a belt with a dagger, shoe- wi ll loaded soles and lead at your breast and hack. Now you are so I '.ided hat yo; could baldly stand straight if the boat ,-h.nihl tip then you go down into th" water where till the weight is no longer fell. Now a iliU'erent feeling begins. At the command. "I'unip!" some one rapidly screws down thegla-s in front of your ea-qiie. and you hear ii noise in w Ii it-li y i. ii have to accu-ioui yotir--elf pali! pah! pah! accompani. ( by a his. ing of th" air. l.ililo whirl'-, of air come to v on, -e.nled with nia ehitie o,l and caniio'lioii '. Tit begin ner lails lo manage the iseipo, and his coat and sleeves become inll ited, so that, w hen he wants to o Uiiwn, he llou's like tho e flogs we li-ed In blow up when wo wen' boy-, ami then tbrovv upon the water to auiii-e our-selve- with their vain struggles to et under it. ! I'opular Science Monthly. I.Hsl (cut tiry's Jack the Hipper. It is a sliiinge coincidence Ibat ex actly lo.i yours ago young uirls in London were in cou-tant terror of meeting the ".hick the Hipper" of that il.iy. He attacked and wound. -d sev eral ladies in (iilh'ii'tit parts f the t"W u, cut ting their garment ami ga-h-ing t belli in the body with a sharp pointed iu-t i iiinetil, alt bough he never w nl so far a- minder. In April, IT'-'o. a huge reward wa I'tleicdfor tla- i p:vl -ion of "The M ui to ." i he w a popiilarU ca'ii d. ag i IL'.aM. IIII.DKKX'S (I,l MN. H W IX'. ' . I llllM' a little sel il, t V itli a in;;e y e. Mie always dues my I i Min Very tail lifuMy ; 1 'nil she eats me no me .t. And sin- ili'inks ill" tm drink. A Very clever servant, at jiea well may think. Another little servant i n my linger sits, lic the nne-cyed lillle scrvu'il Yiry neatly fits; Hut she cats llie u i in at. Ami slii' drinks me no 'b iiik, A very clever servnut, n- you well may think. Now, inn' more Mile servant, Tlirou.rli the suule eye, lines linth the other-' liid-tiii,; Very faithfully; Itut she cats me no meat. Ami she ilrink I nt' tin drink. A Very eh-ver servant, ns you will It: vy think. A needle and a thiinhle. And a spn-il oi'tlii-ea l, AV ii Imul lie- lingers nimble. Ami Ihe knowing hea I, 't hey Hoiil-I never make nut. If tin y trie i tin- whole day, Tu sew a siiirtto ic p it-'lnv.iik, as jnn ,v-II Ina V s iv, St. Nnh'.las. Si I ll I.I, VNKt IS. frogs, tends ami li.uid bury Iheni selves in the mud ill winter, as do i-al-li-!i and eel. Tin- fre-h water iihi sel digs itself a place jn the s oft bot tom of the hike or stream it may be living in, and I've no d uibt all of them are ju-t a comfortable ill their mud blanket as we are in our woolen ones. --Detroit I'ree I're-s. tlliW si.H llil.'l I - I'lJnV till', lot! VMXI!':. Squirrel- arc sy -tem ilie and thought ful providers for the emergen. -ies of a long winter, and not only s,vv away their favorite foul in one grand -tore, b-iitse, but make deposits at oilier places, so that in ease the chief nutterv should be destroyed or become ex haust d the siil lore can be fall m back upon. When the snow haslain on Ihe ground late in the spring, hole, liny be semi at various places in the wood where the squirrels have dug down through it to reach the store- of mils which th.-y buried mouth-before. The instinct w ith which they litnl such sp' Is, covered as they are with proba hly a foot of snow, is unerring; au.l marvelous. I'otne one has said the more f icy saw of men the belter they liked doga. Hut if there he anything uieor than a good dog it is a good boy. reeling so, it isn't strange tint tli 'te was no i introduction neees-ary the other day I when the writer ami Harry Michel J and his dog "Spot" met and this is I bow we met. It was in a market, two J of the trio were waiting to be served, j ami Spot was praying, 1 1 it is, 1m v :i-. in an attitude of prayer, and a much i more reverent oiio th in m niv a-suiue 1 when in church on Sim, lay. Spot's ; bend ivas bent way dow n on his pawii and there he remained motionless for I hi master's Amen ! "lie's an liiKlish dog, and a sailor brought lii iii to us from lingiand. Mr. Cook was the sailor's name, and my ; brother taught Spot all hi- tricks, lie can climb a bidder w hen you call "lire. "can wink, play dead, or do most ' anything a dog can do." ll was not niany day after the Ivll . rang, and Marry and Spot -tood at the girdengnte. They had come for a; visit, and a jolly vi-il it wa- too, for ;v brighter chap than llary would b" , hard to lind, and a belter trained dog j than Spot doesn't cxid. and any on'! . hoiild be proud to be called the friend ! of either or both and to take the hand or the paw accordingly. Nevv Orleans Tic'iynno. A t.cner.iu Offer. Small Ned a icasonably generous vv ith hi other goodie, but he never eould be induced to part w ilh even "a bite" of inola ( candy. So the sur- j prise of the family may ea-ily In imagined when, uller retiring one day to a secluded corner with a thick -tick ; of his favorite "sweet," be unldi'iily '. emerged and otl'-icl to give away s : large piece. It bad become entangled 'ii one of his long curls, and pullirg 1 and twisting it only pulled and twisl- i ed the curl, ami. at last, with bars, I partly of pain and partly of vexation, in his eye, Ned exclaimed: "Oh, j dear, whoever'il kI this candy out of j my hair may have it." Detroit I'ree I'ress. l'aintlng Without Oil. j The painter, II err (ieihard. of Dtis- seldot f, has invented, or re-invented, I a new modo of panning in which oil j is not used, 'tt casein and wax, while p liming water iemployed for render- j i og the mixture thiol. Over the paint thus made oil paint can still he us I if i desired. It is said th t the old I'gyp- I I, an and fo'iipeiiiitis, as well ss niod- j ( i i. paititeis til! Ifiibeiis, and t'.-pCt'i. lily i Albert 1 hirer, employed this method. J HUNTING BUFFALO. 1 Atlvi.. hires of an 'xpi'ditiim on i 1 j an AiiKTit'itii Desert. I Two Small Herds of Buffalo I Sij4lteil in Wyoming. . Two miserable mouths on a dreary ' segment of Sahara, two IniHalo hide, two beads with the short horns of the I wild cow of the prairie. This in iirief is the history of the exploits of in expedition of gieal I opts organ- , i.nl nl l.aiiiarie, Wyoming, la-l Au ras!, and in the iie, from early in September to November. The pally included .1. C. l.' .bbilH. -I i -k 11. Ii, ' frank Kelley. Willis Woodrull' in I William ll.qikin-. all brave boy, W b" have ridden the rang" for year.-. Tucir 1 plojeet was to e.iplnre (he I ill II I of , bull. lb" ri"ldng o'l Med di-ef:, I.'" ' miles north of the I nioii I'aciii.- in the -oilier of th" Sla'e. They ptopo-ed I'laldi-hin r on tic l.-iraiilie plains a ball do ranch Ktmdar !' tle'pre-erve of ('..I. .bines near (iardii 'tly ', has, ' The project lias been iibaud ll d at lef a trip full of incident. A couple of light storms mil irav el tli lli 'till, and ih "y w. ie two wcik : from thi- p'aiv before the de-crt was ' reaelieil. They -kirlcd the inirthe .11 : edge of the wa-te by way of reeonnoi j tcring, t He ii plunged into the expanse i f alka'i. grci-ewood and water hole-. ! There Ii -t adventure was the nn-i ;iiig , of It-n lodges i,f Arapahoe 1 w ho had conic out into the ih hold muii i t of a pow vv mv : It li -. I In The mnt amp red- w ere I i leiidly and In el's uf a lake w In l e t hey and be rea-oiiably cei lain the biill'il i they sought, traveled a- direcled and llie nil 1 of -ighiing 'I In hull el leacheil ihe I n I lie f.'l --e,l -ivetlly murky sheet in two dav s. ty-ei::ht hours they cio miles of v erilab'e ha I land c nil! ry vv il 'neil V ; I .i t i-n broken 1 wilh do d scat a Iv uliv w alef. Tii.-v l-'i here eigiit days, htiui'ug all the lime, I ii"iug break fa-l the lir-i morning Hill -igliled a herd of bnh.il with hi field glas-es. The buie-h ti'tnibered fifteen and they were grazing quietly. I, fore the hunter- eould gel into action the gain" h id di-ipp" irel and was ind foiitnl tig ' i i 1 1 . A few dav- later they eiitiio upon a niMga iti. i'iit bull, four tine cows and a y cat ling. The bull charged Iheni. They shot to trinhleii hint nil', mid vv ere altogether too -ue-ei's-i'ul in tins diie. iion. Hill roped one uf the cow. The animal vv orried herself so that she died sifter being "hog tied." A I nirr 1 1 . will struggle till completely cxhau-led and rarely recover-. The onlv other eapitire was that of atiotlicf cow , which .-omi suc cumbed lo the licet it lied choking. K'diliins -ali-lied iiim-elf that thi.: herd was not fro.n the National I'.nk, tis ha been -o often repnr'ed ,.f late The Indians told him that in I - I lite herd numbered "'''o. Three y ear- later it contained but loo and i- now ted over "o. Th" red- killed liianv and (he remainder died during lb" severe winter of I ss i.oo. During their di'sert travel- th" hun ters encountered several held-, of wild horses. They We:e the tegii'ai' liiuslai gs.-niall an 1 spirited and I" ik ing unkempt in 1 1 1 1 i r winter coats, li'obleti-. manager of the expedition, say s he ba- b id enough huffaln hunt ing (n sati-fy hint the re-t ,,f his iitv. San franeise i chronicle. Mmle Cannon fur Washington. A hi-loi'ic pioperty known as the Warwick farm, near S:. I'eter-. Che-, ter cmtuiy. Menu., vv i -oi l tl.- oilier week. The old Waiwiek finiiaci whn ll was one of the ehtef attia. i..i (if the farm is coiiecled to have been the lir-t io Ihe I liited "stale, and wa put in bla-t about t be y ear IT'1'. l Ibis furnace were ca-l in -1 of the cum oi u-ed in the revolution-try war by llie coiitiiieiilai .'iriny . Allhoiigh il ha- not been in opei .i ion for -"ine years, many of the pi iucipal buildings tbniit the fiirnae" are -till ta iding and in a good state of pre-erv a ion In the meadow . near bv many pieces of artillery lie buried, having been secreted iii that way by the man agers of the furnace in m der to pre vent their fall, ng into tin hands, of the Mrilisb after the battle of I! iind. vv ine in 177 7. At that time Ceiien! Wash ington ii treated with hi-troops noilh watd through Che.ler County, thus leaving Ill's important iron furnace exposed to the merry of the enemy. In Is7ii several i f lie s,, caution were dug up and -cut in I'liiladelphiu a- c. bibits in the cenleuiiial expo-iliou. Others have been sent to I'aob, V.iiley Forjjo and els. where us rclh Th" old bell ca.t at thi- faiu ice in 777 and n-i I in the bclfrv for ma ov years i now ke' l as a muve'iii' in In lepen .1 a..- Mall, l'l'ilade'.pl.i.i a I,,,:,;:,, Herald. llie Mnsf lleaulifiil rietitre. " hat impress, d y ou must of all that v on saw in l iiu'op :" I recently a-ked a ftieiil who had jn t returned front a year of Have! extending from Amsterdam to Naples, and taking ill Ihe chief points of interest ill ling laud, II 'Hand. Melgiuiu. fiance, tler inany. Switzerland and Italy, lie hes iuiied a moment, and then he said: " The thing thai really allectcd me mot, 1 think, was r. picture I saw in b'ome. It wasn't by Maphael of Michael Angel i or Titian or Murillo; in fact, it wasn't ft painted, hut a liv ing picture. Nor wa it in a palace, surrounded by luxurious acee-sories. "It vv . i-ju-t a simple little eomposi. lion in a homely cutiage doorway -a humble mother, sitting upon the fop . I- p. w hiding into a ball a skein of y am thai her boy, a -turdy little curly haired fellow of seven of eight year-, held out over hi- two hands slrelche 1 apart. There V, a- a lender look ill the mother'- eyes ami ;i eotiieuled, happy ex pre. ion in the face of the child that look me back forty years to a prcliy hole home in a Mas-ndm-clt village, vv here, in a doorw ay not unlike that one, I sometimes sat with the skein of yarn over my oiit- relehed arms, and my dear old mother wound it into a ball. "I could Hot quite .see Illy mother and ntysell" in these Italian faces, so far as phy-ical re-eiiiblanc" was con eel tied, but Ihe content, the fieedom If' in care, told of thai beautiful time in lit'" that never i- half appn eiaietl uii.il il is pa-l. Thai pi. 'line, my friend, of all that I saw. was what hn'i'i e.-ed me mo-t . None of (lie roy al pageantry I witties-ed, none of the mile- of glowing canvasses I looked upon, none of the inter sting hi-torieal scenes I V isitcd. pre-enled anylleng to compare Willi it." New "I 01 1, Star. IV r eltial I'irc. Tll'l C cxi-l s ill a few U VCIV few emi! i iv aiu'e- for this p'-rpetital lie ill otir eiiui clii's ; III' v go by th" name ,)fele--el -lone. i ll" I .ll'lit'st ll.lloVV i- not in I iil'I 01 1 but in th" a'tiiitu olll-ide the fell... kabie church of St. inbi.'.:io a' Milan. ll is a block of while marble on a moulded ba-e. iiuvv brnkeu. but bauded logeler vviili iron, ll slatnls three feet leu inches high and is two feel six imlie- in diameter a! lop, ll consist of a llal surface in which are th pte-e I nine cup-like h.'l.t'Ws. The-e vv ere. originally tided wi ll oil and W cks were placed ill them and ignited. In lingiaiid one i- .-till in situ, in the church of I rii amok, in ( oi nw all. There it is not far fiotn the ih"ir. ll cou-ist-of a cii cular block com. lining on ii- Mat upper stirf.ee. which is Ivvclity-lwn ill' lies aero-s, seycti cup like hollows lour mill a half im he deep. The stone .land, uu a rudely m milled base, oeta-'iuial. and i- m all iiln"il two feet six inches high. In l'uiiie-s Abbey, among Ine ruin-, has been found another, vv it h live tup- in il ; at C.iider Abbey another, with six teen such cup- for nil and wicks. At York i- another with -ix -aeh the cup-, and at ioe,.ho:ni anoihcr with the .-'line littiiihiT, in a square stone table. t Wool Church, Dorset, i again auoiher exauiple bnili intn the south w all of U -Iliad i ha; el on , he n o ! !i -ide of the chancel. I' i- a block of 1'iirbcek maible. and ha- in t In top li v e cup Imped cavilic- quite blaekeiied with the nil and smoke. In some of the cxaiiiplt - (here are Iniee. of a nn la! pin annied vv hieh the vv iek was (vv.slcd. , Co: nliill Magazine. A I'llisiuiiius l.iqlliil. The N. w V nrk i'megratu say-; "I'l'-ii'i s-or Mr w u--qiiard. whose c xi of life cati-cd so short-lived a -en-ation, i- rcpoiied to have lately III'.', in ,! th' fielie'l X.'.lih'liiv of S'i eliee tiiat by f oil -lett-ing llie vva'elv vapor coming from the human iuiigs he ni taiin-d a pnis.ni. n- Itipiid i-apab.e of pri iliii ing alio- I iinnieihale ueaih. The poison i- an alkaloid organic 1, and not a inierobc uf sel it's of mi Ciolies. lie injected tin- liqui I under li e -kin of a labbit. and the etlei I was sjieedoy mortal vviilnml conv ul-i-oi-' If this alarming d' very doe not ,1 i-.-i a jc the practice td' ki-sing.it HI -i 1 1 '. at least to ciiiph-i-i.'" the ni',-, . s'ny for vclitilalii.g the apart iiieut - in which folk- live and sleep, as well a the pll'il'c halls, th, al.i - and cluifehes thev Ircqueiii. lives IJevetll Hie Horse's Temper. The horse ha- nn cvehmw-. I he appearance of much vv lute in the eve of a hur-e indicates a v iciuit- nature, beeau-e a high-temi ered hors,' lnok eonsianth- about, appreln u-ive of dinger or de-irtng to do iuiehie'. I'lie quick motion uf ihe eyeball hi uj . po-iie direction-expo e- an UMii-iiall) large -ui face of white, which thti- be cent sail evidence of llie t, mper of the animal. New York Joiitual. An Essay ni l ump. I read a brilliant essay ( Ui Fame the of h r day ; The seri! c attacked the subject fn a most decisive way. Flic said i for 'twas a woman) 't hai glory was a snare, An ignis fatims leadint; 'I'hrouh deadly swamp of can;. Mi" likened jt to bubbles That tempt the .'iiililisli eye, lint shatter soon as -ruptured, Asid int" nothing fly. The love nf praise, she added, Hetiikened -illy I'vide. And throve 'ti nuliirt Utile And itnpiutent beside. And when this witty woman ibid quite ili-niolislii'd fame, fslie cliiscil her brilliant essay, And signed hi full her iimih-! --lieorge Ibirbui ill Chicago llerald. IIIMOHOIS. "He was generous to a fault" when the fault was his own. When aerial ships come in we shall have tly lime till the year round. The wills of strong minded men cannot be broken until they (lio. lie -Wliaf makes the dining-room mi cold, dear? She-I think, love, It itiilsl be the frieze on Ihe wall. Ciliz.en Did ;!ie atnptt'alioti doth mail any good? Doctor oh, no; but it was a beautiful operation. Heart with a Single Thought. When a girl is in love she always thinks the young man is perfect, and he agrees w ith her. ( '(iotner (entering book store) Have you -Thoughts of Women?' Clerk (absent-mindedly Yes, lua'tti; I've been engaged a week. father "Is that stranger who call to see you a mull of regular habits?" Daughter "Yes, indeed, pa. He ur rives every night promptly at Sarah M'-rtihardt has Ihe reputation of being very thin, indeed, but even she cannot compare with the excuses some men make when they 'slay out late al night. "This is a dollar store, isn't it?'' ! asked 1,'u-licus, as be presented him self. "No, sir," replied Ihe teller se verely. "this isabauk." "Well, what's the di He re nee?"' A story at hand, describing a lovo scene between the hero and heroine, -ays: "lie wooed her wilh a will." j That's a good way, especially if tho I wooer is old ami the will is in her ; favor. i An Aiiiuzin Itiver I'hctioinciuin. Shortly after the tide had stopped running mil, they saw something cotu- ing inward them from the ocean in a I long white line, which grew bigger : and whiter as it approached. Then there was a sound like the rumbling ; of di-tatil thunder, which grew louder find louder as the while line cninei nearer, until it seenicd as if the wludo , ocean had I'i-ell up and was coining, ! charging 'and thundering down upon them, boiling over the edge of this pile of water like an endless cataract, from four to seven metres huh, that spread out across the whole eastern horizon. This wa the pororora! When they saw it coming, the crew became utterly demoralized, nn I fell In weeping ami praying in the bottom of the boat, expecting that it would certainly be (lashed to pieces, and they themselves drowned. The pilot, however, had Ihe presence of mind to heave anchor before the wall of wa ters struck them; and, when it did strike, they were lirst pitched violent ly forward, and then lifted, and left rolling and lo.-sing like a cork on tho foaming sea il left behind, the bout neat I v tilled vv ith vv uler. Mill their trouble uu tut ended; for, before they had emptied the boat, two other such seas came down on them at -liort intervals, tossing them in the same manner, and finally leav ing tin ui within a stone's-throw of tho liver-lank, where another such vv nvo would have dashed them upon tho sh ire. They had been anchored, be fore Ihe waves struck Iheni near I ho middle of the stream, which tit this place is several miles wide. Oysfers (.row ii lieiulv fucked. Mr. .foe King, the oy -teriu iu, has a suial' keg of full-grown oysters which ia curiosity. I'nder favorable condi tion; oysters will attach themselves lo any convenient surface which i hard and smooth. Samples of such grow th have been sent to the Sun olliee in end less variety, and they have included o il boots and shoes fully encrusted and tilled with line t tcr, bottles covered with bivi.kes, crocks and pot of them, iit' iisil of all sorts full of them, and even a clay pipe buithened wilh three or four heavy shells; but it m not often that oysters take tin; ti.'iibln to pack themselves so closely uud so cleverly iu a kea, handy for transpor tation, us in the .lot' ivjng spifini'JU. - I (.Baltimore Sun.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Jan. 1, 1891, edition 1
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