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)c f)atl)am tWcorb, tarn II. -A. LOINDOIV, EU1TOU AND PltOl'ltlETOIt. KATES A D VERTISINC TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One square, one insertion One square, two insertions! One square, one month l.M 8.60 $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advanct. VOL. XIV. PITTSI.ORO CHATHAM CO., N. C, OCTOHKIt 8, I8t)l. NO. (5. For larger advertisements liberal con ract will be male. The Memory-Hi luges. Jlllslly, busily. Id nnd fro, 8co Ui in, the bridge-builders, conio and tiro) -Ijiiir.ls siul bonny-tyes, mothers ami midges, All uf llirm busy n-liiiilding bridges. High he they ? Low lie lin y '.' Who can tell i" Kadi keeps hla secret, ami keeps it well. Steadily, steadily ; see tlifiii liulld. Not one is hllc1 of nil tin- guild. This one is planning mid placing nml plying; That imp i trust nml Inning nml li ving. Ktroiigliettuy? Weak be they f Wlin i there Knows if the bridges will brink or bear? Cleverly, cleverly, i!uy hy day Tni I the bridge-makers suns mono or clay, rusliioiii.ig nfler their own designing, Sonic fur rejoicing ami sonic for repining. I'gly r beautiful ? Who fan know What In the pattern tin- bridgi 8 shew ? Ceaselessly, i'c:isi lesslv, year hy year (row tin- abutment, thf uri'li nml tint pier, (irow on tin' builders' brows wrinkles ami ridges, Caused hy the rearinx of memory-bridges, ltccp he they '.' Slight he they ? All liny i-ee What mrt of furrow, these furrows be. Finally, finally, each nuisl trriiil liver the Mciuory-liri'lge he's mule, (ver the deeds th:it are long past doing, Over the faults tluil lire left fur rueing. I.iubt i it:- Hard is it? 'i'hey m :i y ken Who've cri'sseil the bridges from Now to Tlien. .? n'ie M . I.ippmann, In Youth's Compan ion. TO THE END, "Take my advice, ami don't marry him," said Miss Fane. Dora A'iley looked wistfully up Into tho fuel of I ho richly-dressed young lady, who 1 1 li 1 1 been her Sunday-school teacher, mi 1 represented, to licr. all wiitoni ami grac iotuncss. "Hut, Mi-s Fane" "Yes, I know," said Mi Fane, with a nod of her plumed I at. "lie la handsome ami winning, ami all Hint, lull ho drinks." '(Hi, not that, Mi Tuner Dora I'M up liotli hand-, as if to ward 'IV some invisible blow iiiinod at lifr lionet. " 'liil.l, I don't mean lint lie is mi absolute drunkard," said Miss Fane. "Not as yi I. IS.it ho is coming lo ii ns fa-t an be fan, ai d, believe in.', dear," lay ing hoi white-ringed bautl on Mora's shoulder, "you were belter dead than man led to Midi a man as that!" So Miss r.ine went away, ami 1 ir.i sat on the miiiiiv door-step pondering, while the rii'!i aii'utui d a!il ins w ling their turban of bloom overhead, and tlio September sunshine crept with guidon feet over the dose-out green gru- of tin; door ya d p ondoring. Willi bauds da-pod ami fair head bowed down, until a shadow f'.'il across the pathway. "( Ieorge !" the looked up with Hurt. "'es, Io!ly, it's Cfitrgp, nml lie'd givo a good deal out of his la-t week's wage to know what you two thinking; cf o intently. "1 was thinking about you, licoiye." 'Conic, I'm flatieied," si'tiiig dow n lipside her, end possessing biiuself cf her ifluetaiit iiaml. "Now, bo bun est, 1 .t';, and te'l tne what it was.' "lon't smile, tieoi-ge," said she. 'Indeed, indeed, it's a more serious matter than you imagine. I was think ing, (ieorgf, that I never ea:i marry you, until until you leavo oil" drink ing" She bad spoken with an effort, and lier wolds produced ilieir ellect. (n'oiyei l.icie dropped the baud he bad been holding bo earolcs ly in bi, while b'.s brow dui keued ominously. "lora," aid li", "you are treating nic like a child. You want mo to fet ter myaelf itli a teiuperanco pledge and make a recluse of myself, all br catt'e you e.uiu t tiu-t mo. Why, gill, there's not a in an in the, town, from Squire M.irre'l downward, but that takes his soeial ylass when he can get the chance." "My husband must bo an exception to the rest, then," lora kaid lirinly. 'My cliiKl, this it all nouoine," said l.icre, milking as if ho would take her hand again. "No it is not, lieorge." "lo you really mean it?" "Yes."' lie sat a moment looking at her; then rose up with a shrug; of the sJioul lcri. "We'd, said he, wilh seeming; indif ference, "a woman is of course at liberty to mako up her own mind as she chooses and no is the man." Dora looked piteously at him, while her heart seemed to stop beating within her bosom. Would ho reaily persist in declining to give the pledge w hich would et all doubt at ret? "Cood bye, lora," lie said. defiantly. "Geoine, (i.'org"!" slii; wailed, ' won't you promise uiel'"' "Xol" ho uttered, with ft balf slided oath upon bis lips. "I'll give :io promise that will tie mo up liko a baby. I'll surrender my freedom to no one." Ami ho, passed down tho sunshiny garden path nnd was g'lie; while Dora burst out into n tempest of tears nml a. ibs, her flushed face buried in her hands. "llavo 1 dono well?" she asked her self. "Oh, have 1 dono right in put ting bis lovo away from me?" And conscience answered, "Yes." (leorgo Dacro went down to tho village, his hands buried down deep in his trousers pockets, his hat drawn ovor his eyes. "1 won't bo treated like a child," ho kept muttering between his teeth. And by the way of proving bis inde pendence, bo spent tho evening in the bar of tho little red-eurtaiued village tavern, and did not refuse to taste the liquor w hen it came around. "As if I didn't know as woll as any one when I've had as much us is good for mo!" said ho to himself. And so matters went on for a week. Tlio boon companions of the village congratulated Dacro upon his spirit; the sensible ones eyed him askance; and poor Mora Wi'sey never said a word, but went about with her head drooping like a broken (lower, lint she saw (ieorge 1 i.iere once, lounging down the street with an excited face and oud laughter; ami after that she censed to question herself as to whether or not she had d ne right. There was to bo a political meeting at rbsden, the next village, and all the little world of Woodsid'! were going. Dora Wilsoy had come down to the depot to seo oil' a party of friend', and just as the train moved slow ly on a man hurried out of the station and made for tin) step of the third ear. "Hold on, D.icre!" shouted the station-master. You're too late!" I'm not too late!-' The olliiial threw himself before i i forgo I lucre. "For Cod's sake," said he, "don't tiy to get on. You're drunk!'' "I'm not drunk." With a savage clh-.i t of strength, Macro thing oil the restraining gr.isp of the station-master, and made a blind grasp nt the platform tail of the lust car, which was gliding by. lie missed it and fell ili.cc.lv under the wheel. They took him out, a blind and bleeding mass of insensible humanity, while poor Dora W'ilsey pressed for ward with ashy pale cheek. Is he dead?'' .ho gasped. "Of course he's dca I," said the sta- lion-inu!er, kneeling on one knee to - feel his heart. "And no one can say Hon the Treasury Is Cuarilpil. I didn't warn him. Hut a drunken j '1'be Treasury watch is composed of man won't never listen to re;ion. " j seventy veteran soldiers, who are cut i into llireo squads dividing every Victoria l uue had been spending I twenty-four hours into three equal the winter in New York, and as sion watches of eight hours each. The as the spring violets spangled all tho ' men wear no uniforms, and would lields w ith bin.-, she c into back to j not impress the casual vibitor to tho Wood-ide. And the lirst item of vil- ' Treasury during the hours when the lagc news whlc'i she heard was that j public is admitted. The guards go Theodora Wilscy was m arried. j unarmed during die day, but at night "Married !" cried .Miss Fa:u. "No carry a large forty-two calibre six to (ieorgo Dui-te? ' j chambered revolver, w hich is too largo Ye-, to (ieorge Daere." to b ; concealed in a pocket and must " Hi, the silly little fo 1 !'' said Miss j be carried in tho hands all the time. Fane, almost angrily. And after all ' F.vory one vho passes the Treasury at the warnings I gave her. However, 1 i "ight may see pacing to and fro in the shall go and see her in any event. She ' lofty area between tho granite pillars was always my favorite of all the girls j "l 'I'e wall of the building solitary in my Sunday-school class, and if she 1 figures. person cannot approach rcallv does need aid and counsel, I ! within a hundred feet of the buildidg should be the last one to rcfU"0 to ex lend it to her." So Mi-s l'ane put on her things and went to the cottage beyond the mill where they told her Coorgo I lucre lived. Dora met her nt the door with a ' radiant face "Oh, Miss Fane, l am so happy!' cried she, her face dimpled with changing smiles and blushes. "Hippy!"' said Miss Fane, dryly. "Well, tastes differ." lint as she caui'i into the noatlv garnished lit lie room she saw that one of (ieorge Ducre's limbs was replaced by a wo ulen slump, and that the hair brushed down low over bis forehead did not entirely conceal a deep soar which traversed it cro-swisc. Ciacioiis Heavens!'' cried she, stopping involuntarily. "Whit's Is the matter?'' And D na burst into tears at the question. "Don't mind her, Mis Fane," said Iacre, cheerily. "I've been dead and now I'm alive, like the prodigal son of Scripture. And I'm afraid I've been like hiiu in more particulars than one. Hut you haven't told me what was the mutter ?'' tai I Miss l'ane. It it was a railroad accident," said Dora faintlv. Little one, yo u don't speak the wlio.c li tun . saul lucre, siui i in f . Miss Fane, I was haif nrid with drink, and 1 believe 1 tbryw myself voluntarily under the ear wheels. I deserved to be killed, but (iod is of leu more, merciful to us than U warranted by our deserts. And when I camo out of it all a maimed cripple, Dora, here, wai my angel of blessing and married me in 8 te of it all. And now she is supporting us both with her dressmaking until 1 get some, bookkeeping or something of the sort to do. Miss Fane," frowning to keep tho (ears back from his eyes, "do you think I deserve all ibis?'' "I believo you will for the futuro," said Miss Fane, moved in spito of herself. "It shall bo through no fault of mini) if 1 don't," said Dacro. And he looked as though ho meant it. N'ow York Xews. A Trno Iiiseel-Volee, Several oilier species of insects have apparatus for producing sounds sim ilar to that of tho grasshopper, or modifications of it. Of a dillereut typo is that with which the cicadas aro endowed the only creature of this class which have vocal apparatus anal ogous to those of the higher animals. Only tho males of this family aro singon", for which the (ire-k poets called them happy becnitso their fe. males w ere dumb. With tho ancients, a cicada hitting on a harp was the sj uihol of music. A pretty fable tells of tlieeonicst of two cilhara-play-ei's, in which the cniious event hap pened that when one of tho contest ant broke a string, a singing cicada sprang on his harp and helped him out so that he gained the prize. The (irecks, who shut the insects in rages so as to be snug to by them in their sleep, were at odds concerning tho nature of their singing ap paratus; ami iho controversy aiming naturalists on the subject lasted till very recently. The zoologist 11. I.an dois, w ho investigated the dllL'tilt sub ject of animal sounds with ceaseless industry nnd great .kill, was ablo to givo a satisfactory polutioti of the iticslioii. According to his research, the case is one in which the sound is really made by air circulating through passages in the interior of the body, livery insect's body is penetrated by a s stein of breathing tnb s or tiacba1, which open at places on tho surface. The openings arc called stigmata. This system of brcalbiiig-tiibes, ibn ugh which the air is inspired and expired, takes the place of the lung of the high er animals, l.umlois discovered them in very obscuie parts of the cicada. mid found that tln'y f rtn a kind of windpipe representing the actual lone, factorv of the animals. Popular i Science Monlhlv. without seeing a guard. Such a watchman, silent ami marshal in bear ing, guards each of the four entrances to the Treasury. The guards who ivaveiso tho corridors at stated in tervals touch electric buttons to an- nouuee their presence in certain parti of the building. All this system of interior watchfulness was the work of Secretary F'olgev, ho during his (ei in in ellieo lived in constant dread of an attack on the Treasury. So far as human watchfulness can be relied on the Treasury is guarded, but there must be new safes and the Commis sion wiil soon report to Treasurer Nebeker its recommendation for building new vaults and strengthen ing the old ones. Indianapolis .Jour nal. The Carp Has a (lueer Throat. The carp carries his teeth back in his throat, so that when he has a sore th.'oat he doc not know w hether to send for the doctor or tlio denti.t. lie resembles the cow in the respect that ho chews his cud. It is a pity that some of the other virtues of the cow d j not also pertain lo the carp, for he ' would be a much more useful fish if this w ere so, ah hough it w ould not bo i possible for him to givo milk, as does j our good bovine fiiend, owing to the, certain destruction of every drop of it j by tlio river iu liich be live, and j which, as ninny of tie' tea b is of this paper know, i full of w a.vl'. -lias-ton Cultivator. ciiildkkv.s ton-. ill MAN!: INSTIM T of A IXKi. A correspondent sends to the I.on- l don Spectator Iho following anecdote j illustrative of a dog'.s "humanity": "The servant man of one of my I friends took a kitten to a pond with' I the intention of drowning it. His master's dog was with him, nml when j tho kitten was thrown into the water tho dog sprung in and brought it back safely to land. Tho second time tho man threw it in, and again tho dog ' rescued it; and when for the third time the man tried to drown it tho t dog, as resolute to save the little help. less life as tho man una to destroy it. . swam with it to the other side of the pool, running all the way homo with it and safely depositing it before the kitchen lire, and 'over after' they were inseparable, sharing even the small bed." Till: i. AI.IAa's II l ; ii ' i t. A Key West (Fin.) dispatch says: As iho Catena swung out into the channel to givo pliice to the Yaiitie at 1 the pier, ami the last lino wn cast oil, a sailor forward, w ho undoubtedly bad a giu lgo against the ship's pet cat, seized her and threw her upon the 1 pier. It was loo lute for pussy to regain her place, and in her distress at seeing the ship slowly moving away she ran frantically up and down the dick, crying siilli.-iently lo id to bo I heard distinctly above the bustle inci dent upon getting tho vessel in mo tion. The ship was fifty feet away when puss suddenly turned, and, springing from the pier, struck out boldly for the vessel, making for a ladder which was slid hang over the side. In a mo ment she was clinging to the lowest stop, uuah'e to raise herself out of the water. Some thing like a cheer went up from the crowd who had witnessed her heroic action, and a sailor stationed near, dropping down the ladder, seized the half drowned cat ami landed her safely on deck. I'uss had earned pro motion, and if she fails to walk the quarter deck it will be because heroism is not appreciated in the navy. .M'lioS M'lilV.S. "1 promised my mother I would bo home at six o'clock." "Hut what harm will an hour more do?" "It will make my mother worry, and 1 shall break my w ord." "He fore I'd bo tied to a woman's apron-strings !" "My mot her doesn't wear aprons," said the lirst speaker with a laugh, "except in tho kitchen sometimes, and I don't know as 1 ever noticed any strings. " "You know what 1 mean. Can't you stay and see tho game finished?" "1 could stay, but I will not. I made a proni'se to my mother, and I am going to keep it." "(nod boy!'' salvia hoarse voico jilst back of the two hoys. They turned to see mi old man poor ly clad and very feeble. "Abraham Lincoln on.-e (old a young man," the stranger resumed, "to cut the acquaintance ofevery per son who talked slightingly of his mother's apron-strings, and it is a very safe thing to do, us 1 know' from experience. It was just suel '.lk that brought me to ruin and disgrace, for 1 w as ashamed not to do as other boys d'ul, and when they m:ele fun of mother 1 laughed, too Cod forgive me! There c.iine a time when it was too late" and now thero were tears in the eld eyes "when I would gladly have been made a pris oner, tied by these same apron-strings, in a dark room with broad and water for my faro. Always keep your en gagement with yi nr mother. Never disappoint her if you can possibly hell it, and when advi-cd to cut loo-c from her tiproit.strings, cut the advi cr, and lake a tighter clutch i f the apron-string. This will bring joy and loi.g life lo your mother, the best friend you have in the world, and will insure you a noble future, for il is impossible for a good son to be a bad man." It was an excellent sign that both biys listened attentively, and both said "Thank you" at the conclusion of the strangei's lecture, and they left the ball grounds together, silent and thoughtful. At lat tho apron-string critic remarked, with a deep-draw u sigh, "That old man has mado me geoso lle.sh nil over." "(Hi, Dick," said his companion, just think what lovely mothers wc have both got !" "Ye; nnd if anything were to hap pen to them, and we hadn't done tight ! You'll never hear apron. slrinjs out of my mouth again." Jlarpei's Y.Tling I'voplc. . I ppST OP LANTERNS. A Curious Annual RcrqHion of Ghosts Held in Japan. Tho Living; Fcastint; With the Spirits of tho Dead. TYrliaps the most interesting of Japanese festivals Is (hat failed the 'Feast of liiitems" w hich is cele brated about September 1 of each year. It is actually nothing more nor loss man a lor.nat reception given to ..II ,l.n ..!.. .I.....I I f' I.T.. all the spirits orthc. ib'.nl, and for Ibis reason thou-amls of people flock into Nagasaki from the neighboring coun try to take part in '.lie ceremony, dressed in their best attire. t'pon the first day of the feast the ghosts of the departed tire supposed to leave the spirit iand in order to revisit their homes upon earth. On this day the head of each family, in his best apparel, sits in the reception room of his house, the entrances to which are nil thrown open. At frequent inter- vals he bows ecivinonioiislv and utters ! Words of Welcome, in order that the spirits as they enter may not feel themselves to bo neglected. This pro cedure is carried on far into the night, especially by sm l, eonseienl ions I'.u ! ilhists as have numerous hpirils to re ceive. (Ml (lie second day all the spirits are supposed lo have arrived, ami the household temple (a small cabinet apartment which is to be found in the house of every belie ver in liuddha, set apart for the use of the de-id) i gaily decorated with flower and tilled with choice stores of fruit, rice, tea, wine and other delicacies. Th ; fam ily of the house sitting- in the room to which the spirit-chamber is attached, hold high festival, eating and drinking ami enjoying themselves after tho .Japanese fashion. This feasting of the living with the spirits of the dead continues throughout the whole of the second day and the greater pail of the third, but the night of the third day is the time appointed w ben the ghosts must return lo their places In the spirit laud, and as the evening draws on, the people, young and old, in vast numbers betake them selves to the burial place aud deck out the grave with bright paper ban ners and liianv-eolored lanterns, which are lighted as the sun goes down and the darkness comes on. This decoration nnd illumination is made as beautiful and brilliant as possible, so that the last view of the earth taken by depart ing spirits may be ph a-nig and happy. Toward midnight, as the thin for departure draws nigh, tho ma'e por tion of the people form themselves into processions, every individual of which bears aloft a lighted lantern suspended to a bamboo po'..' about ten , feet long, and, like so many torrents of lire pouring down the hi!!-id", pro ceed to can y to the sea (If boats in w hich tho spirits me l return to (In land whence they came. These boats aro made of plaited straw , and are more or less elaborate models i " the ordinal y native craft. llach is decorated w iili fags and streamers, and h;;s a stock of provi sions and money on b iai d t lie money for the ferriage of l he Ssy .x. The size of these straw boats varies from 'J to lo ort'.o feet in length, and are til! pro ided with one or more lantern to'enable the spirit crew to steer their course. Tl"' V linv'"- I'eached the ; snores oi me nay ami mo laiiieru on board the straw boats having been trimmed and lighted, the fragile bulk are launched upon the waters and sail aw ay into the we-tei n sea. curry ing the spirit to that fur-oil' laud where the sim and stars go to re-t ami whore i situate that g'orions Nirvana wbere the spirits of all good Huddhist pass tho time in happy oblivion. The myriad lights of the bouts scat tered far an I wide, dancing; upon the slightlv i nt'.h'd w liter, make a scene, viewed from a distance, of a'tnost fairy enchantment. The cries of the people, the chanting of tho priest, the si uml of gong, the music of sliam iscjw, the naked (eeept the girdle I'.oth) bronzed figure- of the people flying hither and thither in wild ex citement, blended w ith the shadow s of the night, f m iii altogether a picture impossible to describe, and wWich leaves upon the memory an itnpifssjou a of omo wild, weird pliar:aui.i:o ria. Washington Star. How to Mart a balky Horse. A writer in M ir Dumb Animals say that w beiirvor a horse driven by him has balked, bo ha got out of his carriage, gone to the horse's forefoot, lifted it from the ground, and struck rtie shoe a few blows with a stone. lie lias never failed to stint u balky horse ju ibis very fitupK' W. . '- . How Monntulns Were Maile, Foremost in their geographic im portance, and in the intricacy mid sig nificance of their geological struc ture and origin, arc the mountain bells which consist of folded reck formations. The strata forming the upper part of the earth's crust are bent up ami down in long, nearly straight or curving, wave-like ridges ami troughs, and whore their disturb ance was greatest the successive ridged folds lire closely pressed together. The i waves of the rock structure are then ,u,l(,i, i) Mlrli ,,,,,,,,,. mt Ul(.h. Ml s ,,,,. wj)l C!li.h ,,,,. the entire fold is driven forward into an inclined position. The order of the strain on the lower side of the up- pressed fjld is thus inverted; the originally highest and last formed de posits there lie beneath older beds, in an overturned series. Subaerial erosion then wears dow n the undulations and the crests of the closely fold !il strain, often iilaiiiiiir them oil' until a hni-r , eroljli1 ,,. r.ln,,(.u j fmm ti,(,(.r (() M : .,.,.....,, ,.., ..,..,.,. , ... : s(.v. j r.d alterniilioiH, having throughout the whole a nearly constant steep dip. j ( Mviug to the interbedding of hard and enduring sandstone, qiiartzite. gneiss, ! ami other rock formations, with more easily eroded limestone, shales, in coherent sandstones, or schists, the erosion commonly produces a now topography, making hollows and long i vallcvs win -re the more erostble beds ! ,:lvH,(.(.lu.,.m,m, ,, ,,,..; ,.i(1;,,M and mountain range of the harder rocks. More than this, when erosion has hcen continued through very 1 oig periods, it tends toward the ulf. male result of removing the upward curved or anticlinal portions of the great folds and sparing the originally lower downward curved or synclinal pnrtims, until valleys take the places which were originally occupied by the hi'diest imheavals. while Iho original . , ,., . npl. ! compacted by pressure, remain now : us the principal iiii iiuiiiiii ridges. ) I'mlcr denudation, the filded moun tainous belt in li.ls the prophecy. "livery valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill sbsl! be made b-w." I'lom A Classilic.it ion of Mountain Kaiiges, by Warren I pham, in The I'opular Science Monthly for September. An A I u in i n ! il ::i Steamlinat. S mo novel ami interesting experi ments have recently been made en the Lake of Z::: icli w ith a steamboat built entirely of aluminium, w hich claims to bo the first of its kind. The boat weighs otily about haif a ton viz., about half the weight of an ordinary boat of Iho same size. U was built at the works of Messrs. L'-eher, Vv. Co., of Zurich, the metal having been furnished by the Aluminium Work of S, hall h ui-en, w here il is obtained by anelectrical proce-s, the dynamos being driven, not by steam engines, bic. by turt'iiies, which uti.iz" the Water p,i cr of the celcbi ated falls of the 1'tiiiie, so that the boat claims to be exclusively the product of Swiss labor and pow cr. It cai lies eight person, and, with a petroleum engine of only two-horse power, can easily make six miles nit hour. Aluminium not being' subject lo i n-', the permanent color of tho boat is a beautiful dull white, whilst the chimney being of polished alumin ium, shines like silver. Tho tiial trips of the boat were eminently successful ; and it is anticipated that the con.tru,-. ,: of :iuhxUlM steamers, having lhl, g:im t.itl,:,..;tv, and onl ball the w. ight of ire;i ones now used in the v'iss lake has a great future before it. i Loudon Simula' d. (oiod Kuougli to rractice on. While -taliomd in lliehmuu 1 H ar rack, in Dubliy, alone; w ith ti ditaeh nient of tin Dab, in 1 iillccr-, one of the -entries belonging to that corps got strict order to present arms to ifl field etli cis, and especially to tle oo JimaiHiing officer. A omig subal tern was passing hi post and the sen try presented aim- t him. Theotliecr, however, went up to the sentry and told lain thai ho was not eutil'cd to that compliment, when the sentrv replied: Ach, sure, you are good ci:oiig!i to practice Oil." New York Mercury. (iruinlfather's Turtle. lliasttis Noith of Herlin. caught a turt'e lust week which was captured by bis father half a ccnlurv ago. The following letters are carved on the -hell: "L. d. Lamb, A. S., F. X., Is!1'." The initials "A. S." mean Albert Sanderson, who is ttiil living in Durham. Mr. Lamb aud tho origi nal Ilrastu North arc dvad. Witnesses arc living who can testify that the three men marked tho turtlo as above in IMo and then permitted it to go Xjee, LlUrtprd commit, " - I I Luler Days. Oh, blessed boon of days in which we llvel To live, and larger, lordlier u-e to mnke l if passing iiiiiincnts, than when wild mis take Of w illful youth the golden hours would weave , With sei.rlet ruin, bidding Angels Brieve Our own dear Angel, even, swift, awake To celebrate u. ratio r; so wc take As priceless gil't.this later days' reprieve. Such gift of grace it is. wecannot yield Time's smallest dart to profit less regret; t he ol'l, ilead pa-t must bury its own dead, Wc live' and living, find niiiiiidunt field Around, within, when- lucent gems are set, To hold lis garnering lill the vars he sped. ;.M:iry It. Hoilge, hi the Independent. Ill M0K01 S. Ltvo longer than most men Ciants. How to catch a husband !rab htm by the hair. It is well to remember that every, thing follows tho maa who goes ahead. The pretty girl w ith a red fiddle knows just how to draw a beau to and fro. Lightning ought to innko tt good biili player: it seldom strikes without making a hit. .Money talks. In America it talks cents and in France it is always franc in its utterance. It is the brown hue on a friend's fueo that gives color to the statement that ho liatj a good time at the sea side. Philosopher tell us that from Adam down no man has jet understood a woman; but men arc not tired of try ing yet, by any moans. .lack Why is dough like a man? Susie P.i;eaue it's hard to get off your h inds. Jack h, no. It's a thing the women knead. "Was y. uir e'opomont a success?'' "Hardy." "What went wrong?" "Her father telegraphed us not to re tin u and all would be forgotten." Irate Siib-eiiber I demand to seo the editor. Where is ho? Printer He's in the loft. The citizens tarred and feathered him last night. I. S. Y'cs, and that's ju'st what I want lo see him about. The tar belonged to me and I want the editor to pay for it. A mosquito in getting in hi work employs a lance, two saws and an ar rangeiuont for pumping blood. Tho right time to ''swipe'' him is while ho is sawing oil' a in rve to make a holo in which to insert the pump. The whole kit of tools is then yours. i Soap Made Prnni Soap Werd. That pr'n kly pirate of the pliiiiis,th. Mexican soap w eed, is being converted rapidly into a deli. -ions toilet soap, "(it to wash the hands of (he Pope," by a West Hot icons manufacturing com. pany. The s tap weed since time be. gun. or since the Kansas prairie was an inland sea, has thrii-t its roots deep in the soil of the unsheltered plains and Il un i-hoil. There has been nolhiiisr cs until now to dimini-li the supply or cxicrmiiiute tho species. The hot sun, the baking wind and the dearth of that moisture which is supposed to bo absolutely necessary to life banned not this hardy sentinel of the plains. Wet or dr, hot or cold, its nipit r-liko blades, s' arp as a cambric needle, radiated a' ike from a given spot on the nu fa. o of the earth. The root of this w ood is now being gathered up by men who drive their wagons over the p'aiu of Western Kansas. , ,!,app spade is driven down deeply by the sld" of the plant, the earth is broken and the thick, brown root secured. The top, w't'i it 1 ng spines, is thrown aside, Sometimes a long, sh i p too! D rc quired to rca.-h d.'ep into the ground in order to secure the greater part of the roof. Like the prairie dog, "it goes down to water." The root has been known to extend as far a twenty feet into the soil, but only from tWO) lo three feet of the upper portion, which is about two inches thick, is worth digging f..r. This root is brought by the wagon load to Kansas cpy, where the In terstate Toilet Soap Coinpanv, w ith a little factory at Twelfth and Oen esce. converts it into soap. The roots" arc lirst wa-hc.l, then cut up aud boiled out ill a big v i', where other ingredi ents are also placed. When this U dried out to such a degree that it will solidify it is moulded into scini-ti aus. parent cakes that slip around in tin hands delightfully while being used. One of the most wonderful things about this weed is that while growing in a region where alkali pools dot tho ground aud where tho soil is white with tho chemical, none of it is found in tho root. Many of the poorer set tiers who occupy "dugo'tts" find the root in its natural state a panacea for many ills. They cut it into c mvenient pieces and use it as a rako of toihjt loap.f Kansas yitj Times, --s--c..
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Oct. 8, 1891, edition 1
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