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0II)otl)am Kccor II. A.. JLOIVUOIS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOK. HATES TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, A D V ERTISINC One square, one insertion- tl.O One Bijuarc, two insertions 1.69 One square, cne month 8.60 For liircr advertisements liberal ccn facts will be made. $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly In Advance. VOL. XVI. PITTSIJORO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, OCTOUKU 12, 181).;. x(). 7. I)c .ljatl)ara lUcorb. tern o ,m m G Tlic llnnii Clock. JIr iv.r, a clock, and ll ticked in Minn To lii-rtlioughts thet (low-d (i- : rim- niii? rhyme Tii'k-tock, ti.-k-tnck, and tMi! An-1 1 wondered n:ii"h if tli.it time was slow With llm grief i.f life or the pain of woo-Tiek-tnek, tli'k-to.-k, aii.l tick! TVhnt sort "t n dock wns tlin maiden's honrt? Vni. it rjciiiiir fiit at youth's happy start? Tick-tuck, tick-tock. and tick! Hid its love sivinij inc.vnnl in -linls'im" ways. Or Its wink rundown with a Inn:; eight days' Ti'-k-tn. k, tick-tock, nud ti-k. fo I irni'liti her face through our idle talk. Till, lis'i'ii! ii step on t In Kurde'i walk - f'li.'k! w nt tic Kate, nud dick! And Love's ular.n-.'loe'; wrnl ntTM Ml 'J'luit a certain hour was known full well Tick went Iiit heart, and tl"k! Ki'iTii It. Ciiahy in Jud ;. WAS IT A SPECTRE? Hi' was waiting for her; he had been waiting hour mid a half in ft lusty sill hi 1 1 in ti hint', with n row of big trees- 1 1 one Milo mill muni! eligible building sites on the other ami fur away to the southwest ttio twinkling yellow lights of the city. It ns not quite like u country lime, for it had ii pavement mill lamppost: hut it was Hot ii l-.il place for n meeting nil tho fame; inn) I'm tie r up, towards the ceinrtery, it was really quite rural, and almost pretty, especially in twilight. ?ut twilight hiul long leeieneil into nielli, and still he waited. He loveil ler, nud he was engaged to he married to her, with the complete disapproval of every n asoiiahhi person who hud Veen consulted. Ami thin half-clandestine meeting was to-night to lake tli i place of the grudgingly simetioiiecl weekly interview - because a certain rich uncle was visiting nt her house, mid her mother was not the woman to iieknowleilee to a moneyed uncle, who inir'it "pi olT" any day, a mutch so deeply ineligible as leri with liiin. .So he wniteil for her, nml the chill nf an unusually severe evening entered into his bones. The policeman passed him with but n Hilly response to his "good-night." The bicyclist'! went by hint like gray ghosts with fog-horns; n:id it was iiearly ten o'clock nud she had not une. lie shrugged his shoulders and turn r"d toward hiH lodgings. 1J is road led him by her house desirable, commod ious, suburban and he walked slowly lis he neaied it. She might, even now, be coming out. Itut she was not. There was no si.rn of movement about the hou-c, no sign o? life, no lights even in tic windows. And her people were no early people. He pfinvd by the gate, wondering. Then ho noticed that the front-door was open - wide open - nml the street lump shone it little v.ay into the dark hall. There was soiothing about all this that did not pleas. - him that scared li i in a little, indeed. The home had a gloomy and deserted nir. Jt was im possible that it harbored a rich uncle. The old mail must have left curly. In j which case lie walked up the .ith and list 'lie I. No sign of life. II-' passed into the hill. There was no light iriywh ere. Wlc're win everybody, and why was the front-door open? There whh no Mic in the draw ing-roc at, the diniirr room mid the sliely (nine feet by seven) w. re eq tally hi iiik. l"cry one was out, evidently. Hut t.'ie unpleasant It li.e that he wic, pel haps, not the liist ca-iiiil visitor to .ilk through I'm) open door impelled him to look through the house 1 1.; fere he went liway and (dosed it after him. So he went upstairs, and at the door of the first bedroom ho came to he struck a wax-match, as he had done in the fitting-rooms. Kven asheilidso be felt that he was not nloiie. And hi was j re iired to see something; but for what he saw he was not prepared. For what he saw lay on tli" bed in a white, loorie gown an 1 it was his sweetheart. and its throat was tut from car to ear. He does not know what happened then, lior how he got dow n-stuirs ami into the street ; but he got out somehow, and the policeman found him in a tit, under tic lump-post at the Collier of the street. He could not speak when they picked him up, and he pa-sed tie' night ill the police cells, because tli policeman had seen plenty of drunken mill before, but le-vi r one in n lit. The next morning he was better though still very white and shaky. Hut the tale he told the magistrate- was convincing, nml they sent n couple of constables with him to her house. There was no crowd about it as he had fancied there would be, and the blinds were not dow n. As he stood, ihwd, ill front of the I door, it opetteil ami she emuc out. He held on to the door-post for sup- ' ,,ort. ' She's all rightt you see." mid the , Violiceman, wno had found him under ' the lamp, ''I told yon yon wan drunk, but Villi WOllld ktlOW bl';-,t " When he was alone with her, he told her - not all, for that would not bear telling but how he had come in to the commodious suburban house, and how hu had found the door open and the lights out, and that ho had been into that long back room facing the stairs, and had seen something in even trying to hint at which he turned nick and broke down. "Hut, my dearest," she said, "I dareHiiy the house was dark, for we were nil at the theatre with my uncle, and no doubt the door was open, for the servant'! will run out if they're left. Hut you could not have been in that room, because 1 locked it when I came awny, and the key waa in my pocket. 1 dressed in a hurry and I left all my odds and ends lying about." "I know," he said; "I saw a green Bcarf on a chair, and some long brown gloves, mid ii lot of Iniir-pins nud rib bons, and a pruyer-book, 'mid a lace handkerchief on th dressing table. Why, I even noticed the calendar on the innntel-pieee -October 21st. At least, it couldn't be that, because this in May. And yet it was. Your cal endar is at October 21st, isn't it?" "Xo, of course it isn't," sh ; said, smiling rather anxiously; "but all the other things were just as you say. You must have had a dream, or a vision, or something." He was a very ordinary, common place young man, nud he did not be lieve in visions, but he never rested day or night till he got his sweetheart and her mother away from that com modious house ami settled them in a tpiite distant suburb. In the course of the removal, he incidentally mar ried her, and the mother went on liv ing with them. His nerves must have been n good bit shaken, because he was very queer for a long time, and was always in quiring if any one had taken the desir able suburban house; ami when mi old stock-broker with a family took il, he went the length of calling on the idd gentleman and imploring him, by nil that lie held dear, not to live in that fatal house. "Why?" si'd the stock-broker, i ot unnaturally. Ami then he got so vague and con fused between trying to tell why ami trying not to tell why, that the stock broker showed him out, and thaiikel his (bid he was not such a fool as to allow a lunatic to stand in the way of his taking that really remarkably cheap mid desirable suburban resi dence. Now the curious nud quite inexpli cable part of this story is that when she eii:iic down to breakfa.l on the morning of the twenty-second of Oc tober, she found him looking like death, with the moruiier paper in his hand. He e.iught hers - he could not apeak find pointed to the paper. And there she read that on the night of the twenty-first, a young lady, the stock broker's d Ulghter, had been found with her throat cut from cur to ear, on the bed in the long back bedroom facing the stairs of that desirable sub urban house. San I'ni!iei..eo Argo naut. Iiiranl Ants. Tic Kew llttu'iliii informs us that tie government of Trinidad passed an ordinate.! for the extermination of "parasol ants," so far as its power ex tends, 'i'h" pest has become unbear able. In fact, from the nature of things wh Tever this ant is found a growing civilization must wage war to the death with it. Tor the creature st ripH trees of their leaves, which it neatly trims to the si.e and shape of a threepenny hit, mid carries to the nest. An army of .l',.-odoiii a eeph dotes at work is otic of the strangest sights in tropical America. Tic column may be followed for n mile, three or four inches in width, a serried mass of mils j each carrying aloft upright as a (lag it ; ! green disk. They will strip a large tree of which they fancy the leaves in twenty-four hours. Hut nature haw limited their ravages in the way in which Ihirwin mid Wallace teach us to expect. Many species of tree are quite protected against them by pecu liarities which we cannot detect. Many others are so far protected that theants will not attack them ii they have a choice. Hut the enterprising for eigner bringn his useful fruits mid plants from every quarter of the world, and establishes them in tic domain of the .Kcodomn. Thru theie I is joy unmixed. With unprotected food in abundance, the nuts multiply us they never could before. So the Trinidad authorities have made a law that the warden of miv district iiinv authorize a landowner who '..iilVcrs or is likeiy to Miller" from their ravages ' to inter any neighbor's ground mid destroy the nests if he can, be it understood. And any one obstruct- ' i.ig such pr.o'eedino-i when duly au thorized by the warden beeoinen liable to a linj of Soil or imprisonment for three months with or without Lr.ird lab'.r.- London Standard. Hliishinir. Dliishing is not an art. Neither is it an absolute sign of ill-brcediii", as come unkind folk maintain. Tli fuel is, it is just as iintural for some people to blush on one occasion as it is for others to turn pale on another. The same laws of nature wlrch govern the one rule govern th oiler. The ci pillaries, or small blood vessels which conui'ct the arteries and veins in the body form, particularly over the cheeks, a network so fine that it is necessary to employ a microscope to distinguish them. Ordinarily the blood pa ;ses throu'-di S-rcnt cigars for Sen a tor li-rry, of Ar ties' vessels in norm il volume, leaving J iaiisns." only the natural complexion. Hut when some sudden emotion takes pos session of the heart its action increases mi I an electric thrill instantly leaps to the checks. The thrill is nothing more than a rush of I. loo. I through the invisible capillaries; the color is nothing more than the blood just be neath the delicate surface of the skin. The causes that bring about this con ditioii in the circulating system are called mental stimuli, Tiey consist of joy, anger, shame, and many other emotions. Sudden horror, remorse, fenr, on I hcarh , gray-headed m an of nearly ?U the contrary, influences the. nerves j years, is mi advocate ..f tic beef-teak, which control the blood vessels, and There is n huskiie-s in hi., throat, the face b. conn s white. Hliishing I which speaks of rich and dripping gra nml pallor res ilt from the sudd"!i lie- ! vie lion of th- mill I on the nervous sya-j A different man in tic matter of tern. So, if the mind be forewarned ami feeding, an educated man, as the res prepared for emotions, both habits taur int keeper est-ins him, a man cm at h'ait be partially overcome. Hul ! with the French terms of the menu when the nervous system is highly , upon tic tip of his tongue, is Senator strung it would be a life-long, if no1 ' Maislerson of Nebraska. lie is as futil- task to endeavor to effect a per- I choice in the selection of morsels feet cure. It is the sensitive, nervous j which lie swallows a- the bird of para girl who blushes easily, w hile the girl disc, which is supposed to live upon stolid by nature, or who, by educa tion has her m rves under perfect eon. trol seldom blushes. A tieiicriitis .11 a ii. A mm with three children ( titere 1 a restaurant in a (iermnii town and alter they were all scat-d he said: "Now, children, are you hungry?" "Yes." "Would you like some sausages?" "Yes, yes'." "Waitress, bring three i-aiii ages -two lor myself -that makes live. Ah, 1 have forgotten tic bread. Waitress, some bread. Now, cat away." There was a solemn jingle of knives and forks, the sausages were deliiol- i.l,.. ! I ll. ,.l,U,lie.,V f,...u ,w.r.. .,11 i smiles. "Hnjoy il, eh?' "Yes." "Like some more saus iges ';" "Yes! yes!" "Waitress, two or three more sau sages. " These, too, vanish '1. The guest ordered some beer, hiviu,; drunk which he took his Uat and sti.'k and said to the children : "Now you must bo very good and quiet. I shall be hack directlv. I am onlv going to get some cj,,llls " "All ri"ht." Five minutes passed, a quarter f an hour, half an hour. Tlcu the landlord said to the children: "Your father is a long time in coming." "He is not our father. We were phiying outside, when the iniiu eanit up to us and asked us if we would like some sausages. We all shouted 'Yes,' mi. V hen the man brought usiti here." Loudon Tid-Hits. Circumstances Al.er Cases. Anxious Daughter. "Mother, did pupa have his salary increased when he i was married?" Mother -"No, my child." I Anxious Daughter "I don't sup. ; pose he had any money saved up, had I Mother - "Not penny; he spent alt he earned." Anxious Daughter -"Did you get along comfortably?" Mot her---"We were very happy." Anxious Daughter " Well, you know, (ieorge has not been able to save a penny, but -" Mother- "See lu te, if that poverty-j stricken fellow dares to show his face again I'll get vonr father to throw j hill! out !" Tit-Hits. An Autumn Sigh. "So," he said huskily, "you send me away." She could not deny it. "Am I to have no assurance from you?" "No," she answered. "And why?" "Hci'iiuse vou have more assurance now than you know what to do with." , And Algernon has not vet deter- mined whether he will show his.lesper- iitiouby joining the army or smoking cigarettes.-Washington SUr. SHXATORSATUiXClI. Scenes in 1'ao Restaurant cf the Upper Hom e. Senatorial Icllosyncrnclis in Eat ing and Drink mg. A Wa hinuton letter to th" Houston (Texas) Post says: The S. mil.- restau rant is a very different looking place from that at the House ioid oftlie Cap itol. There is a free for nil atmos phere about tic llepl'esell' :t i e llill- inir-rooni, while a formaiitv pei vadi s the Senate rei t au i .ml. The monotony of the lunch h'-nrs is now and then broken h a ewarthy winter yelling at the top of his line's "oiu S'-Vcctit ciiriir for Senator Hrieetiiul two Hack of'the man who statels behind the bar and ii little to th right as he faces you is the retiriug-roien. Tic Senators dine in tin re iuexchisivc and heiirtv fashion. At mis hour of tic ; day as the da j in Wiislmi.-t. ordinal ly eon -trued the potent, grave and reverend s. iouiors of tic upper chamber may be found at tin' tables enlarging their minds uid overloading their stomachs. Their idiosyiicrneii s in eating arc as marked in their idn.sv iieiaeies of de bate. Mr. I'ldoicr !' Illinois, a blulf. j the dew which rests in the cups of the : South American Mower. A very delicate eat r is Senator j Maliderson. a man who insi-t. upon ' prompt attendance, a man upon the best terms with ail the waiters in the ; resluiii ant. He and Senator Palmer j are represent at ies of I lie two opposite j types of enters to be found In the senate hostelry. There nr.' others j who are are constant puM'olis ,f the ' establishment whose 'nanm r and ' method of dining excite Ir. lie or in. I remark. Mr. White, of Louisiana. w ho received his ga -t I'oii niiic e.luei- tioii in the dim and deli oiiiul s. ini ' submerged cafe of New Orleans; Mr. f California, n behev. r in the virtue of the poiubalio to lie e i.e. hi in the sunny southern i-avs of hi, state and a considerable advocate of the Olympian oyster, nslu 'I ti -h which is raked from the sandy si; lilow ,. w hieh stretch to the westward ' t!c lillle city of Olympia, nesllin- upon tin shores of Pug.t sound: Mr. Pa-co, of Florida, a sheepshead and luoil -d ha eon man: Mr. Davis, of Minnesota, who believes that pork is the meat id the gods, all ! insists upon .weel pota toes as an eternal condiment ; Mr. Fry, of Maine, a fi.-h tal. r and wa'. r I drinker: Senator Stewart, of Nevada. j who eschews both v.ater. and ' !'' ''' Senator ( b ge, of .Mi-sis- '-'IT'. s" fl,r "K ''' ,'"1''1 " "f 'I"' Ucaate restaurant show, nev, r eats nt "Ik I It is worth a man s while to stand i in the senate restaurant and look at 1 the moulders of tic nation's desliuie- when they feed. They offer as diverse a spectacle and ns much food for re flection as is t he found in any or dinary crowd infesting u 10-ecut res taurant upon I'eiiu - I vaniii avenue. With knife and fork in h ind-, the na- tioniil celebrity becomes n I an be- jg f,,r the time, lie exhibits as good nm, rs and a . bad manners as any nverage American citizen would under the same cireiiiu-taiie.'s, Curious American Houses. Among the l'...isM.il H people in the 1'nitcd States there are probably not 51 til -oiilsid.' of the locality - w ho are aware that at the month of the Miss issippi there is a little village built up on wooden piles standing far out in tlie water. This village, which is called Halie, is reached from the maiii- k" I by ca.i .-s or boats, and its in habitants Ii ive to climb a kind of pole ladder to get to the doorways of their homes. This is probably the on I place in the Cnited States in which "pil. --dweller ." occur ; but nil along the Yetietii Ian coast and at the luouths of the Orinoco mid Aueiou similar villages are frequently nut with, m my of t Icm being inhabited bv the I'l-li'iii fishing tribes of the A in - " " tuary. These strauee inhabitants were first JlM',n,r"'1 '.'' Al "l,0 i',,l:l' accompanied Chimbus on his iceoii l vov age to this continent. lu U'J'J he j undertook an independent v.y.:ge to explore the northern part of South America, and he took with him Ameri go Vespucci, who wrote a graphic ;K1 coilht of the expedition. The fol'ow ingextraet from a translation of Ves pucci's work gives tic orh.'in of the name Venezuela, and tolls of the con nect ion bet wi en the curious viliaged is-eover.-d tlcre and the name V in ziii la : "Proceeding alou,' th" coast, they ar rive I at n vast gulf l e-einbling n tran quil lake, entering which they beheld on th i a-toru side a village tic con st nu t Ion of w hieh filled them w ith sur prise. )t eon isted of twenty large houses hapi d likebells, and built on pih - d iven into the bottom of the lake, w hieh in this part was limpid an I but of little depth. Kaeh house w as prov id" I w it h a drawbridge and canoe. . . From th" re a 'iiib'nnee to tie Italian city. Ojeda gave the bay tic name of the (iulf of Venice (Veue ziai." The country itself was after ward , eail"d Venezuela, or Little Ven ice, tli,, original ii illie being Coqtli baeoa. Ill l.akc Malicaibo, south of the hfly of Yctic uicl i, similar pih' build ings up' M ill erected by th" ( ioajoir Indians. Harper's Young People. "The Other Half or U-t." Our regiment guarded Confederate prisoners of war at Point Lookout, Md., in the spring of Isii-,. A., twenty six States and several for-ugii countries were represented in tic command, there were frequent an I Mire d exhi bitions of man's characteristic-, among which those of Private "Paddy" O llollllell as he liked to be called Were luosl peculiar. A queer fellow was 1c. and, muster, rolls and descrip tive list , to the emit racy, of uncertain a.,'.- on the houiesl retch of lib s march ; so limited in stature as to warrant tic inference that tli- recruiting oHicr stood 1 1 i 1 II tip-toe t ret the feet ali i inches requirement of army regula tions. Hair was red as a fox's tail, and his eves a cross between those ot a weii-- l and our brother of the Flow ery Kingdom. Hut "Paddy" was not obliged to chew gum to kill time win u luaiiiifaetiiriiig a witty saving. It was also hinted bv his comrades that there was "ni -tliod in his madness" when invariably excised from picket di.ty because of the racket III el" by all ex tra pair of shoes and a tin dipper hitched to his hav. r-ack. At point Lookout tin- men start -d to build a platform out into the bay, whi"hw.is not completed. Connect ing bo trd- along t he spiles furnished an excellent opportunity for fishing-. On one of tics I sat trolling for -potied-tad biss - a tish tin-re found - an 1 t 'Do! was "still" fishing from another two or three rods distant, lie caught a lloiinder, ev id. nt !y the first he ever saw. Holding is aloft as it twirled iirouu I, alternately showing the dark and the Mat whit - sides, he sunn I up his ieht livologieal iistonish- nieiit in the follow iiu soliloquy : "He jabber.! Oi'll tish a '.mg spell before I get t! tier half of ycz." ; Ho -ton Journal. Wajs cf a Captive Wildcat. M very body has heard of Nie Arend's wildcat. The cat was given to Nie sonic inoiilh ; ago, and evi r since has been liv iug oil the fat of the land. The cook, a colored woman at Xic's place, feeds the cut, which has mani fested a great loudness for her. When she approaches tic cage he purrs in the most pleased manner, but if any body else conies about him he immedi ately growls and t-hows his w ick.-d-looking fangs. The e it is perfect lv satistied with his home. Two or three times his cage door has been accident ally left open, but he never even walked outsid" to see what the rest of the world looked like. However, whenever it occurred that the cage door was left open, Nie al ways missed a chicken. II tier .'lay he saw the cat catch one. He simply crouched down by the door and waited until the chicken, oblivious of danger, came along, and then he shot out his paw and had the chicken by the head. After he catches and kills the fowl he picks all the feathers oil' of it almost us carefully as a cook, and us.-a his mouth in the operation while holding the bird between his paws. Florida 'I'inies-l'nion. A l.illge llnir. In a western town there lives a wo man who has a genius for large stories. As she is accustomed to say, she "scorns peltv details." At a tea party i-he entertained the coie'iativ with a description of a hog v.hieii her father fattened to the enor mous weight of .illiMI pounds. "Oh, my d-air," ejaculated her hus band, "it must hiive been "iilll pounds." "Why, I'dward Habbitt?" exclaim ed the narrator with i v ident disgust, "the skin vuighed that!" Youth's Companion. MINTING MONTY. Interesting Processes at the United States? Mi.it-. Turning a M iss of Multe:i Metal Int o Coins. It is rather difficult to attempt n de scription of how tiioicv is ma le. To i get the best i. I. 11 of the multiple and minute processes of minting' oic most i be an eye w itic" s, Il add i charm to the proceedings to s ind by t'.c dusty i furnaces, ariiineed in s-ntiu' l like i rows, to n-o them open tli-if jaws and to look right dow h Kilo t!c In rv oav- i J ern, where insatiable t uigues of ii ame jure licking up the. molio-i m.i.-s.-s of j silver and gold. I A day or two ago Oflic Pio-.vn, j standing beside il vi-ilor who ha. I I watch, d with all tin- fc-cinaiioii of a novice t he gr, at iron mouths open:"-, j and elo. ing. b t.-ay. d him.-i If into a in ait ox 1 1 1 inatiou of t h p roc. of mint -ingni ee-v. OMie r Hrown lei been many vcar-. at the mint, a t h e V isjtor listened with interest, as t . one who spoke with inilh.jrity. H.-r is t'c pi ess in a nulsh II. "Mukiug luoiey," said h", with one of those eloquent W.'IV. ll ot the ha'ld he I keeps iy hllil to !; on all vpillll.l j lory oeea -1 . . f i sgch a- tins', "i- ji.st bio- making eal.e. You mix th d-. i-:'i, we mix t!u- m -I al. Vou roll out 1 h I lloU.-ll iilto shape, we r. ll out th., m t al into bars. You cut the dough inl-i Cakes, W.' C It t! 111 -l I i ill'o C 'OI .. ' Then we stamp them. Tic m t.:l h it j over is nu ll. d up an. I u 1 a -ain. just j as the c-.ok gathers up lie- h-ll o-,i r , : Vollstlcm again and cuts more ealo . " I lu other words a:i ajioiint of metal. ' say the ' I i vn b 1 1 1 of !?.i;i.llon in ".d I. : which chemically is made up of :ai p. r c.-iil. gold and li per c"nt. cooper, i I put into a. black k sd crucible about t!l" ,.je of a peck measure. It i- ke t ; in the furnace i-rie hour and tilte n ' minutes. Tic workman vwitehes his g.id as sai redlv lis the ( k le reikis, I nud when the molten liquid is brought to I he prop, r con ; - iicv he take-a ! hree I concM -I black h a I cup, about the -:.- that would Ii! a !n.ei!.e 's head, ng I d p ; up ,-sJ, 110:1 worth of tic until at a ( time, poiiiing it out again with that marvelous dexterity, which .miv com. -! from practice, into molds holding . SI. i" each. Nothing can be cole ' beautiful than th" lb ry stream of i xoiilig and pure gold a- it glides into I the locked lll'lll - of the iron l.iold. When the liquid soli. lilies it forms a bar, or, to be technically correct, an ingot about tw.-lve inches lung and about half an inch thick. These ingot-; are subjected to a process of rolling out which leiig!',. n t In -tn without increasing tic width. The bars are then roadv to be cut. ( lie machine eni!- th coin ; alio! h, ; stamps them aft r the proems of mil ling has been per!'- rnied. Milling, in mint parlance, has oun what of adil'-fi-rciit -igt.ilicat ion tnau in ordimtrv vernacular. Ii signifies tlej robing over id the edge ol tic coin prepara tory to stumping il whh th. minute I deiiticulatiou-. which i known a- the milling'. , part of the proee-s ,, eoiiiiiioulv lie latter is temping, and is done lit the t iiiii. t ha! t ! it! oil the coin. Hem-i j.s Speaking of st.impii mt roiluci large corp , of worn, n who form i: eon- sid. -ruble part of the working force of I the mint. About n of tlu-m nr. . m 1 ployed, and tin y attend entirely to the ' adjusting and stamping. It may be ! said in expk-Hiiit ion of the pioe.s-of tic term "a (justing'' that every coin before it is shaped is ear.-fuliy weigh ' ed. If too heavy the edge is d bcati j ly tiled until the coin is of law lul j Weight : if too lieht tie- pi. ee is s- u t , to be icuelto.l. This process .. ' w, i h j ing and adjusting is an . mploi m nt j to which women with th o delicacy ! touch are well suited. Tie v a I e al ,o in charge of the stamping. lucid. 'itallv if may be said that Most pr.-,-.. s stamp j from Si I to 1 in coins .-v. rv minute, lu j one short horn- .!... tioii in teii-doila.-j gold pieces em be s, i iii p. d around 1 lii- edge and on both sides. There is another part of the work which comes under the chari... of tie women employed at the mint. They do th" sewing. At first thought it seems a trille incongruous to associate sew ing w it Ii moicy minting, but all the bags used by the mint nr. sewed in the building. The bags are nmde of w hite duck ami run up by machine, being sewed twice for secur ity. The bag making is no small thing when you come to consider the number it takes to pack up the newly coined wealth of the country each year. The live-cent pieces me packed in t?"il bags mid tie pennies in $111 bags, small silver in !l,HU0 and the gold in 85,11110 pin.'hes. Houghly speaking, hist year fuPy 2,'IUO bug; 4 were made up for gold al mo, f,0nf) for silver, i'.iMK) for half dollars, be sides inane thoiiMindi for the sniallel cuius.-- Phhideiphia l imes. Veiled Horses. J lie oddest thing to be seen in tho itreets of Colorado Springs are horses decked with veil-. We have grown accustomed to the jaunty little lintH worn by many livrses in our town tc protect 1hem friii. 1 the heat oftlie sun. We can ev n si e an umbrella fastened over l!ejr h'-iuls without surprise, but a veil gives th" noblest beast a dandy ish look that is very droll. Some of the-e veils, belonging to ft he saddle are nu re li ingi s of fine strips of leather that hang before tho eyes; others are mos.piit-i netting drawn tightlv back ti li' I i'a-ti led like n wo lntm's nose veil, but the mo t stylish and i.itog. th r elfect-ive are of netting drawn over a loop which holds it away from tie e v s, yet completely protect - th- : . 'I li'-s. 1 V! -.'elated goggles give the ,"ravi--t le ; a waggish look. Tim veiie re not wiin for fashion's sake. They are j,, ;. ei a sb in necessity, and 1' oin.toit. if not even th" life of the horse deiuao s it. Colorado, with nil its great at! ,oilotis, ha one plague the plagi I'lli' -. Flies of all sizes, I'r on tie e , .( up 1,, tie .i tnoiis blue : O il ie, 111 e -. ey i In re. purisol j his body tie h-os- can hinis -If protect ! if let d.-priv d of his tail, but his eves 1 I h-cannot, au I ties' ib-lieuto organs j are special obj.ct of attack bv the My ; 1 ribe. It i . t le I' .1 t a in 111 can do t. ' provide a 1 rol-'ctiug veil for his most j fill iil'ul servant. I National l.-sile. M.iglii-1 i-il ( :111c. Sometimes the simple action of 11 ! man will indicate his character. r ' ol Pitt burg's wealthy old gentlemen : was si 11 wallviug along the street the other day pointing hi'-cn 10 upon some j object upon the pav iueiit now and ! tlnti. What "eiuglit on" he raised ' and placed ill his hand. He was col- : h e: 111 tr tiny nails that had fallen from 1 inerciiaii lis- boxes. He continued ' until le had gotten a handful. Then, 1 . j picking up a piece ol paper Iruln Him pavement, h- wrapped up the nails .-;i r- t n 1 1 a -. l pocketed the packilge. ' A bv-taudi-r inked 1 . tin what sort of n . cane he had. i - o. " he said, "it's nothing but r st ,1 rod covered with leather." "It mn-l be magm teed, for it lit - ! inn t mills and save, vou from stoop- i ; in-g." j "Not that I kiew of. utiles th" fac i ing of h-athi r ov r the sb e has d"ne it." In- r. pli. d. ! "I saw v.. u picking up some nails a short t hie ago." ; "Y.-s," luterrill'ted the old uiiltl. "I m i d some of them." Then, looking : downward, he exclaimed: "There's ; I miss- 1 !" and picked it up with j his magin tic servant. 'faking the package of nails from I lo-pocket le- placed t hi ; last wit h the ' r- -t. As a:i iii-tam-e of frugality thin ; incidi'tit is interesting, and a- a key to i t'c loan's success in life, it is. pi rhaps-, ! lik-wise. --j Pittsburg Dispatch. ) ll.nvks Afraid ef (.iiiiien I'invN. ' Tiiat noisy, quarrelsome bird, the j guinea fowl, with voracious appetite I a el de'-t ruetivi Hess of Mower ami ' kitchen gardens, would not on general i orilr.'iples. seem to be ll profitable bird for the poultry yard. It is to in. lift, relit a parent ihat its young ! have Usually t" be hatched out and ! re.iri d by a foster mother in the shape ' of a hen turkey, ll was with sur I prise tie tefoi-e. that a New Yofl.e ' ', suiniiH ring at tie town of Monroe, Me., discovered that a farmer of that region cote tionlv kept a pair or more of guinea fowls among their other poultry. I ll s was done for the pur pose of keeping away the hawks, the b-'ld -t of which would not venture to s-Aoop iloi.it upon a vii rd of which any of t'i' -e mottled, round bodied, hel met le "le I fow I were tenants. Win til r it i i their belligerent appear ance or strident cry, or manifest readiness to tight that daunts the hiwk. e, It.iiu it is that whenever olio oftle.eaeri.d pirates, reconnoitring a farmyard from on high, conies earthward ill swift, narrowing; circl. s, it needs onlv I he loud squaw k of hi js I ling di lianee of the guinea fowl to ciiui-e him suddenly to remember an engagement in the next township, mid to send him currying off hi haste j New York Sun. Ill !!i:' Family llnim'stcad. Mr. Van C.ive "Do you know, I've wanted that lovely old chair of yours ever since I tirsf saw it?" Mabel (de'.iurely) "The chair and I go together." Mr. Van ( live "Oh, in that case I'll call to-inoriovv with a carriage and express wagon." Polly -"Ah, but she didn't say they went tu the liibt bidder." Vogue.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Oct. 12, 1893, edition 1
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