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WSSSSTSiM'l l)atl)am tWrorb. 53rV RATES II. A. LONDON, KDITOIi AND PROPRIETOR. or ADVERTISING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly In Advancj. Ilttpl'c dll', Throo liusnan livos viro spout, and ou out ijnii't ii;iy, A firowrll liriHy said, I hoy pmsi-d from earth away. The first, to pleasure wed, his motto, "Self alone," Men scarcely riallz"il lie from their midst had (""" The second, glory seeking, full mauy deeds had wrought, By eager Biirlii crowds, hi vacant plane was sought. Tin' tliinl, In lowly servien for the needy niul til" dons Hnil gladly spo it his nil, nor thought to n'i'lllH'llHI', 11" In thn hearts of many Is with tond're-st love cnshrlniM, Wlnlu waiting, lies untlllfl tho sop lie let , lii'hind. Alice . Kki.i.oiio, in Nmv York llivordir The Telegrapher's Story. 'Twus a telegraph operator stationed in the little town of Peering, upon tho lino of tho Pacific railroad, be tween thn cities of 1) niul U . Six miles further west was tho proton tioiiH town of l'aris, tiou tho direct roud to 1) . Peering was by no menus n inoilol residence, Ntiil there was n school, and a timid 1 l h--- vi .1 woman had oomo from Vermont to toaoh it. How long nil unprotected woman might have livi-d in Doering I oun only guess, for Alioo Holt hud boon there but throe months when she cinsonted to walk into church with me ami walk out my wife This win in Juiy, and wo had occupied n pr tty cottage hourly n quarter of u mile from tho telegraph Btatioii since our marriage. With this u -eossary iiitroductioii I como to the story of that October night, and the part my blue-eyed Alice, only 1H, mil afraid of her own shadow, played in it. I wax in the ollicd at about half-past 7 o'clock, when oil;! of the city officials came in, nil Hurried, suing: ".Stirling, have you been over to tho embankment on tin; road today?'' "Xii, 1 have not." It was a special providoiiei took me there, then. One of tho great masse: of rock bus rolled d iwii directly ueross tho track. It will bo as dark as a wolf's mouth tonight, an 1 if tho mid night train cornea from 1) thero will ba a horrible sin isii-up. " "The midnight train must stop at Paris, then," 1 replied. "1 will send It messages " "Yes. That is what I stopped in for. Tho other track is clear so you need not stop tho train to D ." "All right, sir." 1 was standing nt the door, seeing my caller down the rickety stuireu-.e, when Alioo cam up w ith my supper. "Any message tjduy?" my wife asked. "Ono from 1) , from John M ir- tin" "John .Martin !" Alio cried; "tho greatest ruffian in Deoring. What was tho message?" ".Midnight train." "Wan that nil?" "That was nil. Mr. Hill has just boon here to tell mo there is a huge rook iiorosM (ho track at tho embank ment, so I shall stop tho midnight at l'aris." Sho went into the dressing-room, liking no light, but depending upon tho can Hi's burning in tho otlico. I was rising from my seat to send the telegram, when the door opened, and four of the worst characters in 1 leer ing, led by John Martin, entered the room. I'eforo I could speak, two threw me back in my chair, ono held n revolver to my he ul, and John Mar tin spoke : "Mr. Hill was hero to toll yon to stop the I) train. You will not send that message. Listen. Tho rock is there to stop that train put thcro for that purpose. There is half it mil lion of gold in tho express ear. Do you understand?'' 1 trembled for Alice. Not a sound eamo from the little room, us I was tied, hand and foot, to my chair; bound ho securely that I could not move. . It was proposed to gag mo, but finally concluding that my cries, if I made any, could not bo heard, a handkerchief was bound over my mouth. The door of the washroom was closed and locked, Alio still undis covered, then the light was blown out, aud the ruffi ins left me, locking the door after them. Thcro was a long silence. Outside I could hoar tho stop of one of the men pacing up and down, watching. I rubbed my head against tho wall be hind me, and succeeded in getting the handkerchief on my month to fall around my neck. I hud scarcely ac complished this when thero was a tap on tho inner door. Robert," Alice said. 'Yes, love I" Speak low there is man under my window." "I am going to Paris. Tin-re is no jnan under my window, aud I can gut VOL. XVII. out 'nere. I iiavo six long roller towels hero knotted together, mid I have cut my wid .1 skirt into wido stiips: to join them. Tho rope made bo reaches nearly to tho ground. I shall fasten it to tho door-knob and let my self down. It will not take long to reach home, saddle Seliui, and reach Paris in time. Don't four for mo." Nino o'clock! As tho bell of the church clock conned to strike, a rum ble, n flash, told me that a thunder storm was coming rapidly. Oil, tho long, long minutes of the next hour. Ten o'clock. Tho ruin falling in tor rents, tho thunder pealing, lightning Hashing! Alice was so afraid of light ning. Eleven o'clock. The storm over, though still tho inedit was inky dark. Tho midnight down train was com ing, swiftly, surely, to certain destruc tion. Where was my wife? Had tho ruffians intercepted her at the cottage? Was sho lying dead somewhere upon the wild road. Her heroism was of no avail, but was her life saved? Ill the agony of that question tho ap proaching rumble of the train win far more the bitterness of Alioo lost than tho doomed lives it carried. Why ha I 1 let her start upon her inal errand? Tho heavy train rumbled past tho telegraph oll'uv. It wan im express, train, and did not stop at Duel ing sta tion ; but as I listened, every h uso sharpened by mental torture.it seemed to m i that the speed slackened. Lis tening intently, I knew that it stop ped at the embankment, as nearly as 1 could judge. Not w ith tho sickoiiinj crash I expected, not with wails an I groans from the injured passengers, but carefully. A moment more and J hoard shuut-i, the crack of firearms, sounds of some conlliet. Wh it could it all m 'an? The min utes were hours, till I heard a key turn in the door of my prison, and u moment later t wo tender arim were round iny neck an I Alio-; was whisper ing in my car : "They will ome in a few minutes love, to set you free!" "Put have you been to Paris?'1 "Yes, dear." "In all that storm?" '.S .'Iim seemed to understand.' carried me swiftly mid surely. I well wrapped in my waterproof He was oak and hood. When I reached P.iris the train had com i from 1) ." "lint it is here." "Only the locomnt ivo and ono car, In that car were n sheriff, deputy sheriff, and twenty m :n, iirnrs I t tho teeth, to capture tho gang at tho em bankment. I came, too, and they lowered mo from the platform, when the spec I slackened, so that 1 Could run hero an I tell you all was safe." While wo spoke my wife's lingers had lir.-t untied the ltuudk'-rchicf around my neek, and then, in the dark, found some of the knots of tho cord binding iiu. lint 1 w.n still tied fast and strong, when there was a rush of many feet upon the staircase, nud in auother moment, light and joyful voices. "We've captured the whole nine!" w.is the good news. Three, iu-duding John Martin, are doHperat.dy wound e 1, but the surprise was perfect. Now, old fellow, for you?" A dozen clasp-knives at one" sev ered my bonds, and a dozen hands were extended in greeting. As for the pruis.'s showered upon my plucky little wile, it would require a volume to tell half of t hem. -The Pathfinder. How Cloves (iiow. Tho small evergreen tree from which cloves are taken was originally a native of the Spice Islands, but it is now cultivated in warm climates in nil parts of the world. The clove of commerce is tho unopened ilowcr of the tree. They are quite small, but grow in largo clusters among the branches. After gathering thu buds are smoked by a wood lire and dried in the sun. lioth the taste nud smell of the cloves depend ou tho quantity of oil they contain. Momctiui ' the oil is separated from the cloves before they are sold, and the odor and taste are in consequence much weakened. If you desire to know something of the form of tho bud ill the natural state koak a few e'oves for h short time in hot water. The petals of tho Mower will soften and readily unroll. Detroit I'ree Press. Finger Nail llit.:n-. Onyohopngie, or liuger nit.il biting among French school xhildrcii is ex tensively indulged in. In some of the schools a third of the pupils nre addicted to thu hu'iit, which in either hereditary or duo to imitation. Some children actually bito their nails while asleep, and to effect a euro tho vio tiius of tho mania, says a French physician, nuut bo treated for ner vous degeneration. New York Telegram. PITTSBURG', CHATHAM CO., N. C, SEITHMIIEU 20, 1891. ' at imil Varnish of Japan. 7'ho famous varnish so etenively .-mployed by the Japanese for lacquer ing various articles uf furniture nud small ware is obtained from a treo known to science as K'uus vernieiforii. 'this varnish tree, which is called uriishi-naki by the Japanese, grows to a height of about thirty feet, and, lit tho nge of forly yours, its trunk is forty inches in diameter. It reuches its greatest perfection nt its eighteenth year, und then produces its largest yield of luc or varnish. This is ob tained by making incisious in tho bark in a horizontal direction, an opera tion that may bo performed nt liny t i mo between April and October. Later in the year the hie is very thick and viscid, ho that the collecting of it is attended with much greater dilli eulty. The lac tapper curries his own peculiar bow-shaped knife, made for this purpose, with which ho cuts i gash in tho trunk of the tree nnd then draws tho point of the knife through thecutagiiu in order to remove any chips formed by the first incision. This cut is made low down. On tho opposite side of the trunk, a little far ther tii, ho makes n second cut, and tin u on this side again, nud so on, un til he has niako from six to ten Mich incisions. Alter ho has operated thus upon about a dozen trees, the tapper returns to the first tree niul eolleotti the fluid that has oo.i d from the eujs, nud which, nt first milky white nud thick, hoc uues, through exposure to thy air, first dark browji and finally quite black. This crude hie is called ki-iiriishi. The tree is hacked in thin way for from sixty to eighty days, un til it dies. It is then cut down, and the tvood chopped up nud put into lint waiter, which extracts the last remnant of I he liquid, iininiiiitiug to not moro than half a pint. This forms the poor est quality of hie. Tin- lae is puriljed by lilti-riug it through cotton duff, grinding mi n paint iJnh, mixing vith water, an 1 then evaporating the latter by In-lit. The liner sorts lire blenched in shallow dishes in the sun. L,ve Will l in.l a Way. The Detroit Free Press says that a business man of that city has a very pretty daughter, with whom one of his olliee stall' is hopelessly in hive. As the young man is not iiivib d to tho put- rnul miiii"ioii, nud the young wo man 1ms boon notified to keep away from the paiernnl oltice, the course of t heir love does not Mow very smoothly. Tin y have hit upon t ho follow ing ex pedient : When papa enters the i.llieo in the. morning he hangs his hat ou a certain nail among the row of other h its and proceeds to business. Then the interested clerk, while the head of the firm is reading his morning mail, takes that hat from the nail, looks in side, slips his hand mi ler the lining nud takes out u tiny missive, w hich ho at o:i v conveys to his pocket, and th ) contents of which d dight und uinuso him nil day. At night, when pupa re turns h mi his p;vtty daughter alips into the hall and makes a raid on that hit, always I'm lin ; th to an uuswjr to her missive of the morning. I'tillziug iioncs. Hie ordinary bone-boiling industry, so vehemently discountenanced by residents in the neighborhood of fac tories engaged in the business, has a wide commercial importance. The shins, thighs nud lore-legs of cattle nud sheep are cleaned at tlieso estab lishments and turned over to manu facturers, who make them up into knife handles, tooth brushes, collar buttons, umbrella handles, hair brushes, "ivory" sleeve buttons and combs. (Ireat quantities of the thigh bones, which furnish the best material, are exported to Europe and brought buck to this country in manufactured shape. The ribs mid skulls are used for making bone black, which is cm ployed ohielly in sugar refineries. Tho marrow of tho boiiesyields the "bear's grease" of commerce. Washington Star. Met n Six-Fool Itlncksiinkc, A six-foot blacksnako once ran a Muff on inc. I kept trying to kill him with stones; mid ho just kept right no toward his hole us slowly lis if I was throwing the other way, and I saw hint diappear unharmed, very much to my chagrin. A while after that 1 went buck thero and ho was out uc;uin, und when he saw me he up with his head about eight inches off the ground and cunic right for mc. It was a cool blulf, and it would have work ed three times out of four, too; only this time I '.as good and mad, and 1 picked up a bit of a stick about an inch thick nud a foot long, mid I mot him half way und I it him a crack over his neck that kno.'ked tho tight out of him us completely as if 1 luid hit him with n liHsebiill but. Forest nud Stmiin. KOT(CITr. A M l CKS. tVlicn r."ssio ro'in to sins Imr S'ln"", All in her llwwt drois, J' wo thlnj; that wont a trill" wroii liiiharred eoiiipei sii'-n'ss. Her hands were clean, hi-r fii'-e was fair. Her voice was like a Wr.l's, jiyl she didn't really know the air, .ud sho quite forgot I lie words. Youth'- Companion, THAT I!) TUB orKKTIOS. In riding in railway trains you may have observed the peculiarity of dogs in racing after liio tjiiiu. One day, in a swiftly moving train, I saw a big yellow dog doing this net, and nearly breaking his back to catch the train, I watched bis efforts with some curio sity, and a man in the scut in front of me was doing the same thing, When the dog gave up the chase, the man i:i front turned to m , and said: "Excuse ine.lnit I would like to usli you u question I want to ask you what you think that dog would have done with this train if In; had caught it? -Atlanta Constitution. TUB INVENTION OP TUP. COMl'Vis. The yaluable invention of tho com pass is involved in mystery nud its real discoverer is unknown. Lalitcaii, in his history of tlie Portuguese discovery in the New World, says that Vusco da (lama brought it to Lisbon from tho coast of Africa, on his return from Me liuda, where tie Arabs then used it, and he believe I the Portuguese to have been until then ignorant of it. S uno nt tribute it to Flavin Oioju of A ma I phi, about the year PHrJ, while olh. rsngain lire of the opinion that Ih invention I is due to the Chinese, and that one of theireinperois, u celebrated astrologer, wusaequaiiited with it 1 12 (years before thu Christian era. Nor have others again been wanting who have supported the opinion that it was known in the time of Sohuiioii. Tho ancient (ireeks nud Unmans are also supposed by somo to have ined il, but the silence of their historians on the subject render this statement doubtful. New York llo cordor. "ou iitoNsinrcs. '.' Tho Constitution, or "Old Iron sides," as she is more familiarly known, is the most famous of all the wooucii ships that we have preserved. Time ami ugiiiu did she auqiiish the English ships in the war of jspj, and proud were the people of horeaptuivH. Probably the most thrilling incident of her career was h-r cseap) from seven English men-of-war,iiftor an ex citing chase of nearly three days itnd nights. The chase began, ou July 17, 1 s 1 2, The Constitution was out for a long cruise, mid was weighed down with stores. The sea was culm, and no wind was stirring. Captain Hull put out his men in boats to tow the ship. They pulled valiantly, nud as night came on a "kedgo" anchor win run out half a mile ahead. The crew on the ship kept pulling on this, and the llritisliors didn't discover for a long time the secret. Filially the E ig lish saw it, and adopted the same tac tics, and by doubling up their crews began to pull their famous ship Shan non near the Constitution. A light breeke sprung up, nud saved the American ship for the time. There wus a culm the next day, and tho ago nizing struggle went on. The next night another light breeze came up, mid the tired sailors obtained a little sleep. Tho next day there came n sharp breeze after many hours of struggle. Tho Constitution trimmed her sails to catch it ; the boats dropped buck and tin: moil wore caught up a) the ship gathered headway. The (iiicrricro of the English Meet came abeam as the wind freshened, and tired n broadside ; but the shots fell short, and the Constitution's men ignored thein, and calmly went nbout straight ening up their vessel, us if they had just left port and such a thing as an enemy was unheard of. As long as the Constitution can be kept together she will probably be seen at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where sho is now doing duty as a receiving-ship. Our old ships have alwuvs beer proud, and it has amused some of tlu thoughtless ollieiuls of other nations : but there was bravery in their pridi nnd absolute courage that has nlwayi been the embodiment of that famoiu saying, "Don't give up tho ship?" We frequently hear laments that tho old sobiiors are dropping nwav fast. I always share that fei ling, bu also include in it those wooden ship of the navy scarred veterans most o them arc, worthy of the ubibing re membrance of a grateful people. liar per's Young People. The skeleton of a "whale lizard' brought from Alaska by the slteiiinoi City of Topeka weighs exactly '2,1W pounds. Ol'AIXT BOOKS. Remarkable Collection Printed in Indian Languages. Wonderful Invention of tho Cherokee Alphabet. Tel-haps tho most remarkable small library in this country is tho property nf .lames C. Pilling, iho well-known ethnologist of Wus'.iinten. It is tho largest i xisting collection of books in Indian languages, and of these lan guages there are no less than fifty-live in North America north of Mexico. All of them are distinct tongues, as different from ono uuother us Chinese mid English. More than oue-hnlf of the ."aid dia lects into which tho fifty-live Inn giiugiM referred to are divided are pre served in books. It in believed that the first book printed on this Conti nent was in an I ml in il language tho "Nahuiitl" published at the City of Mexico in l.Vl'.i, The first Hiblo printed in America was in an Indian tongue -tho celebrated Eliot ltible. This is thu most costly of nil rare books. About 10 copies of it were tpecially preperod, wnli a dedication to Charles If. One of these in good condition is now worth about ffiO'.IO. The first printing done west of the Ilocky Mountains was in the Nez Perce language. It was a primer for Indian children, turned out from the mission press at Clearwater, Idaho, in 1S1.I. The press that did tho work had been brought by tho missionaries nil thi way from tho Hawaiian Islands. The first book printed in Dakota was u dictionary of the Sioux lan guage, produced in isilii nt Fort Lara mie. It was prepared by two officers of the United States iirniy, Liouts. Hyde and Starring, to puss away the weary hours during a long and cold winter at that lonely outpost of civi lization. They wero nided in the work by nn interpreter nnd by tho In dians who loafed about the fort. Tho type wus net up by tho soldiers, mid fifty copies were struck off ou a crude hand pic!;s. Only two copies are now known, one of them belonging to (ieiiernl Slurring, of New York, a brother of the author, and the other to Mr. Pilling. Tho only existing alphabet that is the product of one man's mind and iu which il literature has been printed was the invention of a half breed Che rokee Indian. His name was Se-qiio-yah, and he had no education what ever; but it occurred to him that he could express nil the syllables iu the Cherokee tongue by characters. Find ing that there were eighty-six syllabic sounds in the language, he devised for each one of them a peculiar mark. From some of the marks he took char acters of our own alphabet, turning them upside down. With tlieso sym bols he set about writing letters, and by moans of them a correspondence was soon maintained between Indians of his race in Georgia and their rela tives .lOO miles away. At present this alphabet or, more properly speaking, syllabary is in gi neral use among the Cheroke- 1 n no other language can the art of read ing bo learned no quickly. Whereas a fairly bright child learns to read well iu English iu two and a half years, a Cherokee youngster is able to acquire lluency in reading bonks written iu this syllabary within two months und a half. Iu IHl'7 the American board of foreign missions defrayed the cost of casting u font of type of the char acters. The literature composed with ihem is now very extensive, numer ous books nud some of the newspaper of the Cherokoes being published in tlie syllabary. Later, iu lo 10, nn improved sylla bary was devised by Kev. Jniues Evans, a missionary nmoiig the Cries. It was phonetic and the characters were simpler, being composed of squares and parts of npiares nnd cir cles. The zealous clergyman cut his type out of wood and m ule the east ings from the original blocks with lead from tea chests, which he begged from oilioers of the Hudson May Com pany. He manufactured ink out of soot and on a hand press of his own construction printed many little tract nnd lenllots for the benefit of the In dian!. With some nioditient ions, his characters have come into general use, not only nmong the Crocs, but also mining many tribes of the North west which speak languages iu no wise nkiu to that of tho Ci "es, and scores of books havo been printed iu them. New York News. A fish "with a head and body re sembling that of an alligator" was re cently capture I off (tort White, Flu. It weighed one nnd a half pouudu. NO. I. Ibittlc with n Shark. "A shark is considered an uply cus tomer by most people," said Captain L. E. Irwin of lloston labt night, "but a Sandwich Islander likes nothing better thuu a regular bout with him in his native element, I oneo had tho 1 Iensuro of witnessing a battle royal between u good-sized shark and two Kanukus. As the hitter evidently did not consider themselves in nny dan ger, it was fino sport to watch tho fight. We were fishing for mackerel, and the shark hud been playing about for :omo time, driving uwuy the fish und snapping ut our bait. At last wo missed him, and heard a great shout ing from two Kanakas who wero fish ing ou u rock a little way oil'. "They were pulling away ut a stout line, nud the shark was floundering at tho other end. The line soon broke, but tho Kanakas had no idea of let ting their prize off so easily, nlld jumped into the water after him. Now came the tug of war. One of the na tives seized the shark by tho tail nud ran with him toward the beach, but tho shark twisted his head under his body, and, showing his teeth close to tin; Kanaka's hand, made him let go und spring out of the way. The shark turned tail and made the best of his way toward deep water. It was now the turn of the other Kanaka. He also caught the shark by the tail and made for the beach, while his com panion pounded away on the shark with stones und a big stick. "As siiou, however, us the shark turned upon him the man hud to let go his hold, but the instant the shark turned toward deep water they wero both behind him watching their chance to seize him. The buttle went on for some time, the shark iu a rage, splashing and twisting about, and tin) Kanakas in high excitement, yelling ut the top of their voices. At last, however, to our regret and to tho great disgust of the Kanakas, tho shark managed to reach the deep wa ter und thus escape from his torment ors, carrying with him n hook und line us well as numerous cuts nnd bruises.'' St. Louis ( i lobe-Democrat. A Hudson's Hay I'osl. Life nf a distant Hudson I lay post, far from n railway, may seem a very quiet and uninteresting one to dwell ers iu busy towns; but quiet as it is, tin.' particular post in the district is the centre of nil life ami animation for nil the white men, half-breeds and Indians w ithin a range of many miles. There they come to hear tho news mid bring the backwoods gos.-ip. At any hour of the day one or two Indians or half-breeds may be seen listlessly hanging about the store; or shop smok ing, but talking little. Perhaps they have come in to buy something, per haps they want to sell some skins or very likely they are only loafing. Often they come to see the malinger simply in the hope of getting an ad vance of money or of stores ou (o-edit, previous to going on a pro longed hunting ' ip, when, if refused the first time, they will hang about for days, persistently und petulantly returning to the charge, lint this ad vance is often allowed, repayment be ing taken when the furs come iu in the spring. The Indians look upon the manager of a Hudson F.ay post very inii-h in the light of a lather; mid if he is a good-hearted fellow, as he usually is, he iu turn comes to regard them al most in the light of his children, and to know the characteristics of each one of them. Put, like a father with his children, he knows what is good for them, and often in many ways has to deny them to protect them against themselves. Pluck wood's Magazine. tjni'or Signs, An inscription mi a sign board iu Lancashire iiimoiiuces the following miscellaneous art ides for sale : "Hibles, blackballs and butter, Testaments, fur und treacle, godly books und gimlets sold here." A shop sign in Loudon rends: "Plots for novels or short stories. Prices reasonable. " The occu pant of the shop is said to have a rare talent for devising plots, but no groat powers of narration, so is supposed to make his living by selling skeleton plots for stories in cheap paper. "Teeth pulled while you wait" is a singular idgn, said to have boon set up by ii dentist iu Flee. wood. This cur ious specimen of orthography was displayed on a lions.! in a street iu Marylcbono: "The Mangolliiig Traid removed bear from the Streto round the Cornir, Tlire-hapciise a Duzzeti. N. 1$. Now Milk mid Crome Sould Hoar. Wnivntidd Fresh aud not Stale." A gold weighing machine in tho Hunk of England is so sensitive that a postage stamp dropped on the scale will turn the index on the dial a dis tance of six inches. One square, one insertion One square, two insertion One square, one month 1.59 8.60 For larger sdYertiuemcnla liberal cod racU will be made. .qve'n Reason. Wnv? i r-ltll.-C I'll lro -v0,ll an'1 ' 0:5 - 31.0 fair moon Jn tho sky Jiruws thn pr" I'o her nigh ; And the sun Woo? the ros Till her lH'iirt Warmly glowi Hut for uui', pun or rose. Or moon or sen, Bat disclose fhvoet I.nve's di-.-r??! And for live That whl'-h calls I'rom e.u-h to cnelj jVnd enthril'ls, We obey. I'rom thy huso: - I nto mine. I'rom my heartstrings Unto thine, C'onios the hiddillg Which does say, '!e my love, Iliie', for nlwny'' Why? IJe,ail'f You are yon. and f am I ' roi'NTA hk lii ns.v. iu Iieuiorcst. Jir.MOHOl'S. Every man for himself, is a duolrino girls don't believe in. Pieaiity is u woniuns first duly and often is regarded as the only one. When a inau has n plumbing bill to settle ho finds out wln.l it costs to pay the piper. She When will yon call and seo papa?" He (nervously) I don't know. When will he bo out?" "Serial buildings" are what they call those high ones in Chicago, bo caiise they have continued stories. Jess Weren't you surprised when he proprosed?" P.ess - 1 ndeed I was; my recollection of it was that we wero already engaged. "Why do you not stop lu gging nnd try to get some work?" "Pecuilso I do not want to give up n sure thing for nu uncertain one." Ho (iu the surf) How cold the water has become all of a sudden! She Yes; that gill who just entered tlu; water is from Poston. Cliollie The idea of a man sending n business letter with a P. S. Chap pie -Poosid bad form surely. Cliol lie Put that isn't the worst of il. In this case it menus Please Settle. Doctor Your husband's pulse is go ing at a terrific rate, madam. I don't know how to account for it. Mrs. Springer I know. 1 told him you might bring your bill with you. Hazel - Did you find the hotel you slaved at while away on your vacation 1000 feet above the sea, as adver tised? Nutle-I did, indeed. They gave me a room on the top Moor. Anna kissed tie'; sueli a elwiiieo l-'or u pun should li"t be missed j Any man would stand entranced. Thus to he an Aana-kii-seil. He I remonstrating) I can't say yet my dear, I haven't made up my mind. She (an actress) - It doesn't need nny make up, love. Nobody will ever suspect it of being the nctiial thing. He Why do yon force me to wait for nn answer? She (who is up on political economy VPcoaiisc 1 don't want to give you a monopoly until I find out whether there's any competi tion. Carrii I tell yon that my Charley never told mo an untruth in nil his life. Kate Nonsense! How do you know? Carrie -How do I know? Why, Charley told me so, himself there ! Lushley I hadn't been at my new boarding house twenty-four hours be fore I knew the landlady was opposed to strong drink. Lushley How 'd you tell ; by her talk? Lush'ey No ; by her coffee. "Papa," said n little boy, "ought, the teacher to whip me for what 1 did not say? ' "Certainly not, my boy," replied the father. "Well," replied the little fellow, "ho did today wheu 1 didn't do my sum." "Are you sure, sir," asked the pros pective fatlicr-iii-hiw, "Hint I will not have to support you should you marry my daughter?" Cholly Oh, dear, no sir, you support your daughter, nn she'll take care of mo. He (looking nt the water) Herc'rt the swell of the steamer, the boat wil kiidii bo here'. She. looking land ward) Oh, he doesn't belong to the steamboat ; he's clerk at the dry goods store up tow n." Tlii World's Oryest Place. 'I he dryest place in tho world issaid to be that part of Erypt between the lower two cataracts of the Nile, where rain has never been know nto fall, and the natives do not believe travelers who tell them that water can full from the sky. r m t'L u 5V m
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Sept. 20, 1894, edition 1
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