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HE STAH D&RD. ,AlUJi:ST PAPER ,rl p.MSHKD IN CONCORD - ((.I'AINS MORE READING M AT rKK THAN ANY OTHER "j-Ai'KK IN THIS SECTION. KDITO.RS' TPvlPOD. r a.m M iur.(Ts, as sr.r.x ot A1.KKI AltOVT IX OCR 1 t 13 KT AlllH riOX AI. AIIYI'.HIISISU. ivrlii'- Himseir (hit of Dnnerr, fhf I tiiior Slnkn Koine C"'"ni" mitl Observation). r!:itmit: The winter set in last :i;n;:iv. Ku niliT the orphans on Thanks ig da v. :v are 28l :ii Asylum. patients in the riy thousand dollars to pay for a iilly ! is a big The State Chronicle's last issue is : unusually good one it is history. Civss and White's doom is sealed. ,i'.,.-;ioe a long time coming. i hundred and lifty negroes left Mate for Mississippi la-st Tues- r.( not pay for the Federal ; : :.nicnt to interfere in Southern i " i-;'us. :::i.;;iy was a gloomy day; b:sids ! :' rain no Charlotte Chronicle Wilmington papers put in their .s';il:CO 1. tramps are tramping aronnd :te. Since the arrest of sev tramps are boycotting the :i Citv." i receipts in Charlotte to ;ii, were 13,578 bales; . 1.1th 1S80, ,082 bales n.sjtO bales. s c.OOO yards of carpet to !lnr of the national house s --utatives. It takes a :ood iul' there is natch foot among wi of Rutherfordton has i ;t : lie step. A colored "fesii a row constitute the latest o was shot and will prcba ; ..-miliar! You very name of Hayes in .seldom public About the onlv time vou : him. is when "some rooster or f , !:-; breed is spoken of. brilliant ana sensible are M istks of the Charlotte .Its growing better everv o. Christian and the old tmng are a team. manufacture of salt is a big- :.l:;;try than many suppose factory at Syracuse in New produces annuallv over 12,- 1 (' bushels. A C'tliiion of two freight trains ..'.it nvd on the Virginia Midland ;iirad last Friday. Both engin r- and one fireman were killed and ' " nil men seriously ininred. The t ains were running at full speed. I t"k 1:! hours to clear away the brU. Tli General Svnod of the Luther ari Church South, in session at Wil i a'; irti.'ii this week, elected the fol 1' in c officers: President, Rev. E. T. Horn, P. I)., of Charleston; Vice i': Milent, Rev. Frof. W. B. Yonce, D., of Roanoke College, Va. tary, Rev. A. L. Crouse, editor ' f i;:e German department of Onr ' :;(h Paper, Va.; and Cap t W. A. I 1 1 :-r, of Charlotte Male High '.:i"l, was re-elected treasurer. r sems that Webster's "Blu U" is bound to go from the State, when it is buried, every man woman in the State over twenty old should drop a flower upon .'rave it is a friend. It was 1 enough for our fathers, bu y think it not good enough for ir children. If it was bound a more handsomely and had a more pictures in it, the modern methods would still hold on '"iv. Fowle has made some ap- ii.tiiicnts recently. Hon. A. S. M. : ri 111011 is promoted to the high cf Chief Justice of the Su j i' me Court; Judge Walter Clarke ! ' ids Judge Merritnon; and Spier 'hihiker is appointed to Clarke's '':u on the Superior Court bench. !' ! is subject mitter enough for ""dilation, if not comment. Judge ( I n k's promotion will be a loss to 'I-1' Mate lnufh preattT than the o ! he can possibly do where he is 'v. He ought to have been left wln-re he was, for the impression he " a- making upon evil doers was hav- good results. The appointments Will he a surprise to not a few. VOL. II. NO. 44. OOX-T STOP JIT PAPER. Don't stop my paiier, printer. Don't strike off my name yet; You know how times are stringent, And dollars hard to get; But Til tug a little harder In what I mean to do, And scrape the dimes together, Enough for me and you. can't afford to drop it, I find it doesn't pay To do without your paper, However others may; hate to ask my neighbors To give me theirs ou loan; Iheydontiust say but mean it Why don't vou have your own? Yon can't, tell how we miss it; If it, by any fate, Should happen not to reach us, Or come a little late; Then all is a bubbub, All thikgs go all awry, And printer, if you're married, You know the reason why. The children want their stories. And wife is anxious, too, At first to glance it over, And then read it through; nd I to read the leaders, And con the book review, And scan the correspondence, And every scrap of news- canuot do without it, It is no use to try, My neighbors all take it. And printer, bo must I; I, too, must keep myself posted And know what's going on, Or feel and be accounted A fogy simpleton. Then take it kindly, printer, If payment be somewhat slow. For cash with me is not no plenty, And wants not few, you know; But I must have your paper, Cost what it may to me. I'd lather dock my sweet sugar, A.nd do without coffee aud tea. So, printer, don't stop it, "Unless you want my frown, For here's a year's subscription. nd credit it right down; And send the paper promptly And regularly on, And let it bring to us weekly Its welcome benison, For which we'll "tender thanks.'' Fncln of C'urion Interest. The report tkat the Washington monument is a little out of plumb is contradic ted bv the officers in charge. Thev have been unable to discover at my point any indication that would ead to the belief that the shaft had ;uik the smallest fraction since the work doneaboat the foundation. Mummies guaranteed to be 5,000 years old may now be purchased in Egypt for $85 a piece. It is estimated that American tourists have spent S70,0U0,000 in Europe this year. With new smokeless powder, the fire of a whole battery of artillery does not make half so much smoke as that made by a company of in fantry using the old black powder. Some one estimates that cettin born costs the people of the United States $22:3,000,000 annually; get ting married, $300,000; getting bu ried, $4,000,000. A large pearl was found in a clam at Belfast, Me., the other day. Emile de Laveleye, the distin guished publicist, says that a linn- dred years hence, leaving China out of the question, there will be two colossal powers in the world beside which Germany, France, -fcngianu and Italy will be as pigmies the L nited States and Kussia. xne lonuwiut; uiu hie "tr"-- .nn for tbe selection of various i-lnrs for mourning in different ntriM- Black, expresses privation of light, V Jlll III I Ull ij IJUll K 1.UIVJ.I. r f, v,,,. na Se.-irlet. mourning color, occasion- ally worn by French kings. , Yellow, the sere and yellow leaf, lVvnt and Burmah. In Brittany, widow's caps among the peasants are oj 1 yellow. Purple and violet, to express roy- :ihr. Mourning for cardinals and j - o Limrs nf France. Violet, color for -0 mourning in Turkey. White, embem of "white handed hope." China. Deep blue, Bokhara mourning. PmIp brown, the withered leaves. Persia. Greyish brown, earth. Ethiopia and Abyssinia. The Eiffel Tower, in Paris, is 994 feet high; the next tallest building is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high; after that comes the tow- er of the City Hall in Philadelphia, 0.) net nign. luceimcuivu Cathedral is 511 feet high, that of St. Stephen's Church, 111 V lenna, is 470 feet high. The St. Rollox chim - ney, at Glasgow, is 4bU teet nign, and Cleopatra s JNeedle, 111 Iew lorR Citv, is G8 feet high. One of the growing industries of Sua Dieero countv. Cal., is the man- C3 W ' ufacture of asbestos goods. 1HE A k'lnrky Tnrhrl. Ankapolis, Oct. 10. One rainy day in September last there arrived in Annapolis a young man whose ap pearance indicated that he had come from a poverty-stricken region. He wore a large felt hat, an old pair of snoes ana a suit that, would have suggested, even to the least critical observer, that there was a time when it could have made sunnier and more pleasant impressions. The lad was veritably a stranger in a strange land, and one whose experience in the world's rough ways had been confined to his own little locality and anions: his own hard-working and honest fellows. WTithal he had a bright eye, ; a good, honest, candid face and a pleasing address. There was something in his looks that rec ommended him to those whom he came into contact. Having landed at the depot he sat down to deliber ate as to what he should do, and sit ting there by his old carpet-bag. with a rope for a handle, he decided that it is no disgrace to be poor, and cheerily picking up his bag, he start ed on a tramp through the town. After wandering around for several hours in the rain he reached the foot of Prince George street. About this time he met .two citizens, whose no ble impulses went out to him and who recognized that a boy who had gone through what he had was bound to succeed. The one whose heart and whose good nature are as arge as the rotundity of his body, with his face beaming with compas sion, said that the uov should have a home with him; the other took him under his instruction. He related the following story: "I am a candidate for the .Naval Academy. My father is a poor far mer, in the poorest farming district of North Carolina, lie has been working all his life and ha3 manag. ed to save enough money to purchase a farm for $300. I have gone to school but little during my life, but I have always studied what books could get. Some time ago there was a competitive examination in my dis- trict for a candidate to lill a vacancy at tbe Naval Academv. It was to be held tvventv-seven miles from where I lived. I had saved $2 from my own labor and with this I walked to the place of the examination. By sleeping in a lott and by buy ing only enough to live upon 1 made my $2 last me through. I was suc cessful in passing a.ul borrowed money enough to come to Annapolis. When I arrived here I had a few- dollars left, upon which I expected to live until my examinations were over. I made up my mind to do my best and to stay wherever I could find shelter. A kind Providence led me to these two gentlemen on Prince George street, who have done more than my greatest wish could con tern plate, for one has taken me into his home to live and the other has given me his be3t and most excellent in struction to enable me to enter the Naval Academv. I wanted to work for them as much as I could, but they would not permit me to do so, their only wish beeug that I should succeed in my examinations. If I fajiej I had made up my mind to go out ; ie country to work in order Up procure enough money to return home I have since found that my companions in school had determined to contribute enough to send me home. Thanks to the great efforts " put tortn in my oena.i, j. puSSeu m . -l' 1 l.,lmUfn,l examinations mm u.-aU1mu to the Naval Academy, the pieas ure of my success can be imagined, nn it had tmtonecirawuucK. 1 iiau no deposit money, juy fund in strnctor again came to my reiier, and adviseu me now 10 pioeeeu iui my case betore the superiuieuueni I , , 11 :i i Ion may Know now wen u bucet su ed and what kind treatment 1 re ceived. for now I am a cadet. It was subsequently ascertained that the cadets in the Naval Acade my soou learned of this young man's trials. The name of cadet seems to be full of terror to a new-comer, but this case proves the fallacy of this idea. No sooner did they learn of his efforts than they came to his re lief. They contributed coat?, caps shops, underclothing, and in fact everything that he could possibly nfWI. Tt was not long before his wardrobe wa8 bulging out with what hg h;iJ rcceivej. jn aaditiou . . , collected among them- I lveg . with which to pay off his , deposit. The manliness ot tmltment of him commends , . . . of CU(ets to an ad l nrnf community, and furnishes another evidence of the chivalry that . an uariw.fpristic of naval people, 1 10 aj - a jl the very foundation of which is laid in the Naval Academy. Number of Indian church mem bers in the United States is 28,603. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, NOYEMBER 22, How to Convert Nlnnera. WENTWOItTH, N. C, Oct. 14. In the northern part of this, Rock ingham county, there is a community where they still adhere to that del monstrative, almost violent sort of religious belief which, many years ago, was warmly fostered and hotly fought for by old Peter Cartwright. In this community, known as Nufc bin Ridge, the inhabitants are so far removed from the world's throbs and thrills that they do not believe that telegraphic communication is a possibility, and in fact, a young fellow who. after a short absence from the neighborhood, stated thatjth rib8 Tbe effect of the bite was eredwagenspulledbya big chunk of irou that smoked like a tar kiln, "M ' ""fi"" c " ""c leace, tried, convicted by twelve solemn jurymen and sentenced to pay a fine of six bushels of corn meal. During a recent a recent revival at Nubbin Ridge meeting house, the chief exhorter, old Dave Henly, wa8 so sucessful in his mourners' bench persuasiveness that but one sin ner remained. This obdurate sinner was a brawny young fellow named Calvin Hicks. One afternoon, while the meeting house was crowded, a number of brethren held a consul tation with old Dare Henly, and shortly afterward old Dave arose and said : "Everybody. that wants to go to heaven stand up." Everybody, except Calvin, who was sitting over in a corner, arose, "Calvin." said old Dave," don't you want to go to heaven ?" "Ain't hurtin' to go," Calvin an ewered. "Is it possiible that you want us to leave you behind ?" " ell. 1 don't reckon 1 11 be so mighty fur behind when you fellers get thar." "Now look here, Calvin, these folks have put me up as an exhorter ; they have confidence in me, and I want to tell vou right here that you've got to stand up. If you don't shame Satan you shan't shame us. uo vou near r "Ain't deef." "Wall, then, harken to my voice. "Ain't out a harkenin' to-day." "Calvin !" "That's what they call n.e." "Air you goin' to stand up ?" "When I git tired of settin'." "Young man, you air a cuss to this here commuuity.' 'Wall, the community is a cuss to me, too. Calvin, you have been know'd to git drunk." So did old Noah, git drunk, and I reckon he's all right now." "Calvin, vou go to shindigs and dauce." "So did old David dance, but ain't heard no complaint about him." "Brethren," said the exhorter. "we II sing a stirrin hime and see what effect that will have on this here black sheep." They sang with swelling tumult- Calvin sat chewing his tobacco and squirting through his front teeth. A young woman, greatly ex cited, made her way to the stubborn sinner, and seizing him by the arm implored him to get up. "Ef you love me Calvin, you "Oh I love you well enough." "Ef you'll do as they want jou to ef vou'll only go to heaven, I'll marry you to-day." "Kaiu't marry me if I go to heaven. Thev ain't give in mar riage thar." "Oh, you know what 1 mean Just see how thev air lookin at you." "Yes. see how I'm lookin' at them-" "You'll break my heart." "If I do I'll keep the pieces." "Air you goin' to git up ?" "Yes, whin I get tired a settin', "Calvin." said the exhorter, "I am tired fooliu' with you." "All right then, stop." "I'll not stop yet, want you to un derstand that. Answer me yes or no. Do you want to go to heaven ?" "Do you?" "Yes!" "Why don't you go then ?" "I am waiting to be called there." "Mout have to wait a long time.: "That's all right, but I want you to understand one thing. The brethren have put your case in my hand?, They want yon to repen and vou've got to do it. You stan up now, or I'll whip you, sah " "You ain't chawed enough hog meat yit." "We'll see befo' we git through who has chawed the most hog meat. "Air you going to stand up?" "When I git ready." TiANDARD. 'But will you be ready putty soon?" "When I git tired of settin'." Old Dave brushed aside the people as he advanced, approached Calvin, and taking him by the ear, said : . ''Calvin get up" he got up with a bound, catching Dave on his hip with a quickness that surprised the old man. The congregation made room, and in a series of irregular bounces, the combatants reached the door aud bounded out under the trees. The congregation poured out; the two men capered picturesquely. Calvin got old Dave's head under Ma arm. Dsivp hir. him nn.infiill v in i so nofirnftlVlA that an finripnf. thmifrh much interested brother remarked : ..m , , . . -i- , The combatants danced a schot- tishe, then softened into a waltz with chances about equal, but when the performance was suddenly thrown into that species of dance known as "doing the bunch," old Dave, aided bj his great experience, sprawled him upon the ground. "Calvin," said old Dave, as he sat on the sinner. "That's what they call me." "Do yon want to go to heaven ?" "B'l'eve I do." "Will you profess ?" "B'l'eve I will." "Wall, then, come on in here and get down at the bench. Brethren, let us have a stirrin' time." Calvin "professed" and instead of regretting it he is now the chief exhorter of the Nubbin Ridge Meeting House. Opib P. Reed. Bulinc Xo. 1. Elicibillty. The following persons are not eli gible to membership under th Con stitution of the Farmers' and Labor ers' Union of America, and if any such are now members of the Farm ers Alliance of Agricultural Wheel, they are not entitled to, and must not be given, the new secret, to wit: Merchants, merchants' clerks, or any one who owns interest in a dry goods, hardware, furniture, drug sti.-e or an" other mercantile busi ness, unless said member is selected to take charge of a co-operative Farmers' and Laborers' Union store; no lawyers who have a license to practice in a county, district, or Su preme Court; no one who owns stock n anv National, State, or other banking association. Given under mv hand and seal this ISth day of October, 18S9. Seal. Evan Joxes, Pres. F. and L. U. of A. of Chief Justice Smith. Wilmington Star.J A special telegram from Ralei; to the Star Thursday announced the death at his residence in that city at 12 m. of Hon. W. N. II. Smith, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of this State, an announcement which, al though not a surprise, will be receiv ed with sorrow throughout the State where he was universally respected He had been in failing health for several years, but was able to per form the duties of his office until within the past few weeks, since when disease took such a strong hold that it was evident that the end was near. He was a native of Hertford couu ty, where he was born September 24, 1812. His father was a physician, a native of Connecticut, his mother a native of Hertford county. He was educated -at Yale College where he graduated in 1834, where he also read law, entering the prac 0 tice of the profession in Hertford In 1870 he moved to Norfolk, where he resided for three years, when he took up his residence in Raleigh. Iu 1840-49 he was elected by the Legis islature, Solicitor for the First Judi cial District, which office he held for eight years. He served several terms in the Legislature between 1840, when he entered political life. and 18G5. In 1857 he was the W big candidate for Congress, in his dis trict, aud was beaten by a snill ma jority, but was elected in 1850, and was in Congress when Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated. During the war he was a member of the Confederate Congress, and 111 1805 was elected to the House of Commons. In 1878 Gov. Vance appointed him Chief Justice, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Chief Justice Pearson he was elected the same year and re elected in 1886. The largeit buck shot in the Adi rondacks this season was brough down by Edward Lansing of Troy, It weighed 330 pounds. Henry Wiles, of Charleston, W Va., turned over his pillow the other morning on arising and found a rat tlesnake coiled up under it and qui ctfy Bleeping. 1889. TweltO Hundred JHUHoaa. There arc statistics in several countries, the best known of whom is the learned German, Herr ScheinJ Avho endeavers to present from time to time statistics of the population of the entire world. Inasmuch as many populous countries have no cencus and often nothing like a cen sus these world statisticians can only put together, as to these countries, the best attainable guesses. Nevertheless, they probably make a tolerably near estimate of the pop illation of the entire world, which they put at twelve hundred million. The number of men is supposed to be somewhat smaller than the num ber, of women. The number of deaths in the en tire world, each year, is placed at about 25,250,000, which would make nearly 100,000 a day, 4,000 an hour and sixty-seven a minute. On the other hand, there are, it is estimated, 30,750,000 persons born every year, which would make more than 100,000 per day and seventy per minute. The average duration of life, in the world as a whole, is thirty-eight years. Une-quarter ot the people pon the earth die before reaching the seventeenth year. About six of each 1,000 persons born reaches the age of seventy-five years. Married people live to a greater age than the unmarried; temperate people and workingmen live longer than excessive eaters and the indo- ent; and the people cf civilized na tions outlive the savage races. Judffe l.os;nu And ov. Vmiee. Ralec-h Si-nal.l The recent death of Judge Logau ecalls thi fact that this noted man was the first person in the State to nominate Col. Zeb. B. Vance for Governor. The facts are these: There was a general big muster at Hamilton's Old Field in Rutherford ton county, as was the custom in those days; and after the military ex ercises were concluded, a meeting was organized, and General Logan, as he was then, made a speech and nominated Col. Zeb B. Vance for Governor. The motion was carried unanimously, and the files of the Raleigh Standard of 18G2 will show that this was the first public expres sion in favor ot uoi. ance lor Governor. The mention proved con tagious, and meeting after meeting was held in quick succession all over the State, until Col. Zeb. B. Vance was made the candidate of the "Peace Men" for Governor without more formality than the several countv meetings. He was elected on the first Thursday of August, 18G2, by 32,000 over Col. Wm. John ston, of Charlotte. From that day until parted by death George W. Lo gan and Zebulon B. Vance were firm friends. Their political differences never disturbed their personal at tachment for each other, and no man troughout the State regretted Judge Logan's death more than Senator Vance. One more tie has been sev ered that biuds Senator vance to the days of yore. Koody to BckIii. Philadelphia Inquirer. Jones went to housekeeping on Saturday. Early in the morning, when he started for the office, his wife gave him a list of things which she needed very badly. As he en tered the house in the evening she met him with a kiss and then asked: "Did you bring the roast for din nerr Jones' face fell. "No, Millie; he replied. "Fact is, I forgot it." "Got the coffee and sugar all right of course?" "N-n-no," he stammered, "forgot them too." "And the loaf of bread and the vinegar and the oil, surely, Henry, vou didn't forget themr "Y-y-yes, Millie, I'll be hanked if I didn t. But, and here a smile that would have illuminated heaven swept over hi3 face. "I did bring the quart of whiskey and the oox or cigars. The Difference ik.The Two Countries. "Where are your sol diers?" asked a South American delegate of Mr. Curtis at Holyoke yesterday, while the party was wait ing for the procession to start. "On all our New Englaud tour, I have not seen a soldier in one of the city street3." Mr. Curtis assured him that we did not need many soldiers in time of peace, and our small army was on the frontier watching the Indians. "But who preserves order?" the delegates persisted. "Well there is a policeman keeping back the crowd," said Mr. Curtis, pointing to a blue coat who was motioning with his club. "But he isn't armed, continued the inquirer. "In our country about one-tenth of the able bodied men are soldiers, and in a large place like this a man stands with a gun on every street corner. Ahl this government by the people is wonderful 1" WHOLE NO. 96. Col. Alloa Intro!nrpM Is. n Pole A moii k Statesville LaEdmark. Col. Julian Allen arrived home last Friday, bringing with him a Pole, Stanislaw Karpacki, by name, who reached Baltimore on an emi grant ship the first of last week. Stanislaw is of the servile class, whose forefathers for generations were serfs, 'and is the embodiment of hu mility and obsequiousness. He is a young man of 22, but has a wife and children whom he left behind when lie came to this country. He is a handy man a farmer, carpenter, hostler, barbler, and a man of all work. ;; He had not been at Col. Allen's half an hour before he said i he wanted to go to work, and was put to straightening up the tool room, harness room, gear house, &c, and in a hour's time had them all in perfect order, with everything in its place. The new arrival cannot speak a word of English and brought his polish manners with him. At Ral eigh, where Col. Allen stopped with him on his trip from Baltimore, he kissed the hands of gentlemen who spoke to him. On the train Senator Vance, engaged in conversation with Col. Allen, learned who his companion was and spoke to him. Col. Allen told him the gentleman was a distinguished man, a Senator of the United States, upon which the poor fellow Eeized the Senatoi's hand and kissed it servilly. Col. Allen, however, has given him to understand that in this country one man is just as good a3 another if not a little better, and is gradually breaking him of his osculatory habit. Stauislaw's first sight of the black man was in lialtimore. He was walking the street when he saw two negroes, whereupon he crossed him self and took to his heels. His im pressions of this country are delight ful and he wrote back from Raleigh to the Polish Priest at Baltimore that this must be the next thing to heaven. This priest will soon make a tour of the State, in company with Col, Allen, with a view to locating a Polish colony in North Carolina. Five hundred families of them reached Baltimore on the ship which brought Stanislaw Karpacki. SIm;lc Yet Fatal. Harold P. Brown in North American Re view. - The preparations necessary for electrical execution are very simple. Tne condemned criminal's cell is visited by the prison authorities and his hands and feet are saturated with the weak potash solution which so rapidly overcomes the skin's re sisteuce ; during this space of thirty seconds or less, his electrical resis tance may be measured, though Mr. Edison's researches iu this line have rendered even this unnecessary. Shod in wet felt slippers, the con vict walks to the chair and is in stantly strapped into position, his feet and hands are again immersed in the potash solution contained in a foot tub connected to one pole and in hand basins connected to the other. With this perfect contact there is no possibility of burning the flesh and thus reducing the effect of the cur rent upon the body. Dials of elec trical instuments indicate that all the apparatus is in perfect order and record the pressure at every moment. The deputy sheriff closes the switch. Respiration and heart action instantly cease, and electricity with a velocity equaling that of light, destroys life before nerve-sensation, at a speed of only 180 feet per second, can reach the brain. There is a stiffening of the muscles, which gradually relax after five seconds have passed; but there is no struggle and no sound. The majesty of the law has been vindi cated, but no physical pain has been caused. He Has Explained. "My wife, Mr. Perkins," said the husband across the aisle of the street car. "Ah! Glad to see you Mr3. Win ters. Why, how you have changed in two weeks, "Changed I No one has spoken of it," she blankly replied "Why, when I saw you with your husband at the theater two weeks ago to-night, you seemed to be a girl Df about 18." "At the theater! You you Her husband had been winking and winking, but near-sighted Mr. Perkins had seen nothing. She settled back, figured it out that she was home alone with the tooth ache that night, and the frozen stare she turned on her husband as they got off, covered the platform w ith a glare of ice. bhe has asked for ex- planations ere this. THE STANDARD. AVE DO ALL KINDS OF JOB "WODRIBI IN THE jYEA tes t manner AND AT THE LOWEST BATES Palling: nil the White Pipe. nonne Ntovo- J. L. Ford in Tuck. A pleasant odor of fried bacon pervaded the great Blue Room, in which sat the President of the United States, brooding sadly over the future. Outside the wind moaned sadly through the trees, and the dry leaves fell to the ground and were tossed hither and thither by each fitful gust. "De missus wauts you," said a colored servitor, bursting in upon the presidential musings; "dey's gwineterput up dem stove pipes, and dey wants you to help 'em." - The president found the members of his immediate family rapidly as sembling on the scene of operations, for it was after four, aud the . de partments were closed for the day. Father-in-law Scott, who had left his accustomed seat by the kitchen range to superintend that important household event, wa3 favoring the company with reminiscences of stove-pipe raising in the early his tory of Indiana. "Iu them days we never put up no pipes till it gotter be putty nigh onto hog-kil-lin' time. Now, Benjamin, when do you kalkerlate to begin killin' this fall ?" "I didn't know I was expected to do any work when I came to Wash ington," muttered the Brother's daughter's Husband, who had just lounged in from his day's rest at the Public Crib. "Why don't you hire somebody to do the work ?" asked the Son-in-law's Cousin sulkily. "That's the way we do in the Manger Depart ment when there's anything to be done?" "How long do you think were go ing to stay here ?" exclaimed the President. "You seem to farget that this isn't a life office, and we must make hay while the sun shines. Now ju'st take hold of that stove pipe, or somebody will get a letter assuring him of my firm belief in his personal honesty, and then where will that somebody be?" This threat had an instant effect, and the Presidential Relations sprang forward with an alacrity such as they had not displayed since the nauguration. "Suppose," said Son-in-law Mc- Kee, "that we work in blocks of five that is I mean we'd better all take hold at once ;" and in order to cover up his unfortunate slip of the tongue, he seized the stove and dragged it by main force across the floor. Each one of the twelve Re lations took a joint of pipe and mounted a chair, while the Presi dent, with the angle in his arms, mounted the centre table, and pre pared to adjust it. "Now, then, look alive, and re member you're not in the Manger office !" he shouted to the perspiring Son-in-law's Cousin, who was vainly trying to fit a section of pipe into the angle in the President's hands. "I be a-lookin' alive," he retorted, "but the pesky thing won't go in. You there, Obadiah ! Why in tarna tion don't ye hold that j'int stiildy, so folks kin work ?" "Ye don't none on ye know how to put up a stove-pipe," began the Father-in-law; but the President poured some soot down his back and told him to hold hi3 tongue. "Now, then, all together !" shouted the Brother's Daughter's husband, and the twelve Relations stood on tip-toe, and fitted one joint into another till the structure was almost as complete as an Indiana Coloniza tion Bureau at election time; but at this critical moment the Sister-in-law entered the room, raised two dough-encrusted hands in horor, and exclaimed : "Benjamin Harrison, be you a-standing on the settin' room table without taking your shoes off? Get right down this minute!" Down went the angle on the Son- a 1 T L i 1 in-law a head, uown went me rest of the pipe and the twelve Relations, in a long, sooty line on the floor. Away scuttled the Father-in-law to his warm kitchen nook, and in came Postmaster Wanamaker and survey ed the sorrowful group. "Why in the world," lie remarked, didn't vou buy that patent stove pipe persuader I tried to sell you ? It's selling like hot cakes, and it'll last a dozen years.", "Yes," retorted the President, as he shook the soot out of his ears with a vehemence that burst his piper collar like a campaign prom ise, "and who'll get the benefit of it for two-thirds of the time ? I'm not fixing this place for a siege, John, I can tell you that." LADIES Necdinc a toaic, or children that want buIMlnff up, should take BROWN S 1KOW BITTERS. It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, lnaige Hon, and BUloiuueu. All dalr keep it.
The Standard (Concord, N.C.)
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Nov. 22, 1889, edition 1
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