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-.V- 1", -: ' , ;"-v:-f; "l't ' - t r '-w -:- :--"!:-': -:.;''. : ' ; - V - VJ :.:!- v;-!v ! h: .;jv. ; .; ;:!.-. l:; : !' ' ' 1 ' - - "; ; : - J '. ' .''' j-t'-,. "''j'- ' ' -' .f-'n-T-V - -- t r , , , . t " -!-Li-' ' '-' li " "-"" i "' ' ' ' '" ' '" ' ' ' ' - : j ' - X- r jj! " ; m j j '. M ' ; ' i J 1 - ' :-;:r:.iiLi!:j;r r;:i. 1 - t - IPITTSBORO, N. C ' TnURSDAYj DECEMBER 22; 1887. f I it- :-i ! t - t.-1 :ti-f ' ; I fyrVT- ! i . t V.--.-. - .-r;-,. . ti i-r If --J.-ri- '. U'H 1-.it 1.'- i ! TTnVFCt Tl ill A J. "TT St-V fill ITT II OT - T;,iJi Wi li C ! ".'-TODi '!".;. ' t- i i- '. ' ' r ' ' t - ' -i- 3 . T 1 IV' I J u v i 1 1 i i w . - n - v 5 v . j i i. --.- , -hk . - f i i i 1 1 i ;.. . . -:. ! - i i i n,i I- n,i iPiiii i n i . r. z. . i r-vi i .. - - t - .. i , . . i - , w ' V- TlHE HOME. PDllttSHEIl i EVJfeHT .TntJUSDAT A TUB IIOMEOrriCE, OX niLLaBOHO 8f BET. A. II. MEjtRlTT, FOREVER,: Editor A Trop rletof. The And Toathj and Hope stood boverinz near. u&e dropping ball notes ;one by one j Chimed tbd gla$ inoments soft and cleari Andftul amia their happy speech, 4 i .1 j TKi6.ua kF scioscnirrioff. oue dollar per year in advance: i. Not; etriOtly in ' adrance month.' t I - . ;'l ' t ! ATE8 OP A U VERtI SINU 1 fqaare. 1 lime. 1 iquare, 1 month, ance tn 1 tquare, 8knonths, 1 pqoaro 8 piontb?. 1 feqaare 12'monthsJ Contracts at reasonable specified tune and spat overs Whispered each to eacb, y ; "Foreverl? j Toathj spread his wings o? rainbow light, r-tareweim ne whispered a? he went. cenfr per j They heeded aot nor moarnel his flight. Wrapped in their measarelels content: And still they, smiled, and still was heard 1 ha confldently-uttered word. ;.:" :fI:ir-"Forevei-Jw.;; rates $1.00 2.50 6.D0 7 JO -12.00 Tor any sweet, H FECIAL RCLH. f Editors are not responsible hr and would not be understood as endorsing the Tiewil of .contributors to ' the columns of .Tn Homi and they reserve the prerogative (of withholding the names of contributors if -it Bhoald be doemed proper. No commtuu cetiou will be allowed a place in thejp'apor" nniesa ac40mpameq oy the name or a re sponsible party. No indecorous personal! ties will be published. OlltuAry notices to . the extent of,: eipht lines will be 'admitted free of charge. Ten cents will be charged for every line in excess of this! number. Con , tributorsare requested to write on only one sidapf tbeirmannscripts. We do not prom ise toretum rejected manuscripts. Address VTIIE HOME, Pittsboro. Iff. O. jA, pctioit custcins officer says that im tiMnse Quantities or uutiaDle (roods are into Canada from- that port 3 hit Hope stayed, herVsteadfast smile was . until the even time she stayed: Then, With reluctant, noisoless feet , She stole litto the salem! shade : r A graver f at4 moved gently jbylf : bent and murmured warningly " ) it V Forever!" i - And then where' sat the fcwet sat one! No voice sppke back, noi glance replied, Behind herwhere she rested lone v. !-1; " Hovered ttfe spectre, solemn-eyed: L She met .his took without a thrill Anc smiling famtly, wbispered still ; . - i i "Forever!" ! I O, swet, sweet Youth! O, fading Hope) O, eVes by fearful mist$ made blind! O, hands whfch va'nly r'jach and grope For k familiar toush and kind L u Time ausetljifor no lovers kiss; 1 L ! J-ove lor lts olace has but this- ; ; : "Forever!" s- if f-Susari Coolidg'e. smuggled every ye.tr 1 1 - : t donciby Canadian sltion. ' . . ..... Every how andaga of the smuggling'i3 L 1- -.. 5 Jl people A CLEVER CAPTURE, of social son stomach. jcflling'Vsomc youii n we inons The' laics t woman who Butbn farther examination it was found l o be' hear of cr fro k:ase was tha hrew! up P.o- k rer- m theu d of a idrtle. i ply a piece off orang pcelj We suspcci qtnci tare? oi tne same-son;, wouiu havi fli like -cxplanatipn' if properly 1 . I - ... i ammcu. . . i. i- . .-1 : I At tarce clock oncl marniDar twentv years ago IHvas on a railroad traid gng fromortajfc, Wisconsin, to Milwaukee? I hadjbeen lout on sorh priyate detects ve work for, parties in,the latter c tL and had sUccefccjfec so well! that I wa.4 ljoth happjf nd sleepless. .This was the rea son,! was n6t m a s'eepmir car. fasti held Qt in that satchel t '; A traveller with a ew clothe in a,. satchel does Botihave to keep his i foot on it T while evervbody arpund him is asleep, r You' are no cu- ctimDer, old fellow, and you've got some- thang in tjhere worth watching. L I'll try a little trick on you." j ' ; ,1 nad my tight hand in my pocket: 1 Carefully worked my knife out, and as it .fell to the floor I gave a start, woke up, lanid bent I down to. look fori it.1 As r I moveuuijfiiauu wwcirunisicei nequicKiy bent dowin and moved the satchel into thfe aisl. Theo I was ! satisfied that my surmises werei right. Was he a burglar: and did the satchel contain his kit? It was more I probable that he was iiust re turning from tan expedition to the couni- trt, . and sthat ;the satchel" was full of plunder, ql was perfectly satisfied as to my man, and I made up my mind to .have jupx arrejtied aa1 a suspicions icharacter as roon a? we reached the city, i Tliat wSs what did tase 'place, ooly, as there were -no oraccrsi about the depot as w arrived, 1 Bad to take I the feuow myself. I let him reach the door of the depot, and then pijt r my hand on his ' shoulder. He dropped the jsatchei and made a bolt, bqt, fortupately, he rlra plump against a" hackmaa I who : was entering, and both wire upsej Before, he could, get upl h4d him iniped; On! the way; to the Itition house; and. speaking for the first tune, he asked : . ..'-; f 'How did you know; it was me?" t'Oh easy tnough," I answered. f 'Well, lie didn't act square with me, or jit would; nver have; come to this." ; ! I had hb idea to what hfe referred ; but seeing tha!t he! was ready to talk and be in anxious to take. advantage i of the mom-.-nt, asked : J . i j I 'Do yoi thank he is; dead J' ' f j'Dead as ahe'rring, and the old woman with h'mj . Howeer, they can't punish mcj any mpre for two than one. I was aftfer my pwri, and when they wouldn't .gie it to me I) determined to take all. '? , in the armsf of if: oc- f'What jweapon did you use?' given over. : If Charlfy bhort says I ever advised him to murder and rob, or that I have .had- eyes on him for a week past, he's the biggest liar o cirthj -4 ': Well, conouslv enoazbi we had armir derer on hand trithoui a murder. . That is, no crime hade yet jbeen; reported; ; :I had :? secured I the marderer without a hunt. It was not so-, easy, to find the murdef. A telejrramfl was sent to the agent at t)ie station Iwherev Short had 1 boarded the train, and be replied that he . had heard 6f no crime ; It was 4 o'clock .' in the afternoon before he (sent a dis- ' patch,-sayihgithat an j old coiiple,' living about three miles awa; r, had been found in their house with their, heads chopped to pieces with an ! ac. That was . the crime of which Short !)was guilty and If or which he was tried. " tVhen he knew that he was in for.it hoturnedl boaster, and felt himself h3il3vaj delighted to give me alrthe'particulara. .; He said r "I lived with Unci and Atint Desbro until I was of age, tndeed,r t was' an adopted son, both myown parents being dead. I came into the city i niae years ago as a drygoois clerk. After a. time I got in with some bad fellow, lost my place and went to the doW. I For the last three years I have been a gambler, boxer, and confidence man. " Uncle went back on me a good yhile ago, refusing td give me a dollar. Hei had in his hands .money which honestly belonged to me, for I liad workfed hard for him for thirteen years. I wnt, out ! there the qtherday, to see if lie would; not give me foOO to buy an interest in' a saloon Aunt Mary was for giving it to too, but the j old man was as ualV as a! Turk. We got into a wrangle at ijthe supper table, and ha ordered me out of the house. 'I went "said Shortkftcr a pause, 4and it was only after that J f got Itho; idea of roobins the .house, the old man never banked a dollar, but kbpt evrtthing in a bureau in his bedroom j I sat down on a tence corner on the highway, ano thought; i -11 ; : a." 1! i ' V i . ei- slumber, instead cupying a spat in the common coach, with my eyes very wide open and my wits! a! 1 about me. . .; -j ' 'j j U j ! j I If njay sa, without egoism, that! jl;am an k)hservinir man Tlinr: oi-o nilir ;n It will iU surprising toiman;y People pi, butithe Rreater1 half of humanitv o learn - that they !.may be blind aqt only go thrbttshflife with their eves half shut. Iho ejes but inthcj cars. Uecent in- My-fAthcc ias a; Sheriff fdr many !Je?rs, . l . i . I ' .' . - I Jinn h a hkv ho tonnTst- i and ijemember. If 1 went down town or but for a walk, I had to tell him, When I gotjhome! who and what! I had Lsepn. On one occasion, for failing to report a loose horse 1 had seen in the road,)! tot u wumu lUBusnme, ana asrain. ior iaum? J- in tcstlgat ons have given a certain class'of pnepomena tne name of ! "peind iblindr es the apparent la- ticss.H This designa ability Wlicu cxisls m many persons jto it ; l . . : T . . - di-itlpgtijio betwcea the sounds 1 of cer- I t'Got the axe from the back yard.", ; f And Vkjheri; you had finished off the old! coupl you robbed th( house eh? T ; VWell, I took what I , wanted, iand if I hain't bee n .the biggest fool on earth you wouldn't nave nabbed me," I . ' 1'How?l Uit-;- 4. ;; j I h - 1 ' , VWhy, hoarding the train at that little station. ; It was the act of a lunaiic, but aftpr' I lef tj the farm" house I got! fright ened. I ran acros3.th ficUls; i't-lrdown. imagined that! I was pursued, and bpre off to the litatfon and hoisted the signal myself for the train to sop. j I ;supppse mier gave you tne tip ana put you onto 1 ''. ta;n' wort 4 or letters. 1 -. Ikctrieal ll"arw says that so great iwa ! anenaeiii . ina ocaiesinffer The in fucccsu tlccriciiystem' in.', the Ljkens -Valley I'enn) Seoul , mine railrOadL that it is icrcaftcr; to take thejplace of the steam 1 1 " - 1 Thisi is interesting asbeing Irtcomotivc. the firsti instance iin he in which America, if not in the electric! motor 1 , en- ias reh'accd the eteam locomotive ."I: - I . - - . . 1 ine in the railroad service. Several of the doctors who crossed the J 1 t ! i pecan t$ attend the .recent j medical con- if.-, i 1 i iercpco in Washmnton snffcred eo 8e . J yerely from: scti-sickiiessr that thev have ot fjeep able, to summoa sufficient cour- o undertake the to loca 1 1 e tc 1 jave.dejpided! 1 vdyago home, and in this country., Twrt baVe settle.l in Boston, one in. New Voricjiinrtiher n Philadelphia, and others f. 'l " '.I- I.' . I - i . I !. -I are jet undecided where to locate. :4li 1.T1 Toe com Is ' a ,' great' liPTl I yini corn-cannitig one. induslry in Maine Eighty, factories have' thcre: thisyearj and more cans' of sweet corn have peed pu -up, besides ilarge quantities of apples, beans, tomatoes and other vege tables anq fruits. Tire rales amount to ppwardl of ,$2,000,000.- most of I which goes , ntp the pockets tof the farmers and workmen. The farmers mike a specialty of Valsirlg Sweet corn, and it is said that the Maine; variety is Bweeter' vvuvi . j g ; i " 1 fi than . any TV From , the reDdr iieriottndcnt of V are able danger in that service, Jf" ! - J I' . I 'I - ' '-- I n 1 " pcrintcnd yice we;'a t , . i i r t of ',T.! A .1 . : i he Bailwa . L to deduce 4,40 mile - ! . J oVcr; 16a l here weiiej 244 Wrecks, ja which 43 scriouslyl and Ilen(j i followi that t! one in ahoufc 1,500, anc Nash,' Su y Mai ; Ser ths ratio of During the year eled 107,037,643 miles, of -railroad.! ra-lroad !; derailments or clerks were killed,1 cUrrltltr im'i.rnit ' e Tisk bf death is d of fen iurv laboiit Ll L ' i ' - 1- - - I :- - , - - - -I One m 40. . Theret was one accident for evcrj 44,000 miles1 traveled. 1 111 to report atreet fight!, ray liberty was laNcu Bwajr ior iour;aays. i can thus truthfully fay to you that; I had the1 jbit' of obkrvaon licked into! me, while Ma ture had kicdly furnished me with a very retentive memory. B and by I began to study human character as a profession, and Ij-liked it. I learned-to reac men's characteristics by their! faces, and! their thoughts fey their actions, and on two occasions this faculty of perception pre vented jaiirdclive.-iei. j ! ! !' i I was wijie awake, a I have told you, when j the ftrain, ttdpped jat a cbuiitry station on1 signal. It barely came to a fetandstillVjand only one passenger ot aboard. "The car was prettv well rilled' and such of the passengers! as had seats alone weref stretched but ti sleep. I had sized up jevery one near me, and had counted up two) honest j old farmers, a drover,, two milliners, a mechanic and ioainij, nuu uuuse i ainter w no -whs evidently going to the city for wbrk. No one ser.cd to noticethe entrance of the new pJissenger. It was in October, and he had on a faH overcoat. He carried a heavy ra ise in one baud, and he eame " down the aisle,' l .okiag from right to j left, until ie finally reached, my scat I moved, to the window-as a hint that I i was ready; to share it with him, but he nesitated ior a long minute, and( looked at me isharply three or four times before h filially? sat down. The tatcher he placed b;.tvee:i his fe.t. He had snot uttered a word, and after fritting down he seepied to forget all about me. i ! VHello! but I have found a two-legged hog,"! said to myself after a bit "I offered him half my seat of my own! free "will, and he seems to be mad because I did npt surrender it all. Old! fellow, ?you are an H.O.p.; and' nq mistake.! Let .me look you .over a bit." 1 j i 4 f I leaned! back against the window tire- tendedl tof shut my eyes .'and resume my L,ay, auvfjuucu xavenipnea tne - leiow.j He had a hard, cruel face on him, and I felt sae he was a man with little mercy in his heart. J had not been looking at hun over Itwo minutes when T saw! that taking sly glances at me, and that quite anxious about the satchel, course of; five minutes he turned and erave me a thorough. lookinnr aid I read in the! tresture of his hand hdi the toss of his. head that 'he said to himself : ; , l ! ' Bah 1 Why should! I him?" r; jij.;; :. - )., -ii His dress was that of ' M .'11 kill himj op sight. That lttle laugh) ! will if I get the is (with a chance. knew Rider to be a Milwaukee gam bier and a hard case, but was completely in the dark as! to what critice my prisoner naa commitcea. It was probably a mur det, and npar the. station ! where he -got on J and f rom j his statements I inferred that it was an old couple. He had pumped himself, a id it was" certain that I had made a big catch. When we reached the station, however, my troubles began. There is always an ill-feelins: between police and! private detectives.! This feel ing comes .almost entirely! frcm the po lice. They look upon; the private detec tive as a sort 6f guerilla, ready to brpak hp the happiest homes or to sell out to the highest bidder; This, unfortunately, isljrue in many cases, but not in all As I entered with the prisone the Captain in Charge Sroughly : deman led by what right I had made an arrest j V , . I n rt viffrnr IFhtnh ninir n n Kino , m rest a murderer," I replied A murderer? Bosh I Where did you get nimri u ; 'Attheidepot" 'Well, I i shan't lock i 1 it ait over. ; i made u would enter the house! sleep, and steal what 1 on I did go in about ing access by a kitche$ ray mind that l after they got to could ! bay hands 1 1 o'clock, gain- wmdow. I took the axe in with1 me tojjihtimidate them in; case I was discovered! 1 While! my unclei was sixty years old, h jwas ja; vigorous,1 hearty man, and capable of! ranking a strong light. I don't know! whether he suspected I might corpf back, jbnt I had; not reached the- bee room slight noise I made loused bed, and he struck ai light ered me. j i I -i -": "I want it to standi in was the aggressor, when when some him out of arid discov4 court that, he he saw me he THE) .MAVERICK SYSTEM. HOW rOBTUNE3 WEBE FOBMESLT U ADE BY COW jTHUEVES , The Trick,: of j Gathering a Herd of. : i Young Cattle Altering i Brands High Art. f' ! I;,. , ' " ' ''Cattle raising in Texas is not what It used to bef said a, veteran stockman. "I don t mean to say there's no money in the business now, only that it is carried on ! differentlr-more I lejritimstelyi i I might av-than It used to be. ' Why, when ' I was - lust : learning to stick , to bucking poDies, menj without a ceat in their jeans, were comiog into the btale and branching but as, big cattle-owners. There Were fortunes made in a couple of vears that cbuhr hardly be accumulated in a meiime at t :e ousmess. now. now. was it done i I'll tell, you. . . v "What Was known; as the "Maverick system'1 "x m vogue then. A maverick is a yearling calf that has escaped the branding iron. Where there were large herds of cattle it often happened that some were overlooked at branding time, and many were calved in the bush and ran wild. These mavericks were con sidered 1 common property by the stock man, and whenever he fouud one he'd rope it, tie it down and run his brand on it, (Then the cars were sliced to corre spond with the recorded earmarks of the ranchman, and the calf turned loose. Maybe the ranchman whs branding hi .own stock and mavbc! he wasn't; That cut no figure with him. "In those days we had no pastures and cattle were simply loo:-e herded, on the range. Certain landmarks would be set down as limits of his range by the stock men and his! herders instructed to keep' the stock within these limits. . In the morning the' herders would round the c attle in sight to points within the limits. or the unti mormngj Of tour-el there were many strays, but' each ranch sent out a hunt in the j spring -to round up the herd's o neighboring stockmen and to cut out any cattle found among them lcaring their ranch brand. . And uuder this system o handling cattle stockmen considered mavericking. would eten itself up in the long rnn. - The only qualification was that a man should own stock to be prop erly entitled to maverick "Hero's where foreigners com'ng into the Stat3 penniless get the best of us. Some fellow worked in a cow camp long room. The SELECT? snwGS. i : ". vy irlnc has grown throng 1: At night they would ibe headed sating bribed ground and left An Ivt vine has irrown thropch, the Wall of the hou e of Arthur Westcoat of j Atlantic City, and ornament his sitting- air current produced bv a rahroad K 9 . train drew; a aix -year-old New Haven boy tc ward the track, and he was hit by a car step and killed. -v ' A giantess who, though only twelve vears lire months old. stands eirrht feet high arid weighs 270 pounds, is on exh: bltion In Japan. ' ' ' j !; !" ' The I name !i:ick Matr," by which Turkey is oft enj referred towas applied to that country by the Czar Nicholas, January 14. 1854. v ! '. An advert cement in a Florida ! paper asks for1 ilOOOi young : alligators, 500 pounds of -larger alligator teeth - 600 A 1 ' , . I - 1 II . 1 ..II! rpscaie.spoonoiti wings ana an uia aiu gator skins in ihe county. The adver tiser is a naturalist. ! ! While a log was being" sawed through in a north Michigan camp the saw cut in two a large moccasin snake that was en cased In the heart of the wood. $ There was 119 opening at either end of lhe log. and the wonder is how the -snake 'got there. L i ; ' ! i . Louts Cayden, a blind man who died at Worcester, had his ense of touch so developed that he could tell the denomin ation of a bank bote by.fccling it J and in weecing a large giruen ne cmia always distinguish a young cgetablo plant from Captain W. I). Fitch, of Williams - burghi S. C. has a pocket-knifa which was round in the gizzard or aturKey that was kilted on his farm. The knife has a handle of horn which has Leen softened almost into im'.n by the action i of the fowl's gastric juice, f- j ; ' A GL A. It. n.ftn says that in war times. vfhen the usual! remedies fori chill? and I a ! . lever iwere iacKing, it was a common practice to give the-patient a, pill made of tha web of the bla.k spider, or occa- v a live snider even, the dose worked down with a draught of The remedy is said to hare I YEA.R3. THE FARMER'S SEVENTY -i- .-i, !i ; Ah! there ha is, lad, at the plough H4 beats tha boys for work. And whatsoe'er ths task might DjJ 2?one war saw him shirk. a 1 i i ' v a .-n t. . auu am cma laon, wo, uu turn r f Hon o'er with mirthful tears, . i And sing full many, an old-tlnw song In spite of seventy years. - . . i u ; ! ! 1 -i' -' - - -I k i i H3ood mornlnjr friends I. lis twsjvs tf Time for a half hour's real, . I I And farmer John took oot kit laach ' And ate it trith a fetat I ; -r I !j MA harder task It is, amid be, j ! Tban f oQowtog up tbea steers. Or mwndtng fences, far, for mo ' To feel my seventy years. .i i 4 . tr '. "You ask me why I feal bo young; im sure, friends, I cant telL But think It Is my good srife's faeJW i . Whokept me up so wed; , ji For women such as aba ara scare u j. In this poor vale of tears; ti ' She's given m love, audhops aol streogiSk. I- For mors thaa forty yara. II ' j ; ii ' - i t i it H J ."! ;j i"And then my boy have sH doM weU, f As far as they hare gone. 1 1 j! I 1 (And that thing warms an old mans Hood, And helps him up sod on; axj giro dato sTer rnunu psoc, v K 1 Or raised op anxious fears: I 1 Then -wonder oot tkat I foel ottng j t And hale at seventy years. I -) ! j ;Why don't my good boys do ray worl v And let me sit and ntl 1 1 j ; : Ahl friends, that wouldn't do for ma: , Hike my awa way best ' I ti J They have their duty; I hsre mine,; ) J And till we end appsors, j M ; Imean to smell the soft", my friendx," Said the man of seventy years. Iff!' t 1 j Hartford linut ! HUaOB OF THE DAT. J- Ml 1 1 such sional h whisky, always been eTicacious. t the same fi. : aftr you ! yelled out to know what ii fas doin j enough to learn that there was a fortune there. 1 told him 1 was bound and de and! if he would away arid never dollar J He had of his! .bed, and argue with me he rushed? at me. I termined to have $803 count it out I would trouble him for anothc a big club at the hea instead of ; stoppings tc seized the weanon and had to use itheaxe.4"He, -iwwild have killed me if I hadn't! struck him downj Thtn my aunt came 6ai, screaming for help, and she was abo! l to I escape from the house when I hit: Jper. . Afterlha made su: e they were oth dad I went at it to rob the house, ami the plunder ! got you found in the satchelj: -, That's the whole story,' air, apd if the lawyers see (to the lar to me fI am up. Let's man), but your face is famil Charley Sbort, bartender in Hirr'gan's: saloon. "- f'Ahl sd i you are. "Well, what story is jthis abojut a murder!?" , 1 , i; .. j I fAll nonsense, sh ;" replied - Short, wio saw how; things Were drifting and sought to j;ake advantage, f T was on a spree last night and this bloke saw me at the depot jand wanted to play smart." ! can make it cost him dear pvyeti, jou if you will.'? lit 'I propose to OH my wrists!" The satchel feet, tain !' 1 1 kAh old couple miles irom tne Here, take these irdns l i i - can make anything eke out of it, let 'em. . V . It seemed such a straight lease that there could be no loorjhiilcof escape, but within three day3 aftrShort had con-i-f essed to me he engagedj two lawyers, re-r-canted allhehad-saidJ and when put on trial plead insanity. His friends, as was afterward known, raised $200 for each lawyer, and the lawyjers moVed heaven and earth t6 earn their, money. One of the instances of Shortls alleged insanity was a clear case of bribery and perjury. A man was brought forward to pwear that he sat behind the .twoj of jus as we came in that morning on the train,! and that he heard Short tell me. thai he had kilted seventeen people and : was then on his way to Heaven to tell 3od about it. The' person in jthe seat behiAd jus was a womacj, whjile the seat ahead jwas occu pied by two women. ; This liar's testis mony had j great weight, j or j enough to call for a commission fof doctors to ex amine and j pass upon! the! question,' and before the case was finished Short died in his prison bed of hart disease. Arrw York Slar. ' I I I was on it up I the floor at my said to the Cap- livii for him .'in mavericks, He invested his , wages in cow nonk-s, Went to the nearest town and' had a brand recorded, got a bag of meal and. a sjide of bacon, and took to the hush. Ia less than a year he had 1,000 head of young cattle roaming over the country (with jhis brand on them Thca he hired sWme -inen, built a ranch, and went on a grand rijnnd up. All the fat steers he: drove tor market, keeping the heifers, j His men were not long in learn ing how he had worked it, and then they branched out for themselves. In a short time the country was overrun with maverickeira, and pretty soon ' the most barefaced thievery ever recorded got to be as common as dirt in acorn dodger. Your would-be honest stockman had to steal to keep even and the calves of milch cows in the corrals were stolen. ! K-. "it got to be a common thing for the tame cattle that eame to the - ranch for salt to be followed by calves - wearing strange brands; and this led i to the counter branding that used to make the hides of Texai cattle look likfe drawings of choice town lots..- ' "Here's an instance- I hr d a! little Durham heifer, one of the finest short horns brought into the state. . Her first calf wasn't ten days bid when tome of the boys told me that it had been mavericked. ' I hunted it up, arid sure enough some cuss had run a big B 4 on its side and undersloped each ear. I drove it to the ranch and put a big U after the HEALTH HINTS. 1. Be regularjn your habits. 2. If possible go to bed at pour every night. t 3. ruse in the morning soon ; . s ' i . I 4 awase. : . 4. A sponge bath of cold or tepid wa ter should be followed by friction with towel or hand. I I 5. tat plain food: ' ' ! 1 6. Begin your morning, fruit.l' , ' j' I;' I 7. Don't go to work immediately af- i ' a . ' meal with ; -8 at all water. I 10. eating Be moderate in the use of i liquids! seasons, i t is safer to filter and boil drinking ' Exercise in the open air whenever il.-. ' .1 ine jweamtr pwimus. ii 11. in malarious districts do your walking in the middle of the day. j 12. 1 Keep the feet comfortable and well protected,! i . , . ; ; 13. ( W ear woolen clothing the year round. , f i 14. See thatUour Bleeping rooms and living; rooms are; well ventilated,and that sewertgas docs not eutcr Ihem. : r - 15. Ilirush. vour teeth at least twice a day, night and morain?. p i ! l ltf. Don't worry. ; It interferes with the healthful action of the stomach. 17 You must have interesting occupa tion ia vigorous old age. Continue to keen the brain active. ; Kest means rust. -lllerollo Health. . . , . ; : ' Cocoa Nut Cnltnre in Florida. j It is probable ! that the cultivation of the cocoanut for profit Will always, m Florida, be confined to the region on the Keys and mainland south of the1! Caloo- sahatchie BiverJ though the palm will continue to be grown in occasional The bride ! never! disposes of duplicate wedding presents 'as thou&andf The latest society game is. ''progtcssive j ; angling." It is Baid to ue very catching; ?, 1 A Kentucky jiiry has acquitted a msn ' ! named Pendulum of murder, and so Le won't $wingj CUcayo Tribuurl jj , ; ! Mosic, wlth some people, 'tis . liko ,' j uitiuics. iucj lb iu 1UCIU. .UUI1 k a hard to bring it out-t The KyocK j A poet sings: "Two Chords I Struck.? Perhaps he struck because he was too lazy to saw them. ifiiiaaeiplpt ValL j 4 iJT. iocn savs tne cnoiera wrm ia m the form of a comma. When i t lays hold ; of a man, however, it is generally found to be a full stop. &rat ILraMJ j jj ; j It is one thing for a person to know a j good thing when M sees it, and Another thing for him to seize a good thing when he kno urs it.p-Burlington iV iVrsi. . j I jit! has heen discovered that the Irish tenants da hot; pay any quicker, when charged by the police than, when charged by the land lords. 1'UU'nitg CAn-uuLe. J He could talk the art oi artists In a manner quite interne; 1 : He could draw a perfect hlv. 1 r.. u- .i! .! t . nut uv wumti i niuii, irinv. ! i . i j - Washington Critic Russia lias placed a tax of one; kopec k i each oh every egg sold in the kingdom. and the hens kopecking) 'around with every , mark ) of, dissatisfaction, Tk Philosophers tell us tliat wi should jkaow oael ithiEg j Among tha medical fnternityy however, jit i: pays better to know many thhegs iSiRdan i "It's an1 ill wind that blows oobodj good" said the Christmas goose, j si ' cyc!oue whirled him from under the Jfsrra- ers uplifted hatchet into the next county. , v. other letters, making the brand read places especially as it is one of the most quickgrowing of pmnate-ieaved palms Origin of Big PlateHGIass Windows. "Do you! know," said! 1 e was he was In the around bverj ."Six jind a half tons ,of diamonds lureiy even i&indoad the . sailor never ventured to" compute his diamonds bv the ton--vajued at aboutj 40,000,900, have, we are informed, jboca extracted from four African mines afone in the course of be afraid I of barkeeper! St. th-5 lust few1 vears. saVs the (r uft'. "The Other great diamond field of the wSrtd is India, also a British pos ' eession. 4 Everybody knows that A mster dam has hitherto been the centre of the i t - - i - diamondtculiting industry of the world; and U former times there: was a good : cadD for this, as n Xotityoni At leaA,1 tne inaustry was; extinct. liut every rather flashy. ' The jewelry he wore gave hint awayfas well. ; If he jwas not a bar keeper he was at' least the owner of a saloon, arid, from his "buld, I Judged him to beta pugilist of more or less local fame. ! After .one general look at! his uress,:!; raegan at nis conar to make a closer inspection. - His shirt collar kert working up to annoy h'm, and I said to myself ht the button was gone and. he had fastened it with a pin.! In his twist; ing around he pulled his overcoat back, and I 8aw that thp. trm hnrtnn nn hist inn. der1 coatl liad been pulled but by a violent i'nb w,!S-. I V l - is- f nil ;ciiv, icvjug uoie m tne ciotu. .. i ne coat wak new, and it would take a heavy wrench jto pull the button out that May. I followed his . arm down to his right hand. , and across the back of it wa a long scratch. 1 1t was a fresh scratcb!,1f or ving aliout city were .murdered bv this man after! midnight last night. ;Ex- amine thiSsatchel if you want proof." VThere s npthmg in there but laundry work," boldly replied Short, f 4 'I set out with it in my hand hist night and didn't gen drunk; enough to lose, it. - .Open her hee up and let; the Captain see.". : : lake tne irons oil this man I" com- mandea 1 the jjaptain If he as he ; waved the doesn't capias! you he's not the man I take u Miy, pnwauiy uo jb noij Know mat ot i tne marK?s ot j blood still lingered, j !My late ycarefforM have been successfully I eyes dropped to; the 'stranger's right leg. iicie lit ling .ana; ana ten i are ucatcn the Liutcn in severa cutting English, cut-f l re cent priz competitions. Considering he enormous! value of the trade -the United : rtares atone, it i -is calculated, requires i; 3,000, 000 Wcjrth 1 of cut diamonds per annum we imyla, take care that English 1 diamonds f tp there to be cut and are no sent -el her to Amsterdam or to Antwerp soiled. ground, had met nd endeavored j -. , . i.i . i ans wh en have V8.cui a portion bf the Dutch! trade,", - lately t- He had certainly; fallen on the II mht nave reasoned that he with a i v'-ry. common accident. but I didn't, i I said to myself: ?t "Old llellow, you hive locked horns with somebody to get . mu& cd up this way. Jit tis .a scrape yon, don't want known, for you keep throwing 'snxiors glances kt! me. If it wai only an acci dent youi'd !get up nd fix that- collar, growl a little over the sot on your knee, snd;uss the railroad company for haying a depot platform! unprotected by; a raSl ing at the ends. Wonder what you've satchel down. before dinner hirh to her- ft I'Ayel he shall pay for putting: the irons on to me. Why don't ,you take 'eniol." i -': :'i :'y-A:'-r '1,,: " H) Was . I dreaming. Hadji made a fool of I myself f Had this 'man confessed a ipurder jto me? I yras staggered for thd moment. Then I tore at the satchel and bursted off the poor old lock, and as thq re.epticle! flew open, I emptied ' its contents on! the floor.!, Gold, greenbacks, silver, bonds, and. jewelry! . . ! ; f ,v;-! I ; f'Curse ou !Vgrowl!ed the prisoneras he turned away. .- iV : : '.;.- j- ;;-. ;; M l:-ik The ; capjt ain tnrned as pale as dcath.s There werej the proofs and he stared at , fWell, this 'wago! I shall lock you up,! Short." ,. ; . . ; : Ct;-A "the man was registered and taken down stairs, arid then we counted up the contents f thee satchel, and made Out! a value ofjoyeir fl?, 000. When this had been (complefed I went xut Rafter Rider, and inside of an hour he was be hind the bars. ; He went all to pieces as soof as I charged him with having put up ihe job1 for Short to carry out, but denied it id the mo3t vigorous planner. ;; : 'Short bias been; telling for a year," he said, "yhat his uncle out in the country was gomg.to cto for. him. i A few weeks ago the old. man found out what a bad pill his aephewj was, arid since then Short has been up a tree.; . He told me a week ago that; he'd have some of their money one wayj or the other,, and when he talked about killing and robbing, I did my best to put the idea oiit of his head. He sof t- ened up iaibitt and I supposed he had a i well-known i - j plate-glass dealer to a New York Tribuns forty j reporter, ' " that the great platei-glass win dows tnat auorn large store l routs nave their origin n the vanity! of women ? A woman likes; to see hqrelf as ( others see her. She can do! that ?4 mirror. When she is on the street the jshovjr .windows serve as mirrors to tel herhow; prettily or badly she appears, if herhat is on crooked, her back hair down, oriher njew-f angled bustle awry, Watch tie women as they saunter up arid down Broadway or Sixth Avenue, and you will j find nine" out of ten : casting furtive "glances , into the; windows that . reflect back their likenesses. ; Then they! are attracted to the goods in the windows arid go" into ana buy. It , was biought about big The old. common , i - - numbers ot - punes, the stores toi inspect that; idea- tpat hrst plate-glass windows, frames.- with large. gave no, opportunity tor the ladies to see their full figures. They could, only see their, faces. ;j Tradesmen who observed the manner, in which they looked in the windows urgpd the glass mahufacturers to make large ; panes, i Thej. gradually made them larger arid larger until now they rill the ntire;-fr?oril.T.!-;iThe mea like to look "in them quite las much as. the women, too.'' ... U-.iH-1. r;:-' ' : 1 . A Carion3 Comblnatfon In Names! I""'. - I "-, V... - .1 - . : -i- L ' t'Whafs ina namef - has been a ques tion sufficiently unansweVed for centuries to still remain a subject! for (discussion, ana wnat is in two names suouia nave a, double intere : If you 1 don't think so. i '. . -. "ti i r . ta&e two names as weu Known aa any in American' history and ;j look at thent. They are Lincpln and Hamlin. : Nothing them up differently and see what th'are. For instance: j ' - V ' -$,1 --: - ; : :;-ilIAM -JJNCh tf&spi V- !LIN,-; 1 -C0LN 4" -.. . '.. H;.- Read up : andj down jand - then across. There's , something in that, isn' there! Now, -again : j j s -4;-:-Kj -! j': "--- - - .ABRAAMLIK-COLN" ' !; Can you fincj tfwo otherl names of two other men v pso official lives and' whose names comfie as these do?? Wcuhinjt on B 4 IV Then I sharped each ear and turned it out. The next time I saw that calf both ears had been grubbed out at the head and the brand read B 4 U 2. Was I raadf Some. j ; i ; J ' "Then mavericks began to get scarce as water . on the Llano, and a the cow thieves turned their attention to alter ing brands. Old Jim! Loving, up in Los valley, "owned about rS,000 or 7,000 head of cattle. I They were all branded with what he called a! half diamond L on the left shoulder. The half d amond was over .the L. He and I took a herd up the Chism train, to Kansas in 'fl, and somewhere between Sun City and Fort Dodge caught up with another herd that had gone up ahead of us. It had been sold that-day; Loving counted 200 odd head of his cattle in the herd, j They were all branded on jthe left shoulder with on inverted T inside of a diamond. "Jim was hopping jriiad.; We learned that the fellow who sold the herd was a red-haired Mexican called Coloraol Get ting some of the boys "we started after him. ' ! He got almost jto the Nation (In dian -Territory), before we caught him. The boys set him astraddle of his own pack horse and tied jhis leg under the auim.il. iThen a lariat was tied! nnder his chin, and the other ; end thrown over the -branch of a live oak.where one of the boys caught it and made it-fast. to the horn of his saddle.' -given about five j minii beads. While he was thing !. Loving gave herder with the rope; tied to; his saddle horn dug spurs into his. pony and shot away like the wind. - It was. a forty foot lariat,! and he reached the end with a jerk that threw; his jpony back on ' his haunchcsJ -' ThegreasTr'a neck popped like the report of a sir-shooter. t. - j .;;'.. i "It was the only wsy lo deal with those fellows, and that kind of "treatment1 has made them scarce. . Since we have got to building big pastures !with barbed wire fen," around 'cm! Tjuverickicg and cattle stealing have about died: out. 'And ,we rdon'thave to hire so mariy herders either. JHen ride around the pastures every day or so to see that it be fences are not down, but they don't carry branding irons with them. ; : Branding - is J done at regular periods wovr.n-c(Jkicago Timet,i i ; ;. i iltlreO for its great beauty, or a chance crop o nuts, ia protected spots even as far north am Tampa and Cape Canaveral. j Thq cocca nuts produced in . Florida are a trifle smaller than those of the tropics, and are not considered so valus ble for seed purposes; . hence the! greater part of the seed cocoa nuts planted oot are procured through schooners and other sailing vessels from Central Amer ica, more especially from the Bay Islands (U tills, Bonaco and Ruatan) and main land of Honduras. The nnts that hare not sprouted on the voyage are some times planted out in nurfery beds and transplanted where they are to remain, when! a year or eighteen! months old, though they are 'also planted out origi nally in grove' form. ; Only a small per cent of first class ripe nuts j fails to ger minate, though) sometimes the sprouts ar a I year or more in appearing. The distance apart at which they are planted varies from 15 to. 25 feet; 20 feet is the usual distance. ! The only 'cultivation given on the Eeys is the occasional cut ting of the weeds- and undergrowth in spring and fall;', the mulch thus left is beneficial to the trees, hut lit is doubtful whether a more thorough system of cul tivation and fertilization would not pro duce better results. There is a 'popular savin that a bearing cocoa palm' will The Colomu was produce one nut eacn ,aay tnrouguoat a. An k;. I the year three hundred and stxtr-nre whimpering some-1 pef jer but this is usually a" little over- the signaL ThelarWIi iaB "wvi", prwiutiug wu( two1 ljuuureu uuu per jci a.ucr utjlii AgricultvruL.- ,V- . i I ii Remarkable Growth of TronL Father "Come. Bobby. Tou are all tired out; so harry off to hedJ'j Bobby twith a slow and reluctant motetnentj-fra, u lyou oughn t to ten s ooy to nurryiup ;when he's all tired out." i I i ! ! After a j -while' it may; occur t Uiej 'French Government todoiawsy with the" Legion of! Honor decorsi ions, and! do what decorating Js necessary with red ! XnLIio(lester VyA-Eirrtt. : i! U ! Hypocrisy. Ethel 'lfamrna,jl ami writing to .Nellie ;Lee; shall I fay any-' thing for your Jlammaf- 'Writing toil that contemptible persor sgairit j Yes, give her; my love.? How I detest that. girl to be surer' Uarftr isaza: j j p When you are tired," said ose young; man to another, "do von ever lose com mand of words and ideas t,"- ' 5o,V aid the other young insn, ' I dan't ssy that ! 1 do; hut I have felt that way! sometimes . when I got home Ivery ; late at night. T4- &mertOlJimrmali) , j. : tj !. How Providence does temper Ithe wind to the shorn lamb! Twenty years sgo it cost $10 to ielegraph ten words! to Cali-; fornia. Now. during the California uihi, boom, the words f Send me cash enough j to get home on. Am bwted." cost rjr f I. ueirfif Mrrea.trrem'. ; . t 1 .,(.. The report thst short sealskin jackets ,.. - 1, t .i.iii areitbc laanton'iaDroaa i is eviaeniij started by some interested pat erf a sail e fc with a desire, to save enough tnonet! from the! cost of the! long Vses to pay the butcher's bills for a year dr buy t a .paid- up insurance policy,-.-s(7y D'ualtX. j; i j!TwolTays T Sstlnr.rLj . jj Those: 'Who lire among hooks, asd have withal the j' gift of language,' ara apt to be bookish In , their expressions. une 01 tnis ciass, . x.u atouuuis, ui Boston, was visiting her friecd, the poet Errant. ; She happened to be alone In Th4 possibilities of rapid trout growth I M library .when a calunmakcir brought': j j i4,u; .fiM uAn, in wtr niti I aomc a chair ne naa aiierpa. . :, , ; i .., ' . . m - - , T .1 . t I , J, i. Critic. l) v- ;n - -1 " The remains of John Oakly were dis interred and reburied iear : Albuqueque, N. M.. reoenUy." and! it was : discovered that his face and head were covered with to them and in which the food supply-is abundant is illustrated by the experience of jCloDel F. F. .Osbiston, of 'Idaho Springs, who, in 886, purchssod 5,000 eastern brook trout at the .Colorado State Fish llatchery, which were at. that time a little more than four months old, mak ing! bis fish at this time about twenty 'months old. These I shlwcre placed in Colonel Osbiston's private lake above Idaho) Springs. ; j During' the i present season a large number 01. these Csh have been taught which weighed over a pound and a! half. liecenUy the colonel sent by express to State Fish Commissioner Whitehead one of these fih tLat weighci three and a half pounds. Such a growth in trout was never before bcordof by anyi of the local fish eclturista. ' The On Mr Bryant rctumj he said: "Miss 1 ' Robbins, what didi the man, say about j , xnvchairr s t M .I-! V.-r jj, " ; 'MTliAt the equilibrium Is now ' adntij i rably adjusted," the replied, not 1111103; her eyes from the book she was reading. ? . : "What a fine fellow !? said Mr. Ery-j anti laughing. VI never heard him talk like thaci . Now, .Miss' Bobbins, 'what did he say (7 1 s ' r-j 1 . : -f j she rcpliedJ Tul'$ tampan io. j . - - s - - -lit v i AH 1 iMith t this trirnmrnL 1 a Trairna 1 or nv 1 he was buried ten years ago he was both a lcnver correspondent who sent us the hold and beardless. I fact above. American Atxilrr. :! : Tke Upper Haai. 1 ! Rrardiar man's supremacy I 1 1 he yoath and mAkko oiarreletL . J The band that wields the pea,'' said be. ' Then quoth the tnjdi"0 chippT. j J ' While her red hre hcnred. t i Sir, the band that wieUa the ti.:-r J . Is tivs hand tbim. the wor d." ' Do$iOm C'srf 'I t -1 f,k:! V1!;J-
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Dec. 22, 1887, edition 1
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