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f SALISBURY, N. G. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1887. VOL. I. no: 3. At Thirty-Fite. I If half of three-score years and t9! Make half the life of man; If life is merely time, why, then, I've but to live my past again, To finish out my span. But since a thousand years may run Through one brief moment's thought My life, though it were nearly done, I'd count in truth but just legun Had I accomplished naught. . . ' ' . What have I done? Well, this at least: I've taught myself to strive; I've learned that crusts may make a feast; That wealth is only -want decreased I live at least at thirty-five. Chicago News. THEY RAN AWAY; CY KEBECCA HARDIXG DAVIS. My aunt, said the doctor, was brought .tip in a queer- way, different from any American girl, though she was an Ameri can. Among the mountains in Pennsylvania there are two or three ancient German towns, founded long before the Revolu tion, by the Moravians. The huge, mas sive stone buildings stand still and are likely to stand for centuries in which the early communities dwelt together, jet separate. There are the Brother and Sister Houses, and the Gemein, or Common-House. These are occupied now by the widows of Moravian missionaries with their children. There is a deadly quiet and chilly cleanliness about these great dwellings. Each little suite of family rooms opens out into wide stone corridors, in which no speck of dust is allowed to remain. A fly would hardly dare to enter the open windows, t,o disturb that absolute order and silence." My Aunt Maria was the only daughter of one of these widows. She had never known anv other home than the huge Sister House, where life went on like a dock that moved without ticking. She rose at dawn, and helped her mother put their three neat rooms into still more perfect order". Then she ate her breakfast, and was washed for the second time; her flaxen hair was plaited behind, and tied with a bow of bipwn ribbon; then, books . in hand, the de mure little' maiden paced across the green quadrangle to the school where all the children of the church were taught. When school was over, she sat J with her knitting by her mother's" side. She never had ventured into the quiet fctreet alone. On rare occasions the children in the Community houses played hide-and-seek in the attics which ran iinder the roof around the three sides of the great square. These proceedings, however were usually regarded as disorderly by the grave widows. Jiut Maria had one adventure in her - life which rose out of it. as the peak of TenerifTe does out of the flat ocean around it. When she-was ten years old, she ran away 1 How it came about no body ever knew, Maria herself least of all. it. may have grown out of a tempo rary insanity, the reaction from the long dullness ami quiet. -..lohu Freitag, the Widow Freitag's son; persuaded her into it. He-told her of the plan a hundred times, on the way home from school. Some of the town boys told him of it ; it was an cvery-day matter to thrm; When old Gottfrev Jsohner -tailed to ihe next settlement about -liv .miles down the valley, his wagon loaded with great bags of corn, the boy would hide among the topmost sacks, and there lie safely until the end of the journey was reached. iGottfrey was a good-humored old man, and, after grumbling n little, always brought them back in the empty wagon' before night fall. The idea grew, week after week, in the little, girl's mind, under her dull eyes and smooth plaits, and at last she suddenly declared that she would go and ".see the world.'' ' - One morning in September, after Maria and John had gone into the school and hung up their wraps, they took them down again, walked slowly out of the door, and down the street to the inn yard. Even in running away, they did not hurry; they did not know how to hurry. In the vard stood Sohner's great wagoa. heaped with sicks. '.'.Nobody was near, and they climbed up and hid iii the "hollows on the top. Presently the mules were ""brought out ami har nessed, Gottfrev climbed up and cracked his whip, the great.: mass' shook and rocked, and they were off. MY aur.t always tola me that, she was t not afraid. She forgot her mother, and ' that she was committing a horrible sin, according to the rules that, she had been taught. ' "It was all so strange and beautiful," she used to say ; the' clouds rushing j past, us overhead, the moving procession j of trees, the strong wind I was wild! j I could have shrieked 'for joy I always fancied my staid aunt had a I turbulent heart". under her brown cape. ' . Both the children soon fell asleep, be ing unused to the steady rocking motion. When- they awoke the sun was overT head. Could Gottfrey have spent four hours in driving five miles? Could he be going farther than usual?'. , They, whispered to. each other in alarm, but there was no way of . fiading the real sit - i iVin Ins. i knew none of the landmarks. i neJ dared not let Gottfrev know that they were there until the journey was over, or he might abandon them on the road who knew what wild beasts inhabited these jungles of laurel through which ; they drove? j . Noon passed. Goitfrcy stopped to bait his mules, and to eat a hearty meal out of his well-packed basket. The children had brought no food. They were hearty eaters, who never had waited lO" minutes for their mid-day meal. The smell of Sohner's ham and cheesi melted their heart. They began at once to think of the misery of their mothers, an d,to shed tears of remorse, I need not dwell on their sufferings, which were real enough before the jour ney was. over. Gottfrev drove down to Philadelphia. The trip occupied two days and two nights. The children did not discover themselves Their formr of beintr aban doned outweighed all their other fears. Gottfrev stopped over night at road side inns, leaving the wagon iu the yard, and John clambered down, when all was stijl, and found some turnips in- a neighboring field, which kept the little wanderers from actual starvation, On the morning of the third day, Gottfrey started long before light, and at dawn drove into a wiclo enclosure, in which were great houses made of canvas. The end had come ! Now they could show themselves. He would be angry, perhaps. But he would not leave them! lie would take them home' lie unharnessed the mules and led them away, as they supposed to feed them. Then he would return to unload the corn, and would find them. When he reached the gate, they saw him stop and parley for some time with a couple of men; then mounting one of the mules he rode away. The children waited, afraid to speak lest the men in the field .should discover them. Maria began to sob. She was weak from lonjr fasting, and for the first time in her life she was untidy and un washed. The neat little -Moravian loathed herself. 'Look here !" cried Jol m. peeping out through the sacks. Out of one of the tents came a man striped from head to foot like a zebra, another in purple vel vet .and spangles, and a fairy with flut tering gauze wings. Maria had never heard of fairies. She had never heard or read of anything which could explain these monsters. A minute later, a man carrying a jji'L-at basket of raw beef, went into otic ot the .tents, and there came from the inside furious growls, yelps, .and la.-t. the roar of a lion. . John's red face turned to a paty color. He shook as if the beasts .had him in their jaws, and opening jii mouth, uttered shrill shrieks. Maria, without a word, got up, and catching him by the shoulder dragged him down from the wagon, towards the gate. It was then that she showed that there was good stuff in he ' i 'Hush!'' she said. ''Come out ' of this. I am going home." .hi-d then the flap of another -'tent lifted, and two moving -mountain-; of flesh 'came oilt, and advanced -towards her. The girl had never seen even the picture of an elephant. She stood still, as if paralyzed, in front of them. "I'm going home," she mechanical! v repeated, looking up at them. Some of the men dragged her out of the path. "Who are vou? Where did you tome from?'' thev asked. John was too frightened to spenk. "We came on Gottfrev Sohner's Tvagon" said Maria, her round eyes still fixed on the elephants. . "The Dutchman who brought ,ie corn?" said one of the men. "Why did you stay behind him? He has jono home long ago. John gave a cry of despair, and the poor girl sank as if she had beoa shot. Hunger and terror, with this last biow had.crushed her stout little heart at last. The children were in a circus and racn. agerleito which Sohner, by . previous agrcerhent Irad brought his coin and oats. Some of the women'- took Marie to i their tent and put her to bed. Thoy" fed her arid nursed her" tenderly all . day. They gave John some work among tle horses, for doing which he received his meals. The two children were kindly treated and even petted by all the quc-er half wild people of the circus. Tho p00r 'girls who rode on the barebacked horses in robes of tulle, ran in between acts to see if Marie had eaten her souj, and to pat her stout shoulders and Uo,j k'n lly to her. ' The next morning the manager s,,ut for the. children. Sohner," he said, "left his ajus for us to bring with us. We go tr, Eastbn next week. Will you wait and go with us? . We shall pass through your village. Or shall we send you di rectly home? If you stay, these ladies will take good care of the little girl."' It was Maria, as usual, who spoke. "We'll go home, please. The ladies are very kind. But I want mother,", and she began to sob. The bare-backed rider looked at;thc down, who jerked off Ms cap edg nation.- John had never maae iu perate Wenture before, and therefore -with bells, and rjassed it round. Tho silver pieces jingled in it, until there was just enough to pay for the children's fare in the wagon "which- ran once a week from Philadelphia up the Lehigh Valley.'- They started that very night, loaded with little gifts and provisions tor ine journey, t Years passed before John and Maria were forgiven by the good Moravians , for their freak. They were regarded as dangerous characters for a long time, though, indeed, they had never been so humble and dutiful at heart as they be came after this terrible adventure. In process of time they grew up and were married. John became a mission ary, biU died in a year after their wed ding. ' Maria came back, a widow now herself, and took the rooms her mother hd had in the Sister House. She lived there, for nearly half a cen tury, a calm, orderly, peaceful life. She never again left the quiet building in which her childhood had been passed, or tried' to break its dull- monotony. But when she used to tell of this, her one adventure, her eyes would burn and her chin quiver. She would never hear an evil word against any of God's creatures. ' myself,'' she would say, "was once among the abandoned of the earth,' poor circus players and wild beast ' tamers, and they treated me as thougii A UUU UCCll nidi 0U CU1LU. UUU o luaiiv of ownership is on all Iis children somewhere." Youth's Compauion. - The Cork Oak. The growth. of cork-oak in California is not a matter of experiment ; its suc cess was demonstrated long ago. The distribution of. cork-acorns by the Patent Office about twenty-five years ago may not have accomplished much in rof her parts of the-country; but it gave- us a start, and there are now trees yielding cork and bearing acorns at a number of different places in the State. There are trees growing on Mr, Richardson's place at San Gabriel. There were samples of i cork and acorns shown at the Sacramen to Citrus Fair by H. A. Messenger, of Calaveras County. There are trees of ; similar age ia Sonoma, Santa Barbara and Tulare, and perhaps other counties. The State University is growing seed lings from California cork acorns, and will be likely to have the teces for dis tribution next year. There is no doubt about the adaptation of the tree to the State, as tli3 widely separated -places named above all furnish proper condi tions for its growth. It is of course a crop of which one h is to wait s6h5&,'time -to gather, and therefore needs patfenee in the -planter. All the corkwood of commerce comes from the Spanish Peninsula, where the trees abound not oalv in cultivated forests but also grow wild on the mottn taius,. The tree is like an American oak, and acorns. It takes ten years for the bark to become a proper thickness to be manufactured into bottle stoppers, life preservers and seine corks. When stripped from the tree it is to be boiled for two hours, cured iu the sun for a week and pressed into flat pieces for baling and shipping. The denuded trunk like a hen robbed of her eggs docs not sulk and quit the Dusiness, but throws out ft fresh covering for a fresh spoliation. One tree has been known to yield half a ton of corkwood. One pound of cork cau be manufactured into 144 champagne corks. The baled cork bark is sold to cork manufacturing cen tres. , The most extensive manufactory m America is at Pittsburg. Besides the ordinary demands for cork bark, n good supply of the buoyant material, after be ing burned, to make it still tighter than the original bark, is shipped to Canada and Xew England, where it is made ?nto seine corks. The average annual im portation of corkwood into this country, entirely at the" pork of New York, is 70, 000 bales a year. A bale weighs Kit) pounds, and is worth on tlm side of the water $20, making a total value of the importations of $1,400,000. It comes m duty free. Pacific Hural Press. Fish on the Desert. A most astonishing discovery was made one day some two weeks ao on the desert about ten miles southeast of Mayhew's half-way house between Flor ence and Casa Grande, and three miles from Mr. J; C. Loss's ranch. Felix May hew and a Mexican were out hunting borses when they espied a small water hole some two .or three feet in diameter and quite shallow. Mr. Mavhew rode mo it intending to water his horse, v.hen he found it alive with ri-h lie Jen :the Mexican at the .place and rode to Loss's ranch for a bucket to save them ?dive, and when he returned the rapidly veceding.water had left the fish almost jrv. Out of the little hole were taktn lhne carp, .one five inchesone ten C ies 0ne twelve and one thirteen .!, .u"s m ,enSth, and they are now en J"wg the hospitalities of Mr. Mayhew's -ater tank and may be seen by anv one rethl I? US Statin- Il0w """-carp 'ached ater hole is the-great mys- oy7;fl.aS 'n ne has noticed sufficient ferflow of the Santa Cruz to- hrinc them aerOSS SlTf-rr - miius oi aesoiation. ia for t i 1$ n0therway ot account. fr their presence in the desert.--orence (Ariz.) Enterprise. A PONY FARM. An Annual Penning and Brand ing on Chincoteague Island. Stirring Scenes Witnessed by Great Holiday Crowds. . 'Here's the pony, gentleman S Thar ain't no fiber traveler1 on the ilVnd Whoa, thar!" V ' The speaker, a tall, angular " chap with unkempt hair, a cardinal shirt, blue overalls and barefooted, a typical speci men of the native, was holding by the long mane a restive, diminutive pony ! the raising and penning of which have wnnin me iasr, aecacte malde the island ofj Chincoteague, Va., in connection witli its great oyster1 deposits, famous throughout the country. And while he was vociferously expatiating upon the speeding qualities of his charge the crowd was constantly augmenting in size, a curious heterogeneous congrega tion of people, who came in boats from the Virginia shore and in the cars from the back counties In Maryland. This year, however, the attendance has not been confined exclusively to residents of the immediate neighborhood, but Phila delphia, New York, Baltimore and Washington have continued largely to swell the crowds from the rural district?. Conspicuous among this great audience are tho colored people who regard the event as a holiday and are always present in full force. These penning take place annually, and for weeks great preparations are made by the people to attend ,them. The beautiful bay of Chincoteague is dotted thickly with sail of all kinds of craft the tiny sail boat, the canoe, with its mutton leg white wings, the bug eye, the pungy and the schooner all filled with human freight and all gravitating toward the one great point. Here, too, comes the steamer from Franklin Citv . i i haying on board the sightseers "from Maryland and the up-country people. They all rush pell mell to the centre of attraction, where the vast crowds are good-naturedly pushing and jostling each other for vantage ground black and white, men, women and children, mixed up in almost inextricable confu sion. . It is almost impossible to learn any thing definite as to the origin of the Chin coteague pony, or an intelligent version of whence it came. A great many claim thai there are an offspring of the pony of the Shetland Isles and must' have found their way to Chincoteague from a large steamer that was wrecked on the island before it was inhabited. Certain it is,' at one time they roamed the island in vast numbers, but when the great storm of forty years ago devastated the country and almost submerged Chin- coteague it came near annihilating them. In size the Chincoteague pony ap proximates that of the Shetland. The hair on their bodies is thick and shaggy and their manes and tails are long and glossy. They are strong, hardy little fellows, roaming wild on the extreme southern end of the island,' feeding on the hay and tender roots which grow iu luxurious abundance in the salt marshes bordering on the bay and the Atlantic Ocean. When they are brought in they are divided into what is known in the vernacular as herds, and each herd has its own peculiar mark or" brand to dis tinguish it from the other, and thus ob viate the difficulty of dispute as to iden tity or ownership when corralled for branding. These branding irons are made according to the notion of the owner, representing the initials, stars, spear heads crosses, etc., and are easily distingmshedibyrtli:;)wner. -V The rhenVho herd, the ponies are ex- perienced 'riders and in throwing the lariat would put some of the cowboys to blush. -They are all mounted on neei horses and each one is provl-led with a long whip and lasso. They start out in different directions and by a circuitous route come up within sight of the ponies, quietly feeding' on the salt marshes, where they surround them. The sudden appearance of the riders generally frightens the ponies and a stampede ensues. Then comes an , ex citing chase for miles, the herders usual ly coming out the victors. The ponies are gradually gathered together in mas? and treated kindly until their fright -at the sudden disturbance has somewhat subsided, when they are driven to their pen, where the herding takes place, which is an immense space enclosed with aboard fence. Here the young colts . -i x .11.1 a hnltereu are picKea out, laosneu, auu together. . As is well known, a co'.t-wiU by instinct, follow its mother, and, as a result, the colts of one herd are .easilj distinguished from another. The arrival of the herders with the ponies is the signal for the wildc4 e citement among the spectators, and louu cheers greet their coming, and the po nies are ushered into the enclosure with wild hurrahs and clapping of hands. The process of branding is not only ex citing, but exceedingly dangerous, an accidents have frequently been the re sult. It requires an expert in the Dim ness to successfully manage it. i pony is brought out, jmd while one man holds his head the 1 branding iroa in the hands of another is quickly applied 1 to th9 hip. The whole operation does aot ordinarily require more than five minutes. Sometimes, however, a colt more refractory than the rest has to be thrown down before he will submit. Hopes are tied to its legs, and it is thrown down. Crowds of hero bov3. ranging in age from 6 to 12 years, eagerly seize the ropes and hold fast, to keep the pony from kicking, taking care to keep at a re spectful distance from the hoofs that wildly paw the air. When the branding is completed the colts are again turned loose, and they trot nimbly off to their mothers, and, unless a great many buyers are present, the whole herd is again let out of the pen, and, unre strained by the whip or lasso, arc off with the speed of the wind, and are soon lost to sight in the great woods. Formerly these ponies could be bought very cheap, but since the facilities for travel to the island have increased and the population grown to such large pro portions, they command higher .prices and are much sought after by the wealthy for beach driving. They are easily trained, and when properly cared for after being taken from their marshy home are handsome little specimens of horseflesh. Philadelphia Times. Helping Out the Minister. A strange chance threw me in com pany, to-day, ce a. street corner, with an oculist and aurist arid a minister, writes the Chicago Journal's "Sidewalk, Stroll er." In the course of the ; conversation -the oculist made a curious and instructive remark about the eyes and eyesight. He said: "It is a singular thing that when a man thinks his eyes are all out of sorts, and that his eyesight is failing, there is apt to be nothing the matter with him, and that when he thinks his eyes are all right, but that the objects of sight are too small or blurred, then his eyesight is failing. When a fellow can't see as well as he used to, and feels like rubbing and bathing his eyes, he is not in a very bad way; but when he. complains that the newspapers- are not printed in as large or as clear type as they were formerly, then his eyes are failing. The same paradox exists in the sense of hearing. When a man feels like picking his ears there is nothing very serious the matter with his, ears ; but when he thinks his ears are all right, and that everybody around him mumbles his words, then he is oimr deaf." These remarks caused the minis ter's eyes to sparkle somewhat, and he said, "What a beautiful illustration. Come and hear me preach next Sunday, and see how I will use it. I have a ser mon on the stocks from the text, 'The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?' and I have been cudgeling my brains for' two days for some adequate illustration of that text. You see, when a man blames himself for everything that goes wrong, be is apt not to be to blame at all; but if he thinks he is a paragon and everybody else at fault, then he is apt to be; all wrong, and the cause of all his own miseries. " 'You have no idea how much easier it is to amplify a thought when you have even one really good illustration." - ! A Commission That Was Declined. Artists have a good many queer cus tomers, and they have advantages for observing what vague ideas it is possible for a man to entertain respecting art and nature too. An ex-soldier went to the studio of D. J. Gue, of Brooklyn, one day, to inspect a picture of Lookout 3Iountain that the artist had been paint ing. The picture pleased him, and he evidently had thoughts of purchase, but he was suddenly struck with a brilliant idea that he communicated thus: "I was in that fight, mister, and I'd like j you to paint my picture on that. Let's see. You could paint me right here in this field; facing front, with my left hand resting on top of the mountain." The man was in thorough earnest. lie did not see, that if drawn to scale his figure would be about 5000 feet high, and that he would have a reach of arm that would enable him to grasp at an j object six or seven miles away. Mr. j Guc precipitately declined the commk j sion. Brooklyn Eagle. Chicago's Waning Stock Business. Chicago is gradually feeling the west ! ward drift of the cattle and ho? bnsi j ness. The traffic of the great stock I yards is lessening, and the time is near : at hand when Kansas City pork products ! and Montana and New Mexico dressed j beef will partially supplant the Chicago ; Pork and beef in Eastern markets. Not j many years ago all the beef consumed - in Boston and vicinity was driven on the hoof to Brighton, Medford and Water j town, it now comes largely in refrig- erator cars. - Chicago will sooner or I later meet a similar experience. Boston ( uiii valor. . Will Outgrow It. "I'm not going to play with 'Willie. AVaffles any more," was Flossie's dic tum. - . - lllie is a very nice little boy," said her mamma. don't .like him. ia fact, I don't like boys at all, mamma. j gss it is because ( rm not qW cnougk, rNew York Sua. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Messrs. Edison' and Gilliland are , at work upon some device which shall reg ister a message coming by telephone. Valuable results arc expected. Melodious sounding electric whistles are a novelty, and arc said to be taking the place of electric bells in France. The whistle is made by fitting a small brass tube with suitable apertures so that it opens against the spring of a suitably formed communicator. Experiments seem to show that a large ocean steamer, going at nineteen knots an hour, will move over about two miles after its engines arc stopped and reversed, andjuo authority - gives less man a mite or a nine ana a hall as , the required space to -stop its progress. ' The violent collisions n some cases dutT ing fog may thus be accounted for. A London paper says that more than 2,000,000 glass eye3 are made every year in Germany and Switzerland, and one French house manufactures 300,000 of them annually. The pupil is made of colored glass, and sometimes red lines are painted on the inner surface to simu late the veins. The largest number of these eyes are bought by laborers who are exposed to fire, and are consequently, liable to lose an eye. i A man in Iowa has spent fourteen years in solving the problem of boring a square hole, and he has succeeded. A company is organized to put his inven tion on the market. It is simply an os cillating head with chisel edges and projecting lips which cut out the cor ners in advance of the chisel. The bal ance of the machine is an almost exact counterpart of the old-styled boring machine. It will cut a 2x4 mortice in from four to five minutes, and doing it with, perfect accuracy, that a carpenter cannot possibly complete in less 1 than half an hour. Over 600 railway cars, composed! al most wholly of steel and iron, are being built in England for the railways of Hin dostan. The climate conditions of India are as destructive of wooden cars as is the climate of this country, where cars require continual repairs, and wear out even faster when not in use than when actively employed. Car repair here large item in the expenditures of' the railway companies, and one nof. easily reduced. The experience of . Ae East Indian railways in the use of, steel cars will be noted with interest. A striking instance of labor-saving ma chinery is that which makes tin cans. One of the machines used in the procss, solders the longitudinal seams of the cans at the rate of 'fifty a minute, the cans' rushing along in a continuous stream. Of course a . drop or two of solder is left on the can. The drop on the outside is easily wiped off, but it is not so easy to secure the drop left oa the insid e. An in genious workman has patented an ar rangement for wiping the inside of the can without stopping the machinery. Result, several thousand dollars in royT aties in his; own pocket, and a saving of fifteen dollars' worth of solder -per day to the firm that uses it. Thirty thousand cans are a day's work for this machine. ' A Tale of Restitution. At one of his Northfield meetings re cently Mr. Moody, who was preaching about "Prayer," said: "Man may pray like a saint, but if . he has a dollar in his pocket not acquired honestly his jrayer is a sham, and he must make restitution if he expects ever to have God hear his prayer." Thereupon , a merchant from Dallas,vTex., rose in the audience and told a story that emphasized this point. He had, he said, jgot dishonestly, from men in his business some $5, 500, and had built house with the money.' Then Mr. Moody happened along and preached on this subject of restitution and the merchant was present. "I heard you," he said, pointing to Mr. Moody, "and I went out into the street conscience stricken. I went straight home and told my wife that we must sell that house and restore the money. And we did. We held an auction, and our carpets, our laces, our furniture all left us, and with the proceeds we made restitution." The man then told how he and .his wife started again in life with nothing, and, how he had prospered. His credit, his prosperity had never been so good., ' In For It. Curtis has just eighty cents in his pocket. Lobster salad is forty cents a plate, and hard crabs sixty. Curtis (after scanning the bill of fare with monumental relief) : I'm so sorjy. I wanted you to try a Maryland crab, but they're not on the bill. ' . Miss Fortune (sweetly): Ohl do in quire for them. I saw a hamper of them being unloaded just as we came in the door. Tid-Bit3. A Hospital Without Alcohol. j Thirteen years ago a hospital was started in London on the plan of dis- ... . i carding th; use of alcohol except where every other means failed. Since the be ginning only four cases out of tens 1 of thousands have been treated with alco hol, and the percentage of recoveries -has been much larger than in any other jl hospital. IChic&so Times, Sea Songs. ' Aloft and alow in the glimmer and glow of stars, ' " Aero and along the path of ta new moen creeping, The dawn of the crescent sils on t'9 dusk C spars, Leans over to kiss the lips of t'w oee sleeping. The wind that, touches the secret pulsa places Aloft and alow on those perfect breasts til snow, . Is crooning across the midnight's peaceful ' spaces -. ' . A song that came out of chaos thronj time to grow. -! And imdjer the bow tho lucent ripylw break In shapes that are fair, in' rhythm that i - sweet beyond measure; i Till the heart is full and no more its thirst can slake In the f athomless fonnt&ins- of joy wnors the sea makes pleasure. Afar where the waves and the sky together are growing, Out of the jaws of night with mutteriag roar, Comes a tremendous thnnder, a sound as of sea kine lowing: The voictf of the deep that is sullenrj smiting the shore. Adown from the measureless mountain of sails above, When the starlight falters and melts at' is too faint to glisten, A sailor lad. murmurs an old-world ballad .of love; And the sea and my heart are silent and tremble and listen. ' . - W. J. Henderson. HUMOROUS. Rich, bread A big pay. roll. , - ! ; The sculptor is the man who carTet out his own fortune. - "Bear with me a little," observed the, grizzly a9 he hugged the hunter. It is the silent wafches of the night that render alarm-clocks necessary. ' An advertisement-in a live pa per is of great assistance to a dentist. It "draws" for him. . , i i Xo,, Nellie, a stirrup is not what thej used to beat eggs with, but to ride, horseback. Teener (t5 the "class rin chemistry): W'aat does sea water contain besides th Vedium chloride that we have mentioned! Head" boy: Fish. Thirty-two hundred babies are bornift the United States every day, and yet people wonder where alhhe squalls and. cyclones come from. Seasickness, it is said; does not orin natc in the" stomach. This may be true, but those who have been its victims c avouch that it starts straight for tl stomach the moment it attacks you. A barber ays that his occupation pnvjj duces the most nervous men ,in th world. This is probably owing to" the fact that a barber Is no sooner through with one scrape than he begins anothec "I'm going to be a contortionist whe I grow up," said little Johnny,. proudly. "I'm in training now, so I want you to tell me what is the-best thing for me to eat." "Green apples, my boy," chuck led tho old man. The Rev. Joseph Cook .says it h hard for a man to get away from his environ ment. The youth painfully realize this when he has a barbed wire orchard fence on one side, a ferocious bull dog on another, and the old man coming at him with a hay fork. A Novel Incentive to Speed. Honest John Blank was for several years the well-know Governor of a New England state. Governor John had a brother William, perhaps equally honest, though less well known, who wa u sportsman, and somewhat "given to thm cheering cup. On one of his' shooting excursions William and ja boon com panion found that their, horse did not trot quite rapidly enough to correspond with their exhilarated notions pf th proper speed, and the companion fired a charge of bird shot into the animal to encourage him. The horse dashed wildly off, the buggy rocking, bats and parcels flying in all directioiS, and William, eruler of the storm, shouteH witk delight: "Shoot 'im ag'in! shoot Ti ag'in ! He goes adm'ably.".--Harper, Magazine. A Gigantic Leaf. At the meeting of the Royal Botanic1 Society of - England, recently, among I other curiosities of plant life exhibited ' .was a leaf of the Victoria Regia water lily, seven feet in diameter, showing tho peculiar structure of the under sido of the leaf, from which one might stipposo the cellular structure of some ironclads and other large vessels was taken. Tho radiating rib3 or veins resemble T gird ers tied together by deep, lateral walla forming many hundred air-tight qeh some so large, as to contain ten ounces of ' water, and, of course, when floating oa the water and filled with air, giving ro-, markable buoyancy to the leaf, a singlo leaf having been known to support weight of 400 pounds. i ... . . - A Good Reason Officer "Private Schulz, why haj the soldier eight buttons on the front of his coat?" ... -';--..-"- -"" ' " Private Schulz--Be cause there aro just eight button-holes." Gernna - i- . . ... J ; M " , . . .', v ... Jt i r7' - V- .. . ij'i - - - . H ' J 1 J Li) 4 t - .
Salisbury Globe (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Oct. 20, 1887, edition 1
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