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'Hi v WE MUST WORK FOR THE PEOPLE'S WELFARR SaBSCRITION : $1.0 PER YEAR. W, XL KJLTCHIK, Owner. VOLUME IV. SCOTLAND NECK, X. C, Fill DA V. NOVEMBER 11, ls. MMP.ER 1 1 J At Thirty-Five. Jf h.'itf of thi of-s;'oiv years ami trt Make half the lite t' man; II life is merely time, why, then, I've but to live my past ayain, To finish out my span. ll.it since a thousand years may run I !..rcii di "!!! brief moment's thought 'I v ho-, though it wen- nearly tlone, 1M count in trutli but just begun II ul i te-compii-he'l naught. What have I ib. uer Well, this at least: I've i uul.t my.-e'f t strive; J'u it -.trued that, crust may make a feast; That v t:-iiii i only want decrease! I 1 live at k-.is! at thirty-Jive. 'hicago News. THEY RAN AWAY.- ( v pri'.Ki'i v My aunt, aid the. doctor, was brought up i:i a queer way, different from any A Luci ic:ui girl, though she wasatiAmeri- ; .1. Among the mountains in Pennsylvania there are t vvo or three ancient German town:, ! oiniucti long- before the JJevolu- tii.f-,, bv tiie Moravians. The huge, mas- -Je btc.ne ini Llings st;ml still and are likely to stand for centuries- in which i the early communities dwelt together, yet -cparale. There are the Brother and Si-ter JIo!h?s, and the Getnein, or Cum n:on House. These are occupied now b .- the widows of Moravian missionaries with their children. Thore i-a deally quiet and chilly ( leaulitiess about these ivat dwellings, l.ach little suite of family rooms opens out into wide stone corridors, in which no sp ek of du-t is allowed to remain. A ily would hardly dare to enter the open windows, to disturb that absolute c :di v and silence. My Aunt .Maria was the only daughter of one of these widow -. She lad never i i. ... i .i i. i .. u omci in 'me man me miL:e ."?i-ter N"U-e, where life went on like a clock that moved without ticking. She rose at dawn, and helped her Lather put their three neat rooms inte stiil more jieri'ec t order. Then she at. hi r brc-akfa-t, ;ind was washed for th- second time; ln r ilaxcu hair was plaited behind, ;nd tied with a bow of brown rl!ib !".: then, books in hand, the d- lr.ure nine maiden tiaced across it:- little maiden n xti quadrangle to the school wli i: ' .; t '. ihildrcn of the church w l.i-i-it. :ien x-hooi yas over, she wit'i uer k!;iu;:il:' fv tier mnuier s sn. ii': never had vcntiued i n t the qu .-tri-et al :;e. hi rare occasion-, the children in 1 Commu!:ity houses played hide-and-.se iv j f , it r, tTJw.c attics which i.m under the r afuuad tiie three si les of the "T -quart-. The-e proceeding-, howev w re u-ually regarded as disorderly I tie: ufave widows. 11 it Maria had one adventure in iy ! ; tr : lit j wl is the Dcak if i 'I Urn' does out ot the Hal ocear. i of the flat ocear. !.;; id it. When -he was ten years oh., ; a wav How- it came about I )- lc'vci' knew, Maria herself least of it may have grown out of a tem;o-iu.-anity, the reaction from the k ig :i'-s and quiet. hn Preitag-. 1 lie "Widow Freitas p r-t'.aded her into it. He tiddler plan a hundred time., on the V ty ; 1 r..m school. Some of the to vu .M him of it : it was an evcry-oiy ; r to thein. Win n old Cottf ey ; d t. the next iown t he settlemen vallev, h- b e ron i adei 1 v, ith at bags of con. ib bi.V would hide among the topni-st 1 there lie- -ately until thi: (;id -.a. k, a of th- 'a - it -I'itnb! h.i k in The the lit eves .v.! -Ud.b !:! see i h One Maria a fll.U Ir ':n;ey was reached. ; ot t f ey j id-humored old man, and. after g a little, always brought theni lie empty wagon ltefoiv night- grew, week after Wee her lil lull : :i i - mini 1. under d -n-,oi,th plait, find at last she declared that she would go and - wi.r'.d."' n.ondng in September, td'ti r el John in i gone into the scaool ng up their wraps, thev fook tle-m ilown .a ain. waiked !owly C-t of down tiu -tr. ct to thi inn l running a wav, thev did the- var doi.if, am d. liven liot hurry; they did not know ho v to h :: ry. in the yard stood Sohner's rent wag i.i. heap.-d with sacks. Xol ody w;:- !.e,,r. and they ciimleed up and hid in tie hollows on the top. Prcse stlv the ne his i.iH.es were lu'oicrht out am d ,.iar- d, lottfrey climbed uand craked whip, the gr. at mass shook tnd rocked, and they were oil'. j M ... ;:. always told me that she f as not afraid. She foi got her mother, raid tl lat -h wa committing a horrible ucc.:diug to the rules that she had lx had ;aut if ul, taught. "It was all so strange and be she u-e 1 to -ay ; "the clouds rushing jia-t u- overhead, the moving processioln of trees, the st rong wind I was wild! 1 could have shrieked for joy!"' I always fancied my staid aunt had a turbulent heart under her brown cape. Both the children soon fell asleep, be ing unus'-d to the steady rocking motion. When they awoke the sun was over h.a h Could (lottfrey have spent foul hours in driving live miles? Could lit; be going farther- than lbuiiW Thcjjj i . i -i - . i i . . i. v iii-pefei l to eacn outer m aiuim, out . theiv asuo wav of fiudiug the real sit-4 nation. .John had never mad:: tiiis des pera'e venture before, and therefore kne v none of the landmark-. They dan i not let Gottfrey know that they wer- there until the journey was over, or l,e might abandon them on the road. Wi ." knew what wild beasts inhabited t!u- jungles of laurel through which th drove? N on passed. Gottfrey stopjed to bait his mules, and to eat a hearty meal our of Ids w ell-packed ba-ket. The children had brought no food. They w-iv' hearty eaters, who never had w.u'ed K) minutes for their mid-day n. -A. The smell of Sohners ham and ci.'-ese melted their hearts. They began at nce to think of the misery of their ii. ethers, and to .shed tears of remorse. 1 need not dwell on their sufferings, which were real enough before the jour- y w as over. Gottfrey drove down to Philadelphia. Ti.e trip occupied two days and two i i dits. The children did not discover ti.-jmselves. Their terror of being aban doned outweighed all their other fears. Gottfrey stopped over night at road- -l ie inn, leaving the wagon in the vard. 1 John clambered down, wlicn all was li, and found some turnips in a ighboriug held, which kept the little lanclerers from actual starvation. Vn the morninjr of the third dav, f oittfrey started long before light, and ;.t dawn drove into a wide enclo-u"-v hleh were great house made of The end had come! Now the .dd daow" themselves. lie would be angry, perhaps. But he would not leave them ! lie would take them home! lie unharnessed the mules and led diem away, as they supposed to feed them. Then lie would return to unload iic corn, and would rind them. ( 'A lan lie reached the gate, they saw l.im -ton and oarlov for some lime 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. bhe was weak from long fasting, and for the first time in her life she was untidy and un washed. The neat little Moravian loathed herself. "Look here!"' cried John, 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 wing-. Maria had never heard of fairie-. She had never heard or read of anything which could explain these monsters. A minute later, a man carrying a great basket of raw beef went into one of the tents, and there came from the inside furiou- growls, yelps, and la-t, the roar of a lion. John's red fa He shook as i ice turned to a paty color, if the beasts had him in their jaws, and opening his mouth, uiterca stuill shrieks. .Maria, without a word, got up, ami catching him bvthe shoulder dragged him down from the wagon, towards the gate. It was then that she showed that there was good stulT in Ih 'Hush!'' she said. ''Come out of thi. I am going home." Just then the Hat) of another tent d, and two moving mountain of fh.sh came out, ami advanced towards h,..r. 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 mechanically repeated, looking up at them. Some of the men dragged her out of the path. Who are vou Where did vou come frolll ' they ask ed. John was too frightened to speak. "We came on (lottfrey Sohner's wagon" said Maria, her round eyes still fixed on the elei ihant' 'The Dutchman who brought the corn .'" said one of the men. "Why did you stay behind him; He has gone home long ago. John gave a cry of despair, and the poor girl sank as if she had been shot. Hunger and terror, with this la-t blow had .rushed her stout little heart at hist. The children were in a circus and men agerie to which Sohner, by previous agreement had brought his corn and oats. Semie of the1 women took Marie to their tent and put her to bed. They fed her and nured her tenderly all day. They gave John some" work among the horse, for doing which he received hi meals. The two children were kindly treated and even petted by all the queer, half wild people of the circus. The poor girls who rode on the barebacked horse. in robes of tulle, ran in between the acts to see if Marie had eaten aer soup and to pat her stout shoulders and nod kin lly to her. The next morning the manager sent for the children. "Sohner," he said, "left his wagon for us to bring with us. We go to Easton next week. Will you wait and go with us? We shall pass through vour village. Or shall we semi 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 fare-backed rider looked at the clown, who ierked otT his cup edged. vrith bells, and pa-ed it silver pr ces jingled in it round. T'sit until the-nj was j i-t enough to p;-y for the ( hi fare in the wa-on which ran oi.ee a week from Philadelphia up the L'.-hinh Vailey. They started that very night, loaded with little gifts an 1 pio isi lor the journey. Years pi--e 1 before John and Maiti were forgiven by the good Mor.'.vi ins for their freak. They wen.- regarded, as dangerous characters for a long time, though, indeed, they had never lion mi humble and dutiful at heart as they l.e carae after this terrible ad venture. In process of time they irrcw up and were married. John became a mi non ary, but died in a year after their we i ding. Maria came back, a widow now 1 herself, and to.,k the rooms her mother i had had in t iie Si-ter House. She lived there, for nearly half a cen tury, a calm, orderly, peaceful life. She never again left the quiet building ri which her childhood had been pa--el, or triiil to break it dull monotony. But when sh,. used to tell of thi-, her one adventure, her eyes would burn and her chin quiver. She would never hear an evil word against any of bid's creature. "I, myself,"' she would ay, '"was once among the abandoned of the earth, poor circus players and wiid beast tamers, and they treated me as though T had been their own child. Cod's mark of ownership is on all His children somewhere." -Youth's Companion. The Cork Oak. The growth of cork-oak : California is not a matter of experiment-, its suc cess was demonstrated long ago. The distribution of cork-acorns by the Patent ( Ullce about twenty-live years ago may not have accomplished much in other parts of the country, but it gave us a start, and there are now t rec yielding cork and bearing acorns at a number of different placei in the State. There are tree growing on Mr. llichardon's place at San (Jabrieh There "were samples of cork and acorns shown at the Sacramen to Citrus Fair by H. A. Messenger, of Calaveras County. There are trees of similar age hi 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 teees for dis tribution next year. There is no d.juht about the adaptation of the trej to the State, as thi widely separated places named above all i'urni-di proper condi tions for its growth. It is of course a crop of which one has to wait some time to gather, and therefore need patience in the planter. All the corkwood of commerce comes from the Spaui-h Peninsula, where the trees abound not only in cultivated fore-ts but also grow wild on the moun tain. The tree is like an American oai, ami acorn. it lakes ten years lor j the bark to become a prop u- thickness to be manufactured into bottle stoppers, j lite preservers and seme corks. u nen stripped from the tree it i to be boiled for two hour, cured m the sun l r a week and pivs-ed into llat pieces for baling and shipping. Tin' denuded trunk, like a li -n ndleii of her eggs does not sulk ami q lit the ousinc, but throws out a fiv-h covering for a fre.-h spoliation. One tree lias been known to vield half a ton of corkwood. One pound of cork can be manufactured into ' 141 champagne cork- Th Oalcil cor! 1- bark is sold to cork manufacturing ecu -tre. The most extensive maaulactory in America i at Pitt-bur:'. U dd.- t h : ordinary demands for bark ,1 supply of the buoyan' material, after be ing burned, to mike it still tighter than the original bark, i shipped to Canada and Xew Ilngland, win re it is made 'nto eine cork. The average annual im portation of corkwood into this country, entirely at the port of New York, is 70, -OHO bales a year. A bale v, lighs liWt pounds, and i worth on this side of the water "J0. making a total value of the importations of l,-Jot,ooi(. It com -s m duty free. Pacilic Rural Press. Fih on tiie Desert. most astonishing ui-eoverv was made one day some two weeks ago, on the desert about tmi miles southeast of Mayhew's half-way hoii-e between I'lor- ence and Caa (Jrande, and three miles from Mr. J. C. Loss's ranch. Felix May hew and a .Mexican were out hunting horses when they espied a small water hole some two or three feet in diameter and quite shallow. Mr. Mayhew rode I up to it intending to waiter his hor-e, when he found it alive with lish. Ib left the Mexican at the place and rode to Loss's ranch for a bucket to save th m dive, and when he returned the rapidly receding water had left the li-h almo-t Iry. out ot the little hole wa re ta . n ' four line earn, one five indu-, one ten ! inche, one twelve and one thirteen inches in length, and they are now en joying the hospitalities of Mr. Mayhew's water tank and may be seen by any one hat passes his station. 11 w tiie carp reached the water hole is the great my ierv, as no one has noticed sullicient overflow of the Santa Cruz to bring ;hem across sixty miles of desolation, md vet there i no other way of account-hi"-for their presence in the dc-cit.-' Florence ( Ariz. 1 Lutei ju ise. A PONY FARM. i 1 ! An Annual Pviming and Brand ! in on ChincoteaLrne Island. Stirring Scones Witnessed by Great Holiday Crowds. '1 b'fc the pi i?i y, g( nt!-;m an ! Thar ain't no liar r traw ler on tin.' i-laud. Whoa, thirl" Thi: .-p-aker, a tall. aL."eir chap with unkempt h d. a cardinal shirt, blu. overalls and baref oted. a typical -peei-men of the native w is holding by the lone' mane a iv-ti diminutive "!'', i.e.- rai-.n. am: p o; wi.it h nae, w ithia the I a t d cad" made' of Chincot e.'t: we, Ya., in with its great ovster depo the idand connection I lainoll- throughout the eountrv. And while he j wa o iferously expatiating upon the j -peeding qualities of hi harge the j crowo was constantly augmenting in size, a curious heterogeneous congrega tion of people, w ho came in boats from the Virginia short- and in the cars from the back count i-s in Maryland. This year, however, the attendance has not bren confined exclusively to residents of the immediate neighborhood, but Phila delphia, Xew York, Baltimore and Washington have continued largely to swell the crowds from the rural districts. Conspicuous among this great audience are the colored people who regard the event as a holiday and are alw ay- present in full force. These pennings take place annually, and for weeks great preparations are made by the people to attend them. The beautiful bay of hiue-oteague is clotted thickly with sail of all kinds of craft the tiny sail boat, the canoe, with its mutton li"-- white win - the hii"- eve. .-i,,, , ,, , j.i 1 nh.,1 1 ! the nungv ami the schooner a ti led ;(1 1, " " , . .... ! " on uuiaiiu HtllH ilU'd (ill lulling i . i .1 4 , , i toward the one ureat k t . Here, too, ' comes the steamer from Franklin Citv j having on board the sightseers f,,,",,; ! Ai,,,.!,,,, 1 ,1 , ,, ' - 1 i -Maryland and the up-country lieople. rn,e,- .,11 1, , ui o ,i ' " ... e 1 iiev all rush pelt nieli to the centre of ! attraction, where the va-t crowds : good-naturedly jmshing and jostling each other for vantage ground black and white, men, women and children, mixed up in almost im xt ricable confu sion. It is almost impossible to learn any thing definite as to the origin of the Chiu coteaguc pony, or an intelligent version of whence it came. A great many claim that there are an offspring of the pony of the Shetland I-h s and mu-t have found their w av to Chincot eague from a large steamier that wa 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 almo-t submerged Chin coteague it came near annihilating them. In sie the Chincot eague pony ap proximates that of the Shetland. The hair on their bodies is thick ami shaggy and their manes and tails are long and glossy. They are strong, hardy little fellows, roaming wild on the extreme southern end ot the island, feeding on the hav and tender roots which grow in luxurious abundance in the salt mar-hes bordering on the bav and the Atlantic Ocean. W are divided are brought in thev into what is known in the vernacular as herds, and each Ir rd ha- its own peculiar mark or brand to dis tinguish it 1 Tv 111 the other, audi thus ob viate the diiliculty of dispute as to iden tity or owner-hip when corralled for branding. These bran ling irons are made according to the notion of the owner, representing the initial, star, ?pear head, crosses, etc., and are easily distinguished by the owner. The men who herd the ponies are ex perienced rider--, and in throwing the lariat would put some of the cowboys to blush. They are all mount -d on fleet horses and each one is pro. i"d with a long whip and l-.so. They start out in different directions and by a circuitous route come up within sight of the ponies, quietly feeding on the alt marshes, where they surround them. The sudden appearance of the riders generally frightens the ponies and a -tampede cm les. Then comes an cx- citing chase for miles, the herders usual lv coming out the victor. The ponie- are gradually gathered together in mas; and treated kindly until their fright at the sudden di-turbance has somewhat sub-ided, when they are driven to their pen, where the heading takes place, which is an immense space cuclo-ed with aboard fence. II re the young cults are picked out. lab died, and haltered together. As is well know n, a colt will, by iu-tinct, follow its mother, and, a a reult, the colts of one herd are easily distingui-hed from another. The arrival of the herders with the ponies is the -ign.al for the wdhb -t ex citement among the spectators, an-1 loud cheers greet their coming, and the po nies are u-heivd into the entloure with wild hurrahs and clapping of hand, j Waille any" more," was Flos-ic's die The proees, of branding is not only cx- ' !mn citing, but exceedingly dangerous, and accidents have frequently b; en the re suit. It requires an expert in the bu-i- ne-s to succe luuv manage it. T pony is brought out. and white one man holds his head the branding iron in hands of . ; : 1 th-j hip. The v t rdduriiy r- q :::--. s in: re l e J r.ii t '' v ill, o w n dow n i 'pes al'e tied ! o , n ih ;i . ( i , :x in a re ir, caui-riy W e TV t e W i i.l 1 e 1 1 O :n tie- the p kerp 1' nu n .if ki: hi-t. to Ki t i re to 1 I ' m taking c i iv- -pM-uut eu-tar.ce lromtl.e hoy- ;f,et: wildly paw the air. When tie- hrtmling i oomph ti d tin- co'ts are again tur..ed ioo-e, and they trot nimbly v'1 t th- ir mothers, and, ur.Ie-s a gn at m tnv e.iyi.rs are pn-ent. the whole lead i aueiii u t out o! th-' p. n. ami, re i t strained by the whip or I.1--0. ar e-!l 1 n tlh the -pee I of the wind, and .v lo-t to -lght in th" gre-.t wood. 1 .- ormerl v lie-.' pO.'i les c, 1 ild bought very cheap, but since the facilities for travel to tin- islam! h ive increased and the p ipulation grown to such large pro portion, tin y command higher juices and are much sought. after by the wealthy for beech driving. They are ea-ily trained, and when properly cared tor after being taken from their niar-hy home are haml-om.' little specimens of horseflesh. ' Philadelphia Times. Helping Out the .Minister. A -t r tnge: chanc; threw me in com pany, to-day, ip a -treet onier, with an ! oculi-t and auri-t and a miiii-ter, write , the Cliicago Journal' "Sidewalk Stroil ' er." In tiie course of lite conversation j the oculist mad" a curioii and in-truetie I remark about the eyes and cye-ight. He I said: "It is a singular thing that when I a man thinks his eyes are all out of sorts, 1 and that his cye-ight 5 failing, there is ' apt to be nothing the matter with him. and that when he thinks hi eves are all ire right, but that th: ohiect- of s'mht ' too small or blurred, then hi evesighi is ... lailinii. When ;i fellow can't .cc as well hc Umm1 to 51,1,1 lV,'ls lik" ni1,!,in- ''lung his eye, he is not m a very bad wav; but when he comi.laius that the - 1 newspapers are not printed in a large or 1 1 1 clear type a 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 w ith his ears; but when he thinks his cars are all right, and that everybody .uoui.d him mumbles his words, then he is going deaf."' These remarks caused the minis ter's eyes to sparkle somewhat, and he sail, "What a beautiful illustration. Come and hear me preach next Sunday, and see how 1 will u-e it. I have a scr- iuon on the stocks from tin text, 'The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked ; who can know it'" and I have been ( udgeling my brains for two clays for some adequate illustration of that text. Vou see, when a man I .'lames himself for everything that goes wrong, he h apt not to be to blame at all: but if he thinks he i a paragon and everybody cl-e at fault, then he is apt to be all wrong, and the cause of all his own mi -cries. Vouhae no idea how much eaier it is to amplify a thought when you have even o : re.div good illustration." j " " i A Odilinission That Was Declined. 1 1 . x : 1 1 1 . v 1 1 1 -1 - na e a gooi 1 maav uueer cih- tomers, and limy have advantages fm observing what vague ideas it is po-sible for a man to entertain respecting art and nature too. An ex soldier went to the studio of I). J. Cue, of IJrooklvn, one day. to inspect a picture of Lookout Mountain that the arti-t had been paint ing. The picture pleased him, and he evii b ut ly had thought of purchase, but he was suddenly .-truck with a brilliant idea that he communicated thu: "I wa in that tight, mister, and I'd like vou to paint my picture 01 that. Let's see. You could paint me right here in this lidd, facing front, with my left hand resting 0:1 top of the mountain.'' The man was in thorough earne-t. He did not see that if drawn to scale his iigtire would be abo.lt oOOO feet high, and that he would have a reach of arm that would enable him to grasp at an object six or seven miles away. Mr. Cue precipitately declined the- commis sion. IJrooklvn K tgle. Chicago's Waning Stock Rn-iiie--. Chicago is grain illy fe ling the west ward drift id' th..' cattle and hog busi ness. Tiie 1 r.tflie of tie- great stock yards 1- les-.. ning, and the time is m-;:r at hind when Kan-a- City pork prod in-:-and Montana and IXew Mexico dre-sed beef will jiarti dly supplant the Chicago pork and beef in L i-iern markets. Not many years ago ail the beef consumed j in Boston and vicinity was driven on the j hoof to Brighton, Medford and Water i town. It now comes largely in refrig ; erator car. Chicago will sooner or j later mee t a similar experience. IJo-toii i Cultivator. Will Outgrow It. 'I'm not going to plav with Willie "Willie is a verv nice little b v,"' said her mamma. "I d-,n't like- him. In fact, I don't like boys at al 1,. iinm 1. I me lt is N-w becaue I'm Hot Yoi k buu. M 11MIHC M'KAl'S. Me S. w i k u; ' i-t- r a ; Ildi. -i 1 1 n at A li!lil.it)d are it e w hich .shall reg oming b tt b -phone. iluable re-,u's are : pt eted. Melodious sounding electric whitles are .i i;o t U . and are -aid to 1 taking tin phi! i- of i-iitiic bid- in Pram e. Hi whi-tlei- made . titling a -mill bru-s ti'.iir with -iilt.ddc apilturis -o that it ;:;- again-t tie- -pting of a -uitably 1- lined ( ommunicat'T. L perimviit - -tern t 1 huge o ran -tianier, going knots an h'-m , w di mo t w o nulci al ter its ngne s !d !', e ! -1 d . an 1 : :. ;; -how that al iiim teen 1 or alniiit are stopp 1 1 le-s than a m;ie m a mile nn-l a half as the required -pace to -hp it- pi ogres. The violent colii-lon- in some a-; s tim ing fog m.-tv thu- fie accounted f'-r. A London pa pi r -ays that more than , 2,000.000 glass oes are made evi ry w-.il-in (ieruiany and Switzerland, and one French houe manufactures hoo. 000 of them iiiiiiii!i!l . The pupil is made of colored ghis-, and sometimes red lines are painted on the inner surface to simu- 1 late the vein. Tie- hirge-t number of : these e. cs lire bought bv laborers who 1 are cxpo-ed to tire, and are consequently 1 liable to lose an eye. j A man in Iowa, lias spent fourteen ' years in soliog the problem of boring a , square hole, and he has succeeded. A i company is organized to put his inveu- I tion cm the market. It is -imply an os- j cillating head with chisel edges and , projecting lips which cut out the ct- j ncrs in advance of the chisel. The bal- ' ance of the machine is an almost exact , counterpart of the old-stCed boring , machine. It will cut a ''f mortice in ; from four to live minutes, and doing it ! with perfect accuracy, that a carpenter ' caunot possibly complete in le-s than 1 half an hour. Over (loo railway cars, compo-ed al- most wholly uf steel and iron, are being built in Lngland for the railwavs of Hm- dostan. The climate conditions of India , are as destructive of woclen cars as is j the climate of this eountrv, where cars i - 1 f require cont inual re pairs, and wear out j even faster when not in use than when I actively employed. Car repair here is a large item in the expenditures of the j railway companies, and one let easily reduced. The experience of the Last I Indian railwavs in the use of steel cars will be noted with interest. j A striking in dance of labor--av ing ma- j chinery is that which makes tin cans. -One of the machines tHed in the procs, : solders the longitudinal seams of tin- cans ' at the rate of fifty a minute, the cans rushing along in a cont i minu- st ream. f I course a drop or two of solder is left on the can. The drop on the outside is j easily wiped off, but it is not -o easy to ; secure the drop left on t he in-ide. An in- genious workman has patented an ar- ; rangement for wiping the in-ide of the can without stopping the machinery. , Re.-ult, several thousand dollars in roy- alties in his own pockef, and a saing of tif'eien dollars' worth of solder per day to the linn that uses it. Thirty thousand can- are a day's work for this ' machine. 1 A Tale of Restitution. At one of his Northlield 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 acepiired honestly hii prayer is a sham, and he must make restitution if he expects ever to havr Cod hear his prayer.'' Thereupon a merchant from Dallas, Tex., rose in the audience and told a story that emphasized this point. He hal, he said, got dishonestly from men in his busine,-. some f.,."oo, and had built a house with the money, 't hen Mr. Moody happened along and preached on this subject of re titution and the merchant was present. "I ln-ard vou,'1 he said, pointing to Mr. Moodv, "and I went out into ihe street con-cierjcc-strickeu. I went straight home and told my wife that we must s, ;i that hou-e and restore the money. And we did. We held an auction, and our carpet, our laces, our furniture all left us, and with the proceed we made restitution." The man then told ho .v he and his wife started again in life with nothing, and how he had prospered. His credit, hii prosperity' had never been -0 good. In For It. has iu-t eight v Curtis : li t - , hi-i its a pocket. Lobster salad is forty oe plate, and hard crab sixty. Curtis ("after scanning the bid of fare with monumental relief): Fm so sory. I wanted you to try a Marylami crab, but thev're not on the bill. Mi-s Fortune (-wcetly.: Oil ; fio in- ". quire for them. I saw a hamper of j them being unloaded ju-t as we came jj; the door. Tid-Hits. ! A Hospital Without Alodiol. Thirteen years ago a hospital was started in London on the plan of dis- 1 1 j carding the u-e of alcohol except where , everv other meat:- failed. Since the bo- 1 ginning only four ca-es out d" tens of ; thousands hav t; been t re.ated with :deo- ! hoi, and the jtercentage of recoveries has been much larger than in any other hospital. Chicago Time-'. Aloft n.". alow ".!.. -;..s;.s:).r r? ! gi-.w - f s'.nrs. A' T--. S11I ' . ; M . ; ,V. 1: . h .!.,.. .... The .U-i, , I !.- t t ' f t.. : t - .. -ll ' i ' The woi 1 tl ... ' I';1"S Al-'ft md f. '. . ,. : j. Si .- e, In iT'i-liiig .1 m .s )., S) S 1 A ll t I. .4. H . ee t line t- , 1 . A iid under t In- I- : ! e III Sl.ll pS t Sell II e ! , o, p.,:,.,- ' ' . ' I-: , i t - j - .1 . . !.l ' - 1 i . : , ' . .:.! T 1 j j.'t I 1. 11. I'l ! ! . ! 1 : 1 . ! ! t . - at'! l-eii I . 1 .. e Till the l.efi! t I- fa, I .-o, i , c.-in -lake 111 the fith -111:. te ee the m m 1 11 a i.- - p- .1 - i.. Afar wlii-ii' II..- veins iieiM.e -,. !..,., it., r nr.- go- me, Oat ,.f th,- j.-iws of nil.t at. in 1 in ri -nr. Col HCS .t tlVlllet tl ills thllllltl. 1 - 1 :l, , ,f sen W Hie 1 1 1 e. The 01. tf the tie p tl lit is ,.;,, i, !v -Illlt III"; I he il l- A.l.iWII ffotll the IOe;-lll t lis- tlo-.i!,!i.U t f -nil- al.- o t , Will II the -t.ohe i fjtlUi- and Hi. a-. 1, 11, 1 I - 1 1 o f ;1 ill! to e I I -' 1 1 , A sailor lu.i mi. 1 111 .11 - an o'.il .-lU 1-tiH.i.t of I..M-. V X 1 1. i tin- s ;i an I m hi . li t lilt- silt lit ik I In inhie and h-teii. ' W J Ui 11 del soil. lit MOKtM S. Kit h bread A i r p qv toil. The sculptor is the man whoenrve-t i ait his ow n ft a t ui.e. "lie-.r with me .1 little," observed the gri!v a he hugged the hunter. 1? is the silent watihes of the night that fender alarm lot U - ih-cc al v. An adverti-t m-iit in a li- papei is of great assistant c to a d.-nti-t. It 'draws'' bu him. No, Nellie, a stirrup is not what they met! to beat t e"s with. Cut to ride hojs( ba k. Temherito th-- tlis in 1 lu mist ry ) : What does sea w at i-r 1 on h-ii u luttidesthn Sed iuill .' Idol id t hut e ha e Mil nt iolied ? I b ad boy : l 'i-h. Thirty two hundred ! !.'..- an- b..rnin the Id.ited St tic- 1 tv -!.; mid et peoph- wonder In i. .til th -q-i iH- :.lid cych mes come f r. an. Sea-iekm is i said, does n- t i igi nate in tie- Mninn h. Tid- ma be true, but t lio-e who have been it - ii t ims can avoiiih that it st a it - -t 1 ai g h t for the stomach the moment it att 11 k- oii. A barber s:i s thai his 01 1 upatioii pro duces tic ino-t iM-rviiin u. 11 in the world. This is probably owing to the fact that a hasher is no sooner thiotigh w it h one scrape t ha 11 in- begin- another. ' 'I'm going to be a onto) t ioni-t when I glow Up." -aid little Johnny, proudly. ''I'm in tlaitiing now, -., I want vol to till nu- what i- tie- be t thing 'm lie- to eat." '"Creeii apple, my boy,-' ih i'k- led the old lii'ill. The Ib v. .b.-.-ph Cook -ays it 'n hard for a man to get a v. a fenii hi- nviion inent. Tie- outh .aiafidlv paliei this win 11 he ha- a biibt 1 wire on h ird fi nee on one -idi , a b roiioiis b-dl dog 011 another, and the old m m ii-ming at him w it h a h 1 v 1 01 k . A Noiel IliceiitiM' t( Speed. Honest John Blank was for several year- the well-know Coventor of a New Ilnglaiid state. C vi rimr John hid & brother William. ihap- equally honc-t, though b-s well known, who v ;ch a sport-man, and .-..im-what giyen hi the cheeri li g ' li j 1. Mi one of hi- -hooting (.vur-ion William and a boon com panion found that th-ar hor-e did not trot quite lapidiv enough to cim-oinl with their ehdarat' -l noti .11- of the pioji'-r sj.ee. I, and th om pan.0.1 fired a ( -harge of hii d -let into tie- animal fo encourage him. The hor-e dashed wildlv off, the buggy rocking, hat- and parcels flying in all direction, and William, rub-rot" the -torm. -hou?et with deli-dit: "Sho-.t im agdn '. -hoot din ae'in! Ib- m,e, a-lmablv." Harper' Magazine. A Ciira 11 tie Leaf. At the meeting of the H e. d Botanic Society of Lngland, rcintiy. among other curiosities of pi ant life -hibited was a leaf of the Yo ; ,ri 1 It- gia w ater lil V. seven feet in diameter, -homing the peculiar '-trneture of the- under -He of the h af, from whhh one might ujijos ! tie: ce-lhiUr -tr l'-tu.'e- of .-ome iromladi and other large vi -u !, w as t -.ken. 'I ho i radiating ribs or veins re-cmble T tgird- er- tied tog' th' r by d- j,, ieial v. .tin, forming many hundred air-tight cdU, some so large a to contain ten mine.:- of water, and, of our-e. when floating on the water and tilled with air, giving re markable buoyancy to the h af, a single leaf having be-en known to supjort a weight of pound-. A (iood Keasoii Otiicer '-Private Schulz, why ha Ihe sol li- r eight buttons on the front of Id coat.'"' Private Schulz - - B cau-e there are ju-t eight button hole-." - ' liciuull ri r-d
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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Nov. 11, 1887, edition 1
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