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The Caricature Plant.

One of the most remarkable plants in
the whole vegetable kingdom is that
known to botanists as the Justicia Picta,
which has also been well named The
Caricature Plant"
At first sight it appears to be a heavy,
large-leafed plant, with purple bios
sons, chiefly remarkable for the light
yellow centers of it's dark-green leaves.
When l first saw this odd plant and was
thinking what q sickly. blighted APP
pearance the queer, yellow stains gave
1T. l was suddenly impressed with the
fact that the plant was making faces,
at me. And my first impression was
correct. This curious shrub had indeed
occupied itself in growing up in ridicu-
lous c%aricatures of the .'human face
divine" until it now stood, covered
from the topmost leaf down, with the
queerest faces imaginable. Nature
had taken to caricaturing. The flesh
colored p%rofiles stood out in strong re-
lief againstthe dark-green of the leaves.
A discovery of one of these vegetable
marks led to an examination of q Sec
ond and a third leaf, until all were
scanned as closely and curiously as the
leaves of the comic papers that form
the caricature plants of the literary king
dom.
What a valuable plant this would be
for one of our professional c~aricatu-
rists to have growing in his conserve
tory! When an order was sent to him
for a speaking likeness of some I'M
happy politician, he could simply visit
his J4sticia Picta with pen and paper3i in
hand, and look over the leaves for q
suitable squint, grin, OR distorted nose
to sketch from. He could, moreover,
affirm with truth that the portrait was
''taken from nature" Cuthbert Col
lingwood, the celebrated naturalist, says
of the Justicia Picta: Zone Of these
plants in the garden of Gustave Dore
would be worth a fortune to him, sup
plying him with a neyer-failing fund Of
grotesque physiognomies, from which
he might illustrate every serio-comic ro-
nance ever written / have never
heard of the cultivation of the Garcia
ture Plant in this country; but botanists
tell us that it is a hardy shrub. / think
we should be glad to see the funny
faces on its leaves. After all the lovely
flowers we are called upon to admire, +.
am sure that a plant evidently intended
to make us laugh would receive q warm
welcomee-Alice May ST. Nicholas.
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Invisible Mothers-in-I,aw

To support the idea that mothers-in-
law have never been %favorably regard
ed, ethnologists tell us that a singular
custom, which enacts that a man shall
never look upon the face of his mother
in-law after he is once married, prevails
amongst numerous savage peoples APP
paren,ly widely sundered by geographic
cal distribution and difference of race.
The custom obtaius among the CAT
tres, of South Africa, among several of
the Australian tribes, and among many
Polynesians. a fact which some people
assume to point to a common origin of
these races, but which others look upon
as a testimony of the existence of a
natural law, as a piece of wisdom in
digenous to each of these countries, and
the direct growth of the individual cx-
periencc.
The custom being found in such wide
ly separated continents as Africa and
Australia, is considered as proving that
it must have been suggested by some
common necessity of human nature,
and reasons are not wanting to show
why savages discovered it was better
for a man not to look upon his mother
in-law. Primarily, say the supporters
of this theory, because his mothcr-in-
law was a picture in anticipation OF
what his wife was likely to be.
Before marriage. a mans mind may
not be open to the cold processes of
comparison, but afterward he begins to
consider what sort of a bargain he has
made, and if his mother-in-law has not
improved with age, the CHASTITY posi-
bility of his wife becoming like her rises
before him. Hence these savage tribes
prescribed the rule that never after mar
rage should q man see his mother-in-
law, and this in time became a social
law Or custom.-NcW York Journal,
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The Newspaper Plant.

1t seems that in certain PARKWAY ter
ritories called New Mexico and Arizona,
there are great tracts of desolatc desert
lands, where the very hills seem desti-
tute of life and beauty. and where the
earth is shriveled from centuries of
terrible heat. And in these desert
tracts grow a curious, m~isshapen. gro
tesqne and twisted plant that seems
more like a goblin tree than a real one.
VI all the trees in the world, YOU
would imagin this to be the most out
cast and worthless-so meager a living
does it obtain from the waste of sand
and gravel in which it grows. And
yet this goblin tree is now being sought
after and utilized in one of the worlds
greatest industries-an industry that
affects the daily needs of civilization.
Those wise folk, the hotanists, call
II goblin tree by its odd Indian name
of the Yucca palm.
This plant of the desert for a long
time was considered valuelcss. But
not long ago it was discovered that the
fiber OF the Yucca could be made into
an excellent paper. And now one of
the great English dailies, the London
Telegraph. is printed upon paper made
from this goblin tree. Indeed, the
Telegraph has purchased a large plan
tation in Arizona, merely for the pur-
pose of ~cultivating this tree, and manu-
featuring paper from it. SO, you see,
the Yucca is now a newspaper plsnt.-
81. Nicholas.
A MARYLAND miss recently Elaborated bor ;ov
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Servant-Senator Jones, ehPP Wen,
Miss - is in, but not to Senator Jones,
rool I,- Conctou Tnn.,t ENfs

Servant-Senator Jones, ehP Wen,
Miss --l is in, but not to Senator Jones,
Good day, Senator Jones!
Then the door wouldslam in his face.
It is needless to say that Senator Jones
soon wearied of such receptions.
One of the strongest efforts made here
to dislodge the senator from the city
has been by the Catholic priests Of De-
troit and other parts of the country.
He wrote to Bishop Borgess., of this do
cese, begging the prelate to assist him
in his love affair. The bishop wrote to
him an indignant reply, reprimanding
him for daring to address such a com
munication OIL such a subject. The
senator then denounced the whole
Catholic church as in a vast conspiracy
to prevent his marrying an heiress
whose fortune it was trying to secure.
Since then he and the priests have sepa-
rated, and he is violent against tho
church.
His eldest son spent two months here,
trying by every artifice to lure him
away. His friends have come here all
the way from Florida; prominent demo-
Gratis from all over Michigan and United
States senators have expended in vain
their energies at d%islodging him.
When the Irish meeting was held hero
not long ago to raise funds for Mr.. Par
nell, Senator Jones was invited to adj
dress the assemblage. When called
upon TO speak, he arose and began a
stump democratic speech having no
reference to the Parnell matter and
greatly disgusting the Irish republicans
present. Finally the presiding officer
called him to order and compelled him
to sit down.
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A Rhetorician.

Professor Ito his wifc)-"My dear. l
wish you would speak more carefully.
You say that Henry Jones cam to this
town from st. Louis.
Wifc-'.Yes."
"Prof.-''Well, now, wouldn't it be
better to say that he cam from St.
Louis to this town?'
Wife-'I don't see any difference in
the two expressions
Prof.-''But there is a difference, a
rhetorical difference. You don't hear
me make such awkward expressions.
BY the way, l have a letter from your
father in my pocket"
Wife-"But my father is not in your
pocket. You mean that you have. in
your pocket, 4 letter from my father"
Prof.-''rhere you go with your little
bubbles. You take u delight in har-
assing me. You are always catching
up a thread and representing it as a
rope"
Wife.-Rcprcsenting it to be a rope,
you mean
Prof.-"For goodness sake, hush.
Never saw such Il quarrelsome woman
in my lite. "-Arhansaw Traveller.
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possible, even the appraised price. Had

possible, even the appraised price. Had
congress appropriated the money at
that time, and the Cherokee council
given authority to execute deeds there
for, the United States might have re.
ceived the benefit Of its unjust and arbi-
trary acts; but this it has in every case
persistently refused to do, holding that
it was in no sense bound to purchase or
authorize to purchase save occupied
tracts. In 1881 $500, 900 was appropri-
ated. Our delegation again en-
deavored to cure a settlement. In
response Secretary Kirkwood wrote Il
letter, Feb. 2S, 1882, taking the ground
that the settlement of the Cheyenncs,
Arapahoes, Kiowas, and Comanches
had never been effected. and that the
United States could only pay for occu-
pied lands. He admitted that the title
is in the Cherokee nation. and suggest
ed hat steps be taken for acquiring the
legal title from the Cherokces to the
occupied tracts.
These deeds were the first formal
or binding action of the Cherokee ma
ton on these lands west of SO degrees
since the treaty of 1866. They covered
all the occupied tracts, which were the
only tracts the United States was au-
thorized to buy or that the Cherokee
nation was under any obligation to sell.
-. After the completion of these
transactions the Cherokee nation had
no unsettled account with the United
States in reference to any portion of
these lands. There was not then and
there is not now an acre of these lands
that the United States is lawfully en-
titled to purchase. . Some parties
made the mistake that the lands had
been coded, which was not true. Some
OF the officials made the mistake Of sup
posing that because the United States
could settle friendly Indians on certain
parts thereof the United States could do
what it pleased with them. If the Cher
okee nation had held its land bv oc-
cupancy title. and had their reserve
been a detached portion of the public
domain, it would have been subject to
executive orders and congressional dis
position. 1t was and is the property of
the Cherokee nation, and can only be
disposed of by it,
1t will thus be seen that the Cherokccs
claim all the land in their territory, in
GLIDING the Cherokee strip, Oklahoma
in fact, every part or parcel of land
within Cherokee country. 1t will fur
ther be observed hat Chief Bushyhead
asserts that no tracts of lands were ON
veyed to the United States other than
that occupied by divers tribes of In
dians.
Meanwhile everyone is watching the
Legislature as if to CLEAN from its pro-
ceedings some hint of the policy to be
observed in staying the tide of immi-
grafton which is ready to pour into the
Cherokee country the moment con-
g%ressional legislation will admitit.
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Vegetable C1Cthino

About two hundred years ago the
governor of the island of Jamaica, Sir
Thomas Lynch, sent to King Charles II.
Of England q vegetable neckt;c, and Il
very good necktie it was, although it
had grown on a tree and had not been
altered since it was taken from the tree.
A gentleman who witnessed W. ma
tives manufacturing this lace, thus de-
scribcs it. A tree about twenty feet
high and six inches in diameter, with a
bark looking much like that of Il birch
tree. was cut down. Three strips of
bark, each about six inches wide and
eight feet long, We're taken from the
trunk and thrown into Il stream of
water. Then each man took y strip
while it was still in the water, and with
the point of his knife separated u thin
layer Of the inner bark from one end CT
the strip. This layer was then taken in
the fingers and gently pulled. where
upon ii came away in an yer sheet the
entire width and length of the strip of
barn. 1weivo sieC::s To1o .h,s taken
from each strip of bark, and thrown
into the water.
The men were not through vet, how
ever, for when each strip of bark had
yielded its twelve sheets, each sheet was
taken from the water and gradually
stretched sidcwisc. The spectator could
hardly believe his eyes. The sheet
b~roadcncd and broadencd until from 4
close piece of material six inches wide.
it became Il iilmy cloud of delicate lace,
over three feet in width. The aston
ishcd gentleman was forced Il confess
that no human made loom ever turned
out lace which could surpass in snowy
whitcncss and ~gossamer-like dclicacy
that product of nature.
The natural lace is not so regular in
formation rs the material called illu-
sion, so much worn by ladies' in sun
mer; but il is rs soft and white. and
will bear washing. which Is not true of
illusion. In jamaica and Central
America, among the poorer people it
supplies the place of manufactured
cloth, which they ANN afford to buy;
and the Weather classes do not by any
means scorn it for ornamental use.
The tree is commonly called the lace
bark tree. Its botanical name is Laget-
to hntearia.-C. j. Russell, in 81.
Nicholas.
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TO N Jelly. 1t is. in this condition. a
good addition tic skinned milk. sun
liower-seed contains 23.6 per cent of oil,
while flaxseed contains 81 ger cent.
Inc OIL is Il mild laxative. and will keep
the coat glossy. Fifty b~us."ls of seed
could be raised from twenty-five thou
sand plants OF an acre.
Prof. j. Troop, of the Indiana arri-
cultural college, says that according to
the trials made at that place the Ohio
olack-cap raspberry is by far the best
he has raised, and that it will stand
more freezing and produce the most
Il of any sort tried, with ordinary
culture. The trait is of good size and
ilrm. If the Gregg we're a little har-
der and earlier, it would stand first. II
requires very good treatment to do its
best.
A farmer ought to have vaseline
about the barn. For wounds, sores, in
Examinations etc. | know of no salve so
healing and antiscptic, or so agreeable
to handle rs this. 1t is not a mvsteri-
Gus mixture. sold as a great animal
specific, yet it has man virtues, and
farmers would do well to use it often IN
cases where one hcsitates us to what
can be best used. 1t is perfectly harm
less.
IL Is said that the first swee corn
raised in New England was from seed
brought TO Plymouth, Mass. in 1919,
by a soldier in Gen. S%ullivan's cxpcdi-
o against the S~usquehanna Indians.
The corn was found growing on the
banks of the Susquchanna. 1t was be-
llevcd then that the variety could not
be Kept pure except by selecting seed
from the suckers.
One OF the most valuable shipments
{. trotting stock known in the annals
of the turf was made from Palo Alto
ranch, California. to the east, April 10.
One hundred head 90 to New York to
be sold at auction.
The farmers of Crawford county,
Pennsylvania, have called n convention
for placing in nomination onc-half of
the state legislative ticket belonging to
the county. The nominees are to be
practical farmers, chosen regardless of
party affiliations.
1t is evident that very little sorghum
will be planted this season with Il view
OF making sirup or sugar from it.
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Too Long To wait.

There was a man at the Central vege.
table market yesterday with q small
sickly-looking century plant in a cheap
pot, and he was mad.
'tLook-a-here!n he said to the owner
of each f1ower-stand in succession,
''didn't you sell me this ERE plant five
years agoP"
Each n answered in the negative.
Then he made such q row that q po1ioe<'
man came up and told him to hush,
Haven't | got a right to talk.S de-
manded the man in high dudgeon.
''When l have been swindled, cheated,
robbed and made a fool of must I keep
silence in this free land?
What is the aus Of your woe?
II bought this plant Of somebody
here about five years ago. They told
me that it was 95 years old. and that Ii
would bloom this spring. I've fooled
away enough time on the thing to- build
a house. I've set up nights to nnrss
it, and I've gone home by day to keep Il
from freezing"
well, what's the m~atterppn Es:s
They lied to me! I've had two
bo.anists examine it. and they tell me-:
the plant isn't 10 years old! Think ST
my f%ooling around for ninety Gears q
see the Internal thing flower out!.''
But what can you DOE"
81 want to find the hyena who PM
the job en- me. Ill make him eat tbs,
whole outfit or break his neckv,
Don't get excited. Take your plant|
and go home
Never"
He lifted the pot high in the sir and
dashed the life out Of the 8 plant.
and then sat stitiy down ON bench.
folded his arms and said:
Ring for your old patrol wagon III
you want to! Tn going IS Bit right
here till I get eyes, on tho man who III
up a ninety-fivc-year job on s confisna.
citizen!'-Detroit Free Press.
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An Application of Scripture

Winnje's mother had been combins
the little girls long and handsome, but
wind-tangled, romp-snarled hair. When
the operation was 1inished-and it was
not unaccomparicd with several severe
pulls-Winnic asked, did you get out
many hairs, mammal"
Yes, dear" was the answer, '.quita
a good many"
'Then He'll have to number them nj.
over again, won't Hc?"--Harper's Ba.
zar.
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An Infallible Remedy.

Tom-How's that cold of yoursp
Bcrt-Oh! l got rid of it.
Tom-What did you take?
Bert-A fresh onc.--Lut-
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A Maryland miss recently dislocated her jaw
while chewing gum.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-02
A Proposed Railroad.
1Erom Winston Sentinel

rom w lDStOn sentinel.
The South Atlantic and Northwestern
Railroad Company is the name of an or
ganization which proposes to build trunk
line, designed to connect the great North
west with the Atlantic seaboard at Smith
vile, thirty miles below Wilmington.
The link necessary to be built is from
Smithville to Bristol, Tenn. Beginning
at Smithville the projected line is aimed
to touch at Conwayboro, Marion and Ben
nettsville, in northern South Carolina,
thence the road will extend to Rocking
ham, III this state. At this point the
syndicate having the road in comtempla-
ton, pause to consider two different routes
to Bristol. one is TO leave Rockingham,
go to Albemarle, in Stanly county, thence
to Salisbury, Mocksville, Wilkesboro, and
through Cookies Gap into Tennessee. The
other route, which is shorter, through bet
ter country, easier and less expensive to
work, and touching al points having larg
er frieghts, extends from Rockingham to
Troy, in Montgomery county, thence to
Lexington. on the North Carolina Road.
to Winston and thence to Yadkinville.
Wilkesboro and on to Bristol
The Sentinel urges the people Of Winston
to take advantage of this opportunity to Sc
cure additional railroad facilities
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-02
Tn" Knights nfI.nhot.
LFran Nov ~

The statement which ramo f-um H.
that tho Knights of fa1pr.a ~ lf..t t....
determined IL cXpsl aN ~a .u. a.
their Assemble VIII bu htII..I tt5tb
faction by all friend Of orr t4zed lat.
The knights have aiwaya tmgd
with emphasis, that thc} have up -tan.
thy with actsof violence rcsori.,l t55|f. ....
conflict between the tya,.n raFrrr- s...f ,#..
wage payers. 80 long. howe .,r. .#
was any evidence that ans - Ili,Ira
blies afforded shelter for -. tut .
was. reason for suapoetiug thu aae ~
vigilance had not been shote Ia tf
ter Of admission 80 the order ITtE
Chicago brauchr. which ar, l.ir.tsf
controlled by AunfeG n hat taeF
tcrs revoked the coud.. .nraifuu
methods Of those enemies ~ ~
which the Knight lHta Hs g.J
cclvc much moro raH~ tHa
hitherto hive
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-02

beautiful French Broad aud from A~he.
Vile on 10 Ro1ud Knob j. one continual
scene of enchaatmeut pTeam land the
poets ldeal-a fleld of wonders - much
has been saii apl written III this wonder
fal country / Will desiS; To al who bare
not beea 10 II ! would SAY -.
Grs. W. ~rsntrH
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-02
cha.. u. .i.nm1.,lan


lLnmherfafi I.tI.,...aI..
Well. Chas. K has C,t 4u.l .fa
original aud only relutie
Jones fal others baae 81 u
has paid our town It visit aud +.
our eitizens on The GreH ludga
Cha7. r. Movement i sDsg
tame aud passionles Th, ,-.
him a quiet, respectful ieu.u.
stated, his apeoch wn ~
There are too many lawyers 81 Cal,-
want you to vote fof mc turgrt m
live too high. ! want SOU 8 tute SIS
when hc bad closed ha rruaf
Rowlaud in response 10 repeated
came forward, aud for about half 8u +. .....
gave h!m just su$ ra-1 CATION
lnl Lnn.nnl ON 49,
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-02
The 'sBOss BOycOtter.''
Especial Cor. STATE CHRONICLE |

1 tSt8tldl tof. STATE CHRONICLE
I see from the Tarboro Southerner and
| the Battlehoro Headlight that the 'boss
| I,boycotter" Of the State has been found.
He lives in your city, Mr.. Editor, and
runs the ''DemOfratic organ"
The Southerner and the Headlight must
no chsconsolate now. The Raleigh News
~ safsear has dropped the names of these
40 papcrs from its list of exchanges
thor state because, forsooth, these two
49, patie journals saw fit to give the
.,o y such genteel "dressng off, as
> reado I and was unable to answer With
tba ooH-o waice and Enfairness that has
characteri, vri that self f-appointcd dictator
of the Dem, eTeatle party, It has taken re
yenge. fear VI and witherlns, upon the
heads of the &Ators OF those journals by
dropping them Ven lls eAGntllge iis1.
Hardened ind @aa must be the heart Of
editor Ashe when he takes such a revenge
unon a brother edl tor Why does he not
nov that he has d, one that which will de
s+rov thosa naners2 How is it possible for
a North Carolina edit, of to get up his pa
ner without the News-t 'bsefvoc-the Dem
ppcrat;c fountain Of wisd om2 Have mercy
Mr., Ashe, upon your brethren of the
nrcss' Be not so hard, brother!
Seriously though, when an editor at
tempts by any such means to coiitfol the
policy of the other journals of the State,
has he no. acted in a manner to call down
the severest censure of not only the entire
pres, of the State, but of the entire people!
The .'boycott" is wrong when practiced by
men who have been maddened by oppres-
sion and wrong, but what can be said IN
its defense when practiced by newspaper
that processes to be the leader-the mouth
piece--the 'sorgan" of the Democratlc
parity Nothing. 1t deserves censure ana
censure only. feel sure it will receive It's
inst deserts AN ANTI BOYCOTTER.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-02
OF Interest To Farmers.

er, Winston, n. c., and get form of the
Constitution and Bylaws for the organi-
zaton of Farmers Clubs. Mailed TO any
address tree Forsyth county has ten
clubs which have organized a County Club
The Carthage Pine Tree Blade says
that prohibition does prohibit in that
town.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-02
Another Editor in Luck--Or Otherwise.
IFrom Carthage Pine Tree Blade

[From Carthage Pine Tree Blade.l
The editor is the happiest man in the
county, his wife having presented him
With a bouncing boy, which he now deems
smart enough to be put on the editorial
staff. May the severe trials of sore shns,
bumped head, &C., while cropping away in
the dark for paragoric, soothing syrup,
and medicine bottles never lower his ap-
nreciatiOn of his handsome heir.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-09-02
Let Poor Orthy Young Men Go.
IFrom Wilmington Star.

The Henderson Gold Leaf says: ''Vance
county is entitled to two free scholarships
at the University, one in the regular course
and the other in the mechanical and agrl-
cultural department, both OF which are
vo,no men be selected, and not those who
are able to help themselves, or whose
fathers are able to send them.