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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
Chicken story.
Franklin Timea ]

Mr. George Joynen . hard working
farmes, who lives about A miles
Southeast Of Louisburg, tells US
that during The laat spring bo fund
q partridge nest on Lis farm, in which
there we're Is partridge eggs and
one hen egg. Az u took longer for
the former to hatch than the. lsttOr
he decided 10 watch results, but on
going ~ the nest one day he found
the13 partridge eggs, but the hen
egg had hatchrd and the partridge
bad lsfl the nest With the chicken.
He says thai the chicken thiyed and
is now wild 10 the woods on bis farm;
and says that be has made several
sltsmpts, 70 catch IL, but failed.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
Thankful, and Yet

| am no hog, l only seek
My three times seven meals per week,
Two suits Of clothes, q PLAIN black
hat,
A pair Of shoes, but one erayat.
For brown stone fronts | do not care,
And when | ride | pay my fare.
Like Gould | do not want the earth,
I'm satisfied with my small hearth.
I'm thankful that my wants are few,
/ say no more I'm no Depew.
Tm thankful, lam content, and yet
Sometimes feel a faint regret
That | am not like other men,
Who hold four acres now and then.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29

AsBuRY PARK, N. j, October "a.
The New Jersey sea coast towns
received their full share Of the severe
northeasterly storm that set in yes.
terdaY. All day to-day Il has storm.
ed with no abatement. TIE damage
sustained to the shore towns, from
Sandy Hook to Barnegat inlet, by
the severe storm and heavy tides, will
loot up thousands of dollars.
The most severe damage was sus.
tanned at Monm1uth beach. The
sea cut a big gap into the bluff and
made q clean sweep across the drive
way about 80 feet wide
The Gsllee fisheries Just sou b Of
Sea Bright we're 10 q terrible state.
The sea had washed and made o
clean sweep am jng the fishing houses,
carrying destruction with IL.
In front OF the big 0ctagon house
ut Sea Bright and heavy sea dashed
up over the breakwater and into the
basement Of tue hotel. The bulk
heads at this place were badly dam-
aged.
All along the Shrewsbury river on
the other side Of the driveway the
high tide had wrought sad havoc.
Everything that was within reach Of
the tide was sweptaway. Boat houses,
summer houses, stables, could all be
seen either ajrift or standing In from
eight 10 ten feet Of water.
At Nofmandie by the Sea, the
ocean swept over the tracks Of the
New Jersey Southern railway and
made such bad breaks that at 0
o'clock this morning railroad traffic
had to be suspended.
Much Of the bluff at Asbury Park
was washed away, and al Ocean
Beach tue hat houNs Of Me. scho
aell were carried away.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
Within the Law.
lDetroit Free Press. ]

II want to be posted in de law"
said a coIored woman who called at
the Gratiot avenue station the 9TH
er day.
"Well?" replied the sergeant.
"I've got a GAL"
"Yes."
"And she's got q beau"
"Very likely"
II can't abear him, an | doan'
want him round de house. What
co'se shall | take?"
slave yeu ever given him q hintp"
"Lands, sab! but q Jess tole him
to cl'ar out or Id bust him to
smash! Ireckon that's a him."
"But he didn't goP'
"No, sab. Now, den, | want to
know how fur | kin go an keep
widin the law. I've talked to hin,
frowed water on him, hit him wild a
club, called him names, made de
dog bite him, an p'inted a pistil at
him, but he won't stay away How
much furder kin | go an not break
de law? Could | dun stan in de
yard an NOW him across de legs wild
an old scythe when he cum up IN de
da'd9- Could de pistil 50 of acCi-
dentally9"
When advised to try peaceful
measures she Indignantly responed:
"Dat's what did do on the very
90 of. | took him by the collar
n frowed him ober de gate!'
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
LISTEN! LISTEN!
CHEERING HONEST Gov
ERNMENT.
IiAcoln and Cleveland Linked
With Honest Government.
Philadelphia Times.

L 90 - NJ
IiAcoln and Cleveland Linked
With Honest Government.
Philadelphia Times.
| When the name Of Abraham Lin
coin was mentioned in the monster
Democratic mass meetings recently
held in the Academy Of Music and
Horticultural Hall, il was greeted
with round after round Of deafening
applause.
When the name Of Grover Cleve-
land was mentioned IN the Lincoln
Republican mass meeting that
crowded the Academy Of Music from
parquet to dome on Monday eyen-
ing last, it was greeted with repeated
rounds Of heartiest applause.
Few of the Democrats who cheer
ed the name OF Lincoln would vote
for Lincoln against an equally hon-
est and patriotic Democrat; and few
Of the Republicans who cheered the
name Of Cleveland would vote for
Cleveland against an equally honest
and patriotic Republican; but these
demonstrations were earnest tributes,
to the statesmen whose names are
inseparably linked with honest gov-
ernment.
No assembly Of American citizens
on the Continent, called to advocate
clean politics and honest govern
ment, could fail to greet such names
as Lincoln and Cleveland with
heartiest cheers, for they, more than
any others during the last half CEN
tury, stand out insingleness Of tidel-
ity to honest government. Honest
citizens will differ from their politl-
cal policy and vote against them, but
when the single issue of clean poll
tics and honest administration calls
the people into action, there will be
hearty cheers for both-not for the
parties they represent, but for the
public integrity personally typified
in the records they have written.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
ACARD.

Haviny, in the past, been acting
mainly with the Republican party,
but believing to do so longer would
be SHINING against light and knowl-
edge as well as the best interests Of
my people and country, / hereby
absolye myself from the Republican
party, and in the future will act
with the Democratic party whose
principles, | honestly believe, will
best preserve the safety and well be-
ing Of society, and best promote the
interests, honor and prosperity Of
our whole people. | am impelled
to such a course, not to court favor
or popularity with any man or set Of
men, or any organization or party
by whatever name known, but be-
cause to remainlonger a Republican
| would be endorsing Reed, Lodge,
Mckinley 6 Co., and to do so / feel
that would be false to myself and
to those who are dearer TO me than
life. III. W. MooRE.
October 18th, 1890.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
APrlyate "Tip." (:
tNew Yok Herald.1

"S1me sinner IN castin' reflections
pom this he.e church, announced
the Rev. Poindsxter CRANBERRY, ''by
putin chicken feathers in de con.
tribution hat. III dat pusson don't
cease he's wickedness dar'll be some.
body dars goin' Ter be catChed some
moonlight night, sbuah ~ Ia stand.
in' heah."
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29

apology, but as duty to my class
and country.
Let us hear no more of this cant
about the duty of loyalty to any
party; for me and mine be the party
that does the most for all the people
at the least cost, whatever may be
its name. George Hiadmaa, In Bel
fora Magazine, New York. .
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
A stalwart Call ON Mr.. Quay.
[PoiisYilIe ilepnblican. /

To NJ. s, Quay: Withdraw Della
mater, replace him with Cooper
Hastings ser any other Republican
except Andrews and Frank Leach,
ana al viii be forsiven--unlil the
next tina Thlssia The pleading OF
many thousands of stalwart Repubs
llcsns.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
The Happy Porter's Quarter.
washington star.1

The Pullman cars carried over :.
OOO, 900 passengers for the past year,
which means over sl, 10000 70 PULL
man porters.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29

Oxford Day: Many famili s wan
to move to Oxford at once but can
not get houses to live In. A number
of dwellings are now going up, and
more will follow.
| Goldsboro Argus: The purchase
Of cotton on this market thus far this
yeas aggregate seventy thousand
dollars over and above the amount
paid out for the staple at this time
last year. -
Charlotte Chronicle: The cotton
season has been open but little over
month. and yet there have been
%, 800 bales of cotton compressed at
the Charlotte compress on the cotton
platform. This is mors than one
third of the entire amount compress-
ea during the whole of last season.
Sanford Express: The cotton
crops in Sanford, Pocket and Deep
river townships were never go good
Some Of the fields will yield bale
to the acre. The cotton receipts
show three hundred m,re bales
brought be than last season. At
the end of the season it will show q
thousand or fifteen hundred more.
Southport Leader: The hosting
engine, to be used in connection with
the Coaling & Contracting Co.'S dock
is here, aud is a fine one. Al an in.
dication Of the future possibilities of
the coal trade at this point the Com,
+paLy report inquiries for coal from
steamers which will make this port
if they can get coal for their use.
The Company are busily at work on
their dock, which is ready for coal.
Weldon New: Among other things
brought to light by the blasting
which is gong on at the mill was
sharks tooth which was found Tues
day 1t is three inches long. The
blasting is in solid rock and some
feet below the earth's surface and
how the sharks tooth got there would
be hard to tell. It seems to sub.
stantiate the theory maintained by
some that once upon time that por-
tion oil the State east Of Roanoke
river was a part Of the ocean but be.
came dry LAID by some great up
heavel of nature,
e Winston Daily. A farmer living
in the upper edge Of Forsyth came
to Winston few weeks ago and in.
dulgsd il q spree. He then disap
peared mysteriously, and his family
and neighbors made q search and
sent OUT inquiries for him, but in
vair. A few days ago the anxious
wife received q letter from him from
Indiana. The intelligence that is
brought is that he had made his will
since his arrival in the West, and
that il was in favor Of the heart.broken
wife, The letter closed with the fol.
owing paragraph PLEASE send me
enough money to get back home on"
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29

II stocks 20 much lover IN Wan
stree. may not JAY Gould Be obliged
70 again haul out that hair trunk and
exhibit bis securitlesl
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29

S1-Ifcb, Mango, and Scratches on
human or ANIMALS cured IN 80 minu-
ties by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion.
This never fails. Sold by
N. NJ. JOHNSON q Co., Druggist
Durham, NJ. g.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
POETRY.
Lifo,s seven Stages.

Life's Seven Stages.
Only baby,
/ Kissed and caressed,
| Gently held to q mothers breast
Only a child,
| Toddling alone,
| Bnghting now its happy home.
Only o boy,
| Trudglng to school.
| Governed now by a sterner rule
Only a youth,
Living in dreams.
Full of promise life now seems.
only man,
| Battling with life,
Shared in now by loving wife.
Only father
Bnrdened with care,
Silver threads in dark brown llair.
0nlya graybeard, ~.
Toddling again, @
Only mound,
0'ergrown with grass,
Dreams unrealized rest at last.
----s sO.----
Sometimes.
Sometimes ! think you will be glad
to know
That I have kept you ever in my
heait,
And that my love has only deeper
grown
In all that time that We have lived
apart.
Some day when you have slipped
away from care,
And idly fall to dreaming Of the
past
And idly think of all your life has
missed,
You will remember my true love
at last.
Or il msy come 10 pass some dIeary
night, 1.--s
After q daY that has been hard to
bear,
When you are weary, heartsick and
forlorn,
And there is none to comfort or TO
care,
Thaiyou will close your tired eyes to
dream
OF tender kisses falling soft and
light, f.
Or restful touches smoothing back
your hair
Andsseet words spoken for your
hearts delight.
0hlithen Jou will remember and be
4 glad,
Thatl have kept you in my heart,
And that your hearts true home will
still be there,
Although We wander silent and
apart1
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29
STATE NEWS.
Gathered From Our Exchanges

Oxford Day: Many famili.s want
to move to Oxford at once but cans
not get houses to live In. A number
Of dwellings are now going up, and
more will follow. .
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-10-29

Goldsboro Argus: The purchase
Of cotton on this market thus far this
yeas aggregate seventy thousand
dollars over and above the amount
paid out for the staple at this time
last year. ..>
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-23
THE PROSPEROUS ERA.

The complete review Of the situation,
as presented from the various business
StandpOints in this city, which appears
in this issue of the GLOBE, shows not
only most satisfactory condition of
affairs, but likewise a most cheerful
prospect for the future. Gentlemen
who are most thoroughly representative
OF the various industrial, commercial
and financial interests Of the city speak
candidly and intelligently of the past,
the present and the future of st. Paul:
and it is ii noteworthy fact that there
are no croallerS among them. In the
splendid summing up of the situation
made by Mr.. COCHRAN, the universal
opinion is expressed when he says the
TecuperatiVe era has set in, and from
this time forth we will be freed from
the experimental conditions which
hampered the prosperity of the city in
its past eras. The boom period and its
reactionary effects are all bygones.
We have safely passed the crucial pc
riod in the development of all new
cities, and now feel sure of our footing.
We have reached bedrock, and are
building on the everlasting foundation.
The fact that we have entered upon
the era of genuine and perpetual pros
perity affords no reason for a relaxation
of our efforts. On the contrary, there
is all the more incentive for renewed
eXertiOn and fresher zeal in the great
work we have undertaken Of metropo-
lis building. We are not. as we were
few years ago, seeing through a glass
darkIy. The faith of the past years
has borne rich fruition in the splendors
Of the present, while that which lies
ahead of us is no longer conJectural or
Speculative, but certainty assured, if
we only perform our part. The pioneer
work has been done. The achievements
of the future can be calculated with
mathematical precision.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-23

Hence, as the vital prerequisite to all
further efforts to deal with the universal
labor troubles, there must be stimuli
taneous disarmament of the European
nations. The universal peace must
first be established and maintained,
which can only be done by stripping
the soldiers of their arms and equip
ments, and then setting them to work.
When this is done, and the European
nations shall realize that the time is
come to learn war no more. simple ap-
plication of the principles of Christian
ity will perform the rest.
1t is said the young emperor of Ger
many has been deeply impressed by
Pope LEo's communication, and has
frankly avowed his belief that the gov
ernments of Europe ean accomplish
nothing unless organized Christianity
comes to their aid. 1t is also limited
that the emperor's convictions upon
this point were the real cause of the
split between himself and the IRON
willed chancellor. BISMARCK has al
ways held to the Napoleonic faith
that heaven in usually on the side of
the heaviest artillery. and, acting upon
this principle, has had but very little
use for the church, except as an instru-
ment to accomplish his plans.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-23
WILL. GET TOO SHORT.

There has been a full supply of the
prophets of evil for man and fOreboderS
of the end of the world, but they have
lacked the ingenuity of the Frenchman
who finds data to show that the
race is to run out because men
become too short to live. He has
c0llated information from army rec
ords and many other sources at diff
ferent periods to show that the height
of man has been steadily growing less.
He finds the solution Of questions in
the past that were obscure, and is able
to compute the future and the conclu-
sion of the present human family with
some eXactness. The facts, he alleges,
are surprising and alarming. He goes
back three centuries, or nearly so, and
finds that in 1910 the average height of
man in Europe was five feet nine inches.
In 1890 it had fallen to five feet six
inches, and thirty years later it was five
feet five inches, and at the present
time it is fraction over five feet and
three inches. The ratio seems to
be a shortening of about one inch
in forty years. 1t will be easy
to compute from this the duration of
life, If it can be presumed that the
process is to continue until nothing re-
mains to shorten. CULVER perhaps
discerned one of the later stages. I'm
less animals and other things are sub
iect to the same law, difficulties will
appear in the Lilliputian eras. 1t is
probable that the mixture of races and
the fresh blood of the new world will
temporarily delay the shortening proc
eSs Oh this side of the water, so that
the old nations will first disappear. 1t
is noted that Chinese and Asiatics, not
having mingled with other races, are
shorter than Europeans. The rule
works backward, and proves that the
early races were giants, as the Scrip
ture relates. OG and GOLIATH could
not compare with their ancestors.
There is no record as to the height of
ADAM, but, by the computation of the
Frenchman. he could have easily kicked
fruit for EVE from trees twenty feet
high. 1t is to be regretted that he was
not embalmed and preserved for the
Chicago fair. A new race will probably
be created when the present one runs
ont
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-23

Miss JENNEss usually gives her hear
erS good advice, and does not forget the
loyalty of her sex to fashion. A large
waist is apt to be punished by painful
constraints. Miss JENNEss tells it's
possessors that there is better eXpedi-
ent than corsets. Exercise of the arms
and shoulders in systematic and regu-
lar way. she says, can be made to reduce
the waist measure two inches in six
months. 1t will also improve the sys-
tenn and involve none of the evil effects
resulting from the corsets. The phys
ical culture tendency is one OF the prom
Using signs of the coming of the more
graceful and shapely woman.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-23

years of age had been in the
habit of getting drunk, and had
no intention to reform. Cases of irregu-
larity in sleep, small eaters and big
eaters, tobacco users and abstainers,
were well divided. There were those
who had never had need Of physicians,
and others who had survived their
frequent attention. InvalidS were found
who had not seen perfect health in
haIf-century. The only general dedu c.
tionS of this inquirer were that the mod
elm conditions of life were adding to its
duration, and the alleviations Of modern
science were making extreme age less
period of pain and discomfort. The
wisest man of the old time understood
the physical economy to be arranged
for continuance of seventy years, and
only those of exceptional natural
strength got up to eighty years. Inc
greatest aid to longevity is probably
cheerfulness and freedom from all
disQulet; not, however, mental stag
nation. But if it could be that
a large number of people might
be made to totter along for thirty or
forty years beyond the limit of the
Psalmist, it may be doubted that it
would be of advantage to the world or
the individuals. Persons OF 100 or more
years seem to be mummuies that their
friends have forgotten to lay away. Old
age in the abstract, and at times in the
concrete, is an object of veneration,
and in some instances has been of in
estimable value to society. But as a
rule, the man or woman who gets I'm
toward the centennial mark is out of
gear with the surroundings. All the
early associates have passed on, and
the juices of life have evaporated. The
mind has faded, probably; and the Sec
ond childhood, without the buOyancy
and physical activity of the first. has
made the party a burden to those about.
1t would diSarrange many Of the condl-
lions of society if there were much of
the 100-years business. 1t is more de-
sirable to make people healthy and
happy while they do live.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-23
THE UNIVERSAL PEACE.

One Of the most important conven-
tons of modern times is the labor con-
ress now in session at Berlin; and as a
result of its labors, and matters incl
dent thereto. there is fair prospect of
a complete revolution of the social
status of Europe, and with it radical
change in political affairs. There is a
good deal more in this conference than
appears on the surface, and its results
will be more far-reaching than is pOpu-
larly imagined. The oStensible work of
the conference is to attempt an adjust
ment of the relations between capital
and labor in all the European countries
Just so far as employer and emnloye
come in contact. There will probably
be plan suggested for the arbitration of
differences between them; it is possible
that a scale of wages in the several in
dustrlal departments may be proposed;
if will be recommended that the en-
ployment of children and women in the
factories be prohibited by law, and other
demands made by the recent labor con-
gress at Paris will be acceded to. The
fact that the Berlin conference IS being
held under the direct auspices of the
German emperor, and that it is attended
by delegates formally appointed by the
various European governments, gives it
an importance that no similar conyen-
ton has ever had
But, as we have said, there is more in
this conference than is to be seen on
the surface. Under it is movement
looking to the simultaneous disarma-
ment of all the European nations, and
the conversion of their swords into
pIoughshareS. Some time ago the Ger
man emperor wrote an autograph letter
inviting Pope LEO to send an ambassa-
dor to the Berlin conference. In reply
the pope sent an autograph letter say
ne he could not take part unless his
representative were given precedence
over all the delegates. Then the en-
peror wrote another letter, urging his
holiness, in the interests of mankind, to
take part in the conference so far as he
could, and at least give it his moral sup
port. The pontiff'S reply to the emper-
or's last letter Is said to be a document
of vast Importance, dealing with the
entire problem at Berlin and prof
fering his assistance as a mediator
in disbanding the armies of Europe.
The New York Herald's special Rome
correspondent cables what he claims to
be, on the authority of the Vatican, all
outline of Pope LEo's last letter, which
is likely to have great influence upon
the Berlin conference, to which it will
be automatically communicated this
week. The pope recognizes this as a
great opportunity for the church. to put
itself at the head of the worldwide re-
form demanded by organized labor, and
holds that the nations must adopt the
principles Of Christianity, and that the
church is the only power competent to
deal with the tremendous issues in
yolved in the social and industrial move
ment.
The pope furthermore recognizes that
it is useless to attempt solution of the
labor problem in Europe so long as the
fields and shops are drained of laborers
to fill the ranks of the immense stand
ing armies who are trampling the pros
perity out of all European countries.