The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-16

inexhaustable. AT long inter.
walls, Tabby will walk around
the block to give the hole a rest,
but she never tires. The inno-
cent, indispensable, mouser has
moro patience than a hun
dred office-seekers in the month
Of May.
IF some fellows would ex-
erciss their love for work as di-
ligently and enthusiastically az
they exercise themselves fol
the incoming and outgoing
trains and trying to find easy
places, they would become in
dependent in a few years; but
the picture Of a scarcity of farm
laborers is presented in every
direction. Farmers from four
different counties have COM
plain to us in the past two
weeks Of the great scarcity OF
laborers to work on the farms.
They tell us that they have Of
fered higher wages in the past
eighteen months than ever, and
it is a fact that they are unable
to secure the help they want.
Domestics, to assist farmers
wives, are equally scarce, and
the question Of help on the farms
has become alarming. But still
a certain class will lay around
and complain of "hard times. !"
eff you were forced to
choose a wife from only seeing
one feature of her face, which
would you decide upon, /" "None
at all, faith!" said the Irish
friend, hastily. "If l had to
choose a wife in any such hap
hazard way, l should ask to
look at her feet. Don't you
know that a woman shows by
her feet what her face may con-
ceal. A woman's sole excuse
the pun) often shows itself in
her shoes. Just you netice that
untidy, unblackened shoe, with
its buttons escaping from gap
ing buttonholes, and its heel
overrun, and will show you a
woman who has burnt
bread and muddy coffee. Show
me a straight laced, mincing,
narrow-toed shoe,
with some little corn and bunlon
bumps on it, and Twill show
you a wife, who will spend a
dollar and a half for a MATINEE,
and run up a bill at a candy
store, while her husband has
holes in his stockings and pins
his collars to his shirts--ah yes
take my word for it, and
mind, not your p's and as, but
your boots and shoes" And
somehow, we think our Irish
friend was nearly right!
There are some strange peo-
pie in this world-haye strange
IDEAS. Here follows something
worth the telling, as is that Of
any man who has plucked a
living from some of the rocky
hills in Orange county There
once lived a man not far from
Chapel Hill, who no doubt has
turned many a sour face into
smiles in his day. Here is the
plain unvarnished tale as told
to us the other day by a friend
n netiye Of Chapel Hill: There
is q rising piece of ground about
two and a half miles west Of
Chapel Hill known as Taylor's
that is literally cover
ed with rocks. Several years
ago, one Jack Taylor, a white
man cleared q place and cx-
an earnest desire TO be
buried there among the rockiest
part Of the mountain, and when
asked his reason for il said that
he wanted 10 be buried there 50
IL the devil should come after
him he would have plenty Of
rocks to keep him of. On his
tomb is inscribed: "Here lieth
Jack Taylor, who went to his
final resting place on-day Of
in the year of our Lord.
He was buried here at his own
expressed desire that he might
keep the devil at bay with the
rocks"
Now aren't you going to
get married this year! We are
beginning to feel sorry for a Ger.
tain friend Of ours. He has such
a settled look; it's no wonder
he says he has been refused by
Is girls. We don't know what
to do with q case Of this kind;
will some one make a sugges.
ton. II Is true, the year 1896
will be leap year again, but we
are afraid Ii will be just like
1898, 10 him--an ordinary year,
with 3G5 days. We know that
he has been dreaming Of future
happiness and bliss u long time;
why he has been 50 unfortunate
we are unable 20 say. Way
back yonder he said there's time
enough, but il seems after q fel.
low has made love TO fifteen
girls, and still out in the cold,
his chances are indeed slim. We
advise him 20 leave these parts.