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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-10-17

Nos II aud i2.--Daily between Greensboro and
Raleigh; and daily except Sunday between Raj
eigh and Golbsbor0. No. ~ carries Pullman
sleeping car Greensboro TO Raleigh.
Nos rs and 3f.--Daily. No. IS earris Pullman
eeping ctr Raleigh 10 Greensboro All trains
Onnect az Greensboro with main line trains to
nd from Florida, the South and southwest
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1895-10-17
WEST.B0UND.
LEAVE LYNCHBURG-DAILY.

LEAVE LYNCHBU hG-DAlLfs
so IAN. for Roanoke, Radford, Bue6eld,
and POcahontas. also for Rocky Mount and
Call stations Winston-Salcm Division, on
neots at Roanoke oS am, with Washing.
ton md Chattanooga Limited for all points
south snd west Of Bristol. Pullman sleep.
ers Roanoke to Meiuphis and New Orleans.
Dining car attached.
as pm Daily, The Chicago Express"
for Roanoke, BIuefeld, Pocahontas, Reroys
Columbus and Chicago. Pullman Bufle
sleeper Rorn0ke to Columbus without
change. Connects at Radf0rd for Bristol,
Knoxville, Chattanooga aid intermediate
points. Pullman Sleeper Kadford TO Chat
tanOoga.
Arrive Lynchburg Daily from
the West.
1890 a. m, 1880 p. m.
EAsTBoUED-LEAvE LYScHBuRG-
DAILY
las pm for Richmond, Petersburg and
Norfolk; arrives Petersburg al s4s pm,
connecting with Richmond and Petersburg
railroad, arriyingin Richmond al 7 90 pm;
arrive Norfolk s 40 pun.
IA IS avn. Arrive Petersburg s 10 am,con
MEETING with H. 4 r. X. X. daily; arrive
Richmond 8 AZ am; arrive Norfolk s al am.
Pullman Palace sleeper to Norfolk.
Also Pullman Palace Sleeper Between
LynChburg end Richmond.
This car will be ready az Lynchburg at 900
pun. for the reception Of passengers.
Arrive Lynchburg Daily from
the East.
1865 am, 2:10 pm
wINSToN-sALEM DIVISION
Leave Roanoke Daily, II 10 pm for Wis.
ston-Salem and intermediate stations.
North a rolina Division. Leave Pulaski
9 AZ am. ldaily except sunday, for Besy
Baker, and 10 0S am daily except Sunday,
for Iyanhoe, and o. pm daily for Gu-esn
Clinch Valley Division. -Lcsye Blue
fed daily 7 30 am, for Morton, Louisville.
and all points on L q N. RR vis N@sOn
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
The Motionless Tiger.

Now and then soldier has been
found kneeling on the battlefield as if
about to take aim at the enemy, but
stone dead. A bullet in the brain had
converted him into statue of himself.
Captain Forsyth, in his Highland Of
Central India" tells Of q similar effect
produced by an explosive shell on a
tiger.
The captain, while in the howdah Of
his trained elephant hunting tiger,
saw the beast crouching under bush
ON the bank Of a ravine. He got a steady
shot and fred three ounce she'll at the
tigers broad forehead.
To his surprise, for the distance was
but 80 yards, there was no result Not
a motion of the tiger acknowledged the
shot.
He rode round quarter Of the circle,
but still the tiger remained motionless,
but looking intently in the same direc-
tion Growing more and more amazed,
the captain rode nearer, with his rife
ON full cock, but the tiger did not move.
Then he caused the elephant to kick the
beast The tiger fell over. He was stone
dead. The she'll had struck him full in
the center Of the forehead, burst in his
brain and killed him instantly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
He JUST STANDS STILL.
That Is His Business, and He Makes Fun
For the Crowd.


Any man can have lots of fun in this
world IL he only knows how to start out
for it. No hard work is necessary. This
is proved by the fact that the man who
probably furnishes more fun for himself
and other folks than any single individ
ual on or off the stage doesn't do n sim
gle thing but stand still.
Probably every man, woman and child
in Chicago has seen standing in front Of
o big business house at the corner Of
Clark and Madison streets tall, well
built colored man, wearing a bottle
green coachman's livery, sshite helmet
and white gloves. His name is Alphonso
Costello. He was formerly member of
the city police force and has been pri-
vate detective and q constable. His duty
now is really only to attract attention
to the house where he is employed and
to act as usher to patrons who como in
carriages.
Some men would get mighty tired
and lonesome with nothing to do but
stand in front of big store all day, but
he doesn't. Whenever time hangs heavi-
ly on his hands and he feels the need of
recreation, he strikes statuesque posi-
tion and fixes his eye on the advertise
ment of "sure death to cockroaches"
sign across the street.
The attitude never fails to attract the
attention of passersby. As soon rs one
person stops to satisfy himself whether
sit" is a statue or real, live man the
fun begins. Everybody else stops to look
too. The comments Of the crowd make
no impression ON the figure standing be-
fore it. Then the more inquisitive-and
that doesn't bar the gentler sex-begin
poking with parasols or their fingers
"to see If the thing will move"
Alphonso catches his breath and an
other crowd He repeats the trick may
bo 90 times day, and it always works
to his satisfaction and that of the clerks
inside. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02

Ovens power of concentration and
absorption in subject which interested
him was not confined to professional or
scientific matters. We find that on Jan.
80, lS4S, after having heard a lecture
of Whewell's, he went on to the club
and took up Thackeray's "Vanity Fair"
to read. He became so deeply absorbed
in the book that he sat on, oblivious of
the fact that every one else had disap-
peared one by one. He was also appar-
emily deaf to coughs and hints Of attend
ants, etc., but still sat there reading and
laughing 60 himself. AT last, in despera-
tion, the men came forward and began
to take away the lamps. Then, having
looked Mt his watch and found it consid-
erably past a. m, he rushed wildly out
Of the club, and like scientific Cinder-
ella left his umbrella and greatcoat be-
hind.-"The Life of Richard Owen"
by His Grandson.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
His Palmy Days Are Gone.

The juggling falSir, having been driv-
en- from more lucrative schemes, has
been reduced to very common level.
One of the class who was recognized as
having worn diamonds five years ago,
and who was known as one of the most
slzillful shell workers in the country,
was the center Of an eager group of boys
in the rear of big store at dinner houI
Saturday. He was seedy and run down,
and wreck of hs former days, indicat.
ing that the shell swindle is too well
known nowadays to be successfully
worked.
He had basket in front Of him, con.
tanning q number of small paper bags.
In one hand he held pretty gold ring,
and this he pretended to put into one Of
the bags. Then he shook the pile up.
"Pick it out for o cent, boys" he
cried many times.
'It's in that one, "cried one. "There
it is," shouted another, and so the boys
vigorously guessed, but they didn' pro.
duce the pennies.
When the observer left, the decayed
thimble rigger was still monotonously
and despairingly calling out:
"Pick it out for cent, boys There's
no deception, and the lucky boy gets 9
gold ring worth $50. Pick it out for g
centP'-Philadelphia Call.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
BLOOD SPOT IN ITS PULP.
The "Mike" Apple Thought 60 Cominem-
orHte q Murder Of Long Ago.

A peculiar species of fruit is the
mike" apple. II has a fair skin, an
excellent flavor and is extensively prop
agated in the vicinity of Norwich, Conn.
Each individual apple exhibits some
where in its pulp red speck, like a
tinge Of fresh blood, and thereby hangs
a strange legend.
The apple obtains its name from Mi
cab Rood, q farmer who lived upon the
outlands of the Connecticut town in the
eighteenth century. The son of Thomas
Rood, one of Norwich's early settlers,
Micah titled his fertile acres with all
the zest of youthful ambition.
But Of a sudden his habits changed.
He grew idle, restless and intemperise.
He lost all interest in both work and
worship His cattle were neglected and
his neighbors Stunned. Some attributed
the change to witchcraft. Others limited
at insanity.
Winter wore away, spring returned,
and the orchard of Micah Rood burst
into blossom. 4 On one tree, it was then
observed, the flowers had turned from
white to red. The superstitious neigh
bors wondered, especially as Rood seemed
drawn to this tree by some resistless
fascination. August came and the red
blossoms developed into fruit. When
the large yellow apples fell from the
branches, each one was found to con-
tain well defined globule, known
thereafter as "the drop of blood"
The freak of the apple tree deepened
the mystery of Micah's behavior Con-
lecture followed surmise, and soon it
was remembered that during the pre-
vious fall foreign peddler had passed
through Norwich and had spent the
night at Micah Roods. He had never
been seen again. Some one suggested
that the young farmer had murdered
him for his money and buried the body
under the apple tree.
Search was made for the body Of the
stranger, but in vain. Nor was any
trace of his stock found among the
possessions Of tho unhappy Micah. If a
load of crime rested upon the conscience
of the suspected farmer, it never forced
q confession from his lips. His farm
drifted gradually to decay, and, too
broken down to reclaim it, he wander
cd about town, disordered in mind and
body.
He died in 1928, but while the blood
spotted apple continues to grow his
name and history will be perpetuated.
New York Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
Tho Mule and the Peasant.

One day mule who was drawing q
cart along highway suddenly came to
a stop and began lamenting his hard
fate.
"How, now, you ingrateP shouted
the peasant in reply. care you not we'll
fed and lodged, and do ever ask you
to work ON the Sabbath day?"
"But behold the muddy highway"
replied the mule my strength is taxed
10 the utmost to pull my load"
Idiot Of mule, it is owing to the
mud that I have loaded the cart with
only 600 pounds If there was no mud,
I'd insist that you draw 1,000"
Moral.-The man who complains of o
pimple may have escaped boil.-De-
troit Free Press
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
Sources of Color.

An interesting enumeration has been
made by somebody and published in a
technical journal of tho sources of color.
From this it appears that the cochineal
insects furnish the gorgeous om,mine,
crimson, scarlet, carmine and purple
lakes tho cuttlensh gives sepia-that
is, the inky fluid which the fish dis
charges in order to render the water
Opaque when attacked; tho Indian yell
low comes from the camel; ivory chips
produce the ivory black and boneblack (;
the exquisite prussian blue comes from
fusing horse hoofs and other refuse ami
NAL matter with impure potassium car
Donate; various lakes are derived from
roots, barlxs and gums blue black comes
from tho charcoal Of the vine stock I;
turkey red is made from the madder
plant, which grows in Hindustan; the
yellow sap of Siam tree produces gam
boge; raw sienna is the natural earth
from the neighborhood OF Siena, Italy 4;
raw umber is an earth found near Um-
bria and burned; india ink is made
from burned camphor; mastic is made
from the gum of the mastic tree, which
! grows in the Grecian archipelago; bis
ter is the SCOT Of wood ashes; very little
real ultramarine, obtained from the
precious lapis lazuli, is found in the
market; the Chinese white is zinc, scar
let is iodide of mercury, and verinilion
is from the quicksilver ore cinnabar
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
MINERAL WOOL.
The Process by which the Useful siiicate
Cotton Is Produced.

The Process by which the Useful siiicate
Cotton Is Produced.
OF those who know what mineral
wool is, or silicate cotton, as it is some
times called, probably only small
number are familiar with the simple
process by which it is made. The wool
itself, serving variety of useful pur.
poses, as nonconducting covering
against heat and cold alike, for steam
pipes and cold storage room walls, rs a
sound "deadener" in floors of buildings
and MS a means of fireproofng, among
many Others, is, as its name implies, a
soft and woolly substance, consisting of
q mass of very fine mineral fibers inter
lacing one another in every direction,
and thus forming an endless number of
minute air cells.
The wool appears on the market in a
variety of colors, principally white, but
often yellow or gray and occasionally
quite dark and is made by converting
scorial apd certain rocks while in a
molten state into flbrous condition by
steam blast directed against the liquid
material. Blast furnace Stag forms the
raw material for one variety of the wool
and sandstone for another, yielding re-
spectively Stag wool and rock wool, the
latter being preferable for pipe covering
because of the absence from it Of sui
phur, which, with moisture present, be-
comes an active corroding agent.
The furnace Stag or the rock, as the
case may be, is melted in large cupo-
Ia, and as it triclSles out at the tap hole
in somewhat sluggish stream it meets
high pressure steam jet which atom
ICES the woolen mineral, if it may be so
termed, blowing it In fleecy clouds into
the storage room provided for it. Soft
and downy, the stuff settles wherever a
resting place affords itself, the heavier
and easier wool coming down first, while
the lighter portions are blown farther
along by the force of the steam and set
tie in the more distant parts Of the
room, the material thus naturally grad
ing itself into varieties Of different
quality.
A thousand pounds of wool per hour
are turned out by one of the cupolas,
and after the storage room has been
blown full the hocculent mass is pushed
into bags, ready for the market. The
whole process affords an admirable and
interesting illustration of the utilization
Of an utterly waste product. .-Cassier' IS
Magazine
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
NUMBER 21.
A Ghost Story.

J. Henniker Heaton tells an interest
ing sequel to the most famous Austria
liam ghost story, which came to his
knowledge as one of the proprietors Of
the leading New South Wales weekly,
The Town and Country Journal. One
Of the most famous murder cases In
Australia was discovered by the ghost
Of the murdered man sitting on the rail
of dam australian for horse pond)
into which his body had been thrown.
Numberless people saw it, and the
crime was duly brought home.
Years after a dying man making his
confession said that he invented the
ghost. He witnessed the crime, but was
threatened with death If he divulged it,
as he wished to, and the only way he
saw out Of the impasse was to affect to
see the ghost where the body would be
found. As soon as he started the story,
such is the power of nervousness that
numerous other people began to see 1t
until its fame reached such dimensions
that search was made and the body
found and the murderers brought to
Justice London Literary World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
Sacred Keys.

Every PERSONS feelings have front
door and side door by which they may
bo entered. The front door is on the
street. Some keep it always open, some
keep it latched, some locked, some bolt
ed with a chain that will let you peep
in, but not get in, and some nail it up,
so that nothing can pass its threshold.
This front door leads into passage
which opens into an anteroom, and this
into the interior apartments. The side
door opens at once into the secret cham
ber. There is almost always one key to
the side door. This is carried for years
hidden in mothers bosom. Fathers.
brothers, sisters and friends often, but
by no means SO universally, have dupli-
Gates of It, The wedding ring conveys a
right to one. Alas, If none is given with
it Be very careful to whom you trust
one Of these keys Of the side door, %.
W. Holmes.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
Thoughts.

The trees may outlive the memory Of
more than one of those in whose honor
they were planted. If it is something to
mako two blades Of grass grow where
only one was growing, it is much more
to have been the occasion of the plant
ing of an oak which shall defy twenty
scores Of winters, or of an elm which
shall canopy with its green cloud Of TO-
liage half as many generations Of NOR
tai immortalities
Our thoughts are plGnts that never
flourish in inhosldtable soils or chilling
atmospheres. They are all started under
glass, so to speak--that is, cherished
and fostered in our own sunny con-
sciousness. They must expect some rough
treatment when We lift the sash from
the frame and let the outside elements
in upon them They can hear the rain
and the breezes and be all the better
for them, but perpetual contradiction is
as pelting hailstorm, which spoils the
growth and tends to kill them out alto
gether. oliver Wendell Holmes.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
Bishop Eallows' Saloon.

The Home saloon of Bishop Fallows,
In Chicago, fools q great many old to-
pers. His idea is to make the place as
much like first class saloon as possible
and to sell in it something as much like
beer as science could concoct without its
being the real thing. The saloon has o
big bar, with a substantial rail, from
which hang half q dozen towels. Back
Of the bar is a white coated bartender,
and back Of him are big mirrors and
rows Of shelves, covered with black bot
ties bearing gaudy labels. A row Of
lemons and bowl Of cracked ice help
tomake up theillusion. Every day some
thirsty victim wWnders in and orders
"beer." He gets glass of foaming
something that cools, may cheer, but
can't inebriate. Tho victim usually
gulps it down, then opens and shuts his
mouth and tries to recall the tasto, while
puzzled look spreads over his face.
Sometimes he asks questions, but usu-
ally he walks slowly away, wondering
whether or not his stomach is all right
Chicago Letter.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
u HUNG CHANG CARRIED HER.
China's viceroy Took Literally an invita-.
tiou TO Escort q Indy.

Speaking Of the first meeting of Lii
Hung Chang and John W. Foster, on
which occasion the Chinese viceroy en-
tertained woman at dinner for the
first time in the person Of Mrs. Foster,
the Washington Capital vouches for the
following story, which is one Of the
best illustrations Of true oriental cour-
tesy, combined with the peculiar serious
ness and matter of factness of the Chi
nese mind, ever related:
When che was introduced to the vice
roy, Mrs. Foster wondered how she was
to be taken into the banquet room.
Some time before, it seems, Ii Hung
Chang had been guest of honor at din
ner given by the Russian ambassador,
and being asked to take the embassador's g
wife TO the dining room, proceeded to
comply with literalness which aston
ished all the guests. The viceroy is a
giant in stature, and the embassador's g
wife being small woman, he had no
difficulty in picking her up bodily and
carrying her to the table.
Mrs. Foster did not yearn for such
honor and called upon her husband's g
diplomacy to arrange that she should be
escorted in u less vigorous manner. Mr..
Fosters tact was equal to the occasion,
and when the doors were thrown open
Lii Hung Chang led the way, and Mrs.
Foster followed him.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
Servants Who VIII Not Take Tins.

The servants in we'll ordered Japa-
nese household are the most deferential
beings alive. Every time they bring you
cup of tea or come to remove dish at
dinner or breakfast, they will kneel
and bow until their foreheads touch the
floor. Nor will any Of them accept q
fee The other night, as we left the
residence of the Japanese gentleman
where we had been taking dinner, one
Of his servants piloted us through the
grounds to the gate, where our carriage
was waiting. and I attempted to give
him a small coin. When l offered 1t, he
clasped his hands together and made q
very low bow, keeping his head down
until the carriage started. Chicago
Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
LITTLE DANES AND MEN.

We must oil remember when
We were little danes and men,
When each sorrow tugged AWAY with oil It's
might
At our little hearts and eyes
Till the air was full OF sighs
And the brightest day was turned to darkest
night.
How we'd weep,
How we'd creep
To our littlo beds to sleep,
with wet lashes on flushed faces; even then
Not a soul would ever know
Half our agony, and so
We should sympathizo with little danes and
mon.
We must all remember when
We were little danes and men
When we meet the little ones from day TO day.
A kind word is just as cheap,
And it sinks to depths rs deep
As the harsh one you were sending down their
way.
If you know
How few
Gracious acts and words from you
We're planted in their souls, to blossom when
Golden days Of childhood seem
To be shadows Of dream,
You would lovo and cherish little danes and
men.
New England Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
Losing Hold on Life.

She then and there lost her hold upon
life. She was poisoned and must die.
She was as sure of it as the Chinaman
who has seen an eagle, and who, recog-
nizing that his hour is come, calmly
lies down and breathes his last by the
mere suspension Of volition In old
countries the lower orders, as rule,
have but low vitality. 1t may be truer
to say that the vital volition is weak.
Let the learned settle the definition.
The fact is easily accounted for. Dur
ing generations upon generations the
majority Of European agricultural popu-
lations live upon vegetable food, like
the majority of eastern Asiatics, and
with the same result Hard labor pro-
duces hard muscles, but vegetable food
yields low vital tension, so to say.
Soldiers know it well enough. The pale
faced city clerk who eats meat twice
day will Outright and outlast and out
starvo the burly laborer whose big thews
and sinews are most compounded Of po-
tatoes, corn and water. -"Casa Brac
cio." by Marion Crawford, in Century.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
Bible Arithmetic.

Ezekiel's reed was nearly II feet; q
oubit was nearly 20 inches; hands
breadth is equal to 5-S inches; fin
gers breadth is equal to little less
than 1 inch shekel of silver was about
2s. Sd. shekel of gold was e2; tai.
ent of silver was e400; talent of gold
was nearly GO, 900; piece of silver, oil
o penny, was sgd. (; a farthing was
equal to I'd. o mite was less than q
farthing; gerah was I'D. (; an ephah,
or bath, contained gallons and pints
hin was quarts and 8 pints an omei
was pints; cab was pints. Lon
don Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02
AustraIia,s Rich Men.

A large number of the millionaires
who constitute the plutocracy Of Aus
tralia and who practically rule the
roost out there are, If not ex-convicts,
at any rate the offspring or descendants
Of individuals who made the trip out in
manacles and who left home for their
country's good. This is one of tho rea-
sons why colonial magnates--no matter
how wealthy, generous and respectable
are always looked upon with certain
degree of suspicion. Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-02

The rosy cheek Of an apple is ON the
sunny side. The colorless apple grows
in the leafy shade. Advantage may be
taken of this to have pleasant surprise
for children. A piece of stiff paper
placed around an apple in the full sun
will shade it, and If the Mary or Bobbie
is cut in the paper so that the sun can
color the apple through these stenciled
spaces the little one can gather the ap-
pie for itself with the name printed ON
the fruit by nature herself. .-Meehan' 8
Monthly