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THE HEADLIGHT. I A. R0SCOWEK, Editor Proprietor. HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBBD BY GAIN. n IIWHT PAQE3. VOL. II. NO. 34. GOLDSBORO, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1889. Subscription, 01.00 Per Yoar. BONG OF THE STREET MUSICIAN. When the warm raius fall, when the bright suns shine. When the sap is flowing back in the long grape-Tin?, When the lambs begin to bleat and the leaves begin to grow. Merrily I follow with the fiddle and the bow. My father has a harp, its sound is very sweet, We stand beneath the balconies together on the street; He is thinking of the land where the pleas ant olives grow; But I can think of nothing but the twanging of the bow! Happy are the orchards, rosy with their fruit; Happy are the long nights when the string is mute; Happy is the greensward where the maidens go Dancing to the music of th9 fiddle and the bow! ?sow the earth is frosty, now the 6ky is pale, The leaves begin to fall and the winds begin to wail; Mingled with the night storm, muffled with the snow, Listen at your wiaiows to the twanging of the bow! Dora R. G nodale, in the Independent. JOE'S STORY. BY FRANK H. CONVERSE. Mother died some time last May. There wasn't any one I belonged to then, eo I had to hus'le for myself, like most of us newspaper chaps have to. I hadn't any reg'lar place to sleep, but it comin on summer I d.dn't care so much, 'cept ing, of course, when it rained. Then a fellow can generally find cover some where, if it isn't so nice. But this night I'm going to tell of was pleasant and warm. The "cop'' didn't drive me off ray private settee in Central Park till nigh one in the morning. Guess ha overslept himself. When I'm roused up that way, I gen erally make Morrison's, way down town, my headquarters. It's a high-toned place, so it's cheaper forme to stop out side. But there's the light from the windows, and every time the big doors awing open a fellow can see, just for a minute, eating and drinking going on, mi if he imagines a good deal, why it's almost as good as being inside. Three swell looking chaps was stand ing outside when I got there. Not for the same reason I was, though. They'd been to the theater, or somewhere's else, nd as I heard one of 'em say, it was too early in the evening to think of going to bed. It was Jack Meagher said that. "Handsome Jack,' they used to call him in our ward, where he was raised. All us fellows know "Handsome Jack" by sight. Though you'd never think he come from any such low down place as Water street, to look at his swell rig and hear him talx. But they say he's one of them kind that catches on eay to real gentlemen's ways. And he's great on faro and poker, so of course he's hand and glove with chaps that's trying to see life through a club winder. Now, though it's me says it, I've a bit of a voice of my own, wherever I got it. For a spell I was choir boy at St. Michael's, with a white surplus and all that sort of thine. But the others chatfed me about not having any shirt, so I left. So sometimes, when I was stuck on papers cr e .tra hard up, I used to sing for nickels front of Morrison's just about this time of night the "catchy" songs that happens to be going, such as we chaps pick up on the street. So when "Handsome Tack" see3 me he calls out : "Hello,' he sajs, "here's Joe, the boy that sings." And nothing to do but the three of 'em must take me inside for a son. There was another one of the party I knowed by sight. He used to buy pa pers of me reg'lar, one time. I heard 'em say his folks left him a p le of money and he was gettin' through it as fast as "Handsome Jack," asd such as he, could help him. But I ain't givin' no one away in this story, i'm not one of that sort. I ain't a .New York reporter, and den't you forget it. So this man was Smith John Smith. P'raps you've heard the name, but it isn't the same man it's a second cou:in of his. But it was him that set me down to one of the little tables with a plate of sand wiches. After we once got inside, bmith didn't seem to have much to say to the others, or to anybody else, for that matter. He stood leaning up against the bar counter with a cigar in his mouth, but I see he'd forgot to light it. Some of the young fellers he knew joked him a bit, but he didn't seem to notice it much. And I kind of wondered what ailed him - good looking, plenty of money, and all the , ) rest of it. "Handsome 'nrV with ft fr'.end nf his, sat dawa to the table nigh mine, with the dtinks between 'em. I've got a pair of sharp ears of my own, and I heard the other one say : "Smith's about squeezed dry, eh, Jack." "Tes, poor fool," Jack says, as easy as you please; "nothing mere to be got from him. If he wants to borrow any thing, just give him the cold shake. That's just what I shall do. A fellow's got to look out for number one in this world.'' The man with Jack nodded. And I remember thinking what a healthy lot of friend's Smith's money had bougie him. Well, after I got through, I stood up like a little man to pay for what I'd had in my way. I sung 'era two or three of the things that was popularest then, but somehow they didn't seem tc take. "Can't you give us something differ ent from those stale chestnuts?" some one says, and I pulled up short. I was going to leave them then and there, but Smith it was who stepped me. ""Never mind 'em, Joe' he saya kind of low like; "can't you think of some thing a little different something none of us have heard Whatever made me do it I don't know to this day. It was what they used to sing at St. Michael's. Just one verse was all I could remember then : " 1 was not always thus. Dor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me cn; I loved to chose and see my path. But now Lead Thou me on; I loved the garish day, and 'spite of tsars. Pride ruled my heart. Remember not t years." Of course I haven't got learning, ' r stoi Kind as a fellow picks up in the sirvet. And I never used to sense the n.eaning of tie church music, like I did ti e tunes. And when I got through I wondered what made it so still in the room for a minute. Smith was the first one spoke. Not spoke exactly, for it was a kind of a groan. Then he yanked his hat over his eyes and went ou "Guess you needn't go on, Joe," says "Handsome Jack," looking up; "you've drove one man off a'ready." "Too rich for Smith's blood," another one laughed, and so they were going on, when a young fellow, who hadn't spoken before, put in his word. "Let up," he says, kind of serious like, "don't kick the man, now he's down. The girl Smith was engaged to used to be 'ending soprano at Trinity, and people came from far and near to hear her sinff that as a solo. It kind of J upset him hearing it, I suppose." "Well, some laughed and some sneered, but I didn't wait to hear what else was said. A fellow shoved a quarter in my hand and I slid out. Smith was standing under the'iectric light on the corner, with his han's in his Dockets and his ht over his eyes as I was goin' past. He catched me by the shoulder not rough, though and twisted me round. "Joe," he says, suddeu like, "if I had some of the money I've thrown away, you should have a new suit of clothes from top to toe " For my duds was just awful, and that's the fact. Bags and patches, only the rags was worst. And before I knowed what he was doin', he went down on his knees, and after fumblin' about his vet a bit, pinned up the biggest tear of all, so's the bare skin didn't show quite sc bad in where my trowses was ripped from knee up. Course I didn't think nothing much of it more than it was kind of a freak took him, till next mornia'. And if you'll believe me, Smith had took a pin-opil, sot with little dimuns outer his necktie for to pin up my rags with. I didn't know what to do at the first of it, not having any idea where to look for Smith. And not movin' in what you might call the highest circles, my 'quaintaoces mostly wasn't them I'd care to ask advice of regardin' jewelry. But there's a young lady lives up nigh Washington Square that was awful good to mother while she was sick. he belongs to a --guild." I think they call em, and teaches a mission school down in our ward, where I used to drift in sometimes of a Sunday. I took the pin to her and told her the whole story. She turned whiter'n one of the marlle statutes in her parlor when the sees the pin. But she never spoke for a minute. "You d d quite right to bring me this. Joe," she says, after a bit. "Mr. Smith isa a friend ot mine, and I will see it returned to h m. If, as you hea-d, he has lost all h s mney " And then she stopped, an I walked to the window. She stood there Iookia' out at nothin' ever so long. Then she gave me a dollar and I left. And it was over a year 'fore I ever heard of or see Smith agaiu. But meanwhile Miss the yoang lady I'm speaking of Miss Blank, I'll cal: her, got me a steady job carrying oat papers for a newsdealer she knowed. And We'nesday3 and Fridays she paid me for blowin' the little organ to the mission chipei I was telling of. 1 was late that day, and when I got to the mission little Mike Dwyer was blowin' in my place. There wasn't a soul there to hear, but Miss Blank was kind of playin' all to herself, so I sot down a bit to lis'en. Some one come shu Bin' in and sot down near the door. When I looked round, he'd dropped his arms on the top of the settee for'ard of him and laid his face down on 'em. "Half drunk, likely enough," I said to myself for lots of that kind drift jnto the mission it being sort of in the slums, as you may say. But its folks of that kind the mission is trying to 'get hold of. And this man, so far as I could make out by his seedv rig, seemed to be something in that line of business. Whilst I was in the choir boy line, I heard some pretty good singing as a matter of course. But talk about your sopranos Miss Blank just went ahead of anything. Curious wasn't it, that she should all at once have struck in on "Kindly Light?" ' So long Thv power hath blessed me; sure, it still Will lead me on, O'er moor and fen o'er crag and torrent till The night is gons; And with the morn those angel face smile Which I have lore l long since and lost awhile." She and the organ stopped all at once. It was still as death in the vestry, and I heard her give kind of a sob. "Great Heavens." says the man be hind me. And I look round again to shake my head at him. But you might have knocked me out with a feather cluster in one round. It was Smith but his own mother if she'd been alive never'd knowed him. Pale and peaked, with a shiny coat and trowses fringed at the botto ns well, he didn't look much like the Smith I see at Morrison's, you can bet. All the same, I knowed him; and went for him like a shot, for he was mak:ng a break for the door. "Mr. Smith Mr. Smith," I sung out, "stop, I want to tell you about you- scarf pin. Miss Blank has got it, and " "Arthur!" It was only a word, but it turned me round like a top. There stood Mis; Blank, staring at Mr. Smith only, staring isn't the word who I was hang ing onto like anything. For I was bound to make myself square about the scarf pin. "Arthur," she says again, and sank down onto the settee like she was faint. He never said a word. He put his hand? over his face, went square down on his knees front of her and dropped his head in her lap. I ain't none too bright about thing like that; but I've read love stories in the papers before now, and I see that wasn't no place for me, so I litoutsoon's I got my wit's about me, and let 'em fix things up their own way befoie any one come in. Was they married finally? Well, I should say so. And I always cal'lated I had a hand in it, too. For, don't you see, the opil and dimun' pin was one Miss Blank had give him for a binhaay ever eo long before that's how she knowed it so quick. New York Ar0o'j. And that's all. Soma Effects of Natural Gas. A Penn avenue physician, in speaking of some of the ejects of heat from natural gas, said : "The use of natutal gas has been a general topic of complaint with a large number of my patients. I am not pre pared to say that deafness is on the in crease, but natural gas as it is now used in dwellings has a decided tendency in that direction. The great trouble is this: The gas is turned on to such an extent that a very high temperature is obtained and maintained throughout the day and night. This at a'l times is un healthy. The heat is entirely without moisture, that will naturally dry up the delicate membranes, produce a dry catarrhal disease which very naturally affects the ear and throat, producing both hoarseness and deafness. With coal it is diSerent. There is a certain amount of moisture given out in the combustion along with the various degrees of heat obta;ned. Of course, any heat is dry in the abstract, but when combined with steam or any moist substance the ejects are very different. . number of our patients declare that the gas has made them deaf. Thit can only be, as I lure said, because the ex cessive heat dries up the memb-anes in the head." Fittslurg DUiaich. The Cubans are greatly excited over the rumor that there is a plan in this country to buy their island. The Span ish Minister of the Interior, however, leelares that Spain will never consent to part with Cuba or any other colony for iny consideration whateTer. SHOOTING STARS. THE SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OP METEORIC SHOWERS. Some Rare and Tlistorical Celestial Phenomena The Wonderful Relationship Between Comets and Meteors. There are few persons who have not witnessed the striking phenomena of the so called "shooting stars." They are visible any clear night, and with a little patient observation several may be seen during an evening. Flashing out in various quarters of the heavens, they are seen to dart across the sky, with motions more or less rapid, and with brilliancy more or les3 marked, some - j "w'v -1 ujo wj.aca, lUiuc i down toward mother earth, others across the starry arch, leaving behind them a phosphorescent glow generally visible only for a moment. larger meteors (and the term at this stago can only be ased in expressing their sue by their light) often leave behind them a very marked glow, much like a faint cloud, ind which when the meteor's flight is thus marked, usually remains suspended n the sky for some considerable time, rhe writer saw such a meteor oa the aight of August f, 13S3, which left in its path a greenish g'ow, visible to the aaked eye for fully twenty mirute3. 5uch occurrences are rare, however, and i few are witnessed in a lifetime. In itances are on record of meteoric showers risible in broad daylight, and well-at-rested statements have been made of lingle meteors of great size seen to fall in various parts of the country between rnrise and sunset. Meteoric showers have in numerous ustances been so marvelous that the fall presented an appearance like that of a light fall of illuminated snow. Cne of ihe earliest of recorded phenomena of ihi3 character, and which is well at tested, was witnessed by Humboldt and Bonpland early on the morning of November 12, 179?, during their visit to ih.e cast coast of Mexico. Another well itte3ted statement is that of Arago, the well-known astronomer, who on the aight of November 12,1333 (andhere note lhat both occurred on the same day of :he same month, and divided by a space af thirty-four years), witnessed such a marvelous shower that he estimated dur ing his observation of three hours 240, D00 visible meteors passed over the iieavens. A rough estimate of the num ber of meteors, suaciently bright to be seen by the naked eye under favorable :ircumstances, and those invisible, ow ing to the daylight, and which enter the :arth's atmosphere during: the ;pace of twenty-four hours, is bout 7,000,000. Some well-known scientists, taking into consideration those which would be repealed if the eye possessed the light-gmp'ng power of aur larger telescopes, imrease that num ber to about 400,000,000. We often near of the falling of "graat balls of are," with startling explosions follow ing. Scientists tell mi that these so :alled balls of fire are really compact groups of small meteors. When such a roup cmes within the attraction of the rarth it is drawn rapidly toward her sur face. The encounter with the atmos phere separates them and at the same time consumes them, produ cing no little agitation of the air, and thus causing the sound. This action of separation and burning would give a result in some cases much like that of a rocket explod ing in the air, with which display all are familiar. Instances of meteoric bodies falling to earth are comparatively rare. To enable it to reach the earth the mas3 of matter composing a meteor must be of suficient bulk to prevent complete dissipation or consumption during its passage through the atmos! here to earth. However, snowerc ot stones" are matters ot history. On the 2Cth of April, ISO?, such a shower occurred at L'Aiele, in Xormandy. The humcer of meteoric stones within a space of fourteen square miles was over 2000. This fall was accompanied by 'bright light and loud explosions." The height a which meteors first aprear visible is a much disputed question. Estimates made by well known observers give re sults varying from forty to ninety miles; the average velocity accorded them being about twenty-six miles per second, or nearly half as fast again as the earth travels around the sun. ifome meteors, however, have been observed to possess a velocity of over 10) mile? per second, or 3 30,0 JO miles per hour. Perhaps the reader will aik: "Why are these bodie burned up The this: Suppose two bodies answer is moving m space witn sucn greai ve locity and in independent orbits en- coun;er; what will be the result? sudden check of their motion converts that motion into heat. This rule an- pUes ja all cases. la the case of the earth and the meteors the action is identical. The mean rate of motion of the earth in her orbit is about nineteen miles per second. Moving along at this rate she encounters a cloud of meteon whose motion is further increased by the attraction of the greater body. The cloud of meteors encounters resistance in , the earth's atmosphere and the friction ' produced converts the motion into heat j ,o great that the meteoric bodies arc rapidly dissipated. Of course, some ! heat is generated in the earth's atmos- , ,.here, as its share of the encounter, bu- the relative amnrmt r? thm Imlb- . ' Ot quantity, is tr'fiing. It is stated thai the amount of heat ordinarily developed by the above described encounter is enough to vaporize any known sub- stance almost instantly! The fact that the jrreater number of meteors are con- sum2d and dl5aPPear before they reach i the earth is su 1 cient evidence that their mass is smaH. Such of these meteoric ! i making eyelets in shirt fronts. It is visitors as have been discovered on the nice and delicate work, though she does surface of the earth and afterward an- it with the persistency of a machine. alyzed show, in general, only terrestrial She takes thirty stitches every minute. elements. j That is 15:00 every hour or 18,000 tvery Distinction is made between "acci- j day. in a week she takes 10S,000 dental meteors" and meteoric showers." , stitches. Her hand mores a yard for As relates to the first named, their visi- ; every stitch. In a week she measures off bility is common at all times and might ! precisely six miles and a quarter of space be called "accidental" because they ' with that hand. The pay for this pro- usually appear in widely different quar- 1 digious amount of effective labor is II a ters of the sky and possess widely differ-! day, and she is considered a high- ent path3. ".Meteoric showers make priced, skilled workwoman. Phi'adel- their appearance in certain portions of ! phia Press. the sky that is they appear to radiate j , . . , . 1 Chance to Become Housekeepers. alwavs from some particular constella- . tion." These showers nlways take place ! A ProJect that ha' beea ntemP1aUd on certain nights of August and Xovem- i for 60me time by.Mr' A"J' D?XeU tb ber of every ve.r. It is believed, from ' Id!Pfc' milliona.re. ha, been put the fact that "the occur annually, that the ia practical shape by the purchase of the meteors causing them revolve in orbit j I.ouella mansion at Wayne, Delaware around our sun, and intersect the earth's : County, and the sele tion of trustees wd orbit at points reached by her in August managers for the Drexel Industrial Col and November. Further, that these lege for Women. The object of the in rings of meteors nre of varying thic kness stitution is to instruct ferailes between at different points, giving us showers of the ages of thirteen and nineteen years varying splendor. The greatest display n 11 dutie appertaining to the care of bvthe November meteors takes nlace j t every thirty-four years. The orbits of the August and November meteors have been calculated by Le erier and others, who discovered the wonderful relation ship between meteors aad comets. The polariscops sliows us that comets appear to shine by rejected sunlight, j Schiaparelli, of Milan, established the identity of the August meteor shower i and comet III of 1SG2- This astrono- j mer's theory of the wonderfal relation- j 6hip existing between cornets, meteors and nebula is worthy oT caieful consid eration. It is about a3 fo'lows: Clouds of meteoric particles exist and move about through space. Lcverier states that a cosmical cloud entered our system in January in the year 12G, and by pass ing too near the planet Uranus its path became transformed into an elliptical or bit around the sun. This orbit, a3 cal culated, agreed with the calculated or-- ,.' . , , , . . , latter orbit agrees with the calculated orbit of the November meteors. Wcuh inaton Star. Identif eatiar. uy Thumb -Marka. Curiously enough, the thumb-mark of one person i entirely unlike that of any other, those of no two human creatures in all the world resembling one another in the least. So strongly indir dual are Ihe little spiral grooves in the skin of the ball, that the police authorities of China, have made it ihe:r practice for centuries to identify criminals by tak ing impressions of their thumbs instead of photographing their faces. These are stored away, and if the delinquents are again caught ollending against the law other impressions afford means of comparison. The Chinese say that con sidering the alteration made in the countenance by hair and beard, and the readiness with which the features of the prisoner may be distorted before the camera, their method is decidedly super or. By it, it-deed, error is icndered impossible The application of this device to rail- way ticsets would not be so very difficult it is thought. Of course, the point which the railroads have been trying in so many ways to secure, as a defense against scalpers and such, is the identi fication of each ti;ket holder with the original buyer. This if thoroughly ac complished, would prevent the paste boards from being sol 1 througli brokers or thieves. Many schemes have been a'ready tried, such as .-ecuring each pas tenger's signature on the ticket when he buys it, to be duplicated when the cou- pou is taken up by the conductor. The thumb-matk would oiler no dbalrant- age worth mentionicg. I ch person when he buys a ticket will i-e asked by the aent to press h'n thumb upon a corner of the cardboard, tbe surface of ! which has been prej ared chemically so as to receive a clear impression. A nu- plicate impression is made by the pas- A. j senger alongside the fir&t one when the A conductor calls for the fare. Thm each j traveler is compkte'y iqesiincd, Pvm-. ' i'ne, . LADIES' CSLUUM. Women Physicians in India-s Lady doctors in Indian hospitals re- ceire rather mgner sa.anes man men oi the same rade' ' tb haTe no orreguiariy increasing saiary prom, them- A lad doctor must uaderUke "rTe fiTe years; her paSSage ou tt her ,alar is 350 a mont " tbe eC1 f fiT8 jm she r"el!M 800 ruFee" V& n"ney She has one montU hol,day dunng the year on full Pay "d " not CXcluded frm P"Tmt A Delicate Girl's Work. A reporter has a window that com mands a view of a sewing-roem over a gentleman's furnishing store. Every morning when the 'reporter gets up he i sees a slender girl sewing by the work- room window. Often when he comes ; home at nignt sne is stui sewing, one a nousenom, nna 10 xeacn suca iraaei and businesses as will make them prac tical women, able to earn a respectable livelihood. The benefits of ths college are to be extended, firt, to the daugh ters of clergy men.and ce ond, todaugh tcrs of respe table parents, who, through adverse cir umstances, are unable to give their children proper training and edu cation. The entire expense of the purchase, new structures and endowment will be met by Mr. Drexel, and the amount, it is said, will reach 1,500, 000. Iu con nection with the college instruction will be given upon the plan of the Cooper Institute, by which pupils will receive tuition while residing at their own home. Cineimvtti Enpiir.r. Muslins In Style Again. There will be a great rage for em -broidered and printed m islins, white i and colored, on delicate grounds, dur- i mg the coming season, according to Jen- t 6 . . . nie June, because they make up so well I in straight skirts. The newest styles re- vive the borders in graceful patterns round the bottom of the skirt; borders : between which and the small designs j upon the upper part of the skirt there j is no abrupt transition, but a gradual lessening until the lines are lost in the soft blending of shades or figures in the folds. The gathered bodice will un- j doubedly be more fashionable than ever; j but the surplice waist, which had it all its own way last year, will divide the honors with the fluted folds of the Gre cian bodice this season, and the full sleeves be partly superseded by the flow ing and loose, open sleeve o! thirty years ago. There is talk of reviving tha "spencer" of fifty years ago, and indeed the smocked and gatherei bodices are a close approach to it. A spencer of black silk with a ni r'e of lace over a white ot light muslin skirt, accompan ed by lare, black, chip hat and plumes, would loak well upon a moderately tall and slender vounj: American g:rl: and it is to be '. hoped some of them will try it. New Yorl Star. Fashion Note Plaio crape is used in Paris for dresses. White is pretty for house dresses all the year around. Large brimmed hats are features of spring millinery. Green is again' to the front in greater rariety than een. Most of the new tint are delicate and beautiful. At an enterta'nment given by a mi?- 8-0n band at Toronto. Canala, one of tne characters, "Britannia," stood on the American flag while introducing . the representatives of the various nations to tne audience. Professor 3Iarsha of Queen'g University, who acted as chair- m remarked that the flag wa placed there to show Great Britain's relations to the Lnited States. This de laration. gettjng jDto the local journals, caused mucn indimation and protest and the uniTers;ty authorities have been asked to reprimand the prof esaor.
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