North Carolina Newspapers

1 1TM HEADLIGHT. A. BwSCOWER, Editor & Proprietor. HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WEB BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBBD BT GAJ2?. EIVIIT PAGO. VOL. II. NO. 35. GOLDSBORO, N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1889. Subocription, 81.00 Per Year. fiIT COULD NOT HAPPEN NOW." Ere country ways had turned to street, And Jong ere we were born, A lad and lass would chance to meet. Some merry April morn; The willows bowed to nudge the brook. The cowslips nodded gay, And he would look, and she would look And both would look away. Yet each and this is so absurd Would dream about the other. And she would never breathe a word To that good dame, her mother. Our girls are wiser now. 'Twas very quaint, 'twas ve: strange, Extremely strange, you must allow. j Dear me! how modes and customs caange! i It could not happen now. xt day that idle, naughty lass Would rearrange her hair. And ponder long before the glass Which bow she ought to wear; And often she'd neglect her task, And seldom care to chat. And make Tier mother frown, and a9k: " Why do you blush like that j" And now she'd haunt with footsteps slow That mead with cowslips yellow, Down which she met a week ago That stupid, staring fallow. Our girls are wiser now. 'Twas very quaint, 'twas very strange, Extremely strange, you must allow. Dear me! how modes and customs change! It could not happen now. And as for him, that foolish lad, He'd hardly close an eye, And look so woe-begone and sad, And make his mother cry. " He goes," she'd 6ay, "from bad to worse 1 My boy, so blithe and brave. Last night I found him writing verse About a lonely grave!" And, lo! next day her nerves he'd shock With laugh and song and caper; And there! she'd find a golden lock Wrapped up in tissue piper. Our boys are wiser now. 'Twas very quaint, 'twas very strange, Extremely strange, you must allow. Dear me! how modes and customs change! It could not happen now. Frederick Langbridge, in Good Words. Old Siegel and His Son. BY THE M ATI QTJI S 07 LORNE. Many years ago, -while making a tour through that beautiful tract of mountain scenery in the south of Havana known as the Salt?gammergut, I stayed for a fortnight at Berchtesgaden. I spent much of my timo there in fishing for grayling and in talking to the chamois hunters, with many of whom I hid made acquaintance during a previous visit. I used often to sit for hours listening to their hunting-stories, and on one occasion I hunted with them. The mounta'cs immediately around Berchtesgadeu are kept a3 a royal chamois preserve, and as the King was expected to arrive shortly, none but his Majesty's own j'agers were allowed, dur ing the time I was there, to disturb the chamoi?. I was, however, very anxious to have at least one day's sport, an3 arranged with old Siegel and his son Franz, chamois-hunters whom I had known for some time, and on whom I could depend, to have a "jagd" on the morrow. Siegel persuaded Getting, a friend of his, to come with us. We started early in the morning, and after t iling for several hours up through the dark pine woods, which became more scant and scrubby the higher we went, emerged at last on the open snow fields. We now separated: Franz and Gotting made a long detour to the left, while Siegel and I hastened on to reach some commanding posit on above, in case any chamo swere driven up. After an hour's more climbing, we halted on the top of a precipice, which shaped In the form of a, crescent, made a complete cul de sac for any chamois driven up by our friends below. We had hadly beeu watching ten min utes when two chamois appeared in sight, bounding up the mountain-side and coming directly toward us. When the foremost had come within rang, I fired and mifsed, as most men would have done, tiring as I did at so small an object from a height ilmost perpendicu larly above it. The beasts turned, and springing with wonderful speed over the sharp rocks, were soon out of sight. I tired a second shot just as they were disappearing, aod tiiink I struct one of them, bat it contrived to get away, and we never saw it again. Siegel and J, somewhat crestfallen, trudged on up the mountain, keeping a sharp lookout on all sides, and halting now and then to give the others time to overtake us. Suddenly we heard, far down below us, a shot, and then all was again silent. We were much surprised, a3 it is one of the first rules in this kind of hunting never, except when absolutely necessary, even to raise the voice, much less, of course, to fire a rifle, which scares the chamois completely. We knew that Gotting and Franz, di rectly below us as they were, could not possibly have seen a chamo's, as our shots must have driven them quite out of reach. After a minute's anxious listen I ing. we fancied we heard shouts, and fearing we knew not what, called loudly Franz's name. We then heard and this time quite dist:nctlythe voice of Gotting saying: "Come down! come down! It's all over! Franz has shot himself!" Siegel and I were standing together ankle deep in the snow. I glanced into hie face, and I think I shah never for get the look of misery I saw there. Be fore I knew what he was about, he had seized his ri e. and presented the muzzle to his head, and was feeling with his foot in a frenzied manner for the trigger. I snatched the piece away ,ust in time; he did not try to recover it, but throw ing himself on the snow, burst into a mot passionate, most eloquent torrent of praise of his son's many virtues. He told me what a good son he had always been to him, anxious to fulfil his si ghtest wish. T f ln.il. j.j it..! cUSm aucceeuea m paruauy soothing him, and in rousing him to ac tion. We scrambled down as fast as we could, guided by Gotting's shouts. It was a long time before we reached them: to me it seemed an age. - I ac cused myself of being the author of all th:s misery, and my anxiety was height ened by the reflection that we were it reality poaching, and we should very iikely, in consequence of this misfortune get into trouble on our return. "We found poor Franz lying shot through the back and in great pain among stunted "knie-holz"- a plant Eometlrng like our whinbush. It ap peared that he had. contrary to all jager rules, carried his rifle capped, and that in walking through the knie-holz, he had stumbled and fallen, and his rifle had somehow or other exploded, cauaing a severe wound We stanched the blood as well as we could with our handkerchiefs, and then held a consultation. Gotting said he knew of a chalet some way off to which he thought we might manage to carry Iranz. I lifted him up as carefully a3 possi ble, and walked for some way over the abominable kn e-holz, which threatened to trip one up every moment. I man aged, I think, to go about two hundred yards with my burden, and then, ex hausted, had to lay him down. His father tried to ca-ry him next, but un nerved and half-blinded by his tears, had also soon to give it up. Gotting was the only one of the party who could carry Franz for any great length of time over the rough ground we were now compelled to traverse; he was a small man, but seemed to be all wire and muscle. It was, however, evident that the slow pace we were obliged to go we should ! never, even if we knew the exact direc tion which, by the way, none of us did get to the chalet before . nightfall. Some other arrangement must be made. Gotting proposed that he should stay with the wounded man, while Siegel and I sho ild go forward and attempt to reach the chalet. Gotting wa3 the only one of the party who had ever been there, and that wa? years before. He gave us directions how to find it. We were to pass to the right or left of certain peaks he pointed out to us, and then he said we should see a large field of snow. We were to cross this, and the chalet was in a hollow about half a mile above and to the lett. Wei', we started Siegel and I leav ing all the provisions except a few sand wiches with Franz and Gotting. A weary walk brought us to the peak where, according to Gotting, we were to see the snow field. But there was nothing of the sort there; peak rose upon peak, but there was no great, level Bnow-tield stretching away at our feet, such as he hid described. We lookeiateach other in dismay. To add to our distress, the weather, which had hitherto been beautiful, be gan to get oveicast. J ight wreaths of mist were setting on the highest summits of the mountain, sure signs of a coming 9torni. However, there was no use in going back. We shou'd perhaps not bo able to find Fran : and 'iottin? again if, be wildered as we now were, we attempted to get back to them. Our only chance was forward. Tired and dispirited we waed on, turning around oniy to look at the gath ering cloud? which were now piling themselves dark and threatening Dehind us. The wind, too, began to rise. We determined to jo downward; indeed, we were too much exhausted to go any higher, or waste any more time m look- j ing for the chalet. ) The ground seemed tc get more rough the lower we went, and the tremendous gusts of wind which wb stled round us made the descent most dangerous. Great, spattering raindrops now began to fall and we halted on a ledge of rock,' utterly worn out. I he storm fncreased and in a short time was at its height. The rain ' came down in torrents, completely drenching us. The lightning with blinding flashes played all around.hissing and illumining for an instant the awful grandeur of the scene, while the thunder pealed and crashed overhead, each crag and wall of rock echoing the sound and increasing it an hundred fold. We had thrown our rMes away, afraid that the lightning would strike them, and stood waiting for the storm to abate. When we resumed our decent we were trembling with cold in every ; limb. The air, wu.ch was warm enough ! before, was now piercingly cold and the wind drove snow and bits of ice against ; our faces with blinding force I went first, and for a iong time neither of us spoke. Only wnen a particularly ; dangerous place was crossed I gave the warning "Look to the right." or "To .1 ..... . . i tne ieu." as me case mignt ue. Siegel led the wav when I was tired. , , rf , , A and thus we proceeded w.th greatest- , T i caution, as a false step would have been , almost certain death, till we got to more level ground. Here we aain encountered thickets of kn e holz. We were already congratu- - era! Jackson'3 inaugural ball the ladie3 lat-.ng ourselves on having gt the worst wore calico dresses without any flowers, over, when we were suddenly stopped by Nnw that is an absurdity. It is quite a precipice or "Wand," down which it too ridulous for anything. The ladies would have been impossible for a goat of that date dressed as richly and be to go. It was a sheer desce-t of at least com ngly as the ladies of th9 present eignty feet. generation. At my own lat reoeption This was a dreadful disappointment, at the White House I wore a gorgeous We walked along the edge for some way, pink satin from Paris with point but as far as we couli see the Vand ex. d'Alencon lace, and it was this dress my teniu. .c wls. t hold already th, owu ! great-grandnie.ee woro at a reception in y;tl on tde ground and had given Up the neighborhood a few weeks ago, and all hones of life, when a shout from Siegel : -without the.. sl;chte;t alteration. ' At who had gone on a little way, maae me once more spring to my feet. I hastened to him. He was standing over a narrow ho e in the rock almost hidden by bushes of the kn.e holz "We are saved! we are saved!" he TTepTnlained to me how. when 1 had given up in despair, he suddenly lessly young that to be old seemed al thought that he rema.ubeel the place most a discourtesy. The consequence we were in, and had remembered, too, was that every womau in Washington, I that if it were indeed the part of the mountain he suppled it to. bs, there was a rircular hi e in the ro.-k formiarj the Wand by wh ch the c hamois hunters scaled this otherwise inaccessible place. He had gone on, had found the opening, an! fearfu of lo3:ng the spit had stood over it and cal'ed till I cam.3. We slid safely down this chimney like that bronzy tint so greatly admired, hole, which is not mu h more than , What else it bestows in the way of head ;wenty feet in depth, and easily descend- ! ache.and other discomforts it were too ng the lower part of the Wand, which long a task to state. 5Ir3. Harrison and s here much broken, arrive!, famished j Mrs. Morton both leave nature unadorned nd half frozen, at 10 o'clock at night, ; and so adorned the most. In other at a woodman's hut Siegel knew of in words, they have the courage of their the valley below. Here wc obtained ; whitening tresses. Therefore oxidizing warmth and shelter. j the hair will no longer be in vogue. We Three of the woodmen immediatelv ' shall next hear of powder for young and tanl up tne mountain and returcwm od .n the modg of Pompadour. -iW.'a- i fanf linn.E m?fl- vnn TTro n t wVtrt Wft i ery muca exnausieu, not so muuuuuiu cold as Gotting had contrived to. light i fire, and they had provisions as from ioss of blood. I once asked Siegel what he would ave done if he had not found that open ing. le fchould," he said, "have struck our alpenstocks into the ground, and have walked round them all the night to keep orf sleep, which if it con quered us would, of course, have been fatal. If we lived till day broke we should have tried to find our way back to the others." Whether we were likely to succeed in so doing, cold, hungry and exhausted as we were, the reader may judge. As for Franz, he completely recovered from h?s wound, and 1 have hunted many a time with him since that memo rable day. Youth' Comj'tnion. Famine in Russia. Notwithstanding the abundant harvest in South t;uss"a la3t year, in the in terior whole provinces are suffering from a state bordering on famine. The in habitants of ent ro district in the Gov ernment of Orenb ir are actually dyiDg of starvation, rour years of bad crops have totally exhausted the poor peasants, so that numbers of villages there have eaten up the last seed corn. The adult population allow themselves j the luxury of a pate of bread once in two days, while chlireu crying for bread are fed by their moth?r3 several times a day with very small b;ts of mil let cakes, which, in ordinary times the poorest peasant would not look at. These cakes, when they are just baked and still wari. look rnre like cement, and when they become cold are harder, if posssble, thitn stones. 1iraUu itaniard. Australia has just made to a projected railroad a grcnt cf 16.000,000 acres, or 20,000 acres a mile. The grant to the Pacific railroads amounted to about 640Q acres a mile. LADIES' COLUMN. Freaks of Fashion. A correspondent of the Tor T Mexico illustrates the omnipotence of fashion by the fact that the cocietv belles of Vera Cruz have been seized by a mania for sealskin sacques, which they persist in wearing in a latitude where the Christ mas temperature sometimes exceeds 100 degrees in the shade. Cloth of Glass A cloth of glass has been invented by a Frenchman which has been described as beiner more beautiful and brilliant than imaint:nn rn nrpiv. nr realize." The warp is of silk forming tbe groundwork of the material, and the design i3 wrourrht in the wool of finelv- spun threads of glass. The extreme fine ness of these glass threads is best under- stood when one is told that some fifty or t(xty of the original class strands are re- quired for one thread of the wooK The .ne.. nf ,: mr.; ;a annrninn, n . . more than one Tard of the cloth can be i . . . . . . . ! produced in twelve hours of time. . , . , Commercial Adcrtuer. " Dress in "Old HiekorvV IXeslme Mrs. -Tmes K. Polk ridicules a cur rent newspaper statement that at Gen- lanta Constitution. Gmv Hdirln Stvle Aain. Grav hair is in again. Perhaps you think that by the laws of nature it never was out. ' What is nature compared to art? Mrs. Cleveland wa so remorse- however ancient, was apparently youth - fulas.tohar. You cannot imagine. I infer, that women dyed their locks! Perish the thousrn of a charge so crude. The proper term to erapioy for this self administered change f hue in hair is to oxidize" it. Peroxide of hydrogun is the aent wbJch besto .vs upon the locks Fashion Notes. The violet was the flower of Lent. Low hats have Dame Fashion's favor this spring. Empire sashes are made in most gorgeous designs. Bamboo stands, cabinets and hanarmg shelves are in favor. Mohairs and challies will be equally fashionable this summer. Paris sends over valuable neck scarfs of embroidered crah, as well as others of the finest embroidered crape. Gold color and black threatens to ta.;e the place of the graen and black, 60 log considered the height of style. iXew imported petticoat?, whether cotton or woolen, have their colors all lepeated in the Hce that trims them. Marguerite gauntlets, the deep close elbow cuts, may be either cf velvet or of stuff to match the dress trimming. In elegant dress toilets tha coiffure is invariably arranged to correspond with the Emigre, Grecian, or other style of dress adopted. With white muslin any color may be woru; but yellow, old rose, tan and green will be most ued for .sahes and knots this summer. Marie Antoinette Fichus of white or colored linen, trimmsd ail around with lace, will be worn with empire or Dtrec- ' toire gowns this sum nsr. The taste for plush fabric is steadily deve'oping, and during the year the de mand for it will be ltrge.y in excess of any previous annual rcqu reraeat. The newest black veil is of plain net, hemmed at the bottom, with a faint pattern of gold tnread wrought oa the hem -md other lines of gilt a -oveir. London sends zephyrs and gingham m all manner cf plaids and stripes, along with the most delicate and vividly fowered lawns, si ecii and batistes. j The Directoire po'ie bonnets, which J project out over the forehead and are piquant and becoming to certain young faces, will be more popular than last year. Insects of various kinds are found on the new French bonnets; butterflies hover among the flowers, bees, dragon flies and ugly spiders are again a la mode. The stripes and plaids now on ex hibition are voted "loud" by women of quiet, elegant tastes, and "perfectly chic and stylish" by those who seek striking and novsl effects in dress. Some of the new summer sateens show a fox-and -geese game. It is suggested that a chess pattern, with a difficult problem or two, would be an excellent thing for seaside or mountain wear. The novel tints in millinery are Eng lish rose, inagnola, anemone pink, wisteria, lily-leaf green, oak heart, sum mer sky and opal. The same colors ap pear in straw and braid hats as in bon net?. The new washing surahs that now come in all the delicate fine shades will 'e largely used for summer frocks, for ties, for draperies, chemisettes, and will be especially valuable for hat and bonnet trimming. . A Srsat Chines? Riv!i Shanghai, write? Frank G. Carpenter, ( is about midway cn the Pacific coast be- j tween the northern and southern bound- ; aries of China. It is near the mouth of. though not on the great river, the Yang-tse-Kiang, which divides the mpire into two equal portions and which fo-ms the great central aveuue of trade. Thi is one of the greatest and one of the longest rivers of the world, and it vie with the Nile in the rich deposits nich it carries down from tbe mountains oi Thibet and spreads over tin rich r.'a:i of China. I-s water where, it c-irers :h sea arj jnyello . ai chy, find tl.oir oou tents arc, I am toLl, ai ri-:h a? g iaco. They form a fertilizer which the Chinese use by irrigation, so that it is spread over much of the i4,C0) square miles wh ch forms its basin and makes this land produce from two to three crops per year. The Yang-tse-Kiang has a fall Dearly double that of the Nile or the Amazon. It is so wide ac its mouth thai when we sailed up it in coming to Shaigha. we for a loasr way were hrlly able to see the banks, and this width extends'up the river for hundreds of miles. It is navigable for ocean steamer? to Hankow, a city of the size of C h cago, which is situated on its banks GOO m:le3 above Shanghai, and river s eimers can go 1300 miles up its winding course. Above this there are gorges and rap"d3 whjch the foreigners now think can be passed, and there will then be an opening into the interior of China by this means for more than 2000 mile3. The Yang-tee-Kiang is so long that it would reach from San Francisco to Xew York and push its way out into the Atlantic if it could be stretched out upon a plane, of the face of the United States. It is longer than the distance from New York to Liverpool, and it is sa:d to be tbe best stream in the world as to the rrange- I ment of its blanches. Its boat popula- ' tion is numbered by hundreds of thou- sands, and it is a city hundreds of miles J in length, made up of jiinks, ships and barges. These I hmese jimfcs are gorgeously painted and carved. They have the same style of sails and masts I that were used thousands of years ago, i and their sai's are immense sheets of j cotton patched together and stretched i j . . r i i i. i i . i :i. s.i. on rous y uamuoo wuicu iuuh mku usu Ing poles. The sailors are pig-tailed men in fat clothes of cottoo, who sing in a cracked gibberish as the work, and who understand how to mange their rude sails so well that, they can often pass ships of more modern make. All of the Chinese boats have a pair of eyes pa'nted on the sides of thsir prows, and the Chinese sailor would no more think of navigating without these than he wonld think of eating without chop sticks. If asked the reason he replies: "No have eyes no can see. No can see, no can no." Bishop Fowler, while sailing up the Pie Ho to Peking, happened to sit with his legs hanging over the boat so thtt they covered up one eye. He noticed that the sa'lors we:e uneasy, and they at last came to him and asked him to move his. legs as the shi;j couid not see to go. The c! air back hai oi:c through almost a.s ras'iy evolutionary stages a-: the animal kingdom it-elf. Originally designed as a protection mm tudd-oru attacks in ti e rear, k acme, from pro tecting even the bead u: tha hoa-e. re served for :h'-e hoi iiug the h gii.-st rank m households or courts. When the long white wir came into use the chair back had to be sacrificed to the exigencies of fashion, since which time its significance hai be:n lost. THE OLD VANE. Creak-a-ty-creak ! Creek-a-ty-creak! Tho skies be blue or gray. Here, from my perch, a word I ?peak To all who glance my way. Flushed by the morning's earliest lights Before the town's astir, Kissed by the starry beams of night. With every wind I whir. Ever a message true I speak, Creak-arty-creak! Creak-a-ty-creak! Creak-a-ty-creak ! Creak-a-ty-creak 1 The fanner heeds me well; Over the fields, his hay to seek. He hies, when rain I tell. Slave of the breeze; yet tyrant I To those who watch below; Joy or regret, a smile or sigh. Uncaring, I bestow. Ever a message true I speak, Creak-a-ty-creak? Creak-a-ty-crea!: ! Creak-arty-creak! Creak-a-ty-creak 1 I watch the snow-elves weave; Kwa arrows of the rain so bleak. Sun lances I receive. All's one to me; my task I Io, Untiring, year by year; A lesson may this be to you Whose glances seek we here! Ever a message true I speak, Creak-a-ty-creak! Creak-a-ty-creak! George Cooper, in Independent. All commercial travelers are journey lieu. The cry of a sick dog is a bark in dis tress. The most conscientious mechanics have their little vises. Tin average man never knows what pa ing tlio piper means until he seMee iiifi firit jumbing bill. Nhiurf.ily cnojh ft prson who has hec .;;. cd fnvjj a i.'.i .-s cf public meet i r- f -i- ;'- :t. 1) V hi Free Preit. A ir 1. who. r-'r.iplrin that trsdf is a; ii s-and-t.ii r.v.y ct b? doing isiii ir.L-ry b. s':.c--. J) i.--'-it Free Press. There i a rhetrfrd riog in an engaged girl's iaugj-.er, a iti :,ls oa her finger, i! ic is a thrce-car-ii diamond. Xeto York Ni ICS. "Samson, what did you ever make out of that blcoded pup of yours?" Samson "Sausage. " Mail and Ex ire Proprietor f second- class lodging house "Will you sh"w these peopl their bunks.' " New Clerk "Oh, yea; I used to be a 'bunko steerer." Graphic. How will the new Electrical Execu tion law get over the revolting scenes of executions when the tevoltin? details are carried out at 900 volts per execu tion? Lit'. 'How are those Lour glasses ? Do tbej work easily i" 'Oh, my! yes. This one is particularly good. I ran through in less than fifty minutes yesterday. Mai and Express. If a bank cashier leave Chicago at 3 o'clock p. and another leave New York at 5 o'clock p. y,. on the same day, how soon will they dine together in Montreal? Lie. The proprietor of a sausage factory announces that "parties sending theii own flesh to be chopped will find theii orders attended to with punctuality and dispatch." New Yurk Ntwt. THE JIOMEXTOUS QUESTION. Fiom Ash-Wednesday to Easter Mie ponder upon it; While he scrapes around To raise cash for that bonnet! -Puck. A man fails in business tor 120,000. His creditors levy upon his assets and obtain $000 in settle nent of theit claims. How much does his wife maki by the transaction? Answer, $ll',00O. Life. Wherein Her Success Lay. Mothei (to daughter) "I understand, my dear, that yoa made quite an impression at the conversazione the other evening. Daughter "Yes, mamma." Mother "What sub ect did you dlscuisr Daughter "I didn't discuss anything, mamma; I let others do the discus in&.' Harper's M-jgnine. Various Lfsa?en of the Capital. The Capita! of the United States hai been lo ated at d rlerent times at ths foliowiug places . At Philadelphia from September 171 ', until December, 177C; at Baltimore from December 20, 177P, to 3 arch, 1777; at Philadelphia from March 177T, to September, 1777; at Lmcrrer, iVm., from Septembers?, I 177?, to fVi'cnber -0, 177T; at York, i I e-iii.. ;r n -ept-.t: c- i 1771, to July, ; i ; , : ; at Ul-.usr!- hia fn;:u -uly tf 1778: '. to .Tn e : - , 1 - : '-" 1 Tifi.-vto:i, X. J., . t-u-l0 ;.. to io'. er.ii.tr 2'J, 1783: ; Aunr.-.-D'.i'. ?.:d., yevmber, 2 , 178?. tc j Xove.'r.be&'-'t Trent oa from No- j ve;n'oer, 17?4, to Jar.ua. y, 1785; New J York from January 11, Ut5, to 1780: ! then the seat of government waa re- moved to Philadelphia, where it re mained until 100, since which time It ' i ha beem at Washington.