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1 0 R E LiAZETTE. sir VOL. TI. CARTHAGE, NrSgTflJlDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1883. NO. 7. Thc 3lToarc -Cascttr. CABTHAGE, N. C. . M. Dnnlap, John W, Scott, Jr. Editors. One copy, one year One copy, six months One copy, hree months - AdrertlaiDg Rates. One square, one inch, one time One square, one inch, two times One eunnre. one inch, one month 75 li.ro 1.00 2.00 Liberal rates for : contract and standing ( advertisements. ' . r - : --i i v rtkiiu wune i uud wviu any iuusc by brides. Silk pocketbook, hand-painted, are the newest. Chirred yokes and full waists are rnuc.i wtrn. . - Ga'loon is revived for dress and bonnet trimmings. I'la'dj, blo:ks, -hecks andstrip"s are feature, "in 'ail fabric . Silver and gilt oro-s out in the new dress and bonnt gall jor. .. - New 1 onncts fur annum wear are displayed in New V rk. in a bewilder ing and '. eh-gaii" ariHy f styl's. Da ntv and uncuiiiinoii models in dark English braids and felts are sli wn, the l' rmer ha k's tritely trimmed with richly eel nd fall flowers and fruits, and the hitter showing c.vet rr wn and puffed velvet I Tints, with trim ming, of .Huffy leather-tips a:-d jeweled oriaaicnts, the garnituns for thei-e show ng a defiled tendency to high art ha ies" and mixtures. WcBicrn Eiitcr-iirise. A wholeale merchant of New York, who lias, just returned fn m ihi West, admits that ha- bad never given that - country' proper credit for its en terprise As be passed through Detroit 'he was sought out and cf fcr d a .sixty d. liar coflin for $'i8, with a de.'d.'of a burial lot thrown in. In Chicago a man off end to kill lii.n for three cent-, and an ice wagon went a square out of its way to run over hiifi.- -In Milwaukee he was baxed to accept for nothing a half in terest in a fire-escape bringing in $7.", :00 per year. In Indianapolis he found one of his' cl I employes who-admitted -,ta L.J.".'Jw.'i 'hrJwIiw iSA and forced' him to take a check for principal and interest. 'He still has theche'.k to prove it. At Mackinac they took him lor a lord (rates $8 per d;iy t, ard at Cleveland he was taken f.T a bunko man and hal to identify hi itself by telegraph. -I a1, be been of an agricultural turn of mind he could . have I ought Ot'O acres of land of a To ledo man for the trifle of $500. The land was all on the; bottom ot Lake Erie, an 1 he,wou!d have had no fences to build nor taxes t pa''. lie returns completely charmed with the West. Also, . minus his gold watch. Wall Strrei V- s 1 A Metropolitan Crematory. Ground has been purchased on the highe t an 1 the mo t picturesque grounds t n Manhattan Island on which to erect a CMiia'o y to reduce dead bodies to allies. The New York Cre mation society wish to avoid ferries, railroad trains and crowded thorough fa' es when conveying the remains of their relatives and friend to the last re ting-place. This will bo secured by the. proposed works on Washington .Heights. ; This cemetery w ill be more complete than anything of its kind in the world. There are to be no yew or willow trees and no emblems of mourn ing. ' A picturesque ehapel loriiemo r al services will bo e eit'd. and the grounds will be laid out and adorned with plants and flowers suggesting.' hope and joy instead of the more mei aneholy emotions. Nor will' there be any roasting .'ind burning of the bodies, but the remains wi 1 be -incinerated by an intensely hi, ilrv air ladiatingfron furnaces 'fit teen feet distant, which will tiu. e the corps''". short time to a WLLDiS m dcle.l,- upon thcse"in (ier- many and Italy, where they are in much ntore general u.-e than in this countrv.l emorett. Hon . a rianist Avoil d a Due'. A duel in which an eminent pianist Wi.8 to have taken a leading part is j aid to have been happily arranged without 1 s of life or limb on either side. An altercation hail takn place at a Paris cafe between the said pianist and a well-known man of fashion; and it at last became so animated that the latter offered the former Ins card and ac-epted one in return. The pianist waited at home th? next morning, but heard n thing from bis opj ont nt The day afterward he nut hiai by thaace in the street, and expressed his sur- pr 8e at what had, or rather at. what had not, taken pla e. . " I asked you the day before yesterday," said "the tianist s adversary, "for"safisfa tion, and yesterday 1 received it." "How so?" asked thn pianist, more astonished than ever. "Instead a visiting eord you gave me a tick- t for your con cert, was the reply. "I went to it, heard you play," and was more than patisfied. St. James' Gaurtt, uuyii juuB j If roo and I, to-3aj " Shonld slop and lay Oar ufewurk down, and-let olfc.vfall where tktf.nUt-- Jt Fall down to Le quite'wni And if some other han hontd napp aarf stoop to find A . v . The threads we carjK so Ibartt oomld wind Beginning where nr stepped; if it shonld come to keen . Xjr Obi UCoQ, kgomg, seek To carry oaHhe good design, Distinctively made yours or mine, Whatwoald it find? 9-me work we must he doing, true or lalse; Some threads e wind ; some purpose so exalts ' ' As to a crown To bow before, and we weave thicads Of diflirent length and Uiickue; some mere slireds And wind tliem round . 'I ill nil the skein of life Ik bound, P.-Jtnetime3 forgetting all the time To ask The value ol the threads, or choc e Strong stuff to use. No band but winds some thread ; It cannot stand quite still till it is dead But what it f-piris and winds a little skeie. fiod made each hand for -work not toil-stain !) required, but every hand Spins, though but ropes of eand.- II love should conio, Stooping above when we are done, To find bright threads Th:tt we have bel I, that it may spin them longer find but shreds That break whin touched how cold, Sud, tlm-eiing, portionless, the hand will hold 'J 'he broken shreds, ami know j 1 Frcsli cause for mora HIRAM'S VISIT. "(ioing to git married, be you, Hiram?" Hiram Honeydew colored at the ab rupt question, but he answered, truth fully: "1 don't see' what else I kin do, Aunt Teggy. Sister Susan is bent on a-marryin' the school-teacher an' a-goin' off to the Black Hills or som'eres away out of all creation. An' here's medder haj8 vck, an' corn to cut, pumkins to g-fier an' all thetn Avind falls an' Siberian crabs to make up in eider fur the apple-butter, an' no help to be got fur love or money. An' it stands to reason I can't tend the farm and cook the vittles, too. So I thought soon as thrashin' was over you've promise to stay till then, Aunt Peggy an' tlien I thodght I'd go round som'eres nigh about Clover Creek where some of our kinfolks live, an' stay a .week or so, an' git a a some body that can housekeep an' the like do the milkin'' an' cburnin', 'tend to puttin' up fruit, makin' apple-butter, take keer of the chickens an' ducks, an' do the cookin' an' cleanin'. Sister Susan was a powerful good housekeep er, an' she couldn't be beat a-cookin', either. If 1 could lind a good sort of a woman that 'ud cook ekal to Sus" 1 wouldn't mind a-marryin her." . 'Humph! So you expect to git a wife an' a good one, too, in a week or two, hey? You're a gump, Hiram Honeydew, an' nothva! else, besides, you'd ought to git a wife you could keer fur. as well as a good housekeep. er. Zfousekeepin' an' cookin' ain't e erything, I tell you. There's secbf a thing as affeckshin between man and wife." 1 Iut Hiram scouted at this idea, ' "One woman is the same as another to me," he returned, loftily. "I want a housekeeper, an' that's why I'm a-goin' to marry at all." "Wal then, Hiram, if you're bound an' determined to go an' hunt up a wife that a-way,rnebbel kin help you a little. I knowed the folks about Clover Creek bke a book when yer Uncle Eli was alive, an' we lived on the old Honeydew farm. An' thar was Mahala Nutter. She married Job Perky, an' they bought a' farm on Clover Hill, t'other side 'the creek There wan't nobody could beat Mahala a housekeepin' them days, an' most likely her darter, Marthy Jane,, hes tuck after her. They are sort o' kin "folks o' yourn, too. Mahaiy was yer Uncle Eli's own cousin. An' ef you j like, I'll write 'em a few lines, an' tell ; 'em you're a-comin, an' sort o' perpare 'em, fur nobody likes to hev comp'ny onexpected.'1 And so it was settled, much to Hiram s relief, and he whetted his scythe and went out to mow a feed of green clover tor his horses with a lighter heart than he had had for a Th n W train W It'I-J... I veek. For he had made up his mind that Aiartna jane Fergv -srem asjt" a housekepnpr as A tmf said, hi? would bringhf yvwi!hIrini Mrs. Honedewii nr"4 week s ume,HfJ Aikt nf&$st she would te,' for Hir&ni WAgite fgood-looking man, with pleasant brojraeyes, cnjly broMn hair, and a f&kbroustaclie. Moreover-MBrelo and almost anyi$Ie grffe'jWa own neighborhc .wotddavrrjBi-.at the chance hi presingiwfjproad acres and picturesque cottagffarmV house, half buried in sugar-majfes and Kilt, trt Mll-irri aa f r r,irf .a f V, w" """f ""v voucu, distance lent enchantment to the view ana ne was "tx)und and determined, as ! h Aunt Peggy had said, to seek his fate ' in some of the wide old farm-houses dottmg the fertile borders of Clover LreeV' "Hell be a mighty good ketch fur you an' no mistake, Marthy Jane," commented Mrs. Perky, when Aant Peggy's letter had been duly received and read- "A mighty good ketch, an' you must do your best to ketch him. 'Tain't .often a gal has sech a chance throwed at her head, an' if you've got a mite o' pluck about you, vou won't let them stuck-up Briggses git ahead of you. Delilah Briggs would give her ears to git ahead of you, I'll bet a button!" To which bit of logic Martha Jane assented, with a toss of her head, and the assurance that Delilah Briggs, nor no one else, wasn't a-goin' to git ahead of her. ' Consequently, ; when farmer Perky drove his gray team to the gate, with Hiram Honeydew -on the seat beside him, the necessary preparations had al ready been made floors .scoured, baking done, and a substantial country dinner, with a dessert of apple-dumplings and sweet-cream sauce, eady to be served. ' . While Martha Jane, in a 'ink' plaid frocif, with fluted ruffles, stc-jr? waitinjti "lbhes, mortal humly,: Hiram, &) he sat smoking, aftet din ner, on the porch, and mentally review, ing Martha Jane's narrow forehead hard black eyes and high-colored cheeks. "But,i then, I ain't a-lookin' ' out fur beauty, an' if she suits me other ways, I jrecjun 'tain't no great matter how she looks. A gir? with them kind of eyes an' a malogany colored skin kin do the ce res an i make butter, an' sech, as good as if she had blue eyes , an' goldy-loo'-an' hair like that girl they call J'5".v that brought in the dump s an' P35 round the dip fur '' at dinner t(day She's the hired 6 I reckin. 'T any rate I ain'r gt time t0 hunt rouncl much. 1 reckin Marthy Jane won' mvd ehangin' her name to Honeydew afore long, an'. I've got to hurry up I ain't got no time to waste a-courtin'. I reckin if nothin' happens we kin be married in a week, an' git back homo. I don't like to stay here a-settin' round doin' nothin', with all the fall work a-gittin' behind at the farm." "Oh, dear!" ! ' Down through the long grass and crimson clover-bobs, under scrubby haws and tall persimmon trees, went Hitty Mavis, a- deep-caped sunbonnet j shading her violet eyes and tangled j yellow curls, j j She was after the cows, standing i knee-deep in the tall aftermath, where ! they had been turned for pasturage after the meadow hay was cut "Oh, dear!" sighed Hitty again, "I'm so tired, and here's the cows to drive home, milking; to do, sponge to set for the baking to-morrow, and goodness knows what else, and Oh!" She started back, with a little scream, for seated onj the lence, under tne shadow of a crimson-leafed sassafras tree, sat Hiram Honeydew coolly watching her. j Hitty's cheeks turned from pink to scarlet assshe met the admiring glances of his frankj brown eyes, and her heart beat fasier than common. But Hitty jwas a sensible girl, so she said, "Good evening, Mr. Honey, dewf' quite coolly, and began driving home the cows. But Hiram spraug down from his perch on the rail fence and followed her. -1 "Let me help 1 you. Miss Bitty!" he begged. ain't used to loafin around, doin' nothin', like I've been fur some davs now; and itTl be a treat to drive home the cows, even." ,, .. . . A. . m T Hbh . w. - ' I i nii H ": 1 . . ' 'A Emnsht ruui avay too; they walked together through the ' '3 tety aftermath, dotted with scarlet ; .f4i.ierny-weed, and crimson-petaled ,iger-heads," the lowing cows filing j f'ow'ly home, lazily chewing their Aids, ! nd SWitrhintr tboif InHo of 41, flJAo i If O Ab lUt lima. liram let down the bars, and turn- ! 3 the COWS into the. vnrrl while TTitfv i Herouffht ont.tho miiif J ' " auncnot burd(x;k-leaves, where she left them. And somehow, in spite of the milk- ; and setting the sponge, and doing ! f jthe chores, Hitty's h'eart beat more j bghlly than it had for many a day. tead of one week Tlirflm If , . . . mimmm Y ' , ELoueyaew siayeatwo, but 5tuOrtrtifaiM$itl Jaue had not been invito t,-, ,o, f 1 -J w v -t , t VIllUI J or name. "She's a mighty good housekeener. tjtought Hiram, meditatively. "If rfctle Hitty could only cook an' house- ' jlieep as good as her. I-don't- T j He ended by building a castle in the i ajr. wherein Hitty Mavis, with her vV lit eyes,and"goldy"colored hair, was the chief figure. "Hitty Mavis!" Martha Jane's bard, black eyes look harder than ever, and her sharp itures seemed sharper still as she unced wrathfully into the kitchen vfiere Hitty sat slicing a bowl of vqllow Crawford peaches for supper. ;"You kin pack up your duds and go! You a-settin' up to ketch a beau as if Hiram Honeydew would look at yiu.'' I- Martha Jane, what on earth do y.ju mean?" Hitty's eyes expanded, and the pink in her cheeks deepened to a glowing scarlet. 'You know well enough what I mean!" sneered Martha. "You needn't to look so innercent, like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, an' you a-strainin' every nerve to ketch Hiram Honeydew a-cajolin' him to help you milk, an' drive up the cows, an' the UP,,. T ,!... a 1 j t.A.ntn rrnV jjuu j. UWU b Know WOCic tu gy. Hitty's heart beat like a frightened robin's at the thought of being driven friendless into the world, but Martha Jane was implacable. "It's nothin' to me where you go, so you leave here," she sniffed, as she flounced angrily away. "Go with me, Hitty!" said a tender voice; and Hi ram Honeydew stepp1 suddenly into Mttle kitchen. "Go with me, Hitty, and be my wife." Hitty's cheeks grew redder than before, but she did not draw away from his offered embrace. "oSTot gone yet?" cried a shrill voice, as the door was jerked viciously open. "Didn't I tell you to pack up Oh, Mr. Honevdew. vou here? Come and have tea- we're a-waitin' fur you." "Excuse me!" was the cold reply. "I shall just have time to take my wife that is to be -over to the par sonage. Will you come to the wed ding V" ' But, with a scornful sniff and toss of her hea l, Martha Jane flounced off again. ' "An' so vou didn't marry Mahala's darter, after all!" cried Aunt Peggy, who w?1? waiting to receive them. "X-nol" stammered Hiram. Hitty kin learn to keep house, I reckin " "Learn?" cried Hitty. "Why, I did all the housekeeping at Aunt Mahala's. She is t'nv aunt, though they wouldn't let me call her so. Marthy Jane never did a lick of work in her life.' And so Hiram Honeydew got a wife I Rnd a housekeeper all in one, after all A Hen Hatches Snakes. On the farm of George Logan, near Lebanon, in the county of Warren, Ohio, a hen has long evinced an ardent desire to become a mother, by persis tent efforts to hatch door-knobs and anvthin" else that bore the remotest resemblance to an egg, that her owner mac. , aiiesT;frevvQ4jje.-waa 1 Til- i .. finallv had pity on her, and placed in ' ren, and a boy who had len. kind to her favorite barrel fourteen curious ' the chief during his distress. The egs that he bad discovered in turning j vessel was plundered, ami the chiefs a barrow. Then he went off to camp- j father, delighted at securing some lire meeting and thought no more about j arms, snapped a musket over an op? n the matter until his return, when he ; barrel of powder and was blown to i 4.. f!rwl that tht hpn ha1 ! ,.;mii n-ith a Hn7pn of his men was aroaeu iu " hatched into this wicked world four teen little snakes for which she was ! carjng with the utmost affection and ! solicitude and from which snereceivea n?tant demonstrations of filial aftec. con? 1 tion- Next. THE TAPC A3T0XH MIORIS. of Some naiiMrti-Vt-ngs Tm ulbalUm. The Maoris are a people who not only weep in church at the pathetic passages, but laugh uproariously at anvthin . in lessons or sermon that tickles their fancy. Mr. Hay has seen a church full of them waving' their arms, stamping their feet, grinding their teeth with rage, wheivthe treach- ery of Judas was bein related. To such people Christianity came as anew form of tapu (taboo). Thev are ready for nv nnniVmr nf -i4, 1 . ' was only when thy 'begaffl to read for themselves, and to contrast the teachings of the Book with the conduct of the land-trrnhi.i Tt-w ..,r..i them; when, moreover, their imphcit faith in the missionary had been weak, ened by the coming in of rival faiths- eaLU claiming 10 oe the only true way, that they got to be eclectic giving up the Xew" Testament, in its rr?ctVal portions, and sticking by the Old. be cause it allowed polygamy and revenge and strictly forbade the alienation of land. This tapu had many uses. A rivjer was tapu at certain seasons, so as to give a close time for fish; a wood was tapu when birds were nesting, fruit I ripening, or rats (delicacies in the old ! Maori cuisine) multiplying. To tapu ' a garden answered till Captain Cook j brought in pigs far better than the j strongest fencp. A girl, tapued, j would be as safe amid the wild license j of unmarried Maori life as if she bad ; been in a nunnery. Tapu was proba bly never intentionally broken, so weird was the horror which surrounded it But in this case sinning in ignorance was no excuse; and the most furious wars were those which arose from breaking it. The sign of tapu was easily set up a bunch of flax or hair, a bone, a rag on a carved stick, that was enough. To lift it was much harder, needing the intervention of the unga (pnM. who. hs (u uaiums, ana, auu maiiiitgr.., the tabooed man eat a sti (kumera) charmed it away. potato Many a massacre of white? was due I tu an unwitting infringemeif of the j tapu. The historic massatP of Du J Fresne and his crew was brought about -, by a deliberate breach of tfpu; and such outrages on native feefing were so dangerous that Governor fa?quarie. of Sydney- ieio. tried to make every skipper in the Xew Zealand trade sign a bond for 1000 not to ill-treat Maoris, not to break tapu, not to trespass on burial grounds, not to kidnap men or women. His efforts were fruitless. Maoris were fine, sturdy fellows, and though there was, as yet, no Kanaka labor market in Queensland, no Queens land at all in fact, a ship that was short-handed was very glad to get some of them on board by any kind of device. The worst thing connected with the carrying off of native women was that the poor creatures weie generally put ashore in some other part of the islands ?. c, among enemies. There slaverv or worse, was sure to be their fate. Another cause for bloody reprisals was the treatment of the men who were taken on board. "I'm a chief," said one, who was being driven by a rope's, end, when incapable through seasick ness, to some menial work. "You a chief 1" scoflingly replied the master of the Boyd, for that was the name of the ill-fated ship. "When you come to my country you'll find I'm a chief,' was the reply. The Boyd happened to I sail into the harbor of Whargaron, the very place to which the flogged chief j belonged. He showed his tribesmen ! his scored back, and they vowed ven geance, for even a blow to a chief is an insult that can only e wiped out with bluodi The captain and part of the crew, leaving some fifty soul9 in the ship, went ashore to select tim her. The Maoris waylaid and mur dered, them, dressing themselves in their victim's clothes, went at dusk to the ship, climbed on board, and killed every une except a woman, her child i r1 - Tapu was successfully broken by the early missionaries in the Bay of Islands. One of their settlements v as np the Kerikeri river, the tapu of which for fish during the close months was very vexatious to tnera, for it blocked up their only road to Te Puna the had station. Stores must be had; and at last, in defiance of tapu, they manned a boat and rowed down, amid the rage and terror of the Maoris, who expected to see them exterminated by the offended atua (spirits). When the mission boat came back it was seized, and the crew bound ready to be slain and eaten. Happily, t eat the stores seemed the proper way of .begin ning," and these stores were partly tin ned-meat, jams, etc., and partly drugs Having greedily devoured the former the plunderers duly fell upon the latter fmihing off the jalap, castor-oiLsaltst anf: so forth, as part of. the ceremony. The result may be guessed.4 "The' "mana" of the missionaries began to work mightily, and with grovelling supplieat ons the anguished Maoris re leased their prisoners and sought re lief. The whole tribe was converted. How could thev help it? Had not the ! gods of the stranger proved their 1 superior might by utterly disabUng those who had stood forth as the avengers of their own insulted deities? Wouderfui Precocity. Oliver Madox Brown, a son of the well-known artist, was born. in 1S55 He seems to have been a precocious child, though his precosity never took the form of book-learning in any shape, and it was not till lie was six that he began to read. But if backward with his books he was a bom artist, with pencil and paint-brush first, as after- ward with his pen. When he was 1 eight he had completed his first picture j in water-colors, and when he was four j teen he exhibited "Chiron Receiving 1 the Infant Jason from the Mave" at the Dudley gallery. He painted three other notable pictures: "Obstinacy," 'Trospero and Miranda" and "fMlas Marner." But Oliver Madox Brown was beginning to show himself as an artist in the world of letters. Before he was fourteen be had written some 2.W80fofel?Sja- beauty, and. The Black Swan." which was nrst, given to the world as "Gabriel Den ver." The history of this book is rather curious. Oliver had shown it to Mr. Williams, who was connected with the firm of Snncn, nicier & Co., and Mr. Williams bad been much im- pressed with it and was anxious to as sist in its publication. Nothing could have been kinder, but nothing less ju. dicious, than Mr. Williams's conduct. He first insisted on the singularly pic turesque name of "The Black Swan" being altered into the very unmeaning one ot "Gabriel Denver." He then in sisted on the beginning of the-story being altered; on a deserted wife being changed, on grounds of propriety, into a deserted cousin, and on the terrible tragedy at the end becoming a com. fortable marriage in short, with the best Intentions, he did everything pos sible to spoil the book, lie -watered it and toned it down, but the htrange, fierce power of the plot and the vigor of the writing still remained. It was greatly injured as a Work c: art, but as a work of imagination it w .ih a re markable production. It was n'r, how ever it could never be an agreeable book. It was too crude and violent. Some of the scenes were simply horri ble, and some of the incidental re marks seemed to show a strange know), edge which repelled sympathy. But -UAM i VT'.ta L-nkii-rt that Hk4 U tlAA -- . work of a mere boy the feeling of dis like passed off into a stronger feeling of wonder and admiration. What was painful and repulsive was the fault of an unfortunate story. The essential matter was the literary power, which might prove itself equal to very great efforts and might produce works of lasting value The Strongest Electric Light. The strongest single light that burns in the United States is 8usjcnded in front of the Philadelphia Iiecord build ing, ninety-five feet above the Chest nut street sidewalk. Its power is ef.ual to 10,000 candles. At night the"" entire block between Ninth and Tenth streets, Is made so light that under the jtowerful rays of the lamp a person standing anywhere within these limits can read editorial print with ease. There is a penny saving bank in Philadelphia which has f400 deposited by GOO depositors. They are all chil dren, and the largest sum possessed by j any one is $18- Sponges are improved by being j soaked in cold buttermilk.
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