North Carolina Newspapers

: : o ;-. j .. ; t' .- ; ' . - ' ; ; - , " i ' , TVtx no723. I Rockingham, n. c. Saturday, june. 13, isoi. whole number 970 . 1 , m SCYTHE SONG. ,h Wcrd methinks ye know, t ' -ord the cytbe to 'be blade of ,tbe grass below I ffv tUt wing in tb grass and clover, itg still they say a they pass; Tbeword that ever and over .V, rrthe to tb flowers and grass? 1 bub f the scythes are Baying, nibeednot, and fall aaleep; , rtWa7 the grasses swaying; . p-ib. tty ; ' - .1.. l..l!Ktr tim . in?.n7: c-h W tc-""'- . 3 fcr ' . , 1 f,r all tVi?nT Tka I Andrew Lang ANNIE O'BHIEN. A TRUE TALE. -jte Coscagbt Castle had nrrived in beig carried away' by their friends or bT tve boarding-house - keepers who 1TTS lie J - ailed for sat about 'the decks. -. Wist- fj eres turned shoreward anxious to see t familiar face and form among all .tliose .. .. rtctrase ones. Pat tTolan had ccme aboard in all his yerjia new blue coat nung open tiat it might not conceal the . shmiog VatcH-chain dangling Ironi nis vest ,,ccket, his hat tipped 'to one side in true Cocca'u-ht fashion, with a mighty show tf white collar and cuffs and blue neck u ati his boots for once polished by xx "Ejetalian." He threw his shoulders back and looked his best, for " didn't he ccme aboard to bring his sweetheart, Actie-O'Brien, home, and wasn't she the purtJOat girl in ten couaines anu uauu i fbc crossed the ocean for his ske?' . Pat felt as though '. .every one that saw tun -.must know his business there. Standing still he looked ; about him, txrerting to see his little Annie some- where not far. . ., 'Sure, an'1 wouldn't she be as anxious tt mate him as he would, be to mate He was a little late, for there had been i delat of a tnain in which he came down from the plaoe where he was working as coachman and gardner. But - surelj Annie -would never have gone ashore without him. lie walked about for full tea minutes, looking everywhere, but still missing the face he wanted. " Every now and then a gay ribbon or a JtrurLt coil of hair would make his heart dance, but it was never Annie's hair or Annie s bonnet. ; At last he made up his niad that she had gne ashore; but in that ca?e she had left word for him, of course word where she had betaken Lcr.tlf. ' " .,' . d be 2: pardon, sirr" he said, step ping up to a man who wore a gold band tpen Lis cap, anc1 was presumably an rfiicer v "I beg pardon, iir, but I'm Pat Xohn. I? there a bit of a message left or me, do you know, sit?"' 'Xot that I am aware," the officer re "I: wa3 Aunie O'Brien," said Pat. -'5he came over on this steamer; she erected me to mate her. We're to be rr.e-J . tdu know, sir, and she'd lave where sho is goue Annie O'E tu. The ntricer turned a curious, startled upon him. - "Annie O'Brien," he repeated. "A ntra-e passenger?" . 'la coarse, sir,' said Pat. "She' i tttrun' over to marry me, and she s i wcrkb' girl. We're nay ther iv us r'.;h."' - : ' ' ' Tie or!l?er looked at him again. "I know the name," he said. 'Yu couldn't help noticing the pi, ' said Pat. "She's a purty crayther, u Attic, wid eyes like the sky and gold-- ---rand a waist ye could span wid Jlr tw hinds barrin she wouldn't Ifrnut re to do it and a foot light as r 'survoa the floor. A little jewel is Attie. You'd riot fail to notice r v.. -- -tr. own 4 moment, Mr. Xolan, crricer, 'I will make some in- $2 ' Wait here for me." " A migrhty jolite gentleman, though elf. hope hell not delay long J 53 wild to tee tinnie. I wonder is she trJ' her eyes out for not seein me? It Tfhit she had a right to expect the 0-eaboord.,V V - rfiicer was returning, pv , , . . ' '-'Seu more serious than ptpt. Nolan, he said, gravely, "the Would like tr snpak in tnn. 1 rtain t t ;r j; .- - -iievrouto him. ! We have had f . tcrray voyage, as winter voyage . . "Bat rou come Into port on as pleas ant a da r as there is in the calendar, " Pat saidl1. cheerfullv. "A Cniistmaj Pat saidL1 . cheerfully couldn't e brighter' 'But nt hare bad a very unpleasan t voyage," said the officer gravely. ; lie op;ned the door of the captain cabin. Pat entered with his hat ia hii hand. j . The captain a grave,, bronzed man with iron J gray hair sat at a table before book, on which his hand lay. an cpen VSit d(j wn." he said. Than 5u, sir. It's as easy stand ing,"' saia Pat, with a bow. . 1 ou better sit down," said the captain 'I may have to talk to yon for utes. I have fomething very some mm very jart2 jcular to say.' if your are the right man Your name is -" 'Pat Nfolan," said Pat, beginning tc feel astonished; but then perhaps the captain knowing that he was to be mar ried that ' iveninsr, wanted to congratu late: him, j or perhaps it was the waj j of the captains of ocean steamers to be slow and I solemn, not thinking how he kept people fr6m their sweethearts. So Pat sat dclwn, put his hat on the floor, and, not knowing just what to do. His knuckles one after th cracked a other as hp waited. "Your blame is Patrick Nolan," said thcfcaptaih again, "and you : came on 'i- I'- - I JS board to nna :-young woman a ineuu of yours V I "My sw eeth'eart promiae3 to me. TVe are to bd married to-aay, said r ac. . "If Go wills it," said the captain. "Ay, -sir; we can do nothing widout that, I w ill know," said Pat. "The good Lord above and Father Dunn will help me; nf T'll dn the best I can to furder it myself.1 4The cadtain looked down upbn the Pase3 of the book before him. "And the name of the young girl you ; . I - are asking for?" he said. "Annie O'Brien," said Pat, beginning to think the captain very stupid 'Brien. She's the JViddy "Annie O'Brien's aughter a decent woman is the widdy j and well respected. They; are height ors at home in the ould coun-j thry." " .' . The captain ran - his fingers down a long colur in of names, and stopped at last and Icoked at Pat again. ' "We h d a very unpleasant voyage," he said slowly "a yvery, very unpleas ant Voyag?." lThe o her gentleman was telling me that, sir," said Pat,' wishing that this old gentleman would stop talking about the weather ai d tell him something about Annie. " Bad weather must be a threat on the sayj" he said, in order to be polite, "ind wid all thim passengers to be watchin' and " carin' for--worse than a stablef ul of bastes I tva" Wiid the'eantain. "we trv to -.ww, y - - care for our passengers; but the steerage is a little crowded. They are often very sick!" "Yes, si I -was that sick myself 1 'thought I be dyin'," said Pat. 44 Some Are severely III," said the cap tain. This tithe Pat made no answer, but stared at him with a hot flush rising to his face, j - "SometAnes they are so very ill that they! die," the Captain went on. "Del icate women, yp.a know little children and delicate women. Pat still ooked at him in silence. When said that we had a very un pleasant vohrage I meant that" said the Captain' that we had serious illnesj that Had death on board. Two 1 1 j-. we steerage- phssengers died. vne was William OfRourke, an old man coming with bis son." 'God reit his soul !" said Pat. ."The On-er, wno was very jjj, woman," siid the Captain "a young woman, an 1 very pretty. Mr. Xolan, we have to prepare for storms in this life Tve have o brace up and bear them as well as we can. They are very hard to bear.! I h ive had a great many myself. At my age bat goes without saying, bat you are yo ing anJt full of hope. I am very sorry 10 say that I am afraid you are about t suiler a terrible shock. It is a painful tisk to tell you. Brace up, my, lad. The other passenger was a young woman, and her name, as we have it written I ere, was Annie O'Brien." ( All the ior had gone out of Pat'i face by this time. It was white lips and all. lie dropped bis arms on tne table and hid his face on them, and great sobs shook bis frame The captlin wiped the tears from his own eyes Time j - "It lecms as if I could not believe it, captain," Pat cried, lifting his tear swollen face. "Annie my little Annie! Are yon sure it was Annie?" 1 'There was but one Annie O'Brien on onr list," said the captain. "She gave her name just before she breathed her ! last, j The only steerage passenger of the name of O'Brien died on the voyage of a fever, i The doctor cared for her as well as he knew how. The Women nursed her kindly. VTe buried her at sea, and the burial service wa said by a Catholic clergyman who was on board. You might like to know that, so I tell you." "My Ajinie my Annie at the bottom of the say "''moaned poor Xolan. "An' Til niver see her again; niver kiss hex red lips; niver feel her two arms about me neck ! Ah, Annie, I won't live after ypu I won't live after you! Lile is too hard to bear wid that to think of. It's turned me to a woman, sir, I'm tbinkin': but it's tne worst blow 1 lver naa m me 0jfe I There was a knock at the door just then. Pat hid his tear-stained face again. "No admittance just now, " cried the captain. " I didn't mane to comein, plase sir," said a sweet voice; "but I'd like to spake to ye, captain, af ye'll let me. Ym waitinV this long time till me frind comes aboord to bring me home, and I'm gettin' I anxious, fearin' something has happened him. What will I do, sir? 1 know no one in Americay. Perhaps he might be on boord and me not know it. He'd be askin for Annie O'Brien and he'd be Pat Nolan, that I'm promised to. Would ye " But the captain had flung wide the door; and Pat was on his feet, and with a roar like that of a buffalo had flung his arms about her. "Glory be to God and all the saints lr he cried. "You're not - dead at all! You're alive! I've got you safe and i : . i I - ' sound 1 ? They've 'been telling me you were dead. God help the man that put the thrick on me, for I'll lave but the bones ay him !" 'Quiet, there!" shouted the captain. "Down with your fists or I'll put you in irons!" j What did you mean by asking for Annie O'Brien, a steerage passenger, when you wanted Annie Bailey, a first cabin passenger? That is the girl that stands there. That is the name she gave us- Annie Bailey." Captain dear," cried Annie, clutch ing her Pat by the coat tail, "captain darlin', , Pat niver knew he did not. Since writin' him, my mother a widdy married again wid Mr. Peter Bailey, that kapes a fcine tavern in our town. So long as I was a goin' from : her, and he a proposin' to her, why wouldn't she? Ana no navin' money to spare, saiflr 1 should ; come like a lady, and paid me passage in the foinest place; and out iv compliment to him being my mother's husband and so generous to me I sailed as Annie Bailey .i That is the way it was, captain; and inaade ail the trouble arose from it for I wanted Pat to find me seated in the illigant saloon, and re mained there waitin' for aim." "You'll excuse me, sir," said Pat bow ing low, "cn account of what I've been through." "All right," my man," the captain answered; and then Pat threw his arms about his Annie and led her away, the happiest man alive. Sew Vrlearu Delta. Mo Lock is Pre of. There is a man in this city who only a short time ago opened the tig vault in the Sub-Treasury building where 25, COO.000 was kept, without knowing the f combination of the lock and without a tocl pl'my kind, i five minutes. This man'Rrame is Sipp, and, notwithstand ing the fact that Inspector Byrnes knows of the occurrence and knows also who the man is, he Lis not betn arrested. As a matter of fact the ame man was taken ta Waiiicgtcn, and with an ordinary mallet, opened the big vaults In the mint where a greater amount of money is it ore J. Tit is rot a thief, but a hard-fisted mechanic who has made a study of locks and safes, and makes mere money in do ing repairing than he could if he stole, lie opened both vaults at the request of the authorities simply, to show how wretchedly insecure the Government money is while locked behind old-fashioned doors and poor lacks Sex Terl New T3rk leads The States in the no- I r-thm h.z be?n represented in the Cabinet, to-wit: twenty -six times. LADIES' COLUHM. " ' X OCCUPATION. j A few ladies are &bcu$ to start 'in busi ness as contractors for the care of Lon don conservatories, window boxes, bal ccnies and small gardens by the year, season or month. . The ladies will at ,tend to all orders, employing a man only for digging and and for conveying soil, etc. ! Unless wishes were expressed tc the contrary, a lady -would call once a week t6 attend to conservatories, vala able plants in rooms, etc, and would leave directions as to what should be done" in, her absence, if anything were re quired. Persons who close their town hxreses when the season is over will be enabled to have their plants taken care of at the premises of the association. The Queen. A SITK.EWD CKXPF1XD WOMAS. Marion Foster, the crippled woman so well known, in New York and Chicago ss an artist and former protege of Emma Abbott the late prima donna, is' now a clerk in the United States Treasury at Washington. The manner in which she got her appointmont without going through the civil service mill was highly creditable to her shrewdness. She called on Secretary Foster the other week,and asked for a place, but the Cabinet minis teassuredher that he had no'thing to give but sympathy. She could not ex change sympathy for bread, so she asked for a messenger, and before long she re turned to the Secretary's office with a blank appointment in her hand, and asked him to sympathize with her by rigning it. The messenger had pointed out a vacant place as copyist, and she made chaste to go to the appointment room and fill in a blank application. for it. She got it. Chicago Herald. THE EEIXE OF HATA5A DEAD. Senorita Olivia, "the belle of Ha vana," died a few days ago, and had a Trent! funeral. Shewas engaged to be married to Don Eduardo Lebredo. A few evenings before the day set for the wedding the bride-elect happened to be in the garden adjoining her father's house. Carelessly plucking a rose she put one of the petals in her mouth. It is presumed that an insect was concealed in the petal and stung her li., for a short time afterward she comp'.a'.ued of pain in her lip, whicb began te s veil in sn alarming manner. Physic! iv-s were summoned, but the poison coj'.:1 not be controlled or eradicated, and she died on the following morning.- All, of the blooded Ilavanese were at the maiden's funeral. A gorgeous gala coach was drawn by eight horses decked with plumes, all coal black and covered with white netting, driven by eight pige3 in scarlet livery and two coachmen. Bol ton Trantcript. WOXTE AT FAEM WOUK. "Women play a very important part in " the farm work of Germany," said Eein rich Steiner, of Berlin, Germany. "Any whexe you may go in Germany you will find women actively engaged in all kinds of farm work. They like the fresh air and are strong and healthy looking. Flax is raised in small quantities by most families, and the women get it ready to be spun when the long winter evenings come. -Large chests of homespun linen represent considerable mcney value and descend from generation to generation. The miiking, butter, and cheese making and call fattening or raising is in the sole charge of the women, and they also attend to the drying cr preserving of the fruits to be sold at the fall markets. The famous Pcmrnerania ceee bret are all prepared by tne t&rmer' wives. The geee with us are sent out to pasture ia very much the same way that you pasture your cows. Children from ten to fifteen years old have charge of them, and they are shut up as regular as the nizht comes. On a German farm every body works, from the baby cf three years eld to the old grandmother of seventv. ETerybody contribute to the ' general purse, and, you know, many ! hand miko light work.'' -Yu- Yorl ! Eerail. f FASHION 50TES- ruScient variety in ronnd There is hats to please all tastt. Finger rings are grttirg Urg?r. The Ions marquise shape is especially liked. Black Uce capes which reach to tbe knees are among the novelties of the sca- son. k clove for nding cr driving has the gauntlet grained in imitation of crocodile. Parifin wemen are copying the Axnerl- rans in makiag a great dypaj of jewelry. ' - j It is proposed in London that all invi tations to wineles dinners are to be ac companied by a small bow of j blue rib bon securely fastened to the card. Round-faced, stout women ' should ivoid tulle bonnet strings, since they aid fullness. Th?y are specially adapted to lender faces and delicate co ante nances.. The new gauze parasols destined :or anything except to shade the face hav gilt frames. One of green gatixe has a heavy cluster of roses, drooping at one iid. An item to be remembered is the use of a little ruffle of iik at tbej edge of the fountain skirt, to break taejhatd line Which, the straight, plain skirts' now make at the edge. i All tones of color in dress goods sr considerably lighter and more pronounced than they have been. Elaborate wool dresses will be combined with D-ngalinft & shade or two darker, j Straight skirts and daintily fitted", simple bodices ere now the rule. Fash ionable modistes do not demand more than five yards of material a yard and a half wide for an entire dress. Some of the half-girdles of velvet or silk on the fronts of French bodices are brought to a sharp point in the middle and finished far back on each side with a vandyked pocket of the velvei or silk. Proof of the Earth's Motion. Take a good sized bowl, 'J it nearly fall of water, and place it upon; the floor of the room which is not exposed to shaking or iarricg from the street. Sprinkle over the surface of the wateV a coating of lycopodium powder-p a white substance which is sometimes used by la dies in making their toilet, and which can be purchased of any druggist. Next, upon the surface of this coating of white powder Taake, """with " powdered charcoal, a straight black Une, say an inch or two in length. Having made this little -black mark on the - surface of the contents of the bowl, lay down upon the floor, close to the bowl, aj stick or some other straight object, so that it will lie exactly parallel with the! charcoal mark. If the line happens to be paral lel with a crack in the floor, or with any stationary object in the room, jthis will serve as well. Leave the bowl undis turbed for a few hours and then observe the position of the black mark with fcf ecce to the object it was parallel with. It will be found, to have moved about, and to have shifted its position from east to west that is to sar, ia that di rection opposite to that of the movement of the earth upon its axis. The earth, in simply revcirlug, has carried the wa ter and everjti.ig, else in the bowl around with it, but the powder upon the surface has bcu leftjbstitd a little. The line will always found to have moved from east to we:, which is rjcrfectly good proof that trerrhiag elo con tained In the bowl has n.cved the other way. Fosi cf Moles. It is stated in the "Encyclopedia Bri tannica" that moles ere entirely jcarniv nmui. are exceedingly rapacious, and will die if left longer than eight or ten hours without food, bays a corresponu ent of the Scientific America: "I re cently kept a living mole for time to study its habits. I shut it in venti lated wooden box, giving it a Uniid luU of water and some grains of - corn. It drank th water, refused the corn, and, while kept strictly in the dark, was quiet. After twelve hours captivity I offered it boiled rice, which it refused. After sixteen boors lasting, it ate bread and milk, though not freely. When I had had it twenty hours, I gave it cracked oats, soaked well in milk, bnt uncooked. This it ate ravenously. I then released it in the room, and H trav eled about, seeking a plac- to borrow, and made itself troublesome, tearing at the carpet and upholstery. I j threw down large, thick woolen mitten, which it speedily found and entered, thrusting its head into the thumb. If undisturbed, it would hide in tijis way for hours, the light and warmth! cf the room seeming greatly to annoy It. It lived in the mitten for three days, com ing out to eat oats soaked ia milk, but rffrrri-r cooked oats. It was riven one r-n deal of raw meat. At the end of iour dap it was killed, being apparently ; v!tiT eonditicu. and cot having lost any flesh." . Tkt Tt'rtira' Scptft!:!::- Mrs. Frank Leslie says ia ii'ri . I am luperstitious by heredity, bcin, by French extraction, a crrol- cf luUi na, and my natural tendency was no ucubt fostered by my colored nurve. In our country we are apt to consider that su perstition goes hand in hand with iter ance, but among the Latin it cxit among those of the highest as well a thn lowest classes, and there is a great ten dency to it among their desccndaDvj.and indeed among all people of hyp ru ci- tive natures who are jmprcscn-able arvl of excitable temperaments. No one cxuV deplore or combat superstition mcrs than myself, and had I children I should from their earliest years endeavor eradicate any such tendency. Althcujl; personally I should be entirely willi. T t j make one of a party of thirteen at tab! fa it would cause mc discomfort for oaa whom I love to do so. My inborn prej udice against thirteen was foitrrrd by, the following painful experience: a birthday dinner was given ia my honor. Just as we were about to entire the dining-room, two dear friends jut from Eu rope happened to drop in, and were per suaded to remain to dinner. When thct meal was half over, a foreign friend at my left whispered that we were thirteen, but besrsred me not to call attention to the fact, faying jestingly that no change at that late stage of the dinner would break the spell. Within three week one of the English ladies was dead, and within as many months the friend at my left lay in his grave. . Anothcrand very similar instance hap pened at a dinner which I gave a jc ar or two airo; and I should certainly bi un willing again to "aid" my friends to a party of thirteen, or ' allow any guest to happen in and xr.akc up that number The Maklnj ef Watch Gtz&sss. In the manufacture of watch glasses the workman gathers with the blowing tube several kilograms of glas3. Soften ing this by holding it to the door of the furnace, he puts the end of the tube into communication with a reservoir of com pressed air, and a. big sphere is blown. It is, of . course, necessary to get the ex act proportion of material at the com mencement of the operation, accompa nied by a peculiar twist of the hand and in amazing skiilfulness. The sphere ought to be produced without rents, and in such dimension? that it is of the requisite thickness. Out of these balls the wcrkingmen cut con vex discs of the required size. This is a delicate; operation. A "tournctte, a kind of compass furnished with a dia mond in one of its branches, is used. The diamond having traced the circle, the glass is struck on the interior and exterior sides with a stick and the piece is detached. The discs, which are after ward traced, are obtained very easily. They arc seized by the thumb, pscd through the aperture already m ic ami detached, by the pressure of two fin gem. An able workman will cut ont CJQO glasses a day. Iltburj Dtpilz.. k Scheme That Failed. There, was a New York man who had traveled far and - wide, and everywhere had heard that there were law and crdinanccs against the uo of t'ing by boTs. One dsv, in a country town, hr saw a by knocking sparrowt ol the trees with absolute precision with a l:cg charged with small shot. Tb city tua looked at the sling and taw that it wi nothing but a rude, crotched :lck. wit! a band of rubber tied from one arm of the crotch to .the other. Instantly he conceived an idea for making a fortune. He came to New York and male an im proved sling out of twhted wire. He invested a considerable mm of money ia the purchase of a plant for turning oct the improved ty. He made his patent kings by the thousoai. & .m-ch for the man and his grand scheme. Now for the boy: They will not b-y the new lings. The old homely wooden enc shoot a thousand times better than any thing else can JVri n. be made V do. Sr The question has ariien In New Yctk s to the right of an employer to "dock" an employee's wages or to discharge him fcr abvence ia serving ca a jury, and cna judge givj it as his cplnim that ho should consider such action an cbstruc non cf the law and viilt upon the of fender the fjllrtt penalty. This cr la ion, states the Washington flxr, seems to meet the ideas cf all percns who have the best Intcrrsts cf the ccmpit; at heart. i only can comfort you.