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7 Co F i V RANKLIN URIER GEO. S. BAKEE, Editor and 3?roprietort TERilS : S2.00 per Annum. VOL. III. LOUISBURG, N. C, FEIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1874. NO. 44. In The Orchard. Herd in the dear old orchard, Onelittle year ago, llobert md I together Were wandering to and fro. Only a year ! It in not long ! Ami the birds are hinging the same sweet isong ! I aaked him, I remember, Had he ever loved before, And he closed my lips with kitjaes Till I could not quetttion more. But who would Lave dreamed ;there e'er could be A man ho, fickle and false an he ! The Hongt that I eaDg laut Hammer Are turned to note of woe, And my heart hath learned a lesson Unknown but a year ago ; And the dayB that then were nanny and bright Soom suddenly changed to darkest night ; And even Uuh dear old orchard 8comn hardly the place to me It wan when we were together Under this same old tree. Ah me ! Is it only a year ago ? How weary thft days ! the time, how slow ! THAT BLESSED "WIND. "It's an ill -wind that blows nobodv any good," says the proverb; and I have no intention of disputing it. In deed, I am quite convinced that such a wind rriust be very ill indeed. But our lino little infant hurricane of Septem ber 8th was not one of these. Among its many misdeeds, was one flirt f good nature, which I make haste to record to its credit, while every one else is charg ing it with damages done. All day long during that capricious. windy, sunny, cloudy, and altogether unreasonable day of Wednesday, my dear little friend Bessie had been wan dering about the house like an unquiet spirit. Seeing how matters stood, I excused her entirely from all duties of hospitality towards me, her visit ress. " Lot mo entertain myself, Bessie," I Raid. 1 don't like to have people think that they must sit down and fold their hands, and converse politely, be cause I have come to see them. Make believe, dear, that I am not here, and do just what you would do if you were alone." Now I knew perfectly well that what my sweet, blue-eyed Bessie would have done had she been alone, was to just sit down and crv those blue eves almost blind ; and I knew equally well that she would not do it while I was there. But I wanted to put her at ease.. The whole story was plain to me, or nearly all of it. ' I had seen too much of her and Arthur Blake, over the way, not to know that there was more love between them than could be broken into by outside storms without making some, at least, temporary ship wreck. Arthur was a fine young man, handsome, honest and tender, with a pretty fair portion of spirit arid deter mination, lie was not one to make a parade of his private feelings ; but I had soon him watch my darling's grace ful, soft ways with an unconscious sinilo dawning on his lips,, and a light in his eyes that told a sweet tale to who ever might look closely. And Bessie the girl only broathed in him, it seem ed. I believe she waked thinking of him, and dropped asleep thinking of him, and never ceased thinking of him dreaming or waking. I used to sigh, sometimes, seeing how utterly her heart was in his keeping. 15 ut not a word had she told me with those boautiful lips of hore. It was through her transparent face and actions that I learned all I knew ; and more crediblo witnesses could not be had. The two were not engaged; that I . was sure of. I did not believe that thero even been any love-talk between them; that is, any that could be re ported. What eyes, and actions, and touos say is not to be put in words. They wcro iu that delicate, perilous position, when the happiness of two loving hearts is absolutely perfect, and at the same time most easily destroyed that silent understanding which seems so sure, yet may be lost through a look or a word. Arthur Blake was going . away, I had learned. lie had got tired of our coun try town, and fancied that he would do better to get into practice in London. There was nothing to bind him to either place. He was quite free. His nearest relative was an uncle, who would help to settle him as a surgeon wherever he should choose to live ; and Arthur him self had a little pioperty of his own, and need not bo in any killing haste, or afraid of taking a week's rest, and time to look about. This much had been told me that very Wednesday morning, when I was ou my way to spend the day with Bcssio. "Bat Bessie?" I asked of my in formant. ' . I fancy that they are off," was the reply. "You know it wasn't an engage ment, perhaps only a flirtation. At any rate, I saw Arthur walking out the other day with Julia Raymond ; and, at the same time, Charles Rivers was making a call on Bessie. Atthur and Julia bum, and stopped at a pictured face that gave me a chance to say something else I wanted to say. " This is a good photograph of Miss Julia Raymond ; she takes well ; her's is just one of those faces that look best in a picture, because it is unchanging ; she has mere pretty features, but no expression." Bessie's face brightened a little. " Some people admire her very much," she said, faintly. " I don't know any one who does," I replied, in a careless voice. Then there was silence ; I saw Arthur come home, walk up the steps of the house without .even looking across the street, go in, 'and presently appear at the window of his room directly oppo site U3. Bessie sat with eyes downcast, her color changing from red to white, her bosom heaving with the tumultuous beatings of her heart, her poor little hands all in a quiver. The young man may have given a swift glance across, but it was only a glance. He closed one of his windows, and, since the wind was now high. closed the blinds too, all but one-half and then he disappeared. He had been wont to sit there, and, with some pre tence of reading a book in his hand, keep watch on the girl over the wav. Both of them happy in that companion ship, though perhaps they did not bow, awful hugging, when at last Arthur went away, and between tears and smiles, whispered, "That blessed wind !" No matter what was written there what heart-breaking pleadings, what confessions. The wind knew, and the lovers knew ; and that is enough. So much for the ill-wind that blew some body good. . A Sea Story even, to-eacn otner. I looked at Bessie as the last blind was closed, and scarcely could restrain an exclamation, so pale had she grown. For a moment, she seemed on the point of dropping out of her chair. Bnt as she did not look up, I kept silence. Poor child I That shutting of blinds seemed to her, I knew, like shutting her out. The wind rose, and beat the trees, and twisted off leaves and branches. It shook the windows, banged the blinds, tore off slate from roofs, and carried it about like feathers. Underneath our window, it bent a street lamp off its post, and scattered the broken glass about. There was a roaring in the chimneys, a crash every moment, as some shutter, skylight, or fence went by the board. From our sheltered win dows we looked out on the storm ; I with that interest which such freaks of nature are calculated to inspire ; Bessie with the cold listlessness of a creature half senseless. She never said a word, only glanced on a piece of paper that lay on the window ledge. After a while, I began to suspect that Mr. Arthur Blake was not so very far away from the front of the house, as he would have us think. A glimpse of a coat-sleeve was vouchsafed me from be hind the blind that was half shut ; and I soon got a comfortable assurance that not a look or motion of the pallid girl at the other window was lost on him. While I looked, the wiud rose in one of its most fearful gusts ; it caught the maple tree under the window, and bent its head to the earth ; it carried on its wings leaves, dust, tiles, slates, every thing it could catch ; it suddenly dash ed in a pane of glass, and the next mo ment it caught and carried out the slip of paper on which Bessie had been scribbling for the last half-hour. She started up with a cry, and tried to catch it back, leaning into the tem pest without a thougt of it3 fury, wide awake now, and as red as she had been pale the moment before. " Oh, what shall I do ?" she cried, in distress. "I have been writing every sort of nonsense on that. Oh, what shall I do ? Cou d I get it by going out, do you think ? I should die if any one were to read it ! My name is writ ten there." The wind seemed fairly to laugh as it lifted the flutteiing slip of paper straight up in the air, then lowered it tantalizingly again, only to snatch it awav from the two outstretched white Is there anything, asks a writer, in the sea-air that makes people of the naval profession tell stories ? I don't mean falsehoods necessarily, but stories that one finds a difficulty in believing. Why is it that all the most amazing ad ventures are met with upon shipboard ? Why does a man see things upon a cruise that he could never dare to say he saw if journeying by coach; by train, or on horseback ? Why should not land serpents be occasional ly met with measuring half a mile from their head to their tail, and rather more in the reverse direction ? Why should sailors have a monopoly of seeing people in their cabins at the very moment that they are dying thousands of miles away on shore ? And, above all, how are all ships' companies persuaded to " wit ness " things which nobody upon terra fir ma could get a so al to corroborate? The last thing that has been thus testi fied to by marine evidence is the de struction of a ship's company by a calamary. This is not, as you would suppose, an epidemic, but a species of gigantic octopus. It was floating on the sea " in a huge mass of a brownish color." much larger than the schooner itself, and "seemed te be basking in jjbhe sun," when the captain let fly at it with his rifle. Then " there was a great ripple all around him," and it began to move toward the becalmed ship. " Out with all your axes and knives, and cut any part of it that comes aboard, and the Lord help us 1" .: was a command uttered too late. "We could see a huge, oblong body moving by jerks just under the surface of the water, with an enormous train following, which might have been a hundred feet long." In another moment the ship quivered under the thud of its collision, and " monstrons arms like trees seized the vessel, and she keeled over." For a few seconds the schooner Pearl lay on her beam ends, then filled, and went down with all on board, save her master, James Floyd, the narrator, who was rescued by the steamer Strathowen, the passengers of which had observed the catastrophe through their glasses. They are all unable to say exactly what this marine monster resembled, but al though I was not an eye-witness I feel confident that it was "very like a whale." Yet here we have names and tonnage of the ships, longitude and latitude of the place in which the inci dent took place (it was in the Indian ocean), and every particular which on land would have established the genuineness of the story. I believe American sea-captains are favored with at least as remarkable experiences on their voyages as our Britishers, but the ghastliness of this little anecdote seems unique. Cloud-Bursts. The Virginia Daily Territorial Enter prise, Nevada, says: "The recent de structive cloud-bursts in various parts of tnis State have caused a feeling of uneasiness in the minds of many of our citizens. It cannot be denied that the occurrence of a cloud-burst above the summit of Mount Davidson would result in almost incalculable damage to this city and Gold Hill, and perhaps in the loss of many lives ; but it is not likely that we shall ever have a cloud-burst here. -We arer as it were, insured against such a disastrous visitation. The Palmyra mountains, lying twenty miles to the southeast of us, are our safeguard. All old settlers well know, that all heavy rains which reach ns during the season when cloud-bursts occur first visit and expend their fury above these mountains. Leaving the Como or Palmyra mountains, the storm clouds move toward Mount Davidson. often appearing to advance against a strong northerly wind. Owing to the configuration of the country and the prevailing air currents, and perhaps to the course of our rivers, all thunder storms pass to the southward of ns till they reach the mountains named, and after raging there for a time either pass on to the eastward or change their course and move toward this city. For many years we have observed this, and all old settlers at all obsereant will have remarked this peculiarity in the movements of our summer storms. When a storm is raging on the Palmyra mountains, if the wind here begins blowing from the northward, it is a sure thing that the storm will come to us. When we feel the under-current of air moving toward the storm there is at the same moment an upper-current moving directly toward us, and on this come the storm clouds. But that the heavy clouds discharge the greater part of their water on the Palmyra mountains, we might have cloud-bursts here. Since the discovery of the silver mines sev eral cloud-bursts have occurred in the Palmyra mountains, about the head of El Dorado canon, but never one in this vicinity. The course of our summer storms across the Sierras is such that they are almost invariably carried to the southward of us, and directly to the peaks of the mountains mentioned above. The so-called cloud-bursts are simply the sudden condensation of the vapor forming the clouds, caused by the meeting and mingling of two currents oi air. a current or stratum oi air colder than that carrying the clouds causes them to suddenly condense and fall to the ground. The reason cloud bursts generally occur in the vicinity of high mountains is because there are found-broken and contrary currents of air. Doubtless there are powerful elec trical changes and disturbances at the point where the two currents of air and the cloud masses meet, and doubtless t hese aid in the sudden condensation of the watery vapors. Be this as it may, our people may console themselves with the reflection that we are out of the course of cloud-bursts. Long observa tion of the track of our summer storms and the experience of many years show this." : A THOtSAXD YEARS AGO. lulud-Htw It waa Sttl4, . a by Wham A Wcmu't WaIm. i Iceland was originally a free repub lic, having been founded by those un happy subjects of Harold Haarlager (the fair-haired). King of Norway, who, in the year 872, consolidated his king dom, an'event which was duly celebra ted with grevt solemnities two years ago. This, like the Iceland celebration of the present year, was called the thou sandth anniversay ;.but what a differ ence 1 A more determined tyrant than Harold never lived. Tet at the bottom of everything good or evil in this world there is usually found a woman. Good we must believe it to be more commonly I jnred than evil, of course, but exactly how it worked in this particular case we. can hardly say, for the tyranny of Harold begot the Republic of Iceland, gave him a queen, and gave the Norwegians in 1872 a chance to celebrate their mil lenial (though why they should glorify the event, since they have become sub ject to Sweden, one can hardly see). The case was a simple one. This fair haired Harold, whom every woman loved for that very hair and his well-known valor, and who loved only one of them, and this one he desired to make his queen, took a most wise course in his love-making, if not in his kingcraft. Being reminded by this proud object of his idolatry that he was not a king in fact, but only the chief of a number of small kings or jar Is, and that if she wedded at all she weuld wed nothing less than a whole king, he vowed that he would never allow his hair to be cut The Story or Goldsmith Said. Hie "Maid was a wayward child. From the date of her birth on the farm of John B. Decker, in Wantage town ship, Sussex county, N. Y., in the spring of 1857, to the age of six years, she distinguished herself in many wave, bnt never as a trotter. She was undersized, nervous and fretful, and utterly refused to do hard farm work. Mr. Decker, her owner, says he never got any work out of her but twice, one half -day in plowing corn and one-half day in drawing stones. Occe she was hitched to a harrow, but, after a short distance, she reared backward and en tangled both her hind' legs in the cross-piece or. the harrow, and so in- those members, that when she goes out for her morning walks it said, she still shows signs of t lioness behind, caused by this fall in early life. From the time she was six months old until Mr. Decker sold her, she was used as a race horse, though without her owner's knowledge. Tke boys on the farm, of course, as boys do, were anxious to know which was the speed iest horse, and at an early day they found out that it was the " Maid." And so, after the "old man had gone to bed, they would take her out of the pasture or stable whenever a race could be made up, and run her on the road after night She beat everything that could be brought to run with her. so that,finally,none but the uninformed ipiw be pUad the against her. The races were made up at the country stores and lounging places in the evening after farm work was over, and the race ran the same Items r IitfmL Milwaukee is now known as Cbicgos left boot. Horace Binney and Samuel TbaUher axe the oldest living graJuates of Har vard College, the former having ben graduated in 1737 and the latter ia 17?3. It is only thirty years since the firjt electric telegraph line was eUlliahed, and at this lime there are mr.ro than a million miles of telegraph wires in use. Here is the obituary notice of an office holder in Iowa : " Harvey Jack son, county treasurer, is dead, lie was lenient with the widow, and his books always balanced. One of the Professors asked a student to give him an example of a mixed metaphor. The boy confidently spoke out: "When my tongue shall forget her cunning, and my right eye cleave 1 1L. IL to me root vi uij huuu. When your neighbor's young hopeful pauses in front of your house just after supper and hails Master Johnny with, Iiy-ah yna-yua ? Coain out ? yon realize the force of Ooetha'a declaration that the most dreadful wild beast in the world ia a boy. The Marquette Journal ssys a Cho eolay farmer was in that city laat spring and purchased all the Limbnrgher cheese he could find. It now Iran- whois of it with his potatoes, a small quantity in each hill, and as a consequence his crop Las thus far eecaped the ravages of the rolato buz. They go as far as the fence, get a scent's worth of lbs chew. me until thero was no part of a king want- nicht after the "old man" had gone to , ifr ; Au.t .nii ingtohim. And he kept his word, for bed. No training, no grooms, n I th. chr wuturt. Vinn m i.rl I 2 1 . .'LI : . . I a a. a . 1 a I AiS A. Uki a. A act B XSV " v w - " back belly the than the trotting ring. One day. in the sum mer of 1863, two men were buying horses for the army, and stopped all night at Mr. Decker's, and in the morn ing bought the "Maid of him for $200. and started for home, leaving the . " . ... .1 ne conquered every little sung or who set himself up to say he had any rights of his own, and, having won the famous battle of Hafens Fjord, he at once cut off his fair hair, married his wife, and drove numbers of the best people of Norway to seek refuge in some place " where men had nothing to fear frem the oppression of kings and tyrants." .This place was Iceland. The poor conquered jarls, with their follow ers, fled to tho sea, and, embarking in their undecked boats, sought the rocky island which they had never seen, but of which they had all heard. For it had been familiar to the Northmen of that period many years. A wonderful people were those old Northmen. They went everywhere. All the ships of their fleets might have been stowed away in the Great East- " Maid no doubt enioyeu a more r " 7T- . she has some of her late racas in lUD w "rS. .V- J- -T.i nomc, jcbtib i.uo . , .... : i.ii little mare, and bought her of them for $300. Tha two men also knew her and believed that she could be made a trotterf bul were willing to make $100 by their morning's bargain. The next day Tompkins sold her to Altin Gold smith, an excellent judge of horseflesh. How They Kill Cattle n Texas. The ordinary plan of drawing the steer down to the block and striking him on the head with an axe is too blow for the wholesale butchery carried on here. About one dozen head are driven into a small pen, just sufficiently large to hold that many closely packed, and a gate forced to behind them. The pen has an open slat platform across the top of it upon which two men are stationed with poles and sharp-pointed knives fixed on the end of them. With a rapidity acquired by long practice they the necKs of How They Got Elected. ine following is a recent debate in the council em. but they swarmed over the ocean. I of Blooming Grove. Orange county, N. X., for 8G00. From him sue too: me name of Goldsmith Maid. He kept her in pretty sUady training under a driver named William Bodme, to whom, more than any other living man, should be awarded the credit of first bringing the mare out. The renowned Budd Doble, who now drives her so handsomely, had not then either seen or heard of her. While in training for the trotting course she was so fretful and irritable, so determined to run at every oppor tunity, instead of trotting, so hard to bring to a trot after breaking from that gait, that Mr. Goldsmith many times determined to give up the training and sell her at any price, but his patient driver maintained his abiding faith in passage from a Cleveland city which they playfully termed " The Pirate's Field," like bees in a clover field. They cruised about with their little boats in the Baltio among the islands of Denmark and Sweden, and through the narrow fjords of Norway, and won the title of Vikings, or men of the inlets and secret places. A sea-king was a very different thing from a Vi king, for while a sea-king was a king in realitv, a viking was nothing but a pirate, the one taking his name from his landed right and rule, the others from the vicks where they hid them selves. As we all know, tho Vikings, with 'sea-kings often at their head. stole out into the sea and Bailed far and wide. They founded on the banks of cisoo. jessun stoie me xsodt went to South America, where he hid from detection. Parker suspected that Colter had helped in the theft, and so the firm was dissolred. It now turns out thst Jeasup, on the strength of his immense some years ago returned to his native plc Westflcld, Maaa., to spend ths remain der of his days. Recently he died, and left to his former friend whom ho robbed, or his heirs, if their be any, a clean $200,000, In the mean timo Colter was lost sight of and Jesaj administrator is adrertising for hia or his children. Mr. Eersrers I wish to ask the cren- along the shores of the Mediterranean tleman a question. until they had planted themselves bsck Mr. North Certainly, put your ques- again whence they had been oriven by the Seine the Dukedom of Normandy, her, and assured his employer that she was the fastest animal on Lis premises. and would come out at last a great trot and made a fool France. They of the poor King of bothered everybody Thongfctj for Sat artist Slxnt, Waste not either time, raont-y, or talent. Prosperity is a blessing to the good, but a curse to the eviL Experience is a torch lighted in the ashes of oar deluaiona. The tendereat heart loves best tho bold and courageous one. Do we all realize that in ns is an cle ment wh:ch will oulast the a Lars ? He Uvea long that lives well, and time miss pent is not lived, but lost. After forming a friendship von should render implicit belief ; before thst period yon rasy exercise your iudement. oi whatever aini. In my pursuit. .. a flii tn. in iei inis come 10 my xaioa, now raaru i' u:"ur X?rT.rr.A ' shall l value this on my death bed r plunge their spears into the neefcs hands that vainly caught at it through the affrighted and struggling animals, the rain. cutting the jugular vein, and each sue Some one besides me was watching. ?8sively falls as if struck with an axe. ArfUii TtloVn woo laoninn fi-r.ro Via win- TllO blOOd SPUKS OUt in StrCaKlS &3 if passed the house, and saw them sitting peal of the bell, then a step coming up in tho window." stairs. And all the time, there stood Bessie in the middle of the floor, with I went ou in a troubled frame of mind, thinking that this beautiful, sunny-sailing little love affair, which had been the delight of mv eyes, was, pert ape, running among the breakers ; longing to interfere, yet fearbg to, since outsiders so often do more harm than good. And the moment J saw Bessie's pitiful smile, I knew that she was being torn on the reefs. " So Mr. Rivers came to see you the other night," I said, as we sat together in the afternoon, Bessie at one window, I at another, looking out into the rainy street, and listening to the rising wind, one instant, covered it again, and turn- Voa " aa iff Karri A kAmrifr wAtah. M awav from mm. t o ' P I - w I could see, on the opposite house, not to lose sight of Arthur when he should come home. There would be so few more comings home, for he was to go the very next day. " I wish Mr. Rivers wouldn't come here," she said, after a pause ; "I don't care for him, but he seems to want peo ple to think I do.. May be he doesn't mean it, but it's just as provoking as if ha did." I was turning over a photograph al- from a dozen fountains, and in less than a minute the whole penful are down, quivering in the throes of death and covered with blood. The door of the pen leading into the rendering room is then thrown open, and the animals drawn out successively, and a knife rapidly slits open the skin around the neck and down the stomach. A rope is attached to the upper part of the hide by a clamp, to the other end of which is a mule which leisurely walks off down the yard carrying the skin of the animal with him, and leaving the car cass still quivering with animal life. A tackle hoists the body to a level with one of the immense caldrons, and in less time than we have taken to de scribe the process it is in the seething and boiling mass. There are lour or five of these caldrons, each large enough to hold a dozen beeves, and they are kept constantly going during the killing season. The tallow is drawn off into large hogsheads and the remains of these great soup-kettles are carried out on what is called the " hash-pile," con sisting of bones, horns and the animal matter from which the fatty substance has been extracted. Baltimore American, . The Grasshopper Plague. The latest writer on the subject of the grasshopper plague seems to have had an extensive acquaintance with the grasshopper in Montana, Colorado, Utah, and California. According to his opinion, if the fertile lands of South western Minnesota and Iowa had been cultivated during the past two years by experienced Western farmers, the story would be different. Deep plowing would have kept the grasshoppers eggs out of the sun, and prevented their hatching by the million early in the spring. The crops would have had a good start, and later on the young She uttered a cry, uncovered her face grasshoppers could do them bnt little injury, xxe uuuu uiat it u ivuj lor any State to incur the expense of em dow (now open), and looking over with eager eyes, that were full of doubt and questioning. And, he, too, watched the floating atom on which, of couree, he had seen Bessie betraying the wan derings of her wayward thoughts. It's my immoyablo belief that the wind was reading that paper while it held it suspended during the first min ute. For all the world it looked as though two invisible hands of an invisi ble winged crea ture held the slip then, with a whirl arid a whistle, darted across the way, flung it into the oppo site window, and flew off to knock somebody's chimney over, or wrench away a skylight. " Oh, what shall I do ?" cried Bessie, standing in the middle of the room, with her hands over her face. " What shall I do ? What shall I do ?" As the slip of paper was flung in at his window, Arthur Blake grasped it, and disappeared a moment. Perhaps it was not what is called strictly honor able, but, of course, he read every word of it. It couldn't have taken him long ; for in about three miuutes the street-door of the house opened and out he came into the storm ; and, in spite of gust and missile, straight across the street to our house. I heard a tremendous tion. Mr. Egger Didn't you go around among the saloons on Sundays, spend ing money for beer before you were elected ? (Applause.) Mr. North No, sir. Mr. Higgins If I may be allowed I would like to ask the gentleman from the Thirteenth one question. ' Mr. North Let her fly. Mr. Higgins I would state that I have evidence showing that when you ran for councilman of the Thirteenth ward you did go among the Germans and spend money and drink beer on Sunday. Mr. North I will give you a thou- Pompey the Great, on the borders of the Black sea. The unready Etheired had them al ways buzzing about him, and they were ever cruising about in the seas which wash the shores of England, Scotland, Ireland, the Hebrides, the Orkneys, the Shetlands, and finally the Faroe Islands, from which, still in search of plunder, it was an easy matter to pull away to the westward for a couple of days in search of further adventures, and discovered what we now call Ice land. They found, however, nothing there but some books and bells and croziers which had been left there by a band of Irish monks, who had gone brought out her points, that Mr. Gold smith, in November, 16W4, sold her to B. Jackman and Budd Doble for $20, 000. These gentlemen sold her to Mr. U. N. Smith, for the sum of $37,000. Mr. Doble still drives her. She made her first appearance in public in August, 18C5. Sarlng the Pipe. The following plan for the prevention of the bursting of water pipes during frosty weather has been invented in England. It is well known that when water freezes it expands, and that the force exerted is so enormous that no pipe can resist- it. This invention is I . 4 lnienaea vo trive uio wimr cuhjoo Duu uuunio 11 juu mil duuw bunn lj iso I uwi """t w 1 eXPSnd WllUOUl DUriling IQC pi 1X3. At I 11 I. T :i J. la sna nkan (h aw Vi a VAi4tim.n I . ... . l I I "U" me mow x ojr m i wioo, iui'j. i " -o wtuu.u, i attempts luis vj securing in me insiae i UKKVia vuv.tsu ti- - - - f 1 CJ I LIIR ' m 1 UUQ m LBW IVS UO I loon keepers and give some of them five dollars and some more to use their influence for you ? Mr. North No, sir. Mr. Eggors I can prove it. either to America, as some people sup pose, or home again to Ireland, as is quite as likely, upon discovering them selves still within reach of the merci less pirates, who respected no more a difference of volume between water and sd thst when the water freezes it in- ' Mr. North That is not the way I get I Christian priest than a French king. elected. You judge others by yourself. People are very apt te do that. Be cause you go around and do that you think I do. Mushroom Cities. "To a or to The Baltimore Gazette says : resident of a large Eastern city the European ,it is a most singular sen sation to come, in America, upon one of those deserted mushroom cities which spring up in a night and disappear in a morning. Through the mountains of Pennsylvania there are many of them generally mining villages, after the mines have run out. Perched often Exactly who was the first of the Norse pirates to discover Iceland historians are not agreed, nor does it matter whether they ever do or not. any more than it matters whether Wellington said " Up, guards, and at them," or whether Columbus was the first, last and only discoverer of America. It is enough for those who are not historians to remember that the English won Waterloo and that Spanish enterprise opened a New World, and in like man' ner it is sufficient for ns to know, as a mere curiosity of history, thst some time in the ninth century the Northmen got to Iceland ; that in 383 they got to Greenland, and that in 1001 they gath ered grapes on the mainland ot what on the top of a high mountain, the gun denly upon them out of the densest soli- J" 7 ,B.Ur off ortune come tude. There stand the houses in a her hands over her crimson face, and her soft, trembling voice repeating over and over the helpless exclamation, "What shall I do?" ' The door of the room was flung open without a knock, and in stepped the young man, with the truant paper in Lis hand, his beautiful hair tossed and drenched with rain, and such a light face as gladdened my heart to see. " Bessie 1" he exclaimed, ignoring my presence altogether. clearing filled with wild raspberry bushes and vines and small shrubs, bleak, bare, and desolate, with hinge less doors and paneless windows with small trees growing up. through the floors, and the gnawing of wild animals visible wherever the floor or walls were formerly grease-stained. Ou the line of the Western railroads these temporary towns appear and disappear, and in the oil regions probably more striking and pretentiously, the fall being more dis astrous than elsewhere. to be called America, lheae old sea rovers called it Vine land, because they found grapes and made wine and grew merrv there : and but for the aavaees they found they might have founded Boston and called it "My own little Bessie 1" he said, going to her. " How could yon believe that I cared for Julia ? She told me that you liked Rivers ; but it was false, I know now. There, dear, I won't go ; so don't break your heart I couldn't leave you 1" I rose and withdrew from the room, and neither of them asked me to stay. Moreover, neither of them apologized for leaving me to entertain myself one full hour. But Bessie gave me an Otstzbs. The question whether Caucasian civilization will do to tie to, was settled in the negative by a couple of noble red men, in Oregon, who pur- ploying a special entomologist to study chased a can of oysters and proceeded fl 5 1 . 11 I . 1 .1 fPl t J A ineir namis. ana conciuaes wim me k cook. uitm. iuct pisccu we cu assertion that no agriculturist need lose his crops by a plague of grasshop pers, if he attends to them carefully and intelligently. The opinion of a man like this is of some value. He for tifies his statement with the fact that old resident farmers, in territories that have been quite as well stocked with grasshoppers as Iowa and Minnesota, have uttered no cry for help. What Is Guano I After careful microscopical and chemi cal examination of the article of com merce known as guano. Dr. Habel, an eminent German authority, decides that sea-birds have nothing to do with its production. It is, he says, an accumulation of fossil plants and ani mals whose organic matter has been transformed into nitrogeneous rub stance, the mineral portion remaining intact. Treating guano with a solvent acid, he found that the insoluble . mm real- upon their camp fire, doing so without due was composed of fossil sponges the precaution of ventilation. Then and other marine animals and plants came a thnnderburst, and the gentle precisely similar in constitution to savages, oh, where were they ? They such as still exist in those seas. The would hardlv have been recognized in fact that the anchors of ships in the vne xngavenea ana paiuuueu uiutcs uuguuvjuwu w b """ ice. occupies the space reserved for it. stead of exerting its force on the pine and bursting it. This is practically carried out by passing through the wa ter pipe a small India rubber tube, specially made for the purpose, and of such a diameter that the space inside it is a little more than equal to the in crease in volume of the ice. The India rubber tube is always kept full of air, so that when the water freezes it finds the necessary space for expansion, for, by compressing 'the air tubes it dis places the air and takes its place. When the ice melts the tube again ex pands, becomes filled with air, and is ready for another frost ; and so on for any number of tunes aithout requiring attention. A TTorcester Rat Story, This story is from the Worcester I (Mass.) Gazette: "Messrs. Clark, Sawyer k Co., of this city, are much annoyed by the depredations of a col ony of Urge grsy wharf rata, which were probably imported in crates of Skraellingsholm, crockery. Some days since they set a irsp lor mem, me irap oexng vi wire, in shape of a hemisphere, and holding a peck or more. sexl morning, on go ing to the trap, it was found entirely filled with biu of straw and paper, which littered the floor of the room so fall thst nothing else could be seen. On examination, however, six large rats were discovered in the trap, and it was apparent that after they were cap tured those outside had thus filled the trap for the purpose of concealing them. The parties in the store sus pected a trick, and the trap was clean ed and reset, and all the litter was re moved from the Boor and piled at one end of the room. The next morning five more rats were found in the trap, and it was packed foil of rubbish as before. The stisw and Sin is never at a stay. If we Jo not rttreat from it we shall advance ia it, and the further on we go the more we have to come back. When anything is forbidden to bo done, whatever tends or leads to it, as the t.eans of compassing it, is forbid den at the aame time. The eaaence of true nobility is neg lect of self, Let the thoughts of self pass in, and ths beauty of a great ac tion is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. Time appears very ahort, eternity near ; and a great name, either in or after life, together with all earthly pleasures and profit, bnt an empty bubble, a deluding dream, A Scotch minister, when aaked ther he was dying, ansvered: Really, friend, I care not if I am or not : for if I die I shall be with Clou, and if I live God will be with net" Towns which have been casually burnt have been built again more beau tiful than before mud walls afterward made of stone, and roofs, formerly but thatched, afterward advanced to be tiled. The simplest and most obvious use of sorrow is to remind of God. It would seem that a certain shock is needed to bring us in contact with reality. We are not conscious of breathing UU ob-. stmction makes it felt. stisw and paper were of the suano islands I broken in small fragments, and it was who were seen heading toward the gro- often bring np guano from the bottom apparent that the rata had gathered it eery store, desperately resolved to flog of the ocean is certainly more in favor and crowded it through the openings the white man . who had sold them a of the fossil than of the common sea- in the trap until it was nil, and the "thunder-box." bird theory. captured ones were entirely concealed," 5ot A BraTe Indian, In the Bee tribe of Indians with Gen. Custer's expedition, a oorrespon- aem ssys, mere is amysienous-tooaicg individual clothed in a woman's frock, but wearing a warrior's scalp-braid and accoutrements. He or she is the drudge of the camp does all the cook ing, brings all the wood and water, and looks after as many ponies as Lis or her other duties will allow. The braves look upon him or her with an air of superiority that cannot be mis taken, and in none of the war dances or other manly pastimes is be or she- allowed to take a part; but the poor, begrudged indefinite drags out a mis erable existence, neglected and forlorn, not even being allowed to ride with the column on the march, but being a per- Etual straggler, generally having to kl three or four extra ponies belong ing to the braves. I aaked Bloody Knife about him or hex, ' The form of a man, but the heart of a woman, he '.replied through an interpreter, and then went on to explain that the indefinite was a pan, but had not the courage to end ore the tortures a young pan must subject himself to before he can become one of the braves. So he had to live with the women and do a woman's work. BoZrago was not extended to such as he. Why does he come with your I aaked of Bloody Knife. He wants to get rid of that frock, said the interpreter, without putting the question to the chief. " If be tales a scalp, it comes off hia. '
The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.)
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Sept. 4, 1874, edition 1
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