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ESTABLISHED IN 1818.
HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY, JAN. 1891.
NEW SERIES--VOL. X. NO. 13
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New York boast of the publication
r,f 2700 distinct newspapers and periodi
tah. ' "
The newly elected State oiDcers in
Kmhtis are all Knights of Labor, chron-
the Chicago IHwtaa.
The u-cords of insurance companies
flow that the American man lives longei
th.'iri n.n of the iame rare iu the old
It is estimated that each year ia Ifew
York City three thousand women find
themselves stranded, not only homeless,
j)i nnil'-M and without w..,rk, but also un
able tu work.
The experiment of limited female suf
frage has not proved a success in Boston.
The first year of its introduction 20,000
voters registered, but last year than
STJO erune in line.
A Cincinnati railway, official rises tc
remark that the time will coice when
there will he but four or five railway sys
tems in this country. Heays that even
now the lirioe-Thomas syndicate controls
practically all the railroads south of the
t hio Itivcr except the Louisville and
Mashville. ,
Strictly speaking, the only precious
stones arej tlirs diamond, ruby, sapphire
and emerald, though the term is often
extended to the opal, notwithstanding
its lack ot hardness, and to the pearl,
which is riot a mineral, but strictly an
animal product. Popular!' a gem is a
precious or semi-precious stone, when
cut or polished ff ornamental pur
poses. ' ' ' '"
When the barbers of Sedalia, Mo.,
sought to elevate prices by charging
eleven cents for a bhuve that .jeing the
lirst step in a contemplated advance to
ward fifteen cents nearly every good
razor in town was bought up next day
and the mule adult population proceeded
to scrape its own jaws. Tell you what,
exclaims' the New York Tehgram, the
spirit of '70 is coursing again through
t!r? vciws of the West and South.
Heretofore the postmistresses of
Trance haw been practically debarred
from marrying. By an old established
rule husbands of post mistresses could
hot engage in a number of 'trades or.
professions, on the theory that they
would oiler temptations to the husband
to tamper with the mails. Now, how
ever, the (ioverament, has abolished
these restrictions to the choice of a
husband with the exception ofpolice
officials.
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The Australian colonies have dis
mally failed in their effort to keep John
Chinaman out by imposing a heavy poll
tax. Each immigrant from the Flowery
Kingdom has to pay when he enters the
colonies about $100, and yet,.ia spite of
this drain upon his resources, he sends
lor his brothers and cousins, and there
are to-day in Australia 4000 more
Chinese than nine yenrs ago. There are
over .40,000 Chinese ia Australia and
47,000 in Tasmania and New Zealand.
The drain of centuries upon Siberia
for furs is telling at last, aud iu west
Siberia there- is now great scarcity, the
supply coming chiefly from the eastern
portion of the huge province, while for
natives of Obdorsk, the chief market
town lor those employed in the trade of
hunting, beaver furs from Khamschatka,
uu-l prepared in Germiuy, aro largely
imported. Obdorsk is the principal fur
depot, "nud the most important trade is
done in squirrels, of which 70,000 skins
are annually sold, and white foxes.
Harvard is not to be alone in it3 propo
sition to shorteu the college course, notes
the New York L I'pe.Unt. At the late
convention of the college association of
the Middle States in Maryland, Presi
dent Adams, of Cornell, expressed tfce
opinion that the real college course
should end at tue close of sophomore
year, aud university work begin with the
junior year. President Oilman, of Johns
Hopkins University, advocated the short
ening ot the course to three years, re
garding the present course as one that
keeps mcut,)o long from their nrofes
s'OLud duties, j President Patten, of
Princeton, argues that tho four years'
. ourse contact with fellow students is
i'. -r.e too long, ' but that at the end of
sophomore year the student should be
able to begin the special studies for his
future work. It looks as if the college
eoar?u might have some remodeling; in
luat remodeling has already begua
Vh txten'siou of clectives. -
UNREST. : '
The farther you journey and wander
From the sweet,imple faith of your youth,
The more you peer into the yonder
And search fur the root of all truth,
No matter what secrets uncover
Their vailed mystic brows in your quest,
Or close on your astral fcight hover,
Htill, still snail you walk with unrest.
If you seek for strange things you shall find
them.
But the finding shall bring you to grief;
The dead lock the portals behind them.
And he who breaks through is a thief.
The soul with such ill-gotten plunder
With ita premature knowledge oppressed,
Shall grope in unsatisfied wonder
Always by the shores of unrest.
Though bold hands lift up the thin curtain
That hides the unknown from our sight;
Though a shadowy faith becomes certain
Of the new light that followg death's night;
Though miracles past comprehending
Hnull startle the heart in your breast.
Still, still will your thirst be unending,
1 And your soul will be sad with unrest.
There are truths too sublime and too holy
To grasp with a mortal mind's touch.
We are happier far to be lowly;
Content means not knowing too much.
K-ace dwells not with hearts. that are yearn
in.; .
To fathom ail labyrinths un guessed,
And the soul that is bent on vast learning
Shall Hud with its knowledge unrest.
Ella W. Wile,,.,, i utiic Weekly.
HER TRIUMPH.
Our city was so small ami the pipe
oran so large that it was an elephant on
our nanus, as goou organists had to be
hired from other cities at large expense,
the only player in Hubbard being the
one who manipulated the Presbyterian
organ, which instrument we had tried to
outshine. We were Methodists.
At the end of two years, during which
we had endured any number of orgau
ists, good, bad and indifferent, (mostly
the latter), I was delighted- one summer
Sunday morning, upon entering the
church, to hear real music, and surveyed
with some curiosity the small figure of a
youug woman about twenty years old on
the organ stool. She did not attempt
auythiug intricate, but the music was all
majestic, soulful, religious.
A few weeks later, one the trustees
asked me if we could give the new or
ganist a room at our house, adding that
possibly sister and myself might find her
a pleasant companion in our little home.
She had been in town about six months,
writing in aa insurance office, but she
objected to a boarding house and -wished
to get into a private family.
She came to us quietly, every inch a
lady. You might not call her pretty,
but she had speaking eyes which made
you forget everything else when she
looked at you. They were bright when
he was in conversation, but I soon
noticed that when she was not animated
they were sad, and I fell to wondering
what sorrow had befallen her so early in
life. She was pleasant and helpful but
not confidential, aud nothing eventful
occurred until just after the holidays
when she came in quite excited, saying
that one of her young friends at home
was to be married the next week, and she
had leave of absence for a fortnight.
She had said very little about her family,
but I kuew she had sent them a Christ
mas box, so if I thought anything of her
emotion, it was for the joy of going
home.
It was surprising the vacancy she
left in our house, and you may be sure
we welcomed her return with much
warmth. But though she evidently ap
preciated our feelings toward her, I ob
served that she was making a great effort
to control herself. Thinking she was
suffering from homesickness, I rapped at
her door in the evening to ask if she
cared for mv societv a little while. She
was weeping so violeutly that she could
scarcely speak, ami when I put my arm
about her she burst out :
"O, Miss Van Zandt, if I could only
talk to you to some one- who would
help rue to bear it and tell me what
to do! O dear! O dear:'
8 Hy soothing words and pat, I assisted
her to something iT?'e calmness, and
bil I did not urge her to talk, sha
understood that my sympathies were
with her.
Finally she told me that she had had
warm feelings toward a young man two
years her senior, since she was sixteen,
but that he had tired of her apparently,
or being influenced by another young
lady. For a year she suffered torments
at heme, and then came to Hubbard to
see whether time and absence would not
kill her affection or bring back his. It
seemed to have chone neither, for she had
met him at the wedding she bad just at
tended, and although he had expressed
pleasure at meetingther again, he did not
seek her society and' his time was occu
pied with her rival. Ajid so she felt her
long trip had been for naught,and while
her judgment told her to forget him, her
rebellious heart clung to her girlhood's
lover.
What could I say to comfort her?
Nothing, excepting that God knew
best, and probably that this great dark
ness was but the forerunner of a glorious
dawn.
After this she spent most of her time
after tea playing the organ at the church,
and I believe it was a soothing outlet for
her pent up feelings. I often went into
church to enjoy the exquisite melody
which floated out under her fingers.
Sometimes she used such selections as
Gottschalk's - 'Serenade, Jungmann's
"Heinwth," or Marston's "Slumber
Song' but more frequently it was her
own improvisation.
One evening through the dusk I dis
cerned another listener, who, however,
slipped away before I could identify him.
This occurred several times, until I placed
myself where I eould see his face as he
passed, when 1 recoguied him as Law
rence Roberts, whom J had known from
boyhood. He had recently been ap
pointed it-teacher of science in the High
School, and wise men said he was des
tined to make his mark iu some college.
Iu May the cantata of "Esther" was
given ut our theatre. It was not worn so
threadbare then, and though it was on
tlie boards, every night for a week, t ie
house was always crowded, aud families
came up by the wagon-load from all the
surrounding villages and cross-roads.
To Miss Hunt was assigned the char
acter of Zerah, and I expect never to en
joy a rendition of it so much again. She
had often sung to me in the evening, ac
companying herself on our little organ,
and while 1 thought her voice musical
and pleasing, still it had a girlish quality
anot lacked power. Uut tms ncti con
tralto which rolled over the audience and
sobbed and thrilled could that belong
to our Louise? Yes, through her great
heart-sorrow had come her voice, beauti
ful, womanly, refined.
All the women were in tears and many
of the men showed emotion, while I,
who loved her aud nnderstood her long
ing, wept uncontrollably. It did not seem
as though she could keep up that tension
another night, but every evening of the
cantata witnessed that same fervor and
the same effect on her audience. Sunday
she was prostrated, and her organ posi
tion for that day was filled by another.
In the fall, a year after she came to our
house, she told me that her mother had
moved to another city and had sent for
her. The evening previous to her de
parture, Lawrence Roberts called to see
her, as he had frequently done lately.
Other friends came to bid her good-bye,
and as I stepped into the garden to call
her, I heard her say
"You have been very kind to me, but
I never suspected it would come to this.
Tell me truly, I have not given you false
encouragement, have I?"
As he answered in the negative, I called
her name, delivered my message, and
started for the house. They followed
me, and as the air was so still, I could
not avoid hearing her last words:
"Under any other circumstance I
would not tell you what now you should
know; my heart was years ago given to
another and" in a whisper, "rejected.''
I parted from her with regret, and we
kept up a correspondence for some time.
Then I lost track of her. f
Last week I met a gentleman who is
an old fnencboth of Louise and her boy
lover, Clinton Hadley. He related to
me this finale:
"One evening I attended a musicale
given by a New York lady noted for her
high-class soirees, and there met Hadley,
whom I had not seea in several years.
lie looheu as uauusome as ever, but a
!
trifle bored. We were talking over past
events, when . I suddenly saidf Did
you know, Clint, that your old girl,
Louise Hunt, is on the programme to"-
night?' j
-TTi tnrtor? lTrt' WtiT- cV. ,K1 !
not have much of a voice when I knew
her. What has she been doing all these
years? She must be let me see twenty
eight now. Quite n old maid, eh j'
"And he laughed disagreeably.
" 4Well, you are an old batch., which
is just as bad. I have not heard Louise
sing, but I know that she is creating en
thusiasm wherever she goes, both pn ac
count of her "'voice and her charming
manners. She has been studying with
fine instructor and has a salaried positioo
iu a church choir.1
"Hadley was thinking, and I knew hi
was recalling his youthful experience,!
I let him think. Between you and me,
I thought he deserved to be troubled, for
he had courted her persistently two years
or more, and a3 soon as she showed affec
tion for him, had thrown her over, just
as he did later with other young ladies
4,The whole musicale was very enjoy-.
able,but Louise carried off the palm. I felt
Hadley start wheushe came forward,
small but dignified, gracious as a queea
and twice us lovable. And such eyes!
"Her first number was an aria, 'O
Don Fatale,' from 'Le Prophet,' and
Hadley had scarcely recovered from his
dazed, wonderment, when her second
sng was due, an English ballad called
'Faithful.'
" 'Friendship has failed us. old trust has
gone.
Love that was dawning is dead ; i
Life and its sunshine are clouded o'or,
Aye, for the past has fled.
You will forget, and our story will seem
The dream of a summer day,
But I shall remember its erolden lie-ht
t o
I V hen years shall have passed away.
I thought you loved me once, -I
deemed the story true;
The dream has gone,
The love has flown.
But still I am faithful to you!'
" 'Bnt where the world has sung you of sor
row, Hiding its golden beam,
Then, love, I pray that you may remember
Just once again our dream!
And when the angels, guide you to Heaven,
O'er the dividing sea.
Look on the shore and give me this wel
come, "1 know you are faithful to meT'
I-, thought you loved me orive,
I deemed the story true:
AVhen shadows fall,
And love is all.
You'll know I was faithful to you!'
"Could it be possible that she kne?r
her old-time love was to hear her, and
was she singing to him? Hadley looked
although bethought so, and undercover
of the prolonged applause he grasped me
eagerly, saying-
" I want to meet her ' '
"He had still tht waked-up look on
his lace when later in the evening I
said :
" 'Louise, allowT me to present an old
acquaintance.'
"Too accustomed to all kinds of sur
prises to be taken off her guard, she offered
him her gloved hand in a charming man
ner, saying:
" 'Good evening, Mr. Hadley, this is
an unexpected pleasure.'
"But he said, still holding her hand:
" 'Louise, may I speak with you
alone?'
" 'Certainly and they stepped into
an alcove, where he began:
' 'Louise, O, Louise! what a shame
that we ever had any trouble? To-night
you have brought up all the happy past,
and I plead with you to forget all my un
kindness and stupidity, and let us begin
where we were before '
" 'Excuse me, Mr. Hadley. Had it
not been for that trouble, I would not
have my voice, and as to beginning again,
why, here comes my husband, and you
will have to ask his permission. Mr.
nadley, Professor Roberts !'" Detroit
Free Press.
Costly Dinners.
Xew York has become a city of ex
travagance in dinner giving, and many
of these entertainments, with all the
delicacies of the season and rare wines,
cost from20 to $100 per cover. Of
course the latter is the outside figure,
but reckoning that one gives ar dinner
once a week to a party of, say,' fifteen,
at the first named figure it will prove a
sau" sum at the end of the year. .In
order to render these dinners complete
md perfect, the hostess must possess a
ilinner service more or less elaborate, and
it is rerelv, if ever, that the majority of
DUpiders stop to consider what these
:ons"st of and hosy much money is spent
a this direction. In the old Roman
'' Jays, no greater magnificence could have
j 3xited in the ; way of table decoration,
tvines and service, than a millionaire
I New Yorker displays when his wife gives
large dinner. Lu lks Hjttu. JmrraL
Canada.
The Dominion of Canada embraces to
day, under one Federal Government, the
entire territory of British North America,
including the island, with the exception
of Newfoundland, which has so far pre
ferred to remain outside the confedera
tion. This vast area is divided into
seven provinces and four territories. The
provinces are as follows, taken in the or
der of their population and Wealth: On
tario, Quebec, Nova Scotia. New Bruns
wick, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island
and British Columbia. The four terri
tories, which include vast areas of prairie
land in the great Northwest, very thinly f
populated, are Alberta, Assiniboia East,
Assiniboia West and Saskatchewan.
ICEBERG CAPERS.
THE TRICKS
AKCTIC
AND ANTICS- OF
MONSTKHS.
It is R Grand Spectacle to See a Moun
tain oir Ice Turn a Double
Somersault "lceberjr
Calves."
No one who has ever seen a grand,
stately iceberg on "its solemn southward
march' writes Frederick ftohwatka, in
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the Xew York Herald, wouM ever credit
these floating islands of ice with undig
nified capers and erratic movements, so
impressive is the air of awful stillness and
almost solemn solidity that surrounds
these colossal children of cold climates.
Still a great mountain of ice will some
times vary its monotonous movements of
steady. drifting by turning somersaults
and double somersaults and whirling
tricks until it looks like some huge hy
perborean hippopotamus with skin of
snowlike whiteueas, wallowing around
in the waters of the northern sea.
I have seen but one such overturning '
of these moving mountains of marble,
and surelv it looked as if the "oreat
waters of the deep were breaking up"
and that the end of all things had come.
Great green waves went thundering by
as if a hurricane might have been howl
ing for hours across the sea that but a
few moments before had been as "motion
less as a mill pond. Flying flecks of
foam dash down from dizzy heights
above, and its slippery sides are almost
covered with cascades formed from the
waters that have been lifted up by the
rapidly overturning berg. S'
The first intimation ' we had of the
coming on of the convulsion was a dull
shock from under the water against our
ship's side as if a submarine blast had
been exploded, a shock very much like
that given when the great Hell Gate
mine in New York harhor was 'sprung,
"and a moment afterward a liugh rising
of the sea near one side of the iceberg
was apparent, and through this vast lake
of uplifted waters broke through a snow
white mass of ice that had been detached
from the hugh crystal mountain far
down in the ' ocean's depths, aud that
came whirling to the surface with a
swiftness that teemed to lift it half way
out of the sea, and which kept it spin
ning and splashing for a full five minutes
afterward.
The release of this portion from its
frozen fetters far below had disturbed
the "stable equilibrium" as the learned
scientists would say of the greater and
parent berg, and a moment afterward it
began its stupendous swaying, as if some
prthquake were influencingit from be
neath, until in one of its collosal careen
ings it fell over and seemed to bury it
self in a mass of milk like foam, as if a
thousand demons were drowning in the
lashed waters of the green sea, and that
sent tremendous tidal waves
tearing
across the dephs that would have en
gulfed the Great Eastern had she been
near. It sank for a second. only and
then rapidly reappeared with a creamy
crest1 that in shallow sheets of white
poured dovn the perpendicular sides
of the mighty glacial giant that was
trying so hard to rind a .juiet rest in his
watery bed. v
V "Woe to the ship that has ventured too
near one of these monsters of ice just , as
" it has taken a. notion to give a display of
its Arctic antics, for if it be broadside tc
to the tremendous tidal wave that comes
curling outward from the enter of com
motion, and has not tim to turn "end
on" to meet the rapid rush of vtter9, it
may be throwaiipon its "beam ends,' as
the sailor would say, or thrown over on
side, by the steep front of the wave, then
fill with water and .ink. Such Arctic
accidents have been known to occur to
careless cruisers in the icelerg region,
and probably someoj the very mysterious
disappearances of polar parties would be
solved in this way if the riddle vrtre
really unravelled.
Then again if the boat has only sailing
power she is liable to meet the most er-
ratic gusts cf wind and sudden squall
that can upset her as suddenly as a tidal
wave. Everybody ha? noticed how much
more powerful and erratic are the winds
arouna tne uase oi a very nign uuuamg
in a city than elsewhere in it. And sc !
with the great iceberg. It catches all i
the wandering wind of the high heaven
and directs them down ward, winding and
twisting around its base, until it is very
unsafe for a sailing boat to venture near
these eddying gut.s. So between th
little icebergs popping up from the water J
below and fallbg down from the fidei
above, coupled with a chance of the
colossus of them all turning a hyperbo
rean handspring that fairly sou tho old
ocean frantic with excitement, and not
torgetting the twisting tornadoes that
the berg brings down to its base, makes
it altogether an uncertain undertaking to
have a polar picnic too near one of these "
crystal mountains.
The Arctic whalers, who are the bert
navigators of these ice laden waters, call
these little bergs that break off of the
big ones either above or below the watei
line ''iceberg calves," ami they have nc
friendship for them, although they will
occasionally deign to pull up alongside
of a small "calf" and cut enough ice ofi
of it (ft-hich I suppose they ought to call
veal") to fill up their refrigerators or
ice chests and have ice and ico water
aboard until it slowly melts and disap
pears. Each one of these little ) iceberg?
again sheds still smaller ones as it slowly
crumbles to pieces on it march toward
the equator, and the huge iceberg itself,
with which we first began onr descri
tion, was only a "calf" that had once
broken off from the seaward face of the
grand glacier or huge, ' moving river ot
ice. So they keep dividing and subdi
viding as they march along until tho
massive mountain of ice that broko off
from the Greenland glacCir iu the Artie
seas really becomes merely millions of
molehills of ice in the temjcrate waters
of the warmer seas, and then it ill sap -pears
altogether. And every timeney
split asuuder we have an Artie acrobat
performance.
Hut of all the curious capers cut by
these colossal masses of ico none is mere
singular, not even their somersaults, than
one I saw being performed in the entrance
to Hudson Strait. A furious gale was rag
iug that was driving a drifting icepack
before it as if it were a herd of fright
ened animals. Tho great flat fields and
floes of ice were speeding eastward be
fore the whistling wind almost as fast as
our snug little ship, for we were unJer
double reefed sails, so furious was the
storm.
Looming up out of the drifting gusts
and whirling eddies of the snow, bearing
westward, came the pearly sails of an
Arctic ship a mighty iceberg with a
superb serenity in the awful sttnn cut
its way directly through all the obstacles
that faced its front. It bore down in
the very teeth of the wind and bared its
boreal breast to the fields rind floes,
crushing them a, if they were so mauy
egg shells, and 'scattering the Hying
glacial bpliuteift port audfiturbvfard like a
swift rolling wagon wheel scatters the
duat.
, Thii mastless hyperborean hulk was
obeying the mandate of a marine curreut
down in the depths of the o'-d ocean'
bed. Six-sevenths of the iceberg is sub
merged, aud the superficial current being
shallow in the strait discovered by old
Jleinrich Hudson, while the air, beings
much lighter than water, that even a gale
can form but a small component of the
forces that determine the track of these
Titans of the North, so we were greatly
awed and edified by the singular yet su
lcrb spectacle, of an iceberg sailing di
lectly. against the wind aud forcing its
way through fields of ice that would
have crushed and sunk the fuightieH
mailed man-of-war of modern times be
fore it could have made half a mile. , It
will impress one for life If but once cn-
j countered, and is a curiou- scene tuat but"
few have eer witnessed.
Canada Enlists an Array of Pigeons. -
Canada has quite recently established
an organized system of messenger pigeons
stations throughout th dominion, ex
tending from Hajifax to Windsor and
connecting her principal seaports with
the interior. General I). Ft. Cameron,
director of the Messenger pigeon Associa
tion, in speaking of the utility of the
service, says: "I am of opinion that a
most imortant .branch of the pigeon
.service will Ik connected with the coast
service. The evidence that these bird
c an b-e relil upon to crof s 400 miles of
the oo-an is apparently thoroughly re
liable. A report from Halifax state
j that it is propasciTto pit Sabk Waad m
communicatioa with the nlainlind by
J means of carrier pi?coas. This locality
aiwftVS beea Hed a one of th
mQ$t dftarous poicu on the coast, and
most dangerous poi
wrecked mariners have sometimes- been
stranded on the island for weeks without
beiag able to communicate with ths
who might rescue them. S'.krdifU
American.
Ths force required to open an oyster
appears to be 3191 12 times the. weight
cf the iheil-lttj crnVire.