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ft 11 ! i I II f ESTABLISHED IN 1878. HILLSBOItO, N. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1891. NEW SERIES--VOL. X. NO. 23. I MM I The cigarette is an illegal luxury for youth ia twenty-nine States. A complete list of embezzlements in the year 161)0 is published by the Chica- Tribune, filling two newspaper col umns. The most notable month for tvent3 of this nature was November, the misappropriations evcaled then amount- ; ing to 1,550, 800. Tae total amount j for the year is Si's, 622, 056. Penrrsyl- j in th,. trv-uut ar.ui-.int "of ! fundi embezzled2,326,837. New York come3 second, with $1,029,270 ; ; Missouri- is next, with 590, 3b4, while j (Illinois ranks fourth, with a total of j $400,938. The treaty abolishing the Dominion a a harbor of refuge for em bezzlers and other defaulters wai ratified last March, yet the total of 8,505,050 for 1890 is gre ater than in any one of the many past years, the single exception being 1881, when the aggregate oxceedod $22,000,000. Snys the St. Louis IfyuMic: We thinli we have some big churcnes lis; re in i seating Aii:rif,;i, but fi.",v (u ;n'::n nave capacity of over 1 ."')') in:r.so:is. Com pared with some of t he big churches ol Europe ours are but us mole-hills tc mountain-.. Seal St. Peter's Church, 1' ;.n? 5i,00 Milan Cath.-iral 7. 37,001 St. Paul's, Kom- 3 Wf St. I'auf'8, London ,001 St. 1'ctrionio, Uolona 24,401 rioivncfjCnth' .li ai 'J4.:f Aiitvvc:-i atln-iral 24,'JiM St. Sophi.'tV, Constantinople... l') St. John's, LaU-n.u SM IW(: i aiii.-, l'nris .'.'I,u0l Pi:,! Chuth'.- Ir.d St . Sb--ijh"ii',', Yi'-nnri ... St. D.jiiimitV, liyl'jna . St . lVt.-rV, llul'ina. . . t 'utii:dial o Vienna-. . . i:;,iO! -lot lVA 11,401 li,o;,( -t. .,1-irVs. Vrnu-,. 7,0W ipurc'iV Tal'.-rn;u London 7,00( it: . lia'.;- , th at church at Fifth avenuf, iXi.'W York, but. That., tho Chilians, who have been dubbedftho .Yankees of South America because jpflftheif business enterprise and stability J'tjf i character, should have a revolution on their hands hi? disap pointed rfnd even shocked their well wishersW this country,arlmits the New York. fl'fUmite. But tho trouble seems "Tohave,t .sprung not from the lawlessness or unresUof the people, but from the un patriotic vourse of a few politicians, espeeiatyy'Senor Balmacoda. The Chil ians havo'advanced too far in th -i path of civilization-to make it either possible or probable , that -they will revert to the state otchro'nic insurrection which has. characterized -so many countries of Latin America. After they have taught soma politicians :i salutary lesson order will doubtless be restored, and the j eopU wilLagain resume the industrial and coui niercial,pursuits in which they have sc fignallydistinguishd themselves in th pat. Tho Atlanta Consti'r.tisn deems that the Duke of Bedford, who died in Kng i iud the other day, deserves more than t assing imtice. That he was an able -laU'MivAu few will deny. - He satin the llo'i-e of Commons twentv-live years, uiid never made n . sne?ch. Tivn he Mi-nt to the Hou.cof Lords, where he I remained eighteen years, wilho.it saying word. A narliamenfarv career ol t rty-three years passe I in profound Uoce. But he was an able statesman-! able, useful and honored'. What kind if ability did he possess? The most potential his estate- covered US acres in the city of London, lie owned about o')00 residences aud busiaess houses. It lias been said .that a very little wit goes a long way with an Emperor, and it is equally truo. that a very little thought, bpcech and work will go a long way with nmiUiomuxe. The Duke was a powet m -himself. Why should he speak, when j his frown, his nod, his smile, his look did'inore- to shape legislation r.ud move bocietyahau the eloquence of a Sheridan ? statesmen nnl commra mortals watched tulsiplutoerat for the Slightest ju'gn, and wcra - eager . to do his -bidding. Brains wtreAenlisttd ia L service, and the re ?ultshoved ability somewhere, and the founuia head, after all, was ' the Duk tle-could-scowl down a bill, c r nod it through, by ,1 good majority. Was no: fcu ability of a very rare order ? Wuer ' D'Jkc died ho left orders for his body j t5 be- cremated. Perhaps the thought jUUtruek him that as a public man he j alwas-been too coid. Finding that ! "e -ad no hre in birr. nn cI.-lrt.- t,., I declared that, if he could n-t -rovmj heat into his carcass, he woulc , himself into the fi ire. Able to the THE FLEET. was long ago that my dream (hips sailed Day by day to that shadowy sea ; And I watched each one till my vision failed5 And the ships were lost in mystery., Sometimes a roe-hued and billowy cloud 8hut out my view ere the ship went far. But often the darkness would seem to shroud j The vessel before Ehe crossed the bar. They at the sunse every Qne; They sailed away on the ebbing tide, Sometimes a brave vessel went out alone, And again two sailed forth side by side. j I left them alone in the hands of Fate; ! i'raved khe would make them rnalitv .nd many a time did I watch and wait For my fleet to return from the sea. Then my last ship sailed for my dreamsj were done 1 And I grieved that my ships cama not back. But only last night at the set of sun I saw a mast o'er the wasteless track; And thj twilight mists gave away and made A pathway lit with the sunset's beam; And u ship sailed in through - the twilight shade, And brought back to me a youthful dream. Flai-el Scott Mines, in Harper's Weekly. How Peter Won Juliana.- STORY OF AS ESKIMO MARRIAGE. The little Eskimo settlement of Ka jartalik was in a great state of excite ment. For a long tune young Peter Ma nas;ie had wanted to marry pretty Juli ana Marie Andreas, but because of the opposition of the girl's parents and brothers he had been unable to accom plish his desires. To the villagers the opposition of the relatives had seemed to be wholly, unwarranted, for Peter was a most likely young Eskimo. He had a beautful kayak, with two harpoons nd a bird spear, two fish lines and two ' hooks, beside a net with which to scjop out the little salmonoids that throng the vatti there at certain seasons. More over, he could use them as well as any one that had ever paddled that way. Further still, he wa3 courageous. Once in early spring, when the lield ice had filled the fiord for several days in such a w ay that no one could go seal hunting, Peter, having seen a seal on an iceberg, ran across the floating ice cakes till he could strike it, anil so, in spite of the dangers relieved the pressing need of the colony. However, the relatives of the girl re mained obdurate, Avhile she looked on w ith apparent indifference, and so poor Peter sighed in vain until at last his father determined to interfere by giving a gnat feast to all his neighbors. It was the announcement of the date of the feast that had exejted the people, and not without reason, too, for if during the course of the festivities young Peter could manage to pick up and carry away the pretty Juliana to his fathers house, the matter would be; settled; she would be constrained by the usages of polite Eskimo society to accept the bold lover, while the relatives would not be allowed to interfere once the young man got his sweetheart safely at the door of the hut. It appeared that the Manasse family had had the feast in mind for a Ions: time, for, now that it was announced, the people remembered that both father been very asBiduousia look ing after their traps during the winter, and had taken many foxes. The pelts j 3 v Tted at the store of the white man. j Among other things obtained in exchange were three kinds of hard bread, a large supply of coffee and enough tobacco to last a long time. It was when the father and son carried home these things that the feast was announced and everybody knew that a very great , feast it would be. When the afternoon arrived Mrs.Manasst placed three flat stones close together nol very far from the entrance to her house, and built a fire of driftwood and faggoti from the tiny forests hard by. Over this was placed a big iron pot bought of the whites, long before. The pot was filled with sea water, and into it she placed as many big chunks of seal meat and seal fat as would serve to make the founda tion of a most nourishing and savory Eskimo stew. To the seal meat she had added enough ptarmigans and hares te nvc each member of the community one. and thereafter she carefully tended the lire so that 'the mess simmered gently and continuous!y and the. broth was kept well replenished. Meantime a host f younesters. gathered about the fire. ' sniffling the odors and dancing with one another and singing a song that related , stranger seemed to apprehend the con the trials of an Eskimo lover who, hav j dition of affairs ia the village, and looked in tr failed to win the object of his de- j at one after another of the maidens ;stand sires, went away and married a wild .iS behind their elder and . glancing goose, a song very popular on suth oc casions in Eskimo land. But the- oldet part of the community kept strictly fwithic the huts. ' ) By and by, when the stew was? don? to the taste of Mrs. Manasse, she called her husband from their hut, and j there upon he began shouting at the top! of his voice: j ' "O-e-yo! O-e-yo!"' which is an Eskimo word of invitation to eat boiled j meat. The'people all came out so quietly! that a stranger would have surmised that thej i naa been waiting, perhaps not without some impatience, for the word to; cornel Gathering' about the fire, they all squatted down in a circle. Then Peter's father, with a seal rib sharpened at onie end, dexterously picked a piece of jboileu meat from the kettle and passed! it to Mr. Andreas, who was sauatted by his 1 side. Mr. Andreas put as much qf it m possible into his mouth, and then duting his bite clear with a knife he had brought with him for the purpose, he passed the chunk to the next person on his j riht. i A. tin can full of the soup followbd the meat in its travels around tho icircle, each man drinking a swallow and pass ing the can along growler fashion the men being served first and the romeD and children afterward in succession. i Then the bread was passed around, so that each one had a biscuit, and jin the meantime coffee had been boiled; on a fire in the hut by one of the Ahdreas girls, and this was brought out and passed as the soup had been., It was a remarkably fine Eskimo feat, and no attention was paid to anything but the eating, save by the two mjost in terested persons present, young i Peter and pretty Juliana. As for Juliaaa, sho was seated on if rock on the side bf tho circle furthereat from the Manasse; door way, and was keeping a bright lookout or very motion that Peter made, being determined to give him such a tussle as he had never dreamed of whenever he Btrove to capture her, as he was $ure to do before the festivities were ended. Peter was waiting until when,1 after the edge had been taken' from appetite, the oldest woman in the village! would get into the centre of the group and would there entertain everybody by con torting her face just as children do mak ing faces. He had noticed, wily fellow, that the old woman's doings always con vulsed pretty Juliana, e and he guessed that if he were ever to capture the girl he must make his rush at the climax ol the fun, when the old woman, with bulg ing eyes, wide, extended mouth arid pro truding tongue, would call herself Quarnat the moon. It was, therefore, with beating heart and rising emotions that he watched the well-known pro gramme of the feast pass on till ;at last old Marie Tirra stepped into the ring and began the fun by lookihg square at pretty Juliana and then drawing one side of her face into a. rejiarkable grimace. JJnder ordinary circumstances Juliaua would have roared with laughter, but this time her eyes had been wandering elsewhere, and she had seen, looking over the shoulder of her father and past the head of her unaccepted lover, an oomiak or crreat boat full of strangers coming around the rocks at the entrance of the little harbor, while two men in kayalks paddled beside the oomiak. In stead of laughing she jumped to her feet and shouted . ' "Strangers! Strangers!" It was a most startling event in the history of the little settlement. At the sound of the girl's voice every body stood up and looked toward the f8trange boat. Then all flocked down to J the landing and greeted the newcomers by shouts and inquiries regarding- their health. It was a cordial meeting jin ap pearance onlv, however, for according to custom, one of the' strangers had to . wrestlo with a picked man of the settle ment, and under a very old custom the stranger, if defeated, could be killed by the victor a Custom now obsolete. Now, the party of strangers included an old man, his wife, two sons, a daughter-in-law and sieveral children.; The sons were in the kayaks, and it" was the unmarried one who led the way to the landing. As he stepped from his kayak the villager s by common instinct turned toward young Peter ilanasse. He .had had hard luck in wooing a wife, and here was his opportunity to show hi j prowess such as he had never had before. ! Ia ?ome way probably from ,ths I chatter among the gossips the young shyly at him when they thought hi wouldn't observe them, until at last hii eyes fell on Juliana. Her beauty of fact and form would have convinced a lesj observant youth that she was the one sought for, but had anything else been wanting, her quick flush was enough t betray her. Thereat the young stranger picked a great dead swan a very ran bird in those parts from the top of hU kayak and carried it to the feet of prettj Juliana, who said not av word, thougt she smiled very brightly toward hei mother. Then the young man said : "My name' is Habakik. Who is it that will meet Habikik?" and young Peter Manage stepped from the group and said that it was he. The two eyed each other and then, as white athlete; would say, beganto wrestle catch-as-catch-can. It was a mighty and mem orable struggle. No such match had ever been seen by anyone present. "With equal strength and skill they pulled and pushed and lifted, hither and thither, about the level beach, till both weri flaming red in the face and bathed in perspiration. Then the foot of th stranger slipped and he stumbled for. ward, head down under Peter's right arm. A shout went up from the vii lagers, but before Peter could take ad vantage of the slip Habikik had grabbed the young man about the knees, lifted him from his feet and threw him heavili with his back on the sand. And ther the two lay panting, while blood oozed slowly from Peter's nose, the shock ol the fall having burst a small blood ves sel. - 4fter a minute or so, when both had partially recovered their wind, they rost slowly, and the" villagers began once more giving the strangers a cheery wel come, in which, though crestfallen, Peter joined heartily. As he stood before Ha bakik, saying it had been a fair fight and well won, he saw the pretty Juliana, her big brown eyes watching the blood flowing down his face with a look of con cern in them that no bright young Eski mo man could mistake. She was just outside of the group of villagers, and her father and brothers had run down to help draw the strange oomiak on shore. Juliana, catching the eye of Peter, turned her head very quickiy away, and then the long disappointed lover reached her side with a jump, picked her up in his arms, and fled away in triumph to his father's iglu, and there they re mained till the re3t were through with the feast. . A week later the moon was full. Juliana received from her mother a new scraping knife and a new butcher's knife, and from her father a l5mp made of a hollow stone. The white trader gave her a very fine, large iron kettle, a coffee pot and a great quantity of bright colored goods, and beads enough for a new collar a foot wide, which, under the circumstances, was a very decent thing for the trader to do. Juliana, as was said, was a very pretty girl. Then Ju!i a:.a. and Peter went to the house of the native preaeher, nn .1 in the presence oi all the people were married according to the Lutheran servke, for nearly all Greenland Eskimos are Lutherans. When Juliana had married him Peter went to live with his mother-in-law, ac-L-ordinsr to the usual Eskimo custom. Eskimo wits never make jokes about the tnother-in-law. It would not be in good form. The Eskimo mother-in-law rule3 the household. Sho can even command a divorce, the process being a simple one. She orders her unacceptable son-in-law out of the house, and when he obeys, as he always does, she throws any personal property after him that he may have left behind. Both the young people are then free tc marry again. The Eskimos do not marry cousins. A man could always have a3 many wives as he could support before the Lane3 uis rounsred polygamy, and it was the rule . for a man to take one of the sisters of his chosen sweetheart. It is said that the ' old practice is still adhered to, though without -the sanction of any religious ceremony. It occasionally happens that a newly- narried couple do 'net begin housekecp- J3J at once each instead remaining , hom?. On the other'hand, some young j men set up a separate establishment af csce by building a new iglu or nouse.j Even then, the nusbana is not uuij to have his wife's, parents come in and live with him. When the new nusoana astancl 0f the raes to his wife's house one end low platform, useu as a oeu ux mc houk, SS CUmiBea OH IO IOrm lUC warn- lr, and ia front of that the young wife i my set up her owm lamp if she hoose. The bridegroom is expected to make a present to his wife'a parents, even when he has to fight to get her or when he is betrothed to her in early years. In the old days he had to buy her. Xei York Sun. Hiw Many Tie are Required? Assuming the entire railroad system of the United States to be 161397 miles, as appears from Poor't Manual, with the addition of the lines in construction dur ing the current year, and taking 2640 ties per mile of track, there are in use at least 426,088,080 ties. This estimate, large though the total appears, is under the mark, for on the word of the Superin tendent of a Pennsylvania Railroad con struction corps no road uses les than 2640 ties per mile, and many of the roads with heavy traffic have 2S16 and in a few cases more. In a recent lecture on "American Woods," Professor Bickmore mentioned the enormous consumption of wood for this purpose, but it is doubtful if the real magnitude of it was properly under stood by his hearers. The life of these ties varies according tc their quality and the climatic conditions.. On the Eastern roads, where only the best ties are em ployed, the average life is found to be six years, while in the West, where poorer quality of timber is often accepted, and where dry rot and other disadvantages have to be confronted, the average life is from three to five years, so that even af ter allowing for a few, exceptional cases in which ties may last ten years, the aver age life of ties in the United States can not be counted as more than live years. Thorefore it follows that the annual consumption must be about 85,217,616, which, with steady increase of railroad building, must soon exceed 100,00000 a gigantic demand to be satisfied Irom the forests each year when one considers the many other calls made upon them. Xetc York Times. The Sap-Sucker. A greafemany useful birds have been destroyed oji the erroneous charge- that they are in-some way wholly detrimental to the farmers' interests with no compen sating habits, and twice as many more that are admttted to be useful in some degree, in the mistaken belief that oa the whole they are the authors of mere harm than good. In the first category may be named the sap-sucker that is commonly considered a fair target for everybody's gun, on the plea that he is continually injuring young fruit trees for the purpose of feeding on thfcender 'bark or sucking the sap, as popularly supposed. This is the head and front of his offending, for it is never pretended that he seriously injures fruit or grains. Close observers, however, are fully convinced, that the little bird in ques tion does not make original holes in the bark of the tree at which it is pecking, .but that all its efforts are directed to de stroying and devouring the borers that are concealed in holes already existing, which the birds have not made. At the very worst the bird does no more than in some cases to widen the hole enough to allow its beak to reach the worm. As good an authority as Cassius M. Clay is on record as saying, Irom his own study of its habits, that the sap sucker is the deadliest foe of the vermin which destroy our trees, and that every one should encourage the multiplication of sap-suckers. Si. Louis IlcpuUit. The Deepest Hole in the World. The deepest bore hole in the world, claimed at different times for a number of places, is,according to latest accounts, at" Bchladebach, a small German village near Leipzig. It measures 1748.4 meters, or about 5735 feet. The time expended in boring to this depth amounted to six years, at a cost of $52, 500. A peculiar experience encountered in connection with this and other deep that the observed temperatures, wmle steadily increasing with the depth, show a smaller ratio of increase ia the lower strata. Xr York lJi$iii'J; Resurrected by Ht Water. . A woman who is ar pisiont lover of lowers, and. being city bred, regardi them as a luxury, stys that after wearing roesan entire evcruzsr he is enabled t ! tbea a vn b a aot.wattr 3th. When she finds that from an 3 ,ausc whatever the blossoms droop and ; - j- death she clips th - -te-xs, and, by letting th; staik rest foi S a while ia steaming water, finds even ,af freshen u5rkf lhc rUut.t1 1f .r,'' Heas With Strange Pett. John Stewart, of Columbia, l'enn. owns a clucking hen that is carefully nursing a trio of sparrows, fully grown and able-bodied. Charles Urbausrh. of Hanover, Penn., has a hen that u brood ing in a most affectionate way over a pair of kittens. The sparrows flutter about the txishej and in the trees ueai the firm yard dur ing the day, keeping as near as possible in the neighborhood of the hca, whoso wings unfortunately do not en able her to accompany her adopted brood; but at nightfall all the spar rows, like littles chicks, wmo back and gather eagerly beneath the protect ing wings of the mother hen in her nest in the chicken yard. Before daybreak, however, they set up a great chattering, and, becoming real sparrows again after a night's rest, take leave of he old hen and start out again on their customary excursions. The sparrows were placed with the hen last summer, before- they had learned to fly, their parental nest having been destroyed and the father and mother sparrow driven away in a storm. The affection existing between them and their foster mother, the hca, is the wonder of tho neighborhood. In th? odd case of the kittens at Han over the situation is similar. The pussies sometimes wander uway from tho old hen, but she soon hunts them up and gathers them under her wings. They seem content with the heu, except when they happen to get very hungry. Then they return to their real mother. She does not appear to be a bit jealous of. tho interest taken iu her children by the old hen. ' A Maltese cat belonging to Farmer Howard Murphy, of Sadsbury township, in Chester County, Penn., set lire to her master's barn the other day in a novel manner. She had been lying snugly and warm under the kitchen range when on of Farmer Murphy's daughters in raking the range fire inadvertently let some live coals fall on pussy's back. Pussy's" fill immediately took fire, whereupon sho ran to the barn iu a flaming condition, mewing and tquealing piteously. The flames at ouco communicated to the straw in the barn, and soon the entire structure was reduced to ashes and its contents consumed, although frantic efforts were; made to get out the liv stock and implements. Xeu Yorl Time. , Bismarck "Eats' Dry." At luncheon I observed that Prince Bismarck drank nothing with his food, and asked him whether "eating dry" was a habit of his own choice or an article in the dietecedetio drawn for him by hii famous "Leibartz," Dr. Sweningcr. "The latter," he replied, "I am only nllowed to drink thrice a day a quarter of an hour after each meal and each time not more than half a bottle of red, sparkbng Moselle of a very light and dry character. Burgundy and beer, ot-botU of which I am extremely fond, are strict ly forbidden to me; ,so are all th'- .strong Khenish and Spanish wiucs, and even claret. For some years past I have been a total abstainer from all these, generous liquors,- much to th? advantage of my health and my 'condition,' in the sport ing sense of the word." "Formerly I used to .weigh over seven teen Htonc. By observing this regimen I brought mvsclf down to under fourteen, and without any loss of strength in deed, with gain. My normal weight i now 183 pounds. I am weighed onc every day by ray doctor's orders, and any excess of that figure I at once set to work to get nd of by exercise and special regi men. I ride a good deal, as well as walk. Cigar smoking I have given up altogether, of course, under advice. It is debilitating and bad for the nerves. An inveterate smoker, s jch as .1 used to be, probably gets through 100,000 cigara in hU life if h rev:hri a fair average But he would live longer and feel better ail hU time it Le did without them. ' Nowadays I am , restricted to a long pipe, happily with a deep boTf'l, est after sach meal. ZWtt Wetlhj. "To a lare reader?," ma'oritv even 0: our 4it will probably b- a surprise to know that at the cloeo: Sue sixteenth ceDiury mere were ia Jsp 00,00J nominal Christians, sot a fear of tsrj2u'-Titial and hold ing official nniiiozz. Then commenced in c 60.CK in era of persecution, and ia 1C37 the 000 then surviving ros-; ia rs oi:. ous I were, after a brave avl heroic struggle, j defeated, and th, native Christian ro cturdi pracacaui exruu'ici empire.
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