North Carolina Newspapers

V ," 1 i ( 'fa 7 7 y ,ty Ay Jlb Ay v- ESTABLISHED IN 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1891. NEW SERIES--VOL. XT NO. 27. 1) I U HI . II 1 in ii i 1 1 ii i Ivj rr.iV.vars m 'Central and K under control of the .,-' have been consolidated , :i;i'r,iy, to ". known as the j and IV;ifio Kail road av c. .1 it ctions i ii Trinity Yoik City, often amount to r. cord was ocli ped on ii iv i:i thf: chmeh of the v'i attende-nce, when i jilting to the Lon- tli:it. the "word red from i's lf-xi-tiou.and the- good, ol ,(,ll.'lM i- to take its York Jade- is i , th', j . . a- .; th" oc'-v ' v-.::i-ii :-' much Jov-:j to gt to i to hold their conven ;, ,i,iy, it. TJ-' l:iir: , invidio-i; di-crimination I !'.'IC T:i Washington the al-,o. i iir.i.(-f .r ri(ii hairdressers' -.vonvii go in IJostou. Mass., Perfect cars of V i ! t 1 1 f ii in l w n ir of . I , ill- . . ' ... .... . . I .. . I . i j , ( . . . .f-, -,'t good coifing are as necessary curl and elaborate ciignons . wli'"i i(Hi-t of thf; cider ep !c:nw-il 1 1 j r trad' : I -1 i -. a t person in Va ---hington an t i.i , the proceedings of the L ' ' ;i .r' cover :il iut 10,000 .,' ( -.;i ' t c -i. iiial li 'cord. ;!. iii. ' ri i - v.'ords on :i jtao ;,'!'rc I'i'iii..- llcncf th n runlt.'d Aoi' f.'.n- st'itisiiioii during the :c: iv.t t' :ilout. :J l.'0'),OOJ J '-. which h;i-i been made in i.n'li") i. f electricity in this oiiiy I';: ;ipj,:c'ci,iteil, main ( " '; '(r,il,ji by coiiipuring (.t'uer counties. Prince, ! the iiint jiroressivf ;', .!.)',(, !us only about P,- in u i.', while the l.'nited 0 !').' !. !. . i:iy of lu:. acres of . i i.f every f.i:nily of l l -ec Iri-s resulted, i -. - - iv. i iv claim t as e:-:- i i 'i w:is,.(J corn'.;:.', to t;n i uni i i' i! i-Jii of meii w'no i iiiii-ii il uuoibi'r of hostages j i:i 1 j'l lin'4 from the fact 1 1 a'eior.n illy lanje families i. entered c!ii'.ii, tho idea iv !!'. 'rii,')il one. .in. t lor povei ty is pro i, iiio.i to Ne-.v Zealand by n-.v named Howlctt. Mr. Is his scheme, on a denial of 'tiuht to live,' at least in he ii-opoe-, therefore, eynineu to sell "lights tc . ii i . i l t t i '.i '-i or; an v no win noi it s, or "iv.it him to work " "Ki.dits" w ould "s oor er.ain pri.'C," .sutUcieht to . i- 'o'.uai-ration. Married .1 h ive t.i buy a new riht for i':iM; s.journin4 pa-songers : ru : - w.mld wear "small or wo'.dd take out a a iiareofa ticket; people h- ir iirht w-iieu they desired ; the 'ate, by a populir vote, 1 1 new rights. Mr. Utcus his anti-poverty idea - : tlt-j Ohic:K. Jf'ralJ - v .;: 1 of E lue-ition is ooa- t o . to bain-h the teach . o a;a 1 ti, rui ui in the public . t.i'eiiy. At present French' in -are tau.;Ut in five rude of t - aho.it jr.jXV) ehihlren, s p-a- v..;r-k beioy; devoted to ,ui,v. Fv. 'a an 1 icrir.an "d at preSi-at with the trustees i' : s ao lis, :X the system .rr t:ivon sati-fa.tio::. Tho u'.vini; iiotnu tio:i in branches i by a majority of the p '.rents r'i'in tVssrs the .a', "one is t i be carefully retricte 1. s ar :li'.io chools ulreadv tt ' ' " men, and the result is that r turning oat irrvl nates thor '' drille 1 in tha rudicieats of ' :!'b'a!io:i : tea many iistaucea ''iiributions t swell the tido ' :'V hy attemptiag to give ia- ia toy umy breaches. Thor- - b ths essentials rst and 1 Sfctra,. if thor 1. tlm and ' Vut.oU h? the dm of LIGHTS. A little lamp can send but a brief and feble ray. The frreat lights bravely beam, and.thelr radiance far away I the comfort of the nations and therfurther- nee of the day. AH men remember when the great lights were lit, The day is kept in honor, and they name it as they ?it And watch the guiding flame, thanking and blessing it. Kit the i mall and struggling lights;which a breath of storm might kill - Eiich fain to light a continent, but doomed to stnallne.es fitill, Is there no one to praise them for their service of good will? Ye?, one, the Lord of all, who is the source " cf light, He sees tlicni where they burn in the black ness of Earth's night. And the larger and the less alike are pre cious in His sight. He is th secret source by which their flames are fed. I'rom the beacon's wide, white ray which flashes overhead, To thi intermittent ray which the half- : pent tapers shed; And to each he says, "Well done," which has bravely sought to burn. An 1 when the dawn nriseth, and each is quenched in turn, Absorbed into thy perfect day for which pure spirits yearn; Each littJe llame that straggled to make the night more fair, Shall find its pltice in Paradise and burn in heavenly air, And the Father of all Lights shall be its wel come there. Susan L'uulil(je,in the Independent. DR. DAPSOJT. BY OriE P. BEAD. The following confessions of Zeb. W. Tfal were presented to me by the author: It doesn't make anv difference where I was born or where I was reared. I am the proprietor of a grocery store, and by a closeness that involved much self-sac-rilice I have managed to buy a home; but this can be of no interest to any one who may read these confessions. I must have been thirty-five years old before the thought that I oujht to marry some gen tle and confiding woman occurred to me. I had never gone into society and conse quently knew but few women, and those whom I did know had haggled so much over the price of sugar or dried codfish that the thought of marrying them was a shock to my fancy. I was at that time living in a large city and boarded at a house situated several miles from my place of business. One day while going home on a horse car, I noticed a woman sitting opposite me. Of course, I noticed women every day, but there was some thing about this Avoman that especially attracted inc. Her face was not impres sively handsome, but there was an intel lectual cast about it, an evidence of cul tivation that I could not help admiring. I must have gazed at her, indeed, I know that I did, but she did not appear to take any notice of me. The next evening when I started, home, there she was again on the car. I regaided this as fortu nate, but was compelled to content ray selt with simply looking at her. Just before getting oft, I asked the driver if he knew her name, but he said that he did not. The next evening when I started home, I was disappointed inj not finding her, and I got oiT and waited for the next car, but I did not see her. One night I was suddenly taken ill of pneumonia. One of the boarders was dispatched for a doctor, and was in structed to get the nearest one. Shortly afterward the messenger returned with the woman whom I had gazed at on the car. 'Isit possible that you are a doctor?'" I afked. "It is not only possible," she- an swered, smiliug,4'but it is an established to." ,. ; "I am glad to see you agaia, at any rat c. 'See me again?" "Yes, for I was disappointed when I j found tint you were tot on the car the ether evening." "I don't remember having seen you before,1' she repnethI was unreasonable enough to allow a sharp sting to enter my pride. She had not even noticed ir.e. She f.'.t my pulse, wrote a pre scription and said that slie would call again the next day. She came early at morning and declared that I was much better. "But I think you'd better coaie agaic," .(11 T .iTV : - 1. --1 J! M4U ' ?:U kn0W 1 had a friend that nounced cured' aad tb0 "I have kaowa patU&t to diifettoe the doctor's visits ceased,' she rer sponded, smiling in a way half pro? fessional and half woman. - . "But you don't think that I am in $ similar danger, do you?" I asked, somel what alarmed, for courage was nevet numbered among my virtues. j "Oh, there is no cause for immediate alarm," she answered. "I will call again to-morrow." "Can't you come this evening?" J "That would not be necessary." nut cau t you come any wayr k rather like the society of doctors. 3 know a great many physicians." ! "What physicians do you know?" she asked. i That somewhat stumped me. I had never been sick before, and as I was a humble if not a" modest grocer, I knew no doctors, but I was, as the Congress men say, equal to the occasion, and Ire plied that I knew Dr. Prouty, Dr. Snell and Dr. So-and-So." ' "I don't know them," she;said. j Neither did I, but I was determined to . maintain my position. "Can't yon come this-evening?" I implored rather than asked. J "I will come to-morrow morninjr. ' she replied, and in, a way so unsenti mental that I was almost angry, sha marched out. By this time I was really in love with her,,andjin order to keep up her visits, I was resolved to feign sick uess; so, when she came the ,next day and asked me how 1 telt, lnnswcrect that I thought I was worse. I "Oh, I don't know," she answered, i "But I do know. -, I have a pain in my side and feel shaky, i By the way, I havi not asked your .name. I wish to say lliaj I am a very peculiar man." "My name is Dapson," she answeve.ll She came earlythe.next morning, and after taking my -temperature, remarked that I was so far restored to health that further attention from her would be unr necessary. "Doctor," said I,Vit is much better to be on the safe side. To tell the truth pneumonia runs somewhat in osr family, and the worst phase is, thatnny people have suffered most ifroni thej dread dlsj- y ease after having been -pronounced cured." She sat down and, laughed. "You are the first man lever knew to regard with friendliness an increasing doctor's bill.f "That's all right," said I, wincing a little, for my economical naturefshudderccjl somewhat at the thought of paying out much money and 1 1 was about to suggest that the bill might be cut down, when the doctor said: "It is an odd; chajf acteristic of human nature that nieir should hate a doctor'sibill with so strong a degree of warmth. Men who cheer fully pay an undertaker shy at a doctor.' "Probably they think that the doctor causes both bills," I remarked, attempti ng to be witty. ' j "And thus contributes to the support of two worthy vocations," she quickly rejoined. j "Yes; they render each other self sustaining. By the way, you are coming one more time, aren't you?" 5 j ,"I don't see why I should." j "But I do." " "And why should I come?" "Because I love you," "Why, what an impudent patient you are." i "That's all right. I love you and want to marry you "lo save asked. your bill?" she archly "Come, doctor, don't make sport of me.-. Ever since I first. saw you I hae loved you, I used to watch for yu and when you failed to be on the car, I was toward'you," she said. i "Then I wish that my peculiarities were stronger. I wish they were strong enough to draw you to ray arms." "Oh, what a trifling rascal you are, to be sure. I don't really believe that yoa have been ill at all. It was merely a de sign against me. j "No, I was not aware that you were i doctor. If I had known it I would have been ill long ago. By the way, when will you be ready ?" i "Ready for whit?" ! i "To be my wife." ' "I am not looking for a huiband." j "Yes, but the greatest ..treasures are sometimes come upoa by accident." . j 'You are quite philosophical for !a grocer." j . "Ab, but let ma tell you, MIm Doctor, that the grocery basinet rcqulxe racre grief-stricken. Now, after tins confer ; J 7 harbinger of joy. f f , v W I feature of the trade. -The Lmted States . . - ' . . uu, )uu w v, ,a - One of the most curious ot inlets is ,m oMdtnvisitrnn!" census of ten years ago showed a home . am able to Visit YOU i - . , It... mint's or "rearhorse " which is so .4Vrt, ,i:.;f tnf0 ..reduction of 4o,,0y0,0U0 dozen eggs, i . ... , . ' puiiuavujr laiia lus raeuicai proiession. The grocer understands ffce weakne&s of the flesh." "I must go," she said, IBising. "When sbill I expect you?" I asked. V. X 1 .--.-vV T ' . 1 "You need not expect me." She did not come the next day, and 1 sent for her. She did not come until night. "I suppose you are worse," she said smiling. "I, am dying." "Then I can do nothing for, you.' . "Yes, you can save me with the medi cine of love." "With the medicine-of nonsense." "Well, that is the formula for love's tonic." " f5 "I did not come to be insulted." "Nor shall you be." "Tell me plainly what you want." "I want to marry you." .. "But don't you think that I prefer to look higher than a grocer?" "Possibly, but I don't prefer to look higher than a doctor. You suit me well enough. Probably you "don't know it, but at one time in my life I could have married a seamstress." "That's encouraging, surely. Could you have'marricd anyone else?" "Yes, I think that a female barber was once smitten with me. She did not say so, but she shaved delightfully, and on one occasion refused to charge anvthintr; and I confess that this was a strong pull in her favor. If she had refused the second time I believe that I should have proposed." "I don't know whether to love you or he angry." "Let me decide. Love me." "All right, I will." "When will you begin?" T . , ' .. . t 1 Let me see wnat time it is, she said, i looking at her watch. "A quarter past nine. "Well, I will begin at ten o'clock." I could not help laughing at this. We continued to talk; she said not a word of love, but looked at her watch occa sionally. "Isn't it nearly ten?'' I asked. "Wants two minutes." "Do you love me now?" "I will in one minute and " a half. How is the grocery business anyway?" "Picking up all the time." "I have never known many grocers to get rich," she remained, holding her watch open.- "I knw one that " She shut the watch with a loud snap, and looking affectionately at me, said: "I love you." it- There are many rmean people in this world, and I think the very meanest is a quack doctor, a fellow named Piddias C. Jones. Why do I think so? I will tell you. Tiie other day, in speaking of my wife, he said : "Dr. Dapson never had but two patients. She killed one and married the ether." Arlcanmip Traveler. Figures on Eggs. American imports of eggs, mostly from Canada, for the fiscal year ending with last June, amounted to 15,062,730 dozen, and the exports lo Europe 548,750 dozen, says the Chicago Tribune. Either the consumption has decreased or there must have been an increase of industry by the domestic hen over thatof the twelve months next preceding. The imports for that year were 15,918,859 and th? exports 380,884. For the last named period Denmark andv'-cnnany con- tributed 305,409 and China 125,300 j uozen, the latter coming for, use by Chi- nese residents of the Pacific slope. About j allthe rest came from Canada, half of them being entered at Buffalo and Niagara. An egg train race a week from Ogdensburg, distributing the pro- which with the imports gives an average per capita consumption of 111 t'ggs. If this rate be preserved -the home prodm- ; - n fr.r tho nrnn' roir- TVlll bf 590.- . .' . i i . i. v l . .i . . .1 . ( . 1 . , , .,Ar suiipo-ed sacctitv i- i-nve 1 from its fa U00,000 of dozens' from 152!O0O,O00j iJ . , 5 fowls. The commutation for this con- sumption includes the unknown numicr . I whjch were organized into chickens, sc. that the average of nearlv one egg every three davs for every man, woman and child in. th-United States will be reduce i. v To'-r.i fmm trr:ibatinn. M Hiv -.i. .l.ih, . ....... .... . ccuntry is s3.uj.vu :o .o,., - . - T nA ift the import as 110,000,000 dozen. Ire land ha? searlr half the -aaaoe? cf lowif, rith cnlr onc.iUth cf th? popuUtioa of Britain. i .... - Mhe acquaintance of a distinguished ir- ! n . A , . .t . T!-is is rno t'n tioub' the egg con- , . . ' . , I he mtUrnmaUi g-ses from thii 1"" b rao' 1 1 ,W4U ----- I son. If it injure, vol :n anv wav, which ' . - . sumption of Great Britain, that iing 1 , ' ' . region may give to the appearance CUyono e-. r' rvc.onr-1 B ,,T ; ; kj a m oi l,SB..ogl ,v,,boUv hunder, Ue , tels. The ir,H th-i of that j .; ;t , " . A . . ,u L Ion-, the QUEER RUG TALES. SOME CVKIOITS IlKLIKFS G A III) I NO INSECTS. IlE- Ant as Bifj as Foxes Fireflies, Glow Worms, ltearliorses and Beetles Fireflies . as Illuminator. In the forests of Guiana dwell some very large and exceedingly ferocious black ants, which thrown up hills fifteen and even twenty feet in height. They wilp not hesitate to attack a man, and their headquarter are usually given a wide berth. The traveler M.douet speaks of having witnessed the destruction of one of these fortresses and its inhabitants :n a way that was certainly extraordinary. A trench was dug entirely around it and tilled with dry wood, which was set tire to simultaneously at all points. Then a train of artillery was brought to bear md the hill knocked to pieces with can non balls. The ants, recking to escajn, were all burned in thetr attempt to cross the liery gutter. a more than one oc casion ants have done so much damage in convonts and elsewhere as to be Xonnally excommunicated by the Church jf Home. In South Africa the hill of tln white ants, known as "termites," have often been' employed for purposes of torture, the human victim being partly buried in one of the heaps and lift there until his flesh was eaten from his bones. A belief is, or used to be, current among the Mormons, who suffered grievously from th: pert, that the locust was a cross between the sprder and the buffalo. In China the poouKr notion is that insects of this description are hatched by the sun from the spawn of J 1 fishes that arc left ashore by receding waters. The history of the lo.cust hav ing been a scries of the greatest calamites from which mankind suffered, it is not surprising that they have been looked upon for ages with a superstitious horror. By the Arabs this speech is put into the locust's mouth : "Weure the army of the great God, and we lay ninety-nine eggs; were the hundredth put forth, the world would be; ours." According to the statement of these people, the locust has the head of the horse, the horns of the stag, the eyes of the elephant, the neck of the ox, the breast of the lion, the body of the scorpion, the, hip of the I camel, the legs of the stork, the wings of j the eagle and the tail of the dragou. A J common belief in this country is that the twing of the insect is always marked either with a letter. W, portending war, or the letter P, promising peace. Di odrus Siculus, who lived about GOB. C-, described a tribe of locust eaters in Ethiopia, who were accustomed to pro cure their yearly supplier of food by set ting much combustible material afire in a valley when the swarm3 of locusts passed over, so that they wei; stitrled by the smoke and fell to the ground in vast numbers, to be subsequently gathered in heaps with salt and so preserved. Owing to their peculiar diet these people never lived to grow old, being eaten up by maggots which bred in their lY-sh. Locusts are much used for food in Africa to-day. Flights of them are considered a blessing by the natives in many parts that the rain doctors are employed to fetch them by their incantations. In certain parts of Africa crickets are said to constitute an article of com merce. People rear them, feed them in confinement and sell them. ; The natives are very fond of their music, thinking that it induces sleep. Superstitions re garding the cricket's chirp are very va- lied. Some believe that it is ominous ? rif .iirr.iu- omi r.vil tilm.iW" ri!r;rc rnriiiilf-r common in asfungTou. I iie n Reliefs are familiar as to its powers of prophecy and other supernatural attri butes. Pre-utnublv the notion as to it 1 ' ' 1 lake's a mantis to the junction of three j .4 . . ,. . I ..,,!.- ( tf i i .iL-s if from arr,:r-h ! i rtr f ifii ; her lover wh! come it will respond trulf. i . . ". . , . - . . , ) . o .... 7, s in the wav. ut-rK-:ng tha it alights ' ", , v . ! u;n vour hand, vou are abowt to mase i ' works cf TisO it ts r.atei that the isantU - ; , . ig?3 into a green pant ol lo hacu a breadth The feet are fixed into j uaa 2rgtj x u -fsid ftn4 ff0a the j roiti grow, so tut th aslfiiil by di grees becomes a vegetable. Although this seems like an absurdity it is ia real ity not impossible that such a thing may have occurred, foe it is true that an in sect will sometimes, under favorable con ditions of heat and moisture, produce a plant ofjpryptogamic kind. From a cer tain kind of caterpillar that burrows i;i the ground an edible mushroom that very highly prized commonly grows. It often happens that the chrysalis of a bec, or wasp, or cricket throws out a sieru and changes in every respect into a veg etable, though at the root the shell and external appearance of the parent insect are still retained. Specimens of these vegetated annual i are frequently brought from the-West Indies. In the Argentine llepublic a wcevi' known as the "diamond beetle"- is it great request for breast pin. and other ornaments. The palm weevil of the West Indies is regarded in that country as a great luxury, fric 1 or broiled, sit i en ten in the larva stage, in the shape ol .a big white worm, which i found in t'ue tenderest part cf the smaller pji.u tree-. The hisforic poem of Uraz.il mahe the astonishing assertion .that the-e worm first become .butterflies and subsequently mice. A similur dainty in Java is the larva of a beetle which, ia the shape of a white maggot, lives in woo l and so eats it away that the backs of chairs and portions af other furniture are often, though apparently sound, actually im.-r shells. In Sweden the ehmch-yard fvefJe is regarded as a m-M ngi r of pes til nee irad dtat , and iis appearance always exces violent alarm. A tpecies closely allied is eaten by Egyptian women with a viijw to acquiring plumpness. Another hi'ii-tt regarded with superstition here is thet-o- called "death watch,'' which by the . ticking sound it makes excites a dread and horror of the credulous sick person in solitude of the night. The poorer classes of Cuba and the other-West India Islands make use of the brilliant fireflies native there for lights in their nouses. Twenty or thirty of the insects put into a small wicker cage and dampened a little with water w;i!l produce a very comfortable illumina- ption, ouite sutlieient to read by. Also t"hey are worn by the ladies for orna ment, as many as fifty or one hundred sometimes adorning a single ball dress. The insect fs fasteued to the costume by a pin run through its body and is only worn so long as its lives, for it loses it ight as soon as it dies. Perforated gourds are commonly employed for lan terns tilled with the fireflies, which aro aroused occasionally by shaking, so that they shall light up their luminous disks as brightly as possible. The people of Italy believe that glow worms are of a spiritual nature, dwelling in graves, and .-:o they carefully avoid them. The biggest insect of its kind in the world is the Hercules beethj of South America, which groves "to be six inches in length. It is said, whether truthfully or not, that great numbers -of theso creatures are sometimes seen on the mam .imea tree, rasping the: rind rom ths slender branches by working around them with their horns until they came the juice to, flow. This juice they drink ! to intoxication and thus fall senseless to the ground. Wnhinjtrm Star. FerpetuaLLiahtninf. The .United States Consul at Mara caibo, Venezuela, has .described some singular natural phenomena of an unin habited forest region, rich in asphalt and petroleum, between the rivers Santa Ana and Zulia and the mountain. of the Co lombian frontier. Ote of these, near tio Oro, is r horizontal cure constantly ejecting thick bitumen in large globules, which explode with considerable noise and fail into a i irgf deposit at the water'. edg. At another sp it. 'some miles from the conSnerifc of the Tara and Sardinete. ia fwhfit f., ,vh hrv S:n it call the j ... . . micra". n is a iu iu'uu'j iwi-uij-five to thirty feet high, with an area of bOOO quure fc:t, from which innumer able streams of jK-troleurh and hot water are constantly being forced, with the noie of the blowing-ofl of several steam j j i boilers. Oa- rem i-. wud sto bare s . , . , , ,, , . . , Vi-ldl four gallon of ereedent- petrol. ' . cum in cne mmutc. f -Journal. "JIannlsh fashion" ars to caatiaue Rsoag woota who are act Oftt tfllal. 1 ti'.i .1 V A