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: 3 0C- 4f A. A. - $iiiiiir ly Jly jy ESTABLISHED IN 1878. IIILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY, MAY Kb 1891. NEW SERIES-VOL. X. NO. SO. i fir U JLV 23) 3 4 I " : 7 1 ; : : UnuJifreet's states that there are in New England half a hundred stock farms, .vL'-rc twenty years ago there were prac-;-,tIly none, aii'l in California the breed ng of f i't hores lias br Come almost a raze. ".'lie New York .Wnex predicts that this v.Jil he an exceptional year for immigra ri m;i, The figures for a recent month in i; r:tea lar'":v . intlu' of foreigners by twelve or fifteen thousand than we had hiring the same period in IS'.K). T ho Italians predominat". ' j In 1V.W the !u tccri'V':- of Ita'iins arriv'-o in .'. I'nit .--d State- in any tn-s year, hin" .2.ooi. ,f whri nearly I'M 'y i it crvi- 111'!-' u:' J, a-; in- -kili'-d; in f i'-t, 1 " , i Z o V-d t'i the in--lief1.i')H o,Te-! that 1h"V hid is J s ;ri il f 'i in fu! 'n.iii it ion . A c'ti.' ti f St. bonis makes a pood living by n :itiugfr tui ties to restaurants f r advertising purpoe-i. I f gets 'i per day for -a':h, and they arfr always iu ih -nand. They are kf If outside the door the day before turtle suip is served, and T'Mtea run the next day for .the .soup, ut thev are not. in it. Herbert Spencer opposes socialism be-rau-'- he say; that it turns back progress f.::d is a foe to personal freedom. Com-p'.l-.ory co-operation, he thinks, would iv-u!t iua society like 'that of ancient 1'itu, where the people in groups of ID, .a'), 10.), SOU and 100') were ruled by ollic. rs, tied fo their districts, superin tended in their work and business and nude hopeless toilers for tlin support of the (lovernnif-r.T. " In consideration of th ?eriom in r.ads wliU li arc Ih iu ni;l(le (m tm' lunhcr of liiis roniitry by th. use of w""'l'"f I'l'ojis in mine-!, it is satisfactory t- note, that a patent Ins been taken out In: ;t method of making steel rails into pit props ami supports for collieries, i:.ii ' S tunnels, bridges, etc. The rails iirc.ni! at tlnir ends and suitably framed " '!a r. In point of cost it is said that node of propping comperes favor y with, bricking ami other systems. It i-. r-tiniai'-d that there are uhvays r.O.poo Arncrieans in Italy, and that there ': now .-ihoui ten times as many Italians in thi-, c inu'.ry. Nearly all the Ameri cans iM Italy are well oil, and nearly all the Italian-; who come to this country are in poverty. In mo-t cases th"? American.-, who jr., to Italy spend a fe.v weeks or months there, while the Italians who come to the bnited States expect to stay her-. The Americans in Italy spend their money ; the Italians in the United k-'ates cam money. A room's rirht to wear a moustache een tried in Ihiirland. with the 'Hit's division iu his favor. "When Mrs. Jrimshaw's m-o:n was ent,rae l he v.' i-; smooth shaven, but after a cold lr .:vw a moiHt ache by his ilor-tor's al e, whereupon -Mr. (ri'iiha ordere i . :m to shave or ; witlcuit. notice. Tin ' J k:e held that, the leaiand was mi ' M"na1Ie. If he h id b.'en a Ions - . v int, Wi1 triri',r powd'-r and white sjlk 'o. kilis, suimests thc ' IJoston ''. (- 7 f, he miudit have been icpiiredto -..ivc; but a L.rr 'oni w:i an outdoor er ' cit, and a moustache was :i natural teftion a-jainst the weather. TI lie lid iot damages. t: report of Sir Ah.lpde Caiou, 3iin . i Militia' for the Dominion of v ' i ' .i, a- just been issued. It shows :- ::- of the armed and organized a Han : militia to bi' about 37,000 a. As the population of the Dominion V; v,i: o,)00,ooa, the propDrtion ol '.:ien soldiers to the whole number of : ' ." people is obviously very much greater :"'.m in the United States, where with '.:. 000,000 people we have not far from .OUT) members of the National Guard. ' '.:r Catvidiau cousins seem to be much ... :e strongly imbued with the military v r't," admits the "New York Xeics, '';:an our own people. They possess a ; ntit'ul assortment of artillery, more or modern ; they have a government .rtri 1,-e. factory, where plenty of tirst- (. artridtrcs and artillery projectiles :: turi-.e 1 oit, and the fact that half of t-.-:r o7,t!00 militia spent ten days in ac t.ve open air d rill in camp las: summer ' Koatcs the probability of a fair degree : trrieieney in the entire, force. When ':-, these days Canada takes her na : and liglitful place in the great -'-.erie:.:i Kt-public. her well organized . m:nt:a i i.ioa i I'ai'.e ; k;!at; win prove a very wel- thy'militarv jtieugth of onr IN THE WOODS. Out In the woods- where the maples grow, There's a musical lrio that the childrei know, A spink. spank, spin!?, A silvery tink As the waters do wn frcni the great tree flow. sweet arethe water that trickle down Through th great trees, afar from the tolvn, V.'ithtlieir rpin!:, spank, ppink, Till the trough looks pink As it peers through the sap from its coating brow j j. A rough-hewn trough is the trough for me Ami it home-mauY -spile"' in thy maple tree, For tl;;. spink, spank, spiuk, Is a .-ilvery tink That dwells like a song in the memory. TL" dead 1- av- rustling beneath the feet Diue athere 1 fro a sun and from rain the HWirt, And the spi.'ik, f-nank-, oink, f tiie fanioii-i drink Is th. vm wheii th'. sprm? an 1 the wioter id -t. Out in tli woods where thin raaplw grow There's a nuisieal drip that the children know, . And the s-pink, spank, spink, ! a silvery tink 1 i.;.t .villfcurmnou the violets from lelow. Columbvs Dispatch. A Hero of New Mexico. EY CHARLES F. LUMMIS. AVhen I look back over the strange career of my brave old Spanish friend, Colonel Manuel Chaves, whose weary remnant of a body was laid to test two years ago under the shadow of the noblest mountain in Western Kew Mexico, the exploits of many heroes, who wero handier to the frame-maker, seem a trifle tame. Known and loved here, yet his name seldom reached to the great outside world of newspapers and historians, and to-day he fills the grave of an almost un recorded hero. " Yet I suppose there was never a more remarkable life. For over fifty years he was almost constantly warring against the Apaches, Comanches, Xavajos and Utes. Over 200 of his relatives were killed by Indians. Te participated in more than '100 fights axyd carried a scar for nearly every om of them. : His body was such a network of ghastly cicatrices that, scarcely could you lay your hand upon him anywhero-with-out touching a scar. For the lUiteen years of his life he suffered untold agonies the result of his awful wounds-and the years of exposure and hardship, but he met this more merciless foe as calmly as he had met the Apache, and when, at seventy-four, the nickering soul went out, it was calmly as a little child's. Life on the New Mexican frontier in his day was something which wo can ill realize. There were no railroads then tc make travel easy for even the timid and weak ; nor "mails to bring far friend near; nor telegraphs to flash warning cr hope. The lonely Xcw Mexicans, shut oil from cortact, and almost from the Kast by a vast and fearful wilderness, were surrounded by savage nature and i-till more savage man. It was oneof the bitterest lands on the earth, a land ol ast distances and scant product, of in finite thirst and little wherewith tc p;eiieh it, a land of hardship eternal and of daily danger, where bo vs were sol diers and mothers had to fight for their babes. It was utmost as if there had been no other world beyond thoso awful plains. Whatever was consumed was made at home, and found no other mar ket. There were not even firearms foi defence against the relentless savages, save a scant supply of the clumsy old Spanish escopetas, (flintlock muskets) scarcely better weapons than the bow's and arrows whose use the settlers learned from their foes. Manuel was in his youth a wonderfully expert archer, and won countless ponies and blankets from the Indians themselves in contests during the short intervals of peace. Later he became the best rifle shot New Mexicc he? ever produced. The little town of Cebolleta, where Manuel passed his bovhood, was never at peace m tne nrst nau century oi its ex istence. It was out and alcne from the other Spanish settlements, and in the very heart of the Xavajo country, and it was a fearful sufferer at the hands of the Indians. It was from Cebolleta that young Man uel started, when he was eighteen years .old, on his first expedition though he had already seei enough of war at home, and was accounted among t5e bravest of the brave. With his eldest brother. Jose, and fourteen other young men, he started- for the Canyon do Chusco, 150 talks to the Wci'tard, ia the ktroaghold of the Jodiaos, oa a tradia' expedition. W Mat a commentary on tne times in whict they lived this seeking a market among savages from whom murderous assaults the traders were in constant peril even while at home! They were attacked at night in the Canyon de Chusco, and all were killed save Manuel who was left for dead with seven arrows in his body, and his Indian servant, Pahe, who was also fearfully wouoded. Alone and ou foot they started on that fearful journey homeward. Palic died of his wounds in two days, and Manuel dragged himself alone the rest of the way, hiding by day from the savages, crawling on by night, followed by sneaking coyotes that never left his bloody trail; tortured with thirst and pain, with no food save the cactus fruit, until at last a faithful servant found him fainting on the last rlrtge o! San Mateo and earned him home upon his back. When he recovered from these wound he was engaged as a guide to a party of traders from Mexico to Sew Orleans, ano thence went to St. Louis, with a young Cuban, who finally robbed him of all he had in the world. Then he returned to Xew Mexico and settled in Santa Fe, but iu 184G had tc fleiu to Utah on account of political com plications. The following year he was recalled and put in command of an expedition against the Utes, whom he thrashed soundly. The invasion of New Mexico by the A.merican forces in the Mexican war wai not opposeu, and the Territory became part of the United States without blood shed. , Verr soon thereafter came the "Taos rebellion' a small but fierce up rising of Apaches and Pueblos in the most northern of the Pueblo towns, and Manuel played an important part in sup- pressing it. In a fearful hand-to-hand struggle, too, he saved the life of his commander Captain Zeran St. rain, afterward owner of the 4,000,006-acre St. Vrain grant in Colorado. A gigan tic Apache had his knife at the heart of the prostrate St. Vrain, when Don Man uel, shooting a foe who was almost upon him, wheeled and crushed the skull of St. Vrain's assailant , with the barrel of his ponderous rifle. In 1855 he led a regiment of volunteers ! on a six months' campaign against the Utes, making a brilliant record therein. In 1S57 he accompanied General Lor ing's command iu the war against Cuchil lo Negro (Black Knife), the most re doubtable of all Apache warriors. He captured the savage chief with his own hand in a desperate night attack iu a gloomy canyon where his scouts had found the camp of the hostites. ienerai Loiing was greatly elated by this cap ture, but the prisoner was murdered by the officer left to guard , him a turbu lent man who afterward met a violent death. In I860, when a large band of Navajos made one of their characteristic, raids on the Rio Grande settlements aud'drove oil 5000 sheep, Colonel Chaves pursued them with fourteen men. He overtook the hostile a: nightfall at Ojo de la Monica and routed them; but in the morning found his camp surrounded by several hundred Navajos. From dawn till dark of that desperate day the. fifteen heroes withstood the wild charges of the swarming savages, each fighting from behind his tree. One by one the brave New Mexicans sank back on the red soaked earth, bristling with arrows; and at nightfall only two ot them were left Colonel Chaves and Roman Sanches both fearfully wounded. A company of soldiers from Fort Craig arrived just in time to save them. In that ghastly struggle Colonel Chaves had fired his clumsy muzzle-loader eighty times, and for every shot an Indian or a horse had fallen. He had two bullets left when the arrival of the troops ended the fight. That was the kind of war they had on the early frontier. In a dozen other Indian outbreaks, before and after those to which I have so briefly alluded, Colonel Chaves dis- j tinguished himself bv the' same cool ! bravery, the same dauntless will and the same matchless skill as a marksman. When the Civil War broke out Colonel Chaves took command of the Second j 1 Regiment New Mexico Volunteers, and did brilliant service in this out-of-tbe- wav corner of the Union. ' When Colonel Chaves returned to hi lonely home at Ojuetos it was only tc find that the Indians had depo:led him of everything his horses and cattle, hi 30,000 ht-ep, cn-ps and all and left him penniless, a blow wh ich he r.evcr full ulned hi ;t!fir, though L isvluMry sever icfthiuj io wuat, After Xew Mexico's share in the war was over, there was gtill more than two decadea of frequent Indian outbreaks within her broad borders, , in most ol which Colonel Chaves was a prominent figure. On one occasion hU lambing camp at the Salada was 'jumped" by a large force of landing Apaches. The few shepherds were too badly frightened to fight much, and all would have been killed but for the coolness of Don Man uel. Posting each man behind a tree, with a promise that he himself would frhoot the first who dared run and they dreaded his matchless aim even more than they did the Indians he took his ten-year-old boy by the hand and ran up the hill a few rods as a feint. The In dians, seeing his flight, dashed straight into th? camn without thir accustomed preliminary mauceuvres to see of wllat stuff their enemies might be made. As one grabbed up ColoneLChaves's priceless Navajo blanket from beside the fire he fell sprawliug with an ounce bullet through his brain. Another snatched the blanket and Colonel Chaves called to one of his companions to shoot. But when he saw the poor fellow's hand trembling so that he could scarce hold hi 9 gun, the Colonel shouted, "Wait! Don't shoot!" He hurriedly rammed another charge into I's old muzzle loader, and although by that time the Indian had got so far that he felt him self safe, the unerring bullet caught him as he ran and tore his neck nearly in twain. By that time the shepherds had recovered their senses and gave the In dians such gallant resistance that the lat ter soon withdrew, carrying away some valuable horses, but no scalps. Ah, what a ; rifle-shot the withered, wiry old man was even when I knew him, in his old agev. New Mexico has never had another sich marksman as he was in his prime; and his six-foot muzzle-loading rifle of enormous calibre was never excelled by the finest modern arms that tried conclusion with it. In all his long life in nearly fifty years of which not six months at a time were ever with out warfare- he never was known to miss but one shot. And never did he have to shoot twice at beavjdr deer, and seldom more than once at human foes. I ( shall never forget my mingled amuse- menl and awe at an incident which oc curred when he was seventy-two years old and suffering fearfully from a cata ract in his eye. We were out with his grandson, Rodolfo Otero a gallant lad and fine rifle-shot. Rodolfo had a fine Winchester with which he did some ex tremely clever shooting. "Try it, grand pa!" he kept urging the worn, old man, bent and jvasted by disease. He had never tnsfted our modern magazine guns, but at last yielded to Rodolfo 's entreat ies. "Go, put me a mark on yon cedar," he said, pointing to a gnarled tree a full 100 yards away. Rodolfo ran over, and considerate of his grandfather's age and condition fastened to the tree a paper some six inches across. "Va!" cried the old man, calling him back. "What thinkest thou, hijito? That I am as the moles? Here, take thou this bullet and make me a mark of it on that paper 1" Rodolfo did so. My ejes are none the worst in the world, but I could not even see that lead-mark less than half an inch in diameter. Colonel Chaves raised the rifle in his withered hands, looked pain fully at the fluttering paper, threw the rifle to his shoulder and fired all in the time in which one might count five. "Pues!" he said, as the smoke cleared, "now it sees itself better," and he fired again, with the same rapidity. And when he walked to the mark the bullet was in tha spot Rodolfo had marked, and the second beside it so cloe that the flattened bits of lead touched! Little wonder that such a marksman, as cool in mortal danger as in sport, a born commander and a noble man, wa the terror of the savages and was loved and is mourned by those he helped to de- i fend. St. Lvui liepvblie. Yhere They Found th Lost Doggie- I heard a good story the other day of a Boston woman's poodle,; writes a corre spondent. True or not, I dare to publish it, for doggy, bright as hti mistress thinks he is, hasn't learned to real the news papers ye. ad so can't sue me for libel. "Xing Charles'' ran away a few weeks ajro, but profuse advertising and offers of reward brought him home again. "Where did you find him? ' asked Lis mistress of the man who returned him. "Ohf, a burly man had him hitched to the end of a mop-stick and was washing windows with him. "B.tm J'rutdUr, MlilSSOXIER. METHODS ANI KOIBLKS OF A CiUK VT FHKNCIl AKTIST. The 1'atuilous Sums lie ltoceiYetl lor His Masterpieces Curious Kemints(-tMii-e of he Kc centrie Painter. Meissonier, the great French artist who died in Paris recently, spent money with both hand. He built himself on the Malesherbes place in Paris ahouse that was a wonder of taste. He Kept a country seat n the grand style of the millionaire aristocrat. He bought every thing he wished right and left without once stopping to calculate his immediate income. His ability to b- thus reckless with impunity was vine to his unparal leled success in making his high art a financial sueces-. Few if any other modern painters have persistently de- ' manded and received such great material recognition of their work. The prices paid repeatedly for his tiny canvases have been fabulously high. A Frenchman has calculated since his death that none ol his well known works is to be had for much less than $'.ni) a square inch. At the Secretin sale seven ltttle genre pictures by Meissouier went for $101, 000 "Le Vin du Cure," on wood, four and one-one half inches, high by six inches wide, done in ISoiV brought $10,000; "Le Peintre et l'Aiifateur." on wood, nine by four inches, 1851), $12,500; ".Toune Homme Ecrivaut Uue Lettre," on wood, nine by seven inches, 182. $13,000; ".Toueurs de Boules aus Ver sailles," on wood, "five and one-half by eight, 1817, $14,200; "Joueurs de Boules a Antibes," on wood, five b seven inches, 1869, $12,000; "Liscur en Costume Rose," on wood, eight by six inches, 1851, $13,200; "Le Coup de 1'Etrior," on wood, nine by five in9hes, date unknown, $10,000. Meissonicr was never to be shaken in his demands for enormous prices. Often, after finishing a picture, he doubled the estimate he had made of its value befoie beginning it. Emperor Napoleon III. originally appropriated $20,000 for he picture "Napoleon III. at Solferirto." After completing the work on it Mcis sovenier ga him the alternative betvveeu paying $40,000 and letting his most famous portrait fall into strange hands. Richard Wallace agreed to give the painter $30,000 for putting on canvas "Napoleon in the Battle at Friedland." Meissonicr did the picture, and refused to let it go for less than $60,000. When Wallace demurred, Meissonier coolly sold the painting at his price to an American who did not haggle. . Meissonfr's masterpiece, "1814," is known as the most expensive painting in the world. It is twenty inches high bv thirty inches wide, und was last sold for $170,000. It repreents Napoleon I. and his great general stall riding back from the scene of their defeat. It came to be painted in this wise: In lh70" M. Delhante, a rich business man with a ta&te for art, found Meissonicr at work iu his studio on one of his microscopic canvases. "What dots it represent;" he asked. "A military subject, to which I will give the title 11M4.' ' "Your subject is very great and your j canvas is very small, M. Meissonicr, said Delhante. Why do you not paint a larger picture?" ; "I have laid it in small for two! reasons jjrst, oeeauM- mat is luystyieo; painting: second, because, to speak ot.enlv, I need money. I work slowly, and ;ui able to finish a little picture much sooner than a large one." "So you need money. Well. ""paint roy portrait. What will it cost?" "Five thousand dollar0-" Delhante drew out his purse and laid the money on the table.. "Now, I wish also for myself the picture '1M4,1" he continued, "but on th- r or. lition thai voudo it on a larger canva." Some time later, when the portrait was completed, Meissonier showed hi patron the outlines of a new. "1814,' with the question: '"Is that large enougt for vou!M "Just riht.. W'Lk wis! it cost?' "Fourteen thousaa-1- dollars,'' "All right; there is half the price.'' The picture was painted, paid for, a delivered, and iu 1SG! was exhibited id the Salon. An Englishman ofJere $60,- GOO for it. buV Delhante heid&ark. anut-titist me rt-ase-l oil oiler to $VJ, the ph-ture j w. !a:ie d !- ','jX fb'v'j'.'v, aud, af'.rf kf.'pi- his KSMSston lor one day, made th famous j-ale of it to M. Chauchard fo $150,000. This . w a the first times great painter had seen with his own eyd mj h a triumph of 'his art. Those wh have approached most closely his sueesi were Munkaczy, with hi-"Christ before I Pilate," which sold for $100,000; Millet, with his "Angclus," for which $120,001 was paid, aud Murilio, with his "Ascen- :on," $130,000. " In the work behind hi great artistic aud financial success Meissonier followed closely the suggestion of the German proverb, "Kein Preis ohne Fleis.n An experience of Menzel and Pietsch in his studio in 1S67 ' illustrates the infinite painstaking with which all his great pic tures were painted. "1807," or the "Cuirassiers of Friedland" was unfin ished on his easel. In reponse to a com ment from one of his visitors Meissionct explained the ' nature of the ork he had done iu order to be ble to do it. "The wav of the cuiras siers to tne enemy, ' he said, "lay over a field of grain, still colored with the tints of June green.. Infantry had already marched over the field and had trodden down (the blades. To get this effect jH-rfeci before my eyes I had a field near my house in the country planted to rye iu the fall. In the following May, when the blades had taken on about the size and the color which would be character istic of a. grain field in Fast Prussia on lune 14, the day of the battle, 1 had a troop of infantry, placed at my disposal by the commander of a neighboring garrison, march over it diagonally. After the field had been thus piepared, I made four large and minutely exact studies of nature from it. These studies I utilized iu the picture before you. I also made use of a company of cuirassiers from the- Poissy post for the, put pose of studying the effects produced by their movement. Day after day they stormed by my house in the wildest haste, swinging their sword Si and shouting, 'Vive l'Empereur.' " Thus, without the aid of instantaneous photography, now k. indispensable to the painter t such scenes, Meissonier was enabled to study find represent the men and horses in th mad movement! of the full charge. Meissonicr, the Great, was of dwarfUh stature. He had a large, powerful, bony head, with a with' forehead and bushy eyebrows. Down over his breast flowed -a long white heard, the pride of his heart. He imagined that it helped him look 4arger and statelier thau he was. This .idea was a drop of comfort iu hi cup of mourning over his dwartishness. It gave him a little consolation in his everlasting regret that he was not a man of martial figure, .for, with all his phe nomenal successes, Meis-souier dreamed half of LisdajrS of the imjtossiblc ambi tion to be big. To make himself look iiiore manly and robust he frequently en cased his diminutive legs in huge cavalry boots. He prinked daily before ths mirror, and was never weary -of compar ing himself with ether small men to show that he was really not s t very little. To the end he confided in his friends the pangs he ever suffered on account of hie under f-ize. Occasionally, but only oc casionally, did Meissonior find the de sired consolation he sought from hU ac cjuainymees. One afternoon, as the Sculptor Dubois entered his studio, Meissonirr exclaimed joyfully: "What do you think! The corn doc tor was just here, and what do you sup- 1 pose-he says? A six-foot grenadier can not get nny bigger corns than minf.1' Xeir York Sun. Canine Jealuusy. Druggist Koehler lives in Mount Au- i burn. He owns a huge bloodhound, J which forJJ long time had been thi pet I of the children on the blck. NotTong J ago he presented his r.eighVir, Mr. HilL with a solemn looking little ug. The children immediately transferred their affections frm th; big bk liiound to the little pug. Tuc bio Ihound moped for a while, an I one or twici as saulted his rivd, th o ig The -other day the pug d-.-f.pp - irl. It was nought far and wide. i)w of Mr. Hill's servant remembered tin ; ha 1 seen the blood hound earrjing the pug pup in h:i mouth through the 1 le ysof-lhc Hill re;dt-ccc. A-., the: starh was made. The pug v.:.h ' o wA Ju the cistern. It vas dead. The l.olUoua I had cap- i tured th" pug, rirrie 1 it into the rear )ard and dropped- it into ths mtcra well the cover of WiU' U was bad re . T'.c b oo luo i vl thu J rr.r ;( of Lis ri - Tr,c vasue ol ii.e animal") imported !ntv"Grn...n.ituta hsi u.-h &s 61 , SUV, 45 v X J
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