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let 11 it i A ESTABLISHED IN 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1891. NEW SERIES-VOL. X. NO. 31. i i cheap in Boston as in iii l they do say, whispers the '!',:, .r,-u,t, that most of the : -ir. li r.i1' fabrics now for sal i -'.rr tin counters are made ia The ground has been broken by Mrs. I. -.ud Stanford for the great university : , ,' f ic( -led iu jnemory of her sou, at j'.;!o.ito. 'd.. Both meu aud ..women v, !! be feludttcd to the university on ( i ;r: f iti,nr ; and, although everything i- to he a- (,u-U: in its equipment, as it f in I. - tm .'.i'. "llJ) a vear is to cover ;. ' m ;i'.it-:iunee for each pupil. The Knghn police have at last adopted the tut ;vur'-nifnt system for the identifi cation of er!:.oa als, though such measure ments are iu,t to be taken till after con viction. The new .system furuL-.hes the best. ' iii ck t- tin; operations of profes sional eriniinals, us it insures their idea- '.:'. -di';;i even when thy have b en skil- i ! :i :'. i;:ii to remove marks on theil i . Theodore Child's hnnross.ouJ of the' AriVwtine R'puolie, a published in a ')!'. number of Jftrj);;ri Mimine, . ! nut . ultogeih'-r flittering to the ( .hie. nf that cimntrv. Jle could find : i li.ft !i!'e of the eitieui of liueaos Ay res ii p it-try, no s'-utiuieat, no generosity--- n t : i i ; ; f amiable, witty, or attractive in '.-.' exterior aspect of iu'-:i and of things. j'.i-hip -I. iM. H idden, hovever, in. an tiele v, liu li lie has written for tui same p : i i')di';i!, f .ii.es a different and more Lonr-ful vi.:.y of that country. At the i !- of JT i' )::ipre'neiisive account of the i ii'.'io'K'and educational institutions 'of 'v: Argentine people, he says: "The ! ';: ;";; y of ;d! the formative forces m A1 a t-i n : is t make the people more !. :.! 'ii"irn, to elevate them in their til eoiditioiis, to increase the iu- : :!'..: "lei- of t J 1 1 m isses, t develop the i v;. c. S; finish -American nation." An interesting "Story of an African IV. iu'' comes' from California. The i.trniU :n ostricli farm, and the financial Atsiy thi-.: Nine years ago a Dr. ikttth'.i y iiiijcirtev.1 the first birds from Aliira. He and Mr. Carson, of Cape Town, imponed seventy-seven ostriches, which ( -r.-i - s.()i each. They made Moiii y, f-'r fi-.;u these birds have been hied cuich".s now in the State. A '; -nt ! ihan wiio has an ostrich farm in Fmla M .nie.i, and has forty-live birds, Jays that each bird yields .$201) a year, linking his m'oss revenue .$1)000; deduct iu'j; expenses, he has a clear $i'500 on $l.",0O() iue-4ineut. All breeders agree that Southern California is as well u-iapted for o-drieh farmint; as South Africa, and it seems that most of the "weft coat trade in ostrich plumes is faaiy well supplied from these farms. -No wonder the California people plumt themselves: o;i their ''lorioiis State-. Th" Ch'i't.wt'j't'f.t says: "The eyes of . :i 'ia!;s in the East are now turned ' v.v.ird the fate of the opium treaty be t v Fhigl.iud ami China. The time is ''..-....he.' near when u revision is to. take 'i e, :iud when it is to be decided '1. ' !.ei, Kngland is going to continue 1:. v. C; !i :; crime uf sending opium to China, or resolutely yield to the humane and :-!i:m sentiment of the whole world 1 p r au'eud to it. There is no want ' '"ii in behalf of the most advanced im; in this 'yre;it crisis. The Indian -:. a;, s are practically a unit in de ' e.'c. aJ Hut and uncompromising i-'.. i of that part of the existing which relates to opium. Petitions 'i ' ireulated ami signed in both ' aa 1 India. The Chineses native '. presents a petition signed in be i ut' communicants of the London n at Canton. 700 Wesleyau com cants 4r.O liaptists, 000 Presbyter .'"au ol the lierlin mission, and teD Auieiicau Seamen's mission. One n is bcin circulated for signatures :' Court of Peking. The , Indian ;:i i -already signed by 750 foreign tnaries, and by 1200 native pastors, "i mi other Christians-. A similar a is -igned by English aud Scotch resi.leut in India. Any one icig o:i tht puiy of the. Ilugli, at can frevpuently see a monoto viam oi wagons, drawn by toiling. ' hullo. -ks. T'ne progress is very V ! 1 IV. fc". c t. , 1 !' , w i !or t ie burden is heavy. The arc piir 1 up with chests, all of -" aud appearauce. This train is vay to the customs. The con- to v inspected aud then seat to and other countries. - What are (... 'i.i.-f opium, and nothing else. -d b greatest contribution to -a s wjetcLedcess." iia -1!!; SHOW US WHAT YOU ARK. Do it now! Begin! Begin! You "Mean to " That won't take you far; If the thins ,m there and in you, Showsus what you are! Future statesmen, preacher, poet, Playwright, leader of the bar You may, but we do not, know it. .Show us what von are! L'ave off dreaming, "it" and "andv-ing, Gazing at a distant star; Tl.i world's not waiting while you're stancfr Show us what you are! Set your lofty genius working; Take a task, to make or mar; Fame nor wealth are won by shirking;. Show us what you are! 7 If you're abler, nobler, stronger 'than the re of us by far, lion't jut think s-o any longer; Show us what you are! Arthur (JuwJry, in BtlforcTs Magazine. A -GENUINE HERO. A ky of opal and gold, a deep trellised veranda, a novel, and a ham mock slung at tha most comfortable of ai: "With these conditions, it was scar.-t.iy strange that Halcyon Hartford rswaved deli'htf ullv between dreamland and the real world that June afternoon, with the fleecy gold of her hair, all guiltless of pin or comb, and the "bell sleeves," falling euchantingly away from her rouud, white arms, while one trim, slippered foot hung from the edge of the hammock. "Halcyon! Halcyon! Where are you?' It was one of those exasperating voices which, once having been sweet, had now a certain vibrant jar to its tones, painfully akin to shrillness. Halcyon frowned a little, and raised J herself ou one elbow. "Oh, Aunt Hal, don't scream so! 1 was just in such a half-way dream of de light." "Well, you should have answered, then !" ? Aunt Hal came out of the wide, shady hall with an effusive swing of her dra peries, and seated herself in a bamboo chair, close to the head of the ham mock. She was comically like her niece- al least, as like a3 a woman of eight-and-thirty could be like a maid of eighteen. There was the same yellow luxuriance of hair, but harsher, drier and more suggestive of dye; the same pink and white complexion, artifically heightened by liquid pearl aud a carmine saucer; similar features, cruelly sharpened by the inexorable hand of time, and teeth just one degree too white and regular to be real. - - The white tiress she wore was pain fully trying, jxv.d she was compelled to use gold eytt-glasses as she held up a letter to the view of the younger Halcyon. "What has happened?" drowsily de manded the latter, lifting a pair of blui eyes, fringed with dark lashes." "The strangest thing!" "Another otter of marriage?" hazarded Haley on, settling on the unlikeliest thing which could, m her opinion, possibly happen. "How did you guess?" with a little exultant cackle. ' "Exactly. The dear, foolish lad and he so much younger than I! Why, he couldn't have been oue-aud-twenty when he went to Bom bay, aud I was at least thirty then " "Thirty-five, Aunt Hal," said Halcyon, the merciless. "Was it as much as that? Well, he seemed desperately in love then; though, ot course, I never took any notice of the child. But I suppose, in that country of blackamoors, one can't help thinking about all the women one has known at home; and he has written me two or three letters" f "Has he?" I Halcyon sat straight up in the ham mock now. Her blue eyes "shone in tently. The heat had brought a flush to her cheek, whieh all Aunt Hal's caimine saucers could not rival. "But I never told-, you!" giggled the elder beauty. "Because I remembered that there was a sort of boy-and-girl affair between you aud Chartley Blesson, when you were in boarding school, and I thought maybe you would be nettled. And here's the proposal at last with his photograph inclosed!" "Let me see itl" said Halcyon. What a brtve, good face it was slightly older and sterner lined than she had looked upon when the Avancanmn sailed away three years ago, but yet so strong and manly ! She laughed hysterically. -'Shall you accept him!" &id he. Aunt Hal nibbled coquettishly at the tidge of the envelope; the new false teeth gleamed in a smile. "I think I shall!" "And you fourteen years older than he is!" . "People don't, think so much about such things as they used to do," rea soned Miss Hartford, the elder. "Eros is immortal, you know, d(ar." Halcyon sank back into the ha Jimock ant? reopened her book. 1 "You must do ac? you please, of course," said she. "After that quota- tion about Eros, I haven't a suggestion to offer." "Jealous, poor darling!' thought Aunt Hal, with a thrill of exultation. ' But she only said : "Well, of course one can't help those things happening to one, and your time will come soon, dear, never fear. j "It's a good thing," she added to her self, "that she don't kuow anything about dear old Judge Flostroy. There's a difference in age, if you please, and the old pet is so infatuated about me. An old man's darling, or a young man's slave which?" While Halcyon thought, ou her side: 'The silly goose ! He has done it now. He has been making love to Aunt Hal, under the impression that he was courting me. I thought, of course, he knew that lier name was the same as mine. Didn't she stand godmother to nae at.St. . Chrrsoline's. and .yve me a corai-and-bells and an embroidered christening robe? And now he has actually proposed to her! Well, if he is the man I take him to be, he'll stand by his colois, cost him what it may. A man who could walk up to the cannon's mouth at Bey-Idonna surelynvonlf shrink even from Aunt Hal. And I'd ra-rather know that lie was a true hero th-than have a poltroon. for my husband!" And Halcyon turned.her face toward the pillow, and tried great, sparkling tears like dew-drops. "So you're back again, Lieutenant? Beg pardon I'd orter'd said' Colonel, I do suppose," said the -old hack-driver at the station, whom Chartley i Blesson had remembered ever since he 4 was a child. "Well, I declare, I shouldn't ihardly hev knqyved ye! And come backito be mar- - ried, eh?" Blesson bit his lips; butf he laughed carelessly. Jonas Hopper ' was a privi leged individual, like the:court jesters of eld. "How did you know, old ; man?" said he. ' "Oh, Idunno! Miss -Hartford, she's been gettin' ready to be; married, this ong time," said Jonas, -i. hoisting the Colonel's luggage on the -.back? of the waon . 'And .dressmakers and millin ers they will talk, -you know,. though Prr told Miss Hal took great pains tto hide it." . "Did she?" (Aside : "The dJarling!") I "And atiue woman she is, f Colonel,'' officiously added Jouas, as hetpushed in the last iron-clamped trunk. u A very fine woman, considerin' her age. . I only wonder she ain't married before." " Colonel Blesson opened hia sleep black eyes. "Why, who on earth are youtalkinj about, man?" said he. "Whv, Miss Hal Hartford, to-be- sure." . "Miss Halcyon or Miss Halliana?" "There ain't no Miss Halliana," saic Jonas. "They're both the same name-, but we calls the aunt Miss Hal and tht niece Miss Halcyon. My daughter she's lady's-maid there ; and I'd orter know. If any one does." "And which of them is it that is go ing to be married?" breathlessly queried Blesson. "Why, the old 'uu of course Bee pardon!" hurriedly added Jones, "I mean 3Iiss Hal. Polly she tells me there'i four-and-twenty different ' gounds or dered, let alone the jackets and parasol and ten-button kid gloves fjtto mak; your hair stand on end." "And Miss Halcyon the young laity,' cried Blesson "she is engaged too?" . "Not as any one ktows on," saic Jonas. "That al', Coionel? Got your telescope bag.' Then we'd better b movin'." Colonel Blesson pondered seriously all the way up to Hartford Cedars, obliviom of Jonas's incessant streamofytalk Could it be possible? No, that was utte: nonsense! And yet He strained his eyes as they ap proached the house. Surely golden haired Halcyon would be. there, smiling to welcome him ! But no. In her Dlace stood axaiddla aged charmer.well rouged and powdered with hair gleaming meretriciously and teeth just a size too large for th thin-lipped mouth. In one hand she held his love-breathing letter; in the other his photograph. And during that second his heart sant like lead. But he did not know ah, how mucl more difficult would it have been to beai had he done so! that Halcyon Hart ford's eyes were surreptitiously watching him from the honeysuckle-garlandec casement beyond. "Dear Chartley," the elderly damse tv ittered, "you are here at last." He set his teeth, drew one long breath, and allowed her to slip a carressiDg hand through his arm and lead him into the house, muttering some hoarse acknowl edgment of her coquettish smiles. :"I've brought it on myself," h thought. "And I must simply endurt it. The woman isn't to blame no, she is n,ot to blame." "He is a hero," Halcyon thought "yes, a hero." - And then she burst into a passion of tears and ran up stairs to her own room. "But now I've got you fairly here," lisped Aunt Hal,: more determinedly youthful thau ever, "I'm really afraid, dearest Chaitley, that there's a great disappointment in store for you." "Eh?" j The Colonel had sat down in a rathar listless mauter. . Aunt Hal held on tc his hand, still all teeth and smiles. "And I may as well tell you at once," .said she, "that I'm already engaged to) Judge Flostroy, of the Superior Court. Of course, if I had known of your at tachment in time, there's no saying " "Oh, pray don't let me interfere with any existing arrangements!" said Bles son, jumping eagerly up. "Perhaps, under the circumstances, you will let me have my photograph back?" Just then there came a ring at the door below as the maid announced: "Judge Flostroy, miss, if you please!" Before the slow and ponderous stcp9 of the approaching visitor could reach the room, Aunt Hal had thrust the photo graph into Blesson's hand. She had had the little triumph, which was all she wanted. That little case of diamonds from Judge Flostroy had set tled the question. "A-hem-m-m!" sonorously coughed the luminary of the Superior Court. Aunt Hal tripped smilingly forward. "Glad to see you, Judge!" she cooed. "This ismy old playmate, Colonel Blesson, just arrived from India. I dare say, Chartley, you'll find Halcyon some where about the house." "Disposed of in short order," mut tered Colonel Blesson . 4 'Great heavens ! what have I done to deserve such luck as this?" Two hours afterward the young lovers sat in the veranda, watching xhe evening star rise over the hills, while the Judge's aasso profundo voice still rolled in the ;itting room like distant thunder. "But wasn't it a narrow escape i gasped Blesson, holding both Halcyon's hands in his. Would you really have married her, Chartley?" "As a gentleman, Halcyon, there was no outlet of escape for me, under the circumstances." "But would you really have married heri" " Ves, I would!" with sternly-set teeth and knitted brows. r, "Then I'll marry you, Chartley," whispered Halcyon, "because you are a genuine hero. And because," with an arch glance, "I really think you need a vdfe to take charge of. you." y "After the episode of to-day," said Colonel Blesson, "I really think I do.' Saturday 2fijit. To Cut Glass With Scissors. ' One can cut glass with a scissors as ;asily as though it were an autumn leaf, rhe entire secret consists in plunging I ;he pane of glass into. a tub of water, mbnienrine also the hands and the sc:s- i ?ors. The scissors will cut in straight ines without a flaw. This result is ichieved in consequence of the absence 3f vibration. If the least portion of the icissors is left it. of the water, the vi bration will prevent the glass cuttiug. Brathtreet'i makes the statement that "out of 21,000,000 pounds of cotton seed oil produced in 1SS8, 70,000,000 pounds were used in the mixing with lard, and that the competition with this bogus product has reduced the price of pure lard from tea down to fix cents a pound. COUNTRY HO ADS. TH i : I M Pit O V K3I KN TS It U K A Li THUROrcilFARES NEED. Macadam and Telford the Great Sseieutilie Koail builders France' h Fine System The Ancient Ro man Method Modem Need. The most comprehensive system of roadways is that in France aud there, too, lerhaps are found the best roads in the world.- The French Minister of Public Works has harge of all roads, and these are administeied by a special department and a council of which the Minister is President. There is a stall of six hun dred engineers and iuspecthrs and two thousand inferior officials. The depart ment also has a school of roads and biidges for the education of engineers. The roads -are national, departmental, military and vicinal. The national roads are maintained entirely bv the national treasury. There are twenty-rive thou sand miles of these. The vicinal or cross roads are maintained chiefly at th&ost of tie communes, but undera national administration. On these roads there are constantly employed fifty thousand work men and thousand overseers. What a contrast this is to our happy-go-lucky method of working out taxes on the roads ;' Switzerland, too, is famous for excel lent roads which are mainly cantonal, corresponding to State roads here. Oc casionally, however, cantons have united in some difficult work of construction. Of the three greatest Republics of the world the United States is the only coun try which has no decent system of com mon roads. The roads in England and Scotland are, as a rule, very good. They were formerly, however, most wretched. With the exception that our Sctfmmon roads are now supplemented by railways we are to-day where England was two hundred years ago. England met the difficulty by the establishment of turn pikes with tolls, and thirty thousand miles of these roads had been built from 1770 to 1830. The turnpike system doet not seem to be what we want in America, even though with it we might have god Toads. The earliest roads about which any thing definite is known are those of an cient Home. One of the oldest of these, and the most celebrated for the grandeur of its works the Appian Way-Was be gun in 312 B. C. Roman roads are re markable for preserving a straight course from point to point' regardless of ob stacles which, might have been easily avoid. In solidjty 6f construction they have never been excelled, and many of them still 'remain, often forming the foundation for a modern road, aud in some instances constituting the road sur face now used. This allusion to the Roman method of road building has not been made in the hope that it will be imitated in America. There are other aud cheapet methods, which, if employed, would give us all we could desire. These two systems are known as the Telford aud Macadam. The name of Telford is associated with a pitched foundation, which is always desirable for a road that is subject to heavy traffic. It consists of fiat stones set on edge in courses across the road, with the broadest edge downward,- The upper edges should not exceed four indies in breadth to hold the brokeu stone well. All irregularities must be knocked off. arid -smal stones .and chips must be firmly pinncl into the inter stices with a hammer, so as to form a regular convex surlace, wilu every stoua 1 jlrmly fixed iu place. The thickneis of the pitching is generally six or seven inches; it should not be less than four, and it may genet ally be thicker without any sensible increase of cost. At least four inches of brokeu stone are required over the pitched foundation, and when consolidated six inches are always suffi cient. Telford, it will be seen, paid most particular attention to foundations. Macadam, the other great scientific road builder, differed from TVlJrd in regard to foundation. He maintained that if there were good drainage Tel ford insisted upon good drainage, too that the subsoil, however bad, would carry any weight that c ould be placed upon it, if it were made dry by drainage ar.d kept dry by aa impervious covering. Either of these roads answers the pur pose very well, thougiTthe Telford the most cost!.vof the two will unquestion ably last the loaget and better withstand any accidental period of neglect. The came Jlacadaa is isadly iaisf A applied to roads in this country. Any road upn which metal has been placed is uid to have been macadamized! But it will have been seen that Macadam in sisted on perfect drainage of the subsoil and buch a complete consolidation of the stone covering that neither water nor dampness could get through' ie. What we need iu this country is a com- prehensive system of roads such a these. The country people cannot build them. If they had the inclination they have not the means, and even if they happened to have the means they have not the knowl edge and skill required to do uch work properly". '" It takes as much, if not more, skill to locate a common highway than it does to locate a iailw.iv line. A railway line only needs to be accessible at the various stations, and these are usually chosen after the line has leen located With reference, to the general topographical features of the . country. A common highway, however, mut be accessible from every farm on either side for its entire length. It therefore requires en lightened skill to l iy out a lughway,even in the country. The old fashion of fol lowing Indian trails, cow paths or farm lines was hopelessiy bad, but the great majority of our roads were laid out in just such a way. I have my country home in a township which has not a mile of railroad. It has been entirely dependent on it? common roads for nearly two hundred years. The county town is seven miles away from the township village, which is three hun dred feet the higher in altitude. There is a valley which runs from one place to the other. Here one would sav the road would have been placed. Not at all. It w.is built in a winding way over the hills, on the hillsides and across the val leys, so that whichever way one goes it is always either up or down hill. Through the valley the distance would not have' been greater, and the grades would havo been inconsiderable. inuring l'oufunonths of the vear this road is hub deep in mud. During an other four months it is knee deep iii dust. What- has this poorly constructed road cost the four or five generations of farm es who have tilled the soil in this isolated township' - I daie say that if they had had good common roads during the last half cen tury the amount of the mortgages on the farming lands would be very much less than it K liit the saddest thing in this township is to see how they repair the roads. They get out the taxpayers every spring and they plow up the sod on the rordside and pile it in the middle ot the road. Then it is a bad time lor travelers. Fortunately, however, these "road menders" don work very hard, aud the township appropriation for this purpose is soon exhausted. If the money were to hold out t wice as long as it usually dots the roads would be irnpas sible nearly all the year round. There is considerable agitation on the subject of road improvement just now. Many of the States have inaugu rated systems more or less comprehensive. New Jersey has given the counties a kind of local option as to improving the coun try road. In some places, notably in Union County, this has been taken ad vantage of with vury happy results.- But counties which are exclusively agricul tural cannot to this, and they will not doit. The Governor of New York hrt3 reom meuded that the State take up the ques tion of road building and make two io terMicting highways across each county iu the State. General K"yetone rec m- meuds that the National Government take up the matter and assist jtuch State? j as may deke it to build roads properly. He claim th.t this can be done under the clause of the Constitution which cm powers Congress to establish post road. But this i no new matter. Washing ton was an advocate 'of'1etw roads, and he aid iu a letter to Patrick I n s; 17S5i "Our roads shtfald be straightened and established by Wa v.- and the power of county court to niter them should be withdrawn." And from Washington's j time till not the great question has been I more or less alive, but the interest hi I general!? been exhausted io discussion withcu. material benefits to the roads. f-Gw in a time of peace, which prooably will cot soon be broken, it fecetas fitting that the State governmen' should take up tan matter ana deal wun it in a practical and York Herald. businesslike way. A ie Thirteen members of the new United States Senate- sre n;;tsvvi of New York, Ohio come next w:th eight cf her sons in the Senate, while .Pennsylvania 'f.fead Kestwcky lve siz eich.