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ft W ESTABLISHED IN 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY, MAV 30, 1891. NEW SERIES-VOL. X. NO. 32. in 3 "Embracery" is a new terrain English jurisprudence, ine apprenemions ox llim who i3 arrested upon a charge of it ould probably take the direction of the divorce court. In the matter however, lie would be in error; the charge is really one of corrupting a jury. It is a very rare offense, yet, from what appears from a recent case, where . a gentleman got f.ucd S'SOO for it, very easy to commit. You have only to get a juror into a pub lic house, treat him to a glass of ale and remark that the prisoner whoso conduct U nader his consideration "is a good fel low, though lie may have over-stepped the mark a little." The influence of a jury by flattery or other arts is in a learned counsel only cajolery; but in a layman it is "embracery" a much more advanced stage of ingratiation. "Iloodhng," says a dispatch from Washington, is a word which l as been coined m the Postolliee Department. The letter carriers, of tin- country are suspected t.f 4huo'lli'iV:"' 'i'o "hoodie" is to taki more tin; in delivering or collecting lci- tcrs Ihan i- absolutely necessary. The l'i)tma-iter (Jencrai and the Stiperinten (Ic'it nf t he Free Delivery Service have he'd several conferences to consider plans Pr tii- prevention iff "hoodling." The Superintendent says he has investigated ti.ou-'li ('(.'satisfy him that the evil lias .-turned serious proportions. He pro poses to apply drastic meusures to check it. One proposition, after detective w i i k has thinned out the worst offend- ( i :-, is to put trustworthy clerks on routes with the carrie r.-. These "clerks will go -vcr the routes several days, and will ob-f-eive in what time the work can be fairly i'.'-ne.. L'putTthe reports made by the :-rk- the schedules will be arranged for thy e.inier-, and they will be obliged to i.tihere to them. ThoJItatute upon the subject of cruelty t animals, is pretty rigid in Pennsyl vania. . It makes it a misdemeanor for v.y person to "wantonly or cruelly ill :; , oveiload, beat or otherwise abuse any animal." Recently there occurred a pigeon-shoi, ting match by the members of a un e'ul), and one of the members wouu icl, without at the same time kill ing, a pigeon. When this was discov ered the bird was at oiice killed. Soma huin.nie person thought that the law had been violated, and that its penalty should be invoke-1, so its machinery was set in motion and a trial was held, and the ac-cu-e.l was found guilty of cruelty. The cruelty consisted "in wounding instead f in-tar.tly killing'' the pigeoi. The ,i-f was taken to the Supreme Court o the S'.ate, which, observes the 3fail aril J'rjin ., happily took the broader view that birds are "placed here by the Al - mighty for the uo of nun," aja 1 that it was an unavoidable incident, to which this statute did not aooly. Th-. Krcmi-'j jJudt Uu u o.iu ranciseo 1 citent- the scarcity of songbirds in Cal ifornia, so often represented as a paradise en earth. Oregon also complains of the si;ue .vant, and a few public spirited l' iple of that State hae raised a lare mb-icription for Hie" purpose of import ing feathered song-tors.' The li'iUttin h.tlds the much-i'-bused English sparro.v responsible for the disappearance uf the linnet, which, a few vears ago, ws a'.nm hint in all the roit counties. The lliltimore oriole, says the HiVd'ni, is yet to be introduced, and the sanv paper Ms: "The hospitality of the country ought to be extended to everv jrood singing bird. They are .all insectivor ous, paying their way fairly in this nspect. In one or two instances asso-. ciations have be-v.n formed in this State f.'T the importation and naturalization of ringing birds. If such au association a re formed in ever agricultural county, it might not be loug' before Califoriiia m .'mid be as noted for its singing birds a it is now for its wealth of wild flow-t-,v." The importers of the Pacific v -as might try a few mockingbirds tio-n the South, suggests the New Or l".aas rit'tiynnc. They would probably thrive there. But it would be well, be f re any large importations are made, for -jut friends of California to consider seriously with what industry they pro pose to replace their grape aud fruit cul ture. Feathered songsters love fruit h'-tttr than school b ys. It is a failure common to the mockiug bird, thrush, vrioie, robin and the . whole f -imily, and while i; is true that they will eat incct3 t ttl er than starve, they prefer earth wonin, :i!d w!u n they can find grapes, li-' , peaches oi any other choice fruit hey caaiiot be cajoled into eating any-thicgebe, OHE LOVING HEAJRT. What worth is thy wisdom, thy wit, Tliy name on fame's battlements writ? What profit to tiiee are thy ships on the sea f If no lamp for thy coming is lit? When riches have vanished in flame. And friends turn away at thy name; More precious than gold, thy wealth is tuv, toM If oixj loving heart is the same. H. If. Heath, in Jcmrnalist. CRIPPLE JIM. BY WILLIAM r. EROWN. The hour was Jate, but Cripple Jim had hardly slept at all, and now he was fully aroused by hearing his father's voice, somewhat hushed but still heavy, through the thin board partition. "I tell you, boys, it's got to be done to-morrow night!" said the voice. "There'll be nobody there but Wash and his wife and that young preacher. Wasn't it Wash' Magee that sent word to the reveuoos and had our stills broke up? Didn't Wash and his boys run jour son otl to Texas, Jack Hardy, onr chat.:'! of cuttin' Mike Woodscll, which you know was all an accident? Hain't W:ishinto every sort of meanness fust one way and then t'other? I've 'lowed to "Ct eveuwith hijn for a good while, and I say now the time has come." , After this Jini heard a clinking of -tin cups, and lie knew'the men were drink ing. He shivered with fear. They were desperate men, y,ct Huse Turley, their leader, was his ownfathcr. One of the mountain feaids had long divided the Magces and the-Tnrleys. Its influence had extended untiPfriends and relatives had been drawn into it. It had sacrificed life and ruinedjood names; il had made men fugitives, and' women and children homeless. At this period HuseiTurley and "Wash Magee were looked on as the leaders of their factions. A recent affray with the revenue officers and some reckless testi mony at the county court had intensified tin ancient hatred, and occasioned the plotting which was partially overheard by Cripple Jim. "That preacher, Lamb, is some kin to the Magces," said Jack Hardy; "and that 'minds me 't I see your Jim and him together .down by the gap this very day." "My Jim?" Turley brought his. fist heavily down upon the table before them. " 'Long o' that preacher Lamb, was he? I'll whip him if I ketsh him ruunin' arter his father's enemies! But like enough he's adistenin' now ! I'd forgot he was sleepin in yander." Jim had risen to a sitting posture on the bed. He made an agitated move ment, and his crutch, which had been leaning against the bed, fell to th floor. The talk had stopped. Then Jim heard his father rise, open the door .and approach his bedside. A heavy hand was laid upon him, and he was dragged out into the next room. "Were you a-listenin'?" his fathei asked. "I couldn't helphearin', when ye talked so loud," replied Jim. "Had you any idee of tellin' any one whaTy oil" heard jour preacher man, foi instance '." "Why why.no father! I'd skasely thought of that yet " Turley struck the table with impatience as he. noticed Jim's hesitancy. "Sec here, son," he said, "I'm a man of not many, words nor do I chev? 'em over morc'n once.- You've heard, and likely you know something of what we're up to. you cheep a word U any one, I'll find it out mind that! And then .the punishment you'll git from ml you'll never forgit the longest' day you live!" Jim's silence, his very fear of hii father, seemed to exasperate Turley the more. "Why don't you hold up your head?r he roared.' "You look like a son o' mine, don't you?" Jim still did not reply. Then, as the father gazed, the son's infirmity begat to plead for him. Turley saw two largj tears upon the lad's cheeks, and some thing stirred him to remember that this poor boy was, after all, his own son. "Come, now," he said, more gently, "I only .want to warn you what you might expect if you was fool enough to be tattlin'. Get back to bed, and here's a dram to settle your narves." .liuidisrcgarding the cup that was ofirre I him, fixed his eyes appcalingly upon his father. "Father," he said "jou .know. I only wish you weli. Who else have I got to keer for since mother was buried? But I want you to give up this plan. You and Wash have been a-jowerin' fer months, and what good do it do?" "Git to bed, I say !" exclaimed Turlev, his anger rising again. "I must speak, if you strike me!" cried Jim, excitedly. "What good do all this swearing and drinking and fight ing do? Father, don't do this thing!" "What thing? Is the boy crazy?" Turley gazed at the others in pretended surprise. "Why why " Jim hesitated. He had heard nothing definite, yet he felt that some revengful deed was contem plated. "You know what, father!" "Listen-at hirn! He'll be makin' out next that his pop wants to hurt some one. See here, Jim, don't you bother your head. T want to be good to you, if you'll let me, but you mustn't meddle Now git to bed, and when you feel like listenin' agin, wrop up your head in the blanket: hit'll be safest for you." The boy gave his father on haunting look and hobbled away. After that the men conversed in low tones for a while. Then the visitors rose to depart. "Mind now to-morrow about moon rise " That was all Jim heard. It did not still his fears that some wicked thin" was on foot to injure the Magees. Jim's infirmity had left him almost alone since his mother'3 death. He had neither brothers nor sisters, and his father was absent much of the time. Moreover, there was not much in com mon between him and his father. The boy loved him in a dumb, independent way, and th6 father repaid this love with pity rather than with affection. Jim spent much of his time wandering in the mountains. With his one steel pointed crutch he was singularly active, and his solitary life had bred in him an unreasoning love of nature. The next morning after the scene in his cabin, Huse Turley shouldered his long rifle and went away. He had hardly spoken to his son, who, feeling lonely, waudered off-, after he had eaten his mid day meal, into the woods. He' took an out of the way course, fearing that he should meet Mr. Lamb or - seme one of the Magee family. He was tortured by a conflicting sense of desire and. duty. He felt that some one should be warned of what his father and the others were about to do, gind yet what did he know of it! Was" it right to go against his father, or to assume that he was worse than he knew him to be? He was still debating this when the crack of a rifle rang out near by. Then " a gentle-faced, tall young man came ovci the ridge with two squirrel at his belt and a gun on his shoulder. "There," thought Jim, "it'll all come out now ! I came this way on purpose not to meet him, and here he is." "Why, Jim," said Parson. Lamb, pleasantly, "I didn't expect to meet you hsreT' "Neither did I you," replied Jim. They spent some. time together, while Mr. Lamb talked without seeming to care to hunt.auy more; but all the while Jim thought, "Shall I tell him? shaU I tell him?" The young minister found Jim rather absent-minded, and this, perhaps, in clined him to leave the boy. When in had gone, Jim, more distressed and un decided than ever, wandered still further, dreading to go home. Loitering on thus, farther and farther, he found himself al sundown within a mile of Wash Magee's cabin. "How did I get 'way here?" he aaked himself. "Looks like I must have felt 1 ought to come this way, seeing as 1 didn't tell the parson. I'm master tired. Deems iiiv.e i n xiavc iu teat. Instead of making his way homeward, Jim lay down, at a spot whence, in the gathering twilight, he could see through the open door of Magee's cabin. The trail passed just below him. His long mental struggle was growing painful, yet he could not decide what tc do. Meantime the stars appeared, the night wind sighed, and many wierc sounds rose fitfully, adding to his de pression and increasing bis sense of help lessness. "Father'll wonder what has 'come ol me." he thought. "Mavbe he'll think I've gone to let 'em know!" He still waited wearily, fearing now either to return home or to go forward. The moon rose. Jim could soon find hii way but whither? AitrahUeihe.sn?ejyiightwhiteaed the opposite mountains-side, so that tht course of the trail wasj visible. Looking back once, he noticed! a line of dark ob jects crawling aroundla hare shoulder o! white cliff, which hekaew the roac leading from ' his father's- cabin musi cross. Turley and histfriends were i evidently coming, and Jim .understood that theii mysterious threats were soon to be pul in force. Vio&ence of somelkind per haps murder vaa intended! Jim hesitated! no longer but set out iur jiagee s cain. rie naa nearly i mile the start oftthem, and i he had hut a mile to goT. Hisexcitementnvas so great that he did not notice rocks and thickets. He scramblentidowu the glen.and onjward . If , 1 TT 1 1 i along the trail. Inside the ca&un Wash iMagee and hii wife, two smalFgrandchIldreia, and the young preacher.! Lamb, were tsitting bj the fire, when, there came a sharp rap upon the door. Before any one could rise Cripple Jimlhobbledinto the room, his pals face paler than ever, his. bare head wet witu dew, and in his jeyes a strange, eager light. He turned ito tht young preacher. "They're comin'I they've got their guns! I wanted1 to tellfyou to-day, but I couldn't!" Wash seizedihis rifle, and hastilysent his wife and the children to the loft. Mr. Lamb led Jim to the fire. " Soon there was a sound of rapidVfoot steps without ; then the doorwas violent ly burst open, andiin rushed til use Hurley and threetothers, fully armed. In such rencounters no time is lost, and Wash Magee, having his rifle ready in his hands,i would doubtless have fired at once uponiTurley ii the young preach er had not stepped between them, leav ing Jim crouching in the corner. "Stranger," said Turley, "this yerisa family matter. ;If you aretfor Magee, say, the word." "Father!" criediJim, hobblingto the' front and grasping his father's arm. "You here, eh?" said the.fathex. "I'll mind this, boy,when I get you home?" "O father!" 'cried the boy, "have you forgot the man' who nursed you through the small-pox, winter before last, down at the log camps? 'Cause, if you have, I have not. Lookiathira! You shalLnot ,r Turley and his companions had? cov ered the two men in the cabin with their rifles, but now Turley fell back ia step, staring at the youn preacher. "What?" he exclaimed, "it can't be the same and yetiyou favor him mightily-" -J "Jim is right," said Lamb. "I should have, visited you, but I .am. Magee'a cor.sin, and seeing the stat of feeling between you all, I waited to see .what could be done." Turley turned to his companions. 'He's right, boys," said he. "I know him now. If he w.isn't kin to the Ma gees, I'd flght for him anywhere in the world. I reckon I owe him my life, foi he stood bj me when every one else run from me. I can't touch Wash, with him standing by.. So our job's up for to night, boys." The men grumbled, yet seemed to absent. Wash Magee stood silent, watch ing Turley, with his finger upon the trigger of his rifle. Suddenly Cripple Jim sprang ' forward on his crutch. "Father," he said, "now you and Wash must shake hands. XI know ye both-" "Here you are again!" Turley inter rupted, not sorry to find some one on whom to Vent the disappointment he really felt. "Always a-meddlin' !" -He pushed the boy away bo savagely that Jim dropped his crutch, and was taught by Lamb, who whispered in his ear, "Stay with me until your father gets over this." .Turley and his friends were now leav ing, and Jim seized his crutch. "No no," he said, "I must go. I can't leave father! He'll be sorry for this, when he g&s sober for they've been drinking! all of 'em." "But you are worn out. You can't walk so far. You look feverish. "I'll make cut to get home, I reckon." The last the parson saw of him he was nobbling hurriedly down the trail after the others. his son, Cripple Jim did not answer. The father had made the fire. Jim's usual task was to "put on" the break fast. In the night Huse thought he had heard the boy moaning, as if in pain, but half-stupefied himself, he had paid :no attention Jack Hardy was with them, though the other men had gone to their homes. Turley walked over to Jim's bed and shook him, but the lad's arm fell back limp, and. his flesh felt cold and clammy. His eyes were half closed, ad the pupils unnaturally set and staring. The father uttered an exclamation. Was his feeble, derided, sensitive, yet always loving boy, his only child, was he leaving him forever? He felt a sudden horror, as if he had found himself his son's murderer. He sank on his knees beside the bed. "Go," he said to Hardy, "fetch som one here! Jim's taken bad. Don't stand there ! Don't you see my poor boy is a dyinT' The man left the cabin at a run. Turley raised the boy in his arms, and rocked him to and fro. He had never realized the strong ties of nature until now now when to feel them was agony. Minutes that seemed hours passed be fore Hardy returned with two men, Parson Lamb and Wash Magee. "They was the fust 1 seed," Hardy said, apologetically, to Huse, who looked at them cntreatingly. There was no enmity in his heart then against any liv ing man. "Can you do suthin' for him?" he asked, as Mr. Lamb felt the lad's pulse and carefully examined him. "He has had a congestive' chill, I think," said Lamb. "It was probably brought on by over-exertion and expo sure. They are dangerons, but not al ways fatal." Then he busied himself like one who knew what he was about, while the father watched him as if life hung upon his every movement. Magee surveyed his old enemy with softening features. At last Jim's breathing grew regular, his lips lost their purplish hue, his skin grew warmer and his eyes opened. When he saw, not only his father, but Magee bending over him, he smiled feebly and made a motion as if to join their hands. Turley looked puzzled at first; then, seeing Jim's meaning, com pressed his lips an'l held out his hand. "Wash," he said, "I've only ju9t found out what it is to have a son, by seein' what it might be to lose one. Jim wants us to be frieas, and what he says now, I say, too. If that aint enough I'll ast your pardon eh, Jim? and if that aint enough, I might make out to git Xilum down on my knees eh, Jim?" Here Wash struck his large hand into Turley 's. "Don't say any more," he exclaimed. "We haint been neighhorin' for a good bit, Huse, but it won't be my fault il we don't in futur'." After this, .Huse turned td his son tor his approval. "There, Jim,'.' he said, ""me and Wash have shook hands. Uut if there's any thing more a bearin' on your mind, your poor pop '11 get down on his all fours yet, but what you shall be satisfied." Thus, while Cripple Jim hovered be tween life and death, peace was made. Perhaps he was spired in order that his presence might soothe the after irrita tions that would occasionally rise. 4 'I don't begr.ide anybody any thin' now," said Huse, long afterward, "ami I'd as soon fiht a cirkvlar saw as to raise a disturbance with that thar boy a settin by. Therefore, me and Wash Etays friendly but it's mostly owin' to Jim.' Youth"1 Companion. A Curitslty in Rugs. A curiosity 'which connoisseura in rugs, and New York is a rug -loving city, are greatly interested in, is the old fashioned "mosaic" or hand woven rug say two by three or four feet, or even three by five the front of "which is of velvet, the back of wilton. designs on them are generally hunting scenes or spirited figures cf some other'kind, and were done by some artist of merit and executed with great pains and labor, patiently, by handwork. A very small rug of this kind in the possession of a famous downtown dealer represents the Queen of the Amazon riding into a den of wild beasts. The figures are drawn with scrupulous accuracy and the colors are blended in the velvet with a delicacy of detail and a charrningffect which are ( beyond, it is said, the hurried handwork of the present day. The price of such mosaics as this is $40 or50 each. Saa York WorU. A Chinese capita!lf, un'Jcr the con cession of lands free of rent, is makicj: arrangements to colosize lands on the Isthmus of Tehuanteptc with CListe agriculturists. Suicidal Tendeacles. Besides imitation the are other social iuuuences 'which lead to suicide, but the tn:-t powerful is thst wh:ch we denoto lv the gcaeral term, civilization. Self killing is emphatically the crime of in teUccluai people. Almost unknown to ravage, rare among Mohamracdans, it ra.s among the nations most advanced in. cutturc and refinement 'with a fierce-; iu ss exactly proportioned to their mental -. development. It is faid that Home knew iiv.tl.inj of this curse till after the estab lish innt of the empire. It waa when the Human legioivs had carried their eagles triumphantly through the world j and bi ought back tho means of luxury in the sj oils ot Europe, Asia, and Africa, that, life ia the Eternal City began to b "weary," stale, flat and unprofitable. To-day the Germans, who arc thepro fuundest thinkers and the most cultivated people, are also the racst suicidal race in Europe. France comes next, England thir l, Italy Tmd Hungary fourth'hde, on (he other hand, Spain, the most back ward of European uations in culture, Ireland, Portugal, Corsica, and Dalmatia, rank lowest in the suicidal scale. Of . the different regions of the same country the north aud uortluast of France out rank in culture aud in suicide the centre and southwest; the north and centre of Itiay outrank the south and the islands; and Saxony, which in its schools and general cuituje surpasses the rest of Ger many, hurpai.ses it also in the number of its su:eiu;v. In short, so universally doea the rule hold that the F.trength of the tendency to self-killing may almost bo .regarded a a.i index to a people's civili zition. Xoi th American Iietietc. Concerning Cremation. "The reason that so many persons are being cremated is because they are - ifmifl nf lioitiT luirtofl liun cowl an undertaker. "But I don't think cremation is a good thing. The bodies ought to be planted in the earth in order to purify it and to enrich' it. Thut is the natural end of the body. Now if they get to burning bodies up and distributing the gasses in the air it may have a very bad effect on the atmosphere. I mean if they get to burning lots of them up. 1 drVl't. m f'.'i M llmt ttir cmill iron in .. ... - . - u .... u . . l.ajr .CJI n Ulv'U it is done now is any harm, but if it gets to be the regular tiling it would be bad. People who are cremated only ask to have it done for some" such cause as tho fear of being alive. I have had th relatives of dead persons ask me all about how the Lody decayed and what kind of worms ate it up. one old lady, whoso husband died, ackcd me if I couldn't put something in the coffin -so that the worms ; con t get at her husband'i body. I told her I would try to fix it and she was perfectly Fatisfid.' "I buried a m:i once," continued the undertaker, "that we Lad a queer ex perience with. lUi face wag shaved when the bod was laid out for burial, but the funeral did not occur for several days and we had to fhave hirn again o that he would look as usual."---Chicago Ikrahl. Antiers Imbedded in Oak. A co cpir of weekvago Mr. Van Man, a fanner near Z-na, in Polk County, was cngagf-d ia cutting con i wood on his place. He chopped down an oak tree of about three fett in diameter at the butt, and after pawing it into the proper lengths proceeded to split it iu the usual manner. In the faction about five feet from the ground he struck hi axe into what he supposed was a bunch of knots, but as the chips immediately crumbled he mad closer examination and discov ered a great curiosityone that will put the Eugene leirifiei dwarf away down in the lower c!av of rauH-um specimens. The curiosity consi-u of the right side of a pair of deer horns imbedded into the very heart of the uak tree. There ye evidences, that it had five prongs, and from the growth "rinj.V of Hit tree has ten in that position for at least a cen :ry and a half. The tree is thought to be at least tfO'i vear old. How the horns got there u a q-K-ry, hut different conjectures are numerous. One is that "tire drupe l who nrsi possessed them rni?h hi,Te l'en scratching his hc&d i -'a,nt I(J and jus, at that particu- j UT t:mc beti the?n where they remained ' am! redrawn into the embrace of the ! c shrub. Sifep(0?;oa) Statesman. It cifti-l;-500.X)0 a yfar to maintain the ftmnuiici; asylums of France. They hav the capacity for supporting '7,TKK) children, and it is said that lait yearalcse 25,000 children wer abandoned by their parents ia the Republic -
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