North Carolina Newspapers

; - - n It If I I II I II 111 II II I Si I Ay WW w jspxy vy v Ay JJy ESTABLISHED IN 1818. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1891. NEW SERIES-VOL. X. NO. 33. II I II I demand of a Montreal French f.madiau editor for thfj removal of the Nelson Monument from the French quar-t-f to a neighborhood occupied by the EriL'lUh is striking testimony to the truth tb.it there are still two nation alities iu Canada that will not meet' and mingle. Cuba, it is said, seerns destined to sup plant Bermuda an the. t.uck garden for this country. Her potatoes and onions hive already taken precelonce over those of Bermuda, and now her tomatoes are taking first prize. This market garden ing in Cuba is being largely directed from New York. An interesting incident iu connection with Presdent Harrison's visit to Atlantt was his meeting with Mr. George Cook, a courtly, elderly gentleman, and a well known pi. no manufacturer of Boston. The grandfather of Mr. Cook was the Captain Cook who saved the life of Gen eral William Henry Harrison from the Indians at the battle of Tippecanoe. Mr. Cook and Mrs: 'Cook had been spending a lew days with Governor Bullock, and on invitation of Mayor Hemphill went up the road 'to m'ct the President. The m-eting of the tw grayhaircd grandsons wa-; very cordial, and they enjoyed a -!ea ant h at, during the rile into the city. .l.e Siiakesjx-ire, the M lyor of New Orleans, was asked whether he knew how he came by his .surname. "Oh," raid lie, "you think, perhaps I claim -d.-scent from the Bird of" Avon. Well, I'm an American, and you know what A m-a ;c. in- are after. I never heard that L 1 !, V. l!.,r. t ,." Bird of Avon left auvthinir but a --o 1 took no interest iu his family. Ii ) had h-l't money it would bi differ c '." As .t inut'er of fact Shakespeare !'.! !. ave an estate that w.ii reckoned in u rime. i ne new hua'cespearc ,, Orleans is a native of Cue neicrh- ,f N-. 1 t i -I i!iituore, wnera Jus ances f armors. He i a rich iron fa: nli h iroing to make a push for the r tton :,,.uket in China. The largest cotton . fi.t tries in Canada and the :;cr- arc controlled by the Dominion Mi! I Association, and until re- tlitir business has languished, teit cotton mills at Halifax were "'-vn for a long" time, they in com- Tic in-:i with others having been built when ti e boom that followed the National party's triumph in lS78w'as in full force. her mills have run on short hours, and mdudry has languished simply be i - the phut was too big for the mar Now it is announced that the hew leiers ..f the Canadian Pacific line !! be used to convey Canadian made !ii to China. As the steamers get a 1 :-ly from the Government, and the "V- r.unent gets a subsidy from the m r. ji.n -turns, the Canadian cotton ymi -rs are highly favored people. They. : :re confident that China will be a good Kivr'.ct for their cotton, and probably i ': on e portatioL s stimulating price !; fa i .-la. At all events it is said that c.u:;y i.f the long idle mills will be kept I this vear. file must remarkable .annmalv in thia Citry. believes the Ncw'York Post, is 1 . ;r,i,'. aint of able-bodied men in the that they cannot get any chance to t.. , l :.;( c -a -'' ' 1 .. ; .1.:- W!:.i " :- t 'ue .same time that the farmers 'iia tl. ,t they cannot get men at ! v-a,' s to do the work that needs to ia the country. The agricultural r of the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, is a man of w ide acquaintance and Jdcnl opportunities for knowing the f.tcLs, says on this poiut: "I hear com i '. cut from farmers all over New Eng - c; 1 of the .scarcity of farm help this tiring. It is said that many farmers have to curtail their plantings ou t' i-Mccoun:, and yet the papers? from t . ' l.'rger cities tell us of the great uum U: of poor men unable to obtain work, i.-reis something wrong son.cwhere, 'v-' a men crowd the cities and almost Vi' for the want of work, while we of C'.antry are anxious to give them a -.f and good wages in exchange for -".-'.work. From personal knowledge 1 k 'JdO good men could at once find e::;i'-oyinent on farms righthere ia Ilart- lounty at from lt to $25 per -ith aa,i board." There is, indeed, c -:;,.:u-;..-s the W, something wrong in s'i h a situation, but who cjiii riidit it I.: ' -s men had rather half starve ia v "tk than g. t a month an-1 r I a Hartford County farm? 1 c . Desire tot ihon too greatly, for. like fire Destroying what it enfold, go is desire. Success that was his thought, his hope, hh aim. Afield or hensed, nooc. midnight, dusk or dawn. That dazzling image his heart dwelt upon. For, if he slept, Imagination's flame Burnt like a steady torch, lighting the same Determined path which way his soul had gone A And if h; waked, the dream, still unwith drawn, - Remained, unchanged, his conscious force to claim. At last 'twas hi. An airy figure brought, Light-balanced on soft finger-tips, a sphere Of line-wrought gold. But his trained hands forgot Their skill for one brief instant, in the fear To io? the gift. Too eagerly they caught This flittering ball, which crumbled into naught. ' So strength may win what it may fail to keep! l lits world's gifts vary only in degree. They are but air sphered in the thinnest 'old- Tlie bubbles must bo jostled tenderly. --'lohrrt Jiurn.t Wilson, in Harper's, Eabv Versus Husband. KY MATTIE DYER BRITTS. "Hello, Kate?" "Yes!" answered a voice above stairs, as Charley Grant called from the cosy little hall below. "Come down here! I've got some thing to tell you!" Charley's handsome face was bright enough to tell anybody that his news pleased him greatly, as he stood waiting for his wife to come-down. And why not, since his pretty coinin, Jessie Kingsbury, had come at one time very near filling the place which Kate had now? But Kate tfas as sweet and pretty as ever Jess had been at least, she used to be, before Baby Johnnie came and and well, Kate appeared at the instant, and even Charley could not call her pretty, now. Her golden hair was all bunched up and tucked back with an ugly comb, her wrapper unbelted, no collar on, and her small feet thrust into clumsy old slippers. Charley's friends used to say he was a perfect fiend on the subject of untidy women, and he couldn't . help a shade crossing his face as he remembered how trim and nice Kate was when they were first married. But the shade passed as swiftly as it came, and lie stooped to give her the usual kiss, as he paid: "Busy, to-day?" "Yes. Hush, Charley! Don't speak so loud, you'll wake the baby!" "Oh, bother the baby! He's always going to sleep or waking up. or doing something to make life miserable for other folks!" 'Why, Charles Grant! Aren't you ashamed to say that of your own blessed little sou?" And Kate's eyes began to fill, while her cheeks reddened. Charley hastened to'aindo his mischief by saying, tenderly: 'Now, there! You know I was only joking, dear! He's the finest baby ever lived, no doubt! Isn't supper ready? I'm as hungry as a huuter!" "Yes, it is waiting. I'll ring it up at once. What was it you wanted to tell me, Charley?" 'There!. Bless my soul, if I hadn't forgotten! Who do vou think is here?" f'I couldn't guess, so I won't try. Tell mei'" "Cousin Jessie Kingsbury! She is over at Brother John's now. Came to a. "Did she?" There was no very intense interest iu Kate's tone, for she was not over glad to hear of the young lady's arrival. Guests were troublesome, but she felt obliged to say, as Charley waited: "Will we have to invite. her here?" "Why, of course, Kate! We'll dc cur part of the entertaining, with Stella and John. We must call to-morrow and set a time for her to come to us. She will stay a month or twd. Jess is so lively, we can't be dull while she is here." Kate wa3 just conscious of a queer twinge at Charley's words, but she led the way to the table, and poured the tea with her usual pleasant manner. "There! I forgot something else, too," cried Charley, suddenly clapping his hand on his pocket. "I've got a treat for us to-night." "What is it?" asked Kate. Charley took two small squares of GOLDEN BUBBLES. pasteboard from fcis pockettand iheld them up to her. "What are they?'saidshe. -'Theatre tickets?" "Ye3. Faust,' byyi. spletadid. com pany. I knew you always' wanted to Ibear Faust,' so I got 'em fron t purpose for you." Charley looked pleased, but Kate's fair face clouded, as sheian-wered : Well, I am sorry jou spent the j money. I can't go." "Can't go! Why injthe worlds can't you, then? You are so fond of t good opera. I thought this would be a real treat. "3o it would', i Charley A if.T could leave the baby." . "But I thought youthad a good. girl?" "Well, I have a perfect treasure." "Well, don't you think she t might manage to rock the baby for two hours on one occasion ?" jukedi Chariey, seri ously. "Ob, but Charley, he might be taken sick or something." "Yes, the house might burn down; but I don't think it will," returned Charley, more shortly than ho often spoke to Kate. "I'm very sorry you won't go," he added, as he rose from the table, his appetite quite spoiled. "It is adisappointment to me." "Why, you can go, I'msure, Charley. I shall not care at all." "No; I'll stay with you, and wecan have our own music- I have not heard you sing for a ntonth." Kate hesitated . a moment, then ehe said: "But, Charley, I: must stay up in the nursery. I never trust Johnnie to-Sarah of evenings." ' Charley frowned,! stood irresolute an instant, and said; "Oh, well, then, j, I don't see why: I shouldn't get some f pleasure, if I can. I'll just drop over to John's and see if they are going. As Fhave two tickets, if Jess cares to go we might all make a party of it." "Yes, certainly; go, Charley. I don't want, you to stay. at home because I have to." "You know I had rather be with you, my dear. But it's dull work sitting down stairs alone all evening."- Then Charley kissed dier, put on his overcoat and went away. But after he was gone Kate began to be conscious of a lonely, uneasy feeling, and to wish she had gone, too. Of course, Charley was as loyal and true-hearted as a man could be. But,-to think of him sitting beside that dashing, black-eyed Jess all the evening and showing her all the little at tentions which he knew so well how to give a woman ; it worried her, somehow, and she could not help it. She was not jealous. Oh, no! She had told him to go and really hoped he would en joy it. But but -she did wish she had left Johnnie to Sarah for ono evening and made one of that opera-party with the rest. As for Charley, as he walked rapidly over to his brother's he wondered if he wasn't a precious rascal for wishing that blessed baby had never come into his house. To be; sure,-: it was a bright little thing, sweet and cute, and he would have loved it dearly and been very proud of it (as ho was, after all, if he had only known it), but since it ar rived, Kate had been no companion at all for him. She was everlastingly up in that nursery, and she neglected her dress and her hair, and never read or sang to him or went out with him, and he was feeling the change sadly. "Of course, it-is right to be a devoted mother," he said to himself ; "but I do wish the mother had not so entirely dis placed the wife. It's hard oar a fellow, and I don't like it. I don't wonder men get tired of their wives, if they all do the same way." Just then Charley ran against a passer- by, and as he glanced- up to apologize, saw his brother. "Ah, John!" wa3 his greeting. "I'm just on my way to your house." "Well, I'm on my way to yours," re plied John, laughingly. "We want you and Kate to go with us to hear 'Faust' to-night." "No use to go cn," returned Charley, "I have been tr ring to induce Kate to - ' i go but she wo j't." e "She won't? Why not?" j "She can't leave that precious young- ' ster. I got her a ticket, but it was no j go. So I was coming over to say if you ' want to hear the opera, my tickets are at ; your service." J "Nut unless you go with us,- Charley, j Of course, you will, though. And Jess can use one of your tickets." "Why, I hardly know about going my self, John. I don't like to leave Kate at home alone, you know." "Nonsense! It is her own fault. Come, I won't hear a word more. For ward, march! It's time to be off." Charley submitted, feeling a little re proached, for, though he had set out with the intention of going to the play, when he took a second thought, he did not care to go without Kate. But Miss Jessie was very willing to be escorted by her handsome cousin. Kate had gone to bed before he got home, and he would not disturb ber. Br't ut breakfast next morning he told her what a grand time they had enjoyed. "Ye-es? I am very glad, Charley," said Kat?, rather faintly. "Oh, yes. We only missed youdear. But Jess is so lively, one couldn't help having a good time with her. By the way, Kate, she says, as you' are so busy with the baby, she will not stand on cere mony and wait for you to call on her. She is coming over with Stella" to-day. j know. If you" can't spare time to enter tain her, why, I can." A sudden feelingfwbich she could not explain, fired; Kate's heart, and made lier say, with some spirit: "I shall do my part, of course, Char ley." ' "That's a good girl!" he returned, in tones of real pleasure. "I knew you would if if that wretched " "Charles Grant!" "Oh, excuse me that precious baby did not absorb all your time. Then you'll invite her to stay when they call?" "Yes." "You're a darling! Wish I could be here, too. But you can make them stay to dinner. Good-bye!" A kiss, and he was off. "Oh, yes! She'll stay, fast enough!" sighed Kate, as she went Gpstairs. "But what 1 wish is that people would just stay at home as I do. However, as Mis Jess has no husband and baby to keep her at home, it is to be expected that she will go anywhere where she can find amusement." And then Miss Kate nodded her head, and her eyes had an unusual sparkle in them, as if she had suddenly come to some resolution which she was deter mined to carry out. Kate flew around in her nursery that morning with a will; and before her callers could possibly be expected she had taken of! her untidy wrapper, curled her hair and made herself as pretty as she could. : If she took a bit of a cry while she held the curling-iron, it might have been because that small instrument of torture was too hot. - They came, and it seemed to Kate that Jess looked slightly surprised at her ap pearance. "Why, they told me you had grown q-.iitc domestic, dear! Given up society, f.nd all that!" the young lady cried, Httliiv? her silken plumage in Kate's cqsiest chair. "But I declare, you Ipok. as fresh and blooming as ever! I am' quite vexed with Charley." j "I hope you enjoyed the opera, last j night?" ofeseived Kate, rather coolly, not replying to her words. . "Oh, yes, indeed! It seemed like old times to be with Charley again. Oh, by the way, did he tell you he was going to take me out riding this afternoon?" she rattled on. "I told him he ought to take you, but he said you wouldn't go.". "Not to-day. Some other time, with pleasure," answered Kate. But her usual "I couldn't leave the babv" was not spoken, and Stella stared a little, and then smiled and nodded her head, as if she had sui4?nry chanced upon ft bright idea. Kate gave the invitation Charley had j ""suggested, but the visitors declined to i to remain to dinner that day. Miss j Jessie promised to come ia a few day3 and spend a week or two with them. kt noon, instead of Charley, came the office-boy, bringing a little note, to say L that she need not wait, for he would not come to dinner. Had an engagement ! for the afternoon, but would come nome :: early to supper. "An engagement? Yes; to ride with' his cousin'" said Kate, to herself with a ! smile. "Ail right, Mr. Charley! The . . i next time, I rather think I wiil be of the party." She was very buy that afternoon. But when Charley came up at tea-time, it was the old Kate who met him da the hall, with fluffy hair and faultless dress, as he had not seen her for months, "Why, Kit'." he cried, his handsoi U?.. i! a-d-.-.v. JHas auv ose come! AJ ! you g.jing out 1 "Yes, I thought if you cared to go, we wo!d ma 'round to Stella's awhile, this evening," she answered, putting her hand on which her diamond ring again shone on his broad shoulder. ."But, the baby?" askel Char!ey, doubtingly. "Sarah can do very well with the baby," said Kate, '.hough her cheeks red dened under his glance. "Sarah? Why, Katie, what does it all mean? Is it possible " "Yes, it. is quite possible that I am not going to neglect you any more Char ley, my dear' she interrupted, blushing redder. "Hallelujah!" And Charley caught her to him in a swift embrace. "Kate, I'm the happiest fellow in town just this minute!" "Then I shall take care to keep you so, "-said Kate. "Come to supner, sillv boy." . She kept her word. The l.djer. Curious Freaks of Razors. The finest grades of razors are so deli eate that even the famous Damascu sword blades cannot equal them in tex ture. It is not generally known that the grain of a Swedish razor is so seusative that i.ts general direction is changed aftei a short service. When you 'buy a fine razor the grain runs from the upper end of the outer point in a diagonal direc tion towareljhe handle. Constant strap ping will twist the steel uutil the grain appears to be straight up and down, Subsequent use will drag the grain out warel to the edge, so that after steady use for several months the fibre of the steel occupies a position exactly the re verse of that which it did on the day of purchase. The process also affects the temper of the blade, and when the grain seta from the lower outer point toward the back, you have a razor which cannot be kept in condition, even by the most conscientious barber. But here's an other curious freak that will take place in the same tool : Leave the razor alone for a month or two, and when you take it up you will find that the grain ha3 as sumed its first position." The operation can be repeated until the steel is worn through to the back. ManuucLureri GazttU. The Russians Are Natural Fighters. "It may be worth while, now that there is so -much talk about Russia's preparations for war," said the Army of ficer, "to recall the fact that Russians are natural fighters. Do you recall the war stories whicli appeared awhile ago in one of our magazines Here the discipline of the Czar's army and the love for fighting were shown in most convincing ways. In the paper on the Russian Army the story was rctokl of an order given to Russian regiments to take some hills thru iu the possession of the enemy. The regiments started with a rush, and thrice the order for retreat was given. But by some mis understanding one regiment failed to re ceive the orders. When it was learned that this regiment was missing the whole Russian army received orders to advance and to take the heights. The army went up the hill, was driven back and went up again. It went up time after time and was thrown back into the plain below. If fought all night, trying to take tho heights. When the sun rose the next morning it was discovered that the one missing regiment had taken the heights, licked its own army on the one side and the enemy on the other. "That's the Russian idea of fighting." "This same war article," the speaker " V . , 1 fr'J';,(W,00'. No less than t;c-vea when thev were making a forced march , , . - v. . . , ... " j cables are souse 1 i?i .North Atlantic brine, atmght. There were in contusion, but , ,, , - , . , .... , , . , , , , - j ari1 ad laid s:nef lbt'J, the U.ta! length they stood still and allowed themselves , . , , ,- , , ., , , , of cables, including covit connections, to be shot down until they could form.!, - , i J ' being more than iade. . . " . . ' " The first man of the first company fired and his company formed, each man find ing his position by the flash of the pre ceding man's rifle. The first company once in line, the second formed in the same way, and so the whole army by the flafeh of gunpowder ia the blackness ot night found its position. When daylight r -3 , . . etretehed across the plain in a line as true - v 1 . a natural soldier and the discipline which j he undergoes Inake s him a superb fight er." JNVw York Tr&unc. Upper Bunnah until recently was ail independent kingdom, governed bv King Theebaw, a despotic monarch, bu't early i in the King was deposed and en- j sione-1 and the cuatrv annexed to the ' Indian Empire, being placed under tho J Chief Cmmi5ion of Lower Burmah. Exclusive Sanctums. By long oadsthe most exclusive places in New York, writes a correspondent of the St. Louis .Vu?.if arc the big news piper fSce?. It takes as much red tape to get into the anctuai of a managing editor, a city editor, or eve a-into the general repoitorial room as it would to secure an audience with Queen Victoria or the German Kaiser. Ia the West, where politicians are in thr habit of ap propriating all the easy chairs in an edi torial sanctum on election nigflt, ant! at other times when events of importanco are on an effort to isolate writers for the press would probably precipitate a riot almost. Not so here. New Yorkern know more of the value of time than any other p?ople on earth, and they recogniw the individual's right to regulate his hours and his visiting list. The New York Tivits is a fair sample- of all metro politan 'newspaper 'offices,, ami as my duties take me to the innermost recesses of its sanctuary every day I have studied its ramifications with much interest, an interest piqued by contrast with what I have been iwd to further west. The editor.al rooms are m the eleventh floor, and axe reached by fast-runujng elevators. On leaving the elevators you cross a cor ridor and enter an anteroom winch is bare with the exception of a desk liber- ' ally supplied with paper and a table of printed instructions. You are first told not to send in your card unless you havo business, and then-you are informed that your business must mot be of a personal nature. In this connection it is not out of place to remark that the friends of members of the staff must visit them at their homes or their clubs, for under no circumstances arc friendly calls tolerated. If you be not discouraged by the frig idity of your mute reception in the ante room, you tap on a glass window about a foot square, which is opened by a well elresscd, clean-looking youug man, who always strikes me :us being a direct tle scendantof that King who "never smiled again" after "the bark that held tho Prince went down." He eyes you sua- piciously, and you tell him whom you want to see. He invariably tells you he doesn't know whether the gentleman is in or not, but volunteers to investigate. You give him your card and he tllsap pears. In a moment he reappears, and either unlocks the door and invites you to enter, or, as is more often the case, observes laconically, "Not in," shutting the portal aud shutting you out simul taneously. This office is in this respect an exact duplicate of all the other office in town except the World, where you end your car.l from the first floor through a pneumatic tube. If a favora ble reply is .received you are kindly al lowed to ride up in the elevator. And yet, notwithstanding this apparent aiw terity, there is not a more eompauionablo set of men in Gotham than the newspaper crowd when one meets them at a banquet in a club house, or even in their offices' they are affable, courteous and interest ing; but this is always their busy day. Submarine Telegraphy. The submarine telegraph system of the world is one- of the wonders of modern achievements, It holds the globe in a network ef rabies, h;i 1 h is made it? ro-inote-t distance responsive to the influ ences of civilization. There are no lefts than 120, 07u nautical miles of cable soaking to- biy in salt water an 1 trans mitting intelligence under the hcliiei of ocean fishes." Government administra tions own 12,521 miles, white 107,546 ure- the property f private companies. : I he CO--1 of thee cildes approximates Toe Kxsieru Tc-.-'rafth CViifar-iV coren the ground fr m KaIua-l f India, and comprise- 21,S'l mile ''. cable, to which is an Kt'stern ?x!e:,iio:i thai exploits 12, 05 S miles more. West Africaa cables hive been laid from Caliz to Cape Town, and the Dark Continent b ia telegraphic touch with the centers of civilization. ! x , , jNo less than 17,00'J r miles oi cabie were necevarT to make tfc; connection that - ," , . , ... : gives the tra-ier in Afr.ca a daily notice of the markets of th-. world and keeps the i colonists cn trie Or-i,i2 I;Ter nostea on , ine events fransp.r;ug aloig the Gangej, I the Thames and the Misumppi. The beaefiu of . tnis world encircling xxnol be .-aUy overrated, and i: h magnificent tribute to the service, d trope oi ei-tric acieuce. Sin Fcanrun Fuintr. .. l George Hiucruft'b estaU is now valued at J'COO.OOO.