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4f ESTABLISHED IN 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY JUNE 13, 1891. NEW SERIES--VOL. X. NO. 'M 1 1 j in in y i , . j,at Granny, ponn., boasts or support ing the smallest school in the Union. The Cooper Hill district has only two children of school age. One of them be ingn stout boy, stays at home- this term to help on the farm, leaving only one to attend school. The New York Pre notes that femin ine education int making rapid strides '-in Franco. Higher examinations were not furrnei iv r n to women, Imt the new uaiver.div lor women which wa? started, a veal or tw-i ago '.4 becoming a very b',ijf.'il'-'i,il in-t itul ion , miking it possible in? V. , 'ji":i to ic'.i in big V:f c hi -(-. One of Superintendent Porter' census bulletins "compares the expense of cable, electric and animal motive power lor street rai!ways, fur lifty lines. On Cable roads th" tjf-ratiii expenses of a car per mile wen: 1 1. 1 - rents'; electric roads wi re run at an outlay of l.''.2l cents a car per mile, while the exp use of ani mal po',vervas IS. J a ear p"r mile. European scientists are watching with interest the earthquake phenomena of the year. Tin: month of April witnessed two important earthquakes, the first having de-droye 1 the hamlet of Ad.il Dycvas, in the district of Van, Armenia, and the second1 having wrought much destruction in the Austrian province .of Styria. It is believed that the subter ranean wave is moving westward. Tii secret of New Mexico's rapid growth from desert tracts to fertile plains i ; explained by the statement that; there ue over (J irrigated farms to be f'-imd in it. There abundance of viler in the Territory, and the only dif !". "i!ty is how to direct it where it is la , i needed. The problem appeared .ii:!i ult of solution a few years ago, but 'in-; to have well-nigh succumbed 1 1 v to ingenuity and enterprise." A Xew York horse-life insuranco capany, insuring only sound and gen erally young animals worth between $100 iml $100 each, reports that of 704 hor3es lying within the last five years 1S3 died A colic, seventy-seven of inflammation : the bowels, seventy-four of kidney '.rouble, Hfty-one of pneumonia, fifty-two :f sunstroke, thirty of pinkeye, ten of heart disease, four of blind staggers, nine killed by runaways, four wore Urowned, two were killed by lightning, 12S died f unknown diseases, and eight were burned. . According to a writer in tb.3 Nation, lumbers of the Mafia, the-Italian secret ? n iety, have a playful manner of indi cating to the frieuds of one of their vic- tims the wherefore of his removal. If Ic iris overheard the secrets of the so ciety, hi ears are cut oil; if ho has seen nf'je than it is sato for one man to see, t!u skin tof his forehead is flayed and turned down over his eyes; or if he has injured one of the Mafiosi, a hand is cut n;T. These mutilations do not hurt tho victim, who is dead before they aro in- lli'Mcd, but they convey a lesson that is 'Mo:u lost on his surviving relatives. vThe Australian farmer is eagerly cn j-'Med in turning his attention to tht cultivation of cotton, and every assist ;c ci' is being giveu him by the Colonial authorities. Immense quantities of ex- -'it cotton also grow wild in Africa, h-. I the opening up of that coatinent to Jr.i le nnv result in tho extension of its cultivation and export, placing it, iathe f'piaion of the American Affrieulturwty in formidable rivalrv with both India and America. The cotton plant,' moreover, i indigenous in many of the islands in t ic Pacific, where it produces a splendid staple. The trees attain a height of ten ft -A, and the bolls arc as large as a tur key's egg. There pre to-day, according to tho N'v v York 'mi, over 1,000,003 men in Unitad Stales who are out of em ployment'.' And Buffalo Truth perti. r.e:stly asks: "Will you kindly think of it for a moment? Realize what it means I 'hit of work,' don't know where the next meal for themselves and their families is riming from. "Why is this? The world not completed yet! Equa'.ly surely there must be work for willing hands to Is there no one in want of some-t-ri which labor, applied to the earth, 1 true source of all wealth, CDuld sup I'1"' There is there must be. We, in l'-e circumstances, do not hesitate to say -'.t a moment's consideration will show u;ere is something rotter -some- "- more than Vi'Ltrc is it;" wrong somewhere. MORNING. 1 feel that every dewdfop ha3 a tone And sins for ears more sensitive than mine, "While all the Cowers their modest heads incline, And list in fragrant reverence. Alone And mute I stand before the Morning's throne. The bird have speech, the breeze, the rhythmic pine." Each brings its offering glad unto the shrine Of the fair one, and only I bring none. Yet, as I feel her breath upon my cheek. And know there are sweet sounds I cannot bear, And languages I kuow not how to speak, Around ine in the dreamy atmosphere. For what I've not I neither ask nor seek. And what I have teems every morn more dear Mary A. Mason, in Youth's Companion. Joe Dobbs's Random Shot. The scene, a box canon in Southern Arizona, was lonely enough. The rocky walls shut out Hhc morning sun rays, and the only trees dn sight were sombre ever--greens and thickets of chaparal. , The iispeet of the rugged landscape was sug gestive of thfr jirimitive inhabitants, the Apache' Indian and. the grizzly bear. . Vet in this secluded spot there were m'cjus of human life and activity in the shape of a rude miner's "shack," open in front, with three sides formed of up right poles chinked with mud, and a roof of overlapping splints. It stood near a lame freshly dug hole in the canon side. Picketed by a rope tied to his fore leg an aged burro was feeding on the dry herbage of the canon's bottom. In the excavation iu the mountain side a raw looking youth was working very moder ately, using alternately a j)ick and a shovel. A shock of tow hair ran wild beneath his hat brim, and a stray tuft like a tassel appeared through a hole in the crown. This young fellow, was Joe Dobbs, late of Missouri, anil the object of his labors was to ,;develope Peg Leg .Crawford's newly located mine, Great Cinch, in Eueno Canon m the Chirica hua range. This mine was at present in the stage, of a hole'; in the ground with prospects ahead; but the indications of mineral were good and had grown better as the'" digging went on. A good face had been cleared against the rock, and wheu the proprietor now on a trip to town for supplies should return, blasting was to begin. Joe was not to share in the profits of the mine's development. He was merely a shiftless boy picked up "dead broke"' at Camp Bowie and taken along by Crawford lor the sake of his work and company at the price of his "grub" and a shadowy promise of wages if the mine turned nit well The de crepit burro had been turned out to die by his Mexican owner, and Joe had driv en him to camp 'as a i tarter for a herd," Lc said. The shadow of the beetling cliff on the southeast, which during the first half of the dsry lay across the canon's bottom, slowly shifted eastward until a blaze of bright sucshiue in the mouth of .the tun nel informed Joe Dobbs that "noon o'clock,'' as he termed it, was approach TiTg The boy was not fond of labor, and it did not require many minutes' endur ance of the hotkiiu's rays to convince him that it was time to stop - work and get something to eat. There is little doubt that he arrived at this decision fully an hour. in advance of the time it would have been reached had Mr. Crawford been with him instead of presumably somewhere on the San tMuion plain com ing bafk with his burros and supplies. Having repaired to the. shade of the "shack," he cut some slices from the small piece of bacon for his use and raked together the embers of the camp tire. There was no wood cut and before set ting out to get some Joe snt down to rest. His eye fell on the large valise that Peg Leg Crawford always kept care fully h i kei and out of the way of harm. In the hurry of departure the miner had left the key in the lock, and it occurred to the boy that it would be a good time to ee what was inside. doe turned the key and opened the sa cred valise. It contained two pairs of cotton socks, some specimens of ore, and a bulky package wrapped in a scrap ol army blanket. Joe untied the cord that fastened' the parcel aud unrolled the covering from a wooden box that once had held Malaga raisins. Prying of! the top of the box with his knife, he saw that it contained about t wo dozen of what looked like long thick candles. Had the youth been more thoughtful, and known more ol letters, he wouhl have spelled out tht words, "dinumite dangeniss," written in blue chalk on the cover, but as it was, that inscription passed unhecdeil with all the warning of risk that it conveved. He had heard vaguely of a powerful ex plosive called dynamite, but knew noth ing of how it appeared or should be handled. The cylindrical objects before him he half thought might be some form of candy. "I don't see why ole Peg Leg should be so mitrhtv nartiklar 'bout this outfit o stufT,' be said to himself, asr picking up a flake of the substance that had scaled from one of the pieces, he put it in his mouth and tried it with his tongue. It had a sweetish taste, and he set his teeth into it. If Joe had applied Ids grinders with the force and enthusiasm that he would have shown in cracking a hickory nut, there might have bteu a premature ex plosion and my story never has been told; but he Quicklv discovered a caustic proy perty in the Substance, and, not liking the flavor, spit it out. He put the box on a. flat rock that served as a table, convinced that he wanted nothing of its contents. Chancing to glance up the mountain side, he saw the boughs shaking in a scrub oak. At the back of the camp leaned one of those old-style army rifles, chiefly formidable to the one "who fires them,-known as the "LongToni." "With more animation than he had shown at any former time in the day, Joe seized the firearm and exclaimed "I sees yer, and "yer my meat; herfi goes fur br'iled squir'l for dinner," and started up the mountain side to secure the game. The path which he must take to reach the place where be had seen the squirrel was steep and roundabout. When, after hard scrambling over rocks, he came near the place where he had seen the squirrel, that evasive rodent was not to be found. But, climbiug higher and looking beyond the .summit of the ridge into a little mountain iark, Joe spied a jack rabbit feeding in an,ppcn space. As he crept toward the creature, follow ing its upstartings, short runs aud up sittiugs, in the effort to get a chance for sure. shot he saw to tin; windward among the pine trees across the valley a red deer, which caused him to abandon the rabbit chance at once to pursue the nobler game. "Ilit's a great niornin' fur critters astir," said Joe to himself, in high glee. "Who'd a thunk that triflin' squir'l ud a led up ter a deer. 'X thar may be sum thin' a heap bigger u one deer a waitin' fur me.' There was something " a heap bigger, a waitin'.'1' Crack, crack, crack came the sharp report of several rifiesorT on his right ; there was a singing of bullets about him so close that one passed through his hat ; and there arose a hideous yelling outcry, which made his flesh creep, and for a moment weakened him so much that he nearly tumbled down ! from sheer fright. The symptoms of returning courage and presence of miud manifested them selves first in Joe's legs, and with no loss J of time he ran away as fast as he could, making down the valley tovXrdtdip foot hills. A shot or two more whistled by his ears as some Indians, a half dozen or so in nlimber, leaped up and started aftci him as fleet as deer If Joe had kept on straight down the valley the Indians would soon have over taken and killed him. Fortunately, he had a good start of them amLwas luckier still in his knowledge of a narrow path stumbled upon during a previous hunt ing expedition which followed the bot tom of a fissure leading up the face of a cliff on the side of the ridge that sepa- ! rated this mountain park frcm the canon, i The opening to thb fissure wa3 hiddea j by wild vines; a turn in the winding' valley served to hide his movement from his pursuers and as they dashed round the rocky promontory and kept on down the vallev, Joe wa3 crawling sidewise" ' up the narrow cleft, which took him, j after much difficult squeezing and climb- icg, to a rocky nook nefar the summit the ridge so concealed by evergreens as to be wholly out of view of any one afe feet away. When at last the Indians re traced their steps he was safely hidden, although thev came so neir him that he could hear their calls as they ran about the ridg?, passing and repassing his re treat in. their search for him. " Joe was in no Lurry to"quit;his place of refuse, but after a time, when all wai quiet, he crept out from LiA shelter U look about an. I see if thecoasi was clear. No Indians" were in sight aadhe crawled to the summit of the ridge and over the other side until he reached a point whicB commanded a view of the canon and tht Ctreat CiDch mine. There in lull poses sion of his camp were seven painted Apaches, the same ones vndoubtedly that had "jumped" him so recently. Joe, who had hoped that his unpleas ant visitors had gone away for good, was far from pleased to see the enenr estab- j lished in his camp. Peering between the side of a boulder and a Spanish bayo net plant which effectually screened him, the Missouri boy watched the perform ance of the red men, who were making themselves wholly at home. They had killed his burro, and the choice parts of its carcass stuck on sticks were roastin about a fire made of poles torn from the sides of the shack. They had upset and overhauled the valise and pretty much everything else in camp in search of am munition, "whisk," tobacco and lesj valued articles of pluncer. The dyna mite they perhaps deemed "bad medi cine," for it lay in the box on the flat rock where Joe had left it three hours before when the squirrel had lured hint from the camp. What specially grieved Joe's heart wai the killing of his burro, the only posses sion he had in the world except the tat tered clothes he wore. Now, that after all the fuss he found himself still alive, the boy's courage came back sufRcientlj for him to get very angry over his loss. As a relief to his- feelings he cocked his r ifle and sighted it at different members of the group, thinking as he dallied with the trigger what a pleasure it would give him to send a bullet among them as s sauce to their meal. For a youth of Joe's capacity for doing the wrong thing this fooling with the trigger was most unwise, as was shown presently when he pulled just a trifle too hard; the hammer tell and the' heavy army piece pointing into, the midst of the Indian group went off with a louder bang and a more emphatic rebound so it seemed to Joe -than ever before. The vicious kicking of the gun against his shoulder, the noise and smoke of its explosion, and the feeling of astonish ment at its unexpected performance, oc cupied Joe's thoughts for an instant.' Before he had time to be frightened at what he had done, he was jarred and shaken as if th-.: mountains were rock ing, aud was stunned by a deafening roar that rent fthe air. Loose rocks went rolling down the slopes, trees were rush ing to the earth, and Joe saw, as in a fantastic dream, the top of a giant pine that had overhung the mine hitrh aloft and still going upward, as if it never would stop. Everything in the canon seemed to be in the air flying away from the spot where the camp had been. After the dust had somewhat settled Joe, looking down upon the site of the shack, co-old see there only a great hole in the ground, while ahepof earth had taken ine piace oi tne ureat uincn tunnel, lhe shot fired by mistake had missed every Indian and plumped straight into the box of dynamite. At the time when Joe's "shot wai fired, Peg Leg Crawford, riding a burro and driving his pack animals before him on his way back to the the camp, had reached the mouth of the canon. Another turn in th- path would bring him in sight of his mine. He was speculating as to how tnings had gone, on in his absence. "I wonder whit that fool boy Joe's been a doin' while I've been gone," he soliloquized. "He's done no work ter speak of, that's dead sure, an' it's a gat streak o' mercy if he hain't been up ter mi-chief. If h; should get ter foolin' with that dynamite -" yAt this point in his reflections Craw ford found his burro's footing unsteady, owing to an unexplainab!tremor of the earth. There was a commotion in the air a if several cyclones were righting for the rirrlit of way through the canon, and a trreat roar came to his ears as if the thunders of a whole rainy season were combined in-one peal. The next "thing he realized was that he and his burros were on the ground together in a heap, j where by unanimous consent they waited j until the elements subsided. j When things had quieted dowa the old j prospector, who was not very nimble OS his pins, pulled himself out of the tanghj of burros, got his animals on their feet, and stumped up the caoon to nd out what had happened. He expected to find the body or some part of the body of Joe at a distance more or less remote from the place where the camp had slood." When he reached the scene of the ex plosion he looked for some sign of his as- iLUut. 'Joe's gone with tho rest, I reckon," 'S -V ' I. i- .I.,..M , i, , 1 he said, with a touch of resret.."!'!! have a whiff o my pipe n then take a look roun' for the body 'n' give it a Christian burial 'f thar's enough left ter put in a hole. Hullo! What's that? Hain't the stuff got through fall in yetf" There was a rattling down the mount ain sidct and looking up to learn the cause, he saw Joseph Dobbslidiug on his back down a sloping face of rock. In making his way to the canon's bot tom to investigate matters the boy had missed his footing in his excitement, and was coming down by the run much faster than he liked. He landed' at the foot ol the cliff torn as to clothing and scratched as to skin, but was regardless of all in juries in his wonder and pride at his un expected achievement. He was delighted to see Crawford, for he was bursting to brag of his exploit. "Didn't 1 fix up that trap for 'em slick?", he said, with thy airW one who had carried out a carefully planned pur pose. By good luck the picks and shovels laid where they had escaped miurv. So the work of developing the Great Cinch mine went forward with no more extra trouble than the rebuilding ol the shack and the removing of the earth blown into the tunuel. To be sure, they had no dynamite for blasting, but Crawford felt that his explosive had been put to good use. , ' So high was Joe raised in the old pros pector's estimation- that before they se- to-work next day he formally adoptee him as his "pard," and thereafter that youth dawddled over the pick an shovel with a sense of importance befit ting the half-proprietor of the true lead, dips, spurs, angles, and prospectivi profits of the Great Cinch mine. Xetc York tinn. Paper Made From Logs. Chauncey M. Depew is such a. keen observer and accurate and able) reporter that, if he were old enough, he might be suspected of being the bright boy in the children's storv of "Eves and No Eves," "Growed Up." He always bring" back lots to talk about from his travels and voyages, even his little ones.y Speaking the other day about his receiA trip over the Home and Vatertown Road, he said: "Let me tell you about the most in teresting thing which I saw in my trip. It illustrates the beneficent power of invention. It was the' manufacture of wood pulp m the mills at Watertown, and cf wood pulp into paper. I was familiar with the old paper mill, and its consumption of rags. Those rags were gathered fronfall the hospitals --and pest houses, slums and reservoirs of misery in the world. They frequently carried with them serious epidemics and fatal plagues,. and the paper mill was the last place that any man would want to take anybody to, except his (.editor, and he would take ijhem there upon the chance that he woivfd get rid of part of them from the diseases which they might con tract.. "But Yankee geniu, accomplishing the unexpected and utilizing the unfore seen, put a lo, about as big as a good sized dude, into a hopper. It comes out in about two minutes in small chips, rolls along upon an automatic railway into a big vat, is reduced by sulphuric; acid to a soft pulb, flattened Vut by machinery into long strips about two feet wide, and cut three feet long, which are piled in stacks all. around for use, then run through other innumerable, rollers until it comes out at the other end, a prepared and marketable roll of paper for the tress, and before you are weit out of the building the log which you saw enter the hopper i being, shipped to New York to carry the news of the world, and the intelligent discussion of every conceivable subject interesting to humanity, and the education of a lir5t class university, upon its face." Ae Yvf'k Tribune. Sparrows Get a Free Luwh. Tne lazy little English sparrows have obtained a new method of obtaining food without hustling for it. and every morning they noisily put the idea into execution, being observed by many jk.t sons. When the electrl lights are turned off at eiaybreak the sparrows chatter around tht globes until they are cooled. Then the b-jthersDme scaven gers slide down into the globes by way of the barbo'ns and eat the uafortuaate insects attracted by the bright glare dur ing the eight. Usually the sparrows get a good breakfast of fat Sies and bugs, and often as many as a half-dozen birds clamber into one globe. PitU&ury DU pitch. . , -A City Lost tor 1000 Years. That one of the greatest of all the cities built by the Buddhists iu the East should have been forgotten and lost iu the depths of a trackless forest for 10)0 years is a curious fact that takes a powerful hold on the imagination. Headers of Fergu son and of Sir. Emerson Tenneat have heard something the architectural won ders of Anuradhipurs, the ancient "City of -Granite," in the island of Ceylon, and of the unparalleled immunity of its struc tures and rich monumental remains from the ravages of the 4epoiler and the re ligious fanatic. Since the above authors wrote great progress has leen made in cleariug up the-jungle and bringing Anu radhapura once more t the light of day. Mr. Burrows, who visited the city ia 1S8G and 1SS7, gave a remarkable ac count of the progress made in archaeolo gical discoveries in and around this an cient buried city during the last ten years. Readers of this note who care to know more about this immense lost city, tho limits of which are about six and a half by four aiid a half miles, will find the above mentioned account by Mr. Burrows in Macmillan's Magazine for September, 1887. Since this account was written the clearings and excavations have yielded wonderful results. The outline of this gigantic relic of a past age is that of a flattened oval. The wonderful palace of Cingalese, supposed to have been built about two thousand years ago, aud of which Mr. Burrows gives an elaborate description, was only discovered in 1886, its sietlposition almost exactly agree ing with the most authentic account ex tant from an eye-witness of Anuradha pura in her glory that of the Chincso traveler, Fa II inn, who visited it in tho early part of the fifth century. St. IjniU IUulll Wild Hogs in Arizona. Koamiutr over the lands of the Lerdo colony, severity miles south of Yuma, are droves of wild hogs, variously estimated at from one to tluve thousand in num ber. They ai. descfadauts of tame hogs placed on th' ranch when Thomas" II. Blythe sa par' owner, about thirteen years ago. -After Blythe's decease and subsequent revcr-ii t his interest to General Andrad", th? bogs were turned' loose and allo wed to go at will over thi rich bottom lauds of the Ctdorado Itiver. A few venerations transformed them into savage beasts, who would attack and eat a man if t-hny had th-- opportun ity. They snbsi't chiefly o.u the wild potato, a tuber which grow . the size of a walnut and iu great profusion. The present owner- of L'-rdo, General An drade, conceived the "hba of having tho inc -m t t iiin iin--i i-uri'ii mr nirr use of the colonists. Operations were begun about a year ago. and though not conducted on a large scale have proven succsfal. Tift) hogs are cau-ht in a circular corral about Vitrft.. fi..t in iliinif'tiT h-ivin-r it trail - j -- - - - i door. Phnty of bait in the shape of corn and potatoes is scattered about'the entrance and ahi buried in the canal.1 A band of hogs are attracted by the bait, enter the coirti, commence rooting for the buried corr. and potatoes, and when the right spot is struck by them the trap door falls aud they are: prisoners. .The hogs are fed a while before slaughtering. Their meat is of fine quality and the lard sweet and delicious. Yuvi (Arizona) 1 "ilri?. Peculiar Customs or uie Lascars. JJome of the peculiar customs of th East Indian roo'.ies, called Lascars, ara very amusing to Americans. For instance, tlicy always tat .tneir iooi m .no open air, with their fa c toward the west; and the greatest insult a white rnaa or "Giaour" can off r them is to walk be-, tween them aad the f 1:1 while they are eating, a ijrj -g hi'ia Io'a to fall on their foo 1, which immediacy becomes un clean. Their a-ppeirar.c? is rendered peculiar by their habit of sharing their, heads, leaving but ov tuft at the side for "tho prophet" to drag th n Into Paradise by. . When laitried, they wear a ring oa their big toe. Th' y -tin 1 the cold re- xr . markabiy well, and mve go! sailor , being as active as monkey. In running aloft they ignore the ratlines and use the back itay, a peculiar wire rope, which they 1'tcrally walk i.p. Sex York Jour-' It has been eaTculateoTy a statistician that in MiAis out of a total of 720, 000 young men, not mors iun 220,000 at tend church.