1 v -- ""'5 i m 4P Witt Hit ft flfikfl II II I I III III II I -II I ESTABLISHED IN 1878. T: ,e growth of ih" movement in favor -!;'i'i. -liiu'r working gitis clubs was :.'-ii'-tr.!!".l t'.-e oth'T i.",'Miin;r by the W tc:v. aemulcd m Tieinont on. La-t year there ;net in a i i'.-f clubs, representing 850 '' meeting was attended T ':. club-, representing 2300 aud their friends T'ndcrtheitatutesof the Dakota a man who robs :i stage can be sent to prison j for life. Jt he attacks but fails to get j any plunder, he -ari.be sentenced f0P i ,,,,,, . - . . , j had :i hf.ti::". In a case where a judge I t'r'W'l that fiftd-a ye trs was half. a life, ! the Supreme Court h is up et the sen- J tciirc, figuringdhat nineteen ea.-s seven I ,. , . i t, l tuo.'iT.)-, u-. l lour days is t.e correct term. "An in -A ituti : peculiar toXew York, whi -h has be -n recently established," lllf'Ci tii': Atlanta- (jint'dit.ion' "is a il i;r j:i-f.j contract bureau. If you nt to gt married very quietly, with i v-:j the newspaper finding it out, . -) to this bureau witli your girl, pay :.' i " which is i5, and a civil mar-:'- ';)( ra' t is prepared for you to !, an i the affair is guaranteed to bo 'i:itct. N re'tor 1 of these marriages i", an 1 they are not, strictly legal, b it a lawyer who was , 1, s.id the courts would no 1'- ili.e th-;m, if any legal question is;- i " b make it necessary to test .: ,. lit v in the courts." T E'Uiu-Amcriean department of the Columbian Exposition is very i .; :- to obtain information concern !. a -.ipy of a little quarto published in ; Mn id l EW, containing the important n l' ii" Alexander VI, by which ho ; v: !.-.i fiie New World between Portugal i.i S;.tin. Only two copies of this , i'u ;h!-L are in existence, so far as can ) i r i ( lined. ()a is iu the ltoyal .'''fir; at. Mutiicli. The other was sold it ha:i:lf)a at auction by Puttiek & Simp :n: .-tioneers, on the 21th of May, 1. a j l was bought by Obadiah Rich n '- it puuiids eight shillings, for some rf.va'.e library in the United. States i d . !ei'' I to nanio. It his cer- ;iy app hi' 1 from the knowledge ! ' ' ' ' ' " ! !'!: i!'p.'lii'. a id no trace of it can bo ..i:ta A ny person, having knowledge o y-i -v !"'"'"ib u!.-- of this historical treasure J .'!:' !;iu d c.ough to notify, the De ",ui:;a -M .f State, Washington , D. C. ''''.. DLymteh: Some wit hat tic sewin-' inacUitie and ar rapidly miking one people i i d v -IS on the fjtee of the earth, r !.! roying the national pecul "f t':'' dres of in thr coun- !; r, n,' by giving them the 3tyles : day c':othiu i from Lomlon, which . r echtri" of tra'.Uc for that part world, i If. i iy-'iiade garm"ats b:i arc sold iu the sh "ps of Urn, li.'.-iiu, Vienna, (Joprmhageh, v. i, Stockholm and St. Petersburg, i t my of the smaller cities, which V-:r supplies from the great ones r from London direct. Eorm : 1'. t sailor could be readily i. h 1 from a Danish or Swedish i I'M of these from the other by live eo-itume, but at the pres . i of them are tlressed alike,. os;ib!y their garments cam --m.' factory. Fifty years ago ::i---.iu garai m'ts of New "England :. f: ;n tlv.)e of the Western and States an i those again from ''.'('iuada, but nowa lavs the home- h'-:: largely driven out by ' ;-," whic'i hive found their ;:r.'U m.ijority of the towns a'.l e.-erthe land. Thebusi ;:i'.i4 clothing on the a i "' "y ';vi:e:it that i-s made ' ' :' 1 t:ad a customer is i-n.; y,- a- oy a: r. I though the a:,' sold at a ' ci iu the pirt .r :: rt, ,T.. -. ' taat 1 1:' :'; S 0 f.il Of ' '. caver ')t h ;U' t be a pro.'k-dv "a, the trade ae for all con ' lar;:e estihlish- In m ny of ' t r.tin ' is do with reat e.n.U i-.-m i ::i tuicx- d' lavr?, wihen are cut ut follows a m-tal pittern, band of a si a -de otvn.- i .V the aid of i - maenmerv. - ' ' c in , t::e work of if t v in - -i g ir.u .-a'.s; the so wiug m ichine V - ':''"''" 1 rapidly, and in this l- w.r..i is clad. With our irtern, and the telegraph every d y all the news u- Wi are mt oai y "iressing t,4:-':'iri-? 'I'l talking of the " the aui . titue. BROTHER, AWAKE! Brother, the dawn In the east is arising. Sparkling and bright from wild ocean's ' embrace. Bee Low her blushes new beauties awaken; See what a tender light beams from her face! Eos, fair Eo, her fleet steeds are waiting. Eager to speed in advance of the wind, Longing to bnar thee away on thy mission, Cheering and blessing the hearts of man kind. t Brother, awake, for the sun hath arisen ! dazzling is he in his gorgeous array; (:o,(jen hls PaIace, and goHen his armor- Wilt thou not welcome the kin of the dav? Helow, Helofs, thou art majestic! Daily thy duty is patiently done; Brother, toy duties demand thine attention Wake, ere dav endeth and night is begun. Brother, awake! Awake, O mv brother! Moonbeams are gently caressing thy brow; Ve?, the moon peeps through the darkening jhadows; See her sweet smile r.s it lights on theo now. f-'tl'Tie, Selene, stars round the3 glimmer; Host thou ne'er linsjer to gather a gejn? "Why should I tarry, or tura fr-jm my jjath way? While I have peaco, I've a rich diadem.!' l'rother, ( brother, awake from thy slum. ler, ( pon tliine eyes while 'tis yet called to day! Vis in is thy dreaming, for not it availeth; List to thine impulse, be swift to obey. lli;;h b.i thy purpose, aye, heavenwar.1 reaching; Eirrn thy endeavor, p-.Tsist.mt and true; Eaith be thy watch word, and hope thy com panion, Ecace will not linger but hns'.en to you. Lillian SWe.i Istcr. A POINT OF HONOR. r.v axna ini:i.Ds. It is a fact too well proven to need comment here that mental excitement will produce upon the human counte nance a change m re rapid and lasting than even physical pain. Hut it would have scarcely seemed possible that one hour could have made a beautiful, blooming face so pallid and-deathlike as that of Isaura Gardiner became in that brief time one June morning, when ail nature was in jubilant mood. She was young not more than twen tyand had been Julius Gardiner's wife a little more than one year. They had been married at a time when the firm employing Julius had wished him to un dertake a prolonged Southern and 'West ern trip to collect outstanding debts, and the vouu ; counle had made this business errand their wedding tour. Eaidy in. 'March they had returned to their homo, and a few weeks Liter a wee blossom had come to bind the parents' hearts in yet closer bonds of mutual love, a little daughter they named for Isaura's long dead mother, Eerth a. After the baby came I gladden her, c . Isaurti found her time so filled with ma ternal cares that she had never availed herself of her husband's permission to ex plore the old homestead, until the June morning already mentioned. It was a very large, rambling old country louse, the legacy of three gen erations of Gardincrs, to the la-t survivor Julius !'njl Laura was sure that it was tilled with treasures of past occupants, though its owner laughingly assured her that he was quite sure she would find but little to reward the thorough ran sacking she threatened to make. When she was first engaged to Julius Gardiner, Isaura had thought she would bring him a fortune erpial to his own patrimony. She had been from infancy tho supposed heiress of a maiden aunt, who had a moderate income under her cwn entire control and r.o heir but her niece. But, front foaic unexplained freak, the venerable maiden, upon her death-bed, left her home and money to fouud an asylum, bestowing upon her niece her clothing and jewelry, the one much the worse for use, the ether of but trifling value. Isaura had been sorely disappointed, but Julius bad laughed at the long face, assuring her he had ample means for both; his private fortune aud Large salary combining to make a handsome income. So Isaura had forgotten the temporary trouble very quickly. On tho June day, already referred to, she had at last explored some of the long closed rooms, and entered one early in the forenoon, her face bright as the June sunshine pouring in at the open windows, her checks rivaling the blush roses clambering over the wide porch roof to nod at her, her eyes as clear and blue as the summer skies arching over the old homestead. In one brief hour she came out again. But the pretty pink fiush was gone from her cheeks, leaving them as white as new fallen snow, her eyes weie heavy aad dull HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1891. w lead, gazing vacantly forward with an j expression of utter misery; her step was slow and feeble,and she trembled as if unable to support her own weight. Sue seemed to have aged years in that one hour of anguish passed in the room" en tered with such a light step and happv heart. Slowly she went to her owa room. Baby Bertha lay in her dainty cradle sleeping profoundly iu a morning nap, aud the young mother, sinking upon her knees beside her, found some relief from her agony in a pa:ska of tears and sobs. Again and again her husband's name mingled with the moans wrung from her white, quivering lips, till tho violence ol her grief wakened the sleeping child, who broke into wailing cries. For a moment the mother forgot her own grief, as she soothed the lit.tle one with all love's tender caresses kissing the velvet cheek, and whispering soft words of af fection. But when the chtl 1 lay quited in hot arms, the shadows fell again over Isau ra's face, and her tears dropped fast upon the little face nestled against her bosom. The burden of grief wa.s not -lifted, though the fiiM wild paroxysm was over. Isaura Gardiner was a fair woman, b-'d but slight, and possessing much beauty, of a purely blonde type, rippling, golden hair and blue eyes, with a soft, delicate complexion. Her disposition was genth and loving in a remarkable dcgre, suit ing well" the exquisite beauty of face ali form. . . f It is no exaggeration to say that she actually lived iu her affections, and these were centered absolutely in her husband and child. Orphaned when only ten years old, she had been under the guar dianship5 of her aunt, passed from one boarding school to -another, spending even her "holidays in the care of her teachers, unless invited to visit a fellow pupil, t - It was during such a visit in the vil lage that was to become her future home that she met Julius Gardiner, and her heart, starving for sympathy and com- pansionship, sprang at once to answer j his warm avowal ot deep, sincere i.ove She had never known what it was to re ceive such affection as her lover gave her, ahel she gratefully returned it. And in her love she had found only happiness. It was Julius who had consoled her when her aunt died, leaving her alone in the world. Julius who had urged a speedy marriage, that he might have the right to comfort and protect her. Julius who had made a bridal tour of his long busi ness j"ourner and given her every leisure hour to explore all the sights of the many new places in which they sojourned. Julius who had watched her tenderly when her life seemed going from her, after baby came, and gave her new life by his loving voice and gentle caress. She had thought their love perfect us strong in his heart as in her own. But on that June morning, all this happy cer tainty had gone from her," and her heart seemed breaking at the loss. She took no further interest in the exploring ex pedition through the old house upon which she had .started so merrily, but rocked her baby in her arms, and Hiusc.d over the one appalling discovery she had already made. Julius found her so when he came in to his elinner, and acxiously inquired the .cause of her woc-begone lace and red eyes, fifut for the first time his tender sympathy met a -repulse: not an angry one, but one that was equally puzzling to him, it was so full of mute reproach, and no entreaties could give him any ex planation of the cause. For days, this atmosphere of gloom and mystery hung about Isaura. She neglected all the little household duties in which she had delighted; she would sit for hours in silence and idleness, her face white, her eyes fixed mournfully on vacancy. Julius was distracted. Loving his wife with all the fondness of a tender, triic heart, he was grieved and angered to see her fretting constantly, yet refus ing to gie any reason for such excess of sorrow. : la vain he tried by every tender de vice to win her confidence. She only kept a more profound silence, while yet most evidently doubting "the sincerity of his professions of love and regret. At last, the result Julius dreaded fell over Isaura, and she was prostrated by low nervous fever and became very ill. The physician hinted at some mental dis turbance, and prescribed quiet; and the husband, dprp ughly aroused by fear, ex erted his authority with some show o! harshness. "You are nursing some chimera," hi said to poor, pale Isaura, -and I irsis! upon knowing what it is." -"Oh, Julius, don't le anrv'" she moaned, pitifully. "Perhaps I may die, and then you can marry Magdalene." "What upon earth are you talking about? 'Magdalene" Who is Ma"- i dalene?" "The woman you love. I am sorry, .Julius, that I have stood in the way so long. It would have been better to have been frank with me and told me the truth before we were married." "She is insane," thought poor Julius, bursting into a cold sweat of horror; "she has been nursing some delusion till it has turned her brain and made her a monomaniac !" AH an-;er was gone from his voice as he -bent low over his wife. "Darling," he said, "do not think of such things. You cannot doubt my love for vou!" The blue eyes that had growa Uirr. with excessive weeping searched his fac eagerly. Then, as if nerved to a desper- ate effort Isaura took a folded paper from the drawer of a table, beside her bed and handed it to her husband. ' "Read that," she stid. "I found it in the foom upstairs that vou told me was your roeim while vour parents lived. It was in the drawer of a bureau there, with other papers. You told me I might overhaul anything I pleased, and I read that." -J Wonderingly, Julius opened the paper, while Isaura scanned his face, watching for the coftfusioa of detected guilt. To utter amazement, Julius, after reading thc paper, burst into a fit of laughter, clear, ringing and hearty. "Oh, Isaura," he cried, when he could catch his breath, "the sins of my youth are being visited upon my head with a vengeance. Oh, it is too good !" And another paroxysm of mirth fol lowed. c 1 don't see anything funny about it,' said Isaura, crimsoning with anger. Julius read aloud, with mock em- phasis: "Deap Dick: -Vou utterly mistake bnt-ti my heart and principle if you imagine for one moment that I will avail myself of tht pitiful excuse of Isaura's loss of fortune tc break our engagement Darly as I love Magdalene, bitterly as I regret the tie that binds me, I will never, never so disrac; my manhood as to desert the fond heart that loves me "Isaura knows nothing of my mad infat- nation for your sister Magdalene, my hope- less love for one I may never seek to win. She trusts the professions of love I made be- loves me: And I who sought her ttJipt phe was a supposed heiress, consider it e point of honor to kejp my faith with her ' "Guard rny secret from your too faseiu- ating '-Ur. from m' promise.! wife llere'the paper was torn and the con fidences of the lover brought to an ab rupt conclusion. "Oh, Isaura, " said ,TuTu:s, who had 1 ecu interrupted by frequent spasms of laughter, "have you really been fretting vemrself sick over this balderdash?" Then, looking into the pale, win f we, Julius became grave again. "If you hf.d only looked further, dear," he said, "vou Xvouid have dis covered ' page after page of just such stuff. For you must know that one of the delusions of my. youth was a settled conviction that I .was) a great literary genius, a Wilkie Colling and Charles Dickens of America, born to astonish the world. And this is part of my first, last and only novel." "Oh, Julius!" Isaura gasped. "I thought I was sure " . "There, don't cry,yflove; don't! Never doubt me again, dear.. I cannot imagine new how you could have taken this for a genuine letter. I never knew a Dick or Magdalene." "How -did I know that? And Isaura is such a very singular name."' "So it is. But you see, dear, just about that time this singular name stood in my heart for all that was charming, good and. lovable in womankind, I was desperately in love with an Isaura, and as my heroine was to embody all female er.1ction, I gave her the name of thc woman who had full possession of my heart." "And then the loss of fortune niy "Bless me, yes! I forgot all about that. It does look oddly like truth, now j don't it? But if you will explore the " , rawer still further vou will find a this precious document you so unfortun ately selected." The doctor, eoming later in the day to visit hi3 patient, was astonished at the wonderf ul effect of the simple remedy he i had prescribed, and still more at the rapid recovery that fo$ wed. Ia less than a week Isauri was singing about the old house, a busy iittle .-matron, NEW SERIES - - happy in her husband love, her baby 'a beauty. But-she has still one regret: All hex entreaties have failed to persuade Julius to complete th'at beiutiful novel, "A Point of Honor," which lies unSuished in Isaura's care, and which she is firmly convinced would, if published, place lir husband at the very pinnacle of , literary fame. But Julius will uot agree with her,- de claring that that precious composition has already made sufficient mischief ia the world, since it caused his wife-H?ks of misery and a tit of illness, aad there fore it is with him a point of hondr to it consign to oblivion as speedily as pos sible. Tlx IxJger. ' Why an Amputated Limb Pains. A very singular form of' neuralgia is ttuit affecting the nerves of amputate limbs. It not rarely happens that after aa amputated stump lias healed the nerves of tbc stump, being compressed inthe scar becomes exceedingly painful, Curkuslr enough, the pain is not felt in thc stuml. but seemingly in the extrem-, il' of the limb which, has probcbly been buried for a -vear or more' In one cas(? coming under the notice of the writer a ,naa whosc :irm hatl beca aml)Utatd: abovc the clbow ofteu r'rr(?d to the Pain he felt ia tbe littlc fiutr of the vcreu memuer lur jcam aner iu opt-r- ation. An old, one-legged soldier, ap plying for an increase of pe-isiorj, said: "I have more pain in the foot that aint than in the one that are." This was hisj terse way of saying that he continued to have pain; m the foot which was lost on the battle-field years before. The explanation of these curious phe nomena consists in the fact that the ter minal filaments of a nerve are its most sensitive parts; they are the "feelers," the points from which the sensations start on their course to the brain, where they give notice that something is wrong with the" outlying districts. When the nerve is injured in this. continuity the sensation is often referred to the terminal ends. Everyone who has struck his "crazy- bone" the point above the elbow, where the ulnar nerve is very superficial .ami easily injured must have noticed J how much the sensation was affected in t i-. ' tbe "tt'c linSer- tbe pam being often greater than that at the point'where the . , J.D,ow rucu. .-. imt-t wpuotic. A Child S- Twelve Grandparents. Elsie Chase, daughter of Charles ami , Clara Chase, of armouth, has more grandfathers and grandmothers than . any! child in Massachusetts, of whom are ; now living. I give below the names. Edward and Mary Chase, grandfather and grandmother. Charles and Emma Ellis, grandfather and gn ndmother. Charles and Jane Ellis, great-grand-' father and great-grandmother. Jerry arid Cordelia Chase, great- grandfather and great-grandmother. Matthews and Kuth B. Gray, great grandfather and great-grandmother, Adeline Niekerson, grcat-great-grand-mother. Jerry Walker. great-great-grandfather. This is very remarkable; six grand fathers and six grandmothers, and all living, making a collection that has no equal inihis country. G.ipe Cwl Muss.) Kern. Soidiers Not Anxious for War. A party of infantry reserves were seen at the r riedrichsstras.se railway station the other day. They were waiting for a train to take them back to their homes. J::e if their number, an elderly man, was indignant with tbe ncwspap-irWor talking s glibly about the coming war and the aggre.-sive policy which it was Germany's duty to adopt. "I fought at Koeuigsgratz and Sedan," he said, "but that was mere child's play to what the next war willbeX That new rifle which we have just- been testing is almost too horrible a weapon to use against any enemy." Thc old Landwehrman Raid the new rifle, carried a" bullet, which is scarcely an inch long, and about thick as a good-sized cigarette, which will pierce earthworks of seventy centimeter thickness at a distance of 150 meters. At IT'J meters distance it made a pa.-.iag': through five full knapsacks placed in echelon. Fired from a distance of 20 meter thc bullet will penetrate a human body. Chkajo llernll. It ss' suggested m the Ji'tral Neut Yri(T that "if the Legislature is to do icy-thing for the no !e: them begin vy ie ri-daling the narro w tires off the ieavy lumber and truck wagons."' VOL. X. .NO-36.- CURIOUS FACTS. The oldest reigning dynasty is that o! Japan. A horned rabbit is the curiosity of th day et Akron, Ohio. A gum-moistening apparatus for post ajje stamps is also an invention. There are within the present city " limits of Milwaukee 30,000 lots which are unoccupied. Hay thirty-two years old has been found and is said to bo well-preserved, bright and sweet. A Liberty County (Ga.) man has found oysters growing at the bottom of his sixty-foot well. Indiana's building at tho World's Fair is to be constructed of all building materials found in the State. . A resident of Parkers' Ford, Pcnn., is said to have a ring dove which is twenty -one years old, and has been in one cage all its life. A large fox tried to steal a goose from a barnyard near Butler, Pcnn., the other day,, but the fowl fought so bravely that she killed the would-be thief. A cow being driven through the strecte of Hannibal, 3Io., charged on a red coat hanging on a post, entangled her horns in it. gave a bellow and dropped dead. Sine it i.s rumcred that marble mantel-pieces arc coming into fashion again, these pieces of interior decoration which have been criticised as vulgar and inar tistic are now called "perfectly lovely." A monument will be erected shortly in Tutliugen, in thc Black Forest, to Max Schnec kenbergor, author of "The Watch on the Rhine." The fund for this pur- pose is 9000, and contributions are still solicited. The father of shoemaking in this country is said to have been one Abraham Lovcring, who came over in the May flower, bringing with him a number of pelts to be worked into footwear for the colonists. A prisoner escaped from the Browns town (Jnd.) jail by cutting a hole through the roof, after which he walked ten miles to his home. Failing to secure a bail bond, he returned to jail. He was not missed by the sheriff, anel he re entered by the hole through which he escaped. While an Indianapolis citizen was rid ing on a street car in that city the brake handle slipped from the driver's grasp and struck a pistol in the driver's breast pocket. A" bullet from thc weapon killed the passenger -instantly. His wifo has recovered 5001 .t damages from thenar company. The hump: of camels are mere lumps of fat, and not provided for in the frame work of the skeleton. "When thc animal is in good condition the humps are full and plump. u a long journey where food is scarce the humps are entirely ab sorbed, the skin covering them hanging over thc flank like an empty box. Gold, whib' in circulation, is handled less thim any other medium. It is usually kept in vaults of banks for de mrtml rarely made, ait4! for this reason the lose by abrasion Is but one-half of one- er cent, in twenty years. In a $20 gold piece, the standard weight of which is grains, the Government allowance for loss by abrasion is 2.5 grains. A blv k water snake, which was dis sected at the Michigan Agricultural Col-b-ge the other day, was found to contain the bo lies of four fishes. One of these, which was about foul inches in length, had partially swallowed another fiih :two-thirds its size. It w.aa, however, not quite equa! to tbetaik, and the snake had captured both. This curiosity will be preserved in alcohol a a muscua sj "Crimea. Sdng'3 Eye. In a case of cyclopia, or single eye, re porte.f by Dr. A. Bruce s to the Koyal Sock-ty of Edinburgh, there was a single lozenge-shape 1 socket for thc eye itrtdie rui Idle of thr base of the . forehead. Tbe socket had two paii s of eyelid, and the r.oH- -ww reprinted by a hort process of tUsue and ttktn attached to the fore head above thc eye. A microscopic section of the socket showed two rudi mentary retinae atparcntly springing from a fcingle optic -aic!e. Trenton i X. J. ) AtTiSTican. The trr.gration from Great Britain to f..: h Usi xeur wa? 31,930. The year eire it '.v is .j,ao. mr aane tap hV5 that Canada must spend montf ut :::c'.t "attention to the couixtrj. 7-1 id i il D vd i 1 i 1 V I V I I