w fir ifir to & ESTABLISHED IN 1878. IIILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1892. NEW SERIES-VOL. XII. NO. 15. 2 A GRAND PRIZE. Bible Competition - :(): Two Thousand Dollars in Prizes will be Equitably Distributed. o K! M Oi l: fi V F- r w:v r;i! - ir.H pat ompe' itions of ; iri.vl r native ordtr hiv been offered by pyutaMe bun-H s 'b'ii! and mnnufie tuicrv hi Kngland with the o'ljc't (if hi' reaving -hi Ir fiWs and inteiesiing t .. n u t .rrnrs in their respective f o . 'J h -( .!if(f)?-, n in count of ... i v. I : t'i ii i itorei i.iirn-:s ui- nimu in '.ir;. ;:i i fig thiin, have 1 1. b-r ft! ed the !.:-: j. p'-of ir- at lint iin. Ih lieving t hat t oiiiji' titi iin o lined by a mirm : i ; . r . . g ( 'iiitTin -ii( ii as ours, and con li'ih" I in t!i- .- !in(i honorable manner, u ould ( itir uni vt n'Til interest anions .tie- iritrllig. nt people of t1 e 1'njtcU H - ;ni'i ( ' iiai.li,, i.nr company have o i-l'-il to odci a pri.i competition ' in ui.i' i; our tirM cfTyr t will be to makcJt tulr a ml i.njxi 1 1 i'll The into i n ,s t sriti-fv i verv or e' cntirirg this :np' iKi:i ih it they have Wren duly c.p'iii'i- villi the' position whi(h their IT rl k Jrive i arned for them. Wo are v i: '' that f ill's ci ts.- of a pri. : contest will n f.i-ivii the !i('provi:l of parents and ;i l tlio e having the instruction of the y 71 tig -.t k-Hif. Tlie prizes to be ;iw um 'I in this c unp' tition wii coosi t i : i '. i r Iv ot urticl'i-s or' nuth'irntriiij' to be ai.ri i:i ! Iy every person receiving oie a- ,i fr icviinl for the efforts put f ith by i .em. Our intention is to ti;i li t'ie .in oiint to be given uway in "p!:e-', v .i s y i n f in value from ij.ht ilol-i.-.i-.to i::e li'iLilrel collns cn'li, and Ur .ei.tl.T ill') llll Imimlufilt 1 1 J Vi till f I; t i ' h t 'i enti ri i thi; com petition to (iistni.nt' fii'ily l'r il: plie-. A w hi (i I 'i: i .r. I'liiiilfii ml livlUiv Ten of the lt'ttd- . in:; ininirt r of our t-ity will b. invite. I t i a'lti il l Mill a-vis; in tiie award of pi : pi:r!. i;i:u.k oimit.tii i n uili piv (.-if Hi mfrfJ J ')' t m m i i ii to die i't person w !io rorrVd 1 y ;i " 'v i s the ti Ii u ini; (jut stions ; in t!ie 1 li'e do t e foMowin;.;- thl:e vi)tK lir-t a penr 1, I tain; 2, Breid; V. 1 Ik The vecond jk rjon answering orr-'tly will re; eive Si n nti ihr l)o(lar in cavli. Tlie third person s-nding ci -r-ci a"s ' r will ri c ive Fiij li' ll-ir in cadi. 1 :ie n.t tea will eaen rceiv- u ic:;.nt tii'm .Silv.r (hunting case; Watcri. Tin' iiet tin willcacli receive an ell "ant Silk Diesv,, p lttern ( sixteen var.l.H i.i -in y cm r,. 'Tlie Di'Xt tt'ii will i a h t ii e i i Iirt chvs p i:r of Op- ra t 1:1 I - The thirty three pu.- u-. euoi r it.e tli'its-tlnee cuireft :i.:-i vri'( '.hi'"i aie received list will '.( ive .inpli -nt - of the pri.'-s that ure :i ard' d lor the tiist and middle thirty :hr c i i r.t.;t amwers, the last C urect usu'i i,ceii:g the )..e Ilindi'id 1 -I ir-, the next to the last til" S -venty-!'. ' v I'm', ai, arid so i.ia uatil ttie thiltv- th p: s t. r the lr.st thirty 'hn e a- - I 'M have !' i n awarded m-i i f. l'Kir; A pri cousrstinir in i li -g : ri' Lnl"fi oi (tentlemau'a 1 Wa'i h aim given to the p-rson semi-!ir-r. c r.i C answer which is the . i : ' 1 r. in their State or e . i'MUTHNS. in ; Ii: t t! e A li W . I l:.U -i;"i t : l'-;i't -1 l' '"I" !' ''-1' ! w toe i i 1 it Ii .ii comiviiiied w ith S; i't , t a o cut po t a-je ' ji u kage of J'l. I! T. I Ki A M , I it i - -1 cientiti' i)icovery ;iu I p-'iserving the teeth. t.. introdei c and a'trai t 1 'i- r.i u .i i, w hi h is tie on w h . ii. ft : u f a " t ii r i s i tTer a ir a ard of Five ir to any oentivr who an nf ains ar tiling iti ;ai imis fi r c '!' a'-1; ;i id. i ! itte t i . 1 1 t oi.iy piej'a-.t a i i : i t Ilu: dr. d I ;: ... i 1 1 lit t- A month: nl f ix .nlv v. i. p )' a i he vine result i f i c or, - i- iv ommetidc.i by the - id 'ii ioa. pH'l" von eerV- i 'A .: r, t ; t i u-: . . - M 111 t v ! 1 " !J1 I i ' a,i.M In ;e.d -e: di nt i-t w hat he thinks n i 'tnt li mii! ' "I i r;-t, im duty. r- ; i i v I v w'tr answers to ,i aV. r c e a valuab . Addr.v: e pri' lor 1 oriMIT. TOILKT 3IF(i. CO.. l7o V..i.i Sj i;i v i -. T.imiN l.i, CaNAHA. A Fakir Traveling s Freight. The practice of binding -religious per- --.is stilt exists in India., An incident occurred recently at 3Iecrut. A fakir, wearing nearly live maunds(l00 pjuuds) .d iron chains and bands on hi:n, re- ceatly left the cantonment station. The railway authorities declined to allow him ;, tr vc. as - passenger, but sent hiro as freight by .":ght in spite of his argu ment that native women were never charge i for their anklets and bangles. The iron absorbed the heat so much that ;':.- man ha J to be incessantly sprinkled w.th water. He is an old man and ne-tiiy died at the station. Allahabad iu i.a; 1. oncer. THAN KSGIVIN3. With quickened L-art and with tended head y.ess the Ijounty that never ,eads, The r.tt, swwt gifts of life it sen 1, IIop to th" Jiving and rt-t to the lead; For th houndlfss wealth of poo-l it spends I'e tbanksivint tinr nn 1 said. And most for the hlesin of- Ir.-m? and friends. The paleyoars wane and falter. And melt away like ?now, J I s 1 1 on its holy dltar Love's tires uQchaninsj low; Toiiear, familiar places, Lurol tjy its gentle light. Come hak the dear, dead face (nit of the awful night. II. 'Me it, on Thariksivinjr. The kindly feast i1 -pread. And oi l, lo-it Lopes are living. And oh, foad words are sail; Sai l by the long--tilled voir?-, Hear.l by thy heart alotK', And memory rejoir-es !h tin sttx.-t underton?. Though years the head may whiten. The In-art he.ll not xrow' raJ"! Younj: thoughts that thrill and brighten Pos-ess the smiling day, To all our U?st and dearest A loving cup we til', To f riendv that ura the nearest, To love Time cannot kill. The hearth's alight, and the feat is spread. Blest be the love that never en 1, For the hope of the living, the rest of the dead, be thanksgiving sung and said. And most for the gift of home and friendf. Nw York Sun. A Thanksgiving Surmise. l;Y HELEN FOIl REST GRAVES ; T was the close j of a brief autumn 1 day ; the last level - beams of the s;if. . ton tinted sunset I were peeping j through the plate-glass case- ments of the great Eighth ave- nun store, and Kitty Kasson, j ....... i Vi. rorrureu wiin a , splitting headache and wearied with the I incessant buzz of questioning voices, J pressed both hands over her forehead I and asked herself: - "Will six o'clock never come? Will these people never go?" The floor superintendent came up. "Mi?s Kas-on," said he sharply, what ails you to-day? I have heard more than one complaint. Is it Simple inattention? or don't, you rare whether you retain your position here. or not?" Kitty looked piteously up. "My head aches so'." said she. "But I didn't known. What can I do, please?" "lien 's a lady asking for mo le-colored gloves, and you've taken out the box of blacks," said Mr. Irwdti, impa tiently, "lieally this won't do!" "Kittv murmured a wore1 or two of apology, substitute! the mode-colors for ! the blacks, and set herself to be as at- tentive as possible. Headache or no headache, it behooved her to give satisfaction. She had not only herself to support, but the ailing mother, whose board she paid at a cousin's larmhouse in the Connecticut Valley. To her every dollar meant its full worth, and when she saw girl cus- turners of her own Age scattering the contents of their purses with reckless disregard, she could but wonder. liur wueu aieerowu oi suoppers uau eblied aud tlowed itelf away, and the niuch-betumbltd and bocruraplcd stock j w is replaced in boxes' and on shelves. wis replaced in boxes' and on shelves, ind the girls' were departing, Kitty came. 1 to Mr. Irwin's desk. "Well?" he sail impatiently, biting 'the handle of his pen, as he -glanced up from the big book before him. "Mr. Irwin," faltered Kitty, "I haven't had any vacation this year. Can j have a Aveek at Thanksgiving?" Mr. Irwin frowned. ".You had the chance in August,"' said he. "No, w e can't spare you at Thanks - giving, Miss Kasson. Three of the girls in your department have been ahead of you in. securing that time, and, as you mut know, we are extra busy at this time of year." "I couldn't go in Au;u?t," said Kitty, She did not like to tell the superin- tendent that she had lent her salary for - the month of August to poor Mary Sin- clair, to pay for a s?a-coast trip for her consumptive sister, that the sister had died at Ocean Beach, and that Mary Sin- clair had never been able to renav the r . indebtedness. How true it is hs "it is the poor who are good to the poor! "Couldn't I posibIv" O "No, you couldn't !' said Mr. Irwin, and turned to his big books as if the case were closed. Kittie Kasson went quietly home to the solitary hall bedroom that she shared ' with a hollow-eyed stitcher in a corset factory, whose couh kept her awake j half the nieht. j OK, HERE S A LETTER FOR YOU. They made themselves a cup of fabu- lously wea'c tea, and nibbled at bread j and butter, with a pan of clams, which Miss Skerrett had cooked over a neigh bor's stove, to give some relish to it. They sat with shawls around them, and left the door into the hall open, in hopes that some current of warmth from the down stairs rooms might set their way. oh, here's a letter for you, which I'd nearly forgotten!" said Miss Skerrett. "It ot slipped under the bread plate. Kitty opened it and read it eagerly. Then her head dropped on her hands; she burst into tears, .'No bi 1 news, I hope!" said Miss Skerrett, who was mending. the worsted gloves which had so often been mended r . before. . 4.'No," said Kitty. "Nothing but what I might have expected. The old home' is sold to somebody from the Wen!" "But it hasn't been really yours for a long while, has it?" said Miss Skerrett. "Well, no!" Kitty admitted. "But as long as Squire Taft owned it, there was some chance of our buying it back. When I tirst came to New York, you know, Sarah, I was sure I could sell the novel I had written, and rebuild the fam ily fortunes. I fancied it was only a mattei of a year or two. Now I know what nonsense it was. No matter. I'm young, and tolerably strong. But it'll come hard on mother poor mother! who has kept hoping all her lifetime for things that never came. I've got to write to her, now, that I can't be at j home for Thanksgiving, snare me!" won't ( Miss Skerrett shrtigoeJ h( r n shoal - li ive i't had a ' dcrs. " . ; "Well," said' she, "whit you , got you can't mis. I never i ' . Thanksgiving!-' Kitty did not not answer. She was thinking of the red November sun ' aromatic scent of dead leaves, the ; of church bells chiming across the i fields, the smell of burning beech i on the old stone heartb. ; And all tnat nignt iong, wnen po or Miss Skerrett slept and couched by turns, WW Kitty Kasson lay awake and thought and the apple tree, where the red gills abcut Thanksgiving. flowers grew. And, oh, Sarah! am I i She was unusually .iuiet and dejected 'dreaming? There's mother coming out i the nex day. Mr. Irwin frowned a little. "We want our girls to be sprv and smiling," said he. "The customers don't like to see a death's-head -and -bones lehind the counter!" So Kitty tried to look cheerful, while all the time she was asking herself: ; "How could Abiram, Taft break his I promise to me ? How could he let his j father sell the old home, when he told s j nie I should have the refusal ol it? Of j course, I couldn't Day it; but the blow , j wouldn't ha7e come so suiden if I had known beforehand." j Miss Skerrett was full of a new plan j when Kitty cime home that night, j "Kitty," said she, "you felt bad abDUt losing your Thanksgiving. Let's have j ! a little one of our own, A chicken j j won't cost much poultry is always j cheap if you wait until the night before Thanksgiving. And Mrs Daley will let - - us cook it in her oven, and we could have a few roast chestnuts and two red j apples, aad a cranberry tart from, the i baker's. It won't coit sp roach if we join together." "But it wouldn't he a rcalThanksiT ins:," said Kitty, shaking her head, with a fad smile. Just then the letter carrier's whistle sounded in the hall below. Dow flew Kitty, and returned with another letter, directed thi time in Mm. Copley's still handwriting;. Kitty turned pale. "Open it, Sarah,'' said she. r ant. Either mother's sick or or she's dead!" j "either one nor the other," said j Sarah Ekerrett, who had made haste to break the seal. "Shall I'read it t: you?" "Dear Kitty: Come to Thankssivins this year, and bring your friend .Miss Sxerrett. Do not fail. It is to be a sur prise to your mother. So no more at present. "From your cousin, Deborah CorLEv." Kitty grew red and white. "Oh, but I can't!" she. "Oh!Nbutyou must!" said Miss Sker rett. "What will Mr. Irwin say!" "What he pleases. Oh, Kitty, we are such slaves all our life long, do let us have one free moment, and risk the con sequences!" The dimples came into Kittv'a clieek. "We will!"- said she. It was a stormy sunset ihat brooded, in its red magnificence, over the valley that night: but Thansgiyina is one of the few things that etormy weather can- not spoil; and as Kitty and Miss Sker rett stepped of the train, a gust of sweet scented air came up from the pine glens, the leaves rustled under foot, and the red barns in the distance seemed as if it were but yesterday that she had left them. . Mrs. Copley was at the station, rubi cund and short-breathed as ever. -'There's awaggin' back o'the freight house," sad she. "Wait a spell, girls, till the train's gone by. The hoss, he's skeery of the cars." "But what do we want of a wagon?" said Kitty. "It isn't a quarter of a mile to your house, Cousin Deb." "We ain't a-going there V sadd Mrs. Copley. "Your ma, fche's move 3." "Moved! Oh, Deb, I know I haven't been able to be very reguhir in the pay ments of-late," said Kittyfl a sudden suf focation coming into her throat, "but surely surely you haven't let them take her to the town house?" "Wal, I guess not?" said Mrs. Cop ley. "Get into the wagein. You'll V sec t" Abiram Taft was driving. Kitty viewed him sternly, scarcely returning his nod. "You are not vexed with me, Kitty?" said he. "You have broken your word," said si e in a low voice, while Mrs.- Copley pointed out the various places of interest to Sarah Skerrett. "You did it out of spite, because because I wouldn't mar- i ry you. ! "I may be a pretty mean man, Kitty,' said he, "but I ain't as mean as all that. Get up, Bonny;" with a lash across the old red horse's fat back. And they drove along in silence j until j "Stop!'1 cried Kitty. "Here's the out winter nights and watch for Santa Ciaus's coming. There's the big rlat , stone where we used to play jack-straws, , to the gate to meet me, just as she al- j ways did. Drive on, Abiram. l I think my brain mut be going." "I guess we won't drive on," said Abiram Taft, alighting and deliberately tying fhe sorrel horse to the post. "Your brain's all right, kitty. It is sTor: CRIED KfTTT. j0ur mother; and you be coram home aTin. iust like vou always did. Tae -j. j - house', your mother', Kitty; I de?dd t' e ok r.omp. mod, aoirai., aou et me. ,,, , , , , " ft t J Cii thnf th fifpntfir entire ril tht wnf L- sound J have one look at III And there are! be ilot)e the day htior Thanksgiving. frostv lights in the winuow vi look, barau--; , hi, -hi i oomj 3 s(, as we, a lif-r company will be saved logs , there's the window where I used to peep from much nnt,a,lcw. Mince ides ma, . ;t to her. I bought it of father with the ; proSts I made ia that Wciicra ranch' affair. I never felt quite fatlsfled about that foreclo5ure business, and this is what I call restitution money.' "Rut," cried Kitty, "the old furni ture the dear, tall clock and the hij;h topped chairs ." "I managed all that," saH Abiram. simply. "I sort, o' planned to have it all dovetailed in by-Thanksgiving Day. You see, Kitty, I know right well you don't love me; but, for all that, no one can stop m froai loving you an 1 work ing to make you happy. I couldn't no. how stand the idea of your bein shut up in that big city store liifce a bird in a cage. Go in, Kitty. Don't you see your mother waitin' for youf" "But but you 11 come and spend Thanksgiving Day with us to-norrow, Abiram?" faltered Kitty, still lmgeriu out under the lilac bushes, although her hand was tightly clasped" i ti her mother's. "Do you want me to, -Kitty i" "Yes, I do." '"Then I'll come!" Back to the old hearth ran Kitty. The familiar cricket still chirped between its stones'; th kettle sang the same sleepy tuue over the lire. "Oh, mother, mother' she gasped, "how happy I am! Oh, how can we ever pay Abirani Taft back?" The little, black-robed widow smiled as she took a pin of hot biscuit o it of 1 MRS. COPLEY PREPARING THE Tl'RKEY. the. oven and set the steaming teapot further back on the stove. "There's only oue way, daughter, that 1 know of," said she. "You've sneered at honest Abiram and laughed at him all these years, butt now " "Now,", saifl Sarah Skerrett, turning Kitty around so that she could look full into her eyes "now she loves him. I can see it in her eyes. Ah, Mr. Kas son, time has taught her mure lessons than one!" And Mrs. Copley, singeing the pin feathers off a fat young turkey in the back kitchen, mused to herself. "Well, I shouhb.': wonder if that tangle came straight arter all. ' Me and Copley got engaged on Taaaksgiving Day. It always was a lucky time." Tianlsiving Pieuiia'itMiv. A good dinner U one of the things we generally have reason to be thankful for, and although Thanksgiving Diy mein a deal of work for the ordinary house keeper, she is happy with it all if she is making others happy. If she has planr.e l be hak'd a week before real!? better for having stool a few day?. Pumpkin pies are j-ist as good if baked the day before they arc needed. C'hkkeu pie may also be bakd the day b"fore and warmed over for dinterc-There are manv mtUj thju lhlj tjifei.n , aM lf) not ron,ume ,nu time but altogether j f att. ndin- to them the dav or evening before. Fruit may be ait prepared ready to be put or the t.vuc and Mrl in a handy p!i'-e. Ve-get-ole may be washed and put in a od p'.a-e over night. Dishes that are oniy 'ied for company occasions shou'd b- all rady and in a convenient plac. An extra table in the kitchen uch time is a great help. I generally bring my i-iu iy cutting table into use. I ued to Vaiuk it quite an art to Je hle to tvv.t upon table gracefully, but I found thit one great secret of success w-isto have p'eaty of room and go a?out the work quiv.f y 1 Mr?. Clay. ' - , Prematarrf liejinc ng. "Hooray!" screamed the yjung tur key; Thanksgiving Day is gone, and I'm still here." "nut up said the ol i gobbler; OCjfeiriCa aud are "you evidently Live sever Carmoi." -- heard of CURIOUS FACTS. West India people eat alligator eggj. Tobacco consumption h increasing it Great Britain. A sahnon with "two tails" was lately caught by a tMierraauiin Coas Biy, Ore gon. There are Sa the Cmtel States ninety seven religious denomination; m Great Britain there are i.7. Paper from rags was ma le in 100") A. D., the tint linen paper in lVJ and paper from strtw in ISO 0. At the castle of Si nonet tat Italy, there is an an'e in the building which re echoes a pistol shot sixty-one times. Among Sir William !lrcv,r:'s Parlia mentary supporter at Derby, Kn gland, were two voters lui an 1 . lO.'t years of age. The Crst cirpets made in Europe were manufactured in France in 1831, is i-ni-tatiou of some which had been brought from Turkey. A potal card was recently soi l in Paris for !?r0. It had gone around the world after the person to whom it was addressed, and bore seventy-two post marks. Vulcan, the Britisli ironclad, if pro vided with a rudder weighing twenty two ton', or something like six tons heavier than the rudder UieJ on' the Great Eastern. There is a certain hill in the Sauth of Bohemia on whose top, if aa equinoctial eundial be duly erected, a man that is 6tone blind may know the hour of the day by the svue if the sun shiun. At New Orleans there is a colorel e womau who was a grandmother at tha age of twenty-live, and a French wo nan who was a great-grandmother thrca months before her thirty-sixth birthday. A bundle of spiderwcbs, not larger than a buckshot, aud weighing lew than one-half a dram, would, if untangled, make a line long euo uh to reach fro n Philadelphia to Boston and bick agaiu. A painful story comes fro n Pekin, China, of a young lady who, ovefcomi with grief at the: death of h';r huibati I, dressed herself in her mirria robes an I swallowel a latal doc of powdere j gold and lead. A portable sundiil iy not an uicom- . mon object in Spmi-y -shop', and it h still in current ue in Spain. At Bur gos no less than thre dillerent kinds ar-j offere 1 for sale,-a, price varpng from nine to seventeen cent". Tiirce-quarteri of a secon 1 is thetimi occupied by the fall of the knife in the guillotine. The knife in weigate h 1 ' pounds of leal, falls nine feet, aid. cuts through flesh and bo ie ,n eily a through a bar of soap. As a lad in Newcastle, Tu l., was div ing, two stones were struck-- toje'hr un der the water by another b . Wuei the diver arose he comtdaiu" 1 that his er pained hbn. -Sine tnea iie ranaot hear except wdieu spoiten to m very to l -tones. t Wiiile th D'iche;s of Albany was di tribi'iag pr."s at the a mi it ao-of the Cottage Gr Jen Sk i-ty at Smdo'vu Park, Kagland, a fcx terr.er m i fru the specralor?,-mouatel the r iyi! daiv and standing on its bin 1 le, brg 1 for a prize, too. ir.'atmint ot tiracne. Toero are rn!.!e re ne lie? tor mot C'kd-o-A disorders re j iiring no skilled attention, and even experts are ofetn. j willing to giv- away enres that anybo ly rai manage. .No dauot many people have thanked the man who p ibtished w ithout a pitent tn'u eny relief for the tar. - he: e "i am afraid " hive gmt'y iuter.'ere l with rny 4 vn jtracilc?," sail a cele brite 1 artiit, "by giving th! foiloriog adv ce to many of my friends: "At the firv. symp'.on o' taraia'? ltt th: pttient lie on the be w.th the pain ful ear upprrnoit. Foil a thick towel and tuck it around the neck; then with a teaspoon fill the ear with warm water.. "Continue do;og th a for '' tlftca oi tweaty tainut. ' Too w4tr will till the orifice and So over on the Jowel. Afterward turn over the head, let the water run out and plu tbs sr Nwith warm glycerine i cotton. "Ibis may In doa every hour until relief U obtataeJ. It i an almostWa vanaV.e cure and h laved many cei of acute inSamoiatioo. The vti should be quite warm, hut not too hot." London Td