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V Si, . to $1iP1i)T Ay Jly r IIILLSBORG, N. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1892. NEW SERIES-VOL. XII. NO. 4 Mi II I I Seventeen Mea'n on At pine mountain touts occurre 1 ir the Swiss Alps it ! laUl. SixU-.u .me tourists and one guide. " '" - ! ' Iowa ranks fifth among vne forty- ! eight State? and Territories of-the Union 1 ia the extent of its railroal mileage, 84 11. The States which lead Iowa are, ia order, Illinois, with 10,233 mile; ; Pennsylvania, Kansas, tiMl; , Tct i', SS." 1. The total mihjao in the j V;-te I States is 171,070, and of the i- :js.voo. I 10 - J " '1 ' f '4 ' I ! : " ' in r i -.'. . stabish the I J. (I. CUO'ing the last 'ery year pur- (( , . l!ie IjUUCI ntllC! U VClY ; mu;u f trg'-r am juut of merchandise than ; the United States has purchased from j Canada, and that this exces3 of pur-thase-i during the ten years has amoutcd toTulIv .Td-i.-.MtU.OOO. ' Trnperor Alexander, of Russia, hai ju-t freed the Kalmucks of Astrakhan from serfdom. These roving people are Buddhists, exjiiams the Brooklyn Citi Z'jn, an V they number 15J,0o0 souls. When the other Russian serfs were freed, in 101, the Iytlmueks were not per mitted to enjoy the results of that refor mation, for it was thought that so wild a people would abuse their r .rivV.egCJ. .. A French papr tells or a new process of tanning by electricity, which, it says, is bcin used on the ski is of stray dogs gathered into the Paris pound. The electric system, it is alleged, transforms the skin into leather in three or four days against the six or eiht months require i in the ordinary way. It is e!u :! u-ed for ladies' line shoe?, and is notable for soft and delicate qualities The v. l iter of a wonderful article which recently appeare 1 in cribner's",' rending the extinction of the buffalo is very fn e!y, and, according to the Auier ici;i I liryiwin, pr perly criticise 1 in aa r.lifortal paragraph in the Northwest Magazine. The point is ma le that tho buifa'o was vi almost wyrthies.s animal, and that sportsm'm who care nothing for him except to kill him, are the outy people intense 1 in his preservation. It i-i also very truly remarke 1 that the grass formerly needed to support a buffalo now supports a .steer, and that the change from millions of bullalocs to millions of cattle shows a marked advance in the riviliz iti ii of the great region over whieh the wild animals formerly roamed a; will. It will be remembered, recalls the B ston Transcript, that when J umbo was originally taken from the Lin Ion ' I'.oie il (iar lea he displays 1 great u:"-;ilnig.iess to leive his oaipinton, Alice, Tears figured in the episode, an 1 great e impassion was excited by the evi dence- of the elephant's affection. A Mr. Guylord, who was with - B lrnum when . Jumbo was b a iht, says it was all ar ranged; that Scott, th keeper, who c line over with Jumbo, mame ivred tho tlep'iiant in a way to give the desire 1 effect of feeling. When it was time for hun to leave and his car w:u realy, he got the order to lie down, and down he weat, and the populace wept at the thought of the e'ephint' aahappiae. When he was told to ca n- a way he erne. A savani attempts to vie u )nUt ate, in one of our scientific maaxinc, that there h likely to be a scircity of clbo.v room iinoa,' t'h eirt'a's pjpulation in the reas m ibly - near future. He estimates the pie -at population of the wjrld at 8vmett;m ies than one and a mil bil lion. To..4 nitural Increiae, he cou .chiles will mak-? .the tiure six billion two hun Ire 1 yeirs,honce, and this, he declares,- is the ut-uot limit of the ruth's capacity for sustaining human liie. i'ae. trouble with all these elabo ratt eti-nJttM an 1 depictions maintains t'a New Xcvs, h that they ara bied upo'i the hypothesis that tain must y always .-iivo as ho lives tj-day. Con- di.;o:is wai change as necessity crowds population. Half tae people of the earth now rarely, if ever, taste meat. Tns den-e pvalatioaa of China, India, and some other countries live almosL wholly on rice. Analysis aUiw that the banana contains all the elements essential to hunar. life, an i enough bananas can be rX'-ei'on an acre of ground to supply one luindre 1 people a year. It wdl be a lori' time lfore the standing roo.n only 'placard is displayed ia the world's ' theatre. THE WINDS' STORY. The North Wind bler at night off the sea. Baying, VvSorrowfnl. sorrowful, all of met I sing of the numbins: Winter's breath, I fcin of snow, an 1 death. I bring in the wave with tbe broken spar, An 1 tho frray teas rurlin? over the bar. Drifting at night from a roll br ght s-tar- Sorrow iul, korrowful, all of mef The Soutii Win 1 bw at noon off th- s-ia. Singing, ".-orrowfu', sorrowful, come to t sing of tne g -Uen butt ?ra .? breath, I binj the peie of death. I bring in th- shellR with the laughiuj tile, Ani follow the nvru sails hoai, an 1 slide In the Iroway heat down the meadow side Sorrowful, sorrowful, come to m?!" The Hist Win J b'w at morn on tha saa, Crying, ".Sorrowful, sorrowful, all of niel I sing of the piercing icebergs breath, 1 in of the horror of death, And the tempest's shriek in th3 rigging blaek, And the spin JriCt wreath an 1 the rolling V.T5Ck An! tu boit that nver again c nes back Sorrowful, sorro Afull ali of me!'1 The West Wind blew at dawn oir th3 spi, Callinfr, "Sorrowful, sorrowful, come to me! I sin 5 of the joyous salt sea breath, I sine, TKfre is no death I murium- of sea caves ro3y an 1 deep, An 1 the glittering bay where th 9 shoal fish leap. And thi lape of the tide cs it sinks tc sleep Sorrowfu1, sorrowful, com? to me!" . E. Gillington. ! THE FALSE SUMMONS. KY AMY HANDOLPir. UK red curtains were drawn, the fire blazed cheerily on the hearth, and the click of the sleety rain against the window-paneo ZGtyZZT a onlv seemed tc heighten the enjoyment within, where a shaded lamp gave out its serene glow, and the pictured folds of an ancient Chinese screen shut all possible and im possible draughts away fyjm the ruddy fireside. "Doctor FengrQve sat on one side, with the newspaper in his lap; Mrs. Fengrove sat on the other, trinqmlly occupied in darning stockings, while a chubby year old lay asleep in its crib, just where the firelight touched its curls with fleeting glimpses of gold. "Well," said the doctor, letting the newspaper slip down to the floor, "this is comfortable. T don't often get an evening at home since Hello I What's that? Some one knocking at the kitchan door." Mrs. Fengrove rose and answered the summons. Presently, she came back. "It's Milo York, doctor," said she. "Malo York, eh?" Doctor Fen grove's . countenance darkened as, ho spoke. "Didn't I tell Milo York never to darken my door again?" "But he's hungry, my dcr," pleaded the gentle-hearted woman, "an I home less. Mr. .Kvarton has turned him away, and" "I don't blame Mr. Evartou!" tarjdj interrupted her husband. "A. miserable, drnnlcpn loafer, wlm ' "I don't think he has been drinking to-night, doctor," said Mrs, Fengrove. "He looks pale and tired. II says he has had nothing to eat, since n ;on and has no place to sleep." "That's no affair of mine!" retorted Doctor Fengrove, who, though free hearted and hospitably ineliue i iu gen eral, had hardene 1 his heart like a rliut against this particular instance if hu manity. Mrs. Fengrove still hesitate.!. "What shall I tell him?" asked she. "Tell him to go about hh business" returned the do-tor, energetically stir ring the tire until a red stream of sparks flew up the chminey. Mrs. Fengrove closed the door, and went back to the kitchen porch. "Milo," said she, ":nt husban 1 will have nothing to say.to you." "I don't blame him much," dejectedly responded Mho Yo:k, who was indcej, an unpromising-looking subject enousrh, with his unkempt hair hanging over his brow, bis garments in rags and the end of his nose chilled and parpled with the bitter night air. "But it's a dreadful night," softly added Mrs. Fengrove. "Wait out here the porch will shelter you from the. rain. The co3ee-pot i3 on -the stove jet, and I'll bring you plate of bread and cold meat and a bowl of co3ee." "Thankee, ma'am," said the tramp, gathering himself like a hep of rags into the corner, to wait. He drank his coUee and ate his supper like a famished hound,- and then Mrs- FenjjTOve gave him a tattered old shawl, long since cast aside by her husband. "Take this," she said, 'and lie down in the barn loft; there's plenty of good, sweet hay there. But be sure you're ofi before the, doctor comes out in tht morning. '. . "Thankee, ma'am," again tittered the man, and he disappeared like a shadow into the howling tempest. "Where have you been all this time?" suspiciously queried the doctor, as his wife came into the softly illuminated arch of the Chinese screen again. Mrs. Fengrove turned scarlet under his pene. trating glance. "I I only gave Milo a little some thing to eat and drink," she faltered. "You know the Good Book says: 4Turn not away thy face from any poor man'.' " "Yes," dryly coughed the doctor, "but I guess the Good Book didn't make any allowance for tramps. And I tell you what, Dolly, it isn't safe to harboi these miserable wretches, with Aunt Dorothy's silver tea-set in the house, let alone your own spoons and forks, es pecially as I am obliged to be so m'ict from home." Mrs. Fengrove sewed on in silence, she was almost sorry she had told poor Milo York about that suui? corner in tho hay-loft, but she lacked courage to con fess the whole thing to her husband. "It will be all right, I dare say," she told herself. "But Milo York mustn't come hanging around here any more." In the dead of the tempestuous night, here came a ring at the doctor s nig.it 5ell. Old Mr. Castleton was very ill iying, perhaps! The doctor was wanted it once! With a yawn, our good Esculapiu3 rose out or his warm bed, dressed him ielf and, saddling old Roan, set out for ais midnight ride of six long miles. But .vhen he reached Castleton Court, all was itill and dark. He" rang two or three nines be! ore a night-capped head popped out of the, window that of the old jquire himself. ' "Dear, dear!" said Squire Castleton. 4 What's the matter i Nobody ill, I hope !" i4Why, you are, aren't you?" testily demanded Doctor Fengrove. "I? Not a bit of it I" said the squire, in surprise. Didn't you send for me?" "No, I didn't," said the squire. "And if you've got anything more to say, you'd better come in out of the sleet storm and say it." ? " "No," said Doctor Fengrove, setting his teeth together, I'll not come in, thank you.". "It ain't a joke, is it?" questioned Squire Castleton. "I'm afraid it's something more se rious than a joke," said Doctor Fen grove. "Good-night." And, turning old Roan's head, he set I spurs to him and trotted rapidly away. Evidently, the night call wns a con certed plan a plan 1o leave his home unprotected and his mind turned, with keen distrust, to Milo YorK and his tale of distress. "God keep Dolly and the little one safe until I get home again!" he mut tered, between his closed lips. "Faster, Roan, faster!" with a touch of the whip, which was scarcely needed, so thoroughly did the good horse eater into the spirit of his rider. "You know not how much may depend upon your speed to-niht!" Meanwhile, Mr-. Fengrove, waohad just fallen into a restfc?-? slu-ubsr, after locking the door behind her husband, was uuwontedly- started once again by a low, steadily continuous sound like the rasping of some hard in-trum3nt. She eat up in be I ttnd lis'ened a min- ute. Under her window the sound of muul.d and subdued voice? was au libie, even above the ratt'e and roar of the wintry storm. "Burglars!" she gaspel to herself. "And my husbaud is gone m l Oh, Milo York is at the bottom of this! How wrong it was of me to give him shelter in the barn!" Springing to her feet, she thrj.v on a blue flannel dressing gwn, and hurrisi to the cupboard, where her few simple treasures were kept, b2ude3 th square, ncorrocco case containing Auat Dorothy's service of. solid, old-fasaionei china She turned the key and was just drop ping it into her pocket, whea a rude grasp fell on her aria. i "No you don't!" muttered a grul voice. "Give that hsre!" ,3Lrs. Fengrove's heart turned chill a vdeath as she found herself fas? to facj with & tall, ruiiialy nun, w ioie face was halt hidden by a ssrt o? visor or mask of black leather, -while atiother man was busily engaged in ransacking the bureau drawers opposite. 'Gire it here!" he utterei savagely. Or," grasping the throat of the sleep ing baby, who had awakened with a cry of infant terror, "I'll wring the brat's neck a3 if it were a chicken's." Mrs. Fengrove gave a shriek of affright, but at the same second a stun ning blow from a spade handle felted the man opposite, like a log, to the floor, and a strong hand, twisting itself, vice-like, in the neckerchief of the near est villain, compelled him to loose his hold of the child. "You will, will you?" thundered Milo York. "Not if V know it, 1 guess!" j And suddenly closing with the burglar, there f ensued a desperate struggle for a minutcor two, during which Mrs. Fengrove's blood seemed turning to ice within her veins. It was brief, how ever. Milo flung his opponent heavily to the ground, and, tearing one of the sheets fromlhe bed, he twisted it around and above him, knotting it here and there, until the cowardly burglar lay helpless and pinioned at' his feet. "I'd oughter cut yer throat," said Milo, "a-fightin babies and. women, you mean skunk, you I But I won't; I'll leave you to the. law, and if that don't grip you tight enough, I ain't no good guesser!" & And, with equal rapidity, he tied the hands and feet of the other man, who still lay insensible on the floor. Is is he dead?" gasped poor Mrs. Fengrove, scarcely daring to look in that direction. "No he ain't cot hia deserts." Milo answered, wiping the sweat from his brow. "He'll live to be hanged yet, ma'am, never fear." At this moment the sound of old Koan's gallop on the half-frozen road struck like welcome music on Mrs. Fen grove's ears. 'My husband !" she cried out, hysteri cally. "My husband 1" Milo Y'ork went down and unfastened the door the burglars had effected their nefarious entrance through the parlor window and Doctor Fengrove found himself face to face with the tramp. "York!" he exclaimed. "Yes, sir, York,'J' nodded Milo. "And if it hadn't been v 4 York, your wife and the little uh would have b;en in a bad fix.'-, Oh, husband I" shrieked Mrs. Fen grove, flinging herself into his arms,, "Milo York has saved our lives 1" I ain't altogether, sartin about that," added Milo, "bntllguess I've saved jour money and valuables." "But how came you here?" qestioned Doctor Fengrove. "I was a-sleepin out in the barn," said Milo. "She told me I could. She give me a blanket and food and drink when I was 'most ready to drop. God bless herl And I heerd their footsteps just arter you had gone out, and I sus- picioned as all wasn't right. 1 just got up and crept arter 'em, and here they is," with a nod to 1 the two cap tives on the floor. "And if you'll just lend, a hand, doctor, we'll h'ist 'em oa' into the hall, where they won't interfere, with folks, and then I'll go over to the village for the constable and the hanl- curTs." "How can I ever reward you for thi', Milo?" said Doctor Feujrove, in tones stifled by emotion. "I don't want no reward," sail Milo, stoutly. "I'dV done more nor that for her," with a twitch of his head towai 1 Mrs. Fengrove, "Ah, sir, you don't know the sort o feelin a man has for the only person is all the world as holds out a helpin' hand when he's ready to drop' with hunger an 1 faintnessl An 1 now," more briskly, "I'll go." "Dolly," said the doctor.as tho honest fellow vanished, "what would have b .comeof us all this night if vo i hai not been more merciful and ten ler-henrtel than I! Gol be praised that your sweet woman-nature gained tne vienrvl" That was the last midnight alarm that our doctor's fa-nily ever sustains i. Tns two burglars, discovered to be old anl experienced hands at the busineis, were safely lodged in State prison for the longest practicable term; the gang wn effectually broken up, and the neighbor hood was at peace again. And Milo York i an objectless, de spised tramp no longer. He is Dr. Fen grove's "hired man" do, as much a - friend as a servant, and you may see hitn, any sunny day, at wotk in the garden, with the baby playing around him. Milo York says. The Ledger. Sunflowers as a Field Crop. If the lintless cotton plant has maJ great fortunes or conquest wo have ar heard of it. Still vegetable oilr f culinary purposes are more anil mon coming to the front. Kansas iVeallei the Sunflower State. The seeds froha sun flowers yield a pure, sweet oil, and j large product at that per acre. Tbe plant will thrive on almost any oil. ft could be grown in drills or in hills, two oi three plants to tha hill and cultivated like corn. Oa rich land each plant wit bear two or three flowers and yield frou 200 to 1000 seeds to the flower. Ther are a number of varieties also, some bear ing flowers as large as a peck measari in diameter. There will be a chance for an inventor to produce a machine whicli will free and clean the seeji-. Suppos edly any press vised for linseedHor catoi beans will express the oil, and a mani pulation like that used for re'ining cot tonseed oil and making it equal to olive oil would also refine the seeds, or rathei oil from the sunflower seed?. There is 'a great desire in many house holds for a substitute for hog's lard. I' must be sweet and odorless to superse if lard or butter. Some people have an i le that almost any kind of butter, rauci i and stale, could be used by bakers oi confectioners. There never was a greatei mistake. It does not require the uaosl educated taste or the keenest sene ol smell to discovor.the fart when stale oi rancid,butter has beeu used in the preo aration of cake, tart or pie. The oil from rape seed, which grrv two blooms like a turnip plant, is com monly used in the north of Europa ii baking potato pancakes for instan.-e When this is put into the pan and be comes heated to a certain degree all tht unpleasant odors escape in S minute, anc after that the butter is mixed with thi oil in the pan and the product is as frejr from taint as if the purest lard had been' used. There are plenty and good salad oliva oils now in the market, inclu ling the? psuedo, cotton, olive oil wholesome and of fairly good flavor, but of such oils as could be used for other culinary purposes, especially baking, there ar scarce any, and in due time perhaps sun flower oils will fill the place. St. Louii Republic. The Metals. ' Among the most importaut and wall known metals are tin, copper, mercury, iron, nickel, zinc, lead, silver anj gold. Iron was known many centuries ago and during the "irou age." Sifter and gold are taken in the rarer ratals. What U a metal? some one asks. A metal is an,, element hich possesses a peculiar lustre, known - metallic lustre, the higher ox ides of which are aid-lorming com pound. Some of the metals are barely known to exist as: Iridium, tungsten, palladium, J etc. - A- person unacquainted with pure iron would fcarcely thrak it to be nearlv t silver-white metal. Tne "Iron A'e" marked the latest advancement of thi primeval people. Estenive sme'.tin j works were erected, and furnace j were discovered by M. 2 Vprez in t'u ! Btrncss Jnra.' . j Platinum, ueing one ot tne rarei metals, was discoverel several c-ntunei ao, but was not utilized until lately. Iridiurnis the expensive metal an! c curs usually with platinum and osmium. The alloys of csruium and iridium are j used a great deal in tipping uold pms j The metals are divert into tivi- groups, j Theacid empl tye l in the flrt and see-j ond groujr is hydrochloric; th thir "roup are soluble in dilute acid; t .4 , f. 1 ! fourth in water, acids and alkalies an 1 ; the fifth are soluble in the air. Detro.t ; Free Pr Lifting the Hat. The cuiiom of lifting the hat had origin during the aze of chivalry, wha it was customary for knights never to ap pear in public except in full armor, it became a custom, however, for a knight. uooa entering aa assembly, o to re note his helmet, sigaifv "I a-u sare in tae presence o: men i The age of chivalry passeijay with the fifteenth century, but anion; the. many acts of courtesy which cia be traced back to its influence nose ar more direct in its origin than tht of lift ing the hat to acknowledge the presence of a friend. Detroit Free Press. All I wanted was a chance," F0PULAR SCIENCE. Compressed paper is a wood substi tute. c Chicago will erect aa aluminium building. The pine tree is aidto attain an age of from 500 to 700 years. In Persia the cholera does its fatal' work almost in7ariably in one day. - Boise City, Idaho, will ue tBe boiling water from artesian wells near the city to heat its houses. The velocity of the earth through space on its circle around the sun SVeragej nineteen miles a second. An outbreak of typhoid fever in Lon don has been traced to infected ice cream sold' by Italian street venders. A St. Louis man who had beeu hic coughing at half minute intcrvaU for two days was stopped by hypnotism. Water cress ejeiains much sulphur and is one of the best remedjej for scurvy known., It should be vSS raw with salt. A recent invention is a bicyclo tiro consisting of an endless closed rubCer tube filled with hollow rubber, balfl of the same diameter as tt insilo diame ter of the tube. A new invention is a saw-hjrse with a toothed dog holding the piece of timber in place, the device being piv oted at the cross legs and operating un der a spring tension. The only specimen of fossilied or pet rifled cave man ever found in the United States was that discovered by an explor-; ing party at Craighead Cave, near Mon-' roe, Tenn., in 1S92. M. Turpin, the inventor of the explo sive melinite, who ft now underg6ing five years' imprisonment in France, claims to have finally solved the prob lem of aerial steering. A Gennan doctor of reputation pre scribes aluminum as a curefbr rffeumrt tism. A finger rmraade of this metal, joined with another, generate! a gentle current of electricity, which is laid to make a permanent cure. A cigar contains acetic, fomic, bu tyric,,, valeric and proponic acids, prussic acid, creosote carbolic acid, ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen, pyridine, vir dine, picolinc and robodin to say noth- j ing of cabagine and burdockic acid. The perpendicularity of a monument is visibly affected by the ray of the sun. On every sunny day a tall monument has a regular swing leading away from the san. Thia phenomenon is due to the greater expansion of the side on which the rays of the sun fall. A remedy lor excessive perspiration, to be made into a fine powder to be ap plied to the hands ami feet, or sprinkle I inside of gfl5ts or stockiugs, Is as fol lows: Carbolic acid, one part; burnt alum, four parts; starch, 2)0 parti; Freurh chalk, fifty part; oil of lemon, two part. VA pew element is saul to have been discovered. ThemiCral from which it is obtained is found In Upjer Egypt, hence the name Mairiutri derive I frou Masr, the Arabic name for Eypt, is to be giveu to it. It has not yet been Iso late!, but it is said 1 1 belong to the ilka line earth-group, and to havcan atomtp. weight of about 22S. k Experiments by meint of photo graphic plates in the M; litcrranean Sea, prove that m the middle of a bright day irTuimier the rays of tbu tun do not penetrate the waters of that sea to a depth of cire than !"') fathaat. In Sop'em'icr the dutasce to wbicbjlght penetrates t aiobu-rvab! x'ent is much reduced, the impression oa tfc) p'ate at V ) fathoms at that season ofJt beio a ijreit as that made by starlight.' r k it .- j;- are tuy iti (rrr ilr.ra.in j or g.wi b it:r that tney ; I awa. in j :brJl, tor foreign butter, 450,000,000; ; or oleomargarine, 20.000.0O0. j Th,: rot of moving a street car by the j -roily system is tnU per mfle; by corses it is 11.30 ceit. This is there- tiort of a Boston company. With'n th Ht'. thiy vein there aarc been on the BritWh otit 6,37" r" J, Tita the fear.'u! l a 'A 2Z,ZZ live'. It doesn't tak? m;c i buutr to bar is trcueri. OleniFalii RepuaUciff. The raechadea fahrie' if thlT-iited S'ates annually yield 2,C00,K?'J: worth o! ftridiZer-i -n 1 oil.
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