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Wmfc ESTABLISHED IK 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY MAY 26, 1894. NEW SERIES-VOL. XIII. NO. 28 r.-,KZj' rrnr moic and more Una u y, in- out of cultivation in England 171 more than 2,000,000 acres i, .' Iw '-n abandoned. !) ,f tui Al-,u, oi lioiiiinu, njH thai ILt cLjI-ru ia a much more prevalent tliHI1 !rny others, which are r T- emmon and more deaJlj, but The old-style square pianos are a thin .' of the past, there bein? no dc iuhh for them nowadays. T', j.rop.-rly on 'which the Bank of I-'ngiand st'ind in worth $20,000,000. Vt. tins trifling item iH never con udercd in i t h balance sheets. Th'-re in talk in Washington of forming a m tnifiront park from that f.'tion of the reclaimed Potomac flats which lie below Long IJridge. All F.urope seoms to have the exhi bition fever, an 1 sorncRort of a World's I'.-nr is to be lield in every European rnj. it'll during the year. And tho i pi b rni'" is up reading further ahead. A! x-mdria iH preparing a national ex h.liti..n of ancient and modern Egypt, to i.e (j,vii in that city during the mmnii r.' ft is to be a complete ex position of the modern lire, social, in dustrial, and arthtie, of the land of the Pharaohs, and also of much of the countrv'ri wondrous nast. "Let us fondly hope," observes the N'-v York News, "that science has Jim ie no mistake in one reported dis covery of recent date. It is claimed tint practical tests show how all the garbage in New York might be dis posed of with a balance of seven hun dred dollars a day to the city's credit. It i the grease,' the ammonia and the fertilizing matter that causes garbage to pan out rich, as thej say in mining camps. The details are not of much Consequence arid the profit is not tempting. But if science can profit ably get away with the garbage, and then successfully tackle the ash-cloud nuisance, New York will make to K'ienee a profound salaam." The gent le art of shoplifting Is on the i::;Te'is.', according to Mr. White ly, tii. great London provider. It is iel to think women of the middle and iijie;' clashes are said to be the chief o:l uid'-rs, although it is difficult to rn lit such a statement. One of the commonest tricks is to have t-everai hi! ;e pockes in a dress into which things eau be pushed easily without imMiiiig observation. Very often lvng. loose eioaks are worn. It cannot be urged that kleptomania is the rea v'l; for these thefts, because the shop lifters usually hunt in couples, one vn-agiug the attention of the atten dant while t he other does the thieving, l or every man caught at thy work there are three hundred women! A late issue of London Truth has th" following : The Matnbele war wa commenced by the Chartered Com pauy nominally because, after inviting L' 'b-'tik'ula to send troops to chastize the Masimnas, the forces of the com pany lulled his troops as they could Il"t get I MIC r to Matabelelan'l 'which w.i. thirty miles distant) in an hour really for the same reason that led Ah -ib to cause Naboth to bo killed. It wu carried on by men enlisted by the r :ui-e of "loot." It whs waged with h:deo"nf! cruelty. Lohenqula wrote to a!; what the company desired; no r -p'.y was sent. He sought to forward a Ltter to the queen; it not for-.--'M. He sent envoys ; they were killed.' lnally his capital was d ktr iv, ; and parceled. -out into "town - t-,'" a:; I he was driven into the - '.-.up; old, fever-stricken ai de - i at his utmost need by those s : bo'.inty fed. He was pur- s a. . Wh. u the bloollhonnds were, on is trak th poor mAn sent and of r. 1 t ,.ur-u ler. and as an earnest f e.is g,- i ftwitU forwarded a present of '- il l to his lvir-sn : V-r. like th o iu ar b 'ui; ier Pizzarc, they had i-'.i own th -it the love of pcld could -I ne mibienc them. What hap 1 ' ! ' 1 r.ivssige was Mippressed, ;mM stolen. This is Dr. 'a:.; a-s. an 1 soi.'s own account. And we are 1 to' regard these men as heroes, I pa ..),' .) 0 for having aided tain, to rob this kinir of his countrv L.1 of his life 1 ALONG 'O THE WORLD. The worli is aiway unnr When yer txylt s fall of monr. (Mak the !otlar9, make the doM.irs Ter7 'lay ! An' yer friendVll all befriend you When yer flmh. an' want to lend yoa. (Mrke the dollars, make the dollars ever day !) The world fs fall o' honey When yer pockets full o' moify. ("Make the dollars, make the dollars every day!) When you've got ten or twenty You kin always borrow plenty. (Make the dollars, make the dollan cverv day?) The world il tingle, tingle When it henr the ilver jingle. (Make the dollars, make the dollar? every day!) Uut when you want to borrow, It is mighty full o" sorrow. (Make the dollars, make the dollars every day!j Atlanta Constitution. KISMET. ET ISABEL HOLMES. T was a pretty summer idyl, and Grace Flushing was the central figure in it. Grace was t girl whom re verses had placed behind a counter for a season. Sbo was fairly pretty, but that is neither here nor there. She wofl sweet and lovable and alto gether charming in character, with the daintiest lady-like ways imagina ble, and when you know this of a girl you would love and admire her just the Hame, if fihe had pink hair and sea-green complexion. Grace had saved her money to spend her fortnight's vacation at Brimmer's. You dou't know Brimmer's by the name. It is a do-as-yon-please spot, in the heart of the woods, miles from the railway rtation, and yon reach it afte: c long, jolting ride in a big wag on. It is arcadia to the world-ridden haudful who have found it out. They Bpeak of it in whispers, lest its sancti ty shall be invaded.by a vulgar troop, Grac3 didn't care a fig for sight seeing. But she did want to lay up n supply cf ntrength to carry her through the remainder of the hot sca Hon at Duck & Sunniag's. When the driver drew up before a long, roomy and romantic log house, with open doors and windows, and hammocks swung hospitably under the trees, she was enchanted. There was a small ciearing behind the house, and in front of it a blue lako lying in it bowl-like basin, at the foot of a wood ed mountain, with a rank forest growth enclosing the greater part oi it. After a night of sound sleep Grace found herself one of a delightfully "homey"' party at the breaktast table. A plump matron dispensed fragrant coffee with yellow cream to her happy family with the brooding air of a mother hen over her chickens. There was a sweeb-faced, white-haired lady. a newly-married couple, a sail-eyed humorist, resting from his own jokes; an overworked woman writer, on the qui vive for romance, while she re cuperated in the solitude, and an empty chair, where some one had breakfasted before Grace's appear ance. :The motherly woman said a word of introduction. Grace was laughing and talking with the rest before the mea. was over. She was subjected to no criticism. Her friend's letter had been a fuflicient passport to the retreat. Dress was at a discount at Brim mer's. Ginghams and flannels rnlec absolutely, though these were fash ioned with feminine taste , No ont could afford to le careless of appear ances. There was the slyly -observant humorist, whose funny column, later, would smack of Brimmer's. . Thert" was. besides, the man with brown smooth-shaven face, and big hazel eyei like patient oxen, who rowed so man hours on the lake alone, in abstractet fashion. Grace hadn't felt so light-hearted it the years since her father's death. Th sense of elegant leisure, for a briel season gave her an air of repose, whicl became her vastly, as she crnmplec her roll leisurely and sipped cream an. strawberries She Wloaged for th time to the ranks of field lilies, wht neither toil nor spin, and being a iadt to her finger-tips, the sensation wa; all the more delibAfal. Grace put on her shaker bonnet afte breakfast, and set ont for a ramble. "It is all safe and .ure roand here," said Mrs. Hnnter coming to the frot of the big shod whore she was snperin tending the cooking. "If yon, don' get Imck by lunch time, we'll blow horn."' Grace heard the lowing of a cot and the cackling of hens somewhere ii the back ground, as she struck int. the roads to the left. How grand ani restful the woods were I How pur and strong and odororu the air! Sh stood still every few minutes wit. shoulders thrown back, to inhale it elixec. The birds were having a jubl lee. The red squirrels eyed hercriti cally from overhead. She had- been skirting the lake thinking she would try the inountab .to-morrow. "She came upon a patriarchal tree which looked inviting. The groun around it was trodden, and som- natural steps in the gnarled trunk,, le up to a seat, several yards from th ground, framed by branches crookeo into the shape of a settee. She wa not long in taking possession of it. The lake's snrface, broken into shinny ripples, gleamed through the, foliage She heard the dip of oars. A mai in boating costume was rowing directly towards her perch. She could see hin .noor the boat. He was coming througl rackincr underbrush. Perhaps ti v-fts seeking her settee, with a prio: -laim. But no, he came in sight, ant threw himself full length on the ground where she had a full view of him as be puffed his cigar, herself unobserved. Where had she seen him before? Sorely his face was familiar. Memory went ransacking nooks and corners, for the missing links in the chain of association. Ah ! now she had it, the picture his presence rocalled. A morn ing in early May, herself behind the glove-counter of Duck and Running's the last day of her stay there. A big. clear-eyed young man with a Western flavor, she had thought vaguely, was buying a dozen pairs of ladies' gloves, and with a bashful, conscious air, ap pealing to her taste in his selection of pale pink, cream, and corn color. He had worn a big soft hat and a diamond which to Grace's not inexperienced eyes her father had been a jeweller was of the first water. "He is genuine as his diamond and he's in love,"' had been her mental summing up. He was destined to remain in her memory, it seemed. After he had left with his purchase, she found among the gloves strewn on the counter, a charm, fragrant and amber-colored. On one side was a star and crescent and the mystical word "Kismet," while the other side was covered with cabolistic symbols. Grace gave a guilty little start when this point ws reached. She had been wearing "Kismet" for good luck ever since, had it suspended from her neck by a ribbon at that moment, and there, a few rods below, was its owner. Had things gone wrong with him since its loss? He didn't look quite as happy as the day he had pulled it out of his pocket with some rumpled bills, at Duck and Sunning's. As for her, things had gone swimmingly. She had se cured a better position the very next dv. and besides had recovered a lost ring and her purse which she ha dropped on the street. Grace might have sat there till doomsdav, without being discovered, had not the wreaths of smoke from hraA cigar wandered up to her perch and tickled her throat into a cough. Her J face flushed , furiously. Why must j cigars always serve her this trick. He j would think she had coughed purposely to attract attention. With that thought j came another cough which brought j Jack Hardy to his feet in an instant. He craned his neck for a view of the face above, bat it was mercifully hidden by tl e skater snnbonnet. "I aid not know I had a neighbor," Jack taid. Sure enough the cough had emboldened him. "You would not have known now if yourciga- smoke hs.d stayed at hose,' retorted Grac. who was painfully con scious of her disadvantage. "In ieh.alf of the cigar, I beg par don," Jack responded. w answer came from the high set ter. "I have thrown it away now,' ho said meaningly.. ,4I see tou have." 1 "So." "I'm awfully lonesome down here." Jack had reached the secant "step," if the of the old tree truat, an I was ooking ofT over the lake disconso lately. "It's this 'Kismet tha has brought us together," Grace thought. "How ridiculous ! Has his lady love worn out the gloves yet, I wonder?" With this thought, Grace unbent a little. He was not "AirUtiotn," and a young man in love with another gir' was a safe enough companion for her. I cannot tell you how it earn about, the3e things "do" themselves, an I within fifteen minutes after the firt little cough, Jack was seated besidt Gra'ce and talking off hand through the eu.nbonnet barrier. Grape was friendly enough. Shr was too generous to be prudish. Moreover, she had the advantage Not an inkling of her identity had dawned upon him, but she knew at least a chapter in his history. . They talked of New York. Jack let fall that he was from California, and had first seen Gotham six months ago. Grace was demurely reticent about herself. There was no- need of un folding herself before a stranger. They sat, talking pleasantly enough, I nntil lunch was announced by the "toot, toot" of a horn. They saun tered up to the house together, with out so much as a single knowing glance being exchanged between those already gathered at the table. "We aro a picked company and can do a we please," was tho' motto at Brim mer's. Somehow, Jack and Grace spent ft good deal of time together, after that. They boated, and walked, find talked, and climbed the mountain with a lnnch basket between them, and acted, for all tho world, like two childrci. meanwhile tho newly-married were absorbed in each other, the writer was studying "effects," the white-hairel lady nud the humorist, each swunj idly in hammocks, with an eye shut, the "help" attended to their own business, an 1 Mrs. Hunter broolel motherly over all. It was indeed Arcadia. Thy, day before Grace left they climbed tc the settee for a last tete-a-tete. Now Grace had the "restful"' quality, in a large degree. Besides, she wa sympathetic. You c uld .a t bj an hour in her company without war, tin;; to confide your latest trouble t her. She had no roo n for h mi grief-, sh-. djjlardd, she was i, full o." ou..iide 'iies . Jack proved no exception to th: rule. jWould you believe it ? He sat there that day and told her his whole love story. She was a New York girl, a dear, bewitching, dainty creature. Oh, he would have died for her! Ane what did Gracj think? Whv, this gir had jilted him. He was well, he wa! worth a few thousands but he never supposed she took his money into ac count until the papers reported th smash-up of the X. Y. Z. Company. ,She had ent him a smooth note oS dismissal, the next day. It was .bogus report, and was soon contra dicted, but it had fulfilled its mission. He had been in love with a bogus young woman. It was well to find it out in time, but somehow it took a fellow down a peg to know that he. 'himself, was of such small consequence a curl's eves. . Grace's eys gave him affair shade of discreet sympathy. "Do vou believe in charms?" he asked, abruptly. "Yes," t-aid Grace, with proper de ci-ioc. i "So do I. I lost one I had worn for year the very day I got the mitten. My luck changed from that on. I've been missing boat- and trains and los- ing valuables ever since "Kismet." kttrrnpie 1 Grac. "Why? how?" he began, vita, atook under the ;onnet. "I found it," said Grac promptly. "I've carried it ev?r since. It has brought me lot of luck. I think it is time now to return it to its owner." She took the fragrant, amulet from her portemonnae. it was carefully wrapped in pmk t-s-ac. "flow-d von know it i aked, as' he unrolled it a.ne?" he curiously. 'TLtre arc others i.ke "Aren't you a bit lonesome .here." a box of gloves one fine day? Didn't j I find Kiamt! on the counter, after you went out? Gloved gloves, beau tiful gloves," the hummed roguishly. "Yon, were you In'hind the counter that day?" he queried. 'I did not re member. " "No, of course not," said Grace readily. "Your thoughts were full of your lady love and her gloves." - 'It was a wager," he said absently. Then, after a full minute's silence, "Did did you recognize me as the chap you saw that morning in the store?" he asked. Yes. I placed you the first morn ing, when you lay thereon the ground smoking. I meant then to give you 'Kismet befyre I left." "Were you playing saleswoman ?" "Playing? I was earning my bread and butter. Next week 1 go back to work." She was determined not to sail un der false colors. But Jack still looked absent. "Did I look awfully spoony that morning?"' he inquired. From her tmnbonuet Grace saw that he looked "sheepish" and was aeiually blushing. . j "Well, no, not 'spoony,' but great ly interested in the shades of the gloves," sho returned demurely, in a toiie that made him feel easier. Just then the lunch horn hounded. Jack asked Grace for her New York address, but aher refused it. But he found her out. He became quite a regular customer at Duck A Sunning.. Mysterious basket of flowers were left at Grace's boarding house. But slie was proud and he made slow headway. She heard that Jack Hardy was ridic ulously rich for a young man of twenty-seven, and she did not mean to angle for a rich husband. But "Kismet" was a link between them and Jack knew a jewel of a girl when he saw one. After a vigorous siege Grace sur rendered, and the cards are out for a quiet wedding. Yankee Blade. The Moving or Sliding Mountain. The greatest oddity on the West coast is the "Moving Mountain of Col umbiaIiiver."' This geographical cunositv is no miniature "landslide." of a few insignificant acres, but a ver itable mountain of lirst-class dimen sions. Its height is about 2000 feet ; it has eight miles of river frontage and three very prominent peaks. That it is slowly but surely moving into the great Salmon Biver is a thought that would probably never suggest itst lf to the casual observer, bufc accurate meas urement taken bv civil engineers of v high repute have established the fact that such is the cave beyond a reason able doubt, and that in the course, of time it will dam the river so as to form aiake extending from the Cascades to The Dalles: In its forward movement the moun tain has carried the forests which for merly fringed the base of the ridge far ont into the river, and it is a curious sight to see the giant trees standing bolt upright in the water, in some in stances with their trunks entirely sub merged. The railroad bed, which skirts the mountain at this point, has been forced out of line nearly twenty feet in the last eight years. If Indian traditions and legends are to In taken into account, the "sliding mountain'' is not moving nearly as fat now as it was years ago in times previous to the white man's advent in those re gions. St. Luis republic. Iniiana s hailstone. Indiana now has another madftone, the property of A. M. Thompson, A Marion Countv. It was brought from Glasgow, Scotland, 1M4 bv an 1 eccentric Scotch womn namd.Ch!' ! Stonf, and Mr. Thompson purchase! j it of her he irs at Lincoln, Neb. The j stone measure three and ahtlf inch: j in length and two and a ha4f inchr-s j in width, and i febaied like a half j pear, while the surface is, SUed with i minute pores- Before applying to a j wound it is held to tLe nre ai :ts temperature raised to t.oo i Lr-at. It s then metered w;th wirrs. wV.-er and aordifed. j It is said that if the tar be placci on ; the bare ttone while it i at work one f can easily hear it uothiti? lL pisoif f from the wound. It remain generally an hour, bn: hoars, and thvijoiuon is a:ter - i ex tract! frexa the stor. by htattd aillt. WsabiBftoa Stir. . Maa Egyptian Difntr. Inraea Pasha dinner wa yivrn tf Miss Page, although it was oMeibly in honor of th British Minister, whose wife sat on Immen'i right, and. tested that Oriental's composed po liteness gravely. -But at tme ru would turn to Miss Pace, and h would murmur with him in Fruch, n I he would have his reward. Tan condition upou which M;s Page ld come to the dinner wv that it should be an Oriental one throughout, and the table was accordingly of silver, f.nd each strange stick v course wa served in a golden bowl, and ench fork and sp(K:t bore a ruby and diamond m its haudb. i'inmoii Is and rnbii are my jef e'.," Immen explained simply, as on wt.nld say, "Blue and yellow Hte my racing col-r-," or that Mich a sen.cuco was the mU of his famil. ; A native orchestra played frm a balcony of heavily carved wood that stretched across one end of the room, and behind a lattice bencUh it shoo the bright eyes of ImtnenV wife, who was politely supposed to have already departed for Alexandria, but wh in reality was looking With wonder ami misgivings upon the bold womeu, witti naked fac-s and shnuld-rs. who sat at: her husband's side, ami talked to him without waiting for him to give tlu-m iesve. There were many people at the re ception Mihioh followed the dinner; wi'e-!o iking judges of the Mixed Courts and their wives and l.ativo princes, secretaries of the many diphv mat ic agencies, and an abundance of scarlet mes-H-jackets on officers of tlu Army of Occupation. They otittdiouu even the womn' in the brilliancy ( their apparel, with their broad bi?mU of gold braid and rows of tiuy bn.w buttons.- They outsh ;n the men,' too, in the rudly tin of thr-ir faces, burned by the un of the Soudau audi roughened by the fine saud of the des ert. They wcr a handsome, arrogant looking group ; some w ith tho fez.' which seemed strangely out of pUci on their yellow hair, and which showxl that they served the Kh.-dive, und others with strips of tiny ribbotisncrosH th"ir breasts, to show that they had served th J-i-en, an 1 ch of tiieso Knglisiimen moved about with th' tiu easv, self-assTt ive air of one who knows tha lie is wtdeomed through m eesity, and only because h hold his j lace in the society ainut him by foretof arms. -Harpers' Magazine A Scent Farm. Among the various efforts which tht Government of. Victoria have recently put forth in order to promote the in dustries of that colony tho establish ment of a fc?ut farm at Dunolly plays a role which is .comparatively modest in itself, but is, nevertheless, being ttikeh advantage of for the purpose of providing a Vw occupation, more es pecially for women. In addition Ut looking after the farm, th manager thereof holds daily clashes in order to teach the'dry processes of the extrac tion of scent, as well a the distillation of- roses and lavender, the treatment n '.-canary for thi growth of the vari ous scent plants, the soils suitable for them, the times of planting and prun ing arid oth?r ojw-ration. The ilc is that the fccnt-making fhoold bo combine I with bee-keeping and poul-t:y-farming all three affording auit ab!e employment for women and that :n thi way the gentler sx tthoald h provided with an additional raan of earning a livelihood,-and. at the tame time, make a-still further contribution to the inclTietrial wealtn ox trie colonr. New York Sun. It ; a- "i that wis! Prince KttLazy a Viriel at Vienna th-re va on f.".ot?iyr r.t x.or gft-f co aM so; e itotbtel. I! . Nro f A. ,"- t;;-? heir to tbe church, and. C'-riCfc t.th- r:y stti c, and t r .warded ith th- mourner i-'J zl it. wher th rt2a:n -ft j ;:.te.-re i. s'jumf-rs, wtrst vuy aftt-r t- crez:on:-. wire ft:.' He isy r . raj .tr :. fit wi. o .:(. . v- .m'-vu hr tht 'rsv-, 'a'id f - riiuM not be ind fur th- . ... ."- h rtct distanotw K.r oai I daily Tisit t t.. t :.h, ttmft.umg uy it f jr cutii; i. .;l.f interval o.'
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