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.i : f III ity ESTABLISHED IN 1878. IIILLSBORO. N. C SATURDAY JUNE 0, 1894. NEW SERIES-VOL. XIII. NO. 30 i nil alone; i-,i,'- en t. lay is liaTninf, y w- vii'M th r.i'ht 'ws full X . '. r f .': v. il nf th! bri Jal, !'r !-r c-!oorn at th" l-all, j. ; i. : n ir .! barrier ; t r!: out Its ilfo of iol", I .- . . .'ir-r r.-iint cry. till the hour to 4!, ;- loon of each mortal soul. j ; r I-t thMi-ht of thi mother : rin:' ns forth In pain, A - - ' in th- ' vps of hr offsr-ria? i to i's po;i1 to jjain, '. . fit i- ;r,v h.-i' y thlnkinp, . tint intent nn! wi?" ' : vr r-rms'ri3 the-nirs-tery, ', :. ! i.'-v r a voi''; rp'aes. .'. ' . i- the ri i 1 . 1 in his sorrow Ov r tTo'.n toy , i-r'i" sri"!;fn Iov", '' .rrui.:' n vrinhh" ! joy; A ;i ! I -rifl at thf altar, A'--r." iU- l-ri'lcroom stani, V. Ms 1 j !'i"n life t--tw'n then, 'P .v. : xn 1 tw.-ir plighted haa-l. ,t: thf, wif with the canker if i ! hop- in )wr hart , A I'-;- rh" !iii!ianl flrearnin,', ' ' t i," ! .iTi'iitiori' smirt ; - 'r.-rn he birth to the bun'-iT. ! r rr. t V- I'r-t to the latent breath 4 ;. v ! 1 - r -'s. on !only stepa, -I ' j! a'oriH till lath. --Boston Transcript. THE HEART OF A MAID. r: V - I ' i HOT H K A LV MM I -?. tlio Wtfit liad )m11-1 out of Grants anl was snorting u' the L'.r lu'liind' round ina.s.st-.s ol black vapov in the. air, like v i h i b 1 c if .-. j X brcatiiK of the v- panting i ngiiie. Injliti liable. 1 rullinan could eotilu be htu?,ix in aniiht.the toft, delicate faceti of two youn' women .such younj; wo men hh co:no )iit frnii the towns oT New I'.nlan 1 to tlie pueblo to teach the litUu brown war via of a pp.tc.rnal government. The "gmit;" the vaqucros on their way to th- '"r-Min l-up" beyond San Kiiiav! - staresl at them an mn do at Norneii in a comparatively wonianlesn Country, with a kind of open, innocent, 1 1 . . . :.t earning that i half pathetic, half a! i -urd. Tie -n th"y went back to "the store" Bil l strung themselves along the porch on the pih s of nheep-peltH, smoking and watching the day die against the wtnte clifTH of El Gallo. And then th. y misled Longley, "Ap)olyer," as they called him in tender scorn of his Vi "ni beauty. "Where's th cuss?" asked Dick Hart. "Hoofed it down tho track eftcr them k'urlis' suggested Hank, ironi cally. Then Roberts, who had seen 'vhite time.-," Kent out a yell that cut the crisp air like an arrow. "Appolyer, approach!" lie was answered by a rnnt, and L n;;u y"( les appeared, leaping up the steps of the portal, and followed a usual by a do or" two, previously Kicked out of the way by somebody, but .now showing a uneaking security under LonhW'n lee. Apolyer spread himsel! ilown the t-teps, his blonde, Min-burnt head making a pnle shadow a;i:inst the adobe wall.' For a while thre was pimply t-ilence aud acrid f-:uuie. Theu Longley, whose boyish tUiniviu-s were uptest to lead to 8peechk m. 1 e.iatemplati vcly : "Sir, them wuz nice gurls end t: . v lif-v sand, foo. These here Span h 4uris ain't -got none. They're all-t.r- 1 cute 'nd jiibt as 6-ft end 'gentle tu. a doe but I don't believe they've .v- f:.r gvit in 'em, 'thout it's ootu s .i-- ifllar they get gone on. I r-vkor tUeyM iiit then, can "t-.?ut :h-it worain folk are purl nigh aliko fwy-.hi;r." L 'h-y, who had been tilling his je.j-e :? b. spoke, began to pull stoad- ::iag his whole miud ou b corn i x' -.:rie? of nag that curtod and "r.t .i- .lan l waved oft into th? pure . .rkr.ess of the New'Mexiean niht. 1' : "no gods who have jurisdiction v. ?i in New Mexico had a well- Arbci arrow pointed Ap.polyer'.s way, - :i 1 r.v.-.iy over at San i'Miguel were 3 -r.-T aring a little "experienco" fox h-tn. which, like alifiuchthingsproperlj bigoted, led to the curtailment o! oi iniou and RtapUfication of Tision. it was the blackest kind of a night at Saa .Miguc-1, but so clear th-it the tars Rhone like tiny po'mt of coil fire, too far for light. The cluster of adobes that, grouped around a central larger one, made ta-i ranch of San Miguel, were mere brown blot. Here and there a dully lighted window bhowed where some belated task wtt. being finished or home young mother watched her first-born' unknown (dumber. But the family, from Don Vicente, of heroic fcittory, to the low est of the fond and faithful house-ser-vuiit.-", were gathered in tho large houhe, oversowing the hall and kitchen ami stamping and laughing in the long portal, barred by lines of iiirht from windows and open doers. "The gang," just finishing the fall driving at old man TiacaV. were there, loo, the shyest and most exuberant of the party. So pervaded was the lit tle placita with their long leH, flap ping Kombreros, shoving houlder.. aii't KhriH voice., that trie clatter reached the ears of old Wo Inn, deaf to all but Don Vineente's voice theso many years. At least, the mastiil growled and moved from his warm corner, showing a great toothless grin of diKeonteiit.. The toucrh old hens, perched along the -warm walls of the kitchen, clucked prolohtingry, and n litter of very minguided kittens for sook' tho safe shelter of the round oven and scuttled off crasily. Oue, having mistaken Longley'.-, leg for a -batter shelter, it was he who was al lowed to help Miss CTeofas gather them, up again. He encompassed the entire family in one fist, tenderly enough, and reslorol them to an. indif ferent mother -under the soft, direct ing gaze of this, the youngest daugh ter of the house of Ortiz. A slender little thing she wa., too, with great black eyes shining under a demure, forehead ; the creamy amber of her skin overcoming the pallor of childhood; the thiu cheek just round ing imo'a perrect oval. JJut xne soul of her soldier father wr.s alive vi her, and many complex problems of the busy. life of the tiny town were set tled according to her wish and will softly and all sweetly, too, for Cleofus was warm-hearted as wed ns quick witted. And ho it happened th:it whe.n the best of evrvttiin- ha 1 been given uj) to the guests, and there was fctill more room neede !; it was Cleol'ai who decide. 1 to make her simple and brief bed in a large deserted room some ftw yards away in the open. "It is T, certainly, that will go, and Ilosita shall cue for ih;. madre. Juan shall build me a little fire of ten sticks, aul before it :k out, pout! there is the sun coming in. ' Brushing the wlth-iv I cheek of the madre with her poft lips, the girl ran out into the star-lit autumn darknecs. her cousin Juan following with skin? ami blankets for the bed, which wa; stretched in a corner behind the Irian gular fire place. High up in the thick adobe wall, n small square hole r. lmittel the a.r, an 1 the heavy do-r sungon grating hinges. Juan, w ho-c jealous eyes h.! followed every glance and motion ol "Senor Longley," shve his arrival, knelt on the i'oor adiustav, the sticks of wood as the exigencies of the ra.sed flTe place and the custom of tho coin try demanded or. one end. Ho did not poak. on I Cle "fa watched him as silently, r. sparKte of coquetry in hev cyos alrea iy heavy wiih sleep. "Good-night, cov. sin." said Juan, in the careful English he affected since, coming from 'cuool. The girl nodded, and the young man stepped over the stil. Then he turned sullenly. ."Sener 'Longley hav iovc for you. He savs Spaui.-h girl .iice. bui coward. Cuidado!" Cleofas sprang from her seat on the hearth like an yarrow from a tens string. Her eves shone w;th aneer and tun. "Cuidado thou!' she cried, and swung the door tV with - vcrasb, for getting even to push honi-'.the rude bolt of buck-skm and wood. Folding her reboso tightly under her chin, she crept under the llanktis. and the tlames as they danced revealed only a formless shadow, from which came the soft, regular breaths of sound sleep. Suddenly Cleofaa awoke. Her cKeek flushed again at the memory of JuAn's '.No grit. Tnat is tae queer won tho Senor Longley havj use." Cieofas smiled again and murmured c.3 she rolled over on her side for a fresh nap . 'And yet it is I who wii! grind him." The girl had not slept long; but they had danced late, and already a pale morning was abroad. Suddenly there came a slight scratching at tho door. The girl sat up in the Hb.dov listening fora moment, aul then lay back again sleepily. It was some wandering horse or sheep rubbing fitcalthily along the wall. Then Cleofas remembered the unbolted door. As she rose to bolt it, it swung open cautiously and a head was thrust in a hideous, shaved head, set on a t aiek, fat nock. On the hard, cruel line of the lower jaw there was the white cicatrix of a wouul, which drew uo the lip with a sneering twist. T i sink down in a crouching, limp heap and thro'.v her reboso over her face was the girl's instinctive act. Through its folds she watched breathlessly. It was C,iya., the murderer, who ha 1 beaten his wife to death in a rage. Cleofas had seen him pass through the streets of Albuqurque on his wy to prison. Ho had escaped from Suuta Fe and come over the mountains in dc-sperate flight. Tho convict, fearing only an enemy from without, closed and bolted the door, and, without gbinee toward tho dusky corner where CTeofas was flattened against the floor, threw him self heavily down ia front of the dead lire. The chain still fastened to one wrist clanked sharply, and the man jerked at it savagely, with an oath. Even in the deadly fear that made her skin prickle like a thousand fiery needles and her limbs feel Jead-!ikc, Cleofas was an Ortiz still. 'I will not die like a miserable sheep," thought she; "nor will Ikneel'' and beg for mercy as the little wife did, and vainly. No, I shall say: 'Murder me if thou wilt, thoucowar; and may thy wretched soul burn for ever.' " But the convict's head had rolled heavily on to hu breast, and he slept, iii breath coming in long waves of exhaustion. Hope grew in the heart of the motionless spectator in the corner. "Holy mother," she prayed, "keep me" as a mouse. Let. me live as if I lived not, and savo mo for the little madre' r sake. An hour rolled on. Through the wimTow the clay was "oroadenrng. Cleofas was stiff, was cold, was impa tient. "He will sleep on and on, like the pig and wolf that he is," she thought. Indisrnantlv. "and 1 must wait h-t pleasure to bo killed and eaten. Or ho will wake aud go far away and be free he, the wicked one. It siiril; not be. Dear Jesu, help." With her eyes fixed on th-face or of the convict, the girl began to fob! back her relfoso and the twisted blan kets. Wnen her limbs were free, with one quick, silent effort, she stood up right. Never once removing her gaze, she followed the shadow of the wall, groping cat-like, her very breath sus pended to the faintest flutter of her throat. She has reached the door, and still the murderer sleeps. But- at the slight noise of the slipping bolt, he stirs and turns'. With a stifled cry the girl throws up one slender arm to hide her eyes from the dreadful death she believes so near. An instant's si lence follows. Fatigue and sleep weigh on the man, body and spirit. . vitrvj.a iuiuhj utistii amusi iuc jydoor, it swings out with her into free .tioru. Appolyer Longley "s dreams had been full of enchanting visions of conquet i tish girls appearing under different forms bat all bearing the name of Cleofas. So restless was he in conse quenee that he had risen early to try the famous counter-irritant of th3 chaeJ To Lave the real Cleofas run intc his arm, to have her point gaspingly to a Seeing figure a few . yards away, and to bring his rirle to his shoulder; were all parts of a lively and interest ing moment. His voice rang out with pleasant firmness. "Hold on, psj-d."-' The man ran on. A little sprit o! J opal inioke xo&t oa the air, aid tht figure became a cruiaplel brown bun dle on the brown earth. "111 go bring him in, Miss Cleofas," ?aid: Longley, cheerfully, and tha he caught the girl about tho waist and carried her tenderly into the house. Forthwith Cleofas's speech had failed, and her eyes'shone darkly in a face as white as milk. It was thirty amply surveyed mdes from the sheep-shearing at Grant's to San Miguel, but Longley s tough lit tle Navajo pony "couldn't sleep no where else" but ia the all out-doors rorral of Don Vicente. At least,, so Lis master said. But this Saturday night the shearing was finished. The last scared, homely, jagged little sheep had escaped the shearers, and was huddled under the lee of the mesa, for when the Lord tempters the wind to the shorn lamb, he forget New Mex ico, and the top of Mount Taylor sup plies an icy variety. The great brown bags of fleece were tied and marked, and piled on on the platform for the East bound freight. The shearers were eating and drink ing monstrously about their camp-fire on the malpais, across the Puerco. ,Appolyer had a good season's wage in his belt, but his spirits were low as he turned his tired pony loose ia the corral at the Oritz ranch. I "En I said they wasn't gritty," he mutters; '"en she knows it, end of course, she won't hev me. Law si 1 vruddeu't, either. " The door opens and Cleofas comes out. "Oh, it is the Senor Tawra," she cries out, not very loudly ; "it is very nice luck for ou to be here. It. is a liesta," "Hullo, is thet so? What for?" stammers Tom, who has never been called Tawm before. "My cousin, Luz, she marrying Juan," said Cleofas, looking down. "A wedding 1 Oh," groaned Long ley. "Vou just like Spanish girl, Senor Twain? No grit, no?" Longley turned his head sharply. There was the dawn of a great hope in his face. "Why, Cleofas, darlin',"' his voice cracked and broke. "You not ask me marrying you?' whispered Cleofas. It was always a matter of discussion in after years, where the courage of Cleofas came in, but Appoiyer Long ley never. had any doubts. Argonaut. Prcscverar.ca Wade Telegraphy. "The success of Morse, the inven tor of the telegraph, was a strong ex- I ample of persistence. He was a paint er of repute, and did not turn to any occupation but that of an artist to make money and a nam?. But he be lieved that )i9 had something- worth fighting for in the telegraph, and h went to work with his experiments Morse was often hard up during the early hi.-dory of these experiments. He used to make his meals on bread and miik, and there were times when he didn't know when the few penniei that were to pay for this frugal fare were to come from. Speaking ol Morse "reminds me of the fact that Ezra Cornell, rounder of Cornell Uni versity and one of the founders of the Western Union Telegraph, was a man of great persistence. In pursuance of his policy of consolidating the small Hues of telegraph into one grand syp tera he bought up the stock of a lot ol small companies in block, and no locked up his ainey -ail of which had been gain-.-d earlier in life by the ex ercise oi the same persistent quality to such an extent that he was looked r.o .n ;di.o-t w.th puy by his friends who did not share his confidence in the scheme. Btit the bull-dog element in Ezra Corti'-l! won, and it was fit ting that L- should devote a large .proportion of the fortune he won. ia Wtteru Union U establishing an in--1 1 1 ri 1 1 - i: of le-am i-ng -h-r young men of persistence would be encouraged ir ihir deter alii .it ion to go forward and win. New York Press, A N--- York contdence man say? that :i ani Lis fellows victimizes more :tv rrer- than havse-eds. The rtxra! .visitor, when he comes to town, i vc-!!c:.".i and or; his guard, while the ::v tain, v.L . thinks he knows it all, is a much easier victim. Besides he .?a.-. mn to the tolice whea he ii m - - m w - m v - - KING QF FAKIRS. TUP IiKAI) OK A CURIOUS IN di'siky ix iils in:s. lie H Ills Subjects In Many State How the Fakir Secure His Wares ami How fie Operates. F AKIR" is said to be of Hin doo origin, snd pax Indii means a necromancer, jug gier or magician. If tin word has not found a place in our lat est dictionaries it is sure to do so, foi it has passed out of the realm of shin? aud taken its place with manv othej cew terms recently adopted that "fiT a long-felt want." We have not only the substantive "fakir,"" but the Ad jective "fake," as applied, to jnthet articles tint are not all thev seem to be, and the verb "to fake" has taken its place in everv a-.-?, suwr office iu the land. When a reporter which is, of course, very r.ire'y the ease draws on liis imagination for his facts' or with creative genius makes his story "out of his head" a.s the farmer's sod did his fiddle, after he had wood enough left to make another it it aaid to be faked. How the name fakir came to be ap 'plied to street peddlers I do not know, nor can the most careful investiga tion discover. I have just had a most pleasant interview' with Mr. Georcre Washington Stivers. j lhe hctkx nUll ncknowledged "king of the fakirs," and he i.s as ignor ant of the oritrin of the term oi applied to himself and his associate ns the rest of the world. When a name, no matter how objectionable, sticks and cannot be r.voided, it is the part of wisdjm to accept it, and no matter its history or its associations, to1 have it honored by making it re spcctable. '. George Washington Stivers, king o' the fakirs, has his armorv on the nortl 1 side of Ann street, ne.tr Nassau, New York City. He is a man of medium height, blue-eyed, with a blon I mus tache, an active, erect, form, a manner of speech that is forceful an i deuant of grammar, and he says' he is forty years of age, though he mighl easily pnss for thirty. Among th great m-iss o.' facts pre sented bv his mtjestv ar, many of general interest an I h fe v tint are ( applicable only to Ne v York Ciy. Twenty-seven years a,'o, v.hcu 3fr. Stivers, as a b-jy of thirteen, entered the business, all street salesman" fold goods from a tray, puh-e-iri.s and wagons being unknown t the f r i teruity. "Away ba?k in said his niajesiy, Svhn I took up tin business, I began by selling pocket knives from r- tray ; that wa down in front of the old post uiice on Nassau etrcet. I used always t make from five to eight dollar-: a day by a few InurM workatno m; but thsm days is gone and won't nev t comeback." The men who sell fr jx push-carts iu New York City pay u license of five dollars a year, or rather th-y pay that for the first year, --an I on? dollar for each succeeding year. The peddler who sell from trays or bukeU pay one dollar the first vear aa 1 fifty cents thereafter. Mr. Stiver hs scores of men in his employ and he keeps them supplied with licences as a protection against the police, wh have not a little to do with the hap;. i of tho ptrce: fakirs. Tacre is an ordinance that no street salesman shall remain in one pla-e more than t-n minutes at c time, bu. if th seib-r sian in well with the "cm" ou th-il l-et h'- mar remain lor hoi; turbed. What follows a Wjiholt i'VJ.iJ di- . sale of roods in New York will a olv r-onsllv well to our rz eito s fr the meth od? and frequently ''w ireeiof buj ply are id'-nufilly th- om. In the bu. thorott-rMar-M 'Z. and o: th I. part;c i.ariy .u U iemty pOt)t- ZiC d r.iv ire crow-ie i wjt:j ittn: Titlb o'rtr uci ;k str tteutoriaa' ...-e ." V .;- TCli4 , nhtie th t"i- ?tr .-e. "ir an i t-i r .iiiO. r, r i-.ing v-hi-6. Cheap n'Tf, --filing -r !e toa the coi ' the white pp.-r. cheap toilt arijcle, cueni porkrtuiv, hal- 'vrrchief, va?-:, hwjfju'-r war, iop, blacking. ew.-!ry, tii'i-ic, r-ignifyia jrla.ses ari l novelti 5 iu th-t she of toys puzzles, portable Ixhl rze'e, tack Liaiirs ail pullers ptccil tLaxp- eners, and so on excite th? intremt and vpea the pocketbeoks of the "txuji erly. i "The firl reqnsite of au article for tret sale," said hi majesty, "ts that itliu!l be vamIv pvrUble ; the sec cud, that l. shad b clup, and tho thir l that it shall by Ustfa, or be of a character to ia.luee ;he purchaser to believe that it i. " The stock articles ia 4h? tray o! cutlery, handkerchief and t nlet srii clis sold by the fakirs arc, according to Mr Stiver, bought from tho im porters or wholesale dealer, who gct a brge stork of a certainline of good that it is necessary to get rid of and" turn suddenly into cash. On such oc casions Mr. Stivers ia sent for; he ex amine the good, and if they arc of character that his men can handle 'in their chosen field he buys tlieru and puts them on the market; and while lie does not make an invariable hit, iu nine cases out of tin Le makes by tlio contract, i The king of the fakirs count his mbleets all over the Fnitel State and iu many foreign lands, and l. times h- has had an army of from firir to t ight hundred men employed intlfa sale of one article, though his atfuyVt ing force, twice as large an that of th monarch of Hawaii, in usually abont one hundred and fifty regulars, witU au indefinite number of volunteer ready to be called out on au emer ge he. One of the greatest encccDses a folding chair, of which his majesty sold, here, and abroad in tho neigh borhood of r.,000,0(X. Tho fifteen puzzle, invented by a deaf and dumb man in Boston, would have made th man a fortune had lie not neglected to patent it before it got on the market. The return ball and the pencil with ml' ber on the tip have made snug fortunes for their patentees, but one of tho greatest successes for the inventor and the fakir wan the celebrated puzzl of "p'1 in clover." The inventor was an old farmer over near Millvillc, New J.rsey, and out of the million sold in two yeara he netted orer Slf0, 000, anl at onetime had three factories and over 500 people employed in tho manufacture. J The most successful fakirs are clean, well dressed, and posses "about enough brass to get along." "In ad dition to these qualifications the suc cessful fakir must hare tbe. gift of sab,' " sai l his majesty. "A good man must be able' to talk better thaa the worst lawyer, and if ho can rnaka the folks laugh, or tell a good story, all the better." New York AdvertUer. Antiquity of Cflgnvingi. Gems were engraved at a very early period oi th world's history. Tho very earliest specimen of this art in existence is believed to be a squaro fignet of yellow japer, engraved ia the year 11W B. C, and now in tho British Museum. Th engraving upon it is a fair picture of the horeo of, Amenophis II, and the cliAractera underneath haroebeem deciphered M being the names and titles of that monarch. The earliest in-tanco of au engraved precifus stone is themer aid ring of Polycrate. 710 B. C. Tho Bible tells us that th Judean high priests wore breast-plates with th names of the twelve tribe engraved upon them, lut this notwithstanding there is no known Hebrew r-Dfrraviog older than the fifth century. St, Louis Republic. Tlie New York Post think'- that th arming of tram hand a a defeat awinfct train robber, bid fair to 1? ucceful in ditf'iurag.ng th-.- robbra and wiping out th- i-'ins'-H Sfveral ia-stance. hsve recently ber; re-ror le I m which the robsx-r f'rp drtvei T, torne of them kill?! aul other et-. true i Another c-" ii re-;ri- I Knss. Sever! "f th- robber r o a hl m I smuggled thernsive on the train a tiy were cr"ang ovr iae- teia-ie? were d:vcoverei bv .nt of th trait aiec, who o:ese I ut n".ni the, klSI- ing one a-iothrr. At th irir.1 a th rs iide opn f i :;r out -r triTea off. an 1 ae rru aa i t uore belonging t them wr csptare.t. At thie rate tr:a robbing will -on ce to Ie a proSUule na Urtsking and travel.- will feel mure m c irt from Tie UnlW State Array is tall to have over 2') csjs of Krurr ttttf .it aX. (
Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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