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fiW A. J I hi ill II i II i ii i ii i jp a . o ESTABLISHED IN 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY JUNE 23, 1894. NEW SERIES-VOL. XIII. NO. 32 V Mill V fir!:- ( ' ifknm, the New York or at or, Hunks that th "tcnder-cy of t rytiiiu'-r in this country is toward ;'.rarn, except politics an I that isii.'-t eidually become, liberal, too. 'What i y(,'i think of a civiliza tion." t.v Denver Road asks, "that wiJI i 'i . ;i -ir! hi:; cents for making a hhiK in i sweater's den and gives ten rent-lo a Chinaman for washing the thirl i" : : ; : or- MarV Twain nsserts that all modern jokes itrf- deriv d from thirty-five or urinal jokes which were originated in the liivti of Socrates. Several of the original,., a little frayed, art: still 1'uatiug about. i i .... f n-tralja jr crMit v hr.tv.oro.1 :.,0H J 7i. i.v an m iian question akin to our i r i . . . . I On he.- proM?ra. 'Ph Chine.se immi gration r v i I has been ehecked by strong r-vtri.-iiv.; measures and tho imposi tion of. a heavy head tax. There in j.-iw h great and growing influx of Afghan", Panihaus and other Asiastio tribes from tip o ld corners of India, ,atid tli'-sf-. people have become h peril an I nuj.-xnee in manv ways. Australia is greatly perturbed over the emigration ruovementto Paraguay. The Government of Paraguay has given1 nearly .VO.OOO a-.rt.s f,f rr00l jaTjj fop -t tT ii nt to Australian colonists, or oth'TH of suitable standing in means and ciiaraUr who join them, and there is an rxp.-Hatioa that 10,000 prions uviy .settle on tha lan Ik. All whoo from tdd to new Australia ara t-'etofcab-rs and have a considerable amount saved, and th loss of a few thousand men of that stamp is a seri-' "us m it r. South Australia has, therefore, passed a village settlement act, under which those who want to cult i vat .j land are very favorably dealt with. Then comes the question whether the Au dralian land is as good as that, in Paraguay, and it is not. Put there art; disadvantages there at tdl. One oi' tVie r-in'jular changes which i go in.; oh in-'Marvlaud and Dela ware is t!i" . iruMs.o-mst ion of1 pca?h orc'isrds into truck g irderjs, notes the San l'ra!M.ris' ('hrouicle. It lias been i c '1eia i;stratctl. that tln-r." is far more ino!ii in iTiHViii j v,1 'eraoles for tho. ."o'v. lorn mark(H ana tne canneries thriu there'is in raising choice peaches. Ho the men ;ho hav; gained fortunes by peaches arc going int. the mort juoaic, leu ijiorc lucrative, occupation of growing Larry peas and toxnatooa. Tho nr.t of dying S3erus t th3 lnl3 peudnt to be almost in sight, tiough it may bo sjtuj time yet before ve ac tually reach it. It is alrealy tpiite clear thit the a:ujuat of pjver re quired to maintaiu a bxly of cjnsid erable weight in the air and to drire it forward with great velocity is noth ing exorbitant; the diftieulties seem to lie rather in the regulation aud direction of the machinery." A recent investigation of Professor Langley up on what ho calls "the internal work oi tho wind" throws a flood of light upon somo of the most puzzling problems oi .it: i in i. ii't ii;ttnuu. xuo ovimu of birds has long bean a mystery; the way in which, for . hours, Sometimes, they circle round over the same spot without an apparent motion of the wing. Laugley find the explanation in the fact (which he has demonstrated experimentally that the motion of the wing is technically speaking an "un steady" motion; th it is. neighboring portions of air move with verv differ- eat directions and velocities so that the wind-stream is full of whirls and r.Uios. liv takin advantage of this trW Kir.t maintain hi iY,h wttlioat tioinr any "-worK; :io ,,'- i.-.. muapiy to caauge siigntiy lae lacuna- tioa of his wia js as he steers himself out oi one eddv into another bv an action, t xq iUitely skilful b it not laborious. It i like the art of the tailor h beats against the wind by hauling h: fclit-ets aa l' trimxicg hi Rail?. By rauuuig a whil- ruoue car' rent of the. wind-stream aud then tud decly -steer, ng out into au aljoining one of d liferent vdocitv aud direction the bird i able to utilize the ener?' of the newly-encountered breeze to lift him or carry hira where he wishes AT SEA. I watch tbs white sails a ther spreat Their wings, like bir In st fre ; And some o'er distant waves will Rlila. Sonus in the wisbl-!or hiven hid', And some be lott at vi. And thus, upon Life's changeful ma'd, While tioprj sari? merrily. Tail many a barque from off Ihestrand We launched with easrer heart and hand. Nor drsamt of loss at sea. Cat were there treacherous rocks and s'aoa'e All, all unknown to th? It matters not the heart doth knc-T That cruel storm hath sunken low The venture out at sea. Mavhap it was no costly freight, Tho rich tr yoM or me : An 1 Memory, as the days go by. litill counteth o'er with tearfcl Her treasures lost at sea. afc, wlJ. there is a havea sweet z suiihtivca cannot ue . . , .... . . Whom n : ... . .' . , "eans, sit In n it nt ni'n rhere shall yo gather bv?k a-iin Mu"h that wis lost at sja. Luey Ii. Fleming, in Harper's Bazar. A CIRCUITOUS SUCCESS. T.l ISABEL HOI.MEf s rftther dark tho hallwav & when J it 1 i a n Jones went up stairs to his new rpiarterf, fourtb Someone else was. on the f-tairs. Fie discerned a woman's form in the niche near the neeond lloor and the glimmering of a ban 1 holding back skirts for him to pan. There was a faint breath of exquisite p3rfunie about her. 'Excuse me," he said. Just thu the gas flared out in the lower hall. IT. .... .,,(1 . 1 f . I Uainty figure, as he passed. Julian lAirttn: uw, i boh, uvm mce au i 11 was a big fellow, with features of- strength rather than of beaut v. but for allthat he was a ''.sensitive," whose impressions of people were as sure as a dog's instinct about his master. The vouurr woman's "atmov phere" was agreeable. It followed him to hip room. He lighted the gas and looked around. It was a eoolish den for h literary worker. The carpet-of ialt greens and olives was almost new fhe windows had lace curtains, and a fair outlook. He gat down and tilted back his chair. A curious plot for a story had come into his mind. It seemed to start out of that chance encounter on the stairs, yet he scarcely realized it then, o subtle is the action of the brain. ins ueari oegan o ieat,imci?ly. Tr't At . -.1 He had done a good deal of patient work in thcTpast. wiVli indiilerent sue cess, but sueh impromptu .mental activity was new. He took it as a erood omen, lie hau a strain of what we can superstition m iiis nature. a strange dream had impressed him with the belief that with Ins change of quarters something was to happen for the better The bright, unique ideas came pour ing into his mind like a flood. 1 They clamored for expression. He found a pencil in his pocket, and looked around for aper. He had not a scrap. His trunks would not como till morn ng. Ii.be stirred from the room to hunt up a stationer the aroma of the story would be sure to escape. He thought desperately of his cuffs, his shirt bosom, aud execrated the motley wall paper. Had it bean plain, it should have done duty as r. tablet He sprang from his chair. The covering of the square table in the corner "was of white oilcloth imita tion 'marble. " He sat down and marked it ot! in spaces. me pencil glided over it smoothly. He wrote quickly and without effort. He knew he had never done anything like this before. Some one teemed to be dictat mrr at m& eioow. ne naa neara aaa I. i 1 jtl . 1. . 1 l 3 t reau oi suca'Cases. .now ne was tao subject. H wroiecolaan after column. I till the cloth was covered. He leaned back and biirveyed it. He knew the thizg w unique and exquisitely wrought out. It was a love story, ith that daintv creature oa the dira stair way tatting through it. Juliaa' eyes grew misty. He looked at hi watch. The three hours he had been writing had seemed but five minute.-. It wasearly yet, not 11 o'clock. He. locked the door and went out oa the street. He had a vague idea of getting paper from some hotel ckrk. Hecould not ffd easy until his story Tras it manuscript. He turned into the avenue. The thunder of the elevated waa ia hb ear3. A team was dashing along reck lessly tiaJerfleath it. Me Attempted to cross. Round the corner was the House. The subtle fascination of the story was yet upon him. In the midst of it he was conscious of a sad den shock, a pain crj3sing the sweet making horrible discord, then all be came blank. , Tie was pulled from under the feet of the horses The blood flowed from d woulfd made by the cruel hoof. No address could. be founpjijfeim. and he was carried to a hospital. He had been severely but not fatally in jured. Brain fever set in, but an excellent constitution was in bis lavof. In his seasons of delirium the marble oil cloth haunted him. Sometimes it hung over hira like an awning with the letters like a thousand eyes star ing at him. Then they changed into Chinese hieroglyphics, and the young woman on the etairs was wrinkling her lovely brow in vaiu endeavors to decipher them. Again the cloth was waving like a banner from the roof of the Daily Fizzler. Througli careful nursing he enme out of the tangle at length, and began to recall just what had happened. His previous story, which was to inaugu rate a new era, what had become of it? Four weeks he had been lying there they told lum. In that time the room ivould be let to a new tenant, and hie story scrubbed off the cloth by some wooden-headed chambermaid. He fretted and fnmed over it. His omen of good luck had been demolished by a sledge hammer. "Don't vou want to look over these papers?" queried the pretty, cheerful Inurse, placing a pile before him. "You need to keep up with the times. " Julian tossed them over half savage ly and came presently upon something that made his heart thump. His story was looking him in the face from the columns of the Exaggerator. It was entitled "Into His Kingdom." The letters seemed to wink and blink at him knowingly. lie read it through. There had been scarcely any alteration. Some body had got ahead of the chamber maid and copied it selling it as his or her own production. He should never be able to prove its authorship. He groaned in spirit. Presently he came upon a copy of the Daily Fizzler, three weeks'-old. There he found the story, headed by a sensational paragraph, which wa evidently xits first appearance the other paper being a copy. Julian was half amused, half, an noyed over the conjectures about the author. The paragraph set forth the production found on the oilcloth as the last effort of an unfortunate on of genius. Driven to extremity, without a penny even to buy paper, he had tixed his last ideas upon the only white surface he could command,' and then he had gone out into the night and committed suicide. One of those un - identified bodies at the mogae was his., probably. Could he have staved off despair twenty-four hours longer the ice would have been broken. Julian breathed freer. " The copyist then had not palmed off the produc tion as his or her own. He could yet claim it without dispute. As soon as he was ou his feet lie called on the editor of the Daily Fiz zler, who knew him by sight, and had prophesied sucee for him some day. "It seenn I have been figuring in the Fizzler lately as an impecunious sui cide," said Julian, dduntly. The editor laid down his pen. '"Ex plain,' he &a;d. Julian told the story. "Lyke another man, you awake to Sad tronrsel famous, said the editor, offevS "That story has been copied all over the country. It i a gem of its kind:" not tare I &hall ever do so weu cjaia." said Juliaa. What is once done can be done again. You will co command s hearing. " "How did yoa get hold of it?' "It .vis sent in by by" consult ing a memorandum "by Mis Cora Wheeler, 142 street." "Why, I wrote the story at that house '." "She sent a note stating the facta, aad Bolton, you know, touched them up a tri3e. None of us suspected you. The landlady believed your name was Jones, but, oa secoad thought, didn't kaow but it was Smith." 'I had only a word with her whea 1 engasred the room." I 1 'yL may aa well ; pay yotx toJayf said the editor as he tilled out a check. A glance showed Julian it was drawn for one hundred dollars. He was in luck after, all, it seemed. Next he rode uptown and rang the bell at 142 street. How much had happened since he first went up those than six weeks ago ! The girl who opened the door loolied at him blankly when be asked for Miss Wheeler, and showed him into a small reception room while she took his card. He was presently asked to step up stairs, third floor, front. The door was half open, showing a prettily furnished interior. He tapped gently." Thers was a rustling behind a dark green portiere, aad a youag woman stepped out from behind it and greeted him with "Good morning." She was the one he had met on the stairs in the gloom, he could swear. There was the same -faint perfume about her garments, and, besides, he knew her atmosphere. "You are Miss Cora Wheeler?' She bowed. "And I am Julian Jones. I wrote the story on the oilclbth. I am told it found, its way into print through you. I have come to thank you." 2Iiss Wheeler was about a3 breath less as Juliaa. She motioned him to a chair and sat down. The facts he had presented rapidly grouped them selves at once logically in her mind. "Then vou did not commit sui cide," she said, with a mirthful glance at his muscular frame, adding, "I never thought vou did." "I suppose .1 came pretty near '.shuffling off,' " ne said, and he re peated his story. - ' "I expected something of the sort had happened,"' said Miss Wheeler, "though. there were ail sorts of con jectures. The landlady called me up to read what yon had writton. She thought it might denote, denote " "Insanity?" "It enchanted me. I write a little mvself, "ou see. I sent it to the Fiz zler. It was copied everywhere. You are a genius." With the right Kort of inspira tion,"' corrected Julian. ft looks now as if the pair wouM go into partnership. New York Mer cury. Disease-Proof Suit of Clothes. The description comes to us of a certain "disease-proof " suit of clothes to be found in the Patent Office at Washington. The suit is intended to be worn by an operating surgeon. It is a complete suit of rubber armor, re sem bling, in fact, the dress of an ordinary diver. This is constructed on airtight principles; therefore no disease germs can enter. , A small pair of bellows is to be found beneath each foot, which, being compressed by the action of walking, blow fresh air in an ingenious manner through the armor. This air enters, and is filtered through a germ-proof diaphragm under each of the feet, passing upward and out through a diaphragm which is placed at the top of the head. The descrip tion further adds that the operator has protection afforded to his visual organs through two glass eye-pieces. Rochester Post Ex'r resa Novel Puaiftna Plant--Maaael E. de Costa, who resides sir miles south of Sacramento oa the Kiverside road, has built an iageai oasraichine for irrigating his flower garden aal bis orange and lemoa iraea. It consist of a wooden wheel tea feet ia diameter and with a rtm or tire about two feet wid- A dog is placed inside the whetl, wnich is'turned by his weight as he gallops in treadmill fashion. The revolution of the axle ' turns a crak which operate the handle of a piisp set is a dug well After half an hour exercise the cog it taken oat and a freh dog put ia for Another half hour. The dogs 5?em to enjoy the work, for they bark aad w&g their tails when they tre brought to the wheL They know that it means something good to eat at the end ' of the hall i X .cur 'fe wgrk. Sacramento tCal Be. t HinV SOUTHER CALIFORNIA'S CJtOP IS GATHERED. Sun Ripened Fruit Ilneket Within View of Winrt-Whtrlert Snows of the Sierras -- The X'ieklnx ;cs. ORANGE Califo E growing in Southern lifornia is an iadastrv fif- V teen fears old. In 1875 and 187C, says a letter from Pom ont, CaL, to the New York Sun, there were a tew .orange groves in Los Angeles and near the historic old,Mis siou of San Gabriel.- These groves bore altogether about 2000 boxes ol Seedling oranges each year. Thit fruit was eagerly bought at large prices by the San Francisco people, and never was sent East on account of the tremendously heavy freight rates at that time. When the Southern Pacific Railway was built through Southern California from San Fran exsco to New Orleans, and freight rates were cheapened, orange growing had a great impetus, but when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad system was extended into- this region, and hipping rates were cut in two, the growing ot oranges had a wonderful boom. The Fomono Progress, the horticul tural journal of this region, estimates that there is now invested in orango growing in Southern California over $33,000,000. There are in bearing about 10,000 acres of orange groves. ana aooui ou.uuu. more acres are planted. The present crop, is esti mated by the railroad companies and horticultural officials at GfsOO car loads. An average car load consists of 300 boxes, and its valuation is $S00. Thus the present crop is worth 5,4-10,000. Wholesale.orange buyers, who come annually to Southern California ae soon as the orange season is over in Florida, say that the California ami Florida orange crops have never yet interfered with each other. The Cali fornia fruit is rarely ready for ship ment before February. By that time Florida oranges are practically con sumed and the market clear. The orangytrees are not stripped of their fruit ft one time, as are the Eastern apple, peach, or pear trees, but are picked at different times in the course of the month, the picker knowing whether the fruit is ready for packing by its color and form. He picks all the fruit that is ripe on the trees at one time, and repeats the pro cess again a week or two later. The first picking is made about the middle of Februarv in the Pomona Vallev, and, from the 1st of March, forxj&ree months the gathering continues una bated. A few weeks previous to the picking time the wholesale shippers go the rounds of the groves. Some of them have arrangements from year to year with the owners, while most of the producers prefer to make new con tracts each season. The agent inspect the grove and offers bo much a Ikh, or so much for the fruit on the tree, and here the responsibility of the owner ceaseiL The shipper puts his pickers and packers at work, the r rower receives his check, and another year is begun. The picking of the .orange in large orange centers, such as San Gabriel Valley, Pomona, Riverside and Red lands, is announced by an addition to the floating population. Gangs of picker, Mexican, Chinese, Ameri cans, men and boy, gather from far and near, and the groves are filled with laughter and song. Everybody is at work, and if the crop is fairly large, every one feel cheerful. The orange grove of the imagination is a stretch of tree filled with golden fruit, where one can lie m the oft gras and luxuriate in the sight The actual grove, while iK-autiful to tae eye, is cot & place for loan . nag. as the ground if, or saould be, kept coa tiaually plowed and irrigated. Bat the tree are attractive. Ever green, they often show ripe and grces fruit aad white b!ofcaax at the as:e time. A gang o! men under a lei lr, or overseer, takes poiMrvsioa of a graTe bright and early in the rnorma, two or three men btlag appointed t a tree, and the1 picking V'gins. Tail itep ladders enable th picker t reach the top brasche. aa 1 each orange is carefully cat fr-m the tree: ORANGE HARVEST. M : ; iil ti.. trill soon decaj. The picker wears a bag about his neck; and into thou th fruit is dropped. When the bajr. i filled the fruit is handed to the wahtc or scrubber The latter, generally u" Chinaman, was be the Mack stain rust from the fruit, polishing it with a cloth, after which it is paused o thi' assort r. Sometime a simple machine is used, a runaway, so that the orangt ol the same ire will all collect to- gether. This accomplished, each orange is wrapped ia variously colored paper and jdaced in the inx ready for shipment A counter keeps tally of the loxes. In some groves various machine ore used. Thus one patent i a knife on a long pole which is connected with a canras tube. The orange separated front others ia thin wav drops into (he tube or "chute." aod by the arrangement of trap, drops from one to another and finally roil into a box. uninsured. The ordinary method of picking is bv hand. The orango pickery are usually a jolly lot, there being something about the business apparently tliat enlivens the spirits The Mexicans and Ameri cans labor ir. harmony; but an orange? picking team composed of Chinamen and Americans appears to work the reverse. Tho Chinese picker iimta that his ladder gives way without warning, dropping him into the thorn tree ot rpon the grourd. Ho is bom barded with oratigea from nneso quarter?, or finds hi pigtail fastened to a branch. One inciting cause ol these disasters to the -Chinaman ia that he is strongly suspected by hi fellows of working at rates that will not support a white man of family addicted to taxpaying. At the orange-picking time tho count rv is a marvel to tho Easterner.' While standing among the oranges' tho picker looks away over grove af !r grove, fields ol flo-ver., acres of goldei egchollzias, patches of wild daiief, bluebell-, and yellow violet; and finally his eyes rests upon the Sierra Madres, .or mother mountain, rising but four or five milea distant, tho garden wall of this HesperfJes. His1 nostrils inhale the odor of the orauge blossoms, while his eyes greet the, snow banks of a vigorous winter. The' great peaks are capped with snow, and, perchance, the upland blizzard is raging with unabated fury. From the"' vantage ground of the orange grove the wind cau be scon on Mount San Antonio whirling aloft the snow in gigantic wreaths, tossiug it upward in huge clouds that rise hundreds of feet to be. borne awav over the low land and dissipated in the warmer air.' With this arctic scene in niew the ob server can, by a single glance, encom pass winter and summer. Kakfnj a Uvlnj. make a living," said a demure littla woman with flashing black eyes, who came downtown in a School street car last night. "I know a woman who was left penniless in New York. She wai riding oa the elevated road onp dajL when she was struck with the same ness of the advertisements that ar posted 4ip in the cars. She thought that she could write good advertise ments, and she thought out a lot of little four-liu rhymes for a certain article. She submitted them to the advertising manager of that firm, and they were accepted, jnd now he ia making a lot of money every year with her verses extolling various ware. ' "Pshaw !" said the blonde, who cat next to the demure little woman, I know of a case right here in Boflala that discounts that." I don't believe it, ' said the de mure little wDtnia. "Well, I do. and I'll tell yon about it to prove it. A friend ol mine wba had beeu doing some newspaper work got the craze for writing advertiae menU, and she went around to a lot of stores, only to find that they wer well supplied with people to look af ter that branch of their busineaa. Sha did find one firm that waa willing te let her try her haad, aad the began work. In les than a year shewaj comfortably off for the rest of her life." "Did she invent some new style of writing or something of that kind?" ked the demure little woman "No," replied the Monde, "bat aha -named the senior partner." Bui 1 falo Exprea.
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