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jj y v ESTABLISHED ffl 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY JUNE 30, 1894. NEW SERIES-VOL. XIII. NO. 33 The fugnr br -ft industry Li being tn iiy in Australia. Ti-rr nr K0 postoSces in the1 T ri : t I St h an 1 of. thes,- ft 7,000 do n t pay th" expenses of opr rating and Oiaiiit Jiiiiin?' them. The eountri'S of the world where -o:n-:i already havi some' i-'iiTrage nnve uri urea of nvt-r IS, 000,000 squire rr 1 i ! '.' , and their population ;s over 3.".', 000,00' i. . Tlx Secretary of Ihe Navy Traey i piot'-d'iiH nayin-.; to a friend that in addition t the work uti l worry his -abinet lif.j co.,t him $-0,0)0 every year aii'ivc his salary of $S010. oriys T-xas Sifting": Seven out of every t n raiirond accidents are settled with an annual p-tss. Some men would be' run ovT by u whole freight train for the sake of a few free ride-. As the result of statistics showing u inrr": in''ri rist'-,ii the number of youth ful criminals th' (li-rman 31 i n i st r y of. the Interior is discussing a reor-rani-zation of the system- of compulsory eiliwution. . The New Zealand farmers nro the .inost prrcporous in the world. Within tb'- a-t ten years Ihe agricultural re-oiin-H have h"fii developed until the dairy an 1 frozen-mat industries hive attained enormous proportions. Tf the inheritance tax law, just en Reted in Kngland, hail bien in force in thin country at Jay ( ioiiM's death, his estate would have paid to thn Govern ment ?.",'; ) 00 . Mr. KoekCeller'ses- tate wouM have to pay $10,000,0).); William If. Vanderhilt's estate would have paid .?1V )O,0')(. An Knglifdi passenger reeentlv bought a -ticket from ' h':i 1 on 1 1 Vienn i. ft-'- 1 Weill V-fo'ir ll y-io'ir nour g li.i l a clian e ravelin;; without bavin: to get any fool, th-' traveler stopp " I o(T Ht. lres(Jeu rather than continue his journey for th reniainyig tw-uvo hours in a stub; of starvation. The. (iernum railway company cauedle I , h's ticket, which eontainel no stop-, ping privil'c, an 1 hi w.vs' forced -to buy another. Yah stuu-ui s ilo not seem to car inucli f.-r prize.-, which take work to 'et. f'l lie Vn! NVws says that the competition this year for the .John A. J'orter prize, the m-t valuable ofTered by the university, is very poor, and that t lie ompet it ion for the Thncher pn;'e had b jtpoued for lack of ""iup t itors. !0ie .-tiident, however, undimiuislit d interest iu priz lii;ht, 1-oat ra'ces, football, cto. I lie New ( rleaus i'ieayune sm : ' The ct'ttui intertt j h ive ha I much to ninhr.u ! during the pa-t f years i'i th- !iy of shrinkage m the. price of t b b staple; but th" decline in I f-ir the Southern product by n n'a: eo;njaM with the great t-hrink-which h is - tdi li place in wheat. Wheat has d. dind fully fifty per cent, in value, while cotton ha not I'M m.or.- than n thir 1 of ts value in the same time. if. that much. And yet there is no di- e.ir.ij-ehieut in tlv -st, nor is ther any report tht the wheat growers hsv ben driven to bankruptcy. Th" s--uet of the sue c s with which the wheat grower of th" West arc able to resist th" til cf otis of such a heavy shr;nkc iu as their c. real exp?rionced s to found in the system of daversified, r rather intensitied. farming whic'j prev:v!s there. The Western farmt i d.es Rot depriid entirely on a single ?'"lv. l .it div rsirlt s his produ ts and uiakes Limnel: self-sust-iiuin mucb as posib't. Wueat thus lca2?s nicreiy his c-iu er-; and a shrinkage a its vabie ouly means the curtail ment, more or,ies. of h!s luxuries ana coxfortV. w.tli-. it tur.-tcu;u baa'i-rap-.cy an 1 rum. as a ,1-n, vtton prices so ofttu lo- s for ta S.e.'.thera farmer. This system of crop diTersi rtoation an Ii:iteusine I farming is what io needed ia the South, an i if raoVe energy m ere dt-vot.'l t this, rather than to continual ext'nsi : of - cotton acveafre, the Soutii would be ii.oro in depenloht of fluctuations ia "l . n ace, TaTe m. hr, thoi? looks of Tour! i All thoH prttv alrn an1 lnre , Flush of eh-', an I tla-h of fye Yo'ir lips smiU nni thir dHp dje; fil-am of th wait t"th withia Timfi!e of ths cloven chin . ' AW the Kunsaine tiint you wjr In th sumn'r of yocr hair All th mornint of your fae All your flcrur wil-Jing rarr The nowr-pos of your hea t, the liglit Flutter of your footsteps flight ; 1 own all. ani that claI heart I rnnst claim r you depart. Ho not un'vnsolel ' Romtini, alter you are o'-J. You shall come, an 1 I will tak From your brow th sullen acli. From your ys th twilight gazs Darkuinx upon winter Iay?. From your fen their palsy pae, Anl the wrinkles from jour face. From your lo'ks th snow : th" lroof Of your ha !, your worn framt'? stoop, An1 that withre 1. smile within The kissing of tje nose an-1 -hin I own all. and that sad heart I will elaini ere you depart. I am Uaee, and hofu are Tninn,- Mortal A' and Youth divine,; Mine to grant, but not in f-o; P"tii again revert to me From ea - i that live, that I may give Unto . i,.t tiKlt yet shall live. -W. I'. Howells. in Harprs Magazine. Miss Belinda's Beehives. JIT AMY BAKDOLrn. HEX the city visi tois who pwarmetl nround Majdo Cen ter nutl regihtcrpd their names by the Fcore in tho bookp of the village hotel strolled out on the Maple road, they al ways stopped at the Tlubble farmhouse and cried! "How exquisite I How picturesque !"' And for the life of her, Mis.. Belinda Bubbledid not know why. "Jt ain't as if I could afford a coat of paint to the old house," said she. "It's just a slate brown with winter lorms and summer-suns; and the rape-arlor's all a-tumblin down for luck of a brace or two of solid timber ; and the well-sweep ain't half as con venient us Mrs. Chiejiorn'ri new chain pump, no way you can fix it; and the stun wall's all overcrowed with them pesky runnin' vines and briers ! To be ure, the four-o'oloeks and mornin flories are sort ' pretty by the fence, md there ain't no prettier hollyhocks in the country than them dark-red and cherry-colored ones jest thin side of the pear-tree. As for tho beehives, I always did like beehives; even if it wasn't for the honey. My mother set a heap o' stro by them beehives, and there they've stood, nine of 'em, in a row, ever since 1 can remember. And there nin't no honey iu ail the county s has pot the flavor of ourn. I don't know whether it's Squire Carbuncle's huckwheat-tield or that there clover medder of Mr. Darnell's as does it. JLnt you cau fairly tastothe bunshino alid the flowers in it I" And it was a genuine sight, ' at swarmin-time, when Mis Bulimia is sued forth into tho black and booming clouds, all gloved and vailed and tied up in mosquito netting, with a tin pan and a skimmer in her hand. "I ginerally have rirst-rate good luck with the swarms," eaid Belinda. "I don't know when I've lost one, if ouly folkp would let me alone. But it's the meddlin people that come to offer their help, that upsets me and the bees. v Squire Carbuncle, now, he's real sensible. He don't never come round interferin'. If he sees tho bees makiu up their minds tfT swarm, he jet gets np oti his garden-chair and goes into the house. For bees, theyre dreadful sensible. They have their likes and their di&hkt, jest as human :returs have and thev never could ! jet along with Squire Carbuncle !" S piire Carbuncle was a quiet, grir zkvh.eaded man of fifty, who farmed model farm, with all the new machin ery patents liberally oijed with gold, read the agricultural papers, and was always "just goiag to" write aa article for the Gentlemen Farmer. Mis Bub ble herself was cot much younger. She supported herself in a genteel way by vest -making for a factory in the neighborhood. "I s'pose," .said. Miss Bubble, "Squire Carbuncle '11 get married some day, and I hope he'll choose a sociable wife that I can take comfort Jitb, exebacgiag patterns and chat ting of an evening over the'garden fence." Belinda Babble is a sensible woman," said Squire Carbuncle, in his deep, sonorous voice. "To my certain knowledge, she has refused one or two shiftless fellows who wanted to marrv her merely to be supported. She's a good deal better off single than mar ried." 3Iiss Belinda never said a word when Squire Carbuncle' superb liver-colored setter killed her favorite Mus covy irncK--am: tte squire, on ms part, condoned the offense, when Misa Bubble's chickens scratched up all his early lettuce anl made havoc with his seeding pansies and pinks. "Neighbors orter be neighborly," sai l Miss Belinda. "And dog's nature is doc's nature I" "I must stop up the cracks under the fence," said the squire. "OJ course. Belinda can't help her chick ens getting through I No woman could." Thus matters were, when Miss Belinda's cousin, Fannie Halkett, came to visit iier a plump, peach cheeked young woman who was cashiei at a glove store in the city. "Cousin Bubble," said Fannie, "why don't you marry Squire Car buncle?" "La, Fannie!" cried the elderly damsel, starting back so suddenly that she stepped on ono of the velvet white paws of the pet kitten. "Yes, truly, why don't you?" said Fannie. " "He needs a wife: And it would bo very nice for you to have a husband. Now wouldn't it?" 'Go 'long," said Mis Belinda. "I never thought of such a thing! "Sot him neither. Go out, Fannie, and pick a mess o' white Antwerp raspberries for tea, and don't let me' hear no more such nonsense."' "Nonsense 1" echoed Fannie, laugh ing, as she went off with a blue-edged oowl in her hand. "But 1 think it isn't nonsense at all ! And among tho Antwerp raspberry vines she talked the matter over with Jul inn Hall, Squire Carbuucle's nephew, who had come to the farm for n week's trout fishing, and who had developed a very strong propensity for reading novels under the old pear tree that overshadowed Miss Bubble's garden fence. "Wouldn't it be nice?" said Fannie. "Splendid !" Julian answered, lean ing over to put a handful of raspber ries into the blue-edged bowel. Whether he leaned too far and lost his footing or how it happened he did not know; but certain it is that, just at that moment, one of the beehives fell .crash! over among the rasp berry bushes. Fanuie fled in wild fright, and Julian himself, recovering his balance as best he might, was driven to ignominous flight. "Who did that?" said Squire Car buncle, issuing out of the door. "I'm afraid I did, sir!" confessed Julian. "And what am I to say to M.iss Be linda Bubble?" sternly demanded his nncle. "I'm sure, sir, I don't know I" an swered Julian. "Such a thing never" happened be fore in all the years that we have live-3 as neighbor to each other," said Mr Carbuncle. "Of course, the bees have got away and the glass honey-boxes are broken?"' 'l am very sorry, sir," said Julian. The. souire, an eminently just man, harnessed up his gray pony and drove Uptown the next day. That Evening he called at the Bubble Farmhouse with a square package, neatly done up in brown paper, in his arms. Fannie Halkett came to the door. "My dear," said Squire Carbuncle, 'is Your cousin at home?" "Ytf, sir!" said Fannie, fluttering all over and showing the way into the best parlor, where th blue-paper shades were down a-J the stuffed owl on the mantel transfixed the chance visitors w;th its eyes of gHttering "Tell her I've called on very part:cn - lar business," sa: the squire, sonor ously. "Yes, ir? " said Fannie, and away hhc ran. . "Cousin Belinda, take your Lair out of those crimping-pins at once," s-aii she; "and let me fasten this blue-ribbon bow at your throat. He's in thfe parlor. He's come tc propose." "Nonsense. Fannie!" 'But he has! He as good as told me so!" cried Fannie, standing on tip toe to kiss Miss Belinda's withered apple of a cheek. "Do made haste! Don't keep him waiting. Men don't like to be kept waiting." And she fairly pushed Belinda Bubble into the best room. "Miss Bubble," said the squire, solemnly, rising to his feet, "I have Called to ask if you will accept ' "Yes, Seth." cried Miss Belinda, flinging herself into his - arms. Luckily he had bethought himself to lay the square package down on the table. "l"es, dear Setb, I will. Fan nie told me you was going to propose to me, but I didn't believe it. And I'll be as good a wife to you as I know how. And oh, Seth, I've always loved you ever since we were young people and went to singing school together." The squire opened and shut his mouth as if it were some curious piece of machinery. "Eh !" said he, staring mechanically at the owl. s "I hope," faltered Miss Bubble, "you don't think I've been too hasty in accepting your offer?" "No, Belinda, no," said Mr. Car buncle, swallowing down a lump in his throat. "I am much obliged to you for saying 'yes,' and I am quite con vinced, my dear, that you will bo a good wife to me." And no this autumnal couple became engaged ; and the squire never told Belinda that ic was the colony of Ital ian bees he had brought, her. not himself, to lay as an offering at her shrine. . "But it's just as well, uaid the squire to himself. "I ought really to be settled in life, and Belinda is a most worthy woman. It is best nt times to abandon oneself entirely to circumstances." " "Didn't I tell you so, Cousin . Be linda?" said Fannie, exultantly. One wedding makes many, and neither of the elders was surprised when Julian and Fannie became en gaged shortly after. "The humming of bees will be the sweetest music in all the world to my p ear after this" said.lnlian, fervently. "I always was partial to bees," re iterated Miss Belinda. The Ledger. Mysterious Cavern Discovered Great excitement has been caused in the vicinity of Bristol, Ind., by tho discovery of a cave. In digging a well Henry Oswalt came upon a solid bed of brick and mortar at a depth of eighteen feet. The earth was cleared away for a space of two feet square, when the discovery was made that the brick formed a solid wall. With pick and ax Oswalt succeeded in removing 1 a number of the square blocks, and was mystified to find a large opening below. A closer investigation dis closed the presence of a large cave, and the brick had been used in clos ing up the month. The dirt thrown upon it had completely hidden the cavern from detection. The cave is located in tho rustic hills north of the village, and may have been mde the hiding place for valuables daring the war. The presence of brick in a good state of preservation would indicate that the opening had been closed by white men, but the older residents of the neighborhood have- no recollec tion of its existence. A party has been organized, and the cavern will be in vestigated. The belief is geberal that the cave has been the headqtiarters of the band of horsethieve?" whose opera tions have established a veritable reign of terror. St. Lout Republic. A New Mississippi Bridge. The Southern Pacific K-filroa lCon pany 'a bridge be built across the Mississippi River at NewOrleans, Li., will, it is believed, bethe largest steel railroil bridir in the' world, considering the quantity of metal Used in its construction and the length. If will be about 12,50) fee: long. The aoproach soaus will varvfrom twentv rive to 150 fet m length, according to the' height of the towers. The Tiain river bridge will bo built on the cantilever priseip;e and sl! be 1070 feet in leagtfc. with spans of 63S feet on either side. The largest railroad bridge completed is over the Firth o Forth ia Scotia.n L The main atrac. ure ia 533') feet long, bat the p proaches are said to be ahorter th the New Orleans e bridge. Mao oiac turers Record. A TINY TERROR. A3IERIC.VS DKADLIKST SNAKE IS T1IK nt'IItr-CUATE. ft ! Foil ml In the Southwest,' and Kven Indian Snakf Charmer Frur It -'t i Tiny and It Kills Very Quickly. TTENOMOfS - tin ngs are more than in any other area in the Union. In the burning deserts, in the inhabited but arid ex panses of New Mexico and Arizona, the rattlesnake abounds, and in several rarieties. including the strange and deadly "sidewinder, " crotolus cerastes. The so-called tarantula rallv onlv a srigantic bush spider, bnt none the (ess dangerous because of the mis nomer is decidedly common. Scor pions are none too rare in the south ?rn portions of the Territories, and in ill parts centipedes of seven to eight inches long are frequent and neigh borly. But the chief distinction of .he region in this respect is the pres ence of the pichu-cuate,. the deadliest make in North America. The pichu-cuate matches the worst terpent of India. Not only tho most iighly venomous, but the tiniest and aaost treacherous, he would be also the most dangerous but, luckily, he is the rarest. He is the only true asp on this continent ; and in the United j States is never found outside of New Mexico and Arizona. That he was tlso known to the ancient Mexicans is ipparent from his name pichu-coatl, n Aztec word, which was brought up to our territory by the Spanish con querors. My first meeting with one was in Valencia County, New Mexico, in Tunc, 1800 on the sandy flanks of the Derro del Aire. I was 6ut hunting lackrahbits, in company with some Indian friends, . and had dismounted lo stalk, leading my pet horse by the jridle. My eyes were on a small jhapparo bush ahead, when suddenly lazan snorted, and reared backward 10 violently as almost to unhinge my irm. I looked about in surprise, for Mazan was too good a horse to mind ;rifles. As there was nothing tt be ;een, I started to pull him forward. Igain he protested and with evident ierror, and, chancing to look at my rerv feet, I understood his fear, and !elt very grateful that his senses were setter than mine, for in another step i should have walked upon my death. The only thing visible was a tiny bjeet, not nearly so large as a good itag beetle merely a head, and per iaps an inch of neck. But it was the nost frightful object in its kind that I had ever seen. : The head, certainly leither so broad nor so long as my ihumbnail, had a shape and au air of f condensed malignity impossible to leescribe. It seemed the very essence f wickedness and hate, fairly bulging jrith deadly spite, and growing upon )ne until it looked several times its ictual size. The ugly triangle (which s the distinguishing mark oi all ven mous snakes, being formed by the poison gland back of each eye) told no at once that Alazan was keeping jp his reputation never did he shy it a harmless snake and the tiny iorn, which added a peculiar and rrotesnue hideonsne?, loft no doubt 9 ihat this was a pichu-cuate. He had juried himself almost to the head in .he gray sand, against which his upper ikin was barely distinguishable, and .hus in ambush was wasting for frome .hing to turn up. Turning Alazan loose, I knelt at the life distance of a yard to fttukrthe ittle creature, which fairly swelled arith murderon rage. It not only itruck madly at the chapparo switch I .hrust out to it, but a !t, evidently liacerning that the blame lay back of .he switch, actually folio a-ed it up, md Trith Huch agility that I had to ump np and back without los4 of e. The idea of retreat never emel o enter thatL ia. Lead- Sometime ie would he and pu- out w.th isj XJteni rage, throwing hu couth, so ride open that it s:ed the venom sutt etirt, and sometimes he glided .oward me, his hea l an inch above the ground, with an sitiiude which aeaed o say : "Stand iill there nd well ee who laughs !" At iaail killed him. He waa neither rge, round nor longer than an or Imr j Kd pencil ; a cold, ledta grj fti the back, but underneath ro.r as ihe mouth of a coach sh?U. The fnt rcre tiny, not much more than aa ighth of an iueu lone, and as delicate ia the tinict needle. A wondroaa mechanism, thi- mouth, with its 1 wo iutomatic needier, so in!iniWtml yef to perfectly competent ! I ojxmed the agly little jaw wide, pressing upon ihe sivles of the head ; and when tho recurring fangs had re:i from tlrir arooves in the roof of too mouth -itood tense, a stream so inconceivably fiue that the eye oul I b.rly note it , ipnrtcd from .each, 'and in tue pace of tu or throe inc'acs meUc 1 iutt in visible spray. Vet tint jet, finer thau . cobweb Mr'snd. wa enough t; give tt ot death to too Urc and strongest annual that walk?.. When the hunt a- ver I told x&y Indian chums of th pichu-cuate, anil asked them mam quctions. Thev Ml knew of the snake, though neveral had never se?n one, ani all agreed ma it is extreme rare. ..The crtius rauaa among the Pueblo divinities--, and their charmers have no difliculu with that steady going and respect ablr reptile. But even among these-- people with whom the cult of the rattlesnake ha such astounding features, and where until recent years every Pueblo kept a sacred rattlesnake in nacfed room, with special priests to attend him, the villainous little sand vijnr i accursed. Kveii those who have "the power of th nike-j can do nothing with him. the corns to be tamod even by tho drop ping upon his head of the mystic pol len of the corn bloaom. . And he waa more dangerous than . the rattlesnake? Oh, yes I A thou sand times worse than ch'a-ra ra-deh I No one ever got well if the pichu cuate bit him. , Even a medicine maa once, who knew all the sacred heibj and so was proof against unakeiy brought a piehu-cuato in his blanket to the Pueblo to tame it. But wEeD he let it out upon tho floor and tfang to it and went to take it up it struck him in the writ, and he fell down and1 died in the time one could count fifty. All remembered, too, the fate of Crua Abeita. a young man 'who had gofi out to the llano to herd cattle. Clearlv, he had seen a rabbit run down its bor row and had tried to get it out with a switch, for when they found him h was lying there, terribly -swollen nodi black, with his arm still down in the? hole; and in his other hand, clenched with the grip of lm dead, w a crushed piehu-cuiite. Hid i u iu tho sand. it had 'struck him in the c whde he was rfttelnng nfter the rtv bit, and both hid did together.' They had heard of oth r n' (and b have T) of the bite of th" Aweri.-u asp, and always with fat! result if. "No I But th' re wan a niso, nftl he is the only one that va ver struck by the pichu-cuate without dymjr,' said Franciftco. "And he whs a Moqtii that I know. Hp is of the sriik-j mcu there, who make the rsttlsnake dance, so he has the power of the snakce. But it wan not for this that h escaped ; and thovigh h lives h can no lnger weave he who was before one of tb best rarnta w avers of las IVupl of Peace. He chanced to lu corning onf dav from Ohu tu-e, and. titling down T - e - in the deM-rt toret, put ht hand bck and found bimndf strueic in thj knuckles. Thinking it to b- rattle snake, he ro and turned to eharrn it, but when he aw it w-s pichu-ruaV, against 'mcb even thf mah'-qne-beh i no rcmedv) h took hi hunting knife like ligMning and chopped off' In right hand at thft wro-i, afterward killed the r '.. And iuT mnj weeks we looked for inm to die. Hin?5 thT h cn no longer chrr.j eiea tht rattiejnake, for wh-ri he eei auy snake his heart die in him, and th snake, beholding thai he i afrn!,t jil not obey him, but aly lihti." New York Sun. Vyryan Grey, s ITby Knglanri) 2eipapr :uit i mkkiQg trasp from Iiftou t Monterey, Mex.. aud r'firc. jei through P.tubrg. Pnn . ti othr dir. H watered th a pirty i frllo! ta r.n-Unt thftt h c uld dv . Preti- dEt PAcknl!. ol Hit of L u I New AMMCtlOt, otTered him $ to L On of ihe make ilia bva h coaliti'-i is that (irey u'I ha at home within a year from Msreh 17, when he started, and hate with him,
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