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ESTABLISHED IN 1878.
HILL&BOtiO, N. C. SATURDAY JULY 7, 1894.
NEW SERIES-VOL. XIII. NO. 34
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JULY THE FOURTH,
Thoa zr'-ntf of all 'irini day-i,
July th Fo-irth. ail hail !
You lit a in Kr 1 m'8 fani
Wfr,i fl-im sh ill n 'vr fail !
Tbe F.ith'T" or thi Wtto Worll
fi.ivf n i l fa'n? to tbv,
TV.'"u Ih'-y ;.ro-!nlm 1 to all th e?r1a
Thi!
rmn hy l.irth wis free!
Thy morning sijrniUd Tan lom diwa,
WhMc n-"a lay pln!ors now
Tif' earth nn 1 sky with r.vli in"9
From 'air fVniiViiVu frovr !
Immortal r.y ! Vj hill thy riso
As Fr'Jons Easter morn,
Vhn Lllj rty,o !on; ntonbel,
In 'ior' wri r' horu.
TLo jrivvno-l fiim of nn"irr.t l!om,
Of '.'arthfiK u I of Or'" 1
Whose alne. rua ie t!i rnt:iries dark,
In you found lal relen"-.
To Mas nl ovo this continent,
From o"- iij rim to rim,
To chr all. htrujctjliti nations oa
And nv'r moroi sro-.v dim.
You iyml,.n a s.-cred Jaw
Thf nt'ht of all mankin 1
To win th'ir share of nil that rf0l
For human nee Is drsijmM '
We know the !son that you ta-m,
Th duty yon ro''!nim, .
And we ar- h r.' to jmxrtl that trust
In I'rwlou,' si'.reJ na:n
I'. S. OassMy.
now Tiii;v7iATEi).
A IOClfTH or Jfl.T STOltT.
X the little rail
road town of Co-
lumbm money
O.'iine rather low
Wl 1 1 11 mJ'Jiy ol
W4fMs 1,ow to cdebrate
Wnt the Fourth of
fcS,- to a majority of
trth of ;
in an up-
propriate way was indeed a oueftion
of eoiisi'icrfthle iiiiirniitnilo f..L4
V
tlo boys' fathers were railroad men, -j ing frigh itf one dav, but their eool
and ra.ilr.iad salaries are proverbially , ness and strength pulled them throu Ax
small.
!
plenty of money the bovs
vith plenty of
voum have ce.el. rated in a w iy that
" uwnivejieu uio sieepy little i
pi. i neciuaiiy umt tno ohier in- ;
habitants might have imagined that i
hostilities between the Xorth and i
00,11,1 lvul 'Token out anew.
To obtain the neeessarv articles with
which
ti celebrate was tho all-im-
poitant question before the bov'
club, called the "Our Hoys," two
woVks before the time designated as
the "Glorious Fourth." One of the
boys, Hem 'Oilman, suggested chip
ping in and buying a lot of skyrockets
and red lire, but as his father was an
Mjineev and made big money, the ; sophomore siguals was begun,
proposition was nothing remarkable.) j A flour barrel was used as a reeepta
Tho words "red fire" suggested ah 1 cle, and at the end of two days' work
idea to another of the club, Jin Slade, it was three-qu xrters filled. The tor
atid on his plan of celebration there j pedoes had mounted iq in number
was a unauimou agreement. It was until nearly 20 ) of them were pileil
t the effect that an effort be innuu-
rated at
once lookm.r to the collec- i
tion of us much red lire as possible in
the two weeks yet remaining before
the Fourth of July, and on the night
of that day letting it. off in a bunch.
To the members 'of the "Our JJov"
there
plans
was no necessity to formulate j bogged for a contribution toward help
er a lv incL' ideas as to how this ! ing out their celebration.
red lire wps to be obtained. I'hev
lev
were son of railroaders, and knew red ;
tire by heart.
-
l.very lineman on a 'train leaving
r.asi or West has amonir his collection
of lamps, torpedoes,' poker and shovel j lived than "Em." Stevenson, the dis- houses of the local fire department,
a couple of sticks of this material, ; patcher, and the boys, knowing this, They knew what was coming next,
which are Use, 1 on fogijy or stormy j told him all. j All of a sudden a great shout went
nights to warn the train following of ' His contribution was an eye opener up from every part of tho town and
their near approach to the train ahead, j to the, boys, and, after opening the all eyes were turned toward the west
I hesc sticks burn live minutiK, and, i signals, the barrel was filled to the ern section of the town. It appeared
f course, eoutaui a lare quantity ot , brim with the precious red fire. as if the town was to be destroyed by
the re. 1 powder. All the railroad men I At last tho great day arrived, and j fire and that a mighty conflagration
lnv iti from Columbia on the eastern the parents of the bovs belonirinc to 1 was undor wav
or extern triim were kiiunn nn.l !
ery f,, 0f through men, running , which the money given for lireeraek
froiu ..in- end of the division to the ers and other explosives was put. In
other, were not known. ! fetead of buying firecrakera and tor-
I'he "()r 1 m)vs" Club originally t
was a hall club, but had been in exist
ence. for several seasons as a social or
ganization, minus a club house and
the luxuries of such. 3
dim Slade, being a member of a
State militia company as drummer
i i . ,
i'oy, anew sonu inmg about crganiz
ing for effective work, and he it was j
that proposed and appointed commit- I
tees to corral every train that passed ing. looked wise and waited for the ; members of the "Our Boys" were in
through tho town. ; cover of nightfall. j dulging to their hearts' co'ntent. They
Hoys born and raised in a railroad j At 8 o'clock everybody in , the little ; all swore allegiance to one company,
town, soon become expert car jumpers, town was. on the streets promenading j the Vigilant, and were head and front
and it must indeed be a fast train that ! and viewing the few roman candle? and j of the rush with the hose reel of that
they cannot successfully movipt. A skyrockets set off by the more aristo- j engine.
rendezvous was selected-back of the eratie and wealthy citizens. At the end of the street the cause of
railroad round hou?e, in the cellar of By that time the barrel of red fire j the light was discovered, and again the
a deserted house, in which w? to be had been transferred to a field just ; tongues of the citizens were set wag
stored all the material 5.cured back of the town and a long fuse con- ; ging, and the younger generation of
The bojs worked like beavers and nected therewith- Each boy appro-. j young men voted the day's celebration
as only boys can work when a Fourth priated as many torpedoes as he could ! a "great success. Eve the solitary pa
of July celebration is in the prospec- carry without exciting suspicion asd per of the town, while taking the con
tive, and at the end of the first -week took up portions assigned to them by : spirators to task the following day for
twenty-seven sticks had been secured ( the chief conspirator. the fright they had giren the towns -and
ome seventy-five railroad torpe- j The town was to be given a surprise people, could not' but commend the
doen. Jive latter article is also an im- j and the Fourth of July a celebration plan for its originality and startling
portant part of a railroader's outfit, that would op?n the eyes of the oldest effectiveness.
and, crossing the vion of ceo o! the resident. Among the boys of the town the
collectors, several were secured, and ' The scheme worked to a charm. story leaked out. and soon the details
thereafter they were added a a sort I At 9 o'clock exactly the through ex- j of the celebration were known to all
of auxiliary. press was due and from the telegraph To say that the "Our Boys" Club took
As the day drew near the boys re- i operator it was learned that it was on j a boom but faintly expresses it. Every
newed their erlorts and the red fire 1 time. The. town- was located along- boy in town put forward his name a
and torpedoes came in in such quan- side the track and a grade of consid- an applicant for membership, bat
tities iiat one or two of the more ! erablo length ran through the center , "exclusiveness was desired," and th9
timid povs suggested a halt. But, j of the former and was the cause of ) tone of the clab remained at ita first
like the trained bloodhound, they most of trains reaching a high rate of great height lot several years there
taielt the sport from afar and decided tpeed. after. '
Evolution of the Firecracker,
mit& 5.-8k.2 wBSriyvN
to, gtve tho little town A celehrat Ion
that should go down in its history as
a red-letter day of the most vivid hue.
To ii.ld zest to the collection the
railroad officials began to notice the
great inroad on their supply of com
hustilri and the train men had U
l'ack their lirain for new t.tori'jH as to
their rapid disappearance.
On account of the vigilance of tho
railroad fdlicialw tho boys' base of t
operation was transferred front the i
yards ol the road to the outskirts of
the town. Trains troinir east were I
easy to mount, but those going west
called for volunteers who were expert
train jumpers, and the narrow escapes
made wherein the loss of a limb, or
even a life, hung in the balance, were
numerous enough to ntm.-i)l unv bov
'-' i i
but the son of a railroader.
Charley Vac Lew and Johnny Hook
Wlrf bot h i ri iwn linl f unilurn f .lf i . n-
wilh badly torn clothes. Coupled
with thest; mishaps were numerous
brushes with the railroad detectives !
in the way of chases over cirs ami out
over the hills into the country. The
boys were known to the detectives,
and while thev did not care to arrest
them it was their dntv to keen thmn I
off the cur-i ami nmtt tho pomnnnv's 1
property. At nicrhtfall several of the I
boys, in company with their father, j
would run across these officers, but a
Knowing wink would set matters right
before any harm had been done.
On the 1st day of July a halt was
made in the foraging and the work of
extracting the red powder from tho
up in a store box in an off corner of
tho room. c-
Then, as a linal endeavor, tliree of
the bdys in wiiom were .traits that go
toward making up u diplomat called
on the chief traiu dispatcher at that
point and in the most persuasive tones
" ith keen discernment tne
With keen
he dis- j
erne and I
paterher saw into the whole scheme
promised to help them if thev would '
i. . .
' let him know tliH full particulars of j
their plans. .Nn more fuu-loviu man
the club were ast on lshod at tht use to
pedoes they made tho mouths of many j
of the outside boys water asthev passed j
among them munching peaches or j
apricots, or contentedly chewed away J
on some delicious sweetmeat.
And then the noveltv of the situa
tion struck some of the yoonger boys
and sarcastic remarks were flung at
them as to their patriotism. But the
members of the "Our Boys" said noth- !
The expres was nlwavs a heavy one
and on the schedule was not called
upon to stop at Columbia. The bojs
knew this, and on the instant that" a
freijtfht preceding the express had
pulled out of the way they set to
work.
Only. five minutes intervened, but
they w ere experts at putting, down tor
pedoes, and in three minutes' time
every torpedo collected had been
placed on two parallel rails. Then the
sharp whistle of the express wras heard
in the distance, and nn it mmr with a
rush and a roar.
The boys scattered and with bated
breath awaited developments.
They came the next instant.
With reports like the explosion of
musketry, and if anything louder, the
torpedoes went off in quick succes
sion and the promenaders first halted
in amazement and then took to their
heels in affright. They thought the
noise would cease, but instead it
seemed to increase. Two hundred tor
pedoes stretch out over a considerable
distance, and they were laid for tho
length of two -squares,
1 eople came running down the
streets from the back highways' in
quiring the cause, and it appeared as
if tho town wa n it foot -
tivolv 1.-; r ia i,',i
And the encrineer and TnjsiHrn crore nn
the train, what of them? To the bovs
they indeed furnished a surprise that
was unlooked for
The engineer, with hair on end, was
trying all he could to bring his train
to a standstill, but it .was impossible
to do so before tho last torpedo had
exploded; the passengers frightened
almost into a frenzy, were climbing
back over the seats, out onto the plat
form and gesticulating wildly from
the windows.
At last the train halted and all gath
ered around, and, as the train dis
patcher simply motioned the engineer
to go ahead, a great laugh went up and
the passengers were enlightened to
tho fact that this was the glorious
Fourth, and they, too, joined in tho
hilarity.
As the train disappeared around the
western corner of the street paral-
leled to the railroad and the people of
the town gathered in groups to dis- I
cuss the Rtmnc ocrnrronoe. tho onn
0 -.w.
spirators disappeared from the scene
and elided-toward one of the enirin
the sky was blood red and a mighty
column of smoke was ascendintr on
high. The boys had done their work
well, scattering the red powder over a
large area and leaving the most daring
boy of the crowd to set the mass off.
Soon the fire bells were tolling and
tho exciting jinglo of tho Ere appar-
atus denoted a race was on between
the different companies who were de
sirous of securing places of vantage
from which to fight the supposed con
llagration.
In this race it is needless to say the
in Extraordinary Swimmer.
They have jnt femnd'a swimmer ia
Australia who has aroused the inter
est of all sportsmen who make swim
ming something more than a pastioce
in this countrv. Nobody seems to
ino exactly how tho new man,
(iormlyj swims, though the Australian
papers devote columns of description
to his style, having got to the point
of illustrating his method. Even the
experts in this country are unable to
fathom the peculiarities of his stroke,
which has reduced, nil the notable
swimmers in Australia nd New Zea-
land to despair. It should be said,
by the way, that the swimmers of that
part of the world are men of extraor
dinary swiftness, endurance and
power. Oormly does not pretend to
train for his races, but makes it a
point to spend six or eight hours
every dsy in the water. His stroke ia
now being copied by a number of pro
fessional and amateur swimmers of the
antipodes. He swims, according to
the description, with his right arm
perfectly straight that is, it makes a
long, slow sweep from tho shoulders
downward and backwar I as he lies on
his right side. But the real stroke
which sends him through the water at
a rate which amazes his competitors is
what is described as ' 'the corkscrew mo
tion of the left leg, which is drawn up
and out of the water, so as to bo almost
completely in view, and is then pushed
under the water and thrust back
ward with a corkscrew motion, which
.
sends the body along at a remarkablo
rate of speed." This is the most suc
cinct explanation which has yet been
given of Gormly's method of swim
ming. He is coming over here this
summer, 6o when the camera fiends
get at him the public will know all
about the "corkscrew motion" which
he uses. Incidentally his style of
swimming casts a bitter reflection up
on the frog, which has heretofore sus
tained an unquestioned eminence as
'the model for. champion swimmers.
New York Sun.
Indestructibility of tht Diamond.
For thousands of years after the
discovery of tho diamoud it was be
lieved to be indestructible, as far as
acids and tire were concerned. As re
spects the acids, I believe that it is
still maintained that there arle none
known that will dissolve it. j In the
eleventh . century Bishop Rennet
wrote the following concerning the
I
diamond in his poem, "The Lapida
rium :"
Hardness invincible whic'i naught can tame,
Untouhel by steel an I ua oaquerei by
flame.
The last words of the second line
are not true under all cirumstanca.
If air be freely admitted to the re
tort, a diamond will burn like a piece
of bituminous coal as soon as the tem
perature is raised above 5000 degree
of the Fahrenheit scale. Such ex
cessive heat cannot, of course, be
measured by Fahrenheit thermome
ters, but is recorded on au instrument
called a pyrometer. But in regard to
the fusibility of the diamond, while
the experiment hac proved that it is
instantly reduced to ashei if sub
jected to a heat of 3030 in an open re
tort, counter experiments also prove
that if the air be excluded no known
degree of heat will materially affect
it. St. Louis Republic
Maxes An men to war as.
"In reading of the terrible havo?
wrought by the late storm on our At
lantic coast," said Captain L. M.
Keene, of the United States Nary, at
the Ebbitt, "I couldn't help a thrill
of horror at the fate of the poor
wretches that wereudrowned in sight
of the help that was powerless to
save. It will make any man feel thut
who has ever gone through a ship
wreck. It is facing death in it? mot
dreaded form. The forces of nature,
exerted violently, mke coxards oi
ih- bravest. I have seen South Amer
icins cower and collapse in times o:
earthquake. They would lose every
spark of courago and a?t like fright
ened children. The -same men would
stand up and. with smiles on their
faces, stab each other ta death with
their keen, long-bladed knives.
"Darisg the earthquake at Charles
ton, S. C. old soldier that hoc
demonstrated their nerve oa many t
bloody field, were victim of abject
fear. Ballets could not make then
fly, but the un -en lorce that nottv
nn thpm so mvtriOii&! v were too
much for human endurance. Waal
ington Post.
TRICKS IX TEAS.
WAYS THAT ARK DARK OF THE
1JKATHKN CHINEE.
Vry Stick Is If, IJut Not Always Sao-
cesful,ln Adulterating Teas Sent
to America --'fiO.OOO lark
asts Condemned in One Lot
Fat the bottom of your teacup.
after you have sipped the more
or lesa fragrant and cheering bev
erage, you find a dark paste-like
sediment, charge it up to the ways
that are dark of "the heathen Chinee.'
The sediment is mud plain, every
day, Chinese blue mud, and it was put
there by your Celestial with intent to
defraud the purchaser of the crop.
Perhaps there is no sediment, but
that does not argue that yon have es
caped John's wiles. If the tea is bit
ter and rank to the taste, it is because
that with the leaves of the tea plant
there have been mixed all the way
from twenty to sixty per cent, of the
leaves of a willow, or of a plant that
is known as the sloe, both of which
grow, wherever tea is grown, just as
cheat or tares grow alongside of wheat
Again, if your tea is neither muddy
nor rank, but is weak and without
either flavor or fragrance, it is be
cause the leaves have already done
full duty in some far-a-way tea-house,
have been gathered up from the
kitchens, re-dried and ' then colored
with Prussian blue. and soapstone and
hipped to dear, gullible America. ,
The adulteration of tea and the sub
stitution of spurious and exhausted
leaves is a mammoth and monstrous
evil. To buc4i proportions had it
grown that in November, 1883, Con
gress passed an act for the protection
of importers and created the office of
Tea Inspector in connection with the
Custom Houses in New York, Chicago
and San Francisco. Tea is admitted
free of duty, but not ono chest of it
can be landed until tho inspector cer
tifies that it is free of adulteration or
apurious substitutes.
When a New York World reporter
called at- the United States Appraiser
great work-house, on Laight and Hud
son streets, recently, Isaac McOay,
the inspector or the f Port of New
York, sat before a circular table, upon
which were placed in neat array a
dozen dainty china cups and saucers,
each of which was filled nearly to tho
brim with the infusions which he had
but recently made. A bright copper
kettle steamed cheerily at his elbow.
Mr. McGay had just completed a task,
and he leaned back in his tilted arm
chair with an amused smile upon his
cheery and ruddy countenance.
"You have come in good time' he
said to the reporter, who asked for
some information about Government
tea inspection. "These cups repre
sent samples from a cargo of 00,000
packages of tea, every pound of which
has got to go back."
"To China?"
"I can't answer that question.
Maybe to Canada or England, but it
cannot come through the Port of New
York. That is a great deal of tea to
condemn, but that is what I am here
for. I do not .believe that within tbo
twelve years I have been in this de
partment, during thek last four of
which I have been the inspector, 1
have ever examined a shipment in
which all the elements of fraud were
so unblushingly combined. In the
first place, forty per cent, of the)
weight of this tea is dirt. I mean
common earth that cost only the
price of the labor involve! t? dig it.
"This earth, ground to an impalp
able powder, is mixed with a pats
made of rice water an 1 known as con
gee. This is adroitly done, th pte
uniting the particles o? dsri int th
perfect sembianc? of mll, curled tea
leaves. As the tea proper is bijt
packed into the eht workman
stands by with the congee and cat it
with a sweeping motion of the hand
in thin layers into th 1kx.
"In a cargo of 60, 001 cht of tea.
each weighing ixty pound, or a total
of 3,W,000 pounds, a matter of 1,
440,000 pound uf mud, paid for as
He, ia quite a little item if the scheme
goes through.
"Ia this instance I hare no donbl
whatever of a caef ally planned frul,
for the firm which exported this carga
stands Tery high in Chin and ha for
years been considered beyond re-
J preach. I have never had occaaioa
before to refuse any of their tea ad
mission to this port.
"But I have not told a'l. In ad
dition to the adulteration with clay, I
find this cargo contains a large per
centage of willow and sloo loaves and
an castly traced proportion of mar
lowe."
"What is marlowe?" 4
"That is the name in th? trade for
tea leaves that have been exhausted
and rcdrie'. In Honj Korg the
principal tea gardens arc located on
Marlowe street. A regular wagon,
familiar to all foreigner, make a
daily collection of the leaves from'
which the tea of the previous iweuty
four hours has been drawn. Thty
tern of collect on in in operation all
ever the Empire. I imagine, from tho
amount of the stuff that wm formerly
foisted upon this market. It certainly
obtains iu all Ike large cities."
Mr. McClav here called attention to
the cups before him. With a poor
he dug up the muddy sediment from
the bottom. He then flattened out
number of tho infused leave. Tho
difference between tho willow, Nfeloo
and tea leaves is apparent to tho cTfs. .
He explained the system of inspection.
The ship containing the invoice ia
visited. From each line of sixty to
one hundred boxes a sample is taken
at raudom. These are mixed together.
Then they are examined under power
ful magnifying glasses for ocular evi
dence of fraud. ,
Then Mr. McGay has a little lea
party. Cups art set for from ten to
twenty, but he is the only guest. He
never gives 5 o'clock tea?, but at any
time from 10 a. m. to i p. m. lie cat
be found tastin ; and spitting out tho
beverage he brews, or with hi noao
down close to the steauiiug cups in
haling their fumes. Th penalty of;
this part of the pro-ss is an occa
sional vertigo or dizzy feeling, ac
companied by a splitting headache.
When this comes ou he is forced to
strike work for the day and walk in
ihe open air.
Measuring z Million!1! o! 2 Deqree.
i
Frofessor Langley, of tho Smithso
nian Institution, h is brought his bol
ometer t a slit? of hig'i perfe:;tiou.'
This instrument, n t'i -ny extremely
simple, is a fine wire thr m h which
current of electricity is kept llowiug.
The resistance of tho wir varies with
the temperature, .an I hence the
strength ol tho c irrent aUo varica.
By measuring th-s current, therefore,
tho temper.itut -j of th wir cm ba
ascertained. As is w.dl kn n. l'f
fesor Lan;;ley ha ertlore I th.? in
visible regions of th'j soUr spectrum
with this device, previa j by it that ia
them, iui well as iu th I iminoni por
tions, flue absorption lin-s cist. hi
this and in other field- it hn easily
taken a plac as ono of the most vl
uablr of existing instruments. u th!i
latest and most de!ic;te form th.
wire is 1-50') inch wido an I l-'JO'JJ
inch thick, and a difference f tern-
peraturo amounting to J-l.'rJTJiJ
legree centigra l" cm b? ptrcsivoJL
Detroit Free Pre.
Tides o! 60 Feet
rrofessor-Ball, the astron jnrrroyal
of Ireland, calls attentiou to a euridn
fact in connection with tide. At
present the moon i24,OH miles away,
.but there was a time in th'j dUUut
pant when it wat only about rne-sixth
part of thin, or say abiut 40, 001 mile.
If the moon at a ditarco of 2 10.01)
miles gives n tides that average three
feet the world over, ; th-;y must bate
been 21 ft time higher, or at leat 64C
feet, at the timo when it waa only
49,000 mile away. . Such a tide a tht
above would drown the MiAtippt
Yallev from the El jetties to th
mouth of the Bal Ax?, and would pile
up water 300 fct de in tur otrette
of St. Louis. - St. Linm Ikpubiia.
Sa4 Mt; Do.
Aa eight-year-old
tJ wa 03 it
owpath nar th bri ig at Nt
Brunswick. N. J., playing with hjj
dog, when he fdi iat the wtttr,
which i a boat :r or xght t.l dee
The lad a ia a fair way to drovu
whes bis Newfoasdlaad.
jumped :a sad swam to his ;d. Tht
boy grasped th dog tightly by the
hair ca hu back. Th aatmtl then
awaza to the aitore, sj that the-11
coull grasp the dock loaa 1 haul hita
df oat. People wh: saw theinci
dent declared that the dog ahowcJ !
most humaa intelligence. VtXxo'4
Fre Preac 0