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il A if 4h& ESTABLISHED IN 1878. HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1894.NEW SERIES-VOL. XIII. NO. 45 1- II I I III III 3S Th Lonlon Statist claims that the tvithdrawal of British capital from the Vnitcl States is due to distrust of the country's financial future. There are .a.ucrc.i vaeovao have, more valuable luce than-any European potentate. The lace or the Astor family are valued at 8300,000, thois of tin; Yauderbilts at S- 30,000. More lac, it is said, is bought in New York than any other city iu the worl 1. The Pope's lace treasures are sud to be north .SS7o,-00 , those of the Queen of England $:JT5,000. and thosu of the Princess of Wales 3JV),0)0 The Queen's welling lr.ss was trinimd with a piece o.' Ilomton costing $10)). Maine has produced men of aston lulling vigcr an 1 longevity, b it none more notable in this way than Dr. Westbrook Rtrrc, of liiddeford, if the stories told of hirn are true, lie is said to be a physician in activo j.ra'ticc," though ninety-eight years oi 1, and, still mo.ro remarkable, to be in the habit of visiting his patients regularly on a bicycle. He attributes his exceptional vigor at this advanced age to th- use of wintergreou tea, of whiehjue is siid to bo an ardent advo cute. The New York Times observes: There was taken to the county poor house in Camden, X. J,.j a few days ago, the old man who, for years, has been the foremost American "claim ant" and "Iresr" of th" mythic il Jen U'Mis estate in England, th i value of which has been variously rst muted at from Sl ),i)(Mi.o.i f., .-$5!) ), 000,000. In purHiit of this estate Isaac .Pruning. 'X r ri 1 nl all the pro its of his busi ness until that business ceased to bo pro.itablc. Then his savings went iu th" sam; way, and at last the poor house berime his home. He was the lirst President f the .Tennens Heirs Association, and we are told that ho never lost his faith in the justice of liis, claim and tlve existence of the property. Even no'.v "his belief" is unshaken that the millions held by the English Court of Chancery will eventually be brought' to this coun try and distribute I a -nou-j the heirs." 1 mi t there is abundant proof that the English Court of Ch meery holds no millions of "tiie .fentr'iis estate'" for distribution at any time, and if this claimant and tho-e asu-iatel with him had t iken the trouldo to become familiar with th" many warnings of Minister and Consuls of the United States in England, which have been published m the dimes during the las-t ten years, thjy woul 1 have been induced, we think, Jo save their money and energy for the pursuits of Kane an I sensible men. Henry Charles I,ea discusses in Forum the causes oi the universal in crease of crime. As might naturally he expected he assigns Cue first cause to the marked increase iu the cou fcumptnm of int ixieiting liquor. Not only is t it- the tirt and direct eiuso of crim v but he'sho.v th it torty-oria per cent, of a certain number of con victf wcrr the o'dpring of drunken or mtemperat" parent. This ' v ill bj nvre readily n 'c -pted as a reason for the m.Ti a-e of crime, think s the Chi ca.i llee.trd. than will his second cause, h:eh he designates as the in crease ol wealth. It has been thi theory upon waieh much has been written, that poverty and its.attendaos miseries drive many men to crime, and t::e view that a general increasf of wraith is a stimulant to. crime is rvnyary to the popular idea. .Mr, Lea quotes from an authority who as sorts that "every rise in the rate oi WHgus is followed by an increase of cf fenuers, and that the prisons are vor so full as m a period of general i ro-peritv and abundant work " Thi Tate of facts may exist an I yet no: prove that prosperity is a cause of crime it may . be a mere coincidence, which does not prove cause and effect. The man with a home and good wages is far removed from the incentives to crime, and prosperous . tims always increase the number .of home -owners among the laboring classes. While general wealth may not be prodactiva of rapid moral development, it is a re straint to that form of immorality that appears in police courts and on criminal dockets. Refinement, that almost invariably negatives the crim inal lmieibrt. i the attendant of uros perjty : DEAR MOTHEtt EARTH. Dear Mother Earth, full oft I long To ng thy praises ia a son? , I ache to lay me down to rest Somewhere npon thy yioldin Ireast, To turn my 'pJiVement'wearlM feet Bycrd tho em!ns endless strett, Anl sek some dimpled country place. Half cool, half warm, for thy embrace j Then kiss th"e, prone upon my face, Dear Mother Earth! Like old Angus' long auo. Whose strength surged up from earth beloT, I feel there is a peace in thee, Which thou dost whisper unto me. When thus I press thee, cheek to cheek. Thou art so strong and I so weak ; And sonse time there shall cornea dqy When tender, trembllnsr hands shall lay Me deep, to mingle with thy clay, Dear Mother Earth. Thy gift to me shall come to thee, And as thou art, 60 shall I be. I owe thee all. and so must try To make thee better ere I die ; And as we twain are one, I see Bettering myself may better thee. And so I rise from thy embrace Revived, and with a hopeful tjrace, Thus having met thee face to face, Dear Mother Earth. J. Edmund V. Cooke, in New York Sun. A DOUBLE-DYED VILLAIN BY HE1.EN FOKKEST GRAVES. NGAGED to Dakell Kenwood, is she?" said Carll Knigh ton, Carelessly. "Well, I wish her joy of her bar gain!" He was a dark faced, (handsome young man of the 'SPssr.T--, Spanish type, with large, lustrous eyes and a silken black moustache, and he upoke the words after a debonair fashion ; but Rosalind, his sister, de tected the false ring in them, and ex changed a laughing iancS with Nina Ford, her dearest friend. "How coolly he takes it," said she, "when all the world knows that ho was madly in love with Zoe At water !" Nina laughed, but her subtlo gray eye never abated its vigilant watch on Knighton's face, and a deep rose burned on either cheek. "Mr. Kenwood lias won the belle of the season," said she, in a soft, low voice. "Not that I ever fancied Miss At water. Her style is too statuesque for me. I like some animation in a woman. You never really cared for her, Mr. Knighton, did yon?" "If I really had," retorted Knigh ton, with some animus, "do you be lieve Kenwood could have won her?" "it seems that he has," drily ob served Kosalihd. "You think so?" he sneered. "Appearances would certainty con firm that fact!" laughed Rosalind. Knighton Hung his cigarette out of the window. "Well, time will show," said he, tugging at his moustache, after a Mephistophelean fashion. "In the meanwhile, I'll undertake to give each of you girls a diamond collar-button on the day that Zoe At water is mar ried to IXilzel Kenwood!" Rosalind danced dightly up and down. "Oh, what fun!" she cried, her merry black eyes ilanoing . m unison with the sway of her supple ilgure. "I've always longed for u diamond collar-button to wear with my bo collars and delicious little satin stocks. Zoe's a darling, but she cm get lots ol other lovers, and I never can have but one chance for a diamond collar button!" While Miss Ford lifted her eye brows, satirically. 'Mr. Knighton seems very sure of his premises," said she. "It is as ho says time alone will reveal the actual trend of atTairs " As it chanced, Carll Knighton met Miss Atwater at a party that very evening a fair, golden-tressed vision, like some dream of Norseland beauty. There was no special point ia Zoe's personality upon whicl"one could ex patiate, but ste possessed some strange magnetic spell of attraction that won all hearU, aud Knighton's tongue seemed almost paralysed as he spoke a few conventional words of congratu lation. "It's so kind -of you !" said Zoe, in her pretty, artless way. "I always knew that you and Dalzell were old acboolmates and friends." As she turned away to greet a Land- III- ?ome young naval ofHeer, tho Hash of a diamond gem oa her engagement finger seemed to strike across Knigh ton's eyeball like a cimeter of fire. Yes," murmured Dalzeii Kenwood, with a smile, "and a precious tcape gracc he was. Schoolmate., res : friends, no! I'm not one of the sort that likes to play with edged tools. Nevcrtheles?, in consideration of all that he has lost and I have gained, I'll try to forget those old times. People always hinted that diis father was a Spanish pirate and his mother a fortune-teller." . . . Zoe laughed. "Ob, DalJ, said hho, "I never knew before that .'men could be gossip vi veil as womtu !" "They're capital at the business," said Kenwood, with gravitv. Zoe Atwater's engagement was scarcely a week old w hen one day hpr maid came tiptoeing softly upstiirs. "There's a very respeotalde old' woman lown stairs, miss, asking to see you," said she, lowering her voice to a mysterious cadence. Zoe's fair face clouded over slightly. Dalztdl had just departed on a brief business tour to the South, and, this was her first delicious love letter to hi in. She laid down her tiny pearl-handled pen with its diamond tip. "I'm particularly engaged to day, Mario." said she. "I can see no uu-f. " "Ycr, m'.sp, T kno," said Marie -riniping tTie TnT.ie ot her apron wit! her lingers, "but sho ia so very per sistent quite a respectable body, to and I think I'm not sure, miss, bu' I think it -has something to do witl Mr. Kenwood." A charming glow suffused Zee's face. "Oh, why didn'tyou say so at first 1' cried she. "Tell her to come up im mediately. Terhaps it's some message that he omitted to leave or maybe I3ut go, Marie, go at once !" Marie obeyed, and presently, re turned, ushering into her mistress' biue-and-silver boadoir a stout, re spectable female in a stiffly-starched print dress, a white apron and a black bonnet, with the edge bent a little askew under its weight of scarlet cotton roses and crumplr leaves. On her hands she wore cotton gloves, and she carried a Hat market basket and a gingham umbrella, faded in streaks by its last encounter with the rain. - She dropped a courtesy. Miss At water rose from her low writing-chair, with a soft frou-frou of whit 3 cash iiier- and Valenciennes lace, while she secretly wondered whether this were a visitant from her Sunday-school dis trict, or a representative of the teiuv meiit-houseH she sometimes passed through in the cause of sweet charity. Yas she a washerwoman, or a hired r.uise? Or perhaps the grandmother of one of those ideal "bad boys" who could not be made to take interest in. church picnics or model' gymnasiums, but obstinately preferred the gutters instead ? "(iood-morning !" said she, with the soft graciousnens that was part of her nature. "I don't seem quite to re member who you are. " "No, miss, it can't be expected as tou should," said the stout old woman, clearing lv r husky throat. ou re writing a letter, miss. I'aps it to Mr. laizell Kenwood?" Zoe looked at her in surprise per haps with a little oileuse. 'Oh, .miss," 'hurriedly spoke the woman, depositing her market basket on the door and pulling out a red bordered pocket-handkerchief, "I niver would ha' dared to come here without I was dead certain Dalzeii Kenwood were gone. But it's only nateral 1 should want to see the rlue ladv he's to marrr one o these davs, though he's forbid me iTer to let on as I'm anything to him '" And she buried her blunt nose ia the red kerchief, with a niff. "Oh, 1 understand !" said Zoe, pul ling forward a chair, into which her visitor dropped. "You are his old surso or perhaps one of the Kenwood lamiiy servants .- "No, miss," said the woman. T.n his mother." "fits mother!" Zoe started back. 'Dont think, miss, as I've come ta beg,' said the old wemsrr, with fume dignity. "I ain't a lady, as so o-e knows better than myself, but I allays kept myself respectable and decent,, an not a penny owin to nr auu. I'm an office cleaner, miss, by business with a very gool connection, an I don't quite know why it is as DalzcH's so unwilling to hav his good know about me. Says I t htm, 'My son, says I, 'if she's the persga I take her for, she won't despise yoa for hav ing a mother as has worked to make a gentleman of you. I aiu't one of the interfering kind,' says I, nd I means to keep mysen to mysen. Rut I would like to see the bonny biriee, saya .L Rut, 'No,' says he, 'mother,' ftaya he, 'there's no one draws the line like a American lady, au' I'd be ashamed, ' says he, 'to have her know as you was a workiukwoman. So that's tho re i toD, miss, as I've waited till lie was gone humbly beggink as you'll es-case-the liberty just for one look at your blessed pretty- face. ior a mother's a mother, miss, an' she has a mother's feelinks." And onee more she courtesied and eclipsed her face in her re-edged hand kerchief witjh an audible sniff and gurgle. All this time Zoe's eyes had grown larger, bluer and moro startled, her cheeks paler. A strange quiver came to her lips. "Do you mean," sho said, "that he Dalzell was ashamed of vou?" 'A fine gentleman with a college education can't be expected to be proud of a mother as makes her-Kyink by cleanink. offices, miss," said the w oman. "P'raps it ain't natural as as he should. He was allays a good lad, though. And as 1 hain't no wish to intrude where I ain't wanted, miss, I'll bid you a very good-by. It was only that I . wanted to see what you was like, miss." Zoe looked after the stout, retreat ing figure as it trundled down stairs with a pang of shame an ache which j she could not analyze. "I I should have offered her re freshments I should, perhaps, havo kissed her!" with a shudder, as sha remembered the blotchy complexion, tha blunt noso and the red-bordered handkerchief. "Dalzell's- mother ! Now I come to think of it,. I always supposad his mother dead, though ho never told me so in words and sen tences. And all this time she .is a poor, Avorkiugwoman like this, and ho with his. cigars and carriage- and; careless talk of money, as if he were a millionaire! Oh, who could havo dreamed of perfidy like this?" She set her little pearly teeth to gether and tore up the half-written 6aeets of that sweet lirst love letter. "It must be quite different from thr-t," said she--"the note that is to'1 tell him our engagement must end! For I never, never could respect mail who has deceived me --or a man who is ashamed of his honest, hard working mother!'' The sweet, liwer-Iike face fell intc hr hands, .tears rained down likt diamond showers, and with every teai the knell of a dead hope, was sounded. l'oor little blue-eyed Zoe to hei this was the very bitterness of death. "I've done it, yMr. Knighton and it was the wust an' meanest job I ever done : "Carll Knighton was lounging a! his odlce desk, hi hat on the back ol his head, his feet thrust deep into the white pile of an Angora rug He turned quickly at the sound ol the stout old dame's voice. "Wc " said he. "what did fche i-ay?" .53 V ihi liiTn't dv mnrh ' mil I'd sooner ha thrust a knife into a lamb's throat. It was a cruel thing to do, Mr. Knighton, and if I didn't t.we vou aioney for what my poor' lad stole out -of your till, and if you didn't I threaten to give him u i i the 1st if I didn't do this : ,,r you, I'd bv siil no that I wouidl For I've got feel mkf, sir, if I am a poor wortmkwo- "Bother your feeMngsl" ?aid I r.nigLton. contemptuousiy. iou.ve done the job, an4 you've bought that rr recious pon oi vours o .roa icj - ' j years in Stale Prison. We're square, so far. Now kt me Lesr more oi j vour conj.nse!" And be lie tnount Id prodace I - ' Vs eSec't tnia Tii"e Dalzeii Kenwca-i's hope. M2oe is absolutely Qoixotis iz 'htt ideas as to honor and chivalrr " thought he; "nor do? any vraata like to realize that she hat been d ceivei. Daily's cake is all ddugh by this time, and who knows but that Mr. Carll Knighton's trump card may come uppermost one of these days?" And his smile, as he stared u; at th? ceiling, with both hands clasped be hind his black curly head, was nivr. Mephistophelian than ever, But Love, the gentle goJ, takescare of his own, and it so chanced that tht oextiEorxti&c, while Zoe was still cry ing over the letter which was to blight all Kenwood' bright hopes, a missive arrived from the true knight himseli a missive brimming over with love and tenderness. It was dated New Orleans, .and bore within' its folds a scented sprig of white jasmine. 1 picked this littlo bloss 3m, darling Zoe. teside my mother's grave, h wrote "the dear young South ;rn mother who die I when was a child. If she could -hive kpowa vou, dearest ! But let this whit. star like flower be the same to you as her 5essins ! "It's very --strange!" said Zoe, her blue eyes brimming over with tears. Just then Marie came in. s "I'm s')rry to trouble you, mis, ' said she, "but it j that stout old wo man again, and she won't take 'no for an answer. I never saw any ouo so pushing in all my life." . Zoo caught up,-the ppray of white lismine with a jealous baud as th old Woman in the crumpled bouuet ea uo in, weeping and excited. There had been an accident iu the cartridge factory down town at which her son worked, and he had been sud denly killed. o "It's a judgment on ine," she be wailed herself, wringiug her hands, "because I told a wicked lie to shield him ! And now the Lord has lmnished me. But it's Mr. Knighton as the judgment might havo fell on, and I'll I clear my soul by telling the truth at last. 1 never seo Mr. Dalzeii Ken wood in my life, an 1 the story of my being his mother was all a put-up tale as Mr. Knighton bribe ! me to tell to make trouble. But I'm punished yes, the Lord's hand is heasy on me at last!" " . And she fell in a dead faint ou the floor. . So Zoe's secQnd letter to Dalzell was destroyed also. When that young man rotured fr-m his Southern trip, he weut to demand a reckoning at the bauds of Carll Knighton, but in vaiu. That enter prising worthy had closed his law office and gone to some di-taut West ern town, the name not specified. And ou the day of Zoe Atwattr'e wedding, Rosalind Knighton looke 1 ruefully at Mis Ford. 'People don't always get their de Berts in this world, Nina," aid she. "Here's Zoe married to Mr. Kenwoo 1, and we Jiaven't received our uiamjnl collar buttons." "No," murmured Nina. Bat her loss had been greater far than that of her volatile friend, for she had secretly loved the handsome scamp who had absconded. I knew he was a villain," nhe mused. "I know he f would have broken my heart even had I become his wife; but I loved him !" Saturday Night. The San Firancisco Chronicl re marks: Whea Colonel Sjlier,ia The Gilded Age" spoke of tho im- I menwj sums oi money ne jroposa io make by dispensing his eve water to the orientals he threw out hint which inventors have been slow to act upon. The conditions of life in the' L Orient are very peculiar, and th? peo ple have certan wants whish we in the Western world are hardly moro than aware of. Among these is some rem edy against the encroachments oJ white tuts. Thews destructive invcctf make life a burden to the Europeaa living in China and other oriental countries. They eat everything mvi? of timber, and as a consequence it it almost impossible to keep a hous or its adjuncts in repair. A correspon- dent inggests that the known fact that these ants have an aversion to - asy put ecme ingenious Asrican oa to aa idea wb$h if prorierly worked cut would be a bene faction to pesp! living in the Orit-t, ej pea-, who would pay cis.iy L . aoxe prartical renae ly fo saace. " the ui- POPULAR SCIENCE. Charcoal U said to be tho best fael for producing intense heat. ScAshell murmur becaus the vi brtion of tli air are brought to a focus in them. A telephone ha lcen invent! through which a voice mar bo heard ia any part of room. Boded water testes tlaV'aad insipul because tho ga.ca it contained have beti driven off by heat. A tree iu a foret near the southern boundary of Japan attains height of four feet in seven wtx'ks. . SelentUts are now able, by mean of an -ingenious machine, to count tho particles of dust iiuthe air. Lieberkuhn estimates that tho ex tent of respiratory surface iu tho hu man lungs is not less than ltOOsuara feet. Of fM,0i0,0to rays of light ami warmth radiated by tho sun only 1 , 0CK,') fall on the planets of tho soUr system. Research shows, that there is not a particle of vegetation in the eastern part of the North Sea. It in one great watery waste. The earliest known attempt at au explanation of the rainbow was made bv Aristotle. It was along tho liuo of modern scientific investigation. The most remarkablo formations of frost known to the meteorologist nro found ou Mount Washington, wbxro the crystals are often foot long. Charles Mellvaiue, au American ex pert on fungi, claims to havo eaton full meals of over 40i) species of toal stois without ever having been poi soned. Electrical weaviug machines aro in use in Germany. Seamless stockings, with double heels, aro rattled out of each machine at the rate of eleven pairs an hour. . Muscles of tho eyes, ears and noso show that several groups, which, in the lower animals are very highly. de veloped, in man are in au almost rudi meutary condition. Professor Ball, tho Astronomer Uoal of Ireland, says that if the fUoI star Sirius is inhabited its people can not see our sun, which is 100,000,000, 000 milos from them. Animal magnetism is no new dis covery, but was practiced by Father llehl, at Vienna, about 1 771, and had wor.dertul success for a while ia France and Rngland iu 17BS and 178'J. In the interior of Australia is a series of great lakes which aro occu pied by water only at long intervals. The mud which remains when the water is absent is filled with tho bono of geologic mounter. An inventor has just discovered tliat tLu-re is enough latent energy in cubic fo ;t of air to kill a regiment, and that this power can be "liberate! bv vibration." This is the Keely motor principle. As air is coraioseal :of certain elements (gases), united in proper chemical proportions, it is simply necessary to produce a vibra tion of sufficient intensity to make a new chemical combination, and thera you have the io-er F ntnzrht An Argument ' V Mamma "No. Andrew, oU mustn't eat that candy, Ik-csum- it will destroy your appetite for dinner." Andrew "I don't think so, mamma. Mamma- 'Why don't yyi think to, dear?" . Andrew "Because, xnamra I. haven't got a bit of appetite just now.". -Harper's Young People. A snoflem ueore wiisiflftaa. TeacLf r"-"N6w, Willie Wilkin, 1 suit you to tell m the truth Did Harry Thomas draw that picture oa the board? ' Wiilte Wilkina "Tescher, I firmly refuse to answer that question. c T-acher"you do? " Willie Wilkin "Ikcaus I gar Harry my word of honor I would cot tell oa him. ' Philadelphia IltCOfft Jjl! Hoar t Tlkt IU Mr. 3tn:k' (saxiouily'i "D) yen ihvzk my rsother-it-laur mill poll through. d-?tir?" Physician fe:.ec-iragt3g!y W aa hope for the be.it, sir." .. Mr. Meks (hopelully) "So ahe'i ;2allj gvisg to die. is the?- Truth,
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