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if -Mr i 1f II It. Vv II 1 II ESTABLISHED IN 1878. o, i :r 1 the earth ,3 controlled 1 ti. . ATi-.-l-'-Snxou race. It is tirT:Rto.l Ibat the world's can iU lv.; cot over SWOO.OOO. 71, f. "Sti Zealand Maoris own. about ir. " 'miO ruTcH of land. - T. " -r i :i and autumn maneuvers (,f ) , iiro; ; -a. armies cost annually $10,- TV: T 'y: fim Government pays -a trr -t )iH)-) Kilo Canal debt -j V'tV)':) S:iez Canal bonds, .pocznig the mon-'-y out of tbo farm er". Jr. th mountains ol Kentucky a ma Ti'v f the I04 boiies are built now j-i-t h thf-v w. re in the days of Daniel '! !.". 'i'licr! are 110 windows, no rfirj f ts, no whitewashing often but rn.- room, and many of them not even ho a. . Tiio mot unhealthy city in Europe, !rc,T nr to statistics recently issued,' in Kar 't lona, Spain, one of the love ( "t plaei in that part of the con tiii' nt. Ous who lives in Barcelona inere-ases considerably his chances of lelth. - - With the growth of the new taste for r it fhw. rn ths cultivation of small f! r.,-v gardens in. ly become a source of nnvpecte 1 revenue to counties h'.::i s. Many v iluablo -plant can bo luii - profitable with care, even in a small lnk-yard or in a sunny room, nit I ort airily no more nreoaob: homo in lu-dry for women cm be imagined, iii" work demands litnes, patience and unr;: nittin cire, but it pays rich diw den Is for th j amounts invested. A yimnman of Lewistou, Me., who prid'-s' liimself on his attractiveness for the gentler sex, got on a train the o'.iit r day and saw aoo Idooking youn lady, who seemed to have no l'jlv with her. He approached her, rriat.-sthe New Orleaus Picayune, and ill I. tho masher act. Sho was re? Hjudisivo, and he was having a very nice t i iii a when a man came in and thaukfd him for haviugmale tho task uf t.tk in1 a lunatic to tho csyluin lazier than he dared hope. N. S. Nt:steroJ, nu attache oj the IliiMHh Department of A rieult ure, is in Michigan ias, :fw-tiuaf metit Is em ployed there iu 0 u 1 1 i u. an I market i; lumber: His ohjoct is priu.-ipally to get iiuformatioa respeatiu,' im provements in tawmill maehiuery. Mr. Nestt roil pronounces tho Saginaw al!.-y nulla tiie tin.t he has ever n. He was especially ;nt erected in the inajile suar industry in the spring, an I spent a month iu a. New rk Mate su.ar camp. Tuis busi H' sh was entirely new to him, aud ho Mil try to introduce it into his native co-mtry, which has, he says, aa abuu dvuee o! mi Var maides. Tiie Chinese trade unions cab trace their history baci; for more than 4000 years. Tne Chiuaman does not dis cus with his employer what he is to receive for tho work he does; he sim p.y takes what he considers a fair and proper re uuuvration. He levies toll ua every transaction according to laws laid down' by his trade union, and "ith uit fur a moment takin; into consideration what his employer may c ti; l, r proper. He is, therefore, savs a corr. spondeat of tho Thiladel h'"- Telegraph, gtnerally called a t-i.of; b it ho is acting under due F'-i-ir.intees, in obadienco to lawi that far better observed an I more viicfe t-:. auy the police have been abla to y:'i''.iSe. tttimte of the charitable be q itataia England during 1S93 puts -e total su:n at about $7,0iX0J0. Tuts is held.to be about one-tenth of the estates upon w hich probate luty has been levied. Aman? the Urger amouuts given are the followin? : Earl of Derby, SIOOJJ ; Richard Vau;han. of Bath, a retired brewer, the'Rfv. James Spurrell, S1.330.CO3; John Horniman, a tea merchant, JJ430, Henry Spicer, the well-known paper dealer, ST59,0d3; Sir William Maekinm-i, iJ,03X The largest legacy of all is by Baroness Forrester, TELLING STORIES. I know of a boy that's le"py, I can tli by th no Minx h-al, An 1 ihe eyes that cannot stay open "While tho'sroo !-nih: prayer Is sail. And ths whispered "Toll a 'tory, Sal I in such a drowf y way, Makes me hearthe bnlU of DreamlaaL, Tbat ring at cioso of day. So you want a 6tory, darHnI What shall the story be? Of Lfttlo Eoy Blue "In th haystack, And thv shep ho tall to -s. A they nibble the meadow cIott While the rows are In the corn? 0 Little Boy Blu", wake up, wake up, For the farmer blows his horn! Or shall it be the story Of Little Bo Peep I tell, Ad I the ghep he lost aril mourned for, A If .awful fate hotell? But thre was no neel of sorrow For the that went astray, Since, le't horn he came back honie la his own rooJ lime and way. 0 the pi s that went io market That's the tale for me to tell ! The tfrnt blif pii?, an I the little pig?, An t the we, wee pi? as well. II-tm's the bicf pi? what a beauty ! But not half as cunnin'is ho As this little tot of a baby pisj That can only say "We-we I" Just look at the bay, bles hiai! The little rogue's fast asleep, 1 mii?ht have stopped telling stories When I KOt to Little Bo Peep. 0 little- one. how I love you ! You are so lir, so fair! Here's a Koo1-nls?ht kla, ray baby-. Gal have you in His care ! 3 ' Eben E. RexforJ. OCTAVIA'S CHOICE. BY HUU2N WHITNEY CLABK. T ain't right, ac ncordin to mj idees of what'i riffht' an what's -v mm wrong, uctavyl" said Grandma Mockbee, severe ly. "An' I shan't rj- - J nent !" added the old lady, winding briskly away on a big ball of clouded rct and white yarn. ' Miss Octavia Mockbee, black-eyed and scarlet-lipped, turned sharply around with an impatient frOwn on her shapely forehead. "I haven't asked your consent yet !' fdie retorted, imperiously. "When I do, it will be time enough to refuse !" 'Then you ain't a-goin' to marry him alter all, OctavyV" cheerfully commented Aunt Adaline, looking up from the sponge pudding she was mak ing for dinner. "I'm to glaJl - Mr. Fothergill may be respectable, for all we know, an' then ag'in he mayn't. But we know all about Jerorno Mead owgay, an" his folks afore him. Not a shiltles8 cue among 'em." "An like as not the t'other one is a wolf in sheep's clothin'," sagely com mented Miss Martha Phipps, who was spending the day. "It ain't best to take no resks, Octavy." "But yon hadn't ought to encour age Mr. Fothergill so much, Ockie," admonished Mrs. Mockbee, with a mollified glance at her tall . grand daughter. "It ain't right to accept tho attentions of any man wilhoutyou thiuk " "Now, look here, gTandma, and Aunt Adaline and you, too, Misa Fhippsl" lhe black-eyed beauty wheeled around and leveled a whole battery of anry glances at her startle ! hearer.- "iou mav all keep your good advice till it's called fori X don't want it! I'm roing to marrv Ferdinand Foth- erill and liv in tue city. I shan't tie nivself down to a common farmer like Jerome Meaduwav, and you needn't think it!" And the offended Xantippe flounced out of the rooiB, itaving her auditors breathless with astonishment. One boar later, sixteen-year-old Mar-iie, coming in from the barn-lojt with a tlat split-basset oi iresn-lani em, met Jerome Meadowgay leaving the house. "Oh, Jerome, do stay to dinnerl" greeted Margis-cor ully. " Wre icoing to have rice waiiies and sponge pudding." But Jerome gloomily shook hi head. "I'm goin away, Margie," he sai l gently. "This is the last time I shall ree you for a lon while peraaps for ever. Margie's dimpled face clouded over lik an April sky. , "Going away, Jerome! 'Bat but where?", she aske-d, blankly. "11 don't know yet," hesitated Jerome. "Maybe to Greenland," he added, recklessly. "But good-by, lit tle Margie. Don't forget me, will you? There'll be nobody else to re member me." . But Margie clung to his hand. "Oh, Jerome, mamma and crrandm will remember you, and so will I!" she declared. Impulsively. "And if Cousin Octavia preters that little dude of a Ferdinand hotntrgilt tA you, siw.'il r;e ii some day, eee if she don't. lut vonll write to us won't yn, Jerome?" she pleaded, looking at Lim through a pair of ioret-aie-uut blu eyes fringed with thic, curling Iashe 1 I I 1 ill I PBI m I II w I 1 HILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY OCTOBER (, 'That's is, if tou don't get froze up in Greenland." she added, dubiously. Jerome laughed in spite of hu gloomy prospects, and a ray ol warmth seemed to find its way to his chilled heart. "I don't think I'll freeze, Margie aDd I'll certainly writ to you," he promised. And releasing the mito of a hand, he ftrode away, while Margie hurried into the house. "I mustn't watch him out of light, because it would bring bad lack, and tnaybe he would never come backM she commented, gravely, U herself, as she stowed the eggs away in a stone jar on the pantry shelf. "Ugh! how I would hate to go to Greenland !" she rejected, with a' shudder at the pict lire her fancy conjured up. H nw Jerome Meadowgay had come to fall so desperately in love with Oc tavia Mockbee was a mystery, seeing there were plenty of other girls -quite as pretty, and with more amiable dis positions around the village of Hills however, love is proverbially blind o all defects, and though Octavia w7a heartless as one of the marbh? TJahantes at Forest Tark, sue was real I v very attractive-looking, with her red lips and Spanish black eyes. r And as Jerome Meadowgay was con sidered quite an eligible match aniouz the belles of Hillsdale, the course of hi love seemed to drift placidly along, id bid fair to run in a smooth chan an 1 nel for a time until Ferdinand Foth er ,!tl apeared upon the scene. Then everything was-changed. ir. Fothergill was an insurance t-u j and made plenty of money ; at least he spent it plentifully, which amounts to tho same thing as far t appearances are concerned. He was a dashing young man, with idiarp gray eyes, and whiskers cut a la Vandyke. He wore a seal-ring, a dangling gold watch chain and the finest of broad cloth attire. And as Octavia Mockbee was one of those persons who are c-uu eh t by snperlicial attractions and outside glitter, she straightway gave Jerome Meadowgay the cold shoulder. Tho forty-acre farm, well stocked an1 timbered, with its snug cottage. Goihic-roofad and covered in spring with clambering hop vines and Vir ginia creepers, whereof Jerome had hoped to make her the mistress of compared to the prospects offered by the dashing city dude, soon dwindled into insignificance. And in spite of all opposition, Octa via determinedly took her fate into h"r own hands and made no secret of the fact that she was "off with the old love, and on with the new." feeing that she was determined to follow her own course, Grandma Mockbee and Aunt Adaline decided to give her a respectable wedding, at least. "It's the best we can do fur her," sicrhed the gran Impther. "A willful ) girl raiist have her own way; but if shejivfcs to repent, it won t be laid to our eharge." And so the wedding drew near, and there was whisking of eggs and baking of cakes, to say nothing of dress making and clear starching, within the old Mockbee homestead. The prospective bridcrrooni had gone on a collecting tour which jwonld detain him till the eve of the wedding day. and the morning before the aus pieious event armed. Octavia was trying the effect of 1 pale pink necktie against her creamy complexion ; Annt Adaline was basting the box pleats in a silver gray poplin that was to do duty as a "second-day" 1 1 L .11 - - 11 ares ; Urdu ima jiocsoee was iare&j ins the laces in a French corset, over which the wedding gowa was to be tried on. Margie alone was idle, having re fused to lend any assistance whatever toward the coming festivities. "I shall not help to injure poor Jerome!" she declared, with a curl ing lip. "Poor Jerome, indeed: mimicked Octavia, sneeringly. She was about to add sme stinging remark, when a scream from the dress maker. Miss Martha Phipps, drew everv eve in her direction. "Oh, Miss Mockbee Octavia look here! I don't understand it. Maybe it don't rueah him, though." "Dear me) what a fuss you are mak ing Miss Piiipps!" cried Octavia, im patiently. "Can't you tell what the matter is, or have you lost the use of your tongue?" Miss Phipps resented the caustic speea with a toss of her head. "No, I haven't lost the use of my tonjrne," she responded, spitefully "nor mv eves, either, or I wouldn't have spied this notice ia the Poplar iiltiff Gazette! It's the marriage li cense of Ferdinand Fothergill, Hills dale, and Mis Amy Cotter ill, of Pop larBluS." "It's a lie !" shrieked Octavia, evi dently verging on hysterica. "I don't oclieve a word of it ! "It's right herein black and whit,w asserted Miss Phipps, holding up the paper. ' And at that very moment a letter aa brought by-a special carrier, al lresM?d to Oatavia. She tore it open and rei : Dear Mis M o-kL-etf Oxin? tc the hard ii:Tjt- ;-.ui tasia ss reverses, I rert to ay t'st I 2.1 1 ffijsdf uaible to support a 'wife. Colerthe eircu-ntn?es I cannot afford to osirry for love a ona, an L tQTeiore, I givj m Oac your frlum, aai hop you will 00b forget taat ther evtsr wa saea a pr wa as . Friinaad FotacruU "Three years since I went away a bachelor forlorn," laughed Jerome Meadowiray. as he strode alon? toward the Mockbee farm and turned his steps toward the old stile at the foot of the lane. I A tall figure stood in the dusky twilight, saintly outlined against the alowly-fading crimson of the west. "Welcome home 1" ""called a soft voice. Jerome sprang eagerly forward. "Margie!" ho cried. "No, not Margie I" in pettish tones. "It's Octavia. Don't you know me. Jerome?" 6he asked; then added, in dulcet accents, "1 did not know my own heart when I sent you away. For: give me, Jerome, and-Tandletusbury the past!" A soft band was laid on his arm, and Octavia's ihjuid eyes looked apparently into his. Jerome put the hand coldly aside. "The past is buried, so far as I am concerned," he assured, her. "You said all was over between us that day. Octavia, and I accepted your decision." I "But but it is not too late yet, Jerome. I " "It is too lf.te!" was the stern reply- Pretty, pink-cheeked, Margie male a charming bride, a f.w weeks later, and the Gothic-roofed cottage, witti its hop-vines and Virginia creepers, no looser in want of a mistress.- Saturday Night. Living With Thiar Heads Otf. Most persons of au observing turn 1 of mind are aware of t the fact that I there are several species of insects that will continue to live without seeming inconvenience for some time after decapitation, exact knowledge on the length of time which tho various species of insects would survive such j mutilation being somewhat vague, Professor Cocestrini onco undertook a series of experiments with a view of I determining that and other factsin relation to the wonderful vitality of such creatures. In each case the head j was smoothly removed with a pair of thiu-bladed forceps, and when spon taneous movements of wings and legs ceased he employed sundry irritating devices, such as pricking, squeezing an 1 blowing tobacco smoko over the insect. As a result of these experi ments, he ascertained that members of the beetle family at once showed signs of su tiering, while such as ants, bees, wasps, etc., remained for hours unaffected. Some which seemed stunned from tho eU'ectsof the opera tion recovered after a time, and con tinued to live and enjoy a headless ex istence for several days. Butterflies au I moths seemed but little affected by the guillotining process, aul the coaimoa dies appeared to regard the operation as a huge joke. "Tue common house Hy," says our experimenter, "appeared to be in full possession of his senses (rather para- doxical, when in all probabilities the canary had swallowed head, senso and all) thirty-six hours after being oper ated upon." The bodies of some species of butter flies survived as long as eighteen days after the head had been removed, but the head itself seldom showed signs of life longer than six hours after decapi tation. In the general summary of these hugo experiments we are in formed that tho lr-st signs of life were manifested either in the middle or last pair of legs: jnd that the myrio pods showed t" r- te-ctv of life "and appeared wholly indifferent to the loss of their heads." St. Louis Bepubhc. When the workmen came to tear off the roof of the Ellicott City (Md.) Presbyterian Cuurch, which is being demolished to give place to a new church, they stirred up a numerous and influential colony of bees which had made their noxe in a cornice of the old building for years an I years. The bees fought off ths iatxudef? sad had to be smoked oat and ma&sacred before the men could go on with thsir work. The honey which th ia los trious Uttlo insects had fcoirded. cp was taken oat, &ad 1? tilled a big tab &ai a paa, aiakiag all to4 aot &ach less than 150 pcaads.-Wahia?t03 5tar. -, - Moaat de Aqua, other ie the water volcano," is situated twenty five miles south ot the capital of Guatemala. It takes spells of vomit ing imraea&a torrents of pare cold water. 1894.NEW SERIE'S-VOL. THE LAPLANDERS. THEY ARK A PKCUMAR AND IS TE RESTING PEOl'LE. A reat Proportion of the Raco Are i'asans Hear iluntins Their Pur suitReindeer Their Stand by Lapp Lovemoklns. T 'J HE Laplanders are a peculiar and interesting peopl peculiar in their apijarance and in their habits; interest ing in that we Americans always find interest in everything strange with which we come in contact or about which we hear. It was in the streets of Hammerfest that I first came upon one of these people, writes A. M. Dewey in the Washington Star. Turn ing round the corner of one of the ill built houses, I suddenly ran over a diminutive littlcpersonage in a white woolen tunic, bordered with red and yellow stripes, green trousers, fastened round the ankles, and reindeer boots curving up at the toes like Turkish slippers. On her head for notwith standing the trousers it turned out to be a woman was perched a colored cap, nttmg closely around tho face ttaJ running u., Ht tho back into aa , . , , T overarchino' peak of red cloth. Into this peak was crammed, I afterward learned, a piece of hollow wool weigh iug about a quarter of a pound, into which is fitted the wearerls back hair; 60 that perhaps, after all, there does exist a more convenient coiffure than a Paris bonnet. Hardly ha 1 1 taken off my hat and bowed a thousand apologies for my unintentional rude- ness to tho fair wearer of tha green trousers before a couple of Lapp gentlemen hove in sight. They were dressed pretty much like their com- paniou, except that an ordinary red night-cap replacod,the queer helmet worn by the lady. The tunics, too, may have been a trifle shorter. Nono of the three were handsome. High cheek bones, short noses, oblique Mongol eyes, 110 eyelashes and enor mous mouths, made up a cast of features which their burnt-sienna complexion and hair 0U not mitch enhance. Their expression of counte nance was not unintelligent, and there j was a merry, half-timid, half-cunning twinkle iu their eyes which re.minded me of faces I had met durin? my travels in some of tho more neglected districts of Europe. Some ethnolo gists, indeed, are inclined to reckon the Laplanders as a branch of the Celtic family. Even at this late day a great pro portion of this race are pagans, and even the most intelligent among them remain slaves to the grossest supersti tion. When a couple is to be married, if a priest happens to bo in tho way they will send for him, perhaps out of complaisance, but otherwise the young lady's papa merely strikes a flint and steel together, and the ceremony is not the less irrevocably completed. When they die a hatchet and a flint and steel are invaiiably buried with the deceased, in case he should find himself chilly on his long journey. When they go bear hunting the most important business in their lives it is a sorcerer, with no other defense than his incantations, who marches at the head of the procession.- In the in ternal arrangement of their hats is not a room to themselves, but a door to themselves, that is assigned to their womankind ; for woe betide a hunter if a woman has ever crossed the threshold over which he sallies to the chase ; and for tares days after the slaughter of his prey he mast live apart from the female portion of his family in order to appease the evil' deity wao-e familiar he is supposed to have destroyed. It would be useless to attempt to recount the innumera ble occasions oa waich the ancient rita of juaaula are still interpolated among the Christian observaacej they pro fess to have alopted- Their manner of life is strange enough. Here aal there, as wa strolled outside tbo towa, blae wreaths of soxe cariiag from some little grsea took axoag ti.6 xosks woaJd betray thoir temporary places cf aboia. Ia th& bummer tis they live ia canvas teats; during winter, whea the snow lie deep oa the i.rr.ud, the forest Lkpus build hc.U m .a branches of tree and so live ike birds. Tneir teats pr hats are usually hex ;oali a form, (with fire ia the center, the smoke frosa XIII NO. 46 which rises through a holt in ths roof. The men aad women occupy diffsrsat tide of the same apartment, but m long pole laid across ths spc bttwstn them symbolizes aa ideal partition. Hunting and fishing are tha ohisl employments of the Lapp tribes, aa4 to slay a bear is the most honorable' exploit a Lapp hero can achieve. Tie flesh of the slaughtered beast becomes thf property, not of the man who killed it, but of. him who discovered its trail, aad the skin is hung upon a pole for the wives of all who took part iu tho expedition to shoot at with their eyes bandaged- Fortunate ia phe whose arrow pierces the . trophy. Not only doc it become her prise, but in the eyes of tbo whoU settle ment her husband is looked upon thenceforth-as the most fortunate of men. As long as the chaao is going oa the; women are not allowed to stir abroa J, but aa soon as the party have safely brought home their booty, the whole female population issue from their tents, and, having deliberately chewed some bark from a species of Alder, they spit the red juice in their husbands' faces, typifying thereby the blood of the beast, which has been shed iu an honorable manner. Although the forests, the rivers and the sea supply them in a great meas ure with their food, it is upon the reindeer that tho Laplander is depen dent for every other comfort in life. Tho reindeer is his estate, his horse, his cow, his companion and friend ; he has twenty-two different names for him. His coat, trousers and shoes are made from reindeer skin, stitched with thread manufactured from the nerves and sinews of the same beast. Reindeer milk is the most important item of his diet. Out of reindeer horns uro made most of the utensils used in his domestic economy, and it is the reindeer that carries his baggage . . .... and drags his sledge. Moreover, so just an appreciation has tho creature of what is due to his own merit, that if his owner seeks to tax him beyond his strength, be not only becomes res tive, but often actually turns upon tho inconsiderate jehu who has over driven him. When, therefore, a Lapp is in a great hurry, instead of taking to his sledge, he puts on a pair of skates twice as long as his own body, and so flies on tho wings of the wind. Every Laplander, however, has his dozen or two of deer ; and the flocks of a Lapp Croesus amount sometimes to two thousand head. As soon as a young lady is born after having been duly rolled in the snow---sho is dow ered by her father with a certain nam ber of deer, which are immediately I randed with her initial, and thence forth kept apart as her especial prop erty. In proportion as they increase and multiply docs her chance improve for making a desirable match ia mar riage. Lapp courtships are conducted la pretty much the same fashion as in other parts of the world. The aspirant tn a lady's hand as soon as he discov ers that he has lost his heart, goes off in search of a friend aad a bottle of brandy. The friend enters the tent of the fsir maiden's parents and opens, simultsneously, the brandy aad his business while the lover remains out side engaged in hewing wood or some other menial employment. If, after the brandy and proposal have been discussed, the eloquence of the friend prevail, the suitor is himself called into th? inclosure, and the yonng peo ple are allowed to rab noses. Tke bri 1 to be then accept from her suit or th present of a raindeer tongue, sod the efpoujsU are considered oon cludeX The xaarriags does not take place for three years afterward; and daring the interval the lover is obliged to labor ia the service of his father indawas diligently as did Jacob serve for his long loved Bachsh kn Uss ieasaat Serarita. "Widowed Papa' (to his stxUen-yttr old daughter) 'Efle. did yon know oax boawsktwsftr was going to be curried?" Ei- "Is she, rallj? Well, thank fortaae, we'll get rid of the disae aula old thing at last Who U IS going to marry?" . Pspa "Me-rTrath. A special train on the London. aa North'. XUilway makes ths trip .-a Liverpool to London, a distance ol 2)1 miU, in. three hoars and fet thre mlauUai
Orange County Observer (Hillsborough, N.C.)
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