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r v V it i,:iAEUSHED IN 1878. IIILLSBORO, N. C. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 1G, 1895. NEW SERIES-YOL. XIV. NO. i:t Admit mo tm i t , Ai.LKY TORGK. V,":; .incrton ana tho Pa--;.:: Army Suffer icon co Made Timoly EVirthday. j iioro's a:i l Hfk-i in w iuc . without meat. mander ordered to march agairis.t the I feet across, into which the doors from enemy. "Figbtin:: will be far pre- ! both sides of the house open. The feral.;' to starving, " writes Hunting- i qnn leaning up against the wall is an ton. "My brigade ar-i out of provis- oll and rusty flintlock, yet in a good ions, nor cm tin commissary obtain ttate of preservation. It was present any meat." ''It is a very pleasing ed to the association which bought the circumstance t t h- divi&ioa under building by P. C. lies?, of FhiUdel ray comma:i !," writes Yarnum, "that , phia, and is.said to have been carried there is a probability of their march- through the entire war. by a volunteer ing. Two days w? have been entirely t named McLathery. General and Mrs. ; Washington, eome historians say, th patriot army from th.- 'fhih was Valley Forge at Christmas, j passed their entire winter there, while i- rmantowu to tho forge 1777, Such was tho extremity to v.i-.-v, twenty miles aw.iy. ! .vhieh was reduced, at that time, the e dd 1 lowering Decern- ' Sir:nv which eventual!? wrestle! this : merged, ragged rebel ; mighty Nation of ouri from tb srran -.r -hm! opt.fH-hu trudged J of ti merceuery, soulle monarch. ,....rl "th-.-ir winter'h home, To-day it is all different. T1i3 old . f -h'--T " uw.t'.ted th-un, ; drill ground wh'-r--' Baron Steuben, . habitation y-t existed for i struggling alike with the English an 1 e..n. foro, where for j tongue and raw recruit transform 'id 1 v 1;::. v wolf of hunger ' them into th bent holdie.rs, f-till re- j ' ." fr-ot might en 1 th-ir main's, but nothing marks the spot the noble German labored. o i i-. hum of i Ir i t ihh w here ' Uriti-h vt.vd. j .;ve!l tu.: .ouv. wh-r.- he lived is un- W l' i-(;. patriotism, J marked, and the casual visitor to Vl ; i, up iii-t ranks of this i p.y Forge would pas it by as an ordin " ''.v- 1 undying llume ! ary farm house, without a knowledge i: :. br. i I und meat in ; that th'cro lwelt one who, like Lafay- xv.ir.-K ti:: bfe-blo.id in 1 (tte, ha 1 given up all to. help the strug Irani. -'. Hu'.f-r.ht 1, i (.ujonis wit'(l ()Iiv t,e H.sgUr- 1! b. !uu I them, b-spiir ! (in(.(; that there vai, nothing, to gain ;, .;i"fitif-iftio:i and iis-j fUl l uU to lose. Wh-n I visited the ..r . I tlp'tu, th-v m:;st 1 iorgc, says a writer in Dine and Gray ! aa 1 fill-.-.-i It'it for th- -.-n't hou'h Nov'Tnber the ground ; ;:o r. i r. w a s h ! n ; ton ( w mo m' s po mv. a it) . of their daunt- was yt eow-red by her rich green an 1 ' v. r-. 'i :i ! t;.: i:;::ate. rihteou:-- j rp,.s Hnd a f.-w Ksvves htili lingered 'a'i'-. i ,ju the trees jirouud as if unwilling to t;;;i'. Wh .'lin.-ton a ud his ; jVjVe up their rule to winter's winds. 1') tn it :.i'-f known in raFtin; v as Vui!-v l'orgf. Ar- oihers contend Mrs. Washington ar rived iu February. Lossing 'is au ihorilv for the statement that "on iiat cold winter journey to Valley lVrl KeniM ity, n little log j Forge Mrs. Washington rode on a hut comes in s:-ht, where it is said ; oilliou behind her husband." There- 1 1 r ' " i I -".'ulier 17,.- 1777, , H.irou St-ub-n lived. Looking over fore, Mr.. Washington occupied the o, ' f.tMish-d troojH were and l.N-yond . this i:s we ar proaeh the i Fotts building with her husband dur- tdf nintry blasts in j headquarters is a steep cone-shaped : ing t he six months of encampment. In u-.til tii'-y e..ui'i r.dl tho trees 1 hill which was known as the . har s the room occupied by them Rtg thirty- 1 1 ; ' ! i t- e;.n-tr.'i t the rule log I Ie:dt)ubt." This cotumands the river I nine ehro-iological photographs of .:! u h t :.ey w, re to speu 1 the j crossing and marks the place to-day,' j General Washington and a few ail- in -:.tn-. dim season had bv no elT(rts ol the Government obli- I houettes. i -;th unu'--ual severity. The gate 1 s immeasurably to that patriot j The sword that is shown in the office ! v- ' - eovere 1 with ire and j baud of Ftarviug heroes who were was captured by James Jones from a Ifessian at tc;e battle of Crandywine, t . 1 r . v A D3j His Hesseaser. Charles Hosier arrive! is this city Tuesday with a large drove of porkera which he purchased in Round Valley and shipped from this city to San Francisco. .The most interesting fea ture of the trip from thi North was the wonderful sagacity displayed by the six sheuherd dog?, which, practi cally alone, brought down the hog. Tho canines exhibited remarkable d intelligence. They apparently re alized that they were directly respon sible for the safety of the drove, cor ralled the drove at night without in structions, routed th,em out in tha mornings at J, when the trip had been completed took a merited rest. Bright, the red .log, .the dsan o! the pack, is perhaps one of the most intelligent animals in the world. Mr. Mosier had left the rau;h an l bl reached a point som-? eleven miles from his home bfor3 he discovers J that he had let t be and so n? very im portant documents. He hur.-:?liT wrote a not?, inclosed it in a handker chief, gave it to Bri-ht and order-.! the dog home. In about three hours the canins Crichton returned to his master, bear ing in his' mouth the' documents he had been S2nt for,-covering thus, in ithe time mentioned, twehfty-two miles and bringing to his ownerj the neces sary pr.pers. Ukiah (Ol) Frcss. INSECT MIMICS. SOMK ClRlOrs AM) MAUVEL Ol S TUANSFOUMATIOXS. Butterflies That Turn Into Leave borne IiesemMe Ieve, Others lyls an-t ilr.nrties -Storie About Crl. crs 01 ratrairrf. i iiif raoTeraeRw at thc:r IkhUos i Ict rerabW tig. ana ihev are by tlm dtu? N p5- csr iHlil tew km ! v. a.-h i N ;ton"s m:vi r artfks at vat.t.fv n rgf.. ' 1-1 1 of march was ipiarttred tln re. but by th provi 1 I stains :'rom tin- feet 1 tie nee of iumr reliable nature. Iiu- i l it fellow wiiose shoe's j mediately opposite 'this point stood t:i out on other fel ls an orehar.l, uuvler the sh.i ie of which, - !i!i and earnestly j tradition says, manvraves were mad e. : li' utv. H itless, 1 To-dav it is cone and' there remains ;rv and eo! d, this im- . no sign t.rmark the spot, whre our . ; t. wvrk to provide ' fallen heroes sletp.- I was told that , .- .-s. Not t. ::;an a recent Iv as ten vi ars a go bon ;. 1 tut V. w ' inded lot md w ere t iirio d. up by the plowshare. j and was presented by Nathan Jones. I The cupboard contaios many relics of ithe Revolution, including cannon ; balls, hatchets found buried at Valley Forge, old bayonets, etc. j Probably the most interesting room iu ti:e bail ling is th.; kitchen, as it leads to the secret tunnel the pur ;oe of which has puzzled so many. ' r':i:s room is small, and has a fire I place nearly its entire width. The ! room itself ooens into a log hut which i was used as a wood house, and in ii j the secret tunnel opened. The tunnel 1 ; is now nearly tilled up, and its course to the river is entirely cut oT by the railroad embankment, although it U said that the water from the river used to -rush in and rendered its tilling i . I necessary. The most plausible solu tion as to th.e object of this tunnel s that it was for escape from Indians in case of a surprise and was intended for the use of the Fotts family. The log wood hou?e does not remain, but i another has been erected by the asso ciation to mark the place where ;t stoo l. To t lie south stands the house iu wh ich General Washington's ga.- b; -t thev might the :n the neighbor- ' i:ur whidi ha la!,-1:! possession of all but ! grounds nr.me b itety surround- 1 viencr.il Wasliin Eton's head- 1. ;fs sorai.g up ' quarters. ;Uh of tilt Se !vt by six- round ti. i..'lCeS vov reniair! traces of th- iiuts buiit bv tlo arr.iv Near Port 0 n 'i - :i to rernut ; in 1 cem 1 r. 1. : rlit. c!y-d mbed : rely th.e remains are mere numerot: . r- -f : and tire- i Only the hob. m whi.'h the h us w-r- 1 cers The'ri mains area- a menage from in. r ; a r , t v ive .m!iin-d od A br:c ii "r or other ye 1 the luxury of - 1 - an 1. th.e a un- tlie m j1. leaving no j'os;';.b oue u : us to in 1 e o: stricture. 1 .e w : : n: ran g ::. nt . r camp r:.. n i.. : ;: t-ri- ; n rank i tr.e - we 1 . t. b, 1!. : o Li at t he :;emy h 1 : r l-a-'-ti-r. w the d.;!.d- r;:. th i ':.. -ro :(, of '- Ut. It WAS to attvmpfv that the' b.nerel near the t king greater ir.'.ty from military ser . t the interior. The kt.dy . , r v; lt h y !:. ' - : l e .n i.ts n f. :.;!" !y ri :b-e:--d .. ' '; t w . .-. :,-r.t';s. il Mi'. ::'r.;. w'.o;;i t h.:- c :.- N rt lo rn To I r. e 'Mrs u . rom th- len.qv.srtv over e. t :o ' s i . to t ;r.o ie . .lug ,n ! 0 i ' . n s v.: r f T : an 1 i.m 1 w tT-; . 'r-:r.r..f.::ig h -U :re ' th- r. and :u t ,nd F.a-teri soldi- r- sr It. wh'.h thf.r -ut : !of - Xi;: r.-t.-Ct- ' i. v.-., : .v-i' v ; rub. 1 ,e . : . ;,ov, rr ii-;: .!trr.;-t:-. t: o :.t-.-rs ,n V,';i lit .d p.-tts f -r.h-ri n Mich re.'if-.i 1:: . .,-.. x r:.d:ug i a goo 1 Stat-- .-. pr-v t.ouHUi : :C:n'o! " a h-a i r Wsh:cgt,an n-i:t:r I th-. r--. hint bay was sheltered. Vf.ioungton in Hp!irpnrn. George Washington's life, after la' retired from 'public service and went to liveoa his oeautiful estate, Mount Vernon, was simple an I raoirlodical in the etr..m' E'ery morning he rose earlv, made a plain toilet, tnd, al .tunugh he had a body servant, washed a:, i shaved himself. . Refore breakfast ;t was his custom trwr;tea few letter? with his favorite gold pen, and then v;s;t the st it.-'.e.- He kept his own ae- Sp-iri3 Lam'j n ti3 Win'cr. There are farmers iu central and western New York who are said to have established plants costing from $25, 000 to.SSO.OOO tor th-j production of hothouse lambs. - The lambs are Lorn in winter in large stables lighted with glass and heated with steam or fur nace. The little lamb brought up iu this manner belongs to a breed noted for rlesh rather than for wool, and af ter it has trotted at the heels of its mother for two mjonths it is offered up as a sacrifice to man's appetite and is sent to commission houses in New- York. tSucii lambs are said to have brought as high as $50, from that price ranging all the way down to 310. They go to the high-priced restaurants, and at the further end of the lino on the bill of fare, which begins with "hot house lamb," are likely to appear tua iigures ."1.50." Turkey is said to be coarse and homely fare compared wit'i this delicacy. This accounts for the spring lamb and mint sauce that con scienceless restaurants keep on their bills of fare the year round. Neir Ox leaas Picayune. Hs Has Savad Forty Lives. Ili.rry Westcott, of Bridgeport, N. J., who has boeu for two or three sea sons a member of - the life-saving nta tions of Cape May and Atlantic City, has saved forty-three lives. He has received a large number of valuable presents and gold medals in recogni tion of his heroism, and now a gentle man whose wife he saved from drown--, ing has secured for him a good posi tion on the Northern I'.tcinc Kailroad, in the State of Washington, lie is -spnly twenty-four years of age. New York Tribune. carefui.. an 1 his nan: :u- was r:narkib! for neat .- a-' II i- tcv anl of tr:-a ita- uu li str trie. consist? 1 of In- 1 honev and tea or o. A.': -1 h: of h: hor p-ar -net rs.-b if and visited errv. wis sp was niG-t With cr Withant "I sell all my periodicals with or; without," said the train-boy to the traveler. "Fegular price with, double price without." "With or without what?" asked tha puzzled traveler. "Those 'without' have all references to Trilby eliminated." The grateful customer took his 'without." ""Detroit Tribune.. ATI HE has wisely endowed certain, defenseless animals with a certain protective re semblance ; made them mim ics of their surrounding, go that they may avoid their enemies, and. the ex tent to which this is carried among certain animal, e.-p.. cinlly insects, makes the study one of absorbing in terest, writes Frederick llolden in the Washington Star. In all life th-.-re i a certain adapta tion to its peculiar t-arroun lings. Gaily tinted birds are ai.t, as a rule, found on t L i t san ly wa!te, but in forests where there is deep coloring 1,1 . - ana in-e contrast is n.t great. The tawny lion, the giruuv, the ostrich, are forms which aimiiate their sur roundings. In California the homed toad is almost as invisible as the sand in which it lives. A little canon toad mimics the rocks upon which it xcts in color, while the !r ogs of the Evt ate hardly dbtinguish.ilde from the green reeds among which thev hi le. This peculiar metho 1 of defense is particularly maikcd among invcts. Homo years ago a traveling fakir topped at a buntral w in India- and oflered f-r a-smail nun to how t'u? guests of the sahib, who wire new in India, 11 miracle. Told to go ahea I he produced a small tree with leaves . ' ---- i about three inches long, whi"h h-j thrust into the ground, ;heu took from a large box carried by an at tendant a dozen butter.hes ot great beauty. After the gue-ts ha 1 exam ined them and assured themselves that the insects were alive tho fakir tos.se 1 them one by one into the air. Eich alighted on the tree and-became invis ible. When all had disappeared tho fakir asked the tahib to look lor them. The Englishman examined the tree carefully, but failed to tin 1 the dozen butterflies, each of which was four inches across. They had all heard 0? the Indian hypnotism, and thought that this pos sibly was an instance in.han 1, butAthe laughing fakir caught up the tree and giviugit a shake the insects iloated in the air br a moment, an I, then gath ered about the tree again to myster iously disappear. 1 The f.ikir'then pointed 'out tlu illu- t ion; the butterilies were n t .a foot from their eyes, and so mi;uiek-.l th-s leaves when their w.iigs weru folded thai the deception va j.t-rfect, both in color and shape. There were tvtc the delicate mold spot, the central or midrib of th? leaf and the delicate lat eral branches from it, whiletho tm j of the leaf wa-. closely imitated by th? ! lower portion of the wins which wtra presfel against the stem. This mimic, known to science kallina, if followed by a bird .mply alights on a b'i-h or tree and be- , 10-4 invisible, and the fkir ha, s:mply taken advantage of th natural pr, tection of the b"ttcrdy. The sirs? protection is m . n iu L.any of our common butter foe that ruimic r.aldc i t crcp upon their prty.Ono f-pecir h been kn,'n t Mnij t I it mU Vir Is. who, tlankia it a bit of the I rvieh, so fall int it ciutcht'. I'erhsp the rooit rnu rkatliO mimic smn; thes xnct s a pink mri'i of India, that 11 almost ,xct in it re acrablance to an crchi L The object here is evidently to cAptnre inject that alight on it by mistake. M r.y injects protect thtir egg or young by unconscious mimicry. TVt is true of the egg cw of many m Thos of th? 'r.anti rrtmblo in tint the immediate object ; while a South American moth, in the ctcr piilar ferni. :aaks a bitice-ork co cuon that ronmbbs a -cod. The :no,t .stras,rdinMry attempt at defn? it v. ' isrever my iroo 1 fortune to obcrto on the part .of a ?p; -ler was one iu which the iur.-ct iot only dinic 1, but ren Irre 1 ;tsdf eomp'btf ly tnsfnfi- b!c. I ws -:;dvrihg thrush tLo og ccdnr budi of ere of tke llovid keys, Mtv miles Jrom Cub.i, when I came ui on a hu::e ntb .that eoi:sdct- Iv bfirre tiie u.ix ; the b n,r eabb; extended as bracts m i-Vi-ry direction, while in th -Vf t.tie poieed a In .; y . bjvr seohr. The iao!UCl.t it caught frige! of me it begin tq win : the et rst si wiv, u 1 tlien nu re rapidb until in n h rt ti'me the -p:ei:r l,d da;pcnred from vkw, although not a 'ol frem my' eyi f ; it wns f .rojdy vibratir.g in its web, but' eo rpidiT that my eyc-s could i.ui follow it. l:i a tew tnnuieuts the .motion fradnnjlr ceased, and as I r.uiaiuM perbrtlv qui. t the spider nsuund i! r. r:u d 1 osit ion, beginning th- swm ;ir.g li n I to:ifh-d th" eb. Sticli-i ; av.co would c im;!'ielv d.0 ve a lor '.. On th Coral kev of th tr oct I i.ave ff ea mi s cutne- out 01 ti.t ,ir. of ,'.!;d and ve me :ih I lay thera watching thorn, I -uLiUVse spectral f.d- lo'vs were almost lnvisirdt f ven fe feet away, to wiiita were they, t.lr:iot perfectly mimicking the Kind in th-;r 1 nee d cidtr. Tiie mo-t i nt, -resting mimic I have fi on in crab ii'e r' tli'" uhud: r.v ij the argsnro or fpib'ne !. I btio j cnt Lours in drifting with thjw dis connected b.ts ef the frrr:" am of t h G i.f Str om t h tro;-i- on'the e. it '.lows tiie re is n special t - la -i- fain?, all of en, ). r n:. 1 1. r- wiiicu are rr.tp.:- It ii it im possible to distia .uiih tTi era1 v when lojKing at tem c. ly, as up in th-ir 1 Vl. are -r..f!' ?t-: 1 th f t -l tinge of the I 1 r .arkib-o pha-e in t!i' str i'i'l.' f-.'r a.b v.r . MM' ob. r 1 i j.eo.iy, an 1 I hv ' . .so ro: i :t anjong .orioT.j crabs, tin. re w.n ot.e v.- rade ! .1 decoratc-r. In :t n-.r:::! cn u: -u it refemble-l a mo covered ctonp, an 1 'was afe fro'n many of itt T- 1 OT1 -.!:T n f I nraoug tne Cowers or Ieavt-. Ib-rnarka' i jemblaLcs are notic 1 moths tome mimiki?.g bit of w , 1 cr stone, so tost wh.-n u-y niA. they become r. or.-: r.i.:bk- and tint ri.-e irora urv .. r In almost x- rv ; r ei. . zii s 1:. :s t.r--: v- r ' ?atifie 1, a U f kind of n it" imck wit s ; 1 n u h tsvo o: vari-'U hn u c-'n- st-Wrei 4iC.-oUnt.-.l grotths b-t u-li was net th- c. A a rah: rrb to th: n v a ' i t'n---r .n but our little :i wi an ric,pt;.j:i .0 si r c- 3" . 1 5 T.-i !lsh s by r:T-r;n; it a: and forthwith b:';g thV. - .. 4 If r; 1 To it. CL-cjnsar,i'ai E df ?ce. Magistrate t itnr's T ud stand that you overheard the .puarrel tx-tween this .u-;cn.atit a Witness- Yi-, sdr. 1 1 c . o . 1 ( r- I i :' ban Isonie drap Colore i broaw '..' iiiWaTs were a r; -mzz ... i :tr:f si nat Le f e:..c- 1 to e co-irt. if T03 The hfs.h; .r:rr?. :.:rr ..nde I c! -th. - It be T .S n. tmezte 1 with piSin got 1 z ar, I a rfv.stc.jat o r . f f.ne s.-arlr: j .;-'- 1 wit 1 Z o I . His "peciil tit .;se::in . Ho -J: don?. t j re 00m .2 v. na mi n slab t. .tt- z -la ir, s.-iriet jivf.w, a.-ravs . ... . .j . L. 1 . i.-eprant. :!ie5 the we-i cr msin t ntraucr. m-.r. v.ate iy o. -r ::.. .. 1. . n . ..::! i ft i -1 r s 4 .. r ... v . i :.. -...no :: .iro ::..'. . s 1 5. . .it" ;r.-n 'n s.i. v, - .. l- ?nd th-. ill a ; i e u a i ai i'1 com f 'si annovei b known to break c it as a fan. hiv .rZ .nl .vp are k. nen i elit-vrd y fatten K-itir aez sept a4ot:sr. A C3s.ie2!e Hatter- TasGtii Violsc:st (tr h; folcj Di you plr any ttssuanest. 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