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HILLSBORO. N. C. THURSDAY. OCTOBER s, 18.
NEW SERIES-VOL. XV. . t;-.
W,rd or Ad vie.
TJs the custom to prate of the sadness,
The Hizs and the sorrows of life :
But IM rather Hp-uk of the gladness
And beauty with which it is rife;
For the darkest of clouds has its lining,
Tho hanj-t of .labor brings sleep -'Neath
the ror-ks there ia gold. for
the
mining.
And i-arls may found in the le-p.
Is it better to sip of iif.. H n-ctar,
Of purposely drink of it? gall ?
Would you willingly walk with a specter,
If angH would 'ome at your call?
"Would yon rath -r huvM suj.shine, and light
ness. Or darknc -in,j gloom, in your dreams?
As for me. J w-ull cherish the brightness
With which tljc whole universe teems.
"Look around ami behold the earth's glory
The mountain, the river and plain ;
T'orthey fll us na exquisite story.
The burdn of Nature's refrain.
How the Father of love, iti his kindness,
Has given us more than we know ;
Tho' we tli row it aside in our blindness.
We reap of the pain which we sow.
Kut. ti harvest rfie best of life's treasure.
One lesson must early l learned.
That we give to e;i"h other a measure
Of what our best efforts have earneL
Then, my children, I pray you be ready
To search, as you go. for the flowers,
And to share what you have with the needy.
For thus you'll have, blessings in showers.
A. '. Units in Independent.
A MYSTERY IN WHITE.
"It's not more than a year ago, "said
the m-tenia detective when asked fort a
story, "that I hud the strangest expe
rience of my career. .That's Haying
something-, for, while I'm not one of
these, men iu novels who cau put ou
half u dozen disui-ses in an eveuing
or look at a little heap of cigar ashes
find identify the man wlio smoked the
cigar, I've. seen u great deal that's way
out of the common.
'' "A gentleman named Deuzil called
at my ottice one afternoon to employ
my professional services. I iqw him
by reputation as jn, stem, grasjiing,
raonev-tnaking man who loved noth-
ing but his possessions and bis beauti
ful daughter. On her ho had lavished
wealth, but had saddened her life by
preventing her marriage to a manly
young chap who was a fitting match
for her in appearance, attainments
and disposition. Ho was fast making
a record in the world of business, but
it was a rich old bachelor -who hud
passed the years of romance and en
joyment that Deuzil had elected to
havo as a son-in-law. Even under the
threat of disinheritance the girl would
not yield to this mercenary arrange
ment, the result-being a strained state
of neutrality which left both aspirants
for her hand without'auy upparout
hope of getting it.
"My caller went direct to business.
'I'm a constant and heavy loner be
cause of the theft o! money and jewels
from my own house,' he told me.
Things that are of the most value
const an tly and mysteriously disappear.
Now don't start off with the usual
questions about the servants. I have
taken pains to tett their honesty for ? ritic blowing up as a careless, iucom
vears and they are above suspicion. I potent and worthless detective who
1 am completely in tho dark, without
anv theories to embarrass you or any
explanations to help. Yon have the
whole job without a ray of light
thrown upon it, and if yon find the
thief there will be no haggling over
the fee. It will be worth much to
me to get this worry off my miud.
Burglars that make no noise or marks
and leave one's house shut up as tight
as a drum tend to shatter a man's
nerves.
I went at once into the country
and neighborhood where Denzil lived,
pretending to look for a bit of land
where I could build within easy reach
of the city. I put up at a little road
side tavern much frequented in the
eveuing by farm bauds. I was soon
interested in their gossip about a
ghost which they declared Lad been
seen at different times and by different
people. Their awed tones aud scared
facs fitted the subject, au.l there
seemed to be some substantial founda
tion for the uncanny tory. One husky
voung fellow who did not look h
;houghhe would be easily frightened
told of his encounter:
" I war a gittiu' home kinder late of
a Sunday night, an' just as I kirn to
the woods ayondole Denzil's-I mighty
near had a version with th' ghos.
It wara't no white cow tr gray boss
er abiep er nothiu' else as war flo&L
an blood. It whizzed by me jist like
it Wi.r flvin' low an" orful swif ou a
broomstick. A feller's got Ur believe
fci! own jes, hain t he ? I var never
oberer ia my lifean'never soskeered.
I bet my footprints war twenty feet
opart th' res' of the way home, fur I
had a idee that thar pesky thing war a
! sailin 'long jist ahind my coat tails.
j "I heard like experiences from sev
j eral others, and iu some way connect
ed the 'ghost' with the Denzil rob
beries. For two nights I stood a drjary
watch iu the wrooda referred to with
out making any discover-. The third
night I received a shock. It was in
tensely dark in the shadows of the
trees, and as I sat at the root of a big
oak some white object glided swiftly
and noiselessly just aboye the centre
of the rond, Tt.nufto the cold -chilli
run over me, though I have no pa
tience with those who tell of visits or
communications with the departed.
"I was determined to enlighten
myself and secured a good saddle horse
as companion of my .vigils. The
second night the 'ghost' flew by and
I galloped in its wake at all the speed
my horse could command. " A mile
ahead the 'apparition swerved to the
right of the road and ended our mad
race. Tying in horse iu a fence
corner I crept nearer. Slowely I
made out that the'ghost' was a woman
of stately proportions wearing a dain
tily ruffled night robe. She leaned for
a brief time over the hollow stump
that had been her evident destination
and then turning mounted her flying
machine, which was a modern bicycle,
and went hcorching back over the
comae she had come. Again I fol
lowed and did not stop until I saw
her disappear in the side door of the
Denzil house.' Hastening back to the
hollow stump I explored the interior."
"And found the stolen property, of
course," interrupted a listener.
"Not a sign of it. I could discover
nothing ihat did not naturally belong
there. Failing to rind the thief in the
'ghost, I became a member of the
Denzil household, ostensibly as his
private secretary. My first discovery
was that the 'ghost' was the beautiful
Miss Denzil. Shewas a somnambu
list, -and in utter iguorance of the
weird night rides she had taken. But
when told of them ' the explauntion
was an easy one. When she and her
young lover were children, that hollow,
stump had been the postoffice where
their ardent missives were mailed
and called for. The memory of those
days was a delightful one to her, and
the strange mentor of her unconscious
action prompted her visits to the old
spot.
"My next important discovery ex
plained the mystery I was employed
i to HoUe. Watching secretly in the
j hallways, I saw old Denzil, with eyes
! wide open and set, coino out of his
j chamber, climb the stairs to the attic,
unlock an old desk stored there, open
j a secret drawer and deposit money as
j well as jewels. His action showed me
; that his daughter's habit of moving
! about at night was an inherited one.
! The next morning he gao ine a ter-s
could not catch a thief when in the
house with him. I was--more inter-
r
ested in that charming daughter of
his than iu my case, and a scheme
flashed into my mind as if inspired.
" 'Mr. Denzil," I said, Van you
stand the shock of knowing that your
daughter is seriously threatened with
the loss of her mind because of brood
ing over separation from the man
whom you say sh.o shall never .marry,
and that because of her mental infirm-
itv she is innocentlv robbing voti un
der a delusion that iu no other way
can she provide for the future hippi
ness of herself, and that young chap
she honestly thinks, poor girl, t-he is
going to marry ? '"
" 'It's a lie," he .-roared, 'a miser
able plot. You're discharged.' c
"I did not take Miss Denzil luto my
piaus. I necretiv transferred all the
j t.tolen weath to the old stump, had a
I trusted officer in. guard and then told
j the !d gentiemau that 1 could prove
; all I had said and insisted on t he right
i to vindicate myself. He and I watched
' at the primitive postoffice till his
daughter came and repeated the cuh
1 duct I have .described- Then we
brought out the concealed treasures.
Denzil was beside himself for fear be
might act too late. He sent pr st haste
for the young lover, made a uari isime
settlement, insisted on an immediate
wedding aud hail me as one of the
guests. Did ever matchmaker do a
slicker job than I did?" Detroit Free
Presa.
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Savin? the Bison.
The reprodnction on a large eeala
of the all but extinct American bison
or buffalo of the plains has been do- j
cided upon by Mr. Henri Menier, the j
miniuuiiiie cuocoiaie manuiaciurer oi t
Paris and new proprietor of the Island
f Anticosti.. He has purchased a
"young buffalo cow, which was for
some time kept in captivity by a
Quebec dealer in furs, and his agents
are now in correspondence with the
i proprietors of the few remaining pri
vate herds of this noble animal, with a
view to the purchase of as many as
possible of them for breeding ..par-
.posea. rue, intention is . to;, ship.
them this autumn to Antotcosti,
where ' they will be turned
loose upon the island, and be per
mitted to roam at will throughout its
1 tO miles of length and 35 of width.
Mr. Menier forsees the time when tho
only remaining herd of wild buffaloes
--that in the Yellowstone National
Park will have disappeared through
the lack of protection on tho part of
the State authorities of Idaho, and be-,
lieves that the only practical means of
preserving their race to posterity is
to reproduce them in their natural
condition and trm ns large a scale as
possible, on an island like Anticosti,
where their slaughter is impossible,
Kince nobody but its proprietor can
shoot or hunt upon the island.
Not only for the purpose of stock
ing his island park with the grandest
of big game and of being iu a position
eventual! v to disoo je of stock for other
preserves has Mr. Menier undertaken
his new scheme for tho wholesale
breeding of buffalo. He has not over
looked the commercial promise of the
undertaking, having found that deal-
ers are now asking 880 to 8100 each
for buffalo skins that twenty years ago
could be had in abundance for $8 and
$10 apiece.
Moose are also to be carefullv nurr
tured on Anticosti. These animals are
rather difficult to obtain, and only two
or three are so far ready for shipment
to their island home. By next spring
it isMioped that the herd will have
been increased to fifteen or twenty,
and that the caribou upon Anticosti
will be in excess of a hundred head.
New York Sun.
The Toiichhole Left.
" 'Here, aid an old gentleman to
his vouug friend, 'is a familv relic of
which I am proud, and the sight of
which should inspire in your heart
feelings of the loftiest patriotism. . It
is a musket borne by my father in tho
revolutionary war aud, before its dead
ly aim many a re lcoat has bit the
dust iu that struggle for human lib
erty.' "The young -man handled the ven
erable' relic tenderly and reverontly.
After long and patriotic contempla
tion he at length ventnred to ask:
" 'But where is the bayonet?'
" 'Oh, said tho old man, 'one of the
boys was poking for a coon iu a hol
low tree and broke it, and the pieces
are lost.'
" 'Where is the ram-rod?'
"Why, that was spjtintered so badly
that I had a new one made of iron at
the blacksmith shop.'
" 'But, 'said his young friend, 'these
look lik3 fresh marks on the stock.'
" 'Oh, yes,' was the reply, Jim
broke the stock last year cracking
Hickory uuts, and I had a new one
made.
" 'Why, this don't look like a very
old barrel.'
" 'Well, the barrel bursted last hog
killing time, so I've got a brand new
one.
" VI didn't know,' said the young
man, 'that they ued percussion locks
in the Revolutionary musket-'
" I believe,' responded the old gen
tleman, hesitatingly, -that the touch
hole ts left.'" Louisville Courier
lourffkL t
Had Been There.
Old G rumps tm bed.
nearly mid-
night ) Ooo ! I hear stealthy steps on
the "tairs some one creeping along
barefooted ! i
Hi? Wife (who was youns once) t
Keep qaiet, Joshtia. I guess that's
only our darter going Tip with her j
shoes under her arm. New York ;
Weeklv.
An appeal ha- een issued to the
Masv-icsiiw-tt .choois for contrilin
tions toward iurcbasing tbe James
UaaU Loueli ebtat iu Cambridge
for a pubi:c park.
: TO CARRY MAIL.
NotbI Proposition to Utilize Hom-
jDg PigeonSt
IF"
Will Bring In Letters From
r Steamships lar Out at Sea.
. ;
To mail a letter on the ocean far ont
of sight of land 6eems almost an im
possibility, but it will be an every-day
ocenrreuce when the newest proposed
feature of the postal service is in oper
ation, homing pigeon is the medium by
which this is to be accomplished.
Louis Beebe of Millville, N. J.t pro
poses to traiu a number of these pig
eons so perfectly tht they will bring
letters fromau ocean steamship to tbe
land in oue-teuth the time in which
the vessel itself could bring them, if
it tried its best.
Mr. Beebe's scheme is an elaborate
one. He would establish pigeon sta
tions all along the Atlantic coast, from
which birds woiv i be taken to the
steamships. Theu, when freighted
with letters, the pigeons start on their
homeward journey, I hey would fly di
rectly to the stations from which they
were taken, and the men in charge
of the stations would promptly for
ward the, letters.
That the idea is practical ha? been
shown bv tests "made recently. Some
time ago a pigeon that has been
trained for the purpose was taken
aboard the steamship Waesland- by
Miss Nellie Limborn, a passenger.
The bird taken was called the 'Sea
Gull, and is a two-year-old .black
checker that had never been trained
until this year. The bird was liberated
from the Waesland -177 miles off Cape
May, N. J. The missive attached to
the homer was addressed to Mrs. '
Haines, No. 1804 Rice street, Philadel
phia. The bird reached Millville safe
ly, and the letter was forwarded from
there by mail. Overland this would
not have beeu considered a great fly,
but over water it is looked upon as a
wonderful performance.. By those
who have examined the -birds now
being trained at Millville, they are
looked npou as perfect specimens of
their kind.
The homing pigeon is frequently
and wrongfully confused. with the car
rier pigeon. The best blooded homer,
such as the Sea Gull, that made the
recent trip at first sight has .the ap
pearance, to those uninitiated, of the
ordinary pigeon. Upon closer in
spection, however, it is plainly seen
that the bird has a bearing which
none other can imitate. It does not
possess the brilliant coloring of some
of the other members of the pigeon
family, but moYe than makes up for
that in the trim symmetrical build,
close, hard feathering, and the ath
letic appearance good birds always
possess.
Quite close to the lofts in . which the
homers for the ocean mail service are
being educated, there are a number of
carrier pigeons, but they are very dif
ferent in appearance from the homers.
They have a greater length of leg,
neck and head, with enormous, wart
like wattles around the eyes and on
the beak.
It it thoroughly understood by Mr.
Beebe that flying over the sea is onei
of the most severe tests to which a J
homer can be subjected, for over the j
water they cannot see any familiar j
landmark to go by. They must d e- i
pend wholly upon their instinct or in
tellect, or whatever it is, to guide
them home.
In regard to th coast station he
farors, Mr. Be-bj believes that lofts
eonld be secured m the majority of
seaport towns and fortresses He is
making every effort to induce the
United States Government to give his
! i lea a practic! test, with the view of
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in view oi ine n-siiiH uisi nuum e
achieved, be at
York Journal.
ail
expensive. New
The riot Thar Failed.
.'Did yt-u try thnt. scheme of ring
ing a beli oa -Johnson when he was ia
the middle of b:s opeecb ?"
"Yes, an i it 5zz I Johnson was
a street car coadator-atose timew
"Well?"
"I made tbe misUke of ringing
twice and ne too it as a compliment.
Thongbt i ,M a signai for hia lo go
J ahead." Cincinnati EaQuirer.
Artitlcla! Bird aud Animal tjei.
Artificial eyes in imitation of the
eyes of birds and animals are made m
great variety. Tney are ued in
mounting birds and . .stun'. us speci
mens; birds eyes are ued iu mount-
ing birds for millinery trimmings ; an-' j
imals" eyes are used for the heads in ;
fur rugs, and both bird and animal j
eyes are used for many other pur-
pcees: for eiamtde. for eve in n
,
and umbrella heads made in imitation I
of animals, for many kiuds of toys,
aud 6o on. Artificial eyes are also
made for some living animals; it is
t
not nncommon for horses to have
glass eyes, and doga are sometimes
provided with them ; in at least one
case a calf has beeu supplied with one,
but most artificial eyes are for use in
mounting natural specimens, and in
the manufacturing uses above referred ,,owu "0l'i,,iuu-
to. Cynthia ( ioohtisg-at pin
m. ' - - .ITT: .
I he eves are made, oi course, in 1
imitation of nature, ,aud many of
them are beautiful. The stock that J
the manufacturer or dealer keeps
always ou hand is wonderful' in its
variety. There is no eye that could
not be supplied. Here are humming
birds' eye6, anil alligators eves.tigers'
eves, and swans' eves, and eves for
owls, and for eagles, and for birds of
all kiuds and sizes; eyes for mounted
fishes, eyes for the bear, the lion.he
pauther, the fox, the squirrel, the dog,
and the wolf.and for other animals to
be muuntcd, and eyes for imitation?,
pigs and dogs, sheep .and cats and so
on.
Artificial eyes for birds and animals
are sold chiefly to taxidermists, to
furriers, and to , the various manufac
turers. They are sold in pairs; the
number sold iu the aggregate is very
large. The busiest season is the fall
and winter New York Sun,
The Horrible "Jiggers" or Africa.
The village of Mayilo is surrounded
by a boma of stakes, clayed four fee,
np; the three gates are firmly closed
at night. The natives do not venture
outside at night for any purpose, and
this gives the village a very pretty,
aspect. Tbe place is horribly infested
with the burrowing flea, "the jigger,"
the pest of men, women and children,
who are a mass of horrid sores.
Through lack of washing, and remov
ing the jigger when he first enters,
big 6ores are found all over the feet.
I felt very sorry for the chil
dren, who were all more. or less lame,
and many stumping about on their
heels, unable to put foot to ground,
owing to swollen toes. The moaning
of women at night, and the bellowing
of youngsters, were most distressing
to hear. I tried to impress on them
that constant washing and attention to
their feet and occasional flooding of
the low, clayey ground in hut and
street, would cure the evil; but it was
too mnch like hard work to be adopted.
The flooding could be done without
the slightest injury to propertv, as
j the etreet8 8re,qnite level, and the
clay floorings of grass brick are raised
about a foot above the ground; but
no precautions are taken, and even
the babies are permitted to squat on
the bare ground as though the jigger
did not exist. Century.
Costly fiame Heads.
The head of the musk ox is the
9
most costly of mounted game head-,
au(i Dext j8 the head of the bison, or
buffalo. Fine buffalo Leads, well
monntf bring from $150 to .3500. A
bead at $500, however, would be one
exceptionally large and choice; and a
tine bead can be bought for 8250.
Fifteen years ago welt-mounted buffa
lo heads could be bought from $50 to
$100.
The increase in price is ac-
counted for by the growing scarcity
of tbe buffalo, which has now practi-
j cilv- diatueared from the United j A voung mn came to New I rk
! States. The wood buons of tbe Great j from Europe few days nJ Ja
Slave Lake region of British North j admitteO. Shortly after bi eet
' America, which inhabit woodland, or j heart arrived, and si ft he bd no
' mountain districts, are rather more i monev be her bat h bad and
j numerous than tbe prairie buffaloa of
this country, but their numbers ar
limited and decreasing. Tb wood
bison is not ao Urge as the prairie buf-
falo, and its bair is trtighur, and
rerv black.
ry biacic
Mqis oi beads are held
ward. Oae musk ox hi
at $300 and
ucwarcL u;e tansoi nea-? taw wy
L . - J J 5
a taxidermist ia t&is city ;a Taloed at
! $750. New York San.
France's silver coinage coctaiaa oa Ij
j iottr r cent of lU fc value in 1
er-
Two Aim.
Il wrot" of vonuejit?, tr,arr.M f frc.
An J warcM for honor. lu49 ats.i pUl i
F-ir th whsl. h-nc yrr wnt nl cata,
Hi mnh -iwl I'rtrco b iM ol t.
An1 fl:t:i:: j-at him. tro -. thy n.
Ths irnii.lv i,hrl,Mt(i 1rii
nil sp-edily thy all wr,'.
He sti wh-r? j n -.. ?;th oi l
mt-
Then Hvsl to cniuer, suo t n t fs-u-,
l'.ut to do an 1 t-ht? !--! .
nd. won-t'rnly. t. turn tht-r -an
With tins w:h jrr:iut-.l hi! th- r-.
!atn v- Claj t- i;
Hl'MOKOrs.
'I second tbe motion,' said the
man ou the rvnr of th tu t m.
".Sue hat! u lively r.icv fur a hn
band." "I h'-ard &he married a run-
) Mpl) ) -f
.1 little.
"ram. jnsi mm vmu
Hiram Yon have t;it:u.i it alrentlv.
Mis Hu.'inMv rt!.-r i very
good at reading f n't-. M . Li-f itit
Then 1 hal better not )t;nt my kis-s
there.
Artist Ti:at llt-hc
me 81- for that iarMM
mine ! C'.iiit r - On, then
i offered
ilc lot b
it framed.
Inventor I'm working n a cvc!
meter. Friend What .a the Hpecwi
feature? Inventor It reuWrs tin-
number of trmrgyoti fall.
"If, you don't do s..nn-thin'4 on thi
bill before the loth, 1 intend to mu
you." "Aa! and wili you permit un
to ri d
-ommeiid tthar p A' Steele? 1 r--n
percentage ou all they get out
Ce IV.
of me
Crammer Nothing impresses ine
more than the littleness of greatnef.
(iillcfand The greatneof JittlueK.
imprtbses me more. Nothing eu b
more profound than the observations
of unimportant men.
Proprietor of Uestaurant Chicken
tough, sir? Irujuj-ible ! (indignantly.)
Look here, sir, d'yoii know,' sir, 1
rst came to this restaurant tweuty-
yea. ago and di do in or Ibd .
you bit1g this fowl with yon?.
Wiie iii- 'ji'Tury'n rinf r
I will eA -i- m if ,i trv
To rtMi;nit t hosv 1.t;w -.I. ,- .
V. i U'- till pile tly.
"iiand oyer.aml b quick about it 1"
said .the1bo;dup,"as he put a revolver
to the head of the belated man. "But
you held me up last week and didn't
jet auytliiug," remonstrated the vic
tim. "Weil, hand over what I didn't
?et then."
Daughter .( in tears) Oh, papa! why.
lid you throw I leggy dou the front
teps? Father Why, you didn't
think I was goiug to throw him up th
front step and into the bous again,
did you? You're us hard to satisfy as
your mother.
Guest See here! Tbe rates charged
in this bill aic very much higher thsn
I screed to iv. Proprietor Lake
View Villa True, my dear ir ! But.
the wenther has been very much liner
than either of us anticipated when
that arrangement was made. j
"What are you doing ,h re?" iid
the woman to the tratup.who h"'l n
over the wall j'ist in time to ecap
the bulldi.g. "Mudara, he aaid.vitf
dignity, "I did intend to rcq iest i-o mi
thing to eat, but all I ak now U thnt,
in the interests of humanity, you'll
feed that dog."
Suburbs If I should build tbi
bouse, you are sure it won't cost more
thau your original estirate? Archi
tect Quite sure. Suburbs Oh! I
fo-rgot to stnto that my wife will re-vit-e
your plans! Architect In that
C9e vou will have to a 11 saotber
j 4l- t ... .r- ..r.u
9
j Bard on the Yotm? Man.
he waa allowed to lan-J. Then the
j young ruts, leing peani.'ea.
j ized by tbe immigration aHhoritl
j aa(J ordered to be dep-rte l, oa tbe
j ground that be a likely to be
charge oa the c-aostry.
of lilretln.
"DorothT b ronderf'i, elf-coa-troL"
"Why o yon think ?'
"She conld tell lota of things" thai
bapp.rr.ed thirty year age, but ahf
acver dvet. ' Ch;Ci'w Ikcofd,