ESTA'.fflfl IN 1373,; HIL.LSBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPI EMBER 5, 1901. NEW SERIES-VOL. XX. NO. 34. LOVn'5 RUMMAGE SALE. promises broken and shattered, j Tokens in sad disarray, - . Letters all crumpled and scattered, Flirtations faded, passe; Relics of summertime play, V :, Roses all wilted and stale, v Idols shorn down to the clay ;, This is Love's Rummage Sale! Hearts that are twisted and battered, Fans that were thick in the fray, Slippers that glided and pattered, Gloves to forgetfulmess prey; Bachelors sunk in decay, , EMeriy inaids that bewail, Vanity, pride and display This is-Love's Rummage ale! Meaningless words that have flattered, Trinklets and rings thrown away, .Vows that are shop-worn and tattered; Courtships that lasted a day; Cab bills one never can pay, Wedding9 that did not prevail, '' - - ' Jealousy, scorn and dismay This is Love's Rummage Sale! L'Exvoi. Princess, has't turned up your way The heart that your glance did impale? Buy it, 't is cheap enough! Aye, This is Love's Rummage Sale! Harold MacGrath. in Puck. 11 The Unwelcome Guest M By Pierce B. Barnard. WHEN Jim Busby returned from the West to his na tive town of -Canaan, he did not expect to find his memory canonized. Fifteen years was hardly enough time, he thought, for his fellow townsmen to forget his faults or enlarge upon his virtues. Doubtless those people were still alive who, if they remembered the boy at all, would do it to their sorrow; still time usually softens grievances, and Busby, with the aid of his newly ac quired wealth, hoped to find some kind of quasi welcome in the quiet town under the elms. He had never seriously injured any one, he thought, and, although the vil lage dogs might beat a hasty retreat on the return of this prince of practi cal jokers, the majority of the inhabi tants had enjoyed in full measure his many 'pleasantries. Busby now grown up to wealth and dignity was not a little ashamed of his early pranks, and he determined, as he alighted fromthe stago.-ani. en tered the city hotel, to sign "some fic titious name and look cautiously about the old place to see what his standing might be among the saints at home. He was highly gratified to find the town unaltered in any particular. We like to see change and progress in the great world at large, but our native place, where we spent the happy years of our boyhood, is blessed with too many memories to admit of any im provement. Eusby was thankful to find the vil lage parson preaching the same kind of exclusive hereafter that had fright ened him into obedience fifteen years before. He congratulated himself on finding the old pump still yielding de licious water from the same cracked spout; to have repaired it would have been an impertinence he felt. He blessed the lazy and penurious school directors for having failed to plug up a single knot hole in the venerable abode of knowledge where a succes sion of pedagogical tyrants had only partly subdued his spirit of fun. The external landmarks of Canaan still stood intact, but among the per sonnel of the inhabitants there were many missing faces. The old fogies were mostly on deck Busby's inveterate foes a little more talkative, malevolent and reminiscent perhaps. They were whittling on the same red fence which had always served as a resting place for the un employed. Jim listened to the records of the young man who had gone West and the girls who had married wealthy men. Some of his old associates occu pied positions of honor and trust; in fact, all had done well so well, that he felt emboldened to r.rik after him self not without many misgivings. There was a slight change of expres sion on the faces o: the old worthies at the mention of tL.s wayward youth. The oldest Inhabitant coughed, the postmaster grinned, and the venerable deacon looked the other way with a knowing smile. It was a tryii: moment for Jim. Their significant; glances nettled him not a little, and he could not refrain from coming to h!:; own defence. "He was always an active boy," he said. . "Too everlastingly active!" returned the deacon with a suggestive grin. "Every dog and cat knows he never slept I calcalate there waren't no kind o' tomfoolery he didn't practice before he pulled out of here ' of a sud den. Everybody prophesied he'd be hung, and I guess the best people felt relieved when they got the sad news f his execution. ' I know I did." Jim tried to whistle a tune in an un concerned way, . but it was with dif ficulty that he concealed his feelings. It's something of a shock to find one self hanged, and it takes time to get used to it. He spent the day amusing himself with the younger element, who fortunately knew not Jim Busby. They "ked him at once. His plaid suit, heavy gold watch and plug hat seemed io embody certain ideals of youthful grandeur; and his free use of money easily cemented their friendships. The next day he hunted up his par ents in the little graveyard and decid ed to replace the wooden headboard with a piece of marble in due time. He also chatted with several old women at work in their gardens, and found Jim Busby had been anything but. a favorite of the other sex. It was in deed very discouraging. He felt re vengeful. Finally, In despair, he asked the edi tor if anything had happened that was worth printing since Jim Busby had left. :;-.y.: "'Nothing to speak of," answered the editor, stroking his . chin . whiskers, "and wf're thankful for it Fifteen years ago a body couldn't go to bed without expecting to wake up and find his live-stock on the roof of his house or his black cow whitewashed a pale pink." ; 1 : , "Confound it!" said Jim, out of pa tience. "You people haven't treated Jim Busby right; you enjoyed his jokes as much as he did." "Well, what is that to you, please?" "Simply this; I am Jim Busby." The news spread quickly. MI don't believe it," said the oldest inhabitant," who stood near. "That can't be Jim Busby never be haved himself two days together in his whole life." , , "Well, it's a fact, any ways." said Jim. "I've been out knocking round for fifteen years without scarcely - a postage stamp to my name, and when I made my stake I thought I'd hunt up a relative or two to share it with me; but I find these people think, wh.?n they've got a feller hung, they've done enough for one man." "Pshaw, Jim!" said one. "If we'd aknowed it was you, it would have been different." Most of the bystanders agreed with him. "I, for one, am satisfied Jim Busby was hung," said the deacon. "I got the hull account of it in my scrap-book ;, but as you seem to be an uncommon good feller I'd like to make your ac quaintance so come over to the house for dinner and we'll argue the point.", "I don't want to destroy any old memory that has been such a comfort to you," said Jim,' "so I won't accept your hospitality now, but I do want to make things right. Your fool story about my. hanging has blackened my reputation a good deal and helDed mv aged parents IntOxrn-enrry- gr a v e; - irac - 4 I'm willing to let bygones be bygones. I want to get solid with future gen erations and you can help me.- The deacon, there, can make a rousing good speech and the editor can. give it a send off. To-morrow morning, at three, I want you to take a wagon, with some straw in it, to Canaan Junc tion. A bronze statue of yours truly will arrive by an early express. Gents, you understand?" They understood, and although there were serious doubts in the deacon's mind about this being Jim Busby, he wasn't the man to miss an opportunity of making a speech, and he set about preparing a rich eulogium of the prac tical joker which he rehearsed In his barn the rest of the afternoon. The oldest inhabitant got out his lemonade stand, the editor issued an extra, and the village brass band pre-1 pared to turn out. The next morning by the dim liglrt of stars they all hied them to the Junction five miles off t and awaited the arrival of the statue of the great man. It was raining hard, but what of that? Their anticipations mado them young again, and they could hardly wait until the train stopped. But the express came and went with nothing but . disappointment for the Canaanites. As they returnef?home a vague feel ing of uneasiness and dread overtook the party, and many began to heap maledictions afresh upon the promot er of this fool's errand; but,, when all got back to the hotel and found their late visitor departed, their, worst fears were realized. It was the deacon who remarked somewhat sadly to the weather-beaten, crestfallen crowd: "Well, I guess that was Jim Busby, after all." Waverley Magazine. The Scottish Regalia. It is rumored in Edinburgh that the Scottish regalia, which has been kept in the castle for over two centuries, will be temporarily removed to Holy rood Palace when the. King holds his court The regalia, of which the chief is Brace's crown (used at the corona tion of every subsequent monarch, of Scotland), were locked up in a room in the castle just after the union in 1707, and brought to light again in 1817, by ordr of the Prince Regent. During the civil wars some of them were kept in Dunottar Castle, in Kin cardineshire, which was held by Ogil vy, of Barras, against Cromwell's troops. The wife of a minister was allowed to enter the fortress to see Ogilvy's wife, and she' and her maid between them smuggled out the crown, sceptre and : sword. ; When Dunottar surrendered and the valua bles were , missed Ogilvy was sent to prison in England. London News. - Cerrltos, Cal., claims to have the largest artesian well in the world. It is fourteen Inches in diameter and CS4 I feet deep. . WOMEN ; Two Ways in Which Women Work. ' Parasols do not pass through several different "hands," as do dresses, but are' made., from first to last by one worker. The making of one parasol provides a woman with work for the best part of a week, if. it be a very special and beautiful one. - A great firm of perfumers in London, which till now has, for centuries em ployed men entirely, contemplates tak ing on girls for "capping" the bottles of scent. The work is essentially that which small, neat fingers can accom plish quickly and well, but alas! the pay the women will earn at it will be one-third of what the men received. Ladies' Field. Rosa Bonhenr's Statue. !j The monument in honor of Rosa Conheur erected recently in a public square of Fontainebleau, France, and presented to that city by M. Gambart, a friend of the artist, is the work of Isidore Bonheur and Hippolyte Peyrol, brother and nephew of the artist, and of Alexandre Jacob, architect. It con sists of a bronze bull mounted on a pedestal of Lorraine marble. On the front of the pedestal is a medallion of Rosa Bonheur, and on the other three sides are represented In relief her most famous paintings, "The King of the Forest," "The Nivernais Plough ing.' and '"The Horse Fair." The monument measures about five metres In height, . S30O.0OO Spent For One Toilet. The coronation robe of the Empress of Russia cost ' 200,000, and took something like twelve months to com plete. The gown was covered with a decoration of pearls and tiny diamonds secured by a fretwork of golden wires so arranged as to fall into a conven tional design. This decoration was the achievement of the modern scientific - xTTH.7aj2ar sumed months" of patient toil by the most skillful jewelers in Paris, the ef fect of the whole was that of elegant simrjlicitv. At the coronation the - Czar was completely outdone by his wife in gorgeousness of attire. His crown, however, contained some mag nificent gems. At the summit is a cross of five perfect diamonds, and a pear-shaped ruby, reckoned to be the finest in the world. Ladies' Field. Gowns of Finest Cotton. Preferred to foulard this season for style is the fine spun and finely wov en cotton- dress goods with an all black ground. The printing upon it is in Ivory white. It has not the coarse look of some of the strong twilled cot ton dress materials. The white is not dead white, but a clear, soft ivory. The designs printed are the all-popular foulard patterns. These are well dis tinguished from the mercerised dress goods in vogue last season, and still popular in a certain sense. The dull cashmere finish is a rest to the eye wearied with looking at moire and glace effects. A New York bride chose one of these fine black ground cottons for her go ing away gown. It was not to be mis taken for a foulard. The skirt of the frock was unlined, having only a six inch facing. This makes it cool in deed, for most of the foulards and In dia silks are made up on a deep skirt or' have the lining set in, "seam to seam." The waist is "half -lined" with white lawn, but the bishop sleeves have.no lining whatever, ex cept a piece cut to fit the arm size and "stayed" thereabouts. The Girl's Allowance. The question of an allowance for the daughter of the household Is one that is constantly beinc-- discussed. It seems to be pretty generally accepted that it is a good idea, and teaches a girl the value and use of money. So it does, but it sometimes teaches her some other things that need a little guarding against. A girl with an allowance occasionally makes it an excuse for penuriousness on the one side, and un hesitating bogging on the other, that tend a littlo to character deteriora tion. Whil3 it is perfectly right and proper' to give as an excuse for self denial that one's allowance is exhaust cd, or will not admit of the proposed purchase, or pleasure trip, it is not right to say, as iris have been heard to do: "I'll go with you, but you must pay my ear fare;" .o:v "I hiTce only a dime to spare In the treat If you will let me come in on that," etc. I have heard a girl reply, in answer to a sug gestion from a companion on a short railroad trip, that a parlor car should be taken, "Oh, if , we do that, you will have to pay my way on it, my allow ance is so nearly spent." Girls who .would shrink from the idea of "spong 'ing under other circumstances, do L.Ot hesitate to take advantage of thi allowance peg upon which to hang good many small meannesses in mon ey matters. When! it comes to the mother's purse, the cribbing by any means and outright purloining, indeed, are not disguised. These are onlv lit tie foxes, to be sure, girls, but they gnaw the. vines of integrity and self, respect, and would better be choked off .Harper's Bazar. :HVt. The cross of the French legion of honor has been bestowed on thirty- . eight women. Women have been admitted to Alex ander 'University" at Helsingfors, Fin land, on an equality with the .men. Mrs. Isabella Drake, who made Queen Victoria's wedding wreath, had lived in Chicago fifty-three years when she died there recently. ; Miss Ruth Mason, daughter of Sena-, tor William A. Mason, of Illinois, re ceived her degree as bachelor of laws from the National University, Wash ington, recently. She purposes to enter the law offices of her father and brother in Chicago. Through ' the efforts of Mrs. Alice Gordon Gullck the sum of ?100,000, required for the International Institute for Girls in Spain, is almost raised. The school will probably be removed to Madrid from Biarritz, France, where it has been temporarily located since the Spanish war broke out. One of the three women who have been honored in England by public statues to their memory was Dorothy Pattison, or, as she was called, Sister Dora. Although, a schoolmistress by profession, she studied medicine in order to relieve the sick, and many times she ministered to needy suffer ers, regardless of great risk to herself, oven venturing twice where no hue else would go, into districts infected with smallpox. - Miss Edith Emery, of Salem, Ind., is a young woman who can think quickly in an emergency. A railroad bridge near her home had been so damaged by fire as to be unsafe. A few days ago, noting the danger, she as once telegraphed the station master at Hitchcock, her message arriving just in time to enable hirn to flag a bridge "Is on "a . sharp curve, only" her 'prompt action saved the train and the lives of the hundreds of passengers it earned. vv-1 ;:. jg Ij&g uientw ortn, or ingianu, is one of the few remaining ladies who serve as interesting linKs. witn a aim ana distant past. Lady Glentworth has ived in no fewer than five different reigns; those of George III., George IV., William IV., the late Queen Vic toria, and of the present king, Edward VII. She has been twice married. It s curious to note that she was about forty-six when she married her second husband, but that she lived to cele brate her golden wedding with him. and now has become his widow. Golf veilings can be had of red or green chiffon adorned with the usual pattern of golf sticks and balls. Large buttons appear upon many smart suits, sometimes of pearl and occasionally covered with the material of trimming of the suit. Soft peau de soie sashes are pretty for children, and all children wear sashes. Occasionally a sash tied in front with a simple knot is effective. Black Chantilly lace on black and white foulards is a strikingly effective combination, and one frequently seen among displays of handsome gowns. One of the prettiest variations of the ' laced skirt is on the sailor suit of the small girl. There the placket hole is laced with a soft silk ribbon to match the trimmings of the suit with very good effect. Little handbags of gray suede are very popular as a convenient accessory of the race costume. They are long and narrow in shape and decorated with steel, or If the bag is . of white suede, "gold applique is the ornamenta tion. Safety pockets for valuables come in both canvas and chamois. The one is probably as serviceable as the oth er, and they come In the same de signs, either one large pocket with a purse clasp, or one large and two small pockets. ' Linen tailor gowns are made by some tailors to lace with robbons the full length of the skirt or fo the top of "the flounce, or a. good effect, is ob tained by, lacing the gown, around and having loops of ribbons falling, where the lacing meets. , Fancy buckles are much admired now on slippers, circles of amethysts or pearls being f requently .used i& this way. A fascinating little slipper was worn at a recent evening party upon which was set a buckle consisting; of a circle of pearls, through which sat in ribbon had been passed, and tied ia 1 a bow Just above, the buckle. o ct 8 ? ATLM GPTCS O - - r, U30O000aGGG0CG30CGGOCGCCCG - A Combination Food For Ilori-c.-, One of the best combination foods for horses; is green oats that is, oats cut when" the grain is in the milky stage and cured like hay. The' straw is then very nutritious, as the food is arrested in the stalk while on its way to fill out the grain. When cut with a fodder cutter horses relish ite mess more than they do any oLher coarse foods. '-'" -' - ' . ' Fly Brush For Cattle. . In the summer itis just as necessary to provide cattle with a. place in the pasture field where they may brush off the flies as it is to furnish shade, food or drink. The device in the illus tration shows a good arrangement for ARRANGEMENT OP THE BRUSH. 'F 1 1 this purpose. It consists first of four! posts set in the form of a rectanglJ twelve. feet long and eight feet wide.' At one end the posts are about five and one-half feet high,' at the other only: three feet. Across each end of the rectangle an eight-inch board is nailed at the top of the posts. In the upper edge of these boards are cut notches about four inches deep and two and one-half inches wide. Begini ning next to the posts these notches are cut at intervals of eighteen or. twenty inches. ' -j Now take boards- foitr inches wide," thirteen feet long and not heavier than one inch thick. Arrange thesq in pairs, as many pairs as there are notches in each end board, and bore holes through them at intervals of one foot, preparatory to bolting them to gether. ' Brush which has been col lected from the thicket is now placed between these boards and clamped fast. For the sake of clearness only one of these brush is shown in the il lustration! The damps thus formed are now placed in the notches prepared for them in the, end-boards, with the down by a narrow board" nailed across tha tops of the posts at each end."' . The device is now comnlete. TIip din:erence in height at the. two ends inures it suitaoxe iqr catue oi an sizes. The brush will last for a long time, but should they become much worn, or old and brash, they may be easily replaced. A. F. Shull, in New. England Homestead. i Wastes on the Farm. a --- Millions of dollars' worth of mate dal are wasted annually on the farms of this country, is a statement made by some authority.; In the' aggregate I suppose there is an enormous amount of waste in every industry, and farm ing is no exception to the rule. There are farmers to-day who avoid waste on their farms fully as much as the wideawake manufacturer or producer In other lines. On the other hand, there are plenty who fail to realize that they are wasting good material, although the process is going on daily under their very noses. Everything is a waste that is not put to its best and highest use. Thus cornstalks burned in the field is a distinct waste if there is any possible way to convert' , them into food for cattle. Sometimes it is a decided waste simply because the farmer is too stupid to see that his best plan is to raise more cattle to eat j the stalks, and less corn. Again it i ray be a great waste to attempt to raise only one farm crop when the un certainties of selling the produce at a fair profit are great, especially if there : are other crops which could be raised satisfactorily. Sometimes one of the greatest wastes on the farm comes from the failure to spend money for needed improve ments. The soil that is not in fit con dition for raising a certain crop, to the highest perfection is actually -wasted when sown with seed tvhich: it cannot possibly do the best by. The waste' comes in at such times because of lack of foresight or because the farmer is unwilling to spend the extra amount o- money. Now, we can waste soil and crops. "We can also waste time, machinery and labor. All of these are important factors and they must be, studied separately and individually The successful merchant studies the market, labor, cost of production and the wear and tear of machinery and wasteW capital. So the farmer must, to avoid leaks and wastes, look to it that the highest efficiency is. obtained from every dollar of capital he has in vested. Progressive farmers of to-day are doing this, and they are rapidly becoming the best business men in the country. The man who can take a run-down farm and build v it up and make a good living from it through good farming' Is a shrewd business man not to be overlooked In this age of strenuous living. W. E. Edwards, in American Cultivator. California fruit canners ship 50,000, 000 cans a year. ; - THE MAM FROM YESTERDAY. Ho Practiced the Good Old VirtneF. Cm( the Sooner Got Ahead of Him. The Man from Yes-ter-day hadt learn-ed the old-fash-ion-ed vir-tues. So he work-ed in-dust-ri-ous-Iy. : But the ., Soon-er,. having pre-empted t he land on which the Man from Yes-ter-day must work, -charg ed him rent every time he was in-dust-ri-ous. " E-vent-u-al-ly, when the Man fronv Yes-ter-day had raised all the po-ta-to-es the Sooh-er could eat, the Soon-er gave him notice to quit. The Man from Yes-ter-day tooi up ed-u-ca-tion in order to in-crease his op-portun-i-ties; where-up-on the Soon er bought up all the land a-round hint and held it for a rise, which, ho ia-tend-ed to take out. of the Man from" Yes-ter-day. . '" ' ' - " 7 ".' The Man from Yes-ter-day, see-Ins that the Soon-er was get-ting- more-pos-ses-sions than he could man-agsv rea-son-ed with him-self that if lie could show his de-vo-tion to Ms em ployer's in-ter-est, he would be more val-u-able; so he be-came very hon est. This de-creased the Soon-er's ex pense of man-ag-ing his prop-er-ty, it in-creased in val-ue, and he took txx more land. Seeing that his share of his owo pro-duct would bare-ly keep him, the Man from. Yes-ter-day stud-fed e-cort-omy, where-up-on, see-ing- that could live cheap-er than be-fore, th& Soon-er cut down his wages: antE . when the Mas from Yes-ter-day ject-ed, the Scon-er told him that iC he was not sat-is-fied he could quit: work and quit living. The Soon-er en-dow-ed a coll-ege ta teach the Man from Yes-ter-day that it was all right, and when the Pro-fess-ors said that Hon-es-ty, In-dus-try and Per-sev-er-ance were the ways to raise the rents, they were dls-miss-l. for in-sub-ord-in-a-tion. Then the Soon-er, see-ing that t&e Man from Yes-ter-day was be-eom-iHg rest-less, en-gag-ed a clergy-marr to point him to the sky for the sat-Is-f ac tion of his wants. Bolton Hall, in Beyond the Span of xlie . To be sentenced to imprisanrneat for the term of one's natural life Isk hard enough, but to-be consigned tosx. dungeon cell for a couple of thousncstl years is,' indeed, harrowing. Yet fcr eign judges not infrequently Impose sentences of several centuriesr witiKPest it being considered anything: remaz-lz- tinct forgeries. He. was sentenced or each case, with the residt that he will fc free m tb year 20? : 4A couple of ears ago a young; maxr was arrested in Vienna, who, iipaaMs Own showing, should have been sen tenced to 2500 years' imprisonment A total of .400 charges was brougrlifc against him, and he was convicted ami sentenced on air of them. Bat ijr?. judge was a merciful man aitOr i&r passing sentence, he threr Sis' iQOjb years in consideration of5 the stHksr youth. A little time ago, in the greats. . Calabrain brigandage trial in NapSisBi the public prosecutor demswdcS . sun.- - -tence upon 24S prisoners, 'and, afnGjjg3$t.w the average sentence imposed little over five years, the aggregate C the sentences amounted to 1SQ0 ycar imprisonment. Chicago Chrom'cfei m Not "Bern Officiallrt" At a certain station in India fh& wife of a civilian in charge .of an iza- f nnrl TYiacfoi trltli n snn nrrl Tipfr TT ' native staff of the office thereupon pe titioned for a holiday in celebration st the auspicious event, says Laruloa Truth. Not feeling justified in stop ping the Government work for a day on such a pretext, the parent sum moned the head clerk to his assist ance. This gentleman, a babu of: aa characteristic type, devoted inauv hours' consideration to the problems alid after weighing all the pros and cons, delivered an opinion to ,tho ef fect that the desired holiday could not: properly be granted, as the baby Latcl been born to his chief in his private and not in his official capacity. TMs oracular response seems to s strggest that a man might have a son bora jo him in his official and not in his jjsi vate capacity though I confess I o not quite see how that could be. ( The Power of "Water. In Frank Leslie's Monthly there is a captivating article on the story the greatest jam in the history of log ging. It was in the Grand River ia Michigan in 1883. So tremendous was the pressure srt this time that here and there over t&e surface of the jam single logs coda te seen popping suddenly into the sas. propelled as an apple seed is projected from between a boy's thumb and fare- ' tmger. Some of the fifteen-inch nxsu ila ropes stretched to the shore part ed. One, which passed once aroia an oak" tree before reachhig it3 sfasce anchorage, actually buried itself sat of sight in the hard wood! BtndBSfr of piles bent, twisted or were cut s&eear 'off as though they had been nothing but shocks of IndiaD corn. The car rent was so swift that-the tugs cv&H awt hold the; drivers against itr xs&;. as a consequence, before commeiEeiis: operations, especial mooring piles Issa to be driven. : v' Some women entertain for the pleas ure it gives them of not sending; mxi tatlons to some other, women. 1 i -1. - M