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JTHE HEADLIGHT. i A. ROSCOWER, Editor & Proprietor. "HERE SHALL TUB PRESS TUB PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." EIKIIT TA ES. VOL. II. NO. 52. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY. jtero s many a nooiemau dwells in a cot, Tin? palare holds many a clown; Ard princes have beds of the tamarind bark Vbilt begr-irs have couches of down. Bravo kings are in cotton, serfs glory in silk !. "hilo sli'.vj like an emperor show for thsMvorth of a title is stamped on tha heart. But the v. i I.I doesn't look at it so. Here misers are prodigally flinging their -old To spendthrifts ay no hoard in their wake There mumbles a rake in the gown of a priest To a priest in the garb of a rake. s(r t saints they are living in hovels of sin And sinners in Sanctified Row; The heart in the breast is the only true test Hut the world doesn't look at it so. There are generals lying in graves unmarked An'! privates with monuments crranil The ignoiant stalk in the chambers of state, i.nt thri quiet mind ruleth the land. A shadow divergent each object of earth 0 eivasts troni one sun in the sky And fnn.'ies are many as beingrs have birf. But the one God ruleth on high. So I laugh at that title; that's only a sham, And as caste Out a silver-washed nlf StucK upon the door cf a tenement grand, ISeJougmg to nature's estate- Its inmates are constantly changing and pass jcaeu year out or sight, like the snow, Whose going but stirs up the filth of the street; And the Almighty will look at it so. Arkansaw Traveler. THE COMPANY'S MONET "Good-by, old fellow, good-by. I trust you will have a good voyage, if you must start in such beastly weather," I said, as I shook hands with Hugh Grey ham, the truest friend I have in the world, aud saw him go out into storm and night. He was to take the steamer early the next morning for Liverpool, and I felt a little uneasy at his going in the worst days of severe February. My wife drew up her chair close by mine, lighted my pipe, and said: "Now, l George, that he has gone, suppose you 3 tftll mr -fliof lifln TTor,, , about the time you and Hugh had such a quarrel." All right, I said, it was this way. You know what sort of a man my father was, Ellen hard, cold, money loving, bigoted. One naturally wants to speak of one's parents with reverence when they are lying in their graves, but well, let that pass. I did not love my father, simply because I did not so we'll just leave the matter there. My mother died the day I was born, so of her I knew ab- i solutely nothing. A few years after her death my father marvsd again. Do you know that people have a habit of speak ing disparagingly of stepmothers? I can iiot understand it. Mine was an angel. She was a fair, stout woman, and some times, even now, I covet the rest and peace I used to feel with my poor little head laid on her bosom, with her soft arms about me. God bless her forever I j Many a cold night when my relentless ! father for some trifle has sent me up to my bleak room supperless to bed has this sweet woman stolen after me, and fold ing me in her warm arms has sung me to sleep. She loved me sincerely, pool hapless boy that I was! I think I adored her. Well, she made my father educate me and give me my training in pharmacy, so when he died I was twenty-two years old and a drug clerk on a very small sal ary. My father was supposed to be not rich, but very comfortable. And so he .was, but on reading his will we found the bulk of his property given to charity myself entirely ignored and my sweet mother left paltry 87000 to recompense her for more than a score of faithful years with him! Well, she didn't com plain not she; she only said: "Georgie, dear, we'll take our seven thousand and fight our way through life together." We moved to a city further south. I bought out a business in a poor part of the town and went to work. The city grew gradually toward us and you know the rest. I prospered always and we were very happy. We lived just for each other and she managed our modest home. It was 1 home with an angel in it, and again I say, God bless her. After I had been in business about five years I met Hugh Greyham. He is an Englishman, you know, and had come to this country to look after some invest ment made in real estate by a syndicate in London. I liked him from the first and mother and he became the best of friends. He often left his elegant hotel to spend a week with us and declared he was happier there than anywhere else. In the fall of 58G he was making us just such a visit, and one night we all three tat up very late talking. I was in esr GOLDSBORO, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, peciaUy good spirits because I had in my cash box a clean $3000 to take to the bank the next day. Hugh had also in his pocketbook $1500, but as he said, he was "not feeling" so awfully good, as it be longed to his company and not to him self. I remember about one o'clock mother drove us off to bed. The next morning I was aroused out of a deep sleep by Hugh. He looked anxious and excited. "Why, what is the matter, old boy?" I asked, hardly awake. "George I have been robbed in the night my hunting watch is gone, and, Godhelp me, the company's money too!" " Gracious heavens!" was all I could say as I sprang up and got into my clothes with all possible dispatch. Well, as you may imagine, we went into an exhaustive search upstairs and down everywhere. Then we called in the police. Not a trace not a track could we find. Window locks, door locks, all unharmed. What could it mean? Four days we devoted our best energies to this affair, and at the end of that time was as far off as ever. On the fourth night I had a splitting headache and had to go to bed, but Hugh and mother sat up later, as usual. The next morning I went down to breakfast feeling much better and eager to begin search again. Mother and Hugh were at the table. I kissed her as usual and said a hearty "good morning" to him. He nodded slightly and immediately got up and went out. I looked at mother for an explanation. Her eyes were full of tears and her whole expression was unutter ably sad. "Mother," I said, "don't be so dis tressed. We must find Hugh's things. Don't give up." "We have found them, Georgie," she said very sadly. "You have," I exclaimed. "Do tell me where, where?" "Oh," she said, "I found them late last night where the the careless person must have dropped them." A red flush covered her face. Was ray mother telling an untruth? I questioned her closely, but got little satisfaction in deed. She evaded my questions. I felt a little hurt at her want of confidence, but I went to work and tried to forget it all. Later in the day I learned that Hugh had gone West without a word of fare well. And now followed the most unhappy weeks of my life. My dear mother was entirely kind and gentle with me; even, perhaps, more affectionate than usual. But there was something between us. I could not tell what, but something. And she ! the most cheery brightest Avoman in the world she seemed utterly oppressed with sorrow. My heart ached over it all, but what could I do ? Lo, the weeks went on, gloomy enough, and two months hud passed when I was startled out of my sad ness by a sudden misfortune which oc curred to myself. I had drawn $1300 from the bank to pay a bill for drugs, and for the night placed it for safe keeping in a small escri toire in my bedroom, of which I always kept the key in my vest pocket. (You see, little lady, in those days I was a spoony fellow, and this was the sacred depository of your letters.) On going to the escritoire the next morning I found it securely locked, but on opening it the money was missing. The house had been robbed a second time. I ran to the breakfast room with my bad news, and there sat my mother, with the old bright, jolly look on her dear face, looking perfectly happy and con tented. I was delighted to find the sad ness and gloom gone, but alas ! I must tell my direful news. "Mother," I said, "mother, I've been robbed! My money (you saw me put it away last night, didn't you?) is all gone!" I thought she would utter an exclama tion of distress, or surprise at least, but what did this unaccountable woman do? She got up, led me to the sofa and pulled mv head down on her broad shoulder, as 1 she had done a hundred times in my child hood days, and kissed my forehead and eyes, and then, with a sort of tender humility, kissed my hand. "Oh, Georgie, my boy, my own boy," she said, "I've got a story to tell you. Don't say one single word, only listen, my darling. Oh," she exclaimed sud denly, "these miserable, miserable, mis erable weeks, when I thought but let me tell my tale. You know, dear, last October Hugh lost his watch and money and wc all tried so faithfully to find them. Well, I was worried nearly to death about it all, I hardly slept an hour at night. On the fourth day, you remem ber, you received a letter from Ellen, and as a man was waiting to see you in the store, you handed me your keys and said: 'Mother, please put her letter away for me.' I took the keys, but being myself very busy at that moment, did not put the letter in the desk just then; but that night, after you retired, I unlocked the little escritoire, and there in ycur own most private drawer lay Hugh's watch and money! And he was standing near and saw it, too. Georgie, dear, don't say a word, not a word just yet; hear it all, my boy, before you open your lips. I was stunned for a moment, then I fell on my knees at Hugh's feet. I said: 'Have mercy. Oh! please have mercy on my poor boy,' and he, looking so shocked and sad, said : -For your faithful sake, dear madam, 110 one shall ever know this but you and I.' "You know what followed, Georgie how I went about heart-broken, aud all day long, and all the long rights, the horrible thought kept dinuing in my head: -Your boy is a thief ! Your boy is a thief !' and yet I loved you Georgie, all through, my boy all through. "Well, yesterday you had a great deal to do and Avere very tired in the evening. After dinner I told you to lie down and rest. In two minutes you were fast asleep. I sat reading and occasionally looking at you, thinking how profoundly you slept. After a while, still Avith your eyes fast closed and evidently fast asleep, you got up and started out of the door. I fol lowed. You went to your bedroom, un locked your escritoire, took out your money, went doAvn to the next floor and. Avithout stopping, on down into the cellar. Y'ou know I keep a few stores there, and had yesterday (Avith your help) put in a barrel of new apples. Y'ou Avcnt to this, lifted the top, and mo3t carefully took out about a dozen, then, just as carefully, put your roll of money into the barrel and covered it again with the apples. Then, A'ery slowly, you turned around, walked 1171 the steps and sitting room, lay down on the sofa and resumed j our nap as quietly as if nothing had happened. Well, I ran back, locked the cellar door and took a seat by your side and cried my heart out for very joy, like the silly goose that I am. "It was all explained now. You did steal Hugh's watch and money, Georgie, but you did it as unconsciously as if you had been dead Avhen it was done. Oh! this has been certainly the happiest morn ing of my life," and she began anew to Aveep and laugh over me in the ten&eres aud most absurd fashion. "But, mother," I said, "seeing i3 be lieving. Let's go and find the money.'1 We A.ent. It Avas all there just a little soiled from cellar dust and apple juice. Well, mother wrote a long letter to Hugh, and he came aud ate his Christ mas dinner Avith us, and Avas almost as glad and happy as mother Avas, but when avc Avent upstairs to bed he laughed and said: "Shut your eyes, old fellow, until 1 hide my watch," and since then avc have no end of jokes abor t my sleep-walking. My pretty young Avife looks up Avith a pair of anxious blue eves. "But, Georgie," she says, "this is dreadful! You are liable to Avalk any night and get into all sorts of trouble." "No, indeed," I say, "I will never Av'alk in my sleep again." "But how will you help it, Georgie?" "Why, haven't I just engaged a pair of Avhitc arms to hold me tight?" She got up, drew back the curtain, rnd remarked in a casual manner that "it was raining very hard, indeed." Kcto York Graphic. A CurlJUi. Clock. One of the most curious clocks ever made will soon be finished. A bronze figure four or five feet tall, and alone Avorth 6700, grasps a rod which runs through a hollow brass globe, nearly eight inches in diameter. The globe is engraved with meridians aud the parallels and the various countries of the earth. The oceans will be colored in silver and the continents in various hues. All the chief cities of the Avorld arc laid down. Over the bronze figure's head is suspended a plate glass disc, 'which is a dial for in dicating local time. None of the ma chinery appears. It is all hidden within the globe and in a little pill-box affair .behind the glass dial. The globe is the ball of the pendulum. It swings back and forth, and at the same time revolves. A stationary belt about the globe's equator bears the figures of the dial, and a glance will show you the time cf day at any city you may name. Yv'hen this clock is finished it will be marked at a fancy figure, and tb? bolder says it will find a ready sale- i v'' -?-dr' A Two-ton Shark. Ed. Roberts and J. Dutra, two fisher men, caught a basking shark Sunday nigh 1. They Avere about four or five miles from the shore and had 200 feet of net out. The shark ran into the net and got tai gled. Fighting furiously to get free, the fish only wrapped himself tighter in the folds of the net. The fish ermen let him alone until he had drowned hi -rise;;, and then, with the assistance of seven boats, pulled him into the bay. The I .'asking sharks arc not man-eaters and me not dangerous. The one cap tured is between thirty and thirty-five feet I..ng and weighs about two tons. As the licr of this species is about one third 1 f the Avhole fish, the amount of oil that c;m be tried out of its liver will be between 100 and 150 gallons. Santa Cruz Cat) Surf . ' Chcesa a Fair Substitute for Meat. In the dietary of the laboring classes, cheese plays a not unimportant part; it has been pronounced by a high authority j to afford a concentrated and economic food. It can be ahvays at hand, it re quires uo cooking, and may be considered a fair substitute for meat, combining heat-giving and flesh-forming elements in very useful proportions. From the great variety of cheeses thrown upon the market at the present day, no exact esti mate can be given of its nutritive value, for this' depends upon the amount of butter and casein which it contains. One cheese may be made from the richest of unseparated miik, produced from high-class coavs, fed on rich pasture ; an other may be made from the thinnest of skim-milk; and ingenuity can noAv make cheese with very little, or, indeed, with out any milk at all. Beans are said to ansAver tha purpose. It does not appear that any injurious ingredient are em ployed in the falsification of this article; simply substances foreign to that Avhich it professes to be. A fair sample of cheeso ought to contain tAvo thousand six hundred and sixty grains of carbon (beside fre3 hydrogen), and three hun ched u-i-.i Hfty grains of nitrogen in each J pound. It is an economical food, espe cially if, as Sir Erasmus Wilson main tained, not more than one ounce ought to be eaten at a meal, But this limit of quantity is surely only the fad of a par ticular mind. Argonavt. Cost of Living in Mexico. The cost of living in Mexico depends entirely upon what the man wants to spend. The very best of meals may be had, at the Cafe llecamier, for sixty -two and a half cents, Mexican money, equiv alent to forty-five cents American cur rency. When I say the "very best of meals" it must be borne in mind that the best of such meals as one can get here is meant. Six to eight courses arc served, and after one accustoms himself to the absence of butter, Avhite bread, pics, cake and all sorts of deserts, he will find he can make a pretty good meal from the purely Mexican dishes. No one breakfasts in Mexico before noon. Business men take a cup of choco late, a slice of pain Anglais (sAveetencd bread) and a glass of spirits. At noon every one breakfasts, and at six dinner is served. The cost of furnished rooms is the same as in most American cities, de pending, of course, upon the location, style of furnishing, etc. One can live here on a few cents a day, or he can spend the biggest kind of an income it all de pends upon the tastes and ideas of the individual. Dixie. Bugs That Laugh at Keat. A feAv days since Frank Woodward, of Albany, N. Y, Avho Avas visiting Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Smith in Fair Haven, received a peculiar present from Cali fornia. It Avas sent to him by Leland Stanford, the millionaire Senator, whose Avife is an aunt of Woodward, and also of Mrs. Smith. Mr. Woodward opened the box and found three salamanders packed in cotton. These bugs are more read about than gazed upon. They were found in caverns by some of Mr. Stan ford's employes, and Mr. Stanford sent them East. The three bugs traveled the 3000 miles without "visible means of support," unless it was the cotton, but or arriving they were very frisky and evi dently in good spirits. They are chunk little fellows about two inches long, and resemble nothing as much as they do a piece of steel. They look like raw steel and act like it that is, they seem to be metalic and invulnerable. They art alike insensible to heat and cold, andca? be toasted on a red-hot stove or seate upon an ice cake without their composur. being in the least disturbed. New H-iten Palladium. 1889. A New Pick?ccket Dadgs. The Eiffel tower has, it seems, sug gested to an unprincipled individual who this country can claim as a subject, a new trick for putting other people's money into his own pocket; but now that publicity has been given to the dodge, it is doubtful whether he Avill try it on a second time. The pickpocket in question, well dressed, and of melancholy but most respectable appearance, Avcnt up the tower the other day, taking his seat on the left beside a Frenchman who loo'ted as if hi? pockets might be worth attention. The Englishman, in a sad tone, inquired of his neighbor Avhether aay one had yet committed suicide from the top of the tower, and on receiing a reply in the negative, he muttered that he aouM bo the first to do so. The kind hearted Frenchman took an interest in the apparently forlorn and desperate man be.-ide him, and, thinking he had dis co, ered it was financial difficulties that had caused him to meditate self-destruction, lie, in as delicate a manner as possi ble, offered a loan. His offer was, how ever, rejected, the forlorn one asserting that he had a large sum about him, con tained in the pocketbook which he at tempted to thrust into the Frenchman's pocket, telling him to divide the money among the poor after his death. Finally, the guardians persuaded the melancholy man to come doAvn from the top of the tower and go home. The Frenchman, shortly after he lost sight of his com panion, discovered, of course, that his purse had gone Avith him. London Stand ard. Walking Down Hill Makes Bow Leg3. "Bow legged people arc generally thought to have involuntarily deformed themselves by crawling when in infancy," said a physician and surgeon to a Dispatch writer. "Not so," continued the M. D., 'for in a number of years of practice I have paid attention to the many mal formed people who have had their -limbs bowed,' even after maturity." "Why?" Avas the inquisitive interjec tion. "Vrell, it is a peculiar faei, 'that per sons residing in altitudinous houses of Avhich there are numberless in both Pitts burg and Allegheny are the ones to whom I refer. The daily ascent and de scent of hills, where the horse cars or in clines do not traverse, has been the cause of more crooked limbs than was ever thought of. The ascent of a hill, of course, makes muscular development; but in the descent a person throws the entire weight of his body upon the knee and ankle joints, Avhich relax in order to case the strain upon the forelimb, and the main av eight falls for support upon the ankles. There is a superabundance of avoirdupois bearing down on them, which naturally causes them to crook, thus throwing the limb from the ankle to the knee into a 'bow' shape. "The only remedy I could suggest Avould be for all hill denizens to descend." Piit&buru Dhpatcli. Umbrellas With Glass Windows. There need be no further excuse for al lowing your umbrella to drip down the neck of your dearest friend in a rain storm, or running amuck of the hurrying Avayfarer coming from the opposite direc tion. The rainy day collision is one of the greatest profanity provokers of wet weather, and the Englishman Avho in vented the glass Avindow by Avhich one's course in a storm may be sighted, de serves the thanks of Christian men throughout the Avorld. This window con sists of a small oval piece of glass Avith a brass or silver frame which i3 easily mounted in a rib of the umbrella, while it is fixed to the silk by sewing it through the little perforated holes in the frame. These Avindows can be placed in new or old umbrellas in a manner Avhich will not injure the fabric ia the least. As to whether the umbrella Avill roll up tightly has not, however, been made apparent. Clothier arid Fvrr.hher. Primitive Dentistry. Old Uncle Hugh Johnson, of the Cop .er Creek neighborhood, the man who astened securely a twine string around hree teeth of his lower jaw, and then, ieing the other to an ash-hopj-er, jumped p and threw himself backward with -uch force as to extricate the entire lower iw, simply to rid himself of toothache, s yet alive, and Avas here the other day, ooking after a lawsuit he has against one f his neighbors. Mount Vernon (Ky .' inuil. The growing scarcity of whalebone is tempting many an old whaling skipper to leave his fireside to again try his luck m the Arctic regions. 9. - Subscription, 81.00 Per Tear. HUMOR OF THE DAY. An I-glass The mirror. A Glass I In the mirror. The stepping-stones to success .arc "rocks." Lift. X It is the bearded lady whose face is her fortune. Life. First in Avar and first in peace Tho letters 4w" and 4." The good die voimi;. This is particu larly true of chicken. "Not in our set," as the false tooth re marked to the old grinder. A man experiences that "sinking feel ing" Avhcn he falls overboard. Two heads are better than one On the shoulders of a museum freak. No wonder time is so often killed; it is st ruck every hour. St. Luxi Migraine. A youth the subject of the rhyme Sjjent all his strength ia kdllng time. -is 3 ears roue;! ou t'ue truth is grim Time took his tuni and slaughtered him. Merchant Trarcler. There is no reason in the world why a baby show" shouldn't be a howling suc cess. A real life-saving station is always managed by sailors, and not by doctors. Picayune. This is the turning period iu the life of the farmer's boy if there is a grindstone on the place. Binghamlon Republican. When a washerwoman changes her place of residence one may a.sk her 'where she lianas out now" Avithout usin" slan. When the maiden dons a muslin gown, And the dog has a muzzle en too, Tis then we sigh to get out of town And down by the ocean blue. Host on Courier. Mrs. Parvenu (to the maid) "Now, Lucy, you may do up my hair." Lucy "Yes, mum. Shall I do it up in paper or get a box?" A hard storm is often alluded to as a rain of cats and dogs, but a biting storm is probably when the fall is confined to canines exclusively. Harper"1 Bazar. A man Avas arrested the other day for stealing an umbrella and tried to get off ff saying that he Avas trying to lay some thing by for a rainy day. Huston Pu&t. The sheriff's notice thus supplies A moral and a tale; The man who failed to advertise, Is advertised to fail. Philadelphia Press. "Post no bills!' ejaculated Fleecy,, reading the well-known sign seen in many parts of the city. "Humph! I ncAer do; I always prefer sending them by the collector." Judge. Wfr ii it am"., raimir itVimLin; When it ain't lakiii' it blows. Wheu it don't blow i V& a-hailin'. So get in your coal "fore it snows. Detroit Free lYess. At the Jeweler's "But, Max, don't 3011 think it extravagant to gi'c 300 for a diamond to Avcar on my hand?" "Not at all, my dear; you don't consider how much I shall save on your gloves." Fliegtnde Blaciter. Here lies a man who laughed at death, For many years he mocked her , Some say lie died for lack of breath And some accuse the doctor. New Yuri: Sun. , "You must stop this smoking during business hours," said the head clerk. "What's the matter?" inquired one of the boys. "The boss says he can't appreci ate his five cent cigar Avhen you clerks are puffing your Henry Clays." Iheh. Mr. Swallowtail "Sir, i come to con fess a great Avrong I Avas about to do to you and to beg your pardon. I Avas about to elope Avith your eldest daughter." Papa "Come again; what was the diffi culty, my dear fellow? Didn't have enough money? Let me lend 3011 a couple of hundred." C!iir i'jt Ihrald. A tenderfoot whittled be.-idea wood shed. When some owl toys of Kasfras- City Caused a shower of bullets to whiz round his head; And he lxked on their efforts with pity. For lie gazed from his dream with a lw-auti-f ul smile On the demons of carnage and bloodV-d, And murmured, "A who is a good as a mile," As he earA'ed the ball out of the woodshed. HarDer's Bazar. Petrifactions in a Gcw's Stonach. Two years ago last November a heifer belonging to James Brown, near Corn stock, swallowed a pair of Avoolen mit tens. The calf grew to be a milch cow. and Avas apparently doing Avell until a short time ago, Avhcn Mr. Brown noticed that she avhs not doing as avcII as usuaL She seemed in much distress when she moved around, and had a great desire to lie down all the time. Finally she died, and Mr. Brown cut her ojx-n to see what was the matter Avith her. Upon examin ation one of the mittens and a part of the other were found in a jx-trified state. When knocked agaia.-t each other they rattled like stones. They are feally won derful, and many are anxious to see them. W. U. Wilson, of Drain, has them, and any one can see them by calling on him. Mr. BroAvn acIucs them very highly. Drain Oregon) Echo. General Cassius 31. Clay, of Kentucky, has taken the field and declares that "the English sparrow must go. By legisla tion antpivate bounties, traps, poison, encouraging natural enemies, and by the shot-gun ! The vine pest phylloxera in jured France more than the German war, and the United States may suffer more from the English sparrow than from her two wars."- - - - - '' r it A"
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