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r HEADLIGHT, A. ICOSOOWElt, Editor & Proprietor. -HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UN A WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN. EIGHT FAKES. VOL. III. NO. 3. GOLDSBORO, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1889. Subscription, 81. OQ Per Year. ip I m Absolutely Pure. This powdor never varies. A marvel of pu rity, ftrengtli ami wholt'somciiess. More eco nomical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot bo sold in competition with the multitude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate pow ders. SOLI) ONLY IN CANS. Royal Bakijjg Fowder Co., lot; Wall St., New York. "W. 11. THOMPSON, DEALER IN Family and Fancy Mj' stock i? replenished daily, which enables me to sell my custom ci K fresh and good goods at very low prices. My Aim is to Please 1 buy and sell all kinds of country produce- for which I pa' the highest market prices, and sell at the cheap est margins. -j Be suro and give rac call. W. K. THOMPSON, Corner of East Centre and Market DID YOU SEE TMowSaloon? Woll you ought to. You will find there the choicest stock of TOBACCO AND CIGARS. rure X. C. Corn AVhiskey at 81.40 a gallon which is sold elsewhere for 81.50. fcsTYou Must Give Me A Calls, J. H. WELLS, Proprietor. (John Mohan's old stand.) J. M. HOWELL, PRACTICAL Bool and Shoe Maker, 7 ITU :-;o YEA IIS EXPERI ENCE 1 Guarantee to please and satisfy the most fastidious. Repairing ncatly and promptly done at prices to cor respond with these hard times. maUea specialty of Hamlock Soleleather and keep always 'on hand a variety of hoe Findings, such as Lasts, IVgs. etc. BEAU IN MIND That I am still in the ring keep- ing as ever a well assorted stock of purest Fus aofl Liporr, which are specially recoo mended by the doctors. I also carry a lull variety of FAMILY GROCERIES, which will be sold very low. J. T. GINN, John Street. La yea the Argentine RapuESrc shipped 445,000 tons of graia to Europe. This year It will seed 2,500,000 ton. The Government fc at present assisting jramgratJoD. It pays the passages ol all I immigrants from the coast to their desti- 1 nation ia" the inferior. DROUGHT. From week to week there came no rain, The very tirds took flight, The river shrank within its bed, The borders of the world grew red With woods that flamed by night. No rest beneath tha fearful sun, Shelter brought the moon; Lean cattle on the reeded fen Searched evry hole for drink, and men Droppefl dead beneath the noon. AnrLever as fach sun went down Egyond the reeling plain. Into the mocking sky uprist, Like phantoms from the burning west, "Dim clouds that brought no rain. Each root and leaf and living thing Fell sicklier day by day, And I, that still must live and sso Th3 agony of plant and tree, Grew weary even as they. But oh, at last, the joy, the change; With sudden sigh and start I woke about the middle night, And thought that something strange and bright Had burst upon my heart. With surging of great winds, a hill And bush upon the plain, A hollow murmer far aloof, And then a roar upon the roof, Down came the rushing rain. A. Lampman, in Scribneir's. A Startling Experience, BY LILY TYXER. Josfe McClure was always plucky. Every one said so, and what every ones 9ays is pretty apt to have some truth in it. She was plucky from the hour ol her birth, when, a poor, puny, post humous little creature, she was sent into the world, to assuage the sorrow of a half heart-broken widow-mother a delicate creature whose near friends were few and whose resouroes were slender. Josle grew up the delight of her totfthexH heart. A quick-witted little rcVliaired termagant, some were pleased to term her, but those were, as a rale, such oi her m'Loolmateg as had cause to fcarber ust wrath for misdoings of their awn, Big hoys who tormented their smaller baoihrea. and girls who stooped ko petty KMkes6o were Joskrs p(2al detestation. But Josio's school life could not last as long as thet of luosfc girls. It catno upon her all at once one day tn&t sho had a mission in the world, namely, fcdcsslsfriapro'Sldln for herself and her ijkrthxa. 1 shall htfay3 beKevo that-1 $rA pat the notion in her Iiead o f becom ing fctetograph operator. She used to OOiBip fr f ho depot cf that sleepy vfi. lUjJf T&stty every davm hcr-wa-y home &9tn "sclrooi and watch rao ft my work, twas fcrff?m-masteii train-dispatcher and enoral curator all in one. 'Thfrcmfc -think I cpuTd ever learn-to sendn message, "she seid one day, as rfha stood "watching me. "Oh, yes, -you cQuld," I answered. "In" fact, I think you'd scon become an expert;" She looked up sharply with her bright, red-hazel eyes. 'What makes you think so?' Your j quick nature and good sense," I said, t'l don't believe you'd ever lose pur-toad." "No; I am pretty cool. Remember when Crittenden's horse ran away with Grace.and me? Ijnade Grace drop out over the Bear of the wagon. Neither of us was scratched. I was just as cool that moment as I am now. Grace was scream ing murder." "If you had a position like mine," I laughed, "there wouldn't be much to scare you. It's all 1 can do to keep awake some days." "J'd rather go farther West," said Josie. Briefly it happened to suit her. She took a few lessons of me. I gave her something of a start. Then she went to the city and took a regular course of instruction. The ucxt I knew she had been assigned to a station live hundred miles further toward the setting sun. Hej mother and herself removed at once from-our niidstand Josie was lost to me, sSTe for a sparkling little epistle I used to receive every week or ten dvys detail ing her various experiences. I'm sure I don't know how I should have gotten on without her letters, I missed her so at first. It turned fright fully dual and sleepy at my station, buif I managed to keep swakB and attend to things as they deserved. Several months passed. Winter slipped away and spring moved along slowly. Josie'letters came angularly to gladden my heart. "Haven't much excitement out here," She wrote. "No Indians and only arj occasional train robbery. No smash-upg, 60 TsoiliaSswis, nothing lively. Xot many tnosaageft. Sometimes I think I'll call 'i you up aad chat a little ; thea the round about way'puta me out of the humor. Take a vacation and visit us soon. Mother will be so glad to see you. She's crazy about her chickens ; raising an enor mous number. And Such luck ! They're always falling into the soft-soap keg or something else. Mother's health is just splendid. As for me, rve gained fifteen pounds," etc.,. etc It was this that put the notion in my head. I obtained a substitute and-took my vacation in early June. The evening of the next day I alighted from the way train at the town wheri Josie and her mother lived at the sta tion where Josie herself was a fixture. A trim little figure came running toward me. It was she. She had on a plain gingham dress and a jaunty cap was pushed back from the auburn hair curling on her forehead. She gave me a good hearty handshaking and ordered me into the station. "Gracious!" said I; "not much more than a shed. Do you have it all to your self?" "Pretty often. There's a man around sometimes, but he's a lazy sort of a crea ture and, to tell the truth, I haven't much xmfidence in him. I've got my eye on him pretty close. He went off this after noon with a queer-looking character, some stranger friend of his. "Where they went to is a mystery ; might have been fishing, though folks don't fish at mid day. Now," she went on, changing hei subject -with lier bid vivacity, "It's- Just jbout half an hour till supper time. I'll give you full directions how to go alrfl you start at once. Walk-5stv and ipiflj be in thae. And won't mother be pleased, though! You see, I've got my supper here in a tin pail. I've got to stay and see the express go by all right I interrupted her Wth the wish that she would allow me to remain with h. But she shook her head. "No, I haven't enough supper fot two and mother's all alone. You can coae back after me if you like, though I don't mind the walk alono. Haven't the sttghV est idea how it feeh to be aA-ald. Star riht along uow ; it 'a gtxxlmll8M She gave mo the direction acud 1 set out, rather reluctantly, it must ilTott fessed. The station stood somewhat aboe the village, the railroad wound past on an embankment, crossing a. rivet gulley qd a high bridge a short distanco to ffie West. I foHowed Josio's directions; weVit down througli the village and uj Hie road leading to her home. Mrs. MeCSure gave mo a dolightial welconia and a-up-per beyond description. We htl a pleas ant talk of old times and new. Shaepolw of Josio's goodnessfind filial affection un til tears came into he eyes and my own as well. Then I tosc to return to the station. I shall never know precisely what thought it was came into my mind and caused me to hasten my footsteps. Time had flown. It was 8 o'clock and after, and growing quite dark. The sky had clouded over, as if a storm were impend ing, and the quiet of the village was un earthly. I hurried on ; I almost ran, and finally reached the station. But what was my surprise to find Josie was not there. She had not gone home, for her tin pail stood upon the table and a handkerchief lay on the floor beneath. I glanced in the yxil. Her supper was yet untouched. The place was growing .dark and no lamp Lighted. Suddenly, "click, click," from the table. I listened and knew that some one was calling up this station. "T. W-," "T. W." I knew that Josie was "T. W." Whoever it wa3 calling per sisted so that I grew uneasy. Where could the girl have gone? At length, as she did not come, I answered the call. "Well, what is it?" "About the ex press," the answer came. "There is no mistake?" I hesitated. What should I say? "Repeat instructions. 4T. W.' is out for the moment." I knew only that the express would come from the west, and this was a man talking at a station fifty or sixty miles to the east. He an swered after a moment : ' "Matter of life or death. Express will leave A in ten minutes. Should switch at P (Josie's station) and wait for special from east to pass. Other train bloekcd with freight. For God's sake, fix it rjht. No direct wire from here to A .' A cold chill ran over me. Where was Josie? How could I call up the tther station? I made an attempt but got no answer. I waited a little, but so Jo?ie. It WL3 growing darker. I rushed ut oa the platform and looked up and down. There was a small shed across the track. I ran over and wrenched open the door, but could see nothing for the darkness.. "Josie," I called despairingly. Hark! What sound was that, faint and fa miliar, click, click-dick. "I listened without breathing. "I am here," it said. "Bound and gagged; tioixcLoWn so I can't get my hands free or stir. Un loose me quickly." I groped my way into the shed, stum bled over piles of wood and canra to something warm and human. It was a moment's work to release her. "Great God?" I cried, "who did this?" She caught her breath with a gasp. "Back to the station," she cried, "don't waste a secondv" We ran togeth er. She caught the key and called up the offics I had spoken with. "Villainy," she telegraphed. "Wire to A cut. Station man here in plot. Call up A by D and G . " "Too late," the answer came back. 4 'Express has left A by this. Flag it!" Josie turned and looked at me for an instant almost despairingly. "What shall I do? The special has left there. The express has started. They will meet on the sarmS track. The scoundrels came on me Just as I had taken a note of the special, so I should make no mistake." "We must flag the express!" I cried. "We must flag both," she said. "This may not be all that has been done." While speaking she had turned to light the lamp and I could see how pale she was. "A lantern," I said then. She hastened to a box in the corner and took it out. We trimmed and lighted it. "This is only one," she said. "We need two. Take this and go down the track you know, to the west. Stop the express and tell them that is all. I will ruu to the nearest house, get another lantern and go the other way" I shuddered. "Suppose those men come upon you? No, you shall not go alone. I will gro ft "Hush!1 shKaId. "Go quickly. The express b most here." And I obeyed. And as I raa I trembled afr the thought of her peril. I trembled so that the lantern shook, but I ran on. JOSIB ESD3 THE BTCOT Thlfr wna as far a 8am ooutel wjtte, poor boy. lie always shudders whea he Speaks of that night. But it waa nothing after all bo terrible. I got the other lantern in great haste, not from any neigh bor, for there was no lime, bui out from bchmd the box ia the corner. kuokfty I remembered tn fime. Than I ran fast aa IcouM,'but feeling Jjretty fihaky as I crossed the bridge ojv fhofcrtles and heard the water far below. r&ta'turns pale when I mention the bridge. 6n and oh I ran in the darkness with my little lantern swinging until I heard a low humming of the rails begin Jtnd saw a distant light grow bright. "Heaven give me strength, v Irajed, and stood there waving my lantern wildly. The light came nearer. I kept on swinging my lantern. I stepped from the track, but kept on signaling. Thank heaven the light came more siowly, the special was stopping gradually when at my ear I heard voices of tuppressed rage. With a terrible oath some one seized me and flung me with furious force upon the ground. Then I knew no mere. But it was all right ; the special picked me up and came along slowly with men out ahead. And Sam, dear boy. had met the ex press, so all was wr?ll. The people oa the special made me a nice little present, though I'm sure I didn't want them to. Indeed they made a great fuss over me. I had run so far I suppose they knew it must have been exhausting. The scamps who laid the plot made off, but after ward were caught. And Sam Oh, well Samis my hus band now. Ncu York Mercury. David Kimball Pearsons, of Chicago, according to the T rilune of that city, has given, within a short period, $700, 300 to educational and charitable in stitutions, his most important donations being $100,000 to Beloit College, $100, 000 to "Lake Forrest University, $50,000 :o Knox College, $50,000 to the Chicago Theological Seminary, $00,000 to the Presbyterian Hospital, and $30,000 to ;he Young Men's Christian Association. Efis gifts to the educational institutes were made upon the condition that an jqua? sum should be raised for them from jther sources, and this was accomplished n each instance. "No college," safs Mr. Pearsons, "to which I have made a lonation has solicited a cent from me." Life in Japan. From an article in the Cerdury by the irtist Wores, we quote the following: "In Japan women have always held a higher position than iu other Asiatic lountries. They go about freely where rver they please, and the seclusion of the Chinese is wholly unknown to them. The schools receive as many girls as boys; and as a result of my observations I can safely say, without idle compliment, that the former are brighter than the latter. "By degrees, and under these favor able conditions for general observation, some of the causes of the people's happy jpirit of independence began to be re realed to me. The simplicity of their lives, in which enters no selfish rivalry to outdo one another, accounts in a large measure for this enviable result. Re paroling one another very much as belong ing to one family, their mode of life ia more or less on the same plane, and con sequently a spirit of great harmony pre vails. A very small income is sufficient to supply the ordinary necessities of life, wid everything else is secured with but little effort. Household effects are few and inexpensive; and should everything be destroyed by fire or lost in any way, it is not an irreparable calamity. All can be replaced at a small outlay and life go on as before. "The tenant upon renting a house ia put to little expense to furnish it ; indeed, he requires absolutely no furniture at all. The clean, finely woven mats which cover the floor serve as table, chair, and bed; and as it is the univeral custom to re move the shoes before entering a house, there is no danger of one's bringing with him the dirt from the streets. "His bedding consists of cotton tpiilta, which are spread out on the floor tv3 night, rolled together in the morning, ind stored away in a closet during the day. A few pictures (kakemona) and ipocimens of beautiful script decorate the walls, a few vases contain sprays of flow rs, and number of cushions on the floor complete the furnishing of a room. Yet it does not seem empty or cheerless ; for the general arrangement of harmo nious colors, the diilerent woods em ployed in its visible construction, and I the beauty of the finished workmanship, make a most harmonious and pleasing combination. Paint is never used to cover the wood, much les3 to substitute I false crain." The Sledge and Ihe Deer. The body of the sledge, which the reh leer pulls, is placed very high on a pair of long thin runners, liuving a gradual curve uid projecting about four feet be yond the actual sledge, so that they break the shock when the sledge is being driven over rough ground. All the parts of the sledge are lashed together with reindeerskin thongs, and it is owing to the great elasticity and pliancy thereby given to the whole fabric that these flimsy constructions reist the very rough treatment to which they are as a rule subjected. The method of harnessing the deer is of the simplest ; a broad leather hoop passes round the neck; to this is fastened the long thong, which serves as a trace, and which, passes dowa the chest between the fore legs and out between the hind legs. The driving is done with a single rein, which is fastened to a crooked piece of bone or wood, fast ened immediately over the ball of the eye, one of the tenderest parts in the reindeer and which, if scientifically jerked to the right or left, causes the an imal to answer to the rein very quickly. The outside deer on the near side is the only one provided with this arrangement, and the biggest and oldest deer are al ways placed in this responsible position, the others being kept to their work by the "chave," or long driving pole. A good "leading" deer is the most valuable of a Samoyede's possessions, and will of ten cost as much as three or four ordinary deer. The usual numlx-r of deer har nessed to a sledge, is three, but this, of course, varies according to the weight carried, age of the deer, etc. Murray M'.iQTzlae. Hindoo Jewelers' Marvelous Skill The Swami of southern India have always been greatly celebrated for theh skill as jewelers, but the forms and fig ures usually made have been of a char acter that was inadmissable in western society. A Parasee gentleman, having obtained the appointment of Indian jew eler to the Queen of England, obtain fed sufficient influence among the Swami ta induce them to abandon their old style, and the result was a leautifully wrought casket for Princess Louise, of a workman ship comparatively unknown. An Indian Burial Place. About ten days ago, writes T. C. llo millcr to the Washington Star, I visited the Indian graves near Ilomney, West Ya. It seems that ashes played an -important part in the burial ceremony, as I found from half a peck to five bushels ol ashes in each grave. The method ol burial so far as I can judge from careful examination was as follows : They dug or scooped out a hole from one to fivo feet deep by two feet wide and three feet long in the hard stiff clay which under lies a covering of two feet of soft sandy loam. These holes were filled with ashes and cinders among which were parts of the skull, and horns of deer and bones of other animals, though they showed no signs of being burned or charred. On top of these ashes the body was placed and then covered with the sandy loam. At the bottom of one of these graves we found a pot made of clay, about twenty-two inches in diameter by nine inches deep, the sides of which were of elabor ate ornamentation, the principal being a carved face alxmt every six inches around the top. In the pot was the upjcr shell of a turtle, ;aw bone of a squirrel and several clam shells evidences of food placed iu the grave for use on tho jour ney to the ' 'happy hunting grounds." The pottery consisted of three kinds yellow, brown and black. Tho first was for common use with but little ornamen tation; the second was ornamented to some extent, but the last was tho Royal Worcester of Indian art production, and was, without doubt, placed in the graves of those only who woro greatly distin guished. Among the articles found was a knife made of copper roughly beatea out. The blade was five inches long by one and a quarter inches broad, and its dull, sand stone sharpened edge must have required strong muscular exertion on the part of the operator to remove the scalp of his dead enemy. The graves are scattered over a space of about ten acres, and are on what if called the Island farm, which consists of about ninety acres. The owner thinks the entire island was a burying ground. Making Necktids for Men. "Neckties are made out of grades and designs of silks and satins made specially for that purpose," said a manufacturer to a reporter for the New York Mail and Egress recently. "These materials are made from patterns designed by men who do nothing but study up new things in neckties. There are In this country from fifty to seventy-five factories and ten or twelve first-class makers. The latter usually secure exclusive rights to certain styles of goods from tho makers by buy ing either the entire stock offered to tho American market or a large portion of it. The success of making up these goods, though, is just like a chance in a lot tery." "Arc the styles of making up neckties originated abroad?" "Not now. They were until. a few years ago, but now our styles arc superior to the European, and they often come over here for our patterns. However, there is a tendency for English fashions for the fall." "Who are employed in making the neckties, men or women?" "Women. There are more than 1200 thus employed in New York city alone. They are all on piece-work, and make more or less money according to their ex pertness. A good finisher can make $8 or $9 a week. She takes a necktie after it is put together and finishes each detail perfectly, so that it is ready to box. The finishers must see that all of this kind are exactly alike in point of finish and make up. "We have one girl who does noth ing but turn the bands of neckties, and she makes $15 a-week. She turns twenty five or thirty dozen bands a day.n Greater advance seems to have- been nade in Russia in the displacement of irood and coal as fuel than in almcst-anj rther part of the world. Naphtha "drega ire used everywhere, and the railroads ind manufactories have adopted the-aew fuel to the exclusion of the usual -articles, (t is fully 35 per cent, cheaper than iithcr wood or coal, occupier muchleai pace in storage and can be handleAmore eadily. Its use has already become Tommon for domestic purposeSf aod'itU apidly supplanting all other means of xrnishing heat. In four years iTurope will be connects by steam with the very heart of the Dark Continent. Perhaps American steamers will also be running.tothej seaward terminus of the Congo Re State Railroad. " o S
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