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E. W. MOORING, Editor.
VOL. III.
MOCKSVILLE, N. C, THOISDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1881.
NO. 1.
iL lip .
. Our LUUe Girl.
"Oh, mamma, ninimt, it's half-past eight !
Where are my rubbers ? "I shall be late f
Anl where is my pencil ? I know just where
I laid it down, but it is not there
Oh, here is my bag, with my books all right
I'm glad 'that my lessons were learned last
night.
And. now I'm off here's a kisa good-bye," ;
And out of the door I see her fly.
I stand at the window and watch, her go,
! Swinging hor w'hool bag to and fro,
And I think of a little girl I knew
A long way back, when my years were few ;
And the old red house beneath the' hill
Where uhe went to school I ee it still. .
And I make for the child a little moan,
For her face, tlfrough the mist; is like my own.
The hours go by--it is half-past two,
And here comes Nell with her schoolmate, Sue ;
They had their lesnona ; they both were "fire.'
There are no hanpier girls alive. I
They laugh and shout, and to and fro
Through every room inlhe house they go.
The music teacher will come at four,
But they can play for an iiour or more.
It is evening now, and with look sedate,
Our little maid, with her book and slate,
Comes into the room. We chatter and read,
liut she to be perfect must work indeed,
No need to be talking in days like these
Of the early birds and busy bees,
There's work fnougb, and (don't you tell !)
There's quite too much for girls like Nell.
THE VIOLINIST.
The little inn at Veschi, near Milan,
bad but two guests ; Mr. Holbrook and
his daughter Mabel, for -whose sake the
father had left home and country to
wander through foreign lands.
Fori almost at ,the altar, Mabel Hol
brook's lover had forsaken her, -wrecking
the life whose promise had been so
fair. She could not bear the pitying
words and looks of those who knew her
fate, so begged her father to take her
.away till the story should be forgotten.
' Nearly a year had passed since that
-unhappy day; and she had found," if not
happiness, a quiet content which? was
almost peace. They had been spend
ing some days at "Veschi, for Mabel
liked the almost Sabbath stillness of the
little place. It rested her after the rest
less life in the great cities which they
had visited.
"' One day she sat by her window when
suddenly there came a sound of music
a violin softly plaving, and the jingle
of a tambourine, while a clear, sweet,
childish voice sang one cf the delicious
"pleasant songs" so often heard m Italy.
Looking out from behind the flowers in
her window, iuabel saw the violinist, a
young Italian, tall, graceful, almost
noble in his bearing: and though his
clothes were poor, and worn, and travel
stained, his hands were white and
shapely, and the cloal -h hung over
his shoulder was such as any cavalier
might have carried. Beside him stood
a young girl in the picturesque dress of
the country, her little hands fine and
white, too holding a large tambourine,
the lovely bright eyes raised to the face
of her companion as she sang, as if in
spired 4y his playiog.
Drawn -.by the sound'of the music,
Mr. Holbrook entered the room and
stood beside his daughter.
'fThe child sings well," he said, and
in a moment a glittering gold coin lay
: at the singer's feet.
'Oh, . Paolo I" she cried, stooping in
. wonderful1 amazement to pick it up,
'see.' it must be fairy gold 1"
"Not so, little one," laughed Mr. Hoi-.
brook, who had come out from the inn
in time to hear.her exclamation. It is
an honest Eogl'ish half sovereign, which
you have fairly, earned by your song.
Come in wiih me and I will change it
in Italian scum, wnich will be ot more
use to you.
His accent wa not very perfect
Mabel had taught him, and he was not
an api pupii out tne young musicians
understood. Thev.felfc'the kindness in
his voice, and gladly followed him into
'his daughter's room, where Paolo bowed
with the grace of a young prince before
Mabel. .
Nina Basaldi for that was the girl's
name in answer to Mr. Holbrook 'a
kindly inquiries soon told all their storr :
how their father (who was of a noble
Florentine family, she said with a proud ;
lifting of her pretty head,) had had to
leave his home because of enemies; and
had ( fled to Switzerland, where her.
mother had died when she was but a
baby ; how . their father took care of
them and aide them so nappy till at
last he sickened and died from some
strange, tierce fever; how Paolo had
sold all but their father's violin (and
cloak, which she wore when it was, cool,
for Paolo was so careful of her) to pay
the debts: and how thev were mAkinV
their way to Milan, where the dear
brother hoped to earn money that she,
Nina, might study and become a great
singer.
"But now that .yourj father is dead,"
said Mr. Holbrook to ! Paolo, whv do
you not seek your relatives ? They can
have no cause of anger against you,
surely."
Paolo shook his head sadly, saying :
"It is the old story of the Vendetta;
and my father made me swear that I
woiild not let them know . of my exist
ence even, lest I might fall a victim to
their vengeance, and little Nina be left
alone in the world. You know the feud
is from father to son for generations."
"Paolo says we shall find friends
somewhere," said Nina, with a little
sigh ; but it is weary seeking, and the
road is so long." ,
"Dear Nina," said Mabel, impulsively,
her heart won by the girl's simple story.
"the friends are here and the weary road
is passed. We will keep vou, will we
V vtn via O ' ili a mi 4- V s .
father, who stood by with smiling face,
pleased at her interest and animation.
"0h, sweet lady 1" cried Nina, in an
ecstasy; of delight, "do you mean it,
truly? Shall Paolo no more have to
play in the j streets? And shall I be
taught to sing, so that I '.may earn money
with my voice, and make a home for
him?"
"Yes, yesi" nodded Mabel, in answer
to the eager questioning. "Truly I
mean all that, and more."
"Dear Paolo," cried Nina, "do you
hear?" j -
But Paolo was silent, for pride was
struggling mightily within him. He
was no child, like Nina, to accept every
proffered gift, but a man, though
scarce twenty years had passed over his
head ; and it galled him to receive favors
where he could give nothing in return.
But for Nina's sake he had promised
father to do ! everything for Nina he
would not refuse what these strangers
might oner, j So, when Mr. Holbrook,
in all seriousness, offered to place Nina
in the Conservatory at Milan, and to as
sume the expense of her musical educa
tion,! Paolo accepted gratefully ; though
for himself he proudly refused all aid,
nor qould any entreaties alter his deci
sion.5 But at last Mr. Holbrook ob
tajnedipz lunL. positfon .witlCar bid
violin-maker, whose home was the re
sort of all musicians of note, and where,
it faolo had; musical genius, a way
would bo opened for its development
"Your proteges are growing famous,"
said Mr. Holbrook to Mabel, one day,
at breakfast, in their hotel at Milan,
where j they still lingered. t "Nina's
voice is wonderful, her maestro says :
She is to sing for the Dacheas of Parma
at her I children's carnival next week.
A rare honor for a child."
"Aiid Paolo ?" asked Mabel, with a
blush, for which she hated herself.
"Abd Paolo ?" echoed her father.
"Why, j Paolo is already a finished
violinist. It seems that his father was
something wonderful in that way, and
devoted his life to training his son, be
queathing him as a legacy his violin, a
real frradivariouJt. Paolo, modest fel
low, said nothing of this, but went at
once to Bartolini, the greatest violinist
in Milan, told his story, and after play
ing a i bit; .was joyfully accepted as a
pupill I Smce then he has been study
ing night and day,! and 'to-morrow he is
to play at the grand concert instead of
Bartolina, who is! suddenly ill. But,
all unheralded as Paolo is, those who
know! say he will) take the audience by
storm. 1 1 bnly found this out by chance.
I suppose he was too shy to tell ol it
himself." i i
He might at least1 have told me.
thought Mabel. For Paolo and she met
almost dailv, and had grown to be
friends-r-dear I friends. , But was it
friendship only, Mabel wondered that
made her heart beat so fiercely when he
came into her presence ? that made her
long for his cominjg, and grief when he
went ? ; Surely it could jiot be love, for
Jove was dead ; killed by one man's base
act. Could love Jive again ? And wa
i only friendship that burned ia Paolo's
eyes ? those haunting eyes,whose glance
she sometimes dared not meet ? His
lips had spoken m word of love ; did
his eyes ! tell the secret he dared not
speak ?. Well,1 shej would be cool and
distant when he came that day ; she
would not speak of his playing ; would
declare, perhaps, that she did not in
tend to go to the concert. Then, what
would he say?; :
But alas for her plans ; the day passed
and Paolo came nost. Nor did he the
next day ; and shedressed lor the con
cert in eager, feverish haste, fearful lest
she might be late, jand so miss one mo
ment of I Paolo's presence.
When; he appeared, in faultless even
ing costume, bo young, so handsome, so
proudly j serene, ai if sure of success,
there was a faint (whisper of surprise
sure to follow. A&in and again he was
recalled, and the Jole evening was one
unbroken success t the young . violin
ist. Almost faint vlh excitement when
at last the coneei was over, Mabel
begged her father i hasten home, yet
scarcely, had she leached her parlor
when Paolo soughjldmittance.
"I saw your facskily!" he exclaimed,
in. impassioned to- a. "It was my in
spiration ! You, Jed and I was glad,
and my heart spokpoyouin the music.
Did you not underknd, beloved?'
Mabel raised herlyes to his face with
one sweet, tremnlol glance, then the
snowy lids fell.. Ht her secret only
then revealed fully to her own heart.
had in that brief mknent escaped her
keeping. "v
The Red IUt r tfcuntry.
The Bed Hirer of the North rises
near the head-waters of theMiasissippi,
but flowing in the opposite direction to
the larger river, forms the boundary be
tween Minnesota and Dakota, and enter
ing the Canadian province of Manitoba,
finally discharges itself into Lake Win;
nipeg. The prairie drained by this
river and its tributaries contain, rough
ly, 4Q,pOO,000 acres, and speak id g from
our standpoint! i the beginning of the
vast section of fertile land which, t retch
iog in a widening belt to the Ilocky
Mountains, is drained hr the Saskatch
ewan rivers, and farther north by the
Athabasca and the Peace. This Cana
dian division aoe tains certainly 10,-
000,000 acres of land, and may probably
IT3W OP IX FEE EST.
t
Wheu a little latt4they met together be found to include 250.000.000 acrea.
to tell Mr. Holbrooi and ask his bless- whan & thorouah suirvev shall have been
ing. he was astonis
at Mabel's happv
that rose to his lips.1
ing so much as his
and he loved Paolo
by there will be
Milan ; for Aina ca
alone, and thev o
without her. And
faci
a
I. But a glance
checked the words
He desired noth-
hild's happiness ;
huiet wedding at
lot be left there
not be married
igh Mr. Holbrook
made by the Dominion governmenK
The southern limit of this section of
fertile lxnd has a latitude aw high as
that of Montreal, and . what may be
a son. So by and J called its northern limit lies distant one u a coner
The number of profenional burglar
in America ia estimated at 3,000.
First cotton mills in the United
State were at Bereily, Maaa in 1 H.
The annual rail in production of Cali
fornia amounts to about 02,000 Uoxp.
Sinre 1SGS, li.OOO dirorrel Lave Wen
granted in Italv, Milan being act down
for no leas than S.IKJ0. j
The United State pays out for the
making of jKHtagr stamps a little over
nine cents per thoutaad. j
A 8wi canton (SchafThauaen) has
prohibited all boys under fifteen amcke
mg in the streets or at home.'
In 1&52 the Cnitrd States produced
only 2,000.000 tons of coal while last
year about 70,000,000 toss were pro
daced. j
No man can enlist in the regular army
of China until he has shown hit courage
by having a tooth pulled, f If he yells
would like his daugater to be married
from her own stately London house,
Mabel is the best plehsed that it cannot
be.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
FasfaUa Kates.
Bows of braid trim traveling dresses.
Wide moire antique sashes are stylish.
A bow with many ends is called a
"flat." -
The new style of scrap-bag is pyramid
shape. ' . V .
New note paper has a flower in place
of the monogram. . , f
Wristlete of blaclrvftlvet studded with
jet are fashionable.' '
Buff or white chamois gauntlets are
worn at riding parties.
Wide Cluny collars and cuffs are.
Bosom bouquets are pinned low on
the right side of the corsage.
A pretty conceit for a fan is Cupid
twining roses round a maiden.
Muslin dresses, to be handsome and
stylish, must have the least starch in
them to make tLem drajSe gracefully.
j A Grand Wedding.
The recent wedding of Mr. William
Mackie and Miss Isabella Mitchell, in
Milwaukee, was a grand affair. There
were present 1,500 guests, and fully 20,
000 people thronged the neighboring
streets to witness the out-door display.
A correspondent says: "From every
point about the great mansion, from
ever tree and branch, from flower beds,
from fountains, pavilions and marquee,
ten thousand lights of different hues lit
up theTesplendent scene from the grass
beneath one's feet to the tip of the great
dome overshadowing the house. The
promenades of the guests led them
among artificial , lakes, fountains and
statuary. One of the most imposing
huge,
thousand miles. The climate, however.
differs essentially from that found in
Eastern British America, at a corres
ponding distance from the equator.
The isothermal lines, as they approach
Hudson Bay from the Pacific Ocean,
bend decidedly to the south. The mean
temperature of the Peace Biver Valley
varies but little from the mean temper
ature cf the valley of the Bed Biver.
Throughout the country wheat may be
planted in April, or fully as early as
spring wheat is sown in the United
States. But as the summer is not warm
enough to ripen Indian corn, and the
winter, while it last, permits no thaw
to take place, the climate is a cold one.
compared with that over the grain states
of the Mississippi Valley : and to this
fact, doubtless, the superior quality! of
the cereals raised here is due. In 1872
railway construction had extended far
enough in the Northwest to afford an en-
trance to this new territory. But the ais
asters which speedily overtook the two
pioneer lines stopped at onoe all immi-
i grAiifcr-: ThreQjriqp cro it w.vreJramc d.
Since that time, it may be safely asserted,
in no other part of the United States has
it gone forward with so much vigor and
been attended with so much prosperity
as in the Bed Biver Valley. The towns
of Fargo and Grand Forks, in Dakota,
and Winnepeg, across the border the
country around them presenting no re
sources except a prolific soil exhibit a
growth as rapid, and commercial trans
actions as heavy, as cities which have
sprung up in the richest mining dis
tricts of the Bocky Mountains. Intense
as the character of the immigration has
been, it has not yet exercised any dis
turbing intiaence on the grain market.
The part of the land reclaimed is com
paratively trifling.' At various points
in the valley farms have been laid out.
and fields of wheat, some of which are
thousands of acres in extent, have been
cultivated, but the greater part of the
land is still an unbroken prairie, with
out a trace of settlement. The immi
gration into the valley of the Bed river,
and the small immigration into the val
leys of the Saskatchewan, have been of
most importance in proving that this
! conntrv tiroduees the oereaH in a state
Dogs in a state of nature never bark.
they whine or growL The eiplonire
sound is only found among those which
havo been domesticated. I
Each watering place has Its own pe
culiar fashion. At Cape May young
ladies make their arms more attractive
by wearing bracelets while bathing.
IleiT Krnpp, the great German gun-
maker, is so much pressed with orders
that he has engaged H.000 more work
men, making the total force ox work
men 13.000. I
Morgan Lane of PitUburg. Penn was
kncked senseless bv lightning, and a
perfect representation, of the tree under
which he was standing at the time was
burned into his shoulder, j
The ambulance U comparatively a
a modern invention, due mainly
to the French. We find no trace of reg
ularly organized military horpitalt until
uio ume oi xiForr i
spectacles of the evening was a
many-jetted fountain, which burst into
a grand display at the roar of artillery. of perfection which has not manifested
r rom among jeisauumuer oi mimaiure jtsf farther south a result ponaibiy
dark lantenn flashed through the water
with peculiar brilliancy and effect. The
bridal parlor was constructed in Moor
ish style. The furniture and decora
tions formed a reproduction of the mar
vels of the Alhambra. The embroidery
was arranged at Cairo, Egypt, from
special designs. The porcelain and
pottery ornamants were Bellanger's
latest designs from Paris. The dados
on the walls were manufactured ex
pressly for the occasion at Lyons,
France. The presents, which were not
on exhibition, were said to amount in all
to a value of upward of $100,000. It
required the assistance of one.hundred
men to arrange the grounds."
. A Clever Calilcrmla CJtrl..
A young man in the neighborhood
had taken up 160 acres of land, built a
house upon it, a barn, bored wells, dug
ditches, sown it in wheat, and in all
ppent hundreds of dollars upon it. It
happened to be a dry season and the
crop failed. He became discouraged,
and offered his claim and improvements
at a sacrifice. The young lady gave
him $100 for his right, title and interest
in the land and everything on it. She
let it lie.. She need do nothing more.
She sold the insufficient crop for hog
feed. The hogs rooted and scattered
it. The winter rains came, and with
them came the volunteer crop, which
i matured and has just been cut, yielding
to have been anticipated from its lati
tude and coil. In a climate warmer
than is needed to bring it to maturity,
wheat shows an imperfect development
of grain, with a deficiency in weight.
It is always more subject to drought,
the hot sun acting more to evajorate
moisture from the ground and to burn
the plant afterward. The same facU
are observable in the growth of other
cereala Even grass shows a marked
change in value made by latitude. Many
of our stock raiaers in the Southwest do
not sell their cattle in Teaa or New
- : w A Te rTfbJe Affair. - r.
3 Tke London Ttmtx Lias the following:
Some days ago Btuvsian letters reported
that 117 persons had been burnt in a
barn. Naturally the story was received
with incredulity, but the HtJt Petersburg
fiolot declares that it is only too true.
According to this journal, 119 women
and girls emplojed in a Urge turnip
farm in the district of Potiaol. in the
government of Kourrk I (Southern
Hu&aia), were much disaatIfiod with
the bread tupplied by! the farm
steward, alleging that it J was unfit
for food, and threatening to leave off
work. After tlu-ir dinner th-y all with
drew to a barn to ret during the hot
tent eriod of the afternoon The stew
ard locked. them in and went away;
soon after four farm laborers cane and
set fire to the) barn. Thi fire fpmad
rapidly through the buildinr. which
was like tinder, and wxra?tbe whole
barn was in flames. The shrieks of the
unfortunate) pri-ner broight omm
people to the fjkjI. Th-y could not
help them because the doors opened in- ,
wards nd already t.o ma of frantic '
women so jammed 1 1 - doors from with
in as to make an t fTurt ta open thexa
fruitless. Five won.c.i were taken out
alive, but ao fearfully bnrotl that they
died alroont immediately. All the re
maining .114 periahed on the tpot. One
of the inrendiariea ent off and
drowned himelf straight away; the
other three are in pmon. The object
of the laborer who aet fire to the bars
wa to free the prison era ; bat, as in the
cse of incendiary attempt in jail,
thoae who were intended to be a red
were the first to suffer. J
A Bachelor's Uefeaae.
Bachelors are styled men who have
put their foot into it at only half! per-
Mexico, but drive them from the coarse i fected btings eberlea vagabonda, but
and poor vegetation there to feed on the I half a pair of aeuaora, and many other
sweeter and more nutritious graMea of like things ; while, on the Other hand.
Mnntan. the increAsed orics which the the bachelors extol their stale aa one of
cattle bring in their improved condi
tion paying for a drive of fifteen hun
dred miles. Harptr'g Monthly.
It does not take long for a man to dis
play his amount of -knowledge when be
seU about it in the right way, aa for
instance Yeast talking to his wife, says :
It don't take brains to edit a newspa
per ; pshaw, I believe I could run one
myself r Mrs. Y. smilea, and quietly
responds : "If you tell the truth, I don't
see whv vou couldn't," .Sofan.
When a woman has discovered that
the paiut on the front door-atepa doesn't I She pulls down the to nil tone, that a
perfect bliaa. Moat men get married in
order to have some one to dam their
atorkinga, aew buttons on their ahirta
and trot their babiea--that they may hav
somebody, aa a married maa once said,
to pull off their boots whex they coma
home a little balmy. These fellows are
always talking of the loneliness of bach
elors. Lonelice indeed! Who ia
petted to death by lad:ea who bav
daughters, invited to tea and ereninir
partiea and told to drop' in when )X
is convenient? The bachelor! Who -trews
Cowers on the married man's
grave ? His widow ? Not a bit of it I
match the door-knob of the left hand
closet of the upstairs parlor bedroom.
he began playing, with so marvelouly , Sh cleiLr a t let bid .n.l W hrt atrin won't
X the audi- r"". . - v-; ' I" "
sweet and gentle tpuch that
ence listened in almost breathless si
lence,' lest one njte should be" lost
When the music ceased for a moment
no sound was heard ; then a wild, tu
multubus burst of applause followed.
Paololhad indeed! won, not only the
hearts of the audience, but in one
friant stride fame ; and fortune ' was
having the land and the improvements, j tighten.
Greenfield, the New York murderer,
i . . i
who bad six tnaia and ran uira uubk.
Dr. Bobert Moffat, the yecerable Af
rican missionary, has no confidence in t e&jJ e was glad to have it decided one
the professions of the Boers that thev WT nr the other.
do not hold slaves, and says that no re
liance can be placed on their moat
emn declarations.
sol-
ix weeks' grief has aet cp in her heart.
and goes and gets cnarriea again
abe does I 'Who baa wood to pplit,
house-hunting and marketing to do, the
oung one to wath. and the aervanta to
look after? The marrl can! Who
is taken up for whipping Li wife? The
married man ! Finally, who Las pot lbs
Scripture on hit aide"? The bachelor!
St. Paul ktew what be was talking
Cherries were first planted in Britain about; He that marries does well ;
100 years B. C. but he that names not does better."