ORGAN
ON
TAR.
Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall "Where they Iay.
VOL. I.
MORGANTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1885.
NO. 19.
-L JL JL 11 A
Sl)c illorgantou Star.
OiriCIAL PAPER OF BT7B.EE COUNTY.
Iillislica Every Friday.
T. G. COBB, Editor and Proprietor.
R. A. COBB, Manager and Soliciting Agent.
Terms: $1.00 per Year in advance
lEfitered at the Post Office in Morganton
as Second-Class Matter.
BUSINESS CARDS.
EAGLE HOTEL.
MORGANTON, N. C.
5IR. ROBT. POWELL desires to state to
Ms many friends and the public generally
that his house is now prepared to accommo
date the public at all hours.
MM First-class Servants are
flew Furniture, Comfortable
Rooms.
TABLE FURNISHED WITH THE BEST
THE MARKET AFFORDS.
Terms, per day, - $1.50.
Special Terms can be made by the month.
Located 50 yards from depot.
no26m.
Furniture
aciorv-
Now is tlie ti.xn.e
for the farmers of Burke County to furnish
their homes "with
urn it tire,
Made from our native wood. We will ex
furniture for Walnut, Maple, Cherry,
Ash and'Pbplar Lumber.
To the builder -wo will say we have a
GOOD ALL & WATERS
Surfacer
AND
Matcher,
and will Surface and Match lumber at a low
price. Call and see us.
WILSON & AVERY,
Proprietors.
New Store
and
New Goods !
J. tasq great pleasure m stating to my
many friendsvand the public generally that I
Til . .
cave now on hand a large stock of
General Merchandise,
consisting of
DRY C60J)S, HATS, SHOES, CLOTH-
ING, GROCERIES, HARDWARE,
FARMING IMPLEMENTS of all
kinds.
I have taken advantage of the financial
crisis and have bought mv eroods risrht down
at mud sill prices, and will give my custom
ers the benefit of the fall. Returning: my
sincere thanks for the liberal patronage here
tofore received and asking a share of your
patronage in the future at my new store-room
one aoor north of the post-office,
I am respectfully,-
A. L. BRIGHT,
Glen Alpine Station, N. C.
Aprils, 18S5. no51y. '
rs- P. F. Simmons,
desires to state to the public that she is pre
pared to do hair braiding of an exquisite
quality. She has taken the premium at;the
vyzw j airs, ana is the only person in this sec
w-ju max, can ao sucn work. Address
MRS. P. F. SIMMONS, -.
- Morganton, N. C.
June 19, 1885. Cm. "
ew Barber, New Shop,
iScw F'nxTiitn.x-e.
for a clean shave, first-class cut and royal
shampoo, call on J. H. Wilson at the Wind
sor Hotel vlnl86i
I
None genuine unless stamped 03 follows,
JAR3E3 MEANS'
SHOE.
These Shoes for erentlemen
are made of Finest Tannery
Unlf.Skin, stitched with large
i Silk Machine Twist, and are
lunequaueu in JUuraoiiity,
uomjorr, ana Avpear
ance. They are made in
various wiothsj to fit any
foot, and with
- ther broad or nar
row toes. The mer
its of these
shoes have
caused such an enor
mous increase in the
demand for them that
wo can now furnish
proof that our cele
orated factory pro
duces a larger quan
tity of shoes of this
grauc tnan any
other factory in
the world.
We particu-
LACE BALS.
larly request those who have
been paying $5 or$$ f or their
snocs to at least try on a pair
loi tnesc Derore Dnyinganew
pan:, it costs coining
to try them on.
J. MEANS & CO.,
Manctactueers,
BOSTON,
R. B. BR1TTAIN & CO.
ii
1IRABILE DIGTU."
B. F. KNOTT having bought his Spring
Stock of Goods since the recent decline in
high prices is selling them at astonishingly
LOW PRICES.
I mean what I say and mean business too,
When I tell . you that -I will make it to your
interest to
TRADE WITH ME
Full 16 ounces for one pound, and 36 inches
for one yard.
"QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS"
shall be my motto.
Respectfully,
B. F. KNOTT,
Glen Alpine Station, N. C.
R. COBB,
I desire to state to the public generally that
I have opened an office in Morganton for the
sale of real estate, mineral interest and town
property. I will open communication with
and buyers irom an parts ot tne union, ana
agents for the settlement of colonies. I there
fore claim that my facilities for effecting
sales is as srood as any medium that can be
employed. All persons having lands, miner
al interest, town lots, improvea or unimprov
ed, will do well to call and see me, give loca
tion, boundry and best terms, and I will have
then property advertised tnrougn tne tar,
a paper that has an extensive circulation in
every State in the Union. Give me a trial
and I will save you money. Office in connec
tion with the Stab office building.
R. A. COBB,
Morganton, N. C.
Globe Academy,
Globe., "NT. O.
J. F. SPAINHOUR, Principal.
KEV. R. L. PATTON, A. B., (Amherst Col
lege, Mass.) Professor of Latin and Greek.
PROF, S. A. SPAINHOUR, Music and Cal
isthenics. .
Falls Term opens August 31, 1885.
Tuition per month $1 to $3. Music $2.50.
Contingent fee 50 cents per session. Board,
everything furnished, $7 .per month. Ad
dress the Principal.
FOUTZ'S
HQRQE AND CATTLE POWDEHS
'o Ht;se will die of Coi.tc. Pots or Lusg Ik
Tkr, it' Font?."? I'owriere are used In time.
Fonte'R Towflors will onre and prevent. Hog Cnnur.it a.
Fontz's Poolers will prevent Gapkp Futti.s.
Foutz's Powders will increase the nnantitv of millr
iid cream tweutj -er cent., and nikke the butter Cite
nd sweet.
Fontz's Powders w.'ll cure or prevent almost tcvkr"
Dtskask to wiiicli Horses and Cattle nre sn)pet.
ForTZ'S PoWIKR8 'A'lLL OIVE SATlSFACflOS.
Sold everywhere. ,
I) AVID E. rOTrr. Proprioter
Grocer & Confectioner,
AND
DEALER IN COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Morganton, N. C.
R, IT. GrOODSOlSrS
Feed and Sale Stable,
Kept in connection with the
near the depot,
MORGANTON, - - -
Eagle
Hotel
N.
t& i
IFOIE SALE BY
Heal Estate Agent.
yig FOUTZ J
j" v-.
THE FOUNDRY FIRES.
See the foundry fires gleaming
With a strange and lurid light,
listen to the anvils rinsing
Measured music on the night;
Clanking, clinking, never shrinking,
Strike the iron, mold it well;
On the progress of the nations
Each persistent stroke shall telL
Showers of fiery sparks are falling
Thick about the workmen's feet;
Some are carried by the night wind
Far along the winding street.
Clanking, clinking, never shrinking,
Labor lifts her arms on high.
And the sparks fly from her anvils
Out upon the darkened sky.
In the lurid glow of teeling,
With the anvil stroke3 of thought.
Men are shaping creeds, and welding
Single truths the age has wrought.
Clanking, clinking, never shrinking,
Strike the truth and mold it well;
On the progress of the nations
Each persistent stroke shall telL
Let the sparks fiy from your anvils
In the ways where thought is rife;
Each shall light some friendly fire
On the waiting forge of life;
Clanking, clinking, never shrinking.
Work tfil stars fade, and the morn
Of a wider faith and knowledge
From the radiant East is born.
o
Crude the mass the sweating forgamen
At your eager feet have hurled;
Centuries of toil must follow
Ere ye shape a perfect world;
Yet with clanking, clanking, clinking,
Strike the iron, shape the truth
Science is but now beginning.
Thought is in its early youth.
Think each one his arm the strongest.
Each believe that God to him
Has revealed the fairest treasures
Hidden in His storehouse dim;
Clanking, clinking, never shrinking,
Ring your sharp strokes, age and youth
Each must hold himself the prophet
Of a perfect form of truth.
Arthur W. Eaton, in Youth's Companion
ROMANCE OF ECU AD OH.
THE WONDERS OF A STRANGE LAND.
The landlord at the hotel here says a
letter from Quito, the capital of Ecuador,
to the New York Sun, requires you to
pay your board in advance, because he
has no money tc buy food and no credit
with the market men ; the muleteers ask
for their fees before starting, because
their experiance teaches them wisdom
and there is scarcely a building in the
whole republic u in process of construe
tion, or even" undergoing repairs. Death
seems to have settled upon everything
artificial, but nature is in her grand es
glory.
Tho population of Ecuador is about a
million, and the nation owes twenty gold
dollars per capita for every one of the
inhabitants. The president is compelled
to live at Guayaquil so as to see that the
customs duties, the only source of reve
rue, reach the government, and to quel
the revolutions that are constantly aris
ing. lhree nundred thousand of the
population are of Spanish descent. 10D,
000 are fore?gners, and 600,000 native
Indians or persons of mixed blood. The
commerce is in tho hand3 of the
foreigners entirely, and they have a
mortgage upn the entire country. The
Indians are the only people who work.
Over the doors of the residences or
the business houses, and both are usually
.mder the same roof, are signs reading.
"This is the property of au Englishman,"
"This is the property of a citizen of
Germany," and so on, a necessary warn
Jng to revolutionists, who are thus
notified to keep their hands off.
The Spaniards are the aristocraey.poor
but proud, very proud. The mixed race
furnishes ' the mechanics and artisans,
while the Indians till the soil and do the
drudgery. A cook gets two dollars a
month in a depreciated currency, but the
employer is expected to board her entire
faaiilv- A laborer rreta four nr air 11
j v. a. a uvr
-.ars a month and boards himself. exceDt
,hen hi is fortunate enough to have a
j mi mi T 3?
A'lie out at service. . ine inaians never
aiarry, because they cannot afford to.
The law compels him to pay the priest a
fee of six dollars, more money than most
of them can ever accumulate. When a
Spaniard marries, the fee is paid by con
tributions from his relatives.
It is p. peculiarity of tire Indian that he
will sell nothing it wholesale, nor will
he trs.de with you anywhere but. in the
market place, on the spot where he and
Yia forefathers have sold garden truck
fcr three centuries. Although travelers
on the highways meet whole armies of In
dians, bearing upon their backs heavy
burdens f vegetables and other sup
plies, they can purchase nothing of
them, as the native will not sell his
(foods until he gets to the place where
I t is in the habit of selling them. He
vill carry them ten miles and dispose
of them for less than he was offered fo
them at home.
The same rule exists in Guatemala.
A o-entleman who lives some distance
C. '-oin
vwn said that for the
'ast
iur years he bad been
to get tho Indians, who
i;sscd every morning with packs of
alnlfa (the tropical clover), io sell hm
some at his gate, bat they invariably
reiused to do so; consequently he waj
coh.reUcl to go into town to buy
whet was carried by his own door.
Nor will the natives sell at wholesale.
They w' giye you a gourd full of pota
toes for a pennv as often as you like.
but will not sell their stock in a luran
hey will give you a dozen eggs for a
real (ten cents), but will not sell
you
five dozca for a dollar. This
dogged
adherence to custom cannot be ac
counted for, except on the supposition
that their suspicions are excited by an
attempt to depart from it.
In Ecuador there are no smaller coins
than the quartillo, change is therefore
made by the use of bread. On his way
to market the purchaser stops at the
bakery and get3 a dozen or twenty
breakfast rolls, which cost about one
cent each, and the market women re
ceive them and civs them as chancre for
small purchases. If you buy a cent's
worth of nnvthincr and offfii a ouartii
;o i?i payment you ret a breakfast rol
forthe balance due you.
The Indians live in villages and com
munities, which are presided over by
;in alcalde, or coventor. The natW
women all wear black. One never find
a glimpse of color upon a descendant o
the ancient race. They are in perpetua
mourning for Atahuallpa, the last of the
Incas, who was cruelly murdered bj
Pizarro. Their costume is a short black
skirt and a square robe or mantle ol
black, which they wear over their heads
and hold in place by a large pin or thorn
between the shoulders. They look like
nuns, and walk the streets with bur
dens upon their backs or heads in
processions as solemn as a funeral. They
never laugh, and scarcely ever smile;
they have no songs and no amusements,
Their only semblance to music is a
mournful chant which they give . in uni
son at the feasts which are intended to
keep alivo the memories of the Incas.
They cling to their traditions and tho
customs of their ancestors. They
rcmembeti the ancient glory of
their race, and look to its restoration
as the Aztecs of Mexico look for tho
coming of Montezuma. They have rel
ics which they guard with the most
sacred care, and two crrcat secrets no
amount of torture at the hands of the
Spaniards has been able to wring from
them. These are tho art of tempering
copper so as to give it as keen and en
during an edge as steel, and the burial
place of the Incarial treasures.
It will be remembered that Pizarro of
fered to release Atahuallpa if the Indians
would fill with gold the room in which
he was kept a prisoner. They did it.
Pizarro thought there must be inoro
where this camo from, and demanded
that the ransom bo doubled. Runner?
were sent over the country to collect tho
treasure or thc kingdom, ana were on
their way to Caxnmarca, where thc Inca
was a prisoner, loaded down with gild
to buy hi freedom, whea they heard
that Pizarro had strangled him. This
treasure was buried somewhere in thc
mountains of Llanganati, northwest of
Quito, and haa hesa searched for ever
since.
A Spaniard named Yalvcrde married
an Inca girl, and from poverty became
suddenly rich. To cscapo persecution
from those who wished to know the se
cret of his sudden accumulation of gold
he fed to Spain, and upon his deathbed
made a confession to the effect that
through his wife he had discovered the
O
Inca treasures, and left a guide to the
p ace of their deposit as a legacy to his
king. This guide ha3 been followed by
the government and by private indi
viduals: fortunes have been wasted in
the search, hundreds of men have per
ished in the mountains while encaged in
it, and, while the gold of the Incas will
never cease to haunt the memories of the
avaricious, no man has been able to reach
tho spot designated by the confession o
Valverde.
The last to attempt it was an English
botanist, who wrote a pamphlet giving
his experience. He says that no one
who was not familiar with every inch of
the Llanganati mountains could have
written the Valverde document, for the
land marks are all minutely described ;
but the path indicated leads to a ravine
which is impassable, and in attempting
to cross which so many people have lost
their lives. It is his opinion that tho
condition of this gorge "has been so
changed by volcanic eruptions and earth
quakes aa to obliterate the landmarks
which Valverde describes, and per
manently obstruct a path which he ia said
to have followed.
The capital and productive regions of
Ecuador ore 160 miles from its only sea
port, Guayaquil, and ore accessible only
oy a mule path, which is impaisable foj
six months in tho year, during the raio;
season, and in the dry season it requires
eight or nine d:iy to traverse it, with
no resting p aces where a man caa find u
deceit bed or food fit for human con-
j sumption. This is the only moans oi
communication between Quito and the
outs'.de world, except along thfl moun
tains southward into Bolivia and Peru,
where tho Incas constructed beautiful
highways, winch the Spaniards have per
mittcd to decay, until they are now
practically useless. They were so well
built, however, as to stand the wear and
tear of three centuries, and the slightest
attempt at repair would have kept them
in order.
Although the.journey from Guayaquil
to Quito takes nine days, Garcia Moreno,
the former president of Ecuador, once
made it in thirty-six hours. lie heard
of a revolution, and, springing upon his
horse, went to the capital, had twenty
two conspirators shot, and was back at
Guayaquil in less than a week. Moreno
wa3 president for twelve years, and was
one of the fiercest and most cruel rulers
South America has ever seen. He shot
men who would not take off their hats to
him in the streets, and had a drunken
priest impaled in the principal plaza of
Quito as a warning to the clergy to ob
serve I abits of sobriety or conceal their
intemperance. There was nothing too
brutal for this man to do, and nothing
too sacred to escape his grasp. He died
in 1875 by assassination, and tho country
has been in a state of political eruption
ever 6incc.
Although the road to Quito is over an
almost untrodden wilderness, it presents
the grandest scenic panorama in the
world. Directly beneath the equator,
surrounding the city whose origin is lost
in the mist of centuries, rise twenty vol
canQCSf presidcd ovcr by tbe ptincelj
Chimborazo, the lowest being 15,-
922 feet in height, and th
highest reaching an altitude of
22,500 fect. Three of these volcanoes
arc active, five are .dormant, and twelve
extinct. Nowhere else on the earth's
surface is such a cluster of peaks, such
a grand assemblage of giants. Eighteen
of the twenty are covered with perpetual
snow, and tho summits of eleven have
never been reached by a living creaturr
except the condor, whose flight surpasses
that of any other bird. At noon the
vertical sun throws a profusion of light
upon the snow-crowned summits, where
they appear like a group of pyramids
cut in spotless marble.
Cotopaxi is the loftiest of active to!
canoes, but it is slumbering now. ine
only evidence of actioa is the-frcQueni
rumblings which can be heard for a hun.
dred miles, and the cloud of smoke bj
day and the pillar of Cro by night which
constantly arises from a crater that it
more than three thousand fee, beyond
the reach of man. Many have attempted
to scale it, but the wa Is aro so steep
and thc 5 now is 80 deeP thit a$ccat is
impossible, even with scaling ladders.
On the south side of Cotopaxi is a great
rock, more sban 2,000 feet high, called
the "Incas Head." Tradst.oa says
that it was once the summit of tbo
volcano, and ftll oa tho day
whea Atahuallpa was strangled b,
the Spaniards. Those who have seea
Ycsavitft caa judgo of thc grandeur of
Cotopaxi, if they caa imagine a volcano
15,000 feet higher, shooting forth its
fire from a crest covered by 3,000 feet of
snow, with a voice that has beca heard
six hundred miles. And one can judgo
of the grandeur of the road to Quito if
he can imagine twenty of tho highest
mountains in America, three of them
active volcanoes, standing along tho
road from Washington to New York.
TT.rn in liea mAiifitaini until tVlA
- . , . i,m
Spaniards came in 1534, existed a civil-
izationthat was old whea Chtist was
crucified ; a civilization whose arts were
equal to those of Egypt; which .had
temples four times the size of the capitol
at Washington, from a single one of
which the Spaniards drew out twenty
two thousand ounces of solid ' silver
nails; whose rulers had ; palaces
from which the Spaniards gathered
90,000 ounces of gold and an unmeas
ured quanity of silver. Here was an em
pire stretching from the equator to the
antarctic circle, walled in by the grandest
groups of mountains in the world, whose
people knew all the arts of their time
but those of war, and were conquered by
213 men under the leadership of a Span
ish swineherd who could neither read
nor write. .m '
The present reigning dynasty of Japan
dates back 2,546 years, and is considered
the oldest in the world.. The records of
Japan are accurately preserved for that
time. All the nations now called dril
led, without exception, had their be
ginning since then.
RJX,
A, soft answer turnethawaj wrath j tra
a club keeps it turned away.
The way to make an overcoat list Is tv.
make the undercoat firtt. Lynn Ualan,
When boa-der insets -jpricg ch'ckea
then comes the tug of jaw. PAiUJd
phia Call.
When a naa scfts doable, it is eridett
that his glasses a rj too strong for him.
JXttcn TramripS.
Some one saya that liquor strengthens
the voice. ThU is a mistake, it only
makes the breath strong. 1
AtmosphcricAl knowledge is not
thoroughly distributed ia our schools.',
A boy, being asked: "What is mistr.
vaguely respoodzd: "An umbrella," -
If a barber could only hold bis own
chin as well as he dots that cf his vic
tim he would soon bs able to uso real
bay rum. Jt Tiorl; 3frninj Journal. '
Friend Tou den't mean to sty you
understand French, Tommy! Tommy
Oh, yej, I do; for when pa and ma speak
French at tea I know I'm to have a pow
der. Reverend Gentleman "My child, yoa
should pray God to make yoa a new
heart." Youthful sinner "So I did.
papa, four days ago; guess it isa't don4
yet." Life.
The fishing season is "on." ' "What
did you catch yesterday!" asked a Peon
urchin, with a pole and an oyster can,
to another boy. "Just what youTl
catch when you get home," said tha
other, morosely, rubbing his shoulders.
And then each smiled a sickly smile, and
the convention slowly and solemnly ad
journed without date. Peon ZVa.v
cript. A New York Sunday-school teachet
told her pupils that when they put their
pennies into the contribution box she
wanted each one to repeat a Bible verso
suitable for the occasion. The first boy
dropped in his cent, saying: "The Lord
loveth a cheerful giver." The next boy
dropped his penny into the box, saying:
,"IIe that giveth to the poor lendeth to
the Lord." The third and youngest boy
dropped la his penny, saying: "A fool
and his money are soon parted UcX'vil
Journal.
At a Dinner Party la Penli.
They all set to at a kind of lansquenet.'
All wcro wealthy men, and as they gam-;
bled only for silver coia not much harm'
wes done. Like a Christmas party of
children at Pope Joan, how they shouted,1
and how they cheated, openly, most
openly! He who cheated most was hap
piest, and the only di -grace was in being
found out. S Khan, who sat next
to me, had a method of cheating so aim
pie, so Arcadian in its simplicity, that it
deservrs description, ne lost, lost per
siftetitly; but his heap did cot percepti
bly dirtinish. I watched hira. Hisplaa
was this: Whea ho won he pit his a la
cings on his heap of coin. When he lost
ho would caiefully count out the amount
of money he had to pay. "Sixty kcrans;
ah! Correct, yoa sec sixty. He would
then gather it cp in h'ttwo hands, place
the closed hands on his own heap, let out
the greater part of the sixty silver coins
on his heap, and opening hii closed hands
from below upward, apparently paid his
losses into the pile of his successful adver
sary with a "Much good may Ihcy do
yoa! Another sixty kcrans." After
about an hour of this, the music and
singing having been going oa unceasing-:
ly, dinner was announced. The money
was pocketed, or banded ovcr to thecaro
of servants. A long sheet of embroid
ered leather was spread oa the ground;
over this was placed a sheet cf hand
printed chintz, seme twelve fee; by fr;'
bowls of sherbet (iced sjmpsaad wttr);
were laid at intervals; and the various
I dishes, filled each to overflowing, and
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circular irays uciore every six gucsis. a
plentiful dinner -a Barmecide feast.'
Lambs roasted wkole, stuffed with dates,
almonds, raisins, and pistachio cuts;
sparrow and pomegranate soup; kebabs
of lambs and antelope; all the thousand
and one delicacies of the Persian cui
sine Chilians, pillaus, curries, fowls
boiled and roast. All was good, well
cooked and lavish; for each man had
soma half dozea servants with him, who
would dine oa the leavings; and our
host had certainly fifty servants, all of
whom would get a meal off these crumbs
from the rich maai table. ChairJUrj
Journal. -"
Florida has entered tbe list of compet
itors for the Northern flower market A
horticulturist at Tangerine recently
shipped SO.OOO tube-rose bulbs to tha
dealers ia tbe North.
Mohammedan citizens of London are
making arrangements to build a mosqut
ia that city. It will be the fist arnd onla
edifice of the kind ia Europe outside oi
the Sultan'a dominions. ' "