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v ua I EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL. VOL. I. NO. 23. RED SPRINGS, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1892. . w w w ww . w i W W.v iia.ul.l.ki; i:titor kuntfAi . m.ar RED -" 1 " " 1 !v memtVrs of the Unite I States 14. tuv leen Oovernore of States m f, -in- rn Cabinet officers. . - ..r f a'ltof apha remark that. ,. t v 1 v r 1 1 -r never will supplant - n.h letter altogether, it will make .Ptrirr -iri'l more valuable. I , jfK r1'! use of commercial fer- ! ) in heated in the establishment I 10 fvtnrf in the Unit! State 1 -i n i - ! 1 jr place on the market f20t- omi worth of fertilizers. show tyriiptom of be-comlng ; the l'i"l, and tnsy indulge, in infi hostile to thi-t form of recrea- The fa t is, explains the sarcastic ' - an ico Ksaminer, that the 1 u.-t f lift- Iwom' dangerous. IfMiii.tliHtM HHjr that the twenty : r Iim.m . ty u Lximeil. The day U f of ten hours, the hour witl be into ten decade, cch nf which 1 'ont iiri ten minutes, e ach, minute 1. . .fi I and rvh aecon I ten flaihos. 1 1 r. tins basis a i lrk has already been I h- Criited Statu is kriovn to bo .'vhat of h railway country, but it is r.t torn-rally understood that it pos-.sos n. irly one half of tin" total railway ' iili if of the wh ile: woild. C Mui ler- that more thin four fifth of tho I r fit gigantic system of rtilwiys lias been 1 -onstruc te I since the close of tha t'm! War, t hia fact is the more siiiiti- i int. The Uuitel States lixi outitrippl 'lii r oiintric in many thing, but tnort 'Inn til in the matter of rarlwaj. Uoiton i'ulti vitr ay; "Wi nnl agriculture ire naturally ant ionmli ' Thrre 11 a ren-ii fr ttn, e-jM-cially since ii'ijwiwijcr catuc int'i vo-ue n the ,'r?it rtrutive war agency. Nitratea are .in iirixirtant orntitii-nt of yunpowler. Kvfi the inmokch'H- powb r inti n them. Nitrates are the m.t important element of plant f I. Think how in irj crop have troo oorly while war h.i wa-hn in useless smoke th-mi terial thr'UL:h which they wouM Imtc be cuic thrivirii anl prolific." Th New York In lepen-lent blieTC tha' f fie cultivation of athletic at irl' i. ! ni'l c IIei,'e, ia likely to rvcoiva ..f!,r otinitiliH from an awanl nii'le by tlie I liie l States Treasury U.'partmcnt f. M' It'-rfio Hurr, of Nebraska, for re him two women from lrown- i-ii: Mi-s Murr, who learneil how to iim at l.isell Seminary, Auburn-lale, Mm , will receive, not the silver me 111 aar for beroi-m, hut the oM melal . -1 1 v :;r t'lteil f r case of eitraortlinary I intifct an I mlurance. There are '.J.i'VHM women In New "iK t'ify, ex( lusive of thoe in ilomea tii service, who suport themselre anl ! without Miah1 pr tectors. There are lifra les om 11 to them, but mauy of th' in are comellcl to accept whatever w 'r- uiav Imi ofTcre I or starve, or fall. There are traineil m- i n women who rk nineteci: hours a May for twenty fire lenfs. Hos' new troiisen lrinij thirty -five nts a ilen; nnlintry Jr .in. rs fr m 1.' to twentv-flve eenta A 'r, an. I shirts from tj to '! cent. A umtlemai niw .ashore in North America the other lay who has bee a living a Itio Janeiro for nearly twenty Kr. Me has rea I Kniliih jvtpera; hll wife i in Km;bsh woman, ami although lie wis Mrn in the State of Maine, his S-'Uth American life an1 busine show thnr etTi ts. "Why io they o out to '"hieajro to hoM the onventlon?" h sKe.l, "an-l what's all this nonsena alMit having a worll' fan theref I thnjht the pUce was pretty well buraei ! ti. They can't have ro? it wito he for jM'ople to l comfortoble there " n. he lil not like it, mM the New t)rleans Pieayune, when there wm ni'Btiuo ma le of Mynheer Van Winkle. 'ijin'.j machines for use in war hare I no iittle stt-ntiou of late on the I f inventors. Maiun, the lwiner th famous j in, claims to have pro I i. e i one which evi Ih cmtr ll-l. Hn Glares that he ,ai 'ill his aerial car w ft 'ipl.Mives rtnl hover in it over thv r-'y l Lonion, hohlin tha' ct ni-'M'-'hs at ransom to the ettent of as ,r, it millions of Is as he choose to me--tion. Thu situ ite.l be canaanjuace ' I'rini hy Iroppin a small package '-uinin a statement of them aa 1 bis itnt-i of "Cash or CnshP lib -itnvance is a cylinder of alumiouTi ' 'nta!ninrf a tiiree. fourths rru irj, it r (urTcnw 1 oy siro.ii; not It i propelle.1 an I steered by wear, -yl is further susUioe-i bilaor.. by the win,M of a f y'a-ie, witi ri auto nstic rraa j. fT""t of , comp.ntory niture Uut ,,r"U" the hh-W im fteJnU-ly back to h- montal when it tend to Try lliorelrutn. nniiOTHT H A yCOCK'B BIR TffDA I PARTY. Qiotb th? 0rrnor to hit dime. Wheu 5ie Frrnch (Jet MiCng cam Into Masrhnsetts Bay, "We innt uitke a fet straibtway. Hresl a tioatil of touuteotiii cheer For the gill ut A'lmiril hre." Nothing l.ath th three-year' bride, Fsir Pirn" fiorotliy, coroplie't. Ani with fine boueifely xal I Isdd-I at e a t-nnnUHMia mAal Fit t net tefr a king, r a kingly ffllowmpr. But, alas! when ali a complete (''hum thi mM-age from the fleet: MirIi the Admiral dar to bring Jn this K'vlly gathering "All hi"'ofleeni, and thn C'ertnin nf his midshipmen? W'h' ran paint the dire dismay Of Iiim Dorothy that day? Thirty gii-M abe'd bidden thre; Now so lat s this prepare Fr a hnndrl more at least ?nt a niofnent stood ah there. In irreit d"patr- Jt a breathless moment - then She bh all her maids and men. And her-lf doth lead them down. To the Kren mall of the town. rt'h-re her net g blurs' cattle rz All al"n tb grassy ways. Tbr thy milke'i the grazioft hrd. At tb fsir yonDg madsm word. While th t'nfolk t'od and stared, tl-n'ering how ah ei dared TsVe an h liberties as these Wifbont even "If yon pleas." !ln straight on tha milking went. While the fair young housewife aeot Mounted rnngers hre and there, )t'i lowtnu "I her niKblxra' fare. Not a tieighbor said her nay On thst memorable day. Fruits, and r-weets, and roasted gam From th-ir larders freely came; f sk" and dainties ef the beat. At tmo Iiif hy's reqnest. Then tnnmpbsntly the flew, Hpread her tables all aoew, Whipt br foaming milk to cream. While jnt down the. harbor stream Hbe roiiM e th spproaching guests. With hMr tsrret and rihhone1 bratta. Iing lef.,re that day waa done All the townsfolk, erery en, Wer- they young, or were they old, I-atighed spplauditigly when told llow fsm ffancoa-k spread her feist For "s bnn-lrerl more, at least." I -Nor perry, in July fst. Nicholts. AN ACCIDENTAL MARRIAGE. " IV Mire von ride w ith Potts? " shout ed Cnrrie, nfter the bo;it was fairly under way. whereat a little smile rippled across the nriirhlMuint; Kassencrs faces. It w;is an 'Mid .iHfch, but May nd I under-tood it, for we had talked over ftcrs !ii:d thin" pretty thoroughly be forehand rr-iiHrdinn our journey, nod thi last i.ilmoiiitioii of Carrie's was simply to nivc ;i rent to mi oft-rejcated charee. v wi re 'oino to :i lovely nook, uis- covered by (;irrie the year before, in the Ir-ntt of the t'litskills. Stiftier it to ny that we had to ride tunny .and many n louo mile to reach th a foresaid center, nml that the line of Mayas th.it led to our little nook wm owned and run by two Main-art, steadfast men, named I'otts and Kramer. I'ofts was n lively follow, aground and ns rosy, .ami ns shinv as a Iresh ren- c heekel apple Kramer was taller, dar ker. in-re t:i itura. Potts enterttined hi p:iM'iiirci with n scries of jokes, sipu'li-, anecilotcs, legends, mysteries and biles. Kramer attended strictly and solely to the business of driving his four rmr-es. Ni it ii no wonder Larne reiimeil out to us; " lie sure you ride ith Potts' " Hut "woman projocs and man dis- pnes, ji kv toiin'i out that naimy sum mer morning, when, on the i'atskill Landing, we asked, for the Potts and Kramer line. " Here, ladies" f.iid n tall man, who we know must be Kramer, motioning u to .1 half tilled staire. Instea-I of getting in we looked around e tant. Ah. es there he was, theiollv. round- faced Jehu, w hip in hand, hi lip curled tit in .t pleasant !mw, his eyes twinkling nlreildv d-n"t want to ride with too," said May, with charming randor, "we ant to ride with Mr. Pott, Iwcause he talks ti e most." Ha' ha! ha!" shouted Mr. Potta. "Well, ladies, I appreciate the compli ment. I tially d, but it' impossible for me to add another fare You'll have to ride with Mr. Kramer. H's jolly fellow. ;rt him started and he'll talk the tp off of a meeting heue." Mr. I'otts argument was irresistible. We met klv iot int the half filled stagt and wounA our way up over the long lull, with Mr Kramer sittmir tolt mv riubt in fnnt f us, looking neither to the riyht nor to the left and obliyioti of all remaiks that might be made behind him In vain would May lean forward and av in her msf winning manner: "I do wonder what that pretty little pi u e is ailed otcr theref" or "Which ot these -ak do you think is the high- t. Sue N'..t a vound 1 sme from his liis till. 1 .iting aside all subterfuge, she would say : Mr Kramer, won"t you tell us?" And then, in briefest monosyllable, would tome the snswet At l.at Mr. Kramer suddenly stopped lrfore a littte wayside inn. and landed all our dusty and tired fellow-travellers at their destination. Then we went on our way again - sole o cupwnts of the ca pa lous vehicle. May yawned again and again. At last she gave a heart-breaking igh. and eaclaimed. "What a dreadfully dreary ride this it to be sureT Mr. Kramer turned his head ever so slightly, and looked bck at her. For once his lip parted of their own accord, lie was going to say something without being asked. "Doyou aee that F-Mieover thereP asked he, pointing to a pretty cottage half hidden by elaml Ing vine and sur rounded by a mass e brilliant flower, "that is where I live. "jUs," laid Mij, 4jJt&f her blut classes more firmlj upon her note, "what t dear, fozy little Ttlace tha prettiest ane we've seen for miles." A this was Mr. Kramer first and only roluntary rem irk. May aeemed disposed to encourage him by sufficient praise. ' Are vou manied ?" she continued. fearful that the generous, impetas to pech woi!d drv up forever. Ye." Mr. K"rnmer replied, looking bvk at us with a curious twinkle in hu eve; ' I ws marrfed sort of acci dent ally " I ar me" cried May. with riyacity; " f am frtain from yotir manner thaat there was something very odd about your marriage. Would you mind telling ns ilut the imident, or accident, which ?ver it was ? " If it will pais away the time for you," Mr. Kramer replied: "I dont jiind telling you how I won ray wife. But I have got a boy almost as old as roii are. so you see the events I refer to happened onite a while ago." it would have scarcely surprised us more if the town pump had suddenly 'ommenced a narrative. 'I was born in the little village we passed through, back yonder, and so was Kanny Davis. We went to school to gether; sat in the same seat in charch; rode in the same hay-wagon; skated on the same ice ponds; went to the same husking bees; but we didn't love each other much for all that. "I could not understand or take a joke, and, as Fanny often made me a target for her fun, the natural conse quence was, we were generally at swords' points. "I was one of the first country boys who enlisted. There wasn't a more awk wark boy in the regiment. " I'll skip the history of the war, and only say after more than thire long years pent in marching and counter marching from Imttletiela to battlefield, I came back to the village down there, a different man from the one who went away. - " Such a time as they madr over the little fragment of our regiment, when we came home all ragged and weary and worn. Everybody turned out. The folks got up a big reception down in the old church. j "They gave 'H more good things than than we could eat in a month, and made speeches that were a good deal more flowery than our path h.id been. All the old neighbors and friendi crowded around us, and I had all I could do, for a while, shaking hands. I had often dreamed of this home-coming down under those southern stars, and thought of the old familiar faces that would brighten when they mw me, and thti friends whose hands I would like to take first; but in all my dreams I had never thought of Fainy. " Ry-and-bv there was a little rause. I looked up, and there, not more than three yards off, with checks like roses and eyes like stars, she stood, looking at me with such a look as I never thought she could have for any one, much less for me. "It was so unexpected my heart stood still for a moment, She came forward and seized hold of both my hands and said. in a choked voice: " Sara, you are a brave man. I am not worthy to untie your shoe; but I want to take your hand and tell you how I honor you, and how sorry I am for all the un kind things I have done and said in days goric by.' "You Me the war had educated her some, too. "I seemed suddenly to be lifted into a delicious and rarified atmosphere, ira- rircgnatcd with a divine radiance that il umined everything around me. All the long years of the war rolled like a flash ing panorama lcfore my brain. Common plate actions that I had before counted only a my duty, gtew strangely heroic. I was proud of the liars on my shoulders. I felt every inch a hero. And yet it seemed as if I would rather see her tear filled eyes look at me in that way than to have all the honors the world could af ford. "That night, when I went to bed, I dreamed of the lights, the music, th flowers, the speeches, but at last every thing melted into two soft, sweet, tear filled eyes, with a luminous soul behind them, which said over and over, 'You are a hero, you are a hero.' "When I woke the world was all right side up. The wax was gone forever, and 1 had slipped Iwick into my old place as eaily as if I had never left it. Outwardly everything was the same; but inwardly, what a change there was! Of course I went to see Fancy. No ditance would have leen tco great, no storm too severe, to hinder me. And many a time when I have walked a mile and more, just to touch her little soft hand, or look into her eyes, I would think of the time upon time I had gone almost as far the other way. so that J should not see her. " 1 follow ed Fannv like a shadow. I asked b.-r t marry me over and over again. From a taituro man I grew to lw a great talker. She mut have in spired me, I think, for when I was with her. something within me would speak bv the hour with an eloquence and force that I would have been incapable of in ordinary moments. Oh. the plans I made! Th pictures I drew of the beautiful future we might have: " At first she always said ' o to ray question; not harshly or with ridicule. but jut a little soft 'iSo. I don t love vou.' that seemed as if it was so frail and so slight that I could overcome it if I onlv persevered. Sometimes, too, she'd look up to me. when I was pleading. with a sudden, shy glance that seemed a reflection of the one that bad electrified me that night in the old church. " So things went on for over a year. Evervh.siv in the village got to know of our affair, if it could be called by that name, and some said I was a fool to think for a moment that Fanny Davis would have me; and some said she was a fool not to take me, if she could get me. Finally we had what I thought was the very last quarrel we should evr have. Fannv. wm out by my persistency, had angrily told me never to apeak to her of love again ; never even to come where he was. Then, for the first time, I think I gsva up all hope. I avoided fannv as she wuhed me to for a long time, but I uldn't stop th'tking of her. for sll that. 'One dav I was walking up tke street. thinking for the hundredth time of our last inter lew. and tmng to l a man aaia without her. I reasoned k. all out; trtat ranny and 1 were, not stmesi 10 ewco other; that even if she would marry me. we should live a cat-and-dog life; for she had a quick temper, I was obliged to acknowledge, and I had an obstinate will. I said over and airain that I would conquer the niad. persistent feeling that seemed to rush through tny veins, a yery part of my blood ; that I would put her out of my thoughts forever. " I was thinking fer all thwa thing that day. a- I said, and had just given Fanny up. and then concluded f could not give Fannie up. when I saw her roming toward roe. I did not ctm know If she would siwak ,to me, Uut she did just a cool little noil, as much as to say We will le friend y acquaintance, and no more.' At firt, I thought I would pass her, but I deli.ierately walked back with her. "She said nothing after the first greet Ing. nor did I sisak after that, either The silence was jus, l-rginnlag to get a little awkward when we met Judge Hentley going down town, evidently in a hurry; but he stoi ped a moment, gave each of us a sharp Ixik through hu gold- bowed spectacle and said : " 'Haven't leeu quarrelling again, chil dren. eh? Now. why can't you be recon ciled and happy It's Just as easy to be good and happy as -the other thing. Let us burv the bat bet on tke spot. I'll le the peace maker. "A sudden th uijiht .eracd to strike him. he said : " I will tell ycu what I'll do. I ll marry you out of hand, awd then you will be happy forever. "'Samuel, do you take Fanny to 1e your wedded wife, to have and to hold forever? Do you proniise to be her faithful and affectionate husband till death parts youf " 'ies, that I do,' cried 1, with all my heart. " 'Fanny, do you tak Samuel to le your wedded husband ? Do you promise to be a true and loving wife to him till separated by death;' " 'Perhaps I'll think alout it, judge, said Fanny, with a little of her sauci nes. "Then, raiding his hands impressively, he said : ' 'I pronounce you man and wife, and ht every one hereafter hold his peace.' " 'There, there, children,' he contin ued, 'it'8 all done now. I'll just have time to salute the bride and catch the stage.' "So he stoop-d. and before Fanny could protest, kissed her on the forehead and went puffing down the street. "We had almost reached ranny s house, and soon I left her there, still sub dued, but laug-hinp; a little at the judge' odd joke. "The judge met Mr. Paine, editor of the Saddcm a.ette, a little further on. and said: " 'Paine, do you want a news item? I've only got a minute to give it to you. Sara Kramer and Fanny Ihivis are mar ried. I tied the knot myself alxuit fivo minutes ago.' "Of course, Paine wasn't going to le such n fool a to mi-" an item like that. S home he wa nt and wrote up half a column or more on the happy event, at the end congratulating the bride and groom on their safe arrival in the pleas ant port of matrimony after a long and stormy courtship. "Well, that upset the town. When I read that item I was so weak I couldn't stand up. It never had occurred to me, or Fanny, or to the judge, either, I don't believe, that it was a bona tide niarriage; but there it was all down in black and white, nnd it didn't b k the least bit like a joke. "Of course, every' -dy I met c ongratu lated me. The more I denied it. the more they believed then: something in it. "After a day or two things l-gan to look so M-riou1 I wa nt to see Lawyer Searing; ho wa an old friend of mine and a w ar comrade, too I gave him a history of the whole , and asked him w hai he thought of it. He deliberated a while, anil then jumwd up and shook, my hand, saying : " 'It is my honest opinion, Sim, that Parson Hathaway couldn't have married you any l-ctter than that if be had tried. "What did I do? I sat dowu nnd put my headin my band, and groaned. All my hop.- ere fulfilled. What I had been fighting for with all my strength had ome to pt.i. and I was more un happy than I b.el er lieen lefore in my life. You ee, I wasn't thinking of my self at all. I ws thinking of Fanny. What, if she should take it hard? Ia'l Dinl knew she would. Of course I should never' claim her as my wife unless she chose to 1 ome to me of her own free will. Rut the fat that we were legally bound to each other, stared me in the face, whichever way I looked. "I thought alut it all night, and then concluded I inws see Fanny and find a way out of the trouble if possible. " I found her quiet and elf-po-essed, but her eye bs.l a suspicious redness around the rim tint showed she had been crying. I plunged right into the subject and said : 'Fanny. I have come to tell yon how sorry I am that little joke happen!, and how serious it seems to lie. Ned Searing savs it looks very murh like a legal mar riage.' "Fanny's fate grvw white as a cloth at this. "Ah.' said I to mywlf, he is going to take it hard. I em afraid. and without giving her time to p-ak. I went on : God knows, Fanny, if I could have it undone again bv giving tut right hand op. I would do so. I have been ready to marry you any time during the past year. but I never wanted to fori you into any thing like thi. As it is, the ceremony makes no difference o me. I have aid a hundred tim- that if I did not marry Ton I would not mirn anyone. 1 no are not free to marry anyone el. no matter how much jou may w?h to. But 1 have thought and thought over the matter and I have com luded there is a w si out or the difficulty. I will go away, and then, after awhile, vou can go to some other State and get a divorc from me for de sertion. "Long before I tad finished Fannv was sobbing as if her heart w-uld break. Said I at lat: Faoav. won't you say good-by to met I mac tx you again. as I am gmg away soon. And then. instead of saying by and letting me go. she flew to me a d put Joth arms around my n-ck. uif uer trw a ray shoulder, and mU, Utweea Lc sobs; I will never let yeu go; I thought 1 didn't love you, ram. but I do. I do" "For a moment I was completely te- wiidered. I half doubted mv amtv. even, for it was hard to realize that the girl who had treated uic so coldlv when I begged her to take ine for her hulaud now that I came to renounce Ik r. w is clinging to me and saying she would never let me go. "By and by we got more comrscl ami aat down to talk matters over, and then it seemed as if we had suddenly changed characters, for Fannv wa all meekm- and submission, and I was the on- who made terms and condition. " It all the lawyers in the Mate j.ro nounce that a legal ruirriage.' v-ud I. at length. ' I will never call ymi my w ife till you come to ine of your own free will in the old church down yonder, and promise before the dominie and all our friends to be my true and loving wife "And she did. God blc her, shs did." New York News. rOFt'LAR SC'IKNCK MITES. 1ailmosd SpK.r.n. Seventy five mfle4 an hour is 110 feet a second, a d th energy of 400 tons or a train of cars, moving at that rate is nearly twj.e as f reat as that of a 2,000 jiourd shot find rom a 10rt-ton Armstrong gua. Thi is the extreme weight ami scd now reached in pasenger service, and. in deed, is very rarely attained and then but, for short distances, but suty miles is a common speed, and a rate of fottv or fift v miles is attained daily on almost e very railway in the country. A Hkmarkabi.k Asikonomk.u. Fkt. Two persons may Ik: lorn at tlie same place and at the same moment exactly, and yet, after fifty vcara have rolled around, they may loth die at the same inntant, and still one may In more than 100 days older than the other. I think I hear some one say "imtible." nnd "How could such a stale of affairs lo brought aliout?" but it is not imjxtiblc; it is simply an astronomical and geograph ical fact, very easily proven. A calm re flection shows this oddity turn on :l very obvious problem in circumnavigation. Suppose now, tha? two HTons were lorn at the same instant in Philadelphia, from whence a trip around the world may easily le made in one year; if one of these jht- tou constantly govs toward the west, in fifty years he will W nfty days be-hind the stationary inhabitants, if the other nails equally a fat tow. ml the rat be will be fifty days ahead of them. 'nc, therefore, will have sc-en 100 days more than the other, though thev were lorn at the same instant, lived . c ontinually in the same latitude, and died together. Printim the Nkws Ahkau ok Timk. On May 2 J, at altout h p. m., n dis patch dated Mellwurne, Australia. Mjy 23, was received at the newspnper olliccs, says the St. Louis GloW-Democrat, an nouncing that Deeming, the murderer, was hanged at alout 10 n. m. Tin was startling intelligence. Here, apparently. wa the information of the occurrence of an event fourteen hours lefoie it could have happened. !t was Sunday night w ith us, about an hour after sunset, w hen the news came; it was Monday forenoon, several hours after sunrise, when the news was sent, and the news had to go half way round the- ploln- In-fore r ac hing us. But how or why doe thi sccaaing break in the ordinary cour- of the c :il endar occur? This is all vcrv simple when the causes are known. There was nothing the matter with the calendar. The affair occurred just as reported, and the variation or disagreement in the-tbne is due merely in the difference in longi tude lietween the two ph.ee. Hy common consent I the atiust longtitude on the globe is reckoned fr-m Greenwich, England. The prime mei id i an is considered tole at that oint. Mel louru is, in round figures. 1 degre- eaxt of Greenwich, and M. foui i W degrees west of Gre-enwirh that i. in passing along the gl"le westward pm Melbourne to St. Iui 213 degre-e of longtitude are trave rcd. Kae It fifteen degrees constitulcaii hour in time. The earth makes a complete re -lution fttn est to east through :.e decrees lu twenty-four hnr. In i t b hour, there fore, it turns fifteen degrees. Place fif teen degrees cast of us ee the sun an hour before we do. P1;m -s nim tv degtees eat of u Mre it nil hours lefore we lo, and so on. The sunrise, noon, sunset. and all other hoeirs come to the place. as a conseqnene e, earlier than they lo to us. The present hour of the clay to the inhabitants of t. Louis, whatever the hour may 1. came to the inhabitants of Mellrourne about fifteen and two-thirds hours ago. To plae es w t of u this or der eif thing, of course. 1 r-ve r-d. But at what iart of the ulolie doe the day begin? Thi was a problem which once ltothereei the MicnfMs. 1 tie nm is rising in some itt or other of rbe globe; the sun is always setting r on the meridian. Therefore, it is daylitrht always somewhere. Yet it was ncf-sary to sc-lect a conventional starting M.jnt for the day. It wa desirable, too. that tho place of transition should le in the ex c-.'.p. At last the chief countries of the world agreed that the change e,f theelay h"uld take place along a line drawn nearly north and south thnnigh the pacific Ocean. This i called the date line. Under this arrangement the new day is considered to make it advent on l.tet Island, This island i we t of hili. and about a third of the di-fe lietwein that country and Nw Zealand irus, when it ia Sunday on the American con tinent, it is Monelsy on the Lter Iland. That island and the place to the we -l of it along the date line always keep ahead of us onedav. Th:s is why on Sunday night in St. Louis it was M talvy forenoon in Melleoume at the sinie ia- stans ef alxtolate time. Farms llarled In nd- The worst feature of the Mississippi flood ia th fact that the river is sot to leave a deposit of sand, varying in thick nets from one inch to ten feet, overs lirge extent of land that was formerly fertile In the flood of 1 - a irreat many fanners ia ths Aroerva iUt-xn im iroing to their premises after the suVidence of th waters, found their pr- rty covered ith meT sand in brda thick that two .r three years elapsed be-fore go-d cr..j could be raised. It i yet too earir to tel! what will be the reolt this year, exit tlie experience of 1A is apt b I re je-ittd f aaaaj localities (New York Journal. RICHER THAN FUR-SEALS 8EAOTTEE8 ARE BKINO BAFIDLT EXrZRJtTNATZD. Thry Bear tha Most PreHons of All hkicM Their liable and llow They are Hnntcd. JV MAHINK mammal of greater value than the esl is being rap. n idly ett&iminsted in Berio Sea and in the waters along lbs .north wet coast, owing to long continued .nealect on the part of the Treasury Ie 'partment to enforce existing Uwi for iti protection. As a result this Government js likely to have to undertake the sup port 01 several hundred natives on west era islands of tha Aleutian chain, who have hitherto depended on the rhaae el the sea otter for their living. The final destruction of this interesting beast sig i.i flea the reduction of population la thst region to alwolute savagery, and even Is starvation. Already tha formerly pros perou inhabitants of cert a ia village have been brought t such extremities as to be obliged to sulwtst on seaweed, being only saved from perishing by stores of provisions contributed by the steamer Bear and other ships. The fur of the sea otter is the most beautiful and costly of all peltries. U ha 1 as fixed a value in the market to day tu any of the precious metaU, a prime skiu being worth 9130, while an eseep- tionally good one will sometime 1 fetch aa much as $350". From the earliest times it has commanded at high a pries as to-day. The Japanese prised it above all other materials for garments as long ago as iwu years before the discovery of America by Columbus, and mignty tycoons clothed themselves with its shimmering velvet. When the Ilusslani first opened up the Aleutian Islands and the Hudson Bayj traders secured the roasts of Puget Sound and Oregon, they found the natives commonly wearing sea otter cloaks, with which they parted for a trifle, not valuing them equally with the hair seal or the sea lion, the flesh and skins of the latter being more palatable and acrviceable. ! The offers of tha traders made hunting for sea otter brisk, and more thaa 10, 000 persons were annually engaged la pursuit of the animal from 1741 until 1845, when their numbers were so far .reduced as to render the industry on iuch a scale no longer remunerative. Soma totion may be got of their original plcn tifulneM from the fact that in the jear IftOJ a single Teasel carried to Russia '15,000 skins, worth then, as now at least f 1, 500,000. Tha work of extermination was carried on at -a frightful rate. Da ting the first year 1 after the discovery of the Pribylov Islands, which are the 1reeding ground) of the fur smU, t wo sailors killei there 5000 sea otters. The next year they secured 1000. Six years latter not a single sea otter reappeared, and nooe has been, there since. With similar rapidity they were wiped out all along the Aleutian chain and down ths northwest coast -as far south as the southern bound ry of Oregon. Sea otters spend most of theicjives at sea. The mother brings forth a single young one, for tho safety of which she exercises the utmost solicitude. During infancy it is carried most of the time 011 the body of its mamma, who floats 00 her back while her offspring uses her as a sort of raft to play about on. When frightened she takos the pup ia ' her mouth and dive. ; If surprised by the ininter on land sh;, never thinks of el. serting the pup, but cJitpi it tightly ia her arms and turns her back to receive the scar orbulleti In feeding the aa- jmal usually fetches a number of shell bsh to surface and eats them while Iviog on its back in the water, laying them 00 its breast and breaking and devouring them one by one. 1 Crar, fishes and the tender fronds of sea wee-Is form a c lion of its diet while of sea urchins it is particularly fond, and it is said to break the open by takiqjt one in ech is sn I mltiog tbea together. The Aleuts declare thst the sa otter is the mot intelligent and cUver of all marine animals, j'ist aa the bear is the wicst of all beasti em liod. Certainly no living creature surpasses it hi keen. ties. of sight and bearing. The hunters know better than to light a fire within five miles to t'te windward of its haunts. and many an sbbiog and tloiaj tide is required ; to so wash away the scent of human footprints 00 the beach as to sat isfy the animal of -the safety of landing there. The native, who seek the Isl and of Susnachfsnd Chernolours ia purauit of it during the winter, cften ead rosay weeks '.tbeie without making a fire, lest the smell of it frighten the quarry. For the! sane reason they re frain from smoking or chewing tobacco, aod the refuse of their food, instead of lieing scattered on of near the beaches, must te carrie 1 intsod aid buried. It is asserted that when the sea otter is hooted down ia Its desperation it will sometime dive an 1 inn itself Into a crevice in the roeks beoatb the water, never rising again. The mother sea otter sleeps on the fir- face of the water 'with her pup clasp I in her fote paws, t Toe latter caa never I e reared by band. Attenpts to bring up join etnos are often rnvJe by tlie Alers, who vrry c ktiti xily capture them alive, b .t they invsrisbfy re'-ise to eat and die of ststvs'ion. T. new btn animal has a caat of cyre Ifi'C a i gnzz!eJ fur, wbie'i tern-ns grs li a'.ly darker, t'jkyr tn I fiu-r as it gro vt older, so .hat at tw ec ! ae it I in triu'e couJ'tionJ At 6 tt tie creature i full rosjo,aei 1 is then a lit tle bijer than ai al-il. braver, mea'ur la,' about f'jr feet frxn fit? to ixx'.e to the tip of the Is.!; It has a white nose aed white mtarje and whiskers. ft.v fur is glossy bke velvet, with white hair scttiered all over it. Ps U see vHort, with webhscJ feet aid ia U It'c- t doi. The hiad flippers srt pisrttfal isim i.iag oria by mns of whecis it can travel very rspilly la the water, aaJ K Is a fanu diver. Ihe creature is. ef treaiy pltfttl sad will 1 e on rs ttac la I J wier for s loajC Usm tsgtf , tswscag a oec of seaweed into the air alternately from paw to paw aad catching it at eath toes before it falls into the sea. The ancient method commonly prac ticed by the Aleuts la the chase of the sea otter was the "spearing surround. Ai described by Seal Coamissiooe. Henry W. Elliott, to whom the writer ia chic fly iodebted for his iaformatioa on the subject, this kind of hunt li eofaed ia by flfteea or twenty skin toeU with two men ia each, all being under control of a leader chosen by common consent. Wbea the wetber M moderately good the boats start out ia a long line, slowly oaddlios over the water where it is ex lrted to find the fame. Ai quickly as one of the saimsls is diacvivrrei, asleep most likely, the baste who has spied it lifts his pad lis for a signal. At the same moment he darts toward the prey, which nearly always tskea alarsa ttefore. it can be struck and iastaativ Jives. Itut the canoe keeps right oa an I stops di rectly over the spot where the bet dis. appeared, leaving circular rioc with floatiog nubbles frun its quick caught lreath. The other boats Immediately Irploy and scatter, forming a circle half s mile wide around the place where tha es otter wss Isst seen. Thus arranged, the hunters wait V tiently for tbereapperaneof the s'limsl, which must rwne to th surface f.r breath la from fifteen to thirty minutes. When this happens the boat nearest darts forward like it rwe-leceasor , while all hands shout and throw up their spears to make the sea otter dive agsin, thus giv Ini it acarcely aa instant in which to recover Itself and si pel the poisoned air from its lungs. A sentry Is placd over tha second diving wake as before, an I .1 1 the circle Is drawn anew, in mu rasa ner the surprise Is quickly and often re peated, sometimes for two or turee noors, until the victim, from oft-Interrupted respiration, beomee to exheastet and filled with cast as to be un this to sink, .and then It is esstly speared. Arrows five feet long, exqulaltely made an I pointed with barbed pieces ot tione, are hot at the prey whenever there Is an opportunity, the regulation hein that the garoa belonga to tha man whose shaft strike it first. Contact with civilisation has tau?ht tha nativea to use powder and ball Instead of their old -time weapons in tha rhtte of 1 otters, and, what with the incetstot popping of rifles wherever the anlmali L- - - It . I I . vucir apiK-arancv, i cannot itm 11 ug be rore ine last or tnem is ktlleJ on Ine northwest coast and among the islands of jthe Aleutian chain. Washlngtoo Star. riskerlea of the Ureal Lakes. Cenim IJulletbi Ni. 173 girei de- taile-1 and valuable information recant ing the fiihetits of the (Jtest l,ske. Tlicso are the mM estensive wler fish eries in the world. The numler of imni pie fel, the number who make a living by the industry, the capital lnvete I, the returns thereon, and the various enter prises closely eleiendent on the fltheries make up an important item in the grand aggregate of Ameriuan com nrrclsl pur suits. Stccisl mention is made in the bulletin of the wonderful prod active lies of the waters ol the I J rest Lakes In the yield of fish. Careful estimate, bie on the known productiorl In lH.)t I, an ! ahow that In the dec ale tcrmittsting with the census of IH'J'I, over IKW.OOOHrJ .un Is of lieli were tsken, which yielded to the fishermen evev 2S,Ol0.t0. Tsblea are given, showing that rta persons were ensir"l in 1H)9 In tha rspture of nh on the I J rest flakes. These employe! I "7 steam ers, vslued at t.lS7,5M; other vessels and Usts, worth fr.1!i,4 t. IV pa tstus uee I consistc I of 3.1l muo I nets and trap nets, the value of whieh was tHJ2,9l9; gill nets to the vslu of 4')H,. 797; seioei worth l,0,9, sn I ther sp- parstus anounting in value to f97,2e. The capital lovetel la sh're property lircctl? onnerteJ with the flshcnei was 04,h4. Tlie items give, aa the tUl investment in fibiog pr tty, f . . 95). The quantity of fish Ukm wsi 11 7,05, 5s wnnd, tb vsbit of which st first bands w f 1 5,7 f . All tle tslislica ihoa Isrc ntn ovrr The lakes rank iu the following rf Itr in respect to tlie magnitude of tlie fisting industry. Krie, Miehisa, Ilur.a and St. Clair, Hujrenor, Oatsrio. This is a change frn s.Hl, wbea Ontario rsnked aleove Superior. The tolustry lt grown on every Iske escept tnUri'i, where it has diminished. The decline in the fishersns of ,ake tlatsrio is attrile uted to the ririd enforeeioeat of legis lation dei;oed to prevent ocnuer tal flshin.'. Tle varieties rank as f ! in resrl to the quantity tsken from all the Uses. Herring M,5ittel Huo Is; whiteSsh. I5,32n,4, mal, tr.ut, ll.J'l.Oll jKruuds, sturgeon, ?,79,. 71 J fundi ; all other sjecies, 3l,ttV7, si.1 ,nods. lUs and tr'u take tl lead ia valise per i-tood. whitefis!i e-.txi next, with other varieties folio si 1, a liminlihing ratio. Itocbester f.N". I.) Oemocrst aod Chroolr le. The (Jreat lalt Desert of Aila. 8cne seventy odd miles south of Tehe ran, ia Prrsis, ts a large tract of land kaowa as the Great Salt Desert of A. i. and a wonderful cariosity It i. A trv eller, C. E. nl lu'pS. with a par , r:i- ited the aectov end t c. a very aer. estiag ace , . 1 1,1 what e s -. ni t tract u a great area, bano eovered it -a aa incrustation of solid salt of virions dej-ths, aad reaecabtes somewhat a vast froxen lake. Tftm the onter edf for. aboqt threw mi Us toward toe centre of the (Wi I the salt la found to U soft with aa admixture of earth. FWy 00 I thle dis tance the salt began to assume more the appearaaea of soll Ice, aal all! sudsin tbe weight of hones, mutes, ca'aeU, etc. At a distance of about eight miles towards the centre it was sceeery to nploy tbe service f a Lir ham ner and aa Iroa teat fz to break oil a pU- of this eooaesl ioerwetetioa to carry awsy as a sou v voir. Uostoa Cultivator. Wornen warn asarJoy4 V! eCoaa aa loaf said, ai liW, 1
The Comet (Red Springs, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 11, 1892, edition 1
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