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EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL.
VOL. I. NO. 39.
RED SPRINGS, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1892.
!
RED
SPRINGS
comet:
i
i
r ii-inx' i till a profiUblo bail.
B,. Tin v n at least $30 profit in a
i ii n,' and about $ 15 profit in a
.; . ?!, r c.-stral value ringing from
!'. A mule's father may be
. v Ltrc from $200 to $2000 or
K,, r iui'r thikt the Kmpress Fredcr
V' t 1 r H 'r, ',c (icfuan Kaiser, do
B,,e t"'- 'e'' '-clher re quite with
,u. ),, n li'ion. lo fact, iu Germany,
,dK v .r-l i'1'M U that the ouotry is
fl r jl: J t Ifei Msjeity, sad that
j,;, .... Ail!ilri take no step without
trV. ri iitirj his motive.'.
I jrprise many people, tho Bss
t-Q C tor ia convinced, to know that
on ft." v'.rie as many people freeze to
i-i'.'A ri Mmichusetta at are killed by
li-'iifii )-'- For the tea years to the end
f,f l""", number that peruhei from
li'L-r i . was ths same thirty-two
,r vi tv ri0'! of ooly a little more than
in"-' j' mi a year.
Xh'- vtrnhrr of scboolhouses in the
lV,vitnii 216,331. Toe eti-m,!-1
vil'j- of all public ach)ol prop
erty ? ' !,', '32. The total revo
uum -f th! p'ivjlic schools are: From
.rmi-fut endowments, $9,823, 127 ;
frwifivM, State, $25,177,057; loca
i.'sj-c $113,505,112; from other
our f, H7Jl,l3l. Total rereaue,
fn.V-V'lo.
An ti 'ftnc railroad to run 101 railoi
an ho ir b-twsijn Chicago an J St. Louis,
i proj'f i- "This iojod big," com
ia! ot th Now York Tribaae, "but the
nw: f electrical poaaibilities has by no
main Ijumi reached. The successful
operation of auch a road would doubtlett
point to important change ia our
raetho lirf transportation. A spesl ot
1 )0 mile a hour, however, will require
an almoit perfectly straight traok, au 1
oa tli nrrat majority of the railroals of
th ll.i it would be entirely out of the
(jiitioti. Oiio most excelleat thiog
snout tlio propjjod new roil is that it
will hk'. no rra lo crowiars."
Oi ir I remit which the llluitrated
Au rii.kn think ia likely to follow Eaj
Uo 1j . n . f the Gilbert Islands is
llie )pi,'" of tho "contract labor"
bmin.-n. T.iu suppty of lijr for the
cK' pl.mUtious in Mcxio is s nail,
iur x iinreli ible. The pUuterJ, there
fore, t iriK-1 to tho attires of tho South
'i IA n U to obUta tin wjric niu uood
tl. I vit yoirj ao a ciro of 3) J Gil
Imti Mi i w:u Uti lei. Tho oitirei
wcru ii i lir coutract to work oa tho
c !! . utitioiH for threa jim atfrjji
.c7ti , in ,itli. At the expirAtioa
of tint .-n l they were to be returaei
t ti-ui lioim. NotwitlnUodln;; the
fjitrt 1 tin hbjrcu wore Tirtually
Uv II i v nnuy will erer reao i ho uo
j u r .vn no i to ba aesa.
. - J
! i ri iitic'o urio tho cvntracllo'i
fi'l' t'-- r t hin the United States the
N' V t Sun renjrk: Much of th?
tr Anit rifao ron U is ascribe 1
t ".i- 'is u. I mrrowness of the tire on
s.;-vi w'icvIs, a relic of the days of
t'u-' iron. Tiio nsrror rim is
rv lur I on tho aTerto rovl wheo
h"uy I m 'ire currie i. Hut acc;ptia
th" n'iinty of the tires, a (utidamni-
f.i'i' in ro.id c nstrurtion should be
U p tfw 4istinces which form the
M !ir nly in place. This need is shown
l'j t!i harin;4 strain a a ro.d floore I
w"li -.1 ivcl. In cities block of atone
pf vj htlt cm ba laid, but not in coun
t'J I -tricts, on account of the cost, and
th? h f ordinary aubstitute for the
f.ur. ij i angular bits of atone, so
If Tri t jethcr, on the raacalim prin-
t'-l'lr. t!nt they will not ba moved by
tti? i . ire of wheels.
IV:; hnt I). VT. Fisher, of Hinorer
' In I., tjires the Now Vork Ii le
rfT ! i' infonnstion wliich throw aoms
''"V M t'ip pitsible origin of A nerican
rv' ' 1 1 js: 0.ic of the rect?nt gra l
usv. .,f lUn er C0II04-, V. T. Lopp,
f.rt
" t to yesrs is bsea in ciar
Nl .i )n School for the Etkiro),
t'nrin',e. Alask. oa the Atier.
of
I
ir' v 1 of Bering Strit. A letter
alr ls of August 31st, l"i9i, to my
. of Mt winter: "Si thawa
ti'irn; the winter, and Ice blocke I la
t3' rut. This has always been doubt 1
k7 !'er. K.kim hare told them
' i-y o:netrues crosse 1 the atrait 01
irf. f,i' tliej have never believe 1 the.n.
L' itraary an I March our Ekimoi
'tat !scco famine. Two parties (five
wtll with dojf aleda to Eaat Cape,
00 'he Siberian coast, and traded torn
r, otter aad insrtea akins for Hus-
sa t..'i.icco, and returned safely. It
( luring an occasional winter that
an da this. But every summer
'S "like several trips in their big
wvr sic 1 ri boaU forty feet loog.
Thtw "Ss-r itiona may throw some lig'it
"P'n the origin of the Prehistoric Uac5s
of Am-rica." Mr. Lopp is ia every way
'e'iible man, and it would seem to tx
1 T 'y not to give to the public the Ira
foruat fact which he has narrate 1 above.
IF 1 WERE FAin.
'Thn h looke 1 into her mirr jt.
If I were f ar1
If I ha 1 littU hands an ! slen-l rt:
If to nay cbk th. rotor rich n1 iwt
Came at a word and faded at a frown;
If I ha cliogin; carts o 'i'i brown.
If I bad dreamy tjn a 1 anallw.
And fractfal limbs .. rtty girlish
wile.
If I were fair, Love wouli not tarn asld;
Life's paths, so narrow, would b broad and
SFide,
If I were fair!
If I were fair,
Perhaps like other malOens I ralr.bt hold
A true heart's stora of triad and testad (old.
Lot walta on Beauty, though awaai Love
alone.
It seems to m, for aoght might weQ atone.
Bat Baaaty's charm is strong, and Lovt
obeys
The mystic witchery of her shy ways.
If I were fair, my yeara woold ssm so fewf
Life would anfold tweet uictarw to my
u -view.
If I were fain
If I were fair, I
Perhaps the baby, with a scream of Joy,
, To clasp my neck would throw away its toy.
And hide its dimples in my shining hair.
Bewilder f by the maxe of glory there I
But now oh 1 shadow of a young girl's face;
Uncolor'd lips that Pain's cold flowers trace.
You will not blame the child whose wee
hands closa,'
Not oa the blighted bud, but on the roaa
Bo rich and fair.'
If I were fair.
Oh! just a little fair, with soma soft touch
About my face to glorify it much I
If no one shunn'd my presence, or my kis.
My heart would almost break beneath its
bliss.
TIs said each pilgrim shall attain bis goal.
And perfect light shall flood each blinded
soul.
When day's flash merges into sunset's bars,
And night is here. Anl thaa bijoaJ toe
stars
J shall be fair!
-Edith Hutt?r, in the Spectator.
IN THE HOP-FIELDS.
ST aJIT RANDOLm. .
or-pj ciuao
was always a
gala time at Pen
dexter Farm.
Far away, the
golden haze
hun over tht
bills, like a quiv
ering vail; the
bland air was
full of the soft.
subtle fragrance
of wild grape
rirxiiinc ia the
woods; and wherever dead tree or rude
stoae wall afforded it a vantage ground,
the silvery tangles of clematis wove a
lovely garland, and tall masses of golden
rod and purple fringed asters held up
their clusters of dazzling bloom. And
in the hop-flelds merry voices echoed
from morning until night.
Will Peodextcr, walking up and down
the aisles of silvcr-greea leafage, with
his hands behind his bick, might have
reminded one of Boaz in the ancient
Scripture story princely Boaz standing
in his harvest fields and giving a kind
glance and pleasant word to every one.
"Isn't he handsomer' said little Fanny
Dix to Miss'Morgao, the rector's daugh
ter. Fanny was a little pale dreis
maker, with an incipient couh, who
had been recommended by her doctor to
spend a fortnight iu the hop-fields; aal
Miss Morgan, whos mother had died) of
consumption, picked hops every year oa
principle, just as Judge Marley's daugh
ters visited Long Branch. "And atl
the handsomer since he turned gray I
I do wonder why he never married I"
'Don't you know!' said Miss Mor
gan, sagely.
"So."
"I can tell you, then said the rec
tor's daughter, who dearly loved a mor
sel of genuine roaa area. 'Because his
first love jilted bim."
"As il any one wouli jilt Will Pen-
dexter," said iacreiulous Fanny.
"Oil, but he wasn't S juire Pendexter
then all this happened twenty years
ago," averred Miss Morgan, her flying
fingers never leaving off amoog the
pale green hops. "That was before he
Inherited Pendexter Farm. He was only
a poor young farmer then, with his wa
living to make, and this was a beautiful
girl who was spending the summer here.
And they were engaged and all and
the very night before the wediiog she
ran away with an Italian, one Count
Caprivi, woo was eioginj on the New
York stage."
Fanny drew a longbrea.
"And what became of them! said
the.
"Ob, they went to Italy whet th
count expected to succeed to large es
tates, and 1 auppo they art) there
now."
Fanny looked with secret awe at the
ruddy far and magnificent height of
Will Pendexter, ai he sauntered down
tht green aialea of waving tendrils and
tremulous leaves, and almost wondered
to hear him ask Mahila Bentley about
her baby, in the off-hand, ordinary Ua
guage of verv-day life, aad girt lamt
Billy BarUett "good day," just as If
HI
there had beta do Coustes Capri vi la
the world.
But Fanny Dix was bat girl yet; she
did not know how twenty yean will
bridge over the darkest gulf tn a hamsa
life. There is no scar that will not heal
in twenty years -there is not a grave oa
which grass will not crow aye, and
daisies bloom, in twenty years.
' I don't know that we can take
another hand, Simpson, H said Squire
Pendexter, meditatively. "The field ia
crowded already."
"What I thought, exactly, air," said
the overseer, respectfully. 'Bat this
'ere is a pretty young slip of girl, with
a feeble mother dragging along on her
arm. And a man doesn't likt to say
ao to such! S I thought I'd just
speak, to yo u, before "
Where are theyr said the 'Squire,
rubbing the gold knob of his walking
cane against his nose, and Simpson knew
that the case of the forlorn strangers was
safe enough.
"Mother, don't fret; here comet tie
centlcmac now." said a clear, Mt-
toned voice, and 'Squire Pendexter
found himself looking into a pair at
wistful, deep blue orbs orbs that be
longed to a slight, beautiful girl dressed
in faded fabric and worn shoes, who
was leaning against the well-curb. For
while Simpson had been gone on his
errand of inquiry, she had drawn a
a bucket of clear, cold water out of the
iparkhng depth of the well and given
her mother a drink out of the silver
bound gourd which always hung there.
"Sir," without a moment's hesitation,
might I have a job of work in your hop
fields? We have come from the city
mother and I there's no living to be
picked up there, an J my mother La ail
ing, and we thought the smell of the
hops might do her good. Please, sir,
we'd work cheap, if only we might
sleep in the barn and have a bit of some
thing to eat between whiles."
"I don't want you to work cheap!"
said the squire, assuming an aspect of
unwonted grufloess to cover tho sym
pathetic thrill in his voice. "I never
grudged money's worth for good, honest
work. As for the barn, my housekeeper
can put you in one or the vacant oacc
chambers over the kitchen, and there's
alwavs enough to eat at Pendexter
Farm I"
"Pendexter Farm!"
The woman who had been tittmg on
the mossy cattle-trough slowly lifted her
head here and jiuahed back her worn
sun-bonnet.
"Where are we, Isora! Whither have
we comet I knew a man by the name
of Pendexter, once, who"
'Yes," said the squire, who had given
a little start at the first sound of that
low contralto voice. "It was I, Clara
CaDrivil Tj think that Fate should
a
have brought us together again after all
these years 1'
The pale woman struggled to her feet
and clutched at her daughter's slim,
srong arm.
"Let us eo. Isora." said she. "W-
v&o havt made a mistake. Give me my
shawl. Quick! Let us go!"
"But, mother, why?" soothed the
girl, who scarcely as yet comprehended
all this by-play. "Don't you hear what
the gentleman says? We can have work
here and food and shelter I Mother, sit
down atrainl You are trembling all
overl"
"I tell you, child, you don't know!'
jaid impatient Clara, possessed with a
sort of wild, unreasoning terror. "Wt
we must go!"
"Clars," said the squire, he himself
assuming the direction of affairs, "tht
child is right. Let by-goaes be by
gones. You don't suppose I wtuld turn
you from my door?"
Clara looked into his faoa.
"Have you forgiven me, then!" said
the.
"Forgiven yout Yes, years and years
go. Let us be friends again, Clara."
For his heart ached to see how pale
and wan she was how haggard were
her cheeks and how like smoldering Art
the light buraed ia her sunken eyes.
.She told hirx. all that afternoon while
pretty Isora was stripping tht cluster,
hops from the vines with a dosea girls
as pretty and as blooming as herself.
How hei life hai been an aimless wreck;
how Carlo Caprivi had beea no count
aHer all, but a ntmeles pretender, with
neither honesty nor honor; how ht had
left her, with tht baby Isora on her
hand, to shift as best she might for
herself, and was killed ia a gambling
brawl; how she had struggled 00 for
yeais, constantly feeling herself leas
able to wage unequal warfare with tht
world
Caa,, said tht aqaire, wher. ah
had finished, "why diial joa come to
met
"Because I had wronged you to deep
ly," she faltered.
Yoa might hart known I would hart
beau kind, tren to Capriri's child.
Well, It dctsn't matter now. Too art
here, and yoa must stay hart. Do yoa
bear me. Clara? Must I Blest my
heart I YoaTl grow stronger ia these)
country breeaes, aad that palt girl of
yours will get a color la her face. '.
80 they stayed at the Pendexter Fares.
and beautiful Isora Caprivi grew fairer
to look upon with every passing day.
"Clara," said tht blunt squirt' ont
day, "that girl of yours is prettier thaa
crer yoa were.'
"I know it," said Madam CaprirL -And
as she spokt the words, a pang
of jealousy struck sharply through her
heart. Yet, was it not natural enough
that Squirt Pendexter should take note
of Iscra's opening loveliness?
And in her room that night, Clara
wrested with her own heart anl con
quered, it.
"He will marry Isora, she told her
self. "Isora ia beautiful, and ht Is in
the prime of life. It is as It should be.
While I I am only a wreck, waiting on
the shores of time for the final billow to
come and sweep me away. God bleat
his noble heart! God bless my sweet
touled girl I And God grant that they
may bo happy together for many, many
long and happy years V
The squire came to Madam Caprivi the
next day, with rather an embarrassed
face.
"It is coming," thought Clara. "I
knew it would."
"Clara," said he, "I've a question to
ask you."
She held cut her hand with a smile.
"Ask it, then, freely," said she,
graciously.
'Should I be making a fool of myself
if, at my age, I were to marry?"
You would be doing the most
proper and natural thing in the world,
Clara answered', still smiling, although
her heart seemed to stand still within her.
"Then, by Jove, I'll risk it!" said tht
squire, jubilantly. "Clars, will yoa
have me? Shall we bezin our disjointed
- w
lives over agaio, my girl?"
Madam Caprivi grew pale, then red.
"Halloo 1" said Squirt Ptndexter.
Have I spoken too abruptly! Have
J ou
"No," said Clara, faintly. "But
but I thought it was Isora that you
loved."
"Then you thought wrong," said the
. . v a 1 Jl
iquire, briskly. "I nave aerer 1 tbi
any woman but you, Clara, and I never
shall."
So they were married quietly, and the
autumn of life shines softly over them,
as the veiled sunlight hangs its golden
baze over the picked hop-fields of Pen
dexter Farm.
And poor Clara is content at last.
The Ledger.
Veietiile Winder.
There are many vegetable wonders in
this world of ours.
Certain tropical trees furnish clothes,
as well as food, and tbe inner bark ot
others is smooth and flexible enough for
riting paper. The bread tree has a
olid fruit, a little larger than a cocoa-
nut, and when cut in slices a ud cooked
can scarcely be distinguished from ex
cellent bread. The weeping tree ot the
Canary Islands is wet, even in a drought,
constantly distilling water in its leaves,
and the wine tree of Mauritius Island
furnishes good wine, instead of water.
A kind of ash in Sicily has a sap which
hardens into sugar, and is used as ruch
by the natives without any refining. The
product of the wax tree in tht Andes
resembles beeswax very closely. Then
there is the butter tree of Africa, which
produces a much as a hundred pounis at
.a
once, only 10 re renewed in a lew
months. This secretion when hardened
and salted, is difficult to distinguish
from fresh, sweet butter. Closely rival
ing this is the milk tree of South
America, the sap of which resembles rich
cow's milk, and is used as such by tht
natives. China can boast of a soap tree,
the seeds of which, when used as soap,
produce strong suds and remove dirt and
grease readily.
In direct opposition to these useful
trees is tbe man-eating platt of the
tropics, which resembles Venus's fly
trap in iU nature, It has a short, thick
trunk armed with narrow, flexible
barbed spines. Goldthwaite'a Geo
graphical Magaxins.
A Bear's Na'eril Bathtil.
H. N. Price, a Washington State land
"cruiser, who has jjst returaei froji a
trip through the ua fettle 1 pirts of
Clarke and Cowiiti Cuaties, reports
bears quit plentiful in the wilds of
those counties. He aad his brother ran
into a regular bear's bathtub on the top
of a ridge sevetal miles bacc froji tht
Cowlitz River. A great fir tree fully
six feet across hti bjrael within two
feet of the groud.ao i the centre hai
also been burned to a depth of two or
three feet aad the raJas of winter hal
filled it with water. Leading up tithia
natural bathtub was a wetl-beateo bear
track and the animals m ist have made 1
frequent visits to the tub, for its bottow
rontaiaed the settlings r-f dirt weanl off
by Bruin doriag his maty baths. Whee
the Price brot sera sa v ta trail it was
rtill wet fro-n a recent riwt of old
Bruia, Ban Fraacc Zxamiasr.
TM HADJ."
niGBEflT KELIQIOUft DUTY
TUB MOIIAMMEIIAXS.
or
One la Their Lifetime T!er..tlust
GoUlhs II0I7 Placet ot Arabs
Caravaava oa Their Jowrney
--Ptlgriaiages to Mecca.
I
T Is tie highest religious duty and
it is tht intention of every Moslem
Indeed, it U enjoined ti necessary
to his salvation once in his life-
time to make the pUgrimage, either in
person or by proxy, to the haly places of
Arabia. It ia not to the purpose to
visit Mecca and Medina at any time of
the year. Only by making the pilgrim -
. a a .
age in me right month, and by taking
part in the ceremonies at each holy place
on tht days set apart for them, is tht
worshiper entitled to the same of
Hadj. Repeated pilgrimages are works
of supererogation, but add to the honor
and sanctity of the pilgrim. In the
cities of Damascus and Cairo tht trareler
sees many houses decorated on the ex.
terior with rnoV Uninti .nfi Kti-
colored pictures. These mural ador.
meots are the certain signal of distinction,
for they are permitted to no one who has
not made the Hadj. Tht pilgrimage usu
ally occupies about ninety or one hundred
days. These art the days following the
great fast of Ramadan. As tht Moslems
a a 1 . .
rccKon oy lunar moaias, tneir seasons
do not coincide with ours, and so the
pilgrimage makes gradually the circuit
of our year and tht high festival days
of Mecca may fall in the heat of summer
or in winter time. A great caravan sets
out yearly from Damascus and another
from Cairo. The straggling bands of
worshipers from the wide world either
fall in with these caravans en route, or
makt their way to Mecca as they can,
and await there the arrival of the mass
of pilgrims. That from Cairo sets out
on tbe 25th of the month Showel, fol
lowing the fast of Ramadan. The three
days of high ceremony in and about
Mecca art tht 10th, 11th and 12th of
Zul Hadj, and the caravai returns to
Cairo about tbe 25th of SaSer.
Formerly tht pilgrims assembled on
tht edge ot the desert outside of Cairo
where the caravan was formed. It took
up its line of march across the desert,
passing north of Suez, round the Gulf
of Akaba, and turning south to Yembo
el-Nakbel. Here it found itself near the
great Syrian caravan, which had come
from Damascus by way of Medina, and
marched on a parallel line with that to
Mecca. It traveled only by night, and
rested in the daytime. The journey
took thirty-one nights, and as there was
I 04,11 01 aeven entire days on tbe road,
I the distance from Cairo to Mecca was
I reckoned at thirty-seven days. These
I two caravans were the important and of
I fioial contributions to the Mecca festival,
I but there was a smaller Bagdai caravan,
I and great number?, singly and in groups, I
went by bots to Jedda (Djedds), tht
port on the Red Sea, distant about
forty-six miles from the holy city; aod
immense crowds flocked in from all parts
of Arabia, by which the conventional
number of TU.OOO was made up. It was I
said that if this number were not I
present for the dsy at Arafat, tht I
angels would miraculously increase it. I
There have been great exaggerations in I
the estimates of tbe annual concourse at
Mecca. Ludovico Bartima, of Rome,
estimated the Damascus caravan in 150 J
st 40,000 men and 35,000 cauels.
Giovanni Finanti, renegade Italian 'con
script, in 1811 put tht Syrian aod Afri
can caravans at 40,070. AH Bey (a
Spaniard;, whose real name was Domingo I
Badisry L-blicb, io 1307 computed 80,
D00 men, 2000 women and 1000 chil
Jreo, assembled on tht day of Arafat;
ind Burckbardt (1814) estimttei the
:rowd at Arafat at 70,000. Burtoo, in
1853, was sure there were not over 700
a the Damascus caravan, nor more than
10,000 on Mount Arafat. Both Buret
sardt and Burton thought the number of
annual pilgrims diminishing.
The official caravan from Damascus
arries tht covering for tht Prophet's
combat Meiina, which is annually rev
iewed. Cairo supplies annually, at the
ixpense of tht Government, tht mahrn!,
w canopy of dark cloth or velvet,
wrought with texts in dark tbreal,
which is the cover of the Kaaba, aal
the kiaweb, or lining for the iaterior of
the Kaaba, which is of rich silk, betvilr
smbrosdered with Arabic sentences ia
gold. Tht kisweh that was hung in the
temple a year ago Is brought bick to
2airo, aad divided iato bits aad sh re-is
smoeg the faithful. Formerly the mah
sael need to remain, aad the Kaaba was
brooded in layer abort layer, until tbe
doth decayed, but now the old canopy
s removed before the new one is put oa.
The conditions of pilgrimage have
17 changed in the Last few years.
rba Syriaa aad Africaa caravans coo-
d"". they seem to be less in sixa.
-"he GorernmetU still pay tribute to ths
lrt sheiks for passage throat; the r
mtories, bat the datgert waieh re-
quired so many to travel together aetnt
ii
to hare diminished. Pilgrims makt
their way from all parts ot the world by
rail and by steamboat. As hosts under
take the pilgrimage who ire exceedingly
poor, aad many postpone it Ull they are
lueased and old, the mortality must
till be great, and large numbers die oa
.he way, or have the felicity of
paaaing to paradise from the vicinity
f the Kaaba, their wasted, fanati.
al bodies bathed for tht last
imt in the sacred waters of tht welt
fcmxem. The inaual. pilgrimage from
I 2ro gos by rail to Sues, and there
steamboats to Jedda. In theses
I na tramp steamers voyage about tht
I Mediterranean, picking up pilgrims at
I TerJ Mohamoedsa port, and transport
. I Z them through tht canal aad the Ral
I 1. a. 9 3 3 asm
I90 M Jcuaa mese steamers are
I -" overcrowded, and tht passengers
I "jffer mor. though for a leas time, thaa
I e oId desert travelers, and front time
titEe 99 hear that one of these unset-
I rortbJ crafts Is consumed by fire, or has
fooe down with it load of devotees.
heTcn lt M Bear ht wt,er M b7 '"
,od tbe tntoa of devotion la alt ia
' the modern mode of travel satisfies
tbe wqieaU of the Hadj. The wotd
rhich we translate pilgramage mean
aspiration, is a symbol of our tiaa
sit through the wilderness of this world
to a better country, and the final reward
will be in proportion to tbe hardships of
tht journey. No doubt something of
business and trade tntert into the an
nual festival, and gives Mecca, whose
greedy population largely live by accom
modating-and fleecing the pilgrims, the
character of a "fair," but the main mo
tive that draws devotees from Africa,
from India, from Persia, and from the
whole of missionary and proselyting
Islam is a faith equal in sincerity to and
more fiery in intensity than the zeal that
directs the stent of Christians to Jeru
-aalem and to Rome. Harper's Mas
line.
The Tet-Estiej Caterpillar.
An unexpected enemy, a comnain
I hairy caterpillar, has turned its attention
I to the tea gardens. This caterpillar was
I previously known and disliked in other
I parts of India; for any person who im
I prudently Isid hands on it found tht long
I hairs sticking to his fingers and produc
in j most irritsting blisters. If a hair got
into a man's eye, it act up an iodtoi na
tion that sometimes ended in bliadaeu.
When a horde of these hairy caterpillars
unexpectedly invaded a tea garden in
Aatarn one morning, the effects were moat
disastrous to tht native laborers, or
coolies, whose tiaktd legs and feet came in
contact with them. The woocen and the
children who are employed in pluckiog
the shoots and leaves of the tea plaatt
I soon found their hands and arms sting
I ing with pain from the hairs of the
I caterpillars that they had fearlessly bjt
I imprudently handled. Before tbe nnrn
I ing s work could be Amabe l sixty ot tho
I raeu, women aod children were oblige 1
to go to the medical officer for relief,
with their hands or feet blistered an 1
suppurating.
There was no apparent cause to ex
plain why these caterpillara hal sud
denly come out of tbe neihtoriog
jungle to prey upon the tea pleats, but
it ia 1 fa.! that if thsV abm ae.
quire a taste aal preference for tea
leaves, tbe tea planter will have a ne
enemy to reckon with, au 1 the cost of
tea will eventually be eanaocel to tut
... . a.. a
human consumer. Il is said by sorus
authorities that the caterpillars have in
creased out of due proportioa because
the wild birda that used to feel oa them
have been reduced in number, as tht
native laborers lo tbe gardeos are given
to the pursuit of birds, aa l ruthlessly
destroy their g's and the youn lrdi
in their nests. Iljt this is harJIy a suf
ficient explanation. Chambers's Jour
nal. fsrtkfslsfss.
A rvor, halfwiUod creature was ob
liged to stsn 1 in a dote, hot roou,
twelve hours a da?, stitching harness.
He had beard from some preacher that
ever ? -day wora could be eaaobled, but
he had oaly a oim idea of the maa's
meaning. Oje day be looke 1 out aad
sae a horse dashraadlf by with a car
hags contaiaing a woman and child. A
man leapei from the earb, caijht the
borse brine bridle, aal was draggel
along by the infuriate! aoimal. But the
brilie beld, the horse was sUppei, tht
mother aad child were saved.
Tbe thought passed through tht
mind of the poor leather -stitcher; ".sup
pose tut tewiag oa that bridle hal beta
prly dooe, with bad tbreal. Tnea
the bridle mizbt havt .broket, aad the
maa, as well as those ia tht carriage,
would have been injured. II iw do I
kaow but that sewing was some of my
work.
Animated by that grand thought, ht
stitched away likt a hero, determined to
dc his buable work well for tbe take of
others. From that time be eaaobled
his calling, as everyoae may do who has
the spirit of the Matter, wavse lift has
made ours worth hviag. Ep eerta tier
lid. . ...
Strlsj a Call J Frsss Siirks.
The prettiest battle I ever witoeatej
was between a Cubaa and a couple of
sharks," sail Thoaat C. Hid g way to a
BuLooisQlobe Democrat reporter. "We
had reached Havana from Nf w Ycrk,
and ware lying perhaps half a milt frota
tht 'docks awaiting tht si goal to go it.
Several fruit peddlers had boardei a,
aod among them a swarthy youn j fell
who looked lite a pirate. Ths purser
was standing by tht rail, holding his
flvf-year-old son la his arm, wttrhio-
couple of monster sharks that were hang
lag about therswe', whra tht thill
slipped from his grasp aad fall lots tbe
water. The father plunge I ovarboarl
lad Mixed him, sa l the sharks at outi
made for tht pair. The youog b accaiftx
dropped tht frail basket aod wrot ovet
tht tall like a flash.
j'As tht first shark turae 1 oa his bacV,
the invariable prrtuie to bitiag. the Ca
ban rose, and with a loag keen knife
fairly disemboweled it. The other eat
not to be disposed of sh easily. He
seemed to realist that in the Cuban he
Lad a daogtrous foe, aoJ, la the language
of j tht ring, spar re 1 for at epeaiog.
Several of us began t b'ass aesy at him
with our revolvers, but the CuSaa sp
peered to fear our bal inirkttntashit-t .
more than tht shark, an 1 I zred ua t
desist. Tht purser aod hia call I he !
been pulled on deck, aa I the com t
ants had a fair field. Tue Cubaa dive 1,
but tht shark did not wait for him to
tome up and change 1 hia location.
"Fiually the latter alvsucel airtight
upon his antagonist, hia uily fin cutnaj
through tht water like a knife, turucl
quickly upon hia back, and the bu r 0 j w 1
carat together with a vicious snap, b it
the Cuban was not between them, lie
hid sunk just ia time to avoi 1 the shark,
and aa the latter patsel shot the ateel
Into it. Tht old sea wolf mala the
water boil, sad strove desperately to
strike his antagonist with bis tail, but
the Istter kept well aaii lihips a 1 1 liter
ally cut him to pieces. ' We ma l u a
jiuno for him, aod the nest y lie
brave ragamuffin could have given Solo,
mon pointers in the matter of gorgcuus
apparel."
Dtitrtftf Mmea lewis.
It Is queer traveling In' soma parts of -
Eastern Nevada, where ara1yais has -slruck
tbe mining camps and nearly ob
literated once flourishing towns. Not
' infrequently one finds but half a doreti
people in a town that once had thousand,
and very often, in a place that once had'
hundreds, ont finds but a singlt indi
vidual a lonely link between the preseot
and tbe pail, and generally 1 grsy old
hermit, who lingers like a belated ghost
whom sunshine should have sent back
ipto Umbo. Yet the plare is invariably
ms;ped aod charted as a town; has a
Government mail service and its daily
accredited postmaster, and, to the out(
side world, exists aa palpable as tvtr.
Of coure the hermit la the postmaster,
aud vrry frequontiy he Is s3ot sort of aa
electric officer besides. In the sensa
that he Is "monarch of all be surveys,"
and that his "right there Is none to dis
pute," ht is a sort of Alexsader Bctkiik
tht second; for his near est neighbors art
tbe scattered ranchman 'who live from
fifteen to forty miles tpart, and hit hi
mediate society is that ol the Indians
who dig in his garden, wbtn ht hsppene
to have wee. Yet ho invariably appears
to be more tbso satisfied with his lot,
aod, apparently, wool! cot eccaaage
toaiiioos with ths President. With him,
good health, good sppeUte, a full cub
board, aod a weather tight cabin discouat
be glorv of the world. Moreover, he
lerrr lira awake at night to think about
11a sins; fr tbe souo ! of the tburrb
fining bell is something that be heard
it few times in his life, aad so loo 3 sip
bat it ia quite like a dream. The here
j after has neither charms nor tenors for
j htm. 'ball Lake Tribune.
Alblss Brit.
4. Jeaoer VYer gives aa leterettiax
account io "Nature Notes" of tue ettrs
ordinary collection ot birds at the rsi
Jcaet of W. Ingram, atWt.tgate, liviog
Lappily ia every variety of oaditioa; ia
cvoloemeot in very large cagei, ia spa
icious votaries, ia the walled ia pteesseee,
end lastly, with perfect liberty ao 1 ua
clipped wious. There Is ooe clais of
birJs la w'Jcj Mr. Ingram is ps-tif i
Urly rich he has tea albinos, vix three
Vbiu jackdaws, three white blackblHa,
a white thrush, a while starliar. e waite -helge
sparrow aad a pure white var.e'.y
jof tae herrieg gull caught ia the neigh
borhood. Oat of tht white jaekdaea
iwill go with tht members of the son I;
'to the seashore aad follow then aboat.
j What is even more woaderfu?, this tf
freti 00 ate bird is takea by Mr. Iorrs a
'la tht a-atume to Orer Stilton, la York
jsSire, woe re she takes loot walka with a
'oea bee of tbe family, fiy.tg fr trea
to tree. Upon the whole," seys Mr.
Wjr. "1 deesn this white jaVtdaw to be
the ra t caarmleg Urd It wet trsr my
0d ioimnejo meet with."
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