North Carolina Newspapers

Published by Boanoke PublishingOo ; "for god, for country and for truth ' ..TVVPIetclicr Ausbon, Editor VOL, IV. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 2,1893. TT " NO. 51. fTHB UNDISCOVERED COUNTnYV . . Gerald we but knot - . 1 PlTli land that enda - our dark, uncertain travel, There lie those happier hills and mead 'OW8 lOW ' CA.h I if beyond ,the sptrita Inmost cartl . KAught of that country could . we surely ; , know, - . Who weuld not gof . , . ' 1 Might we but leaf. , The hovering Angela' high Imagined chorus, .Or catch, betimes, with wakeful eyes and clear, .;.,' radiant viata of the realm before ui With one rapt moment glren to aee and hear -, .': ',, . , . JLht who would fear? , .Were we quite sure ' . . . rfo find the peerless friend who left us lone- .17, ' t Or there,' By some celestial stream as pure, (To gaie In ayes that here were lovellt only This weary mortal coll,' were wt aulU . ure, ' , Who would enduref v Edmund Clarence Stedman. flER ONLY SON. BT SBLBK FOBRKST GRAVSISV HE'S the sweetest girl ia the world, mother," said Mar us Wilde. He sat : on the edge of the did claw-leggod table, his curly brown hair all irradiated ,.j i i i hi iii i - through - the foliage of the scarlet geraniums in the1 window. ,- Mrs. Wilde, in her slowly-moving Irocking-chalr, shook her plum-colored cap-strings. ' - ' "'. ' ' I "Preheard yodng men talk that way before," observed she. 6 "Sho will be all to you that a ijugh-. Iter could be," pleaded Marcus. "All that your little Kelly would have been,' toad she lived 1" J "Perhaps," said Mrs, Wilde, knitting energetically away, "perhaps not.: Makes her itfin' mending lace, don's ,shel . " , ' : :" t.: Why,jes.rt"., ,.;.". , "Ain't much of a preparation' for up- land-down New England housekeepin', iisitr - " ' ' "No; butlihe's'anxiWs fo learn. . - patapa she Is, perhaps not." ' "',' ' IfB beautiful work that she does, pmothee Mechlin lace, Point do Yenise. iThe materials look to me like fairy webs . in her basket. See, here's her photo (graph , that she sent you," passing his arm caressingly around her shoulder, and holding the picture so that it should gain the best light. But Mrs. Wildo turned "her"ob3uraTe iold face away. r .. 'I don't like photographs,' said shV." . 4,They stare you out of countenance, nd they don't never look, like people." "But this does look like Alice.'.. ; 'Perhaps it does, perhaps not.'? ' "She would so . like to know you, 'mother." ' j "Perhaps she would, perhaps not. .Girls '11 sap 'most anything to please their lovers." . . j, "Mother, she's an orphan, who has always been alone in. the world. She will be so glad to hare a mother." ; "Perhaps she will, perhaps not.w - . Marcus bit his lip. Doarly as he lored this unreasonable old lady, it was dial- cult to preserve his temper at times. "Mrs. Stayntfr can tell you all about her," said he, wisely changing his base. "That old Mrs. Stayuer, don't you re member, who u?ed to live at the parson age! :' She keeps house In the next suit tof rooms. Alice often runs in there. "Does she?" in the most uninterested pray.,' "Weil, I.gueBa when I want to find out about my own daughter-in-law, I shan't go pryin' and question In to 'Mari Stayner." , , 1 "May I bring her down to visit you, mother!" . , ? ' I "Ndt this week, Marcus,' drily re. ponded the(old lady.' Vl'm lookln for Dessle Ann Holley pretty soon," and. thero's . your Uacle and Aunt Jepson, from Maine, expected' every day." j Weft," swallowing bis disappoint ment as best he might, "there'll be a chance for Alice to cooi3 later?" 1 I "Perhaps "there will and , porhapi not"." i And Marcus-Wilde went back to the cityi foeli-ij balUed at every poiat. Alic3 Iloper listened with th:t svreet, sunshiiiy.siiiilo of hrs. N "Never mind, MircuJ," e 2d .eh?. '"It's t M.":o'Jly pb' ilI. Wiia. niot!. ?r ' 1 . Of '- '-' f: A x4s8t. Tooks tipon me as a perfect pirate,. tryrag to get away her only son. But I shall conquer her pra3lces only see if I don't r You're an angel, Alice!" . cried the lover. '. ' ' ' And Alice told him he was talking nonsense, which perhaps he was. Scarcely a week had elapsed, when an elderly lady, round and comfortable of visage and plump of figure, with a green veil pinned over her brown felt bonnet and a covered, basket on her arm, stoo' knocking at Mrs. Stayner's door, which, after the fashion of city flats, almost ad joined that of pretty Alice Hooper. It was Mrs. Wilde. ' ' VHush-sh-sh I" she whispered to old Mrs. Stayner, when that venerable fe male would have uttered a cry of hos pitable surprise. "I don't want nobody to know Pm here. I've just run up to do a little shopping, and I . knew you'd make me welcome. "But Miss Hooper yeu'lUlet me call her!" gasped the old lady. . . , ' "Not for the world I" ; cried Mrs. Wilde. "Do you suppose I want to be paraded - before strangers in this old traveling suit, aH powdered with du3t and cinders! . All I want is a chance to sot down and rest, and drink a cup o tea. Things has changed yea, they've changed. Hushl What'stthat?" "Don't be skeered, Mrs. Wilde," said Mrs. Stayner, inan encouraging: whispar. (W4&earll sorts o' noises in this flat. And, aore'ft Hive.it's your son Marcus, frnjn'optoindhe evening v with Alice Hooper I NowryouMgo in, sore, or let rn.enA, for thecal" 1 Mrs! 'Wilde gcaoght jat her f riend'i tiress. ' . . Nofrfor the,worldl"Bhe cried ajaln. "I I don't want them tjb know Pm herel" and she retreated back; into the tiny sit ting room of the flat. "Bless me, what corner cupboards of rooms these are I All I want is to ky dowaon the sofa And rest a little, andtrt you'll make mo a cup 0' good, strong green tea,.Mirla Stayner, I'll be greatly-Obliged!" Mrs. Stayner hurried into her kitchen. "Something must ha' happened," said she. "I never saw Mrs. Wilde look so flurried and upset afore. v I do .wonder what it is!" Mrs. Wilde herself stood closo to the pasteboard like partition that ' separated the two suits ot rooms, whitej.aud trem bling. --. - "Pm a Toglar conspirator I'muttered she to herself . .; 'V& ought to be hung t Butbut I must know if that girl's .worthy ' of my Marcus' love I Hushl That's a sweet voice, and how just like a woodtaruah's note I - He's a kissin' her! I do b'liaveisbo'sjglad to see him; but" She teld up her finger, all alone though she was, and took a step or two near 31 the thin partition. She trembled; the color&amo and went on her old cheek. "He's talkin now," i she muttered, every line and feature of lier f aoe on the alert. "He's tellin' her. Oh, I 'most wish now that I hadn't! No, I don't, neither. I couldn't be kept in the dark. I must know I must hear with my own ears before I can be satisfied! He's my boy he's .4 my only son and me a widow.". She leanecKforward'and trembled more than ever as Marcus's .voice sounded, in perturbed accents. . - . ' a ' . . "Darling," he said, "I don't know how I'm going to tell you, but but I'm afraid ouronarrlage will have - to be put, o2.; Pve (just had a letter from my mother. Itseems she has closed the house and ls coming : to New York probably to me. It must be that those Tallahassee bonds-have proved a failure. 1 never quite ltked thorn. She told me. she was going to sell: them,, but she cant have done so, or" , His husky voice failed him. A mo ment's silence ensued, during which Mrs. Wilde stood more immovable than ever, her ears strained to. their utmost listen- 'ing capacity. . ... . 'Now I shall K know," she murmured to herself. -''1- -..;'. "Then of course, " Mark,' you and 't most wait," said tho sweet, thrush-like voice. I know you love me, but your first duty is to your mother. Don't "you 'remember the eld Scotch ballad, dear! ' ! Tni loves ye may has mony an one, i Hut mlthera, ne'er aaitherf" I "Bu4, Alice," protested tha lover, ,"we wtro ' laanlr to be raanie I in tl-3 raving," . . . ; "7e rr -X wa'S, ! riik. 7c ar? you?.", , 1 ,s 1.. x v.- ,1 t : -t f I that she your mnUier has tha first claim. Oh, Mark,.dontyou understand that I can comprehend how a mother feels when somo outsider steals away a portion of her son's heart! There's no sacrifice that I can make great enough to atone for the mischief I have invol . untarily wrought horl" "But," urged vMarcus, "we might be married, and she could come to live with us.' Couldn't it be arranged so!" , . "Oh, if it only might, how glad and willing I should, be!" breathed the soft voice. "But she would not consent to thaty and she has the first Tight to her son's home. And perhaps in time I can manage to make her love me a little, so that we can all be happy together." "Alice," exclaimed the young man, "if you could only go to her and tell her this with your own lips I But sho won't see you." . "Wait, dearest wait I" sobbed the girl. "All will come right in good time. Remember she ia your mother." - ' Mrs. Wilde's hands were tightlj clasped ; tears were tanning dawn n6 cheeks.- - , She opened the door and passed out into the hall, knocking urgently at, the adjoining portal. ,v . Ohildren," she said, her volo choked with emotion, "you needn't wait; I've heard it all. I I won't stand in the way of your happiness. I'm a base conspirator. I only wrote that let ter to try Marcus's love and Alice's loy alty. I did shut up the house, but only for a , little while. The Tallahassee bond3 have sold at a premium, and I'm going home to make the old house pretty for your bridal trip. Kiss me, Alice! I know I'm a wretched eavesdropper, trot my heart did ache so to to be sure that Marcus's sweetheart was worthy of his love.". "And you're satisfied now, motherl" Marcus's eyes were all alight with pride and joy. Mrs. Wilde was holding the fair haired spwxz girl close to her breast, lookiag lovingly into the blueness of her soft eyes like one who drinks from s deep, deep spring. "Yes, I'm satisfied, -Marcus," said She. "The girl who was willing to postpone her own young happiness, so that the old mother -might have a chance there can't bo' much wrong with her head. Kiss me again, daughter Alice." "Oh, mother inay I call you by that name!" faltered Alice Hooper, tears brimming into her eyes. . - "I'll; ne war let you call me by .any other," said Mrs. Wilde. "Oh, here's Maria-Stayner with a cup of tea! You see, I've introduced myself to thU young woman, Mrs. Stayner." ". : "Well, I couldn't think where you'd gone to," said Mrs. Stayner, with a deep sigh of relief. ; "'.'-"v Mr3. Wilde stayed a week with . Misi Hooper, and helped select, the wedding dress before she went home. "I'm sure I shali like my new daugh ter," said she, in her positive way. "And I'm sure," warmly added Mrs: Stayner, "she'll like you." ., . Mrs. Wilde shrugged her shoulders. "Perhaps she will," said she "per. haps not." ' 1 - f 1 - . ... - , rAi Vitality if Seeds. Professor Crozier, in that valuable lit tle work, "Errors About Plants," closes the chapter on "Vitality of Seeds" with these words 4I will simply say in con clusion that few, if any, ' cases exist in which seeds are known to have retained their vitality over fifty years." The Pro fessor, no doubt, knows exactly what he is talking about, but right here, says the editor qf "Notes for the Curious" ia the St. Louis Republic, I want to make a few remarks on a wonderful fact, which, had it been, known at the time 'Error About Plants" was written, would prob ably have changed the professor's opin ion. In the early spring of 1891 Rev. E. S. Curry of Thayer, Mo., an- enthu siast on the mound builder question, found a vessel of ancient pottery in 1 large mound.. The vessel,' which wai sealed, was full of what was thought to be parched corn. This Mr. Curry poured out in the soft earth that had been thrown from the excavation. That corn germ inated, grew and matured. Ten grain of this corn were sent to the editor erf "Notes for the Curious," by I. N, Shelby of Searcy, Ark., who obtained them ol A. W.. Crawford of Godfrev. III. Thei are wholly unlike any species of coy with wliich the wiiter is aeiur.intd, Living i!,e sppe&ranc3 cf beicj roa 'tea to a Jar'; t rown color, tind arc v .lOns f ;r tin i:zn of tho i .la. jy - In Rimtan -Barracks,? Shall we take a look at the barracks!" suggested the colonel. "Nothing would (uit me better," I answered ; so leaving ur horses in charge of the Cossack, Chumskiled tho way through a series of rast spaces occupied mainly by little irooden beds.J Each little bed had on it 1 hard mattress, a pillow and a coarse woolen blanket. Beneath each bed was 4 box, in which the soldier's - kit was kept, and at short intervals throughout ' the buildings were chromo portraits of the Czar, and very. gaudy pictures of Russian saints. The barracks were en tirely of wood, the ceilings low and the windows infrequent, yet so clean was everything kept that . I detected no dis agreeable odor. In the kitchen I helped myself to' a taste of the soup that was limmenng in vast cauldrons over the brick oven, anU made up my mind that I could stand a pretty long canoe cruise if my food were no worse than this. There ire two fast-days in the week Wednes day and Friday aod 1 this -wa3 one of them, sp thijt all they had was lentil loup. . Black bread went with the soup not such very bad bread either. They bad a drink that suggested the' mead we use at harvest-time,, consisting of water (n. which rye bread had been absorbed. Of this I drank a whole glass with relish. So far, then, I had stumbled on nothing about the Rnssian soldier's life that would have discouraged me from en listing, had I been brought ujj to accept the Czar's word as, law. )..: . "Do you have much r desertion!" X asked. I " ' ."Not many in my regiment," answered the colonel, complacently; "my men are . pretty well cared for." .' " ' As we galloped home to the noon-day dinner, I noticed that' my colonel greeted the men of other regiments than his own by merely conforming to the usual mili tary requirements; but when he met any of his 170th, he shouted out a hearty good-day to them, which they answered with a burst of strange sound intended to convey the notion,' "we are glad to have our colonel's greeting." This struck me us a very pleasant interchange of civility much better than the silent and per functory ordeal in vogue among western armies. In the German army, the Em peror still greets his Grenadier Guards by a hearty "Good-morning;" and is, answered as heartily, as in Russia. But this is, in Germany, as historically unique as the "beet-eaters" at the Tower of Londo. 'In Russia, tho life of the people is what it was in England when Queen Bess boxed the ears i of her favorites an odd medley of barbarism and . -- parental gentleness. Harper's Magazine. ' .... ; . '' The Cowboy's Marveleus Memory. "Of all men in the world not account-, ed prodigies I think the cowboy's mem ory and intuition are the most marvel ous," said E. H. . Cunningham, of In dian Territory, at the Laclede. "I have witnessed feats of memory per formed .. by cowboys ! that appear preposterous when related. For instance, I was on a drive from the Texas Pan handle to the Territory a few weeks ago with 7000 - cattle Twelve men com prised my outfit. We had a couple of big stampedes, and after we got the frightened cattle rounded up, how do you suppose we were able to tell how many were missing! You naturally think we went through tho laborious task of cutting out and counting t Loot, -and that's where you are mistaken. Every one of my twelve men was . so thoroughly , acquainted with the herd that eit ler of them could by getting on an elevi .tionso as to get a clear sweep of the enti ehnrd.tell exactly how many and the kins of stock we had missed in the round up. Not only that,: but he could pick out aVthe stray cattle that had got mixed in o&r bunch without seeing the brand. It s a marvelous accomplish ment, aud onU that is attained only af tex long service inthe 'bull punching' bust ness." St. Lou's Globe-Democrat " ' ' - . . Howjtf Ayald fhe Drafl. borne' of the nehemes to make, money by offering something for nothing suc- cecd upiil Uncle Sam's postal authorities take -fie matter in hand.' Then the face of Affairs, change. A correspondent re calls a wrir time scene, andsays: ; "During tho war a firm mada a great deal of mOuty by this taking little au nouuecmonti Send $1 to , New York City, and you will iccche a liula ".lr.-DiU'T iiox' to cvr:. so lifi crao, The pact . t eir.-'C lv teedtx' 1, . TULIP0MAN1A.- t . 'v " 1 '.; ' ' ' 1 '. .w THE GREAT FLOWEP. PAD OP Til 13 UOLLANDUltS. : A Stock-Jobbing Operation In Roots How the Craze Began, and the Financial Disastei ; ' It Caused. J, ' 'i""y'(fa years before the Holland ex- F citement broke out that conntry JL had brought the tulip to perfec ; tion and used it as an article of commerce. Owing to the alluvial soil and moist climate of the Netherlands the tulip of the Dutch became a marvel in size and beauty and . did for the. house gardens of the time what the La France and. Jacqueminot rose does for the flower beds of the prusent day. In 1634 a factitious demand for the tulip atoso, people having found that, the quest for rare varieties enabled high prices to be had. In hope that the market would ad vance people bought freely and' wero soon able to sell at a profit. . Thus the trade of buying and selling over again bepamo universal and without visible limit. The prices paid for roots were generally regulated by weight. A small weight called a perit, less than a -grain, . was used for this purpose. i ; The mania, therefore, took the direc tion of perits instead of shares, and that was all the difference between the traffic in tulips and a speculation in stock. On change it was common to hear a seller saying that he held 400 perits and a buyer asking for 500 , perits of . some special variety,. ' Prices rose enormously. Sold by po rits the tulip brought prices which varied with its rarity. Four hundred perits of Admiral Loifken cost 4100 florins; 416 perits of Admiral von der Eyk, 1620 florins; 106 perit3 Schilder, 1615 Aortas; 200 of Semper Augustus, 6500 florins; 310 Viceroy, 3000 florins. . The Semper Augustus was often sold at 2000 florins, tnd at one time, when only two roots could bo bad, one was disposed of for 6000 florins, together with a new car riage, two ' gray horses and a compl. harness. , " " Among the common tulip transactions was the exchange of twel?e acres of land for a single plant. Others traded houses, land, cattle and clothes. In this way a man whom Munting mentions made 60, K0 florins in fovr months. Not only the Mercantile classes, but noblemen, farm crs, sailors, mechanics, chimney-sweeps and turf -diggers engaged in the ventures. For several months everybody won and even old-clothes women were able to ride in their own carriages. A tavern in every town was turned into an exchange and there costly entertainments alternated -with profitable bargains. . While the craze was on ' speculators paid large sums for roots, which they did not receive and never wished or expected to obtain. Others sold roots that they did not own and could not deliver. A nobleman would buy 2000 florins' worth of roots of a servant and sell them to a costermonger, but neither the nobleman,' the servant or the costermonger had roots in his possession nor desired to have', them there.V Before the season was over more tulips were bought, sold or con tracted for than were to ; bo found in all Europe, and species that could not be had at all were of tenest dealt in. In three years the aggregate sum used in the strange traffic was prodigious, one town alfr expending overlO.000,000 florins. . The methods of speculation are related by Beckman in his quaint "History of; Inventions as follows: . . "To understand this jrambHni' traffic it may be necessary to' make the follow ing supposition. A nobleman bespoke of a merchant a tulip . root, to be deliv ered in six months, at the price of 1000 florins. During that six months tho price of the tulip must have risen or fallen or remained as it was. We shall suppose that at the expiration of the time tho price was 1S00 florins. . In that case the nobleman did not wish to have the tulip, and the merchant paid him 500 florins, which the latter lost and the former won. If the price was fallen when the six months had expired so that a root could be purchased for 800 florins the nobleman then paid to the merchant 00 florins, which he received as so much gain ; but if the price continued the same, that is 1000 florins, neither party gained or lost. In all th:3e cir cumstances however, no one evei thought cf delivering the roots cr of rAos vi-1 Tho . raot:r, b.- tie t ia market so that men of. . all condition might deal in themr and lets were eo! 1 by the whole or by half and quarter weight. General business was neglect ed, trades were abandoned, the sinews of commerce were weakened, all for tha sake of the fortuno-making rcrat. ' (. . The craze reached its climax la three years.; By 1637 matters had got into a bad way." Contracts began to be broken" because so many people bad promised to pay more than they had or could find means tc obtain. . Extravagance In liv ing had exhausted resources. - Wary speculators were running to cover and tulips became a drug on ths market. Tho price of the roots began to fall and never rose. The sellers wanted to de liver the tulips at the prices agreed upon, but the purchasers would neither 'take them nor pay for them. To end the dispute the dealers of Alkmaar sent dep uties to Amsterdam in 1637 and secured the passage of a law making null and void such contracts as were signed prior to the last of November, ; 1635, and holding that, in contracts subsequently made, buyers should be released from their pledge upon paying ten per cent. of the sum involved. . Complaints LncreaeecT in the local courts of Holland, but the judges threw them out. Theu an appeal was taken to the Government of the States of Holland and West Friealand, and on April 27th, 1637, a decision was rendered postponing 'final judgment, but ordering that in the meantime every vender should offer his tulip to tba purchaser, and in esse Tm declined them the vender should ei)heri keep the roots or sell them to another, tnd have recourse on the original cus tomer for any loss he might sustain. It was ordered also that all contracts should remain in force till further in- . . J- T-1..1. .,..VT quiry was maue. ,jjui uv wuv .uuk forsee what judgment would be ps."ss-2 on the validity of the contracts, biij ora would pay nothing. It finally came about that the holders of contracts gave then up for a nominal sum, &nd' the tul'n mania came to an end. The trail of fUs -cial disaster that it left, however, , wh seen in the low countries for a ce ntury a f f ARMfaa1 43 am T7 an fllsn f ftiwvn IrtTrt -, Submarine Klnst. v- The engineer corps of the . United States army has been actively engaged ia experiments ' with submarine .. mines. These explosive traps, designed to. blow up hostile ships that enter harbors, are of two kinds sunken end floating. 1 They are steel cases holding dynamite,! that being the explosive regarded by this Government aa most suitable for f-io purpose. Dynamite consists ot seventy five per cent. of nitro-gljcerfne, which is too dangerous to boused by itself, ab sorbed by twenty-five per cent, of a highly porous infusorial earth called "rottenstone." Other substances besides i-nttenatone have been utilized as an ab sorbent, such as cornmeal and brown sugar. 2 The sunken mines .are lowered to the, bottom of the w&tor, where thny are held in position by their own we'.t. Each of them contains a Daucry s ar ranged that a shock communiclel 1 -y the hull of a vessel will set off t. charge, probably sinking the ship Ly blowing a hole beneath her water ).in ; Infernal machines : of this descriptr V have the disadvantage, that It is hardly :U1 .Uluuif m of i?an(Tr frtr tS : who put them down to take them up again. More serviceable in a general way are the floating mines, whic'i are anchored out vaad connected by t-ire with stations oa shore, So long as no danger is anticipated the electrva car rents are shut off and the steel cases rolt about on the waves as harmless as so many .barrels. ,'. ' -..: Proper Arrangement et Crt " The proper arrangement cf t . for the ventilation of sleeping r. js has perplexed all. One thing, hotwer, is certain. It has been proved ec.'- i? experiment that a layer of air 1- s f jslaat the walls which is subject to rj liltla movement, even when there a (strong circulation in the middle of tl'..3 It is, therefore, important ths. should not be placed close to 3 , If kept there during the daytime be moved at least several iccb-i the room at night. Alcc? a'-1 ( should be avoided. In r. Vrlosed on tl.rce sides a 1 which may be coraj-.r.- ' ' pcls ofteu ol '"rv '1 1. , r r: " l ,- Si iwcidpswls arf.i .New YorkT