F02 GOD. i'On COUNTRY AND FOR TRVTJ1"
VOL. VI.
PLYMOUTH, N. C FRIDAY, JULY (, 1891-
Yvr. Fletcher Auabon, Editor and Manager;
I
; Tho fin jar .beet industry is being
shed in Australia.
.There arc 03,000 pofitofiaccs in the
Unit- States, and of these 07,000 do
tot pny tho expenses of oxeraHn;j and
smut aining them, . .
'." Tho 'countries of tho world where
(fomen already have some suffrage
have an area of' over 18,000,000 square
miles, au their population is over
e;o,ooo,ooo. ' ' .
tix-Secretary of the Navy Tracy is
quoted as Baying to , a friend that iu
tdditiou to the work and worry his
cabinet life cost him $30,000 every
year above his salary of 3000..--
'' -. - ' . " ' " ::xA
. , ! . . '
, .Bays Texas Sittings: Seven out of
every ten railroad accidents are settled
, with an annual pass. Some men would
be run over by a whole freight train,
for the Base of a few free rides. '
As the result of statistics showing a
iarp'j increase .in the number of youth
ful criminals, tho German Ministry of
the Interior is, discussing a reorgani
zation of the system - of compulsory
education. ' i ' '
The New Zealand farmers are the
most prosperous in the world. Within
the past tea years the agricultural re
. sources havo been' developed until the
dairy and frozen-meat industries have
attained enormous proportions, ,
If the inheritance tax lawv just en
acted in England, had beeu in force ia
this country at Jay Gould's death, his
estate would have, paid to the Govern
ment $3, GOO, 000, ; Mr. Kockfeller's estate-
would have to pay $10,000,003;
William H. VanderbiltV estate would
have paid 816,000,000. - , ' !
An English passenger recently
bought a ticket -from London to
Vienua. After twentyfour hours'
traveling without having had a chance
to get any food, the . traveler stopped
off at Dresden rather than continue
hi
journey for the remaining twelve
jura in ii "state of starvation. The
erman railway company cancelled
ii ticket, which contained no atop
:ig "privilege, and hie was forced to
it another. '
I' ale students do not seem to cart
i nuch. for prizes, which take work to
get. The ' Yale News says that the
' v competition this year for the John A.
Porter prize, tho most valuable offered
v lthe . (fliiversity, is very poor, and
that the competition for the Tuacher
Yrize had to be ' postponed for lack of
jompetitors. ; The students, however,
show undiminished interest in prizf
' fights; boat races, football, cto.
. The New OrleausPicayune says : 'The
, cotton interests have had much to
complain of during the past few, years
j in the way of shrinkage in the price of
the fleecy staple ; but the decline in
jA-v-icefor the Southern product by no
- ..4'. -
;ans compares with the great shrink-
"""age which . has taken place in wheat.
I Wheat has declined fully fifty per
I cent, in value, ' while .cotton has not
I lost more than a third of its value in
f the same time, if that much. And
yet there is no discouragement in the
West, nor is there- any report (that
the wheat growers have been driven to
bankruptcy. ' Tho secret of the suc
cess with which the wheat growers of
the West are able; to resist the ill ef-.
fecta of such a heavy shrinkage in
VI
h:e as their cereal experienced is to
jo fwund iuthe system of diversified,
or
ather',' intensified, farming which
rre ails there. ' The Western farmer
does not depend entirely on a single
crop, but diversifies his products and
IB
es himself self-sustaining as much
as -
ssible. Wheat thus becomes
Jv his cash crop, and a shrinkage
iW value , only means the curtail
t, more or less, of his luxuries and
-torts, without threatening bank
-icy and ruin, as a drop in cotton
;s so often does for the Southern
ner. This system of crop diversi
ton and intensified far in in jis what
in the South, an I if more
Vn devoted to this, rather
uual extension of cotton
onth would b'j mora in
it .. ,4 : ,- - - -i f f -it
I,enr me, here, those looks of yours! ,
All those pretty airs ani lures ,
Flush of chook, and flash of eye t
. Yout Hps' sniila and thefrdeep dye
Oleatn ot the white teeth within
pimple ef the dovftii chin - '
All the sunshine that you wear .v,.
In the euaimar of your bairfv'
All the mornlm of your face . ' .
All your Azure's wilding grac:, .
The flower-posa of your head, the light
Flutter of your footsteps' flight i ' , '
I own all, and that glad heart
1 must claim ere you depart. ; ' .
Go; vet go'aot unoonsoled U'v , '
Sometime, alter you are old,:- ,
You shall ootne, and I will takfl .
From your brow the sullen aohe, V.
From your eyes the twilight gaza .
Darkenimr upon winter days,
From your feet their palsy pace,
And the wrinkles from your face,
From your lorlis the snow ; the droop
Of your heti, yvjr worn frame's stoop,
And that with- n? l:mile within
Thekissinjj of the nose nnd ohln; '.
1 own all, and that sad heart
I will claim' ere you depart. '
i am ltace, and both are mine, , '
Mortal Age and Youth divine,
Minu to grant, hut not in fee; ;
Uoth again revert to me ..'
From each that lives, that, I may give
j .Unto each that yet shall live. t- . ' ,
W. D. IIowells: iu Harper's Magazine.
' Miss Belinda's Beehives.
HEN the city visi-
toii: who swarmed
around Maple Cen
ter and registered
their names by the
score in the books
of the village hotel
strolled out on the
Maple road, they al
ways stopped at the
. EubbleyiarmhouRe
and cried : "IIcw . cntquisit'e How
picturesque t" And for the life of her,
Miss Belinda Bubble did not know ivhy.
'It ain't as if I could afford , a coct
of paint to the old house,", said , fche.
'It's just a slate brown - with . winter
ttorms and summer-suns ; and the
grape-arbor's all a-tumblin' , down for
lack of a brace or two of solid timber ;
and the well-f weep ain't: half as con
venient as Mrs. Olaghorn's new chain
pump, no way you can fix it ; and the
stun wall's- all overgrowed with them
pesky runnin' vines and briers t To be
inre, the four-o'clocks and ;moruin'
glories are sort o' pretty by the fence,
and there ain't no prettier hollyhocks
in the country than them dark-red and
cherry-colored ones jest thia. side of
the pear-tree. As for the - beehives, I
always did like beehives.. even if it
wasn't for tho honey.. , My mother set
a heap o' store by them beehives, and
there they've stood, nine of. em, in a
row, evtr since I can remember. And
there ain't no honey in all the county
as has got the flavor of ourn. I don t
know whether it's Squire Carbuncle's
buckwheat-field or that there clover
medder of Mr. Darnell's as does it.
But you can fairly taste the sunshine
and the flowers in it 1" - ' , - '
And it was genuine ' sight, at
swarming-time, when Miss Belinda is
sued forth into the black and bcoming
clouds, all gloved and vailed and tied
up in mosquito netting, with a tin pan
and a skimmer in her hand.
T ginerallv have first-rate good
luck with the swarms," said Belinda.
'I don't know when I've lost one, if
only folks would let me alone. But
it's the meddlin' people that -come to
offer their help, that upsets me and
the bees. Squire Carbunole,1 now, he s
real sensible. He don't never come
roiind interferin'. If he sees the bees
makin' up their minds to swarm, he
iesfc cets Up oft his garden-chair and
goes into the house. For bees, they're
dreadful sensible. They have their
likes and their disliks, jest as human
stnra linx-n and thev never could
iret along with Squire Carbunole I"
Squire Carbuncle was a quiet, griz
zle-headed man of fifty, who farmed a
model farm, with all the new machin
ery patents liberally oiled 'with gold,
read the agricultural papers, and was
alwavs "just going to" write an article
frtr the Gentleman Farmer. -Miss Bub
ble herself was not much younger
She supported herself in a genteel
mav Vi-r vws t -in skin c" for a f actory i i
" "V Id '
the neighborhood.
"I a'posn," Miss
.bubcjC,
Suture Carbuncle 11 sret marne.i
some diy, nd I hope ho'll clioi:.-,! r
sociable, tLat I can take M-" :t
with, f--' ' ,' r'Utern'i t. ;
1 tTA A
mm
tine of an evening over tho garden
fence."
'Belinda Bubble is a sensible
woman," said Squire Carbuncle, in his
deep, sonorous voice. "To my certiin
knowledge, Bhe has refused one or two
shiftless fellows who wanted to marry
her merely to be supported. , She s a
good deal better off single than mar
ried." . .
Mis Belinda never said a word when
Squire Carbuncle's superb Jiver-col-
ored setter ; killed her favorite Mus
covy fiucK ana tte squire, on m
part, condoned the offense, when Miss
Bubble's chickens scratched up all his
early lettuce and made' havoc with his
seeding pansies and pinks. . t ; '
"Neighbors orter be neighborly,"
said Miss Belinda.. "And dog's nature
is doc's natural " -.
MI must stop 'up the cracks under
the , fence." said the squire. "OJ
,
course, Belinda can't help her chick
ens getting through I No woman
could." - !
Thus- mattors were, when Miss
Belinda's cousin, Fannie . Halkett,
came to visit her a plump, peach
cheeked young woman who was cashier
at a glove store in the city. -
"Cousin 'Bubble," said Fannie,
"why don't you marry Squire Car
buncle?" r
"La, Fannie !" cried the elderly
damsel,- starting back-so suddenly
that she stepped on one of the velvet-
white paws of tho pet kitten. ' ,
"Yes, truly, why don't you?" said
Fannie." He needs a wife: And it
would be very nice for you to have a
husband. Now wouldn't it?
"Go 'long," said Misa Belinda.
"I never thought of such a thing !
Nor him neither. Go out, JJ annie,
and pick a mess o' white Antwerp
raspberries for tea and don't let, me
hear no imorci noh nonsense.
"Nonsense 1" echoed Fannie, laugh-
ing, as sue went on wuu n uiutj-cugwu
1xwl , in her hand. 'But 1
isn't nonsense at all V
thiak it
And among the Antwerp raspberry
vines she talked the matter over with
Julian Hall, Squire Carbuncle's
nephew, who had come to the farm for
a week's trout fishing, and who had
developed a very strong propensity
for reading novels under the old pear
tree that overshadowed Miss Bubble's
garden fence.- . . ! v 1
"Wouldn't it be nice?" said Fannie.
'Splendid I" Julian answered, lean
ing over to put a handful of raspber
ries into the blue-edged bowel.
Whether he leaned too far and lost
his footing or how it happened he did
not know ; but certain it is that, just
at that moment, one of the beehives
fell crash I over among the rasp
berry' "bushes. Fannie fled in wild
fright, and Julian himself, recovering
his balance as best he might, was
driven to ignominous flight.
"Who did that?" said Squire Car
buncle, issuing out of the door.
Tm afraid I did, sir I" confessed
Julian. - . ' '
"And what am I to say to Miss Be
linda Bubble?" sternly demanded his
uncle. . . I
"I'm sure, sir, I don't know!" an
swered Julian.
"Such a thing never happened be
fore in all the years that we have live-
as neighbor to each other," said Mr.
Carbuncle. ' . "Of couise, the bees have
got away and the glass honey-boxea
are broken?" " . ' .
I am very sorry, sir," said Julian.
The squire, an eminently just man,
harnessed up his gray pony and drove
to town the : next day. That evening
he called at the Bubble Farmhouse
with a square package, neatly done up
in brown paper, in his arms. ' Fannie
Halkett came to the door.
"My dear," said Squire Carbuncle,
"is your' cousin at home?" . . :
"Yes, fix 1" said Fannie, fluttering
all over ehd showing the way into the
best pafW, where the blue-paper
tihades w'ere down and the stuffed owl
on the rlantel transfixed the chance
visitors wth its eyes of glittering,
"Tell her I've called on very particu
lar business," sali the squire, sonor
ously. 1
"Yes, 8i?"said Fannie, and away
fchtt ran. V,
"Cotiein fcelindn, tke your hair out
if ihoHft nriinTinsr-r '.:. ut once," said
fI.o; "dnd Ijt f.' ' n t.ji
I... -t lu-w at (vour 1 1. r ... -' . .lies ;a t.'
r Ilk' c-
'Nonsense, Fannie I"
"Buthe has! He as good as told
roe so !" cried Fannie, standing on tip
tde to kiss Miss BfJinda's withered
apple of a 'cheek. ; . "Do made haste !
Don't keep him waiting. Men don't
like to be kept waiting.'- And she
fairly pushed Belinda Bubble into the
best room. . .: -" - :,
. "Miss Bubble," .said J the squire,
solemnly, rising to his feet, "J have
called to ask if you will accept-" ' .
-."Yes,. Seth." cried .Miss' Belinda,
flinging herself .' into his arms.
Luckily he had bethought himself to
lay the square package down , on the
table. "Yes, dear Setb, I will. , Fan
nie told me you was going to propose
to me, but I didn't . believe it. And
I'll be as good a wife to you as I know
how. And oh, Seth, I've always loved
you ever since we were young people
and went to singing school together."
The squire opened and t shut his
mouth as if it were some curious piece
of machinery. ; . .
' "Eh 1" said he, staring mechanically
at the owl. , . r ;
"I hope," : faltered Miss Iubble,
;you don't think I've been too hasty
in accepting your offer?"
t V "No, Belinda, ' no," said Mr. Car
buncle, swallowing down a ltynp in his
throat. "I am much obliged to you
for saying 'yes,' and I am quite con
vinced, my dear, that you will bo a
good wife to me."
And so this autumnal couple became
engaged; and the ' squire never told
Belinda that ii was the colony of Ital
ian bees he had brought her, sat
himself, to lay as an offering at her
shrine. ... , --; . '
"But it's just ' as well," uaid the
squire to himself. "I ought really to
be settled ia life", and Belinda is a
most worthy woman. It is best at
times to abandon onesolf entirely to
circumstances." , .'
"Didn't I tell you so, Cousin Be
linda? id Fannie, exultantly.
On Xjing makes many,
and
Hieitb1
'ders was surprised
whejV .
mie became en-
"Tli a hnm'w bees will be tho
sweetest music inaift the world to my
ears after this." BaidVulian, fervently.
"I always was partial to bees," re-
forAtft,! TVUrr Rplinda.--'he Ledger.
Mysterious Cavern DiscovereT
Great excitement has been ck
W?ed
thV4
in the vicinity of Bristol, Ind., by
discovery of a cave. In digging a
well Henry Oswalt came upon a solid
bed of brick and mortar at a depth of
eighteen feet. The earth was cleared
away for a space of two feet square,
when the discovery was made that the
"brick formed a solid walL With pick
and ax Oswalt succeeded in removing
a number of the square blocks, and
was mystified to find a, large opening
below. A closer investigation dis
closed the presence of a large cave,
and the brick had been used in clos
ing up the mouth. The dirt thrown
upon it had completely hidden the
cavern from detection. The cave is
located in the rustic hills north of the
village, and may have been mrtde the
hiding place for valuables daring tho
war. The presenoe of brick in a good
state of preservation.; would indicate
that the opening . had been closed by
white men, but the older residents of
the neighborhood have no recollec
tion of its existence. A party has been
organized, and thq cavern will be in
vestigated. The belief is general that
the cave has been the headquarters of
the band of horsethieves whose opera
tions have established a veritable
reign of terror. St. Louis Republic.
A New Mississippi Bridge. ,
The Southern Pacific Kailroal Com
pany's bridge to be' built across the
Mississippi River at New Orleans, L.,
will, it is . believed, be the largest
steel railroad bridge in the world,
considering the quantity of metal used
in its constr lotion and the length. I
will be about 12,503 feet long. The
approach spans wil vary from twenty
five to 150 feet in' lengthy according
to the height of the towers. Tho
main river bridge will be built on the
canrilrer principle and will be 1070
feet in length, with spans of f.C-S feet
on either side.' ' The larg-itt railroad
brid completed is over the YiiCx o
Forth in Scotland.", The tr..i:'. p!:Ci
i:r? U feet long, Ir.t 0. a;
1 ti .- ' fi.-o said to be bY". ir
V.. -. 7" - 'v Oceana bridge. " ' . " ":
Ur -TieoTdi'. v ' : : i , ;;fSM:l&
A. TINY rfEi
ABIEKICA'.S DiiADLS.
is tjii: vn:m:-
tt
1 Fonntl In t'.s
Kven iiullitn .r.ake .
Festrlt-'tU Tluy :
. Kills Vry f2uic
ENOMOUS things
plentiful iu th Lv CBt
than ia any 'other, areain the
Union. In the" burning
deserts,, in the inhabited but arid ex
pauses of New Mexico and Arizona,
the rattlesnake abounds, and in several
varieties, including, the strange and
deadly '.'sidewinder," crotolus cerastes.
Fhe so-called tarantula raally only a
gigantic mlx upider, but noneHhe
ess dangerous because of the mia
nomer is decidedly common. Scor
pions are none too rare in the south
jrn portions of the Territories, and in
all parts centipedes of seven , to eight
Inches long are frequent and neigh
borly. But the chief distinction of
he region in this respect ia the pres
ence of the piehu-cuate, the deadliest
make in North America. -
The pichu-cuate matches the worst
serpent of India. Not only the most
highly venomous, but the tiniest and
moBt treacherous, he would be also the
most dangerouBbut, luckily, he is
the rarest. He ia the only true asp
on this continent ; and, in the United
States is never found outside of New
Mexico and Arizona. That he was
ilso known to the ancient Mexicans is
spparent from his name pichu-coatl,
n Aztec word, which was brought up
to our territory by the Spanish con
querors." . "
My first meeting with one was in
Valencia County, New Mexico, in
Tune, 1890, on the sandy flanks of the
Cerro delAire. I was' out hunting
Sackrabbits, in company with some
ndian friends, and had dismounted
lo stalk, leading my pet horse by the
jridle. . My eyes were on a small
jhapparo bush ahead, when suddenly
Uazan snorted, and reared backward
to violently as almost to unhinge :ny
irra, I looked about in surprise, for
Vlazan was too good a horse .to min 1
trifles. As there was nothing to be
leen, I started to pull him forward,
lgain he protested and with evident
- -a -j .i
ierr
- ry
UirrnT. ftTirt: rhancmff tO lOOK at BT
r- v n
yf ee I ii nderstood his fear, and
lelt very grat
fceftil that bi
n senses were
"hr steo
etter than mint1
i should have w&'U
The only thing visible was'sT'tiny
bject, not nearly so large as a good
tag beetle merely a head, and'per-
laps an inch of neck. But it was the
nost frightful object in its kind that
I had ever seen. The head, certainly
leither so broad nor so long as my
thumbnail, had a shape, and an air of
)f condensed malignity impossible to
leescribe. It seemed the very essence
f wickedness and hate, fairly bulging
rith deadly 6pite, and growing upon
ne until it looked several times its
ictual size. The ugly triangle (which
s the distinguishing mark of all ve v
imous snakes, being tormea uy luo
joison gland back of each eye) tob'
ne at. once that Alazan was keepinr
ip his reputation never did hesh;
it a harmless snake and the tir
lorns, which added a peculiar $
jrotesque hideousness, left ho, do
that this was a pichu-cuate.' JT)
Juried himself almost to the' j hep
ihe crat sand, asrainst which t is
ikin was barely distinguish v ,ol8, !
iiria in ambush was waiting .for
ihing to turn up.. '
Turning Alazan loose, I l.'iel?
tafe distance of yard tcJ et '
ittle crealure, which' fairly;
with murderous rage. ' It r
ttruck madly at the chappar
ihrust out to it, but at last,
liscerning that th-5 blame 1.
switch, , actually - folic
ind" with such agility V
ximp up and back w
lime. The idea of re trc
;o enter that til t
ie would lie 1 p-.
jotent rage, thro-v 1l
tide open that n t
nust start, and
;oward rae,
;round, with " ;
o say : . -Me
who ;'. '
Atlavtl
fine i
spurted i:
of two .r !
visible ry.
a cobweb .'.Iran
swift death toth-.
animal that wall-
When the huut v
Indian chums of ilia
i.-1rrt:l flnm nanT i
.V v k. v. j J,
Knew 01 tue snahe, my;
never etn one. and all
aniijiisr wire x uww
.1 1 n -rm ait'u ri i ., ill, iiiiM-
B?it even (.mong theao
CUV.L1 .
a sacred rattlesnake in a
wiLh special priests to at
M II ..- t. - 1, .V ftl
corns tobe tamed eyen:
len oj ! conv
the tj.Wv
ea,nd tinit
No one cvt i
cuate bit hii-v
once, who kii
aif-J so - was
brought a pic
to the Taeblo t ,
ha lct'it out ur
to it and went t
him in the wrist
die! ia the time
All remembered,
Abeita, a young j .
to the llano to he
he had seen a rabl
row and had triea
a switch, for.whei
was lvinq; there, t
black, with his , aril
hole ; and in his ot
with the grip of
crushed pichu-cua
-eana, is xiau sirut.
J Wi:'1' s w'as re" '
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