FOH GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Jl.OO a yearin advance. VOL. VI. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1894. NO. 15. W. FletchcrAusbon,Editor and Manager. V P. One-third of the earth 13 controlled by the Anglo-Saxon race. It ia eetimatcd that the world's can aon hare cost over $40,000,000. ,. The New Zealand Maoris own about 10,000,000 acres of land. Tho spring and autumn maneuvers of European armies cost annually $10, 000,000. -..'' , The Egyptian Government , pays in terest on $80,000,003 Kile Canal debt and $30,000,000 Suez Canal bonds, squeezing the money out of the farm' ,ers. Tn the mountains of KentacTiv a ma jority of the log houses are built now just as they were in the days of Daniel "Boone. There are no windows, "no earpets, no whitewashing often but one room, and many of them not even .hewn. ' ?; The most unhealthy oity in Europe, according to statistics recently issued, is Barcelona, Spain, one of the love Host places in that part of the con tinent.' . .One who lives in Barcelona increases considerably his chances of death. . -With the growth of the new taste for cut flowers ..the cultivation of small flower gardens miy become a Bource of unexpected revenue to .' countless homes. . Many valuable plants can be made profitable with care, even in V small backyard or in a sunny room, and certainly no more agreeable homo , industry for women can be imagined. 3"he work .demands , fitness, patienoe and unremitting care, but it pays rioh dividends for the amounts invested. - A young man of Lewiston, Me., who prides himself on his attractiveness for the gentler sex, got on a train the o.th'eE..-jday and saw a good-looking young lady, who seemed to have no- body with her. He approached her, reriateteike New Orleans Picayune, and did ' the 'masher act. She was re sponsive, and he was having a very nice time when a man came in and thanked him for having made the task of faking a lunatic, to the asylum easior than he dared hope. ' , N, S. .Nesteroff, an attache of the Russian Department of Agricuttare, is in Michigan inspecting methods em ployed there iu cutting and market ing lumber. His object is principally to : get - imformation respecting im provements in' tawmill" machinery.' Mr.' Nesteroff pronounces the Saginaw Valley mills the finest he has ever seen. He was especially interested in the maple sugar industry in the spring, and spent a month in a New York State sugar camp. This busi ness was entirely new to him7and he will try to introduce it into his native country, which has, he" says, an abun dance of sugar maples." " The Chinese trade unions can trace their History baci for more than 4000 years. - The Chinaman does not din euss with - his employer -what he is to receive for the work he does; he sim ply takes what he .considers a fair and proper remuneration. . He levies toll on every transaction according to laws laid down - by his trade union, and without" for r.. a : moment taking into consideration what his employer may consider - proper. '"-' He is, therefore, says a correspondent Tof the Philadel ph ia Telegraph, generally called a thief; but heis acting 'under .due guarantees, in obedience to laws that are far better observed and more wiiot than any the polioe have been able to impose. " - ... An t estimate of the charitable' be quests in . England daring -1893 puts the total sum at about $7,000,000. This is held to be about one-tenth of the estates upon which probate duty has been levied.. Among , the larger amounts given are the following i ' Earl of Derby, $100,000 ; Richard Yaughan, , of Bath, a retired brewer, $225,000 ; thej Rev. James Spurrell, $1,300,000 ; TohnHorniman, a tea merchant, $130, 000 ; Henry Spicer, the well-known paper dealer, $750,000; Sir ! William. Mackinnc, $330,000. The largest legacy of all is by Baroness Forrester, SiWooo. . ; TELLINO STORIES.. , I know of a boy that's sleepy, , - I cim tell by the nodding heal, And the eyes tbat cannot stay open - Wblle the jroo 1-nkht prayer Is sail. And the whispered "Toll a 'tory," J . Said in snch a drowiy way, Makes ma hour the bells of Dreamland, That ring at close of day. . V 80 you want a story, darling! , What shill the story be? Or Little Boy Blue In the haystack,' And the sheep he tails to see, A they nibble the meadow clovr While the cows are In the corn? 0 Little Boy Blue, wake up, wake up, . For the farmer blows his horn I Or shall it be the story Of Little Bo Peep I tell, 4 ' . And the sheep he lost and mourned fdr, As if awful fate befell? But there was no neel of sorrow For the pet that went astray, " Since, left home, he came back home In his own good time and way. .' ' Oh, the pls that went to market " That's the tale for me to tell ! The grent of? pig, and the little ptg And the wee, wee pi? as wolL " Here's the bis pig what a beauty I . But not half as cunning is he As this little tot of a baby pig . That oan only say We-wei" Just look at the baby, blesi hln ! The little rogue's fast asleep, 1 mlsfht have stopped telling stories When I got to Little Bo Peep. . Oh, little one. how I love you ! You are so deart so fair ! Here's a good-night kiss, my baby . God have you in His care ! . Eben E. Bexford. OCTAVJA'S CHOICE. BY HELEN WHITNEY CLASS. . . T ain't right," ae acordin' to mj idees of what'i right an what'i wrong, Octavy I " said .Grandma Mockbee, severe ly. 'An' I shan't give my con sent ''added the old lady, winding briskly away on a big ball of clouded red and white yarn. Miss Octavia " Mockbee, black-eyed and soarlet-lipped, : turned sharply around with an impatient ' frown '. on her shapely forehead. : V "I haven't, asked your consent yet 1" she retorted, imperiously. "When I do, it will be time'enough to refuse 1" Then you aint a-goin' to marry him after all, 4 Octavy ?" cheerfully commented Aunt Adaline, looking up from the sponge pudding she was mak ing for dinner. ' "I'm eo glad! Mr. Fothergill may be respectable, for all we know, an' then ag'in he mayn't. But we know ail about Jerome Mead owgay, an' his folks afore him. Not a shiftless cne among 'em." - - An like as not the t other one is a wolf in sheep's .clothin'," sagely com mented Miss Martha Phipps,vwho was spending the day. "It ain'tbest to take no resks, Octavy." r-v- 4 "JtJut you naan ougnt to'.encour- age Mr. Fothergill so much, . Ockie,'.' admonished Mrs. Mockbee, with" a mollified glance at her tall grand daughter,. "It ainH -right to accept the attentions of any man without you think"- " ' v "Now," look here, "grandma, and Aunt Adaline and you, too, Miss Phipps!'! . The black-eyed beauty wheeled around and leveled a' whole battery of angry glances at her startle! hearers. 'xou may all keep your good advice till it's called for ! I don't wAnt it I I'm going to marry - Ferdinand Foth ergill and live in tfte city. I shan't tie mynelf down to a common farmer like Jwrofce Meadowgay, and you needn't think it !" : . -.. - And the offended Xaotippe flounced out of the room, leaving her auditors breathless with astonishment.- ; . - One hour later, sixteen-year-old Margie, coming in from the barn-loft with a flat split-basket of iresn-laid es&p, met J erome? Meadovgay leaving the' huuse. - ' "Oh. Jerome, do stay to dinner J" greeted , Margie, -coraially. . ' "We're oing to have rice waffles and sponge pudding." ' " '" ' ' ' Uut Jerome gioomuy snoos; cis head; ' - ' ' ' "I'm going away, Margie," he said gently. . "This is the last time I shall ree yuu for a long while perhaps for ever.'; ' ' ' ' ' Margie's dimpled face clouded over liko an' April sky. . 4,Goin awav. Jerome! 1 'But but wher? ', she asked, blankly. "J-I don t know yet,' hesitated Jerome. t "Maybe to Greonland," he added, recklessly. "But good-by, lit tl argie. Don't forget- me, will you?.; There'll be nobody else to re member me." . : ' ' . But Margie clung to his hand. "Qh, Jerome, mamma and grandma will Remember you, and so will I !" she declared, impulsively. ; "And if Cousin Octavia prefers that little dude of a Ferdinand Fothergill to you, she'll rue it some day, see if she don't. T "But you'll write to . us, won't you, Jerome?" she pleaded, looking at hiui through a pair of forget-me-not blue eves fringed with thick, curling lashc?.. ill "That's is, if yon don't get froze up in Greenland, " she added, dubiously. Jerome laughed in spite of his gloomy prospects, and a ray oi warmth seemed to find its way to his chilled heart. "I don't think I'll freeze, Margie and I'll certainly write to you," he promised. And releasing the mi to of a hand, he fltrode away, while Margie hurried into the house.' - "I mustn't watch him 'out of "sight, because it Would bring bad luok, and maybe he would never come back," she commented,' gravely, to herself, as she stowed the eggs away in a stone jar on the pantry shelf. "Ugh! how I would hate to go to Greenland !" she redected,' with a shudder attthe, pict ,ure her .fancy conjured "up. - . " ; How Jerome Meadowgay had come to fall so desperately in love with Oc tavia Mockbee was a mystery, seeing there were plenty of other girls -quite as pretty, and with more amiable dis- portions around the village of Hills dale. , .. However, love is proverbially blind to all defects, and though Octavia w as heartless as one of the marble Bacchantes at Forest ITarlt, etie was really very attractive-looking, with her red lips and Spanish black eyes. And as Jerome Meadowgay was con sidered quite an eligible match among the beiles of Hillsdale, the course of his love seemed to drift placidly along, and bid fair to run in a smooth chan nel for a time until Ferdinand Foth ergill appeared upon the scene. Then, everything was changed.' Air. Fothergill was an insurance agent, and made plenty of money ; at least he spent it plentifully, which amounts to the same , thing as far 9 appearances are concerned - He was a dashing young man, with sharp gray eyes, and whiskera cut a la Vandyke. . - . ' He wore a seal-ring, a dangling gold watch chain and the finest of broad cloth attire. And as Octavia Mockbee was one. of those persona who are cansht by superficial attractions and outside glitter, she straightway gave Jerome Meadowgay the cold shoulder. The forty-acre farm, well stooked and timbered, with its . snug cottage. Gothic-roofed and covered in spring with clambering hop vines and Vir ginia creepers, . whereof Jerome had hoped to make her the mistress of compared to the prospects" offered by the dashing city dude, soon dwindled into insignificance. And in spite of all opposition, Oota via determinedly took her fate into her own hands and made no secret of the fact that she was "off with the old love, and on with the new."- ,'"k ? : Seeing that she was' determined to follow her own course, Grandma Mockbee and Aunt Adaline decided to give her ; a respectable wedding, at least. '. "It's the best we can do fur her," sighed the grandmother. "A willful girl must' have her own way ; but if she lives to repent, it won't be laid W on 1? charge." ' ,. . And so the wedding jdjrev near, and there was whisking of eggs itid baking of cakes,--to say, nothing- of i dress making and clear starching,' within the -old Mockbee homestead. , . ' ' The prospective ;; bridgroom had gone on a collecting tour which would detain him till the eve of the wedding day, and the morning before the aus picious event arrived. Octavia was tryinsr the 'effect , of- a pale pink necktie against her creamy complexion ; Annt Adaline was basting the box pleats in a silver gray, poplin that was to do duty as a "second-day" dress; Grandma Mockbee -was thread ing the laces in a French corset, over which the wedding gown--was to.- be tried on. . . . . -.. '. ' Margie alone 'was idle, " having re fused to lend any assistance whatever toward the coming festivities. ul shall i not help to injure poor Jerome!" eho declared, with? a curl ing lip. V . . "Poor Jerome, indeed !" mimicked Octavia, sneeringly. - She was about to add sme stinging remark, when a.soream from the dress aiaker, Miss Martha Phipps, drew every eye in her direction. .. ' ' . ;' ; Oh, Miss Modkbeer-otavia look' here! I don't understand ii.. Maybe it don't mean him, though.'. .. "Dear me, what a fuss yon are mak ing Miss Phipps!" cried Octavia, im patiently. -"Can't yon tell what the matter is, or have you lost the use of your tongue?" ? Miss Phipps . resented the' caustic speeoh with a toss of her head. - " ; "No, I haven't lost the use of my tongue," she responded, spitefully "nor my eyes, either, or I wouldn't have spied this notice in the Poplar Bluff Gazette! It's the marriage li cense ol Ferdinand Fothergill, Hills dale, and Miss Amy Cotterill, of Pop lar Blnfi"U i v ' "It's a lie I" shrieked Octavia, evi dently verging t)n hysterios. "I don't believe a word of it 1" "It's right herein black and white, asserted Miss Phipps, -holding up the paper. And at that , very moment a letter was brought by a special carrier, ad dressed to Octavia. She tore it open and real : - Dear Miss Moektee Owing t-v tb.e hard times and btrsiii is reveries, I regret to say that I il l I myself unable to support a wilo. Under the circumstances I cannot afford to marry for love a. one, and. tnerelore, I givo you tmok your freedom, and hope you will oon forget taat then ever was suoa a per son as Ferdinand PothergUl. .. "Three years since I went away a bachelor forlorn' laughed Jerome Meadowgay, as he strode along toward the Mockbee farm and turned his steps toward the old stile at the foot of the lane. - . " . A tall figure stood in the dusky twilight, saintly outlined against ; the slowly-fading crimson of the west -"Welcome home!" called a soft voice. .' - 1 - ; - Jerome sprang eagerly forward. . 1 f,'Margie !"ihc cried. ; 'No, not Margie !". in pettish tones.' , Vlt'a Octavia ' Don'c yon - know me, Jerome she asked , then added, - in dulcet accents, " 1 did not know my own heart when I sent you away. For give me, Jerome, and and let us bury the past!" ; ; A soft hand was laid on his arm, and Octavia's liquid eyes looked apparently into his. , . . Z. v .- Jerome put the hand coldly aside. "The past is buried, so far as I am concerned." he assured ..her, "Xou said all was over between ns that day, Octavia, and I acoeptedyour decision.". ! "But but it is not too late yet, Jerome. I" . j J ' "3 i i "It is too late!" was the stern re ply. ' ' Pretty, pink-cheeked, Margie made" a charming bride, a few weeks later, and the Gothic-roofed cottage, with its hop-vine and Virginia creepers, is no longer in want of a mistress. Saturday Night. " . Living With Their Meads Off. Most persons of an observing turn of mind are aware of the fact ' that there 'are several species of insects' that will continue to live' without seeming inconvenience for some time after decapitation, exact knowledge on) the length of time which the various species of insects . would survive such mutilation ; being' some what vague". Professor 'Conestrini once undertook a series of experiments: with a view of determining that and other facts in relation to the wonderful vitality of suoh creatures. In each case the head ,was bmoothly removed with a pair of. thin-bladed forceps, and when pon-; tanebus movements of "wings and legs ceased he employed sundry irritating devices, such as 'pricking, squeezing and blowing tobacco smoke - over the insect. As a result of these experi ments, he ascertained that members" of the beetle 'family- at onee showed signs of suffering, while such as ants, bees, wasps, etc, remained "for hours unaffected. Some which' seemed stunned from the, effects of the opera tion recovered after a time, and con tinned to live and enjoy a headless ex istence for several days. . Butterflies and moths seemed but little affected by "the " guillotining process, arid the common flies appeared to. regard the operation as ahuge joke. ' i ' ' 'The common house fly," says our', experimenter, "appeared to be in full possession of his senses (rather "para doxical, when in all probabilities "the canary had swallowed head, sense' and all) thirty-six hours after being oper ated upon." - H - : ' ' ' :'-'" -. The bodies of some species of butter flies survived as long as, eighteen days after.he" head'had been vremoved, but thethad'itself'seld'om showed signs of life; longer than six hours-after deeapi tation. .Inthe general summary ot these: hugo experiments.; we .are in formed that tfieJast signs of fife were manifested" either 'in the middle or last pair Of legs and that the! jnyrjio-: pods" shTwadaV tenacity" of fife' dapreiMd.(wholly " indifferent to the loss of .their -heads." St. Louis Bepubho. ., , .4 - : - - a rj'aj -iioanivei'-' : "; the.n tbe wofktnen came 4t6 tear off the joof of thel Ellioottvityf (Md.) ' Presbyterian Caurchj which 'is being demolished -to give-place' to a "new church,:they etirrsdf up -.anumerous and influential colony of bees which -bad made their, hoaie . in a. cornice of the old building for ycars and years. .The Wes'f ought oiTths intruders and bad to ba smoked; out ana massacred before the men could go on with thair work. The- honey which theViadus -trious Jittlo insects 'had hoajdeiip was taken but, and it filled a 'big tub and a pan making all told 'cot much' legs than 150 pounds. Washington Star.. ' ' . ' ' :'. . Mount .,de : Aq'ua, ; otherwise the "water volcano," is situated twenty five miles south of the capital of Guatemala. It takes spells of vomit ing immense- torrents of pure cold ..water.'' THE LA.PL1NDEBS. TIIEY ARK A'PECUMAR AND IN TERESTING FEOfMJ. A Great Proportion of the Race Are " Pagans Bear II an ting Their Pur suit Reindeer Their Stand-: by Lapp Loveraakinar. J TIE Laplanders are a peculiar and . interesting people . peculiar in their appearance and in their habits; interest ing in that we Americans always find interest in every thing strange with which we come in contact or . about hich we hear. It was in the streets of Hammerfest that I first came upon one. of these people, writes A. M. Dewey in the Washington Star. . Turn ing round the corner of one of the ill built houses, I suddenly ran over a diminutive little personage in a white woolen tunic, bordered with red and yellow stripes, green trousers, fastened round the: ankles, and. reindeer boots curving up at the toes like Turkish slippers. On her head for notwith standing the trousers it turned out to be a woman was perched a colored cap," fitting closoly 'around the face and running up at the back into an overarching 'peak of red cloth. , . Into this peak , was crammed, I afterward learned, apiece of hollow wood weigh ing about a quarter of a pound, into which is fitted the wearer's back hair ; so that perhaps," after all, there does exist a more convenient coiffure than a Paris bonnet. ' Hardly had I taken off my hat and bowed f a thousand apologies for my unintentional rude ness" to the ;fair 'wearer of the green , trousers, before a couple of Lapp gentlemen hove in sight. ' They were dressed pretty much like their com panion, except that an ordinary red night-cap replaced the - queer helmet worn by the lady.w The tunics,' too, may have been a trifle shorter. None of the . three were handsome. '' High cheek Jones, " short ( hoses, I oblique Mongol eyes, no eyelashes and enor mous months,' made up a cast of features which their burnt-sienna complexion and hair did not much enhance. Their expression of counte nance was not unintelligent, and there was a merry, half-timid, half-cunning, twinkle in their eyes which reminded me of faces' I had met during my travels in some of the more neglected districts of Europe. Some ethnolo-. gists, indeed, are inclined to reckon the Laplanders as a branch of the Celtio family , Even at this late day a great pro portion of this race are pagans, and even the most intelligent among them remain slaves to the grossest supersti tion. When a couple is to be married, if a priest happens to be in the way they will send for him, perhaps out of complaisance, but otherwise theyonng lady's papa merely strikes a flint and steel together, " and the ceremony is not the less irrevocably completed. When they die a hatchet and a flint and steel are invaiiably buried with the deceased, in case v he should -find himself chilly on his long journey. When they go bear hunting the most important business in their lives it is. a sorcerer, with no other defense than his inoantations, who marches at the head of the , procession. In the : in ternal arrangement of their huts it is not a room to' themselves, " but a door to themselves, that is assigned to their womankind ; for woe betide , a hunter if a woman has ever crossed the threshold over which lie sallies to the chase ; and for three days after ,the slaughter of his prey he must live apart from the female portion of his family iu order to appease the evil deity whose familiar he is supposed to have destroyed. It would be useless to attempt to recountthe innumerable occasions on which the ancient rites of jumula'are still interpolated among the Christian observances they pro fess to have adopted. . Their manner of life is strange enough. Here and there, as we strolled outside the town, blue wreaths of smoke curling fromsome little green pook among the rooks would betray their temporary places of abode. In the summer time they live, in oanvas tents during winter, wbea the snow lies deep on the ' groaud, the . forest Lapps build huts ia the, branches of trees and so live like birds. Their tents or huts are muallyhexagonal in form, with fir" in the c-?iit:v. the smoLe froiu which rises through a hole in the roof. ' The men and women occupy different sides of the same apartment, but a long pole laid across the space between them symbolizes an ideal partition. -' Hunting and fishing are the ehief employments of the Lapp tribes,- and to slay a bear is the most honorable exploit a Lapp hero can achieve. ; The flesh of the slaughtered beatt becomes the property, not of the. man who killed it, but of . him who discovered its trail, and the skin is hung upon a pole for the wives of all" who took part in the expedition to shoot at, with their eyes bandaged. Fortunate is she whose arrow pierces the trophy. Not only does it become her, prize, but in the eyes of the whole settle ment her husband is looked , npon thenceforth as the . most fortunate of men. . As long as the chase is going on the women are' not allowed to stir abroad, but S3 soon as the party have saMy brought home their booty, the whole female population ' issue from their tents, and, having deliberately chewed some bark from a species of alder, they spit the red juice in their husbands' faces, typifying thereby the blood of the beast, which has been shed in an honorable manner. ' t Although the forests, the rivers and -,the sea supply them in a great meas ure with their food, it is "upon the reindeer that tho Laplander is depen dent for every . other' comfort in life. The reindeer i is his estate,, his horse, his cow, his companion and friend he has twenty-two different names for him. His coat, trousers and : shoes are made from reindeer skin, stitched I wnn inreaa manuiaoiureo. irora mo, ; nerves and sinews, of the same beast. Beindeer milk is the most important, fitem of his diet. Out , of reindeer horns are made most of the utensils used in his domestic economy, and it is the reindeer that carries his baggage and drags his sledge. Moreover, so just an appreciation has tho creature of what is due to his own - merit, that if his owner seeks to tax him beyond nw strengtn, ne not oniy pecomes res tive, but often actually , turns upon the inconsiderate jehu who has -overdriven him. " When, therefore, a Lapp is in a great hurry, instead of taking to his sledge, I he puts on a pair .of .. skates twice as long as his own body, and so flies on the -wings of the wind. Every Laplander, however, has his dozen or two of deer; and the flocks of a Lapp Croesus amount sometimes to two thousand head. As soon as a young lady is born after having been 1 duly rolled in the snow she is dow ered by her father with acertain num ber of deer, which' are immediately branded with her initials, and thence-, forth kept apart as her especial prop erty. In proportion as iij? increase : and multiply does her chance improve for m akin or a desirable match in mar- . riageC Lapp courtships are conducted in pretty much "the same" fashion as in other parts of the world. The aspirant to a lady's hand as soon as he discov ers that he hav lost his heart, goes off in search of a friend and a bottle of brandy. The friend 'enters the tent of the fair maiden's parents and opens, simultaneously, the . brandy and . his- business, while the lover remains out side engaged in hewing wood or soma other menial employment ' If, after the brandy and proposal have been discussed, the eloquence of the friend -prevails, the suitor is hinisel f called into tha inolosure, and the young peor pie are allowed to rub noses. The bride to be then accepts from her suit- . or the ' present of a raindeer tongue, and the espousals are considered con cluded. The . marriage does not take place for three years afterward; and during the interval the lover is obliged to labor in tho service of his father-in-law as diligently as did Jacob serve for his long loved Bachel. , . An Uftpieasant Surpriss. ' Widowed Papa (to' his sixteen-year-r1r1 daiifrM, "EfSe. did von know our housekeeper was going to be married?" ... ; . Eifie- "Is she, really? Well, thanlt fortune, we'll get rid of the disagree able old thing at last. . Who is she going to marry?" rapa ' -Me. "Truth. A special train on ' tho London and "Northwestern Eailway makes the trip from Liverpool to London, a distance of 2J1 mil;::, intUrea hours and forty fjree raiii.: . '

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