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VOL. VI. - PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1895. NO. 41.
. According to the Berlin Post, Eta
peror William has ordered the con
traction of a special printing outfit
for manoeuvres and military con
- tingencies. It consists of four specially
constructed wagons, with everything
requisite from writing material to
press.
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Some time ago California offered a
bounty of $5 each for coyote scalps.
It was supposed at the time that there
were not more than 2000 coyotes ia
! the State, but the A&im for bounties
I for the last quarter of 1894 already
-amounts to $53,000 with seventeen
other counties to hear from.
A cry of lamentation is heatd com
ing from the various zoological gar
dens .of Europe, also from the big
game Bportsmen, by reason of the
closing by the Mahdi of the Soudan
and Kordofan districts of Africa to
the dealers in live big game and to
the sportsmen "who merely desire to
hoot it. Soon, so the story goes,
there will be scarcely any of the large
sort of wild animals coming from the
conutry under the Mahdi's sway t- be
ecn in Europe.
The total number of Scandinavians
in this country is about 1,000,000, but
instead of being distributed thrpugh
out the various States, they are to be
found almost exclusively in the North
west, observes the Atlanta Constitu
tion. Norweigans are most numerous
in Minnesota, where the total Scandi
navian body amounts to 250,000,
double the nuraber of Germans and
eight times moro than the Irish.
Swedes are most numerous in Illinois,
where they number more than 90,000
in a total Scandinavian population of
about 125,000. In the city of Chicago
there are more than 10,000 Swedish,
more than 5000 Norweigan and more
than 2500 Danish voters. The Danes,
the smallest of the groups of Scandi
navian voters in the country, are most
numerous in Iowa.
Frank G. Carpenter says that the
occupation of Korea by Japan is al
ready beginuing to change the coun
try. An electric railroad has been
plauned from the capital to tbe Han
River, which lies three miles away,
and it is probable that the machinery
for this will be gotten in the United
States. It is twenty-six miles from
Chemulpo, which is the main port of
the oountry, to Seoul, and the rail
road will be built over the mountains,
connecting the capital with the sea.
Sooner or later other roads will be
built from Seoul to the west coast,
and to Fusan on the south coast, as
well as to the north. The northern
roads will be fostered by the Russians,
and there will probably be a connec
tion with the Trans-Siberian road, so
that we will eventually be able to go
from Paris to within a few hours' Bail
of Japan by land. To-day no one
known much about the country ol
Korea. There is no land in the world
outside of Thibet which has been less
explored.
The New York Independent says:
There must bo something highly valu
able in the use of the bicycle, which
has long passed the stage of "oraze,'
and has become so much the estab
lished order of things as to have ser
iously injured the market for horses.
There is every reason to suppose that
a moderate and rational use of the
bicycle directly contributes to health
of course the mental strain and pro
tracted over-exertion called for in
racing are an immense tax on the vital
force. It has long been known that
the violent muscular effort of the
hunted hare, who is coursed to his
death by dogs, produces just as un
natural a condition of the blood a
does a severe infectious fever ; and the
occasional cases of persons who hav;
unsound hearts, dying from the extra
efforts of the "cycle," should be a
warning. Dr. Tessie, of Bordeaux,
studied carefully the . effect of the
efforts of M. Stephane, whose object
was to see how many miles he could
ride in twenty-four hours. He ac
complished 385 miles. He lost in
weight fourteen pounds. : His food
consisted of five" pints of milk, one
pint of tea, one pint of lemonade, and
three ounces each of rum and cham
pagne, and seven ounces of mint ; and
the secretions so hanged as to show
that "his body ate itself. This kind
of living will do for a 'spurt," but
would be ruinous in the loxur ran.
DREAMLAND,
M Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves Into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleepi
Awake her not,
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where nhadow3 are-
Her pleasant lol.
" She left the rosy morn,
Hhe left the fields of com
Forjwilight cold and lorn,
And water springs.
Through sleep, as through a
She sees the sky look pale,
And hears the nightingale
That sadly sings.
Rest, rest, a perfect rest
Shed over brow and breast.
Her face is toward the west,
The purple land.
She cannot see the grain
Ripening on hill and plain;
She cannot feel the rain
Upon her hand.
Rest, rest for evermore
Upon a mossy shore;
Rest, rest, at the heart's core
Till time shall cease:
Sleep that no pain shall wake;
Night that no morn shall break,
Till joy shall overtake
Her perfect peace."
Christina RossettL
Our Friends the Wydeswartha
E were very plain
people, Mrs.
Crumplehorn and
I I'm Mr. Crum
plehorn when
the death of a dis
t a n t relative
made us unex
pectedly rich.
Now I'm not
going to be mean enough to put the
blame of what follows on Mrs. Crum
plehorn. That dodge of husbands lay
ing their sins at their wives' doors be
gan at a very early stage of the world's
history, and small good it did the man
that tried it first.
We had hardly come into posses
sion of our fortune certainly hadn't
begun to feel at home in it when the
season at Saratoga opened, and Mrs.
Crumplehorn said we must go there,
as everybody that was anybody did ;
that it was expected of us by whom,
I don't remember that she stated ; in
short, that there was "no getting out
of it." I really didn't see that there
was, and so we went.
"We found a crowd of people there,
none of whom wo knew. You can't
think how unsociable they were.
Why, when Mrs. Crumplehorn, just
to be civil, asked a lady where she had
bought the stuff in her dress, and how
much it had cost a yard, she received
for answer such a stare as made the
cold chills run over her, and, to use
her own expression, "came near giv
ing her a turn."
"Hops" to people that don't dance,
games to people that can't play them,
and jostling people one doesn't know,
are very tiresome modes of killing
time. In two days I had enough of
it. and Mrs. Crumplehorn expressed
herself satisiied in threu
We had jnst concluded to set fash
ionable opinion at defiance, and go
home and take things comfortable,
when, as luck would have it, we made
the acquaintance of General and Mrs.
Wydeswarth ; and bo agreable did it
prove, that our purpose of speedy de
parture was at once reconsidered, and
promptly dismissed.
During our stay, which was pro
longed several weeks, the General and
myself, similarly his lady, and Mrs,
Crumplehorn, vwere inseparable. They
were a very entertaining and agreea
ble couple, quiteup to the highest
notch of fashion, but. rot in the least
proud. Why, blees you, the General
made no more of walking arm and
arm with me, and thought it no
more a liberty to be invited to
drink champagne at my expense than
his aristocratic wife did to be offered
and to accept, too Mrs. Crumple
horn's finest diamond ring as a mar
riage anniversary present, of the
event of which happy occasion she
took care to give Mrs. C. private and
confidential notice.
When the time came for g)yg we
had become so attached to our new
friends that we gave them a cordial
invitation to pay us an early Vsit,
which they promised to do, t
While the two ladies were taking an
affectionate leave, crying and kissing
one another by turns, the General
took me aside and disclosed the fact
that, owing to the miscarriage of an
expected remittance, he found hm
self a little short of funds. If I fcmld
accommodate him with say $500 it
would relieve him from present em
barrassment and he would return it
the following week when he and Mrs.
W. came to pay their promised visit.
I was deeply affected at this mark
of confidence, and at once handed
over the amount, and after another
pathetic scene between Mrs. W. and
Mrs. C. we tore ourselves away.
Punctual to the day our distin
guished guests arrived, and right glad
we were to Bee them. Our country
home had seemed dull since our re
turn, mainly owing, no doubt, to the
absence of the dear friends to whose
society we had grown accustomed.
The General was captivated with
our rpal abode. He thought of build
ing just such a house himself; and
nothing would do but I must show
him over 'the premises which I
did, pointing out every nook, corner
and apartment, with a conscious pride
which my friend's praises served In
no way to abate.
The first flurry over, we were just
getting cleverly settled down, and be
ginning to enjoy ourselves in earnest,
when an event occurred to mar our
pleasure.
The house was entered by burglars
one night, and ransacked from top to
bottom. Our own Iobb, though by no
means trifling consisting of all the
plate, and over a thousand dollars in
money we could have grinned and
borno; but Mrs. Wydeswarth' dia
monds we had never seen them, but
they must have been splendid and
the General's pocket-book, fat with
untold greenbacks, that was what
crushed us.
"Never mind, my dear fellow,"
said the General with the fortitude of
a hero ; "my chief regret is on your
account. It will compel me to defer
payment of that little loan a few days
longer. On the whole, I'm rather
glad I didn't think of returning it
sooner though, as the loss would then
have been yours."
I begged him not to think of such a
trifle ; and when I offered to replenish
his purse till another remittance came,
he slapped me on the back, and called
me "a trump."
On Mrs. Crumplehorn'a birthdsy,
which followed close upon the burg
lary, Mrs. Wydeswarth insisted on hei
acceptance of a magnificent breastpin,
which had somehow escaped the vigil
ance of the robbers. Mrs. C. would
have declined the gift, could she have
done so without wounding her friend'
feelings; but it was manifest she
couldn't, so she took it.
Just then the General put a letter
in his wife's hand.
"How provoking!" the latter ex
claimed when she had read it.
'What! my life?"
"Why. that Fannie Fitz Blodgitt
should, just at this time, take it into
her head to get married and insist on
my being present, in fulfillment of a
promise we made each other at school. "
"It in a little inconvenient," said
the General, gravely.
"There's no help for it ; I must give !
it up!" sighed Mrs. Wydeswarth. "I
couldn't think of appearing on such
an occasion without jewels."
"Of course not," the General as
sented. "My dear Aspasia,"' interrupted
Mrs. Crumplehorn she had grown
very familiar with her friend by thif
time "my jewels are at your service.
They are very plain, no doubt, in com
parison with those you have been ac
customed to wear ; but such as they
are, you're welcome to their use."
"My dear" but Mrs. W.'s feelingf
were too many for her.
The situation was extremely deli
cate. 1 scarcely knew bow to act. I
managed, however, to tip the General
a wini:, aud he followed me out.
I'm afraid I did it very awkwardly ;
but I comehow succeeded in making
him comprehend that if his wife could
make out with Mrs. C.'s diamonds
they had oost seven thousand dollars
the want of ready money for travel
ing expenses needn't stand in the way.
He grasped my hand, and pocketed
the money.
Mrs. Wydeswath packed up her
things, Polly's diamonds included,
commended br, husband to our care,
promised to be 'back in a week, and
was waiting for the carriage in which
we were all to ride to the station to
gether, when ber husband came -in,
looking a good deal concerned.
He too had received a letter, sum
moning him away on important bosi ,
ness. It was necessary he should leave
at once by the same train with hii
wife, in fact.
Loath as we were to part with both
our friends at once, it was, after all,
gratifying to think that Mrs. W. would
be saved the annoyance of traveling
unattended. '
At the station I succeeded in press
ing couple of hundred more on the
General, to meet his own expenses.
As he was only to be gone a couple of
days, that sum, he said, would be am
ple. The kissing of the ladies, and the
handshaking of the General and my
self, were interrupted by the cry of
"All aboard!" and in another moment
the train was lumbering off, Mrs.
Wydeswarth waving her handkerchief
from the window at Mrs. Crumple
horn standing weeping on the plat
form. We, were just getting back into the
carriage, when another train stopped,
out of which three men rushod, in
one of whom we recognized the hus
band of the unsociable lady that had
given Mrs. Crumplehorn the "turn.
"Here's a couple of them !" shouted
the latter gentleman, making a dash
toward us; "and, by Jove! that's my
wife's breastpin that woman has on
now!"
"What do you mean? you villains !"
1 roared, aiming a blow at one of the
men, who had laid his hands some
what rudely on Mrs. Crumplehorn's
shoulder.
"Come! none of that, my covey 1"
exclaimed nnother .of the men; and
before I knew it, a pair of handcuffs
were snapped on my wrists.
We were about being hustled off,
and Heaven knows what would have
come of it, if some of our nc ighbors
hadn't interfered and demanded an
explanation.
Everything was soon made plain
enough. The General and his wife
so called were a couple of notorious
thieves, in league with goodness knows
how many others. They had been
plying their vocation at Saratoga,
under the guise of a pair of fashion
ables. Among their victims had been
the unsociable lady. And Mrs.
Crumplehorn nnd myself, whom no
body knew, having constantly been
seen in the Wydeswarth's company
were, naturally enough, suspected as
accomplices a suspicion materially
strengthened, I may add, by one of
tho stolen articles being found in Mrs.
C.'s possession.
My own Htatement, however, and
tho testimony of our neighbors, com
pletely satisfied the strange gentle
lnan and the two detectives, and Mrs.
O. and myself were at once released.
J was willing to say no more about
it, but Mrs. C, being a woman of
spirit, as slit' handed back' tho breast
pin, couldn't refrain from sending
her compliments to the gentleman's
wife.
"And tell her," she said, "if I ever
should think of stealing, it'll not be a
trumpery piece of pinchbeck like
that!"
She had called it a "love of a thing"
that very morning, but circumstances
alter casep.
Polly and I are not going to Sara
toga next season. To. say nothing of
the water, we've had quite enough of
fashionable society for one while.
New York News.
Limitations of the Telautograph.
, The telautograph does not repro
duce the shading which is characteris
tic of different handwriting, and when
a man uses the instrument to sign his
name a thousand miles from where he
is standing it is denied by some that
the result is legally his autographic
signature. The point is probably not
well taken. At any rate it would not
militate against the general introduc
tion of the telautograph, if unfortun
ately the instrument did not require
four wires for its proper operation.
Until it is improved in this respect it
will be too costly for general use.
New York Worlrl
Morgan the Riflaman.
General Daniel Morgan was known
as the teamster boy of Virginia and
the hero of Cowpens. He served as a
wagoner in Braddock's retreat, won
honor in Arnold's assault on Quebec,
and fought brilliantly against the
British in the South. Physically he
was, next to Washington, tha largest
General officer among the Continen
tale. New York Mail and Express.
i
THE ROTHSCHILDS.
KOTABfjK MEN OF GREAT FI
NANCIAL POWER.
They Have Important Dealings With
Nations One Made Millions by
Napoleon's Defeat at Water
looOther Achievements.
T
"THE recent arrangement with
the representatives of the
Rothschilds for the protec
tion of tbe credit of the
United States, is not the first
time, 6ay the Detroit Free Press,
that they have come to the res
cue of Governments in financial em
barrassment. They are now the most
powerful bankers in the world, and
the different branches of the family in
the various capitals of Europe cordi
ally support cne another without be
ing bound in an absolute partnership.
They have seen their great competi
tors in England go to the wall Over
end, Gurney & Co., in the panic of
1866 and the Barms s in 1890. So
rapid has been the extension of their
financial power that one of their ene
mies has written a book under the
title, "The Rothschild-, the Financial
Rulers of Nations," in which he seeks
to show that they have their emissa
ries in every cabinet, and have been
able to manipulate the stock market
for the extinction of their rivals.
One of the early achievements of a
member of the house, Nathan Mayer
Rothschild, was a hasty trip from the
field of Waterloo to London, where he
arrived before news of the battle had
reached the Government or the bank
ers. He was on the staff of Welling
ton and as soon as the battle was over
rode at break-neck speed to Ostend,
traversed the stormv channel at the
risk of his life by a liberal use of gold,
and was on the stock exchange the
next morning with an air as calm and
indifferent as though battlefields
played no part in his peaceful trade
of financier. The public knew only ol
tho events of two days before Water
loo, when the Prussian Field Marshal,
Blucher, bad been defeated by a de
tachment of the French army at
Ligny. The gloomy air of Rothschild
and the reports which were set in mo
tion of the defeat of the allies caused
a sudden tumble in the prices of secu
rities. The secret agents of the house
seized the opportunity to make enor
mous purchases of the English consol
idated stocks and Rothschild realized
millions when a few hours later the
news of the great British victory
reached London.
It was not altogether by finesse,
however, that the Rothschilds built
up the strength of their house. Tht
founder, Mayer Anselm Rothschild,
was the son of a poor dealer in furni
ture and bric-a-brao at Frankfort, and
was a banker there at the time of the
Napoleonic invasion. The Elector ol
Hesse placed in his custody a sum of
about fifteen million francs in coil
($3,000,000), which was transmitted in
part to the son in London, the same
Nathan Mayer whose hasty trip from
Waterloo has just been described.
General Marbot, in his "Memoirs oi
Napoleon," tells of tbe vain efforts of
the Emperor to force the old man to
surrender the money. A commission
went to his establishment and minute
ly examined the vault and the books.
Menaces and intimidations were in
vain, however, in persuading Roths
child to divulge the whereabouts of
the treasure and the commission un
dertook to play upon his religious
scruples by demanding an oath. He
refused to take it and there was a tal!
of putting him under arrest. Na
poleon did not quite care to venture
such an act of violence, and an effort
was then made to win the old man by
the promise of gain. They proposed
to him to leave him half the treasure,
if he would deliver the other half tc
the French officials. They promised
him a receipt in full, accompanied by
a certificate proving that he had'
yielded only to force and that he was
blameless for the seizure of the en
tire amount. "But the probity oi
the Jew," says Marbot, "led him to
reject this proposition, and they left
him in peace." Th3 elector having
returned to power in 1814, the Frank
fort banker returned to him exactly
the depost which had been intrusted
to him. The terms of the deposit
gave the Rothschilds the benefit of
the interest earned by the money
while in their custody, and ww a
large clement in the foundation of
their fortune. '"" , '
After the abdication of Napoleon
and the general peace, Nathan -Mayer ;
Rothschild had charge of tbe issue
through the London market of large -loans
on account of the kingdom of
Prussia, the Russian Empire, the Em
pire of Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom
of Naples, the Empire of Brazil and
the Kingdom of Belgium. In the'
meantime other branches of the house
were acquiring a similar position In V
the continental capital. One of the
brothers, Anselm Mayer, continued!,
the business at Frankfort. Another '
Solomon, established himself at Vi
enna, where he quickly attained a
prominent position over the other
banking houses and strengthened his
hold by the negotiation of public
loans. A fourth brother, Carl, estab-
lished himself at Naples, where lor'
forty years he conducted the financial
operation of the Governments of th'
Italian peninsula. But the most im
portant establishment was that found-
ed by James Rothschild at Paris after
the close of the Napoleonic era. He
was charged with paying to tbe allied
Po wers the war indemnities due from
France, and as his power grew he ac
quired a practical monopoly aver the
issue of French securities.
These five branches of the original
house, although formerly distinct
from each other, acted in concert and
one seldom undertook an important i
transaction without consultation with
the others. The establishment at
Naples was abandoned after 1860, but
a son-in-law of the Rothschilds named
Lambert, established a bank at Brua-
sels. The New York branch is under
the direction of the Belmonts, and tho
original Belmont was a German. Jew
named Schoenberg, who, on reaching
the United States, gave a Norman
form to his name.
Printing In China. ' i (
Book and newspaper printing in
China is another subject commented'
on by the foregoing contemporary,!
some facts brought to light revealing
interesting and curious particulars.
Fifteen hundred years ago xylo-'
graphy, or impression upon plates of
wood, was perfectly well known to
these people. The process of book
making has, from time immemorial,1
been so cheap in China, that a book '
of twenty-five or thirty pages is rarely
sold for more than a half-penny,!
whilst many Chinese books are made
of wood, each page being out from a
block,, after the manner of an engrav
ing. As for the journalism of China, ;
tbe Pekin Gazette ("the news of the
capital"), the organ of the Govern
ment, was already in existenoe more
than 740 years before our era. Prim
itively printed by the aid of engraved
wooden plates, it is at present printed
by means of movable wooden charac
ters. There are three editions of this'
extraordinary periodical. The official!
edition alone is printed in this man
ner, the second being turned out by
means of tablets of wax, upon which'
are engraved the characters, ' irhich,1
traced in haste,, are consequently not .
very legible. The third, edition is in'
manuscript. The official edition con- ;
sists of from ten to twelve . double '
6heets (printed upon one side only be- .
cause of their thinness), seven inches
in length by four in width, divided
into seven columns by violet ink, each j
column comprising fourteen ordinary
characters. The edition written by"
hand is six inches in length by five in
width, and appears several , days be
fore the official edition. This Pekin
Gazette has been the only journal
published in China up to the last
twenty years. Since I860, the Chen
Pao ("news af Shanghai"), has pub
lished a weekly illustrated edition "of .
eight double sheets, with a red cover.
The engravings are line-drawings in
the Chinese style. Paper and Press,
' Greal DraJnajo Tunne!v
The' drainage of the greab silver
mines in the West is an expensive un
dertaking at times, and the drainage
tunnels are k frequently driven under
conditions as dangerous as those which
are encountered - in tunneliug under
rivers. One of the greatest of these
tunnels in the country is that, just
completed at the Ontario mine', about
a mile and a half south of Park City,
Utah. It runs' 15,19'J-feot into tho
mountain at a grade of thrco inch'.s VA
100 feet, Chicago Herald. .