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' 1 ? i -ii s i Jjflrsl&. A THOUGHT. j If you could always have, love. The sunshine and the flowers. And I the cold and loneliness. Of dreary winter hours If any sweetness in my life j Could answer to jour claim ; And I might bear whatever loss. Whatever wrong1 or pain, : Would otherwise fall to you, love. As fails the summer rain I think I could not ask, love, ! For any happier hours, Than just to know God sends to you The sunshine and the flowers. ONLY ONCE. You ask me, love, how many times I think of you a day ? : I frankly answer, " Only once, , And mean just what I say. You seem displeased and' somewhat hurt, But wait and hear the rhyme l'ray, how can one do more than once, AVhat one does all the time ? j POPPING THE QUESTION. There is no more delicate step in life than the operation designated by the elegant phrase I have selected for my present lucubration. Much wind ing and caution and previous sound ing, are necessary when you are about to ask a favor of a great and distin guished man. It is ten chances to one but that he takes it into his head to consider your request exorbitant, and makes this the pretext for shaking off what he Naturally considers a cum bersome appendage to his state a man who has a claim upon his good offices. But this hazard is nothing", in comparison with the risk you ran in laying yourself at the mercy of a ybung gipsy, fonder of fun and frolic than anything in life. Even though she loves you with the whole of her lit tle heart, she possesses a flow of spirits, and a woman's ready knack of pre serving, appearances; and though her bosom may heave responsive to your stammering tale, she will lure you on with Hand, complacent looks, until you have told "your pitifuji story." and, then, perhaps, laugh in your face for1! your pains. It is not this either that I meant to express. Men are not cowards because they see clearly the danger that lies before them. When a person has coolness sufficient to appreciate its . full extent, he has in general either self-possession enough to back out of the scrape, or, if it is inevitable, to march with due resignation to meet his fate, In like manner it is not that poor Pillgarlick, the lover, has a clear notion (persons in ins condition are rarely troubled with' clear notices) of what awaits him, but he feels a kind of choking sensation about his' neck, a hand-dog inclination to go backward instead of forward, a check, a sudden stop to all his functions. He knows not how to look, or what to say. His fine plan-arranged with so much happy enthusiasm, when sitting alone , 1 in his arm-chair, after a good dinner I and two or three glasses of! wine, in ! the uncertain glimmering of twilight, with his feet upon the fender proves quite impracticable. Either it has escaped his memory altogether, or the conversation perversely takes a turn totally different from that by which he had hoped to learn the fair one from indifferent topics to thoughts of a tenderer complexion, and thus by fine degree (he watching all the time lipw she was affected, in order to be sure of his strength before he makes the plunge) to insinuate his confession, just at the moment that he knows it will be well received. , The desperate struggles and floun-.- derings by which some endeavor to - get over their embarrassment are A amusing enough. We remember to have been much delighted the first time we heard the history of the woo ing of a noble lord narrated. His lo.dship was a man of talents and enterprise, of stainless pedigree, and a fair rent roll, but the veriest slave of bashfulness. Like all timid and quiet men, he was very susceptible, and very constant as long as he was in the habit of seeing the object' of his affections daily. He chanced, at the beginning of an Edinburg winter, to lose his heart to Miss- ; and as i their families were pn terms of intima cy, he had frequent opportunities of meeting with her. He gazed and sighed incessantly a very Dumbied ikeg, but that he'had a larger allow ' unco of brain; he followed everywhere; . he felt jealous, uncomfortable, savage if she only looked civilly at another; and yet, notwithstanding his stoutest resolutions notwithstanding the en couragement afforded him by the . lady, a woman of sense, who divined the desires of his lordship, esteemed his character was superior to girlish affection, and made every advance consistent, with womanly delicacy the winter was fast fading into spring, and he had not yet opened his mouth. Mamma at last lost all patience; and one day when his lordship was taking his usual lounge in the drawing-room, silent or at most uttering an occa sional monosyllable, the good lady abruptly left the room and locked the .' pair in alone. When his lordship, on essaying to take his leave, discovered the predicament in which he stood, a desperate fit of resolution seized him. Miss sat bending most assidu ously over her needle, a deep blush meanwhile flushing her cheeks. His lordship advanced toward her, but, losing heart by the' way, passed on in silence to the other end of the room. He returned to the charge, but again , without effect. .. At last, nerving himself like one about to spiing a powder mine, he stopped short before her and asked: "Miss , will you marry me?" fWith the greatest pleasure, my , lord," wa the answer, given in a low, somewhat timid, but unfaltering voice, while a deeper crimson suffused the face of the speaker. . And a right good wife she made him. Some gentlemen, equally nerv ous, and unaided by such a discrimin ating and ingenious mamma, have recourse to the plan of wooing by proxy. This is a system which I can ' by no means recommend. If a male - agent be employed, there is great danger that before he is aware he begins to plead for himselfi Talking of love in the abstract with a woman is a ticklish matter. . Emotions are awakened which we thought were lulled to sleep forever, and we grow desirous to appropriate to ourselves the pretty sentiments that she so well expresses. (A female go-between is less danger : ous; but I cannot conceive with what f face a man can ever address a woman as his wife whom he had not the I courage to woo for himself. I , Day. the philosopher, took a freak of educating a wife for himself. He got two orphan girls intrusted to his care, on entering into recognizance to educate and provide for them. One proved too mulish to make anything of. The other grew up everything he could have wished. And yet he gave up thel idea of marrying her, because she one day purchased a handkerchief more gaudy than accord ed with his quiet philosophical notions. Of course it never came to a declaration.- I wish it had, that we might have seen with what degree of grace a man could divest himself of the grave commanding charactersof papa and pedagogue, to assume the supple insinuating deportment of a lover. 5 There are a set of ; men whose suc cess in wCoing I cannot comprehend. Grave, emaciated, sallow divines, who never look the person in the face whom they address-4-who never speak above their breath-j-who sit on the edge of the chairs, a full yard from the dinner-table. I laave never known one of these to fail of getting a good and rich wife. How it is, heaven knows! Can it be that the ladies ask theml One thing is certain, that myself have never been able to "pop the question." Like the inexperienced lover, among the things beyond the reach of my intellect is "the way of a man with a maid." "By whatlwitch erv he should bev ever able to induce her from her free unhoused condition" to "brine: into circumspection and confine" is to me a mvstery. Had it been otherwise, I should not have been at this time the lonely inmate of a dull house one who can scarcely claim kindred with any human being in short, as I subscribe myselt above, an old bachelor. A SENSIBLE YOUNG WIFE. Young Wife "How do you like my cooking? tome, now, give me your honest opinion. How does it compare with your mother s?" Young Husband "If you want my honest opinion, 1 will say your cook ing is fair, but it is not quite equal to mothers." Y. W. "I did not expect it would be equal to your mother's, but I wish vou to remember that vaur mother had manv years experience before you were capable of forming a judg ment of her cooking." Y. H. "By Jove, you are right. never would have thought of that, though I assure you I would have made no comment on your cooking if you had not asked for my honest opin ion. The point you have made is a good one, but it is entirely overlooked Ov young married men. 7 Y. W. "It is, and unfortunately it is not thought or by youDg wives. The idea of any man saying to a girl just a year or two out of school: "You can't cook as well as mother,' or you don't manage as well as mother, and never taking into consideration that mother has had an experience of forty or hrty years! buppose the young wife should turn round and retort 'you're not half as skillful a workman as my father?' " Y. H. "And I wonder she doesn't It's a poor rule that won't work both ways." And so it is, when you come to think or it. Boston Courier. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Clean tea or coffee cups with scour ing oricK. it maxes tnem look as 11 "If 1 T .1 good as new. Apples keep best m a temperature as near as the rreezing point as possi ble without actually freezing. If flat-irons are rough and smoky, lay a little fine salt on a flat surface and rub them well. It will smooth them and prevent sticking. For sleeve protectors, cut off the foot of worn-out stockings, turn down a henrun in a rubber cord top and bottom, and you have a nice pair of sleeve protectors. -When you have spilled anything on the stove, or milk has boiled over and a suffocating smoke escapes, sprinkle the spot with a quantity of salt; this will stop it. x j To Spur a Jaded Appetite Is one thing, to invigorate and regulate the digestive organs is another. And yet mere appetizers are constantly mistaken for and are even termed tonics. Hostet ter's Stomach Bitters is on a far higher plane in the category of medical prepara tions, than the so-called tonics which im part a relish for the food. These have their use, and are estimable, proyided they be pure. But the scope of the reme dial operation of the Bitters is far wider. It reforms entirely an enfeebled condition of the stomach, and purifies its juices, if vitiated, as well as promotes their secre tion in healthful abundance. The stom ach living, in conjunction with the liver and the bowels, been regulated, and their natural tone restored through its agency, appetite returns, as a matter of course. Fever and ague, poverty of the blood, and consequent debility, rheumatic ailments, and a tendency to kidney and bladder troubles, are also remedied by it. What spread can give us the sweet est rest T A comforter. There's nothing half so sweet In life (Next to the joys of home and wife) As fragrant breath, and pearly teeth, With hard and rosy gums beneath And see these charms of which we sing Have from sweet SOZODONT their spring Irreproachable. Not one word of censure can justly be uttered against SOZODONT. No other dentrifice makes the teeth so white, and yet none is so entirely free from every objectionable ingredient. What Spalding's Glue has joined can not be put asunder. T FOR SALE. One Keystone 6 Syrup Soda Fountain complete. In use two seasons. First class in every respect. To responsible parties this Fountain will be sold on easy terms. Write to DR. L. T. WHITAKER, mch22-wswlm Fremont, N. C. Dr. W. If. F1NLA.YS0N, CHESTNUT STRKET, Goldsboro, N. C, Keeps pure and Fresh Drugs and Brown's Iron Bitters. I will sell Patent Medicines ten per cent less than usual price. fCall on me; 1 am always about my place of business, and will take pleasure in waiting on any one in need of any thing in my line. Respectfully, declO-tf Db. W. H. FINLAYSON NOTICE. The No Fence Law will be in force in Fork township, Wayne county, on and after March 29th. All whom it concerns will govern themselves accordingly. B. F. HOOKS, mchl5-4t Chm'n Co. Com THE GOLDSBORO MESSENGER, APRIL 5, Miscellaneous. Assets, $29,771,230 24,789,784 Liabilities, - - Surplus, - $4!93'445 EtnaLife IixBTJ-rrmco Company Has paid Losses in North Caro lina Over $1,100,000. Is your Life Insured? If not, usJiy not? If it is, are you Carrying enough t DO YOU! KNOW that every $1,050 produced by you hand and brain annually, represents the producing' power of $15,000 at 7 per cent? . DO YOU EVER reflect that your death would destroy that producing power, and would take from your wife and children just that much capital ? WHAT SANE BUSINESS MAN would risk a $15,000 stock of goods in one building with out fire insurance, and yet the same stock may never be destroyed ? IS IT PRUDENT or kind to permit your family to carry that much risk upon a life that is certain at destruction in a very few years, and that may be destroyed to-morrow? DO YOU KNOW that a Life Insurance Poli cy costs LESS THAN A FIRE POLICY? On an ordinary stock of goods you pay a rate of from one per cent, to two per cent, per an num, j In case of a fire your loss will not probably exceed one half of the stock, while it may be but a trifle. YOU CAN CARRYa life policy for from IX per cent, to 2-2 per cent, per annum (if under rorty years or age) with a certainty or uiu mate death, and tnere win oe no salvage. DID YOU EVER THINK that if you insure your goods for a number of years, and then cease payment, that you obtain no further re turn on your investment i DO YOU KNOW that $5,000 or $10,000 can be added to your estate by paving from three per cent, to four per cent, interest for a short term of years on that sum ? DO YOU KNOW that you can leave your family $5,000 or $10,000 by the simple payment of an amount each year that is less than the taxes would be upon the same amount of real estate, and you have not a dollar of capital in vested i DO YOU KNOW that the death of one part ner may, and often does, cause the closing up of a firm s affairs to its rum i DO YOU KNOW that partnership interests may be paid off upon the death of any member or the nrm. by each memDer insuring ior tne benefit of the others, and the business contin ue without impairment? ARE YOU ENCUMBERED with debts or mortgages ? They can all be be cleared off in case of death by a Life Insurance Policy in the Etna Life Insurance Company. DO YOU KNOW THAT NINETY PER CENT of the business men of the country fail at least once during a period of twenty years? DO YOU THINK that your chanced of sue cess are better than those of other men ? DO YOU SINCERELY DESIRE to throw every safe-guard around your wife and child ren to shield them against the possibility of future want or suffering t IF YOU ARE POOR or in moderate circum stances, or if you have a limited income, is it not best !to Insure ? If you are rich, will it not be wise ? " Riches may take to themselves wings and ny away. DID YOU EVER know of any man's estate being worse off because he died with a good Policy of Insurance upon his.life? THE JETti LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, CONN., WITH ITS $29,000,000 of Assets, AND Surplus of nearly $5,000,000, WITH A Paying Ability of $1.19 1-2 to every $1 of Liability, ISSUES Non-Forfeiting Policies, Incontestable after Death. -C. C. CROW, General Agent, j Raleigh, N. C. fjan7-3m1 TIC ZE3. I would, respectfully inform my friends and tne public generally, that I have per manently located with Mr. R A. Watts, in the Watch, (Jlock and Jewely Repair ing department and hope by strict atten tion to give entire satisfaction to all who may favor: me with their work. Will also be pleased t wait on them with anything in the Jewelry line. Can always show as nne a stocic ot Ulocks, Watches, Silver ware and Jewelry as can be found in the State, and at prices as low. ft? A Q work warranted 12 months at the Parlor Jewelry Store of-R. A. Wants W. P. GRANGER. Goldsboro, N. C, mch25-3m 1 1ST 50 BAKttELS FLOUR (all grades). 0 SACKS COFFEE, 1 0 BARRELS SUGAR. 1000 COCOANUTS- ' 1000 P0UNDS pLAIN CANDT. 50 BOXES TOBACCO. 5000 CIGAIIS- J0 BOXES SOAP. 20 BOXES STARCH. 2() GIfOSS MATCHES. 5 BARRELS PIGS FEET. 1 OfMl POUNDS N. C. HAMS and AVUV SHOULDERS. ALSO Chickens and Eggs always on hand lower than you can buy them in the City. -Call on us before you buy. Respectfully, R. C. HOLMES & CO. GolhsboroN. C, mchll.-tf PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM the popular f arorlte (or dressfnpr th hair. Restoring color when eraj-, and preventing Dandruff. It Cleanses the scalp, stops the hair falling, and U sure to please. 60a. and 1 at Draocirta. Important To Fan-! Peterkin Improved Cotton. Excellent Staple, Large Bolls, Small Seed, Easy to Gather, Prolific, Stands Dry Weath r Better Than Other Varieties. Makes from 40 t 42 pounds of Lint trhra 1 OO pounds of Seed Cotton. Price $l,GO per bushel delivered at depot in Monroe. Testimonials ent on applica tion. fgTSend Cash with Orders. Address S. R. WILLIAMSON, Monroe, N. C, febl6-2in ; Agent for North Carolina. Sliyile Female College. STATESVILLE, N. C. THE SPRING TERM of this institution wil begin Wednesday, January 20, 1886. The last year has been a very prosperous one. The attention of parents and guardians is di rected to the full corps of ABLE TEACHERS, the HEALTHY LOCA TION. EXCELLENT FARE AND REASONABLE CHARGES. Send for catalogue; i MISS FANNIE EVERITT, January 4. 1886-if . Principal. TO W. T Dealer Prices Unequaled when CASH is Offered! -BE SURE DAE -and don't forget ft Carolina Cotton It is the NEATEST and THE BEST ON UJ LLOJLM Try one.it will cost you nothing. You can return it and get your money if you don't like it. BUY HIE LINSEED OIL ARB "BUCK" LEAD AHD PAIS! YOUR HOUSE Lon t listen to what others say in regard tor example, heuses that were painted 20 w un mis lead you neea no zinc ior tne nice finish. .in. W. T. On account of Business, we offer niture, Carpets, ware, Lamps, and AT nishing Goods, generally, n GIST FIB until the entire Stock is disposed of. Parties owing us will please come forward and pay up, as we ! can not give further indulgence. Respectfully, FUCHTLER SV ct 59, E-A-ST CEPimLE STJFUEI EJT, OJEJPOSXTJCJEI BANK, GOLDSBORO, N. 14 IE TO MY CUSTOMERS. The unusual success that has attended Hardware and Agricultural Implements, to my Customers, in the reduction oi tne .rnce oi Jfiows alone. I shall receive, during the next SIX WEEKS, the Largest Shipment of Acricul- tural Implements ever bought by any House 1 600 Plows an(i Harrows, nny pounas oi .now qq iucuniDer .rumps, 250 pair of Hames. 2Q0 " Trace Chains, 25 O Kegs ot Nails, 500 Shovels, Spades and Forks, 1 0O COOK STOVES. t saved In buvincr these Goods In Laree Quantities I shall ri and will be content to pocket my usual small j- FULL SATISFACTION GUARANTEED TO EVERY CUSTOMER. - I am profoundly gTateful for the very liberal patronage bestowed on my House- durlntr the rear 1885. And to those who have wed the "Dixie," "Atlas," Granger." "Stonewall,,p and Tiimar" pinva in the field : and the "MonumentaL" "Cotton Klnc" Tmn k'in ? aA Elmo" Stoves in the Kithen, one and all, I return my compliments, and wish them a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Goldsboro. N. C. Bee. 7-tf w. H. SMITH. A FULL USE OP CONFfiCTIOHEaY, Fine Coffees, Teas, Spices, Extracts, &c.t can always be found at : C0GDELL & BABNES' oct!5-tf bteam jaaKery. 1886.--DOTJBLE SHEET. in KIM YOU BUY A- IPILdDWJ to examine the and Tobacco Plow ! LIGHTEST, and we think THE MARKET! to the quality trf their LEAD, but take years ago with Pure Buck and Linseed Oil last coat to whiten or give your house YELiVERTON. a change in our our Stock of Fur- Crockery Glass Household Fur- A p A & KERN, C, March 2Mf rn my efforts to furnish CheaD and Reliable has induced me to make this Liberal Offer in North Carolina, consisting in part oi usungs. Of every kind usual ly sold in this market. profits. ' ANTED ! 200,000 feet of Pine Lumber ior which we will pay cash. O'BERRY & CO. Goldsboro, N. C.t mchll-2w a0 ITTTTD W US WW w WHY RISK whol nrofits of a year, by foolishly experimenting with so-called Ch -JJ V IWV v j w Phosphates, when you can get LISTER'S GUARANTEED P i mm Which will rive you an increased vield, " b the value of We offer the following: Premiums f r the next Fair of the Ea&tern Carolina Fair and Stock Association : W. S. Farmer, agent, offers the following special premiums: Two-thirds ton Lis ter's guano for best grade bale cotton. One-half ton Lister's guano for second best bale cotton. One fourth ton Listers guano for third best bale cotton. Two-thirds ton Lister's guano for largest yield of cotton on one acre. One-hall ton Lister's guano lor second laigest yield on one acre. One-fourth ton Lister's guano for third largest yield of cotton en one acre. ftT AU made by Vve use of Wo o IFAIEMIMR mch8-tf GOLDSBORO MUSIC HOUSE. WILL. N. HAKFP, Manager. Branch of LUDDEH & BATES' Southern Music Hoiise. LARGEST MUSICAL EMPORIUM IN THE SOUTH. O J .. ;:(. ' l am here to remain, and will give my personal attention to the1 bu sine? s. "NVhtE itheityjNoie v'..,n. I : . . . Our Terms are the Best ever Offered, and our Instruments the Best ever Made. HTTuning and Repairing Executediin the Highest Style of the Art. WILL. IM. HANFF. Manger. r P IS HP BY PLACING A NICE Monument, Tombstone or Tablet TO THEIR GRAVES, When you can do so at such a small cost the LARGEST MARBLE WORKS IN mjr n uk: uiiettptr iinxu iue cneapesu Brick and Cement Furnished, and All Work Erected Free of Charge. hlrelll or notify me and I will cli on. parties any- J.E.STANLEY, ) GABBESS BROS,, Agcui lur j.urm v-aroiina, r GOLDSBORO, N. C. ) Mi Miss the Opportunity J LAEG-E Overcoats. Lap Holes ui At Actual New York Cost ! O THEE As Yon Will Fini! Resvectfiitty, Goldsboro, N. C, deol7-tf J. FINE LOT. OF IRISH POTATOES for PLANTING, Garden Seeds, Choice Cuba Molasses, Vine gar, Sugar, Coffee, Potash, Lye, . 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