North Carolina Newspapers

The CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R. 'LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY S, THY GOd's, AND TRUTH'S. I.50 A YEAR GASH IN ADVANCE. VOLUME XXI. NUMBER 24 W ilvon Advance. 1 5 1 i I I j ij if rtwittsow im 6n county, n. c, july 2, 1891. , ; . BEFORE YOU BUY -FAN- visit us and over the stock just hand. - look new to 71 - have just d another receiv- supply qually as desirable as the last lot. ' Fan shaped Nappies only 4cts, 7-inch oval Dishes only 45ts, ( iattling Gun-Tooth-pick hold ers only ,461s, 1 Childrens Glass Mugs and other new goods in all the departments. Cash Catches The Bargains. THE CASH RACKET STORE, . NASH ST., WILSON, N. C. MILLINERY. -Our Buyer has returned from a trip through the Northern Markets and, -as usual, has purchas .1 full aud select line of Milli nery Good s. ( F THE LATEST STYLES AND DESIGNS, hich are now arriving. We know that ur trade demands the best that can be procured, yet we are confi dent u e can please vou. The ser vices of .Miss Marie O'Neal, an experienced Milliner, of Bal timorc, have been secured in addition to our pres ent corpsf assistants. jSPYoH are respectfully invited to ili and examine our stock. Mrs. O. E. Williams & Co., Cor. Nash andTarboro Sts., WILSON, N. C. ! )( ) Vou Want V COOK STOVE ON WHEELS! THAT MAKES 'o smoke, no smell, no soot, that re? ires no wood and has no stove pipe 1 . fa l lown and clean out ? It is some very Housekeeper wants. 1 iiii 11YSTAL FLY TRAPS, (all jjiass.) A decided novelty, will last a life-time ARIS GREEN! I he only thing that will kill potato 1 r;s. . : r. ' Refrigerators, Coolers and the cele 1 '--ted 111 I K MOUNTAIN KREBZERr For Sale by Geo. D. Green & Co. WILSON, N. C. JOHN D. COUPER, j MARBLE & GRANITE M muments, Gravestones, &c. in, 113 and 115 Bank St., NORFOLK, VA. L edgns free. Write for prices. 5-i4-iy W l lr Goods' (ilass-Ware. HI 1 RP S LETTER I UK nfiWRIUES HL VWIf TO THE lillh.Vi .stAlfiHTER MOUSES OF A R MOCK'S. Wl.vrr Deviled Maui rim From of I'. it TlutUMaud Hogrn in one Hoily t tty are Taken t Their Ileal h. Sight How Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Kamsas City, Mo., June 17. I found Liberty and her people a great ! land ana a great people. It is a bhie grass region just like that of Ken tucky, only the soil is fresher and deeper and the people as large or larger. Thirteen trustees of the col- lege were in session and 1 was told thev averaed six feet and one and one h ill inches in height and were large in proportion. They have large heads and faces and features ; and wore patriarchal beards. They j are all Bapt.st, strong in will and ' fixed in principle and purpose. They j tear God and regard m m and are lift- m! ir ahtwe the common mania for ' uioney. There must be something grass that produces large 1 111 blue men and horses.' Citv' that be lutiiul women and fine I was told here Clay county was in Kansas noted1 for the extraordinary stature of her peo ple and the sterling integrity of her citizens. Their old-fashioned hospi tality is a by-word, for they keep opeu houses and give every gentle man a welcome. The William Jewell college is on a hill that overlooks the town on the east, and the lemale col lege faces it from another hill on the west, and here the good people of Liberty are preparing the girls and the boys for usefulness and matri mony. As a proof of the high tone and manhood of the young men it was stated in public that since the last commencement a year ago, not a boy had received a reprimand nor deserved one, nor had there been a rupture or grievance among them what a record ! Compare this with Harvard, where a few days ago thirty-four students were fined $65 each for serving whiskey in their, rooms. Compare it with many of our South ern colleges, where "a good part of the curriculum is a baseball excursion about orice a month. It was a great day at Liberty and I never was more honored and never felt so undeserving of it. I did not find Captain Tom McCarthy but I found his children and grand-children and his monument. These people are all of one mind concerning gov ernment and politics. They are all for liberty and independence and for the county of Clay and the State of Missouri and have a kindly feeling towards the national government when it is on good behavior. There is no poverty here, no tramps, and Dr. Allan told us that for forty years they had not lost a crop. For forty years their farmers have not failed to make enough grain to do them and have some to spare. And yet, with all their prosperity, they are not proud nor conceited, but walk hum bly before the Lord their Godj It was this people that raised $6,000 for our poor and sent half of it to Missis sippi and $3,000 to us without being asked or entreated, and without knowing: a single person in all the region tnat snerman lett desolate. We kept $1,500 for our country and the rest to our nabors. Where else can you find such a people ? May the good Lord continue to bless Lib erty, her colleges and her people, A VISIT TO ARMOUR'S., his name is Armour, ana ne is one of four brothers. He was very T T 11 pleasant, and talked and joked like other people. He is tall and thin in flesh, and his dress was common . T T 1 . quite common, ne lookea like a temperate, hard-working man of for- ty-hve with an income sufficient to meet his expenses, and a little over. He moved around quietly among half a hundred clerks and secretaries and type-writers and telegraph oper ators all at their desks, but he still found time to talk to us and did not seem annoyed. He called up bright lad of fourteen and told him to show us everything, and we fol lowed where he led. Onetime there was a herd of swine that ran down into the sea and were choked with the waters. The devil and his kin folks were after them. I. reckon that was where deviled ham was invented our tnese nogs 01 Armour s seemed quiet enough and serenely uncon scious ot their imoendine doom How kind is Providence to the beasts and birds and fish that we sacrifice for food. No apprehension, no fear a moment of pain, perhaps, and al pis over. It won t comoare with the death of a man or a child not even with the toothache or the neuraleia Here was a herd of swine that -had - j been gathered from all parts of this great country, and they come in every day by the thousand, and the long train of stock cars emptied their live ireight into the stock yards. Ten thousand come every day and in the winter twice as many. I wish that our Southern boys could see 10,000 big fat hogs at one time. Before the war, when the hog drovers of Ten nessee used to drive down their hogs to Atlanta and Macon and Augusta we thought 500 was- a great sight and - t 1 i ,000 was a snow equal to a i circus and it didn't happen often, but here are 10,000 every day right now. Smaller and smaller are the pens as they near the great enclosure whose machinery picks them up as dirty hairy swine and puts them out as canvassed hams;and-elear ribbed sides and sausage and souse and pickled feet, and all of it done with the pre cision of clock work and as clean as the most careful farmer ever killed his meat in November. Sometimes we shot our hogs with a rifle and it took a ?ood marksman to droP tnem dead without a failure. Sometimes we knocked them in the head with an axe. Sometimes we did neither, for we wanted the head left sound and the brains unclotted and so they were thrown on the side and stuck to the heart and let alone. It is not a cruel death, for the hog has not a sensative cuticle and that is all that hurts. The doctors tell us that the inside cutting does not give pain. I have known a stuck hog to walk about and nose an ear of corn while his life blood was oozing out and he crouched gently to the ground and died without a struggle BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER. Uur guide conducted us to a pen that was nearest the butcher. We climbed to a platform where we could look down without getting spattered, and there we saw a mm down among the hog clamping the iron handcufis on one of their hind legs, and as fast as he did so the rope that was at- tacbed to the manacle, was pulled U by machinery and the hog swung u six teet in the air peiore ne knew anythin g about it. It took him so by surprise that he squealed a little and cavorted about, but not long. The machinery soon carried him m reach of the butcher, who gently caught a fore foot with his left hand to steady him and with his right gave the fatal blow, and, as the stream of blood flowed out, the hog moved on to make room for the next one. And so they come and die and go every minute, yes, four to a minute, for that man's business is to kill 250 every hour for ten hours, and he does it. The blood does not run away fast, for the blood is thick than water, and where it gathers on the lower side it seemed to be six or eight inches deep and in one place was half way up to the tops of his boots. They say that the butcher carries his tobacco in his bosom where it will get decently spattered, and he cuts his quid with his bloody knife. Our lad of a guide told us that butchers were not allowed to set on juries over in England, but I reckon he is mis taken. They are not necessarily brutal men. This one did not have a repulsive face. Our good old cook who wrings a .chicken's head off every day is very kind to our little lolks and I reckon that these bloody butchers love their wives and are gende and kind to their children. For 4,000 years the butchering busi ness was a religious duty, it began with Cain and continued all along down the line. Abraham took a very prominent part in it and when Solomon's temple was dedicated there were 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep sacrificed and burned upon the altars. INTO BOILING WATER. But what became of Mr. Armour's hogs ( 1 he machinery moved them stowly on to a vat of boiling water, and -by this time they were dead and were gently let down into it and the foot cuff unloosed aud some rollers or drags underneath the water moved them slowly to the other end, and as the hog was lodged upon some strong iron fingers, they came up and lifted him upon a platform that rolled him down a slide ngfht under wheel with cogs and brushes all mixed up, and when he came out from under that he was white and clean all over except his ears and his feet. Then he was jerked up again and gammoned in the old fashioned way, and his head cut nearly off, and then he began travel ing again to another department, whose several men were engaged in the harikari business, and could empty a hog in less than one min ute and hurry him on to the next man. All along this line there were side shows ol livers and hearts that were heaped in great hand barrows and carried awav. The heads and feet were severed, too, and carried away, and the hog of commerce was left unincumbered. How the outside and the inside was cleaned and util ized it is not necessary to describe, but it is all saved, even to the hair and hoots and blood, not a thintr wasted or lost. But the main hog headless and footless is hurried away into a large cooling room still sus pended and dripping. The ther mometer 57 in the front room. He remains there a few hours and then the rolling machinery moves him into another room where the thermometer is 37 nearly freezing. There his ribs are taken out and the leaf lard piled up in great stacks as high as the room. Our guide took some of the ribs and smote them together, and they cracked like boards. Some of them were piled up in another room, where the thermometer was only 17 degrees above zero. It was so cold that I shivered and was hur rying out, when the lad stopped us to show us great cans of frozen frogs and carcasses of frozen deer, and pheasants and prairie chickens, which come in and eo out everv dav. These are for the plutocrats, of course. HOW THEY ARE INSPECTED. Now, the boys who read this must imagine that these rooms are not rooms, but are large compartments 100 feet long and nearly as broad, and the hogs are hanging up in them so thick they nearly touch, and every day they go out nd a new set comes in. The cars are at the doors, and some are filled with side meats, and some with canvassed hams, and some with other parts, and away they go to the east and the south and the west. Before the hams are canvassed a government inspector runs a long, stout needle in every one to the bone and draws it out with a flirt that takes 1 ! : il to his nose and this he does all day loner, and sometime finds one that does not suit his sensitive olfactories, and it is quickly tumbled of) the board. In another great room the lard is dried up into immense kettles and run into tanks that hpld 5,000 gallons. At the bottom of these there are men turning the faucets and filling the cans cans of all sizes from five gallons to one-half gallon, and from another, tank the barrels are filled Close by is the great tin shop where all these cans are made. Ill another great room the ice is made at the rate of 500 tons a day, and m another suasage are stuffed by the mile. But this is not all of this business. I wish the boys could see the cattle department. One thousand two hundred large, fat cattle are slaught ered here every day, but not like the! hogs arc slaughtered. When the strong, narrow door of the gangway is opened the nearest beef rushes ii7, and anothe riht behind and an other until ten ;ire in a line, and fills it aud the door is closed. that The cattle are in single file and sooner than I can write it the man with the long-handled hammer, who stands on a platform about the level with their heads, has, with one stroke for each, felled them all to the floor in the quivering of death, and other men quickly. cut their throats and put the irons on their heels, and the machinery gives a heave and they are jerked into the air and out of the way to make room for more. It is all lightning business, and these great carcasses begin the grand rounds and go through the skinning operation, and then are cut in halves with great cleavers, and they, too, find the cooling rooms in due time and are frozen hard. There are no poor cat tie, no poor hogs or sheep. Every thing is fat From the fat of these cattle the oleomargarine or butterine is made, and it is just as beautiful as the finest butter I ever saw. Great cans of pure, rich milk are purchased from the farmers, and this butterine is churned in it in immense revolving churns that hold 100 gallons each. TJiis is done to give the butterine the flavor of butter and we were tcld that none but an experienced expert could tell the difference. But it is all lab eled "butterine," so as to compl with the law, and it takes the place butter in all the boarding houses and one-horse hotels in this country, and is now giving general satisfaction. OVERWHELMING INDEED. But this is enough. I want the boys to. know that Mr. Armour em ploys over 2,000 hands m this facto ry, and there are six others here that average nearly as large as his, and altogether they kill 1 5,000 hogs and 6,000 beeves and 3,000 sheep a day, and nobody here seems to think it very wonderful. To me it was amaz ing, astounding, overwhelming. But after all it is only a consolidation. In the old "times before the war every farmer killed for himself, and it took four or five hands and a whole day and a half the night to make pork of a dozen hogs. Then there were the heads and the feet to work over, and thejard to render, and the sausage to stuff. I reckon there were 2,000 hogs killed in our country during the winter. One hundred counties would make 200,000 hogs for one State, and now there are forty-six States to be sup plied in whole or in part, aud it is done at three or four places, and is better done and costs less time and money. Now the western farmer sells his hogs and buys his pork, just as the southern farmer sells his cot ton and buys his cloth. I saw two cattle men trading here yesterday one said ha didn't have many only a little bunch but Mr. Armour paid him a check for $57,000, and he paid the other man $120,000, and that is the way it is done here every day. Of course, he is making money, lots of money, but if he does it fairly and without cornering the market, it is alright. He has heavy competition here, and they may have a secret trust. We don't know, and will have to endure what we cannot help, but I think berter of the Armour's than I used to. Bill Arp. Lemon Elixir. PLEASANT, ELEGANT, RELIABLE. For biliousness; and constipation, take Lemon Elixir For fevers, chills and malaria, take Lemon Elixir For sleeplessness, nervousness and. palpitation of the heart, take Lemon Elixir For indigestion and foul stomach, take Lemon Elixir For all sick and nervous headaches, take Lemon Elixir Ladies, for natural and thorough or ganic regulation, take Lemon Elixir Dr Mozley's Lemon Elixir will not fail you in any of the above named dis eases, all of which arise from a torpid or diseased liver, stomach, kidneys or bowels Prepared only by Dr H Mozlev, At lanta, Ga. -''fact and $1.00 per bottle, at druggists Lemon Hot l)r. Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Hemmor rhage and all throat and lung diseas es Elegant, reliable 25 cents at druggists Prepared only by Dr H Mozley, Atlanta, Ga Father A list of your debts would make very interesting reabing. Son Possibly. But a little heavy, I fancy. Munsey's Weekly. Hood's Sarsaparilla has the largest sale of any medicine before the pub lic. Any honest druggist will con firm this statement. "Fingers were made before forks," remarked Miss Elder at the table. "Mine weren't," replied Miss Flipp spitefully. Harper s Bazar. AN ELOQUENT SPEECH. IS A CASK IXVOI.VIXG 1'HK MANU FACTURE OF AKDEST SPIRITS. Col. RuUei-i O. lnsersull, la Summing up. Made the Following Brilliant 1 Vmpei - Lecture. "I am aware that there is a preju dice against any man engaged in the manufacture of alcohol. I believe, from the time it is issued from the poisonous worm in the distillery, until re empties mtonne neu ot death, dis honor and crime that it is demoraliz ing to everybody that touches it, from the source to where it ends. I do not believe that anybody can contemplate the subject without being prejudiced against the crime. All we have to do is to think of the wrecks on either side of the stream of death, of suicides, of insanity, of poverty, of the destruction of little children tugging at the breasts of despairing wive asking for bread, of the men of eenious it has wrecked. of the struggling with imaginary ser pents produced by this devilish thing, and when you think of the jails and almhouses, of the asylums, of the prison and the scaffold on either side, I do not wonder that the thoughtful man is prejudiced against this vile stuff called alcohol. Intemperance cuts down youth in its vigor, man hood in its strength, and age in its, weakness. It breaks the father's heart, bereaves the doting mother, extinguishes the natural affection, erases conjugal love, blots out filial attachments, blights parental hope, and brings premature age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness not strength, sickness not health, death not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, and all paupers. It feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, embraces consumptiou, and fills the land with misery and crime. It begets controversies, fos ters quarrels and riots. It crowds your penitentiaries, and furnishes victims for the scaffold. It is the blood of the gambler, the element of the burglar, the prop of the highwaymen, and the support of the midnight incendiary. It counte nances the liar, respects the thief, es teems the blasphemer. It violates obligations, reverences fraud, hates love, scorns innocence and virtue. It incites the father to butcher his helpless offspring, and the child to grind the parricidal axe. It burns up the men, consumes women, detests- hfe, curses God and despises Heaven. It suborns witnesses, nurses perfidy defiles the jury box, and stains the judicial ermine. It bribes voters dis qualifies votersjcorrupts elections, en dangers the government It de grades the citizen, debases the legis lator, dishonors the statesman, and disarms the patriot It brings shame, not honor ; terror, not safety ; despair, not hope ; misery, not happiness ; and with the malevonance of a fiend, calmly surveys its frightful desolation, and unspairing with havoc, it wipes out national honor, then curses the world, and laughs at its ruin. It does more murders the soul. From Friend to Friend Goes the story of the excellence of Hood's Sarsaparilla and what has ac complished, and this is the strongest advertising which is done on behalf of this medicine. We endeavor to tell honestly what Hood's Sarsaparilla is and what it will do, but what it has done is far more important and far more potent. Its unequalled record of cures is sure to convince those who have never tried Hood's Sarsaparilla that it is an excellent medicine. First tramp--I never-failed yet to to make money out of anything I tackled. Second tramp You ought to be rich. . First iramp But I ain't. You see I never tackled anything. Texas Siftings. A Cloud of Witnefiite. We know of nq, medicine that has so many testimonials to its efficiency as S. S. S., the great blood purifier, Many 01 the best known people in the country certify to the marvellous results it has wrought in the various forms of diseases for which it is re commended. These testimbnials come not alone from persons who have been releived of their sufferings by S. S. S., but from people who have witnessed the effects of the medicine, Practicing physicians, druggist, pharmacists in fact, all who have had an opportunity of ob serving the cures brought about by this great blood remedy bear willing testimony to its efficacy. In its field, which in a wide one, covering some of the most serious ailments of hu manity, S. S. S.. has no rival. Cora John, you must be beside yourself this evening. John (eagerly) I would be beside myself, my darling my better half were the cersmony performed. Happy Hoonient. Wm. Timmons, Postmaster of Ida ville, Ind., writes : "Electric Bitters has done more for me than all other medicines combined, for that bad feeling arising from Kidney and Liver trouble." John Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same place, says : "Find Electric Bitters to be the best Kidney and Liver medicine, made me feel like a new man." J. W. Gardner, hardware merchant, same town says : Electric Bitters is Jjust the thing for a man who is all run down and don't care whether he lives or dies ; he found new strength, good appetite and felt just like he had a new lease on life. Only 50c. at A. W. Row land's drugstore. THE OLD BLACK MAMMY. "Mifitla, I'll Pertect 'em Wld my Life," the Old Woman Replied, Ur Eye Stveaiu tltff With Tears. We would rather it had happened to anybody else, but if you never had : a "black mammy" of your own it would be useless to try to explain our feelings to you. My earliest recollection was the scene of my mother's death-bed, when she begged "mammy" to take good care of the little children it grieved her so much to leave. "MlStis, I'll perfect 'em wid mer life," the old woman had replied, her eyes streaming with tears. ' Very faithful had mammy been to ' her trust, and we rewarded her with ' all the affection our little hearts could hold. She would not let us follow I her into the cotton field when the sun was overhead, but when the heat of the day was gone we would hasten to her side and put many handfuls of cotton into her basket, hoping to make it heavier than any of the other "hands." "Y'all is mammy's shaders," she would say,-smiling aftectionally, "but den you's all de sunshine she's got, too." One afternoon when the sun was settiflg we heard a fearful sound that grew louder and louder, and looking backward we saw a great cloud of dust and -the inverted cone of the cyclone we had so long dreaded. "Run, everybody, run fer yer life!" shouted the foreman, who towered like a giant above the rest. Make fer de gully in de Hunneycut field." Almost as fast as the wind we ran, but mammy looked over her shoul der and saw that my little brother, Jonnie, was not keeping up with the rest of us. "I gwine back an' tote my mistis' chile," she said. "Run erlong, honey, an' don' min' me ; mammy '11 be dar teree'ly." And I ran on and left her. In about an hour the wind had lulled and a pouring rain had set in. We crawled out of our place of refuge, and one of the negroes was lucky enough to have" a lantern with him. I begged him to help me search for mammy. At last we found her lying on a rock. "Are you hurt, mammy ?" I asked between my sobs. "Yes, honey, I'm hurted in my head, but my mistis' chile is safe." And, sure enough, Johnnie was lying on her shoulder fast to sleep. The men carried her tenderly, and laid her on the bed in her log cabin. "Can't you do anything for her, doctor ?" I asked. "I wish' I could !" was his earnest reply. He sat by her bedside all night trying to alleviate her pain, while I, on the other side, fanned her as well as I could for sobbing. Just as the clouds were brightening in the east mammy stretched our her hands as if to greet some one. "I'm er comin' ter yer, mistis, an I took good keer er yer chillen, honey." A smile flitted over the worn, old features, and we that were watching beside het knew that she had passed "out of the region of sadness into the sunshine of gladness. Mary. M. Friend in Philadelphia Times. La Grippe Again. During the epidemic of La Grippe last season Dr. King s New Discov ery for Consumption, Coughs, and Colds, proved to be the best remedy Reports from the many who used it confirm this statement. They were not only quickly relieved, but the disease left no bad after results. We ask you to give this remedy a trial and we guarantee that vou will be satisfied with results, or the-purchase price will be retundea. it has no equal in La Grippe, or any Throat, Chest or Lung Trouble. Trial bot tles free at A. W. Rowland's drug store. Large bottles, 50c. and $.100 A PKKTTY GAMK. It is often difficult to know how to entertain an evening company with out resorting to cards or dancing, and it is noticeable that some form of intellectual entertainment is becom ine more and more popular each year. Among these is the "literary salad," described as follows in the Youth's Companion. Though de signed primarily for an afternoon tea- party, it can easib be adopted to any social gathering : A few day beforehand dainty little invitations are sent out. These are written on pale green note paper, but in other respects are in the usual form. The material part of the feast need not be described, as it is like any delicate menu now served under the name of ladies' lynch. After the tables are cleared, the hostess seats herself .before the table, on which is a plate of green leaves, and with a rap of her knife calls the ladies to order thus: "Ladies, I want to serve a salad, and "you are now invited to come up in turn and select a share." Of course each one comes' up in haste, eager to solve the mystery. The leaves are pieces of green tissue paper, on each of which is pasted a slip of white letter paper bearing a quotation from some popu lar or standard author. As each guest passes the table she selects a leaf, and upon reading the quotation gives the name of the author. If she does this correctly, the leaf is hers. If she fails she re turns the leaf, but some' time after wards has another trial in her turn. Some of the quick witted ones will soon collect a large bouquet of leaves and to the one who gathers the largest there is given a pretty prize of some sort. To make the leaves for the "litera ry salad," take light green tissue paper and cut it into shape of large lettuce or small cablxige leaves, lea -a small strip at the bottom ol each. Fold the leaf lengthwise through the middle and slip it over :i hair pin, pressing it together over the round mgpart of the pin. ' If this is done carefully the leaf will be beautifully crinkled, like a real one jut from the garden. Now write the quotation upon some small slips of writing paper, and paste them upon the piece left for this purpose on the tissue pap r leaf. Have a small book with all the quotations and the names of the authors written opposite each other, so that the awarding committee may have its aid in deciding who has guessed the greatest number of names. Some Hints oa Read! ng All books need not Ik? read care fully ; indeed, it is often a waste of time to linger long over a volume whose entire thought is not essential to one's purpose. It is an art acquir ed only by. practice to elean wisely and rapidly from a somewhat barren yet occasionally fruitful book. Many, probably most, volumes demand time and careful thought. The sec ond reading of a good book is often of great value. The thoughts from the first reading are impressed more fully on the mind, and become assim ilated with one's mental structure, while others of value that were un noticed before are gathered in. If there is -no time for second read ing, it is an excellent idea to read with a blue pencil in hand, and td mark those passages on which one would like to bestow fiutUier thought. In the eyes of some people, marking a book is an unpardonable sin, but the practice has many advantages. The value of the marked volume is greatly enhanced not only to the owner, whose attention is thus readi ly called to passages of special inter est and importance, but also to the borrower, who is able to follow the reader's thought, and learn his judg ment and taste. The objection that a book whose margins and interlined looks less clean and fresh than it free' from markings, has no weight. ( )f what value is a shelf full of books that have been rightly kept tree from these written comments, and look as clean as just from the publisher, ex cept to command a higher price when some years hence, our cherished pos sessions are taken to a dealer in sec ond hand literature ? A judiciously marked book is a source of delight to the maker and his friends, and because tenfold more a part of the reader's thought than any other. It is unnecessary to sav that the marking should be done bv no one except the owner, and com mon sense will suggest a hard pencil for the purpose. The advice so generally given to pass by no reference the meaning of which is not at once apparent works in twro ways. The reader who takes up Milton for the first time, and whose education has not been a liber al one, would lose alt the freshness of the thought which the author breathes forth if he forced himself to continually consult books of mythrol ogy and history. The habit of fre quently interrupting the author's thought to consult dictionary or en cyclopaedia results disastrous!)' it one is attempting to recognize the author's genius. Sometimes a blue mark, or a list of obsure words jotted down for future reference, will relieve the reader's conscience, and not sensibly diminish his interest in the book. At other times the close relation of thought and illustration positively de mands investigation from some out side source. Read with a friend if possible : not necessarily aloud or together but ii the thoughts of twro friends are direc t ed to the same course of reading during the day, its subjects are pret ty sure to be discussed, and its sub stance more thoroughly digested and assimilated. Years after, an illusion to the book or a quoted passage re calls the thought and the friend both profitably and pleasantly. Discus sion always emphasizes and greatly facilitates comprehension of a written page. Helen Marshall North, in Harper s Razar. What n Com Must be carefully considered by the great majority of people, in buying even necessities of life. Hood's Sarsaparilla commends itself with special force to 'the great middle classes, because it combines postive economy with great medicinal power. It is the only medicine of which ran truly be said "100 Doses One Dol lar," and a bottle taken according to directions will average to last a month. "We have passed the stone age, the bronze age; and so on," said the teacher. "Now what age is the pre sent?" "The shortage,' replied Freddy who reads the papers. For Over Fifty Y-ar Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething; with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve" the poor little sufferer im mediately. Sold by Dru(tMsts in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. 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JPYNER, DENTAL SURGEON, wilson, nr. c. . 1 nav ecome permanently Hienti- fied with the people bf Wilson; have practiced hescror the past ten years and wisli to return thanks to the gener ous people of the community for the liberal patronage they have given me. 3' spare no money to procure in struments that will conduce to the com fort of my patients. For a continuation of the liberal patronage heretofore bestowed on nte 1 shall feel deeply grateful. GASTON & RANSOM, THE WILSON BARBERS. Jien you wish an easy shave, -. s good as ever barber gave, 'list call on us at our saloon, At morning, eve or noon. We cut and dress the hair with grace, To suit the contour of the face. Our room is neat and towels clean, Scissors sharp and razors keen. And every thing, we think, you'll find To suit tin- face and please the mind. And all that art and. skill can do, If you'll just call we'll do for you. W. . I