THE ROANOKE NEAVS, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1891.
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l)er liny. 1 "' 10 Klve yu
nmtln safe anil irnoil,
Tulll make your live Kucrmsfiil,
jf )u betxl ll n-1 yon aliouliL
()heV it In tlicfllnt.
l),e.y It I" the lettrr
Po'i'l my tlilntf i "i?'Hl enouiiU"
I ill ii can he no W Iter.
,,,1 wlirtlier at your lessons,
Or at yi'iir ilally work,
p.ni't I' u'f w,l' labliler
Dmi'l slide, ami "Kirk,
nil think 't dotwn't matter
Hint micli talk ! "trli" and 'stuff'1
For until your task is purfcrt,
II Is never "ifood enounh."
It ynur work in in tlio school room,
Jliiko every lesson tell;
o matter whit you menu to be,
ldillil your foundation well.
Every kn.itty lnt an I problem,
j inil you bravely muster now
III Increase your skill to labor
lib the pen or witli the plow.
f you sweep a store or stall's,
I'e fure you go behind
Every box aul bale ami counter;
It will pay, you'll always find,
To be careful, patient, I lioroiticli,
'Jlinui;b tbv work be hard and roii;h;
And when nu'vedo ie your very bust,
'will thou be "ond enollifli."
Jo you'd better take my motto,
If you ever mean to work
To ii ii v latlmi bibber
'I hnn a stable boy or clerk.
It III make you ludepeirlenti
It will make you no man's debtor;
Then never say " it's kiiikI enough "
lill it ra i lie no better.
- .M. K. Fandiur.l, in (ioldeii Day.
Mflnvy Cooper's I'toidl.
Smut) of Hie earliest Ki.ctclies of the
Tf U'lttn artist, Sidney Cooper, R, A.,
were in dt) with pencils, given to liini
by a hti aiiner (whom in Inter years lit
met us ii fellow member of the Hoynl
Academy), uud sharpened ly no less a
person than tliu head of tint English
Church. The young artist was more
iuUie.-t.'J, nl the tune, in the important
fuel tlntl lie had line new ski-lcliing
materials, than in tlie identity of li is
twn friends. Years later, however, liy
I leaning coincidence Ii und the giver
of the pencils discovered each other.
On p-i' passed his boyhood in Cull lel-
bury. lie very early showed u taste
for ail. nud nolliing deliglited him
sMimie lliail to sketch the ratlii'draL One
'nfiernoon lie was drawing lite central
tower on a slate, when a geiitleiiian
who whs sketching the cathedral
noticed Ida work, and gave him a
bundle of pencils and some drawing
paper.
"Yearn later," write Mr, Cooper in
"My Lite," "in 1830, at a Bocial meeting
in London, I met Slantield. Roberts,
C itleriuole, one of the Laudseers, Frank
SUue, Patrick Nngein, and some others,
and a proposition wu initdu that each
of us should It'll (toiii'j anecdote of his
early life. 1 ivlak-.l toe incidL'iit of tho
slate. As 1 fiiihdieJ, Caller, i.ole jumped
up and cried out:
"Why, Sidney, are you the slate?
Then know linn I tun the )h'IiciU! I
really am the very man who e,uve yon
the pencils in the eaityaid of Cauler
bury Ciiilio.liul; and are you verily the
1 man who wan the hoy then?'"
"Hut thou ,'h he now had pencil, lie
a had no Unite, ami had to ask a stranger
to sluirpe.i them lor him.
"One 1 1 ay a very sellout looking man
Mm iiereil I y, w itlt his hands clasped
behind his incli. 1 said to myself,
'That m a priest.' In those days the
boyscal.ed all the arsons priests, and
Ic till see that he was a clergy nitiu of
8oine -oi t.
"When he hud got a few yards away
I gained courage and ran after him, call
ing tU , 'Sir, sir 1'
"lie luri.el rt.u id and said, 'What,
my hoy ?'
"'Picas-, sir. have you a knife?'
'Ws. iii v littlo man.' said tie. 'what
do y u w an. ?'
"1 told him, and he iul all my pen
cils li and then, coming up lu the
coping w her.- 1 was established, he
looked at my drawing. 'Very good, my
boy,' lie nil, and passed oil.
"Immediately a door opened near me,
mid tut came a lit Ie man villi pow
dered hair, and attired in nankeen
i breeches and a Uu-velvet coal wilh
'metal bu tons, and poking his little nose
tluou;li the railing, ased me what that
gentleman had said lo mo.
"'Nolliing,' I answered.
"'Then w hat did you say to him?'
"'1 asked him to till my pencils.'
"'And did he?'
"'Yes, lie tut theiti all?
"'Do you know w ho that was?
"'No.'
"'ihat was the Archbishop of Canter
lury.'" Profits of Mot Jl.iehloes.
It is in this a I 'sei ice of salaries which
Wakes the slot macliiiies valuable. Tho
average cost of a good machine is said
to be less than ?J. If such a machine
is put in a barroom with the agreement
that the proprietor of the barroom is to
receive ha f the money that comes in,
experience proves thai such a machine
Will be used upon an average ISO times
a week. I hiii speaking only of the olio
cent machines. This gives 73 cents to
the barroom and 75 cents to the owner
of the machine. Weighing machines
Ore more profitable, than ollieis because
they get out of order less easily. If a.
liiini can put oui 230 such machines it is
evident that the average receipts will bo
5187, lifter paying the percentages duo
to the proprietors of barrooms and oilier
places, 'lhe capital involved will be
about 10,000 and oue Bklled mechanic
would Le required to keep the machines
in ordor. Thin it may lie neen that the
business is far from a bad uue. Chi
cago Journal
th Tulkeil Shop.
She was the daughter of an editor,
and w as rejecting an adorer.
"Do you want a proof of my affec
tion, " ho said in lurtlier pleading.
"Oh, no," she responded as sho
handed him back a pile of love letters,
tied with a blue ribbon, "I want no
proof; 1 have it all hero iii manuscript,
uud that's enough."
"Ofllclal" Crriiuitlon.
Tlie government in Butie, Sw itzerland,
offers the inhabitant of that city the
clioio.' between being creiiia.ol aud be
ing buried wheu they die.
Social Uf,, In Offleial Cirri.
Until within u few years wealth in-
flnenced Washington society very little;
hut oi late there has been a change ami
from this lime ou money will be more
and more the kev to the relative social
positions. lhero will be probably
higher and lower classes, and there w ill
lie changes such as marked the Jeffer
son administration with its HiiiinliriLv.
or the Monroe, with its stateliness; but
the President will alwavs t'iva reren-
, . o I
turns to Congress, the diplomatic coi ns.
and the arinv and mivv: there will ml.
ways be slate dinners at w hich officials,
regardless of wealth, will be almost
wholly the only guest. Refreshments
are always served at evening receptions,
except at the While House. President
Hayes, who spent lhe largest amount of
money on entertainments of any of the
Presidents, nlnays had an elegant colla
tion; but since that time there has been
no eating and drinking at the three
animal card receptions in the Executive
Mansion.
To the young woman just free I from
school a winter in Washington society
is like a winter spent with Aladdin's
genii. Tho meoling of titled foreigners,
the escort of army and navy officers,
the iictpiaintance of men and women of
national reputation, the beautiful homes,
grand balls and gernians, the dainty
lunches, the bouquets and Paris gowns,
nil go to make up the splentl.ir; but to
the middle aged woman w ho for years
has watched the crowds come and go;
who must pay visits no matter how
invary; must see the frivolity w hich is
of course present, it is a different story,
nnil any slight illness or misfortune in
the family is taken advantage of to an
Bounce that "Mrs. So and So will be tin
able to return her visits this season, be
cause of the death of a near relative, "
etc.
lu most cities eopb are in the high'
est rociety because of wealth or family,
Lecause of extraordinary ability or
genius, or from accident. In Washing
ton it is because of their official k-
sition. They may make friends and be
beloved, but thai does not entitle them
to the official invitation. Lathes aro
invited lo the state dinner given to tho
supreme Court, not becauso they are
the brightest and best women of the
President's acquaintance, but because
their husbands are members of the
committee on the judiciary of the S)n
ate or the House, or to the state dinner
to the diplomatic corps, because their
husbauds are on the committee on
foreign affairs. Such a guest may las
cri-s eyed and brainless, but she will
Bit in her seat and receive the same
official attention. Personality is losl in
position. This loss of personality
position is true of all grades, even the
President. He is served first at tho
state dinner, and so exiciing is this
rule that even when his Irieud from his
old home dines quietly bv his side, it
the host and not tin- guest, who isserved
first, Harriet Taylor Upton, iu llo
Home linker.
A ritotngrnpliftr'a Mtory.
"I had an experience the other day
which has interested mo more than any
thing of a similar nature Inch litis hti
peued to mo in all my business experi
ence. A young lady who moves in the
best society brought mo three lotleio
nnd I li!iolographed them for her, and
at her request destroyed tin negatives.
Tiio lelltus wert! the most tender aud
ardent love missives imaginable. They
were addressed to the young lady her
self, and were signed by a iiamo which
I urn sure you would recognize instantly
were I to mention it. 1 will confess that
curiosity got the belter of my judgment,
ond I linady said:
"You'll pardon me. but Ihis job is a
little litiuniul, isn't it?"
" Is it?' she said smiling.
"It strikes, me so,' I replied. 'I don't
see w hy you want photographs of these
loiters since you have tho letters them
selves, '
"'Don't yon? Well, I da Supposo
t'ie letters were to be lost or burned or
destroyed in some other way.'
"'Wouldn't lhe photographs bo de
stroyed just nseisily as the letters ?'
"'Perhaps not; especially if they wero
not kept in tho same place with tha let
ters, ilhil I'm not afraid of losing them
bv tire or in any such way as that The
f .ct is, the ink is fading out nnd in a
short time it is likely to lie illeg h'e.'
"There is n girl for you who doesn't
propo.e to take any risks in the breach
uf promise business" Chicago Mail.
Tha Flrt Tjpewrltur.
I saw a few days ago a model of the
first writing machine made in this coun
try, it wan patented iu 1843 by a mau
named Cha lies Thurber.of Massachusetts,
and is a really amusing affair hi its very
clumsiness. It consists of a wheel about
a foot in diainolcr w hich turns horizon
tally up .n a central pivot; the rim of the
wheel is bored with 25 holes, in each
one of which is a rod bearing at tho top
a glass letter nnd ut the bottom a similar
letter of steel. The paper sheet ii so ar
ranged that the line to be printed is un
der the rim of ll is wheel, and the letter
wauled is swung into place by turning
thH wheel; when in placa a rod bearing
it is depressed until the steel letter or
type touches the paper. 1 should say
(.hat even the fastest operator conld not
writu more than half as fast as a mail
with a P'i). Yet it was a w riling
. OT, I .. .. t 1 ! ,
iiiiichino ami llinroer sueceeiieci m Kei,
tintr neoole to invest $15,000 in this curi-
ousdevice. At piesent there are no less
,li:in 47 different kinds of typewriters
made end cold in this country, and in
New York city iih'nn there are said to
Ik- moie than 3,000 expert operators
imiking n living by typ'w riuuj.
Oiiat.Ciirm News an I Cum r.
Willie Vt as I'tislml.
p,.,,,rlf y. u hud a suit of clothes
nnd some olio would give you auomer,
Low tiiiinv would you hnvo 1
. V.'ill e Slio' oiiO e.
'line ei N iw, AY .Hie, how do you
make mat "U ?
Wiibi My lilile brodier D bl.ie would
have the other.
,nv. io-Y nil St. Itiiriiard d.s sell at
iioui i
' ,.l L. S I Oil, I eae.i.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
STOP AT
Hotel,
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HALIFAX 2sT. C
CLEAN ROOMS.
SPLENDID TABLE.
POLITE SERVANTS.
Fare always tbe beat
the markets can af
ford. SERVICE NEAT
AND
PROMPT.
larNEAR THE COURT HOUSE.-!
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Baggage taken from and
to the railroad station.
NICE ACCOMMODATIONS
FOR LADIES.
RATES $2.00 A DAY,
Special arrangements for hoard by tt)
week or month.
CLARK & REID,
Proprieton.
mar 20 tf.
an.lWuiskevEabltl
cured at homo with
out uiiu. llook ofnor
tieiiiHnisent FltrK.
B. M. WOOL I.KY. M.I)
Allaula,Uu. Ulticc 104 Whitehall Si
CHAS.
Ut'KADK
MILhER
AKttLE
WALSH,
soutii sycamore sTKLEj,
PETEllSBUHO.VA.
Monuments,
Headstones,
Tombs,
Tablets, io.
Lowest cash prices guaranteed. All
work warranted satisfactory.
J6TA beautiful calendar for 1889
sent to any address on receipt of stamp
tor postage.
CHARLES M. WALSH,
oetll ly.
LIQUORS
0.
SMITH,
SEE HIS LIQUORS,
SEE HIS CIGARS,
feJeerM,
EVERY DRINK IN SEASON.
-C. Smith, Brick itiltling, on
Vnrth Cornel of Railroad Shed, Weldon.
N. C.
oct 16 ly.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A I)
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GARWOOD'S EXTKAOT, New Line ol
NA lE'S TRIPLE, .S TATIONERY&-
VIOLET WATER, Just Received 150 Linen writing
woodworth's FLORIDA WA- Tablets, wbich I'll sell
TKR, at a email
AND
SACHET POWDER. PKOFIT.
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Stag liraDd 1'rcpared A Larye
Paints. Stock of
Pure White Lead &
Linseed oil. LANDRETH'S
I'll sell paints at a QA11DEN
very small margin. SEED.
NOTICE.
jNT0TICE,
I have for sale
350-lotsin-the
town of
WELDON, N. 0.
These lots are
valuable for resi-
Mgnces - and - for
business stands.
I M
Jan. 84, iyu.
E. T. CLARK,
Weldon,N.C.
jan 29 3in.
E. Myers & Co.
AGENTS
RECTIFIERS & WHOLESALE
LIQUOR DEALERS.
FINE WHISKIES A SPECIALTY.
Petersburg, Ya.
H. T. POPE,
-BIALIS ra-
GROCERIES, LIQUORS, CI
GARS, ETC.
Sole Agents
for the fol
lowing brands
of whkkies,
which
are
Especially
llccottnucndi'd
for
Medical
Use:
PETERSBURG CLUB-
MOSUMESTAL CLUB
dec 4 Cm.
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To the Friends
and Patrons of the old and long establish
ed firms of Tappey, Lumsden & Co.,
Tappey & Steel and Tappey & Delaney.
WeqWre to state that we have bought
the Machinery, Patterns, good will, etc.,
and will continue to carry on the Foun
dry and Machine business at the stand
occupied by them for the past 40 years.
All inquiries and orders will receive
prompt attention and we trust to be
favored with the patronage of the friends
j of the above mentioned concerns. Hav
ing been associated with them as foreman
and book-Keeper tor about .!U years, wo
feel confident in entering upon this pn
terDrise we do so with a thorough and
practical knowledge of the business.
STEUiL & ALKA.AiN Drill.
ffl WOODWORK-0 ATfAC-HMESfSt
rcfke0. 28 UNION SQUftRE.NY. sAjj-h
ST.L0UIS.MO. IM-W Mia M 0ALlAS.TEX.
P. N. STAIN BACK & BltO.
Weldon, N. C.
-0- MY STOCK OF 0
And
Winlnp
n liiiiii
Is nrrlvltuj, nl I will niRplay the finest line oi
Roods cvtr shown In this town. Come ana ste
the
NEW STYLES.
COME AND SELECT THE NEW
EST NOVELTIES.
MRS. r
A. LEWIS,
Weldon, N. C.
oct 4 ly
1 ISiii
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New Millinery.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
exican
ustang
Liniment
for
and
FOR
orty Years
THE
For Sale
BY ALL
may 22 ly
LAND SALE.
VALUABLE FARMS FOR'SALEIK
HAUFAX COUNTY, N. C:
ONE FARM CONTAING 534 ACRES,
6 horse crop cleared, good pasture,
never failing stream, apple and peach or
chard, good dwelling and necessary out
houses. PRICE $2,000.
NE TRACT OF 200 ACRES, ONE
horse crop cleared, most of the other
in fiue growth of pines; good dwelling and
out houses.
PKICE $1,000.
ONE TRACT OF 83 ACRES, ONE
horse crop cleared, the balance in
heavy growth of original pines.
PRICE $400.00.
ONE TRACT OF 314 ACRES, TWO
horse crop clenred, the balance in fine
growth of oak and pine.
PKICE $1,000.
ONE TRACT OF 4R0 ACRES, 3 HORSE
crop cleared; good dwelling and all
necessary out-hours.
PKICE $2,000.
0
N E TRACT OF 8a0 ACRES, FIVE
horse crop cleared; good dwelling and
out-houses.
PKICE $2,roo.
These farms are convenient to eh
in a healthy locality, and a short distance
from Halifax and Enlield. Parties wishing
to buy, and want to
EXAMINE :-: TIIESE-:-LANDS
Will call on MR. THOMAS Ot'SISY, Hen
derson, N. C, or MR. T. C. MURGESft.
who lives near Halifax, who will take pleas
ure in showing them to purchasers.
Any or all of these hinds will be
ZRElsTTIED -
ON REASONABLE TERMS
FOE 1890.
B.F.QAQY,
an 30 ti.
Weldon, N. C.
mm
STANDARD