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THE TIMES.
TflUttSDAY MARCH 8ih 1834.
OUR CONGRE.VSIONAL
MAJORITY!
It. is said that a quo.um can bo
bad only lor about one boar iu each
week in the Congressional balls of
national legislation, herc our honer-able-law
makers are tbe balance of
the time our people .are anxious to
know.. Tbe time bas passed when
the -sbverigns of this Country will sub
mit to the measures of reform shall
be. clogged by the absence of men
from-lheir places of duty who sought
aiid obtained their suffreg' for the
highest offices of dignity, power ud
pfotit within their power to confere.
Tne-re .are men in Congress " today
drawing $6200 a year who should be
at Lome plowing vcarlings at S4 oer
month. The people are writing upon
the walls of our Congress chambers
the same denunciation that the angels
magic hand wrote upon the wall of
the banquet chamber of Belzzhas
of.old, ''thou hast been waid in thlf
balance and found wanting."
'The day of retribution is nearly at
hand when U.e crowned kings or the
republic will say to their representa
tives in Congress to each one
thou hast been unfaithful overman'
tbings, we wili nake you drivers of
many, steers.
GlftblNG TE HOLY
LAND
WITH RAILS.
There is now a great railwa' sys
tem in. the course of construction
wbih:tjyll girdle the holy Land
fromone eud to the other. A French
company has secured a concession
for a line, from Berrouth to Damas
cus, and has already commeuced
work on a narnwgauge rod. An
English 33 udicate is now building a
railway from Haifa to Damascus
which will be about 140 miles long
long starting from Haifa, finding its
way. alopg the the northen base or
the range of Carmal to the plain of
Esbarlon," through. the valley east of
Nazareth, Leaving Mount Tabor it
will cross the River "Jordan on a
tresrte'nnd then lo the point known
as Majemeh, where the Little Jordan
oiirs tu6 great rivers. At. this point
the rdacj. will.. borders on the south
ern shore f Galilee and almost
withmit a curve along tbe famous
wheat region, biblically kuown as
the plains of Bash an, thence to th3
southern gate of Damascus. St
Louts," .Itepublic,
THEXOSS OF A .YOUNG MAN
To live for Christ is far bettor than
nursing the bonoS of a railroad, or
the stock of abank, or listening to
the hum of thewheels of the mill. A
single' shaHe -of the telegraph wire
may unsettle a man, and make a
rainy day forjiim and a heavy heart.
It is well worth wbile for a man to
have before bun as a dream, a fine
couutry seat, a garden, quietness, a
splendid position in the city; but il
that is all he has got, what little sau
isfactin it will be to him whrtn he
comes to that time when he will go
up stairs and say : ! am not very
well to-day, I guess I won't go to
the office," and the next day:
"Perhaps you had petter go for a doc
tor. He lies with his face to the wall.
And all the great stores he has built,
and all the great activities tbaj have
fe'.t the touch of his finger fade out of
his eyes, and he thinks of the other
shore, arid f what treasures he has
laid up behind the sUrs. I tell you.
then, young men, we want something
more than the presen' life. What a
fpleiid.it picture tnai is of Mr GUU
s'.ouo L'.in into the l.ttle chu'ei. :tnd4
rending the lesson! 1 he less
great decause be believes in God, and
because h : witness for his name? I
think the greatest wreck of ail, in
this world, is the lossofayoun man.
When he goes down, the wor d is
poorer ttan for anything else that
ould be IbsL-John Wanamaker.
A FARM Eli'S 1'IIILa-oriIY.
HK GIVES HIS REASON TOR
THE HARD TIMEo,
"There is being so much said in
the country about hard times anil the
scarcity of money and a9 everybody
has a cause and knows a remedy, I
thought I would write to tell your
readers what I think is the cause.
We buy more than we produca.
"There is too much flour and ba
con shipped here every jaer. The
thingswe ought to make at home we
are buying.
"Wc let our timber rot and buy
onr plough stocks, singletrees, axe
handles, hoe handles and fencing.
We throw awa3' our ashes and
buy soap and axle grease.
'We give avaay our beef hides
and buy hamestrings and shoestrings.
"We .waste our manure and buy.
guano.
"We buy garden seed in the spring
and cabbage in the winter,
"We let our lands grow up ip
weeds ai.d buy our broomes,
"We waste the wax out of our
pine and gum ;rees and buy chew
in" rum lor our children.
"We build schoolhouses and hire
teachers and send our childreu on to
be educated.
We land a five cent fish with a four
dollar fishing rod.
"We send a fiftyceut boy out with
a Wentydollnr nm and a four dol
lar dog to kill birds.
"We raise dogs and buy wool,
"Aud'about the only things in
this country that there is overpros
ductiou of are politics and dog ticks.
LIFT THE MORTGAGE IF
POSSIBLE.
How to lift the mortgage from the
the farm, savs the Warienton Record
is one of the most difficult problems
to solve and yet one of the most
important. There are many ' farmers
but for the constant drain upon them
in the payment of interest to keep
their property from going under the
hammer would be prosperous would
have enough every year not only to
meet all their necessary demands put
to provide their familes with many
luxuries, but this everlasting drain
keeps thetn poor while the fear of
ruin in the eud almost crushes the
manhood out of them makes tbem
less prepared for the struggle.
Debt is a relentless tyrat whose
grasp is hard to break- Many men
struggle on for years paying interest
and denying their famlities the com
forts of life and in the end lose aU.
We oelieve in the plan of settling up
in some way or other if possidle.
If you have farm under mortgige try
to compromise with your creditors
and get them to take a part and leave
you a home if a sm:ill one. Better
than 50 acres unencumbered than
a 1,000 acre tract with a mortgage
on it which you can never lift.
There have been many men who
could haye settled with their credi
tors and had a comfortable home left
who have held on hoping against
hope until an accumulation of inter
est has swamped everything. Rut
men seem to dislike to reduce their j
acerage If theyv own a thousand
acres of land they want to holdon to it
when in a large majority of cases
they would make more money if they
only owned a hundred. But if there
is any possible way to do it. get
clear of that mortgage and stop that
interest which is growing day and
night and Sunday. Goldsboro Head
light. A man does not build a wall by
picking at the work of other buildeis
who worked before hira. If there
appear to be defects in it, he
strengthens it by careful work the
weak places rather than bv digging
at, ihcin. United Presbyterian.
Tack is sincere; policy is deceitful.
Tack is frank; policy is sly. Tack
looks you in the eye; policy gazes
over your iiead. It is not a coro
mendable thing in a man t have poN
icy. Christ had tact; the Emperor
Augustus has policy. ions Herald.
THE CIST Or W:M.CS
Xecrptiou rr.ictf .-! br t'.w V.V.lliin
There Li perhaps otlur -Troup of in
sects which in form and color are so gen
erally imitative, and which naturalists
have found more difficult to detect in
their haunts. Their bodies often resemble
the roughened bark of the trees among
which jthey live, or they seem to have
growing to them little flecks of lichen
or moss, which add to the deception.
The disguise of the walking leal
Phyllium is the more striking to a nat
uralist because he will notice that
-whereas among all other members ol
the tribe the wing-covers (when they
exist); are greatly abbreviated, the very
opposite is trucj in Phylliutn, the wing
covers, the only members which could
be made to resemble a leaf to perfection,
being greatly developed, while the
wings are greatly aborted, as if tho
wing-covers were here developed for
the express purpose of this mimicry.
Twenty-five years ago, at the Jardin
d'Acclimatation at Paris, some of these
walking leaves were exhibited alive.
They were placed on growing plants, j
from which the larger part of the leaves
were stripped, that the insects might
not too easily conceal themselves. If a
large placard announcing the presence
of these creatures had not "drawn at
tention to themvurert.itnly uo one would
have recognized anything extraor
dinary; and even as it was, many a per
son, after examining the case with care,
left without seeing anything but the
plant, and with the opinion that
what the placard told them to look
for was some minute object too micro
scopic for their siyht. Even those who
knew what to expect had often a long
search to discover what was in reality
in full sight.
The same was truo of tie livinspeci
mens at Edinburgh Of one of them
Murray says: 'v'or toe greatest period
of its life" it so evu-.'tly rosombled the
leaf on which it fed that when visitors
were shown it they usually, after look
ing carefully over the plant for a
minute or two. declared they could see
no insect. It had then to be more
minutely pointed out to them; and al
though seeing is notoriously said to be
believing, it looked so absolutely the
same as the leaves among which it rest
ed that this test rarely satisfied them,
and nothing would convince them that
there was a real live insect there but
the test of touch. It had to be stirred
up to make it move."
Undoubtedly this imitative resem
blance is the most striking in the walk
ing leaf, but it is quite as complete in
many of the "walking sticks proper.
The naturalist, Wallace, familiar with
them in tropical forests, says that in
the Moluccas they are found "hanging
on the shrubs that line the forest paths;
and they resemble sticks so exactly in
color, in the small rugosities of the
bark, in the knots and small branches
imitated by the joints of the legs,
which are cither pressed close to the
body or stuck out at random, that it is
absolutely impossible by the eye alone
to distinguish the real dead twigs
which fall down from the trees over
head from the living insects." And he
adds that he has "often looked at them
in doubt, and has been obliged to use
the sense of touch to determine the
point." Samuel II. Scudder, in Har
per's Magazine.
UGLY ONES PREDOMINATE.
A Sculptor Say Unpleasant Things About
Women's Arms.
To make one perfect pair of arms for
his Aphrodite, Mr. George Wade, the
English sculptor, had five models, and
lie selected the best points in the arms
of each to make his composite. lie
knows some discouraging things about
women's arms, things that may make
the young person who has serenely un
covered hers to the gaze of the multi
tude wonder if she was wise after all.
He stakes his artistic reputation on the
statement that it is most difficult to
find a woman with merely good arms,
to say nothing of beautiful ones.
"It is in the wrist mainly," he says,
"that we have difficulty when we are
looking for perfection. In most
women's arms the bone is too conspic
uous at the wrist and elbow. Hut a
well-covered arm is not necessarily a
well-shaped one. There are many
points to be taken! ' into consideration,
which may be summed up as follows:
The arm should be fully two heads
long from Its insertion at the shoulder
to the wrist. The upper arm large
and round; a dimpled elbow; the fore
arm not too flat; the w hole diminish
ing in long, graceful curves to a well
rounded wrist."
Then Mr. Wade goes on to say that
the possession of a pretty face by no
means implies the possession of pretty
arms, but that generally the reverse is
true, and plain women have the most
ravishing arms. He adds unkindly
that workingwomen have much more
gracefully rounded arms than their
idle sisters in society. The reason, of
course, is more daily rxoroiso. And
one cannot hope to Iov-ly arms
by a spasmodic d. vs-l ion to ntiiletics.
It Is the constant, rent: ' household
sort of exercise- which give woman
arms fit to be mo-Ie'ou for a Hebe.
But violent athletics only develop the
muscles, and at the suggestion of a
muscular development in a woman Mr.
Wade holds up his hands in horror.
The slightest suspicion of muscle," he
says, spoils all the beautiful curves
and suggests unwomanliness.'
It isn't a cheerful prospect when no
exercise leaves tbe arnu shapeless, and
too much exercise makes them that
hideous thing unwomanly. But there
are big sleeves for which to thank
Heaven. X. Y. World.
I f ii a mi o ee.
IF YOU NEED ANYTHING IN THE WAY OF
TIN SAFES, DINING TABLES,
WASHSTAWDS; BUREAUS, BED
STEADS, ARID ANYTHING ELSE
ISM THE WAY OF FURWITIRE,
COSV1E AMD SEE R1E.
I ALSO MAKE COFFINS.
SPECIAL ORDERS FILLED ON SHORT NOTICE.
I MAKE ALT THE GOODS THAT I HANDLE, AND WILL
GUARENTEE EVERY THING THAT GOES OUT OF MY SHOP.
Respectfully
H. J. STRICKLAND.
NOTICE.
By virtue . of power of sale con
tained in a mortgage ded executed to
me b) G. M. Capps and wife and
duly recorded in Register of Deeds
office of Harnett county in book H
No. 2, page 189 and 190. I will sell
to the Lighest bidder for cash at the
Court House door in Lillington on
Monday April 2nd 1894 one tract or
parcel of iand lying in Averasboro
Townshiii containing 32 acres more
or less. For a better description see
records above. This Feb. 27th 1894
E. F. Young.
Mortgagee, i
ui uui' u oil mi
We have made arrangements with
the poblishcrs of the Atlanta Weekly
Constitution, by which we can offer
it with our paper one jear for only
$1.25. clubbing subscriptions u be
sent to this office and accompanied
by cash.
LIBERAL PRIZE OFFER.
Every subscriber to this to this
remarkable clubbing proposition t is
entitled to enter One Prize Contest,
sending his guess for
THE 1,000"" COTTON CROP
f'AVTUcp
v x x .
in which there are four prizes offered
for the nearest estimates of the size
of the cotton. crop of 1893-4, now bet
ing marketed, and award to be made
as soon as the .New Orleans Cotton
Exchange announces the oflieial crop
figures. 400 in gold for nearest
nuess to the cop, 200 prize for se
i a. tnn i i iaa f
oud, 200 prize for third, 100 for
fourth. 100 lor filth.
Crops for recent years have been
as follows:
Year
Bales
Year
I
bales
1877
138
1880
11
18fc2 i
18f3
1S81
..: 5,66D,fcl
4,1-11,265:
5.07 J131 :
5,757,397;
6,S8,S9:
5,4X5,815:
6.92,231:
5.711,052:
186 : 6,550,5: l.
1887 : 6.51:t,6l
1888 : 7,017,707
1889 : 6.7 M5, 0.2
18.0 : 7,513,726
181 8.6K,rl8
im : 6,700.3(55
Addiess
The Times,
Dunn. N. C
a few days, and you will be stiirtled at the unex
pected success that will reward your efforts. Ve
positively have the best buii:(-s to oflv.r mi aent
that cau be found on the fnce Of thi. earth.
843.0O profit on 875 OO worth of business ii
beir.jr easily and honorably made by and paid to
hundreds of men, women, boy, mid pirls in our
employ. You can nitike iuoney faster ut work tor
us than von have v.ty in -a of. Th- buine? i. no
easy to li r, and in-tru:Uo.n to Mi:i!e aud plais,
Hiatal' succeed from the start. Those who take
hold of the business reap the advantage tha
arises from the sound rej-uuniioii o; oi.e f the
oldest, most successful, aud Iarf-f i.ub!i?hiiur
lousvs in America. Secure 'or yourself tiie profits
that the bu.-iness so readily and handsomely u 'd.
All beginners succeed grandly, and more than
realize their greatest expec.ratioi.. Those vlw
trv it find exactly sis we tell tiiem. There is plenty
of room for a tew more workers, anil wr- urg
them to besriu at o.ice. If vou are alrentlv em
ployed, but have a few are moments, aid v i-h
to usetnom to :
Ifor this i vonr
advantage, then write u nt once
XlXlSrhStr'-
full particulars
Til UK & CO., Box Xo. 40O, Auguttta, jHe
For Malaria, Liver Trou
ble, or Indigestion, use
HHOWN'S IRON BITTERS
.'$V . j won birrsbjb
ris JiivilijeMiou. riiiousiiev. Dyspepsia. Z'rl
r.a. .."ervouMi r.nd ficncral Debility. Thj..
iaus .-eeomreud it. I dealers sell it! Genuiv
riL r.n i croasc-'l red llsr or vrmcper'
It you r feel weal
and all worn out take
BROWN'S IRON BITTERS
vtsrtma-c ynti ;uf',awn jv., . j. ,j
prnoqs Ma Xu
. . Many Persons are brolea
dOTO from overrv.i: or hooaebold cares.
Brown's Iron Hitters Rebuilds tt
eyem, aids digestion, renovea excess of lT
aadcuraxaabtria. Gel ihe geouuio.
WORK FOR
NOTICE.
North Carolina,
J
In the Superior Court
Harnett County. J
J. J.-. Wilson Assignee of 1 NOTICE
Glen ves Hardware Co. "J .- of
vs. V Execution
A. R. Wilson, j bale.
By virtue of an execution directed to
the undersigned from the Superior Court
of Harnett county iu the above entitled
action, I will on Monday, the 2nd day of
April 1894. at 12 o'clock M., at the court
hous door of said county, sell to the
highest bidder for cash, to satisfy said
execution, all the right, title, and inter
est which the said A. K. WilsoH, Defen
dant, lias in the following described real
I estate, to-wir: 4I$ acres of lond known
as McLean land, 72 acres of laud kuown
as Lewis McLean land, q.j acres known
as Alex. Furguson land, located in Stew
arts Creek Township, one acre at Spout
Springs in Andelsons Creek township.
C. McArtan, Sherift
JS'oriCE.
"By virtue of a certain Mortgage Deed
executed to me Feb. 20 1S93 by A. F.
Kenned j and duly registered iu the re
cords of deeds of mortgages of Harnett
county, in book 11. No. 2 page 126. i
will sell at public sale to the highest bid
der at the Depot in Dunn, N. C, at 12
o'clock M. on Saturday the 17th. day of
March, 18U4, The following property
therein conve'ed, to-wit: A certain
tiact of land in Crove Township Harnett
county adjoining the lands of W. 11.
Stephenson and others containing 22.
acres more or less.
tor lull (ascription
Book H. No 2 najre 12G Records of.
Harnett count'. Said hind contains val-
uable buildinsrs. ALo one black mans
mule conveyed in said mortgage. This '
13th day of Feb. 1894.
L. M. Ryals, Admr.
Jt. M. Canuadv. Mortirairee.
i L. J. Best, Attorney.
j .
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8 RT virtue of a certain Morgage execu-
I ted to S. A;" Salmon Feb. 20, 1893 by
i f. M. McKay and duly transferred and
! assigned to us and duly registered in the
j records of deeds of mortgages of Harnett
count j in book II No. 2 page ol, we win
sell at public sale to the hihc-tMdder nt
the Court House door in Lilliugton N.
C. at 12 o'clock M oil Monday the 2nd
day of April, 1894, the following prop
erty therein conveyed, to-wit: A eerlaiu
tract of land iu Upper Little Kiver
Township in said county acjoining the
! lands cj Hardy Collins and being origi-
nally a. part ol saKJ tract, also aiijoiuius
the lauds of A, A.Bethea and L B. Cha
pin, containing 100 acres more or les.
For full (cseriptiou see Commissioners
report of the division of the estate of
Neil MiKay deceased filed in Clerks
! office of Harnett county. Also two
mules described and convoyed ir. said
mortgage. This 28 day of Februay
1894. Terms cash.
"Young. Creightoo & DiggS
-Assignees 'of Mortgagee.
L. J. Best, Attorney
NOTICE.
By virtne of a cer ain mortgage
executed to us August 1st 1885 by
J. A Stewart snd wife Sarah Stewart
and duly registered in the records of
ileeds of , mortgages of Harnett
County, in hook Q pages 480 and
481, we will pell at public sale to the
highest bidder at Court House dvr
in Lilliugton C. at 12 o'clock M.
j on Monday the 2w1 day of April.
I 1894. The following property therein
conveyed to-wit : A certain tract '
land in Grove Township in said
county described as follows: Begin
ing at a cum Stewarts corner in i'e
edge of Black River and as" his line
n 23 e 1 1 chain to n gum A. Hnzhe
corner then as his line n 65 w 370
i - -
i chains to Hughes corners then
a nr li nfl rlxiina t. n orl.ito ItnV tree
j J. K. Stewarts corner then as aid
Stewarts line n 89 J w 11.30 cuains
to a corner of the Atkins land in
isaid J. K. Stewarts lu e then as tne
Atkins lit e s ll.CD chains to a pm
and pointers the Atkins line thence
direct to tbe beginning containing
100 acres. Also the personal proper
ty described and cnvejel In said
mortgage For lull cescription see
Record of Harnett County. This
-2R if Kpj 1H94. Terms cash.
! A. E, Baukin & r-
j Mortgagees.
L. J, Best, Attorney, .
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