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The Central! Times! DR- J. H. DANIEL. Editor and Proprietor. PROVE ALL THINGS. AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD. $1.00 Per Year. In Advance VOL. B r DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C. THURSDAY APRIL 5 1894. NO. 6. DIRECTORY, Town Oeficers Mayor. E. A. Plr (.'omiiiNsioner. .1. H. Pope, J. ( ox. I. T. Massengill, F. T. Moore. r "Hi y, F. P. Jones. M;irshal, M. I j. t CIi u relies. VK'irnn'ST Rev. Geo. T. Simmons. Pastor vi rvicfs at 7 p. ra. every First Sunday, and U a. in il 1 1- fvery Fourth Sunday. l'rr.y'r meeting every Wednesday night at - u'rl.rt'k. tiini'lav school every Sunday morning at 10 clock. (1. K. Grantham Suirliiteiidant. . M'tiii.f . of Siinday-fchool fMisaionary So- ! ci. tv yery 4tn. sunaay aiiernoon. y, un-r Men's Frayer-meeting every Mon day night. Pkkbbvtkriav Rev. A.M HassH. Fsstor. ,-rvwew every First and Fifth Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7 l, m. Min.lay school every Sunday evening at o'clock, Dr, J, II. Daniel, Supereudant. Pterin es Rev. J. J. Harper, Pastor. Services every Third Sunday, at 11 a. m. uA ' p. m'. Sunday school every Sunday at 2 o'clock, l'rf. W. C. Williams. Superintendant. 1'rayer meeting every Thursday night at o'clock. jItiriNARv Baptist Rev. N. B. Cobb, D. i'aftor. NTvics every Second Sunday at 11 a. m. iiui 7 .-in.. ' Sunday school every Sunday inrrning at 10 o cl.ck, 11. (J. Taylor, Superintendant. Vraycrmeetioug every Thursday night at VSii o'clock. Frke-Wiu. Bai-tist Rev. J. H. Worley, l'sstr. Services every Fourth Sunday at 11 a. m. Suu.tay sdhool every Sunday evening at 3 o'clock. Erasmus Lee Superintendant. Pkivutive BAptist Elder Burnlce Wood Pastor S-rvii:eH every Third Sunday at 11 a. m. and Mturday before the Third Sunday at 11 a.m. EE J. BEST. i ATTORNEY AT LAW. DUNN, N. C. Practice in all the Courts. Prompt attention to all business. J 25 I y A NEW LAW FIRM. D. II. McLean and J. A. Farmer nave this day associated themselves !oi:i'ther in the ixraetice f law in all the courts of the State. Collections and general practice solicited. I). H, McLean, of Lillington, N. C J. A. Farmer, of Dunn, N, C. MavlK93. U J. II DANIEL. DUNN, HARNETT CO. N C. Practice confined to the disease of Cancer. PoMtivelly will not visit patients at distance. A pamphlet On Can ;er. Its Trent mentand Cure, will be mailed to any address tree o f eare. 1 E. T tl ATTORNEY-AT LAW Vill Practice in all the surround 'OS counties. JONESBORO. N, C. MILLINERY II AVE YOU EXAM EN ED THE BARGAINS iuiSS CKAY IS OFFERING IN UDIE'S, MISSPS AND CHIL DKKN'S HA rs ? SHE ALSO HAS ON HAND A fiEAUTIFUL LINE OF VEILING. Sadies and misses corsets. lNlAMs AND CHILDREN'S CA, MERINE VESTS. HOSIE RY, GLOVES AND MANY OTIN T MENTION. AND ALL AT HKR USUAL LOW PRICES. S-VriSKA(TK GUARANTEED. linn ATI THAI AlllKI HIMI uiuiiviiiuu A SOUTHERN NOVELIST. , Richard Malrolra Johnston and His Clover Work. How Ul ('onvemlon to Roiran Catholic ism ChuncM Htm from Educator to ' Story Teller Ilia First Lit erar KK rt. I spent an aftcrnnon last week with one of the most charming1 writers of the United States, writes Frank G. Carpenter in the Chicago Herald. I refer to . Richard Malcolm Johnston, who ranks with Uncle Remus and Thomas Nelson Page as among1 the greatest story tellers of the south, and whose dialect tales of the Georgia hills havo delighted the readers of the magazines for years. It was at his home on West North avenue in Baltimore that I called upon hi in.. His house is a three-story rd brick,, which is covered with vines and looks out upon ono of the widest streets of the city. The living roonj of the family are on the second floor, and it was in the parlor, furnished with antique pieces, that I met Mr. Johnston. He is not so rich to-day as he was before the war, when he owned a plantation in the south and possessed the luxurious surround ings of a well-to-do planter of his time. lie lives very comfortably, how ever, and his income from his writings is enough to support well himself and his family. It Is not generally known to the jmblic that Richard Malcolm Johnston is one of the best educatora of the United States. He was a professor in the university of Georgia at the time the war began, and when it closed, leaving himself and all his friends poor, he opened a boarding school for boys at his home, near Sparta, in Georgia, and made here for years $20, 000 and upward annually by teaching. He had about fifty boys, who paid him tuition fees of 500 a year, and the most famous families of the south sent their children to him. Very few teach ers In the United States to-day can make as much as 820,000 a year, and the story of how Mr. Johnston gave up his school and devoted himself to writing for an income about one-tenth this size is rm interesting one. He told it to me in response to my questions. bald he: "I like the profession of teaching very much and 1 look upon it RICHARD MALCOLM JOH2CSTOX. as my life work. I never thought of making money by writing for pay, and it was not until I came to Balti more that I realized that I could write am-thing which had a real money value, I left Georgia on account of the death of my daughter. We loved her dearly, and I could not endure life amid the old associations without her. I gave up my school and moved to this city and began teaching here. About forty of my boys came from the south to Baltimore to enter my school, and had I not changed my religion I would probably be teaching to-day. Some time after I came here, however, I grew convinced that my religious ideas were wrong, and from being an Episcopalian I was converted to Ca tholicism and became a member of the Catholic church. The most of my students were Episcopalians, and when their parents learned of the change in my religious belief they withdrew their sons from the school, and the re sult was that I eventually gave up teaching. In the meantime I had written some short stories, which were published in a southern magazine that was then printed here in Baltimore. These now form part of my book, known as the 'Dukesborough Tales. They attracted attention, but I never thought of their having any money value until one day Mr. Alden, the edi tor of Harper's Magazine, sked me what I had received for them. He was surprised when I told him that I had written them for nothing-, and he said that he would be glad to have me do some writing for Harper's, and that if Icould give him stories like those he would pay for them. I then wrote some stories for Harper's. They were published and paid for, and I have been writing from that time to this. My first story was published after I was fifty years of age." As Richard Malcolm Johnston said this I looked into his bright blue eyes and could not realize that he was more than seventy years of age. It Is trae that his hair and mustache are f 1 osted silver, but his cheeks are rosy with health and his voice has the sil very ring of youth. He is a - tall, straight, fine-looking man, and he is full of enthusiasm and life. He Is mod est in the extreme concerning himself and his work, and he told me that it was a continual surprise to him that his stories were accepted by the maga zines. "I suppose," said he, "it is be cuso they are to a larrje extent of his torical value. They picture a people and a time which is fast passing iway. They are true to life, and they are merely my remembrances of the peo ple of my "boyhood. The dialect which I us. is the language of the people among whom I was raised, and my characters are real characters, with their names changed." Railway Accident! in America. The interstate commerce commission has figured out that one person is killed by railroad accident in this country out of every 1,491,910 persona who ride twenty-four miles. PETTY DISHONESTY. Tlio Little Impositions That Soma Woman Think All Right. A Charming Ctrl Who TT9 Highly Elated at Her Success in lUufflnjr a Street Car Conductor Out of -a Nickel. The readiness and enthusiasm with Vvliich fair woman will beat the res taurant keepers, soda water dispensa tories, railroad companies and all other institutions of civilization foi the collection of nickels, dimes oi other small change is one of the strangest phenomena of these fast striding days. I was discussing a lunch the othei day with a very charming girl, says a lady writer in the New York Herald. The first thing she said after removing her gloves and arranging her rings so that they would show to the very best advantage to the other women present was: "Well, my ride down town didn't cost me a cent. That stupid conductor nevei came around for my fare." Here she held up the nickel exultant ly and laughed in an almost fiendish glee. At the moment a pretty blonde girl passed our table and saluted my com panion. The sight of the, nickel up held seemed to inspire pleasant thoughts. She stopped and began to giggle. Then they giggled together and winked at each other. "That nickel reminds me of some thing funny, Susie," laughed the blonde girl, whose costume cost her husband a cool three hundred dollars. "I have ridden in five horse cars to-day and it hasn't cost me a cent." My companion instantly grew se rious and knitted her pretty brows. "How did you manage it?" she in quired, eagerly, v "Ersily cr.ough," retorted the blonde beauty. "In two cases the impudent conductor never even asked me for my fare, and of course I didn't call him and beg to be taxed. Three of the cars 1 rode on were crowded, and when I boarded theni others did so at the same time. The conductor was way up in front. lie didn't know who or how many got on. "Finally he came around with his eternal cry of 'Fare, please!' I looked straight ahead of me, for I wanted to see what he would do. lie passed and repassed, collecting nickels from idiotic women who were fumbling Id their purses. Each time he looked suspiciousry at me. At last he said, snappishly: 'Have I got your faro, ma'am?' I looked over his head as hauchtily as I could. He became hum bio 'Did I get your fare, lady?' he lisped. How many fares do you want?' 1 replied, sternly. At that the poor man faded away to the back plat form, thoroughly crestfallen. Several gcod-looking fellows glared as if they had a mind to throw him out of the window." The girls laughed long over this ex perience, but when the blonde charm ex was gone I remarked savagely h&t I thought such tactics dishonest. Nonsnse!" observed my lady, la conically, and refused any further dis cussion. In due tirno the waiter brought mo nv check. "Let me see it." taid my beautiful philanthropist. Of course she got it She studied it for a moment seriously, then an r.muscd expression crept around the tcirpting- mouth and final ly she burst into a peal of laughter. "See." she faid. eagerly, bending across the table. "He has cheated himself out of fifty cents. Xow, don't be a simpleton and have hii correct it. It's none of your business, anyway." But I thought it a lirst-rate oppor tunity for alesson in morals. I called the waiter asid showed him where ho had erred ad you may believe he was profoundly grateful. As I collected my change and rose to go I noticedfan ominous frown settling over her lovlelv brow and I am sure the word "fool"is3ued from between her set teeth. Ddtles ef the French Acndemy. The Acadofriie Francaise was founded by Cardinal! Richelieu in 1C35, lived long.enough to snub Corneille and Mo liere, was qjbolish::! in 1790, was re vived two years later and made a use ful body by; Napoleon in 1803. Sinco theii it has tjeen a part of the Institute of France. t elects its own members, who are nolv known as the Forty Im mortals. Iti duties are to preserve the purity of tbe French language, to en courage andsprcservo French literature and to distribute several queer prizes, 6uch. for instance, as two thousand dollars eacfl year to that member of the working-class who has performed the most virtuous action of the year, and three hifndred dollars every other year to the rising genius who is consid ered to be Inost in need of and most worthy of encouragement. The mem bers are supposed to moot twice a week, and a!re paid three dollars and eighty-sever cents a napoleon for every meeting they attend. They re ceive, besides, a salary of three hun dred and sicty dollars a year. Zola, who has b(en rejected some six or seven times,lholds to the tradition that memberships in the academy is tho highest literary honor tha can be bestowed upon a Frenchman. 4 Bound to Uo Comfortable. Mine, du iJclTand. a celebrity of the last ccnturj'f was a great invalid. One day, when he was in bed, several guests arrived and were admitted. They all begSan to fdiiver and pull their cloaks arouna tnem. "uiiat, ex claimed the invalid, "is it cold here?" "It is slmpfy freezing," answered a gue6t. "Thank you for telling me," said Mmc. flu Deffand. She rang a bell. The Quests supposed she was sending for a maid to make a fire; but when the parvant came In, Mac. du Deffand said! "Amelie, bring me in my down coverlet!" Having given this or der, she begjan a conversation about other matters. TTICH FIELD FOR EXPLORERS. - - The Ruins of Two Great Prehistoric Cltle Foucl In Central Asia. In central; and eastern Asia there lies ah unexplored region full of inter est, and to the archaeologist especially, says the Pittburgh Dispatch. A great traveler and felcver writer, the Russian Geji. Prjeval$ky, speaking of the oasis of Tchertchn, situated in the great table lands lammed in by the there un broken wall of the Himalayas, says that close to are the ruins of two great cities,the oldest of which, ac cording to local tradition, was de stroyed three! thousand years ago, and the other bj tho Mongolians In the tenth centuijy of our era. The cm placement of the two cities is now cov ered, owing tb the shifting sands and desert winds,! with strange and hetero- geneous utensils relifcs, broken china, kitchen and! human bones. The du- tives often fifed copper and gold coins, ingots, diamonds and turquoises, and, what is most-emarkable, broken glass. Coffins of some uiidecaying wood or material arethere also, within which beautifully preserved embalmed bodies are found, 'fhe male mummies arc all enormously tall, powerfully built men, with long, 'avy hair. A vault was found with twelve dead men sitting in it. Another imc in a sepcrate coffin a young girl wits - found b3" us. Her eyes were closed Mrith golden disks and the jaws held finfi by a golden circlet run ning from .upder .thc chin across the top of the liead. Clad In a narrow woolen garment, her bosom was cov ered with golen stars, her feet being left naked. To this the lecturer adds that all along the way on the River Tchertchen they heard legends about twentj-threetowns buried years ago by the sands hf the desert. The same tradition exists on the Lob-nor and in the oasis of Icrva. Mme. Blavatsky, who was in the earlier part of her life a great and in defatigable traveler, covering more ground in a gVen time than is usually accomplished) by even those of the 6terncr and nore enduring sex, bears witness also o those at. ::.-nt ruins, which she opinlvaverjars prehistoric; the pages of per works also make fre ! quent reference to other ruins of an- cient character scattered throughout j the desert regions of Central Asia. She j hints, too, atburied crypts and under : ground vault in the desert of Gobi, j in particularlin which arc stored many of the preserved records of the ages. However this may be, the ruins de scribed are certainly in place awaiting the organized efforts of science to re , cover for t!ul world a long-forgotten 4 casre in the history of thepcoolcsof the 1 - globe. Or, as m the case of Troy, private enterprise may step in and, continuing tho investigations begun by the Russian traveler, read this rid dle of a bygone civilization aright. MISDIRECTED LETTERS. Statistics 8 how That Teople Are Addi infir Mail fatter 31 ore Carefully. The number of pieces of dead mall matter received at the dead letter of fice during the fiscal year 1893 was T.181, 027, an increase over the receipts of the previous year of 849,847 pieces, or a little more than five per cent. This in crease of undelivered matter, according- to the Albany Press, is loss than the per cent, of increase of matter mailed, as shown by the statistics oi other branches df the postal service, and would seem to indicate more care on the part of the people in addressing their letters as well as increased vigi lance on the part of postmasters to se cure proper delivery. Tho number of pieco3 treated in tho dead-letter office, including those on hand from the previous year, was 7, 830,038. These were classified as f pi lows Five million four hundred and eight thousand nine hundred and forty five were ordinary unclaimed letters, 204,445 were addressed to persons la the care of hotels, 218,180 were mailed to foreign countries and returned by the various postal administrations as undeliverablo, 50,941 were addressed to initials or fictitious persons and 7,10$ were domestic registered letters. There were C33,C57 pieces of mail mat ter of foreign origin and 182,050 wor ordinary letters wi'Jiout Inclosures, having been once returned by tho dead letter office to addresses con tained therein, and, failing of deliv ery, were again sent to the dead letter office for final disposition. The number of letters classed as no mailable compri&o 1,144, containing articles which were not transmissible in the mails; 95,234 were either entire ly unpaid or paid less than one full rate, and could not, therefore, be forwarded) 400,832 wore either deficient or ad dressed to places not post offices or to post offices which had no existence hi the state named, and were classed txn der the general head of "misdirectedr 85,018 were without any address what- ( ever, and 2,040 were classed as "mis cellaneous." There were also received 83,240 unclaimed and unmailable par cels of third and fourth-claps matter. HE GOT THERE. A Statlon-rionse Lodger Who Was Wot Wlthont Ills Ambitions. The station house lodger is generally supposed to belong to the vagrant class only, but this is not always the case "About fonr years ago," said the ser geant of a Brooklyn .station, "there was a little Hebrew peddler, a young chap, who used to come and sleep here nightly. He was a quiet sort of a fel low, and we all got to like him. Every morning he would start ont with his pack, and every night he reappeared I said to him one day: 'Look here Stein, how is it that you always corns back here? You're industrious enough and after a hard day's work can't yon afford a better place to sleep? " 'Well said he, 'I'll tell yon how II is, sergeant. I'm in such a position that I've got to save. I'm down now, but I intend to be something better some day, and the only way for me is to save. Why, sergeant, if I take in only three cents a day, I'll bet yon I save one. I know what it is to have a ood time, for I had 'em myself one day, and I'm bound to have 'em again. "Well, we used to help the boy along by buying little things of him now and then, for he was so plucky and perse vering. There's an allowance made for giving supper to the bums, and we used to take the cash and give It to Stein. I never saw another man who could buy so much for so little. He'd come back loaded down with a dosea loaves of bread and several feet of sausages and spread a royal repast be fore the vags. Then we used to give him a separate celLsohe wouldn't hare to sleep with the bums, for we were afraid they'd rob him or steal his pack. Gradually he stayed away, and I haven't seen him for a long time. Bat I've often wondered," mused the sergeant "what he'i doing now. I'll wager he's running a stord of his own. I'm cer tain he got there." X. Y. Recorder. Watts "It is a mighty lucky man who can truthfully say that he has lived with his wife for ten years with out her once calling him a brute. Potts "l ean make that boast that is, if you except the occasions when she has insisted that I was a donkey." In dianapolis Journal. Tenant "That house of yours is in a terrible condition. It isn't fit for pigs to live in." Landlord "And yon are therefore go in 7 to more?" Bo&toa Transcript. . . Alfred ths Great of England was annoytnL ill his life by severe head aches. v. Vch came on without warn-. iug and i led for days at 1 tint. r
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