THE nUHDiJD.
Friday, August 3, 1SS8.
"lit KT ltOA!" WALKER.
-lion lie Won hi BfRine-.-What They
Think of Our ' JtoTlal" Captain
Xortti.
rrjusbmgii, vv'osui L
The nian who wears the largest,
suit of clothes a Pittsburg tailor ever
made, drinks three, quarts - of water
at each meal, and who has the qual
ities supposed to go with rotundity
and temperance, puglit to f urnish a
good character , sketch., . No micro
scope is needed to pierce the person
ality of this man; he may be analyz
ed with the naked eye. . No fear to
make his acquaintance, , except your
hand may ache a little after the
grasp it got,, or your sides be sore for
a week.froni -very excessive .merri
ment you would like, to meet him.
AVell, go to the Pittsburg postoffice
and ask to see Captain Wm.Cara way,
inspector for the Pittsburg division.
You'll find, him, provided he is not
out in the woods after game, hard at
work in a little . den. - back among
books and letter racks. The posi
tion of postal inspector is . no sine
cure. Its possibilities are many,
and its duties arduous. It takes
I road shoulders like those of captain
Caraway, to bear them gracefully.
You see a typical Southerner when
you meet inspector. Caraway. He,
was born on a plantation in Lenoir
county, North Carolina, where he
was a planter at the breaking out of
the war. "When Lee surrendered at
Appomattox he found, himself re
duced to poverty. All. the family
estates were swept away and young
1111 Mas possessed of little else than
the title of captain, well earned at
the head of Company E, Third
North Carolina Cavalry. Having a
happy penchant for stcry telling,
the captain can spin some exciting
yarns about his war experiences. On
one occasion he had been sent by
conveyance tocairy a secret message
of great importance when he met a
squad of Union Soldiers in a dark
woods. They hauled him out of the
wagon and covered him with their
guns.
"Where are you going, you d d
rebel yelled a big feliow with a
1 ilie at his shoulder.
'Tin sickly, and my physician
thought a buggy ride would do me
good," replied Caraway as he cough
ed up a lung.
The fellow scanned his six and a
half feet good southern stature. "You
i-ee that road ?" he asked arrogantly.
"Yes," Caraway replied.
"Well that'? adashety dashed fiiie
dirt road. Skip you "
lint Caraway' had skipped, and
never heard the pet epithet. In af
ter years he became a newspaper wri
ter famed all over the South for his
wii and racy stories of the war.
This' was among the first he ever
wrote,' and it gave him the name of
"Dirt Uoad "Walker," a name which
lias clung to him ever since, lie
used to sign all his productions "I),
li. Walker," and many persons in
North Carolina think he was christ
ened that way. Mr. Caraway
did most f his writing for the Kal-t-igh
X. C. Daily News . and 0.bser -t-r.
lie has always been an active
politician, and knows every man,
woman, child and fence corner in
"North Carolina. He stumped the
State with Governors Jarvis and
Scales. -and won them many a vote
by his yvitty . speeches and . quaint
rainy ai;a sons. Sinsins is a Great
w WW O i
feature in political campaigns south
cf Mason and Dixon's line, as it nev
er fails to attract the colored vote.
Captain Caraway says he has. sung
"Sweet Violets" in every, town and
hamlet in the Old North State,
In 188G General Vilas appointed
Caraway a postoffice inspector, and
sent him, as the captain puts it, "to
arctic Minnesota to cool off." After
putting in a winter there, he was
transferred to Florida, possibly to
thaw out." As noted by the ' Post,
lie has. been retained at Pittsburg
for another term. "When he wras at
Washington the. other week, and
learned that he was not one of the
forty 'inspectors to .be dropped off
the list he sent this, characteristic;
letter , to the postmaster at Pitts
burg:' "All the clouds .which lowered
around our house, have blown away,
and Nash .and. I will soon be with
you.. Our cervical vertebras have
not U.fcn severed, and we have been
placed on the Ut of the blessed.
Convey our kindest to our friends,
and pull down the blinds.
Carawai."
Captain Caraway is fond of his
, active exacting calling, and urges
but. one objection, to it. .It keeps
him jtway from his- North Carolina
home. There are 13 Caraways down
there who think the world of their
300 pound father. His eyes dim as
he describes the funny things crop-;
ping out of lib brood, a bakers doz;
eii. strong.
Let it Ic Remembered
. Yes, let it be remembered 'that, in
1881, when the churches and the
preachers and the kooJ woniin of
North Carolina were doing all in
their power to carry prohibition, the
Republican State Executive Com
mittee held a meeting here in the
city of Raleigh and decided and re
solved to oppose Prohibition, and
to throw the votes of the Republican
party of the State against it.
, . And let it be remembered that Col.
Oliver H. Dockery, as soon as the
campaign of that year opened, took
the field against prohibition and did
all he could to defeat the preachers
the churches and the prayers of the
women; and that the defeat of prohi
bition that year, was mainly due to
the action of the Republican party
with Colv Dockery, ae one of its
leaders. -
And let it be remembered that in
1S82, when a Congressman for the
State-at-large was to be chosen, the
Liquor Dealers' Association, under
the name of the Anti-Probibition-Liberal
Party, held a convention in
the city of Raleigh and nominated
Col. O. H. Dockery, and that he ac
cepted the Liquor Dealers' Assoc! -ation.
And don't let it be forgotten
that, a week later, the Republicans
met in convention here, in the same
hall, and endorsed the nomination
made by thefliquor party -that party
which had the year before made
sport cf preachers, calling them
crazy fanatics.
And then let it be remembered
that Col. Dockery stumped the
State again in 18S2, telling the people
as he wtnt, that prohibition would
take away the peoples' liberties' and
charging that the Democratic paity
was the Prohibition party.
And then let it be remembered
that the Col. 0. Dockery who is now
a candidate for Governor.and who is
so anxious to canvass with brother
Walker, the third party candidate
for Governor, because he hopes to
make a cats paw of him and his par
ty to pull the Gubernatorial chest
nut out of the fire, is the same Col.
Dockery who hated prohibition so
bad in 1SS1 that he wculd not divide
time with a prohibition speaker at
Concord,
And finally, let it be remembered,
that, if the Democratic ticket, which
has seven prohibitionists on it, is
not elected, then Col Dockery, the
wheel-horse of the Liquor Dealers'
Association will sit in the guberna
torial chair for the next four years,
with a full cabinet of Antis in the
Stat-j offices sitting around him.
And truly may he then exclaim :'Tve
conquered at last."
Prohibitionists, if you would save
youu cause in North Carolina, vote
for that ticket that stands the best
chance to beat the old wheel-horse
of Anti-Prohibition. Spirit of the
Age.
The Met hanisiu or the Heart.
In the human subject the average
rapidity of the cardiac pulsation of
an adult male is about seventy beats
per minute. These beats are more
frequent as a rule in young children
and in women, and there are varia
tions within certain limits in partic
ular persons, owing to peculiarities
of organization. It would not nec
essarily be an abnormal sign to find
in some particular" individuals the
habitual frequency of the heart's ac
tion from sixty to sixty five or seven
ty five to eighty per minute. A3 a
rule the heart's action is slower and
more powerful in fully developed
and muscular " organizations, and
more rapid and feebler in those of
slighter form. In animals the range
is from twenty five' to forty five jn
the cold blooded and fifty upward in
the warm-blooded animals, except in
the case of a horse, which has a very
slow heart beat only forty strokes
a minute.
The pulsations of men and ani
mals differ with the sea level also.
The work of a healthy human heart
has been shown to equal the feat of
raising 5 tons 4 hundred" weight 1
foot per. hour, or 125 tons in twenty
four hours. The excess of this
work under- alcohol in varying quan
tities is often very great. A curious
calculation has been made by Dr.
Uichaidson, giving the work of the
heart in mileage. Presuming that
the blood was thrown out of the
heart at each pulsation in the pro
portion of CO strokes a minute, and
at the assumed force of 9 feet, the
mileageof blood through the body
might be taken at 207 yards per
minute, 7 miles an hour, ICS miles
per day; 01,310 miles per year, or 5,
150,880 miles in a life time of 84
years. The number of beats of the
heart in the same long life would
reach the grand total of 2,869,770,000
Medical World.
Piurin,t-he lnontl1 o: June the
lJhiladelplua nient turned out 3,
880,000 m gold, silver and minor
coins.
Two Gladsome Bonis.
They had been "to the Fourth" at
Peterville, and were now slowiy
wending their way home, hand in
hand,-over 'the green fields, down
wide . lanes . and under the lafy
boughs o'erhariging .the woodland
road." They were a little limper and
less lovely than when they journeyed
forth in the dewy morning. Her
robe of snowy white gave evidence'
of a dusty day and contact with the
greensward, the rhubarb pie and the
overflowing glass of lemonade. Her
rosy mouth gave tolcen of a jprodi
gality cf molasses candy and ginger
bread, her breath bore the combined
fragrance of peppermint drops and
bologna sausage in unlimited quanti
ties. His step was less elastic than it
jiad been; he was faint with the in
toxication of three for a dime "see
gars;" he had learned by experience
that there is a limit to a young man's
capacity of containing pie and ice
cream and lemonade and soda water
and mixed candy, 'His limp color
and wilted necktie, twisted around
under his ear, gave token of how he
had exerted himself to be happy, . p
Fond memories of the day lingered
in their young -minds, and at last
found utterance in words:
"IJade a good time, JMelisty ?"
"Oh, just splendid, Henry!"
"In joyed it, did ye ?"
Oh, I niore'n injoyed it !"
"How'd ye like thelem'nade ?"
"Oh, it was splendid !" ,
"Them gum drops went .purty
good, didn't they!" .
"Oh, wasn't they good ?" .
"How'd the ice cream go P
"Oh, awful good r . ' -
"What kind o'fiavorin' did you
take?"
' Vanilly what'd you take ?" '
"Lemon. "Wish't afterwards I'd
had vanilla, too. How'd ye like
the soda water.?"
"Oh, splendid. Wonder what
makes it fizz ?"
"Oh, tome sort of a thing a-ma-jig
inside the old machine. They had
purty fair seegars, purty fair."
"La, Henry, how kin a man smoke
seegars ?'
... "Pooh! Wish I had a cent for all
I've smoked. It comes natchrell to
us men,"
"I don't see how you km. I think
tobackei's awful nasty."
"That's 'cause you aint used to it.
How'd ye injoy the swing we had in
that merry-go-wound ?"
. "Oh, wasn't it nice ? "Made me a
little sick at first, but I thought it
was lovely afterward. " I'd like to of
swung u week."
"Glad you iujoj-ed it. How'd you
like tho side show ?' '
"Oh, splendid . "Wasn't that wo
aian fat ? I'd thouget she'd of mel
ted. You reckon that two-headed
calf was born that way ? I'd an idea
one o' them heads was stuck on af
terwards." "Pooh! Of course it wasn't!
Can't fool mo ! I wasn't born and
raised on a farm to be tuk in by any
such a side thing as that. I'd a
good mind to tell the show master
so, too. That blamed old calf wasn't
born with two heads auy more'n you
was."
"No, nor with two tails, neither."
"Of course not. But lots of folks
is green enough to b'lieve it. An'
that feller never really swallered
that sword."
Think not ?''
"Naw an' fer a cent I'd told the
hull ciowd what a fool he was makin'
but I just thought if they wanted to
be fooled I'd let 'em
"La, Henry?"
"How'd you like the fireworks ?''
"Oh, they was lovely !"
"Glad you injoj-ed 'em. A dollar
or a dollar'n a quarter ain't nothin
to me if a girl in joys a thing."
"Oh, I did, Henry, ev'rything was
just splendid !';
"Glad you went, then ?"'
"Oh, la, yes; I wouldn't of missed
it for anything!"
"Glad you injoyed it.,,
"Oh, I did"
"Glad of it."
A Boy on "Breathing."
County Superintendent of Instruc
tion Fleck ran across the following
the other day while traveling in the
State. A boy fourteen years old,
recently imported from Kentucky,
handed it in as a composition on
"Breathing." The instruction was,
"Tell all about breathing." He said
"Breath is made of air. We breath
with our lungs, our lights, our liver
and kidneys. If it wasn't for our
breath we would die when we slept.
Our breath keeps the life agoing
through the nose when we are asleep
Boys that stop in a room all day
should not breathe. They should
wait till they go out doors. Boys
in a room mako bad unholj-sorne air.
They make carbonicide, Carboni
cide is poisoner than mad dog. A
heap of soldiers was in a black hole
in India and a carbonicide got into
tnat hole and killed nearly every
one afore' morning. Girls kill the
breth with corosits that ; squeezes
the diagram. Girls can't holler or
run like boys because their diagram
is squeezed too much. If I was a
girl I'd rather be a boy so I can hol
ler and run an have a great big dia
gram. Mr Flick says that boy was given
1C0.
A Florida planter has contracted
to furnish a New York dealer wite
1,000,000 cabbages during the season.
An AipHent for a Chair In the Uni
versity of Texas Got Left.
- "The chair of the literary depart
ment of the University of Texas was
vacant,. and the : president was au
thorized to procure somebody to fill
it, says the Texas Sif tings. " Among
the applicants was a young man who
had evidently been drinking.
"I don't know much about Bryon,
although I knew his 'Song of the
Shirt' by heart," he remarked, in an
swer to a question as to his knowl
edge. - . .
"Hold' up, there: Byron never
wrote the 'Song of the Shirtsaid the
president.
- "1 didn't say Broon did, did I ?"
"Yes, you did."
"I did ? Ha! ha? How absent mind
ed I m becoming to mix up Byron
and Shakespeare, particularly as I
have read Shakespeare over a dozen
times. At one time I could recite
the whole of his Paradise Lost with
out turning a hair."
"Shakespeare never wrote Para
dise Lost."
"Bight you are again, It was Par
dise Regained, that he made his rep
utation on." .
"Not much he didn't."
s Shakespeare didn't make it en
firelvon Paradise Lost, but that is
one of his best comedies, except Hil
da de Lammermoor."
"What author's works did you ever
read?'
"Almost all of them."
"Ever - read Dickens' Vanity
Fair?"
"I knew whole chapters by heart.'
"How about George Elliott ?"
"I sleep with one of his Waverlv
A V
novels uudor mv pillow. I wouldn't
be without it for the world.
"You have read Eugene Sue's
Christian Year !".-
. "Several times."
"Yon are pretty well up in liter
ature. Do you know anything
about grammar ?"
"Don't" know very much about
grammar, but you ought to tickle
me on history. I knowr all the ir
regular verbs, and can decline and
conjugate, and am familiar with all
parts of speech."
"That's not history."
"Right you are again. I'm a little
rat t led today. Verbs and ten ses have
nothing to do with history. I didn't
mean to say history.
"What did vou intend to sav ?"
"Geography, of course."
"That's not geography."
"Well, strictly speaking, I don't
suppose it is. I always somehow or
other got geography and philosophy
mixed up."
"But what have verbs, tenses and
nouns to do with philosophy ?"
"That so; I don't know what I
was thinking about. I can multi
ply adverbs and conjunctions and
add up the prepositions in a way
that would surprise"
"Look here, my friend, you ain't
fit to take charge of the literary de
partment of the university of Texas.
The candidate lookedaround anx
iously, and then whispered:
"Never mind, if I am a little off.
It will be a long time before the
students find it out." " '
The Two Parties.
The policies of the two parties
can be very simply stated. If you
want to be taxed as vou were during
the war; if you think it a good thing
to work hard all the year and then
to have the government come to you
and say, I only need ten dollars to
paj expenses, but I'm going to take
twenty, aud Congress will easily find
some means to squander the extra
ten; if you want the people divided
up into two classes, an aristocratic,
capitalistic class, which' absorbs ev
erybody's business and swallows ev
erybody's profits, and a poor class to
do the drudgery without any hope of
ever bettering their condition, then
you will do right to vote the repub
lican ticket. That party is a party
with a tendency, audit is a tendency
toward an aristocracy, a tendency to
crowd the laborer to the wall and to
pin him there forever. If that is
your idea of free institutions all
right," go ahead. You must do your
own business in your own way.
The democratic policy is to reduce
taxes to low water mark of federal
economy let it ask for it, tell us what
it proposes to do with it, and if the
people think the object is a worthy
one they will pay up; but if they
don't think so they won't pay up.
Neither the President nor Congress
has the right to lean against a treas
ury with one hundred millions of the
people's money in it and then do as
it pleases, with the classic remark,
"D u the public." No, the pub
lic run this country, President, Con
gress and the whole concern, and it
hasn't resigned, and doesn't propose
to . ;
If the taxes- are too high, lower
themii Jking . timii -are
compelled to take the tax off of
clothing or off of whiskey, the party
that chooses the wh'iskejfis thVpeoi
pie's enemy. If it is better to" havf
an overcoat than a giassoi rum, men
yon know how to vote, Fu t if ' yoii
"have any doubt whatever, look -into
the faces of your wife and children
and that ought to settle . it.
Yes, it's to be a campaign of
brains, and if the democrats will
feed the people with facts' they need
have no fear of results. New Yofk
Herald. : 'v;f ":'t:?- ;
Mr. Drexel, the well known bank
er of Philadelphia, is' a 5 Republican
and a protectionist of the straightest
sect, but still he cannot close . his
eyes to manifest facts. Moreover,
he has the manliness tc declare his
view", in opposition to 1 the gener
ality of his party, with respect; to
the tariff. As all manufacturers
and business men who look at the
matter in the right light are r bound
to see, he holds that to make freee
of duty wool, iron ore and other raw
materials used in manufacturies is
good statesmanship,'.. that it shows
an appreciation of the needs of al
the constructive industries, and that
instead of being a check upon them,
it will tend to increase their output,
cheapen their price, and give steadier
employment to workingmen and
mechanics without in any way cut
ting down their wages. It is a great
pity there are not more Republicans
equally clear headed. If there were
the Democracy would find it les3
diflicult to secure relief to the peo
pie from the burdensome taxation
they have to eudme. News and
Observer.
Mr. Mills in his excellent speech
of Saturday, among many good
things said that salt had first been
put on the free list by Thomas
Jefferson. God in His beneficence
had made salt for man and beast,
and it ought not to "be taxed; but
becaus a few people were interested
in the salt monopoly, the Wuys and
Means committee were branded be
fore thepeople of theUuitedStatesas
being free traders because they
wanted to give tack to the-people
this bountv on an article which God
had prepared for them. "Will the peo
plo anathematize a party that wants
to give free salt! Every man, woman
and child in all our broad domain
more than CO , 000 , 000 persons, use
salt. The Democratic party is for
the needy many against the lordly,
arrogant few. Plant..
A Freight Conductor Killed.
Mr. L Smith, a freight conductor
on the CharlotteColumbia and Au
gusta road, died at Blackstock's
Thursday from injuries received the
daj' before by being knocked from a
freight train by a covered bridge.
The accident occurred near Chester.
Charlole Chronicle.
A new use has brr-n found' for
white Ceavcrs. A certain young
man in. town left his hat in the hall
Sunday and while he was in another
part of the house an old hen went
in and laid an egg in his hat Don't
ask who it wat. Henderson Gold
Leaf, ' ' -
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DRUG STORK.
Flower pots in all sizes, plain and
painted.
Kill the bugs, bugs and all pestiv
erous insects with Black Flag In
sect Powder. Sure death, at Fetzer's
Dxug Store, 10, 25 and 50 cent bot
tles. - . .
Ready mixed paints in half pint,
pint, quart, half gallon, and gallon
cans, and by the barrel, wood
stains, varnishes, kalsomine, fresco
paii ts all at lowest prices at Fetzer's
Drug Stoxe. -
Artists fine tube colors, sable
brushes, palctts and a great supply'
oi Artists materials at etzers
Drug Store. ,
Soda "Water, Milk Shake, Orange
Phosphate, Lemonade and all de
licious summer 5 beverages COLDi
UOLD. as ice can make them, at
Fetzer's Drug Store
KEEP COOL ! Leave your orders
for ice at Fetzer's Drugstore.
Dusting brushes of bristle turkey
and Ostrich feather, from 25 cents up
at Fetzer's Drug Store. '
Library lamjas, hall lamps, table
lamps.Germau student lamps, kitch
en lamps, lamp shades, chimneys,
electric and Duplex's burners, and
every kind of lamp fixtures at Fet
zer's Drug Store. -
We are still offering bargains in
chewing Tobacco, Old Bob, Silver
Lake, Big X, Farmers' Pride, Hygea
and other favorite brands.
Smoking tobacco, best brands at
lowest prices.
Ground Mustard, Gelatine, Tapio
o, Corn Starch, Extract of Beefs
Selected Spices, Flavoring Extract,
and pure Cream Tarter at Fetzer's
Drug Store.
Chlonide of Lime for disenfecting
purposes. . - '. '
Toilet Soap in great varieties,
from 2 to 50 cents a cake. "
Hair brushes at all prices, tooth
and nail brushes, flesh brushes, both
gloves, sponges and fowles.
Hardware Headquarters
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HiiCa.li UiiCHHIiUilClilMS. Jlili.
Farmers and Eyerybody Else
can be suited ia , Hardware at YO RKE & Wa'dS WORtU'S at bottom prices
for the CAS ti. .Our stock is full i and; completed A - splendid .line of Cook
ijtove? and cook'ng utensils in stock. Turning Plows, Plo ? Stocks, Harr iws,
Belting, Feed Cutters, Cornshellers, Tinware, Guns, Pistols, Kuives, Powder,
Shot and Lead, Doors, Sash and Blinds, Shingles, Glass, Oils, White Lead.
Paints aud. Putty a specialty ; . Wire Screens OH-Cloths,-wroaght, cut and
Ilore Shoe Nails, and in act everything usually kept in 'a hardware store. Wo
will sell all these goods as cheap, quality considered, as any house in North
Carolina.
Our warehouse is filled with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, Reapers, Mow
ert, Hay liakes, of the best make Ou the market, which must and will be suld
at the lowest figures. ; -Be sure to come to see us, wlietheryou buy or not
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P. S. We have always on hand Lister's and Waldo Guano and Waudo Acid
at prices to suit. '. ' r Y, & VV.
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GREAT REDCTION
In Prices of Groceries to " Reduce our Immense Stock .we offer
75 BBLS.OF SUGAR,
25 SACKS OF COFFEE,
25 BOXES OF TOBACCO, . . .
10 " GAIL AND AX SMUFF,
2,000 FLOUR SACKS, ' - Y :
25 BBLS BOB WHITE FLOUR.
Our Goods a e all bought dhect from the
Largest and Best Houses for CASH,
And we can sell you groceries for less money, than youcaa buy elsewhere. We
have a large stock of . ..
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Tinware, Soap, Soda, Powder and Shot,
And many other goods in eur line, and
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as the lowett.
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