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If days could bo all morning;
Rose-tint and breezy blown,
The son of noon just promised,
The mists of night just flown-'
The dew on leaf and blossom
Oar glad feet to beguile '
If days could be all morning;
Then living were worth while.
If seasons were all springtimes,
New blossoms on the old.
Green blade uplifting green blada
Gold sunbeams on the gold
Of ripened grain and orchard,
Nature's unchanging smile '
If seasons were all springtimes.
Then living were worth while.
If roads all trended down hill,
Beauty's unconscious curve.
Just slanting as we tread thorn.
And yet no direct swerve
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Joy is twin of sorrow,
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MY BOX FROM CHINA,
BY xnoaiAa "W. KNOX.
LONG residence ii
New York ha
made me acquaint
ed with a goodlj
number of the de
vious ways of tbi
wicked world,
know the appear
ance ot the stree
guises, and havi
beggar
often seen the man who wishes to bor
row a small amount of money to buy
food, or lodging, or a railway ticket,
and has lost or mislaid his purse; he is
the son or other relative of a friend of
mine, and has often heard my name
mentioned in terms of the highest es
teem. I have met the individual of
polished manners who mistakes me for
Mr. Blank, of Blaakville, "ono of our
leading merchants," and after apologiz
ing for his error, wishes mo to look at a
prizo he has just won in a lottery. I
have also been visited by a pretending
namesake in search of another namesake,
from whom the stranger might borrow
the price of a ticket to Albany or Bos
ton. The list might be extended, but
the foregoing must suffice.
The stories that are poured . into my
ears are always plausible, and I have
yielded to enough of them, and found
afterward that they were utterly false,
to convince me that the heart of man is
deceitful above all things and desper
ately wicked. For a decade or so I
have considered myself familiar with,
and proof against, all the ways in which
designing men seek to obtain money
under pretenses mora or less false
generally more. But quite recently I
encountered a new expert in this field of
enterprise, and am sure the reader will
share my opinion that his ingenuity de
serves the honor of pu blicity. -
One day, about a month ago, o
stranger presented a card on which was
written: "S. M. Crosby, first officer
steamship Glamorgan, Liverpool, Eng
land." "Wondering what his business
could be I consented to see him and met
a medium-sized individual whose garb
indicated the mariner, as it included a
blue coat of "reefer" pattern and a blue
cloth cap. He was bronzed and certainly
looked like one who had spent much oi
his life on the water and had recently
been in the tropics for a considerable
period. As soon as we met he repeated
the declaration on his card, that he was
the first officer of the steamship Glamor
gan, which had recently arrived at Phila
delphia from Australian, Japanese and
Chinese ports.
"Have you any advices," said he, "oJ
a box from China by our steamer I"
I have not," I answered.
There is a box for you on board the
Glamorgan," he responded, "which was
taken on at Shanghai or Hong Kong, I
am not sure which. It contains Chines?
and Japanese curios to the value of about
three hundred dollars. It is addressed
to you at New York City, but there is
no street or avenue named, only New
York. We have been inquiring,, and you
are the only man of the name to be f ounc
in the city. "We presume it is for you,
as there is the word 'author" upon the
box in addition to your name, and I'm
told that you are an author. We want
to be quite sure of your. identity and that
III. X
m all his
the box is for you, as it is a valuable
one."
I replied that I was the only indivi
dual in the city of exactly that name,
and my profession was that of author
ship, but I certainly knew of no box or
its way to me.
"It is strange that you have no ad
vices concerning it," said Crosby, "but
after all it may not be so strange. I
understand it Is intended for a present
and perhaps the party who sent it
wanted to surprise you. Quite likely
you will" find a letter in the box that
will tell you who it's from. There's nc
freight to pay on it; it was put on
board by our own agent either in Hong
Kong or Shanghai for 3ome friends of
theirs. The agent3 explained that it was i
present, and said they told the sender then
would be no charge for freight. I
came fh fhenarids "of the captain, ana
was not put on the steamer's manifest."
"I am very much obliged to the cap
tain of your steamship and to youi
agents," I answered, "and also obliged
to my unknown benefactor. When i
receive the box I certainly hope to know
more about it."
Then the conversation turned on th
stearmer's voyage, which my visitor
said had been quite eventful, as at one
time they had a good chance " to" go tc
Davy Jone's locker. "We caught a
pampero off Madrina Point," said he,
"that blew away every sail and de
stroyed four of our boats. We were
sailing along as nice as you please when
bang came that pampero like a shot from
i cannon. Every rag of canvas we had
ut was swept away like the snapping of
four finger and the boats went smashing
nto splinters."
"About as bad as a typhoon," I re
marked. "A typhoon 1" ho exclaimed; "why,
ft was worse while it lasted; worse than
i typhoon or a West India hurricane.
Luckily it didn't stay more than ten min
ites or me and your box would have
seen at the bottom."
Then ho mentioned other incidents of
he voyage, rattled off with great glib
aess the names of their stopping placc3
ind referred to little peculiarities of some
ot the ports of the far East, which cer
tainly seemed to show an acquaintance
with them. He mentioned, in the most
casual manner, that while coming out of
the Ly-ee-moon passage of Hong Kong
Harbor they narrowly escaped collision
with a French steamer which was just
going in, and he spoke of an incident of
their stay at the Tanjong-Pagar docks
at Singapore. His conversation was
fairly dotted with marine terms, but less
so than the talk of the sailor as the
dramatists usually present him on tho
stage.
He chatted on with great ease, and for
a time had me quite off my guard. Then
it occurred to me that his manner was
decidedly more jaunty and free than
that of the first officers or even tho cap
tains of tramp steamers under the Eng
lish flag. His accent was not speciGcally
British, and his manner of twirling an
envelope, which I had given him to
show my full name and address, was
that of a man more accustomed to the
handling of papers than of one in his
purported position. A suspicion aro3e
in my mind that he was not all his fancy
and statements painted him, and while
he was talking so engagingly I endeav
ored to "take him In." But I could not
imagine what his object was, assuming
that ho was a counterfeit, inasmuch as
he ha& distinctly stated that there was no
charges for freight; he also said there
were no custom house duties, the officials
at Failadelphia having consented that
th contents of the box, being intended
as a present, might enter tho United
Spates free of charge, as though they
were for the Metropolitan Museum of
dxt or other public institution. .
Fifteen or twenty minutes passed
in general talk, and then there came a
sli ght lull in the conversation. I changed
my position in my chair in the endeavor
to hint that it was about time to bring
the interview to an end; he took the hint
and rose to go, remarking, as he did so,
that he would send the box by express
that very afternoon. He was returning
to Philadelphia at once, having run over
to New York for some custom house and
other business, and I would be in posses
sion of my curios the next morning. I
thanked him and tendered a cigar, which
he accepted unhesitatingly. My suspi
cion that he was an impostor had been
pretty thoroughly dispelled by the
knowledge he had displayed of Asiatic
ports and waters and of marine life in
general, and by the. absence ol any re-,
quest for money.
As we neared the door leading from
the parlor to the hall he suddenly stopped ;
and said:
"Ob, by the way, I told you there
were no charges on the box. I forgot
the wharf charges at Philadelphia, that
is all you'll have to pay.1 ...
"Indeed I" I answered, my suspicion
returning. "How much are those
charges!"
"Two dollars and sixteen cents," he
answered.
"Ahl'Tsaid, "that's a mere trifle.
Have you a bill for them?"
- "Oh, no, I have cr bill; the purser
pays those charges to the wharfman and
asked me to collect the amount from you,
if I saw you."
"Certainly," I answered. Just let
that come as a 'collect' charge with the
box." - '
h "We couldn't do that," he said, "be
cause we sail to-morrow morning."
"In that case," I suggested, "let your
consignees in Philadelphia pay the
amount, send me the bill and I will re
mit. They will be entirely safe, as they
can hold the box for security until they
receive the money."
"Certainly, we can do that," he re
plied, quickly, "though, really, they
have nothing to do with the wharf
charges, which are settled by tho purser,
as I just told you. It will make a little
bother for them, but we'll leave it that
way if you prefer it."
Here was a blow to my suspicions;
the man was ready to comply with my
suggestion even though it might be a
trouble to the consignees.
I expected that he would want to bor
row tho price of his fare to Philadelphia,
and was ready with an answer in case ho
should do so. But ho had done nothing
of the sort, and, as for the wharf
charges, I was somehow in a position in
which the light did not shine favorably
on me. Here was a valuable present for
me from some friend or friends on tbe
other side of the world; the Glamorgan
had brought it through the perils of a
long ocean voyage and made no charge
for the service; the Custom House had
admitted the box free ot duty, thus
treating, me with marked distinction;
the steamer's officer had sought me out
to make sure of my identity; and here
was I ready to put the Glamorgan's con
signees to trouble rather than part with
a paltry two dollars and sixteen cents!
But still my suspicion would not go
down and I delayed parting with the
sum of money in question. So I said to
my visitor, whose hand was actually
touching the knob of the door;
"Will you kindly show me some doc
uments to prove your identity!"
"Have you any doubt about it!" he
asked, with a smile.
"Ob, we won't enter into a discussion
on that point," I answered; "but I have
long adopted a rule not to accept tho
statement of any man as to his identity,
when the payment of money to him
hinges upon it, unless I have some cor
roborative evidence."
"That's quite right," was the reply, as
the hand of the stranger moved toward
the breast pocket of his coat. "You
can't expect a man to carry his commis
sion with him all tho time, but perhaps
these will do." -
He handed to me two letters ad
dressed to himself in his own official
character, and a document that appeared
to be tbe manifest of tbe steamship
Glamorgan. One letter had not passed
through tbe mails and was directed:
"On Beard;" the other bore tbe post
marks of Liverpool and New York, hav
ing been sent by mail from the former to
the latter place and marked: "To be
called for."
My suspicions were gone now, and I
returned tbe papers and proceeded to
pay the two dollars and sixteen cents
necessary for wharf charges. Mr. Crosby
Tolunteered to give me a receipt for the
mcney and I still hold it. It is written
in a clear, clerkly hand and is all that I
have to show for my outlay of the
amount named together with one cigar,
half an hour of time, and the same per
riod of mental perturbation. There is a
steamship Glamorgan, but she was not
in any American port at the time of the
occurrence that I have narrated, and my
visitor was not her first officer. Since
the door closed upon his nautical form
he has not communicated with me, and I
am still waiting for my box from China.
Once A Week. '
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animals were killed. . . -
HE INCUBATOR.
FOR HATCHING EGGS IT BEATS,
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era" and BroU
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got up a number of machines to look
after them without the aid of hens. All
tbe hen need to do is to lay the egg, the
machines do the rest until the chickens
are old enough to be broilers.
It bothered the fanners and chicken
raisers for many years that the hens
would lay more eggs at some seasons
than at others, and that they would
hatch more at some seasons than others,
so that at times the chicken market was
not well supplied and at other times it
was overstocked. They figured out that
if they could only hatch chickens when
they pleased there would be a great deal
more money in the business, besides
lcaviog the hens free to go on and lay
more eggs, instead of spending a month
and a half trying to hatch some chick
ens and bringing them up until they
were old enough to look out for them
selves. To do this work of the house a ma
chine called an incubatcr was invented
to do the hatching. There are several
kinds of incubators, but in the main
they are alike. An incubator Is a big,
square wooden box propped up on four
legs to be out of the way of draughts.
Under it is a large oil lamp, and on top
is a flue with a cover on the end of a
balance. Within there are trays, on
which the eggs are placed. Any num
ber of egg3 can bo put in the machine,
though it is hardly worth while to run
an incubator on less than 100 or 150
eggs. A large incubator will hold 500
eggs. Tho eggs should be good, freshly
laid and put in the incubator without
having been exposed to any heat over
104 degrees. Ordinary eggs from ordin
sry hens will do, unless the chicken
raiser wants to breed for blood and
quality. He can get high toned eggs
which cost as much as $5 a dozen, and
out of which come highly bred chickens
which are worth several dollars apiece.
It is not well, though, to begin trying
to hatch chickens with co3tly eggs, as it
takes a while to get the knack, and it is
cheaper to experiment on ordinary eggs,
so that if the machine is not handled prop
erly the loss will not be great, while for
eating purposes only there is not so much
difference in the value of the young
chickens to make up for the difference
in risk.
When the eggs have been secured they
are put in a place with a steady tem
perature of about 85 degrees until the
incmoatoris warmed. The lamp is light
ed and the balance adjusted so that the
flue will be raised and the heated air will
escape at 101 Fahrenheit. When the
incubator has been at this even tempera
ture for a day, the eggs are put in the
trays, every egg in an apartment by it
self. The temperature of the incubator
at once falls, because the eggs are cooler
than the air. Then jt begins to rise, and
in, a day or two it is back again to a
temperature of 101 degrees. At that
temperature the eggs are kept for three
weeks. Every morning and every even
ing the position of the eggs are reversed.
which is easily, done by putting one tray
over another and turning it. The lamp
needs to be kept filled and the wicks at
tended to so that it will not burn too
high or go out. If the balance is well
adjusted and tho lamps kept properly
fed, the eggs will be kept st a tempera
ture of between 101 degrees and 103 de
grees steadily.
Some people who raise chickens by
machinery think that the eggs should be
taken out and cooled from time to time
to correspond- with the times that the
hen leaves the ne3t to get food for itself,
but the general opinion is that the ma
chine is a vast improvement over the
hens, and that the reason so many eggs
under hens do not hatch is because the
hen does not sit there steadily to keep
them at an even temperature.
At the end of three weeks the eggs
open and the chickens appear. In some
ircubator3the chickens drop out through
the eggs into a tray placed below to re
ceive them, while in other incubators the
chickens climb up out of the eggs and
climb around ovct their unhatched
brothers and sisters. For a day theso
freshly hatched chickens are kept in tho
Incubator to dry off. If two-thirds qf tho
eggs hatch successfully the experiment
has beaten tho average hen's record sev
eral times over.
When the chicks have spent a day io
the Incubator they are put in another ma.
chine called a brooder, which Is afsfr. J"
heated with lamps, but not to such a
high temperature. The v make their first
meal In this machine off Iiard boiled and
chopped up eggs mixed with a few bread
crumbs. This is their diet for a few
days, when they get milk and ginger
mixed with bread crumbs and gradually
oatmeal and cornmeal. The important
thing In tho brooder is to keep them
warm and dry.
Three weeks is tho time the chickens
spend in tho brooder. At the end ot
this stage they are old enough to cat '
oats, corn, ground -up oyster shells, and
other articles of ordinary chicken diet.
They are safe now, and there is littlo
danger of their dying. Nothing remains
except to fatten them up to bo broilers.
If there is back yard the chickens can
bo turned loos from tho brooder into
tho yanl to scratch around there. It is
a good t!ii for them to scratch around,
as chIokas need exercise, and their
flesh has different flavor it they get it.
Where there is no back yard of avallablo
place for the chickens to scratch, provl
sion fa made for them by hanging up
cabbaee about two feet from the ground
in their coop. The chickens like the
taste of the cabbage, and they chop up
at it from the ground. Starting with
the height of about a foot the cabbage
and its successors are gradually raised i
until it requires an agile chicken to'
reach it. Difly exercise at jumping for
the cabbage develops the chicken's legs
and second joints, besides hardening its
breasts and strengthening its wings.
The whole thing can bo done in a
garret where there is" light and air. Un
til the chickens are turned out of tho
brooder they do not need much sun
light, but after that sunlight apd exer
cise are good for them. The light can
come in by putting glas3 in the roof in
stead of a dark skylight, and the food
can be thrown on tho floor, on which
sand and gravel have been put in a
layer several inches deep. Tho food
from day to day should bo thrown over
the gravel and sand where contact would
not Injure the food, in order that tho
chickens may have to work for their
meals. 1
In three or four months one of theso
artificially raised chickens will be ready
to be broiled. Young chickens make
the best of broilers. Before killing them
they can be fed up fora week and per
mitted to get their food without having
to work for it if a plump chicken is
wanted, while If a firm chicken is pre
ferred the amount of exercise can be in
creased at the same time.
Alter passing the broiler stage a
chicken becomes a roaster. It i3 then in
a condition to bo roasted and weighs
about twice as much as when it was a
gay young broiler. The roasting period ;
begins when the chicken is about eight
months old and extends as long as the
chicken is kept tender, for possibly six
or seven months. New York Sun. ' "r
Geology predicts that in 18,136 the
firth will be coated and, it might be
aid, vested with ice. The cheerful
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tie cholera microbe will cease from
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