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"""v ft - .- J ; THE . COUEIEE . .. " published in the centre of a." fine tobacco growing sectlout making it 'one of the . beat advertising i mediums;, for merchants and wnrehouseiaen in . tlie adjoining . counties . Circulated largely in Person, Granville and Durham counties in North, Carolina arid Halifax county'Virginia. .- ... JOB WORK , all description neatly. executed' on short notice and at reasonable" prices, When in cocd of work give the Coubieb a trial. : C" Professional. CAiDS. STRUDWICK & BOONE, rRACTIOBS IK DURHAM, OKANQB pBRSOS'COnNTtBa.Jr' " AND A ATTORNEY AT LAW,lw' Hillaboro, N -C , " prnottces in the ponntles ot Caswell, Dttr&am, Guilford, Orans and rersOM.,- --'" " " . " -;" - .- "r. J W 'INSTEAD A TEEKY, . ATTORNEYS AT LAW. t . Koxbero, N. C. : Prompt attention given to U uuMiMssa-eiMrust e,l to thorn. - , .. " '-" '-,'' N. LUNSTOBD, . " "1. - ATTORNEY AT LAW, Koxboro. N. C .,- "... j W, Graltam, - , Thos. Rufliu. GRAHAM & RDFF1N, . - Attorney's at law ; HUUboro, N . C Practices in the eonnttefrof Alamance, Casw Pin ham. Gnillord, Orang anl Person. - . J. S. MKBBITX ATTORNEY AT. LAW..- SoxboroK. C Priiuipt attention given to the. collection- o C; E. Bradslier . . rRACTlClNGPHYSICIAN. - Eoxboro, N. Ct. . professional sorvicea offered to the citisens ol Eoxboro ana Burronnding:cdmmtui tv. ;.,' ; D U..J T. FULLER, - - -; PRACTICING PHYSIC1 AN. Boxboro, K. C. ; DR. C. V. BRADSHER DJEXTIST,- . oilers his services to the pulilie. Calls promptly trrm a.ni adVininir countica. ... .no wiBhtns -work in bis line, bv writing him it Bushy i'orJL. N. C. wiU b attended at JJU. J. A. GEOGHEGAN . Offers his' 'C '. :K- -v;' J'i rSOFESSlOXAL SKUV1CE3 " To Koxboro and the Snrronmiing Community. Can bo found at my residence recently occu- THE KALLTEKM OIV : ROXBO R O AC AD E MX Open to Boti sexes: ' , ; Opens Aucnst 1st, 1887. - . i i JASLES W. TILLKTT, Principal, - . Miss Fannie W. Mansam, Assistant. Tuition for 8 wceks ia: Primary Ccpart- nmmon English Branches . , - Jttjflior English ami ; Languages, $20.00. f .. Music ou Piivno or organ iis.w.j, - ; ADVEUTJSEMENTS t. 11. Thaton. ? I K A. JUwo Watkin,i TnAXTONf&ZWATEXNS, - "' JOBBERS HOTIOUS, WHITE GOODS, PANT GOODS, i OVEUALLS, LADIES' DRESS GOODS, &C.; 14 8. Fourteenth St.,. Kichmond, Va. I un live at, ", ; m t a mrti man rv b f.r ns, tha at anytWnp ! in thi -or!il. Capi-- .4 1 ,iwi toii n re started free. Bout exej , all aces. Any one can iw m cr ni1 11... "'"'---;--,.,. i, -r.n.,1ar. Costly outfit' ...ngs snre inna .r- vj-r-, mitn. a X1nkw rutT 1 1 1' 1 71 V JK m I M ru. .tre wise von will do so at oace. H. at.i.btt a CO., Portland, Maine. , , ...j. PATENTS. Caveats, Trade Marks 4t!UCU, etsUI. 4 - . . - (.n oftniWl to ftir MKicrate r ess flR,- ; nonrtsate the - U. b Tateut A.. j dit.-un Patents m ' less wince, anu wo .. jf - je..., , . . . time than those remote fcomaslungtyn ftnn XT,lnr nro.whl2. J;We..3dVlse an 4o patentability free of charge; and we mae if - t.hftPostmaste'rjthe.SHpt r n i rtwt. mr' -d to oflici d T the U. S. PatenV Olfice.v-For . circular adMCC, lernis and references to actual chente in your own State or county, write xo ; C. A- SNOW & CO., 4 YifF!. Washiniton."T). C. Raleigh, N.C..S . --.-;i Sewing Machines. 7- , MostMeasonabLel erms: iSTEINWAYf r t '""".;-- ;v KRAKldl & BACH, ; :r IlEIIR BROS., , ? ' ;cni0KERiNG,.;fe.r - ' ' ' EMERSON l . "' . ' ' SWICK.-; " , - o : 0- f ' GREAT STERN ; 'KIMBALL, ; v.; Duller. - , : . whitney, BiaGEroRT..-; ; r Write for ' prices'and terma r m asav n 1 ft YOU IMCMEY & KOELL Editors and ProprieW ; HOME - FIRST: ABROAD VOL. 3, STANZAS., ft I watched thee when the foe vraa at onr Side, Boady.to strike at him-6r tiiee or me " "i wero saXdy hopeless ready to divids - - a-anui. wiui ono loveq cave lore cod liberty. 7 t watched thee in the breakers,when Ciaroci -yea our prow, wheq aU .wca etenn. and And tde theo cling to me throueh crery chocks I This arm would be thy bark, or breast thy bietv I watched theo when the fcyer dazed thine eyes .Yielding my couch; and stretched meoa the . gix)und ' When overworn with, watching no'er tdriae 'r- Prom thence if thou an early gparo badst found.' The earthquake cams and wjreked the quivering - v wall,-, -.--- .- j. . -And men and nature reeled as if withwinei ;- Whom did Iseek around the tottering hall? w or theo.;Whoee aaf ety first provide fpr ? Thine. ind whoa coavulalv throes denied my braath ' - Thafinteab utturancQ to my iCin iyousbt,-" To thoc to thee e'en m thgop of deaths " tniru, .wunea, oni oicenor taaa it ought, j . Thus much and more; and yet thou loT'sfme not, ; auu i?vvt uu vpve a'gus jiot m our will. Nor oca I blamo theo, though it be my lot Bnvzijjiy.-wrongiy, vxuniy lovo theo stuL SOME NEWSPAPER STATlSTiCS. " Curiosities 'hat. Are Well Torth a Para- -- JSapliAji.InterciBtlngf list. -" There uro now nablished in llio Hnif Statc3 14, ICO newspapers and periodicals of all classes. The net gain of tie year has 'been 600. The dailv 1,216, a. gain of -33. Canada has C79 periodicals. Tliere aro;. about. 1,200 periodicab of all sorts, which," according to tho estimates of the editor of The Directory, enjoy ;a circulation of more than 5,600 copies each. Tho incrcaso in. tho wecicly rural press, which comprises about twjthird3 of tho wholo list, has beentnosl Tnarked in etates like Kansas and.Nobraska," where the gain has been respectively 24 and 18 per cent . Kansas afeo shows the greatest gain in daily news papers. '2 The weekly press isgaining in .iasacmisenB, wrai3 tne. "magazines and other monttly '"publications "lira losinc ground tliere. '- The tendency of rach publications toward New York " city, as the literary tjontor of ; the country, la shown by'the establishment here of not less than twenty-tlireo monthly pcriodicala during the year. ; ".." , Some of tho cunoatics of newspaper statistics are worth' a paragraph. ; There are : 700 ..religioas and denominational newspapers published in the - United States, and nearly one-third of them ard published in New York, : Pluladelpliia, Uoston and Chicago. : New- York. 13 fax ahead in tins respect, but Chicago leads Boston. : Tiu-e iiewsrpfs are jdpvoted to the dlkworm, 0 to tho honey bee and not less than'33 to poaltry. 'Tho dentists have 18 journals, the photographers- 0 ond the deaf , dnmb and blind have 19. Tiiero"aro .3 publications exclusively de voted to philately and 1 to'tho terpr sichoreal' arj. " Tho Prohibitioniuts hs.vo 129 organs to the liquor dealers 8. The woman suSragists havo 7, tho" candy makers esstv by" 3 newspapcrs,ga3 by 2. There ere about 600 newspapers printed in German and 42 in French. . . The towns which haxe the most Frencl periodicals arc New Y orl. Nw Orleans v and, Worcester, Ila63.- 4 apiece. . There are"more Swedish prints than French. - Two'dafly newspapera are. printed, in tlie Bohemian tongue." , The touglicst' names ard. found fanong tho Polish, Finnish and 'v7lsh press; for in stance, The Dzjenswiety ' and Tho Przja cicl Iiudhi,"of Cliicagoj IThe Y Wawri of Utica, of N. Y., and Tho Yyhdyswalta in Sanomat,t of Ohio. There is I. Gaelic publication 1 Hebrew, 1 Chinese and 1 in tho Cherokee language. - .--' " . All of these facts havo a direct interest to tho .phfloEopher end tho student of sociology. . ' .Tlieroia no better gauge - end register of American civilization than The Newspaper; Dectory. The Printing -l , Uncoln and Senator Jfye. T. - . .Senator- Nye once went to the White 1 nousatwithfaiparty ot his Nctv sYcrk frieada who wished to have a. clergyman appointed chaplain fa tlus . arnry. - Mr. Lincoln: told; theni taat ho had at one time , determined r to make the appointr mentf-but a strong protest against it had been received stating that tho clergytnan was hot decorous in. Lis deportment, and he had determined to. hoar : more about hiuii"! will admit,' said Senator Nye, tliat our 1 friend ; 13 - endowed r with a glorious fund of irrepressible good humor; f but I have heard, Mr. President, of ;an bid raoneert minister ; in .your; statb - ot Illinois : who was t arraigned '. before a county conference to be reprimanded by this bishop for his sallies of wit from tho pulpit.. Before ; tho ' Episcopal . dignity could, settle itself f oran imprBssiv utter-, ance the old man burBt outi 'Brethren, I never lid ;beliove in a religion that had bo'fuajinflt. vThe-ishcp'Jg-as i?piked, and! the conference, 'amid - roars of -laughter, at onco passed the old rain .'That is a erood storr.-Nye,'T eaid ' Mr. 1 Lincoln.. . "Let me tell you one JaTout Peter Cartwriht, ;whq,:ptf" one occasion was convulsing his' conference with wit and liumorzS The presiding bishop was a man of earnest but ascetic piety." 'Brother Cartwright,'. said he, do, you think that whilo you are irtdulging in 'this levity you -are" growing' in f grace?! ; Tlie - old pi6nepreacher,'5with rrafcoimteiiance b&xitiag fli.nn'teahyyei fcrotherrin; spots. T? 'guessi ;Nye, : I will have your man appoiBtedy-but tell him to keen bis" stories untlv. he can coma to Washington and let me hear thenr first.' Bout Pcrley Poorer "y v Shooting1 from iSorseback. ) i';Shootiog:from" horseback at full speed is, to my mind,: a sport to be encouraged, combining more excitement and' plcasuro than anything . I have yet seen ;in:-this -eov-ntrv Shootinct . iackrabbits on. foot t3 'well enough, often' giving pfenty of amusement Id the armnals, and, a?asnr beiag' rather monotonous when they are olentifulf but to follow a . rabbit.at full 'peed across country,' letting your horse enter into 'the spoit, ' and , ehooting or nrlng on the dead run,' contains jnbre of tho elements of true eport ,tjian anything I bare found hi southern California.---' an Francisco CalL" " A , , . - - "Sawdust thrown, on a circular saw table -tiite easy. The grains act as small Toilers T ud reduce f fiction.' - , -'- " ..; - - - -r' S A larjfe ta-ass chicken; whose .vnnzs x-!rjjri-irarrnl end whose, head cn- .enit'ntv .tfoes to ciia. tiJo for a-'peu vjkjc, a noveky. '- - ROXBORQ, "NORTH: C-'-Ar DOG'3 SELf-SACRIFICE; Eow a.Vontnresome . Ia1 :T7as Sav4 from" the -Jaws of a Shark. V. Vi A; Boutliern ? paper prints the followmg moving etoi-ylof sublime self -sacrifice Tby a dog a fine large Newfoundland. A" camping party on the coast of Georgia, near Sayannah, had been amusing them selves i by swimming in the bay,' and" a venturesome lad Reamed Charlie Butler had - swam - much fartlier, and - staid longer 7 than the rest. '-The writer, who was the owner of rtho dog, dressed Iimv self, and was busy at tho camp ground preparing ; supper when he heard an alarm. ."--.--'"' "'2s--A sudden ; outcry told -,me something was going wrong m the shore." Grab bing a i rifle and hastening back, "with Carlo tit my heela; . J belield Butler some dirdance. way,swimmmg"witji U iiis might, and only a few yards behind Turn tlie verucai an of a huge ' bliark. Tliere seemed no possibihty that the- boy's lio . could -bo saved; we wero without boats," and fish and man wero so nearly in lino from us that I did not dare to firo. In a second Black Carlo, comprehending the situation, , dashed through ; the surf," and started to swim toward Charlie with a speed I have rover seen equaled by any land animal. .The boy, having leisurely covered most of tho-distance between the reef and thojshore'5.whentho man eater started after him, - was v comparatively fresh, and, when ho" saw the noble dog hastening to his help,' made a final atcs perate' effort to escape. : In another in Btant Carlo was oloso to him. ' , ' Just then, however; the shark having come near enough, turned, so that-we could see his white belly glistening in the twilight, and" was all ready for the spring that would surely have ended Charlie s life, when Carlo, leaping clean over But ler's form, appeared to go straight into the monster's mouth; and the latter, hav ing got bis supper, disappeared in 1 deep water, while the lad in a few seconds was safe- on the shore. That night our joy over our comrade's rescue was mingled with sorrow for the life so gallantly sac rificed in his behalf, and. to this day the memory of that thrillinsr scene fills me with sadness for tho loss of ; Black . Carlo my dog hero. Exchange. , - Scenery of tho Danube. " If any ono has taken the river route to Buda-Pesth under the delusion that he is to see fine scenery he is quickly disabused. The finest scenery of the Dauube is abovo Vienna, between the . capital and Linz, and also farther up, as . far as Passau. Along this part of its course there' is a constant succession of villages with cas tles, bills crowned with ruins, abbeys in J t 1 "a J 1 1 T picfcureeque locauucs uau lanuscapes 01 great beauty and variety. It is in this respect one of : the most "noted parts of Austria, which has a greater" variety cf landscape beauty than any other country of Europe; r, - ' Below Buda-Pesth the views aro fino and hcldLV' Th shores are; more abrupt and there tiro splendid reaches of the river. which receives large tributaries and be comes more majestic. .For some distance below Vienna tho levees are numerous though not continuous. ; The land near the banks is low and the hills beyond them the gentlest undulations.- The towns that are passed from time to time do little to enhance the interest-as respects their ap pearance, though all of them bad their littla affairs with the Turks 800 or 400 years ago. In fact, every square mite of ground along either bank, soon after leav ing .Vienna, 13 h istenc. liuaa-r csth Cor, San Francisco Chronicle. . - . ' - , "r"- Tha SZodern Hednsa ., ' In one of the better claaa .of tenement houses a woman, a polisher , in a "jewelry manufactory, said tne other cay: f: "I'm-. 'willing to:,work :hard,' I don't care how hard: but it's awful -to' me to see my little boy and the way ho goes on. He'a a cash boy at , D t's,,and they don't pay by the week, they , pay by chocta, so every cash boy is on tho keen jump after a calL- They're eo' worried and anxious and "afraid, they; won't -get enoueh, and Johnny cries and says: 'Oh, mamma, I do try, but there's ono boy that always gets ahead of , me.- I think it's axi awful system oven if it does make thorn smart. " . , - An awful systemi - yet in its : ranks march more and more' thousands every year. It would seem as if every ,force in modern civilization bent" toward this .one end of money getting,; and the child of days r and the old ? man ; of years alike shared tho passion and ran the same mad racsj. -It is the passion itself that lias out grown all bounds -and that faces us to days the modern Medusa, on which he who looks has no more, heart of Cceh and blood but forever heart: of" stone, insensi ble to any Borrow, ' unmoved by ' any cry -of child or woman. Helen Campbell in New York Tribune. k vVgetall0Sof the Ocean.- -L-." 'r. Every one knows that the sea has larger amtnals than can bo found on -land: but with the enormous sequoias of "Calif ornia in mind,; many may be surprised toiearn of vegetablo growths in the ocean -vastly exceeding in length, though not m bulk, tliese giants of the forest. Recently the shit Clever, commaaded by Capt. - John Stone, arrived at Montevideo with a per tion of a seaweed which liad -been picked ub iar the Atlantio near the cquator.The sailors perceived an-object floating on the surface Bomo distance irom tne fcxiip. ana, maiminar a'- boat; -Ihev lowed to it, and ascertained'-, tliat it -was an alga pf enor- raous "size. On measm-mg it, . . it was found to liave a length upward of 1,000 feet.'-Swics Cross." " " "...rr ? ' '" -Among: in faelitonables. ' r - -lirj SwelTYwho liaircnted a faGhion able : epartment house) We - needn't- be asiiamea 01 inid, juy turar. - , . ... Mrs. Swell No indeed; it, is perfectly lovely,' nd such a fasbionable locality! ; :1 ,Mr ' SwcH That's tho beauty of it. And now, my dear, if you will .send Per kins out fcr aloat of. bread .ana a halt a pound of Luttet.wo will Lavo something ," if ' 61mtnlngr N Longer Popular. . filtmlmine has had it? day : in New York,' and ii now a toothless, gray heid- cd and tottering craze, employed at vu-y rare intervals- tor eomeuuuy wio-ia.w the fun and wants to repeat iVor rsomo body vrho hadn't the courage to -try it before. -Cor. Kansas City Jcctrnal. 't An excellent carbon 'fcr clsctilcj pur px.is i uow oHalned from eoawttsl. CARPLINA,THTrRSI) AY, "JtTI;Y28, 1887. RELIGIOUS SCENES M ""CHINA. A Picturesqna Clroreh Bejcar Carrying ' , Out a Dreadful Tow. . ' "Church' begging' ?. is -very comrnoa in i China. The -.temples' ' advertise, their wants by posting on walla in the : neigh borhood - square pieces1 of yellow T-tjaper whereon is the exact Chinese equivalent of the scriptural, " Ask and thou shalt re ceive," together with the name and loca tion of the - temple : where prayers are always" answered. - ;""'-- .But there are also more personal forms )f begging The writer " has seen in Pe king- a . priest whose cheeks had- been pierced, and - the,, teeth knocked out. so that an iron rod, as largo as one's middle finger, could bo passed, through; to pro- "ject an inch or two beyond either .cheek. An iron ? nan circiassas nirea to each end of this and passed around tha.back of - the priest s head. : ; Attached to: the half circle was an iron .chain wtich.was io long as to drag on- &o'. ground several eet behind him, " , , -: - " -His business was to go from bouse' to house, beating a small drum, a sking help to. repair a temple." i Sympathy vvould bo .wasted on him. lie was a "professional church debt lifter,' "who had monthly wagea ' and . a: " commission -i on his col-lections--and the rod and chain were his stock jn trade. ' " i There is another way," still more pecu liar. - A priest stands in a" small box-like structure, placed in front of a temple;, through the boards of v which spikes have been driven, so that the imprisoned priest can move no part or. ins body, except his right arm, without being pricked by a spike. ' With his right hand io nngs a bell to draw attention to liis pitiable con dition. Charitablo persons give pa much tor the privilege of drawing out a spike. . Tho . highest - priced spikes are those which point at tho - vital nartr ' of - the body.' . The priest is supposed .to stand in his kennel day and mght - until all the spikes havo been bought and drttwn, but no one believes that he really dofs so. ; - A single incident will showhw much hardship and self inflicted suffering some of these heathen will undergo to fulfill a religious vow. One intolerably hot and dusty afternoon 1 in 1871 the writer was resting at a wayside tea house ; and saw 'approaching a man and a woman. . The man would first take one lon step; then bring his other foot up and measure, bia -whole length m tha road.,'. i 'r Having knocked, his head three times on the ground, he rose, took anot her step, and again prostrated himself. The woman was the- man's wifa, and was waiting .- upon .him. la answer to cues tions, ho said that he. had made a vow -that u". Buddha would restore-! to health "his ' eon. who : was desneratelv dck. - he -would make a pilgnmass to Wu-tai-ehan . . . .... . A . and home again, a step and a prostration an The way, . - Not' more- than three" miles could "be made in a dry... IIo had' traveled about 600 of the 2,000 miles of the double, jour- ney, ana wouia rjexwa-yepriorgejr m completing his vow. As hdwas 78 yearn old, and almost worn cut, it was easy to see that he would not hve to fulfill it. A callou3 lump as large as an egg projected from his forehead, raised by his knocking his head upon the dusty road. .: Yet this man was shocked and angry at a sugges tion that . he should abandon his useless pilgrimage, and passed out of sight meas uring the road with hia infirm . body. Youth's Companion.' -. , ' . . Th Fountain In Parma . - " In the Bquare close by ia a' statue to Panneggianino, of recent workmanship, end a drinking fountain. I There are but two or three shoots of . water in Parma, but even that is more than one can find in" most of those ; plain towns, and, es-1 peciallv to the traveler who has just lefi Switzerland," the loss of running water is great. . - No Swiss village is so mean, no town socibwdedj but from an unpretend ing iron, pipe there gushes forth, pellucid, guttering and opulent, a .stream of the purest and freshest water, which leaps in a. joyous and "elastic curve into a basin with a gay flash by night and "by day, and pours off with ungrudging profusion. Hut m these Lombard towns scarcely here and there can be found a lumbering pump, with long and massive handle, at which a few minutes' severe toil produces a mighty poor and mggajxUy- Hdnbblo of waters Where fountains are they prattle with a fatigued'and parsimcuou3;note, and shelter, their inadequacy under some statue in the modern taste. ' . . - v - ' -As a rule, the modern taste in Italy is not ' one whit better than in England.' They delight to honor rtlio martyrs and the heroes of United Italy." No town but has its Corso Vittorio Emmanuelq and its Via -: Cavour, with for the. most vpart r statues of the same. - Here 'and there .is a Via Massimo: d'Azeglio with ao" statue. Thcso works of art are not better than are effigies' of r. Cobden or Sir Robert Peel, and the crowning horror of all is a statue, of .Victor Emmanuel here the - Piazza di Corte. :It would baing a blush to the cheek of a Yankee stonemason. Gentle man's Magazine. i - z,' - - r . -v. A NljM Sijrnal Lantern. VA-successfuTtest of the Oatmaa night signal lantern was made in New York the other "nighirbjr officers 6f the army and navy." The common- torch lighted with lard oil car turpentine, has heretofore been used" for carrying ..messages at night- be tween far. off stations," on board ship, as ."""ell ' as on' shore, but the s system has proved untrustworthy.: The Oatman lan tern is so arranged by a 6implff ' mechani cal device that flashes, of. lighticari be shown as desured." . Tliese nashes cqrres-J pond' with the; dash and'thedot: m 'the electrio. telegraph- sjtitem, along - flash corresponding with" the dash, and a short Cash with -tho -dot. -- The lantern is not more than . eighteen inches high,- and eight inches square; 1 A small lamp with the flame in the focus of a parabolic re. flector furnishes the,. lightv Fans "close before the flamed by "means'; Of , which the flashes are regulated, according to the Morse system of telegraphy. The flame is tendered steady, by meahsof a forced draught:; The- longest distance - signaled has been? between Fort' Myer and Sugar Loaf mountain, Va., about thirty-five miles; signals, have been xchaHged- be tween the" reservoir :. in JBrpoklyn and Sandy JHook" aljout .twenty miles apart. Boston Budget. , . ' v- -" 4:, Tanniug TiU Fabrlca. - ' A Belgian textile maruifacttarer has.de vised a process lor tanning rexiua laonca tle' t, : the margin which renaers hem waterproof and proof vvrilLi L-ir Ei-cenoV clear chur asainst decay,. viinutcxeasing UiuJ , ..c." : & r-j.it.zvx.tlxi wut -.r- C ' ' NEXT. ' ' ' -Continued from last week. . . -' tree, towering like dome heafy niant In ita robe 6 ico. - One of lt bougha caught r hr ffown. held ;Jier in raid air for ono awful", moment," then, crisD with frost. broke -off , sharplyi craihing- down --wi h nor into a bank of snow.-, ,- For a few minutes,, that seemed as manv hours to heri i she rlay .with . closed eves, sick- dizzy, blinded. -; Then, bruised and bleed ing, she resumed her awful ioumeVw reck- less of, pain or Tjeril in her desDoraCion. heeding jnly that each new fail brought her nearer to the man aha loved, - As- she leaped from the last crag down to Ithe snowy highway Darcy- Breene's lantern was just-shining around -the last turmng of the trail, x She caught it from him and . hurled , it upwards, its telltale light vanishing within an extinguisher of snow. . Then, as, speechless' with aston ishment, he stoadiirrcsQlutelyVshe seized his hand and dragged him hastily towards tho town. - - " - - - - K ' : ' , J 7 ilTh nicht freiffht U be bassin ver in fivo minutes,? she gasped, almost inco herently. "It oilers slows just thar," by th' junction. J Fur God's sake, fur life's. 6ake, board it It s ycr .only chance IV - The schoohnaster. drew himself up-"de-fiantlyi ?He was - a- slim, blonde fellow, with girlish eyes and coloring, but he bad a ' manly . spirit under hiseircrnmate ex-.; tenor; rHe understood at once that, her jealous i suitor - had . boon ; working upon SaTa fears with some threat of violence to him. : But if his heart beat more quickly at tho thfliiorht it wnn not from coward. ico. Io 'put his"' arm" around the trern1 bhng girl and drew her to him. -With a stifled cry; she broke away, urging him forward with all hpr remaining strength. A quarter of a mile up the mountain she had caught the gleam of a lantern; . - ; ' "Bill's a-gom ter kill yer," 6he cried. : 4 'He's got his shooter. ' Wot -kin ye dof eginhim?!' ' ' "I : - ?" Darcy's pantonymic. answer was elo quent He flung off, his coat and began to turn up hia sleevea - i - , For one moment' Sal's heart despaired.' Then her woman's wit came to her aid r". "Darcy,". she- pleaded, '-'yo ain't a-goin ; ter - back out now ye ain't ain't refuBin ter kum wi me?'- - .With her? . - ",. - -The , man-started and .caught up his coat hurriedly. Those last -two .words opened a vista not unpleasing to him, in his passionate, selfish youth. He went a few-steps forward and" then 'hesitated The little inherent good in his nature as serted itself in. this last inomentv...!-'-.v.'-- 5 "Sal, " he said, d6;you -know what you are asking? ' I I have not done well by you, but I never , meant you pite Buch. wrong as. this.". - -'" ---- A great sob welled tip from the girl's' noarc ana ecranprica - ner. ,ne put;, cer. handsto'Jher throat wildly ;, Keener than tho bitter blast, sorer by far than thewounda from the' icy ledge was the stab of those repentant -words. ' He had never' meant to marry her, never not even when his words ware, softest, his eyes " and heart most warm! . .And this was the man fez whom she had just dared death the lover -whom she would have saved at any cost The thought of Bid---poor; Tough, loyal Bill: " of his love, honorable, manly. steadfast - which, she had bartered for this" A sudden bitter resentment took possession of her to vanish as she looked up and met Darcy's soft blue eyes; Poor; godless, untaught Salt v-What chance had she that love would not prove too 6trong for her "I love ye,' 6he whispered. "Wecan't never, "be - free - 'yer. - Take - .me away," Darcy don t leave me yer ter Bill. . ; 1 Leave her to Bill I " All the.pasdon, the jealousy, the :; dogged determination of Darcy - Breene's charaetejr,; to . carry: through at any. cost whatever was most opposed, was: Quickened by the-.words. He put on 'his coat; and turned toward the junction, his hesitation all but uomif nally at an end. ; "I I have so tittle money I' t he cried, yieldingly. - "'Yer's mines take it, take itl ' Ye Ida pay me' back enny time." ' i, r: She : forced the ; purse upon: him; ana led him unresistingly toward the frosty tracks, ghttermir at the cross" roads. r "But my , room my things--I cannot leave sol He stopped, - resolutely; as- a sudden remembrance swept over "him. .Thero is .apicturoVho said, a; flush of honest shame mounting: redly to his brow as" he spoke: fit is under my pillow. -I-1 don't mind my other traps, but I must liave-thatl" " The whistle of the- engine, sounded in "GiV me th' key! ' I'll git it fur yet the cirl cried, recklessly'. "Go on;' I'll f oiler; and; mechanically he went -for ward, the blinding snow Toiling her from his sight i v She - shrank ' back" " against the wliite -rock' and waited -till the snort -of , the coming engine - could be . distinguishejJ through!, the silence. .Then 6he folded her shawl about her, and sped towards the - tracks," in f Darcy 's - footprints.- He looked at -her-mquii-uielv as ; she reached him; panting, T just - as the long:-train began to slow;- and the engine puffed past them; . -'. . -- -" "I've crot itt Git on They're etartin'! she cried, as the" last car, an emigrant coachrncared.them; -He attempted to help her up, but she pushed him before her , and jumped after : . "Darcv." she 6obbed;-"kiss mel" : There-on"' the icy . platform, ; with'. the wind sweeDing around ' them, ;; the. show wliirling in their taces, he .opened . his I arms and folded her in them, -pressing a hot kiss on. her Tjassionate;-. death white face. -" ' - i".- " ,-The next moment he was Hung back ward into the lighted car; the door closed upon him;' -When he had" leaped to his feet and regained the platform, he. was alone, with tlie - train racing along the tracks at pitiless speed; And far behind, by the tracks on the snowy roadside, alone and defenseless hi1 the bitter night, i? stood Sai Eaderbw and her heart in Ler face as she held out her-arms in a -mute-farewell to ihe man her love had saved. . '- Ten minutes later 6he ' was jn . Darcy Breena's roomr: groping : her way to the pillow under which rested the picture ho had refused to leave. 'She drew it out, and felt around for a match; a mad jeal ous V in nossession cf . her." :. The portrait that - he could : not -, part from of whom was it? A low fire was burning in th eraw. r bao cent aown eageny;. uuiuiua Uu.-iicture to the' light dfhe fior.es.' It ....51. i: ' r on. avcfPt.j wett over the gii-L TLZ Oaaae" dazzled U i! M O $150 Per Year iri Advance, .NQi47;: " ' -"" . Sweethearti" r 'RwopthpnT.r' - An. know it now; now,in the hour when she had risked her life to save, him I ; She staggered- to the bed' and fell across it face uownwarcLi, scorchmg"" tears 'gather Lag- elowly .ia. her: wide "open,; unseeing eyes." . She did not hear tho door . open, -nor ?the quick 'footsteps'that sounded in the room. - r , . . - M w'KurnLout-.Ter't' cricd'-a v-oice," rougWy.- "I ain t agoinr ter git th' bein ter oyo unbeknownst .I'm wilhn.: ter figlit yo far an' squar', an'- iet th' best man win.' r.: ; ' ; - ."5- -c. -" s : The words reached her; but she did not grasp their meaning. , Tho long strain had f brought its- inevitable , reaction,-and she had succumbed at last - v "Git -up,"""thar,- I""say! - No plavin asleep H fool "met Ye'ro.a coward ter try Mtl f Shew- up, htea. nuuv afore l count five, orjm shoot ye fur th dog ye Dei uncl-twol tnreoI---fourl live!'' A sudden ; familiar sound recalled Sal Enderby to a dim ort 'of consciousness. It was a sound" that ' she had learned to know well, during her life in that lawless region the click.bf.'a revolver, cocked for action, Some faint, natural-instinct oiself preservation impels her to open her hps,' but no; word" issues" from .them. Twice she essayed to "speak,." and. both times vainly Then -she shut - her i lips again, resignedly. - Sweetheart! bweet- heartl --That cruel word - was ""the- only one she had not forgotten. She" was dead to fear, to shame, to. everything - butihe sore agony ia her heart v . . - -" "' rlhere was a hash, tk suqden;, sharp re port," a keen, stinging : sensation- ,ta - her left-side,'piercing through to the - beauti ful white breast! . The next moment tho light of a lantern flashed full in her face,. and," lying 'backs' faint 4unto death with something : warm . and i;dark:v! trickjing through her gown and staining the white counterpane, "-she eaw'the facd:of..Red lianch . BiU, '; diawn, x ghastly, .: horror strioken, above her,"- r - " ". "Sal!" lie d ied; "Oh. -my Oodl my Godt.Sair v.V ; The cespair in' ma voice recalled her from the lethargy into which she was fast sinking, It's all right, Bui ye didn't mean it, " she said; softly. ;:4It don't--hurt half ez much? ez fef ?t h'd be'n him P ! - --Her: eyes -closed, her. lips: palod Bill-' sank on . hia knee8,iburymg his taceXm hexj- frosty,- drageled . skirt".' Suddenly. with a last effort she raised herself in tlie bed and held out the velvet framed pict ure. -" . j " - - "Eeep it till Daxcy . Breenoi-Sends' fur it 6he gasped-4 "Dotft take on," Bill. ".I'm glad ter die fur his sakel" . -3 - 'A' - --l-.-S.: - -Then her lips parted, her eyes glazed, her bead fell forward; and the tragedy of Ranch Village was played fo its cnd.- h Tha Work of the Iteptter" : : 'A". very large proportion of the -vrvfkxA. collecting and preparing news fofr a daily paper cannot from the nature of things, be performed by women. About half th6 persons employed on a city daily paper are reporters. . . They are likely to tso sent anywhere and everywhere" by the city editor at any hour of the day or mght. They are obliged to; visit places, where the foot -of a modest . woman should never tread. They are - .forced to familiarize' themselves with crime and ; criminals They must attend horse races, sparring. matches, prize fights, "hanging .bees,' political conventions , and " other disroprK table gatherings. They must, touow.en pdnes to fires, ! run After the policetpatrol wagon, ." mingle with - mobs, witness, dog fights and. "chickem contentions," - go in disguise into secret meetings. of Anarch ists and be in attendance' at police- court trials and coroner's inquests. Till women abandon their womanhood ... they oan not become; efficient" nowspaper reporters. Chicago Times.-- - . ; i. - I C c- - J '": c -l , a l 4 --V -How la It In Europe, "s '.;'' Pendinff ' the discussion of tlie desira Blity ' of adding dynamite ' to - rod - hot smashed aiKl ; then slowly- roastea in -a burning car it -might" Be wortii while to cf the old -world never are, under the 'nccessity:cll;diGcussuig means of speedy. death as a relief from the torture of- rail way casualties. - Is itr not somewhat sin jnilar that among the played out denizens of Europe bridges don't drop when trains cross them ;v switches are. not mispiacea when a lightning express is due-," the pas-. eenfrer coaches never '--tunable xiown oign embankments'", and then ' catch fire and roast their mutilated contents? Ilowdcf tliey do -things -over there?-It is true - that - iheao people are; effete? and . wote. cut and uass.-while it-, appears . that there is a point or"; two where they have the advantage of - us. -Chicago Tunes. r-feTbo Fees Icinxers BecelTeT'-. 'i ' Ilenrv' fWard Beecher has received more" money for lectures, than- any other : Jaoan 'on the platform record. -; He has been lecturfnar for forty years, his feet having increased from, $50 to .,$200, and the aggregate amount being estimated at 250.000..-'.' Most or this - money; nowr everr.' has" been- lost; .".Greeley- paid for iCharmaaua bv his lectures, . . Bayard lay lor ckared in'tho same manner $5;500 in; onfl season. Tilion used to deliver "nitv 'IrcnirpH in a season at 73 to 100. - Josl "Billines- hadj: ail:; the '"engagements ht: .wanted, at $100, and left. an. estate-: of S75.000.all made after hs had passed 4U hapin made $30,000 by his lectures and - Emerson cot rich m. thosame, manner - Anna Dickinson was' at one time wortfc SI 5.000, all made by lectures; but it wa. t lost tlirouch mismanagement ' "Jaark Twain -has made between f 25.000 anf. :?0.000 bv his V lectures; New,.-YorL fnll and'Express. J r " A Before Breakfast. --. '. ' Jt is curious how ideas change with the times. - Not so many-years ago At wae considered the most healthful thing in tht world to take a walk before, breakfast. "Tt is not only absurd,- but, dangerous,' "isaid a well known physician," speaking or ;thia subiect a few days ago. 1" Ihe earlj " morning air is malarial and "will cause . i-atarrh and lunar troubles. If you can - livoid it never'leave your, house until fhf sun lias warmed the atmosphere. - rlevei s-iuiad about seeing tho sun rise; it will rise without vOar assistance '-lake care or i - vour healih and let the un take care of Jiself.''--Philcdelphia CUI. ' "" Persoh Co. Courier, - rtiblialted Every Thnreday - ' V -: .! -.. Br - -.'.-HACKNEY &.'K0ELL,. - - - .J"' - "" fjTERM& OF SUBSCJiiPTJOKl One' Copy On Year -. 4 r One, Copy Six Months fi 50 75 1 Bcrnitaftcmut Jbo made . by F.edstered Letter,';Post Office Order , or Postal Note. :-TherAppetitoi ; May be increased; .the Digestive, organs- -Btrengthenedj and- the Bowels regulated, ; ? ' by , taking Aycr'a -Pjlls. . These Eilla are.'. -" purely ..vegetable ih their, composition.- They contaUuneither calomel nor any other ; dangcrouffdragZ-and -niay ibe taken; With perfect safotjpby persons-of all ages. .: v.v- " I was a, grent sufferer from Djspepsfa -and Constipation. ". .1 "had no mroetlte. - . became- greatjy- debilitated,-nud wiw cou-- ; atantly afflicted with Headache and Dteil--nesa, I consulted our. family doctor; whu r proscribed for -me, at various thucsj with- ; - - out afiovuing more than temporwy renet. - I finally cpmmeHced taking Ayerjs Pills. -Ia a f,hort time my digestion and fcppetita- . - bt bowela wfere' recrulated and.' bv 4Tia- ' time I finished two boxes ot these Pillsnvy .: ; tendency to headacbes-nad-diarpeiUdv and I becames strong, and well; Diuiu ; : - . At. Logan, Wlaiiagtoii,.DeI. r . :.-: . : k I wns troubled,, for over a year, wfll." " Loss of Appqtite, und.tJenem Dcbl lit y. - - ; I eommenced Inking Ayer's Pills, and;be- v fore finishing half a box of this nediciiie, ; ' my appetSe'ttiid strength weierestorcd. . "-. Ci O. Clarl Daubury, Cona. ; - Ayer's TillB are ; tho ' best .medicine . known to mef for regulating tho bowels, v and for all diseases eaused by a disordered jr.. Stomach aud ( Liven - I-suffercd for over i three:yars wiui ueadacet luajsrestlon.-.,., ; r . and (Jonstipafiion. . I had no-oppctite, and : wntt teonV on.t ttoirsiTio ivncjf- gf t lir. lima . . - three-boxes of Aycrs rills, and; at the---same -time dietiniT mvself. I .was : com--' , !ple.tely cured Jly digostire - organs are . " " aiow In good ordcr,'and I 'am In perfect . ;healtn;--Phili Lockood,TopekaKans. r ; . " S Ayer's PulSnhave benefited me wonder- -. , ifullvi For months I suffered from Indl- 'j -r. cstion Tnnd5 Ifeudache, was-restless- ot - jniguT;.anti no a uau tasre-in mymouin every moming ' After taking ones box-of -. " ' Ayer's - Pillsnall these - troublesi di8ap$ ;-,''; peared; my fdod tligested welV and my,: elcep was rcf reshinEr. Ilenry CLHcm-; - -nenway, Eoekport, Mass.-- -j . -: , ' I was ' cnredl of the Piles' by the unci of v Ayer's. rtlls. '".They not only relieved mv ; of that painful disorder, but gave) me in: v.: creased-vigor, and restored my health - r John Lazarus, Btt John, N. B. j. i,T. ' -, Avers : Pi lis, v 1-i -Frtpared by Dr;.C. Ayer ScCOMLoWll.lifast. t V Sola by aUI)rugpat8 and Dealers in --Medicine. iV-- T KlCHACKUSYi .f- , v ' -JOIIJf A; BfQEH, "" ' f rC is- V . ' -: - . rv;xiv .1 4 t 1 r -:SupjjoH;'Yourt: T- '; -v -. - :-'7;::--"t---cv..'!' r- I THE pO DRIER. -::-.'-i--.-'.""'V" :- PDBLI$nED BY ' -1 HACKNEY ;&ELL, T -THE- ".. Only Paper Fublislicd Iri f: r': , A v - ; . PERSG!i;fiQUHTV, t-- 7. i,i.-.--v--vr- "r- - VAlTMS- .if- L00AL11IBWE - ' ; - - ': ; . - 4 'A SUBSCEIflON ' PRICE : 1 7j r t ihvays -Itv 'dduanco; . Yoa"nnt Rib-y Teg rt-tthq small Viruouut thus seQL -. -; I " '. "eh,"ninl y u WiU know vcrytl.'g ! y t.f " iinpoTtnnce- tnni1--!-j',' 'J- . ring arnuhd yon. - X Your Al Oiscc. .if . , i-v- ir -:- - " r. - " , . t , . - r', i - -V , r "i.,-3--- - - - . -. - -
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
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July 28, 1887, edition 1
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