North Carolina Newspapers

J asto5a e t te J? ESTABLISHED IN 1S.S0. Devoted to tlie Protection of Home nd the Interests f" tlie County. ESTABLISHED IN 18SO. Vol. 5. f J. E. TAGE, Editor and Proprietor. Gastonia, N. C: November 4, 3 887. f One Dollar and a Half per Annum, ITo. 44 X in Advance. Oaz ' J - t i, V : r v ' 4 '5 AT PEACE WITH ENEMIES. Dft. tALMAGPS SERMON AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. Why Wo Should Forgive 111 Humor Ex hanstlng to Physical and Mental Heulth. Those" Who Preserve Their Temper in Debate Generally Come Out Ahead. BRQOKtvy, Oct. .93. The Bev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., preached ip the Brooklyn tabernacle thlsmorning on the subject : "For giveness before sundown.1' After explaining some passages concerning Hezckiah, Dr. Tal mg gave out ,thofollowing bynin. which was sung by tlie Congregation: .- ' ' This glorious hope revives Ottr courage bytthe way, - WliA eaoii iu expectation lives. ' And loD3 to nee tlie day. Professor Henry Eyre Brow-no rendered on the organ an aria with variations, by Cramer. The text of the sermon was from Kphcsians It20: . "Letrr ItnT the son go down upon your' wrath. "j Dr-Talniago said: - --- What a pillow embrpidered of all colors hath the dying"ilajfc J, TJie cradle of cloud.-; from which the sun rises is beautiful enough, but it is sin-puLed , by . the many colored mausoleum in which at evening it is buried. Sunset among the mountains! It almost takes one's breath away to wcaif-sihe .scene. The long shadow strotrhing over the plain make the glory of tlie departing lilit on the. tiptop crags and struck asluul, .through - t he foliage the inoretranspicuou -Saffron and gold, purple and crimson eovufningled. " All the castles of cloud fXX" coiiflajronT Burn". Ing Jiosoowk qnth sky. ifaJigjng.:garlep of roses at their (deepest blush? Banners of vapors, red as if from carnage t'in tho battle of the elements. The hunter among tlie Adi rondack and tho Swiss villager among the Alps know what is a sunset among the mountains. After a storm at sea tho rolling grandeur into which tho sun goes , down to bathe at nightfall is something to make Weird and splendid dreams out of for a lifetime. Alexander Smith in his poem com pares tho sunset to "tlie barren beach of hell," but this wonderful spectacle of nature makes tne think of the burnished wall of heaven. Paul in prison writing my text remomJjcrs some of the gorgeofcs sunsets among the mountains of 'Asia Minor, and how he had often se:i tho towers of Uiunascus Maze in the close of tho OVientaVdays, aud he flashes out that memory in tli text when he says: "Let not the sun go down n;xm your wrath." Sublime am Will suggestive duty for people then and .people now. - forgiveness before lundnwn. Ho wW never,feels the throb of indignation is imbecife. "Ho who can walk 'among tho injustices of tho world, inflicted upon hicLself nd others, without flush of cheek orilash of eye or agitation of nature, Is either in sympathy with wrong or scmi idiotic. When Anmiiax, the high priest, or dered the constables of the court room to mite Paul in the mouth, Paul fired up and said: "God shall smite thee, thou wliited wall." In the sentence immediately before my text Paid commands tlie Ephesiuns: "Be ye angry and sin not" It all depends qu; what you are mad at and how long the feel-in--hints whether anger-Is right or wrong. Life UJull at erauspenttioM ttaur- nfser . David, Succoth after Gideon, Korah after Mosx, t'.io Pasquins after Augustus, the j!i;u-i..-cs after Christ, aud every one lias had pursui-rs, and we are swindled or belied or misrepresented or iiersecnted or in some way wronged, and tho danger is that healthful Indignation shall become baleful spite, and that our feelings settle down into a pro longed outiKJuriug of temper displeasing to Uod aud ruinous to ourselves, and hence the important injunction of the text: "Let not tho sun go down on your wrath." Why that limitation to one's anger? Why that period of flaming vapor set to punctuate a flaming disposition What has the sunset got to do with one's resentful emotions! Was it a haphazard sentiment written by Paul without special significance! -sNo, no; I think of live reasons why we should not let the sun sot before our temper sets. First, liecause twelve hours' is long enough to be cross about any wrong inflicted npon us. Nothing is so exhausting to physical health or mental faculty as a protracted in dulgence of ill humor. It racks tho nervous system. It hurts the digestion, it heats the blood in brain and heart until the whole body . is first overheated andHheu depressed. - Be side, that", it sours the disposition,' turns one side from his legitimate work, expends en srgies tliat ought to be better employed, and does us more harm than it does our antago nist Paul gives us a ood, wide al lowance of time for legitimate denunciation, from 6 o'clock to 0 o'clock, but says: "Stop there !" AVatch the descending orb of day, and when it reaches tlie horizon take a reef in your . disposition. Unloose your collar and cool off.' Change the-Kubject to .something-delightfully pleasant. Unroll your tight fist and shako hands with some one. Bank up tho fires at the curfew belL Drive the growling dog of enmity back to its kennel. The hours of this morning will pass by, and tho afternoon will arrive, and the sun will begin to set, and I beg you on its blazing hearth throw all your feuds, invectives and " Jatircs. i :' ' '.'. Other things being equal the man who pre serves good temper will come out ahead. An old essayist says that the celebrated John Henderson of .Bristol, England, was at a dining party where political excitement ran high and the debate got angry, and while Henderson was speaking his opponent, un able to answer his argument, dashed a glass of wino in his face, when the speaker deliber ately wiped the liquid from his face and said:" "This, sir, is a digression:' now, if you please, Tor the main argument" While worldly philosophy could help but very few to such equipoise of spirit the grace of God could help any man to such a triumph. "Im possible," you say, "I would have either loft the table. . in anger or have knocked the man down." But I have some to believe that nothing is impossible, if God help, since what I saw at Beth-fcjhan faith cure in Loudon, England, two sum mers ago. While the religious seice was going on Rev. Dr. Boerdman, glorious man, sin eo gone to his heavenly rest, was telling tho scores of sick people present that Christ was there as of old to heal all diseases, and that, if they would only believe, their sick ness would depart I saw a woman near mo, with hand and arm twisted of rheumatism, and her wrist was fiery with inflammation, and it looked like those eases of chronic rheumatism which we have all seen and sym pathized with, cases beyond all human heal ing. At tho preacher's reiteration of the words: "Will you believe , Do you believe? Do you believe nowf I heard this poor sick woman say, with an emphasis which sounded through the building: "I do believe."- Aud then she laid her twisted arm and hand out as straight as your arm and hand, or mine. If I had soon one rise from the dead I would not have been much more thrilled. Since then I believe that God will do anything in an swer to our' prayer and in answer to our faith, and be can heal our bodies, and if dor soul is all twisted and misshapen of revenge and bato and inflamed with sinful proclivity, he can straighten that also and make it well and clean. Aye, you will not postpone till Buudowu 'forgiveness of enemies if you can realize that their behavior toward yon may bo put into the catalogue pf the "all things" that "work together for good to those that love God." I have had multitudes of friends, but I have found in my own experience that God so arranged it that the greatest opportunities of usefulness that have" been opened before me were opened by enemies. And when, years ago, they conspired against me, that opened all Christendom to me as a field in which to preach the Gbspel. SJo.-you may harness your antagonists to yoiy- Best' interests and compel them to draPyoifou to better work and htghei character?" Suppose, instead of waiting until six-minutes past a o'clock this evening, when the sun will set, you trausaot -this, glorious work of forgive- ness lefore meridian. -. Jwi Ami lit: WA (Hirht nnc tA Ira thp nm ?n rlown Again: we ought not to let the sun go down on our wrath, because we will sleep better if we are at peace with everybody.'. Insomnia is getting to bo one of the most prevalent of disorders. How few people retire at 10 o'clock at night and sleep clear through to 6 in the morning! To relieve this disorder all narcotics, and sedatives, and chloral, and bromide of potassium, and- cocaino and in- toxjeants are used. but. nothing is more im- portant than a quiet spirit if we Would win l portant than a quiet "spirit somnolence. How is a man going to sleep when he is in mind pursuing an enemy? With what nervous twitch ho will start out of a dream! . That new plan for cornering his foe will keep him wide awake while the clock strikes II, 13, 1, 2, 4. I give you an unfailing piescriptiui for wakeful ness, Rpend the evening -i hours rehearsing your wrongs and the best way" of avehging them. Hold a convention of friends on this subject in your parlor or oftico at 8 or 9 o'ck:k. Close the evening by writing a bit ter letter," expressing your sentiments. 'Take from the desk or pigeon bole the papers in the case to refresh your mind with your even ing's meanness. Then lie down and wait for the coming of tho day, and it will come be fore sleep comes, or your sleep will be a wor ried quiescent, and, if you take the precau tion to lie flat on your back a frightful night mare. Whynot put a "bound to your animosi ty? Why let-your foes come into the sanctities Of your dormitory? Why let those slanderers Who have already torn your reputation to pieces or injured j-our business, bend over your" midnight pillow and drive from you one of the greatest blessings that God can offer sweet, refreshing, all invigorating sleep? Why not fence out your enemies by the golden bars of the sunset? Why not stand behind the barricade of. evening cloud and say to them: "Thus far and no farther?" Many a man and many a woman is having the health of body as well as the health of soul eaten away by a malevolent spirit I have in time of religions awakening had per sons night after night come into the inquiry room and get no peace of sOuL- 'After a while I have bluntly asked her: "Is there not some one against whom- you have a hatred that you are not willing to give up? After a little confusion she has slightly whispered, "Yes." Then I said to her: "You will never find peace with God as long as you retain that virulence." - ; A boy in Sparta, having stolen a fox, kept him under his coat, and, though the fox was gnawing his vitals he submitted to it rather than expose his misdeed. Many a man with a smiling face has under his jacket an ani mosity that is gnawing away tho strength of few t4y and. the integrity aChlsouL Batter I gefc riu ui mini iiiuuvu aajjl oa auuu cw There are hundreds of domestic circles where that which most is needed is tho spirit of for giveness. Brothers apart and sisters apart and parents and children apart Solomon says a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Are there not enough sacred memories of your childhood to bring you together? The rabbins recount how that Nebuchadnezzar's son had such a spite against his father that -after he was dead he had his father burned to ashes, and then put the " ashes into four sacks, and tied them to four eagles' necks which flew away in opposite directions. Arid there are now domestic antipathies which seem forever to have scattered all parental memories to the four winds of heaven. How far the eagles fly with that sacred ashes! The hour of sundown makes to that family no practical suggestion. Thomas Carlyle, in his biography of Frederick the Great, says the old king was told by the con fessor he must be at peace with his enemies if he wanted to enter heaven. Then he said to his wife, the queen: "Write to your -brother after I am dead that I forgive him." Roloff, tho confessor, said:-"Her majesty had better write hun immediately." "No," said tho king, "after I am dead; tliat will be safer." So he let the sun of. his earthly existence go down upon his wrath. Again: We ought not to allow the sun set before forgiveness takes place, because we might not live to see another day. And what if we should be ushered into the presence of our Maker with a grudge upon our soul.' The majority of people depart this life in the" night. Between -If o'clock p. m. and 3 o'clock, a. in. there, is something in the atmosphere which relaxes the "grip -Which the body has on the soul, and most of people enter the next world through the shadows of this world. Perhaps God may have arranged it in that way so as to make the con trast the more glorious. I have seen sunshiny days in this world that must have been almost like the radiance of heaven. 'But as most jieople leave the earth between sun down and sunrise, they quit this world at its dxrkest, and heaven, always bright, will be the brighter for that contrast. Out of black ness into irradiation. Shall we then leap over the roseate bank of sunset into the favorite hunting ground of disease and death, carry ing our animosities with us? Who would want to confront his God, against whom we have all done meaner things than anybody has ever done against us, carrying old grudges? How can we ex pect his forgiveness for the greater when we are not willing to forgive othera the less? Napoleon was encouraged to undertake the crossing of the Alps "because Charlemagne had previously crossed them. ,. And all this rugged path of forgiveness bears the bleeding footsteps of him who conquered through suffering, and we ought to be willing to fol low. On the night of our departure from this life into the next, our one plea will have to be for mercy, and it will have to be offered in the presence" of him who has said: "If you forgive not men their tres passes neither will your heavenly Father for give your trespasses." What a sorry plight if we stand there hating this one, and hatAg that one, and wishing this one a damage, and wishing some one else a calamity, and we ourselves needing forgiveness for 10,000 times 10,000 obliquities of heart and life. When our last hour comes, we want it to find us all right Hardly anything affects me so much in the uncovering of ancient Pompeii as the account of the soldier who, after the city had for many centuries been covered with the ashes and scorise of Vesuvius, was found standing in his place on guard, hand on spear and helmet on head. Others fled at the awful submergement, but the explorer, 1700 years after, found the body of that brave fellow in right jKisition. And it will bo a grand thing if, when our last moment comes, we are found in right position toward "the world, as well as in right position toward God, on guard and unaff righted by the ashes from the mountain of death. I do not suppose that I am any more of a' coward than most people, but I declare to you that I would not dartt to sleep to-night if there were any being in all tho earth with whom ?I -would not gladlj shake hands, lest, during the night hours, my spirit dismissed to" other realms, I should, because of my unforgiving spirit, be denied divine forgiveness. k : "But," says some woman, "there is a hor rid creature that has so injured me that rather than make up with her I would die first.'' Well, sister, you make take your choice for one or the other it will be--your -complete pardon of her or God's eternal ban ishment of you. . "But', says some -man, f'that fellow who cheated 'me out of those goods, or damaged my business credit, or started that lie about me in the newspapers, or by his perfidy - broke up ' "tuv domes- "is J . P V T J tic happmess, forgive' him a.tc8ainot for- give him I will not"- Well, brother, take I ' take your choice. . You will never be at peace with God till you are at peace with man. Feeling as you now do," you would not get so near tho harbor of heaven as to see tho light ship. Better leave that man with the God who said: "Vengeance is .mine, I will repay." You may say: "I will make him sweat for that yet, I will make him squirm, I mean to . . J"" im B J"""! more than you damage him ltfM ' o-v 4-1;. ,lM4-t. rt V.,,4. r. and you are making heaven for your own soul an impossibility. If he will not be reconciled to you, be reconciled to him. In five or six hours it will be sundown. The dahlias will- bloom against the western sky. Somewhere between this and that take a shovel and bury tho old quarrel at least six ftjet deep. "Let not the sun go down on your wrath." . "But," you say, "I have more than I can bear too much is put upon me, and I am not to blame if I am somewhat revengeful and Unrelenting." Then I think of the little child at the moving of some goods from a store; The father was putting some rolls of goods on the child's arm, package after package, and some one said, "That child is being over; loaded and as much ought not to be put upon her," when tho child responded, "Father knows how much I can carry;" and God, our Father, will not allow too much imposition ton his children. In the day of eternity' it will be f oimjLjou had not one annoyance too many, not one aspiration too many, not one outrage too many. Your heavenly Father knows how much you can carry. . Again, we ought not to allow the passage of the sunset hour before the dismissal of all our affronts, because we may associate the sublimest action of the soul with the sublim est spectacle in nature. It is a most delight some thing to have our personal experiences allied with certain objects. There is a tree or river bank where God first answered your prayer. You will never pass that place or think of that place without thinking of the glorious comniunionT There, was some gate or some room or some., 'garden iwalk where you were" affianced .with the'' companion who has been your'jjShief joy in life. You never speak of inat place but with a smile. Some of you have pleasant memories connected with the evening star, or the moon in its . first quarter, or with the sunrise, be cause you saw it just as you were arriving at harbor after a tempestuous voyage. Forever and forever, O hearer, associate the sunset with your magnanimous, out and out, un limited renunciation of all hatreds and for giveness of all. foes. I admit it is the most difficult p all graces to practice, and at the start you maynmkeacnplete j D Shakespeare wrote ten "'plays before he reached "Hamlet," and seventeen plays before he reached "Merchant of Venice," and twenty-eight plays before he reached Mac beth. And gradually you will come from the easier graces to the most difficult. Be side that, it is not a matter of personal deter mination so much as the laying hold of the almighty arm of God, who will help us to'do anything we .ought to do..-" Remember that in all personal . controversies ' "the l.orie least to blame will have to take the first step at pacification, if it is ever effective. The contest between j3schines and Aristippus resounds through history, but Aristippus, who was least to blame, went to schines and said: ''Shall we not agree to be friends before we make ourselves the laughing stock of the whole country?" And JEschines said: 'Thou art a far better man than I, for I began the quarrel, but thou hast been the first in healing the breach," and they were always, friends afterwards. So let the one of you that is least to blame take the first step toward conciliation. The one 'most in the wrong will never take it Oh, it makes one feel splendidly to be able by Goil's help to practice unlimited forgiveness. It improves one's body and soul. It will make you measure three or four more inches around the chest, and improve your respiration so that you can take a deep er aud longer breath. It improves the coun tenance by scattering the gloom, and- bright ening the forehead, and loosening the pinched look about the nostril and Up, and makes yon somewhat like God himself. He is omnipo tence, and we cannot copy that -He is inde- pendent of all the universe,, and; we cannot copy that He is creative, and we cannot copy that He is omnipresent, and we cannot copy that But he forgives with a broad sweep all faults, and all neglect, and all insults, and all wrong doing, and in that we may copy him with mighty success. Go harness that sublime action of your soul to an autumnal sunset, the hour when the gate of heaven opens to let the day pass into ' the eternities and some of the glories escape this way through the brief jjpening. .We talk about the Italian sunsets, and sunset amid the Ap penines, and sunset amid the Cordilleras. But I will tell you how you may see a grander sunset than any mere lover of nature ever be held; that is, by flinging into it all your hatreds and animosities, and let the horses of fire trample them, and the chariots of fire, roll over them, and the spearmen ' of fire stab them, and the beach of fire .consume them, and the billows of fire overwhelm them. The sublimest thing God does is the sunset The sublimest thing -you can do is forgiveness. Along the glowing' banks of this coming eventide let the divine and the human be concurrent ' r i " Again; We should not let the sun go down on our wrath because it is of little importance what the world says of you or does to you when you have the affluent God of the sunset as your provider and defender. " People talk as though it were a fixed spectacle of nature and always the same. But no one ever saw two sunsets alike, and if the world has existed 6,000 years there have been about 2,190,000 sunsets, each of them as distinct from all the other pictures in the gallery of the sky as Titian's "Last Sup per," Rubens' "Descent from- the Cross," Raphael's "Transfiguration" and Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment'!., are distinct from each other. If that God of such infinite resources that he can put on the wall of the sky each night more than the Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and the Vatican, and' the Dresden and Venetian galleries all in one is my God and your God, our provider and protector, what is the use of our worry ing about any human antagonism? If we axe misinterpreted, the God of the many(colored. sunset can put tne ngnt color on our? action." If he can afford to hang such masterpieces Over the outside wall of heaven and have them obliterated in an hour, he must "be very rich in resources and can put us through- in safety. If all the garniture of the western heavens at eventide is but the upholstery of one of the windows of our future borne, what small business for us to be chasing enemies! Let not this Sabbath sun go down upon your wrath. -"' Mahomet said: "The sword is the key of heaven and hell, a drop ofplood abed is bet ter than fasting, and wounds in the day of judgment resplendent as rmilion, and odor iferous as musk." But, My hearers, in the last day we will find jost the opposite of that to be true, and that the sword never un locks heaven', -and that ho Who heals wo"uda is greater. than he who makes them, and that on the same ring are two keys: God's for giveness of us and our forgiveness of enemies; and these two keys unlocSr Paradise. And now iVrish for all ot- you a beautiful sunset in your earthly existence. With some of you it has been a long day of trouble, and with others of you it will be far from calm. "When the sun rose at 6- o'clock it was the morning of youth, anda fair day was prophesied, but by the tine tho noonday of midlife- had come and .the clock- of your earthly existence had strack VI, cloud racks gathered and tempest bellowed in the track of tempest Bui as thfcning of old age approaches I pray God the skies may brighten and the clouds be piled mp into pillars as of celestial temples to which you go, or move as with mounted cohorts come to take you home. And as you siy k out of sight be low tho horizon may there be a radiance of Christian example lingering" long after you are gono, and on the heavens be writ ten in letters of sapphiremd on the waters in iettei-s of opal, and on tie hills in letters of emerald: "Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon' withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light and the days . of thy mourniBg shall be ended." So shall the -sunset of earth become the sun rise." of heaven. , 4 . .- - .OF NEWSPAPER NOTORIETY. What the Press 8ay'About Men and , r Women Who Are Well Known. : t Henry Villard is. an complished musi cian, and often spends his evenings in play-, ing a violin to his daughter's pianoforte ac companiments. . ; - . $'! . . , Mme. Blavatsky, tl theosophist, Is round faced and brighUeyed, shrewd and full of vanity, fleshy and? good natured, but with manners that are mtfch to be desired. Boston Corbet, the n&n who shot John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Lin coln, has just beeif declared hopelessly in sane. He has been pla&d in the TnsAs state insane asylum. ' r : -. .... Senator Hiscock's favoiste fruit is the ba nana. He buys banana by the dozen and sits in his office stripping., down the sides in an indolent, contemplate way before he devours the pulp, v It ia conducive to his en joyment of bananas to pat his feet up on a table while eating them. " " Ernest Legouve' author bf Vdrienne Le couvrour," although 80 years old, is one of the best readers in Paris, i His manner of life would do credit to a Chinaman, for he lives in the old stone house where he was born, uses the study that his father used before him, and raxely if ever loaves )Paria. . j Miss Clara Louise Kellogg says that all amateurs of music should keep their eye on Mile. Adiny; who is now singing under a three years' engagement at the Grand Opera house, Paris. .MlleAdijfcT-fa about 2P beauty. She is, howeveSsa American" girl, her real name being Chapman, and her birth place Boston. ' '. ; . . . f ,' There died is the Old Gentlemen's home at Boston; a few days ago, a man who was iden tified with the. leading mechanical inventions of the past fifty years. His name was dY H. Chamber lin, and he was a cousin to ex Governor D. , H. Chamberlin. Some of the devices in the inventions of -which he was interested were the repeating rifle, the hand and power planer, the. spring roll for window curtains, the hook ' and eye "machine, the kerosene lamp burner and the lettered wheel hand stamp. J : -f - - v . : jit is.hard to believe that Aimee was almost: 50 years old. Yet she was born in Lyons in 1838. She preserved bee youth and health in a marvelous, manners- Her complexion was clear and smooth, like Mrs. Langtry's. She had a round, full face, with pronounced fea tures, strong white teeth, and cold, gray eyes. She was temperate, and very careful and dainty about her toilet. She kept no maid. She used to bathe her feet in cologne" after a walk, and to change her stockings with every change of costume. Her stockings cost about $0 a pair, and she wore out five dozen pairs a year. As a consequence her fet were as pink and white as an infant's. Otter Belt, one of the greatest of Comanche chiefs, died in Indian Territory a few days ago. Five minutes before his death they held him erect and rigged hhn out in his best war costume. They painted him red., set bis war bonnet on his head, tied up his hair in beaver skins, and laid him down just as he died. Then his five wives took sharp butcher knives, slashed their' faces with long, leop cuts, cut themselves in ftther places, and beat their bleeding bodies and pulled their hair. They also burned everything they had, tepees, furniture, and even most of tha lnth. ing they had on. A- big crowd of bucks looked on Ann lrlllMi ton hnrcM InMiiHin. favorite team of Fress Addington, on whose rancn utter fieit lived." - i A Higher Evolution. -. T ? . Besides the unconscious evolution" by nat-' ural laws, inherited from below, there is a higher evolution, inherited from above, in dissolubly connected with man's spiritual na ture a conscious, voluntary striving of the best members of the social aggregate for the betterment of the whole a conscious, volun tary striving- both. of the individual and of society toward a recognized ideal. In the one kind of evolution the fittest are those most in harmony with the environment, and which, therefore, always survive; in trl other, the fittest are those most in harmony with the ideal, and which often do not survive. Pro fessor Joseph Le Conte in Popular Science Monthly.- t . .- '.-. ; t . i - ; ; Lorenzo Dow's Clock. At the New London (Conn.) county fair, John Troland, of Norwich, exhibited the clock that ticked "for Lorenzo -Dow in his gambrel roofed house 'at Oxoboxo Lake. Elder Dow brought the clock from England. It is more than 100 years old. It is a quaint and striking timepiece. There is simply a prim dial plate, around which two long, crooked fingers creep, with open air works behind it,' no' case, and three or four brass weights on cords dangle six feet below the -faoa It was agoing .during the fairandate tracted a great deal of attention. Chicago Herald. ' - ' "Carbofic acid is recommended for moisten ing the tools with which metals are worked. The efficiency of the grindstone is said to be greatly increased by this means. Among the relics of her lost royalty pre served, by Empress Eugenie is an umbrella which cost 2,000,"the handle of which is set with splendid jewels.5 '. .4 ', j t. -. . . . The highest denomination of United States legal tender notes is $10,000. No bills of the value of 100,000 have ever been issued is this country. ' - Only a Woman's Voice. . The bell-had rung and the car was about to start on its down town trip from the Exposi tion grounds yesterday afternoon, when he boarded the car. It did not require more than a glance to convince every one who saw him that he was drunk very much so, in fact He sank into an unoccupied seat in the corner, leaned his weary head against tie fare box and in a moment was in that stupor which too much whisky produces. Tho driver evidently knew him and smiled as he said: "I'll attend to you when we get down here a piece." ...!.. . X In a few moments the car stopped and the driver stepped inside, shook the sleeper and told him in an auctioneer tone of voice to "wake up and get off." .... But the passenger did neither. Then a gentleman next him ' endeavored to arouse him, but beyond a muttered remark that could not be under- " stood he remained a fixture in his seat This sort of thing was becoming monoto nous when a little woman Was seen approach ing the car, A -slight rain was falling, and she dajntily picked her way across the muddy street and stepped upon the car. She glanced inside but did no( enter, and spoke but one word "John." It was not a loud "Johnj" but through the befuddled brain of that drunken sleeper it seemed to flash, penetrat ing and starting into life every faculty, and as though an electric battery had completed the circuit directly beneath him, he sprang up, and as gracefully as was possible to him left the car supported by that little woman, whose voice had almost sobered him. ! The moral of this little incident can be ar ranged to suit the taste, but the superiority of the female voice under such circumstances cannot be doubted. Atlanta Constitution; ' i Honesty of an Insured Man. . A leading mill mutual underwriter has had his faith in the honesty and good faith of business men strengthened in a very gratify ing way lately. A cotton mill .in a southern state insured in the mill mutuajs of this city was recently damaged by -fire. The loss was ' adjusted and the agreed sum -paid in cash. When Sent 1 c&ma th offirara Vf tho mill according to their custom, made an actual intuit ui cvuwii; an .nana to paiance tneir cotton account and . mill delivery for the previous year.' " ' ' 1 ' " V ' l Here wo qnoto from! the letter of the presi dent to the underwriters: ; fTo our surprise found we had more cotton on hand, than our account called for. After careful examina tion we found -that gOO bales, supposed to nave been in warehouse No. 1 the - one burned were actually in No. 3 warehouse, and our claim for burned cotton- was 200 bales in , excess of our actual loss "....The 200 bales, at , average 453 pounds, 90,600 pounds atltil cents, amounts to $10,079.25i which amount please deduct from amount you are due us, and divide , same in proper tpropor- uuus among an me companies at mtevest The above mentioned' amount was therefore returned the" insurance I companies. Boston Tho Oldest Canary. Hearing of the great loss Mr. Joshua E. Willis had met with in the death of his well known pet canary, a reporter called upon him at his residence to question him about its history. "My canary that died this morn ing," said Mr. Willis, "was, I believe, the ion ant Ho was twice crippled, his leg fractured and his wing broken. He was always cheerful and a beautiful singer until about three years ago when he became blind, and, strange to say, refused to eat seed. Dick was- an object of interest to all bird fanciers, and they frequently dropped in to ask about the 'old voter,' as he was called. . f - "I attribute his long life to feeding him on a little meat, particularly during the summer, when I gave him some three or four times a week. Occasionally I used to give him a small piece of fat salt pork, and I never gave him sugar, crackers or anything sweet I got the idea of giving him meat by watching him pick the feathers from his bodyv as all birchr do, and taking the quill end in his mouth." Philadelphia Enquirer. A Good Faying; Amusement. The Battle of Gettysburg Panorama com pany declared a dividend which equals 13 per cent on a capital of $360,000. ' Though the panorama is four or five years old, its draw ing power is still great . Frequently its receipts reach $400 a day. No other picture ever so -completely captured the popular fancy. During the first year or two of its existence the attendance was enormous. On one occasion $2,500 was paid into the box office between 10 o'clock in the morning hismL 9 at night This was in the convention year of 1SS4. . The. company for a long time paid 10 per cent a month dividends, keeping up this rate even' after he capital stock was doubled. A good many small people owned a few shares of stock, and they, gained each a little competence. The panorama's success gave a great impetus to panorama building all. over the country; It led, besides, to pop ular joint stock enterprises in the lines of other amusements. Chicago Herald. J ': -' : '-' --! Canaries Instead of Snakes. , There is a young man of this town whose pink cheeks and handsome eyes, together with his general air of nattiness, make him a mighty interesting person to look upon. Yet that young man hes intervals when he drinks. In fact he rips the corks from many a bottle every night In the morning he is just as clear eyed aud handsome, and he said the other day that the only delirium he experi enced was the conviction in his sleep that he 'must get up and drive the canary birds out of his shoes. The number of canary birds in his shoes is regulated by the quantity of rum he guzzles. , If he has had two or twenty; glasses on his evening rounds the respective number of birds frisk all night in his shoes. Perhaps some folks will " say,- that canary birds are a heap sight better than snakes and devils and other hideous visitors who are reported to worry persons Who think: the cup is about all there is in this life. New Yprk Sun. - A Young Girl Cremated. The first young girl to be cremated in America was 0-year-old Alicia Weissleder, the daughter of the superintendent pf the Brush Electric Light company in Cincinnati. Her body was burned last week at the crematory in that city. ; The--corpse, wrapped in white alum linen, with white and yellow roses on the breast, was slid into the retort by two at tendants, who at once retired, and in the stillness that followed the mourners could hear the puff and- sizzle of the gases of the body as the heat devoured it "After an hour the blue- flames stopped circling about the body, and a long white streak was seen where it had been. These ashes, when gathered up, weighed less than a pound. They were re turned to the parents and will be preserved in an urn. It was the ninth incineration at the crematory. New York Sun. An Interesting Custom. The Thakore Sahib of Morvi enforces a Host interesting custom in his Indian domin ion. There is at the bead of each village on man who is responsible for the peace and hon esty of the community. If a burglary ii committed this man must hunt up the thief and if; be fails to find him is compelled to pa for the stolen gf" t-'tpis own pocket fTncago Ileral. rv - :" NIHILISTS IN RUSSIAN SCHOOLS. Boy and Girls Studying NlhlUstio Books in Secret Societies. j While the Russian government has hit her te devoted its undivided attention with very partial success to the suppression of Nihilistic tendencies among the students of the univer sities the gymnasia, the polytechnic schools aud private lyceums liaye escaped the inquis itorial measures of the ministers of police. Recently the most alarming discoveries have been made among the male and female stu dents of these scholastic institutions. At Ekaterinoslav it was first discovered that the elder boys and girls of the different gymnasia met on certain evenings in private rooms for the reading and discussion of Socialistic liter ature, and each member of the secret society contributed a small sum toward the clamles tine purchase of the forbidden brochures as fast as they appeared. This discovery resulted ' in the immediate arrest of a large number of students of both sexes, and a general investi gation was at once instituted iu all the chief scholastic centers. , . : j f .. In Raratoff a similar but much better' or ganized secret society of male and female students was discovered. ' Here they had a complete secret library of Nihilistic and Socialistic literature in active circulation, with a president, secretary " and treasurer. The worst feature in the eyes of the.authori ties of the Raratoff discovery is that the ma jority of the male members of the society were students of the ecclesittstteal seminary. It was found, too, that these young seminarists-had from single copies lithographed an immense number of Nihilist proclamations, which' were circulated almost broadcast Similar discoveries have been made herein Odessa, and 'at Kief, Kasan, Moscow, Ana niev, Smolensk, Tver, Memiroff, -and other places. The little town of Memiroff' appears to possess the most uniquely red character. There, it is stated on tne authority of the min isterial investigating agents, the whole of the students, male and female, in every class,' are concerned in the secret: propaganda and study of forbidden literature, London News. Tho Porcine Bomb and tho Mole. 1 : Henry Simpson, of this city, has been in the habit of using dynamite for the purpose of blowing old tree stumps out of the ground. The other day he carelessly left the dangerous compound lying by the side'of a stump; The dynamite was mixed with sawdust and gave out an exceedingly pleasant odor, which at tracted the. attention of two of .-Simpson's hogs. They finished their inspection of the stuff by eating it. and Chen one of them, prob ably to aid and accelerate digestion, began rubbing its side against a post at the entrance of a mule's stall. The mule remained passive for only a few moments, and then, as mules will do, gave the hog a tremendous kick in the side. . . A terrific- explosion followed, and when the smoke and dust had cleared away the hog was only found in detachments, while an enormous hole marked too spot where he had stood.. The mule, of course, survived, or it 'wouldn't have been a mule, but it was the most surprised mule you ever saw. The other hog escaped and is now at larger greatly to the discomfiture of those in the habit of stay ing away from home at night Henderson Journal. - . ' j 'arm hand' about 26 years Of agev working near ' Belleville, ; has had a singular experience the past few weeks, He Worked on a farm In Texas, and one day he lay oti the hay ' in the fields to take a nap. While asleep he. was attacked by poisonous flies, which had crawled over his face and into his nostrils, where they laid their egga Griffin came north about ten days ago. He had been suffering for weeks with a- dizziness in bis head, and for the past few days with a terri ble pain which nearly blinded him. Besides that he found it very difficult to breathe.' Yesterday he consulted a physician, who once in his practice had a similar case. He ejected a liquid into Griffin's nose, and in fifteen min utes the latter passed from his nostrils over one hundred worms, front a quarter to' half an inch in length, so hard that it was almost impossible to break them with a hammer. Theman was very much relieved, but it is supposed that his head is still full of these worms. " The worms eventually develop into flies. These ' flies seldom come farther north than the southern line of Kansas. St. Louis Republican. ; i ? ' Dodtdom'i Latest Idea. The latest idea imported into dudedom is to wear two side chains instead of one. Last winter one chain, attached to the' bunch of keys carried in the trousers pocket and fast ened to the suspender button above, was the, "proper caper." This year no dude will bo complete without a chain on each side.' To the second one: is attached a stout ring on which are hung a collection of more or less useful articles. To be quite right these should should be of "silver and handsome in design. They include such conveniences as a match safe, car or . dog whistle, penknife, pencil, cigar cutter 'and in extreme cases a miniature corkscrew. When an undersized dude drags forth this remarkable bunch of trinkets the effect is apt to be startling to the person unfamiliar with the latest develop ment of modern civilization. New York Commercial Advertiser. ; -- I . One Great Common Graveyard. ' The Roman Catholic authorities of Boston are planning to establish one great common cemetery for all the cities in adjacent parts of the state, to which the. railroads are ex pected to run special funeral trains daily, the cars going directly into the grounds and all expense of carriages being done away with, the undertaker carrying the body to the station, the city and the railroad landing it at the grave. The Boston and Lowell rail road is said to be ready to run funeral trains at reduced rates if such a cemetery is estab lished. In Mexico they have special funeral cars over the horse car routes to the ceme teries. New York Sun. - '. Bfaekay's Old Time Work. Millionaire Mackay recently filled for a week the position of superintendent of the Bonanza mines during the temporary absence of the regular boss. , He was up bright and early every morning, donned a miner's suit, Trent into the mine at the usual hour and was not seen again on the surface till he emerged from the subterranean depSis at 4:30 o'clock in the evening. - Ho took hold just as he used to in the old times when be had to do it for $i per day. Cleveland Leader. j Tbolr First Sight of Roses. f It is said that the Norwegians on the first sight of roses dared not tijuch what they con ceived were trees budding with fire; and the natives, of Virginia are reported as having, the first time . they seized on a quantity of gunpowder -which belonged to the English colony, sowed it for grain, expecting to reap a plentiful crop of combustion by the next harvest, sufficient to blow away all intruders. Magazine of American History. Where to Place a -Safe. Feyth, the Bridgeport safo burglar, says that safes should be set on blocks and placed u a corner in such a position that tho door rill shut toward the wall. This makes it necessary to move the safe in order to get at tho door with the wedges and jimmy, and the Job is difficult and dangerous. Chicago News. Compare this with jrow fw , III fecr-iT i f: 5 rAxfm RESTLESS ESS a sTutcTLv viorrftois aut.i.ts SASMur Mcatciac PHILADELPHIA Price. OWE Dollar' At you value health, perhaps Hfe, oxamlne sack package and be mure you g-ec the Geuulaa, See -the red Z Trade-Mark-" and the full title on front of Wrapper, and em tho' sido tlie seul and slenntore of jr. H. ZeEUn & Co., as in the above f.io simile. Remember tbaee is no other geaulno Simmous Liver Regulator. Obtained; and all PATENT BUSINESS attend ' ' ed to PROMPTLY and for MODERATE FEE3- Our office is opposite the U. 8. Patent Office, and we can obtain Patents in less Umeithah those remote from WASHINGTON. t ' Send MODEL OH DRAWING. We sdvise as -to patentability free of chat-ire; and we make NO CHAUQE UNLESS PATENT IS SECURED. We refer here to the Postmaster, the Supt ef Money Order Div and to officials of the " U. 8. Patent Office. For circular, advice, terms' ' and references to' actual clients in year own . State or county, write to . C. A. SNOW it CO, , Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. J. f DR. J. L. McKAY Offers bis Professional Services to the . Citizens of Gastonia and Sur rounding Country. i. AU calls given prompt attention day or night. Office at residence. 9tt : ' TL W. SANDIFER, ' jATTORNE Y A T LA W. ; Dallas. C.i . . Supreme and Federal courts of North yaronna; ; L.-. ; jan5-0 Something , Ne J ! Come one! Come alll and sea the great smith's - (.; -' ' ? Dixfe Cotton EleYdsr - Working at & B. Hanna & Sons' Gin. We claim, 1st That the Elevator will unload front your wagon from 1700 to 1800 pounds of cotton In 15 minutes; 3d, That it will loosen up all dirt, sand or hard pods thai' may bis in your cotton; 3d, That we will gin faster thaw any other gin, and 4th, That by the use of our Elevator we can make a better sample than any In the oounty. Give us atrial. " '- ' ' Satisfaction guaranteed. . ..... 8. Bl HANNA SONS. C. A. Featherstdn i , ; ; Carries a Full Stock of FAMILY GROCERIES, CONFEC- , , TIONERIES, &c. , And would be pleased to have all his old friends call and see him. 'r,"Next door above Holland's old stand," MONEY to be mad. Cut this out and return to nund era will send you free, something of great value and imiwrtance to you, that will start you in business which will brinfr you in more money right away than anything else in this world. Any one can do the work- and live at borne. Either sex; all ages. Something new that Just coins money for all workers. We will start you; capital not needed. This is one of the genuine, importrnt chances of a lifetime. Those who are ambitious and enterprising will not delay. Grand outfit free. Address Titcs U Co. Augrusta Maine.' . . Farm For Sale. The farm known as the John M, Roberts place lying on the head wa ters of Long Creek in Gaston County, adjoining lands of P. "R. Long, Jasper Glenn and ethers is offered for sale. Tlie" place contains about 375 acres, of which 20 to 30 acres Is bottom. 1 The land1 is well adapted to the growth of wheat, oats, corn, cotton and tobacco. The dwelling is a good ' two-story, build ing with seven rooms, ' surrounded by a beautiful grove' of oaks, and has a well of excellent water very convenient. For particulars as' to price, terms, &c, address, ' R. P. ROBERTS, Black's Station. S. C. For Sale. The store-house and lot on north side of Air Line Railroad, belonging to John M. Hanna. , The lot corners on Marietta, Air-Line and Long Streets, and is a very desirable pioioe of prop- j erty. Fcr further particulars, call on or ad drees M. W. Hanna, Gastonia, N.C - vol 33 ft WORKING CLASSES wSnow1 prepared to furnish all class with employment at home.the whole of the time, or for their spare moments. Business new, light and profitable. Persons of either sex easily earn from 60 cents to $5.00 per even ing, sad a proportional sum by dewtlng all their time to the business. Boys and girls earn nearly as much as men. That all who see this may send their address, and test the business, we make this otter: To such as are not well satisfied we will send one dollar for the trouble of writing. Full particulars and outfit free. Address Gsottos Stinson it CO Portland, Maine. 4HAA in dsQAA A MONTH can be made . f)lUU IU epuUw working for us. Agenta preferred who can furnish their own borsee and give their whole time to the busmen. Spare moments may be profitably employed also. A few vacancies in twns and cities, B. F. JOHNSON & CO., iqi3 Main St., Richmond, Va. No-iJ6