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Ribbons, Fans, Dress Buttons, ! .Silks, Fringes, Ac.,..c, FARASQLS ana UMBRELLAS in fewest JJcsigns ana i.eieuraieii make. GENTS' SHIRTS AND CASSIEIERES. I . mi f . . Lvandried and Unlaundried Shirts ana sold Very Carpets, Matting and Floor Oil Cloth. Mv L of these Goods is Equal to any and Second to none in the State, and Guarantee PRICES AS LOW. 1 A Magnificent Line of Tapestry RRT7SSHLS All New Desicrns, for 75 M TTINGS Red, White and Checked, some of the best grades imported. ' New aril Beautiful Designs in Rugs, j Door "Mats of the Best Fabrics, and Floor Oil Cloths in the Best Extra Quality. Samples Mailed -Free with pleasure and promptness on application to m any parties desiring to purchase. I Tmn AHontion diTCii to Orders. --- w m J. N. 6j MAIN STREET, DURHAM, J SAVE YOUR BiRBEE'S DRUG STORE IS HEADQUARTERS For Pure Drugs, Genuine Medicines, &c r C3- EVERYTHING USUAiLlY KEPT "TIP-TOP" i:KU3r IN- NEW Stock ! OS,- - ! J LOWEST PRICES- Very Low Prices. Evervthin L J.1 I nil ttIio buy X ir(-CInss Good. DRESS LINENS, PERGALS, cVc. KID CLOVES ! . - and KID GLOVES. : t in this line this season. I I 1PCC. . ! 1 r . rine assimeres. Bought to bo WW, Gents per yard. , . GAMMON, of! J asiiion TVoitli Carolina, r s ' MONEY- IN A HOUSE. HINTS FROM THE UNSEEN. LUCY LARfcOM. Tiie grace pf the bending gratsea, Iha flash of the d&wnlike sky; The ecent that lingers and passes Wben & loitering tvind goes by Are guahing and hints of weetnes : t . From the unseea depths afar;.' The foam edge of heaTen'a ooaapleton8s Swept outward through flower and star. For the cloud and the leaf and the blossom, The shadow, the flickering gleam. Are waifa on the sea-like besom ' ! Of beauty beyond our dream. Its glow to our earth is given, : ; It freshens this lower air; r Oh, the fathomleea wella of hearen! The springs of the earth rise there. Y Prom Autograph fttmt. ' The Minister's Mistake. 1 lie sunset was painting ! all the forest paths with gold ; the mossy boles of the oVd trees glowed In the level .light, as -if they had been jcarved out of glittering bronze, and the scarlet vines along the stone wajl caught new splendor from the ; last rays, while the silvery-white fringe of ; the, wild clematis swung from the dead thorn bushes, and herei and thero a bird, perched hiijb. up against the deep, vivid blue of the heavens, uttered its shrill, clear vespsr note and Mr. Carvl. walked home throush the "W'estbrook woods, thought what a beauti ful world this was that God had made. Mr. Caryl was; only four and tAventyj and had been seen in! the NVestbrook parish for three months. Not Ions, but long enough to discern, by the testimony of his own ex perience, that there were thorns as well as roses in a country pastor's life.. It had seemed so beautiful and ideal, when he looked at it through the medium' of his fancy, standing on the threshold of the Iheological Senrinarjv It was beauti ful still; but theiideality had all. gone out of it. ... , His mother met him on.thoJdoor-step of the parsonage a brisk, i spectacled little dame, in a turned black silk, with frills of neatly-darned lace, end violet ribbons ia her cap. I : "Well, Charles," she said, cheerily, "here's a whole slateful of calls far rou." Mr. CanTs countenance rather fell. He had been anticipating an evening by the wood-fire, with the last number of JUacli- tcond'tt Jfarazinc. 4 'Calls ?5' he repeated. 'What are they? and where are they ?'' He went into the liit'e parlor as he spoke -the parlor where the coveted wood-fire was leaping andj flashed on the bright and irons, and a shaded lamp already burned on the ta,') e along his piled-up books and papers and totik up i'ie little shite. "Ti:e "Widow Corsett," he f cad; adding, sottorovc : 'That, woman again ! : She has d'cd.pnce a; veek, regularly, ever since Ihavebeni'i "Westbrook. ". "Charles!" rrvldly reproved hig mother. "It's . fact,') asserted the young clergj'- man. I uon t thinic people ought to eon- found hypochondria and religion in this blindfold soit of way. She'd a deal better send for the doctor arid leave oil scolding that wretched adopted daughter of hers. I wont co thats settled. Vhat next? 'Meet Deacon Daley and old Captain Hart- wick at Flowersville Four Corners at lialf- past 0 to-morrow ?' Now I wonder why people can't agree about their own bound ary lines without calling in the clergyman of the parish as umpire between them." "Dissensions in such a dreadful thing among your dock, unaries, saia i ins mother. "So is scarlet fever, or small-pox,", said Mr. Caryl, rather curtly ; "bnt all the same I don't see how I can be held responsible for either the one or the other. 'Lend the manuscript of your last sermon to old ; Miss Dadded to read. Hut I haven't any manu script to read only half a dozen memor anda. I preached entirely extempore last Sunday." "Couldn't vou lust write it oil ifrom memory ?" said Mrs. Caryl, piteously, The said roor old ladv seems so anxious. She the serinon impressed her so deeply. ' "Keally, mother, I think that's a little unreasonable, said the pastor. "Suppose every old lady in the parish, were to require me to write out a twelve-page sermon for her especial benefit ! 'Give Miss Hitts a list of hymns f Or next Sunday. ' 1 es, I-Jl do that as well now as any time. 'Speak i - r r : 1 to Mrs. rrune's saran. mrs. rrune b Sarah ? "Who is Mrs. Prune's Sarah. And l m , Till?! what am I tqj speak to her aoout. l a hko to know demanded this young clergyman in a sort of mild desperation. "Don't you know?" explained iHrs. Caryl. "It s Mrs. Frune 'that ; Jives down by the steam saw-mill, in the" big white house, with the poplar treea in front of it. And it's heir stepdaughter, that's come home from the third situation, all on ac count of the ribbons in her hat, and her pride in her own pretty face. "And 1 am to speaK 10 uer, eh?" said the young pastor. . "Yes ; you are to speaK to uer, saiu ma mother. I . .. . "I shall do nothingof the sort,' declared Mr. Garyl, with some femphasisi ' . j,, it T "liut you must, Lhanesi - pieaueu iuc old Jady. "It's in the line ot your regular duty.''.' I . . , ' , . Mr. Caryl hesitated, and wrinKiuu ma brow in sore perplexity. - ' "Do you think so r' said he. "I'm sure of it !" declared the old lady. Conscientiousness was one of the strong points of Mr. Caryl's character. He took up his hat. I "Tf it s cot to be done,'' said he desper- perately, "the sooner the better !" . 13ut you'll StOD IOr your lea mae, Char bread i 2 " iiro-Pfl Mn. Carvl. ' 'Hot com M. O . t aad strawberry jam." "I'll atop for nothing V saia iur aryi. "Don't fret, little mother; it won ttalce iu long to speak to Sarah." i ; And h6 disappeared with a laugfc As it happened, he nerer before had been called upon to practice this particular branch of his profession, pleading with the rebellious lamb3 of his flock who thought more of their bright eyes than they did of meirnjmn uooks ;i ana ne lurneu me uiai ter over in his mirld as he walked along the frosty Voodland path, where the young moon cast a fitful-evanescent light, and the dead leaves sent up a faint odor beneath his feet. ' W. . 4 "Spea'i to Sarah," he muttered to him self, not without a certain perception of the ddiculoip side of the matter: "And what am I to 'j to her, I wronder ?" ' :! j He it Vgkd softly at the big front door of the Prune mansion. Ashutling, untidy cirl of 14: or 15 opened it. hidinjr behind a shawl and a fringe of curl-papers. ! "Is Mrs. Prune at home?" said he. ; "No, she ain't retorted the girl. I Mr. Caryl paused. He scarcely .knew what question to ask next. "Is Sarah at home ?"' he demanded, f ter a little. . '! "Miss Sarah?"-- "Well, I suppose it can hardly be 'MrJ Sarah," said the young clergyman, half "Yes, Miss Sarah of course." She's at home, " said the girl, unsra- ciously, opening the door ' a " little wider. Came this afternoon. Settm in the parf lpr. ' Walk in, please. - J And without further ceremony, Mr; Caryl found huself ushered into a semi dark apartmentjwhere a tall, slender young beauty of 18 sunn tiers or so sat before the fire, in a plain black dress, with the simplest of cuff s and collars, and a single plain blue ribbon fastened into the thick braids of her hair a person sp entirely different from What he had expected to see, that he stop ped short in some perplexity. ; "I am Sarah Fielding," she responded. I "I have called to speak to you," said he, with a desperate rallying ot his verbal forces. "Perhaps, Sarah, you may not know who I am?" ! "Xo, I don't," said the girl, in some sur prise. . . . j "I am Mr. Caryl, the pastoiL,of the parish." ; I "lam happy to make your acquaint ance," said the girl, putting out One slim hand, in the easiest possible-manner, j The pastor hesitated , This was hot what he looked for at all. ! "Of course of course," said he, "But how does it happen, Sarah, that, you are at home again so soon ?" ! "Do you mean at Westbrook ?" ; "Where else should I mean?" retorted Mr. Cari, crustily for he felt that if he once abandoned his tone of authority 'he was lost, "Why didn't you stay where vou wire ? ' T Saiaiolorcd up to the roots of the hair; lie coisJd perceive that, even m the uncer tain rise and fall of the fire-light. j "1 did not iikc me position,' said she in a low voice. . "But you ought to like it," said Mr Caryl. , : ' l ou are not aware ot all the circum stances,"' pleaded Sarah. "1 am quite aware, said JUr. Uaryi sev erely," that vanity is the root of all your evils !" ! i "Vanity?" i I he crimson was deeper t Jian ever now, on brow and temple, as she half rose , i "Ye3, vanity J" impressively reiterated the clergyman, and hear me out. You have a certain amount of personal attraction, which appear to have turned your head, liemember that beauty is but skin deep. Call to mind frequently the ancient adage, that 'Handsome is that handsome does." After all, 3'ou are neither Mary Queen of Scotts nor Cleopatra.- Now. take mv jad vice, Sarah " . ! "But I have not asked for it," she cried put, in choaked accents, ; I "Xo matter whether you have or not," said Mr. Caryl, calmly. "It i3 my misson ;to volunteer good counsel, and yours to re ceive it. I repeat,' Sarah, take my . advice, and go back to your place. Apologize humbly for your shortcomings; tell the 'woman of the house that you will strive to amend your conduct for the future, and endeavor to deserve her approval. Put away your silly ribbon bows and brooches" I with a stern glance at & poor litsle agate breast-pin that glistened iat the girl's throat. "and leave the yam accessories of dress to your betters, always remembering that the ornament of a meek and quiet-spent -" But just at this point the young, cler gyman s oration was abruptly checked by the entrance of Mes. Prune herself, shawl ed and bonneted, and breathing fast, from the haste she had made. In one hand she held a prodigious brown cotton umbrella ; with tht other she dragged forward the un tidy damsel of the shawl and curl-papers. "Here she is !" bawled Mrs. Prune, who did not posses that" most excellent thing in woman, "a low and gentle voice." 'fA crazy, good-for-nothing, stuck-up, vain minx, as needn't suppose as I'm going to do for her no longer ! You needn't hang back, Sarah; it ain't no good ! Here she is, Mr. Caryl--here' Sarah!" The young pastor., stared in amazement. "Is that Sarah ?" said he. - i "That's Sarah," panted Mrs. Prune, j "And who's this ?P he demanded, turn ing to the slim, darkr-eyed girl, with the blue ribbon and the agate brooch. ; "That's my nieee, Sally Fielding, as has been governess to a family up in Maine, for three years,'? said Mrs. Prune. "And she's down here on a visit now come this very afternoon. Hain't you been introduced yet? Mr. Caryl, hiy nieoe, Sallie? Sallie, this ere"s But before she could finish the words j of her former introduction, the clergyman had- made a nervous grasp at. his hat. j "I I have been the victim of a misun derstanding," starnnieringhe. 4 This young person tolcf me that she was Sarah. " ' 'So she is, " said Mr.. Prune. 'But she ain't the Sarah as is to be spoken to. " : "I bag a thousand pardons," said Mr. Caryl, feeling the eold sweat.. drip from every pore. . ' Miss Fielding burst out laughing. "They are cheerfully granted," eald she. "No, don't go away, Mr. v Caryl," holding out her hai as he "was, turning to depart. at least the virtue of frankness, Shall we not be friends." . And Mr. Caryl looked into the dark blue eyes, and said: He foreot all about the hot corn. Dread and strawberry-jam at home, and stayed to tea at Mrs. Prune's, while the right Sarah escaped the intended lecture, and the wrong Sarah piesided, in a most gracefuL and winning manner, behind the . cups and sauces; and old Mrs. Caryllaughed heartily when her son explained the curious ren . contre to her, later in the evening.! . " r . "But why did she fceave her situation the wrong Sarah,! I mean ?" aaid she. "Because the young heir of; the .house made lve to her,?' said Mr. Caryl "and I don't wonder at it. She's tht prettiest little creature I ever 6aw in my life." j "Perhaps, then," said Mrs. Caryl doubt fully, ' 'your advice wasn t so very much amiss, after all." 1 . "Certaimly it was," said Mr. Caryl, with spirit. The old lady looked sharply at him. you're struck with her. j "Nonsence," said Mr. Caryl, turning red, v ..I "'I But, just three months later, When the moon was at the full,' sleighing partie en reglei-Nr.' Caryl brought Miss 'Fielding home from singing-school in his new cutter and told her a secret on the way-Uhat he loved her. '.j , ' And so the wrong Sarah was Sarah, after all. f he. right t ot a Walkist. The other morning a belle stepped into a Market street car in San Frrncisco;?and was at once the object of the most profound at tention on the part of all the i other passen gers. - ..'- . " .) . ' I . 4Make room for this lady,!" Shouted the conductor, with unusual alacrity. "Move up there, gentlemen. "Bout time you ast down for. awhile,1 ain't it, miss?" lie added. "She's just put up go ain't she ?" said one man to another, admirably. ' ' The young lady thought these ' city mea were getting more impudent thaii jever, but then they had pretty good sate, after all,. so she looked out of the window and said no thing ; .-'.!; " ' ; 1 I . !: "Don't looked so much pulled down as I expected, '' said another man, ! critically, i "Poor thing, I wonder if she Had to do it ?" said an old j lady, compassionately, as she took out her spectacles, . f 'and whether they paid her a big share of the money?" "Don't suppose she'll get Over: it for la rnoth," remarked a man on the platform ; "the way it blisters and bunions, them up is just awful." j j J 'Madam," said one of the kind of young men who suck the heads of smal canes for a living, ."Madam, may score was?" I I ask what your 'Sir, " said the Oakland siren frigidly, "are .you addressing me ? ' . , r the "Yes, ma am J you are one of female walkers, aren't you ?'' ! "Do you wish to insult me, ypu brute! Is there no police officer around ?'' screamed the object of so much comment. "Beg y'r parding, mem," put in the con ductori "It's all a mistake, men: ; but yon see y'r feet misled us." u ! And the young lady flounced put like a hurricane on its last lap. She will wear a trail over her number elevens after this, however- I 5 j ' Jfert, You Jo Lore me?' I There are two long wooden piers at Cape May: they are about one himdrjed feet and as they are. provided with seats, refresh ment stands and the like, they are the re sort of hundreds: in: the ' evening. . Much promehading and. flirting is carried on there as well as 'along the plank walk running for mare than a mile along the sand. Any one can scarcely escape hearing a deal of soft nonsense in that quarter, and," none of the things that greets him are 'positively em barrassing. I was trying last summer to pass a couple ahead of me andbeforejl could do so these phrases leu upon my are : "You really love me ?" 1 "Devotedly."!' "But you should not tell me so, for you know I am married." "So am I '; therefore we are equal ?" ' "Do two wrongs nsake one right ?" "In love, yes." "But what will my . husband say yJ- when .V i but if he hears of it ?" I . ''He won't hear of it, probab he does be won't care." "Wonlt care ? What do you mean ?" "He is in love with another woman." "How do you know ?" ' -I heard him say so. " "To whom?" "To my wife.'.' "You are jesting I" "Are you sure?" "I swear it." '"'Not a bit. His infidehty abselves youi from your allegiance." 'Ned, you do love me!" "Passionately." Darling!" j .' . f Llme-klln Club Meteorolesryt The Committee on Atmospheric Influ ences announced that they were; ready with a report regarding the coming winter. The Committee had been entirely j guided by shins, and their reasons Vf or predicting: a hard winter were : 1. The thickness of the corn husks. 2. The unusual number of overcoats, in pawn. . I . . t .3. The anxiety of women t get winter bonnets. ' . . ' I 4. The way; the frogs have one dowai for deep water.! . ; I 5. The hesitancy with which young mea climbed oat of bed in the morning. 9. The unusual number of dog-flghts to be observed, by a man who keeps his eyes The report was accepted ana mea, ana he Chairman sat down with a siglvof relief. ; 'I have learned that you possess NEWS IN BRIEF. It Is estimated that the little .loxera has destroyed about $G,00( vorth of vintage in "h ranee this yi --Three hundred choice sheep i been taken irom Washington cot Pa., to Texas, to improve flocks Ir State. France had 2 l.twa. vessels, w tonnage ot lG 4,000 tons, and m by 82,431 sailors, engaged in th CI ICS lail JCUi. It is thoucrht that Georffe the famous base-ball player, v play next yearbat,-UI go in ness. ' . Out of every 2,000 persons t,hcre is one born deaf, There are In the United Stages between 23,000 and 30,000 deaf mutes. . ; " : Philadelphia has already expended $4,165,370.42 on her new Post-oflice building; of which , amount $1, 230, 000 was for the site. i Thomas Jackson, an Albany, N. Y., stone cutter,,ha3 just recovered $20,000 for injnries received In tho Ashtabula disaster. " . Sarah: Hardy, a colored woman, who had reached the age ot 104 years, died recently, in the Berks county, Pa. almshouse. y -N There havre died of Yellow fever at Memphis this year 404 persons. Lasc year, 3,0G7 persons died of the disease during tho same time. Within the past ' five years tho acreage of cereals in the United States has Increased from 74,000,0C0 to 93, 000,000. -I President Kobinson, of Brown Uni versity, and his wife, have signed pe tition to allow women to vote lor olll cers of Providence school boards. Delaware county (Pa.) School Di rectors haye decided that the public school children shall make exhibits of their progress at the next annual fair. There has been imported into New Y'ork by sea from California since tho beginning of this year 1,150.712 gallons of wine and 114.717 gallons of brandy. Prof, Alexander Agasslz 'ot lldr vard College j has given one hundred dollars toward canceling the debt of the Redwood Xibrary at Newport, 11. 1. The model ot the cquesria.n statuei of Napoleon III , a grand work by the Chevalier Barzagalia, to be erected at , Milan, will shortly ;bc cast in bronze.' "Mr. Dwight Whiting, a citizen of Boston, has gone to South Africa to purchase one hundred ostriches for his farm in the San Joaquin -Valley In Cal ifornia. Recent income-tax returns show that ninety persons in Great Britain," exercisirig trades and professions, have incomes over $259,000, and 1)94 between $50,000 ahd $250,000. ' Illinois is a tolerably well cultiva ted State, but, with 20,000,000 acres under cultivation, It has 8,000,000 acres unimproved, an area as largo as Massa chusetts and Connecticut put together. Montana, during the past sixteen years, has produced 153,000,000 of gold and silver. 'This makes Montana rank next to California as a producer of gold. There are 'already 20,000 quartz mines in the territory. Dr. J. J. Hayes, the Arctic explor er, at a recent meeting of the American Geographical Society, said that he was thoroughly . convinced the - Jeannetto would reach the Notth Poie successful ly and return in safety. ' One hundred and seventy-eight bagsot wooheacJi averaging COO pounds, were received in Heading, Pa., recent-- ly to be fised in the manufacture of hats. This is the largest amount of wool ever received in that city 'in one day. The artesian well at the Paterson (N.; Jr) Rolling Mill has reached a depth of more than 1,000 feet wltfiout meeting water. Sandstone has been found all the way down, except one bed of potter's dir. t i The amount of clover-seed annu ally harvested in the United States is not far from 700,000 bushels, about one half of whioh is used at home, the re mainder goes to Europe, mostly to Great Britain. Diphtheria has become a tcrribl epidemic in, Russia, 50 to 75 percent, of the children being carried off, be- sides a large number of grown person?, and in some districts the death of chil dren are.far in excess of the birthsi An ojd custom has been revived in Adams county, Pa., of demanding toll from wedding parties. Ropes or chains are stretched across a road traveled by a wedding party in carriages and toU in money is asked from the groom. In 1639 the royal library of Paris contained 800,000 volumes and objects of every description. In 1859 the num ber was 1,200,000. During the last tvrenty years the increase has been more sensible, and tho actual number is es timated at 2,000,000. The Lebanon county (Pa.) Agricul tural Society having abandoned the fair grounds at Avon, have purchased twenty-five acres of the Karmany farm in South Lebanon for $5,000. Three hundred shares of stock have been Is-, sued at $30 per share, to raise the sum of $15,000 for lence3 and building, A giant .white oak tree, beneath which the last treaty with the Cherokee Indians was signed, by which they . gave up their lands and moved west ot the Mississippi, still stands near Ogle thorp, Ga., and is a conspicuous land mark. It is known as the "Treaty Oak," and has- been preserved on ac count of its associations, At Swarthmore, Pa., the Friends historical library in the college build ing has lately received a gilt of one hundred volumes relating exel usl vely tn thP hlsrrrr nf the Society of Friends. Tdfl rrlO nroa motto hir fin "English Friend Mnn of his visit tO thU country during the Centennial, pi f 1 y f A! A r-tS - A 0 t ct
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