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YOL. XXI.
(j0LDSB0E0, N0ETH CAROLINA, TRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1884.
NO. 7,
OTIIEIt LANIS THAN OtiIS.
Prof. Winston's Letter Froiu
KtiroiH', No. XI.
The Cliurches in Home-
rend.s Cuno.us
i and Relics.
Si,
-Holy Le-;
thought to liave; the power of healing
people that are dying, and is some
times carried to their houses. This
church also has a picture of the Virgin
painted by St. Buke. 7
'iSth Piiri hi Gtirtre" 's the name of
the church Avlik-h is-built on the old
rison. St. Peter was iiii-
tResrular Corrospomlnt i
Home contains SOo Catholic th-ireh-
each of which has its own Jegeud
fir -Fractions, x.ight- are tie? uea-
..'veeiai v, orsuip ot iie -lrgin
freest ot
i nM-fens tlic. oldest
world, at. least in
whs eadt
LUrisifeiiucY
over 1...NA years uii'.
iTifi-raain part of the original yirure
4U aon . Other churches wtr
founded earlier, .but their original
walls and .floors and columns na e giv- ;
en way to modern structures. The le
gend says that on the night eF the 4th
of August .the Virgin -Mary appeared
simultaneously in: a vision to a Roman
patrician and the Pope, and command
ed them to build her a, church on t he
4.xU where "'."-they would find snow the
next day. The-next morning, August,
o, they went out, looked around
throut'k the city, and found no snow,
until thev met each other on this spot.
Here it was several inches deep. The
church now occupies exactly the same
piece of ground that was covered by
snow. Every August o is the "Fast
of the Snow." (hvat quantities
white rose leaves fall from tlie con--and
cover the floor of the chiic-:
'.Sistine Chapel in this di1.1; t,!
prettied room I have yet ?n I ome.
The light is admitted
from above, and ots
eS&tl-glowof
the rich light, It a erxa ized sun-
The til1 iiLrti 13 ni1 o-iiviiciit
s of 'orpnyry. ir contains
the remains f - - - .
,1, art hve idanks ironitne
or the etiape . . . .
-rVie Christ was born, ps
manger wr . c
: uuraculous power or curing
sessingtiic -r ,v . ,
.fki 'iseases. In another eaapel
meUthe 'mh of tbe Boi'?ho.se family,
Tle avl tb;'3 c'naPe:'IarlyaWaze
.. , ,-cious stones. Above is a pic-
' T.f the irgm .Mary, painted by
Li Luke. As this church has its
Mamerf mo-
prisoned "here, and they have also some
relics from the workshop of Joseph,
the Carpenter. Down in the bid prison
is a spring, which t. Peter caused to
flow, so as toAHjr baptizing
the jailor?,!,-': 1,0 had convened.
' Vi; '-H" the wivle Wtl
call
the
pa. in s of purgatory. You get eight
years for each step every time you go
up. A coa,ihilj.Hn. told me that lie al
ready had some 11. 0C0 years to his
credit. This is one place i? Home
where perfect silence and order pre
vails. : Everybody seems' awed here.
There is 'no talking nor noisy walkin.tr.
I went one time to the -"Holy Stairs"
with the big German engineer, who
sat next me i:i the papal audience. He
was stopping at rny hotel. He was not
very f;i miliar with th1 sights, and I
hzd a mean desire to see liim mount
lose steps. You may think iJ easy ,
ut trv it once. Co up 2r steus 011
---- -- - J.
you 11 change y our
mma. . (iiar2Teat deal mvre amu
OTIII.K LAXPS T1IAX OUItS.
Prof. Winston's Letter fro 111
Knrope, Xo. XII.
Italian Politeness Street Scenes
in Ronae-rTlie General Ap
pearance of the City The
Universal Sleepiness.
,.'-1 vour Knees
:t minov Ligrpat deal mvre amu smir'nvj'
yro fTH'nt!0 vourtt,cuu.
L T'JL
tances tro
1 him we were in a dreadful
statue or J.uoses"M".,rrA .uii?
Annian Wav stands a small e.iariel. 1 ut). A
-c ; ' 1 . - . . i v . it.
otr.- - : -----s-i 1 u.-,o if-the idea:- tie real-
iist go tip or
beam.
sarcophagus
snot where, StPo-?
as no waiUvwici uum iue utj.4u
I rt;iialted before the
ftd si tdi Jjonune qvo mm ? 7
jiartiyr.
JSt
fation. 11 tne lu.iditle ages this soit
hi worship was carried to very ridic u-
lous extremes, if we may credit -tne
' liev lr. ""Robertson, the eminent 14
. ographer of Charles the Fifth. This
eareiul and scholarly writer desc-riK
in his n(tes to the ''Life of Charles"' a
curious mediaeval church feast, in
co.jnucinorution of tSie d )uke on
, 1,., , . " i; hi ;-y .a.d Child rod-.
A' un.'-.i:'.' v w ;i eavf ii!vtrai;iotli or tne
?,. vv,s
ot a
Q.t -i'l ri t r
(Master, wSSKearopttuo-i xne ora
replied, " nniCrW1-
going tobecrrl'? again.) St. Peter
was thereurou .afehamed of his own
weaknes3'and et5rned to his persecu
tors. A marWvab m the church is
aul to beyth. i ery slab on which
Christ st6d J "1 the deep, print of
las nakedioot ! n he marble is anob
iect ( great arosity or veneration,
acceding to lie faith of the visitor.
I rvv many pe-Sosis kneel most rever
ently before i i (Some kissed it very
fervently. " It k$ beautiful, deep and
distinct "impresicn of a fine, large
foot. : - :
One of the n )wst churches in Ronie
and one of the gikndest on the inside
is "St. Paul B ynd the "Walls."- The
church of thi; Aime was originally
founded by Tl eoflosius and Valentin
ian, in thtj y. ar3S3. It was burned
down in 1823 ; ma the present building
was erected o: its foundations. This
church was c mSecrated by Pius, the
Ninth, in IS. 4.1 The exterior looks
very plain, bitfthe interior is rich,
irocreous and biposing. It resembles
a G reek tempi i. J On the inside it is 130 I
yarus long, u yfiius v ue auu t.j icci
hirh. It is fir is8ed entirely in marble,
in 'a style mos ; Magnificent and taste
ful. It looks iew and palatial. Here
was buried SI -P)iul.
The most interesting churclj in
Rome, after JtlPeter's, is that of St.
John Lateral or, as the Italians '.call
'i AU .
Jp:;:,
Vier a is, n
p.-'i'esi;. Jtii'I
child
K -A
!o ciuivc
. . . i
it. uSm Oiovcxn
in LateranoP It was
con.gi-:
beiiudiction,
t;c ;
in Stayed, anvi. t. v
the priest iraye.i t,u: c
founded Iolistantine, the Great,
whose ancien i statue stands in one end
of the portico,' iHere was originally a
walaet belonriag to the wealth' tarn
ily of the La srni, and here the popes
lived until th lyluoved to the Vatican.
The eliurch "j-'4ifb teet long. Its por
tic., is 174 fe t i, ide and 33 feet deep
Before .'the Mmi altar tie pope alon'
caii olfieiatc i 4lt encloses": a woodei
table, which wis used ias an alta&Jy
St: Petei". . Jiaoiiir t.10 precious relics
heio arfethe eiids of ot. Peter and St
l'a:!i. mis . qie iaoi5tpopaiarjKuj
;t. 1
-tea" s s fei
times. All this, and more, -wlncn t
liave forgotten, ia .cavef ally set .forth
by Dr. Robertson, to whose pag( I
refer the curious. The story set'
not incredible after you have seen tic
-Roman churches and cereuumials i
to-day. One rapidly gets into a cred
ulous' frame of .mind here, and is pre
pared to believe by wholesale.
Tl,e church of the 'appuchin monks
is alo deducted to the Virgin. -'--It is
called ':tut:t Mun.i ( ('''nrui." !t
is" one of the .most -iirious sights in
iiome. Beneath it. in the ))aseinent,
is the burying ground, divided into
four vaults. Bach vault contains a
tomb with holy earth from Jerusalem.
The vaults are -:alx:Vit ":as. large as ordi
nary rooms. When a monk dies, i.e
is buiied in the hoJy earth. To 1 ;: ke
room for hitn. a eorjise must be taken
out- The holy e.'-irth is always occ u
' pied. If the corpse; that is taken out
is well preserved, it is dressed in
priests' robes and placed iii a niche in
-the walls: like ti statue. Some stand
" unright, some sit down with arms ; fold
ed across their breasts, 'others hold
crucifixes or books in their hands, and
. seem as if preacliing orworshippiiig.
If the "orpse is not well preserved, the
' skeleton, is carefully 'cleaned and taken
apart, and the different bones are used
to decorate the rooms.' You will see
arches made: entirely of skulls, and
vines creeping along tlie walls, made
of fingers and toes.; The bones of
- 4,00d ruoiiks are thus used for artistic
decoration. It is uot quite-as ghos: Iy
a si-Tnt as von would uii.'irnie. A doe-
tor wouhl c.i il it very handsome. Kv-
-- i - 1
ervman. ' T course; -lias ins own enio
princely for In
at home. h
and' head " c f
city and w rl
fine here. )r
is crowned.
- -
lzed tnat lie must iro no 01c nis
puriratorv weald be made. But ho
thought that the "noiy otairs were
hid somewhere at the top, like the
other relics he had seen, or, rather,
hadn't seen. Falling on his knees, he
went np like a buck. He passed men,
women and children, as an express car
passes a tram of ox carts. I went
quickly up one of the side flights of
steps and reached the top a little be
fore him. The perspiration was liter
ally flowing from him. He looked as
if he had run ten miles, lie glanced
around to find the "Holy Stairs.'1 As
soon as he could speak, he whispered
in my ear, "But vair ish de shteps of
Jesus Christ f He had got 224 years
out of purgatory without knowing it.
But he did the hardest work ot his lite
in those three minutes. I explained
to him the true state of things. He
went again and reverently ascended
the steps, stopping to kiss all the mar
ble spots through the holes in the
wood.
I am greatly disappointed in the
Roman ceremonial. 1 have seen high
mass, low mass, matins, vespers, feast-
day celebrations, every-day services,
evening services, sermons, confessions,
&c, &c, &c. You cannot persuade
yourself that you are in a church, wor
shipping God. Sometimes vou teei as
if you were in a gorgeous palace, and
vou expect every moment to see a King
in robes of state come forth. Again,
you are in a splendid museum of stat
nary and painting. iNow, it is like a
mairnificont concert, and now it is a
brilliant pantomime. It seems always
like a show of some sort. The priests
and boys and choir perform the servi
ces according to a most complicated,
elaborate, and, to me, mechanical for
mula of bowing and bending and cross
ing the hands and raising books, swing
ing censers of burning incense, tink
limr- bells, holdinsr ut) each others
fi.cviis, taking oil' caps, putting on
caps, tn.iiin'? ou gowns, putting on
The politeness of the Italian is really
charming. It is easy, natural and
graeef fL The countenance, the arms,
the hands, in short, "the whole body
speaks politer ess. An Italian is polite
au over. . ne is ooni .0. salute a
L2r on the c n.t f TiTvIi -
t to some plae'e, aiitl you wnl probably
be stared at toi yor r pains, or eise in
vited to visit a place that you are not
seeking Jin LoliuOn you will be told
V:
bowing to the riglit, bowing t
doner looks as it , he were selnng you
something just closing the trade. If
you ask a Parisian to show you the
way, he dows ana rases on nis nai.
He acts as it he were being introduced,
or were receiving you in his parlor.
Perhaps he roes a square or two with
you, to point the road more easily. On
parting, he removes his nat again,
hands you his card, invites you to call
and see him, and bids you a oon voy-i-je,"
as he bows himself off. In Rome
vou realize what true, politeness
r .i 1 i "i-i-:- j:
is. ask a man nere 10 uo any mini? 101
you ; to show vou the way, to walk a
. . V . 111 "I
mile or two, to go and neip you puy
something, no matter what ; he greets
you like a long lost brother. He makes
you wonder why you nadn t met mm
Wore. You are ashamed that you
asked him so formally. You feel that
you ought to have taken him by the
arm and said, "Come on, old boy, and
show me the Tarpeian Rock." I asked
a middle aged gentleman the other day
to show me a certain church. He was
with his wife. They walked some dis
tance with me. I soon became a mem
ber of the family. We parted at a
corner. I walked some three squares
and was tumintr up -a street, when
rmeoTie ea.up-ht me bv the arm. It
was the ladv. Thev had watched me,
then followed me ; and the lady being
swifter, had run to set me straight.
could not persuade them to leave me
again. So they escorted me a quarter
of a mile to the church, opened tne
door, shook mv hand warmly and went
off. You would have thought they had
known me from a child. English po
liteness is essentially business-like ; in
its lowest asrteet. it seems mei'cenary :
iu its high.est, it is a recognition of the
duty due to man from man. French
politeness is a result of good breeding:
and fine manners. It is what distin
guishes the rrehieman from the boor.
Italian ooliieiie.s conies from
One day I was eating dinner in a
large restaurant. A little rosy cheeked
chubby feJlow, about five years old,
came in with; a beautiful rose to sell.
The iQ36 was skilf ully done up in green
leavesr-he - little "fellow was bare
headed hud bare-footed. He wore a
bright ."d shiri , green waistcoat a-nd
light fakirs. He looked like a beaiiti
ful wiht flower from the Campagna.
The "'revtiaui'an t. was crowded with peo
ple, h.'.j nobody bought his flower. It
was a--vmnior! sight to them. I called
the 1 fallow, bought his rose, and
prese'Tly went out on the street. There
was 1 TTvother. She had on her head
d f11 f r , . I
had li'1 around the -eyner,. fo t theA
a pityrppttly about eigh
teen jttiiisold.-'--. At the breast wasan
other iUd taking his dinner. She
""saoLf". it 0 j-nd incerent .to " t ueshfeain
coats, (spike-tail) vests, white ties, plug
hats and kid gloves. The little fellows
looked very handsome.
Rome is not a clean city. The streets
are verv narrow and the houses are
crowded together. The. architecture
of the citv is not showv as iu Paris.
The ancient buildings -.-'are more impos
ing from the outside than the . mpdern,
excepting, of course, St. Peter's.
Thousands of peasants, who work on
the Campagna, live in Rome, and the
general appearance of the people, ex
cept on the Corso and m the tashior;
ble resorts, is dec.idert 1 v'Z&6iyh ke
Thi?. Xtam4ff f.Trfeheiisual street
seeneii&re picturesque and interest
ing. '..TJfe peasant women are healthy ,
Handsome and graceful. They seem
to have an innate sense of the beauti
ful. They attire themselves in glariug
colors and queer costumes, but the ef-
fecMs harmonious and pleasing. - 'The
I ffaveher some pennies, and for sev
eral minutes enjoyed the sight of this !
picturesque little group. "One touch !
of nature makes the whole world kin."
Late at night and early in" the morn
ing one can see many sights not to be
seen iiTthe day. I often get up at 5
o'clock At this time, and for two
hours longer, the streets are full of
peasants, some coming into the city
with market produce, sqnie going out
to their daily labor. Many sleep on
the streets. It is curious to see the
peasants selling milk. They do not
bring the milk with them from the
country ; but they drive their flocks of
goats into the city, and take a position
in some popular quarter. Whoever
wishemilk, takes his pitcher, or flask,
or cup and the peasant gets the milk
as it is needed. They milk the goats
very fast and easily. The man scarce
ly seems to be milking, but rather to
be turning a spigot. Some of the
goats give more milk and have larger
bags than the average cow with us.
These goat-herds usually wear shaggy
goat-skin pants. It is a melancholy
spectacle to see the Forum of Trajan
soon in, the morning, surrounded by
hundreds of goats and dirty peasants.
The grand and majestic column stands
towering above the scene ; the goats
are climbing the walls that enclose the
Forum ; dirty squalid children come to
buy half a cent's worth of milk ; peas
ant men and women are sitting or iy
iner around, searching each others'
heads for vermin: and the air is
chartred with odots foul and sickly.
What a story could that noble column
tell I .From century to century how
chan-rea the scene beneath
All Pome turns out every night to
nromenade 011 the : Corso. This is a
- 1 n ,1 1
the cjuarter
strangers 11 ve to a square
r- ,.;itol , m an !;i.ent Rome. .On
long street, leading from
waer
man talks fully as mucl
REVENUE liLTOIW. vs.
TECTIOX.
Xa i ! tike Protectionists to Facts.
From the- llul'Jniore Day.
The ease being now fully made up
as bet ween the two political parties on
the question of; protection vi. revenue
reform, the issue is joined for discus
sion by the people, wiiose verdict will
be l'endere-? in November. The ar"u
isMt should be conducted mainlvniTou
.A .vial 01 uio auineuiic siotistics
. IsfurnisJied through' the Federal nenw
?ppsYU itiidnther official docuinects
compiled by prorc-Hits .and Repub
licans themselves. This is, iioui.ri
a line of reasoning yrhii-kfiiUit&
isf.s do not favor, but it is nevertheless
with his Doav,
his arms, his head, his eyes," his face,
as with his organs or speech, itiey
seem very animated in conversation.
At nijrht everybody is wide awake,
but a universal sleepiness prevails in
the daytime. The coachmen sit and
sleep on the coaches; the peasants
stretch out on the stone pavement ; the
fruit venders are asleep by their little
stands. Go into a museum and you
will find half the attendants sitting
bolt upright, fast asleep. A funeral
procession passed me ; the driver of
the hearse was asleep. I peeped into
the carriage and saw the officiating
priest sound asleep. I went into a
church and saw a long rod standing
out from one of the confessionals. It
is the sign that the priest is in the box,
ready to hear. 1 went up close and
saw the reverend father leaning against
the side ot the confessional. His ear
was against the aperture, through
which the sinner tells his sins. He
seemed to be listening. But nobody
was there. The reverend father was
fast asleep, and doubtless was doing
rood work m his dreams.
Whether asleep or awake, clean or
filthy, lying, sitting or standing, these
Italians are alwavs crracetul and hand
some One never tires of looking at
their easy movements, eloquent gest
ures and graceful postures.
:s"it. V;C.-.S oi tiK
A 'ol iv d-uv-
aiicctioii.
rie-
the 'common people
s rather too srrand aud
m. iat here tne v are
v call it the "inother
li the churches of the
L." The music is very
feast days the ch urch
lere are two organs and
folding hands, snriuklin
cl - f ni
vVC. Cvc. xne neouie seu!.
two choirs,
St. Peter's
here'-' to Ve; pdi's.
Alter hearing matins at
eter sco Ascensitm I)ay, I came
I he contrast was
1 1 M r A Til " '
marKed. x lejmusie and tne services
were about M same ; tut, while very
few people ; hd scarcely any peasants
we're at St. i ?eer's, there were fully a
thousand at St John's. Xearly-e very
bo.ly was taSiuiug, and, those who
wished, wa kd around freely. The
foreigners : n sight seers fook.posses
sion, as usi crowding the peasants
to the back ef the church. The sing
ing was vei j ijne. The chief soprano
was one o f tli e best I ever heard. I
was sure it as a woman, but my com
panion, : w pjseemed to knowT every
thing abou loman customs, declared
it to be a J. utter impossibility for. a
woman to gitg in one of the papal
clioirs P esentiy we caught sight of
liie face a idi upper part of the bod v.
He then c nfi'ssed that it looked like
a woman. ; The singers wear little
aorons an I i uflles and irowns that
seem quit' i fl-minine. After a while
the sopran kime down from the choir
and passel llirectlv before us. He
was a ham some young fellow, of about
f wenty-fiv ut his face was quite sex
less. He " eh-nged to that, unfortunate
class whoi t uie supposed necessities of
the Roma discipline, by a custom of
imihemori d Imtiquity boiTOwed from
the East, tate deprived of the hojeof
love or th possibility of offspring.
On the bn square of St. John Lat-
the lt"ft,
watwfr.,
to be ;cfators. Ine service seems
to -be entirely for the priests. I have
been in churches early in t he morning
when nobody was there but the priest
and an assistant. Both looked sleepy
and weary. The tinsel and glitter
were gone, and the naked skeleton of
forms was most impleading. 1 have
never been overpowered by the grand
eur of any ceremonials I've seen, nor
have thev touched mv heart. It looks
to' me like the hollow semblance of de
parted power, and I cannot believe
that the' Roman church has a strong
hold on the popular heart. The Cath
olic churches in America seem to me
far different. In them I have seen and
felt deep emotion. If one of these
Roman Cathedrals could only be filled
with seats, where a full congregation
of fervent hearts and joyful voices
could thrill the air with heartfelt
praises of God, how grand would be
the statues, how .divine the. paintings,
how heavenly the noble spaces of the
wonderful building. I do not wish to
criticize tod harshly. I am giving
only the impression made upon me.
They may be entirely unjust and false,
as I hope they are, :
Rome is a city of churches. Each
one of her Cathedrals would be a rich
and wonderful treasure in any Ameri
can city. You realize here what a tre
mendous power the Catholic, church
has possessed ; and you realize here,
better than elsewhere, how completely
that power has vanished.
CrV man, ' 1 course, ui -own t-uio- j , "yon-ovjuan yi "viiu i.lv
tVo'us n looking at'fninge sights. A j-- eran'stan g i red granite obelisk. It
French nan w'jis-'wita- me in tiie bury- was' erect dj originally by Thotmosis,
icuround of the Crjpv.viehias. Ruis- pt-ie flChirc ;S Thebest in front of the
-,vr ti,,---i,-,L,,ds .-' Aioie Dicu said iie. Temple o Itle Sun. Coustantine, the
Great, br,ht it to Home and placet
it in the hireus Maximus. It is the
;vtrr i K IIJI-IIO'-. -Uoi! . . aaiu n
'tiicre";! V an avi'u! row here when
Gabriel blows; his trumpet."' . A little
incident that hapii. m :Miei e iilutr-Ues
how everything is taken--.possession of
"by -St 1 angers and subordinated to sight
seen g. When we first '.'-.entered- the
-church we told a monk we were in a
htirry to see the vaults. He was just
preparing to confess a woman, or go
through some ceremony or other, I
knew hot what. -She was on her knees.
: He left her aifd went with us. As we
passed bv the chapil, where she was
kneeling," on our way to the vaults, 4ie
turned and said to her, with, that rich
and tender melody peculiar to the Ital
ian language, "Patience, good sister."
The sister could wait, but, perhaps, we
cpuldn't, and a franc or two was not
largest
lo-t teet a
.1
the
i in the world. It rises
S the shaft is 1C4 feet high.
It weighs.p-ll tons. "
Opposi 'f Jthe church of St. John
Lateran fcl building considered the
most saei idSin Rome. It wa's former
ly the priae chapel of the popes, and
is theTonli art of the old Latei-an pal-.
actA now'iimainm?
called th .HSancta Sanctorum." Nobody
but the 1 can worship there. Over
thef altar; jsli fine portrait of Christ on
wood, pa h-jed by St. Luke. But the
chief at factum of the place is the
'W7. wii,1' or "Holy Stairs," by
wiuecs tl Mevout ascend to look into
the ehar il Jmd bow before St. Luke's
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEO-
V,-;; PI.E.
to be rashly thrown away by delaying 1 portrait jf Ijhrist. The stairs consist
"
to show the bones.
She church of "Srda Maria in Arn-
-ckW1 stands on one summit of the C ap-
itoline Hill. It occupies the site ot
the great temple ot Jupiter, tnat was
built by Tarqum the rroud. mo e-o-end
of this church is as follows : ihe
Roman Senate was preparing to ele
vate Augustus Ca-sar to the rank ot a
god, when the SLbyl appeared to him
on this verv spot and revealed a vision
of the Blessed V irgm ami un
Augustus thereupon erecTeo. an muil
to Christ, and it was called "Am 1 n-
" " ns ancient aitar, w nu
YHTVt.tHC -vf. ,
its inscription 01 ueuicctuiuu,
preserved inside the present altar ot
the church. Here alsois a famoits and
miraculous life-sized doll-baby image
of the infant Jesus. Every Christmas
a manger is fitted up and the scene of
the Nativity is iuny reyruuii.
tie children come and pray to the Holy
Babe, which listens kindly to their
childish prayers. The figure is also
of 2S mf Me steps, brought from J e
rusalem vhey were the steps to the
palace irontms 1'ilate, and . were
once abided by the Saviour. No
body c.'a ?o Mp them except on his
knees. jFdr preservation they, are en
tirely -c( veled by wooden planks, but
holes in hf ; planki; show the print of
the Sav oirt-'s feet 6n the marble, and
allow tl e fkithf id the blessed privilege
of kissi jg the stone " and stopping to
totfr nebody is. W ways going up
these at; p. One day I counted twen
Tieonle i rrtrl in tr nn nn 11 a &nee3.
One w .i fittle boy of . -f 7eais-
couian 5 np laughing at 'S",
man, vhd Weighed "er 200! pounds.
It war i 1 erreat effort fori him. I
watchel iimabout a.qnaijer of an
hour, iixl saw mm mount thPe steps
Not be;r able to restrain rf laugh
ter, I V it out. He was in
if he g it fctuek half way up
The closing paragraph of the plat
form adopted by the national Republi
can convention at its session at Chica
go, June 3rd, is as follows : .
We extend to the Reiiublieans of the
South, regardless of their former party
affiliation our cordial sympathy and
pledge to them our earnest efforts to
promote the passage of such legislation
as will secure to every citizen of what
ever race and color, the full and com
plete recognition, possession and exer
cise of all civil and political rights.
Civil and political ryt. Mark the
language.
Dr. Tyre York,- in his acceptance of
iHhe black and tan nomination for Gov-
The chapel . i4 ernor of this Sfate,' says, in his letter
bearing date j une 10 :
I endorse the Chicago platform in
full, and the nomination of Blaine and
Logan.
This commits Dr. York fully to the
doctrine of civil rights and places him
in the front of rabid Republicans.
The Question now is, will the honest.
self-reipecting white Republicans of
North Carolina, support Dr. York for
the ofhee ot Governor 01 the t?tate 1
heart. It k not iiv- ;
countinsr-h t v yi
iiK'-room. iv.. -
Il is i'.-i pobo 't-ot J v ouvlr.
One sees everywhere p iNnuo suri--thing
strange and interesting. The
sight-seer cannot get 1-t. Go wh-c e
you will, yon will he entertained. You
need' only keep your eyes open. On
this street is a group of h tier-writers.
They sit out doors -under large umbrel
las, surrounded by peasants. A grace
ful, handsome girl is dictating to one
a love-letter. Her hands moving in
quick gestures, her dark flashing eyes,
her rapidly changing features, as she
pours tortu uer pus!5iou,.mvivv y
ture that no art can reproduce. Here,
on the corner, sits a Roman policeman.
He is dirt v and unshaved. He leans
back against the wall. On his head is
a huge" brass ; helmet that glistens in
the sun. Hanging down from the top
of the helmet is a long horse-hair crest.
Han r ing from his girdle is a dagger,
such as gave Caesar Ihe . death-Avound.
The four letters on his helmet, S. P.
Q. R., carry you to Gaul and Germany
and Brittain and Spain and Africa and
Asia and you see the Roman legions
following the gilded banners and shout
ingj "iSenatns Pvjjidusque Iln(th
You are awakened from your reverie
by the snoring of the thing before you.
He is fast asleep. It is a buzzard in
eagle's feathers. You pass a church
and conclude to step in for a minute.
The great door is ten times as large as
a. common door. It is not open, but a
smaller door is cut in it. Before the
smaller door hangs a thickly-padded
and quilted leather curtain. You walk
tip the steps. An old woman sits oy
the door, knitting and nodding. The
moment she sees you, she knows you
are a stratfarer.' - She sets up, raises the
curtain, and holds out her hand. If
vou cive her a penny, she is happy.
She invokes the blessings ot f.ll the
saints in your behalf, and eipecially
for your prosperity in love affairs. If
you give her nothing, she consigns you
to the lower regions, with indignant
e 1: if. .-1
la and briU
00w5 ; '-,r.: ;.!:? V,V. ' S
(-; n s e5 in t wen ty- to ut h o.u '
. r t o i!Jii;w -t:i.
JkCor& i:, the. "Pi
p.;, re.- m tne cente"
mot.1V if rrwmC TIT Oil VOU
to get, many years releas
bad fix,
he chief
knees, is
rom the
Why i a stupid man like a man with
one leer f Because his understanding
is imperfect.
One of the Briglitest Charms
Of a fail face is a fine set of teeth. The
ladies "bting fully alive to this fact, patron
ize WZDD0NT in preference to any other
vTentifriie, since they know by experience
that it preserves like no other the pristine
whiteness and cleanliness of the teeth, and
makes a naturally sweet breath addition
ally fraejrant It is one of the privileges
of the beaux sex to look lovely and that
portion of it which uses ' SOZODONT has
learned that the article contributes in no
small degree to the end in view. All
druggists sell it.
near
it !
Here
even
1 ' eX V-
a 1 t 1 -iT , 1 1 i ;
OfAvrnt.-'.st? m ts . an Egyptian ooei isk,
Which rises in the air 118 feet. This
obelisk is the oldest thing in Rome.
Augustus C;esar brought it from Heli-
opolis ind, placed it in the Circus Max
imus to commemorate Ids victory at
Antinm, over Mark Antony. He ded
icated it to the sun. Pope Sixtus, the
Fifth, moved it where it now stands,
.dedicated it to God, and placed a huge
cross on its suuiinit. This obelisk was
old when Moses was a bady, and
doubtless he often ; gazed ; upon it.
There are more than a dozen obeliks
in Rome. In front of my hotel is a
small one, which rests on the back of
a marble elephant.
I took supper one night, about nine
o'clock, in a large, handsome, fash
ionable place on the Corso. The walls
are mostly ..'mirrors. The windows, on
One sido, open on the Corso, and you
can amuse yourself bv watching the
stream of life" flow by. On the other
side they open on a fine garden, where
a band 01 music plays tor the guests
There were manv fashionable "people
in the hall. The costumes and jewels
of some of the ladies must have cost a
respectable fortune. Among many-
other curious sights, was that of a lady
smoking a cigarette. Everybody was
dri'-king wine, and all the gentlemen
were smoking, this lady sat at a
small table, directly opposite me. She
and the gentleman smoked and chatted
and ate and sipped their wine for fully
an hour. Notwithstanding my long
and deep prejudice against the use of
tobacco, and my ideas of female mod
esty , I must confess that the lady
smoked the cigarette very gracefully,
and it ail looked very pretty. She
handled the cigarette daintily and
curled the smoke more skilfully than
the average Fresnman or Sopuomore
aeerucl u it from the large contribu
fion to the voluim-of thenation's com
mevc. 1 !u cenMis shows us that while
tne mc.vea.ee ni (he total acreage of the
j arm lands of the counti v from lS-'iOto
lbuU was 40 per cent, the mereuso for
the entire period of twenty vears, from
ISCOtolSSOwaslcuiU pA-c,,,;.!;,;,!
but 10 per cent, between ISTO and lSSO
There were thirteen acres of farm lands
per capita in IbdO," as against ten and
a-half m ISSO. The total value of farm
lands increased between "ISoO and ISCO
from -fill to $212 per capita in the
former, or an aggregate increase of
the nation's wealth in improved lands
of over two thousand million d -liars.
The value of improved lands '11 ISSO
- ' . . 1 - i t ' 1 .
apira. suo.vmg an
of more than
four houndred -million dollars.
The above are some of the items
which the people of the country will bo
actual .deeime"TPw.
wealth in this direction
the right and duty of the advocates of
tarriff reform to "hold them rigidly to
it They, should not be suffered to
nn-n fnaa fn' triKnlt ' tbe? tnt.ellie'encG of
rawWiUiiiviteu to investigate and pouuer uur
tudes or their 'stalehop-fon5stWKl!)ii'ig?he pending canvass. ;They aro
trade about "pauper labor," "foreign; fa non th-? results of twenty years' ex-
r. 3nence wita the system ot "protee-
onnby means of an inordinately
igh-pressure 'tariff. Are they pot
forth volumes of rhetu ic and the dec
a'mations of demagogues.
SPLINTERS
And
Ciironicies .of Passing
Around and About Us.
competition," "closed-up factories, f
"idle workshops," and some score oc
other such cheap demagogical clap
traps, which have been worn thread
bare and exposed to the ridicule ot tw
generations m the pofiticat discussion f
of the country, and ought not now inV
fluenee any one who is not as wdfully
bhnd or stupid as the knaves or tools
that employ them. '
It is a fortunate thing tor the adv-
cates of tariff reduction in the presedtl
eontrovers3' that they easily puttheni
selves in possession ot an ample tin
of authentic facts, derived, from tH
solid results of experience,' from ta
operations for more than twenty yeat
of a tariff system levied upon the com
merce of the country, with schedule
of duties immeasurably greater thin
were ever dreamed of by the Clays alpd
Websters and other early advocatesof
the so-called protection policy. It
eouallv fortunate that the period im-
mediately preceding the adoption pf Thi: yellow-belted b
the present "bill of abominations' w$,s size,- bvit he totes a hu:
i 1 1 1 1 j. j. : jt . 7 . . 1 1
one in wnicn tne very lowest tariu. ua-
ties were levied ever known in the liKr
tory of the tariff legislation of the
country, and that these low schedules
Events
- a
THE INDEPENDENT REPUB
LI CAN ENDORSEMENT
OFCLELAND.
The conference of last Tuesday in
New York embraced some of the best
minds and decidedly the most respect
able element of the Republican party
It made a manly declaration of princi
ples, endorsed the career and charac
ter ot Gen. Cleveland and set m mo
tion the machinery tor an extended
bolt from B!f me aud corruption.
The part dr tlie platform relating to
tae"Tfnioerf,i'e candidate is as follows:
" Whiie. ti-ie Republican party pre
sents a "noii ination' which we cannot
support, thi Democratic party pre
sents one v.hdse name is the synonym
of p-olitical courage and honesty and
of administrative' reform. He has dis-
charged every official trust with sole
regard to the public welfare and with
past -regard or mere partisan and po
litical advantage, which, with the ap
plause and confidence of both parties,
have raised him from the chief execu
tive administration of a great city to
that of a great State.
'" His unreserved,: intelligent and
sincere support of reform in the civil
service has firmly established that re
form in the State and the cities of New-
York, and his personal convictions,
proved by his official acts, more decis
ive than any possible platform declai--ations,
are the guarantee that in its
spirit and in its letter the reform would
be enforced in the national administra
tion. His high sense of duty, his ab
solute and unchallenged official integ
rity, his inflexible courage in resisting
party pressure and public outcry, his
great experience in the details of ad
ministration and his commanding exe
cutive ability and independence are
precisely the qualities which the polit
ical situation demands in the chief ex
ecutive officer of the Government to
resist corporate monopoly on the one
- flat lie roil by . .-Hs'nuf r Tt 'jrler.
Httmaxity wilts under this warmth.
IN a little while, and the campaign
song will till the golden sihuiee.
There is some malaria in the city,
as it is sovereign at this period of the
year.
A-'BEiVLi rang loudly at 3 o'clock
Monday morning, but we are ignorant
of the cause.
ee isn't much in
nindred pounds of
ammunition with him.
It is said the remains of Dr. Samuel
A. Andrews were the first ever placed
. 1.1. , . ...,.3 .. "M ....
had been in operation for more thaiia , ce.ue.cy n .,.., ..at
j-j- c 14. ; wil Patience Bonner, whose age was 94, is
the oldest person resting in the enclosure.
OUR good friend, W. S. O'ib Robin-'
li as alieady
n-t Ci'.;r con-
decade. So that we have in the two i
consecutive periods a clear-cut fiiild
for comparison of the workings of Qi
two systems, and the results as gleaned
by the official reporters of the censi
furnish a rich harvest of facts for h
friends of a liberated commerce. J;
The three main pillars or support1
upon which protectionists fissume ty,
rest their dubious fabric r.re: Fist
that it restricts or prohibits the impor
tations of foreign manufactures : tec
ond, that" it; encourages and ben
those of domestic production , and
incidentally secures steadiness 'of
ployment and increases wages to t"
working people ; and third, that it j
motes thu growl n an.i ..tevefopme
.agrienUur! by p ro vid iu' an e'nlajgy 1
market and enhanced prices forfeit?
productien of the soil. If eifh.fj f
these propositions is lounued m refxsi. u
or f.-ict. it most assuredIy:sliould hae
become manifest under the tin i ate "
run t eel boeration for more than tvf eh y
years of a tariff averaghig nearly? to
rer cent, on all dutiable eor.Tmoliti' s
Iet us briefly examine each ot
by the figures of the census, W
best do so bv taking the deeai
tween I80Q audlSGO, and that be
1S70 and 1SS0;. that between ISG-r,
1870, in consequence of the walla 1
the disturbance" of all commerci-A V 1
ues and operations, being man ibf ly
useless tor the ijurposes ot anamis,
hand and demagogue communism on
gi.n
4
son, L,a., whose marriage
been announced, will accej
gratnlations on his recent
nuisition. Here's our ;;
Shake.
Ahot'T an hour after ihe I,::
on Monday afternoon an omiiH.
ing funnel shaped cloud. paV-
tliS southward ov'er towi
slowly .-.Vid was viewed by
citizens with solicitude.
police c; rr-
tri f1--in Weldei an i ed o:u
wevk, ('ilicer l';i-- -.vas sta,
front of the Gregory hoi
breeclrh
senger.
aiignieu. o
,- "is auythiiu
,askel a eitize-i
to k H-p a ' :u
'shot guns
But without
the passenger
and as slid
i-:t)ipy
. Wil
:ic-
iam.
.1 ,
! r.'nn
...look-
;1 from -
. i 1 moV'-d:
oir.:u or o'ir '" ' . 'tm
ch sMth Y
MioiUtlei A t;s-
lio i-;ci just
a i oiig down !:;-"', ho: . .
the j.... . !-.! o
L v.ilh double l.,;-.'i;uied" -'7 -:.;'
auer on ;.
a .--t ranger, w
crved him.
viaitiv-g'-for an .mswer
dged oack to the steps,
aboard .e .-aid he
In regard, then , to the effect of f2ij x-
l'stmg high tana on the lmpgrnajj ns
of foreign manufactures, the ifius
shows that .with a tariff averagi hkot
couldn't trust his lii'i- in a ptc-e
the police tore wore doubly , ;,
gnus, and watehed the tiuiiis t
shot at a stranger. -
-And then lie t uckevl . Li iii.-.d f
door, 'and sighed w ith u-iu f al
cape from tlie ku klux.
v.hero
i-l( lied '
) get a
in the
his es-
Why is a dog with a lame leg like a
boy at arithmetic? Because he puts
down three and carries one.
and elocment volubility. Inside Jthe
church you will find, perhaps, a dozen
poor looking women, kneeling on the
stone floor, at different places. This
one holds in her hands a string of
beads, which she slowly counts as she
mumbles her prayers. Another is
kneeling before the altar, fast asleep.
That one is bowing before a life-sized
wax figure of tifeVirsrin Mary. The
figure is elegantly dressed, and holds
in its arms infant Jesus. Or, perhaps,
she is kneeling before a life-like figure
of Christ, stretched on a cloth, with a
great gash in his breast, and the blood
curdled on the wound. Before one of
the altars a priest is going through the
service, bowing his head, crossing him
self, raising the : crucifix, performing
many mysterious motions with head,
arms and body. A small boy stands
near and tinkles a little bell, at proper
intervals. When the priest doesn't see
him, the small boy sometimes munches
a bit of bread. You stroll around the
church and look at the splendid oil
paintings or marble statues. You find,
perhaps, in one corner, a statue or a
painting, by Michael Angelo, or Guido
Reni, an immortal masterpiece. Per
haps one of the officers of the church
comes up and offers to show you some
sacred, relies, saints' bones, or hearts,
a plank from the manger where Christ
was born, or something of the kind.
You pay him ten cents, and see his
relics. Coming out on the street again ,
you pass a lot of flower girls. One of
them beseiges you. The others stand
off. They never interfere with each
others victims. She persuades you to
be 7. w.th all the grace and art of a
bom a. tress. If every other argument
fails, she finally takes a pretty flower,
seizes ye 'i by the coat, and pins the
flower on your breast.
I don't think, however, that I could
ever consent to kiss a female devotee
of the weed. As I came out of the
restaurant upon, a side street, I saw
something at the bottom of the steps
against the wall of ths house. Stoop
ing down, I found it to be a small,
curly-haired rosy-cheeked boy, about
five y ears old,, xle was ragged and
dirty and looked very tired and hun
gry." Kind nature had come to his re
lief, and h ) was sleeping most sweetly
on the stone pavement, happier far in
his hunger and rags than many of the
thousands who passed him in silks and
diamonds, to spend a sleepless night
of revelry and debauch. .
In good weather, it is common to
eat out of doors, sitting by little tables
on the sidewalks, or even on the
streets. You sit for half an hour,
leisurely sipping coffee, or tea, or
chocolate, or wine, or whatever you
wish, reading the papers, and watch
ing the ever changing, ever interesting
phases of life as they pass before you.
Peasants in quaint costumes, peasant
women in brilliant colors, priests in
broad" hats and flowing black robes,
monks with heads bare and shaved and
without shoes, nuns in black, with
snow-white bonnets and neckercniets,
itinerant venders of ; fruit, jewelry,
photographs, walking canes, laces and
jimcracks generally, "fops, pleasure
seekers, Europeans, Africans, Asiat
ics, and Americans ; all the world in
! miniature u before you. Nobody iin
a hurry. Everybody is taking life easy.
It is very pretty to see a priest taking
a -walk with his school. He usually
goes ahead, and the lads follow behind,,
chatting, laughing, enjoying tbe scenes
around One day I saw such a pro
cession. The lads were from eight to
twelve jears old. There were about
fifty. Everyone was dressed in black
the other, and at home and abroad
without menace or fear to protect eve
ry right of American citizens and to
respect every right of friendly States
by making political morality and pri
vate honesty the basis of constitution
al administration
"He is a Democrat who is happily
free from all association with the fierce
party differences of the slavery contest,
and w hose financial views are in har
mony with those of the best men in
both parties, and coming into public
prominence at a time when official pu
rity, courage and character are of
chief importance he presents the qual
ities and promise which independent
voters desire and which a great body
of Republicans believing those quali
ties to be absolutely indispensible in
the administration of the Government
at this time do not find in the candi
date of their own party. I
" Such Independent voters do not
propose to ally themselves inextricably
with amy party. Such Republicans db
not propose to abandon the Republi
can party nor to merge themselves in
any other party ; but they do purpose
to aid in defeating a Republican nom
ination which, not for reasons of expe
diency only, but for high moral and
patriotic considerations, with a due
regard for the Republican name and
for the American character, was unfit
to be made." : " : - . -
A man who, without subserviency of
spirit or action on his part is spoken of
in such terms by a large and influen
tial portion of : those partisans who
have been arrayed against him, and
who has received from his own party
the nomination for the highest' office
in the gift of the people under circum
stances of grand eclat, is deserving of
the great honors which evidently await
'him,'. -''-':.-'' ;...:.-- . - ---' . ' .''".;
His Slippery GIum Kye.
"Tbe Squire," says the author of "The II no
sier Schoolmaster, "wore one glass eye and a
wise. The irlass eve was constantly slipping out
nf forviis. and the wisr turniner around aidewise
on his head whenever he addressed the people-
of the Flat Creek District. Sad spectacle.
Parker's Kair Balsam preserves and promotes
the Growth of the natural hair. It also restores
the natural color to hair which has faded or
become gTay. Clean, elegant, beneficial, highly
perfumed.
FOR RENT ! A large, pleasant, front
room over their store; Apply to
t 21. E. CASTEX & CO.
over 16 per cent. between Tbif 'i ind
1SC0 the- average annual impM j 'er
capita to the average iopulatip'tor
the period was but $10.o0, 'as 4l ust
.$13La0' per capita to the average - ?u
lation between 1S70 and ISSO, fe'J 1 a
tariff averaging 43 percent, onlajjj du
tiable imports. This on the l$sf of
the calculation would make an4i?-re",
gate of over one thousand thre jun -drwl
millions of dollars in exfcel of
the low-tariff period. So rhucli,' $ ien,x
for the eflects of high tanft lndfeJas
inr.the volume of foreign hi TJrta-
tions. On the question of the n ur
ageiaent.oi manufactures the p tsus
tables devoted to that intercom mw
that during the low-tariff period r - '50
and 'GO there was an increaseHc, the
total number of manuf acturin Sf tab-;
lish ments m the country ot 1 ftp aa
against only 1,704 during tliigh-
tariff decade ended Ifcibu. Tnw.' was
an increase of the capital mvelu t in.
manufactures in the former pill of
S9 per cent, against only 31 vtxl
during " the latter, and mirffjife j ictu
there was an increase during the low
tariff regime of over 100 per eel 1. in
the total production over cost qf ma
terials and wages, as against lsthaii
G per cent, on this head, duant the
"highly protective" epoch. Of fh4 total
production during the period yhph
freouentlv denouncedbv nrotet tu nists
as a vicious "free-trade perioek"! abor
received in the shape of wage l per
cent, while under the latter orjpi5tec-r
tive period the percentage of ?ross
product paid in wages was les tla-h 18
per cent." The wages paiel dr
former period were paid m g
equivalent, and possessed a pu
power ot 56 per cent, greater t
paid during most or the yea
vaunted protected system.
tion to this, it should be her
TliE mosquito is abroad, and the air
is 1 nit ot song.
The matronl
into quiet plac
pettis vanked
This is a se
Kom-e. am! i 'V u
ing with others,
1
hand is now reached"
-s. and 10 ! the mosquito
ii'om its loug i-ece.-s.
!soii of. reflect ioii dh
ud
a;
i rei-hless sw;a'-
it 1-
se;iso!i for devis-.-the
marc!) of the
, 1 1
i:i!y. an. 1
! i:-!r their
i 1IU (HllM'I
iiig a way to crip
mosquit o bug.
The dav
the. voiev'so liii- twilig
beautiful promise of sleep.
But thre is no sle- nt.if any worth
sitting up for.
The mosquito saunters xn und vhis
pers sonietliuig different fnmi that.
We seek om snowy couch .-.hefi the
stars come out. and close bur eyes,, but
when the red dawn bl ashes -along the
East like a new made bride we rise u
as splotclied as a ' nighb rh)l .; o.?
or tu-
measles, and clawing -a h;tn
tide off at a claw !
The mosquito bites like lie had two
mouths, ami stings like a hoopsuako.
If (ioldsboro wants to distinguish
sons gei up a
herself lot one of her
mosquito extingtpslier.
His Honor was approached last
week by I." Whitley, Esq., who sought-,
his permission to visit Webb villo
that '.night with string band. ;
itg the
$ or its
hising ;
n those !
f the i
ifaddi- i
tated
that the schedules of the present tariff :
impose an average ot J per cejnt moie i
duty on many imported articles vhich f
have receive! a minimum of liber, and ,
are of the cheapest cost, and Tpph are v.
t
thus necessarily largely cons
the poorer classes, than the!
upon those in more advanced.
manufacture and cost, and
mostly by the rich and well-t(
es. Tt thus not only imposes
iest burdens upon the labor i
but actually offers a premit
higher skilled roreign woii
against that of our own, T
kind of protection which hasf's
"pauperized 7 American la be
rrofssiTicy to nrotect it aeaii
mf- w r) r o 7 IT
otner countries. - ur its en.s
interests of agriculture we 4 hly
space to refer briefly. Tj figures
show that while this great int i try has
continued to furnish more tl 41 puper
cent, of our annual foreign lijorts, lt
has been robbed by the prott on sys
tem of the benefits that ough? v yb
ed by
npose
gesof
nmed
poor,
to the
m as
is the
K nearly
that of
II
. The band went, but ye gods! it
wasn't a string band.
When the gentlemanwlio pei formed
on the elrum suddenly touched that in
strument off. the inhabitants sprang
frv;m their drt ams and lied ;n terror.
To lend additional terror to 1 he scene
another party stood by, hootiwg more
blasts from a flageolet than a cannon
could. ;
Dismay was there-! 1 a
The foi lowing day a Webbville del
egation waited, on His Honor in a body,
and made comolaint. ,
Warrants were issued, and in a little
while the mu.-ii-ians stood in Tribula
tion Hall.
'Gentlemen of the string ; band,'7
saiel the Court, as it elevated its legs?
on a rosewi.Hxi table, "the drum' is
everywhere recognized., as a deadly
weapon, and th flageolet is considered
an instrument of equal destruction. It
devolves upon this tribunal to reraar .
that while it respects the freedom o '
every citizen M
"We thought you did till now, Your
Honor," broke i'n the chief musician.
"It will visit the wrath of Tribula
tion Hall upon drum-pounders and
flageolet shrie.kers whenever brought
before it," continued the Court, with
out noticing the interruption.
"YoTir Honor "
""Well, nevr mind," broke in the
Court, "this, is only an admonition,
but if you co-ae again, bring your
banks with yo
And tho Comt d, ;urned.
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