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WORM SPECIFIC
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
4 fPHE countenance is pale and leaden-
colored, with occasional flushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu
pils dilate; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eye-lid; the nose is ir
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
a swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; slimy or furred tqngue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
with a gnawing sensation of the stom
ach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting
pains in the stomach; occasional
nausea and violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels ir
regular, at times costive; stools slimy;
not unfrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough j cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with grinding of
the teeth; temper variable, but gener
,jftlly irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
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DR. C. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
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IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURT
in any form; it is an innocent prepara
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spelled differently but same pronunciation.
G&AHAM, N C-, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 3 1879
AW AODRBSS.
'*
By Col. W, li, Nanudera, President of tl»e
North Carolina l*ro«i Aaaoeintion,
Gentlemen of the Press Association of
A'orllt Carolina.
t congratulate von that so many of the
brethren have found time anil iuplinatinu
to in onr annual reunion, by tar
the largest number [ hate ever seen pres
ent on such an occ&rfon.
As many of you. know, I am one of
those who seek to encourago these re
unions of the gentlemen of the press and
who believe there is a higher anil better
and more useful end to be subserved by
thcui than the promotion of mere social
pleasure alone.
It is true that the aveiage editor, bring
human, needs ail occasional season of rust
and recreation; ilis bed is not entirely a
bed of ease, neither is his pathway always
strewn wilb flowers. Thorns as well as
roses beset his feet as well as others, and
to hiuraUo conies days of wearying la
bor followed by long nights 06- sleepless
oi»ri« t
And so if Die rest from our toils mul
' the forgetfulnes-i of coivoding euro tliui
coine to 119 amid tiie pleasures of these
tocial reunions were all the good in ihum
lie would be a churl indeed who would
begrudge us their lew fUoting moments.
But reM uud rccreati.m are not all that
come to us from sun'i assemblages as this
in which wo are ab »ut to take part, it
;s for ine in this day and genera
tioii and in this presence to say a wold as
to the power et the piess. Wnethcrlt be
exercised lor weal or woo, the gentle
men who constitute the now
-before me carfy in their hands a power
that overshadows every other powei- in
the State. Neither the bar nor the pul
pit. nor yet the hustings has a tithe of the
i.ifliK'Ucc in shaping rtfen's opinions that
you have. Ttiev occasionally reach the
ears trt htunireits with varying uncertain
sounds while you constantly roach the
eyes of thousands with fixed forms of un
uiiaitabable meaning. But just iu pro*
portion to the greatness ofthp power is
the necessity tor Its intelligent exercise,
and how can that be belter promoted
than by biinsjlng the possessors of this
great power into 6ucli relations as shall
make them know and appreciate them,
oach at'his true wotth. And thou meet
ing together as wo (To in ditlereni sec
tions of Ihe Slate how can it happen thai
we will not thereby become better ac
qainied with the wants and necessities
ot those different sections and thus in
time of the whole Stale? What does the
eastern man know 61 the railways of the
west or the western man of watiu
ways of the east unless he learn from ac
tual travel? Western editors must know
and understand and discuss the griev
ances of the people ot the cast and the
remedies proposed theretor and so also
must not the editors ot the ea*t be ignor
am of the wants jf the people of the
west. i#l us hope then that the time
will be far distant when a year will pass
\yithouJ, a full gathering of the editorial
claus from the mountains to the seashore,
from the north border to the southern
most limit. Good-must come of the re
form and nothing but good.
Last year wc'tnel at the loot of the
mountains the lovely Piendmont section
of the State, a section the beauty ol whose
scetiery is equalled only by the sturdy
honesty aud generous hospitality of its
people. This yeai, to-day, this hour we
were to have met not here in this popu
lous railway center above the tida water,
but upon the sea shore and with the
beating of the waves of Ocean sounding
iu ourears wo wore to have conducted our
deliberations, but fate ruled farothcrwise.
Man proposes aud God disposes. Tho
hospitable village, the onco happy rosort
of seekers for health, for rest, or tor
pleasure is now a desolate wreck strewn
beach. But little more than forty-eight
hours ago upon its dovoled sjte the storin
fiend lor a time held high carnival, aud
with bis accursed devouring breath lash
ed the waves iiuo lory. In an iuetant aK
most bouses were swept away, trees torn
up by the roots, and indeed all inanimate
things engulplied iu tho merciless waves.
But ainid all th%t terrible liproar, auiid
all that fierce din of the warring elements,
amid the darkness of lhat trying hour,
the u.ercy of the great iTebovah, the ever
living God wbo saith to the winds and to
the waves thus far shalt thou go and no
farther. shone round about und every
where outside, ere the shock ot the great
disaster could be realized, men's hearts
were gladdened by the intelligence that'
first greeted their ears that there were
"no lives lost." Aud though later iutelli*
gonce forces upon us the sad conviction
of the gallant deaths ot two noble aud
devoted men, yet still it is a wonder and
a miracle how in that supreme hour of i
peril,—a peril that, uot felt, the heart of'
a man can never conceivp, how, in that i
hoar, I say, so mauy men, so many help
less women, helpless children, heirless
invalids suddenly roused Iroin sleep
without time even to dress, could be sav
ed harmless Iroin the tottering tailing
building, against which the billows wero
beating with fierce appalling fury.
But thank God therevfcero brave hearts
there and strong arm 4. Thank God there
were men there to whom death presented
ii'» terror while giving succor to the
weak and helpless. One bravo mother
told me that upon the narrow, tottering,
trembling, frail plan* way upon which
she passed trout the doomed building to
the mainland, first went the wee toddling
children, next their mothers, and last ot
all (lie men. Thank God, gay I. that the
breed ot noble bloods litis not died out in
North Carolina. Thank God, we still have
men and women who proVe not "recreant
in the hour of danger though they may
teel the chill breath ot death their Very
faces. I conf. ss my that last
night a* 1 heard from (lie lips of the Gov
ernor of utir State, himself an eye wit
ness and participant, a brief acoount ot
the heroism displayed in that awful hour
by all there, but especially by the citizens
of Bcanlort, black and white, North Car
olinians all, my heart swelled with gratis
Hide and with pride, that I too, was a
citizen of a Slate that could - boast still
heroes. After such exhibition ot daring
I and devotion and self sacrifice as that at
Beuutort, let no one say that tho men of
onr day are iufcriot to those ot any I'orm
. or time,.
15iu my friends while there is >-on>ucl>,
so verynnuch to fill our hearts with grati
tude to Almighty Cod in this hour'••four
i*e*asseinbling, the feelings that possess
me,and that-1 know possess yon, arc not
pain. .When I remember
who sat by my side when last 1 had the
honor to preside over voiir deliberations.
1 can but recall the great loss that we,
and notonlv wo the members ol his chosen
profession, but the entire people of the
Staie have met with in the death of our
honored and lamented brother, Joseph
Adolpljus Engelhard. To me his charac
ter and his services both to the prolession
and to t|io people of the State at large
have been a study as well before his un
timely death as since. As an individual
| his impulses were kindly, generous and
noble, charitable anil considerate in his
judgements of men, sensitive 100 and ten
der iu his feelings as a woman; himself
and all tluft he had was ready always to
spend in behalf of his friends or in the
discharge of a dut) to his Slate. llow
pleasant and how genial too he w&i in
his intercourse with us all you cannot
tail to YemeniUer. As and editor he was
wise, prudent; sagacious far-seeing and
endowed iu a rare degree with that tare
/quality knowli as good judgement I'oss
sessed oflitcrary taste, and culture, his
editorials were in manner easy and
.graceful, blessed with a vigorous mind
and one well stored, they were full of
force and strength, and with a bosom
that knew no fear, ho never failed to ex
hibit (he courage of ids opinions, and yet
always courteously. indeed iu him
courage and capacity and courcesy were
most happily blended. As a citizen he
wasbver ready to do his duty whether
in peace or iu war.
After much study and careful reflec
tion then it is my deliberate opinion that
to no one of the many men who were
prominent iu the era at reconstruction
does North Carolina owe more, I will say
indeed that to no one 'docs she owe as
much as she does to our dead brother,
Joseph Adolphus Englehard. Iu the
great fight that lasted from September
1865 until November 1876, he was always
to the front and always doing valliant
battle in behalf of the State he loved so
well. The character of that eleven years
struggle, the fierceness and llio bitter
ness oi it none know but those who pass
ed through it. Step by step, year after
year, tinglchard proceeded with fixed
purpose and unfaltering determination
to wrest the Stato from the hand of the
oppressor. His rule and his motto was
to tight the enemy wherever he could be
found. Others might be disposed to
temporize if not to .fraternize with the
enemy, but in Engleluyd there was never
the slightest variableness or shadow of
turning from the straight narrow way he
had marked out as the path of honor for
himself and of safety for the State.
Whatever taint others might have upon
their records, upon his there was neither
spot nor blemish. And to him, perhaps,
more than to all others, North Carolina
owes it that she may boast that she ac-i
couiplished her redemption from the ac»
earned thraldom that bound her hand
and foot without any truckling, Few
States there lie in this South laud ot ours
that can truly boast as ranch. It is easy
enough to be true aud faithful now,when 
along that path runs the road to place
aud to preferment, to emolument aud to
honor. But not o was it during the
evcutfnl ot which I have, spoken. Tueu
tlie path to emolument, and to honor so
called, was a broad and well beaten one
very unlike the uugged one Englehard
trod and many there be who went there
in. From the beginning of that struggle
and through all its varying phases all his
strivings wero for the good ot the Stale,
and of the whole S:ate. To redeem the
State from tlin ha. id of the oppress >r and
to unify and consolidate Its conflicting
interests and antagonistic sections into
one grand, b li p., harmonious/and pros*,
perous community, was the great goal of
his ambition from the beginning until
the contest culminated in the crowning
.tiiuinph that gave us tho convention of
1875, in which lie was especially con
nnifiuoiis ns a bold skilltnl leader, and
thanks to which North Carolinians to
day 1 tile North Carolina, To him the 1
effort to airily one section of llic State
again-! another or to stir up one interest
in strife against another, seemed but
little short ol treason. " I say thou after
mature deliberation and recalling the
cvonls of thai great struggle, and faith
fully and imparti illy, according to all his
comrades, to each his full meed ot mer»
it, I lint to our dedd brother belongs the
chief preeminence. If tho Stale of
North Carolina shall hear liis name in
appropriate remembrance only so long
as her children shall enjoy tlie fruits of
his labors in hei be halt, no man could
ask higher honor or more lasting
fame.
no apology gentlemen ,forJthUß
dwelling ui on the virtues of our dead
brother. To have said less would have
been unjust to him. to von, aud to North
Carolina.
IBBNL'iACCTIO.V.
'And all must go? Can nothing be sav
ed't' querulously, questioned Mrs. Ar
thur, her hand listlessly folded across
her lap. Iter air betokening utter helpless-
'bo looked pitifully toward the
oeautiful girl whom she addressed.*
'Nothing, mamma,' answered the lat
ter, drawing nearer as she spoke, and
kneeling by the other's side, while she
laid her linger caressingly upon her moth
er's pale cheek eacji other; but
papa's death has taught ua how much
that is. Don't worry, dearest. I hope
the sale will enable us to buy furniture
more suitable to the tew rooms which lor
a time must be our future home, until I
can secure some pupils ami gci the little
home iu the country where you are to
live, surrounded by birds and flowers,
and forget that the red flag ever waved
fiTnn our door.'
They were brave words, bravely spoken
—so bravely as not to betray the cflort
tliey cost the speaker.
Six inou'hs before Irene Arthur reign*
ed a be'lo iu her lather's magnificent
home, when, like a thunderbolt from a
clear summer sky, catue her father's fail
ure and death i.i quick succession, with
the lessons experience only teaches, of
friends deserting in the hour ot neeit —
little by little learning (he necessity i,t
standing alone and seeing hope drifting
furltur aud further iu the distance, uuiil
the present with its absolute emergencies,
roused her 'enaction.
The small head, set so regally upon the
slight, sloping shoulders, held ilself more
regally still, the red, full curved lips,
were pressed more proudly together, as
Irene buckled on her armor tor the frav.
The hardest part was over now. Her
mother had been told the worst which
could befall ihcin. She must now ako
her Irotn this spot, hallowed by memory,
before the desecrating foot ot strangers
entered it.
/A f«w d lys search and she was teward
ccl by finding in a quiet house a suit of j
rooms which'met at once hei purse and i
her requirements, in sari contrast to llie'i
elegant luxuriance with which she had j
boeu surrounded iier lite long, but where
at least, lu>r mother was saved the sight
of the red fltg, which seemed to her to
be dyed in lier heart's blood. ,
'ls Uiere nothing you would wish to 1
save, Miss Arthur?' questioned a voice at
her side the morning of the sale.
She turned haughtily toward the stran
ger, but something HI his clear, blue eyes
bent upon her witnessed tho words held !
honest meaning.
•I beg your pardon, sir,' she answered
unable to disguise wholly the pride these
latter days hail developed so forcibly—'l
have not the pleasure of your acquaint |
twice.' j
*'lt is for mo to beg pardon. I forgot I ,
might not be known to you personally,
though I am the auctioneer appointed by j
the estate. You" father once did ine a !
great kindness, and, though 1 would not 1
seem intrusive, I should like very much '
to preserve any article you may desire.' j
'With many thanks, sir, I desire to re- I
ccive ID favor*,' she replied coldly, and
passed oil, to take one fleeting look no
she fled to the place she must now Icaiii
to call home, to be haunted a'l day by
the sound of the auctioneer's hummer and
the voices of strangers desecrating the
halls
But when, in the dusk of (lie evening, a
cart stopped before the door, and one by
one, articles hallowed by. association—
her father's ciisir, her cwn desk, her
mother's favorite pictures—were brought I
in, the feelings so long repressed gave :
way to a burst ot tears.
Who had done this thing? For one mo- '
mem the honest blue eyes that had met
her own that day rose before her. "But'
no I such.delicacy belonged not to their
owner's rank in life. Nor was itastrau- '
ger's work. Some one must have ku iwn
her well to have selected the few tilings
ll had been such bitter ware I are to part *
Hi, ' . , ' . . v •
with.
l'bey were indeed like rid friends sent
to comfort her, as, in tho weary days
that followed, her eyes would ix-st upon
t.ioin in hot* bitter struggle (or the dally
necesMiics of life for heiseif the luxuries
which to her nibtlier had become necessi
ties.
Business had thrown her more than
oin-c with Earl Kenneth, the owner ot
the blue eyes. There had been matters
e-oiinocted with the sale which compelled
her to meet him, until lie giew to her al
most as a friend, and at limes slie would
forgot the social gulf which separated
J hem —she, the OIICO wealthy banker's
daughter; he. a man who had risen Irom
tlie humblest ranks, but whoso soul was
that of a uoblemaii.
Tho friends she h«4 once known she no
longer knew. They rode; she walked,
and must stand on the curb to let their
1 carriages dritt by.
Earl's cheery voice and pleasant smile
her mother also gi'vw to welcomo, with
tho few choice flowers or tho tho early
fruit he evci laid so quietly in Mrs. Ar»
t bur's haud,growiug daily paler and thin
ner.
But one evening, as lie sat by Irene's |
1 ride alone, very calmly, very truly, yet
with a Certain humbleness, lie told Iter (hat
bo loved her, and asked her to become
his wile. .
'I cannot beor to see von struggle,' he
said. 'Once, as you well know. I could
; not have asked you to become iny wile.
t and though 1 have not forgotten, dear,
that 1 am a man who has only'honor Mild
ambition, I yet can take y*u from this
f life of toil, caii shield yon with my breast,
I can toil tpi you am) yours it you will
givfc me the precious assurance I seek.'
' IVas the man mad? The pridv she had
forgotten in these quiet month* now
surged upward as she turned towiird him
1 with pale and sparkling eyes.
» ii'Si' - , you instill una!'
•No man insults a wotnnn with his
1 honesUJove, Miss Arthur,' he answered?
the pride in hers bearing its reflex on his
iaco. 'I loved'you—nay, love you! My
love you spurn. I can never oflcr it ngaiu,
Miss Irene; but remember—should vou
ever Heed it, it is. aUvays yours, ready to
do for you, to suflcr for you, to die for
vou I*
• • • * 0 »
'Why does uot Earl come?' questioned
the invalid. I want to see him—l miss
him. Write, Irene, aud tell hiuvhe must
call this evening.'
She wrote in obedience.
'Mamma asks for you. knows
nothing. If you will drop in • occasion
ally to see her I will btfglad. .
it cost I'd- pride a struggle to send
even this: but was it pos»iole,s it also
brought a thrill of something *iko pleas
ure that she would in.eethiin once more.'
The weeks had seemed strangely long
without hiin. Why had she thus ans
wered him ? Of course the tliiftg he ask
cd was impossible; cut. ah, how cruelly
she haif spurned him!
J lad he forgotten it? She expected
some trace cf sorrow on his handsome
brow ; but when he entered, in obedi
encc to her summons, the frank smile lit
up hi* face as devoting himself to the
invalid, he spoke to her only when cour
tesy required.
Somehow, these weeks seemed to have
improved him, too. lie had acquired a
polish: or was it only indifference, where
love had reigued?
'Men early forget,'she, thought, and
Willi the thought she sighed.
The winter wore to an end, and slow
ly the invalid grow weaker and more
weak. The shock had bveu greater than
her nervous systeu could bear, and she
sank under it day by day, until the esets
tionot moving from her bed to her couch
b'tcaine too great, when, tor the first time
the realization burst upon her daughter
she was soon to be left desolate iut
deed.
Earl, during theso months, came and
went as of old; but sometimes Irene ask
ed herself it his words to her had not
been a dream.
Not onee did his eyes rest on bcr with
I (he old look—not once did he hold for a
| single moment the little fingers within
| his.own! and a sense ot empty disap
pointment, none the less bitter because
unacknowledged, brought lo the proud
young eves many an unshed tear. But
I the bitter sorrow was in store, as the
invalids rest approached mere and more
near, until the angel of death sfo'-ped
and to his breast. Earl
was there at the time, and as she lay so
quietly on her pillows—they thought her
| spirit had flown—she suddenly roused
I and laid her daghtcrs hand in his.
j 'Take her 1 she said, 1 give her to
you I'
Theu tho eyes closed forever.
) 'Do not mind it; she meant only as a
i brother Irene,' he said, to coinlort. days
after to the weeping girl,-land Irene
wondered she could not asVguch accept
8o tho weary days into wcoks
the weeks Into months, and tho proud
young spirit learned its own bitterness.
j She saw E irl rarely now—there wa9 no
! longer the invalid's impatient demand
upon his lime. Some of the old friensd
had come toi*ward in this second hour ot
suffering' but through ull she missed
him, and the thought that he learned
, forget Hi I new brought lier no ooinfort.
She was thinking of him one evening
when lie entered.
'I am going away Miss Ire be,' ho said,
'will you bid me God speed?'
The old prido stuggled for mastery
against tho choking in her slender throat
: but the words she strove to-utter refused
: to come.
'I have been studying law during these
! years of hard wjrk, and am now able to
wait for toe practice that will come.
; You will think of me sometimes, Irene;
> and if in trouble remember the wonts 1
' onco said:;that I always stand ready to
act the part of a friend. Is even (bl
anking too much?'he added, as her si
lence coutiuuud.
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H:t«l he, then, forgotten ali his words
—the lov« he had said w«ig hern forever
—or di 1 its pale ghost lit) buried, too?
But site must sprak; bhe must not let
him know. *
'Ootid «hy !' she faltered; then, B|>ice of
herself, the words she'thought locked iu
her heart hurst front her: 'Earl do not
go; 1 cannot bear ill'
'ireiir-!' where had his.icy indifference
fleil now? his face was |mle; bis voice
trembled in his struggle for CIIIUDM
•What mattcrs.it to you?'
she exclaimed, us her
.pride lay with foldei wings at her
feet.
•Or if yon must go, take me with yon!'
•liene do you know what yonr words
mean—that I can wily take you as my
wife? My darling is it true?'
But in answer she sprang into hw
ope.n arms, dimly realikitig that the col
ur mantling her cheek was the a! horred
I red flag with Wlihsh she had announced
| hersell to Hie highest bidder, but J Eatl,
holding her clqgu 40 his heart will yiel I
his prize never more.
G leanings.
Pennsylvania has two lady auperiu*
teiulents of schools.
There are 450 lady dentists in the
United States, and three time» as many
studying dentistry.
A iaw has been passed in Sweden
giving to married wonmen undivided con
trol of theii property and earnings.
It is better to bo laughed at for not
being married than to be unable to laugh
because you are. , 6
At an evening party a county girl de
clined frosted cake becaube sLe thought
it might give her a cold. •
Queen Victoria has $9,000,000 worth
of royal plate in her castle at Windsor
but this does not keep her awake at
night.
An editor b«Tng asked, "Do hogs pay?"
*ays a gieut many do not. They take
the paper several years and then have the
postmaster send it back marked "re*
f ia*id." — Boston Post.
A society ifss been established in
London for the prevention of street ao
cideuts and dangerous driving. It is
estimated that 16,000 persons were in
jured by vehicles iu the streets of London
last year.
NOTHING LEFT.— Magistrate: "You
seem to have been drinking, and have
left'your wits at the bottom of your .
tumbler."
Prisoner (blandly): "Impossible, youtk
Honor. I never leave auything at the
bottom of my tumbler,"
'•Come home, my son," said a parent
:to one who had been absent from home
for some time; "come home, and your
mother will kill the fatted calf for
you."
"Toll her not «o do it, father,*' re
pliod the offspring, "for I have lived on
veal over since I've been here. Tell her
to kill a quarter of a pig instead."
A good colored man ouce said, in a
class meeting; • Brethren, when I was a
boy, I took a hatchet and went into de
woods. When I found a tree dat was
straight, big and solid, I didn't touch dat
tiee; but when I fjun lone leaning a little
and hollow inside, 1 soon had him dowu.
So when the debbil goes after Chris>
tians. de dou't touch deoi dat stand*
straight and true; but dem dat lean a
little and aie hollow inside.'
LISTENERS TO SCANDAL.—'AS no one,'
says Mr*. Steele, 'is abused save to a
willing listener, the friend who tells you '
she has heard you calumniated mn«t |,„
ranked with Iho calumniators.' Bhe la
even worse than they aro; tor, if u iiu t
not been lor her, you inight never have
known (lie unpleasant tilings they said of
you. l'liis, at any rale, in one ot those
numerous circumstances iu which tenor-,
ance IS really bliss.
USED UP FRIENDSHIP.- We can cat np
a fiieudßliip as we can eat up evcrythiiiir
' o |8 e» *'"l leave ourselves no crumbs to jm
on with out of all that large cake that
was once was ours. If we throw too
much on our friends— make too manydo
mauds on their sympathy, their patience,
their go.Kl nature, their nllowauco, their
generosity—we shall end by eating np in
a short time the cake ot love that snould
have lasted us to the end.
PRESENCE OF MIND—THET* were not
less than fifty or sixty at table and when
the quests were ih the height of animated
conversation, and just as the cloth was
drawn, they were interrupted by a crash.
A servant, in removing a cut glata
eporgne, which formed the central orna
ment of the table, let it fall, and it was
dashed into a thousand pieces. An awn
ward silence fell upon the compauv, who
scarcely knew how to treat the accident
when the host, then the well-known
George Payne, reletvecTtheir embarrass
ment by cheerfnly exclaiming, "Jam. *
break as much as yon like, but don't
make such a confounded noise about it!"