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!-k : '!."-. r V 'f IT. r. t- -"T i :, . GRAHAM; N. CEHURSDAY, JANUARY 21; 1897. 1 VUJU JVAil. NO. 51, HOUSEHOLD KCCESSITY! PROPHYLACTIC FLUID ?; i WONDERFUL HEALIK8 PROPERTIES F .:.J, x'triSS ccc. martens if II el. It ImmMlUUIv aalrakvai 111 CASE OF iMtln Nuhittc is ncccs .. ..'. sary but to apply it di rectly to the part affect ed, it will kefp down ' In flam ma- r tlon Oar srene or I ACCIDENTS. I . 1'roud flesh, and inashmt time wil! heal withmit -. - 5 applying: anything else. 1 ni wof fully prored in ' the military hospitals durirta the law war. ; It has nd aromaJa, afflicted with Chrunte Sores. It y-" Mmohm and l.rala obstinate Uluera, Holla. . XbBtMdM(KryslciiiHund KHHtiJigSorira .' A jtn every kind. If Act ttij the djKeable effluvia "' arising from Cnnccni, A bbccev ivcers, and every ',: V kind of purulent dfatrfuirgei, , .- .3- , : WR THE TOILET liKURSERY. ; i Vo the water nnwl In battling Held a email - T quantity of Uarbya Fluid. It fa a purifying- Intion for the f km heal- HFfti inn. v" r. CIIANSIIW. lrK"f DISINFECTING S2& WM ; l morine Fnockka. Ate . ' "Wftrtfwr preventing kealixgt chanting ) y Jnjeetisn cr Wath is retfkirtJ if, is fositiveTy 'Safe mnd mast eficacitrtu. Cure Eruption, Tetter, Pile, Prictly rfeat, fc Chafing, Sore Feet, Chilblain, fihes and Sting of 1 tmectt. Poison ihk or tv'y. - Kcmm Stain. Ink oott and Mildew. Ucd as aDcntifrio U Fur: , ' fie the Breath, Preserves the Teeth arvu cures 'i Toothache, Sore Gums, Sort Throat, and Canker. -- iRora or Inflamed Kyci, Catarrh, Hay or - Hom Terer are-speedily cared, JVr . , frctl hanUvuf tiseti '4Mmttnilff . Externa Uy. ' J. H. ZEIL1N & CO.,Phlladefphia. USE DARBYS FLUID IN EVERY SICK-ROOM. Piy ""ESSIO S A I CARDS. JAC L 11 a. xorvt ? ' Attorney-at-Layc, '. .hDRLlNTON, - - - - - "N. C 4rnt1(ft In ttiStnt( Hnd Fn'lernl courts. : ; mn oxr r White, Moore & Cu.' tore. Main bttevt. 'PboiM No. . Jrri.KE.X OI)l .K. ATTORNEY AT LAW GRAHAM, - - - N. C. JncBir Gray Byrcx. ? W. I. Byhum, Jh. f BYNUM & BYStDI, ; VttorMy a'ntl Coonwlrt-g t luvr OREKNSBOaO, N. O. Trartice, rcsfulnrly TtRnre county. Id thu exiifta of Me- Au. i, 04 It, Xivery, Sale Feed ";"'V':STABLE3.:"', W. C. JMoOije, Prop'k, v OlIAIIAM, N.-C. Harku mwt rII tnilnii. Oond Hlnglf nrrtou ble tcama. C'Iihiv uiudrrate. SA-tsm IIKMIY 15 AAA, Jit., .PEa-OTIOALTIOJEB, . GfjAHAM, N.C. ; XII kinds of titt work' and re pairing. ' Shon on W. Elm St ' second docr from Bain & Thompson's. TILL 1 He BILL... FOR SAL8 BY L. B. HOLT & CO. NOTICE! a ketvhf riran Uat appllrattAn will h totlw Dt Gnrral Aaaraiblr Hurt i Carolina for -amandaienU 10 U caarter nf Ike towa of Orahaw. X. C. fciMrarJer U Ute llrnl i Town rnirmte MHMra. - J. 1. KEK500LB. tlerk. c 1M laMt. ' When TOtt want Civelopcs. trtter Ileads, Note Head. Bill Head, Statement Heads, Busi ness Cards, Visiting Cards, Pos ters. Circulars, Dodgers, or anj kind of printing. Blanks, &c, Call at Thb CLtixra 09ice. msmm I t Finish Perfect. . , 2-. TTl " Material " II I Durable.' ijt f j if J prcu L Sl R,sM- W V IF I II I . " I va E I ; outVou I . H - 1 - Ca-' Fi T PRINTINQ HER NAVAL CAPTUEE. It wns unmistakably the figure of ten American girt that jogged ener getically through tbo narrow streets in tlie outskirts of tbo little city of Vl Sorta, on the island of Fayal, In the 1 n 1 t 1. i l j PUIieU S WdJ AS iO the astocisLed beast himself, this lively pace was as foreign as their fair haired mistress."., , -i Dorothy Scott had been to the top of a neighboring bill to wntoU tbo tnn rise oVtr sea, valley, mountain and volcano lieaia, and hoautifnl they 'were, bathed in n glory of col or. Nature has given men few fairer sights than that to bo had from tbia very hill on this dot of an island in the mid-Atlantio. ' r- Dorothy's fatbcr.nn American nnt taraliat, had ooaie to the Azores for n (summer's collectinp, and hatHefl his invalid vifo and his 16-year-old laughter at the little hotel at Ilorta Lvhilobexplorod other islands of tbo Azores, bo Dorotny, lcit to go about tjdoue, traversed town and country toads with all the enthusiasm and freodom of a wido awaka American girl, " little dreflmiDg with what breathless wonder her independent movements were studied by the im prisoned Portuguese girls Who peep, cd at her through Lalcony lattices or over garden gates. It. was still enrly morning, and drowsy Ilorta had hardly waked when Dorothy clattered up on her rJonKey to-tuo gato of an old con vent, dismounted and entered. In ruins now, and abandoned by its former occupants, tbo crumbling structure still sheltered a score or so of old women, tbo city's poor. Dor othy, who had spent many hours sketching the picturesque ruins, made her way through stouo arched passages to the square, open court within, passed down an untenanted corridor and reached a corner whore fibo bad boon skctobing the day be fore. Gathering her mnterials to gether, sho turned a littio, when ft Cutter of something whito in one of tbo cells caught her eye. bho stGpped( curiously up to the door and peered into tbo larkness, but quickly drew lack, startled and breathless, 'ihcro, siuring back at her, r.iih eyes as big and frightened as her own," was the faco of a boy. Tbo stranger was toll and Blight and wcro a White f.nit, a sailor's, evidently, v, iili i;n cjien threat tied with a l ino Luot, A white cap ptch- cd back frcin tbo fcitluiid tlibclosed crcp cf crrly Lair, hemothing fa miliar about lis faco niado Dorothy falter cut, nflcf the first fiihtcned gasp: "Why-ro, 1 do Lclicvo you are an American ! Or cr den't ycu cu cuTt'tnnd English?" she coded faint ly, ts ct her Cu t words ; the boy backed further into the dark cell. . Fcr n incnient ILiro was no an swer. - iLo bey still eoenicd thor oughly scored end glanced abont as though seeking some chance of es cape, hut Dorothy's position in the doorway blocked tbo Only exit. As thoro seemed to lo i;o alternative, ho aid sullenly, "Yes, I Co." - - "But how did you ever got bore?" sho qnrstioncd eagerly, , "How did yon?" said the boy. . "Oh.iiiy mother and I are spending tbo summer here," Dorothy explain ed shortly. "But you are in tailor's clothes, end no American ship bos teen hero fcr A month." "Yos, : thcro'has," he- replied. "One put in this moTnin?. "Trnly? It's queer 1 didn't see it from the bill! But perhaps it's just a whaling vessel?" . "No, "grinned tbo boy. "No whal er togsont in thisshapo." lie glace ed down at his jaunty suit. Then bis face relapsed into its former sullen ness as he wont ens . I "I may cs well mako a clean; breast of it,, now you've seen mo here. It's the American eclioolsbip Victory that has put, in to port for a couplo of days. Eighty of us follows Lavo Just come ashore fcr today, and as many are allowed eff tomorrow. Uy name is Theodora Blake. I am a first year cadot, and I" "What nro you doing hero in tbo convent then?" interrupted Dorothy. "Oh, I crowded in through a break in tbo wall behind a bodge; thoogbt it was a garden, aid 1 could hide hers till night and then get sway. But I'm blwsed if J want to stay in this vpookerisb, rotten old placo all day!'! - - "Bnt why are you biding? Are you io some scnipe?" . "Ka I've Jmt get out of tbo big gest scrape 2 was ever in that is, I guess I've got out, if you- don't go and telL I won't go back to that abominable oU hoik again if I die for It! It's nothing but grind all day and half the night, whether you're sick or not!" . j The boy's thin cheeks seetned to shew that Lis sickness bad been no shorn. . "ilotbor was sat on bavins me in the nary," he .went on. "Uot my appointment sD right, and I entered hi May. We bad only few weeks ef drill before "farting on the sotxt-lut-r's crunm, snd we first year ca dets aro lrat?d no Letter than com-. mon sailors. . I've had d month of it and that's enough. - I can't resign while I'm on a oruiuo, so 111 hide on the island till the ship sails and then mt myself in 1ho hands of the American oonsul and get sent home. I guess tnothcr'll bo satisfied then that I've no taste fo the navy l" Qnite overcome . by this startling disclosure, Dorothy sank down on her sketch stool and gazed at him in open concern. ' "Aren't yea afraid? y It seems a dreadful thing to do! Why, you would be what they call a 'deserter,' wouldn't yon?" she inquired. "I suppose so," he answered dog godly. bat fjusbiug In spite of him self at this word Of disgrace. "Any way, I'd. rather-bo called even ft 'traitor' than go back I" , ("It Eeoms to tne 'deserter' sounds about as Lad as 'traitor,' " observed Dorothy. .- Oh, well, it's all tip with me now. Yon 're a girl, and yon 'll go and tell, and that's the 'end of ill" . "I shan't tell, even if I am a girl ! .' she retorted. All girls aren't tell- ' talos, and I'm sure it's none of my . business il you want to go ana. bo a deserter or any other awful thing I" j" With an offended glnnco she turned to leave him, but relented at tbo sight of bis doleful countenance. "It must ho pretty had, though," she said, "to make you want to run away." "It is! It's a slave's life, nnd if I've got to be just a common scrub I prefer to work on dry land. ;,AU that talk about the 'f lory and honor of thu life is rubbish. I've fried it. They won't miss me till they go aboard tonight ct sunset. But if they should catch me tomorrow I'd bo locked in tbo brig for a week on bread and watorl" Though sho lad no idea what the 'brig" was, this sounded very im pressive and tcrrille to Dorothy. What a brave fellow ho must be to attempt escape in the faco of such punishment! Acel yet there seemed something ' decidedly questionable about the sort of courage that led him to run away from disagreeable duty rather than stay and faco it. Nor could sho admit that ho was ex actly her ideal of brave young Amer ica as he sat in n dejected heap at tho far side cf the dark little cell. "If I. had a brother," she began slowly, her e'Tts fixed steadily on ibo resentful iae-o before her, "if I had a brother, I think I should want him to bo cither a bolilitr or a sail or. And if bo we-re in tho navy and get to be i. n officer, how proud I ehcnld beLTo Lavo your own broth er really helping to protect your country, how safo it would mako yon foe'! "Bat," sho went on sympathetic ally, "if ycu are sick ail tho tiino, I dou't; wcudtr you hate If. Tho American ccntr.l hero id A real-nice c!d man. I know him, and I'll tell him just how you foci, and I'm anro he will help ycu. But," sLo contin ued, with a snd littio unite. "lam disappointed, fcr all suxmcr sinco I've been here I havo been watching, these Petngucse boys and girls, and they don't eein half so nico as ours. Thivgirla just sit arour.d and don't have Any iun, ai d tho beys ixt so stupid and luzy I want to shake thoui. I've been wishing they could come over to America and aeo our boys, snd now I just hato to have them know that there is a single one who isn't biave and loyal and trutf to his flag." ' ' - . bilence followed this somewhat cbeky but earnest confession. Tho boy sat with Ins cLiu stolidly buried in hia hands. . ' .- ;- SueldoDlys movement in tho court startled them both, and, glancing through tbo broad arch behind her, Dorothy saw. the bout figures of some of tbo old women, evidently re turning from early mass. , ' Ieep way back in the dark," she whispered hurriedly, wbilo fold-' ingnp her stool, "and don't move, or they will see you. I'll com back after breakfast nud bring you some thing to cat. Goodby." ' Dcrotby retraced her steps to the patient donkey at tho gate and rode strsigbt to an opening whence she could get a view of tbo harbor. There, sore enough, with sails furled, swinging bucily with the warm sum. meT breeze, lay the Victory, and from its stern floated the most beau tiful flag in all tbe world. "I didn't know I should ever feel so worked tip over a sight of that darling flag!" Dorothy exclaimed, fairly dancing in her saddle. "I must toll mother!" AS she turned back to the main street sLe found the place olive with tbo white soils and sunburned faces of American sailor boys. 'Tbe eld town was toueed from its comfort, able slumber by light bcarfed,strog bodied youth turned loose for a holi day. Up acd down tbe streets tbey marched, their rolling gait assumed If not yet; acquired, chattering willt delight st Uing aahwre and burrtir.gintoS hearty cheer at sight of tbe stars and stripes above tbe consul's office. . . Here and there were stragglers deep in the doligbts of home letters just reneivfed. tome bad invaded tbe tiny sbo;s in search of Fsyol bAa&eta or liscc tjr Lcmo friend, and etbr were bargaining for fruTt and donkey rides. Dorothy, almost torn asunder In the conflict between fcbr desire to greet each ' countryman and her ef. forts to preserve proper ; maidouly decorum, hastened to, the hotel and burst into tbe breakfast room?' But here a still greater surprise awaited bcr. Bhe shyly drew back as she I held her mother seated at the head of a long table, on her gentle face a littio flush of excitement, while lin inpr the table were two rows of jolly sailor Jads. '; : . - , Pointing to a seat left vaoant for Dorothy, Mrs. Scott soon put them all at ease. Tbey fell to with a will. and "shore food vanished at Jin alarming rate. After tho first shy hess wore on and tongues were loosened Mrs. Boott drew from one and Another bits of their history, home life and plans, arid her' kindly interest in their boyish confidences staid with them longer than she guessed, for even . sailors' manly hearts yenrn now and then for a "mother talk," and those who love it best die bravest for their flag. Dorothy, regaled with stirring tales cf sea life, had wishod herself a boy a dozon times before the meal was over, and when at last she was free to slip away with tho promised lunch for the lad lurking in the old convent thero was but one thought in her mind a resolve to dissucdo tho deserter from his attempt All tho boys sho br.d talked with goeined to glory in their lifo. The bracing sea air would overcorao flabby muscles and thin blood, just as the tcugl) experiences would strengthen his weak will, and by tho time tbe had reached the convent her friendly heart had launchod him forth on a career of noble seaman ship which could have led to noth ing short of an admiral's berth. But alas! When the softly spoko bis name at the cell door, there was no answer. Bhe pushed in end peer, cd about. Tbe room was empty. lie was gono. Had he been frightened out of his uncanny hiding place or, tired cf waiting and hungry, bad ho stolen away end made sure of his es cape, from her unwolcorae counsel and his own honest duty? Soberly and slowly she walked back to tho hotel. - Late that night tlm custom bouno guards and fishermen lonnging on the quay were, startled from their drowsy talk by a boyish figure in white which brushed past them and hurried to the end of tl o wharf. His clothes wcro dusty nnd stained, he brunt bed heavily, and the eyes that glanced nnxioutly cut ever the black water to the ship lying so quietly on its herein wcro big with fonr. Yes; thero wcro still lights n '-lining out from thecrptain's portbr.lcs. Ob, if he conld only report to him end not to that stern, pitiless execu tive officer! He turned and gazed bock past the group of men and tho sleeping city to the liiJla from v.bccce an uncon querable impulso had driven bini, but where still lay tho escape for which bo longed. But then roturncd the words which Lad been ringing in Lis cars f 11 day from them thero waa no escape "bravo and loyal and true to Lis flag !" Should ho bo that singlo one who provee' nn faith ful? ; '' - ; A flush covered his thin checks. ' and following his last and. Lost tm- 'pulsu be turned quickly to tho men and was soon seated Jn tho stern of a littio boat which was taking him to a punishment honostly deserved, but bravely met. As the boat, swung up alongside the ship a figuro leaned over tbo rail ing above end the officer of the deck called out: "Is that Cadet Blake?" "Aye, ayo, sir!" answored Theo dore, stepping quickly up the gang "way and saluting. - ' "A trifle late, sir!" sneered tbo officer. "The captain loft orders that if you returned tonight you should report immediately to him." "Aye, aye, sir!" (saluting again, tbe boy turned, with a thankful heart, toward bis enpfoin's quarters. A puiiislimont.sof tcned a little by the captain's compassion for the boy's thin eboeks and haunted, weary look,' was meted out to him, snd pa triotism rcsumcc) its swsy in bis heart. - It was no wonder that tbe next morning when, seated proudly in the stern of tbe captain's gig in com pany with tbe American consul, Dorothy apprcsched the Victory to pay Lor first visit to a sehcsibhip she was ssrcnibed at beholding Ibo face of bi "deserter" beaming down at Ler from over IbeTnlging side of the great reatel, nor that hax sston labment changed in to niter be wilder' tnent when, alter a doligbtf ul hour pent in being shown about tbe ship, she stepped on tbe gangway to de snend into tbe gig which wsitel to take them ashore, the captain of tbe Victory, with a twinkle in bis kind) eyes, bowed low snd saluted bur as "a fellow oOcer." "For," beexplsined; "some of our greatest navel captures have been made on dry land. " ' Then rhe knew that Cadet Blake bad told bits tbo whole story. Grace 11 Johncon ia Tenth s "Com- A LOVE STOftfc Oh, lay tbat dreary book awaj . , And Hat to ma on, lift to mat ; Whlla -anta the parphi of Uui day A storj I Will Ml to tboe. Ia. nut tbv book an-ay In ruts, With lunginK luok or aorruwlns Wa. fou know you'd ratlior road tin truth , . ' Witula tha trlii of aiy oyoa. : ' Tbo nrift air ttttrmnrnl (direr f leaf . , A momrat !, "bba com tu thaai' . Tour pnlMt) totd you I waa near; ; . Ho tluat protCDU you do not fed. aty brief, brii'f tory. aevvr rare, . . I only nwt a II In Mia. . . Ob. don't I'rub'nd you do not ears, While all tha wuilu you k 1 1 y, j o del for frotn tiio winy Warmth of iprinf A fane flaxlmd In fnby Bloauia . . . "You'd teach my heart a duo par thlnf than It had arcr drMinud la drMina." Well, I hava learned yonr leaaaa aoW Baro lcarnud It all oh, look and aeo The want, brief ltMooa In your tow Yon aald your buart ahould teach to ma. . Itetti aagnr In their quest for power-" For funio to lira forcrermortt, ' Will ulwaya turn a vagrant hour . To tench a woman loru'e a t lore, Tbo praiM of uutiuaa, Bounding tar, Acclaim that pU rvue alalo or doaut, Is norer dear as Toloos aro Which tell them thi-y are loved at name. ' . Tia hardly worth your whlla today To look to Tvry, Tery .win. Tou'U hty that dull old book away ' To read tha atory In my cyuo, : To Hat tha atofy on niy toncuo . ! Th3 one you wih to hear from me, Tbo atory awnet, if anid or au 1 Ioto but thet I I love hot tboe I Mary C. Anica in Now York Ijedtfar. ' BUllarda TVIthont Ezerelaa. Frequenters of the Continental ho tel billiard room have long been ac customed to the sharp gaino put np by a gentleman whose scant hair is always oombed scrupulously over a semi bald bead and who appears to have no other object in tbe world than to knock tho ivories about tbe green cloth. A sliok looking obap, who was ovidently a drummer from Now York, entered tbe billiard room and asked Manager Creaban if he could fix up a game with como good player. "There's a genilomnn that puts up a gootTgarae, " remarkod Mr. Crea ban, indicating tho one with the scant hair.. "All right," remarked the New Yorker. . "I'll try him." Tho contestants were not intro duced, but as they divested them selves of tbolr snporfluons clothing each bowed stiffly to tbo other. They banked. The Gotbamite won, shot off and missod. Then the man with tbo qu'jer hair started, and aft er bo nau ninno la tue otner sat down. -Tbo entire string of 00 points was run off without a miss. The Philadelphia looked inquiringly at his opponent, who had not had an. other shot. Tbo latter shook his head negatively, put on bis coat and cuffs and strolled out Not a word was spoken during tho entire pro cedure. Philadelphia Beoord. Robert rxhumaon Bad Ilia Wife, In hi3 sensitivness to feminine charms Belert Schumann was ex celled by none of the composers. The English type of beauty moved him to ecstasy, but he was catholic iu lihi taste nnd made no secret to hia finnceo of his delight in all the protty faces he saw. "They make me positively smirk," lie wrote to hor, "and I swim in panegyrics on your sex. ''Consequently, if at some future time we wulk along tbe streets of r Vinne and moot a boauty awl 1 exclaim, 'Oh, Clara, ieo this heavenly vision I' or something of tho sort, you must not be alarmed nor scold met" The caution may or may not havo bad a touch of ocrious nesi in it, but in any case it waa needta. ' ; N - How full of delight was their weddod life! What a true helpmeet lime. Hchumonn was to bcr hus band, especially when, from the in jury to hia baud, bo was incapacitat ed from playing, and bow much bis famo allor Lis doatb was prompted by her interpretations of bis piece, all the world knows, Blackwood's Magazine. t A Ttrmtij For Crania. The following is a simplonnd cer tain cure for. cramp: When tbe cramp comes on, take a -(hi: of cord, wind it round tho leg over the place in which the pain is felt and take an end in each band and give it a sharp pull, one that will hurt a littio. Tbe cramp will cease instantly, and the sufferer can go to bed assured that it will not come back again that night - The iron crcrwn of Lonibardy takes its niuno from tbe fact tbat within the gold circlet is a strip of iron, supposed to be made of one of the nails of the cross. Napoleon was jrownod With this symbol at bis coronation ss kin; of Italy. Tbe rose, tho national flower of v . 1 t . . 1...1iM ,m ....m..-. merit It is said tbat this symbol-1 ism was twpularl used as early, w ! the war ot York and Lancaster, gen erally known as the War of tks Rone. In California a bushel of bock wboat ia 40 poutitls, and from this figure the range Li npwsrjt in va rious state t pruids in Houtu Carolina. " ' . Lettorw from New York to Belize will Le dclivcml in nine days fiuta tbe date of mailing. ... ' A red snurise imlioaUw frrol wrewth er at cenne tl ine duilng t He L: r. .Highest of all in Leavening The Hunter and Che Ventriloquist Routed the Coogrt-gatloas, Durham Sun. 4 '. ' The lnte jft .A. Conthman, 'of Clark county, Ky., was the -perpetrator of an, extraordinary practical joke. : Rcturhing from a hunting tnp one evening,. he was attracted to a country clrareh where a revival I w as in pmgress.-- After -wateliingr wholesome to the fomiei to speak of the services for awhile he climbed, tlie-legislature and dogs in the nine up on tho roof to get ft better view. breath hut speaking of iogs: ; won through the hole where a store pipe dvr if this Iifgislature will hare the was meant to go. In the excite-, nerve to taeklo the dog question ment of the evening one of the con- j w hich has long been a serious, quea gregation shouted - out "Gabriel, . tion frl this State from an ogriculta- blow your trumpet ! I'm ready io ral standpoint espociallj- .as Ui go ' The temptation was too ' sheep raising, .but thus far no legis grent for Conch man, and, putting la tor has had the courage to form u-. hia horn to his lips, he blew a blast ' late' nnd push a bill to cui(ail4 the' through tho Hue-hole, and stamped-; cufsl " , ",:.- cd tlie congregation to o man. The J But Utterly. the dog qutjtion Li , Grand Jury discussed the propriety ( resuming a new phase. It is a grow of indicting the sacrilegious hunter, , ing frequency of cases ofaoi terrible; but no proccedinua wero takort , deaths from hvdruihobia. ' . " -! against him. ' t This reminds us of a traveling iiian, who was iii TTurham a week or so ago, who was a good ventrilo quint, and a prank he played. He went to a colored church, where tbe colored preacher w as giving his con gregation a very earnest discourse, nnd during the midst of the sermon, the traveling man threw his voice in the roof and bpgan to sing "Jesus, lover of my soul." The preacher proceeded for a while, casting his eyes about in on uneasy manner, and finally remarked as the ' song went" on: "Who dat singing in here ?' ' There was no response but the hymn Went on. lie repeated tho question, when the congregation stampeded for the door, thinking that there was something super human about tho meeting, and left the preacher to store and wonder at empty benches. ' The South tieada Again; The showing made by Brad street's on tho number .of failures for tho past two years furnishes, in teresting food for thought. The ag gregate for two years for tho entire country was 28,125. Of this num ber, New York and New England show G.000 or about 25 per cent, ,. of the whclc, with liabilities aggregat ing $130. 000, COO iu round numbers and approximately, and w illi assets of only $03,000,00v, or less than 60 per cent of the liabilities. During the sanio period there were 3,100 failures, spproximafely, in the South, or less than 15 per cent of the w hole, with los'cs ap proximating f.55,500,009, exclusive of Maryland and West Virginia, and awefs of about $33,000,000, or li nr. PX ('E Bf lVT j'v a. vviim . i - . . . a ine contention unit tne greater volume of business in the East ac counts for the larger loss there, will riot hold. The rejKirt shows that tho number is business fur the post two years wss 1,067,000, What is technically known as the commer cial death rate, is the proportion of failures to the ntimbcr in business. The comniericol dmtb rate, therv fiiro, in New York and New Eng land has been for the period under discussion about 7 er cent., while in the South it has been but a frac tion over 4 per cent In both the ; sggrvgate absolute losses in business and in the cummerical dtath rate by sei'tioos, the proportkm in the East is greatly in excess of the South. Further than this, the commer cial death rate is lower in the South than in tho West It is lower in the v " i"'"'"- coun,r. "' M ' Bradstruet's hss lwe-n keeping the record. In 1880 the- percentage was lowest for tbe nation' st GO. Ijist year it was 1 4Q for the whole country. Standing alone, two small groups." the Northwestern States, and New England, show a lower comnicricsj death rate than the South, but among the great divisions East, West, South and Middle States the South shows the great t& C-uiiucri.-al bol'Jifuhnae). Power, Latest U. & Govt Report O k ST 1 "W Tl I M r tl VI e v a ' !son to investors. The gbuth is the ' ' fr'ardfin snot nf tfin ITllifnil Minimi lint only cliiinttio $utiiminefk'ally as well. Argus. ..';..;;;.'X.,.ll; ill.. ; ' The Legislature and Dogs. , i Oodaboro Argus. . , t , , ' " " : : It may nut; tm very elegant no There can be no eioubt, ve think, 4 that hydrophobia is great , on th. ; increase in this cguntrVi- A quarter ' of a century ago the disease was rorv. verv rare. , ''A " Now, scarcely a day pauses lhat a case is not reported somew here. Of course, many of these are "false a ' larms," but the indisputable cases' are oi suiiieient treoueney to eiemanit new Lwws, or the better enforcement of old ones, , with reference to tho roving at jarge of dgs ir this coun try. In fact, it can -with reason, or truth, rather, bo said, that the dog owns America." !V111 hot North Carolina, that has gone wild and, swallowed all sorts of fusion ' for "Reform," be now a real pioneer and blaze the way for one of the greatest needed reforms of the age ' the abolition of dogs? " ; " " The Costly Comma. , There was a time when the panci " uation marks as now used in com' mon print were not known, ami as the result, it was often more or lens difficult to arrive at the exact mean' inir nt tlm irrilor nnil to nvnill tills. the points were lutroduoed. " Of. coii rue, about the smallest snd nt parently th most insignificant, of ' of them all is the comma, but Its misuse i often tho cause of Very an- noying mistaketi, as well as loss of money. , It should be tho aim ot those now in school to learn thor oughly how to use this little mark, and never be guihy of making a mistake like die following, an- ac-. count of which . we read not lung . ogo : . It seems that so.no twenty years ago or so, when the United States, by its congress, was making a tariff I bill, one of the sections enumerated what articles should lie admitted free of duty. Ainoug the many article specified wero "foreign fruit- plants,", etc., me-ining plants in ported for tranitpLuiting. pnpogat ing, or exH?rimeiit Tlie Engross ing clerk, in copying: tbt bill, ac cidentally cliatiged tlie Jiyphen In the compound word "!ruit-plantaV to a comma, making it read, "all foreign fruit plants," etc. As the result of this simple mistake, for a year, or until congress, refold rem edy Nthe blunder, all the orange, lemons, bananas, grapes, and other' fruits were admitted free of doty. This little tnWake, wlifch any one woold be liable to make, yet which could have been avoided by carefulness cost tlie government " not -less than 12,000, OWX A pretty costly comma that Headlight It May Do aa Maclk for To. Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, lit... writes that he bad a Severe Kidney . trouble for many years, with severe pains Li his bn k snd also that his bladder wa affected. II e tried man r so called Kidney cures but without . any good result. - About a year sgo he Ix-itn use of Electric Uittcrs and found relief at once. Electric Bit ters is especially adapted to cure of Kidney and Liver troubles and often gives almost ins. ant relief. , CUm trial will prove our statcim-nf. Prioo .Wcvsrtd 81.00: At T A. AILr g'iV & Co Lm Store 1
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 21, 1897, edition 1
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