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for cash, on Saturday, March 4th
1893, a certain lot or parcel of land
in Franklin county, Louisbum
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ra. Ridley, Pleas Yar borough,
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SUen for Four Moath. '
"On one of my cruises ; I had a big
black West Indian in the crerT." said a
whaling captain. -'One da j, fox some
reason, he jumped overboard.- The eea
was a little rough, and it was quite
awhile before we got the boats lowered,
and we lost eight of him. But we pulled
back a little way, and I soon saw him
"tmrning with all his might, but in the
epposite direction from the boat I
relied to him. and when he saw he was
discovered he made no further effort to
get away. And where he was going is
more than I know, for it all happened
m midocean. We hauled him into the
boat and made for the ship. It was four
months before we made port, and yet in
all that time Sandy, for that was hii
name, never spoke a word. No one on
board oould get a sound from him.
"Sometimes he would lie down on the
deck and seem to be asleep and some of
the crew would slip up and stick him
with a pin. At first be would twitch- a
little and then would not move at alL
We made a bed for him down below and
kept him away from a knife or other
weapon. You could tell him to take the
wheel and he would steer right enough,
but if ron asked him what course the
ship was making he was silent as the
grave. And when we made the first
port he went ashore, and I never saw
him again. But seme of the crew said
he regained his tongne on land and
thought he had been 'playing us all the
time. But it was a strange case." San
Francisco Examiner.
Now About London Dudes.
I wieb to atr.jnrc tor the benefit sole
ly of the yorth vho dtbires to be English,
that the turning np of the troupers at tho
feet is qratQ the '. nir. and indicative nf
"squally" weather in London; that it is
also quite Ibt. tnnR to be vory glow,
p vlnfr.llv slov--. i- jraeo-h. And that to be
tray intxjrcsi in r;-ihita or anybody is a
Eeriotis ft ir. v'-.s ri; Venp. The cdvic
toprecer.eon s.l ct-casiorie 'i Cied and
Btony pate is trite a&d rJtogothcr tin
neoessarj . 1 ar.i quite well assured that
the man who writes a book on how to
be English, if ho goe to his grave un
wept, mihcnortd and tmsung, wiU at
I cart have made enough out of tlie work
to defray tho eirnse of his burial. But
I wunt to 6iy thiit the thing above ail
others is to hive a small appetite, par
ticularly at luncheon.
In the near neighborhood of the city
hall is a "hole ia the wall." where many
of our most successful lawyers take their
midday hite in some cases a most sub
stantial bite. There was quite a gather
ing i" this resort the other day at noon.
whaJfthe very latest in London makeup
arrived. Leisurely waikiES to the bar
the "Londoner" drawled. "Waiter, give
me a lit, jnrt a bit, of toast and a glass
of milk." In the silence tha ensued up
on this light desnarKi. it is reL&ted that
the waiter, in tho excitement of the mo
ment, buttered the toaet aad neglected
to put waiter m the miLt TTashington
News. t
I.oOlr d Too Wtrrldly.
An Auburn ma was rebuked for iu-d-nlgiug
in a prORcactty ia a prayer meet
ing not long ego, but still daring spirits
oeoBKioiMilly transgress ia tfeat way with
out beoag gTidireced. It relarted at a re
cent parish raeetrng ia Richaaoad, Me.,
to see about calling a pastor, a well
known citieen prociraeot in ohtirch af
fairs took ocowsioQ to remark on the ap
parent icdifferenoe of church members
to the object for wfeicfc the meeting had
been oafle.
Ee hod hoped, he sed. to see the church
membership fully represented, but it was
with nraoh regret that he noted their ab
sence. At the oocclvsioa of the gentle
man's remarks a wonm in the congrega
tion wfeo had grown xmtmxy un4er his
critictsm verrtnred to smggaei that there
a fair repreeeetatioa of the eocleei
eetioal feody preet, tndaoang by a wave
of her haad several church members
oocupytag ses im different parts of the
house.
For a moment ft looked like a knock
out in favor of the wman. but the gen
tleman wse equal to the occasion, and
straightening up he remarked with his
usual gravity. "It ny be that our
members look amd appear eo mnch like
the world's people that I did not recog
nize there." Lewirtxro Journal.
Here is a beTrtiful extract of one of
Whittder'B letters to Ehrabeth Stuart
Phelps:
I have just been reading Canon Far
rar's sermons on the ""Eternal Hope,"
and I agree wtth him in the title of one
of thea, that ,Lrfv is Worth Living."
even if one eant sleep the biggest part
of it fiway. Thee and I get more out of
it, after all, thsa these sieek headed folk
who deep o" night. I qurfce sympathixe
with thee in what thee say of the
"causes." Against aft my natural incli
nations I have been faghtmg for them
hail my hfe.
"Woe is me, my raother!"
I can say wtta the Id prophet, "who has
borne na, a man of strife and conten
tion. " I have Buffered dreadrally from
coarseness. nM seeking, vacatv and stu
pidity asnetig aesnciatea. aa well as from
the eoidness. open hostility, aad, went,
the ridkocle of the outside world: but I
now eae that t was beet, and that I
needed it all. Oentory.
Leech was at his best as an entertainer
in his own home. Dean Hole asked him
one iy, after Leech had given him a
delectable dinner at his lodgings in Boar
borough, how he made each good cham
pagne cup. "The mgredients,' he re
plied, Mef which this refresbmg heisi
ttge ii oovnpoeed, aad which is . hly
reconsmended by the faomlty for erlosrs
gciag'bi-oad. stop
ping at home, are dinpgn, kand
aerated water, but in ooMaqnt-ade of ad
fajacmg years, I always fergef the selt
zer." Rxchaage.
We r't Balleve Tt.
" Husband (to wife at tho theater
Have you brought the opera glass?
Wlfe-WbaVl cant use tt.
- "WhynotT,
"I forgot to bring my ttjaincnd braa-
LOOISBURCr, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
A Hovel Diving BU.
Archibald Price, one of the pioneer
ettlera of Kanawha valley. West Vir
ginia, was making maple sugar in a
grove across the river from his house,
when he caught sight of three Indians
skulking in the vicinity. "The var
mintsr he said to himself. "80 they
mean to pounce on me when Tve two
pail o' sap aboard."
He waa just starting for some of the
more distant trees. Of course he changed
his purpose on the instant, but he waa
quick witted enough to give no sign of
the fact, and for a few moments busied
himself about the boiling place, whistling
merrily.
If he set oaT across the river in his
canoe, the Indians would pursue and
shoot him. He had a brother who was
a sea diver. From him. he had learned
something about diving bells, and he
now took a sudden resolve to make hii
kettle serve hm in that capacity. Hs
emptied it. tmt in such a .way that an
observer at a little distance would have
supposed he was filling it from a tub
standing near.
As soon as it was emptied he lifted it
quickly, and hurried down the river
bank, where he raised it, in an inverted
position, over his head, the rim resting
on his shoulders, and walked into the
water. The bank was steep, and the
water was soon up to his shoulders.
Keeping a firm hold of the kettJe, he
proceeded. The water got deeper and
deeper until it was several feet over the
top of the kettle.
The improvised diving bell answered
its purpose excellently, supplying air for
him to breathe until he emerged on the
home side oi the river.
So Mr. Price saved himself aad his
iron kettle from falling into the hands
of the savages. Youth's Companion.
Th R!m m1 Fll m Famllfe.
A family, like a race or a aation. does
indeed bud, Sower aiid run to seed, and
the seed must be transplanted to new
soil in order to br.d and flower again.
Now a part of the foolima anceatorship
of the past resulted, in the creation of
aristocracies bailt on the foundation
of an illustrious ancestor. Ve are gat
ting wiser and better. We are putting
our arietocrVies closer to the primal
source. We are learning no longer to
respect a man because his ancestor was
better than himself, but because he him
self is an ancestor. Th farce at royalty
is played out: the farce of rank and .
caste is in a moribund condition. All
men will soon learn to laugh at the
claims of kmg descent. Many men
laugh at them now. And this in itself
is an imaaense step in advance.
Snobbery, vulgarity, pretension these
hideoos trait will soa be of the past.
Our grandchildren, freed from the ab
surd ideaa. the abenr4 reetrictions of
Benrieavage inception, will b larger,
more generous, more tolerant better, in
short, than ooreeivea. Fresh and vigor
ous blood will intermix with the worn
out desoendasrta of great men. and in
due trine greater men from the stock
will He bom to the future. Every suc
ceeding age sees the abandonment of
some superstition which has checked the
progress and development of the race in
tbe past. William 6. Walsh in New
York World.
l New Hiiiniyhk Pmn
effective and crcatbr stranliSod
An
method
proflucrng a photographic
rcpi eseiitation in the form of aa intaglio
engraving, or. as it is gsemfly called, a
photcfefavure," is being intrednced.
Thenewmethed ie intended to reduce
the time occupied in the process, which
usually takes many days te a few hours,
and to dispense entirely with the supple
mentary aid of tfce skaUfal engraver.
Its essential featnre hea in the fact that
the picture, instead ef being obtained
from a graduate depth ot the emrwriag.
is produced from a sonken surface of
uniform depth, the gradations of light,
barf tone and. shade being effected by
minute tines and stipples of varying
thickness, but of uniform riWann apart
from center to center.
The picture is made up of eerrni distant
stipple, varying from a aukroaoopic
point up to a sise where they ooaieaoe in
a sobd biaok. the beif tenea consisting of
stipples nfxTBt 1-e00th of an inch in di
ameter.' If a coarse stipple im need the
effect varies from that of Ekenaetznt and
approaches more nearly that of a line of
engraving, the light nhadac being made
up of percepti ale tinea and stipples, like
the effects of a steel or copper plate en
graving of equal texture. Pittsburg
Dispatch.
A Cenpartioii of Birth lUtM.
There are 88.000.000 people in France,
and daring the last five years the in
crease in population has aalj been 134,
600. La 46 depssrtmests out of a total of
cm uiw 10 kuuuj a aznusiraon. it is
not due to any high averaee of deaths.
atthongh infant mortality is higher than
it snorua be. rt is one to the sznaB num
ber of children born. The average birth
rate has fallen to 21 or C3 per 1,000 in
habftaajts Tras is a phenocaemally low
rate when1 Contrasted wtth 88 to 80 in
Grermacy. 85 or 86 in Italy, 88 in Eng
land and 80 in Switzerland. The per
centage is lower in Fmdos than in any
other country; so that , there is a rapid
increase "m rival oountriea and Francs
remains stationary. C2ooago Hsrald,
'f
Ignatius Loyola's followers have erect
ed a monument to bis memory over the
spot where tbe fortunes of soar decided
I that Canada should be a free British
j country. -TheesmiU' Beta-eat stands
j in tbe city of Quebec en th ground
; oonseorated by the blood of igfwh aol-
diers. and in front of ft has been placed
1 a colossal stasne of the f evader of the
order. Torosrte ICafl.,
The salary aad ensoHsoente of the
Prince of Wales, snypoaed to be about
fSOO.000. woald probably be enongh fox
h private needs were he awt pot to so
largean expense m periortmnj: royal and
social obligations which naonld be un
dertaken by bis royal mother. Hew
York'Preai ;
3, 1803.
NOTES FROM THE BILVILLE GEOR
GLi BANNER.
The preacher has just returned
from conference He had to walk
sixty miles, without 6aying grace,
but when ho got home he took up
a collection and gbt enough to buy
a wisp broom.
We have been running for sher
iff for six days, and we are almost
out of breath. But our father be
fore ns waa a runDer, and it runs
in our blood.
Our lecture season commences
next Wednesday. Thatis,)our wife
returns home that day.
Some peofle are always finding
fault with this world, but, taking
it all in all, it's about tbe best
world we were ever in.
Since our last issue we were ex
pelled from the church for non-payment
of pew rent. We immedi
ately stopped the preacher's paper
and he hasn't bpen able to take up
a collection 6ince. Revenge is
sweet.
We have had to abandon our trip
to the world's fair. We couldn't
stand the thought of peeing (ieor-
g-ia represented with six pquashes,
a few pumpkins and a half-dozen
long-handled gourds.
We had the good fortune tohave
a cow killed by the railroad and
we got $20 for her. Now. if we
could only manage to let 'em kill
us, we'd get $10,000.
The Billville military company
broke up in a row. No privates.
We are still frozen up and only
able to issue a half-sheet. Most of
the ink is ice, and our devil Las
been eating it for three days.
There is only one blessing about
this weather and that is rabbit !
We have had rabbits for break fast,
dinner and supper for six days
past, and they are mighty filliu'
things !
All who owe us will do well to
call and settle at once. It i true
our shot gun got froze, but we've
been thawing her out by the tire
for three days, and will soon be
ready for them.
We have resigned the butcher
business. Not one soul brought us
a cow, though we said they would
be thankfully received.
We return thanks to an unknown
friend for one load of wood. All
that we need now is an ax and
somebody to split it.
When the preacher had retired
last night, some thief broke into
his home and stole the pound party
which bad been given him by his
congregation. It consisted of one
pound of flour, ond pound of lard,
one pound of sugar and seven
pounds of faith the latter being
the chief diet of the preacher.
We have about 500 second-hand
New Year resolutions at this office,
which we will sell cheap for cah.
Each one of them is warrauted to
last three days.
No one remembered us -at New
Years except the sheriff. lie
called around and closed us up, as
usual; but we "set up" to a jug of
moonlight liquor and a local notice
and were open before night.
New Year's callers, in the sflape
of friendly relations, areetill pour
ing in on ns. We try to say,
'Make us thankful for what we are
about to receive," but after we
have received it we are too weak to
say anything.
Some men are born lucky. We
knew a man who insured bis life
for $1 000 one day and died tbe
next.
Where White Caps Are Needed.
Winston Republican.
Some men are too meau to die,
and there is one that claims Wins-
as his home. By excessive:
drinking and genuine cussedness,
his wife was forced to leave him
and their toddling child was re
tained by the brnte and placed
with his aged and afflicted mother,
with whom he made his home. He
baa now decamped and the commit
tee for relief found the poor old
mother Satnrday alone and help
less with tbe child, and not able to
bring in wood or prepare food had
shebeen blessed in these particu
lars. The whipping post may be
barbarons, but a dozen lashes
across the back of this rascal would
prove simple justice well applied.
DOES FARM 15 G PAY T
We have always believed and
believe now, that a man can make
more money farming, on the cap
ital invested, than in almost any
other legitimate business. Let
us look at this matter a little.
Men often reach conclusion with
out proper considerations, and
their conclusions are usually
wrong. We will take a farm
with 300 acres of land worth nay
$-"3,000, and with $2,000 worth of
stock, implements, etc., making
an investment of $5,000. A far
mer thus situated and outof debt,
makes first a good living for his
family. They have not only tbe
substantial supplies, but an abun
dance of fruit, milk, butter and
everything a family needs. In
addition to this they have a team
and vehicle for visiting their
friends, going to church, etc.
Now then suppose this man, when
he winds up the year, simply
pays off everything and squares
up with the world and has no
money left, what has he made on
his $5, mi investment? The answer
is, a comfortable support for his
family. Any man in town, to
have lived as well and had as
many luxuries, would have had
to pay out not less than $2,000,
and with no more capital than
the farmer had, he could not pos
sibly have done it at any busi
ness. But a farmer thus situated
if he farmed upon correct meth
ods, would, exo-pt in the case of
extraordinary misfortune, make
more than the support of his fam
ily. His farm would be improv
ing aud becoming more fertile
every year, his stock would be
increasing, his orchards would be
be getting larger, the buildings
and other improvements on his
farm would be added to, and in
hundreds of ways he would be
getting better off. Of course in
the above remarks we refer to
men who farm upon a proper ey b"
tt-m and with correct methods,
and not to the slip shod farmer.
Now then it is a well known fact
that there are many men engaged
in farming who make a comfort
able support for their families
who have not a capital of $1,000
invested.
It requires capital to make
money, and a man has no right
to complain of a purvuit as not
being remunerative, when he has
no capital invested and is doing
business practically on borrowed
capital, which is the case with
many farmers in this couutry
No matter what a mn is engaged
in, there may be disadvantages
which handicap him aud debt is
one ot them. The farmer who is
in debt labors under a great dis
advantage, but so does the man
in any other business. We do
not propose to paint farm life in
too glowing colors. It has its
difficulties, but so does every oth
er calling. What we desire to
do, is to disabuse the minds of
many engaged in farming, that
they are subject to more reverses
and labor under more disadvan
tages than men in other callings.
This is not trne. The farmer
lives the moet independent life
of any class of people in the world.
The cry of the demagogue has
been heard in the land. He has
tried to convince the farmer that
he is the most oppreseed of all
classes and auy additional amount
of nonsense. We do not under
estimate the depression in agri
culture and the difficulties the
farmer has to encounter, but they
are no greater than are common
to men in all other callings, and
we would infuse a spirit of hope
fulness and confidence in the
large class of our people'engaed
in a pursuit, than which, none is
more honorable, and in our opin
ion, none more profitable. War
renton Record.
Keep it in the house. Good
advice from tbe Captain. Cap
tain 8. C. Walker, Company C,
1st Regiment, Indiana Veterans
Legiou, LaFayette, Ind., writes
I have used Dr. Bull's Cough
Syrup in my family for the last
two yeara, and advise all having
children never to be without, it.
NUMBER 50,
Champion Speller cf North rarolmi
The following concerning th
Gold Leafs champion speller is
Uken from the News-Observrf.
Many of our readers know Mr. J.
J. Allen, and will cheerfnlly me.
cord to him all that oar contem
porary says, It will be re mem
bered that he vanquished all com
petition in a "spelling bee" at
Raleigh some weeks ago, where-
jupon the Gold Leaf nominated
1 him as North Carolina's represpn
tative in the international gpell-
ing match at the World's Fair,
j If Mr. Allen consents to enter th
1 contest we have no fears as to th
result. The Newa-Obeerver says
J this of him :
: Mr. Allen, of Franklin county,
the champion -peller who aston-
ished the audience and van
quished the entire line of cons
tants at the recent "spelling bee"
in Raleigh, was in the city yes
terday. There will be at Chica
' go during the World's Columbi
an Exposition an international
; spelling match, and Mr. Allen
will be there to champion the
' prowess of North Carolina, and ir
all human probability will bring
back to the Old North State the
' laurels of the great contest.
' If be enter? the list in thii
great battle of orthographers it
; is safe to wager that he will come
off conqueror. He is nothing less
' than a prodigy as a speller and
I has been ever since he sawed
down a clas of over forty the first
day h went to school, when a
mere lad, on the word fustian.
He has been in many, a heated
spelling contest ever since and
has coped with many distin
guished scions of lexicography
t'tit has never been whippel yet.
1 Mr. Allen says he has a menta'
: photograph of every word he ha
ever seen or heard spelled, and
; these mental impressions never
become blurred or uncertain, and
S if the committee in charge of tU
j Chicago contest does not get ou
j of the limits of Webster's Una
; bridged he has no fear of being
tripped. He has never miasel
i fire. He dces not talk of what
j he can do, but all you have to d.
I is to call out the word you wani
j spelled and Mr. Allen will grind
I out the letters that spell it and
j tell you the 11 timber of page in tb
j bargain, if it is to be found with
I in the covers of "Webster's Blue
j Bsck." The faculty amount to .
j phenomenal, if not an occn!'
j power with him. It is in no wii
1 the result of hard application. U
j he goes to Chicago he will bring
j back the trophies of the victor.
I ' - - .. ,
1 Experiments in KerUllxlnff Soils.
The tabulated data of exper
1-
ments with fertilizers, famished
by the Maine Experiment Sta
tion, on tive farms in different
parts of the State ia of genersi
interest. Dissolved bone black,
500 pounds per acre; muriate cf
potah, 100 pounds, and nitrate
of soda, 150 pounds, were at -
plied singly, two by two and all
1
three together on fourteen dupli
cate plats, two plats remaining
uumanured. Iu three cases the
crop grown was potatoes, and i
one case each barley and corn.
In four out of five of theee ex
periments the increase in the
crop waa produced at least ex
pense with either potash or phos
phoric acid, or a combination
tbe two. In the fifth experiment
(with com) not only the largest
crop, but the crop in which the
mcreaae waa prodnced t leaT
expense, came from fertilizing
with muriate of potaeh awl ni
trate of soda.
In an experiment wlthfprig
versus fall manuring fo oats, xit
the rate of five cords of manure
per acre, spring manuring gaw
the largest yield of grain. Tbr
largest yield of straw came from
the fall manure plot.
Many a man has been betrayed
by a kiss after takiDg a drink cf
whisky. Bingharaton RepabH
can. Salvatien Oil,.ibe greatest enre
on earth for paitva an anodyn
has no equal rn .the,' market U
is without donbi 4be beM iioV
uenL 25 cent.