North Carolina Newspapers

Methodist Church Directory. Sunday School at 9:30 A. M. ' Geo. S. Bakes., Snpt. Preaching at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M., Tery Sunday Prayer meeting Wednesday night; G. F. Smith, Pastor. Washington letter. The House Grab Bill-Tillman. and the Senatorial Traditions Direct Vote For Senators. CURRENT MISCELLANY. LOUISBURG, N. C., FiUDAT, JUNE 5, 1896. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. 13. professional cards B. MASSENBURG, ATTORNEY AT LA.W. LOUISBUHS, N. C. Will practice ia all the Courts of the State OiHce in Court House. ., G. M. cUjiK 8c SON, ATTJRNEYS-A.T-LAW, LOUISBUKS, N. 0. W ill attend tne courts of Nash, Franklin, firanville, Warren uuii Wake counties, also the uU)reine Court of Worth Carollnp, ana tne B- circuit aua District Coarts. U. rK. J. E- MALONE. , Htice two doors below Aycocke & Co.'s drurf store, adjoining Dr. O. U Ellis: D K. W. II. NICHOLSON, V. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, LOUISBURG, N. 0. S. SPRUILL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, L0UISBUR9, N. C. Will attend the courts of Franklin, Vance, ar.mvilie. Warren and Wake counties, also me supreme Court of North Carolina. Prompt attention given to collections, &c. I AHOS. B. WILDER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LOUISBUBG, N. C. Ottlce on Main street, over Jones & Cooper's stare. T. W. BICKETT, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, L0U13BUB0 N. C. Prompt and painstaking attention given to every matter intrusted to his hands. H, tVrs to Chief J ustice Shepherd, Hon. John Manninc. Hon. Robt. W. Winston, Hon. J. C Button, Pres. First National. Bank of Win ston, Glenn & Manly, Winston Peoples Bank of Mouroe, Chas. E. Taylor, Pres. Wake For est College, Hon. E. W. Timberlake, Office in Court House, opposite Hheriil's. W. M. PERSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LOUISBUKG, N. C. Practices In all courts. Office in the Court House. -yy II. YARBOROUOH, Jr. AT10RNEY AT LAW, LOUISBURG, ft. C. office on second floor of Neal building Main Street. All legal business intrusted to him v ill receive prompt andeareful attention. Dr. J. E. Palmer, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. FRANKLINTON, - - N.C. Offers his professional pcope of this section. service to the H. E. KING, D. T. SMITHWICK King & Smithwick, DENTISTS. LOUISBURC, N. C. Work in every department of Denistry executed with skill and accuracy. Office Opera House building. Dentistry, -W. H. EDWARDS- OF WAKE FOREST, N. C. . Will visit LouiBbnrff on MoKday.Tuesday ami Wednesday following the first Sunday in each month and at Franklinton on Fri day and Saturday of the same week, pre- oared to do all kinds of Dental work. Crown and bridge work a specialty. Pos itively I can put in artificial teeth in one hour after extracting the teeth- Offieu in Meadow's hotel, room No. 9, at Louisbure. and at E. W. Morris' residence, Franklinton. HOTEL'S. HOTEL WOODARD, W. C. WOODARD, Prop., Rocky Mount. N. C. Free Bus meets all trains, Rj8 $2 per day. ' NORWOOD HOUSE Warrenton, .North Carolina- W. J. NOIUVOOD, Proprietor. Patronage of Commercial Tourists and Traveling Public Solicited. Good Sample Boom. N rarest Hotel to Stores and Court House. FKANXLlNTOjS HOTEL FRANKLINTON, N. C. G, M. H0BBSK Prp'r. Good accomodation for Jhe traveling public. ' Good Livery Attached. OSBORN HOUSE, C. D. OSBORN, Proprietor, Oxford, N. C. . Good accommodations for the traveling public. , MASSENBURG HOTEL J Massenburg Propr , HENDERSON, N.C. Po Good accommodations lite and attentive Good fare, servants. 00 YOU WANT A HOUSE ? If so you will lo;weir,b ,write, or see S. Levister, at Louisburg, yj., before contraction. Flans epecificatioDs and estimates made ISpeeial Correspondence. "Were it not. for the dilatory senate, congress could have adjourned several days ago. But it has always been the last to conclude its labors. "With the present outlook it may wind up its la bors in another fortnight The grab of $100 per month by mem bers of the house for clerk hire during recess is something wholly unjustifiable. No one believes, that 25 per cent of the members will use this money in good faith. Some of them who voted against the grab will refuse to draw the money &t all and intend to cover it back into the treasury. While most of the mem bers will have some correspondence with their constituents to attend to during the summer, that is what they are paid for. Their own salaries do not stop. Be sides, every one knows that the great bulk of this correspondence is personal to the member, relating to his canvass for renomination or re-election or to his private business afEairs. If the clerks were put on the pnblio rolls and the money paid to them in per son, there would not be much scandal. In that case $50 or $60 a month would be ample compensation, for there are thousands of young men and women in Washington willing to work for those wages. But members objected to having the matter made of record, as it is done in the senate, because they wanted to employ members of their families to do the work and pay them the money. A few might be courageous enough to say : ' ' Yes, the work is of a public nature, it is necessary, it is for the good of the peo ple, and my son or daughter can do it better than any one else I know of. Therefore I put his or her name on the roll and intend that the money shall be earned." But the great majority would not touch.the money at all if they were required to make public confession that they had "kept it in the family. " Senator Tillman. It seems to be considered by close ob servers that Senator Tillman is in many respects the most remarkable man we have had in the senate m recent years. That he is thoroughly honest and sin cere in his belief that the masses of the people are being ground under the iron heel of Wall street no one doubts. That he is one of the smartest and brightest men that ever came to congress with ' 'a mission" is obvious to all who have heard him talk. But in the senate he is like' a cat in a strange garret . He is anx ious enough to conform to the rules of that rather staid old body and to ob serve all the amenities of debate, for Tillman is not fool enough to imagine any man can thrive by quarreling with the rules of procedure. But he is con stitutionally unable to do so. He appears to imagine while on his feet that he is talking to one of his South Carolina au diences. He loves to use adjectives which have never been considered polite in the senate, to walk to and fro and swing his arms, to attack people more or less personally. Proposed Change of the Constitution. The idea of electing the United States senators by direct vote of the people is steadily gaining ground. It may not become a law this session, but it is like ly to do so next One of the fundamental ideas of the framers of our government was to give the states equal power in hthe senate and an approximation to equal power in the electoral college. At that time no one was able to foresee that we were to have states with 7,000, 000 of population and other states with less than 50, 000-population. Probably such a thing was not dreamed of by the wise men who framed our constitu tion, but it has come to pass. Nevada, for instance, with less than 50, 000 pop ulation, has equal voice with New York -i j - t -vr in tne senate ana one-iweum wow York's strength in the electoral college, though its population is only about one one-hundred-and-twenty-fifth part of New York's. A proposition to elect presidents by plurality vote of all the people would doubtless be resisted by all the smaller states, for it would de prive them of much of the political im tvnrtanoe which thev now enjoy. The smaller states, like Rhode Island, Ne vada, Delaware, Idaho, Utah, Montana and others, are numerous enough to de feat the adoption of any such constitu tional amendment should it be proposed. . Tribute to Matt Quay. Here is what Senator wolcott says about Matt Quay: "He is one of the mnst ffenerous men I ever knew. Instead of always looking out for himself, al wavs scheming for what he can get most people seem to think, he is ever trying to do , something for his friends. He has been in this presidential ngnc more to help his friend Piatt than for anv other purpose. Quay is a man who will die in the last ditch for his friends, and that is the secretof his power up in Pennsylvania. He is idolized by the Re publicans of his state, and though the quietest man we have here m tne senate he is one of the most popular, uay is a great man and an admirable man. A View of Senator Hill. Senator Hill has come to the front very fast during this session. Before he took his seat in the senate some of the wiseacres predicted he would cut a sorry figure there, but he is now considered one of the most useful if not the most influential member. He seems to have developed a desire to talk a good deal, nrt At everv ounortunity he addresses the presiding- officer and sails in, and when he does the senate and the gal leries have learned to expect something interesting. Hill has vastly improved as ki cmonVer. and . his delivery is nw mch less stilted than it was for merlT. . Se etiJJ finds it necessary to use notes, but he has shows that on occasion he can speak extemporaneously' tnA pffpntivelv. His debate with Pitch fork Tillman was one of the sensations thn winter1.-and it was generally con ceded that Mr, Bill bore off the honow Different writers on longevity and miscellaneous oddities concerning the human family have at various times made out "authentic lists" of persons ' known to have lived more than 100 years. Such a list, by Professor Baily, may be found in the American Encyclo pedia. Reliable data concerning persons who have lived a century and a half are, however, very hartl to obtain. Dr. Van Oven mentions five, and Professor Whitaker adds an even half dozen to the list making 11 in alL From the above and all other available sources the Curious Man of the St Louis Re public has succeeded in compiling a long list of persons whose lives extended over twice the period allotted to man according to the sacred writers. Of the entire number 16 lived more than 150 years, 13 more than 160, 8 over 200 and 1 over 250v The list, while it may not be strictly reliable, in view of the opin ion often expressed by scientists that there is no authentic instance of hu man lile being extentied beyond 100 years," is just as trustworthy as the lists of centenarians . occasionally Trab- lished in the medical and other journals. Here it is : Numas de Cugna, died in Bengal in 1566, aged 350 years ; Thom as Cam, died at St Leonard, England, in 1588, aged 207 years; Jane Brittan, died at Evercrech, England, in 1588, aged 200 years; J. Thorathe, Glamor ganshire, Wales, died in 1621, aged 186 years; Peter Forlen, Temeswar, Hun gary, died in 1724, aged 185 years; Elizabeth Thorathe, Glamorganshire, Wales, died in 1688, aged 177 years; J. Rovin, Temeswar, Hungary, died in 1741, aged 172 years; Henry Jenkins, SHORT NEWS STORIES. He 'Waa Up on XXorss Alo 'Why thm Colonel Was There Girl Who Z?axned WasMnffton State. A prominent actor, who is stopping at a Broad street hotel, told a rather clever story on himself. . Says 'he: "J, have served my time cs a telegrapher and can read the Morse alphabet as easily by sound as I can a newspaper by sight One night last winter while trav eling through the south with my wife I was forced to stop at a boarding house, the only hotel in the town having burn ed down the week previous. "The place happened to be a great telegraphic distributing point, and the boarding house was filled with operators. When we sat down to cur first dinner there was a great clattering of knives and forks, out of which din 1 presently be gan to make sentences!"' Deucedly pret ty girL I wonder how long she has been married to him?' was the first remark I caught The next was, 'Is he the guy that plays the Old Boy?' The clattering suddenly ceased and chagrin enveloped the operators, as, without looking up, I tapped off cn my plate: 'Three years. No; I am the guy that plays O'Hooli- gan, the detectiva ' " Philadelphia Record. Yorkshire, England, died in 1670, aged 169 years ; Petrarch Czarban, Hungary, died in 1772, aged 169; Agnes Ursula Robin, died in 1751, aged 164; Thomas Berwick, Leeds, England, died in 1666, aged 164; Inez Ruane, Madrid, Spain, died in 1827, aged 163; Coquella Mar tineauViemia, died in 1891, aged 161; Mary Campbell, Abbey St. Groie, Scot land, died in 1801, aged 159; John James Hill, Edinburgh, died in 1869, aged 154 ; Thomas Parr (probably the most authentic case of extreme longevi ty on record), Shropshire, England, died in 1635, aged 153 years. The case of Numas de Cugna is reported by Dr. J. Webster, fellow of the Royal society, in nis list oi lv autnentic cases m which human lite has extended over 132 years." Chicago Record. The Proline Smith Family. . When I was a very little boy, I re member having a vague idea that peo ple by the name of Smith must all be related, and I wondered how the differ ent branches of the family kept track of one another. But though the years have straightened out my ideas some what and there is less confusion about the relationship, it must be admitted that, taking them altogether, the Smiths are a large family! Do you know how many people there are by the name of Smith in the New York city directory? Think of 3,000 Smiths, most of them fathers of fam ilies, then think of their wives and children, and you will understand how a plain William or a simple John Smith is likely to be lost in the crowd. And as in New York, so in other cities, great and smalL And so throughout England and Germany, for though in the latter country they call it Schmidt, it is the same old name spelled in another way. -r In London Smiths fairly swarm, and they abound all over the British isles, from Land's End, away down on the south coast of Cornwall, to John o'Groats, the most northerly point in Scotland. Arthur Hoeber in St Nicholas. Why the Colonel Wa There. Senator Walthall tells a story on him self which is none the less good by reason of the fact that the scene is laid during the late civil war. At that time the senator was a colonel in command of a Confederate regiment and had brought his men into position, occupy ing a sunken road. A Federal battery was pouring shot and shell all around the adjacent territory. This fire, however, passed over the regiment hidden in the roadway, and it was to all intents and purposes out of danger. On the high bank in front of the place where Colonel Walthall stood was a giant pine tree about a dozen feet in circumference. Actinj? on the 'spur of the moment, the colonel thought a fine opportunity was presented to give his men an object lesson in personal bravery without any risk to himself. According ly, he climbed up the bank and stood behind the pine tree. The next minute a shell struck the tree and sent a show er of bark and splinters flying in all di rections, when Walthall overheard the following dialogue between two of his men lying in the roadway beneath: "I tell you, Jim, it was a mighty good thing for the colonel that that pine tree was there. ' ' "Yes, Tom," replied the other, "but if it hadn't been for the big tree the colonel would never have been there in the first place. ' ' Memphis Commercial-AppeaL She had taken two lessons on the Wheel and wanted to try it without an instructor. So she rented a bicycle, took ! it up on a back street of San Rafael, headed it down hill so she would not have to work too hard and had a lady friend hold it until she got on. She started a little wabbly, but soon got the wheel going straight down the incline at a three minute clip before she real ized that it was running away with her. Just then a cow and a calf loomed up in the street ahead. She gave herself up for lost and screamed. The expe rienced oow thought it was a new sort of locomotive whistling and got out of the road, while the calf stood squartly in the middle of the street, with its fore legs spread apart, its ears sticking out like cabbag leaves and its eyes fairly popping out of its head in aston ishment The bicyclist screamed again, and just as she expected to collide with the calf it whirled around and with its tail over its back went bawling down the buwu nen tne cow saw tne queer looking apparition in bloomers Chasing her calf, she started to the mrue, bawl ing at.J.he top of her lungs. Half a dozen' neighborhood dogs heard the racket and went yelping after the cow. Fcr two blocks the procession went down the street the calf, bawling, in the lead, the woman a close second and screaming, the cow bawling along close behind and the dogs howling at her heels. Finally the lady struck a stone and landed in the gutter with the wheel on top of her, and there she lay till the procession had passed. San Francisco Post Build no Home. -BY- , PATRONIZING HOME ENTERPRISE NUMBER 16 Notice ! ! ! MALLORY DDRILUl CIIER-J OF DURHAM - N. C. ARE MANUFACTURING AS FINE CIGARS CHEROOTS -iND CIGARROS As can oe found on thf market. Their leading brands are "BULL OF DURILUf A dime Cigar for a nick Havana filled. le. Hand BLACKWELLS DURHAM1 Named in honor of Col. W. T. Blackwell, father of Durham 5 cnt SumatraWrapj-.er. LITTLE SADIE, CI' BAN CIG ARROS, 10 FOR 10 CENTS. The Democratic County Conven tion will be held in Louis burg1 on Saturday the 20th day of Jon 18, for the purpose of electing delegates to the Stnte, Conpreseional and Senatorial Conventions. The Democratic rot of the re spective townships are requested to mt ht the usual voting places on Saturday the 13th day of June and elect delegate to the County Con vention. By order of the County Executive Committer. W M PERSON, Ch'm. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. OLD CHUNK" CHEROOTS o for 10 as A Helpful Son. "Papa," said Georgie, "I'm so sorry sometimes about all the trouble I give mamma. ' ' "She hasn't complained." "No, she's patient But she often sends mo to the shops for things, and they are a good way off, and I know she gets cross waiting when sho's in a hurry." "Not often, I fancy." ' "Oh, she's nearly always in a hnrrv! She gets everything all ready for bak' ing and fmds at the last minute she hasn't any baking powder, or she gets a pudding all mixed and finds she hasn't any nutmeg or something, and then she's in an awful stew 'cause the oven is all ready and maybe company com ing, and I can't run a very long dis tance, you know, and I feel awfully sorry for poor mamma. " "Hnmphl Well, what can we do about it!" "I was thinking yon might get me a bicycle, " Boston Traveller. cniits. The finest pmokr for the money. "OLD NORTH STATU Choroot, 3 winner for that o crit, always pi a ?ur"- apr-s. Stick to home orders. and ctul u? Vour Mallory Durham Cheroot Co. Dl'RHAM. N. .1' TAYLOR'S PARLOR SALOON. PIEDTIOTT AIH tlXE.) CONDENSED SCHEDULE. IN KFFKCT JANUARY 1. 1&. TRAINS LRAVB RALKIOH. B. C. 1C A. M. r.miiodi at GroNoro for n I-otnta for North toth. txxl Wic.uD-.ta tod potDta on U North wairD Xunh CroUnRU At ittlllaNarr. for til (4tiLa in Vrtro North Carotin. Kdoi Tli. Tena.. Clo-liiDtU. aj w. trn pr.lnu; it Ca&rkxt. for tut urg OrtivUl. AUoa. At lir.u wi 1 all fk:rfnt South. i& V M. Cono-t at Durham for Oxfort. Dallj CUrkaTilte and KrrfUite rxcrpt "ociiji At Ur'Utoai with tt Wahioet&D and 8oathwwtro Vlt ul-i (Limit!). ao4 th w York an1 Plot. la Short Lli Umt-t'-'. train for all polnu N ortk. aJ with malti II n- train No. 11 for InTtlie. Richmond ajvl Intern ilUt tocal lUlioLt; also haa of-n-fUon for WlQ.torwfeU.m. axx) .!h mia tint train No. as (faat inUI, fcr Chariot t. !"jrtvit.nr(r, firtiTUW-. Atlanta o 1 all point 'uth. alao OMumT ta, AofoatA, ( hrt-ton. havaonah. J wkaoo-ti.i-. anl all polnta In Ftortda. M pica- rar for AtUnla. Jferkaoo I'.ilanJ at Chariots with keep ing rar for Aug-oai and JafAaon- Tlll. i .nnorti at Ima f -r P7rTlll art.l latrn'1Ut'- atatloa oo th NV n an Kr -It'Tlli .hon Cut. .'.ally: jclutoro for Ne"wt-ro anj Mr h.-ad Cj. Ully vxeni Hao-;-. tr WUmlngv-a aJ lnw m -!it.- atatloni on th" W. k W. R. I'. Daliy . i iim;ns-u at Mm for Wliaoti. K -a jr Meant. Tarhcro ao4 local taltona on Norfolk and Carolina Rjulr a-i. arrlTea at Qoldaboro IS'" P M. .nn-ta at Durham for Oxford, K.-yaTin-. Richmond, at Qrena-t- ro. fr WaahlcfVD aoJ all jolnfa north. rVr Ooidatoro. II I- P. M Prehistoric Trephining. In her "Introduction to Folk Lore" Miss Rolfe thus accounts for trephining as found in the skulls of prehistoric peo ple. Starting with the idea that there was entertained a belief of a separable soul, she thinks that early men cut holes in each other's skulls so as to allow the soul to escape. The lady cites the case of an old woman in Yorkshire who had two holes cut in her coffin, so that if an evil spirit was buried with her there should be a chancefor its escape. It is fairly possible that trephining was used so as to give not as much the separable soul but the evil spirit a chance to find an exit, for it was presumed that the evil spirit was the cause of illness. But this theory is hardly sustained. We are quite ignorant of exactly how far prim itive man had gone in surgery. We are beginning to find out that he had even some ideas about plastic surgery. Alto gether the trephining matter is one by no means easy of solution. It is the nut in archaeology most difficult to crack, and yet trephining seems to have been very widely distributed. Kirrafon, a Peculiar Island. Nirrafon, the volcanic "ring" island described by Lieutenant Somerville in The Journal of the London Geograpb ical Society, is a lonely spot midway between Fiji and Samoa. It is about three miles in external diameter, and the entire coast; line is formed of black lava rocks. The internal diameter that is two miles, and the cliffs surround ing it are 200 or 800 feet high. It con tains a deep, calm lake, on the eastern side of which is a peninsula formed by the cratejs of the eruption. of 1886. The view from the summit of the cliffs around the "caldera" is of remarkable beauty and includes a great expanse of the Pacific ocean rolling under the south' east trade, as well as- thU still deep lake within, the luxuriant foliage of the outer slope, and the barren cinder cones of the recent outburst London Globe. She Named a State. The state of Washington is indebted to a Zanesville (O. ) girl for the name it now bears. When the territory was or ganized, there was an animated contest as to what name to give to it between the towns of Seattle and Tacoma, and the latter recognized the fact that if the name of the state could be made Tacoma it would be of inestimable benefit to that city. A press dispatch to a Seattle paper announced that the matter would come up in the national house the day 'following, and that the indications were that the territory would be named Taco ma. Fred G. Grant afterward minister to Bolivia, and some other influential citizens opened up communication by wire with Washington in opposition to naming the territory Tacoma. Mr. Grant thought of a plan which he decided to try. A Miss Buckingham of Zanesville had been his guest for several months and had left a few weeks before for Washington to visit her uncle, Sunset Cox, who was then in congress. Air. urant wired her to use her influence with Mr. Cox to have the territory named Washington and to present to him all the facts. The lady proved a diplomat and the next day the great wit and statesman made a speech in the house which settled the fate of naming the territory. Cincinnati En quirer. TJncle Abner's Conclusion. "Must be a awful lot of birds used cn the wimmern's hats nowadays," said Uncle Abner as he removed his best suit of clothes. 'Why, Abner?" asked Aunt So- phrone. "Waal, they was a feller set in front of me on the train thet was dressed to kill short coat a diamond bisr as a she 11 bark hickernut an a plug hat an I beard him tell the feller he was settin with thet he'd made over $4,000 this year skinnin jays." Cincinnati En quirer. In Absentia. "You'll miss me when I'm gone, "he faltered. That was all he could say. Sneh was the precision with which she had learned to throw things that she was not likely to miss him any sooner. Detroit Tribune. Bar Bai gains! A M. Dn.r Kx ,-un lay ill an 1 r m. Lai:y. He Still Smokes. There is one postmaster in Ohio who does not fear the inspector. Recently an old maid informed the postmaster gen eral that there was smoking in the post- office at ,. O. She went straight to headquarters. The postmaster general notified Inspector In Charge Salmon to investigate, and he did. He found that the postoffice was in a grocery store. The postmaster was the storekeeper, and in reply to the detective said: "Yes, I smoke and my son smokes. And let me tell you something. Smoking is a neces sity with me and the postoffice is not so the sooner you take your office away the better I'll like it " The office paid about $5 a . year, and nobody else would take it so the postmaster was informed that he mignt amo&e all ne wanted to so long as he did not blow it in people's faces. Postal Record. A Shrewd Candidate. "I suppose you know all about the financial question?" said the intimate friend. "I don't say that I know all about it " replied the candidate, "but I know enongh not to talk about it. " Wash ington Star. A Horrid Thin-. She Oh, I am surely going to have a bicycle this summer, but I can't decide on the color of the frame- He Why, dear me, Miss Auburnair, you want to get a white one, of course. Cincinnati Enquirer. Eminent Domain. Brown What is eminent domain? Jones It means the right of the pub- lio to take a man's property by paying a little more for it than any one else wilL New York World. His Trademark. "Wouldn't you think that the milk man would forpet so many odd pints and quarts?" "Probably he chalks them all up. " Detroit Free Press. Where at ? D. II. Taylor A Co. for cheap Whiskeys, Brandies, Wines & Beers. Where can yoti pet Old home made corn whi?key? at D. II. Taylor A: Co. Frm one week to three years old, cheaper than ever before. Who keeps old R. A. STUART'S ROCK BRIDGE RYE WARRANTED 4 YEARS OLD.' D. H. Taylor A Co. Who keep s old Virpi na Club, D. II. Taylor Co., and he also keep? the finest and cheapest bijm-made Brandy in town, other liquors of all kindt that are pood, and cheaper than ever before. Special prices to al! my customer?, come one, coueau. Polite and prompt attention and skillful bar-tenders. OLD ROCK BRIDGE RYE TRAINS ARRIVE AT RALEIGH. N C ? 14 V. M. Fivta Atlaata. Charlotte. Dtiiy. t.jrv id 1 all point twuth A M From U r-vn!ro and all points Ial!y. .North anl hooth. hle-plci car (ir-natoro to Ralelgh i" P. M. Krvm o-UN."-r'. Wilmington. ryrtt'-Tiu kjjj aj pciota in tern Carolina. From Nw York. Washington. Lj-uchl-urjr. DaorUl Q ros toro . Fr m Q oi la tj ro and ail points Kst 11-Co A. M C P M til mV A M. Daily Ex. fun. L.--al frviht train alo carry pasaDffrra. Pullman rar on afternoon train from Ral Mfih t.' t!wni.ro. anJ on morning train from IvuM dally train t!n RalHgK Char lotte an AtUr.ta, Vatck. time. ansxceUed i. (ximmolAli"n. C L H ftlJ'.T. P. A.. Otartott, Jt. C, V H. Oaxr.. W. A. Trsjn, Q. -at rat Manxp-r. 0n. Pass Art v aaaltgton. u S. A, L SEABOARD AIR LINE. HOTlT 15D 4riCYT BOTTI TO Atlanta. rw Orlrant. Norfolk. Illrli inoud. WaalilnztoD, ft lllmore, Philadelphia. Boston, ew erk. IS THE STANDARD WORLD. OF THE Pride and Vanity. I would much rather fight pride than vanity? because pride has a stand up way of fighting. '.But-vanity is that de lusive, that insectivorous, that multi plied feeling, and men that fight vani ties are like men that fight midgets .and butterflies. It is easier to abase thes Having; Fun With the Postoffloe. Yesterday afternoon a letter was drop ped in the postoffice with an address that none of the clerks was able to de cipher, and the letter was sent to Sneer- 1 J A TTf,, 1 , . , lnreiiaenb w aixer, wno passea n aiong to Assistant Postmaster Seidlitz. It was addressed to ' "Thomas Waltham, in the city where the next president of the United State was born. " Inasmuch as the next president is not to be elected -until next November, and as there ap pears in certain localities some linger ing doubt of the election of McKinley, the letter was simply sent to the dead letter office and in due time will be re turned to the funny man who wrote it It bore the regular postage and also a Bpecial delivery stamp. So the govern ment is ahead just a dime on account of the alleged humor of the writer. Kan sas City Journal. Secretary Morton in his. annual report figures that the farm property of the United States is worth $13,000,000,000, there being 4,564,641 farms, averaging WWW His Sole Offense. "I never cussed but onct," said a son ol nature. A call tried to nook me, and I hit her with my umbril and said, 'Shoo, you heifer!'" Youth's Companion. She Knows Him. "Say, Miss Flyflngcr, if you wanted a man's credentials as a gentleman, where would you go to get them?' "To his typewriter girL" Chicago Record. An Alphabet Puzzle. I know a woman good and true ; Her name is bister Thayer. She uses np the alphabet Each time she makes a prayer. O Lord.' bless Our faithful W. R she prays. C; 'be pleased to Is guaranteed pure and ie prescribed by the leading physi cians throughout th country, and the rsidnt physicians of Louisburg. Read the following testimonial : We prescribe Stnarts Reek bridge Whiskey whenever a stimulant is needed, knowing it to be absolutely pur and free from all adulteration. J. E. M ALONE. Signed E.S. FOSTER, J. B. CLIFTON. The above liquor is sold only by D. H. Taylor & Co., exclusive agents, at their saloons. on Nash St., who also carry a full line of everything usually kept in a first-clas9 saloon. Fresh beer a specialty. Your patronage solicited. .Your friends, D. U. TAYLOR & CO. -May nothing mar the O. A. B. 'And the gallant B. O. V. "The . L- and the J. E. I. O Lord, remember too: Protect, wa pray, Y. M. C A. And the W. C. T. U." The cause of foreign missions Ehe asks the Lord to bless. The sturdy A. B. C F. 1L And the W. F. St. S. I know, the Lord can understand Our worthy Bister Thayer, Thougti she uses op the alphabet Sack time she makes prayer, -SMtoaQfeb R. R. CROSSEN. FIRST CLASS FAINTER, LotnsBrno, x. c. I wish t offer my serrics is the pub lie, and will mt that lam prepared t do all kinds of house painting, grain ing &c. my work la Louitbarr pnk for iteelf. and I refer to all part" ft whom I have worked. Ola farnltar nude. new. Give ra yoar pat ronagr aad you ahall be pleated. tuiDVLi is Errscr Jaxuaiy. 9? 13. TRAIN'S LEAVE RALEIGH : 13& A. M.. DAILY. Atlanta Sp-tal." Pullman VeatlruVe. for Hen lera-.n. weklcn. Petrrat urg. Rlchmood, -ahtn-ton. Baltimore. Philadelphia. New York . anJ ail points berth. Ba3et Dravlns R. --m Seprr an 1 Pullman Crbe Atlanta t wanhinglon. Parlor Cars Washington to N-w York. Pullman N-eping Car at or roe to Portsmouth. A mv-a at waahurgtoti 10- A. x . Balt-tnor" II noon, Philadelphia I SO r. at. New York 4 13 P. M. A.ao for Portsmouth. Norfolk' ild Point and local cut ions besboarJ aud Roani ke KailroaJ- 11 .31 A. M . DAILY. For Hn Vraon. welJoo. Suffolk. Ports mouth. Norfolk anl tstermllate slattoca, rot)--cti at Portsmouth with Bay Line for Old Point and BaUlinore; with Norfoik and wasb lr.jrton ft-ami t Company for Washington with X. Y. P. k N. Rallroa.1 for PTallaOXphl; and points north ; alao at we Hon with A las La Coaat Liu- for Richmond. waahlngtoolEalie more. PblaU.-lpbla and New York. an. wltl fotland Nerk Bratwh for QreenvlUe d asth Ir.fc-ton and Plymouth. Pullman tSerplngCb Atlanta to Portamoulh. 53! A. M.. DAILY "AUacU rpdal" PoIlmanVestlbule. for Southern noes. Hamlet, wilm gtoo. Monroe. Charlotte.Uncoluton. Khelbylnewter. Clinton, Urnwool. At-L-Tllle Ath.Ck Atlaats, Au gusta, Co I urn r ia, klaroo ena. roroery . kto l.lk. New OTWna, Ch. ktoota, NaahrU le, MemphLa and all polntat tanoogd southwest: through Pullman Bus sooth alters sxd day roiwrbes asblcgtou ffet tQerp con Dentins; directly att nlon Iw- to AUants,wtth diverg ing lln.-a. also Pull pot. Atlanta. Car Ports mouth to Monro. Poiavsn Bleeping J 49 F. si.. DAILY. For Wilmington. Charkrtt. Chester. Oreeiv woo). Aiken. Atlanta and all Intermediate rations. Connects st Cnipo station. Atlanta, with diverging lines. Pullman biot-plcg oar Portamouth to Atlanta. TRAINS REACH RALEIGH: tM P. ht- DAILT. From Norfolk. Portsmouth, snl points north vis Bay 1 ine and X. Y. P. X. Railroad; Petersburg. Rlchmood sad Washington. Bal timore. Pblladeiphls, Xew York and Boston; also from Greo-avtUs. Ktyroosth. waahisgtow. X . c, and eastern caroUnawpotnt via weidoa.- 421 A SL, DAILY. A Hants "pertsL" Funmaa TesUbstW. from Atlanta and points south, Albecsa. Abbeville, Greenwood and cheater. 1136 A. TsL. DAILT. From charlotte. Athene, Atlanta sad Inter mediate station. 30 A II.. DAILY. "Atlanta rpeasl," f mca yoTfoOuFortscsoath FtrnVrsoo. weioo. RKbovxit wahrorV"t. Baltimore. rhUsderphta, New York and taw east MAgatSreot rartasa Vesllbuled Trstaav So extra fare. arvl"'llic agewt. or to H a. Laau, Sol rtM. agent, Rjalctgh. Jl. C B. Sr. Jon. BL W. B. Ouoras. VM.rrea.aadOen.Msa. TrsfleaUa, V. B stcBim, T. 1. Ansasog, GoeraiBant. GraefcAjfbl o burnt baiiaiogs, et. . f that ewtfat, ' bcso;iw ft