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110 V THE SCHOOL REGU
LATES EVERYTHING..
iThe C.vent llitsiness ot Lite is
llnisimi Children" and the
Sr'hoot Viiiis are of no.frmall
Cnvince.
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"LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIPTST AT, BE THY COUXTKY'8, THY COD'S, AND THUTIIS'.
VOLUME 18.
MOT?TTT f! A TjHT TTYT A AT A If on 1000 H
NUMBER 44
Yon may talk about presi-
OIit and governors and sena
tors aud tariffs and other big
thiinrs. but the 'school is the
Kio-jpWt tliint? I know of. It
takes families to make nations
onrt the school is of more im
portance to the family than
atiytlitfig else, and it has been
so ever since was a boy. The
school controlled tbmgs men
and it does now. It regulated
the family movements. The
time for Retting up, the time
for breakfast, and the time for
dinner was fixed to suit the
school. Af ter supper the child
ren monoi'olise the table and
the lamps, and I can't read a
new-paper but what every few
minutes it is papa this and papa
that, and it looks like I will
die in the harness, and I reckon
that in the best way to die after
all. Kvery decent, reputable
pareut lives for the children.
The threat birsinees of this su
blunary life is to educate them
and maintain them and make
them happy. We sell goods
and practice law and medecine
and build houses and cultivate
farms and work at all .sorts of
trades, but after all the princi
pal business is raising children
and preparing them to take
our places when we are dead.
It is the security for all good
government and -obedience to
r, law and order. Just imagine a
community without children.
No day school ; no Sunday
school ; no May day ; no Christ
mas ; no kites ; no balls; no mar
bles ; no dolls. ISo merry
laughs; no little hats and bon
nets and shoes in the stores , no
flowers in the front yard; no
ornaments; l.o nothing but a
solemn, prosy crowd who mov
ed about like there was a funer
eral on hand all the day long.
Every morning now, we have
to hurry up to suit the children
They have to be at school at
half-past eight or be marked
for tardiness, and it hurries the
cook and hurries everybody.
The school teacher has got the
scholars ma close place .now.
He has given them forty pages
in Sanford'3 arithmetic, and
they have four days to review
compound numbers, and he is
going to write twenty questions
on the blackboard and they
don't know what the questions
are to be, and each one of the
class has to write the answers
on a slate, and they are not to
sit ciose enough. Ma see each
other's answers, and every cor
rect answer counts five and
every scholar who don't get
seveuty-five is to be turned
back into the next class and try
it atrain. 1 tell you they are
studying now. I have to help
every night at my house. I am
powerfully worried with this
school business auyhow,.for I've
forgotten all my Latin and can't
read Ca'sar and some of the
sentences are as long as the ten
commandments and I can't find
the verb that belongs to the
noun, and everything is mixed
upTaud it looks like it was all
done on purpose just to worry
me and tle children. We boys
had a simple little book called
Ilistorioe Sacroe, and it began
with "God created the heavens-
aud the earth in six days," and
the verb followed right after
the noun, just like' it oukjht to.
I don't believe any later book
Is worth a cent except the dic
tionary. I can learn from the
dictionary mat canine comes
from canis, a dog, aud feling
from felis, a cat, and paternal
and maternal from pater and
mater, aud so forth, and that is
'all the use we have for it'. No
body reads Latin not even the
professors. I'll bet there is not
one in Georgia that can read
Latin book that he never , read
before. They wouldn't if they
could. If a boy has got a trans
lation he can sorter get along
Lvery scholar ought to have
translation. We used to have
them in college- and could
mate pretty good sense out of
the Latin. We cut the leaves
out and had them slipped in
our jdtm dook and could just
iudge along splendid. Some
times we would pretend to ge
t;iauea and would use some
other words that meant about
the same thing. We got splen
ma marKs in L,atin, put we
couldn't read a sentence with
out translation. A translation
is a good thing in a dead lan
guage. It gives life to it
, could read Xenophon in Greek
the same way aud I can now,
Without the translation I can'
tell when the book 'is upsid
down or downside up. It is al
ureek to me. I used to know
eia irom epsiion, and omicron
from amega, but I don't now
and I don't want to. Let it stay
dead. If the inhabitants of
Greece won't talk their old lan
guage why should. I. I don't
suffer much for langnage, and
there, is a good deal more of
Lnglish than I will ever learn
or have any use for. They had
a spelling bee in Atlanta and
gave out words that nobody
ever uses or sees in print. I
don't belieye in that. Mark
Blanfor'd, one of our Supreme
Court Judges, had a case about
forty years ago, defending a
man who was sued by a school
teacher for his tuition, and his
plea was that the teacher was
ent fitten to teach, for he
couldn't spell hard words, and
he proposed to put him: on the
sta.ud and spell him. The old
squire thought that was fair,
and so Mark spelled ?him on
phthisic and ,catalypt5c and
catawainpus, and finally gave
him ampomhyuoosuckj and be
cause he missed on a word that
waserit in vhe book, he lost his
case. Mark defended ianother
fellow who was sued by a doc
tor, and he called for the doc
tor's diploma, and - the doctor
didn't have it, and had to ride
seven" miles to town to get it,
and thtn Mark put him; on the
stand and asked him Wread it
to the magistrate. Weli, it
was all in Latin, and because
the doctor couldn't translate
the Latin into Enl'sh, he lost
his case for the old squire saw
Y OUR NEW MEMBERS.
The Four New Men Elected to Con
gress in this State.
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION.
Some
he didn't know whether it was
-the
a diploma or a treaty with
Indians. .'
I consider it a disrespect to
thn English anuage toj print a
diploma in Latin. Drij Miller
says the reason they do.'it is be
cause a diploma is a certificate
that the i graduate knows all
about medecines and . diseases
and is ntten to practice and it
is such a lie that they p;ut it in
language that folks can't
understand. He says it is less
harm to lie in Latin and curse
in Latin than in Englishi Ln
guage does have a gooddeal to
do with these things, preach
er told me that he .'was at
Princeton with a young. Ars
menian who - was studying
theology and expected to go
back to Armenia and preach
Christianity to his people. One
cold morning he got put out
with his stove 'and told our
preacher that when he hnt the
door it no burn at all, but when
he open the door it burn like
hell. . When h8 was rebuked
for using such language he
looked surprised and grieved,
and said, "That is no bad in my
language, ty mother tell me
to fix stove for her to cook
dinner and I mtke one good
fire and say, 'mother, stove all
fix fire burn like hell-.' What
you say in your language ?
What does your fire ajl.l burn
like when he burn good." So
what is all right in one lan
guage is not fight in another
A Frenchman was trying to
preach in English once and
said the Savior was led like
"one mutton" to the slaughter,
The sailors used to steer their
vessels by the stars and the
principle one was a j star in
the tail of the dog audi it was
called the cynosure,! which
means ihe dog's tail. But now
it means anything to be gazed
at, and when we say of . a, beauti
ful lady in an assembly that
she .was the cynosure of jail eyes,
it really means that she was
the dog's tail of the concern :
But I can get along pretty
well iu Sanford's arithmetic
with these children. I; believe
it is the best arithmetic that
ever was niade. It has no key
and Prof est or Sanfordisays it
oes not need any for! it is a
stemwinder, but I do think that
algebra ought to have a key or
be abolished. I don't take
much ' stock in algebia, nor
conic sectioLs. nor calculus
lhey worried me and distressed
me iu my youth and I haven't
orgotten it. I suppose that
uch things are to train the
mind but 'when they strain the
mind it is one letter too much
don't believe in children hav-
ng to cry over their Ijssons, I
don't believe in cpowding child
ren into studies, beyond their
years, 1 don't take murth stock
in gymnasiums, I don't believe
in girls skinning the: cat. I
read a piece in the 'I; Atlanta
Constitution the othfer day
telling how beautifully-some of
me Aiiania gins could; sain a
cat in the gymnasium.' If Jim
wants to skin a cat let him do
it, but Fanny and Sarah Jane
had better let the cat alone.
iot long ago J read about a
giri in bt. Louis who went to a
The Raleigh correspondent of
theiNew York World sends this
special :
There will be four new mem
bers from North Carolina in the
next House of Representaives.
Thomas G. Skinner, from the
First District has none of the
manners or appearance of a
Congressman, but is certainly a
man of affairs. He served in
the Forty-seventh and Forty
eighth Congress, is a man of the
people, and is extremely popu
lar in his district. He had to
be to beat White, the Repub
lican candidate. Skinner - is
forty-six years old and left the
State University to enter the
Confederate Army as a private
in the First North Carolina
Regiment and won the rank of
Lieutenant. After the war he
practiced law. He is witty, and
this and his plain ways make
his people some times call him
the Nat Macon of the genera
tion. He is an inveterate
fisherman. Once, after gome
days' sport a home, he return
ed to his seat in Congress and
there fell asleep during the
discussidn of an important
measure. Suddenly he awoke
in tne middle oi a dieam oi
having hooked a monster fish,
and jumping up, he shouted
I've got him," while his
brother members roared with
laughter.
Benjamin H. Bunn, who is
to represent the Fourth or
Metropolitan District, is also a
man of the Deotde in the
broadest slense. He is big and
hearty aud! an inveterate nana
shaker. He is 44 years old and
only had a preparatory school
education, having entered the
Confederate army when onlyl.
He is now an able criminal
lawyer and a farmer. Bunn is
a master of invective, and this
is so well known thai his com-,
petitor, Nichols, dared not meet
him on the stump. He is full
of humor and dearly loves a
good game of cards. When he
was nominated he stepped for
ward ! and said : "Gentlemen,
I'll win." That was Bunn all
over.
Henrv P. Cheatham, mem
ber-elect from' the Second (or
"Black") District, is a bright
mulatto, and was born in wnat
was then Granville, but is now
Vance comity. He is not yet
thirty years of age. He obtain
ed his education at Shaw Uni
versity, at Raleigh. He is tail,
quite stout and quiet in manner.
It is his first experience in
public life. By profession he
is a lawyer. -
The other new Republican
member is Hamilton G. Ewart,
from the Ninth District. He is
a small, stout man. Like Skiu-
cf the Work Done fcy the
- Baptists of the State-
Th 58th session of the Baptist
convention, which closed in Greens
boro on Saturday las.t, was the most
harmonious and successful ever
held in the history of that denomina
tion. It was found that the Bap
tists now marshal the vast army of
150.000 white membeis in the State
ot North Carolina to war against
ignorance and vice and foi Uod
and humanity. During the yearjust
closed they have contributed
through the boards of the conven
tion, which of course comprehends
onlvapait of the work doue: r
To State missions...... 12,000.00
" Foreign ' 8,290.7a
" Education 4,038.31
' Sunday-school Work ... 5,945,1'i
" Home Missions ......... 2,254 59
"Orphanage... 1,602.54
Colportage.... 1,230.46
Ouly a tsmall part of the contri
butions to the orphanage is in
cluded in this report, and it taken
no notice of the large collections
made during the session of the
body. The largest collection was
for the Greenville .Memorial
nurcb, resulting ia the almost com
plete lifting of a debp of about
S5,000. The speeches made were
of a high order. The denomination
was represented by about 3000
delegates and the congregations
were immense. The next session
will be held at Henderson, Kev. J.
S. Dill, of Goldsboro, tq preach the
intoductory sermon.
'THE moonshiner;
THE S TOR r OF THEE IFE O F
A REGULAR MOONSHINER.
Tlie Beautiful Daughter of the
"Moonshiner" Love Laugh n
at Difficulties and Surmounts
Obstacles.
"Jes.-o."
"An' he ain't erfeerd V
''Not cr drap."
Trior sti'l banters i.s 6keery."
'So they is."
"S'pose hell do f
"Leather Breeches," said the old
ninn raising his hand impressivelv,
jes as yer say. You ain't never can people to Almishf v fin
t-)en fooled m a man jit, au' ef this Ilia goodness and mrcv mm,
. A Pwdaaala r he Pndiest.
Washington, Nov 1. Con
stant thanksgiving rind- grati-
muo are aue irom the Ameri
JOB
TOrs 0K2E&S
h"o this crrxcs.-
The City beautiful. .
Sometimes when the day is end-ed
And its round of duties done,
I watch st the western windows
The gleam of the setting sun.
When mv heart has been unquiet
And its longings uubeguiled
By the day's vexatious trials
And cannot be reconciled.
Hook on one slope cf the mountains
And o'er the restless sea,
And 1 thiuk of the beautif ul city
that lieth uot fir from me.
And my spirit is hushed in a mo
meut, As the twilight fells tender and
sweet,
And I cross, in my fane, the river,
And kneel at the Master's feet.
And I rest in the shade that there
falletk
From the trees that with healiag
are rife
That shadow the banks of the
river
The river of w,ater of life.
Aud. sometime, when daylight is
ended, j
And the duties he gave me are
done,
I shall watch at life's western win
dows The gleam of its setting sun.
I shall fall asleep in the twilight
As I never have slept before,
To dream of the beautiful city
Till I waken to sleep no more.
There will tall on my restless spirit
A hush, oh, so wondrously sweet,
And I shall cross over the river
To rest at the Master's feet.
ner, he cares little lor aress ana
looks like a cattle raiser. He is
about forty years old. Two
years ago h& was in the Legisla
ture and wa3 the brains of his
party there. He was the es
pecial champion of the railway
commission bill, which failed
to pass. Amont? Democrats
Ewart is regarded as one of the
ablest and best men in his
party. Though naturally in
dolent,, he is a man of force.
How to Help Your Indigestioa.
An .Explanation-
What is this "nervous trouble"
with which so many seem now to
atnicteni it you will remember a
few years ago the word Malaria
was comparatively unknown, to-day
it is as common as an.y word in the
Eoglish language yet this word cov
ers only the meaning of another
word used by our forefathers in
times past. So it is with nervous
diseases, as they and Malaria are
intended to cover what our grand
fathers called Bilhousness, and al!
are caused by troubles ihat arise
a diseased condition of the Liver
which in performing its fuuetious
finding it cannot dispose of the bile
through the ordinary channel is
compelled to pass it.' off through
the system, causing nervous
troubles, Malaria, Blillious Fever,
etc. You who are suffering can well
appreciate a cure. We recommend
dreen's August Flower. Its cures
aro marvelous,
Almost every day we feel the un-
nlea!aut sensations of iudigestion.
Try Alicock's Porous Plasters and
be relieved. J. r. Davenport, of
Canarsie, New York, writes :
I have been much trou led with
a violent pain below my chest bone.
I was told by several phisicians
that it was rheumatism of the dia
phragm. It resulted from cold and
exposure. I had very little appe
tite and digested my fnod in gieat
difficulty. I placed one Alicock's
Porous Flaster below the breast
bone and two on each side. In the
course of twenty-fore hburs all pain
ceased, and I was able to eat and
digest a goou square meal, some
thing I'd ad not done before in two
weeks, I got better constantly,
aud at the cud of seven days found
myself entirely weli. Since then I
have used Alicock's Porous Piasters
for colds, coughsMnd p:iins in my
sid, and I have always found thein
quick and effective.
Old Sol called her "Leather
Breeches."
Nobody else had occasion to call
her any other name since her moth
er died, except the man who brought
corn to old Sol's stilL
Old Sol was ber &;ti:nr and a
''moonshiner." lie was called, a I
"moonshinet" because, being au j
illicit distiller, he was supposed to
run his still by moon'ight to pre
vent detection by the revenue of
ficers. But he wasn't a "moonshin
er" in the strict sense of the word
he didn't ran his distillery by
night any more than government
distillers did. There was no need
neet lor it.
The still was iu a pit under his
own hut, and the smoke louud its
may out his own chimney.
Subterranean pipes conducted
the water to and from the still so
that there was little danger of de
tection. Besides this there was a
little field of corn about the house,
and almost seemedrto be the last
place in the world that a revenue
officer would look fo. an illicit dis
tillery. The vieilauce of Leather Breech
es made it double safe, lor s!k was
handy with Old Sol's rifle aud nev
er feared to use it when the occa
sion demanded.
But she was a beauty Leather
j Breeches was.
Uer black hair was like silk, and
her beautiful plump flesh shaded
the moat luscious peach. Iler eyes !
There is a large spring in Western
Georgia which from its great depth
is supposed to be boitoi jle-s and
has a blush tint like the sea. A
casual glance at its surface reveals
nothing uncommon. But guze
steadily through th.is pellucid wa
ter deep down into the bowels of
the earth aud a changing scene
presents itself. Variegated stones,
pebbles, petrified trees aud snork
ling crystals rise successively to
your enchauted vision. Leather
Breeches' eyes were like this.
She was a great help to Oin o,
and a great comfort, too, for when
she was low-spirited she would put
her arm around his neck and ki.-s
bim, and sometimes teamed him to
get him right afjain.
Sometimes sUe wou:d say, 'ip,
I'm gwine ter marry.''
'Leather Breeches," he would
say, "don't yer thiuk uv it. The
man whut gits yet'll hattt-r wuup
me furst, that's sbore. An I aiu
no sloucn, fer I've done up ther
best nv cm iu ray time.
"Don't git riled, pap, 1 was jest
er plaguiug' uv yer." She would
console, "I wouldn't leave yer fer
nobody."
One evening Old Sol was chop
ping some pine, in irout ot the
cabin door when a w Il-dressed
man with light hair and blue eyes
approached unobserved aud stood
within a few feet of him.
"Good evening,"' said the strang
er. Old Sol straightened hinself,
eyed him critically from head to
foot and said;
"Howdy."
"I'm seeking lodgings for the
night," said the well-dressed man.
Sol scrutinized him us before,
and after deliberation remarked :
"Looks ter mo like I orter kuow
mi fools yer he's thur fust un."
"Pap. he's squar'."
"Xutf said, stranger," said the
oid man. "Come in tlmr house."
Two days later the stranger was
still a guest to the "moonshiners."
Jle had found his land lying along
side of old Sol's aud had t-pent the
ti ue going over it and planning for
Hi iuture development.
"Breeches" said he on the second
day ot Ins sojourn, "don't you get
lonely here with no oue but th nl.l
nave followed thm fnfi tt.
day he made them amtion and
vouchsafed to them a free Gov
ernment. With lovirg kind
ness He has constantly led us
in the way. of prosperity and
greatness.' He has not visited
with swift punist:nent our
short coming, but withgraciou"
care He has warned us of our
dependence upon Hii forbear
ance, and that obedienc to His
Z2 Airs LC2SI2T.
A Oj'xi Zzzztr Farsc Z511
si la His lorr-roy. TL Estm
NEWS OF A WEEK
Shelby, X. C. Nov. 22. The
most horrible and cold blooded
rn-rder in the annals of Cleve
land county was committed
1 t night. Shortly aaer darfc
James rhilbrook, a thrifty and
ladustrou farmer, sixty years
oic, vrbo Uvea four miles west
f: Shelby, was railed to the
bp?k door of his house by a
L'n who said he Lad a note
from a friend, and shot down In
a most cold blooded .wav. on
- . .
dor.e
me!"
limn !''
"Not so pow'fui. is yer
got fired nv ns .'"
'IM never tire of you."
"Thai's whut he savs." ,
"Who?"
"Pap."
"Oh !"
"Oh, whut f"
"I thought so."
Then there was a pause.
i.T) i ...
-i.rc'cues, gam ue. "i n going
to clear up all that land of mine
aud put it in cotton.
"Iteckon I keer !"
"And butM a neat framed house
up there on the hill."
"Wal I"
"Aud paint it."
"That's sumptions,"
"4ml live iu it."
"All bj yourself!"
"No."
"Oh. vou's married !
"No."
"Then who's gwinter be wid yer."
"You."
"How yer know!"
"I'.ecause I love vou."
"Would yer lout for
"Yes."
"Wal, you'll hatter do it."
Five miuutes later they where in
the presence of OM Sol.
"i'ap," said Leather Breeches,
"ue wacta me
"Air you pnrty s'.u , : trvnger !"
asked Old Sol layn; dowa the gun
ue was oiling, 'vkafie ef yer am t
yer wou't git her."
"I can usually hold mv own
'Wal, yer hatter whup me."
"I can do it.'-
"Come out in tbar . ard and
'squar ver.-elf."
Old Sol hopi
nimble as a cat
"Take the 'in turn' of him stran
ger." whispered Leather Bieeches.
"lie can't s,tand the iu tnrn.' "
The two men clinched.
hi.i fuil three miuutes neither
u utlie advantage. Directly the
old mau raised his light opponent
ci.'ar tl:e cartn.
The si ranger landed nimbi v but
fi.inly ou his feet, and quic
'(ought twisted his leg around old
NJ's leg and holding a steady
S'.isp about his waist triped and
1 ilod bim to the ground. Then
trying his fingers in the old man's
iroat tieiii mm tuere till he 6ur-
ndered
"Stranger" said old Sd when the
n.fitet whs over, "ytr've done it.
woman t er o iievea it was in ver
jide, but it's so. Leather Breech
S vour'o. Yer won hir Ta'p an
qnar, air old boi am t tuer man
to kick ergiu the feller what his
gal is done tuck a notion ter not
when ht s been tried as vou is.'
holy law is the price -f a eon- J?1 . tl.l nofitriL
tmuance of Ilia prec'ons gifts.
In acknowledgement "of all that
God has done for us rsa nation,
and to the end that on an ap
pointed day the prayers and
praise of a grateful country
may reach tne throne of Grace.
I, ('rover Cleveland, President
t Le other the roof of the mouth.
l'bilbrook' wife, who had
lollop e& him to the door, was
compelled to surrender all the
money she La V a ten dollar
bill and about three dollars In
tdlver. The murderer then
cursed her and paid she had
of the United State?. ,,o hrehv r1?' as ue.r Dana tad Just
designate and set an..rt Thnro
day, the twenty-ninth day of
November instant, a3 a day ot
thanksgiving and prayer, to e
Kept and observed throughout
the land. On that day let all
our people suspend their ordi-
She
cCered him her keTs and told
Lien be could search the house,
a::d that she would strike a
lu'ht, the wind coming from the
upm door having extinguished
H i) lamp. As fhe 'struck &
4 At. m . a.
nary work and occupation, and "
d out the Jdoor as
Decided Indications.
"lr. Yoder, your daughter
circus and saw a contortionist Irene has given me herpermis-
pertorm, and then went home
and tried it, and got . her feet
locked back of her heck and
couldn't unlock thein, and
screamed for help, and thev
Qislocated her thigh bone in
untangling her extremities. ' If
she had been helome her
moiuer clean up tne nouse or
hiiicning on tne sewing ma
chine, the like of this Svouldn't
have happened. Dr. Talmage
says the devil put that girl, up
to that, and it tickled him aw
fully. The devil ought to be
ashamed of himself.
. ' r: ' - BllI. AEP.
sion to ask of you her hand in
marriage; but before I ask for
your formal conseut you will
pardon me if I make the in
quiry as it is a matter of lifelong
consequence to me. whether or
not there have ever been any
indications of insanity so far
as you know, in your family?"
"You say Irene has accepted
you, Mr. Hankinson.
"I am happy to say she has."
"Then, sir," said the old man,
shaking his head dejectedly, "it
is my duty, as her father, to
tell you that I think Irene is
showing decided indications of
insanity." Chicago Tribune.
Four Points.
There were four good habits
which a wise and good man
earnestly recommended in his
counsels and by his own ex
ample, and which he'eonsidered
essentially necessary for the
happy management of temporal
concerns. These are punctuali
ty, accuracy, steadiness and dis
patch. Without the first, time
is wasted; without the second,
mistakes the most hurtful to
our own credit and interest
and that of others may be com
mitted, without the third, noth
ing can be well done and
without the fourth opportuni- Crazy, stranger! Not by
ties of advantage are lost which sight :
it is impossible to recall.
yer."
"You ought," said the stranger,
smiling. "It's no disgrace."
"I reckon not," said old Sol
8ucu a tone as lett some.uouots as
to whether it was expressive of
sarcasm or admiration.
"I remarked," said the stranger,
after an awkward paue, "that I
was huntlnff a place to spend the
night."
"And don't yer know the way ?"
said the old man with a foolish
grin. .
"No I the fact is, l am a srran
ger here and on't kuow any place
to go."
"Dunno wber yer wanter go ter !
Wal, I sw'ar pine blank !"
Leather Breeches tripped out the
door, leveling a long rifle at the
well-dressed man and commanded
"Stranger, git !"
ine person addressed looked in
quiringly at Old. Sol.
"btranger," said the old man
"yer'll Latter do it. She's er mighty
notiouaiv creetnr, that gal er miue
is, but folks gener'ly humors her in
her way 8."
"Is ebe crazy ?"
"(Jraz Wal, I sw'ar pine blank
a dang
in
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lie didn't advertise.
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As all the people say ; "f
.lie advertises by the year,
And month, and week, aud day,
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A Splendid Man.
Mr. D. B. Nicholson, of
Sampson, will be a candidate
for Reading Clerk of the Senate.
He served in that capacity at
the last session of the Legisla
ture, and performed the duties
of the office to the entire
satisfaction of all the members.
Raleigh News-Observer.
A VTifes InSucnce.
at their accustomed Dlaces of
worship, and with prayer and
songs of praise render thanks to
God for all his mercies; for the
abundant harvests which have
rewarded the toils cf the hus
baudman during th year that
has passed, for the ri-;h rewards
that hav followed the labors
of our people in tl -sir shoos
and their marts of trade and
trade. Let us give thanks for
peace and for social order and
contentment within car borders
and for our advancement In all
that adds to national greatness.
and mindful of the afliicllve dis
pensation with which a portion
of our land has been visited.
Let us, while we hutnbie our
selves before the power of God,
acknowledge his mercy in set
ting bounds to the deadly
march of per-tilence, and let our
hearts be chastened by eym
pathy with our fellow country
men who have suffered and who
mourn; and as we return thanks
ior an tne oiessings wnicn vie
have received from the h'ands
of our heavenly father, let us not
forget that He has enjoined
upon us charity, and . on this
aay or tnauKtgivinr let us
generously remember the poor
and needy so that oar tribute
of praise and gratitude may be
acceptable ie the sight of the
liord.
Done at the city of Washington
on the fire't day of November,
133S,and in the year of inde
pendence of tha United States
the one hundred and thirteenth
In witness where of I have
hereunto signed my name and
caused the seal of I'ae United
States to be affixed.
(Mgnea) vjroveu f leyelaxd,
By the President:
T. F. Bayakd,
Secretary of -State
her left eye, the ball
ramdnff downward. He then
lr.ade his e.-cape.
jlrs. rhilbrook was uncons-
Ci.-us for about half an hour.
w.'ien with great effort ehe made
her way to the houo of Harry
Ia ve!ace, her brothes-in-law,
ab iut fifty yards away. The
latter heard the shots, but
thtuttht rhilbrook was unload
ing lumber. He at once sum
in ned asrd-tanre, but the mur
cle.er had made his' escatte.
leaving no trark behind him.
Mi-. I'hilbrook could not iden
tify the man, bnt pays ahe
thinks Le Is either a white man
or a bright mulatto. He was
evidently acquainted with the
premises. Philbrook and wife
children
being at
truAT is UAPPKNisa xar
IHE WORLD AM O USD U5i
m GntKrmi From IKrColttms
of our ConJemporaritt, StaU
and National,
lr. Dr. Miibura U acaia lec
turing in North Carolina, w aee
from the Bute paper.
The progremive men of Raleifa
bav rauMxl a, uck company lor
on Uciory.
Tb Scotland Neck Democrat
hears testimony U) the lct tat
tl t town i Improving. It aayi
more nounea are aeededtbf re now
to accommodate the people.
The Home 8rinj:a Bank of Nor
folk, Va, Mia. suipeoded. This
bank: m foaoded oa ibe ruin a of '
the old f reedman'a Bank and tad
a number of colored depositors.
ilr It. C Strodwlck, a tood.
man o( HilUboro of brilliant intel
lect and a good lawyer, baa cose
to Washiogton Terntorr where tie
will reaide and practice hit profea.
aioo.
Tb Charlotte Chronicle Mrs:
Mr, W. S. Hemby, the founder and
former proprietor of the Chronicle,
ia now conoectad with one of Ibe
largest poblmhinj boates in Chi
Governor Scales baa appointed
Leonard Henderson, of WarrentOB,
a director of tbe penitentiary Tie
Cbarlea M. Cook, resigned. Cook
ia a member or tne House from
Franklin.
The Charlotte Democrat aaya:
The twelve-year old colored boy,
named urn Mmron, wbo stole a
borae from Mr. McCorkle of Sharon,
waa tried before iqutr Beattla
and rent to jail. This is not ail
flrt offence in borse stealing, young
aa l ia.
lived alone, their
having lairried, or
srhool.
Sheriff llemrick with a posse
i.-i in search of the murderer
fc t has no certain clue. The
l v ple of Shelby are greatly
errited over the tragedy, and If
tlii man is caught to-night he
WiU be lynched. The murderer
TTi3 alcne.
. , n f f mm.
Vu.uaC.9 W.UsS U mLST
Eeseath. tha S:i
Vert
The New York Herald is as
uu -table as the wind but 1 has
s -me strong editorials.. The fol
lowing is good and e reproduce
l and commend it to our
reiders : If we could be rid of
o it class, of fools in the South
The stranger saw that he was
for it and decided that to put on
bold front was the best policy.
"Shoot," he said delta uc! v. "
have done nothing to merit sue
treatment, and I'll die rjiher tha
I'll turn coward."
"Stranger,'' said the old man sig
nificantly, "she dou't say often,
that gal don't, but when she says,
she says !"
The last phrase was spoken with
pecnlar emphasis, which couveyed
exactly the idea indeuded, towit :
That the declarations of Leather
Breeches in important matters like
the present were not. to be over
ruled. .
"Strancer," said Leather Breech
es, lowering the gun to her side,
"ain't yer er still huutin' !''
"No."
"Shore 1"
"Of course."
"What yer huntin' ?"
"Land ?"
'Land !"
"ie8, and a place to speiio? the
night."
"What land ?"
'My land. Lot number 12."
wPp,"said ffhe, turning to old
Sol, "he talks squarV
"So he do," said Sol.
' 'An' his eyes are middlin' good."
Froin De Tocquaville we take
the following : I have seen h
randred times in the course of
my lite a wean man exhibit
genuine public virtue, because
supported by a wife who sus
tained him in his course, not
so much by advising him to
such and such acts, as by exer
cising a strengthening influence
over the manner in which duty
or even ambition, was to be re
garded. Much oftener, bow-
ever, it mut be confessed, 1
have seen private and domestic
life gradually transform a man
to whom nature had given gen.
erosity, disinterestedness, and
even some capacity for great
ness, aud into an ambitious,
mean spirited, vulgar, and self
ish creature, who, in matters
relating to his country, euded
by considering them only in so
far as they rendered his own
particular condition more com
fortable and easy.
And the following incident
in tne lite of Hawthorne is
apropos of the subject : Good
out of evil found a pretty illus
tration in the case of Haw
thorne's removal from office.
He was crushed by the blow
and staggered to his humble
home lull of bitter disappoint
ment. No oue knew him then
as one of otir greatest yea, the
world's greatest men of genius.
His wile quietly left the room,
says Carnvay, then came back
with an armful of wood, kin
dled a cheerful Ere, drew his
cnair to ms aesK, brougnt pa
per, pens and ink, and then
returning to him with a beam
ing lace said : '.Now you can
vrite your book.' The result
was 'Scarlet Letter,' and such
time as no novelist in America
before or since has attained. It
was all due to his noble wife
Had she repined and added to
his burden the world would
never had known Hawthorne
And Son't Ten Pc-qst it-
As a speaker Mr. Tcarson did
not ccme up to cui expectations.
No graceful woven garlands of
fragrant flowers of entrancing
rhttoric festooned his thoughts
in graceful and bewitching dra
pery. No gems of .metaphor
sparkled in glistening waves of
beauty and radiance alone his
channel of discussion. No fires
of oratory flung their thrilling
Gainings out to warm and to
melt the feelinirs. No melli
fluent voice poured his een
fences out iu thrilling tides of
sweetest resonant to electrify
aud to enchain. Wilson Mir
ror.
S IThat is all so, brother Blount.
But do you not knory that Mr.
Pearson is not engaged in weav
ing garlands and festooning
thoughts and building oratori
cal fires? And he has no melli
fluent voice either. No. Mr.
Pearson ia engaged in preaching
the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ in the plainest possible
way. And, brother Blount
he "gets there." Winston
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A ITsvel Uarria
S3 Ccrcr::ny-
A Georgia Jnstico recently.
performed the marriage cere
mony for a couple entirely par
ticular to himself. After asking
and receiving affirmative re
sponses to the usual question he
concluded the ceremony in tLe
following words : -
"By the authority invested
in me as an officer of the great
State of Georgia, which is some
limes called the Empire State
of the South ; by the fields of
cotton that lie spread out in
the suowy whiteness around us;
by the howl of the coon dog
and the gourd vine whose cling
ing tendrills will shade the en
trance to your humble dwelling
place, by the red and luscious
heart of the watermelon, whose
sweetness fills the heart with
joy ; by the heavens and all
that is in or under them, I pro
nounce you man and. wife, - and
may the Lord have mercy ou
your soul's I"
a:id another class in tb North
we should get aloi,,' very
sr.oothly. They cau't live for-
. . w a 9
ever, tbanK iieaveu : ana
when they are out of the way
with their sonr tempers we
.shall have peace.
There are certain men In the
South who never lose an oppor
tunity to berate the North, to
freshen up the old Confederate
idea which has not simply
fallen asleep, but is stone dead
to stir up strife by intimating
tLat the nuanel is not settled
yet. TLo-e fellows would
srve the country better under
v -ound than above it. They
f (LA.
aie gnosis, notigoDims, nigni-
maxes, and they make u as ir
ritable as though we had the
;'.ut.
Then there are certain men
ia the North who are ever
1. stingly prating about the
war spirit, the war times, the
wir hatreds, the war everything.
They feel as they did twenty
De years ago; haven't grown
fc bit; dou't belong to this
generation any way ; ought to
have had their names on monu
ments long ago, and because
tl.ey are no, there make thcm
fee Ives public f colds and nul
sauces.
The great bulk of the Ameri
can people, however, in South
and North alike, are satisfied
with things as they are and
promise to become. They are
n adv to hhake hands, lend
money to each other, join in
commercial partnership, and
-nratre in any enterprise that
promises a good return.
The Journal says: New Berne
beats the State on aw mills. Ia is
estimated that between 100,000 and
300,000 feet of lnmber ia sawed per
day by the several mitla be re. The
lnmber crop annually by the saw
mills of Craven county ia rained at
$000,000. The most of this lnmber
Is pine, now long will the pine
family last I
The Scotland Neck Democrat
peaks in very high terms of Judge
Montgomery, wbo baa been hold
ing Halifax Court. The Democrat
aaya : We have not seen any Judge
who dispatcher busine aa be doe.
We beard it remarked by ome of
the older practicing lawyer that
there bad never been so much work
at any court in the county in so
short a time.
The magnificent quality of to
bacco produced by the lands of
Nash county ia attracting attention
to tbem Irom all points and a large
influx of population in tb ! -"mediate
future is almost a :ainty.
Nash is on a solid boom md one
that won't stop. There Ire or
six towns in the county, all thrift?
and active business placet. Nash
ville Argonaut.
Tbfl Newton Enterprise pays the
merchantof that pl&cesay the farm
era are In better condition financial
ly than tbey bare been in years. We
chronicle sncb evidences of pros
perity with peculiar pleasure. That
paper also says that more wheat
than usual is being planted. The
fact that the crop is being diversi
fied may account for their prosper
ity. The Nashville Arganont speaks
a truth that we can bear record of
when it says: ETery visitor to
Nashville wbo baa not been here in
two years, remarks ujon the great
improvement of the place, and this
Improvement continues both in tbe
erection of new bnildings and tbe
increase of trade. By next seaaoa
we must have an arrangement made
to make this a good tobacco market.
The Charlotte Chronicle says the
richest apecimens in gold ore that
bave been seen in tbi section ia
many a day were exhibits yester
day by Esquire JobB P. Unnter,
Mallard Creek township. Ue bad
a peca meaftnre full of rocks, and
virgin gold fairly honey-combed
tbe rocks. Old miners say ibat it
is the richest ore ever seen ia the
State. Mr. II inter foand tbe ore
on his farm, and if a good vein is
developed bis fortune is made.
TfrhatitCsts.
A I::?: fcicKiy f:r This Stat
A Northern centleman who
m w resides at Southern Pines
this county, says h6 Is preparing
li-nd at that place for the pur
pose of tebting the culture of
k rapes for raisins. He feels
confident that the climate there
is adapted to the growth of this
). rape aud its minufacture into
i:uins. Si mote It be. An-
c.her use than merely to sprout
wire grass and to hold up the
roll road track will have been
found for these sand donea.
anford Express.
"Our greatest glry
not In never falling,
rising every time w
Goldsmith.
constats
ut in
fall."
The best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Biuies, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Bheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chap
ped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and
all Skin Eruptions and positively
cures Piles, or no pay required. It
s guaranteed to give a satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 25 et.
jier bottle. For sale by A. W.
Rowland.
According to Mr. Barry's
statement and no one is dls- ,
posed to deny its correctness
nearly a quarter of a million
of dollars hare been collected
from members of tbe Knights
of Labor without the slight
est benefit accruing from it to
tbe rank and file. Yet the
treasurer finds himself with
out Z'jO on hand with which to
meet an indebtedness of 3,000.
This quarter of a million, al
most, has come out of the pock
ets of workers, who keep their
families out of their wages, and
have no dollars to spare to keep .
up an organization from which
they derive no benefit. Pitts
burgh Press.
The Advance believes the
order has done some good but
whether the same money might
not have been so expended as
to have done the laboring men
more good is a question that
we would ask the members of
the order. What irood would
that amount have done if put
in schools for the education of
the children of the men who
earn their bread "by tha sweat
of their brow."
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