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i '""in ., i ii 'i i i . i ii i i n i i i iiTh li i i ii J - I jjgjgjg --- 7 - The VilBon Advance. ! J . iy, - CLAUDIUS F. WILSON, EDITOR & PROP R. "LET ALL THE ENDS THOU AIM ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY S, THY GOD S, AND TRUTH S. $1.50 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE. VOLUME XXI. BEFORE YOU BUY -FAN- visit us and look new to over stock hand. the just White Goods e have just receiv ed another stipply equally as desirable as the last lot. Glass-Ware. Fan shaped Nappies only 4cts, 7-inch oval Dishes only 4cl:s, Gattling Gun Tooth-pick hold ers only 4Cts, Childrens Glass Mugs 4Cts, and other new goods in all the departments J Cash Catches The Raro-nirtQ ul. xjcXI Melius. I - 1 rl I CASH RACKET STORE, NASH ST., WILSON, N. C- JOHN D. COUPER, J MARBLE & GRANITE Monuments, Gravestones, &c in, 113 and 115 Rank St., NORFOLK, VA. Designs free. Write for prices. 5-14-iy. BEST SUMMER RESORT THE COAST. UN 1 Fishing, Surf-bathing, Sailing unsur passed. Music anil dancing every day. Oysters, Clams," Fish, Caterer of 30 years' experience. HEALTH, STRENGTH, PLEASURE ! Elegant Steamer makes three trips a week from Washington, and close con nection with trains at Greenville Satur day. BOARD : Per month, v).oo. week, $10.00.; perl FARE : Greenville to Ocracoke, $2; round trip $3.50. Washington to Ocra coke, $1.50 , round trip, $2.50. EVERYTHING WILL BE DONE FOR THE COMFORT AND PLEASURE OF GUESTS. Address , SPENCER BROS., Propr's. Ocracoke Hotel, WASHINGTON, N. C, Also Hotel Nicholson, Washington. Itoii Trip Saturday Night, June 30th, '91. SCHEDULE : The' Steamer Myers, of the Old Dominion Steamship Com pany, will leave Greenville Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 a. m. and on Sat urdays at 7 p. m., or on arrival of At iantic Coast Line train, making close connection at Washington with Steamer Alpha for Ocracoke as follows : Leave ashington at 9 a. m, on Tuesdays, arrive Ocracoke at 5 p. m. same day. Leave Ocracoke at 10 a. m. on Wednesdays, arrive Washington 6 p. m. same day. Leave Washington at 9 a. m, on Thursdays, arrive Ocra coke at 5 p. m. same day. Leave Ocra coke at 7 p. m. on Thursdays, arrive Washington at 5 ;C m. Fridays. Leave Washington at 10 p. m. on Saturdays irnve Ocracoke at 5 a. m. Sundays. Leave Ocracoke at 7 p. m. Sundays, arrive Washington at 5 a. m. Mondays. .Making close connection with Steamer Myers for Greenville and landings on Tar river. ATOTICE. ' Having qualified as Administra tor of the estate of John Baker deceas ed, before the Probate Judge of Wilson .county, notice is hereby given to all persons indebted to the estate of said deceased. to make immediate payment and to all persons having claims against the deceased to presentthem for payment on or before the 20th day of June 1892 or this notice will be plead in bar ofTecovery. B W Barnes, Adm F A & S A Woodard, Atty's. OCRACOKE BILL ARPS LETTER. COL. MARK HARDIN TKLI.s A STUN NING STORY TO HI LI. ARP. He Has Crossed Continents, Skirted Moun tains, Looked Down Into Yawning .Chasms and Destroyed Distance. As iron sharpeneth iron, so a man's face sharpenetH the face of his friend. How it shortens the miles to travel with a companion who has some thing to talk about and knows how to talk it. I came with one yester day from Atlanta. The day was hot and the dust and cinders disagree able, but the minutes and the miles flew by and I was home before I knew it. The other day I found good company on the train, for it was Mark Hardin, the ancient and modern clerk of the house of repre sentatives, and 1 soon got him on the trail of his late travels to the Pacific coast and the nfew State of Washing ton. A man who has not traveled some knows but little of what is going on in the world. He can't get it from reading history, and there are but few travelers who can tell what they have seen and make it in teresting. But Mark can, and I could listen to him all day on a train. I had been traveling some myself, and was narrating as how I had been away out to Kansas City and saw them killing cattle and hogs, and how it seemed to me I had gotten almost to the jumping off" place, and so forth, when Mark took oft his coat and squared himself for business, and bit off his tobr ceo and said : "Well, yes ; Kansas City does seem a good ways off, and I used to think it was, but not long ago I took a notion to peruse this Western hemisphere, and I started out from Atlanta with a friend and by the time we got to Kansas City we had traveled a thous and and felt like we must be about half way, and so we stopped over a day and blowed around and rested and then took a fresh start for the Pacific. Well, sir, they penned us up in a vestibule train, and took enough provisions aboard to feed an army, and they fastened on the kitchen and the cooks, and the din ing room, and parlors and reading rooms, and a librarv and a saloon and everything else but a carriage and horses, and away we went over plains and valleys, and hills and mountains at thirty-five miles an hour for 1,740 'miles, without stop ping ten minutes anywhere, and didn't stop at all for 500 miles at a stretch." "How about coal and water ?" said I- "Blamed if I know," said Mark. "Might have stopped while we were asleep but I never saw any. Don't 1 ' - need any more than half the way I I1UI1UW, IUI V UU I US I I 1)11 ilUU 5HUC 1 t.. :. 11 j down the . mountains for half a day at a time. You climb and climb higher and higher until you can almost touch the moon and the seven stars, and you can see all creation down below yon, and it makes a man feel like he was nobody, and had no kinfolks, and it didn't matter a cent whether he hyed or died. A trip over theRockies and the Sierras will take all the vanity out of a man quicker than anything I know. There is nothing left him but to trust to his Maker. He feels more helpless than he does on the ocean, for to be drowned is nothing horrible, but for the train to break a wheel or jump the track on a narrow chft a thousand feet high and the whole concern to go falling and cracking to the gulch below is lust awtul. And there are hundreds of such frightful precipices Well, when we had got 1,740 miles West ol Kansas City thev let us out for thirtv nvnutes and it was mst - - glorious to get on the ground again and feel the solid earth under your feet, and to my opinion it is the best place better than water, better than air, better than riding on a train. Of its dust- we were made and in its bosom we must sleep. But as I was telling you, we boarded the train again and put on a clean shirt and took a fresh start and rolled away for 1,440 miles more and got to the jumping off place sure enough, and like old Balboa, stood upon a rock and gazed in majestic silence upon the Pacific Ocean. If I were Byron or snaKespeare 1 could tell you about that, but I'm nobody much since I got back and never expect to be. 1 he world is a heap bigger thing than I thought it was. Why,, the fir trees air over Washington are 300 feet highland you have to make two sights to see to the top, and I saw a measured acre that had been sold to a saw mill and the timber cut off, and I counted twenty-seven stumps, and the smallest was eight and a half feet in diameter, and the mill cut up One of the trees into shingles while I was looking at them 1 ..1 . . auu mat one tree turned out over 80,000 shingtes and left a hundred, lu , " '"3 Ul UVCI feet of the too for laths and fW unnH And that's truth if ever I told it, and one day some of us went out in the edge of the timber to shoot some deers and the whole face of the earth was covered with ferns ferns as thick on the ground as the palmetto in Morula and it was from six to twelve feet high and we come across a big tree that had been blown down and the deer were said to be just on the other side and I tiptoed up by the side of the tree to put my gun on it and I pushed it as far as I could and then tried to climb up on the crevices in the bark, but thev shelved down the wrpng way and my shoes had got slick and I couldn't make it and I Couldn't reachmy gun any more and had to come off and leave it. I went back next morning with a boy and put him on my shoulder WILSON, and he reached and got the gun. I wish you could see that fern. It is in a belt about ten miles wide and 100 miles long across the country, and so impenetrable that a bear can't get through h, but there are paths through it every few miles apart narrow paths that have been there for a thousand years, they say, and were made by the wild beasts, and the bears and panthers and mountain lions and the wild hogs, and the deer all use them, and the settlers told me that the animals all understood these paths to be common property and neutral ground," and never showed fight in them, but if a deer was going and a bear was coming, and they met in a path the bear squatted down and the deer jumped over him. That is what the old settlers told rop." And Mark bit oft some more to bacco. "I believe it," said I, "for I remem ber that Colonel Patton, of the Unit ed States army, told me that his command was stationed one long, dry summer in the hill country South of Utah, and every water course dried up, and every lake and pool except one, and his command had to go to that and camp and stay all the fall, and for a radios of a hundred miles the wild beasts came by night for water, and the bears and wolves and panthers and deer and prairie dogs would drink together and there wasn't a growl nor a fight, for you see they were all beset by a common danger and understood it and raised a flag of truce around the water, and Cplonel Patton said that his men all partook of the same feeling and never raised a gun to shoot, notwithstand ing they were nearly all starved for fresh meat. And that is what the poet alluded to when he wrote that 'A touch of nature makes the whole world kin.' Go on, Mark." "Well, as 1 was saying, you never heard of such a climate as they have on the Eastern slope of Washington. The boys yon't wear shoes the year round and if it wasn't for the fogs it would be a splendid country to live in. The fogs don't rise until ten o'clock in the morning and some times they are so thick that you can move it around with a broom and sweep it out of the house. It's like a cob web, and you can wrap it around stick or a broom and carry- it out. I never saw them do it, but that's what they told me. You can't raise corn there, but wheat and oats and vegetables just grow immense. I saw Irish potatoes fifteen inches long and as big as my leg. Half a potato is ,enough for a moderate sized fami ly. They slice them crossways like we do lor Saratoga chips, only the chips are half an inch thick and as big as saucers. Everything grows big out there but the people. I never saw as many little, scrawny, screwed- Up people in my life. They are most all foreigners," low Dutch, Poles, Italians, Swiss, Swedes, Ipsh, Chinese and every other sort, and not one in ten can speak the English language, They can't call for a match to light a pipe with, but they have to make signs for everything." About this time our train received a shock and put on the brakes and stopped, and we an got out to see what was the. matter, and found that we had run into two mules and a double seated buggy, and two ne groes and a white man and seven jugs of whisky. One negro and one mule were killed and the others badly broken up. Nothing of the buggy could be found except the tires. It was close into town and the people all came running. the wounded were soon cared for and the train went on. such is me and such is death, when men are coming from a stillhouse loaded down inside and outside with whisky and try to beat a railroad at a crossing. 1 he next thing win be three or four lawsuits for damages, I reckon, for a railroad is an institution to be picked at and pursued, right or wrong. They are our greatest bene factors and civilizers, and not one in five makes any money for the stock holders, but the liberty of a ten-dollar cow is of more importance than the lives of passengers or the wreck of an engine. I was on the train one night when a wandering bull threw, our train from the track and the engine down a bank and we had to stay there until next morning, and a thousand dollars wouldn't pay the damages, but the owner of the bul got his pay all the same, and to my mind it is all wrong and I would stop it if I could. A railroad company may be just as careful as human fore sight can be, but if a man is killed the junes go for them to the tune of five or ten thousand dollars. Just let a wreck be heard of and an Atlanta lawyer will take the first train to the spot and hunt round for a fee like a buzzard sails round lor a carcass. wonder how mean it is possible for a I . . .-11 LU ! 1 I ana prewmu 10 oe a geimemau Bill Arp. Aak Your Erlend. Who have taken Hood's Sarsa- parilla what they think of it, the replies will be positive in its favor. One has been cured of indigestion and dypepsia, another finds it in dispensable lor sick headache, others report remarkable cures ot scrotuia, salt rheum and other blood diseases, still others will tell you that it over comes "that tired felling," and so on. Truly, the best advertising which Hood's Sarsapanlla receives is the hearty, endorsement of the army ol friends it has won by its positive medicine merit. Truths, like roses, have thorns about them. WILSON COUNTY, A BIBLICAL CURIOSITY. Ha Fuziled scholar for More Thau Five Hundred Years. it For the past 500 or 600 years the following so-called "Genesis Fifty -one" has been a puzzle to Biblical scholars, and to-day were it read aloud in any mixed company it is questionable whether its fraudulent nature would be discovered, so beau tifully is the spirit and language of the Old Testament imitated. Below we give this unique fraud in full ! 1 . And it came to pass after these things that Abraham sat in the door of his tent at about the going down of the sun. 2. And behold a man, bowed with age, came from the way of the wilder ness, leaning on a staff. 3. And Abraham arose and met turn and said 'unto him, turn in, I pray tttee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shall arise early on the morrow and go thy way. 4. But the man said : Nay, for I will abide under this tree. 5. And Abraham pressed him greatly, so he turned and they went into the tent; and Abraham broke unleavened bread and they did eat. 6. And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him : Wherefore dost thou not worship the Most High God, creator of heaven and earth ? 7. And the man answered and said, I do not worship the God thou speakest of, neither do I call upon his name, for I have made to myself god which abideth always in my house and provideth me with all things. 8. And Abraham's anger was kindled against that man for what he had said, and- he arose and drove him forth with blows into the wilder ness. 9. And at midnight God called upon Abraham saying, Abraham, where is the stranger that came by the way of thy tent at the going down ol the sun ? 10. And Abraham answered and said, Lord, he would not worship thee, neither would he call upon thy name, therefore I have driven him out from before mv face into the wilderness. 11. And God said, Have I not borne with him these hundred and ninety and eight years, and nourish ed him, and clothed him. notwith- tanding he has rebelled aerainst me ? Couldst thou not, thee thyself being a sinner, bear with him one night ? 1 2. And Abraham said : Let not the anger of my Lord wax against his servant, lo ! I have sinned, for give me, i pray ol thee. 13. And Abraham arose and went forth into the wilderness, and sought diligently for the man until he had found him, and returned with him to the tent, and when he had entertain ed him kindly he sent him away on the morrow with many gifts. 14. And God spake aeam unto Abraham, saying, for this thy sin against the stranger, thy seed shall be afflicted 400 "years in a stranee and. 15. But, for thy repentance, will I deliver them, and thev shall come forth with power and with gladness of heart. The author of this Bibical curiosity is unknown. 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Cures all Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, bore throat, Bronchitis, Hemmor rhage and all throat and lung diseas es Eleeant, reliable 25 cents at druggists Prepared only by Dr H Mozley, Atlanta, Ga The path of truth is a plain path and straight ; that of falsehood is a perplexing maze. I have been a great sufferer lrom catarrh for over ten years ; had it very bad, could hardly breathe. Some nights I could not sleep and had to walk the floor. I purchased Ely's Cream Balm and am using it freely it is working a cure surely. I have advised several friends to use it, and with happy results in every case. It is the medicine above all others for catarrh, and it is worth its weight in gold. I thank God I have found remedy I can use with safety and that does all that is chimed for it It is curing my deafness B. W Sperry, Hartford, Conn. Eor Over Fifty Ycora Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by, millions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor litde sufferer im- i a" 1 1 T-fc mediately, sold ay uruggists in every part of the world. Twenty -five cents a botde. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's 'Soothing Syrnp," and take no other kind. N. C, AUGUST "WHICH IS IT?" THK STORY OF A NAN WHO KNKW HOW TO RUN A NEWSPAPER. Perkapa thin Tale baa a Moral Moat Oood Ones Have. It is at Leant Intereating and Amuilnc, and was Written by Ana tyu GraavtUe for the Chicago Journal. tWhen an Englishman fails in busi ness he accepts a clerkship without a murmur. The idea never occures to him that he can engage m any en terprise unless he has capital behind him. When an American foils, he accepts a clerkship only as a last ex pedient. The mere want Of capital seldom deters him, however, from immediately having another turn to with fortune. Mr. Biggs was an American. I met him when he was teetotal y stripped of everything save his con summate faith in his own ability. Mr. liiggs believed m himself thoroughly. e did it so thoroughly when I saw him that I got to believing in him too. 1 believed in Mr. Biggs to ex acdy the extent of fifty dollars. Short- after that I went to Europe. It was eight months before I returned. 1 tnougnt 1 wouio go ano see t.i 1 . r 11 1 Biggs. There was no occasion to hunt htm up. A dozen friends I had met on the street had told me of his wonderful success. On the fifty dollars Mr. Biggs had succeeded in establishing on a firm footing a newspaper property that netted him four times that amount per week. He was the proprietor of The Family Footstxl. ' Biggs told me how it was done, here is nothing like business. "How to invest your fifty dollars," said Biggs, "was a question which vexed my soul for at least forty -eight hours after you went to Europe. It was 'sticky' money. In the specula tive world money that is earned by real hard, honest work is supposed to be endowed with superior qualities. doesen t melt away like the other kind. With us it bears the same rela tion to other kinds as Federal scrip Confederate during the war. I ooked you up with the idea of strik ing you for a five, but made it fifty when I found you were flushed. here it is. Much obliged. You'll have to take it in guesses though. Mr. Bieres thereupon handed me sundry rolls of silver, which con tained quarters. He seemed to re vel m that particular denomination of coin, and presently you shall know why. "After I left you," pursued Mr. Biggs, "I cast about for the best way to get a start. 1 determined to publish this paper, 'The Family Foot stool.' " "What, without capital?" Not without capital. I had quite deal of it. Cash isn't everything. Cheek and credit are. I had these rooms furnished, as maghificendy as you now see them, for an immediate outlay of twenty dollars the rest of the bill to be paid on instalments. The rest of the money I hung on to ike gnm death. It was expended quite judiciously in improving my personal appearance by the addition of a new spring overcoat and a silk hat. A silk hat properly worn, can be made an incalculable source of credit. I sat down and drew up the fol- owing advertisement : Which Is It; "As White as a Sheet," or "As White as Snow?" Two thousand dollars will be given in cash as follows : To the person who first answers this question correctly $1000; to the second $750; to the third $250. Each guess must.be ac- comoanied by twenty-five cents which ..uoi.v. cv, will entide the sender to six months' subscription to "The Family Foot stool," the brightest, newsiest periodi cal in America.' 1 took my advertisement to an advertising- agent, a total stranger to me, but a man who knew about busi ness. He inserted this advertisement in 200 newspapers, and I went to the office to wait. "My thirty dollars had dwindled to almost nothing ; the girls I had been compelled to hire to address wrap pers for my new paper, not having received their pay, were growing more and more insolent, when one evening I got a letter from the adver tising agent : Your ad. was out in babbit s list yesterday. ' Look out for squalls "Next morning there were signs ot life in the office of 'The Family Footstool.' A message had arrived from the post-office. " 'Very large mail here for ,you. Please send and get some.' "I sent Tom, the office boy. He re turned empty-handed. I had been exnectine exeat thines. My face 1 O ' fell. "Where are the letters? " 'Thev want us to take em all at onst.' savs Tom. 'I euess I will have to get a wagon.' 'It didn't auite come to that ; but there were 12,000 letters, and each one of them contained a quarter and the words : 'As White as a Sheet,' or 'As White as Snow.' That gave me a paid circulation to start with of 12, 000. "It was only the commencement of an era of unexampled prosperity, however. The question 'As White as a Sheet,' or 'As White as Snow,' seemed to have agitated the whole nation. The second davs mail if possible was heavier than the first the third, fourth, and htth showen no signs of falling off. On the third day I opened a bank account ; by the end of the month 'The Family Footstool had a big sum to its credit. "The joke of the whole thing was, however, that up to diis time 'The Family Footstool' was a myth. It began to dawn upon me that it was necessary to give my subscribers 6, 1891. something in the shape of reading matter. I called on a newspaper tnend ot mine and got a bundle of exchanges, bought a paste-pot and a pair of shears and in a half a day had produced that. What do you think of her?" Mr. Biggs took from a large pile quite a tolerable looking sheet. Con spicuous upon one of its advertising pages was an enormous cut of an ani mal which closely resembled an En glish hedge-hog. This wes labeled: "How Many Quills Upon the Fret Porcupine?" "Every one will try and guess that," said Mr. Biggs. "I have not had time to procure a porcupine yet, but shall get one and have him care fully counted. You see nothing could be fairer. What do you .think of her?" I looked at Biggs steadily for a moment or two. "Whose article is this in your pa per denouncing the Louisiana Lot tery?" A fine flush of righteous indigna tion spread over Mr. Biggs counte nance. "It is mine. Infernal scoundrels. f Such people deserve to be driven out of the country. I bade Mr. Biggs good-by. On my way down stairs I met a quiet, so ber looking individual coming up with brass buttons on his cap, and two men in plain clothes with him. Mr. Biggs hasn't bought his porcu pine yet. I have since learned that the quiet man with the brass buttons was a United States Government In spector. Poor Biggs has been arrested for attempting to swindle the public through the mails. Is it possible that a man of his ability' could be guilty of such conduct? I am very sorry. I would have paid a quarter myself to have found out how many quills there were on that fretful porcupine. Guaranteed Care for La Grippe. We authorize our advertised drug gist to sell you 'Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If you are afflicted with La Grippe and will use this remedy according to directious, givsng it a fair trial, and experience no benefit, you may re turn the bottle and have your money refunded. We make this offer, be cause of the wonderful success of Dr. King's New Discovery during last seasons' epidemic. Have heard of no case in which it failed. 1 ry it. Trial bottles free at A. W. Rowland's DrugStore. Large size 50c. and $1. CROW CHAPMAN, CHOW. The Eagle mill the Rooater Pitted Agaluat Each Other in Ohio. Under the provisions of the new election law which the Cleveland Democratic Convention commended the Ohio Legislature for passing, and under which it declared that "every voter in Oho can cast his ballot, in secret, as he desires, an essential feature of the ballots in that State this year is a distinguishing emblem, to be selected by each party nominating candidates. At the Convention in Columbus which put up William McKinley for Governor, the Republicans selected the American eagle, the proud bird of freedom, as the symbol of their party. Recognized for centuries' as the emblem of despotic power and authority, the eagle was in the days of the Roman republic the standard . . , - , 01 e legions wmcn earnea triumpn 'll a ins HiTvuK.1 oaiuc UC1U3. j uuuiat in Oermany, Austria, and Poland, it perpetuated in France, the military trlories of the Napoleonic era, and in each of the countries named, and in Russia besides, it is the accredited and accepted national bird on the coat of-arms and the standards. In deed, England is the only one of the great European powers which does not formally acknowledge the vigor and prowess of the biggest of wild fowl, whose searching glance can withstand even the dazzling radiance of the noondav sun. In the United States the eagle has always been re garded as the emblem of patriotism As such, its outlines have been freely stamj)ed on the coins of the republic, and no American school boy needs to be told that the eagle is a fighting bird, dangerous when ruffled, vigor ous in conflict, sleepless, patient, lusty and game. There are no flies on the eagle, and his voice is not musical. The Democrats of Ohio last Wed nesday selected as their emblem the barn-yard rooster, a domestic animal of strident lungs but unpretentious manners, and not equipped by nature, science, or training successfully to encounter the eagle at short range. But the rooster is a game bird, undi plomatic and intrepid, always ready for an antagonist ol his own size, or larger, and accustomed to have his supremacy acknowledged, or to know the reason why. The eagle suggests patriotism ; the rooster suggests utility. The former is a patrician, living in an eyrie away from habitation, and litde concerned with mundane matters. The latter is a Democrat, always to be found pretty close to the granary, and tak ing a hustling part in all farmyard affairs. The rooster is a born home ruler, and therefore a true Democrat, whereas the eagle represents nobody in particular, and is least popular where he is best known. New York Sun. H. B. Randolph, Brunswick, Ga., writes: I was under the care 01 nine different doctors, but not one did me the good that Botanic Blood Balm has done me." AN BOG FROM A MARKSNKST. And a Chase After the Lively Little Colt Hatched From It. Seeing the Republic's version of the origin of the expression. "To find a mare's nest," I am induced to send the following version of the story, as related by an Irishman in my tathear's family more than forty -years ago, and I think you will admit that its picturesque terseness will more than compensate for in its elegance ; "Wan toime," said Paddy, ''there was a broth of a boy whin he fur- rust cam over to Amenky, that thravelled by a held where pile of punkins. "An' nwh.it may thim was a round yellow things be?" axes the throtter a throo the fince. bog "Thim," says the farmer, winkin at the hired hamd. "Thims mare's eggs." "Now the boy had long wanted a horse, an' here was the chance of a loifetime ; so a shillin an' a punkin' soon changed hands, an' thrimblin' wid agerness he carried his prize to convenient hillside to hatch him a colt Dontyou see? Afther sittin tree days and tree nights, poor lad, he fell ashlape an' tumbled off the punkin which losin' its moorins, roulled down the hill; bein' some what tindher it sphlitwide open against a clump of bushes, jtst as a froightened rabbit sprang out av the clump an' scuttled off and away. "Blood an' 'ouns! but the boy sphies the rabbit a runnin, from where the sphlit punkm' lay. So he gallopped afther the baste loike this, an' a tossin' his arr. ns loike this an' a schrachin' like mad " 'Sthop my hoss ! Sthop my hoss! Well he ! he ! he ! ! I'm your mammy V Hence when any one had some foolish, impractricable scheme on hand, my Celtic relatives always taunted him with having a "mare's nest." Ex. Good Looks. Good looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthy condition of ah the vital organs. If the Liver be inactive, you have a Bilious Looks, if your stomach be disordered you have a Dyspeptic Look and if you Kidneys be affected you have Pinched Look. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Electric Bitters is the great alterative and Tonic acts dtrectly on these vital organs. Cures Pimples, Blotches Bolls und gives a good complexion. Sold at A. W. Rowland's Drug store 50c. per bottle. THIS COON WAS A CAT. The Hoy. Had Bad Luck, Cat. and so Old th By one of those coincidences which sometimes eccur, a number ot the at taches of the Federal building were gathered into the United States Marshal's office exchanging reminis cences says New Orleans New Delta. "I'll never forget the time I went coon hunting out in the woods with a party of others young fellows," said Ed McDevitt, of the clerk's office!, who had just happened to drift into the room. "I expected to have a load of fun, as the other boys had told me what a pic-nic 'coon hunting always was. Well, we started out about dark with a fine 'coon dog and several guns. At about the same time it began to rain. The whole blessed night we tramped through the dark woods in the pouring rain, scratching ourselves all to pieces on briers and wading through swamps, I remember that along toward morn ing my gun weighed at the least calculation 316 pounds. "At 3 o'clock in the morning our dog treed a 'coon. It was very dark, but we could faintly see the animal moving about up among the limbs of the trees. Then we rested our selves by chopping the tree down It was about two feet thick, and it was 4 o'clock when the tree fell The 'coon jumped out of the tree and started to run, but one of the boys shot. We all ran up to get look at it. It was somebody's old cat. We then went home. "The dog was so disgusted that he would never hunt' coons again and the next day the man who owned the land where we caught the coon came over and threatened to sue us it we didn't pay for the tree and the cat. I tell you what, fellows, there's a heap of fun in 'coon hunting." AN ODD ( OlNl IOKM K. Divorced Couolea Meet While on Their New Wedding Tours. The true story is told of a Iewis ton man who several years ago was divorced in the West, came East and married a woman who was also a divorcee, says the Lewiston Jour nal. They traveled South, and there as thev sat on a hotel veranda the Lewiston man bowed coldly to j 1 . . lady who passed them hanging on the arm of a gendeman. Curiously enouerh his wife also bowed to the couple. Said she, "lo whom did you bow ?" "To the lady," said the Lewiston man with a flush. "She was once my wife. To whom did you bow ? Do you know her ?" "No," said she, "I bowed to the gendeman. I had the misfortune once to know him intimately. He was my husband." And this was their wedding jour ney. Truth gives wings to strength. NUMBER im&p WILSON Collegiate Institute, FOR VOINO LADIES. WILSON. N. C. ON OPENS Sept. 27 th. 1H91. A thorough primary anJ preparatory course of study, with a FULL COLLEGIATE COURSE. equal to that of anv Female College in the South. Standard of Scholarship admitted to be unusually high. FACILITIES FOR STUDYING MLJS1C AND ART UNSCRHASSKD. Department of Teletrraphiv Type- writing, and Short-hand. Beautfot and Healthful Location. Moderate Charges. 'Steady Increase of ratronage, lor Catalogue and lull particulars apply to Silas E. Warren, Principal, Wilson, N. C, 6-35-tf. Do You Want A COOK STOVE ON WHEELS! THAT MAKES No smoke, no smell, no soot, that re quires no wood and has no stove pipe to fall down and clean out ? It is some thing every Housekeeper wants. CRYSTAL FLY TRAPS, (all glass.) A decided novelty, will last a lrfe-time ARIS GREEN ! The only thine that will kill uotato bugs. Refrigerators, Coolers and the cele brated WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER, For Sale by Vjreo. D. Lireen & Co. WILSON, N. C. ROANOKE COLLEGE, SAI.KM. VA., S8th YEAR. Healthful Mountain Climate. Choice of Courses for Degrees ; Commercir 1 Department; Library 17,000 volumes, working Laboratory ; good morals , five churches. Expenses for o months $154 to 304 (board, fees, &c.) Increas ing patronage from many States, In dian Territory. Mexico and Japan. North Carolina is well represented. Next session begins September 16th. Illustrated Catalogue and illustrated book about Salem free. Address, JULIUS D. DREHER, President. i6-4t. MOT1CE. Havrnjt qualified as Executrix of the last will and testament ofl. A. Tynes, deceased, before the Probate udge of Wilson county, notice is here by given to all persons indebted to the estate of said deceased to make im mediate payment and to all persons having claims against the deceased to present them for payment on or before the 15th day ot July 1892 or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. PENELOPE TYNES, Executrix, F. A. & S. A. Woodard, Attv's. 7-i6-6t. WINSTON HOUSE, SELMA, N. C. MRS. G. A. TUCK, PROPRIETRESS. DR. W. S. ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, n. c. Office in Drug Store onTarboroSt. DR. ALBERT ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, n. c. Office next door to the First National Bank. JOHN R. BEST'S BARBER SHOP, r TARBORO ST., WILSON, N.C Satisfaction guaranteed or money re funded. Hair cut in the latest style. DR. E. K. WRIGHT, Surgeon Dentist, WILSON, n. c. Having permanently located in Wil son, I oiler my professional services to the public. "Office in Central Hotel Building. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. I THE Overbaugh House, FAVETTEVILLF., N. C. A. B. McIVER, Proprietor. Rooms large and well ventilated. Centrally located and offers special in ducements to commercial men. HTTable first-class. 4-16-tf. DR. R. W. JOYNER, DENTAL SURGEON. WILSON, N. C I have become permanently identi fied with the people of Wilson; have practiced here for the past ten years1 and wish to return thanks to the gener ous people of the community for the liberal patronage they have given me. CVI spare no money to procure in struments that will conduce to the com fort of my patients. For a continuation of the liberal patronage heretofore bestowed on me I shall feel Vleeply grateful. GASTON & RANSOM, THE WILSON BARBERS. When you wish an easy shave, As good as ever barber gave, fust call on us at our saloon, At morning, eve or noon. We cut and dress the hair with grace, To suit the contour of the face, Our room is neat and towels clean, Scissors sharp and razors keen, And every thing, we think, you'll find To suit the face and please the mind. And all that art and skill can do, If you'll Just call we'll do for you.