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Wiieon Ac $1.50 A YEAR CASH IN ADVANCE. "LET ALL THE END THOU AIM ST AT, BE THY COUNTRY S, THY GOD S, AND TRUTH S. l THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM VOLUME XXIII. WILSON, WILSON COUNTY, N. C, MARCH 23, 189 NUMBER 12. STATIONERY In the Original Store YOU WILL FIND A NEW STOCK OF Stationery JUST RECEIVED PRICES AS USUAL. We Have Only Ladies Cloaks Left, bizes. 32, 36, 38 40. Our price was $5.25; sold elsewhere at $7.50. We now offer them at $4.20 to close as we don't want to carry one of them, over. . ' Now is your chance if the size is right. You will find them in " The Corner Store." In the Back Store ,We have a Specialty in Ladies Dong. Buttoned Shoes at $1.25 per pair. - Th3 Gash Racket Stores. J. M. LEATH, Manager. Nash and Goldsboro Streets, WILSON, N. C. DR. W. S.. ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, - WILSON, n. c. . Office in Drue- Store on Tarboro St. DR. ALBERT ANDERSON, Physician and Surgeon, WILSON, N. C. Office next door "to the First Nationa Bank. DR. E. K. WRfGHT Surgeon Dentist, WILSON, N. C. Having permanently located in Wil- on, I offer my professional services to he public. tSTOftice in Central Hotel Building IF YOU WISH TO PURCHASE THE BEST Pi a, i os, at the most reasonable prices, write to us for prices and catalogues. Our In struments are carefully selected and our guarantee is absolute. Cabinet Organs. We carry an immense offer them at lowest prices Stock For and par- ticulars address, E, VAN I.AER, 402 and 404 W. 4th St., ' Wilmington, N. C ElFVve refer to some of the most prominent families in Wilson. io-27-3m NEWMAN NEW STORE, Tk ' n I take this method to inform my friends and the . public tha 1 1 , r 1 . 1 1 nave openea a iresn stocic o GROCERIES, GROCERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, CONFECTIONERIES, FjRUITS, ETC. FRUITS, ETC. at the stand on Tarboro street recently , occupied, by Mr. John oardner. ' KEROSENE, per gal.-. 10c. TOBACCO, per lb., 25c. All other goods proportionate ly low. - Highest cash prices paid for country produce. Respectfully, W. R. Best. 4 New POETRY. A PARTISAN. CARL' SMITH. Who wrote about the English oak, Wrote sturdy verse and true; . And well have sung the poet folk Of willow and of rew; And what thev said were words of love But theirs that praise not, mine, rather sing the glories of The "quakin asp' " and pine. When in the morn the edge of day Peers over the great peaks, And down along the valley way To where the torrent shrieks, hunts from out the haunts of shade Full manv a friend of mine. And clear the beauties are displayed Of "quakin asp and pine. Oh, deep within the mountain heart Are wondrous treasures stored ! And sullenly the giants part With riches from their hoard. But fairer than the bits of gold That in the sluices shine s that sweet memory I hold Of "quakin asp ana pine. And nobler beauty ne'er was seen, As, climbing crag and stone, They carpet with a royal green ftThe stairway of God's throne. More fitting stair from heaven to earth 1 nan this could none divine, When the pure cast dawa has its birth On "quakin asp ana pine. BILL ARPS LETTER. The spring is fairly upon us, and it 13 really the ,birth of a new year. 1 he sweet odor of violets is in the air and the alder tags are blooming in the glades. The robins are bobbing around and the setting hen comes clucking from her nest. Fire is on the mountains, and the busy farmers are burning brush and cleaning up the fence rows or hauling guano to make the biggest crop of cotton the world ever saw. That is what they told me in North Carolina, and I reckon it is so all over the cotton belt. The poet says "What ever is right," and so we will have to be reconciled and let the farmers do just as - they please and take the conse quences. In fact, it is risky and impertinent to advise a maa about his business. But editors will do it, and heard a farmer tell one not long ago that he could run a better newspaper he would give it more attention and give the farmers less advice. Well, it stands to reason that a man who has been farming all his life knows more about it than a town raised editor who never farmed a day. r The farmers are in earnest now. ohtics has setded down in the old ruts. I he Ocala platform is dead buried, and all the vain hopes that nspired it have vanished away. last as the "lorty acres , ana a mule played out with the darkey, so have all the expectations of some big thing from the erovernment played out witn the people s party, it was a delusion and a snare, and nobody but a few politicians profited by it. It is at last an admitted fact that the farm- must depend on themselves and not on the government. Paternalism is the curse of a state or a nation, and am glad to see that Mr. Cleveland is going to put his foot down upon it. Protection for protection s sake must go. we want no more intent in dustries. They must start full grown and compete with the world. This pension outrage must be reformed. or it grows bigger as the years roll on. It is the politician s hobby, and he rides on it into office. Over eight hundred thousand are now on the rolls, and not one-fourth of them ever saw, a battlefield. It is nothing but paternalism, and it has gotten to be an epidemic. Most everybody wants some help from the government, and if they can t get it one way they will another. Our revolutionary fathers. who were wounded and disabled, drew pensions, but, in course of time, it j j i.i ' ! . 1 tney aiea, ana me pension stoppea, but now the pension keeps running on and spreading out to widows and children and grandchildren, and most of them are to foreigners who fought for the money that was in it and noth ing else. Just go into the national cemetery, at Chattanooga, and see the names on the headstones, and you can't pronounce half of them without a corscrew. t or the honest patriotic soldier, we have the profoundest re spect, but "we rebels know something: about the foreign hirelings we had to fight the last two years of the war. Paternalism is run mad one hund-, red and eighty millions of pensions is more than the government can stand. The nation has put Mr. Cleveland there to reform, and we bleieve he will do it. The salaries of the govern ment officals are too large. Millons could be saved by a healthy reduction and then there would not be so many office seekers. How is it that our governor and our supreme court judges get only about half a much as a United States marshal pr a clerk of a United States district ? How is it that a litUe postoffice like Cartersville pays $1,600. when there are ten men and twenty women who would take it for $1,000? Let us get back to the economy of our fathers, and then the duties on the necessaries of life can be taken off, and the common people can get their shoes and blankets cheaper. Wash ington is called the father of his country, and now we want Mr. Cleve land to father the country some, too, besides little Ruth, and take the burdens off the people. That is all the paternalism we ask for a clean and honest administration. Kill the monopolies and the trusts. Let Hawaii alone and the Nicaragua canal and everything else that calls for more more money and more taxes. Don't fret so much about the money or the scuffle between gold and silver, it is doing very well. I once was young and now I am old, but 1 have never seen the time that there wasn't enough money in town pay for every thing the people had to selL I farm ed for eleven years, and my corn brought me 50 cents a bushel for every crop. It isn't the . kind of money, whether gold or silver or paper, that concerns us, but it is the solvency and honesty of the banks, for 95 'per cent of all the business is done by checks and deposits. There are enough dollars and dimes to do all the rest. Who ever, sees a piece of gold coin ? Who ever looks at a national bank bill to see what bank issued it ? They are all good, from Maine to California. In my opinion, the world has no better currency, and I dread to see the day when any man or set of men can issue their own bills and foist them upon the country we have tried that and suffered. Let well enough alone. What old Georgian does not recall the failures of Georgia banks in the ante-bellum days not only the wild cat banks that were intended to fail, but eood banks that failed through great financial revulsions ? There were failures at Macon and Columbus and St. Marys and Rome and Ring gold and Atlanta, and many of us have got relics hid away that we sometimes look at and lament. I know one man who has a package of $4,000 of Ringgold money that broke before the war. It is the com mon people who suffer from spurious money, the smart, shrewd' traders get rid of theirs before the collapse comes. Now let us all go slow. Mr. Cleve land's election does not mean a bonanza to anybody, but it does mean honesty of administration, if it is possible for him to control it And I believe he will control it. Mr. Har rison was honest enough but not broad enough.. He wanted to jump on Chile with both feet, and nearly the last thing he did was to annex Hawaii on paper. But he' was a pure man and did the best he could. Let us not idolize any man for we are all men and not gods. When Mr. Hayes died a friend of mine expressed his surprise and said he thought he had died several years ago, but remember ed now that it was Arthur. Blaine wjll soon be forgotten, for such is the nature of political fame. What a troublous life they live ? Think of Toombs and Stephens and Gordon and Colquitt and all their heart-burnings, and then turn away ancLsay it is better to live calm and serene under your own vine and fig tree and take comfort with those you love and those who love you. There is nothing m this life that will compare with the love of wife and children and the daily intercourse with good nabors. May the good Lord give this bless ing to us all and make us content. Bill Arp. The Modern Wy. Commends itself to the well-informed to do pleasandy and effectually what was formerly done in the crudest manner and disagreeably as well. To cleanse the system and break up colds, headaches and fevers without unpleasant after effects, use - the de lightful liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. A CHATHAM MIRACLE. lli. CARL VERRINUER'S TIC1SSI Tl'UK OK TOKHKK AND OK HEALTH, He Survives Them all, and Recount Hia Wonderful Deliverance From Pavertjr and Death, anil hla Restoration to Pros perity and Vigor of Mind and Body tiood Word for the A. O. U. W. (Chatham Planet.) In a Raleigh street residence there lives with wile and one child a little ten-year-old daughter a musician known throughout Ontario, if not the wnoie uominion, as a prince among pianists, organists and coir masters- a veritable maestro and "Wizzard of the Ivory Keys," and no one who has ever listened to his manipulation of the great organ in the Park Street Methodist Church, or heard him evoke "magic music's mystic melody" from the magnificent Decker Grand in his own drawing room but will de clare that his eminence is well de served, and his peers can be but few among the professors of Divine Art. The door, plate bear s the following inscription: -,, CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. Dr. Carl Leo Verrinder, Director. 1 o sit, as did a rlanet reporter a few days ago, . in a very atmosphere 01 sweet harmony, created by Dr, Verrinder's magican-like touch was an experience that might well be en vied, and one calculated to inspire, the most sentimental reveries. But sentimental moods finally vanish and leave one facing the sober and prac ticle side of life. The music ceased and the conversation took a turn leading to the real object of the re porter's call. "There are stories abroad," said the newspaper man,, "regarding some extraordinary deliverance from death, which you have met with recently, doctor. Would you object to stating what foundation there is for- them, and, if any, furnish me with the true facts for publication." Dr. Verinder shrugged his shoulders and laughed. "I have not," he replied, "been giv en to seeking newspaper notoriety, and at fifty-five years of age it is not likely begin, and yet, said the oro- j fessor after thinking a moment and consulting Mrs. Verrinder, "perhaps it ls best that I, should give you the circumstances for use m 1 he rlanet. The story of my rescue from the grave might fittingly be prefaced by a litde of my early history. 'We re sided in England, where though I was a professor of music, I was not de pendant on my art, as I had acquired a competence. My wife was an hier ess, having 50,000 in her own rightf Through the rascality of a broker she was was robbed almost of all her for tune, while by the Bank of Glasgow failure, my money vanished. It be came necessary for me then to return to my profession in order to live, I do not speak of it boastingly, but I stood well among the ' musicians of that day in the old land. My fees were a guinea a lesson, and it was no ; uncommon thing for me tp give i twenty in a day. We came to America, landing in Quebec, where I anticipated getting an engagement as organist in cathed ral, but was disappointed. Subse quently we moved to St. Catharines, in which city I procured an organ and choir and soon had a large clien tele. Later in order as I thought to better my fortune, I took up my resi dence in London, ; first filling an en gagement with a Methodist church and afterwards accepting the position of organist in St. Peters Cathedral. In those cities I made many warm friends, and their tributes' and gifts I shall ever retain as among the most precious of my possessions. It .was while living in London and pursuing my art with much earnestness and labor that I received a stroke of paralysis. Perhaps," here the speaker rose and stretching himself to his full height, thus displaying his well built and well-nourished frame "I do not look like a paralytic But the truth is I have had three strokes yes, sir, first, second and third, and they say the third is fatal, ninety-nine times out of one hundred. Yet here you see before you a three-stroke victim, and a man who feels, both in body andj mind, as vigorous as he ever did in his life. My ,, ultimate cure I attribute to my testing the vir tues of a medicine whose praise I shall never cease sounding as long as 1 live, and which 1 shall reccomend to suffering humanity as I am now constantly doing, while I know of a case and can reach the ear of the pa tient, After removing to Chatham I had . not long been here when my health further began to give ' way. Gradually I noted the change. I felt it first and most strongly in a stom ach affection which produced con stant and distressing nausea. It grew worse and worse, I myself at tributed it to bad water poisoning my system. One doctor '- said it was catarrh of the stomach. Another pronounced it diabetes, still another a different diagnosis. I kept on doc toring, but getting no relief. I tried one medicine after another, but it was no use. Grippe attacked me and ad ded to my pain, discomfort and weak ness. At last I took to my bed and it seemed that I was never going to get well. Nothing of a nourishing nature would remain on my stomach. JNo drugs seemed to have a counter acting influence on the desease which was dragging me down to death. My wife would sit at ny beside and mois ten my lips with diluted spirits which was all that could be done to relieve me. Besides three local doctors gave me up, I had doctors from London and Kingston whose skill I believed in and to whom I paid heavy fees, but without receiving any help or en " M. t . " - . . couragemenL 11 is true that a stomach pump operation afforded temporary relief, but yet I felt that my peculiar case needed some special and particular compound or remedial agent which 1 knew not of. But, at last, thank God, I discovered it. I 1 11 el.. ' 1 . . ' . nau oeen ior eignieen montns a mis erable wreck, unable to work, unable to eat or to sleep properly. . My means were becoming exhausted My poor wife was worn out in body and spirit. Suddenly the deliverer came! Pink Pills! Yes sir! Pimk Pills God bless their inventor or discoverer ! have rescued me from the jaws of death and miraculously made me what you see me to day, hearty, happy, with a splendid appe tite, a clear brain, a capacity for work and an ability to sleep sound and re freshing sleep a boon that only man who has experienced the terrors of insomnia can rightly appreciate T 1 r . oear in minu, my iriena, l am no wild enthusiast over the ' supposed merits 01 this medicine. I have tes ted the virtues of Pink Pills and am ready to take oath to their efficacy, No one could shake my faith in them ; because what a man has thoroughly proved in his own experience, and what he has had confirmed in the ex perience of others I have perscribed the pills to other sick persons and know what extraordinary good they have enected in their cases he ought to be convinced is so. I shall tell you how I came to try them. A fellow member of the A. O. U. W., the brethren of which order had been more than kind to me during my ill ness, reccomended Pink Pills T knew i -t . I... notnmg arxnu wnat tney were or what they could accomplish. In fact, I am rather a skeptic on .what are termed "proprietary remedies.' But I started to take Pink Pills for Pale People, made by the Dr. Wil liams' Medicine Co., Brookville.From the very first, one at a dose, I began to mend and before I had taken more than a box or two I knew that I had found the right . remedy and that to the Pink Pills I owed my life. In nine months I have taken twelve boxes just six dollars worth. Think of it my friend ! Hundreds of dollars for other treatment, and only six dol 1 e .-. 1 1 wis ior wnai nas maae a man 01 me 1 and set me again on the highway o I 1.1 . ma neann ana prosperity. 1 here is Highest of all in Leavening Power.- Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOIHFELY PURE some subtle, life-giving principle in I Pink Pills which I do not attempt to j latnom. 1 only knew, like the blind man of old : "Once I was blind ; now I can see !" God in the mys tery of his providence, directed my brother of the A. O. U. W. to me. I took" it. I live and rejoice in my health and strength. I have no physical malady, save a slight stiffness m my leg due to grippe. I feel as well as in my palmiest days. My prospects are good- All this I grate ully attribute to the virtues of Pink ills for Pale People, and now my story is done !" as the nursery ballard runs. If anybody should ask confir mation of this tale of mine let him write to me and I shall cheerfully furnish it The Pink Pills were my rescurer and I'll be their friend and advocate while I live !" The reporter finally took his leave of Dr. Verrinder, but not without the professor entertaining him to another piano treat, a symphony played with faultless execution and soulful inter pretation of the composer's thought. Calling upon Messrs. A. E. Pilkey & Co., the well-known druggists, the reporter ascertained Dr. Williams ink Puis have an enormous sale in Chatham, and that from all quarters come glowing reports of the excellent results following their use. In fact Dr. Williams Pink Pills are recog nized as one of the greatest modern medicines a perfect blood builder and nerve restorer curing such dis eases as rheumatism.neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, nervous headache, nervous prostration and tired feeling resulting therefrom , diseases depending upon humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. Pink Pills restore pale and sallow., complexions to the gow of health, and are specific or all the troubles peculiar to the fe male sex, while in the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases aris ing from mental worry, overwork or excess of whatever nature. These Pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and Brookville, Ont, and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hur dred and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations and sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine Company from either address. The price at which these pills are sold make a course of treatment comparatively in expensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment. "The Blood ia the Life." Runs the old saying, and every thing that ever makes part of any or gan of the body must reach its place therein through the blood. There fore.if the blood is purified j n 1 kept in good condition by the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla, it necessarily .follows that the benefit of the medicine is imparted to every organ of the body. Can anything be simpler than the method by which this excellent . medicine gives good health to all who will try it fairly and patiently ? We can't describe them. You will have to see those beautiful ail chromos we are giving as premiums, to appre ciate them. Remember, we don t give you your choice of the six, but actually give all six of these eems of art and and a prize certificate entitling you to your choice of one of twelve articles enumerated under the head of "Offer Exraordinary" first article on this page. The certificate you send with twelve cents to P. O. Vickery, Augusta Maine. We give the certifi cate and the six chromos and mail to you address "Vickery's Fireside Visitor" and The Wilson Advanxe one year for the small sum of two dollars. The Grippe is a disease with so se rious an ending possible that its slightest attack should have the im mediate attention of one's physician, and it should be treated by remedies dispensed under a physician's pre scription alone. Its most characteristic and painful symptom .however, the terrible aching pain can be greatly relieved and the patient made very .much more com fortable, by a thorough rubbing of the body, wherever painful, with Pond's Extract, diluted with hot water. This treatment will also tend to prevent catching cold. Abolishing Capital Punialtmenn Denver, March 17. The senate this morning passed a bill abolishing capital punishment The bill will doubtless become a law, as Governor Waite is know to favor it, and it is al most certain to pass the House. Bremen, March 20., After long continued anxiety, the Naronic has been given up as lost Two of her life boats were passed at sea. There is still some small hope that her peo pie were picked up by some passing ship. HE DEFENDED O'BRIEN. ; i : Driving- an Obnoxlong Passenger . Off the Deck of an Ocean Steamship. "In 1887," said Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul the other day, "I was a passen ger on the Bhip Umbria, which carried William O'Brien to America. You re member that visit, how O'Brien was mobbed on his way to Montreal and all that? Well, aboard the ship xvaa an Irish lawyer named Fox, an Orangeman and a pugnacious creature generally. Of eourse he didn't like O'Brien, and by the time the ship was two days out' from Qneenstown he had organized a party of passengers who hissed O'Brien every time he came on deck or into the saloon. "This wacn't pleasant for the rest of us, but we didn't say a word until one day O'Brien slipped as he was leaning over the railing contemplating (in imag ination) the beasts of the sea, and nearly fell overboard. Fox stood in the center of the group not far away, and he and the rest of them commenced to hoot and make other disagreeable noises. That aroused my Irish, and walking "firm and fierce over to them I said in my most sonorous and commanding voice: ; " 'See here, you ruffians, this disgrace ful business has gone far enough, and I won't stand it any longer. Listen if you don't quit it and get down into your staterooms in just two minutes and leave Mr. O'Brien alone the rest of the voyage I'll take the matter into my hands.' : , "And with that I took out my watch, opened it and began to count the sec onds. You ought to have seen the ex pression on Fox's face. It would have gladdened the heart of a painter. "'Oh, ho!' says he, 'he's going to launch the fulminating curse of Rome against us. He's going to excommuni cate us. Oh, ho! But where's, his .bell, book and candle? "'Don't you believe it,' says I, still looking at the watch. 'Don't you be lieve it. I wouldn't waste a good, val uable curse on a beggar like you. But I'll fix you in spite of that,' says L Til go down into the steerage and bring up a troop of those husky Irish lads,' says 1, 'and I'll tell 'em to sweep you off the deck and tie you down in your berths. You've only got half a minute left, and I advise you to start pretty soon.' "There wasn't one of 'em in sight in 80 seconds, and Fox was the first to go. "They didn't bother O'Brien after that," added the archbishop, "but the news got about in the steerage, and next day I received a deputation from that quarter of the ship expressing the sin cere sorrow they felt down there because they didn't get a chance to larrup the dirty blackguards." -Chicago Post The Latest Celestial Vision. The latest of celestial visions is an-' nounced from Bohemia. Near Traute nau a girl named Christine Ringel was gathering mushrooms in a wood when she saw a tall lady in black who pro claimed herself "the messenger of God." Subsequently she appeared in gray and white costumes. On the' latter occa sion she descended straight down frftm heaven. She said that she came on eath to protect men whenever God wished to punish them. Christine was a good girL Taking the vision at her word, she asked that the village smith might be cured of his gout, and according to" the peasants the boon was granted. Next the nineteenth century comes into the tale. The proprietor of the wood railed off the spot with a view to a pil grimage chapel and admission fee. Hop ing, it appears, to decide finally whether there was money in it or no, the parish priest arranged a meeting on the spot last week. Christine, the elders of the parish, a force of gendarmes and some thousands of spectators went together to the wood. The girl looked in rapture to ward the sky and murmured incoherent ly. The crowd is said to have been moved, to tears, but we must be allowed -our doubts about the gendarmes. Pall Mall Budget. - Why Drunkards See Double. ' In answer to the question, "Why does a drunken man stagger in his gait and see double?" Dr. J. W. Crosswhite said recently: "Double vision is due to a want of harmony in the muscles which control the movements of the eyebalL This is owing to a change effected in the nerves or nerve centers by. the alcoholic poison. Inflammation of the nerves and also a loss of enef gy in the centers of the brain are produced by, overdoses of alco hol, and to this disturbance in the center is due the double vision, as also the stag gering gait produced by the loss of har mony in the muscles of the limbs. I "Should the muscles of each eyeball not act exactly as one, then a different part of the visual field is exposed to the two retina. Each retina, acting inde- pendently, sees tho object, and the im pressions conveyed to the brain are there fore double instead of single. Were the muscles acting exactly similarly , the ob ject would be seen by the same part of each retina and the impressions there fore conveyed to the brain would be sin gle, ordinary vision resulting." Kansas City Times. The Bight Kind of Newspaper. There are three kinds of newspapers in the world-the organ grinding news paper, the free lance newspaper and the newspaper that, seeking to avoid the ex tremes of servility and recklessness rep resented by the two former, aims first of all to print the truth for truth's sake . fairly, fully, disinterestedly and having done so, to fit its ratiocinations not to some preconceived opinion Or imaginary line of consistency, but to the real facts of the case in hand. Louisville Courier JournaL '' Kicb, Red Blood. As naturally results froin taking Hood's Sarsaparilla as a personal cleanliness results from free use of soap and water. This great purifier thoroughly expels scrofula, salt rheum and all other impurities and builds up every organ of the body. Now is the time to take it : Our sales in Our sales in teen "Proof of the pudding" is in the use of Pocomoke in the field. - It is conceded by the best farmers of Wilson and adjoin ing counties that Pocomoke makes one-eighth more Lint Cotton than any! other brand in Wilson. ' TINSLEY'S HIGH GRADE Tobacco Guano. Highest analysis of any Brand sold in Wilson. It is absolutely necessary to use Tinsley's Guano on your Plant Bed. Ifyouwant to make Fine Tobacco we refer you to the most successful farmers, of Wilson and adjoining coun ties as to the result of Tinsley's Gua nos. ; Do not use Common Cotton Guanos called Tobacco Guanos the only dif ference being that the bags are marked for Tobacco unless you are willing to make six cent Tobacco. Take nothing but -Tinsley's Guano if you want to make Fine Tobacco. C. Ai Young & Bro. The Gorg-eoua Staff OfBcar. On the occasion of a military gather ing in Washington during the first ad ministration of Mr. Cleveland a consid erable party of citizens and members of the militia had an arrangement to call on the president at a certain hour. There were a goodly number of ladies and gen tlemen. When the party was announced, Mr. Cleveland got np from his chair at his desk, and swinging around sat upon its corner with a cigar between his fin gers, which he had been smoking, and from which the smoke still curled np. He put out his hands as the first of the party reached him without remark, and still half sitting upon the corner of his desk . he reached out his hand and gave him a pump handle shake. This was re peated as fast as the company could pass by a single up and down stroke.1 He said nothing until a member of Governor Gray's staff, who presented himself in all that gorgeous array of reg imentals which only a staff officer who never saw much service can put on, and which is probably the most grotesque free show the country beholds, appeared in front of Mr. Cleveland. The presi dent ran his eye up and down the man, and a pleased expression came into his face, which had been blank until that moment, and he remarked as he took his hand, "Got 'em all on, colonel? Indian apolis Journal. ' i General Butler'a Idea of Bullion. General Butler believed in gold and silver only as a commodity and could not see the necessity for government vaults filled with coins or bullion. "The Chinese,' he once said to the writer eight years ago, "know better than we how to take care of their metal wealth. They pave their cellars with it in great flags or squares. Then u a man is seen carry ing off one of these squares he is asked where he got it. It would be the same with gold and silver in bars but for the government stamp on it When I took possession of Xsew Orleans, there was $800,000 in Mexican silver dollars among the seizures. . '"I had it done up in great packages that weighed more than one man could carry. It was stacked up in the custom house, where people passed by it at all hours. There was no guard over it, but it was guarded by the eyes of the multi tude. ' None of it was ever lost" The general believed that with greenbacks as a circulating medium gold and silver might be smelted in ingots of 250 pounds and piled up in the streets without dan ger of theft New York Tribune. A Fanny Story. - One day in Tennessee a man killed an other man. The murderer was arrested and would have' been hanged in the course of time, but the brothers of the murdered man couldn't wait They got up a big mob of several hundred people and attacked the jail with the intention of taking the murderer out and lolling him, The men, however, whom these same people had elected and sworn in for the purpose got together and defend- ed the jail, and incidentally the prisoner. The result was that some 29 men were slain, among whom were, very appro priately, the two brothers who got up the not unique social entertainment . . ' Now, if that isn't a funny story, then I never heard one. It is enough to kill the devil with laughing. New York Herald. -,.JJ ' 1 :-' '8 I 1883 Ten Tons. 1892 over Four 1 Hundred Tons. Killed Whil Crouing- a Railroad. New, Iberia, La., March 17. Mrs. Vincent Oliver, her sister Mrs. Walker and the latter's child, while attempting to drive" across the rail road track near Ibera yesterday, were struck by a train. The vehicle was smashed and the occuponts' were killed. Ad vice to Mother Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should always be used for children teething. It soothes the child, sof tens the gums, allays all pain, 'cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhce. Twenty-five cents, a bottle Modern Kducuation. Much greater efforts are bestowed nowadays on making young men and women learned and accomplished than on cultivating in them either sympathy in the pursuits of others, or good-temper or geniality'; yet neither learning be it ever so profound, not accomplishments be they ever so brilliant, will bring them or those about them half the happiness that kindly, sympathetic, good-natured manners will diffuse. Nay, so unfitted are many persons for family life or social intercourse, that they will turn their very advantages into means of annoyance to those with whom they live. And this for th want of train ing in good-manners, the which, if they possessed, they would neither be sour, pedantic, disputatious, over accurate on the one hand, nor fussy and overwhelmingly gushing on the other. Churchman. ' Rheumatism Cured in a Uav . "Mystic Cure" for -Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarka ble and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the di , diately disappears. The first dose greatly benehts, 75 cents. Sold by E. M. Nadal druggist, Wilson, N. C. 4-7-6111 The Public Printing- Contract. We understand upon, good author ity that Mr.Josephus Daniels Public Printer to the State,has announced his purpose to award the public printing contract to Messrs. E. M. Uzzell and Edwards and Broughton, each firm to get half of the work. This is the graceful course to pursue and will be commended by the public? The work will be done by the two firms at fifteen per cent less than prices heretofore paid, and the arrangement will be the same as that which was recommended by the printing committee to the Democratic caucus. It is understood that Mr, Daniels will accept the federal appointment tendered to him and will go to Washington.--Raleigh News and Observer. Bay State, Banister's and E. P. Reed's fine shoes are the best made at E. R. Gay's.