HA.XjXj & SLE3DC3-E, I'Kopkiktoks.
VOL. XIII.
NO. 37.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
"vi. H. KITt'llix, W. A. Dl NN.
COUNTY ATTOHN K Y,
J I T C H I X 4 DUNS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
SCOTLAND NECK, X. C.
mar lsif
r. ii. m mikk,
tULKIOH, N. C.
H, H. SMITH Jr.
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UBBEE A SMITH
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at'lorw at Iw, tntve fi.nnril h lluiltril juirtiu'r.ilp
f..r Hut prat'tliv of ! In ll'illfnit iminly. Mr,
lluUi will Itrtiil tlie ronrtk "f lliillfx. ri-uuliirly.
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re required, net i, ly
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it II V M A S,
Attorney a I Inn ,
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to mi tirMiit,ln,i ol tht' irilt'K-inti.
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H II M A rl S. II 1 I. I ,
Attorney at I.mv,
HALIFAX, N. C.
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Attorney at I.mv
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Ihlilixt.
llavllUi l.rillilllclltlv lia-ntcil III Weld. HI. can !
found at his otliec In Mililll s Hrick llilllilllik' at all
tlluoa ..scepl u hell alwllt on prolessiollltl liusiucss.
Careful attention kivcii to all I'riiuches of the pro
fession, parties isitcd at llieir homes when ile
sired. July I.' ly.
It. K. 1.. II 1' S T K II,
Sumeoli Dt'iitiNt.
run U fniiixl At 111" "fliec In Knllvhl.
Iu n- Nitron dil'U' f-r llu- l'iilnh"w Kxtrnc
tint; tf 1 M't h tilvuiyd mi Ituikil.
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A
SPRING TRADE
1884.
I am rt't'civliijr mnl pliu-lng on ulc ttl
.riiv lull liiir of
ovular
Fino Whtu ) ii'hhIh, lnlirt Um'itM, Miu'D Uiwnt,
HlrttnUril rrinu Hi to NU., Wowed, Siiii,
l.UKtn1, t Hfihuu-ri'H, Kininiiif. N-otoh
rrliitt'd Cam-
ttrif, Kmliri'iit-iU-
Ijtcea, and
AXIMLIXEOF yorioXS AM)
JEWKUtY.
HKAVY I'l.ATKK KAIt lUIOI'S.
BhTKSiMSII liAltSKTKAH hlttil's,
HKAI'TIKl l.SI'AKK I'lSS.
-4 SPLKSDin ASSOKTMKXT OF
IIAHDWARE,
srcn a-
(irjiiitri Tool, Purhi
llmon.
I ('iill'ii mnl
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Myfink'cry Itwtrltiii-nt I hKo funiMitsI ultti
FUh, Mi'Ht, ijinl, .Moliiwi'n, hjrup, f'liitur, t'liflw,
HtHir Hie KuittT, ljtitr, ciic4v suri'li, NiMipiiiitl
("oph mi'l.
-1 1m keepttK very mt Tulmxn and 01
(turn. fvk tif
Ul3
UeLdo!. C.
CHOICE
LIQUORS AND
(JROCKRIKS.
My Hnr mntniiiK nil I lie clinic llrnndx of
Wines, Ilrutitliisx, Wliiskcya, IWr ami mixctl
Driiika are made in the lUnt niiiiincr. Ci
gam, Sinnkiiigiuul Chewing Tobitcco. Call
anrl examine them.
FAMILY 0 11 0 C K R I K S
are cheap and nil the beat kind conatantly
on huuil and itock continually rvpk'uiahed.
apr 17 3n
Mil l ectin
Till: FAMILY IU1U.K.
iTIii' full-. wiiiR isu very "hi im'iii( kii.1 we lnive
liutneen ll f.ryrtin.. W e yive ll f ir lhe benefit uf
III...' ho have ti..t mm, it, or t ..ulil like ll cupy.)
Iloiv painfully .leii-ioj; Hie futnl retiillerlttill
(If yoothiill ('..inn'. !!. .Ii mi.! imioront joy ;
When. b-d with .;H.-;it.il.v !'l mill Htl'.-l'lioti,
surroiiti'I.-il with iii.-rv:e., with peare from on
hiuh.
I Ht ' ' I view tin. I'linir of my ire ami my moihrr,
Th.". -itn.if tlit'ln fi .priiiif tvt miikciI on cw'h hnn.l
An.l rh-hi-i oHi..k, w Inch euvlleil every ulher--Ihi.
f.m.ly ti . thin lny on tin-utitml ;
The ol.l i.nnlly Kible. tin' .Irnr ble.e.t Hll.lu
The niiuily llilil.. Unit lay on the aland.
Thill Ilihli', the volume ol imil hn.pl ration,
At ii win mwl Ht fvriiini;, I'oiihl yield tut lelinht,
Ami tin- iirilyiT'it' rtur nire wait a wweet Invocation
l-'or mercy hy .hiy. uicl f ir wifely hy night;
Our hymn-, of ihitnli-nlvniK. with harmony kwcII
W.
An.l warm fr on the licurt of a family hand,
Half Miwiil n Imiii curth to that raptiiroin dwell
ing ic ril.cl In tin' llil.lcthat lay on llu'Maml;
Tti il rMi.M i.rii.iui.-, which evelleil every other,
Tile I iiuily llti.le lliat lny nn.llie Ntiiinl.
Vc .. riich ,.f tiitn.(iiilily, loiiu have we imrte.l;
My h 'jic uliii'! wonc mnl my pnrentit no more;
In - irr vv mnl mi.lncsa I live broken licarti-il.
An.l w .in.liT unknow n mi a fur iliMimt short',
Yel how cmi hi Miht a iletirsavinnr's iroU'cioii,
r..r.lfnl of Kills Ir.iln Inn boiiiitll'iil liiiml!
I), let me wilh pitlenee receive his correction,
Ami think of Hie Bible Unit lay on the slanil-
Tlic richest of hooks-, w hicli eveelleil t'very other
The t'.tmily Hi hie that lay on the utanil !
HER FAIR FALSE FACE.
It nil ctiincs tiiii-k tti un; ninv, tin! utter
misery mm tlisiiuir tliiit ciiiik' tu nit' wlicti
I knew my (liii'linjr was liilno tu tnu
t';ilwi to cverv vow.
Wlirii I tltink even now of that one
grent mn row of my lite, mnl oftho Woe most
bitter the woman I loveil hrotiiilit to me
lie woinaii whose f'alc. love uiatlc me
what 1 inn to-ila). niasler of tho ataleliest
mine, owner ol almost countless wealth,
hill alas! wifeless mnl childless a lonely,
IIiiiiiiiY num.
I w ill tell von my story, and
stul)'
ill my
llfo'lll-
of others as well, lint 1 lnu4 te
l it
tiwn way, so I will beifiu at
tlic
inn".
1 was only twenty-live when I first met
relie Cameron, and she was then h boun
tiful Kill of ei''litooii a simple, jjentlc
jiill, 1 believed, who knew nuthiiig of
vanity or ambition, or anything that wo
men of the world hold dear.
I was naturally romantic, anil, like the
"l.nnl of liostia," in v greatest ambition
was to be loved for myself alone, not that
I hail Very much to teiiijit a woman with,
lint I Was the youngest son of .1 Wealthy
family, and my iiioiln r's fortune a con
siderable Mini had Ikiioiiii! mine at her
ilralh.
I never told A relic. Cameron this; I let
her think inc u Ntrulinjj lawyer, mid as
am h I wooed and Won her.
I made her my wife, ami took her to a
iivtty rose-enibowered cottage, and our
lioiii yiniiiin wits In me a dream of pas
sionate deliolitj mid if any dissatisfaction
was felt by Arelie, she never gave the
sliohlesl moii uf it to me, but 1 know now
that a tempest of passion and bitterness
was ri.-ino within her towards ine, and
why why'.'
liei nuse anolher had fallen ill love wilh
her beautiful fact anolher. to whom she
never mentioned by name nor her own
in irriao;e.
This I learned afterwards, am! more
than this, for 1 learned of stolen meetings
by inoon-lioht, of kisses and caresses be
tween my wife and her secret lover.
1 believed I had tested her love euoiioli,
aud I went away for a few iluys. my in
tention beini; to tell my people of my
luariiag,'.
I did so, and received their insurance
of a welcome for iny beautiful wile, mid
lin n, wilh hil -Sea i ig heart tun
pulses throbbing as 1 pictured how lie
(lad li;ht would leap to A relic's vy,
when we met pictured her dcli'Jit at tin
costly dresses i.nd ii wel I hail ordered.
her child-like astonishment at the beauty
and elegance of the new limne to which
1 would brino In f.
It was .lime; the r,s.l ruses bloomed
flagrant as they twined round the columns
ot tlin rustic veraiitlali and uii icU then
rich pertuiue Willi the limit, sweet odor
of hyacinth and mioiiunctle.
I almost ran up the garden-path in my
eagerness to clasp my darling to my
In east,
No thought came to me then, as
stood at the door with sunshine aronitd
me. of the horror that awaited luc when il
Would open.
Almost imi alii nllv I ranir, the bell for
the second time, and glanced up at the
windows to see if my darling' lace was
smiling down upon me in all its bright
Hess.
l'elbapsshe had seen me and was com
ing to the dour In rself, but no the foot
step was slow mnl heavy .slow ami heavy
even for .lane, I thought.
Jane was an old servant of my father's
family whom I had brought to the cot
tage, bidding her keep my secret for a
while.
An idtc opened, the dour, something in
her face which was very pule. 1 noticed
Mruck a chill like it sudden foreboding
to my heart.
'What is it, .lane?'' I said anxiously.
"Where is your nustiissn? 1h she ill?
What is the matter1. Jane ! For (lod's
sake sneak !"
1 went to pass her, but sin
eaug
ht
mv
arm, and broke into tears.
"Oh, Master liuv! Master
(!uv!
cried, "she is gone jronc without a wold
to me, but she Icll this for you."
ller hand trembled as she drew out
the nott) bearing my name, l'oor old
sold ! she more than suspected the fatal
truth.
Mechanically 1 opened the letter; but
not eveu at the first rcaditm did I realiie
what had befallen me.
Thu woman I worshipped, the wife I
had adored, had fled from her home with
anolher.
The words of the mile almost stunned
mo. A woman whom I hail believed
pure as a lily had penned them, and tho
thought that I could have loved a woman
capable, of writing them math) my
soul grow sick.
"I made a fool of myself," bIio wrote,
"when I became your wifu. I would
never have done so, only I thought you
were making believe poverty; for I had
heart! a hint of things you had done bWoro
you Diet me that did not speak for lack of
gold; but I find now, too late, however,
lor my satisfaction, that you are, really no
more imr less than what I believed was
only pretense, and so I have left you. I
cnnniit say much more than that 1 never
loved Von. and that 1 worship the lover
whom 1 have fled with, and he can give
me wealth and portion, for he does not
know or even dream I am a wife. It is
tint likely that you will seek me. I know
voti too well for that; so an revoir, I was
ing to say, but remembering that means
till we meet again, which I hope from the
bottom of my soul we never shall, I say
instead, good hy."
1 rushed up the stairs, but there was
very mile sign ot contusion or disorder
there. It must have been well meditated
on, mnl no sudden decision come to. Ah,
Heaven! she bad t'one calmly, almost
systematically, about her elopement.
1 sat down stunned fur the time being.
I had l ived her. mnl mv love died hard.
One moment I felt I must seek her I
tild nut live without her the next 1
scorn. d l lie t in milt ii r , angry at mysell lor
it ciilcring my mind. One instant 1
would follow her mid reclaim her brim:
icr b.n k to the path from which she had
si rayed the next. I loathed tin? thought
of her.
The night passed on, and still I wrest
led with my agony the midnight bells
rang out and still 1 sat ir:mnu into dark
ness. Later still, Jane brought me a
cup of chocolate, which I drank mechani
cally, wit mmt a worn.
When morning dawned, I still sat in one
hair where all night I had reviewed my
isltonor. 1 rang the bell, anil .lame
came in.
Oh, Master (itiv. do not take it ro
hard!" lit that, moment her humble
sympathy was more bearable than that of
in ciial would have been, for as she
ipoke the tears lilled her kindly old
eves.
I will survive it, Jane."
Yes, yes, my boy. Along with your
mothers mime you have their slreii''tn.
She has dishonored a proud name,
Jane. I feel worso than had I borne my
father's."
When 1 hail inherited my mother's
money 1 had to take her family name, as
mine, and it was a prouder name even
than my father's. So, while my brother
was Vernon I'lemiiig, I was (iny Howard.
"1 am going away, Jane," I said, "but
you are to keep this place, mid if my
if your misircHH comes back, remember
she .is your mistress still, and that this
place is hers. will scud you money to
keep'everything as it is, and ifl ever return
I will come here. Keep silent conccrii
intr everything, and good-by."
The next day 1 sailed for the New
World, intending to stay there for some
time.
1 had only been out there ono short
mouth when a letter came from home, an
imperative summons to return. It con
tained the news of union's marriage to a
beautiful dark-eyed woman, whom none of
them had known or ever heard of before,
an absolute stranger, in fact, and along
wilh this was the 'tidings that iny father
lay the point ol death the doctors had
given him up.
At my father's death my brother
would inherit all tin) vast estates of the
i' lemmings, lor they were strictly en
tailed.
I went back again perfectly ambilion
less. tor every hope of my life had fled
with Arches lalsetiess went back to
w hat ?
It seems foolish, after all. to open old
soies, but tho memory of that home-coin
ing is back Willi ine now even stronger
than the memory of the horrors that to!
lowed. Therefore I must tell it.
I went lust to see my lather, lie was
propped up with pillows in the bed, his
face ghastly. Ah yes! death bad most
surely ptaivd his hand on him.
lie looked at hi" with eyes in which a
.-I range In-liv gleamed.
A cry broke from my lips. 'Hint glare,
that sll.iuoe tpiick luileliilig of 1 1 n
lll.is.'les I lilt veil oil;!,! belore in
I ndi i.
My lather had been poisoned by one of
the tun.-! subtle drugs known In science
its effect, indeed, almost unknown, have
by some one w"ho bad seen another dii
, lib il.
My heart grew cold with horror hor
ror uti-peakalilo nut why was it my
thoughts so suddenly reverted to the beau
tiful wife of my brother ? .
".Mylitnl: I cried, "I am too late to
save him.' I knew the antidote; but
wash loo lale to use it?
Scarcely heeding the tpioslions asked, I
went and got the anlidale, which, if he
were not too far gone, would save lit ill
As I came up the avenue again, my
thoughts lull ol my lather, a lady canu
along the shady palh below a tall, grace
I ill Woman, I saw at a glance, with some
nun.; sir.iuj.'iy laminar annul li r ear
riage.
She came old fioiu the dens shadow
and as she did so mv brother overlook ine
c.'iiii'i,' up bt hind me, and his eve fell
on the Inly is well, who, that mo
meiil sifppt-d into the sunshine.
' That is mv wife, (iliy," he said, "Is
she hot beautiful enough to make pardona
blc iiiis'itltiiiii-i , as they call it r
Bi'iiutil'ul enough I Ah, Heavens
Yi's, for that moment I saw 'the pcrl'ee
fciliiivs, th.i crown of wavy hair, the
ciiaisoii cuning lips of the woman I hai
loved. Tli;' lovely dark eyes of my falsi
wile were looking into mine.
A shap cry left my Hps.
.'ly oves dnl not deceive me. t'lacj m
silked robes ami costly lace, Arelie stood
belure me.
Stood before mo only for a moment
aud then J saw her lips grow white, he
face grow pallid, heard the low, frightened
cry saw the passionate, pit uding look
the next moment she had thrown up lit
hands and fallen at our leet.
My bother looked at ine,
"You have frightened her, (iny, by tl;
way you looked at tier. 1 think you
must he crazy, l on did not seem
know what you worn doing."
fit..... i. i i
lie uttcti ,rcite in ins arms and car
ried her to the house, while I followed, al
most doubting tho whole occurrence.
first 1 went to my father's room and
gave liiin.tlie drolis I him gmio fur, then
went down to the library to seek Vernon
and tell him Arelie s story and mine.
I entered by the side door and came
face to face with Arelic, who held un
open paper in her hand.
hat do you intend to do: she said,
the papers dropping from her fingers,
I saw at a glance was my father's will,
for he owned other wealth beside the en
tailed estate.
At this instant a servant entered, and
Arelie stole out without hearing my an
swer. I left the library then as well, and went
out into the grounds, walking up and
down in the deep thought, when the
sweep of a dress told me. some one was
Bear, and I turned to niect tier
tun.
"You will spare me, (!ny? You will
not betray me f slia cried, clasping my
arm.
I shook her off.
o you think I would be a party to
your crime
I said.
Hut still I shrank from telling Vernon.
for ho was a perfect devil when his tem
per was aroused.
".'loot ine here to-nioirow night. I
said, "and I will give you my dcocsion;
but, Arelie, dare to attempt my lathers
again, and as sure as there is a (lod
above me, I will hand you over to the
aw. Oh, woman, could you not. wait tor
wealth and position a few short
ears?"
1 did not dream that, at this moment, n
pair of eyes Veri.jn's eyes, dark with
Btidden-horii jealous rage were fixed
upon us; but Arelie must have seen
them.
She pushed me back.
"You must not tempt inn to leave my
lusband, (iuy Howard," she cried.
Vernon, where are you, to save me from
this man T
"You would steal my wife from me, you
scoundrel : I Head onion s voice cry as
heaped forward beside us. lint 1 will
send a bullet through your cowardly
cart."
I saw a pistol gleam in the air. I felt
sharp, sudden pain in my side, then as
I fell I thought I heard a woman's scream
and the second report of the pistol, ami
then I remembered no more.
AVlicn 1 nwke to consciousness again I
was what 1. tun now the lonely master
of all this vast estate, for I had been too
ate to save my falhei's life, and us Ver
non had raised the revolver the trigger
caught in an overhanging bough and
the other bullet had entered his own
art.
I never married again, never wooed
nor wedded another. I eople call men
misanthrope, but never, thank Hod, a
ynie, and wonder why it is so, but none
ever dream ot what onions wile had
been to me.
I never married, though 1 was at lib
erty to do so, for after my recovery Arc-
went away, and lour years alter 1
ked upon her dead face, all its beauty
marred, all its delicate perfection gone
by the life she had led.
This is the story of Fleming Hall, aud
the reason why I, its master, have never
been charmed again by the light of
woman's eyes, nor won by a siuilu on her
lips.
( lltCLS KLK1MI VM S.
'He knows noth ng besides eating 700
pounds of hay, two and a half bushels of
oats, seventy pounds ol (Irahatn bread, a
bushel of carrots or turnips, and drinking
three barrels ot water each day," said the
trainer. "He does that as regulai as clock
work, in two instalments, and begs the rest
from every one who comes near him. He
never goes oil' his feet, not even when In
sleeps, mid he never lost his temper while
we had linn, except once, when something
had angered him. That was in winter
darters in Uriilgoport, but I soon got him
imel ti v putting an addition, iron clasp
on Ins tusks.
" Hut how can you handle such a col
ossus?'' asked the leporter, glancin uti
it the fouiteen feet in height which
represent the Z 1,1)11(1 pounds ol elephantine
matter.
"We drive four stakes in a sonarcund
iisl till ropes with pulleys to each le
I hen we pull the Ic's apart until bis ma-
jest y's belly touches the ground. In that
way wo throw him, and leave him fasten
ed down until he begins to beg olt. Alter
that he is treated wilh kindnns until an
other dose' becomes necessary. Hut, as
say. Jumbo is a very pleasant fellow' and
Well behaved.''
"I presume the elephants soon learn
to know their keepers," suggested the re
porter. "Thai they do, hut not over elephant
is kind, they glow wicked as ihey grow
old. especially the hulls. We are more or
less in danger all the time; hut wo become
atlaehetl to them as a man will to a horse.
They all have a special hobby of liking.
For instance, Hebe, one of the members of
the herd, some years ago dcvclnpcd a great
liking for a camel. Whenever the latter
lay down Hebe Would stand over him; put
lier trunk around his neck, blow on him
ami express her love in shrill Iriinipctiiigs
of delight.
"I Hpsy, anolher of the herd, took to
children, ami when Frank Melville, tho
bare-back rider, traveled with us , (Jipsy
showed a remarkable fondness for his
little son. The animal recognized the
child every time jt came into thu tent,
and was alniost frantic if the boy didn't
come up and fondle his trunk." Cliicnyo
lnnlil.
fTII.IZINO TI1K MOStJllTO.
From the Medical News
The idea may soon be forced such arc
the works of science! to regard even the
mostpiilo as a blessings in disguise. Or.
Carlos Finlay, tho Cuban physician, be
lieves chat hn has demonstrated that ino
culati in with yellow fever may be made
by the sting of (lie Cuban day mostpiito,
ami that the fever thus imparted will vary
in duration and intensity in proportion to
tho number of punctures ami the ipianlity
ol poison retained by the insects sting.
Results already obtained lead him to think
that a form of the disease may be given
by one or two mosquito biles which will
bo free from danger and will render the
subject of tho operation secure against a
severti attack of yellow fever,
A Kingston girl jumped twelve feet in
her sleep recently. She probably dreamed
that some one was proposing to her.
LIFK IX mo.
PICTTKES FttOM TUB HKHEETS KOMK
NOTED I'EHSONAIIKS.
l.rller in Pittsburg Chronicle
It never rains in llio but it pourn; and
when it pours it makes the street crossings
at the foot of the hills impassable- ti pol
ished shoes aud hoots, ltut the bano of
one is the benefit of another. The big
negro who has Been out ol worn lor a
fortnight and finds a fortnight's work
compressed into a few hours, in carrying
gentlemen and ladies from one island to
another of the municipal archipelago.
lhe I ora I 'earl ot llto is Susanna. She
has one of the toniest turn-outs in the
city a carriage lined wilh white satin, a
iiur ot mouldy-looking mules, a while
iveried driver, and other symbolic signs
of purity about her; but tho very stones
in the streets cry out ogauist her lor all
that, with a struinpety-striinipstriiui, as
he goes over them.
The plaster of l'aris image-maker of
Rio will not sell his simulacra of Christ
and the saints not he; lor that would be
a gross sacrilege; but he will swap them
for as much sinful lucre as may be agreed
upon between tho parly of the first part
and the party of the second part.
Tht! Italian peddlers of Hio, like tho
jacks of an euchre deck, go in pairs. In
this way, in traversing a stieet, each gets
the benefit of the other's din, by hammer
ing on a nan if he be a tinker, or by
lapping two sticks together if he be a
dealer in dry goods ami notions, or by
shouting if he be a vender of glass, or tho
like. And when the right, bower cannot
he played and a wash boiler disposed of
advantageously, haply the left will bo
able to sell a spool of cotton and take th !
trick.
The most extraordinary of the street
performers of Hio is a hideously ugly old
negro, with his head and feet bare, his
legs incased in a pair of white cotton
drawers and his body in a tightly tilting
ami closely buttoned I rince Albert broad
cloth coat, which, with a little cleaning
mid fumigating, a gentleman might wear
without remark in the street. In his ug
liness, the most noteworthy lactors are a
sinistral wall eye, horizontally pleated or
corrugated gums, snaggl i teeth, and i
thickening ol the integument
anklc i very like elephantiasis.
about the
His musi
cal instiineiits are an oblong wooden box
over which are strung four brass wires,
ami a flute without finger-holes. When
ho sings ot rather when he grunts in
rhythm, he accompanies himself by strum
ming on the former, and follows every
succession of a score or so of grunts with
a shitlllo of his elcpanlislic I mean his
elephant istic feet; ami when ho plays on
the flute, ho puts the lateral mouth hole to
his left nostril and blows his nose through
It., and modules the uasal snort that es
capes with his right hand at the distil
end oftho instrument, the while he simps
with his corrugated hps like a toothless
dog alllitted with rallies and rolls his left
eye around like
eddy of ink.
;-sholl
lit t It
T1IK MOIi:i. Wll'"
THE WOMAN WHOM HI SItAXDS I.llVE
MOIIE THAN THEIR I'HIAIts! AND
HORSES.
scripture, and history, aud poetry vie
with one another in sounding the praises
ol lhe model wile. I he man who is blessed
wilh a companion worthy the name of
model wife can snap his fingers in the fairs
of all the old bachelors that ever breathed
and give them points each day in every
exalted pleasure that makes life worth liv
ing. 'I here is no danger of his applying
lor a divorce.
I iil'iirtuiiat i for the married men of this
generation, the model wives are most all
dead. I he struggle lor existence was too
much for them. The ceaseless, silent self
sacrifice needed to build upa liiislel domes
tic character could only bo met an.l borne
as long as there was a living appreciation
of the personal laws of duly that underlie
all sorts of ideal existence. The men w ho
appreciated model wives, nnd were in re
turn willing to be model husbands, were
so few that the good wives that is, the
model wivttgl'ew discouraged and lisik
to their craves or some more congenial
occupation.
lhe lew model wives that are lett arc
chtiishcil by their husbands beyond even
their cigars or tluir horses. The model
wife oftho workinginan, clerk or business
man has some appreciation of tho ten
thousand little labors, petty cares and an
noyances that her husband has to go
through each in his workshop or office. She
considers that such worrying cares are
part of the duties by which her husband
makes a living for himself, for her and for
the children, if there arc any. And when
the husband comes home from his work
Hied, perhaps cross, and hungry and nut
of suits, she is alnavs ready to meet him
with some iiuict and gentle: good cheer
llir own person is attractive aud restful
to hiiu. She always has some pleasant
scheme in mind to make his homo delight
I'll! to hint aud so make herself indispensa
hie and a constant joy.
The model wife dis s not see huw many
poor and silly or exciting things she can
say to her tired husband. If she has
unything to ask she wails until he is rested
and fed. She invites pleasant people to
her lunge, not to show how many rich
things she 1ms. but tomakehor husband's
home hours pass cheerfully. She knows
that if she is half a woman no other can
displace her in her husband's affectious.
She is alwas morn altmctive in her man
iters to Iter husband than to other men
She is the genius of tho household. Hut
unfortunately, most of them arc dead
Philadelphia 'Him.
A he girl of tho jioriod is quite a smrts
man in her way. Mie knows that the ar
rangement of her hair is a telling charm
with the unwary adorer; ami, like the bun
ter, she bangs away until she brings her
prey to her lot.
lie economical. Nnall savings cutis
great gains, Spend liltle for what you
need not. Remember that with cash in
hand vou can boldly demand good bargains;
while if you ask to be trusted the trader
will think you ought to be thankful to be
tnwted at ttiiy price.
THE INDIANS OF ALASKA.
THE THLINKETS, A THIBK WITIIOl'T A
SINGLE KE1IEEMINU CllARACTEUISTIC.
Aliwka Letter lu San Eniiu isco ClironU-le.
A Southern Alaska Indian looks like
his Ariiona cousin and his vices, but in
other respects ho is usually an inferior
article. Cunning workman though he is,
fashioning curiutis and well-carved house
hold utensils out of uativo woods and
bone, making nets and baskets and silver
bracelets aud rings for the nose and lin
gers, still the pueblo dweller distances him
in manufacturing blankets, dyeing wools
carving stones and making silver orna
ments, and is generally a handsomer,
leaner, braver ami altogether more at
tractive man. An Apache meanest of
southern Indians will light and show
spirit, but an Alaska never. The far
south native is a low-soiilcd tramp; an
oily, fish-eating, superstitious, licentious
creation; treacherous and wilful. Ho is as
storieal as though carved from wood; ho
is without pride; a bigamist; a solid crea
ture, afraid even of his wife, whom he
always asks to trade for him and always
ives penniless aud helpless. I hat is,
the Thliiiklets were generally a mean class
icloro they began to see tho Itenctits of
the white man s civilization. As u gen
eral thing il docs not improve the moral
standing of Indians to have while men
come to live near them. They copy but
w of the virtues of the newcomers and
are pretty sure to indulge in most ol their
vices. When Alaska was more forsaken
than it is at piosetit the Indians did not
get drunk whenever they could which
they do now; nor did they soli their wives
and daughters tn I ho highest, bidder. Hut.
iey had other faults, such as putting in
nocent people to death, because they
thought they had an evil spirit; burning
a wife wilh her dead husband, that both
might go to happy hunting grounds to
gether, aud oilier such pleasantries; and
while civilization has rendered them moie
praved in some things, it has, on the
it her hand, brought work to lliein and
offurod a glimpse, at least, of better unities
of living, of which some have taken ad
vantage. There have been converts to Christian
ity made hero and there nnd a few ha.vo
moved into coin fort able quarters and very
many havu learned to work hard and to
save a liltle money. Ono notices the few
itlvaiicementH made with pleasure and
only regrets that there has not been more
progress. If Montesquieu was right in
ailing that people happy whoso annals
are tiresome, Alaska Indians must have
been supremely contented. Ihiring the
years of their occupancy of Al.S'ia they
have done actually nothing towards devel
oping tho natural resources of their pos
sessions. Mot only have they never built
any towns, but they have neglected the
timber, overlooked the ores and refused
to cultivate the garden districts. What
ever has been done up to the present time
is duo to the white man. Rehire his ad
vent a native was cont 'nt to paddle aboi.t
the waters in his canoe ami to live upon
the fish and game which hunger compelled
him to catch. As an actuality, an Indian
here is a badly housed, oily, depraved and
lar.y being. As a possibility, he may be
made ueful in developing, under proper
tutelage, the vast resources of the little
understood but undeniably rich Territory
which wo own.
SOMKTIIINO Allot T SMILES.
N EAIINEST I'LUA roil THE I SE or AN
.KSTIIETH'S IN Til E I1 1 1 lTO( I It A I'll -1NII
NTI'DIO.
n v a 1 1. 1. x i t:.
There are many vanities of the genus
smiles. There's the smile that is child
like and bland, the cultivated smile, and
the plehiaii smile that ripples forth like the
first joyous laugh of the boiler factory,
nnd that spreads out with the gurgle that
closes the eyes, trots out the wisdom-tooth,
iinl then shows a roguish dimple in tho
tonsils.
There might be enumerated also the
lassical smile, the subdued smile, the par
ol' smile, the sacred smile, the belbrc-eltc-
lion smile, the after-election smile and the
smile that you get two for a quarter, called
the twofor smile.
Then we have tho stage smile and tho
rl rail smile. Ho you call to mind tho
general smirk which is, in fact, the thin
silk ovciskirt of joy covtriug tho silicia
sham of a nameless woo? Do you hap
pen to have about your house tho photo
graph of a friend whoso petrified gaycty
fills your eyes with briny weep?
Joy is something that wo can not seize
ruthlessly aud lead it into the photograph
er's laboratory by theear. I've tried that.
I always leave my umbrella ami my hope
behind when I go into the photographer's
gilded hall. I can laugh w hile the dentist
pulls out my sound teeth and plugs the
poor ones, mid I can even he guy while
nature and the cucumber of commerce are
engaged in mortal conduit, but 1 can not
iifTiTt a joy that I do not feel why the
east -iron hat rack of the artist leans against
my love of home, ami the artist bills me
look at a place of the wall that is freckled
with Iodine.
I am positive that tho art of photog
raphy is upon tho eve of a grand stride
towartl perfection. Those who have never
seen anything on tho eve of a grand stride
will find little of interest in what I am
about to say; but the day is not far distant
when no sane man will have his photo
graph pulled without the administration of
an autcsthotic, Cut this out and see If I
am not right.
Chivalry is not confined to tho relation
oftho sexes. It is a sentiment which
should rightly inspire all who uro highly
favored in any respect towards thoso who
are less fortunate.
There is no knowledge for which so
great a price is paid as a knowledge of tho
world; and no one ever become an adept
in it, except at tho expense of a hardened
and wounded heart.
Tho memory ought to be i store-loom;
many turn theirs rather to lumber room.
Kven stores grow mouldy and spoil, unless
aired and used betimes, aud theu they, too,
become lumber.
COLOSSAL I' ICKT.
liusiucss men are not supposed to
laugh at any order, however extravagant,
that may be sent them, but if ono of
Lynn's big shoe dealers didn't induge in
a real ghastly smile when he rtctived one
order this fall, it was because hn had suf
ficient strength left. J. M. Farnuin is a
coloi'.-tl preacher in Charlotte, X, C, and
his tiuhting weight when skirmishing
wilh lhe legions of Satan is till ouu.i.
lie stands l! foot 10 im lies high without
his boots, slid, taken collectively, Would
be a dangerous man to tall under at a
skating rink. S uue liin ! ago a Northern
gentleman met Mr. l'arnuiii in tho South,
aud tho latter ordered a pair of shoes made
lor him at thu .Nortli, lor which this gen
man took lhe measure. Tho order was
given to Lynn's leading shoe manufac
turer hut it was too much for him, and
pair of shoes were made from u special
last in Huston and sent the reverend gen.
tlemau. The slns's ara thirty-fives
lhe length I ruin heel to toe is just twenty
inches, and ihewidlh of the ball, iiicluil
a protuberance that may bo a corn, and
may ho natural, is a trifling over seven
and a halt niches, .oin idea ol the
"tout ensemble" may bo gaining from the
fact that a pasteboard copy of tho sole of
ono ol the shoes which a reporter carried
in his overcoat pocket, extend! from the
lowest depth oftho pocket to the arm pit
This copy was taken from a measurement
of thehoolless foot oftho clergyman, and
those who know pronounce it exact. From
the forward end of tho solo a piece the
size ol a desert plate could easily bo cut
Tho heel, if of tho proper material, would
make a decidedly generous flap-jack, and
the whole thing, in shape and size, gives
one tho irresistible impression of a tennis
racket, or an elongated shirt-front, without
its symmetry. Huston Ubilu;
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FOUND !
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A Remedy cmlorsnUiy the tet Pliyiiciaiis urn!
DrugKinU hi itx home.
A Kemetly tlmt Mr. W. O'NelH, Uimtlwiiter,
Ala,, onyx mined hiw wife frm su invalid' lcd, and
iu'lu'lievcKHtived her life.
A Hemcdy nf whirl, ii iromliieut Atltmtn mer
elmiit siiid : "1 would huvc given S" u mutti hh
troulit a uiekle furwluil twti iHtttleH nf jimr medi
cine did for my dHiiKhtt r, "
A Kern eel v in regard to which, H. J ('nne1l'ii M. P.,
DriiKKiftt ThnniHuville, (in., wivu : "I run recall in
Unit s in which It HlVordcd relief alter all the
uual reined. r had failed.
A Krmrdy Klmnt which Ir. It. H. Frrrell,
(irungr, 4 in., writt'N: "I huw ued for tht IaL
iwriitv yeiirnthe medicine u art puttfnn Ui nnd
ciHiciiler it the tn-nt enmbitiHlinn ever K"ttiMi t
Keihcr for the durasc for w Inch il h recommended,
A Itemed)- h!m ml which 1 r. Joel Itmuham, Atlan
ta, wid- "I hiivcciamiiu'd the reclH,iunl hare no
heHilaiioii in aitv ihIiik iln nsc, nnd eoiilidcnlly re
commend il."
A Remedy which the llev. M. H. JohiiNon, near
Marieilu, ., m u he hit mcd in lii family w ith
the "utimwt tti(Hetioti" mid reroinmended it to
three fn mil ten 'who found llto he jttnt what it lit
recommended.
A Remedy of which !Yinlert"n. lverson, A irii
niton ny :' "We have Wen nellnu it for many
yearn, wilh ctuuunily increnim.x mlIck, l he article
Ik Klitnle with na. and one ofuUolutr merit."
A Itcmt-dy nf which lmar, Rankin A Ijimi t
Hay; ' e n'uld 'in groan in lour mouth, and never
Hold it in any pluee. hut wlml it wan wauled agnin.''
A llemedv hv which Pr. lUinzh.nf I-(.rtnire.;..
lava: "1 cured one of the hum! olwtiuate cwok of
Vicnriout Menstruation tlmt ever came within my
know ledfe'e, with a few hottles."
A Homed) nf which Dr. J. Hum, NoUuuIk.
Ala., nay: lam fully eoitviuecdthatlt iHtinrivaU'd
for IhatYlnna "f iliaeaaea which it claim lo cure,"
A Itemedv alMiut w hich Maj.JuhnC. Wliltner.of
Atlanta, well aim ravnriimy Known an ovvr me
i nited smteB a a General Inmiraucu Agent, wiyi :
'i lined thin remedy heh-re the war, on a lante
plantation on aureut mi miter ofcAxeh, alwaynwith
alolute fciiccekft."
A Remedy aUmt which Mr. J. W. Stranxe, nf
t'artentville, la., cerlimn that one hot tie cured two
mt'intH.'rof hia family of mensirual irregularity uf
many yearn tuatiiUUK.
Thin (.real Remedy U
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bi'.kU vaiiutlc IufurinaVloa.
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I alau kave about
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