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u,i Hviidirala to iisk t PUBLISHE RS N OT IC E . of the Knail i'r for liny thousand dollars by ta.tu- : a HALL cjZ SLliUDO-E, I'lioi'idEToi:: yol. xiv. A NEWSPAPER FOB THE PEOPLE. WELDON, N. C, TIIUIISDAY, MAY 7. 1885. TERMS-- 1' ANNT;M IN ADVANCE W.l R Ul FOB. THK T - Is is$t ill h-s " im im ah w iuwr hi -. rrxm Q XO. 8. , AliYKUTlSKMKSTS. iiffiili THE BEST TONIC. Thl mtdlflne, comhlnliif Imn with pnr Vfivtahlfl tniifia, niH.kly mi.) mtm.l.'tHy TMrea Umti'pNln. Inillrtlnn, WciiIiupm Impure Blood, .u.UrlM kllUniiil Vmuni mud Neurulatn. M li an uiifiiiiniBr wm. ily for Mwrneioflln HI tinny a mid Liver, It It Invnlimlild for Mmwi'ii piTiillnr to Women, and all urh' K-a.l nlnrv livi-a, UiIim's not injure ;) iceth.piiiiM'licudnrhp or product ponsltpaiiOTi -I.A-T Jxninnln nun tin. Ilenrlrlit'sand j.i nlic ihi Mooiltiniiilatft the HptH'iit'.i,lH Ti.p H-'inillatiuii uf fwHl, re llYo lU'drihurii nml h- li liln, mid itriiictb nn tlic miifclixt mid niTVi'a. For Intt niiitH'iit K. vup., Uwitmlc, Uck ol Energy, Ac., it lias no I'niial. i- Tlic K''iniltir li'ia ahove tnHr mark and crowed ifd litieb on wrapier, Ttiko no otliot u..i,b, i:wusiiiin aro., mnimH,n Dec 1ft lyr fc STOMACH itteRs In order to enrich tlt lil.md, and Ihiin Impart freah Tijtor to an cnii i lit il fvsit m,' atmiulitte fluKtftnff iliL'i'stmt) wnu (liu national InviKorunt, lloNtt-Uer't SlomiM-it Hittera, whirl), byinfiMiiiK enerfrr Into ilia operation of Hie' Htoimicli, promiiti'H, nny, idniiivh thorough (Iikcniioii ami ufnnnihilioii, iind coiiHiMjiitMit nnirilioii. A intnapiw tile, vigor and flceh. In inrarmbly louixi to foil ii w a coiirsu of thm oeHirwdly Jiop ular tonic, M liirh Ih. moreovrr a reliuble prevrntiveof iimlarial tevra. For ! by all hnifrists aud Dealert ucuiruHy. Oct Jill y IsTOTICE. Jiihl niT'ivcil on iinntitrmnt'iit the follow ini: : ItntreU hi l.imi'. V l"Muw l.unimiis Cotton til nn. II" " ' r'wirrxiiii'l t'.iihlriwer!. I V " " iiu mul i .Tiid'iDMT. 1 - " 1 1. til din. Also mil' or two second bund Wngntia anil Uug- RlCf. b orK Ioiik of Hay, For mite t heiip. Annlv to J.T OOOCH, Wt Id. ti, S. C. Ian 1 Cm PROFESSIONAL CARDS. '. II. kITllllN. IV. A. Ill NX. OHN1V AITtiaSKY. K ITCH IN V IHNX, ATTUIIXKYS AT LAW, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. nuir Ulf F. II. BI S1IEE. HALK11.U, N. C II. II. SMITH Jr. IHUTL4SUNUK.S. f. B 1 S B C K Ji .SMITH. Mr F. II. HiisIkh-mid Mr. Ii II. Smith. Jr.. Conn ii'lnr al Ijiw. Imvr (oruml it Itinilcd mrtni rhip for the pntiliet' of Uw in Hah lux roomy. Mr. J4olee will iilh'iiil tluM'oiiitM of Hfiiifnx, n-k'iitarly. and will also vUit the county whenever liism rvW i-b iki- n-iitirt d. oil iii ly T uu MAS N. HILL, Attorney at I. aw HALIFAX, B.C. I'rartiooa In Hulittx and Rityimiiitf eountipa and ffiiivral and Supreme eotiris. HUB. tf. Attoruuy at J.aw, UAKYSBI RU, N. V. Vrartleet In the fHinrtH of Northaniptoii iind nd oiiiiiif eountiett, alau in Uie Fcleil ami Mipreiuv cotiru. jimvtttf. W ALTER K. 1) A N I L, Attorney tt Law, WRI.HOX, m. c PMrticoil 111 H.lifrtX .ltd a.Ijniiihi(r,uutii. ,'t-i.l ittU'ntimi nlvvn bt ntltiH-tltitHi iu .11 pull of the Hutu iu.(l iirvlupi rvturu. uiiuk. . fvti 17 ly. Ww. HALL, Attorney at Law, WELDON, N. C MpoclaiUtUiouirtveuUi eulltoUona and remit tance iruiii4l) iimmU-. , way 1 it M ULLKM A NOOHX, Altunieyt tt l aw, HALIFAX, N. C V met tee In the poitnttea of Halifht, Nonbnniptmt. k.1:i'oiiiU'. lilt and alHrUll iu Uiu Huprvniueourt oi the swi" and in li pitWml (.'ttrof the hiwiern iiitrict. oiUwiioiw miwto Ui !! jmrt uftliertuic. i-.ii i ly IV Mur(ciii Dentlal. Hi ( neruiaueiitly located In WeJdou, can be fmitt'L iiUorti'-- in iniili i llriek lluilding at aU tiiartf fpt wln'ii ubaeuton untfetaloual buahteM. t''fuU;-iiiion tfivun to all branehea uf tlitf pro-i-M.HA. LirUM vwlteU at tlmlr hoiuea when do ilwd. July W lj. UIa HUNTaH, ' Cttte 1Q94 M hta office In KntU'ld. ftn1ttsw?'r.ftiF the ftUulwl Kxtiac- ttu TmU itiqi t asms. rnHll wttawy MiM M .njiaitii el Iiy WllM fucy is. R.UI!!, I iMnkv.'.S tr.mttT Nette iiumHHi.uo.,riirilMt4 Heine. iiy I U I I I I-. Ill fc" AN AMAZONIAN' I'AIMCW 'MM, 1iV JUAifi IB MlU.m. Wi ll, ne have lliretnVd tliiouch und tlinuiwli 'rb.-Blnimtni; forest, fairy isles, Itt'Ulrt in UimI'h cti rniil urn ilea, A" flllli-K hltlt ill llol.lv i.f ,, S..H.P futile Hr lili anlitlulovo TiiHl mi. rial never saii.jtiMieil yot Hi une t)-hipli..iilin by iiiikcI. hv In mm below, In lnnlmiM.ve--W. n yum-, Iltll mi,,,, inn tieremUeiit Yel l t Cl.li.i- to IMIMH H. Htlt- i1n M 'Unit yon uruu wmry, gad, mid yutt l.ifl updxep i-u-n fr..m dtiMy wiy t'l nmrl uI nii.tii j lolhe blue And purei ..,! nab r-, hU hu. vine, Aii.b)iili,-).,iii11.ri.,M11i,ieu,irp'i K. rii .l.edl!) one f( ., ihomrhi riuliie, I rest eontciil ; I your eyea, 1 kih. your hair in my dclltilil, I kiw my h.tndio any KiMN nllit. May Jove U- thine by ruii or moon ; May we lie thine by atormy way, Throimh nil the ibnllng days of May, Through u ihrtteiii.il daya of Jtinu, To ihli'u daya tlmt die in timilea 'f sunset mi the lilinm-d Islea THE EDITOR SLEEPS. Onci! upon n time a village editor wit in liis iuict F.uirtuin inilustriuusly pcrusin,; lliu liulitical nlituriaU in lii.s city ox cIi.iiiih. At length that which he read bewail to have its legitimate cflert; the editur nodded one, twiee, thrice, his cyc closed; the city daily fell from his nerve less fingers, and three flies lit upon his bowed bead and balanced all, swung corners, crossed over, and promenaded all around, to the music of tho rhvthmiei.l I'ditorial snore. The village editor was ishep; and sleeping, the village editor Ireamed. He nat at his desk wilh weary fingers anil aching head. I lie last local Hem had gone into type, tho last insidj ivading notice had been set up, and the youngest apprentice stood grimly by, with lines of impatience upon his brow and a daub of ink under his lell eye, waiting for copy. Muddeuly there wa.1 a step without, the door opened, a man entered, and taking a vacant chair in front of tho editor's desk, to which the editor has politely called his attention, ami said: ' My dear sir, my name is John V. Smith. 1 am u subscriber to your paper, as you well know, and being in town to day, 1 thought I would titko the opportu nity to call and tell you that I liked jour paper all but one tiling. You don't print enough matter on the tariff question. I'oetry and stories nml funny paragraphs aud local items may do well enough to fill up n paper with iu ordinary times, but just now the country is awake to the tariff question, and if you want to keep your paper alive, you've got to give your sub scribers light on tho tariff. You should not h ive less than three columns of edi torial and live columns of extracts oil the tann every issue. J hat s all I ve got to say, ami I hoe you'll bear in mi ml. Iiy the way, 1 owe yon two years' subscrip tion, and one of these days I'll cull in and pay it. Don't forget In let yourself loose on the tariff, gisid bye." As the man who wanted more light on the tariff passed out, a little, nervous looking person came in and took the vu cant chair. "Ah," ho said, with a litllu smile that didn't luok strung enough to be out, "ah, uiy dear man, I sec you are absorbed iu thought, as an editor always should be. And that reminds me that you are ueg Ireting almost totally ueglecting science. Too much of politics, too much of politics, my dear man; your paper will never grow in circulation while you neglect science for polities. You should devote not less than four columns a week to science. That's all I came to say. Re in some day and pay JoU uiy subscription, (lood day; but don't forget to give ua plenty of science." The footsteps of the man who wanted science hud not gone beyond the editor's hearing when a third visitor entered and took the vacant chair as if bo were ac customed to sit iu it. "I am sorry In notice that you are neglecting polifies just at this important period," he said kindly but gravely. "You should strive to keep the vital principles of our party constantly befuro tho jieople. I like your paper in all but its lack in this rcss't, and sonic day, perhaps at the beginning of next year, I will subscribe for it. I see it now every week in llrowu's office. If you would wt ite about five columns of frh political editorials every week you'd Me your paper going right up in circulation. Tlmi' wh,t I told Brown yesterday, aud he ngreed with the. A story aud a scientific article oc casionally, and a little local mutter and some marriages and death notices to please the women are all well enough, but I can tell yon that a country paper to amount to anything and have any influence, has got to be full 00 political matters. That's all I want to say now. When you want any points on politics I'll be glad to help you out. And, by the way, don't forget that I'm a candidate for the Legislature; good day," Tho next visitor who took the vacant chair that sat In front of the village edi tor's desk spoke as follows : "1 stepped in to-day, sir, to tell yea that I do not want your paper any longer. In some respects it is t good pnpCT, out yuu uo noi prim onoun new. loo should nave a full paeo I of news at least. I don't care anything about yoiu protective tariff and your tariff for revenue only , or anything of that sort. J want the news when I take the paper. I want a full account of the murders and suicides anil railroad collisions and divorce cases. Don't send mo the paper any longer. I'll couio in and pay you what 1 owe you when I have sold my com. (lood day." And then there uamc a light step at the door, and a person wearing a severe coun tenance, and a sliawl, ciiiuo in and took tliu vacant chair. "I am very sorry," lie said, in meas ured tunes, nml with a fixed and critical stare at the end of the editor's noso "1 am very sorry to notice that you are giv ing in your column so littli? uttcntion to the cause of prohibition the noble cause of prohibition. You must rouso yourself upon this great question, and givo your readers a page uf it weekly. I am not a subscriber to your paper, but I borrow it every woek from my neighbor and I loan him the Maimer of Truth in exchange. So you will observe that I havo been one of your faithful readers, and I know just where you fall short of making a good newspaper. I will leave yuu a few tracts from which you should make liberal ex tracts from time to time. Y'ou will no tice that this one, entitled 'Dash the Cup Away I' is written by myself. Y'ou are at liberty to print it iu full. And when I come ncruss anything particularly good in tho columns of the Haiimr uf Truth I'll cut it out and send it around to you. Y'ou have a grand opportunity to make your paper grow in circulation and influence, and I hope you will eoimi boldly to the front oil the right course and no longer continue to devote your valuable space, to trivial matters. Iiy the way, have you a few exchanges that you aro dono with ? Ah, that will do; thanks. Good day." Iu the door the man in the shawl passed a person with a merry twinkle in his eyes. "I liko your paper it is first rate," he said, as ho dropped into the vacant chair, "except that it docs not contain humor enough. Why don't you fill her full of jokes and bright things by the funny fellows and mako your readers laugh ? Nobody cares a cent for those political editorials and those scientific articles, and that stuff about the tariff you print. That puts me to shrp. Give us n plenty of jokes to shake a man's liver up and let the tariff take care of itself. That's all. He in to see you again when I've more time, ta, la." The next person who took the vacant chair had a countenance as solemn as a second-hand hearse. Uo didn't look as if he had smiled mere than once in years, and the village editor took him for an undertaker who wanted to ndverti-o a patent embalming process and pay in trade. "Sir," said tho solemn man, after a si lence that became Very painful to the village editor, "I am grieved to notice the tone of levity that has recently pervaded the columns uf your paper and I am com pelled to ask you on that account to take my name off your list. You seem to for get that this is a world of calamity and woe and that a spirit of levity iu the press is unseemly, aud tends to draw at teniion from the solemn realities ef life and (he near proximities of death. Last wuck you dis lined to print tny article en titled 'Kefleetions on the Tirave,' alleging that you did not havo room for it, and theu gave up nearly a column of your paper to frivolous jokes. I do not intend to read anything light this year. That is all I have to say; good afternoon." The'door closed behind the solemn man and then gollty opened agaiu to ad mit a dreamy eyed man with a poetic brow, and general expression that seemed to indicate that he wautcd something he had neycr had and never expected to have. "I merely came in to remark," he began, as he took the vacant chair, "that you are sadly neglecting the literary de partment of your paper. I not only have noticed it myself, but several of my friends have called attention to it. You should by all means run a continued story and have from two to tlinsi short stories each issue, (loud storii is the thing that is wautcd to make a villain paper popular. Everybody you ask will tell you that. A little news and Some local mat tor and the marriages and deaths should be printed, of com,, but you .houidn t let anything crowd out the stories. I don't take your paper, hut ni) brother- in-law docs, and I borrow it of hiiu have intended fur some time to mention the matter to you, but could never think of it when I was in town before. If you think that these suggestions are of any value to you, you may send mo your paper gratuitously tor a year. Allow me to bid you good day, sir." The dreamy-eyed man went oat softly as sixty days' note falls dnc, and a moment later another style of person dropped into tho vacant chair, and spoke. thus in tones that Were sharp and quick "I don't think that I shall take your paper another year. Yon are not making it as good a paper as yon shoals' with your opportunities. Yon aro not giving Tour readers enough local matter. Loetl matter should be the chief feature of tho village paper. Everything else should be made to give way to local matter. A story now and then, when you have plenty of room, and a bit of poetry to please tho young folks who aro iu lovo, and a littlo news matter are well enough, but if you want to make a village paper a success, you've got to let yourself out on local matter, fiivc tho news of your own com munity and let the big dailies take cure of the rest of the world. And, by the way, if you aro a littlo short of local mat ter this week, you may Bay that I have invented and patented tho most coininon- sense churn that has ever been introduced to the people of that State. I'll be iu again in the course of a few weeks, aud will then pay you my subscription for last year; good day. 1 he village editor was just sliding under tho table, a crushed and mentally demoralized man, to hide his head in despair or the waste basket, or in both, when a louder knock at the outer door brought hira from his dreams to his waking souses. "How aro you, old fellow?" cried a cheery voice, and tho Old Subsbriber from up the creek took tho village editor by the hand with a hearty trrasn nml shook a tin into tho editor's shoulderblade. And then the Old Subscriber from the creek seated himself iu thu vacant chair and merrily spoke thus : "Well, old boy, you're just giving us tho very best paper we ever had. A good story every woek, some poetry to please the women folks, a column or two of fresh humor to make us laugh and keep our vers running on regular schedule time, just about enough of politics, all the news that is worth a busy man's time to read, every important local event written up in breo'iy, rcudible styb and advertisements uf all the public sales and of the stores and shops that offer us bargains. Y'es, sir; your paper is good enough for me worth twice what you ask for it and I want to pay you a year's subscription for myself, and hero are four dollars more, for which you may send your paper to lny son out West, and my daughter down South, for they both liko to get tho news from the old home, and you givo more of it in one issue of your paper than I could write in twenty letters. That's all I've got to say to-day. Come out and sec uie when I begin to make cider, and briug a jug along if you've got one, and if you haven't, I've got one to lend you ; good by." And tho Old Subscriber from up the creek went out with a smile upou his face that began just below bis lell ear and spread leisurely about over his face and then quietly meandered back to the place of 1 eginninff. The village editor was about to pinch himself to see that ho was really wide awake, when tho cry of "copy I" came to lis ears, and then ho didn't think it ne cessary to pinch himscll. lie only folded up three crip two-dollar bills and put them in his pocket with the beauti ful thought that this world in which we live is not so bad a world as folks some times dream it is. Tiiuowixu Tin; shoe. Tho custom of throwing the slipper ufter a newly-married couple is well-known. A writer, Mr. 0. Lansing, of Alexandria, Egypt, whose explanation of this custom we copy below, attributes the origin of it te the far Knst. It may very wull be so, aud on the other hand, it may have had a far less symbolical origin. At all events tho theory is an interesting one. Says this writer: The custom of throwing a slipper at another, or striking him with it, is still practiced iu the East as a sign of renun ciation. A father, for instance, who would renounce his son after he has been convicted of being a wicked sun, will, be fore witnesses, take off his shoe, and if uear enough,, strike him with it, or, if more distant, throw it at him. Recently we havo had three cases of Moslem converts to Christianity, whose itivei und eo-religiouists have, in this maimer, signified their renunciation and cutting oil of all relations with the pre verts from thcii faith. The Oriental shoe, being usually a soft slipper, is net thrown as a missile, or weapon, for the purpose of inning bodily pain. This explains the throwing of the slipper as the bride leaves her father's house. It is saying to her iu playful way. "He oil with you I lit lenounco you and will have nothing more to with you." Mr. Lansing explains in the same way the taking of the shoe from tho foot in the ease of the kinsman who rennune his claim to the inheritance of Elim. loch (Huth 4:8,) tho loosing of tho shoo being merely a legal formula of renunciation which drew its meaning from popular lore- The modern Arabs, instead of throwing the shos, sometimes exclaim, "My shoo at you I" This is regarded as a token of contcmpt- ous renunciation. It is a pitiable sight to see 1 Woman who, but one short week ago, possessed a angel'a swrrtness of disposition ltd child's rtlssMPSs tf chancre, TMekiag It the head ef the stairs, at 2 o'clock in the morninf, with a bit ( el-roller in her I Vaod JtlLL AUP ON F AltM INC. It's a wonder to me that everybody don't go to farming. Lawyers and doc tors havo to set about town and play checkers, uud talk polities and wait for somebody to quarrel or fight, or gets sick; aerks und book-keepers figure and multi ply and count uulil they get to counting stars, and the flies on tho ceiling, and the peas iu the dish, and the flowers ou the papering; the jeweler sits by his window all the year round wurking ou little wheels, and the incehaniu strikes tho same kind of a lick every day. Tboso people do not belong to themselves; they are all penned up like convicts in a ehaingiing: they can't tuke a day nor an hour for recreation, for they aro the servants of their employers. There is no profession that gives a man such freshness, such latitude, and such a variety of employment as farming. Ihero s no monotony upon tho farm. There's something new everyday, aud the changing work brings into action every muscle in the human frame. Wo plow and hoe, and harrow and sow, and gather it in at harvest time. We look after the horses and oows, the pigs and sows, aud the rams and the lambs, and the chickens and the turkeys, and goeso. Wo cut our own wood, and raise our own bread and meat, and don't hail o be stingy of it like city folks. A friend, who visited us not long ago wrote back from tho town that his grate don't seem bigger than the crown of his hat sinco ho sat by our great big friendly fire-place. I niny be mistaken, but it seems to me a little higher grade of happiness to look out upon the green fields of wheat and the leafing trees and blue mountains in the distance ami hear the dove cooiiiL' to her mate and the whippoonvill sing a welcome to the night and hunt flowers and hubby blossoms with the children, and make whistles for 'cm and hear 'em blow, and see 'em get after a jumpin' frog or a gar ter snake, ami hunt hens' nests, and pad dle in the branch and get dirty and wet all over, and watch their penitent and subdued expression when they go home. Mrs. Arp looks at 'em with amusement and exclaims : Mercy on me; did ever a poor mother havo such a sot I Will I ever get done making clothes ? Put these on right clean this murning, and not an other clean rag in tho house! Go get me a switch, right straight, go I I will not stand it 1" Hut she will stand it, and they know it especially if I remark. Yes they ought to be whipped." That saves em, and by l ie time the switch comes the tempest is over, and some dry clothing are found, und if there is any cake ill the house they get it. iilessed mother! fortunate children I What would they do without her? Why her very scolding is music in their tender cars. I'm thankful that there are some things that corner in tho domestic circle that Wall street cannot buy nor money kings de press. Atlanta ( hiislihilinn. OAVYl'lCOCKKTT'S Gl'X. The Littlo Hock (Ark.) C.azrllr says: The reporter bad tho pleasure of hand ling Col. Davy Crockett's old gun re cently. It was in the State Treasurer's office, where it had been lell by "Col. Hob," Davy s granilsou, uow in the Arkansas Senate. The gun is a long barreled, sil ver mounted affair, und along the top uf the barrel, in gold letters, roads the in scription : "Presented by the young men of Philadelphia to Hon. David Crockett, of Tennessee. Near the muzzle, just back of the bead, was the Colonel's mot to: "Go Ahead." Many of tho letters were so worn as to be almost indistinguish able, and sonic them were gone completely. The gun has come duwu from sire to son iu the Crockett family ever sineo it was presented in 1834. To tho reporter "Col. Bob," who now owns the gun, said i ncro is not a gun in Arkansas to-day which will shoot truer. I killed hundreds of deers with it, and thiuk moro of it than can tell. My grandfather left it at homo when ho went to Texas, taking with biui his old flint-lock. It is a rare old gun and a great curiosity. I havo been ro- ilestcd to send it to the Exposition at New Orleans, and shall du so in a short time." CUKMISTUY OF THE DAY, "Young Gentlemen," said tho lecturer in chemistry, "coal exposed to the elements loses 10 per cent, of iu weinlit and bent iug power. This is due to the alkali con stitucnts of " "iiutwnaill mere is a dog sleeping near the ooal, professor ?" "None of your levity, young man. This is a serious matter." "That's what dad thought when 7'i per cent, of his coal pile disappeared during three nights of exposure. Then ho asked my advice as a student of chemistry, und I told him to buy a dog. He beught a dog, with bay-window teetl and the string-halt in his upper lip, and now we don't lose 1 per cent of our coal a month. That's the kind of a chemist I am. Now go on with yonr theory, professor." Chi cago IfrraH. "Mother, what is an angel?" "An an gel? We3, an angel is a being that flies." "But, mother, wbf does papa always cal Hjgowneai to angel r "Wall, ex plained the another, after a moment's pause, "she's going to By immediately." CONFEDKUATK COOKINO. Did you over taste orange peel aud water?" asked the "inaiehioness," who used to put pieces of orange peel into cold water and make tliein believe it was wine. " II you make believe very much, it's pule nice; but tl you don't, you know, it mis us if it would bear u lillle more sea soning. As earnest an effort to "make believe very much" marked tho' Confederate sol diers who could uot do without their cof fee. Genuine Hie or Java was seldom seen in Coiilederate ciimiis, except alter a capture of United States wagons. But the "Hoys iu Gray," lent on find ing a substitute for the delicious berry, roasted wheat, rye, corn, chestuuts, acorns and even persimmon seeds. It was a ter rible strain on the imagination, hut the light-hearted soldiers did "make believe" that these decoctions tasted like coffee. Tlie most useful article for cooking was the three-legged iron skillet, called a spider In that the scanty ration of bacon was fried to cracknels, and the bread or "hoe cake" baked. If u mess wero fortunate enough to own a tin pan, the flour or com mon! was kneaded in that, tile lard from the fried bacon being used for "shorten ing." If there was no tin pan, a hole was scraped iu the ground, rubber cloth laid over it, and in this improvised trough the bread was mixed, worked out, and then baked in the spider. Meeting several privates, a long, lank solilicr, elau iu a suit ol butternut-brown the expression of whose sallow fuce show- 'd a hungry man, uskod: "Mister, kin you mis tell me whar the l'orly-scvcnth North Carolina pot-and-spider wagon is? I haiiit had nothing to cat for nigh onto four days, and I 'low if I ever ketch up with the wagon, I'll get a squar' meal." Salt cod-fish was a species of food that not one Southern soldier in ten thousand knew bow to prepare. The Confederate cruiser "Alabama" captured a vessel laden with dried cod-fish. The fish, though tasteful to the soldiers, was distributed among them as rati, ns, and they had to eat it or go hungry. Tn the hottest part of July a company of Confederate soldiers occupied the ad vance rifle-pits, facing the I'uion forces. Their only ration was salt cod-fish, which hunger forced them to cat. The more they ate, the more water they drank. About the time they had emptied their canteens, the federals, having got the range, opened a cross-fire, that made it ngoreus for a Confederate to sfiow his ad above the pit. All day and night the thirsty Confed erates endured the fire within and the fire without. No until ten o'clock the next morning were they relieved, by an advance of their own army, from the terrible im prisonment. It is said tu this day not a man of that picket-line will touch salt cod fish. MOIIIX OK 11)1 ltTllll. The tailor presses his suit. The shueuiaker lays his awl at her feet. The blacksmith strikes the iron when it is hot. The carpenter says her society adi joy to his existence. The woodchopper oilers himself as her feller. The mason belives his chances rest on a good foundation when he informs her that her refusal would be mortar fying tu him. The sailor first ascertains how the land lies, then approaches her wheu she's in stays, and informs her that he is in need of a first unite. The dairyman declares that he is bouud to heifer and ran love no udder. The furniture dealer is so much in love with her that he is willing to accent her affections on installment. The poet wooes her with a sonnet, nnd her big brother starts out iu search of him with a shotgun. Tho "funny man" approaches her with jokes and puns, nnd has the dog set on him and loses tho skirts of his Bwallowtail coat. . Vinally, the champion roller staler rolls into her goisl graces, and theu slu elopes with and marries him. Boston Courier. SMALLEST WOMAN ALIVE. The parlors of the Ashland House, on Fourth avenue, neur Twenty-third street. were crowded yesterday afternoon with friends el' Miss Lucia Zarato "tho human dull," who was holding a reception. Miss Lucia is the smallest woman in tho world. weighing but 4 pounds. Her clothing would hardly fit a new-born infant, it ta king but une yard of cloth to make hi costume. Standing on the centre murblo table in the parlor, she received her guests, accepting their tributes of flowers with gra cious case, and in each case returning thanks in broken English for their kind nea. Her height is but 261 inches her chest measures 15j inches; waist, 111 srui 8 inches in length; middle finger, 1) inch es, and little finger, 1 ef an inch. She has over 3H0 costumes, and every morn ing she selects the dresses she desires to wear. A mil line of Spring goons just received and will be sold at prime panic by T. L Emsy. IT WAS NOT HIS PKOPEUTY, "Will you he kind enough to take that grip-sack oil' that scat?" said a country man, who got en the train lit l.llling iu 'exits. "No, sir, I du not intend tu do any thing uf the sort," replied thu drummer, who was sitting ou lire other side uf the at. "Do you say thai you ale going to let nit grip-sack stay right there?" "Yes, sir; 1 do." "Iu case you dou't removo that grip--k I shall be under the painful necessity uf calling the conductor." "Y'ou can cull in the conductor, tho en- ;iucer, ami the brakesman, it you wunt to. Perhaps you had better stop "at the next station and send a special to old Jay Gould himself about it." "The conductor will put you off the train. I don't care if he does. I am not go ing to take that grip-sack from that place where it is." The indignant passenger went through tho train, and soon returned with the con- luctor. "So you refuse to move that grip-sack, lo yuu ?" asked the conductor. "I do." Great sensation. "Why do you persist in refusing to re move that grip sack ?" "Because it is not mine." "Why did you not say so at once ?" "Hocausu nobody asked me." Texai Sij'litiij. I.AISOU AND CAPITAL. Y'ou may give me a little lemon and sugar, and a little a very littlo whisky," said a sad-looking man as he sidled up to the bar of Port Hickok's saloon early yes terday. morning. The lemon and sugar was put in tho glass, the liquor handed out, and tho Bad looking man, with the air of a connois seur, proceeded to stir up the ingredients and gauge his decoction. After he bad drank it he said, putting his hand into his pocket: "Have you got chango for $20 ?" ' Y'us, sir," replied the bartender promp- tly. You have ?" ejaculated the sad stran ger, with more enthusiasm then be had yet expressed; "you have? Well, that shows the difference between capital nnd labor. That indicates," he resumed, as he moved toward the door, "that the iron heel of the oppressor is on the neck of the down trodden. It is another biow against our rights as freemen. It is " ,ru you going to pay me for that lrink ? shouted the bartender, as he stoop ed to pick up a bung-starter. Ah ! the drink ? 1 had forgotten," re plied the stranger, who had by this time reached the door, which he opened. "I will go out on tho street and seo if I can find a twenty I" And he was gone just in time to escape a braining. Btiffulu (Iraphic. TEACHING DEAF TO TALK. THR LORD'S PHAYER. IIISTINCTI.T I'TTER- Kl) BY A BOY ONOK A DEAV Ml'Tl. Mr. N. F. Whipple, principal of the Oral School fur Deaf Mutes, at Mystic, Conn., explained in the Plymouth lecture room, Brooklyn, the system uf teaching ar ticulation to the deaf and dumb. He in troduced on the platform a boy who had been deaf from lus birth, and who repealj cd the Ijords l'rayar loud enough to be heard in tho rear of the room. The boy spoke with much distinctness. Long and difficult words suggested by the audience were promptly interpreted by another deaf boy as they fell from Mr. Whipplo'i lips. Enoch W hippie, over 60 years of age, who was the fiist deaf mute taueht to speak in this country, read a chapter from Jeremiah, and related how in early child hood ho had learned the power of speech from watching the movements of his fa ther'! lips. As a test of tho length U which the system bus been carried, Mr. Whipple had tho lights lowered mid had a deaf buy interpret his utterances by watching the shadows made on the wall by his lips. Hik Mn.K. Aa Aikanwi citiien had a sick mule. He said to his colored man: "Y'ou know Dr don't yon, Sam?" "Yes, but t don't fiuk nuffin' of 'im, boss. He 'fused to 'scribe fo' mo wen I war sick las' week. 8ed he didn't 'scribe for niggahs." 'That's all riuht. Ho doctor! horses, doesn't he?" "I believe ho do, boss.'' "Well, you go down and tell him ibat I have a sick mule and want him to come at once." "1 unit no yuse, ho won't cum. Dat doctor 'scribes fo' white folks in' horses, b.ss, but he draws do line at niggabj an' mules." "Gentlemen," said an auctioneer, with true pathos; "If my ftther and mother stood where you stand, and did uot buy this stew-pan, thie elegant stew-pan, going at sue dollar, I shoalil feel it my duty as a son to tell both of them tbey were false to tbeir country and false to themselves." ADVERTISEMENTS 1'ftlli X ! ; (rMre wo m f Ar Vji .. ' iiruvrn in hrr tyf, v.rtwj i r.'eny gnhtrtt tfiiimtg ( J lt- hr i n Ho It iiiHiinil Mother Kfe, tint ttu tuny U- y 1 hluv her lulr licni't'iKluuui, Htilt His i v M ri'iic cil' rnuiutoii ki'inu i'Hrt aud pro(ei t J&f . I ireutiueiil. An I'liorimmi Miiuttitr uf ft' JH . . ui 1 male f'uuipliihiU ar ihrvctlr eauafi by H 'n p iiHiiirltttiHt' or uiirt-MBluu of Ui Mu ij -v. y t iMb- triml Kiiiiftiou, In frryti'h cm thai for, ,, -utIiiik una untUlliii, ipeelfle, JMt aj . 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Roanoke News (Weldon, N.C.)
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May 7, 1885, edition 1
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