HAXiL &z SLEDGE, PlioPUIEToiis.
VOL. XIV.
A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
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GROCERIES.
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i'ry week a fresh supply of
Nilgai- Cured 1 1 Jills
and Shoulders,
Breakfast Strips,
Butter,
Wd,
Sugar,
Coffee,
Flour,
CllC'SO,
Crackers,
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found in u first-class family grocery Htori-.
JAMES W. "pIERCE.
jan 1 ly Weldon, N. C.
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nil tluil ii wtirtli kiinHitit: In tlu- his lory nl the
work! for the m iweuij i'ntir hours.
$1.00.
TIIK WKKKLV TTMKS
Sl.OO A. YEAR.
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larei-t ami IhuI of the Knmlly whI (ietieml new
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li t" In-thent'wsMHrof ihe (uH.nle of the wh-.k'
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titled to All extrEdipy. ,
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THE TIMES,
'i ' TIMKfl PUiLDIKtt, I'HILA.
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A DKKAM.
Id'liiv'il -'ttiliiit ii lrenin-yi t still I ice
Tiir itiii'liln;: Itt-nuty nfyntir fui't faij,
I wnli'li tiLjain the Ijlil Unit never tlic.H
l i-'tn tin' yellow tflnryuf ytiiir hnlr.
I 1,'ne Into the eyes llml w rmilit my wne,
The Bray '-ye Ihisliiui; 'ni alli their heavy flillK.'.
I watch the hue thai yl-mn iih.ii yt.ur eheek,
Tlh' : wee It mseljinl known no tiiirer tlnie.
ml y. t 'lis l.ut u tln iitii -the fueu I l-.y'il
W ilt piTfei't he in. nmre iiKdiiist myoivti,
1'lie ln'iiri U,ih eeiis'il Id hcut Cor me, nini yet
My love hiw never, neVi-r weiikerKromi.
Mow we 1'iiti love : il'w.imiui only knew
.w'rshe In. his to work iivp,1Hior ill,
The Ilii-Hui ks hiiI iK'nee lnr snii.'n miiy krlilp,
The m r rows tlml her voice hio iiw "r to Mlll-
Surely Mlie ciml. 1 nut t,lVl' to tin litikilul,
Surely she would nut win hi lo ketruy !
iniuiiit! that she en n civn ns life or ileiith -
Ami lunionr iliirkeft iiIkIU Into hriyht tiny !
Sweet- I forgive yoii-lho' ymir lovely fuee
llreaks in iinoii my Imicly, linlov'il rent
I huve no uiw r ki tnli;e- I love you still,
Altho' yon l,r ke the lit-art within my breHst.
J3YTILK8EA.
Luiij; llraiK-h.
It wa.i hhiwiu roal guns. A June
wind whipped tho sea into bpuinu and
sent it flying over the bathin-lioiises and
ink in rifts of fpray. I'ashion shivereil
in uvereoats ami furs nil the esplanade.
I lie farmers haek on the kui.i1 runes said
they had never seen anything like it. The
hay burnt up before it matured; the corn
stood only eiht inches in the cold field,
mil the peas hadn't had warmth euough
to make their pods.
It was so frigid at the West Kml that
I'a.-liii.n oseapod having its blood chilled
only hy not having any blood. The wild
waves did nothing all day but hiss at the
people on the shore, aud one amateur vo-
calit who tried to sing ''Break, Iireak,
lireak," sent all the bank cashiers howl
ing from the hotel parlor.
icu me pardonne," said .Mrs. Cuno-
pus, wliu prays ami swears in trench,
but it is cold here!" and she put her
Japanese parasol up to keep off the tem
perature. "Nut a flirtation to warm one's
cheeks ut," and she tried to score a fail
ure on her forehead with tho tip of the
parasol, hut the wind had blown all the
Paris wliite off.
Very bleak was the esplanade. The
equipages that came out nt 4 o'clock had
rugs piled up in llieiu and the horses' tails
wciv bltiwu out straight to leeward. The
irosvetior l'latts bad n children's party
la-t night ut tie ii hutel and they shut the
windows and played pawns round u blaz-
r wood lire.
I e.iine down here to get the dust and
islies of the winter blown out of uie. So
I lean up airainst the ocean blast eotifid-
gly and look at the pageantry of the sea
nml the froth of I'.idiioii.
flu; belle of the place U. little Doia
Cranston. You probably remember her
last season at llii hfield Sprue's, where
ihe and Zclio de hussau walked away
with all the admiration. It is only three
summers ago tnat I saw her digging the
s.md down there on the beach with n
wooden Middle. One day she threw
lown her pail anil sliovel, struck n pensive
ittitude with her little while, finger on her
oreliead and changed her mini!.
"Wli.il nonsense it is being a child."
he said. ' I'm tired of digging sand.
I in going up to the hotel, bo n Woman
mid flirt."
The next time I saw her she was in
long dr.'sscs. The transformation scene
had taken place in one night.
The evolution of a woman is not
science it is niagic. She capers along as
a girl up to some great emotion and then
suddenly unlaces her girlhood aud puts it
away forever.
Pardon inc," she says to. you the next
morning when you attempt to chuck her
under the chin. "Purdou lue, we were nc-
iiuaint.'d, but that was yesterday. It it
not customary to treat a lady with such
familiarity.
She has the stamp of maturity on tier
mouth.
If you call attention to tier shovel and
pail or her doll, lying neglected on the
shore, sh.' lilts her eyebrows and remarks
me poor little dear of yesterday lias
left it there.
Theso little columbines of society make
such rapid changes that we poor slow,
maturing men are put to our mettle to
follow them.
Hctwecn seventeen and twenty a woman
plays tier whole drama of life. After that
she sits ill the audience and looks on.
Hora Crantoii is Cranston no louger.
I ttippoae you know that, if you know
anything about il. She iui.rri.il railroad
iron, and some of it lias got into her heart.
was looking at her heart. 1 was look
ing at her lust night us she stood in the
uiuulniplil iiu too pluAAM, Mild I had ft
fancy that the two parallel lines on her
pretty forehead resembled a narrow
guagc track.
And all this in three years.
Certainly and more. It in the Ixmg
l!r:oVh romance. It comes with the
June skies regularly.
If Jou ferret out a real romance hy the
sea you will generally find that it goes the
wrong way.
I cannot help recalling Mrs. Campus's
remark.
"0, transport d im cow glace !"
Dona's is frosen.
"Where's your pool," I asked, the mo
ment I got a coufidcDtial opportunity.
"I buried him in the sanil with my
paddle long ago," sbt replied with
laugh,
She spuke of two years as long ago.
''Let's go down and dig him out with
our memory, I saul. "the moon is
shining and the wind has tone down."
"Anything that isn't tiresome," she
tied, "aud the past is awfully funny some
times.
"lie told mo everything, you know.
So we can be f rank,'.' 1 said.
She sat down on the rust ie bench, and
very beautiful she was in the glare of that
brassy June moon.
This is the girl whose checks, two
ars ago, luoked like lillies and whose
lips spoke roses, mukiiijr a continual gar
land of expression.
I used to see tho red tide-mark in her
cheek whenever she met him. Now she
was as cold as the late season, Shu had
the whole sophistry of life at her finger-
Is. She breathed irony as easily us she
looked hypocrisy.
"Yes, you know all ubout it, of course,"
she said. "You ought to make story of
it. It lias all the humor, nil the folly, all
the piquancy of tho commonplace ro
mance. V hy, we sat in this very place
two summers ago and did the whole tru-
litional business.
"Then that leaden sea shimmered ill
golden fire mists. He used to hold nie
spell-bound sitting just where you ure. I
remember 1 used to cuddle up to him and
listen. It was like an nnthcni. Do you
know I used to think that if anybody
took him nwuy I'd die, and one night
when he did not conic down on the boat I
went down to the shore and sat there in
the saud and cried as if my hcuit would
break. Children do some of the most ex
truordinary tilings" and she laughed
again. "A girl has to have just so much
candy and sentiment till she gets a sur
feit. Do you remember any of the girls
of two summers ago ?"
"Dol? Kvcry one of them. There
were the Sandisons, had the hluo cottage,
and the big Mai thus don't you know ?
you used to call her the Maltese and the
beautiful Chapman, who crushed all the
young and old men at the West End; and
the blonde I'ariibam, who got up the pic
nic on that Fourth uf July and fell into
the water while wo were crabbing and was
pulled out by the artist Kuggles, who
made a sketch of her in tier wet clothes
as Ariadne. Do I remember? Can I
forget Florence llorgcr, who swam like a
nautilus and was cuurtcd all through the
seasun by jack YinterbottllUl, or how they
swam out to sea to have their tryst ?
What's become of them all ?"
"Married and settled."
"What, in two years ?"
"0. yes. Kato I'olger is u widow. You
remember her ? She had such a voice.
She's in Uracil, railroads or something. It
isn't near ns jolly here us it used to be in
the old limes. Do you think so?"
"Hardly. Tho sky isn't as blue, is it?
The sea isn't as bright. I was noticing
that, hut I didn't know it had altracted
your nttcntiou."
"Yes. Sometimes I have an idiotic no
tion that I'd like to go down quietly and
dig in the sand again."
, "Don't there are sk letons buried
there."
"I know il. People think they are bite
of shell, but Ihey arc bones. How did
you find it out ?"
,'l watched the married women."
She started n little.
"Tell me," I said, "about"
"Nu names," she said, quickly?" I
know what you mean." Then, with
woman s quick revulsion, she straightened
up and half sang, half sisike the lines of a
coarse iHiputar song, as if a bit of rounh
frivol were the best defence.
"Oh, lie's all right !''
Dead ?"
"Nonsense. Alive and hearty."
"And handsome as ever ?"
"0, yes. He was at our last reception
iu tiraiuerey Park. We had a real good
hour, talking over old times."
"Did you, indeed ?"
"Yes. We got into the conservatory,
and he commenced in the same old way
poor hoy,"
"How indiscreet !'
"( ), no; we laughed at it all. it's such
fun to go over one's follies. ou know
how he rattles on. 'What a jolly lark our
two summers were, he Haul, when we
strolled on that hunk and swore eternal
love. How the sunset skim grew into
passion flowers of tropical brightness for
us. and the west flamed with celestial
inn's! Ami buff rich wo were in gotiien
hopes, aud how confident ill constancy I
Do you remember, Ihira do you remein
oer thai Uay oa uie .ipioo hiver alone-
do you remember my idiotic vs'rses!
Yes,' I said. 'I can repeat every syllabi
and I did. Let uie see, this is the way
il went :
A breiuh oflmlnn,
4 l.nin li ..frloicr.
A tnunmir of m Mli-rr the hrook f.-ll ilonn,
Tie- rlnu-l. roll'-.1 I'V
Ami the Itiril. utlet! iiver.
And I looked iipand you looked down.
A putter of rain,
A lutmerof lliulide.
AhtilUTiiiil .tood l.y tlu' edir,' of llie brook.
The utonii wwsl over.
And we.t.MHl under.
A Ultle lord Mrtyed in llie trw to look.
ArUpofltnavn,
A Utile flutter,
A bis drop f'dl a my hsud like pain.
You nulled la your tesri
At tli. void I would utter,
And Uufhlnitly II wily the rata.
A break of sold in the vlnet that clamber
You Mid the tweet words that made yon mine;
And the sun cam. out with a flafim of amber
And drenched the world with celottial win..
"0, it was too ridiculous, and we both
laughed there in the conservatory like
children again. You'll pardon me for
laughing at it now, will you not ? These
things have their humorous side."
"I will indeed," I said; but the sea
mist is too heavy here; it is trickling down
your face. Let us go back."
"Yes; my husband is waiting for me."
"Do you udmiro comic poetry?" I
asked, ns she got up.
"Passionately."
"Then let mo quote the hackneyed
lilies of that great humorist, Tennyson, so
that wo can part with a joke."
What lines?"
"The tender iiriu'o ofa ilny that IscUad
Will never comu buck lo inc."
"0, yes it will, she said, (let married
mid stop digging in the sand.
Nym Cuinki.e.
Mit. HliKCUKK'S lSULll'.F.
HE WHITES A LETTER. Ol'TLIMNU 1I1S
RELATIONS Til TIIEOLOIIICAL DOUMAS.
llev. Oeorgo Morrison, of Baltimore,
is received the following letter from Mr.
Henry Ward Beccber. As it has refer
ence to Mr. Bcccher's sermons on evolu
tion, and ns it outlines briefly and plainly
Mr. Ueechcr's creed, it will be of unusual
public interest. The letter is dated Brook
lyn, June 19:
"I thank you for your friendly solici
tude. I am sure that in the end you will
not be disappointed, tliaugh on some points
you may not agree with me. The formu
lated doctrines, as I hold them, are : A
personal God, creator and ruler over all
things; the human family universally sin
ful; the need and possibility and facts of
conversion; tho Divine agency iu such
work; Jesus Christ tho manifestation of
Ood in human conditions; his office in re-
lemption supreme. I do not believe iu
the Cidviuistio form of stating tho atone
ment. I do not believe in the full of the
huuiuu race in Adam and, of course, I do
not hold that Christ's, work was to satisfy
the law broken by Adam for all his pos
terity. The race was not lost, but has
been ascending steadily from creation.
am in hearty accord with revivals and
revival preaching, with the educating forc
es of the Church and iu sympathy with
all ministers who in their several ways
seek to build up men into tho image of
Jesus Christ, by whoso faithfulness, gen
erosity and love I hoie to be saved and
brought home to Heaven.
"-Mr sermons as published in the daily
pnpers I am not responsible for. They
are fragments and often utterly incorrect.
They will be revised and corrected by me
before being published with authorization
and in the autumn will appear in book
form.
A PATH Klt'S ltl'SK.
.ot lar distant lrom leccoa lives nn
old man whose name is Seffrey Heck. M r.
Deck's good wife died some time last sum
mer. Ihe disconsolate widower is the
father of a son who is known as Jesse
Beck. Once upon a time Jesse became
lissiili-.fi. l with a life of single blessed-
n-'ss, nml lorthwith iniule seiueli lor
partner for life. Jesse found a girl that
suited him, and was accepted by the lady
ou the spot.
She was supposed to he, as we learn,
Miss Pitts. Jesse made too much delay
in making arrangements fur the matriage
to suit Miss Pitts; so she sent her lover
message, about as follows: "If you want to
marry me you had better have it attended
to immediately, if not sooner.
This completely destroyed Jesse's peace
of mind, so be went to the old man Jeff
for advice. Now, Jesse fears neither storm
rain nor tempest, and seldom wears a coat
even in the coldest of weather. It Imp
pened that Jesse at this lime did not have
a coat. His father thought it would be
beneath the dignity of the Beck family for
Jesse to marry without a coat, and so he
advised him to go to work aud buy him
one. So Jesse started off to make the
money to buy a coat which would be his
p assinirt to connubial felicity. The day
after Jesse left the parental roof iu search
of work, the old man shaved off his beard
put on ins best clothes, and went up to
sec the aforesaid Miss Pitts. The inter
view resulted ill a murriugc between the
old man and the girl, and when Jesse re
turned home he found the young lady
there, not as Miss Pitts, but as Mrs. Keck
the bride of tho old man. Ticnni ((In.)
iVi'lM.
Mistiik Kkspkotkii. A Cincinnati
special savs : A jury here this altcrnoon
gave a verdict of l'KI damages to Joshua
Coppola against the Baltimore nml Ohio
Railroad Company. Cuppoht married on
March 2nd, and, with a sl.vpiug-ear ticket
for hinisell'aud bride, went to lake the
train and found ihe shvping-car over-
whehiied with the Putchworth Dub, on
its way to the inauguration. The conduc
tor refused to recogniw his ticket. Cup
pola remained in Cincinnati and brought
suit for (2,01)0. The judge charged the
jury to duly consider the fact that Cup
pola was freshly married.
"I do think that thirteen is really an
unlucky number," said a pert young miss
who bad just entered her teens; "It is
too old fr dolls and too young for a
beaux!"
V XOItTIf ( AHOIJXA KKliAK.
Il'or. Newsnu.l observer.)
One of the greatest living curiosities of
the ago was on the W. A W. R, K. cars
yesterday, (July .'!,) from Wclduii going
south. .Mr. Joseph P. Smith, of Kdisto
Villa, S, ('., formerly of W'adcshoro, was
on his way home, after an absence if
Jiteen months, having iu his charge
Miss Alillic Christine, a colored two-headed
uightingnle, and had been visiting differ
ent countries in Kurapc. Miss Millie was
born in Columbus county, near White
ville, in the year 18.". 1. Miss Millie
Christine mid Christine Millie, ns they
call themselves, are twins, joined together
ufter the manner of the "Siamese twins,"
the difference being that they are con
nected nt the smallest part of the back,
near the spine. She or they, ns they nrc
called, are perfect iu form in every par
ticular, having two well-formed heads,
mouths, noses, cars and limbs, bands and
feet, no deformity whatever; being per
fectly formed and natural beings, possess
ing good, sound mental faculties and ra
tionality of mind. Being up with the
present ago in literature, they converse
fluently ill four different languages, which
renders them very pleasant and agreeable
ns well as entertaining and very interest-
Speaking Cicruian, French aud Ital
ian, they were very popular with the
crowned heads aud the nobility of the
different countries which they visited.
She was a wonderful curiosity aud at
tracted groat attention, especially from the
learned medical fraternity, being pro
nounced by them the most wonderful
phenomenon of tho age. Having two
separate and distinct bodies she can con
verse on different subjects at the same
time. They can walk on two or four feet
they may desire; waltzing gracefully,
playing and singing charmingly well ou
the piano. Whilst nt St. Petersburg they
entertained large crowds, receiving during
her stay of eighteen weeks, fifteen huti
drcd dollurs a week, amounting to a snug
little pile of money. In Knghuul and all
the prominent cities her curings were not
much, being one thousand dollars u
week. Alter arriving in New York sev
eral propositions at seven hundred dol
lars a week were made her, but not hav
ing seen her parents in eighteen months,
she declined all and was en route for
home in Cjlumbiis county, where after
resting from the fatigues uf her trip she
intends visiting the Blue Uidgc mountains.
m:v si.Kui'isii caks,
AN l.MPUIlVKMK.Vr WIIH'll AViHIM I'S-
INll TIIK HEPS AS SEATS Hi'
HAY.
Sj'l l'llifjirltl I 'llo!.
The two new parlor sleeping cars that
are to be put on thu Connecticut Bivcr
Hailroad next week, to run between this
city and Quebec, arc constructed on a new
and uovel plan and arc by day perfect par
lor cars, with no iiiilieatloti about them
that they are sleeping ears, and by night
they are complete sleeping ears, with more
convenient arrangements for sleeping ihnu
the exclusive sleeping ears have. Each
car contains twenty eh.iiiM, covered with
the finest of damask and revolving after
the maimer of parlor-ear chairs. The
berths and bedding l.y day are placed in
perpendicular cabinets, that are folded
hack against the sides of the ear between
the windows, giving the effect of elabor
ate finish. Al night the chairs are taken
apart and folded down near the floor and
are not used at all in arranging the berths,
and one groat advantage that will occur to
everybody is that the same upholstery
does not do service both hy day and night
as is the case in sleeping-ears. The lower
beiths are not as high as the lower berths
in sleeping cars, because the height is not
determined by the height of the seat and
the upper berths are also lower and easier
to get into. Each berth in each of the
ten sections has light from a window and
is furnished with hovel-edgcd mirrors, and
the beds are hair mattresses upon steel
springs. Each car has a large wash room,
smoking ns.m, closets and buffet, and the
ventilation is believed to be as near per
fect as it can bo. Each section is furnish
ed with a child's scat, which lets down
from tho side of the cat, and no arrange
ment has been spared that will add to the
convenience and comfort of travelers. The
ears arc fiuished in mahogany inside and
out and are very handsome, besides being
solid and substantial. The overhead in
terior is beautifully decorated.
Wife: "Don't bother mo now; un
twist yuur own Biisciiders; we Mircly will
be late. It's time now for the first dance,
and t am now only fully half undressed
for the bull."
A man may tie ever so firm a believer
in the theory of evolution, but when lie is
alllietcd with boils lie is not always a be
liev.w iu the "furvival of the sittist."
"Is the man honest?" asked old Hyson.
"Honest as Ihe day is long," was the reply.
"Yc-es," said old Hyson; "but then he
won't do at all. I want him for a night
watchman.
A young mother should not be too am
bilious to correct bet children. She should
begin at the bottom.
hi: had lots of ti n.
"It is mighty hard work for n man to
drive a balky horse and be a Christian at
the same time. I tried it years ago, and
.ivc both up as a bad job. But say, did
you ever hear of a man having a horse
balk on him in such n way us to make him
laugh to please him nil over, and make
him right down happy? Well, sir, I did,
and I was the man. Ilo was a horse that
I had traded for, and he was nu awful
balker. There wasn't no use of doing
anything with him there was nothing to
do but just sit down and wait for him to
come around. It generally took two
houts.
"One day I was driving him along, and
just as we got mi the railtoud track he
balked. 'Here's u go,' says I to myself;
what if a train should come along?' At
first I was afraid a train would come, then
alter a while I didn't care a cuss whether
one came ot not, and iu aboot seventy
minutes I was ufinid one wouldn't come.
I just ached to have a train come ulong.
I prayed for one. Sure enough pretty
Boon I suw one coming. It mndu me
smile. When the engineer whistled for
me to get off the track I laughed. And
when she got n little closer I climbed out
the hind end of the buggy, leaned up
against the fence and prepared to enjoy
the picnic. Oh, but it was sport I That
balky horse had sworn he wouldn't go,
but he went that time, lie was distribu
ted all ulong tho track there for twenty
rods. And the old buggy and harness
it looked too comical. Never had such
fun since I was a boy !"
"Bather expensive fun, wasn't it?"
"Yes. for the railroad company. I sued
'em for 870(1, nud the jury of farmers
gave me 8037.50. But it was fun !"
TIIK KXGINKEK.
The following story of an engineer ou u
western railroad shows how fast our coun
try is growing. We do not hold ourselves
responsible for the truth of the story, but
we do not hesitate to say that it is "not
much of u Btory" compared with that of
the Western man who makes nn effort :
"One day I was driving my engine over
the prairie at the rate of forty miles an
hour, without a house in sight, and sup
posing tho nearest town to be thirty miles
distant. But as I glanced ahead I was
a.-tonished to see that I was approaching
a large city. I rubbed my tyes, think
ing it was a miracle.
'Jim,' says I to the fireman, what's this
place ?"
" 'Blamed if I know,' says Jiui, staring
out of the cab. ' declare, if their ain't a
new town growed up here since we went
over the line yesterday.'
" 'I believe you are right Jim. King
the bell, or we shall run over somebody I"
"So I slowed up, and we pulled into a
large depot where more than 3(10 people
were waiting to see the first, train come
into that place. The conductor learned
the name of the town, put it down ou the
schedule, and we weut on.
"Jim,' says I as we pulled ont, 'keep
your eyes open for new towns. First
thing you know we'll be running into
some strange place.'
"That's so,' said Jim. 'And hadn't we
better get one of the hrakeiueu to watch
out on the rear platform for towns that
lire springing up niter the engine gels by ?"
SINHICA.MS.
The silent watcher). ..I the night: Thus
not wound up.
"Sheol and blazes" is but a poor substi
tute when a man steps on a tack.
A Harlem man asks ten thousand dol
lars damaues for the loss uf three fingers.
He must be a pickpocket.
"I cure not who makes the breeches of
the family," said a strong-minded wife,
"as long as I wear them."
Young housewife: "What miserable
little eggs agaiu. You really must tell
them, Jane, to let the hens sit on them a
little longer."
"You say you know Sallie Jane?"
"Yes." ' Is she homelier than her sister
Mary?" "Yes: there's more of her; she's
bigger."
A young lady rcbukingly asks: "Which
is the worse, to laoo tight, or to get tight?"
lteally, we cannot answer tho question.
Wc never laced.
"Evil cueuuiliers corrupt bananas," is
the wsv a little pirl repented flo text
She was quite right, as her little !
brother's stoiuacli-aelie after dinner testi
fied. "Greek ? Do 1 uudeistand (jreck ?"
said a jolly Gorman. "Veil, I slioust can
schmile. Vy, veil I vas a lectio poy, I
alvaya swim in dot greek iushtcadt of dot
rihber."
"Boss, hah you got any oh dem con
found cavortic pills ?" "Yes. Do you
want them plain or coated ?" "Dunno. I
wan't dem ones what's whitewashed." He
got 'em.
"The tendency to do wrong iucrcases
towards night," says a well-known clergy.
man. I think this Is very likely to be
true, for when Adam ate the forbidden
fruit (t was near Etc,
l'OINTKKS TO AliVKItTISKKH.
Don't expect an advertisement to bear
fruit iu one night.
You t-an't cat enough in a week to last
you a year, and you can't advertise ou that
plan, cilh'-r.
The enterprising advertiser proves that
he iiudi'istiiuds how to buy, because in
advertising he km.ws how to sell.
People who advertise only once iu three
mouths, forget that most folks cannot re
member anything longer thai about seven
days.
Il'you can mouse curiosity by nn ad
vertisement, it is a great point gained.
The fair sex doesn't hold all I he curiosity
in the world.
Qiii '.ing advertising in dull times is
like touring out a dam because th water
is low. Either plan will prevent good
times I'mm ever coming.
Trying to do business without advertis
ing is like winking at a pretty girl through
a pair of green goggles. You may know
what you are doing, but nobody else
does.
Enterprising tiaders are beginning to
learn the value of advertising the year
round. The persistency of those who are
not intimidated by the cry of dull times,
but keep their names ever before the
public, will surely place them on the right
side iu the cud.
Till: DliAU t'KKATLKFS.
There ure 2-' unmarried sisters in one
family iu Maryland.
Mis. (loo. MeClellan, of Philadelphia
is said to he the author of "The Carpet
Knight," u recent society novel.
Woman may not have any great fond-'
ucss for the clothes line, hut there is one
line they are always fond of masculine.
"Having got a sealskin sacque and dia
mond earrings, I must now get a divorce,"
remarks the Chicago bride ofn month.
Princess Beatrice looks like an Amer
ican girl, says one of her countrymen.
That is the finest compliment that could
be paid the fair lady.
A fashion note states that young ladies
may have the initials of the yourth to
whom they are engaged embroidered upon
the left shoulder of their sacks.
The mau who is asked to guess at a
lady's age, and doesn't guess several years
less than he believes to be exact, is mak
ing an enemy, and doing truth no good.
Florence Marryat recently advised tho
girls to "sit down on the jneu." Miss
Marryat should be informed at once that
this is a custom not ultogether unknown
in this country.
OI.II VIOLINS,
One of the principal reasons why old
violins are so superior to modera ones
lies in the fai t that the secret of the old
varnishes is lost. The fact that the old
guiu-aiubcr, obtained from the interior
of Africa, aud the transparent dragon's
blood, the chief ingredients of the old
varnish, nre n lunger procurable niny be
a cause for this. On litis matter, liow
evcr; critics differ. The chief reason,
however, is, that as lime goes on, the
r sinoits matter is gradually shaken nut
of the pores and fibres of the wood and
drops below into the hollow, owing to
vibration. The sap becomes also dried up
wilh aoe. the wood becomes honeycombed,
and consequ. ntly porous, light and elastic.
The number of vibrations iu a given time
increased, ihe vibrations also hannouized
and unified, nud thus ihe mellowness and
intensity of sound is augmented, the orig
inal roughness and harshness is smoothed
away, and the violin becomes more deh
ciously sonorous. A. 1. .SVur.
tiOIXO HACK TO FIUSTPIUX-
CII'LKS.
An old-fashioned Temperanco Society
has been formed in Boston by a number
of clergymen and others who propose to
"take the reform out of politics." The
new society intends to fall back on the
old methods of moral suasion and the
spread of knowledge, to which the great
reform of forty years ago was wholly due.
While intemperance lias continued its
ravagei among the poor and ignorant,'
there is one class that tias constantly be
come more aud nioru abstemious. Among
the people who attend and givo dinner
parties, excess in wine has become so rare
that a pcrsou may sit out a hundred din
ners iu London, New Yoik, Bcrliu, Paris
us Vienna, and not sec one individual the
worse fur drink. The two bottle men of
old aie uo longer seen.
People drink little in amouut, and pre-1
fer the wines having little intoxicating
power. They drink leas than their fore
fathers because they know uiore. They
have discovered that excess of all kinds
defeat its object, and that the way to got
the most pleasure out of every hour is to
practice moderation and observe the strict
est molality. They have discovered that
excess is as foolish as it is wicked. A'. J'.
linlger.
"Out of every one hundred and nine
female school teachers," says an exchange,
"seven marry every year." IIow many
times do the remaining 102 marry ? Give
us all the facts.
WoNnrttrt'L, yet true! Just think of it
Simpson's Solid Blank, White and Black
anil Silver Gra,v calico at 8 cent par yard,
at T. I Eauy'a
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ti or 8 toiiB of Hay.
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Ian l 6m
fcOfin nnn'" Hlve away. Ben
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COUNTY ATTORN" KT
J I T I1 H I i & DUNN,
ATTORXErti AT LAW,
SCOTLAND NKCK, N. C.
mar i:ttf
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R. II. M1I1H Jr.
IKOTLANIiNKCK.lf. C.
SBKK & SMITH.
Mr K. II Iliisbeeaiid Mr. R H.Rmith, Jr Cottn-
Inn-at Ijiw . hme li.riiitsl a limited mrtiienhip
for tho .meiice .f law In llalilnx county. Mr.
limin e will tiiteml the enurta of Halifax, re-nilarly,
in nl ttill also vlail Uieextuuty whenever liionervket
(lie leolliretl. wl 10 ly
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H0MA9 N. HILL,
Attorney al Law
HALIFAX, N C.
Prnetie.t In U iljfix (tnd a.ljolniiigcountiai aud
rVh-i.il nml Si.ircine eonrtn.
aug. 28 tf.
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V. M A .SUN,
Attorney at Law,
UAHYSIU Itn, N.C.
PrHctteei. in the eoiirtH of Northtunplon and ad
toiuiUK i-oinitico, ul.o In the EeUejal and Sii,reina
court.. juile a If.
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ALTKKK. DANIEL,
Attorney at Law,
WKl.tHlX, K. C.
Practices In Halifax and a.u,otniur counties,
sclitl attention xiveu to collection)! lo all rnvrta
of the State aud uroinpi returns made,
feb 17 ly.
U ALL,
Attomey at Law.
WELDON, N.C.
Special attention given to coUacUous and ravtt'
tauces promptly made. may 1 tf.
LIES fc MOOR K,
Attorney! at Law,
HALIFAX, N. C.
I'rftetlcr In HmmtintlMnf Hull fax, Northampton,
K-hfeenltil-e, I'ltt Hint Mrinill 111 the Sm.reiii etiurt
t.f the HUl" mul in tin- r'l-kml Curt- oft In- Nnittrra
Iliturtel. 4llt-t.ulM Htwlu lit any rt oflliv State,
Jhii I ly
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SHIELDS,
Hurgeou DeutKU
Having permanently IneatM 111 WeldoR, Ma I
foim1 ,a hid other ill Smith m Briek Huildtng at all
tiuiMM tjxt-rpt w hen alwent m nrofeMkiitiit lititvlaMa.
t'Atvful munition irivvn to all hrnm-lir of th ro
fe,tou. i'uriioi vuilt-d at lUvir buiUM when dw
aired. July U ly.
JjK.
K. L. HUNTER,
Kurgmm LOeutlit.
Can bo found at hit oftee tn Enfield.
Pure Nitrons Oxide Gas for ttte Fainleai Extra
Un uf Teeth niwayt ok hand.
June 22 tf
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vT 111 takmiau ajRnw for tfia bvt neihttg
bonk out. Bilnnors tniecvwl ti amlly. None dlC
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