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C i ' i ' Practices In Hertford and afljolnttf scunslea, and in the bupreme and Federal eouns. Prompt attention to collection) TT J. TEATK8, : i ATTORNIT-AT-LaW, ' ICurfreesboro, N. C. Practices In the Superior, Supreme and JsoV era! courts. A BABNEI,' . ATTORNET-AT-LAW, Mu'frsesboro, If. C. Practices In Hertford and adjoining counties and In the Supreme and federal courts. Prompt attention to collection. rn b. JKBSiuiir, " ATTOSNIT-AT-ULW. " HsxreUsnile. If. Collections made In any part of the Stat. 1 1 i ; jonx w. xxooiiB,! j ATTORNSY-AT-LAW, Pitch Landing, N. C Practices In the Superior, ) Supreme, and Ted ersi Courts. Prompt attention to Collections. ; : - ATTORNBT-AT-LAW, r Wlnton, K. C Practices In Hertford and adjoining counties, colleouons made in any part of iforth Caro lina. - ' " J) It. C. F. CAKPBELL, E m H ,H Z S 0 z 3 H S3 H " 7 A UAH'S REGRET. O m child-love, my lore of long ago, How great was life when you and I were young ! The world was boundless, for we did not know; And life a poem, for we bad not sung. Now is the world grown small, and we thereon Fill w.th wise toil and woe each flying day; j Elves from the wood, dreams from my heart are gone, ' And heaven is bare, for God is far away. O my child-love, cannot you come again, And I look on you with grave, innooen. ' eyes ? Your God has many angels; I would fain Woo for one bviir one angel from the skies' O my child Joye, come bk, oome" back to me. And. laughing, lead me from the care and din; Lay on my heart those small hands tenderly And lovingly, to let the whole world in. Hie Head of the Class. "How do you spell threshold, Aunt Katy?" asked Ilal as he came to my room just from school. ',T-h-r-e-s-h-o-l-d," I answered. ; "Good enough," he replied; "but I was sure as anything there was two h's in it it sounds so, anyway. Poor Joe failed in it to-day, and he got down one. He feels awful had about it you know he been at the head of the 1 class for two weeks. " "Oh, pshaw!" I answered, "I wouldn't feel bad over that I don't think it's quite fair to keep at the head all the time, and not give any one else a chance. Go down and ask Jo and the rest to come up here and I will tell you a story of something that happened in my school life that I remember as well as if it were but yesterday." ! Willie Fiske was one of the very brightest boys in town, and although he loved fun as well as any of the rest of his mates, yet he was very fond of study, and was never quite contented until he reached the head of the class in which he was. When he was eleven years old he en tered the grammar school, and his father said at that time, "Willie, if you ever get to be the first one of the first class in the first division that is, to be at the head of this great school I will give you a gold swatch." It looked like) a big job ; but Willie was quite ready1 tto undertake it, and answered : "All right, papa; you can just make up your mind to hand over the watch by the time I'm fourteen years old." i He went to work very much in earn est, and as he passed from time to time through the different classes, and suc ceeded in keeping at the head of them often for weeks together he began to see that! the watch was a pretty sure thing, and would imagine how grand he should feel to take it out and "tell the fellers the time of day." Willie was a very generous boy, and was never so happy as when sharing some good thing with others. He always defended the smaller boys, and if any one was in trouble he was on hand at once to help them out of it. Of coursc.he was a great favorite with bopTfhe boys and girls, and no one ev sr seemed to envy him because he had a rich father, or because he was so good a scholar. Just as he reached his fourteenth birthday he entered the highest class in the school. It was now that the watch was to be won or lost ! He had not been in the class a week before he found that he had a rivala sweet little girl, named Flossie Lee. She bad just come Into the school, as her parents had only recently moved to our village from a distant city, and Flossie; after an examination, had been placed in thesame class with Willie. Her parents did not have much money, but as their little girl was a fine scholar, they felt that they must send her to school as long as they could ; and Flos sie had often told them that she "meant to be a teacher and earn lots of money for them." j So you see that, although she did not have a gold watch to work for, she had something worth a great deal more. And ihat Flossie Lee was the rival Willie had found ; for she very soon skipped over all the others and took her place at the head of the class; and it looked as though it was going to be a pretty hard task to get her out of it. Quite! In despair, one day, Willie said to his mamma : "It's no use trying, 1 tell you, I shall never get higher than number two never ! j Flossie Lee can't fail. But there's one thing about it; if any one has got! to keep me from getting to the head this year, I'd rather it would be Flossie than anybody else in school, for I like her first rate." And I guess he did, for many a fine pear or bunch of grapes,1 or luscious orange did Willie take from his own home table, and watch his chance to put them into Flos sie's modest little lunch basket that hung under her sacque in the hall of the school, "for, "as he told his mamma, one day, "Flossie never seems to have anything but crackers or bread and always goes off iy herself to eat it, when all the res ; of us are having lot's of goodies; and I tell you it's fun, mamma, to bidej and watch her eyes shine when she finds t,he good things I've put in! I guess she thinks it's some good fairy that puts them there, don't you?" f- One day, at recess, as a group of boys and girls were chatting together about a very hard lesson they had just benj reciting, in which every one of the class had failed at least once, save Flos sie, one of the boys-ivho was rather rough in his way called out : j j "Say, Will Fiske, you can bet on one thing pretty sure, and that is : you'll never get that gold watch as long as Flossie Lee's in the class. Number one she is and number one she will stay !" "I know that, ' said FannyHuntleyj perfect lesson in her who never had a1 life. "I should think vou'd be as mad as fire at her, Willie, instead of doing what I saw you do to-day. Who was it put that orange into her basket, I should like to know, ehj?" ; "Fore I'd be such a tell-tale, Fan Huntley," said a bright little girl in the group; "if you weren't always peek ing 'round you Wouldn't see so much." "I don't care,j' answered Willie, "I am not ashamed of it. Yes, I did put an orange into her basket, and I wish I had the chance oftener, for she's good and kind, and I like her the best of any girl in school so there, now!" and turning on his heel, he called out ; j j "Come on, fellers, let's have a game of hookey beforej the bell rings," and in two minutes he had forgotten all about it. Not so Flossie,, who had heard every word. The children had stood directly underneath an open window, where be hind the blinds Flossie had been seated eating the orange she had found in her basket. The tears were in her eyes as Willie turned away, but they were more happy tears than sad ones. "My goodness !" she exclaimed to herself, "then it's he that's been putting all these good things into my basket; and he can't get a gold watch because I always know my lessons. Oh, I wifeh I could fail!" 1 She puzzled over it for a long time how she could manage to fail honestly, for she said to herself: "I can never say I don't know if I do, when the questions are asked me." At last sue tnougnt or a way "I know how I can do it," she said, 'i'day after to-morrow comes our geography review of the whole United States, I won't even look at it, and then I never remember everything, and and I'll surely fail. Thn Villie will have iny place, and get his vatch. "Oh, goody, goody ! and I'll belli mamma and papa all about it, so theywill know I needn't have failed, and I'm sure they want him to get! the watch when I will tell them how good he fias been to meJ"j And so for the first time in months Flossie went to school the morningj of the review lesson, hugging up the geog raphy she had not jopened. The class was called, and Flossie stepped quickly to her place. "Oh, dear," thought Willie, looks so happy, I'm sure she every answer in the lesson ; I knows almost wish she wasn't quite so smart." For a time all went well. Flossie couldn't miss on giving the principal rivers, when asked ; she knew them by heart. Questions on the great lakes, capes, bays, mountains, had to be j an swered when put to her, because her mind would remember them in spite of her. At last came the capitals of j the States. ! "Well, Miss Flossie," asked the teacher, "will you give us the capital of New Mexico?" j ; For an instant she hesitated, then with a look of delight that noboby herself understood, she answered but "I can't think, truly I can't." j Flossie Lee had failed, and although every oile was astonished, no one looked so distressed about it as the one who had been so anxious for so long a time to get above her, and as the teacher turned to him with, "Well, Master Fiske, can you help Miss Flossie out ?" he answered : j j ; "Please, Miss Harding, if you wjuld only let Flossiej think just a minute, I'm sure she would remember. j I "It's too late now," she repliedj "I have passed it to you. What is the capi tal of New Mexico?" There was no look of pride in Wil ie's face, and no remembrance of any watch, as he answered in a low tone, "Sinta Fe." V .ijl Quick as a flash, and with the bright est of smiles, Flossie stepped down and out of her place, and gently pushing Willie into it, took the one he had left. The scholars and teachers were much surprised to see her look so happy pyer what they thoiight would have made her so miserable, but Flossie kept what she had heard all to herself, and when after a few days Willie went to her and showed her beautiful little gold watch that his father had given him for gati ting to the head of the school, she was happier than ever. Years after, Flossie told Willie what she overheard from the window that day, and how it was then that she found out who had been putting the good things into her basket, and then, too, for the first time, how it "was "she came to forget the capital of New Mexico. ' And the funniest part of the whobi gtpry is," that Willie has been giving her tUe good things ever since, and he still "likes her the best of any girl in school" or out. "Ho! you can't fool me. Aunt Katv." ! crieS Jo; as I finished. "Flossie Lee is Aunt Florence, and Willie Fiske is our own Uncle Will-and all I have to say is good I for Aunt Florence." Golden Hule. i ' Hew John Swore for Betty. The laws of the State of Virginia pro hibit marriage unless the parties are of lawful age, or by the consent of the pa rents. I j John N , a well-to-do farmer in the valley of Virginia, was blessed with every comfort except that important desideratum a wife. John cast his eyes around, but unsuccessfully, until they fell upon the form of a certain Betty, daughter of John Jones, one of the prettiest girls in the country. After a courtship of six weeks, John was rendered happy by the consent of the fair Betty. The next day, John with a friend, went to town to get the necessary doc uments, with the forms of procuring which he was most lamentably ignor ant. Being directed to the clerk's office, John, with a good sleal of hesitation, informed the urbane Mr. Brown that he was going to get married to Betty Jones, and wanted to know what he must do to compass that desirable con summation. Mr.! Brown, with a bland smile, informed! him that after being satisfied that no legal impediment pre vented the ceremony, he would for the sum and consideration of $3 grant him the license. John, much relieved, handed but the necessary, funds. "Allow me," said Brown, "to ask you a few questions. You are 21 years, of age, 1 suppose, Mr. N ?" "Yes," said John. "Do you solemnly swear that Betty Jones, spinster, is of lawful age (made and enacted by the Legislature of Vir ginia) to take the marriage vow?" "What's that?" said John. Mr. B. repeated. "Well," said John, "I want to get married but I joined the church at the last revival, and 1 wouldn't swear fora hundred dollars." 'Then, sir, you cannot get mar ried." "Can't get married! Good gracious, Mr. Clerk, they'll turn me out of church if I swear! Don't refuse me, Mr. Clerk, for heaven's sake. I'll give you $10 if you let me off from swearing." "Can't do it, Mr. N ." . "Hold on, Mr. Clerk, I'll swear ! I wouldn't give up Betty, for a dozen churches. I'll swear : May I be d d if she ain't IS years old' give me the license." After the clerk bursted a few but tons off! his vest, he granted the license. Be Lost Sis Fortune. He was a hollow eyed, desolate and forlorn looking individual, and pre sented a sad type of humanity as he leaned up against a lamp post. The winter' winds sang mournful dirges through the rags that hung from hijs coat, and his neglected beard resem bled the fibres on a cocoanut. He had evidently seen many better days and much whiskey that might have been better. I "Move on," said an officer in a gruff voice, as he came up to him. i "That's it," said the desolate look ing man; "that's what I've heard from the world ever since I lost my fortune. This big world is too busy to allow me to stand still even for a few moments, and I must move on,' although I have nothing to move and nowhere to move it to. Oh, if 1'dpnly saved my fortune this would not have been. I'd been ridinff in a carriage with four horses and red painted wheels, I'd had dia monds,; fine clothes, servants, deadhead tickets to shows, an aristocratic case of dyspepsia and " "How did you lose your fortune?" asked the officer, who was perhaps ignorant of the art and desired the in formation for his own private benefit. "Well, you see," replied the broken man, "I was in Chicago in 1873 when wheat jumped twenty-five cents on the bushel, and I knowed a man who had 400,000 bushels for sale on the day be fore the jump, and if I'd had the money tobuyjl'd have made a cool hundred thousand on the next day. So you see I lost a fortune in one day, and here I'm busted flat on the tramp and out of mon ' " ' 'Now, then, you move on or s I'll take you in," said the officer, and he moved on. A Tbousrlitfal wife. Doctor S- the whilom Professor of Hebrew In one of our theological col leges, had a strong impression that his wife was not the most tender-heartetd woman living, and it had even entered into his Imagination thar she was jnbt capable of deep and self-sacrificing love; In fact, he had more than once let tier see how his mind was bertt in that! re spect, and be sure that it did not at all mend the matter. j One day the doctor had gone to a neighboring town, to visit f. i riend J foot. On his way home, and when n ar from any human habitation, a sudden, shower befell him, aye, it quickly came to be a storm with lightning and thunder, vivid and crashing. The poor man was in a terrible plight. He was subject to rheumatism, acute and pain ful, and a thorough wetting by fain would be sure to bring it on. Asja strange and ghostly luck would have it, at that moment the old sexton came up on his hearse. He had to drive directly by the doctor's door. The good man hailed him and begged for a ride.' "I shall die if I get wet," he said . "There ain't room up here. Doctor. for only one, and a plagued small seat at that; but if you're a mind to geti in side, you can do so. Sakes alive t'd rather ride in there strong and"wjell than dead." '-. , j "' The doctor did not stop long to con sider. Any port ; in such a storm as that, he thought, as he crept into! the body of the hearse, and pulled the nar row door shut after him. j j In due time -just before noon-j-t sexton pulled up at the doctor's door, and the good wife, who chanced to ibe standing at the front window,1 wheii she saw the ghostly equipage stop at her door-stone, went to see why it was "For mercy's sake, Mr. Prout, what' ve ye stopped here with dreadful thing for?" that "I have the doctor your husband-- inside, Madam." "Goodness me ! Who'd 'a thought i t! No more midnight tram pin' over them everlastin' old Hebrews ! Sally ! Sal ly !"- suddenly turning, and directing her voice down Into the cellar kit "take that mutton out of the oven ! i i .. . Take it risrht out! It'll make dirin -7 for, to-morrow, and " She stopped suddenly, for just she saw her husband crawling out from the hearse. She saw this much; andj then retired within the citadel, 'wliat; transpired there we cannot say. it was better not to tell, perhaps, even if we knew. Babies. We always did dote on babies. !In fact, we were a babv once ourselves. Or rather were -babies, as we jwre twins. We called our 1 Ma Louisiana, because she was run by a dual govern ment. There are numerous kinds of hahies. Somft are white, and some Ire not auite so white, and some are black. Then there are doll babies. Rag bamesj i - u.. v it " r ;v, ? -l J are me iavorites ui me jrrccuujicaj nartv. Then, aff-ain. there are wai than bies. We were whacks babies, be jrajusej our mother whacked us so much when we were small. But weare not proud. China babies do not wear pig-tais,or blue shirts, neither do they spin. There is a vast difference between China and Chinese babies. No one ever saw a Chinese baby. Perhaps our love If orj babies arises from the fact that we never owned a baby, or ever had a part in per est in one. A mother! always has a "part" interest in one when she tries to comb its hair. When we feel lane we just borrow our neighbor's baby t. to cheer us up, We don't feel lonely ldngt then. It is more busy than lonely.l Jit is a study to sit and watch a twe Ive month old (or young) baby enjoying itself. There is that utter naivete and reckless abandon about; them that we cannot but admire. There is no 1 esi tation on their part in smearingj your light pants with molasses candy, pr the pulling oyer of a malachite card-jta ble. They are imbued with a sort of a de n't-care-a-continental element that! mkejs them attractive. We hive seen aj threje hundred dollar watch ruined in two secoi.ds by an investigating babyi Both the baby and the watch rolled djnjn a flight of stairs. It was our cduiins baby, and we were watching it jwthile the mother was sewing for the. little heathen. We never took a job liiejthat on tick again. Both the baby and. the watch were sent to the dry-docka . for repairs. A poor man once told us that when he was despondent, there was nothing buoyed (or girjed) up his i spir its so quickly as his wife's babyi j (We took his word for it. IJe couldn't give a note. Babies have many advantages and disadvantages, j They doljnot smoke nor drive fast horses. They do drive fast asleep away, Jiowever. j There fs nothinir ' as vet. invented that twill more effectually rob ("tired. nirWire!' nrera sweet restorer" and a feather ibfedbf their comforts than aj choleric wv used to think we would like bby. be chief matron or pa-tron of a foundling asylum. We have changed our aind 111 If. s ers then !. A visit to the baby show fixed Babies, as a fiend in human form i the other day, would raakegood told ti farmers, as they are so used to sighs and Wry faces while being cradled by ner vous mothers. Some babies are born with, ja- silver, spoon in their, mouths Perhaps that js why, some young men are sofspooney. It Is to one's advantage to be a baby during a riot. But when free tickets to the circus are being dis tributed it is very much otherwise. Were j there no babies, the cheering spectacle of a ninety-five pound man pushing a coach full of twins and fol lowed by a two hundred and forty three pound woman, would no longer be secb on our streets. The soldiers stationed in cities would, like Othello, find their occupation jgone, and would mourn for the nurses that were not. It is wise, therefore, that babies are. We trust they will continue to be. Some people despise babies. We don't, for we; wire. taught to "despise not the day of sin ill things." A baby does not last more than ten or twelve years, except in rare cases. un looking over tho causes of death, weekly, In the city pa- we find there Is one thing of babies never die old ane. the wisdom of being; a baby, everybody was a baby once. nly notable exceptions to this re Adam and Eve, old Bill Allen, dorado stone man, Joyce Heth. itra, Sergeant'Bates and; old man ;r. x our own Daoy is always a is, your neighbor's a failure. What He Wanted. The bolt on the back door had needed replacing for a long time, but it was only the other night that Mr. Throcton had the presence of mind to buy a new one and take it home. After supper he hunted up his tools, removed the old bolt, and measured the location for the new pne. He must bore some new holes and Mrs. Throcton heard him roaming around the kitchen and wood shed, I slamming doors, pulling out drawers, and kicking furniture around. She went to the head of the stairs, and called down : "Richard, do you want anything?" IYjcs, ldo!" he yelled back. "I wantjto know where inTexas that cor screvf is?". " 1 r Corkscrew, Richard?" , ""Vies, corkscrew! I've looked the hous over and can't find it!" "Why, we never had one, Richard." 'Didn't eh? We've had a dozen of 'em in the last two years, and I bought one r ot four weeks ago. Its always the way when I want anything." "But you must be out of your head, husb ind," she said, as she descended the b airs, j "We've kept house seven yeara, and I never remember seeing you b ring a corkscrew home." "oi yes, I'm out of my head, I am?" he grfumbled as he pulled out the sew ing machine drawer and turned over its contents. "Perhap3 I'd better go to the"liuatic asylum right away !" "Well, Richard, I know that I have nevej: seen a corkscrew in this house." "Then you are as blind as an owl In daylight, for I've bought five or six. The house is always upside down, any howjand I never can find anything!" "The house is kept as well as any of your folks can keep ene !" she retorted, growing red In the face. ; 'Ifd like my mother here , to show you a few things," he said, as ho stretched his neck to look on j the high shelf In the pantry. ; "Perhaps she'd boil her spectacle) with the potatoes again !" answered the wife! '!. jl . "Do you know who you are talking to?'ihe yelled, as he jumped down. "Yes, Idol" j j "Well, you'll be going for York State, if yqu don't look out!" ! 1'd like to see myself. When I go tliisjhouse goes I" "Look out Nancy !" "J'm afraid of no man that lives." j I'll leave you!" j I "And I'll laugh to see you go!" Going cloe up to her, he extended his nger, shook it to emphasize his words and slowly said : "Nancy Throcton, I'll ; apply for a divorce to-morrow ! I'll tell the judge I kindly and lovingly asked you e the gimlet was, and I you said never had one in the house, which Id falsehood, as I can prove!" jrimlet?" she exclaimed, j es, gimlet!" j "Why, I know where there are three or four ! You said corkscrew !" "Did I?" he gasped, sitting down on the rner of the table; "well, now, I belipfe I did." "And you went and abused me like a slavje because I wouldn't .say; a gimlet waaa corkscrew!" she sobbed falling on the lounge. "Nancy," he said tenderly lifting her up. I j j"0, Richard!" she chokingly an swered. And that household Is so quietly happy that a canary bird would sing its head off If hung up in the halL now. that; that wher we'd is a bo "( "Y MURTRSSSSOBO. Jf. a