BE SURE YOU ARE EIGHT ; THEN GO AHEAD.-D. Crockett.
TARBORO', N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1876.
VOL. 54.
NO. 2.
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
TAKUOUO'.
Nf a Y o R Kred. Philip.
Commissioners JeaM A. Williamson, J a
eob FeldenheJmer, Drakd W. Ilartt, Alex. ;
McCabe, Joseph Cob').
Secketary & Tmsi- Khn-Uiii i. WhKc
li vat.
Chief of Police Ml W. Cotton .
assistant PoticK Ww. T. Hurtl, John !
Mudra, .las. E. ShaoMoa, Altimore Marnair.
cocirrr.
Superior Court Clerk and Prohaic Judge
H. L. Statou, Jr.
flijiiftr o ii-rfs Alex. Mc'Jabe.
Sheriff Joseph Cobb.
Coroner
Treasurer Rolit. H. Austin.
8w ceyor Johu E. Baker.
Standard Keeper V. 8. Hicks.
School Examiners. II. II. Shaw, Win. A.
I) usrsran and B. B. Williams.
Keeper Poor Uous,-'a. A. Dujrirau.
giWmfrlrtluri Jno. Lancaster, Chairman,
Wilev Well, J. B. W. Norvitle, Frank Pew,
M. Ev.mi. A. McCabe, Clerk.
MAILS.
UtRlVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS
WORTH AND SOUTH VIA W. & W. R. R.
Leave Tart.oro' (dafijr) at - - Ml g
Arrive at Tarboio-(.laily) at - - SMJr. ft.
trAsmnoTOM mail via greenville,
FALKLAND AND SPARTA,
i.aave Tarboro' (daily) at - A JJ.
Arrive at THrboro' (daily) at - - I 1 It.
LODtiES.
I lie istn itnd lie Places of Meeting-.
Concord R. A, Chapter No. 5, N. M. Law
rence, High Priest, Masonic Hall, monthly
convocations nrst Thursday in every month at
10 o'clock A. M.
Concord Lodge No. 68, Thomas Gatlin,
Master, Masonic Hall, meets first Friday night
U 7 o'clock P. M. and third Saturday at 10
o'clock A. M. in every month.
Repiton Encampment No. 13, L O. 0 F..
L B. Palamountain, Chief Patriarch. Odd Fel
lows' Hall, meets every first nnd third Thurs
day of each month.
Edsrocorabe Lodge No. 50, I. O. O. F.,
J. G. Charles, N. G., Odd Fellows' Hall, meets
erery Tuesday uirht.
Edgecombe Council No. 199, Friends of
Temperance, meet every Friday eight at the
Odd Fellows' Hail.
Advance Lodge No. 38, L O. G. T., meets
every Wednesday night at Odd Fellows' Hal!
gauosh Lodge, No. 235, I. O. B. B., meet
on urst and third Monday night of every
month at Odd Fellows' Hall.
Henri Morris, President.
( Hi iU f.
Episcopal Church Services every Bum
at 10 1-2 o'clock A. M. and o r. M
Cheshire, Rector.
Methodist Church Services every third
ifunday at night. Fourth Sunday, morning
and night. Rev. Mr. Swindell, Pastor.
Presbyterian Church Services every 1st,
3rd and 5th Sabbaths. Rev. T. J. Allison,
Pastor Weekly Prayer meeting, Thurs
day night
Missionary Baptist Ch urch Services the
4th Sunday in every moLth, morning and
nlljut. Rev. T. R. Owen, Pastor.
Primitive Baptist Church Services first
Saturday and Sunday of each mouth at 11
o'clock.
HOTELS,
Adams' Hotel, corner Main and Pitt Sts.
O. F. Adams, Proprietor.
EXPRESS.
Southern Express Office, on Main Street,
closes every inorning at 9 o'clock.
N. M. Lawrence, Ageut.
PROFESSIONAL CAKDS,
J1RANK POWELL,
Attorney and Counselor at Law:
TARSORO', x. c.
A3- Collections a Specialty. E
Office at the residence of the late Mrs. M. E-
Lawrence
July 2, 1875.
8,
tf
JOS. BLOUNT CHESHIRE, JR ,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND
NOTARY PUBLIC.
WW Office at the Old Bank Building on
Trade Street. Je25-tl
JJOWARL) i PERRY,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law.
TARBORO', N. C.
l lf' Practice in all the Courts, State and
Federal. nov.o-ly.
-yy II. JOHNSTON,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
TARBORO', N. C.
y Attends to the transaction of busi
ness in all the Courts, State and Federal.
Nov. 5, 187o. ly
F
iREDERICK PHILIPS,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
TARBORO", N. C.
3P Practices in Courts of adjoining coun
ties, in the Federal and Supreme Courts.
Not. 5, 1875. ly
J H. & W. L. THORP,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
PRACTICES in the counties of Edge
combe, Halifax, Nash and Wil-oc, and
iu the Supreme Court North Carolina, also
in the United States District Court at Raleigh.
Dr. G. L. Shackelford,
DENTIST,
TARBORO , N- C.
With over eight years experience in the
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satislaetion in all cases. Charges moderate.
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Oct. 23, 1875. if
W1
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id n XX o Or i
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General dealers in Standard Fertilizers.
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Sept. 17. Cm
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P3LTTE AND ATTENTIVE SERVANTS
always at the Depot, on the arrival of
trains, to conduct gut sts to thi Hotel.
It is the Traveler' delight.
Oct. 1st, 1875. tf
TARBORO'
Laqer Beer & Wine
vr
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jesps constantly ON HAND all
IV me riue vvi. ana i.ivlui, h
BACCO and CIGARS, next door to J.
Williamson's.
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ro' Bonihnntt.
Jan. 14 1876
I om I vs; s .11 Ruliijl A;ci
A Tar Hoe; in C:iir.:::ivUt.
Jack Thrifty is :: college bred
vounff man who livs in tiii-: State
in an adioinirj: county to Davidson.
Ilia lather, v liliain i unity, was !
always a little weak about his boys
and to please hi wife, who had the j
dyspepsia and wa
great novel
Jack asiuo to
Mr. Thriftv
reader, ne uau sei jaca aeiu
make him a lawyer
moved to North Carolina from Con
necticut a long while age, and has
a brother Paul, now living near
gtouington in that State, who is a
plain, hard working farmer, and
the lath.T of a large family of girls
and bos. Jvw Jack was jast
twenty -one, and concluded he would
traveled about a little and mo
world for himself. So his lather
let him sell his hogs and what lr
tle stck he had gathered about
the farm, ami Thrifty told him to
be sure and go to Raleigh hot, and
"mind Jack," said she, "and write
iro word if the ladies down there
pin their dresses tighter back than
i w-i do here." Jack landed in this
; city and spent several days at the
Yarboro House, when at length he
determined to visit Li uncle Paul
in Connecticut and Seaming from
Dr. Blacknall he could go to Ston-
ingtsn and back fur forty
lars, and having iu rag
little over one hundred, 1
is board hill and took l
it .I
i t-.,;,, II,. ' ...,!,. m!
em trail
th
iuu in"'"
atStooineton and inquired
one could tell him where Mr
Thrifty lived. Hewastohlii
oniv a iawD off, "'that big
house you s;-e over those tree tops,
said a man standing rig1-. 'sc'
i r. 1 ! . i .1.' 1 . 1 . i
en ins trunh. at in m-u . ...i . .-c.
out
atoot tor the
got near the
! bonsn hf Ann i: :i V
man witn his coat on . nag
V "I-
u;i
turnips in a he
d, an I thinKing mm
! one ot his undo l aui s laoorcrs, ne
sung our, "Hao .' my buck, what
will you charge mo to go to the
' depot and bring my trunk up here?
The young man sai 1 he would go
with pleasure, and Jack assured
: him he would pay him a quarter if
; he wouhl. As he entered the gate
he met with
in old fel
nf m i, it.
w roiiin
wneeloarr.
him for another of tt
he questioned him z
bout how much Mr
ooq ueai
1 hritty
was
had
old
worth, how many daughters
CD
if they were pretty, and h
they were, &c. The old n
plied that Mr. Thrifty was
enough to give a man good
and butter, and as t his gal
"pretty was as pretty did.'
old man turned into a lane i
the stables, and Jack went
w
i in
',Vv
re-
ireat
n to
the house and pulled the idoor bell.
A fat buxom, cheerful looking old
lady made her appearance, an 1
when Jack pulled oil' his kid and
handed her his card from a gilt
: edged dard case, the old
screamed with joy, "Why. lor' bless
my soul, if this an't brother Wil
liam's s n Jack 1" anil she soon had
him introduced to the girls, and as
much at home as one of the family.
At the dinner table the young man
Jack had hired to go and bring his
:rank was introduced as "our son
William,'' "your cousin Jack,"' ';an
this is fa, cousin Jack," said one
of the girls, as the old man walked
in whom Jack had ecn rolling the
wheelbarrow, and who shook hands
with him and gave him
i i .t - '
i3 hearty
welcome to tueir u me a- uia
i v.-! r o
had done. The young man had
spent a week or s iaite pleasantly,
when one night, .'dr. Thrifty told
one of the girls to have him break
fast by day the next morning, as
he wanted to go over to Hartford to
hire help to get his hay
up,
wanted a driver for one of his wag
ons. J;iek Bnoke tin aaicklv and
asked him to let him drive the wag
on, he would just like to show him
how he conld handle the reins. Mr.
Thrifty said he would gladly do so,
and pay him for it besides, but J;:ck
laughed at the very mention of pay,
and declare ! that a day iu the har-
r ii ill c M 1
vest ueiu wouia oe a pcrr.ee
So the next day he was
one.
en a
wagon, anu made
omc rattling good
drives, as he styled it, I
otigh Mr.
Thrifty called out to turn, once or
twice, to take care, that ho was too
reckless with that young mare. Eat
wan't it a runaway when they did
start ! Going down a little slope
of hill Jack concluded to "let them
cut," and oil' they dashed, scatter
ing thincs right and left, and ma-
king for the house like a
lightning. They tore
streak of
down the
new patent gate, s
mashed over beo
gum:;, broke up the hen house, kill
ed an old hen and all her chickens,
and played the wild with the green
house, trampling every flower to the I
rrrnnnd. Air Thriftv in nil his liffi :
n.tw tion Inr.tcn rn ewAr an
oath. In truth he was known all
throughout ih whole neighborhood
oo ".,f...fnl Panl " Itnt ha fito, ,1
now and waved his hat, he was so
! and told Jack, a rebellious-
- j . ,
secession, stuck-up, lazv, do-noth-
ing, anti-thrifty, vagabond locking j Advert
upstart, to get away from the houselerner.
and never sliinc his face there a
gain. The girls said never mind
pa, he would saon get over i but
Jack waltzed away for the dcDot
and took the ca
Una. lie arrit
rouh minus eii
his way bom
cot Col. Ligon
s for North Caro
d at the Yarbo
I'jgh money to pay
and Dr. Biacknali
at ijrjensboro to
pass him t.. ffigh Point, his getting
oil place. Jack swore he never
saw such a man as his uncle Paul
was; that at his own home .ho had
rode two h rses to death, killed
two colts, and then reckoned he
ha 1 knocked oil" u pile of cow horn3
as high as a lamp post, but there
wa.-. more fuss made over this little
mishap in yankei land, than he h.id
1-,
n in
e tiie .
toe
'old
mau s
tarmiy since
A little !
turnip pulli
hi on in i u is
studying for
improve thii
iv lie was uorn.
i
shirt sleeves and
imong our young
,1
a
little less
croic
ion,
would
in an
ende
?rf'u:ly
agn
l a
al point ot view.
Cf) 1 TV 1 1 .
aiiet.
tti
hi
tor v
irious. Compar
one sense, it is
aisveiy mouern in
modei
in another very ancient, having uj
ed in old religious ceremonies. The
sacred mysteries of Paganism were
assisted by if, as is recorded by the
Greek authors. Aristotle speaks
of daneers
mcnt and
and action
3ime of th
in his day who,' by move
jesture, express passions
Atheuseos says that
in brought their dances
fection that the greatest
:udied their attitules in
pr duce them in bronze
to
l ue
in tiiis
tioman
as in e
coDied the Greeks
o e erything else. The
Augustus' time, attained
excellence. B a t hy lius,
. Pylades w;n extended
e;r pantomine and chore
11. Each had his school
;er rivalry of pupils and
ed to serious disturbance
Until the fall of the
o a ;
Hue
m
ncing continue 1, but
u.
latol v as at Uyzan
.egan to taKe part,
'.vii'e ot Justinan af
tccording to all the
; one of the lewedest
minxes, performed
.h great uccess, and
iave danced herseVf
ns of the Emoeror.
ra
Ch;
ana cr
on t ne
tage w :
ii thought to
into th- aflfect
si ems to have been no bal
Mid lie Ages, but at the
he fifteenth century, when
iscounti married Isabella
u a spectacle of the kind
such favor that it was in-
Ol
Galeas iscoui
of Aragon a s
met with such
trodueed into
tries besides u
France was
tamment. Cat
iveral other coun-
ery fend of enter
lerine de Medici had
presented at an ex-
aii'i uaiiet
i pense oi DjUUUjUUU livres.
Ilenry
1 . enjoyed the dance; so did Louis
X 1 V
Oi
ro he became a zealot,
lallet was not firmly es-
uut the
Ublishe
until the beginning of last
century. Noverre, of thej Paris
Academy of Music, having largely
contributed to tint end. He says
in his "Letters on the Imitative
Arts" that a perfect ballet is a liv
ing picture of the manners, dresses
ceremonies, customs of all nations.
It should be a complete pantomine,
sp aking through the eyes and the
very soul ;f the spectators. If it
docs not without other aid clearly
demonstrate the incidents and pas
sions it aimes to describe, it is a
mere di vertisemeut, not a ballet.
It is only within half a century
that women have monopolized the
ballet, in which before men chiefly
shone like Baldasare Vestris, cal
led the god of dancing, who was so
sublimely conceited that he was
wont to say that hi age had pro
duced but three great men, Freder
ic II, Voltaire an i himself.
lovo Letters-
Marry you, you old cm
o. no . vm j ! lou ve
mudgeon ?
had two
wives already, ana 1 won t oe your
third victim. Not I. You're not
to my taste. I want no red-headed,
cross-eyed, snag-toothed, dried
and shriveled-up old scarecrow for
my husband. What do I care for
your money . I shall marry lor
I he mty when I marry. I want a
j husband with black hair and eyes,
a une form, anu nicely-atting
clothes. I want a man wdio loves
poetry and the opera a man of
intelligence and refinement. Don't
talk to me about your cows and
your barns and your houses and
lands. i don't want to marry
things. I want a man !
Yours, despicably,
Julia Ahn Brows.
TWENTY YEARS LATER.
Yes, dear. Yen have waited for
me all these long years, and no ODe
else seems to love me now. So
come and take me, and whether
thou goest I will no. I always did
! ukc- auburn hair and eccentric fea
tul'1 aml s'ha be happy when I
au 'tress of SB your land houses
; ana oarns uiiii cows anu tilings.
Y ours submissively,
Julia mx Brows.
jo in the Tarboio South
A Spacific Against Hydrophobia.
A lady met me this morning say
ing, 'Did you sea that receipt for
curing hydrophobia in yesterday's
paper?' I had not seen it. 'Well,'
she continued, 'it is just the euro I
wanted you to write about two or
three years ago the old Chester
alley cure, it never was known
tc- fail, and was usel in hundreds
of cases in the eastern part of the
State. 1 remember hearing of it
as long as I can remember anvthing.
T 1 , "
1 have told and talked, and no one
would mind me. I tried to get vou
to write a letter about it and now
you must write, for people will not
l.jlieve. They m read and for
get all about it.
I remember perfectly her anxie
ty that I should write to the pub
lic and proclaim that elecampane
and fresh milk are the specific for
hydrophobia, and mv nuraose to
repeat the account she irave me of
it, but do not remember why I did j
not do so. That I may atone for i
my negligence I now repeat what 1
-i , . , , r . . . , ;
she so long ago told me which she
now urges me to make as public as
possible.
In her old home in Chester coun
ty, I'a., livd a German named Jo.
Emcey, who used to be sent for far
and wide, when anyone had been
bitten by a rabid animal. He went
to his patient, carrying something
understood to be a root, which he
himself, dug in the woods. lie
milked a pint of milk fresh from
the cow, put his root into it, boiled
it; gave it to the patient fasting;
made him fast after taking it ; gave
a second and third dose on altemata
days, and never failed in effecting
a cure. In seme way which she 1
m - I
has forgotten, his sorrer, trnn;nirr.i1 i
and the root was known to be ele
C3 -I 1
campane.
The story, current in the coun
try, was that an old German made
the discovery in the days of Penn.
and applied to the Pennsylvania
legislature for a grant of S:i00 for
making his secret public. His of
fer was treated with conrempt, and
he resolved that his knowledge
should die with him ; but a drunk
en son knew it and wrote out the
receipt; making a number of copies
and tried to sell them at one dollar
apiece. One of them was offered
to my informant's grandfather who
laughed at this vender of important
medical knowledge. He only suc
ceeded in selling two, one of these
to the man who made such effective
use of it. So well did he establish
the local reputation of this specific,
that, in his neighborhood, the folks
were not afraid of mad dogs. His
reputation was parafel to that of
Dr. Marchant, of Grcensburg, to
whom every one in this part of the
country used to go or send, when
bitten by a mad dog.
.'he intelligence and integrity of
my informant are beyond question,
and I regret that her love of pnv;
cy should orevent her
rfivir.tr tl.A
weight of her name to her convic
tioa that you have published an
unfailing specific for hydrophobia.
Th people of Chester Valley are
not a class likely to be misled by
superstition, and she ia confident it
was a general or universal belief
that Jacob Emery never failed to
cure or prevent hydrophobia. In
one case the spasms had begun be
fore the first dose was given, and
the patient recovered, She is anx
ious you shonld publish tho receipt
ntrnin n.n.1 n.fTfiin racr if atonini
ana can attention to it nntu every
one cuts out and preserves a copy,
and is impressed with the impor
tance of using the remedy at once,
in caso of danger. The medical
properties of elecampane are very
powerful. Milk itself is a specific
for many poisons, and while the
medical faculty know no cure for
this terrible disease, we should open
every avenue of light into the dark
subject. If the disease is one of the
imagination, we want a specific to
give confidence and cure by the im
agination; but this looks like a
real cure of a veritable disease.
Jane Grey Swisshelm.
Pittsburgh Commercial.
Lost Women.
. We commend to th
public
the
following thoughts :
"ias it ever occurred to you
what a commentary upon our civil
ization are these lost women, and
the attitude of society toward them ?
A little child strays from her homo
enclosure, and the whole communi
ty is on the alert to find tho wan
derer and restore it to its mother's
arms. What rejoicing when it is
found, what tearful sympathy, what
heartiness of congratulation. There
are no harsh comments upon tired
feet, be they ever so miry. No
reprimand for the soiled and to n
garments. No lack of kisses for
the tear stained face. But let the
child be grown into womanhood ; let
her be led from it by the scourge
of want; what happens?
Do christian men and women go again. The cunning of madness
in quest of her? Do they provide is left. Ho seeks to write over the
all possible help for her return, or , flag its old lie. Calhoun taught, and
if she return of her own notion, do j every white adult in the South be
they receive her with such kindness j iieves to day that this is a white
and delicacy as to secure her from man's government. Though you
wandering ? Far from it. At tho J bray them with the pestle in a iaor-
step she is denounced as lost
Echo, friends and relatives,
isown you; don't ever come to
ace us. Lost, says society,
erently. How bad these eirla
And lost irretrievably lost,
c prompt verdict of convention
al morality, while one and all unite
in bolting every door between her
and respectability. Ah ! will not
those lost ones be required at our
hands hereafter.
The County Skool Mom.
She is invariably about iwenty
three years and six months old,
arid rcmanes rite thare for a term
of years.
She wares her hair either kut
short or hanging around in rinff
iets, and iz as precise in all things
as. one of Fairbank's improved plat
form skaies.
She never laffs out loud, and
S'dcium even smiles, but whei
she
uz she duz it accordin' tew the
ras lac dowu by Murray for
speakin' out and pronouncing the
: i i. i
inglish language korrectiy.
She is the very essence of double
extracted propriety, and would
rather be four years behind the
fashions, in her dress and bonnet,
than to spel a word wrong, parse a
sentence mkorrecthy.
She keeps a scrap book and an
album and Woe Id prefer rather to
have the autograft" of some milk-and-water
poet than the name of some
godt man to o sixty days' note.
The country skool mom seldom
dies an old maid, she get married
generally to sum man who has but
little edukashum, and he thinks (as
he ought to) that thare aint another
I 1 1 - el
8Uca H"" woman on tue iacc ot
the earth
With all her precise foolishness,
her poropous knowledges, her silly
sentimantalisn, and her almost al
ways mistaken manner for matter,
I respekt the country skool mom;
she taught me mi letters, she was
pashunt when I was stupid, she
soothed rne when I was fracksbus,
and she often (good soul) gave me
a tipit from her luncheon at noon
time.
May kind heaven strew snra
kind ov happincs in her pathway
for she iz paid
pc oriy,
work
ed
hardly, and the step mother to every
body's children; she never receives
from the world eny thing bettor
than the most formal respekt. Josh
Dili
An apt Ulustrati n.
We find the following excellent
illustration in a late number of the
New York Tribune, which will be
enjoyed by every one v. ho read
Grant's recent letter 'asking the
nomination' for the third term :
It was a great many years ago
that the story was first told of
Miss Ilannah Ann Stcrry, an un
commonly mature virgin who had
never been persecuted with inas-
'. onlina itiMihnng ln.'inj,T iS tn
"igorous manner in .which she
shunned the face of man. It was
related that Mr. Thcophilus Wim
blebce, an advanced bachelor of the
mildest possible deportment occupy
ing single quarters ia the neighbor
hood of Hannah Ann's apartments,
called on the spinster one afternoon
to borrow a match. Hannah Ann
was not easily fooled. Folding her
arms on her level breast, sho hack
ed Thcophilus Wimblebee into a
corner, and thus addresssd the in
vader : 'Match 1 Oh yes ' Great
match us you want; lou don t
want no match, and you know you
don t. You've come over to me
'cause I'm all alone to hug and
kiss me that's what vou've come
j for; but you never shall do it in the
world unless you're strongjr'n I
j am' and then she added in a
j softened ton 'and the Lord knows
you are,' A friend of llann.-ih Jinn's
reading a letter from a public
man tne otner uay in wmcn tne
writer 3aid. 'To recapitulate, I am
not, nor have I ever been, a can
didate for a renomination; I would
not accept a nomination if it were
tendered, unless it should come
under such circumstances as to
mike it an imperative duty, circum
stances not likely to arise' laid
down the paper with, a sigh and
remarked, 'Ah, how much that
reminds m? of poor dear Hannah
Ann.'
A Tributs from a Foe.
Wendell Phillips has this to say
of the Southern people. If South
ern character stands so high in the
eye of their bitterest enemy, if their
devotion to principle was so faith
ful as to extract this enforced tribute
to their nobility of soul from him
who has maligned them and bound
ed on persecution to its very ex
tremes, how resplendent will their
reckord be on the pages of history
when impartial judgment shall
weigh their motives and describe
their deeds :
The wild Southerner has been
tamed ; he will never fight tbc flag
1 SKMMMk
inW
1
is A
tar you will never crush this folly
out of them. Heaven forbid that I
should do the white race of the
South such foul wrong as to believe
otherwise. respect their sinceri
ty, their persistant loyalty to con
viction ; 1 remember tir long suf
fering, the faithful Cavalier whose
party ended only when its last ad
herent sunk into the grave.
About Advertising.
If you have a good thing adver
tise it. If you havn't, don't.
If you don't moan to mind your
own busines, it will not pay to ad
vertise. It's as true of advertising as of
anything else in the world, if it is
worth doing at all, it is worth doing
well.
We don't recommend advertising
as the best way to get a wife, but
we know that it is the best way to
get a good trade.
Don't expect as advertisement to
bear fruit in one night, like the
prophet's gourd. Advertising will
take effect, but it takes more than
one night to do it.
You can't cat enough in one week
to last a whole year, and you can't
advertise on that plan, either.
A large advertisement once and
then discontinued creates the im
pression that the man has fizzled.
Injudicious advertising is like
fishing where there is no fish. You
need to let the lines fall in the right
place.
-V constant dropping will wear a
rock. Keep dropping your adver
tisements on the public, and they
will soon melt under it like rock
salt.
Largo type isn't necessary in ad
vertising. Blind folks don't read
newspapers.
A Discouraged Editor.
He was a sad-eyed, meek-faced
man, and we supposed he merely
wished to give us a news item : but
when ho commenced telling us about
budding a barn on his ranch 190x.
280 feet, seven stories high, and
ornamented with bay-windows wo
thought it was time :o check him,
and so we commenced :
Well, we must admit that is a
pretty large barn for this country
but back in the States our father
built a barn 825x500 fecTT nine
stories high, and famished with
steam elevators, but "
'IJ.tck irthe States !" mterupted
our listener. Why, that wasn't
much of a barn for the States. I
remember, now, that when wl was
quite young my father built a chick-an-coop
550x832 feet. I don't reck
ollect how many stories it was high,
but I know there was a cupola on it
for the roosters."
"About how bigii was tiie cupo
la ? "we asked.
"I don't remember the exact
height now mistc1'," was the reply ;
"but i know it was so high that the
fourteen upper tiers of roosters died
from the effects of the light atmos
phere tho first night."
Then he looked up towards the
ceiling and commenced humming
"Silver Threads Among the Gold,"
and we went out and sat down on
ihu vco l-pi'c, and wondered why
somebody waii always outstripping
us in the race of life Colorado
Miner.
Not Afraid of tho Devil.
A colored man named Nolson is
owing a butcher five or hix dollars,
and after trying in vain to collect
the money, the butcher and a friend
put their heads togetheruhe other
Dlght and laid a plan. About mid
night they called at Kelson's house,
and he was awakened by a n p on
the window.
'Who's dar V he called out.
'The Devil?' wai solcmuly re
plied by the butcher.
You is, hey Y
'Yres. I want you,'
'What fur'
'You refuse to pay your butcher's
bill, and I am sent to take you to
the bottomless pit !'
'You is?'
'I am ! Come forth at once !'
'Ize comin,' replied the negro as
he jumped out of bed; ll can't pay
dat six dollar.-- half as easy in any
odder way, and de old woman is so
mighty cross Ize glad to get away
from home.
The butcher and his friend didn't
wait for Mr. Nelson to come out.
An old lady residing in Ohio lost
the companion with.wiiom she had
jogged for many years. She neg
lected to mark the spot of his burial
by even a stone. Not long after,
coming into the possession of a
small legacy, a sister of the de
ceased said to her : 'JT suppose you
will new put up stones for Daniel?"
2Zer answer was a settler : 'If the
Lord wants anything of Daniel at
the resurrection, 1 guess lie can
find him 'without a guidchoa'-d.'
An old Dutchman undertook to
wallop his son, but Jako turned upon
him and walloped him. Tho old
man consoled him for his defeat by
rejoicing at his sons manhood. Ho
said Veil Jako ish a shmart fellow ;
he can vip his 9wn taddy.
.am