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I ' " ' '' ' '' ' ' ' . i y:-v3; ml VOL. 63. BK STJHK YOU AJRJS RIQ Offers hi nrrU. I ACTORS' MEMORIES. TARBORO', N. PAIITTiirg OU CHINA. drug store on Main PRANK POVTELL, c. A' A TTORXE Y-d T-Ld JT Tabbobo. I" . If Pra. in all the Courts, Fed- . -!. 3MRB jtEOROB. HOWARD, BOOTH AND 0THEMAXWOBi Prominent Plavei-. Commit the la 4n Actor's Sudd nd Moir Tkey nes or Their Part,.. In HUe, Etc. 'One of the most manner to which tZJZrJF to memorv m - . ""f Parts manager to a7hVf"r.n actor er. "Only the oth.J saia to me. 4- st TARBORC N. & 4 fTHhraciieefl In 0 the Courts, Bute and Federal. ; . nq.5-ly. JNDBEW JOYNER,vt TT011NE7-A T-LA Wy h GREENVILLE, N. . jf In future will regularlv attend the Superior ou rts or Sdgeownbe. Office in Tarboro House, G M. T. FOUNTAIN, ATTORHT AND COUNSKUXJR AT LAW, U - Tarboro, N. C.j Office over Insurance Office of Cap! Orren Williams. feb2l-6uj ALTER P. WIXLIAMSON Attorney-at-Law, Office in Poet Office Bnilding.y I i - TAKBOKO', N. all . "Prct5ceft in State and Federal Courts. : : H 1(. A. GlLXIAM. l0mtX6llXIAM QILLIAM & SON f j Attorneys-at-law, If TARBORO, if. c Will practice In the ConnUe of Edgecombe, HaUfax aid Pitt, and in the Conru of the irst jdiaal Diatrirt, and la tne Circuit and upreme'Courts at Raleigh. ;i Janl8-ly. T AS. I NORFLEET, - M if- Attorney-at-lLaw, TARBORO, - -ll X. a CIRCUIX- Edgecombe, NSh and Wil son. Loans negotiated on reasonable term. T L. BRIDGERS & SON, Attorneys-at-liw, TBORO- -i uraincai peoole la th. rultt lmes reDorti Jtner day prominent i rid east 4- a remembennz "narr." r u,VlnS and Mrj In many cases extremely TaborfousL ni - mere are. nowever. munr exranr.ina Some people are able to learn their parts wiin rapidity and ease. I have sejjn some professional people take hold of a part when there was no especial need of mem orizing it in a brief space of time, and, after reading it over, learn it perfectly in marvellously short time. It is not the best, actor who can memorize the qnictest To some of the most prominent people on the stage the task of commit ting their parts is a hard one. As a man ager I always preferred to have around me people to whom this work was diffi cult. I felt surer with them. I knew they had a well disciplined memory, and when once they had learned their parts they could be depended, upon. But there are exceptions to all rules. I recall an in stance of a young actor who was-in a com pany I had in Washington some years ago. He was a bright fellow and Lad a fine stage appearance.bnt he had the most unretentive memory I ever knew. When he had, after great labor, learned a part he would often at the critical time forget some of it. At last he got discouraged and I got disgusted, and the sequel of the matter is that he is now a prosperous farmer in Michigan. " I can always tell an actor's tempera ment by the manner in which he studies his part. It is a line index to hi charac ter. Anyone who has ever seen Irving stndy can attest the truth of that as sertion. He takes the utmost palus with every line and word. He weighs every syllable as though his life depended upon it. He studies slowly, not because of any difficulty in memorizing, for he has no such difficulty, but because he pays the same attention to the details of the lines of the play as he does to the details of the scenery. "Booth is another actor who was most careful in his stndy, but it . has been so long since he learned a new part that the task would now be almost a novelty to him. Poor Xed Southern was a very in teresting actor to be seen learning a part. There was nothing slovenly about his work. He learned easily, but he was ac customed to pace np and down the floor of ! Don A i... Tracing, Dr,wie, and ' ' Coloring. tataiih: " or. ifle Household vUU n iiier rnnrr hn tn l . -.. . on this subject "ae """Wing -oTnWe 1 in tracing an D .088KY BATTLE, i. ' Attornej at Law! ; i TARBORO, N. C. IDaiLie s nan, iwkj muuu., hi Practice in the court of Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson and Halifax counties, j&lso in the Federal and Supreme Oourta. Tarborojofnce, no-stairg over new Howard- buy diner, Main t treet, opp. Bank front room.: apr 1 '84 K.LN.CARB, I) if m "11.1 pieul' ullr,1,ul oiirereon GZZZX ientist, opening perto O 04nxF I ; ' He looked a!i ; TARBORO, N. C. Office no nig, from 9 a. m. 'till I p: m. and torn a to 6 p.m. I Next door to Tarboro House, over Uoyster A Xash. . ;j ? n R. R. W. JOTNER, t SURGEON An r! t.AM Placed over the Prcturetw- f'. be with a fliJ r,a"ha 18 to1 copied; the outline it.r.:"."1 Pecil follow heavier, the under m . , t-"e othep. ls nppfer generallv v 7 . - . uiaujt ; me Iart thin paper Just 5lace th and if impossible to QdTt . Up' be corners with vi"!?1' fastel careful it is in trw'vit lPiate. Be nre wnet X 4 the from the 'Z-?' "" stance - w amvHUU V lO xn( found reproduced on the china. Dip quickly.into clean cold water one end of a stjck or tablet of Indian ink ; holding it In nn upright position, rub on a small plate or saucer until you have enough te work with. Itshonldbeof acreamy consistency, not thin enough to spread while working, nor too, thick to flow easily. With the finest of camelVhair or sable pencils go over the marks left by the tracing paper, and sketch in lightly the rest of the design. Work the pencil well into the ink before commencing, and bring !t to a point, so that the lines may be decided and yet thin. If left broad, uncertain, and of un equal thickness, the painting will bo more diflicult, and it will be very hard to pre serve the outlines. The brush used in sketching should be very fine and kept entirely for tie purpose, washing well in clean water after using. Another small er one is wanted for the more delicate lines iu the features, as the corners of the eyes and the nostrils. The numbers of the brnshes will be fonnd to vary at the diiferent art material establishments. No. 1 at the one store being No. O at another. For coloringfln backgrounds or borders, when a solid tint is desired, either use one of t he fine stippling brushes, or an old kid glove rolled into shape : sometimes both can be employed to advantage, the glove for the earlier stage of the profess, and the brush for the tatter. Inferior stipplers will loosen in working, often shedding a tine coat of short hair that ruins the work. Xo matter lunv old or soiled the glove may be, s; that it h;is a surface for working that is smooth and free from seams, fold it over and over, with the fingers inside and upper part of the glove outside; bunch it tightly together until there is a perfectly even siirtat-e, shaped something like the blossom' end of a small apple; tie tightly with- strong string that it can not slip, for this part of itwill last for years. Have a piece of old soft linen folded into four thicknesses, and stretch and tie this over the kid tight and even. Have the linen thick enough, or rather TSENOO AmEA,IX-a Crockett. 16, 1885. BREEDING RACERS. wmm-am- v,v . 1 K . I ! UllMVIIl V II I V I 1 1. " ' "V .- tA,AT-- " KJ -Mi JL. , COajlCAU PARROTS. Some oa Stories Abot Polly The Clever Bird Slakes Pleat? of mischief. While a newly-married couple were way on their honeymoon, they bjft their house in charge of servants. On their re turn their parrot repeated several times, Let's have another bottle there's no one here to know ;" and then followed the ap propriate. " plop, plop'.', and gurgle. How the servants must have loved' this clever bird 1 This story is quite true. ' So is the following : A Yorkshire gentleman had a ferer about Christmas time, and his par rot was removed from the dining-room to the kitchen, where 1U Toice was m like ly to . disturb its', master. It remained ? vi there for several weeks, dnrlng which it -Baj?. the raisins intended for srpjnoi-pad- THE LATE HUGH CON WAT. - toaster , approached wnw!rynvra Frederick Fargns. better known to the I whereupon the "parrot turned one world as " Hugh Conway." the anteor A' T nPn '- nd slowly said. " You the popular novel " Called Baelc, ami bald-headed, raffiaa ! So yon stole the the writer of " Dark Days," " Carriston'sf cookipiums, aw your KATTHZW DAWSON'S IT. OPINION ABOUT layers enough, to work no the whola surface to be colored. In china painting one may have to wait for the work, but the reverse does not hold good, When the linen is saturated, it gives out the color, does not take it np, and to rearrature the ntiutuue naa struct me cotrecreT tu wmm rfwmw '"an , nnnntr. the tint too delicate. Jf or eacn article to be colored, and only then, the kid must be recovered with unen. ii a set is to oo tinted, do them all at the same time, or they will most likely be " off color." Two- DENTIST Has ;-termaiientlv located in Wil- pon, N, C. All operations will be neatly and caraf ully performed and on terms as reasonable as possible. Teeth extracted without pain. Office on Tarboro street, next door to Post OfTiee! ' Jan-1 6 m I J tl SAVAGE, Livery, Sale, Exclutnge and Feed Staples, CoRsta Gkanvuab. 4l St. Ajidkbw 8ib?s . j J TABBQBOV W. C ; ' These 8tables are the largest in the 8Ute. and have a capacity of holcuw'ten car-loads of stock. Give him a call. ianlSy OPIUM fc WHI8KET HABJT8 cured at honte without pais. Book of partienlars cent Free. B. M. WOOLET, M. D., Atlanta, (ia. ! t23 ' PEACHERS, Make t70 to fBO per month A selling onr Standard Books & ; Bibles. Steady work for Spring and Summer. Ad- ih-efcs J. C McCurdy & Co., muapeipnia, ra. T UTHER SHELDON,! 1J . . j i DEALSK IN IS 1 -; ' . v-r UU1LDERS' HARDWARE, PAINTS, OILS, pLASS, 3 pression. ' But these efforts never created anything artificial in him. He was ear nest and sincere always. Fred Warde has a notably quick and retentive memory. I recall an instance Illustrative of this. Theodore Hamilton was once engaged in New York to play Edmund . in ' King Lear.' ' Edwin Booth was playing the title role. Late in the afternoon Hamilton got sick, and sent word that he could not ap peal. The manager was in a most un pleasant dilemma, especially as it was the nance of the engagement. n!out for some one to take Hamilton's place, and selected Warde, who had been assigned to an inferior part. Warde protested that he knew practically nothing of the part, and said he bad not sufficient time in whic i to study it. The manager, however, insisted, and Warde cmt down to work. That nU'ht his Ed- mund was warnriy greeted. He did not miss a word. " I remember one night when George Rignold was playing ' Henry Fifth' about 1876, in Ford's Theatre, in Washington, he was taken suddenly ilL The manager was in great trepidation. He didn't know bow on earth to get a man in time to play this important character that evening un til E. K. Collier, who was to strut across hte stage as one of the heralds, came for ward and declared he'd fill Rignold's place. He said he didn't know the part, but would have it committed to memory In time. Some of the company laughed at Collier, but the manager had confidence injthe ambitious young fellow, and the "ftsult of It was that although he had only four hours in which to.study the part, he made a great success. He is high in the profession now and dates his rise from the night he made the great jump from a herald to a king. When the old Citv Museum was still standing between Fifth and Crown streets, B, G, Rogers, an old-timer, was playing Bob Acres in 'The Rivals.' He got sick and they called on Sam Hemple, the popular Philadelphia comedian, to take his place. Sam declared he didn't know a word of the part. Flay it, anyhow,' moaned Rogers. You've gotthree hours to learn it in, so get to work.' Sam got to work, learned the part and made a capital hit. "Actors these days don't have any such troubles and they don't study much, either. They learn one or two parts at the beginning of the season and play them -week after -week without any change of bill. Even if they bad many parts to lrn in a season there would not be one- third the trouble the actors of the old srhnnl had. The text of our modern plays is easily learned and easily remem bered. Any actor will tell you that it is a far more difficult matter to learn prop erly five lines of one of Shakspcre's, Knowles's, pr the pther great dramatists' blank verse dramas than It is to commit to memory forty-live lines from the melo Anmns of to-day. Every man or Woman in these latter plays more or less changes the text, either accidentally or purposely, and in very many cases these interpola tions are better than the original expres sions. I have seen playwriters stand in the wings when their plays were being performed and incorporate into the text some ot the words and. sentences the ac tors substituted for the regular version. Gift," aud numerous interesting ,;ahorf stories, was born at Bristol, England, li 1847. To gratify his boyish passion for XM sen, which even led him to contemplate running away from home to go on board ship, his father placed bim on a achod frigate, the Conway, at Liverpool, hla furnished t&e nom de plume under whkj he afterward became famous, and whei he acquitted himself creditably, wlnnln the gold medal of the Mercantile Marin Association. Though he gained mud valuable material here for future use, did not go to sea, but, after completbt his studies, entered an accountant's offio and subsequentlyjsncceeded his father i the partnership of a well-knowa an tioneering firm, of which his uncle was member, and in which he continued nnt its dissolution, about a year before h! death. He died at Monte Carlo, May i.-vn), of typhoid fever, contracted Naples, and from which he was snp; to have nearly recovered, when a nervi shock, caused by an accident while driving out with his wife, brought on a fatal re lapse. He leaves a widow and four young children. He passed away at the earlj age of thirty eight, at the beginning of f career of singular promise. ' " 1 AMUSING THE CHILDREN. A Sivins la the House Wood. Building Blocks Pit fare Cards, Etc tor a swing in the house, procure trtfo screws with hooks on the end, and fasten them in the casing-above an inside dor (one which leads from sitting-room to dining room, or one which connects two warm rooms), and then fasten a rope to the screws, and with m board for- m seat you have a nice swing far the 3-year olds While the late Dean Stanley was a canon at Canterbury, a gentleman, who had been, invited to breakfast with him, found all errants assembled- in the gfarden and gazing np at a laburnum, in which their master's parrot was at -large. -At that moment outoai thje iattr,. Toe par ret looked down at him ansaid, in a slow but distinct voice exactly "like the late dean's "iet tis not pray.ir The lird was eventually captured by the aid f a fishing-rod. A grey parrot was stationed in a nurs ery, where his greatest, delight was. to see the baby barbed, The child being -attacxea by some .Infantile complaint the 'parrot was removed to the kttehen. - There, after a time, fee set op a terjible cry " The baby! the dear baby!" All the. family r ashed down to find the parrot, in a state ef the wildest, excitement,, watching the roasting of a sticking pig. Dr. Karl Rnsa, in his receptly-published work, "The Speaking Parrots," tells of a grey, which was teasea Dy a i&tmajor, .whom it knew well, . to climb a stick. " Up on the stick, PoUy--u on the sttck '." cried the officer. The parrot! suddenly burst into a loud laugh, and said, "Up with you on tbe stick, major.' Everybody has heard ' of the parrot of Henry IV. which fell Into the Thames from a window la the palace at Westmin ster, and called out, ".A crown for a boat." The waterman who, rescued it claimed a crown accordingly ; and the parrot, ,on, be ing asked what be ' should be paid, is stated to have replied, "Give the knave a groat"' ' Dr. Russ tells another curious story of a grey which taught a young maon. (parrot) to talk. When, the pupiLdld, not learn his words correctly, the grexwoufd say, " Blockhead r ana turn contemp- it, Ayerfs;Pills. And Banding Material of every description in 3 - W. SIDE V ARRET BQO ARE & 08,16 49 ROANOAKK AVE., NORFOLK, VA- Source of the Mississippi. The Mississippi no longer rises in Itas ca Lake, but in Lake Glazier. This body of water is three feet higher and consider ably larger than its former geographical source. The length of the great river It from the sea is 8,184 miles. to thirds of a tube of maize and a scant third of yellow will be sufficient for the borders of a dozen larce fruit plates. Put the two together, and rub thoroughly until there is a perfectly even tone, and it Hows easily. Paint the border with a large sized brush until all parts are the same color ; if too moist wait a few minutes until it is ready to work, then pounce with the glove until the tint is an even, delicate one. Hold the plate so nothing can touch the edges; the least rtaw or rubbing necessitates washing o!f and toloring aain. A little practice will enable one to manage the plate, with i lie left hand underneath, very nicely. When linished, put at once In a warm oven to d ry ; an hour is not too lolls tolceep them in : the plates colored in the mi-aistluie mnt-t be kept free from dust. Tins il.-jinj in an oven is very im portant, fi'f it not only preveuts the set tling of dt:st and other -particles before firing, but the rubbing on and blurring of color that tome wun carrying to me tirei-H. Ivory yellow, tarnation yellow, brown, neutral ami liiiht gray are the colors used in Jill complexions, whether the delicate one of ; -child or the high coloring of a man. The different effect is obtained by using the dark lines more or less freely, thus getting a vnriety of tone. Hub each color liown separately with the palette knife. Hsinir a trifle of essence of trrasse. and the same of lavender ; din quickly in to the gnisse, then into the other, and you will lind enongh will adhere. A little practice will soon enable one to take the rio-ht rjroDortion : too much erasse makes the paint sti. k. and au excess of bvvender will make it too thin and flow too freely, The color should he just moist enough to go on smoothly without running or streak ing. When one color is well rubbed down, wipe the knife on a clean piece of muslin before mixing the next. It is always best to reduce each color separately, mixing them afterward for the combination, ex cept the two grays, which can be pnt to gether, then rubbed with the knife. There should be a triCe mora of the light than the ntfntra', and it forms what is called mixed grav. used for the lower tones, and whenever "the high lights and shadows meet, to soften one into the other. When the carnation and ivory yellow are blend ed, mix together, using more of the former than of the latter ; this is the foundation for thecomplexion, and is to be left pure for the high lights. For the heavy shadr ows take curnatiou, mixed gray, and yeU low brown iu such proportions that you have a warm, rich tone, a happy blending of all. none of the three asserting it3elf, - The Marriage Question. A bachelor, an Englishman, writes: One of the great secrets of a happy married life, next to the choice of A partner, the most im portant point in my opinion is to begin it free from debt, with what furniture you have, be it much or little, paid for out and out. Line your nest with your own feathers, young man, and then if your wife is worth her sal you will get along first-rate on 100 to 150 a year. But to start in debt, or, what is the same thing, with a house furnished on the hire system, is to start with a forty horse power engine ot nnhappiness in full work. I believe that no man ought to think of marrying until he has saved enough to hire aud f ur nian if it be ever so humblv. the cottage his wife is to make a home. I hold that a man who would ask a girl to marry him and start in life in debt without even being able to call their household goods thir own is not worthy the name of a Tnnn whilst the srirl who would consent tatnrt honsekeeninc on the odious "1 system "is not tne sort oi aiwue iur a man Who must work for his daily bread. Although unmarried myself, I have ueen. so much misery caused by this starting in Aoht that. T feel bound to speak out. I be- liarotvut if two vonnir neocle starting life clear of debt, with health and strength t-hoi oii p.-innot cet on with 120 a year, they would not manage much better on aoo a year. "Novemberl882. 18,1-y. O- WOODWARD, with Norfolk, Va. E, B. BLAMD2 '4: Will mail samples of DRY GOODS WHEJf REQUESTED, K Tlrensea made to order. Correspondcace so licited. Catalogues of Fattern mailed Urns : to any addreaiw r An old darkey was preaching some tima since and he saw one in his congregation asleep, so he began : "You remember when Paul was preaching m de lempie a aamsei was asleep in the fourth story, and she fell down smashing all to smashers, and the fragments they picked up twelve basketful, aod whose' we will she be In do resurrec tion ? ktn s doleful vatceNp.", JMPll or for the smaller ones. - By v little pa- I tuously away.' Eventually the grey and tient teaching they wm soon t learn to ' the Amasbn were able to converse. ' The swing and amuse themselves for a long i former would say, - " Have you any time. ;.- ; 1 ' honey f" to which the latter jrould repjy ea bTockithe mvZSZZZZm you choose and they will build with them houses, ships, and hundreds i ot other things your imagination could never con jure. ' i -. .' Those who live near the sea shore, or are accessible to the lake sand, or nice building sand, might fill a dry goods box with this sand, bring it Into the kitchen, and provide the boys and girls with sticks; you will be surprised at the variety of an imals they will draw in it ; they might even use their fingers without fear of soiling them, for it is clean and easily brushed off. Mixed pictures: Paste some -pretty colored pictures on pasteboard, then cut with a sharp penknife in various shapes, and give to the children to pnt together in the right way so as to form the pic ture. ' For a post office : Any good sized card board box will do for this purpose. The lid should be fastened to it, so that when it is stood up it will open up like a cup board door ; it must be closed by means of a button and a loop of elastic. In the" top of the box, as it stands np, or ia the up per end of the door, a slit must be cut out about an inch wide and from five to six inches long, so as to allow of tbe posting of small parcels, but yet not large enough to admit a child's hand, while on the door of the post, office should be written the times of the post. Most children fere fond of writing letters to one another, and this will, of course, give rise to a grand, manuiacture or note paper, envelopes, and postal cards, and they will call forth all their ingenuity in designing and color ing monograms ana crests lor tneir note paper and envelopes. An envelope must be taken carefully to pieces to form a flat pattern : then those cut from it have to be folded, gummed togetner, ana a toncn or. gum put on the tip of tpe flap ; -ft mono gram to correspond with the . note .paper drawn on it. and, finally, they must be done up in neat packets, say a half dozen in each, it is wonaenui wnat occupation this post box will afford where there ls a large party of children ; of course a post man must be chosen, and a bag must be made for the letters, and so on. ., A good mnseum ets all to gathering and storing up a collection of curiosities, and will be a cure for dullness, and give them an object to devote themselves to. Tbe best receptacle for these collections is a cupboard, with plenty of Bhelves in it, If possible, une-sneii must oe aevotea to boxes of mineral, another to trays of coin, another to insects, and if there are one or two drawers to hold dried slants so much- the better. One of the elder thildrea. . ' Long life' M htnTT" One fixer is related to have mourned for his mistress when sae died. It was difficult to induce him to take food. Often, too, he would reawaken the grief j of the mourners by asking them, "But where is the lady, then f" ! A parrot has been known to live in con finement for twenty years without' learn ing a single word, though it afterwards became an accomplished talker. , More over, no two blrdsre exactly alike In tem perament. One learns with difficulty, but never forgets : another picks up every thing he hears, but remembers nothing for more than a few days! Some few learn readily, and retain what they have learnt. One bird, mentioned by Dr. Russ, began to talk the very day that it arrived, and when it saw breakfast, said, " Bake cakes" aud "Give some to the parrot;" while another, also mentioned by him, could not utter its own name until it had been eight nionths with -'its owner, vliw it began to learn something every day. Ultimately it was taught to repeat verses, audit it made a mistake would, say. an grily. You are no good ;" but if it got through its task without an error, It would praise itself. ' I' Dr. Greene, who has lately published a book called " Parrot ifa-raptlsity,?' tells of a gray which goes through a long per formance in which speaklos plays quite a secondary part ; but when itisjdjut up in. a coal box, it imitates a postman's knock, and when you say, ""Who's therr!'rdis tinctly replies. " Open the door for Polly." And, combating Cuvier'a opinion that " these imitative and mechanical quali ties are not to ne attributed to; superior reason or sagacity," .Dr. Greene in stances t he ease of a cockatoo which was never known to ask for potatoes t except when dinner was on the table, nor to say, "Oh, you're a beauty," but to oh1td. The Celebrated English Tratner Of fers Some Hints that are Founded on Lone Experience. A correspondent of the London Daily News has been talking to the famous Eng lish horse-breeder and trainer, Mr. Mat thew Dawson, and gives the following re port of the conversation : He asked why sd few Englishmen breed horses ? . "The answer is very simple," replied Mr. Dawson, immediately. "It does not pay. Except in the case of thoroughbreds and perhaps cart-horses, breeding does not pay, except as an adjunct to other farm- As et pnrsnlt la iteelf It Js0peles -nunters on a targe rfch. for he will want his money. Finan cially speaking, he had better breed cart horses. In attempting to breed chargers, hunters, and carriage horses it is quite im possible to tell what .kind of animals your ypung ones will torn out. You cannot sa that you will breed a hunter. He is a. eross-bred animal, and may turn out anything you please. It is the same thing with carriage horses and all cross-bred ones. You do not knew what you have got till the animal ha& become advanced in life. It is entirely different with a thoroughbred." "You are probably a believer in the doctrine of breeding from certain strains and the nicking of various blood ?'' I "Not at all. My view is that the pro duce of good animals of any thoroughbred strain has a fair chance 6f turning out well. It is of far greater importance that sire and dam should be good specimens of 8 race horse than that they should be of any so-called fashionable strain of blood. Robert the Devil and St. Gatien, two of the best horses of recent years, are what is called unfashionably bred, and many of Lord Falmouth's best animals had not a fancy pedigree on both sides." ' " You are, I gather, inclined to favor big animals f" "A good big one will assuredly beat a good little one. But the good big one is rare, so a great many races fall to smart little horses." " What do you think of the cry about houses not being able to stay as they did of old f We bear a great deal at times about the Beacon Course, the Hound Course, and so forth, and about the mod ern race horses being bred for speed alone. Do you think them as good as their fore fathers V "I think them better. I itm a believer in the improvement cf animals by care and judicious attention. Men are bigger than they were when they were half- starved, , ised to cold and damp, and lived at hide and seek. Of the immense quantity of armor in the Tower of Lon don. there ls not a suit you could wear. Immense big men are not at all rare. k at the Somersets and think of poor M..aP'lie.l MJL A colt gives some anxietr, I oeiore ne sees the starter's flag ?" weaning him from his mother is a very critical business, seriously aliecting his growth, and often making all the difference between a good and a bad animal. This over, we turn him out into a, paddock wtih some yonng companions, for a colt is a social beast, and feed him on oats and carrots. Of course, he is only turned into the pacdock by dav. No race horse is left out at night. W lien the win ter months are over the yearlings' are separated, and when about the 1st of September, they are perhaps sixteen to eighteen months old, they are taken up, put into breaking, and used very tenderly and gently until they get used to the bit and go with a boy. Then they are sent short canters, gradually increasing in speed and distance until they are handy, and learn the use of their lees. About tha 1st of January they are tried with a "view to the spring two-year-old races." tney vary much, oi course.' les. great horses likely to crow into Derby and St. Leger winners often do not apiear till late in the season, after the lighter framed ones have been running for months. It is this necessity for patience-with the bigger horses which explains the late appearance of some of the best racers, which are not started'" till the Doncaster and Newmarket autumn! meetings, when racing folk look to the" Middle Park Plate and the Dewhurst Plate to tell them the winner of the Derby." The Home of Onr President. The White House covers about one-third of an acre and it has cost up to the pres ent time about $2,000,000. It is modeled after a castle in Dublin, and the architect, who was" a South Carolina man named Hoban, got $300 for drawing the plans. When it was first built, away back in the nineties, it cost fc-00,000, but tin; ISritish burned out its insine, and its eo.-t iia-s since added to that sum about 1.7m.iHXi. In it all the Presidents since ashmgton havp lived, and each has added to its beau ties and its expenses. .John Adams bought the first billiard table which was used in it. Butm John Adams time it was only half furnished, and Abigail Adnms used to dry her clothes in the big Fast room. Year by year, however, the furnishing has gone on until now it is a sort of museum of art and beautv. in-' i.i'.'t co;-.'.ino:i signs of Dyspasia, or ' Ijidi- rstii-, aro n-.i epprcssiou at , the lit- :.-;e.ii, -11:113 fiatulcucT, vater-Btbah, liivtit-Lmi ti, Yiiiitii!, k; cf .appetite aud o!i:ip:,t;m. i 'y.-pc-iitio pat:. Ms gutter un-li-.,; ii,.s. -n.-j, l di!y aud. tueutal. They tin'iu I m:ihu:;:!.t d;-$tiiii, and securo ' rsui:ir il:;.;, a.'ti.m irf the buesis, by the use of moUeraJu doses of yttav borali ore regulated, me of tiisie r 4., r; .;;o'via,i and bowela. lhey are the U.it i.; r.ll .iu -.tives for family aao. ruErAUEO ny , Dr.J.-.AyerACo., Lowell, Mas. Sold by all 1 traggists. ANEW AND VALAUBLE DEVICE. -A. Ia.tjtvt Water Closet Seai -r III 'A J!S fff v . . mi Mi w :'. it- r- ft I-:; -.; -Ami r 4 i Of Interest to Base BallUts. Science has come to the aid of base ball players, and announces, for the benefit of batsmen who are ambitious to make heavy hits, that the ball should be struck at the angle of twenty-three degrees in or der to send it to the greatest possible dis tance. Repeated experiments in artillery have proved that a ball tired from a can non at this angle will carry further than if fired at any other ancle with a liks charge of powder. Sarcasm. "Ican't account for the small attend ance at church on Sundays,'" remarked Parson Jones. "Neither can I," replied Fogg with his customary frankness ; "1 went a few Sundays ago, and I couldn't see anything to attract the KinaH ttteud- anoe i saw mere. -FOB THE CURE OF HEMOBRHOIDS, Commonly Called Plies. INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL PROLAP SUS AI. NO MEDECINE OR SURGICAL OPERA TION NECESSARY, Anecdotes of VeJtaire. Some one had teased Voltaire .a jxeat while with perpetual letters to; which Voltaire had given no apswer, "At last he" wrote to hlro. " Sir -I am dead.'"" r cannot in' future have the honor to write to you." , -Voltaire never reeetved.ao severe.a must have a numbered catalogues of tb -asn .as cfrom s the celebrated author, of 11 Anijnn 4-lvn nnvMhaM In TRSh Hilar MAA - . collection, the numbers in the lie corre sponding with the numbers that must be neatly gummed to the specimens. ,: Per haps If space is an object, it would be bet ter to have a collection of only: one class of things, say of food products, or of seeds and seed vessels, from which much. useful, information may be obtained. - ; CHESTNUTS. A n epitaph for a boatman, life is oar. If, is a poor rule that a schoolma'am cannot work in different directions among. the bad scholars after school.'" i That ladies easily learn to play the vio lin is not surprising when their experienca in handling beaux is taken into consider tion. - i;f:" ' A little Boston boy being aked why Ixit's wife was turned into ft pillar of salt replied ; " Because she wai too fresh, I gUeSS," "f"r tf-f-'TT'' .1 "What is an epistJe ?".MkedjagUnday-i 6chool teacher of her class. " "" The wife of an apostle," repled the young hppefuL ' "Have you," asked the Judge of a re cently convicted man, "anythiig to offer the court before sentence- IS passed f" " No, your honor," replied the prisoner, ' " my lawyer took my last centr " Pray tell me the difference dear," There Is between a store cishien; And the teacher of a plma" . The damsel, smiling, saidT I will.. This difference von will lad s - The store cashier he mind the till, llie teacher tills the mild oa uounas. . It is paid that Mr. Heddcn, the new Col lector of Customs at New York, is not only warmly indorsed by the business men of the city, hut that Mr. Tilden, Mr. Manning: and Mr, Whitney were for him. ; If he is honest and capable that is all that is wan ting. It s a vcrv good thing to smash tile slates of politicians. ' Italy's new administration il s&id to rep nsent the mean, rather than eher extreme, of public sentiment in the kingdom, and giyes rise therefore to a mtweioperul view of the future. Depretis Is thtnew premier. James E. Fisi the defaulting president of the Marine National Bankjbf New York, has been sentenced to the Albany Btate prison for ten years. il i MfltTomanie". Perin., These rival wits "had been long upon ill terms tpgejlje and, as Voltaire was one , nay coming out, or the playhouse at Paris, in a bad humor at Che Ill-success of one of his' tragedies, be met Perin, and contemptuously said to him-. Well, sir, and what do . yeu think of my tragedy ?" That I will not tell you, sir," replied perin ; but, if yon will not permit me. I wut tell you what you tntnk or it" Why, said Voltaire, "What do 1 think Of it, then, Perin?" ,". WeR,!'.replied the wit, "you wish that r had written it." SKILKS. She" And did you paint much when yoa were in Norway and Sweden V r ie "A no! mere -. was anotaan paintah there !" i (angrily ' 'Look Sober Passenger Tipsy Passenger (apologetically) " Y-yes. I do-, the tr-troubl IS tt-hic step where I look." " Have you heard how Jones is to day?" "I have just called on him. His braia Is in a terrible condition." "'Is that all t Then there ls no chance for his being seriously ilL" grows more and faster than he did, and matures more rapidly. An exactly simi lar experience has been gone through al most entirely In our own time with cattle. I believe horses to have greatly Improved since the last century. There hangs Eclipse, by Stubbs. You can look at him and judge whether he was a ' smasher' or not. A coarse-headed, short-necked horse, rather heavy in the shoulder, and stand ing high behind the saddle." "But can the modern race-horse stay ?' " Horses stay as they are trained, and according to the pace they go. If trained for long courses St. Simon and St. Gatien would cut down their field quite as easily at three, miles as at one. Horses can stay forever If they go slowly enough. As a case In point, let me ask you what kind of a horse you would expect to win a steeple chase with ?" i " A horse with pace, but not able to stay -in good companymakes a capital steeplechaser." -" Precisely. A thorough-bred with a good turn of speed, who has been taught to jump, can keep with a lot of hunters and half-breds forever ; because he is al ways gobag well within himself while they are galloping their best. Aud when he wants to come away at the finish he leaves them'as, if they were standing still. I could not give you a better illustration of the fallacy that horses could stay better of Old than now. As I just said. 1 believe e vast improvement has taken place, thanks to Pocahontas and greater knowl edge Of developing the power of a young race horse.. This tells in the long run. i do not believe two better animals ever trod the turf as two and three-year olds than 6t. Simon and St. tiatien." '"You 'appear to attach great im portance to getting young colts forward. Do not we race our colts too young " "Horses are so rapidly developed and matured under the modern method that they-are nearly a year ahead of the horses of fifty years ago. A good three-year-old at the back end of the season is nearly as good a horse as he is likely to be. In proof of this mark the great weights carried in the Cesare witch by Julius. Robert the Devil' and St; Gatien, who all won that race, rnn proverbially at a tremendous pace' as three-year-olds. Note also the weights Of See-Saw and Fox hall in the Cambridgeshire. And the importance of earlv development in horses brings me back to the starting point of our conversa tion. Everything now depends upon get ting a quick return for your money. You Will not, for instance, wait even a year and a halt or three-quarters to sell your sheen. You would sell them as lambs. You get nearly as much money and get it Without delay. In the same way cattle and piga are bred to put. on flesh while young, and vet In the face of this there are people who wonder why we race two-vear-olas. and why we do not breed hunters and carriage horses and wait five years to turn our money over. There is no possible reason why- these animals should not be bred, a few on a farm, but the practice would never pay on a large scale." . : " Is there any special art In getting young colts forward early in the season, and generally in assisting nature in de veloping them ?" "The general principles of feeding and exercising young horses are fairly well understood ; but some judgment and dis cretion are . required fn applying them. Horses vary fii their constitutions like men, and large animals require different treatment from small, light-tleshed ones." "To begin wlth however, they are treated much alike, are they not ?" ' " They are very well fed on the best oats that can be got, beans, hay carefully se lected, and ot prime quality, occasional bran-mashes and roots, especially carrots. If they seem a little used-up. stale, ot weary, we give them a litte green meat in the stable. Within the last few years we have taken to giving them the artificial grass, called sainfoin, cut up and mixed with oats. It is too strong to be given alone." - pa. -aTXTBTTt AR BflPX Sclutlllatius With Sarrum and Bril liant With Truth. Chap. I. " Chap. II. ' Chap. III. ' Chap. IV". . . . Y C 11 A " J u y: I RESUMED. : Senator Vance has recently bad a tumor cut out of his neck. It was not malignant but he said he concluded thai he and it bad as well part company. Tbe Qreeneboro Bpoke sad; Handle Fac tory failed last week for, fiOCO. i .Hon. Jeffexwm seventh year last week.,' He js a still b ale though uotnearty. Two sons of the late Bishop Linus Parker have just been licensed to preach by tbe Methodist, quarterly conference m New Orleans. Innier bas ben made postmaster at Wil- 1 liamston, but tbe absorbing question here is who will insert a tooth in the larDoro i cake. M . A. H. Boyen has Postmaster at Salisbury. been appointed Has Malaria ;" goes to Florida., ' Overworked ;" goes to Europe, " Ha Rheumatism ;" k'hjs to Eui. Has a row with his Uoi-t,or. ; The above chapters, Mr. Editor, I find In a book recently published by an- anony mous author. I have read a deal of sar casm in my day but I never read any thing equal to the sarcasm herein con tained. I suspect tiie experience portrayed is a personal one ; in short, the author in timates as much on page SI. Let me give yeu a synopsis : " Malaria " as it states, is the cloak with which superficial physicians cover up a multitude of ill feelings which they do not understand, and do not much care to in vestigate. It is also a cover for such dis cases as they cannot cure. - When they ad -ise their patient to travel or that he has overworked and needs rest and is proba bly suffering from malaria, it is a confession of ignorance or of inability. The patient coes abroad. The change is a tonic and for a time he feels better. Comes home. Fickle appetite, frequent headaches, severe colds, cramps, sleeplessness, irritabili ty, tired feelings, and general unfitness for business are succeeded in due time by alarming attacks of rheumatism which flits about- his body regardless of all hu man feelings. It is muscular, in his back. Articular, in his joints. Inflammatory, my ! how he fears it will Hy to his heart I Xow off he goes to the springs. The doctor sends him there, of course, to get well : at the same time he does not really want him to die on his bands ! i That would hurt his business ! Better for a few days. Returns.. After 'a while neuralgia transfixes him. He bloats : cannot breathe: has pneumonia ; i can not walk : cannot sleep on his left side ; Is fretful: verv nervous and irritable : is pale and flabby ; has frequent chills and ifevers ; everything about him seems to Iwrong : becomes suspicious : musters strength and demands to know what killing him ! I " Great heaven !" he cries. " why have you kept me so long in ignorance ?" I Because." said the doctor. " I read iyour fate five years ago, I -thought best to keep you comfortable and ignorant the facts." He dismisses the doctor, bat too late 1 His fortune nas all gone lor iees. But. him. what becomes of him ? The other day a well known Wall Street banker said to me " it is really astonishing :how general Dright's disease is becoming. Two of my personal friends are now dy jing of it. But it is not incurable 1 am 'certain, for my nephew was recently cured .when his physicians said recovery was impossible. The case seems to me to be a wonderful one." This gentleman formerly represented his government in a foreign country. lie knows, appreciates and de clares the value of that preparation, be cause his nephew, who is a son of Danish Vice-consul Schmidt, was pro nounced incurable when ..ie remedy, Warner s safe cure, was begun. i "Yes," said his father, "I was very skep tical but since taKiug tnac remedy bov is well." I regret to note that ex-Presidant Arthur is said to be a victim of this terrible disease. He ought to live but the probabilities are that since authorized remedies cannot cure him, his physicians will not advise him to save his life, as so many thousands have done, by the use of Wrarner's safe cure which (Jen. Christian sen, at Drexel, Morgan & Co's, told me he regarded "as a wonderful remedy. Well. I suspect The hero of the book cured himself by the same means. The internal evidence points very strongly to this conclusion. I cannot close mv notice of this book better than by quoting his advice to his readers : " If, my friend, you have such an ex perience as I have portrayed, ' do not put your trust in physicians to the exclusion of other remedial agencies. They have no monopoly over disease and i personally know that many of them are so very ' conscientious' that they would farprefer that their patients should go to Heaven direct from their powerless hands than that they should be saved to earth by the use of any 'unauthorised' means." too true, how many thousands doped, and ill ii.uia, vet rescued, as he was. can nersonallv tea- 1 MJ tify ? 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