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t ALTER P. W.
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Attorney-at-Law,
TARBORO , N. C.
office next that of CoL J. L. Bridgers, oyer
a .it's Jewelry store, mm street.;
t-Practices
in State and Federal Courts
pBiNK POWELL,
A TTOENE X'A T-LA W
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Tabbobo, - ' - "
pRXNK NASH,
ATTOBNET-AT-IAW,
.TARBORO. N C.
Practices In all the Courts, 8UU and Fed-
G
KOaGB HOWARD,
attorney and Counselor at Law.
TARBORC N. Q.
pfPraciices in all the Coots, State and
Federal. . uwim-xj.
NFREW7 JOTNER,
ATTORXEY-JLT-LA TTt .
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Ia future will regularly mttend the Boperior
ouris of Edgecombe. Office in Turboro House.
I
TBE TIRED noTIinn
They were talking ot toe glory ot the land be-
jouu iae sues,
Of the light and of the gladness to be found in
. paradise.
Of the flowers ever blooming, of the never
ceasing songs.
Of the i wandMngs through the golden streets
vvr wuiie-rooea tnrongs;
And said father, leaning cozily back in his
easy chair
(Fatter always was a master-hand for com.
iurx everywnere);
Urh In..-1 1 ...
ming xwouia be to know that
when this life is o'er
One would straightway hear a welcome from
the blessed, shining shoretn
An Isabel,.our eldest glrL glanced upward
iixu uie reea
Bhe was painting on a vitw inn
mured "Ves. indeed."
And Marian, the next in age moment dropped
her book,
And, -Yes, indeed!" repeated with a most
ecstatielook. . .. . . . , .
But mother, gray-hairad mother, who had
coma to sweep the room. ,
"With a paUent smile on her thin face, leaned
ugnuy on ner Droom
Poor mother! no one ever thought how much
she had to do
And said: "I hope it is not wronr not to ram
with you.
But seems to me that when I die, before I Join
the blest.
I'd like just for a little while to lie in my grave
ana rest."
. -Harper's Magazine.
BELLS, BELLS, BELLS!
M. T. FOUNTAIN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSEUjOR AT LAW,
larooro, ii. v.,
nffl.-e nvsr Insuraaee Office of Capt. Orrcn j
WiliiaHis. . feb21-6tn
h A. Gilliam. Dohtox Gilxjam I
QILLIAM & SON
Attomeys-at-I-aw,
TARBORO', N. C
will nractice in the Counties of Edgecombe,
dalifai and Pitt,1' and in the Courts of the
first Judicial District, and in the Circuit and
apreme Courts at Kaieign. jamo-iy.
ja
NORFLGET,
Attorney-at-Law,
TARBORO ' - - Jf C-
01 1CUTT . Edgecombe, Nash and Wil
son. Loaos negotiated on reasonable terras.
L. BRIDGERS & 80N,
Attorn eys-at-Law,
TARB0R0,
14 lry
1M Literature of the World fnlT nf
Belle and ITIusicDlckeus' Par-
f- M. T. iruun iaipi, i iiuut io neui'ia Hit Noreli.
. . . . i Many people are oeculiarlv sensitive tn
ouiuju oi Deng ana Decome merry or
sou, as ineir memories may be affected.
Those evening bolls! those evening be 11b!
now many a tale their music tells
Of youth, and home, and that sweet time.
When last I heard their soothing chimel
So sane Tom Moore, and he only uttered
wnai everyone reels.
ttourrienne relates of the first Napoleon.
tnai one ume wauuns with him in an
avenue at Malmaiaon, they heard the vil
laee. beU. Napoleon stopped, listened
Intently, then In a voice trembling with
emotion, said : "That recalls to me the
first years I passed at Brienne."
In one of the dormitories in the Irish
college at Rome there is a space on the
wall lert ever nn papered and unpainted.
whatever repairs the rest of the room may
undergo, for there, carelessly scrawled, is
the first rough draft of Father Prout's
Bella of Shandon. What a flood of tender
melody steals over us as we read that im
mortal poem, though we may never have
heard those famous bells, and have dwelt
far enough away from the church and
BDire of Shandon.
T T TJTMTll F. KS Xr RUN I
I With deep affection
V I And recollection
- Those Shandon bells
Whose sounds so wild would.
In the days of childhood.
Fling round my cradle
Their magic spells.
On this I ponder
Where'er I wander.
And thus grow fonder.
Sweet Cork, of thee
With thy bells of Shandua,
That sound so grand on
The pleasant waters
Our literature is full of bells and bell
music Southey calls the . sound of the
bells "the poetry of steeples," and George
Herbert sayB
' Think when the bells do chime,
Tis angel's music
rvK. 1. 1. U4B3 i in Enoch Arden, Tennyson says of the
A-' I MAT rfltTAVAV
Oncelikewlsein the ringing of his ears
Though faintly, merrily far and far away.
He heard the pealing of the parish bells.
But there Is no writer who so- delights
rvK. 1. N. CAKK, I m all the varied sounds ot oeiis as uick-
IJ i - ; I ens, or who makes so much of them. Not
a novel of his in which bells are not heard,
ofentimes with startling and dramatic
force. In the Chimes he idealizes them
with ineffable tenderness and pathos, and
Toby Veck's dream of climbing up to the
belfry is one of his masterpieces. ' In some
of his stories the bells sound forth only
dirges, in others they are monitors to warn
from crime, and In others marriage Dells,
the merriest and most gleeful of all. He
marries soma of his characters withontia
good deal of ringing. The door bells are:
great favorites with him, and he makes
the bell handle reveal many or tne peculi
arities of his characters. Mr. Dowler
Tines the bell with great violence," Mrs.
Clennam "with a hasty Jerk," Mr. W at-
klns Totts "with a faltering jerk," Bob
Sawyer, "as if he would pull the beH out
by the roots," the poor relation, witn
fapolotrtstic softness." "What a aemnnion
Ions time." says Mr. Mantilmi to New
man Noras, "you have Kept me ringing
at this confounded old tracked teakettle
of a bell, every tinkle of which is enough
to throw a strong man into convulsions,
noon mv life and soul oh demmlt!"
Sairey Gamp's bell is " tne greatest
little bell to rinsr 1 that ever was," and
there was another which produced only
two dead tinkles." If there ever was an
observer of how bells rang, and who could
translate their sounds into wise and witty
TW.-w,. Cf7 Tf srnhsi-n.Ao Kncrhsh. Dickens was that observer. The
V W tf) ajwo, ' -Blc and sonna of ben,, have never been
. , .7 TV. V7Jop mora exauisitely described than in I'oe's
Uiou, kw,u, hpontifol Dosm of "The Bells." the lan.
UORSBB GUirOIl ST. ABD11W BIUIH
JOSSEY BATTLE.
Attorney at Law '
. TARBORO, S'JS
Practice in the court of Nash. Edgecombe, I
Wilson and Halifax countiea. Also in the
Federal and Supreme Courts. Tarboro office,
ontairs over new Howard building. Maiv
itreet, opp. Bank front room. apr 1 '84
lR. II. T. BASS
Offers his protea il services to the at!
tens of Tarboro and vicinity.
Office in T. A McNair's drug store on Main
Street '
,K. 1. N. CARS,
Surgeon
Dentist,
TARBORO, N. C.
m. and
Office Uoqir, trom 9 a. va. 'till 1 p.
on. i to tt D. m.
S"Ne door to Tarboro House, over
Ro yeter & Nash. J
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K. R.
W. JOYNER,
SURGEON
DENTIST
Has nermanentlv located in Wil
son. N O. All operations will be!
Tipaflv anri rftrffullv oerformed and
on terms as reasonable as possible.
Teeth extracted wit'i wt pain. Office
on Tarboro street, next door to Post
Office. Jan-l bm
L. SAVAGE,
TARBORO', M . C. ,
These RtAliim are the larsrest in the State.
and have a capacity of holdinr ten car-loads
qi stoce. Give him a can. iaour
T UTHER SHELDON,
DEALIB IN
SASHES, DOORS, BLINDS
BUILDERS HARDWARE,
PAINTS, OILS, GLASS,
And Building Material of every description
Una it nr BTrtK WARKKT SQUARE A
49 ROANOAKE AVE
NORFOLK, VA.
Novemberl882. 18,1-y.
WILLIAMSON,
Manufacturer of
TARBORO', N. C., . THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12,.18S5.
guage or wmcn is as reasonant as tne
bells it describes.
Twenty-five or thirty years ago the Swiss
Bell Ringers were all the rage, and drew
vast crowds to their concerts, wnoina
heard them will ever forget "The Wreck
er's Daughter, "The Carnival of "Ven
ice," "The Monastry ceils," ana "in. ecu
Ms By Moonlight Alone" r Tne musio
of tboae sweet bells has long been hushed,
but eoncertgoers of that time will still
maintain that we have no musio nowa
days at all comparable to that.
The Russians Doast oi tne largest ubus
to the world, and the greatest number.
The great bell of Moscow weigns 144,000
pounds, ana they nave one mat was u
160 years ago that weighs 400,000, but it
has never been hung. That would be as
targe as one of our two-etory-and-basement
dwelling houses. After the Russians the
Chinese rank as makers oi large Dens.
Ths most famous bell in the United
States is the Liberty bell in Philadelphia.
Then there is what uicsens cans tne
Marmminable set-up belL" which gives
notice to sleepers that it is still half an
hour to breakfast, ana n tney are uveiy .
morning toilet they may nap w ior twenty
mlnntM lnncer.
But it were rain to try. to enumerate all
the bells that in one way or another affect
nn We are their subjects and are movea
to tears, or laughter, to fear or hope, to
wfld unrmim or calm reDOse. as their
varied sounds falls upon our ears.
One bell there is affects us an aiiKe,
described by Byron as
That all softening, overpowering knelL
The tocsin of the soul the dinner belL
Ha who is not moved by that sweet con
cord has lost the birthright of Adam's
son.
TWO LONESOME BROTHERS.
The Laat of Ten Comn.n In ftax HTKa
Started ontaa Oil-well Shooters.
"Yes, my brother and I feel rather Inn.
some when we look back and think over of
the last five years," said one of the famous
uaiiagner Drothers, oil-well shooters. "A
gang of fen of us," said he, "started
out in the torpedoing business, then, and
my brother and I are the only ones of the
party leru l don't "suppose, taking it al
together, more than three pounds of the
other- eight were ever found. They never
found as much as a Yest-button of poor Lew
Gray. He was tarrying a few cans of
nitro-glycerine on his back in a bag to
save carriage, and while he was passing
through the Town of Red Rock he slipped
and felL That only left nine of us. There
wasn't much of Red Rock left ten seconds
after Lew fell with his load. Ben Garth
wait was the next one to go. . He was
getting ready to torpedo a well at , Rich
burov and something went - wrong with
the business. ".'-A- can of nitro-glycerine
exploded. Ren's cap was found hanging
on a tree 800 yards away, three' fingers
and a foot that had belonged to him were
picked up in the vicinity, and that was all
any one ever saw of poor Ren. Joe Ross
and four others of our gang went to do a
Job at Corwin Centre. No one ever knew
what caused the explosion, because neither
Joe nor any of the other four was ever
found. It was impossible to tell who the
bits of scattered remains that were found
belonged to, and the Coroner's inquest
was lumped and the remnants were
buried together. Bill Grant was unload
ing a wagon-load of nitro-glycerine soon
after that at Bolivar, and wastpatssing the
cans out to another man in the way some
of the recfcles8 handlers of the stuff have
a habit of doing ; that is, throwing them
out for the other man to catch, the same
as you've seen men unload bricks. By-and-by
the man who was catching the
cans let one slip through his fingers and it
fell on a stone. Bill's widow hadn't much
of him to bury. I don't know what the
other man's name was. Or whether he
left a widow or not. So that left my
brother and me the last of the gang.
We've shot hundreds of wells, I guess,
and while we don't have any more fear or
nervousness in handling the stuff than
you would have In handling so many
sticks of wood, we know what it can do,
ond we favor it all we know how. Still
it's only a matter of time, I suppose. One
of these days an unlooked-for thing is
bound to happen, and. then my brothel
and I will be scattered around like the rest
of them were. I might take some other
kind of a job where there was less danger
and the pay just as good, but I don't know.
I do know that I wouldn't hire out to
work on a railroad. When I see the train
men running along on the tops of freight
cars it makes me 'shudder. Why, they're
apt to fall and get a leg or arm taken off
any minute, But maybe they get reck
less and forget what danger they're in.
They make me nervous."
The lonesome brother turned to a work
man who was standing several feet away.
"Hey, Johnny P he shouted, "chuck me
another can of glycerine. I guess she'll
stand another." N. Y. Sun.
A Bachelor on matrimony.
This I do know, says a writer in House
hold, that it is man's duty to marry, and
I h," O K think, a fair aacfptkm of wl&t
MJOythet-diashtliUasi ih '-ehawlA ittj 'W
man from marriage, besides those con
tained in the tabular prohibitions of con
sanguinity. I have heard some say that
a man should not marry till he has a fixed
income of a certain sum, and it is said in
such a manner that one cannot avoid the
conviction that a man ought to marry
when he possesses thjs marital enfran
chisement. Such an opinion has always
struck me s being utterly absurd. The
conditions of life and the natures of meu
are so varied that any attempt at classifi
cation of the qualification for marriage is
impossible. Thrift comes naturally to
some men, to others no account of preach
ing can inculcate the principles of econ
omy. Two men of these opposite natures
may th enjoy the same income In the
same sphere of life ; the former marries
with advantage while to the latter it would
be most reprehensible. I maintain that a
man is justly entitled to marry when he
considers that he can afford to keep a
wife agreeably to that station of life in
which he moves, and his wife is willing to
accept. When and how he can afford
this is his business, and as such should be
free from all interference save by those
who are therein, interested, viz., the par
ents on either side. I have heard of men
who have married on the meanest of
pittances and ended their lives in princely
mansions. The world has not grown
smaller, I opine, nor has human energy
worn Itself out.
There is a very glib saying that has
passed into a proverb, and, like many of
its fellows, is neither veracious nor pro
found, that marriage is a lottery. To the
blockhead who "rushes into matrimony
without thought of its duties or care for
its consequences I grant it is a lottery,
and, like the generality of lotteries, he
will find it a swindle. But the world is
not as some people would have us believe
wholly composed of fools. I declare it
i my humble opinion that there are
fewer. fools than these pessimists assure
us there are wise men, and because a few
recklessly risk their happiness in an un
considered marriage, they would stigma
tize mankind as moral gamblers.
A LUCKY FIND.
Startling
Discovery by an Old Call
forala miner. ; St-,.
Said an old-timer : "I never saw a ghost,
but I once made a pretty good raise when
I at first thought I had found a dead man.
I was prospecting down - in Amador
County, California. One day I went up
the creek about a mile and seated myself
on a rock to rest Across the stream on
the opposite bank were the remains of
three or four old cabins. Some of these
had almost tumbled into the creek Trom
the wearing away of the ground on that
side. I observed that part of the fireplace
of a near cabin had tumbled down the
bank toward the creek and that toe foot
of an old gum-boot was sticking oat of the
dirt. It seemed to project from beneath
the stones forming the hearth of the old
chimney. I thought it was Btrange that
any man should have laid his hearth over
an old gum-boot Then it occurred to ma. '
that some mn might have Aeen uidercH
eau oqnea unaer ine neartn, : ;. . h-
Crossing the creek to the old chimney
I found that the foot of the old boot pro
jected from under a large flat stone that
was still in place. I lifted the stone and
found that there was only one boot there,
and no sign of a human skeleton nor
iKjnes of any kind. I kicked the old boot
down the bank, and then took a pan of
dirt and ashes out of the old fireplace,- as
I had in several instances made pretty
fair strikes in old hearths, for it is well
known that the early miners were often
careless, and lost a good deal of find gold
in retorting it burning out the quick
silver it contained on shovels. As I was
passing down the bank I came to the old
iM.ot, and, in passing, gave it another
kick, sending it almost into the creek. It
landed le down hill, and from the end
poured a golden shower of nuggets and
dust. !-,
"Hi a moment I threw the dirt out of
my pan and reversed the bootover It,,
when out tumbled two large buckskin
bags filled with gold dust. So long had
the treasure lain concealed under the
hearth that the strings with which the
bags were til had rotted, and one gave
way under the kicks I had bestowed upon
the old boot. When all the gold was
gathered up I found that I had nearly
2,000." ;.; X
Opposite H, Moeeis & Bbos.,
TARBORO,
jv. a
The obiect of technical schools is
not merely to teach boys and young
men how to make spoKes. springs,
carriages, harness; how to shape the
brass, iron, steel, wooa or jeauier,
iw. hnw to do these things well
Rude workmen are abundant. The
demand is for artistic, tnorougn
workmen. For them there is alwayi
mployment and liberal pay.
A Bit of Steep Railway Travel.
Mr. Meters carried his famous railroad
from Lime to the "crest of the Andes, over
three miles high, at a cost of $27,000,000
and 7,000 human Uvea, hut mea Deiore
completing it. About fifty miles of track
remained to be built. A contract for its
construction . has been made with a
brother of Mayor Grace, of New York, it
is said that the sensation of riding up
this railroad, together with the rapid as
cent from the sea level to the mountain's
crest, produces a sickness called "siroccne"
often fatal, and usually sending people to
bed for several weeks. The symptoms
are a terrible pressure upon the temples,
nausea, bleeding at the nose and ears, and
f alntness, but the effects can r avoiaea
by taking precautions and observing
rules that experience has suggested, the
chief one being to drink a glass of brandy,
and keep perfectly quiet, as the slightest
degree of exercise will floor the strongest
man.
Pleasure and Pain.
Pain is the great agent or lever that
moves the world; pleasure- nroduees
rest, t int-rtia ; pain, restlessness - and
motion. So pain produces a peculiar and
rapid molecular vibration or disturbance,
which quickens and educates our mental
faculties as no other agent can. Pain and
povcrs y every great thought and act was
thrut-t into the world by these masters of
men.
A man's life or conception of life is
arranged around and about- him exactly
iu proportion to his ruling passion ( the
attractions are always equal to the con
ceptions ; a tree, a bird, a beast is not a
tree, or bird, or beast, but merely an
emanation, an effluvia of the mind and
character of each individual
A child's first attempt at play or work
with blocks, spools, cards, &&, Is to raise
a tower or pyramid. The higher It be
comes the greater his joy. So It is with
the soul or mind of man ; ever drawn to
the ideal, ever attaining, ever rising, an
attempt of the soul to .flee and . free itself
trom mortality and meet and merge into
"She" ffimclrtalr omhTpoteni Tanrt infiaicksc;
Earth is but the shadow of Heaven. '
, Every object in nature is a mirror,
throwing back the reflection and concep
tion of God.
Genius might effectively be compared
to thunder and lighting like the flash of
the lightning it lights and kindles the
dead soul like the reverberation of thun
der it re verl crates from heart to heart
with a thousand echoes.
No man can be successful unless he be
sincere we cannot do anything well un
less we believe in it.
Genir.s is the nectar of the gods drawn
and drank from the skull of man. -4
A traely great man must be sincere,
sympathetic and systematic V
Morals always accompany intellect
moral and mind are inseperable.
The mind is like a mirror, reflecting its
occupants and surroundings some minds
are like concave-convex mirrors, reflect
ing all objects with their own convexities
and concavities. There are a few minds
like rare minors, which give an exact
likeness.
Berlioz speaks of the pain and suffering
his repressed ideas caused him. Dumas
says he fell ill by interruption and his
ideas were broken. 'Tis the activity of
the brain, the surplus electricity or
nervous magnetic fluid, which not finding
all escape, must overcrowd and overtax
the nervous system and pain and discom
fort physically and mentally ensue.
Some one virtue or vice is magnified in
every individual. An evil passion, a des
tractive patiun, subjugated becomes at
once a creative force.
- A OEgERAfrS WAR ASTXCIB. '
The Editorial Corrections rHtOttf
P: niurmgm th9rAtlkr ' .
' General Meckleham decided Bpon vnrit
ing; a series of. war articles. . YThj
shouldn't L Maryf he asked ot his wife,
who belongs to a literary society and. who
is - considered - an excellent critic ' "I
should Just like to know 'why I ought not
to give my experience. ; I went through
the war and served with distinction, and X
know how to write I understand the
construction "of sentences. I understand
the use of vigorous Tflnguqh, What do you
flay, Maryf" V . ,-; ,V . i.
- "Why, by all means, write your expert
ce. . I do not 'see yrby you should keep
back anything that might prove of tAr
terest to the public and result in profit to
yourself."- 1 UJr '. v-v-v;-.-
."Thafs It, MarWihats It. While I
f W63 rt college the stnuenta used te laugh
asne fiir devoting- so much attention to
rhetot'av Jt wjll come In harxly now, you
see. I shall go to work at once." -- - .
" The next evening, when the lamps had
been lighted, the General said i . ' .
"Mary, are you ready to hear my war
paperr" --
He read ittoher.
: "What do you think of it?"
It is good."
. "Do you think it's first class?"
. "Yes, I da"
- "I ; have never said much about It,
Mary, but I am a writer. Many a time
while visiting newspaper offices I have
said to myself. 'Ah, well, you fellows
think that yon are great writers, but you
haven't learned your first lesson.' Now I
shall wad it up and send it to a magazine
X ought to get at least one hundred dollars
forifc"
" "You are going to copy it, are you
not?" .
Oh, no; not necessary. It's as plain
as print"
"I didnt know but you might want to
make a few corrections. Listen to this
paragraph i General Beauregard, seeing
that the left wing was weakening, deter
mined to reinforce them.' Don't you
think you should say -it' instead of
them?"
"Why? Refers to the soldiers."
"No, it means wing, which should be
IV "
"WelL go on, go on."
' " The General at one time,' continued
the woman, finding another objectionable
paragraph, was much moved to seeing a
soldier dragging a gun with a broken
leg.'"
"What's wrong with that? It's a' fact,
for I saw it myself."
."Yes, but how did he drag a gun with a
broken leg?"
"Don't you see? The fellow's leg was
broken, but so determined was he that he
still stuck to the gun."
"But he didn't drag it with his broken
leg."
"Hang it, the fellow's leg was
broken "
"I understand that"
"Well, then leg was broken, but, un
willing to retire from the field, he crawled
along, dragging his gun."
"With his broken leg."
"The statement is as plain as daylight
When you strike a woman on military
matters she can't see two inches."
"I understand it well enough. The man
-ras dragging his broken sun with his
A Four-Eared Xllan.
' A man possessed offour ears is a nat
ural curiosity in San Francisco. John
Henry Grimes is a native of Novia Scotia,
The peculiarity about him that attracts
attention makes him the best developed
person in the world, so far as hearing is
concerned. The front ears, which are
placed in their natural position, are per
fect and well formed. The extra pair are
partly covered bythose in front, yet they
appear like ordinary ears. Tests have
been mede which demonstrate that Mr.
Grimes can hear equally well with either
pair ot ears.
Lieutenant Greely says there is a
belt in the Artie regions where there
are sheep with the head and horns
of the ox and the tail of the horse.
On his next visit to that country he
mav discover horses with the head
,and horns of the ox and the tail of
the sheep. It seems possible to
find almost anything in the Artie
regions, save the north pole.
The Lost Tribe of Israel.
A man calling himself T. C. Pyle, a
teacher in the mountains of Tennessee, m
a letter to an Ohio paper graphically
describes the finding of a cave by a party
of railway engineers. The cave was ex
plored for a considerable distance. At
the entrance was discovered an inscription
in Hebrew characters. " After passing
some 300 yards into the cave it enlarged
into a great amphitheatre. Still further
in the cave was found an appalling sight
that struck terror to the hearts of the ex
plorers. There, on the right and left and
in front,- were thausands of grinning
skeletons, encased in brass armor, -with
ponderous shields. Not less than 5,000
skeletons were seen, each of which was
reclining on his shield, They presented
the appearance of men killed in battle,
who had been brought there for burial.
A -large brass box contained manuscript
giving an account of their wanderings,
According to this veracious chronicler,
Tennessee holds the remains of the lost
tribes of Israel.
- KISS THEM GOOD NIGHT.
The tales are told, the songs are sung.
The evening romp is over.
And up the nursery stairs they climb, ;
With little buzzing tongues that chime
Like bees among the clover. . - r
I ' -j
Their busy brains and happy hearts
Are full of crowding fancies:
From song and tale and make-believe
A wondrous web of dreams they weave
And airy child romances.
The starry night is fair without:
The new moon rises slowly.
The nursery lamp is burning faint;
Each white-robed like a little saint.
Their prayers they murmur lowly.
Good night! The tired heads are still.
On pillows soft reposing.
The dim and dizzy mist of sleep
About their thoughts began to creep.
Their drowsy eyes are closing.
Good night! While through the silent air
The moonbeams pale are streaming.
They drift from daylight's noisy shore, .
"Blow out the light and shut the door.
And leave them to their dreaming." :
Jtj&tydj- J should tbtokJTOiiM .d'.ff er
-wry utue nom uraggmg ms gun witn ms
leg." v
The General wheeled round in his chair.
shoved both hands in his pockets, and, in
a calm voice, slightly trembling oa the
bosom of a struggle, said
"When I married I thought that my
wife was a sensible woman. I thought
inat sue was a woman oi literary taste.
Read that paragraph again."
" 'The general at one time was much
moved to see a soldier dragging a gun
with a broken leg.' Ah! I Beet" she
exclaimed.
"I am glad you do, Mary."
The Boldier was dragging a gun with a
broken leg the gun's leg was broken."
. iimme that paper!" he exclaimed.
Then he folded the manuscript with mock
precision and put', it in the stove.
Arkansaw Traveller.
Tney moved It on Bins.
A Detroiter who was spending several
days in a town in the Interior soon dls-
. covered that every villager whom he was
introduced to had a fondness for betting.
They'd bet on anything, from the color of
a horse on the hill a mile and a half away
to the number of flies whioh would light
on a pane of glass in a given time. The
Detroiter kept clear of any wagers for a
day or two, and then put up a Job. He
got a string and secretly measured the
distance from the hotel steps to a certain
hitching post and next day, when the
betting fever began to rage, he showed
his hand.
' 'Gentlemen," said he, "I am not a bet
ting man, but seeing that you are anxious
for a wager of some sort Fll lay $25 that
I can guess within a foot of the distance
to that hitehingpost"
. "Done!" cried the voice of the landlord,
and the money was put up.
"Now, what do you guessr"
? "Ninety-seven feet"
" By his measure It was six Inches more.
He had measured the:- string twice over
.with a rule and he felt that he was 125
ahead. One of the boys ran for a
tape-line and the measure was taken in
a manner no one could dispute. The
figures were ninety-nine feet and the
landlord bad won.
' ' "I don't see how that Is," muttered the
Detroiter, but a second measurement veri
fied the figures. It was a full hour before
he recovered from the stunning blow.
4-sa he walked over to the post and dis
covered that some- time during tne pre
vious night and probably soon after his
rneasurment, it had been moved a foot and
a half (--Detroit Free Press.
XJTERART W0REER3. ;
The Ilav. Jinn Freeman Clarke Oe-
...'; Scribes Ills Habits of LUe. ,
The Herald Of Health is giving a series
of articles on the "Health and Working
Habits of Prominent Thinkers as Describ-i
ed by .Themselves." Following is the Rev,
James Freeman Clarke's contribution to
the series: v . H -rv
I find myself 'at the age of 75 still able
to do a good deal of work, and X attribute
IV under Providence, to: the following
causes: ; , - ' . . - ; - - . .--
1.1 am not of an anxious temperament :
I do not worry. . I ap not to v any great
extent annoyed by disappointments or
failure, and ft has never disturbed me
when I have been censured,, so long as 1
Dtnevea 1 was doing right -
8. 1 have a great faculty for sleeping.'
Although able to keep awake when neces
sary without injury,'; I can always 4all
asleep at any moment when, sleep seems
desirable," These fragments of ret 'ore,
nodoubt, uf very great service to n, -
s. l nave always, from ehildhood, been
fond of outdoor exercise. I began to ride
on horseback, when only about 8 years
old, and when a lad joined with delight iu
all out of door sports ekating, swimming,
rowing, and playing ball, and also In in
door athletic exercises, such as fencing,
boxing, and gymnastics. But all these
belonged to an early period of my life.
4. I have few fixed habits, and am fond
of change. When I have done" anything
in one way for a few times I enjoy it
differently. But if this tendency has its
advantages, it on the other hand prevents
me from receiving the benefit which
comes from established methods of work.
5. Although when young I smoked, I
have not used tobacensince I was 26. In
half a century I have only smoked two
cigars, and those only because I happened
to be where the air was malarious.
6. Finally, I love work, and especially
brain work. My professional duties as a
clergyman have been to me a source of
great happiness. I have also . written
several books and many articles for the
press, and I believe that this kind of
work has been beneficial to my health.
SEra. Jarby'e Spring Chicken.
"I hope you will be home to dinner
early to-night, Mr. Philbrick; we are go
ing to have spring chicken," said Mrs.
Jarby of Brooklyn, as she met Phil in the
hall as he was going to the office.
"Spring chicken, eh! all right; 5 o'clock,
sharp," replied PhiL
Philbrick was on time. Miss Lulu
bloomed out in a new cream-colored punt
ing dress with several extra kinks In it;
the other boarders wore a wistful look
they hadn't eaten any lunch in anticipa
tion of the spring chicken, and Mrs. Jarby
was in her glory. The chicken was served
and the boarders were eagerly devouring
it when Mrs. Jarby happened to notice
Phil poking something on his plate.
"I hope your chicken suits, Mr. Phil
brick," she asked in her blandest tones.
"Oh, yes; I had my doubts, Mrs. Jarby,
when you told me this morning that you
were going to have spring chicken, but I
am glad to Bee that there is no joke about
this one. You know the old joke about
boarding house spring chicken?"
" un, yes; certainly, Dut I am sure, as
you say, there can be no joke about this ;
ha, bar'
"Are you a connoisseur of spring chick
ens, Mrghilhrir.k ?" aakfld-4hJaj:
"Oh, not at alL" '
"How did you recognize the differ
ence?"
"Oh, I found the spring," and Phil held
up to view a twisted hair pin.
AMERICAS BOTES.
The story of Egyptian mummy
wheat having germinated has never
been confirmed and is not credited
by any one who is warranted by
knowledge and experience in such
matters to give an opinion. Innu
merable attempts to stimulate mum
my wheat into vitality have each and
all failed.
Charity In India.
1 A curious ceremony was performed re
cently at Travancore, India. The Mahara
jah was weighed against a mass of pure
gold, which was then dispensed in Charity.
This custom, called "Tulabhara," is one
of great antiquity, and is said to be trace
able in Travancore to the fourth century.
It is not unknown in other parts of India ;
though of course gold is only used in case
of wealthy persons, the humbler sort
being content to weigh themselves against
spices or grain. On the present occasion
the Mahare jah weighed a little over nine
stone. The Brahmins, it is said, wished
to defer the ceremony in the hope that
the Maharajah might more nearly ap
proach the weight of his father, who did
not undergo the rite until forty-seven
years old. when he weighed fourteen and
three-fourths stone.
All Explained.
: "It is immoral not to sleep enough,"
says the Herald of Health. We have
often wondered at' the high morals of
cooks, as a class. Now we, understand It
v It is proposed in Spain to start a
fleet of ships, representing all mari
time nation, from the little port of
Palos, in Spain, on August 3, 1892,
the four hundredth anniversary o
the sailing of Columbus, and to have
the fleet sail to San Salvador over
the route taken by the great discoT
erer. . v
) PEB-gaiCIlY AS A DISEASE, i'
An Alarming Inereaao In the Number
or Periodical Drinker- . .
A certain publishing establishment in
Chicago has a peculiar class of employes,
in that, with the -exception, of a, young
lady cashier and' the office boy; they are
all "periodical ditnkeri" Theperiodicar -
is the drinker who abstains entirely for a
time and then goes to a frightful extreme
in a debauch : lastincr a week - nrtwn.
These men are usually able and skilled
men sober, and the ones employed by this,
publisher are brilliant writers and capable
of earning good salaries'in steady positions
if it were not . tor their occasional lapse
into- dissipation: They are vaid barely
one-third the salaries their talents entitle
them to, but he has to take all risks of
their failure to show up when most. want.
ed.'One -of these - half-paid, struggfing
writers is a gentleman Of classical educate
loo and great natural" ability, -who has"
beW positions in: educational work, and
anything in" Janguage.'f "
"I always have two or three' brilliant
men about me," said the publisher, "but
I never know on coming down In the
morning if I shall find them here. I
sympathize with them, and never refuse
to em ploy-a periodical if he can be of any
use w me. j. suppose it was in this way
that my place got to be a sort of head
quarters for them. It is painful to notice
the number of brilliant men who are
stricken with this disease. They come
and go like driftwood in the currents.
Every once in awhile we'll got a man who
seems to be proof against drink's temp
tations. We think he never was a drinker
and in no danger of ever becoming one.
Suddenly some morning he is missing and
isn't seen again for ten days or two weeks,
when he comes in, wrecked in health and
a wreck in appearance, and begs to be
taken back. As a disease, inherited or
acquired, I think periodicity is entitled to
careful consideration by scientific men, as
it is certainly becoming very common.
We havt fewer steady drinkers than we
had years ago, but many more men who
occasionally fall from respectability to
the gutter at one swoop and stay there a
week or two at a time, perfectly helpless.
A NEW AND
IX. VICE.
Water Closet Sea:
One Effect of Alcohol.
One sometimes sees a drunken mau
pitched violently from a horse, and when
the bystanders rush to the spot, expecting
to find him dead, they are astonished to dis
cover that he has been little injured. In
his "Scrambles Among the High Alps,"
Leslie Stephen tells the story of a guide
whp, while drunk, fell over a precipice so
deep that a fall over it seemed almost
certain death, and who yet sustained
little injury. Stephen accordingly gives
his readers the advise not to fall over a
precipice, or to get thoroughly drunk be
fjoe doing so. The reason of this Im
munity is that the nerve centers are so
much paralyzed in the drunken man as
not to be effected by the shock of t ie
fall which, in a sober man, would have
acted upon them so violently as to stop
the heart," arrest the circulation, and
caused instant death.
There are 248 cities and towns in the
United States having a population of
10,000 and upwards.
The practice of numbering houses on
the streets of our cities 'began in Philadel
phia, where it was introduced by the
Marshal who took the second United
States census in that city. It was in that
census that the inhabitants of the country
were mentioned by name.
At Dcbusk's ranch, Trinidad, CoL,
during a thunder storm, a herd of
eighteen horses were drivven against
barbed wire fence by the violence of the
wind. The wire conducted a stroke of
lightning through the herd and thirteen
fell dead. A
The dog business is not suffering from
depression, but trading is active on rea
sonable pronts. We quote : English pugs,
pups, $15 to f 20 ; do, lull grown, S25 ;
terriers, $10 ; do, trained, $75 ; fox terriers,
15 to J25-, bloodhounds, $10 to $25;
greyhounds, $10 to $75 ; Italian hounds,
$30; beagles, ?25; bulldogs, $25; .New
foundland dogs, $20 to $25; collies. $15 to
$20 ; setters and pointers, pups, $10 ; do,
full grown and trained, $75 to $100;
mastiffs, pups, $25 to $30 ; St Bernards,
$150 to $200, and very scarce.
A Wonderful Piece of mechanism.
Detailed accounts are given in the
Berlin and Paris papers of a monster
movable globe, made of copper, the work
of a blind clockmaker, and on the con-
spent The globe represents the earth,
and, like. It turns on Its own axis by
means of mechanism, an artificial moon
moves round the globe in twenty-eight
days and six hours, while a movable
metal band on which the hours are
marked, indicates the mean time in the
different parts of the earth. Round the
upper portion of this Immense globe,
which weighs a ton and a half, and whose
surface measures 128 reet in diameter,
spins a railroad car capable of holding six
persons, and which serves to give a better
view of the regions or the north pole.
The painting ot the globe is done in oil,
and necessiated .the employment of two
men during the entire year. The sun is
represented by an apparatus lighted by an
intense Drummond calcium light which
enables the spectator tor watch intelll
gebtly the origin and change of the dif
ferent periods of the day, the early dawn
the twilight eclipses of the sun and
moon, etc
A Promising Boy.
Little Johnny, on being asked by his
school-teacher if he knew what was meant
by "at par," replied thatx"Mar was always
at Par when he came home late."
Cuban Cigar makers.
The Cuban cigarmakers are mainly
colored people, although many Creoles
and Spanish emigrants engage in the trade.
The cigarmakers form the roughest and
most miserable part of the population of
Havana When high wages are paid they
become unmanageable, and manufacturers
use every means to entice laborers from
one house to another, often bribing and
loaning money with no prospect of ever
being repaid Hundreds of dollars are
spent sometimes in inducing a single
workman to leave one place for another.
In times of scarcity of bands the state
prisoners are released. In 1851 the govern
ment freed 800 convicts to supply the
wants of tobacco manufacturers. Another
peculiarity consists in having to pay , to
employes their earnings three times per
day. ... v ;" V .
IB LIFE WORTH LIVING?
Is llfewoith living? Ask the lad
Barefooted, homeless, starved. Ill-clad,
And hear the answer you will get .
"My dorg an' me haS fun you bet"
Is life worth living? Ask the wretch
Upon the gallows doomed to stretch
The hangman's rope, and heed his cry,
"It is! It 1st Don't let me die!"
Is life worth living? Ask the tramp
Whose home's the gutter cold and damp
And hear him tell you with a jerk,
Itis.oldpadfoIdontwork.,,
Is life worth living? Ask the dude
Whom old Dame Nature somewhat spewed
And see htm suck his cane and say.
"Aw weally life taj-aw quite gay."
Is life worth living? Ask the fool.
The giggling maiden fresh from school.
The toller, invalid, the slave;
O! life, sweet life, they ever crave.
Ia life worth living? Ask the wise
Philosopher who vainly tries
To solve the mystery about
The matter and remain in doubt
Is life worth living? Ask the great
The millionaires, the kings In state.
And note their looks of utter woe
As in despair they shriek: "No! no!"
H. C. Dodge.
In I860, only 5,253 newspapers
were published in the United States,
or one for eveay 6,ooq inhabitants,
Now 13,494 newspapers are published
or one for every 3,716 inhabitants
certainly a remarkable growth in
twenty-five years.
FOREIGN H0TES.
The wars which have been waged by
Great Britain since Queen "Victoria as
cended the throne number 25, of which 20
were due to the Liberals and 5 to the Con
servatives. The most important of these
wars was the Crimea, in 1854 : the IndUn
mutinv. 1857. and the Egyptian war in
1882.
Horseflesh is sold wholesale at the Paris
abattoirs at 4 cents a pound up, and is
retailed at from- 6 to 20 cents, according
as the purchaser desires soup meat or fill-
yet that is to say, met. very tougn
animals are ground into ixirraane
sausages.
The pneumatic postal service in Paris,
lately completed, cost over $200,000, and
the length of the pipes is over thirty-iour
miles. The charge for transmitting
letter to-any place within the fortifications
is 3 cents. The service covers extreme
points about Beven miles apart
The business of the little cluster of
islands which lie in the Pacific Ocean just
off the southwest coast of Patagonia la
sheep raising and selling, and is nearly
all in the hands of one man, m. Kerr by
name, who Is the Governor. He went
there many years ago as a poor man, and
is now worth more than $5,000,000. The
number of sheep on the islands is about
400,000.
It is a very curions circumstance that
some Koman statues were nttea witn
movable marble wigs. The statue of
Lucillawife of Emperor Lucius Verus, in
the museum of the capitol of Rome, has a
wig of black marble that can be taken off
and in the Vatican a Venus Is believed to
represent Julia Loaemias. the mother of
Emperor '.Heliogabulus, with hair that
may be removed. There is also a bald
bust of a woman, with marble wig
attached, in the palace of Sans-Souci, at
Pottsdam.
Under the Mexican law a creditor can
have a debtor arrested on the day when
the debt falls due. The prisoner is chained
to a post five days, guarded by an officer.
At the end of the time, If the money is
not forthcoming, the man's labor is sold to
the government at . 40 cents a day for as
many days as will be necessary to dis
charge the obligation. The miserable
debtor is sent to the silver mines, where
he is chained to a gang of felons, and
compelled to work under ground. He
sleeps under gcound, and never sees day
light again until he is restored to free
dom.
A paper is manufactured from sea
weed in Japan that has the transpa
rency of glass not exactly clear
flint glass, but a good sort of stained
giaas and can te used satisfactori
ly in windows.
Butternut wood ia largely used for
making shoes to wear in breweries
and other damp places.
NO. 46
IT LEADS ALL
No ether bloed-trarlfrinfl medicine n made.
or has ever beea prepared, whioh so eom-
fHauujr-nHraia uio waoia ox, poynnana ana
the goaeral pablio m . o y , .r ; .
Iyer's Saiajparilla.
It loads" the ltotaiatmlvaclAntlfla nmnara. .
tion fur all blood diaeaaea. If there is a lurb
OrnrrXfS "t taint of Serof ula about ytfa. -Uuitwr
wLA AVKtt's SAjtaAPAaiLLa. will
dislodge it and expel It from your system.
rur eoustiiroiouainoe seroiatoua vatarrn.
PiTIOtSll Avita'a. AKaAr-ABU.L, ia the
VIA I AliilM true remedy.. It haa cored -numberloes
earn. It will stop, the uaaaeout
catarrhal discharges, and remove the sicken. -big
odor of the breath, which are laaioattoat :
ot sorofulous origin. -. . -i :;:..
f flWfcrTlF T"Ha.TexCSepfcS8,HW2.
ULbtttUUa Ai thoage of two yeari one of .
QflQCJi? children m terribly afflicted
Witi.0- with uleerooi- running sores on its
fco smX cock. At b aame time Ua eyee-.
vers Gvollou, muott liinamed.aad wry Kr- .
V'' t V"" rnysicuMM tola us tnat pow
V-j. Ul rful alterative medicine imit
len-"Ui. L Tliov united in ronmn.
'AyKR'B .feAMaAfAu.14-4 Al (I
daced a peroaibiw LuproveitteA: wuku, i.y
an adhersr.ee to your diracttonsy w contin
ued to a complete and permanent cure. Ho
evidence has since appeared of the existence
ox any scroiuious tendencies; and no treat
ment of any disorder was ever attonded by -more
prompt or elf actual resnlta.
Yours truly, 15. F. JoHlUKHf."
PKEFABED BY
Dr. J. C. Ayer &. Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists; $1, six bottles for $5.
! 1
VALAUBLE DE-
Patent
JOB THB
CURE OF HEMORRHOIDS, .
Commonly C alio Piles.
INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL PROLAP
SUS AI.
NO MEDECINE OR 8URGICAL OPERA
TION NECESSARY,
I have Invented a SIMPLE WATER CLOSET
SEAT, for the cure of the above troublesome
and painful malady, which I confidently place
bciore the public as a fcur.E Ksuxr and
Curb
It has received the endorsement of the
leading physicians in this community, and
wherever tried, has given enure satistacUOD,
and where it fails to relieve the money will
be willingly returned.
These Seats will be tarnished at the follow
ing prices :
Walnut $6.00)
Cherry 5.00V Disc ount to Phlsiclans
ropiarwTJTrrrnawi
Directions for using will accompany each
Seat
We trouble you with no certificates. We
leave the Seat to be its advertiser.
Address,
LEWIS CHAMBERLAIN,
Patentee
Tarboro, Edgecombe Co., N. C. Je86-ly
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THE 0HLY TRUE
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Will purify tlie BLOOD,"rerii
IVfcK anu KlUNCTft
lata Uie LIVER and KIDNEY
and mstouit the
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curt'l. lioiies, muscles ana
m.rvi t-Hc.'lvH n.w force.
iCnlivuns the mind and
- . -TST supplies itrain l-owcr.
I A IW I Km C Suffering from complaints
kHUIhQ neculhirto their aex wlU
flad In SB. HARTEBTSIBON TOXIO a fafo iind
speedy cure, (ilvesa clear, healthy complexion.
Frequent attempt at comiterfi-ltluK only add
to Ike popularity of the orlKlu.il. Oo not experl.
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Npnii x"ur BtiareMtoTho ur. naner jim.io.
St. Louis. Mo.-, for our "DKEAM BOOK..'
fall of strange and naeful mfomufcUoo,
kJ.Co.V
si
RESUMED.
:o:
We take pleasure iu announcing to
our numerous patrons and friends
that we have now recovered from
the disarrangement to our business
causedTby the recent fire, and hare
now resumed at the below named lo
cation, where we trust to meet all of
our former customers.
:0:
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PHARMACISTS
AND
DRUGGIST
: f
AT THE WED DELL BOOK CT0RE.
Opposite the BRYAN HOUSE and adjoin
ing the P08f OFFCE.
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TURBINE
sou
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kate, and U sold for Less
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