North Carolina Newspapers

" o BE SUIRE YOXT A.BE BIGHTH&p AJHEI A.D. 3D Crockett. F n. a t" TARBORO, N. C. ,-iicv ia 4lHhe Courts, State and Eed- 'tT ' ' ggoRUE u.jward, " T: ; ; -1 ttnrney and Counselor at Law.' TARBORC N. C 'rP-articeq 10 an ine uourw, Dial ssa I.'- TARBORO'; N. C, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, 1 885; OOBW e iia . ininrr win weaiariy uib osswiot jarts 01 aujjcw.- . . ; f. T. .FOUNTAIN, ; ' k'-i"- JVroRSEV AD COUNSELUOK AT LAW, Tarooro, . :r IhjuAws"- Office ot G Offl Williams Capt Orrcn feb21-6m miXUM & SON It. f- ..; ; - '; Attorrieys-at-I-aw, TARBORO', N. C AHl praetioe.ih the Counties of Edgecombe, .Vit Judicial District, and ia the Circuit and apreuie courts at iwuciu. jauxo-iy. TAS. NORFLEET, - Attorney-at-Law, i ....... -fARBORO, . - - A. (7- 1 CISCCIT ..Edgecombe, Nash and Wil m. Luar.s t egotiated on reasonable terms. , FOB ALL WRA ms It hath been said for allVrho die" :- There la a tear. Some paining, bleeding heart to sigh O'er every blest But In that hour of pain and dread Who will draw near Around my humble couch and shed One farewell tear ? Who'll watch the fast departing ray In deep despair, Ahd soothe the spirit on its way With holy prayer? . What mourner round my conch will - ' Ia words (ifwna And follow me to my long home ' Solemn and alowf V' When lying on my earthly bed ;, A In icy sleep . Qen by pure affection led ' ' , . n Will eome and weep? ' , . i pj the pale moon implant the rose. '1 v : Upon my breast ' -i . ir And bid It cheer my dark repose, .'' :..Mr fcmely . .... ..'is.?' rTl:Tl f I am sleeping FfXV I ne faithful heart would then be keeping it atcn au around, u - , " As if some gem lay shrined beneath - - ' . And lightthe tomb. . Tea, in that hour If I could feel i rom halls of glee And beauty's pressure one would steal in secrecy And come and sit or stand by me In night a deep noon. Oh, I would ask of memory JSo other boon. But ah, a lonelier fate is mine, A deeper woe. From all I've loved in youth's sweet time I soon must eo. Draw round me my pale robes of white. In a dark tfpot To sleep thro' death's Ionic, dreamless nlsht. Lone and forgot. ' J. L BRIDGERS & SON, . AUorneys-at-I-aw URBORO, U lry JJOSSET BATTLE. . ttorncy at Law . . TAR30R0, - , - - N. C. Battle s Hart, Rocfey Mount, N. C., Practice in the courts of fiash, Edeecombe, Wilson and UiUifa counties. Also in the Federal and Supreme Court. Tarboro office, iD-stairs over new llo ara DUiiaincr. juain itreet, opp. Bunk front room. apr 1 84 j -j . YiL H. T. BASa Offers his protes J services to the citi- ipn of TurtKiro and virinitv. OtGce In T. A. McNair s drug store on Main .otruc .. . "... K. i S. CARK, D ISursebn DOCTOR PORTLOCK. . . , - One pleasant ioornlruzr in the snrintr of ten. yeans ago and when tiouaerB were worn wide at the bottom, Mr. Horace Portlock left his lodgings on Washington square to call on his friend, Dr Minor, of Gramercy Park. 'Mr. Portlock strolled slowly up Fifth avenue and looked envi ously after the young clnb bucks leaving ineir chambers at the Beverick to go to breakfast at the Union or D lmonico's. He had broken his night's fast on the roll and coffee furnished as an extra bv his landlady; for Mr.' Portlock was neither the son of a rich man nor the heir of an opulent deceased aunt. That he felt that either character would become uncom monly, well aggravated Mr. Portlock' s discontent with his own lot of a young man with his fortune to make and no visible way of making it. It was small consolation to reflect that his starved purse was the inevitable result of owning a grandfather who had lived, like a gen tleman, for Mr. Portlock was a handsome, spirited youth, of costly tastes and an aversion to small economies and con tinuous labor, and his old ramshackle house at Newport, full of lumbering mahogany and cracked family 'portraits, could neither be cut up into the garments of fashion nor sliced into cold fowl and champagne. Strong . reasons for gloom were wanting this very morning, in truth. a scoundrel of a tailor having been dis gustingly pressing and the landlady hav ing sent p the bill for th fourth timeij,. gH-irmg Hffl" -y xor Bunieiuing imwwm uiuuiua jar. , jtui if Dentist, TARBORO, N. C. Office Ljuib,- trom 9 a. m. 'till 1 p. m. and ;oa. I lo 6 p. m. l"N'ext door to Tarboro House, over Ko) tier dt Nash. n R. R. W. JOYNER, SURGEON DENTIST Has uermanentlv located in Wil- 6on, N. C. 'All operations will be neatly andf carrfullv performed and on terms asi reasonablfc aa possible. Teeth estraried wit nat pain. Ofifice on Tarboro street, cext door to Post Office. Jan-1 6m L. SAtAGE, i Liver y, Sale, Exchange and Feed Stables, COK.NER GRANtnXK & ST. ANDREW 8TB1BT8 TARBORO. M. C. Thpsft StAhlft are the lareest in the State. and have a capacity of holdinp ten car-loads otstQct. titve him a can. ' lanioy ln,M saia Biie. - ."Mv annt ia en mo and you know fretting makes her worse." It was a soft little hand and a sweet lit tle voice and after Mr. Portlock had re covered from the shock of this greeting ne found himself ardentlv What he seemed to m Vha, nDtni blunder he had made' was -elear to him now. If he had only stopped to question that stupid Irishman! Doctors were be ing sent for, of course, every hour in the day. He ought to have remembered that. Come to. think, the situation was awk ward very awkward. It would , take time to explain the full extent of hia rid iculous folly. - Then .the inspiration flashed upon him why not carry out the part? Surely he could play the doctor for this once, quiet the sick woman and get out of a preposterous scrape. - Aid what a story fot, the breakfast! " Releasing, therefore, the lady's hand, which Ee had held throughout these swift cogitations, he said, In hisfriendlieet tone. - ; . - "I am not Doctor Minor, madame, imt a friend of his ahem U.T)nrt3. -Vch Doctor Minor ia out of towr- -Wirngerjsa Ms oatients in rr.V rmrw tit-" he reburiai I nava ti w.vAAwr,. ,vuwieuuuiiu tuis iaj ut nil 1 well rv urgent case 1 nave taken the liberty to come in Doctor Minor's place.'.' At his first words the lady had drawn back in surprise. Then she opened , the blinds of . the window and examined our yqnng scapegrace critically. He saw she was young, with soft, dark eyes and a mass of light, fluffy hair; just the sort of owner for that hand and that voice. Her inspection seemed to be satisfactory, for she said; "You Physicians and Surgeons graduated Horace with, I fear, small credit to him self. Acting on the idea the old lady un consciously suggested, he entered in the spring term of the college the day after that remarkable first call, and studied as hard as his constitutional infirmities and social obligations allowed. . The old lady's untiring fancy supplied him with a mag nificent income. ; ;, ' . i; " He fell into a good practice as soon as he got his diploma, and though a univer sal favorite with the ladies, married Miss Kate Barrington, Mfss Culpepper's niece and heiress, the very next year. To-day his income has climed high up into five figures and his connection is among the very besfr people only. . : ; ; Miss Gnlpeper still lives. That astound ing prescription did net finish her. ' For rfc happened that the self-willed, voracious old woman's trouble began in a fit of indigestion after a gluttonous dinner. The doctors cured that by starvation, but upset it by spoiling, her temper." rWlth the satisfaction of spoiling her bad humor AT VASAICS TOMATO'S. On of the Slcfcta of L4ob Its Per eaaUl PopKlaritr-Who "Its The waxwork show is the one sight in London which the country holiday-maker will not miss on any ; account ." Its popu larity Is perennial ; and we have been credibly informed, that some most respec table folks are in the habit of visiting it once yea regularly, as v their betters" go to the Academy or the Grosvenor, and recognize with Joy their old friend the policeman or the smiling old gentleman on the sofa. . . .. - "'.- Everybody has heard of the show ; but everybody does not know that its found ress was in her day rather a famous wo man The most remarkable woman in England,." , the great Duke used to call her. :-. She met, while yet a girl, at her un cle's table, many of the men whose names became : fefterwarda ' famous Voltaire, Rouseeaa, -Franklin, Robespierre, Mira beau and Marat. She was drawing-mis- weil by amusing nm... uaiaivto keeuiier Qj h , UtO wi.Uesv -mux - mxnaumat ... i her. -'EdwihAtweix. I victims of the Revolution. After the L UTHER1 SHELDON, DEALSK IN Ji'Ar BUILDERS HARDWARK PAINTS ApiLS, GLASS,- And Building Material of every description t - ' ' Moa 1 w airir iARKET 8Q0ARK A 49 iiOANOAKE AVE NORFOLK, VA. Novemberl82. 18,1-y. ' " 1. WILLIAMSON, -Manufacturer of Opposite H, Mobbis & Bbos., TXRBQRO, )A11KER'S TONIC. you are wafting away from age, dlssipa Viou or aDy disease or weakness and require a fcUuiulant take Parks' Tokic at once; It will iuvigorat1 and build youup from the first dose but will never intoxicate. It has saved . iiuudre !s ofjlives. it may save jours. Ht4. ; yiSCOX&CO., New York, lock bad been in the city, looking about vaguely for means to better bis condition and enjoying meanwhile such tid bits of dinners and dances as his fashionable friends threw out to him- t $ There had been plen tr -of these, ?fcr Mr. Portlock had a large acquaintance In good society. In the first place his was the best set at Yale and he met many unex ceptionable ' people abroad where he stayed as long as his money lasted. But an open door is helpful only, where one has the power to pass through. Even with the best introduced of men trades men may lose patience and what do I pro fit by Jones's invitation to come down for a week's shooting if I can't scrape up money enough to pay railroad fare? Mr. Portlock was wondering ruefully, as he walked where he could find credit now, and was tempted for a moment to desper ate and tragic resolutions. But the morn ing was so crisp and genial, the nurse maids so Iresh and pretty in their white caps, the curled darlings of wealth so winsome as they disported around him, and, moreover, his new gloves such per fecky f fi4 thaf jtfr! Portlock, who was naturally "of a cheerful and susceptible disposition, plucked up courage and went on his way in very good spirits. He was going over to help his friend the doctor, a man of about his own age, with brilliant prospects (his father was just retiring from a high, select practice), on some anatomical drawings from which Horace-had a knack. It was the nature of this young fellow to be spending time doing somebody else a favor- that were much letter devoted to his own concerns. As Mr. Portlock was turning the corner of Eighteenth street, however, he was con scious of a loud haiL A splendid and im posing youth, whom Horace recognized as his friend Tibbitts, old Shadarck Tibbitts' son,; bad diawnhisgJeajnhTir. dog. cart sharply up beside the curb, and was en gaging Mr. Portlock's attention by vigor ous flourishes of his whip. So Horace went over and shook hands and Mr. Tibbitts begged the favor of his company at breakfast, at his club, at noon. Yes, Horace would come, if the Doctor let him off In time. , "Oh, ,hang Jt," roars young Crcesus politelv, shake-ttm at the quarter, ,and I say, old feL, ril send my fellow over, then with the cob to fetch yon and save time," and touching hia mare's ears lightly with his lash Mr. Tibbitts bowled gallant ly off to the admiration, of the whole neighborhood. Dr. Minor was out, but a note asked Mr. Portlock to wait, as the doctor had only to dispatch a sudden calL Very con tentedly Horace settled himself to a book. It was an absorbing volume and the reader didn't know how long the doctor stayed away. He was roused by the sound: of wheels outside, and found it already time to go to Mr. Tibbitts's breakfast That must be Tibbitts' cab now, so scrib bling a line to the Doctor telling his destination, Mr. Portlock took up hat, gloves and caner and hastened to the door. The coachman on the box of a rich-looking coupe touched his hat Oi've been sint for yez, sir, in a hur ry," said he. " Will yez come roight in 1 stm rr TVc.thfr?" "Yes. it's all right," said Horace from J inside the cab, whither he had already sprung, and not hearing the man's last words. "Confounded neat rig, this," he thought, with a touch of envy. "WeU, we can't au nave biocb. opciawio -ers," and then he drew on his gloves and arranged himself to enjoy the borrowed luxury to the best advantage as the car riage whirled swiftly on. I , Hello I What new club's this?" Horace asked himself as he stopped before large double house on Madison avenue. "Rather an out-of-the-way locality, it Strikes me," and without more ado he sprang out and ran lightly up the steps. The door, heavv and carved, was opened at once by a fat butler in a dress coat, who, without inquiry, ushered Horace In to a darkened room on one side. Before the visitor had time to meditate upon the eccentric arrangements of thisclut houaa, a woman came hurriedly in, with out stretched hand. - . l JT in thankful Thomas fQUnd-JW MM( are very good. If you have Dr. Minor's confidence no doubt you will have my aunt's Miss Culpepper's. I may tell you that her malady is of a nervous character and seems to be obscure. She is apt to "be very cross and abrupt, and you won't be offended at anything she says, please. And, oh! i must tell you that she has had three other doctors here already this morning and really talked very impolitely to them. I'm almost afraid to tell you she has ordered them all out of the house, but they say that's a symptom of her trouble and are in the library now, in consultation. Perhaps you would like to meet them before going up." Mr. Portlock shivered at this thought ful suggestion. "Perhaps," he faltered, "I had- better leave the case in their hands. The etiquette of the profession is very strict on such occasions. -Yes, I'm sure I had better say good morning," and Mr. Portlock reached for his hat with undigni fied alacrity. ."Oh, pray, don't go!" cried the young lady,-imploringly, "I'm Sure you won't let anything of that kind stand in the way of my aunt's recovery. Oh, Doctor, don't leave me. You needn't see the others, I'm sure, and, indeed, they're quarrelling dreadfully, that is, I mean my aunt is, with all of us, and we . don't know what to do," and she laid her little hand beseechingly on his arm." Mr. Portlock laid down his hat No, he would not leave her just now. This was certainly a lovely creature. As for the old cat her aunt and those squabbling sawbones pshaw! It was a mere farce, Mr. Portlock took the young lady's hand with great tenderness, and said he would look at the case at onee. The patient reclined on a lounge in a richly-furnished room on the second floor. She half rose when her last attendant was ushered in and looked him over sharply uUEas a. trtont little woman, and her face waa fail; but leaden and blotched. Her movements were vigorous, for a sickwoman, and she had a truculent and obstinate expression. "Well, sir," she began, coldly, "and who are you?" ,; "Dr. Portlock, ma'am," "Dr. Minor Is out of town, and I came in his place." "That's if exclaimed the lady, peev ishly. "I'm of so little importance that any druggist would volunteer to treat me if he got a chance. You have taken a liberty, young man." "I will take another then the liberty of wishing yon good day," retorted the doctor smartly, marching toward the door. "Heyday! What's that? Come back, sir! How dare you leave me before I tell you to go? I like yeur independence, sir, and want you to stay. Yon know I'm a crusty old woman who says and does as she rleases. Now, what's the matter with me?" Doctor Portlock drew a chair severely beside the lounge and felt Miss Culpepper's pulae with a profoundly professional air. Then he ordered her tongue out with a sudden ferocity that startled the poor woman. Meanwhile he wa3 looking fur tively about him He noticed an un touched bowl of gruel on the table. "Have -yon a good appetite?" he asked tentatively. "Of course I have," said the old lady angrily, "and that's it I'm ravenous, and those other fools say I must take nothing heating. Heating, -indeed! They tell me meat and wine are stimulating, but I'll take no more beef -tea if I starve. Wbyshouldthe tone of my system be lowered, I'd like to know?" Her new physcian leaned back in his chair, joined his finger-tips delicately across his stomach and contemplated Miss Culpepper attentively. "Madame," said he solemnly, "I'm amazed at what you tell me. Your bodily health is perfect except as it is sporadical ly affected 6y the effect of external im pressions on your singularly acute organ ization that is alL Instead of self-denial you should practise rational self-indulgence. Eat and drink what yon choose in moderation. - Go out walk amuse your self ; don't read or be alone ; play whist for a little money, just to rouse and rest won after exercise. Your ailments are of a nature that-can be reached only by secondary agents ; : and though yon need constant direction as to treatment the laws of it are very simple. ; : "Doctor," cried the old woman, "you enchant me! Can I have - something now?" : Certainly, said her precious adviser, composedly, "a tender broiled chicken, a nice croquette, a trifle of salad, perhaps a cream tart, and a glass just one of reallv drv, champagne, would do nicely." The old woman rang her hand-bell violently. "Catherine, you hear," she cried eagerly to the maid, chicken, rice croauettes. salad, a bottle of champagne. Bring the wine now. " Doctor, you must drink with me to my recovery." Miss CulDepper was at once in great spirits, 'and was most affable to her medi cal adviser, who in turn told her all the latest stories 6f a society in which she had ; . . , CasHmere. '. ,. Cashmere,: devastated by an earth quake, is a kingdom m the northwest part of India, including theVale of Casb mere, made famous by the poet Moore. Seringnr, the capital,' has a population of about one hundred and thirty-five thou sand. , It extends about four miles along both sides of a deep and placid stream, jabout three hundred feet wide. From its delightftil situation and ' innumerable canals, ' Seringnr has been "called the Venice of Asia But the city i for the most part, extremely filthy. The houses, which are generally delapidated, are built of thin bricks, with timber frames, many of them three stories high. Sixty thous and persons can worship in the mosque. The capital is the center of the shawl manufacture of Cashmere. The men are tall, robust well-fonned, and industrious ; the women famous for their beauty and fine complexions. They are a gay people, fond of pleasure, literature and poetry, but are represented by many travelers as peerless in cunning and avarice, and notoriously addicted to lying. Notwith standing the beauty of their vale, the population, since the beginning ' of the present century, has been reduced from 80(),000 to 200,000 by pestilence, famine, and earthquakes. Under the treaty of Lahore, m 1S46, tne British Government came into control, but immediately sold the country for $3,750,000. The present ruler, by a compact made at the time of the purchase, is to be assisted by the British in .defending himself against his enemies. Antiquity of Whiskey. There is pretty good evidence for sup posing that no less a person than Osiris, the great god of Egypt, was the first dis tiller of whiskey on record ;' for the Egyp tains had, from time almost immemorial, a distillation or brewage from barley, called by the Greeks barley-wine, not in ferior, they say, in flavor, and superior in strength to wine. Allusion Is made to this liquor in several passages of ancient writers. The poor people of Egypt drank it instead of wine, and were wont to in toxicate themselves with it just as our power people do with whiskey. It seems also to have been no stronger to the Hebrews,- for reference is certainly made to I. itin jthjQidgtSmennder the name and resorted to by determined drinkers for the sake of inebriation. Among the Celtae in Spain and France it seems to have been common as a substi tute for wine. Pojybius speaks of a cer tain Celtic king of part of Iberia or Spain who affected great Court pomp, and had in the middle of his hall golden and silver bowls full of this barley wine, of which his guests and courtiers sipped or quaffed at their pleasure, a custom which, it is said, for many a century prevailed among his Celtic descendents, the regull chiefs of our Scottish Highlands Regular at Funeral. It is the practice in Glasgow to send carriages to George's-sqnare for the con venience of business men attending funerals. On one occasion the undertaker, on get ting into the last carriage, found it occu pied by a man in black, whom he recogniz ed as having been present at several re cent funerals ; and being curious to know who fie was, said in an off-hand manner: "I suppose, na, you wid ken the corpse?" "No." "A freen' o' the wife's, maybe?" "No." Gaed to the same kirk lately?" "No." A business freen,' then?" "No." The undertaker's catechism being by this time exhausted, he was about to ex press his astonishment at what could have brought the mourner to the funeral. when the latter vouchsafed the explana tion. "Ye see I haena been vera weel this while back, an' the doctor advised me to tak' car riage exerceese. This is the third time this week 1 hae been to the Necropolis already." When you are young, how well you know A little money makes great show. Just fitty cents will cause you bliss 'Tis then a dollar looks like this; a warm interest.. The young scamp knew rvhndTworth knowing she found, and valned him in proportion. And when at last; he told her a particular piquant mor M nf Ei-nndfti that had not yet got into the papers, about her girlhood's dearest friend, the wickea 01a woman over to her secretary and drew out a check for $500. " . That's your retaining fee. Such men as you are always in want of money. You must come and see me twice a day.'.' . "But I must confess to you, Miss Cul pepper," says Scallawag, hanging his bead. That I am not yet admitted to practice," All the better," cries the old lady delighted. "Why boy, you have a genius fordiagnoeis. Go ahead with your studies and come to see me just the same. You. do me more good than twenty diplomas, and. If I choose to employ you it , is no- l body's business bnt my own." Jfwp .years afterjrds thes College. of But when you're old and bills come due. And creditors are dunning you. And every cent you spend you miss, . 'Tis then a dollar looks like this: V,.:- -- ;-: - A Trifle Unreasonable. Z. Needy Person (to gentleman) Will yon' ntease cdve me a little money, sir? I need itbadlv. - ' Gentleman (giving him five cents) There you are. Now tell me frankly, my friend, what will you do with that money? Needy Person Buy beer with it Do you expect I would buy with five cents, a champagne pjoexxaur One hundred ane five years ago Nicholas Thomas and Lucy bomers lived in Mt. Desert, Me., and wanted to be married. There was no minis ter within thirty miles, and so they married themselves. On the town records, under the date of 1780, is the contract which they drew np and s'ffned, agreeing, in "the presence of God. the angels, and these witnesses, to love, to cherish, and nourish, and to "love, honor, and. obey," as nus band arid wife, so long aa God should continue t heir lives. Reiirn' of Terror she married, and when she had attained the age when matrons usually settle down to enjoy existence more thor oughly than ever, poor Madame Tussaud found herself in England, alone, with scarcely a penny in her pocket The happy thought struck her that she might follow the example-of her uncle, and form a Kind or museum of wax cast s of con temporary .celebrities, turning her natu ral skill In wax modeling to practical account .The Idea was a success. Ma dame Tussaud made a fortune. The ex hibition has always been a favorite one. and it is hot likely to be less popular now that the figures have been removed to a building large enough to hold them and their visitors without crowding, and with out the accompaniment .of a stifling at- mospnere. -The great marble staircase at the entrance, the original price of which was 11,000, is of itself worth a visit. Wax figures are not of course, in any true sense, works of art They strive to Imitate, not merely to represent nature ; and the result is notone which can nossi- ply satisfy oar sense of the beautiful. In baintlng we have the representation of nature by line and color on a flat surface ; in sculpture we have the same thing by the modeling of colorless marble or bronze to attempt both solid form and color at once Is to make a caricature, to give the impression that the artist is aping nature, not reverently following her. A painted atatue is as much a piece of incongruity as a picture with moving figures would be neither can be taken seriously. Yet the figures of Madame Tnssaud's give one a curious sense of reality. One almost feels i the presence of the Ja mous men whose effigies are here. It does not take a strong Imagina tion to fancy that the weird experiment fat Poo's gruesome . tale has been re peatedthat these are the actual bodies of those whose names they bear, with their Bonis, arrested In the hour of death. imprisoned within them. They are con scious, these images ; they see the gaping crowd Rwarming around them, though they an powerless to resent the Intrusion. What a medley of famous names! old kings and queens and modern dema gogues, i famous beauties and popular preachers, Cardinal welsey and Sir Moees Montefiore, Count Cavour and Sir Wilfrid Lawaon! : It may not be art It may be a show only fit for children but one cannot by taenames, and the queer, Impertinent ly striking resemblances, are enough to prmuce a curious nervous excitement or which one la ashamed, bnt which it Is Im possible to repress. Tor those who care for relics, there are plenty nere. There is tne guillotine wwen aleir poor Louis XVL, the coach which ed Napoleon to Waterloo, and the canlp bedstead on which the greatFTench- maa breathed his last Here, too are the reading-chair of Voltaire and the .garden chair of Napoleon, and the shirt worn by Heiry IV. of France when he was stabbed by Ravaillac. Bnt when we come to Na poleon's knife, his pocket-handkerchief, his eoff ee-cup, his tooth-brush we had almost said his piece of string and his shaving-papers we feel inclined to say, with the American settler who found that the Indians bad come down, burned his homestead and murdered his whole fam ily, ' - This is too ridiClus I " JTeefc Billings' Philosophy. Thegreatist possible injury that a man kan de to humanity la to preach lnfldel- tty.i . God never has placed one single thing we most have out ov our reach : our great misfortune iz, the things we kan't get we want most It iz a terrible burden for the heart to carry to the grave a secret it cannot re veal. f The strongest trait in human karakter is the love of chance. A man who never takes a chance will never git abnv the dignity of tending a gtde board. A man wlthont habits is without karakter ; he is like a bull's-eye watch he may keep time, but he has got to be wound np regular to do it " Progress is the great law; and the more progress we make here the nearer we shall be to heaven when we die. ' . Every man kan be a hero on hix own dunghill, bnt to be a hero on sum boddy else's dunghill Is what strains the rooster. " The greatest bore on this earth is the one who kan't talk about anything him self. - A very long kreed Is like a very long tall, more liable to tangle the possessor and be stept on bi others. Spots konnt ml child; yu kan't take the eight spot with the seven. ; ; ' AHfcpefal XUm of Thlaca - Frie (to young author) How are yon succeeding in your literary wontr Young Author (hopefully) Well, com' paratively speaking, I am doing well. Friend What Is "comparatively speak- ingf"' ; - - - ' . " Young Author-One of the greatest of modern writers wrote for twenty years be fore he had a single MS. accepted. J have only been writing .five years. Com pared with him, I flatter myself that I am doing well. . TANS OI Ti:. Wealthy Ladle Collert Tliem ioj A mil to in eut. ' Collecting fis. for chronological ar rangement is at an industry populai with ladies of social distinction who can afford the divertiaement The collec tion form3 a conspicuous featare in bric-a-brac, and where earnestly con sidered is not only artistically' bnt histor ically instructive. Many of the collections seen are valuable in antiquity aud'mate riaL The various styles from.the lattei part of the seventeenth centnry to the present time are more or less abundantly illustrated, and the changes and transi tions of different periods, in some in stances, plainly shown. . Doubtless the oldest one known is a Venetian dagger fan. i The sticks re. of ivory, decoratively etched in black. Within the shaft Is concealed the treach erous steel, whose sturdiness and point forbid the idea that -it was any dainty play thing. The ; fan ia constructed ojKt - the nrinclple- : ' ot the -j sword- weapon ot oixence or aexeace-c for purposes of coquetry. An old Spanish fan of a little later date better suited the gentle warfare of which the' fan Is the chief weapon. -This 'amid Its somewhat gaudy ornamentation has plates of mica that serve as windows, through which the effect Of its execution can be observed. Several Louis XIV. fans are distinguished by then Watteau designs and by the great elegance of their ivory sticks. These are broad and beautifully carved in medallions and Interlacing lines. Several Dutch fans can be seen in Chicago which show a clumsy interpre tation of the French influence. A Span ish fan owned by one lady is as notable for its color as for refinement of its design a beautiful harmony of yellows and browns. Most of the Louis XIV. struct ures have the stick s slender, wide apart, and covered with immeaning designs in color and lavishly bespangled. One form of design is In imitation of Watteau and it panelled off and inter, twined with wreaths. One presents a couple in the love making which was the chief amusement of the Louis XV, shep herdesses and their swains. The Dutch fans of the times are ornamented with lo cal scenes, chiefly commercial, an inter esting commentary on the growth of Dutch trade, and with Scriptural subjects executed with the homely fiilelitytiat characterizes Dutch art. With these are placed some pretty Dutch fans in ' carved bone and small ivory hand screens finished in gilt. A Martin fan, instead of being covered with lacquer, is divided into -panels. Martin, it will be remembered, was a carriage paint er of the time of Louis XV., who learned the secret of laoquet from some mission aries who brought it from China and afterward applied it among other things, to fans. The upper part has a French court scene; below is the principal de Sign, showtog a large part of the ivory ground. The subject is Hercules restor ing Alcestis,. veiled, to her husband,- Ad metus, having rescued her from Hades. The Chinese ivory fans are as exquisite as lace work, the designs are, in fact left solid on a ground which is cut in slender lines, apparently too delicate to bear the weight of ornament Among the fans of note Is the one of gold lacquer, on ivory of great beauty, which was presented to Mrs. Grant by the Queen of Siam, who also gave her an exquisite representation of Chinese figures, Then she received a gxee and blue enamel from foreign des pots. RAILBOAD ACCOMMODATIONS. 1 ' f , Condltloas Umfavorable. Young Author Is the editor in, sir? have an article I would like to submit him. : ' Assistant Well he is in, bnt he is not feeling very well to-day. However, you can see him if yon wish to. He is troubled With dyspepsia, v Yonag Anthor dn alarm) Dyspepsia? Then I will call again. My article is of a humorous nature. It is always better lo spread ma nure as it is diawn, than to put it in heaps. When put in heaps a large portion of the sohible matter is, left in ground under the heaps, and makes these spots too rich, and of course deprives the iest of the ground, of its proper share. When it is spread as drawn thtre is no waste, the soil is equally benefitted, and when the ground is woiked over in the spring with the cultivator or wheel barrow the whole is well mixed together. There u also a saving oi labor, as 1 one handling is avoided. - ." ' .. mutaal Surprlae. , "lam surprised, sir!" thundered the President as he caught the cashier going through the safe one night, 'tsoamv said the cashier. "I thought yon were the burglar I hired to blow np the safe after Fd got through." r. Tbe Senatorial contest in Virginia will be between Jno, S-Uarbour and JnoW. DanieL Either of these gen tlemen will satisfy the good people of Virginia, and the improvement on Mahone will be so great that compar isons will be odious . The wife and son of ex-Secretary NO. 47 5MPARATIVE WORTH of BAKING POWDERS. ROYAL (Absolutely Fore).. PJ BRANT'S (Alma. Powder) . C BUMFOBD'S, when fresh. C HANFOED'S, whoa fresh... C BEDHEAD'S .... .U ........ C CHARM Alnm Powder)... C AMAZON (Alum Powfter) . C 3 3 .....E CLETEIiAXD'Sfsiiortrt.toi.r: PIONEER (San Francisco)... fTT, CZAE.....: DB. PRICE'S... SNOW FLAKE (GrofT .. LEWIS'.... PEARL (Andrews & Co. i ANDBEWS&C0Be?al"Ca . Xllwukta, (OosUOn Alaou) , - BULK (Powder sold looee). . BUXFORD'&wfceniiotfresfc , REPORTS OF GOVERNMENT CHEMISTS As to Purity andTVholesomeness of the Royal BaktngPowder. ' "I have tested a package of Royal Baking Powder, which I purchased in the open market, and find it composed of pure and wholesome ingredients. It is a cream of tartar powder of a hih degree of merit, and does not contain either alum or phosphates, or other injurious substances. . G. Lovb, Ph.D." w " It is a scientific filet that the Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure. "H. A. Mott, PhD." " I have examined a package of Rorl Baking Powde the stance, "I have analyzed a package of Royal Bakins? Powder. The materials of which it is composed are pure and wiioiesome. S. Dasa. Hates, State Assayer, Mass." The Royal Baking Fowdar wived the highest award over all competitors at the Vienna World's Kxposition, IbT:; ; ;it, the Centennial, Philadelphia, 18T6 ; at the American Institute, iew York, and at State Fairs throughout the country. No other article of human food has ever received such high, emphatic, and uni versal endorsement from eminent chemists, physicians, scientists, and Boards of Health all over the world. f Note The above Diagham illustrates tho comparative worth of various Baking Powders, as shown by Chemical Analysis and experiments made by Prof. Schedler. A pound can of each powder was taken, the total leavening power or volume In each can calculated, the result being as indicated. This practical test for worth by Prof. Schedler only proves what every observant consumer, of the Royal Baking ' Powder knows by practical experience, that, while it costs a few cents per pound more than ordinary kinds, it is far more economical, and, besides, affords the advan tage of better work. A single trial of tiie Royal Baking Powder will convince any fair-minded person of these facts. I While the diagram shows some of the alum powders to be of a higher degree of strength than other powders ranked below them, it is not to be taken as indicat ing that they have any value. All alum powders, no matter how high their strength, are to be avoided as dangerous. i?ir:sME rrr- MEUBEU '.v,.,u Satvii is M, e! Muile " Do Your Own Frintiiiff. Only perfwt -If -inking rubber fctami i.rfu,- offered. W.-H-i.-munii. Prints tiarfpthi. Kn h1 be Without One. Fm.. mnifri-tirm. anieea. vataioguet and teotimonlalg free. Price amazingly low. Refer by permission to Hox. -H Garland, Attorney General United States. THB WHEI.ESS RIBBFR STAMP P II ESS M'F'O CO., Augusta, CaT unsvroasted. should A NEW VICE. AND VALAUBLE DE- yATCHES. . AgJBgiTT.T BgriTTr, bptimjq Address,!JLc UAU V, Halifax. IV. 47t4. ! A Breakffcat With General Sherman at a Western Railway Station. Bill Nye says: "I presume that I could write an entire library of personal remin iscences relative to the eminent people with whom I have been thrown during a busy life, but I hate to do it, because I al ways regarded such things as sacred from the vulgar eye, and I felt bound to respect the confidence of a. prominent man just as much as I would that of one who was less before the people. "I remember very well my first meet ing with General W. T. Sherman. I would not mention it here if it were not for the fact that the people seem to be yearning" for personal reminiscences of great men, and that is perfectly right, too. "It was since the war that I met Gen eral Sherman, and it was on the line of the Union Pacific Railway, at one of those Justly celebrated eating houses, which I understand are now abandoned. The colored waiter had cnt off a strip of the omelette with a pair of shears, the scorched oatmeal had been passed around, the little rubber door mats fried in butter and called pancakes had been dealt around tbe table, and the cashier, at the end of the hall had just gone through the clothes of a party from Vermont, who claimed a rebate on the ground that the waiter refused to bring him anything but his bill There was no sound in the di ning room except the weak request of the coffee for more air and stimulants, or per haps the cry of pain when the butter, while practicing with the dumbells, would hit a child on the head ; then all would be still again. - General Sherman sat at one end of the table, throwing a life preserver to a fly in the milk pitcher. We had never met before, though for years we had been plodding along life's rugged way he In the War Department, I in the Post Office Department. Un known to each other we had been holding np opposite corners of the great national fabric, if you will allow me that expres- alon. . - ..; T - 1 remember, .as. well as though it were bat yesterday, : how the conversation be gan. General Sherman looked sternly at me and said; ':-; "' ' - I wish yon would overpower that but ter and send it up this way." "All right," said I, "if you will please pass t hose molasses." - That Is all that was said, but I shall never forget ttrtand probably he never will. The - conversation . was brief, but yet how full of food for thought! How true, how earnest, how natural! Nothing stilted or false about it. It was the nat ural expression of two minds that were too great to be verbose or to monkey with social, conversational flap-doodle. ADVERTISERS. Water Closet Seai Lowest Rates lor newspapers- gent Advertising in free. Addres 963 good GEO. P ROWELL & CO., 10 Spruce St., N. Y. 47t4. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM the popular favorite for dressing the hair. Restoring color when gray, and preventing- PandrafT. It cleansee the scalp, stops the hair falling;, and is sure to please. 60c. ami 91 tiw, tt !mari. FOB THB CURE OF HEMORRHOIDS, Commonly Called Piles. INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL PROLAP SUS A I. NO MEDECINE OR SURGICAL OPERA TION NECESSARY, He Knows Now, . "I I don't understand this at alL" said Smith, as he looked over the bilL "Why, it's a bill for a pair of bronze vases at $25 per pair," replied the col lector. , "Bronze vases? Why, I never bought such a thing "In my life I We have a pair in the house, but they were a wedding present." 'Presented by whom?" "By my friend Green." "Exactly. He told us to wait three months, and send the bill to you. That has come to. be tbe fashion now, and I'm Surprised that you didn't catch on. I'll receipt it. Thanks. Fine weather this." "Say," said tbe editor's smart lit tie son. as he entered a store ; "do you keep knivee?" "Oh, yes,'' re attended the storekeeper : "we ve keot them for years." "Well," re turned tne boy; starting lor tne aoor, and then yon " ought to advertise. you woman t Keep em i Lincoln mo both in Try poor health. Norriitown Herald. so long.1 BURNKA'S IMPROVED TilBBM m Ts he Beet constructed and 5nihcd Turbine in the vo.'ld. It gives better per entage with part or full te. and n sola lor iees c ley per Horse Pwer j than an y other XL KlsINJb.. ParnpWet Free by 36t4 BURNHAM BROS., YORK PA. Mason & Ham in ORGANS: Highest Hon ors at all Great World's Exhi b i t i o n s for. eighteen years., One hundred Styles. S. to fcoo.'For Cash, Easy Payments or Rented. Cat alogues tree. Wil II LM ill I lyyi PIANOS: New mode of Stringing, Do not require one quarter as much tuning1 as Pianos on the prevailing w res t-pin svstem. R e - marlcable for purity of tone and durability. ORGAN AND PIANO CO. 1 54 Tremont St-.Boston. 46 E.I 4th St (Union Sq-), . N.Y. 1 49 Wabash Ave., Chicago. I cat at Cooper's wmm, I don't 1 he old reliable Coopei's Restaurant I have bf en in the restaarant' buhitess .f e'Veral jearp, -nd 8 all my jau m n- know! - ' I alvas kwp 'the finest v ste in the market, and can KTe ihem in sny B'yK All kinds of fits mra s eve-y day. If you have never been t see me COME and 1 am sure you will go away satisfied as well as filled. 42t2 FKED- C0OPEB. JJEAFNESS. Hits causes and cure, by Oje who was deaf twenty-eight yeurs. Treated by most of the noted specialsts of the day with no benefit Cured himself in three months, and since then hundreds of others by same process. A plain simple and enecessfnl home treatment. Ad dress T. S. PAGE, 128 East 2Cth St., New York City, j ' 44t4. I I have invented a SIMPLE WATER CLOSET ! SEAT, for the cure of the above troublesome - ,,t and painful malady, which I confidently place STANDARD ' ifr, t.h nnhlip. an a Sttrk Rklief AMD Ctjrb ' It has received the endorsement of the leading phvgic'ans in this community, and wh' rever tried, ha given entire satisfaction, and whi re it fails to relieve the money will be willinirlv returned- Thes. Seats will be funfls' ed at the follow- ina prices : Walnut... $6.00 f y Cherry 5.00 Disc ount to FbUlo v8 Poplar 5.00 ) Directions for using will accompany each Seat. We tiouble you with no certificates We, leave the Seat to be its advertiser. Address, LEWIS CHAMBERLAIN, Patentee Tarboro, Edreo.inbe Co.. N. C. je26-ly RESUMED, "We take pleasure in announcing lo oar numerous patrons and friends that: we have now, recovered from theidUarrangemant lo our business caused , by. the recent. :Jasd'' hra' now resumed af the below named lo cation, where we trust to meet all of our former customers. :0: SHTON ; ZDELLER PHARMACISTS AND DRUGGIST QHEAP LAND. The subscriber offers for sale his fajm situ ated in Sussex Co, Va., eontdnins W7 acres more or less. There is on the farm a eroo J dwelling house, tbe usual out-houses and two orchards. Ir is situated about two and a half miles from Jarretts Station rnd about four miles from a station on the Atlantic and Dan ville railroad. PRICE. THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRD D0LLAK8. Two thousand dollars down, the rest in two eqaal payments at six per cent intere-. or will sell or THREE '1HOU8AND DOLLARS CASH. 48.U0, J. T. HOWIE, JarratU Station, Va AT THE WEDDELL BOOK CTORt. Oppou ho BRYAN HOUSE and adjoin ing -he POST OFFCK. BIG OFFER. To introduce them we will give away 1000 self-operat ng Washing Machines. If you want one tend ns your name, P. O. and ex- 4.0U THE NATIONAL CO., 21 Dey 8t. N. T.