8
Vi)L. 63.
BE SUBE YOTT AEE BIGHT ; THEN-GO AHE AD.-D Crockett.
TARBORO', N. C, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1885.
awn-
T&K rOW ELL, ,
tfTORXEY-AT-LW
N. C.
RA'K NASH,
TARBORO, N.
?rictico la aU Court.,
A.X-IA.W,
C.
Stats and Fed-8188
HAWARD.
rtK"u
asi Counselor at Law.
ARBORC - N. C. V, ' ' r
?, )a ll &a Courts, Jftate nd
.... a. , nov.6-ly.-c
jjypREW JOYNER,
' AT TO RNJS Y-A T-LA Wy
GREENVILLE, H. CL . . ..
:.''.,... will regularly attena the Superior
"too? fclgeeombe. 0 m Tarboro House.
pi M. T- FOUNTAIN,
fiviRNE? AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
u Tarbor0i N c..
-Insurance Otace ox iapt. urrcu
feb21-6ra
Office
Willi was
H A. GILLIAM. ,. DoMXIX GnXIXM
"glLLIAM & SON
A-ttorneys-at-I-aw,
TARBORO", N. C.
mil practice la the Counties of Edgecombe,
jilif ax aud Pitt, d In the Courts of the
.jw Judicial Di&triat, and An the Circuit and
upreme Umrts as 8444 janxo-iy.
JAS. NOKriitilsT,
Attorney-at-Law,
MRBORO, - - -V. C
, CIRCUIT . Edgecombe, Rash and Wil
:( n. Loans negotiated on reasonable erros.
T L, fc&IDGERS & SON,
'Ji
Attorneys-at-Law,
T.-iRBORO,
Klry
TjOSbEY BATTLE- .
Attorney t Law
TARBORO, - - N. C.
! TBattie & Hart, Rocky Mount, N. C.,
"r'raetice in the court of Nash, Edgecombe,
Wilson and Halifax counties. Also in the
i Federal and Supreme Courts. Tarboro office,
: ap-stairs over new iio'ira qui wing, jaam
f ttreet, opp. Banfc front room, . apr i o
D
K. 2. T. BASS
Offers his proleo "J services to the citt-
tena of Tarboro and vicinity.
Office in t . A. UcMair s drug store on Main
street
K. l N. CARR.
D
Surgeon
Dentist,
TARBORO, N. C.
"Office LJais, irom 9 a. m. 'till 1 p. m. and
.oa. i to 6 p. m. '
sNext door to Tarboro Honse, over
Bovster Nash. .
R. W. JOTNER, cJ
I
Trt 3 permanently located in Wil-
ur 'r, i f. G. All ooerationa will be
OUlJ
negfsr ftnd carcfullv performed and
ur VortTT as reasonable as possible
'JrWth ft -a.Hed wit 'nut pain. Office
&jn Taboco street, next door to Post
m
Jan-1 6ra
1 iV SAVAGE,
Uimn, Sale, Excluinge
m& Feed Stables,
r.mwuxjt St. Akdrbw 8trbts
TAIMUM0 M. C.
w . m tke lartrest in the State,
stab. t of boldinj' ten car-loads
?iHFJi SHEJ ,10N'
1
NO. 48
OEALKK IN
70
a H DOORS, BLINbo
)ERS' HARDWARE,
?AI
OILS,
I
GLASS,
m Baila'.'aa it aterial of every description
os. itr'w; bi.
NOR
SoveinbeTl88S
OE MARKET SQUARE 4
A.NOAKE AVE.,
FOUK. VA.
18,1-y.
WILIA MSON,
lilan ufaVtnreT of
IMaile Harness,
OtPOBiTt H, MpHBia & Bbos.,
I. i 7
COMFORTED.
One night, with Grief. I closed my eyes.
And had no other thought, but he
Would waken with me presently.
But God is gracious; God is vise
Beyond our knowledge. In the dim
Hushed hours betwixt the dark and light.
There came a messenger from Him
That of my Grief bereft me Quite.
I know not how to paint the sight
That blest my eyes, or make yon see
The vision that was sent to me.
For oh! it wasihe child that came.
And called me softly by my name, .
Ana clasped me by the litUe white
Warm hands that clung to me of old.
And nestled in my garment's fold.
A dream' you think? Weil, may be so;
But none the less God's messenger-.
For while I lay-frald to stir; -v : ' V ;
Lest the sweet dream should from me go
The ehQd. that only Titten,! here
Such Inarticulate trills and coos -i I -
As nestling birds and babies use,
Began to speak strange words and clear; '
Strange words, but clear: which, should I tnt'
To put in speech of mine again.
It would be effort spent in vain.
This was a language of the sky.
Which, Just for once, I understood.
Because, my God, Thou wert so good.
And suffered one sad heart to see
How narrow-soul ed and dull we are.
That make our selfish love a bar
Betwixt these little ones and Thee.
Whereat though it was but a dream.
That vanished ere the east was red
The one sad heart was comforted;
Nor since, do I and sorrow seem
So fitly mated as before.
For in my dally tasks once more
I find content. And little thlnge
The wavering shadows on the wheat.
The scent of flowers, the whir of wings
Bring back a sense of something sweet.
As vague, as fair, as sweet as these.
The vision was that came to me.
Whose nameless charm this shadow is.
Of something exquisite to be. j
And when In some unearthly sphere
Of perfect love and bliss complete.
The child and I once more shall meet.
How like a dream it will appear
That Grief and I were comrades here!
IMary Bradley.
BROWFS MARRIAGE
Concerning Brown it was said that be
never saw a pretty face without falling in
love with it He certainly was of a sus
ceptible nature, bat he had so much time
on his bands and so much money which
be considered it incumbent on him to
spend, that be bad to do something. As
be bad neither wit nor industry enough to
take to trade or spurt, be took to falling
In love, and in his drowsy and easy-going
way did his best to do his sel4m posed vo
cation justice.
i 1
"''
One day, after be had carried his fasci
nating employment on ten years or so, and
wasted a fortune on bon-bons and opera
boxes, diamonds and lap dogs, lawn
parties and midnight banquets, according
to the social and moral qualities of his im
partial inamoratas, bis friend Robinson
suggested it was about time be got mar
ried. Brown had a great regard .for
Robinson, for several reasons. One was
that they belonged to the same dub,
and perhaps still more because Robinson
owed htm mc&ey. Bobhiauctfead the UeUm
of a prince and the income of a parasite.
Brown's ready good nature and plethoric
bank account represented all of this in
come but a couple of thousand dollars a
year, the rent of a house an eccentric old
aunt had left to her pet nephew in trust, for
fear be would squander the principal if it
was given to him. Robinson had reason
to bless the foresight of bis venerable bene
factor afer be finished his share of Robin
Bon senior's estate. It provided him, at
any rate, with club dues and pocket
money, and chance and his ready wit sup
plied the rest. That is to say they sup
plied him with Brown, and for ten years
Brown fulfilled the rest of the contract.
deserted on the approach of the invaders.
None undressed and few slept Most lay
on the ground and in the open air. A sur
prise or an ambuscade was feared.
Before daybreak they were reused by the
sound of firearms. The outposts had been
attacked.
The force was soon under arms and in
motion to meet the foe. This was merely a
skirmishing party, however, from one of
the city gates that soon fled ingloriously,
and never came to close quarters.
- As the naval forces were in the majority
and the Admiral had supreme command,
the seamen and marines naturally had the
post of honor and led the attack. Although
the soldiers were thus pushed in a corner,
Parker was fully equal to the emergency,
and made up for position by push. s His
skilled military eye had detected the weak
points Of the enemy's defences at a glance;
and ere bis ccdjtrt5s: fci.l mcd? up their
mind "where to place their scaling- ladders,:
he bad landed ds party on the top of the
city wall, cleared it of the few Chinese
soldiers who were brave enough to come to
ciose quarters, and thus paved the way for
the marines, surprised to find their, com
rades so far ahead. Dent's party of sail
ors followed led by a sub-lieutenant Dent
himself was missing, and no one could tell
where he was.
Once fairly on the city wall there was
little opposition : and Canton was already
taken with trifling loss. The Tartar garri
son, after firing some arrows and gingals,
fled the place precipitately by the western
gates. The city was soon almost deserted.
The conqueror camped on the city wall.
After some days tbe Viceroy Yeh was
found secreted in his palace, taken prison
er and conveyed on board one of the men-of-war
for safety, whence he was soon ban
ished to India. With his capture the war
was virtually over. Peace was soon con
cluded, and the troops and war-ships
ordered home.
Search was made for the missing lieuten
ant whose headless body was found secret
ed in a hovel in one of the villages outside
the northeast city gate. When in search
of a suitable place to plant his scaling
bidders, he had been decoyed, waylaid, shot
and then decapitated by the Chinese for
the sake of headmoney.
Thus ended poor Dent's love episode with
Helen Stanley, to whom the news of his
death was conveyed by Parker, who then
received the muchJcoveted prize, the hand
of the fair American, and learnt that he
had all along been her favorite.
One stipulation, however, was that he
was to make her country his and, reside in
America. As Helen was wealthy and
Parker by no means wedded to the unset
tled life of a soldier, he did not consider
this much of a sacrifice.
Stanley's business being soon after fully
transacted, he and his daughter returned
home, as did Parker to England with his
regiment, where, on arrival, he sold out
and then eagerly sought his lady-love in
the new land of his adoption. The United
States now numbers him among its wealth
iest and most enterprising citizens, and
Helen as one of the most facinating and
charitable matrons.
BLASO HI AMERICA, v
Walt Whitman Deals With tbe Sub
ject Profoundly.
"Slang, profoundly considered, is the
lawless germinal element, below all words
and sentences, and behind all poetry, and
proves a certain freedom and perennial
rankness and protestantism in speech. As
the Utited States inherit by far their most
precious possession the language they
talk and write from the Old World,
under and out of its feudal" institutes, I
will allow myself to borrow a simile even
of those forms farthest removed from
American democracy. Considering ; lan-.
guage then as some mighty potentate, into
the majestic audience-hall of the monarch,
ever enters a personage like one of Shak
epeare's clowns, and takes position there,
and plays a part -ven dn, : the staJiellesr
ewirnles,:Swch is Slang, sr mdiwcQpnj
an attempt oi common humanity to escape
from bald literalism, and express Itself
illimltably, which in highest walks pro
duces poets and poems, and doubtless in
prehistoric times gave the start to, and per
fected the whole immense tangle of the
old mythologies. For, curious as it may
appear, it is strictly the same impulse
source, the same thing. Slang, too, is the
wholesome fermentation or eructation of
those processes eternally active in language,
by which froth and specks are thrown up
mostly to pass away ; though occasionally
to settle and permanently crystallize.".
The annexed list of slang names tor
states or their citizens rather, will not be
new to the surviving veterans of the war:
"Always among the soldiers during the
Secession War, one heard of 'Little Mac'
(Gen. McClellan), or of 'Uncle Billy' (Gen.
Sherman). "The old man' was, of course,
very common. Among the rank and file
of both armies, it was very general to speak
of the different States they came from by
their slang names. Those from Maine
were called Foxes ; Now Hampshire,
Granite Boys; Masschusetts, Bay Staters:
Vermont Green Mountain Boys, Rhode
Island, Gun Flints ; Connecticut, Wooden
Nutmegs; New York, Knickerbockers;
New Jersey, Clam Catchers ; Pennsylvania,
Dogber Heads; Delaware, Muskrats;
Maryland, Claw Thumpers; Virginia;
Beagles; North Carolina. Tar Boilers;
South Carolina. Weasels ; Georgia, Bus
sards; Louisiana, Creoles; AlaVama,
Lizards: Kentucky, Corn Crackers;
Ohio, Buckeyes; Michigan, Wolverines;
Indiana, Hoosiers; Illinois, Suckers;
Missouri, Pukes; Mississippi, Tad Poles;
Florida, Fly up the Creeks; Wisconsin
Badgers: Iowa, Hawkeyes; Oregon, Hard
Cases. Indeed, I am not sure but slang
names have more than once made pre
sidents. 'Old Hickory' (Gen Jackson) is
one case in point, 'iippecanoe and Tyter,
too,' another."
A STORY OF THE FSESEVT SAY.
THE XEGRO AS A CITIZSX.
ixtedtt?oon.y iiyld'B great Ji?Ut UatUe. jrith. nrpi
A Tribute to Woman.
Woman Is at once sincere and hypocriti
cal. Coquetry is nothing but gilded and
refined hypocrisy, and all women are co-
f qvetUM to greater or lesee dearee, Jt.
is perhaps a wise provision ot nature that
they can dissemble. They are sailed on
to do a great deal of it For instance,
when a stupid young man who cannot
see when he is a bore calls on a young
lady who does see that be is a bore and
feels it keenly, she must dissemble For
instance, again, when a woman meets
anothej woman she does not like, but
whose acquaintance is a social necessity,
she must dissemble, and does so by kiss
ing her on the cheek and saying, "My
dear." Shakspere says :
"So you think I ought to get married,
eh?" said Brown.
"You ought" returned Robinson de
cisively ; "it's too bad. You're frittering
yourself away like a raw member, and I'll
swear there are grey hairs in your mous-
tathe." -
' WelL" said Brown, "perhaps you're
rigaV But who is she?"
"Dfcln't you meet my sister when you
were at Naples last winter?" demanded
Robinson.
"Oh!" retorted his friend. ' '6he "
"She's the best and purest girl alive,"
cried Robinpon with sudden animation,
dealing the table a blow with his open
palm.
"Well, who the deuce said she wasn'?"
asked Brown calmly. "I was going to say
she wouldn't have me."
"My dear boy," said Robinson, drawing
his chair closer, and patting his knee in
friendly confidence, "you're wrong."
"No," said Brown increduously.
"I tell you yes," insisted Robinson.
"The poor girl adores you. She has writ
ten to me a dozen times, and made me
promise never to give it away to you. I
am breaking my word, but I can't help it
Friendship, dear boy "
"Robby," said Brown, getting up, you're
a good fellow, Thank you. I'll think of
It"
They went, out together. As tbey
parted at the first corner, Robinson having
some special business and Brown an en
gagement at the stage door of the Casino,
the former borrowed a spare fifty from his
friggd. While Brown was bowling up
town in a hansom. Robinson was in the
office of th Commercial Cable Company
writing -tbe following dispatch, which he
paid for ont of the crisp, clean note which
ad not grown warm in his hand :
Louise Robinson, Hotel Ragossy. Paris,
k-nmi a once; Brown and
Com, v ready,
bells.
rnorning when Brown's cat
It was gn. Hed b& master's boot off.
footed valet p. qjjt robe Brown dismissed
Invested in his n.. , bead was bot and the
bis attendant His opened the window
bed looked warm. L. Then he closed
and looked into the mis. gtand on the
it and lighted a cigar froi. and from
mantle, went to his writing -d g. little
one of its compartments prou v (m,matie
rmnR in t& wira
wedding
account
for
T) ARKEB'S TONIC.
. . , i .. .?
leather. This dook was neoucu, i
P8F?RoBnisoK, Db. F. Robisson,
an,o. no nnder "F. Robinson,
were full of dates and figures. Those un
der F. Robinson, Cr." were blank. For
half an hour Browntotted np column after
column of figures, puffling bis cigar
calmly and with as impassive a face as u
he had been counting grains of sand in
stead of gold. ,
"Gad!" he said, when be bad made a
totaL "He's too greedy." .
And he closed the book, threw his cigar
and the balance sheet into the grate,
xinsed bis mouth out and went to bed.
,
xhree weeks later L'Ameriqne steamed
v vo-, The first shore visitors to
board her at her! pier were Brown and
Robinson. The greeting between Robin,
which towered high above the otheredt
Bees in the center of the city, was purpose
nets iu " ; ri-tri- mm renlied, how-
lyspareu. - ? - After
in
All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players.
But .most of the playing Is done by the
women. Their lives are more theatrical
ban men's are. They have more finesse
than men. They can flirt for the mere
fun of the thing, while men always have
a serious purpose of some sort at the bot
tom of their flirting. Men are direct
women are evasive. All this on the mere
surface. This is the picture of society as
we see it whirling past us in ten thousand
tints and shadows. This it is In the
fashionable thorougfare, in the dazzling
ballroom, at the gorgeous opera and in
the reception-room at home. Formality,
formality; meaningless compliments,
flatteries, mocking endearments, with
"woman everywhere in the lead, the crea
tor and compounder of It all. But under
neath the surface there is another world,
a quiet peaceful domain where women is
earnest, and where her sincerity aud de
votion outshine every other virtue, and
where her life becomes a priceless treasure.
The insincere trader of the whirigig of
society becomes the faithful, loving wife
and the patient tender mother. The
tables are turned ; the man now becomes
the trifler He goes forth to bask in the
sunshine of the gay world, while the wife
is the steady anchor that forever pulls
him back and renews his sense of duty
and obligation. New York World. .,
CliHwtinan Preaent.
If one has time and skillful fingers there
is no end to the pretty things that may be
made of simple and inexpensive materials.
A bit of caning, of scroll-work, a painted
shell or panel, a basket cut from a walnut
or hickery nut these make pretty little
gifts. Earthen vessels of pleasing shape.
painftd black or blue, covered with pictures
pasted and the whole varnished, make ubc-
fnl gifcs for match receivers and oatchalls.
Pcushlons covered first with bright-colored
silk or cambric and then with some one
-ff k xsisom swMwmrf kaitt4-velit4
in silk or linen or fine cotton trimmed
with knitted fringe or lace, are pretty. A
I crocheted cover for a goblet (with the stem
f broken) with a com to hang it Dy, ma&ea
easy for the recipient of the gift to have a
blooming hyacinth in the window.
Wall pockets make useful presents. A
common palm-leaf fan may be thus util-
ized. Cover it with cretonne or other ma-
i terial, sew a straight piece of the same,
half the diameter of the fan in width, to
the circumference of the fan, hem the oth
er edge of the strip and put in an. elastic
cord; this makes the pocket. Wind the
handle with cretonne and put on it a knot
of ribbon to hang it up by. "Work bags
made of bed-ticking with the white stripes
covered with stitches in gay-colored silks
of various color, and lined, make useful
presents for the housewife, Macreme
whisk-holders, hancWbags, lambrequins for
brackets and mantel-pieces, are very showy
and handsome and easily made.
For an old person, a carpet foot muff, a
knitted lap rolje, a spectacle case, a warry
foot rug, axe useful presents. An old lady
will appreciate one of the crocheted worst
ed caws, and most comfortable. INew
York Tribune.
The Progress of the South.
"All the South reminds me" says
Beecher, "of a budding spring, intellectu
ally, morally, spiritually. Spring has
broken up the Winter that has so long
reigned in the South. . Everybody there
seems young, and full of life and energy.
The South is at last, if you don't mind a!
Bible phrase, A strong man awakened and
ready for the race.' In all the centres we
visited, and they were all the towns big
enough to pay for a lecture, I was struck
by the interest manifested in the education
of the colored people,"
"Will this education in any way unfit
the colored people for the work they have
todof"
'Education unfits nobody," was the
ready answer. "It is not like wine, of
which one can take so much that he will
become drunk; it is a food, and benefits
alL The South has before it a great fu
ture, and will work ont its own salvation."
What Did He Mean?
. Wife. Mother Js going to leave us to
day. She is going home. .
Husband (aside) Darned glad. (Aloud)
Is she, my dear? Vm sorry she's going.
w She can't stav anv loneer. I am
r " f Co'ng to see her to the depot and as I re
tyt I turn i wi11 caU at tne library and change
tou wantf
H H'ml ye;pringme "faraaise aw
.t. w,i,iiir mnld be seen.
lui a o"'". al
ho hnnnes were
ever.
. 1 r. .n
several . . .iv...m
u...:: L...L.. a ina. Tnanv places. Toward evening w
i
'tio'n or atay disease or weakness and require a
Mimulant-take Farkk's Tonic at once ; it
will iiLvlgorat and build youtup from the first
jse but will never j intoxicate It has saved
MreUs of lives, it may save yours.
IU9C0X & CO., New York,
A. - If
r irr" l otion along the eastern
pari, k - - v f the morrow
i rrTth the latter
' dtaTa detachment ot
yne Nflr
Ivalr They spent the night in a
1 T. "v?. ..i wsir-i the natives had
,1-1 tVlclsed World, Says He.
a Mirhii-an fanner went to the assistance
A rnan wiN bad broken down in the
of a man wi.- .. TOntAd hv
en hegoThomeit
Lowell on William Payne.
In his prime he would not paint every
body ; I recollect one noveau riche who so
displeased him that an offer of $10,000for a
portrait was not accepted. Page was very
sensitive and proud. There were others
more popular Elliott, for example ; but I
don't think that he had a superior any
where. The only tronbie was that some
times he wanted ninety sittings. He could
have iminUxl rapidly ; perhaps it was his
vehicle that delayed him. Some of his sit
ters were quite willing to give him ninety
sittings, to hear him talk ; but few of them
had the time to spare. In historical paint
ing also he Was great. I remember his
picture of Aaron and Hur holding up the
arms of Moses on the mount fine in con
ception and execution. The portraits of
Beecher and Farragut are excellent
He made a good portrait of me which
has stood perfectly, out there again he
wished to try experiments to let the light
fall directiv from above, thus keeping the
eves in shadow. People didn't like it
Emerson said: "There isn't steel enough
in the eyes." The same day I beard Page
tell Emerson's story about Washington,
how the Father of his Country was in-;
terrunted in his prayers in a tent when be
had elven orders not to be disturbed, and
how he rushed out of the tent swearing
roundly. I remember the dry humor of
Emerson, with his nose drawn down as it
always was in that mood, and his dry re
mark. " Glad to hear of this touch of na
ture in our iron-cast man." But when
Page painted a really successful head he
nainted something very great It showed
the mastery that makes anything great.
fhe Cotlmely End of a Tennessee
" Collector of Texas.
1 bad to do it yes, I had to do if he
Explained ia. a Tennessee court room to
the jury. "It was a matter of self-de
fence."
"Did this plaintiff here, whom you shot
twice, draw any weapon?" asked the
Uwyer. ; ;
"I don't say as he did.?'
"Was he about to?"
"I don't say as he was. 'Deed, I guess
he didn't, have noweepins with him."
But you plead self-defence."
jfsartta, I doC f. went up thar in
tov;uihip lit fall We lived on sassafras
be liacon all winter. This spring
gK,fTrk'&w hills o corn and taters, and I
Kep&sa
Things Begun to look as if we bad seen
the wust The ole woman was reckonin'.
on a new kaliker, and I was plannin' to git
my old rifle fixed, when when "
iiere the prisoner seemed overcome by
his emotions, and it was two or three min
utes before be could continue:
'Well, I might a-knowed .that some
calamity would come sooner or later and
kick the skillet up the chimbly. I was al
ms a poor critter poor, but strivin' to be
white all the way through."
'Proceed,'' said the lawyer after tbe
prisoner had wept some more.
I sot ont tear on a log. kinder hopin' that -
the corn and taters wouldn't grow fast
'miff to keep me from goin' fishin', and
the ole woman she was smokin' jimweed
in her pipe and wonderin' if the children
had treed fnother coon, when when this
'ere feller1 what got shot swooped down
like one 'o them sighclones. . All was
changed in on minit All was "
They let i have a few minutes to
crowd down nis feelings, and he went on :
'He did&'t make no bones about it, 'tall.
He axes it my name was Dan'l Scott and
I Bays it wan. He axe if I owned the farm
and I gift iy to him straight Then he
pulls ont a paper and says :
" 'Dan'i, I'm cum fur.'
"Furwhat?'
" The taxes.'
What taxes?'
" "State and county, Dan'l. We can't
nra this 'ere best kentry on airth and her
Liberty and Union and a Fourth of July
every year without money. Them as owns
land must pay taxes.'
'Neverf says L The tyrant don't live
as kin put his foot on the neck ot Dan'l
SoottP 1
'But you must pay,' says he, or I'll
have to seQ you out'
"Walt gents, that was threats.. That
was drmn me to the wall. The ole
woman begun to cryin',the children cum
up and sniveled, and corn and taters and bee
trees and coon tracks and bright prospects
all went to the dogs. I couldn't no, I
couldn't!"
"Couldn't what, Mr. Scott?"
"Call me Dan'l, onless you want to hurt
my f eelins. I meant I couldn't put up
with no sich threats of aasassinashun.
The ole woman sneaked me the double-
bar Pd shotgun over the brush fence, and I
popped away, and popped to kill. Yes,
gents, Fm tellin' you the solemn truth, and
I want to ax if there's a free-born Ameri
can, citizen and Tennessee natrlot amonff
t J U .vttd -k ,wji)
At last accounts the jury was still out
A London Editor.
William T. Stead, late editor of the Pall
Mall Gazette, is of the "slastier" type, full
of earnestness. He met Chinese Gordon
at Dover, talked over the then situation in
Egypt returned to London, and wrote the
article which compelled the government
to send Gordon to the Soudan, and once
there he raised such a row that the govern -
ment had to send Wolseley to Gordon's
rescue. He got up a great scare as to the
condition of the English navy. He is
strongly for Russia, and is supposed to be
a powerful factor in that section of the
liberals opposed to war with Russia.
Mr. Stead is about 40 years of age, a
slim, wiry, nervous man, with push and
energy stamped upon his brow. The son
of a Congregatkmalist minister, he was
born at Howden on Tyne, and at first
floated on the world as junior clerk in a
r hipping office. As a boy he was passion
ately fond of reading, especially of works
having reference to the history of his coun
try, and after quitting work for the day it
was his custom to retire to his room and
study up the great events of the empire.
So diligent was young Stead in this respect
that he won the prize offered by a local
paper for the best essay on liver Cromwell,
against a large number of competitors;
As he matured from youth to manhood
his literary talents developed uid were ad
mired and appreciated outside of his local
circle, so much so that he was offered and
accepted a position on the Northern Echo,
a daily published at Newcastle. From
junior reporter he rose to the position of
editor, and rendered valuable assistance to
Mr. Gladstone's canse by bis vigorous and
pointed articles against the Disraelian ad
ministration. His articles in t lie Eoho
stirred up all the border burghs in favor Of
the "grand old man," and after the vigor
ous campaign Mr. Gladstone expressed his
appreciation of Mr. Stead's assistance In a
kindly worded note. This was the turning
point of Stead's career. When John Morley
accepted the editorship ' of the Pall Mall
Gazatte he chose Mr. Stead as his first
lieutenant and so faithfully did Mr. Stead
fulfill his duties that when Mr. Morley
resigned the editorial chair the proprietor
of the Gazette made Mr: Stead Mr. Mor-
ley's successor.
Plain - Talking Very. :
A village parson.' having in his sermons
! taken too exalted a pitch for the compre
hension of his auditors, found it necessary
to make some apology, which he did as
follows : "Respected1 friends, My oral
documents having recently been the sub
ject of your vituperation, I hope it will not
be an instance of vain eloquence or super
erogation, if I lanconically promulgate,
that avoiding all syllogisticaL aristocrati-
caL and peripatetical propositions, all hy
perbolical exaggerations and extenuations,
whether physically, philosophically, phllo-
.logically, politically or polemically con
sidered, either in my diurnal peregrina
tions, or nocturnal lucubrations, they shall
be defifltely and categorically assimilated
with, and rendered congenial to the
occiputs caput and cerebrums of you, my
most superlatively respectable auditory,
How He la All anclnc The Honaal
Black Warkuiia, the Railroad La
borer and the Town Lounger.
Hamilton Jay writes from Live Oak,
Florida, to the Sew York Sun about a
problem that the Southern people must
solve. It is about the negro as a citizen.
Before the war, writes Mr. Jay, the negro
was a mere chattel, an article of farm prod
uce, as it were, having no moral or men
tal value, simply mercantile in his rela
tions to humanity. The war made him a
man, and a, philanthropic Congress made
him a citizen with the inestimable privi
lege of selling his vote to the highest bid
der, and very often to both party bidders.
For some of these citizens a close observ
er can have only words of praise. : Up the
mq.I unceasing toil, striving In the
"m Xvered the birds were bis own
JSJrrTSSSS all their mates were
missing.
Read This to Tour Husbands.
Oneniaht last week a man got up and
wenfoutofartieatre between the acts,
having his wife. Upon reaching the stoeet
Sped dead, and his wife did not hear
rfthe occurrence until some time after
she reached home.
Experlentla Docet J
Wife of two years' standing. "0h 3'
I'm sure he's not so fond of me as at first
He's away so much, neglects me dreadfully,
and he's so cross when he comes home.
What shall I dor ,
Widow. 'Teed the brutep'
Social Agonies
"Bv the way, are you dining with the
Montmorenov Browns to-night?'
"Oh, Heavens! Now I remember, they
did ask me to dine there to-night!"
"What, and you forgot to answer?'
Oh. I answered fast enough ; but I've
clean forgotten whether I accepted or de
clined!"
Temporarily Out of Journalism.
It is rumored that William Black, the
novelist makes t40,000 a year. This is
probably why we haven't heard from Bill
lately.
m
An Agricultural Triumph.
Farmer's wife (anxiously) Did the pun-
kin win a prize. John?
John (just from the fair) Yesh (hie),
won first prish.
A Little Matter from Michigan.
Hanover, Mich., ladies are justly noted
for their small feet. Two ladies recently
put their feet in a two-quart pail of milk.
fiivo to the cows none but the
, , j. t i tt;,v. mA T,
t3Hb SK forTbls allow any body to milk her either
reason that it has been demonstrated an or woman, and for this reason
L, anthnritv that milk is M be8 fco change ftl?oufc m n,.Vun?
a very prolific source of transmitting occasionally so that the cow will not
The Marriage Tows.
Minister (fashionable church wedding)
"Whom God hath joined together, let no
man putassunder. Let us unite in prayer.
Bride (kneeling, whispering) Remem
ber, George, we are to pass down the right
aisle, and do try and not be awkward.
Yon mortify me to death sometimes.
A Weird Subject.
"Pa, said a little Kentuoky boy, "what
is a ghost of a smile?"
. "A ghost of a smile," the ratner repne i,
is something that is found in empty
bottles."
and haughty race, diametrically opposed
to them and rank with tbe prejudices of
centuries of dishonor, they have won their
way into the cordial respect and esteem
of the best communities. To ' them no
meed of praise can be too great ; but, alas!
the leaven is too small to cover the multi
tude of sins in the others.
But to this class. In every city, town,
and hamlet they can be found. They
occupy nearly every range . of mechanical
pursuits. They have become skilled v.
sans, carpenters, Ulacksmiths, engineer,
and brick masons. Some of them have
risen to the rank of contractors and
builders, and have large forces of men in
their employ and under their contract
Some of the finest buildings in the South
bear witness to their patient labor and
thoughtful skill These men work early
and late. They save their money and, by
judicious investment double and treble it
Some of them are school teachers,
graduates of Northern temples of learning
where the color of a man's skin is not con
sidered a crime. In the cities, towns, and
hamlets, aftd in the highways and byways
of the country, they have taken their
places, and are industriously seeking to
drill through the adaman tine skulls of
dusky pupils the idea that education is the
one pearl of great price.
All the fault that I can find with them
is -that away down in the subtle recesses
of their life there lurks a smouldering
hatred of the Caucasian. This genera
tion will never outgrow that feeling. But
they repress it obey the laws, conform
strictly to the rules and regulations gov
erning society, and stand well up on the
plane of a self-reliant manhood In their
family relations they seem to be peculiar
ly happy, and as husbands and fathers
compare very favorably with their white
brethren. To the redit of their women,
be it said that they are ladylike and re
fined in oehavior, and lapses from virtue
are so infrequent as to occasion surprise
when they do tiecome known.
So much for the good black citizen.
Now for a grade lower in the scale, the
negro is essentially gregarious.
He was fast becoming a misanthrope,
when the good Samaritan came down
South and began to build railroads. To
and fro throughout the binds went the
agents looking for workmen. They pointed
out to the country negro the land flowing
with milk and honey, the easy work, the
strange sights he would see the jcjRy
nights around the camp fire, the prompt
V--V. ifckt-jen jpnwpe eetij't-i
tween the plow handles straight Into the
railroad contractor's arms. He gathered
his garments about him. bade a grinning
farewell to his household gods, and plunged
into the wilds of South Florida. Ah!
what an elysium of joy was his! The life
just suited him- Now he was never alone,
but in gangs of hundreds he toiled, and
ate, and frolicked. Cutting down trees,
getting out cross ties, digging and grading
all day, his stomach filled with an abund
ance of nourishing food ; when night came
he threw off the Lurden of labor as if it
were a garment, and gave np the earliei
night to his finer and more poetical na
ture. ,
The third grade in black citizenship is an
idle, thieving, shiftless army, a curse to its
race, and a reproach to the civilization of
the century. Its members toil not, neither
do they spin. Utterly devoid of anything
approaching true manhood, they are the
carrion crows of humanity. They swarm
our cities by the hnndredi and to a stran
ger it is a mystery how troy exist. Yet ex
ist they do, aud are always fat ragged,
and saucy. Sooner than work at honest
labor for a dollar a day they loaf around
the village barroom. For a drink of
whiskey they will carry a bucket of water
half a mile. Beastly in all his instincts,
there is no crime too revolting. He will
act as a procurer for the dissolute white
men of the town, and even forage in his
own family for material. I have known
of fathers negotiating for the sale of their
daughters,' and brothers acting as pan
derers for their sisters. ' ,
The woman of this portion of the race
are equally immoral and worthless.
I think that every man who has lived a
term of years in the South, and is a close
observer, if he dares speak the truth, will
bear me out when I say that more than
half of the negroes are utterly unfit for
any purpose of true citizenship. They are
a burden upon the community, growing
up in ignorance and crime, although the
means of education and self-betterment
are at their very doors. No people could
have been kinder to them than the South
ern people. None have dealt with them
with more patience and forbearance.
This majority of the negro race is still
a perplexing problem to tbe Southern
people. They furnish nineteen-twentieths
of all the criminals that infest the South.
They are consumers, and not producers,
living ou the sweat and labor of others.
They bring reproach and contempt : upon
the upright of their own race. They fill
our jails and convict camps. . They
make courts and law officers necessary,
and eat up the land with their idleness
and vice. Their men live upon the shame
and degradation of their people, and their
women bring many a recruit into the
world whose only dowry is the bar sinister.
Among the men drunkenness and gamb
ling are considered twin accomplishments,
and some of the orgies indulged iu would
defy the pen of a Dore to depict Could
the curtain be fully lifted from their lives
it would show a state of affairs so revolt
ing that' Christianity would shudder and
stand back appalled. To call them men
and citizens is a bitter travesty on the
sacred names.
In Hard Lines.
First Sporting Man What horse did you
run in the free for all?
Second Sporting Man Pompano. Did
he win?
First Man Win? Ponpano fell and
killed his jockey.
Second Sporting Man You don't say so.
Luck seems to be dead against me.
Working TJpln Kansas.
Mr. William Smith removed from Ohio
to Kansas, and entered upon a mercantile
life- That is, he opened a store to sell dry
goods, groceries, boots and shoes, hard
ware, tinware,' and all the other wares
known to earth. Mr. Smith had cut his
eye teeth in the Buckeye State, and he did
not intend to lose any of hfr cuteness in
travelling totvard sundown.
The store was a frame building. , He
first provided the windows with heavy
shutters. Then he had three or four sorts
of locks put on the doors. Then he ar
ranged for three spring guns, each one of
which was so set that the robber who got
inside would be shot to pieces in the least
possible time and with the most agonizing
pains. As an additional precaution Mr.
Smith bad wires, attached to doors and
windows in such a way as to send an alarm
.!; h5r,.,J"";w jaifi!biy was dis
turbed. Then he bought a bulldog war
ranted to hear a fly at night, and hired a
man to sleep in the store and armed him
with two shotguns.
It would look to a man up a tree as if
Mr. Smith's general assortment of fall and
winter styles was about as safe from the
ruthless hand of the invader as anything
in this country, . but a great surprise was
in store for him. The other morning when
i he went down to business, he found the
front doors open and half his stock gone.
His hired man and two shotguns were
sound asleep in the bedroom, and the bull
dog sat in the sun on the steps, and was
too languid to wag his stump of a talL
The spring gun hadn't sprung, and the
alarm wires dangled in fantastic shapes.
Robbers had crawled under the store
and cut a hole through the floor. As this
wasn't the regular way of breaking into a
place, the dog didn't object and the hired
man didn't want to leave his dreams to
raise a row.
Mr. Smith doesn't know any more about
the dark ages, drift period, or the mound
builders than he did before that robbery,
but he has gained considerable insight into
architecture. He has discovered that
people are not so very particular whether
they enter a store by the front door, a rear
window, or by way of the lower floor.
He is hopping mad, and has offered a re
ward, and he wants somebody caught and
lynched, but he shouldn't fly off the han
dle in that fashion. There are several
works on architecture which he can pro
cure of any respectacle newsdealer, and any
one of them will give him valuable hints
on underpinning and how to compound it
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel of
polity, Btrenpth and wholosomeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds and
cannot be sold In competition with the multi
trde of low test short weight :lnm or phos
phate powders. Sold onlv in 1,
Bakmg Powder Co., 106 Wall St., N. Y: 4n4
Mason Hamlin
Total Depravity.
A ministerial friend of mine, says a
writer in a Chicago paper, was down town
the other day without his pocketbook.
As he walked toward the street car he
discovered that he had in his pocket only
a nickel, and he discussed in his own mind
whether he should walk home and save
the nickel, or ride home. He finally de
cided that he was too tired to walk, and
was in the act of hailing a street car when
an old darky, bent and decrepid, accosted
him. The old man explained that he had
nothing to eat since morning, and that he
was so faint that he could scarcely stand.
and that be was in great distress, and that
a very little would help him. He told, in
short a very pitiful . story. And the
clergyman, always sympathetic, listened
patient! v. At last ha told the vSniwt
pocket and tst if he gave that to he'
would be compelled to walk home. The
old darky became more earnest in his
plea, told how miserable he was, and as
sured the clergyman that the Lord would
bless him for giving to him the poorest of
the poor. Finally the clergyman gave the
old fellow the nickel and started to walk
home. , He had not gone more than two
blocks when the street car passed him,
and on the rear was the old darky. As
he passed he raised his hands and shouted ;
"May de Lawd bress you," cut a pigeon
wing, and skipped into the car.
They Didn't See It at First.
A joke is i a mystery to some people. In
a certain court in Maine the pro
ceedings were delayed by the failure of a
witness named Sarah Mony to arrive. After
waiting a long time for Sarah the court
concluded to wait no longer, and wishing to
crack his little joke, remarked : "This court
will adjourn without Sarah-mony." Every
body laughed excepting one man, who sat
in solemn meditation for five minutes, and
then burst into a hearty guffaw, exclaim
ing : "I see it! I see it!" When he went
home lie tried to tell the joke to
his wife. " There was a witness
named Mary Mony who didn't
come," said he, "and so the court said:
'We'll adjourn without Mary-mony.' " "I
don't see any point to that" said his wife.
"I know it," said he, "I didn't at first ; but
you will in about five minutes."
little
A cow should always be (aught to
disease germ from impure f o od, and
especially impure water.
Tor suit the lies for opinions, the
conduct for convictions.
become too much accustomed to one
person's attention.
- People who have more polish than
principle use it lavishly.
A Hospitable Welcome.
"And are you glad to see me, my
man?" asked the Bishop of Bobby.
"Yes, sir," replied Bobby.
"And why are you glad to see me?"
"Because it's only when you come that
weahave anything for dinner worth eating."
jA False Report,
Featherly I understand you and Robin
son had a row last night?
Dumley Yes.
Featherly And that he made you take
water.
Dumley (valiantly) It's a lie. No man
living can make me take water.
To a Limited Extent Only.
Miss Clara Are you an anglomaniac,
Mr. Featherly?
Mr. Featherly Well hardly as strong
as that Miss Clara. I fish occasionally ;
but 1 am fond of angling only, to a limited
extent" i
A Fair Warning.
Only days until you get the smallpox
if you are not vaccinated.
A small quantity of perfectly dry
acetate of lead or borate of mangan
ese in impalpable powder will hasten
the drying of the ink. It is ess m
tial that it be thoroughly incorpora
ted with the ink by trituration in a
mortar.
A Clown of gold cannot cure the
headache nor a velvet slipper the
gout.
Saws by the Late Josh Blllinie.
Twins 2 mutch.
Dignity Wisdom In tights.
Enough sJ 1st a leetle more.
Mule A bad pun on a horse.
Law The shackels ov liberty.
' Stinginess The bran of economy.
. Sarcasm An undertaker in tears.
Deceit A dead wasp with a live tail
Bachelor The hero of a cot bedstead.
Hash A boarding-house confidence
game.
Lap dogs A nucleus for affeckshun out
of a job.
Braggadocio One who pulls hiz own
courage noze.
Solitude A good place tew visit but a
poor place tew stay.
Boardng-school A place whare wry
coffee and fiirtashun iz taught
Bliss Happiness bileingover and run
ning down both sides ov the pot
Miser A wretch who haz dug out hiz
heart to stow away hiz munny in.
Spiritualist A curbstone broker, who
sells exchange on Ben Franklin & Co.
Marriage An altar on which man lays
his pocket-book and woman her love-letters.
-'-,
Anxiety Milking a kicking heifer with
one hand and holding her by the tail with
the other.
Graveyard A small patch ov land cul
tivated by the dead, lieing between time
and eternity.
i Fortune The aggregate of possibilities;
a goddess whom cowards court by stealth,
but whom, brave men take by storm.
(For tbe destruction of book worme,
pat the books into a case which clos
es pretty well, and keep a saucer
supplied with bedzine within it for
some few weeks. Worms larvje, eggs
all are said to be got rid of.
'Eternity is long enough to make
np for the ills of our brief troubled
life here. (
ORGANS:
HIehejt Hon.
on at all Great
"oriert fcxhi
b 1 1 i o n for.
eignteen years.
One hundred
Stvlef. Cm n
feoo.'ForCaah,
Easy Payment!
ornentea. cat
elogues free.
turn
PIANOS
New raodt el
Stringing. Do
et require oa.
qaarler m
much tuning aa
Piano ea the
prerallinu
"wieittaB
ayatem. St..
aurkable far
purity of los
aad durability.
ORGAN MD PIANO CO.
154TremofrtSt.,Boton. 46 E. 14th St (Vales Sa.)
H. Y. 149 Wsbath Ave., CW"" W"
A
NEW AND
VICE.
VAIiAUBLEDE-
Patent
Water Closet Sea:
CUBE OF HEMORRHOIDS,
j l "o" " ' . i
' Commonly Called Files. : - i -
INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL PBOLAP.
BUS AI.
NO MEDECINE OR SURGICAL OPERA
TION NECE8SARr,
I have invented a SIMPLE WATER CL08ET
SEAT, for the cure of the above troublesome
and painful malady, which I confidently place
before the public as a Sues Rilist aud
Curb
It has received the endorsement of tbe
leading physicians in this community, and
Wherever tried. ha5 e-ivnn nt.irn na.t.infiu.Mnn
and where It fails to relieve the money wfli
be willingly returned.
inese seats will be furnished at the follow
ing prices :
Walnut fi.00i
Cherry 5.00 ) Disc onnt to Phlslolins'
Poplar 5.00,' -
Directions for nsinp- i will BiininTinnv onr-h
Seat. J
We trouble. VOn with nn ncrrlfloati. Wa
leave the Seat to be its advertiser.
address, 4
LEWIS CHAMBERLAIN,
Tarboro, Edgeo.'iube Co..,N. C. Jca&rly
RESUMED.
We take pleasure in announcing to
our numerous patrons and friends
that we have jiow reeovered from
the dnarraogemant to our business
caused by the recent tire, and hav
now resumed at the below named lo
cation, where we trust to meet all of
our former customers.
:0:
mm ZOELLER
PHARMACISTS
AND
DRUGGIST
AT THE WED DELL BOOK QTORt.
Opposite the BRYAN HOUSE and adjoin
ing the POST OFFCE.
jQEAFNESS.
Its causes and cure, by ooej who was deaf
twenty-eight yesrs. Treoted by most of the
noted specialists of the day with no benefit
Cared himself in three months, and since then
hundreds of others by game process. A plain
simple and successful home treatment Ad
dress T. 8. PAGE, 138 East 3GtQ 8t, New
York City.
48t4.
BIG OFFER.
To introduce them we will giveaway 1000
self-operat ng Washing Machines. If you
want one fend us your name, P. O. and ex
press office at once.
40(4 THE NATIONAL CO., 21 Dey 8t. N. T.