VOL. 4.
LASKER-ORTIIAMPTOX COUNTY, X. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 28,' 1895.
XO. 13.
fk6m the old world.
v VISIT TO ALEXANDRIA, CAIRO
AM) THE P V KA MIDS TKIP UP
THE NILE.
fFor the Patron and Gleaner.
U. S. F. San Francisco,
Alexandria, Egypt,
Mar. 5, 1695.
In Algiers we relieved the
"Chicago" and became Flagship
of the European station in com
maud of Admiral Kirkland, and
on the 21st of Feb. last both
ships put to sea.
When a few miles at sea we
steamed slowly in order to bid
ach other fare-well, three
Jnarty cheers were exchanged
and the Chicago's men were so
over-joyed at the thought that
they were going home that many
of them threw their caps over
board, and even a dummy marine
.was hurled from aloft into the
s a. They tlew a homeward-bound
jKMinant 350 feet long and while
they steamed away to the sun-set
we headed to the easfr We passed
on the north coast of Sicily and
through the beautiful strait of
Messina which seperates Sicily
from Italy. We had a fine view of
ML Etna, that historical volcano
of which so many of you have
read.
We then headed South-east and
on Feb. 27 anchored in this har
bor not far from the Palace of His
Highness the Khedive of all
Egypt
An Arab pilot brought us in
from the- sea. On the morning
of i'nd . inst a party of about 30
men left the ship to see the won
ders of the world.
Wo .spent most of the day visi
ting places of interest in this ci
ty. We were at the River Nile
and in the Kh eel ive'sr garden, then
to L'ompey's Pillar. This is one
of the 15 original columns that
su ported the front of an enor
mous structure several thousand
years ago, the fourteen others
with the building fell ages ago
and have- been covered by . the
debris of many centuries.
This pillar is composed of four
parts and, I judge, about 150 feet
s high. The curiosity about it is
that the main part, which makes
up over 100 feet of its heigh t, is
comosed of one piece of polished
granite possibly 16 feet in diame
ter. There is no machinery in exis
tence to-day that could raise even
one fourth of this column of gran
ite. The sight-seer can only re
llect what Egypt has been. Next
we visited the Catacombs, one of
the burial places of the ancient
Egyptians. Here we decended
alKnit tiftv feet below the surface
of the earth: then we could look
in several directions through
large tunnels cut in solid sand
stone. These passage ways were
some twelve feet wide and possi
bly tifteen feet high and on either
side, one above the other, were
many excavations about two feet
square and deep enough to re
ceive the body. L crawled into
'one-of these places and found a
bone.- There were others that
wort sealed up yet We saw
'other kinds of vaults and several
ca verns that were so dark we did
not care to venture in. In the
darkness-we could seecurious
bats Hying f rom wall to wall.
Hut these places were aband
oned for their original purpose
centuries ago and are now only
tit for the greedy eyes of tourists.
Ti red of Alexand ria, we secu red
the services of one of the best
guides one who has shown many
American people to thePyramids,
and at four o'clock P. M. board
ed the cars and away we wejnt up
the fertile valley of the . Nile,
These green plains, I think, are
1 15 to 20 miles wide; from the mid
dle I was able to see the barren
sand-hills on either side.
No trees except a few tall palms
and I noticed that all this valley
has to be irrigated for it seldom
rains. Along the railway line one
sees life as it is in the country-
long trains of camels and donk
eys on their way to and from the
market; herds and their keepers
in the fields, oxen employed in
turning large wooden wheels
which lift the water from the can
als and run it off into small ditch
es over the fields.
Nearly all the people live in
small villages and their houses
are built of mud and straw, for
they have no timber; the houses
have no chimneys and some no
windows. At 8 o'clock at night
we were in Cairo, the capital of
Egypt and the largest city in Af
rica. The next morning was Sunday,
but not with the Egyptians; their
stores and shops of trade were
open and usual business was go
ing on; but we had little time to
spend in Cairo for we must see
the Pyramids, nine miles away;
accordingly our cruide brought
live carriages; some however pre
ferred to ride donkeys while their
drivers ran behind with a stick to
make them go fast Crossing the
Nile we came to the prettiest
drive-way I ever saw; two rows
of -great shade trees formed an
jirch over the way the whole dis
tance. At the end of this drive
where the verdant plains of the
Nile and the boundless waste of
desert land meet stands the Py
ramids and the Sphinx.
The largest Pyramid, called
Gizen, is 543 feet high, 693 feet on
each of the four sides and its base
overs 11 acres of ground. The
layers of stone from bottom to
top number 208. m a ny s tone s a re
over 30 feet long, 4 feet broad and
3 feet thick. All of this material
was brought from the Arabian
mountains many miles away.
How were these stones of such
enormous weight transported?
..
Indeed it is wonderful.
'Prom the Pyramids we could
look away out on the desert and
see something which they told us
was petrified forest
About twenty miles up the Nile
we could see two other Pyramids
and another out on the desert
Not far from the-Pyramids is
the Sphinx to which we rode on
camels. This wonder has the
body of a lion and the head of a
woman and possibly, four of five
thousand years ago adorned the
front of a - palace of King's:
but the sweeping sands of the
desert century after century have
covered all except the head, neck
and a part of the right front paw
which from the shoulder is 40 or
50 feet long.
Retracing our journey we came
aboard the ship at .nine o'clock
that night, and our clothes full of
sand from head to foot and very
tired but well satisfied.
Now, I do not assert that all I
have said is correct for I have no
books for information, so have to
write f rom what I was told and
from my own observation.
J. Barnes.
Give Encouragement.
Give the young and struggling
a word of encouragement wnen
ou can. You would not leave
those plants in your window box
es without water, or refuse toop-
en 'the. shutters that the sunlight
might fall upon them, but you
would leave some human flower
to suffer from want of apprecia
tion or the sunlight of encourage
ment There are a few hardy
souls that can struggle alone on
tonv soil shrubs that can wait
for the dews and sunbeams.
ines that climb without kindly
rainincr. but onlv a few. Utter
the kind word when you can see'
it is deserved. The thought that
no one knows and no one cares"
blights many a bud of promise.
Be it the voung artist at his easel,
the young preacher in ins pulpit
the workman at his bench,, the
bov at hismathematical problems,
or your little girl at the piano,
give what praise you can.
STRANG Eli THAN FICTION.
A COMMON PLACE AD VENTURE UN
INTELLIGIBLY RELATED IN
GOOD DICTIONARY WORDS .
The following is aclippingf rom
an old copy of St Nicholas, and
shows that we liave a great many
words that our most voluble talk
ers never use. It is a literary
curiosity, and I want some of the
boys and girls who read your pa
a .
per, 10 reproduce ine story in
simple language for your read
ers. W. C. P., Seaboard, N. C.
Being easily exsuscitated,
1 1 a m mm
ana an amniconst ionu oi m
escating fish and broggling with
an ineluctable desire for the am-
olition of care, I took a punt, and
descended the river in a snithy
gale. The water being smooth, I
felt I could venture with incolum
ity, as I was familiar with the
obuncous river.
Having broggled without re
sult I rowed toward an eyot, in
tending merely to quiddle. when
I suddenly saw a. hackee.' Wish
mg to capture him, -I de
cided to circumnavigate, and
take him unaware. Landing
I derned myself where I
could see the hackee deracinat
ing grass. He discovered me,
and skugged behind a tree,
occasionally protruding his noil.
Seizing a stick, I awaited the
caput When the neg appeared,
I feagued him. The hackee,
whice is pedimanous, tried to
climb the bole. He seemed sheep
ish, and I suspected him of some
michery, especially as his cheeks
seemed ampullaceous. I caught
him by the tail, and he skirled.
Though ho was sprack, I held on
with reddour, and tried finally to
sowle him. The hackee looked
soyned, and tried to scyle. I be
labored him, and he cleped, mak
ing vigorous oppugnation, and ev-
igently longing for divogation.
Then a pirogue approached, and
an agricultor landed. This dis
tracted the hackee, and I sowled
him, but dropped him because he
scratched so. I vowed to exun-
gulate him when caught
Borrowing a fazzolet, I tried to
yend it over the hackee's head,
as a means of occeation. The as-
ricultor aided. He was not at
tractive,' seemed crapulous, and
not unlike a picaroon. He had a
siphunculated dinner-pail, which
looked as if he had "been batter
ing it while pugging. But with a
stick and some string he made a
bisson. This caused nuinching
by the hackee, who seized the co
adjutor's hallux. Thus exasper
ated, the agricultor, captured
the hackee without any migniar-
dise; but heglouted over the bite,
und his rage was not quailed un
til the hackee was a litch. Car
rying it to the punt I sank into a
queachy spot which delayed me
until the gale obnubilated the
sky. ,
While removing the pelage, I
found the lich somewhat olid, be-
cause the swinKer naa ieagueu
the hackee, and so I yended the
lich away, went to market and
supped upon a spitchcock and a
hot bisk.
War Belies.
Friend Warlick wrote a com
munication for the Courier a few
weeks ago, informing its readers
as to me number oi rencs ne
brought home from the war. Mr.
Warlick also counts gun shot and
sabre cuts as relics. Now if those
are counted as relics I can nearly
beat him two to one. At the bat
tle of Gettysburg I was wounded
nine times, had fifteen bullet holes
through my clothes and 2 through
one shoe. Lost no umos ana
would make a pretty good old sol
dier yet if they would give me a
position in a suttlers shop. D. A.
Coon, in Lincolnton (N. C.) Cou
rier.
Bread. Where ? How?
- THE KOON-TI PLANT. NO. 2.
. IFor the Patron and Gleaner. J
In preparing the Koon-ti for
market it has to be reduced to
fine flour. The mills in which it
is prepared are something like
the apple mills of the North; in
fact one gentleman here uses an
apple milL
The real Koon-ti mill need not
be particularized, as most of your
readers can imagine their struc
ture. They cost about $40.00.
Horses, steam and hand mills are
all used. Some of the latter, like
"the millsof the gods, grind slow
ly as you can conjecture.
A man can dig from four to five
barrels of the roots a day. The
tops are cutoff and most persons
cut the roots in about two inch
pieces. They are then deposited
in barrels of water, and left to
soak about twelve hours, when
they are thrown into the mill,
ground into pulp, and strained
through a brass wire sieve until
the starch is extracted.
This starch runs through the
sieve into a tank where it remains
about three hours to set tie. From
this runs off what is called the
rid water; and which, by the way,
is one of the finest fertilizers
You ought to see how splendidly j
vegetation flourishes around a
Koon-ti mill. The starch is then
shoveled out of the tank, and
placed in a barrel which is filled
with water, and left to stand an
other three hours. In this barrel,
the starch settles to the bottom;
and when the water is poured off,
a layer of yellow starch is found
overlying the white. This yellow
layer is carefully removed, and
used as food for chickens, pigs,
etc. Horses are fond of it and
the Indians make' bread of it
The "yellow," as it is called, is
never shipped, there being, as
you see. plenty of uses for it in
the home market
The white layer of starch is
again washed, and after settling
once more, is taken from the wa
ter and spread upon cloth "dry
ers" fastened on wooden frames.
After a couple of days drying
one day in the hot sun is often
sufficient it is ready to be mar
keted.
M. H. Kice.
Lahaska, Pa.
TO BE CONTINUED,
Tlie Spirit of the Teacher.
"As is the teacher so is the
school" a maxim trite, but for
ever true. As is the teacher s
interest in a given subject, so is
the interest of the pupil, and so
the strictly ethical effects. One
of the saddest sights on earth is
a half-dead teacher, working up
on a hahdead class, the product
of his own handicraft As, on the
other hand, one of the most beau
tiful, is the inspiring teacher be
fore a class, made sharers of his
own spirit throbbing with a cer
tain newness of life and sense of
growing power, l nave seen me
mere Gerund-grinder, or numer
ical Baggage machine, monoton;
ouslv kiboring at a creaking
crank, and turning out mechan
isms the image of himself, and I
have seen too, the Artist teacher.
a happy union of cultured brain
and loving heart working even
upon the inert product of the
spiritless tradesman with results
typified in. the d ream-vision of the
prophet What a marvelous
change! How soon is there a
shaking of the dry bones, a move
ment of flesh and sinews snd cov
ering skin, and a soul created un
der the ribs of death? J. A.
MacLellan.
Let a man buCspeak forth "with
genuine earnestness the thought
the motion, the actual condition
of his own heart and other men
so strangely are we all knit to
gether by the tie of sympathy-
must and will give heed to bun.
Carlyle.
He Got the Place.
The boy came briskly into the
office, doffed his hat and bowed to
the manager.
"I understand vou want a bov,
sir," he said.
Yes, we have a vacancy.
4Can you? What sort of a place
do you want?'
"Where the re's a little workand
as much pay as the house can
stand. -
"Um, most boys when they
come are willing to take all work
and no pay.
'Im not most bovs.
4Oli, you're not? You are pret
ty fresh, aren't you?"
"Yes, sir, but I know it and I'm
getting cured.
"Do you expect to get the kind
of a job you Want?" j
"No, sir; nobody gets what he !
wants, exactly, but it doesn't hurt :
him to expect a good deal. " r j
1 "What pay do you think you!
should have?'
Three dollars per week."
"The iother boys we have had
only got two."
"How many have you had in!
the last year?"
"Eight or ten.'
"I thought so. Tliat's the kind
of a boy a two-dollar boy is. "
"Aro you not that kind V
so, sir; II l come l nang up
my hat and stay."
"Suppose you don't like it?"
"I'll stay just the same."
"Suppose we bounce you?"
"I'll be glad of it sir."
"Glad of it?'
."Yes, sir; if the house isn't sat-
lshed with the right kind of a
boy, it isn t; the right kind of a
J
house for the riglit kind of a boy
to be in."
The
look at
employer took a second
1 r
the boy.
"Um," he said; "will you say
that again?"
"No,
sir; it's time I was going
to work if I'm going to worlc and
if I'm not it's time! left. Do I
go in or out?" and the manngor,
with much doubt in his mind,
said "in," and the boy went in
with a will. American Store
keeper. J
Obituary,
Passed away from a bed of
suffering on Sunday morning
March 17th, 1695, W. C. Wilson
in the 46th year of his age. Mr.
Wilson come to Northampton
from Norfolk County, Virginia, in
1876, and shortly afterwards mar
ried Ida, thb daughter of Alanson
Capehart Esq., then one of the
largest planters on Koanoke Riv
er. His wife dying a few years
afterwards, Mr. Wilsoncoutinued
to live in Northampton County
until his death. For fifteen years
he was the trusted agent of
George P. Burgwyn, Esq., at the
Bull Hill Mill stores. Mr. Wil
son was true and faithful to the
interests of his employer, lie
was a kind hearted, courteous
clever gentleman, and was very j
popular with all classes -especi- j
ally with the colored jeop!e -by j
. . . !
whom he was universally re-
spec ted and beloved. If ho liad
an enemy in this worldit is a
fact unknown to Uie writer of
these lines. Truthful efficient in
business matters, gentle, open
handed and ojen hearted, he will
be sadly missjed by every one,
with whom he had any intercourse
whether in business or in social
life. He suffered much towards
the last LefrUis hoi, that he is
now at rest and in tliat world
where pain and sufferings are un
known. ; 1 1
J. B. M.
"i
Jackson, N. C-
A class in grammar was recit
ing and one of the youngeVboys
was asked to comjarc ..sick."
He began thoughtfully, -Sick
jjQused while his brain struggled
with tJie problemthen finished
triumpliantlv, 'Sick, wor,
dead.'
NOTICE.
eUte of NaihiIrl Hsu-ham and nil
perMjti hold! g claim asmt sU
it? are hereby noiiflel to prrMraih
t roe on or tf.re tbr 21 t iUy rf
Mrrh, lCI,orthi tticc will be fl?3i!ctl
i hr of I heir rt-orrry.
Th1 12ib4r of Prh.
NOTICE TO TEAnPTT!ns
If you want a position
for next year, or if you
desire a better salary, we
can Ih of service to you.
Write for particulars.
If you know where a
teacher is' wanted give
us information and if we
can till it you sluill be re
wanhnl. Chas. J. Parker, Manager,
Teachers Aid Association,
Ifcdeiglu N. C.
R0UEN-PEKIN DUCKS.
The hanliest and best layers of
j all d ucks. One of the very finest
j ducks on the market for general
I ........ . . n . a r
pu:Hie, eptciauy iioum lor
arge size and gotxl laying Quali
ties. Eggs in season at $1.50 for 13.
Apply to E. M. Ijowc, ,
Bryantown, N. C.
JMCCHCICS ami llVC MlSSCS.
Do you want a jxiir of gbisses
flint :. will mnkn vnn in luttr ntwl
.;n
xiiiii'iti iu n. lii.if. win iiii i
1 your eve sight if it is defectivo.
j that will not tiro your eyes, then
icoue to u. i .muuhl cc lu,
Jackson, tj. who attMnakinga
jsiM-cialty of litting Glasses and
f can replace broken ixirts at small
cost
GROCERIES!
I. C. BRINKLHY,
(Succcor to KUenor & I3rinkley),
jioctiisniDsi. - .nnaone. v.i,
Can be found at the
old stand where a full
and com pic to line of Gro
ceries are kept which are
offered at
LOW DOWN PRICES
at Wholesale and KetaiL
The
Hotel
JAS. SCULL,
; rnorniKTOii.
B
utovjun,
JACKSON. N. C.
Livery Attached.
TliU Hotel, .HuaU-l on the raot
ih-lraMc lot In Jack-on for a hotel,
U well furniskd throughout am! no
effort i:trtl to lit it for t!e Coo
veuienc; and t-ouifurt of if jiatron.
THE TA3US W t 2 SUffU0 WIH"
THE 85T Th M4SCET AfrCD$.
Term to su!t the tirae. 1-4-tf
TIIK TAI1LK.
In .effect A. April 1C.
iJilly ei.ert JtmIar.
l Tra Train
N. 131. X. 3.
A. M.
2:15
3:15
"... M J, "
Arrive C,ntn;tTf, "
Train
Xo.il.
V. M.
12:15
l2:- :
1:15
Tm!n
So.X
V. .
5:10
M iel.t "
Arlve Jekon, k
V. Kell, Geo! Mr.
Chi. Klirlurt, A el. .Sup't.