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Spectacles, Eye Glasses, - and. R epairingf . THE ADVANCE. (ft ftOi nm a m m I Watered In the rott . office at Asherll'.e V. X. tim tonU c'.haa matter. - sruscniPTiox ruiCE: Daily, one year,- 80.00 ; w six months, .. 3.00 ono month, .. 50 Weekly, one year, 1.00 I VHITLOCK has been the fortunate purchaser of a good many goods in Hs line at extremely low prices and it is his rule to give his customers the advantage of every bargain lie ... . i ecures, he is making a specialty ! I : ' ' - Go to J. D. Robertson, the Jeweler, for Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, j . " ' nun J, -111 f f Hi ': i .i t I . f 1 M '1 TJIi:ODOKi: IIOI5GOOD, lMItor and Proprietor. SATURDAY JUNE 20, 1S55. HOW TO d:z in Persia. Oiarux as m It lTert Heading from tho Koran Hired Ionrnr. it Ac maa lies in cxtfcmk on a thin mattress upon the floor, covered by a quilted silken coverlet. Twenty or thirty persons are in tho room where he is dying. The smoke of many hubble bubbles clouds the air; whimpered con versation is ginerai. Tho doctors have declared their patient's condition hopeless, and, as a last resort, certain charms suggested by a weird looking denrbih hate been triod. But the crab broth, prepared from the tiny crusta c .n3 that inhabit the streamlets round Milnu, the pektint has been nnable to swallow; and tho dervish points out to the relatives of the dying man that his panacea has only proved infallible because it wa3 tried too late A veiled woman, the wife of tho dying man, sits .weeping at tho side of her husband's - pillow. She frequently holds to his face a moistened piece of inud torn from te will (this wetted mud is sup posed to have a very reviving influence. and is used by Persians as Wo use smell ing salts). ; , Tea is handed round in small cups; tho crowd in the room becomes greater; every trindow is shut, and, as the out side temperature is CO degrees, some idea of the heat within can to formed. The crowd is not hero from mere curios ity. A man is sick; then where should his friends be, they tay, if net by his bedade? The samovars (Russian tea nm 5tcr.ni and bubble; the room is ilJ with clouds of tobacco smoke and the steam from tho urns, and now, just a JKK) years rgo was done in England, a fowl is killed and placed warm and bleeding cn the patient s feet. All is of no avail, however. The man has breathed hb last Tho wife yields her place by the bed side. Moistened cotton-wool is placed in the mouth of tho dead, in tho ori fices of the nostrils, and in the cars. A mooHab begins to read aloud t he priscribed portion of tho Koran, com - meticing "( man, 1 swear by tho in structive Koran that thou art one of the . messengers of (iod sent to show tho right way, etc. This portion of the Mussulman sacred book was called by Mohammed himself "tho heart of tho Koran." And now all present witness iloud that the dead man was a good pious Mohammedan. 'The limbs are composed and a cup of water is placed nt the head of tho corpse. - No sooner is this done than a moon ah ascends to tho liat roof of the house and begins to read in a shrill mouotone certain verses from tho holv hook. This announces to the neighbors that the man is veritably dead ; and at the same moment his relations We Wou Id Ilecommend any one in search of any article in his line to call on him and he will guarantee satisfaction in every transaction or refund money. WHITLOCK very justly claims to carry the most complete and best selected stock of DRY GOODS, FANCY GOODS. MILLESERY GOODS, AST) GENTS FURNISHING GOODS IN Western Carolina l GOODS A few of the specimen values enu merated herewith will convince you of the above facts: He has been selling a very fine Sheer India linen that has always shriek and -wail, "Wo, wo! he is been sollincr at 12ic at 7ic per yard. dead; he has passed away. " These are A beaatifui article of Sheer India M.vWvssMva ui rcai gnu. xui pre, i - , A still finer quality at 18c worth A still finer quality at 20c worth 25c. A still finer quality at 25c worth " The above goods were bought at auctipn and vie would advise anyone cnUy tho Drofessional mourners arrive and rend" the air with their shrill screaming, which is like tho "keening" of the Irish. The house is soon filled with friends end neighbors, who add their cries to tho screams of the mourners. The women of the family hasten to array themselves in "bitter" (L c. somber) carmentsnot in actual black, bnt in sad colprs; neither they nor the men- wanting anything in that line to wftu or crcsd toctr Lair unttf the fo- ncfalcwtha first Arts cf mourning CALL AT ONOE nrt ovot. The male relatives? Go not lit- craiiy rcna ineir garments, out give and secUre itm,ice ngai appearance uy opening certain seams ot ineir coats ana cloaks I -pi - , , , t- with a penknife; and instead bf casting (jreteSt DaTgaillS hwvw w'va MV- t hAVA VU And now come tho "washers of the ever offered to tho people of Western dead." To each parish are attached a I North Carolina. Xaiailyuof thee people, who get a do r psod livelihood by performing the last oihces for tho dead. Tho corpse having been washed at an adjoining stream, the hands are placed across the chest, and it is trapped in tho shroud of cotton cloth that the deceased has probably hd by him as a sort of memento mod for years. Camphor (real vegetable camphor) is placed beneath tho 6hroud. and tho body is laid in a rough roSn in exquisite patterns in every width i i.v uiwu0i. i ana at ail prices. j.cru is uu cuu w to .the house. The coXn in Persia is of I hf sfvlr nf a inin anil unsutteiantuu una, ana tne burial always takes place within twenty four hours of decease. Whitlock! -A NICE ASSORTMENT OF - C3 -IS THE f r - r ii J DON'T j j .7, 'I ; . r. ; That WUITLOCK is selling the very best; 50d? CORSET thaf was ever uuereu. ' . SOLE AG-ENT S3 FOE DUNLAP i CO'S CELEBRATED PARASOLS PELT AND- SILK A T Sil El?8 LACES IX and Xraukards In Turkey. Jsint. Uuett.) According to l'ouqueville, "a Turk w h5 falls down in the street overtaken with wine, and is arrested by the guard, i3 sentenced to the bastinado. This punishment is repeated as far as the third .Tiwo, after which he is reputed incorrigiole, and receives the title of im- .iMt uiuuaiu tf i in Li-mi uruutk- I r-ri 1 anL If after that he is taken up and OrieiltalS, TorCJiail in danger of the bastinado, he has only I tor.amc himself, to mention what pait of tho town he inhabits, and to say he is a privileged drunkard; he is then re leased and sent to sleep on tho warm ashes of the baths." fouqueville. had been in Constantinople at the com mencement of the present century, since which time a good many changes have been introduced into tho city of the sul tans; but an improved way with ine briates is scarcely one of them. London Gin. Vtht Curre-itl The temperance men are doing some good as chemists. They havo learned the actual ingredients of ' London gin to be'alchohol, water, urafic-acid, tartaric acid, acetic-aciJ, ether, sngar, oil of luniper with a trace of oil of turpentine." it docs kill millions. It would slay all who drink it wero it not that tbe tar- Whitlock Eagle Hotel Block. In every description and at all prices. Li . 1 . 1 r- Call and see the New Style r 4 ALSO Rose EARL , and WILSON CELNBEATED Afghan. Collars and Cuffs, andiaiiGyr aper -f i TOTLOGK Eagle Hotel Bi ock. Irish Point Flouncing at 25c per yard, worth 50 and 75c. Swiss Embroidery Flouncing, half taric-ackl destroys tho bad effect of the yard wide at 75c worth 15.0 uralic-aciJ, the acetic-acid in turn over ocmes the fatality of the tartaric ele- tho tartaric-acid in its work of dissolu tion, these then are overcome by the oil cf juniper and at last the man is left to die cf tho oil of turpentine. Good spring water is a much tetter drink He has still a complete line of LADIES' Sin. -" t 4 t-..i .5 .jz.'. i . '. .T U -fmm - AND Solx Eacln for tb Soodaa. T.tchrurfft. Not long ago C&pL Ericsson boiled water by tho sen's rays, using heat ac cumulators, invented bj him, and The London Telegraph points out that if the run cf 'cw Sork can be made to do this, tho sun of fcoudan can be titiliroJ in tlrivirs lcc-)trctivc3 on the L'r ' hFiiURegulai 2I&daHOSEftt23centsljkIade to order. If you wish any- . .oia i.ixg. -ver man naj tii wonaw. ..... - , lthinff in me urnisning uooas call h'.Uti, r.do:titvj ftcy Art tha &dt J 2 11 h FrtatUltibttd HD lit lbb fa hfrldf; will serve yOdpronipi CHILDRENS' SHIRTS I Ne.w: Goods added to this department every day. One of. the- most experienced Millinei-s ever brought to North Carolina. He is prepared to give to the Ladies any and every thing new and stylish in this de partment;. EuMisliiiMllH WHITLOeKis and has been foremost in ererything pertaining to the above department and always ciytog.theatest styUs andaffer insr thems at lowest prices. - :?. 1 ; 'r i v':-r 't GENTS Fnll Regular Made English Half, HOSE at 25c , worm 40ci -r His SOAiur ac 75 cents are.wortzt w.w -?.- ..-ii-o His SOABF at 50 cents afd worth 75c j I . v i ;j V A titmli li3 tl JlilLlJ tf tHlf tiith : .M W 8 .8 ooo . 8 8
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