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- " ' THE CENTRAL TIM . Vol'XG, Manager. Volume I. "LIVE AND LET LIVE." (7. A. GRANTHAM, Local Editer, DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1891. Number 25. ohc (Central gimcg. " V - i Miurn every Tllliwui .. H V E. 1 a. fv. iJi.ti-ii.s in Alaiiec: SI. IK) - r,o i .' ) !', U ; i li-in- Kates: j ) V;ir. . Sl..fK) i . ' " . . 40.00 j ) -I t. i t . 10.00 i ( :: C . U.-rtis. !iH !its taken at 'rti'!!a!' !v low mte. ,:! ii. tii-- s, 10 cents a !mic. -r Hi- '.; in '"', A. C, j Off 1CIAL DIRECTORY. ;, ,;, uu.iyurox. x.r. .unity OJHccr: , ' - r . 'nt (i. K I'riii.--, . - , .- '- - H. 'i. I'oars. " " - ... : I- I'-vr.l W. I Marli, E.l Smith, ..." ! . Sw tun. J. M. Hm!k-s. I ,w a Oil!, ei Dunn, X. U. v... . .1. !". 1 i . i r . j :;--.:- N. T. ('!. .- u M. I.. V.'.i-I". - -..-I-- J. A. Tiivl-.r, M. F. (hiiney, ;, -' !'.. I". F. Y-.iiMtf. ALII AM K. ' Alir;;!! -.- meets on the :M Friday .,!. Ji.! an-1 O.-iolterat Iallintf .1. S. H - .if. rp-si!..-nt. WTii. 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I love and eheerish , ' - .i ; ! ..f i..im and bliist. that glfam alwive thet . : -' -rilit.'st in tli.- night: wrho f. .ndly lo.-s thtt'. ! i:Ln--s U- thy 1,-ht. - - : tli.' (lowing riv.T. h- !! .i nk U.lfi-11 villW Wf.'I: : ;.-af l.ran-h.'s .puvrr, i- l a u.-i.t Maid- n !f.'p. i!r ! ti a ! !!;! i angt-f t!..' a:;d t ' ijc-r. tuanv hours: T. i ! . h.-' no ! i.-ai t i- s raii.-r, for In- -.tr.-v.-- li.-r tat- with tlow'ors. l.a !y. h.-t'd t!i.-- not ii.-r wanting. Lay thy fi wlii;.- han.I in miiif. 1 r 1 i;o fair.-r laiin'! I't :ei th ' .nMant . f thin.- v. n I'... .S.-i in. h .nlii;ht hrightens. Ti-ou ha'l ?'.iir!il-.-f on my'l-ivast; r.-a.h-r'work '.! o-.a ..hall Ught.'n. I tliy ;t into st. M.WS ( (MIMKNT. A Connecticut man has gone into tlie lii'sin, s ut' propagating , sewei tats, lie sells their A ins to "kid"' glove iiiaii'ifacturevs. . c 'Uu t in Ohio. m gi villa ins Vl.o a ltavllii"' l-.lss. s iim..l ii-f, kis 1 1 - J v, lllO v i'i;.r,;ha note telling her where s i. i lunula' was hnhlen. !'-ais cattleman savs that the " ' '.v it pre.o-t is that the sup- 1 iv ,.f i,. f,.om tlmt S;lto wiU" lall sh-it 1 ot.o.noii he:l(i ti,is v(,ar- The interior of Labrador is said t- be the largest unexplored :UVa the eontment. ami it lias a uatelfal! with a sheer descent of 'J.OOO foot. NVxt to is children, the most value d ol the. possessions of Frank We.rk, i a s." .rt,t,i 4 tit .i i he has been the proud owner for ' sixty-tlnve years. It was in his pocket when lie started out from ! his Ohio homo to seek his. fortune at the ago ol II years. ! THE STATE CAPITAL what is transpiring ix axi about kai,eigh. Shot in an Aflray t'ouuty Comissioners ("apt. S. S. Hatchclor Resigns Railroads Assessed IisceIInneoiiH. by ru UKsirr.xr roEEF.sioNKKvr. I'iirif.ii V t ,to vi The rainfall on Saturday as registered at the signal office indicated 3'- inches. i This is the heaviest fall of rain, for a long ' ix-riod in the Fame length of time much i j tliiraugt: is already reported. Bridges washed away, low land crops submerged and washel out of the ground, etc. j At the capital there was nothing hut j the direct tax business.' If it were not i j for this il would he the dullest place in ! the city. Jr. Andrews and his lady j clerks are j list as busy as they can be, while the only money leing paid out at j the Treasury department is on the direct j tax warrants. ' The railroads of the State are assessed t for taxation to the amount of $18,000,000. j This at 28 cents on the 100 valuation for j State taxes will amount to $50,400.00. To , this will 1h added the country and corpo- j i j Our grape growers will bid farewell to I the Concord vines. They are all rotting this sei'.son. Other grapes are doing very well and the shipping is going stead ily on. J?rices are a little oil', caused from a very good crop of peaches. SHOT IX AX AFFRAY. A difficulty occurred a day or so ago between the negro hands on the farm of Ir. K. V. Denton, near the city, in vhich a negro man named George Wil- TT iiams snot a negro woman, lie urea a shot gun and she received several shot, but was not fatally wounded. Williams claimed "that the gun was discharged ac cidentally, but there was thought to be sufficient evidence that he did the shoot ing intentionally and tint he wa en- r& - at the women at the time, so an officr w"j s .-e.it Ut him and I:e was ar rested. CiU'XTY r5IMISSloXKKS. The county commissioners were in session all day Wednesday testimony in the Italeigh and Gaston railroad easejf Col. Jno. W. Hinsdale is representing the railroad, and county attorney Arniis- tead Jones represents the county. It Avill perhaps take several days to close up this matter, and then, no doubt, it will pro into the courts. PA1T. liATCnEIiOK RKSK1XS. Capt. S. S. atchelor having tendered his resignation as Captain of the Gov- ernov's Guard, Mr. John W. Cross was eltH'ted to succeed him. Capt. Tlatche ofrr was compelled for several reasons to resign. MISiT.IAXEOrs. Tlu lKjmlsmen of Ex-Sheriff ltoprers j have paid over to County Treasurer 1 Lougee 700 more on ihe deticiency of the late Sheriff. A hog died of hydrophobia on Tius ' day night before last at Mr. Jesse Tay- lor's place just outride of the city. It couhl not be accounted for except that a sma tfliee, unknown to be mad, bit the hog in June. j Jessrs. Will Wynne and Xeill Soence j left Pah-igh last Tuesday morning at 10 i o'clock for New York on their bicycles. They started from FayetteviHe street and will jnake an extended Northern ', trip on their wheels. The Caraleigh Mills Company this . week dosed the contract with Jessrs. P. Liuehan Sous for, the buildfing of the ; main jart of the Cotton Mills, which is ; to be linisl ed by December 1st next. The entire force at the Agricultural Department is now busily engaged uixiu the voluminous task of tabulating the .agricultural statistics of the State. This is the first time this has leen done in this State and the work will be com pleted by Oetoler 1st. It will le an in teresting and valuable statement. Pickings from Kxehan.es. Edison is worth $;,(MH).00!), : Florida prduecs 'amphor. lioston has a peddlers' union. At D"vt..n, O., hay is 8 a ton. Dublin has the largest brewerv. Oatn.eal is controlled by a trust. Chicago has a train of steel cars. Pittsburg reporters have a union. Londonderry, Ire., has .700 K. of L. Boston compositors want nine h:urs. A w xKl-carving machine is successful. Terr, nite" is more powerful than dyna mite. Uncle Sam issues ;M,oO) patents yearly. Ilnmmelstou, Pa., has a lady letter carrier. Nebraska's corn crop: 200,000,000 bushels. Illinois miners averaged $1.15 a day r' Chicago strikers Were convicted of consP"T. New York UrfcwoiW are winning ei-ht hours. EATEN BY WILli BEASTS. The Skeleton of Little Annie Kredei ricks Found la t'.iv Mountains. Wilkesharke, Pa., August 4. The skeleton of Annie Fredericks, the little girl who disappeared from her home in Laurel Hun nearly two moaths ago, lias been found on the mountain side fully seven miles from the village. Wild ani mals had eaten all the iL-sh from th' child's bones. When the little girl lirst disappeared searching parties scoured the mountains on every side, a band of gypsies was chaf.e.1 for three days and their camp thoroughly searched, I mt Without suc cess. The father had nr.origiiged .his little home to raise funds to cany on the search. On Saturday a neighbor brought word that the child liad heen found, but when the father heard that it was dead he swooned away. Aaron Porter had found the little skeleton whiie huckle berryiug. WOULD STAIiVK II IS WIKK. One Hollar a Day for Her Support. by a "Wealthy Husband. New York, August 4. David Living stone, who owns $39,000 worth of tenement-houses in Baxter street, besides having a well-paying business, has been allowing his wife 1 a day for the sup port of herself and two children. Liv ingstone's mother thought this allow ance munificent, and held up her hands in holy borrow, exclaming: "3y boy, I lived on 15 cents a day!" This is only one sample ot the man's meanness, however, aud his cruelty has made it impossible for his wife to live with him, aud she has begun action for divorce, Her father is a well-to-do tradesman in Washington, IX C. North Carolina's Forty-Mile Kleetrlc Mail road. A special dispatch from Ilutherfordton, N. C, to the NeAvs and Courier makes the following "statements regarding the 40-mile electric railroad to Asheville: "For sometime the newspapers have had a great deal to say concerning an eleetrie road that is to run from Kuther fordton, X. C, to Asheville across the mountains by way of Hickory Nut Gap. Jr. Frank Reynolds, president of the ri ad, was in town yesterday, and from him we learn the facts in the case con cerning this wonderful undertaking. The Terminal Belt Electric Railroad is a certainty. Jr. Thomas Turner, of Xew York, has secured the requir-ed amount of capital and has given Mr. Reynolds orders to let out the contract for the work on the road. This was lone last week The contract for the cross ties was let to a company of three gentlemen of Asheville. The surveying was given to E. T. Revel ey, resident en gineer of the Three Cs Railroad, and the contract for grading was awarded to Mr. Cnl Parrish, of Yorkville, who is now tit work on the lower division of the Geor gia, Carolina and Northern Railroad. Eveiy' arrangement is 1m iug completed, and work will begin within 30 days. The poition of three counties, Hen derson, Buncombe and Rutherford, through which this road runs is one of the richest districts, if not the very richest district, in timber,- gold, iron and fertile hinds in Western North Car olina. In beautiful seenery and won derful sights it far surpasses anything in the South. Chimney Rock, Bat .Cave, Shaking Bald mountain, Hickory Nut Gap Falls, the Pools, are all na ture's wondeis within a mile or mile and a-half of each other. The electric road will bring this wonderful country into touch with the outside world and make it the greatest summer resort on earth. The Logan property, or the ""old Chim ney Rock place," as it is known, sold last Wednesday for $25,000 to a Boston syndicate, though gentlemen from Char lotte and Wilmington are interested in the company. This road makes Rutherfordton a place of no small importance. It In comes a depot of supplies tor all this new undeveloped country. The fact of I this electric road terminating here has given real estate a rise of some 300 per cent, within four months-. The town will have electric lights and street cars." ; If these repots prove correct and this I road 13 built, the South would have probably the longest electric railway in j America. Iyin He " Escaped the Oallows. A telegam from Fort Worth, Texas, to the Xe York Times, under date of July 29th, says: ". W. Davis, the slayer of B. C. Evans, the millionaire merchant at Fort Worth, who was sentenced to be barged August 10th, died to-night at 7 :15 oVl.x-k. The immediate cause of death was concussion of the brain, occa sioned by an epileptic lit which he had a few days ago. Ten days ago he was taken from his cell on the imaa c( rridor to an isolated cell, and the death watch was placed over him. Since then he liad not eaten solid food, and gradually gave way physically. Davis leaves an jiged mother, who w;U at his side when he died. The remains were turned over to iler." The plush makers co-operative shop at New York faihil. A GKOKOIA KVAXOKLIST. His Way Was Itather Abrupt, Hut It Was Kflectlve. The death of Miller Willis, the Geor gia evangelist, revives many interesting stories concerning his life and methods. He was certainly the queerest character that ever preached the Gospel at a cam -.-meeting at which places he was generally found. His pure and holy life, however, w;u a. model for alL But about his methods: He frequently stopped strangers in the streets, and, planting himself in front of them, would announce some startling text and then disappear, leaving the man or woman to preach the sermon to his or her own liking. For instance, he on one occasion stopped a stranger and shouted in his ears: "This night thy soul shall be re quired of thee! "' Willis vanished. But a year afterward he met the man in an other city. Willis hul forgotten him, but the stranger knew his man. Ap proaching him, he extended his hand and said:. "That text you shouted out so strangely to me on the streets of Milledgeville set me to thinking. It was the means of my conversion!" On another occasion, a dark and rainy night in winter, he passed a crowded hotel in the city of Charleston. Men were lounging and smoking in the lobby. Willis opened the door, but the little figure, in dripping garments, attracted no attention. Suddenly, after rapping loud on the floor with his' heavy stick, every eye was turned toward him, when Willie said: "There won't bo a man in this hoitse alive in fifty years from tonight!-" And he slammed the door and went out into the night. Some time afterward he was approach ed by a young man on a street car, who introduced limself, saying: "I have long desired to meet you and to thank you for saving what vou did in the hotel lobby one winter's night. Your words have been ringing in my ears ever since, and I am now a Christian man." T "The above are facts within the writ er's knowledge. Some people called him "Crazy Willis," but he was far re move! from that. He went about doing good, and his life was a blessing to man. Atlanta Constitution. North Carolina's First Coke Furnace. The first coke furnace ever built in North Carolina is under contract. The Crauberry furnace now makes coke iron, which it sells at a high price in Pitts burg for Bessemer steel purposes, but this furnace was not originally for using coke. It is a small furnace intended for charcoal iron. The new coke furnace, lor tiie imiKung just leen let, w boro, and will 1 for the building of which a contract has ill be located at "Gieens e owned by the North Carolina Stejel and Iron Co.. of that city. The Janufacturers' Record has often referred to this company and stated its intention to build a furnace to make Bessemer iron, but it had so long de layed the matter that many had' forgot ten the organization of the company. The building of this furnace opens the era of jron making in North Carolina on a large scale, for the iron ore wealth of that State is so great that it must become a great iron productiiig section. Jauu facturers' Record. A Fact at a Glance. Half of the surface of Russia is forest clad. London employs 500,000 factory hands. The Alps stand in six different States. Pepier cost 15 an ounce in Henry VII's reign. The average age that women marry at is 22, men 20. Photographs were first produced in- England in 1802. The annual drink bill of the world exceeds XI, 000, 000, 000. Doctors say that the left leg is usu ally stronger than the right. The flower trade of London exceeds in value 2,000,000 per annum. -A sewing madhine works twelve times as fast as the hand. An ostrich's egg weighs about four pounds equal to forty liens' eggs. ' A sunflower in a season will produce 12,000 seels, while a poppy lears 32,000. The third-class railway fares in Hun ary only average one penny for six t miles. Five thousand advertisements appear I sometimes in a sincrle. issie of the Lo'n- i ! don Times. i ! Cashmere shawls are made of the hair; j of a diminutive goat found in Little 1 Thibet. r. t A mile of railway TfR-rmarient way, I -1 1 i i r -1 . l . mi wiui iv. o sei-s oi rails, iafee up i.; acres of land. Merely an Inference. "Was your father a pirater" asked young Fitztop of the girl of his choice at a clandestine meeting, after the old sea captain had urged his exit from the family mansion on the hill by the use of his pedal -extremity. "No, my darling," was the reply. "Why do you ask?" "He seemed to me to be a good deal of a freebooter," said the young man. reflectively. SAVED IN THE NICK OF TIME. A Brave Switchman Rescues a Be wildered. Woman. Chicaoo, ni., August 2. Miss Hattie Lawrainc, of Englewood, nearly lost her life by lieing run down by a Grand Trunk switch engine at the Sixteenth street crossing last night. Switchman George Cusaek saved her from being ground to pieces by an act of extraor dinary bravery. Miss Lawraine stood on the track awaiting the arrival of a south bound train aud did not see an approch ing engine nntill several bystanders eall-d to her. The engine was so near that in her frightened state of mind she did not have time to turn. Cusack ran toward the imperiled woman, grasped her' in his arms, and, just in time, jumped on to the pilot of the engine. The engine was stopped, and as both Cusack and Miss Lawraine stepped from the footboard un harmed the crowd cheered the switch" man's brave act. OUT OF JAIL. Dillon aud O'Brien Meet With Great Receptions. Dublin, August C. John Dillon and William O'Brien have left their prison and were greeted by ' an excited and enthusiastic throng, in which loth fac tions of the Irish party were represen ted. They were entertained at break fast by Bishop JcCormick and later in the morning addressed a great crowd of admirers. They started for this city on the forenoon train. CHOKED TO DEATH. The Body of a Pretty Young Woman Found in a Swamp. G11ENDAX.K, N. Y., August 4. Another mysterious murder was discovered hero to-day. A man picking blackberries in the swamps found the body of a pretty young woman, about 20 y6ars old, with dark hair and eyes and petite figure. The marks on the body showed that the girl had, been choked to death. There was no evidences of a struggle. No Avocation. Here is a portion of the examination to which an old lawyer told me he was subjected when he applied for a license. The oldest member of the examining committee interrogated him: "Are you familiar with any game of chance?" " "No, sir." "Don't you know how to play any game of cards?" "No, sir." "Surely you understand euchre?" "Never "heard of it before." "It can't be possible you never in dulged iii a game of draw poker?" "Yes, sir, it can. I am a inember of the church and don't know one card from another." "Well (after a long pause of atonish -ment), young man, we'll give you a lieensej but how in the world your're going to make a living for the first two or three years after you start practising law is a mystery to us." Nearly $3,000,000 Coined in July. Washington, D. C, August 4. The report of coinage executed at the mints during July shows that there were 400,000 in new double eaglee, $90,000 in eagles and $110,000 in half eagles, or $1,600,000 altogether in gold. There were 976,000 standard silver dollars coined, and dimes to the value of $200,000, or $1,176,000 altogether in silver. Nickels to the value of $79, 600 and cents amount ing to $43,400 swelled the month's ag gregate coinage to $2,899,000. Make a Confidant of Your Wife. "Hum!" said Mr. Wickwire, "here's a great story in this paper. It appears that7 a man aurertised for a boy, and the same day his wife presented him with twin sons. If that does not show the value of advertising, what does it show?" "It chows that if he had confided his business affairs to his wife, as a man ought to, he might have saved the ex pence of the advertisement," answered Mrs. Wickwire. Patriotic. Surely it is better to be mish-ken in the bare facU regarding our heroes than to liave no such divinities to worship. "Well, Uncle Mose," said a lady, "I hear you have another pair of twins at your hous" 4 ' "Yaas, missus, yes we has. Bress dey little hearts!" "Have you named them yet?" . "Yes'm. Done named 'em aftah two ob do fust Pres'dents ob dis country." "Indeed! What two?" "Ole Christofo Columpns an' Juie yous Caesar, ma'am. We 'so great on namin' de children fo de Pres'dents t our house." Detroit Free Press. A Frightful Predicment. Mrs. Grayneck Why, Johnny, what in the world are you striking Willie for, like that? Johnny well, I shuld think I had good cause. Mrs. Grayneck What do you mean? Johnny well, I let bim use my bean shooter all last Sunday afternoon, if he'd say my prayers for me a week; and I've just found out that he's skipped three days. THE STATE SURVEYED. NUMEROUS NEWSY NOTES FROM OUR BRIGHT EXCHANGES. What Has and Will Happen of Inter est Throughout the Old North " 4State--Industrial and Otherwise. Charlotte is to have a new freight depot. O. K. Stilly & Co. nre erecting a saw mill at Vauceloro. The State laws is now being distribu ted by the Secretary. : , ;' The Salem Water' Supply Company will extend its mains. t Wilmington gained $2,000,000 in 1890 in shipping statistics, . F. S. Royster is reported as to erect a fertilizer factory at Tarboro. Sheriff Sharp, of Alexander county is short $4,000 in his accounts. The first session of Trinity College at Durham will open October 1st. Hunnicut, Joiner & Fillmore are re ported as to establish a chair factory at Clear Creek. Endeavors are being made to organize a stock company to erect a cotton mill in Clinton. J. W. L. Arthur, of Bryson City, has put in machinery for the manufacture of picker sticks. The Central Land Company, of Salis bury, has been incorporated with a capi tal stock olr $60,000. The Roanoke Railroad and Lumber Company contemplates the erection of a lumber mill at Newborn. P. K. JcLean, of Carthage, will re build and operate the saw mill of McLean Bros., recently reported as burned. ... R. E. Blakey, G. L. Dooley, J. S. Drakeford and Thomas Led well have incorporated the Blakey Printing Co., of Charlotte. It is reported that Ellington, Royster & Co., of Raleigh, have put in a saw mill and machinery for the manufacture of bed springs. J. F. Pretty man, of Pemlx?rton, Ya., is repeated as erecting near Newleri a saw mill to have a capacity of 20,000 feet per day. The C. W. Logan tract of land near Chimney Rock has been sold for $25, 000, as reported last week." The pur chasers are Matthews & Co. J. K. JcHhenny and others are en deavoring to oi ganize a stock company for the purpose of establishing .a chew ing gum factory at Winston. Wilson is becoming a live tobacco town. Six prize houses are being erected, both warehouses are being enlarged and building is going on rapidly. Henderson Gold Leaf: Crops htve improved very much in the last ten days. The warm weather and seasonable rains have brought them out won derfully. . Smithfield Herald: From our cor respondents comes the good news that the crops are generally improving, and doing finely with . prospects for an average crop. B. N. Duke, and others have incor porated the Trinity Laud Company for the purpose of dealing in real estate in Durham county, etc. The capital stock is-$25,000.. D. R. Lean, of Pittsburg, Pa., lias re ceived contract to construct the iron furnace of the North Carolina Steel and Iron Company at Greensboro, recently mentioned. The R. D. Robinson Publishing Com pany has l-en organized at Raleigh with R. D. Robinson, president, and W. A. Wilkinson, secretary. The capital stock is $10,000. The Somerv ille-Cotton Compress Com pany, of Somerville, Tenn., contem plates organizing a stock company for j tlie purpose 'of establishing a cotton compress in Newljern. j The Novel ty Wood Works, of Hickory, : opeiating novelty wood works, has in ' eorporated with G. C. Bpnnewell as j president, and J. A. Lentz secretary. The capital stock js to le $50,000. The Highland Park Manufacturing Co., of Charlotte, recently reported as j incorporated, etc., has for its purpose j the erection of the gingham mill men j Honed some weeks since. R. II. Jonlan : is president, and Gilmer Brinizer, treas urer. Their First Quarrel. The tearful wife I am going to go ? right down to the river and drown my j self! j The brutal .husband All right, my j dear; I suppose it's no tu-e to argue with you; start at once if you really want to. The tearful wife It's raining now, and it would spoil my new dress; but I'm going just as soon as it stops, you see if I don't! THREE THINGS GOOD TO KNOW. How to Cool the Room of a Feverish Patient, One of the most useful hints for sick room attendance is very seldom known outside of a hospital ward, and not even there in many cases. . The bint is how to obUin a cold cloth without the use of ice. Every one knows that in fevers or weakness a cold cloth on the forehead or face or lane of brain is one of the most comfi rting things in the world. In the tropical hospitals, and where ice is scarce, all that is necessary is to wet a linen cloth, wave, it to and fro in the air, fole it and place ou the patient Have another cloth ready, wave it to and fro just l fore applying it These cloths have a more grateful and Listing coldness than those made so by the burning cold pro duced by ice. How to Wipe the Face. Thousands of people, , when drying their faces after washing, wipe them downward that is, from forehead to chin. This is a mistake. Always use upward from the chin to the forehead and outward toward the ear mo tions. Never wipe any part of the face downward. How to Stop a Hiccough. A very good authority gives as a very simple remedy for hiccough a Iumptf sugar saturated with vinegar. In ten cases, tried as an experiment, it stoped hiccough in nine. -Ladies' Home Journal , Travels of a Turkey Buzzurd. A year ago Harry, Walter and Benja min Talbot, together with John Rank, Jr., a first cousin, secured a largo turkey buzzard by catching him alive in a steel trap. The boys took him home, and with wire, attached a. small sleigh-licll to the bird's log, then gave him his liberty and never heard anything from him un til a few weeks ago, when they read an account in the papers of a buzzard with a bell fastened to one leg having been captured in South America, which the Tallxt boys have good reason to believe is the identical bird liberated by them one year ago. Philadelphia Record. The Folks Soon Reconciled. Delmak) Del., August 4. Tillie E. German, the 14-year-old daughter of M. II. German, of this place, and Lewis Robbins, of Cape Charles City, Va., several5 years her senior, eloped to Eliza beth City, N. C, where they were mar ried. The couple have taken up a resi dence at Cape Charles Cityiwhero the groom is employed on the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad. The only opposition the bride's parents offer was her extreme youth, and they aro now reconciled. The Editor in the Soup. Dark and mysterious are the ways of a young woman slicing a watermelon, and subtle'is the grace with which she manipulates the seeds. We were, not invited on account of our youth, but the old folks had a merry and glorious time. As we sat pensively in the bright moon light and . heard the audible genial smiles of the merrymakers we experi enced a feeling akin to envy; Berwin Times-Herald. . ' A New Creation. God never repairs. Christ never, patches. The Gospel is not here to mend people. Regeneration is not a scheme of moral tinkering and ethical cobbling. What God does lie does new; new heavens, new earth, new body, new heart; "Behold I make all things new." In the Gospel thus we move into a new woild and under a new scheme. The creative days arc hack again. We step out of a regime of jails and hospitals and reform shops. We get live effects direct from God. That is the GosikjI. The Gospel is a permanent miracle. God at first hand tlmt is miracle. The Gospel thus does not classify with other schemes of amelioration. They are good, but this is not simply lnrtter, but different; distinct, and better berause distinct; it works in a new way, ami works another work. Compare the wrought chains riveted oh the demoniac, and the divine word working a new creation in the de. maniac. It is all there. It is like the difference between the impotent Persian lashing the turbulent sea with chains, and the gracious Lord saying to the troubled sea, "Peace, be still!" lief. C. If. Purkhnnt. The Wrong Kind. You talk to me about fanaticism. The fanaticism that will make a man drink and swear and gamble and sin against God from Christmas to Christmas, that is the fanaticism that is hurting this country. Talk about enthusiasm like that which makes a man fold his arms and walk to hell. Talk about madnes! There is no madhess like tliat which ' makes a man pursue the evil until he is lost forever. Sim. June. A golden thread of gospel grace runs through t ie whole web of the Old Tes tament. Henry. Water power runs the Dover, X. electric plant. H.