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We tried forty other remedies before Sf mmons Li ver Regulator, but none gave ns more than temporary relief; but the Regu iator not 'only relieved, but cured us." Ef TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, Macon, Ga. t , 'MANUFACTURED only by I- ' J. H. ZEIL1N & CO., Philadelphia, Pa . DIRECTORY. City Officers. Mayor, Charles C. Poo!. Commissioners Palemon John, Tlios. A. Commander. Alarm B. Seeley, .B; Frank Spence and Wrri. W . Griggs Clerk C;has. A". Banks; Treasurer (reo. W. Cobb; onstable, and Chief of Police-rWm. Brooks; Street Com missioner Reuben W. Berry; Fire Commissioners xMlen' Kramer and Fred IL Zieglerf r ' ' Collector of Customs Jas. C. Broo' s - Postmaster E. F' Lamb. Examining Surgeons of "Pensioift Drs. J. E. Wood, VV. W. Grifjgs and W. J Lumsden. Meet on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month at the corner of Road and Church" Streets, i Churchts Methodist, Rev. J.H.Hall, Pastor ; services every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7. p.- m Baptist, Rev. Calvin S Black well, pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 p, m. Pres byterian; , Rev. F H. Johnston, pastor; services' everv. Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:15 p. in. Episcopal Rev. L.L.Wil liams, rector ; services every Sunday at ii n. m. Ann 4 n. m. . 'Lodges-r-. Masonic: Eureka Lodge No. 317;i)r. W. W.; Qrip,', W- M. ; G. AV. Brothers, S. W.; M.li. Knowden j. w.; 1). 13. Bradfora, sec ty ana a, r . openue, Treasurer. Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday nights.- I - . :' , , ' i Odd Fallows: AchoreeLiOdee jo i FI. O. Hill, N. G.uMaurice Wescott, V. G.; Ji D Sykes, Rec. Secretary; E. M Stevens, Fin. Secretary; W. W. Morrisette. Treasurer; F. L. barrett, S. P. G. Meats .every Friday, at 7:o0 p. m. I -Roval Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coun cil No. 1209; N. R. Parker, Regent; N. Or.ntor: W II. Zoeller. Secretary ; F. M. I fl IHTWIM II. V 11C U UUli" aaa4 Cook Jrj. Collector; W, J.Woodley Treasurer. Meets every 1st and 3rd Monday night. - TCnisrhts of Honor: R. B. White, Die fntnr- .T. i II Enerle. 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Directors: E. F. Lamb.D.ji. Bradford. J. B. Flora. M. II. White, Jno.' G. Wood, J. B. Blades, C. H. Robinson- Guirkin & Co. ' ' . Kisrtrir, TiaJit Co. 3. B. Blades. Presi dent,' G. M. Scott, Vice President, . D, B. Bradford, Sec'ty, iN oan . uurioot. Treasurer. ' Tehnhn:o- . Ii. Uradford. presi dent; L.' S. Blades, Vice-President; Frpd - Iiavis. secretary ana i reasurer The-Improvement Co. E. F. Aydlett, Pppsidpnt : T. G. Skinner. V ice Presi dent: C. H. Bobinson, Secretary and Trhnsnrpr. ' . K. City. Cotton JItUs. President,- ur. O McMuIlan, Vice Jr reside nu. a jeo. m4 Scott, Sec and Treas., D. B. Bradford, snf. H. "P. Smith. Directors: Dr. O. McMullah. G, M. Scott, E. F. Aydlett, J. W. Sharber, Jas. B. Blades, C. H. i?,i;ncrm Thos. ! G. Skinner. C. E. R. Flora. H., F. Smith4 and D.'B. Bradford. I ' "AaraZ Iiesertes.W. J. Griffin, Lieu frpnnnt com mandiner: J. B. Ferebee. T !uu fcnfljit; Junior Grade: L. A. Win der, Ensign. Regular Drill each Tues day night; Arms : 40 Magazine itiries; 19 NWr "Revolvers: .12 Cutlasses : 2 12 Tfini TTnwitzers. Southern Express Compau'r;M. H, SnnwHpri. A("nt. Railroad and Steamboats Mail train n-orntr North, i leaves 8 a. m. and 2:45 p. im., going South, 11:40 and 5.: 50 p. in. ix - - S-ftmrs for Newberne leave at 6 p. m. Steamer Newton, leaves Eliza beth City for Cresswell on Mondays nn.i Tnrsrlftvs Rt Qt 30 a. i m. Ke will lpave Elizabeth City follow inirrlflv nt. 2. 30 n. m.. Steamer Har binger, will leave Eizabeth City for Hprtford Wednesdays and Saturdays o-a '3ft a- m Elizabeth City for Nor folk Thursdays and . Mondays p. m 3, ELIZABETH GIT YET FOR YOUR SAKES REV. OR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON "FROM LILIES TO THORNS." ne Tell the Greatest Story of All Time In m New "Way Ilia Celestial Departure and Earthly Arrival Vivldlr Contrasted. The Prince Divine. . izuisQTOXr-Jan." 8. In this dis course of Rev. Dr. Talmage the greatest story of all time la. told, in a new way, and all realms are drawn upon lor Illus tration. His text was II Corinthians Tiii.-' 9. "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poorl" That all the worlds which on a cold winter's night make the heayensrone- great glitter are without inhabitants is an absurdity. Scientists tell us that many of these worlds are too hot or too cold or too rarefied of atmosphere for residence. But, if not fit '.forj human abode, they may be fit for beings differ ent from and superior to ourselves, we are told that the world of Jupiter is changing and becoming fit for creatures like. the, human race, .and that Mars would. do for the human family with a little "change in the structure of our respiratory organs. But that there is a great world swung somewhere, vase oe yond imagination, and that it is the headquarters of the universe and the metropolis of immensity ana has a pop ulation in numbers vast beyond all sta tistics and appointments oi splendor pe- yond the capacity of canvas or poem or angel to describe is as certain as the Bible is authentic. Perhaps some of the astronomers with their ' big telescopes have already caught a glimpse of it, not knowing what it is. We spell it with six letters and pronounce it heaven. ' The King's Son. That is where Prince Jesus lived 19 oenturies ago. He was the King's Son. It was the old homestead of eternity, land all its castles were as old as God. 'Not a frost had ever chilled the .air. Not a tear had ever rolled down the cheek of one of its inhabitants. There had never been a headache, or a side ache, or a heart ache. There had not been a funeral in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. There had never in all the land been woven a black veil, for there had never been anything to mourn over. The passage of millions of years had hot wrinkled or crippled, or . -i ' -i i! 4 1.: Ail tUo people there were in a state of eternal adolescence. What floral and pomonic richnessl Gardens of perpetual, bloom and orchards in unending fruitage. Had some spirit from another world entered and asked: "What is sin? What is be reavement? What is sorrow? What is death?" the brightest of the intelli gences would have failed to give defini- . - 1 - .a t ' tion, though to study tne question mere was silence in heaven for half ah hour. The Prince of whom I'speak had hon ors, emoluments, acclamations, eucn as no other prince, celestial or terrestrial. ever enjoyefl. As he passed the street the inhabitants took off ; from ' their brows earlahds of white lilies and threw them in the way. He never entered any of the temples" without all the worship ers rising up and bowing in obeisance. In allthe processions of the high days he was the one who'evoked the loudest welcome. Sometimes on foot, walking in loving talk with the humblest of the land, but a,t other times he took chariot,' and among the 20,000 that the psalmist spoke of his was the sw if tost and most flaming, or, as when St. John described him, he took white palfrey wjjfch what prance of foot and arch of neck and roll of mane and gleam of eye is only dimly, suggested in the Apocalypse. He was not like other princes, waiting for the father to die and then take the throne. When years ago an artist in Germany made a picture for the royal gallery representing the Emperor William on the throne and the crown prince as hav ing one foot on the step of ' the throne, the Emperor William ordered the picture changed and said, "Let the prince keep his foot off th throne till I leave it" ' A Rich Dominion. : Already enthroned was the heavenly Prince side by side . with the Father. What a circle of dominion ! What mul titudes of admirers I What unending round of glories 1 All the towers chimed the Prince's praises. Of all the inhabit ants, from the center of the. city on over the hills and clear d)wn to the beach against which the ocean ,of im mensity rolls its billows, the Prince was the acknowledged favorite. No wonder my text says that "he was rich." Set all the diamonds, of the earth in one scepter, build all the palaces of the earth in one Alhambra, gather all the pearls of the sea in one diadem, put all the values of the earth in one coin the aggregate could not express his afflu ence. Yes, St Paul was right- Solo mon had in' gold .680,000,000 pounds and in silver 1,029,000,327 pounds. But a greater than Solomon is here. Not the millionaire,-but the .owner of all 'things. To describe his celes tial surroundings the Bible uses all colors, gathering them in rainbow over the throne and setting them as agate in the temple window and hoisting 12. of them into a walL from striped jasper at the base to transparent amethyst in the capstone, while between are green of emerald, and snow of pearl, and blue of sapphire, and . yellow "of topaz, gray of chryspprase and flame of jacinth. All the loveliness of landscape in foliage and liver and rillyand all enchantment aquamarine, the sea of glass mingled with fire as when the sun sinks in the Mediterranean, All the thrill of music, instrumental: -and vocal, 'harps, tram pets doxolegies. There stood the Prince, surrounded by those who had' under their wings the Telocity of millions of miles in a second, himself rich in love, rich in adoration, rich in power, rich in worship, rich in holiness, rich in "all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." A Contrast. , But one day there was a big disaster 'in a department of God's uniTerse. A race. f alien 1 A. world in ruins! Our Y, N. C. FRIDAYJ, i clanet the scene of catastrophe! A clot swinging out into darkness, with moun- tains ana seas auu miouub, nu a iui centrifugal of 'sin seeming' to overpower the beautiful centripetal, of righteous ness, and from it a groan reached ceav- en. Such' a sound Lad never Deen neara there. Plenty of sweet sounds, but never an ontcrv of distress or an echo of acony: At that one groan the Prince rose from all the bbssiul circumjacence and start ed, for the outer gate and descended into the night of this world. Out of what a bright .harbor into what a rough seal "Stay with us!" cried angel after'ahgel and potentate after potentate. "No," said the Prince: "I cannot stay. I must be off for that wrec!c pf a world, 'i must step that groan- I must hush that dis tress. I must fathoii that abyss. I must redeem those natibrs. "Farewell, thrones and temples, hosts -cherubic, seraphic, archangel! twill come back again,' carrying an my shoulder a ransomed world. Til this is dpne I choose earthly scoff to heavenly acclama,tion, and Ja cattle pen to a king's palace, frigid zone of earth to atmosphere of celestial radi ance. I have no time to lose, for, hark ye to the groan that grows mightier while I wait! Farewell! Farewell!" j' Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor." ' j Was there ever a contrast so overpow ering as that between the noonday of Christ's celestial departure and the mid night of his earthly arrival? Sure enough, the angels were but that night in the sky, and an especial meteor acted as escort, but all that was from Other worlds, and not from this world. The earth made no demonstration of wel come. If one of the great princes of this world steps ' out at a depot, cheers re wound, and the bands play, and the flags wave. But for the arrival of ths mis sionary Prince of the skies not a tprch flared,-, not a trumpet blew, not a plume fluttered. All the music and the pomp wero overhead. . Our world opened; for him nothing better than a barn door. ' i The rajah of Cashmere sent to Queen Victoria a bedstead of carved gold land a canopy that -cost $750,000,. .but the' world had for the Prince of heaven j and earth only a litter of straw. The crown jewels in the Tower of London amount tq $15,000,000,'' but this member of eter nal royalty had uowhere.to lay his head. To know how poor he was, ask the camel drivers,- ask the, shepherds, ask Mjary, ask the three wise men of the east jwho afterward came to Bethlehem. To know how poor he was; examine all the rec ords of real estate in all that oriental country and see whatvineyard or what field he owned: Not one. Of what mort gage was he the mortgagee? Of what tenement was he the landlord? Of what lease was he the lessee? Who over, paid him rent4 Notv Owning the boat - on which he sailed, or the beast on which he rode, or the pillow on which hb slept he had so little estate that, in order to pay his tax, he had to perform a .mir acle, putting the amount of the assess ment in a fish'-s, mouthN and. haying it hauled ashore. 'And after his death the world rushed in to take an inventory of his goods, and the entire aggregate was thn' garments he had worn, sleeping in them by night and traveling in them by day, bearing on them the .dust of the highway and the saturation of ! the sea. St. Paul in my text hit the'mark when Wo Hairl nf tho missionary Prince, i "For your sakes he became poor. " A !nr((nit liiocranliv. The world could have treated; him better if it had chosen. .It had all the means for making his earthly condition comfortable. Only a few years before, when POmpey, the general, arrived j in Brindisi, he was greeted with arches and a costly column which celebrated the 12,000,000 people whom he had killed or conquered, and he was allowed to wear his triumphal robe in the sen ate. The world had' applause lor impe rial hnrnhprs. hnt buffetine for the Prinophf Peacel Plenty of golden Ichal ices for the favored to drink out of, bit nnr . Prince mnst nut his lips to the bucket'of the well by the roadside after he had beceed for a drink. Poorr Horn in another man's: barn and eating at nnnthor.man's table and cruising the lake in another man's fishing" smack and buried in another man's tomb. Fonr inspired authors wrote his biogra phy, and innumerable lives of Christ hppn published, but he composed his autobiography in a most compressed way. He said, f 'I have trodden the wine nress alone. V . i Poor in -the estimation of nearly all the prosperous classes. They called him Sahhath breaker, wine bibber, traitor, blasphemer and ransacked the dictionary of opprobrium from cover to cover to express their detestation. I can; think nnw nf onlr two well to do men who espoused his cause, Nicodemus and Jo seph of Arimathea. His irienas ior tne most part were people who, in that cli mate where ophthalmia, or inflamma tion of the eyeball, sweeps ever and anon as a scourge, had become blind, sick npnnlfi who were anxious to get well nnr? frnnhled people in whose family thorn was Ulimfl onO dead or dying. If he had a purse at all, it was empty or rA wnnM hiiTA hpard what the soldiers TV V T V fc V mmvv . did with the contents. Poor? The pigeon in the dovecot the rabbit in us Dur t hp silkworm in its cocoon, the hpp in its hive is better provided for, hotfer- nff. better sheltered. Aye, the brute creation J, has a " home on j earth. .u;u rt,viat Vifli tint A nnpt aavs: If on windy days the raven . Gambol hke a dancihg skiff, . Not the less behoves his haven On the bosom of .the cliff. rr nimnst with! easle ninion r O'er the Alps the chamois roam, ' Yet he has some small dominion ' " Which no doubt he calls his home " A Homeless Prince. ': Bnt the Crown Prince of all heavenly lfisa than the raveni less than, the chamois, for he was homeless. Ave. in the history of the universe there is no other instance of such coming down. . Who can. count the miles from the ton of the throne to" the bottom of the cross? Cleopatra, giving a banquet ftn Antnnv' took a pearl worth $100,000 1 nni iaanlvpd it in Tiuegar and swai' JAN 8, 1897. if loVed it Bnt when our Prince, accord ing to the evangelist,' in his last hours ttiok the; vinegar, in! it had been diisolv e4 all the pearls of his heavenly royalty. Down until there was no other harass ment to suffer, 'poor until there was no other pauperism to torture. Billions of dollars spent in wars to destroy men, who will furnish the statistics of the value of that 'precious blood that was shed to save us? "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Chrisf that, though he was rich, yet for ybur sakes he became poor.' -j, '-. - I ! l- f '"',.''' Only those who study this text in two places can fully realize its power the Holy Land of Asia (Minor and, the holy land of heaven. I wish that some day you might go to thiHoly Land and take a drink out of Jacob's well, j and take a sail on Galilee, ahd read I the sermon on the mountlliwhileaiiding on OliTet, and see the wilderness where Christ was tempted, and be some afternoon on Cal vary at about! 8 o'clock,' the hour at which closed the : crucifixion, and sit under the sycamores andiby-the side of DrooKs and cninx ana qream ana pray about the poverty of him who came our souls to save. But! you may be denied that, and so here, in another continent and in another herd i sphere 4ud in scenes as different as possible,' we recount as well we may how poor wa$ bur heaven ly Prince. But in the .other holy land above we may jail study the riches that he i left behind when he started for earthly, expedition . C0me,j let ns bar gain to meet bach: other at the door of the Father's mansion, or on the bank of the; river just, where it 'rolls from under the throne, or at the outside gate. -Jesus got the contrast by exchanging that world for this. We will get it by ex-' changing this! world for that There and then you will Understand more of the: wonders of the; grace, of our Lord Jesus Christ who, j though; he was rich, yet for your sakes became poor." Yes, grace,! free grace, sovereign grace, omnipotent 1 grace! j Among the thousands ofi,worqs in the language there is no more queenly word. It means free and unmerited! kindness My text has no-monopoly of jthe wor-d.. One hun dred and twenty-nine times does the Bible eulogize gracp. It is a door swung wide open to let ino the pardon of God all the millions who choose to enter it John Newton sang of it when he wrote: ' , . . ; , -' Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, . That saved a wretch .like m6. i : .' ' Philip Doddridge put it into all hymhology when he wrote? ; j Grace, 'tia' a charming sound, : -J Harmonious to .the ear; i "' j Heaven with the echo shall resound, . . j And all the earth shall hdar. : . .. For.' Sinners' Sakes. ". One of John Buhyan's" great books is entitled ."Grace Abounding: " "It is all of grace that ,1 am saved" has been on the lips of hundreds of dying Christians. The boy Sammy was right:when, being examined for admission . into church membership, be yas asked, " Whbse work was your salvation?" and he an swered, "Fart mine ahd part God's." Then the examiner! asked, 'What part did you do, Sammy?" and the answer was, "I. opposed God all I could, and ho did the rest 'f Oh, the height of it the depth of it, the length of it, the breadth of it, the grace ot jGod! Mr. Fletcher having written a pamphlet that pleased the king, the king Offered to compensate him, and Fletcher 'answered,' "There is only one thing I want, and that is more grace. " Yes,; my blood bought hearers, grace to live !by and grace to die by, grace that saved (the publican, that saved Lydia," that saved the dying thief, that saved tfje jailer, that 'Saved?' me. But the riches of that grace will not be fnDv' understood uhtil heayen breaks in ' 1 ii.- A M QAAfrthtriOTl who tJWVvUUiMuy v -aw had. been a sdldier 'in onef of the Eu ropean wars,, jwassfck and jdying in one of our Ameridah : hclspitals, j His one de sire -.was to' see Scotland and his old home andoncie again walk ithe'heather of the highlands and hear the bagpipes of the Scotch regiments. The night that the old Scotch soldier died a young man, somewhat reckless, but kind hearted, got a company of musicians 'to come and ply under the old : soldier's window, and among the instruments there was a bagpipe. The instant that the musicians betran the dvine old man if in delirium usurt; "What's teat? What's that? Why, it's the regiments coming home. That's the tune yes, that's' the tune; Thank God, i I have' got' home' once morel" "Bonnie Scotland and Bonnie Doonl" were the last words he uttered as he passed up to he highlands of the better country. Anp tnere tare nere Hun dreds of homesick p or heayen, some be cause you have so paany bereavements, some because you have so many tempta tions, some because you have so many, ailments homesick, very homesick, for thp f athp.rland. of heaven, and the music that you want to hear now is the song of free grace, and the music taac you want to hear when; you die is free gra.ee, and forever before the throne of God you will sing of ' this "grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,! who, Ithough he was rich, for your sakes became poor. " . I .The Comforting Fact. Vpi- ves. for vour sakes ! lit was not on a pleasure excursion that he came, fnf.it.mi all naini It iwas not on an astronomical' exploration, for he knew this world as well before he alighted as affp.rward. It was not because he was Compelled to come.i for he I volunteered. It was not because it was; easy, for he knew that itj would be thQra and spik and huneer and th irst and vociferation of angry mobs. ' Vypr your sakes." To wipe away your fejars, to forgive your wrongdoing- to opmpanlonship your loneliness, to soothe your sottows, to sit with you by the new, made grave to bind up your wounhs in the pgly battle with the wbirld and bring;! you home at last kindling up the mists that fall on your dying vision with , the Buhlight of a stloribus morn. "For your sakes.' No, I will change'that 'Paul will not care and Chriflt will not care if Ichange it I for I must get itd the blessedness of the text myself, and so I say, "For our sakes. " For we all haTb our tempta tions and bereavements and conflicts. Foi our sakes. v We who deserre for our tins to be expatriated into a World as much poorer than this than this earth is. poorer than heaven. , For our sakes. But what a frightful coming down to take us gloriously upl ' ! . When Artaxerxes was hunting, Tire bazus, who was attending Tmi showed the king a rent in his garments. The king said, "How shall I mend it?". VBy giving it tome," said Tirebazus. .Then the king gave him ;: the robe, but com manded him never to wear it, i it would be inappropriate. But see the Startling and comforting fact, while our prince throws off the robe, he not only allows us to wear it. but commands us to .wear it, and it will become us well,, and for thenoTrties. of our spiritual state we ml'f pn the splendors of heavenly r-xcuient For our sakes. Oh, the personality of this religion I Not an abstraction, not an arch under which we "walk to behold elaborate, masonry not an ice castle ' like that, which the Empress, Elizabeth of Russia, over 100 years ago, ordered to be constructed, winter with its trowel of crystals ce menting the huge, blocks that had been quarried from the frozen: rivers of. the north,' but pur Father's house with the wide hearth crackling a hearty welcome. A religion of warmth and inspiration and lighVand cheer something we can take into our hearts and homes ahd busi ness, recreations and joys and sorrows.- Not an unmanageable gift, like the gal ley - presented to Ptolemy, which re quired 4,000 men to row, and its draft of water was so great that it could not come near the shore, but something you can run up any , stream of annoyance, however shallow. Enrichment now, en richment fore ver. ! r Didn't Startle CUm. - , I have just been reading about the hideous burial vaults of the Cappuccini mbnks under the Church of Santa Maria del la Concezione, in Rome," explained the man pf thoughtful mien. "What about them?"- inquired the man of solemn aspect, as if he felt that he ouaht to say something, but didn't much care what it was; "Ob. it's horrible!? said the man of thoughtful inien. "You ought to read the article." V "Haven'tHime," replied the man of .solemn aspect "Besides, I see enough that's horrible and have to go through enough In that line to satisfy me with out reading what other people see."-, t 4 'Ah, but this is exceptional I ' per sisted the man of thouKhtful mien. "It is said that it presents the most hid eously morbid spectacle in all Europe..1 TVia man nf Hnlftmn aspect vawned. it ' "'"Listen!" said the man of thoughtful -mien, stung to the quick by this proof nf flacrcrintr interest, and then he read ' , "It affrights and depresses visitors. There may have been a time when, the sirtht' of so many grinning skulls and human bones, inspired beholders with a religious sense of the mutability of life, but the spirit Of the mediaeval , age has passed away, and with it has vanished all shadow of excuse for such terrifying and cloomy scenes as these. 1 The man of solemn aspect laughed scornfully. . '', "A mere trifle," he said. The man of thoughtful, mien i there upon tried to awe him with the follow ing extract: ' : : ! f "The strancer is led slowly to four recessed vaults faintly illuminated by lanterns composed of ; human skulls, "wreathed and embellished in the most extraordinary manner. " ' 'I i v "Oh. I suppose it would have its ef feet upon some people who never tried to star in high class drama," said the man of solemn aspect, "but to one who has seen a house full of deadheads at both matinee and evening performances it hardly seems possible." Chicago Post . . -"". ;' V Pine Cone Fires. . Few dwellers in the city, even if they enjoy the" soul satisfying luxury oi an open fire know how to make it yield them all of .the aest hetic pleasure whioh it is capable of yielding to those who have found which of the woodland treasures make richest fuel for the flames 'and the prettiest pictures in the coals. The pine cones that fall frpm the trees in autumn and are now strewing the ground make a very beautiful fire when lairl rinon the burnins Iocs of the fire place or on the anthracite in the grate. They flare up with a bright, steady flame until burned . to a glowing jred cinder.' each cone preserving its shape Anri nntlina and remainihi; a thing of beauty till it finally falls into kaleido scopic fragments. . Small hranehes or twies of lichen covered oak or hickory also make de lightf ul top fuel for the open fire, the tiny; mosses emitting many - colored lights and the i Leery crackling trying in Tain "to" "drcivh the singing of the 'nixie. " or fair in the wood, as the leg end has it, but which peculiarly sooth- ri cold faience attributes to an imprisoned in ti Philadelph ia Rec ord. 1 ; ' . ;,:. J." - . .v A Unique Curio. Mrs. George Wilson of 191 Vestal avenue, Binghamton, has a uniquecurio in the shape of a bedroom set bedstead, dresser, washstand and chairs decorat ed with postage stamps of every known civilized 'country on the globe. Mrs. Wilson has been collecting stamps for the past seTen i years, and the number has reached over half a million -882, 000. been these The value of these stamps has estimated at $3,800. All of stamps have been ' carefully waiihed. dried and pasted On after the style of a crazy patchwork, quilt and represent large patience and a great amount of labor. There are seven pieces of furniture in all decorated. This curip is valuable, an offer ox f zoo zrom Cor nell university having been refused by the ownes. It is, perhaps," the most novel collection of foreign and domestic stamps in theUnited States. . The stamps are sttick on with glue and are covered with a heavy spar varnish and can be washed without injury t to the stamps. Klmira Telegram. 2StO. 30 7 ALL SORTS. From appearance, Mr. V. ' J. Bryan's firt lecture in Atlanta, in r pursuance ox a contract with him to deliver a certain number of lec- ure8 in the country for the, neat ittle sum of $50,000, was a failure.' Mr. Bryan is certainly an orator, a thinker, of - macr-etic personality and large accumulation of imforma- - tion, but all these enfts and accom-- plishments haTe been neutralized by f the peculiar environment of his sit-, utation. He has stood in the . pub- , nc eye as - an inspired, patriot and statesman, a phenominal Joan of Arc. po w jjtr, tun wu(u.ut) sveppeu down from that ethenJ tvosition. tew lecture huckster, bartering so much speech for bo many gold dol- ars, he simply 'put bis foot in it." Coal is a necenitv of modern life and he that makes one scuttle of coal- do the work of two scuttles. . does more good for mankind and is a greater benefactor to his coun- ry than the whole race of politicians pbt together. So as we cant get'" office under the Republican rule' in North Carolina, wouldnU have it in deed, .we will, adopt the profession . of a collier and thus do more : crood o our countrymen than Russell, orn Pritchard, or - Butler, or . Rlobinson or Timberleg, or Jim, Young, or all the rRepublican and Populist politicians put together. Pour solution of salt water over ybur. coal and it .will go further. The can non cracker is a modern development,1 and ii is like the nting of a' wasp. It is a concealed weapon, ; as it is carried in the1 close palm, but it is a power for good and ill, and . for a' small corpus it seems to be a; power in the legal and social atmos phere of North Carolina. Only laibt week we chronicled the destructive-. power of a cannon cracker on the. hand of a Fleahillian in the historic' county ,of Cumberland, and this weekwe have to chroniclej further incidenta of; its destructiveness in our slow old State." In the! town of . . Winston on .Christmas, Willie Clay-, ton, a yearling boy, lost three fin gers by, a cannon cracker casualty,' and in old .Wilmington fourteen mer chants met in conference to consult , about brinijing r suit acrainst the Mayor and Commissioners for dam-. ages to their trade in cannon crack-, ers by forbidding their sale. Wo are with the merchants. If the fool boy chooses to blow off hit 8 fingers with a .cannon cracker, -let him do so, and De tnankiui it wern t. his head, i . Wilmirj cton is a slow town,", . and- we suppose the Mayor, and v Commissioners are the ditto.1 Opera House, opera house, opera hQusel Can't we have' it ? There'p 1 money in it. 'inere 8 health in.it. There s pleasure and . consequently happiness in-ir. ' We-are. pining for it, as the girl says in- the' kissing play. Fun is an instinct I wth all men in a greater or less degree It ." must have vent in some jway. If you won't let us have an opera house as a safety value to a' plethoric sys tem, give us anoiner grog- saop, or a dispensatory for 5 cent drinks, ! pr u we'U have to knock some body down . in the street, or . burn someoouy s house down,5: or go into the hen . roost business and starve the negroes, , or if the Yanderbilts, or Jacob As tors, or Teddy Rooseyelts .of the town don't piit up an Opera House to entertain the people, let the Mayor , of the corporation, put an ad. in the, Economist free, inviting J' all the -mountebanks of every clime, the ' moukey shows, the hand organists, the Italianese, Japsy and Cannibals from the Solomon Itles and hand or ganists, to come here and kick up tho devil on our istreeti with on t tar pr molestation, or our txys will grow ; up bad boys and drunkards and our grown baa men win be cutting or shootincr one' another. Give us an Opera House see If . - i VE PAY POSTAGE ; j - ..... i . . .. . ... Free of all cbarees. we will mall , to - " aoyooe our advance illustrated catalogue 1 1 for 1897 (just Issaed).. It cental ni 5M illustrations of Furniture, Carpets, Lace Curtains, Bedding, Stoves, Lamps, Her f rigerators Baby Carriages, etc. v You ; vave the middle man's profits by trading . with the manufsctorer, as you are pay- ; ing local ' dealers double our : prices. -Drop a vpostal now for our' money saver. Julius Hines & Son. i. 2ALTX2I0BS, lid. V- Albany. N..Y, i 1 1 ,1 , 4 '. r
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Jan. 8, 1897, edition 1
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