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1 : - ' " . - .r::- -: ""The ECONOMIST has a lxboeb t v . a jff V Xtifi atV YtrVl 11 T - - I C.8XUTION IX TUIBTEEX CO US TIES HES ft f l! 1 T iff I H 1 I I 1 1 It Py YCu or Kisterx Carouxa tium axt j V-yA ' y I I Vt JJF I II vCoJ hi ' " ' ' 5 1 I 1 1 ' ' ' ' ' ' " ' " ; ; . ' "On all the strjry. of a Ufa or racB, the blessing of a gn adman laavBS its kca'HaylB RBily.r . ' rV'i, . V l ' . . - I,, , , .. i , .-I w .. .... , ,11,1 . i I I IBW i ' ELIZABETH CITY, N. CM ERIDAY, FREBTJAR'Y' 5, jl 897. NO. 24. VOL. XXV 5 PUBLISHED WEEKLY UY THE . PALGQN PUBUS1ING; CO. J V. F. LAMB. . . .Managtr. It !:. It ECY 1- Editor. . Subscription One Year, $1.00 U )FK-S I N VL CAKD3. R. It CilK KCY. - . .Kuu'-th tMy.. C 1 ll.oUXT & r'lXJlN;. C. T Tun sMNNeit. ' Atlrnyit vi. . t; iztx lb city, N. C hank vai;;han .Ui'nj at-hi i hlizibth Cuy, N. C. ta'llif m v JT e in - r .M,u ink, 1. rquiman f:h.n. fins Utrrl..M. V,.iorUo ,,! Tyrn-1. cJ ti. 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Soar Stomach: Lo of Appetite; Bo owe! alternately costive and last Headachei cs of Memory, with a painful nsatl?i of ivicir failed to do something- which ought to t rv.Kiiif I aw Selrlt. a thick lCNb Ul simvi i " w 1 . . have beec done; Deblllty; Low 3plrlti, a thick yellow appearance me ona uu j Cough tten mistaken for Consumption. Sometimes many of these symptoms attend the Crease, at others very few; but the LivtK is renerallv the seat of the disease, and if not ReKulatetl in rime, great suffering wretched ne and DEATH will ensue. The tuKiwinrf highly esteemed person attest to the virtues of Simmons Liver Regulator! Gen. W. IL.lt, Pres. Ga. & . W. R. R. Co.; Rev. 1. R. Felder, Terry. Ga.; CoL E. - Spjrks. Al Uny, Ga.; d Masterson, Esq.. Sheriff Bibb Co, Ga ; lion. Alexander It. Stephens. -We have tested its virtues, personally, and kntw that for Dyspepsia, biliousness and Ttrobbinc Headache it is the best medicine the world ever saw. We tried forty other remedie before Simmons Liver Regulator, but none gave nmbfeUn temporary reuei; B"i"cf . - . l .. -Jti-mA Knt cured TCLXOKAFii and altsSESCER. Macon, Ga. MANCrACTUBEU OSLY BY J. It. 2 CI UN A CO., PhiJadslrbia, Va MREOrORY.' CVfj Offlccr: Mayor, Charles C. roo!.-(mimiiHiriors-Palemon John, Tho;. A. Coinutander. Alson B. Seeley, B; Frank Sih-iico and ,Wm. W.GrigRS CI. rk - IiaH. A. Banks; Treasurer lieo. W. Cobb; onstable and Chief of Polict Win. I.roks; Street Com miiomr Heutn-n W. Berry; Fire iniiiiiiionera Allen Kramer and Fred II. ZieIer. , ' Collector of 1 ustoms J as. G liroo s li.r.MKfMr V.. V 11 111 I). Examining Surgeons of Pensions 1 k. wkk . w. w. uricirs aim W. J. Luuisden. Meet on the 1st ami :?rd Wedneslays of each month at the rorner of lioad and Church Mnet. C'A wrrAe Methodist, Kev. J.ILHall, Pastor; Hcrvicen every Sundav at 11 a. in. and 7 p. in. Baptist, Ilev. Calvin BUckWell, pastor; services every Sunday at 11a. in. and 7 p m. Pres hyterian Kev, F H. Johnston, pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7:1--, ik 111. Episdppal. Rev. L. I. NVil liams. reetor ; services every Sunday at 11 h m and 4 p m. IjMlgt .Masonic: turVka Ixxlge JSo. 3i;. Dr. W. W.rlgff. W M. ; (h Wi Itrothers; S. W.; M. H. Snowden J. W. ; I), li Bratlford, Sec'ty and B. F. Spence, Trasun r. Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday niirht.4. t)ld Fellows: Achoree L u ;e JSo 14. C. M. Burgess. X. G.; W H. Ballard, V. G ; U. O. Hill. Fin. Secretary; Maurice :Wscott Treasurer. Meits evry Friday at 7:30 p. .in. Koval Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coub ftl No. 1S0; II. O HillRegent; D. A. Morg.in.-Vice Regent; C, Guirkin, Orator; W II. Ziwller. Secretary; P.M. C.H.k Jr., Collector; W. J. Wootlley, Treasurer. Meets every" 1st and 3rd Monday night. Knichts of Uonor: R. U. White, Die mtor;J. II Engle, Vice Dictator; T. j. Jordan. Reporter; T. D.'Wilsoti, Fi nance Reporter; J. C. Benbury, Treas urer. Meets 1st . and th rriday in -jrh inotith. Pu-iuotank Tribe o. 8, IO. It. 31 t: w. IK lanja. Prophet ; J. P. Simpson. mlifin; AV II Sanfortl, Sr. Sagamore; Will Aiulerson, Jr. Sagamore; James Spin s.Cl of R ; S. II. Aiurrel K.of W. Mi et every - Wednesday night. County, OJieert Commissioners C K. Krau-r.Chairman; F. 31. Gotlfrey, J. V Williams. Sheriff T P. Wilcox, Superior. Court Clerk. John P. Over man; Register of Deeds, M H. Culpep. ht ; Treasurer, John S. Morris County Kxa'minex, Gaston Pool. ScJw-U Atlantic Collegiate Insti tute, S. L. Sheep, President Select School, I. X. Tillett, Princi- Klizalieth City Public School, W. M. Ilinton, Principal. . State Poloretl Normal, P. W. Moore, Principal. iiiwAji. -First i National: Chas. II. Rolunson, President; Jno. G. Wood, Vi-e-Prefiident! Wm. T. Old Cashier. M. R. Grinin. Teller. Directors: E. F. Lftin),D.H Bradrord. J. D. Flora. M. II. White, Jno. G. Wood. J-B. Blades, C. II. Rtdiinson. Guirkin & Co . KUttrie Light Co. J. B. Blades, Presi dent. G. M. Scott, Vice President, D. IV Bradford, Sec'ty, Noah Burfoot. Treasurer. ' . Ttltyhone Co. D. 13. Bradford, Presi dent; Ii. s. Blades, Vice-President; Frl Davis, Secretary and Treasurer. The hnprotcment Co. E F. Aydlett, President; T. G Skinner, Vice Presi dent ; C. II. Bobinson, Secretary and Treasurer. - ' K. City Cotton J2k. President, Dr. O MeMullan, Vice Presiilent Geo. M. S ott. Sec- and Treas., D..B. Bradford, upr. II . F. Smith. Directors: . Dr. O. McMullan.G. M. Scott, E. F. Aydlett, J. V. Sharber, Jas. R Blades, CT. II. Robinson. Thos. . Skinner, C E. Ksamer. J. It. Flora, II. F. Smith and DB. Bradford. . . .V.iraZ IUurra.W. J. Griffin, Lieu tenant commanding; J. B. Ferebee. Lieutenant Junior Grade; L A..in der. Ensicn. Regular Drill each Tues- dav night. Arms: 40 Magaiine Rifles; - . . a a a 12 Navy Revolvers; 13 Uutiasses; a iz Pound Howitzers. Sinthetri Expresa Compivy M. H. Snowden. Agnt. Railroad and Steamboat Mail train going North, . leaves 8 a. in. and 2:45 p. m., going South, 11:40 and 5 : "0 p tu. . - Steamers for Newberne leaveat 6 p. m. Steamer Newton. laveR Eliza leth City for Cresswell on Monday and Tursdays at 9 : 80 a. m. " Re turning iwill leave Elizabeth ' ity fo'low Ine daf at 2. 80 p. m.. Steamer Har binger, will leave Eizabeth City for Hertford Wednesdays and Saturdavs at 9. 30 'a. m.: Elizabeth City for Nor folk Thursdays and Mondays d. m S. i " ' '. ' " 1 ITlVTPt1 HP A PAT?1rFTL A -ivrj UI A X All.u aiXfc - 'BEFORE THE STAMMERING RUSTIC MIGHTY HOSTS TREMBLED; Rev. Dr. Talinage at HI Bt Im ftar mon Declaring tho Goodneaa and Powet svnd Watchfolneea of God Looking at the Midnight Ueavena. Washington, Jan. 31. Thhi sermon of Dr. Talmagf, looking at the midnight heavens through the eyes of one of the ancients i unique for practicality and must set all to useful thinking. His text is Amos v, 8, "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion. A country farmer wrote this 'text, Amos of Tekoa. He plowed the earth and thrashed the grain- by a new thrashing machine just invented, as formerly the cattle trod out the grain. Ho gathered the fruit of the syca more tree and scarified it with an iron comb just before it was getting ripe, as it was necessary and customary in that wav to take from it the bitter- nesa He was the son of a poor shepherd andistuttcred, but before the stammer ing rustic tho Philistines and Syrians and Phoenicians and Moabites and Am monites and Edomites and Israelites trembled. Moses was a law giver, Daniel was a prince, Isaiah a courtier and David a king, but Amos, the author of my text, was a peasant, and, as might be sup posed, nearly all his parallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy full -of the odor of new mownahay, and the rattle of lo custs, and the rumble of carts with sheaves, and the roar of wild beasts de vouring tho flock while the shepherd camo out in their defense. He watched the herds by day, and by night inhabited a booth made out of bushes, so that through these branches he could see the stars all night long, and was more fa miliar with them than we who have tight roofs to1 our houses and ' hardly ever seo the stars except among the tall brick chimneys of the great towns. But at seasons of the year when the herds were in special danger he would stay out in the open field all through the darkness, his only shelter the curtain of the night heaven, with the stellar em broideries and silvered tassels of lunar light Alone With Hi Herds. What a life of solitude, all alone with his' herds 1 Poor Amos! And at 13 o'clock at night hark to the wolf s bark, and " tho lion's roar, and the bear's growl, and tho owl's te-whit te-who, and the serpent's hiss as he unwittingly steps too near while moving through the thickets. So Amos, like other herdsmen, gottho habit of studying the map of the heavens because it was so much of the time spread out before him. He noticed some stars advancing and others reced ing. Ho associated their dawn and set ting with certain seasons of the year. Ho had a poetic ature, and he read night by night and month by month and year by year the poem of the con stellations, divinely rhythmic. But two rosettes of stars especially attracted his attention while seated on the ground or lying on his back under the open scroll of tho midnight heavens the Pleiades, or seven stars, and Orion. The former group this rustic prophet associated with tho spring, as it rises about the first of May. Tho latter he associated with the winter, as it comes to the meridian in January. Tho Pleiades, or seven stars, connected with all sweetness and joy; Orion, tho herald of the tempest. The ancients wcro the more apt to study the physiognomy and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies because they thought they had a special influence upon the earth and perhaps they were right. If the moon every few hours lifts and lets down the tides of the Atlantic oceau and the electric storms in the sun, by all scientific admission, affect the earth, why not the stars have proportionate effect? ' ' m And there are some things which mako mo think that it may not have been all superstition which connected tho movements and appearance of the heavenly bodies with great moral events on earth. Did not a meteor run on evan gelistic errand on the first Christmas night and designate tho rough cradle of our Lord? Did not- the stars in tneir cdurses fight against Sisera? AVas'it merely coincidental that before the de struction of Jerusalem the moon was hidden for 12 consecutive nights? Did it merely happen so that a new star ai peared in constellation Cassiopeia and then disappeared just before Charles IX of France, who was responsible for the St. Bartholomew massacre, died? Was it without significance that, in the days of the Roman empire Justinian, war and famine wero preceded by the dimness of tho sun, which for nearly a year gave no more light than the moon, although there were no clouds to obscure it? Astrology, after all, may have been something more than a brilliant hea thenism. No wonder that Amos of the text, having heard these two anthems of tho stars, put down the stout, rough staff of tho herdsman and took Into his brown hand and cut and knotted. fingers the pen of a prophet and advised the recreant people of his time to return to God, saying, "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion. This com mand, which Amos gave fS5 years R C, is just as appropriate for us 1897 a. d. : A God of Order. In the first place, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made the Pleiades and Orion must be the God of order. It v as not so much a star here and a star there that impressed the in spired herdsman, but seven in one group and seven in the other group. He saw that night after night and season after season and decade after decade they had kept step of light, each one in its own place, a sisterhood, never clashing and never contesting precedence. From the time Hesiod called the Pleiades the "seven daughters of Atlas' and Virgil wrote in his JEneid of "stormy Orion' until now they have observed the order establ ished for their coming and going order written not in the manuscript that maj 1 pigeonholed, but vrith thetantf tfje AJmighty on the dome of the sky, so that all nations may read it order. persistent order, sublime order, omnipo tent order.. . " I ' What a sedative to you and me, to whom communities and nations some times seem going peUmell and the world ruled by some fiend at haphazard, and in all directions maladministration I The God who keeps seven worlds ,in right circuit for 6, 000 years can certainly keep all the affairs of individuals and nations and continents in adjustment. We had not better fret much, for the peasant's argument 'of the text was right. If God can take care of the seven worlds of the Pleiades and the four chief worlds of Orion, he can probably take care of the one world we inhabit, j So I feel very much as my father felt one day when we were going to the country rl to get a grist ground, and I, a boy of 7 years, sat in the back part of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen ran away with us and along a labyrinthian road' through th woods, so that I thought every moment we would be dashed to pieces, and I made a terrible outcry of fright, and my father turned to me with a face perfectly calm and said: "De Witt, what are you 'crying about? I guess we can ride as fast as the oxen can run. '.' And, my hearers, why should we be affrighted and - lose our equilibrium in the swift movement of worldly events, especially when we are assured that it is not a yoke of unbroken steers that are drawing us on, but that order and wise government are in tho yoke? I la your occupation, : your mission, your sphere, do the best you can and then trust to God, - and if things are all' mixed and disquieting and your brain is hot and your heart sick, get some one to go out with you into the starlight and point out to you the Pleiades, or, better than that, get into some observatory, and through the. telescope see farther than Amos with the naked eye could name ly, S00 stars in the Pleiades, and that in what is called the sword of Orion there is a nebula computed to 'be two trillion two hundred-thousand billions of times larger than the sun. Oh, be at peace with the God who made that and controls all that, the wheel- of the constellations jrurning in the wheel of galaxies for thousands of years without the breaking of a' cog, or the slipping of a band, or the snap of an axlet For your placidity and comfort through the Lord Jesus Ghrist I charge you, "Seek him that maketh the seven . stars and Orion. " j The God of Light. Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two groups of the text was the God of light. Amos saw that God was not satisfied' with making one star or two or three stars, but he makes severC and having finished that group of words makes another group group after group. To the Pleiades he adds Orion. It seems that God likes flight so well that he keeps making it. Only one being in the uni verse knows the statistics of solar, lu nar, stellar, meteoric creations, and that is the Creator himself. And they have all been lovingly christened, each one a name as distinct as the names of your children. ' 'He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them 'all by their names." The seven Pleiades had names given to them, and they are Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Tay gete and Maia. - But think of the billions and trillions of daughters of starry light that God calls . by name as j they sweep by him with beaming . brow and lustrous robe ! So fond is God (jf light natural light; moral light, spiritual light! Again and again is light harnessed for symboliza tion Christ, the bright and morning star; evangelization, the daybreak; the redemption of nations, sun of righteous ness rising with healing in his wings. Oh, men and women, with so many sor rows and sins and perplexities, if you want light of comfort, light of pardon, light of goodness, in earnest prayer through Christ, "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion !" Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two archi pelagoes of stars' must be an unchang ing God. There had been no change in the stellar appearance in this herdsman's lifetime; and his father, a snepnera, re ported to him that there had been no change in his lifetime. And these two clusters hang over the celestial arbor now just as they were the first night that they shone- on the Edenic bowers the BamA as when the Eevotians built the pyramids, from the top of which to watch them; the same as when tne unaiaeans calculated the eclipses; the same as when Elihu, according to the book of Job, went out to study the aurora bore ftlia: the same under Ptolemaio system and Copernican system; the same from Calisthenes to Pythagoras .ana rrom Pvthaonras to HerscheL Surely a changeless God must have fashioned the Pleiades and Orion, on, wnat an ano rlme amid the urs and downs of life and the flux and reflux of the tides of v-crrrt-c- tn Vnnw that we have a V3 J- w changeless God, "the same yesterday, today and forever!" Xerxes garlanded and knighted the steersman of his boat in the morning and handed him in the evening of the same day. Fifty thousand people stood the columns of the national' cap ital shouting themselves hoarse at the YYTMirtential inaufirural. and in four months, so great were the antipathies, that a. rnffian's oistol in Washington de- Dot expressed the sentiment of many a disappointed office seeker. The world KitA in its chariot and drives tandem, and the horse ahead . is Huzza, and the vnr) Khind is Anathema. Lord Cob- ham, in King James' time, was applaud- ed and had $35,000 a year, but was ait- Vrward execrated 'and lived on scraps stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexan Aay thA fJrPAt after death remained un buried for 30 days because no one would dTthe honor of shoveling him under, The Duke of Wellington refused to have fence ' mended because, it had been broken by an infuriated populace la some hour of Domical excuemsns. knd h lelt it la rnin tjdi xnea vbt I learn vr hat a fickle thing is htxmaii f-1 vor. I 'But the mercy 6f jthe Lord is from everlasting to CTerhurUng to them that fear him, and his righteousness unto the children'! j&Udrea of such as keep his covenant and to those who re member his commandments to do them. ' ' This moment seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion. 1 A God of Lore.! Apaii- Amos saw. as we fmuit im. that the God who made these two bea cons of the oriental : night sky must be a uou vi lore ana uncujj warning, xno Pleiades, rising in nddskr. said to all the herdsmen and shepherds and husband men, : "Come . out and enjoy the mild weather and cultivate your gardens and fields. ' ' Orion, coming in winter, warn ed them to . prepare for tempest. AU navigation was regulated by these two constellations. The one said to shipmas ter and crew, "Hoist kail for the! sea and' gather merch&se T from other lands. " '. But Orion jwas the ' storm sig nal . and said "Reel sail; make things snug or put into harbor, for the hurri canes are getting their jwings out " j As the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of the spring, Orion wf the wariung propnet 01 tne winter 1 ! i j 1 Oh. now I get the! best view of God I ever hadl There are tvo sermons I nev er want to preach tnef one that presents tjrod so Kino, so indulgent, so lenient; so imbecile that , men mav doi what they will against him and fracture his every law ana put tne pry 01 tneir imperti nence and rebellion s under j his, throne and while they are spitting! in his face and stabbing at his heart he' takes them up in his arms and kisses their infuriat ed brow and cheek, saying, '.'Of such is the kingdom of heaven. " The other kind of sermon I never want to Ipreach is the one that represents God as tall fire and torture and thundercloud ana witn redhot pitchfork tossing the human race into paroxysms jjof infinite agony. The sermon that I am now preaching be lieves in a God of loving, kindly: warn ing, the God of spring and winter, the God of the Pleiades and Orion. - j 1 Y6u must rememberthat the winter is just as, important as 4he spring. Let one winter pass without frost to kill vegeta tion and ice to bind the fivers and sncrr to enrich our fields, and then you will have to enlarge your hospitals ana your cem eteries. "A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard' ' was he old pijoverb. Storms to purify thejair. Thermometer at 3 degrees below zero to jtone up the system. December and January just as important as May and June, j I tell you, we need the storms of 'life as much as we do the sunshine. There arte more men ruined by prosperity than by adversity. If we had our own wky in ilife before this we would have been impersonations of selfishness and, wpr Idliness and dis gusting sin ! and j ptjdfted up until we would have been , like; Julius Caesar, who was made by sycophjinjbs to believe that he was divine, and the freckles on' his face-were said to 'be i as the stars of the firmament! i i 'j! :''" 1 The God of jOrion. One of the swiftest transatlantic voy ages made one summer --. by j the Etruria was because she had j; a stormy wind abaft chasing her from - New York to Liverpool. But to those going in the op posite direction' the storm was a buffet ing and a hindrance, j" It is ia bad thing to have a storm ahead, pushing us' back, but if we be God's children :and aiming toward heaven the storms 'of life wiU only chase us the sooner into the har bor. I am so glad to Jjelieye that the monsoons, typhoons jjand' mistrals j and siroccos of the J.and an seajare not un chained maniacs let f loose upon! the earth, but are under diyine supervision. I am so glad that the! God of" the seven stars is also T the God of Orion, j It was nut nf Dante's suffering came the? sub lime "Divina Commedia, ' land out of John Milton's blindness came i'' Para dise Lost, V and out bf miserable infidel attack came the "Bridgewater Treatise in favor of Christianity, and I put of David's exile came the) songs of conso lation, and out of the sufferings of Christ caine the possibility of the: world's re demption, and out of ydur bereavement, your persecution, yourj poverties,' your misfortunes, may yet come an heaven. ; . ; ! . nh" what a merer it is that in the t.p.Tt and all un and down the Bible God induces us to look,j opt tcjward jother worlds ! Bi ble astronomy ih jGehesis, in Joshua, in Job, in the psalms, in tne. prophets, major and minor, in St John's Apocalypse, practically saying: 'Worlds . worlds, worlds! I Get ready Uaw. I hard ft. Y TOA littlfl World 1U1 1 liiciu i i yt - ? 4 here that we stick to as though losing that we lose alL We are;afraid 01 railing off -this little raft of, ar world.' We are afraid that some meteorid iconoclast will Rome nisrht smash -it. and we want everything to revolve akrand it and are disappointed when vej nna. tna 11 re volves around the sun instead of the sun revolving around it I What a fuss we make about this, little bit of a world, its oTiafpn onlv.a 'short time between two spasms, the paroxysin by which it was hurled from chaos into oroer, ana iob of its demolition, i 1 And I am glad that sd many texts call us to look off to other worias, many 01 them larger and graihder ahd. more re- Tiob- therel' aavg Job- "at Maramth and Arcturus I and his sons I t twM snVa i St.! John. Vat the mm nnner Christ's 1 feet!" i I- Look i,BM " com TocVi-na.Ji"at the sun stand itiir Rtill above Gibeoh!'1 "Look there," says Moses, "at the sklingr firma ment 1" ' 'Look ; there, ' says Amos, the hprninrian. "at ! thel seven ! stars and Orion!" Do not letlus f be so sad about those who shove off from this world tm opr Christlv nilotagei; Po hot let us he so agitated about our own fcijoff this little barge or sloop cr canalboat of s world to cret on some Great Eastern of wanting to stay in this barn, this shed, this outhouse of a world, when au w king's rlacalready 01 our rjesi menus !",j ""'B'mb " r open uieLr tuic w When I read. "In myTFathers house are many mansions, 7 1 do not xnow 099 , . ... 5. . : . . m. as manr rooms as there are worlds, stellar stairs. stellar galleries, stellar hallways stel lar windows, stellar domes.. How our departed friends must pity us, shut up in wem cramped apartments, tirw u we walk 15 miles; when they some "morn ing, by one stroke of wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar system and be back ih time - for matins 1 Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation is the residence of the martyrs;; that group of 12 luminaries mav be the celestial home of the apostles.1 Perhaps! that steep of light is the dwelling place of angels cherubic seraphic, archangelic a man sion with as many rooms as worlds .and au weir winaows. uiuminatea ior ies- tiTity. , ( I;-:, Worth of tho Soat. Oh. how this widens and lifts and stimulates our 'expectation! How little it makes the present, and how stupen dous it makes the future! How it cou soles us about our pious dead, that, in stead of being boxed up and under the ground, have the range of as many rooms as there are worlds, and welcome every where, for it is the Father's house, in which them are many mansions! O, Lord God of the seven stars and Orion, how can I endure the transport, the ec stasy, of such a vision ! I must obey my text and seek him. I will seek hinu I seek him. now; for I call to mind that it is not the material universe that is most valuable, but j the spiritual, and that each of us has a soul worth more than all the worlds which the inspired herds man' saw from his booth on the lulls or Tekoa. " " - -. ,f I had studied it before, but the .cathe dral' of Cologne, Germany, .n vor im pressed me as it did one summer! It is admittedly the grandest Gothic struc ture In the world, its foundation laid in 1248, only a few years ago completed. More than 600 years in building. All Europe taxed for its construction. . Its chapel of the j Magi with precious -stones anoufirh to purchase a kingdom. It chapel of Stj Agnes with masterpieces of painting. Its spire springing 51,1 feet into the heavens. Its stained glass the chorus of all rich colors. Statues encir cling the pillars and encircling all. Statues above-'statues, until sculpture can do no more, but faints and falls back against carved1 stalls and. down on pavements over which the kings and , queens J of the earth have walk ed to confessional Nave and aisles and transept . and portals combining the splendors of sunrise and sunset. Inter laced, interfoliated, mtercoiumnea crrandeur. As I stood outsUdel looking at the double range of flying buttresses and the forest of pinnacles, higher and nigh er and higher, until I almost reeled from dizziness, I exclaimed;- 'Great doxology in stone 1 Frozen prayer of many na tions I" I '-',?:-. But while standing there I saw a poor man enter and put down his pack and kneel beside his burden on the hard flOQr of that cathedral. And tears of deep emotion came into my eyes, as I said to myself:, 'There is a soul worth more than all the- material surround ings. That man will live after the last pinnacle has fallen and : not one stone of all that cathedral, glory shall remain uncrumbled. He is now o, Lazarus in pTaBB MUX povexiij' luiu fnciunn.nn, u mortal and a son of the Lord God Al mlchtv. and the praver he now offers, though amid- many superstitions, I. be lieve God (will hear,; and among tne apostles Whose . sculptured ' forms stand in the surrounding niches he will at last be lifted, and into the presence of that Christ j whose sufferings are repre sented bv the crucifix before which he bows, and be raised in due tune out 01 all his poverties into the glorioti.? home built for him and built for us by him who maketh the seven stars and OTipn. . .''" AdTance of the Motor Vehicle) . . . . Motor vehicles ( automotives is the name recommended for them) have be gun to be matter for serious reflection in England. ' Major Flood I Pagei who lectured about them the other day be fore the London chamber of commerce, firwmlated as to the results of their intro duction and named as among the indus tries that would bo affected were petr leum, secondary battery manufacturers, morKsnifi&l'' entrineers and allfed tratles; coach, car, ! wagon and carriage builders and allied trades; agriculture in many branches, railway companies and, last by by no means least, the war depart ment of every country in j the world. He expects' them as they grow common to interfere more pr leas with, trades connected j with Omnibuses, cabs and horses, but to provide work for more men than they displace, just as railways did when they drove out coaches. - , He believes that - in the country dis tricts, of England they will do what canals have done in Holland and make communication m c: r y that the rush .of perishable prodi. h . ;o market will be greatly quickened' rd increased. They will Change the v -le face of war, he thinks, and be u. - to move guns and do all transport : i . ' In Paris auton.f : ves are i in use ; in London they are i- ht; in New Yoik they are still only in prospect An au tomotive fire truck, to be run by a com pressed air! gas engine, has been devised by a Brooklyn man and has .come, so near real Existence as to have its picture In the newspapers. It is a terrific look ing creation and as an engine of destruc tion seems fit to make'a cable car on a eurve seem like a child's toy. Harper's Weekly. . '-r , ' i;- .0 Expensea of the White j House. v Congress appropriates between $40, 000 and $50, 000 annually for the cur rent expenses of the executive mansion to meet clerk hire, including that of the president's private .secretary, which is $5,000 a yearr stenographer, typewrit- . tAlwrranh onerators, I messengers, doorkeepers, a steward arid housekeeper and light and heat Dont Lend. n. nn4V.;nf Von Vn'nw vonr- on: self howi careless you are in paying back anything you borrow; London An . . . , f that each world 1 a room and rooms aa there are worlds, Ktell PORTUGAL'S NEWSPAPERS. They Are. Few maid Bar Odd TrUoa aad .4 t- rrbaltlMaeds. . . ? ( Ther are fewer than W newspa pers published in the entire king-; dotn of Portugal, the population of which is nearly o.tw.opo, or about the same as that of Pennsylvania, in which tho total number of .news papers published is 1433. Journal ism in Portugal is conducted on a somewhat primitive plan, and the newspapers of Portugal hare not only, a primitive aspeot, but some what primitive titles as well. :The weekly newspaper having the lar- geet circulation in the kingdom is The Pontos Noe U, which means lit- rally in English; "The Dot on the Eye. It is published in Lisbon. An other Lisbon paper is called f Tbe Is land, though why it has geograph ical designation is not altogether, clear. The medical journal of Lisbon is called The Ckmtemporary Surgeon. ; The city of Oporto, better known to , many Americans than Lisbon,5 tho , capital, has a number of daily pa pers, the chief one of which is Actu alidade, a Portugueso variation of J the sort of journalism ' repreeentedl by thia well known phraSe,'"If you see it in The Sun, it's so." It is not tho only Oporto journal with 'axv 1 culiar riflma There is another daily, ' claiming a circulation of 20,000, the title of , which is Dee' de Mario, which is Portuguese for the 10th of March. St HI another daily paper of Oporto is called The Prlmerro de Janeriro,; otherw ise the 1st of Janu ary. The humorous paper of Oporto is O Sorvete (The Sherbet),1, and throe other daily papers of the samo city are known as A LuciSj A Palh vara and A Justica, otherwise Tlo Light, The World and Justice. Theno is ono daily paper published at Va lencia in Portugal, called The Coun try, and one in Lisbon called Tho Atlantic. In Coimbra, ono of tle old est of Portuguese ci tit's and lonjr; known as the seat of a university founded in 1308, there is one daily paper, called The News. The theory upon 'which Portu guese papers are conducted appears . to be that they should be, above aU things lse, vivacious, and it is for. this reason perhaps that weekly papers are at a discount in Portugal, the favorite plan being to divide what WbukLbe in the United Btatos the contents of a weekly paper into sevenths and' publishing it on the installment plan, so to speak, every day, and excluding from its col umns, so far as possible, anything so sensational as what is called . the uncorroborated news." A fair and' proper substitute for hews is found in jocose and harmless allusions to the appearance of individuals,; such as are contained, for instance, in The Voz do Povo (The Voico of tho People). In Lisbon there is publish ed a johrnal called The Public Inter est, which makes a feature of, book reviews;; The Lisbon Circle is a po-. litical organ of the more radical op ponents of the local government Another daily paper in Lisbon is; called O Seculo. New York Sun; ' , " .' ; Coke aad Colo. . ' " . Ronator Coke of Texas was once pitted in some" kind of race against a man named Cole, wno was an eio nuent sneaker and was getting rath er the better of him. The Coke party gave a big barbecue but their best lrfw could not be on hand. The committee discovered that no talent was available except a rough and tumble fellow who had been a coal miner in West Virginia, lie ; con. sented, when called on, and the committee was in fear and trem bling, wondering what he would do. But they didn't fear .ana tremoie .... ' ' a a S A a long. "Feller citizens, saia xne srjeaker. "Iam here today to talk to vou about Coke and Cole. You know me, and you know l know wnat x u talking about, and I want to ask vou if you know the difference bo- tween Coke and ixie. ; nui it au . necessary i every man of you knows thatlthe difference between them is the gas that is in the Cola" San Francisco Argonaut. v ... . . ti.- wHmWA nA fak Ofioe Twsak with rolllnc top which looka all drawers. 60 ioebea losf ana S3 uuuxm deep; Special Jrnoa, 1 (Order prompJLlr filled.) Too will find over 1 000 tiajTratBa In our new cataiocue. r"n rCl kJDd of Furniture. ttBaCar rtajres, Refrljerator. Beonc, Btorea, Fancr Lamp. Laoe Curtains, etc. Toa art rrlnlocal dealer double our price? -Dropapoatal bowfor our Son-MTlDS taJ which we mall free of all charros. Doe S.HiSs-tti ufacturer and your doUat double It burins power. 1 . JuliuGHinesGSon, DALTrJlOUB,' EXDe 1 . - 11 - SI i. . .V -I '1 - i V T ' f
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 5, 1897, edition 1
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