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'vitir . t i 1' -i 1. ac :i I . . 11 - O' vV vy ;, 1 and Light. i DIRECTORV, City pfrerp Mayor. Charles C. Poo!. Ciii!ni - HiorM rs i'alfrnon John, TIiom. I .imii.in t.V.t.L Siiu'h .n:d Win. v . uncK -" --!- ----- t..-. A Hunks: rreasurer rTili1ir nstable ana uniei U'm. Itrnoks: Street Com- tniioner Ueulen W. Berry; Firn Allen Kramer - and Fred II. Ziegler. Collector of Customs Jas.C. Drools listinRter E. F. I-amb. Examining Surgeon of Pensions v "r r.nii...n Meet on the 1st unil ::r.l uv.lni-Mlnvs of each month at the .,,fif r.f ifrtjui nnl Church Streets ChurrLta Metbodist, Kev.-J. II. Hall, Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 !. I in. Baptist, Kev. Calvin S Itlackwell. pastor; services every nn,inf if ii n m and 7n. in. 1 res- iliyterian, I lev. F II. Johnston, lastor; services every Sunday atli a.m. ana r.l". t in KnUrorwil. IleV. Lt. Ij. Wll- Uaiiis. rector; services every Sunday at 11 n in ana 4 p. m. Isxlct .Slawnic: Eureka Lodge itP..tl.r V M. H. Snowden J. W.t D.1J. Bradford, Sec'tyandB.F.Sience, TrtaAirer. Meets 1st and 3rd Tuesday iiigiu. 4 llTrtr.i. Alinrp Tod tre 20 11 i r.ir,.a v ii W. 11. . Ballard, V. (I.; 11.. I). Hill. Fin. Secretary; r.,.:. ;irtt. "Treasurer. Meats - Ti-t.l-v t 7:30 n. m. ! Uyal Arcanum : Tiber Creek Coun- cil .No, lS'UI; ii. u Jllliuepem, y i m..,., vi,. Ticont ? C. uuirkin. Orator; W. H. Zoeller. Secretary; F.1. ;cnk Jr.. Collector; W, J. Wootlley, 'r....i iiwtiipvprv 1st and 3rd ... t-..;.;i.t f ITnnnr- R. 15. White, DlC f if.Vnrrin Vipp Dictator: T. liliuri ""f"- " . . . , 'n. r ini,.n ntmrtpr: T. H. Wilson. 1 ! nance Heporter; J. C. Benbury, l reas- i . ui .. ,.-- - v - - - tf..u-d it nnd am iTHiav in 'each luontli , ; -T t i.tititilf Trilie rso. c. I. U. It. C. W. IManja, Prophet ;J. P. Simpson, i Sachem; V lt ianioru, or. . ii-.'ir i...i.1nnn Jr Sacamore: James w..: ' ii s If. Murrel K.of W. t..., -..r-; Wtxlripsdav III tit. I. C"'tntv OtTictrs. Commissioners L. i' u--..,-"f?iinirFn5in: F. M. Godfrey, ! i vv Wiliinim. Sheriff. T. P. Wilcox, r-iir Trlin I (Iver- - - - . . ,. . ,Trt..lMlrer John S. Morris County - . . . . T" 1 laMlillliiri, x . itintitift c?nllefiate Insti- ... j.,., i.neinn I'lHll. , I lliir. 14. , "... . . . ..!.. .!ifl T N.Tlllett. l'rinci- i f i l '.Kll. I ..... ... f Kliabeth Cky Public School, w.m. Ilinton. Principal. State CXiloreu normal, jl . .w., Principal. Ilohinson, 'President; Jno. U. opd , ViV...Prtsi1ent! Win. T. Old. Cashier. M. K. Uriniu. Teller Directors: E r Unib,D.H. 'Bradford. J. H; .Flora M. II. White, Jno. It. oou j. II. Hobinsim. Uuirkin & Co. ' ; t : tv r i,, ,' T. K. Blades. Presi .!... i; m ir..t Vice President, U. tit III. V". ' - . . B. Bradfortl, Sec'ty, oah Burfoot. Ttbphont Co. U. IJ. Bradford, President;-1. S. Bladt-s, Vice-President; IVmI. Davii, Scretary and Treasurer. The Imvnrement Co. E. F. Ay diet t, President ; T. O Skinner, ' ice Presi r if ii4il.inson. Secretary and 1 1" 1 1 l , V ... -' " W , rr 1 t' r:,.. fi.n.tn lAZLt President. IJr. str. Sec. and Trea., DJ H. Bradford, Supt II, F.Smith. Directors: Dr. o. McMulIan.i. Ji. on , "J"-V,' i.n.t loa 1L lilades. C. it. i i Tk., n Skinner. C. E. i- t i II. F. Smith and n it ItrAdford. - , rA rv J. Oriffln. Lieu- f.,T,nr,f nnm in and in tr: J. ! r ereDCc. t: ...nnn Inninr I ; rn.de I Li. A. I"' ,ler, EnsiRO. Regular Drill each Tues iiAv nipht. i Arms: 40 Macaiine Rifles; l2 N'avv Revolvers; 12 Cutlasses; 3 13 Pound Howitzers. . s VrrTf firm rm u v. Al . 11. O .1 . I anf I2ailro.nl and SieimboaUHa.l train i loarpa 8 a,, in. anil 5:45 p. m.t going South,. 11:40 and Steamers for Xewberne leave at t u..om0p pwfnn. leaves Ehza- leth City for Cresswell on MODaaya 1 T..M.1ara t M ."SLI K. III. i- turning wifl leave Elizabeth City follow i ?a m Steamer liar- l;r-" J l":,7.i. vi,.hth Citv for ffortrrri Vd nestiivs and Saturdavs o tn . . Trnrtwth Citv for Nor- folk Thurstlays and Mondays p. m .i. - ; I Why will vou buy bitter nauseating to dca when drove' Tatrlci rdin 'i'.iri id n nlpasAnt fis Ieinon Syrnp. Your druggist is authorized to rfund the m.jney In every case wnere ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, WHIGS OF SERAPHDL DR. TALMAGE'S PRACTICAL ShMUN upon an Exalted theme. He frees Ola Hearers to Aspire to tlj Upward IJ log. He Says, Is but the Molt ipc Season For the Soul Liing Near Chrtt. Waphixgtox, Feb. 28. In this dis course Dr. Talmage'takes a most exalted theme and makes it practical and useful to tho last degree, ine suDjeci ia Wings of Seraphim," and the text ia Isaiah vi, 2, " With twain he covered hia face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.' In a hospital of leprosy good King Uzziah had died, and the whole land was shadowed with solemnity, and the ological and prophetic Isaiah was think ing about religious things, as one is apt to do in time of great national bereave- ment, and forgetting the presence oi nis wife and two sons, who made up his family, ho has a dream not like the dreams of ordinary character, wnicn generally come from indigestion, but a vision most instructive, and under the touch of the hand of the Almighty. The place, the ancient temple build ing grand, awful, majestic W ithin that temple a tlirpno higher and grander than that occupied by any czar or sui- tan or emperor, un mat turone, me . . . . . At eternal Christ. In lines surrounding that throne, the brightest celestials, liot the cherubim, hut higher than they, tne most exquisite and radiant of the heav enly inhabitants the seraphim. They nn railed burners because tfcey JooK liKe fire lips of fire, eyes of fire, feet of tire. In addition to the features and the limbs, which suireest a human being, there are pinions' which suggest the lithest, the swiftest, the most buoyant ana tne mosi aspiring ot all unintelligent creation a bird. Each seraph had six wings, each two of the wines for a different purpose, Isaiah's dream quivers and flashes with these pinions, now folded, now spread, beaten in locomotion. -"With twain he covered his feet, with twain he cov nrfd hia face, and with twain ne Old ... i fly."' The probability is that tnese wings were not all used at once. The seraph standincr there1 near the throne, over whelmed at tho insisrniflcance or tne naths his feet had trodden as compared with th nntha trodden bv tho feet of God. and with tho lameness of. his loco motion amounting almost to decrepitude as compared with the divine velocity, with feathery veil of angelic modesty lmles th feeti 4 'With twain he am cover tho feet. '? Standing there, overpowered by the overmatching splendors of God s glory and unable longer with the eyes to look upon them and wishing those eyes cimfW fmnvthe insufferable cloir. the ninions crathcr over tho countenance, "With twain he did cover tne iace. Then, as God tells this seraph to go to the farthest outpost of immensity on message of light and .love and joy and tret back before the first anthem, it aoea nr. tlrn th spranh a srreat while to snread himself upon the air with unim- agined celerity, one stroke of the wing equal to 10,000 leagues of air. "With twain ho did fly." Hainllltj and Imperfection. The most practical and useful lesson for you and me, when we see the seraph spreading his wings over the feet, is the lesson of humility at imperfection. The brightest angels of God are so far be neath God that, he charges them with folly, the seraph so far beneath God and we so far beneath tho serapn in service we ought to be plunged in hu mility, utter and complete. Our feet, how lapgard they have been in tne ai vine service I Our feet, how many mis steps they havo takenl Our feet, in how many paths of worldliness and folly they have walked 1 Neither God nor seraph intended to put any-dishonor upon that which is one! of the masterpieces ot Aimigmy uuu the human foot. Physiologist and anat omist are overwhelmed at the won ders of its organization. The Bridge water treatise,, written by Sir Charles Belf, on tho wisdom and goodness of God as illustrated in the human hand, was a result of the f 40,000 bequeathed in the last will and testament of the Earl of BridgeSvatcr for the encourage ment of Christian literature, Tho world could afford to1 forgive his eccentricities, though ho had two dogs seated at his table and though he put six dogs alone in an cquipago drawn by four horses and attended by two footmen. With his large bequest inducing Sir Charles Bell to write so valuable a book on the wisdom of God in the structure of the human hand, the world could af ford to forgive his oddities. And the world could now afford to have another Earl of Bridgewater, however- idiosyn cratic, if ho. would induce some other Sir Charles Bell to write a book on the wisdom and goodness of God in the con struction of the human foot, the artic ulation of its bones, the lubrication of its joints, the gracefulness of its lines, the ingenuity of its cartilages, the deli cacy of its veins, the rapiany oi us muscular contraction, the sensitiveness of its nerves. I sound the praises of the human foot. With that we halt cr climb or march. It is the foundation of the physical fab ric It is the base of a God poised col umn. With it the warrior braces him self for battle. With it the orator plant himsolf for eulogium. With it the toiler reaches his work. With it the outraged stamps his indignation, its loss an irrep arable disaster, its health an invalu able equipment If you want to know its value, ask the man whose foot pa ralysis hath shriveled, or machinery hath crushed, or surgeon's knife hath -TntAtPd. The Bible honors U, Espe- rare. "Lest thou . dash thy foot r.gainst iitt. mill nnt suffer igainst a stone," xaw "w,;r" hy foot to tc oved," "Thy feet shall iot stumble.'", Especial charge Keep 1 not r.t- -iirn thou eoest to the house rcTvial DeriL "Their feet Hi UU. "I shall slide in; due time." Connected with te world's dissolution. "He shall set one foot on the sea and the other oa the earth."' ' Wines ef Humility. J ive me the history of your foot, and I will give you the history of your life time. Tell me up what steps it hath cone, 'down . what declivities and in what roads and in what directions, and I will know more about you than I want to know. None of us could en dure the scrutiny. Our feet not always in paths of God, sometimes in paths pi worldliness. Our feet, a divine and clorious machinery for usefulness and work,- so of ten making missteps, so often going : in the wrong direction. God knowing every step, the- patriarch say ing, "Thou sett est a print on the heels of my feet. " Crimes of the hand, crimes of the tongue, crimes of the eye, crimes of the ear not worse than crimes of the foot Oh, we want the wings of humil ity to cover the feet I Ought we not tc go into self abnegation before tlw all searching, all scrutinizing, all trying eye of God? The seraphs da How much more we? 4 'With twain ho covered the feet" All this talk about the dignity of hu man, nature is braggadocio and. sin. Our nature started at the hand of God regal, but it has been pauperized. There is a well in Belgium which once had very pure water, and it was stoutly masoned with stone and brick, but that well aft erward became the center of the battle of Waterloo. At the opening of the bat tle the soldiers with their sabers com belled the gardener, William von Kyl- som, to draw water put of the well foi them, and it was very pure wafer. But the battle raged, and 300 dead and half dead were flung into the well for quick and easy burial, so that the well of re freshment became the well of death, and long after people looked down into the well and they saw the bleached skulls, but no water. So the human soul was a well of good, but the armies of sin have fought around it and fought across it nA Vxn Klnin. nnd it has become a well of skeletons. Dead hopes, dead res olutions. dead opportunities, dead am- hiHrma An abandoned ' well unless Phrisf: shall reonen and purify and fill it-, as the well of Belgium never was. Unclean, unclean. Irreverence. Another seraphic posture in the text, "With twain he covered the face. " That means reverence Godward. Is ever so much irreverence abroad in the world as today. You see it in the defaced statuarv. in the cutting out of figures from fine paintings, in the chipping of monuments for a memento, in the fact that military guard must stand at the grave, of Lincoln and Garfield, and that old shade trees must be cut down foi firewood, though 50 George P. Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the tree, and that calls a cornse a cadaver, ana tnai sneaks of death at goiifgover to the ma iority, and substitutes for the reverent terms iatner ana momer me viu. mou and " the old "woman," and finds noth ing impressive in the ruins of Baalbec tho cnlnfnns of Karnac. and sees no ifforpncft in the Sabbath from other davs except it allows more dissipation; and reads the Bible in what is called higher criticism, making it not the word of God. but a'cood book with some fine things in it Irreverence . never so much abroad How many take the name of God, in vain, how many trivial things said about the Almighty 1 Not-willing to have God in the world, they roll up an idea of sentimentality and humanitari anism and impudence and imbecility and call it God. No wings of reverence over the face, no taking off of shoes on Viriv crmnnd. You can tell from the way they talk they could have made a wtM- world than this, ana tnat tne God of the Bible shocks every sense of propriety. They talk of the love of God in a wav that shows you they believe it does not make any difference how bad a man is here he will come m at the slnn ing gate. They talk of the love of God in a way which shows you they think it is a general jail delivery for all the abandoned and- the scoundrelly. of the universe. No punishment hereafter for any wrong done here. The Bible gives two descriptions of God, and they are just .opposite, thev are both true. In one place and the Bible savs God is love. In another place the Bible says God is a consuming fire. Tho explanation is plain as plain can be. God through Christ is love. God out of Christ is fire. To win the one and to escape the other we have only to throw ourselves, body, mind ana soui, into Christ's keeping. "No," says lr- Mmimo "T want no atonement; I itviyui ... nardon: I want no interven t onT tnnc CtrA nnd " '"i t iii rXf, Wm aad I will k Mm what hJta to do with me, " So the hnite confronts the Infinite; 60 a tack hammer tries to break a thunderbolt ; so the breath of human nostrils defies the everlasting God, while the hierarchs of heaven bow d bend the knee as the IUU JVea m-m King's chariot goes by, and the arch angel turns away because he cannot en dure the splendor,; and the chorus of all hA pmnires of heaven comes in with full diapason, "Holy, holy, holyl ' A Pressing" Need. Reverence for sham, reverence for. the old merely because it, is old, reverence for stupidity however learned,1 reverence for incapacity however finely inaugu rated. I have none. But we want more reverence for God, more reverence j for ha snrraments. more reverence for the Bible. , more reverence for. the pure mnro rpvprence for the good. Reverence a characteristic of all great natures. Vn hPr it in the roll of the master nratorios. You see. it in the Raphaels and Titians and Ghirlandaios. You study it in the architecture of the Aho no and Christopher Wrens. Do not be flippant about God. Do not joke about rfpatr. Do not make fun of the Bible. TV, tint, dpride the Eternal. The bright- ot, mio-htipst seranh cannot look t,TwiKhPd neon him. Involuntarily the rinr come un. " With t wain he covered hia face."" Who is this God before whom the ax MARGHj 5, 1897 rogant and iiitractable refuse reverencef There was anj engineer by tbie name of tsrrasicrates wno was pi me em pipy pi Alexander the Great, land he jffered to hew a mountain in the shape of his master,: fhe emperor, he enjbrnious fig ure to hold in the left hand jja city of 1 0, 000 Inhabitants, while with the right hand it was to hold a basin large enough to; collect all the .mountainj torrents. Alexander applauded' him jfpr; his inV genuity, but forbade the enterprise be- ranse of its! costliness. Yet I have, to tell you that our Kin hold in one hand all the cities of the eartti, ana an tne oceans, wnue ne nas tne stars pi neayea for his tiara I,-' r . ! ' ; I ; 1 Earthly power goes frbinx hand to hand from Henry I -to Henry j H and Henry HI, from Charles I to Charles II, from Louis I to Louis II land Louis HIT; but from everlasting tp everlasting is God. ; God the first; God 'the last, God the only. He has one telescope, with which he sees every thing lus omnis cience, j He lias one bridge, with which he crosses" everything his pmnipres- ence. lie nas one nammer, wim wu.u he builds evefrtbinghis omnipotence. Put two tablspoonfuls of j water in tne palm of. your hand, and ; t fvill over flow, but Isaiah indicates that uoa puts the Atlantic, land th Pacific, and the Arctic, and the Antarctic, 'and the Med iterranean, and the Blacks sea, and all the waters of j the earth in fthe: hollow ot his hand. Tie fingers thelbekch on one side, the wrist the beach cn (the otner. "He holdeth the water inthe hollow of his hand." . ' j . jr ; :' ' H The Blue Ribbon. ;; : As you take a pincii of salt or powder between your! thumb and twei fingers, so Isaiah indicates God taxes up tne eartn. He measures the dust of jthej earth, the original there indicating that God takes all the dust or all tne continents ue t ween the thumb and two fingers. You wrap around your hand a blue ribbon five times, ten times.i YoQ say it is nve hand breadths or it is' ten hand breadths. So indicates the prophet Qod: winds the bine ribbon of the sky around his hand. tt-in heavens : withJ. a cnin ' ' ' Y on ! k Ticiw inab I uu-ittiiwo aio made of a beam suspended in the mid rilfi. -with two basins at tne extremity oi : . "...I . L -.M equal heft. In that way jvhat vast heft has been weighed I But what are all the balances of earthlymanrpulation com pared with the balances that; Isaiah saw suspended when he saw ' God putting into the scales the Alps and the Apen nines and Mount Washington and the Sierra Nevadas? You see the earth had to be ballasted. It would toot do to have ch wpicht in Eirobe. or too. much weight m Asia, or ; too mucn weight in .Africa for in America, so when ! God made the mountains ne weighed them. The Bibl4 distinctly says so. God knows the weight oi tne fhnf: cHtsrh the continents. the tons, the pounds avoirdupois,' the nnnces: i the errainsi the millegrami just how much thejr weighefd then; and iust how much they weigh now. "He WPl' crhpd the i mountains i in scales and the hills in a balance. ' ' Un, j wnat a woa -o ; .. J. i . . to run against ! Oh what a jGod to dis obey 1 Oh. what a God to 'sdishbnorliun, what a God to defy! -The? brightest; the miarhtiest angel takes no t familiarity with God. The wines of ! reverence are the liffPdJ "With twain he covered face.";- ! ' ' Another seraphic; posture in the text The seraph must npt always stand still. He must move, and it mustj pe without clumsiness. There must be ceieriryj ana beauty in the movement With twain he did fiv." I Correction exhilaration., Correction at bur stow gait, for we pnly m-nwl iri thft service when we Ought to fly at the divine bidding. Exhilaration; in the fact ; that the sou has wings as the serapns nave nvmg What is a wing? An instrument of locomotion. Thev may not be like seraphs' wing, they may not ne ;ixe Dirus vk fv.Q cri Vias wincs.1 God! savs so. f He shall mount up. on wiukh ;a caiw. We are made in the divine ( image. and God has wings; i frhe ible saysi so. 4 'Healing in ,his wings. T " Under the shadow of his" wines. 'Under whose Wines hast thou come toj trust." The Kftni witn lornea wing nuw, wuuuucu m j 1 1. ?. i L m er wmcr. ! oroKen wing, uieuij ; vym&t caged wing. Aye, I have t now I j iagea within bars of borie and under curtains hnt onedavto be frea li near the rustle of pinions in Seagrave's poem which' we sometimjes smg: j . j Rise, my soul, and stretch, thy wings. T hPATithe rustle of ninions in Alex ander Pope's stanza, where he says: ' ! I mount, I fly. ! ! . i O death, where is thy jirtctory! r j On WinfcTS tb Eternity. I Aidying Christian not long &go cried r I ; 'U'Jnrra nrincro V7irCrii"- iThe' BIT onii "Wines, wings, wingsl' is full of, then.', coAlng - W po ing and going. You have een.now tne dull:- sluceish chrvsalid becomes tne bright butterfly; the dull aad the stupia nri th ipthareic turned Unto the alert and the" beautiful Well, my friends, in this world we are in the chrysalid state. Death will unfurl the wings. UU, n we could only realize Iwhat a j grand thing it will be to get rid of tnis oia cioa oi the body j and mount the heavens, neither seagull nor lark nor albatross nor falcon nor condor pitching from) highest range of Andes so buoyant or jso j majestic of stroke! ! . . ! . I i See that eagle in the mountain nest. It looks so sick, so; ragged feathered, so worn but and so half asleep, j Is that eagle dying? No. The ornithologist will rll vnti it is theimolting season with that bird.;- Not dying, ' but; molting. Yon see that Christian sick and, weary and worn out and seeming about to ex- i ealleoThis deathbed. The world savs he is dying. I i say it is the molting season for his soul the body dropping away, the celestial j pinions rnmincr on. Not dying, , but molting. Molting out of darkness .and sin and struggle into glory and into God. Why do von not shout? I Why do you sit shiv ering at the thought of death and trying to hold back and wishing'you could stay here forever, and speak of departure as though the subject were filled with skel etons and the varnish of coffins, and a j in ' - -. - -- ---- 1- . , , though you preferred lame foot to wing? " I-: Oh, people of God, let us stop playing , the fool and prepare for rapturous flight ' When your soul stands on tho verge of this life, and there are vast precipices beneath and sapphirecl domes above, which way will you fly? Will you swoop, or will you soar? Will you fly downward, or will you fly upward? Everything on the wing this day bid ding us aspire. Holy Spirit on tne wing. Angel of the 'New Covenant on the wing. Time on the wing, flying away from us. Eternity on the wing, nying toward us. Wings, wings, wings! I Live so near to Christ that when you are dead people standing by your lif e less body will not soliloquize, saying: "What a disappointment life was ( to him I How averse he was to departure i What a pity it was he had to die I W hat an awful calamity I" Rather standing there may they see a sign more vivid on your still face than the vestiges of pain, something that will indicate that it was a happy exit, the clearance irpm oppressive quarantine, the cast off chrys- alid, the molting of tne faaea ana .no useless, and the ascent from malarial valleys to bright, shining mountain tops, and be led to say, as they stana mere contemplating your humility and your reverence in life and your happiness in death, "With twain he covered thej feet, with twain he; covered the face, witn twain he did fly. " Wings, wings, wmgsl Firefly Lantern Clubs. Genius has given fashionable folks a new piaytning wnn wmi-u ij ouu themselves. It is in literal obedience to the Biblical injunction regarding a lamp unto the feet, for that is exactly where the new light is to be worn. It consists of a tiny lantern with sides of very stout glass, mounted upon a stirrup which straddles the foot of the user, a tongue resting' on the toe of the foot and acting as a part of the support. This aueer idea has taken strong iioia upon the minds of .the smart set, and as a result has sprung into instant iavor. It is particularly valuable to persons xxrhn ' urn o-ivpn to walking about! in places where roads and sidewalks ?tre ,V UNT O ' ' t not well kept, for in such cases there are always holes of various, dimensions and in unexpected places,, in whicn tne pedestrian is sure to trip up if he is not exceedingly careful.,' j ; There are several means oi iurnisnmg light for this curious lamp. Electricity and oil are the most common'. The former is likely to be the most, popular .method from the facj, that there is no danger of grease leading out upon ine shoe. A tiny storage battery, nas been constructed to be used in furnishing the light. It is ordinarily carried in the pocket, and a flexible wire, insulated and covered with chamois sKin, passes from the battery and through the pocket down to the lamp upon the) foot. In this way a bright light is secured,; the little battery furnishing sufficient electricity for a walk of half a dozen hours. ' It is also a great convenience in horse back riding by. night, for tlie jolting will not affect the lamp of the battery. An equestrian parade has been planned, to be given before long at one of the winter resorts hear New York, in which WprxnnTtiHTinnt will havo a Jamp at- tached to each foot. rlhe V J rj r 1 projectors of this parade believe that an enect win be produced such as has never been wit nessed before. ' Tt is a verv odd sight to see a lantern club tramping about the country reads on a dark evening with a lamp on the foot of each member: They look like a company of giant fireflies,! and the effect on the eye is weird in the extreme. All sorts of curious combinations oi uoiur can be made by varying the c61or of the glass. Exchange, ; ;' ' '. ""P"' l The Father of the House. j Thomas J3rackett Reed will be " the father of the house" m the l?ifty-hftn congress having served continuously i for 19 years, or since his election to tne Forfy-fifth congress in 187 ?. Judge Cul berson of Texas was elected in lbio, and was "father of the house" in the cPBsi nn of the last congress, but he haS p-iven way to another Democrat, John V. Crawford. Congressman narmer oi PTiilntplnhia was elected in "1871, but he was out in 1875. General limgnam of . Philadelphia was elected in 187.9, two vears later than Mr. Reed. Benton McMillin of Tennessee was elected in i7Q .Tnspnh Cannon of Illinois was elected in 1873, but he failed to be re turned for the Fif ty-secohd congress. Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania was a member of congress as I long ago as and was speaker of the house in irri Mr. Grow, however, was out of politics from the Thirty-seventh to tne Fifty-third- congress. If' Mr. Reed is chosen speaker again this term, he will v- rVia fit-sf. "father of the house" to be A J v e . j ' - at the same time uker of the house. Mr. Reed's pence f service is a short one when compr.i 1 with that of the "father of the lu rr Right Hon. C. P. 'of commons," the YTiliers, Unionist momVi- from v, G.vf rhampton, wnpse record runs bact itiiout mterrupuon for 61 years.. Nov York Timea . Mylchreest snd Bhodef. On the isle of Man there is grief at the death of Joseph Aiyicnreest, goiu seeker, diamond miner and philanthro pist, and Hall Caine writes that 'this life was an inspiration to nonest, iaim- fnl and upright effort." Mylchreest sold him share in the claims of the De Beers Consolidated company to Cecil Rhodes for $600,000. Then,, putting large gangs of men to work night ana aay.i ne cleaned no all he comd'a fabulous amount of material" before the time when the contract was to go into effect His Card. 1 r Voltaire and Piron were enemies. To their embarrassment they met one day at the country house (cf a friend. Piron irot nn earlv.. went to Voltaires , door and wrote upon it the word "Rogue. At breakfast Voltaire smilingly said to him; "I thank you for showing your in terest in my welfare by, leaving your card at my door this morning; NO 28. ASK the rersred dyspeptics, bllleas sufferers, Ttctims ot, fever ' and agrae, the Berctrrial diseased patient, how they re- covered health, cheer-' foi spirits aad rsod appetite; they. will tell yoa by taking: SJ MOXt UVKK KSOU LATOa. The Cheapest, forest - Atedldae la tse Werta I For DYSPEPSIA.' CONSTIPATION', Tsotw dicTBilioassttaekSICHKAUACH Depression ot Spirits, &OUR hTOMAClt. Heartburn, etc. This .Mrivslled remedr is warranted not to contain a single particle f MtKCURr. or any mineral sabstaace, bat ia PURELY VEGETABLE, containing- those Sontbsrn Roots and Itft which an a)l-wUe Providence bss pUced In countries! where Liver Diseases roost prevail. It will cure all Diseases caased bjr Deraage seeat el the Liver aad Bewets. The SYMPTOMS ot Liver Complaint are bitter orbaj taste la the mouth; rata In the Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken lor Khea-. mstism; i5or Stemachi Lose ei Appelitsi Bowels sliternately costive and last Headache: Loss of Memory, witb a painful eenaaUon of having- failed to do something which ought to have beec done; Debility; Lew Spirits, a Oiks; mellow appearsnce rf the Skia and Eyes, a dry Cough often mistakes for Cesumplion. Sometimes many of these symptoms attend the disease, at others very few; but the IJV is generally the seat of the disease, and if nol Regulated in time, great suffering , wretched ness and DEATH will ensue. - - The following highly esteemed persons attest to the virtues of Simmons Liver Regulator! Gen, W R Holt Pr lia. S. W. R. R.Co.1 Kev. winv. Ga.:: C. Masterson.TJsq., Sheriff Bibb r R. p.n. f.m rl R. K. SrrkL Al.'. Ga ; Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. Ve have tested Its virtues, personally, snd know that for Dyspepsia, Biliousness ' and Throbbing Headache it is the best medicine the world ever saw. We tried forty other remedies before Simmons Liver Regulator, but none gave as more than temporary relief; but the Regu lator not only relieved, but cured na-E Telegraph ahd Messxkcks, Macon, Ga. i MANuracTUai ojitr r j . J. If. ZEIUN s CO., Fhllaaeipaia, . re THE QUEST. rhere mtt be a somewhere Jnsl beyond .. ' Our here with its weary miles ; Where there's no parting for hearts grown I fund,' . .' ; i And the bine sky always smiloa. Bat the nnseen shore is still before, !. Though we strive till oar ooarege falls, . And never a man since the world began ( Has sighted its peaceful vales. - ' - ! . ' .. j There must be a sometime, better far - : Than bur now, with its gray old sorrow, And though never we're won where 1U oat- , ' poste are, ',' ' - We'll try again tomorrow, j . Tor sometime land baa a silver strand ! And pleasant groves so shade us. . 8b we cannot rest in oar lifelong quest i j . For joys that still evade as. L ; Why Bhould we strain our weary eyea , j For a land that we may not see, I . ' Or dream of brighter and kindlier skies ; i In a time that may never bet - Ab, better is hope than to crawl and gropo Through anife without its seat. Up, wanderers alii Sound the bugle call I And we'll follow the old, old quest t I j. L. Heaton in "The Quilting Bee.V An AUig-ator Terrapin. . . j Some of the antiquitioa of thia country which find their way imo museums are rivaled in ago by a living creaturo at thef zoo.- It is jiih alligator terrapin, or Mississipj)! cTinrrAr whfiSfl 1 5& T)OUndH Of BUD- stance have been accumulated lr a lifetime "of five centuries or more.' At least that is what the scientists calculate, and they say that theroj is uumjw.) - a . , i : no reason to doubt that it was pad dling around as a little turtle in the Mississippi when Do Soto first gazed upon that river. Tho giant terra pin measures about 5 feet from snoutlto tip of tail; and during its resideoco of seven or eight years at the zod jt has grown not a particle. It is too lazv to! move about much, and so nature has endowed it with special facilities for catching food. When hungry, it lies in the water with its mouth t wide open, andtho bright little red tongue looks so much liko a worm that it serves as a bait to attraqt; fish, on wmcii tuu wiitxyiu. feeds. 4-Philadelphia Record. A Chinese MePherson. In New Zealand the i Chinaman abounds, and he has I . to resort to strategy to make good his position. In Otago, where Scotchmen are in the majorityi a contract, for mend ing a Toad was , to be let, and the most acceptable bid was signed' Me Pherson." Notice was, sent to the said MePherson to complete the con tract, and, lo, he appeared in all the glory of yellow buo and pigtail! But, ' 1 gasped the president of tho board, p'your name can t bo McPner- son?" 4 All lightee," cheerfully, an John Chinaman; 44nobody swered catchee contlact in Otago unless ho named Mc." The contract was Bigned,and the Mongolian McPher., son did his work as well as if he had hailed from Glasgow. London apd, China Telegraph. .mr ii Tiann.w1lahedRnlid Oak Office Deakiwith rolling top which "j Hrewers. 60 inches lODaT tad O lOCbed deep Special Frlco, (Orderi promptly filled.) Ton will find over 1000 bargalni ia our new catalogue, It contains all1 vi.il. f Vnrnitur. QtrMt BaoT Car: riares. Refrigerators, Bedding, Stoves, Fac7 LampTl.Cu.rtaln etc. You are paying local dealer double niiM. Tlrnn a nostal DOW for our our money-avlng cataioirue i which i we mau free of all charges. Deal with the man-. eufacturers and your oouar wuwiee i 1 . -a wl lea buying- power. JuliusUinesCSon j: natTiMonE, md. I . :. I . .! mm,..,, y' ' II lials of cabiuct wo k. it fait to care, rnce oj cents. ! -
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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March 5, 1897, edition 1
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