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The ECONOMIST has a lakgeb Advertisa' In The ECDI u?ifa It will Pay - Ycu, . '. j CtRJCLATION IX ! THIRTF.EX COUNTIES or Eihtehx Cvt;tuv THIN am OTHEU PATEIt PUCLISIIED. SI- TTa die islanding un some silent share, where billows never break, norjtempeats roar. Garth.Gr' - ELIZABETH CITY, N. C FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1897. VOL. XXV. NO 33. ( ! , ! , i J I. 1 .1 Nc vj (); (.) o Oj C)! Ton choose the clJ (doctor before the young" cne. Why? Because V2 Can't want to entrust your life ia inexperienced hands. True, young" doctor may be; experience.!. But ttz oil Joctor must be. You take no chances with Dr. Maybe, t:n Dr. MustJ-e Is la reach. Same with medicines as with medicine makers the long-trie J rencdj has jour confidence. You prefer experience to experiment xtWzzx ycu are concerned. The new remedy may be gccJ tat l.t fmcbodj else rrovc It. The oU remedy ta'ast be eca! Jc.!bl on Its record cf cures. Just one more re: sen f ;r cLooslng AYEK'S Sarsi parilla la preference to any other. 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X. llRABBU:. - Proprietor. r an qiiil House, MANTEO, M. C. A.V.EVANS, - . Pioprutur. First r.!a in crrry par.K-uUr. Table applied with cr- delicacy. Ush, Oyters andGne in abundance n caoo. F. H.ZIEGLER&BRO. Succer t 'Joit II. ZEluiXtt Deiler in all kinds of UNDERTAKERS' SUPPLIES, i ?rora the C- pest to the bet-t. Alltel cgr&ms promptly attended o. Ki?i3 AV3 KJIKS VJSSli wbn dc!rcJ. The fiot Iltarsc In mis section. R.-ao-d, walnut, eloth-coT-ereil and ,m.talic caskets a specialty. Au the olJ stand on Ehringba i-e Street. Tbankfal tor past patronage. 3Alw all kinds of cabinet work. sX n; i i ' , k nil i i . v: C;jiiunii'iinTs l'alfmon John, liios. rt Ll a I T u I... r. Li r i... r. I L'rutil S!nunu and Wi V ( i ri cmi Clerk :Jia?. A. Hanks; a?. A. Hanks: Treasurer ieo. W rol.1 TiatAlil And f!)iirf of Police Win. . I!rooks; Street Com im.--.ioiier lseulen W. Herry;' t-ire J,oinuiKiioiers Allen Kramer ami l-'ivd II. Zieirler. CNilIeirtor of Vustoms JasJC. Urool 8 l'nt iniiter K. V Iiinh Examining Surgeon.- of. Pensions In. J K.J KMlt W. W. UriKUM mnl W. J. liiiiiiNli'ii. 3Ieel on the 1st mid :Jrd WVJnejMlnvs of each month at the iriifrnr liiuui iiiwl CMiii-pli Street. Churrli Methodist, ISev. J. II. Hall, I PaMr ; servk-tsi every Sunday at 11 a. ! in. and 7 i in. Haptit, Kev. Calvin S niK-kwell, iwtor; services every ; Sunday at' 11 a. in. nnd 7 p. in. Pres : hyterian. Kev. F II. Johnston, iwistor; f servio s ewry Kutulay nt 11 a. m. ana I 7.1 al I 1 rvt,ta 1 If I . I . W 1 1 haius. recttr ; services every Sunday at '; .Masonic: Kureka Ixxlire o, 317. 1r. ' YV. W. (friirtrs. W. M. : CI. W. Hrothers. S. V.: M. 11. Snowden J. V.: 1). R Hratlford, S-c'ty and B. F. Spence, Treasurer. Meets 1st aud 3rd Tuesday . . . . . p-, . Odd Fellows: Aclioree Ixide No 14. ( . .m. rurcess. .n. it.; w. ii. itaiiani. V - 11 -i ,! - IIin- Kin- Secretary; , Koval Arcanum: Tilwr Creek Coun i il No. 12.9: II. () IlillRt'cent: I). A. MrLiiii Vii-n I?irint CI. (iiiirkin. ' OratorrW. II. Zieirer, Secretary; F.M. ,C,H.k Jr.. Collector; W. J. Woo 1 ley, Treasurer.! Meets every 1st and 3rd Moiiil.nv niLriir. Knivit?4of Iono. R H wllitPf Dic f,,t.. - - I It l-'flrt Vi.. niotjitnr: T. jo;,Un U,.,Mrt;r: T. H. Wil.n. Fi- t nance luporter; .1. u. uennury. i reas f ...... 1 t Ati. Iriilnv it iir.T f..4fc lit nml tii 1-ridnv in eaen iiionin. i,MII,)tAllk Triln No. 8. 1. O. It. M l ... . .. C. V. Ilt-huiia. Pronhet : J. P.Siinnson Sachem; V II Sanford, fcr. Sagamore; Will Anderson. Jr. Sairainore; James Snires.C. of U ; S. II. .Miirrel K.of V. Meet everr WedliestlaV uieht. L'finty ffiTji. Commissioners C- I Kramer. Cluiirman: F. M.GtMlfrey, J. W Williams. WherifT: T P. Wilcox. SiiiHrior Court Clerk. John P. Over man ; Kejjifter uf.Deeds, M B. Cnliep-I-t; Trnwirer, John S. Morris County Kxauiiiier, taston Pool. Atlantic Collegiate Insti tute. S.' L. Sheet. President Select School. I. N. Tillett, Priiici- " Klizalteth City Public School, W. M. llinton, rrmcipal. State. 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V.ir.d n.irr(. Y. J. (Jriflln, Lieu tenant commanding J. B. Fere bee. f l..iitxfnnt Junior tirade: L. A. Win der, Frisian. Regular Drill each Tues day night.. Arms: 40 Magazine unies; 12 Navy Revolvers; 12 Cutlasses; 2 12 Pound HovviTzers. &,Ht.Wtn Express Compauy.yi. H. Snowdvn. Agent. i:,n!inl ami $ttm&ont Mail train going North, leaves 8 a. m. and 2:4.J p. iu.t going South, 11:40 and .? .10 ii. in.- sir.niur for Vwberne leave at 8 ii ii : Stentnpr Xewton. leaves Eliza- leth City for Cress well on Mondays and Tursdays at 9 : 30 a. m. Re turning will leave Elizabeth t ity follow tnc dar at 2. :X) p. m.. Steamer Har bioger, will leave Eizabeth City for Hertford Wednesdays and Saturdays - s. sf s st at U, 30 m.: rJizauem iuy ior Nor folk Thursdays and Mondays p. m a. Why will you buy bitter nauseating tonics when Grove's Tasteless Chill Toulc U as pleasant as Iemon Syrupy Your druggist is authorized to f.n4 Itid ,n..nA in axrorxr ftxa 11' Il P it fails to eure. Price 50 cents 1 L i 1 si " A PLEA F0K COURAGE. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON RUIN AND RES ; TORATION. Thrr 3Iut II Exploration Dfore Re const ruction Instance of the Triumph of SadncM Word of IIop and Cheer for the Uiscoarajfd. i ' . i ' Washington, April 4. From tho Tveird and midnight experiences of one of ancient times Dr. Talmage in his ser- mou draws lessons startlingly appropri- ate. His text was iMehemiah n, 15, "Then went I up in the night by the brook and viewed the iwall, and turned back, and entered by.the gate of the val ley, and so returned-!"' A dead city is more suggestive than a living city past Borne than present Rome ruins rather than newly frescoed cathedral. But the best time to visit a ruin is by moonlight. 1 The Coliseum is far more fascinating to the traveler after sundown "than before.; You may stand by daylight amid the monastic ruins of Melrose abbey, and study shafted oriel and resetted stone andmullion, but they throw their strongest witchery by moon light Some of you remember what the enchanter of Scotland said in the "Lay of tho Last Minstrel:", Wonldst thou view fair Melrose aright? Oo visit It by the pale moonlight. Jerusalem In Rains. Washington Irving describes the An- dalusian moonlight upon the Alhambra ruins as amounting to. an enchantment My text presents you Jerusalem in ruins. Tho tower down. Tho gates down. Tho walls down. Everything down. Kehemiah on horseback, by moonlight looking upon tho ruins. While he rides there are somo friends on foot going with him, for they do not want the many horses to disturb the suspicions of the people. These people do not know the secret of Nehemiali's heart, but they are going as a sort of bodyguard. I hear the clicking hoofs of the horse cu which Kebeiniah rides, as he guides it this way and that, into this gate and out cf that, winding through that gate amid tho debris of once great Jerusa lem. Now tho horse comes to dead halt at tho tumbled masonry where ljo can not pass. Now ho shies off at the charred timbers. Now he comes along where the water under the moonlight flashes from tho mouth of tho brazen dragon after which the gato was named." Heavy hearted Nehemiali, riding in and out, now by his old homo desolated, now by tlio defaced temple, ,now amid tho scars of tho city that had gone down under battering ram and conflagration! The escorting party knows not what Nehe miali means. Is ho getting crazy? Have his own personal sorrows, added to the sorrows cf tho nation." unbalanced his intellect? ' Still tho midnight explora tion goes on. Isebexuiah on horseback rides through tho fish gate, by tho tower of tho furnaces, by tho king's pool, by the dragon well, in and out, in and out, until tho midnight rido is completed, and Nehemiah dismounts from his horse, and to tho amazed and confound ed and incredulous bodyguard, declares tho dead secret of his heart when he savs, "come, now, let us Duna Jerusa lem." "What, Nehemiah, have you any money.- "is a" "iiave you any kingly authority?" "No." "Have you any eloquence?" "No." Yet that mid night, moonlight ride of Nehemiah ro- sulted in tho glorious rebuilding of the city cf Jerusalem. The peoplo knew not how the thing was to bo done, but with great enthusiasm they cried out, "Let us riso up now and build . tho city. " Some people laughed and said it could not bo done. Some people were infuriate and offered physical violence, saying the thing should not be done. But the work men went ngnt on, standing on tne wall, trowel in one hand, sword in the other, until tho work was gloriously completed. At that very time in Greece, Xenophon was writing a history, and Plato was making philosophy, and De mosthenes was rattling his rhetorical thunder. But all of them together did not do so much for the world as this midnight, moonlight' rido of praying, courageous, nomesicjc, close moutnea Nehemiah. Church Affection. My subject first impresses me with the idea what an intense thing is church af fectiou. Seize the bridlo of that horse and stop, Nehemiah. Why are you risk im? vour lifo hero in the night? Your horse will stumble oyer these ruins and falLon you. Stop this useless exposure of your life. No; Nehemiah will not stop. Ho at last tell us the whole story. He lets us know he was an exile in a far distant land, and he was a servant, a cupbearer iu the palace of Artaxerxes Lonigmanus, and one day, while he was handing the cup cf wiuo to the king, tbo king said to him: "What is the mat ter with you? You are not sick. I know a a a a ' you must navo some great irouDie. What is the matter with you?" Then he told the king how that beloved Jerusa lem Was broken down, how that his fa ther's tomb had been desecrated, how that the temple had been dishonored and defaced, how that the walls wero scat tered and broken. Weil," says King Artaxerxes, "what do J you want?" "Well," said tho cupbearer, Nehemiah, "I want to go home! I want to fix up the grave of my father. I want to re store the beauty of the temple, I want to rebuild the masonry of the city wall. Besides, I want passports so that I shall cot bo hindered in my journey, and be sides that," as you will find in the con text, "I.want an order on the man who keeps your forest for just so much tim ber as I may need for the rebuilding of the city." "How long shall you be gone?" saia tne King; me time oi ab sence is arranged. In hot hasto this seeming adventurer comes to Jerusalem, and in my text we find him on horse back, in the midnight, riding around the ruins. It is through the spectacles of this scene that wo discover the ardent attachment cf Nelicmiah for sacred Jeru salem, which iu all ages has been the Jjpc of tho church of God, our Jerusa- ( lem. which we love iust as much a The God so much that there is no epot on earth eo sacred unless it be your own fireside. The church has been to you so much comfort and illumination that there is nothing that makes you so irate as to have it talked against. ' 11 there have been times when you have been carried into captivity by sick ness, you lenged for the church, our holy Jerusalem, just as much as Nehe- miah longed for his Jerusalem, and the first day you came out you came to the house of the Lord. When the temple j was ia ijfce Nebemiah.xou walk- cd around and looked, at it, ind in the moon fight you stood listening if you could not hear, the voice cf the dead or gan, the psalm of the expired Sabbaths. What Jerusalem was to Nehemiah the church of God is to you. Skeptics and. infidels may scoff at the church as an obselete affair, as a relio of the dark ages, as a con vention of goody goody people, but all the impression they have ever made on your" mind against tho church of God is absolutely nothing. You would make more sacrifices for it today than any other institution, and if it were needful you would die m its de fense. You can take the words of the kingly poet as ho said, "If I "forget thee, O Jerusalem, let. my right v hand forget her cunning: " You understand in your own experience the pathos, the homesickness, the courage, the holy en thusiasm of Nehemiah in his midnight moonlight ride around the ruins of his beloved Jerusalem. Exploration. Again, my text impresses mo with tho fact that, before reconstruction, there must be an exploration of ruins. Whv was not Nehemiah asleep under the covers? Why was not his horse stabled in the midnight? Let tho police of the city arrest this midnight rider, out on some mischief. No. Nehemiah is going to rebuild the city, and ho is makins the preliminary exploration. In u - this gate, out that gate, east, west, north, south. All through the ruins. Tho ruins must bo explored before tho work of reconstruction can begin. The reason that so many peoplo in this day apparently converted do not stay converted is because they did not first explore the ruins j of their own heart. The reason that tnere are so many professed Chrfstiaps who in this dav lie and force and steal and commit abominations and go to tho . peniten tiary is because they first do not learn tho' ruin of their own heart. They have not found out that "the heart is deceit ful above all things and desperately wicked." They had an idea that they were almost rieht. and they built reli gion as a sort of extension, as an orna mental cupola. There was a superstruc ture of religion built on a substratum of unrepented sins. The trouble with a crood deal of modern theology is tht instead of building on the right founda tion it builds on the debris or an unre- generated nature. They attempt to re build Jerusalem before, in tne midnignt of conviction, they have seen tho ghast liness of the ruin. They haye sucn a poor foundation for their religion that the first northeast storm of temptation blows them down. . I have no faith in a man's conversion ii ne is not converted in the" old fashioned way John Bun van's way. John Wesley's way, John Calvin's way, Paul's way, Christ's way, God's way. A dentist said tome, "Does that hurt?" Said I: "Of course it hurts. It is in your business as in my profes sion. We have to hurt before we can help." You will never understand re demntion until vou understand ruin. - A man tells me that some one is a mem her of the church. It makes no iinpres sion on my mind at all. I simply want to know whether he was converted in the old fashioned wav or whether- ho was converted in the new fashioned way. It he was converted in the old fashioned way, he will stand. If he was converted in the new fashioned way, he will not stand. That is all there is about it. A man comes to me to talk about re ligion. The first question I ask him is, VDo you feel yourself to be a sinner?" If he says, "Well, I yes, " the hesitancy mates tne feel that that man wants a ride on Nehemiah 's horso by midnight through the ruins in by the gate of his affections, out by the gate of his will and before he has got through with that midnight ride he will drop the reins on the horse's neck and will take his right hand and smite on his heart and say, "God be merciful tome, a sinner," and before he has stabled his horse he will take his feet out of the stirrups, and he will slide down on the ground, and he will kneel, crying: "Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy loving kindness, according unto tho multitude of thy tender mercies 1 Blot out my transgressions, for I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sins are ever be fore thee." Ah, my friends, you see this is not a complimentary gospel. That is what makes some people so mad. It comes to a man of fl, 000,000 and impenitent in his sins and says, "You're a pauper." It comes to a wom an of fairest cheek who has never re pented and says, "You're a sinner." It comes to a man priding himself on his independence and says, "You're bound hand and foot by the deviL" It comes to "cur entire race and says, "You're a ruin, a ghastly ruin, an il limitable ruin." 'Satan sometimes says to me: "Why do you preach that truth? Why don't you preach a gospel with no repentance in it? Why don't you flatter men's hearts so that you make them feel all right? ' TjVhy don't you preach a humanitarian gospel, with no repent ance in it, saying nothing about the; ruin, talking all the time about the re- demption?" I say, "Get thee befcind me, satan." I would rather lead five souls into safety than 20,000 into perdi tion. The redemption of the gospel is a perfect farce if there is no ruin. VThe whole need not a physician, but they that "are sick. " "If anyone, though he be an. angel from heaven, preach any other gospel than this," says the apos tle, "let him be accursed." There must be the midnight ride over the ruins be- , gS, TtdlTot fcre Jerusalem con be built. There must be the clicking of the hoofs before there can be the ring of the trowels. If H Triumphant Sadneaa. , sis Again, my subject gives :me a irpeci men of busy and triumphant sadness. If there was any man in thej world frho had a right tovmope and 'give up evry thing as lost, it, was Nehemiah. You say, "He was a cupbearer in the palace r f Chnchan on1 'l tt a a ni' fmnwA t1qa " , VJA, SJAJ Ui-liaii( tuiu in i tm gl(UiU xcvvv So it was. The hall of that palace was 200 feet square, and the roof hjO"vered pver 36 marble .pillars, each piU.ar 60 feet high, and the intense blue of , thelsky and the deep green of the forest foil and the white of the driven snowV al hung trembling in the upholstery, put, my friends, you know livery well that fine architecture ' will not put down homesickness. Yet Nehemiah i did no give up. Then, when you see him going among these desolated streets and by these dismantled towers and by the jtorn up grave of his father,! you -would sup pose that he would have been disheart ened and that he would have dismount- -ed from his horse and gone to his room and said: "Woe is me:! My father's grave is torn up. The temple is dishon ored. The walls .are broken down have no money with which, to rebuild. I wish I had never been; born. I wish wero dead." Not so says. Nehemjah. Although he had a grief so intensojithat it excited the commentary of his king, lyet that penniless, expatriated Ifehe- miah rouses, himself up ' to rebuild the tt . 5 its ... l-A - . ii city. jue:geis nis permission oi ansence. He gets his passports. He hastens away to Jerusalem. By night oh horseback he rides through the jruinsj He overcomes tne most ierocious opposition.. j xio arouses the piety and patriotism of; the people, and in lesa than' two months namely, 52 days -Jerusalem was rebjailt That's what I call: busy and triumphant sadness. i ' ' j v. I ' Mf 1 Faint, Yet Pursuing. r My friends, the .whole temptation is with vou; when you have trouble- to do just the opposite t0! the behavior of Ne hemiah. and that is to ! give up. You say, "I hae lost my jj child and jean never smiles again. " You say, "I have lost my property, i and X never can ; re pair my fortunes" You say, "I, have fallen into sin. and I never can start aeain for a new life. 1! If satan can mako you form that resolution; and T make you keep it, he has ruined you. Trouble is not sent to crush you, but to arouse you, Ito animate!! you, to p'rope you. xne qiacKsmitn aoes not inrusu the iron into tho forgo and then ;blow away with the bellows and then bring the hot iron but oh the! anvil and; j beat with stroke jafter stroke to ruin the iron, but to prepare it for a ;better use. iTOh, that the Lord God of Nehemiah would rouse up all . broken hearted people to rebuild I Whipped, betrayed,1 shipWfeck ed, imprisoned, faul went rignp on. The Italian jmartyr Algeriusj sits in his dungeon Writing a letter, and ho dates it, "Froru the delectable orchard of the Leonine prison." That is what I call kneiv a mother triumphant ; sadnesS. It who buried her babe oh Friday and on Sabbath appeared in the house ofU God and said ; "Give me a class;; give!me a Sabbath school class. ;I have no child now left me, and I would like;; td -have a class of little children. Give mo real poor children. . Give m a class off; the back street." That, I say, is beautiful. That is triumphant sadness, j. j j! At 3 o'clock every Sabbath after- . noon, tor years, in a oeautiiui parior in Philadelphiaa parlor; pictured and statuetted there were . &om 10 to 20 destitute children of tlie street.' Those destitute children received religious in struction,1 concluding ; with cakes and sandwiches. How do J know: that that was eoihe on for 16 years? I know it in this way: That was the fir$t hc-ine in Philadelphia where 1 1 was jcalled to comfort I a f creat sorrow. They nad a splendid boy, and he had been drowned at Long Branch. The father and mother almost idolized the boy and the sob and shriek of that father and mother as they hung over the coffin resound in my ears today. There seemed ito bej no psd of praying, for when I knelt down tb pray the outcry in the room -drowned out all the prayer. But" the tLord comforted that sorrow. They didfnot forget their trouble. If you should go any afternoon into Laurel Hill, you.- would find a monument with the wqrd "Walter" in scribed upon it and aiwreath of fresh flowers around the name. I think; there was not an! hour in 20 jyears, winter or summer; .when there was not a yreath of fresh' flowers arouncj Walter's name. But the Christian mother who sent those flowers there, having no j cfcild left, Sabbath afternoons mothered 10 or 20 of the lost ones of (the street! That is beautiful. That is What I call busy and triumphant sadness. Here is a man who has lost his property. He does not go to hard drmkmg. He does not de stroy his own life. Hej comes and says: money s gone. 1 nave jno treasures on earth. I want treasure in heaven. I have a voice and a heart to serve jGod." You say that that man (has failed. He has not failed-he has' triumphed! I Never Give-; Up. -..J , Oh, 1 1 wish I could persuade ;all the people who have any kind of trouble never to! give nix I wish they; would look at thel midnight rider of the text and that the four hoofsjiof that beast on which Nehemiah rode might cut to pieces all i your discouragements and hardships and trials. Give up I jWho is going to give up when on the bosom of God he can! have all his troubles hushed? Give up 1 Never think of giving up. Are you borne down 'with poverty? A little child was found holding her dead, moth er's hand in the darkness of a tenement' house, and some one coming in the lit tle girl looked up, while holding - her dead mother's hand, and said, j Oh, 1 do wish that God had made more light for poor folks. " My dear, God will be your ugnt.iuoa win. pe your sue-iicr, God will be your homo. Are you borne down with the bereavements of life?Ia the house lonely now that the child ia i gone? Do not giveup. Think ox wnat j the old sexton said when the minister asked him why .lis. put so xuuch care on I YOUR Surely if the word REGULA TOR is not on a packngd it is not Nothing else is the same. It cannot be and never has : been put up by any one except JI. H. Z E0LD & (DO. And it can be easily told by their Tradb Mark- . ; THE RED 2. the little graves in 'the cemetery so much more care than on the larger, graves -and tho old sexton said, "Sir, you know that 'of such, is the kingdom of heaven,' and I think the Saviour is pleased when he . sees so much white clover, growing . around these little graves.'? But when the minister pressed the old sexton for a more satisfactory answer- the old sexton said, "Sir, about these larger graves, I don't know who are the Lord's saints and who are not, but you know, sir, it is clean different with' the bairna" Oh, if you havovhad that keen, tender, indescribable sorrow that comes from the loss of a child; dot not give up. The old sexton was right It is all wejl with the bairns. Or, if you have sinned,, if you havo sinned grievously sinned until you have been cast out by tho church, sinned until you have been - cast out by society -do j not give up. Perhaps there may be in this house one that 'could truthfully utter the lamentation of another: ' j : Onoe I' was pure as the snow, but I fell I Fell like a snowflake, from heaven to hell ' Tell to be trampleid as filth in the street Fell to bo 'scoffed at, spit on and bent, Prayaig, cursing, wishing to die, ; Selling my' soul to whoever would buy, ' I Dealing in shame for a morsel of Lread Hating the livirfg and fearing the dead. , . Do not give up!" Ono like unto the' Son of God comes to you today, -Baying, "Go and sin '-no more, " while ho cries out to your assailants,, "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at lier. " Oh, there is no reason why any one in this houso by reason v of any trouble or sin should give up. Are you a foreigner, and in a Strang land? Nehemiah was an exile. jAre you penniless? Nehemiah was' poor. 'Are .you homesick? Nehe miah was homesick. Are you broken hearted? Nehemiah was broken hearted. But just see him in the text, riding along the sacrileged grave of his father, and by the dragon well, and through the fish! gate, and by the king's pool, in and out,-in and out, the moonlight falling on the broken masonry, which throws a long shadow, at which the horso shies,- and at the same time that moonlight kindling up ' the features of this man till you see hot only the mark of sad rem iniscence, but the courage and hope, the enthusiasm of a man who knows that Jerusalem will be rebuilded. I pick yon up today out of your sins and out of your sorrow, and I put you against the warm heart of Christ. , "The eternal God is 'thy refuge, and underneath aro the everlasting arms. " The Governor's Wonderful Hat. The governor of Missouri is wearing a most outrageous hat It was given to him by Adjutant General M. Fred Bell, who has excellent taste in ; every thing except hats. The governor perhaps wouldn't wear it at all if itbadn'tbeen presented to him by so good and loyal a friend as General Bell If a casual ac quaintance had sent it to him, Governor Stephens would doubtless have viewed the gift with suspicion and stored it away from public gaze, and . if it had come from a political enemy he certainly would have sent it back by the first train. The hat is of such gigantic pro portions -that the governor seems to stagger under it as ho walks. Its crown is built npon the plans and specifications of a mountain peak, and when it is crushed in the center it has the appear ance of an extinct volcano. And yet Governor Stephens seems actually proud of tho hat - It probably cost more than any other hat in Missouri, and niust have been made to order, Jefferson City is wondering how long the governor is going to wear the hat Lebanon (Mo.) Rustic- , ' , Waldenses For Tennessee. , ' It is expected that 1,000 Waldenses from the Alpine valleys will arrive in Tennessee this spring to join the colony of 350 that established itself near Mor gan ton in 1893. The nrst colony tnat came to this country settled in Burke county, N. C. , in 1 893. Under the lead ership of Dr.-.TfV,fi: Gai and the Boy. &. A. Trqn, tbe tt V lists purchased sev eral thousand ac it land and obtained a period of 20 y'i -::r-i in which bo pay for it Since then tli. have succeeded far beyond their exj, t .tic.is and have ne gotiated for 10,0 .4- iCre3 just acros. in Tennessee, which-,vill be filled by tho newcomers. They have also secured op tions on many thousands of acres of ,con-: tiguous mountain lands, which will bb purchased in case the immigration war-, rants it Valdese is the' principal town of the Waldenses in the Tennessee moun tains and is ten miles from Morgan ton. r New York Tribune. . ! Dublin has sustained a serious loss in the death of a splendid specimen df the rish wolf dog. Con gal was of the purest breed of this almost extinct brand rjf dog, and, though the slaughter of the j last Irish wolf 100 years ago might have j been expected to aepnve mm oi Dia-ww. dition and ferocity as of his : raiscn d'etre, he was as fine a beast as .any cf bis more' fortunately , situated ancestors cod Id have been. It is related that tr.e late Professor Haughton, a constant vis itor to the zoo, used - to say that if he were walking in the gardens and, a keen er told him that the royal Bengal tiger had broken loose he would answer de voutly, "Thank God, it is not the Irish rOlf dog. " Westminster Gazette, j EYES OPEN! Liver m GULATQR. EUROPE'S COLONIES. Of All the Towers Spain Aloo Is Fall . Ing fiteadily llehlnd. The only one of . tho European coun tries having' colonial possessions which isjifailing in; respect of number, wealth and population is Spain, once the chiei colonial power of the European conti nent While other governments1 havn been extending their influence and pos sessions, Spain has been falling In tho rear, and tho reason for this hTsceu clearly in Cuba and the Philippines. Wasteful, oppressive, mercenary and in efficient government is the direct cause, In a cpusus of the colonial possession. of governments made 20 years ago it ap peared that the total colonial pomeiwionM of Great Britain covered -7, 600,000 square miles, or moro than CO times tho extent of the United Kingdom, and had a population of ; about 200,000,000. Franco had foreign colonic, exclusive of Algeria, covering 460,000 English squam miles, with a population of 2,600,000. Tho colonial possensions of Spain,tho remnant of tho heritage from Spain's navigators, covered jni arca'of ' 116, 000 English square miles,' with a population, of 8,600,000. Germany, newly (estab lished as a' united government,' had nc foreign colonics. Neither had any o! tho German states. Tho colonies of th i Netherlands covered 666,000 Fquuro miles and had a population of 24,000, 0U0. Belgium had ho colonies. Den mark's colonies wero chiefly islands th-' total' population being about j&OOOt. Norway and Sweden had ono small'i. land, and Portugal bad colonies cover ing 713,000 English miles, with a popu v latiorf of. 4,000,000:, Since that timo most European governments j havd ex tended their territory. ,' i Tho British empire ' now covers 11. 000,000 square miles, of which buly 120,000 aro in tho United Kingdom. The population of the English colon it t is 840,000,000 Tho colonies of France cover 2,900,000 square miles and haven population of 21.000.000. The area of tho colonies of tho Netherlands is ?G0, 000 mjles, and the population i 29, 000', -V 000. There aro nearly 6,000,000 sul jects of tho German empire iu Africi and 8,000,000 of Belgium. I The Russians have spread their colo nies until these, have in Asia a popula tion in excess of 80,000,000, andVthoui.U the population of. Portogal is less thurr, 6,000,000, tho colonies of Portugal hayi collectively; a population iu excwui o 6, 000, 000, the area of Portugal'! colohit -I being 80 times greater than that of Ihn honio country. Denmark's colonies bav spread,? though not much, and Italy hu appeared ampng European nations hav ing colonial possessions!, Spain alont has made no headway. There haa bet a no increase of her possessions or of tl population of them. Many district tf Cuba and a few of those of the Philip pines have been devastated by war, ard the commerce of these colonies with ti e homo country has declined appreciably. The Spaniards are in no position to bo e for an . extension of their colonial pco-l sessions. Indeed all present indications point to ! tho ultimate withdrawal oi Spain from much 'territory that eLe nor rules. New York Sun. - It is, a matter f r .ije.i . that as the years have irl hi! v CiOr. 111, .1- i-i nual tribute has becomeM;.... , tion of peace than of war,, tn antee for the future than am - V past ,The exultation - over vie'. iivon Dlace to exultation over inci no v'jm "9 gocxl feeling and a restored harmony lo all sections. The gray sleeps uesiao in blue in inany a cemetery, ut both wilXl have their tribute of flowcrslrom lovitw hands, typical of mutual regret and ud- H-ti for -tr.; c'vrcgo. vnir-ga Ko. 8. Solid Oak Extension Table, polished like a piano haa six masstv Ie. The four outside legs are connect ed, braced and finely ornamented. It .measure 2x4J Inches when closed and feet long-wbn spread. Special Prtoe, f Orders nromntlT filled.) 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The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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April 9, 1897, edition 1
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