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V EVANS, P.opn tor. First c-a in cvrry par.i.ul.ir. Tnhle i;ptiil wltfi en ry delici v. Hh, )vter4 an 1: nc iua't in Unce in casou. 1 F;H.ZIEGLER&BR0. S.icce i t Jons H. Zkiolkr J l)eil-r in a kind of . UNDERTAKERS' SUPPLIES, til rrom the, Ca "pct io the bet. All tej i crams promptly attended to. rlil ;n deire.ti Tlie fiost Heare In tui3 e?tin. Bwo d, walnut, clothor e:el an! m Uilic caskets a specialty. At the "old stand on Ehrinabaur Street. Thankful lor past patronige. r.N all kind of cabinet work. Have joti een !h new 2.."0 line of Ladi- Ox IIo.h1 and new . Olive Shoes at -The Fair." I III. I Pistols and Pestles. I The duelling pistol now occupies its proper place. io f-:i iaAjff - Curcboolt " with Aver Co.. Ixwell. M. DIREOrOItY. "r-w.-Mnyor. .i:nn, s i . i (;oiiiuiirHiiTs I'almon John, riior. ; ,. Omioaiu!.-r. Alon B. Seely, B; (.,,.rk i,1. A Banks Treanr- I.. ... - t. i i.i..r i lien i.,f Will MI J'oliCi- will. irKKS; irt'fi i-m- . I. t .A - Berry: Firn Ooininwloiierji - - Allen Kramer antl Fred U.Zieler. (;,Sle"tor of rustoms Ja. C Broo 8 I Examining btirKeonsor Tensions : Iirs J. K. WchxI, W. W. flrigir ami ' W. J. Luiu.Mln. Meet on the 1ft uml :Jnl Veilije!lny! of each month at the 1 nml Chu.-ch. Stret. t 'ft tre ht Methodist, BeV. J. II. Hall, IA.tir; services every Sunilav at 11 a. in. and 7 p. in. Baptist, Bev. Calyiu ! Sniidur at 11 a. in. and 7 p. in. lreH fbyterirtn Uev. F. II. Johnston, pastor; - ... U. ... ).. 1 ... .....I services ery ouuuay nuiu. m.nnu . v,.l,....,l R-v I.. I. Wil- iV. i; H O. Hill. Fin. Secretary; . Mutitii-e rUVst-ott Treasurer. Met? .verj Friday at 7: ) p. in. B.yal Arcanum: TiUr Creek Coun- il No. ia W: II. O HillRecent: I. A. Morgan. ! Vice Kegent; O, Guirkin, Omtor; W. II. Zin-IIer. Secretary; F.M. i'.M.k IrJ. C!IIeptor: V. J. Wood lev. Treauirer. Mee Monday night. tj every 1st and 3rd tutor;-!. II Kngle, Vice Dictator; T. (J .Iitr.ljiti. IteiMirter: T. B. Wilson. Fi- nance Keportei; J. C. Benbury. Treas- un-r. Meets 1st and th Prulay in t.arj, lm,nth. l....imt9iil( TrilH No. 8. 1. O. IL M. JC. W Bvtuija. Prophet ;J. I. Simpson, iSarhein:W II Sanforil. Sr. Sagamore: vViii AiitL-rson. Jr. Racamore; James Spireme; of It; S. H.MiirrefK.of W. MVc .-w Wednemloy nigh L (.rn , -commissioners (J. V At iMlfr..r. W William!. Sheriff. T. P. " ilcox 1 Siii..riiir f illrt rrirk Jolin 1 Over- " I . . - . i i. i r"..i.rv man; liegisier i.ieeus, .i . jht ; l reasnrer, jonn o. aiorria tuuni) Kxaminer, tinston Pool. .S-... Atlantic Collegiate Insti- tute. S. I Sheep, President S, hn t School. I. N Tillett, Princi- rNll. KHalH tli iity Public School, W. M. Hiiitoti, Principal. State Oulorel Normal, P. W. Moore, Priiiciiml. , Ilmk. First National: Chas. II. Coiniison, President; Jno. . ood, j Vi President! Wm. T. Old. Cashier. , M. It. tiritlln. Teller. Directorn: E. F. :Lu nl. !). Bradford. J. B. Flora. M. II. U hile, Jno. ii- Wikh1 J. B. Blades, C. II. Bohiiixn;. tiiirkiii V Co. KMric Jjjht Co... B. Blades, Prei dent. ti. M. Scott, Vice President, I. B. Bradford, Sec'ty, Noah Bur foot. Treasurer. TtUJ.o,n Co. I). B. Bradford, Presi dent ; Is. IS. BlauYb, Vice-President; Frl Haris, Secretary and Treasurer. T!'f Itnjtrtrmfiit Co. E F. Ajdlett, President; T. O Skinner, Vice Presi deitt; C. II. Bobinson, Secretary and Trejunrer. f. City i CWm ' MiU. President, Dr. O McMulhm, Vice President. ho. M. Scott. See. anl Treas., D. H. Bradford, iSupt? II. F. Smith. Directors: Dr. O. MeMnllan.li. 31. Sctt, ri. t . Aytueu, J. W. SharlM-r, Jas. B. Blades, C. H. Bobinson. Thos. O. Skinner, C. E. Ksamer.J. B. Flora, II. F. Smith and 1). B. Bradford. A'.ir.i teterto. W. j". Griffin, Lieu tenant -commanding; J. B. Ferebee. Lieutenant Junior lirade; L A. Win der, Ensign. Begular Drill each Tues daviiight. Arms: 40 Maeazine Bities; 12 "Navy Bevolvers; 12 Cutlasses; 2 12 Pound Howitzers. SmthetA Exprt Cvmpauy M. H. Stiowdeni Ag-Mlf. liulrovl ami Stt-imbat Mail train iXiing North, leaves 8 a. m. and 2:4"i p. ni.. going South, 11:40 and a : 0 u. Steauien for Newlerne leave at C p. in. Steamer Newton, leaves Eliza-In-tli City for Cress well on Mo-d-ys ami Tiirilays 9: SO a. m. Re turning will leave Elizabeth ity fo'hn inc l iy at 2. 30 p. m.. Sieamer Har binger, will leave Eizabeth City for Hertford WelnesIys and Saturdavs at 1). 30 a. in.: Elizabeth City for Nor !olk Thurslys and Momlava p. m S. Why will you buy bitter nauseating tonics when Grove's TnxfeleNN Clilll Tonic is as pleasant as I,einon Syruiu Your druggist Is authorized to refund the money in every case where it fails to cure. Price .10 cents. The ue of Halls Hair Rt-riewer pro motes tfi growth of the Hair, and re stores its natural color and leauty. freea the scalp of dandruff, tetter, and all impurities. DARKNESS AND DAWN rev; dr. talmage'S sermon is full of the breath of the fields. Tolnt a Moral From the Bible Story of the Attachment of Boax For Rath. The l'ee of T rouble Value of Field Cleaning. Washington, April 23. The sermon cf Dr. Talmage which we send out to day could not have been prepared by any one net born in the country. It is full of tho breath of the fields. The text is Ruth ii, 3, "And she went and came and gleaned in the field after tho reap ers, and her hap was to light on a par,t. of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was cf the kindred cf Elimelech." Tho time that Kuth and Naomi ar rive at Bethlehem is harvest time. It wa the enstom when a sheaf fell from a load in tho harvest field for the reapers to refuse to gather it up. That was to bo left for the poor who might happen to come along that way. If there were handfuls of grain scattered across tho field after the main harvest had been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now, it wa3,.by the custom of tho laud, left in its place so that the poor, coming along that jvay, might glean it and get their bread. But, you say, "What is the use of all these har vest fields-to Ruth and Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun, and can you expect that Ruth, the young and the beautiful, should tan her cheeks and. blister her hands in tho harvest field?" Boaz owns a large farm, and he goes out to see the reapers gather in the grain. Coming there, right behind the swarthy, sun browned reapers, he be holds a beautiful woman gleaning a woman more fit to bend to a harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop among tho sheaves. Ah, that was an eventful day 1 It . was love at first sight. Boaz forms an attachment for the womanly gleaner an attachment full of undying inter est to tho church of God in all ages, while Ruth, with au ephah, or nearly a bushel of barley, goes homo to Naomi to tell her tho successes and adventures of tho day. That Ruth, who left her na tive land of Moah in darkness, and trav eled throuph an undying affection for her inotber-in-law, is in tho harvest field cf Boaz, is afiiauced. to one of the best families in Judah, and becomes in after tinio the ancestress of Jesus Christ, tho Lord cf glory. Out of so dark a night did there ever dawu so bright a niprning? . Two Great Educators. I learn in tho first placo from this subject how troublo develops character. It was bereavement, poverty and exile that developed, illustrated and an nounced to all ages tho sublimity of Ruth's character. That is a very unfor tunate man who has no trouble. It was sorrow that mado John Buuyan the bet ter dreamer, and Dr. Young the better poet, and O'Connell the better orator, and Bishoo Hall the better preacher, and Havelock tho better soldier, and Kitto tho better encyclopaedist, and Ruth tho better daughter-in-law. I once asked an aged man in regard to his pastor, who was a very brilliant man, "Why is it that your pastor, o very brilliant, seems to have o little heart and tenderness in his sermons?'. "Well,'" ho replied, "tho reason is our pastor has never had any trouble. When misfortuno comes upon him, his style will be different." After awhile the Lord took a child out of that pastor's house, and though , the preacher was just as brilliant as he was before, oh, the warmth, tho tenderness of his dis courses! The fact is that trouble is a great e'ducator. You see sometimes a musician sit down at an instrument and his execution is cold and formal and unfeeling. Tho reason is that all his lifo ho has teen prospered. But let misfortune or bereavement come to that man, and ho sits down at the instru ment, and you discover the pathos in "the first sweep cf tho Keys. Misfortune and trials are great edu cators. A young doctor comes into a sickroom where there is a dying child. Perhaps ho is very rough in his prescrip tion and very rough in his manner and rough in the feeling of the pulse and rough iu his answer to tho mother's anxious question. But years roll on, and there has been one dead in his own house, and now ho comes'into the sick room, and with tearful eyes he looks at the dying child, and he says, Oh, how this reminds mo of my Charlie 1" Trou ble, the great educator. Sorrow I see its touch in tho grandest painting, I hear its tremor in the sweetest songr I feel its power in the mightiest argu ment. Grecian mythology said that the foun tain of Ilippocreno was struck out by the foot of the wkiged horse Pegaras. I have often noticed in life that the brightest and most beautiful fountains of Christian comfort and spiritual life have becu struck out by the iron shod hoof of, disaster and calamity. I see Daniel's courage best by the flash of Nebuchaduezzar's furnace. I see Paul's prowess best when I find him on the foundering ship under the glare oi the lightning in the breakers of Melita. God crowns his children amid the howl ing of wild beast3 and the chopping of blood splashed guillotine and the crack ling fires of martyrdom. It took the per- iecutions.of Marcus Aurelius to develop Polycarpand Justin Martyr. It took all the hostilities against the Scotch 'Cove-- nantcrs and th6 fury of Lord Claver- house .to develop James Renwick and Andrew Melville and liugn 3icK.au, we clorious martyrs of Scotch history. It took the stormy sea and the December blast and the desolate New tugiana roast and the war whoop of savages to show forth the prowess cf the pilgrim fathers - Whe n aiaid the storms they sang, . And the stars heard, and the sea, And the sounding aisles of the dim wood Rang to the anthems of the free. It took all cur past national distress es, and it takes all our present national sorrows to lift up our nation on tnar high career where it will march long after the foreign aristocracies that have mocked and tyrannies that have jeered, shall be swept down under the omnipo tent wrath of God, who hates despotism and who, by the strength of his own red right arm, will make all men free. And so it is individually, and in the family," and in the church, and in tbej world, that through darkness and storm and trouble men, women, churches, nations, are developed. Faithful Friends. Again, I see in my text the beauty of unfaltering friendship. I suppose there were plenty cf friends for Naomi while she was in prosperity, but of all her ac quaintances how many were willing to trudge off with her toward Judah, when she had to make that, lonely journey? One the heroine of my text. One ab solutely one. I suppose when Naomi's husband was living, and they had plen ty of money, and a", things went well, they had a great iiahy callers, bi;t I suppose that after her husband died, and her property went, and she got old and poor, she was not troubled very muth with callers. All the birds that sung in the bower while the suu shone have gone to their nests now the night has fallen. Oh, these beautiful sunflowers that spread out their color in the morning hourl But they are always asleep when the sun is going down. Job had plenty of friends when he was the richest man in Uz, but when his property went and the trials came, then there were- none so much that pestered as Eliphaz; the Te manite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. j Life often seems to be a mere game, where the successful player pulls down all the other men into his own lap. Let suspicions arise about a man's j charac ter, and he becomes like a bank in a panic, and all the imputations' rush on him and break down in ' a day that character which in due time would have had strength to defend itself. There are reputations that have been half a century in building which go down under one push, as a vast temple is con sumed by tho touch of a sulphurous match. A hog can uproot a cenfury plant. . ' .. In this world, so fnll of heartlessness and hypocrisx, Tiow thrilling find some friej1 ?J faithful inj adversit3T as in days of prosperi) it is to days of y? Da- vid Lad such a friend in Hushai; the Jews had such a friend in Mordecai, who never forgot their cause; Paul had such a friend in Onesiphorus, who vis ited him in jail; Christ had such in the Marys, who adhered to him j on the cross; Noami had such a one in Ruth, who cried out: "Entreat mo no to leave thee, or to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest I j will go, and whither thoU lodgest I wijl lodge. Thy people shall be my people,! and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die. and there will I be buried. Tho Tird do so to me. and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." After Storm. Sunshine. Again, I learn from this subject that paths which open in hardship and dark ness often come out in places of joy. When Ruth started from Moab toward Jerusalem to so along with her! mother- in-law, I suppose the people said: "Oh, what a foolish creature to go away from her father's house; to go off with a poor old woman toward the land of j Judah 1 They won't live to get-across the desert. They will be drowned in the sea, or the jackals of the wilderness will destroy them." It was a very dark inorning when Ruth started off with Naomi. But behold her in my text in thej harvest field of Boaz, to be affianced toi one of the lords of the land and becorqe one of the grandmothers of Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. And so it often is that a path which often starts very darkly ends very brightly. ' . When you started out for heaven, cb, how dark was . the hour of conviction; how Sinai thundered and deyils tor mented and the darkness thickened! All the sins of your life pounced upon you and it was the darkest hour you .ever saw when you first found out your. 'sins. After awhile you went into the harvest field of God's mercy. You began to glean in the fields of divine promise and you had more sheaves than y6u could carrv as the voice of God addressed you saying, "Blessed is the man whose trans gression are forgiven and whose sins are covered.'' A very dark starting in con viction, a very bright ending in :the par don and the hope and the triumph of the gospell I So, very often iu our worldly business or in our spiritual career we start off on a very dark path. We must go. The flesh may.shrink'back, but there is a voice within, or a voice from above, saying, "You must go." And we have to drink the gall, and we have .to carry the cross, and we have to traverse the desert, and we are pounded and flailed of misrepresentation and abuse,! and we have to urge our way through 10,000, obstacles that have been slain by our own : right arm. ' We have to ford the tiver, we have to climb the mountain, we have to 6torm the castle, but, blessed be God, the day of rest and reward will come. On the tip top of the captured battlements we will shout thejvictory; if not in this world, then in that world where there is no gall to drink, no bur dens to carry, no battles to fight. ' How do I know it? Know it I I know it be cause God says so: "They shallj hunger no more, neither thirst anjr more, iieither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat,. for the Lamb which U in the midst of the throne shall lead ihem to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes.'f It was very bard for Noah toj endure the scoffing ! of the people in his day, while he was trying to build the ark and was every morning quizzed about his old boat that would never be of any practical use; but when the deluge came and the tops- of the mountains dis appeared like the backs of sea monsters, and -the elements, lashed up in fury, clapped their bands over a drowned world, then Noah in the ark rejoiced in hii own safety and in the safety of bin family and looked Out on the wreck of a ruined earth. r Christ, hounded of persecutors, de nied a pillow, worse maltreated than the thieves on either, side of the cross, human hate smacking its lips in satis faction j after it had been draining its last drop of blood,! the; sheeted dead bursting from the sepulchera at his cru cmxion! Tell me, (j) Gethsemane and Golgotha, were ther6 ever darker times than those? Like the booming of the midnight, sea against he rock, the surges cf Christ's anguish beat against the gatfes Of eternity to be ecjioed back by all the thrones of heaven, and all the dungeons of - helL (But tbe day of re ward domes for Chlist j All the pomp and dominion of this wprld are to be hung on his throne, 'crowned heads are to' bow' before him on whose head are many. crowns, and ajl the! celestial wor ship is to come up at his feet, like tho humming, of the forest, like the rushing of the waters; like the thundering of the seas, while all heavtj:, rising ori their thrones,; beat time with their scepters, "Halleluiah, j for the Lord God omnipo tent reignethJV T That song of love, now low and far, Hre long shall swell from star to star; ; That light, the breaking day which tips The golden spired Apocalypse. Importance of JJtlle Things. Again, I learn from my subject that events which seem to be most insignifi cant may be momentous.' ; Can you im agine anything more unimportant than the coming of a pooii woman from Moab to Judah? dan youj imagine anything more trivial than thej fact that this; Ruth just happened to alight as they say just happened to alight oil that fild of Boaz?. Yet all agej?,- all generations, have an interest in the fact that she was to become an ancestress of. the Lord Jesus Christ, and v II nations and king doms must look., pat one little inci dent with a th of unspeakable and eternal satisf gfr?So' it is m; your history and 1 mine.. Events that you thought j of no importance at all ! have been of very great moment. That casual conversation. -that accidental meeting you did not think of it again for a long While, but how it changed all the phases of your life, j It seemed to be of no importance that Jubal invented rude instruments of mu sic, calling them harp and organs, but they were the introduction of all the world's minstrelsy, and as you hear the vibration of a stringed instrument, even after the fingers have been! taken away from it, so a music now of lute and drum and cornet is only the long con tinued strains of Jubal 's harp and Ju bal's organ. It seemed to be a matter of verv little importance that Tubal Cai: learned the uses of copper and iron, but that rude , foundry jof ancient days has its echo jin the rattle of Birmingham machinery and tho roar and bang of fac tories on jthe Merrimac. ! ' ; It seemed to be almatter bf no impor tance that Luther found, a Bible in a monastery, but as he opened that Bible and the brass bound lids fell back they jarred everything, and the rustling of the wormed leaves was the sound of the wings of the angel pf the reformation.' It seemed to he a matter of no impor tance that a woman whose name has been forgotten dropped a tract in the way of a very bad man of the name of Richard Baxter. He picked up the tract and read it, and it was the means of his salvation! In after days that man wrote a book called The Call to the Unconverted, ' ' that was the means of bringing a multitude to God, among others Philip Doddridge. Philip Dod dridge wrote a book called "The Rise and Progress of Religion, " which has brought thousands and tens of thousands into the kingdom of God and among others the great Wilberforce. Wilber force wrote a book called "A Practical View of Christianity, " which was the means of bringing a great multitude to Christ, among others Legh Richmond. Legh Richmond , wrote a tract called "Tno Dairyman's (Daughter, " which has been the tmeahs of the salvation of unconverted multitudes. And that tide of , influence started from the fact that one Christian womau dropped a Chris tian tract) in the way of Richard Bax ter, the tide ofc influence rolling on through Richard Baxter, through Phil ip Doddridge, through the great Wilber force, through Legh Richmond, on, on, on , forever, forever. So the insignifi cant events of this world j seem, after all, to be most momentous.) Female Toilers.' Again, I see in my subject an illus tration of the beauty of female industry. Behold Ruth toiling in the harvest field under the hot sun or at noon tak ing plain bread with "the reapers or eat ing the parched corn which Boaz handed to her. The customs of; society, of course, have changed, and without the hardships and exposure to which Ruth was subjected every intelligent woman will find something to do. ) I know there is a sickly sentimental ity on this subject. In some families there are persons of no practical service to the household or community, and, though there are so many woes all around about them in the! world, they spend their time languishing over a new pattern or bursting into tears at midnight liver the story of some lover who shot himself. They would' not deign' to look at Ruth carrying back the barley on her way home to her mother-in-law, Naomi. All this fastidiousness may seem to do very well while they are under the shel ter of their father's house, but when the sharp winter, of misfortune comes wna dulgent parentage may get upon them selves habits of indolence, nut wnen they come tut into practical life their soul will recoil with disgust and cha grin. They will feel in their hearts what the poet so severely satirized when he said: j - t Folks are bo awkward, things so impolite, , They're elegantly pained from morning until night., ' : ' .' i Through ;that "gate of indolence how many men! land women have .marched, useless on earth, to a destroy ed eternity I Spinola said to Sir Horace, Vere, "Of what did your brother die?'! "Of hav itzg nothing to do, " was the .1 answer. BIJ6U.J niiiva auaoawi."v Xl U YV 1 nflllM1 1-1"Q t-JL-J V" Xkuciuw vvuu of these butterflies? Persons under iuot nave borrowed money to meet the KEEP YOUR Surely if the word REGULATOR is not on a packagt it is Nothing else Is the same. It cannot, be and never has been put up by any one except J. D-0- ZEDLDH & CO. And it can be easily told by their Trade Mark- THE RED Z. : For Sale by Drs. W. W; GRIGGS HON. A h." said Spinola, "that's enough to kill any general of us!" Oh, can it be possible in this world, where there is so much suffering to be alk'viated. ko much darkness to be enlightened and so many burdens to be carried, that there is any person who cannot find anything to.d6?' Mine, de; Stael did a world of work in her time, and one day, while she was seated amid instruments of music, all of which she had mastered, and amid manuscript books which sho had writ ten, some one said to her, "How do you find time tq, attend to all these things?" "Oh," she replied, "these are not tho things I am prcfud of. My chief boast is m the tact that 1 have 1 1 trades, by any one of which I could make a livelihood if necessary. " And, if in secular spheres there is so much to be done, in spirit ual work how vast the field I IJow many dying all around about us without one word of comfort!- We want more Abi gails, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas, more-Marys, more Deborahs, consecrat ed, .body, mind, soul, to the Lord who bought them. ' Gleaning:. jCmce . more I learn from my subject the value of gleaning. . s. . . . Ruth ' going uito that . harvest field might have said : 4 'There is a straw, and there is a straw, but what is a straw? I can't get any barley for my self or my mother-in-law out of these separate straws." Not so said beautiful Ruth. . She gathered two straws, and she put them together,, and more straws, until she got enough to make a sheaf. .Putting that down, she went and gathered more straws, until she had another sheaf, and another, and anoth- 7 'them together, and she threshed them UUt, U-1U DUO uau .aU'Cpuau.ui w.iiivj, nigh a bushel. Oh, that we might all bo gleaners! t r Elihu Burritt learned many things while toiling in a blacksmith's shop. Abercrombie, the world renowned phil osopher, was a philosopher in Scotland, and he got his philosophy, or the chief part of it, while as a physician '.he was waiting for the door of the sickroom to open..' Yet how many there are in this day who say they are so busy they have no time for mental or spiritual improve ment. The great duties of life cross tho field like strong reapers and carry off all the hours, and there is only here and there a fragment' left that is not worth gleaning, Ab, my friends, you could go into the busiest day and busiest week of your life and find golden opportuni ties, which, gattrered, might at last make a whole sheaf for the Lord's gar ner. It is the stray opportunities and the stray privileges which, taken up and bound together and beaten out, will at last fill you with much joy. There are a few moments left worth j the gleaning. Now, Ruth, to the field! May each one have a measure full and' running over ! Oh, you gleaners, to the field! And if there be in your household ah aged', one or a sick relative that is not strong enough to como forth and toil in this field, then let Ruth take home to feeble,- Naomi tbis sheaf of gleaning,. "He that goetb forth and weepeth, bearing . precious seed, shall doubtless' come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." May the Lord God . of Ruth and NaOm be our portion forever ! ' A Legal Problem. A curious little problem in law and ethics came up for solution the other day at Hazleton, Pa. A. man was ar rested there for practicing medicine without having been registered, as the law of Pennsylvania and most other states requires. ' He confessed his guilt and admitted that he was well acquaint ed with and approved of the regulation he had violated. Then he proceeded to assert and to prove by docuinentary evi dence that he had been' graduated from the Medical school of St. Petersburg university and had practicedjn the Rus sian capital ; years. He was therefore quite eligi';! : for registration in this country, but c:i reaching Hazleton he" had found ...r.elf. penniless and with out friend . After be, his wife and his three chila--:: luvi gone hungry for sev eral days Ijir. d ttrniined, to riskduiprisV onment in to supply the wants of his family and incidentally to- earn enough money to pay the register's fee. Immediate denunciation and arrest fol lowed. '' Investigation showed that the man's story was true . in every-particular. His wants Were supplied, and he is now openly and successfully follow ing the profession the practice of which had' made him a technical criminal.. law's requirements, a perfectly admis sible supposition, what was he to do? Was or, was not his, offense a necessaryj one?- New York Times. ' jb, . j(he Coco Tree. The plant producing the cocoa of commerce is a tree seldom grown to a height greater than 17 or 18 feet, but is sometimes known to reach a height of 30 feet. It is known to botanists as Theobroma cacao. It bears an oblong fruit, ribbed longi tudinally, measuring from. 6 to 10 inches. EVES OPEN! hot THE SCHOONER. it Was inrci ud at r.iouu. by a Hii4. 1 f riMwr Vu. ( The schooner was invent ed nt Gloucester by a builder of tailing ys'sels.' Hinhxry records that "Cap-' i8txry tain Robinson built and rigged a ketch, - as they were then callexl,' masted and rigged it in a peculiar manner ; when launched, the pecul iar motion she mado as she glided into the water from the stock caus ed orib of the bystanders to exclaim, 'Oh, how she seoonslV Robinson i justantly dashed j . uf a bottle of run: against her how' and .exclaimed,. ' A scooner let her Im3!' And Uiuh the schooner originated." Thw event happened in 1713, and tlireo years later mention is made of 'the einf ploy m en t of a "scooner" in tlio'fish- eries off Cape Sable, Nova bcotia. : Tlio invention of tho schooner was. an important event to tho New Eng land fisheries, for its rig has leen found, after nearly two centuries of trial, well adapted' to fishing vessels .'employed in the western Atlantic. It has been materially improved, however, since its adoption, ami tho lofty, yachtlike fishing clipper of today bears little resemblance to its ancient prototype, even though the rig. remains the sumo in principle. 'Immediately after the Revolution', ary war tbe adoption of the "ClroL bacco - boat" became , quito general, especially along tho .north shor of .Massachusetts.'. These, diminutive, craft, at first ranging from about five to ten tons', derived their spe cific na mo' from Chebacco,. now a part of the town of Essox, MassJ, where they originated. Cat rigged, with. two masts, they wore "handy" boats and hecamer so popular thut they could bo met with ou almost all of the inshore grounds. In. later years, when some were as largo as from 15 to 20,. tons, they grew more venturesome, and their cruises ex tended to the offshore banks. ' 1, . Indeed traditioii tells of soiuo go ing as far as the West Indies during the embargo period, carrying out cargoes of fish and returning with rum, sugar or molasses. The difll culty of intercourse at that time Often made theso vontures proiitablo, and apparently .less risk was taken in these diminutive vessels, than in larger craft. ; As early us 1820 the pinky began to. supersede tho Chehacco l;at This was siniilar in form to the lat ter, being a sharp sternod craft, but iti was larger and carriel a Iwjw sprit and jib, thus having a full schooner rig. It Was most generally in use north of Cape Cod until about 1840. In the meantime square stern schooners, usually with low quarter decks thus distinguished from 'the old fashioned high quarter, dock craft of the Marblehead tyio were: built, and for somr y'ars after the last mentioned date they were geri erally preferred to ull others. Pros perity .led to continued , improve ment, and about tbe middle of t ho century a material change was made in the introduction of tho thoderii clipper schooners. Joseph William Collins in Harper's Magazine. . . In 1894 Italy harvested 3,540,877, 390 oranges, lemons, citrons" and bercramots. ' " ' No. 117. White Enameled 8tel Bad, olid braM trimming. We hare them M in. wide, 48 in. wide. 12 n. wld aDd 38 in. wide. All ilies ara W In- long. Special Prioa (any ixe (orders prompOT 01190-J'v rerr where local a where local dealer are Mying unkind tblnrt about 1 mnt na. ineir cur Tbdr cua- tomers are tired of 1 - immj navlntr ' them double lmmeose (free) money UviDg catalogue U etulgbteolng the masaee. Drop Tu JmOwjot vo plete catalogue of Furniture, Matting, Carpet. Oil Cloth, Baby . Carriage. Refrigerator, Stove, FiMT mP Bedding. Spring!, etc Tbe catalogue cM you nothfDC and we py U poet age. - Oet doubto value for you dollar by dealing with tho mAnufao- JUllUS HIHES fi SOII, nALTIMOWE. MP. Try Flora & Co., for Grocries, Tobac e.o Snuff. Paints, and Oil. all 1 the lowest prices guaranteed. .- Liver Regulator.
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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April 30, 1897, edition 1
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