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Colftctions a ffpeciahj. C. ou THIOMAS G. SKINNER JL Atttrnty-at'Lt Heritor ., N. C. il. X J.1 II. WHITF, D. D. S., Elizabeth C1ty,.N. U., Offers his proh- siocai stvics u -a.-- ! i hi nun ir in h i i k 't:--1 Cy branches cf Destis- V- - try. Jan be louna QQQg3& at all times. COClce in Kramer block, on Main eueet, between Poindeitcr and Water. E. F.3IARTIN.D.D.S, PJizjkbethCitr.K.C. . Offers his professional serticea to the public in an the branches of Dkxtxstiiy Can te found at all times. Ciffl in Roterson BU ck on Water Street, over the Fair. W. GREGORY. D. D. S.. ElizalHth City. N.C Offers bis profes sional 'services to the pnblic in all tho branches .of PKNTISTRY. Crown ami Hrido work a specialty. Office hoars, 8 to 12 and 1 to C, or any time should special occasion require. Ctf Office, Flora Building, Corner Main and Water Sts. DAVID COX, Jr., J. E., ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, HERTFORD, N. C, Land aorreying a specialty. Plans furnished npon arplication. UOTELS. Bay View House, KHKNTON, 2. C. Neir. . Cleanly. . Attentive .'8crrants. Near the Comt Ijouse. 0 olum b iaH o t el, Coi.rMBrA,TTRnaUJ. Co. J..ill70UES, - - Proprietor. toTGood Servants, good room'.cood table. Ample stabls and ahebers. patronage of the public solicited The and utlsiaction assured. THE OLD OA IT. WALKER HOUSE. Simmon's Hotel, CcuErrccr C. n.,N.C. - Terms: 50c per mea. or 11.75 per day, locluding lodging. The patronage of th pubUc .l!cit'd. SatlsfactioQ assured. GRIFFIN BROS, I- Proprietor. Tranqxiil House, MANTEO N. C. A.' V. EVANS, - . Proprietor. z Firt!a-s la every ; particular. Table cppilcd" with ttxy delicacy. Fish, y.tcn and Game In abundance in season .When you naht an overcoat lor your boy from 8 to 12 years old, see Big Ike He will sell you an jail wool.onp for 11.50. s. For Diamonds Self's. and Watcher go to TiiInfTo - S P TJ f-'!!. T !nrv Tiuaisa HHHgSi f w Cougha thicks. Iv ere ticklish owhero dees the I extravagant Baying : I TTr i herry Pectoral. ! f.l la Ajr' -Cartbook" with Ayer Co., U!!, Misj. X DIRECTORY. City 0fifer$.1l nr C. A. Panks Attorney Isaac M .3!fiKin. Comtniioners Palemon John, Thos. A. Commander. John A Kramer B; Frank S pence and Win. Y. Griggs. Clerk ha5. Guirkln; Treasurer Geo. W. Cchb; Constable and Chief of Police Win C. Brooks; Street Com in i ioner Reulen W. Berry; FirH Commissioner Allen Kramer Collector of rustonv Dr. P. John. Post m tv tor E. F Lamb. Exuniinin Surgeons of Pensions ' Prs J. K. WocmI, W. W. G rices and ! w. J. liUiustlcn. Meet on the 1st and eutifsuavu oi e acn momn ni ine i t At a. a t corner oi lioau ami vjiuzcu oir-eia. j Churctut. Methodist, Rev. J. II. Hall, I I'astor; services every sunaay at ll a. m. arm in m. liapiisc, tie v. v.d. Pennick, I). !., iwustor; services every Sunday at II a. in. nd 7. p. Pres- byterian. Rev. F. H. Johnston, pastor; services every Sunday at 11 a. in. and 7:15 p. in. Episcopal. Rev. L. L. Wil liams, recto.; services every Sunday at 11 a in. and 4 p. m. Lodje Masonic: Eureka Lodge No. 317. G. W. Brothers, W. M.; J. H Griggs, S. W.; A. L. Pendleton J. W.; B. l-'.Spence, Tresurer; D. B. Bradford, Sec'ty.; T. B. Wilson, S. D.; C. W. Grice. J. P.: J. A. Ilooner and T.J. Jordan, Stewards; Rev. E. F. Sawyer, Chaplain; J. E. Shepiard; Tyler. Meets 1ft and 3rd Tuesday nights. Otld Fellows: Achoree Lodge Noll r. M. Burgess. N. G.; W. U. Ballard, V. (i. If. o. Hill, Fin. .Secretary; Maurice Wtscott; Treasurer. Meats every Friday at 7:30 p. m. Royal Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coun cil No. 120'J; II. O Hill Regent; D. A. .Morgan, Vice Regent; C, Guirkin, On-tor; W. II. Zoeller, Secretary; P.M. Cook Jr, Collector; W, J.Woodley, Treasurer. Meets every 1st and 3rd Monday night. . Knichts of Honor: R. H. White, Die twnrt - mm mm m-i v t-w w r. a i mt imrnr i j jortjant r,M,rter; T. H. Wilson, Fi nance Keporter; J. C. Benbury, Treas urer. Meets 1st and 4th iriday . in each month. I tPaMiuotank Tribe No. 8, 1. O. R. M. W. II Sauford. Prophet; Will Ander son, Sachem; B. C, Ivine Sr. Sagamore; J. S. Beusley. Jr. Sagamore; James Spires, C. ol ll ; S. H. Murrel K.of W. Meet every Wednesday night. County Ofurcrs. Commissioners C. E. Kramer, Chairman; F. M. Godfrey, J. W. Williams. Sheriff. T. P. Wilcox, Superior Court Clerk, John P. Over man; Register of Deeds, M. B. Cr"pep er ; Treasurer, John S. Morris C jnty Health Officers, Dr. J. K, ood; Boord of Educati(n, J. T. Davis, J. D Fulmer, N. A Jones. ;juerintendant I. N. Meekins ix.iovU Atlantic Collegiate Insti tute," S. L. Sheep, President Select School, I. N. Tillett, Princi pal. Elizabeth City Public School, W. M. Hintou, Principal. State Colored Normal, P. W. Moore, Principal. ZiirJta. First National: Chas. H. Robinson, President; Jno. G. Wood, Vice-President! Wm. T. Old. Cashier, M. R. Griffin, Teller. Directors: E. F. LambrD.l$. Bradford. J. B. Flora.M. H. White, Jno, G. Wood, J. B. Blades, C. H. Robinson. Guirkin & Co. EUctric .G. Mscott. Vice President, 11. den B. Bradford. Sec'ty. Noah Lurfoot. Treasurer. " TtleplwM Co. D. 13. Bradford, Presi dent; L. S. Blades, Vice-President; Fred. Davis, Secretary and Treasurer. T?' Improvement Co: E. F. Aydlett, President ; T. G. Skinner, Vice Presi dent; C. H. Bobinson, Secretary and Treasurer. IJ. City Cvtton JTiZs. President, Dr. O McMullan, Vice President. Geo. M, Scott, Sec and Treas., D. H. Bradford. Supt H.F.Smith. Directors: Dr. O. McMulIan. G. M. Scott, E. P. Ayd'.ett, J. W. Sharber, Jas. li. Blades, (;. II. Robinson, Thos. ii. Skinner, C E. Ksamtr, J. B. Flora, H. F. Smith and D. B. Bradford. Xarali:eaerre.V. T. Old, Lieut tenant Coin..; Harvey Crawford Lieutenant Junior Grade; L A. Win der, Ensign. Regular Drill each Tues dav night. Arms: 40 Magazine Rifles; 12 "Navy Revolvers; 12 Cutlasses; 2 12 Pound Howitzers. . Southern Expreu Compauy. M. H. Snowden, Agent. .- going North, leaves 8 a. m. and 2:43 p. m.t going Koutn, ii:4U ana 5:50 p. ra. Steamers for Newberpe leave at 6 p. in. Steamer Newton, leaves Eliza beth City for Cresswell on Mondays and Tursdays at 9 : SO a. m. Ke turniug will leave Elizabeth City foilow in dav at 2. GO r. in.. Steamer liar binger. will leave fcizabeur uitj ior Hertford Wednesdays and Satnrdavs at 0. 30 a- m.:. Elizabeth City for Nor olk Thursdays, and Mondays Ji .d m When you want an overcoat tor your boy from 8 to 12 years old, see Big Ike H will sell vou an all wool one for $1.50 . Not . how much we cao get, but bow : little we can 'take Is tbe principle on which we gain patronage everyday. Racket Stor Bargains in blankets at Fowler & Co's. See theirs berore. buying. TOT? TOnrOX PEOPLE OR. TALM AGE'S WORDS OF CHEER FOR THE LOWLY. Tho TUnk and rile of th Lord'a Sol JIry Xecd Eapeclad Heli Let Ua B Content With Cod'a Gift Tho PenaUty f Grcavtneaa Outwelba the Joy. Copyright, 1S3S, by American Preas Asso , elation. Washecgtos. Teb. 13. Dr. Talmage in this . discourse calls the roll of faithful znen and noble women in all departments yho are unrecognized and unrewarded and sounds encouragement for those who do work In spheres incon spicuous; text, Romans xvi, 14, 15, "Sa lute AsyncrituvPblegon, Hennas, Pa trobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia." Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam Clark, Thomas Scott and all the com mentators pass by these verses without any especial remark. The other 20 peo ple mentioned in the chapter were dis tinguished for; something and were therefore discussed by the illustrious ex positor but nothing is said about Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hennas, Patrobas, i Hermesi Philolocus and Julia. Where were they born? No one knows. When did they die? There is no record cf their decease-'. For what were they distin enished? Absolutely nothing, or the trait of character would have been brought out by the apostle. If they had been very intrepid or opulent or hirsute or musical of cadence or crass or style or in any J wise anomalous, that feature would have been caught by. the apostolic cameraJ But they were good people, be cause Paul sends to them his high Christian regards. They were ordinary people, j moving in ordinary sphere, at tending, to ordinary duty and meeting ordinary responsibilities. For the, Rank and Tile, What the world wants is a religion for ordinary people. If there bo in tbe United'States 70,000,000 people, there are certainly not more than 1,000,000 extraordinary, and then there are 09, 000.000 ordinary, and we do well to tens ear backs fear a little while upon the distinguished and conspicuous peo ple of the Bible and consider in our text the seven ordinary. We spend too much of our time In twisting garlands for remarkables, and building thrones for magnates, and sculpturing warriors, and apotheosizing philanthropists. Tbe rank and file of the Lord's soldiery need especial help. ' The-jvast majority of people will never lead an army, will never write a state constitution will never electrify a -senate, iwill never make an important invention, will never introduce anew bhilosophy, will never decide the fate of a nation, i You do not expect to, you do .not want to. Yon will not be a Moses to lead a nation out of bondage. You wiB: not be a Joshua to prolong the daylight until you can shut five kings in a cavern. You will not be a St. John to unroll an Apocalypse. You will not be a Paul to preside over aa apostolic college! You will not be a Mary to mother a Christ You will more proba bly be Asyncritus, or Phlegon, or Her-1 mas. or Patrobas. or Hermes, or Philol-1 ogus, or Julia. Many of you are women at the head of households. Every morning you plan for thej day. The culinary department of the household is in your dominion. You decide all questions of xliet. All the sanitary regulations of your house are under your supervision. To regulate the food and the apparel and the habits and decide the thousand questions of home life is a tax ppon brain and nerve and general health absolutely appalling if thero be no divine alleviation. , iNecda of tho Human Race. It does not help you m,nch to be told that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things amid tho criminals at Newgate. It does not help you much to bo told that Mrs. Judson was very brave among the Bor nesian cannibals. It does not help you very much to" be told that Florence Nightingale) j was very kind to the wounded in , the Crimea. It would be JSFlL .M?,. ances and disappointments and abra sions and exasperations of an ordinary housekeeper from morn tilL night, aud from the first day of the year until the last day cf the year, and at your call he is ready with help and re-enforcement, r - They who provide the food of the world decide the health of the world. You have only to go on some errand amid the taverns and the hotels of the United States and Great Britain to ap preciate the fact that a vast multitude of tho human race are slaughtered by incompetent cookery. Though a young woman may .have taken lessons in music and may have taken lessons in painting and lessons in astronomy, she is not well educated unless she has taken les sons in dough. They who decide the apparel of the world and the food of the world decide the endurance of the world. An unthinking man may consider, it a matter of little importance, the cares of the household and the economies cf domestic life, but I tell you the earth is trewn.with the martyrs of kitchen and nursery. The health shattered woman hood of America cries out for a God who can help ordinary women in the rtnties of housekeeping. The wearing, grmamg, xmappreciaieu uiik goes on, but the same Christ who stood on the bank of "Galilee in the early morning and kindled the fire and bad thefish already cleaned and broiling when ihe. sportsmen stepped ashore, chilled and hungry, will help every wo man t6 prepare breakfast, whether by her own hand or the hand of her hired help. The God who made indestructible ulogy if Hannah; who made a coat for SamuelT her son, and carried it to the temple every year, will help every wom an in preparing the family wardrobe. The God who opens the Bible with the itcry of AfcjaUVnSi -entertainment by tho threa.AiIJJ on the plains of Mamre ?C1 helc evexr womaa to provide hos- ' pitality, however rare and embarrass- i ing. It is high time that some of the attention -we have becn giving to the remarkable women cf tho Bible re markable for their virtue cr their want cf it. or remarkable for their deeds Deborah and Jezebel and Herodias and Athalia and Dorcas and the Marys, ex cellent and abandoned it is high. time some jof the attention we have been giv ing to these conspicuous women of the Eible be given to Julia, an ordinary woman, amid ordinary duties and meet ing ordinary circumstances, attending to' ordinary responsibilities. -1 Work For Christiana. Thfen there are all the ordinary busi ness men. They need divine and Chris tian help When we begin to talk about business life, weslrw: right off and talk about men who did business j3n a large scale! and who sold millions -of dollars of gbods a year, and the vast majority of business men do not sell, a million dollars of goods, nor half a million, nor quarter of a million, nor the eighth part of a hailljon. Put all the business men of our cities, towns, villages and neigh borhoods side by side, and you will find that they sell less than a hundred thou sand! dollars worth of goods. All these men 'in ordinary business life want di- vinehelp. You see how tho wrinkles are printing on the countenance the storjf of woniment and care. You can not ,tell how old a business man is by lookjng at him. Gray hairs at 80 ; a man'at 45 with tho stoop of a nonoge narian. No time to attend to improved dentistry; the grinders cease because tbeyiaro few. Actually dying of old age at 40 or 50, when they ought to be at the meridian 1 Many of these business mem have bodies like a neglected clock to which you come, and when you wind it up it .begins to buzz and roar, and theni tho hands start around very rapid ly, and the clock strikes 5 or 10 or 40, and Strikes without any sense, and then suddenly stops. So is the body of that wornout business man. It is a neglect ed clock, and,, though by some summer recreation it may be wound up, still the machinery is all out of gear. The hands turn, around with a velocity that excites the astonishment oi the world. Men canilot understand the wonderful activ ity. and there is a roar and a buzz and a rattle about these disordered lives, and they strike 10 when they ought to strike 5, and they strike 12 when they ought to strike 6, and they strike 40 when they ought to strike nothing, and sud denly they stop. Postmortem examina tion reveals the fact that all the springs and? pivots and weights "and balance wheels of health , are' completely do ranged. The human clock is simply runklown, and at the , time when the steady hand ought to be pointing to the 1 i ? 1 1 J l!i raausirious nours on a cieaf ana kuiiiic dial the whole machinery of body, mind and; earthly capacity stops torever. uaK Hill and Greenwood have thousands cf business men who died of old age at 80, 35, 40, 45. Wants of Business Life. Now, what is wanted is grace di vine grace for ordinary business men, men who are: harnessed from morn till night and all the days of their life harnessed in business. Not grace to lose $100,000. but erace to lose $10. Not grace to supervise 250 employees in a factory, but grace to supervise the book keeper and two salesmen and the small boy that sweeps out the store. Grace to invest not the $ 0, 000 or net pront, nut the'$2.500 of clear gain. . Grace not to endure' the loss of a whole shipload of spices from the Indies, but grace to en dure the loss of a paper of collars from the leakage of a displaced shingle on a poor roof. Grace not to endure the tardi ness of the American congress in pass ing; a necessary law, but grace to endure the' tardiness of an enand boy stopping to tilav marbles when he ought to de liver the goods. Such a grace as thou sands of business men have today- keeping them tranquil, whether goods sell or do not sell, whether customers pay or do not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is down, whether the crops are luxuriant or a dead failure calm in all Icircum stances and amid all vicissi tudes. That is the kind or grace we want, . i Millions of men want it, and they may have it for the asking. Some hero or heroine comes to town, and as the procession passes through the street the business men come outrstand on tiptoe on their store step and look at some one whb in arctic clime, or in ocean storm, or in day of battle, or in hospital ago nie$ did the brave thing, not realizing that "they, the enthusiastic spectators, have cone through trials in business life' that are just as great before God. There are men who have gone through freezing arctics and burning toreids and awful Marengos of experiences with out moving nve miiea irom ineir aoor step. - 1 Christ's Friendship. 3Sow, what ordinary business men need, is to realize that they have the friendship of that Christ who looked after the religious interests of Matthew, the! custom . house clerk, . and helped Ly4ja of Thyatira to sell the dry goods and .who opened a bakery and fish mar ketjin the wilderness of Asia Minor to feed the 7.000 who had-come out on a religions picnic and who counts the hairs of your head with as much partic ularity as though they were the plumes of a coronation, and who took the trou ble to stoop down with his finger writ ing! on the ground, although the first shuSe of feet obliterated thedjjrine caligraphy, and "-who knows just how many locusts there were in the Egyp tiaii plague, and knew just how many ravens were necessary to supply Elijah's pantry by the brook Cherith, and who, as floral commander, leads forth all the regiments of primroses, foxgloves, daffodils, hyacinths and lilies which pitch Jheir tents of beauty and kindle their campfires of color all around the hemisphere that that Christ and that Go4 knows the most minute affairs of yout business life and however incon siderable, understanding all tbe affairs of that woman who keeps a thread and needle store as well as all the affairs of RMhaiihild sari a Bariiu?- ' . . Then there are all the ordinary farm ers. We talk about agncultural life. and we immediately shoot oft to talk about Cincinnatus, the patrician, who went from the ploWjto a high position, and after he got through the dictator ship ia 21 days went back again to the plow. What encouragement is that to ordinary farmers? The irast majority of them none of them will be patricians. Perhaps none of them will bej senators. If any of them have dictatorships, it will be over 40 cr 50 or; lOO adres of the old homestead. What these men want is grace to keep their patience while plowing with balky oxen and . to keep cheerful amid the draught that destroys the corn crop and that enables! them to restore the garden! the day 'after the neighbor's cattle have j broken j in and trampled, out the strawberry bed and gone through the Ljima bean patch and eaten up the sweet corn in such large quantities that they must be kept from the water lest they swell up and die. - i i t . Noble Hnsbandmen. j j Grace in catching weather that en ables them, without imprecation, to spread put the hay the third time, al though again and, again and, again it has been almost ready for the; mow. A grace to doctor the cow with! a hollow horn, and the sheep with the foot rot, and the horse with the distemper and to compel the unwilling acres to yield a livelihood for the fanily, and school ing for the children; and little extras to help the older boy in business, and something for the daughter's wedding outfit, and a little surplus for the time when the ankles will get stiff yvith age, and the breath will be a little short, and the swinging of the cradle through the hot harvest field will bring on the old man's vertigol Better closb up about Cincinnatus. I know 500 farmers just as noble as he wais. What they want is to know that they have I the friendshi of that Christ who often drew his similes from the farmer's life, aa when he said, "A sower went forth td sow," as when he built his best parable out of the scene of a farmer boy coming back from his wanderings, and the old farm house shook that -night vrith rural jubi ie, aaa w no compared hint re IT to a lamb in the pasture field, and who said that the eternal .God is a farmer, de claring, "My Father is the husband man." Those stone masons do not want to hear about Christopher Wren, the ar- :t who built St. Paul's cathedral. It chitect would be better to ell them how to car ry the hod of bricK up the ladder with out slipping, and -: how on a cold morn ing with the trowel to smooth off the mortar and keerr cheerful, and how to be thankful to God for the plain food .taken . from the pail by the roadside. Carpenters standing amid the adz, and the bit, and the plane, and the broadax need to be told that Christ was a car penter, with his own hand wielding saw and hammer. Oh, this is a tired world, and it is an overworked world, and it is an underfed world, and it is a wrung out world, and men and worn en heed to know that there are rest and recuperation in God and 'in that religion which was not so much intended for extraordinary people as for ! ordinary people, because there are more of them. Next to God. The healing profession has had its Abercrombies and its lAbernethys and its Valentine Motts and its Willard Parkers, but the ordinary physicians do the most of the world's medicming, and they need to understand that while tak ing diagnosis qx prognosis or writing prescription or j compounding medica ment or holding the delicate pulse oi a dying child they may have the presence and the dictation of the Almighty Doc tor who took the case of the madman and after he had torn off his ! garments in foaming dementia clothed him again, bodv and mind,! and who lifted up the woman who for 18 years had been bent almost double with the rheumatism in to graceful stature, and who turned the scabs of leprosy into rubicund complex ion and who rubbed the toumbness out oi paralysis, ana wno swpng wiae open the closed windows ox nereaitasp. or ac cidental blindness until the morning light came streaming through the flesh ly casements, and who knows all the diseases and all the remedies and all the herbs and all the catholicons and is monarch of pharmacy and therapeutics, and who has sent ten thousand doctors of whom the world makes no. record, but to nrove that they are angels of mercy 1 mvoKe; tne tnousanas oi men whose ailments they, have assuaged and the thousands of women to whom m crises oi nam tney nave oeen next -to God in benefaction. Come, now, let us have a religion for ordinary people in professions, in occu pations, in agriculture, ! in the house hold, in merchandise, in everything. 5 I salute across the centuries Asyncritus,. Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. Unpretentious People.! - Firsof all, jif you feel that you are ordinary, thank God that you are not extraordinary, f I am tired and sick and bored almost- to death with extraor dinary people. They take all their time to tell us how very extraordinary they really are. - You know as well as I do, my brother and- sister, that the most of the useful work of the world is done by unpretentious people who toiPright on, by people who do not get much ap proval, and no one seems to say, "That is well done." Phenomena are of but little use. Things that are exceptional cannot be depended on. Better trust the smallest planet that swings in its orbit than ten comets shooting this way and that, Imperiling.'thd longevity of worlds attending to their own- business. For steady illumination better is a lamp than a rocket. I Then if you feel that yoaare ordinary remember that your position invites the less attack. Conspicuous people , how they have to take it I How they are mis represented and abused and shot at 1 The higher the horns of a roebuck the easier to strike him down. What a delicious thing it must be to be I a candidate for ooveruor of a stata or- xxresident of . tba KEEP YOUR Surely if the word REGULATOR is not on a packai ii - Nothing else is the shme. It cannot be and never been put up by any one except - And it can be easily told , THE RED '"2-. -: FOR SALE BY W.' VV. CRISCS A SON. United States! It must be so soothing to the nerves. It must pour into the soul of a candidate such a sense of serenity when he reads the blessed newspapers. I came into the possession of the abusive cartoons in the time of Napoleon L printed while he was yet alive. The retreat of the army from Moscor, that army buried in the snows ; of Russia, one of the most awful tragedies of the centuries, represented under the figure of a monster called General Frclst shay-: ing the French emperor with a razor of f icicle. As Satyr and Beelzebub, he is represented, page after page, page after j page. England cursing him, Spain cursing' him, Germany cursing .him, Russia cursing him, Europe . cursing him, North and South America cursing him. The most remarkable'man of his day and the most abused.' All -those men in history who now have a Halo around their name oh "earth wore a crown of 'thorns. Take the few extraor dinary railroad men of our time and seo j what abuse comes upon them, whilo thousands of stockholders escape. New j York Central railroad had 9,205 stock- i holders. If anything in that railroad affronted the people, all the abuse came down on one man and the 9,264 es caped. All tha world took after Thomas Scott, president of the Pennsylvania ' railroad, abused him until hegot under the ground. Over 17,000 stockholders ; in that company.. All the, blame on ono man. The Central Pacific railroad two j or three men get all the blame if any - thing goes wrong. There axe 10,000 in that company. 1 Penalties of Prominence. I mention these things to prove it is extraordinary people who . get abused, while the ordinary escape. The weather of life is not so severe on. the plain .as it is on the high peaks. The world never forgives a man who knows, or gains or does more than it can know or gain or do. Parents sometimes give confection ery to their children as an inducement to take bitter medicine, and the world's sugar plum precedes tho world's aqua forfls. The mob cried in regard to Christ, "Crucify him, crucify him 1" and they bad to say it twice to, be un derstood, for they were so hoarse, and they got their hoarseness by crying a little while before at the; top of their voice, "Hosanna. " The river Rhone is foul when it enters Lake j Leman, but crystalline when it comes! out on the other side. But there are men who have entered the bright lake of worldly pros- j perity crystalline and come! out terribly riled:-- H, therefore, you feel that you are an ordinary, thank God for the de fenses and the tranquillity pt your posi tion. - ' ' . ' I .'. ! Then remember, if you have' only what is called an ordinary home, that the great deliverers of thd world have all come from such a hornet And there may be seated, reading at your evenin stand, a child who' shall be potent for the ages. Just unroll the Scroll of men mighty in r church and state, and you will find they nearly all czlme from log cabin or poor homes. Genius almost al ways runs out in the third or j fourth generation. You cannot find In all his tory an instance where the fourth gen eration of extraordinary ptjople amount to anything. -Ia this country we had two great men, father and son, loth uresidents of ! the United States, but from present prospects there never will be in that: genealogical lino another president for a thousand yeara Colum- bus from a weaver's hut, Demosthenes from a cutler's cellar, Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from a shoemaker's bench, Arkwright from a barber's shop, and he whose name is hi"h over all in earth and air and sky from a manger. Bo Content. ! Let us all be content with such things as we have. God is just as good in what he keeps away from us as in what he gives us. Even a knot may be useful if it is at ti:-. tnd of a thread. At an univerEary of a deaf and dumb asylum cim of the children wrote upon the blac.L-.ard words as sublime as tne Iliad,' the "Odyssey" and . the "Di- vina Coi uedia" all compressed in one paragraf:ii. The examiner, in the signs of the mute language, asked her, "Who made the world?" The deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." The examiner asked her, "For what purpose did Christ come into the world?" The deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.'? The exam iner said to her, ."Why were you born deaf and dumb, while I hear and speak?" She wrote upon the blackboard, "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in tby sight. " Oh, that we might be baptized with a contented spirit I ? The spider draws poison out' of a fhjwer, : the- bee gets honey out of a thistle; but happi ness is a heavenly elixir, and the con tented spirit extracts it not from the rhododendron of the hills, but from the lily of the-valley. ! i - Nelson's Wonderful I"eat.l Writers of historical reminiscences bavA tn ha masters of a certain amount EYES OPEW. is not by their Trade OX accurate uiiormatlou &out fchch hamuli if Mir rvttVi tn nrniil tiL itr j If they are not, they are sure to "get things mixed. " . 1 '.'l t at oi long unco a review it in ma ten don Times, writing of a book named Roving Commissions,' related on his own account the following epioda cf Nelson, the great admiral: "Whiie-in chase of Villeacuve'a French fleet ho was informed of tho enemy; heaving in sight,-at-which In formation Nelson evinced tho highest satisfaction and gleefully rubbed his bands." v As a correspondent f The. .Times points outr, 'this incident' occurred in 1S05. Nelson lost his right arm iu. tbe attack on Santa Cruz, Teucrifo, iu 17U7 eight years prior to his pursuit of Vrlleneuvo's fleet. It . would have tetn, therefore, a difficult matter for hha to "rob his hands" in 1803. ' '. ' . A GIfi ANTIC NEST. A Great Cone Which the Anatrallan XXena Dalld For the Pnrpoe of Hatching. Hie rnallco lien of Austrulia laya its eggs in a hugo nest Tho nest is really an artificial rnouml of gigan tic proportions for tho sisw of its maker and the purpose it ia to cerv-a, Thia artificial moundl is n co-opern-: tion incubator. It is puilt by many pairs of birds, malo and fcmali workincr alike to construct it. Thosei 1 game pairs or flocks of birds nnnuali :lv Tfirini and pnlnrea tho mie -rf -L ; r 4 , looking cone which risos up liko a turret dome from the level prairio. Sbmetiiqes these tunnels attain a height of fully 15 , feet in tho pcrpenj dicular, with a radius of equal measurement. Many of these hesbs have meafcured nsmuch oh CO yards! or 150 feet, around their baee. .That would give the largest ono mcnsureJ a diameter of about 60 feet. Thoee mound nests aro entered through i sort of funnel cavity nt tho top o I. the cone; , ; The hens of nil thq building nn repairing pairs lay in this immense nest. TJie eggs are deposited ubouk 6 feet below the burface, Whilo eacUi hen lays- her egg iri , the!- family mound, no hen drops her egg closer than 20 inches to that of heir neighbor. This egg is deposited iix a cavity made for it, wherein it ia placed in a vertical position, careful ly smoothed over by the hen beforo she quits tho nest. Contrary to tho usual practice of the bird and fowl species, these malle'e hens lay at night instead of in tho day. j Several days elapse also between the drop ping of two eggs by the same hen. The eggs of. the .malleo hen rp nf nf nii nnnrtinn to hor sizol nrAna lnrt,A nBfbnn nf a poorti and of large hens are very much larger, The eggs thus laid and covered i this great sand oven In the hot dis tricts are never again disturbed by the hens. The. eggs are batched bV the heat the sun bakes into tho sojlj where they lay. . It has never beep known how tho young chicks aro excaya ted from their egg grave, fcr the eggs are doposited fully eix inches below the surface, and thlo hardening rains do riot aid their exit very much. - I i The hen is ho very shy and vig lant that no one is able to study hpr maternal and domestic habit s witli satisfaction. As ehe lays her egg at night and transacts most of her affairs in the night watch so that rib naturalist or curious individual call ferret her out, possibly sho fcteals tb her expected brood under cover of night also and gives'tbem tho pa rental unearthing which they must surelv need after the pipping of the air crab All ' " BLOOD POISON CURED. There is no doubt, according to tba many remarkable cures jerformed by Botanic Blood Balm ('B. B. B.") that it h far the best Tonic and Blood PuriS fier ever manufactured. All other pale into insignificance, when com pared with it. It cures piiuplel'.uicers. skin diseases, and all maimer of blooc. and and skin aifments. Buy the, best, and dont throw your money away ot substitutes. Try the long trsted anc! old reliable B. B. B. $1.00 per large i bottle. For sale by DruggiVs A BAD CASE CURED. Three years ago I contracted a blood tm snn. l anDlied to a Diustcian a once, and nts treatment; came ue killing me. I employed an old pnysi e.ian and then went to Kentucky. then went to Hot Springs and remain pd there two months. Nothing seem ed to cure in permanently, althougl temrjorarv relief was civen me, I re tnrnHl home a ruined man puysieauy r - . . with bnt little' prospect of ever getting; well. ' I was persuaded to try ixrani Blood Balm (B. B. B.,) and .to my ut ter astonishment it quickly bealec every ulcer. Z. T. Hallkrtojt, ; For sale by Druggists, Macon, ua, V
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Feb. 18, 1898, edition 1
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