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Flra! cla.s io Tery particular. Table upplieil with" eery delicacy. "Ish oysters and Oame abundance in season . Talnabl loTTomin. Eipeclally raloabla to women la Crowns' 4 Iron Bitters. Backache raniahes, headache ditanpara, trtngth take the place ol veakoeM, and Jhe glow of health readily tome to the pallid cheek when thU won derful remedy ia taken. For aickly children or OTerworked men it ha no eqaal. No home ihoulJ he without thia ftmona remedy. Urowna'Iroa Bitten ia sold by all dealers. : , ' 1 ' "' , , , , . , n . W.1 tJ UUUUVJVJ U V-J L .1 UU. mm TAB TE LESS UU D LL IS JUSTASCOOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE OOcts. p ai.atia, Itxs., Not. 1C 1S33. Paris SItMSicIno Co., bt- Ixxuis, Mo. tlcntlomen: We i1t Ins I yoar. COO Dottles of GltOVKS TAfTELf-S CI 1 1 LI j 1UMC nnj h.t Doituht lliro (mM already this year. In all onr ex perience t t 14 ye:r9. In tbo druK lo?lne.w. hare nrrer aoM an art Iclo that g nre uct aciversal taction as yvur Tulc. Voursiruly, AEXtr. Cash X Co. For Sain und cuarsnteed by Drs.W.W GRIGGS SON, Elizabeth City, N. C and all Druggists. a THE TUG SOPHIE WOOD Ruilt in'lSOi sixty-three feet long; has lt'xlO engiueaud thirty-two horee powJ pr boiler. Ctst four thousand dollars. Will le sold cheap and on v asy terms Can be teen at Edenton. N. C. E. F. LAM R Moruments ami Gravestones. DESIGNS FREE 'Vlien writincr state age of deceased and limit as to price LARGEST STOCK IN THE SOUTII TO SELECT FROM. Lowest Prices and Btst Work Guaranteed. THE COUPER GARBLE WORKS (Established 1318.) 1 K 3 ank St . NORFOLK. V.A STOP AT THE BE0W2J HOUSE, M. CH AD'.VICK, Proprietor, . Fairfield, IT. C , Nice comfortable rooms. Good ser vants. The table supplied with the best the market affords. Good stables aud frbejtcrs CzTRoart! per tlaytacluUinff lodgirt; "VTORTH CAROLINA,. In Superior JLN Hyde County. i Court. Luceita McPLerson, ) vs. NOTICE. Gt-orjje W. McPherson. ) Tliu1 rirfnilutif nhorft r. ftinf tl will M II V eva m - lake notice that an action entitled as above has btn crjimenced in the u-IH-rior Court of Hyde county to dis solve the liondaof matrimony lietween the plaintiff and the defendant; that thetaid defendant will' further take that Iia i rpnmrpd to arrear uuuvri - - -i ' at the next term of the Superior Court . . i t.i .i.. intt Of Saul county IO . DO nem uu iue iiu Monday after the 1st Jionday m Sep tember next, the same beinK the 14th r NnromVr at the court house of sid county In Swan Quarter, N. C, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action wh!ch will be filed with tne UierK oi ire nueriur Court of Hyde county, at hii ofllce in Swan Quarter, N. C, within six weeks r-m ih ( f o rtf thin notice, or the liuui .V - - - v - - plaintiff will applv to the Court for the relief demanded in said complaint This action is for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony upon the gronnds of abandonment as provided by Acts of isa, chapter 277. This 20th day of Aucnst 1833. j. ii. wahd, riJlr f Snnerior Court of Hyde County. ' inn ir3 For Sale. m rcTakc each man's ELIZABETH CITY, THE LIMITS OF LIFE. t Drt TALMAGE TALKS ON THE DANGER ! -OF HAVING TOO MUCH. The Synbl of the Giant Fie Is Jfot Always the Strong Slan The Et err day Man Doea'the Work The Worry of ITaeleas Addenda. ICopyrlrht. ISD8. by American Press Aso i cia.tlon.1 WismxaTON, Sept. 25. From a passage of Scripture that probably no other clergyman ever, preached from Rev. Dr. Talmage in this discourse sets forth a truth very appropriate for those who have unhealthy ambition for great wealth or fame. The text is I Chron. xx,: 6, 7: ' ; . .? ."t ; , "A man of great . stature, whose fin gers and toes wero four and twenty, Bix on each hand and six on each foot, and ha ! also was the son of a giant. But, when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son cf Shimea, David's brother, slew him?" Malformation photographed, and for what reason? Did not this passage slip by mistake into the sacred Scriptures, as sometimes a. paragraph utterly ob noxious to the editor gets into his news paper during his absence? Is not this Scriptural errata? No, no; there is noth ing haphazard about the Bible. This passage of Scripture was as certainly in tended: to bo pnt in the Bible as the verse, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,", or, "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son." And I select it for my text today be cause it is charged with practical and tremendous meaning. f By the people of God the Philistines had been conquered, with the exception of a few giants. The race of giants is mostly extinct, I am glad to say. There is no use for giants now except to enlarge the income of museums. But there were many of them in olden times. Goliath was, according to i the Bible, 11 feet 4 inches high, or,! if ydu doubt this, the famous Pliny declares that at Crete, by an earthquake, a monument vraa broken open, discover ing the remains of a giant 46 cubits long, or 69 feet high.! So, whether you take sacred or profane history, you must come to the conclusion that there were in those times cases of human'altitude monstrous and appalling. ; j The Giant In niitory. David had smashed. the skull of one of these giants, but there were other giants that the Davidean wars had not yet subdued, and one of them stands in my text Ho was not only of Alpine "stature, but had a surplus of digits. To the ordinaTy'fingers was annexed an additional finger, and the foot had also a superfluous addendum. He had 24 terminations to hands and feet, where others have 20. It was not the only in stance of the kind. . Tavernier, the learned writer, says that the emperor of i Java had a son endowed with the same number of extremities. Volcatius, the poet, had six fingers on each hand. Maupertuis, in his celebrated letters, speaks of two families near Berlin sim-. ilarly equipped of hand and foot All of which I can believe, for I have seen two cases of the. same physical super abundance. But this giant of the text is in battle, and as David, the stripling warrior, had dispatched one giant the nephew of David slays this monster of my text, and there he lies after the bat tle in Gath, a dead giant His stature did not save him, and his superfluous appendices ot hand and foot did not save him. The : probability was that in the battle his sixth finger on his hand made him clumsy in the use -of his weapon and his sixth toe crippled his gait Bo hold the prostrate and malformed giant of ; the text: "A man of great stature, whoso fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand and six on each foot and he also was the son of a giant But when he defied Israel, Jona than, the son of Shimea, David's broth er, slew him." I The Common Man. Behold how superfluities aro a hin drance rather than a help I In all the battle at Gath that day there was not a man with ordinary hand and ordinary foot find ordinary stature that was not better off than this physical curiosity of my text A dwarf on the right side isJ stronger than a giant on the wrong side, and all the body and mind and estate and opportunity that you cannot use for God and the betterment of the world is a sixth finger and a sixth toe, and a ter rible hindrance. The most of the good done in the world and the most of those who win the battles for the right are ordinary people. Count the fingers of their right hand, and they have just five no more and no less. One Dr. Duff among missionaries, but 8,000 mission aries that would tell you they have only common endowment One Florence L Nightingale to nurse the sick in con- S3X13 places, but 10,000 women who ust as good nurses, though never of. The "Swamp Angel" was a big gun that during the civil war made a big noise, but muskets of ordinary caliber and sheila of ordinary belt did the execution. President Tyler and his cabinet go down Ithe.Potomao one day to experiment with the "Peacemaker," a great Iron gun that was to affright with its thunder-foreign navies. The gunner touches it off, and it explodes and leaves cabinet ministers dead on the deck, -while at that time, all up and down our coasts,; were cannon of ordi nary bore, able to be the defense of the nation, and ready at the first touch to waken to duty. The curse of the world is big guns. After the politicians, who have made all the noise, go home hoarse from angry discussion on the evening of the first Monday in November, the next day the people, with the silent ballots, will settle everything and settle it right 1,000,000 of the white slips of paper they drop making about as much noise as the fall of an apple blossom." Clear back in the country today there are mothers; In plain apron and shoes fashioned on a rough last by a shoe maker at the end of the lane, rocking .babies that are to be the Martin Luthera ' .... i- t . I : i 1 , 3 I 1 M A ullf k cansiira but resBrva 1hy -j : : : 7T ..i.-- . C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1898. and the Faradays and the Edisons and the Bismarcks and the Gladstones and the ' Washington and the George Whitefields of the future. The longer I live the more I like common . folks. They do the world's work, bearing the .world's burdens, "weeping the world's sympathies,' carrying the world's conso lation. Amongjawyers we see rise up a Rufus Choate or a William Wirt or a Samuel L. Southard, but society would go to pieces tomorrow if there were not thousands of common lawyers to see that men and women get their rights. A Valentine Mott or a Willard Parker rises up eminent in the medical profess. Eicn, but jwhat an unlimited sweep would pneumonia and diphtheria and scarlet fever have in the world if it were not .for 10,000 common doctors! The old physician. in his gig, driving np the lane of the faruiilouse or riding on horseback, his medicines in the sad dlebags, arriving on the ninth day of the fever and coming in to take hold of the pulse of the patient, while the fam ily, pale with anxiety and looking on and waiting for his decision in regard to the patient and hearing him say, "Thank God, I have mastered the case; he ia getting welll" excites in rne an admiration quite equal to the mention of the names of the great metropolitan doctors of the past or the illustrious liv 'ing men of the present The Limits of Wealth. - Yet what, do we see in all depart ments? People not satisfied with ordi nary spheres of work and ordinary du ties. Instead of trying to see what they can do with "a hand of five fingers, they want six. i Instead of usual endowment of 20 manual and pedal addenda, they want 24. A certain , amount of money for livelihood and for the supply of those whom we leave behind us after we have departed this life is important, for we have the best authority for say ing, "He jthat provideth not for his own, and -especially those of his own household j is 'worse than . an infidel, " but the large and fabulous sums for which many struggle, if obtained, would be I a hindrance rather than an advantage., ' f Theanxietie and aBnoyemoeaof these whose estates have become plethoric can only be told by those who possess them. It will be -a good thing when through your industry and prosperity you can own the bouse In which you live. But suppose you own 50 ' houses and you have all tb.ose rents to collect and all those tenants to please. Suppose you have branched out in business successes until in Almost every direction .' you have investments. The fire bell rings at night; you rush up stairs to look out of the windoW to see if it is any of your mills. : Epidemic of crime comes, and there are embezzlements and abscond ing in all-1 directions, and you wonder whether any of your bookkeepers will prove recreant A panio strikes the financial world, and you are like a hen under a sky fnll of hawks and trying with anxious cluck to get your own overgrowii chickens safely under wing. After a certain stage of success has been reached you have to trust so many, im portant things to others that you are apt to become the prey of others, and you are swindled and defrauded, and the anxiety you had on your brow when you were learning your first $1,000 is not equal j to the anxiety on your brow now that you have won your $ 800, 000. Financial Obealty. The trbuble with such a one is he is spread out I like the unfortunate one in my text, j You have more fingers and toes than you know what to do with. Twenty were useful; 24 area hindering superfluity. Disraeli says that a king of Poland abdicated his throne and joined the people and became a porter to carry burdens. jAnd-some one asked him why hedidsoand he replied: "Upon my honor, gentlemen, the load which I cast off was by far heavier than the one you see me carry. The weightiest is but a straw when compared to that weight under which I labored. I have slept more in four' nights than I have during all my reign. I begin to live and to be a king myself. Elect whom you choose. As for me, I am so well it would be madness to return to court. " ' "Well," says somebody,' "such over loaded persons ought to be pitied, for their worriments are real, and their In somnia and their nervous prostration are genuine." I reply that they could get rid of the bothersome surplus by giving it away. If a man, has more houses than he can carry without vexa tion, let him drop a few of them. If his estate is so great he; cannot manage it without getting nervous dyspepsia from having too much, let him divide with those who have nervous dyspepsia be cause they cannot get enough. No ; they guard their sixth finger with more care than they did the original five. They go limping with what they call gout and know not that like the giant of my text, they are lamed by a superfluous toe. A few of them by charities bleed themselves of this financial obesity and monetary plethora, but many cf . them hang on to the hindering superfluity till death and then, as they are com pelled to give the money up anyhow, in their last; will and testament they gen erously give some of ; it to the Lord, ex pecting oo doubt that he will feel very much obliged to them. Thank God that once, in awhile we have a Peter Cooper, who, owning an interest in the iron works at Trenton, said to Mr. Lester; "I do not eel 'quite easy about the amount we are making Working un der one of our patents, we have a monopoly which seems to me some thing wrong Everybody has to come to us for it aud w.e are making money too fast' So they reduced the price, and this while our philanthropist was building Cooper institute, which moth ers a hundred institutes of kindness and mercy all -over the land. But the world had to wait 5,800 years for Peter Cooper I Deathbed Generosity. . I am glad for the benevolent institu tions 'that get a legacy from men who during their life were as stingy as death, but who in their last will and testament "bestowed money on hospitals judgmBnt, HamlBt?- and missionary societies, but for such testators I have no respect They would have taken every cent of It with them If they could and bought up half of heaven and let it out at ruinous rent or loaned the money. to celestial: citizens at 2 per cent a month and got a "corner" on harps and trumpets, j They lived in this world 50 or 60 years' in the presence cf appalling suffering and want and made no efforts for their relief. The charities of such people are in the "Paulo poet future" tense. They are going; to do theni The probability is that if such a one in his last will by .a donation to be nevolent societies tries': to atone for his lifetime closefistedness the heirs at law wil I try to break the will by proving that the old man was senile or crazy, 'and the expense of - the litigation will about leave in the lawyer's hands what was meant for the Bible society. Oh, ye overweighted, successful business men, whether this sermon teach your ear or your eyes, let mesay that if you are prostrated with anxieties about keeping or investing these tremendous fortunes I can tell you how you can do more to get your health back and your spirits raised than by drinking gallons of bad tasting -water at Saratoga, Horn burg or Carlsbad. Give to God, humanity and the Bible 10 per Cent of all your in come, and it will make a new man of you, and from restless walking jpf the floor at night you shall have! eight hours sleep,( without! the help of bro mide of potassium, and from no appetite you will hardly be ab.e to wait for your regular meals, and your wan cheek will fill up, and when you die the blessings of those who but for you would have perished will bloom all over your grave. Perhaps some of you will take this advice, but the m0st of you will not, and you will try to1 cure your swollen hand by getting on it more fingers and your rheumatic foot; by getting on it more toes, and there will be a igh of relief when you are j gone out of the world, and when "over your remains the minister recites the words, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord," persons who have keen appreciation of the ludi crous will hardly be able to keep their faces straight But, whether hi that di rection my words do good or jjot, I am anxious that all who have only ordinary equipment be thankful for whit tbey .have and rightly employ it I think you all have, figuratively as well as literally, fingers enough. Do 4bt long for hinder ing superfluitiea Standing in the pres ence of this fallen giant of my.tekt ahd in this post mortem examination of him, let us learn haw much better off we are with just the usual nand, the usual foot You have thanked God for a thousand things, but I warrant you never thanked him for those two imple ments of work and locomotion that no one but the infinite and omnipotent (fod could have ever planned or made the hand andthe foot. Only that soldier or that mechanic who in a battle j or through " machinery; has lost j them kpows anything adequately about their value, and only the Christian scientist can have any appreciation of what di vine masterpieces they are. I J Mi The Hand That Worlca'J I Sir Charles Bell ; was so impressed with the wondrous construction of the human hand that when the Earl, of Bridgewater gave $40,000 for essays on the wisdom and goodness of God and eight - books were written .Sir Charles Bell wrote his entire book on the -wisdom and goodness of; God as displayed in ; the human handJ The 27 bones in the hand and wrist with cartilages and ligaments and phalanges of the fingers all made just ready: to knit, to sew; to build up, to pull down, to weave, to write,' to plow, to pound, to wheel, to battle, to give friendly salutation. The tips 'of its fingers are1 so many 'telegraph offices by reason of j their sensitiveness of touch. The bridges, the tunnels, ithe cities of the whole! earth, are the vic tories of the hand. The hands are not dumb, but often speak as distinctly as the lips. With our hands we invite,' we repel, we invoke we entreat, we wring them in grief, or clap them in joy, or spread them abroad in benediction. The malformation of the giant's hand in; the text glorifies the usual hand. Fashioned of God more exquisitely and wondrpus ly than any human mechanism , that was ever contrived, I charge you to use it for God and the lifting of the world out of Its.moral predicament Employ it in the sublime work of ; gospel hand shak ing; You can see the hand is just made for that Four fingers just set right to touch your neighbor's hand on one side, and your thumb set so as to clinch it on the other side. By all its bones and joints and muscles and cartilages and ligaments the voice of nature joins with the voice of God commanding you to shake hands. The custom is : as old as the Bible anyhow.: Jehu said to'Jehon adab: "Is thine heart right as my heart Is. with thine heart? If it be, give me thine hand. " Wjhen hands join in Christian salutation; a gospel electricity thrills across the . palm from heart to heart, and from the (Aoulder of one to the shoulder of the1 other. With the timid and for their encour agement shake hands. With the trou bled in warm hearted sympathy, shake hands. With the yotingman just enter ing Imsinesa and Idhicotrraged at the small sales and the large expenses, shake . hands. With the child who Is new from God and started on unending journey, for which lie needs to gather great supply of strength and who can hardly reach up to you now because you are so much taller, shake hands. Across cradles and dying beds and graves, shake hands. ' With your ene-. mies, who have done all to defame and hurt you, but whom you can afford to forgive, shake hands. - At the door of the churches where people come in and at the door of churches where people go out shake hands. Let pulpit shake hands with pew and Sabbath day shake, hands with weekday and earth ; shake hands with heaven.; Oh, the strange, the mighty, the undefined, the mys terious the eternal power of an honest hand shaking! Tho difference between these time and the millennial times is that now some shake hands, but them all will shake hands, throne and foot stool, across seas, nation' with nation, God and man, church militant and church triumphant . . The Ilnmaa Foot. :" . Yea, the malformation of this fallen giant's foot glorifies the ordinary f oot, for which I fear you. have never once thanked God. The 2 6 bones of the foot J are the admiration of the anatomist The arch of the foot fashioned With a grace and a poise that Trajan's arch or Constantino's arch or any other arch' could not equal. Those arches J stand where they were planted, but this arch of the foot is an adjustable arch, a yielding arch, a flying arch and ready for movements innumerable. The hu man foot so fashioned as to enable a man to stand upright as no other crea ture and leave tne nand that would I otherwise have to help in ba.aciag tbe Body Ireejor anything it chopseak The foot of the camel fashioned for the sand, the foot of the bird fashioned fqr the tree branch, the foot of the hind; fash ioned, for the slippery rock the ,foot of the lion fashioned to rend its prey, the foot of the horse fashioned for the! solid earth, hut the foot of man made to cross the desert or 'climb' the tree or scale the cliff or Walk f the earth or go anywhere he needs to go. ,j . With that divine triumph of anatomy in your possession where do you valk? In what path of righteousness or what path of .sin have you set.it down? Where have you left the mark of you'rj foot steps? Amid the . petrifactions in . the rocks have been fdund the mark of the feet of birds and beasts of thousands of years ago. And God can trace ot all the footsteps of your lifetime, and those you made 50 years ago are as plain as those made Jin the last soft Weathr all of them petrified for the judgmenj day. Oh, the foot I Give me the autobiography of your foot from the time you stepped out of the cradle until today, and I will tell your exact character now and? what are your prospects for the world to pome. 1 : That there might be no doubt fabout the fact that both these pieces of pvine mechanism, hand and foot belo)g to Chzfet'f aertVw both hands of Christ and both feet of Christ were.spiEed on the cross. Right through the arch of both his feet to the hollow of bis jnstep went the iron of torture, and- from the palm of his hand to the back of i and there is not a muscle or. nerve crj bone among the 27 bones of hand and wrist or among the 26 bones of the foot but lit belongs to him now and forever The Beauty of Service. That is the most beautiful foot that goes about paths of greatest usefiflnesa, and that the most beautiful hand that does the most "to help others, ji was reading of three women in rivalry! about the appearance of. tho hand. And the one reddened her hand with berries and said the beautiful tinge made hefrs the most beautiful' -And another p6t her hand in the-monntainTbrook and 6aid as the waters dripped -off that hej- hand was the most beautiful. And another plucked flowers off the bank, and under the bfoom contended that her haid was the most attractive. Then a poor old woman appeared, and, looking up in her decrepitude, asked for alms. And a wom an who had not taken part in the rivalry gave her alma And all; the women re solved to leave to this beggar the ques tion as to which of all- the hands present was the most attractive, and she said, "The most beautiful of them alj Is the one that gave relief to my necessities," and as she so said her wrinkles and rags and her decrepitude and her boidy dis appeared, and in place thereof stood the Christ, who long ago said, "Inas much as ye did it to one of the least4 of thpsri: vfl did it unto me. " and who to purchase the service of our hand arid foot, here on earth had his own hand and . foot lacerated. ; . ..j Whipped the Wrong Mai. An" actor who was in Washington re cently on hi3 way to join the army of stage folk who are trooping injto New York to -"begin rehearsals playied in a Chicago stock company a part j of the summer, says a writer in the Washing ton Post . It wasn't an especially suc cessful company and there were periods when the ghost did not walk for weeks at a time. The actor I speak of is what they call on the stage a handsome dress er. He is especially addicted to clean linen, and a day dawned when he found that all his shirts were at the laundry and he was penniless. He went to call on the Chinaman who kept the laundry. In th!s instance the Chinaman kept the shirts, too, for no threat3, tno entreaties, no 'proffers of . watches and scarf pins as securities, no' arguments of any kind, sufficed to move him. He wanted money. Two whole days the actor endured this 6tate of things. Then salaries were paid.- The actor marcl.ed to the laundry, laid down the money. eized.the Chinaman by the collar of hii pyjamas, jerked him over the counter iiod rubbed the floor" down with him. horizontally, perpendicular ly and spirally. The poor oriental sput tered out a great deal of talk and one front tooth, I believe. A policeman happened to be pissing, an eccentric fellow casually peered in and aeked the occa sion of the affair. The actor ex plained. I "Ah, thin," said the officer sympa thetically, -."you'll have to do It over ag'in. -It's not him that kapes the joint Hop Sing is sick. You've been doin up the wrong man. Bu t thin, " consoling-; ly, "tbey all needs it" Smashed the Red Tape.! Major General Kitchener, -the: sirdar of I the Egyptian army, is opening Eng land's eyes to what can be done with few materials jwhen common sense and enterprise are used and the war office red tape is j dispensed with. The latest manifestation is the arming of hi? field artiUery for the Sudan 'campaign with quick firing Maxim-Nordenfeldt guns, while the war department ia as far as ever from coming to a decision as to what type of guns the British army shjOll have. -, i - s - . NO. 2G. BUILT TWO. And the Startltac Kewa VTm Xot Hate - Until Afterward, , - A cyclist whom we will call Baxter was strolling along the avenue when ho noticed a pretty girl in a! neat cycling costume standing by a tandem. She had her back turned to him, but he saw tho wore a trim' costume, had a neat anklo and a nicely arranged lot of hair. Box ter is very particular about a girl'a hair. This girl looked so attractive that he paused. There was something pa thetic in her attitude, he thought Was she waiting for a cavalier to join her on the tandem? A wild idea entered Baxter's head. He would do a daring turned a frank, merry face 1 on him as , he approached. i . "Pardon me," he laughingly aaid, y but are you looking for an accompa :nistr,'and he pointed to the tandem. TCall she smilingly answered. "now that you mention it I guess I am." -, w'... ' A moment later Jtbey were whirling up the street When it began to grow dark, they turned back. ' - "My tandem?" cried tho girL "Why, it Isn 't my tandem.,? ! ' ! "Not your tandem?" shouted Baxter. ."Whose ia it then?" "Why," said the girl, ."I thought it was yours." . ! "Heavens no!" groaned Baxter. "But you acted as if it was youra," said the girL j ' ,: "What shall wo do?" moaned the girL l: j-' , "Take it back," said Baxter. V So they rode back in silence, ana ' when they were about a block away the girl said: ' j. "I guess I'll stop hero." I Leaving the tandem as near to the place where he saw it as he could, he scuttled away in the darkness. Cycling Gazette! i TWO HUMOROUS BROTHERS. .-i . Tbey Won Wagers on the 8trnf th of I Their Own Homeliness. Many years ago there were two broth er, nacaed Joel aod Joaatfcan, 0 were famous throughout Wayne county, Ind., because they were both suck frights. One day they were on their way to Cincinnati by wagon in' the days of the old canal. ; The wagon waj of the covered variety, and only Joel, was visible to the natural -eye aa the vehicle plunged into and, out of the chuck holes that infested the way. JoeJ was said to be the next to' the ugliest man in all the country round, and his brother took precedence. ' The two brothers met a stranger, who, attracted by the supremely homely face of Joel, stopped his horse and said: ; "Excuse me, my friend, but would you mind tellin me your name?" In a sepulchral tone that fitted well the hideous face Joel replied :- "Well, I guess-I hain't never done nothin that would inaW mo niliained to tell my nanm My name is Joel" " Where do you live, if it is a fair question?" "I live in Wayne county, Indianuy." "Well, stranger,' I've seen' much of Indiannv. but I'll bet you $10 that you're the ugliest man in the state." "Well, I hain't no, gamblln man," renlied Joel, "but I hain't never seen nothin'In the Scriptur' ag'in bcttinona sure thing, an I'll jest take that bet." Turning to the wagon coveriand peer ing into its depths he called: "Jonathan, stick your head out hycr. " Jonathan did as ho was requested. The stranger paid the money without, a word of complaint Now lork Mall Perhaps you have had the grippe or a hard cold. You may be recovering from malaria or a slow fever; or possibly some of the chil dren are Just getting over the measles or whooping couglu ; ! '.: Are you recovering as fast as you; should? Has not your. old trouble "left your blood" full of Impurities ? And isn't thia the reason you keep so poorly? Don't delay recovery longer but Talzo : " ! Tt will remove all Immxr!- ties from your blood. It is also a tonic of immense value. Give nature a little help at this time. Aid her by removing all the products . of disease from your blood. If your bowels are not just right, Ayer's Pills will make them so. Send for cur book on Diet In Coasd- , pation. .j- ' 'y$yx&f4?i XYrlfm io om Doctor. V- We have the exclusive rrleee of some of tho mot eminent rhyl tltni la the United fitstss. Write f reely end receive a prompt reply, lrUhont eost. ' i H Addr,DB. J. C. ATTn. . O Lowell, Mats. l we Mi r .... . ,ii t "
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Sept. 30, 1898, edition 1
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