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S The most TIRELESS' WORKER In O HAKE AD7EHTISIK8 PAY by using the colamni -Elizabeth City is the ECONOMISE, the medium that reaches more O It roes Into the homes of the peepJe O families than any other paper In Eastern Carolina. r telling the new wun toe voice 01 a o trusted friend. eTakE Bach man's cBnsurB but rBSBrrB thy judgmajit. Hamlatr ELIZABETH CM, N. CV, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1899- NO. 47. VOL. XXVII. m0i m i i m i ii -j jm 9 r m w i 11 in in I v iii iii l n u in v I h & f In 111 Ih 2 V?v II VT.'-zecA fvl II I t 1 1 IcT 1-13 V.:-V Ic2sr0u liflPIl Lj 7 - ;mmm Lj-T Hur of I'm wti1a tt tWwf far nlu l tir I rrur wnomy la pooa4 rr A3 grocwr. llia o?r - tub ic. it. FAirtmxic cosfpAjrr, CfcVmro. M. Leo:. Kw Vwfk. Xtoacoa, PtittdalpfiJa PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE FALCON PUB. CO., E. F. LAMB It. B. CUF.ECY.. . .... Mniigcr. Editor. Subscription One Year, $1.00 PltOFESIONAL CARDS. B. CUE EC V. , A tU; rey al-Ixi ic, Klixalth Cty, N. C. 17 F. S. 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The man who sells a gien grade , of goods at a lower prievjthan his neighbor sells them is going to do the business. The consumer desides this matter; and the continued increase of business at At Co's. new store Is a practical Illustration of this prin n n r n H av.J V- -4 r A m m TDM1C MOHUMENTS mm ciple. AN ABUSE OF TRUSTS. DR.TALMAGE PREACHES AGAINST DIS HOffEST TRANSACTIONS. Ijriinelr Leiiom Drawn Front the Spi der and the ny rue eo oi rcc latloa, Whlek Canaea tbe Rain of Many Men. CcpyTlght, 1S20. by American Press Asso ciation. Wasthngtok, Feb. 5. This, like many of Dr. Talmage's discourses, rec ommends right doing for this world as well as preparation for the heavenly world; text. Job viii. 14. 'Whose trust shall be a tpider's web." The two most skillful architects in all the world are the bee and the spider. The ono puts up a sugar manufactory, and the other builds a slaughter house for flies. On a bright rammer morning when the sun comes out and shines upon the spider's web, bedecked with dew, the. gossamer structure seems bright enough for a suspension bridge for aerial beings to cross on. But alas for the rtoor fly which in the latter part of that very day ventures on it and is caught , and dungeoned and destroyed I The fly was informed that it was a free bridge and would cost nothing, but at the other end of the bridge the toll paid was its own Ufa The next day there comes down a 6trong wind, and away go tho web and the marauding spider and the victimized fly. So delicate are the silken threads of the spider's web that many thousands of them are put together before they become visible to the human eye, and it takes 4,000, 000 of them to make a thread as large as the human hair. Most cruel as well as most ingenious is the spider. A pris oner in the Bastille, France, had one so trained thayat the sound of the violin it every day came for its meal of flies. The author of my text, who was a lead ing scientist of his day, had no doubt watched tho voracious process of this ono insect with another and saw spider and fly swept down with the tame broom or scattered by tho same wind. Alas that the world has so many de signing spiders and victimized flies! There has not been a time when the utter and black irresponsibility of many men having the financial interests of others in charge has been more evident than in these last few years. The bank ruptcy of banks and disappearance of administrators with tho funds of large estates and the disordered accounts of United States officials have sometimes mado a pestilenco of crime that solemn izes every thoughtful man and woman and leads every philanthropist and Christian to ask, What shall be done to stay tho plague? There is ever and anon a monsoon of swindle' abroad, a typhoon, a sirocco. I sometimes ask myself if it would not be better for men making wills to bequeath the prop erty directly to the executors and offi cers of the court and appoint the wid ows and orphans a committee.- to see that tho former got all that did not be long to them. The simple fact is that there are a large number of men sailing yachts and driving fast horses and members of expensive clubhouses and controlling country seats who are not worth a dollar if they return to others their just rights. Under some sudden reverso they fail, and with: afflicted air seem to retire from the world and seem almost ready for monastic life, when in two or threo years they blossom out again, having compromised with their creditors that & paid them nothing but regret, and the only difference be tween tho second chapter of prosperity and the first is that their pictures are Murillos instead of Kensetts ' and their horses go a mile in 20 seconds less than their predecessors, and instead of one country seat they have .three, I have watched and have noticed that nine out of ten of those who fail in what is called high life have more means after than before tho failure, and in many of the cases failure Is only a stratagem to escape the payment of honest debts and put the world off the track while they practice a large swindle. There is some thing woefully wrong in the fact that these things are possible, W'btfe tbe neaponalblllty Itesta. - FiVst of all. I charge the blame on careless, indifferent bank directors and boards having in charge great financial institutions. It ought not to be possible for a president or cashier or prominent efficer of a banking institution to swin dle it year after year without detection. I will undertake to say that if these frauds are carried on for two or three years without-detection either the di rectors are partners in" the infamy and pocket part of the theft or they are guilty of a culpable neglect of duty, for which God will hold them as responsi ble as he holds the acknowledged de frauders. What right have prominent business men to allow their names to be published a3 directors in a financial in stitution so that unsophisticated people are thereby induced to deposit their money in or buy the scrip thereof when they, the published directors, are doing nothing for the safety of the in stitution ? It is a case of deception most reprehensible. Many people with a surplus of money, not needed for imme diate use, although it may be a little further on indispensable, are without friends competent to advise them, and they are guided solely by tbe character of the men vhose names are associated with the institution. When the crash came and with the overthrow of. the banks went the small earnings and lim ited fortunes of widows and orphans and tho helplessly aged, the directors stood with idiotic stare, and to the In quiry of the frenzied depositors and stockholders who had lost their all, and to the arraignment of an indignant public had nothing to say except: "We thought it was all right We did not know there was anything 'wrong going on. " It was their duty to know. They stood In a position which deluded the people with the idea that they were carefully observant Calling themselves iliroctors.. they did not direct . Thej had opportunity cf auditing account and inspecting the books. No time to do sof Tha they had no business to accept the position. It seems to be the pride cf some moneyed men to be di ectors In a great many institutions, and all they know is whether or not they get their dividends regularly, and their names are used as decoy ducks to bring -others near enough to be made game of. What first of all is needed is that 600 bank directors" and insurance com pany directors resign or attend to their business as directors. The business world will be full of fraud just as long as fraud is' so easy. When you arrest the president and secretary of a bank for an embezzlement carried on for many years, be sure to have plenty of sheriffs out the 6aaa day to arrest all the directors. They are guilty either of neglect or complicity. Oh," some will say, "better preach the gospel and let business matters alone," I reply, if your gospel does not inspire common honesty in the dealings of men, the sooner you close up your gospel and pitch it into the depths of the Atlantic ocean the better. An or thodox swindler is worse than a hetero dox swindler. The recitation of all the catechisms and creeds ever written and partaking of all the communion' chal ices that ever glitttered in the churches of Christendom will never save your soul unless your business character cor responds with your religious prof ession. Some of the worst scoundrels in Ameri ca have been members of churches, and they got fat on sermons about heaven when they most needed to have the pulpits preach that which would either bring them to repentance or thunder them out of the holy communions where their presence was a sacrilege and an infamy. " Tbe Abnie of Sacred Trnat. We rflust especially deplore the mis fortunes of banks in various parts of this country in that they damage the banking institution, which is the great convenience of the centuries and indis pensable to commerce and the advance of nations. With one hand it blesses the lender, and with the other it blesses the borrower. On their shoulders are the interests of private individuals and great corporations. In them are the great arteries through which; run the currents of the nation's life. They have been the resources of the thousands of financiers in days of business exigency. They stand for accommodation, for fa cility, for individual, state and national relief. At their head and in their man agement there are as much interest and moral worth as in any class of men, per haps more. How J nefarious, then, the behavior of those who bring disrepute upon this venerable, benignant and God honored institution. We also deplore abuse of trust funds because the abusers fly in the face of divine goodness which seems determined to bless this land. We are having a se ries of unexampled national harvests. The wheat gamblers get hold of the wheat, and the corn gamblers get hold of the corn. The full tide of God's mercy toward this land is put back by those great dikes' of dishonest resist ance. When God provides enough food and clothing to feed and apparel this whole nation like princes, the scramble of dishonest men to get more than their share, and get it ( at all hazards, keeps everything shaking with uncertainty and everybody asking "What next?" Every week makes new revelations. How many more jbank : presidents and bank cashiers have been speculating with other people's money, land how many more bank directors are in imbe cile silence, letting the perfidy go cn, the great and patient God only knows 1 My opinion is that we have j got near the bottom. The wind has been -pricked from the great bubble of American spec ulation. The men who thought that the judgment day was at least 5,000 years off found it in 1898 or 189 or 1896. And this nation has been taught that men must keep their hands out of other people's pockets. Great businesses built on borrowed capital have been obliter ated, and men who had nothing have lost all they had. I believe we 'are start ed on a higher career of prosperity than this land has ever seen, if, and if, and if. I I Caution to Specnlatora. If the first men, and especially Chris tian men, will learn never toj speculate upon borrowed capital if yon have a mind to take your own money and turn it all into kites, to fly them over every common in the United States, you do society no wrong, except when you tumble your helpless children into the poorhouse for the public to take care of. But you have no right to take the mon ey of others and turn it into kites. There is one word that has deluded more people into j bankruptcy jand sta te prison and ruin than any other word in commercial life, and that is the word borrow. That one word is responsible for all the defalcations" and embezzle ments and financial consternations of the last 20 years. When executors con clude to speculate with the funds of an estate committed to their charge, they do not purloin; they say they only bor row. When a banker makes an over draft upon his institution, he does not commit a theft ; he only borrows. . When the officer of a company by flaming advertisement in some religious papers and gilt certificate of stock gets a multitude of country people to put their small earnings into an enterprise for carrying on eome undeveloped noth ing, he does not fraudulently take their money : he only borrows. When a young man with easy access to his employer s money drawer or the confidential clerk by close propinquityrto the account books takes a few dollars for a Wall street excursion, he expects to put it back. He will put it all back, j He will put it all tack very 'soon. He 6nly bor rows. Why, when yon are going to do wrong, pronounce ' so .long a word as borrow," a word'of six letters, when yon can get a shorter word more descriptive of the reality, a word of only five let ters, the word steal? I - There are times when we all borrow and borrow legitimately and borrow with the divine blessing, for Christ it his Sermon on the Mount enjoins, "From him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away." A young mar rightly borrows money to get his edu cation. Purchasing a house and nol able to pay all down in cash, the pur chaser rightly borrows it on mortgage. Crises come in business, when it would be wrong for a man not to borrow. Bui I roll this warning through all these aisles, over the backs of all these pews, never borrow to speculate not a dol lar, not a cent, not a farthing. Young men, I warn you by your worldly pros pects and the value of - your immortal souls, do not do it There are breaker; distinguished for their 6hipwreckstbc Hanways, the Needles, the Caskets, the Don vers, the Anderlos, the Skerries and many a craft has gone to pieces ov those rocks, but I have to tell you that all the -Hanways and the Needles and the Caskets and the Skerries are as nothing compared with the long line ol breakers which bound the ocean ol commercial life ' north, south, east and west with the white foam of their de spair and the dirge of their damnation, the breakers of borrow. - Faitb and Repentance Ifeceaaary. If I had only a worldly weapon tc use on this subject, I would give you the fact, fresh from the highest author ity, that 90 per cent of those who go into wild speculation lose all, but I have a. better warning than a worldly warning. From the place where men have perished body, mind, soul stand off, standoff! Abstract pulpit discus sion must steg aside on this question. Faith and repentance aro absolutely necessary, but faith and repentance are no more doctrines of the Bible than commercial integrity. 'j'Render to all their dues. " "Owe no nian anything. " And while I mean to preach faith and repentance, more and more to preach them, I do not mean. to spend any time in chasing the Hittites jand Jebusites and Girgashites of Bible times when there are so many evils right around ua destroying men and women for -time and for eternity. The greatest evangel istic preacher the world ever saw, a man who died for his evangelism peer less Paul wrote to the Romans, "Pro vide things honest in the sight of all men;" wrote to the Corinthians, "Do that which is honest;" ! wrote to the Philippians, "Whatsoever tning3 are honest;" wrote to the Hebrews, "Will ing in all things to live honestly. " The Bible says that faith without works is dead, which, being liberally translated, means that if your business life does not correspond with your profession your religion is a humbug. Here is something that needs to be sounded into the ears of all the young men of America, and iterated and re iterated, if this country I is ever to be delivered from its calamities and com mercial prosperity is to be established and perpetuated : Live within your means. " Spend no more than you make. And let us adjust all oujr business and our homes by the principles of the Christian religion. Our religion ought to mean just as much on Saturday and Monday as on the day betjween, and not to be a mere periphrasis of sanctity. Our religion ought to first clean our hearts, and then it ought to clean our lives. Religion is not, as1 some seem to think, a sort of church1 delectation, a kind of confectionery, a sort of spiritual caramel, or holy gumdrop or sanctified peppermint, or theological anaesthetic. It is an omnipotent principle, all con trolling, all conquering. You may get along with something less than that, and you may deceive ypurself with it but you cannot deceive, God, and you cannot deceive the world. The keen business man will put onj his spectacles, and he will look clear jthrough to the back of your head and see whether your religion is a fiction or a fact And you cannot hide , your samples of sugar, or rice, or teaor coffee if jthey are false, you cannot hide them under the cloth of a communion table. All your prayers gp for nothing so long asj you misrepre sent your banking institution, and in the report of the resources you put down more specie, and more fractional cur rency, and more clearing house certifi cates, and more legal tender notes, and more, loans and more discounts than there really are, and when you give an account of your liabilities you do not mention all the unpaid! dividends and the United States bank notes outstand ing, and the individual deposits and the obligations to other bans and bankers. An authority more scrutinizing than that of any bank examiner will go through and through and through your business. .1 Care For Otbera Property. Gathered in all religiojus assemblages there are many who have trust funds. It is a compliment to you that you have been so intrusted, but I tharge you, in the presence of God and the world, be as careful of the properl y of others as ypu are careful of your own. Above all, keep your own private iccount at the bank separate from yoiir account as trustee of an estate or trustee of an in stitution. That is the point at which thousands of people make shipwreck. They get the property ofr others mixed up with their own property ; they put it into investment, and aWay it all goes, and they cannot return that which they borrowed. Then comes he explosion, and the money market if shaken, and the press denounces, and the church thunders expulsion. You jhave no right to use the property of others, except for their advantage, nor without consent unless they are minors. H with their consent you invest their property as well as yon can and it is all lost you are not to blame. You did the best you could. But do not come jinto the delu sion which has ruined so many men of thinking because a thing is in their possession therefore it iTtheirs. Yon have a solemn trust that God has given you. In any assemblage there may be some who have misappropriated . trust funds. Put them back, or if you have so hopelessly-involved them that yon cannot put them back confess the whoh? thing to those whom yon hare wronged and von will sleet) better nights and you will have the better chance for your souL What a sad thing it would be if after yon are dead your adminis trator should find out from the account books or from the lack of vouchers that von aro not only , bankrupt in estate, but that yon lost your soul I If all the trust funds that have been misappro priated should suddenly fly to their owners and all the property that has been purloined should suddenly go back to its owners, it would crush into ruin every city in America. A missionary in one of the islands of the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and the next morning he looked out of his window and he saw his yard full of goods of all kinds. He wondered and asked the cause of all this. "Well." 6aid the natives, "our gods that we have been worshiping permit us to steal; but according to what you' said yesterday, the God of heaven and earth will not allow thia So we bring back all these goods and we ask yon to help us in taking them to the places where they belong." If next Sabbath all the ministers in America should preach ser mons on the abuse of trust funds and on the evils of purloining, and the ser mons were all blessed of God and regu lations were made that all these things should be taken to the city halls, it would not be long before every city hall in Ameirca would be crowded from cellar to cupola. , Dlaboneaty Never Paya. Let me say in the most emphatic manner to all young men. dishonesty will never pay. An abbot wanted to buy a niece of ground and the owner would not sell it,1- but the owner finally con- sented to let it to him until ne couia raise one crop, and the abbot sowed acorns, a crop of ,200 years! And I tell you, young man, that the dishonesties which you plant in your heart and life will seem to be very insignificant, but they will grow up until they w;ill over shadow you with horrible darkness, overshadow all time and all eternity. It will not be a crop for 200 years, but a crop for everlasting ages. I have also a word of comfort for all who suffer from the malfeasance of oth ers, and every honest man, woman and child does suffer from what goes on in financial scampdom. Society is so bound together that all the misfortunes "which good people suffer in business matters come from the misdeeds of oth ers. Bear up under distress, strong in God He will see you through, though your misfortunes should be centupled Scientists tell us that a column of air 45'miles in height rests on every man's head and shoulders. But that is noth ing compared with the pressure that business life has put upon many of you. God made up his mind long ago how many or how few dollars it would be best for you to have. Trust to his ap pointment The door will soon open to let you out and let you up. What shock of delight for men who for 30 years have been in business anxiety when they shall suddenly awake in everlast ing holiday I On the maps of the arctic regions there are two places whose names are remarkable, given, I sup pose, by some polar expedition Cape Farewell and Thank God harbor. At this last the Polaris wintered in 1871 and ( tho Tigress in 1873. Some ships have passed the cape, yet never reached the harbor. But from what I know of many of you I have concluded that, though your voyage of life may be very rough, run into by icebergs on this side and icebergs on that you Vfill in due time reach Cape Farewell, and there bid goodby to all annoyances, and soon after drop anchor in the calm and im perturbable waters of Thank God har bor. "There the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest " Tbe Cbinaman'a "Koll." Of all the men who make their way about on the streets or in the street cars in this frosty weather, John Chinaman L3 the most comfortably clad, and, there fore, the most comfortable. He does not look it, but the Chinaman has the knack of getting a lot of warm quilted cloth ing next to his yellow skin. His blouse is, of course, of heavy material, and the thick soles of his odd shoes keep his feet warm. Neither does John have to fidget around and unbutton his clothing, ex posing himself to the cold blasts that blow through the street car, to fish out his nickel for fara Before he leaves home he sticks a nickel in his ear right handy to reach when the conductor comes arc ad In just v.hat part of hia odd clothing John carries his money is a problem not even the Icr and the short men have been able ' olve. The average China man car a bundle "big enough to choke a i ." as the saying is, but though c tried, no hold up man has ever pro"; d successfully for the roll in his v. i'h mysterious wraps, and the aver; tt.ief would just as soon tackle a i iraiteed burglar proof safe as a Chin:.uian . -Chicago Chronicle He Robbed Dlaeourteoualy. A letter to the editor which has just appeared in the leading papers of Pa lermo bears the signature of Candino, tho moat feared and murderous of Sicil ian brigands, and is destined to inform the readers that he has expelled irom nis band a notorious robber named Galbo, as having been guilty of "discourteous and unmannerly conduct in his dealings, with the public " The letter ends with the words "kindest greetings of friend ship. "-Paris Messenger, : , A Cblneae Woman Doctor. Miss Hn King Eng. a young Chinese woman who studied for seven years in the University of Michigan . and tooir. the degree of M. D. there, is now in charge of a hospital at Fuchan. Such is her reputation that a cooly wheeled his old blind mother 1,000 miles in a wheelbarrow to take her to "the wom an doctor." An operation for double Cataract was performed, and the woman an now see as well as ever. . Snowball Sbowera. More than one explorer In cold cli mates has noted the curious phenome non of a "snowball shower. " Tho balls it is true, are not very big. the a vera being about the size of a hen's'egg. but they are true snowballs for all that, compressed globes of "know, not littb lumps of ice or halL A fall of the kind occurred in north London in March. 1659. and at thetimo it was observed that the balls seemed fivo times as dense and compressed as ordi nary snow and in no way to be told from the usual handmade missile. They had fallen during the night and were strewn' many layers thick over a very large area No cause except a doubtful electric al one can be ascribed for the strango phenomenon, and mountaineers are apt to discredit- the stories of ' snowball showers told, them by the old guides till suddenly in the midst of an ordinary storm, they find themselves assailed as though by myriads of mischievous schoolboys. London Standard Tbe Maale of Rome. The story of Rome is a tale of m or der and sudden death, varied, chang ing, never repeated in the same way; there is blood on every threshold; a tragedy lies buried In every church and chapel, and again we ask in vain wherein lies the magic of the city that has fed on terror and grown old in carnage, the charm that draws men to her, the power that holds, the magic that enthralls men sonl and body, as Lady - Venus ca.t hor npclls npon Tariff hauser in hor mountain of old Ye; none deny it. and an centuries roll- on tho poetn, the film of .letters." tho mni ciank, the artist of all ages, have come to her from far countries and havo dwelt here while thoy might some for long years, some for the few . months they could spare, and ull of them havo left something, a vro-e. a line, a aketeh, a scng that breather, the- threefold' mys tery of love, eternity and death. "Studies From the Chronichw of Homo," by Marion Craw font i Tbe SpltfVr'M KInatIc Appetite. The spider ha a tremendous appetite, and his gormandizing defies all human competition. A scientist who carefully noted a spider's consumption of food in 24 hours concluded that if the spider were built proportionately to tho human scales '. he would eat at daybreak (ap proximately) a small alligator, by 7 a m. a lamb, by 9 a. m. a young camelo pard, by 1 o'clock a fbcep. and would finish up with a lark pie iri which" there were 120 birds. Yet, in spite of his enormous appetite, a spider has wonder ful power of refraining from food, and one has been known to live, for ten months when absolutely deprived of food A beetle lived in a similar stato of unrefreshment for three years. St Louis Globe-Democrat Expensive. Mattie Why, what a beautiful ring you have, dear? What did it cost you? Myra My liberty. It's my engage ment ring. New Orleans Times-Democrat . All the suibprs for a girl's hand in Borneo are expected to bo generous in their presents to heY. These presents are never returned Therefore the wily young lady defers a long as possible a positive selection of tlu happy man. There never was r. portrait made of Ethan Allen. The hr;oic style of statue of the heroin the n-Uionnl capitol Is an imaginative reprove Nation. . . u . Your heart beats over one hun dred thousand times each day. One hundred thousand supplies of good or bad blood to your brain. Which Is it? If bad, impure blood, then your brain aches. You are troubled with drowsiness yet cannot sleep. You are as tired in the morning as at night. You have no nerve power. Your food docs you but little good. Stimulants, tonics, headache powders, cannot cure you ; oui - - J will. It makes the liver, l.iineys, skin and bowels perforr. their proper work. It removes ill im purities from the blood, .r t it makes the blood rich la IJs Jtr giving properties. . , To Hasten Rooovory You will be more rapidly cured if you will take s laxanve dose of Ayers rills each night They arouse the sluggish liver and thus cure biliousness. Yfrttm to oum Doctor Wa hara tha axelaalra rrleaa ft foroa of tha most ro'nn V" tha United 8UU. Writa fiaaly all tha sarttealara In yonr LowaU, alaaa. till
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Feb. 10, 1899, edition 1
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