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! HAKE AD7ERTISIKS PAT ..' 2 5 by using the columns ot the g ? ECONOMIST, S the medium that reachef more 2 O families tbau any other paper o O In Eastern Carolina. . o O4OCOOOOO0OOOtOeOO J f s.,- Kt. t!.r hum- of the pee pie O - tt.?iiii- ilf with th voice of g S tr!:-t- :?!. C -TTakE Bach man's cansura "hut reserva thy judgment.--HaralBtj" ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, M AKCH 3, 1899. NO. 50. VOL. XXVII. v-www Z T'f' rr.ct TIKF.LKSS WORKER In J . KIumIvIIi CitJ i the 0 COIJQ ! v. - Y THE FALCON PUB. CO., C. r. LAM 11 Manager. A. n IIF.EL'Y Iilor. ti'jizti-iilou One Year, $1.00 a aa I IM F KSIONAL CARDS. It J to r.-y atMir. r.i:zlx.th City, 2. t. ir r t j. lamb. Kl:zifth CUr. a.C ; l . r.iru r P.l and Mithewi :rrrts l- ANK VALtJIIAN, Klizahrih Cliy. N. C C !. ct.H s Ultlil-.llr irndc. I'mr ti( r in P...Mjcrinfc, Perquimans Chux O es. llcrtf jr l, Wttuiaftton r-l Tjntli CoJnlUs, sua in upniuc to rtol t i Suit. AtU l.'iirrruck C. II , U. I .:i. rti. n a ptcia!ity. 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A matter of Choice Whether you have your teeih extract ed the old way, with pain, or use Chts, Vitaliied Air, Cocaine, and all their attendant dangers, or with perfect afetr without rain or sleep at N. Y. DENTAL ROOMS .ONLY, 324 Cor. Main and Talbot streets, Norfolk, Va Office hours: 8 to 6; Sundays 10 to 1. ENNES, Deiitisv. Vanled fln Idea SSrS . Wii lis ruo, l. w r- : IMOHUMENTS, UETOiBS. For Sale, f. 1 TAL3IAGE ON HOME. THE PLACE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT ' OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. Tender rtcllctin Stirred tr tko Ileeo.ll of Seenea of Boyhood and Girlhood Show riety FIrat I lie I'lrealde. Copyright. by American Preaa As so . elation.) WAsmxaTox. Feb. 26. Many tender recollections are stirred by Dr. Tal mage's dirocrso and scenes of boyhood and girlhood days will be lived over again ; text I Timothy v. 4. Let them learn first to show piety at home." Daring the summer months the tend ency is to tho fields, to visitation, to foreign travel and the watering places, and the ocean steamers are thronged, bat in the winter it is rather to gather in domestic circles, and during these months we epend many of the hours within doors, and the apostle comes to ns and says that wo ouht to exercise Christian behavior amid all euch cir cumstances. "Let them learn first to bhow piety at home. ' There are a great many people long ingTfor some grand sphere in which to serve God. They admire Luther at tho diet of Worms, and only wish that they bad some such great opportunity in. which to display their Christian prowess. They admire Paul making Felix tremble, and they only wish that they had some such grand "occasion in which to preach righteousness, temper ance and judgment to come. All they want Is an opportunity to exhibit their Christian heroism Now. the apostle practically says: "I will show you a place where you can exhibit all that is grand and beautiful and glorious in Christian character and that is the do mestic circla . Let them learn first to show piety at hoine, " U one is not faithfnl in an insignificant sphere, he will not be faithful in a resounding sphere If Peter will not help the crip ple at the gate of the temple. he will never be a bio to preach 3. 000 into the kingdom at the Pentecost. If Paul will not take pains to instruct in the way of salvation the jailer of the Philippian dUngeon. he will never make Felix tremble. He who is not faithful in a skirmish would not be faithful in an Armageddon. The fact is. we are all placed in just the position in which we can moet grandly serve God. and we ought not to be chiefly thoughtful about some sphere of usefulness which we may after awhile gain, but the all ab sorbing question with you and with me ought to be, "Lord, what wilt thou have me now and here to do?" There is one word in St. Paul's ad juration around which the most of our thoughts will revolve. That word is 'home Ask ten different men the meaning of that word and they will give you ten different definitions. To one it means'love at the health, plenty at the table, industry at the work stand, intelligence at the books, devotion at the altar. In. that household discord never sounds its warwhoop, and de ception nevet tricks with its false face To him it means a greeting at the door and a smile at the chair, peace hover ing like wings, joy clapping its hands with laughter. Life is a tranquil lake Pillowed on the ripples sleep the 6had owa Ask another man what home is and he will tell you it is want looking out of a cheerlesf fire grate, kneading hunger in an empty bread tray. The damp air shivering with cursea. No Bible on the shelf. Children robbers and murderers in embryo. Obscene songs their lullaby. Every face a picture of ruin. Want In the background and sin staring from the front. No Sabbath wave rolling over that doorsilL Vesti bule of the pit. Shadow of infernal walls. Furnace for forging everlasting chains. Fagots for an unending funeral pile. Awful Word.' It is spelled with curses, it weeps with ruin, it chokes with woe. it sweats with the death agony of despair. The word home in tho-one case means everything bright. The word ,home' in the other case means everything terrific. Ai a Teat of Character. I shall speak now of home as a test of character, home as a refuge, home as' a political safeguard, home as a schooL and home us a type of heaven. And in the first place, home is a power ful test of character. The disposition in public may bo in gay costume, while in private it is dUhabille. As play- ac tors may appear in one way on the stage and m&f appear in another way behind the ecenes, so private character may be very different from, public character. Private character is often public char acter turned wrong side out A man may receive you into his parlor as though he was a distillation of smiles, and yet his heart may be a swamp of nettles. There are business men who all day long are mild and courteous, and genial and good natured in com mercial life, damming back their irrita bility and their petulance and their discontent, but at nightfall the dam breaks, and scolding pours forth in Goods and freshets Reputation is only the shadow of character, and a very small house some times will cast a very long shadow. The lips may seem to drop with myrrh and cassia and the disposition to be as bright and warm as a sheath of sun beams, and yet they may only be a magnificent show window for a wretch ed stock of gvods. There is many a man who is affable in public life and amid'commercial spheres who in a cow ardly way takes his anger and his petu lance home and drops them in the do mestic circle. The reason men do not display their bad temper in public is because they do not want to be knocked down. There are men who hide their petulance and their Irritability just for the same reason that they do not let their notes go to protest it does not pay or for the same reason that they do not wan a 1 man in their stock com pany to eell his stock below par !est it depreciate the value As at sunset sometimes the wind rises, so after a sunshiny day there may be a terupestnoua night. There are peo ple who in pnblic act the philanthropist who at home act the Nero with respect to their slippers C2 J their gown. Audu bon, the great ornithologist, with gun end pencil wrnt through the forests of America to liTing down and to sketch the beautiful birds, and after years of toil and exposure completed his manu script and put it in a trunk in Phila delphia andwent off for a few days of recreation an 1 rest and came back and found that the rats had utterly de stroyed the manuscript, but i without any discomposure and without any fret or bad temper he again picked up his gun and bis pencil and visited again all the great forests of America and repro duced his immortal work. And yet there are people with the ten-thousandth part cf that loss who are utterly irreconcil able, who at the loss of a pencil or an article of raiment will blow as long and loud and sharp as a northeast storm. Now. that man vho is affable in public and who is irritable in private is mak ing a fraudulent and overissue of stock, and ho is as Bad as a bank that might have $400,000 or $500,000 of ! bills in circulation with no specie in the vault Let us learn to show piety at home. If we have it not there, we . have it not anywhere. If we have not genuine grace in the family circle, all our i outward and public plausibility merely springs from the fear of the world or from the slimy, putrid pool cf our owp selfish ness. I tell you the home is a mighty test of character. What you are at home you arc everywhere, whether you demonstrate it or not. . Home la a Refuse. Again, home is a refuge. Life is fhe United Statesv army on the national road to Mexico a long march, with ever and anon a skirmish and a battle. At eventide we pitch our tent and stack the arms, we hang up the war cap, and our head on the knapsack we sleep un til the morning bugle calls us to march to the action. How pleasant it is to re hearse the victories and the surprises and the attacks of the day seated by the still campfire of the home circle 1 Yea, life is a stormy sea. With shivered masts and torn sails and hulk aleak we put in at the harbor of home. Blessed harbor! There we go for repairs in the drydock The candle in the window is to the toiling man the lighthouse guid ing him into port. Children go forth to meet their fathers as pilots at the Nar rows take the hand of ships. The door sill of the home is the wharf where heavy life is unladen. There is the place where we may talk of what we have done without being charged with self adulation. There is the place where we may lounge without being thought ungraceful. There is the place where we may express affection without being thought silly. There is the place where we may forget our annoyances and ex asperations and troubles. Forlorn earth pilgrim, no home? Then die. That is better. The grave is brighter and grander and more glorious than . this world with no tent from marching, with no harbor from the storm, with no place of rest from this scene of greed and gouge and loss and gain. God pity the man or the woman who has no homel Further, home is a political safe guard. The .safety of the state must be built on the safety of the home. Why cannot France come to a placid repub lic? MacMahon appoints his ministry, and all France is aquake lest the repub lic bo smothered. Gambetta dies, and there are hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen who are fearing the return of a monarchy. The Dreyfus case is at this moment a slumbering earthquake under Paris France, as a nation, has not the right kind of a Christian home. The Christian hearthstone is tho only hearthstone for a republic. The virtues cultured in the family circle are an ab solute necessity for the state. If there be not enough moral principle to make the family ' adhere, there will not be enough political principle to make the state adhere. No home means the Goths and Vandal3, means the Nomads of Asia, means the Numidians of Africa, changing from place to place according as the pasture happens to change. Con founded be all those babel3 of iniquity tchirli vrnnld cveroowerand destroy the Lhome! The same storm that upsets the ship in which the lamiiy sail win sick the frigate of the constitution. Jails and penitentiaries and armies and na vies are not our best defense. The door of the home is the best fortress. House hold utensils are our best artillery, and the chimneysof our dwelling houses are the grandest monuments to safety and triumph. No home, no republic! Further, home is a schooL Old ground must be turned up with subsoil plow, and it must be harrowed and r eh arrow ed, and then the crop will not be as large as that of the new ground with less cultura Now. youth and childhood are new ground, and all ths influences thrown over their heart and life will come up in after life luxuriantly. Every time you have given a smile of appro bation all the good cheer of your life will come np again in the geniality of your children. And every ebullition of anger and every uncontrollable display of indignation will - be fuel to this dis position 20 or 30 or 40 years from now f xiel for a bad fire a quarter of a cen tury from this You praise the intelli gence of your child too much sometimes when you think he is not aware of it and you will see the result of it before 10 years of age in his annoying affecta tions You praise his .beauty, supposing he is not large enough to understand what you say. and you will find him standing on a high chair before a flat tering mirror. The Seeda of Character. Words and deeds and example are the seed of character, and children are very apt to be the second edition of their parents. Abraham begat Isaac, so virtue is apt to go down in the ances tral line, but Herod begat Archelaus, io iniquity is transmitted- What vast responsibility 'comes upon parents in view of this subject! Oh. make your borne the brightest place on earth if you would charm your children to the high path of virtue and rcditude and religion. Do not always turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light, which puts gold on the gen tian and spots the pansy, pour into your dwellings. Do not expect the lit tle feet to keep step to a dead march. Do not cover up ycur walls with such pictures as West's "Death on a Pale Horso or Tintoretto's f'Massacre of the Innocents. ' Rather cover them, if you have pictures, with ,!The Hawking Party' and "The Mill by the Moun tain Stream," and "The ! Fox Hunt " and the "Children Amid Flowers, "and the "Harvest Scene," and "The Satur day Night Marketing." hint of cheerfulness from Get you no grasshopper's leap and lamb's frisk and! quail's whis tle and garrulous streamlet, wmcnirom tb'erock at the mountain top clear down to the meadow ferns under the shadow of the steep comes looking to see where it can find the steepest place to leap off at and talking jut to hear itself talk ? If all the skies hurtled jwith tempest and everlasting storm wandered over the sea and every mountain 6tream were raving mad, frothing at the mouth with mu foam, and there were noth ing but simooms blowing among the hills, and there were neither lark's carol nor humming bird's: trill nor wa terfall's dash, but only bear's bark and panther's scream and wolf's howl, then you might well gather into your homes only the shadows. But when God has strewn the earth and the! heavens with beauty and with gladness) let us take into our home circles all innocent hilar ity, all brightness and all good cheer. A dark home makes bad J boys and bad girls in preparation for bad men and bad women. ' Above all, my friends, take into your homes Christian principle. Can it be that in any of the comfortable homes whose inmates I cpnfrorit the voice of prayer is ne rer lifted ? WhatV No sup plication at night for protection ? What ! No thanksgiving in the j morning for care? How, my brother, my sister, will you answer God in the! day of judg ment with reference to your children? It is a plain question, ahd therefore I ask it. In the tenth chapter of Jeremiah God says he will pour out his fury upon the families that call not upon his name. Oh, parents, v;ned you are dead and gone and the moss is covering the inscription of the tombstone, will your children look back and think of father and mother . at family prayer ? Will they take the old family Bible and open it and see the mark of tears cf contri tion and tears of consoling promise wept by eyes long before j gone out into darkness? Oh. if you do not inculcate Christian principle in the hearts of your children, and you do not warn them against evil, and you do not in vite them to holiness and to God. and they wander off intodissipation and into infidelity, and at last make ship wreck of their immortal 'soul, on their deathbed and in the day of judgment they will curse you ! Early Recollectlona. Seated by the register pr the stove, what if on the wall should come out the history of your children I What a history the mortal and immortal life of your loved ones! Every parent is writing the history of hisjchild. He is writing it, composing it into a song or pointing it with a groan. My mind runs back to one of the best of early homes. Prayer like a roof over it Peach like an atmosphere in it Parents personifications of faith in trial and comfort in darkness The two pillars of that earthly home long crum bled to dust But shall jl ever forget that early home? Yes, when the flower forgets the sun that warmed it. Yes, when the mariner forgets! the star that guided him. Yes, when love has gone out on the heart's altar and memory has emptied - its urn into forgetfulness. Then, the home of my childhood, I will forget thee. The family altar of a fa ther's importunity and a mother's ten derness, the voices of affection, the fu neral of our dead, the father and moth er with interlocked arms lie intertwin ing branches of trees making a per petual arbor of love and peace and kind ness. Then I will forget thee then, and only then. You know, my brother, that a hundred times you have been kept out of sin by the memory of such a scene as I have been describing. You have cf ten had raging temptations, but you know what has held you with su pernatural grasp. I tell you a man who has had such a good home as that never gets over it, and a man who has had a bad early home never gets 'over it. . Again, home is a type of heaven. At our best estate we are only pilgrims and strangers here "Heaven is our homa " Death will never knock at the door of that mansion, and in all that country there is not a single grave How glad parents are in the holidays to gather their children home again! But I have noticed that there is almost always a son or a daughter absent absent from home, perhaps absent from the country, perhaps absent from the worll Oh. how glad cur Heavenly Fa ther will be when he get all his chil dren home with him in heaven! And how delightful it will be I for brothers and sisters to meet after long separa tion ! Once they parted at the door of the tomb, now they meet at the door of immortality. Once they saw only "through a glass, darkly i" now it is face to face corruption, incorruption: mortality, immortality. Where are now all their sins and sorrows and troubles? Overwhelmed in the Red sea of death, while they pass through dry shod. Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst, thrones of dominion do not stir my soul so much as the thought cf home. Once there, let earthly sorrows howl like storms and roll like seas. Home! Let thrones fbt and empires wither. Homel Let the world die in earthquake strug gle and be buried amid procession of planets and dirge of spheres Homel Let everlasting age roll in irresistible sweep. Homel No sorrow. No crying. No tears. No death. But home, sweet home, beau tifal home, everlasting boiae. home with each other, home with an gels, home with God I . Dream of m Far Country. , One night, lying on my lounge when very tired, my children all around about me, in full romp and hilarity and laughter on the lounge, half awake and half asleep I dreamed this dream I was in a far country. It was not Per ia, although more than orien tal luxuriance crowned the cities. It was cot the tropics, although more than tropical fruitf ulnebs filled the gar dens. It was not Italy, although more than Italian softness filled the air. And I wandered around looking for thorns and nettles, but I found that none of them grew there. And I saw the sun rise, and I watched to see it set, but it sank not And I saw the people in holi day attire, and I said, "When will they put off this and put o workmen's garb, and again delve in the mine and swel ter at the. forge?" But they never put off the holiday attire. And I wandered in the suburbs of the city to find the place where the dead sleep, and I looked all along the line of the beautiful hills, the place where the dead might most peacefully sleep, and I saw towers and castles, but not a mausoleum, or a monument, or a white sjab could I see. 'And I went into the chapel of the great town, and I said, "Where do the poor worship and where are the hard benches on which they sit?" And the answer was made me, "We have no poor in this country." And then I wandered out to find the hovels of the destitute, and I found mansions of amber and ivory and gold, but not a! tear could I see, not a sigh jpould I hear. And I was bewildered. and I sat down under the branches of a great treeand I said, "Where am I and whence comes all this scene ?" And then out from among the leaves and np the flowery paths and across the broad streams there came a beautiful group thronging all about me, and as I Ba w them come I thought I knew their step, and as they shouted I thought I knew their voices, bt then they we gloriously arrayed in apparel such as I bad never before witnessed that I bowed as stranger to stranger. But when again they clapped their hands and shouted. "Welcome; welcome," the mystery all vanished, and I found that time had gone and eternity had come, and we were all together again in our new home in heaven, and I looked around ahd I said, "Are we all here?" and the voices 6f many generations responded, "All here !" And while tears of glad ness were running down our cheeks, and the branches of the Lebanon cedars were clapping their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome we all together began to loap and shout and sing. "Home, home, home!" j " - The Moat Healthful Regloas. Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace says in the London Chronicle that tropical re gions, as a whole, are more conducive to health than the temperate regions. He attributes his own long continued good health (and he is now 75) to 12 years residence in the tropics wnen ne was a young man ana tnreatenea wiin lunff disease. The pure, warm air re stored him to a permanently sound con dition. He says European soldiers in India have better health than the sed entary native classes. British Boldiers in the Sudan etand up to the worjc; thousands of Australian gold miners endure intense heat, and Hollanders have flourished for generations in the Dutch colonies N TTo hplifivna the reerion on each side of the equator for a thousand miles to be "the most healthy and the most en joyable abode for man, where, with the least labor, he can obtain the greaiesr amount of necessaries, the comforts and the luxuries of life, an"d can at the same time develop and cultivate j his higher natura " But work, he adds, is neces sary to health there as elsewhere rarla Boa Warm era. In an ordinary Parisian bus, accom modating more than 20 people inside there is a solid thick plank, but flush with the floor running the lengtn or tne bus. This plank is about a foot wide. and in it are cut five cavities about two feet long by six inches wida In these tfiA rhnnfferettes for foot warmers) of about the same dimensions are placed. eo. that they, too, are flush wan tne floor atfd just in nice position to rest the feet i These chaufferettes are not hot water bottles, f r that system required fre quent changes and did not give much warmth. They are really little stoves, in which tv miniature fireplace is be neath a- :ening into the air below the floor i e bus The firing is formed of a "br. I te" literally a little brick cf about ! dimensions of an ordinary sheet of ! paper by an Inch and a half dee; ! iaie of coah anthracite and pther co: sti -le materials a good deal compres.- 'A Dxiqueue cosia i iuu; and lasts -doui uau a uuo aj The Autocrat's Brothtr. "The late John Holmes. " says the Boston Transcript "resented any im puted superiority if his brother to him self. On one occasion a man who was introduced to him exclaimed: 'What! John Holmes! The brother of Oliver Wendell Holmes ?' 'No, sir, retorted John Holmes, with characteristic hu mor; 'he is the brother of ma His verses and short sketches have been handed round in manuscript and it is possible that a collection may be made of them. Like bis brother. John Holmes was of something less than average height He was. however, of heavier build and had a remarkably thick head of snow white, bushy hair. Years ago Jehn Holmes belonged to a famous whist club, the other members of which were James Russell Lowell, his brother-in-law; Dr. Bates Howe, and John Bart lett of Familiar Quotations' fama John Holmes was the last link connect ing the Cambridge of today with the Cambridge of the past" VORACIOUS LITTLE ROBINS. Each Iteqnlred FoaHeea Tarda ot Aasxtetvorma Every Day. A would bo philanthropist prelate his experiences trying to play, mother to a nest of little robins, which had by some accident been deprived of their rightful mother's care. He diligently act to work digging angleworms, and mp-. posed that he was fulfilling his wholo duty, when-one of the poor little songs ters died. Upon examination of the body, which was reduced to skin and bone, the foster parent came to the con clusion that it must have died of starv ation. Deeply grieve! at his shortcoming, ho redoubled his effurt, determine 1 to at leastp&avo the other two. It was not long, however, beforo a second one died, evidently of the satue malady. Tho gost man then resolved that, whatever the third one died of, it should not b-i starvation; and took tiff hi coat and went to work in earnest Ho kept ua with the angleworm dit-t until ho found that his one little bird was couiiiur.ug from 14 tol8 yards of angleworm t a day. Thi was too much for hil i a' tience, and hy proceeded to satfetltuto tho more wisily managed diet of br:.l and milk and other di licacio.s which were, however, not nearly so much to Miss Robin's tatu. Wantifi; to discover vhttbtr hu h;ia been catering to a family abuocmui appetite our friend took to walthiny the methods of. a real mother bird aid found that the fed her young every two minutea.1 He then consulted the learned books upin -birds anj discovered-that 14 yards jjf worms a dy, with im als every two minutes, is tiie average rate of feeding flpdgi iin;4H. Hu has therefore decided that he 'dots, not care to tike up raising birds by -bund as a br.ainoss. Boston Transcript - ' . h Accepted the Amendment. Joseph Jefferson, at n dinner in New York, said that when called upon for a curtain speech in New Haven Billy Fkrvnoa auc dwliwnd aiiuanaf tX "tt is here and to yon. radios imd gn tlemen, that I oweny prenont success in ray prof esaiori. Wo knew each other when boys and tfirls. Wo played mar bles together under tho shadow of tho f old church, and' now to receive this warm welcome from old friends what can I say ? Simply that I never can fur get the people of Hartford." A man in the front row said. "This is New Ha ven, Mr. . Florence. " M.I mean New Haven, of course." said Florence gravely. . - . Some Yeara After. He Do you remember the night I proposed to you ? She Yea. dear. "We sat for.-one hour, and you never opened your mouth. "Yes, I" rem ember,' dear." "Believe mc that, was the happiot hour of my life. " Yonkers Statesman. EtrotUttcal. "The troublo with him." said the young man who hud been trying to fit tinjjly describe an acquaintance, "is that when he dipped. .into .the sea , of knowledge he thought he brought tip much that the blamed thihg went dry." Chicago Pot DJatluetluna. "Did our friend ret h o from politics ?" "Well," nnswered the practical work er, "it wasn't what you'd call a 're tire.' It was a knockout ."- Washing ton Star. '1 ,1 Every cough makes , vour throat more raw and irritable. Every 1 CUUIl LUIIOIS UlC IJUHJii L membrane of your lungs, f Ceasetearins your throat and lungs in this way. Put the parts at rest and give them a chance to heal. You will need some help to do this, and you will find it in D D V From the first dose the quiet and rest begin: the tickling in the throat ccasesr the spasm weak ens; the cough disap pears. Do nor wait for pneumonia and con sumption but cut rV:rt your cold without delay. Dr. Ayers Cherry Pec toral Plaster should te oyer the lungs of every per son troutled with a cough. Write to the Doctor. r Ucosasi orpoTtunlUes and Ion jwrlanca emfnertJy qualify o. for frTrtnK To medical advtca. Wrlta f raaly all taa particular. In tout ea.a. TU ns what yoor J i Dma with oar rfcerry 1 ctor. Voa will rec.ir a pr.ui-t reply, wltboas ewt iMrtu.QB. J. C. AVER. Lowell, ausa. e !! 4' X -
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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March 3, 1899, edition 1
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