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HYMX AND RECITATION.
"Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,
"While the billows near me roll!
While the tempest still is high!"
Carelessly a little child,
In the sunshine at her play,
Lispinfj sang, and sweetly smiled,
On a joyous Anil day;
Sang with laughter light and droll
Sang with mirth in each blue eye;
"Jcsuf, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly."
"nide me, O my Savior, hide
Till the storm of life is past:
Safe into the haven guide;
O receive my soul at last!"
Sang a maiden with a face
Free from look of earthly care,
With a form of faultless groce,
With a wreath of golden hair:
Sung with heart by grief untired
Sung with no regretful past:
"Safe into the haven guiJe,
O receive my soul at last!"
"Other refuge have I none
Hangs my helpless sonl on Thee;
Leave, ah, leave me not alone
Still support and comfort me!"
Sang a mother while she bowed
O'er her baby as il lay
Wrapped within its Bhroud,
On a dreary Autumn day;
Sang of hopes forever flown
Snug of eyes that could not see:
"Leave, ah! leave me not alone
Still support and comfort me!"
"All my trust on Thee is stayed
Al! my help from Thee I bring;
Covei my defenseless head
With the shadow of Thy wing!"
Faint and weary in the race,
In death's winter evening gray,
With a sweet, angelic face,
Dreamed a woman, far away,
As the feeble twilight fled.
Angels seemed with her to sing:
' 'Cover my defenseless head
With the shadow of Thy wing."
Old nojrirrt la Really ear.
Doesn't it trouble you very seri
ously to be deaf ?
That question was bawled so
many times into the ear of old Un
tie Tommy Applegate at his farm
house the other day that the mere
asking brought ita own answer.
"Y-a-a-s," he replied, at last. "It
does bother me some. T'other
day I seen old Mr. Dogget down by
the ri ver. Old Doggett's deef er than
1 be ; in fact he's really deef. Well,
you see I wanted to warn him agin
young Coleman that's runnin' after
his daughter- Sal. He's an infernal
seanip, that young Coleman he
sold me a darn new fangled coffee
grinder that he said would grind
itself, and if it will it's about all it
will grind. Well, he's, snoopin'
around Sal Doggett and I wanted to
warn the old man and so I seen him
down by the river and he seen me.
I up and says "Hello, how are yon?"
"What cow?" says he. "I didn't
say nothing about a cow,"I hollered,
"llo'v be you anyhow?" I hollered
that iit him and then ding me if I
could understand what he began
talking about. Well we got that
. straight and I asked him about his
wife Matilda and had to holler that
forty times and him a hollerin' back
at me till about that time I seen the
folks all a-comin down to the river
from all the neighborin' farms and
houses and boats a-puttin out from
t'other shore and all p'intin' towards
us two because the people never
heard such a racket and didn't
know what or earth might be the
matter.
"Yes" continued, old Uncle
Charley. "It must be a bother to
be as deef as old Doggett. I made
my mind up right then and there
that 'fore I'd ever give the public a
general impression there was a riot
goin' on I'd either tell old Doggett
right off what I wanted to say and
give him my how d' do afterwards or
I'd write to the pesky old tool and
tell him in that way what I wanted
him to know. But he's so darned
deef I suppose I'd hae to print a
ktter.; I'll bet he couldn't hear or
dinary writinV
A Rcmilifiil Lege u l.
After Stonewall Jackson's death,
at Chancellor8ville, a story became
current in the Confederate army
which the .soldiers loved to repeat
over their bivouac fires that, on ac
count of his extreme piety, when
their famous chieftain fell, a de
tachment of angels left the heavenly
gates to visit the battle field and es
cort the hero's soul into Paradise,
The celestial squadron searched the
close strewn plain, but without ef
fect He whom they sought could
not be found, and they returned
mournfully to heaven to report their
want of success. But lo, on arriv
ing they found the spirit of the im
mortal warrior there already. Stone
wall Jackson had made a flank
march and got to heaven before
i hem.
VOL. III. NO. 14.
STorth Carolinians h Have Attained
Distinction la Other States.
Tarboro Enquirer.
A most interesting article upon
this subject recently appeared in the
Biblical Recorder, from the pen of
Rev. Dr. T. II. Pritchard, of Ral
eigh. He has taken the pains to
collect facts that are an honor to
our State and which would be well
for our people to know. Dr. Pritch
ard says:
"Hon. Hugh Lawson White, of
Tennessee, who was a candidate for
President in 1836, was a native Ire
dell county. Hon. Wm. Rufns
King, of Alabama, Vice President
during Mr. Pierce's administration
was born in Sampson. John II.
Steele, who became Governor of
New Hampshire, was a native of
Rowan, and a carriage maker by
trade. Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, who
hasbeen Governor of Connecticut,
and is now a member of Congress, was
born in Robeson county, and is by
profession a printer. Gov. Mosely
of Florida, was a native of Lenoir;
Gov. Polk, of Tenn., of Mecklenburg;
Baylie Peyton, of the same State,
and a man of national reputation,
was from North Carolina; so was
Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, who fell
early in the late war. Chancellor
J. L. Sneed, of the Supreme Court
of Tennessee, was born in Raleigh;
Judge Bragg, of Mobile, and Gen.
Braxton Bragg were the sans of
John Bragg, of Warren.
Bishop Paine, an honored name
among Methodists, was borne in
Person county. Dr. Wadsworth, a
very distinguished Methodist preach
er of Alabama, was born in Craven
and Dr. J. E. Ed wards, a gentleman
of fine reputation in the Virginia
Conference, was born in Guilford
county.
Of the distinguished Baptists who
have lived "abroad" the Dr. says:
"During the past hundred years
no State in this Union has produced,
in onr Baptist Zion, more illustrious
names than those of Mercer, Kerr,
Brantly, Manly, Mims, Howell and
Poin dexter."
Thomas Hart Benton was born in
Oxford, and not in Orange as Dr. P.
says. Mr. Benton told Rev. C.
II. Wiley that he was a native of
Oxford. His father is buried there
not far from the Baptist chnrch.
Dr. Pritchard continues :
fBishop Polk, of Tennessee, was
born in Raleigh, and in the main
building of tne Baptist Female Sem
inary. The present Bishop of
Georgia, John Beck with, was also
born in this city. Bishop Davis, of
South Carolina, a man of sainted
piety, was a North Carolinian, so
was Bishop Hawks, of Missouri;
Bishop Greene, of Mississippi; Bish
op Freeman, of Arkansas; and a
greater man by odds than any of
them, Dr. Francis L. Hawks, who
died only a few years since in New
York, was born in North Carolina,
practiced law for some years and en
tered the ministry in this State.
The Sentinel makes the following
additions :
Andrew Jackson wa3 born in
North Carolina. James Parton, in
his interesting life of "Old Hickory,"
clearly establishes the fact.
James K. Polk, another President
of the United States, was born in
Mecklenburg county. Andrew
Johnston, another President, was
born in Wake county.
To these names may be added
others who in their day and genera
tion won a name from home. We
mention Gen. Ben McCnlloch, born
in Halifax; Hon. Meredith P. Gent
ry, formerly a very distinguished
member of Congress from Tennessee;
Dr. Thomas Mutter, born in Gran
ville, one of the greatest surgeons
and lecturers in Philadelphia, or
indeed, the United States ever had;
Gen. Joe Lane, of Oregon, candidate
for Vice President on the Breckin
ridge ticket; Edward Stanly, of Cali
fornia; Judge Broom Ridley, of
Tennessee, born in Oxford; Maj.
John Pelbam, so distinguished as an
artillerist in the war, born in Per
son; Hon. Solon Borland, formerly
U. S. Senator from Arkansas, born
in Bertie ; U. S. Senator Allen, of
Ohio; Hon. Emmerson Ethridge,
one of the ablest men Tennessee
ever sent to the U. S. Congress, and
Judge Grant, of Wisconsin. Per
haps others can add to the list.
The Goldsboro Messenger, with
commendable State pride, carries the
investigation still further and gives
us the subjoined list:
Hon. Calvin Jones, born in Per
son, was Chancellor of . Western
Distict of Tennessee. Hon. Church
ill C. Cambrelling, a distinguished
member of U. S. Congress from
New York. Hon. "John Branch,
born in Halifax, waa Governor of
Florida, U. S. Senator, and Secretary
of Navy under Andrew Jackson.
HE
Got. Moore, of Louisiana. Wm.
Gibbs McNeil, born on the Cape
Fear, became a citizen of Massa
chusetts and was the greatest Civil
Engineer of his times. Johnston
Hooper, of Alabama, a great hu
morist, and anthor of one or more
amusing books. Hon." John B.
Ashe, member of Congress from
Tennessee. Gen. Loring, formerly
of the Confederate army, but now of
the Egyptian army. Dr. Edward
Warren, surgeon in the array of the
Khedive. Dr. Lofton G. Watson,
born in Granville, and Professor in
Transylvania University, Kentucky.
He was a great physician. Bishop
Otey, of Tennessee. Judge Ochil
tree, of Texas. Walker Anderson,
Chief J ustice of Florida.
Kansas Farm Kong-.
Kingman, Kan., Democrat.
He sat at his door at noonday,
lonely and gloomy and sad, brooding
over the price of his corn crop and
figuring how much he had. He had
worked from early springtime, early
and late and hard, and he was count
ing his assets and figuring out his
reward. He figured that it took two
acres to buy his two boys new boots,
and ten acres more on top of this
to fit them out with new suits. To
buy his wife a protected dress took
100 bushels more, while five acres
went in a solid lump for the carpet
on the floor. His tax and grocery
bill absorbed his crop of oats, while
the interest on hi8 farm mortgage
took all his fattened sboats. The
shingles on his cowshed and the
lumber for his barn had eaten np
bis beef steers and the balance of
his corn. So he sat in his door at
noonday, lonely and gloomy and
sore, as he figured np his wealth a
little less than it wa3 the year before
"By gnm, they say I'm protected,
but I know there's something wrong;
I've been deceived and gulled and
hoodwinked by this high protection
song. They told of rebellious trai
tors, and held up the bloody rag,
and I followed along like a pumpkin
and now I am holding the bag. But
from this time on I'll investigate,
and get the bottom of facts, and I'll
bet $4 to begin with that the tariff is
a tax.
Tne Kew Dictionary.
Merchant Traveller.
Prof. Lookatem's new dictionary
will, it is promised very soon be out
The following definitions are from
advance sheets of the work :
Receiver The undertaker for
business circles.
Politician One who hatescapital,
bates England, hates everything
necessary before election.
Statesman A man who marks
the full of the moon and can tell
when a boom should be planted.
The great American novelist
One in hiding.
Reputation Something to be tore
down.
Pavement Something to be torn
up.
Millionaire The man who might
quit work and go fishing, but
doesn't.
Laborer The man who would
like to quit work and go fishing
but can't.
Divine A minister with a salary
exceeding $3,000.
Clergyman A minister with a
salary over $2,000 and under $3,000.
Preacher A minister with a sal
ary under $2,000.
Fisherman A liar.
Scum That which rises to the
top.
Word Something to be given
something to be kept.
Egotism That which makes a
pair of twos often win.
An organization has been formed
in Ponghkeepsie, N. Y., in which
the members belonging to the gent
ler sex pledge themselves not to as
sociate with men who nse liquor or
tobacco. This form of boycott has
been unsuccessfully tried before.
The truth is that women who wish
to lead men from the alcohol and
tobacco habits should not avoid the
victims. "George Elliot," who
hated tobacco, said that a man who
loved a cigar would sacrifice any
woman for the sake of the weed.
This is an epigrammatic exaggera
tion, but it contains a certain amount
of truth. The only way for women
to wean men away from evil habits
is by personal intercession.
Do you ever receive contributions
written on both sides of the paper ?"
asKea a gentleman entremg a news
paper office. "No sir, never," em
i hatically replied the editor. "All
light; I was going to endorse this
check to your order, bnt I don't
want you to break your rules."
Then he went out leaving the editor
in a deep green study. Youkers
Statesman.
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1890.
The Sab-Treasury Pisa.
Baltimore Sun.
The bill introduced in the Senate
by Mr. Vance and in the House by
Mr. Pickler for the relief of the ag
ricultural distress is worthy of some
attention from the general public as
being an expression of the convic
tions of the Farmers' Alliance, an
organization that has recently at
tained large pryportion3 of the South.
The feature of the bill is the "sub
treasury plan." This "plan," which,
according to the Washington Na
tional Economist, is the creation of
the Alliance, embodies principles
with which the silver kings have
made the country tolerably familiar.
The silver men have long been ask
ing Congress to take their silver,
6tore it, and issne therefore certifi
cates of deposit, which shall circu
late as money. The certificates were
to be to the full value of the silver.
Indeed, they were to be for 100 cents
for pieces of silver called dollars,
worth instrinsically not over 73
cents. The Alliance sub-treasury
plan is more modest. It proposes,
in brief, that the federal government
shall build fire proof warehouses in
the various agricultural counties
throughout the Union in which farm
products may be stored. Upon the
storage of any given quantity of pro
duce in such warehouses full legal
tender money is to be advanced upon
it by the government to the extent
of 80 per cent of its value. The
rate of interest to be received by the
government for these advances is to
be 1 per cent The remainiug 20
per cent of the estimated value of
the farmer's crop is to be represent
ed by a certificate showing the date
of storing, cost of service, amount,
value, etc. The advantages of such
an arrangement, from the point of
view of the Alliance are numerous
and solid. It would enable the
farmers to establish prices instead of
speculators. Consumers and manu
facturers would buy certificates as
they needed commodities. The mar
ket would acquire equilibrium, and
the vast fluctuations in the value of
farm products would cease. In any
case the farmer would buv less heav
ily than at present for financial ac
commodation. His market would
be near at hand. If the valuer of
produce should be an ambitious per
son, appointed from the locality he
is to serve, it is hardly open to doubt
that the government quotation of
wheat would be an improvement
upon that of the New York or Chi
cago market The question in each
case would be not what the pauper
Hindoo can afford to sell for at Liv
erpool, but what "ought" to be the
value of the product of the free
American citizen who has political
duties to perform and a family to
support in a decent manner. If the
employes, of the government at
Washington and elsewhere get full
wages for eight hours' work, much
more, it is held, should the farmer,
the most useful element of our pop
ulation, be assured a proper return
for hia protracted term of toil. Such
are some of the considerations that
may be urged in behalf of "the sub
treasury plan," and tbey may be
conceded to be fully as weighty as
those upon which the farmer has
been compelled for years by the tar
iff to contribute to maintain high
profits for manufacturing capatil
ists. Undoubtedly the capital in
land is as much entitled to protec
tion as capital or iron-making, weav
ing, spinning, etc. The farmers'
best friend must entertain some
doubt, however, as to the practical
efficiency of the "plan." The valu
ation of crops would open the door
to fraud very wide. When the crops
were deposited, as proposed, and cer
tificates issued, what if the syndi
cate or syndicates should buy them
all up? Would not the arrangement
supply new facilities for the creation
of dangerous monopolies on a gigan
tic scale? The farmer sells his
crops low now, not for love of the
middleman, but for want of cash.
Would he not, for like reason, be
compelled to sell his certificates for
a song and be content with 80 per
cent of the value of his crop? These
are some of the practical questions
the scheme suggests. As respects
the constitutional and other princi
ples involved, the defenders of the
plan can say this much, at least
that it is fully as legitimate as the
protective tariff subsidies, and other
like iniquities now favored by a
great party.
In the Senate Tuesday Senator
Vance created a breeze by reading a
poetical telegram from Montana an
nouncing the Democratic victories
in Butte City, and claiming that it
was the result of the Republican
theft of Silver Bow township.
TANDARD.
A Nice Woman.
I heard a man say the other day
that his idea of a nice woman was
one who spoke kindly of other wo
men, was a good listener, and, above
all, a moderate talker. A nice wo
man need not be beautiful nor even
clever, but she must be kind, sympa
thetic, and brimful of tact A nice
woman is one who is modest without
being a prude, who is polite with
out affectation. Courteous to her
inferiors without patronizing them,
and bright and hopeful rather than
pessimistic. A nice woman is sym
pathetic without being emotional;
she will restrain rather than give
way to tears, remembering that a
man will fly her presence as he
would the plagHe if she be given to
making scenes. A nice woman is
one who dresses neatly and avoids
gaudiness or elaborate trimmings;
her boots, gloves, and bonnets are
always perfection; also her lingerie.
The texture of her gown does not so
much matter, but it is sure to be a
good fit
A nice woman will never draw at
tention to her sister woman's bleach
ed hair or roughed cheeks. She will
never exclaim: "Dear me, how
young Miss Gray looks tonight, and
she's quite thirty-four if she is a
day!" No, a nice woman will be
nice to everyone about her, and make
us feel while we are with her that
we are nice too, for she will not
thrust our faults upon us, but rather
she has the knack of making us for
get them. She is a good listener,
possesses perfect tact, never recites
a long list of grievances, but listens
sympathetically to the troubles of
others, particularly to the garru
lous babble of old people, and she
has the art of putting things in a
kind and complimentary way that
makes people feel at once their ease
and in good humor. She never nags
at a man for smoking, nor turns
him out of the house for three or
four days at the spring-cleaning
time. Somehow she does it all
without making a fuss.
A Fteblnor Frolic.
There was an exciting time at
Wilson's mill pond last Friday ev
ening abont six o'clock. The water
had been gradually drawn off until
very little remained except that
flowing in the channel of the creek.
There was one small pond of water
where a great many large German
carp had collected as the waters were
drawn off. Late Friday evening Mr.
W. E. Walton, who has charge of
the force that has" been draining the
pond, gave permission to the crowd
to make a raid on the big fish that
could be seen floundering about in
the muddy pool. The water was
nearly waist deep and the bottom
was soft and miry. About twenty
men and boys waded in with seines
and nets and a lively time ensued.
The water seemed literally alive with
fish "as big as yearling pigs" as one
of the men expressed it. The fish
ermen shouted with excitement, ran
over each other and fell headlong in
to the mud and water in the scram
ble after the big fish. When the
fun was over they were as wet and
muddy a set of men and boys as has
ever been seen in these parts. About
two hundred fine carp of the "silver
scale" and "leather" variety were
caught, ranging in weight from 4 to
16 pounds, besides quantities of
smaller fish of other varieties. There
were no young carp in the pond. The
fishing was continued on Saturday
and several other fine fish were
caught in the creek below the pond.
Morgan ton Herald.
How to setTIIK STANDARD Cheap.
Recognizing the fact that every
intelligent mau wants to take his
home paper, and most probably one
other good paper besides, we have
made some good clubbing arrange
ments with several excellent papers.
Do you want a good farm journal?
For $1.40 you can get The
Standard and the Home and Farm,
the price of which is 50 cents. In
this way The Standard will cost
you only 90 cents.
And last, but not least, we will
give you The Standard and the
Progressive Farmer, the par excel
lence of Alliance journals, for $1.80.
The latter is one that every Alliance
man should take, for it is indispen
sable, by taking this and your coun
ty paper together you save just 55
cents.
For $1.80 you can get this paper
and the Atlanta Constitution, the
best and greatest weekly in the
South, the price of which is $1.00.
You get The Standard then for
only 80 cents. Isn't that cheap
enough?
Are you an Alliance man and do
you want the highest weekly author
ity on questions of political econo
my, and governmental finance?
Send us $1.75 and get The Stand
ard, and the National Economist,
the price of which is $1.00. The
Standard then will cost you only
75 cents. Could you ask better
terms?
Conrtlnc; Hiss Winnie.
Syracuse correspondent.
',The story of the courtship is
most romantic Miss Winnie Davis
came North some four years ago to
visit Dr. Thomas Emory, of the
firm of D. McCarthy & Co., in this
city. It was her first visit to this
old abolitionist stronghold, and she
was consequently quite anxions to
meet the Bociety of Syracuse. At
one of the receptions given in her
honor she was introduced to Mr.
Alfred Wilkinson. It will be re
membered that Miss Winnie re
ceived very cool receptions in one or
two houses here, and this treatment
of the 'Daughter of the Confederacy'
is said to have brought her and Mr.
Wilkinson in very close relations.
He resented the coolness shown her
and gallantly championed her cause.
The friendship thus engendered be
tween them blossomed into love in
due time. Miss Winnie later on
went to Europe with a cousin of
hers, and is still there. Mr. Wil
kinson some two months ago crossed
the ocean to Bee Miss Davis, and
spent several weeks with her sight
seeing and pressing his suit When
he returned they were betrothed.
"Mr. Wilkinson is a bright and
promising young lawyer here, about
twenty-eight years of age. His law
partner is Mr. Albert Hey. Their
business is almost entirely confined
to patent cases. Their income is
quite fair, but Mr. Wilkinson is not
a rich man. It is a love match.
The young man, however, moves in
the very best society here and stands
high in the estimation of the com
munity. The actual time for the
wedding has not been set, but it is.
understood that the date will be in
the near future. It is vaguely
hinted that there is a no very remote
connection between the European
trip and the wedding trousseau.
Whether or not Mis3 Davis's friends
have been apprised of the coming
wedding is not known, but it is be
lieved that Bome of them at least
are still in blissful ignorance of the
affair. Among the few friends of
Mr. Wilkinson here who know that
the wedding is an assured fact there
is the greatest surprise. That the
representative children of the North
and South should thus come to
gether is to them like the reputed
lova of God, surpassing all under
standing.' "
Tbe Ctesarian Operation Performed
rpon a Cow.
Reidsville Review.
Col. Dave Mai lory, of Boyd's Mill,
called in to see us yesterday, and, as
usual, be had for the editor an im
portant item. He says he had a
very valuable heifer which has been
in an interesting condition for sev
eral months. A few days ago the
cow was struck with violent pains
and it was feared -by all that she
would not only lose her calf, but
that her own life would be endan
gered. Desiring to relieve the poor
animal of her sufferings Col. Malloy
seut for Mr. Wright Smothers, an
expert surgeon, and it was deter
mined to make a delicate and crit
ical experiment Accordingly a
knife was inserted into her flank
and a hole seven inches long was
cut Through this the calf was ex-
tiicated, and greatly to the surprise
all present it was found to be not
only alive but kicking. The hole
was then sewed up and next morn
ing the heifer had gotten up and
was browsing contentedly in a grass
lot near by. The cow and calf are
both doing finely.
Johnny's Progress in Physiology.
Medical Classics.
The following heretofore un
heard of information in regard to
breath and breathing was made in
Kentucky recently by a school-boy
of 12 years who wrote an essay on
the subject: We breathe with our
lungs, our lights, our kidneys and
livers. If it wasn't for our breath
we would die when we slept. Our
breath keeps the life a-going through
the nose when we are asleep. Boys
who stay in a room all day should
not breathe. Thev should wait
until they get out in the fresh air
Boys in a room make bad air called
carbonicide. Carbonicide is as
poisonous as mad dogs. A lot of
soldiers were once in a black hole in
Calcutta and carbonicide ' got in
eot in there and killed them. Girls
sometimes ruin the breath with cor
sets that saueeze the diagram. A
big diagram is best for the right
kind of breathing."
To exnel mosnnitoes. take of Emm
rn mr Vi rT- a ntaA aKnnf nil A-1 h 1 rfl til P
vuiufuf. " fvw .
size of a hen's egg, and evaporate it
J l'''ll"B 11 '"oil uu..
holding it over a lamp, taking care
that it does not ignite. The smoke
... ... . , ,
will soon nu tne room ana expei
. AnnnUnna CAianfflrt lml.
ican.
WHOLE NO. 11S.
Stay East, Tonus Man.
A gentleman writing from Dakota
the Richmond Dispatch makes
to
some pointed remarks a3 to the folly
of vounsr men leavinor their nnctm
home to carve out a fortune in the
far West
"Dakota is a very rich, fertile
country, but one wants his garden
on
the outside of a tin can. Noi
ve
irily is it comfortable to retire clad
in
a' fur cap and gloves.
Verily, Verily I say unto you, if
you
have a friend who has the
Promise Land" (reserved) fever
say nnto him; Come to Dakota in
the month of December and let him
stay until May the 1st, and his fe
ver will be low chilled. Oft in
this long winter have I hungered
old North Carolina with her
piney old fields and bad roads. No
lrgmia or North Carolina man in
his right mind wants to exchange
the best country on earth, taking
climate, luxuries, working months,
four seasons, agricultural resources,
varied, for this God-forsaken, one
crop country (and that, too for a
success one year in seven), fertile,
dry, treeless, and minus home com
forts.
'Tis true I have never seen such
grit as these people display. Under
reverses they have built immense
towns with all the imported com
forts, hotels, schools, churches, etc.,
that will put any State in the shade.
But what does other it amount to
when you take in to consideration
the total absence of other perqui
sites to make life a heaven? Darn
a country where a mau is forced to
put on a fur coat, fur cap, and fur
gloves every time he steps out the
door. The "Promise Land" is not
being filled up. There are few a
boomers here, and none en route.
Stay home stay in the South. It
is the coming country in this conti
nent and among them all, stay in
Virginia and North Carolina. We
have the country, "God's country."
We do need the pluck to work. If
Virginia and North Carolina would
diversify their crops by planting
something of everything, (and we
can grow them all save the tropical
and semi-tropical plants and fruits.)
The people would soon need no mort
gage and would be free of debt.
There is nothing that we cannot
beat them at if we only try. As
David Copperfield would say, I have
"meandered." Just charge this
meander and digression to my love
for the South, and last but not least,
for grand old North Carolina.
Ntanly's Centenarian.
Stanly Observer.
Mr.- Joshua Burris, aged 62 years,
and son-in-law of the late Billy
Whitley, whose death occurred the
4th of March last, gave us some in
cidents in the life of this rather re
markable man; which we deem of
sufficient interest for publication
when Mr. Whitley reached man's
estate, there was not a church in
Stanly, then Montgomery county,
With his own hands he assisted in
building the first church in. the
county (Primitive Baptist) near big
Bear creek, which church he after
wards joined, and was a member
either at Bear creek or at Meadow
creek for about 70 years. He was
married at 33, his wife being 25
Ten children were born unto them
four of whom still survive. Mrs,
Whitley died 9 years ago at the great
age of 102 years thus they lived to
gether man and wife for 73 years.
Mr. Whitley used tobacco his life
long; never had a doctor to call to
see him but onoe, and was never
known to take a dose of medicine,
In death he was resigned to God's
will. Ilia burial services were con.
ducted by Revs. John S. Sell and D
H. Garmon, in the presence, perhaps
of 300 persons. Mr. William Burris
son-in-law of Mr. Whitley is now 87
years of age. Many years siuc?, rel
atives of the deceased, either Medlin
or Whitley by name, went West,
(State, county and postofficenot now
known) and carried with them the
old family Biole. By events ana
circumstances, Mr. Whitley is known
to have been 115 at his death, but
the old Bible is needed to make the
figured exact State papers having
a circulation in the btate of t lorida,
Texas, Alabama and Arkansas, will
confer a favor by copying the above.
as, by this means, tbe old family
Bible may be resurrected.
A sensational marriage took place
last Tuesday at.Lewuboro, N. Y.
The principals are Gould Rockwell,
a millionaire and retired retired
business man, eighty-seven years
old, and Miss Mamie Louise Dele
vane, a blushing, rosy cheeked
blonde just out of her teens, whose
former home waa in ulster county,
N. Y.
Edward Bellamv has earned $16,'
000 by "Looking Backward." That's
better than .Lot's wite, wno merely
earned her salt ilartxord I'osu
THE STANDARD.
WE DO ALL KINDS OF
JOB "woirjs:
IN THE -
WE A TEST M A jYNER
-AND AT
THE LOWEST RATES
PIirXXY PIIOLI.T.
A milk-shake Weaning the baby.
Cld lady (to street gamin) "You
don't chew . tobacco, do yon, little
boy?"
Little boy No'm; but I kin give
yer a cigarette."
Smart pupil You say there ia
hair on all parts of the human body.
Now, is there any on the heart ?
Professor Ye3, a kind of down.
You must have seen people who
were down-hearted. New York
Herald.
Parson (returning from church,
to small boy with a pole) "Do you
know where little boys go who go
fishing on the Sabbath?" Small
boy (with pride and animation)
"You just bet I do, and I ain't
a-goin' to give the snap away,
either. '
Miss Dusky ''Am dem de black
stockins' you tole me 'bout buyin'?"
Miss Saffron " es dem is de ones,
Cicley; an' dey only cos' 75 cents."
"Am dey silk?" Not 'zactly, but
dey just as good." "An' will dey
wash?" "Dat I don't know; Pse
only had 'em fo' weeks.
The champion unconscious funny
mau is out in Avondale, where he
is getting the names and statistics
for the new Hamilton county di
rectory. Yesterday he called at the
house of a young couple who have
seen just two summers and winters
pass over their heads since the law
and the gospel made them one.
"How old. is your husband ?" asked
the directory man of the wife.
"Twenty-six." "And how old are
yon?" "Twenty-four." "How long
have you been married?" "Two
years." Then m the same cold, lar
away official tone, he asked the next
question on the printed list: "Have
you any grown-up children?
He "Dearest, if I had known
this tunnel was so long, I'd have
given you a jolly hug.
She Didn't you ? Why some
body did !"
Waiter (who has just received
the bill) "Beg pardon, sir; but this
don't include the waiter!"
Mr. Shaykobs "Of course it
don't, ma tear; but theu I didn't eat
the vaiter !"
It was at Columbus that a Cin
cinnati drummer happeend to put up
at a table with a number of legisla
tors, and the courtly way in which
they addressed each other greatly
bored the commercial traveller. It
was "Will the gentleman from Har
din do this?" and "the gentleman
from Franklin did that." They in
variably spoke to each other as the
gentleman from whatever county
they happened to hail from. For
ten or fifteen minutes the drummer
bore it in silence. Then he sudden
ly crushed the statesmen by Binging
out in stentorian tones to the waiter,
"Will the gentleman from Ethiopia
please pass the butter?" That end
ed "the gentlemau from" business.
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Veterinary Surgeon (to his new
assistant) "You must take thia
tube, Pat, fill it with the powder,
insert in the horse's mouth, and give
a quick, sharp blow."
Vet (ten minutes later) "What's
the trouble, Pat?"
Pat Troth, sir, the horse blowed
first"
St Peter "Where are you from?"
Applicant "I was a reporter in
New York." St Peter "Step on
the elevator, please." Applicant
"How soon does it go up?" St
Peter "It doesn't go up; it goes
down slide."
As a lady entered a crowded street
car the other night an cld man hold
ing a little boy on his lap arose and
offered her his seat.
"Ob, no, keep your seat, thank
you," replied the lady, "and hold
your boy." "Oh, that's different re
plied the old man, who was slightly
deaf." "I had to stand up five days
once myself with a boil. I am sorry
for you." And he resumed his seat
amid the roaring laughter which
followed.
A slab-sided, mud-covered gran
ger entered a Broadway clock-store
about dusk the other evening, and
with a bewildered look, asked :
"Mister, is thia where a man kin
git a clock ?"
"Yes, sir," said the cierk.
"Wall," said the granger, "what
be that ticker worth?" pointing to
an ornate and intricate piece of
time-recording mechanism on the
shelf.
"That sir," said the clerk, "ia a
wonderful time-piece. It is worth
$200, and will run three years with
out winding."
'Great Scott !" gasped the gran
ger, "three years without winding I
Say, mister, how long would the
blamed thing run if ehe was
wound up?"