North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME XIV. Reporter and Post. PIRBLHUED WEEKLY AT t DANBURY. N. C. PEPPER t SON;*, Pubt. 4" Props KATKN or M BSHtINIOJI I On* Year, paoable In advance Sli Months, 75 ■ATM OF ADTIirUIMUI #no Square (ten linen or lomi) 1 time *1 «> For each additional lujw.llon •"> I Contract. for lonjer time or raori space can be ■id# In tiroi.irtiuii "i* e* l "*# ittw. L Tratuu.nt *4nrtlKr> wIH M axi-coiod t» retail I secreting «»«K at (he tlrn they B "LOOOJ Notice, will Wo charged 60 per cent. higher will bo laeerted »t Ton Dollars .~rw«u». I ~ pßO^^loJ^u'itißD^ I w7F. CARTER, I ArTO*JfMr"stT-L£W. MT. AIRY, SURRY CO., N. C Fnsrtlosa whersvav his services aro wanted I R. L. IIAYMORE, ATTORNEY-AT LAW Ut Airy. N. C- Soecial atteution given to tlie collect ion ol claims. 1 - 1 - m 1! F. KING, WITH JOHNSON, SUTTON $ CO., * I>J* Y GOODS, Hoi. *t and » South Sharp, Street, T. W. JOHVSON, R. M - SUTt'ON J. H. a. URAUIIE, O. J. JOHNSON. r. DAT, ALBERT JONES. ©ay & J"oxvgs» manufacturers ot ■ADDLERY, HARNESS, COI.I.ABS.TRUNR Mo. J.W W. llaltliaore street, Baltimore, .Vd. IW. A. Taclter, H. C.Smltb, B.S. Spragglns Tucker. Smith * Co*. Manufacturer. A abulenale Healer* In soar*, books, hats a.\d caps. IM Baliimer* Street, Baltimore, Ml. J2. J. dr i: . E. BEST, * WITH lierirs~ Sdnn eborn j- Co., WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. gy Auoyor St., (betwccnOrrmaii Jt Lniabatd Slsl BALTI MOl!£ .MO. ■ . MMNIBORN, B. BI.IMLINE kteyht* Putney, L. 11 Vtair W. 11. MILES, WITH STEPHEN P UTNE Y$ CO. Wholesale dealers in S»ots, Shoes, and Trunks, 1219 Mam Street, gtft. 8-Sl-Sm. BICIIMOND, VA. Q. E LEKTWICK. with Vinci, ELLETT * CRUMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wholesale Dealer! la BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, AC. Prompt attention paid to orders. and satis etiea gauraateed. PwyiaM Stale Prison Ooorfs a tpKwlty March, «. m aonn v. rewsa*. KOUAS B. TITLO . R W. POWERS k CO., IrnOLtSALE DRUGGISTS, Dealer# in PAWTfI, OILS, Dr«B, TARNISHKB, French and American WIKDOW GLAtsS, PUTTY, feC. SMOKING AND CHEWING CI OA KB, TOBACCO A 81'KCIAI.TA 1906 Main St., Biohmond, Va, AituKau — J. L. C. BIRD, WITII W. D. KYLE & Co., I UMPCBTKUK AND JOUUKM OF HARDWARE. Cutlery, IRON, NAILS tad CARRIAGE GOODS No. 9 OoYornor Street, RICHMOND,VA. BUY YOUR SCHOOL BOOKS or "Williamson &> Corrie, BOOKSELLERS AND STEAM POW ER PRINTERS, WINSTON, N. C. Liberal discounts to merchants and teachers WILSO.I, U; «NS & CO., WVOLRBALK UROC«R« AND COMMIT SION MERCHANTS. I« S Reward etrtet. earner of 1-otnUrJ; BALTIMORE Wo keep constantly on hand a Urn on' l well aaoorted alock of Groceries—suitable loi 800 thorn and Writers trade. We solicit can •igaaents of Country Produce—such as Oot Ua; feathers; Ginseng; Bewwai Wool; Dried; fAu Pen; Hklns, etc. Oni fadliboi for do ahMlmare such as to warrantable sale I pmpt rotaras. All arden will hare an •ft aitosliaa T* SUBSCRIBE FOR Your County Paper, --The ReDorter and Post= M- i HK FBOPLRI won tin PSOFMCI OF THK PKOI'LKI FOH THE PttOPLK ! OF THIi PKOPLKI For THK FKOPI.K ! OF THE PKOPLK ! Foil THK PKOPLK ! ONLY $1.50 A YEAR! KUBSCRIRE SOW It is your duty to aid your oounty paper. We propose publishing a good family paper, and solicit troin our fricud.t and from the Democratic party in Stokes and adjoining counties a li beral support. Make up clubs for us. Xjw go to work, and aid an enterprise devoted to your best interests. Read be following NOTICES OF THE PRESS; The REPORTER AND I'OST is sound in policy >ond politics, and delves -» lib*.- i ral support.— ReiUsville Weekly. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST I begins its thirteenth year. It is a good paper and desorves to live long aud live well.— Daily Workman. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST celcbiatcs its twelfth anniversary, aud with pardonable pride refers to its suc cess, which it deserves.—«\clcs and Ob server. The Daubury REPORTER AND POST is twelve years old. It is a good paper and should be well patronized by the people of Stokes. It certainly deserves it.- Sn/cm Press. For twelve long years tbe Danbury REPOUTKU AND POST has been roughing it, and still manages to ride the wuves of the journalistic sea. We bopo that it wi'J have plain sailing after awhile. Lexington Dispatch. The Danbury REPORTEB AND POST has just passed its l'Jth anniversary and uuder thu efficient management of broth er Duggtns cannot fail to increase in popularity with the people of SUikes and adjoining oounties. Winston Sentinel The editorials on political topics arc timely and to tbe point, and the general arnke up of every page shows plainly the exercise of much uare and pains taking. Long may it live and flourish under the present management. — .Moun tain Voice. Tbe Danbury REPORTER AND POST has entered ilia thirteenth year of its ex istence, and wo congratulate it upoo the prosperity that is manifested through iu columns. To ua it is more than an ac quaintance, aud we regard it almost as a kinsman. — Leaksville Gazette. The Danbury UEPOBTKR AND POST last week celebrated its twelfth anniver sary. It is a strong aud reliable paper editorially, it is a good local and gener al newspaper and in all respects a credit to its town and section. It ought to be well patronized.— Stalesville Landmark The Danbury REPORTER AND POST basjust entered its IStbycar. We wcro one of tbe crew that launcbod the RE PORTER, and feel a d;ep interest iu its welfare, and bopo that she may drift on ward with a clear sky and u smooth sur face for as many more years. Caswell News. Tha Danbury REPORTER AND POST hjs celebrated its 12th anniversary. The paper is sound in policy and politics, and deserves tho hearty support of the people of Stokes, it is au excellent weekly aud we hope to soe it flourish in the future as never belore.— Winston Leader. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST came oat last week with a loug editorial, entitled, "Our Twelth Anuivcrsaiy" aud reviews its past history iu a vory entertaining way. Go on llro, Popper in your good work; you get up one of if not tbe best country paper in North Carolina.— Kernertville A'etos. That valued exchange, published in Danbury, N. C., the REPORTER AND POST, has entered upon its l'ilh anni versary. Long may it live to call the attention of the outside world to a ooun ty which is as rich, we suppose, in min erals as any in tb« Stat* of North Car olina, and to battle for correot pclitioal measures. - Danville Times. "NOTHING Hl CClj:i)S LIKE SUCCEHS. DAiNDCJRY, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 188 MONO. Bloom, sweet maiden In love's g«r«len growing; Pl»>ot of foot in spring; It is going—-gnhig— Nwminor is tomb; llloom, in beauty bloom. Dawn, bright maiden, In lore 1 ! ar.nre glowing; Darkm-H comet li «*x>n, Light is goinf—t*oing; Joy, till day be done, tlie«', lovely one ! . 1 ■ DBISKIXU noxci. While the wine's flowing The senses are glowing. As light as a cork floating, On the boor froth o'er flowing. —Win. SSliarswood. The Fact of the Matter. "Tbat will never do, Misd Josie. Your work doea not improve much, 1 observe," suid a chunky individual with a sleek, copper; head, a sombre visage, and a marvelous cravat. We had just entered the long work room, and he was critically cxauiing an elaborately braded jersey, completed at the moment. "Is tbere something wrong with the braiding ?" asked Josie, an uncommon ly pretty girl, with large brown eyes and a delicate lily face. "The braid does not follow the lines of the pattern, and you are using thread n.uch too coarse," the chunky young uian said, as he still inspected the work and Mill with the air of an experienced authority. "You instructed mo yourself, Mr. Hunt, to use none other than that par ticular thread," Josie said with spirit, but not uncivilly. '• l think not, Miss Josie. Very likely you have forgotten what my in structions really were. The fact of the matter is, our inanufuotory is not quite the place for you. 1 am not blaming you, Miss Josie; you are willing no doubt, but you are not strong enough for such unremitting labor ; aud you can not help being remiss wbon you are wearv and worried," Mr. Hunt return ed in bis slow, sleek, mnmualive fash on. The girl lifted her tired, pale faoe, and for an instant she atteutively regai ded him. Certainly he was not eminently pre possessing, with bis chunky frame, his rhauibiing gait, bis dull aud shifting eyes. She had never felt the smallest liking for liiui; she bated the sound of hit grandiloquent and unnaturally smooth tones ; she detested Ibe sight of bis bloodless and Ismaaelitish vis age. She did not know precisely how muoh authority he really had in the manufac tory : he was always shambling and prving about the building when the superintendent chanced away and she had decided tbat he must be a moneyed member of the new firm. He did not come infrequently to tbat department, and ho always oatne with tbe air of a master—with an air of superior dis crimination and absolute authority which was obviously meant to be vory impressive. '■l try not to bo remiss at all," Josie said somewhat impatiently and with a prompt motion to chango the spools of hor braiding machine. He moved a little more nearer to her side ; he bent so closely over her that his bloodless vissage almost touched bor brown, pretty head. "We are sure of that, Miss Josie,' be said in a smooth whisper oloae to her dainty ear. "You try to do eveything that is correct and agreeable! but the faot of tbe matter is you ate too delicate and sensitive for our corse and noisy factory, llut you kuow lam re:tdy to take you away—you know I am ready to take you as my wife." With that extraordinary declaration be stepped baok, seemed profoundly oc cupied with the animadverted Jersey, and awaited her response. hut the girl looked neither flattered oor conciliatory; her spirited face crim soned and whitened again ; her large eyes biased like flames, "You would do mo too uanch honor," she said with an unmistakable under tone of contempt somewhere in her civil voice. "The fact of the matter is you cannot attord to refuse me," he pursuod, with the suggestion of a threat ih his sombre, shifting eyes. "You are eo incompe tent, you know, that your work is not valuablo to ua. We—" She interrupted him by a gesture of ineffable scorn. "1 can muintain myself and—else where," said she, abruptly putting down hor spools, and hastily arising from her seat. "O just as yon please.' Wc can easily obtaiu aomobody for your place, you know. You can oome to tbe offico for tho trifling due you," fl'- joteresting young goutleuan said wit i f. ohaagc of aspect and with his most iJiolently au tocratic air. As he shambled away, she became conscious of another presence—the presence of a stalwart and plainly dressed young fellow, who occasionally came there and who always had a genial smile or a bit of courteous oommeud;.- tiou for the pale little braider. There he s ood, beside agieat square column, his hands full of orders, his pen thrust behind his natty cloth cap, his steady blue eyes Gxcd somewhat knowiugly upou her agitated counten ance- Tho knowing look did not lessen her agitation ; she felt he had witnessed tho whole little scene aud that perhaps he might uot pleasantly judge her. And, after all, perhaps she nocd not have been so precipitate—peibaps sbc need not have left so affronted just because a dctestibly caveling and demiaeoriug in dividual Had criticised her braiding and tben wanted to marry her! "I need not have left tho factory; Alf Kauiaron will consider me silly lor that—l inn certain he will," she sighed as she glanced after the stalwart young fellow, who just then moved from the coluiuu and wcut toward a busier divis ion of tbe department. Josie did not go in quest of the trifle due her. She donned her neat l.at and trim jacket and went straightway from the big and noisy building. VIIUT. she had been employed only since tbe be ginning of tue season. The early dusk was already darken ing in tho snowy Winter street, and the tall lamps, like huge orange sparks, glunmeted along the pavements. Again she sighed ruefully. She was going home sorrowfully and alone, as she had never doue since she bud known Alf Kauiaron—tho always plainly drosscd and always gcuicl Alf, whose gcn'Je nourtcsies had brightened and gladden ed her monotonous life and irksome la bor. "He will be sorry I have gone—l am certain ho will," she thought. And at the instant the steady and familiar footstep sounded behind her, and tho vigorous and plaiuly figure was beside her. "What was the trouble V' he iuquiied in his gentle and direct way. "Did that Hunt uiako himself oflensivc 1" "He has never made himself anything tlse," said Josie, ready to cry. And then with girlish diffidenoe and in a pathetically deprecatory way, she narrated what ho had already sufficient ly comprehended. "You aro abiave little working girl," Mr. Kamaron commented with a pecu liar smile. "You would never profess to bouor a person you deem despicable not even when a bit of deoeit might be an advantage to you." "Uut I should always like to honor an employer," she ingenuously replied, as sbo paused before the entrance of bcr owu home. •'Your employer"' Mr. Kamaron re peated, with a peculiar little laugh, as be bold her hand fur a second and tben reluctantly let her go. "Well you m»y learn to honor him, Josie. And you are to oome back to the shop In tbe morning—l am authorized to assure you of that." "Josie fancied be looked oddly amus ed and provokingly mysterious, but she ventured no questions. She was grati fied to feel that tbe was really going back to tbe noisy old shop and to tha pleasant companionship of the considerate young follow who was alwayß so merry and gentle, and who woie his unpreten tious working garb with such ro al dig nity and kingly grace. And so she went back to tbo factory —Hut not to resume tbe irksome braid ing. Half-way down the work room sho was oonfrou'-ed by a chucky personage, resplended with a gorgeous cravat, a wonderful pin and a conspicuously im mense watch-guard. "We have filled your place," Mr. Hunt grandiloquently announced, with his shifting eyos wandering to every- thing except the attentive face before him. "The fact of tho matter is, wc want ogly skilled labor- We cannot afford to keep working-women who spoil our goods and who are prone to a most reprehensible insubordination." "And tho faot of tho inatlor is," bo gah thq quiet voice of Mr. Kamaron, who bad suddenly become visible, bis hands full of papers, the familiar pen thrust beneath the natty oloth cap— "the whole Tact is, that you have no au thority whatever lwrc. When our sup erintendent wishes a holiday lienee-forth, he must employ a less presumptuous substitute. We have had quite ennugd of your officious instructions and unau thorized ordering. We do not want you in the building, sir' Is that suffi cient V' Tho eubstitute superintendent sham bled backward, and so obsoquiously that the irreverent Josie actuly and un blushingly laughed, despite hor sore be wilderment. And Mr. Kamaron noting the troub led and bewilderec look, smiled only roguishly. •'Y'our mistake was not so singular, though," he explained. "The uame of tho firm has not yet been altered, al though the linn itself was dissolved some time ago. I happen myself to be the proprietor and master, Miss Josie, ami you cau resuuio work whenever you like," But Josie was not destined to resume tho tedious braiding. As she turned toward ber old place, he rather hesitat ingly detained her. "Josie," he began, with tendercst de ference, "can you not honor your cm plover sufficiently to give your sweet self all to him, tobeome tbe mistress of his home, tho sovcreirn of his heart ? My dear love, how shall I be auswer cd !" Her answer wns not audible ; but., all the same, he knew her innocent, girlish heart was cutircly his own. Master or workman, rich or poor, me loved and honored bun, f , , "And thut wns tho fact of the mat ter," he used to mischievously remind her when sho had become his proud and joyous wife. THREE CROPS A YEAR. J. 11. Alexander, of Augusta Ga., has tried successfully tho experiment of raising throe crops a year off tho same ground. He first laid off tho plat for watermelon bills 10x12 foet apart. Then, between tho hills prepared for the melons be planted, Feb. 23, rows of Ad ams' extra early corn, compost in hill. June 10 tho crop of green corn for tiblo use was exhausted. It began to be fit for uso the last day of May. The melon ground had been prepared with compost in hill. Tho seed he plauti'u in three lots—the lirst enc the last week in April, the next a week la ter and the third a week after tho sec ond. The melons wcro tho Kolb gem watermelon. On two aoros of ground Mr. Alexander raised 1.100 watermel ons. He was convenient to market fur His corn snd vegetables. At tho first plowing of the melon vines be dropped between evory two hills two or three seeds of the Coneh pea. When the melon crop was all cleaied out ho dropped into the hills a couple of Conch peas. The vines of this pea aro ourcd for hay iu the south. Two wag on loads of hay were made. Some of the rnelous weighed over fifty pouuds After the pea vinoo woro removed the land was seeded for a fouith lime in Hurt oats. Tho crops woro all first elass. The ground was a high sandy loain, lying very level. BEAUTY OF IIIK SOUL. After you know people very intimate ly you do not remember whether they aro pretty or not. Their ways make an impression on you, but not their nos es and cars, their eyos and mouths. In time tho soul expresses itself to you, and it is that you see. A inau whe lias been married twenty-years scarcely knows what bis life looks like. He may dclaro thut he docs, and tell you that, he is a bewitbing little blonde, with soft blue eyes, long after she is fat and red and forty; because the image of his early love is in his heart, aud ho doesn't see her as she is to day, but as she was when ho courted her. Or, being an in different husband, be may not know she is tbe fine woman otbor people think her. You have known men who lave married the plainest women aud think them beauties; and you know beauties who are quite thrown away on men who [ yaluc a wife for her tucccss as a cook. GENERAL NEWS. Secretary Manning is reported to be improving. The Earl of Shaftesbury killed him self with a pisrol while riding in a cab in Londou. Land in Connecticut upon which piue trees were planted a few years ago, is uow worth SIOO an acre for its timber. Coal miners of the St. Louis district have struck and resolved to remain out until the str ke by the railroad rneu shall e«ded. » The prefcnce of military in East St. Louis prevents interference with men employed m tbe places of Kuigbts of Labor by the railroads. It is computed that one fourth of all the bats woru in tbe couutry arc made at Danbury, Conn. The average pro duce is 1,34u hats an hour. Tho River and Harbor bill, as com pleted by the House, apportions $203- 600 to rivers and harbor in North Carolina: Cape Fear River, $125,000. A monument to Gen. McClellan is to be built at Philadelphia. Of oourse Gen. Hancock will bo honored with a monument that he so richly deser- ; ved. In Hast St. Louis the strikers arc rapidly resuming their pluccs iu the railroad yards, aud iu a few days it is expected a resumption of operations by the roads will be complete. Tho Knights of Labor baycottcd iron mills, cte., at East St. Louis, because tbey use coal from cars handled by non union switchmen; all the establishments were forced to shut down. Tbe articles of incorporation of th° Debardelben Coal and Iron Compa ny, were filed at Birmingham. Ala., March 27. Tho capiul stock is put down at $2,000,000. Fifty masked men wore reported on the w«y to destroy a railroad bridge near Leonard, Texas; the sheriff from Waoo, with an armed posse has gone to the place ; bloodshed was expected. Senator Edmunds offered a resolution in Executivo session to return fifty three rcnominations laid before the Sen ate, on the ground that failuro to confirm the original nominations had tbe effect of rejection. New Y'ork markets ; Money 1 to 2 per cent; wheat, ungraded red 83 to 92c , corn, ungraded 41 ito 45c; south ern flour steady; North Carolina bonds are still booming. Tbe latest quota tion for 4's was 95; 6'*, 1181. The mernors of the late Gen. Mo- Clcllan will be published this fall. The gi eater part of tho book was written by the General, aud it bus been edited by his literary executor, Hon. Wm. C. Prime. Its general cbaraotor is tbat of personal recollections and memoirs, chiefly regarding his military life. In it, it is said, he criticises men who held public offico unsparingly, so much so, in fact, that tho volume will create quite a sensation. A diver went down to the wreck of tho steamer Oregon, and entered the state-room which hail boen occupied by Mrs. E. D. Morgan, and brought to the surface Mrs. Morgan's hand-bag con taining $30,000 worth of diamonds. The jewols were last nigot returned to Mrs. Morgan. Tho divers fiud the Or egon in such a condition thut no efforts will be mado to raise her. No traces of tho schooner have yet been disoov eiod. STEWART'S LAST DINNER. The last Sunday dinner at tho A. T, Stewart palace was a memorable ono. Lord Mandevil'e was there, lion. John Bigelow and Picrrepont Edwards, Judge Hilton, ofcourso, and eight other gentleman beside the host, Mrs. Stewart being absent. One of the gentlemen invited being taken sick, seut his re grests, and thus, to Uilton's annoyance and Stewart's absolute diead, there were just thirteen sat down at table. Hilton oiTcrcd to leave so at to reduce the num ber to twelve. But Stewart and the rest wt aid not sparo bun. No one else could be asked to leave. Stewart oouldn't leave himself, and so, with a I strung* foreboding, tbe millionarire . poured out tho blue seal for bis guests. 1 Eight days later the millicnaiie lny 1 dead in a chuuiber near the dijing-room, ! aud the blue seal has not been poured out since. NO. 4o CRUMB* OF UinOß FROM OUR EXCHANGES. Minn Lucy--It wis bitter col 1 com iug houic ; I drove down the avenue with Horatio in a cutter and each of us froze an car. AU present (interrupting io chorus) — Ob, yes the outside car ! Stanley, when bo started acros9 Africa, took with him sixty-nino I hooka for entertainment on the way, and tl>o only one to survivo the trip was tha iiibio. It is au.dzing how long the BibU.wili Uat txmtv people. ) lb some families the Good Buok, bound in flimsy muslin, will outlast a dozen novels sub stantially bound in leather Tramp—Will you p'ease give mo ten cents, sir ? I'm oo my way home to die. Gentleman (handing him the mon ey)—l duu't miud giving you tcu cents for so worthy a purpose as that, but your breath smells terribly of whisky. —Trauip—l know it does, sir. Whis ky is what is killing me. They were arguing about the useful ness of using tobacco. "What would you think," said the minister, impressively, "if you met an angel coming down the street with a ci gar in his mouth ?" "What," retorted the sinner, "would you tliiuk if you saw oue iu a plug hat aud a pair of ear muffs coming up the sireet ?" "1 would have biougbt you a pair of ear muffs," he said, as they took their seats in the slcigb, "but your ears aro so small Jack Frost will never see them and '.hey are so pretty that if he did see them he wouldn't hurt them." Then she said, as a sweet smile illumminated bor faee : "Dear George, wc must sit as olose to each oihcr as possible, to prevent our taking cold, aud I don't mind if you hold my hand." Mark Twain has uonferred another Don mot on his generation. At a recrut dinner party the subject of eterual life and future punishment came op for a lengthy discussion, in which TwaiD teuk no part. A lady near bitn turned to ward, him, and exclaimed : "Why do you not say anything? I want your opinion." Twain replied, gravely : "Madame, you must excuse me. I am silent of necessity. 1 have friends in both places. THREE HON MOTS ABOUT WOM EN. Gen. Porter to the Nineteenth Cea tury Club. Who shall do justioe to woman in de scribing hor 1 Not her own sex, for one of them, I.»dy Montague, has said : "It goe> iur io reconciling me to being a wouiuu wheu I reflect that thus 1 am in no dangor of ever marrying one." Let us be satisfied with Ruffiui's de scription of her : "Jnst corporeal enough to attest humanity, and yet sufficiently transparent to let the divine origin shine through." Kate Field recalled the saying of Horaoe Grectey, when asked as to the relative superiority of men and women : "It depends upon the man and woman you select." I HORSE-TRADING IN GEORGIA. Horse-swapping is one of the attrac tions at Jackson oourt. This is atiuic j houorcd custom, but it is now iudulgcd in with unusual interest. The swap pers assemble on the Martin institute hillside, with their blooded and scrub stock, (most of the latter), pranoe up and dowu and across the grounds, fin ally stopping under the shade of a treo or in some fence eorner, exchange sad dles and bridles and ride away to cheat or to be cheated by some other jockey, four correspondent saw one man who had swapped twenty-seven times Tucs | day. He was riding the fiist horso he swapped early in the morning, aud had put out during the day 915 differences. —Athens (Ga.) Manner. HE WAS USED TO IT. "8o Hangs has gone to jail for for gery ? Who would have thought It !" "It is vory sad. Four years solitary | confinement. It will kill him." "Oh, no! he won't wind that part of jit at all. He is quite used to solitaiy confinement." "Indeed. Has he ever been in jail before V ■' "No; but be has been clerking for six years in an establiihmeßt that never advertised—Philadelphia Call.