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THE TOBACCO PLANT, S
1 j Dceham, N. C.
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THE OLD WAYS
AND THE
NEW.
I've just come in . from the me;ulovK,wife,
wnere uie grass, is i:tu ana green;
1 hobbled! oirt uiiori 'my
new nuk'hine: 1 -
cane to see John's
It made hiyj old eyes-snap again to set: that
mower mow,
And I heaved a sigh for
the scvthe I swung,
' : some twenty vears
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lomn
Many and many's the day I've mowed 'rieath
. the nty of a scorching snn, , '
Till 1 1 nought my poor old back would break,
! ere my ;task for the day was done;" t
I often think of the lays of toil in the fit-ids
! ; all over the farm, . i ; - f '
Till I feel the jjweat on my wrinkled brow,
any
2s ow
and the old pain come in my arm.
It wan hard, work, it; was) slow work,,a-swing
mg the: old sc-vthe t
Unlikethe rjiowertlmt went through the gross
like deth through
the ranks of men
I stolid, and looked till
! amazed at its siieed
inv old eves ached,
and power;
The work that it took me a day to do, if done
in one short hour.
John said tt
iiat I hadn't
seen the half, when
i he t)Uts
it into his wheat.
I shall j see it reap and rake it, and put" it in
bundle
neat ;
Then aKin
Yankee w
and Iarn
1 come along, and set
' to; work
To reap it, ind thresh it, and bag it up', and
d it
Jnto'theibarh.
John kinder laughed when
he said it, but I
said to
khe hiriil nu-n, I .
'T have setin so much1 Ion niv iiiljrrimace
through my threes-()re vears anl ten,
i hat 1 won
dn t be surprised to see a railroad
in the
Uir, i
Or a Yankel
wh
C in a fljin' ship agoin niost any-
! t where,
- There s a d
flerence
in he work I done, aid
the work mv bovs now do
Steady and slow in the jgood old way,.worry
and fret in the new ;
I ut somehojw I think there was happiness
crowdejl into those toiling days, ; :
Tliat the fet young men of the preseht will
not see till thev change their wavs.' I
To think tlisit I should ever live to see work
T done in this wonderful way ! j "
Old tools ar4' of little service now, and farruiri''
. is almost llay ; -J !
The women
have, got their; stwin machines,
their w
fingers, and everv sich thing,
t r
And now play croquet in the door-yanl, or sit
. in the parlor and sing. . '
JTwasnTt you that had it so easy, wife, in the
-davs so long gie pv I i - j
You riz up arly, and sat up late, a toilin'for
vou or 1. ;i i i . :
There were bows to milk i there was butter to
make ; inil manv a dav lil vou stand ;
A-wasliin' ! my. toil-stained garments and
wringnl
'em out bv hantl.
Go
Ah! wife, Air children will never see the hard
work we have seen, I
For the heavy task," and the long task is now
'-done with a machine; ; .
No longer t ie noise of he scythe I hear, the
mower -there!, hear it afar? -
A ratlin' along through the tall, stout grass,
' with the noise f a railroad car:
".'!! ! 'i H 1 ' " . '
Well the old tools are i now shoved away ;
they stand a-gatherin' rust, i
Like many n old nianjl have seen put aside
with onlv a crust
When the eye growsdihi, when the step is weak,
when tm .strength
goes out of bis arm,
The best thing a iuor
lold man can do is to
liold the deed of tBe farm.
There is onc old way that they can t improve,
although it has been tried
Iy men who have studied and studied, ind
till tliev died ;
It has shonti undimme for ages, like gold.re
fined frtim its dross ; " '
It's the wav to the kingdom of heaven, bv the
, simple way of the cross.
H
THE
SCHOOL! OP IIAUD
KNOCKS. i j
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Talmasre's Sermon, Preached
Smulaiy Morningr, Oct. JJlst. i
"Not slothful in business: fervent "in spirit ;
serving the IiOnl.'' Komass 12:11.
Industry, deotedness, Christian
service, are all. recommended in this
one shortitext. : hat! is it. possible
to conioini them ? O yes ! . There is
no war between religion : and -busi
ness,' between Bibles and ledsjers, be
tween churches ana counting houses.
On the contrary religion accelerates
business sharpehs men's wits, sweet
en acerbtt' of disposition, fillips flie
bltHKl of iphleginatics, and throws
more velocity into all the wheels of
hard work. To the judgment it gi yes
more j skillful; balancing ; to the will
more strenth ; -.
to
1 industry; more
muscle : ti en thusiiism a more con
centrated fire, i You cannot show
me a maii whos0 business prospects
have in ahy wise ween disponed by
his religion. , ; j ; - ';.
J GROUPS OF WORKERS. J v
' 'The industrial classes are divided
j into three gjpups producers, man-
ufacturersi traders
as farmers andi'miners. - Manufac
turers, such jus 'take the corn and
change it into food, or the wool and
r
flax and change t hem into apparel
Traders, v Iu iiiak? a profit ut o
the transfer land exchange of that
which is produced or manufactured.
Now, a business j man may belong to
one of these classes, or he. may be
long to all of them. Whatever be
your avocation, ;if you plan, calcu
late, bargain ; ifjinto your life tliere
come anntSyances, vexations and dis
appointments, as well as gains, divi
dends and percentages ; if you are
harassed yith aj multiplicity of en
gagement ; in a word, , if you are
driven from ! Monday morning to
Saturday j night,-and from January
to January with relentless obliga
tions and jduty, then you are a busi
ness man or a business woman, and
y subject is appropriate to your
ase. v e are apt to speaK 01 xne
noil and tug of business life as j
hough it! were an inquisition or a-
rison into whie
a man is. thrown,
)r .art unequal
strife where, hdlf
irmed, goes
to
contend. Hear
while I try to-
ie, this
morning,
mow you that God -intended busi
less life to be a glorious ." :..
dEDUCATIOX AXri DISCIPLINE, -
uid if I shall be successful in what
I say, I. shall rub the wrinkles out of
pur brow and unstrap some of the
yrdens from your back. . , .
tl have first to remark that God
tended business life to be to you a
100I of - Christian energy God
rted us in the: world, giving us a
ain amount of raw material oiit
ihicli we (were to hew our own,
1
tacter.
Every faculty needs to
reset, ;
rounded, sharpened up
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t our young people have gradu-
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ated from the (schools and colleges
and v niversites, they need a higher
education, that which the collision
and -asping of everyday life alone
can e: feet. Energy of soul is wn ug!it
out oily in the lire. And when a
inan for ten, or fifteen, or twenty, or
thirty years has heen going through
business activities, his energy can no
r le measured by- weights, or
plumknets, or ladders. It can scale
leiglit. it eim jlunnnet any
. It can thrash any obstacle.
deptl
lo vou suppose -that God lias
sient
all this education on vou for
the purpose of making you a more
succef sfuliworldlinir, of enablinsr vou
to more rapidly accuniu'ate dollars,
making vou sharp in a trade? Did
God i
lake you merely to be a yard
o measure cloths, or a steel-
stick
yard
r weigh Hour ? And did He
you- to spend your life in
inten
nothing but to chancr and
? My friend, lie has put vou
higg i
in 1 1 1 it-
school to develop vour ciu-rirv
ior ills cause and; Kingdom,
is enough I
O T ! 11 1
1 here
UN KM I'U )YKD TA LENT
in tl
ib churches, and in the world to-
lav,'
to reform all empires, and all
lomsand people in three weeks.
kinr
O. 1
w much idleness and, strong
les and stout hearts? How-
muse
manv
deep streams that turn no mill
Is and haul on the bands of no
factory?
God demands that He
hay
the best lamb out of every
, the richest sheaf in every har
the best men of every genera-
and in a i-cause where the
flock
vest
tion
.M-w
tons and the Lockes and the
Mant
fields of the I earth were proud
to enlist, you and I need not be
ashamed to toil. O, for fewer idlers
and for more consecrated Christian
workers I
A:
ram : tnxl intended business lile
to 1
e to vou a school bf patience.
now
many little things there are in
one
and
day's ..engagements to lK-rtusb,
annov, and
disuuiet you. rar-
gains will rub, and men will break
their engagements. Collecting agent:
will come back empty hande
Tricksters in business will play upon
what they call the hard-time
when in any times they never pay.
s piaceu on uie wrong sneii.
books and 'money drawer in a
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Cash
qua rel. Goods ordered for ah es
pecial emergency failing to come, or,
if ci ming, damaged in the transpor
tation. People who intend no harm
going about shopping, unrollmj;
good:
trvih
thev do not mean to buy, and
to break the dozen. Men
obliged to- take up other people's
noti
More counterfeit
ills in the
Another
lraw
er. More bad debts
ridiculous panic. Under all this
friction frren breakdown, or they are
scoured up into additional bright
ness. How many you and 1 have
knoivn who, in the "past few years,
have gone do.wn-under the pressure,
and have lecomc f petulant, and
choleric, and crabbed, and sour, and
pug iacious, until, customers forsook
their stores, and these merchants
hay i become insolvent, and their
nan ies were pronounced with detes
tation i But other men have found
in t 11s a school ior patience, lhey
toughened under the exposure.
They were like; rocks, more service
able for the blasting. There was a
timi? when they had to choke down
their wrath. Therevas a time when
thev had to bite their lipv There
was a time when they thought of a
stiiuing retort they would like to
utttr. But now thev have conquered
their, impatience. They
have kind
words for sarcastic . flings.
They
have a polite behaviour for discour-
teous
customcrs. Ihev have tor-
beafance
for unfortunate debtors.
Thd
have moral reflections for the
sud
Bt
en reverses or rortune. now
are
you going to get that grace or
pati
fence? Not through hearing min-
iste
ts preach aoout it. un, no. 11
you
get it at fall ,vou will get it in
1
the
kvorld, where you sell hats, and
plead causes, and tin roofs, and
mal e shoes, and turn banisters, and
plow corn. I pray Clod that through
the turmoil and sweat and exasper-
4ation of your everyday life you may
hear the voice of Christ saying to
you : "If patience possess your soul,
let patience have a perfect work."
Again : trod intended business lite
to be to you a school for the
ATTAINING OF KNOWLEDGE.
Merchants do not read' many books,
r . 1 1 . i
nor study many lexicons, nor tnve
hint ) great profounds, vet through
the'tbiccof circumstances they get in
telligent on Tnctions of politics, and
final ice, and geogra phj-, and j urispru
dence, and ethics. Business it a hard
schoolmistress. If her pupils idll
not learn in any other way, with un
merciful hand "she smites them on
the head and on the heart with in
exorable loss. You went nnto some
business enterprise, and five thou-
ll 1 1 1 i A I
sand dollars got out, 01 oui giai.
You sav the five thousand dollars
were wasted. O, no ! that was. only
tuition. Expensive schooling, but
it is ivortli it. Misfortune, with hard
hand, comes upon a man and wakes
him up, and by the very force of cir
cumstances business men get to be
inte! ligent. Traders in grains.must
kno v about foreign harvests. Traders
in fi uit must know about the pros
pects of tronical production. Man-
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ufacturers of American goods must
kno'v about the tariff on imported
articles.. Publishers of books must
kno v the new law of copyright.
Owr.ers of ships come to understand
winds and shoals and navigation.
And so everv bale of cotton, and
every raisin cask, and every tea box,
and
come literature to our business men:
Now, what is the use of all this in
telligence unless you
give rr to ciirist?
Do you suppose God gives you these
opportunities of brightening up your
intellect -and ot increasing your
knowledge merely to get larger treas
linkllE SHALL THE PRESS
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ures and brander business? O, no!
Can it be that vou have been learn
ing about foreign lands and people
that dwell under other skies, and yet
have no missionary spirit? Can it
l..e that y
follies an
of the bu
u have been learning the
trickeries and hollowness
iness world, and yet you
are not tnv
ring to bring to bear upon
them tlii
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gospel which is to correct
and abolish all ignorance,
t all mistakes, and an est
and irradiate all darkness,
i all wretchedness? Can
all aimsej!
and corn
all crime
and lift uh
it be that
niotwithstanding your ac-
fjuamtaneW
with .the intricacies of
business,
Vou are ignorant or those
tilings w
ich will last the soul long
after hi lb
of exchange and commis-
sions ant
nn voices and consignments
and rent
rolls have crumpled up
and coris
dmed in the rires of a judg-
ment dav
Again
God
intended business
life to be
to vou
a st IKK
P.iOF CHRISTIAN INTEGRITY.
1
the world ever offered so
lucements for scoundrel-
ao age o
many ii
ism as
Jire ottered now. mere is
hardly a
statute, on the law books
that has
lot some back door through
which nJi
screants can escape. How
manv d
ceptions in the fabric of
goods !
Commercial life plies the
land wi
1 j trickeries innumerable,
and tl
e j are so many people in
and New York who live a
Hn oklv
life of j
propose:
1
kinder, that when a man
a straightforward, honest
it is almost charged to
ousmess
jrreenne.H
s and want of tact. Ah ! my
brethreiiL this ought not to be. 15ut
1 have
) tell you that it requires
more gr;
did in tlj
ce to be honest now than it
e days of our fathers, when
was plain, and there were
business
no stociq
gam biers, and woolen was
woolen,
mil silk wns silk, and men
t t t . i 1 .
were nit
n. i llow rare it is that vou
find a 11
say: "I
an who can from his heart
ER CHEATED IX TRADE
1 never
goods W
overestimated the value of
icii I was selling them
never ci
I never
vefed upa defect in a fabric
ilaved upon
the ignorance
of a customer, and in all mv estate
tliere is piot one dishonest farthing."
Tliere aue those who can sav it. They
never let their integrity bow or cringe
I 1 1 mi
to present advantage, ihev areas
pure an 1 Christian to-day as on the
day when thev sold their first tierce
of rice r their first firkin of butter,
There w
erei times when thev could
have ro
could hi
bed a partner, when thev
ve absconded with the funds
on a un
nkj when thev could h
ill 1 1 111
lave
sprung
could'
1 snap judgment, when thev
inave borrowed inimitably.
when tl
ey jcQuld have made a false
assigning
t'litj when they could have
rm net
neighbor tor the purpose ot
picking
up I some 01 the fragments
but they never took one step on that
pathway oil hell fire. Now they can
pray w
tiiolut being haunted witl
the chn
k Of dishonest gold. Now
thev
capi reati the iMble without
1 ii ii .i 1
thinkin
k of; the dav when, with a lie
on theirl
soiil, thev kissed the book
in a cu
toni house. Now they can
look hit
the laughing faces of their
without thiivking of orphans
hem penniless and house
childrei
left bv
less. Nk(W they can think of death
without having their knees knock
together, and their hearts sink, ant
their teeth chatter, because tliere is
a judgii
1
lent where all "tlefrauders
and jot-keys,
and tricksters, ant
charlati:
ns shall be doubly damned
Now tht
y can read in the Bible with-
out fliiif
hing: "As the partridge sit
teth on
k'ggs and hatcheth them not
so lie til
at getteth riches, and not bv
right, sla all leave thenl in the midst
of his days, 'and at the end shall be
a fool. ! Alas ! it any oi vou, lor the
purpose, of getting out of temporary
embarrasment,
dAre to sell your soul,
or any! portion ot it, Vou may
wake up 111 the nnut ot embarrass
ment and sav: "Mo one -is looking.
This transaction may bea little out
of the way, but it is only once, only
once. Un! that one occasion you
not only wreck your spiritual nature
but you despoil your business pros
pects. 1 ou put one dishonest dolla
in an estate, but it will not stand
You may take a dishonest dollar
and put it down in the very depths
ot the earth, and vou may roll on
the top of it rocks and mountains.
and on the. top of .those rocks and
mountains vou mav put all the
banks and I moneyed institutions
Kiiinir them up heaven high, but
that one dishonest dollar down in
the depths of the eartli will begin to
rock, and heave, and upturn itself
miti it comes to the resurrection 01
damnation, ! You cannot hideadis
honest dollar
In the review of this subject there
are two or three tilings 1 want to say
and the first is, let us. hove a larger
SYMfATIlY FOR BUSINESS MEX.
I think it is a shame that in oir pul
pits we do not often er preach on this
subject and show that we appreciate
the sorrows, and struggles, and tempt
ations. and trials of every day life
Men who toil with the hands are apt
to be suspicious of those who mov
in the world of trafic and think that
they get their money idly, and that
thev o-ive no equivalent. Men who
raise the corn, and wheat, and rye
and oats are very apt to think that
Tain merchants get easy profits
The first is ver apt to be jealous of
the brain. 1'lato and Aristotle were
so opposed to all kinds of merchan
dise that they -said commerce was
the curse of ithe earth and they rec
ommended that cities should never
bfi built anv nearer the sea" coast
than ten miles. But we have be
come wiser than that, and you know
there are no harder workers than
those who plan and calculate in
stores and j banks and counting
bouses. ' What though their appaje
hfi neat -what though their manners
be refined, do not put them down as
THE PEOPLE'S EIGHTS MAINTAJN IJNAWED BY INFLUENCE
: 1 :
DURHAM, N. C., WEDNESDAY, jNOYEMBER 10,
idjes. They carry loads heavier than
hod of bricks, they go into expo
unds keener than the cutting of the
ast wind, they scale mountains
ligher than the Alps and Himalay-
s, and maintaining their Christian
integrity, Christ will at the last ac
cost them saying : ''Well done, thou
rood and faithful 'servant : thou hast
(een faithful over a few things, I
will make thee ruler over many
things ; enter thou into the joy Of thy
,ord."
I also enjoin you to
QUIT ALL FRETFULXES3
about business matters. Is there
not something in your own house-
lold that. you would not give up
to. the worldly success other men
lave? Besides that, if these trials
ifted you up, you ought to bless
God for the whip of discipline. The
arger the note vou have to pay, the
greater the uncertainty of business
ite, the better lor vour soul if Jesus
Christ leads you triumphantly
through. How do I know? I know
t by this principle that the hotter
the furnace the - better the refining.
There have been thousands of men
who have gone through the same
ath vou are now going through
with an aching heart. There are
multitudes before the throne of God
who were lashed with cares and
anxieties innumerable, and were
cheated out (if everything but their
coffin. They were sued, thev were
ejected, they werse imprisoned for
lebt, they were maltreated, they
were throttled oy constables with
whole packs of writs, they were sold
out bv sheriffs, thev had to confess
judgments,. they had to compromise
with creditors, and their last hour
on earth was disturbed by the fact
that their door bell was rung loudly
and angrily by the hand of some
impetuous creditor, who was sur
prised that that sick man should be
so impertinent and outrageous as to
die before he had paid him the last
three shillings and sixpence. Oh!
how men are tossed and driven ! I
iad a friend who went from one
mxietv to another; a good and great
heart he had, but everything lie put
his hand to seemed to fail. Misfor
tunes clustered around, and after
awhile I heard he was dead, and the
first word I said was: ''Good ! he
has got rid tf the sheriffs." There
is a great multitude of business men
who on earth had it hard, but by
the grace of I God thev stand tri
umphant in heaven ; and when the
question is asked of them, "Who are
they ?" the angels of God, standing
on seas of glass, will cry out : "These
are they who came out of great
tribulation, and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood
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ot the Jiamii :
Once more: I want you to
SEEK lU'SINESS GRACE.
Commercial ethics, business honor,
laws of trade, mav do very well
for awhile; but there will come
i ii t iii
a time when the ground win slip
from under your feet and the
world will frown, and the devils
will set after your, souls, and you
will want more then than this world
can give vou. 1 ou win want the
eternal rock ,to stand on. For the
lack of that grace you have known
men to forge, and to maltreat their
friends, and to curse their enemies,
and you have seen theif names bul
letined among scoundrels, and spit
upon, and blistered by scorn, and
ground to powder. They not only
lost their property, but their souls
were mauled, and putrified, and
blasted for eternity. You could
count up scores of such persons,
while tliere are others who, tossed
on the same sea; sustained by the
grace of God, have all the time kept
their eye on the lighthouse. Men
coming out of that man's store say:
"If there ever was a Christian trader,
that is one." Stern integrity kept
the books and waited on the cus
tomers. Light from the future world
flashed through the show windows.
Wrath never stamped that floor, nor
did sly dishonesty cover up imper
fections in goods. Love to God and
love to men were the principles that
ruled in the store of that Christian
trader, borne day the shutters are
not let down from the store window
and the bars) are not taken from the
door. Men pass along and stop, and
stare, and go up to read a card on
the door which announces : "Closed
on account of the death of one of the
firm." That death -it is talk in
commercial circles that a good man
has gone. Boards of trade pass res
olutions of sympathy, and chuches
of Christ pray : "Help, Lord, for the
godly man ceaseth." He has made
his last bargain. He has suffered
Ins last loss. 'He has ached with his
last fatigue. CThe results of his hris
tian industry will bless his children
after he is dead, and bequests to the
kingdom of God will gather many
sons into glory. Everlasting rewards
in place of business discipline. There
" the wicked cease from troubling,
and the weary are at rest."
What One Tract Did.
Rev. Dr. Hudson in Raleigh Advocate.
I gave in another article many in
stances where single tracts did much
good. Sii'ce then, I found another
surpassing vny other in its effects. A
single tract read bv Richard Baxter
was the means of his convertion. He
wrote the "Saint's Everlasting Best."
(The first book that ever made a re
ligious impression on my mind,
which was the means of convesting
Philip Doddrige.) Doddrige wrote
the "Rise and Progress,." which was
blessed to the conversion ot dber
force, who wrote his "Practical View,"
which was blessed to the conversion
of Richmond? and he wrote his
"Dairyman's Daughter" and"this
book has been translated into more
than fifty languages, and been blessed
to the conversion of thousands ol
souls. ;
THANKSGIVING PKOCL V-
MATION.
We Have Much to be Thankful
For if we Did Get Beat.
Washington, I). C, Nov, 1 . 188G.
The following is President? Cleve
land's! Proclamation, designating
Thursday, November 2oth, as a day
of thanksgiving and prayer.:
11 A Proclamation by the Pi evident of
the Ignited StaLs: -
It has long been the custom of the
people of the United States on a day
in each year, especially set apart for
that purpose by their Chief Execu
tive, I to acknowledge the goodness
and Imercy of God, and to-invoke
his continued care and protection.
In observance of such j custom, I,
Groycr Cleveland, President of the
United States, do herebydesignate
and (set apart Thursday, the 2bth
day of November, to 13 observed
and kept as a day of Thanksgiving
and I
raver. On that day let all of our
people -forego their accustomed em
ployments, and assemble in their
usual; places xf worship to give
thanks to theRuler of the universe
for oilr continued enjoyment of the
blessings of a free government, for
a renewal of business -v prosperity
throughout our land, for-the1 return
which has rewarded the labor of
those) who till the soil, and for our
progress as a people in all that makes
a nation great; and while- we con
template the infinite 'power of (1 d
in earthquake, flood and.r storm, let
the grateful hearts of those who have
been j shielded from harm through
His mercy be turned inlsympathy
arid kindness toward those who have
suffered through His visitations.
Let us also in the midst of our
thanksgiving remember, the por
and heedy with cheerful gifts and
alms so that our service' may, oy
deed of charity., be made-acceptable
in thie sight of the Lord. !
Inlwitness whereof . I have there
unto jset mv hand and caused the
sear of the United States bVbe affixed.
Done; at the city of Washington,
this jst day of Novembcr,iin the year
of 'our Lord 18S), ,and of the inde
pendence of the United. States of
America the one hundred and
eleventh.
j G rover Cleveland.
Bv the President.
T. F. Bayard, Sec'y of tate.
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The j Queen of Italy's Necklace.
i New York Worl.l.,
Now, a word about the; celebrated
coral necklace of the Queen of Italy.
It is a well known fact that she
wear it continually, and even op
occasions of grand toilette she car
ries it under a river of sparkling dia
monds. The necklace has a history :
TTive venrs n"o. the ; Prince of
I 1 j o ' ;
Naples, her son, Heir Apparent to
the Throne of Italy, was strolling
through a street in Venice, when his
eye Was attracted by the necklace in
the show window ot a jeweler shop.
The idea at once struck him to buy
tor his mother, the Queen. But
the price was far beyond the capaci
ty of his pocket money, arid though
destined to be King ictoijhmnlaii-
uel 1J.1. he was compelled to ask the
jeweler ior credit, the uargain was
that the Prince should luivtlie neck
lace, pearl by pearl, according as he
could! save enough from" his pocket
money. On leaving the jeweler's shop
on thq first occasion the Prince car
ried away with him five pearls,
which he carefully -guarded. It
was two years before .he was able
to buy the whole necklace. -When
the Queen afterward learned the
secret of the purchase, ; she made
a resolve to - wear this charming ex
hibition of her son's love on all oc
casions, and hence she wears it every
day, and gives it a place-even when
she wears her state jewels on great
occasions.
Liquor in Business Hours.
Chicago Tribune.
Moderate drinkers engaged in pur
suits calling for judgment and acu
men and who use liquors during
business hours, end, with scarcely
an exception, as, financial wrecks,
howeyer successful they inay be in
withstanding the physical conse
quences of their indulgence. Thou
sands who- retain their health and
are never ranked as victims of in
temperance lose their 1 property,
wreck their business and are thrown
into bankruptcy because ef tippling
habits during business hours, these
men are not drunkards, and only
close observers can detect the influ
ence of strong drink in their deport
ment j but nevertheless liquor gives
them false nerve, makes them reck
less, clouds the judgment and soon
involves them in bad purchases,
worse sales and ruinous ) contracts
Sooner or later it is shown that the
habit of tippling during business
hours is a forerunner of bankruptcy
A Broken Xeck Not Alvyays Fatal
! Baltimore Sun, November 3.
Mr.Xleorge W. Davis, the Norfolk
llia. if UltU V'll JUAJViaj lUObj
at 526 Hartford avenue, from paraly
sis, superinduced by an injury of the
spinal column, was buried (yesterday
bv the Knights ot Labor. Urs. Kobt.
W. Johnson and A. A. Clewell
deemed Davis' case an extraordi
nary Qne, from the fact that he had
lived eight months with ; his neck
brokerji, and they decided upon a
post mortem, which Dr.! Johnson
made.! The examination revealed a
fracture of the third cervical vertebra.
Mr. Davis' injury was caused by a
fall ot about ten feet during last
March; which incapacitated him
from work but a short time although
he was continually in pain. He
came here six weeks ago, and paraly
sis gradually set in, the pain mean-
while increasing in intensity up to
the time of his death. ;
AND UNBBIBED BY GAIN"
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1886.
Odd Courtship.
: Chicago Herald.
"Yes," said a conductor, on the
Illinois Central, "I'm married, boysJ
and mighty glad of it. But the
strangest part of the story is how; I
came to meet my wife. It was about
a year ago; One day we stopped at
one of the; stations down the line,
where-the track is doubled, when
there was a freight train approach-'
ing on the track west of the station-.
The freight train slowed up, so that
passengers would have time to cross,
and, then put on steam and came
along after I had given the signal to
my 'engineer to start. But I stood
on the ground looking out for pas
sengers, who might jump off and get
hurt, as I always do under similar
circumstances. ' On this occasion it
was well that I did, because a young
woman came running Qutofoneof
the coaches of my train and excited
ly made a jump to get off. She
landed right in my arms and if I
hadn't, been there she would have
fallerbefore the freight engine and
been crushed to death. Well, boys,
I just held on to her until these two
trains had passed, and .they weren't
very short trains, either. She was so
excited I didn't dare to put her
down and I felt quite comfortable
the way I was, anyhow, with her
heart beating against mine. Well,
in that minute and a half I lost my
heart and; we were married a week
before Christmas." She says she al
mavs did like a man who had sense
enough to hold fast to a good thing
when he had a chance."
Columbus AVas Not Columbus.
: New York Times.
Eugene: La wrence lectured before
"the .New , York' Historical Society
last week' upon "The Mystery of
( -olunibus." Air. Lawrence said that
nothing was further from the truth
han'the accepted legend of Colum
bus' life, i In truth, we really knew
ess about: him than we did about
Dante and Shakespeare. EVen'his
real name was doubtful, and it cer
tainly was not Columbus. Instead
of being a; Genoese he probably was
a Greek, jlhs lite. Until alter he was
50 was a life of piracy, and at no
part of his life was he the saint he
had been painted by Irving and
other biographers. He cared only
tor gold and was very cruel, there
was reason to oeneve mat tne secret
of the existence of the New World
had been early communicated to
him by some shipwrecked mariners,
who gave him at Madeira the charts
md written evidences of their dis-
1 1 li-i
coveryr ot; America and Loiumous
possession of them accounts tor the
wonderful certainty with which he
tated over and over again that there
ii "ii i,i'.
was a world across the Atlantic
Ocean. j
This is the Way to Look at It.
Ptatesville Landmark.
It will be a fortunate thing if the
Northern Settlers' convention, held
at Raleigh last week, shall result in
directing the attention of northern
people of means to North Carolina,
as a desirable State to live in, to farm
in, to establish manufactures in. It
is this class of people, as we under
stand, that the northern men, now
resident of the State, desire to reach.
We cannot stretch forth our hands
and say to anyT and everybody,
"Come." We already have an abun
dance of labor, and the ordinary
laborer who comes here to live will
meet with disappointment.- There is
amide room, however, for respecta
ble men, from no matter where, who
have the means to set themselves up
1 i ii 1 n p l
in ousiness, and an sucn wry. nnu
North Carolina a good State, and
find here a cordial welcome.
Boys, Learn How, It AVill
Better Than Loafing .
Pay
Charlotte Chronicle.)
It always repays a man to excel in
whatever profession or business he
engages. Mr. Henry W. Tatum, one
of the noble "old navy yard guards,"
is said to be the finest temperer of
steel tools anywhere in this section
of the State. A leading Charlotte
contractor j said : "If I get a poor
tool, I , always get Henry Tatum to
temper it and then it is some ac
count, lemperers in the large tool
factories north receive as much as
$5,000 : a year, so' scarce is this pe
culiar talent among mechanics. It
pays to be 'a skilled workman.
Some Fuiiny New York Signs to
Catch Trade.
K'hristian at Work.l
One may see in the shop windows
of . a Fourth-avenue . confectioner,
"Pies Open All Night." A Bowery
placard reads, "Home-made Dining
Rooms, Family Oysters." A West
Broadway jrestaurateur sells "Home
made Piesi Pastry, and Oysters."
An East Broadway caterer retails
"Fresh Salt Oysters and Larger
Beer. A Sixth-avenue barber hangs
out a sign Ireading," "Boots Polished
Inside," On another, street the fol
lowing catches the eve, "Washin
Ironin Goin Out by. the Day Done
Here." i
Good News From Kentucky.
John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the
House ot Representatives, is surely
elected. For awhile erybody
thought he was defeated. Not so. He
will continue to go to Congress, for
a long time we hope. He is an able
man, and the district that sends such
a man ought to be proud. It would
be a lasting disgrace for any people
to allow such a man to be defeated,
especially when opposed by a me
diocre of no influence or reputation
Who Can Answer It?
f Bute Chronicle.!
The Boss Conundrum: What
made the election go wrong ?
.50 PER ANNUM.
If
They Would Remain Inde
pendents it Would Not he
So Bad.
Philadelphia Telegraph, Oct. 28.
The entire tendency of the times
is towards independence of thought
and action ot political matters, and
though the general emancipation of
the people from machine politics,
practical politicians, and partisan
organs comes slowly, it is coming
surely. It is not the success of this
part' or that, of this ticket or that,
but of the particular candidate whose
candidacy promises the more honest
admrnistration of the office for which
he has been nominated. It is good
government, not party supremacy,
that is to be the political issue of
the near future. The revolution of
1884,-which was but the common
protest of intelligent, patriotic citi
zens against forcing an improper can
didate into the office of President,
will not go backward. Civil service
reform is to be wrought out to a suc
cessful conclusion at the ballot box
iy the independent voter, who has
determined that the law of the elec
tion of the fittest shall be the law of
the land.
Negro Lahor in Alabama and
AY lute Labor in Pennsylvania.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The rougher class of labor,
in which the negroes are principally
employed, is paid higher wages in
Alabama than in Pennsylvania, the
negro faring decidedly better than
the Hungarians. The skilled laborer
gets decidedly more in the Alabama
blast furnaces than those of Penn
sylvania, and the difference in wages
in all the various industries connec
ted with the manufacture of iron
was only 5 cents in 1880 a differ
ence which has . been more than
overcome since.
If comparison is made between
the mining districts of the two States
the showing is still more favorable
to Alabama. Jefferson county, in
Which Birmingham is situated, pays
average wages of $321 per annum ;
Calhoun, containing Anniston, $328,
whereas the anthracite counties of
the Eastern State pay an average of
onlv $280. '
Mr. Blaine will have to try some
other attack on the south.
Brother Caldwell, as Usual, Talks
ense.
Statesville Landmark.
There is one thing that has gotten
pretty tiresome in North Carolina
politics, and that is the ringing of
the changes, every two years, on
what the Republican Legislature qf
lows did. lhat was eighteen years
ago, and it is time for the statute of
limitations to run. The people are
tired hearing about the Legislature'
of 18G8. The Landmark did not re
fer to it once during the. campaign
just ended, and it doesn't intend to
ever refer tor it in future except in
the clearest cases of self-defence.
Let us ring the chestnut bell and
ring down the curtain on the events
of 1868, and turn our faces to the
Iiikslinjrers, Give Attention.
Philadelphia Ixxlger.
of our able young jour
are overworking the word
Some
nalists
'lurid," we think. It is a tempting
and taking word for the class of
writers addicted to "weird" expres
sions. But it is not precisely de
scriptive to speak of the red glare of
a conflagration as a lurid scene,
nor is it accurate writing to say a red
haired young man has a "lurid top
knot," as we had the opportunity to
read the other day. The first and
principal meaning of the word
"lurid," as sot forth in Webster, is
"ghastly, pale." It may mean
"gloomy" also or "dismal," but never
flaming, fiery nor any sort of red,
though , these able journalists seem to
say so.
We Hope You Are a Prophet,
Brother Laniels.
State Chronicle.
One of the reasons is that many
Democrats in North Carolina thought
certain men and modes of legislation
ought to be rebuked, and thought
this a good year to administer the
rebuke. They are still Democrats,
and 1888 .will find themMn' their
places. The Chronicle thinks' they
erred in this view, and took the
worst-possible way to check the
wrong. We believe many were im
pelled by bad motives, but some of
them were doubtless honest. Next
year will find these honest Demo-'
crats working in regular harness !
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Office Seekers of the Far West.
San Francesco Alta.
Funny things happen in Santa
Barbara. Here's the latest: Appli
cant to a government employe 1
am going to secure your position, if
possible ! Ah I indeed, answered
the official. The aspirant continued,
"and I want you to assist me in the
matter in the way of making out my
application." "Joking, are you not ?"
said the office holder. "No !" replied
the hurigiy office seeker. The em
nlove If vou are not Dossessed with
sufficient brains to maka out your
application, how are you to perform
the duties connected with the office ?
Exit aspirant.
Chewing Gum Must Go.
San Francisco Bulletin.
Charles P. Thomas, an Oakland
boy, 15 years old, recently traded
chewing gum with a companion
who had' diphtheria. Thomas con
tracted the disease, and from him
his father, his brother, and two
younger children have contracted it,
and the wife and mother is the only
one of the family not afflicted with
it: Charles died yesterday. ;
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PEOPLF4 TALKED ABOUT.
Henry Irving wants to visit this
country again. j
Madame Patti will begin her Amer
ican tour November 18th.
Dr. Thomas G.i Ford, of Shreve
rort. T-n... Inst. vmL- cVif orwi v;ni
, ; , ' ' v ... uuvv fVllVl
J . C, Kirkpatrick, his wife's betrayer.
Dr. R. A. Young was in Ireland,
and says that "Rum, Romanism and
Rebellion" is what is the matter with
the Irish. j
M. De Lesseps, the great canal
constructor, has been visiting Phil-
adelphia. He was warmly received
and dined.
President Cleveland, it is said,
usually wears a flower on his coat
lapel now, which he never did before
he was married. !
Miss Hester Clarke, of Marion, Ala.,
says that if she lives to see Christ
mas she will be one hundred and
twenty-three years old.
James C. Flood, the California mil
lionaire, has just finished a two mil
lion dollar brown stone house on
Nob Hill, San Francisco.
' President Cleveland has accepted
an invitation to ;be present at the '
two hundred and fiftieth anniver
sary of Harvard College.
Dennison, the-inventer of the con
venient and now indispensable tag,
died recently in Massachusetts. Over
225,0X),000 of his tags are sold an
nually, j
Theodore Roosevelt chats pleas
antly about his defeat. He says
that Cieorge and Hewitt each re
ceived about fifteen thousand re
publican votes.
Postmaster General Vilas has his
eye on a seat in! the United States
Senate, if the legislature of Wiscon
sin is Democratic, this winter he
will become a candidate.
The forty thousand dollar eques
trian statue of Major-General Burn
side, now in a foundry in New York
city, was recently inspected by a del
egation of citizens from Rhode Island
and pronounced a success.
Of Gen. Grant's sons, Cob Fred. D.
is assistant treasurer of the New
York Steam Heating company,
Ulysses is on his farm, and Jesse is
on his way to Mexico seeking to en
ter the railroad business there.
Abram S." Hewitt is mayor-elect of
New York. Henry George made a
gallant fight and polled a large vote,
but the good sense of the Democrats
of New York, and the conservatism
of the business men, triumphed.
There is trouble with the judges
at New Orleans. Judge Lazarus,
one of the civil district judges, was
reprimanded by the grand jury
for alleged mismanagement of estate
funds in his court; and Judge Righter
has announced that he will not again
sit with Judge Lazarus.
Rev. P. J. Shand, the oldest minis-"
ter of the gospel in South Carolina,
died at his hpme in Columbia last
week. He was born in 1800, and for
fifty-three years had been rector of
Trinity church, Episcopal, Columbia.
He is believed to be the only minis
ter in the United States who has held
a single charge for so long a time.
"The will of Mrs. Cornelia M.
Stewart was filed for probate in the
surrogate's office, New York City,
last week. About half of her vast
estate is given to midge Hilton, as
trustee, with directions to "erect, fur
nish and endow a seminary of learn
ing for women." The other half is
divided among relatives, the house
hold servants coming in for $25,000.'
Master Theodore Roosevelt, before
his nomination as Blaine candidate
for mayor, wrote ! an article which
has made its timely appearance just
on the eve of election. Twenty-four
hours is not a long period, but it will
suffice to teach the fresh young poli
tician from the green prairies, some
thing about the quick intelligence of
the " densely ignorant " and " essen
tially vicious" voters of the city of.
New York. New York Star.
The gigantic Goddess of Liberty
continues to be a topic in our papers.
She holds in her j hand a torch, the
light of which is furnished by a
dynamo in the pedestal ; it is fifty
thousand candle power, and at each
point of the fiveftointed redoubt, at
the base of the pedestal, is a light of
six thousand candle power. She,
therefore, presents to the eye of the
beholder a blaze pf dazzling white
light, that makes more wonderful
still this great wonder of the nine-,
teenth century. I
"Mr. Blaine," says a correspondent
of the New York &far, i'does not ex
pect to be nominated in 1888, at the
E resent time ' he " does not want to
e. He believes that Mr. Cleveland
will be renominated by the Demo
crats and be reflected, consequently
Mr. Blaine will content himself with
nominating Allison, or some other
Blaine man, in 1888, waiting himself
for the nomination in 1892." That
is a long ways ahead, but BJaine is
nothing if not sanguine and irrepres
sible. I
Henry Ward Beecher is home
again. He has for some time been
in. England; where he was treated
with the highest j consideration by
the clergy and literati. There was
one notable exception. The great
London preacher, -Mr. Spurgeon,
even prayed in public aginst him in
the following words : "O, Lord I shut
the mouth of the blasphemers, espe
cially those pretending to be preach
ers of the gospel and who are vet
blasphemers. Turn their hearts that
they may know Thy truth, and be
able to preach in lavor of it Mr,
Beechers health is) excellent, and he
was greeted on his return home with
great enthusiasm by his admirers.
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