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AN OMKX'
hl.ir A -It from . the zenith hritdit,
4'-.vn it swept, a track of light.
!-iii'it lett its earthlv home,
Titnu'h iioundless unknown tracts to roam.
Tlii y marked the two, the star, the soul,!
Tltev s:iiil, so sonjj as time shall roll, -W'jieii
falls a star from endless he.ilit; "
A irk t shall take Ms tli;ht.
I i1- n 11. dustmen liv mortal eve,
V.:i-h nirit :i star falls from the skv;
i likiinwn,; uiiMing In- mortal son;,
li setttiid hears :i soul nhl!.
I'll A I J A O IPS I ) j J K A 31 .
Ir. laminae's Sermon, IreacliMl
iSmulay, August Till, 1HS7.
"f : x t : "! et 1 i ill ai.iioint oHii its over the land.
!i 1 -jl t iki1 Ui the fifth ;irt nl tue limd of Etf vt in
.-i . Ft 1 f 1 . 1 1 1 1 11 ei m:ihm All, .)(.
I hcsci wi re the wordrf of Joscbb,
tli-liiTsuk nt ot the -lirst Jik:;inHur-
nice eoiiipany that th world i-yer
-:iv. I'haraoli had a dream thatdis
t raited hi'nr. lie thought he stcjiod
ii the l.eniks of tin; rivt-r Xilo, and
Saw coming uj) out orttiiriver seven
:fa, sleek - glossy eows,aiid they he
'jrain to browse in -the Jhiok j;fiss.
Noll lino; frirlitful alumt that. But
-after them, coining out of the same
river, lie; saw seven "eows tliat were
aunt-and starved, aiid the worst
loi ikino; c(ws that had t'ver been si-en
in the; huid, and. in t lie .ferocity of
lumber they devoured- their seven
fa jiredecessors. I'hariioh, the kill":,
si it for' -Joseph to . decipher these
midnight hieroglyphics.. Joseph
mhdeshort work of it, and intimated
that tlfe seven Jat, coVfs that'eame
out if:lhj river are seyii years wjitlr
jili nty to eat ; the sevfn aniaciaed
rows that followed thni are seven
years with nothing to eat. "Now,1"
said Joseph, ''let us hike one-fifth of
the corn; crop of the pven prosper
ous years, anil keep it -.;as a -.provision
the seven in whi'chHhereshal
be
IX
corn crop." The .King took It he
counsel and appointed .Ioseih,j
be-
a;use of his integrity and public-
spin ted ness, as the prtsment ot tlie
undertaking.
j TIIK KAUMKKS l'AII) 6.NK FIFTH
oftheir fncome as a itfcmium. In
all the towns and citii'Of ,the land
there were branch house-s This great
Kgyptiaii life insurance company
had millions of . dollars as assets.
After a while the dark days' caine,
and thei whole nation would have
st.irved if it had not'been for the pro
vision they had m ad e' for the fu tine.
Jlut now these suil'erihg;farnilies had
.nothing to do. hut go up nd collect
the amount of theirl-life policies.
The Hible puts it in one&hort phrase:
"In all the landof Egypt there was
bread." : I say this. wag the lirst;life
insurance company. It was jl)i
yihely organized. It liad in it! all
the advantages of tlie2 ''whole ilife
plan," of the "toiitine?plan,'' or the
"reserved endowment plan," and all
other good plans. We are told that
lUv. Dr. Anhate, of 'Lincolnshire,
England, originated tl first life in
surance company ihijiUS.- No! it
is as old as the corn cribs of Egypt;
and Cod Himself was the author
and. orignator.- If thatrrwere not so
1 would not take, your time and
mjne int Sabbath discuss-ion of this
subject, j '.I feel ' it is aj theme vital,
religious! and of infinite irh port, 'the
morals of life and tire, ftisurancej
About ten or.twelve years ago there
was a great panic in life '. insurance
wliieh did good. . Ender the storm
tlit- untrustworthy and .bogus insti
tutions were scattredhile the gen
uine were tested :ind firmly estab
lished ; and where does the lift) in
surance institution stand to-day?
AVhat amount of coiiifovtof educa
tion, of moral and spiritual advan
tage is represented m Hie simple sta-ti.-pc
that in this country the lift in
; suhtnc'e' (;ompan ios, inline' -year jaid
sejcn million dollars the families
ot'jthe lnMeft ; and in liye'years they
jiaid three hundred millions of dol
lars to the families ott the bereft ;
and are promising to ptJyand hold
tlieniselves'in readinesl to pay two
. thousand millions of dollars to the
1'ai.nilics of the bereft ! t ,
They have actually paid but more
in ulividends and deatlrclaims than
they have ever . received-tin premiums.
I know of what I spe;lk. The life
insurance companies xxfthis couhtrV
pajid nxire than severt millions of
lullars of taxes to thegOvernment in
live years. So, instead" Jbf these cpni-
pahics being indebtedifd the land,
I . - - -1 - i
TIIK LAND IS IXIiKHTKp TO TIIK!..
To cry out against litVhiSurancej be-
aUse here and there xmc company
has behaved badly is as absurd as it
W(uld be for a man to .burn toyn a
-thousand acres of harvest field in
order to kill "the -moles and potato
buns as preposterous;! a man who
'should blow up, a crowded steainer
in! mid-Atlantic for the- purpose of
destroying the barnacles on the bot
tom of the hulk, i
jiut what does the Bible say in re
gard to this subject? If the Bible
favors the institution, I'will favor it ;
if the 15ible denouncesit, I will;de
nounce it. In additions to the: fore
cast of Joseph in the text, I call
to your attention Paul comparison.
Here is one man who, through iieg
, lect, fails to support his family while
he lives, or after he dies. :llere is
another man who abhors the Scrip
tures and rejects God. Which of
thbseroen is the worse.?. Well, you
say, the; latter. I'auEfeays the for
mer. Paul says that ..a man who
neglects to care for his household is
more obnoxious than A man who re
jects the Scriptures : "He that pro
videth not for his own, and espe
cially those of his owri household, is
worse than an infideh'f i Life insur
ance companies help most of lis to
provide for our familiei after W0 are
gone; but, if we have the money to
pay the premiums and do not j pay
them, we have no right to expect
mercy at the hand, of C5od in judg
ment. A'e are : worse than Tom
Paine, worse than Voltaifeind worse
than Shaftesbury. : The Piblc de
clares it we are worse'than an ifflft-
VOL. XVI. NO. 33.
del. After the certificate of death
has been made out, and thirtv or
sixty days have passed, and the of
ficer of a life insurance com pan v
conies into the bereft household, and
pays down the hard cash on an in
surance policy, that officer of the
company is performing a positively
religious rite, according to the Apos
tle James, who says: ''True religion
and undeiiled before (lot! and the
Father is this: To visit the father
less and the widow in their afflic
tion," and so on. The religion of
Christ proposes to
TAKE CAKK OK TIIK TKMI'i iKAL WANTS
of the people as well as the spiritual.
When Ilezekiah was crving the in
junction came to him :- "Set thy
house in order, for thou shalt die
and not live." That injunction in
our day would mean: "Make your
will ; settle up your accounts ; make
things plain ; don't deceive your
heirs with worthless mining stock;
don't, deceive them with deeds for
Western lands that will never yield
any crop but chills and fever; don't
leave for them notes that have been
outlawed, and second mortgages on
property that will not pay the first."
"Set thy house: in order." That is,
fix uj) things, so your going out of
this world may: make as little con
sternation as possible. See the lean
cattle devouring the fat cattle, and
in the time of plenty prepare for the
time of want. The dilliculty is, when
men think of their death the- are
afraid to think of it only in connec
tion with their spiritual welfare and
not of the devastation in the house
hold which will come because of
their emigration from it. It is
meanly selfish for you to b; so ab
sorbed in the Heaven to which you
are going that you forget what is to
become of your wife and children
after you are dead. You can go out
of this world without leaving a dol
lar, and yet die happy if you could
not provide for them ; you can trust
them in the hands of the t!od who
owns all the harvests, and the herds,
and the lloeks ; but if you could pay
the premiums on a policy and neg
lect them, it is a mean thing for' you
to o up to Heaven while thev uo
into the poor-house. You, at death,
move into a ..mansion, river front,
and they move into two rooms on
the fourth story of a tenement-house
in a back street. When they are out
at the elbows and knees the thought
of your splendid robe in Heaven
will not keep them warm. The
misister may preach :i splendid
sermon over your remains, and the
quartet may sing like four angels
in the organ loft, but your death
will be a swindle. You had the
means to provide for the comfort
of your household when you left it,
and you wickedly neglected it. "Oh,"
says some one, "I have more faith
than you ; I believe when I go out
of this world the Lord will provide for
them." Go to Plackwell's Island, go
through all the poor houses of the
country, and I will show you how
often God provides for
THE NEOI.KlTEI) ( IIII.DRKN
of neglectful parents. That is, He pro
vides for them through public char
ity. As for myself, I would- rather
have the Lord provide for my family
in a private home, and through my
own industry, and paternal, and con
jugal faithfulness. Put says some
man : "I mean in the next ten or
twenty years to make a great fortune,
and so I shall leave my family, when
I go out of this world, very comfor
table." How do you. know you are
going to live ten or twenty years? "If
we could look up the highway of the
future, we would see it crossed by
pneumonias, and pleurisies, and
consumptions, and colliding rail
trains, and runaway horses, and
breaking bridges, and funeral pro
cessions. . Are you so certain you
are going to live ten or twenty years
you can warrant your household any
com fort a Iter you go away from them?
'Beside that," the vast majority of
men die .poor! Two only two
out of a hundred succeed in business.
Are you very certain you are going
to be one of the two? Rich one
pav, poor.-the next. A man in New
York got two millions of dollars, and
the money turned his brain, and he
died in the lunatic asylum. All his
property was left with the business
iirm,-and they swamped it; and
then the family of the insane man
were left without a dollar. In eigh
teen months the prosperity, the in
sanity, the insolvency, and the com
plete domestic ruin. Beside that,
there are men who die solvent who
are insolvent before they get under
the ground, or before their estate is
settled Up. How soon the auction
eer's mallet can knock the life out of
an estate!. A man thinks the prop-,
erty is worth fifteen thousand dol
lars ;: under a forced sale it brings
seven thousand tlollars. the busi
ness man takes advantage of the
crisis and he compels the widow of
his deceased partner to sell out to
him at a ruinous price, or lose all.
The stock was supposed to be very
valuable, but it has been so "watered"
that when the executor tries to sell it
he is laughed out of Wall street, or
the administrator is ordered by the
surrogate to wind up the whole af
fair. The estate was supposed at the
man's death to be worth sixty thou
sand dollars ; but after the indebted
ness had been met, and the bills of
the doctor, and the undertaker, and
the toombstone-cutter have been
paid, there is nothing left. That
means the children are to come home
from school and go to work. That
means the
COMPLETE HARDSHIP OF THF WIFE,
turned out with nothing but a" nee
dle to fight the great battle of the
world. Tear down the lambrequins,
close the piano, rip up the Axmin
ister, sell out the wardrobe, and let
the mother take a child in each
hand and trudge out into the desert
of the world. A life insurance would
have hindered all that.,
111 II III! V I 111 II I II II I I II II II Ili
HERE SHALL THE PRESS
But, says some one: "I am a man
of small means, and! I can't afford to
pav the premium."
That
is snrne-
times a lawful and aj genuine excuse
and there is no answer
to it ; but in
nine cases out of
ten when a man
says that, he smoke:
drinks down in wine
up in cigars,
mil expends in
luxuries enough mopey to have paid
the premium on a life insurance pol
icy which would have kept his fam
ily from beggary when he is dead.
A man ought to put himself down
on the strictest eccnomy until he
can meet this Christian necessity.
You have no right t ) the luxuries of
life until you have made such pro
vision. 1 admire what was said by
Rev. Dr. Guthrie, ti e great Scottish
preacher. A few years before his
death he stood in a public meeting
and declared : " WSien I came to
Edinburg the people sometimes
laughed at my blue stockings and at
my cotton umbre!; , and they said
1 looked like a con mon plowman,
and they derided mi' because I lived
in a house for which I paid thirty
five pounds rent a year, and often
times I walked when I would have
been very glad, to hiave a cab ; but,
gentlemen,, I did all that because I
wanted to pay the premium on a life
insurance that woul
id keep my fam-
ily comfortable if
1 should die:"
'Pi i r 1 1 .1 1 .
mat 1 taije-to be tlie right expres
sion of an honest, intelligent, Chris
tian man.
mi; inter limine,
.... " 1 fY
rence 01 many
people on this impo;
(rtant sub ect ac-
counts tor much ot
tlie crime and
the pauperism of
this day. Who
are these children sweeping the cross
ings with broken brooms- and beg
ging of you a penny as you go by?
ho are these lost souls gliding un
tier the gaslight in thin shawls ? Ah !
they are ;
the'victims
and many of the ca
OF WANT ;
es the forecast of
parents and grandparents might have
prohibited it. Godlonly knows how
they struggled to do right. They
prayed until the tears froze on their
cheeks, they sewed on the sack until
the breaking of thd day, hut they
could not get enough money to pay
the rent; they could not get enough
money to decently clothe themselves;
and one day in thai wretched home,
the angel of purity mil the angel of
crime fought a great fight between
the empty-' bread-tray and the fire
less hearth; and the black-winged
angel shrieked :;"Ahu! I have won the
da-." Saj-s some man : "I believe
what you say ; it is! right and Chris
tian, and I mean sonietime to attend
to this matter." My friend, you are
going to lose the Comfort of j-our
household in the s.-me way the sin
ner loses heaven, bv procrastination.
I see all around me the destitute
and suffering families of parents who
meant some day to attend to this
Christian duty. During the process
of adjournment the man gets his feet
wet, then comes a chill and delirium,
and the doleful shake of the doctor's
head, and the obsequies. If there
be anything more pitiable than a
woman delicately brought up, and
on her marriage day, by an indul
gent father, given to a man to whom
she is the chief joy and pride of life
until the moment cjf his death, and
then that same woman going out
with helpless children at her back
to struggle for bread in a world where
brawny muscle and rugged soul are
necessary I say, if there be any
thing more pitiable than that, I do
not know what it is. And yet there
are good women who are indifferent
in regard to their
HUSBANDS DUTY IN
this respect;
positively hos-
and there are those
tile, as though a
e insurance sub-
jected a man to sonjie fatality. There
is in Brooklyn to-t:
ay a very poor
woman keeping a small candy shop.
who vehemently opposed the insu
rance of her husband's life, and when
application - had bpen made for a
policy' of ten thousand dollars she
frustrated it. She would never have
a document in., the) house that im
plied it was possiblje for her husband
to die. One day, iii the revolution
of machinery his life was instantly
dashed out What) is the ;. sequel?
She is, with annoying tug', jmaking
the half of a miserable living. Her
two children have been taken away
from her in order that they may be
clothed and schooled, and her life is
to he a prolonged hardship. 0 man,
before forty-eight hburs have passed
away, appear at the desk of some of
our life insurance pompanies, have
the stethescope of the physician put
to your heart and lungs, and by the
seal of some honest 'company decree
that your children shall not be sub
jected to the humiliation of financial
struggle in the days, of your demise.
But I must ask tie men engaged
in life insurance business whether
they feel the importance of their
trust, and charge them I must that
they need divine grace to help them
in their work. In this day when
there are so many rivalries in your
line of business youjwill be tempted
to overstate the amount of assets and
the extent of the surplus, and you
will be tempted to abuse the fran
chise of the company, and make up
the deficits of one year by adding
some of the receipts of another year ;
and you will be tempted to send out
mean, anonymous circulars, deroga
tory to other companies, forgetful of
the fact that anonymous communi
cation means only two things the
cowardice of the author, and the in
efficiency of the police in allowing
such a tiling to be dated anywhere
save inside of a penitentiary. Under
the mighty pressure many have
gone tlown, and you
if vou have
will follow them
TOO MUCH CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF,
and do not appeal
to the Lord for
positive help. But
if any of you be
long to that miscreant class of peo
ple who, without any financial abil
ity, organize themselves into what
THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BYINFLUENCE
DURHAM, N. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1887.
they call a life insurance company,
with a pretended capital of two hun
dred thousand dollars or three hun
dred thousand dollars, then vote
yourself into the lucrative position,
and then take all the premiums for
yqurself, and then, at the apr roach
ofithe State superintendent, drop all
injto the hands of those life insurance
undertakers, whose business it is to
gajther up the remains of defunct or
ganizations and bury them in their
ovjn vault then, I say, you h;id bet
ter get out of the business, and dis
gorge the widows' houses you have
swallowed. But my word is to all
those who are legitimately engaged
in! the husiness : You ought to be
better than other men, not on
lv hi
cause of the responsibilities thjit rest
upon you, but because the ti!uth is
ever confronting vou that voujr stay
on earth is uncertain and your life
a matter of a few days or years. Do
not those black-edged letters that
cojme into your office make you
thjnk? Does not the doctor's pertfi-
cate on the death-claim rive you a
thrill? Your periodicals, vour adver
tisements, and even the lithography
ofjyour policies warn you that you
are mortal. According to your own
shpwing the chances that you will
die this year are at least t'o per
ceit. Are you prepared for the tre
mendous exigency? The most con
demned man in the Judgment Day
will be the unprepared life insurance
man, lor the simple reason that hi;
whole business was connecte
with
hijman exit, and he cannot sajy : "1
did not think. f lis whole business
was to think on that one thinir. ).
my brother,
GET INSURED FOR ETERNITY
In consideration of what Christ has
done in your behalf, have the in
denture this day made out, signed
aiid sealed with the red seal of the
cross.
jlkit I have words f encpurage
ment and comfort for those of my
hearers who are engaged in tlie fire
insurance business. You are or
dained by Go'd to stand between us
aiid the most raging element of na
tore. AVe are indebted to you for
what the National Board of Ij'nder
writers and the convention ofchiefs
of the fire department have effected
through your suggestions! and
through your encouragement; We
are indebted to you for what you
have effected in the construction of
buildings, and in the change jin the
habits of our cities, so that bi scien
tific principles orderly companies
extinguish the fire, instead of the
old-time riots which used to 'extin
guish the citizens ! And Ave iire in
debted to you foathe successful de
mands you have made for the re
peal of unjust laws, for the! battle
ypu have waged against incendiar
isp and arson, fr the fatal blow
yOu have given to the theory that
corporations have n.o souls, tv the
cneenuiness ana promptitude with
wpich 3-011
have met losses
from
which vou might have escaped
I 1
through the technicality of the law.
I jdo not know any class of men in
our midst more high-toned and
worth v of confidence than these men.
and yet I have sometimes feared that
while 3Tour chiet business is
to cal-
culate about losses on earthly
prop-
ertv, you might without su
ilicient
thought go into that which,
in re-
ganl to your soul, in your owjn par
lance might be called hazards, ex
tra hazards, "special hazardsi" An
uniorgiven sm in the soul is more
inflammable and explosive than
camphine or nitro-glvcerine. How
ever the rate may be yea, though
the whole earth were paid down to
you in one solid premium vqu can
not afford to lose your soul.
DO NOT TAKE THAT RISK
lest it be said hereafter that while in.
this world vou had keen business fac
ulty, when vou went out of thd world
vou went out everlastingly insolvent.
The scientific Hitchcocks and Silli
' i n 1 j 1 n i j 1 it
world
have united with the sacfed writers
to make us believe that there is com-
jng a connagration, to sweep across
the earth, compared with which that
of Chicago in lb 1, and that bt Bos
ton in 1872, and that of New York
iri lS'-V), were mere nothing. Brook
lyn on fire! New lork 01k fire!
Charleston on fire ! San Fraincisco
oh fire ! Canton on fire !
St.
'eters-Lon-
burg on fire ! Paris on fire !
don on fire ! the Andes on firje ! the
Appenines 011 fire ! the Himalaya
oh fire ! What will be peculiar!
the day will be that the water with
which we put out great fires will it
self take flame ; and the Mississippi,
and the Ohio, and the St. Lawrence,
aiid Lake Erie, and the Atlantic and
the Pacific oceans, and tumbling Ni
agara, shall with red tongues li -k the
heavens. The geological heats of
the centre of the world will burn
out toward the circumference, and
the heats of the outside will burn
down from the circumference 0 the
centre, and this world will become
not only according to the Bibl but
acjiordjng to science, a living coal
the living coal afterward whitening
into ashes, the ashes scattered by the
brkith of the last hurricane, and all
that will be left of this glorious planet
will be the flakes of ashes fallen on
otjier worlds. O ! on that day will
you be fire-proof, or will you be a
tofal loss? Will you be rescued, or
wll you be consumed ? When this
great cathedral of the world, with its'
pillars of rocks and its pinnacles of
mountains, and its cellar of golden
nxine, and its upholstery of morning
elbud, and its baptismal font f the
seja, shall blaze, will you get cut on
the fire-escape of the Lord's deliver
ance ? 0 ! on that day for wh ich all
other days were made, may it be
found that these life insuranc ; men
had a paid-up policy, and these fire
insurance men had given thsm in
stead of the debris of a consumed
Worldly estate a house not mat :e with
hands eternal in the heavens !
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teaching of History ajid Literature,
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the study of some general text, in
connection with parallel reading of
more elaborate works ton the same
topics. At the! conclusion of the
study of each period of his.ory, the
student will be required to make an
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Political Economy, including the
solution of practical economic prob
lems, will be taught bv dailv recita
tion during first term of senior year.
Students will also be assigned topics
relating to the industrial system of
the State and country.! This part of
the work, based upon! public docu
ments, especially the reports of the
labor bureaus of the dijferent States,
and the; National Bureau of Labor
Statistics, will be given mainly t
those students, who continue Politi
cal Economy as an elective study of
two-and-a-half hours per week dur
ing the latter half of tile senior year.
The study of the English Language
and Literature will receive the lib
eral .degree of attention now given
to the subjects in the leading colleges
of the country. The bject of this
course is, after giving thorough train
ing in the construction of Modern
English, to begin with the oldest En
glish (Anglo-Saxon) and study the
language with its literature, so far as
time will allow, down to the present.
Prof. J. L. Armstrong,1 who occu
pies this chair, will meet in an op
tional exercise a combined class of
juniors and seniors twibe a week for
the study of post-Elizabethan au
thors. This will require careful, ex
tensive and systematie'reading.
A POST-GRADUATE COURSE OF STUDY. '
This course of English Literature
and Language is already arranged,the
aim of; which! is to deepen and
strengthen the work already done in
the regular course of, graduation.
The student will be exercised in veri
fying grammatical lbrnis and con
structions in old English by exami
nation of the best edited texts, in
tracing phonetic changes in words,
and the development of their pres
ent meaning, and in accounting for
modern English idioms.
OTHER ELECTIVE AN if OPTIONAL
STUDIES. !
The other members of the faculty,
being released from instruction in
the subjects mentioned above, are
able to offer, each in his own special
chair, elective and optional studies
of considerable variety to the upper
classes in ever' department. In the
senior year, Prof. Heitnjan will give
Greek as an elective in the Fall term,
and History of Philosophy, or ad
vanced Ethics, in the Spring term.
Prof. Gannaway will read Juvenal's
Satires anil other Latin authors.
Prof. Bandy will give Mathematical
Astronomy (the calculati6ns of Tides
and Eclipses) and Calculus in the
junior yt?ar, and Dynairjic Engineer
ing in senior year. Prof. Pegram
will give Analytical Chemistry in
senior year.
In the Normal' department, Prof.
English will give regular instruction
in the Theory of Teaching and the
History of North Carolina, for the
advantage of those students who are
preparing for teaching in the public
schools of the State. ;.
THE BIBLICAL DEPARTMENT.
This department aims to provide
for the training of young men for the
Christian ministry. Regular instruc
tion by the President will be given
in Theology and Church History,
and by ProfHeilmanJ in the Evi
dences of Christianity.
Ministerial students wishing to en
large their literary attainments may,
at the same time with their profes
sional studies, take anyi of the nu
merous other studies, in the other
schools, if they are prepared for them,
and if by so doing they do not inter
fere with the successful pursuit of
their professional studies.
AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.
Candidates for admission to any
of the college classes should appear
promptly at the college building on
Tuesday, August 23d, at 10 a. m.
The studies in which applicants' will
be required to pass an examination
for entrance to the freshman class
include so much of English, Lat
in, Mathematics and the Natural
Sciences as is designated for the pre
paratory year in the catalogue. The
standard of admission to the fresh
man class of next year will be con
siderably higher.
For more general information the
catalogue of 1SMG-7 will be forwarded
to any address -upon application to
the treasurer, Prof. John F. Heit
man. For special information apply to
John F. Crow ell, Pres.,
Trinity College, N. C.
Dancing' tjiie Highland Fliilg.
N. w York Hcml.l.
Mr. George William Curtis does
not understand that the Newport
civil service resolution "Imports
either distrust of the President or
regret at the very general support
which he received from reformers
in 18S1. Nor js it intended, we
presume, to intimate that as against
any other probable candidate he
would not be supported by them
again:' We do not know of a single
friend of reform who regrets his vote
for Mr. Cleveland, although there
may be such instances in Maryland
or in Indiana."
That is decidedly rough on Repub
licans. The Tribune has been danc
ing the Highland fling and telegraph
ing orders to have the fatted calf
killed and a magnificent spread laid
for the returning prodigals. And
now, when the ribs of veal are siz
zling on the spit, the mugwumps
send word that though Mr. Cleve
land has faults he is so much better
than the best the Republicans have
to oiler that they will stay where
they are for the present, thank you.
So in the Tribune tower there is a
large quantity of cold veal and con
siderable gnashing of teeth.
A Strange Duel.
Toledo, ()., Telegram.
Particulars of a strange duel have
just leaked out here through the ar
rival from Mexico of Col. Martin, a
wealthy coffee merchant. He says
the participants in the duel were
Senor Victoria, a mining speculator,
and Senor Padraza, an extensive ship
owner. While at a hall a few weeks
ago, given at Tampico by one of the
chief ladies of the Spanish colony,
the gentlemen quarrelled in the pres
ence of the lady, and Victoria chal
lenged Padraza. As Padraza had
the choice of weapons he demanded
that Victoria meet him in a dark
room where should be placed a hun
dred tarantulas of the most poison
ous character, and that each should
devote his energies to killing taran
tulas instead of lighting his oppo
nent, and neither must leave the
room until all the poisonous spiders
were killed. The duel' was fought
in a room" as- dark as a dungeon.
There were no seconds and no one
in Tampico suspected the truth.
When the doors w ere broken open
both men were found dead sur
rounded by the horrible spiders,
some dead and some alive.
Refuses to Answer.
Washington Evening Star.
Col. Crocker is another Pacific rail
way magnate who refuses to answer
a simple question,-put to him by the
investigation commission, as to the
use of the company's money for the
purpose of influencing legislation.
In view of the informal character of
the commission's sessions, a refusal
to answer such a question: is equiva
lent to an affirmative response in
every instance. The stringent rules
of a eourt of justice are not enforced,
and if a witness is -disposed to enter
into explanations, he ftf allowed to
do so with the utmost freedom. Had
Col. Crocker frankly answered the
crucial question and proceeded to
state expository facts, nobody would
have cavilled, and his commentary
would have traveled as fast and as far
as his response. As it is, he leaves the
stand with his own reputation and
that of his company badly smirched,
and with a threat of a most disagree
able legal process hanging over his
head.
Election of Oilicers.
Raleigh Visitor.
At the meeting of the North Caro
lina Pharmaceutical Association held
at Asheville, N. C, August 4th and
oth,the followingoflicers were elected
for the ensuing year :
F. W. Hancock, New Berne, Pres
ident : T. D. Crawford, Oxford, 1st
Vice-President; W. G. Carmichael,
Asheville, 2d Vice-President ; W. H.
Wearn, Charlotte, .'id Vice-President ;
E. V. Zoeller, Tarboro, Secretary ;
W. C. Shannon, Goldsboro, Ixcal
Secretary ; A. S. Lee, Raleigh, Treas
erer. The next meeting will be held at
Goldsboro second Wednesday in Au
gust, 1888.
AVe Pass.
A lady admirer of the editor of
the Wilson Mirror says of him :
"That he is entertaining and witty
in conversation, writes with a pen
dipped in sparkling dew drops as
they glisten on the roses in the
morning sun, is rather handsome in
appearance, but a little inclined to
onfj bong jncong. t
Young men or middle-aged ones,
suffering from nervous debility and
kindred weaknesses, should send 10
cents in stamps for illustrated book
suggesting sure means of cure. Ad
dress, World's Dispensary Medical
Association, GC3 Main street, Buffalo,
N. Y.
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
N'KiV YORK LKTTEK.
Amos .T
Cuniniings in tlie "Wash
ington Star.
There
are more than 00 stenogra
New York, and the number
phers in
is yearly increasing. Most of them
find employment as private secreta
ries in oilices at salaries ranging from
SI 2 to Sot) a week, or as reporters in
the numerous referees' courts at from
10 to 2o jeents per hundred words or
folio. Occasionally an expert is hired
at a stattkl salary by some litigant
who doe not care to depend upon
the court stenographers tor copies.
Jacob .siart employed ' during his
long triajl of nearly forty days two
stenographers at S-3 an" hour. The
shorthan'd men employed in the
great ca.se followed the comparative
ly deliberate speakers easily until
Col. Fellpws made his suiuming-up
speech for the prosecution.' He is a
rapid talker, and it taxed them to
the utmost to follow him. Then
came the address of Burke Cochran
in behalf of a permanent stay for
Sharp, lie is one of the most rapid
speakers) at the . bar, aiul when he
had warmed to his work, he aver
aged 2 Hjj words to the minute. There
are probably not five shorthand men
in New York who could have fol
lowed hiin, and two of them were at
the trial.) During a pause in the or
ator's address Mr. Sharp's stenogra
pher, who was nearly overcome with
fatigue a: id the heat, created consid
erable m vrriment in court by asking
Mr. Cochran plaintively how much
longer he proposed to speak. The
stenogra hic report of this great trial
has just jeen written out. It makes
a volume of 4,o(0 pages, LJ,500 fo
lios, or L8G0,(KK) words. A stenog
rapher in the New York courts gets
a stated Salary of $2K) a year, and
is allowed to charge for extra copies
of his reports. This revenue swells
his income to about $.",000 a year,
but he erns it. The shorthand wri
ter who leported the trial of Alder
man MdQuade was so prostrated
with fatigue at the end of the case
that he has not been able to work
since.
WRjITINC OUT THE RECORD.
In a great trial the record of a. day's
proceedings must be written out by
the opening of court the next day.
As soon ps court adjourns the stenog
rapher hastens to his office with his
notes. t would be utterly impossi
ble to transcribe them all during the
night, bijit he dictates part of them
to another stenographer, who writes
them dojwn in shorthand and then
dictates ihem to a rapid typewriter..
The court stenographer dictates the
last portion of his report to another
typewriter, and the weary monotone
of the stenographer's voice and the
sharp click of the typewriting ma
chine is jheard until 1 or 2 o'clock in
the monjiing, when the stenographer
goes hoihc to get a' little rest to for
tify himffor the next day. Men can
stand thirty-five days of this work,
as they did in the Shary trial, but it
wears thlem out in the end.
Among the lawyers at the New
York bar, who are the terror of the
shorthand men, are Ira Shafer and
John E.jBurrill, but even they have
never equaled the record of Judge
Van Brunt, presiding judge of tlie
Suprem court. The court stenog
rapher jtimed his honor one day
while he. was charging a jury. He
spoke only seven minutes, but it was
at the rate of two hundred and seven
words a jminute. In ordinary con
versation the average individual ut
ters about one hundred words a min
ute. I Some expert stenographers are
slow in reading their notes, and such
are of little use in reporting a court
martial, for as soon as each question
is put the shorthand reporter of the
trial must read it from his notes be
fore the witness answers.
A.N IMPORTANT MISTAKE.
It is n,ot strange that occasionally
a mistake on the part of a stenogra
pher should occur. In lSG'J the fate
of a mar 1 convicted in New York of
murder mng upon the accuracy of
the stenographer's report. A ques
tion as tb the correctness of the re
port was raised and the shorthand
writer, referring to his notes, found
that he had, in dictating to the copy
ist, omitted the record of an'xeep
tion taken by the defense to a ques
tion by the prosecution. The record
was the mere scratch of a pen, but
it proved of immense consequences
in the subsequent proceedings.
The limited amount of shorthand
work ori the newspapers of New
York is usually done by outside men
hired for special occasions. Some
of them are veterans, but unlike the
average old-timer, they do not talk
about the good old days, for former
ly So a jcolumn was considered a
good price for their work, while now
they willjnot take an assignment for
less than2o cents per folio.
plE TYPEWRITERS.
Closely! associated with the stenog
raphers ih their work is a large army
of typewriters, most of them ladies.
They have their offices, make good
incomes and live well. They have a
uniform scale of five cents per folio
for one typewritten copy, 8 cents for
two and" 10 cents for three copies.
Some of them average To words a
minute, otf 35 folios per hour. In a
recent contest one of ihem wrote 3'J7
long words in four minutes and thir
ty seconds, and another in four min
utes andi forty-one seconds. They
must frequently write far into the
night to prepare copies needed the
following day, and their work, like
that of tne stenographer, is very te
dious, f'rom three to five years'
practice is required to attain the pro
ficiency pf an expert, but when they
have reached that point they can,
under favorable circumstances, make
Sl.oOOtd $2,500 a year. f
A striding performance a boxing
match.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Jeff Davis is taking a stand against
prohibition. " . .
M. Katkoff, editor of the Moscow
Gazelle, is dead. 1
The king of Denmark Is till with
a compact figure.
Mr. Gladstone has gone to Ha war
den for a prolonged stiy.
The Princess of Wales is said to
look every inch a princess.
The millionaire, Flood, of New.
ork, is in a dying condition.
The wife of Gen. X. N. Curtis died
at Ogdensburg, X. Y., aged 4!).
Empress Eugenie's health has
been improved by a stay at Amster
dam. The king of the Belgians is tall
and straight, with a full chest and
broad shoulders.
Edgar Poe's father was a law stu
dent, and his mother an actress
named Elizabeth Arnold.
Gen. -Sheridan will attend the re- '
union of the Army of the Tennessee.
I to be held at Detroit, Sept. 14 and 15.
George William Curtis was re
elected president of the Civil Service
Relorm league at its meeting in New
port. (ien.- Miles, the Indian fighter, is
to have a Sl.'HKl sword presented to
him. Over 1 ( U'( X persons subscribed
to it.
Gov. Foraker is again the Repub
lican candidate for governor of ( hio.
Judge Powell is the Democratic nom
inee. -The Prince of Wales wears one of
the few white high hats to be seen
i iv London during the summer
m'ftnths.
Sam Jones receives S5()0 for three
days' work at Round bake, N. Y.,
during which time he preaches nine
sermons. ' .
The king of Saxony is said to ha ve
the appearance of a retired merchant
with a small income who lives a
peaceful, narrow life.
Tinted States Consul Francis, who
was injured in the railway horror at
St. Thomas, Out., died of 'paralysis
of the heart, aged To.
Miss Mary Snyder, of Columbia,
has died after an illness of seven tfv
five years. A few days since s(ie
was stricken by paralysis.
Congressman Randall, of Pennsyl
vania, danced for the first time in 25
vears at a recent reception given him
by the Pittsburg Randall Club.
Mrs. Crawford, the Paris corres
podent, is said to earn S10,HX) a year
by her pen the largest sum made
by any woman out of journalism.
Roswell P. Flower has arrived in
Paris and,with an arch glance toward
Albany, says that Cleveland's renom
ination and re-election are assured.
A Rutland (Vt.) paper states that
John II. Craig, who recently visited
that place, weighs 8(H) points, and
is the heaviest man in the country.
Miss Susan B. Anthony will spend
October in Kansas, holding an equal
suffrage convention at the bome of
each of the nine Congressmen of that
State.
Judge J. F. Harris, late chief jus
tice of the Kentucky Court of Ap
peals, Will, be a candidate for the
United States Senate in opposition
to Senator Beck.
George H. Patch, military . editor
ol the Globe, and ex-commander of
the Department of Massachusett, G.
A. R., died last week after a brief at
tack of pneumonia.
Prince Bismarck is the most dee
orated man in Europe. Should he
ever appear wearing insignia of all
the orders conferred on him he would
resemble an Oriental prince.
Miss Cora Slocumb, who is to
marry an Austrian nobleman next
month, is now in I ans purchasing
an elegant trousseau. The next
want will probably be a divorce suit. -
- The Russian, Kathoff, was carried
to his grave by alternate relays of
friends, workmen, students and peas
antry.' In death as in life these rep
resent the successful editor's chief
support.
Ex-Congressman Jos. II. Rainey,
colored, died at his home at George
town, S. ( '., last week. J fe was a
barber by. trade and was elected to
Congress in 1S7( and again in 1S72,
but was defeated in lS'7-1 by John
Richardson.
Milford Woodruff, SO years old,
has ben elected President of the
Mormon. Church in place of John
Taylor, deceased. Woodruff is a fugi
tive and in biding to escape the se
vere provisions of the Edmunds act
against polygamy.
One of Buffalo Bill's Indians is
named Bloody Shirt. When Mr.
Blaine was in London betook sjecial
pains to give Bloody Shirt a warm
greeting. However, most of Buffalo
Bill's Indians were born either in
New York city or Dublin.
Mrs. Eliza Kinlock, the mother of
Mrs. John Drew, the actress, died at
Long Branch, N. J., August 11th,
aged 'Jl years. Mrs. Kinlock was
formerly an actress just a few days
over W vears ago. She made her,
American debut at the Walnut street
theatre, Philadelphia, and from that
time she filled an imporbantjJace in
the dramatic world up to 1855, when
she retired.
Senator Klihu E. Jackson, the
Democratic nominee for Governor of
Marvland, is about 50 years of age.
He is happily married and. has five
children. He lives handsomely in
a fine house at Salisbury, where he
dispenses a truly Southern hospital
ity. He is a business man of ability
and reputation, and president of two
national banks. He was at one time
president of the Maryland Senate.
He has always been a Democrat and
is wen acquainted with the needs of,
his State. 1
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