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ANNIVElvfLARY EDITION. A. ROSCOWEll, Editor & Proprietor. "HERE SHALL THE PHESS THE PEOPLE'S SIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNDRIBED BY GAIN." EIliHT pa;es. VOL. III. NO. 1. GOLDSBORO, N. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1889. Subscription, 81.00 Per Year. t :: linLlld H ijjjJLljlvbril 1 .. LIFE IS ALL. JUGHTT. The summer winds is sniffin' ? round-? tho. LlcK-trnta' locus' trees, And tho clover in the pastures a'bigfclay for the boea, And they been ft-swiggta' : honey, i above-'- tarcl and on the sly. Till thy stutter in their buzzinacd i stagger1 aa the fly. Thry'a betr a h-ap of rain,4but the. sun's out-to-ilay. And tho c'ouds of the wefc'spell.ls allcleaucd away, And the woods is all the groecjerndtho grass i3 greener still; It . may rain again to-morry,but I dealt think it will. Borne, say tbo crops is ruined,-indthe corn la tlrownded out, And propha-sy tho v. heat wUl'bea failure, without uouat; Hut tho kind lYovldenco that : has never failed us yet, "Will boon baud onc't more atitho Eleventh, hour, Il6tl Does tho mertdor-lar!i oomplaic.tas lie swims high and dry, Through the waves of the wind and the blue, of tho tky? Does the quail ret up and whistIoin a disap- pinted way, Er hang Lis head in eiknee and j sorrow all tho day 7s the chipmuck's health a failure? Does life walk, or does he run? Don't tho buzzards ooae around". up tharer just) like they've allus-done? Is thero anything the matter with the roos ter's lungs or voice? rt a mortal beccmplainin'-when dumb ani mals rejco? Thon l.fc us, one and all, '-be contented with our lot-; The June is hero this morning and the sun Is shiniEg hot. Oh, let us till our hearts with the glory of the day, And banish ev'ry doubt and care and sorrow far away I Whatever be our station, with Providence for guide, Such lino circumstances ort to make us satis fled; For the world is full of rosea, and the roses full of dew, And th dew Is" full of heavenly love- that drips for me and you. James Witcomb Riley. GKANDFATHEK'S CLOCK BY CORDELIA NT2P0S. I was comiDg up the 6treet to-day, hurrying home to dinner, when a brass band struck up "My Grandfather's Clock." I was in haste, but I stopped to hear it, not because I particularly :ad rniro the air, but because there came be fore my mental vision a most distinct memory of a childish adventure of my own, connected with my grandfather's clock. In recalling it, I am well aware that much of the story must have been told mo by older people, but my own share will never leave my jrinory. I was six years old when my father died, and my grandfather offered a home to my widowed mother and myself. I know now that poverty alone would not have driven ray mother to accept this offer, but she knew that she had an in curable internal disease that might spare her life for year?, but would make it diffi cult for her to cam a living. She could take charge of my grandfather's house keeping, but was often compelled to re main for several days together in her own room. To say that my grandfather was an ill tempered tyrant gives but a faint idea of his utterly unreasonable demands and love of power. Sometimes he would not speak to any member of the whole house hold for a wet-k ; he would refuse to come to the table when meals were served, ami give way to furious rage when, two hours later, the food was set before him utterly ruined by delay. Only the ex treme gentleness of my mother's disposi tion made her life en durable, and she was happy only when alone with me, direct ing me to sew aud knit, and allowing rue to help her when she was "able to make delicacies for the table. Our sitting-room was on the first floor, and was a combination of study, library, sewing-room, aud school-room, for in the cold weather it was the only place in the house, excepting the kitchen, where we were allowed to have a tire. The dining room between sitting-room and kitchen shared the warmth of each. In one corner of this sitting-room, where every article was of the fashion of a century before, was the clock that governed the household movements. It was ten feet high, and four wide, with a mahogany case and two partitions as tho sides where the weights hung. The pendulum swung by itself in the central division, and above was the big white face with the dial. There was no mechanism about it, excepting the clock-work to record the time and strike the hour, but it was a reliable time-keeper and the especial ob ject of pride to my grandfather. I think most intense fear, having felt the weight of his heavy hand for. every trifling of fence that came to his knowledge. I hated him as only a child can hate, hav ing no active sense of the duty of sup pressing that emotion. I hated him for aTays speaking unkindly to my mother, for his mean, .saving spirit that kept us all half clothed and half -starved, when I knew he was a rich man. I hated him for denying me every childish pleasure, and trying to make my mother bring me up by hi s o n iron rules. And with this hatred v- .,ho knowledge that when he diedl ..ould have all his money. lie had a superstitious horror of making his will, believing that iit would be followed by his death, and I was his only heir-at-law. He made no (secret of this himself, but delighted to taunt me with his robust health and my sickly weakness, and tell me I would noverlive to spend his money, much as I might desire it. He had been' particularly savage on that point one Friday evening in December, when he had returned from Stockton to find me lying on a sofa with nervous headache. He shook the tin box in which he had his money in my face, and told mo that I would never spend it, as his life was worth ten of mine. "Lying there with your pasty, white facef" he growled, "and eyes like goose berries. A nico substitute you are for my son ! You are not worth your funeral expenses!" Something had made him more ill tempered than usual even, and he kept up a running fire all the evening of try ing speeches, scolding my mother for waste and extravagance, threatening to cut down the meagre housekeeping al lowance still lower ; swearing at me for a wretched, sickly mite, not worth my salt. It was a miserable three hours, and at ten o'clock, when he went to bed, mother and I cuddled into each other's arms and had a good cry. It was a bitter cold night, and I was curled up in a nest of shawls in a warm room, and gave a little shudder at the prospect of the icy-ccld chamber and sheets above us. Mother noticed it. "Suppose you stay here," she said. "I will come down in the morning be fore your grandfather is awake and call you; and you are so comfortable you will soon fall asleep." Stay there 1 Stay alone, with that hor rible clock in the room, all night ! I, who had never slept alone in all my life! And yet, it was so cold up stairs, and my nest so deliciously comfortable The physical sense conquered, and I saw my .mother depart with the candle, for we d'arcd not have a light left burning. I tried to sleep in vain. The clock ticked as it every stroke was made with a ham mer on my brain; the darkness was in tense, and suddenly I heard stealthy steps in th3 hall. The climax was too much for my strained nerves, and I . sprang to the door of the dining room, forgetting that it was alwajrs locked at might, and the kein my grandfather's room. No chance' of a stolen crust in that house. A hand on the hall door drove me nearly frantic, and with the instinct of concealment only, I opened the clock case and curled down the door, holding the pendulum fast in my shaking hands. The door opened, and the steps came into tho room. Darkness all around U3, and my terror of burglars almost an insanity, my situation may be imagined. "He's not asleep yet," a voice said, and I knew the speaker was our man-servant, Robert. He always sits up o' Friday night to count the money and sort it out." "Sure he's got it?" said a strange voice. "Sure? Of course I'm sure. Don't I drive him over every Friday of his blessed life to draw it out o' bank?" 4 'We can get it now, then. If we knock him on the head, there's only a lot o' women in the house." "No," said Robert. "We'll get the money, but I'm not hankerin' for a rope round my throat yet. "We'll wait awhile." "Let's go outside and see if the light is burning in his room yet." Creeping softly, slowly they crossed the hall to the kitchen, and I lay almost un conscious, too much terrified to move. It was some minutes later when a light ; came across the room, striking the glas j of the clqckface, and I heard my grand father say : "Il'm! I was mistaken! I thought j only one of 'em went to bed. That brat lis coddled to death! Sleeping down ! here next:" . He poked about awhile, stirred up the ' shawls on the sofa and went off, having ! passed the entire time in muttering abuse j of my mother read myself, j "Let them steal his niQ-ej !" I ibaaxh t. in guilty delight."" "Let" them " knock him ou the head. Serve3 him richti" Then in the darkness I seemed to sec him with a great gaping wcund in his gray hair, and the blood streaming down his face. TTould I be hung, too, if tho men killed him? I would have all his money I It was terrible was it not? for a child to hesitate, but I did; and when I crept out of the clock-case and went softly up the stairs, I lingered, half re solved to go to my mother and let the robbers do their worse. My timid knock vas answered by a snarling permission to enter. Before tha torrent of abuse I saw preparing was uttered, I said: "Grandfather, Ho'bert aud another man are down stairs, waiting for you to go to sleep to steal your mor.ey and kill you!" A grim look came into his face. "That's a nice lie!" he s-dd. "It is true! They enmc into the sit ting room, and I was getting warm. They did not see rue, and they said they would wait tili you vcre asleep, because Robert don't want to kill you.' "Highly considerate of Ilobcrt!" "You don't believe me," I said, "but it is true! They are watching your win dow now, to come in when your light is out." "I do believe you. Will you help me to save my life and my money J" "Yes," I answered, afraid to refuse. "They cannot jump from these win dows, and there is only one door. I'm going for the police, to Stockton. I can clip down to the barn and saddle .Tupitcr while they are at the front watching my light. Will you stand close to the door, and as they creep in, will you shut it on them, and lock it ? Wait until you h;ar me bark like a dog, then blew out the candle, stand close to the door, and trap them. Can I trust you?' "Yes! I will doit!" Cold as ice, my heart beating like a hammer, I saw my grandfather wrap up for his cold ride, take the cash bore out of the room, and go softly down the stairs. In one hand he held a pistol. "In case I meet them," he said. But he did not. I could hear his stealthy steps cross the hall, creep through the kitchen, and, afler a tim.3 that seemed hours to me, I heard the bark like a dog. I blew out the caudle and pressed myself against the wall ciose to the door. Colder and colder I grew, my heart seemed chok ing me, my head ached frightfully, but I never stirred. After what seemed hours cf time, the creeping steps came up the etairc, and two shadowy forms passed me into the room. I caught fit the door, shut it, and turned the key. One shout I heard in side and then fell in a dead faint in the hall. My grandfather came at last with policemen and found me on my mother's bed, murmuring deliriously, but with the key of the door clasped tightly in my hand. I was ill for weeks, but came back, not only to health, but to happiness. "Sly grandfather never again spoke harshly to me, but would tell friends and neighbors of his "plucky little girl, who wasworlh two boys." He forgave ir:o for stopping his clock for the first time in his memory, and was gradually won to a sort of surly good nature to my mother, and more liberal ex penditure in housekeeping. Indeed, it was soon remarked that I "could do any thing with the eld gentleman," aud I was his favorite until he breathed his last in my arms, leaving me his fortune, includ ing his clock. New York Ledger. AnlmaU Vil'i Hindsifdii a.iii Fie; Nature has enabled tome auhua see objects behind the in c.z v.vd ; front without turning nroue.d. Tea; has this power in a marked d e. eyes are large, prominent, and lateraiiy. IU power of scehig thh-y the rear is very noticeable in vV coursing, for though ilii.i c. .g k : while running, the hare is abh: Uj j to a nicety the exact moment at vl:l will be bee-t for "is to double. Ilxse another instance. It is ouly r.."-; . watch a iicr.se driven invariably vit blinkers to notice this. Let th-j u even attempt to take the whki la h and if the horse h used to the v. or will at once increase kh; pace. Ti: raffe, which is a very tied 1 animal', i proached with the utmost diiiit-ultv account of its eyes being so pl-.-xe..l it can see as well behind as in i; When ajiprcached this sa.r.e facultv ables it to direct with great pieeisle: rapid f forms cf kick? with whh'h it f foius itself.- - CI icaoo HtraU. FarchmEiit. The use cf parchment was known at a very early period. Tho invention is ac credited by bono historians to Eumenes II., King of Fergamos, who reigned 107 IS'J B. C, but according to Herodotus the Indians wroto on skins before that time, and it is certain that parchment was made and v..ed in Egypt centuries before Eumsncs lived. Parchment that in color and delicacy might well. ccmparo with modem piper war. manufactured in Syria and Arabia. The ancient processes of making parchment did not differ essenti ally, probably, from those now in use. For certain purposes to which parchment is applied no substitute for it has ever been found. Tho finer sorts aro called veilun, and ere prepared from the skins cf en-'ves, kids and lambs. The skin is Cr.it freed from hair, then put in a lime pit to cleanse it rcm fat. The pelt is thon stretched on a frame where it is first scraped with a flesh -knife, then care fully rubbed down with pumice stone. Lastly it is polished with finely powdered ch.;!k cr fresh slacked lime and then dried gradually, being stretched ceca dorally to prevent its wrinkling. A green color is given to the parchment with a solution of erystalized verdegris, to v. hich a little cream of tartar and nitric acid have been added, and a blue color with a solution of indigo. The heavier parchment that is used for drum-heads i3 madef rom the skins of older calves, ho go;:ts and wolves; That for battledores 13 from the skins of asses. The kind of vellum, soi-it-thncs used in binding is mr.de from pig skie-e. Ail of these are prepared by essentially the same process used in making vellum. Chicago Irder- A ce:i Dlid ForacJ af F!owers Probably nowhere in New llngland, and probably nowhere in the United States, are there more wonderful floral designs then on the grounds of the State Lunatic HeqiU, in Ban vers, Mass. The Italian f erl t end landscape gardener, Ettoro ,";" .'a.,r.ri, has completed his designs for. i--2 : : ven, rud shows over .one hundred diil'cr.': t I e Is, of which three largo ones attract great attention. The tia',.i one is about seventy feat in circumference at the base, and the foun dstion is a huge mound, eight feet high.' In each side is a grotto, with back and sides ol' masctiry. From the top of each grotto a stream cf water is forcibly driven and distributed in a trickling Sow to a pool beneath, from which another foun tain studs a tiny stream into the air. In each inters lice, also, are numerous plants 1 obeli?., ceatury plant, "palm, nirem bergia, ger.miurn, vines, ivy and many other fr-.u table varieties. On the front is a calendar, tlv? year hemmed in by a scroll, r.nd the day of week and month in ari oval frame. The top of the mound is fiat, aud on it rests a great vase, made wholly of plants. The vase is live and on-half feet irgh e.:d six and one-half feet in dLsueter and contains about three carloads of leaai. The vase is filled with choice tall plants, so that the whole mar velous design has quite an altitude. "Pol's Clock" arc the words on another design at one corner of the principal driveway. A pole of grovving houseieek, placed at the proper arigle and toward tha north ftar, casts a shadow on Roman nu' i.Lrals of t. Helena set in a horseshoe of alrheruantkcre, the center of which is a bed of blue lobelia. Another desi0:i is in the shape cf a mound, surmounted by a handsomely for: icd turret of houseieek, supporting a rther vanv. In the bed beneath as of grewbg plants which mark ;'.s of tlx eear.pass. On the front .:: -r pivdktr.ms ere given daily. y. "r.catar" L permanent, and :. piaotd each moral. g (he word cloudy," .r "rainy," according are left lae p.-s the v.-t: over it "fair," to the i';r;:ci.i in the morning papers, the iiox-js containing the words being porta ble, as :n tk s.j u..ed in arranging the cakTn.Ui- on the i.:d u design. In this beu iae :e..Ons ph;-.cs ure uis.i given. A tru-o-eoloi ui i:i.K.-:i sf pi oeer shape reposes in a el.iii: be-:, and over it appears the .ippropriate detsrspilm: "New moon," "hist piurixr,' ce. Noj TvrZ Ifatl and y.o Treasury in the world ever con tained so vast a sum of money, boasts the San Francisco C.hwlctii, as that of the United States. The fast statement shows that there is in thu Treasury vaults over sii hundred mlllons in gold and silver coin and bullion. Of gold coin and bullion 'lia rra-vait la 3G3,30-i,S19; silver coin and bullion, 315,3i.i,180. tiy t.ie bills of ..lis vast aecumuLvLion the treasures of other countries, and those reeerdc i in history, sink into InsigmS- A Donkey Kills a Stallion. A remarkable and fatal fight between a stallion and a donkey occurred on Philip Hendricks's farm, near Deekertown, in Sussex County, N. J. Both animals were powerful and had been enemies for weeks. The donkey was very dark and strong and was called the "Knight of Malta." The stallion was a valuable horse'and was being trained for the race course. One day the stallion and donkey were left In adjoining fields. The stallion soon saw the opportunity afforded for a fight and tore down the field to a broken piece of fence. The donkey happened to bo di rectly on the other side and close to the fence. The stallion jumped straight oa his back, landing with his fore feet across the donkey's back and his hind feet on the ground toward the fence. Tho stallion fastened his teeth in his enemy's neck, and at the same time struck the donkey's side with his fore feet -with a good deal of force. The donkey ducked its head ontL at the same time elevated its heels. The stallion was thcown to the ground, and quick as a flash tho donkey turned around and began a fusillade "with Its heels on its prostrate enemy. It kicked hard and with lightning rapidity. The hard hecla of the donkey were driven again and again into the stallion's body and blood was soon flowing freely. . Tho horse kept up a constant whining and the donkey brayed loud end long. In five minutes the tide of battle turned completely. A few more of thoso terrific kicks and tht stallion was rendered helpless. The farm hands began to fear the stallion would be killed, so they took rails from the fence and began beating tho donkey. The in furiated animal then started fpr them, when the nearly dead horse made an ef fort to rise. The donkey saw it, andbe foro the men could intercept him, ha rushed -up to his fallen foe and turning, gave the stallion one tremendous kick, breaking his jaw, and then following it with another kick in the stomach, tear ing the flesh open and e jposing the intes tines. The stallion gave a' piteous moan and then a- gasp, and rolled orer dead. Tho donkey will survive. New JW1 World. Two "Scoops." When the Prince of Wales' risitcd America, the New York Hcrcld man got a scoop on all Lis esteemed contempora ries by holding a -wire against all comers. TLi3 yas at Niagara Falls, and there was but one wire at that Unie to New York. Tho Herald reporter started sending in his messages, and until ho had finished none of the other men could send in Uieirs. He telegraphed every mortal tluug that he couhl think of, described all tho suits the Prince of Wlcs wore and what tho Duke of Newcastle said and did, anil what every member of the 6oito thought and were likely to thiqjk about, and finally he had to fall back on the only book available, a copy of the New Testa ment, most of which was telegraphed to the Herald in Now York. Ey the time he had finished with the volume U was then too late for any of the other newspaper men to send in a special. If the men ia tlje-2LraWofnce read all tho dispatches that came in from the New Testament, the big sum of money paid for tho tele graph bill would not havo been alto gether wasted. In America the only trouble that corre spondents have is to get the news. Once they have that, there u no doubt about ite being telegraphed. In Europe the correspondents have another difficulty to contend with, and that is, even after they have their special information, and after they hand it in to the telegraph office, it is sometimes not sent. During the trouble some times in Spain a while ago, a news paper correspondent found that no matter what information he managed to get it wa3 never forwarded from the Spanish tclci rraph office. The Government of the day took care that no news t hat it did not wish to go abroad should le sent. Thu correspondent then wrote to his friend in London that when he received the nest dispatch he was to count every fifth word and cable only every fifth word to Now York. He wrote his dispatches after that on this principle. Whenever he got a good picve of, news he telegraphed a long rigmarole to Ji!s friend in London, which when r&ad as it was sent appeared U be a long talk of financial and domestic troubles which were Inhering him at that im?, but when ever' fifth word wa3 taken out it gave the news he wanted to send. TfeLs the Spanish people never got 4 'on to," aud so the correspondent secured many arc-ops for his paper. Detroit Free Pro. To finil the amount of hay in a ino allow 312 cubic feet for a ton. FUM. Electricity is a mighty dangerous force,' but some people make light of it. Life The grave digger Is always finding himself in a hole in the pursuit of cupation. Speaking of classic lore the employment of a Latin professor is an instance of classic hire. now happy our neighbors might be If they would only do as we think thej ought to do I Love is blind, and that's why lovers think lighting the gas ia unnecessary. Boston Courier. Old Slaid "Don't tell such blood curdling stories; you make my teeth chatter." Old Bcau-"Look out they don't fall out." Epoch. "The bravo Dame Fortune's smiles command," which brings this fact to view, that 'tis the man who has the sand who gets tho sugar, too. Education without experience is of about as much use to a man as a lac pet ticoat would be to the wife of an Eskimo fisherman. Boston Courier. The following contradictory inscrip tion is on the door of one of our public offices: "Positively no admittance w Please close the door." Life. Lady (who has just missed her train, to porter) "Porter, how long will tho. next train bef' Porter "Oh, er, six teen carriages and a van, mum.' Pick-Ife-Up. Mrs. Struck! tt (who recently enter tained a Count) "Have you ever had any foreign noblemen as guests?" Sirs. Slanorborn (quietly) "No; only as ser vants." Low Comedian "Ah, old friend, have you seen De Ranter in his new play!" Comic Villain "No, by all things malt, I havo not. Do tho gods look kindly on himt" Low Comedian "Well, he doesn't have much to do in the first op second act; it's in the third where he wins his laurels and the public heart." Comic Villain-' Ah, some happy stroke of gen ius." Low Comedian (with touch of nature) "Yes, ho don't come on at all.' Time. A Bumblo-Ses Too Hot for a Toad. Tho other day as I lay In my hammock I saw a huge toad winking and blinking lazily under tho largo leaf of a foliage plant. He looked contented and happy, and just as if he didn't care whether echool kept or not. A bumble-bee came buzzing around the flowers. That toad opened his eye3, looked around, deliber ately winked one eye at me, and then to all appearances went to sleep again. lie was not asleep, however, for the next moment, when the adventurous bee came a trifle nearer, he made a little spring, opened his countenanco till I thought he would actually drop in two, there was a red flasl and the bee had disappeared. I was just begin nyag to wonder where it had gone when I observed the toad begin to look melancholy. I then noticed thafc hi3 white vest was miffed out like an Al- derman8. In less time than it takes to tell it he was the most lonesome looking j toad I ever saw. He seemed to reflect a minute and then he got into an attitude In which tho old prints represent Nebu chadnezzar when he was out to pasture. EOs big mouth was close to tho ground, while his hind feet stood on tiptoe. He had swallowed something hot and was nowjgoing to gtt rid of it by reversing the process. After several violent ef forts, during which his whole anatomy, heaved with emotion, tbo troublesome, Jonah was ejected and lay on the grass before him. The toad wasn't winking at tne any more. Instead he was venting looks of revengeful spite at the unfortu nate author of all lm troubles, which by this time presented a sorry -appearance. Soon he cautiously approached, and with a lightning-like movement the bee again disappeared, this time to stay. For a moment the toad moved cautiously as if a. : 1 : . --aim 41. f hntnincr fire beneath his vest, and then, seeing that it was all right, hopped back with an elated air and went to tlccp under the leaf .A tl land ( Oh 0 "' It Is now announced that Commissioner: Morgan has determined to substitute as rapidly aa may be possible on the Indian reservations, non-partisan public schools; under ths supervision, of the Indian; Bureau, for the schools under charge of; several religious bodies Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopalian, Quaker, Romanj Catholic which have received Govern-; ment support since General Grant's first, aohministration under the contract sys-j 1 tenx.
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