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VOL. III. NO. 38.
GOLDSBORO, X. C, WEDNESDAY JUNE 11, 1890.
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FOREVER YOU NO.
The wild world hastens on it way;
The gray haired century near its clo(
Its sorrow deepens day by day;
The summer blush forsakes the roe.
But. darling, while your voice I hear.
And while your dark brown eyes I sea,
Sad months and sunless seasons drear
Art all the same., all glad to me.
Despair can never reach me
While your soft hand I hold:
While your eyes love and teach m)
I shall never grow old !
They say that love forsakes tne old,
That passion pales and fades away,
That even love's bright locks of gold
Must lose their charm and change to gray.
But, darling, while your heart is mine,
And while 1 feel that you are true.
For me the skies will ever shine
With summer light and tendevest blue.
Vet. let old age deride me!
I scorn his mocking tongue:
Dear love, with you beside me,
I am forever young .
Btlqrciiiu.
AN ESCAPED BOA.
Mrs. Peak had always had a "holv
hrror!" a sbe termed it, of a circus.
But when the-4mmense posters of Awl
paws's "Combination Meriligerie and Cir
cus" were spread out upon the two sides
I of her husband's blacksmith shop, th&h
wonderful attractions proved overwhelm
in.
Not only did the school-children
linger to pore over them at the expense ol !
their studies, but the older people of tht !
village made the spot where the highly-
colored announcement was displayed a
gathering place. At lastMrs. Peak her- '
self felt obliged to look into the matter.
The result was that, as the time for the
show drew near, she broached the sub
iert to her husband. I
t
" Zek'l. ' she insinuatiuglv remarked, j
"'pears to me most ali the au'mals iu
creation air s:oin: to be there. I must sa
I wouldn't mind scein' on 'em fer once in
ray life myself."
"Deac'n Pusley's goin' to takj hi;
gran'chil'ren," Mr. Peak briefly replied.
"Lah, now! you don't say so Well,
't any rate, a body don't haf to look on
ter the objection' ble doin'i, What dr
t you think, 'Zek'l, ;bout us goiu'("
"I aint doin' much thinkin'' ht
warily answered, "but it you've got ii
into your cran'um to go, it's more'r
likely we're goin'."
"Well, if the rest go, I don't &ee
what's to hinder us. I can borrer Pollj
Meekum's chil'ren, if chiVreu's what's
necessary. I know they'd like to see 'em,
too, an' I heerd Elder Pbinney say jest
yisterday such a c'lection was reelly au
eddication. I know myself I'd never V
knowed tbem jumpin' creeturs keeried
their young-uns 'round with 'em in theii
pockets if I hadn't seen it with my own
eyes when I was a gal. I'm sittin' old,
an' I'd reelly like to see one of them ;
'stricter boas things they say wrop j
folks up in their tails an' squash 'em to
death 'fore they swaller 'em." j
"Can't say my taste runs that way," j
observed Mr. Peak. "I'd rather se? that '
four-headed calf than a hull passel o' !
snakes. That's somethin' curus." ;
They went to the circus, or rather to ;
the menagerie, for Mrs. Peak con- j
scientiously refrained from patronizing j
the other portion of the exhibition, and '
insisted rigidly upon spending her whole
time about the cages and enclosures
where the animals were kept, though her J
husband was allowed to
viut the ide- i
show which held the four-headed calf.
Mrs. Peak had her great desire grati
fied she saw the ""strieters."
But she did not foresee what was to
follow, or probably she would not have
gazed so long upon their huge folds.
The keeper thiew into the cage a live
j rabbit, and she saw the poor creature
crushed and swallowed.
The horrid si orht wa more than she'
had bargained for. Her heart was
touched, and her conscience as well, aud j
she immediately refused to let Polly's
children remain longer; so Mr. Peak was
sought for, and they set out for home
long before their neighbors had left the
fascinating precinct.
"I didn't kcer for the rest, nohow, 's
long 's I'd seen thet calf," Mr. Peak an
nounced, as he cheerfully joined his wife,
"an' I hev my s'picious of thet the
thing didn't look one mite uat'ral."
"I'd 'a' liked it all 'cept thet last. I
can't git it outeu my head. It's sp'iled
it all," she answered, as they rode home
ward. j It certainly had spoiled it, for her state
; of mind grew amazingly, aud that night j
j she had visions innumerable, much to i
j Mr. Peak's discomfort. The next morn j
ing she arose burdened with remorse.
I though her husband endeavored to allav
it with a bit of philosophy
"I don't see nary use of your takin' -
thet critter's doin's on yourself, ' long 's
you ain't done nothin'."
"But I hev! I hadn't'orter stirred one
sol'tary step to thet circus if the hull
church 'd went," sue groaned.
That aftcrnoou she was convinced of
it whan her husband brought in a hand
bill which had been left in his shop, and
which contained the following announce
ment: AX ESCAFED BOa.
Through the carelesness of one of the keep
er?, a snake ct tee boa species has escaped.
A liberal reward will be paid to any one no
tifying the management of its whereabout?.
"I might 'a' known it' ejaculated
Mr. Peak. "There won't be a duck ner
a goose ner nothin' safe till it's found.
I'm goin' right now an' 9ee to thet old
blue hen thet's jet come off. These furs
need airin' awhile longer, anyhow.''
She dropped the tobacco stems she was
sorting out to pack the furs away in. "I
wouldn't be one speck s'prised if we
bad a visitation from it this very nuzht!"
t,!Tain;t likely it'll travel a mile jest
to ee us." dryly returned her husband.
"You can't tell what thet thing ?11 do.
Anything thet'll gulp down a hull live
rabbit at one swaller'll do most anything.
I "xpect something to happen fer goin' to
thet circus, an' I shaVt rest tili thet
critter's shet up ag4in."
"2sow, Xancy, don't git sot on thet,
i ftr you won't be easy till ther' does," he
?aid, as he went back to the forge, and
resumed a discussion with the shoemaker
Uj)0n the function of the camel's hump,
.-Zek '1, did you put up tht calfp
Mrs.' Pe"iik"shaokh6irtnoiin2 hiwband
UwUl tu a5k the question. There-
was no answer. "Anyway them chick
ens air safe," she remarked to herself,
tbdudouing the attempt to waken him
"Zek'l Peak. I say, wake up!"
It was a full hour later when hi
energetic wife cried thus again in hi?
ears, cutting oil a suore abruptly, unc
causing him to start uj; with aa affrighted
gasp as she vigorously nudged him.
"Laudy (iosheu, Xancy! Where
j what whew! What a sweat I'm in!'
i He sat upright. "I was bill-30sten' fex
J that Awlpaws concern, an' I'd got tht
; camels an' giraffes upside down. wher.
; the plaguy things let all their feet fh
j right in my ribs. Dii you punch me
j Xaiuy? What vou waul?"
'I want you to listen: there some
J thin' in the house," she breathlessly an
j swered.
I "Pooh! Jest your imaginia"! Quit
. vour fussin' 'bsut snake an things, ei
you'll be rassl'u' with more'n I hev. Go
to sleep an' don't punch me auy more."
"But there is! I heard it. Some
thin' droppin'," she persisted. But Mr.
Peak had taken hi? own advice aud had
dropped again to sleep
Not satisfied, but hearing nothing
more. Mrs. Peak's courage rose to the
point of investigating for herself. Ouieth
slipping our of bed. she opened tht
chamber door and tiptoed i the stair
railiny which overlooked the long, old
fashioned hall below.
The moon shone iu through the nanovs
windows on either side of the dour at in
end and threw its pnle light within, sc
that, as Mrs. Peak peered down into tht
open space, it was easy to see all there
was to be seen. And what she did et
I curdled the blood in her veins.
";Zek:lT
It was au unearthly shriek which
i -..n : t
ai0U3Ea me loug-iuuenug nnu luisiiuit.
; "What on airth is it now. Naucy!" ht
! exclaimed, half-dazed by the sudden
i awakening.
"O. 'Zek'l Peak! I said so. ku' it':
i happened. It' down there!''
! "What's down where f" h? de
manded, testily,
j "That 'scaped boa! Down iu
i our front hall this blessed minute!"
she managed to articulate. "Git right
up.
Mebbe it's climbin' the stairs right
Hurrv on vour clothes: here the
now
be.
"I didn't know s they dumb." he re
plied, nervously, reaching for the gar
ments she excitedly flung upon the bed.
"Clumb! They cau do anything, 1
tell you. Don't get our there!" sht
screamed, as she started for the door.
"I've got to see were 'tis."'
He flung open the door and steppec
to the railing, followed closely by his
wile, clinging to his suspeuder. There,
below him, partially knotted iu grarefu'
coils, certainly lay a long black object.
"Don't you stir a tep down there.
'Zek'l Peak, less'n you want to see rat
worse'n a widder fore your face an' eye"!'
she exclaimed, and seizeJ him by the
,;rai. as he took one step downward
Git the neighours."
Tlow'm I goin" to git neighbus ies u
I do go down there, I'd like to know r'
he returned, hesitating
"Git out o' the winder. On, who'd !
V thought it! Jest as I expected !" she j
moaned, inconsistently, the next mo
ment. " 'Pear to me it's mitev still. Sure
it's thet snake, Xancy?"
"Sure! Aint it plain to be sesni Dt
you want it to ketch you 'fore you'l
b'leeve it? Thet'9 the way they do
play they're asleep an' grab you up with
their tail an' see where that tail is," she
added, convincingly.
Sure enough, behind the coils trai'ted t
tail inclose proximity to the lowest stair:
and Mr. Peck prudently allowed hi
wife's counsel to prevail.
Outside the chamber window was thf
woodshed roof, which sloped down to a
long board, which in turn ended in the
big rain-barrel. Down this he cautious
ly crept. Narrowly escaping a plungt
iu the water he managed to reach th
ground, and stood undecided.
'Taint so late but there's folks at the
grocery. Call fer help an' don't you
leave me here alone." she directed, from
the window above.
"Hullo!" he finally called out.
"Xobcdy'll never'll hear that iu all
creation. Louder I Hoo, there! Help'
help!"
"Why. Xaucy, folks'll surely thiuk
you're on the p'nit of bein' murdered.'
"An' aint we i What's the difference
'tween bein' cut to pieces au' bein' swab
leredhull, I'd like to know? Don't you
go, 'Zek'il,'" 9he implored.
There was no need of his goiug. Mrs.
Peak's shrill cries had reached the neai
grocery, and a group of men and boys
issued forth in response to them aud
rushed to the house. A few deprecatory
words from Mr. Peak, interspersed with
explanation from Mrs. Peak, enlightened
them as to the dangev of the situation.
"Git a club," advised one.
"It may take a gun,' said another.
"Lasso it an' take it alive there's the
reward," a third thriftily suggested,
while Mrs. Peak urged them to "do
something right o2."
In a short time a collection of articles
with which the boa was either to be cap
tured or killed was at the back door.
"Let U3 in, Nancy," shouted her hus
band. "Laudy sakes! how be I goin' to,
'thout goin' right inter the jaws er tail
of death, I should sayf You'll haf to
git at it through the hall winders ev'ry
door an' winder's fait but them."
"How'd the thing git in, then?" asked
kt shoemaker.
"Xow, Xate Simley," replied Mrs. ,
Peak, "don't you goto wastia.' time ar
gyfyin' at this criticle minute how it got
in. It's in, an it's a wonder we aint k
it, too, au' mebbe I shall be if you don'i
hurry."
"'Taint stirred," said Mr. Peak, as tht
window were reached and raised.
"Throw somethin' at it an' see if it'l.
move."
Thud! went a good-sized stick upor
the hall floor and upon the dreadful ob
ject. "Oh gracious!" screamed Mrs. Peak,
who had ventured out into the upper
hall once more, to watch and direct opera
tions beiow. "It's gathered all up in
heap, ready to jump. Shoo!"
I Down went the tire shovel, which she
i
j had seized for sell defence, landing in
the midst of the disturbed coils, which
suddenly straightened out.
j "Kill it, it's comin' straight after
j me," she screamed, and darted back to
J her chamber.
! "I don't serf's you can do anything
j but shoot it," after a few moments spent
! iu parleying, during which the creature
j lay motionless.
j 'Zek'l Peak, don't you nre neither,
i I don't want them hall walls all spat-
tered up with that critter s thrashin'
i 'round.'" exclaimed Mrs. Peak, peering
I out from her retreat- with u change ol
j mind as to the fate of it. " 'Taiat mov
: in' now, ketch it."
i "Ketch it! Who's agoin' to do it, I'd
!
like to know. 'Pears to me, Xancy, if
you're so fierce all of a sudden 'bout
!
j ketchin' it. you might come down a step
I er two. ter shew a body how. I'm yittin
tired a-fcolin'," Mr. Peak returned, im -
patiently.
Ill ketch it." 1
The shoemaker's son had thru: bis
i
body far through the window as ht ,
spoke. 1 The Queen Turned Doctor.
"Joe aint 'fraid o' nary thing livin'!" j A servant of the Queen of the Belgians
asserted his father, admiringly. "Jest I was lately stricken with apoplexy. The
onlock this 'ere door s soon .$ you git first aid that some Queens would have
in. so 's you can run if you wanter," he ! thought of would have been an aide-de-advised.
! camp to fetch a doctor, but she turned
"Lasserit!" added auother, pushing; in and doctored the iervaut herself . And
the rope iu after hioi. j the ervn --covered. PMIwhtpM-i
But Joe, inside, refused the rope, and, Ledger.
following hi father's advice, flung open j
the door, into which the crowd outside
! pushed its way, while he boldly aivanc- i
j ed toward the object lying at the othei ;
I end of the hall. j
! "0 Joe. be kecrful ! Don't you tech ;
j it !" warned Mrs. Peak, aa he suddenly i
j stooped over and brtveiy grasped ir. I
j "Landy miS23y; if he haint got it by
j the tail!" she ended in a hysterical 1
' screech. 1
"Here's your -scaped boa,' Mis' Peak !"
he shouted, a?, with a dexterous twirl,
he wrapped the long black fold about
himself, aud stepped back into the full
view of all present.
"Oh, my suz alive! If 'taint my ;
I grandmother's old fur boa!"
j Mrs. Peak, half-way down the stair-
j case as she caught sight of it, turned j
j sharply with the exclamation on her lips.
ani fled as a loud burst of laughter
j broke from the rescuing party. i
"An' it 'scaped' from the upstairs j
bannisters, where she hung it yisterday
fer an airin'. Much obleeged to vou all
fer yer help in eapteriu the critter," was
all that Mr. Peak said as he flung the !
fur boa back in the corner and grimly
closed the front door on the laughing !
n w i
crowd .
Jest to think what a reedie'lous mess i
you ve got us into! he exclaimed, re
proachfully, as he lay down again. To
think of my goin" down the water-spout
and wakin' the hull neighborhood up,
jest fer your grandmother's old necK-
fixin'9?"
"But. Zek'l," Mis. Peak returned,
with more humility than usual,, "it
might "a' ben 'tether one. . Ycu know
I've heen lookin' fer it ever sence thet
circus!"
"That's jet it!" he returned, sharply.
"You was sot to go, an' sotter to come
home, an' sottist a-lcokin' fer a boa, an'
you see what's come of it."
Well. I found one, too, didn't I?"
she retorted. "But, 'Zek'l Peak," she
continued, decidedly, sitting up aud care
fully retyiug her nightcap strings, "I'm
sotter'n eve r jest now 'bout another thing :
! i'ou couldn't hire me to wear thet thing
i jgin. It gives me the magi urns jest
J thinkin' of ir. 'Taint no use talkin'.
'Twas jest a special prov'dence 'twa'n't
the circus one."
The real boa was found by the manage
ment the day that its disappearance was
advertised snugly coiled up in an over
looked box outside the tent. It was not
missed, therefore, from the combination's
I attractions; but none of the-e in any
I form ever again proved sufficient to over
come Mr-. Peak's objections to a menag-
! erie. Youth's Conifiiion.
j
The Inventors of Printing.
I The manuscripts found at El Fayouni,
in Egypt, and owned by the Austrian
Archduke fiainer, prove to be an inex
! haustible source of information, and
I show the most surprising fact that print
ing with movable types was practised in
j Egypt in th ninth century of our era.
Two papyri dating trom that time are
! still existing; but from the following
! century, the tenth, twenty-seven print
! iDgs on paper have been found among the
I Fayoum collection. As the contents of
: all of them are of a religious nature, it
i would appear that printing was practised
' only by priests,though the perfection it had
! acquired would lead one to suppose that
it must have been in use for some length
' of time, During the Second Crusade, j
! 1147, printed paper-money was issued i
! for the North of Syria, which, as it had
! been issued without control, soon grew
I worthless. From the papyri it would j
! also appear that the Government of the j
j Caliph ot Bagdad was, so early as T'.U, j
1 in possession of a paper factory in the j
j
j latter town. j
! An Esquimaux Organ. j
' The Esijuiniaux of Greenland can now !
best of a newsitaper. It is called the j
i Header, and the editor thereof, one Lars
i Meeller, sets up and prints the paper.
! He also designs and engraves the illustra
! tions, which, it may be explained, are
! not remarkable for excellence. Hi
! printing establishment was only a niake-
shift, but the members of a Danish lit-
j erary souety, having heard of Mueller's
difficulties, sent him new type, printing
ink, paper and a larger press than he has
been nsin.
CURIOUS FACTS.
The Scotch brain is the hfftviet in thf
world.
Australia is said to have oyster a foot
in diameter.
The fortress of Gibraltar ii garrisoned
by 6000 British troops.
Three men have been arrested is Wis
consin for the theft of 2000 chickens.
Chicago dog thieves have formed a
"trust" and at? doing a rushing busi
ness. The price of wheat reached $3.45 ia
1566, $3.40 iu 1567, and S-j.ss ju
1865.
The heaviest man iu Euglaud is
Thomas Cougeriy, of Dover, who weigh-
S60 pounds.
La grippe cured a crowd of lunatics in
a Massachusetts asylum, and they have
been released.
The Czar of Russia says that he con
siders duelling in the army not only al
lowable but necessary.
Aboul 300 orgau-giiuders arrive in
London every June from Italy, and leave
again about October.
The average weight of the brain of a
man i3 three and a half pounds ; that ot
a woman, two pounds eleven ounces.
The area of the Australian Continent
is 2,945,219 square miles: of Brazil, 3.
231,047 i of the United Stares. 3.57$,
392. A real estate and trust company, in
Lynchburg, Ya., composed of colored
men, has declared a dividend of ten pel
cent.
The fugitive from justice will now find
his path strewn with obstacles, for hit
portrait cau be sent to any number ol
points along the line of travel.
Lucy Carvassa, a Massachusetts girl,
wanted to die, and to die as no one else
had, and so she swallowed thirty-six
marbles and brought about the wished
for event.
A woman in Ohio not long since lost a
child through diphtheria, and forced her
ether children to kiss the dead body.
They all grew sick with the same dis
ease and died.
A sleigh that is alleged to be the identi
cal vehicle in which Napoleon escaped
from Russia after the disastrous cam
paign of 1812, is now iu the possession
of a Chicagoan.
"French leave" is a proverbial expres
sion that appears to have arisen from the
ancient custom of French armie on their
march taking whatever they wished oi
wanted without payiug for it.
The theatre of Bacchus at Athens,
built byPhilos 420 B. C, is said to havo
been the first one erected. The first
regular theatre in America wax erected
at Annapolis, Md., iu 1752 or 1753.
While campaigning iu Keutucky iu the
early days of the war, General Garfield
bought afarmnearPrestonburgfor a few
hundred dollars. Recently Mrs. Garfield
sold the tract to speculators, receiving
$7000 for it.
The Boston fire, on November 9,1872,
destroyed 44G buildings, causing a lo5
of 876,000,000. The burnt district ex
tended over sixty-five acres in the very
heart of the business section. Fire
proof buildings burned like frame cot
tsgej. fieii.ui White, aued .eveily-two, of
Smyrna, Del., wuikc-d ihiny-stx miles to
cotify a son ot a death iu the family.
It is now proposed to bring Cieopatra's
mummy to New York.
P3ttDER
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Tb United fctatea efflclal luvntlgtion ot
baking powders, made under authoritj of
Cuofreaa t tb Chemical Plrlslon of U"
D?yartniiit ot Agrtealtare, Waihtnfton.D
C., raenly eouijletfcd, afcowa tL Royal Baa
In PowdT tote t or&am of tartar powder o
the hlf heat quality, pure and wholesome, ai:
euperlor to all otbera In atrangtX leaTenla
pvwer aa gaaaral uefulnM.
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