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VOL. IV. NO. 31.
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Your Liver ?
h the Oriental salutation,
knowing that good health
cannot exist without a
healthy Liver. "When the
Liver is torpid the BoV-
ls are sluggish and con
stipated, the food lies
in the stomach undi
gested, poisoning the
Mood; frequent headache
ensues; a feeling of lassi
tude, despondency and
nervousness indicate how
the wholo system is de
ranged Simmons Liver
Regulator has been the
iufeaiis of restoring more
people to health and
happiness by trivinfr them
a healthy Liver than any
! agency Icnown on earth,
j ! Jt acts with extraor-
; dinary power and efficacy.
NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED,
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Torpi'l Liver, Constipation, etc., 1 hardly ever
age anything elie, and have never been dis
appointed in the effect produced; It seems to
e almost a perfect cure for all diseases of the
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Pry Goods, Dress Goods,
mcv GOODS,
I NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS
and
House Furnishing Goods.
i All of the above enumerated Goods
I are now displayed in Drofusion in our
I Dry Goods Department. We have made
la extraordinary effort this season to
f beat our former record, and we may say,
wimout egotism, mat we nave on hand
2ie Largest Stork, the Best Assortment,
d
VkeiMoxt Desirable Line
Goods it Ivai ever been our pleasure
offer-to our patrons. We keep every
ing appertaining to a first-class Dry
pods Establishment. It is impossible
'enumerate all the different classes of
Goods we carry. All our Goods will b3
sold as heretofore, at
Sti'ictl.v One Price.
Our Goods are marked down at popu
lar prices, and we don't hesitate to say
that we are successfully competing with
any. house in the United States'. We
have just added a new feature to oue
Dress Goods Demrtmeot. We hav-
Must received a full line of the justly cel-
itDraiea aime. ijemokest
FASHION HOOKS and PATTERN.
This will be a great help to Dress
makers and Ladies making up their own
tara-robe. We solicit an inspection of
our Stock.
H. Weil & Bros.
LEADS ALL COMPETITORS!
IS. DSAULS,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
ti ui Fancy: Groceries.
Keeps constantly on hand a full
line of
FAMILY GROCERIES
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deluding Oats, Bran, Hay, Shipstuff,
Corn, Meal, Flour, Meat,
jSugar, Coffee, Molasses,etc.
'5E ME BEFORE BUYING.
I. S. D. SAULS,
Goldsboro, N. C.
We Take! f he Lead.
are now handling the very best
JE Jki ,)Hj1 JBm
has ever been brought to the city
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N Quality and Lowest Prices.
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MuTTON, PoilK AND SAUSAGE
Va un We pay the highest
, market price for cattle.
rs- Conn &, Son,
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THE COSTLIEST GIFT.
I give you a day of my UFe
Treasure rib gold could buy
For peasant and peer are at one
When tha time comes to die;
And all that the monarch has,
His koh-i noor or his crown.
He would give for one more day
Ere bo lay hh sweet life down.
They are winded, like the viewless wind
'I hese days that come and go
Anrfwe count them, and think of the end,
But the end we cannot know;
The whole world darkens with pair
Wtreli a sunset fades in the west
.... I give you a day of my life.
My utterirost gift and my best.
Louise C.Moulton, in Youth's Companion.
Mrs. Qrav, of Philadelohia.
Teu years ago, in a certain good-sized
own in Pennsylvania, there lived a
"amily whom I will cr.ll Mitchell. The
ramily consisted of husband, wife, and
Lwo children, the latter being a boy aged
3vo and a girl of seven. Mitchell was a
private banker, known to be honest, re
spectable, and worth a clear $100,000.
knew little or nothing about the
family until certain incidents occurred,
no day his wife was fatally injured in
i railroad collision at a point fifty miles
from home. When he reached her, in
response to a telegram sent by a stranger,
he found she had been removed to a
hotel, and was being tenderly cared for
by a woman who gave her name as Mrs.
.V. B. Gray, of Philadelphia. She was
on the train, but suffered no injury.
Mrs. Gray, as I might as well tell you
dow, was petite, good looking, a gooi
talker, and, in a genial way, captivating.
The fact of her taking charge of Mrs.
Mitchell as she had done proved her
tender heart. She told Mr. Mitchell
she had been a widow eighteen months,
and was practically alone in the world,
md though he was burdened with grief
and anxiety, he did not forget to thank
her for her great kindness and to take
her address. lie would have offered her
money for her services, but he saw that
she was a lady and would feel hurt by
my such action. She resumed her
journey, and he took his wife home to
die of her injuries. It was three weeks
after her death that I came into the case.
A.fter everything was over the husband
suddenly discovered that his dead wife's
jewelry was missing. She had with her,
when the accident took place, about a
i thousand dollars' worth of diamonds.
They had disappeared, and when he came
to run over events in his mind he could
not remember that they had come home
with her. Mrs. Gray had turned over
to him Mrs. Mitchell's purse and a few
other things, but a pair of diamond ear
drops, two rings, and a pin were miss
ing. I was employed to proceed to the scene
of the late accident and seek to trace the
jewelry. The collision had occurred
right at the depot in a small town.
People about the depot and at the hotel
assured me that Mrs. Mitchell had her
jewelry on when taken to the hotel.
The landlord's wife was positivs, and
the doctor who was called in was posi
tive, and when I had worked the case
out I returned home to report to Mitchell
that nobody but Mrs. Gray could have
taken the jewelry. He was astonished
and indignant, and not only vigorously
repudiated the implication, hut dis
charged me from the case with the asser
tion that I was a novice in the profession.
No other detective, working without bias,
could have come to any other conclusion
than I did, and, feeling sure of this fact,
I was not so much put out over his
action. I have found in my long ex
perience that most people who employ a
detective on a blind case expect him to
think as they do, and to follow up
theories formed in advance of his em
ployment .
I went about other business, and it
was about four months before I saw
Mitchell again. Then he sent for me in
an official capacity again. No reference
was made to my previous work, but
fresher and other troubles had como to
him. A month after the death of bis
wife he had opened correspondence with
Mrs. Gray, and the result was that she
had come to take charge of his house.
He was without relatives, or, at least,
without those who could aid him in his
situation, and she claimed to be free in
her movements. You will suspect, just
as I did, that she had captivated him,
but he fought shy of any acknowledg
ment of the sort. She was in his house
to care for his children and to manage
domestic matters, and that was no one's
business but, their own.
I haven't told you about the bank. In
was situated juste square trora his house,
GOLDSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY APRIL 29, 1891,
and exactly in rear of it. The house
fronted on one street and the bank on
another, and there was no alley between.
Indeed, the rear yard of the house led
right up to the near door of the bank,
and Mitchell used to come and go
p through the yard. In rear of the bank
ing rooms, divided off by the usual rail
ing, were the private offices and vault. A
burglar alarm was connected with the
front doors and windows, but none with
the back. A large and savage dog
guarded the rear, having a kennel close
to the door.
What the banker wanted to see me
about was this : lie had not only missed
money from his wallet at night, but on
two occasions considerable sums of
money had been taken from a small safe
which stood in his office outside the
vault. One of the mysteries was in the
taking of the money. He employed a
teller and a bookkeeper, teither of whom
had a key to safe or fault unless it was a
duplicate made without his knowledge.
Neither had the word of the combination
of the vault, and it seemed impossible
that they could have taken the money
even if so inclined. Both were perfectly
honest so far as any one knew, and Mit
chell was all tangled up over the mystery.
He hadn't talked to me five minutes
when I would have taken my solemn
oath that Mrs. Gray was the guilty party,
but, of course, I didn't drop a hint of
my suspicions to him. When it came
my turn to ask questions I found out that
he was a very sound sleeper; that he
occupied a front bedroom with his son;i
that Mrs. Gray and the girl occupied one
in rear of his, with an entrance to both,
from a hall ; that the keys of the bank
safe and vault were always kept under
his pillow at night. In addition, Mrs.
Gray had won the hearts of his children,
if not his own, and it was only by the
strongest argument that she had been in
duced to accept a salary of 10 per week
while occupying her position. It was
as plain as daylight to me that Mitchell
meant to marry her m due courso of
time, but it wasn't at all plain as to what
sort of a scheme she was working.
I took the case, told Mitchell I had a
theory, and then began to study Mrs.
Gray. I found her to be a sweet and innocent-looking
little woman, seemingly
devoted to the children. It was in sum
mer and she was out a great deal, and I
was on hand to follow her. It seemed
to be time thrown away, however. She
was shy, prudent and apparently all
right, and I had put in a month on the
case and made no discovery when the
outside safe was robbed again. A de
posit and some bonds had come m at
the la3t moment and had been placed
there for the night. The whole thing
amounted to about .$900, and bonds and
greenbacks were missing next morning.
The safe had not only been opened with
a key, but the bank had been entered by
unlocking the rear door. No one could
have entered by the front without sound
ing an alarm. No stranger could have
entered by the back on account of the
dog, who was wide awake and all
right.
When Mitchell sent for me to give me
the new 3 I was perfectly satisfied that
Mrs. Gray was the guilty party. I be
lieved she had the nerve to enter his
room in the night, secure the key3 and
then slip through the back yard, enter
the bank and open the safe. When I
learned that the dog was a great favor
ite of hers this belief was a certainty. I
couldn't, for reasons already given, say a
word to Mitchell about this. He wanted
to suspect his two employes, but when
we had canvassed the matter he was
made to see that it was altogether un
likely that either of them was guilty.
Indeed, he was alone in the bank when
the bonds and money came in and he
alone knew where the deposit was
placed.
What did I do? I turned to Mrs. Gray
again, and in about a week something
happened to prove that I was on the
right trial. One of the street car lines
of the town ran down to the railroad
depot. It wa9 Mrs. Gray's habit of an
afternoon to ride on this line with the
little girl as far down as a certain park,
and to sit near the fountain and read
while the girl romped about with other
children. I had closely watched her while
in this park, but no one had ever come
near her, and her demeanor had been
perfection. On the third afternoon after
the robbery she occupied her usual seat
for an hour without anything happening.
I sat on a lench in the rear of her and
about thirty feet away, and by and by
I noticed that she was writing a noto
with pencil. She did it so deftly that
cie sitting in front of her could not
have told what she was at. Beside her
was a large shade tree, and as near as I
could make out she disposed of the note,
when folded up, somewhere about the
tree. When she left I followed her for
Q short distance, and looking back I saw
a young and well-dressed man occupy
ing the place vacated by her. An hour
later, when I could examine the tree,
I found a hollow in the trunk just about
on a line with her shoulder as she sat
on the bench. One not looking for it
would have sat there fifty times and dis
covered nothinsr.
My theory was that she had an accom
plice the young man whom I had seen.
The hollow in the tree was their postof
fice. Next day I was at the park half an
hour before her usual time, and behold 1
the young man was occupying that
bench. As she appeared he got up and
took a seat a hundred feet away, and by
watching closely I saw that she took a
note from the tree. Before leaving she
wrote and "posted'' one in reply, and af
ter she had gone I saw him get it. I
was now certain that I was on the right
trail, and I went to Mitchell to secure
some particulars I wished to know. I
told him I had a clue, but would not re
veal which way it led. I learned from
him that the combination of the vault
door had four numbers, and he alone
knew it. It had been changed about a
month after Mrs. Gray's arrival, and he
hesitatingly admitted that the word was
"Aime," which was her Christian name.
He would not, however, admit that this
fact was known to her.
For two weeks after securing this in
formation I hardly got sight of Mrs.
Gray. For some icason she remained
very closely at home. 1 found out from
Mitchell in a roundabout way that the
money needed to pay the men at a coal
mine and also at a large factory was de
posited with him on the fourteenth of
every month. It was simply passed in to
him to be locked in the vault overnight as
it came up from Pittsburgh by messenger.
I reasoned that Mrs. Gray would worm
thi3 information out of him in some way,
or that her accomplice would discover it,
and that if she had the combination of
the vault she would make her strike oa
the night of a fourteenth. On the
twelfth day of August she exchanged
notes at the park, also on the thirteenth.
On this latter date I shadowed the young
man for three hours, and became satis
fied that he was from Pittsburgh, and a
"slick 'un." Among the things he did
was to go to the depot and inquire about
various night trains, and particularly one
which passed over the road half an hour
after midnight.
I promised Mitchell that a climax
would soon b2 reached, and then staked
my all on what might "happen on the
night of the 14th. At S o'clock oa that
evening I threw a piece of "dosed"
meat to his dog from a neighboring yard,
and at 10 I softly climbed the fence to
find the canine in his kennel, and sick
enough to remain there. I lay down
within ten feet of him, hidden behind a
bush, and it wa3 an hour and a half be
fore anything happened. Everybody in
the neighborhood was in bed and asleep
by that time, and I was not greatly sur
prised when a female gure, which I
knew to be that of Mrs. Gray, suddenly
appeared and passed me five feet away,
going toward the bank. She stopped
at the kennel to speak of the dog, and
then opened the rear door and entered.
I did not move from my hiding place un
til she reappeared, about twenty minutes
after. She carefully locked the bank,
and as she passed me oa her way to the
house I followed quickly behind. The
keys she laid on the back steps, softly
opened the side gate, and I let her
reach the street before I brought matters j
to a climax. She was only out of the j
r-ate when she was joined by a man, but t
when I rushed to seize them he got the
alarm, and was off before I could grab
him. I got her, however, and she had
a bundle under her arm, which I took
charge of a bundle containing about
$li,000 in greenbacks.
What a nervy woman she wa3! She
just simply laughed a bit as I led her up
the steps and rang the bell to arouse
Mitchell, and when I had told him all,
and had the money and his keys to prove
it, she just looked up at him with a
smile and asked :
"Well, what of itr'
The "what of itf" was a corker.
Mitchell couldn't let the public know
that his bank could be so easily robbed,
and he couldn't let society know that he
had been duped by an adventuress, and
after a consultation he actually gave that
little adventuress $200 in cash to clear
OUt. XiiC Yvil 'ut.
LADIES' COLUMN.
VALUABLE BUTTON'S.
The return of buttons to their old im
portance in the femanine world has"
brought out the fact that the Princess of
Wales has a penchant for artistic but- I
tons, and has a magnificent collection o'i
jeweled, gold, silver and carved buttons,:
both singly and jn sets. One wonders
if she keeps them on a charm-string, as
was the manner of little American girls
a good many yeais ago. Fortunate now
are the women that have saved beauti
ful old sets of buttons, as the old
in this particular ornament are now
prized above the new that is, if the old
are handsome and expensive enough.
New York Press.
CLUB LIFE FOR WOMEN.
"Club life as it at present exists for
men and women admits of no compari
son," said a club man the other day.
"One is occupation; the other is leisure.
A woman goes to her ciub meetings as
part of the serious work of her day ; a
man goes to his when his work is over
and the moment for rest has come. Wo
men's clubs are all aims and ambitions ;
ours are all idleness and dolce far niente.
Even the Ladies' Club, which is more of
a lounging place or intended to be such
than other city clubs run by women, is
not steadily and daily patronized as a
man's club i3. A woman does not care
to dawdle in public. I know, for I have
a wife, daughters and sisters. When one
of them wants to take her case luxurious
ly she goes to her own room, put3 on a
loose gown and nestles among her cush
ions. When a woman is abroad she is
trim and unrelaxing, mentally as. well as
physically, and she still considers her
club 'abroad." It will be a long time
before it will stand to her as it does to a
man, in the light of a second home."
Washington Star.
A UNIQUE LUNCHEON.
A unique luncheon was given recently
in Brooklyn nothing less, indeed than
an old-fashioned one. "You are to
come to work at 12, bring your work
and stay until 5," directed the hostess,
and at noon sharply the twelve women
bidden duly appeared, all but two, with
their sewing. Bonnets were doffed and
a real visit was entered upon. The
luncheon was a delicious one and was
served without a too arbitrary following
of the course style an agreeable medium,
indeed, between no course and "all
plates," as the peasant explained his first
French restaurant dinner. When the
guests returned to the parlor, instead t of
the brief standing round before leave
taking which characterizes the modern
fashionable luncheon, chairs were cozily
drawn into groups, needles and thimbles
came out, and though, as one who was
there confessed, no serious amount of
work was accomplished, the pleasure
and the sociability of the afternoon were
pronounced, as the company included
some of Brooklyn's representative wo
men and the hostess i3 prominent in
more than one circle. Chicago Neics.
DRAUGHTSWOMEN.
There is a great field open to women
as draughtsmen. There is no more reason
why they may not plan houses as well as
paint pictures, but as yet there ara few
disposed to undertake the work. Every
woman sees faults in a house she rents or
buys, and without doubt if women planned
these abodes there would be a disposi
tion of space now. unknown, and there
Avould be fewer lamentations in regard tc
corner cupboardi and bare wall space.
It is said that a woman is to plan the pa
vilion to be devoted to women's work at
the World's Fair. Until this report wai
circulated nobody thought there were
any women architects, but it tarns out
there are several. There is a very suc
cessful woman architect in Boston, one
in Newport, and one in one of the West
ern cities. The latter belongs to a firm,
her husband being the other partner. She
works like a man, and is the only wo
man, as yet, who attends the convention
of architects. 'There is an apartment
house in Chicago designed by a woman,
and the rooms are said to be admirably
arranged. The pantries are extra com
modious, the bath room contains & linen
cupboard, and the entrance hall a station
ary hat rack, and various other conven
iences leave nothing to L3 desired. Neu
York Sun.
FASHION NOTES.
Iondon women still wear the pointed
toed shoe, and in consequence suffer a
great deal.
In Paris all kinds of tiny gold musical
SubscriDtion, 81.00 per Year.
instruments are the latest fashion in scarf
ami lace pin;.
Cloth costumes may be of contrasting
color?, as blue and taa, lead and pearlu
brown and suede.
Medium and large black and colored
silk brocades arc excellent for house and
combination dresses.
The Princcs?es of Wales have started
the fashion of wearing bracelets inadeof
the old Roman coins.
For brief note correspondence a square
sheet of paper to fit envelope without'
folding is fashionable.
So many mode and tan shades in
woolen goods are sought for that mer
chants cannot supply the demand.
Hiding gloves for ladies have longer
gauntlets than heretofore. The color
most in favor is the "red bronze."
Fur-trimmed, demi-trained skirts for
the streets aie about a? inappropriate and
slovenly a fashion as ever invented.
It seems the sailor hat is to haTe
"just one moie summer." Thus will be
good news for those having them on
hand.
Most of the dresses have some kind of
finish about the foot, cither a band of
velvet or braiding, or a bias band of
the material, finished at silk top with
a fine silk cord or several overlapping
folds.
The back hair is sometimes imprisoned
in a golden net-work which is fastened
behind the hat, or three jewelled velvet
bands fall over the hair, filling up the
unbecoming space between the head and
the hat.
Where Columbus Began.
When Christopher Columbus was leav
ing Spain in despair after the Junta had
pronounced his exploration scheme to be
"vain and impracticable," says the Lon
don Neice, he halted at the monastery of
La Rabidfe, near Palos, to ask for bread
for his boy Diego. There he poured his
sorrows into the sympathetic ears of
Juan Perez, who had been the Spanish
queerws confessor. The monk's influence
at court was still sufficient to regain the
car of royalty for Columbus, and not far
from this spot, where his despair was
changed to hope, the marvelous voyage
of discovery was commenced in 1402.
For this monastery of La Rabida, as
we learn from our Madrid correspondent,
the Spanish ministers of the colonies and
the- public works, with government en
gineers and architects, set out on Satur
day evening with the view of settling on
the spot plans for the raising of a statue
to Columbus, for restoring the famous
convent and for preparing accommoda
tion for an American congress and other
projected celebrations of the four hun
dredth anniversary of the great voyage
of Columbus. The Spanish Government
will provide the supplies by vote of the
cortea this year, &n 1 a grand commission
in Madrid is actively pushing the organ
ization of this national commemoration.
Unfortunately, the state of health of the
lineal descendant of Columbus, the
twelfth Duke of Veragua, leaves little
hope that he will be able to be present
at the fourth centenary celebration.
The farmers in the Northwest who
burned nearly all their hardwood timber
when clearing land have now cause to
regret it. A Michigan paper gives a
case in point. A man at Rivertoa 13
selling hardwood logs to mill men at
good prices, and supplying what is un
marketable to his neighbors who have
cleared off their land and are forced to
buv fn'
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