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THE HEADLIGHT
A, KOStWEK, Editor & Proprietor.
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VOL. IV. NO. 39.
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VMPTOMS OF I-IVKi: DISEASE:
;f ai-tM-titi.: i,r(,ath; t.a-1 taste in
; 1..r.yru(. .(,at,.(1 . ,,ain mi(Jer the
!!::'; inil. i,;tck.r sJe often
M...M i-,r rheumatism; sour Momach
"j ' i I f i aii-1 Wat. r rash; iiWiye
.: .)1: !s la. and eoslive by tuin;
''In-, with dull, heavy .sensation;
ii. ss. M ith sensation ..I ,ainx left
. iiiiul'- iKi'loiic whirh outfit to have
i "!.:i"; lnliii.'ss after eating; had
ii" r; Lilies; iM-.-d feeling: vellow H-
iii ol sl.in uri. 1 eyes ; dizziness, etc.
. all. Inn always some of th-se imli
.waiitol action oi the Liver. For
A Sate, Reliable Remedy
l'.:;-.iii do no harm and has never been
1 i-. a o Jail to I uod,
j lake Simmons Liver Regulator
V i i i i;t;i t ,l si'i-xiric roit
P ll ' 'tnrl Complaint,
; JtkS'epsiii. Sit k lleuduclie,
i -.iistliiution, lillituiaiiesei,
J Knlney A HVc tloii.q, .luumllce,
iUenta.1 liepression, Colic.
A PHYSICIAN'S OPINION.
' I i.r.yo Leon practicing medicine for twenty
a:xl havenever been able to t.nt up a vegetate-
'-"Mi pound that vnild, like Simmon'; Liver
i :lu , promptly and effectually move the
1 " ""'I, and at the same tiin: aid (instead
. a. . A , -run- thr digestive mul assimilative
I ' o til.: - .
L. M. Hi:, r,,:., m. I.., V.Vhmton, Ark.
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J. II. Zsilin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
' Be Not Imtopfd TJrox!
Eifin.ir.o to jee thr.t ni gf t the Genuine,
D's'irgui.'hed lioni nil frauds and imita
: tiens l.y cur rod Z Trade Mark on front
j ( Wrr.pper, nnd t n the s:oe the seal and
v'jji'nture of J. II. Zeilin it (o.
; LEADS ALL COMPETITORS!
1 S. D. SAULS,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Heavy ana Fancy Groceries.
i Keeps constantly on hand a full
'line of
FAMILY GROCERIES
AND
'8 :-:
Including Oats, Bran, Hay, ShipstufT,
Corn, Meal, Flour, Meat,
Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, etc.
see me Before buying.
I. S. D. SAULS,
Goldsboro, NC.
Dr. James H. Powell,
J Drug Store in "Law Building"-J-
(cor. etore, north end)
Keeps constantly in stock
Fresh Drugs, Patent Med
! icines, Etc., Etc.
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PRICES AS LOW AS AT ANY DRUG
j STORE IN THE CITY.
Abo offers his professional services to
surrounding community, at any hour
to the day or night. Can be found at
W drug store, unless professionally en
Pged. Residence on West Centre St.,
btwcen Spruce and Pine.
Take ;the Lead.
) rirc now handling the very best
111 IB 3H3E2 3F
khat liris ever been brought to the city
I
Best Quality and Lowest Prices.
j
Ml'TTOX, POIMC AND S.VUSAOE
i;5 on hand. We pay the highest
I market price for cattle.
S. Cohn Sl Son,
Cit7 Market and Old P. O. Building.
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orti.rtis. AWAKE!
Brother, the dawn in the east is arising,
Sparkling and bright from wild ocearfa
embrace.
Bee how her blushes new beauties awaken;
See what a tender light beams from her
face!
Eof, fair Eos, her fleet steeds are waiting,
Eager to speed in advance of the wind,
Longing to bear thee away on thy mission,
Cheering and blessing the hearts of man
kind. Brother, awake, for the sun hath arisen I
Dazzling is he in his gorgeous array ;
Golden his palace, and golden his armor
Wilt thou not welcome the king of the
day?
Helois, Helois, thou art majestic !
Daily thy duty is patiently done;
Brother, thy duties demand thine attention
Wake, ere day endeth. and night is begun.
Brother, awake! Awake, O my brother!
Moonbeams are gently caressing thy brow;
Sec, the moon peeps through the darkening
shadows;
See her sweet smile as ifc lights on thee
now.
Selene, Selene, stars round thee glimmer;
Dost thou ne'er linger to gather a gem?
"Why should I tarry, or turn from my path
way? While I hava poace, I've a rich diadem."
Brother, O brother, awake from tbj- shim,
her,
Open thine eyes wliilo 'tis yet called to
day !
Vain is thy dreaming, for not it availeth;
List to thine impulse, be swift to obey.
High be thy purpose, aye, heavenward
reaching;
Firm thy endeavor, psrsistnt and true;
Faith bo thy watchword, and hope thy com
panion, Feace will not linger but hasten to you.
Lillian Stiles Webster,
A POINT OF HONOR.
BY ASNA SHIELDS.
It is a fact too well proven to need
comment here that mental excitement
will produce upon the human counte
nance a change in re rapid ar.d lasting
than even physical pain. But it would
have scarcely seemed possible that one
hour could have made a beautiful,
blooming face so pallid and deathlike as
that of Isaura Gardiner became in that
brief time one June morning, when all
naiure was in jubilant mood.
She was young not more than twen
ty and had been Julius Gardiner's wife
a little more thau one year. They had
been married at a time when the firm
employing Julius had wished hira to un
dertake a prolonged Southern and West
ern trip to collect outstanding debts,
and the young couple had male this
business errand their wedding tour.
Early in March they had returned to
their home, and a few weeks later a wee
blossom had come to bind the parents'
heaits in yet closer bonds of mutual
love, a little daughter they named for
Isaura's long dead mother. Bertha.
After the baby came t. gladden her,
Isaura found her time so filled with ma
ternal cares that she had never availed
herself of her husband's permission to ex
plore the old homestead, until the Juue
morning already mentioned.
It was a very large, rambling old
country house, the legacy of three gen
erations of Gardiners, to the last survivor
Julius, and Isaura was sure that it was
tilled with treasures of past occupants,
though its owner laughingly assured her
that he was quite sure she would find
but little to reward the thorough ran
sacking she threatened to make.
When she was first engaged to Julius
Gardiner, Isaura had thought she would
bring him a fortune equal to his own
patrimony. She had been from infancy
the supposed heiress of a maiden aunt,
who had a moderate income under her
own entire control and no htir but her
niece. But, front some unexplained
freak, the venerable maiden, upon her
death-bed, left her home and money to
found an asylum, bestowing upon her
niece her clothing and jewelry, the one
much the worse for use, the other of but
trifling value.
Isaura had been sorely disappointed,
but Julius had laughed at the long face,
assuring her he had ample means for
both; his private fortune and large salary
combining to make a handsome income.
So Isaura had forgotten the temporary
trouble very quickly.
On the June day, already referred to,
she had at last explored some of the long
closed rooms, aud entered one early in
the forenoon, her face bright as the
June sunshine pouring in at the open
windows, her cheek3 rivaling the blush
roses clambering over the wide porch
roof to nod at her, her eyes as clear and
blue as the summer skies arching over the
old homestead.
In one brief hour she came ouc again.
But the pretty pink flush was gone from
her cheeks, leaving them as white as new
fallen snow, her eyes were heavy and dull
ts lead, gazing vacantly forward with an
expression of utter misery; her step vas
slow and feeble, and she trembled as if
unable to support her own weight. She
seemed to have aged years in that one
hour of anguish passed in the room en
tered with such a light step and happy
heart.
Slowly she went to her own room.
Baby Bertha lay in her dainty cradle
sleeping profoundly in a morning nap,
and the young mother, sinking upon her
knees beside her, found some relief from
her agony iu a passion of tears aud sobs.
Again and again her husband's name
mingled with the moans wrung from her
white, quivering lips, till the violence ol
her grief wakened the sleeping child,
who broke into wailing cries. For a
moment the mother forgot her own grief,
as she soothed the little one with all
love's tender caresses, kissing the velvet
cheek, and whispering soft words of af
fection. But when the child lay quited in net
arms, the shadows fell again over Isau
ra's face, and her tears dropped fast upon
Ihe little face nestled against her bosom.
The burden of grief was not lifted,
though the first wild paroxysm was over.
Isaura Gardiner was a fair woman, b-'-l
but slight, and possessing much beauty,
of a purely blonde type, rippling, golden
hair and blue eyes, with a soft, delieab
complexion. Her disposition was gent!
and loving in a remarkable degree, sui!
ing well the exquisite beauty of face an 1
form.
It is no exaggeration to say that she
actually lived in her affections, and these
were centered absolutely in her husband
and child. Orphaned when only ten
years old, she had been under the guar
dianship of her aunt, passed from one
boarding school to another, spending
even her holidays in the care of her
teachers, unless invited to visit a fellow
pupil. It was during such a visit in the vil
lage that wa: to become her future home
that she met Julius Gardiner, and her
heart, starving for sympathy and com
pansionship, sprang at once to answer
his warm avowal of deep, sincere love.
She had never known what it was to re
ceive such affection as her lover gave her,
and she gratefully returned it. And in
her love she had found only happiness.
It was Julius who had consoled her when
her aunt died, leaving her alone in the
world. Julius who had urged a speedy
marriage, that he might have the right
to comfort and protect her. Julius who
had made a bridal tour of his lonjc busi
ness journey and given her every leisure
hour to explore all the sights of the many
new places in which they sojourned.
Julius who had watched her tenderly
when her life seemed going from her,
after baby came, and gave her new life
by his loving voice and gentle caress.
She had thought their love perfect
as strong in his heart as in her own. But
on that June morning, all this happy cer
tainty had gone from her, and her heart
seemed, breaking at the loss. She took
no further interest in the exploring ex
pedition through the old house upon
which she had started so merrily, but
rocked her baby in her arms, and mused
over the one appalling discovery she had
already made.
Julius found her so when he came in
to his dinner, and anxiously inquired the
cause of her woe-begone face and red
eyes. But for the first time his tender
sympathy met a repulse; not an angry
one, but one that was equally puzzling
to him, it was so full of mute reproach,
and no entreaties could give him any ex
planation of the cause.
For days, this atmosphere of gloom
and mystery hung about Isaura. She
neglected all the little household, duties
in which she had delighted; she would '
sit for hours in silence and idleness, her f
face white, her eyes lixed mournfully
on vacancy.
Julius was distracted. Loving his
wife with all the fondness of a tender,
true heart, he was grieved and angered
to see her fretting constantly, yet refus
ing to give any reason for such excess of
sorrow.
In vain he tried by every tender de
vice to win her confidence. She only
kept a more profound silence, while yet
most evidently doubting the sincerity of
his professions of love and regret.
At last, the result Julius dreaded fell
over Isaura, and she was prostrated by
low nervous fever and became very ill.
The physician hinted at some mental dis
turbance, and prescribed quiet; and the
husband, thoroughly aroused by fear, ex
erted his authority with some show ol
harshness.
"You are nursing some chimera, " hi
said to poor, pale Isaura, "and I insist
upon knowing what it is."
"Oh, Julius, don't be angry!'' she
moaned, pitifully. "Perhaps I may die,
and then you can marry Magdalene."
"What upon earth are you talking
about? 'Magdalene!' Who is Ma
dalene?" "The woman you love. I am sorry,
Julius, that I have stood in the way so
long. It would have been better to have
been frank with me and told me the
truth before we were married."
"She is insane," thought poor Julius,
bursting into a cold sweat of horror;
"she has been nursing some delusion till
it has turned her brain and made her a
monomaniac !"
All anger wa3 gone from his voice as
he bent low over his wife.
"Darling," he said, "do not think of
such things. You cannot doubt my love
for you!"
The blue eyes that had grown dirr
with excessive weeping searched his fac(
eagerly. Then, as if nerved to a desper
ate effort Isaura took a folded papei
from the drawer of a table beside her
bed and handed it to her husband.
"Read that," she sdd. "I found it in
the room up-stairs that you told mr? was
your room while your parents lived. It
was in the drawer of a bureau there,
with other papers. You told me I might
overhaul anything I pleased, aud I read
that."
Wonderingly, Julius opened the paper,
while Isaura scanned his face, watching
for the confusion of detected guilt. To
utter amazement, Julius, after reading
the paper, burst into a fit of laughter,
clear, ringing and hearty.
"Oh, Isaura," he cried, when he
could catch his breath, "the sins of my
youth are being visited upon my head
with a vengeance. Oh, it is too good !"
And another paroxism of mirth fol
lowed. :I don't see anything funny about it,'
paid Isaura, crimsoning with anger.
Julius read aloud, with mock em
phasis :
"Dear Dick: You utterly mistake both
my heart and prineiplo if you imasrme for
one moment that I will avail myself of thf
nititui excuse ot isaura s loss of fortune tc
break our engagement. Dearly as 1 lovt
Magdalene, bitterly as I regret the tie that
binds me, 1 will never, never so disgrac?
my manhood as to desert the fond heart that
loves me.
"Isaura knows nothing of my mad infat
uation for your sister Magdalene, my hope
less love for one I may never geek to win.
She trusts the professions of love I made be
fore I knew the secret of my heart Sh(
loves me! And I who sought her wher
she was a supposed heiress, consider it t
point of honor to keep my faith with her
"Guard my secret from 3our too fascin
ating sister, from my promised wife
and "
Here the paper was torn and the con
fidences of the lover brought to an ab
rupt conclusion.
"Oh, Isaura, said .Tuuus, wno had
been interrupted by frequent spasms of
laughter, "have you really been fretting
yourself sick over this balderdash ?"
Then, looking into the pale, wan fice,
Julius became grave again.
"If you had only looked further,
dear," he said, 4,you would have dis
covered page after page of just such
stuff. For you must know that one of
the delusions of my youth was a settled
conviction that I was a great literary
genius, a Wilkie Collins and Charles
Dickens of America, born to astonish
the world. And this is part of my first,
last and only novel."
"Oh, Julius!" Isaura gasped. "I
thought I wa3 sure "
"There, don't cry, love; don't! Never
doubt me again, dear. I cannot imagine
now how you could have taken this for a
genuine letter. I never knew a Dick or
Magdalene."
"How did I know that? And Isaura is
puch a very singular name."
"So it is. But you see, dear, just
about that time this singular name stool
in my heart for all that was charming,
jjood and lovable in womankind. I was
desperately in love with an Isaura, and
us my heroine was to embody all female
perfection, I gave her the name of the
woman who had full possession of my
heart."
"And then the los3 of fortune my
aunt, you know "
"Bless me, yes! I forgot all about
that. It does look oddly like truth, now
don't it? But if you will explore the
drawer still further you will find a
couple of hundred pages explanatory of
this precious document you so unfortun
ately selected."
The doctor, coming later in the day to
visit hh patient, was astonished at the
wonderful effect of the simple remedy he
had prescribed, and still more at the
rapid recovery that followed. In less
than a week Isaura was singing about
the old house, a busy little matron,
happy in her husband's !ove, her baby's
beauty.
But she has still one rezret : All hei
entreaties have failed to persuade Julius
to complete that beautiful novel, "A
Point of Honor," which lies unfinished
in Isaura's care, and which she is firmly
convinced would, if published, place her j
husband at the very pinnacle of literary
fame.
But Julius will not agree with her, de
claring that that precious composition
has already made sufficient mischief in
the world, since it caused his wife weeks
of misery and a fit of illness, and there
fore it is with him a point of honcr to
it consign to oblivion as speedily as pos
sible. The Lc hjer.
A Creik Execution.
When a citizen of the Creek Nation
is condemned to death he is released on
parole until the fatal day arrived, when
he invariably shows up without any sort
of restraint or duress having been em
ployed. The SherilT shoots the culprit
through the heart with a rifle. The re
demption of his parole of honor has
beeu a distinguishing characteristic of
the Creek Indian for ages, and the most
red-handed criminals among them, from
a superstitious belief that to flee would
be useless, rush to the executioner as a
bridegroom rushes to his bride, once tho
law says he is worthy of death, but not
worthy of bonds. The Creeks, being a
civilized tribe, with excellent schools,
courts, Judges and criminal and civil
codes, perhaps the Caucasian virtue of
inconstancy has invaded the Territory,
and Sheriffs have learned to lock up
their prisoners.
I remembered an execution that oc
curred in the Creek Nation loss than ten
3ears ago. The condemned was a young
farmer who hid killed his neighbor. A
little before sunrise a crowd had gath
ered iu the open space back of the court
house where the ready coffin had leen
brought to receive the teuciuent of clay
after its tenant had been evicted by a
ritie ball. In the crowd were the father
and the brother of the condemned.
When the sun begin to paint the tree
lops and he had not yet appeared, some
one suggested that he might have flown.
His kinsmen indignantly denied the pos
sibility of such cravenness in one of their
family and a quarrel ensued. It was
ir,errupted by a horseman galloping up
t.nd dismounting near the coffin. Ha
spoke to no one, not even recognizing
his relatives having already taken
leave of them. A jetty officer led the
riderless horse away, slipped its bridle,
and it began to crop the prairie grass.
The horseman himselt walked directly
to the ominous black box, turned his
face to the rising sun, held his hands
stiffly at his sides and awaited motion
less. The Sheriff had already driven a
stake fifteen paces from the coffin. He
advanced t this, raised his rifle to his
shoulder, took deliberate aim at the
fellow's breast and fired. The latter
l'eli without a groan, aud his relatives
took charge of hn body. St. DmU
Locusts in Australia.
Much has been heard of the plague of
rabbits in Australia, but the ravages of
locusts are sometimes as disastrous. At
one place in Victoria, about the begin
ning of December, the hot season in
those regions, the arrival of an army of
locusts from the north presented the
ippearance in the air, it is reported, "as
of a snowstorm," and the ground was
covered to the depth of three or four
inches where they alighted. In Adel-
lide, the wind bore them to the sea,
and the shore was lined with myriads
that thus perished. In many places the
vegetation was destroyed by the in
vaders. Caterpillars are among the
occasional plagues of Australia, one
farmer being reported to have lost $3000
through the loss of his barley crop. A
writer in the Sydney Ifsrnin'j Herald
says he finds that planting larkspur
round a field greatly protects any crop.
and tell how myriads of -grasshoppers"
(locusts?) were thus poisoned. This is a
statement which is important, if con
firmed by further trials. Agriculture
has its risks and its disasters all over the
world, and those duo to living enemies
as well as atmospheric influences.
Leisure Hours.
The t miLTation from Great Britain to
'a"ad.t lat tar was 31,930.- The year
i-f.-re jr. w.-n 3,0."6. Sir Charles Tup-,-r
sav.i that Canada must spend money
i ..'.'iu-.t attention to the countrT.
The State of California contains up
wards of 72,000 Chinese inhabitants.
Subscription, $1.00 per Year.
LADIES' COLUMN.
FRIENDSHIP . AXES.
Friendship caaes are to be the fashion
with the young women who take long
tramps "over moss and foil. The best
friend ot all gives the cane, which is long
and like unto an alpeutoek. Around the
top is tied a ribbon with the name cf the
cane donor thereon, and the date of the
first trip upon which the cane did duty.
Each successive walk is marked by an
other ribbon, which, in turn, bears the
date of the trip, and the name of the one
who pleasantly beguiled the journey. In
time Little Bo Peep's crook comes to
wear as many colors as were in Joseph's
ccat. When the cane becomes "suffi
ciently sutTancified" with ribbons, it is
laid away with the scalps of the season,
and a new one is obtained to take its
place . Pica y u ne.
WOMEN IN NORWEGIAN CIVIL SERVICE.
The question of the eligibility of
ladies, who have passed the requiste ex
amination to public offices, etc., is at
present receiving much attention
in Norway, where the matter s
before Parliament. A bill has been in
troduced that ladies who h:ive passed
certain examinations should have the
same rights as men, and this bill has
been referred to a committee. This com
mittee views with favor the movement
for widening the field for women, but
the majority is of opinion that the
change may not be too sudden and
sweeping, but should be brought about
gradually. The majority of the com
mittee is of opinion that the inter :sts
both of the women themselves and of
society at large are bct consulted by
advancing step by step, as experience
may teach. The whole of the committee
is agreed that the matter should be more
exhaustively investigated, and has,
therefore, decided to remit the case to
the Government. There can, however,
be little doubt that the question will
be soon further advanced. Chicaqo
Post.
FEATnEK TRIM.MrXOf!.
Feather trimmings are wide and im
portant, and many varieties of coque
feathers seem to be newer than ostrich,
but still edgings of the ostrich flue and
mossy ruches of ostrich are much worn
on dinner and court gowns and on the
best class of mantles. Peacocks' plumes
appear in many of the feather trimmings,
notwithstanding popular prejudice.
With regard to ribbons, very wide,
soft short silk find favor for hats and
four-inch width for trimmings. Tinsel
embroidery appears on the solid colors
of several sizes; but the charming little
pompadour sprigs on satin grounds are
the leading ideas, while the favorite
flowers are the cowslip, the polyanthus,
cornflower and the buttercup, and fruits
are preparing for the latter season.
Brocades on gold gauze ribbons arc much
worn, and shot silks, which often dis
play brocaded forget-me-nots and pansies
and shot spots of large size, are around
and sometimes elliptical. The favonto
combinations are brown and blue,
lemon colored and eky blue pink and
yellow, yellow and green, black and
gold. Chicago Neics.
FASHION NOTES.
The fairest of the fair now wear
yellow, and look even prettier in it than
the brunettes.
Although the fastenings of dresses are
mostly invisible, many new buttons have
been brought out.
A charming new lace pin ha3 made its
appearance. It is a small spray of maiden
hair set ir emeralds.
Absolute y Pure.
A cream of tartar baking powder.
Highest of all in leavening strength..
Lcdmt U. 8.Goternmtnt Food Repri.