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N0 HIGH PRICES ! . . . BARGAINS . . . outherland's New "York - Bargain ONE OF THE CHEAPEST CASH STORES IN NORTH CAROLINA. it Store. Occupying two storesone devoted to Dry Goods, Notions, etc., the other Jistcu and you Avill hear the people from all over the country talking about 150 pieces Pant Goods from 9 cents X regular prices; 100 pieces Dress Goods A BDC ST Li '-ntcst Bargains Ever Offered in Soft and Stiff Hats. We Have 300 Dozen Shirts on Hand from 25 Cents Up; Now is the Accepted Time to Lay in Your Supply. Wo cany a tremendous stock of Buggy Harness and Saddlery! and when you come to town drop in and see us. We will sell you a set of Buggy Ilarness way below the prices charged by other dealers. Ask for our 20 cents Bugy Whip "Unbreakable," the best Whip in the world for the money. Trunks, Valises, Hand Bags, etc., at lowest possible prices. Tobacco at 15, 20, 25, 35 and 40 cents a pound. 300 Umbrellas from 48 "cn'i.s to 83.00. Notions of all kinds at way down prices. TZZT Don't Forget the Place I Don't Forget the Place In a Thief's Eye The eye always indicates the charac ter of the man. This is particularly true of thieves, for the expert detective car) tell in almost every case whether or not a rnau is a thief by simply looking him squarely in the eye. A well-known Alle gheny detective, in speaking of thi? matter to a Pittsburg Press reporter the other Jay, said: 'Yes, I can pick a thief out every time. I can't tell you what it is that gives the rnau away except that it is the expression of the eye. Iu the first placo there are few thieves that will look you squarely in the eye unless they r.r? obliged to do so. They will avoid your glance as long as they can, and even when they do face you find gaze steadily at you it is always with the same expres sion. Although their eyes may bs wide open and the gaze apparently steady, you will see, if you look closely, that there is something away back through the corner trying to avoid you. I havo picked out numbers of thieves by this little dodging movement. I never saw a thief who wa9 tree from it. "Everybody has met that man who resolutely refuse! to meet a steady gaz? for more than three or four sec and? at a time. It is not fait so say that all sue') persons are dishonest. In many oases the peculiarity is a direct result of bash lulness. 'A little close observation will enable the observer to put persons in the ci w to which they belong. The mai who?e 'eye is almond-shaped is almost alway.' dishonest at heart, if not in overt act. The eyes of some of the most notorious thieves in the country are of this pattern, and the expression given the face by this sort of eye is very striking.'' Another characteiistic thief's eye i? one whose lower lid is straight while the upper one is more or less arched. The straight lower lid is always noticeable, however, the effect being a very cunning and foxlike expression. Detective usually have very noticeable eyes, keen and clear, although one of the best thie; takers that the writer has ever kno.va has big brown eyes, as innocent in ex pression as are those of a frank and hon est schoolboy. This is his natural ex pression, but when he becomes inter ested in anything his lid3 close and his ,gaze is as penetrating as that of a eagle. Unarles Ashton, a London policeman, has received a prize of $250 for an un published biblography of Welsh litera ture from 1801 to 1890. to 90 cents per yard ; 2." pieces Bed at bed- 1-rock prices. All kinds of Sea To be Closed Out! rVWHOLBSALE DEPARTMENT To Dealers we will give especially low prices, as we have up stairs for Wholesale Trade only. Oldest copy of the Book of Zechariah. At the International Orientalist Con gress in London, England, a most inter esting document was submitted by Rev. Professor Ilechler, chaplain of the Brit ish Embassy at Vienna, a distincjuishel Orientalist. It is a papyrus manuscript, discovered a few months ago in Egypt, supposed by some to be the oldest copy extant of portions of the Old Testament books of Zachariah and M ilachi. These pages of papyrus when intact were about ten inches high and seven inches wide, each containing twenty eight lines of writing, both sides of the sheet being used. The complete line contains from fourteen to seventeen let ters. The sheets are bound together in the form of a book, iu a primitive though careful m inner, with cord and strips of old parchtnsnt. The Greek is written without intervals between the words, a custom in old Greek and old Hebrew manuscripts. The papyrus is in fair preservation, and 13 believed to date from the third or fourth century. It thus ranks in age with the oldest Greek manuscripts of the Septuagint version of the old Testament in London, Home and St. Petersburg. The differences in the papyrus tend to the conclusion that it was copied from some excellent original of the Septuagint Bible, lirst translated about 2S0 B. C, for the use of the Hellenistic Hebrews iu Egypt, who, having gradually forgotten the Hebrew tongue, had learned to speak Greek. It has several new lead ings wnieh surpass some of the other Septuagint texts in clearness of expres sion and simplicity of grammar. It would appear that it was copied, and not writ ten from dictation. A second scribe has occasionally corrected some mistakes of orthography made by the original copy ist, distinguished by the different color of the ink. Professor Hechler said it was sin cerely to be hoped that this papyrus will soon be published in fac simile for the careful examination of Biblical schol ars, and that it is the pressing duty of the British Government to institute an organized and scientific search for papyri in. Egypt. It is impossible to forecast what surprises may be iu store or what treasures may be placed at the disposal of modern scholarship. New York Press. It may or may not be significant, the Chicago Herald observes, that Dr. Lee, whose irrigation treatment for cholera is being given a thorough test at St. Peters burg, is the son of a pumpmaker filled with Gent's Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, etc. It will pay you to call, and pay you handsomely, before the big bargains we are giving them and at one price to everybody. Come one and all! HOW IS THIS FOR A REVOLUTION IN PRICES ? Tick from 10 cents to 20 cents a yard Island and Bleached Domestics. In A Stranga Kleptomaniac. A man was arrested recently iu the act of stealing a pocket handkerchief from a lady. He was formerly a well-to-do baker in a suburb when the mania seized him for collecting ladies' cambric handkerchiefs. He would accost a laly in the street, and ask her to sell him her handkerchief. If she refused he would get into a temper, and bid more and more for it until he got it. Many women in the neighborhood traded upon his madness, and the man spent all his money in this way. After becoming bankrupt, about five years ago, he began to steal handker chiefs, and he was imprisoned for three weeks about four years ago. As he had never been caught since, the police be lieved that his imprisonment had cured him, but when he was takeu he was found to have some fifteen cambric handkerchiefs upon him, which he con fessed to having stolen in one hour. He has never stolen any other article, and every week he was in the habit of destroying by fire the common handker chiefs which he had stolen by mistake, as his strange mania is limited to cambric, especially if scented. In his bedroom four hundred and thirty-four cambric pocket handkerchiefs were found, and it is believed that he ha? concealed many more in hiding places which he refuses to reveal. He was sent to a madhouse. Yankee Blade. Aids to Plumpnsss. If you are thin and want to put oa flesh, for breakfast and supper have something nourishing and savory, plain brown bread for instance, the slices browned in fresh butter on a griddle, which makes an appetizer of the good old dainty. Demand good, lean bake I potatoes to be eaten with undeniable cream or rich gravy, which is flesh-torm-ing food, and you may indulge in male dishes as you please, provided they are well made. All thin people wishing to grow plu-np should begin with simple, easily-digested fare, almost as if they were invalids. Fresh law eggs, beaten with orange juice are very nourishing, an i give strength to the digestion, ao that stronger food can be attacked. If care is taken to select vry digestible food, it is true that the more one eU the more he can eat, and the systsm miy thus be led into vigor and desli. New York World. : 200 pieces of Prints from 4 cents to Shoes we will save you 25 per cent. LTI!g H1ARKED TOM' To be Closed Out! ASS? JOHN F. Gatham' Window Cleaners. It was made known at a workingmen's meeting, held a night or two ago for the purpose of organizing a benefit fund for sick and disabled window cleaners, that there are about a hundred profes sional window cleauers in this city who VirA steady employment the year round, and that this band of special workers is part of a big corporation employing over 800 workingmen in Berlin, London, Breslau, Vienna and Potsdam. The New York Guild of Window Cleaners was started two years ago, and its work differs from the labor of the ordinary window scrubbers in the fact that the guild workingmen use no water in clean ing windows, thereby doing away with the biggest nu'sance that storekeepers have to put up with. The cleaning is done without swaihing everything in the store window with dirty water. The professional window cleaner of Gotham goes over the window pane first with a damp cloth to take off the dust. Then he sponges the glass with a clean ing paste made of alcohol and whitening powder, and then rubs the pane briskly with a chamois skin, and wipes Usually with a dry cloth. This gives it a polish. The cleaners come around ones a week to each shop in their district. It takes them a quarter of an hour t9 clean the glas of an ordinary store window, and it costs a merchant a dollar a month to have the cleaning done. Each working man i3 provided with a new-fangled sort of a ladder, built so that it cannot slip from the window, and can, if necessary, be lengthened from seven fset to sixty. These ladders are painted red, and they run up to a point at the top. This pointed top is placed in one corner of the window and sticks there while tho cleaner stands against it and reaches over and scrubs the window. New York Sun. The amount appropriated lastjyear tor public schools by the Russian Govern ment was 2,S92,000. How pitifully small this is for a great country like R issia is, in the opinion of the Chicago Herald, vividly brought out by the fact that fcr th9 yeir 1393 the amount ex pended for the public schools in the State of Ne.v York was $18,214,637.38. In the last year the American Bible; Scciety printed and issued from the' Bible House, New York City, 913,678 i copies of the Bible, which is mere than' two books for every minute of the work ing day3 of the year. C cents a yard, worth C, 7 and 8 cents i pretty good little saving in prices SOTJTHERLAND, Ths Sweet-Singing Nightingale. The nightingale is a European bird which winters in Southern Spain ano Northern Africa, and in spring an summer visits England and many of th more northern parts of the Continent In England its yor.ng are hatched ii June. During all the time the hen bin is on the nest the male sings at interval during the day and also serenades hi mate in the night while most other bird are asleep. The nightingale's plumag. is dingy and homely, but his song i something marvelous. Here is what Isaac Walton says of it: "But the night, ingale, another of my airy creatures breathes such sweet, loud music out o her little instrumental throat that i miht make mankind to think thai o miracles are not ceased. He that a midnight, when the very laborer sie'p securely, should hear, as I have verj often, the clear airs, the sweet descent?, the natural rising and falliug, the doub lin and redoubling of her voice, migh' well be lifted above earth, and say, 'Lord, what music hast Thou provide! for the saints in heaven when Thou af fordest bad men such music on earth!" In its habit of nocturnal pinging th nisrhtingale is like the mocking bird o! the South, which frequently pours out its song in the middle of the night especially when thenoon is bright. St. Louis Bepublic. The Antiquity of the Tomato. The tomato, which used to be be cilled the love apple, in allusion to its supposed power of exciting the tender feelings, is of a good old age. In 1583 it was grown in the Continental Gar dens at Antwerp, and the fruit was eaten dresse J with pepper, salt and oil. In 1597 anl sixty years later it was grown in England "for ornament and curiosity only." In the middle of the eighteenth century the Italians and Span, iards ate them as we do now, with pep. per and salt, and they were also intro duced into sauces. In England they were no longer grown simply as an ornament, but were much used in soup3. It is stated that at the beginning of the present century the growth of the fruit around London exceeded the demand. Each plant, it was calculated, produced fruit weighing at least twenty pounds. The individual fruits in the year ISIS were also of ex traordinary size, many of them exceed ing twelve inches in circumference and weighing twelve ounces each. Sala's ' Journal. - J making your purchases. Jus I ; 100 pieces of Ginghams below ranging from 23 cents to $3 a pair. Leading Low Price Cash" House Goldshore. Proprietor. The First Map of Am?rica. Among the relics appertaining to the discovery of America brought out in con nection with the Columbian celebratioa,' said the Spanish Consul at this port re cently, "is the first geographic il c.iarl of America, which is preserve 1 iu Spain. The chart is in the possession of the Naval Museum of Madrid, and is said to be the original autograph of the navi gator, Juan de la Cosa, a pilot of re nowned reputation in his time, and of whom Columbus had a very hig'u opinion. "The chart or map is signed in the Puerto de Santa Maria, in t ie year 15JO, but Juan de la Cosa, who accompanied Columbus as pilot or Failing matc oa bis first and second voyage, was at work on it during the voyage with Alfonso de Ojeda in 14M. It is said tu be the best of all aucient universe map. in its correctness and extent of its ne wly discovered territories, and 1ns the refu tation of being the first mapa mundi ex tant, showing, as known in 15UJ, tht whole of Europe and Africa, a great portion of Asia and the Americi jusf then discovered. It was execute 1 with great precision, and is luxuriant in gol ) and coloring. Baltimore (M l.) American- The Baromjter Trees of Chilea One of the most remarkable produc tions of the Isle of Chile o is the csle brated "barometer tress," waici grow iu great profusion in all of the salt marshes. It is believe 1 to bs a near relative of the India rubber tree of Bra zil. The wonderful traits of this trea were first made known to white men in 184, the natives informing the Da Young company that both the leaves and the bark of the tree were neverfailing weather prognosticators. In dry weather the bark of this natural barometer is as smooth and white as that of a sycamore, but with the near approach of storms these characteristics vanish like miic. Twentv four hours befoie a storm breaks over the little island the trunk of every tree of the species turns as black as eb ony, save a few scattered patches of Cirmine, these latter markings being supposed to foftell great electrical dis turbance. The leaves, too, which in their normal state hng laterally (as they do on alt American trees), drop edge wise and tremble like things endowed with animal life and reason . St. Lt-uU Republic. Catholic congreg ations in Prussia are increasing in much greater proportion than the increase iu the DODulatkm. ii JJ1
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