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liarned Gambo Make the Beat Klad
of Highways.
Nowhere in the United States aro
the present roads poorer or better ones
more needed than In some parts of the
Mississippi valley. The problem of
Improvement in this region, moreover,
has seemed peculiarly difficult because
there are no ledges of rook of a kind
suitable for making good road mate
rial. But now, behold, out of the very ex
cess of badness, out of the sticky,
clinging:, almost bottomless mud intd
which the roads are converted every
spring and autumn, comes the material
which is to work their salvation. This
material is burned gumbo, the very
mud which makes the roads so bad,
baked over wood fires until it becomes
one of the best roadbuilding materials
known.
The credit of making the first prac
tical application of this discovery be
longs to the railroads. For eeveral
years they have been using burned
gumbo as ballast for their roadbeds in
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and other
states of the middle west. It was first
intended as a substitute for crushed
rock in regions where rock could not
easily be obtained, but it demonstrated
its superiority so plainly that it is now;
used extensively even where ledges are
abundant.
The mud is really an impure, exceed
ingly sticky clay. The process of pre
paring it for use upon the road is very
simple. Cord wood is piled in a low:
pyramid eight or ten feet wide. Over
this is thrown three or four inches of
coal slack, and on this again is placed
from twelve to twenty inches of mud.
When the wood is fired, a slow com
bustion .toes on, which converts the
mud into small, sharp cornered and
exceedingly hard pieces, so that the
product has the appearance of red
gravel.
The railroads find that they can
make and deliver the gumbo on board
the cars at a cost of 23 to 35 cents x
cubic yard, but when burned in mnt
primitive fashion and on a smaller
scale, as is usually the case on country
highways, the cost is slightly greater.
Roads covered with this material are
never muddy or dusty. They keep free
from snow and ice, are slow to get out
of repair, and weeds or grass will not
grow on them. The supply of mud is
unlimited, its preparation simple and
heap. A writer in The Review of Re
views declares that five years of sys
tematic and intelligent work with burn
ed gumbo would make the principal
country roads as passable all the year
round as a paved city street and at
little more cost than the amount now
wasted in "working the road."
FOR BETTER HIGHWAYS.
Society Organized For the Promo
tion of Good Itoads.
A movement has been started in Me
dia, I 'a., that should receive the earnest
support of every citizen. It is the or
ganization of a society in the county
for the promotion of good roads. The
project has been launched well, and
the interest taken in the matter thus
far indicates that the promoters -will
be able to secure the co-operation of a
large number of people.
For some reason it has taken many
years to secure general interest in such
an important reform as the making of
line highways, and in this particular
this country is far behind some of the
countries in Europe, which have ideal
highways, says the Chester (Pa.) Times.
All of the argument is on the side of
the modern road, so it is not necessary
to stop and convince the people of the
utility of the well kept thoroughfare,
but the question that must now be con
sidered is how to secure the means
with which to build the roads. Some
of the states in the Union are very lib
eral in the laws for the encouragement
of better highways, and in this partic
ular Pennsylvania has much to learn
from Connecticut, New Jersey, Massa
chusetts and other commonwealths,
which have miles of highways over
which a carriage or a bicycle can travel
with ease and comfort.
If we are to have good facilities for
moving about the country, and every
body concedes that we must, then it is
clear that the state should assist, for
the benefit is to the state as well as to
the immediate territory affected. And
if this is done it will be found that the
farmers and suburban residents will
quickly join in the movement to secure
first class highways.
Rhode Island's Road Methods.
Rhode Island has shown a tendency
to repudiate the methods adopted by
most of the eastern and middle states
in respect to the co-operation of state,
counties and towns. That state, ac
cording to the idea of the legislators,
should not aid financially the counties
and towns further than merely dis
seminating information and showing
the good results obtained from fine
roads. This latter work is accomplish
ed by building sample highways of half
a mile in extent iii each town and coun
ty. It was reasoned that these practi
cal object lessons would arouse local
pride sufficiently to make their exten
sion an actuality. So far this system
has justified the state authorities in
their predictions. Nearly 500 miles of
good gravel and stoDe roads have been
built, representing about one-fifth of
the total road mileage of the whole
state.
To Solid Good Roads.
A bill has been introduced in the
house by Representative Otey of Vir
ginia providing an appropriation of
$ 100,000,000 to be expended for good
roads in the forty-five states and four
territories of the United States in pro
portion to their population. The con
struction of the roads is placed in the
bill under the supervision of the de
partment of agriculture.
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Fun Crops Out In the Driest
of Congressional Debates.
Kaismg the Boston Tea Party to
Clinch an Argument How a Young
Congressman Stirred Up the Gray
beards A Useless Surplus A Gov
ernor Who Wanted to Be In the
Swim Grammar In the House.
Copyright, 1902, by Champ Clark.
In the halcyon days of long ago, the
flays of the log school house, slab bench
es and the ox gad as an inducement to
study, when the old field schoolmas
ters wrote "copies" for their pupils to
imitate, one of the favorite texts was
"Many men of many minds." Those
wise persons who read The Congres
sional Record every day as old man
Harper of Kentucky used to order bis
jockeys to run his horses, "from eend
to eend," soon parody that ancient
"copy" so as to read, "Many congress
men of many styles of oratory." Reason
ing by the a priori method or any other
method known to logicians, It would be
impossible for anybody to figure it out
how the tea episode of glorious mem
ory In Boston harbor could be used to
advantage in a congressional debate
touching the reduction of the Suanlsh
war revenue, yet Hon. John J. Fitz
gerald of Massachusetts performed
that seemingly impossible feat in the
Fifty-sixth congress. lie was trying
to have the tax taken off tea and re
verted to the P.oston harbor tea per
formance as naturally as a duck takes
to Mater.
True to Traditions.
M. II. Glynn of New York, then one
of the youngest and brightest men in
the house, not only followed Fitzger
ald, but re-enforced him with the fol
lowing delightful persiflage:
"The gentleman from Massachusetts
(Mr. Fitzgerald) began his speech by
referring to l'J3 years ago, when the
Indians of Massachusetts declared war
on a tea tax and tried to convert the
briny waters of Boston harbor into a
sea of tea. Judging from the evident
pride with which the gentleman from
Boston told of that historical Incident,
I think that the members of this house
are Justified, from the spirit of pride
which swelled his chest and the smile
of glory which decked his countenance.
In concluding that In every easterly
breeze which sweeps over the city of
beans and culture Bostonians find a
whiff of the aroma of that famous
Boston tea party from which our Eng
lish cousins of colonial days were un
ceremoniously invited to stay away.
"It is quite appropriate, Mr. Chair
man, quite appropriate indeed, that an
Indian from Massachusetts should fol
low In the footsteps of those colonial
Massachusetts Indians and declare
here today a war on the tax on tea. It
but shows him true to the traditions
of his native hearth and nroves the
truth of the maxim that history re
peats itself."
Glynn's Shot at Mr. Payne.
Hon. Sereno E. Payne of New York,
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee and therefore ex oliicio floor
leader of the majority, is a large, ro
tund, handsome man, polite as Philip
Dormer Stanhope, earl of Chesterfield,
and the most dignified of mortals. In
deed dignity may be said to be Mr.
Payne's besetting sin, If dignity may
be properly imputed to any statesman
as a sin. He appeared to deem his bill
to reduce the revenue as a perfect
thing, the sum total of legislative and
financial wisdom. Consequently he
was guarding it as jealously from cur
tailment or change as a she bear
guards her cubs from the hunter. All
sorts of members of all sorts of par
ties assaulted Mr. Payne's measure
with all sorts of amendments, but he,
like Horatio at the bridge, fought all
comers. The attempts to mar his
handiwork may be summed up as
"much cry and little wool." He held
the majority thoroughly in hand and
repulsed his assailants with unvary
ing success. When Fitzgerald raised
the tea question, it was late In the
evening, and Mr. Payne was lolling
comfortably in his chair, if so dignified
a gentleman may be said to loll, with
the beatific expression of a cherub
upon his ample countenance, when
Glynn brought down the house, at the
same time causing Brother Payne to
I gape with astonishment and turn red
' 1.-, tUa ..,.to I, to Lot- I...
this shot at point blank range:
An Astounding Argument.
"The estimable chairman of the ways
and means committee seems imbued
with a little of the Tory determination
to keep the tax on tea. In fact, he is
inclined to keep the tax on everything
save from what the members of this
house compel him to take St off. He
was opposed to making any material
reduction in the tax on beer, and he is
opposed to taking any tax at all off tea.
As one looks at the able and eloquent
leader of the majority he is struck with
the striking resemblance he bears tc
the pictures of Moses, and as one pon
ders over the position of this statesman
nn the proposition of reducing the tax
n beer and on tea the conviction
tomes that this gentleman has deter
mined to act like Moses and write a
new commandment which will read,
'Thou shalt not drink anything save
water unless thou art willing to pay a
tax.' "
The Ladies' Tipple.
The fact that Glynn was to be mar
ried in a few days undoubtedly ac
counts for the following somewhat
tender passage in his speech:
"Moreover. Mr. Chairman, it needs
lo argumentation to prove that tire
ladies of our land-young maids, old
maids and housewives are In favor of
reducing this tax on tea; the young
maids because it makes cheaper the
beverage of their society sprees and
social tete-a-tetes; the old maids and
God bless them, for Robert Louis
Stevenson was right when he called
them the dearest dears on earth be
cause it makes less expensive their
matutinal sipping and their nightcap
quaffing of the drink that makes them
dream of those saddest words of
tongue or pen, 'It might have been,
and the housewives, as one of them
wrote me the day before yesterday,
because the tea leaves with which she
keeps down the dust when she sweeps
her parlor carpet are costing too much
and the tax on leaves used to keep
don the dust ought to be lowered. In
stead of a tax being kept on to raise
the dust' for a useless surplus
All In all, I think Glynn's speech as
unique as Major Otey's argument in
lavor of "a tobacco ration" for the
soldiers which has been so extensively
exploited by the press.
Thirst For Knowledge
Recently I lectured In Bellefonte, In
the old Keystone State. If that de
lectable little city of 5,000 inhabitants
is not "the mother of presidents." she
may at least Justly claim the honor of
being the mother of Pennsylvania gov
ernors, having produced a trio of them
Curtin, Beaver and Hastings. An
drew G. Curtin was one of the most
ramous or tnat Illustrious group of
men popularly dominated "war gov
ernors." He was also minister pleni
potentiary and envoy extraordinary to
tlie court of St. Petersburg. He was
tnen a Republican. Subsequently he
served several years in congress as a
Democrat
His large and commodious residence,
wiilch he built after he quit the guber
natorial mansion, was pointed out to
me. It is situated on one of the prin
cipal business streets of the city.
asked why he chose such a location.
My companion said: "When the old
governor selected the 6ite, it was sug
gested to him that it would be a very
noisy place and that he would get
more pleasure out of a home In a more
quiet part of the city, whereupou he
replied: 'No, I want to know what is
going on. If a dog fight takes place,
I want to see it.' And so he built bis
house in the heart of the city."
The Little Things In Politics.
It is absolutely amazing what small
things, If done at the right time, will
make a man Immortal. It's their op
portuneness. Solomon says, "Words fit
ly spoken are like apples of gold in pic
tures of silver."
My mind was set upon this train of
thought when I was on a lecture tour
recently through the old "Wilmot dis
trict," down In Pennsylvania.
When David Wilmot arose In the
house to offer an amendment of about
two dozen words to an appropriation
bill, which amendment Is popularly de
nominated "the Wilmot proviso," he
was scarcely known outside his district
When he sat down, he had started a
contest which ended only at Appomat
tox and had laid the foundation of a
fame which will never die. The his
tory of the United States cannot be
truthfully and adequately written with
out extensive mention of David and his
proviso. Strange to say, he did not
even write the few words which gave
him Imperishable renown. They were
written by abler hands than his and
given to him to offer simply because,
more than any other antlslavery Dem
ocratic congressman, lie was persona
grata to the southern Democrats. He
was the mere conduit through which
an idea was offered to the house, but it
is a thousand to one shot that he will
be remembered when all the orators,
soldiers and statesmen then in the
house molder in forgotten graves. One
of my old college professors was al
ways saying "Carpe diem!" ("Seize
the day!") And David Wilmot seized it
with resolute grasp.
Mr. Littlefield, Grammarian.
Out In Pike county, Mo., some years
ago, we had for sheriff a son of the
Old Dominion who was an incorrigi
ble wag named William F. Oglesby
On one occasion somebody said to him,
"Oglesby, are you a grammarian?'
"No," he replied very solemnly, as
though the two things were incompati
ble; "I m a Virginian!" Hon. Charles
E. Littlefield of Maine is not a Virgin
ian. That he is a grammarian will be
admitted freely and cheerfully by all
who have heard him speak.
It has been generally taken and ac
cepted by grammarians that nouns
have only three "persons." Littlefield
ran the number up to five! It came
about in this wise: There is a rule of
the house that do member in debate
sliall address another in the "second
person," but shall always speak of him
in the "third person." To use a com
mon phrase much more emphatic than
polite, Messrs. Littlefield and Hopkins
got "hot in the collar" during the ap
portionment debate. Littlefield kept
addressing Hopkins as "you!" At last
the speaker pro tern., Mr. Dalzell, stated
the rule Littlefield said, "Well, Mr.
Speaker, I have allowed myself to be
Interrupted twenty times in violation
of the rule," whereupon Hopkins re
plied, "And the gentleman from Maine
has violated the rule twenty times by
uddressing me in the 'second person.' "
Then Littlefield sprang his new thing
In grammar by responding: "It seems
to me that the gentleman from Illinois
is getting very sensitive and technical
now. I will refer to him later In the
'third person,' and later on I have no
doubt I shall succeed in diminishing
him so that I can refer to him in the
'fourth' and 'fifth person V" Then as a
parting shot he added, "And I hope to
be able during the progress of this de
bate to eliminate him altogether."
Evidently Brother Littlefield is not
only a grammarian, but also an alge
braist Champ Clark.
Pure Blood.
If infectious disease Is in the vicini
ty, it should be remembered that pure
blood contains bodies that will combat
disease germs. These bodies are the
white corpuscles, and they will en
wrap and actually devour the fatal
l.acilli of fevers and similar diseases.
llo it is well to keep the vital fluid in
health.
The Intricacies of Trade.
Woman How much for children's
Jictures?
Photographer Ten shillings a dozen,
madam.
Woman Whyer yes; but I've got
Billy nine. Tit-Bits.
Won't Follow AdTlce After Paying For It.
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the physician to get his patients to carry
out any prescribed course of hygiene or
diet to the smallest extent; he has but
one resort left, namely, the drug treat
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He s there all alone with nobody
but an old servant. His mother and
father are still in Europe, no one
knows where. It's all overwork, the
doctor says, and he ought to be thank
rul It s not total blindness. But I'd be
cross, too, If I had to 6lt In a dark room
for six months without any one to
read to me. And he's so anxious to
get on with his law."
Nona Stewart gazed intently at the
visitor, whose Jetted fringe rattled a
castanet accompaniment to her stream
of talk. Who ou:Tb to be thankful?
TLe talkative lady did not say.
When 6he had gone, Nona slipped
from her corner by the window and
stood behind the great chair where her
grandmother sat winter and summer
playing solitaire.
"Grandmother," she said questioning
ly, "who ought to be thankful, and
why must it last six months?"
"Eh? Why, of course he ought to be
thankful. Inflammation of the eyes ia
no Joke even if he did bring it on try
ing to learn everything in one year,
Commend me to young men for a par
eel of fools." And the old lady snap
ped a king of hearts on a queen and
shuffled the pack viciously.
"Grandmother" again the small
brown head peered around the corner
of the great eared chair "who did you
say it was?"
"Who? Why, young Thil Strong, of
course, the most reckless youngster
that ever lived. I ought to know too.
Wasn't his grandfather my own cous
in? Wasn't he Just the same, obstinate
as a rebel?"
"Grandmother, did you say that he
was all alone?"
"Mercy upon us, child, what next?
Yes, he's all alone. Look out of the
window all day if you want to, and
j ou won't see a soul go out or in ex
cept the doctor and the butcher's boy.
At this time of year all the silly peo
ple have rushed off to roast at the sea
side, and there's no one in town to go
and see any one."
Nona looked out of the window at
the house opposite. For days she had
wondered who it could be that the doc
tor went to see.
"I should think he would be lonely.
said Nona to herself. "I should think
he would want some one to come and
read to him." There was a long pause.
"And he's a kind of cousin, too, besides
being my neighbor. I should
think. And grandmother takes
her nap every afternoon at 4."
Here's your cousin come to read to
you, Mr. Phil." The old housekeeper
pushed open the library door and stood
aside for the young girl who had fol
lowed her up stairs.
"What?" came in a weary growl from
the darkness. "Who's going to read to
me?"
But the housekeeper had departed,
and Nona was left standing in the mid
dle of a very large, very closely cur
tained room, with a shadowy somebody
who had turned his bandaged eyes up
on her in a way that made her wonder
why she had ever come and how she
could get away without speaking. And
as she stood there the voice repeated.
"Who's that?"
Nona twisted her fingers together.
"I I heard my grandmother say that
you hadn't any one to read to you and
that it might last six months." She
could get no further, but it was too
late to retreat then.
At her first words the person sprawl
lug in the big chair had risen abruptly,
saying: "Pardon me. I didn't quite
understand what that beast of a cook
said." How polite he was compared
with a moment before! "Your grand
mother is quite right I haven't any
one to speak a Christian word to." Who
was this girl anyhow? He wished that
he dared pull up the bandage for a sec
ond. If her face matched her voice
well, anyhow, if she were as homely
as sin she was an angel to come and
read to him. "It's awfully good of you,
Miss"
"Stewart, Nona Stewart, Just across
the street," she hastened to tell him.
"It's mighty good of you. Miss Stew
art. What shall I get you I mean,
wou't you find a book? I stayed In
town to study, and I haven't seen a
book since I came here. This cursed
luck I beg your pardon I mean my
eyes went back on me Just as I began
to read for my degree."
"Oh, that's what I came to read, if
you'll let me," added Nona, glad that
blushes could not be heard by people
who couldn't see them.
"Let you?" laughed the young man.
"Indeed I will, though I'm afraid
you'll find contracts dull work."
"Indeed, it won't be dull a bit," pro
tested Nona, her sixteen-year-old heart
swelling proudly as she settled herself
near the window, where the light wa9
cautiously let in. Wasn't she doing
unto her neighbor as she would be
flone by?
"I shall like it I am sure," she de
clared. "And I love her for doing it," said
the young man to himself at the end
of a month as he sat and waited for 4
o'clock and Nona.
But 4 o'clock came, then 5 o'clock,
and brought no one.
Nona did not come the next day or
the next Philip Strong grew crosser
and crosser. and the doctor shook his
bead and declared that all the progress
be had made in the last month would
be lost if he did not 6top fretting.
"Doctor." said the young man one
day, "do you know anybody in this
street of the name of Stewart?"
I did," gaid the doctor, "but she
died last week what?"
"Nothing; a a sharp pain in my eyes.
O Lord, doctor, I can't stand it!"
"I told you this worrying and fret
ting would injure your eyes. I wish
your father would come. I'd send you
to the hospital tomorrow."
Philip Strong hesitated and looked
up and down the street. He had eomej
out to Tarrytown to make a will, and
be did not see the house he had been
directed to.
A young girl was coming toward
him. ne waited and lifted his hat.
"Can you tell me where Henry Lloyd
lives?" he aked77
As he spoke the girl, who had been
looking at him, put her hand to her
forehead quickly and blushed. "I
yes that is, Henry Lloyd" 6he be
gan, but at the sound of her voice the
young man started forward, the blood
rushing to his face. "Nona," he said
stammeringly, "Nona Stewart! I swear
I'd know that voice in a thousand."
"Yes," said the girl, with a tremulous
laugh, as he took her hand. "And you
are Mr. Strong, are you not? But why
do you look as if you had seen
ghost?"
"Because I thought at first that you
were one," he answered, still holding
her hand as if to assure himself. "They
told me that the reason you never
came any more was because you were
dead."
hy, that was grandmother," 6aid
Nona. "And I never had a chance to
explain. I"
"I never had a chance to explain
either," said Thllip slowly, looking at
her.
"Explain what?" asked the girl.
"How much I love you," answered
rhilip.
How He Announced It.
There was a minister in a little Ne
braska town who had two matters
which were very close to his heart Il
had prayed long and earnestly that the
mortgage of the church might be paid
off and that be might have a son and
heir. Not long ago a boy came tc
gladden his heart and home, and on the
same day the rich man of the village
died, leaving $5,000 with which to pay
off the church debt
The town was wild with excitement
over the double event and bets were
freely made as to which subject was
closest to the minister's heart and
which he would refer to first In his ser
mon on the following Sunday. The
eventful day arrived, and excitement
ran high. There was an expectant
hush when the minister entered the
pulpit.
"My friends," he said, "you know
what has been close to my heart foi
many years, and you know of the Joy
ful happenings of the past week; and
now, my friends, I want you to join
with me in thanking God for the suc
cor that has been sent us."
And then all bets were off.
Science For Ita Own Sake.
A prominent feature in Faraday's
character was his absolute love of sci
ence for his own sake. He freely gave
his discoveries to his world when he
could easily have built up a colossal
fortune upon them. He once told his
friend, Trofessor Tyndall, that at a
certain period of his career he had defi
nitely to ask himself whether he should
make wealth or science the object of
his life. He could not serve both mas
ters and was therefore compelled to
choose between them. When preparing
his well known memoir of the great
master, the professor called to mind
this conversation and asked leave to
examine his accounts, and this is the
conclusion the professor arrived at:
Taking the duration of his life into
account, this 6ou of a blacksmith and
apprentice to a bookbinder had to de
cide between a fortune of f 150,000 on
the one side and his unendowed science
on the other. He chose the latter and
died a poor man. But his was the
glory of holding aloft among the na
tions the scientific name of England
for a period of forty years.
Parrots.
There is an idea that the brilliantly
colored parrots do not talk. There Is
no reason why they should not and
many possess the imitative instinct
One of the most richly colored of all is
the purple capped lory, from the Mo
luccas. Its whole body is crimson and
rose, its wings are green and its crest is
purple. It is a thickset bird, like a big
bullfinch, and can be highly educated.
It is tame and gentle, an excellent
linguist" and mimic, never shrieks
and is very amiable. It is also a ven
triloquist
It is worth noting that some of the
lories, which are very fond of flowers,
have been poisoned by being given la
burnum blossoms. There is a belief
that parrots should not be allowed wa
ter to drink, but only sopped food. We
believe that this is a mistake which
causes them great misery. They are
not great water drinkers, and some
f pedes can go without It for a consid
erable time; but in their native state
most of those that have been observed
rome regularly to the water holes to
drink.
Male Bride.
It ha 3 rained all the long dreary day,
and his golden curls were bedraggled
and wet, and his nice collar hung limp
down his slender shoulders when he
came home at a quarter past 4 o'clock
and threw his schoolbooks at the cat,
mhich lay beside the hearth.
"Grandpa," he said softly as he came
to where the old man was quietly sit
ting, smoking and thinking, "I thought
all. brides were of the female sex."
"They are, child; they are. Why do
you make such an odd remark?"
Because, grandpa, in looking over
my geography lesson I came upon the
Hebrides. Are they females, too, and
If eo why are they called 'he?'"
Traflna- Chimneys.
A chimney 115 feet high will sway
n inches in a high wind without dan-
er.
The Word "Meander."
The word "meander" comes from the
river of the same name, whose course
was so devious that it furnished nearly
very modern language with a new
word.
JEWELRY JOTTINGS.
Serpent designs for bracelets are
seen in almost endless variety and are
very popular.
Odd ideas in bracelets are the heads
of Rocky mountain goats and of pink
eyed bulldogs, forming the opposing
points on slender gold bands.
A charming and costly ring-for a wo
man shews a large perfect ptarl rest
ing in an open circle of tiny brilliants
M'hich' tops a slender banr pave with
the same stones.
Gold shirt waist sols, including cuff
links, buttons and collar studs, have an
alluring ensemble when an emerald in
one and a diamond In the other form
the center of the gold buttons of the
links. Emeralds are used in the other
pieces. Jewelers' Circular-Weekly.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
hems Gleaned From the Trnrblsga
of All Denominations.
Apart from Christ we can do noth
ing. Rev. Dr. Cadman, Congregatiou
alist, Brooklyn.
Tempted Beeane Inderpaid.
Many a man has yielded to tempta
tion because be was underpaid. Rev.
A. C. Bane, Methodist, San Francisco.
Our Attltnde Tonard Life.
It is certain that the good of life here
and now depends upon our attitude to
ward it lie v. Dr. David Utter, Uni
tarian, Denver.
A nenntifnl Word.
Religion is obedience. It is a beauti
ful and precious word and means all it
says. Rev. Alonzo Monk, Methodist,
Atlanta, Ga.
ItcKrnernt ion Necessary.
Regeneration Is necessary if we are
to escape the corruption and pollution
that ore iu the world. Rev. Martin B.
Bird, Congregationalist. St. Louis.
I'ntrlut im n Moral Force.
Patriotism should be a moral force,
teaching us never to act so our coun
try may be ashamed of us. Rev. Dr.
Forrest E. Dager, Episcopalian, Phila
delphia.
Mnsnetivm of the Cros.
The magnetism of the cross, is stron
ger today than ever before. Christ on
the cross draws us because of our need.
Rev. Dr. II. G. Henderson, Metho
dist, St Louis.
Principle. ot Sentiment.
Religion is a principle and not a sen
timent It is something to take pos
session of the man and actuate his
whole life. Rev. Dr. Broiightuit. Bap
tist, Atlanta. Ga.
The One Safe C'onrne.
A man only involves himself more
and more In evil when he starts out on
a wrong course. There is but one safe
course. It is that of the strictest hon
esty. Rev. J. L. Davis. Congregational
ist, Akron, O.
Pitted AffainM Each Other.
Good and evil are pitted against each
other. The fight has really just begun,
and the struggle will be a long one.
But it is In the nature of things that
the moral idea will prevail. Dr. Felix
Adlcr, Ethical Culture. New York.
The nest Society.
Society should be regarded as an im
plement for strengthening and spread
ing religion, philanthropy, learning and
good morals. This is indeed the true
society. It is the best society. Rev.
Dr. Henry C. McCook, Presbyterian,
Philadelphia.
IteliKlon Is Life.
Religion is not a thing the world can
do without. Some good people seem to
consider it a sort of veneer, very nice.
but not necessary: admirable In the
wardrobe, but entirely unnecessary.
This is all wrong. Religion is bread; it
Is life, for it is the staff of life. Rev.
Frank G. Tvrrell, Christian, St Louis.
Drairlns and Iloldins Men.
The greatest genius that ever lived
would fail to hold men to the church
by schemes and inventions, but the
great heart cf God, beating in a con
gregation of saved men and women and
in a pulpit on fire with the enthusiasm
of the passion for men, will draw them
and hold them. Rev. Dr. John E.
White, Baptist Atlanta, Ga.
Xerv Basis of Reform.
The belief of our age is iu the soli
darity of our race and its power to be
come the exhibit of the life of God. In
this we find a new basis for reform,
for it convicts of sin all of those who
are in any way failing honorably and
justly to use their powers to benefit the
social body of which they are a part
Rev. William M. Backus, Chicago.
The Chief Concern.
In the days to come our children and
grandchildren will not ask what con
fessions of faith their fathers wrote
or what were the forms under which
they worshiped and did their work,
but they will be most concerned with
the kind of spiritual life that was de
veloped under our beliefs and prac
tices. Rev. Dr. Edward B. rollard.
Baptist. Washington.
f Not an tnnntnral Life.
A Christian life is not an unnatural
life. It is life as God wants It to be.
It is life from God. In God and for
God.. It is the fulfillment of .what
eternal love has decreed for us. Sin
has dwarfed this life and shamed it
and sent evil spirits to crawl across
it and the forked hoofs of devils to
eink down through It Rev. Dr. W. J.
McKittrick, Presbyterian. St Louis.
Besponslre Sympathy.
The most sensitive soul ever In the
world was the Christ The more like
him we become the more burdens we
bear. The more tightly the strings of
an instrument are drawn the more vi
brant it is to the touch of the musi
cian. The tenser the soul in Its devo
tion to the Ixird the easier the burdens
reach us. the more ready our respon
slve sympathy. Rev. Alonzo Monk.
Methodist Atlanta. Ga.
" Ilnty and Pleasore.
A true Christian, finding his way to
glory through the sad and hard as well
aa th Joyous experiences of life, al
wayg under the conviction that God
and the angels will come with assist
ance at his call, presents an ideal of
work well done, of sorrows bravely
borne and f a heart at peace because
doty and pleasure are two words for
the same thing. Rev. George II. Hep
Svortbj Congregationalist, New York.
The Sllssion of Art.
With the most ardent devotee of
fashion I plead for the beautiful. Art
is the hope of the tolling multitude,
as It is the Joy of the cultivated. It is
the highway that leads to God. But
art is not fashion, and art rests on
Simplicity and never violates the prin
ciple of fitness. Every bonnet as well
as every cathedral must have a back
ground of morality by which Its artis
tic quality must be tested. Rev. Jen
kin Lloyd Jones, Episcopalian, Chica-
Catarrh
Is a constitutional disease.
It originates in a scrofulous condition of
the blood and depends on that condition.
It often causes heartache and dizziness.
impairs the taste, smell and hearing, af
fects the vocal organs, disturbs the stomach.
. It is always radically and permanently
cured by the blood-purifying, alterative
anu iouic action oi
Hood's Sarsa par ilia
This great medicine lias wrought the most
wonderful cures of all diseases depending
on scrofula or the scrofulous habit.
Hood's I'ills are the best eatUartiu.
SUMMER COLDS
Produce Chronic Catarrh.
Mrs. lifnrlutte C. OIIkti?, Albert Lea,
Minn.
Mrs. Henriette C. Olberg, superinten
dent Flax and Hemp Exhibition at the
Omaha Exhibition, wriis liru Albert
Lea, Minn., aa follows :
"This spring I contracted an aggra
vating cold, having been exposed to the
damp weather. Catarrh of my throat
and head followed, which persisted In
remaining, notwithstanding I applied
the usual remedies.
" Rending of the merits of IVruna in
the paper, I deeiil.tl to try it and kiwd
found that all that ha 1k u faid of your
medicine in such euen is tru.
"I am very pleaded with th atisfao
tory result obtained from lining IVruna,
am entirely well, and -onider it a nu.sl
valuable family niedieiiio."
HENRIETTE O. OLHEUG.
Summer colds require prompt treat
ment. They are always grave, and
sometimes dangerous. The prompt
ness and surety with which Peruna
acts in these cases has saved many
lives. A large dose of Peruna should
bo taken at the first appearan.-e of a cold
In summer, followed by small and oft
repeated doses. There is no other rem
edy that medieal science can furnish, m
reliable and quick in its action as Peruna.
Address The Peruna Medicine Com
pany, Columbus, Ohio, for a free book
entitled "Summer Catarrh," which
treats of the catarrhal dieaes peculiar
to summer.
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Goldstar's Leading Clothier.
1'iider Hotel Keunou.
Phone 173.
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