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V 1 I SPANISH GRANDEES; 'FAMILY PEDIGREES THAT RUN BACK TEN CENTURIES. National Vanity Border ton the Ab. urdTy Grotesqa. and Playlinff tb Gen tlman Ha Been Called nbe Kndemlo Disease of Spain." It is relatod that a young guard, hay ing neglected to pay the nsaaf salnte to , - a Spanish duke at the court of Madrid, excused himself by saying, that he did not know the offended nobleman's rank. "My friend, " replied his grace, "the , safe rule is to assume that everybody in the palace wholooks like a monkey is a grandee or tne first class.' The truth is the Spanish are a thor oughly mongrel race,- and their conceit of themselves amazes us. Their country has probably been of tener overrun and conquered; than any other territory of ,. equal extent In Europe. ? Phoenician, Carthaginian, Roman, Vandal, Visigoth and Moor have all successfully made it their Btamping ground, and the effect of all this upon the pure Castilian blood, whatever that may be, is indeli bly stamped on; every really Spanish - lace. - v" - But playing the gentleman has been called 'the endemic disease,of Spain,', and the 'national vanity is something - grotesque, One of their historians seri ously advanced the theory that the first inhabitants of the country "arrived by air, ? so Impressed ' was he by their . superhuman qualities that nothing Bhort of a descent from the sky could account for them. A subsequent historian, how everr after a long and grave discussion of the question, finally announced his . opinion that ''they more probably came by land." - After this we need not be astonished that the Spanish claim , to possess the oldest families in Europe., The surpris ing circumstance is that , the claim is not wholly without foundation. Their v family names can in some cases be trao- , ed back to an incredibly remote period, though it must not be assumed that the original blood persists In any purity. , Probably the mdst ancient family in Spain ia the house or Paoheco, wrfose estates . are not far from Carteia, now called Cartaya, in Andal usia. Plutarch tells us that when Crassus fled from Italy he concealed himself for eight - months at ' Xtmena, near Carteia, in caves belonging to a Spanish gentleman named Paciccus. ! Cicero also mentions " this generous Spaniard, and there can be no doubt that he was one of ' the an cestors of the Pacheco family,, whose name is obviously derived from his and who still own the "caves. This carried ihem back about 2, 000 years, to a period antedating the Christian era, but it is possible to tracer the lino much further. The name is clearly of Phoenician origin, being ultimately derived, from "patai- -coi, " the word by which the Tyrians designated - the ; carved figurehead of their galleys. The identification is made more com plete by the fact that the Phoenicians were the founders of Carteia, as of Cad iz in the same province. That adds another 1,000 years or bo to the Paoheco ' pedigree, Think of it a landed estate remaining in the possession of the - same family for 8,000 years! This is doubtless the most wonderful family tree in the world and "unusually well authenticated. The Pachecos may well be pardoned for taking pride in it, though it roots in, rather unsavory soil at last, for the. great original Pacheco was evidently a Tyrian freebooter. : : ; t Names that trace back to the Cartha ginian occupation in the time of - Han nibal are also found, and the title of Hannibal's own clan, Barca, is perpet uated by the Barcias and Garcias, well known families of Andalusia. There are also several names of Roman ante cedents,, as Ponce and Cane, in Latin Pontius and Canius. A Spanish gentle man bearing the latter name was a per sonal friend of the poet Martial, all of which seems to brim? antiquity very easily traceable. Tho Basques rcpresout the original population of the Spanish peninsula. Their seat is the mountains of the northern district,' and in many ways remind us of the Welsh. They have the same simplicity of : lifo, and the same really justifiable pride of birth, for their blood is tho purest in Spain, if that counts for anything. Like the Wesh also, they have to a considerable extent maintained their ancient lan guage, one of . the strangest which sur vive upon the earth, bearing no resem blance to any other in Europe. These Basque families, for the most part, bear names which appear to be geographical in their origin, as Ugarte, meaning - r between , waters ; V , Zubia, "the bridge;" Ibarra.Vthe valley" -a style which reminds us of our American Indians, although it is found more or less all i over the world. The termina tion ' ez, ' so ', common . in Spanish names, is Basque, and signifies "son," as Perez, son of . Peter, exactly like our own Peterson. Pittsburg Dispatch. An' Erratic Writer . When Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a small salaried clerk in - George W. Carleton's book store on Broadway, Fifcs James O'Brien was in . the habit of dropping in to , see him, and one day came in rather ; more : than half seas oyer. " Aldrich decided to take him across the street to a hotel and put him to bed Cautiously and carefully he led O'Brien, but before he had got half way across a friend stopped: him and asked: "Why do you want to bother with the fellow. Let him go." "I will not," replied Aldrich. "He borrowed a dollar from me, a few days ago, and I can't afford to let anything happen to -him." At another time, when he was not strictly eoher, O'Brien found himself i out of fundus He wandered into a pub lisher's office and asked for $25. This was refused him. Angrily seizing a placard O'Brien , reversed it and made : in big letters on the blank side: "One of .... p;....g authors. I am starving. " Ty ing a string to the card, O'Brien placed it around his neck and paraded up and down the street, to : the great amuse ment' of a large crowd. He was of i course requested to desist, but nothing i stopped his mad course until a f 5 bill was presented to him as a compromise. San Francisco Argonaut. , - Au Islaud of Flower, Tho Scilly t islands may very justly be termed flower islands, for a large part of their surface is given up to the cultivation of flowers, and the great majority, of ? their people spend their lives in ; attending to the plants, from which all the wealth of tho islands is drawn. , . '; v. ;"'-'t r::: The inhabitants have had other occu pations before ( tlrey settled down to flower growing. At one time they. were wreckers, and at a 'later period they went into a more legitimate business and devoted themselves to the raising of early potatoes. There was money to bo made out of thorn, and the islands pros pered until prosperity bore its usual fruit in the shape of competition. . The Channel islanders took to growing pota toes, and the potato trade of the Scilly islands was killed.. Thereupon the is landers . betook themselves to "flower growing, giving , the greater part of their , attention to the narcissi. In St, Mary's alone nearly a quarter of the cultivated area of the island is devoted to flowers. Youth's 'Companion. Health Hefore lleaat). ' Two ' Irishmen who had not met for years ran across each other in Derby, and after a period of handshaking ad journed for some moist congratulations. "Long time since we met, Pat, isn't it? . Great lot of things have happened since then , "Yes, indeed.. Look at mesilf. Sure, it's married I am, " replied Pat. "You don't tell me " "Faith, and Qi've got a fine, healthy bhoy, and the neighbors say he is the very picture of me. O'Grady looked at' Pat, who wasn' built on the lines of a prize beauty. ucn, well, wnat's cue narrura so long as the child's healthy?" New York World. . JONES, JR. ABBWILUS. JONES.a WILLIS, Barbers .and Hairdressers, ; UNDER HOTEL TULL. Shaving, Haircutting and. Shampooing Done in Best and Latest Styles. , Everything clean and neat. - , i . Your patronage solicited'. Atlantic & N. C. Railroad. TIME TABLE No. 5. , - The Devil Tree. The devil, dragon or octopus tree, as it is variously called in the different stories told of it, is one of those travel ers myths which by dint of lepeti tion nave worked their way Into public be lief. The man eating or devil tree is, according to the story, a huge plant somewhat resembling a palm, save that the central fronds are i provided with sharp teeth, which when; the leaves are folded over toward the center, grasp with a death grip the man or animal unfortunate enough to be inclosed with in. In some of the stories this tree is also provided with long arms, which mih stnt J . -l S''tor 7i WILfflKGlOllSD BEID03 EUIB01D Eastbowwl. . Westbound. ' ' ' : w.' - im I' fi I 8TATIN9. a P.M. A.M. P.M. . A.M. P.M. A.M. 520 710 3 40 ..GoldsDOrO,. .. 1106 813 788 5 40 7 43 4 00 .....Best's...... 1043 7 83 8 00 549 8 OH 409 ...LftGrange,.., 1032 7C3 027 8 00 8s 4 20 .Falling Creek,. 10 23 33 6 17 812 0 14 4 32 ....Klnaton,.... 1012 613 607 621 9 28 4 41 ....Caswell,... 1000 61f 565 6 30 1016 460 Dover, 52 4 20 5 47 8 42 10 40 5 02 . . Core Creek,, . 9 40 4 00 5 33 6 64 U 16 6 14 ...Tnscarora.,. 30 3 8f 5 85 7 00 1181 5 20 . Clark's,.,.. 922 8 2t 517 726 130 545 Newborn,... 8 67 10 41 4 67 7 60 2 12 6 10 . .. Klveraale... . 8 83 10 10 4 83 763 8 20 613 i.. Croatian,... 8 29 1000 4 29 f 8 05 843 625 ....HavelOCk,... 8 20 9 40 420 8 18 812 6 38 ....Newport,:., S06 90t 406 1824 8 25 6 44 ...WildWOOd,,. 7 69 8 47 8 69 ' 8 29 8 81 6 49 ....AUantiC,.... 7 66 8 3 55 8 42 861 7-02 MoreheadCity 742 815 8 48 8 60 4 01 7 10 Morehead Cltx- 725 760 825 P.M. P.M. P.M. A.M. A.M. A.M.. tDally except Sunday. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. ' (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday . near in Spain. The fact of the matter is she has never emerged from antiquity. The Spanish, however, are inclined to look back to the Goths as "the purest fountain of nobility." This certainly seems a strange perversion of sentiment, for of all the barbarians that came down from the north to lay wasto Roman civ ilization with fire and sword the Goths, . with tbrir cousins, the Vandals, were tho most irredeemably villainous. , And these Goths wereno extraordi r ry heroes cither, even in war. With EU! i.a 1 I. r; ;art incompetency they lioors in the nht months Furrcmacv which it cc,; t .t ccntnrics cf enhkt to renin. ,"Gct:.icrf.:.n ."HtherUi!.:. ?. ' i ( ' ; "! r it we -.1 1 ; . : i V ,;t F :-v f.-.::.il:-.; : .'.-i : t 1 u- them into the center of the circle of devouring leaves. , - It is hardly necessary to say that there Is no such tree and that the etory has its origin in the dangers of travers ing a tropical thicket, where travelers i have received Berious injuries from fall ing over vines and among thorny plants, where men are frequently attacked and killed by "serpents. The devil tree is lo cated by various story tellers in Borneo, in Sumatra and in the forest recesses of other tropical islands, and . whenever inquiry is made for it it is to"be found somewhere else. St. Louis Globe-Dem ocrat . '.' . A ran am llat. . 'The life of a panama hat that is, if it is a gdod one to start with," re marked an admirer of that style of head gear,: "compares soiw what with the life of the owner of it. ; One can ran throush either in a hurry or haha on for a long time if it is desired." If care fully ket, a panama hat should last all the way from 10 to 40 years. I know a gentleman who resides in east Washington who has owned and steadi ly worn during the summer months a panama hat for nearly 40 years. It has been tleached every couple of vears 6ince and retrimmed and relined, and it is today to all intents and purposes ns good as when I rst saw it SO years ago. , "I know of another panama hat, now worn by a physician in this xity, which has Lad almost as lcng a life. Lon be fore he got it hii father were it. I know u: "...i cf t'.c::i which have hem ia t:so frcrn 10 to 0 yer.rs. The limns wer.r3 cut; tut tho body cf thehatkecrs rocl. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS! GOirQ SOUTH. DATED May 15th, 1898. Leave Weldon... Ar. Rocky ML. . Leave Tarhbro... Lv. Rocky Mt..., Leave Wilson.... Leave Selma..... Lv. FayettevlUe. Ar. Florence.,.. ! Ar. Qoldsboro... i Lv Goldaboro... Lv. Masrnolla.... t Ar. Wilmington. A. M. 1160 12 551 1221 ioo1 1681 85r 4 25 725 P. M. P.M 943 1030 1086 11 131 1158 107 315 A. M tnaZ P. M. 6 00 6 45 7191 800 P. M. A.M. '6 40 i 6 22 701 805 930 fee P. M. IS 62 220 8C5 41? 140 A. M. P. M. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Lv. Florence .. Lv. FayettevlUe. Leave tlma..... Arrive Wilson... Lv. Wilmington. Lv. Hacnolia.... Lv. Goidsboro... of o s ft Lave Wilsnn... Ar. liockyKt... Arrive Tarboro. , Leave Tar boro... LV. rork-y irt... Ar. t ciaufl A. M. .8 45 11 101 J3 35 U7i S?5 O d -3 P. M 117 2121 13 21 t1n. 3 e P. M. A. M. 5 00; 5 3- 6 15 6 45 Us P. M.i 8 10 11 4 1 121 K. 51" 5 6T us: l o 3 613 P. M. 715 8 65 1010 P. M 11 15 11 67 P. M. A. M. 9 35 1101 . 12 03 P. M. 12 49 ISO Of th:: - ccur: i s . . 3 car; ; a 1 th to le th. 1 to 1.- ! I IS 1 cr Tr'a ca t' t K!rcf."n Era' 'n 4-n p. m., Halifax 4 : fit 5 :.J p. m., t ..-.l 1.:.3 p. ia. Keuir-. n roal Waves p. n., arrives " ' I 7 p. cr- cnvi :ie k i a . 1 1., ernv. i a. n., WtU.a H i a. u.,Ca.ij' Heady ,' For Easiness To Furnish Lumber Promptly! - Have put iu a new planer and every thing is in shape at my lumber "mills to fill orders for Rough or Dressed Lum ber of anv dimetisiona ommntlv unrf r rj sausiactorny. - 7 We furnish Oak, Asb,-Long or Short Leaf Pine. ... A big lot of No. l Air-dried Pine is on hand ready for immediate delivery. Z. EDWARDS, ' ' ' KIKSTOX, N. C Bicycles ......Electric Fans, Etc. Everything New and First-Class. - , Meals, 25 cents. WILLENBRINK'S taoliieooiD. , If, Villknbrink, Prop. X20 Middle street, 2nd door from M Hahn & Co. 'a Stables. WEWBERN - - N.C. Knra for hire, sale or exchange; at Bell & Sons. 8SsTRepairing a Specialty E. P. Cox, Fres. W. C. Fields, V.-Pres. R. C. Strong, Cashier. I III Of III Commenced Business rflareh 1, 1897. Established upon a rock foundation the confidence of the people. - . : Depositors absolutely protected -the officers are bonded and full insurance against safe robbers. Accounts with , farmers, 'merchants, dealers in leaf tobacco and others solic ited. . . A nicely furnished private room, wita stationery free, for the use and convent ence of our friends. Come and 6ee us. Board of Directors:-B. Y Can ady, W, C. Fields, T.. W. Mewborn, I. -F. Cox, J. W. Grainger, Ji E. Hood, W. . B. Isler, L. Harvey, W; L. Kennedy, D. V, Dixon, S. II. Abbott. gapgains in of set8 Warner's Corallne $irtipw 75c. " Madam Strong's $i( now 75c. The Celebrated C. B. $1, now 75c. -'.-" - The Famous Featherbone $it now 75c. , None Better in Fit or Elegance. fjupsing Corsets. Warner's Coraliue $r, now 75c. Featherbone $1, now 75c, , ihis sale will last two weeks, , These prices are for cash only. Jnly 28, 1898. ' A. R. MILLER. !;telfcis'0rli i . And we are in the thickest of the fight; 21 Not amid the crash of shot and shell, -, Nor where Spanish bullets fly likewell, -As would-be competitors are put to flight : mim CONFRONTED WITH OUR- . I i Lou Prices and Fine Wort y.-. ....,., , jf .11 ,. i.Mi.. ,. I, ,, , , ,., .,,., ,,. , " tr the dob printing Line. ' i - With Power Presses, New and Latest Styles Type, plenty I of paper stock of various kinds, and competent workmen, we j are prepared to do , . - - - i Better Printing At Lower Prices .... . .- Than Can Be Obtained Elsewhere. Bring or send all your orders for Job Printing to TJlE FREE P1?ESS, ; "; Kinston, II, C. V r t j 1 ON, r r.'l . 1 - r. 1. A?CLt t ti t I r
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