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THE MESSENGER,
J Marion, N. C.
'1E FAHMER'3 THANKSGIVING
The earth Is brown, and skies are gray
And the windy woods are bare,
.nl tho first white flake nf tv .,
. 1 u J VVUllIl
snow
Are afloat In the frosty air
Di t the f parks fly up from the hickory log
On the homestead's broad stone hearth,
Aud the windows shake, and tho rafters
rinjr,
To the lads' and the lasses' mirth.
Tl.f 'armer's face is furrowed and worn,
And his locks are thin and white;
But Ms hand Is steady, his voice Is clear,
And his eyo j3 blue and bright, '
f.h3 ho turns to look at his sweet old wife
Who sits in her Kown of gray,
With the cobweb 'kerchief, and creamy
frills '
5heworo-- -
'In bows his head to the laden board,
And the guests they are silent all.
'TLmksxlvln ,, Lorl, for th sun and rain,
Aid the fruit on the orchard wall.
For the silver wheat, and the golden corn,
An-1 the crown of a peaceful life
The troatot bl-f lu? that Thou can! give
A true aud a loving wife!"
This white-haired lover lie bcn.ld to klta
Her hand fn Its frill of law,
Aud the fade J rose on hc wrinkled cheek,
With a proud and a courtly grace;
Aud th-J8uowflak.il click on tho window
pane, Kwl the rafters ring above,
A:i 1 the angels sing at the gates of God
Th'.' wo; da of the farmer's love.
Mlnu'.'o Irving.
mn: again.
A THANKSGIVING STORY.
Jiiitu a very sin
gular name, Joue,
such a very singu
lar name. Oh, if
it should bcl"
TllA Tcnrilu nrn-rn
YJfrH & a wai,t 'Q accents
try, that theatrong
woinan who heard
thera felt Lcr eyes
prow misty. She
l;eut over the
loungo where the
FpunKer, n silver
haired old lady.
helpless for years
wnli paralysis, was Jilting beseeching
eyes to her face.
"Don't take ou, so, deaiy," che said,
soothingly. "There's many one, tho
more's the pity, driven to suicide by
hur cr and cold. Why should this
one be ,:
Then sho choked. Tier Dureling,
her baby, tho child (-he worshiped,
drived by hunger and oold to suicide.
"iiut, June," tho invalid persL-ted,
"it is such a strange name. See," and
th" pointed to one sentence iu the
paper beforo her; "the only clue to
tho identity of the would-be suicide
is a wedding ring marked 'John to
Delphine."'
' I see," sail tho nurse, f'but
but-"
And again the wished-for words of
comfort failed her. The paragraph
was no uncommon one, merely the
record of a woman's attempt at se'if
debtruction. She had thrown herself
off a bridge, clasping a babe close iu
her irins, and had been rescued and
taken, quite unconscious, to a hospital,
Her dress was described and the in
scription on the ring given; that was
all.
Cut the paralyzed woman reading
the newspaper wa9 journeying over
memory's plain, back back twenty
five years, when a baby lay upon her
breast, the only one God ever gave
her. A blue eyed babe, nursed ten
derly, roared in every luxury, petted,
indulged for twenty long years, the
idol of two loving hearts. Then oh,
the bitter rock on the plain one day
this child of so much love left her
homo to follow the fortune of a man
who was so unfit for the care of her
sweet girlhood, that her father had
forbidden hira to enter tho house
where his child dwelt.
Ihe loverR if tho very nanio is not
a desecration, where on one side was
mercenary calculations, on the other
Mind worship met at tho house of
friends and planned an elopement.
When Delphine was gone, when no
0 jult of her treachery to her parents
remained, her father, a stern, hot
tempered man. cursed her, and for
bade ! or name to be mentioned in bis
bonse. And her mother, even then
Lcipless, shivered and moaned, and
silently prayed for the child whoso
deceit could not destroy her mother's
love.
And for five years no line oame to
tell thera of repentance, no prayer for
pardon.
One letter from John Hoi lis, the
man who Lad so basely stolen a young1,
truing girl from a happy home to
follow his evil fortunes, the father
answered, i rushing forever the hope
of fortune that had prompted tho
T.l!in.
Such a letter as he read, grinding
hie teeth with impotent rage, effec
tual prevented a fecond demand
upon his father-in-law's purse, and
Delphine knew in that hour what
misery lay before her.
But she made no appeal.
The future sho had deliberately
chosen she accepted ns her punish
ment, seeing at last how wickedly she
had requited the love of years.
"Mrs. Bernard, dear," Jano said,
softly, caressing the haggard face, at
last buried in the pillows of the lounge,
"doi't- don't take on eo."
"If I only knew, if I only knew,"
the mother moaned; "and, oh, Janel
il is T janksgiuing Day. How can 1
1 ray thankfully if my darling lies to
day in a hospital dying by her own
ac? Jane, 1 must see Mr. Bernard."
Jane weDt willingly npon this errand,
but returned slowly.
"Mr. Bernard has gone out, ma'am."
"Gone cut? Why, ho nover goes
tul after 10."
--wn jn the cosy library, where
J-!i,'s Bernard enjoyed the leisure
earned by years of mercantile
r'i'. the morning's newspaper had
lc opened deliberately, the money
,irlio!e scanued, the foreign news en
3.ved, and the reader was idly looking
Ttr other columns, when a sentence
emed to spring out of the page be
Iorfc him, so clearly it stood defined
rV1 ae masa of print.
'Ihe only clew to the ideutity of
Uo woul i.be suicide is a wedding
IB. marked 'John to Delphi'
iflt
was w
ill
VOL. I NO. i2.
AH INTERRUPTED THANKSGIVING SERVICE.
Eagerly every line of the tragedy was
read, the sweat standing in great beads
upon James Dernard s face.
"Shabby weeds 1" he muttered, Ma
widow, starving I"
Then in his heart arose a great cry,
breaking through the stern repression
of years. .:
"Delphine, my girl, my treasurer
He could read no more. Only that
one pitiful record could he see upon
tho whole broad printed sheet, and the
yearning bitterness of hisheart would
not be stilled.
"I must be sure," he thought, at
length. 'I hope Delia will not see
this. Shall I see? No, my face would
betray mo. I will not see her until I
can tell her it is not our child, or "
What? He would consider no fur
ther, but put on his overcoat and hat,
and hurried out into the bleak
November air. It was Thanksgiv
ing Daf, and the city wore its holiday
air.
Stores were closed, and groups were
going to atd fro with the expression
expected pleasure brings upon faces
worn with the world's cares.
Tho butchers' carts rattled about
noisily and hurriedly, that turkeys
might be delivered in time to eec iro
longer holiday for the carriers.
Children with "going to grandma's"
legibly printed on their faces skipped
lightly over the cold pavements.
Nobody noticed tho handsomely
dressed old man who strode rapidly in
the direction of the city hospital, for
getting carriages, horse cars, every
thing but tho necessity of satisfying
that dreadful doubt in his heart.
Now he sickened for fear this des
perate wretch was his child ; now he
prayed it might be, that he could
claim her for his own again.
"Here yes, sir," said the physi
cian, m answer to his inquiries; "liv
ing? oh, yes, she'll get over it; needs
food as much as anything. Can you
see her? Certainly Sarah," calling
a nurse, "take this gentleman to 3'J
pauper ward."
"39 pauper," lay upon a cot
that was scrupulously clean, perfectly
comfortable, yet sent a chill to James
Bernard's heart.
Her babe, a lovely boy of some six
month?, pale, bat with large, dark
eyes full of intelligence, was seated be
side her, and the mother's eyes rested
upon his face mournfully, but without
any delirious fire.
James Bernard staggered back a
little, and the nurse whispered :
"She s quite herself this morning,
though sho will tell us nothing of her
self. Shall I speak to her ?"
"No, I I will speak to her."
The voice was hoarse, choked, hut
the woman upon the bed heard it, and
looked up.
Many a cry of anguish, oi dying
agony, of piteous appeal naa rang
through that "pauper ward," but
never one of more passionate entreaty
than the one word, "Father I" that
burst from tha lips of the woman
snatched from death by a policeman'B
rough grasp not twenty-foar hoars be
fore.
The morning was dragging wearily
along in the room where every luxury
wealth could command was heaped
about Mrs. Bernard's invalid lounge.
Trembling with exoitement, mingled
hope and fear, the mother watched the
hands of the clook travel slowly over
the face. Again and again Jane had
gone to the library, only to return to
make the same report.
"He's not come in yet, ma'am."
It was past noon when the long
strained patience gave way.
"Jane you must go to the hospital.
I shall die in this agony of doubt.
Yon can see if if this is a stranger,
and if not oh, Jane, surely surely
her father will forgive her now."
As if in answer to tho cry James
Bernard at this moment entered the
room. Upon his face there was a
strange solemnity, and not seeming to
see the quivering lips, the imploring
eyes lifted to his face, he kissed his
wife tenderly.
"Delia," he said, gently, "did yon
read the newspaper this morning?"
"Tes, James I"
"You saw, perhaps, a paragraph de
scribing the attempted suioide of ft
woman named "
"Delphine 1 James, you read it?
James James you will see if it can be
our child. James, you will forgive
her now!" .A. ,
And the poor.holpless figure writhed
as if the poor mother would have
thrown herself at her husband's feet.
"You thought too," he said huskily.
"Yes, yes, Jane was going to go,
but now you will go. You will see if
our darling, our Delphine, has been
driven to such mad misery as to try
and take the life we cherished so ten
derly. James, you will go?' n
"Delia, you must try to be calm,
cried her husband, , frightened at the
terrible agitation, so muoh more piti
ful from her inability to move, except
above her waist. It was awful to see
the white, thin fingers twisting and
working, the pale face . so gjwei
Literally afraid to tell Us tiaings.
THE MORAL WARFARB.
Our fathers to their graves have gonfe
Their strife is past, their triumph no.
But sterner trials wait the race
Which rises in their honored placei
A moral warfare with the crime
And folly of an evil time.
So let it be. In God's own might
We gird us for the coming fight;
And, strong in Him whose cause is ottrs,
In conflict with unholy powers
We grasp the weapons He has given
The Light, the Truth, and Love of Heaven.
--Wbittier.
James Bernard took the little figure
in his arms.
"If you will be quiet, love," he said,
"I will tell you good news."
She was quiet enough then, lying
panting with exhaustion in her hus
band's arms.
"Then you know !" she gaspeJ.
"I have been to the hospital."
"And it is not our Delphine?"
"Delia, it is our Delpoine!"
"Oh, James James!" and here the
tears broke forth, and the invalid
shook with sobs.
"Our Delphine, Delia."
"Dying?"
"Thank Heaven, no ! She has had
hours of unconsciousness, but is ra
tional again, and she knew me. Her
illness now is not dangerous, only the
elect of " with a choking eob :
"Starvation!"
"Oh, James James!"
"She can bo nursed back to life."
"There?"
"Can you bear it, Delia? She is
here I"
"And not with me? Oh, how can
you keep her from her mother?"
In answer to the cry, James Bernard
left the room, motioning Jane to fol
low him. Only a few moments later
he returned, half supporting, half
carrying, a weak, trembling woman,
who sank, half fainting, into her
mother's arms.
There was a long silence, broken
only by the voice of Mrs. Bernard,
speaking low, caressing words and
murmurs in answer, faint and low. tint
full of tenderness.
Then Jane appeared, asking:
"Is there no welcome for my bon
nie boy, the darling with grandpa's
eyes?"
And a glad greeting followed the
painful, yet joyful meeting between
the parents and the long lost child.
It was a sad story Delphine Hollis
told to sympathizing listeners; but
tho miseries, the trials of the unloved
wife were softened in the widow's re
cital, and over the dead was spread a
mantle of gentle charity and forgive
ness. "Dinner, Mrs. Bernard," Jane said,
at last, "and Thanksgiving."
And while she set the invalid's table,
James Bernard escorted Delphine to
tho dining room to preside over the
bountiful repast provided there, with
a heart full of most sincere and fervent
thanksgiving.
The Spirit of tho Home-Coming.
There are many people who regard
a Thanksgiving Day as a meaningless
day, and its celebration once a year a
waste of time and a mockery. It
might have been, they go on to say, a
day of reality to those who in early
colonial times had hostile tribes, in
clement weather and threatened star
vation to fight, and whose natures
were wrought upon to all their depths
of fear and gratitude. But for us in
these days of no National crises, in
theso days of money getting and ma
terialism, a Thanksgiving Day means
only a day in which, of tener than not,
observances are a bore.
Yet for all that, and in spite of
what the croakers say, year after year
in every home in town and country
some glad preparation for it is made.
Feasts are prepared. Welcome stands
ready. To the returning wanderer
arms are outstretched ; to the home
less wayfarer the hand is extended.
Cost of labor and pain of preparation
are foregotten in tho joy of reunion.
All the year that has gone has been
with many but as vista looking toward
it. For them all the year to follow
shines as a new pathway leading to
the same bright end. Harper's Bazar.
A Soulless Skeptic.
"I'm tired," remarked the spectacu
lar scoffer, "of reading these stories
about the wayward son or tho dis
owned daughter who invariably come
baok on Thanksgiving Day or Christ
mas, to be received into the bosom of
the family."
"Why," replied hiswife, "how hard
hearted you are! Surely you must
be touched by their resentence."
"Not as much as I'd like to be. I'd
be more impressed if they'd select
some day for coming back home when
they aren't dead sure the family is go
ing to have roast turkey for dinner."
Every Day.
Every day is a day of thanksgiving
for Christians. They do not wait un
til the crops have been gathered before
returning thanks, for they are thank
ful for every day's blessings. . Still it
is commendable custom for a Nation
to officially recognize man's depend
ence, and to ask its people to unite in
a common thanksgiving.
The late Justico Bowen's definition ' jj.e worked away, ;aa oli chair;
nt a AtMh for ennitv was "a blind.i"n.Pa"eil.; : hu knife blale broke.
1THt,o. in n dark rrmm fnr
uiu vw.ft -ww w
black hat that isn't there.
r
A funny way to make;,,-.j3l0aey
Write jokes.
MARION. X C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 189G.
Thanksghlng Decoration
The old question comes up ftgaii
and again as to how to devLie some
thing novel for Thanksgiving decora
tion. The day is one pre-eminentlj
homely and simple in it3 spirit and
traditions a day set apart for return
ing thanks because of the necessitief
and every day comforts of life.
Nothing is so appropriate in com
memorating the occasion as the em
bellishments from the harvest fields.
In drawing rooms nothing is more ef
fective than Indian corn and diminu
tive yellow pumpkins, the corn with
its long stalks and golden ears stacked
on either side of the wide doors or
grouped in corners, the small pump
kins with more ears of corn piled at
the base.
Vines of cranberry crowded with
the tiny red globes can trail across
mantel shelves or twine up and down
columns, while garlands of red and
green peppers, all sizes and shapes,
and great bunches of wheat and oats
are rich and beautiful in effect. Fruits
of all kinds grapes, late poara and
peaches, rosy apples and purple plums,
mingled with their own foliage are
unique and highly typical of the har
vest home.
For dicing table ornamentation a
novel and most attractive mode is to
cut from the ordinary garden vegeta
bles shapes simulating flowers from
the beet a deep red rose ; from the
yellow turnip, a tiger lily; a white
lily or chrysanthemum from the pota
to, with lettuce leaves for foliage,
while cabbage, celery, cauliflower and
the dozen other kitchen garden pro
ductions add blossoms to this original
bouquet. One of the ornaments serves
at each plate a3 a favor, while a huge
group mingled with fruits forms a fine
centerpiece.
It is a very simple matter to shape
these mock flowers, a sharp knife and
a little skill is all that is required.
They may be prepared th? day befora
Thanksgiving and kept fresh in a
bowl of water.
.Revenge.
"What are you doing that for?"
asked the old Gobbler of the young
Tom, as he observed that fine looking
bird standing in a corner of the barn
yard on his left leg, and drawing in
and shooting out the right with
monotonous persistence.
"Hardening my muscles," replied
the young Tom, shifting to the right
leg and keeping up tho performance
with his left.
"Are you entered for the Thanksgiv
ing games?" inquired the old Gobbler.
"No," responded the young Tom ;
"I am entered for the Thanksgiving
dinner, and that boy who lives in the
big bouse has been coming out here
every day for a month to see how I am
coming on. Well, ifI must be eaten,
I must, but that boy isn't going to
give many thanks when he tackles my
drumsticks, that's all !" Harper's
Weekly.
Their First Thanksgiving at Home.
Mr. Nowbryde (attempting to car
the turkey) "Good heavens, Mary!
what have you stuffed this turkey
with?"
Mrs. Newbryde (with dignity)
"Why, with oysters as you told me."
Mr. Newbryde (again trying to forco
his knife through) "But it feels like
rocks or stones."
Mrs. Newbryde "Oh, you mean,
horrid, cruel brute! That i3 the oys
ter shells. You always told me the
only way you liked oysters was in the
shells. Boo! hoo!hoo!" Puck.
A Thouulit for I'liaukyglvirg'.
"The only way to regenerate the
world is to do the duty which lies
nearest us, and not to hunt after
grand, far fetched onen for ourselves.
If each drop of rain chose where it
should fall, God's showers would not
fall as they do now."
Tale of a Tough Turkey.
Riaht up to tho market stall strode he,
And bought a bir 1 that was tea pounds three.
Then quickly home to hi3 wife he sped.
And told her all that the man had said
Of how to pick aad stuff aud eoofc.
And so with loving hauds she took
That tough old bird that was hard and gray,
And into the oven she stowed him awav.
And then for their married life was young
Wlih joyous hearts they sat and sung
Until, ns around the clock hands spun,
Sne said with a smile that the bird was done.
And he laughed aloud, aud his joy was great.
For his stomach told that the hour was late.
And he kissel his wife and he cried in glee
At the fine old bird that was ten pound
three.
And said, "I will cut him now in two;"
And took his knife that was bright and new
And hacked away for an hour or so,
Till his blade got dull and his movements
slow;
And then, wThayer and a moeat rest,
And his P.!m3 were eore aad his back was
And ' m
I CT. with a sunk9u chee and eye
wpoy,
1 VDV withered fraTl3 SU' down, she
JDJ '
m 1 .aid with a smile, that ivas halt a sneer,
X.hutd ihink you'woull leara to carve,
xaydear."
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BILL ARP'S 1ETTEI'.
A 3IIXTURE OF SIX AND GODLI.
XKSS HIS Til KM K.
Sermons and Circuses Discussed From
the Philosopher's Standpoint.
I didn't go to the circus but I took
some of the grandchildren and turned
them over to a friend. They bad never
seen one and were happy. : Now they
have something to talk about for a
month. What a revelation it is to the
youthful mind. I remember it well.
My father took me to one when I
was several years old, and it still
seems like that was the best one;
Away back in these days menageries
and circuses were not combined.. They
did not travel together nor come at
the same time.
.When old John Robinson first start
cuT oat he didn't have any animals.
The menagerie was orthodox ; the cir
cus was heterodox. Christians could
go to the one and sinners to the other.
t5ut by and by the circus was attached
to the menagrio and together ', they,
caught all kinds and colors. It is like
a Sunday excursion train to & taberna
cle meeting. The devil knows how to
mix up fiolic and fun with prayers
and sermon.
Yesterday I traveled with a Fcore or
two of preachers and elders who were
fjoing to Athens to attend the synod.
They were bright and genial and had
n their best clothes. They are good
company. They wear a subdued Chris
tian hilarity and have a fund of ortho
dox anecdotes to tell each other on the
way. About four times a year the
preachers go somewhere to a religious
convention, and each one is expected
to bring with him a fresh supply of
wit and incident some pepper and
salt to add zeEt to the religious feast.
In the old solemn times of Dr. Wilson
and Dr. Patterson and father, wit
and humor were under the ban. If
they were not sin they were on the
verge of it. Sidney Smith was con
sidered almost a heretic and his clerical
wit as nnCalvinistic, if not something
worse. I grew up nnder the solemni
ties of old school Presbyterians and
had a good time on Sundays, listening
and nodding arsent to Dr. Wilson's
sermons on predestination and original
tin. If the good old doctor was living
now he would attack Dr. Bobbins and
his book with all the accumulated
weapons of a century of study and
then seek to knock him down with
Calvin's institutes.
But our modern clergy are more like
human beings; more like human nat
ure; more like otr .elves. They are
not ep austere and solemn. They are
social and some of the you tiger ones
will go a-fishiug or play ball and the
older ones tell anecdotes and smile
quite audibly. We were talking about
the circus yesterday and one of them
told how hp attended a synod once at
Thomasville, and it was circus day and
there was a grand street pageant with
music and banners and all the animals
were on dress parade. The synod was
in session, and as the inspiring strains
of the martial music fell upon the
synod's cars a lay brother couldent
subdue his feelings, ne rose forward
timidly and said :
"Mr. Moderator, it will be impossi
ble for us to transact any business un
til that music passes by, for we can't
hear anything that is lead or spoken.
I movo you, sir, that wo take a recess
for ten minutes."
Whereupon an old Calvin is tic
preacher bounced him and squelched
bint with indignant sarcasm :
"Recess indeed ! Recess for a circus
to pass by; recess because the devil
wi.'h his satellites is in sinful proces
sion at our doors. No sir. We will
talk louder and draw nearer, but no
recess."
Xearer and nearer came the band,
anl when the livn gave an unearthly
horl, preachers and laymen began to
tiptoe out until there was nobody left
savo tho moderator and the old man.
Ia due time the music died away in
the distance and the delegates tiptoed
back to their places.
A layman whom everybody loved
then told how one of these old-time,
solemn preachers tqnelched all the
hilarity out of him. Said he:
"I was born with a lively sense of
the ridiculous and sometimes have
hard work to restrain my risibles.
One day our good old preacher asked
me to ride out with him to see a man
who was partially paralyzed and was
likely to die ir penitent unless it was
the Lord's w 1 that he should be
saved. So, we visited him and after
tho usual preliminaries the old preach
er said :
"My friend, would it please you for
me to read a chapter from the Holy
Scriptures and have a prayer in your
Whalf?"
" "Well, I don't mind. I'm willin
to oblige you, if it will do you any
good,' 6aid he.
"Tho manner and tone in which he
said it excited me, but I bit my lip,
and suppressed any unseemingly'
emotions. So tho chapter was read,
and the old preacher said in solemn
accent: 'My impenitent friend, did
yon ever hear that chapter read be
fore?' 'Not exactly.' 6aid he. 'but it
appears to me that Tom Garner writ
sjmething sorter like it in a letter
from Texs once.' That nearly upset
me, and the old preacher noticed it.
After the praver we faid goodbye and
got in the buggy. For half a mile the
old man never said a word; ne ther
did I. Suddenly he gave a side look
toward me and slowly 6aid: 'Brother
Williamson, are you right sure that
you have in your heart the evidences
of being a Christian?- - I replied with
great humility that sometimes I did,
and sometimes I had my doubts, and
I tried to aniet his alarm about me.
Brother .Williamson,' he continued,
'your conduct today was unseemly and
unchristian, and the other day as I
passed you on the sidewalk and you
were talking to some hilarious friend?,
I heard you use eonie very unscrip-
tural language.
. "This surprised and perplexed me.
atd I asked him what it was that 1
said. 'Yon said, "Confound it !" he
replied. 'Hereafter you should not
call dowa a curse or a malediction up
on anything, but let your communica
tion be yea yea and ray nay.' "
Some of ihe preachers then discuss
ed the doubtful propriety cf inch
II!
Price
words and the use of slang, when I
was reminded of the way in which Bob
Taylor reproved a man, and eo I told
them that a rough countryman was in
troduced to Taylor, and after looking
him over and up and down he said:
"Well, Bob, it seems to me I have
seen you somewhere before, but I
don't know where in the hell it was."
"Wht part of hell do you live in, my
friend?" said Taylor, without a smile
or a change of countenance.
"How is politics withyou?" inquired
a Roman friend. "All calm and se
rene," said I. "Are we going to hava
better times?" said he. "Yes, of
course," said I. "We always do after
a presidential election, but how long
it will last remains to bo seen. We
will now have a fair test for several
years of a gold standard and a high
protective tariff, aud all's well that
ends well."
"The day before tho election," said
he, "one of the most valued members
of my church said to me that the na
tion was in great peril greater peril
than it bad been since the war; that
he trembled to think of the momen
tous results that might ensue In case
Bryan was elected. Repudiation, an
archy: and ruin would follow in its
wake. : I listened to him with profound-
attention, for he r arnetly be
lieved what he said. A few minutes
thereafter I met another valued mem
ber of my church, and he said: 'I tell
you, my friend and brother, we are
going to whip this fight. Providence
is on our side, and will not let Bryan
be defeated. I sincerely believe that
he has been raised up to save his
country, and if he is not elected there
will be a revolution. The downtrod
den people will not stand the oppres
sions of the plutocracy any longer.' I
told a friend of these alarming and di
vergent views of two good men, and
he said that it reminded him of the old
negro preacher who said, 4Ab, my
bred'rin', dar am but two roads to
trabel one am de broad road dat
lead to destruction, and de oder am de
narrer road dat leads to de debil; now
what you gwine to do which road
you take?' An old darky exclaimed,
'Bless de Lord, I takes to do woods 1"
"Well, I was sorry to part company
with the preachers, for they are always
to be enjoyed. They are in good
health and good humor, and are clean
in body and in mind. They are the
best class of people, and their example
and morality and Christian faith is the
best safeguard of our government.
They have gone to Athens, and both
the synod and circus open there today.
The grand procession will pass their
church, and I reckon they will take a
recess I reckon they will, for it is no
sin to look at the animals, in the street,
is it? Bill Aitr, in Atlanta Constitu
tion. GRAVEYARD IXSURAJTCE CASKS.
Judgment of the Ijower Court Af
firmed by the Supreme Court.
At the fall term, 1895, of Carteret
Superior Com t for the trial of crimi
nal cases, Stephen I. Turner, Levi T.
Noe, Selden D. Delamar. J. C. De
lamar, W. H. Turner and T. B. Dela
mar were indicted for a crimical con
spiracy to cheat and defraud certain
insurance companies. William Fisher
was indicted for the forgery of an ap
plication to the Massachusetts Benefit
Life Association for insurance upon the
life of Florence Chad wick. Charles R.
Haseell, Ab. Wigfall, Silas Blount and
David Parker were indicted for ob
taining money nnder false pretenses
from the Bay State Benefit Association
of Boston, Mass., the pretense being
that one Jamea Wigfall was in good
health when he applied for a policy of
insurance, whereas at the time of his
application he was afflicted with con
sumption, and within ten days of his
death, and that the amount of tho
policy, 83,000, was thereafter collected
by the beneficiary of the assured, with
the assistance of said Haskell, upon
false statements.
The cases were removed by the Judge
to'the Superior Court of Jones county,
because it was alleged that the State
could not obtain a fair trial in Carteret
county on account of the fooling said
to prevail in that community in favor
of the defendants.
The Governor appointed a special
term to try these cases. Stephen
Turner, Albert Wigfall and David
Parker were permitted to turn State's
evidence. The trial resulted in a ver
dicet of guilty against all the other de
fendants. Hassell was sentenced to
the penitentiary for seven years, Wil
liam Fisher for fivo years, and the
other defendants wero sentenced to
pay a fine of $300 each, and to be im
prisoned in the county jail for two
years.
All of the defendant- took an appeal
to the Supreme Court. The caso was
argued at the present term, and the
court has just handed down its opinion,
affirming the judgement of the lower
conrt in each case. This opinion is
written by Judge Avery.
Thus ends a prosecution in which
the deepest interest was taKea all over
tho United States, and to which was
given as much publicity, perhaps, as
any other suit ever tried in North
Carolina.
The prosecution was conducted by
Col. John W. Hinsdale, assisted by Mr.
O. II. Allen, Hon. F. M. Simmons and
Mr. P. M. Pearsall, to whom are due
great credit, for the conduct, to a suc
cessful termination, of one of the most
notorious criminal conspiraces in the
records of the criminal jurisprudence
of North Carolina. Tho defendants
were represented by Messrs. W. W.
Clark, O. H. Gnion, of New Bern,
and C. L. Abernathy, of Beaufort, who
made a zealous and able defence.
An African's Care for Ornament.
Soon after jou get stalled or: a jour
roy with Mark followers a ', youf
breakable property cujis, saw-ors, 'tc.
will be smashed or lost, but the gen
tle Afrb-an. notwithstanding, will wear
round his ankle a thin thread of lxwls
for three years; lie will tear bis way
through matted grass, and follow a
wounded but-k through tangled ungle.
without injury to his ornament. It is
.remarkable how an ornament sticks te
a native. Century
A New Jersey match company ha
decreed that its employes must imme
diately visit their dentists to have their
exposed nerves covered up to protect
them from the deadly phosphorus. Per
haps the whole trouble with the Moore
brothers is that they were so busy clip
ping coupons that they didn't have
time to have their molar.; kept lu pro
per repair.
1 Per Year, in Atlv.ince.
KKG 1ST RATION OF FKKTIMZKKS
A New Registration I hry
December 1.
The Itws of North Carolina govern
ing the sale of fertilizers requites a
new registration of all fertilizers and
fertilizing material every year. The
fiscal year of the Department of Agri
culture begins December 1st, aud not
January 1st, as many suppose. There
fore all brands now registered will ex
pire November 30th. The registration
must be made before goods can bo le
gally shipped into the Stite.
A notice has been sent to all fertili
zer manufacturers doing business in
North Carolina informing them of the
law, and most of them, as is usually
the caso, will register their goods iu
time, but during the changes from one
fisil year to another, and ttin rocBC
qnent rush of fertilizers to supply the
spring demand, some manufacturer
from neglect or otherwise fail to com
ply with the law.
rarmers aie therefore cautioned
against buying any commercial fertili
zers not bearing the cuaranteed cluim
and the inspection tag on every sack as
required bylaw, and are requeued to
report to the Commissioni r of Agri
culture, at Raleigh, any violations of
me law. uy doing luis it will protect
the farmer and prevent spurious croods
from being sold in the State, or farm
ers ueing imposed upon.
The fact that everv bac of fertilizer
or fertilizing material is required by
law to be properly labelled or branded
wun me guaranteed claim of the man
ufacturer, and an inspection tac issued
by the Commissioner of Agriculture
attached also to every sack, is evidence
that the marnfacturers, agents or
dealers have complied with the law.
mo department or Agriculture is
using every possible m'eans for the pro
tection of farmers in the purchase of
fertilizers to have tho law complied
with. It is practically impossible for
the inspectors of the department to
inspect every lot of fertilizer shipped
into the State, or to be ureoent at the
hundreds of points where fertilizers
are delivered. It is therefore earnest
ly asked that the farmers teport at once
to the Commissioner any violation of
tne law.
Some Candidates' Kxpeiises.
All of the expense accounts of the
candidates are on file with the Secre
tary of State. C. B. Watson's ex
penses were $215; Dougbton's, $235;
Keith, 817.72; HalAyer, 8126; Locke
Craig, 8287; Cy Thompson, 8122;
Lindsay Patterson, $111; R. M. Fur-
man, 810; Harry Skinner, 8(558; Con
gressman Shuford, $G04 ; R. B. Davis,
8H0; John E. Fowler, 8198; Congress
man Strowd, $275; George H. White,
SS00; H. G. Ewart, $35, of which $15
for a hurbecue: Zeb Vanco Walser.
8150; C. M. Cooke, $2(53; W. H.
Worth, $100; F. I. ()borno, $250;
C. H. Martin, $230; C. 11. Mebane,
Sfi4; W. W. Kitchin. $1H1; K. M.
Douglas, 8G2. Senator-elect R. G.
Maxwell swears his expenses were only
50 cents. One Senator puts in his
statement such queer items as 5 cents
to beggar, 5 cents for halter for stal
lion, 10 cents for pepsin, 6 cents for
stamps; but strangest that of all items
in any of the statements is this one filed
by Associate Justice Montgomery:
"To Richard Burgess to pay l is ex
penses for visiting on speaking days
part in Warren county for the purpose
of disabusing minds of some of the
electors of unjustifiable prejudice
againotme."
Official Vote for Klectoi-s.
The following is the official vote for
electors: Democratic-Populist elec
tors: Locke Craig, 174,488, R. B.
Davis 174,255, Ralph Howland 174,
210, II. F. Freeman 174,457, C. It.
Thomas 174,290, V. S. Bailey 174,183,
W. D. Merritt 174.220, B. F. Keith
174,100, T. F. Kluttz, 174,401, Tyre
York 174,334, R. D. Gilmer 174,254.
Republican electors: II. A. Gudger,
155,222, O. J. Spears 155,192, J. B.
RespeBs 155,143, J. J. Martin 154.9GG,
S. W. Hancock 155 212, H. T. Chapin
155,211, A. II. Joyce -155,201, II . C.
Dockery 155,185, A. D. Coles 155,214,
S E. Marshall 154,989, E. D. -Carter
155,243. National Democratic: Lind
say Patterson 578. Straight Prohibi
tion: Solomon Pool G7G. National
Prohibition: II. J. Dowell 245.
. A State Reformatory.
The Baptist State Convention did
well to pass a resolution in favor of es
tablishing a State Reformatory for
youthful criminals. Other religious
and educational organizations have
passed similar resolutions, and a bill
...... ,.. eu.-.ooo tu establish unci
a reformatory passed one house of the
Legislature. It is to be hoped that the
retiring and incoming Governor will
urgo the establishment of an institu
tion of the character suggested, and
that the practice of bringing young
fenders into constant association with
hardened criminals will be brought to
an early end. linifigh Jirs vi fjf
scrcei". Paid for Cotton In iioln.
The cotton firm of J. H. Sloan gave
the farmers a xensaut surprise one
day last week. When each farmer
presented his check it was paid not in
silver nor greenbacks but in gold. A
good many opened their eyes at this,
for, like the majority of the people in
this country, they have rarely seen
gold in recent years. They were
please and surprised. Three thontand
and three hundred dollars in gold was
paid out for cotton by this firm.
Charlotte X'u s.
Some Potatoes.
Mr. T. C. Starbuck, of Deep River
township, Guilford county, raised 90
bushels of Irifh potatoes on G9 square
rols of land, somo weighing over a
pound each. This was at tho rate of
210 bushels per acre. Of course, there
arc said to be bi'ger yields, but who
can show them up by actual rrtasutr-
StatK Agricultural HnlltJia.
Auditor-elect Hal. Aycr deniu that
there is any truth in the repor that he
will appoint female clerrs in his office
when he takes c! nre.
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Fruiting.
; rOFULIK SCIESCf.
A mountain of magnetic iron ore
has been discovered iu Lapland.
The nearest fixed star is sixteen
billion miles distant, and takes three
years for light to reach the earth.
Goto's leprosy medicine, a new cure
put forward by a Japaneso physician,
is being tested in the San Francisco
(Cal.) pesthouse.
An English motor car manufacturer
is building a two story steel house to
run on wheels, propelled by a motor
nnder it. The top story is collapsible,
eo as to enable tho houe toprss under
bridges.
For seven years the St. Lawrence
River gradually decreases iu depth;
then for seven years it gradually in
creases in depth, the difference in level
being about five feet. Why it does so.
no one has yet discovered.
Bone black is charcoal roadt from
bones and used to clarify 6itgr. It
contains twenty-eight per cent, of
phosphoric acid iu a highly soluble
form. It contains no nitrogen. Dis
solved bone black contains sixteen per
cent, phosphoric acid and sells at $!
to $25 per ton in car lo's.
Experts have come to the conclusion
that what kills trees in Loudon it not
the soot flakes or the want of air or
the drought, but sewer g, which at
tacks the roots so that the treo toon
withers and dies. In that way a row
of trees is an admirable lest of tlx
healthfalnoss of tho grouud froai
which they spring.
Blowing out the gas is to lo?o it-
victims. A new burner is of expansive
metal, and is so arranged that on turn
ing on the gas the stream is just suf
ficient to be lighted, tho heutimj of
the metal directly afterward acting to
open a valve and permit a full How.
If the gas is blown out, tho contrac
tion of tho burner automatical! v closes
the valve and reduces the gas escape
to a leak too small to do harm.
Austria's report of tho firct year'
experience with aotitoxine scnim is
that out of 1100 cases of diphtheria
treated 970 recovered, a great im
provement on tho previous mortality.
When the remedy was applied in llu
first two days of the sickuess t'o per
centage of deaths was only (i. . Of
318 cases of preventivo inoculation
only twenty were attacked by tho
disease in a mild form, and nil re
covered.
Strange Rccoverv of a IKcjcIe.
Among the residents of Bermuda aro
two brothers, one of whom, besides
being an enthusiastic yachtsman, i.s
also a swift and skilful rider of tho
bicycle. Some time ago, shortly be
fore the date set for a biejcle race iu
which ho was to be one of tho contest
ants, his wheel mysteriously disap
peared, and all efforts to find a trace
of it proved fruitless.
One dav. about fourteen laonths
after the bicycle had been presumably
stolen, a fisherman, who was angling
out in the middle of St. George's Har
bor for floating fish, hooked a largo
one, which instantly plunged into the
depths of the harbor in a vain endeavor
to escape. The angler played with
him for awhile, aud then, feeling tho
line tightening in his hand and tho
strain become steady, began to haul up.
He soon realized that he had ut tuo
end of his lino ono of the heaviest
catches which ho had ever made, aud
(what he could liOt understand about
it) that it was apparently almost a dead
weight. He hauled away, however,
until there appeared above tho water
not only the fish that he bad hooked,
but a bicycle, around the handles of
which the fish, in its efforts to escape,
had wound the line a number of time.''.
When the astonished fisherman had
sufficiently recovered from his amaze
ment at his curious catch, ho took the
bicycle ashore. There it was to -a
identified as the one which had so in
explicably disappeared. Strange to
say, the machine, in spite of tho fact
that it had been at the bottom of tho
harbor for fourteen mouths, was but
little damaged, and was easily put iu
tunning order again.
For come time no clew a to how it
found its way to its watery hiding
place could bo discovered. Eventu
ally, however, several circumstances
came to light that pointed to a ruau
with whom the bioycls rider had once
had trouble. At one timo whenever
he rode past this man's place tho dog
which were kept there would run out
and bark and snap at the rider, caus
ing him considerable Annoyance aud
trouble. At first he contented hira
Eelf with simply driving off the brutes
as best he could, but when ho fount
that tbey were set upon him by their
master he took prompt measures to
have the man arrested, brought into
court and fined. From various cir
cumstances that wero found out re
garding the disappearance of tho bi
cycle, there seemed to be no doubt
that the owner of tho uqly dogs was
responsible for it, and that he stole
the machine and sunk it in the hiro:
in order to be revenged on its owner.
Boston Transcript.
Order of the ftoMeu Fleece.
The Emperor Francis Joseph ha
conferred the order of the Golku
Fleece upon Count Goluihowtki, Lis
Minister of Foreign Affairs, 'lhisha
caused the greatest surprise.this beh
est of all order being seldom lightly
conferred, and even Count Andrass
received it only after having adle l
Bosnia aud the Herzegovina to tho
realm. Count Goluchowki has been
in offic little over a yesr, and his suc
cesses are not so easily recognized as
those of Aadrassy were. The order of
the Golden Fleece was founded in 1 1- )
by Philip the Good, Duke of IJnrguu
dy, and with tho Emperor Charles tho
ofSce of Grand Master cisne to the
Kings of Spain. Tho Emperor Charier,
after the en 1 of the Wan of Succes
sion, maintained that the function
must remain his own, but the Kiq? d
Spain went on confining the or!er.
The Emperor of Austria bib no other
imperial mantle than the purple nu
tie of the fleece, which forms part of
his coronation robe?.
First Whisker in Ihe White Hoihp.
President Lincoln was the first to
icupy the White JIou3e to weir
beard, and Grant was the first to wear
a mustache. It was reported at the
time that Lincoln in 18GJ was induced
to tllow his whiskers to gro because
a little girl to whom he had upon re
quest sent his pbotogrph, wrote him
that he would look much btttsr if hs
would let his beard grow.