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1 1 . I - a' Rockingham Rocket. H. C. WALL, Editok Ann Pboi-bietob. Office: . OTKS BTMETT, WALL COMPANY'S. y ' SUBSCBIlTIOir KATBS: OaeyMir,... '"M"4 Six months,.--. .75 Three months, ................. - .40 All subscriptions accounts must be paid in advance. J , Advertising rates famished on ap plication, j Job Printing. Having recently purchased & first 1 . class outfit, we are prepared to do air kinds of PLAIN AKD WANCY JOB PRINTING ' ' ..IN. THE.:. BEST OP STYLE . And at Living Priced H. C. WALL, Editor and Proprietor TERMS; $1.5 0 a Year in Advance. Vol. IV. Rockingham, Richmond County, K C, April 22, 1886. No. 16. THK COMING BONNET. 0, sing of the genius and the skill , ' 0f milliners whose trade is l&iaset tho fancies, curb the will, And crown the handsome ladies ! The birds were snot a year ago. To trim the-Easter bonnet; But now they put the things that grow In market gardens on it - The vegetables and flowers and fruits, . - Tomato, radish, carrot. Banana or the bud, as suits The lady who most wear it.. . A turnip on a curving brim, ' Will hold it in position"; . i A carrot be some lady's whim To indicate omission ; And onions, odorous and young, j That aid the tears im falling, 1 On mourning bonnets will be hung To mark the grief appalling. The hat or bonnet most complete, The envy of all women, Will be the one with biggest beet .,' Amid the garden trimmin'. ; ' Columbus Dispatch. . From Field t6 Factory." From the Meridian (Miss.) News. Take your own natural resources, """ e 1 r your own raw material wnicn na- iouic uouua jrvu, amt nui& tucw yourself by human ingenuity into life's necessaries, is the cardinal prin ciple of- a people's prosperity uni versally xecognized and advocated. If it be dsrue that the American peo pled welfare demands that America (take her own natural products, and Jby her own factories work them her self into the articles they are intend ed for, and which in an is obliged to .have, why is it not also good ibr a .-State or a -town to'duaeasitre its own prosperity by the ame rule 2 The principle is universally accepted as it sound one. Men only differ as to ihe means f enforcing it, some say ing make it work whether or no, -others saying let it work -out its own course naturally and not .try to force it by applying i it artificial thumb screws. " -- Aside from the means f bringing it about, it is certain that the people who generate a strong public senti ment to put it in operation for their wn benefit have struck a key note f prosperity and advancement. Birmingham, Abu, when she gets her iron ore out of the hansels of the mountains that lie at her door, does udjwuu uu enippuig ine Crude -stuff off to the cities of the North and East to be turned into articles of use ; but from the mountains it is dumped down at her own furnaces, and the pig iron from her furnaces is earted not a hundred yards away to .her own rolling milk and there worked into merchantable form into bar iron, railroad irons, etc ad from here in this form it goes, into Birmingham stores to be sold, " ad into her own machine shops to be made into everything that is made f iron, and into stores and railroaids U over the country. The same is to be said of the use made of her coai and coke, and the same is char acteristic of other towns in the iron and coal regions of the South that haVe grown 80 ranidlv of late vears. Thia has been the fundamental prin ciple in making the entire South prosperous and strong and great The South produces in abundance tlmnsf nil Al , . . tJJO iaw uiaienax necessa ry to supply the wants of man, and this very principle that the nearer to the field of supply are the Manu factories which work up Ihe material supplied, the better both for the nro- ducer and consumer is to prove a great factor in narrowine the fields of such industries and enterprises . wwn hnancially;to a great extent, to our own section. ' '. Tte principle is as applicable to cotton fields, and timbered districts. and pasture lands as to any 'other -ua OI supply, jjjach ot these wants factories near at" hand to work up , the material it furnishes. Children often wake in the n!U with a burning fever, and the parent " at a loss to divine the cause, worms! Worms! are at work. A ?ose of Shrfner's Indian Vermifuge 18 the only remedy. That was a thoughtful father who counseled his daughter to follow fashion no farther than fashion fol lowed propriety. - Cpltallt on Iadoxv From the New York Star. Of,' all the contributions . which have been made to the literature of the labor question none has cut clos er to the bone of the problem than the article by Mr. Andrew Carnegie in the curient number of the; Forum. His experience, as a manufacturer has been wide and thorough. - As a private, so to speak, who rose from the ranks, and who now occupies a prominent place among millionaire employers, he is entitled to speak ex-cathedra. In discussing the different plans suggested and put in force to elevate the condition of the workingmen, Mr. Carnegie while approving of Mco operation" in theory finds many dif ficulties in its working value. That it has been successful, in a few cases does not necessarily establish it as practicable for general use. The au thor says that "if any such co-operative organization succeeds it may be taken for granted that it is prin cipally owing to the exceptional bus iness j capacity of one of the mana gers and only in a very small degree to the efforts of the mass of work men owners. This business ability is excessively rare, as is proved by the incredibly large proportion of those who enter upon the stormy sea of business only to fail. I should say that twenty co-operative con cerns would fail to every one that would succeed." This dictum we are bound to say is affirmed by the views of nearly every employer who has studied the question. The enor mous competition which machinery has introduced into the market has vastly increased, the risks of capital, and put a corresponding premium on the value of the exceptional bus iness ability of which Mr. Carnegie speaks. Let us quote farther: I can of course picture in my mind a state of civilization in which the most talented business men shall find their most cherished work in carrying on immense concerns, not primarily for their own personal ag grandizement, but for the good of the masses tit the workmen engaged therein aad their famines; bat this is only a foreshadowing f a, dim and distant fature. When a class of such men has been evolved, the pro blem of capital and labor will be per manently solved to the entire satis faction of both. But as this mani festly belongs to a future generation, I cannot consider co-operative or common ownership as the next im mediate step in ad vance which it is possible for labor to make m its path upward.. After reviewing the whole ground the author finds in two principles the untying of a very hard knot In the first plaee, the adoption of a sliding scale of wages based on the proportion to the net prices received tor products month by .month. Secondly, the settlement of all dis putes as the standard of this scale by peaceful arbitration between the owner and an intelligent committee ot the workmen. Where this experiment of a slid ing scale has been tried, it is proper to say that no strikes have occurred, nor has there been aught but the most cordial relations between em- - ' ployer and employed The two forces share prosperity and adversi ty with each other, and mutual in terest makes them support each oth er shoulder to shoulder. No under standing being reached on this point, it is perfectly natural that the em ployer should not willingly accede to a demand for higher wages in times of a business boom, knowing full well that his workmen will re sist a reduced scale when the ebb tide comes. As long as what Mr. Spencer calls "egoism" is the actuating principle of humanity, all plans for reform must be made contingent on it. A system like that proposed by Mr. Carnegie comprises selfish interests on a basis of mutual advantage, and appears likely to accommodate itself elastically to the changing needs of business. Any mere doctrinairism or theory in matters of complex prac tice is a shoTat the moon.' When the millennial comes it will be time to base business on pure ethics. Short of this we have seen no pro position that is alike so equitable and practicable as that advanced by the millionaire steel manufacturer of Pittsburgh - CAIX MS JfOB TBOl HBST fKAHt. The Drummer Goes Horn for Gluriatmaa. Detroit Free Press. The life of a commercial traveler is both hard and dangerous. He sells goods all day and rides all night' An , accident may kill or cripple hinu Exposure may devel op consumption, or ill-cooked food may make him a dyspeptic. He is assailed - by temptations which would be powerless amid the re straints of home. But weariness of mind and body and the necessity of being friendly with- customers often tempt him to do that which degrades his soul and enfeebles his body. He is to be congratulated if he goes off "the road" as pure and J strong as when he went on.: Some do, and, what is more, develop Christian char acter while exposed to the vicisitudes and temptations of the "drummer's" life. Our reader's sympathies will go out to this class as they read this tender sketch. s "I have taken my last order. I am going, home," he said, as the clock struck the midnight hour. The nurse looked at the doctor with a significant glance, and whis pered : "His mind wanders." Presently he lifted his feverish head from its pillow. "Any letters from the house?" he inquired. "There ought to be letters here." Then he slept ; and in his sleep he was a boy again ; babbled of fishing streams where the trout played ; of school hours and romps with his mates. - At twelve he suddenly awakened. "AH right T he called; in a loud, strong voice. "I'm ready !" j - He thought the porter had called him lor an early, train. The doctor laid a soothing hand on him and he slept In his sleep he murmered : "Show you samples of our goods? I'm going off the road now. This order closes me out .The house has called me in. Going to have my first vacation, but I shall lose time time time!" He drowsed off, and the doctor counted his pulse. Suddenly the sick man started up. "Give me a letter from home. El len always writes to me here. Dear girl ! she never disappointed me yet And ithe children they will forget me if my trips are too long. I have only a few more towns to sell. I promised . to be home Christmas I promised to be home promised v He slept again, and again awaken ed with a start "No word from the house yet?" He was going fast now. The doc tor bent over and repeated in a com forting voice the precious words of promise: "In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you."' "Yes yes," said the dying travel er faintly. "It is a clear statement It is a good house to travel for. It deals fair and square with its men." The chill December morning dawned ; the end was very near. The sick man was approaching the "undiscovered land- from whose bourne no traveler returns. "I've changed my route," he mur mured faintly. "The house is calling me in. Write; to Ellen and the chil dren that I'm 6n my way home it's in my sample caser without money and without price a good house fill all its orders as agreed: 11 ' ! & it. f jl ' ' f" ' "uan me ior tne nrsi irain. x am going to make the round trip, and get home for Christmas." They laid his head back on the pillow. He. had made the round trip. He had gone home for Christ mas.. .. One of the drawbacks of married life is the sickness of the little ones. For a cold or cough you cannot find a better remedy than Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Nearly all physi cians prescribe it ancU no family should be without it - A terrible cyclone in Minnesota. . ; A BtOlet In Hia Brain. Charlotte Observer, 10th. CAmong me arrivals in inis city yesterday morning on the Air Line train, was a young colored man named Thomas Helleck, T who some time since departed from this eity t o work on the new railroad between Black's and Shelby. Helleck came in yesterday with a bullet in his brain, and sought treatment from one of our city physicians. The doc tor, on making an examination of the wound, found that the bullet had entered Helleck's forehead, di rectly in the centre, 'and though its exact lodgement could "not be ascer tained, it is believed that the bullet lies imbedded between the two lobes of the brain. The wound cannot be probed, and the doctor s says that Helleck's condition is extremely crit ical, symptoms of inflammation of the brain having set in. When Hel leck arrived here yesterday, he was half unconscious, and could tell but little in regard to the manner in which he received the wound. His statement, however, is that on Mon day night, one of the negro men em ployed on the railroad work, became enraged and got to shooting around promiscuously. He fired several shots into the cro wd and then grasp ing Helleck, held him securely, plac ed the pistol to his forehead and fired. Helleck says he was treated by some doctors, but they afterwards told him to go to Charlotte. This affair needs an investigation. Hel leck, if is believed, is mortally wounded. Helleck has since died of his wound. Ed. Rocket. A Mean Fling Refuted. From the News and Observer. The Charleston News and Courier says : "Walter Page is a North Car olinian and knows as much about North Carolinians, perhaps, as any North Carolinian could be expected to know about anything." Now, we would not undertake to say that Mr. Page knows anything, because that would be extra-hazardons, as the in surance men say. Neither would we endeavor to maintain that all knowledge is confined within the limits of North Carolina. But there is one thing that North Caiolinians, in common with the citizens of all the States other than South Carolina know well, and that is that South Carolinians generally are, as they have been since the foundation"-of the republic, the greatest braggarts and the lamest performers in the country. They are all sound and fury until the time for action arrives and then as, a rule prove most im potent In the immediate matter of knowledge they can least afford to twit Iheir neighbors, since they appear in the census tables of illiter acy at the very bottom of the col umn of States and some distance be low even the State next above them. Coold Not Take Rest. From Texas Sittings. Major Gassaway, a prominent San Antonio lawyer, seemed tired and worn out on returning to his resi dence.' . "You look tired, dear. I suppose you have had a hard day's work again in court said Mrs. . Gassa way. "Yes, I'm very tired. I've had a difficult case, but I've won if "You had better take a cup of tea and then go to bed and take a good night's rest" "No rest for me to-night I'll have to sit up and watch the stable with a shot-gun to see that the carriage horse is not stolen." "Why, who is going to steal it ?" "You seer I was defending one of the worst thieves iu Western Texas this afternoon, and I cleared him. He is foot-loose now, and I am afraid he will come around to-night and steal my horse. Nobody's horses will be safe until that double-dyed scoundrel is out of town.'' ; No country that is good enough for an idle and worthless man has yet been discovered in the geography of this world. - v. - A BOTTXB O V WHISKEY. ft Trarela Among the loo Fields in Search of Arctic Heroes. From the Boston Post. , On the 4th of February, 1882, Lieutenant Schuetze started to the Lena in search of De Long and his comrades. Just before his depart ure several of his friends met in the pay-master's - office, 29 Broadway, New York, to bid him godspeed on his journey, ' One of them, Henry C. Ellis, of New York, presented him with a bottle of brandy and a bottle of whiskey for his cold journey . Then Ellis handed Schuetze a bottle of fine whiskey and said: . "I want you to take this to -my old shipmate and friend, George Mel ville." . Melville was already in Russia on his way to the Lena on the same er rand as Schuetze, and it was very probable that they would meet in the Arctic regions. In the presence of half a dozen witnesses the bottle was sealed and labeled to protect Schuetze from temptation, and to bear to Melville the names of the friends who had sent it On Monday, March 20, Scbuetze and Harberwhora he had joined in London, left Irkutsk to proceed on their mission. They met Melville between Irkutsk and Yakutsk. When their friends saw this state ment in the New York papers they discussed the probable fate of the bottle of whiskey and the1 slim chance that Melville had! ever seen it. It was unanimously agreed that long before they had met Melville Schuetze and Harber had in all probability broken the seal and devoted the con tents to the cause of science. On February 20, 1883, over a year after their departure, Schuetze; and Harber returned to America on the Trisia. A few days after their re turn Mr. Ellis, who wa3 then in Florida, received a letter from Mel ville, who had also returned, saying: "I am in receipt of the bottle of whiskey you sent to Siberia for me. Schuetze, true to his trust, delivered the bottle containing the original whiskey to me aboard the Trista im mediately on his return home." ' Ellis was still skeptical on one point It was evident that Schuetze hail delivered the original bottle, filf ed with some sort of whiskey, but he had no idea it was the fluid he had sent to Melville. One month later Melville, Schuetze and Harber met in Ellis' office in New York. The bottle was produced, and be yond doubt it had never been dis turbed. The seal and label were in tact Schujetz then loomed up as a hero before his friends. He had car ried that bottle six thousand miles by sea, over fifteen thousand miles by rail and sledge that he might de liver it to Melville. What should be the fate of this al ready historic bottle of whiskey? Melville suggested that it be sent to the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Ellis, a moment later, made a sug gestion which was at once adopted. It was that Melville should take the bottle with rim on the Greely relief expedition, and that if Greely were found Melville should draw the cork and give Greely a dram tQ warm up his frozen heart Again the bottle started on its i j travels. At last Greely was found but the poor fellow was so near death's door that it was many weeks before he Could hear anything of home or friends. When, at last, Melville could have an old-time chat with him, the bottle of whiskey was produced and its history related. It brought a smile and then a tear from the Arctic hero in appreciation ', of the thoughtfulness cjf his far away frienJs. Schuetze proposed to draw the cork. ' J ; ;. .:". ' 4 "Stop," said Greely, "if that bottle is mine I want to keep it until my youngest daughter is married Then I will open it and drink to the health and memory of the friends who started it on its remarkable career.' The bottle was tlien and there en closed in. a kecond covering over the original wrapper On the outside the main facts of its history were re- ! corded. Whn Greely reached New York he placed the bottle in a safe deposit vault, and it is there now. As the youngest Miss Greely is yet a mere child, the prospective bou quet of that bottle of whiskey when it is opened is enough to torment the dreams of an epicure. : : 1 Waiting tor HI Wife. Detroit Free Piesa. - If you are standing around a rail road depot about the time some train is expected in you needn't Hook twice to identify the man who is down there to welcome, his wife. She has been away three weeks but the time seems like three months to him. He was never so glad in his life as at the thought that she is rol ling towards him as fast as steam can travel. There was such a man at the foot of Bush street Saturday. He expect ed his wife on the Michigan South ern train. He rushed up and down to see if the train was on time. Then he rushed out and engaged a hack. Then he promenaded up and down ana wipea nis crow, ana ne was still at it when a man who had been across the road to wet his whistle with old rum came , slouching back and inquired :' " "Expecting some one, eh ?" "Yes, sir." "Wife, probably?" "Yes." - ' Bin away long !"- r "Over two weeks." "Coming on this train ?" "Yes." "Well, I dunno, continued the man, as he' rubbed his back against the ticket window shelf. - MI would not be too enthusiastic about :it. Wimmen are mighty onsartin. I've had two of 'em ran away from me. Is your wife "any hand to make ac quaintances while travel ing?" ; "No Sir!" : -v . "Couldn't be induced to elope?" "Sir ! Do you intend to insult me ?" "Gosh I no. I wouldn'tinsult no body nor nothing. Could your wife be carried away by good looks and lots of money ?" "If you wasn't an old man . I'd thump you for your impudence r exclaimed the husband, as he grew red all over. "You would? Well, I won't talk to you. If your wife comes in on the- train, all right ; if she doesn't, you needn't blame me." He went into the sitting room and presently the train came in. The husband dodged about as if he was walking on glass and the passengers came out one by one until the coach es were empty. There was no wife. It was ten minutes before the hus band could give up and when he did and started out doors the old man lounged out and said : - "I told him ! I've lost two wimen just that way and I knew what I was talking about" The young rascal in Wake coun ty, who professed to be inspired by an invisible spirit, and who has been humbugging his father's neighbors for some time past, was completely exposed by the Raleigh doctors last week. He would not permit the doc tors to make any examination of his condition or apply any tests; He is a fraud of the worst sort, and, as we said when the case was first reported some months ago, he ought to be strapped and put to work. If he is a "prophet," as he claims to be, make him work hard, and then give him "a prophet's reward,'' with a few licks from a leather strap in the bar gain. Charlotte Home-Democrat ' . Newspapers and people may say what they please about Senator Vance's speech against the Civil Ser vice Law Humbug, but-we tell them all that Vance will he sustained in North Carolina by 6000 majority when the question is presented as to who shall hold the offices under Cleveland's administration. '-Gov, Vance's attack on the miserable Civ il Service Law will be sustained by North "Carolina Democrats ' every where., ' No ' doubt of thatOhar- lotte Home-Democrat'" Charlotte is to. try for prohibition. A Great Stan. From the Lynn Union. . ; ' He had studied with devotion old. , Demosthenes and Phocion and he had a lofty notion lie could speak; , as well as they. And he thought that he could sully all the fame of Roman Tully, leave ' in cold oblivion's gully Rufus Choate and Henry Clay. And he said that Alexander was air - antiquated gander, and in modest, serious candor: he could fight as well as he. And he'd raise his , Ebenezer and say Hannibal and Caesar never could - enthuse or please a fellow with an ' eye to see. ; He could give a regular sermon on ; the faults of Gen. Sherman and -t could lecture like a German on r mistakes of Gen. Grant And he'd spout-the chronic gusher and inflict a regular crusher on i Napoleon in Russia, or the war in the Levant . Said 'twas folly to be taken by Co- pernicus add Bacon and his faith was sadly shakea in, such shallow men as they. Said he towered like: a giant Over Emerson and Bryantand he shook his fist defiant at Addison and Grav. ! But who is this nasgty being, so . r omniscient and faaseeihg, whom i' we cannot ' help agreeing, is hu-' , manity's chief hope? 1- Ah, this favorite of Asolldilwessihi ! i poverty and squaloranl'forju8fei i a paltry dollar vroriaUdayat- i making Wbj He Thanked Xfih From the Boston Becord. v .i The recent railroad blockisdere-; calls a story that a distingoished " Maine gentleman tells agaihshira- r self. Some years ago he was-nak " ing a journey down east when his " train became snow-bound. It was 1- then evening, and there was no hope ' of progress until daylight But near ' ' ; at hand was a little village iwbidh :..- boasted a public hall.' It was sug -gested that the passengers adjourn to the hall and listen to an address by their distinguished fellow travel er. He jfinally consented to do his part ; the hall was warmed and light- i ed, and the lecture took place. The next day the lecturer was approach- ed by a sturdy young yeoman, who said : ' ' . I "You're the man who made the speech last night,-ain't you ?" The identity having been duly es tablished, he went on : r ' "I want to thank you for it I don't know when I've enjoyed my self more than I did while you were talking." ' V1 The orator experienced the genial glow which unconventional and un sought praise is wont to inspire, and ! he cordially todk the honest fellow's' hand. ' ' r " '" . ' "Yes," the young man continued, . "it was a good thing. You see, my I girl . is on the train, and while you were lecturing she and I had the car , -all alone to ourselves" Vfonld Increase It. A Maine doctor of divinity, went , over, to Scqtknd, the land of his, birth, and soon after his return. he . preached a sermon on giving. He ' ' said that liberal giving helped a nian , in more ways than one. To illus trate his point, he presented the. case -of one of his friends in Scotland. He was a lawyer who. had become rich, as well as eminent. "This, frienoV told me," 'said .the : doctor, "that one of. the causes to which he attributed hisuccess, was his habit of giving liberally. He said- that, he had always paade"a practice of setting aside onVtenth . of his income for gifts. And , my s friends" and the doctor spoke with much earnestness "he assured : me ' that if he had his life to live over -again he would increase. i to oner ; -twelfth." Exchange. ... ' Some men, like a; hornet, are al ways found Bting uppermost - They sting their friends 'to show their in dependence j their enemies, to show r JA ; their impartiality ; and each other ta 4 r 3 7
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