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Rockingham, Richmond County", N. C, April 5, 18.88.
No. 14.
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SUCH. IS IXJFE.
Eecent; Discoveries in Arizona.
Not far from Prescott,;the capUal qJTI
of Arizona Territory, there have been 1 Pushing, crowding in the struggle,
discovered and unenrthMi th rmn J .-ts lUB S
Of cities long . Bince buried, which Oh! the sighing and the weeping
furnish eviHnrfrf n nnmcrAtur rnoo In the sad and broken homes.
r i j. . . v - . . . . Where are hearts that once were joyful
" "u6..ivviui,yivwiw - jnow to tuem no gladness Comes
ings; understandinsr how to manu-1 -. - -
' .pottery to Hfc y-
uvcuo iw:.uoawKMig iM-ww v f or tbttarK and dreary snadows
inga religion, w ith rites and cere-1 give Place beauteous asorn,
monies .requiring commodious tern- 0n , the' hoping and the wishing
nles and pyres, for cremating the For the storm to pass awav.
dead ; with dams and irrhratina ca- wTen th. 8U?. in all his splendor,
, , - v i t , U usners m tne new-Dorn day
nals of a useful, practical character, f
adapted to the cultivation of ' their f Oh 1 the dreaming and the waking,
lands. On " either side of what
now called "bait" river, and within Wake to struggle on alone
o rl!t(inM nf twpnt.v tnili tVio rriino .'
' , ... , ' I Oh! the ebbing and the flowing
of seven, cities have been found, Of this restllss human tide.
which, from the dimensions and Toss'd about on foaming billows
character of their dwellings, indicate
a population of no less than two
hundred thousand peopie. In each
of these ruined cities are the remains
of a great temple. It is not improb
Able that these are the seven ruins
that form the basis of the story of
the mythical city of Cibola, which
. stirred the cupidity and enterprise
of that race of early Spanish mis
creants whom greed and ' supersti
tion, avarice and religion, sent to'
out the New World, searching for
treasures of gold and jewels to steal
and souls to save by murder in sight
of the cross.
Reach at last the other side;
A CLOUD WITH A SILVER LIN
.INQ.
BY AN OLD CONTRIBUTOR.
Preserved Her Equilibrium.
There are persons possessed of
such admirable serenity and self
. possession-that nothing can disturb
them overmuch. Whatever may be
the cause, they are indifferent to
things that shock or grieve or anger
other people, !
An old lady was rescued by a fire
man from the lourth story of a burn
ing building. She did not scream,
nor struggle, nor resist when he
dragged her from her bed, pulled
her through a window, and carried
her down a ladder to the" street be
low. When he at Jast put her in safety
on the sidewalk she gathered her
clothes about her and said, calmly :
"Much obleeged : and if you could
just run back, now, and get my duds
I'd thank you kindly."
When ;told that Her "duds'jior
nothing else, could be recoygrefl XrJ?
the building, which was now wrap
ped in flames, she coolly said :
' "Well, them as has must loose,
an' my duds warn't wuth much nohow-."
trouble in my throat. It has come
j T i m i -r-v .
at last. 10-aay Lr. u tola me
must give up teaching. Well 1"
she sighed, "it may be I shall find
othe work. ' My life has been of
lttle use so far."
Something in the, sweet, loving
face led her on to speak, to think
aloud, for she said :
"Yet, it is hard, at fifty, to feel J
one's life has been a failure."
"You should not feel so," was the
quick reply. "You, who have done
so much good."
"What good?" Any other well-
educated women could have don
the same. And my knowledge is
old-fashioned. Gills do not study
now what I taught thirty years ago."
There was a moment of silence,
and then Mrs. Jessup said :"
"Do you remember Julia Porter ?"
"Very well, indeed."
"I saw her about a year ago. She
had a school in Ohio, a flourishing
seminary. Of course, we chatted
of our own school days, and then
know, dear Miss Hansell, I am an
orphan, too, my uncle's ward. I am
rich, but very lonely."
"But I thought -"
"I married ten long years ago, and
my husband died last spring. It
may be I can tell you some time the
story of those ten years, but not to
day. I loved my husband, and he
married me for my mony, and very
soon let ine know that he had done
so. You may guess what mv life
has been, but he is dead. I tried to
do ray duty, after my love was
crushed and stifled. But to come to
my favor. I have three little girls,
and we live in S in a handsome
country seat My income is large,
and my life, as I said,"lonely. Hove
my children, but I want the com
panionship of one I can respect and
consult as well as love. And I hop
ed 1 might be able to coax you to
come home with mo, and to instruct
my girls aa you did their mother.
You may think it is a narrow life
.Addition Making Shorter.
What word is that to which if you
add a syllable it will make it short
er? Short. Taylor Clrerokee Rem
edy of Sweet Gum and Mullein will
shorten your cold and cure your
cough. .
mm ir '
TORPID LIVER
Jm known by these marked peculiarities t
L A feeling of weariness and pains In the
" limbs.-
Bad breath, bad taste In the mouth,
and furred tongue.
fc Constipation, with occasional attacks
of diarrhoea.
Headache, in the front of the head:
nausea, dizziness, and yellowness or
skin.
J- Heartburn, loss of appetite.,
o. nutentlon of the stomach and bowel
, by wind. - - . -
. Depression of spirits, and great melan
i eholy, with lassitude and a disposition
I V leave everything for to-morrow.
A natural flow of Bile from the Urer .
U essential to good health. When this
obstructed it result in
BILIOUSNESS,
Mch, if neglected, oon leads to serious
Simmons Liver Regulator exerts
!!, .fellcltouslnfluenoe over every kind
2Lyllu,mcK8. It restores the Liver to
FwT S .Vrk,n8 order, regulate the secre-,
ii ubUe an Put the digestive organs
jnsach condition that they can do their
Z :3m k Aftcr taking this medicine no
ne -win say, i am bilious."
l'av5 n subject to severe spell of Con
Sin f ' Liver' an4 have bee" 'n habit of
nU. l i J w w grains 01 calomel wiui.ii gen
Ev? k UP for throe ot four days. Lately I
been c: t : t
Simmont I.iver Regulator,
J. Huoo, Middleport, Ohio.
tuiinL8"' me re"lef without any interruption to
faas
5ft
Our - r' i r nr
, , iuip in rea on ironi 01 yy ippra
ieuin Si Co., Philadelphia, Fa.
Closii,
S Out Winter Stock at Cost! ,
foralcey is -closing out td mako room
in lior line.
princf ofl, n .n i 1 i
'ttal i . van anu secure uargama
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aJJwhat you owe this paper.,
"It will make but little difference
whether you continue teaching a few
weeks .longer, or stop atoncejbu
you will find yourself obliged to
give up."
A professional opinion, given in a
professional tpne, to an office pa
tient, who, having put down the
usual fee, quietly left the room.
' She walked slowly through the
cold, dreary streets, where the firs
fall of winter snow was melting in a
noonday sun, and having gained her
boarding-house went to her own
room a back room on the fourth
floors simply .but comfortably fur
nished. In a quiet, mechanical
fasion she took off her bonnet and
shawl, hung them up carefully, then
freshened her fire, and at last sat
down to face with her position.
Her thoughts ran something in
this strain :
"My work is done! My life has
virtually ended. For thirty years I
have been a . teacher, and I am too
old to learn a new trade. I have
wasted my whole life. I shall not
starve, for I have a little put by for
old age, and I m sfill sew, keep
boarders, or win my bread. But I,
who always wanted to do something
in this world of value toothers, have
done what ? Slaved over a desk for
30 years, grinding geography, his
tory and arithmetic into more or
less lin'willing" brain?, Margeret
Hansell, vou have wasitd vourlife.'
"This room, did you say ?"
The voice, close to her own door,
made Miss Hansell start, even be
fore it was followed by . a tap, asking
admission.
"Come in !" she answered ; and the
door opened. A tall figure, in close
mourning, stood in the doorway
expensive mourning, Miss Hansen
saw at a glance and when the heavy
veil was lifted she recegnized as
quickly the refinement and high
breeding.in the delicate, aristocratic
face it disclosed.
"Will you come in ?" she said,
courteously, placing a chair near the
fire.
But instead of taking it, her vis
itor crossed the room quickly, say
mg: - - .
"Do you not know me? I am
Mattle Jessup Mattie Leigh when
you used to scold me for inky fin
gers and torn copy books. Mydear,
dear teacher, please say you are glad
to see me;" f r
"I am very glad-1" was the cordial
reply ; -and then, unnerved by her
morning's experience, Miss Hansell
found the tears rolling down her
cheeks.
. Mrs. Jessup had one. of those rare
natures that are sympathetic by in
stinct, read trouble under the most
plausible smiles, and feel in every
sensitive nerve the sorrows of others
In a moment she had drawn -a low
chair close ' to the one she gently
made her old teacher resume, and
said, lovingly":
"I am so glad to find you ! They
frtld me at the school when I went
forjou that you had not been wel
and was resting. But you are better,
are you not?" .
; "No, ray. dear. J For years I have
been threatened with a permanent
after having a large school, but we
she told edo that you had paid for need you so much. My children al-
her tuition, had lifted her from pov
erty and almost despair to give her
an education, clothed and fed her.
"I owe everything to Miss Hansell,"
she said to rfie, "and, more than all,
I owe to herrmy love of my Saviour,
the principle that I humbly try to"
make my life's standard, and impart
to my pupils." I heard not long ago
from Mary Desmond, the barum-
scarum girl who was in the clas3
above mine. She wrote to a friend
of mine : "I am so happy in my
home, my husband's lovo, my dear
children, but I know that Miss Han
sell saved me from the butterfly ex
istence of a fashionable belle. When
ever I wanted to waste my life, the
memory of her face, her voice made
me think." "
"She, was good-hearted, but 'im
pulsive," said Miss Hansell, "and
she is married, you'say ?"
"She married the man she loved,
not the one her parents selected an
old man of immense wealth. There
was a great deal of opposition, but
she won her mother over, and she is,
as she writes 'happy," with a limit
ed income, a loving husband, and a
clear conscience. Little Daisy Cut-
lar is married, too. She was-'one of
your special pets. You see I know
all about it. I know who took her,
abused and ill, from the miserable
home where her drunken father
made her life unendurable. I know
who persuaded Mrs. Gates to give
her a home, .taught her music
when she discovered her wonderful.
talent for it. She has told me how
her life brightened and was made
sweet by your love and care. Oh,
my dear teacher, I could sit here all
day and talk of those who 'have
ecome noble, true women under the
old-fashioned ideas of womanly
worth you taught them, by example
and words spoken in season. I have
often wondered why you were notin
your own house the light and joy of
some true heart that could appreci
ate you. Perhaps I ought to have
said that."
"There is iia harm done, Mattie.
I am that exceptional old maid who
is said not to exist, the one who
who never had a lover. It is just so,.
dear J My life has been one or al
most unbroken routine. I was left
an orphan at 12 years old, was a
pupil teacher till I was 22, studying
music and drawing, and teaching in
payment after I graduated. Then I
became a full teacher on and on,
year after year, with no break save
summer rest. I never knew the
sweetness of a love that was alone.
I never had a lover or even an ad
mirer. So ray work was my life;
and so to-day, when I was told my
work was at an end, I felt that mine
had been but a cold, useless life at
best. But, you, have cheered me,
dear. Perhaps, after all, I have given
my "mite" in God's service."
"It is not perhaps, it is surely so
But now. I want to tell you my er
rand why I have sought you oat.
Why I have come a . hundred miles
on purpose to seek you."
"My dear, is that so ? Ah und red
miles to see your old teacher ?"
"And to ask a favor of her. You
ready love ou. Will you come?"
"But my dear, your children
should have teachers in the newer
branches' of study."
That will come in time. I want
a friend, one to whom I may come
lor loving counsel. My children are
very young. Will you help me to
make true, good women of them, to
train their hearts as well as their
minds, to win them to love what is
good and pure and to do right?"
"I will, G.od helping me."
"Then to-morrow I will come for
you. It is well, is it not, you can
leave the seminary ?"
"Yes ; I was planning my letter o
resignation lins raorninz. lor mv
throat was very painful. It will not
prevent such' duties as you require,
but I knew I could teach no more
in a large school,"
"Good-bye, then, till to-morrow.'5
Alone again, Margeret Hansell
knelt in fervent prayer, and the
heavy cloud that had obscured the
morning light was lifted to show her
The -Value of Eggs.
From tte London Standard.
Eggs are a meal within themselves.
I Every element necessary to the sup
port ot man is contained, within the
limits of an egg shell, in the best
proportions and in the most palat
able form. Plain boiled, they are
wholesome. The masters of French
cookery, however, affirm that it is
easy to dress them in more than 500
different ways, each method not only
economical but salutary in the high
est degree. No honest appetite ever
rejected an egg in 6ome guise. It ia
nutriment in the most portable-form
and in the most concentrated shape.
Whole nations of mankind rarely
touch any other animal food. Kings
eat themvplain as readily as do the
humble tradesman. After the vic
tory of Muhldorf, when the Kaiser
Ludwigsat at a meal with his burg-
grafs and great captains, he determ
ined on a piece of luxury "one egg
to every man and two to the excel
lently valiant Schwepperman." Far
more than fish for it is a watery
diet eggs are the scholar's lare.
They contain phosphorus, which is
brain food, and sulphur, which per
forms a variety of functions in the
economy. And they are the best of
nutriment for children, for, in com
pact form, they contain everything
that is necessary for the growth of
the youthful frame. Eggs are, how
ever, not only food they are medi
cine also. The white is the most ef
ficacious remedy for burns, and the
oil exlractihlo from the yolk i3 re
garded by the Russians as an almost
miraculous salve for cuts, bruises
and scratches. A raw egg, if swal
lowed in time, will effectually detach
Seismic Disturbances in LI sice.
its silver lining.
The Farmer- in Politics.
From the Progressive Farmer.
If you want good men in office
you must allend your primary meet
ings and nominate them. It is the
imperative duty of every good citi
zen, whether he drives the plow, the
jack-plane or wields the hammer at
his anvil, or sits at his desk, or deals
out warea to the people, or teaches
or" preaches, to see to it that the reins
ot. government r.r placed in the
hands of good and true men, nl
the lowest to the highest office. It
is as much the duty of a man to
vote as it is to plow but his first
duty is to see to it that the very best
men in his party .are nominated.
To do this he should stop his plow
in the furrow when the time comes
and go to the primary meeting and
aid the true and good citizens to se
lect delegates who will go to the
county conventions and who will
truly and faithfully represent" their
needs and their wishes in the selec
tion of candidates for county officers,
and who will see to it that such men
are sent as delegates to the State
convention to select the best men for
State offices. These delegates should
be men of character, men who are
not for sale, men in whose judgment
and patriotism they can confide;
and aboye all, men wbjj have the
moral manhood to dare to do right.
Do this and you will soon hear less
of corruption in party polities. If
your party is corrupt this is the only
way and the sure, way to purify it.
Go to your primary meetings and
select such men and stand by them.
fish bone fastened in the throat,
and the white of two eggs will ren
der the deadly corrosive sublimate
as harmless as a dose of calomel.
They strengthen the consumptive.
invigorate the feeble, and render the
most susceptible all but proof against
jaundice in its most malignant phase.
They can also be drunk in the shape
of that "egg flip'' which sustains the
oratorical efforts of moderate states
men. The merits of eggs do not even
end here. In France alone the wine
clarifiers use more than S0,000,000
a year; the Alsatians consume fully
3S,0iK),000 in calico printing and for
dressing the leather used in making
the finest of French kid gloves. Fi
nally, not to mention various other
employments for eggs in the arts,
they may, of course, almost without
trouble on the farmer's part, be con
verted into fowls, which, in any
shape, are profitable to the seller and
welcome to the buyc-r. Even egg
Nogales, Ari, March 27. The re
cent seismic disturbances and sub
terranean noises along the Pacific
slope in Mexico have terrified those
who remember the earthquake of
last May. The people are moving
out of the dangerous localities by
hundreds. Ever since the first se
vere shock, on May 3rd, 1887, the
noises and tremblings have contin
ued with increasing violence. The
indications of thecoming of a serious
earthquake or of the bursting forth
of a volcano are shown by the pecu
liar moisture of the earth and the
appearance of hot springs which usu
ally precede such disturbances.
Wide seams and cracks are numer
ous in the mountains, and several
streams have been turned from their
courses into these chasms. The vio
lence of the most receut shocks ha
been such that several land slides
have eccurred, and here and there
the whole side of a mountain has
come down. Between Batapeto and
Fronteras the ground has opened
and then settled and the configura
tion of the country has entirely
cnanged. In one spot the ground
rolls like the waves of the sea and
steam and boiling water are thrown
up. The crust of the earth is very
thin and an eruption of volcanic
matter is expected at any moment
The Mexican scientific expedition
which made a careful examination
of the scene of the old earthquakes
has returned and reported exhaust
ively on its discoveries. The belie
is that the earthquakes will continu
with increasing force until a volcano
breaks out. It was found that th
region of disturbances had been al
most deserted. There are a few per
sons still living in the once popu
lous town of Bavispe, but they are
in extreme destitution from lack of
food and clothes. The State Gov
ernment of Sonora has sent a com
missary to the old town, and private
subscriptions for clothing have been
received.
Unde Ben's Bute.
From the Arkansaw Traveler.
Good habits are as easily contract
ed as bad ones, but some would-be
Solomons have asserted to the con
trary.
If life is worth living, it is worth
living truthfully, honestly, and well;
but some people don't like to think
so. '
It is easier to go down hill than
up, but the difference in atmosphere
is worth more than the difference in
exertion.
homeopath alike agree in regarding
them as the purest of carbonate of
ime.
A New Pepper from China.
The new pepper from China, which
has been christened "Celestial Pep
per," is, one of the most ornamental
varieties grown. Up to the time the
pods are fully ripe they are of a del
icate creamy yellow hue, and when
fully grown change to a vivid scar
let. This striking contrast in color
renders the plant a beautifdl object
as well as a useful one.
Graham Gems. One egg, well
beaten, one cup of cold water, one
cup of sweet milk, a little salt. Stir
into these enough graham flour to
make a stiff batter. Put in gem pans
and bake from twenty to thirty min
utes in a very hot oven.
Is Consumption Incurable ?
Read the following : Mr. C. H.
Morris, Newark, Ark., says: "Was
down with Abcess of Lungs, and
friends and physicians pronounced
me an Incurable Consumptive. Be
gan taking Dr. King's New Discov
ery for Consumption, am now on
Wit is the bonev. wisdom the
shells are vul'J.fiW allopath and h , jmd"wort th meat of human
. i i . i 1 4 '
societv. but it takes all threxS to
make a square life meal.
A pound of hope is worth mere
than a cart-load of despondency, but
there is more real comfort in an
ounce of contentment than in either.
The boy looks forward with pleas
ant anticipations of his manhood,
but the old man looks back with
delightful recollections of his boy
hood. It may be easier to contract ten
obligations than to meet one, but in
the end you will find it more satis
factory to meet one than to contract
many.
The constant habit of saving small
sums will ultimately lead to a com
fortable surplus, but great expecta
tions are likely to result in a de
pleted fortune.
No one can be said to be truly wise
unless he can see his own faults with
more clearness than those of others,
for the' are nearer by, but a distant
view is more pleasant.
Children are the buds, women the
blossoms, and men the grains of the
human plant, but in order to have
fair blossoms you must grow perfect
buds, and in order to' have good
grain you must grow beautiful blos
soms.
The Wonderful Healing Properties of
Darby's Prophylactic Fluid.
Its prompts use will invariably re-1 my third bottle, and able to oversee
lieve pain, promote healsng and pre- the wrk on my farm. It is the finest
vent Erysipelas, Gangrene, or Proud
Flesh. Owing to the cleansing and
purifying qualities of the Fluid the
roost obstinate Ulcers, Boils," Car
buncles, and Running Sores are ren
dered pure and healthy and speed
ily cured, no other application being
necessary.
medicine made
Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio,
says: "Had it not been. for Ijoctor
King's New Discover' for Consump
tion I would have died of Lung
Troubles. Was given up by doctors
Am now in best ot health." Try it.
Sample bottles free at Dr. W. M.
Fowlkes & Co.'s Drugstore.
"Trifles light as air" are of more
consequence to. the individual than
earthquakes and cyclones, for the
former are taking place continually.
but the latter are ages apart.
ITo Tisie to Sead.
From the Labor Advocate.
We dislike very nauch to hear a
laboring man say he doesn't have
time to read, because nine times out
ot ten wo know he otters a false
hood when he says it, and nine out
of ten of the men who have no time to
read spend their evenings loafing on
the street or around the beer coun
ter and billiard table. Thecasespre
very rare, indeed, where a man has
not time to read one or even three or
four weekly papers each week if ho
wants to. It is becaaae he has not
interest enough in his own welfare
to read and post himself on the
events that are transpiring for or
agaii:ct him. He is content to let
others do his reading and thinking
or him. The class of merl thatclaira
they do not have time to read ard
he curse of the community in
which they live. Thev have no
mind of their own, and, being as ig
norant as a Hottentot, they are used
by the sharpers of their town and
neighborhood to help them carry
out schemes to thwart the will of the
educated and respected citizens. The
man who doesn't have time to read
is usually a loafer. The successful
man has plenty of time to read and
post himself on matters pertaining
to Ins business, and that is one rea
son why he is successful. The edu
cated laboring man finds plenty of
time to read, and without neglecting'
his work either. He is the man
whom yon will find at home even
ings with his-family. The nail keg
in the grocery store is never kept
warm by him while he listens or
tells smutty stories to an ignorant
crowd of gaping foafers. He who
cannot find time to read never finds
time to be a man, but always Is the
tool of some man who docs read.
When we hear a- man say.hc doesnt
have time to read one paper a week
we always pity bis wife and children
to think they havCsuch an indolent,
ignorant, do little Ifusband and
father.
Do not place your orders for job print
ing untu yoa get oar prices.
Send us your orders far job printing
BEST OP -STYLE j
And at Living-Brices.
A Senator's Brilliant Idea.; r :- -
From the New York Tribune.. - " t ; . ' -When
Senator Pidmer. recently .
took a score of prominent men to the ;
Michigan club reunion at Detroit?,,
there were a few incidents of the
trip that the Senator has thus, far
;ept quiet. Among the diversions
offered to bis guests the Senator sug
gested a trip to his log house, a" few
miles from the city. - A party was
made up, and the keeper of the ru-r.
ral retreat was told to get up a din-
ner for fifteen persons. Bui in some
way the word got round that Sena
tor Palmer was going to give a "grand
spread" at his log house, and when
he and his guests started for their
drive through the woods they were
surprised to find other wagon loads
going in the same direction.
"I think," said the Senator, "that
it would be cafe to raise that dinner
order to twenty-five."
Accordingly he stepped into a
store that had a telephone and rais
ed his order to twenty-five. When
the log house was reached, the Sen
ator was appalled to find about 200
hungry and thirsty individuals a
waiting his dinner. They were not .
interlopers, but men of distinction .
in Michigan attending the club re
union, and the Senator's natural
hospitality inclined him to treat
well.
"But what shall Idol" appealed
the distracted steward. "Dinner fon
25 and here are 200 1"
"Can't you kill a Jersey cow !'5'
"There isn't time."
But here a brilliant idea struck
the Senator.
"Why, I'll tell you what to do,"
he said, "we'll call it a lunch, not a
diuner. Dinner for 25 ought to.
make lunch for 200."
And thereupon the "lunch" was
spread. That it was a success is in
dicated by the remark of one of his
Washington guests :
"Palmer," said he, "as a 'dinner'
thi3 is a trifle light; but as a 'lunch'
it's the finest thing I ever saw in
my life.
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