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- r BockinghamyRocktB Jobc vPririling. c.. -.. . ..-. vV - - .. .'it -if. g C. WALL,Editob ak PabraiETOB, Office: OVFR EVERETT, WALL" COMPANY'S. BTJBSCSIPTION UJLTHS: a 0n year' Six months, ..... jg- Ail subscriptions accounts must be J H. C. WALL, Editor, and proprietor. paid m aav&u,, .i -' TERMS: $1.50 a Year in Advance. jig- Advertising -rates furnished on ap- VOL. plication. . ' ; Published Every Thursday. HOW THINGS GO RIGHT AND WEON BT OEOBOE M ACDON A.LD. ' JRqckingham, Richmond County, K C, April 12, 1888. No. 15. i i!A.i nuVai 4 TTTsman A SOauuiui liUu w : AlasJ how things co wronjr; , fl m - 1 A sigh too much or a kiss.too long. . Places her among the flowers, tos- A d theie fouow3 a mist and a weeping . 1 I ' . " : ter her as a tender plant, ana sne is rain. thing of fancy, waywardness and Anu 1U" MH,"UW u: ftllv. annoyed bv a dewdrop, fretted Alas ! how hardlv things go right ! . .i u e u.,t0fl w' Nwin I Tis bard to watch on a summers night, oyvQwuu m - - wm come nd the kisi will i i r.;n n (Kn cnnnii ni ft I - o reaay 10 imw i stay ; t beetle or the rattling of a window J And the summer a mgnt i awmter? aay. ;Bash at BighVaad is overpowered w nv things go right ht tl perfume of a rosebud. But jf the sigh and kiss of the winters night .let real calamity, come, rouse her a Come deep from the soul in the stronger That is born in the light of a'winter'sLay. ram Will be changed by the love into sunslrind . again. factious; 'enkindle the fires of her be inr and mark her then how strong . i i i -Din. un- :m v,a v,flr,f I And things can never go badly wrong 13 . . ....... I If the heart be true and the love be strong .of battle, give Her a child, a Dira or 1 For tho mist, if it comes, and the weeping! anything to protect, and see her in a jelative instance, lifting her wniie -anna as a shield, as her own blood .crimsons her upturned forehead, praying for her life to protect the helpless. Transplant her in the dark tplaces of the earth, call forth her en ergies to action, and her breath be- mmes a healing, her presence a WW .blessing. Onginai Give Workingmen a Chance. We have a communication frond a young man in which he, urges upon the merchants in town the propnet; She disputes inch by inch 0f closing their stores early durin the strides of a stalking pestilence, when man, the strong and brave shrinks away. Misfortune hurts hr jiot; she wears away a life in silent endurance, and goes forth with less ttimidity than to the bridal altar. In prosperity, she is a bud full of odors, waiting but for the winds of adver sity to scatter them abroadgold,.1 valuable, but untried in the furnace. Jn short, woman is a miracle, a rnys ttery, the center from which radiates ithe charm of existence. the Ions summer days. The write! is a clerk, and he descants upon th palpable injustice of keeping thos of his profession confined fourteei or sixteen hours a day, allowin them no time for recreation or sel improvement He is right about i The average clerk does not receive salary exceeding $35 per month, and it is not right to make him work 1 or 16 hours put of every 24 for s small a pittance. During the sum mcr months the merchants ough to close up at dark. They woul lose nothing by it, and the clerk! certainly ought to have some time beside Sunday, in which to read d eniov themselves as they see at, A 1 . But the argument does not apply to clerks alone.- A mechanic whd works ten hours ,hand-running,: h performed a day's work, provid he does his duty while he is at work There is a limit to human endurance,1 An Eye to Business. Jk Missouri farmer learned that the 'grand jury was about to indict him for work in? on Sunday. He didn't try to evade the charge, but on the .contrary had his four sons summon ' -ed as witnesses against him. He was (fined one dollar and costs, a total ot five dollars. But as the mileage and witness fees of his sons amounted to ten dollars and fortv cents, the fan and the employer should have due ilv cleared five dollars and forty! regard for the heaHh and happiness .cents on the transaction. of his workmen. There must be "hewers of wood and drawers of wa- & Warning. Iter," bat it is the part of humanity The modes of death's approach to burdens as llSht a are various, and statistics 6how con- possible. e cannot all be bankers, clusively that more persons die from merchants and manufacturers it is diseases of the Throat and Lutigs not so ordained in the economy of than any other. It is probable that natuiie But the j of those who everyone, without exception.receives ,r ., . nr . ,n.v vast numbers of iubercle uerms in- " to the system and where these germs labor might be greatly augmented fall upon suitable soil they start into if they were allowed time for recrea te and develop, at nrst slowly and ion and the cultivation of their is shown by a slight tickling sensa- mindg Tlw average working man toon in the throat and if allowed to , . . , . " . continue their ravages they extend scarcely has time to become well ac- tothe lungs producing Consumption, quainted with his own family. Hel and to the head, causing Catarrh, must leave home by sun-up in the Now all this is darigerons .and if al- J morning, work all day, and proba lowed to proceed will in time ase Q m death. At the onset you must act; ' , , 4 ... . . 6 n with prompUiesa ; allowing a old and when he gets home he is so 4o go without attention is dangerous weaned with toil and annoyed by and may lose you your life. As the petty vexations of the day that won as you feel that something is he ig in no mood for readlng nor rong with vour Throaty Lungs or .:k: u i , u- SostrUs. obtain a bottle of Boschee's contributing to the pleasures of his German Svruo. It will give YouMamiIy immediate relief. . It is not right. Ten hours should cdnstitute a day's work the year round, and we venture to say that if the system were universally adopt ed the world would be the better for it. We despise any organization which becomes a disturbing element either in the social or commercial world, but labor, has rights which it should maintain by organization. Do not understand us to mean or- - A HIiit nf Trfmrlnwi anfl rtatni In tint I , . . : . ,. t h n n in 6n(omn! lanital di?tl.1bg tltd fa V"6 I precipitate ntrikes,paralyze business t 11ipon,lriUl wyacai aftackf and ferment discord not that ; but ' nadii, frtrtj; simply a conservative and compact i iV . '.- i sociefcv w .-preserve cuuikj -wwccm - naruMim. Inns AT .munTUL ' -. I : :- ' - - - 1 Dlatontloa of th stomach and bowel TORPID LIVERT XtknownbytheMaurftod pMvUaitttNl b wlnf 7 PFwton of iplrlts, and great melaiw 1 Jh?'f. with lassitude and a dUpotlUoo I wteaypjqrerjrthlnc for to-morrow. Yp A Mtorl flaw of BU from tho Uvor , BlIIOTJSlliESS, JJMf neglected, soon leada to aerlom Sr iSt. fe,lctou lnfluenoe over erery kind . BL!ioun.eM it reatorea the Uver to put the digestive organ can ao meir UoiSJ ri?rklD5 order, regulates tho aecre- lnin.k "ma putaino aige v--u wumuon tnt inev -ui ay, "i am tlllous.w Jlui, beoitabiect taianrt ncOa at Com.' J2 of the Uver, and havt bea fa th habit Of the employer and the employed, in which reason shall rule and the in terests of both parties .be conserved It is not fair to the employer tohave to pay a man for a day's work when he only labors seven pr eight hours --no orfe will do it pit is not fair to the workmen to receive pay for only a day's work when he labors twelve to sixteen hours. Let the happy medium be preserved; ' -! cl: W CBAGG7. or mountain laurel called Alpine rosey in Europe to the south end US. AND KBZ. BOWSES. of the mountain. Here is a rock, d Bowser's Sepina- iDg ?" 4 upon which we climb; it is the top of the Craggy, 6,000 feet above the lhe xtroit Free Preea. 8ea leveL "Mv der child said an nld ivnnt Ana the view l ipw can l con- 0f mine the day I was married. vey.to you the beauty of the mag-J "have you got all your husband's nincent panorama which lies before iove letters?" us ? Our guide tells us it is one of the clearest davs he has ever seen in Eetroiter Am'ong tho : Hotmtains of ' , Western ITo.CaroUna Cor. Detroit tree Press. 1 In a previous letter I described ,he climate of Western North Caro ina and its beneficial influence, on diseases of the throat, lungs and nerves. When I first came here I was unable to walk even a short dis tance, but now I rrequently walk twenty to thirty miles in a day, and am in splendid; condition after cov ering that distance. I take- such walks almost daily, and I attribute my wonderful improvement in part to them. I recently took a trip to Craggy, one of the highest peaks in the Black Mountain range. Two friends and myself started early in the morning from the Battery Park Hotel to drive to the Alexander farm, about ten Lmilfts distant, near the foot of Craer- r i a -i o . rrxr Tho r-iaincr Rim war int tinao-1 OJ ' 1 J e I - : 4i a: :.u 1 mg HJCBuuuuu,uSu1uuu alU8 mvu j 8Urpriged to find how few f . , " ,1;.T "7, ; had ever made the trip to Craggy mil turougu m mm uwerwu jn Europe U wouW be visited by thousands. Our guide told us that Having recently purchased first.; class outfit, We arc prepared to .el " ; ,' all kinds of ' " ; ; PIAtN AKD. FAGi'.:' job priimtiwg: "v.-. - ; "' in the:.: H':;;i.-;Cv BEST OF-STYLE And at Living JPnces- ' i . , " ;- me the. smarter of the two." ::-'-'. ' M W-what I Am I awake erdream- ings. you will probably burn 'em ?" "That's just what I was going to do." r "Well, .don't. Keep 'em to th the mountains.- Around us are the giants of the-Blue" Ridge and the Alleghahies; Mount Mitchell and Cimgman'8 Dome, both 6,700 feet high ; the Pyramid, Bullhead, Snow- longest day, you live." ball, Pinnacle, all of which rise b,wu 'But why T" ieei aoove me sea. we can see iuwj "Because they will be stronger Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, 1 weapons than all your tears, plead- Tennes3oe and Kentucfey. it is a inKa or arguments. Nothine will picture which, almost takes away I bring a husband to time like a sight our breath. What are the hills and 0r lome of the love letters ha wrota rocks on which we have hitherto stood beside this grand mountain, overlooking an almost boundless of Asheville to the Swannanoa road. "gwannanoa! well they named thee In the mellow Indian tonga ; 'Beautiful' thou art most truly, And right worthy to be sung." v The drive of ten miles was direct- i ly up the picturesque valley of this lovely river, and the road is an ex ceptionally good one. About 10 o'clock we reached Alexander's farm, whicn is situatea in a oeauuiui vai ley between the Swannanoa and Bee Tree Creeks. June is the best month to go up the mountain, as the laurel is then in bloom and adds to the beauty of the scenery. o jj . Asheville, N. C, March 15. The Chronicle on the Baleigh Bank Failure. "Wide awake, Mr. Bowser. Let-r.. me read you an extract from this -exhibit marked "A". ? - M "I don't see why you sbould-igo back to Vassar. Few young ; ladies . are more accomplished or better ed- v- r ucated. All your friends, my self in2,:-, "Of course." eluded, give in to you on the matter ' -' "And now that, you are married of grammar in particular. Hopeto- - ; see you as usual next ouuuaj, 5 ' dear littlft hoajBy suckle. . r j - i Mr. Bowser sat and looked at roe; like oxke-terrified. . . . 'Aad sir,, you often fling out. abt the eixe of my feet. 1 admit tbey are as large again as I should have ordered from a dealer, although I wear No. 3's with a great deal ot comfort. Let me say, however, that yoor mother wears 6's, your tksee sisters 5's, and the two girls you kept . company with before we met wear full-sized 6'8 with very broad toee.V "Mrs. Bowser, -do you suppose I. will8tand such insults in myowrr.' house 1" he shouted as he sprang up. "Are facts and truths insults ?, I -have been reading from your let ters." "Never I Never 1 If I ever wrote such I was crazy 1" ' uTiit Kara m. vntir Ritrn&inre. You fice the other day and he camel , A rr.-c;fTrr , 4 . ' tv u u - J remember you used to want roe sigtr. D I i . . iii v.. J n -.A cif.it . my tetters iWBeuuu, uu;wuisu- . ed yours "Oak Leaf." "I oever did I No power on earth before marriage." I took her advice, and have al ways been glad I did. On several occasions I have used them to bring Mn Bowser down off his high horse, and the fact that they bother his peace of mind is proved by the oth er fact that he has several times hunted the house over in my ab sence in hopes to lay hands on them. Something went wrong at the of- home cantankerous. He held until we got to the supper table, and then broke out with : 'Got any name for these things here?" "Yes, dear. Those are called bis- cuit?' - " ""'Well, the man who calls 'em fit! to eat'oueht to be shot ! Mrs. Bow ser, 'vrhy'is it I can. never get any thing decent : to; eaf in my own house?" - any "wf irnw. - - - m a ... ni j ? lo IO grow 01 calomel wmca gen- uC UD lor tare nr faur diva.' . Latelv K -rtL bee Uking Simmon liver Regulator, buiiri.IT TVelief without any Interrwptioa t -J. Hugo. Middleport, Ohio.-- "Our GEjruurE id on front of W a . al '., rniiweipiuatsat . j M p n reoonirontoi wrapper, . a-ciun St Vo, Pa -K'V': Tallest ' People Xazy . Whv are the tallest Deoble th la ziest? They are longer in bed .than others, and' if!lhey neglect their colds or' couaha. they will: be;there stil -1 longer. Use Taylors Cherokee Rem A It was so unexpected that men nf, t ii a a. t jnere gooa nunung wouia naraiy oeneve it. As one had been promised us. We had man, the community was dazed. brought dogs and guns with us, and "The State Bank old and success after eating a wholesome country ful failed impossible," was the dinner we shouldered our guns and universal and oft-repeated comment, started to look for wild turkeys. But But Chairman Stamps' statement the woods had been too well hunted I settled it and there was not room to and we bagged only a few quail, par- doubt. At an early hour Tuesday uke more Pams tban we d(X In or" tridge and rabbits. -After supper, to moaning the streets were crowded der that the biscuit might be extiji mkmK nrairl full iooiri Me fk l ttian n i ot ? t Vi npnnU H.miacintT the foi'inr. gooa x went out ana maae mem - a u to Mr. Alexander's stories of life in and the rascality of President Cross these mountains, where his ancest- and Cashier White. Never in the ors settled 10S years ago, until mid- history of Raleigh has such a sight night. I been witnessed as that presented on - I P vfttftvi lln street. Th nhnp.k anr. And then we come to the real! the fright produced by the earth- climb. We are mounting all the quake was not comparable to the time, but the zig-zag path spares us suppressed excitement the terrible any very steep ascent. It is true news caused. Men who had been that now and then we find ourselves I practicing the closest economy for clinging to the manes of OUT mules! vpara in order to nav for a home, or -a u I ' tr J I 1 1 as we feel the saddles slipping back- educate a child, or meet an obliga- &ungerea ior my cooKing you wm i . i ii 1.1 i . . i wara; dui on me wnoie we nna tneition, hurried to the Bank to find its terrible accounts we have heard of 1 doors closed and an announcement the climb to be purely imagination, that it would be put into the hands The forests become wilder, and thel0f a Receiver. No information could undergrowth more luxurian and be obtained, and the loss, heavy as tangled. The Bee Tree (creek) grows it was; seemed worse in the absence more and more rapid, until it be- of knowledge. Whether all the mon comes a series of cascades ; and into ey and papers were gone, or only it ;g? rushing and tumbling many part. was unknown. There is a poor mountain creeks. The most won- woman, who name is Mrs. Gruend derful of these cascades is the Wolves her. who keens a stall in the market. can convince me that I was such fool as that!" "Well, perhaps yon will remem ber this sentence. You wrote it a few months before, our marriage. - Listen. - 1 J u0h, my Rosebud but the heart .. of Oak Leaf was mad a thousand "... tinea lighter by the recei pt of your "WhvMr. Bowser i No one could loinz note yesterday. -Ifthoeede- hereof ntue missives amuu av coming I should pine aad die." t And you claim thai ! wrote thai I" be asked in a straDgir voice "Of course. You can't go back on your own writing, can you ? "You assert that those are my let ters,Joyou?" "Certainly." "And f-hat I called you fond na4f and wanted to die for you T7 "That's aboot the size of it, Mr. Bowver. You wrote me several times that you were as roach my slave as if I had bought you. I think you'd have jumped into a well any time I . asked you.'' Mr. Bowser put on hfe overcoat and hat, drew otf on his gloves, anoV then tissed the bay and said : myself." "Humph 1" "There was a time, Mr. Bowser, when you raved over my cooking." "Never 1 I knew from the day I set eyes on you wading across a mud puddle that you could never cook. Yoa can sing very well as well as some bad actresses but you can't cook." "And if I will prove that you once "I will give you fifty dollars cash in hand." After supper I went upstairs and brought down several letters. Mr. Bowser had got his nose into a mag- The Most Effective QymnadunV rom the Michigan Christian Advocate. After the Detroit preachers' meet ing Uonday some of the brethren in-4 dulged in an informal talk about physical culture. Some appliances for promoting bodily vigor were mentioned, such, as the health-lift, Indian clubs, dumb-bells, eto. We wish to add to this list another ap pliance highly recommended by a medical contemporary one that will exercise every bone and muscle in the bod v --a whole gymnasium all by itself. It is piece of steel, notch ed on one side, fitting tightly into a wooden frame, and, after being greas ed! on both sides with a bacon rind, rubbed into a stick of wood laid lengthwise of a sawbuck. This sim ple little machine, if used with due moderation, is warranted to knock endwise the most stubborn case of ministerial blues on record. "Good-bye, darling' ! If you never . , .. , I see naDa again remenjoer that he- azme ana wamea tne maiierarop- ; i - ped, but I nd to him the following 10yu; ' eating supper .that night, how proud came home very softly and crept in- . ""' Ii t J J a. J a .t. 1 should De over vour delicious vo Dea, ana ni aay weni oa nis Palls, where the water, with three who had saved up $300, and all of it cookery when we had a home of out usual hunt after that pile of love breaks, drops a sheer bight of 1,800 was in the State Bank. She has no feet. The surrounding trees are part- husband, and several children de- ly enveloped in spray and the back; pendent on her. It is proposed to ground of mountains rises, seeming- raige a fund to reimburse her. The ly, to the sky. The picture is mag- Chronicle will turn over to her any nificent in outline and superb in I money that may be sent us It is coloring. , I a worthy object. Very many poof Just above the falls are many men and widows had deposits there. Vfrl .1- . I own. me loougni oi inose oiscuiis alone makes me hungry. Good-bye, I pet." "Who wrote that?" sternly de manded Mr. Bowser. "You did." "Three montha before . our mar- letters. "Never 1" "Oh, but you did. Let me read: : Trying to Obey. From the Binghamton Republican. Extract from current novel : "And when Godfrey discovered the omi nous words, "Danger! Beware!" i seemed that he would turn to stone" Godfrey was evidently a good man and tried to obey the injunction to beware. It was easier to be stone ware than any -other kind ; though, if f he was as ;big a blockhead -a3 most novel heroes,, ne inicnt nave caves, formerly the rendezvous of and they were crushed and sadden- J riage." wolves, the sagacious animals hav- ed. The failure meant ruin -ftbso- Never I intv aAl(taAd this shelter for the rear- in to them Nnt a Taw wArACPon "But heres a letter, dated and ine of their youne. I to crv when assured that there was signed. . . . I 1 mm m .1 m ,We took lunch about four miles no doubt, and that the President and "it is a base torgery, ana tne ior fmm f Va inn nf CmrJV in 11. Rmall I PobIiia VtaA oMimllff oKinnn ger must beware! How could 1 BaM otmv otw w v- j - vsoamwa MMV ot W v mmm VWMWX I 0 orchard, situated in a green gorge or Many are the sad stories told. . One have praised your cooking ?" ravine, the Bee tree was full of man who had. by dint of bard work "You also used to praisomy sing brook trout, and we caught a fine and economy, saved enough to com- i ing, Mr. Bowser." string oi these delicious-fish in alplete the purchaseof a home, came very short time. But our guide hur-j to town upon first hearing the ru ried us on. The ascent grew steeper j mor. Wrhen the rumor was confirm and , steeper. . In very direction ed by his attorney he wept like a stretched the impenetrable forest, its! child. They were bitter tears, and monotony broken only by fantastic they came frpm auhtain of sliat- rocks covered with moss and. ferns, tered hopes.. There were other losers eves, .and -I was not ashamed of Towards the top the variety in the who shed no tears, but who clench- them. You have one of the purest, timber ceases, the beech 'being the ed their teeth, nd, uttering impre-" only tree which grows above a cer- cations upon the" heads-bf the ab- taln line; but the trees . are small, sconding officers, went sullenly and and bear no -resemblance to the j doggedly to their work. beech found in the lower regions. The People's Five Cents Savings Bank is in a flourishing condition, and has only just begun to grow. On last Wednesday it passed the $18,000 mark, and has its eye upon a net deposit and safe investment of $25,000 in .July as its first yearV work, a right good capital for a bank running without capital. -For the public information we would say that now, before April 11th, Is a gpod time to deposit in order to get interest, as interest dividends are computed on sums bu deposit from the second Wednesday pf January, April, July aud October, to the se cond Wednesdays of April and Oc- "And precious pet of mine, JfJiober-Greensboro North State. again man, you ior uiai. utiuuiui song, "The Lover'a Fare -veil," and the exquisite manner in wmcn you T. ' . -TP L ' renaereu ii. it arew . tears irom my Don't Ezpsrinent " - You cannot afford to waste time experimenting when your lungs are in danger.. Consumption always seems, at first, only a cold. Do not permit any dealer -to impose on you with some chtrfpfrmitation of Dr. v: r; r r . clearest voices I ever heard." "Who wrote that?" he gasped. "You did?' "Mrs. Bowser, don't carry things 1 Kings New Discovery for Cousump- too Jar! There is a iimit beyond I tion. Coughs and Colds, but be sure Mr. JusUce Lamar, of ihe United which you mostnoVgo V ,,; r SSHU lT"T,"n States Supreme Court, expresses V V Well, here it is, in your own writ- you he bos somethiog ust as good, . himself as greatly delighted with his ing and over your own signature, or jast the same Don't be deceived;, new surroundings. He is looking Once in a while you fling out a tint but insist upon getting DrT King's better,- feeling better and sleeping thatl am' very dull. There Was a SJJSrfM bettersincehiselevationtotheBench time when you thought different? 1 than at any time since resigumg his "Look out. lure, isowseri . at Dr. W. M. Fowlkes & Co.'s Drug ; The soil is rich, and glass takes the place of the rocks, moss and ferns, j At last we are at the top. The air is clear and pure and sendsr new life tingling through" our veins! The thermometer registers 60 in the shade. Wo dispount and the guide . - - f. -1 1 J what you owe thil aftr. edy of oweet Uuni and mullein. , b'ecom ' w o.od t;p wftre. : ' lea us uts.i. , -1 . :, i'f -i:'-. w:- ;..a;v; .j
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