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INGTON TRUTH. PROSPERITY AND DEMOCRACY. Vol. XII. Washington, Beaufort County, N. C, Wednesday, January 5, 1898. JNo. 46. Progress WASH There is no 'word so full ot meaning and about which such tender and holy recollections cluster as that of " Mother "she who watched over our helpless infancy and guid ed our first, tottering step. Yet the life of every Expectant Moth er is beset with danger and all ef fort should be made to avoid it. an tl " i so assists nature Me! ier s isras u . the Expectan rfi I A n fl Mother is ena il I K II II blcd to look for I I I UIIU ward without dread, sufferiner or erloomy fore K.lincTs trt the hour when she tx per fences the joy of, Motaerltooift Its use insures safety to the lives of both Mother and Child, and she i:; found stronger after than before confinement in short, it "makes Childbirth natural -and easy," as so many have said. Don't be persuaded' to use anything but MOTHER'S FRIEND u My wife suffered more in ten min utea with either of her other two enil dren than she did altogether with her last,' having; previously used lour Dot ties of 'Mother's Friend.' It is a blessing' to any one expecting: to be come a JtUTiUSK , says a customer, Hcnoxssoh Daijk, Carmi, Illinois, Of Druggists mt Sl.0ft.or sent by erprMa on receipt of prtee. Write for book containing testimonial and Talubls Information for all Mother, free The BradftcM ermlor Co.. - THS mill tilVA WQiU in, ii3 & n3 Bank St. NORFOLK, - VIRGINIA Large stock of finished MMnmsjtj. GraTbSteflfis &c Readyfor hnmedia shiproee Free tuition. U'c pvt one or more fret scbot ars.ups in ewry county in the U. S. Write us. Positions. Win accept notes for tuition orcandejxxsit money in bank anUl position is secured. Ci fare paKL. No vacation. Kn tcr at any time. Open for bot. sexes. Chea.p'board. Semffo; Suaranfaed l- ntfcr rfisonabte cm-fi Luvox .... free ionstrated catalogue Address J. F. Dradgbos, Prest, at either place. Droughon's KASHV1LU. TEHIL. MO TEXASXA.1A, f -ckkeflplnsr. Shorthand. Typewriting;, etr x r t most thorough, practical and prorressr. v ' t-?t of the kind in the world, and the 6. :-"Eir m in-. -o.iij;- jnaorsed by bar. i . i'--'"-f--il5 " ill Us, .":'v'K'hl ...Id p'v: . -c.-l i'rnt. :.- .- j-of J-i it.;, cn rvx;jtecf ny, ,.. .. ms" ip ar s.V-.;;n- A. Write for pric? " - Krudy. t ; ;;t' t. "pjoy. MkAi: 3 i ' - : : ; at hore f roni Vo- -A-, I.rV;.. a petition &s -ibt ti?V. ur;5;-rt t'-err lr." 1-i.iTi.TCwrLt, iiookkcc.r jVr Oerher & Fi. " Wuclesale Grc'.t-s, r-outh Ch'.o;:rfOIll. r r-Kfci: : 5 jo.oo I. VfiUtlC Bicycie.Ooid Watch. wM.aA Hm-r, or a facnola FREE : $ jo.oo IN GOLD Watcn. uismon tacJK4arship i- w Drausrhon's Pracucai biuine HPfin I College, Ns.'jviile, lean., o vv J' Texarkzr-i, Tex., or a schf ' arship in irst any otho rep'-rtabie business cc" lege or liteiary school ir. il.- U. S.can be secur--. bv doip?a .tile work at borce.for tfca Youtl J. :lT'..ai- J stnit-nsoiithly jcui--; . J ' -.tin r trr. tnoiat in : . v w ir.d profitable u yo T. .' ' - i..' 1-ret and proxL by 7-, " -.: ? : - .-i other intf.rft. S. 1 (J: r: s .'it H no. eav.: :t- uiug- i VeT M Wedues'4a na F iiia a; 1"J " and Saturday at 5 P M. for Pei haven connectiBg; with JN or folk Southern R. H. for all points be teen Bellehaven aod Norfolk am Norfolk wiib Bteamers and railrofuJ. tor Sew York, PhiladHpia, Balti miore. Boston, .Providence, Kib mond ani Washington City and al points West. Hetnrning arriviop at WasuiogtoD Tuesdays, Thur days and Satursdays about 6AM and Sundays 11 A M. This give quick transportation at low rates. Order frieght care Korfolk & South em R K Norfolk. On and after Aug. 30, 1897. Steamer Virginia Dre Capt. J HUI leaves Washington onMouda and Fridays 7am for Bay-Si e. South Creek, Aurora, Makely ville and. Bel haven. Wedneadayo leaves Washing ton 7 a m for Bay-Side, Sootb Creek, Aurora, Makelyville fckran'on and" Belhaveo. TueKfiavs.Thursdaysand Satur days leaven Belhaven 6 v. m. fot Makelyville, South Greek, Auro ra, Bay-Side and W -siiington. Str R. L. Myers, i'ap-. Pavi leaves Wasl ington on Montae Wednesdays and Frlaays a B a. ih. for Torbbro (water oermitting)",an. all points on Tar River, returning alternate days. Freight and Pas aengers at lowest rates Freight for Tar river Steamer received from 6 a. m. till 6 p. m. For Steamer Virginia Dare till 6:3c day of sailing. Freigr receiver after the above . time, wtil remain till follow! g trip. Schedule sub ject to change without nr.tice JOHN MYERS SON, Agt. Washington. N. C. Sept. 2. '96 VIRGINIA COLLEGE FOR YOUNG LADIES, Roanoke, Va. Open-Sept. . 9, 1897. One of the leading schools for yoimg ladies in the South. Magnifcent buildings, all modern improve ments. Campus ten acres ; grand mountain scenery in valley oi "Virginia, famed for health. Eu ropean and American teacher. Full Cjurse. Superior advantage in Art and Music. Students from twenty ' States. For catalogue address the president, MATTIE P. HARRIS, Roaooke, Viu MOTHER! rEXAS. SKELETONS IN CLUBS. i THE QUEER PERFORMANCES OF THE . TWO BLANKS; OF NEW YORK. Myatarr mt thm Man Who Stole Food M Free Laachaona iAnothar Haa Wttk a, KtetorUmI Nhm Who Took to Waarlayr Old Clotaia wd Wa Dropped. j A decently dressed man, with a sham bling gait and a shifty eye, walked down Broad street one afternoon last week and attracted the attention of a broker who was standing in his office window. The broker watched the . man olosely until the fell w bad disappeared around, the corner into Wall street. He had called a visitor' attention to the man. "Have yon ever -seen that fellow be fore?" ha asked, j , "Hi face ia familiar, and I anf ore that I have. seen him somewhere, but I can't plaoe him. Who is he?" "John Blank, " said the broker, men tioning a family name that was well known. "I am a member of three good crabs, " eon tinned the broker, naming three that on tr would naturally plaoe at the head of the list of New York clubs, "and in the course of a long experience with the manageraent of them I have seen some curious club skeletons. They are unpleasant. Blank was a skeleton in the club until we finally got rid of him, and to this day none of the men who knew the facts about bis expulsion boa ever had any explanation of them. "So far as family connections are ooncerned. Blank is eligible to any club in this city, and we always understood that he had a good income. It was about five years ago, when I was a member of the honse committee, that my attention was first called to Blank. A member of the club came to me one day and said : " 'See here. I've got a disagreeable duty Jk perform.' You know that re freshments are served at every regular meeting of the club, and I have noticed for several months back; that John Blank haa stowed away a lot of things in his pockets on every such occasion. ' " 'Why, that is absurd,' I replied, 'and I suspect that he has been drinking too much. You know that these month ly lunches are free to the members. " 'That. was the view that I took of it the first time that I noticed it, ' he replied, 'but I watched this man at the last meeting very closely. He was not intoxicated. ; He ate his lunch, and then I saw him wrap up a piece of chicken, some lobster salad -and a brick of ice cream in separate packages, put them under bis overcoat and leave the dub. it's an amazing proceeding, and I think that it is high time that something was done about it ' ' This man 'a complaint interested me, and X investigated it. Some of the club waiters told me fhat Blank had occa sionally taken articles of small value from the club, and that be always car ried away a package after a free supper. There seemed to be no reasonable ex planation for bis ! little steals. He was and ia a lawyer in good practice, and, as yon know, be lives very comfortably. I consulted with some of the other bouse committeemen, and wa decided to leck out for Blank at the nest cup per. He turned up promptly, and, sure enough, we saw him stealthily make up a package from j the lunch table and walk out with it. There was nothing left for us to do bat to ask for an ex planation. 1 ; " "Charges were preferred against him and a formal potifioation was sent to him. Blank paid no attention to it. We thought that he might not have receiv ed it and we sent him another notifica tion and made sure that it reached him. Blank ignored it, and then we dropped him for conduct unbecoming a gentle man. Blank never came near the club house after his first notification, and so far as I know he' has never given an in dication of resenting our action in drop ping him. Now what do you suppose was the explanation of his thefts? I never have been able to find one "that was satisfactory, j It has been asserted that despite his large income he is nat urally a very miserly fcSbw, but that is merely gossip. I meet him occasionally, and be is always affable. It was a disa greeable affair, and' to this day aq in explicable one. ' j A man who had listened attentively to the broker's story said : "I can equal that with an experience in my own club.! The man in question haa. recently died and it is only charita ble tq . say that he was probably insane for several years before he died. He was Arthur Blank" mentioning a histor ical name. "About three years ago this man began to wear very shabby clothes. He had always been very careful in his dress, and this change was surprising. He came to the blub and sat around, looking like a tramp. His linen was ragged, and even the waiters looked askance at his clothes. I knew that he had money, but lit was not .a pleasant task to suggest to him that he should get some new clothes. He was an old bachelor, and he had rooms in an ex pensive bachelor 'apartment house. His condition wasSt! disgrace to the club and as a last resort half a dozen of his old friends got mp a parse of (100 and went to his tailor and ordered a new -suit of clothes for him.. They told the tailor that it was in payment of a wager, 'When the suit was made, they packed . it in a j box with a new bat, itfoea, collars, shirts and two scarfs and sent it to Blank. 1 A. letter was inclosed which read: j "Daa Biam Sy expraaa J aend you the 00 tat that X lost by. my iast election wacar. "The signature was such that no one could read it. There was some specula tion as to how Blank would take this hint Two days later he turned up at the club in his 'new clothes, and when he was congratulated on them he said they were, the result of an election wager, The new clothes were top much for him, however. He got drunk on the strength of them and staid drunk at the club for the next two weeks, when ha was dropped from membership. " New York Sun, I Johnson V Chill and Fe er Tonic is a ONE-DAY -ure. It cures the most itubborn case of fever ir 14 Hours. The Progress wishes its friends tnd patrons a! happy and . pros perous New Year, CHRISTMAS CAROL. Hosanna ! Howannal Ta nations hear the story Today j are redeemed. Made heir with Christ in glory I Bring out the silent harpa And tune them all anew. Then sing till angels stand A Barioor'a born to yon. Hoe&nnal Hosanna I Twaa shepherds told the story The star had led the way To a manger filled with glory. King out, ye Christmas bellal Death's power hath passed away. And heaven rings with this glad Man Is redeemed today. Hosanna! Hosanna 1 Let heaven and earth repeat. Join seraphim and cherub In h linage at hia feet. Let song of aang grace, ith an gel's anthem Tie, For unto God the sweetest sound Is a redeemed one's cry. Bring rosea, swatit rosea For nnto yon is given A ransom from the grave, A passport into heaven. Swing wide, ye pearly gates! Let anthems have full sway. The King of Glory left hia throne Upon that Christmas day. William K. Sheffield in Brooklyn Eagle. UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS. It was about 4 o'clock on Christmas eve and business was over as I dosed my desk and rose with a weary yawn. There was little in my surroundings to remind me of the day, no frost on the windows, no snow on the ground out side and no sharp bracing cold in the air. The windows were as wide open as they could be, and the steady swinging of the "punkah" overhead was all that kept the room from being stifiingi-r. hot and close, for the office was situated somewhere about latitude 14 north, in the faraway Philippine islands, where the great, beautiful flowers have no per- rume and tne wonaerxui birds never sing, Vfbere the southern cross glitters er the land night and the great pper is upside down and the sun sets Within two minutes of a quarter after 8 all the year around. So 1 had before me about two hours and a half of daylight, and I was try ing to decide whether to utilize it by riding out to the tennis club and hav ing afternoon tea, or walking to the park to hear the band play and see the Spanish dignitaries. The native clerks in the outer room had dusted up and now came gliding in with bare, splay toed feet, like black headed ghosts in their white clothes, to bid me "buenas noches" and a happy Christmas, and in cidentally to receive each his holiday gift of one or perhaps five big silver dol lars, according to his station, from Jose, the half breed chief clerk, who on the strength of his dignity and of his speak ing a little English kept his shirt tuck ed inside his trousers and wore embroid ered sandals, down to little Nito, the errand boy, hardly more than a savage of the wildernesak They had the "Christmas feeling" anyway, and asso ciated it with the mercury's ranging from 80 to 105 degrees, as we New Eng landers do its rambling from aero to freezing. The last "muchas gracias, senor," had been said, and the last clrk glided out, and the gray headed old "punkah oooly" was stealthily watching to see me take up my jacket, the signal for his departure, when the tramping of unmistakable and evidently stout boots sounded without, and with a prodigious crash of " the screen door there entered into my sanctum stalwart Captain Hale of the good ship Monhegan, arrayed in snowy linen and crowned with a broad pith helmet, accompanied by stout and jolly Mrs. Hale, carrying a big baske and a brown gingham umbrella, with her cheerful face beaming from the depths of a real old fashioned sunbonnet. !Goo4 evening, sir," they both call ed out, and Mrs. Hale added: "Wish you s merry Christmas. Mr. B. My, ain't it hot!" subsiding into the bam boo chair which I had placed for her. under the punkah, with a "pica, Jhom bre" (faster, man), to old Pedro, the oooly, who redoubled his efforts with a disapproving grunt "Good gracious, Mr. B.." excUdmed Mrs. Hale, "don't, for pity's sake, make that poor old feller work so this hot day on my 'count, - Stop it, " shaking her um brella vigorously at Pedro, who took this for a signal to go faster still, and the big fan flapping madly back and forth till I oalled, "Despacio" (gently). The Monhegan had been in the bay for a month past under charter to me for Boston, and was now cleared and ready to sail the next day. I had spent many pleasant hour on board with the captain and his wife, rejoicing in the homelike feeling it gave me to hear their good old Yankee forms of speech. The very sight of their healthy faces, browned by the sun in many seas, did me jgood in my weary exile, and their presence seemed to diffuse an atmos phere of the breezy pines and wind wept shores of Maine. And how good their primitive, shipboard food was aft er months of awful Spanish cooked din ners on shore! . And now the sound of their hearty voices seemed to give the earthquake rent, dingy walls of the old office build,-. ing a pleasanter aspect too" see, Sir. B. ." said the captain, "we kinder thought we'd drop in and give ye the good wishes of the seasou 'fore goin round to do our Christmasin. Fact is," he added, smiling, "the old lady can't get on without celebratin Christmas, no matter where she is, and she's al ways bound to give some presents to folks. If we're at sea, she gives 'em to my crew, and if we're in port like this she hunts up poor folks and gives 'em to 'em, heathens and all Ain't that so, mother?" Mrs. Hale nodded. "That's a fact father," she said. "Why. 'twouldn't seem the least mite like Christmas if 1 couldn't give presents, whether I be home in Boothbay or not As for hea thens, that don't make a bit of differ ence. It's Christmas jest the same, whether they know it or not, and it tickles 'em jest as much to get presents, and me to give 'em. And you're jest the same, John. You know you be. " "Well, I don't know but what I be, Maria," acknowledged the captain, and they went on to tell of their queer ex periences while "Christmasin" in out of the way Chinese and African ports with chuckles and peals of laughter that set Pedro grinning by force of example, ihough be oouldn'r understand, a word. "And speakin of that, Mr. B-i" said Mrs. Hale, "I thought maybe I could inake it a little more like Christmas to yon and them other young men here away from their own folks, so I made you this. "- And with that she extracted from her basket the very grandfather of all Christmas plum puddings the first one I had seen for three yearn. "Maybe 'tain't jest what you'd get at home," she said, holding it out with both hand while the captain towered beside her, sis feet of genuine delight' at my sur prise, " 'cause 1 didn't have just the right flxin's, but guess it'll go down pretty well There, take it and don't bother -to say one word. " And I knew the kind old - soul saw that for the mo ment $ could as easily have flown as uttered the thanks J felt "Trust the old lady to know what boys like, " said the captain. "We had m boy once ourselves. He'd be jest about your age now, " he added in a lower tone, glancing at his wife. "We've got him now, John, as I've always said and always will," said Mrs. Hale quietly, rearranging her bas ket The captain went on in answer to my wondering look: "You see, our boy run off when he wa'n't more'n 15, ' He'd been kind of wild, as boys be, and I'm afraid I was a little harsh to him Any way he went off without a word, and we ain't never heard of him since. 1 feel pretty sure he's dead, but mother tere sticks to t he ain't " . - And I'm goin to stick to it John, till I know for sure. " And then with a eheery smile at me: "It kind of does me good to keep lookin forward to seein Bufe again some day. Now, come along, John; it's gettin late. " I slipped on my jacket, whereupon Pedro vanished, and accompanied : the worthy couple down to the door of the building. On the stairs Mrs. Hale turn ed and whispered to me: "John talks as if he didn't care much about Safe's goin off, but now he really does, -Mr. B. If he could And our boy, 'twould take ten years off his age and mine too. " I did not doubt it, and I refrained from saying that I thought it would probably add ten years to Bufe's if he could realize the sort of mother and fa ther he had left so many years ago. So I bade them good night promising to see them in the morning and with, hearty thanks for their thoughtful kind ness, and watched them as they trudged away toward the native quarters, their sturdy figures towering above the mot ley crowd of natives and Chinamen who thronged the narrow street and filled the air with their uncouth gabble. I sent my groom home with the 'pre cious pudding, and, mounting my pony, threaded my way around to the English club. There I found McGregor, the old Scotch doctor, standing in the doorway and amusing himself by tossing coppers one at a time to a crowd of lame, bait and blind beggars, who as each coin fell instantly became an appalling tangle of skinny arms and legs. "Hello!" said he as I drew up.' "I was just coming round after you. "Su lci", (get away) to the beggars, who were plucking at various portions of his raiment and, like metamorphosed Oli ver Twists, asking for more. "Aren't you acting American consul just now?" he inquired. ' During the temporary absence of i the consul I had undertaken his not very arduous duties, being the only other: American resident in the place. "Well." continued the "medioo,' "I have a fellow countryman of yours very bad with fever down in Malacanan (native quarter), a sailarman, only.: just out of the Spanish jail for thumping a guardia (policeman) last year. I have my doubts of his lasting long, and you'd better come down if you wilL " Of course I would pome, consul or not In these hidden corners of tha world any one in trouble, vagabond sailor, ''beach comber'' or unlucky clerk out of employment is as sure of help from more fortunate fellow countrymen as if he were in his native land- surer perhaps, unless he happen to be a Chi naman, in which case his friends let him die unmolested and fho pay the - '-' i expenses of burying him in China, a backhanded sort of philanthropy, very characteristic in John: Chinaman. So the doctor junjpedf into a public carriage anil r&ttled away toward Ma lacanan.' while I followed ou my pony, leaving the beggars to philosophically squat down around the club doorway and resume their everlasting waif of "Charity, for love of heaven, charity!" Poor old Mctircgor's story was a sad one. Long yeafrs before, as a young man, be had come; to the Philippines on a pleasure trip vfith his wife 'and here she died suddenly of cholera, that ter rible scourge of the east, which then waa claiming its victims by thousands, and for 20 years the doctor had never left the island where bini lay, among the tall palms in the little English cemetery on banta Ana hill But many others bad reason to bler-s the cause that kept Dr. McGregor amon5 them From the proudest fcptfuish ouzfial in his ptiJ.ie to the bumbletit savage in his bamboo hut the doctor's time and skill were al ways at their service And many a youngster fresh frorm borne had been saved from going wrung in that land of wild and lawless life by his kindly words of counsel and advice. We stopped at last before a miserable hut on the outskirts of the town, and giving the pony in charge of a passing native I followed the doctor in The in- terior was dark and comparatively oool Ah old native woman, like a grotesque image, was squatting on the bamboo floor beside a heap of "nipa"- leaves and pieces of matting, on which lay a. . white man, tossing, turning and bah-. I bltng with delirium, in the fall grip of ; the jungle fever a young man evident- r. ly, his once powerful frame, fearfully j reduced by illness and confinement, oov- t ered by the ragged aud grimy shirt and : trousers of a sailor. He became quieter ,' as McGregor raised hus head and drank i the medicine given him but began mut- wruig again as tne aooior ia.iu nun down. MHewas a wee bit more rational this afternoon,' said McGregor, "and told ! me a bit of his story, but he couldn't or wouldn't tell his uume. I found him just outside on the grass and brought ' him in here for want of a better place. " ij " Was. there nothing in his pockets?"? I asked. "Nought but these." showing a few centimes, at whiu the old wonnuv glared greedily. "He may come to his' senses a bit soon Ye'd better .bide! awhila " ; "Is be past hope, Mac?" I asked- ' "Can't we do anything take him to a betterhouse. I mean?" The dix.-t r thook his head. "If'weji could get him up worth now. I'd say the constitution hj he'd get well with baa.. It's the beat of the place that keep bim down Ihe poor lad's made like one of our am collie dona utroi.g and well in the cold, tut when taken by fe- ver in this climate whish! burns up; like gun powder. " t It was terrible to see one of 'my own race dying thus in the lowest degrada- tion, like a wretched savage, nursed by an ignorant old barbarian only for the sake of the money she knew we would - give her, more terrible as time went on, and the poor parched lips never ceased their .childish, unintelligible chatter..' Oh, for a bit of ice or anything to cool that burning forehead 1 But nothing 14 oool there, nothing but death. , So we sat in silence, I with my hel met fanning the flushed face, so drawn and haggard, which must have been, strong and handsome in health, and the doctor ever and anon raised the heavy bead with the gentleness of va woman and gave medicine, while the old hag crouched in a corner and mumbled herself, wondering if when the man wa? dead she would get a whole silver po- sq or not. Outside tne brown people chattered and laughed in their freedom from care, now and then peering in with curious fares and running away witb fresh shouts. Their' turn might cone next but little they oared. The presenjt was theirs for enjoyment of life. Nevcy mind tomorrow. Suddenly the tumult seemed to in crease and concentrate farther down the road. Then it began to approach, the creams and happy laughter of children mingled with the clearer tones of a for eigner's tongue, and as the crowd reach ed the hut I suddenly heard a familiar voice saying: "There, little boy, don't you be so greedy!, let that little gifl have some. Ain't it nice, John, to see how they enjoy it?" ! McGregor looked np in wonder, and I rose and went to the door. There ( I found Captain Hale and his wife, sur rounded by a perfect horde of delighted children, he tossing coppers about from a canvas bag and she distributing can dy, penny whistles and numerous odds and ends from her: huge basket both their faces perfect pictures of the honejst pleasure which changed to such pro found amazement ait the eight of me that for a moment a combined assault by the native infantry on their basis jjof supplies was almost successful, only prevented by a vigorous use of the csfp tain's bamboo stick; and Mrs. Hale's gingham umbrella. ' ; 1 started to explain why I was there, but before I flci ! il !Mrs Hale, with fan PARKER'S HAIR BAAJsllj mi aaa. SMlirt tas halt ffmw 'iFarls to Kevtaraj Bseyl exclamation ot "Why, the poor fel-1 low I" gave her basket a whirl which I sent its contents flvins in everv direo- ' tion, thereby 'creating a scene of riot Aad Various Kinds of gfcelste mi Which those peaceful tropic shades had Ablda Taseaia. never witnessed the like of , and then' Every family has its. skeleton. We trotted straight . into the hat followed know that of course, anatomical sped by her husband, who bent his tall form .mens, neatly put together and stored nearly double to enter the door. ; away in a secure otpboard, of which The doctor rose and bowed with ooUr- only family members, have the key teey of 60 years ago as the motherly old skeleton key, probably. Only when the lady bent down by the sufferer's side, family ia alone, with no visitors about crying: "Oh, the poor, poor fellow I . does it go to the door cautiously and Just see him, John !" i I unlock it and bring the bony oocupant . I moved in from the doorway, and ; forth. The family knows Its own skele tbe light of the setting sun fell on the . toa but outsiders are supposed to be In invalid's face and suddenly a cry went I tot&l ignorance of its existence, and if up that rang through the tiny hovel ! the7 are wiser than people think them and far above the noisy clamor outside , "na ' course they always are it is only a cry from; the depths of a mother's heart: "John! Father I It's our Bufe, Our owboy! ,Oh, Bufy, Bufy, after all these years!" ( I. f a -a . Step out Softly, kind old doctor. Come with tne and watch the sun go ing down, in all its tropical glory be hind the great volcanic range, if you can see it for I cannot It is all a bliur to me. But 1 can see this a noble ship, at anchor in the bay with all sails bent,, ready to sail tomorrow and bear away from this burning land one fever striok en to the cool breezes of the open sea and sure recovery under his own moth er's care. ' ; j ; And hark to the bells of vespers this Christmas eve as they ring the warning from church and gray cathedral, of the glorious word they will tell tomorrow emen of every faith and creed, "Glory God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men 1" Charges Bryant Howard in Short Stories. Wher tha Earth Is Dead. Bow cheerless is the wind that sweeps The nill or UaUlee, Where, murmarless, the Jordan creeps Down to the deep Dead aeal O'er barren roc k the dead vines trail And by dead tendrils cling. And on the hill and in the vsle There is no breath of spring. i t The dying glance of Christ the King Heema to have staid and stilled The voice of every living thing Where Christ the King was killed. The brooks! the birds that sing with Have long since passed away. And all abont Jerusalem i The earth ia dead today. j Cy Warman in New York Sunj " t ! NO MACKINTOSH. ! Contrary Effects of she Abeeaea of On s Frteatd of Colonel Calliper, "I knew a man once," said Colonel Calliper, "a j young man who had v- 'ery thing that .heart could wish for whp notwithstanding that fact was a pretty sane and sensible sort of young : man, but who nevertheless did at times ( in his younger days before be had learn- ed the philosophy of life occasionally have periods of - depression In one' of these on his way home once from Eu rope he oame to, the conclusion that Ufe wasn't worth living, and he made tap his mind to end it all right there by jumping overboard. As he looked over the rail and; realized how wet the wa ter was' and. bow much there was of - it be knew that he ought not to go out in it withont a mackintosh. "Going below, he discovered that be had neglected to bring one. On this oc casion of all others when he wanted que most he had none. But he couldn't think of encountering the wet inappro priately clad, and so he deferred jump ing overboard until be could do so ;in proper form. Next morning, with the resiliency of youth, he was feeling bet ter, and be arrived in New York buoy ant, hopeful and strong. I "And, curiously enough, while tin other respects' he remained as punctil ious as ever about bis dress, he never after that wore a mackintosh, and he went out in all sorts of weather with out hesitation. It was his carelessness in this regard that led finally to bis death. Out without a mackintosh in a heavy rain at the age of 97, he caught a cold that settled on his lunes. devslou- ed into pneumonia and carried him off. and so it may be said of my friend that be owed bis long life and bis death to the same cause. "New York Sun. j j . j Irish Dueling Coda. The Irish dueling code has been adopted with certain modifications by duelists both, in England and the Unit ed States. It was drawn up by the Irish f bar at theClonmel assizes in 1777 and appears to aim at so arranging matters that no Irishman anxious to fight shall be balked -liy his wish. "The first of -fense requires the first apology, al though the retort may be more offen sive.'' "After one fire the retort may be explained away. But if either par ty," the code hastens Xo add, "would rather fight on, after two shots each the principal who made the retort may , explain and then the original offender Ptender hii Ipology." "When the lie direct is the ilrst offense, the aggressor -must either bg pardon in express terms, : exchange ,w shots previous to apolo gy, or three shots followed by ex planation, j or tire on till a severe hit be scored by; one of the parties. " "Tgo 'dumb firing,' or firing in the air.jis admissible." "In slight cases the sec ond haiida bis principal but one pistol, in gross cases two, holding another case ready charge' 1 in reserve. Cornhlll Magazine.' Tha Leapbole. 1 Mr. Gobdhflart Regarding those kit tens, my dear, the president of our So ciety says t?ie most humane way to drown kitten ia to pat them in an or dinary earthenware flowerpot and then suddenly turn the 'flowerpot upside down in a pail of lukewarm water, j Mrs. Goodheart Why, yes, that j is a good idea, isn't it because, you know, there is a hole in the bottom of the flowerpot 1 for the poor little things to breathe through. London Fun. j It is said that Australian shepherds can foretell the weather from the con dition of the wool on the backs of their sheep. An increase in the curliness in dicates better weather. i . t I Nearly 300 patents have been issued for horseshoes, but not one of the inven tions has ever come into general use, j J t r - Quinine and other fevei medicines take from 5 t 10 days to cure fever Johnson's Chill and Fevei Tonic cures in ONE DAY. I THAT FAMILY CLOSET. point or politeness to pretend to : be blind and deaf. " j Of how many kinds are family skele tons? The Joneses possessed an uncle who died insane. You can't go near the Jones cupboard, or, in other words, even hint at the subject of hereditary insanity in their presence, without jthe skeleton audibly knocking ite-bones to gether and all the Joneses turning palep You can't mention Turkish bonds to the Browns without their jajrs suddenly 'falling ; you can't think why. And when drink statistics form the cheerful sub ject of conversation at the Robinsons' table you observe with wbnder that all the family grow uncomfortable and writhe in their chairs. You haven't the faintest notion why, but the. skeleton has. I met . a man once at a dinner party who was perfectly sane upon every point on earth but one, and on that be was the opposite. He could talk about politics, science, art Shakespeare and the musical glasses, but if by any chance the conversation touched on dueling he went straight off his head then and there. Dueling was the skeleton in his cup board, and the reason was one that can not be enlarged upon here. On one day in every year be shut himself up in his bouse and was not seen by mortal eye. That was the one day when his skele ton came Out and stalked about Many people have what seems to the general public a harmless enough skele ton, but it is real and ghastly to them' selves, it is of humble origin. It is snr prising the pains people will take to conceal that their grandfathers were poor, but houest, the lies they will .tell (which only proves tnat the grandpar ent's qualities have not descended in the direct line) and the meannesses they will indulge in, in the pitiable effort to hide the fact that two generations ago they kept a small greengrocer's shop or wore plash and powder. After all, the longer the line the more certain it is to contain ancestors who won their bread by the sweat of their face. If all the world were not descended from, the same "grand old gardener," there might be more common sense in trying to forget honest toil. English Exchange. IN LONDON'S SLUM 8. A Bather Bonfh Kxparlaaea That Taag-ht aaV Artie a Leeeoa. J An artist who is well known in a northern city used occasionally to put on his shabbiest clothes and penetrate to the slams in search of inspiration for his brush. On one of these excursions he stopped to watch the efforts of a: rag ged urchin who was disfiguring the pavement of a squalid street with a piece of soft bine stone, and, although the figures which the . lad drew were grotesque, the artist was struck with their originality and began to Sjfre an interest in their development "That's right my boy I Make your lines clear and never mind the detaila Champion I Wbatl You don't know bow to sketch that old man's head? Then give me the chalk, I'll show you." . The next moment " the enthusiastio artist waa on his knees, and with th piece of stone had quickly drawn a clever picture. Before be could com mence another sketch, however, be felt a stunning blow on the bead, and a shrill female voice cried: "Take yer bloom in hook, ye great, good for nought bulk I What d'ye mean by messin up t 'flags 'at I've just wash ed? 'Tain't no wonder 'at f kids do it when a senseless old idiot like yer self sets 'em t'exampla' Be off,' or I'll scour t'pavement wi' yer ugly carcass. ' ' The artist hurriedly dodged another boot sprang to bis feet, and, without waiting to argne the matter, sneaked ignominiously off. He vows that he will mind his own business when next he goes slumming. Loudon Telegraph. Why Doesn't the Hollar Barstt What a tremendous force is straggling to tear a boiler to atoms! Take, for ex ample, a horizontal tubular boiler of ordinary proportions, 60 inches in di ameter by 16 feet long, containing eighty-three 1 inch tubes. Such a boiler has a surface area of 40,718 square inches. " i Suppose this-boiler is operated with a working pressure of 100' pounds per square inch, which is not at all uncom mon. The boiler therefore sustains a to tal pressure of 4,071,600. pounds, or more than 2,085 tons. Do we realize what this means? The boiler has resting upon it the equivalent of a column of granite 10 feet square and 264.6 feet high, or, to pat it another way, the boiler is holding op the equiv alent weight of 22,871 persons, each weighing 182 pounds. The best authorities agree that the ordinary draft horse, working eight hours a day, exerts an average force daring that time of ISO pounds. Now, this force acting to disrupt the boiler longitudinally is 220,200 pounds, so that to produce an equivalent stress it would be necessary to hitch up to the ends of the boiler two teams of 1,886 horses altogether. Strand Magazine. Thay Are Frlai Helen I wonder why Kate doesn't sxind her own business. Mattie She hasn't any. Helen -Busines8? - Mattie Ko; mind. Chicago News. Haw Hs'Csini It She I don't see anything so terrify ing in death. , He Why didn't you tell metyo were from Philadelphia? I have friends iiere myself. Twinkles. 'DJNOl .1 r Ihe ! acteaf teats show K aaaeao tarther thaa aay athar sraaa. pounzn Absolutory Pur ftOVAL BAKM vWtt 9 OO.i MrW trUMM BuairifSH Cai'ds wr n hodman. . Attornov-at-Law WASHINGTON. N. i H BLOUMT STEPHEN 0. BHAQAW. BLOUNT & BR AG AW, Mtorne, and Conntflor. Washington, n. o. Office next to Town Hall. ' ' j y B. N ICHOLSON, I T ATTO t-N E Y-AT-LA W WABHIJfQTOIf, K, D B. A 8. WELLS. j DENTIST,- I WAsmxaToN, N. CV Officd opposite Gallagher's Drag Store, in tbe Morton Wnilding. eJ S. SIMMONS. I ATTORNEY AT-LAW? I . j wAaniif otom, k, c oiolng Counties and in the Snnretne and Federal Court. i Buying and selling P-al Estate n ! altv ; . I . " I J. U.TZlOMPAiOIV, ,Tonsorial Artist, Maiu Sreet; : Washington N. C. A nrst-claa. hair cut and shaye Vr 25 cental My work Is up to date Wd witl give satisfaction. Give me a call aqd be convincM- j I have two firsi-clasa assistants who do not trink and thev will not talk vou to 1 -ath. ' . I . I 1 jW do jror wakt bqja or loaftrt o write, bat- men of abilitjr 200 to $500 per month, salary or oQanisiioo. ninagera. State and general i iUeurx Fat Esam Co., - " ' Itacine, Wis Jl S.CAMPBELL, i THE JEWELER. ts. Ill, Market Ht, Washlartva, If. C. j j V NOTICE. M ! i , t i ,i I will from now on offer special rjces on . repairing ( watches, l-icks, jewelry, etc. : vTafn springs fitted I I in watches. t .75 to SI. 50 Hair springs fitted and regulated, leaning and regu lating watches. 1.00 to I CQ .75 to .50 to .T5 to .75 to 1.(0 1.00 100 100 Jewels fitted, Lift springs. Jatch tDrinei. Pivoting staffs and' pinions.! . . HanHs, hour, mfn. 1.00 to 1.50 i .20 to .25 and setv, each. block repairing prices as fol lows: 1 Jleaning clock, 1 day time, Cleaning clock 8 " 1 ; .50 to l 1.00 to i i 1.00 to .75 to 1.00 to 1.00 .1.25 1.25 1.00 1.50 1.7 j day time. Main spring fitted 8 I dav lime. Mala vpting fitted 1 ! dav time. Main spr fitted and i cl'n'g 1 d time, Main sDr' fitted and T cl'n'g 8 d, time. 1.25 to Kings made smaller, .24 to . All jewelry repaired at prices that will please yon. ; Compare my prices and my work rrith any and see 'il I am not duinx first- class work cheap. i I Yonrs to please. j -ti- i IF YOU WANT TO LAUUH i. - i - i Donliy If yoa want to laajra seat ta cents for the Donkey puttie nad a f yon can do it. John Cleaa?a's Seas, b. . cor. Second and Diauoad St., rhila , !a. Don't send stamps. ( All dealeis guarantee Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic to care Chills and Fever and all forms of Malaria. j jSv5) , . K Mil A J : I 't 1
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