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Person. Uo. Courier Publishfci TJvery Thursday " v. aOELtBROS. t I 'Roxboko, N. O v hfe Cawr Si -Months a- " 0 75 'tlemitaawu-t be malie by Registered Xtte Post Office 0der oV Postal Not. BHMMBMMatSMsa Samuel P.rSatterfieId, Bister of Deeds focPersoo county and exffiQiacJerktn the board 1 of wuotr TconMswne. do hereby certify'that "the knowing-statement show tta$ amoont; items auS nature of all compen sation audited bv the board, to the several member thereof, for the past twelve months ending Nov. 80th 1888. -Aa required by law, chaptw 17, section 71S of volume 2 of the Code, (to-wit): ; j . The board were in session 17 davs. - - 'Wm. T. Noell, chairman, aerved ldavaaU2 per day; $23 00 16.00 48.00 ,820 milea travel at 5 cents. D. W. K- Richmond, served 10 days at $2 pet day 180 milea travel at 5 cent 20.00 . 9.00 80 00 10.50 : 40.60 29.00 9.80 87.80 23.00 1170 aTioa. H. Street, served 15 dava at $2 pes day ? , 210-milesltravel,at 5 cenU Geo. A. Rogers, aerved -14 daysfat 2 per day, 10 miles travel at .5 cents J. J,!Brooks, served 14datBatf2"per day, 234 miles travel at 5 cents, fH'M . . ?. 89.70 A esrewtte cost of entire board for jtS88, - f 195.00 1 furtSer certify that there were no nnva rified acboknts Oeeurred. ' TTitnesa ray hand and seal, this Hfov. 80th 1888. ,S. E. SATTERi'IELD, lk- Bd. C C. , OFESSOINAL' pXiDS j.T.Straybora. r.. M. Warllck, i (axboroN.C. " Milton, N. C gTRAYHORN di WARLICK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice In all the courts of the State and in t'ne Federal cirt8. iianagement oi estotes strictly attended to. ' , . Bpeolal attention given to cases in Person and Caswell counties. i. C. 8trudwick. B. B. Boone STRUDWICK & BOONE, .ATTORNEYS AT LAW. PBACTICK8 IKUEHi.K, 0AX8 it A FKKSOK CO0KTIBS. A.trGsAaam. K. W. WiaOoa I KAUAM& WINSTON, ATTORNEYS T LAW, i Oxford. N. C. PrRetiees in all he courts of the State. Tlan 41e moner uJ invest the same in best IstSlort- x sg Kil twtatg Security. .Testigt!titte. eottie jestates. and C. H. WI8TAD. J. F.TSBJtT. -VfTINSTEAD & TKllRT, S r ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Koxhero.K.C. Prompt attention plTen to all bnsiness.entrust d to thom.illave and will reciTemoaey.on pesit to ioanon realestate in Person. LUXSFOKO, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, , Bojcteoro. X. C. -v. J. WGraham " : Thos, Ruffio. ' GRAHAM & RUFFIN, Attorney's at law," Hillsbor o, N. O. " Practices-in the eounties of Alamance, Caswe Durham, Qnitf ord, Orange and Person. . S. Merntt. " W. W. Kitchin JKttKITT ft KITCIIltf. ATTORNEYS AT LAW; Boxboro, X. C. PTiaopt attention even to the collection of ,K.J T.FULLKB, PRACTICINa PHYSICIAN. 1 ' - Jloxboro, K. Cv - ... Resident Wfot-merlj occupy hy Dr rO.S. Bradsher. .OeeoKerC.G. Mitcbell'a drugstore v ; . ' '" ' RT.T FRAZIEU, ja tltACTienia dentistry - 1 i!ti Boston. Ta..offlse in Merteha nd Plaatets' Bank Building. 103 ma .a niciiols - ' vl Offers Hli JtOTMSIOl&i 8EBVICE3 fo'thi PEOPLE- f boxboto and surrounding country , .-, Practices ia all the branches 6t Msdioine..! -V- iR. C. W. BRADSHER Oflers Ws services the pulrtic Calls promptly attended to in Person ariifadToiaing H"H?r inr Ana wishing work in his Jine, by writing Mn at Bashy F,o4, .,.,wiU be aUenaea ai VL J. C. BRADSIlEK, -J:--; S PRACTICING iYSICIAN, BOXBORO. N. C. ;-. D1 PjticTtCIJliB PHTBtCJ AK. insllthebrancbsoiaedicine. , r nEKlESS DYES ThiTwm aye evenrtidnt. 'They ae sold ewy. W Price lOa. a Mekatre. XMTi"a" ... 4. nt M-nok r unnt: 4 eelors. Tor sale by J. Dj Morria Co. Roxboro,: C7, W. T. Pawi 5c Co., RoiWrb N C;;;acd TT, a: Oolemaffi3t;i!ntiS. Grordontn N. C. . i; rt4' 7ic-!A.v' : . IIIAIR'.DAtSAM J f Jiair to its Youthfurcofcr. ' PARKER'S ci Enroms OrtaabJ fof Coo(b, Colda,lmrarf Paiiw.'txhawtiO1' j iOW AOOOMPLlrtHiD. Etotj lsdf hoald know. a i) . v w 11 uvm rv u in. w v ER8IAN BLOO M, iest Cenplexioa iita- Bar.Skln (Int and Blsmlah Eradicatnr knMflL. : S0ELL BROS. Proprietors. YOL, ;5c :.; ROXBORO,' NORCT:0:ROLINA; THURSDAT JANXJRTl :i7,1889 ORIOLE. 1 In aad oct - moo the cherry Isores 'z ' .j Bashing dfei of living flfitne .; - c: -; He sins, and bis'glod song never, grieves; c Its merry refrain is e'erthe same: ' - "Cheer, cheer, cheer, x t i7 .'I'-Cheer up, , - Cheer!" ; In the dim. grav light of early dawn -i He carol aatce the Uvggord sunt . 'When ovenins shadows stretch o'er the lawn ,,- His vesper warblings can scarce be done: : . - T - - "Cheer, cheer, cheer, - r ' ' Cheer us -' - f ' .- H- . Cheer P. t Thare'e pendant nest in the cherry tree, A sray little mate and birdliags four; i" "How can you leave them to sins'." and L . A4flUnjt and swaylag but einga the more: ' ;"iir''''-iJhee4 chWchoer,c:-.. - .'-s 5;:- Cheer " : -; ' cheerr-r . . :i Trnere's plenty pi time ia this. wortio tfagf "His btefik bead hobs as much as to say And then Uqwthelmg'ringechtjesrmff" ; As ho Cutters his wings and flics awayu r - . "Cheer, cheer, cheer, . -.." i - Cheer up, " -.. Cheer t" . , 1 Oriole, with your breast of flame. And notes that aro ever so clearly glad, . Thro' sun or shade you sin? the some, U iafcbebrigiitor if iifobesad: . "Choer, cheer, x-hecr. Cheer up, ' . Cheer J" Oood dousekeepwy P.riL JKNKS' STORY. fl w lato in October, and tno moxit- Jn air was chilly, but the fire which vre had-built, and which reached up with its long tongtle8 of flame half way to the uaric pmo top aoovo, maqp tne camp comfortable. We had stopped for the night just oil the great Dcadwood trail, a dozen miles from that place that great wagon road which loads from the gold mines to civilization, over 200 miles among mountains and across plains, over government land and through Indian reservations. "I'm goin' to bed an' to sleep to night," said Gene. Brooks, a freighter, with -three great freight wagons and twelve mules, which he drove alone, as ia customary; "I set up all last night telliri you fellers stories, but you. can't rope mo in that way to-n;ght." We had fallen in with Gene on the trail the iay before. We looked at the fire, now burning Jower, as we listened to the night . wind, uufelt below, sieging through the pino tops th&samo low, sad retrain wluch the wmd and the pines ever sine. Hanged if thero ain't a stray mule, said OeiKs, as he strained his eyes through tho darkness toward the traiL - "Looks some like one of Bill Jenks' leaders, too, but BUI don't let none of - his mules get awaj. 'Sides, he's gone to Sundance thia trip,, though it must be boufc time for him to get backho hurries 'long kinder fast - now-he gets , lonesome, I reckon. I b'lieve I must tell you 'bout Bill 'fore l forget it," and Gene cut off a chew of tobacco with a pocketknif e and rolled over and kicked his toes into the ground as he gazed at the fire," while the pinesceased their complaining song for a moment, and the murmuring of Bear Butte creek came -to our ears as it bub bled along ; over the rocks a few yards awav, all grayish, milky white, mud died by the silver mining- along its head waters in the ; Galena district all the streams in the Black Hills run either the same crayish, milk white or blood red silver or gold mining. "You heard me mention Bill rlast nightY went on Gene. "HcV a good one auvt fraidxf nothing that walks. Been fresrhtin ever since I have nine year' Got a twelve mule outfit three wagons. Bill ain't exactly quarrelsome, but if he has got anything agin' anybody he dori't go round, try m' to forget it More likely he lumps the feller an cleans him out. - Bill ain't never been licked on the trail. Carries a gun in the wagon to use in cases of necessity. Good feller if you know how to take him- never had" no trouble with him but a little, qnecr an' not a man to monkey witfi 'less you're lookin. for omighty livel v .exercise. - . 1 0enoweditatkel7look.6fl his bat and blew -the dust from the wide brim the red, powdery dust of the - trail, tho dust that i3 Uown hither j and tliither, . on everything, through every thing; that - is. stirred by the treasi uro coacli and passenger .coach, mule tram and bull tram, by- tue -passing breeze and the gale as it sweeps .down out tf tho canyon and whirls it along in grf'it clouds that shut from sight coach .and wagon train, dusty paiAenger . and duMiet driver. Then he began again : ,'Vell, 'bout two year ago we was all freightia from Pierre nearest railroad town then, you know. Them 'Was lively luuea at Pierre: Killed :a inan. every Etgiit, uunea mm toe nex' monnn , or iittbhy tho day "after,- cordin' to how busy they was. ": '" vf; . .- " i hero was a girl - at 5 Jrierre named Pearl Queen; Least that's what the bills aaid . her -. namev was, ".though I al'ays thought 'n was- a - little , mixed 'bout it beia light. . She acted -at tlia" Alhambra iheatreyou : seeDanceiL on . her ";$ea remat kalJy pretty, like. - She'd. den thcrcjiQmc time, and wo sJl kdowed. her nro.oh ics3. F6ho;wa3 aJittla- thing. hiid lin'.young, I jedged though I. al'ays calcinated . she - looked - a httie -sort o faded, ShwMv-'kmdetie' though alio had a pertty peart ioOk; too. . Thoy said she ihot a feller at Sidney but Pete rerrw said it.wa'n't her a, tall, so don t knew oothmg 'bout it.? irf v. Anyhow, Bill Jenka got .a truainted with her; one trip, and they jess seemed 1U lUUbiiU 4JT &OU UI CMyli VIlUTTI ;at first,- sight. . ,Well,".wetdidn't pay nd attention to - tliis but wo' -wa n't quite ready for what follered. : Bill :got load of '-mfrclrnuiso for Lead .Citv, an' the -nex' norninT pulled dut, aiv' the: p'int .is tight hero; fiettin' up on the saddle on Uo- near white "mule-was Pearl? Queen, W 'slf sho'd al'ays been there; an BUI jyaaL walkin lUongside, "clw;rn gto'ra eAriri at" jea'.'bif he never puJled out " or " .r ha mnlaa no other jtvay, 1 7 f.V-Tclh weH -looked -an that's 'bout 1 ittlt flid do' when jvd See 'em conun , lhre;liappened to be guite a lot ow In "alt we flid do' when jve" see 'em'comm eaxnp there an we .was jes jiookiu' up Biit had Ramped ,dpwu by Jhe freight kousd.7 pearl had on a' tew caliker drcs3, mostly, red and pretty.like, an'. I noUced Bhb- 'peered rather better Jookin' than gen'ral, I thouglrUvVBig Smith was tamped . with us ba's ona 4? these 'era smart ATeca, an' a . figrtin' man, an' didn't liko Bill none tor well . nohow. He steps up when they cumes along, an says he: Morning sBULV Mornhv, Big Smith,' says Bill, and steps his - team. : 'I see you got Peail (ueen with yon," says liig , South. 'It does jear that -way,' says Bui. '1 b'lieve i m somewhat a'Quainted with Pearl myself,' says Big Smith, kmder r era art lia e. 'I . 'low you dont know anything bad 'bout her, says Well, I' Crack!' an' -Bill ; hit him one on the jaw eq we could all', hear, it, sayin" at the same tune: 'Vy hat is it you know?' Big Smith fell like a log an. lay there for 'most a minute. Bill all? the time waitin' for an answer.; Perttysoon Big -Smith got so he could kinder roll -a little, an' then said:.'' Bill ; it ain't worth mentionin'P. -Then-'Bill whistled io his tnulesand wemyjon. - Nothmrbuti ter thatv He had to atop an' 'lick the man that kep' the ' Red Ckrral : 'fore he got out o town, and he pounded two' freighters at Willow Creek, an at BaJ River he an' the man that run the road ranch there fit twenty minutes, an' .Bill finally got him iip on the bank of the stream an' shoved him in an'' that settled him. . He would- meet a man,1 the man would say something : about Pearl or go to grinnin', an'. Bill would, stop an' step up an' whale him, come ioacK,; Kinder mop off the thickest of the blood, with his sleeve, swear atlhe mules an go on, while Pearl reached down ah patted him on -the shoulder an' cheered him up..-; "Pearl smyed-with -him right along. She didn't ride on the . mule so "much after the first trip 'cept when they were gom inter town, when Bill always had her ride it, so that if there was i anybody round wanted to make any remarks, that sho would ''tract their .'tention an' -. they would make 'em, an' BUI would stop an' have it out with 'em. But it wasnt long 'fore folks got over sayin much in Bill 'a hearin' awful unhealthy practice. "" One day when they was pullin' into Rapid City one of these pictur' men tried to take tlieir pictur' with Pearl on the undo, but Bill caught him at it an' went oyer an' kicked one o' the legs off his out fit an as that only left two on it, it didn't stand very 6teady, an' the cuss looked kinder sheepishput it under his arm an' made a sneak. - ' : "Bill al'ays fixed her up a nice place to ride in the trail wagon, an' when she wasn't there ox on the mule she would walk 'long by his aide." I a'pose it was very pleasant for her to hear Billswearin' J at the mules al day, 'cause aha thought a heap of him. When one o' the rest of us camps, of eourte we al'ays have to rustle 'round an' cook our own bacon, but slie done his cookin -right along on good cookin" it was too, 'cause Bill asked me to eat with them sev'ral times. . BiscuitSl wy he usedto make biscuits that tasted, w'y, dura it all, they tasted 'most' like they used to at home I "Bill an" Pearl al'ays got along' powerful fine together. They wasn't married ireg'lar," you know. Bill said he didn't believe in any such monkey business, an' I reckon she didn't neither, but Bill told hie iff was going to j be a steady thingian ltwas. . -.. "Well, it was a hard life for the girl, al'ays on tlie road cold an' stormy through the winter an hot and dusty when summer come never sleeping in a house an' not hardly ever being in one'at all, .'cept occasionally mebby a store, or freight depot, or something.' But she seemed to stand it first rate an' not want nothin' else. Bill was mighty careful 'bout her stayin' in the wagon an' keep in' warm in cold or rainy weather; so I dunno, mebby he life was, 'bout as easy as any sue was used to. - lier tx' tJiu was al'ays- happy anyhow, an' I s'pose that's a better record than some folks that live finer an are more solider niarried can show. ' . ; ' .' - My k "Well I reckon there aint : bo very much more to, tell, though iffd' kinder hard work to tell it a talL One night, 'way long this summer! enmped back here, near Sturgis; I got up early and pulled out for Dead wood, not .' thinkin' 'bout anything- "I'd- gone six or seven mile an' was gittin' 'long fine, when I come, .'round a bend ' in -the. road right 'mong the biggest of "the f. mountains, when what '. should I see but . Bill Jenks outfit camped ahead a ways. It wa'n't no reg'lar: campin place, an I. eouldnftj . si. 4: l ' i -1 a. i.i t : n:nn awalkm' back'ards in' f or'ards side o' the wagon. witii''somethmg;white.vi4t:-'lus arms, an then, says I, -I know what's up. Git, you mules 1' An' I clim' on the near one an', hit each of 'em ' a' crack with the whip, an'' Pll be hanged if -1 didn't come . up to where, he was on the Irotl ; I "stopped an' was- goin'-.to - yell, an tlien I thought I hadn't better, 'cause it might not be the tiling for such anooi casion. , Then I was glad I didn't, 'cause: as Bill come over, I saw tears in. his eyes. iFirst'I thought lie felt bad, then I 'lowed ho wa3--.glad,rtheiri:;didn-t5.knowt'but cf ot- - tirw cnrTn -fTm 'iiwnla art T'lT teetotally blanked yes, sir; I-will if he didn't- turn -back: some sort d"eoft cloth i part n tiie-operauon, v ne hob provea v. 4.t K,w-9t,i.-ii ii.xv-'r-'itA-'iliJ't'his rtronositions in reerard to theljonfeand on the bundle an' snowed me , the all firedest, blankest, smalle5t, little cuss baby, you know that ryou . ever- seenl That's what , .he ' ; -done, ;'; an' my eyes"? stock " f out Pi a g footer? though I " knowed,'r ; scn ; ; I :n . r.Bill walkin' . What ' was i comin", tooT- Then says BUI:" ''Gene; that's my boy. '- Dontt he look" jes', like mef I "was stuck for a minute 'cause I likoianythlngi braced Up;'ah"says " ur-of yoU 'cept' his"; eyes-i-he's 'got . his mother's eyes. 5 YesV - says Bill .'his mother's eyesj an mebbe her" , hair, too, ohlyi it's awful abort. -Then I : started to say 'something, but Bill stopped me, an' says he': Pearl - ia : awful sick; an! I want youtoget onto one o my mules an ride on to Dead wood an.', git a doctor 'to con)e-dOwn.'" . - " -1 "So I done so, gpinV'bout as quickVas anybody ever did with a mula that was kinder setr'ag'in goin' anyhow, an' got back 'way ahead 0' the doptor.. - AVhca I corns up" there was jjobpdyln 'sights,. I waited a minute an didnt hear noUiin'. Then I tapped-.a liftle on the trail v.-agon an' Bill saidCbme,,-.ux.. sorter --Choked like, an'; I put my head under the canvas 1 at the back end. - tiVThere sat Bill -on,J;he ..bottonjof j&e wagon box with;- the baby on one arm, fWlule- he was a-lookin' down at Pearl .her Head way-a-layin'.invhis lap an"- her 'face was so white that it scart me.'Then J ehn nn ivPft flTi' at iTrKt t.Kv wm -fii .n' wild like, hut thev "erot softer .anrT J eae looked t me sat saidawful weak, so HOME FIRST: ABROAD L could r jes' hear - it j-:,jGene,;.-eay8 ehe : .'look af ter BUI a htla ah eheeri hinrup when Pm gone.-sAn then she looked at the baby with her big eyes an up tt Bill, and tried to xaise her bandsman'. -Bill eaw what she wanted anrput one of her arms 'round; the baby an' the - other up ?round his own neck an' leaned overman' 1 4Xnie away quick's I bould an' went 'roundto -the mules an' tried to. make b'lieve I was fixin'-the harness or something. "A "mule is very cheerin' on such a" 'casion.' An' after, a few minutes BUI. come out with the baby still on his arm the little.' feller never-whimpered an' he set down on the wagon tongue an' his 'head kinder dropped in his hand, -an says he : Gene; there ain'tiobody to-take care o' men' the boy nowT - . . - v ."We waited a; while- an then I got a feller that cameirjgH drive my outfit an' I took Bill!"tijy he got in the wagon an'.wewent to Dea4wood. ;-The next day was "Sunday an, we had' a funeral. Ev'ry. freighter that could be was there; an lots of other folks that knowed Bill come down. where we. held it. -I 'had a preacher, too; Bill s was doubtful but I told him "it : 'u'd be "better. .When he come Bill took him to''oueside, an says he, 'L want to tell you 'f ore you begin. You know who I am an' wlio she. was my wif& you'vo heard our story. Now I don't want you to . preach no sermon, cauaa you nugnt say something ag'u ner wnen you -cuant mean to an' it would be bad for. you, -an', of course, me, too; 1 so jes read a httle out o your Bible I reckon that's all straight talk an' if you must . say romethmg - jes' say she " was sqUar' an' never went back on? Bill Jenks 1' . . ' i - . -; ; : " - "So that's about the way it was; the preacher read", some an' then- he sung a song I beard at church when I-.was a boy, an some of us j Ined in a little, an' Big Smith whistled the tune kinder soft like, an' looked at tlie ' ground ; an' then the preacher said that her that was gone must have been a good . woman or . the husband she left would not mourn her so much an' so' deep, anV then he - put on: She was always , true to Bill Jenks, an' that was all .. 1 "We buried, her down the gulch; a bit -'Oil ironi the trail in a httle park 'mong some pines 13 ill wouldn't have nothing to do with the reg'lar graveyards he said folks might not want Iter there, an they needn't have her. He dug the grave himself, bo it would be right, he said. He sent clear to Omaha after a headstone an it's a beauty nicer 'n any they got in the buryin' ground. ; . - v'Tlie baby, hey? -You bet , he's all right-the preacher's wife took him. for a while anVthen Bill' got her an' her' hus band to go with him an take the baby down to his folks in. Iowa all Bill's famJly down there are a good deal more on stylo, on all that sort o' thing than he is, an? they got lots o money, an' wei-e tickled to death with bo Httle 'cuss, an are taking the. oest kind o' care of him an' 'when he gits- big are goin to end hinvto school, an give him an edication an' a big start in life.1 The old . folks. wanted Bill to stay home tooj but he said the hfe. would Tall him it was bo reg'Iari so he's goin' down to" see the httle feHer once a year. ; I wonder when he .'grows up an' gits wearin' fine, clothes an' one thing '11' another if he'll ever know any thing 'bout the start be had way out here" by tlie trail in the Jbig freight wagon all covered with dust?, Oil,. 'notlier tiling, I Bui named. mnjrvWiIham Queen Eugene Jenks nothing ornery 'bout that name, k there? Frederick H. Carruth in New York Tribune. j- " ; -, The Implantation of Teeth. r - In Dr. Younger's experiment, the tooth to be replaced has long been extracted, and; the socket filled up with bony sub stance. He drills into thi "jaw, gouges out a new socket, and then, taking a too& that has long been extracted, lie cleans it thoroughly, soaks it in bichloride of mercury, and inserts it in the socket just formed. -This new tooth in due time becomes firmly ancliored, and as service able as "the original one before it became decayed.""" Dr. Younger " holds that - the tooth is "held in its place by the soft 'tis sues surrounding it, ahdithat the artificial socket baa nothing to. do with anchor ing it,:. - : . . ,:-.. - . " The experiment described above was" Informed by Dr. G." M Curtis, of Syra cuse, N. Y;, who" afterward eXtracted.the implanted tooth; and sent it- to Dfr W. M. Gray, the mfcroscopist of tlie surgeon J general a oftice, who has . made a .very careful : examination, of it.,: His experi ments proved beyond - question tliat the tooth eo implanted js. revived, the circu lation is established -.between . tho socket and "the yimplatited;-,WUf:andlt:' socket does take an active part in anchor ing the toothJ:: rA tooth bo implanted js much mpro firmly anchored ; in : t he jaw than one 'of tljo originals,, and, in the case .referred tor the tooth was held bo f firmly - that ?,Dr Curtis hroko? it finfexj tractmg it. . J,jri- Uray does-: not- doubt that -.th3 soft .tissues do take 'an activo the tooth i)eond?auque3tiii.--uaii's Journal of TIealthi;' An Orator's GocU .Vaieo. " s , "There is no doubt that one of ilw most useful iqualificio cood voiced". : Burke 1 failetl in tliehotise through;: the rlack of athne2;WnUam an easy and melodious swell," filled -.the largest, building and "triumphed over, the wildest tumult, while at the same time it conveyed every inflection - of feel ing witli the most" tlelicato flexibility. The great majority of celebrated orators have been aided by tiie. possession of a good voice. . Webster's voice, on tho oc casion of his reply; to Senator Bicknison," .had such an effect' that . one of his listen ers felt all the night atterward. as ; if a heavy cannonade had been resounding in his ears, Gamck used to eayJie would give a hundred guineas if - he ' could iy 'Ob I' ' as- Whsiefield . did. "Mr. Glad: :6tone's voice lias the music and the reso nance of "a ail vex trumpet. Crentkanan s Magazine. 'J '- '"-f- , A Lightsome Heart, . f CliiJdren,'' said a New-"Jersey school teacher, ;"al ways be clieerful. i- Wliatever" falls io your lot todo.itio it "cheerfully-? "Yes, indeed, deartaaciicr, responded v buffLt utile EaliwaV' ticfliuLir: ?even the 1 - ' .' . . iru tKov a f:-WnrV 'skeeters sin f N Now. York Sun. . . ; " NEXT. t3 T t I ' WAnBlAQE"" OF COUSVNS. ' x . - - ' - z A Xep Saated- Prejadiee Against ,rtfc Praetioe Darwin's Opinion. i " Theaex jqfjestion ' relate" to a sabject nbont which jt aro often conflurtedand very naturally, because, though -- mar-' xkbgea. between first cousins art of Ire 9K9a4 eoctnTeooe, there is a -general and a dewp-seated prejudice' asamat thonu "'; r l LlhJt proper from a rtAigioua stand-" poart for Ssai eousina to marry? 5: Ik It not a positive sin to know mgly eater into auch a marriage? ' " " j 3.:Ia "it not -probable .that .the off spring a euch parents will become ttK sane,, idiotic, or weak - persons, both mentay wudL physically ?" --- .1 -- 5hr Marriage of first eouama not oenftrasy c to tiae Proteatant canonlaw; tha reiationship Bot . coming: within the 'ptohibtted degrees. : of consangvdnityaa oefined by the Church of England, and as "set forth in" the' table drawn op by Arehbkhop Parker in : 1563T .In the Xiomaa Catholic church; such, marriagee are aa a rule forbidden, yet they may be permitted by special dispeneation.- "As a Catholio: writer4 expresses , it," - cia cases where &e alternativa ia marriage or mis eryrthe church, as ihoughtful mother, grants her dispensation.'' - f 'AeorSx9g to the LProteatani theory, tttewefore, t&;marriage of first eousina ia -"proper from a religious standpoint, " or, move eorreetry, rehgioos'' point of . view, e4 according to the Roman Catholio Wle tt la permissible' under certain oir eumstances, and therefore cannot be de scribed aa a positive siu." . : H we turn . to; the . Bible for: our au thority we find that before the period of Moses there was -no prohibition at all against marriage en the ground' of con-1 sanguinky, and the prejudice was rather agakist marryhig out of ftbe circle - of kinehip. Adam's sons married their own sisters; Abraham . bis half sister; his brother Nahor his niece, and daughter of another brother; Jacob married at the same time two sisters who . were his cousins; Esau's wife was his cousin, Am lam's bis aunt, and Judah's his daughter-in-law, the widow of his own boo. The aversion m those days - was not 'to the marriage, of relatives, no master how near, bus to intermarriage with foreign- era, or those far removed in blood. V Bli the Mosaio 1 law. . forbade fifteen marriages within '. specified degrees, though- among them those of cousins were net included. In the New Testa ment we find few directions as to mar-, riage, and those chiefly concerning mar riages with unbelievers; and Gregory the Great, in writing , f marriages of own con6ins,-pt his objection to them on physiological: grounds, saying that "we have learned Ufrom experience that from Buch a. marriage' offspring cannot grow' The. physiological argument; the one .most commonly advanoedV has been care fully examined of late years by men of science, ' and 'more ; especially ' by Mr. George H. Darwin, a son of the great Darwin, and himself a distinguished bi ologist. He went through a very labori ous, inquiry, and statistical study on tha subject, and found that the facts com pletely upset Pope Gregory's theory as to the sterility oi. first cousin marriages, sta tistics showing -a ' sHght balance in favor of - the istility of the first eousina," as ccmnared with ordinary niarriage. This oireuasstaaee, he suggests, may be ex piained . by inference that marriages be- rvsreen : eoo&lss .. are more likely to occur where thepe is" a large group of persons bearing that , relationship to one another and who therefore . belong to families In which fertility is, hereditary., .But he found "a ahade of evidence " that the death, rate of offspring is higher than among the-families of aon-fiangulneous marriages.".. " - , ' ' - ".- " "- - - ' As to .insanity and idiocy among the offspring of first eousin marriages, Mr. Darwin's investigations led -him i to. the conclusion that the tacts did not - justify the ' popular impression, he finding that the percentage Of such offspring" in asy lums le not greater than that ia the gen eral population to such an extent as to enable 'one to --."say posstively that - the maniageof first eousina has any effect ea Vthe v production of insanity and klicey. with respect te deaf mctss ha diseaaesed ne difference. x r'Aa thevesult of the whe're faoquby; he came to 'the oniusia ' that the erH has been of ten much exaggerated,, but that there ae, aevesrthelessk grounds for aEting that various ,maladis taks an easy; hold - of the offspring' of cones-' aTiineous maxxiagea, 1 . He is also dis posed to give some weight to tha popu lar pre judaca against such marriages, as probably grounded in actual experience, tittle as the attainable facts seem to jus tify It; except to the slight extent he d scrnbes. ; . ,Yet there' can .be no. doubt about the danger, of the marriage - of a man and a woman both of ' whom , ia herit from ; a common "progenitor a de cided tendency to some serious constitu tional fHqpflsft or weakness. New York Sun. t.ivjtnryS i brought ."one fact to light, yhica, so far as I know,' has as yet no counterpart in .the United. States, and W3 w, inac m certain w uu -auoi girl must conform; to a uniform iize - of .5 waist,' ' this varying . from eighteen to . twenty tncnest out never. above; twenty, 'laii or -snort, xas or lean, nature musi eiauu saiuej iuu " hour glass serve aa 'model, the results simpiy; i-aaamgj.;onemore iaowr. ot destruotioa to the number already ranged against thelr?rl Helen : Campbell m lmaniV; ; ' - r; -. """' - "l " Kot at AU Unplasan - Browntsifc'-true. '-Damley, : thet f en have had yoOr nose pulled? . - DumleyYes, and I've sued s-the scoundrel fox damages. - y-",' - v Drowii Rather " an unpleasant af fair, eh?,-' - - " V - ,e ' Dumky Unpleasant? Wliyv ttdidn't hurt me vry . long, Jnnd ho' fellew Lt wocUi a hundred 'thousand doilars.---The Epooh. ; '. : - .'; :. . Pew rtfyias XTateni' ' ' Among the -late -English' InveBttoas of Interest S one by G.: BiscluSfZ, of London, ailed a" process and apparatus for. puri fying water, v Accordiaj to the inventor," water is purified bv ..mixing witli ftiron in a state of Bne division, allowinr sub- sidnce of part cf I the iron: and effecting i precipitation of further quantity of the A..S- -a a.h a f i w wutuuu I iron ht acsatiag the Uumd.--rPrank Les- I 'r ' - . J ;' - $1.50 Per Year in Adrance. NO.22. THE ; DRAGON-BOT, A. XMiotaresqTMChiacM , notMaj-HStraoa ' -1 Xtaees on tha TTater. . ' . The origin of the festival dates back to the year .450 B. "At that, time there lived a statesman,' Kub Yuen, who was .-celebrated for, his virtues and his integ rity, : He had the courage to urge some reforms upon his Kege whlcli wrro not at all pleasing to the monarch. An enemy took advantage of his loss of favor and accused him of plotting - to; usurp ' the throne. o'KuhYuen was degraded" and banished from court. V This unjust pun iahment wore upon him until life became unbearable,' and, after composing an ode recounting his v misfortune and ."his devo tion to the prince, he rowed to the mid dle of the Mihlo - riVer In as. am all .boat."" and before hia;frienas,cojildt, re.M'ml uadUiro90iiimIrvoverbQani1aad was drowned? The -way ttx 'which his friends rowed to the'spotT to try to rescue him, each anxious." to, be the-" first, is commemorated' by a procession.of ; boatSj; and the races between the different boats are the chief features of i the -day. On this .day offerings - of i rice,-wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied.with withes, are thrown into the water to feed ; his spirit, and- gifts of these same rice balls are ex changed among friends. -The Btory is that for a' long -time these offerings of rice were thrown into the water without being wrapped up, but one year, fche spirit of Kuh Yuen appeared to . one of his worshipers and told him that tho fish god -devoured all the offerings intended for', the statesman,, and that,; in order to prevent his losingTiis . sacrifices,' they must -in -future ? be wrapped in bamboo leaves and a little piece of magic wood" be 1 wrapped " up - in it, too. : ,: Then the fishes - would leave the offerings un touched, and his hungry ghost would be nourished. Since that -time the offer ings have been bound hi the manner de scribed. - , - ; --; At Canton, where the river and canals lve ample water- room for the boats to race and parade, the festival is seen at its best, and the day is long looked for ward to with great anticipations of pleash ure, for the Chinese take especial delight inv gorgeous pageants and ' processions. The dragon boat is a long, .narrow boat; sometimes .sixty, to one hundred feet In length,.. with - a - projecting - prow shaped like the v mythical dragon's head, and a stern representing his tail; The. rowers usepaddles only, and are all seated in a row down ; each side of the1 boat facing the bow, and when it-is impossible for the boat to turn, at a given signal each man reverses m his-seat and; the dragon navigates tail first. In the center of the boat is a huge drum and gong on. which a continual peating is kept up, and widi which the rowers keep time. - At inter vals between the center and. the ends axe! banners, embroidered standards, smaller gongs, rWithhandsomey clad men stand- tog -by them, who shout and wave flags or large fans and. jump up and down in time with the beat "Of, tlie drum; while occasionally' a. conch shell: blower adds his efforts to the din. . ' The dragon boats are buSt and owned by .different clans, guilds or villages, and there is a great rivalry-between them. Weeks before the day arrives the distant sound cf the drum can be heard from the creeks running into the river where some boat is practicing for the race." On the day itself every one eomes out in his brightest clothes", and tha banks of ,the river and . eanals are crowded .. with " an' ever increasing throng, all eagerly watch ins; for ..the first arrival of the boats. When the sound of the drum and ong j and shouts can be heard in the distance, the phlegmatic Chinamen ! loaa for" once their sedateness; and when the king boat,' with its handsome silk banners, embroid ered flags, gay ly attired boatmen ' and band comes into, view a . shout goes up from the crowd, - fire crackers . axe.-dis-. charged in salvos, and thsTpleasure of the day commences. The -boatmen, re Bpond to the ""welcome", by. redoubled shouts and row in quicker time. : - - - ;: To make the excitement greater an other boat " appears, perhaps from some district which- was the winner last 'year. Then the greatest fun of- the day is wit nessed A raeel" is; the cry 5 the first boat allows Its rival to get even with it. and then; amid -tha cries and cheers el the populace,' the rowers swiftly ply thelf paddles and the long,- grotesque, irzgcn head" ehoots over- the water; the banner bearers Jump ..up and down to unlfloa with the stroke, while the drum and gong add ad unearthly clamor to the; ah al ready fraught with the report of tha fire crackers and the noise of the crowd.- ," So fierce ia the rivalry that the partisans of each clan,- who actually follow the boats in ' smaller ones, often carry stones.' and weapons to use with 'merciless effect" if their boat should ba. defeated; -i 'These at--tendant boats aupply- substitute rowers to case, as often happens, -r any of the rowers, should 'be overcome by the heat. They also take charge of the giftsof wine and roast-pig which are sent out to the boats by tlie shop keepers .. before, whose buildings they passv Chinese Evangelist. bwsineai for the Kheuroatisa. ' Free rchtilation should be secured, but , tcpt between 63 and 70 deg JE Fahrenheit, j patient 'slioiild be clothed' in flannel antI. yie ,hetwen woolen blankets. His (.norinr, - -cnrwil.i t Hn-1,-A nmniu of bedclothing will add. to tne ; pain ; jq the - lnliamed necessarily' increase joints,;': and lm. tho. sweating. it should be a .studied -effort to spare him any - painful - movements possible, ; and 'every ministration should bo gentleness itself.- Milk, with seltzer water or lime water, pre-eminently, meets the require ments as the principal article of - diet, during' the actire period of the diseased If this pxoyes insufficient or is not well borne, then other light and concentrated food can be ' administered. - Some authorities Insist, that" animal food and L alcohol are contra indicated during the height of the fever, i The 'latter should ccrtaiuly.be prohibited, as a rule, but the patient's -diet need not be to much re stricted as in -other: highly f ebrile disor ders. '- Those who are habituated to tlie use of stimulants should- not be.cntireb deprived of them. Journal of Health Xn Olden Tlxao. The bushel measures used in.Cnglid 91iH man om RrttrTwt1 wrhfvr TtrtrfnAa of themselvea, And- anyone who walked "across. -the floor while,-wheat" was being r'iaeasured was liable to imprisonment. - ' 1Prs V1; . ; . - '..THE COURIER .".. -; : v i publk.led ia the centre el fine tofcacc growing section, making it one of the best ., advertising nedtums for '-merchants and ... warehontemea fin the adjoinuig 'COPntiea A: Circulaied largely ia Person, Granville and Durham eounties in Jorth Carolines-end Halifa3c.county -Virginia. JOB WORK i3 all description neatly executed on short notice and at reasonable priceaT -When ia need ot work'gTve the Cocbiek a tnall ' ' ; - .-- FOIR' LOR OP AMERICA; Mtm btady tp S Cndrtakn 00. a Sclan tlfla' Basis Tito Diffleolties. , flhe establishment" of the. American. tout Lore, society, tmder the efficient presiaency.of.l'rofessor gxancis J. Child,.-" of Harvard colleere. Indicatea that. thai -rtudy of our? native rural tales, legends'-. nd : superstitions, '' hitherto, condnctmli ' , after-a desultory: and - fitful "fasliionisi v; "aoout to pe ' undertaken -on a scientific t ; oasav-. uwuittio inevitahlerchanfrpa v. int. : the 'character of " the earlier , settled por English .folk lore, comprising ballads tales, superstitions, dialect; and: tlie like, are disappearing so' rapidly that by the f 'r commencement of the next century tnerei-may.be- little 'leftworth . oollecting.andf5 preservuig. - The aame remiseness ;heSi ' been notieeablo hx-tl9'01d World and It , was not " until 181-that-the-Grimm. -brothers, , by ; publishing 'their .''Kinder! and Hausmarchenr.? laid the foundation; : ' -Df the present scientific study of populat r . tales.; k The .very phrase 'folk' lore-islN. icarcely .-forty, years; -okL'i But as it is i . sever too la te to mend, ' or "scarcely -ever, - -K -v tve axe led to hope that the investigatloias ? ; nf the American Folk Lore society may -V. ' .materially assist the. development of thia !;'; " long neglected but very important branch-.- f-6tudy.' ; v . - .i- v - v)-' , And? the undertaking has ; been comvjf menced-not "a moment too soon. ..Thei . -oral traditions brought r to "America" by V :;: jheEnglish' colonists and to which they ! '-Xi tenaciously cling for generations," have k a -been well nigh - lorgottenT and ' the same I ' ' tnay be said of ; the - ballads-'they Used to--:.':, recite,, although of these e few iiaW been' . ' recorded and are still available Ofnur ery tales scarcely one has been' recorded, I ; although a century ago .they were fami4 ;2 -tar by scores to mothers and nurses..' As : to superstitions, there is more" hope.. They .j linger in the agricultural districdt,- andv are not uncommon ,m the neighborhood'! v "of large cities.".- An otherwise inteuigent U '. New England : farmer rwiJl,' put: bis faithl.- on- the. signs.: of Sthe xodiac . orow tlie'i4'; necessity ,of planting,.-his, peas ;iaj v the first -quarter of the 'moon., What 4' may - be called the minor - elements ' of t folk lore still exist in cQiisi4eiable abund ance. . They are observable in children's games; attended by-song and rhyme, and particularly iii "what are known as count ing out rhymes. .The game ;.of . marbles still retains the phraseology attaching to It- in Shakespeare's ' time.1 1 Finally,', in many parts ofjthe states- which form out eastern seaboard, there are enough quaint expressions and archaiowords in use to Indicate from-wnat - part -of -the:- father land theroriginal colonists came. Jhe rescue from oblivion of our, old English folk lore; is by no means a hopeless task, but it is'obvjous that the work should be tuuiuicucu muiuuh luiiuct xnsittjr .-Tjt ii WitJr"tho negro 'dialect,' tales, 1 songs and superstitions the .case-is very differv ent. Thanks to the labors and foresight ofMr. Joel Chandler Harris, CoL Charles C. Jones, Jr.," of Grgia.Mr.'Thoma Kelson Page - and others, we . have fairly . good foundation , f or systematiaj Inquiry. .- The southern negroes are still i In a comparatively primitive state, and i -, their retentive memories and delight , ml ' einging have aided- in preserving such; a! s ;mass of material as to render: compara-f J lively easy tne labors of the ethnologist' -or ; mythological ; investigator. v A" mora! ' promising a field pf folk lore - explorationi 1 could scarcely be desired. .- ,T:5 -s'i - j The collection' of the . folk , lore ' of . the .. '' American Indiana Tnay beirregarded ' as' perhaps the most important, aa- it is 'they V most picturesque, of the subjects" to ? be- considered sty the'l society?' ' Uhf ortU' nately, Uie liard headed and unimagina-l nve settlers of New England. and;ther-. v Atlantic states in general made no recoi-d ," 1. : of the Indian : legends which were "once i associated , with .every, valley, lake vor . : ,;" stream, and the race wilted away. before ; them-with-little enough of-1 its' folk .lore ;-v-recorded. r. Within the last sixty'-years' ' more intelligent r and , philosophic rspunt 'a had succeeded to the-.-previoua-UnduTei.' encand the traditioiis- and 'sirperstf a-na pf -the aborigines re of the V' JdiSEissippi valley and west, j"of ' ' tt liave : occupied the attention-"'-,! f4-: many clever men, notably.; Henry Rows-' 5'. Schoolcraft, the first .scientific investiga-.V f tor of Indian myths. - But the Indians of ! : "; ; the west are rapidly decreasing in hum-... bersi and great changes in their Condi-.- ; vs tion. are - taipending, ; It is; imjwrtant; ' , therefore, that, if any, inquiry in their ' - " folk lore is to be made, the- work -ahouldu-- : be commenced - at ' once wbile .tlie .tua; ' y. terials are at hand in tolerable abundance, !..--- lUie zeal r which prompted Mr. Frank !; Cushing to live for several years" amon j ;. :. ' cue i,uni xnaiam 01 Arizona tor tne pur-j. jxjse of studymg their myths and tradi tions, should inspire other 'investigators. -New York Sun, , , - ?lasr .Inflana 09 Cattlo Braiuls- . v It has been legally settled in Texas that". the moon has an immense Influence in, -; . enlarging the brand on cattkC :A lawsuit was pending relative to tlie ownership ef . ' herd: of ; cattle,. and.-tlie solution de. pended upon the proof " of the brand, which, was found on comparison to' be '; three times as .k large as. tlie branding iroa "; -which the claimant used, r Thirteen wit-V-;-n essfis were introduced, all of. them ex- perts. in branding: and cattle herxling.-1 7 -They all swore" that. when, cattle - were, branded in the dark of the moon the I hrnnri will . nvpr nrt mnftOT ' imur inro-a (ho animal may grow, get larger than the - .-' dimensions of - the iron used. On the . others hand, when cither grown cattle or ' calves are - branded in the light, of the.-, moon- the scar' will spread, and" the lighter " the moon the larger, will "be, he spread, . And the suit, involving several thousand! dollars'v worth of cattle,- was settled oq; this testimony; So the question is legally ' settled that it is the moon thav does iu.-: Boston- Budget. : v,---; Hot Had for tha Eyes. - There Is a common notion that electrioT ) liglit is-bad: for, theeyes.. The only; foundation I can' think of for 6uch a no- - Ir tion is that it is trying to - tlie . eyes to?-.-" gaze direct ry at tlie -brjght'.elwtrio tight. - ' It is bad to7 gaze long at any sount of tight.' and the brighter the source of light gazed at the worse for, the eye, tlie -sua-' being the worst of all;;. : I liaveseen mre".j than, one person, whose eyes were r t . ; manently injured by gazing at the sur., during- an eclipse or ..otherwise.-:- Ai -" matter of fact,, nothing short ot- sunlight , is better" than the incandescent elrtri' light to ra1 bv or to work u Proltsbor.-'- Unid ebur, SI p. - - - .