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V Person Co. Courier Published" Every ThursdaV - - a: -BY-- , --v - : - N0ELL BROS.- One Cony One Year ". $1 ' 80 -rno rvmc six Months . C ""'7? Reuritaacraut be made by Registered Letter. Post Office Order,, or Postal Note. Make the ' lives tdI many jeople mlseTable, . and often leads to sell-destrjicUon.""." Distress after eating, sour stomach sick-lieadaclie, heartburn, loss ol appetite, taint, ".all gone" leeUng, had taste, coated toague;and Irrego-. - larity of the bowels, are Distress some of the more common.: After' symptoms.. -Dyspepsia 4oes M f Itself. It " s ur . nvi. -w- ( Eatins, reouircs careful, persistent attention, and a remedy like Hood's Sarsa-. lparQa, which acts, gently, yet surely and fflciently. It tone? the stomach and other .organs, regulates the digestion, creates a 'good appetite, and hy thus - -Slck "" -orercoming the local Bym u.9fiArhA toms removes tlie sympa-eauav,ii thetic effects or the disease, hanlshes tM; headache, and refreshes, the tired mind. "I have fceen troubled "with dyspepsia. - I, fcad but lltUo' appetite, aad 'What-I did eat' . ' distressed me, or. did. me " little good. In. an. hour b U r n . ' aTter eating . I would expe -rlence Slalntness, orlired, all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten anything. " My trou- We, I think, was aggravated by my business,, -which is that of a painter, and from being more or less shut upTn a ir - Souf -room with fresh paint Last Ai.i. spring I took Hood's Sarsa- OlOfTldCn rflla took three bottles. - It did me an immense amount of eood. It gave me an appetite, and my food relished and satisfied the craving I had previously experienced." . Oeokgb A. Page, Watertown, Mass. Hood's Sarsaparilla BoldljyaH druggists, jpi; bIi for g5. Prepared only jjy c. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, LtfweU, Mass. 100 Doses Onq poiiar PrOFESSOINAL pArDS J, T. Strayaora. I" M. Warlick. Uoxboro. X. C. Miltoa, K. C s TRAYIIORN & WARLICK, ATTORNEYS AT LA VV. Practice in all the comta of the State and in tha Fuileral courts. Munasrement ol estates uLi-irtlv attemleii to. Special Mtteution given to cases in Person and tasweu counties. . XV. Graham. 3. VT. Win3ton G RAllAl & WINSTON, -ATTORNEYS AT TAW, Oxfurd, N.'C. Practices In all the conrU of the State. Han- -tlc mooey twi invest the same in best lstrilurt jgaga ttejtl Est ite Security. Settle estates and investigate title. - - ' CTSTWINSTEAIT J.F.TERKY w1 rINSTEAU & TEUKT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. " Koxboro, N. C. , Prompt attention ffiven toa!lbi8inessentrii8t t to them. Have and will receive raeaey on deposit to loan on i-eal estate in Teraon- 'LUN'SFOUDi ' - " v " ATTORNEY AT LAW, .' - Kexhoro. N. C. J WUraham, Tbos. Ruffiu. GRAHAM & 11UFF1N, Attoruey's at law, Hillsboro, $. C. Practices-'in the counties of Alawance. Caswe nitrtom.-flttUloT. Oranyg and Person. J. MlStiUITT, - " - ' ATTORNEY" AT LA V. -uoxboro, K.C. - j,t attenton "gven to the eolleetlon of PrtrtU 7 -W. KlTCflUST,. " -' (.. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ' -Practices wherever hi services are required. TkTt. J T. FILLER, H PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, . Boxboro, N. C. : . ' . frtrmerlv occupied by Dr rC E. Bradsber Ofliceove.r C G. drug store T. T FK4ZIER, is rRACTICINO DENTISTRY.; rairi ataoutt Boatoj. Va.. office la Mert cha nd Planters', Bank Dnildmg. 10 jJkTc. Q. NICHOLS . " " " Offers Ilis " ' - . .T.A.aaTAWAT. RKR.VICES to th PEOPLE JBVtuuuw .! lvoxbw 0 and surrojinding country. , Praettoes in all the branches ol Medieine. DR. C. W. BRADSHER - DENTIST, ' nam km services tth nubile.. Calls promptly S m adjoining c.ntie: " V ... wishina work In bis line, dt w ":,UiI biBasFo, N-C.. witl be,attended at ,ppy. k- - - - ' D PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, v ROXBORO N. or; - JD1 .R. R. A. MOUTtWi.--. . . . "pgACTIClIfO PHTSICIA . - Jb an tut nraiourii wi uiwv. r DYES 1 Tour Own Dyeing at Home. Thny will dye everytwng. "X"J mo oronold-everV" Tim have noeqnal whtre. Price.iuc a pauutjjB. for smth. MtSroS TV? doivlt crook smut;.0 calory Forsaleby - J. D. Morria &i Co. Roxbofo, N. C.; er n' ra fr.Col. Rokboro N C, and w . f!olemaa. Gen. mda. Gordonton PAINLESS CHILDBIRTB BOW ACiCMiTjSi-fiYXh-v'. t3ead etamp. KAlvKl K-'yiV"y.r:; ERSIAN ULOUWIa' Band ettfrnp for trial packaea d trihiD for trial package.' AddreM as RDo of. '"' -".X I loiwuiiwa An lvnntifie the lutir.1 iPr(miotesalaxuriftulcroUi. t vNjjffV lNevri.F&ils fa. Restore GreT- M4-".t C'T f Hair n 4a Vr.fhf.:! Cr!p. . ,5hsS.'!"S f 0roaoQ'rHsr!ssand hail- falling pvaloabte f or Couflrs, PoW Jnward rfclDEliaiMW m , vV.il-. i'..' ,i- '..;, i -;S0ELt -BROS. Pf ppriclors. VOL, y -' ROXBORd,;;NOETH CAROLINA; THURSDATj FEBRUARY 7, THE, SlH Of" OMISSIO. It lsnt the thing you do,.dear, s ' It's the thing you leave undone " ; Which gives you a bit oS heartache -At the setting of the6n; , --rhe teader word forgotten; " J . - The letter fou did not writs. i -The flower you might have sent, dear, - Are your haunting gaosts to-nigut. The stone yon might "have lilted J - - Out ot te brother's way, ' V iThebitof hearthstone counsel 5 - Yon were hurried too much to say. - - j .The loving; touch of -the horul.-daar, "? -.The gentle and winsome tone . " I That you bad no time nor thought for, , ' - " With troubles enough of your own. h These little acts of kindness, JL So easily out of mind,,-' Z - , These chances to be angels - ; , - ' ' rv Which even mortals find . 1 , They coma tn night and 6iieno"-' Each child reproachful wraith, - f When hope ia faint and Cagging.J ..' iSAUcta bUght has dropped on faith." f . V Tat BteiaU,to Shore: aawfv--r- - - - And sorrow is all too great. t- f . : To suffer our slow compassion - That tarries until too late. - , , And It's not the thing you do, dear,- ' It "8 the thing you leave undone. -. Which gives you the bitter heartache . At the setting of the sun. Margaret E. Bangster. CONFUSION OF TITLES. "And 60 Fields-had a wife and six children !" Mr. Scott smiled gently to himself as he thought of it. - "And not only a; wife and six children, but he had been married twice he -had had two wives." There was "nothing absurd nor remarkable about these facts, except as Mr. Scott-chose to make them so. He had known Thomas Fields for ten or fif teen years on Wall 6treet, and he had al ways fancied him an old bachelor, while in truth he was mourning one wife and courting another. . "I wonder if he made love 1" said Mr. Scott to . himself, and again he smiled. Then ho wondered if the six boys looked like their father. And there was no rea son why they should not havo been will ing to look like him, for" be was by.no tineans ill favored, although he was tall and spare, and had the anxious, worried look of a man whose anxieties and re eponsibilities outrun his resources. But as far as money goes this was not true of Mr. Fields, who was a very rich man in deed. - ' Perhaps it pleased Mr Scott to be facetious, and to take a lively and con trary view of life. It was late afternoon and near train time, and all the young jieoplo and the wives -whoso husbands "went to the .city every day had gone to the station, so that the two men were almost aone under the tree on the lawn where they-had placed their chairs. -They' were smoking, and Mr. Scott was toying with a tennis racquet left in his care. After a while Mr. Scott spoke, not the substance but the shadow of his thoughts : "Your hovs ought to be ar great comfort to you, Fields. Six sons! They oughtto carry on your Business ana perpetuate your name." 'They will not carry on my business not on of themT When Dick made up ins mind tnat ne wan tea to go to West Point, and Bob determined to study medicine, I didn't care, because there were the four left; but Logan has taken to farming. Fred has gone into law; and; Harry haa a perfect craze about becotu- ing a" minister; so you see the business will go into other hands. It is not right- not at all right. " "But there are six of them? . How about the sixth?" . ''Phil? .Heiathe greatest disappoint-. ment of all jThe brightest boy I have, Mr. Scott." - "Well?" . . c. '.'Pbil has -very reprehensible ideas.' He : writes verses, and will not go into, business nor into a profession, He sayr he can live on his allowance. And he does, I'll say that for him and on his salary." . : His salary? Whv, then, he is in business?" , 'Just now he ia . In a brewery, He a a clerk in a brewery, and gets $650 a year. Tnat is use rmi. yD6tmate a perfect pig headed fellow for obstinacy. " "But. I don t understand," said Mr. Scott "Don't you want him to be in a brewery, or does he do it to spite you?'! 'Ndt to . spite me, but .he is very ag gravating. I hare talked to him a good deal, and I have said some plain truths to him. " One day he Jtold me that he would prove that he was not lazy, and -that he . could earn his living at a tread mill if he chose,' and so he found this situation and took it He says he means to stay, a . year." " . . -" ' . "Wby,T like that,'-' cried Mr. Scott.' -The Txy has grit.' - "I don't like ; grit,' replied Mr. Fields,, "when it gets between my teeth.", - - - ;"WeU,V said Mr. Seote,' 'Tve ofteri wished we had a son, :but aix of them can make life lively. ' My daughter is as good a girl as any one need desire, but she has Jber vagaries." - 'Your daughter.ia a very nice girl,' Mr, Fjelds warmly responded, ."and a very pretty one too. I, have noticed her A good deal. 11 i naa a iaugnter i should be perfectly satisfied to have her .exactly like your Regina." : "She ia a very good girl,'' repeated tha father, with ; modest , pride; "but if is a -great . responsibility to have a marriagea .We daughter." - .- - . - Mr. ' Fields grimly smiled. I "She seems, o have i her choice. ; All the young men here have eyes for her only.', - - ' - I : .'It is the -poor quality of the young men, Mr. Fields the men of " today. Why, there is not a"man at - Oak Hill to whom J would give Regina. " No, nor in JNew York; as far. as I - know.', It is a serious, jnatter and; one to be looked at from every point of view, this . choosing of. a husband for a girl -She gives up .everything when" she" marries name, home t everything into - which Bhe has grown. STo- ehoose or'a girl means to blindly take for her either jnjsery or hap-, pihess.''-, 1 1 -::rV ' ; - ' t "You are f ciittinate jl you are allowed to choose,',' "fields dryly answered. .XiOgan -;niarried?welli and ,Bob. 7 is- en gaged, toi.a -rery nice girl, one of the Hookers Hooker," Hood & Co.; but here comes another' of Phil's perversities. He wants to marry a professional.'-' "... .; a nmfMrirmflir ia t-ha iflrtv nn tiiA ta2e7"- '."Worse than tliat--she sheis an athr iete, a sort pf female prize fighter."-'" J Why, that is horrible ! I'd send bisa. j:away.x J never heard of sucsh a thingi 1 v "I do not tnow. nave never eposen to Turn" on - the subieet. ' " He told Mrs. Fields, Kis stepmotlier. i I told her to say to him from me that I would never hear:, a word about- ber.';' In such-matters it is- wise to be decided, and be had' best un derstand -that we--that I will never countenance nor condone such.a' match.3 If he marries her he will have to keep to the brewery."; . ' o " ; ' ."You "are .quite' right, '-' firmly -replied Mr.'-Scott. X4iA -prize, fighter! JL never heard of such .a thing." :,S .-. - - i "Our sons marry with too much free dom;'' and ? here Mr. Fields- took breath and lighted his cigar. - "It is a matter of. wide importance; who it is a man mar ries, because his whole family is'involved. Wheri a man brings" a woman into - a family, gives her his name the family nameand she becomes -the mother of the, newr generation,. the . family -should hnvfta iJroifft- ill the matter.- - Noteverv . - -r , ; -r-- r r woman. ,.not very other family should be admitted.-. Marriage is more ' than a l merely personal matter." "It does not matter so much to the man, but the woman there's the puzzle 1 But Regina and I acreo about everything, except that she wants to marry a busi- - her'more than I have spoken of." -ness man, and I am sick of business men.""-', jconsensei" " - - " " f. enouiu line ner to marry sucn a man as an English country gentleman, if wefhad 5 such a class a man with landed proper- ; ty and. human responsibilities; a man of affairs. . But Regina says that ' her father's trade is the one for his daughter,,- and so I am to go to Wall street and look -for a husband for her." ; . ' I wish you would find one of my boys there, then; but you won't. - Oh what a : fool a young man can be I - And Phuiaa fastidious fellow, quie; asd well behaved ; -iVV SAW mi V i-L aAUV V Srj J v? expect to like loud, unfeminino women." "She must be pretty,' , replied his friend, summing up the matter. TKnf .ntral.t 'Rt.tljn -CVn mncf 4n -- K ject of two midnight conversations. ;r Ha father and his stepmother talked him over, and they decided to ask him to come ttcd spend a few days at Oak Hill. "A counter irritant, " aid Mrs. Fields, who "consorted much with: doctors, "ia sometimes the best, the' only remedy in cases of this character." jsir. pcott toia ni8 wuo ana aaugmer """j u' buU A """ i ana ne maae it so absura tnat Mrs. focots Was animated by a most lively - curiosity to fee them all. But Regina didn't think the story' funny. "She said-the. Fields -boys were all stupid. , She had met' two of thera,- tha divinity student and PhiL Still she lingered in ; her mother V room, and talked about them until it was after 1 o'clock,- and the next morning, when,; Mr. Fields managed to secure her for- a - few -minutes, she. listened with .much poUteness to all ho said'of . hi son, assur- raado-i ra '" Br'd he tui-in- to Reiira 1 , no2 ? w e peo L vt r uiJL i ' rrao? ue, tui.tm0 to-iesua, t Me tljat reccive invitation bids to the ing.him of her. sympathy with him in the trials he confided to her. .. -. t Vnei3a tnrt' said 5x3. i-lelcisi but Mr. Fields did not agree with his wife, He renounced Regina- quielt and .kind- hearted. That slie was bo pretty was a factor apart from her mental and spiritual character. - And eo it came to pass that Mr. Philip Fields came to Oak Hill, and met the household delegation at the station, and found his own committee, in the shape . of his father and stepmother,i waiting , for him. And he was not stupid in This appearance. " He was a very .good look- I ing young man, tall like his father, but ! better built and muscular. He was also a very easy person to become acqriainted pQ. "Indeed you are nnstakeu. It would with, and he at once proved a' most desk- ; very polite and true." ' 4 able acquisition to the young ladies, bo- ,, You said it belonged to "the prettiest cause" he proved to be so good a tennis ; girl in America." " player that he was able to enter against - j cannot see," said Regina, " "how Miss Scott, and thus the games became this interests me." more equal and spirited. Before he came, phQ made no answer to her. ' she had had it all her ownway, and con Then you asked me who she was.' sequently the games were growing dulls Yes, and. you said 6ho was some sort for her as for the others. cf a professional character." . "You play better than tqu did "last; .a ririza ftrhter?" tniA Phil. 1 summer, sue saia 10 mm one morning, r ... 1 1 - 1 , as they sat alone down by the creek. "1 meant, to, " ho replied; "and when I hava not been brewing or keeping brew- ers' books I have studied tennis, s It has kept up my nerve." " jeps up nay nerve. '.'And how about your poetry?':-. d the young-woman. .- . , . "Who told you I wrote poetry?" asked ne. - - - : " - S "Oh, I know. , T know a good .deal i about you,v Mr. Phihp Fields, and if you please, I should like to have rdy racquet -. when you go back to town; the one 1 you took last year, dr." - . - . "It fa broken," he said. "You knew! you could never use it again, "I 'want to have it mended. It was the best I ever had. : I played the Rich liaven game with that one." , "I kow that," said Phil, v " -- 'Then you will send it to me?" , . , - 'No, I will not. - You "gave it to me, " r , "But I want it. . : I really do. " ' tYoung.; ladies phould not . be Indian givers' t '" ' - - ' - "Young ladies -may be what they please." , r " - . " "No, they may"not." ' '.J. " 0-" ' "You thinlc they may,' "': ', T - "Indeed I don't.'! "Now .come,' said she; '."I.. "do not know any one who . allows 7 women the latitude yod do.'! - V. r; ." At this Phil flushed up. ' . '1 do not see how you' can -say (.such a thing. .-..Youv know. I dislike women "who step out of what I consider is .womanly". " -, . -, , -."That is the very point, V urged Regina,, who seemed more in earnest "than was necessary. ''Your definition cf 'womanly Is so wide, it takes in so much!" ; "l beg your paraon.". ; . . . , . !Uh, bUtitaoesj" - - -. "I co not see why Fields.?-.- -'-V - " Regina bit her lip. you say so, She meant to say no more. v , :v'. " ; ?'HaveIpver given you reason to be. so nnjusi 10 nier . ne persisieu. - "Oh, no.." - --"o -' -"i "Then why do you say such things to jil" . - . ,'-- .. ; "Oli, because," Baid Regina. ; You nrennkind;"'-and Phil looked as though he make cruel me and refuse , . 'Indeed I do not.", retorted she. fil have very good authority for my opinions jarid your taste in young ladies is very pe - 71 - uliar - - ma7 excellent out it is pe - i amuum. - x - - . - . - C! tYdu professional women." I am surei but I don't krfow; n a wpmaB doctor.". ,-. "j X4L ' not even reallylthought she was; -you ..Rutof course it all-came rfcht at last. 1 to people living in tho vicinity 'know- mineir possession 01 aaumo, aau runauthorizedcharges against ; Rnd everyone was satisfied. : And when .that they have, to nse medicines at all . conscious in leneci. in some savage moes to explain them."- . ' - . PhU went into nohlics and made a short; Wheathev cet a pressription they either ,fn Jlowr .:sv'Bm: CIiarm' - HOME FIRST: ABROAD; NEXT. "Oh,awomandoctortr Some of them! are lovely. Nobody would wonder if you iiKecl tnem. -.J: s i i .'Pray tell-- me at -what ' any one may wonder. ' ', - " "Well," said Retina boldly '-,-a younar xo?M who' likes women prize fighters must be considered as having odd tastes." y Women prize fighters??. NJ',: "Yes.'! k I : -; .""What on "ejn-thare you lalking abbujj'- " - - ' - lj : t. 4. ,T f,T" f rt-Zr-a she told .bun all his father had said, and .'gave kte a aiarp', 3ZW7f professed a Koodd ---J r- r ; ieSfJilBLm: K ."U.: . &Sr -rtrfn7w.;X-- young man. listened ;n silence. T .IIo was to iH,preet? ifc lJb(Wd, Tor he'.mada ; ,t jfji-wt- .x . . - t Till V-V I V W1HI I Mbill KIIIKIt'l I V 1!M f-Ti J . - rvvho said aU this?" "But' who told him?" ' ,,v "Your mother -Mrs. Fields."", .'And who told her?".,- - .Yott told her yourself,- and you told "But you did. You told her you were frKyiowl tn ninv thii tvrsoti . T insist1 lurauycwuv .iuBuMu SJI'rSJlthe magnificent diamonds. .:T:r 7i . iz:: r t i.A nu Lino 1 yusuu lanrnuyi u.a fitrhter?" , ,v"So you saidr" "Oh Lord!" cried Phil, and he lay hack on the grass and laughed until Re gina was so oHended she r arose - and walked back to the house. nntil ppgr, wben he came to her i as ene mneiiea n most stupiu game 01 tennis,' there being no one engaged in it who could contest it with her; would bo glad if you could come to her Regina hesitated, and then, said that she would come presently with pleasure. Would he be kind enough to say so ? - "I think 6he wished me to bring youj? replied Phil, boldly ; and eo, not wishing to expose their quarrel to the public, she was - constrainea to go wiui mm, out gjje not speak to him, and. in- cieed ne aid not ass herito do eo, : lie was perfectly silent, and seemed humbled and quieted enough. " - -Mrs. Fields was not in the house,- but over -by .the well a fcrlora and weed- grown juacevwhere only the SerVantS went. She was sitting, on the stump of : a tree, Suie turned when blio heard foot-- a pf-p.fv. , T hfive waited : R'Tpr for - vou.- pn;j g0 " - --, .fuo t s-Htt wsq" pn'ra'l " 'rlifd -"phil'-and I weired for her. You must f mw rfyiJ-lkm' AiA rf. iwnrl OrnA 'fm' A V. AV1 -W4W.: tVl : AAWW . MkMk -,W . V ri a rrtA 1 m you, but i wanted to ass ,uer a -question before rou.- nnd I Lad rio alternative. t You would idt have come had I asked it.!' 1 .Certcunlv not;'f&2d Ig&aturned to jjjj ij gantly on her arm. -' I." . -.Rnrflv hn'mifl. "von -will not be iiurc-iv, ' he said, "you nfair-to mc?' And then, all in a Lreah, he turned to his stepmother. - ' " '.'Do yen remember, ".he aaid, "when you enco asked mo about ; a .glove you found ia-my room? You teased me." : Mrs. Fields laughed.'-. "Certainly.' - Do you want me to tell ycu what you said?" "I do." 1 "It,wonldnt be nolfti. Phil ' I .. . Mercy 1 no. Your father, calls ,her that, because he is so indignant with yon; but you never said so. I underatood'you r perfectly. Some kind of 1 teacher of - calisthenics, bi .liL-Ait" v ' athlete; not a but - something lite it. , ; Again di this young man burst into - I lanAifer. bnt he controlled .himself, and . it would not havo been wise to havo irrir tated Regina much farther. ""Oh, .motlier," he; said," "now.,thait Mrs.';- Partington, is dead,' why do. 'you want to play her Elisliaf -Did I say caJLia .'thenics and professional?'' t "I do, not care what .-yon said,'.' cried ' Regina; : and again she:: turned, and this 1 time ran away,, Isaviag poor Phil looking ' like the stupid she had called him. . Now Mr. Fields always said when he was congratulated on his daughter-in-law that,ho had made the match. - Ho cer tainlv never- made-the explanation, 'and I convinced Regina that Phil ' had said ; the 1 glove belonged toa champion, '.! and he never, thowed the", glove to Regina and - made herconfess it was hers, and sheliad missed it. It was very, true that tho old 1' rrentleman kriew that Recina had nlaved taatclf gaaiea of; tennis, iyad had carried ofiE the Jtle and honors' cf a "champion,' but he never confounded her withL a "prize fighter". Ho' .always". held. rto a yaguo belief: in tho existehce cf a repre- hcnsiuio young wcnian irem wcom .ice fiana had won Jr'nu. aaatnat he had m- duced.her to do so; and when PhU called her, by way of a pet name, a Synonym, he asked for no explanation of "the 'joke, if .joke--, he considered - it, - It -wasj; Jfhu only" who ccuiu nave tola wnat an i jjpy . TT , - iimc VJ! v u , a;a ti.'t w 31 W iT w . I 1 I I ' UltUl V ' ,' Lf illt .n . IK 1.1711 r tjjg i, u- ui,.w f ui fft,' im- uphill task he had in convincing-Reginald0121 .tabonal; it of agination and hia father crluhty. 'To ! justice. To recover ten feet pf have, said, he. was engaged .to- her was"; "f" mtist ernd-fifty times, its ryr, i .,e,r5. lvalue,. Let us have more- burlaw and cult to persuade her Xhat what was once c.nr tu 1,1.1 W t- their own. . And. indeed he made little headway, until hejbund otit . that she ho was in a brewery, and tliat Wall street attoo mrvr. AtifiMrt rt- iior ; !".',v; -. .'.;w- ' brilliant camnaisrn. both the fathers were : -delighted," . and ' Regina . in, ; Washington '. was more charming than ever to thexa. - : . Andiso Mr. Fields' rjride and compla- - eencv over ins iea lawayH remiua mo vl . jproud of tout plum? but where . should one lobk T for plnms if not in a Chiistmaa pie? Louise Stwiaj,o3 in Harper's Bazar. "''.J""" ',' njy,ti-r--, '-"-Vj.'i ,.'l-..- -i.1'--, -'"- " ' ---' " MANyARiNS AT WASHINGTON. Some ' QeIp About the Legation Croni the Central Flowery Hiogdoni. The members" of the"Chinese .legation 4 in Washington" arefreqaentJvrseen at the Uapitol, listening to the debates either in the seriate or houae. though tlie v. do not '. Auiuci oiouu uiuwi4 yi wnuii u eiuu r uniess i friov' liaTtvTi tv-Kava'an i'ntorrafifai -nritl-, fc- they" happen tot have" an interpreter with them, which is -.not .frequentlr-the case est of any . of the foreign legations at i.micuBt'A rptL 7" U.!. SSlSSSSSTS!- de," which waa-lomrir the dweU, nhra rif -thfl SPTlfrrtr-rffli-it. ata from Nevada.- - Before, they . took h bouse th9. Chinese legation were -quar tered ina commodious bouse at the tlie residenco of Congressman Wheeler, Sf . Alabama and at presentr' the" head- duarters of "tlie "Onion league; ' The members -of- the Chinese legation" are fond of going to the theatre". ;They invariably occupy boxes, and night' after night they can; be "'seen1 at places of amusement; sometimes , taking in - a comedy or comic opera as often as two and three times a week. They ara great ILJ " it is a custom of theirs to wear - an im mense diamond in the front of -the little round cap invariably to be seen on -"their heads," and which is never taken 'off," no matter where they go. . ' Oueof their number is a, man of tenors' mous Cesli, and he has a very broad face with a rough looking skin. Hois getting years, and- he pants and blows when walking down the-. street with his official associates. The minister iia a' big man also. Several of the attaches are nice looking men, and have graceful ??Ie??, They are foDd of going to receptions, and of course have & great many invitations. The younger ones are expert dancers, and the giddy Rirls who think it is' just "too awfuily.- charming" to --waltz -with a diinaman teem to- ba in ecstasy when they are asked to whirf around with theso foreigners. They are seen often during the winter months at .ther weekly hops given at the leading hotels. -. " -l Up at-the legation -the Chinese give once a week a grand baiL-. It is -gotten up regardless of expense, and there ; is plenty to drink too much, in fact, from n 4m ...'Pwrrw- l-onl rrr -mn-n-wr rt "Mclican" men and women whonvent to the Chinese minister's baU . made hogs of themselves, and ever since, that rather disgraceful 5 affair - the x lines1 -have been ,drawn,"and the Mongolian- minister is at' !f .. " ' : - - ball. 'It is, therefore, bound to'be a more select, gathering since it has." become harder to' procure an invitation. .' ,The predecessor o the present Chinqso minister once gave a ball that is often talked xf -ia Vaslihigtbn.-It -wa9 an affair that laid out more: than half of the; members of congress, and .prevented ; quorum in the. house for two whole days. The trouble -was the American .statesmen; didn't know to what extent the-Chinese punch was "loaded. Jt is an insidious and seductive drink sweet and pleasant at firet, But lasting- in - its- effects. . The minister : could ' speak but- little English. He had been taught ' to, say a few sen tence to be spoken whei the guests ar rived and departed.' The .congressmen would come up and say: ."I. am now going,'' and before they could; say any thing further hb Chinese highness would eiacailate : 4 'Glad to hear it, ' not . know ing what it meant, or that he had Spoken the wrong sentence at that -particular, time. It was-.very "comical, and-those who attended that famous ball will never forget ; the Chinese 1 punch and the big,; aching heads that followed. iNew .York Graphic. . . : - , ... . ." Heat Centers fa Plan. , i In - a recent .meeting of the American' Neurological association, the paper that probably was of most . popular: interest was that read "by Dr. Isaac Ott, ofl.T3as-" ton,- Pa., on '.'Heat Centers in Man.!.'-. He showed by. cases of disease.; that in. the brain of man" ai"o points whose f unction it-is to preside overthe temperature of tho body, and to keep it3 heat - constant. These centers .werorpartly located upon the. surface and partly at the base of the braini He also related cases ;on record of a temperature as' high as 128 degs. F. and as low as 8-4 dogs. F. He explained hpw these great.; changes of tempei-ature could be produced through disease of the the nervous system. . Cased of children were detailed whose temperature was 110 degs.-F." for a short tirno and recov ered. - Fever was stated to be. mainly a f disease of the nervous system,' -causing increased chemical changes in the tissues of ' the5 body,' and thus, elevating' the temperature. Science - ." i---1 v.-now to. Settle .Quarrels. J TheJorlaw club of Philadelphia ought tooo popniai'isea- ana liruxatea every where, and burlaw should be pnea mor an institution of " all civilized : lands-'C -R. 4 m3 - a custom, in -Bootland , formerly to settle "any romron disputes .among the people Jby vote in an assemblage "of neigh bors. 7.; So; quarrels -were closed , up. .atr once,--without tielay iOr- utigation : and tho irritation of court3 and lawyers. ; Ihe common LU l.isJJW U itllUl VU1A tWIUUlt. UUUUVl- . .11 r t..-! . --12 U..A ," ,''.. ' - " ... ... . . . . . . ! ary luies. ; VVc have too much legislation, 1 too many laws and too many methods of Tr - ; uiuui. uriyuw-ueuiwiuw. ' X People "Who Bay Urug. There is a - peculiar idea among some fptUrho . seldom .have to . buy : ?trv4nrrxxr rx nrliow than dm nvfircA m 1At'i...' rso to a dmsr store out" of the -neighbor hood, or,, if that is too much" trouble, . they send one of the . family, more", fre- quenuy the emiaren, witn .tneoojecvoi . vyuvcj a. wu v Uudcr no circumscanoeswui tuese peopid "be : caught -enterinj , store. Ihruggist in entering or leaving a drnj GIobe-Xemocrat. i $i;50 Per jeer In AdTahce. ;1889. : ." NO, 25 ORIGIN OF; ALPHABETS." "V The.-.Itter -A, B Hand O -Survive- AZ1 .i .Change-rlnterestint: Historical Items. - When a child cries, , the lips are apart, and form, at each side '' of the mouth,- a snarp angle, .witn aides -of . about' equal Ipno - th - tw nnmi. r Vtl i tnose assigneu to tne first letter of almost vi mt - ." , - - j . , : ! every alphabet. - The arrow . headed.- -wedge shaped characters in use&mang the oia jjaoyiomans and Persians bli the tune qf the great Alexander's Asiatic eohquests were copied fromThe human mouth.. By meaha-of different" ' combinations these wedges or A V were ; made to , represent consonant as well as Towel aounds But the entire alphabet . is made up of; these wedges. " It required many generations probably to advance from A. and B. J?ow," look at a child's face,sidewaysr when the npsare snut, ana you see a natural B. PnffliMA fvm- wwa. t - or. - i - nave aD,. wmcn;. by being doubled .-gives W hpin dr.nvai .mv auua, luwjuriu eastern-wora ror ratner, Blight modification gives ani, flien amma. the old eastern form otaixia or niamma in the west,- just" as abba was - changed into papa and pope or holy father. 1 .-The arrow; heads ' had served to record: the history, "the literature, - the religion, of mighty . empires jthe old" - Assyrian, Median, and Persian..;: They were traced mostly on bricks. " Paper had not yet been so much as dreamed .of'-- " rFrom A and B (Alpha "and Reta)a comprehensive scheme of phonetic char acters must be worked out before- the leaf of rind of papyrus can be-nsed for writing on. . Th hp letters , 31 and P, softened into F.and V, which, last was vocalized as U, are 'modifications merely of B. We. mayaafefysay the same of the dental D, softened into.T. which gave rise to S. A series of . characters , was gradually worked out, and the time came when Cadmus, tho man fronv the East brought an alphabet "of Bixteen; letters from . Phoenicia into Greece Cadmus, looked at as' an individual manji dwindles to a myth--a shadow, s He expresses' in legendary form the' outcome of a long train of almost forgotten facta; These sixteen- letters were expanded the Greeks to , twenty-f onr. . Light. wooden tablets covered with wax for writing on were adopted. But -the pen was still of solid iron, like a pencil, &harp at one end. with a Hat cu-cular , head at the other for blotting out, .-when, desired, what -.had been written-: with the " point. '"These tablets - were fastened -together at. the back by wires, so that .they opened" and shut like, our books.-.-' For important documents the edges of the -tables were pierced with noles through which a triple thread was passed and .then scaled. - it is to this custom that allusion is made in the Apocalypse"olose sealed with seven seals, y This Apocalyptic" book was " writ ten within and on the - back."' The .'an cients : used to write on the front side oniy-even. after they ..had iven'UpH wooden tablets in; fftvorr ox papyrus and parchment. - - The . back- was - generally stained saffron "or veUow. ' " Thold;itaKan3, ,,:tooi of- pre-luatorio age. got an alphabet from the east, i The- lertera were extendea ? ana mooanea until they became very-different in form from those of GreerjeV' rBuT: it is remarkable that A,. B," and O; survive- all ehaitees. They are copies of the mouth;when emit ting the sounds assigned them.. -Modem typography has no doubt greatly "im proved the . rude, early' scrawL .such as may tiU be seen on old gravestones The old PhcenlciaH andybld Hebrew Aleph has not the eame position as our.modernA They are almost nonzontal, with a nearly. perpendicular line drawn acrossthe angle foxmed by the ' aides of the letter. The later. Roman alphabet was spread by Ro man conquest. ' -t Oar Anglo-Saxon fore ratnera ax length adopted it.- They man aged to- get up; a sort of -Uteratarev But the-. age., of pocket ' mcuonaries, bandy volumesthe. daily or even-weekly news papers was still a long way off. Art and discovery have still a long apprenticeship before we can inundate our postofttces with valentuies or photograph instanta' neously on: paper the tail of some mighty comet. .London stationery Review, - ' r, --''.' . 2-Animals -That Aro Disappearing. iTJie establishment and maintenance of a zoological gacden ia asmuo&a part of the proper work of government as build ing schools or BendHng r out Bcientiflo sur veys. - It is a source of instruction to the people and an aid -tothe development of science, , ""especially in ' this country," by preserving many species of . wild animals from extinction.;,. The buffalo is already regarded as an extinct animal. ' 4 Not one, it Is said by competent authority, remains in., the British possessions.. . on thisoonti-' nent; and inj this country theie are twa jsmall herds, one in Texas and the other in the Yellowstone park, numbering to gether not more than 125. The leading scientists,- not only - of ; America, but of Europe, have been calling upon our- govv eminent for years to. preserve the bison from extinction, .a the Russian, govern ment has - done with the Earopean bjson or aurochs.- - f . ; . : '. . '. ;;'It i3 8aid that, at the present' rate of progress, the remarkable-Rocky moun tain goat: will be extinct within five years. Among the quadrupeds that are fast dying off. are. the ..elk; moose, ante lope, caribou,' black - tailed - deer,' grizzly bear wolf, bearer, otter and .wolverine, Tho delay of a few years may "mean the complete disappearance of some or most of these, and a gap in the history of . the animal - life of? tiuscontinent that can never be fUledi-New" Orleans picayune. '"" - - CoaccrniBj Cbai-ms and Amulets. " , - A recent writer in an English magazine tells zot . tlie superstitions among the gypsies andirtherhalfoivilized races con ceming charms or amulets. . r"A coin 01 a pebble carried - long in the pocket, or around the neck, is .' supposed to become imbued with ' the " personality of the wearer." - These amulets are believed to have a will of their own; to feel .affection for their owner, and to cherish a . hatred toward' his enemies."'-Not '- only- the mJLZ' - ;.: - ,fvw.. . .,v- .j fetich. t . .Chir;ancestors ivere not altogether free from 1 thi3 " superstition.' T The pouncets carried la gold and silver boxes in the pockets of fine ladies-were withered ap ples stuck full of Bpices, which,' after I0113 ' use, were supposed, to .become imbued : with the vitality or animal strength of the wearer, end to wara cJi oaease troa ner. , - : " THE : COURIER - r' "k published ia he'eentre a fine tobacco -growing section, -making it oner of the best dvertisuig t:nediums- for j-merchants and warehoufcemea ia t,he adjoiniug counties.', Circttlaied largely in TersoB, Granville. "and Durham counties ia North Larolina.v'and UalaiTocuuty Virginia. ; , .Vail descriptionr neatly -executed- on short : aotice and at reasonable prices, ;Whcn in need of work give'the Coujwbb a trial; " f . - Discovery, of ..saccharwe. "r : V An Interview -with Dr. Fahlberg A; Very 1 ,;Iu a "recent -interview;. withDr.. Con- stantine Jahlberg, tlie discoverer -of .tlia, w sugar-extracted from -coal tar.-ho wf;"i'6 ,"t"Buu,' w "Droduct: i 4I --.had ''Worked ft- lrT(.;: timn product; J ul had "worked a long - time upon the compound -radicals and substi- . tution products "of coal .tar, and-had. made a number of scientific discoveries'- " that are; 'so far as I know of nocommtW " cial j value. ' One evening J was so iuter-j c ested' in-.-my, laboratory,-that forgot1 ' ' about supper -until -quite latey and then, j, rnahed off for a' meal-; without;: stopping -.' to wash my handsv ' I sat- down, broke. . .a piece -of' bread and put it.to my lips. . ' It tasted unspeakably sweet. 1 did .note'"" ask why it was - sof probably-because-1 ul ..'..1.1. :i .. l.. j:. 1 1 x . .. i 1 m ., nouguiit was.Bomecato or sweetuieat. ru3Seu mJ moma wnn water, and diiud - ; . "- "my mustache with my napkin when." v ; f X. to"l iny eurprise," i he . paokia tastt'd '- " sweeter than : the - bread. -.jThenZ I V was"-JDuzzled. -aerahv raised, .'mv". ". f goblet, and, "as, fortune would, have ' apphed my mouth where my fingers had, ::; touched it before The water -seenled !.- syrop.,,-1- It flashed upon mo that I-j waa ' , the cause of .the singular universal sweet. ness, and I accordrngly tasted tho-end of i.: my thumb, and found that it suipasseti - - any. oonfectionery I had ever eaten. ' I ; -saw the whole thing at a glance.. - I had i ' t discovered -or made some coal tar 6ub-. " stance which out sugared sugar. I dropped -'; my dinner and ran back to the laboratory"' ' -There in 'my. excitement, - I tasted'' the contents of every beaker and evaporating , ',; .f dish on the tabe' Luckily '; forme,' none. . . 1 -contained . any; corrosive or poisonous liquid. - - j ; , - - 7 : ; v " 1 Z, ;. One .of them contained - ah impnre-.-. sojution of saccharine. On thisT worked . then forweeka and months until I 'had j determined its chemical-composition, its-. "! .characteristics and reactions, and the best - l ' anodes of 'making: it - sdenthically and. !" J' commercially. -; ; - -, -' t " y -' , .: J s 'Whenl first published my researches,' " :i .some people, laughed aa-if it were a ecien --'-';. title joke; others, of a more skeptical turn,-". ,;?; ,-, doubted ilie discovery and ihedisepverer,.; .J ", and still others proclaimed the -work as"-. , j-being of no practical value.' v . v ; . ; : Wjen.the public first Bawsacchai 1 rine," however, everything changed.' The ; , .entire press,. European and American ' :;; --s , described me and my sugar in a way that ;:. ' may, have been edifying, but was simply amusing to toe. -And then' came letters."; : ' My mailrian .as high' as;. sixty aday". - .' t. People . wanting samples, of - saccharine, ' my autograph or my opinion on- cbemi-" --,-' oal .problems,"" desiring to become my jj partner, to buy my discovery, tD be. my v' ' agent, to "enter- my labrcory, and the ; 4 like,"--IIall,s Journal of Health.1-, - .- " How" to Extinguish Firo. c . - 'An intelligent" physician' said to mo . ' ' few days ago, ."I thiakT can giv3 you a r ?-" good.item," and JT replied: that J wag el-" . -ways on the lookout for useful informal " tion. He then said that" he, had studied J the subject very carefully and was -con- '"' vinced" that it would be well -for'every. -A.: ' house to. keep its ;own fire extinguisher.vf- - and" it could be easily- done.v. It:" would '--; "t'A' certainly be invaluable to ;' persons living1 " in the country and far removed even, from - neighbors, .The. doctor' then " told' me that - he "- would give me ".the exact' recipe --"of thesolution '. now ,used 'fn the fire extinguishers now being "offered: t for sale: Take" twenty pounda.of coaimbn' salt and ten, pounds of. sal ' ammoniac, . (muriate?" of- ammonia, to bo had . of any-.:- - uruggui; U41U- uuaoo.ve ; ia sevou gauoiw : Of water.A.When'dissoived it can be bofc- ".' tied and kept irt each room in the houso, ',: , to be.used in , an emergency; r- In case of a fire occdrring, one or two bottles 6hould bo. immediately-thrown "with force into 1 the burning place - so' as to break them,' md the lire will certainly be extinguished. This is an exceeding-simple process,' and -certainly worth a trial2. We give it, hop-i. .' ing it may prove successful to any who - may take tho trouble to try it. Atlanta Constitution, r ' ' . "" r I " ' " ' - On tl Isle of Malta. . - - The people' must be very frugal and in- dustriousj no doubt they are both'ingeni-. 'V ! oua and persevering as well," for it is said ' that out of every "steamer load of Tpas sengers that stops, at Malta on, its way to , or. from India or "Constantinople ' they ' make not less than 200, even though the ship remains '-in- port but six; or. .eight.", hours '" They certainly seem to" have, the " "; j -' happy faculty of casting corroding care to : 1 the winds, as fhey are always ready for. a : . .siesta after their frugal lunch on a'crust of black' breads or an onion. Or a garlic,' r ' .whenever the "noontide, overtakes them. , We found then), asleep on thesteps of public buildings."" in shaded .doorways,;,. -;, even on the crowded sidewalk, happily As'-- unconscious of . the passing throng as are ,'; the" dogs of -Constantinople. - - How alum-"- - J berthus indulged in -can refresh one is a - . ipystery, but they soon awoke and cheer-. : T . fully resumed' their toiLCbr. aa Fran- ; , ' cisoo Chronicle,' - " ' -' 1 -" Getting Somelliln? or Nothlnflv ' , .' -,. ; ' A short' time ago in-counting up the coin in one of the boxes at the exposition'" in which you drop a nickel and. take out, a package of gum, co less than 120 one . .cent" pieces were, found. Now ' the im- v : mutable . law of these ' devices is . that .nothing goes .except a genuine nickel of the realm,; the inside arrangements being ,. -such that coins of - all other denomica-' ' tions slip through 'into the money box and no gum responds.- Consequently all -these one-cent pieces were pure gain and the gum box proprietor" can count himself just so much ahead of the .game. This shows quite elcquently the universal . de sire of .the human race to get something -' for nothing.and K also exemplifies the oil. .adage that "cheaters never prosper."-?- ,; Pioneer Press "Listener,, -. - -. - - r ... A Doctor's Pellcte Chtvrjtj, , t. - .As delicate Clarity as X remember .- was the act of a gruff, taciturn old phy Bician in a Colorado mining- town. -A " f poor, aged parson was carefully attended : by., the irritable doctor. Whoa the-v preacher had' sufacientry -recovered- ti dispense with further medical attention 1 I beWed for his bill. ; .Your bill? Here ; it i3, said the doctor, opening his pocket . : book and handing - tho minister's wife a $10 bill -Amenca.- The greatest-events of an age are its -; best thoughts; Thonht. finds its way .4 into action. Coice. ' ,r . ..
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
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