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Person Co. Courier. Published Every Thursday . BY NOELL BROS,. Roxboko, N. C TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Copy One Year - ,.'-' ' f I 50 One Copy Six Months 75 Bemitanc mu-t bo mnde by Registered Letter. Post Office Order or Postal Note. - THfr COURIER , v: ia published!! ihe centre a 'fine' tobacco, growing section, making k one. of .the bett advertising , mediums .for merchants aud warehoubemea iu the" adjoinit g connl'ie,; Circulated largely in Person, Granville and Durham counties in North -'Carolina, . and flalifaxjcounty Tirgiuia. - . , JOB WORK : , all description neatly executed on short notice and at reasonable prices. When in . need of work give the tVrSiEfe a trial. ' JLTJll n o KOELL BROS, Proprietors. HOME FIRST: ABROAD NEXT- $1.50 Per tear in Advance; VOL. 5. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1889. NQ, 30. com iD Dyspepsia M.okes the lives of many people miserable, and often leads to self-destruction. Distress after eating, sour stomach, sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite, a faint, " all gone " feeling, bad taste, coated tongue, and irregu larity of the bowels, aso Distress some of tho more common After symptoms. Dyspepsia does p. 4.1 not get well of itself. It Eating requires careful, persistent attention, and a remedy lite Hood's Sarsa parilla, which acts gently, yet surely and efficiently. It tones the stomach and other organs, regulates the digestion, creates a good appetite, and by thus $ick overcoming the local symp- M j rhi toms removes the sympa- neaaacno thetic effects of the disease, banishes the headache, and refreshes the tired mind. i hivn TAn troubled with dyspepsia. I had but little appetite, and what I did eat j, . distressed me, or did me. riearr." jjttle g00d. in aa hour bum after eating I would expe rience a falntness, or tired, all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten anything. My trou ble, I think, was aggravated by my business, which is that of a painter, and from being more or less shut up in a Sour room with fresh paint. Last spring I took Hood's Sarsa- BwlUdtn riila took three bottles. It did me an immense amount of good. It gave me an appetite, and my food relished and satisfied the craving I had previously experienced." George A. Tage, "Watertown, Mass. Hood's SarsapariHa Sold by all druggists, gl ; six for 5. rrepared only " by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Slaw. 100 Doses One Dollar J" PROFESSIONAL pAPxDS C. S. WINSTEAD, BANKER, WILL DO A BANKING BUSINESS WITH 77 E. WEBBCasluer. NEW MANAGEMENT. A RLINGTON HOTEL MAIN STREET, Danville, Virgin ia, YATES & ltlfllAUDSON, Proprietors. J, T. SintyHern. Sloxhuro, X. C. L. M. Warlick. WARLICK, T KAY HO UN & ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice in all the conits of the State .and in the Ketleral courts. r.laa;igtjaisut of csUtes -" ,.:.v.";:,r,ii.-)te- Cisweil counties. 9 .V.Grahivm. Wia.Un PvAUAil & WINSTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Oxford. N. C. Practices in all 'be courts of the State. Han He monev aail invest the snrae in best. 1st Mort- eie Ke.-il Kstits Security, investigate titles. Settle estates and LUNSFOKD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Boxboro. N. C. T R. MiiiililiT, ATTORNEY AT LA -.V Koxboro, N. C. prompt attention given to tbe collection of ,HaiiiiS!. -y W. K1TCII1K, ATTORNEY AT LAW, RoxBono, N.C .Practices wherever hi services are required. T k It. J T. FULLER, .PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Roxboro, N. C. lit silence, place formerly occupied by Dr E. Bradsher. OtnceoverC.G.Mitcheirs O. L. drug store R T. T JTJtiZlEK, IS rRACTICINO DENTISTRY cnln at Sinf'i r.oston, Va., office nil Planters' Kank huilfling. in JlerS cha 10.3 mil D It. U. G. NICHOLS Oilers His f ROFESSION'AI, SERVICES th PEOPLE IVoxbo) o and surronuing country. Practices iu all the branches, of Medicine. CR. C. V. BRADSHER DEXTIS'f, Ofier Iris services to the public. Calls promptly Af ended to in Perwm and adjoining counties. Anv one wisliinjr work in las line, ftv writmi? iiim at lstwhy i-ork, on co. C, will be- attended at D R. J. C. BRADSHER, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, ROXBORO N. R. A. MOUTOX, Practicing PHysicta. offcrhlptofeeBiTial servir.es to the ' People .f Uovooraaiul surionndjngcountrj. irdC.ices in all the brancUea pf njedicino. EEflLES DYES t Viinr Own Dvein?, at Ilome. Th y will dye everything. They wresold ejPTy wherel Price jOc. paeka.e. TUey hive noequal for Strengtli, Brightness, Amount in Package .r for F:vrtneU of Color, or non-fading Qualities. Xuey do uot crock or smut; 40 calors. For uule by J. I). Ab.rii & Co. Rx'joi-v), N. C, W. T. P.tss & Co. Roxboro N C, and V. O- Coleman, Gen, mde. Gordont' D N. C V ACOO.MLISHED. Every ladjr should kno. ' --nd Uaiup. BAKEE EEM. OO.,Boxl04Buffalo.N.. S 'SRSIAN BLOOM. Bert Cenplexioa Beau- 7. t 'finr. Skia Ouae and Blemish Eradicator known. t-o ataau (oi trial pacxase. Aaarwag fn nnf"' PARKER'S ' F flCloonsGB onrt Ix-autifle -Hie hair. jrromoie3iiuniilar.t;'.vili. Heir to t'.a Vrn&Fxi Cc.'cr. 1 lit i t-r '& .v - .fARKER'SCENGBRTGKZ Q -uaol0 lor eouSh, Colds, Iaw-ura P&s. Exfcaaj Ld LOVE'3 PREFERENCE. tw? Hkos not laughter all the day, : , N'r would one like the year all May; For pensiva looks ef t Love loth crave, And likes his mistress sometimes grays; -; And though it dim a lovely eye, He chides ner not if she do cry. Love tikes to soothe a trembling maid Until her sobs and tears are staid; For then he thinia she's net all art, But hidden keeps a gentle heart. Francis Sterne Palmer. Electric Headlights Not Safe. 4 'It ia my candid opinion," said an en gineer on the Gt. Paul road, "that elec tric headlights on locomotives are not feasible. The Pyle invention, which is looked- upon with more favor than all others, is thisr The arc ia maintained at the same point, or the focus, by rnaking tho lower electrode a stationary copper rod, while the upper positive electrode consists of the usual carbon, and is regu lated by suitable mechanism. It is claimed for tho invention that the arc is not only kept at a constant focus by rea son of the stationary and r.on-consiunir negative pole, but by means of a steady ing and guiding arm, embracing the electrode near the arc, all lateral play oi vibration i3 prevented and the arc if maintained laterally in a fixed position. Wo have been experimenting with a view to adapting the electric light to lo comotive headlights. It has already caused us one smashup, the presence of dynamo machine on tho footboard of , nm-j uiui-umc xwi-uuuj. vj- the engine, having had the effect of ue-, moralizing the timepieces of both engineer nd engine. The locomotives themselves became magnetized and contrary. An jiher thing against the adoption of the dsctric lkditon trains is that it will make' ngmeers nervous, i ou never heard oi ilghfcning striking a train of cars running at full speed. No amount of argument could convince an engineer that an elec tric light in front of liis engine would prove anything but a menace to his train in a thunderstorm. Most locomotive en gineers are superstitious, and they look with suspicion upon any kind of tinkering with the present mechanism of tho iron horse." Chicago Herald. American Womeu nd Men. It is a frequent fashion to proclaim the general worthlessness of American women from the animal standpofnt. They lack the breadth of back and tho massiveness cf limb observed in lands where vvives pIotv -with the o:c and daughters delve in ! Lh.e mines. Tho Amer ican vroman look3 after her household, rcjvrs her children, makes happy a husband for whom she i3 much too gooL imd in her old ajje takes joy m manly sons and womanly daugh ters. It is slander io call her incornre tent, or eay lliat she falls short in tiio measure of duty, wlien compared to tbe women of other landd, whoe Btrengi;h she has, but whose grossneas she lacks. Just now the fashion in talk has changed It is the man who is the weak ling, and who is hurrying the nation to extinction. There is a craze for big bi :eps and abnormal calves. In ait of which there is considerable nonsense and Kme wisdom. Statistics show that in America length of life is increasing. Men are as healthy and as happy and as capa ble as a hundred years ago. Some strip lings may go out of life in a cloud of cigarette smoke, but they arc not" drag ging the nation toward extinction, and some of sound body will be left to bury the dead, in spite of tho croakers who seem to think this continent is develop ing into a graveyard. Omaha Herald. IUxssian Scientific Discoverers. For four or five years past Russian scientific men have been stationed at or near tho mouth of the Lena, carrying on first the work tf ono of the circ unipolar stations and then engaging in tho ex ploration of the 5elta and of a part cf tho large region eastward. Thoy have mada a number of interesting discover ies, and scientific zeal has been richly re warded even in this apparently desolate country. In the region wheie the pole of greatest cold ia situated, these explor ers have collected 400 kinds of plants, numerous paleontological specimens and a large number of insects and other in vertebrate. Among the mountains that divide the Lena from the Yana basin Baron von Toll obtained six specimens of mountain sheep. He has made sl special study of tho fauna of tho eea coast, ard the latest news from him was tliat hn wa3 going with a party of natives to find a mam moth winch a recoct land :iide had re vealed. An important feature of the work of this party has been the complete exploration of tire large Tana river from it3 headwaters to the eeo, including two of its allluGiits. New York Sun. New York's SXaU Statistics. The statistics cf th9 New York poet oflics for tho last year present eomo large figures. More than 60,000,000 letters were distributed through boxes, and more than 120,000,000 were delivered by camera. In addition to these, nearly C0, 000,000 postal-cards wore boxed and de livered. More than 103,000,000 postage stamps, nearly 20,000,000 stamped envelopes and nearly 42,000,000 postal cards were sold during the year. The total weight ,cf mails handled in the postofQce last year was over 193 tons, or 43 per cent, mor than five years ago. New York "World. Popular Kauiea la London. The new edition of the London post office directory "consists of 2,672 pages, plus 332 pages of advertisements, and contains 244,000 names'. On each page there are 10,000 letters, the number of letters in the. Commercial" alone -making a total of 7,080,000, and the weight of the type used fcr the volume is about twenty-five tons. . Here is a small but in teresting table which shows the difficul ties of arrangement. In the new direc tory there are 2,125 -Smiths, 7,104 Joneses, 708 Frowns and 467 JloJbinsons. Pall Mall Gazetto. " . Prerretl in Ic. It is not long ago that a.paxty of Arctic seamen discoyered. an elephant imbedded in an iceberg, end, cooked some of.lus flesh, although, according to science, the carcass must iiave been there for some thousands of years. Brooklyn Eagle. To' evangelize 1,025,000,000 athen j and Mohammedans, who aro . casing by oatufal -birth at 1,000,000 a ytart we fcj?Y only abottt OOppgonari? . THE CABMEN OF PARIS. Abuse of Horseflesh In the French Capi tal Heed of a Henry Bergh. That Paris is "a paradise "for women' and a hell for horses' ' is an old saying, ' tho truth of which, as far as its latter ' half is concerned, is painfully visible ; every liour in the day. The public cab i ! service in this city is Bimply awful, and I often wuli that I could kick some of ! them or give them a good punching. Cabmen are, of "course, a necessary class of fellows, but most of them treat the public in a way that should not be toler ated. On Sundays, if it is a fine day, it Lj difficult to find one who will consent to take a fare by the hour; it is even -hard to find one who will drive "a Ia course," that is when you want to -go to - were- noted, men. The sentence to the any distant part of the city. If you ap- j pillory jfrequently had the additional pun peal to a policeman he will say that he ishment of the loss of one or both ears can only compel cabmen who are at a I added. Daniel Fooe, or Foe, later in life stand or whose vehicles are standing still to take up fares. Knowiag this, cabmen keep off the stands and usually, when hailed, do not come to a full stop until they have ascertained where tho person who needs their services is going and how long he is likely to keep them. If the answer i3 Unsatisfactory, away he goes, cracking his whip and turning round to ; laugh at a leilow s annoyance. It you ; jump into the carriage without waiting ; for it to stop and then tell the driver : where you want to go or that you pro- I poso to take him bv the hour, he does j i113 upjjc to c-oi- rKl cr vou Dv "waiiiins aid horse under the pretense that the animal ! is tired. Paris cabmen interfere with each other ! as much as possible, ill-treat their horses j and insult their fares on all possible) i occasions. Their driving license id called ; a ''permis da conduire;1' it roust bo re-j turned to the prefecture of police when the man passes from ihe employ of one '. company to that of another, cr.d not un til a new one has been issued can ha resume wcrk. Tho council p'ronose 6ub- etituthig for this license a "brevet de capacite," to be issued by a jury of ex aminers afttr they have satisfied them selves that the applicant is duly qualified to discharge the duties of his calling. Onco ia the possesion of such a diploma, a cabman will be at liberty to tako em ployment wherever he can find it with out interference from the police, who have only to satisfy themselves as to hi3 personal character before he is allowed to go beforo the crammers. A dispute has, however, arisen between the muni cipal council and ihe police authorities as to who shall appoint these examiners. Tho council insists on exercising I his right, and so docs the prefect of police, and a3 they aro unable to agroo tho matter has been referred to the minister of the interior. Carters also ill treat their horses quite as badly as do tho cabbw3. ' Thev aro not so apt to lasu then- beasts, but they do overload them, and they drive them when they aro unfit for work. ' No where else are cart horses groomed so 6eldora as hero in Paris. Many animals look as : if they were never touched by curry or ! brush, and it is positively painful to see j how some entire horses aro neglected. Private coachmen are good to their 6tock, i however, and many cf the private car- ! riage horse3 are tho best to be seen any- ; where. It is a curious fact that the fin est and most stylish turnouts aro the property of prominent members of tho , demi monde. There are a great many . such women who own two, three and . four carriages and all the way from two to ten horses. Bus drivers and those on street ears are also kind to their horses as j a rule. Tlie other afternoon, goirjg ' through the rue Auber, a street laid with ! asphalt, and where there are more acci- ) dents than .elsewhare, I noticed that, it ! was raining and the pavement very slip- j pery, my Jenu did not tighten the lines, j and when I said something about the 1 danger cf not doing so, he replied : j "Bah! I have driven this mare for four years and she has never fallen once : ' she ri ots over tho asphalt as if it was a velvet carpet. She has a Parisian foot, ' ' The mare had lean sides, through which her ribs showed plainly, but 6he ; went .along at a fair pace. Four years ! of service as a Paris cab horee seemed ; rather phenomenal, andI said as much i to the cocher. He assured me, however, j that it was not at all extraordinary. In tho 6table to which liis turnout belongs there are said to be several horse3 which ; have been on the streets for eight years, i and they aro none the worse for it. The ! principal thing, said cabby, is to get i them acclimated and accustomed to their j work. If this is dono carefully and ju-! diciously a horse will stand hack service ; as well and as long a3 any other kind of j work that it may be put to. Two hours : later I happened to be standing on the ; front platform of a street par when one of ; the two beasts pulling it refused to go ; faster than a walk. After ono or two ' cuts the driver laid aside his whip with : the words: "The poor animal is only fit for tbo bone yard. She has plenty of willingness, but no legs;'' and tears were . in his eyes as he cpoke. . Noticing that I smiled, and no doubt ! guessing why, he went on to tell me that ' he had been on the line since it was started fourteen years ego. That he and his mare had entered the company a service on the same day, and that since then she had two round triro every day, each of them from fourteen to fifteen miles. , Tlie company had still five or six horse3 that dated from the opening of tho I road, whilo at least half its ,istock had j -been in sirvice'frcm eight to ten ytars, j and all of these were yet able to do, their j work. The omnibus comnany aro not so lucky wiji .their, horses and aro forced to replenish ihern more frequently than do the tramway companies. Tho reason for tliis is that the former are obliged, by reason of the weight of their vehicles, to use a breed cf large, powerful horses, noS Winlike those of Normandy, and known from the province whence they alLcome as Limousins. They are fine ; looking beasts, bat they do not stand fatigue, nor can they resist the constant exposure to all. kinds of weather, -which ia part oi -their wofk. The tramway companies employ little Breton mares, "ugly, clumay beasts, but full of nerve and endurance, and Ihe result is they lose very- few horseJ from the effects of overwork 1 ox inclement weather. Paris Cor. ' New Orleans Picayune, - 'T: :. Steps are being taken by tho 6tate for est commission of. New York' to establish an extensive preserve for the breeding of wild deer. - - A CHAPTER ON EARS. People Who Were Punished Long Ago by Having Their Hearnrs Removed Any mutilation of the ear. which in volved the loss of a portion or all of it has always been a mark of disgrace. In one of the. statutes of Edward VI the penalty affixed for its violation is the "less of an ear and perpetual infamy." In those days the celluloid ear had not been invented and the loss of one of thes members was a public badge of shame for life. Following the retributive law of Moses, probablv thS- pumsnmenc originated m the ecclesiastical courts It is first inon- tioned in the trials of pffjenses against the church and some of fne earless clericals known as Dtniel Defoa, wrote a patnph- let called "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters," and lost his ears. Pope, in his "Dunciad," speaks of the author of Robinson Crusoe:" "Earless on Btood unabashed Defoe." high He was placed in the pillory three times. That instrument being on a raised platform explains the line. In Defoe's case, however, as in many others, liis punishment was rather a martyrdom, and - lifted him in the esteem of those who believed as he did. Dr. Bastwick, who published mors namnlilets tnan rjill3. concludes one oi his essavs with : 'Fromnlasrue. wstilente and famine, from bishops, priests and deacons, good Lord deliver us." This was so serious an affront that the doctor was sentenced to the pillory and to lose both his ears. The execution of his sen- tence was a sort of public fete. His friends gathered before the pillory and shouted word3 of encouragement. His wifo climbed upon tho pillory and kissed him. When his ears were cut ff "she put them in a clesji hantkerchief" and carried them home. The celebrated Prynne suffered a similar punishment. - The names of lesser criminal- have escaped the permanent records, but Blackstone mentions a number of early English parliamentary enactments mak ing the lofas of an car a penalty in law. Fighting in a church or churchyard by acts passed during the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Edward VI meant the loss of loth ears. If the prisoner had no cars which implies that there were habitu il criminals 350 yeai-s ago ho was to bo branded with the letter F in the cheek. In the second and third year of the same monarch combinations cmong victualers and artificers to raise the" price of provisions or t-hev.catc. of labor for the third offense was punished by thepiiJory and the less of . aa car. Thr 'statute, 'not only: extended to. .th combinations "ttf raise wages, but to reg- ; mate the quantity of work or to lessen the hours of labor. In this degenerate ae the trusts and other combines, with the different; labor unions, if these laws were enforced, would give the public executioner active employment. In later years the loss of an ear or part of one lias also been regarded as imply ing disgrace. Tlie ear is not easily lost. Any accident that destroys the ear usually destroys the person wearing it. One of the favorite ways of mutilating an enemy in a rough and tumble fight is to bito off his ear. In disreputable brawls j ana m low resorts Drute instinct manes ear mutilation a s fit revenge for almost auy wrong. Jack Slade, the notorious desperado, in a fit of rage, is said to have cut off the ears of a man he had mur dered. He kept them in his pocket and boastfully exhibited tliem when in a drunken and dangerous mood. When he saw on the poker table a stake he wanted particularly Jack played the ears. Fiinging them on the table they beat four aces or a straight flush, for Jack had a pistol in each hand the nezt instant. He always took the pot on the play. Chi cago News. African Prince and Gentleman. According to the testimonv of Samuel Baker, Eroin Pasha and Henry M. Stanley,, there is one chief m Central Africa who is worthy cf the title of gen- tleman. His name is Anfinl and he rules over the region made famous m Rider Haggard's remarkable novel, "She."" He is described as a portly, well j dressed man of middle age, who L pos-j 6essed of inborn tact, never asks for ! presents and is not inquisitive about the i . . .1. . private affairs of his jmests. Since the Arabs began trading in his country, An fini has been able to procure many arti cles of European manufacture. Dr. Emin says that AHfiui is the only negro prince ho has met to whom cloth ing and whatever other civilized appli ances have found their way to his coun try have become indispensable. He dresses hi English flannels and is scru pulously clean. He is the only native in the central regions of the dark continent who habitually uses plates and metal spoon3 at bis meals. When Dr. Emin was his guest bananas and other food were passed around on cjiina dishes. His "people never presume to appear hi public in a nudo condition, but all are decently wrapped in skins end bark clothing.. Philadelphia Times. Katiorml Progress ef Ensia. The Russians, says an English paper, are moving rapidly on every line that makes for national progress. Scientific exploration is being carried on in many different directions ; laboratories and ob servatories are being founded, and rail- "ways opened at a wonderfully rapid ratc4 T icvo rn nnw 1R nil!) lrurfia nf rj! nrrt" i open for - traffic in Russia. Of this thei state owns about one-fifth on I v. Thei Russians are independent of .foreign na-! oxygen. So with natural fcas. If cau tions for coal, iron, oil and mechanical ! not explode so long as it is not rubjectca skiil, and the foreign foreign element is being eliminated from Russian works, bo that the progress of the empire is taking place on a wide basi3. Chicago Herald. - 1 .... Indies tVhd Cannot Swim. t; Now, ladies who cannot swim and are afraid of the water, let mo advise y oa not to trust yourselves in Email bcatsr-of any kind, especially small sailboats, un less ia the very best of hands. Tlie first chance you get do your best to leant something' cf swimrrung, ana yon will never regret it. "'-To those of my own sex J would eay, never take a lady who can waI: sTirfm fim oM htf m v.'i! ' vlir npwr tbA n sters warms' or Crawiili?. meia-l T. . - :. ' :. - ' - . . loses her 6eb:"conrrol) in an unsafe boat? bera are clevtloprd and" l.e sinks to "ihe" . Tlie man wlo fcr.os Ib rwt cf lu-- pirt of tbealls for widui riT an upset otherwise may prove doubly bottom. , where he 'makes his home. - et if iJ best judge cf Via neighbor. J bIo let on ipe guard houoes. -bt. -fatal. Outing-. - ... - Chicago Hoi alJ.- - .. pwaca kjl-a C r "- ."".-rr. '.. Trapa for the Gvftaahoppenk There are three principal methods ef destroying these, inserts. .;. Where the land had been plowed for wheat none hatched out, as inverting the soil de stroyed the eggs, and no hoppers were foimd in the fields of growing wheat. But from adjoining fields, especially those where wheat was grown last year and then abandoned without plowing, they came in armies, sweeping the fields ; before thera. In traveling this way a line of march b formed before which every green thing disappears. When Dr. Lugger left, some of the fieW were eaten into several rods. The method adopted prior to the arrival of kerosene ahcl tar was to dig a ditch two feet deep j- and two- feet wide just In advance of the j approaching host. A few inches of straw i is then placed in tho bottom, and- the ; locusts xtre driven into it by walking j slowly along behind them They cannot ! jump out and are burned; or, if Btraw i is not to be had, they are killed by draw ing a log through the ditch. The tar is used by placing in a 6hallow sheet iron pan two feet wide and eight feet long, wich a wide board fastened to one side. This is drawn sidewise across the field, the hoppers jumping against 'the board and falling into the tar, where they per ish. But the handier, more rapid and more complete method is to nse kerosene on canvas, against which the pests jump. Strong muslin r canvas, a yard wide and fifteen feet long, is stretched on a frame and carried on a sled like arrange ment pulled by a team. The canva9 slants .back, and is constantly saturated with kerosene. Every one that hops against this and touches his body to tho oil dies instantly. One barrel of kerosene will go over about 120 acres and will kill 2C0 bushels or more. Each farmer is given one barrel of oil, and promises to use it only for destroying insects. Min neapolis Exchange. Fashions cf Ancient Times. Heliogabalus is said to have been the first to wear a robe of pure silk. Tlie emperor, one of the most unworthy and debauched of rulers, who made his horse a consul, had a senate of women, over whom his mother presided, which pre scribed, all tlie modes and fashions. The I Emperor Aurelian is said to have refused his wife a robe of pure silk, on account of its excessive cost. Indeed . it was not until more than five centuries after the Christian era that silkworms were brought from the east and introduced into Constantinople by some monks in the time of Justinian. Purple was always much admired by the ancients, the dye coming from tlie raurex, as is well known. The color was thought finer.the darker it was. Under Augustus violet and bright , red became ; fashionable ethers,- ss wcii itg'lcarlet, "and were soon worn by all who. could afford to do so, but Nero and Csesar' afterward re- j " ' v "u" a r- !4st and Vm'&e for use exclusively. Bright colors were disused in mourn ing when the Romans wore black, or a dark gviiy, and matrons, especially, ap peared in public in dark clothes, dishev eled hair and without ornaments. In the autumn respectable ladies who were at all religious dressed themselves upon a certain day in robes of 'murrey, ' ' or dead leaf color, in which they made expiatory sacrifices, the clothing being afterward scrupulously destroyed, the idea being that anv evil which impended upon the wearer might pass into her tunic and thus be carried off in flame. The expia tion, if fully carried out, was most com fortably supposed to be sufficient for a whole year of peccadilloes. Godey's. life of a Ranchman. A ranchman's life is a pleasant and healthy one, although varied with a good deal of hardship and anxiety. To be j successful they must be strong, ablo j bodied men, capable of enduring all kinds of hardship and privation,, -and should also be patient, shrewd and enter prising. The fare is plain and substan tial, and where a ranchman keeps pigs j and chickens and has a vegetable garden j he can have it sufficiently varied. Many of them, however, live oa salt pork, canned goods and bread, and do without milk and butter, but this 13 inexcusable. as out of a herd of cattle they can easily get a few cow's fcr milking. Breakfast is generally taken at half-past 5 a.m., and as eoon as this is finished, or some- L times before it is commenced, one or two r .1 L. 1 .1 s j.h 1 of the men hunt the band of saddle horses and drive them to corral, when each man ! whose work will necessitate his riding ! ropes his horse, saddles him and ride3 off ; to his task, whatever it clav be. neihans hunting lost horses, seeing to the fences or driving back any stock that may have got beyoud 1 the fences and which it is higlily desirable should be kept, inside, such, for instance, as thoroughbred bulls. W. Lynn Wilson in Detroit Free Press. rrcfcatjUItk-s of an Explosion. In (he line of physic3 or natural philo sophy, there are errors in common ac ceptation to a degree that is truly aston ishing. Tliat b, that there i3 groat dat gcr of the world's blowiug up from an explosion cf natural gas. How could there be an explosion without combus tion? How could there bo any combus tion without orygen? How ccnld there be ary oxygen without air? How could air 'pf-ttlo in a deep bormg when, tho pressure of tha ges io so much greater than the air itself? It b.well known that frc?h powder can bo put -into a cannon thiit contains (ire. with perfect safetv. if the "tiiumber ' coes his datv does not let a draft of tiir pass through the cltanihcr cf Ihe powder cannot explode., witnout a:i I to both heat and air. Edwra Yv afters m St. Louis Republic. . Lif of Towns; "Lobster. Concerning lobsters, experts say that young crustaceans hare to be put In tho 6ca almost aa Boon as hatched, -and they begin to feed voraciously. They are bom with sense enough to know tliat lobsera ; mako delicious food, .and they attack jone another Kayageir and hun- grilyl For a few days they ewini on the surface, ' where they JLnd the. tood suited to their, early requirements.- litre their destruction is enormous. - In a few days EXPERIMENTS WITH PET3. Piatt TeetHed Kittns-A Physician's Dis covery Feeding Animal Madder, Have you ever, seen a kitten with pink teeth?" a doctor who devotes his leisure moments to scientific experiments in quired of a reporter the other day. The latter admitted that1 he haver had. "Look at this' the doctor said; catch mg up an ordinary lookinz baby cat which had been playing about Ins chair, had prying its mouth open with its finger. "see what a pretty color those teeth Sure enough,. .the kitten's teeth were 9f a beautiful, delicate pink thit, like the i ispent in visiting, the shows (with" exng-inside-ef a sea shelh --? r j. gerated c&lerior) shooting galleries, fancy "They will become of a deeper shade ' stalls, etc, .where ' the country rusp.es bj and by," the doctor continued. 'I 'especially, who have for Bouje time dwelt have only been coloring thetu for a few days.'' 'How do you do it, doctor?" the re porter inquired. "Feed him on cayenne pepper?" - . "Oh, no," the doctor answered, smil ing. "That's the way bird fanciers claim they make red canaries. The process of coloring the bones and teeth of kittens ia the simplest tiling in the. world, AU there is to it is put a little madder ia their food." "But doesn't the madder in hire them?' ! the e reporter inquir.-d. "Not ui the least, "said the dxrtor. "It is a vegetable coloring matter and has no injurious eflect on the general health whatever. Thi3 lias !een woven even in the case of children." "Why," asked the reporter, "has some one been feeding babies on madder to give them pink teeth?" "Oh, no." the doctor laughingly re plied, ' 'but when the discovery was mad-') that madder, -when taken into the sys tem, died the osseous structure, it was thought it might prove efacacioas in the treatment of rickets. Experiments were tried with it on rickety cliildreii, but it was found that while it readily took the place of phosphate of lime ia bone formation, it did uot improve the quality of the bone." "Then all the bones of tbe body are colored by l3ie madder a- well as the tec-th?" the leyorr inquired. "Certainly,"" the dvctor answered. "I will show yon the boneo of several kit tens and pigeons 1 have experimented with."- He procured a small tin canister and on removing the cover a strong odur of camphor saluted the reporter's nose. .."There," said hef taking up a section cf bone, "is the fragment of the skull of a kitien which was fed oa madder for tan days and then allowed to go without madder for six werks or o, when it was killed. The streak1 pink in the center of the bone intaci&es. the bone growth durina: the period which the kitten was taking maddar. - TiS "s-reak of rteHgygairaar--p,tw -ft wirt.MqaBgr-wrae. faint, you see, and would have disap- amuses the spectators with funny speeches! peared entirely if the kitten had been al- land songs during his salr :,Thustftef lowed to Uvea while lonser. The . bone : saping "at "all the siglits, -fa. town,"l frOi back of tin.' tvr. vou notice, is of a deep pink color, laut is due to the fact that that portion of the skull becomes mature sooner than the rest. In young auimals, you kuow, the bony structure -undergoes rapid changes. After maturity is reached the changes are slower. A pigeon, for instance, at tains full growth after thirty days. Now if, when a pigeou is ten days old, you be gin to feed it on madder, keeping it up nve days and then stop, by the time it ; attains maturit y all the color taken up by the osseous structure will have en tirely disappeared. By thus experiment ing with madder some important facts regarding the growth of the bones have been ascertained. " "Has the fact that madder will color the bones been known long?" "About thirty years, I think. It was discovered accidentally by a French phy sician, who resided in a town where a factory for making the red cloth for sol diers' trousers was located. - Madder ia, used in dying this cloth. It was found that pigs killed in the town had their bones died a brilliant pink. This curious circumstance attracted the attention of the physician, who began an investiga tion. He found that pigs drank waste water from the dye room of the factory, and this gave him the explanation of their Dink bones. ' Washington Star. VToamls That Aro Not Harmful. A surjrpon or physician, speaking of a wound, ofte'3 says it will do 110 harm or is not harmful. People do not under- , stand this. They think the expression ..... , , .,, , fully recovered within a few days. That is a great mistake. The definition of the expression, as the physician intends it, ia Hint, tho wnnnl win nnt Ipnrp .inv Kul j efTects, and tliat it will close and heal up as sound as ever. The same in the case of th he fracture of a limb. Many cf them are harmful, because they leave a weakened limb. U they do not. then they are not harmful. In this expres sion the pain that must be endured and the length of time the wounded must be confined to the house or bed never enters into the calculation. The patient may think this a little peculiar, and that the wound must be harmful because it makes him suffer, but not so. ' The suffering is a matter cf 'course, the length or dura tion of the confinement b something be yond our cr his control, but if we finally make hira as Kcund or perfect aa lie was before the wound has not been harmful. Surgeon in Globe-Democrat. TI10 Goatleman VTho Snoies. Was anything ever, better said than this, Ly Jackson iJavuea. the noted art critic: 'The eunrerae test of the knight in the dr.vs of chivalry was lus self de nial and desire 'to succor .the oppressed. The severest test cf the modern gentie maa la' liis unwillingness to forego Iris pipe or cigasior tho comfort and health cf another. Whatever the. benefit harm the use of tobacco ma the L consumer's body, It3 ccinmon tendency 13 to rencer tue uuna mumerent to tuo well being of his neigh hoi s, ' To thia ' Miss Iander add3 tliat in crossing the Atlantic vx une, of " our popular steam slup3he eUScred so Jeriibly-ihat she ad dressed a line to tlie management pr.o testanj: T might change f idc3 of the dfek,aiV the'J ssmeV I.!e- sui-e to -cii-counter ?"the ubiquitous pmoker. ho objects to being coiitncllcd at erery tuta to ask seme .gent!chan, not to thioLa bet riDstrils. -Glohs Oeraocrut." m. A FAIR IN ENGLAND. - -v. ' ', Leadhe Features of an OM CestMS &ttefe4 Is Ilecomlng Olwolete, - : The "annual or semi-annual fair still r' held in many towns irr England is an; old custom which is becoming obsolete. r Its only practical usefulness would seem ; to be the market portion of it held in the j morning, in the ease of one cay I airs. when cattle, sheep, etc, are sold and) farmers exchange views and greetings. Some largeF-fairs extend , oyer three or :Tour days, the lastbehigsometimt;f called "pack and penny day.. "The marketing business -over, Uie remainder of the da v oi pleasant anticipation of f the sights soming to town, can meet old friends m'd enjoy tlie sweetmeats -arid wonJi'fa xt store for them. The owners of the different objfcts of inrusement iippear to be something of j 'the gypsy kind and move about wtth their belonging? from place to plact pay ing a certain "royalty" for standing room, the showmen being placed , away j-froai the main streets to prevent their loisy clamor from frightening horses. The cracking of rifles and smaller weapons, noisy rivalry of tlie showmen, : music of the merry go rounds, mate up :5ne unceasing "pandemonium," Here ' one may be invited to try his skill with a ! ii n 1 j n-i imau Mm which urea a uaxi prujjeueu inly by a percussion cap, with the aa turance that it is "the very gun that cilled Bonaparte;" next, perhaps, the visitor is drawn into a wonderful peep show where the more recent tragedies seen through a magnifying glass are dole fully described as they appear in turn. 1 ! recall a hideous looking picture of a man. She true likeness of which 1 was unalile 5o deny and which, with a peculiar nasal irawl, was stated to be "correct repre lentation of Nena Sahib, who committed ;hose fearful atrocities at Cawnpore and Delhi in India." The external amusements outside the different variety shows usually excel the inside performances sufficiently for you to enter in response to the invitation to "walk up." 1 remember an eloquent showman yelling lustily: "Walk up and ;ee the Great African Sandpiper which, when hunted, buries his head in tho sand, I from which place of security he laughs ! with deiigrht at his pursuers;" and "hear 1 ; the animals roar," the response being an j unearthly noise from men inside. Fre- i qucatly living monstrosities are shown and allowed to take up a collection from tho audience, being, perhaps, their sole remuiH'iation. The vCheap -Jack''' who seils all kinds of ''Bnimnjagen'A goods, chiefly tleni::M:?'Pt jjuently adjourning to one of the many J siverns to get his exchequer replenished . . 1 9 I . ? I ay his father, the small boy retires from she busy scene to dream of all the things he has eaten and beheld. Detroit Free Press, Carelessness in Handling Infant. If there is one niece of folly that ex- ! rites my impatience more than another :t is the methods pursuer by tlie average Djtirse girl and perhaps some mothers also of lifting the 3-year-old or 4-year-old infant in their charge into a street : car or other vehicle, or out of the same, i The said method, with "Slight- variations, j according to the tcniyjer of tlie person in j i charge, is something like this: The hick- j less youngster is standing ou the street 1 : by the side of its keeper; a second or s I 'passes while the car comes to a stand-1 still; the infant then und itself grasped 1 firmly by the arm somewhere below the elbow, lifted bodily into the air, and lugged like a sack of beans or bundle of old clothes to the desired altitude. j On reaching its destination it isj yanked downwards in the same ruth- j less fashion, the victim landing oit j its little feet with a crash, after sailing through the air much after the style of a toy balloon at the end of a twenty-foot string on a windy day. Time. and again .have my sympathies been lacked by thU strangely horrible spectacle. In witnebs- ;ing it my strongest emotion is a desire to I 'strangle the person who is responsible for j it, and my next strongest one of aston-! ishment that the kiu"-shouid have be come sufficiently inured to the torture to stand it without" bawling. -Chicago Journal. Ixsprony in tlx- IjuhL A few veare ago leprosy was consid- rred one of the impossible diseases in Una land. It was held to be a peculiar devel opment of unsanitary conditions incident to long past ages. It was, to bo sure, known that in Africa, and possibly among the Chinese leprosy still lingered. : But now it has Tairly located itself in America, and is one more evil that may i reach enormous pro wrtionsl Dr. Allen, ' in the New York Medical Journal, con cludes: . "(1) Leprosy has existed in this j country o some extent for twenty, years; i (2) the tendency is tor ihe disease to in ! crease, not only from immigration, Ixut ifrom sporadic cases; (?) itis n couCagiona ! disease, and may also Ik? Pa;ismitteJ from ! parent to offspring:' (4htravmiKiott.takf place 111 soruj cases by, inoculation: (;) segregation lias been proved to be tho j jiily sure mean3 of freeing a country ! from Jt3 ravages'; (6) it U "the duty of the government .10 establish leprosy ho-J j itats or isolated settlements for tlie treat' t ment of the afflicted." Globe-Demo- j jrat. ' " . " . ' , A filIU Wlk In Shanghai. . I t In one part of the wails tlie patli. as ko ! ! f.f ten in China, has been encroached Upon. 1 riot for a rope walk, butasiik walk. : Ar or ;bov with two small shuttles- seize hold - i of the light weight attached atrneenl! (of the silken cord, and .with a few dextir- ons turns-sera itwwnqie corn, composm of several flUea, spinning, rheii llw. tiflxt, tlien the "next and sitcwj till livoi Fiiken threads are lieing fptin by hand witjiout tlie jyd of larpirn-ry. : At U10I othr ertd there are w;ihts hanging to; keep thoiu'fciut." . Hut the ottxT nnl t long AyayUf?;-and, as walk idMig it i' h3nlioavt;id bj-u.l.iing ainist the jci tni v; colored xiikeri ihiejid.v"" lleiv - ii iht I winding tliem jnw kmiH., ll': vi!ia j hoo convcrwition- It n'.U'ra ,;
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
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