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1 .THE" COURIER: " r - is published in the centre a fine tobacco person Co. Courier. Published Every Thursday BY NOELL BROS., Roxboko, N. 0 TERMS OF S UBSCRIPTION: growing section, making it one of the best warehousemen . m the : adjoining counties. Circulated largely in Person, Granville and Durham counties in . North. Carolina, and Halifax county Virginia. J . ? - , NOELL BROS. Proprietors, HOME FIRST: ABROAD NEXT. $1.50. Per Year In Advance. JOB WORK? " - .11 -J . .' V-'- " . - . . One Copy One Year - - - $1 50 w floor Six Month - - 7b VOL. 5. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1889. NO:37- an ue&cnpnon neauy executed , on-snort notice and at reasonable; prices. ' When in need of work-give the Cotjmer - trial.- HJH v L -I ' Bemitance must be made - by. -Registered fetter, 1 ost umce jrutn ur vow vw. PEBS0H SCROFULA It is that imparity in the blood, which, ac cumulating in the glands of the neck, pro duces unsightly lumps or swellings; which causes painful running sores on the arms, legs, or feet; which developes ulcers In the eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or deafness; which is the origin of pimples, can cerous growths, or the many other manifesta tions usually ascribed to "humors;" which, fastening upon the lungs, causes consumption and death. Being the most ancient, it is the most general of all diseases or affections, for very few persons are entirely free from it. I "7tn C U RED By taking. Hood's Sarsaparflla, which, by the remarkable cures It has accomplished, often when other medicines have failed, has proven Itself to be a potent and peculiar medicine for this disease. Some of these cures are really wonderful. If you suffer from scrofula, be sure to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. My daughter Mary was afflicted with scrof ulous sore neckfromthe time she was22months old till she became six years of age. Lumps formed in her neck, and one of them after growiDg to the size of a pigeon's egg, became a running sore for over three years. We gave her Hood's Sarsaparilla, when the lump and alt indications of scrofula entirely dlg .appeared, and now she seems to be a healthy child." J. S. Cablilk, Nauright, N. J. N. B. Be sure to get only Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by U druggists. fl tlx for $5. Prepared only 1 C. I. HOOD CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mxm. IOO Poses One Dollar j-'rOFESSIONAL, pAEDS C. S. WINSTEAD, " BANKER, ROXBOKO IV. C. IV ILL DO A BANKISG BUSINESS WITH W. E. WEBB, Cashier. NE VW MANAGEMENT. ARLINGTON HOTEL MAIN STREET, Danville, Virginia. YATES & RIcnABDSON, Proprietors. J, T. Strayhorn Uoxboia), JT..C. L. M. Warlick. Milton, N. C S TliAYHORN & WARLICK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice in all tVe courts of the State, and in the Federal courts. ' Mauagcment of "estates 6vicllv attended to. Special attention given to cases in Person and Caswell counties. ' a7V . Graham. 3. W. Win-toa Q.RAUAM & WINSTON, ATTORNEYS .4T LAW, Oxford, N. G. Practices in all he courts of the Stale. Han llcmonev and invest too same in best 1st Mort gage Real Estate Security. Settle estates and nivestiirato titles. r LUSSFOED, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Eoxboro, N. C. T S. MEKUITT, ATTORNEY AT LAW Boxboro, N. C. Prompt attention given to the collection of jlaiuas. V. K1TCH1X, ATTORNEY AT LAW, RoxBORO, N. 0. Practices wherever his services are required. TjR. J T. FULLER, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Boxhoro, N. C. Residence, place formerly occupied by Dr 0. E. Bradslier. Office over C. G. Mitcbe! l's drug store R T, T FlUZIER, is PRACTICING DENTISTRY sain at SoutS Boston, Va., office in MerS cha M Planters' Bank Building. li tnv D R. O. Q. NICHOLS Offers TTis f EOFESSIOXAL 8ERVICESto th PEOPLE A lioxboi o and surrounding country. Practices in all the branches of Medicine. DR. C. W. BRADSHER DENTIST, Ofiers his services to the public. Calls promptly attended to in Person and adjoining counties. Any one wishing work in his line, bv writing bim at Bushy Fork, N. C, vill be attended at once. JJR. J. C BRADSHER, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, ROXBORO, N. C. JJR.R. A.MOBTOST, PKACTICINO PHYSICIAN. Offers his professional services to the people of Rnxooro and surrounding country. Praciices in all the branches of medicine. 10-t-ly - . EERLESS DYES lotur.Owu Dyelng,at Home. v, Th..r n a va ovarvf liinff. Thev are sold every where. Price lOe. a package. They have no equal for Strength, Brightness, Amount in Packages m for Fastness of Color, or jura-fadwg Ajaanhes. They do not crock or smut; colore. sale by J. D. M .rris U Co, R'?xboro, N: C, W. T. Pass & Co., Roxboro N C, and W, G. Coleman, Gen, mds. GordontOD N.C. PAIITIESS CfflLDBIRTB KOW ACCOMPLISHED. Every lady should know. Plnd 1 stamp. BAKEB BEM.CO.,BoxfiHBnffaloJ.Y . ERSIAN BLOOM, Best Complexion eeaa o tifier, Skin Opn and Blemih Eradicator knomu jggOjtamp for trial pack&ga. Addreea a above. PARKER'S--HAIR BALSAM jrTomolca a IiDcununt frowLh. k never raiis to uss'ore Gray Hair to its Youthful Colcr. f Cnresacalp diseases and hair falliatp ' at IVnirtrlRt'. ' - i Enable for Cough Colds, inward Pains, Exbawt&pr The Crb M A Rabbit Driver. Along the ooest of France, where the land line is formed fay long stretches of sandbanks lying tetflreen the high cliff uplands, there used to be found innu merable rabbits, who ladejtheir burrows in the dry sand, above fcigh water mark. They ran one hole into aUer, so that the labyrinth of underground passages frequently extended for tfr eral hundred feet, rendering it next to 'mpossible to dislodge the inmates in the sua! manner by slipping a ferret into om )f the holes. For if this 'were done, tb -ferret would simply drive the rabbits from one corner of the network to another, where they would hide as soon as they had evaded- bim. The continental poacher, ever prolific In devices, knowing that tlie instinct of the crab will lead him always to descend in search of watter, efaborated a system Df placing a bolt net at the mouth of every hole he could locate, no matter how many there might be. Then taking a dozen or so good sized crabs, he fast ened about half an inch of composite wax : an die to the center of each shell, fixing ihena firmly enough for his. purpose by slightly melting the wax at the bottom, and then pressing it to the shell. These pieces of wax candles he obtained from the innkeepers and lodging house keep ers in the adjacent coast town. He then lighted the candles and turned jne crab into each of the main runs. The srab just taken from a damp place im mediately sought the lowest ground in the burrow, carrying his light along with bim where light had never penetrated before. The rabbits, frightened almost to death, rushed madly through the runs to the-mouths of the holes, sprang Dut into the bolt nets, and, hopelessly tangling themselves in the meshes, lay panting until the poacher came and put them out of their misery. I have known more than one hundred rabbits taken from, a single burrow at one haul, and the practice proved so destructive to the rabbits that the French government took the matter in hand and subjected every offender to a heavy fine and imprison ment. V. P. Pond in Youth's Com panion. A Salutation In Northern Africa. A short distance ahead we overtook md passed a caravan headed the same way we were going, and my men had tto go through the process of salutation, and while I begrudged the time it took I :ould not but feel that the Moors would 3onfer a great boon upon enlightened America if they could only come over and introduce their form of salutation. A souple of Americans meet, grab each other's hands, and you wonder how much water they have contracted to pump in five minutes. An Englishman, aears a friend and they pound each Dther on the shoulder, while, you look on nervously, wondering who will draw first blood. Frenchmen meet and they fall to kissing each other, while you go off in a corner and feel sick. Italians fall into each other's arms and go into convulsions, while you are hunting for the doctor. The Portuguese hook their chins over each other's shoulders, as if they wanted to find which pocket held the handkerchief ; while Spaniards hug each other, with tears streaming down their cheeks, leaving you in doubt as to who has just died ; but the Arab, when he meets his friend, advances toward him, they join hands in firm pressure for just a moment, and then, without a grimace or movement of the lips, raise their own hand and touch it to their lips, saying afterward: "Welcome sight." The whole thing is done with dignity that is thoroughly manly, and yet with a hint of tenderness that is nothing less than beautiful. Cor. Boston Transcript. Blanual Training in Toledo. -This intense interest in the new work had at first to be so modified as not to interfere with the regular prosecution of the intellectual or class room work proper. After some experimenting, the two lines of work were harmoniously adjusted to each other. Boys and girls pass from their algebra and history to their drawing, wood carving or clay modeling, and from these again to geom etry nd English literature, with a hearty zest for all. The girls in the domestic economy department con their Virgils or don their cooking suits, and prepare with ease and grace such savory and palatable food as. would mollify the most radical opponent of industrial training. In short, there is such a harmonious blend ing of the useful and the practical with the higher intellectual culture, that the unprejudiced observer needs but to in spect the work to be convinced of the reasonableness and great utility of such training. The advantages of the manual department are open to none except pupils of the public schools. Those who take the manual work do the same amount of mental work in the class room studies as those who have no work in the industrial department. Superintendent II. W. Compton in The Century. A Ring; and Its Setting. Probably the most curious ring inNeV York is worn by tho .wife.of a wealthy and well known lawyer. She has three handsome, manly sons, but only one daughter, who made her debut into soci ety this season, and was much admired. This girl is the idol of her parents, and the ring worn by her mother is a testi mony to their affection, though a very eccentric one. "When the girl was 10 years of age the father presented to the mother at -Christmas a riruj in which were set two little semi-translucent white stones surrounded by .diamonds, and for a long while resisted his wife's entreaties to tell Jier what sort of stones they were she never having seen anything at all re sembling them. Finally he confessed to her a little shamefacedly that when their' small daughter had . lost her pretty little milk teeth he had saved the two front ones and carried them about in his pock etbook for a long time until the idea oc curred to him of utilizing them in this way. The wife laughed at him a good deal, but continued to wear the ring and still wears it, though very few persona know the story of its setting.- Brooklyn LEagle. ' Fanny Fern's Beginning. It is said ;that , Fanny Fern had t never written, a word for publication until she bad - passed her 40th birthday. She was !unconsious of her latent- powers until nusf bri ime bade her exert the-r-Albany Cultivator. . ; . , THE FAMILY OF DOSERS. Growth of a Pernicious Habit Enriching Patent Medicine Proprietors. "Drink it; it can't iiurt you. " , 7T Unless you happen to be a person with a strong will of your own, this injunc tion, with its accompanying assurance, is likely to do the business, and you straightway take the first step in the broad avenue which leads to the great and ever growing community of dosers; It is probable that Americans are greater sufferers from the dosing habit than the people of any nation on the footstool, and it would be dtfficult to say what nostrum they would not grasp at' and greedily gulp down, provided it were put up in an attractive form, with a name no matter what blown in the bottle. v And there is good reason for this pre dilection for patent proprietary potions. In the first place, a bottle of medicine, although claiming to be a specific for but one disease or one class of disorders, is shown also to be a radical cure, or helpful, or at the least innocuous in any or all other forms of bodily derange ments; .and as this fact is testified to, not only by the dealers, who of course have no interest in deceiving the public, but by an endless array of unsolicited testi monials from clergymen, who, it would seem, indulge in this variety of literature aa a recreation from excessive labor in the soul saving department of industry; from actors, actresses, singers and other show people, who therefrom receive in cidental notoriety; from respectable druggists, whose position of middlemen is merely an adventitious circumstance and not to be urged against their known disinterested conduct outside of business and after business hours ; and, generally, from unknown and unknowable persons whose last and usual place of abode is the greatest possible distance from . the city or town in which you happen to live. Then the inducements for a copious libation are generous to a fault, but this is not the fault of the proprietor. Quite the contrary. While the temperate doser is forced to pay $1 lawful money for each and every bottle of the syrup, elixir, bitters or whatever appellation the medi cine affects, the regular and approved doser is offered special terms o for six bottles so that, beside being given an opportunity to indulge his dosing propen sities to the full, he has the satisfaction of knowing that the more of the stuff lie devours the more money he is saving, and, conversely, the more saving he is, tho greater the- opportunity for dosing whicli is vouchsafed him. Thus, by one Btrote, he is building up both his fortunes and his healtli. And then it is so handy to have in the house! Could anything bo more con venient than to have in one's cupboard the wherewith to cure rheumatism, coughs, colds, neuralgia, chilblains, cancer, ringworm, consumption, corns and kidney complaints, when that where withal is comprised within the conven ient compass of one quart bottle (five to the gallon), and especially when, as if by special providence, it usually happens that symptoms of all the diseases named are ever present within the house which has that puissant bottle in its cupboard There are, to be sure, incredulous per sons who hold that this perpetual dosing does no good; but these doubters should consult a few of the consumers of the patent medicines, and liear said consum ers' testimony as to how much better they feel during the dosing period, which generally lasts the year round, and how depressed they feel when they abstain for a. day or two. -The doubters should also examine the bank accounts of . .the manufacturers and dealers in proprietary specifics, and the rooms of .their spacious and beautf ully adorned houses and their extensive grounds. If they shall then assert that patent medicines do no good, they are doubting Thomases indeed, and it were idle to further discuss tho matter with them. Boston Transcript. Why They Xave the City. To see the world, its great features, its natural scenery, i3 a fine and good desire j3 nn enlarging and ennobling experi ence; to enjoy the rolling of tho creamy crested waves on the azure field of the sea, the spread of changing color on the mountain sides, the sweep of leagues on Jeagues of prairie, the depth, and depth of forests, is all enriching to the soul, and sometimes refreshing to the body. But it is not in this noble rage that the host of travelers leave the city; it is for the sake of gayety, in order to wear new clothes and see those of others, to tell of it, and because others do it. To some, of course, the need of a vacation is vital; a week more of the same scenes, the old places, the old faces, is destructive to the nerves, and change of air is indispensable to continued existence. Of these we are not speakin g. Let them go, and speed their going; it is the necessity of life that impels them.' But the great majority of people, who go with no such need or motive, would perhaps, in the middle of their gayest season at seaside, spring, or mountain, gladly exchange cells with those who consider themselves city bound prisoners. Harper's Bazar. Inventions Patented by Women. - That women can invent and can patent .their inventions is shown by a review of the patents issued to them. That1 three women should have patented three kinds of corsets, and four more should have devised four new kinds of bustles, and that one should have hit upon a combined corset and Jbustle, is not very astonish ing. The wonder is, rather, , that men should have, during the. same period, devised five or six times as many new kinds of each article. It is not even unexpected when one finds that one woman has patented a new: and useful plumber's trap to. prevent sewer gas from escaping into a house from a washbowl. But when it. is foirad, as the fact is, that one woman has patented a successful hay press, and another a machine for making barrels, the right for Which has been pur chased .by a great barrel making corpora tion, it becomes apparent that woman's intellect can- grasp intricate mechanical movements, and combine them for the benefit of the race. New York Sun. Japan's Civilization. Japan has 250 newspapers, 1,000 miles of railway and 2,000 or 8,000 miles of telegraph line. A Japanese reporter col lects news, but does'-not in every case r it. " He tells what he knows - to ("writer I Bf?f? yriters.Inter-Opean,. - A Snake Charmer Falls a Victim, . India has just lost a snake charmer, one Kondajee'Muboojeerwho fell a,mar tyr to his belief in his own powers.; A lad 6 years old, named Vlttoo Heorree, was bitten by a. cobra at Mazagon,-Bom-bay, and, as usual, a snake charmer was at once sent for. " Kondajee arrived at the spot in half an hour, but the boy was" already dead. The snake charmer in quired where the " cobra" had taken f refuge, and, on a woodpile being pointed out,, he removed the wood, found; and 8eized-the snake, and endeavored to make it bite the xlead , boy, declaring that if it did so the t child would at once- be re- stored to life. For. two hours he perse- i vered,; hut the snake refused to strike thai body, and at bust, irritated beyond en-!i drove up the; , two . pyramids looked ; durance, turned and bit- Kondajee in tjiej, email.- to me, ''buV before I reached' hand. The snake charmer admlyplacetlthe ,. top ' of . CheopSr' though I -haoT the snake in a copper ' vessel and then j two stalwart Arabs to lift me up the sat down. v A vehicle was sent for -'and rocky steeps, I reached the conclusion the man placed inade, but by the fime that "they were .mighty mountains of he reached home he was dead. , ; stone, and that over 210 pounds of solid ; The story testifies strongly to the belief ( flesh and 63 years were a heavy load to of the snake charmers of India in their ! carry up to the summit where forty odd power over the snakes, and in the exist- 1 centuries sit enthroned. I looked in vain ence of a superstition that the second bite of a snake will restore the life that the first has taken away. The apathy of the Hindoo is evident by the fact that the snake charmer used no effort what ever to save his own life. Whether he thought that he was proof against its ill effects was not stated in the' evidence given at the inquest held on the body of the child, but it is clear that he had no belief in the virtues of any antidote or mode of treatment. It is most probable that he was confident in the power of the drugs, ointments, or charms he had previously used to protect him,- or the evidence of the spectator showed that upon finding the snake in the woodpile he had seized it without the slightest hesitation. It is certainly singular that a man . accustomed to handle snakes should have been so convinced that their bite had power to restore life as well as to cause death. Foreign Letter. The Arabs in Central Africa. j heart was warmed up here in Egypt when The havoc of Arab traders in Central seeing the names of some old acquaint Africa is vividly illustrated -by the fact ' ances now dead. I felt we were living that one, of the tribes Bishop Taylor in- j over again a long dead past. I saw Jenny tended to reach when he started his mis- ; Lind's name upon the pyramid. Did she sions three or four years ago was wiped have it cut or did some of her lovers do out of existence some time before the bishop's missionaries finally arrived at the borders of the desired country. The bishop was attracted to tlus region by Lieut. Wissmann's description of the big city of the Beniki, where Dr. Pogge and , he traveled for miles alons: one street. Camping at the further end of the town, they were visited by about five thousand ef the inhabitants, whom the travelers described as a gentle, cheerful and in dustrious people. About the time Dr. Summers, of the Taylor missions, reached i the adjoining Tushilange country, Lieut, j western sands on his tireless voyage "Wissmann again visited the Beniki re- around the world. We were glad our gion, where all was silent in the big ; path did not carry us across those bleak town, the huts in ruins and the street ; sands. We have not abandoned our race Overgrown with tall grass. Tho Arabs with him, but we have much .to see be-from- Nyangwe had swooped down upon ' fore we can gird our loins for the home the peaceful spot and had killed, captured 1 stretch. My old legs enabled me to de or dispersed the inhabitants. j 6cend Cheops' ribbed aides uite rapidly. How to put an end to the terrible out-! so as to look upon the sphinx as the rages of the Arabs in Central Africa is a i shades of -evening should " gather around problem that is beginning to give serious ' it. I wished the boys to see it first when concern to all the promoters of white the broad glare of the day should not too enterprises in Africa. New York Sun. Some Hints Concerning Exercise. I i It is a positive advantage in the amount of work accomplished if we turn aside to rest after meals. But by rest I do not , mean doing nothing except digest, but ; digestion is advantaged by fight exercise. I Exercise for this purpose should be of a sort that gives pleasure, and is not a task. Exercise that gives no thrill of delight is at least defective, if not radically wrong. To walk a niile as a duty is nearly value less. To ramble in pleasant woods for an hour, as a botanist, exercises the nerves rather than the muscles, and is of vast value. What, then, i3 our physi ologvof study in relation to digestion? (1) Do not touch any sort of literary work, a book, pen, or even newspaper. for two hours after eating. For the same reason you- should not lecture, sing, or preach under the same conditions. (2) Work your brain with impunity for several hours after such" rest. (3) Such rest should not be absolute indolence, but light exercise, and pleasurable. (4) Do riot go from study to the table directly. There should be a brief reaction before dining. M. Maurice, M. D., in Democrat. Globe- Emperor Nero's Canal. Among the most important public works in Greece is the canal through the Isthmus of Corinth, of which Gen. Turr is the De Jsseps. - It was begun in 1882, and was to be completed this year,. 1888, but it will not he finished for several years yet. It has the same breadth and depth as the Suez canal, and is about four miles long. The deepest cut is 250 feet. It passes through- solid rock, and its sides are as yet left almost vertical. It is to be lighted by electricity. The cost was estimated at $7,000,000. This canal will save-yessels from Trieste or Brindisi to Athens or Constantinople about 200 miles; it will save ships from Gibraltar about seventy-five miles. It. has been' dug largely by Italians, Turks and Monte negrins; Few Greeks have." been em ployed; they do not take kindly to such work. . The canal carries out a plan that was cherished by many of the ancients; it actually follows the course which was surveyed by order of the. Emperor Nero. Thomas D Seymour in Scribner's. - The Salon's Prize Picture. The grand prize has been carried off by M. Detaifle, who painted for this salon a big picture which he named- "The Dream. " It is a clever painting, but not a masterpiece, and it mixes up realism and dreamland.' - We e shown a camp of soldiers, or rather soldiers wrapped up in their ruga and asleep on a moor, or, 'at any rate.'what seems in the moonlight a wile plain.- The arms ara Btnrilrpd anri Mfis arftftfrfitcTieoT from stack to stack. , Sentinels pace up and down. Far :off tie mfiitary incendiary. has been at work, and the .moonbeams struggle through a lowering, sky.- One must 6tand at'some -distance to see-the dream, wW appears in clouds that tak the form'or-a;umphant.'sim3r of the great Napoleon. ;-The ;Bdartis rwmcu j wayeu at t reiuua, Muaisugv u ! litz are bornei .! the:fsrjeciraI;host-fo - spectral that afr any monMit : dispersed by a inoonbeam. Paris Cor. 1 Argonaut. i THE PYRAMID OF XHEOPST CUatblngr 'to the Summit Where -, ' Centuries Sit .Enthroned. Forty. "We drove in tho afternoon to the tvt- amids in a victoria, over a beautiful road -l--t m m - mm snaaea Dy a double line or line trees, j Old Cheops did not look the same. He looked small from this avenue of civili I ration, 'Years ago T waded to liirn through deep sands. The hot sun burned into my brain, and I wore a green veil to jprotect my'eyes irom the glare and the driving ; sands. Now -green fields run : nearly up to Geezeh. Said and . Ismail i; Pashas havers left Egypt covered, with tdebt, but .they done much, to improve the material V of the land. - As . we. for two sets of initials coupled in brack ets, which I cut in the cold stone tiiirty six years ago. They are lost, among masses of others. It is well. She is fat and nearly 60; I am fat and over 60. One flame burned out, another burning. She did not even wait to learn from me if I fulfilled my promise to grave our names upon the pyramid's highest stone. I wonder if in these thirty-six years she has ever thought of that promise made under the softest of skies, and which one of us thought could never be forgotten? What a boon it is to man that his heart is made of malleable material rather than of adamantine and brittle steel I . uy tne way, sensible men justly m- veigh upon the habit of "vanity ' in carv ing its name upon monuments and thereby defacing them. But there is some ! sense in cutting one's name upon imper ishable rock which does not deface it. j Some one may come afterward, and, see ing it, feel like meeting an old friend. My it? I do not know. But for a moment there came from the west over the dead 1 desert a trill of perfected harmony which ! I never heard but once and will never , hear again until an angel solo shall come to my ear from the white robed ones hov ering around tne throne of the eternal. I can almost fcney that Bayard Taylor had the name cut. I have a vague recollec tion of his telling me of, his cutting it somewhere. He almost worshiped the Swedish nightingale. We watched the sun sink beneath the much reveal its defacement. We then loitered about until the full moon came up from tne east. Une snouia j 866 famous monument first by-mbon- . u&uu Then there is one point from which it can be seen, when it is not all fancy and sentiment, which can pro nounce it the calmest and most original monument of the world. We were for tunate in being here during the full moon. One visit at such time repays the long trip to Egypt. There is a quiet grandeur about the pyramids by moonlight which one cannot conceive who sees them only in the broad glare of 6unlight. We walked around them so as to see them in deep shade, and then again in the silvery light. I think the boys will remember it ; ;onS as mey uve. vaiter tuuriisuu m vi"vlbv' A Housewife's Plan for Dinner. A notable little housewife whom I once knew, and who never asks what she shall have for dinner, once told me her plan. She said: "Somebody has to think it all out. I can't trust my ser vant. I won't bother my husband. I won't take the time to study it over ! every day. So I make out a list every two weeks of fourteen breakfasts and dinners ahead. I try to avoid too fre quent repetitions, and it isn't very hard to do that. I don't make out a regular bill of fare, but just put down one or -two of the principal dishes and the dessert. "Then at the end of the two weeks I I begin over again I don't make just the same list over again, and I don't 6tick to my programme too closely. I do my own buying, so I know pretty well what is new' in the markets, and if I want to change the dinner I do it. And after the first list is made out it is easy enough to write out the next one. "By doing my own buying I servo" three purposes: I keep posted on the markets, I get exercise and I save money. I . never run . a grocer's or a butcher's biiL If I have not enough money to buy what I .wakat, I go with out. I find it worries my husband less to have something missing from his din ner than it does to have bills to pay, for we are poor, you know." David A. Cur tis in New York Mail and Express. Taxing the "little Stranger.' But of all the taxes ever imposed on a people the "birth, tax" was the most odious. It lasted thirteen " years, dating from-1095. Every person not in receipt of alms was retmirea to pay two shillings i for every "little stranger" that came mto I existence. The tax was a great burden 1 to the lower orders; but the nobility and 3 gentry were .subjected to still heavier .payments than, their poorer neighbors, Thirty pounds had to be - pjjd ; on the birth of a .duke. This sum gradually '. diminished, axxwding to a certain fixed 1 scale, until it reached ten shillings. 4 Chambers' Journal. ; ' ' " Parental Judgment. : . Little Dot (at the table) Seme more of that,: please. -' Y:-1- ' juamma who nas nmsnea ncr . mea - feej3 a Benw of repletion) Mercy, jq j you 11 KlU yOUrseil. . i . r- . v p. rva. rolir rarnA in IntA find " hflS . lUfit j j - ju not git quietly by and see a I chjhj 6tarve.--mah&, World, ; A Frenchman at tho Seaside.1 ' For more than a month there has not been a cloud in Ihe sky, - the earth it parched and craoklng, and 1 life is only rendered tolerable to an . Englishman by the. plentiful use of a cold tub, but a Frenchman does noi consider that the bath should be entered lightly or without E ropery precautions. -,In happier j dimes e would, no doubt, make his annual visit to some fashionable seaside bathing place and . there disport . himself -on the beach in a tight and many.hued garment once a day, stalking down a plank, path across the shingle, slowly and with con scious pride,- toward the sea, till he was immersed as-far above the knee as the authorities would permit and then he would: splash himself discreetly and with caution, or, perhaps join hands and .boh u'Acircie wjtn ladies and gentle men, similarly attired-; but here there is no f plage," and no "costume de bain" nothing but a tin bath and solitude. ' We lose Jus society for ten ? days, and he takes six baths. On his retirement from the world ; he takes medicine and devotes the first two days to-preparing himself for the ceremony. Then for six consecutive days he takes a bath, the water being slightly warmed, that he may not catch a chill, and then he re mains in doors for two more days, that his system may have time to recover from the shock, before he exposes him self to the chance of catching cold under an August sun. The ten days passed, he reappears among us washed and re juvenated, and so marvelous in his economy that, onhose half dozen baths, he manages to look perfectly clean ail the year round. All the Year Round. Unique Combination of Belies. The most unique thing in the way of a combination of relics, and one which must, make the army of collectors of curios, antique and bric-a-brac pale with envy, is an umbrella owned by a cattle i man in Arizona, named Wilson. The handle is made from a piece of the Charter oak, in which is set a small tri angular piece of stone chipped from Plymouth rook; the stick is made from a branch of the old elm tree .at Cam bridge under which Washington as sumed command of the colonial armies; the brass cap on the . lower end of the stick is made from the trimmings of a sword scabbard once used by Gen. Grant; the green covering origi nally served as the lining of a coat worn on state occasions by the suave and courtly Aaron Burr; the ribs, ' springs and other metal trappings were manu factured from a small steel cannon cap tured by the- Americans from the Hes sians at t he battle of Brandy wine. Eight oblong pieces of brass have been inserted in as many sides of the octagonal handle. These were made from buttons cut from the- military . coats of eight generals lamous in the Revolutionary war: Once a Week. Arctio and Antarctic Icebergs. It is not generally known that a marked difference exists in the form of the icebergs of the two hemispheres, Those of the Arctic ocean are irregular in shape, with lofty pinnacles, cloud rapped towers and glittering domes, whereas the southern icebergs are flat topped and solid looking. The former reach the shore by narrow- fjords, but the formation of the latter is more regu lar. The northern are neither so large nor so numerous as those met with in the Southern ocean. In 1855 an immense berg was sighted in 42 degs. south latitude, which drifted about for several months and was sighted by many ships. It was 300 feet high, 6ixty miles long and forty miles wide, and was in shape like a horseshoe. "Tts two sides inclosed a sheltered bay meas uring forty miles across. A large emi grant ship ran into this bay and was lost with all on board. Only about one-ninth of an iceberg is visible above water. There are several well authenticated ac counts of icebergs 1,000 feet high having been sighted in the Southern ocean. This would make their, total height 9,000 feet, or nearly two miles. Detroit Free Press. ' Preserving Flowers Natural Colors. A method of preserving the natural colors of flowers, recommended in the Deutsche Botanische Monatshef te, con sists in dusting salicylic acid on the plants as they lie in the press and removing it again with a brush when the flowers -are dry. Red eolor3 in particular are well preserved by this agent. Another method of applying the same preservative is to use a solution of one part of salicylic acid in fourteen of alcohol by means of blotting paper or cotton wool soaked in it and placed above and below the flow el's. Powdered boracic acid yields nearly as good results. Dr. Schonland recom mends, as an improvement in the method of using BulphUrous acid for-preserving the color, that in the case of delicate flowers they might be placed loosely be tween sheets of vegetable -parchment be fore immersion in the liquid, so as to preserve their natural form. Home Journal. " Aggravating to the Eye. '' It is a carious fact that most of the stout and red faced women at Long Branch are prodigal in the use of red parasols, and the btouter and the redder they are,the bigger1 and brighter- are their sun shades. . One can but think of glorified beets in looking at them. On a. doudy day or in a cloudy country,' or as a bit of color to light' up a landscape, the red parasol' does very wefl, but v it best fulfills its mission in color and size over the head of a great - church dignitary,' a bronze faced Buddhist priest, or the fruit stall of - a . black eyed Reman : market woman. . Taken collectively, with . the sand, the sea, and. the sun all a-glitter-ing, the red parasol is - an aggravation to the eye. -New York Press. - Products of Scandinavian abor.''" v The exhibition of the products of Scan dinavian industry, . opened ? at Copcrv liagen, lias "cached nnexpectedly large dimensions and has been converted in a treasure ir an international exhibition. The Russian. uhibit is said to be taiagnifi- cent, the pirr museums having been treasures. In tit) hygienic department there -are: more thw1 400 exhibitors. New-York Post.t;'-; - " A ray of light travels 11,100,000 mSta In a minute, - , ' , JQL IET RESTING t PLACES. Family Crave , on an Old Farm Th v Modern-Cemetery. . Some at us perhaps, . may remember to have seen a cluster of many family graves in an uncultivated nook or dell of an old farm, where some oAhe less com- ' mercially valuable, but equally beautiful. original umoer trees - nave Deen allowed, to grow undisturbed, till their, very size : makes :the few brownstone grave slabs seem modest and nestling to the ground, s and where,' the cattle -having been' kept oat, the wood violet ani other shy wild plants add their delicate charms; while they also mark the peaceful beclusion of the spot. Such simple and yet dignified -,-rural furnishings, are in harmony with the purpose to which the place is dedi- cated arid to the feelings of the sympa- tnetKjasito? to iC,jum leave the imagina tion free to conjure up if it will, roman tic visions of the past. In such a spot the thought might easily 'occur to one that here was indeed a restful place in which to have laid away the mortal re-. Trtfthw of . a . few of those weary human beings whose life struggle it was , to' sub due nature to their own aims, and wbo yet finally succumbed to her and whose remains became a,part of her. How- much more appropriate to their lives are such graves, with such, sur roundings, than they would have been in .. some great " cemetery, : where their modest . little . gravestones 'would ' have been put to shame by scores of big, 6tar irigly white Egyptian obelisks, broken topped ; Greek columns, ' Roman urns, weeping Italian angels, Renaissance can opies, Gothic spires, and all the other kinds of showy monuments, and" where all restlessness and seclusion are annihi lated by rows upon rows and scattering swarms of factory made, -white marble gravestones, all set up on edge so as to be as conspicuous as possible and looking as if they would be heaved out of plumb by every frost. Such stones have, in fact, the very unmonumental quality of being ' in a state of unstable equilibrium. And as if all these white monuments and gravestones were "not enough ; to frighten nature into submission, innu merable fences are added, mostly of the sort which may be described as the f 'this-is-the-most-show - you -can - get-for- your-money" cast iron fence. And, as iron rusts mto a color which is 'some what harmonious with nature, such a catastrophe is carefully avoided by paint ing all ironwork a gloomy black, a vivid white, or by gilding it, like a cresting over a chromo tea store. The managers of cemeteries seem to be proud of these private fights with nature, and db all they can to aid and abet them with their ribbon gardening and by planting all tho most artificial looking specimens of "na ture's brighf productions" that' skillful nurserymen can induce to grow. They have no limiting "rules as to showiness, but are only too glad to sell lots to those who will spend most in making a show that wixi advertise' the cemetery .J. C. Olmstead in Garden and Forest. Calcutta and Its Associations. ' Calcutta cannot fairly be classed among those places which attract one at first sight. The Hooghly river, upon which ' it stands, might .more justly be called the Ugly river, and the city itself is merely a big,, showy, flat, dusty, thor oughly modern town, which, being neither so ancient nor so conveniently situated as its two great rivals, Madras and Bombay, might well" 6eem " to have become the metropolis of India by mis take. But if there is not much romance in its outward appearance there is more than enough in the associations connected with it. Not ten minutes' walk from this hotel in which I write lies beneath Ihe shadow of the shining dome and jaunty pink col umns of the new postoffice that fatal spot where 123 English prisoners died of suffocation in one night, cursing with their last breath the savage despot whose cruelty has handed down to remotest ages the terrible name of the Blaek Hole of Calcutta. In the very center of the bustling and populous business quarter once stood, if native tradition may be trusted, the gloomy temple of the demon -who presides over secret murder, whence the future capital took its name of '-Kali 'Kuttah" (Kali's shrine). David Kcr in New York Times. " Oldest Chime of Bells. The oldest chime of bells in America is the chime of eight on Christ church,J5aleni street, Boston; They were brought from England in 1744, and were procured by subscription, Mr. John Rowe giving the freight. They cost' 560; the charges, for wheels and putting them in place were 93. The inscriptions on them are as follows: The tenor first says: ' 'This peal of eight bells is the gift of a number of generous persons to Christ church in Boston, New England. Anno 1744, A. R." The second: "This ' church'; was founded in tho year 1723, Timothy Cul ler, doctor in divinity, the first rector,-A. R. 1744." The third saysi "We are the first ring of bells cast forthe British em pire in North America, A. R, 1744.. The fourth erslaims: "God preserve the Church of ETigland, 1744." The fifth commemorates ''William. Shirley, Esq., governor of Massachusetts bay in N. E., Anno 1744.M The sixth bell tells us t "The subscription of these bells was begun by John Hammock, and Robert Temple, church wardens, 1744. '? The seventh saj's: "Since generosity haa opened our mouths,' our tongues shall read aloud its "-praise, 1744,''. and the eighth concludes: "Abel Rudhall, of Gloucester, cast us all, Anno 1744." ' Boston Herald. ' Blast Ee Better Trained. ;-.We need and must have greater phys ical endurance, stronger- mental powers, . better executive ability. In , the good - old time '. of slow communication, a ' cleverman competed with hut a few: fcf;-. his immediate neighbors, and easily rose their superior. ' .-Now he finds in any field he enters thousands who contend against him; - ho must, tliorefore, be bet ter trained, and ' intellectually better armed than his lather before him. was, ' .else,, so ) far" from making progress, : ha .cannot .even hold bis own. but must be crowded out or trampled down in tho , fierce contest for supremacy. Francca -FisherWootL- - ' - ' . -: It is good to put a bother away -over' night.' It all straightens out in tho morn ' V.
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
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