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f HE .COURIER t js publJj&ed In thecentre of a fine tobacco reroMjiijgtfipJkjnTtTwkiug one of the best BY NOELL BROS., Roxboro.N. C TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ,One Copy One Year .- - .- . $1 50 One Copy Six Months . - - - 75 Remittance mut be made by Registered Letter, Post Office Order or -rental Note. '' advertising ' mediums tor merchants and ... warhodhtii:eii. hi the 'adjoining 'counties . : . Circulated largely in Person Granville and Durham, counties in ,Nrtfu Carolina, and -Halifax county .TirgiBia.i.' - . KOELL BROS. Proprietors. home first: Abroad next. .. $1.50-Per Tear-In Advance. 5 VOL. -b. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, TUNE 13, 1889. N0.43- of all 'description neatly executed on short : notice.and at reasonable prices. Whenan' peed of work give the Courier a trial.". . -. " person Co. Courie Published Every -Thursday mi I The Chief Reason for the great suc cess of Hood's Sarsaparilla is found in the article Itself. It is merit that wins, and the fact that Hood's Sarsaparilla actually ac complishes what is claimed for it, is what has given to this medicine a popularity ac3 sale greater than that of any other sarsapa- IVAsnvi-I- Aiio rllla or 1)100(1 Plu-i" lVlerlL VYinS fier before the public. food's Sarsaparilla cures Scrofula, Salt Rheum and all Humors, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Biliousness, overcomes That "fired Feeling, creates an Appetite, strength- tdis the Nerves, builds up the Whole System. jlldsuptue wnoie system. pariiin is sold by all drug-I Hood's Sarsa fists. $t; six for S5. Prepared by C. I. Hood Uo., Apothecaries, Lowell, "Mass. j-'rOFEBSIONAL jAFDS C. 8. WINSTEAD, BANKER, ROXBORO 1. , WILL DO A BANKING BUSINESS WITII W. E. WEBB, Cashier. NEW MANAGEMENT. ARLINGTON HOTEL MAIN STREET, Danville, Virginia. YATES & RICIIAHDSOX, Proprietors. J .. T. Strayhorn. lioxboro, N. C. GTUA.YIIORN & o If. SI. Warlick. " Milton, X. C WARLICK, . ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practice in all the couits of the State ami in the Federal courts. Management of estates strictly attended to. i Sveciat attdiUoa given to case9in Person and Caswell counties. W. Graham. It. W. Wia.tjn G HALT AM & WINSTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Oxford, N. Ct Practieeg in all be conrts of tho State Tlan 1ic money and invent the same in best 1st Mort gage I4e;il Estate Security. Settle estates and investigate titles. yT X.UNSiT01il, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Koxboro. N. C. R. ME KG ITT, ATTORNEY' AT LAW Koxboro, N. C. Prompt Maiics. attention given to the collection ox 7 W. lilTCUlN, ATTORNEY AT LAW,. - RoxBoao, N. C. I'racflces wherever bis services are reqviireil. JjR. J T. FULLER, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Koboro, N. C. Residence, place formerly occupied by Dr C. E. Bradsher. Oifice over C. G. MitcheTs drug store R T. T FRAZIER, is PRACTICINtt DENTISTRY pain at Soutl P.oston, Va., ofilce nd Planters' Bank Iiuilding. in Mer5 cha 103 mu D Li. C. G. NICHOLS Offers His fROFESSIOAL SEUVICES;to th PEOPLE of Ivoxbojo and surrounding country. Tract'icea in all the branches of Medicine. DR. C. W. BRADSHER DENTIST, Ofiers his services to the public. Calls promptly iitiemled to iu Person and adjoininjf counties. Anv one wishing work tn his line, bv writing him at Imshy i'ork, N. C, will be attended at 10 R. J. C BRADSHEli, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, ROXBORO, N. C. .QK.R. A. MORTON, Practicing physician. Offers his professional services to the people of Itoxooro and surronnfling country. Pracjices i n all the branches of medicine. N 10-t-iy . i , .- DYES Do lour Own Dyeing, at Home. . Th,y will dye everything. They ore sold every where. Price JOe-. a package. Theyhav8noetual for Strength, Brightness, Amount in Packages or for Fastness of Color, or non-fading Qualities. They do not crock or smut; 40 colors. Por sale by J. D. Morris & Co. R xborc, N. C, W. T. Pass & Co.i Roxboro N C, and H. G- Coleman, Genrads. Gordontoo n.c. , -r:r. :. PAINLESS CBXLDSXRTB WW AUUOMl'JUSH.KD. Everjr I Ail v nhnnlrl know. pena Btanr rsena stamp. UAH. Ell KKM.. t!0:,Bo.rl'JiSutralq,H.H. PERSIAN BLOOM. Sen Complexion Bea tlfier. Skin Case and Blemish Kradicotor knqyn. Sand sta'ms for trial package. Address as above. lOleanses tu U-antiKfc thajmlr. iromoU)sa liufurlarjtjrvowlb. - K iever Faiij fo Mesfoie Grays, Hai 4t Ycutbfu! Ct Icr. ri Curessca Vp Uiacascs ana hair tiair.sn. ZS - frV;. fit rrrgP-isK t,- PARKER'S GINCgRTOftiC s-r jigcrE WB1 r;niEra-nEERLESS "fONCC- WHEN A CH1LP," .'r Once, when a ohlld. I passed a sunny field; All frank and clear fie morn before ma tar; A broad blue sky and waving grass revealed The open smile of Nature's face in May. My childish heart was like a happy bird That gentiy sways within her well known nest;- A sudden turn, the cheerful ladscape blurred Into a dream of mystery and unrest The shadow- of a somber rock and pine, The silence deep that dwells with shade alway. Entered my souL There stirred up a sudden -. breath Through the tree tops. It whispered: -Wings are thine. So the bird fluttered from her nest that day Up toward the mysteries of life and death. Mary ilurdock Mason in the Century. . .VyKli.UADL.OF.I":Sir. Covered with glory and with wounds in the war of the succession and with out a penny in his purse, as in those days was tho case with rm3t warriors and heroes, the noble scion of Mequi nenza returned one day to his dis mantled castle,, to rest from the harsh fatigues of the camp and eat in peace the lentils that came with his title. Two words let us give to the soldier and other two to his birthplace. Don Jaime de Mequinenza, baron of that name, who had fought as a captain for the interests of Louis the Fourteenth, was at that day a man of five-and-thirty yeara, tall, handsome, rough, Vn5iTrf fvnrl anoTTki littln lftoiHarl Kilt - ,? T' ; jovial and gallant to the last degree with women particularly roncl, m deed, of pretty peasants. Add to this that he was an orphan, an only child, a bachelor, and you have the picture of the Aragonese hidalgo. As to his castle, it was the same as its master, barring in strength. But as to soli tariness, pride and poverty, it was not behind him. It was not, for it has crumbled to decay generations since. Fiure it, half built, half cut from a sqlid rock, lapped on one side by the waves of the Ebro, and on the other leaning against a mountain that towered skyward. At the foot xf this rock was a dozen cots-and hovels, tenanted by the vas sals of the baron, or it might rather be said by tho husbandmen who tilled the tiw fields left to his possession. From le hamlet to the castlo the road climbed by fourteen or fifteen steep terraces, above which was a moat,' with its drawbridge ; the moat filled by a canal or wide ditch that tapped the Ebro a league to tho northward, and then fell, below the fortress, in a noisy torrent back into the swelling river. Perched on an almost inaccessible flank of tho mountain, separated by this channel from the castle, and, like it, hanging above the Ebro, there was another rocky spur, crowned by a cabin and a tittle garden, which in that 'spot suggested the hanging gar dens of Babylon. A heavy beam of walnut wood spanned tho foaming current between the castle and the cabin, connecting these, as the draw bridge afforded communication be tween the castle and the hamlet. . On the lordly crag, then, dwelt Don Jaime de Mequinenza, and on tho feu dal rock an eel fisher, who had won a rich revenue from the daring thought of building his hut in tliat lonely and menacing spot It had ..occurred to Damian, for such was the name of the fisherman, to swing from the little bridge two vast nets, through whose meshes swept the current, so that the teeming eels that rushed through the cutting toward the mother waters of the Ebro were caught here on their course back to their birthplace and held for the hand of the fisherman, who, although he sold them at a low enough price, yet derived from this slippery source a vey respectable in come, i Yet for all this lapor and enterprise the poor fellow culd never save a cuarto. He was not a drinker, for all the cold and wet character of his busi ness ; ho was not a player indeed, he knew not the terms of brisca, con quien or malilla; his cigarros were of the commonest sort and cost him the merest trifle, and for womankind he had not so much as a passing glance, save only for Carmen. Save only! But then, caray, hom bre ! that was sufficient exception. For oh, Carmen, Carmela, Carmelita! Here was enough-to squander the rev enues of an alcalde, a regidor, a prince let alone a fisherman. For Carmen was a beauty a Spanish blonde, think of" that, ye connoisseurs ! who would have tempted Saint Anthony himself, if the- grace of God should have been withdrawn from- hira for a moment. Such a waist I such a neckl such ankles ! And-Carmen knew her- own good points none better ; and women f Sf sucli merit-to hois fall in love with or when they have, for, that matter and so Carmen spent the price of all the eels in the Ebro on aprons, ker chiefs, earrings, ribbons and fal-lals in general, though thcro was not a soul to seo them irnt her own dear self. Damian, her husband? oh, but he counted for nothing, less than nothing, for if husbands in general are ciphers, what was this wretched fisher of eels? a lout, a clown, a clod. Oh ! that is quite apparent; convinced," no doubt, of her, high mission in this poor world of sorrows, Carmen every day dressed herself as if she were going to a ball or a funcion, and sat herself down at tho door of the cabin, where she was seen of the birds, the rock thyme and the skies, and of naught else, : Still, she awaited tranquilly the moment of her destiny. . - In"th5 days when Carmelita first ;took up - her - statiCn at the. door thus "dressed with parsley," the castlo . of Mequinenza. was still without Doh; Jaime, its master, and' no human eye heheld her from closer range than tliat t j i,i iMt.i,vii.j li MAMA un A 1 1 " SrAl ;X Kea i Hive okj S;a,l, uiossom btfc ou IU be had forbidden her. to go down the lively and - froficsome Jrtlaga m his abaenco,- and she oboy..!?- " XTi .lum imphciabittho- hf God thatwivesobey their sbtods, anu oecajjweu,;iiirw?! nntbinoTlej3sin(T ; in , ben in 4b tnic ' m should o .uiau iier husoand?fbpv'-'lika-h badly clad and dirty, with thorny, cal loused", hands, burned by the. sun, tanned by wind snrt rah&nd smell-. tag of fish - from a rod away ?T And ho feojoft, ; so smooth,- so dainty, dressed and perfumed like a.Madrilena, t.It is true that if the poor fisherman twas - ill -dressed this was -to gi ve finer, better raiment to barmen ; that if the l hnsband should Jabor . less,"to the end of sparing his handsthe -wife would have worked far harderr with the re sult of spoiling her white ones;; true, . also, that those eels, which were in deed ill smelling, paid for the sweet scented soaps m . which Carmen de li "-h ted. But who : snakes- such obser vations to a woman? above all, if that woman is iy years oia ana preayj axryi and graceful -as the. raiiibow with its I seven colors. - Ahyea! gratitnde may well - be a senamcut top" sober for a young woman, and justicefalrriiess an- uncomfoinable idea tor a joyous imagination. These" virtues are born of suffering, and Carmen was almost quite happy. -i driven these conditions, it was not at all inconsistent that the thoughts and interest of the fisherman s wife should turn to Don Jamie do Mequinenza, from tho day that the news oi his re turn to his baronial halls came to the village at the cliff s foot. And in ef fect, when she set eves upon his wor ship, Carmen's butterfly brain and her 1 11 J 1"1 X 1. 1 A umoyai ncan uiikc sung wj uer uiui this was a lord, a fino gentleman, and a hero here was a man worthy of beauty and charm like hers. As for the lord of the manor he wj already in love with her species, and as tho greater includes the less, ho was undoubtedly smitten with Carmen. It was not lonsr before they told each other, by the telegraphic code of looks and signals, their mutual and respec tive sentiments, but this platonic sys tem became to both alike insupport able. In the meantime Damian went on fishing. Now, whether it came to pass that the people of the hamlet, failing to realize and appreciate their abject con temptibility, came to criticise the do ings of their feudal master, or whether the fisherman chanced to remember that his wife was a pretty woman and Don Jaime a hot blooded gallant, and that the castle and the cabin were nol so widely separated there 'came a time when this worthy husband dis played les; than his usual eagerness to make his f requent rounds of his eel traps. lie developed, also, certain lieumatic twinges in his left knee, that impaired his agility in walking, and so he hired a strapping lad, whom he made his substitute in conveying tho eel baskets among the purchasers ol tho vicinity; Tms procedure "o: the fisherman was far from meeting with the approval of Carmen and Don Jaime. One beautiful May evening the two spouses sat at the door of their cabin and. watched the sinking sun the same sun in those days of a century and a half since that wo see now above us. That evening it was sinking as slowly and majestically as if it ex pected never to rise again. It was one of those splendid and solemn moments in which it seems that the world has reached for the first time its apogee of beauty, a melancholy hour on which the soul appears to assist at the .tragedy of the day's death as at a new occur rence, which will not bo repeated Carmen and Damian, regarding that sun, whose rays dyed. the horizon with a strange, prophetic light, felt their very ..souls stirred within them. . Un cultured and rude of nature as they were, they could but feel that this was a critical hour, full of doom, of mys tery, of fatality. When the sun had set entirely both breathed heavily, as those who have completed a long and severe task. The tacit compact was sigied between them, each to his own crime, not to be renounced, but irrevocable, as the death of the day that was expiring. They looked at each other full and un reservedly. Damian lifted his eyes to the castle, on whose topmost terrace stood the Baron of Mequinenza, whom ho saluted. The lord had his -eyes fixed on Carmen, who also saluted mm easily. Damian stretched his rheu matic leg, and, turning to his wife, said, dryly: "I think -my leg is well again. I feel the pangs no longer. I think I will go down to the village and stay the night there. There' is a fel low owes me some money ; he will bo in with his pay near midnight, and I will catch Inm before he spends it I wUl-cbme up in the morning in time to take out the' fish of to-night's fish. Ea, Carmelita, God be with thee." "Good-by, Damian," said Carmela, mechanically. - - They had never before parted m this W "Jtw? "hi, h.rlu, fK. fnsRPR nf , rojttle.. The sun was still gilding the peak of a distant mountain. Twelve hours later the sun once more shone over the cabin.;- . All tho sadness and foreboding of the day be fore had been pure farce. " There was the sun again, red and joyous as ever, climbing up tho heavens as blithely as if this was his first journey there, and" shedding life and " movement wherever his rays reached. "This was the sun that, -in those hours of lab' sence, had crossed the ocoaii,' ?had called the noonday in the Americas, had served as a god; for tho idolators of the Pacific, had lighted the way for mariners t in China,;v,had gildeu the spices of Ilihdostan, had kissed the stones of the Holy Sepulcher, and had. marked the hour of death for some modern - Greeks ; . and now that' sun was; returning, ' full 'oL.curiosity.-to know, what had become of two fisher Beonle of Upper Aragon, whom he T door of their, hut. had left tho night before seated atthe . - - - - he, r Jko the sun, , : rM,. 'i,;w tne" "Stfo followed by 1. Stl sS? the - - vin;nu Wi tint had been mos ' Villainous iota lilaX nau. ueeil irrwi " i " - ''a , . , ,i i' - je Mlue l" a iencor and .reached the planerfronting : Damian's Cabin; - ; : ' i "How loud the cascade roars 1" said one OI the men. , , f 'But what has become - of the bridsrel" cried another; 4?True forTfefa! Look! look 1 it has slipped from each end ! it has sunken into the cutting ,r it nas DroKen r "But how can that be? ' -Such a Haeam so long, saweii supported oy its length 1 so heavj 1 and of walnut a wood as strong as iron 1 "I shall have to puy another,'" said Damian, shrugging his shoulders ; , "but come boys.:, let the bridge be, and help me with the seines before it grows f later." 'And, : taking ujj the thread of his;, interrupted ;songi ; he began with the others to,draw up the eei ftets. . 'f The:devil'l SKo-VT it Weighs .then!" cried one of his comrades V'thbu hast ""rhinoceros that went through the fire done well with this haul, Damian- j had not the most gentle disposition in the Cltol ', world. But when-it came out of th "At the least it is tfen arrobas," said . another; "oh, a fine , catch! un- j to do something for it, it seemed o real heard of !" Lza the situation and was verv kind ' A "I believe VOUl" shouted a third: "it is more likely he has caught, not eels, but the bridge of walnut wood !" Damian only smiled without speak- tng. fo you say that net is heavy lied ono Ot the men pulling on the second seine; "well, this one is not be- hind it. This Weighs not less than twelve arrobas all of three hundred weight." . "Oh ! it's a couple of big rocks that have fallen inr said an envious mmaea ieiiow. - 1 - 1 nil Damian was gloomy, trembling, covered with a coldswcat. "So one seine weighs heavy as the other," ho muttered ; "oh ! but it cannot be !" He stepped up out of tho water and slowly took his way to the cabin. . By this time the first seine was com ing up to the bank, and in it appeared, truly enough, the bridge of walnut wood. Not all of it, but the half. It was not to be doubted that during the night the bridge had been sawed across the .middle. The men who dragged it out were staring with surprise and terror ; they started back with horror stricken faces, shrieking. At tho same moment, .Damian ap- peared in the door of his cabin, withi his hair on end, his eyes fixed and starting, and a look of utter stupidity, ! yet screaming with laughter alauglH ter like a voice from Bedlam. He had found lus home deserted and the couch of Carmelita untouched by her since, tlie day before. And tlie fisher men had seen in tho net with the wal nut timber . the pallid face of Don Jaime. A moment after, their frightened from accident. This? cause operates mates drew out tho -second' seine, with especially in childhood ard youth, partly, the other half of the bridge and the because this period is more full of ex body of Carmelita. posures, and partly because the tendency "She, also?" Damian shouted ; "oh! to set up inflammatory action is then at I did not look for that, though! I its maximum. Boston Budget. thought she would wait for him in the ! r house ! I never dreamed she would i Woric of tho compositor, run to meet him ! But she did, you ! To one who might casually drop into a seel She was impatient to meet her ' coroposing.room and watch the men at lover, aud she went on the bridge to work merely putting, to all appear meet him. But I had been there be- ances, one typo after another it' "looks - fore them. I sawed it! saed it! sawed it! Uh! what a hne haul we have made today, boys ! a good catch of fish is this we have made, boys I" And, shrieking, he ran and shut him self in tho cabin. When the officers of the law came to arrest him they found him still grasping a saw and tho cabin drenched with blood. The eel fisher had sawed off his left hand and with the riarht he still drew his weapon across a gaping talization, punctuation, . the thousand wound in his throat, while ho gasped,- and one things which go this way and with dying voice: "A grand catch of that way, according to the dictum of fish we have made today, boys!" the autocrat of the proof : room," -and From the Spanish of Don Pedro de which the reporter, unless he graduated Alarcon by Y. H. Addis for The Ar- from the case, never .bothers himself gonaut. about observing. The book compositor, moreover, contends with niceties of Tke Japanese Merchant. punctuation never dreamed of on the . The Japanese are content with little, news frame. A compositor who re and it is from this attribute of their garded Jus work as piujly mechanical, w Am0 ni t and did not mke a liberal use of his pect to compete with them in business K w; oi,n f htt tw, w; in their own country. They do busi ness on a margin that would ruin an American, tradesman, and if they make 5 cents on tho sale of a watch or 10 cents in selling a clock, they are satisfied. Where a thrifty tradesman j i, : n Gin f"rK L 82 -a month there is Uttlo hope for tho luxurious American. The whole na tion seems to be engaged in what a Connecticut Yankee would call a whittling business. The stocks of -.r4..- ,1 tv -u cUc f;i ati uuuliuu, ituu iUD uicivudruii sits iiiio 1. rri..i, u,-c cr,!! K-n- his goods and with his legs crossed If fu f e 'S a table, go- directly seryes his customers." His floor is his : i, Bhm? Bbally, unless you counter, and his goods hang on the that jhere is gunpowder under wall or 'are piled within easy reach of ; the Ied? to eod at-yotw ap his hands. He has a spacr altogether proach." How valuable and what t j. i in rv savin 2 of time would such criticism be 21,1 K M I I. 1N lH,r 'H HjO Cb niiin.i I UOJ1UU111 and the whole of .the front of this is open. --. Tne noor is raisea. aDout. two t A onrl - u . 4V,o-tr i,0ia ,r ClO UU ilUXj CUQ CU VU-W UOgW V T V the nrice3. The Japanese merchant always asks three times as much as he expects to get. . .. You "offer- him one-fifth and gradually reach tho thml. . He gives you a tiny Cup of tea and places besido you a bowl of charcoal for: your pipe wane you are looiiiuir at, ma gwus, and as a rale it seems to be mdifrerent to him whether you buy, or-not - If you go away without buymg ho bows politely, and says Say onamfare- well, with as kind a srmlo as though you makeB Vf6 him something out , of 1 he-usiial order he makes his calculation on a Ghmese calculating machine, consisting " of a box of ' wooden buttons . strung' on wires; " Bv movinir these up and down ho adds and subtracts quite quickly. as -we do with 'pencil and papery and his figures are rarely , wrong. Frank G. Carpenter.. - t' , Parisian Catmen. Parisian cabmen 'have to pass an ex- amination before they afoallowed to hire themselves out to public service, : n- f olico has bought a i wooden horse, haWssed, and alTcan-.rtie sole angr.M ? ch for Cabmen- must how thai '.TagUonis "thev know how to harness and unhar- -i-y w ,rtrt nrbctWr- nthor tests tho Drefect manful thattbeylaveibecome legendary m - -.- rwf-"" - . .A NejrJLoi of Anfols. :.."", t Mr, Hedges," a small man with a gentle I voice! who looks is if her miiid t kfnTf; . control a. cat. but who rul linns anil: tisrers an cdier fierra n.nimkia.-witii..nn inddmitabfe -will."' w- xphiiHn- : amongr the cages, apparently forming the acquaintance of - the ; British lions and tigers. 'One of the main difficulties in collect ingf a newJot of ailimalsJ3'iai.iie; a3 he gently, prodded a couchant tiger, to test its disposition, in getting them used to each other. :- There is danger that strance beasts will fight when . nut together in a caee. A tiffer is mnrh woma than a linrr Turn one of thes lions loose and he would probably run away from, you unless he .was hungry. Let a, tiger -out and he uld.a.ttack. vou . from fmr a rleviltr v it fo' - nbrhmlsBH'iim of alL however, ia a black lMfn.nl. 'Thtf flames teiTiblv burned, and we attemnt.l man whn-daimed tn havA n snvAiwVn remedv for hums camo all the wn fr.-. Springfield and insisted on covering the rhinoceros with the preparation. It so far heloed the brute that the next mnm- after the appUcation it was able to enen its erea. but its think hirfp. lwnn tn ,caie off and a day or two later it died. Tho hinnnnntamna tried in -cain tc tm-p- BervG birnself from the fire by plunging into the water of its tank, but the intense smoke smothered him." New York Evening Sun . Injuries to Knee Joints. We commend to the earnest attention of our readers the following extract from a letter sent to us by a lady subscriber-: "For the last two years my 5-year-od boy has suffered with a disease of the knee joints, resulting in tho loss of the knee cap or patella. He was lately op erated upon at the Children's hospital. If I had taken him there two years ago he might have been well to-day. Now the knee may be several years in healing fuUy, and will bo nearly a stiff joint, f or life, while all this might have been spared iiiui if I had known what a slight swelling of the knee might lead to, and had kept lnm m bed a month, "Your paper goes all over the land, and I feel it my duty to ask you to warn the mothers not to neglect what may seen a slight trouble witlithe knee joint, or, worse still, with the. hip. It may lead to amputation or even death. The joints, especially those of the knees, are liable to many serious affec tions, some of which are due to constitu tional defect, and some to other diseases, i but most frequently the cause is iniury much like a purely mechanical. process; but to tlie compositor himself it appears m a different fight. While editors and reporters have it within their power to make the compositor's task much easier, they do not often take the pains to dp it, as the state of average manuscript read ily affirms. The compositor not only oftn 1)as to straighten out the reporter's, bad grammar and worse. spelling, but he has to bear in mind the "style" of capi- tfnlties, woula not remain long an em-. pioye of a first class book office. Will J. Drew in The Writer. Criticism of a Toons' Actor. A young actor was at one time severely criticized because his performances gave uie impression inui lie vvaa lauguiu auu lackica., wta, in poit of ft Uo the impression that he was languid and- was in active bodily health and not at all pensive. He did not . realize and could :iot correct the impression he was mak ing, until an old actor of wide observa tion said to him: "The trouble with your acting is this: Your -movements are not r an-ecc, -ana lacx aennueness oi purpose; T- .. J 1 J " 1 - - .w to a young actor, who was, outside all that, .broadening his - mental faculties in a university! . Act uueetiy ana witu a purpose ! George Riddle purpose ! George Riddle in Anerican Magazine. Kadly Scared Coreans. i When the Coreah embassy came to this country three years ago they were invited to luncheon at lien. ilancocK s, on liov ernor's Island, where a review was given in their honor. ' They were haunted by . tl,a.iM.ti1.t. -ua trap tQ murder Ue each waf takeri by an officer,-arm and arm, turflcd uy green. They escaped from tbis part o2 ifc, though;, but . to luncheon at Gon, Hrui(kk'a quarters; the general happening Wtake . h . arge an'd very" dangerous looking i..1?,- , a vLit--. . " t1v ' fii0 -twtw,t,ri n, . break;ot. the door, whence -yelling and officerg; ' m iWtXCCQverthei m. I 1. possession until they were landed on the dock at Kew. Yot agam.-r-The Argonaut.' Xhe Ballet GirVTeetJSf 'X - Let me protest against the popular be lief that- dancersi feet are deformed- or" . hardened by fRlo .come i coveredwith corns smdcsifoes.? Tlie atigue-otdancinsr-JMir4er&. ;1ieeL: "the naiis cijierr;ioes wererose coiorea, Vt-rrriwt.'- anr! W ltitii . JErapa for-o GvtMttoppcr. , . 'There ore three principal methods of , destroying these insects. 5 "Where , tbtf land had, been; jplowei for wheat none . hatched . out, as inverting the .soil de- I stf 6yedtho: eggsand "no .hopperstvere, ! found m " the.ifields: of growing'" wHeat. put from-; adjoining elds, .especially those where 'wheat was grown last year and then abandoned-witliout' plowing, tbeyjpame..in ,armies,,swfieping tlie fields r before them.. .. In tayehng tnisway - line of 'march is: formed before which every green 'ing disappears. When Dr, Lugger- left, pome of; the fields were eaten , into several . rods. .. The .method adopted prior to the arrival of kerosene and tar was to dig a ditch two feet deep and two feet wide- just in advance pf the approaching host. A f ews. inches of straw is therf plaetWoi"jBttd the locusts are driven into, it-, bys walking "slowly along behind them. "- They cannot jump out ' and are burned or, if straw is not to be had they are killed hy draw ing a log through the. ditch.. The tar is used by placing in a shallow sheet iron pan two feet wide and eight feet long, with a wide board fastened' to one side. This is drawn sidewise across the field, the hoppers 1 jumping against tlie board and falling;' into the' tar, "where they per ish. But the handier, more rapid and more complete method is to nse kerosene on canvasagamst which the pests lump. Strcmg.musliu or 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 -canva3 slants back, and is constantly saturated with kerosene. Every one that hops cgainst this and touches his body to the oil dies instantly. One" barrel Of kerosene wril go oyer about 120 acres and will kill 200 bushels or more.. Each jfarmer f is given one barrel of oil, arid promises to use. it only -for destroying insects. r-ilin neapolis Exchange. r - FasUions of AncierfTimca. Heliogabalus is said to have been the first to wear a robe cf pure silk. The emperor, one of the most "unworthy and debauched of rulers, who made his horse a consul, had a senate of women, over whom lu3 mother presided, which pre scribed all the modes and fashions. The Emperor -Aurelian is said to have refused Ins wife a robe of pure 6ilk, on account of its excessive, cost. Indeed it was not until rnoreihan. five centuries after the unristian era that sukwoi-ms were brought from the east and , introduced into Constantinople by some monks in the lime of Justinian. Purple was always .much admired by the ancients, the dye coming from the inurex, as is well knpwn. The color was thought finer the darker it was.. Under Augustus violet and bright red became" fashionable colors, as well as scarlet, and were soon worn by all who could afford to do so, but Nero and Csssar afterward re served arnethyst and purple for imperial use exclusively. Bright colors were disused in mourn ing when the Romans wore black, or a dark gray, and matrons, especially, ap peared iu 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,' r .deadhinp an artisticstosing to death if he ever leal color, m winch luey maae expiatory sacrifices, the clothing being "afterward scrupulously destroyed, tlie idea being that any evil which impended upon the wearer might pass into her runic 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. Ufe 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 successful they must be strong, able bodied men, capable Of enduring all kinds of hardship and privation, and should also be patient, Ehrewd and enter prising. The -fare is plain and substan tial, and where a ranchman keeps pigs and chickens and has a vegetable garden he can have it sufficiently varied. JMany of them, however, , live on salt . pea. . canned goods and bread, and do without milk and butter, but this i3 inexcusable, as out of a herd ox cattle they can easily get a few cows for milking. . Breakfast is generally taken at half -past 5 a. m.,: and as soon as this is finished or some times before it is commenced, one or two -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 rides jpiT to hi3 task, whatever it may be, perhaps hunting lost horses,' seeing ;to the fences or driving back any 6tock that may have got beyond tlie - fences and which " it is highly 'desirable, should bo kept inside, such, for instance, as thoroughbred bulls. W. Lynn Wilson in Detroit Free Press.. Probabilities of an Explosion. In the line of physics or natural philo sophy; there 'are errors "in common ac ceptation to a degree that is truly aston ishing.. That is, that there is great dan. J ger of the world's blowing up from ah explosion of ;jiatnral gas. How could there bo an explosion without combus tion?. . now. could there be any combus tion without, oxygen? . How could . thero be any oxygen without air? How could air " settle" in a deep i boring when the pressure of the gets? is "bo much greater than the air itself? ; '; . '44&.:;g. - It is well known that fresh powder can be put into a cannon , that contains" fire with - perfect 1 sifetyT if the thtunber?. does his duty does not let a draft of. air pass througlithe j chamber of ; the r gith . The powder cannot explode without ail oxj'gen. " So with natural gas." It can not explode eo long a3 it is hot subjecteo to botlr bent and Air-Ddwin Watters in St; Louis IferibUc. '' Qf-frXZ JSfe jpf Toanar lobsters. - - Concerning . Uobstera, experts Bay that young crustaeeaiaa liave to be put in the sea almost ibs i ; soon" as liatclied, and they begins to leed5 voraciouslyvey lKrn; -with .ense enough to know.that" lobsters mstteliciou 3 .food, andt they attacktOne Sanothcr "Rayagely. and hun. r trfiy For a fewtdavs they swim on tho jraare. where iiyrinui to their, early reourement ttestruction jslenormpus. In a few days tlie 'iobster's wiaiking : crawling mem bers are jueyaoped and "lie sinks to the ' bottom, . where he makes his home. Cjbicngo; nerald.r;:ii:s In tlie human subject the .averaee ra ' pidity ef the cardiac palsation of an adult male is" about seventy beats i?r minute. These beats toe" more frequent as a rule " in -young children and in women, and .thero are variations within certain limits v in particalar persons owing to peculiari- v ties of organization.' -It , would not neces-y'. sarily besan abnornial.igSLto find in sorrlaL particular aniyiftuaitthe-: habitual, .iwRV, quency of the heartV action from sixty to? sixty-five -or from eeventy-five W eighty per minute, v As a rule, .the heart fi action is slower and more powerful . In' fully de-1 , veiopedapd muscular orgamaations, and -more rapid and feebler in those of slighter - torm, , . -,v' , In animals the' range' Is from twenty- . five to f orty-five irt the4 colil blooded( and - mty upward ui-thewaThljouedf- except in the case of jt hofse, whicb 'lias a very slow- lreart ' -beat, otity forty 'strokes a mmute. The pulsations of j men and all animals differ with the sea level also; The work of a healthy human heart has .been" shown to be equal to the 1f eat of raising five tons four hundredweight one foot per hour, or 125 tons in twenty-four hours. ." " ' A curious calculation has been- made by Dr. Richardson, giving the rwork of the heart in mileage. Presuming that the blood was thrown out of . the heart at each pulsation in the proportiqn of sixty nine strokes per minute, and..at,.jthe as--eumed force ofx?une feet;: the mueaee of -the blood through the,: body might be taken as 207 yards per . minute,, seven miles per hour, 168 miles per day, Gl,320 miles per year, or 5,150,880 miles in a lifetime, 84 years. iThe number of beats of the heart in the same long life would reach the grand total of 2,809,770,000. Medical World. ' ; - . x ; Superstitions of the Karajoes. : , Hie Navajoes, now the strongest and richest tribe -of Indians hi the7 country, are all enormously ,supeistitious.v Their t oddest terror, perhaps, is tliat which thev - ' f cherish for tiie photb&rapliic ' camera. ' Plant a tripod within a quarter of a mile : t" of a. Navajo hogan and tlie dusky inhab- -itants will flee as from the plague, It is " '" their solemn belief -'that a picture is' actu ally subtracted from tho entity of the sit ter that he is sa -mucli the, less by the operation: How", many pictures ;they ---i -think it would v be necessary to take ' be- - fore the person, would be all gone, and Jt . his whole being diverted into the coun terfeit presentments, I have never' been able to learn, "but apparently they deem tlie fatality as rapid as it is certain.. " The snake they hold in holly abhor rence. Of the violence of their prejudice agains$ it I had a striking proof fsome years ago. Chit-chi, brother of ; old Man uelito, the boss silversmith of the tribe, is a very good friend of mine and has made me some remarkable specimens of native jewelry. On one occasion I employed him to make me a bracelet "in tlie form f a snake. Ho had it about half fin ished when some of his fellows chanced to call at" the hogan. To say that .they were horrified when they saw what he was about is puttkig -.- it very i mildly. Tliey fell upon the obnoxious figure and destroyed it,-and then reported . Chit-cbi to the elders of the tribe, who promised dabbled again in such tabooed workman ship. New Mexico ; Cor. Globe-Demo- crat. A "Special" Artist Under Fire., In the Ashantee war of 1873,- Mr. Prior's first field work, occurred one of tfcose fortunate events which brave "men airibo to luck and fair men to phick. 6 Forty-second regulars were attack- the Ashantees in the Ibush; " Piior, . ht in the thick of it, made"a hasv feoitch, showing the gleam .of bayonets Qkrough ,the rifle smoke, the flash of the thicks' guns from the- undergrowth; the Jps of British muslcets emerging here . -Tid there from the fiery vapor of battle, Jhe assailants firing irf all sorts of atti iales, some nmning to the front, others jdng under a protecting tree, others still -feeling bv the horses from which they d" just dismounted. These were! the y outlines or bold dashes of an artist dier under fire. There was no time to ake a picture oetore tne man lett lor e coast. ' So he forwarded 'the sketch, HU reeking with rifle smoke,'- to the home office, with a . hasty, note t asking The illustrated" News to" work it up Into a finished cartoon,. But - the hene office 4id nothing of tlie eort. Instead, jlhey published the sketch just as it left his pencil. - And it is conceded to this day to be on of s the greatest . triumphs ht a speciars work under difficulties; and one of the most thrilling battle pictures ever seen. John Paul Bocoek in Now York World. ... -. -.:.:.:'f-'' vv, .r. - An Invention, lr.tUo Hospital, : TUe recent introduction in some of the hospitals of a fiimplo contrivance for the comfort aud convenience of patients is noted. - Two:, iron sockets are firmly; at taclied- to the sides of .- a bedstead by. screws,-and ' into" these are fitted short poles, -bet weeh,the latter being suspended a horizontal liar, also fitted, into clarnps and adjustable to any height above the patient lying on the bed. From this bar Jiangs a pair,of strong straps witl grips, add ..these may bo moved from right to left at will. " By grasping these straps lbs .sick man is enabled to utilize the-strength of lus arms to lift liunsejf r up,: to change his position; ;'-to" turn over oad to allow the bedding to ber changed. : ' tT? 1 There are likewise a variety qf; attach ments to Hhe mechanism which estend jts usefulnessjiin a nuinher, cf ways, on-of-these bemg a rest for the leg,-'jtf winch a broken limb can .bo placed while it is 1 being dressedi it being only necessary t j unscrew tne-Boci?era aitacneci to ue uea siead and changeHtbeir location .to utilize this; another is alctutainrod, likely to be esspecially Bessteeable in hospital . wards to avoid ajdraft, to shut otjt thejight ror to iittain-a degree of. privacy; another; in a -email table for medicines, etc. fxew JJErar Pch Williamj J read m adveivj tisement in one of the papers Ktatihg tha forr$l inSstamps lho tlvcilisfr vroal J fen" bv teturn iail suxoay to got ri pf . rati In" the:hoi)re.- ' :&Mr;5m-eu?: I iiMrSvPennSl se:itt3h stampsiWu-, Mr.. Penn What was it?. '-.".-": ---". '.. Mrs. Penn WilhamA the cheat told mj a? mo-nf.-HPhiladelphiaXaU. X ' f't:; - - fH'vTt'5W?i;:'V''
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
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June 13, 1889, edition 1
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