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Person Co. Courier. Published Every Thursday BY NOELL BROS., ROXBORO, N. C' - TERMS OF 8 US SCRIPT JON: One Copy One Year - - - $1 50 One Copy Six Months - - - 75 Remittance mu-t be made by Registered Letter, Post OfficeOrder or Postal Note. - THE COURIER - '- - is published ia the centre of a fine tobacco growing section, making it 'oneof the best advertising -mediums -fdr merchants and"" warehousemen-in the adjoining counties. Circulated largely in Persoar GwtnviUe and Durham counties : in - North Carolina,, and, Halifax county 'yirgin'iar, JOB CWOBK : of all description neatly executed ftn short'" notice and at reasonable prices. "When" in NOEIiL BROS. Proprietors. HOME FIRST: ABROAD NEXT. SiO Per Year in Advance. VOL. 5. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1889. NO. 47- need-of work give" the CotJEiEft a trial. ' " TT - i 1M Julio U - I U i V -'II ass-- ' The Chief Beam for the great suc cess of Hood's Sarsaparilla is found in the article Itself. It is merit that wins, and the tact that. Hood's Sarsaparilla actually ac complishes what is claimed for it, is what bas given to this medicine a popularity au4 sale greater than that of any other sarsapa- Mtrf Win rlUa or blood purir IVIcn L VV II lo fler before the public Hood's Sarsaparilla cures Scrofula, Salt Rheum and all Humors, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Biliousness, overcomes That "Ctred Feeling, creates an Appetite, strength. 4-ns the Nerves, builds np the Whole System. Ilaad's Sarsaparilla is sold by all drug gists. 91 ; six for $5. Prepared by C I. Hood ft Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. jFOFESSIONAL. jAfDS. C. S. WINSTEAD, BANKER, ROXBORO 3. WILL DO A "BAXKIXG BUSINESS WITH W. E. WEBB, Cashier. NEW MANAGEMENT. ARLINGTON hotel MAIN STREET, Danville, Virginia. YATES & RICHARDSON, Proprietors. .T. T.travhorn. I. M. Warlick. ltuxboro, N. C ' ' Milton, N. C gtllAYHORN & WARLICK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Practiea in all the conrts of the State and in She Federal Onrt8v Mansueat - entitles strictly attended to. . Special attention given to cases in Person and Caswell counties. A. W. Graham. S. W. Win. ton Q.HAHAM & WINSTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, v Oxford, N. C. - Practiceatn all he courts of the State, ITan 11c money and invest the same in best 1st Mort gage Heal Estate Security. Settle estates and investigate titles. N, LUNSFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Koxboro, N. C. J. 8. MEliUITT, ATTORNEY AT LAW Koxboro, N. C. Prrnnpt attention given to the collection of jlaiins. ' w. V. K ITCH IN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, . Roxboro, N. U. Practices wherever his services are required. D U.J T. FULLER, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN. Eoxboro, N. C. Residence, place formerly'oecupied by Dr C. E. Eradsher Office over C. drug store EJ. TUCKER, . Dentist riffiuf Winatoiiil Hotel. Roxboro, N. C. . vivi --" ' "J attended promptly. Calls in the country Patronage solicited. ART, T. FRAZIER, PRACTICITTO9 DENTISTRY tain at Sonta Boston, ya., r Va., office in MerS cha wl Planlers' Pank lluiKiing 1U.S lllll R. C. G. NICHOLS Offers His fROFESSIONAL SERVICES th PEOPLE f lloxboi 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. Anv one wishine work in his line, bv writing tiim at uuBny or it, once. . . i .T J 1 ; 1 1 .A , C., will be attended at J-B. R. A. MO UTO N, Practicing physician. Offers Vis professional servicea-to the people of Roxooro and surroandingeonntry. Pi'ac.ices in all the branches of medicine. 10-4-lF ' Winstead House, x ROXBORO, N. C-, W. H. Williams, PROPRIETOR. ; Tiiis house is open to the . , PUBLIC GENERALLY and for Drummers Particularly. Good rooms, table fare ths verjr best the markat will afford, CHARGES MODERATE. - : Cill And ''See me whenever an" oppor tunity pflord, I am aljo prepared to tike cairc mI horses, r " ' . W. II. WILLIAMS. ";. MASTER AND REAPERS. The master called to'his reapers: ' "Make scythe and sickle keen, " And bring me the grain from the uplands, ; And the grass from the meadows green And from off of the mist clad marshes, . v Where the salt waves fret and foam, Ye shall gather the rustling sedges j '- To furnish the harvest home.' - Then the laborers cried: "O master, ; We will bring thee the golden grain :-. "" That waves on the windy Hillside, ; And the tender grass from the plain f But that which springs on the marshe . Is dry and harsh and thin, .. Unlike the sweet field grosses, " ' J- So we will not gather it in. iBut the master said: "O foolish! For mapy a wary day. Through storm --iid .iroiight j - hnvo Liborcd ..Fbrto grata and the tragraSt hay." V The generous earth is fruitful. And breezes of summer blow, Where these, In the sun and the dews of heavef. Have ripened soft and slow. "But out on the wide bleak marsh land Hath never a plow been set, And with rapine and rage of hungry waves The shivering soil is wet. There flower the pale green sedges. And the tides that ebb and flow, And the biting breath of the sea wind, , Are the only care they know. They have drunken of bitter waters, 3 . Their food hath been sharp sea sand, And yet they have yielded a harvest T Unto the master's hand. So shall ye all, O reapers, " Honor them now the more, And garner in gladness, with songs of protest The grass from tho desolate shore." Zoo Dana Onderhill in Harper's Magazine. IALE OF A PROOF READER I have reached the mature age of twenty-six years without achieving any other distinction in life than a place as proof reader in a publishing house. That may seem a small honor to the unini tiated, but my work i intellectual and very comprehensive. .That I am capable of doing it argues for me a wide range of information, a mind finely critical. If I were not mentally superior to the masses could I derive a comfortable income from tunning down their mistakes? Would not my own ignorance be apparent on many a printed page if I did not with steady hand seize and thurst out of sight the ignorance and carelessness of those who write? I am closeted all day with Webster and Worcester; I am familiar with all books of reference. I read and write German and French, I can trace every English word to its root, and translate Latin and Greek. I am not nn egotist when I" tell you these things, for I must take my place among the workingwomcn of Chicago as one who i3 paid far less than the successful dressmaker, -milliner or eooki Indeed,' I! have often envied my sisters who achieve success in either of these lines. The artist in dressmaking commands her Cricethe milliner's taste and style render er independent; the accomplished cook whose faultless dinners lead her on to fortune all these create something that can be appreciated, admired and weakly imitated. My work is sadly negative. My sins are those Of omission, not of commission. Who ever hears of the errors I eradicate, the thought I spend upon the printed page? For the work I do I win the cordial hatred of those who work about me tho printer, the fore man, even the inky boy who brings work to my hands. These all hate me for the thiDg3 I do, while I am in constant terror from things I do not da What proof reader has not stood aghast at some glar ing error which he did not run to earth on the first proof, but overtook by chance on a revise? What if Ids tired eyes bad missed it then? It would have wrought ruin to an entire volume and to him. How I secured my position I need not relate. It was after long and hard fight for it, which I began at nineteen years. Till then I had been a ward of charity, wearing in my baby days the blue check apron of the Foundlings' home. I was educated at tho expense of the church, and when first I tried my small strength against the world it was as copyholder in a great publishing house in Chicago. I am able now to earn $15 per week after seven years. I am little of a pes simist and my life has not been given over to melancholy, but to work. I give ten hours of each day to my tasks. That absorbs my energy, breaks my spirit and will and leaves me tired and depressed. I have been employed on Monroe street, in a house that is old and well known. It3 air is full of foul odors, it is dark and without ventilation. I climb five flights of stairs to my work in the morn ing, taking my way through rooms full of human beings struggling for daily bread against greater odds than I, and who even envy me. . All day I hear the throbbing and beating of the great presses, tne ciick or tne type m tne printers' fingers. " I see their face3 about me, anxious and poverty tried, and I have seen them so for five years, and sometimes hope dies within me. Touch a book with reverent fingers, ye who are ignorant of its mechanism. Over its pages flows the life blood of manv an humble toiler. Mayhap its fair, white leaves have been dampened with women's tears, for so many work ing women are heartsick and discour aged. Five vears of this life will Tender the hopeful woman strong minded and cyni cat She will need the unlovely strength she develops in a. city that harbors and gives subsistence to 40,000 bachelors. Forty thousand strong men, who smoke and eat, sleep and pursue their solitary lives, spending yearly means enough to keep up homes. And where every morning 40,000 women tramp hurriedly through our streets, a terrible army, each . with her face Bet toward some store, office or workshop. These women do not seek health nor strength nor woman linessthey must lose these better ele ments.' They will not win wages enough to keep them through chance 6icknes3 nor certain old age not one in a thou sand docs that. They will: not be made better, mentally or morally, by, ceaseless toil. -They will only clothe and, feed themselves, that they may come on the morrow and 'agaia"tiU''tieir'face3 are pinched and bloodless and the - grace of youth has left them: till they are not St for wives mid mothers, for they are old and sad, and each of the 40.1)00 bachelors waits a wife whose temper fa mnny and sweet and who does not know rhAU wlt . th wrtw wo.' men of Chicago,- -" " " " Thero was & time in. rr&y life when I tried the ntmlike life of a Totmar Wo. man's home, a home reared and upheld by good women for those who. like me. Tire homeless, and lol no soul could have j been more desolate than miae within its ! walls. I ate and drank and slept and ' went my daily rounds made more ; wretched at the sight of my strugglintr sisters who were not se well eauioped for the battle of life as I, and then I fled from the 'home" into the Chicago boarding house. I found one on Michi- ; gan avenue, kept by Mrs. McGillicuddy. My home life was at least independent Mrs. McGillicuddy's heart . was honest and kind, her little parlors were tidy, - her table bore , -wholesome fare. Tr re . was only her f daughter Josie, v. Twned the piano, and Jack, the McQiflicuddy son", and heir, "who troubled or annoyed me. and 'from the son and daughter and piano ' I could al ways retreat to my room. It was new to me to take a holiday, but one morning I slept till long vafter the whistles had ceased to blow. . I could not have reached my proof room even at 8, so I wandered out lazily into the June sun, over the city and toward the North side. I reached the bridge at State street and stepped upon it just as it swung to give passage to a panting little steamer. There was only one person on the bridge, a gentleman. Ho stood quite near me as we swung slowly out over the river. He might have been thirty-five or so. He was broad shouldered and lolly looking, and a little sunbrowned. He looked at me earnestly, and I noticed that he had keen, honest, hazel eyes. But, to my amazement, he pronounced my name and held out his hand. "I am Wallace Adams," he explained; 'you were a schoolmate -of my Bister Ida, at West field. I met you there. I -was sure I could not be mistaken." " 4 'That was ten years ago," I stammered, feeling my years suddenly rising up be fore me. "You are not much changed, Miss Hunter you are very pale and thin, but I have always remembered you," The bridge swung slowly round, re leasing us, but my new found friend did not leave me. We walked slowly home, talking of those we had known, of Ida Adams, who was dead of each other, and Mr. Adams told me he had just come from Oregon. "For the convention perhaps I shall stay awhile after it ' He eft me with permission to call that even ing, and that began a new are tor me. He called, and we talked awhile, and then, to my surprise, Wallace Adams asked me to marry him. Women who sit in high places in so ciety will shudder at my boldness and want of delicacy, at Mr Adams vulgar itv, at the disregard of all orthodox rules of courtship, But . I looked back upon five lost and unhappy years, forward to a hfetime of blind groping after money that somehow slipped away from the hands that won it from the world so hardly. And there was hope and cheer for me in looking into the man's hazel eyesl I had neither father, mother nor friends, and, though I had never 'known it, a home would be so dear to me. I hesitated and half promised. But I did not lose caution. I asked for time, a little longer acquaintance, a little longer at my post. I was like a slave that has grown to love the clanking of his chains. ' 'If, ra a few weeks more, I can feel that I am doing right I will be your wife. ' That was our betrothal, for the half promise was accepted. Mr, Adams took my hands in his and looked at me with pity in his hazel eyes, "God grant you may, Dora, and good night!" I went back to my work, but my heart was not hi it. I saw Mr. Adams twice each week, and a new world opened be fore me. I had wanted to love him at first, but soon my life grew into a prayer that he should really care for me. I saw every day some evidence of his kind ness, his wise friendship, but I trembled at the thought that it might only be friendship, for life held so much more. It was at this time the McGillicuddys began to develop a warm interest in me. Jack came to the o o clock dinner one night with some exciting information. I was invited to take dinner at the Mc Gillicuddy's special table, and there he divuLred it. "I was to the races, Miss Jdunter," ne gays, "and that Adams man Dougnc a pair of California horses. I made no reply. Jack had forgotten how many people are wearing" the name ef Adams. His news was nothing to me. "He paid $40,000 for 'em," went on lack. "Your Adams, Miss Hunter, jon't you catch on?" - "He must be rich. Miss Dora." chimed n the mother. "I want you to give Josie m introduction. 'You: must take me out riding, " lisped josie, wiin ner Dionae neau on one siae. I looked down at my plate in amaze ment. Either Wallace Adams was better situated than I had known or he had tone wildly to speculating in race horses. I remembered Ida Adams at Westfield, i ward like myself. Her father had been a clergyman. "Not able to take care of a wife, Dora," he had told me, ; 'and to have a comfortable home." 1 had thought him able to make his way with -other men ; to give me a neat home with a few comforts in it a piano, books and one or two good pictures, k: ; . - - i "Didn't you know it?" broKe out my landlady, glibly. "Where did you get acquainted with him?" I escaped from the McGillicuddys and away to my room. I had promised anew. to be his wife, or now 1 might be sup posed to want, his money. - , s : 'l3 this true?1' I asked him when he Same acam, and I told hhto- about the Calif ornia -.horsffi. "Now, Dora," said the manly voice, "f must refuse to answer you. --. To be rich in the world's way .would? require t eood deal more money than I can com mand. I will be very poor . if my wife don't love me. Are you going to reduce me to beggary?'? For the first time in my life I put my arms about his neck: and kissed him. Something awakened me - tp Ids true worth."" What had he seen in me to put so much, in my hands? , I had not beauty nor good looks, even,:! who was only one of ' the 40,000 who live and work in L1vca:0' -. J-' j t- rrS.n-..AA ( never mucedJoie M(uddy - f- Ad.am8' That I took to dressing after me, and gained a rodden impetus in music. She played Chicago. T?lrtWir ' at . Rfc Pfitarshiirer" -waltz till - the boarders deserted the parlor for a walk. She switched them gently in on "Monastery 'Bells", or; 's'Silvery Waves," or worse, she sang with Jack till bed time. ' ' ' -. '-.. .-;- : .." But to all these things I gave no heed, was for. the first time -in love, -and tho world was; not the same. I allowed Mr. Adams to hasten our wedding day, and I gave np my position. I was very nappy, and only one thing marred-my sunshine. Wallace would be absent a week at St. Lorda, It was a long week, but nearly ended. Jack McGillicuddy had been my shadow all through it, whieh I allowed, since .Jack was only 21 and not in love with me. Oddly enough, I had not re ceived a letter from St, Louis. To-mor row he would be here, and I should know, why. 'Jack 'proposed" a ramble dowa town.' ' "You've been -too ' close," Miss Hunters-said he. "Let's go and call on one of Josie's friends.' . - T ' I went outinto the July rneht with them and we had ice cream. Then we went to a hotel on Monroe street, where Josie's friend was stopping. Who does not know the Egyptian parlor with its hangings? I stood behind a curtain talking and laughing with Jack and Jo sie, when I saw coming down to one of the ground parlors Wallace Adams, with a lady on his arm. I looked until I, felt myself growing rigid. She was dark and very beautiful and they were talking in low tones. They approached some one near us. Jack McGillicuddy followed the direction of my eyes, then darted away to learn more. "He introduced her as Mrs. Adams," he announced, coming back soon. "Let's get home." I did not faint or cry out. I believed it, and realized how cruelly I had been deceived. The thought of the California horses floated into my mind. He lives for pleasure," I said to myself. 'He thought me so poor and mean that he could buy my silence when he had duped me." Then, through the midnight watches I thought wildly and madly. How should endure my life hereafter? How take up the duties l hated so when l had known a little time of happiness? The discipline of five years gave me Btrength. Work! It would be welcome now if only I could forget the past, the present. Thousands live and strive where there is no object in. life. I thought of death, of suicide. They were not for me, though I would have been so glad to die. I laughed aloud as I thought, "The water in the Chicago river is so dirty,, and in the lake they would never find me." I would live, but I would go away where no one knew me and becin life anew. Perhaps In time I would forget it, but now, God pity mer I packed my things together with trembling fingers and feverish haste, though it was hours, till morning. I did not shed a -tear,- -eveaover jay pretty wedding dress and bonnet, which mocked me now like silent witnesses ct my hu miliation. I sent a little note to Mr. Adams: I return your ring and roar presents. I know how base you have been and I hope we will never meet again.- Doha hvxteo. In the morning I went away, leaving no address. I could not face the McGiLu- suddy curiosity, and I had but a little money. My work I had given up and xmst seek it again. I must have change r I felt that I should go mad. I went to a boarding house on the ttfest side. After a day or two I found work in a dressmaker's establishment. I was mentally unfit for a position as proof reader. I succeeded after a few days, and, ah me, how faithful 1 was. 1 no longer dreaded "work, but feared a cessa tion of it, when I should have time to think and remember I cared for ndthing and trusted no living being. My life was over and done. It was here one -day that a woman floated into my presence to have her draperies fastened. It was the same I had seen en his arm that fatal night, but now I could look at her calmly. Was X growing stronger? I even addressed lier. "You are Mrs. Adams," I. said, -while I did my lowly work. "Yes," she smiled, "Mrs. Wallace Adams." Some old author has said there is a peace that comes, not of hopes realized, but of hopes relinquished; a peace that is not born at the tranquil fireside, but is the peace of 3olitude. It was this I hoped for now. After weeks I had ceased to feel I wanted to read proof once more. I would look for my work where no one would know me, For awhile I sought in vain, but I was not discouraged, and in a week 1 i found it. The past was dead and I was alone. I went down to the bridge again, and again the bridge bell rang out sharply.. .1 hurried on, just in tune tp swing out over the river. Now I knew t. had . , ceased to care, but looking out over, the ater I did not heed approach ing footsteps. 'Dora, Dora," some one cried, "will voufipeak to me?" For at the sound of his voice I had stretched out my arms to the' muddy Chicago river; I who was 60 strong minded .and did not care.. , "We've looked m all the printing offices in. Chicago," said Jack McGilli cuddy, when they had brought me out of a little faint, "That was Adams' cousin's wife, Miss Hunter." , "Dora, says the manly voice once more, "has it been so hard in your life that you couldn't believe me and trust me again?" v . -.- . X had passed almost into the darkness of belief that love and truth are not on the - earth; that nothing remains1 but treachery and the wrangling " of human passions; but in the light of my husband's home I shall find my faith ' restored; and remembering those days, I can only say, "God help the , women who work.!' Dora Hunter in Chicago Herald. Common Sense - Versos Theory Forestry orators and theorists must ad mit after this .season of unprecedented rain ; that the rainfall is governed .by sauses beyond the range and influence of forest trees and." wodl lots. Common sense Indicates that the spongy mass of aioss and 1 fallen leaves in i every : forest aaust assist ift holding moisture back, and socializing - its flow; ; but common folk ivill still fancy that the existence of large iKxlies of water .and the evaporating oower of tho sun rays haye more to do with creating rainfall than the planting f forest treesorthiipieservatlohof over dpe specimens of pine, spruce or; hem lock, which " have stopped growing and which stand in -the.wayof tho develop ssent of the younger and more ' - vigorous ferest trees.-.-Bostou-jBudget; - - - THE ISLAND OP BIBD8. Peculiarities of a Little Isle f TOrtcb Littl I Generally Known. . "The Island of -Birds for such, if has been-con jectured, is the .meaning of the word "Foula" is not so frequently vis ited ty the tourist as it , deserves . to Je. Situated at a distance of fifteen mfles from the nearest part of the mainland of Shetland, its - cloudlike form, t which seems to float on the horizon; is visible from every hill' top of any importance in the archipelago. . :" ; - v; The eye of the observer of the pictur esque, as it glides along the-distant pros pect, is caught by the fine bold peaks of FOukvand returps again and-again from tts general survey to gaae fondly on that island as the ruias feature of the scena. Nor Js U only- at af- distance that it looks. The cliffis on the west side, which are beaten bywaves which have rolled with out a check all the way from Greenland, are the loftiest in the British Isles, The highest hill is the Sneuk, which has an altitude of over thirteen hundred feet above the sea. Another peak, almost as high, confronts the ocean as a stupendous precipice from 6uminit to base. These crags are the homes of innumerable sea fowl, the none or sea parrot and the kittiwake being most abundant. On the east side the rocks are compara tively low, but not uninteresting. On the north there are some remarkable stacks, or isolated rocks, one of them being pierced by a lofty Gothic archway, and another surmounted by a ruin. The hollow center of the island affords peat and the grassy slopes at the back of the cliffs afford good pasturage for cattle and sheep and a number of handsome ponies. The population numbers 270, and, with the exception of three families, is engaged in crofting and fishing. The Foulaese are masters of many trades. They make their own turning lathes and -spinning wheels. Some can repair clocks and watches; all can make and cobble shoes. A few are .weavers and tailors, as well as dyers. Every man is a mason. The wo men clip, and, I am afraid, sometimes too or pluck the sheep. They, spin the wool and knit excellent stockings and sailors' frocks or jerseya. I believe if a Foulaman were to be placed naked on a desert coast with nothing in his possess ion but a clasp knife he would not only contrive to find food for his support, but in a short time would, by his unaided ef forts, be provided with clothes, with a house having a clock on the walls and with a boat and fishing tackle. When " they go to sea they never use the language that is employed on shore, but a jargon sacred to the occasion. A woman- they call' 'teloven foode" or I 'hemelte," a parson is an "upstander, " and the church is a "bono house, ' and sooru-: To use a land word in a boat is certain to frighten away the fish. A copper coin is nailed on every keel to prevent the "brigdy" (which is the Danish name for the basking shark) from sucking the boat to the bottom. A worsted thread having nine knots on it Ifl tied around a joint when it is sprained. Sick cows are cured by. drawing torn cat by the tail over their backs. If a minister or a person with flat feet crosses the path of a man going out fish ing no fish will be got. To accidentally wet the feet when, stopping: into the boat is & favorable sign. A cat should .never be mentioned when a man is bating his line. A rustv nail f rom a coffin will cure f the toothache if used as a toothpick, and a sip of water from an old kneepan is a sovereign remedy for some disorders. Ep catch a halibut for bait the fishermen put nine pieces of. peat into a kettle above the fire before proceeding to sea, A hen should be set when the tide is flowing, and an egg should be placed among the seed corn before it : is sown. When a sheep is being slaughtered in doors no woman should pass between it and the Are, Stacks should be built and the ground dug according to the apparent course of the sun. Boats always take a turn sunward before going to sga. Lon don World. , The Barber Shops of Europe. The comparison betwjeen the -barber shop of America and the barber shop of Europe is the comparison between a pal ace and a hovel Luxurin a barber 6hop across the water, even in Paris, is an unknown quantity. The American barber aims to make his'ihop as attract ive, his chairs as luxurious and comfort able as possible. In decorations and fit ting up generally many shops in America are exceedingly artistic In -Europe things are different. An. American vis iting Paris - or London, on placing him self iii the hands of a: native barber will at once sigh for the land of his birth, and would even on joy the - gossip of his American barber.. . - - In the provincial towns and cities of Germany a barber is an institution. He is a dignitary to some extent. The head barber never shaves a man. He hires assistants to do that. He must be a surgeon and a dentist. He pulls teeth, cups and : leeches, cuts off a leg or arm if necessary, but he never draws a razor across a customer's face. - The head barber's assistants 6tart out with their shaving outfits early in the morning and do the shaving right at the -. homes of customers, who make a contract ' for a year to be shaved so many times a week for so much generally .about $10 ifjthe price. Customess must be at home when the barber calls or they will not be shaved until the next trip. There are very few shops and very popr ones b Germany, The European on visiting America astounded at the luxury the artistic ar rangement and general elegance of. : the American barber slxp.' Georgo Werner in Globe-Democrat. - k ; Disease Among French Peaches, - - A new disease has broken out in the peach orchards of France, simiLir, to the black rot that has been so destructive to the grape ia America. - -The fruit is at tacked in 'its earuer stages and nevei reaches maturity. ' It is, howeveri from a wholly different fungus that produces' the grape trouble wfth us. and has bees named Coryneum BeijennckL This black rot swept off most of the' peaches in the' valley of tho Garonne last year. Public 'Opinion. - .- ---rf ; As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men. Lord Brefclle, . j '1 . - -' , : JSYttita.et a MexioBa Tews. ' . v.' 'San -Pedro 13 a place of 6uramermg, a vijlegiatura t for wealthy ; Guadalajara familes, who pass there the , months of September; and? October. - June IS is ob served as a great i festival, for on -that date, 1821, San Pedro seconded the cry ' of independence, - raised -bylturbide in' Yguala. It is a drowsy little town, with pottery, pottery . everywhere! But let hot the stranger prepare Mmself for- im mensefkilns nor extensive iactories. : L In a 6x10 room with a mud. floor' and two or three "reed mats; a table and two or three gaudy,- highly colored pkrtures J of saints for . furniture, squat two or three Indians, yes, of the barefoot white cot ton drawered class; of citizen& If they. maKe cups, flasks, eta theymay have a iche-and soma ixxld3: other wise, the clay, a few wooden spatulas, a knife of twoCSheir fingers are tfafrf ihiplements," while ahttle furnace- mgy4 be found out in the garden.- cowermg away behind noble quince trees or over laden mangoes. Perhaps a dozen little clay pipkins on the pine table .' hold the pigments used for coloring the wares. -But the variety of vessels and toys is infinite, and, in the finer grades, the work is marvelous. Water sets, bottle, tray, cup and stopple, Of exquisite finish; money banks in the form of ducks, pigs, fish, and myriad shapes of fruit and flow ers, now conventionalized, now . true to life; a thousand types of woodmen, beg gars, ! gentlemen, soldiers, each with his own individual expression so faithfully copied that one seems to savor the, ices of. thenevero and hear the unearthly howl of the blind fiddler, with his gleaming teeth and hollow mouth where the raised tongue fairly seems to wiggle. It is strange enough that many of the best varieties cr this ware are never Been on sale elsewhere, not even in the City of Mexico. Strangely, too, " these artisan, artists are not clever at modeling women. Few of their types are feminine, nor are they successful at the portraiture of women in the busts which they model from life after, live minutes' study of a subject. They charge dear for these busts, though; one hardly cares to pay $10 or $12 for a statuette of clay, which may go to pieces in a liard jar on the railway. Y. HI Addis in San Francisco Chronicle. Cap. Coster and the Clrfef. "It is a source of wonder to the whites," says Mr. ilcFadden, "that the bodies of Gen. Custer and his brother Tom were not mutilated in the massacre. It is well known that the treacherous chief Rain-in-the-Face had sworn that he would eat Tom Custer's heart. The way' he came to make that threat was this: 'Rain-in-the-Face had committed some depredation in Nebraska for which he was wanted by the United States officers -' horse stealing; I think it was. He took refuge' at Standing Rock,' and Gen.' Cus ter sent a sergeant with a detail from Fort Lincoln to bring him in. The sergeant wa3 compelled to return with out his prisoner. TJia general then said to Iris brother, 'Tom, go to Standing Rock and bring bacu Ram-in'-the-Face or leave your own body there.' The cap tain, who never refused to obey orders, started on Iris errand with a detail of cav alry. . , , "it so happened that the day no readied Standing Rock was the day on which rations were issued at the agency. There , were fully 5,000 Indians at the place. . Cant. Custer placed hisletail -so as to surround the trading post. He dis mounted, and, with ar revolver in ono hand and a sword in the other, entered the building. When he got inside ho asked, 'Where is Rain-in-tho-Face?' Silence fell on the room, which was crowded with friends of . the chief. The captain then told the interpreter to point out Rain-in-the-Face. This was done," and stepping up to him the intrepid cavalry officer placed the muzzle of his revolver at the Indian's head and said: " 'Rain-in-the-Face, I want you. If you make an attempt to escape I'll shoot you. If your friends interfere I will blow your brains out. I have but one life to lose, and if they shoot me you will die also. "Rain-in-the-Face 6aid he would sub mit, but on going out at the door he said : It is your turn now, but some day I will eat your heart. " New York Mail and Express. - Tho Earth's Cloud Belts. . The researches of M. Teisserenc de Bort show a marked tendency of the earth's cloudiness throughout the year to arrange itself in zones parallel to the equator. A belt of maximum cloudi ness may. be traced near the equator, ! two bands of light cloudiness extending from 15 to 35'degs. of latitude north and south, and two zones of greater cloudi ness between 45. and 60 dega., beyond which the sky seems to become clearer, toward the . poles. Theso zones have; a noticeable tendency to follow-; the sun in its change of declination, moving north ward in spring and southward in fall. The zoaes of clear sky correspond with regions of high pressure. The distribu tion of cloudiness ia a direct consequence of the course of the winds. Arkansaw Traveler. ' " Kow Tork's Enormous Charities. ' ' New York's charities are something enormous. - That a million or dollars lire given to the poor of this city every -year could easily be shown, but that doesn't touch the question. This matter is some thing that - affects our social " structure from corner stone to cap sheaf. It is employment these people need. Self support is the first : essential in the great problem ef self respect. No man who lives a borrowed money, bo man who is the recipient of continuous -charity, can- ! respect himself. The meanest and cheap ! est maa who walks the streets has his moments of sober thought, and it is these moments : of sober thought " which will ultimately breed trcnlble in this city. iiwuvwiuuiuvniuu news, v . T T T 1 l --il. : . tit ' ' - , " hxk. fntereWng Origin. - ' -The pug dog as a pet had an interest-' fing origin. - He was first imported from; China and Japan." and came into fashion in the reign of ..William III. It is stated that Jthe vkingbelieyed ius life .to have been saved by a dog of t!ua breed awak ening him to his danger' when a murder-' ous attack was about to' be "made on , the. i prmce, --Chicago HerakLi Birth's good; but breeding's better.- .Scofch Proy?rb. - --W--Z-w: 'RUSSIA A3 A COMPETITOR.- The Petroleum ttratfa- Revolutionised A. - -: --Cotton -Raising Begrlon. Till recently N Russia lhas constituted at little world of its-own' and its immense population lias not disturbed the people " -living -in other countriea. - In seeking to enlarge its . borders it has had troubles with other nations, but otherwise it thaa - not crossed their track, . -It has not ieea a competitor in - the '- great commerciar marts of . tho'Tworldj It has produced . some superior' leather and Iron that havo ireeU used for certain purposes;' but lately w nas oeen new that articles equally good r have beenjooieade lu other countries. It has exportedcensrderablewheat, ibut there has beeu Uttff fear that the amount m IL.1L i. ill . UKAL&Cb LIU KliUll ZUU. IIIKIU.. US' LI J.-li i .t 1 tsut witnut the past four years ICossia - t has revolutionized the petroleum trade oT the world. It- has established lines, for ' ' conveying oil from near the Caspian to -the Black sea and has constructed iron ' vessels for carrying it in bulk not only to all thfl Iftnfimrr rmrfa rt woctflrn PnrftnA but to Africa, India and Australia. The -xvussiaiis were ua nrsi to use cruae pe - ' z -v r . . troleum for fuel on locomotive andL ,v stationary. . steam boilers, for makina lUummating gas. for burning brick: and earthenware; . Recent .English, papers state that- ar-. rangements have been made for bringing . : frozen beef, pork, mutton and poultry -from Russia to British ports during- the -coming winter, and the belief is expressed that live animals and eggs will soon be ; brought, at all ! seasons of the year. ' ' If desirable they Can be brought most of the ' distance by rail or sent all the way by wafer from ports'on the Baltic sea. It is now' believed that immense quantities of grain raised; in Siberia will be sent to England, France and Germany from the " same ports. -. Siberia is the largest if "not : the best grain territory in the world. It is capable of supplying all western Europe with breadstuff a. The central and southern portions of it are well adapted for -raising wpoL - The building of the Transcaspian ? rail road has opened up one of the finest cot- , ton raising regions in the world. -The soil Ms rich and the climate delightful. Labor there is cheaper than in Egypt or -1 India. One-half 'the cotton used in Rus-( sian mills -last year was produced in -central Asia, and. efforts will be made to ' produce the entire amount needed wil hin the next four years. At the end of that . time Russia expects to export raw cotton. The profits of raising it in a region where plowing may l done during most of rho--year -and where no fertilizers" are re- - quired are enormous. With cars and ! I steamers run by petroleum cotton raised - In central Asia may within five years be -laid dawn. iaXiverpoot to compete with ,' that produced in the United States t T "The region traversed by this same sys-V tem of railroads ' is also said - to be won- -derf ully adapte! to tlio production of fine wool and toba(x:o. For, centuries iarg " flocks of sheep and goats have been kept' there and have been the chief sources of wealth. With good facilities, for trans- , porting their fleeces it u likely that these. . flocks will lie largely increased. Some -state that' the tobacco raised in central r Asia is superior , to that produced In Turkey, which-is preferred" for making i cigarettes and smoking in pipes. Chi cago ximes. . - . , One of Pompeii's Victims. . . A A fovr rl.iva nftarwarrla T Wtin,nfti- for another day at Pompeii. The impression was greater than ever before. Thfl city and the hill now came into relations with one another in: a way hitherto unfelt..,, There was a fearful reality about tho v harrowing spectacle in the museum near the-gato of Jfompen. -'lhe slender, grace ful form of that woman who presses her forehead against her arm as she lies faee a downward and gasps for - breath; tho ' untold agony in the features of the pros trate man, who seems still gasping for V life, that last figure in a line of "charred - human forms which he before us, as per- t feet as they were when entombed in tho ' fallimr ashes all these speak to us and ' bring U3 terribly near to these men aud ''. women of .centuries, ago. , Theirs was" indeed an awful martyrdom. But the " fire, which brought. death to., Pompeii, bestowed upon it immortality. Today fompeii lives, wuuo inouaanoa oi cities , ,? 1 '1 j 1 - . 1 . i . which have, been spared iiave perished and passed forever. Florence Cor. Boe-v ; ton Globe. . - . : - -. - ... , - , t Coant Kalnoky's One Finger Trick. 1 uount Jiionony has Deen trying tne . one nnger tncK or his once too or ten, and lias received a lesson which he will not forget in a hurry. The count has a -very exalted notion of his Town dignity.. especially on official occasions,' and has a habit of extending only one finger to v diplomatists under ' tho first : rank. At -Vipnna a few davit afro ha met 'a imari. well known in London circles for the x facUity with which lie has run through two " fortunes, aud is now avdenily .- angling for a third, The count had fra- ternizeu with tins individual on the neu- . tral ground of : London drawing rooms v and liiiequently -dined 'withluot. ' " J "But in-Viennesa dinlomnrie'eirelfls tha count did , not consider, it necessary to . maintain the friendship', and on meet ing Iris - old '' chum coolly - extended " the stereotyped , forefinger. " The t other V gazed for a ; moment ;.- thraugh the ieyegiass: which ho , always x: wears, y t r the - rigid " digit, and ..then 1 as coolly advanced his own forefinger and with it touched somewhat gingerly ' Xh&t of the count. ' The Litter blusbel . uriously, and scanned tlie faces of those'-: around to see . if , notice nad bf en takeu " of the CTeetinir. . Of course ; there were smiles," which -.were ' checked ; as boob as possible; but the jesson was well menteu, , .1 - 1 .1 t . - . 1 . . . f . ' . T 1 4UKi uuuiu ue rajteu tu ueanauuuua . Modern TSocieryl ? - - z '. ' -' " A Southern Terrapin Form, i - , A Yankee lias-- established ' a terrapin form about sixty miles from Mobile. ; Aa -inclosure of three acres in . extent con tains several uiicnes xmm icec m iengtn and 10 feet in vidtb; and these are fiiled'' witlt salt water by two canals. ; In these. ; ditches about turtles are domesti cated. :In winter" tliey lie ' tmbetlded7 U the mud,.and ere very convenient creat- urea to keep, seeing at this "season they never cat any ood.f The turtles co? about Cl per season to feed, and ' sell 1 ia - t . xr N - : . j vtr l i iv x ui .u- 4i i per uuzca.- v otiuu touTost. - - -' ' . -,
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
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July 11, 1889, edition 1
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