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Special attention given to cases in Person and U&aiveii counties. W. Graham-- , &. W. VVia-ton G RAUAM& WINSTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Oxford, N. C. Practices In all the fconrts of the State. Han dle money and jareflt tb same in best 1st Moi-t- craire ileal Kstate security, bettie estates ana . investigate titles, LUKSFOBD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Eoiboro. K. C. J 8. MEBBI1X , ATTORNEY AT LAV . ' Boxboro, V.C. Tn nil yt attention given to the collection of ;laito. -yy w. KiTciiiN. . . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Roxboro, N. C. Practices wherever his.Jisrvices are required. rjB.J T. PULL'EE, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, i - " - Boxhero, N. C Residence, place formerly'occupied by Dr O. E. Bradsher. iQffice aver Q. G. Mitchell's mg store . , . R. O. G. NICHOLS ' - . Offers ITis t EOF ESSIOJTAL SEBVICESito th PEOPLE f Uoxboio and surrounding countrjr. - Practices in all the .branches of Medicine. DR. C. V. BRADSHER JttEKffI8T, . Oflers 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 jrora, . C wMi&e attended at JE. B. A. MOBTOH, Offers his professional services -to-the people .of Koxooro and surroundingcountry. Practices in all the branches of .medicine. . 10-4-ly . ATTENTIONJ Hasnng leased several roomdn the Past baildiog aid fitted themiip with bed8 and other room furniture, we , Affer to the public " . Bedding lor 25 stents Each. SParties travelling will save money by . .calling on ns, as we do not charge but ? ' HALF PRICE. , : s- . We alao keep a, first-class restaurant which is kept oa the - 1, EUROPEAN STYLE. Meals 25 cents, at any hour from 4 a. in. to 9 p; m. - We feed n . fresh Beef, r Pork, Mutton, Limb; Chicken, Ducks, eese, - Turkeys, Birda, Eggs,tresh Figli, Rabbits and all kinds of Vege tables, in fact evexything that is kept in a Restaurant. , : W gel the praise by all - who stop with us for keeping the best table ever kept iir Jtoxbortu ; .:?''Ji L. SIMPSON & CO- r HAIR OALSAfll Oteanses and benntifle the hair. rrojuotee a luxuriant crrowtn.- - - never rails ta Hestoro tirayj nair to its Toutntui ooior. . Curensoalpdimiwesand hair tolling PAQIfCR'S GINGER TONIC vol. 6. : aoxBono, north carolina JOPTHBN m BY MAX O'BEIili AND JACK . ATTYN. Translated 1y Mme. Paul Blonet. "Copyrighted by Cassell & Co.; New- York We Publish .the Following Extracts from" this Book bySpecial Ai ' taxigement through the Americaa Press Association., - - " Paul Blouet (Max O'ReJ is a remarkably ckver'Prenchman, who has devoted his tal ents mostly to satirizing the Anglo-Saxon raceU. He hasijecome widely known as the author of VJohk BoiiL and His IsivtKU," u John Bull, 3iC,n Etc -This ibop'k is his latest jaro duction, the material for it -feeing gathered during his icent visit to America. . ; , CHAPTER XXXIX. : Hotels are one of thastrongest attractions fa 'America to Americans, especially' the ladies. , , . . - When we Enropeans travel, we alight at a hotel, because tt is Impossible that we should have a pitching place of .our -own Jn eeeb town we visit, oririends able to receive as; mother words, we go. to the hotel, because we cannot help it." When we leave oar good bed and table, and set ontfto rses the world a little, we say to oursei ver: "The Worst ctitit that we shall have to livtoin hoteis perhaps for a month or two; but, after all, it cannot be helped, we must put op with hotels since we have made np our minds to see Switzer land, or Scotland, or Italy, " Our object In traveling U to see .new countries, make pleas ant excursions, climb mountains, etc , and to attain that object we most use the hotels as a convenience, as a sad necessity. In Europe, the hotel is a-nteans to an end. In America, it Is the end. People travel hundreds, nay thousands of miles for the pleasure of putting apat certain hotels.'- Listen to their conversation and you will find that it mainly turns, not upon the fine views they have discovered, or the ex cursions and walks they have enjoyed, 'but upon the respective merits of the various hotels they have put np at. Hotels are for them what cathedrals, monuments and the beauties of nature are for us. In February, 1SSS, I wont to see the Ameri cans take their pleasure in Florida. During the months of January, February and March Socks of society people from the towns in the north go to Florida where the sun is warm and the orange trees are in full beauty of fruit and flower. Jacksonville and St. A gustine are in winter what Saratoga, New port and Long Branch are in summer, the rendezvous of all who have any pretensions to a plat in the fashionable world. . But what do they do at Jacksonville and St. Augustine, all these Americans in search of a "good tinie" You think perhaps that, in the morning, they setottt in great numbers to make long excursions'Into the country or on the water; that picnics, riding parties and such out of door pastimes are organized. Not so. They get up, breakfast, and -make for the balconies or piazzas of the hotels, there to.rock themselves two or three hours in rocking chairs until lunch time; after this they return to their rocking chairs again and wait for dinner. Dinner over, they go to the drawing room, where there are more rocking chairs, and chat or listen to an orchestra until bed time. And yet, what pretty en virons the little town of Jacksonville has, for Jastancel " For miles around stretches a villa dotted orange grove. And the table d'hote 1 In France we lock weU at-the bill and study it; we discuss the Aishes arranging Xhem discreetly and artistically in the mind before mating their acquaintance more fully on the palate. We are gourmets. In America the question seems to be not, M Which of these .dishes will go well -together t. bat, "How many of them can I manager It is so much a day ; the moderate eaters pay for the glut tons. . ou see women come down at 8 to break fast in silk attire, and decked in diamonds. And what a breakfast! , First an orange and a banana to freshen he month and whet the appetite; then fish, bacon and eggs, or ome let, beefsteak or chop with fried potatoes, hominy cakes, and preservea .. . "How little yoo eat, jseu JFrench peopler' said an Americaa .to me one day, as I was or dering my breakfast of cafe an lait and bread and butter. ' : : "You are mistaken," I said, "only we do not care for our dinner at 8 o'clock in the morning. ' - ; J The larger the hotel iajthe better the Amer icans like It A little, quiet, well. kept hotel, where, the cookery being done, for twenty or thirty persons instead of a thousand, the beef mas not the same- taste as mutton; a hotel where yon are Jcnown and called by your name, whom you are not simply No. 578 Qks a convict; this kind of pitching . place does not attract the American. He must have something large, enormous, Immense. He is inclined to judge everything by Its size. . -; Jacksonville and St' - Augustine -? boast a score of hotels, each capable of accommodat ing from six hundred to a thousand guests. These hotels are full from the beginning of January to the end of March. i have almost always accepted with reserve the American superlatives, followed by the traditional "in the world;" but it may safely be Said that the Ponce da Jason hotel, at St Augustine, il not only Jthe largest and hand-, somest hotel in America, "but in the whole world. , Standing in the prettiest part of the picWesqno little town, this Moorish palao&r with its walls of onyx, its 'vast, artistically furnished saloons, its orange walks, foun tains, cloisters and towers, js a jrevelation, a scene from the "Araan .Nights. .. . Here the Acaeriean congregate In search of a "good Umetas they call it The charges range from ten to twenty-five dollars a day for each person, exclusive of wines -and ex tras. The American who goes to the Ponce de Leon with hii wife and daughters, there; fore, spends from one to two hundred dollars a day. For this sum, he and his family are fed, played to by a very ordinary band, and supplied with an immense choice of rocking chairs. On his return to Hew YorkJhe de clares to his friends that he has had a ''lovely time." -' The American -never admits' that he has been bored, in America specially. r-The smallest incidents of the trip are events and adventures, and he never; fails to have bis "good, time. Ho Is as easily pleased as a child; everything American -ealls .out his ad miration, or at least his interest Remark to hinv for instance, that to go by train to Florida from 'the north one has to travel through more than six hundred miles of pine forest- which makes the journey very unin terestingand ho jplll throw you a pitying glance, which seams to ayt "Immenso, sow iHIS ;JfflTOEBT, Immense; liko everything that Is American.' ; .The temperaturo of Ftorida "m winter Is rarely lower thandegs., and . ranges from J that to 75; but the climate is moist and ener vating, the country ,a vast marsh, so Oat that by standing on a chair one could sea to the ex tremities of it . with the aid of a good field glass. Some enterprising Ajnerican should throw up a hill down there; he would make his fortune. Every one would go and see it It Is not everybody , who can .afford the luxury of - the Peace 4e Leon hotel, bat It is'1 everybody who likes to be seen , there in the . You must be able to say when you return to the north that you have been at the Ponce de Leon. This is how it can, be managed. You go to some other hotel near the Ponce. In the evening, dressed In all your diamonds, i-you glide -into cne court yara or tno great caravansary. - Another step takes you to the immense rotunda where the concert is going on. You stroll through the saloons and cor ridors, and. takinsr a seat where you can be seen of the multitude, you listen to the music. About 10 or 1 1 o'clock you beat a retreat and return to your own hotel. Wishing to set my mind at rest on this matter, I went one evening, about half past 9, to the Casa Monica and .Florida bouse.' There, In the . rooms where the musicians engaged by the proprie tors play every evening, were at the most a score of people. . ' - Everything" is on a grand scale in good American hotels, especially the bills. I caught the-following bit of conversation at the St Augustine station as I was leav bag: v - "Heuot yau are off, too f , said. a young man to a friend who had just install! his wife In the train for Jacksonville. "My dear fellow, I have been here a fort night;. the Ponce de Leon is magnificent, but the bill is awfully stiff. "Never mind, old man," rejoined the other. "you . will take it off your wifes next dress money. With few exceptions, the waiters in all the srreat hotels are nee roes. .You. are served slowly, but with intelligence and politeness. No "duchesses" in the great cities of the north or the fashionable resorts of theeou-th. Those good negroes Lava - such cheerful, open faces! They seem so glad to be alive; and they look so good natured that it does one good to see them. .When they look at one another they laugh. When you look at them they lausrh.' If a aegro sees another negro more black than himself he Is de lighted; he calls hisi "darky and looks on him In a patronizing way. Then great dark .eyes that shew the whites so, when they roll them in their own droll fashion; the two rows of white teeth 'constantly on . view, framed in thick retrousse lips; the swaying manner of walking, with turned out toes and head thrown back; the, musical voice, sweet but sonorous, and so pleasing compared to the horrible twang of the lower class peo ple ia the north, all make up a picturesque whole. You forget the color and fall to ad miring tAtem. S : ' , ' And how amusing they arel . : . At the Everett hotel, Jacksonville, I one day went to the wrong table.- ' ; . "You've come to de wrong table, sah, said the attendant' darky. Then, indicating the negro who served at the next table, he added; "Dat's de gentleman dat waits on yon, sak" I immediately recognized my "gentleman," and changed my seat' The fact is that all ibe negroes are alike at a glance. ' It requires as much perspicacity to tell one from another as.it does to distinguish one French gendarme from another French gendarme. 1 never met with such memories as some of .those darkies have. - As I have said, the hotels of Florida are be sieged during the winter months, i At dinner time, yon may seo from six hundred to a thou sand people at tabla The black bead waiter knows each of the guests. The second time they enter the dining room, he conducts them to their places without making a mistake yin one Instance. If . yon Etcp but a day, yon may return a month after, and not only -will be recoils your face, but he will be able to tell yon which little table yon. sat at, and which placo at that table was yours. ; I- At the door of the dining room a young negro of 16 or 18 takes your hat and puts it on a bat rack. . I have seen hundreds thus in ixia care at a time. You. leave the dining room and, without a moment's hesitation, he singles out your hat and hands it to yon. It js wonderful when one thinks of it I give yon the problem to solve. Several hundred vi Am arhTVi xrrvrw heva rr coon sviSta than once or twice before, pass hi to a room handing jnr . thir fhmniy pots OT wide awakes to take care of. They come ouTbf the room in no sort of order, and you have to give- each 'the hat that belongs to him. have tried hard and often, bat never succeed ed m finding out bow it is4ou& : .Another' negro in the hall goes and gets your key when he sees you return from' -walk. 'V No need to tell him the number of your' roomhe .knows it " He may have seen you but once Jbef ore, but that is all sufficient --be never errs. Andsthe n egresses I good, merry looking creatures with buxom faces and forms, sup ple, light, graceful gait - and slender - waists. aping the fashion, and having very pretty fashions of their own, coquetting, and mino tog, as , they walk -out with their "ticlars" particulars). The enjoyment of life is writ ten on their aces, and one ends by thinking some of them quite pretty. -1 have seen some splendid figures amongst them. ..YoU should see them on Sundays, dressed in scarlet or some other bright -color. :wtth" er.eat hats janntfly turned up on one side, and fanning themselves with the ease .and grace of Bel- gravian ladies. . ,- ' Negresses are' not employed as chamber maids in hotels. . They go into service only as nurses, and of course children love them. Unhappily for .you,: it is the objectionable "duchess" that you find again, up stairs this i&se, Tjte evil fa not so great as it h Jg t&9 smaller towns where these -young persons t wait at table also.. In '.the best hotels their 1 evnltt rliifrrfa trt bom tYitk bflrlrnnma Hdir . :Vrn I J- - -Jf " J must not ask any service of them beyond that ' If you -desire ; anything v-brought to your bedroom,- you ring; and a negro comes to answer .the bell and receive your order. . ' I remember having one day insulted one of these women certainly imintentionally, but the crime was none the less abominable for that . si - y- , , This wasit . , I was cteessing i -go out "to dinner, and wanted some hot .water to shave with. .Hav ing rung three times and received naanswer, I grew impatient and opehed the door,: in the hope of seeing soma servant who would" bd obliging enough to ietch me the water In question. e A chambermaid was. passing" my door. J T. ... X "Could yon please get sae some hot water!" I said. - " J "What do yon say!" was the reply, accom panied by a frown and a look of contempt i" ".Would you be so good as to got me some hot waterf I timidly repeated. "--J; VWhat do yon think I amf Havent you a bell ba your rooml. said the harpy. - Andsheassed along Indignant. -: i--; I withdrew into my room in fear and trem bling, and for a few minutes was half afraid of receiving a request to quit . the hotel im mediately. . " - I-sbaared with cold water that day. CHAPTER XL. , , ' If yon go to a changer, he will give yon five francs hi French money, or four shillings In TftigHsh, for a dollar. JBot in America, -you aro not long Jn discovering that you get for your dollar but the worth of a shilling in English money, or a franc in French. The flat that lets for 4,000 francs In Paris, and the house that ferentedat 200, or 4,000 sbillingftn London, would- be charged in New York, Boston or Chicago. The simplest kind of di-ess, one for which a Parisian of modest tastes pays 100 francs, would cost an American lady at least $100. A visiting dress costing 500 francs in Paris would cost $500 in New. York. .A. bonnet that would be charged 60 francs is worth $50. The rest to match. ' -- . - v Here Is a dressmaker's bfll which fell under my eyes la New York ohedechambre.... $200 3oth dress. .. 175 Opera eloak. ........... Riding habit. ......... Bonnet . :." .V.. ........ Theatre bonnet. ...... Black silk dress-. ...... tsoe 180 80 60 40 COO Bail dress.... i;Total ..:....M..;....$2 In this bill, there fa neither, mantle, linen, boots, shoes, gloves, lace, nor, the thousand little requisites of a woman's toilet, and it is but one out' of the three or four bills for the year:-; I am convinced that an American Hroman, who.' pretends lo the least elegance, must spend, if she be a good ' manager, from $6,000 to $8,000 a year. Add to this the fact that she loads herself with diamonds and precious stones. But these, of course, have not to be renewed every three months. " A great -number, of Americans come to Eu rope to pass three months or every year. This fa not an additional extravagance; it is an economy. They boy their dress for a year, and the money .they save by -this ,plan not only pays their traveling' expenses, but leaves -them a nice little surplus in cash. 'A hotel bedroom on the fourth floor, for which you would pay five francs a day, is $5 in the good hotels of the principal towns of America. -pA cab which costs you one franc and a half in France, or one shilling and six pence in England, costs you a dollar and a half in New York. The proportion fa always kept. The dollar .has not more value than this in the lesser towns of the United States The omnibus, for instance, which takes you to the station from your hotel for sixpence tor -half a shilling) in England, and for half a franc in France, costs you halfi a dollar in America. Copper money exists in America, but if yon were' to offer.a cent to a beggar be would fling it at you in disgust., When the bare footed urchins in the eouth-beg their formula fa: ."Spare jus a .nickel, or ''Chuck ust a nickel, guv'nor.. The nickel fa worth five cents. The only use of the cent that I could discover was to buy the evening paper. The only things cheap in' the -States, are native oysters, and English or French books that have been translated into American. a It 'expenses are enormous In the United States I mustihastento add that it fa chiefly the foreign visitor wbo suffers in purse. - The American 'can .afford to pay high prices, be cause his receipts are far larger, than they would be ra Europe. - Situations bringing in three or your hundred dollars, as in France in England, are unknown in 'America. Bank clerks and shop assistants command salaries of a thousand to fifteen?, hundred dollars a year, r A. railway ear conductor gets $50 a month; Jn -the grades above in the-t professions, the fees, compared with those earned in Europe, are also ia the proportion of -the dollar to the shilling or-icano.' A newspaper; article for which' would be paid In .France from 100 to -50 francs (and no French paper, except The Figaro, pays so much for articles) b paid for in America from $100 to $250. - A doctor is paid from $5 to $10 a visit I am, of course, not speaking of specialists and fashionable doctors; their charges are fabulous. I know barristers who make over $100,000 a year.; i Everyone fa well paid in the United States, except the vice president. - - zi If I have spoken of the high cost of -living. it is to state a Tact .and not to make a com plaint ' I went to America as a lecturer, not as a tourist. Jonathan paid me well, and when cabby asked me for a dollar and a half to take me to a lecture halL l said, like M. Joseph : Prudhommes ' "It fa expensive, but -can afford It," and I paid without grumbling.' -"WelL - sir, : and. what do yon think of America? ; - ' ! -- - i - Without pretending to judge America ex cathedra, 1 will sum up the -impressions jot ted down in this little volume, and reply to the traditional question of the .Americans When "one thinks of what the Americans have done hi a hundred years of independent life, ft looks as If nothing ought to be impos sible to them In the - future, considering the inexhaustible resources at their disposition. : America has been dtatbling its population every twenty-five years.- If; immigration continues at the same rate as if has hitherto, in fifty years she will have more than two hundred millions of inhabitants. .If, during. that time Europe makes progress only hvtbjj arts and-sciences, whOe the social condition of its nations does not improve, she wilL be to America, what barbarism is to civilization. While : the HohenzoUerns, the - Hapsburgs and the : Firebrandenburgs - review r, their troops; 4vhile her standing armies are.' cost ing Europe more than $1,000,000,000 a year, in . time -of v peace;- J whilst the' European debt fa more than $25,000,000,000, the Ameri can treasuryjat Washington, In spite of cor- r ruption, which it is well known does exist, has a surplus of $60,000,000. -Whilst Euro pean governments cudgel their witg to devise toeans for meeting the expenses of absolute monarchies, the Washington government is at a loss to know what to do with , the money it has Jn hand. Whilst the European tele gramsin the daily papers give accounts of reviews, mdhilizations and..milta maneu-; vers, :roi -speecues m wmca the people reminded that-their dHtyisTio srf"ve' their emperor first "and their country afterwards, of blasphemous' prayers in which - God fa asked to 'bless soldiers, swords and gunpow der, the American telegrams. announee the price of corn and cattle and -the 'quotations on the American stock exchange. -" ": r". Happy country that can-get into a state of i ebullition over a presidential election, or the -doings of John ii SuIUvan'while Europe in trembling asks herself; with the return of each new spring, whether two or three mill ions of her sons will not be called upon to cut each other's throats for the great glory of three emperors in search of excitement! m -":. America fa not only a great - nation, geo graphically speaking. ' ' -- The Americans are a great people, holding in "their hands their own destiny, learning day byday, with' the help of their liberty, to govern themselves more and caore wisely, and able, thanks to the profound security in which they live, to consecrate all their talents and all their energy to the arts of peaces- . ."'The well read, well .bred American is the most delightful , of men; good - society in America fa the wittiest, most genial and most .hospitable I have met wjth.' ' - But the more I travel and -the more I look at other nations, the more confirmed i amtn my opinion that the French are the happiest people on earth. ,.-- . The American -is certamly on the road to" i;he possession of. all that can contribute to the well being and success of a nation, but he seems to me to have missed the : path that leads to real happiness. Hi3 domestic joys are more shadowy than real.-' To live In a -whirl is not to live welL Jonathan himself sometimes has hIs regrets at finding himself drawn Into such a frantic race, but declares that it is out of his power to hang back. If it, were given' to man to live twice on this planet, -! should understand his living his first term a rAmericame, so as to be able to enjoy quietly, in his second ex istence, the fruits of his toil in the first: . See ing that only one sojourn- here is permitted us, t think the French are right Urtheir study to make It a long and happy ona If . the s French could arrive at a" steady form of government and live ur security; xbey would be the most enviably happy -peo ple on earth. ' It is often charged against the Americans that they are given to bragging. May not men who have done marvels be permitted a certain amount of self glorification f It fa said, too, that their eccentricity con stantly leads them into folly and license. Is it not better to have the . liberty to err than to be compelled to run straight hi leasht ; If they occasionally vote like children, they will learn with age. It fa by voting that people learn to vote. Is there any country in Europe In - which morals are better regulated, work better paid, or education wider spread! . Is there a country where - you can find such natural riches, and such energy to turn them to ac count; so .many people with a .consciousness of their own intellectual and moral force; so many schools,' where the child of the million aire and the child of the poor man study side 'by -side; so jnany libraries, where' the boyin rags may read the history of . his country, and be fired by the exploits of its beroest Can you name a- country srith so 'many learned societies, so many newspapers, so many' charitable mstltutions, or so .-much widespread comfort! Y - ?; Z M. Renam wishing to turn himself mto a prophet of ill omen, one day predicted that, if ' France .continued republican, she would become a second America. May nothing worse befall her! THE KXDw - ... 3Pbe Aieha and Omega. ;" ?.. '- ; .There are 203 letters in the Tartaric alpha bet and twelve in that used in the Sandwich lauonda' These are the numerical extremes, l,r-; r-.A Early Impulse V v r- A Boston man who had had a pretty nara TOg-vwiin iorrane iqt several years ana could with difficulty keen afloat on the sea of respectability, had a tidy littlo fortune left him by a rehv uves. a -menu meeung mm soon anei asked him -what was his first sensation after getting his hands on the money. VMv first sensation was to eive a lifi in the way. of something needful te several ellows whom I knew to be in as tierht quarters as I ever was myself. I obeyed the impulse and IVo bees always giaa x uiu, ior ine monger x in in possession of lndney the fewer such impulses i nare." isoston .averuser. JA?Hto'ApprecIatlonj'ifSeS -: Charles Mathews once told a story of the "boots" at a country notel wnere he was staying, asking to be paid f oi going o the theatre. ';, Jdathews, struck with the fellow's civility, gave nim an order for - the . play. " 4 'Come sand see the piece Tom, "said .Mathewa . "A the. theatre?"-- uYes,u : said Mathews 4 'here is an order for youv" ; The nexi day Mathews said; -"Well, .Tom. did you. like the play?" "Uii, yes," said the 'boots, in dubious kind of way "but whoBto pay me ior my nmejt ' Ula .Taper. - - - -h Important Evidence ; , A man in Now York who was badly mussed lip and jdisfigured in a street row had a nhotosrranh taken of him self while in that plight to present as evidence before the court -There is no more veracious witness than a'pho togranh, and after scanning-tho picfr ure o? a badly misused man it did noj t take tho iurv lone to decide the case 1: ,1 J , Z: possibilities. C3iicajEIeraI4- , NO. 9- OUR ENGLISH COUSINS. The Cordiality with Whicn - Guests Are Eecelved Mafcing: Themselves at Home. ' "On arriving,- the host and hostess greet us at the door yery ordially,-. and 'lead the way to a spacious i reception room, where refreshments are" served : in true English style." 4 "We -were then- told that the dinner hour -was 8 o'clock, There are fully fifty rooms on the second and third floors, and the very courtly house keeper escorted.' us far. turn to IhOBeas signed; ns.-. Promptly at 8 o'clock .-all meet in the drawing rooms, and without special-introductions treat each " other aa acquaintanees. Such is the freemasonry -of English society altliough I much pre fer our American .custom of., general in-. troductions,1 which commits one to noth ing in. future, meetings, and yet for the turie being puts one on velvety with one s neighbors. When the butler opens the doors, the host assigns the gentlemen to the ladies, who walk arm in arm into the banquet hall. Behind each guest stands a Berving man, silent as a mum-' my, ..in fine Jiverj.f gold. and parple (sometimes scarlet); pnmMTwtth-Jareo silver buckles, silk stockings' and garters,- 3 3 i t s--. m. j- . f, uiu puwuecvu luii r, -. Aiw ujiuiier is- onen of twelve courses, and appropriate wines.' There is no fixed iiour for the morn ing's epast from 8 to 10 and no serv ants stop about' the .breakfast room, the gentlemen serving themselves and ladies, In most part, from the sideboards. The aristocracy and middle classes do not eat much at their first meal eggs, toast. rmiffina cold mpats. nastips nnrl tra. rarely coflee. That ' over, every one '.is free. 'Each spends the time as inclined; The host and hostess let , their guests do just as they please. ' You may be sure thatyour host will not put himself out for jou in the least, unless you expressly desire it. ; Everything i the house. coes on as usual, just cji U you were not there. put, per contra, the Jiouse and all that is ta it are -practically yours while you stay within its walls. . Your host puts his ser vants," his wine cellar, his larder, -of ten his iiorses and hi3 game, preserves, abso lutely at your disposal.- You are at lib erty to act, and are expected to act, pre cisely as if you iwere in your own house. You can order a .sandwich, a bowl : of broth; a glass of wine or spirits -whenever you please; you can announce your in tention of going off shooting i-the very morning after your arrival, and guns and dogs are waitmg ior you. - It is the com monest occurrence for men," arriving in the afternoon at a friend s house, to send their dress suit down to the laundress to be pressed before -dinner. J- Jn England guests are not only told to "make .them selves at home," but are actually allowed to do so. - t - - -. , 7 Each, then, does .as-fie of she pleases, In the -.first .place, rthere is reading and answering letters, - of .which letter the English woman is especially, fond. She writes well and she writes often whether she has anything of .moment .to say or not, and oftentimes a dozen letters are exchanged over an invitation to an fa normal cunner, ana these letters are usually so long and always bo bright and chatty " that they not infrequently tax heavily the - traveler's time' and mental powers that she may be equally courteous and brilliant! - r The dailies and various magazines and reviews of tue day are uberally distnb ated in the sitting room, while visits to tne uorary, picture gauenes, nos nouses, conservatories, gardens, park and stables form part of the daily occupations. Tho gentlemen generally go shooting in the preserves, where the peasants - beat np ihe ganie---partridges, pheasants, hares, rabbits, etc. and they stand in the open ing showing their skill in marksmanship; If . they stay afters o'clock the servants bring ?. luncheon. Or they, return .to the mansion and join the ladies who have gone driving- or horseback aiding, at. a very generous rUnch;,' - - - ;' : . The - guests, I repeat, . conduct them selves as if at home, without restraint or ceremony ; -the host and" hostess nexer -intrude, or worry, leaving you in perfect freedom to pursue your humor; ;t Every body is supposed to know"s best how to enjoy . himself; Acquaintances formed thus are like those of the ballroom, and do not warrant their renewal; of course, friendships and intimacies often come of .them, During the day all. are in -plain dress, to be laid aside at the sacramental dinner, hour, for although youare left Undisturbed to follow the bent of your own will and pleasure during the. day, and breakfast at any hour you please, it is de rigueur to beat hand in regulation toilet as soon as dinner is announced--an . hour after the dressing ' bell is sounded Charades, impromptu taUeaux readings, music, etc.; "help to pass the evening. lira, i Frank Leslie : in .: Kansas City Jonrnal. - 'S?'Z.i0, Tri.Jto ncena; 'Aynmi 3fH?r There are- many r very, rjeculiar facts connected with ocean travel, especially on the Atlantic, which are brought about by the system ' of the various lines of steamers between certain countries. To illustrate: A few months ago friend of mine desired to make 'the 'speediest trip possible from New York ia Buenos Ayres, Argentine Bepublic, South Amer ica. There is a line of steamers run ning from. New York to Buenos Ayres, but the vessels stop at various ports and mey occupy forty-two days in making the trip. - By figuring : on the time, my friend found that he" could go from Now -York - to;'.IIamburg,' . Germany; where ' steamers run to Buenos Ayres without, putung in at any ports except coaling stations, and make the single trip m thirty-two daya - He traveled the lat- ter J route, gaining ten ; days ' m time, al though travelmg several thousana miles more than on the dhect. route.' "0. E. W.'lin Globe-Democrat. " " - i8-'l Arapahoe. ' ; The Arapahoe 13 the Northern Apache. MiSJSS St nature he is crafty shrewd and treacher, ous, blcthirsty and belligerent. ?' He is quick to imitatethe white .man's- vices, but entirely overlooks bis virtues;, drives a sharp bargain, and would trade a wife cr even v his favorite horse for whisky. He likes to hunt if game is plentiful, will l -i- v11 -v.-1 n. liia cfttiti Irtfla vtrill steal anything left around loos, and can outlie a Drofessjoi iea professionaj. - A ntunber cf the Arapalioes are somewhat educated, and a few of them tarm. Lmy nave emDracea I the CathoUc faith, Cor. Globe-Demo- jcrsr - of all description neatly executed on short notice and at reasonable "prices. When in" needof work give the Cocbieb a trial, - " - Wares of a Mexican Town. -San Pedro, is a place of summering?. a " - rijlegiatura fofi wealthy Gjiadalajara, . familes, who pass there the ; months of ; September and -October. June 13 hj ob served as a great festival, for on that date, 1821, San Pedro seconded the cry of- independence. 'raised bv Iturbide in - Yguala. ' It is a drowsy little town,- with TOttery,-'-TOttery everywhere. But let - V not the stranger prepare himself for fan- mense kilns nor extensive factories, In : a 6x10 room with a mud floor and . two, V or three- reed . mats.' a table and two or ' v three gaudy; highly colored pictures of r saints "Sax furniture; squat two or threef " Indians, -yes, of the barefoot, rwbite, cot ton drawered ' class: of 'citizens. . If they make cups, flasks, etc. they may have a . ? little hand lathe-and some molds; other-. r : wise, the clay,a feW wooden spaiulas, knife or two and -their "fingers are the implements while. a little 'furnace may 2 be found "out --ntthe "garden,, cowering . -. away behin4 pll3qnuic trees or over-, laden mangoes. . Perhaps a doren little clay pipkins on the pine table. hold the pigments used for coloring the wares. " i:- ,-Bus the variety of vessels and toys Is nfinite,. 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, usn, ana myriad shapes of trait and now- -era, now conventionalized,' now true to life; a thousand types of woodmen, beg" -" gars, . gentlemen, soldiers, each with his , ' own individual expression so .faithfully V copied that one seems to savor the ices of the nevero.and hear the unearthly howl -. - of the blind fiddler, with his gleaming ' teeth and hollow mouth where the raised -' r tongue fairly - Beems to, wiggle. It Js- "' strange enough -that man'y of the best - yarieties of this -ware are. never' seen on sale elsewhere, not even in the Citv of - Mexico.-'...Strangely, too,' these artisan . artists are not clever at modeling women. " ' . tew or tneir types aro femmine, nor are they successful at the portraiture' of ' . women in the . busts1 which they model. ' -from life after five - minutes' study of a subjectv- They charge dear .for theses, - busts, 'though; one hardly cares to payt.rr $10 or $12 for a statuette of clay, which -' -may go to pieces in a hard jar on the ' ' railway. -Y. H. Addis hi San JBranciscOj"." Chronicle, - - '---.(' 1; ' fCapL Custer and the Chief. '" "It is a' source of wonder to '-the.-1 whites," says Mr. McFadden, ' f that the - bodies of Gen.r Custer and his brother v1. Tom were not mutilated in the massacre. - . v It is well known that" the treacherous -y. chief Bain-in-the-Face bad sworn that he r- " would eat Tom Custer's heart. -"The way ' he came to make that threat was this: , t 'Eain-in-the-Face had committed some ' depredation in Nebraska for which he was : wanted : by the ' United: States officers ' horse stealing, I think nV was. . - He tookv refuge at "Standing Hock,", and" Gen. Cus- ' ter sent , a sergeant - with a detail from Fort Lincoln tOibiing him -in. The sergeant was compelled to- return 'with- " out his prisoner. - 5 The general then said - " to his - brother, Tom, go .toStanding Bock and bring bacs Bain-in-the-Face or i .u leave your own . body there.' The cap tain, who never refused to obey orders, started on his errand with a detail of cav- . " airy. " . . "- - ' - -" " " -': ' 'It ; so happened ; that the '- day. no reached ; Standing Bock, was the day on -v which rations were issued at the, agency. There were fully 5,000 Indians -et'tho place. Capt. .Custer placed bis detail so" - as to Burround the trading post . He dis- ' mounted, and, with i a revolver in one hand and a sword in the -: other, entered -the building.. When he got inside he . askedV , 4 Where . is ; Rain-m-the-Face?' Silence fell .on the i room, which was crowded with friends of - the chief. The.- ' captain then told the interpreter to point - out Bain-in-the-Face. This "was done, , and. stepping "up . to Jiitn'- the 'intrepid cavalry of2cer placed' the-muzzle of his revolver at the Indian's head and saidu-w --, iEain-dn-theFace, i want you. .If ' you make an attempt to escape I'll shoot yoru- r If your friends . interfere -1 wiU ' , blow your brains, out,. I, have but ono . ' life to.lose, And.if they shoot me you will ' diealso.'- "';. ' 'Bain-in-the-Face said he would sub--mit, but on going out at the door he said : v. 'It is your .turn now, but some day I will eat your ; heart. VV-New. York Mail and " Express. -' ' "-","-"- ' ':- ;,.-The Eartb' Clond Belts.' '4. ; The : researches ' of M. Teissereno do ' Boxt :.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 85 degs.. of latitude north and south, and two zones of greater cioudi - nesa between $45 and CO degs. beyond . which the sky 6eems to ; become clearer, towardthe poies. . These zones have 9 -noticeable tendency j to follow . the sun in . its change of declination, moving north- t ward In spring and .southward Jn ajl. , The zones of clear, sky correspond with . regions of Irigh pressure, ' The distribu- -tion of cloudiness is a direct consequenca ' V of v the course of the winds. Arkansaw Traveler ' - 1 ' r'V.'.? U'QJ ' - ' J ' ' - "' ' '' ' " ' -"' 1 .. ' Sr York's normoo Charftlefc New -York's cliarities are somethhyr enormous. .That a million of dollars are given to the poor of this city every 'year" i could . easily W; shown, , but that doesn't -touch the question. : This matter is some-'. tiling 'that ; affects our social etructune : from corner stone .to .cap sheaf. It is employment these people need. Self support is the first essential id the great -problemjaf jself respect. .' No man who lives OB;borrowed money, no man who ia -the recipient of continuous charity, can respect himself. The meanest and cheap -est man who walks ; the fstreeta lias bis moments of sober thought, and it is these moments of sober thought which will - nltimately .breed -trouble in. this city. Joe tloward in Chicago" News. - An Interest ii g Oriela, .t..-".'-. The png dog as a set had an interest ing origin.;": He was first imported from China and Japan, and came into fashion in the reign of AVilliam IIL . It is stated that . the kinjr - believed his life to have been saved by a dog of this breed awak- flung lum to lus danger when a murder- s ous atmca was auouv w prince. Chicago Herald. -- - v Birth's good; but breeding's better. Bcotcn iTOverb. .-.
The Roxboro Courier (Roxboro, N.C.)
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