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Fli iTT T 111 DEMOCRAT E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. WE MUST WORK FOR THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE. SCBSCP.1PTI0S: SI JO PER YEAS. VOLUME I 7 SCOTLAND NECK, X. C., THURSDAY, MAY sn N( .MBKl! :;o. I PROFESSIONAL. W. A. DUNN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. Practices wherever his services are required. fcl13-ly. w. hTkitchin, Attorney and Counselor at Law, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, HT"Ollee: Corner Main and Tenth Streets. 15-ly. Te. whitakIr! Attorney and Connselor at Law, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, Practices wherever his services are required. ('apt. W. II. Kitehin will appear with me in all cases. 2-3-ly. DAVID BELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ENFIELD, N. C. Practices in all the Courts of Halifax and adjoining counties and in the Su preme and Federal Courts. Claims col lected in all parts of the State. 3-S-lyr GAVIN L. HYMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HALIFAX, N. C. CorRTs: Halifax and adjoining coun ties Collections made in all parts of the State. 3-8 ly. W. II. Day, A. C. Zollicoffer, Pi. Kansom 'Wllon. Henderson. Weldon. Day, Zoilicoffer & Ransom, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, "WELDON, N. C. 3-8 lv. S. S. ALSOP, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ENFIELD, N. C, Practices in the Courts of Halifax and adjoining counties. All business will receive prompt atten tion. 3 1-y. THOMAS N. HILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HALIFAX, N. C, Practices in Halifax and adjoining counties, and the Federal and Supreme Courts. 3-8 ly. EDWARD T. CLARK, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C, Practices wherever his services are re quired. Special attention to collection of claims. 3-15 ly. J. H. LAWRENCt DEALER IN Grain, Mill-Feed, Hay, Clover And Grass Seeds, IMPROVED FARM IMPLEMENTS A SPECIALTY. Call and examine Disc Harrow and Seeder, and Crass Mower, a model of Perfection. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. jan6-l v. I. .J. MEE GEE, IUCII MONO, VA., Lumber Commission Merchant Gives personal ami prompt attention to all consignments of Lumlier, Shingles, Laths, Etc." janl-ly. Ti i os. f. baulky. ' Coal, Molasses, Salt, Genuine German Kainit AND Nova Scotia Land Plaster. !-?'Ouotations on Application. febll-lv. INVENTION! I has revolutionized the world flunn the last half Lee turv Not ipast aiuoni! a m b - - . : i i-itr'nvci.itvii nmcrre is i rnethon atid syst m of work tli.it can lie performed all over tlie country without separating tlie workers from tlieir lioines. Pay liberal: ny one can do the ,ork; either sex. young or olJ; no special ability required. Capifal nor needed; you are bturted free. Cut this our. and return to us and we will send you free, something of great value aad importance to you. tint will start you In business, which will bil- g you to more money, right awav. than anvil lnjr e!se in the world. Grand cunt free. Address true & Co., AuuU, Mame. 3-2'Mv. RICHLY:"; irwauicii are innse who read this and then act: they will find honorable employment that will riot, take theni from their homs and families. The prollt are large ana sure fur every Indus trious person; many have made and are now making several hundred dollars a month. It, la easv for any one to make $5 and upwards per day who 13 willing to work. Klthersex, youris? or old; eapital not needed; we start you. Every thing new. No special ability required; you, r'-ader, can do It, as well as any one. Write to u at once for full particulars, which we mall free Address stlnson & Co., Portland, Maine. 3-22-ly. Iirrniif Wonder exist in thousands cf 1 1 " M forms, but are surpassed by the mar UL.L.I veis of Invention Those who are In i.--a of pioiH tble woik that can be done whi: li vii.y h! home should at once send tli-lr address tjli,.lit K ( 'o., I'oif laud, Maine, and reeeive, fr-f, full Information how eltherse.v. Of all ajfes, ma earn troru to $'25 per day and upwards w:.er.ver they live. You are started free, capl- iMjuir- i. Some have made over JjO in a ''.a day at this work. All succeed. "When the Cows Come Home. This rx6m,says the Chicago Farmer's Coice, appeared in tho Illustrated Christian Woekly, August, 187.. It has been reprinted sxtensively, but inaccurately. It is repro duced here with the sanction or the author, . Mrs. AgnosE. Mitchell, and the following is a corrected and revised copy. The poem I has been credited to an English writer, and i was published some months ago in an Eastern i paper, with the explanatory remark that j the author was not known. With klinglo, klangle, klingle, 'Way down the dusky dingle, The cows are coming home; Now sweet, and clear, and faint and low. The airy tlnkliugs come and go, Like chimings from somo far-off tower, Or patterings of an April shower That makes the daisies grow; Ko ling, ko-lang, Ko-ling, ko-lang, kolinglelingle 'Way down the darkening dingle Tho cows come slowly home; And old-time frk-nds, and twilight playa And .starry nignts, and sunny days, Come trooping up the misty ways, When tho cows come home. With jingle, jangle, jingle, Soft tones that sweetly mingle, The cows are coming home; Malvine, and Pearl, and Florimel, DeKamp, Rodrose, and GreU-hen Scholl, Queun Hess, and Sylph, and Spangled Sua Across the fields I hear her loo-oo And clang her silver bell; Go-ling, go-lang, Go-ling, go-lang, golinglelinglo, With faint, fair sounds that mingle The cows come slowly home; And mother-songs of long-gone years, And balr joys, and childish tears, And youthful hope--', and youthful fears, AVhen the cows com homo. With ringle, ranglo, ringlo. By twos and throes and single, The cows are coming home; Through violet air we see the town, And the summer sun a slipping down: The maple in tho hazel glade, Throws down the path a longer shade, And the hills are growing brown; To-ring, to-rang, To-ring, to-rang, to-ringlelinglo, By threes and fours and single The cows come slowly home; The same sweet sound of wordless psalm, The same sweet June-day rest and calm, The same sweet scent of bud and balm, When tho cows coma home. With tinkle, tankle, tinkle, Through fern and periwinkle, The cows are coming home; A loitering in the checkered stream. Where tho sun-rays glance and gleam, Clarine, Peachbloom, ami Fhcelw Phyllis, Stand knee-deep in the creamy lillies In a drowsy dream; To-link, to lank, To-link, to-lank, tolinklelingle, O'er the banks with butter-cups a-twinklo The cows come slowly home; And up through Memory's deep ravine Come the brook's old song and its old-time sheen, And the crescent of tho silver queen, When tho cows como home. With klingle, klangle, klingle. With loo-oo, and moo-oo, end jingle, The cows are coming homo; And over 'here on Merlin Hill Hear the piaintive cry of tho Whip-poor-will; The dew-drop? lio on the tang'e 1 vine?, And over the poplars Venus shines, And over the silent mill; Ko-ling, ko-lang Ko-ling, ko-lang, kolinglelingl With ting-a-ling and jinglo The cows come slowly hom?; Lot down the bars, let in the train Of long-gone songs, and flowers, and rain, For dear old times come back again When the cows como home. WEDDED IN A BLIZZARD When father took up his claim in Douglass county, Dak., the county -was new and thinly settled. Father and my three brothers tcok up a section and built their four houses on adjoining corners. So, as two brothers were mar ried, we formed a little settlement by ourselves. This was well, a? our nearest neighbor lived eleven miles away, t was then a merry, romping lass of IT, all the wilder for being jmt from city life. The first year a very destructive cy clone visited that part of tlie country. Lying as it does between the Missouri and James rivers, it was feared such visitations might be frequent, so father and tLd boys dug a cave midway be tween the houses. Twice we sought refuge there and heard the demon of destruction at work among the fruits of our industry. We escaped without in jury; but father, who was returning from the town, twenty miles away, where wo got our mail and supplies, was badly bruised by the overturning of his waon. As soon as he recovered he and the boys dug a cave about midway on tho route to tho town. The location was marked by four tall, upright posts, which could be seen for a longdistance. Years passed with no occasion for its use, but father was always dreading such a time, and kept it in repair. Four happy years passed, and then a party of visitors from the cast came. Among them was Frank Ilealy. We had been great friends in tho past, and became something more during that long summer. We agreed to be married in the spring, and he would stay until that time; but early in January he received a summons home to Chicago, and in sisted that I go along. So preparations were made for our marriage. We sent to Bunker for a minister, but our messenger brought word he could not get away. 'Could we not como to him?" We mint start for Chicago at once, so decided to adopt that plan. Upon the 15th, after a tear ful good-bye to all but father, mother and Joe, who would accompany us, vre started for Bunker. There was a great quantity of snow on the ground and only one sleigh, that of cur rnesserger the day before, had gona 1 over the road. As a consequence cur progress was slow and laborious. It was a dull, cloudy day, but we knew nothing of blizzards then, so did not hesitate to tdut. We had mentioned 1 o'clock as tin time for the ceremony, so mad:; calculation on being at the par sonagc at that hour. Before we were two mile3 on our way ; the snow began to fall in great feathery j flakes. ! I love a snow storm and was delight- j ed to be out in one. Seing father and . mother grave and troubled, I laughed i and jested, and indeed was in ai unu- j sually merry mood for one jut leaving home and friends to go among strangers j with only a husband's love to depend j upon. ' For some lime tho snow fell slowly j and heavily, then the wind rose and tho col l began to increase. Joe suggested a return and hinted at possible danger. Father hesitated brt Frank thought tlnre was no more dag ger in an advance than a retreat, so on we went. Heavens! what an experience that was which followed. The wind howled liko a hot of de mons bent on destruction. The snow became iufmilesitnaily ii:e and, driven by the blast, stung one's il.'sh when ex posed liko needle poiats. We could noo see to the horses' heads, and as the one track was long since covered up, wo no longer knew which way wo were going, and could only trust to tho horses. Mother became alarmed and cried quietly belaid her vail. All my high spirits vanished, and instead of the happy future I had been anticipating I now saw nothing but a cruel death be fore us, with the snow for shroud and pall. At 2 o'clock by Frank's watch we j were nearly frozen, and the weary horsca could scarcely move along. Suddenly Joe put out his hand and clutched at some object close to the s-ide of his sleigh. "Hurrah!" his cheery voice rang out, 'whoa." The tired horses stopped instantly, only too gla l of the chance. Joe sprang out into thy yielding snow. In a mo ment he shouted again: 'Hello! litre's another sleigh. Father 1 Frank! Pile out here with your shovels!'' They did as he ordered, and mother and I roused to see what it all meant. But we could see nothing, and only faintly hear their voices above the rush ing wind. Wc soon found out, however, for father and Frank soon returned and lifted mother and me out of tho sleigh, and carried us where? Into father's cyclone cave. Wc stared about in stupid amazement, for Joe had brought a lantern along, and he had lighted and hung it up. A mo ment later we wero joined by the minis ter from Bunker, who, finding it pos sible to get away, had started. Tlie men blanketed tho poor horses, huddled them together close to the mouth of tho cave, turned the sleigh box up beside them as a partial shelter, then bringing my trunk, lunch basket and the robes, joined us. The temperature of the cave was com fortable compared with the outer air, and wo were tru:y thankful for tho change. Vigorous and continued ex ertion soon restored our benumbed limbs to their normal condition, and we settled down to a quiet discussion of the situation and the probabilities in our favor. After a time the talk languished, and Frank made in a whisper the queerest proposition. I gave a decided negative, but at last yielded to his entreaty, and almost before the rest knew what was going on we stood before the minister with clasped hands, and he was speak ing tho solemn word that bound us for better or worse for life. It was a strange bridal. In that low, dark cave, lighted only by the smoky lantern, the terrible bl izzird howling overhead, and death lurking near in the fearful cold, which steadily increased, mother cried softly, and father's voice trembled as he gave me his blessing. Frank's face was very white as he clapped me in his arms aad called me wife. My own feelings were a mixture of terror and happiness, such as I hope never to experience again. We remained ia our safe but gloomy refuge forty-eight hours. Then we were dug out by my brothers and a party lrom Bunker, who were in senrch of the minister and had found us by the mounds caused by the snow drifting over the poor horses. Two were dead and the other had to ba killed, he was so badly frozen. Huddled together under the ground, with fifteen feet of snow over us, we had not suffered badly; and the lur.ch basket filled by mother for Frank and me on our journey had sufficed to keep us from actually suffering from hunger. An apnrtment houe which does not yield any profit must l2 classed among the "flat failures." HOWLING DERVISHES Some Strange Religious Rites in Turkey. A Three-Year-Old Child a Fren zied Participant, A Constantinople correspondent of the San Francuco Chronicle sends that paper an account ofsomo ofthe religious rit' s of the Kefacc, or the Howling Dervishes. These, he says, aro but one of tho numerous orders of Dervishes who wield an irresistible influence over the public mind in Turkey. Their no table Take h a low. weather-beaten old building, standinf Oil the cJo of the great cypress-shaded Turkish cemetery" that crowns the heights of Sentcrie and is almost as dilapidated as most of the monuments and gravestones that sur round Tho space allotted to the "howlers" was wi ll-filled, yot a good many both of young and o'd, were still coming, and after going forward to where the high priest sat, they reverently bowed to the dust, then taking the priest's 'hind, gently kissed it and retired. Directly behind the priest was a small alcove, painted a bright green and filled with a variety of antique small arm, swords, daggers, battle axes, etc. On tho walls were many mottoes or sentences in frames, and some prayer rugs. A small brazen censer containing burning frankinconse and spices, filled the room with aromatic fragrance. Around three sides of tho low room were galleries, some closely latticed and occupied by Turkish women, others open and filled with curious spectators liko ourselves. Tho best location was reseived for Turkish gentlemen and sol diers. Beneath these galleries was still another, elevated a step or two above the main floor and separated from it by a low railing and furnished with seats for spectators. Oa the main floor were spread many rugs of Angora goatskin, on which were seated old men, regular patriarchs iD appearance, while two groups of lit le children were ranged behind them. Seated closo to tho low railing were rows of men clothed in tho flowing Dervish mantle and tan-colored "galuph," a tall, brimless felt hat, strongly resembling an inverted flower pot, bound round tho head by a long black scarf with ends left flowing. These ends were at intervals during tho service tenderly pressed to the lips. At other times the eyes w ere carefully wiped with these mourning badges. Conspicuous before tno high priost stood a lithe figure with a pale, cadaver ous countenance, but a keen, penetrat ing eye, wdio was slowly manipulating a long, white scarf. He first threw it around his shoulders, thus symbolizing the all-embracing love of Allah; then binding it tightly about his waist, he began tying and untying it, each knot having a particular significance. II is whispered words will bear this inter pretation: "I tie up greed; I untie charity. I tio up hate; I untie Ioyc. I tie up pride; I untie humility." And so on through a long list. Then began a monotonous chant that soon swelled to a tremendous howl. All rose to their feet and kept time with swaying body and jerking head in a frantic manner. Tho old and feeble among them gradually dropped out of the circlo and took seats on rugs near the centre of tho room, besides tho rows of standing children. At length the eyes of the spectators became rivited upon the face and figure of a 3-ycar-old baby, who stood for two long hours swaying its frail body in perfect unison with tne dervishes and with his rosy cherub mouth uttering tho same indescribably impressive cry of Allah! When the rude throng had at length worked them selves up to a state of religious frenzy the little boy also rolled lm bright eyes about as if beholding a heavenly vision. To my mind nothing was so Impres sive as the power of endurance shown by the infants on exhibition. I shud der when I think of the torture t iey must have been subjected to in the pri vate drill necessary to prepare them for such a performance in public. Some of the children seemed free to pass in and out at will, but the tiny boy spoken of above and a little girl (a hunchback) never left their posts a minute, nor ceased to sway their bodies and shout until the performance was concluded, by a louder clapping and howling, more violent jerking of the head and wilder tumult than before. Then a sudden hush, when, without a signal or look from any one, this lovely little baby de murely marched up to tho high priest to receive his blessing, then laid him down, his face to the ground before tho venerable man. Another, who appeared to bo a high chief of the order, now took tho stalwart priest by the hand while he placed both feet on the body of this frail infant and stood with hi3 face turned upward, while he muttered what appeared to be i a prayer. Then oth;r children followed. First came tho little hunchback, then three or four at a time, finally ten or twslve laid dowa, forming a human 'corduroy road" for the high priest to walk over, until at lean twenty cldi dren had thui received his L!esIag and had the evil spirit driven cut of them. Thii ceremony is supposed to be a pan acea, and there are always numbers V pavalids brought to the Take during services to be cur-.d of some real or im aginarv ill. ('etting Servants in Chi mi. Tho ways of tho hous.keejr are in deed made smooth for her in C'birri, in deed so smooth that, unless she L:u children to care for, hr time oft 'n hangs very heavily on her hands. Tho interior management and care of tho house is entirely entrusted to the ma jordomo or butler, called the "Kwan Su," or chief of tho bottles. But more frequently he is simply calle 1 "boy." li i lis not being much used in China, y.u often hear the cry of "Iilioy," coining from tho neighboring luu-e. Do not bo alarmed. It is probably only mad a me calling for her sedan chair, or the ina-ter who wants his bran ly ami soda, tho standard drink of foreigners all over the far Kat. In taking a house in China the fir.-t thing is to get a good boy, the second to have him "secured." The securing consists in getting some rep utable or wealthy Chinamai to agree that if tho boy runs away with any thing he will either pro luce him or pay the amount of the los. The seivants in the East are all of the male st x, a; d women are never employed about a house except where there arc children, or where a lady has an r.m ih as her per sonal attendant. The am ih's duties ho in keeping her mistress's room in order, dressing her hair, in short, performing the duties of a lady's maid, and, if there are young children, in looking af ter them. In most cases there is one amah to each child. She receives, according to qualifications, from to $10 a month as wages, out of which she feeds her self, her wages in fact being higher than those of tho other servants. Fe male servants are in China, as every where else, a source of internal discord, as thoy are constantly carrying tales or making mischief, and a lady who can do without an am ih thereby gets rid of almost the only vexation in her house keeping life. (rood Housekeeping. 500 Tons of l'il Is a Year. "There arc eleven and one-half tons of postage stamps sold at tho New Vork postoflice every yoar," remarked a manufacturing chemist to a X;w York Mail and Express reporter. "Xuw guess how many tons of pills aro made in this country every year." "What havo postage stamps to do with pills? ' "Nothing whatever, save that each is useful in its way. I only cited the post- office vend to givo you an i lea of the great weight of small things whin con sidered in bulk. (Jive it up? Well, as nearly as can be figured, they will amount to over i tons a year. A ton a week is a fair estimate. In England alone there are 2,000.000,000 consumed every year. That reduced to tons would make about 40. How many arc used in other countries it would bo hnrd to say, but the total estimate would not come far from -1"0 tons. Say 0OO tons aro used a year by the entiro world. Tho habit of pdl-taking is ancient. It is the most convenient form for carry ing and taking, and is the most popular. Formerly they woro male by hand. Now they aro produced by m .chi icry. There are a few manufacturers who make 1.000,000 pills a wejk. Big business, isn't it?" The Crow and the Fanner's Dog. An old Crow basked in tlie wintry sunshine on tho bough of a leafless trco just outsi le tin barnyar 1 fence. With 1 linking eyes he watched tho Farmer's Dog at his dinner of Lones, and waited for a chanco to steal some of the remains. Tho Dog raised his eyes. "Be oil! ' he cried. "What do you want in the neighborhood of good and respectable birds? You aro a vagrant and good-for-nothing." 'I may not be very good," calmly rc p'ied the crow, but I have manage 1 to reach a prosperous old age, which is more than cm be sail for the unfortu nate and worthy turkey whose bones you have just devoured. The truly good die young. A little worldly wis dom doesn't hurt us m the race of life." And hastily snatching up a bono he vanished in the frosty air. This fable is not for the young. Life. " Bar .ara Fritchie. Some of the relatives of tho lato Barbara Fritchie ia Frelerick, Ml, re cently sent to Mr, John G. Whitticr, who immortalized tho venerable lady in verse, a number of table articles which formerly belonged to Mrs. Fritchie. Mr. Whittier acknowlelgel tho re ceipt of the articles some days ago and stated in his letter that ho had become convinced that hit poem entitled "Bai bara Fritchie" was bised upon a sup posed incident that h :d no foundation but that ho was glal to know, never theless, that she was a loyal woman. -Baltimore Sua. SiTen per cent, of :h liquor mtla la this country is uso 1 in the moit cl 1 it i:i shearing sheep. AiroT.om -r F;'ocVr ay that tlv farther si 1 - of tho moon th-? i 1 ; tht tho eye cf man has n vtr looked up' v is desolate and : rigid iko the rt. When vcs,t ls . r timber iink o great de:t-h in th - ct an, th pri-ur4 i to pre-d that tin- wit r is by tl.U mean forced i::t to- p ire, an i thi wood be Conies too ic:iy to ii-' n.'.in. Observe! io-iH on the part of a larg- number of si icntUts prove tint enrth epiake are i:i re frf.pj.-nt at tho titii'.' of full moon and chanto' of th--moon than nt th-T tiru'-s and ilso more frequent when th-- nucn is r.firt th earth. In the opinion of s nnc comp' ti nt judges, photo :r:iphic pr esso are tv supplmt etchings as a ni" 1:11 of repro duction. Thi !i i .n'rc- lv gone n far that in Paris . v. n il ch v -r ttch'-rs hnve taken up work u -mi phot ! nivuro oa similar p! itc-. Th" greatest il.vi:in whiihhis born attained by nun is :!7. o hi feet about seven mile--this height hiving been readied during a b.tl! on ascent inado by ('I. isher. At this tremendous di. t.'inci above the earth's sur'aee phy-O-al exertion is buirid to be nimost impos sible, owing to the great rarefaction of the atmo-iph In a new and c u r i u experiment, a disk of iron, ith a pin lie through it so that it can be spun liko a top, is at tracted by the poles of a magnet when at rest or moving fdow'y, but is re pelle I by the magru t when spinning with sullicient velocity. Tin reaction of tho inducid emre'its exc'cdi the magnetic attraction. During the sinking of large pits and wells in Nevada, strdas of rock salt were cut throu di in vhi h wero found imbedded perfectly preserved !i-h, which arc doubt less thousand s of years old, as the salt li .'ld occupies what w:n once the bottom of a largo lak", and no such fish are now to bo found in any ofthe modern Nevada lakes. Variations in the si 5 of rain drops arc depen 1 out upn tho dilT rences in the height from which they hive fallen and to tho amount of atmospheric dis turbance present at tin: ti:ne. If faUMi from a great height, tin drops suffer gradual division into smaller an 1 small er part3, until they aro converted into a mist. In calm weather, with the clou hs near the earth's surface, the diopi are largo and heavy. A curious speculation lias been made; concerning what would happon were the earth's rotation toceaso. The equa torial diameter b in j twenty-six miles more thin tho polar diameter, the earth would juts -nt an equatorial zolo of solid ground miles high above sea-.vel, tho water Icing all drawn to tho polos. This 1ml . mo would thou bo like' our Arc tic regions, nti 1 would be band ; I by a ring of perma nent ice and snow. Tho construction of a perfect pendu lum has been ac enmpli-hed, it is an nounced, by suspending a bra I shot by a single fibre of cocoon silk in a vacuum produced y means f a Sprerigci pump. Tho shot, one-sixteenth of an inch in di ameter, weighs one-third of a gram, is suspended by a two-foot fibre, and is placed in a tube three-quarters of an inch internal diameter. It has a vi brational range of one-fourth inch oa each side of mid -position, tho vacuum being equivalent to one-tenth of a millionth of an atmosphere. l oiindatioii of si Portiinc. B. K. Jami on, one of the wealthy men of 1'hiladel phia, was a few years ago a poor messenger boy :n a Q naker City banking firm. One day lie w;nt to the head of the firm and sr:'d he wanted his salary raised. ''I told him," says Mr. Jamison, "that I intended to T,c the h'-.ad of the firm some day myself." Tin bink pres-ident thereupon to'. d the messenger boy to show his ability in some way before he indulged extrava gant ambition3. J unison left trie cilice, Eou.drt out Colonel "Toill" Scott, said he was a poor boy and w mtcd some brokerage bu-iness. "Ad right, my boy, Til send you an order," said Scott. The next day Messenger Jami son received an order for .oOO nhares of a certain stock. Jamison took tho or der to the head of the firm and said: "Here's an order from a friend of mine." From that day Jamison's for tune was assured. lie became the head of the firm in time as ho had prophe sied. Chicago Journ al. A Curious Discovery. A manufacturer of Philadcdphia of great experience as well as of much in telligence instructs his workmen tc hold largo steel tools in a north and south line while the tools are being tem pered. He says that many years ago ho noticed that such tools woul 1 often fly apart whoa being tempered if held "east and west" and that the liability to such accidents was greatly lessened, if not entirely obviated, if tho too! was held "north and south." Iron Trada lie view. ranch." I.Vijh' e'lw.. 11 .'.mj';-".;! '1 '.! ,-r, jA;a; 1 fa I ;. avrt' " '. tnirtv.nf A fa ' t? " '.:;,; is i. I.Vi,"'. .'. '.:,; , n-v '. tr":;j;! 'I !. i- : ', ! , . 1 : - e . n t . 1". r !.. nf:. r ro ' Ui:!.!iT I ! S'l ' ' i' i 1 :: ,-f l.-.r t f -r I.nn ..: :, '!...:;;.,::.! t' -I J . n i ! al !. ! u !- !,.-, I . si. 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Hanks -' Don't (are if I do takf 1 drink, thank V"U, for I run awfu'.Ij thir-ty. Woy, 1 have a per(e t Sahara in-ide me." Hanks (giving largo or b r tow litcri "A! right, old m mi, ) on fchal 1 he 1 1 eat d ;o or 1 ;n g t o j-ur di- Clt." In in a 1 vert i-e:u n t by a railroid company of sum uuoa ied fur goo I the lelter "1" had dropped flom th word "lawful'' and it read: "IVop'f to whom the ;j package; are dinrtrd are r quoted to ouie forward and paj tho awful charges on the arnc." ".bid think, d-irling. a wrck ago w were litter stranger, and now wo arc ongagcl!" "Ah, ye, Mr. I ) II on, dear, it was a a ho of fo at l!rt fight.' "Mr. D II .1 so-,? Why don't yon rah me by my fit name, dar! in g ' "Bo came, precious," the jdri re., ; , tdiyly "1 don't know what it iJ." Slie u.-is a pretty - .aleygirl, lb- :i-l,ed for a Ivi w 1 ' if h" II . t ll" aeeep!ei (If the fair and I. In-long miss. Me' eiie hull one, and ro- Mie ilrew ) l-r in- y hps 11 a v , "Is there" klie a l.e.l 111 trembling toll", "All thllie el-.- t'.da " The I athers of President's. (Jrover Cleveland is the only lergy nian's son who has ever f '-n eb i tod president, thou -h Arthur's father was a clergyman. He was not, howevor, clef to 1 president. The father of tin 'ir"inia Preside!. t - Wa-hiri'don Jcf fcrso.n, Madiiori and Monroe wen planter-. John Tyler's father was I lawyer and a (d a!.e,tnan, and John Adams, the father of J dm (Jutnry Ad ams, was by profes-ioa a lawyer. (irant'.s father was a tanner, )IayV father a in'.- rc hanf, and tho fathers ol ("arfivM, Linfoln, Pierce, f'.iin.orc. Polk, Van Buien and J:k-ou wcrt farmers. The charges for tho presi dency in the past hive thu been with tho farmers' boy, ar.d out of tho 1! presidents elected by tho eople only ono has been a parson's aon.-,tNci York World. 'I lie Largest Si her Nugget, The biggest nlw r nu 'get in tha world was recently on exhibition in New Vork. Jt weigh 0'"' l-oinco and was found at the ('reeri'Aool group of mines in the Suto , Mi'Loarwi, Mexico. Fifty-nine olio rJ, weighing from one to thirty five p. rds tach, were found th'ro at t he same tome. Th big nugget was found on tho Mirfacs?, and in its original rendition wrighcJ twelve pour. ds more. It h almost pur silver. Mr. Watton of the 1'aite 1 rtatea Assaver' s O'hce, hays it ii the fiuisl Bjiecirnca he ever saw. The dght of a Heart. The average weight of rn'jn's hoartsf says tho Medical News, eleven ounce! each, and of women's only r.ino ounces. Thu, when they give and tako or ex change hearts, man is the losr, quality being equal. Man's n vera go brain weighs forty- nino aa l a half ounces and woman's forty -four. Tin average, weight for both lungs is for men forty five ounces and for women thirty-two. He Whs Hopeful. Smith I sro you aro keeping com pany with Miss Jones yet. Brown Yes. "Does it mean business?'' "Can't tell. I wouldn't bo surprised, though, if I received a proposal soon." . Biaghamton Republican. 3-22-ly.
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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