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" Some time ago It was thought " that the running of electric cars and tele phone lines into the rural districts would have a tendency to stop the flocking of young men from the coun try to the cities. The young men in rural districts frequently get a notion that the city nas many more advan tages than it really has ; and they leave certainties in tbe country for uncertain ties in the cities and towns. But the electric car lines and telephone lines into these districts, it is said, where these have been tried, do not lessen the desire of the young to go the cities. Country life may be simple and plain, hue many a young man has died a wreck through city dissipation who might have lived to be a grand old gen tleman had he remained in the coun try. The following bit of news by the Asso ciated Press from Shanghai, China, in dicates that the missionary there has a hard fight for the immediate future, at least : "In view ot the fact that treaties are soon to throw sections of Japan open to foreigners, there are in teresting reports of Buddhist and Shin to priests assembled in one of the prin cipal provinces to disouss the situation. They have promulgated the following four resolutions, and request all Japan ese to be governed by them. "1 To cultivate feeling of abhor rence of foreigners, and to refuse on principle to sell or buy of them any thing whatsoever. "2 To retuse absolutely to rent their houses or lands to foreigners. "3 . ,To refrain entirely from using foreign terms in speaking and writing. "4 To positively decline to listen to Christianity." In a choice of vocation for life many things are to be considered. Among the most important is the matter oi personal independence which one will have an opportunity to enjoy in his chosen vocation. A gentleman said to us a few days ago he was glad that when he cast about for a vocation for life he chose the farm. He says be enjoys a freedom and an independence there that he could not possibly enjoy anywhere else. He was not speaking about the privilege of lying down and taking a nap when he pleases or resting a day as it suits his convenience. He was speaking of personal independence in a higher sense that he was not bound to any one's views or whims, as a matter of policy on which depends his meat and bread. He can plant what he chooses, trade where he pleases, espouse whatever good cause that enlists his sympathies and refuse to link himelf with whatever does not seem to him good and worthy, and no one can coerce him. His sustenance wimps from the earth and he works it himself independently. And there is much in it. What a Boston Lady Did. Our Dumb Animals. - A lady dressed with excellent taste was passing up Washington street re cently on a very cold day, when she nnticA a. hnrse whose blanket had fallen off. Many other ladies and gen t.lemen were Dassine and it required some moral courage (as the world goes) for her to stop. tae tip the blanket. spread it over the horse and tuck it nnder the harness, uui sue uiu ii,auu did it well. Her mercy was thrice blessed, for it blessed not only the giver and the receiver,' but the stranger who witnessed the act. Dandruff is an exudation from the of the skin that spreads and dries, forming scurf and causing the hair to fall out. Hall's Hair Jtenewer cures it, For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. Go THE GREAT WASHINGTON GREATER AS THE CENTURY CLOSES. THE LIVING AGAIN OF THE DEAD. Some Rambling Thoughts. BY "XEMO. Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) As to Washington : Speaking with a certain amount of reserve, it is gen erally true that our understanding of an event in its relation to other events is increased by distance. For instance, let me suggest that we understand the voyage of the "Mayflower," the settle ment ot Massachusetts, the expulsion of Roger Williams, the migrations webtward from Virginia and New Eng land all these things, In their rela tions to other eyents and in their ef fects, much better than did the actual participants. So also of men : In the case of really great ones it needs a century almost to measure their works and to strip them ot any false glamour of praise or gloom of blame. As with a general in the hands of his valet, those m constant association with the great feel too often that clothes and chance make the hero ; or if they do ee greatness in their admired one, they fail to see any detractions from his loftiness, for both love and friends hip are blind (many of us can thank Fortune for that, or else we had been ckoned as naught long ago). By reason of the investigations of he later students of Washington, we are now ready to concede that many of the violent assaults upon his character and purpose made during his lifetime and shortly thereafter were ungener ous aDd unfounded. Thanks also to the candor of modern historians, we can now see further that he was by no means a demi-god striding along on lofty mountain tops, but a humble, unassuming, ordinary citizen, whose devotion to his cause, made up full often lor the scampering, runaway righting that be was obliged to resort to. We see that few of the startling victories ot the Revolution were gained by him. We also see that his Fabian policy ; here one day and away the next ; but scarcely ever venturing on a pitched battle, wore out the enemy by gnominious flounderings rather than by armed resistance. His greatness was more in his noble courage in cling ing to an endangered cause, in the face of the mutterings and discontent of many of the influential people, who. ike the loyalists of Cuba at the present moment, were a most serious influence to combat. Washington, the Reconetructer, is far greater to the mind of a man oi peace like myself, than Washington, the Revolutionist. Then his calm mind, freed from the blood and bustle of the battle field, rose to its highest. Made a commander of men by the trumpet-call of patriotic duty ; he re mained a commander of men after the turmoil was over. His genius was m the selection of advisers, in the judicial cast of mind that weighed the pro and con most carefully, in the power hared by many of bis compeers of seeing into the future, so that we who are now almost ready to turn the corner of another century, are forced to maryel at the foresight of a group of men, who so admirably laid the foundations of a Western Empire that the strain of un exampled expansion has never yet succeeded in rending asunder the work they cemented with their wounds, their ives, and their sacred honor. More glorious than war are the vic tories of peace. The sweeping out or wearing out of enemies, remarkable though it appears when we look back at tbe miserable equipments and the nner dissensions to be contended with ; these would have availed us no more than a successful revolution seems to avail a Central American republic, had the garnering of the fruits of victory been left unattended to. lnese pa triotic statesmen planted our glorious tree of freedom. It was planted once and once only (please God, never to be uprooted !) but its fruits are perennial and are still ours to gather, we are not called on to nourish that tree with our dead bodies, but our living ones must be devoted to its service. To a iealous regard for all that it represents; we are summoned eacn one oi us inai names tbe name as "American." They A few months ago, Mr. Bryon Every, of Woodstock, Mich., was badly afflict- d with rheumatism.. His right leg was swollen the full length, causing him great suffering. He was advised n trv Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The first bottle of it helped him considera bly and the second bottle effected cure. The 25 and50 cent sizes are for sale by . T. Whitehead & Co. MMONWEAL who gather from every tribe and nation under Heaven ; joining bands with us in devotion to freedom, all, from the least to the greatest may serve the cause that Washington and the Revolu tionists brought into our history. For saking the straining of ' our necks, looking backward to the beginnings, let us look around and forward. Let us grapple with evil, wherever we find either the designs of wealth or the worse crime of indifference threaten ing our heritage ; and let us further more understand that sincere watchful ness is the only way to insure for our children's children, and theirs after them, a government that is in a decid ed measure based upon the will ot the people. V The lives of great men, when they fail to stir us ordinary ones, are waste and unprofitable, so far as we are con cerned. But in every noble resolve that a great life inspires in a lesser life, there is tbe living again of the dead. May the dogged devotion of Washing ton be resurrected by each of us in these perilous times, when men would seek to confuse us by loud warlike noises that almost drown the gentle pipings of peace. The wid'nmg river that towards the sea Resistless runs, still swelling constantly, Does not derive its force and fullest flow From any sudden sweep of storm or snow ; But draws its certain strength from constant wells, Cradled on stainless heights . where stillness awells.. So doth Columbia's eyer swelling tide Of lusty life and freedom, spreading wide, Take inspiration from that noble force, George Washington, and shape its steady course From him whose tireless soul stood firm for peace, And planned and fought onlythat war might cease. Let us then rightly judge our great ideal, And love his tender thought for public weal ; Leaving the mighty warrior to inspire Only when threatened hearths our spirits fire ; Mindful that floods, though they may purify, Leave in their wasting train dark dregs of misery. A Cucumber in a bottle. Selected. When I was a little boy, remarked an old gentleman, somebody gave me a cucumber in a bottle. The neck ot tbe bottle was small, and the cucumber so large that it wasn't possible for it to pass through it, and I was greatly puz zled to know how it got there. But out in the garden, one day, I came up on a bottle slipped over a little green fellow that was still cn the vines, and then I understood it all. The cucum ber had grown in tbe bottle. I often see men with habits that I wonder any strong, sensible man conld form, and then I think that very likely they gerw Into them when they were young and caunot slip out of them now ; they are like the cucumber. Look out for such bottles, boys ! Wisdom From a Prisoner. Selected. The Connecticut state prison has a monthly paper edited by a convict. A recent, issue is very readable. It con tains one article giving rules of conduct which if universally adopted would be a benediction to people both outside and inside prisous : "1. If possible, be well and haye a good appetite. If these conditions are yours the battle of life is already half won. Many soul and heart troubles arise really in the stomnch, though it may seem strange to you. "2. Be busy. Fill the hours so full of "useful and interesting work that there shall be no time for dwelling on your troubles ; that the day shall dawn full of expectation, the night full of re pose. "3. Foreet yourself. You never will be happy if your thoughts con stantly dwell uqou yourself, your own short-comings, what people think of you, and so on "4. Expect little. Expect little of life, but not too much of your friends. "5. Trust in God. Believe that God is ; that he really, knows what is beet for you. Believe this truly, and the bitterness is gone from life." Mr. Ward L. Smith, of Fredericks - town. Mo., was troubled with chronic diarrhoea for over thirty years. He had become fully satisfied that it was only a question of a short time until he wonld have to give up. He had been treated by some of the best phy sicians in Europe and America but got no permanent relief. Une day he nicked ud a newspaper and chanced to read an advertisement of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He eat a bottle of it, the first dose heloed him and its continued use cur ed him. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. OSTENTATION'S FOLLIES A GLIMPSE AT ANCIENT EXCESSES. Some Wise Suggestions. BY LADY COOK (NEE TENNESSEE C. CLAFLIN.) Communicated to Thk Commonwealth. Ostentation is older than civilization ; ancient as the primeval savage.. Tbe desire to appear braver, handsomer, richer, stronger, better or worse, and so on, than others, or than we really are, has been a universal failing from re motest times, and ever attended with unhappy consequences. However, we shall not here attempt to attack all forms of vanity, but would draw atten tion to that particular one of yain show or display which is the more general mode of ostentation. The Latin "Os tentare" means to show often in a boast, ing manner. Anything, therefore which is done from vulgar pride to dazzle others, is ot this character. And it would seem as if all changes of fash ion prompted by vanity are so manv marks ot this failing, for the.-e are at first adopted by the rich, and by them forsaken a3 soon as they becorre com" inon. Au old French moralist, de claiming in 1586 against the prevailing f.ishions, and especially that of iadie carrying mirrows so that they miM constantly view themselves, notices this course of human frailty. "Alas '."be said, "in what an age do we live : to se such depravity which we see; that ir dnces them even to bring into church those scandalous mirrows hanging about their waist. Let all histories, di vine, human, and profane, be consulted ; never will it be found that these objects of vanity were ever thus brought into public by the most meretricious of the sex. It is true, at present none" but the ladies ot tbe court venture to wear them ; but long it will not be before every citizen's daughter, and every fe male servant, will have them I" Nothing is more ludicrous than tbe origin of these extravagances. In Ed ward VI. 's time, a lady with a wen on her neck covered it by a patch. From that time patches became the mode. A hundred years later they were cut in to all kinds of fantastic figures : owls, rings, suns, moons, and even a coach and horses. A dauphin of France had a high shoulder. This gave rise to "full bottomed" wig. Long coats were in vented to hide the "ill-made" legs ol Charles the Seventh of France, and pointed shoes a yard long to conceal an excrescence on tbe foot of Henry Plant- aganet of Anjou. When the Arch duchess Isabella wore the same dirty linen for three years because she had vowed not to change it until Ostend was taken, its colour at tbe end of that time became fashionable as "L' Isa- beau," a dingy-whitish-yellow. An other Isabella, she of Bavaria, noted for fair complexion and her frail conduct, introduced tbe fashion of having the shoulders and neck uncovered. The whims ot fashion are shown by a print of Henry VIII. 's time, representing an nude Englishman holding a peice of cloth on his right arm and a pair of shears in his left hand, and bears this inscription : I am an Englishman, and I stand here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall were ; For now I will were this and how I will were that, And now I will were I cannot tell what." Down to the reign of William and Mary, little children oi the upper classes wore wigs, but barbers had not then become hair dressers. These were women. Verily "there is no new thing under the sun." Comfit boxes were great signs of ostentation, and were the rage in France before snuff-boxes took their place. All carried them on all occasions, and when tbe Duke oi Guise was shot at Blois his comfit box was found . in his hand. Chaucer's "Persones Tale," in tbe chapter "De Superbia, tells, as we dare net, to what lengths pride and im propriety in dress were carried in his day ; particularly by the men. In "France it was bad enough. "A modest Italian could not travel there in the 15th century," said an Italian author, "without beiug shocked by the dresses of the men." But in England it was afterwards worse, and our countrymen gloried in their shame. A "buck" of about ninety years ago is thus described by a satirical - writer : "A coat oi light green with sleeves too small for tbe arms, and buttons too big NO CURE JNO PAY That is the way all druggists sell GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC ior Chills, Fever and all forms of Malaria. It is simply Iron and Quinine in a tasteless form. Children love it. Adults prefer it to bitter nau seating tonics. Price, 5f rrVTTTr No. 203. This quarter-sawed oak writing: desk is pol ished like a Siano. It as a 9-inch beveled plate glass in top and a deep drawer bo low. Ar tistic T?MHA. 1 AMI A' ITTg, mm also finished n in mahogany. $3.95 is our spec ial price for this 1 10 desk. ( Mail orders, rilled promptly.) Wo will moil onnA all g charges, our new 113 pasre Special Cata- jugue, containing u urniture, uraperies,. Lamps. Stoves, Crockery. Mirrors, Pictures, Bedding, Refrigerators. Baby Carriages, etc. This is the most com plete book ever published, and we pay all postage. Our lithographed Carpet Catalogue, showing carpets in colon, is also yours for the asking. If carpet samples are wanted, mail us 8c. in stamps. There is no reason why you should pay your local dealer 60 per cent, profit when you can buy from the mill. Drop a line now to the money savers. JULIUS HINES & SON. Baltimore, Md. Please mention this paper. for the sleeves ; a pair of Manchester fine stuff breeches, without money in the pockets ; clouded silk stockings, but no legs ; a club of hair behind, lar ger than the bead that carries it ; a hat of tbe size ot sixpence on a block not worth a farthing." Milk and wine have each been used lor the bath of beauty. Toppea bathed in asses' milk. Modern young ladies have had to be satisfied with that o! cows, liut wnen tne wrinKies begin u appear they have bathed in wine, whitf wine by preference, because its astriu- gency reduces tnese teu-taies. iioro Shrewsbury demanded an increased al lowance from the Government wheu bt guarded Mary Queen of Scots, because of the great expense to which that royal lady's wine baths came. In vain, from age to age, have sum ptuary laws been levelled against os tentation and luxury in food and cloth ing. The love of liberty has proved stronger than the love of monopoly. "It is no one's business bow I spend ray money." say tbe persons who own It. This is quite true if we make one exception. The moralist has the right to criticise their method if it should appear to be against good taste and public morality. Liberty allows us to do many things that are not for the common good. And it is from the lash of the satinet and the increasing . !l I ..AT good sense of the community, and not from legislation, that moral improve ments are brought about. Vices are killed by scorn and ridicule and public disapprobation, and not by Act of Parliament. It is competent, therefore, for any one who can afford it to spend a thous and guineas on orchids to adorn a single banquet, but it is also within ibe right of the moralist or political econo mist to require if extravagance such as this is for the public good or evil. One of the many proclamations of Queen Elizabeth against "the excess of apparel" mentioned "the wasting and undoing of a great number ot young gentlemen, otherwise serviceable ; and that others, seeking by show of apparel to be esteemed as gentlemen, and al lured by the vain show of these things, not only cousume their goods ana lands, but also run into such debts and shifts, as they cannot live out of danger of laws without attempting unlawful acts." And so she threatened to have them rated in the subsidy books accord ing to the costliness of their dress. Yet while Elizabeth' bade everyone else to set a good example, she bad in her wardrobe three thousand dresses that had only been worn once. We read In Stuart times of five hundred pounds for a knight's cloak ; of embroidery for a lady's gowu at fifty pounds a yard ; of one lady wearing over a hundred thousand pounds' worth of jewels at a time ; of gentlemen in "crimson velvet and beaten gold ;" of a duue one blaze of diamonds from head to foot, and these ho often shook from him to see That tne blood should perform its vital functions, it is absolutely necessary it should not only be pure but rich in iife-giying elements. These results are best effected by the use of that well- known standard blood-purifier, Ayer's Sarsaparilla. For sale by E. T. White head & Co. bi in i -i.vaa IF YOU ARE HUSTLC3 ' " YOUWTXL ADVERTISE YOU Business. 0 Send Youb Advertisement in Now. R. E. L. PITT, TARBORO, N. C. BICYCLES OF ALL KINDS ON r HAND. Iver Johnsons, $100. Pitsburg, t$75. 'Siecialty in repairing. All parts furnished for any bicvele manufac tured. PLUMBING AND ST CAM FITTING AT LOWEST TRICES. 6 251V "Woods Seeds Are Good Seeds" is the testimony of the thousands who have sown, and are still sowing them season after season. Wood's Descriptive Catalogue Is a most valuable help to the busy gar dener or farmer, all through the year, giving just the information he needs about all Seeds, Time for Planting, Best Methods off Culture, Descriptions, and points as to what crops it will pay best to grow. It is really a complete manual for the Garden and Farm, and will be mailed free upon application. T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, - - RICHMOND, VA. THE LARGEST SEED HOUSE II THE SOUTH. the maids of honour scramble for them ; and of the great and wise Sir Walter Raleigh wearing on court days seven thousand pounds' worth of precious stones on bis shoes, having his armour of solid silver, ana his sword. Thus the ostentation of former times was far in excess of ours. Nevertheless there is still vast room for improve ment. From tbe highest to the lowest the practice is much too prevalent of living beyond one's means ; of making a grander show than one's position warrants ; of dwelling in bouses out of proportion to income ; and, generally, of aping those who are superior in wealth and rank. It is not the rich alone who are thus guilty. Tbe mid dle classes and the poor are equally, and often much more, ostentatious! n their way. We are told that coster mongers wear tbe most gorgeous and most expensive silk handkerchiefs that can be obtained to adorn their manly necks. He who has the costliest is the most "killing" in the eyes of his fair ones. The poor prefer showy furniture, cheap and fragile, to the humbler but i more substantial articles, Tbey had rather a sham veneer thau a solid reality. It is the same in dress. Good woollen material is tbe cheapest, most comfortable, and most healthy in sum mer and winter. Yet showy, flimsy, unheaithy fabrics take its place. Tbe stomach is often starved that the back may bear finery. Education and par ental training are made subsidiary to appearances. Tbe young are early taught tbe important lesson that ' to seem" is of more value than "to be." This sordid and paltry hypocrisy per meates' society from end to end, aud is the source of much ignorance and crime, folly, and all sorts of prostitution. People are afraid to acknowltdge their position, and ashamed to be thought poor in these days when any clever rogue may become ricn. Is it any wonder that peculation of all kinds is so common as it is ; that among thousands of the honest there are hun dreds of tbe dihonet( ; (bat boys in their teens gamble like hoary sinners; and that madens sell their virtue for a paltry jewel or a showy article of dress Notwithstanding all tbese things ours is a splendid race, full ot energy and ambition, but tbe latter should be tempered always by modesty and straightforwardness. We do not need to appear greater than we are. In this, as in all things, honesty is not only tbe best, but is the best policy, and osten tation proves itself an insdious vice which degrades whatsoever and whom soever it touches. An excellent motto for all of us is "Essee quam videri." FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for tbeir children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al lays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the best remedy for Diarrenea. It will relieve tbe poor little sufferer imme diately. Sold by Druggists in every part of tbe world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. 2 17 6t. I Subscribe to Th Commonwealth. Specialty. -- 116 !
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