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THE EDITOR'S LEISTTBE HOUBS
Points and 'Paragraphs of Things
Present, Past ana Future.
Never before in the history of the
world has there been such a flood oi
literature of all kinds. To be sure,
with the great amount of literature
there is much that is trashy and worth
less; but with all this" the world is
blessed with much good literature, and
there is now little excuse for any one
being ignoiant. Every person has an
opportunity of learning something of
what is going on in the world. Boots
and papers are so cheap that there
ought to be a book-shelf in every home,
however bumble, where the family may
be supplied with reading matter suita
ble for the entire household. And
along with this we believe that it may
be observed that the spirit of education
has never before been so lively in
A or to Carolina.
Mention has been made in this col
umn before about the great waste which
results from carelessness with fire. Ir
is nothing uncommon to see along
railroads forest fires which burn for
days and days, destroying undergrowth
and sometimes larger growth, entailing
great los to the owners of the land.
Just now, when timber and wood are
becoming scarce and consequently
more valuable, it is a matter that ought
to claim the attention of every man in
terested in the welfare of his communi
ty and the people generally. And we
would not say that ?uch fires originate
every time with tne raiiroaa trains
There are many other ways in which
such fires originate from the careless
handling of fire.
The next General Assembly would do
well to establish a fire commission for
eyery cojiaty lor the purpose of inves
tigating such fires, properly placing the
responsibility and assessing the proper
damages for the same. Such could be
done without any cost to the State, the
commission's compensation being a
part of the penalty upon those by whose
carelessness the fire originated.
One of the wonders of this progress
ive age is the manipulation ot a feather
duster by the porter on passenger
trains. The wonder is not so much as
to the dexterity with which the porter
handles his duster as it is why he han
dles it at all during the runs of the
train.
It is about this way: Train starts
for a long run with no dust to men-
1 ion. After a short time tne iram nus
with dust and a fair proportion of it
settles down upon window sills, on seats,
into nooks and corners; and the re
mainder, what Is not swallowed by the
passengers, keeps floating about in the
unoccupied space of the car. This
continues for a time until some of the
passengers begin to feel like they would
rather be seasick where there is no
dust than to maintain their stomachic
equipoise in so much ot it. Then
comes the porter who commences with
uis feather duster. He flutters it into
every cornery up ana aown, muuuu
every seat, then sweeps with his broom,
mixes floor dust with eyery other dust
be can stir up until the train's atmos
phere mixed with a little water would
make mortar for a brick mason. Then
he has to call out the station, opens
the front door of the coach as he goes
to the next coach to call out the sta
tion and while he passes out great
fumfs of smoke pass In to be mixed
with the now intolerable dust cloud that
is stifling the fanning passengers.
When the tram starts again the dust-
ing is repeated ; and no man living,
with the help of all the women, has
yet been able to tell why the porter
does not wait until he reaches tbe end
of the run before he does his dusting.
Ii he would think even once he could
see that however carefully he stirs up
his dust it has no where to go but set
tle back on tbe seats to be again stirred
vo between the next two stations. And
he is sore to stir it up again
why does he?-
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PRESENT DAY
THOUGHTS
Washington's Clear Understanding
And Judgment
HIS GEEAT TITLE.
BY "GROSVENOB."
Written for The Commonwealth. .
Washington's Great Title It de
lights people to speak of him as the
Father of His Country. Tbe title is
merely fanciful unless we limit tbe pe
riod of his life to which the term is ap
plied. His impulsive youth certainly
did not entitle him to it. His farming
career merely ranked him high as an
agriculturist. His generalship placed
him among the greatest of the great
warriors of the world. But in none of
these was fatherhood. The period when
such a term of affection applied to him
with its fullest, deepest meaning was
from 1783 to 1789, when no war was
being waged. The war had ended and
with Infinite relief the gray-haired en
feebled man allowed his harrowing re
sponsibilities to slip Irom his shoulders.
Others were like him only too glad to
rest back with a sigh of comfort as
though the thing sought had been
found and tbe thing desired had come
to pass.
Washington was the first to wake up
to clear understanding that the revol
ution had failed to cement tbe thirteen
colonies into oneness of aim and of
goyernmental theory. We find in no
other correspondence of that time any
such breadth of vision or depth of
teeling as were in tbe letters of Wash
ington. Constantly, in all directions,
he was sending out toothers his seed
thoughts of what ought to be endeav
oring to arouse them and finally suc
ceeding. "He saw that tbe eight years
of travail had resulted in scarcely the
feeblest sign of national life. His
soul became wrapped up in the absorb
ing purpose of nurturing that feeble
fife into strength. Then was be "Fa
ther." At times he became absolutely
despondent oyer the serious condition
of affairs, as when he exclaimed, "It is
well that Greene (General Greene) ia
dead, so that he should know none of ;
these things."
Finally, however, his labor was not
in vain, tbe agony of his soul was re
garded and tbe constitutional conven
tion became a fact to materialize his
taith that this nation was not to become
the laughing-stock of the government
Irom which it had broken away. For
four months Washington presided over
the convention, watching every move
and influencing every act. His labor
was incessant presiding every day
from four to seven honrs, and working
between whiles to shape the thought
or purpose of those who where there
with him. Had tbe nation beenjlesb
of his flesh, and bone of his bone, his
feeling could not have been more pa
ternal toward it.
The Declaration of Independence
was a thrilling summons to life. It was
the beginning of things and not a frac
tion. Its power was great to arouse,
but not sufficient to sustain. The con
st! tit ution was the instrument needed
to give the new life perpetuity. The
Declaration could not even stand the
strain of its own success. Tbe consti
tution has withstood the expansion and
change and readjustment of a century
and is still yirile. "Father" Washing
ton is the one above all others to credit
for this great lasting nation.
A LESSON.
A certain mother in one of our
smaller cities was very fond of playing
progressive euchre. One evening she
received a fine silver cup for being tbe
most successful player. She was much
delighted with her success, and, on
showing it to. her iamily the next
morning, her son,4n his early teens,
said : "Heh I I can beat that, for I
made f 10 at the pool table last night I"
immediately the eyes of the mother
were opened in more senses than one,
for, in tbe first place, she had no idea
that her son had thus been spending
his time, and, in the next place, part
ners in ein, how could she condemn
him. It taught her a lesson once for
all. Selected.
PRACTICAL GIRLS.
We believe girls should be educated
just as high as their ability to learn,
and that of their parents to pav ior u
will admit. But in addition to keep
ing their bands soft and white aid their
toilet up to the latest fad, they snouia
be taught that there is something else
In life, a stern, practical aide, that they
shonld be laminar wnn.
iWnteMDtoMmf
Tbe last quarter of a century records
Many wonderful discoveries in medicine,
but none that have aeeoroplished nowfor
It Browns' Iron Bitter. It ,8Cm ' -remeay,
btowiw t mod health.
contain toe vcij . j i ,ava
CASE O' BE ANCHORED.
The mule stood on the steamboat deck,
Thertand he would not tread ;
They pulled the baiter round bis nectc,
And cracked him on tbe head.
But obstinate and braced he stood,
As born the scene to rule ;
A creature of the hold-back brood,
A stubborn, steadfast mule.
They cursed and swore-he would not
go
Until he felt inclined ;
And though they thundered ' blow on
blow,
He altered not bis mind.
The deck-band to the shore complain
ed : I
"The varmint's bound to stay !"
And still upon the critter 'a bide
The sounding lash made play.
His master from the shore replied :
"The boat's about to sail ;
As other means, in yain jrou've tried,
Suppose you twist his tall
Ult'a likely that you'll make him land."
Tbe deck hand, brave, though pale,
The nearer drew, with outstretched
hand,
To make the twist avail.
Then came a kick of thunder sound !
The deck-band where was he?
Ask of the waves that far around,
Beheld him in the sea !
A moment, not a voice was heard ;
But winked the mule his eye,
As though to ask, to him occured :
"Now how was that for high?"
"Just cut his throat!" the captain
roared,
"And end the cursed brute ;"
But the noblest soul that perished there
Was he who tried to do it.
Avoid Coughing.
Scientific American.
A physician who is connected with
an institution in which there are many
children says: "There is nothing
more irritable to a cough than cougn-
For some time I bad been so
fully assured of this that I determined
for one minute at least to lessen the
number oi coughs heard in a certain
ward in a hospital ot the institution.
By the promise of rewards and punish
ments I succeeded in inducing them
simply to hold their breath when
tempted to eough. and in a uttWwhite
I was myself surprised to see how some
of the children entirely recovered from
the disease. Constant coughing is pre
cisely liko scratching a wound on the
outside of the body ; so long as it is
done tbe wound will not heal. Let a
person when tempted to cough draw a
long breath and hold it until it warms
and soothes every air cell, and some
benefit will soon be received irom this
process, lhe nitrogen which is thus
confined acts as an anodyne to tbe
mucous membrane, allaying the desire
to cough, and giving- the throat and
lungs a chance to heal."
Make me a Child Again.
New York Mail and Express.
I'd like to be a boy again, without
a woe or care, with freckles scatterea
on my face and hayseed in my bair.
I'd like to rise at lour o'clock and do a
hundred chores, and saw the wood and
feed the hogs and lock the stable doors.
And herd the hens and watch the bees
and take the mules to drink, and teach
the turkeys how to swim so that they
would'nt sink ; and milk about a hun
dred cows and bring the wood to burn.
And stand out in the sun all day and
churn and churn and chum, and wear
my brother's cast-off clothes, and walk
ing four miles to 6cbool,and gee a lick
urg every day for breasing come old
rule. And then get home again at
night and do the chores some more,
and milk tbe cows and feed the hogs and
curry the mules galore, and then crawl
wearily up stairs and see my little bed,
and hear dad say, ''That worthless boy
he isn't worth his bread!" I'd like
to be a boy again a boy has so much
fun ! bis life is just a round of , mirth
from nee to set of sun. I guess there
is nothing pleasanter than closing
stable doors and herding hens and
chasing bees and doing evening chores."
My son has been troubled for years
with chronic diarrhoea. Sometime
ago I persuaded him to take some of
Chamberlain Uolic, unoiera ana
Diarrhoea Remedy. After using two
bottles of the 25-cenksize he was cured.
I eive this testimonial, hoping some
one similarly afflicted may read it and
be benefited Thomas C. Bower,
Glencoe, O. For tale by E. T White
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After meeting many people at the
League, Colonel McMicbael suggested
that Lieutenant Hobson should have a
drink, to which tbe herb respondedjthat
he never drank anything. When asked
to have a cigar he also replied that he
never smoked. However, he suggested
to Colonel McMicbael that he would
like to have a shave. Philadelphia
Times.
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ONE'S OWNMSTER.
A Great Question to be Decided by
Oar Young People.
GUABD AGAINST MISTAKES.
Youth's Companion.
He was a moody, quick-tempered
young man. He resented authority,
and was always talking about the time
when he should be independent. At
last he reached his twenty-first birth
day, that period when the law recog
nized him as no longer a child. With
eagerness be had for years looked for
ward to this day of freedom from con
straint and authority. No one could
be more exciied or pleased than he,
While he was congratulating himself,
he met a friend that morning.
"At last," he said, "I am my own
master. No one can order me about
now. I shall do as I please."
"I do congratulate you," said his
friend, "but are you sure you are not
making a mistake in your acceptation
of the word master?"
"A mistake?" repeated the young
man in surprise. "There can be no
mistake about it. I am of age to-day,
and am absolutely my own master."
Then, said Richard Miller, who tells
the story from his own experience, the
young man's friend blandly suggested :
"In that case vou will certainly never
lose control of your temper."
The young man's color rose as he
heard this interpretation of independ-p,ared
ence. His outbursts of temper were
well known.
"I don't know that I have thought
of it in that light," he replied.
"Then there is the matter of cigar
ettes," continued his pitiless friend
"You told me the other day that you
did not see how you could give them
up. But now that you aro absolutely
master, I suppose you wiifsMoke them
no more."
The young man made no response.
"As one who is absolutely master ot
himself," continued his friend, "is
never led by outside temptations to do
anything of which ho disapproves, I
questionable company you have been
keeping, which has proved a source of
anxiety to your father and mother?"
The young man did not reply. He
was surprised and stirred by this view
of the kind of master that should gov
ern his conduct. Fortunately he had a
conscience and it was touched.
After a few moments of silence he
looked up and said :
"I thank you for your f ran knees. I
see that I haye been an awful fool. I
shall not say anything more about be
ing my own master until I am reasona
bly sure that I am better able than I
am to-day to restrain and overcome the
defects of my own nature. I have
taken itogether too narrow a view of
the responsibilities involved in being
one's own master."
Cigarettes.
Harper's Young People.
Suppose a boy has a lot of cigarettes
and smokes a few of them every day.
Is there any injury in this? I can tell
yon, for I have bad such boys for pa
tients. Such smoking, even in so
called moderation (as if there was any
such thing as moderation in stimulants
for the young !) will do three things
for him : 1. It will run his pulse up
to one hundred or more per minute.
2. It will reduce his weight below tbe
healthy standard. 3. It will reduce bis
strength and general yitality, as will
appear in his pale complexion and his
diminished appetite. Cigarette smoking
is one of tbe worst habits physically
that a boy can form. It injures the
heart and digestion, and it tend to
check the growth. It gives a lad false
and silly notions, and it. does not bring
him into good company.
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life of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
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Scalds, Chapped Hands, . Chilblains.
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Nearly Correct : Teachv "What'
the meaning of 'elocution.' Harold?"
Pupil "It's the way people are put to
death in some States." Puck.
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It soothes the ehild, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is
the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It
will relieve the poor Jittle sufferer im
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The Proof Was Clear.
Selected.
Recently the evangelist, E. L. Hyde,
was conducting a revival meeting at
B , in New Jersey, and in ihe course
of bis remarks, said he could nrova to
the satisfaction of any infidel within
ten minutes that he was a tool, little
thinking that be shonld have occasion
or opportunity of doing so. The next
morning, while walking, a gentleman
accosted him very abruptly by saying,
"Aren't you the evangelist preaching
up here at the church ?"
"Yes, sir." "
"Welt I suppose! you
were a gen-
tleman."
"I claim to be one."
"Well, I don't thin you
are one.
Didn't you pay last night that you
could prove to tbe satisfaction of anv
one within ten minutes that all inndU
were fools? It you don't prove it to
my satisfaction I shall publish you ic
all the city papers as the most consum
mate liar that ever struck the city."
Seehig there was no possibility of
reasoning with the man, Mr. Hyiie
said, "Where is your infidel?"
'I claim' to be one," was the reply.
"and I want you to know lam no foci,
either."
"You don't mean to say there is no
reality in Christianity?"
"I do, sir. I have studied all phases
of the subject, and traveled and de
livered lectures against Christianity for
more than twelve years, and I am pre-
t0 there Is nc-tbiug in it.
'You are certain there is nothing in
it?"
"Yes", sir ; thero U nothing in it."
"Will you please tell me," said Mr.
Hyde, "if a man who will lecture
twelve years against nothing is not a
fool, what, in your ludgment, would
constitute a fool?"
He turned away in a rige. Mr.
yde, drawing on: his watch, insisted
he still had six minutes, but the infidel
would not hear him. Neither did he
publish Mr. Hyde as a liar.
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"They call me a gra?s widow, I sup
pose, said the still young and hand
some woman bitterly, "because I don't
wear weeds !" "No." reDliei th3 en
vious neighbor, looking around the
cheerful apartment, "it's because you
seem to be in clover." Chicago Tri
bune.
BISMARCK'S IRON NERVE.
Was t'ue result of his p;;endid health
Indomitable will and"" tremendous
energy are not found where Stomach,
Liver, Kidneys nnd Bowels are out of
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"I wonder how that Utah man man
aged to defeat his popular wife, against
whom he ran for office?" Mr. Old wed,
"Simply by isauing a circular to the
voters asking how they would life to
attend to the children while their wives
were attending to official duties."
J udge.
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so, procure at once a bottle of Pain
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The relief is instantaneous as well as
lasting. No necessity to suffer when a
remedy such r a Pain Killer is to be
had. Sixty years of success speaks for
itself. Avoid substitutes, there is but
one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis.' Price
25c. and 50c.
"What are yon looking- so glum
about?" "Ob ! I was trying to make
a man take $5." "You don't mean to
say he would'nt take it?" "Yes I do.
You see he's my tailor, and I owe him
$oO." Philadelphia Recoil.
IJ ARMLESS, efficient, reliable and
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"I wonder if all men tre fools," snap
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my d3ar," replied her husband, "I
know a number ol men wao are bachel-
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prevented a dreadful tragedy and
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She had tried many lemedies and
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One bottle wholly cured her, and she
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CONDENSED SCHEDULE.
TRAINS GOING tOUTH.
DATED
Not, 19. 1899.
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Lv. tioldsboro
Lv. Magnolia
Ar. Wilmington
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Lv. Fayettevllle 12 20 9 45
Leave Helm a 1 50 10 66
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Lv. Magnolia 8 20 11 It
Lv. Goldsboro 5 00 t 27 12 N
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Arrive Tarboro 7 04 "'" "
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Lv. Kocky Mt. 3 30 12 09 "
Ar. Weldon 4 82 1 00
P. M. A. M. P. M.
fDaily except Monday. Daily ex
cept Sunday.
Wilmington" and Weldon Railroad,
Yadkin Division Main Line Train
leaves Wilmington, 9 00 a. m., arrives
Fayetteville 12 12 p. in., leaves Fayette
vllle 12 25 p. m., arrives Sanford 1 43
p. m. Returning leaves Sanford 2 80
p. m., arriyes Fayetteyille 3 41 p. m.t
leaves Fayettevllle 3;46 p. m., arrives
Wilmington 6-40 p. m.
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
Bennetteville Branch Train leaves
Bannettsville 8 15 a. m., Maxton 9 20
a. m., Red Springs 9 53 a. m., Hope
Mills 10 42 a. m., arrives Fayettevills
10 55 a. m. Returning leaves Fayette
vllle 4 40 p. m., Hope Mills 4 55 p. m..
Red Spririgs b 35 p. m., Maxton 6 15
p. m., arrives Bennettsville 7 15 p. m.
Connections at Fayetteville with
train No. 78, at Maxton with the Caro
lina Central Railroad, at Red Spring
with the Red Springs and Bow more
Railroad, at Sanford with the Seaboard
Ait Line and Southern Railway, at
Gulf with the Durham and Charlotte -Railroad.
Train on the Sc otland Neck Brancb
Road leaves Weldon 3 :35 p m., Halifax
1 :15 p. m., arrives Scotland Neck at
5 :08 p. ro., Greenville ii :57 p. m., Kim
ton 7 :55 p. m. Returning leavec
Kinston 7 :50 a. m., Greenyiile 8 :52 a.
m., arriving Halifax at 11 :18 a. m.,
Weldon 11 :33 a. m., daily except Sun
day.
Trains on Washington Branch leave
Washington 8 :I0 a. m. and 2 :30 p. ru..
arrive Parmele 9 :10 a. m. and 4 KX) p.
m., returning ka.e Parmele 9 :35 a. no.
and 6 :30 p. m., arrive Washington
11 :00 a. m. and 7 :30 p. m., daily ex
cept Sunday.
Train leaves Tarboro, N. C, dail
except Sunday 5 :30 p. m., Sunday.
i :15 p. ro., arrives Plymouth 7 :40 p.
m., 0 :10 p. m., Returning, leaves Ply
mouth daily except Sunday, 7 :50 a. no.,
ii nd Sunday 9 :00 a. m., arrives Tarboro
10:05 a. m., 11 :00 a. m.
Tram on Midland N. C. Branch
loaves Goldsboro daily, except Sunday.
7 :05 a. m., arriving Smithfield 8 :10 a
in. Returning leaves Smithfield 9:00
a. m. ; arrives at Goldsboro 10 :25 a. n ,
Trains on Nashville Branch leaw
Rocky Mount at 9 :30 a. m., 3 :40 p. m .
arrive Nashville 10 :10 a. m.,4 .-03 p.m
Spring Hope 10:40 a. m., 4 :25 p. mi
Re;!!r?tinu leave Spring Hope 11 :00 a
m.. :oo i. rn., Nashville 11 :22 a. m. '
5:25 p.m., arrive at Rocky Mount
11 :45 a. m., 6 :00 p. m., dally except
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves War
saw for Clinton dally, except Sunday,
11 :40 a. m. and 4 :15 p. m. Return
ing leaves Clinton at 7 :00 a. m. and
2 :50 p. m.
Train No. 78 makes close connection
at Weldon for all points North daily,
all rai' via Richmond.
H. M. EMERSON,
Geul Pass. Agent.
J. R. KENLY, Gen'l Manager.
T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager.
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