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4 "Our Aim will be, the People's Right Maintain, Unaiced by Power, and Unbribed by Gain." VOL VII. WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1889. NO. 49 HEARTTHROBS. .rrBDAT NIGIIT BEFLECTIOXS BY IIEXBT BLOUNT. 4j lie Strolls Alone at the Cloie of the Week, and Allows HI Heart Il9 Feelings Speak. , : Xfce blessed "Peacd, be still," of another jjlction upon the wildly-throbbing brain r.d preparing our hearts for another glori as Sabbath that soft and smooth and dutiful silver thread of radiant rest, which t interwoven amid those six dark and .1 ilHl IMiU UIIU lit yJ V 1 IV J 111 11,1 A rake up the warp and woof in the busy :o it, let us glance at the past six days and -e how stands the record with us. Have ill the contracts been finished? Have all the jreams been realized? Have all the prom ts been fulfilled? Have all your hopes blossomed into beauty and ripened and mellowed into luscious flavor or have they, like "Dead Sea Fruit, turned into ashes upon the lips," ere the sweetness had been tasted? Reader, which has it been? Has itheen a week of joy, or Qnc of sor row? Have you been basking in the sun light, or have you been groping about amid the shadows? Have you been re tailed with the odor-laden breezes of the dower-wreathed May of a consummated anticipation, or have you been stricken with the pitiless pelings of the bitter De cember of disappointment? Haveyouu been roaming amid the luxuriant vcrdue of the very tropics of success, or have youf been wandering upon the barren beach of some bleak, sand-bound Norwav of failure? Reader, which is it? Whatever it be, God's J t 1 ll T .1 V- 1 ;uuiu xur gwu was mere xu uic ucicucu the bitterest lees in the chalice of disap pointment, it may seem the very refine ment of cruelty to say that good is wrung from the tears of a grief-filled heart,' or that blessings are the fruits of bereavement. But it is true, for "God doeth all things well.'' These disappointments, these afflic tions, these trials, these sorrows, are neces sary for the development of Christian character, and the perfection of that sub lime virtue purposed in the divine economy of God. And we must not, therefore, de spair, because the way seems dark and hard and rough. Troubles, like pleasures, are evanescent. They come, perform their office and leave. The bursting cloud spends its rain, and then wc have again the rosy gleams of blessed sunshine. So grief its tears, and then we see the radiant tints of the warm, soft, sunshine of resignation beaming upon the shadows and eusilvering the gloom. Reverses of fortune are the glorious chisels with which we can carve out of the rough marble of difficulties the white statue of a loftier character and a Wgher destiny. " Yes, trials are necessary ; clouds should mc. The earth would be barren if there as nothing else but the radiant beauty of the sun-lit sky; but fortunately the cloud cloaked storm stalks forth, and while seem kgly thundering out its anathemas upon a orld, is but preparing to sprinkle Its show ers upon an arid earth, and to refresh the cant vegetation, It requires the clouds to bring out the beautiful pencilings of the rainbow ; it requires the darkness to reveal e corruscating glories of those twinkling worlds which nightly flood the sky with &e soft.j rich glimmer of their sparkling aves. Yes, the shadows are beneficial,' for "Spring would be but gloomy weather, " e had nothing else but Spring." Fits Like KIhv The latest fancv in stockings is notstock- :ngs at all, but an elegant little arrange ment, silken and shenv, tinted in faintest "Kgestions of color, is drawn up on soft, inty ribbons, fits as close as a kiss, and ts twenty dollars. When a 6weet girl !ps into stockings of this kind she is all Pressed, and 6he banishes one of the worries t help to make girls grow old before ir time thev can't come down. There no treacherous buckles to unclasp at a tical time, no unscrupulous catches to 5,vc out with malice prepense just as she founts- a coach or stage, and ca.Vt fix tlm, no false hearted buttons to lose their moorings in the'midst of a waltz or polka. No, the fair lady ties the tiny ribbon at the top of her stocking around her shoulders, and her mind is at rest. The new stockings call up strange reminiscences of a naughty something we have seen befoie, supple mented with seventeen gauze flounces and a spangled girdleTfeomething that lias danced before our eyes on horseback, whirled around a flying bar, and pirouetted on one toe in the blaze of the footlights, and truth compels the confession that they are found in greatest variety at the theat rical furnishing store; but the most con servative ladies buy them in the Broadway shops as --union garments," and they feel "perfectly lovely .v Before and After Marriage. Too often matrimonial failure may be traced to the fact that courtesy was bid farewell to on the threshold of the bridal home. If men would carry a little, ever so little, of the chivalry of the lover, or women the smallest bit of the pretty fascinations of the fiancee into their married life, how much pleasanter home would be. Whv should husband and wife be less courteous to each other than they are compelled to be to their very servants? Says a devoted lover, tripping over his lady-love's feet ope day previous to marriage: "O, my darling, have I heart your tootsy-wootsies?" The same gentleman, having alter marriage committed the same awkwardness, turns savagely around with, "Good Heavens, woman, can't you keep you d d hoofs out of the way?" That's it tootsy wootsies" berore marriage, "d d hoofs" after marriage. Written for The Mirror.) sirius. O, Sirius, thou lovely star ! You glimmer, glitter like a gem afar; Or, like a brilliant lamp with silver ray, Set near to guide Orion on his way. The eastern hill is all aglow with light Diffused upon the snow ;the queen of night The February moon, in blushing red, Comes up to rule the sky with regal tread. She rises like a large and glowing ball, Looks out upon the stars, outshines them all But thee and Venus, who has turned her face Again towards the un with modest grace. Perhaps, in all the starry vault above This brilliant one this fickle star of love Alone thy rival is; for she is bright And shines with steady, unobstructed light. But twinkling fires' she ne'er displays like thine; Nor rays that tremble like a harp divine, To discourse heavenlv music on its wires, That quiver with a song that never tires. Of all the fair, round worlds that shine on high, And shed with light the murky winter sky, Thou seem'st to me the fairest of them all, And like a window m the jasper wall. Through which the glory from the Great White Throne Of the Celestial City shineth down Upon this darkened world a guiding ray, To light the soul upon the Heavenly way. To thee, bright star, all hail ! Thy light is yet A brightness of the first; a coronet Upon the brow of an angelic one Can not outshine the rays of such a sun. Mrs. A. E. L. Kennedy. Why lie Was Had. Ah," said wise Erudite to Miss Shrewd at a party the other night, uwhat a sad, sad face "that gentleman has over there in the correr. I have been watching him all the evening, and I have not seen him smile once, ins neart is neavv wun some great and mighty grief. I am sure of it, and I have been wondering what it could be and letting my heart go out to him in sympathy. Dq.tell me If you know his history." " es," replied Miss Shrewd briefly, "he is editor of a humorous paper." Opium & Liquor Habits Cured Without Nerv ous Shock or Distress. Our Double Chlorldoof Gold Remedies for the Cure of the Opium and L,iqcok Habits, hare been on the market for 10 YFAKS,durinfr which time they have never failed to make a Cure of either 1 libit, where they have been friven even a meajrre chance. We will Cure Opium PatiwnU at their own home in fro.n 4 to 6 weeks, painlessly, and without loss of food, sleep or occupation. We easilr Cure Drunkenness inside of Thrice Weeks. Full proof of the above furnished, and Literature for the Cure of either Habit sent free on application. Address, T1IK LESLIE E. KKFLEY CO.. DWIGHT, LIVINGSTON CO.. ILLINOIS. A MIXlURE. EDITORIAL ETCH tX OS EUPIIOXI OCSLT ELUCIDATED. V S'ameroai Xewsy hottu and Many Merry Morsels Para graphic ally Packed and Pithily Peltned. Women teach us repose. Silence is the rest of mind. A bridal party-he horse. Mrs. Jay Gould left six children. A dwarf pear a couple under size. A taking fellow The photographer. Long winded Blacksmith's bellows. A towering rage The theatrical hat. The Prince of Wales is growing gray. Prince Bismark is in wretched health. Ben Butler chews up twenty cigars a day. . The world itself is two small for the cov etous. . Senator Don Cameron is a statesman ep icure. The Czarina of Russic is reported to be nsane. Coming through the rye Brewers wealth. The Samoan conference will meet in a few Jays. General Harrisson carries $40,000 life insurance. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. All is not lost when anything goes con trary to you. The Khedive of Egyp, has a great fond ness for tats. Secretary Whitney is talked of for Gov. of New York. Some people only understand enough of truth to reject it. II. Rider Haggard,: the Novelist, has be come a vegetarian. Laziness travels so slowls that poverty soon overtakes hin. Silence is the wit of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. The saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness. What we ought not to do we should never think of doing. Few persons live to-day, but are prepar ing to do so tomorrow. The naval appropriation bill provides lib erally for new war ships. In youth, one has tears without grief, in old age, grief without tears. How to be happy, though married let your wife do all the talking. The average price of gas in London is 66 cents per 1,000 cubic feeL Heavy snow storms have recently pre vailed in England and Scotland. Corners In the stock market may be sharp, but they are never square. Tbe Empress of Japan is laying in a wardrobe for a visit to this country. Pride goes before a Fall," and the "Win ter of discontentment" comes after. The total vlssible supply of cotton for the world, in sight, is 5,876,440 bales. The Carondelet, with arms for ifaytien rebels, is still detained in New York. Shades of the departed those left hang ing when the last remnant moved out. One million dollars for a new govern ment telescope is proposed in congress. A S6o,ooo defalcation is reported in the Manhattan Elevated Railroad Company. Alexandre Cabanel, the noted French painter, is dead at the age of sixty-six years. To write a good story for the public a man must have a good upper story of hU own. Queen Victoria and Empress Frederick will viit the Queen of Spain at St. Sebas tian. John Waller, of Kansas, Mas the only colored man in the Electoral College this year. Ella Wheeler Wilcox promUes to stop writing poetry when she reaches the age of forty. The movement of glaciers in summer is found to be four times that made in the winter. The barren fig-tree wa not curbed be- not only supply the whole world with cause it bore bitter fruit, but because it bore I abundance of food, but would become In no fruit. .'conveniently numerous. Emperor William, of Germany, announ ces that he will visit Alsace and Lorraine in April. To keep jellies from moulding place them on a low shelf where thev can be reached by the children. One ton of coal is capable of yielding an amount of force evuivalent to that of six and two-thirds men. . J. T. Trowbridge, the author, is now very pleasantly settled for the winter with his family at Naples. The Emperor of China has been presen ted with six railway sleeping cars by some of his French admirers. A man who is always forgetting his best intentions, may be said to be a thorough fare of good resolutions. The tooth with which young cobras cut their way through the egg is shed as soon as it has served its purpose. There is no part of a man's nature which the Gospel does not purify, no relation of life which it does not hallow. The latest statistics from Persia gives Its dimensions 299S6 square geographical miles and a population of 6,000,000. When the young writer reads .the re views of his first work he often finds it is a guyed book instead of a novel. Sir John A. Macdonald, the Dominion Premier, ha investments in the United States amounting to S 1,500,000. Dr. L. B. Conover, formerly United States Senator from Florida, hos gone back to that State to resume his practice. General J. C. Black, Pension Commis sioner, has the reputation of being the most wounded man who survived the war. In 1S16 one bushel of corn would buy one pound of nails ; now ten pounds can be bought for the same quantity of corn. An English electricion has invented a material which he calls alterion, for the prevention of corrosion in steam boilers. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great roan with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themsel ves. The "Orange King" of Florida is J. H. Harris, of Marion County. His grove of 200 acres this year yields 50,000 boxes of oranges. Anthorny Higgins, Senator-elect of Del aware, by tasting a peach, can tell its varie ty, where it was grown, its age and its mar ket value. A cynicnl Frenchman once said there arc two parties to love affairs the party who loves, and the party who consents to be so treated. Attorney-General Garland is one of the hardest working men In Washington. He is frequently found at his desk as early as 7.30 In the morning. Serator George Vest has a weakness for Kentucky sausage. He was born In Ken tucky and has never recovered from a taste acquired in boyhood Jay Gould was terribly shocked by the death of his wife. It is said that the home life of the great capitalist has always been exceptionally happy. Edward O. Wolcott, he new Colorado Senator, is said to be the only lawyer who has ever made the Supreme Court of Colo rado reverse a decision. Bill Nye, the humorist, is now driving the wolf from the door at the rate of at least S450 a week, and James Whitcome Riley's income is not much, if anjmaller. It has been discovered that a current of electricity passed through impure water restores it to purity by destroying any liv ing germs with which it may be impregna ted. Senator James B. Beck thinks Kentucky Southdown mutton the finest on earth, and he has declared that a saddle of it can't be cooked an where else so well as at his own house. The sons of the late President Garfield are practising law in Cleveland, Ohio, un der the firm name of Garfield & Garfield, and the? are said- to be succeeding better than they expected. W. 1. Washburn, Senator-elect from Minnesnta, is estimated to be worth upward of $10,000,000, and own the second largest flouring mill in the world, with a capacity of 10,000 barrels a day. A single pair of herring, it allowed to reproduce undisturbed for 20 years, would STATE NEWS. rnOJf THE DEEP BLUE SEA TO THE GRAND OlD MOUNTAIN. An Hour Pleasantly Spent With Oar Delightful Exchanges. Newbern Fair this week. Springhope, Nash county, is now an in corporated town. Winston has a populotion of 9,000 tnit has only two policemen. A meeting of the trustees of the Univer sity will be held at Raleigh on the 27th insL A contract has been made for the build ing of the Lynchburg and Durham rail road. At an early day the Baptists of Western North Carolina "will establish a paper at Asheville. Mr J. R. Worthington, of Asheville ha fallen heir to $20,000 through the death of a sister in England. The Legislature refused to attend the New Berne Fish and Oyster Fair as a body. A number of the members will at tend. A party of Northern capatilists have purchased a site on Ocracoke for the pur pose of erecting a magnificent club house thereon.- Salisbury is considdcring the question of issueing bonds to the amount of Si 00,000 for the purpose of putting in an electric light plant, a sewerage syste'm and paving the streets. ' The State Sanitary Convention effected a permanent organization at Raleigh last week with A. A. Thompson, Raleign, pres ident, Dr. J. M. Baker, Tarboro, and Mr. a J. C. Chase, of Wilmington, secretaries. The people of Morehead City have or ganized the Farmer's Co-opera five School Company of North Carolina. It will have a capital of $150,000 to be raised by sub scription on shares of stock at $10 each. Cool Spring, Iredell County, Alliance has passed resolutions asking the Legisla ture to abolih the office of cotton weighers and require ginners to weigh and brand cotton and that cotton be sold by ginners weight. Chowan county Alliance has called a meeting of Alliance men from Bertie, Chowan, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Wash ington counties to considder plans for erec ting at Edentor a cotton factory, oil mill and canning establishment. ' The Shelby Aurora says: Mr. Jame Wosson informs us that the old and famous gander which was a pet ol WHliam Ham- rick, deceased, is still living although 72 years old, he walks as triumphantly t a young gander making first love to hi mate. A young couple in Winston whose mar riage can only be dated back just five weeks. cannot agree, and m consequence thereof have separated. The bride Is yet In her teens while the groom is but a few years the elder. Marriage has proven a failure in this instance. The Wilmington Star says: "It is grati fying to see the Senate passed the bill to promote the efficiency of the State Guard. There can be but on a opinion as to the value and importance of such a military or- eanization. It should be increased In num ber and efficiency. When we reflect that 293, 505 native North Carolinians were living in other S La tea in the year 1SS0, it would ceem that a little of the money and effort expended to get people from abroad to come and set sle In our State, might be more properly and proffitably employed in an effort to in duce our people to stay here. The Free-Will Baptist, is to be removed to Snow Hill, and, we are informed, will be published by a stock company. Elder Hearn has labored to make it a success In Ncwberne, and has given a fairly good pa per, better, we presume, than his support iustified. We wish it better" success in-it new field and under the new arrangement. Thos. II. Sutton has introduced in the House a memorial from the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad Company, asking the State to repeal all laws assigning con victs to work on the road, and to direct the State Treasurer to return all bonds held by him. to the comnanv. since the convict I were not furnished as per contract
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