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"Our Aim will be, the People's Right Maintain,
Unavced by Povcer. and Vnbribed by Gain."
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 28. 1889.
V0L VIII.
NO. 23
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ADAM'S ALE.
IJIF ;!-IIBE1VED BEVEBAOE FOB
rotation Brluffit a Blessing and
ot a tnrse, for Only Virtues Doth
K jfure. ,
We cannot improve upon the refreshing
and invigorating and thirst-allaying bever
age furnished by nature? Here it is
Adam's ale-about the only gift that has
decendeds undented from the Garden
c Eden! Nature's common carrier not
created in the rottenness of fermentation,
not distilled over guilty fires! Virtues and
.,.;ic mmmninns T)ois t muse
rc' vice aw .vrf -
drunkenness, disease, death, cruelty to wo
rr.en a-J children? Will it place rags on
the person, mortgages on the stock, farm
and furniture? Will it consume wages and
income in advance and ruin men in busi
ness? No! But it floats in white gossa
mer clouds far up in the quiet summer sky,
r.d hovers in dreamv mists over the merry
faces cf all our sparkling lakes. It .veils
the woods and hills of earth's landscapes
in a purple haze, where filmy lights and
shadows drift hour after hour. It piles it
self in tumbled masses of cloud domes and
thunder heads, draws the electric flash
from its mysterious hiding places, and
seems to i-hock the wide air with vivid lines
of fire. It is carried by the wind, and falls
in rustling curtains of liquid drapery over
all the thirsty woods and fields, and fixes
b God's mystic Eastern heavens his beau
tiful bow of promise, glorified with a radi
ance that seems reflected out of the heaven
itself. It gleams in the frost crystals of
the mountain tops and it dawns the val
leys. It silently creeps up to each leaf in
the myraid forests of the worlds and tints
each fruit and flower. It is here in the
grass blades of the meadows, and there
where the corn waves its tassels and the
wheat is billowing! It gems the deptsh of
the oceans round the whole earth, and
roars its hoarse, eternal anthems on a hun
dred thousand miles of coast! It claps its
hands in the flashing wave crests of the
sea, laughs in the little rapids of the brooks,
kisses the dripping, moss-covered, old
oaken well buckets in a countless host of
happy homes! See these' pieces of cracked
ice, full of prismatic colors, clear as dia
monds! Listen to their fairy tinkle
against the brimming glass, that sweetest
music in all the world to one half faint
with thirst! And so, in the language of
that strand old man, Gough, we ask you ,
brothers all, would you exchange the spark
ling glass of water for alcohol, and drink
of the very devil himself ?
HOME. SWEET HOME.
The Rlest Asylum From all Care.
Heme! It is a charmed word. Through
that one syllable thrill untold melodies, the
tighter of children, the sound of well
known footsteps, and the voice of undying
affection. Home! We h-ar in that word the
n?r''C of meadow brooks, in which knee
kep we w aded, the lowing cattle coming
u? fro:n the pasture, the sharp hiss of the
scythe amid thick grass, the crceking of
hav-rack where we trampled down
elcad. Home! Upcn that word there
Ps the sunshine of boyhood, and the
shadow-of tender sorrows and the reflec
tion of a thousand fond memories. Home!
when we see it in book or newspaper, that
wd seems to rise and sparkle, and leap,
aa- thrill, and whisper, and chant, and
rrar, and weep. It springs up like a foun
It thrills like a song. It twinkles
a star. It leaps like a name.
It
T
o'Ows like a sunset. It sings like an angel
'vnc. if some lexicographer, urged on by a
spirit from beneath, should seek to cast
foi that word from the language, the
children would come forth and hide it un
r garlands of wild flowers, and the
wealthy would come forth to hide it up
'-th diamonds and pearls; and the kings
ou!d hide it under their crowns; and after
"erod had hunted its life from Bethlehem
t0 Eg.vpt, and utterly given up the search,
a:e bright, warm day it would flash from
jnong the gems, and breathe from among
flowers, and toss from among the coro-re-
and the world v.ould read it bright,
fair, and beautiful, and resonant asbe-IOre-
Home! Home! Home!
WOMAN'S WORTH.
Ciod'S I'at Beat Girt to Han.
In the day dawn of youth, when the
kindling vision sweeps the plains of futu
rity and sees only the blazonry of hopeful
promises, the -oung man weds some dam
sel on whose tender cheeks the dews of
morn are still a-tremble. Then comes the
year's of toil and labor, the cares and the
worries, the joys and the disappointments.
Man is prone to selfishness and is too near
sighted to observe the hand that bears the
cooling chalice to the fevered lips. But to
woman he is all in all. She. has not a
thought higher that his dear head, for that
is, to her as high as heaven. And there is
more strength and support in a pair of those
soft white arms than there is in braces of
iron and girders of steel. There is some
thing in her very presence, something
soothing and refreshing. And her voice is
dearer to him than all the melodies of earth
and sea and sky combined. Anticipating
his smallest wishes she teaches him to ex
pect all that is best in life through her ten
der hands. The man who is incapable of
that pure and lofty appreciation of woman s
love, is incapable of feeling the thrill of
that noble intellectuality which is but a
foretast of joys that are to come in a world
where the souls c these pure and tender
wives and mothers shall shine with a lus
tre unequaled by the concentrated splen
dor of a hundred suns.
ABOUT 1,450,000,000
The human family to-day consists of
about 1450,000,000 individuals; not less,
probably more. These are distributed
over the earth's surface so that now there
is no considerable part where man is not
found. In Asia, where man was first planted,
there are now approximately about 800,
000,000, densely crowded; on an average
120 to the square mile not so crowded but
everywhere dense, and at all points over
populated. In Afrfca there are 2x0,000,000.
In America, North and South, there are
110,000,000, relatively thinly scattered and
recent. In the Islands, large and small
probably 10,000,000. The extremes of
the white and black are as five to three;
the remaining brown and tanny. Of the
race, 500,000,000 are well clothed that is
wear garments of some kind to cover their
nakedness; 700,000,000 are semi-clothed,
covering inferior parts of the body ; 250,000
000 are practically naked. Of the race, 500,
000,000 live in houses partly furnished with
the appointments of civilization; Sooo.ooo
oooinhutsor caves with no furnishing;
260,000,000 have nothing that can be called
a home, are barbarious and savage. The
range is from the topmost round the
Anglo-Saxon civilization, which is the
highest known down to the naked sava
gery. The portion of the race lying below
the line of human condition is at the very
least three-fifths of the whole 900,000,
000. t
SATISFIED.
As flowers lean outward to the light,
I' lean to thee;
The one who makes the darkness bright;
The North Star in the moonless night
Thou art to me,
As children trust and know no fear,
I trust in thee;
Heaven, in thy presence, seemeth here:
Where thou art, whether far or near,
Tis sweet to be.
As travelers long, when worn and tired,
Their home to see,
To my heart wandering far and wide,
Finding its goal, Is satisfied
To rest near thee.
a noi sER.
"My dear bretheren," said the minister,
leaning forward and speaking very earn
estly, "in the excessively warm and op
pressive weather I can excuse drowisness
during the sermon, but I do wish that you
would try to keep awake while the collec
tion is being taken up."
THE THREADS.
A little girl was eating green corn by
gnawing it from the cob, when her teeth
got entangled with the corn-silk.
VOh, . dear! she said, impatiently, "I
wish when thev get the corn made ther
would pull out the basting-threads."
A MIXTURE.
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS EUPHOICI
OI7SI.Y ELUCIDATED.
XYnmerons Newsy Note ana Mtnj
Merry Morsels Paragraphical!?
Packed and Pithily Pointed.
The Sulli-vanty of Bostdn has had a fall.
Kentucky has a mail carrier ninety years
old.
In Chile the street-car conductors are all
women.
The word "and" occurrs 46,227 times in
the Bible.
A man in a peck of trouble Is in a measure
to be pitied.
A man runs and gets warm. Butter gets
warm and runs.
Philadelphia is to have a new church for
colored Catholics.
Srange to say, the only way to kill a law
is not to execute it.
Can I help your heartache?" "Yes, if
you'll my heart take."
After all the milk of human kindness is
the best Elixir cf Life.
A mountain of pure manganese has just
been found in Colorado. '
No matter how industrious the baker may
be, he is at best a loafer.
Nations move by cycles, says Emerson,
Boys move bicycles, too.
Human sacrifices are still quite common
on the East African coast.
Prudence and religion are above accidents,
and draw good out of everything.
In Chicago 1,324,000 hogs were packd
this year against 1,557,000 in 18S6.
Mrs. May bricks death sentence has been
commuted to imprisonment for life.
We usually learn to wait only when we
have no longer.any thing, to wait for.
If some men died and others did not, death
indeed would be a most mortifying evil.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a bill
prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors
The soul without imagination is what an
observatory would be without a telescope.
Crop indications throughout the country
point to the largest yield of oats ever re
ported. If some men were half as big as they think
they are, the world would have to be en
larged. In Tennyson's "rosebud garden of girls,"
it is supposed there were no widow's
weeds."
We believe in supporting the dignity of
the bench. But liberty is worth more than
dignity.
A British Syndicate is said to have paid
$5,000,000 for an American patent medicine
buisness.
Morals must be vindicated. But the sanc
tion of crime defense of morals is a ridiculous
humbug.
Mr Parnell has a surplas of $100,000
after paying his legal expenses before the
Commisson.
The new French army law extends the
age of liability to service from forty five
years to fifty.
Despise not advice, though even the mean
est. Gabbling geese once preserved the
Roman State.
When a great man stoops and trips, the
small men around him appear larger than
they really are.
The three Presidents who died on July 4
are John Adams, Thomas .Jefferson and
James Monroe.
Nagle, the slayer of Terry has been re
leased by habeas corpus proceedings and is
Now at liberty.
The American mosquito has appeared in
England, and the people are vastly excited
by the discovery.
The Indian squaws of the past were; very
romantic. They always took their bows
about with them.
It was a barber who remarked that it took
everything he could 4rake and scrape" to
make him a living.
A pair of elephant's tusks of average
length weigh about 200 pounds, and are
worth about $500.
British people drink annually five pounds
of tea per head per annum. The French av-
; erage is only half an ounce.
It is against the city ordinance In Castile,
N. Y., for a donkey to appear on the streets
unless accompanied by a man.
The descendants of Rebecca Nourse, who
was hanged as a witch in 1622, had a reun
ion In Danvcrs, Mass., recently.
A mine of soap lias been discovered in
California. Now the question might be asked
what use has Calfornia for a soap mine?
A ton of rope made of the hair of devout
women in Japan has been used in building
a $3,000,000 temple to Buddha at Kioto.
An Indianapolis man muzzled his wife
with a base-ball mask. She couldn't bite, but
her tongue could, as he soon found out to
his sorrow. ,
With what an air of calm superiority a
hen will gobble a worm after the rooster
has scratched it up! There are lots of hens
in the world.
Mulhally, the artistic liar who used to
wire those Texas wonders some time ajjo
must have transferred his field of operations
to Alabama.
The American exhibit at the Paris Ex
position is all right now. Edison, the "King
of Light," is there. All Europe combined
can't match him.
A cloud-burst in Nevada the other day
dropped enough water on a region two miles
square to form a lake of ten acres in extent
and ten feet deep.
"I do think that thirteen is an unlucky
number," said a pert young miss who liad
just entered her teens. "It's too old for dolls
and too young for beaux!"
Ex-U. S. Treasurer Spinner is in Florida,
where he has been for a long time the vic
tim of cancer. It is not thought he can live
more than a few weeks longer.
Some fellow not long ago fished up some
pearls in a Wisconsin river and now the in
habitiants of the Badger State are out by
the thousand combing the bottoms of the
rivers.
An Iowa Justice fined a man 50 for
kissing a girl against her w ill not because
he had no right to do it but because he
showed such poor taste in kissing such an
ugly girl. ......
Senator Ingalls believes that "public offi
ce is a private snap." The Greensboro North
State has come to the conclusion that it is "a
family roost." Just now the p. s. and f. r.
are disturbing the peace of the g. o. p.
It is said the Republican party of Ala
bama Is going to gather up its fragments
and put a State ticket in the field next No
vember. Gen. Chalmers wants to run for
Governor, but some of the colored leaders
don't take any stock in Wm.
"Is there any opening here for an intellec-
tnal writer?" asked a seedv, red-nosed indi
vidual of an editor. "Yes, my friend," re
plied the man of quills, "a considerate car
penter, foreseeing your visit, left an open
ing for you. Turn the knob on the right."
Miss Buchanan once rallying her cousin,
an officer, on his courage, said: "Now, Mr.
Harry, do you really mean to tell me ou
can walk up to a cannon's mouth without
fear?" "Yes," was the prompt reply, "or
to a Buchanan's either." And he did it.
A Tuscaloosa (Ala.) man has invented a
machine which spins yarn direcly from seed
cotton, dispensing with the process of gin
ning. It is said that the yarn spun by this
machine is eqnal to the best qualities of
coarseryarn and would make the best grade
of coarser goods such as duck, sails and bag
ging. 1
A Tennessee editor .vants to know how
people can expect him to get out a real new
sy paper when he is twelve miles from a
railroad, five miles from a river, millions of
miles from heaven, two miles from the devil
and only two hundred yards from a gin mill
This is laboring under difficulties that might
disconrage even a Tennessee editor. "
Gov. Gray, of Indiana, has entered the
ring as a Democratic competitor of Dan
Voorhees for his seat in the U. S. Senate.
They are both popular men and -it is said
the tilt between them will be interesting.
Voorhees is a hard man to get aw,v with
in Indiana. He is a hard man to get away
with any where. Mr. Ingalls, the gentleman
from Kansas, could testify to this.
A writer in the St. Louis Republic tells
of two authors who published two novels
on which they worked about a year, one
of whom realized only $S.5o an J the other
$39.50. Why do they fool their time away
on novels when there is such a wide feld
for genius and opportnnities for the acquire
ment of wealth in the Journalistic profes
sion. We say this by way of encouragement
to poorly requited book makers.
STATE NEWS.
FROM THE DEEP ELITE SEA TO THE
GRAND OLD JIOrXTAIX.
An Hear Pleasantly Spent With Our
Dellffhtrnl Ex chances.
A roller process flour mill will be built
at Wavnesville.
A white woman eloped with a negro man
from Charlotte last week.
It is said that 15,000 negroes have left the
State since last November.
A new opera house to seat 750 people has
been contracted for at Hickory.
A Baltimore company will establish a
crockery factory at Wilmington.
Matthews Gibbs died at his home in Cen
tre recently of old age. He wasjoS years of
age-
A bar-keeper at Asheville advertises that
he will sell liquor to no one of intemperate
habits if he is informed of the fact.
The citizens of Windsor last week reques
ted A. J. Pritchard.mayor of the town, to re
sign because of prostituting his office to per
sonal ends.
A Raleigh negro who went to Mississippi
last spring has just walked back. He says
graveyards are as large out there as cotton
fields are here.
A movement is on foot among the dissat
isfied negroes of Mecklenburg county to or
ganize a Republican party independent of
President Harrison
Rev. Jarvis Buxton, a former resident of
Fayetteville, but for 40 j'ears rector of
Trinity Episcopal Church, Asheville, has
resigned his charge.
Col. W.J. Gieen left Saturday las for an
extended trip through the Southern States,
during which time he will spend several days
with'ex-President Davis at Beauvoir,Miss.
The Mount Olive Telegram has enlarged
from a six to a stfven column paper, and has
very much improved its typographical ap
pearance, all of which we are glad to note,
for we still have a tender feeling for the in
terest of Mount Olive.
The Board of Directors of .the newly
organized Board of Public Charities,
stands thus: Dr. E. Burke Haywood, of
Wake, Chairman ; J. B. Sawyer, of Burke.
W. A. Bobbitt, of Granville, Lawrence. J.
Haughton, of Chatam, Dr. Charles Duffy,
Jr., of Craven.
The North Carolina teachers were pre
sented to Queen Victoria and they presented
her with a hiddenite stone set in gold tobac
co leaves with "The Old North State" en
graved on it. Major Harrell got on his knees
to kiss the Queen's hand and the Princess
Beatrice laughed at him.
President Gray estimates the damage to
the Cape Fear& Yadkin Valley Railway by
the" recent washouts, between Greensboro
and Mt. Airy, at about $2o',coo in round
numbers. The trains are expected to be run
ning on schedule time from Bennetts ville to
Mt. Airy by the 26th inst.
North Carolina Insane Asylum: Capt.
Octavius Coke, Chairman; Dr. George A.
Foote, of Warren ; R. 1 1. Smith, of Halifax ;
Jas. S. Amis, of Granville; Dr. John Mc
Cormick, of Robeson; Broadfoot, of Cum
berland; Kirby, of Wayne; Womack, of
Chatham, Biggs, of Martn.
W. K. Perry, the aeronaut, who received
severe injuries by falling from a balloon
700 feet high at Mount Holly fair, near
Charlotte, ten day ago, died Sunday night
from internal injuries. Perry leaves a wife
and two children, who came to Charlotte
from Birmingham, Ala., a few days ago.
Opium & Liquor Habits
Cured Without Nerv
ous Shock or Distress.
Oar Double Chloride of Gold Remedies
for the Cure of the On cm and Liquor Habits.
have been on the market for 10 TEARs,durinp which
time they hare never failed to make a Core of either
Habit, where they hare been jriven even a meagre
chance. We will Care On I'M Patients at their own
horae in f ro.n 4 to 6 x reeks, painless! v, and without
loss of food, sleep or occupation. Ve easily Cure
Drunkenness inIde of Three Weeks. Fall proof
of the above furnished, and Literature for the Cure
cf either Habit sent free on application. Address,
THE LESLIE E. KEELEY CO.,
DwiGirr, Lxvrxcvrox co.,
ILLINOIS.
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