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The WM on Mmras. : "Our -dim tci'H te, ie People's Rigid Maintain, Unaiced b'j Poicer, and Unbribed by Gain." WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1889. NO. 38 Oh VIII. FANCY PICTURES. PIIEAKIXW IX Till- TUIMCillT. an OlI III"" . shadow. amid I he lit. The red Hashes thrown Ah . . v.inJow pane by the setting sun had faded out and given place to the lirst - of night, which bring the cricket , hiding place and sends the bee and 'x.:v to sleep. There was a feeling :i the room a feeling of quiet con n: and perfect satisfaction. The , cf voices from other rooms lulled in- cf annoved; the voices of children on ;ncd far away and had a ten- zo-. The old man layin perfect Hi, i. ves rested on the Avail at the of bed his thin, wrinkled- hands .,-ef,jtd oneover the other there was n to deepen the lines on his kindly it. l.n.l sr-en' the sun ?o down and 1 1 v. O had listened foi the voice of the cricket jt.-eca'l of the whip-poor-will. What n that? A shadow suddenly flitted across e wall in front of his eyes.. Now anoth- another. Now the first shadow flits :ck to head a procession. Passing horn to left the procession moves a pro per, of queer shadows. They take on hcv move alon, and ths old man rt ber.ts faster ' a each face comes be- hini. Here arp the friends of his :s f.ices which grew white in death . . t 1 f it 1 tiut-ne uau iorgouen mem. inis t Tjri when he stood bv and saw the 3 C - -h cover them. Thev smile at him and heart grows younger. One procession ;ar.d another begins. These are the :e cf ir.en and women stricken down in jnror.day of life. Some of them had red his hopes and sympathized with his -inv; n!l hrwl hren his friends. The sea ilike and the forest gave up their dead the procession of shadows, and each face s recognized and remembered. The pro i:: moves on and on. He is shocked reize that so many of his friends fell in e cattle of life while he was spared to jxcld and rest in peace. Now comes i third procession. There is a father, old nd feeble; a mother with wrinkled, .en: face; brothers in vouth and middle i: sisters who wept with him over some ::.c graves. Everv face looks as it did life, every eye meets his with glad : of recognition. The shadow s wave ::r hands and move on, and the old man's :.tgrev childish and big. There is an e: procession. The first shadow is cf a loved wife, who died while the w white locks had scarcely furned gray, en came the children sons and daugh-3-ve in til. One bv one thev had -vn weary and rested by the way side, 2 husband and father to pursue the -".c aione- fc.verv shadow holds out to the poor old man as if in sup- tion. His heart Su-p1!c.tpfiro fill k. and he cries out to them: "I see vou -I am coming." Back with you light? r- too late. The glare of the lamp :gs the twilight out of the room with a J hand, and the shadows which crept I the wall are gone forever. No one toembut the old man, and vet there is f their presence. His poor old are outstretched-on his white checks -ears-onhis wrinkled face a smile of J sr.J gladness. His spirit had joined the HIE SEVEN BIBLES. T - ir-e seven Bibles of the world are the of e Mahometans, the Tri Pitikcs ;Lk'e Buddhists, tho Five KinSs of the P5, the Three Vedasofthe Hindoos. L . v'sta and the Scriptures of the 'rt.1" Koran is the most recent 'J five, dating from about the seventh after Christs is a compound of t from both the Old and New .i P:.:. and from the Talmud. The "!kCS contain sublime morals and 7 rations. Their author lived and " ! liii .-lAiii teniurv before Christ ? Sacred writings of the Chinese are "rive Kino-c" Uc 4ii.:n web of cloth. From this it is : vT.'"e" li'at lne.v Avcre orignally written .: e roI!s ot cloth. They contain wise from the sages on the. duties of life, '7 cannot be traced furthe back than e.ever.-h century before our year. vua5 are ino mncf flnrvnt KftAi-t la: nS'"a5e of the Hindoo, but thev ; according to late commentators, twelth century before. the era- The Zendavesta .of the ian Persians, next to our Bible, is reckoned among scholars as being the greatest and most learned of the sacred writings. Zor oaster, whose sayings it contains, lived and worked in the twelfth century before Chisst; Moses lived and wrote the Penta teuch l .500 years before, the birth of Christ ; therefore, that portion of our Bible is at least 300 years older than the most ancient of other sacred writings. The Eddas, a semi sacred work of the Scandinavians, was first given to the world in the fourteenth cen tury. STORi: RUASIIIXE. Some writer ha given us this thought In the seasoned firewood put away for win ter use, is stored our sunshine for the dark days that are coming. "When sombre clonds hide the sunlight of heaven from ns, and the cold winds sweep a landscape that is drear and naked it is to our firesides we turn for warmth and light. During the glorious Summer time we shoutd not for- get the dark days that are coming, nor nc lect to provide for use, "stored sunshine, i in dry and seasoned firewood. "When our lives are bright and prosperous, let us sometimes think of the dark days that must come, and in the storehouse of memory treasure some of the sunshine that now surrounds, to cheer the days that are with out its varmth. Thoughts of the happy past with its love and pleasure, will drive the jrloom from honrs that otherwise will be dark, for, "The memory of things pre cious keepeth warm the heart that once did hold them." When "The melancholy days are come, The saddest of all the year." and all is gray and dismal out of doors, let the home sunshine be brightest, and the contrast between the inner anci the outer world as pleasing as possible. Let the "stored sunshine" of our firewood, that leaps cheerfully up the chimney, be aug mented by that which is stored in our hearts out of super, abundance that has been eiven us in the summer-time of life, Though the days may be dark, either from leaden clouds or the shadow of sorrow, wc may dispel the gloom by stored sunshine, if we are as wise as Nature. A ritlXTEK'S ESSAY. An S A now I mean 2 write, 2 U, sweet K T J, . The girl without a parallel, The belle of U T K. I ider if you got the 1 I wrote 2 U B4. I sailed in the R K D A, & sent by L N Moore. My M T head will scarce conceive 1 calm IDA bright. But ST miles from you U I must M.-this chance 2 write. & 1 st should N E N V U, B E Z, mind it net, If N E friendship, B sure They shall B forgot. But friends and foes alike D K, As U may plainly C, In every funeral R A Our uncles LEG. From virtue never D V S, Her influences B9 .Alike induces xoderness Or 40tude divine. if LT cannot cut a Or cause an !, I hope U'll put a . 2 1 ? R U for annexation 2, My cousin, heart and -ST"; He offers in a . A section broad of land. v He says he loves U 2 X L, O'er virtuous and Ys, InXLNCUXL Ali others in his I's. This S A until U I C, I pray U 2 X Q's, & not burn in F E G My quaint wayward muse. Now fare V well, dear K T J, I trust U R true: When this U C, then L" can say, An S A I O U. TO THE EAST FEY. 'Tis the last fly of summer, left crawling alone. All her pesky companions are dried up and gone. No bug of her kindred, ro insect is nih. To remind one of summer or console this poor fly. A' MIXTURE. EDITOHIAE ETCIIIXliS EUPIIOM Ol'SLY ELUCIDATED. NunieronN Xcuy Xote out! Maujr Merry Morsels Paraffrapblcally Iacktl and Pithily Pointed. A last resort The shoemaker's shop. The longest reign in history The deluge. A sailor generally feels tired after a day's port. Sticks at nothingThe theatrical swords man. The woman question: "What arc you going to trim it with?" A Monticello, Fla., pear tree is in bloom for the third time this season. It is a pity that neighbors do not know as well as we known for them. Rifled cannon are considered great bores by those who have to face them. The Chicago subscriptions for the world's fair now amounts to SS,ooo,ooo. Army statistics f.hov that the best shots are found among grey-eyed men. The Mint is turning out old office-holders as well as the new coins these days. The Methodist Protestants are thinking of founding a college at Kansas City. In Japan thcr are twelve distinct sects of Budhists, and in China hcre are thirteen. The St. Louis Silver Convention urge upon Congress the Free coinage of Silver. "Another Cuban outrage," said Col. Sozzlc, after vain efforts to make a 20 cent cigar di aw. Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well without a thought of fame. An apartment house which does not yield any profit must be classed amoung the "flat fail u res." Of the half dozen French ccoks imported by America millionaires two years ago nor one kept his place. Hope is like the sun, -which, as we jour ney towards it, casts the shadow of jour burden behind us. Dogs are excluded from good society in warm weather because they insist in wear ing such loud pants. He who does a base thing in zeal for his friends burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. You're a man after my own heart," as the blushing maiden confessed when her lover proposed marriage. Never ask a crust of a crusty man. Ask him for meat, for he'll give you a cold shoulder with pleasure. A lady advertiyes that she has "a fine airy, well-furnished bedroom for a gentle man twelve foot square." A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this that when the injury begins on his part the kindness should begin on ours. A lot of about 200 ponnds of puartz. car rying gold at the rate of $50,000 a ton, was taken from the main shaft of the Michigan gold mine Friday night. In a few weeks fifteen Southern Presby terian missionaries will leave this country for the foreign field. Ten of them are go ing out for the first time. An effort is being made in Richmond Va., to "induce the large shoe manufactur ers of Lynn, Mass, whose plants were burned," to locate in that city.- True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the body nourishment and refresh ment. It is a great virtue; it covers follies, keeps secrets, avoids disputes, and prevents sin. Wouldst though taste to the full the sweetness of life? Then keep thyself low at humility's feet. The sweetest of the caue is the part that grows nearest the earth. On the last day ot the Paris Exposition. Worth the famous dressmaker, gave each of his employes $10 to spend and close his store at noon. This act of generoity cost him S6,ooo. The brother of Ex-Judge Terry, of Cali fornia, who was recently shot Nagle, is on his way East to lay the facts of the homi cide before the Department of Justice at Washington. In 1S64 there were four men of National prominence upon the Presidential tickets Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, Andrew Johnson aod Greoge H. Pendleton. The last of the four has ju!t died. Senator Vest is having the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate sent out to Chicago after the dressed beef magnates who refused to appear before his committee. He don't propose to let them pull him down. Is it the purpose of Trinty to tackle Princeton in a foot ball tournament! The contest between the champions of the North and the champions of the South would elicit national interest. tL"p guards and at them!" Governor Foraker is out in a letter "de clining to sanction the use of his name as an aspirant for appointment of Justice of the Supreme Court." Under any other Administration such an appointment would not be thought cf. The queerest idea that ever took posses sion of a brain is that the highway to a people's prosperity lies through the rugged monntains of heavy taxation that the way to make yourself rich is to pay great taxes to the government. The Harrison family live economically', and the President w ill save a good bit of his four vear's salary. It will not trouble a man of his stamp to leave the White House w ith a record to be p-oud of, if he can go out with some thousands of cash. The recommendation to use $600,000 on the Hattaras light house, looks as though your uncle Matt Ransom had been pulling his cuffs on the settee in the office of the Light House Board. Your uncle Matt's method of cuffing is not so bad after all. Our Rcpublcan friends are horrified at the idea of the Democrats in Ohio electing millionairs to the Senate of the United States in the person of Mr. Brice but it seems that they consider it the proper things for them to do in the person of Mr. Sherman. Sauce for the goose is sance for the Grander. Governor elect Campcll, of Ohio4 was entirely confident of his alection over For aker in the last campaign. He took a large slice of the money offered against him at odds of 2 to 1 and just before the election wrotecout a check for $1,000 additional on his snccess. The result netted him a hand some sum. . The case of Mrs. Eva Hoffman, of N. Y., cm whose nose a very delicate operation was performed the other day, a new nose being built for her around the breast bone of a chicken, is attracting much attention. She expects to breathe through it as natural as through the original before it was eaten away by the catarrh. No party on earth has the immortality of the Democracy. Against the most fear ful odds and the most gigantic frauds, it still leads in the United States by more than one hundred thousand and of the white vote by one million or more. The brains of the party should be put to work to make these majorities effective. "There is a church in Nev York City Trinity Episcopalinn which is a regular diocese in itself. It has more clerg'ymen and parishes than many regular diocesas. It has innumerable chapels attached to it owns unlimited property, has great wealth, and whenever it attempts to do anything alwavs sees that it is done." The most remarkable feature in the elec- tions of the present year is the verdict they have rendered on the part of the people upon Republcau representative men. The Republican party receives a rebuke for its general policy, but it is in every case milder than the rebuke administered to its leaders. We doubt if the history of the country w ill furnish an instance of public disapproba tion so generally and so pointedly expressed for the men put in nomination by any party for th-; first positions in importantce -as is seen in the Republican candidates this year. Ex-President Cleveland receiyed an offer j of nearly $150,000 for Oak iew, his county seat near Washington. He made answer that Oak View is not for sale, as he j expects to occupy it himself some time in the future. Mr. Cleveland and his wife were always fond of Oak View; and the happiest days they spent during his Presi dential term were passed at the pleasant little cottage. It seems strange, however, that Mr. Cleveland should care to hold the property when he can sell it for five times what it cost him. The present tenants of Oak View are the family of the late Dr. Henry S. Lindsley, for many years one of the leading phvsicians cf Washington. STATE NEWS. I'ltOM THE DEEP UEVE SEA TO 1 HE CiOAXD OLD .MOIMAI.V. An Hour Pleatautly Spent With Our Dellclif fill Ex c Im need. The vote to tr.eve Trinity College wa 140 to 43. A shoe factory ha been established in Asheville. There are 22 peisons in the county, jail in Wilmington. R. C. Brown, of Tarboro, made an assign ment last Monday. Lenior, with a population af over a thous and, has not had a death in in a year. Another through freight train Mas put on the W. & W. railroad on the 30th. Jesse Brown was sentenced at New Berne to be hanged January 7th, 1SS9. , A Guilford county man has discovered a new potato, plant having fifty-nine on it. Bishop Lyman has purchased a property adjoining Hillsboro'as a summer residence. For the liirst time in twenty one vears the penitentitary receipts exceed the expenses- In Edenton they are about to establish .a ' bar and an undertaking establishment in the same building. Track-laying on the C. F. A: Y. V. R. R . has progressed to a point forty-five miles above Wilmington. Jacob House, of Cabarrus county, died oh the 10th inst at the age of 9O ycars 10 months and 13 days. Rev. James Needham, of Surry count y who is 95 years old, one day last week walked nine miles and preached. The party controlling the NagYHead property has decided to build a rew hotel, 156 feet long, 2S feet wide and three stories high. Application of Mr. J. T. Bagwell for readmission into the Conference was pre sented, and after a long and able discussion he vas admitted. . Col. W. J. Martin, of Davidson College, has been selected by the faculty of the university to deliver an address on the iatc Dr. Charles Phillips. The Scotland Neck Democrat reports that a Mr.. Moore of that town lias discov ered pure in an artesian well which is being bored in the center of one of the leading throughfares of the tow n. The Norfolk Ledger says: "Mr. li. L. Smith, of this city, who is largely interest ed in the granite quairies near Henderson, X. C, has gone to Louisville, Ky., to close a contract for 10,000 tons of Belgian block." A tremendous crowd of people of Hali fax county, we see from the Roanoke News, met in the town of Halifax and passed resolutions asking the Governor to call fhe Legislature together to enable the county to give needed relief by borrowing monev. On Wednesday the 27th ult. at Littleton, the Rev. J. M. Rhodes, was married to Miss Lula A. Hester, daughter of the Rev. W. S. Hester of Granville. Miss Hester w as a teacher of music at the cellege. The newly wedded pair attended the session of the conference. The Centennial number of the Fayette ville Observer is worth a year'b subscription to that most excellent paper. It is extensive ly and beautifully illustrated, having more than eighty likenesses of prominent Norh Carolinians, including Senator Ransom, Govenor Fowle Auditor Sanderlin, Chief Marshal Carr, and Evangelist Fife. Evangelist W. P. Fife closed his engage ment in New Berne last week and left the next dav for-Raleigh, where he will com mence his next meeting. Through his in- strumenta'.ty there has been about one hun dred and sixty professions a grand and noble worker but scarcely no greater than the revived ir.terest he has aroused in pro fessed Christians. Gen. Collett Lcventhrope died recently at his home at Lenior, Western Carolina. He served with gallantry in the Confeder ate war, first as Colonel and then as Briga dier General of North Carolina troops- He was a man of high character and much in telligence, and of English birth. His death was sudden. We do not know his age, but suppose he was more than 65. f S,' v.
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