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I-' - RE REVIEW. TIE H Vol. XI.-No. 50. REIDSVILLE, N. C, DECEMBER 5, 1899. $1.00 per Year. Traylor, Peterson & Motlev, LEADING Hardware Dealers, MAIN STREET, DANVILLE, VA. 1 C::r7 ET::jt::: t: c: F:::: ii a M-lm Mm Send Us Your Orders. Satisfaction Guaranteed lie pay Teleplwne charges and will be glad to have our friends use the Tho:ie freely at our expense. T&l YLOR, PETERSON $ MOTLE Y. gents for Howe Scales. GREENSBORO NURSERIES, GREENSBORO, N. C. For All Hinds of Fruit, Trees, Vines and Plants. It is our aim to produce the best in variety and grade of stock regardless of cost, and wg sell as cheap as any first-class Nursery can do business. Your patronage solicited. Agents wanted. Greensboro Herd of Registered Poland China Hogs.1 This herd is composed of premium stock, and every pains taken to keep them up to their high standard, and I sell at about one half the price that such stock is usually sold for. Single pig $6, pair $10, f. o. b. cars here. JOHN A. YOUNG, Prop., - GREENSBOKO NURSERIES, Oroouaboro, 3X. O. ODELL HARDWARE CO., piliEqbiqg Department, GREENSBORO, N. C. Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting, Steam Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. The Most Approved Fixtures. All work done by competent men under the supervision of one of the most practical and experienced plumbers in the country, and at prices as low as good work and satisfactory service will admit. Estimates Furnished Promptly. tST WE PAY TELEPHONE CHARGES. R G GLADSTONE. 6 f vM' vsff'":;':' v ment and that our work will prbye entirely satisfactory. R. on EvQrv! Article We Sell. Shade, and Ornamental In buying stoves, as in all things else, there is one thing that should interest you alxve all others- to get the most for the amount of money expended. -In offering the "Southern Queen" to the stove-buying public we offer a standard ar ticle that we have no hesi tancy in recommending and guaranteeing. If your Stove has outlived its usefulness, or if for any reason you wish to replace it, let us show you a "Southern Queen." If you want a stove you will buy. ..PLUMBING.. in all its branches. We guar antee to meet all the require C.-CLADSTONE. liltO. AHl" LKTTKH. Left, left, left! That is aa ominous word I don't like it. Last Friday night I closed my mission down m Alabama a most delightful week witn balmy weather, moonlight nighta ana good people to cheer me. I retired hanov to dream of home and the little grandchildren and the light that would be shining m the window for me on Saturday night. The porter was to call me up in time to take the 2 o'clock train for Chatta nooga, but alas ! he did not do it, and I awoke to find that the train had passed and I was left, left, left Oh I the misery of it. bhakespeare says that there is no philospher can endure the toothache patiently, and I win add or being left by a train when far from home. There is a goneness about it, for the train has gone. The next train would not connect at Chattanooga and I would have to stay there till another 2 o'clock in ihe morn ing. But all's well that endH well, About daylight I reached my home. All was still and silent The good old dog was lying at the door and gently wagged his bushy tail. Ihe door was locked but the window sash was not, and I raised it slowly and softly and was soon in the sitting room, where there was a good comfortable sofa. I knew that the door to our family bed room was locked, and I heard some faint familiar nasal sounds that assured me all was well. The diagnose was right. In a few minutes I was asleep and playing on the harmonican my self. My heavy base echoed to the tenor in the other room and awakened one of the girls, who whispered: ''Mam ma, mamma, there is somebody in the front room." It's your papa," said she. "J know his trombone be still and let him sleep, fori expect he is almost worn out." It was 8 o'clock when somebody kissed me while I was dreaming of the soldier boys drilling and the officer said left, left, left at ev ery step. Rousing up I received the family embraces, and two little childrenj came running in and climbed all over me and made me bappy. Oh, it beats war, or politics, or a dog law, or any thing. I was escorted into the dining room to breakfast and saw at a glance that the room had been repapered with a tinted olive green paper and the bor dering matched it beautifully. The doors to the parlor were wide open.and that room had been repapered, too, and was lovely. Somehow I never could make as much ado over pleasant surprises as my female folks expect, but I did my best and have expressed my admira tion several times since. Before I left they talked about the old paper that had gotten dirty and was falling off and said that if I would get the paper they would put it on, ani I assented. I am glad that I did, for if I had been at home they would have put the harness on me and made me wait on them all day, for I am the loy. I met a man down in Alabama who said that my letters were demoralizing the women of this country and putting new burdens on the men. "Why," said he, "just look at. me I am fifty five years old and weigh nigh on to 200 pounds, and yet my wife wanted me to climb up a step ladder yesterday and fix the curtains back, and I told her I couldn't and wouldn't, for the ladder was old and rickety and I might fall and break my neck or some of my arms and legs. Well, sir, she laughed and said : 'Bill Arp climbs ladders for his wife and plants flowers and straw berries and nurses the grandchildren, too.' 'Yes,' said 1, 'that's what he writes, but I don't believe a word of it. He thinks that you women are going to be allowed to vote pretty soon, and he is just fixing to be elected.' Now, see here, Mr. Arp, I fought four years in that dogone old war and now I am gettin' old and fat and I'm not gwine to climb ladders and tend the flower garden just because you do; that is, if you really do it, which I don't believe." And the good, jolly old veteran laughed immensely. Next day I made acquaintance with a condutor on me Aiaoama ureal Southern, and he comforted me by say ing that my letters gave good example and good cneer and pictured what home ought to be. Said he, "We have nine children at our home, all under age, and my greatest pleasure is in meeting them when my run is off, and in help ing them and their mother to fight the battle of life and be contented and en joy what we have got and be thankful to God for his tender mercies. Run ning a train half night and half day is hard work, but I enjoy my home and family all the more when I get with them, and they are all the gladder to see me." I like that man and that kind of talk. When our people realize that home is the best place on earth, and the mother is its dearest inmate we will have an ideal commonwealth. Coleridge says : .' ' v "A mother Is a mother still The holiest thing alive." Lyttleton says: "The loyerln the husband mayjje lost ""Hut the wlfu Is dtaror thau the briilo." All the great poets have paid tribute to the home and the mother, for home is not home without a mother. Of course there are many married women who are not mothers and do not wish to, be.3Vith.theni . childrenare,in- truderu, and the pity is that their moth ers had not been of similar mind. In New England and fashionable northern circles the maternal instinct has . been smothered, and has gone into an "in nocuous desuetude," as Mr. Cleveland would say. A good gentle Tom How ard said that a Boston mother wouldn't have but one or two children, and she wouldn't have any if she didn't want an heir to inherit the estate. Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote a re markable letter two years ago on the decay of the maternal instinct in New England, and the great increase of di vorces and voluntary separations. Mary Brent Reed has recently published an article on the same subject as applica ble to France. She says that the fash ionable women of the period won't even dress like women. They despise hips and try to hide them. They pre fer to be as slim as race horses, and to conceal every sign of a maternal form. Children are intruders, they say, and if by chance they have any they are put out to nurse and to be reared by un niotherly hands. What an awful pic ture this is what a sad descent from the motherhood of our mothers what a counterpart to the Saviour's teaching when he said, "Suffer little children to come)unto me for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Nearly all the great men of the world have been nursed by noble mothers, and it reioices me to know that Mrs. Sarah Butts, of Brunswick, has a book now in press with Lippin- cott that will rescue from oblivion the mothers of many of Georgia's great and good men. V ith her it has been a labor of love. How our biographers from Moses down have lauded the great men but paid small tribute to their mothers. But the highest heaven is reserved for them, and an eternal fame that will not pass away hfce that the great men acquire in this changeable world. Alas, poor Dewey, how soon did his garlands wither. But we still have Schley and Brumby and Hobson left, aud a host of lesser lights that illuminate the the southern Bky. Bar, Arp. Seventh Fever Victim at Normal. Greensboro, Nov. 30. Mits Me Gougan, of Robeson county, a student at the Normal, died this morning of typhoid fever. She had been sick about ten days. During the last days of her illness she was nursed by her mother, who today carried the body of ber daughter to ber home at Lumber Bridge, The total numbur of deaths from the fever at the Normal is seven. There is an improvement in the condition of most of the patients, though several of the girls remain critically ill. The di rectors of the collfge are still in session, and nearly all the members of the board are present. They are still silent. Their conservatism and painstaking efforts to ascertain the cause of the sickness are to be commended. Raleigh, Nov. 30. Dr. Richard H. Lewis, secretary of the State board of health, received to-night a telegram from Dr. Anderson, one of the bacten oloeists of the board, stating that the water in the wells at the league house, a rented dormitory, and at that of the central well, which was used by all the Btudeuta of the SUte Normal and In dustrial College, recently afflicted with a serious outbreak of typhoid fever, is bad. This fully explains the epidemic and it! a cause that can be promptly and completely removed, so that this most useful and popular institution can be re-Opened with safety on the date to which it was suspended, January 2, 1900. Not Holding Back Cotton. Macon Telegraph. The claims of the bears that a great deal of the lOtton is being held back by the farmers of the South has not yet been substantiated. On the other hand, a careful investigation by reliable par ties has developed the fact that there is no disposition whatever on the part of the farmers in. any section of the South to hold back their cotton. The con trary seems to have been true; the price of cotton this fall was so much better than last year, and, in fact, bet than many farmers expected, that, with few exceptions, they took advantage of the good weather and hurried their cot ton to town as rapidly as possible, fear ing that the price might go off and not caring to risk the cha ices oi an ad vance. While the fact is well estab- tablisbed that there has been no general movement in the way of holding back cotton, the unsupported assertion of the bears that such a policy has been adopted continues to serve the purpose of the speculators, who are persistent. Mrs. Newly wed: "I was going to have dome sponge cake aa a surprise tor you, dear, but I must confess it was a failure." Mr. Newly wed: "What was the matter?" Mrs. Newly wed: "I don't know for shure, but I think the druggist sent mo the wrong kind of Bporges." The Postmaster General has ordered that all mail matter between the United States Porto Rico, Guam and the Phil ippines or between these islands and the United States shall be subject to United 8tate domeethyTlareiftcaliuu aud"Tatra of postage. . : "I uever thought the time would ever cv me when I should be delighted to hear that piano going," remarked Fogg, as the "instrument" in the next house was being carried down the stairs to the furniture wagon. "TIRED OF THE OA ME." Charlotte Obsorrer. A certain man died in North Caro lina the other day. It was asked of one of his friends of what he died, and the answer was, of whiskey and mor phine. He was a man of rifts and promise, and it was asked why he should thus dispose of himself, and the reply was, "O, well, he was tired of the game. The answer was full of meaning. The world is full of people who are tired of the game. They haye worried and struggled. Perhaps they have reared, or tried to rear, children who have been a disappointment to them. Perhaps to them "fortune had looked backward." They have worked hard and seen no result of their labor; the past has been unfruitful, the future is unpromising. They have thought upon the problems of life and they see nothing in it for them. They are tired of the game. Hon. Henry Watterson delivered in Charlotte a year or two ago his lecture on "Money and Morals." It was not worthy of him, and was a disappoint ment to his audience, but it contained toward its conclusion this striking in quiry, What is the use ? A man who had become President of the United States said to him that this was the goal of his ambition; that for years he had looked forward to the presidency; that when he finally reached it, he found that his former friends had be come his enemies and that his former enemies had become his friends, and so the chief value of the oflice had gone he was unable to reward his friends or punish his enemies. The question waj, wherefore had he expended his ener gies; why had he spent restless days and sleepless nights in seeking some thing that brought no pleasure in the attainment? The answer was, of course, Solomon's Vanity of Vanities, But we lose our course and yet not altogether. Is the game worth the can die? That is the question which bun dreds of thousands of buinxn beingB all over the earth are asking themselves, and the answer they get is in the nega tive. If they are in public life and try to follow the popular caprice they find themselves involved in all sorts of ab surdities: if they follow the dictates of conscience and of right, they lose caste, If, far from "the madding Btrife," pur suing the even tenor of their way, they often find toil unrequited and effort gone for naught, they get tired of the game. The world is full of these luckless ones. Is not the great majority to be so classified ? It is a world of toil and moil, with nothing to show for it when we have run our little race; when all life's duties have been done. It may be a cottage is leu; it may be some acres of farming land; it is tolerably certain to be a widow and several chil dren. It is not quite heroic to get out of it all through the medium of whiskey or morphine; it is not quite the thing to leave to others the care of children which we have brought into the world. but there is the ever-recurring ques tion, Is it worthwhile? and the ever present answer, I am tired of the game, Cotton Seized and Sold Durlug tba War. Columbia, S. C , Nov. 30. Governor Miles B. McSweeuey today addressed letter to the Governor of each Southern State, asking for united effort to get Southern Representatives in Congress to work for the passage of a bill refund ing eleven million dollars to Southern people from whom cotton was Boized by United States troops during the War between the States. The cotton was sold by the Collector of Customs of New York, and the funds placed in the United States Treasury Ihe United States supreme Uourt has decided that the Government has no right or title to these funds, which are held for the ultimate return to those entitled thereto. But these funds cannot be recovered except by Congressional action, as legis lation is necessary before action can be brought against the sovereign Govern ment. By special legislation some few claims have been granted, but it is de sired that Congress remoye all restraints so that lawful owners or heirs may be reimbursed. A Senate bill waa intro duced last year, and waa reported favor ably by the Senate Committee on Claims, but was lost sight of in some way. Emphatic Enough. The anerv Dii?ent strode into the narlor. "Girls," he said, "who are these . - young men? "Papa," replied one oi the daughters, "this is Mr. Young and this is Mr. Yates." Whereupon the old gentleman invi tingly opened tba door. "Git " he thundered. And they eot. A word to the Y'a waa Builicient. A horrible accident occurred on the railroad track at Twelfth street. Char- lntffl RfttnrHdv nirht. An unknown white man waa literally ground to pieces i i l nnrier thn mr wneeia. Just now ne cameTo Wlleanris noTTThcTnever wi he known, but investigation made by the railroad authorities discovered that the man was struck by a shifting engine at Twelfth "street, and waa dragged from ihere to the Gingham Mill. To nrevenl La Grippe take a dose or Two of Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine daily. 0 Out in Kansas lives a happy wife. She writes: " I have used Mother's Friend before two confinements. The last time I had twins, and was in labor only few min utes. Suffered very little." The reason why Mother's Friend does expectant mothers so much good is because it is an external liniment, to be applied upon tne outsiae, wnere much of the strain comes. It helps be cause the pores of the skin readily abaorb It, and it comes into direct contact witn and is absorbed by the parts involved. Morning sickness is quickly banished, and nervousness is kept completely away. The sense of dread and foreboding is not experienced, even during labor itself. Confinement is short and almost without pain. Recovery is quick and sure. Best of all, Mother's Friend benefits the unborn just ns much as the expectant mother, and when the little one comes it will be strong, lusty and healthy. DruuuUU tell Mother's Priead for $1 bottle. Send for our free hook on the subject, finely illnstrated. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA. QA. A GUARANTEED CORE ! GARDNER'S Almond Cream Lotion, Cures Chapped Face, Hands and Lips. SOLD AND GUARANTEED UT W. S. ALLEN, Druggist. T DILLARD PANNILL, ATTnRNKV-AT-T.AW. Office nt Wentworth, N. . Prompt and careful attention Klven to all business. Practice solicited In State and Federal courts. Will attend trials before Justices of the Peaee In any part of Uocklng- tiam county. in tteiusvuie every Saturday. Dr-E.H.Brooks, Offers his professionnl servues to the people of Keidsville and vicinity. Special attention given to SUEGEEY AND of .ren. Office Scales Street, opposite P. O. Tf-lephones- Residence 82 ; Office 46. 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