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VOL. XIV.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
NO.
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tor an. 16th, 1898, giving the sue-
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BLOUNT FLEMING
C.
Practice in aM the Courts.
SKINNER H. W.
SH t
H Successors to Latham Skimmer.
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John E. T. Harding,
X. C. Greenville, N. .
Greenville, X.
Special attention to collections
an i of
J. E. Moore. L.
Greenville
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Opera House. Third S
P G.
B BE VI LL F. S
Practice-n th ct
on
F. TYSON.
Attorney at-Law
Greenville, County.
Practices in all the Courts.
Civil and Criminal Business
Makes a special of fraud
to recover land, and col-
Prompt and careful attention given
ail business.
Money to loan on approved security.
Terms easy.
r ii. WILCOX,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Grifton. N. O.
Practice in and Pitt counties
w.
II, LONG,
Greenville, N.
in all the
R. D. L. JAMES.
DENTIST,
GREENVILLE. N C.
DR. EL A. JOYNER
DENTIST.
XV. C
Office up stairs over S. E, Co. I
Homes be Heeded for a Number
of Them.
There a number of girls in the
Oxford Orphan Asylum whose time
will be out in a short while by reason
of reached their eighteenth
birthday, the limit for girls to remain
at the Asylum. Homes will be
ed for some of them, and perhaps
will return to their relations. They
are all in the highest studies and have
bright minds and willing hands for
study and work. It would an easy
matter for some friends of the or-
who would like for these young
girls to good and useful women,
to make such a tiling more possible by
giving them tree scholarships at some
our academies or colleges. The
Normal and Industrial School holds
out very favorable advantages to poor
not to mention other schools that do
the same. We are aware that a
people think the little
obtained at the Asylum is amply
sufficient both girls and boys, but
it is not. And leaving out the
part of the which is
first, the Asylum is not prepared to
give these girls the necessary training
for an independent livelihood. It is
true they arc taught how to cook,
wash, sew and do other important
things necessary in every household,
but beyond this there is very little
taught them.
A limited number arc taught
and that is the only
occupation. If there were other
lines of professional study in this in-
such as so many young girls
arc putting to use to earn their
living, all right. But because of this
lack the need for a coarse in some of
these branches at our colleges is
parent.
The market is already overrun with
cooks, washerwomen and housemaids.
These places arc filled by
Even if these girls arc poor, and or-
they should at least lie classed
in a higher grade than mere menials
drawers of water, etc, etc. Have
the orphan white girls a right to ex-
a little better this Not be-
cause they are not willing to wort.
Oh,
Now who will help girls by
paying their I n who de-
sire lo some where they
can be taught a good, practical method
of earning a living The cost need
not much, but the result will lie
satisfactory, we arc sure. If any one
desires to do such a good work for one
of these let the desire be made
known before they leave the asylum.
Give the orphan
Orphan's Friend.
HISTORY ITSELF.
The recent defeat of the Democratic
party has had a tendency to discourage
some Democrats and to utterly- dispirit
those who are not well ground ad in the
faith.
After the disaster that befell the par-
in the Greeley campaign the dis-
and disgust were such
that disruption seemed imminent. In
Ohio a movement to declare the Demo-
officially dead and to build
another party with a new name took
ART
I Everybody
THE REFLECTOR;
for
Brim full of fresh, crisp
news, foreign
and domestic
Only a year.
SAMUEL
If thou weft true as thou art fair.
Love should for thee thy hard- i bear;
No service would his heart disdain,
Or deem it or in
But fare thee well too fair a thou ;
So face well forever now.
If thou mine and mine alone,
Then thou reign no l love's
throne ;
shape. There was a meeting of But other hands may thine cares i.
PRESERVE THIS.
Bent Democrats who were ready to
launch the new party, hut before
the formal announcement it was
decided to send a committee to see
Judge and secure his co-
operation. He received the committee
in his little unpretentious office,
heard them patiently, and after they
had finished their long statements,
and predictions the Old
man sat for a while apparently lost in
deep he came to
make known his position he did not
reply to anything that had been urged,
but dismissed the subject and the com-
with this
this room is too small to break
up the Democratic party The
delegation was offended, withdrew,
launched their new party, and saw it
die like a flower wilts in the sun.
Four years later the Democratic
elected a President and carried
the House of Representatives by
majority, justifying the wisdom
of Mr. memorable reply.
And other lips those lips may
So fare thee well Unfair art thou
Go fare thee well forever no.-.
If thou a goddess divine.
Should all men worship at thy shrine
prithee think is there .; one
Who from thine alter would pass tin.
Crying. thee well Mere
thou
Nay. fare thee well forever no
Yet tell me, thou, my own, my queen,
An true at thou art ever been
And I thy servant still shall b ;
doubting, sing this song to
O Fair art
And me fare forever n
Fighting in a Church.
On last Saturday at the Cary
church, Mr. Thad manager of the
State Alliance business agency and
C. II. Clark got into a fight
a business session of the Ii.
THE DEAD BABE.
FIELD.
It seems that Clark ha ;
History itself. The boastful to come to the chin.
Republicans and Populists and the weak- lie
kneed Democrats that Dent- railed attention to some
party cannot die so long -as between Maj. Clark, the
Keen
h on
some
people believe in a government of the
people by the people for the people.
Raleigh News and Observer.
South Ignored
con of the church, and Mr. Thad
superintendent of the Sunday school.
During an explanation being by
Maj. Clark. Mr. Ivey advance. across
Last night, as my dear babe lay dead,
In agony I knelt and said
God what have I done,
Or in what wise offended Thee,
That Thou take away from
me
My little son
the thousand useless lives.
Upon the guilt that vaunting thrives.
Thy wrath were better spent
Why Thou take thy little son
Why Thou vent Thy wrath
upon
This innocent
Last night, as my dear babe lay dead ,
Before mine eyes the vision spread
Of things that might have been
Licentious riot, cruel strife,
Forgotten prayers, a wasted life
Dark red with sin
Then, with soft music in the air,
I saw- another vision there
A Shepherd, in whose keep
A little lamb, my little child,
Of wisdom
Lay fast asleep
Last night, as my dear babe lay dead,
In those two messages read
A wisdom manifest ;
And. though my arms be childless now,
I am content, to Him I bow,
Who best.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Matters of Interest Over the State.
Convict Labor m a Cotton Mill.
Alabama has undertaken a novel ex-
in cotton manufacturing, the
outcome of which will lie watched with
s. interest. The penitentiary board
has decided to establish a
cotton mill to be operated by
seven-eights of whom will, according to
the church, and standing with lied I a dispatch received by the
Record, be The building
will he two stories high,
fist over Maj. Clark, demanded
. the name of his informant,
A careful of the u . .,. . . . ,
p tI statements. Maj. Clark declined to.
forced by threats to give Mr. the
information, Then flak
decline to give your informant, y
sit ion of the committees of the House
by Speaker Reed shows that not a sin-
first or second or third chair-
is given to the South, and that
in all the Slates that seceded in
only one little tenth-rate chairman-
ship is bestowed. New England got
clever, including such important
struck Mat. Clark, who is a man u
as the Ways and Means, Naval , . . . ,,, , , .
about Maj. t lark returned
Affairs, Banking and Currency, Pat- ,. ,. , , . ,
lick. and. despite his age,
cuts.
and will be constructed by convict la-
borers out of brick made by them from
clay on the convict farm, and the
used will be sawed from trees now
the author of the statement yourself. tiding on the farm and dressed by j
whereupon Maj. Clark, in ;, . convicts. The cotton will be
told him he was a liar, raised by convicts on the penitentiary
Then who is about years old,, r. m. and manufactured in die mill lo-i
immediately on the ground.
The South gets one little
cant commutes, that of Expenditures
Public Buildings, it going to Mr.
Settle, of North Carolina. This is not
the committee on Public Buildings, as
been proposed. important
committee goes, of course, to a New
Mr. of Maine.
The committee, of which a North Car-
is chairman, merely examines and I i i i -v
News and Observer.
looks after the expenditures on public .
to follow it up when the
interfered.
It is understood that the difficulty
grew out of false and reports
made by during the last campaign,
Maj. dark being a leading and high-
will be an unusual experiment in
the employment of convict labor, a
well as in the manufacture of cotton
pi Though the operatives will be
mostly its or value
will hardly be a fair criterion by which
In judge the possibilities of utilizing col-
or labor in cotton mills. What can
toned Democrat, who served his Stale I lie done with labor in
with gallantry in the war, was of this kind is hardly the
a long time cotton weigher in m -are of what can or ram be done
and was a member of the Legislature in wit Ii Free labor. Still the progress of
had a fire Mon-
day.
C. C. Taylor, while leaning from the
platform of a moving train, near
son, came in contact with a bridge and
was killed.
The fund raised by the
Leader to purchase a memorial for the
United States cruiser Raleigh, now
amounts to
, Jas. Ellington, a farmer, was found
dead in a well in a vacant lot in Hen-
It is supposed he
dentally fell in and was killed by the
fall.
Emma Anthony a colored woman
living a miles in the country, died
a few nights ago at the advanced age
of 10-2 Neck Demo-
A deposit of anthracite coal has
found in near Hot
Springs, on the line of the Southern
railway. Experts pronounce the coal
of good quality.
Yesterday the Treasurer, on
Solicitor K. W. Pen's motion, took
judgment before the Clerk of die
Court against the sheriff of Jackson
county for four thousand dollars
Raleigh News and Observer.
Samuel A. Ashe, has been
pointed Cashier by Collector Simmons
to sliced Mr. F. ;. Simmons, resigned.
Ashe will assume charge
1st. This one of the three places
in the Collector's office not under civil
service. The salary is per
News and Observer.
Last a tree on
near the city was struck
by lightning. A cow Standing under
the tree was killed instantly. Several
days ago. another of Maj. fine
cows was standing under the WOO, when
a limb fell, striking the cow and killing
it. Maj. Harris like
spare that
Observer.
The Herald is told by a gentleman
who saw a party from Montgomery
county this morning at the depot that a
nugget of gold, weighing pound-and
ounces, was last week found near
Kid in the Uwharrie river dis-
If this report is true the nugget
is the largest ever found in North Car-
or in any other State east of the
Rocky Herald.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Report
ABSOLUTELY PURE
GUNS LOADED WITH FOOD.
buildings, and is about the most They All Help.
committee in Congress. Mr.
deserved better than this. The Have you ever seen a little boy sailing
people of the Soul h deserved I boats on a small pond There is no
better representation, if they were to wind, the boats an- half way over, and
Eclipse for the Tear 1896.
In the year 1696 there Will be four
of the Sun and two of
the Moon
IAn annual Eclipse of the Sun.
February Invisible to North
America. Visible generally as a par.
eclipse, to the Southeastern Coast
of South America. Southern Africa, and
the South Atlantic and Antarctic
The line of annulus passing
through the Antarctic Ocean.
Partial Eclipse of the Moon,
February Invisible to North
America. Visible entire to
Asia and Africa ; and in part to
the extremity of South
America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
IllA total eclipse of the Sun,
August Invisible to all of North
America except Alaska. Visible to the
Arctic Regions, eastern Europe, the
northern half of Asia, and the West-
portion of the North Pacific Ocean.
The line of totality running through
Nova and Japan.
IVA Partial Eclipse of the Moon.
August 22-23. Visible entire to North
and South America; and in part to the
western extremities of Europe and
Africa, to eastern Australia, and the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
AND
Mercury will be Evening St about
January May and September
; and Morning Star about March
July and
Venus will be Morning Star till July
then Evening Star the rest of the
year.
Jupiter will be morning Star till Jan-
then Evening Star till Au-
gust ; and then Morning Star again
the rest of the year.
be given anything at all
If Speaker Reed had studied to
and insult the South, he could not
have succeeded better.
And yet the Southern men are ad-
vised that if they want the recognition
they merit, they ought to go into the
Republican party. That advice was
taken in home Southern States
last year, with the recognition above
stated.
Mr. pride and his public ex-
of toadyism to Reed will shut
his mouth, but the people of all parties
in the South will be indignant th
Speaker's studied policy to
Southern men, and to make it
tor Southern Republicans to ex-
the least influence in shaping
News
lie there idly. There seems bin
A to the Star says that the
alleged of the Southern Express
agent at N. C a station on
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley rail-
road of by masked men a
undertaking will command general days ago has turned out to be no robbery
at all. According to the confession of
Agent Grier it was a planned
and executed conspiracy, participated
in by himself. Dr. Flee Cooper.
Coroner of Sampson county, and Red-
den Butler, Mayor of
Record.
Please Explain.
. New York Advertiser, having
in praises of the old soldiers
chance that the voyage will be because say they will fight if
Here is where the ingenuity of their are needed to defend the
he mind comes in. He throws a the Charleston News and
stone into wafer near the little sail- fa moved lo that its -war-like
or. The stone makes a little wave, the
bark rises on the wave and floats near-
to the shore. Another and another
stone is thrown. Gradually the distance
between the boat and the bank lessens-
and finally the boat is ashore. The
boy did not ask which stones he
threw influenced most the progress of
his boat. He knows that all of them
together accomplished the desired re-
Good ads are the effective missiles
that the bark of business to
praise is well
would like to know can old
Soldiers who are drawing a hundred
and million dollars in pensions on
of wounds and dis-.
eases incurred in one war possibly fight
in another one We should think, it
remarks, that they could only ride in
the ambulances or Be up in the hos-
How could they possibly march
and carry heavy muskets and
sacks and things, and keep out
of in all kinds of weather in their
shore. Each ad makes a little wave,
each wave helps to effect the condition mid health
and Leather Journal.
What Means.
To Put a Stop to Lynching.
Hon. Frank Johnston, Attorney-
General of the State of will
Says do you think recommended in his
the beautiful word comes from
It is the great word in which the Eng-
and Latin languages conquered the
French and Greek. I hope the French
And so Mr. a. Republican Sen
a tor who hails from the land of wooden
nutmegs, was full of forgiveness on
this before Christmas that I am
will some day get a word instead of
that femme. But what do you think it
comes from The great value
Saxon words is that they mean some-
thing. Wife means You
must either be house-wives or house-
moths, remember that. In the deep
sense, you must either weave men's for.
tunes and embroider them, or feed
and bring them to decay. Wherever a
true wife cones, home is always around
her. The stars may be over her head,
the glow worm in night's cold grass
may be the tire her feet, but home is
where she is, and for a noble woman it
stretches around her, better than houses
with cedar or painted with
million shedding its quiet light for those
who else are homeless. This I believe,
is the woman's true place and
. s i ready to forgive the
official report to the special j r . ,
r c Maybe he was full of something else
legislation ., , . . , ,
D . . ; the day before Christmas, and hence
Among other suggestions will be pro-1 . o , . .
these tears. Somehow, we ought to
visions as follows
I, That the county where lynching
occurs shall be held in damages in an
action by the children or heirs of the
victim of the. mob, to be brought in
any adjoining in a sum to be
feel happy and thankful and in good
condition, but we don't. Not having
asked Mr. for his forgiveness the
soldiers can hardly be
supposed to care much for it. His for-
and for what We have done
fixed by law, not less than 110,000.1 .
i nothing wrong, nothing that we are
That the officers of the
charged with the custody prison-
shall, with the sureties on their
bonds, be held liable in for
neglect of duty in protecting their
wards against lynchers.
That a constitutional amendment
shall lie adopted making it a
for voters in all public elections
that, before being allowed to register,
each elector shall be required to make
affidavit that he has not since the
amendment been engaged,
either directly, or indirectly, in any
such violence.
j sorry for, nothing for which we are dis-
posed to ask forgiveness of Mr.
or anyone Review.
An exchange gets this A man
named Moon was presented with a
daughter by his wife. This wan a new-
moon. The old man was so overcome
that he got drunk. This was a full
moon. When he got sober he had only
twenty-five cents. This was the last
quarter.
They Buy Shoes Together.
Rather a novel incident here
yesterday. Mr. Frank Morgan, of the
New York Racket, was called upon to
wait upon two men who wanted to buy
one of shoes. only two feet
between them. The deficiency was
made up by what are known as
The two men had lived neigh-
when boys and volunteered to-
in They pledged mutual
slept under the same blanket, ate
at the same mess, and fought side by
side. Thus they went through the
war and had nearly ranched the end
before any harm to
Hut on July 18th, 1664, one them
lost his right leg in battle. Three
months later, October the other
lost his left leg. Since they came out
hospital each has been using a
wooden leg, the one right, the other
left. One of them now lives in Mon-
roe township, the other in Jackson.
Yesterday they met on the street, and
as they had done several times before,
decided to buy a pair of shoes between
them, one taking the right and one the
left. They wore the same number
Monroe Journal.
Things You Did Not Knew.
One thousand, seven hundred and
eighty-three miles of railroad were
built in the United States last year.
The South Atlantic States built
miles, of which number North Carolina
built miles.
There were business failures
in the United States the past year, an
increase of more than per cent, in
number and of per cent in liabilities
There were less failures at the south,
in New England and on the Pacific
cost, and more at the west northwest
and in the middle state.
A in, i. That ii laM to
Major Thomas Q. of
Ala., on a visit to Buffalo
recently, told an Express reporter n
humorous story of war. Dur-
the siege of be was in
command of n Confederate regiment
of General Grant's
bad plenty of he said.
WM a fertile territory that
had to draw from, and was no
difficulty in getting enough to oat.
We Intercepted a poorly guarded sup-
ply train of tho Yanks had
enough to lead n regiment for a
month stored right in our
camp. In of vigilance,
spies would now then steal out
of tho city, saw and talked
with several of them. Each had a
pitiful story to tell of how tho in-
habitants of suffered for
food, and racked brains to
devise some means of sending thorn
a portion of our plenty.
old who was acting as
ft gunner under me was tho to
suggest what looked at first like ft
feasible plan. His idea was to load
i supplies into tho four cannon which
had and fire them bodily over
tho heads of tho Yankees into the
I city itself. It was n grant idea, and
after some study decided that it
was worth while making the
The supplies which bad
captured consisted of hard tack in
tins, that would go into tho guns
grape shot, and calculated
that by giving them plenty of
con hi send the food direct-
into tho city, where even such
morsels would ho welcome. I was in
command of tho detachment and
gave my consent to what an older
and more experienced officer would
probably have frowned upon as be-
contrary to all the rules of war.
morning at sunrise we load-
ed tho puns. put a plentiful
charge of powder in each and then
rammed many cans of hard
tack as would equal in weight an
ordinary hall, and that was
not a groat many, I assure yon. In
of tho guns put four cans of
tomatoes. This considered an ex-
We had that
fluid stuff would survive tho
impact of falling in tho city, but it
was worth trying. pointed the
guns, and just before the lanyard of
tho first one was pulled our old
gunner ran a few-rods down tho
hill, where would ho the
lino of smoke and able to
our novel shot
first nun to fired
e-l to be tho we bad loaded with
tomatoes. Tho gunner pulled the
lanyard, wan a roar and a puff
of smoke that our sight for
an instant, then it blew away and
saw, running up toward us,
old covered from head to foot
with what looked blood,
waved bis wildly and shriek-
killed I'm killed I O Lord,
have on my
alarmed and ran down toward him.
Ho still and shrieked, and
fell down In a faint ho saw us. j
I rushed to him, and then
sty man of us burst into n laugh
that would have waked the dead. It
old Tom, who opened his
and shrieked the louder when
saw our apparently inhuman ;
As soon able to speak or
move picked tho old up,
stood him on his foot, to assure him i
i that was still and then or-
him scrape tho tomatoes off
; himself. Be was tho most thorough- j
bedaubed specimen I over saw. I
i Yon the heat of tho of
the cannon had melted tho solder in
the tomato cans, and they had
dropped to pieces on leaving the
gun, contents had boon j
propelled just far enough down
I bill to spatter all over tho old no-
Tho major paused and
chuckled again.
did tho hard tack
asked the reporter.
didn't get a chance to try
was tho reply. Yanks, think-
that about to bombard
thorn from tho rear, started up
bill after us, and as would
been no in making any re-
against so superior a force,
we spiked the guns and retreated.
What they thought when they found
the bard tuck in them I never learn-
ed, but I suppose it only confirmed
their idea that going to at-
tack
The
A drive that wont a rocket
high in tho air and far, a
approach and two easy puts gave
the hole in four. He
tapped his ball in the drive for the
second hole, but it luckily hounded
the bunker. His shot
lacked good direction, but an
iron approach shot landed tho ball
dead on tho and he out
In four. Sands also topped bis drive,
but bad tho poor luck to go
straight into tho bunker. was
in two, tho first attempt being; a
failure. An approach shot that
brought him over and into the
followed, and it took eight to make
ii of n Game.
THE FLAG OF MICKEY FREE.
He t red Has, Free,
With wall
doll, unpatriotic heart,
Ali-l c v.-r it with Mimic.
Old Ireland was his native
V. I, Hi I ii in be,
railed the stun and
was n i
He mi t the tolls of life.
And honestly he for
His children and his wife.
Four year-, throughout ho
So that the slat, s intent
And lived to ho it in
Tho Dag of Mickey Free.
Ho often the flag
It floats above a laud
Where everything the heart can wish
Man's
O'er Christian, Jew and infidel
It Impartially;
And sinners well may
The Bag of Mickey
Poor Mickey I When the time drew nigh
That he must earth,
He lay within hi- walls
as at his birth.
Uneasy moved his eyes about,
he fain would
He looked ill failed to find
The Bag of Mickey
His wife, the flag,
it before his eyes;
Ami, in joy, a hundred smites
Seemed o'er his face to
His manly heart was
content was ho,
His vi-ion mating on
The Hag of Free.
Edward b. Creamer in New York Sun.
c o on a Runaway Car.
years ago I had an ox-
will never said
of Syracuse, a travel-
man, to a fairly
my blood run cold at the time.
I was riding on the Lansing
and Northern railroad in Michigan
on my way from Lansing to Grand
Rapids. had been out from
Lansing about an hour be-
to go down a stoop grade. The
present patent couplings wore not
in on that road then, and there
was always danger that tho oars
would become separated. was sit-
ting in tho rear end of tho train and
was tho only passenger in the oar.
Suddenly I began to realize that we
going at a great rate of speed.
I looked out tho window and I saw
that shooting down the
the train had gone
before I ran to door at the
front of tho ear. I saw that
tho engine and two cars had broken
loose from us and shooting on
ahead. gaining on
rapidly. The was slowing
I saw that we would crash into
in two or three moments. I
took hold of tho brake, and I
away at it with nil my strength.
Tho sweat came out on my forehead
I saw how fast we were gain-
on tho ears ahead. Then we be-
to slow down. Tho engine and
oars not BO yards ahead of us
when came to a stop. If I
reached the brake as soon as I did, I
wouldn't ho alive to toll you about
it today. Express.
Theory In Majolica.
Mrs. Bright won. In of
My and a
very interesting and tastefully illus-
little book in which the de-
scribes her experiences in taming
and keeping birds and animals of
different kinds, tolls a good story of
unlocked for intelligence. One day
in the dining room was talking
to her cook on culinary matters
tho latter suddenly looked
at a majolica plate over the doorway
and a mythological
subject, Isn't it,
Mrs. replied that it
was. Tho cook then
that in tho
Mrs. said, but it
is a
replied cookie, was
saying tho other day to tho butler if
there of that sort to
be seen nowadays it would go far
to prove tho Darwinian theory.
Wouldn't it,
adds Mrs.
not record my
minster to.
Two girl friends mot on the street
and stopped to hands.
glad to see you, said
tho tailor Alice. Just on
my way to ask you, as my oldest
friend, to be one of my brides-
I How lovely I I did
not know were re-
plied tho fin de Grace.
sudden, very but
he's awfully in and is lust too
lovely to Will you
Of course. I'll charmed.
moving forward and speaking
in an undertone, round
the corner and tell mo all about it
There that idiotic,
Jim Berton. He's grin-
as though be meant to stop
and I don't care to be seen talking
to
Berton He's the man I'm
going to marry London Tit-Bits.
Slander.
Close thine car against him that
shall open his mouth secretly against
another. II thou not bis
words, fly back and wound the
reporter. If thou dost receive thorn,
fly forward and wound the

THE REFLECTOR
Greenville, N. C.
B. J.
Entered at the at Me
X. C as mil matter.
8th,
John W. son of Rev. Dr.
W. S. of Charlotte, loved Miss
Clara Gaston of the same city. The
parents thinking they wen-too young to
wed, there was from that
source. In June last, the young couple
managed to get over into South Caro-
together and were quietly married,
and this little romance was never dis-
covered until within the last few days.
They kept their secret well.
President Cleveland has announced
the names of commissioners who are to
go to Venezuela and locate the boundary
line now in dispute with Great Britain.
They arc David J. Brewer, of Kansas,
Associate Justice of the S. Supreme
Court ; Richard II. Maryland,
Chief of the Court of of
the District of Columbia; Andrew D.
of Mew York; Frederick It.
of New York ; and Daniel C
of Maryland, President of John
Hopkins University. They are all able
men.
The year 1893 will go down in ship-
ping history as the blackest and most
disastrous of the century. The most
serious disasters of the year were the
loss of the North German Lloyd steam-
the Spanish warship
the Pacific mail steamer
the China steamer
French steamer Dom Pedro, the Span-
steamer the Italian steam-
Maria P., the Chinese transport
and the Brazilian steamer
Hi these nine wrecks alone
souls perished. Other big wrecks
during the year, which, however, did
not involve loss of life, were the French
Liner Ward Liner
Liner and
the Liner By the
loss of other vessels fishing
not here enumerated, the
New York Mail and Express
that other lives were lost.
England, it seems, has her hands full.
Germany is after her with a sharp stick.
The populace is greatly
over the attitude of Germany in the
Trans matter and arc ready to
tackle that nation as a The Lon-
don Globe says the entire nation will
become a war party it the congratulatory I
words of the Emperor are followed by
deeds. All the English papers teem
with abuse of German insolence.
Some of the papers advocate, in view
of this grave situation, that England
make concessions to the Tinted States
in the Venezuelan matter, as the
day Renew says, is better to eat
home crow than foreign and Sal-
must yield. Lord Salisbury is
chagrined by the London
Chronicle's publication of the Lord
correspondence on the
dispute. It is almost assured
that he will this as a loop-hole to
crawl through. On last Wednesday
diplomatic relations between England
and Germany came near bang broken
off but a surrender by Lord Salisbury
alone averted a crisis. A number o
American students in Germany have
volunteered to go to the Trans and
fight against England if it to war
with Germany. The British are
strict censorship over all
graphic news from the Trans
England needs checking, she is too
grasping, too over-bearing ready to
take advantage of a small country at the
least provocation. She must be stop-
and now is as good a time as any.
England has crowded on Venezuela to
Oh an extent until Uncle Sam told
her to stop or he would shoot.
land will stop, for she well knows that
we could easily capture Canada and
England would come over this side to
protect Canada and it would be a land
fight and then the United States would
whip her before she could fix. Then
little Ireland would take a hand and
perhaps be liberated. W do not want
any war, but war is preferable to being
run over foreign power.
Superior Court.
The January term of Pitt Superior
Court commenced Monday morning, his
Honor Judge E. T. Boykin, presiding.
There are no capital cases to be heard.
The docket contained cases when
court opened, and the work the grand
jury will do gives the outlook for a busy
term. Judge charge to the
grand jury was an excellent one.
The following compose the grand
jury and the jury for this week
EXPECTANT
MOTHERS,
W. Offer Yon ,
REMEDY Which
INSURES Safety
of Lit. to Mother
Child.
Rota Confinement of Its Pain, Horror and
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Greenback for
England and the
Battle York after the
Convention.
J. J. May, Foreman, J. L. G. Man-
J. B. Gardner, James Evans, Joel
A. Ward, W. II. Harper, Jas. T.
B. T. Smith, B. F, Ward,
Teel, John A. Bullock, Richard Man.
ford, G. B. Kilpatrick, W. J. Kittrell,
Wm. C. Dixon, J. J. Ford,
Ford, Jas II. Mills.
JURY.
Alonzo Mooring. Jefferson,
John L. Warren, T. B. Manning, Jas.
A. Smith, W. S. Brooks, Win-
gate, Edward Stokes, M. B. Lang, N.
II. Hathaway, Charles Manning, W.
A. Hymen, Joseph Griffin, Move,
J. S. Powell.
The following cases were disposed of
up to Tuesday noon.
Walter Harris, failure to list poll tax,
submits, judgment suspended upon pay-
of
W. D. failure to list poll tax,
submits, judgment suspended upon pay-
of costs.
Adam Moore, failure to list poll tax.
submits, judgment suspended upon
payment of costs.
R. R. Cotton, Bruce Ike
forcible trespass, submit,
suspended upon payment of costs.
Young Savage, assault with deadly
weapon, submits, judgment suspended
upon payment of costs.
Leone Patrick, violating town
submits, judgment suspended
upon payment of costs.
Hardy Harrington and John Turner,
affray, judgment suspended
upon of costs.
assault with deadly
weapon, guilty.
Isaac and Mary Givens, for-
and not
F. J. H. P. Bryan, M. C. Man-
James Mailman and Henry Ed-
wards, forcible trespass, not guilty.
W. A. Murphy and Exum,
affray, submit. Murphy judgment
pended. Exum fine and costs.-
My wife used be-
lore birth of bar first child, she did not
suffer from or quickly
relieved at the critical hour suffering but
, hart no and her
recovery was rapid.
E. E. Ala.
Sent by Mall or Express, on receipt of J
price, per bottle. Book Moth-
i era mailed Free.
CO., Allan.,
BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
TELEGRAPHIC
George W. opened his
great mansion. near Ashe-
ville. Christmas day by entertaining a
large number of members of his family
and by giving the of the estate,
numbering over two hundred, a Christ-
mas tree and collation. Mr.
made an address of welcome and
presents were distributed to all. Ten
private cars, forming two special trains,
were required to transport the
for this christening of
was made the occasion of a family re-
union. All the save Mrs.
Willie K. the Duchess of
rough. were there. George
is a and modest young man.
Here is a little story about him Not
long ago his farm manager went to him
and said lie was about to build a
much is it to cost
queried George. thousand
was the reply. Conn; talk
to me this said the young
millionaire. When the man went
George handed him a check for
saying, you can build a nice
Now that the railroad authorities
have Stopped allowing the freight trains
between Weldon and Kinston to carry
they would confer a favor on
the traveling public by shortening the
schedule of the passenger trains. The
schedule consumes four hours
each way between Weldon and Kinston,
a distance of miles, which is very-
slow running, and even then the trains
arc frequently behind time. The train
leaves Kinston so early in the morning
and returns so kite in the evening as to
be very inconvenient, especially at points
on the Southern section of the run.
Because of this inconvenience much of
the local travel has heretofore been on
the freight trains. Since the advantage
of going on the freight trains is now
denied the public, the inconvenience
in a large measure be overcome
with a better and quicker schedule for
the trains. There is no good
reason why so much time should be
consumed on a run of miles. The
believes that with proper
equipment a larger and faster engine
for run each way could
be made in three hours or less as easily
. as it is now made in four.
Besides the convenient-J to travelers,
a schedule that would bring the evening
train in night, would of mate-
rial advantage to all business interests.
If Greenville and business
men could get their mail by six o'clock
in the evening, instead of at eight o'clock
often later us at present, it would be
a great help to them.
our Regular Corespondent
Washington, D. C,
President Cleveland may or may not
have felt complimented when Senator
Sherman offered a resolution providing
that when greenbacks or S. Treas-
notes are redeemed for gold they
shall not be reissued except for
but that resolution and a speech made
in its favor by Mr. Sherman have been
the most sensational occurrences of the
week in Congress. It will be
that when President Cleveland in
his annual message and Secretary Car-
lisle in his annual recommended
the retirement of the greenbacks and
Treasury notes as the best remedy for
our financial troubles Senator Sherman
was foremost among those republicans
who hooted at the idea. Now Senator
offers a resolution which, if it
became a law, would probably result in
retiring the greenbacks and Treasury
notes, although he claims that it
wouldn't. The basis for his claim is
not. however, a very substantial one.
He figures that the law would work like
the assurance of a bank cashier to a
frightened depositor, that he could have
his money if he it; and that
those who have been presenting these
notes for redemption in gold will stop as
soon as they know that the notes so
presented will not be again paid out for
them to present again.
The scrambling among those who
want more of the protection pork than
the tariff bill which the House passed
gives them has not been since
the hill was being made up.
It has been and is making life miserable
for the republican members of the
Finance committee, which i
now trying to decide in what shape the
bill is to be reported back to the Sen-
ate. The greed of seeking p-o-
for special lines, at the expense
of everybody else, would make
scramble sufficiently disagreeable, but
Presidential politics have also been
brought into it. The de-
that the bill passed by the
House Is in the interest of Reed's can-
and that they will have more Mi-
put into it, or know
the reason why it isn't done. Th
Democrats are not biking much
interest in the bill, although the nearer
it gets to the better it
will suit them; they that the
country is as strongly opposed to
now as it was when it elect-
ed the Democratic House of the fifty-
second Congress and when it elected
Cleveland President and gave the Dem-
control of both branches of the
fifty-third Congress and that the nearer
the bill approaches the original
hill the greater will be its effect
helping to elect a Democratic
President next November. Democrat-
Senators have not agreed upon any
on the tariff bill, but the
general sentiment among them
that after putting the on
record against the bill they will place
no obstructions in the way of
a vote. Even if the bill passes the
Senate in a shape to meet the approval
The Best Yet.
Of course there are calendars and
calendars, some of them exquisite
works art. but the best we have yet
seen tor all around business purposes
is one received from J. C. Addison.
paper dealer, of Washington, D. C. It
is on twelve of white paper,
one for each month, fastened to a
hanger and the figures are fully three
inches long. You don't have to put
on spectacles to find the but can
see the figures any part of the
room.
On Friday, at Lake Superior, the
temperature went to degrees below
zero.
At Archer, Fin., a gang of tramps
and trainmen had a fight and one of the
former was killed.
W. B. George was assassinated on
the streets of Jacksonville, Fla., Sat-
by an unknown person.
The President issued his
on Saturday admitting Utah
as a State. There are now forty-five
States.
At Harris City, Fla., an eighteen-
was caught robbing it
Pullman sleeper, and later on commit-
suicide.
S. Strauss, manufacturers of
corsets at Broadway, New York,
have assigned. Liabilities
assets
Two companies have been chartered
at Norfolk, Ya., for the purpose of man-
all kinds of munition- of war,
the capital ranges from to
Commander Lewis Kingsley, of the
U. S. training ship Essex, dropped
dead on board of his ship just after
eating dinner Saturday. The Essex
is at Yorktown.
Seymour Sailors, of Athens, Go., is
reported to have been murdered in
Jackson county, Ga. Sailors is a
man and robbery is supposed to
have been the motive.
On Saturday, at Roanoke, Ya., the
general building of the Norfolk
As Western railroad was burned. Most
of the records and furniture were saved.
The loss is about Origin
unknown.
happy untie w
ID
In Purchasing; a Suit or Overcoat
tern TEAR
We don't confine you to a few prices. Starting as low as you can buy a good garment for, we
lead you gradually through more than a
Such a schedule as is herein suggest-
ed would be appreciated by people all j of Mr. Reed, who is to all intents and
along the line, and we hope the the House, it is well-nigh
authorities will it under consider- J certain that it will be vetoed by
dent Cleveland.
am eared since taking Hood's
is what n any thousands are
saying- It gives renewed vitality and
vigor.
It is easy to buy from such a large to select to pay for, too.
Pick out Your Suit and we will Astonish You in Price.
TAX NOTICE
Those who fail to pay their taxes to
of January will pay cost- I
shall have no collectors in any of the
and those who f to by
the above stated time will be visited by
myself or a deputy and levy made and
tax collected at once.
R. W. KING,
Sheriff Pitt County.
P P. P.
cures all skin
and
blood diseases
endorse P. P. P. as a
splendid combination, and H
with great satisfaction of the cure of all
forms and stages of primary, secondary
and tertiary syphilitic
P. P. P.
Cures RheumatisM.
ulcer and lores, Welling
in, old ulcers
all treatment, ca-
P. P. P.
Cures Blood Poison.
km diseases, eczema chronic female
mercurial poison,
said head,
P. Is a powerful ionic and an
excellent
P. P. P.
Cures Scrofula.
appetizer, building up the system rap-
idly
Ladles whose systems are poisoned
and whose blood Is in an impure
due
P. P. P-
Cures Malaria.
to irregularities, are
benefited by the tonic
and blood cleansing properties of
Prickly ash, Poke root and Potassium
P. P. P.
Cures Dyspepsia. .
Bros., Props.
DRUGGISTS. BLOCK.
Ga.
Bi o i Blood Diseases lieu.
Cotton and Peanut,
Below are Norfolk prices of cotton
and peanuts for yesterday, as tarnished
by Cobb Bros- Commission Mer-
chants of
COTTON-.
Good Middling
Middling
Low Middling
Good Ordinary
Organized 1848-
disease by the timely use I Assets over
ft
15-16
Prime
Spanish
Greenville Market.
Corrected by S. M.
Butter, per lb
Western Sides
cured Hams
Corn
Corn Meal
Flour,
Lard
Oats
Sugar
Coffee
Salt Sack
Chickens
Eggs per
Beeswax, per
lo
to
to
to
3.75 to 4.25
to
to-10
to
to
to
to
What use in there In eating food when
does you no fact, when it does
yen harm than good, for such is
the case if it is not digested.
If you have a loathing for food there
is no use of forcing it down, for It will
nit be digested. Yon must restore the
digestive to their natural strength
and cause the to be digested when
an appetite will come, and with it a rel-
for food.
The tired, languid will give
to vigor and energy, then you will
put flesh on your bones and become
strong. The Digestive Cordial
as made the Mount Lebanon Shakers
food already digested and is a
digester of food as well. Its action is
prompt and its effects permanent.
Doctors because it
has all the virtues of Castor Oil and
is palatable
SMITH EDWARDS, Props.
the late store near
Court
GREENVILLE, N.
Manufacturers and dealers in all
kinds of
RIDING VEHICLES,
mm, harness.
FINE BUGGIES a SPECIALTY
All kinds of repairing done
We use skilled labor and good
material and are prepared to give
you satisfactory work.
Notice of Dissolution.
The Dim of J. L. Starker Co., was
this day dissolved by mutual consent.
J. L. purchasing the Interest
of the other members of the firm. All
outstanding business the Arm will be
settled by J. L. .,
J. L.
J. E.
MOORE.
This day of December,
Liver Pills, an old and
favorite remedy of increasing
popularity. Always cures
SICK HEADACHE.
sour stomach, malaria,
torpid liver, constipation
and all bilious diseases.
Liver PILLS
Surplus over
x-
Administrators Sale
of Land for Assets.
By virtue of a decree of the Superior
Court In the case W. B. Wingate ad-
of J. L. W. Nobles, I will
sell cash at the Court House door in
Greenville on Monday, the 27th day of
January, the following tract of
land, to A tract land situated
in Township adjoining
lands of Amos W. H. Stocks,
Redding Trip and others, containing
forty eight acres, more or less. Sub-
to the dower of Mary Nobles
ow of J L. W. Nobles.
Dec. 26th. 1305.
of J. L. W. Nobles.
It A. SUGG, Atty.
The Mutual
Life Ins.
Company,
of NEW YORK.
Security, Pi and Profit.
We have got what you want. A
Twenty Payment Investment
tract in the largest financial
the world, which affords
protection to your families as well
as provides for old
Motto best com-
is company which does
the most We have paid
to policy holders in years
VIM I
Our line companies are
best. Among them will be found
the oldest companies as
well as American. We do the
business for the people
cit your
WHITE
GREENVILLE, N. C
Office on Main Street.
WOMAN'S RELIEF
for monthly pains in back,
neck, shoulders, head and limbs.
These are of de
peculiar it, women.
Wine of corrects Hie de-
cures Whites and of
relieves Suppressed Menstruation and
the nerves and brings
to afflicted women. .
ton
no n
ft
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ENTIRE STOCK
Will be closed out at cost without reserve. There
will be a change in our business next year and
these goods must go. Remember everything
goes at New York cost. Parties owing us must
make immediate payment so we can settle up
the business.
J. O. Proctor Bro.,
N. C.
LIABLE.
Differ in their
thought with the men just i ow is
tobacco and prices, while
the ladies are thinking the
LATEST STYLE IN MILLINERY
at Lowest Prices.
II will call Hie store of
They will it ml a full II lie of
Laces and
it Fancy Hair
Pins, Side Combs, Belt Buckles, and
other latest style goods.
Agent for Standard Pattern.
Notice of Dissolution.
The Arm of Forbes,
dealers, was this day dissolved by
mutual consent. The business will
be conducted by A
Co.
JESSE
OLA FORBES.
This 31st day of December, 1895.
--------IS STILL AT THE FRONT WITH A LINE--------
YEARS has taught me that is the
Hemp Rope, Building s, Farming mints, and every-
necessary for Millers, Mechanics and general homo n well as
Hats. Shoes. Dress I have always on hand. Am head-
quarters for Heavy Groceries, and for Clark's O. N. T.
Cotton, keep courteous and clerk.
GREEN VILLE. N. C
J.
Inn Si
GREENVILLE, N. C
OFFICE AT THE COURT HOUSE.
All Risks placed in strictly
FIRST-C ASS COMPANIES
At current rates
Ml AGENT FOR FIRST-GLASS FIRE
T- A- JONES. Established 1878. P. H- SAVAGE
SON CO,
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants
TUNIS WHARF, NORFOLK, VA.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Ties, Peanut Ac-
A Hi-ill ion given to Sales of Cotton, Grain, and Peas.
Liberal Cash Advances on Consignments. Prompt and
Market Prices Guaranteed.
Norfolk National Bank, or any Reliable II is th

-v.
., J
THE REFLECTOR
Local Reflections.
Court week.
Hang your now calendar.
Girls, year is are
yours.
For an easy comfortable
Chair to please your wife
or or mother.
Call aDd see our stock both
and good, at J- B. Cherry
k Co.
No more passengers on the freight
train now.
What have you resolved to lo for
Greenville this year
For Guns Ammunition call
on J. B. Cherry Go's.
January will us live
live Fridays
Buy your Macintosh and Rub
Coats at J. B. Cherry Cos
and save money.
The an all gelling and
new to things out on
row.
Buy your Macintosh and Rub
m Coats at J. B- Cherry Co's
id save money-
The Episcopal Sunday School had a
in Hall New Years
part
night.
Miss Blow gave a tea drinking
to party friends on -New Year's
evening.
A large hue or the celebrated
Corsets at J. B- Cherry k
Co's. The ladies specially invited
to inspect them.
Cant. T. Williams t. Us us he has
the plans three other dwellings soon
t he erected.
Wire Buckle Suspenders
all Buckles and fastenings war-
ranted for two years, at J. B-
Cherry Co's-
A few Hakes of mow tell here Sunday
afternoon and outlook now is there
will he more soon.
The wide awake and the
wide awake buyer get together by the
means of the newspapers.
Granulated sugar cent per
pound at J. B- Cherry k Co's.
To Th reader, this new year will be
just what you make it. Use your best
endeavors to make it a good one.
Just received a Car-load Flour
none cheaper and better than that
offered by J. B- Cherry Co.
Greenville must a good horse
market, judging from the number the
dealers have been brining here this sea-
son.
For best Carts and Wagons go
to A- G-
N- C-
computed that there are
worth in gold and jewels
at the bottom of the sea on the route
between England and India.
Takeaway shouted, the
orator, what would
We a man at the
of the audience promptly.
Beautiful stylish and cheap
Dress Goods Trimmings at
J. B Cherry Cos-
Christmas is not over yet. One
the old time men went to M. Senate
for Be
tome Old Christmas.
easy good
wear for the feet. You can t go
wrong with them, they are rights
and left- For sale by U- Cher-
k Co.
We learn that the gin house of It. L.
ft Bros., at Farmville, was de-
lire Wednesday. About
thirty bales of cotton were also burned.
sugar b per
pound at J. B. Cherry Co's-
The young folks are
amusement roller skating in the
Warehouse. Many of than try
their skill every afternoon with the
usual up- and downs.
FURNITURE cheaper than
ever before at J- B. Cherry k Co.
The want- more
from the country
Can't you send u the news of your
section on a postal card We desire to
give tie news neighborhood.
Chamois Dress Lining
and new of Dress Goods
at J- B Cherry k Co s
The Republicans are in power in
Congress- They can prevent another
bond issue if they desire to do so. I n-
they act. the entire responsibility
for bond i.-sue will be upon them. he
President cannot move any stop.
News and Observer.
best Flour is Proctor
Knott sold by S. M. Schultz. Try a
lb bag.
Lang received twenty-five hales of
cloth today, the largest
meat that has come here.
Same Plead Before His Honor, Some
L. E. Clave, of is here.
J. E. Nobles has returned to Chapel
Hill.
Edward Greene left for Baltimore
Friday.
W. S. Bernard went to
Friday night.
Andrews is back
from Durham.
Swift Galloway, of Snow Hill,
is attending court.
Miss Bettie Tyson returned to school
at Salem Monday.
P. II. Gorman returned from
and Wednesday.
Mrs. Nannie Anderson has moved
back to the country.
W. T. returned Thursday
evening from Oxford.
Walter A. Burnett and wife, of Kin-
Friday here.
H. P. Harding to the
at Chapel Hill Friday.
J. II. Blount wile returned
Thursday evening Tarboro.
Warren returned Thursday
evening from a visit to Salisbury.
B. F. and wife returned
evening from Durham.
B. Jarvis Johnson Nichols
returned to Chapel Hill Monday.
Miss Nannie Brown left for Ayden,
Monday evening, to attend school.
Ed Smith, who formerly clerked
for Lang, is now E. II.
O. L. Joyner is spelling this week
in Richmond, Danville and
Bryan has his family to
Greenville and occupies the
Marion Johnston moved his
family to the Congleton house on Third
street.
Congressman Harry Skinner came
horn from Washington Wednesday
evening.
Misses Rosalind Rosa
Hooker returned to school at Richmond
Monday.
J. C Greene, who has been spending
the holidays at home, returned to Nor-
folk Friday.
Miss Winnie Fleming, Littleton,
is visiting the family of her brother, G.
Fleming.
Glasgow Evans and family, o Cone-
toe, came down Monday evening to
Misses Bessie and Sidney
of are visiting Miss
Sophia Jarvis.
Jesse Proctor has moved his family
to the new dwelling he recently creeled
near the college.
Miss Myra Skinner left Saturday
and from there will return lo
school at Salem.
Miss lone May. who was visiting
Miss Forbes, returned to
Sunday.
Mrs. W. M. Lang, of took
tin- train here evening to visit
relatives at Kinston.
Mrs. who
were visiting lier parents here, have
returned home to Penny Hill.
Miss Pearl Willow Green
and Miss Parker, from
are the guests Mrs It. F. Sugg.
Miss Petronella Pale, who spent the
holidays with Mrs. II. C. Booker, left
for her home in Golds-
S. A. who clerked for J.
C. ft Son during the fall, return-
ed to his home in Carolina township
today.
Mrs. Ellen Lee and little son Law-
of who have been visit-
Mrs. It. W. King, returned home
Saturday.
The family of the late
day, Grimesland, have moved to
Greenville and occupy the Nobles house
near the college.
Mrs. James Dixon and daughter,
Miss Nannie, who were visiting the
family J. B. Latham, returned to their
home in Littleton Monday.
Miss Frances Whichard, of Which-
an aunt of the editor, is on a vis-
it to his family. It is her first visit to
Greenville in nearly seven years.
T. F. who has clerked for
S. M. Schultz for seven years, has re-
signed his position to engage in
this year. J. B. Randolph succeeds
him in tin store.
It a real pleasure to sec Miss
Clara Bruce Forbes out Friday, looking
as bright and cheerful as this new year
day. She has been kept at home by
sickness for several weeks.
A Big Record. BOTH ASKS BROKEN.
During the month of December Reg-.
of Deeds, W. M. King, issued to the
marriage licenses, the largest number N. Jan. Susan
for any single month of which he has . Harrington, aged years, wife of the
record. The total number issued for late John Harrington and mother of the
lie was Postmaster at this while crossing
the yard, yesterday afternoon, fell and
broke both her arms just above the
wrists. Dr. Joe Dixon set the broken
New Carriage Factory.
V. R. Smith and II. C. Edwards
have associated together under the firm
name of Pitt County Buggy Co., and limbs g is ow
are opening up at the old Williamson After Twenty-One Yearn,
stand near the Court House. They will Mr D. V. Dixon, a lading mer-
do a general manufacturing and repair- of Hookerton, came to Green-
of vehicles.
Begin Right.
Ville Friday for the first time in twenty
years, and he lives only twenty
miles from us. Since lie was last
II among your new year resolutions .
I has married is lather
was one to more punctual at Sunday i ,. . . ,
nine children. could
School and church this don t be
MIRTH, MUSIC.
Purchase Taxes.
The Register of Deeds has been
A Delightful Leap Year Ball at the plying in and others coming
CHRISTMAS
.-
Opera House A Grand Success.
absent from your pew on the first Sun-
day. If you have not made such a res-
this evening is a good time to
do so.
Tobacco Beds.
Some of the farmers are getting to
work early on their tobacco beds for
the next crop. S. tells us
that he, II. F. Keel and Allied Stocks
sowed their beds on 2nd.
This is the first we have heard re-
ported.
A Contrast.
the warmest place we found
Saturday was in tobacco
factory. He had the steam turned on
which made the interim of the
feel like summer time, while the
from the tobacco formed in great
icicles hung on the out of the
windows.
Seriously Hurt.
Friday afternoon a named Sam
was helping put up a stove pipe
in W. L. Cobb's bar-room. The chair
upon which Sam was standing turned
over, throwing him across the back of
another chair. In the fall his left hip
was dislocated and his back badly
sprained. Dr. says the
man is hurt.
Tournament
There was a large attendance upon
the at on Tues-
lay, but a small number of
five. Bert Smith crowned Miss Ada
Fields queen, James crowned
Miss Bettie Tyson first maid honor,
James crowned Miss Flor-
Lang second maid of honor. The
coronation ball took at night.
The Old and New.
The new year was ushered in
The echo of the midnight gong
had scarce died away when the old
cannon in its thunder tones told that the
old year was no more. The boom of
the signal gun was instantly followed
the ringing of all the bells in town,
tor many minutes their merry peals
chimed a glad welcome to the year just
born. May it be a glad new
Thick Darkness.
A night was never darker the
one in than the early hours of
Friday, night there wasn't a street
lamp anywhere to give a ray of light.
People who had to be over
each other, run on fences, fell in ditches
butted against trees, and got mixed up
generally. It Was a bad time. Several
just had to wait for the to rise so
they could see how to get home.
not recognize the town when he arrived
and not know which way to go.
He said he had no idea that Greenville
had undergone such great in
the last twenty years mid was glad to
see the town's rapid progress. We
hope he w ill not defer his next visit so
long.
Dangerously Wounded.
Mr. II. B. Clark, who returned from
Washington last week, tells us that
Mr. C. F. Ellison, of that was
dangerously wounded Tuesday after-
noon. Mr. Ellison was out hunting
in some way his gun
discharged, the entire load him
under the arm and completely
his shoulder. Physicians v ex-
his wound say that the chances
of recovery arc very much against him,
and even if his life can be saved ho
lose the entire arm. Those who
Mr. here will regret to I of
his meeting with such a terrible
dent.
Bethel Items.
X. C, Jan.
Maggie Nelson left this morning to at
tend the Normal and Industrial School
at Greensboro.
Miss Nannie Bagwell and Miss
Moore, of Greenville have
Miss Cornelia Manning and sister
this week.
Dr. R. J. Nelson, of ,
was in town Saturday.
Joseph E. Smith, of
N. C. spent yesterday in town adjusting
the losses of R. J. W. Carson.
J. R. Hunting was the re if
a fine son for a new year's
He wears pleasant smiles to-day.
A New Bank.
On the very first day of the year
was enabled to announce a
new enterprise for Greenville. Higgs
Bros, will open another banking house
here and state that they will be
to begin business by the 15th i.
Thus Greenville is keeping pace wit
I he march of progress which is now so
prevalent throughout the South,
increasing makes mom
another bank, and these enterprising
young men, recognizing the benefit
such an enterprise, have taken the steps
to establish it. Higgs Bros, have been
very prosperous as merchants, and We
bespeak for them success i i the
business.
The young ladies of the town gave a
very enjoyable Leap Year Ball at the
Opera House Thursday night and it
was just up-to-date. At o'clock the
couples began and the
merry laughter the dancers, was
hoard on all sides. It was the
opportunity and well did they use it.
We heard u lot of noise on the side near
the stage and it sounded like the pop-
ping of champagne corks turning
to Bo. Cherry we asked what it was,
and were informed that the ladies were
popping the question. only said
At o'clock the grand march took
place led by Miss Eva and
Maj. C. T. of Clifton, S. C,
the and was beautiful.
The following couples were in
dance
Miss Annie Foley and W. B. James.
Miss Jennie James and Herbert
White.
Miss May Harris and J. L. Flem-
Miss Blanch Flanagan and
Forbes.
Miss Ella King and L. I. Moore.
Becca W. J.
Miss Dr.
Brown.
Miss Sallie and W.
Whedbee.
Miss Lillie Cherry and Jarvis Sugg.
Miss Florence Williams and J. W.
Miss Betsy Greene and Maj. W. S.
Bernard.
Miss Bessie Jarvis and J. C. Greene.
Miss Sophia Jarvis and Jesse
Miss Novella Higgs and. J. K. West-
brook.
Miss Bettie Tyson and C. S.
Miss Pat Foley and Ed. Foley.
were Mrs. and Mr.
J. II. Blount, Mrs. and Mr. J. L.
Mrs. and Mr. W. B. Grimes,
The followed and wasted by-
Miss Eva and Maj. Lips-
music by the harpers. An
supper was had at o'clock.
There were three made and
accepted, which we think was doing
very well as a Hatter. The Opera
House was beautifully decorated with
bunting, holly. myrtle and moss.
There were a goodly number of spec-
present and they seemed to en-
joy it immensely.
Laid To Rest.
The remains of Mr. Charles
tree, who died in Charlotte Thursday
night reached here on Friday evening's
accompanied by his widow and
his son, Mr. C. D. Rountree. The
burial took place Saturday at the
graveyard near his old home,
two miles from town. Services were
conducted by Rev. C. -M. Billings.
The pall bearers were Messrs. E. M.
Pace, W. M. King, II. A. gotten, J.
R. Move, K. A. Move. O. L. Joyner,
G. F. Evans, Charles Skinner and Ola
Forties.
Quarterly Meeting.
Elder Hall will arrive on
Friday will hold the first quarterly
conference of the year a the Methodist
church Friday night at o'clock.
The Sunday School meeting
will be held at G. E. Thursday
night instead of Friday night.
The Bonner Case.
A special term of Beaufort county
Superior Court convened at Washing-
ion Monday. This term is principally
far the trial of the men charged with
tin murder of the B. Bonner, at
that is attracting much
There was talk for awhile
when the court met an effort
would be made lo have the trial moved
to another county, but this seems to
have been only outside talk as no such
effort has been made. Up to o'clock
yesterday afternoon the jury had not
been selected.
Her Resolution.
At one of the last
week, just as the minute and hour
hand of the clock were pointing close
to twelve, a young lady was noticed to
be wearing a very solemn expression
and when asked the cause she said she
was making a resolution which would
soon be uttered. Silence followed for
a moment, and as the clock chimed the
birth of a new year she spoke
that with God's help I will
get married this She was voted
the prize for making the best resolution.
Ayden Notes.
Ayden, X. C, Jan., 3rd.
Rev. J. W. of Wash-
has purchased the Cox house.
of W. F. contemplates moving
here about February 1st-
T. R. Lee. has moved his stock
goods from here to Kinston.
The Board of Directors of the Free
Will Baptist Publishing Company, will
meet here tomorrow.
J. R Forbes, of Rountree. has
his family to Ayden.
J. J. Hines and family have moved
in town.
J. B. Gardner, of Maple Cypress.
has purchased the Iredell Moore farm
of A. Cox, near Ayden.
Ayden has quite a creditable race
track and large crowds go out to enjoy
the races. Citizen.
The Greenville Lumber Company.
A recent visit to the plant of the
above company showed a marked
over mill The band
now in use by them, is as
as it is possible to make them.
saw is of an inch in thickness,
while the old circular saw was of an
inch, thereby saving one band in the
cut ting of ten. . Any size log can be
and they can cut a third faster.
It only takes lour minutes to change a
saw and it runs tores hours and a half.
Th can sharpen one in half an hour.
Hamilton showed US
I he machine for grinding slabs
into sawdust. It is a won-
invention. A train of twenty-
live load.-d with logs are received
by them. Every part of the
is as near perfect as man
III it and some parts work like
human. They work a large force of
haul- and their pay roll is a large one
and the mill should be by
in preference lo all others.
Th money the company pays out week-
to the merchants and when
they want any thing in the lumber line
this company
under the purchase tax law blanks
upon which to make out their purchase
for the six months ending Dec. 31st.
These blanks should be filled out and
returned by 10th of January.
Bring Your List,
All boys who arc working for the
prize of live . months
should bring in their lists of sub-
before this week is out. The
contest will close next Saturday even-
you have only a few days more
to work in.
PRESENTS i.-i.
FOR YOU.
Moved to Wilson.
are glad to note that Mr. Ned
Moore, one of Pitt's best men, has
taken charge of the extensive business
of Mrs. J. D. of Wilson county.
Pitt loses and Wilson gains a
did citizen. The Masonic Lodge here
regrets his leaving her portals. It is
very pleasant to commend this good
man to the people of Wilson and we
bespeak for him a warm reception.
Fair.
The has received a
list of the ninth exhibition of
East Carolina Fish, Oyster, Game and
Industrial Association to be held at
during the week
February 24th. These midwinter fairs
are most interesting of any held in
the State. The premiums offered
exhibits at the coming fair aggregate
and the race premiums amount
to
Sunday-School Officers.
The Methodist Baptist Sunday
Schools both re-elected their old officers
for the new year, as
B.
Asst. Brown.
Sec. and II.
Warren.
Bessie White.
Rountree.
Asst. F.
E. Harrison.
J. Cherry.
Smith.
Una
The Episcopal Sunday has
had no election yet, H. Harding i
Superintendent.
A beautiful Xmas line of
, .
Dry Goods Shoes
Dress Goods, Clothing,
NOTIONS.
C. T.
DOOR OF BANK.
Perfectly Natural.
AN e left the office this morning to go
lo the court house and took note of
how many exclamations we could dot
down of persons passing us as to the
cold snap we are having and is
what we got
this
for
this is a
this weather would freeze the
ears off of a bras- monkey, eh,
this May or
Fine weather for
the river frozen
weather to light
we have struck the bottom of
the wind blow it
be so
she a
you think we can go
There might have been many more
like expressions, but when one fellow
this cold enough
he caught it over the oar, and we con-
it was time to run in and warm.
J. S. C. Benjamin came over from
Monday evening, and
has taken a with the Pitt
County Buggy Co. We are glad to see
him back in Greenville.
E. W. Dead.
Mr. Henry W. at
Hyde county, on Saturday
morning. He was well known in
Greenville, and was a very warm friend
of the late Maj. L. C. ham.
Stopped the Sale.
The lot in front of the Court House,
which the Board of County
advertised to he sold on Monday,
was not sold, the Town Council having
restrained the Commissioners sell-
the property. There is a dispute
as to whether the lot is owned by the
county or the town, the question
will be settled the court.
A Close Call
Hotel Macon gave the town another
scare, by catching on
fire on the roof from a burning
Both fire companies and many
citizens responded promptly to the
alarm and the fire was extinguished be-
fore any damage was done. Had the
fire once got a hold, with the high
wind blowing at the time, there is no
telling where it could have been stopped.
It makes a body shudder to think what
the result might have been. Just here
let us repeat what has been said many
times needs water.
M. H. Attacked by a Negro-
On Christmas night Mr. II.
was attacked in the dark by
Matthew Murphy, a guitar-playing
tramp, who hit him over the
head with a brick, inflicting a bad
wound, which caused Mr. to
bleed at the ear that night. It was at
one time feared he was dangerously
wounded and he was to the
house for several days, but we are glad
to say ho is now out will suffer no
permanent injury from the wound.
The was held for trial
Free Press.
should have the first
OBITUARY.
Leap Year.
Why is it called leap year It is
because the Julian calendar, in which
the custom of adding a day to
every fourth year was introduced,
provided that the additional day should
be inserted not at the of the
month, hut six days , forming
a second sixth day. Hence arose the
word bis which is still retained
as the name of the year in which the
additional day is inserted, though now
it is added at the end of the month.
The name leap year refers to the fact
that for a year after the insertion of
the additional day, each date comes
two days later in the week than it
came the previous year, instead of on
the following day of the week, as in
ordinary years. The dates may be
said to leap over a day, and hence the
name.
Th- subject this memoir was
L. JO.
of
Lula S. and L. A. Mayo. She was
n them July the 1898, and
died December 23rd,
189-1. When she took cold we did not
suspect that death, cruel death, would
so soon invade our home to rob us of
our sand, bright, beautiful child.
But in the cold chilly winds of
It came without warning.
To take her while young and tender,
As the rose bud in the morning.
It is hard to give thee up dear child,
To bury thee in thy little grave,
We must and wait awhile,
For from Him who
came to save.
Marriage.
At the residence of the bride's father,
Mr. Reuben James, in town-
ship, December 1895, Mr. W.
J. Lewis and Miss Lucy James, were
united in the bonds of matrimony,
E. D. Hathaway, officiating.
The attendants were Caddy James
and Miss Lucy Clark,
and Miss James, Eddie Lewis
and Miss Lydia Bullock, W. K. Clark
and Miss Sarah Carson, Eddie Bryan
and Miss Alley Spain, James
and Miss Mary Downs, J. J. Hathaway
and Miss Bullock, U. F.
and Miss Ida James. J. J. II.
Wednesday evening at
at the residence of Mrs. Bettie
Mr. G. A. and Miss Maggie
Minion were married by J. A. Lang.
Esq.
she is gone, yes, left us,
Her little chair is empty our
hearthstone.
Death, cruel death, has bereft us,
our Savior calls her his own.
lier little toys are about our room,
We will preserve them with care,
It may be only soon,
We go to meet her over there.
GOOD FOR STOCK AND POULTRY,
TOO.
is
pared especially for stock, as well as
man, and tor that purpose is sold in tin
cans, holding one-halt pound
cine for if cents.
Co., Tenn.,
March
vs. S. P.
Springfield, Ohio.
Walked
Rheumatism Eczema Swelled
Cured.
For two years I have been sick, having
confined to the house for a year. I
have had eczema for nine years, having
skilled physicians, but received no benefit.
winder I caught cold and
Afflicted With Rheumatism,
which put me on crutches. Last July I
commenced to use Hood's and
before I had finished one bottle I laid
aside. After taking two bottles
the eczema had left me and I was almost
entirely free from the effects of a swelled
neck. I know that it was Hood's
that cured me and I think it cannot
be recommended too highly. Although
years old, I feel young Has.
S. P. Simmons, East Springfield, Ohio.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the Only
True Blood Purifier
Prominently In the public eye today.
FALL WINTER
BUSINESS
and cordially invite you to inspect the largest
and neatest assortment of
ever brought to Greenville. Our stock con-
all the newest and
DRESS GOODS.
Furnishing
Boots
and Shoes, Domestics,
Bleached and
ed Sheeting and Shirt-
Fancy
Cotton Dress Goods
will
want or need in that
line. Hardware for far
and mechanics
use, Tinware, Hollow-
ware, Wood and Willow ware,
Whips, Buggy Robes, Collars, Rope,
Twine, Heavy Groceries always on hand,
Meat, Flour, Sugar, Salt and Molasses.
best and largest assortment of Crock-
Lamps, Lanterns, Lamp Chimneys and
Shades, Fancy Glassware, tic, to be found
in the county. And our stock of
FURNITURE
Fatting, Carpets, Rugs and Foot Mats is by far
the and cheapest ever offered to the people
of this section. Come look and see and buy.
Sole agents of Coats Spool Cotton for this town
for wholesale and retail trade. Reynold's Shoes
for Men Bros. Shoes
for Ladies and children. We buy Cotton and
Peanuts and pay the highest market price for
them. Your experience teaches you all to buy
and deal with men who will treat you fair and
do the square thing by you. and see us
and be convinced that we claim is true.
Yours for business square dealings,
Mood's Pills
pure habitual
I haw used all of medicine, but
I would not give one of
for all the others I ever saw.
It is the best thing for horses or cattle in
the spring of the your, and will
chicken every time. if,
S, K CU
Tobacco Flues,
STOVES.
V o are now taking orders for
Tobacco Flues. Give us your
order for Flues and they will
be made right.
We Bell the Elmo aDd Gold
en Grain Stoves, none
better
Agents for Columbia
We can sell you a bran
new 1896 for
Call and see
Lang's Great
Clearing Out Sale.
Owing to Removal I offer my entire stock from
JANUARY 1st, A. M.
At Cost. At Cost.
In or retail to suit the buyer.
Now is the time to Bargains.
LANG'S.

Co
is a vigorous feeder and re-
well to liberal
On corn lands the yield
increases and the soil improves
if properly with fer-
containing not under
actual
Potash.
A trial of this plan costs but
little and is sure to lead to
profitable culture.
Our pamphlets are not advertising circulars
special fertilizers, but are practical works,
.- resell tie, fertilization, and
are really helpful tanners. They arc seat tree
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
Nassau St, New York.
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Train on Seek Branch
It ft It m , Halifax 4.13
p. m., arrives Scotland p
Greenville p. in.
p. Returning, leave 7.211
a. m., Greenville 8.22 . m.
Halifax at a. to.,
except
Trains on Branch
Washington
3.40 a. in. g
leaves Tarboro n. m . Pamela
p. in,, arrive p. m.
pt Sunday. Connects with
trains on lid
Train leaver I arsons, C, via Aloe-
A Raleigh It. daily
M p. m. Sunday; a P.
arrive Plymouth P. p. In.
leaves Plymouth nail ,
Sunday a -n
10.25 aim -1
Train on Midland branch leaves
duly, except s OS
Id a. in. R.-
turning a. m.,
rive. in-
Trams in Nashville branch leave
R- Mount at. p. in., arrive-
p. m., Hope B no
p. in. Hope
in., a in, at
a in. daily except
Sonny.
Trains on Latia Florence R.
II., leave p in,
7.50 p in. p m.
leave a in. a
r . 7.50 a m. daily except
day.
Train leaves War-
saw fur Clinton pt
in. and 8.90 p, m- Ki-turning
leave on at 7.011 a. m. 3.00 p m.
Train No. makes
at points daily, all rail via
at It kg Mount
Norfolk and it for
all North via Norfolk.
JOHN F. DIVINE,
General
T. M. Manage-.
J It Manager.
NORTH
TIMETABLE.
In December 4th, 1898.
THE MORNING STAR
Oldest
Daily Newspaper in
North
Six-Dollar Daily
its Glass in the State.
Favor Free Coinage
of Silver and Repeal
of Hie Tea Per Tax on
Banks Daily cents
Weekly per
ear. W M. H. A R D,
d. Wilmington,
Sale of Valuable Town
Lot.
In to an order male by the
Board of County at their
Monday in
directing me as of
said Board to a for side lot
to of Pitt, known
in the p an the town of as
it lot no
used by town Greenville a- a Mar-
House the
of County I.
William M. King, ex of the
Board of I County,
do hereby give public tout said
lot will be exposed sale
highest bidder, in of the
House door, at o'clock M. on Mon-
Hie of 1898.
The terms of sale will be one third
and the balance lo in two
equal i in one and
two years, will, per mi
th privilege lo
tit the I at time
take deed
the of the y .-
The Board Hie
or la also
given that the town ill
to remove the Market House
and other buildings on lot
by the town, in accordance he
entered into at the time per-
was given by the Beard of
Commissioners lo town
to erect and use said
buildings. The lot will be in
three alternate ways which will Be
shown in detail on a plan on Die in the
of the of Deeds and can
be seen by public at any time and
will also on day of sale.
W. M. KING.
IV. of Coin, of Pitt Co.
LITERARY STYLE.
JOHN F.
MUSICAL MERCHANDISE.
Violins,
811.818.815.817 East 9th St. New York.
Administrators Sale
of Land for Assets.
virtue at a decree of the Superior
Court in the of W. B. ad-
J. L. . Nobles, I will
sell tor cash at the door in
Greenville on Monday. 27th day
January, 1898. the of
land, lo A tract land situated
in Township adjoining
Ian of Amos IV. II. Stocks.
Trip and others containing
forty eight acres, more or less.
t- the dower of Mary Nobles,
ow of J L. W. Nobles.
Dec. ISM.
of -I. L.
I. . SUGG, Atty.
J. L
THE
CUT
WILMINGTON. N. C.
This Laundry work in
and juices arc low. We
ems I Bring
work lo our store on d aid
be promptly.
I Oil
I he next session of this S
begin on
SEPT.
ten mouths.
Tin-course all Ike
usually in an Academy.
Terms, both for and board
reasonable.
wed lilted equipped
business, taking the academic
coarse alone. Where to
ponce a higher course, this school
guarantees preparation
enter, h credit, any College in North
r the Slate University. Ii
refers 10-e who have left
its wall the of
with and
moderate taking a course with
M will be in
to continue in the higher schools.
The will be kept at it.-
standard.
time nor nor
work will lie make ids school
t parents
For further see or ad-
W. II. H
Inly
J. F.
at m in f
On Fifth near
Points.
Passengers to
point at reasonable
Comfortable Vehicles.
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It la Born la Man an J Can Neither B.
Nor
The author of to Write
appears to one of those in
believe in a new dis-
covered of human
and in tho of M. Zola. Yon
go about with notebooks, yon be-
muse yourself with and
then if you succeed it is partly by
dint of your native qualities, partly
by aid of not fit to be
named among Christians. It is the
same affair in poetry. Wordsworth
was a poet by virtue of his genius.
Ho was born so. His theories ham-
him, when ho was true to his
theories. Even our author perceives
that Shakespeare and Homer did
not need theories and popular science
falsely so called, and this is just as
true of Miss Austen at and of Mr.
Du Manner at an ago which we shall
not conjecture.
Mr. Du was born a writer
and a story teller. Thirty-five years
ago proved this in a sketch
in a Week and later in
his poem of in
Punch. Only a very skilled writer
could rendered, as Mr. Du
done, the immortal lit
tie Belgian poem translated in
Yet Mr. Du has
been drawing ell his life, not
practicing another art, under
private tutors and with an eye on
Professor lectures.
is not of course
or a matter of Some
men. E to crush
gold out of a mountain of quartz.
All v. possess
gain it in part cultivating a
car r ii. harmonies of prose
as observed the great
writers. A few perhaps, but very
few, ; like Mr. Stevenson
by tho way of sedulous
from his
days, always Thackeray and
could not, answer an invitation to
dinner without writing in the
manner. Mr. Steven-
son, on the other hand, kept his
dress suit for great literary
occasions and did not wear sword,
diamonds or his familiar
correspondence. Yet Thackeray, to
tho very last, took trouble and
as his manuscripts prove,
his manner was more or less
based on that of Field-
Ho was a literary writer, like
Tennyson, in verse. con-
that Mr. admirable
style owes nothing to literary
or the labor of tho hut
is a happy, spontaneous appropriate-
of utterance.
As a take it, aside
rare cases as those of
Virgil, and Tennyson,
the people who write best do so
without taking thought. Mr.
whoso taking manner has some
strange blemishes,
very impatiently when some
busybody him questions about
his only said what he
meant to say in expressions which
to him naturally and without
research. On tho other hand, we
now many writers of no
whose dull, labored
is praised for Us preciosity. In Mr.
Pater had a writer of
natural gifts who decidedly ended
by broiling and tormenting his
And this is still more likely to be
tho end of men who, if they a
plain to tall, should tell it
News.
Golf.
The Philadelphia Record is
pressed with the weird
of golf. brassy
it says, tho iron
driver, tho putter, the lofter
and all the other varieties of sticks
are in themselves enough to drive
tho novice to despair, but it remains
for the Country club to frame a set
of rules governing tho etiquette of
golf. Tho first rule roads as
player losing a hall and incur-
ring delay hereby may passed
by any other player caning up. A
twosome may pass a threesome or
and a foursome a three-
some. A twosome may pass
twosome after giving the earlier
game at the first tee a clear tee and
one stroke, provided that is
to put tho earlier game out of
range, except on tho putting green,
where under no circumstances shall
more than one set of players be at
tho same
Beauty.
It is said that when artists are
seeking for models the palm for
beauty and symmetry of figure Is
given to the girls of Spain, while the
daughters of rural Ireland are a
good second. The pretty faces and
graceful throats are found among
English maidens. A model for a per-
feet arm would be sought for among
Grecian ladies, a lady of the
Turkish harem would regarded
as the possessor of a daintily
hand. Italians are usually
good in figure, and some of the most
beautiful models, perfectly
are derived from the women
of sunny Italy. Frenchwomen, as a
rule, are not in request, being too
thin and vivacious for the purpose,
while face and limbs of a Ger-
man are too commonplace for
artistic Standard.
His Principle.
didn't wear that
last suit his tailor
said it was against his
principles to wear anything
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THREE SONGS
To a with a nosegay of wild flowers.
In the shadows dim.
When the evening hymn
With its rare.
Fills twilight like a prayer-
There and hope and love.
Sheltered by tho pines above.
little us.
Take um to thy heart.
Happy, happy thou canst ma-j
of us thou
Where the rippling
we bow and weep,
No one but our Father
Of our and deep.
beside the eddying river.
There alone we sob and quiver.
Though the world forsake us.
Take to thy heart;
Sister, little sister.
One of us thou art
Where the fern in gladness
Where and ;
Where the bright glances
When the spring returns.
White as winter's spotless drift.
There our faces we uplift.
When the fern laughs, we are
When the rue weeps, we are Bad.
Still see the stars above us;
Still we trust, because they love US.
Are they flowers in the sky,
Violets that have learned to
We believe and hope and trust.
that he who made is
And he never will forsake us
While we're white and pure in heart.
Sister, maiden sister, take us.
One of us thou art
Boyd Allen in Youth's Companion.
The results accomplished by the
of a new material
for sawing and polishing granite,
stone and marble, are represented as
quite the material con-
simply of minute chilled cast
metal shot varying in size from mere
powder to clover seed size. Blocks
of granite now being sawed with
this instead of sand at the rate of
four inches in depth and hard grit
stone at nine in depth an hour with
blades in the machine. It is
diamond saws and is
claimed to ho capable of doing tho
same amount of work at one-tenth
the cost, and is also being employed
in sand blast apparatus in place of
sand and in substitution of diamond
drills for boring and Tho
statement is that in sawing
and polishing one ton of this mat
rial is equal to about J tons of
sharpest sand. The tiny balls arc
chilled to hardness without
being and when struck on an
anvil they indent the la. As the
action of is to roll between
the blocks and saw blade or rub-
doing its work by crushing, it
its spherical shape and out-
ting or crushing power, and as it
docs not become partially
in the or rubber, as in the
with sand, emery, etc., it is rolled
back ward or for ward, smoothing
surface by crushing the projecting
parts of tho block that is being treat-
York Sun.
Saved From a Lion by Pillow.
An English officer shooting
recently in Ono night
when he was in bed inside his tent a
lion sprang over the rough thorn
fence, which it is usual to throw up
round one's encampment at night.
Instead of picking up of the
men or animals that must boon
lying about asleep tho fence
ho would have none but the sports-
man himself, a dash into his
tent and seized
only by the hand. Then by some
wonderful piece of luck, as the lion
changed his grip for tho shoulder,
ho grabbed the pillow instead and so
vanished with his prize. The pillow
was found the next morning several
hundred yards distant in tho jungle,
and outside was also tho spoor of a
lioness, who had evidently been
awaiting the return of her lord with
something
MOVING AT
Bow the Indiana Handle Their Cam
The Indians at Alaska,
were petting to go to
hay to hunt seals and get
the oil for winter consumption.
Everybody was going, big and little,
and tho village would be
until hunt was over, with only
the disconsolate dogs to watch it.
Tho canoes which hail been lying
high on tho beach out of tho way of
harm from or swell
were shoved out into the water.
They are heavy, ungainly things,
dug out of logs. Sometimes they are
feet long. It will a white
man a good deal to navigate one of
them, but tho are as much
at homo as if they in their
houses. An Indian baby learns to
almost as soon as ho learns
to walk. That method of locomotion
has been tho general for so long
that the whole race is developed
in tho arms and chest,
but has short, rather weak legs.
When tho canoes wore in tho
the work of loading them be-
Tho members of each family
gathered up their traps and piled
them of blankets and
skins, household utensils, pots,
and pans, dried salmon,
from tho store, oil in tin cans
and bark pans to hold it. Every
low took a hand at loading, little or
big, and every fellow seemed to
chuck his load into tho bit or
miss, without regard to trim. It was
a wild, indiscriminate pig-
hut somehow it rode all
right.
A decent, self respecting whale-
boat would got angry and tip-
over, but not a dugout resented
its treatment. After all tho
had been chucked in tho big Indians
put in tho ones. Then tho
squaws climbed in. After that tho
men got ready to above out Tho
dogs stood around by tho dozen,
whining and bogging to taken
along. Once in a man would
grab a dog by tho of tho neck
and throw him on top of tho of
baggage. It was a marvel that tho
scrambling dogs didn't tho
whole thing.
. Ono man had two dogs and not
much room. Ho chucked in and
paid no attention to tho pleading of
tho other. The dog was persistent,
but his only reward was a cuff on
tho car. Tho man went back up the
beach to his house to got a last some-
thing, and dog waded out and
climbed into tho Tho Indian
ran back, grabbed him by tho scruff
of neck and throw him out on
tho beach. Tho dog waited a
and then waded out and climbed in
again. This time tho Indian throw
out harder, but tho dog wasn't
discouraged. Ho shook tho
out of his fur and wagged his tail.
When ho thought ho had a good
chance, he waded out and climbed
into the the third Tho
Indian swore by his totem and drag-
tho dog up the beach. Before
ho could got back to push tho
off tho dog had run out into tho
again and climbed up into the
Tho Indian hit a clout
on the with his fist, and tho
dog lay down and shivered. Then
the Indian pushed off, everybody
got to work at tho paddles, and tho
whole crowd went off peaceably and
upright. The dog had
York Sun.
HOW TO PIERCE THE EAR.
Wouldn't V. . i- It If lie Had.
Here is a story about that
character, the Lord
bury. It has the merit of being true.
Lord bury was standing bare-
beaded in a well known hatter's
shop in Piccadilly bis hat was
being ironed. A being
Still alive, has not yet reached his
turn for posthumous anecdotes and
must consequently be nameless
entered the shop in full attire, and
seeing Lord bareheaded
mistook him for a Taking
off his own head covering, the bishop
said, want to know if you have a
hat like Lord
the hat and its owner and
turned on his heel with the curt m-
mark, I haven't, and if I had
I'm d------d if I'd wear
Realm.
Apple
It is said that an apple eater will
be dyspeptic or given to
The lovers of this fruit say
that one must always eat it raw,
others consider it only edible
win n cooked. This latter is wrong,
however, us a ripe apple well
rated is a healthy food. Among the
excellent ways of cooking apples are j
apple apple gingerbread, I
stuffed, fried, jellied and
baked.
once described Noah as
outside ark at twilight
reading his This reminds
one of the noted picture by a Dutch
artist of St. Peter reading his own
epistles bound in leather with a pair
of horn framed spectacles.
Famous
The total number of distinct
words in New Testament, ex-
proper names and their de-
is The vocabulary
of tho is much larger.
According to
the Old Testament contains
distinct words, not counting proper
names and obsolete roots. A few
comparisons with the above may
not prove uninteresting. Tho
and the together
contain distinct words. Milton
used different words and forms
of expression in his entire works,
and Shakespeare, the peer of all
twisters, used over or
one-111 i rd more than was used by all
writers of both Old and New
Louis Republic.
safe.
little
egged on by his wife, who insisted
that there was a burglar in tho
room.
returned the burglar.
my snapped
exactly what I told you.
Nobody's so do go to
Lord Piety.
Tho bishop of Winchester is
said to possessed among his
many other qualities that of
A good story is told of a re-
tort ho to tho Lord Bram-
well, who, meeting him on his way
back to his room to takeoff his robes
after reading prayers in tho
of lords, apologized for having been
absent from tho
I kneel down, it me
palpitation of tho said Lord
it would not re-
for mo to sit or stand while
your lordship was
Bishop perhaps knowing
almost as much about old baron's
sanctity as did Lord him-
self, answered in, measured
do not mention it, Lord
I nm sure your lordship
can equally devout whether you
standing, kneeling or
will not say
The playful old judge afterward
inquired who had read prayers that
afternoon, and on being told remark-
ed, with a in his eyes,
a Words.
Broke Bank at One
A local sport named walk-
ed into the gambling rooms of the
at tho commence-
of play tho other afternoon.
The first hand at was being
dealt. Laying down what appeared
to be a bill with ii in silver on
the top of it on tho do bus-
ho calmly awaited tho result
of the draw. The card won, and on
the dealer proceeding to open the
bill was surprised to find
neatly folded inside two bills.
The sport had won which
was promptly paid, although it took
whole bank and more to do
it. lucky rolled a
in tho customary Mexican non-
manner, and, bowing polite-
to the croupiers, left the room
leaving those gentry staring vacant-
at the of green cloth in
front of them and wondering what
the best thins- to do.
Advice.
One day a rich but ill man
who made sad of tho French
language called upon Jules
famous critic, and began
a tirade upon some trivial matter in
execrable French. After listening
politely for some time at last
replied to his visitor in Latin.
do you mean, M.
demanded man angrily.
don't understand yon. I can't speak
sir; cried the great
critic. could not speak it
worse than you do
Too Much Exhibited In This
Simple but Important Operation.
The Herald contained recently a
brief account cf a Italian girl,
years cf age. dying from blood
poisoning, which set in tho day after
her mother had her cars.
Italian in sifter
of tho laws of health, a
green thread through tho holes
which she hod made in tho child's
cars, to keep them open until tho
wounds healed. Inflammation set in
very n after the operation.
This brings properly
on the the subject of earrings
and piercing ears. With
learning whether there many
I such cases on record, I secured tho
I of a surgeon whoso
for tho past years Las been
j confined to women. Ho read tho
I brief making any com-
Then, as ho returned tho pa-
per, he I have
known of death caused by tho
before this in Tho Herald.
But I seen a great many cases
of agony and suffering. And I
never seen tho operation prop-
by mothers or In tho
first place, the ears never, ex-
by chance, pierced so that the
earrings will hang or be held prop-
Ono runs in and out,
as a rule. Ono is often higher than
tho other. Tho lobe is pierced too
high up or too low down. Ono hole
is nearer tho than tho other.
danger of blood poisoning is
not to ho ignored as of no account
the operation is supposedly
not a dangerous is
right about this homo surgery.
The clean st person, when it comes
to a surgical operation, is, without
proper scientific laving, medically
unclean. If you could but know the
extreme cautions that taken in
all well conducted hospitals The
operating surgeon will not allow any
to hand him a towel even, if
such a one has not
prepared his hands to net as an as-
All tho instruments to he
used have been cleansed. A woman
takes a needle, any needle, and
threads it with any thread. This
thread may been in her work
basket months and months, lying
nest to other spools of all colors.
would not think of washing her
own hands or washing tho ear to
pierced. A cork is taken out of some
bottle, any bottle, without
as to what is in tho or how
long tho cork has been exposed to
tho dost This cork is placed under
the lobe of tho ear for tho needle to
strike against when it comes
through. Inflammation and
result.
have always insisted that the
Operation should done by a
and by who will take the
trouble to do it
would not so slight an
beneath the notice of n
the rich can command these,
and poor could it at
wearing earrings any-
way not earrings a of
both barbarism and ancient Biblical
do not think that women should
wear earrings. But so long as they
will do it tho ears should be proper,
treated, so that tho rings will
hang gracefully and both alike. And,
more important still, the danger
should also ho avoided. Wash tho
lobe of the car with a disinfectant.
it surgically clean. a cut-
Pass it through tho
of tho lobe, and at right angles
to it. Use silk thread prepared so
that it is free from disease germs
and will turn easily in tho hole, that
tho tissues may not be
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ills of humanity.
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Devil
According to tho host authorities,
tho only strictly honest and truthful
people in Asia Minor tho
or devil worshipers. Their
prophet is Lucifer, and they hold
tho of in such
that they struck with
when they hear or Chris-
blaspheme it, and when of
tho pronounces tho name
those hear it said to ho
hound to kill first tho
then themselves. But Christian
missionaries among them
represent them as far
morally to their
or Mohammedan neighbors.
perfectly soys
a scrupulous re-
for tho property of others.
They ore also extremely courteous
to rs, kind to each other,
faithful to the marriage vow and of
A pretty good
devil
Actresses.
who can't net wen
perhaps never more numerous than
they now said of our host
dramatic critics n little time since.
have pretty faces, charming
figures and can smile most bewitch
What more can tho most ex-
acting playgoer
In like way Charles
writing in 1875 to a country man-
ager, my experience of
provincial managers I should say
that a young pretty woman who
can't act, who knows can't,
is an a particularly
wants no salary for her
Now, such a one my son asks
mo to you. lady is
off stage and has tho advantages
I named and be gives
mo bis word of honor that so far as
he knows can't act a bit and
looks upon a salary tho first season
as positively nauseous. is
to to your theater and
show her insufficiency or anything
else the may require She
may a genius or n duffer. She
doesn't know what can do,
like tho man who didn't know
whether ho could play on tho fiddle
or not, having tried. She
wishes, any to put her foot
on the which generally means
foot in Will yon
give her a trial If tarns
worth anything, I pledge myself to
her at tho earliest
opportunity. If not, yon are
sons to her so long as you find her
thoroughly
Poor
Health
means so much more than
you
diseases result
trifling ailments
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