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BOX R.
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Slates, inks,
received
All Magazines.
EASTERN REFLECTOR
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Entered at he Office at
Greenville, X. M Second
Mail Matter.
By means of the we can
a Man accurate deter-
of the sou's velocity through
A I- well known, the-
j of a star In the line can
D. J. Ed. Owner; found tag law
I of the lines la Mars apse-
New. attn near Hie position
of the be
of ii-
motion, at the opposite
point of the i ;. the
should Is-
This beta employed
several Beta by
n at the This
found an ex-
of M Man that the sun's
velocity throng space Is about
a second, but an examination of
a hue i star-
la-fore we could consider this
result as established.
at the spectra
of u the
i has
i in lea Hue cf from the
I has to
a velocity of l K BUM
for the solar motion, a remit which
docs not differ widely from that found
by We may therefore perhaps
conclude that the velocity of the sun's
through is and
miles
CENTS
Stand
cents.
A Tax on Brains.
John Bellamy has in-
a bill to put on the free
list all articles that go into the
manufacture of writ-
paper. The passage of that
bill strike the paper trust a
severe blow the eves and
for that this Republican
Congress will not permit its passage.
has recently condemned
trusts. That is a cheap and easy
thing to do. If he was really in
earnest he would secure the passage
of Mr. bill and other like
bills that give protection to trusts.
The withdrawal of tariff duties
would make room for competition
and reduce prices to a reasonable
basis.
The tribute the paper trust levies
on the News
a day, or a year, a bur-
den greater than all taxation or the
of any officer or of
the company. The burden i levied
in proportion to circulation on all
newspapers in America. It is a
tax on intelligence that
could largely be reduced by the
passage of Mr. bill. The
newspapers are not as potent as the
trusts in a national campaign now
that money buys elections, and it
is idle to hope this Congress will lie
allowed to reduce the amount of
this extortion upon brains in-
The trusts have bought
the right to tax to their sweet con-
tent and will hold the Re
publican Congressmen up to the
News and
server.
an.
This happened lo the wife of a well
known who Is rather con-
for his devotion to the church.
Ills dressing one Sunday
cot s waist more than
put Joseph's coat in the She
was conscious of the color scheme, but
decided to ask her husband's and her
father's opinions before the
garment lo church. They screed, poor
men, that she was delightfully dressed
and that the waist could hardly be
proved upon.
vial lo church, the wife
with secret which, as the
case turned out. were well enough
founded, for they were no sooner seat-
ed Id Grace Episcopal church than the
Rev. Dr. gave out the
text will the reverend rec-
tor said, Hie of St Mat-
thew, the chapter and elf
verse. what purpose is this
The good collapsed In her
pew and never raised her head during
the of the service.
Cleveland Dealer.
Never spill when turned over.
JOB PRINTING
Give a call.
ft. Ice
STATE S.
Happenings In North Carolina.
The Tress says that snow fell
Hickory Sunday night of last week
but melted as bat its it fell.
About MM ids are employed
in the penitentiary shirt factory in
Raleigh MOO dozen shirts
week arc shipped.
county are selling
of coin to wagoners,
who come from Cleveland
and from various points South
Carolina, where the drought
this year. The wagons arc
loaded and the cash paid over
right at crib.
Hard on
Theft Is a family said
a the children
are all boys. They arc Tory rich,
each of the sous Is receipt of a
liberal allow but the Banner in
which It certain of
their were as succinct-
and tersely described possible
the other day by Bob. lbs eldest one. In
telling the story of a burglary that
curred last summer their country
place. oldest. Jack the sec-
and Albert the youngest son.
the story,
didn't gel very much, us sonic
one of the servants thought he heard
something and In going to In-
probably scared him off. but
when we the next morning
Hint a burglar had visited us we
rally look of stock. The
only rooms hi the house he had entered
were those of my two brothers and
myself, and each of them be had
gone through the clothes we had beta
wearing the day before. Out of
clothes lie got cents, Jack be
got nothing, and In going through
Bert's Jeans lie got In
York Tribune
Prevention
better than cure. Liver
Pills will not only cure, but if
taken in time will prevent
Sick Headache,
dyspepsia, biliousness, malaria,
constipation, jaundice, torpid
liver and kindred diseases.
Liver PILLS
ABSOLUTELY CURE.
R- B
AND BRANCHES
AND ATLANTIC COAST LINE
COMPANY OF
CAROLINA.
SCHEDULE
Old Darners In I t .- a.
Id Edward Scott's In Ail
arc some curious details about
the dances used by our forefathers.
was a
Mr. Scott's definition, for be-
fore It was ended each lady had kissed
all the twice, and each man
had been equally Mary
Stuart darned the though
so and so as
Elizabeth. In King time
danced the
ion and
cum
In a Garden
of of Pudding,
Slaughter and at
Coat, Old are dances
quite so old.
; DATED
Ac t Mount
Leave Tarboro
L Rocky Mount
Leave Wilton
Lt Pay tile
Ax Florence
Ar
Lt i
It Magnolia
WU ml carton
THAI St-
When, as a boy, the Duke of Sax.
and the Island of
Barbados, his was done for
him by a named Jane Am
Smith, who was over G feet In height
was so puffed up at being
ed by royally that she claimed
at once over all the other
women and retained It for many yea
-1 ill
AM I'M I'M
ii
l as is
i as
l as to
t k II
so u a
III
I'M AM
as
C MM
II I I
DIRECTORY.
CHURCHES.
school
a. m.
Divine and every
morning evening. Ev-
prayer Wednesdays at
M . and Fridays at A
M . Kev. I. A. Minister
every Bun-
day, morning and evening. Pray-
Thursday evening. Kev.
J. N Booth, Sunday-
m. C. D. Rountree,
every Sun-
day, morning and evening.
meeting Wednesday evening. Rev.
N. M. Watson, pastor. Sunday
school W F. Harding,
thin
Sunday, Rev.
J. B. Morton, pastor. Sunday-
school p. in. J. K. Moore
regular
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in
TRAINS
Lt
Lt
arrive Wilson
AM
r. a
PM All
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list
pm pa
Lear,
Ar Roost
Tarboro
Tarboro
Lr Mourn
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sail l,
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SO
II
An
A crowd . lung were sealed
In one of In the
the while old
veteran regale l them with
Stories oW limes on the
and r of aM lime cit-
yon Bill
ed one of the men. after las captain
had relating bow be ran a
gantlet of with hi way
back forties.
Hill Jones Well. I goats
replied see,
he died after the war. lie was a
old fellow too. I knew his father
before he was in Hill's moth-
One of the thought the old man
was lad by way of tripping
him up his dates asked, how
have you been riv-
Why. l started the
Mississippi II was but a
Love la a I
don't care for a big house at
lots of servants, do he asked.
she promptly.
you think that love In a flat
would be he persisted.
she answered, in a
flat, but not life
He postponed his
The wealthy Russians arc said to OB
iV. Railroad,
Division
ton pm,
leaves p m, arrives
m. Returning leans
I p m, arrive
pm, arrives
p m
leaves Ben-
am, a m, Red
. Springs s m, Hope Mills a
rive leaves
I p m, Hope Mills p m,
Red Springs p m, Mum n p m,
arrives 7.15 p m
extremely to hotel and shop Connections No
n the lands In which are at the Carolina Central
keepers
traveling. A Swiss authority insists
that Russians will spend more In a
mouth than 1.000
women for the same period of time.
FROM A-
three leading Southern tot
States are
with mills,
spindles, bales;
North Carolina, with mills.
spindles, consuming 380.-
bales, with
mills. spindles, consuming
bales.
n,
Card
m Full Sheet Poster.
The Eastern Reflector
TWICE A-WEEK
Is only a year and con
the news every week,
and gives information to the
those grow-
tobacco, that is worth
many times more than the
subscription price.
The depot at was burned
night. Quite a quantity
of plaids from some factory were
destroyed. How the fire
d is not known.
Three Sayings.
There is nothing so satisfying to
a woman as to know that a man
trusts her
The happiest earth
are those who have forgotten how
to fret.
There is always hope for the
bootblack who invests his super
in peanuts rather
in cigarettes.
Chess War.
The origin of chess Is shrouded
mystery. Thin- is little doubt, how-
ever, Hint its in India
and that n is an offspring of n
called m.-.-i is mentioned
In oriental us In use fully
years before lira Christian era.
From India spread Into Persia,
and thence Into Arabia,
the. Aral-s look ii and the
rest of western
The game was in all Ill-
vented for the purpose of illustrating
the of war. The Arab upon
this p Is It was vised for
the of a young despot by
his father, a learned Brahman, lo teach
him a king, notwithstanding his
power, fur safety upon
his subjects. The historians
credit of game to
who, claim, devised
II In beguile tedium of the siege
of Troy during the Trojan war
PATENTS
ADVICE AS TO
Book to obtain
Is
Letters Ado
i. a mm
MD
FREE
Hi Rod
ore st Sanford
tin.
dully imp
Rail road, at M ,
Springs
with the Air Line and Southern
; at Gulf with the Durham and
Charlotte Railroad.
Train on the Scotland Neck Brando
a pm. i pa,
nm. W pm
a m, W a n
at i- a m. n
; bun-lay.
I Train- Branch
i a m p m. t is
a m ind pm, m
arrive a a
, and SO p m.
Train
it p m, Sunday IS pm. fly-
mouth p m. fl p m.
Sunday. SO a m. mil sun
day am, w m, an.
, Train on C M
OS a m.
i m,
; a a m.
i Train Branch Inn
Mount st am. So p m,
lo a m. m pin. Hope am.
lea to Hope II am
. , a m. at
mil II except
Train on Branch leans Warsaw for
i Clinton dally, except Sunday, II m and
Clinton at ass
don tor all points North all a Blob
H. M.
Pass. Agent
J. Manager.
T. M. Manager.
A. P. A. M. Greenville
Lodge, No. meets first and
third Monday evening. R.
W. M. J. M. Sec
I. O. O. Lodge, No.
Meets every Tuesday evening.
D. D. Overton, N. G.
Sec.
K. of River Lodge,
meets every Friday evening
J. L. Fleming, C. C. Can
K. of R. and S.
R. Vance Council, No.
1696, meets every Thursday even-
W. B. Wilson, B. M. R.
Lang, Sec.
Jr. O. U. A. every
Wednesday night at in I. O.
O. F. hall. A. D. Johnson,
A. O. Council,
No. meets every first and third
Thursday nights Odd Fellows
Hall. J. Z. Gardner Worthy
Chief; D. S. Smith, Sec.
I. O. Conclave
No. meets every second and
fourth Monday nights in Odd
Hall. W. B. Wilson
D. S. Smith Sec.
No Ghost Story
all the same
Eye Opener.
our. store is an
DRY
i a few v
., .
s .
FOR SALE AT REFLECTOR BOOK STORE.
The Atlanta Journal tells the sail
of a little girl months old
playing round a tub with only a
few inches depth of water in it,
when it toppled in and was drowned
while its mother was near attend-
lo her domestic affairs, not re-
that her child was in the
least danger.
Where U
Pr. In In The
mi fever, Incidentally
call lo Hie fact that It Is not
wise for have an
who suffer from
even alight to go
He that In the
at least five
grains of should taken a
day to prevent chronic malarial poison-
This he In ad-
lo precautions In r-
to to wet and the
sun and n to moderation In eating and
want lo m Mrs. said
the visitor.
said the
has the
must lie the man
replied. her dentist, and I Lave
her teeth here In this
sin lulu Times.
GOODS
s AND
GROCERIES.
and learn at what low pi ices we
selling such excellent goods with
out being astonished.
But that is what here for,
o please customers and always
give them big values for their
money. Goods delivered free in
any part of the city. Come see
us.
Southern
Railway.
THE STANDARD RAILWAY
--------OF THE-
Li.
SOUTH.
Direct Line to all Points.
In the and prayer
booKs the the Saviour
Of the saints Bra always printed with
the title before them,
a Mr. John the Baptist. Mr. Saint
Mr. Matthew,
When a to
he always by making every-
body In the room get up in If they
re the lost
On last Friday a spark from a
ignited some cotton
on the platform belong-
to Mr. O. Gregory, and sixty Modern book rapidly
. . , . . .-. other causes,
sixties were damaged. The loss , , , ,,,,. b, u
considerable, but the cotton lo paper making
was not entirely
Neck Commonwealth.
1875.-
S. M.
HAS PROVIDED FOB
4.000 pounds Candy,
barrels Apples,
boxes Sweet Florida Oranges.
Coca
pounds Mixed
pound Raisins,
Currants, Citron,
Figs, Dates, Bananas.
Dolls. WATCHES, GUNS,
VASES, LAMPS
and
WAGONS, and
ALL KIND of
TOYS, CHEAP.
J. P. COREY,
IN-------
-A LINE OF
Also a nice Line of Hard war.
I can now be found in the
brick store formerly
occupied by J.
Brown.
COME TO SEE ME.
J. R. COREY.
OLD DOMINION LINE
Texas
California,
Florida,
Cuba and
Rico.
Strictly FIRST CLASS
on all through and Lo-
cal Trains; Pullman Palace Sleep
Cars on all Night Trains; Fast
and Safe Schedules.
Apply to Ticket Agents Time
Rates and General
or address,
R. L. VERNON, T. P. A.,
Charlotte, N. O.
F. R. DARBY, C. P. T. A.,
N.
No trouble answer questions
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Steamers leave Washington on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri-
days at A. M. for Greenville,
water permitting, to Tarboro.
Returning leave Tarboro at A.
M., Greenville A. M. on Tues-
days, and Saturdays.
Sailing hours subject to change de-
pending on stage of water.
Connecting at Washington with
Steamers for Norfolk, Baltimore,
New York and Boa-
ton, and for all points for the West
with railroads at Norfolk.
Shippers should order freight by
the Old Dominion S. Co. from
New York; Clyde Line from
Bay Line from Baltimore;
and Line from
Boston.
JNO. N. SON, Aft.
Washington,
J. J. CHERRY,
Greenville, N.
PATENT
Trip lo Paris
.
.
Wee
-FOR
The Eastern Reflector,
EDITOR
TRUTH II TO
PER
VOL. XVI
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER
NO
ED. H,
HEADQUARTERS
for It is that I sell about
the Toys and Christmas goods that are sold in Greenville,
but this is simply to let you know that I am still here
and with the biggest lot of toys and
CHRISTMAS
that I have ever had. Come and see them.
ED. K.
THE TOY MAN.
I lead others try to follow.
WASHINGTON
From
Wash Dec. 18,90.
Senator has been
pointed by the governor of
to fill the left by the
for golden
and being the enemy of silver, com-
the gold
standard bill through the House,
today. The was car-
out according to the advance
announcement, every particular
except that there were fewer
death of the Hay ward
will be warmly as a ,
and valuable recruit now Q
the ranks of the standard where Mr. ,,,
who are preparing for u
long and hard tight in the Senate
the gold bill,
which Mr. has it
no and where this par-
bill will be allowed to slum-
in Committee. But the
I will report as a
so easy to jam through the House., , gold standard Dill
The republican speeches in the that is even more objectionable
House, this week, have contained than the House bill. It is
lots of gosh about inside republican circles
and that the leaders would not
but very little praise of any be sorry if this session of Congress
gold standard bill, which adjourn without final action on
will if it becomes a law, put gold legislation, because
control of the of the conn- it would lie easier to raise a big cam-
Cotton Crop Still
Washington, Dee.
of the Department of
Agriculture reports bales
as the probable cotton production
of the States for ISM 1900.
This estimate is based a larger
number of both general and special
reports than has ever before
received by the in con-
with a cotton crop. While
weather conditions during the past
days have been more favorable
to whatever picking remained to
lie done, so that the general
of the crop is slightly
than one month ago, continued in-
leave absolutely no
doubt that the crop is even smaller
than was indicated either of the
previous reports.
The estimated productive area,
in thousands of acres is as
Virginia North Carolina
Sooth Georgia
Florida 2,88.1; Mis
Louisiana 1.179;
Texas Arkansas 1,726; Ten-
Oklahoma Indian
Territory Missouri total
percent, less
last year. The estimated yield
of lint cotton per acre is as
Virginia North Caro-
South
Florida Alabama
Mississippi Louisiana
Texas Arkansas
see Oklahoma Indian
Missouri
Friday
-AT-
Crowds Turned Away.
THE A TOBE. THE
PEOPLE FLOCK HERE
DONE ALL RECORDS IN THE OF THE HOUSE
PRICES HI OF
MADE HAPPY. A BOOB TO THE CITIZENS OF
IN ABUNDANCE.
Sale to Last until Xmas.
try in the bands of the bankers,
enabling them to contract or ex-
the amount of money in cir-
at will.
Mr. Quay is Washington,
making a personal appeal to Sen-
fund from the kings
if the matter is left hanging, by
promising to complete the job at
next winter's session, than it will
be if the bill goes on the statute
book before the Presidential cam-
atom to vote to him on the
governor's credentials. It is said Congress will adjourn on Wed-
that if he does not receive
from a number ate Committees have been
of Senators to make
certain that he
intends to withdraw
rear
it absolutely ranged, under the republican grab,
v II be seated, he i and three new Pa-
his Islands on
and credentials, but there Is a the Philippines, Cuba-
doubt as to whether he could with-1 have been formed, and Mr.
son will announce the House Coin-
draw them.
The democrats intend pushing
trust legislation at this session of
Congress. Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, has introduced an anti-
trust joint resolution which he says
he intends forcing to a vote if it
possibly can be done, and Senator
Chilton, of Texas, says the same
about the anti-trust bill he has in-
The attempt of Nebraska
to prevent the Beating of
Senator Allen, appointed by the
Governor to succeed the late Sena-
tor-elect Hay ward, on the ground
that Mr. Hay ward never
as death caused
no vacancy that could be legally
filled by the governor; aroused
nothing but amusement in Wash-
There will be no
to the of Senator Allen,
because there is nothing whatever
upon which it should be baaed.
The gild standard republicans
would like very much to find some
way to keep such a stalwart friend
of silver out of the Senate, until
the long financial debate,
will begin soon after the Christ-
mas recess the Finance Commit-
tee reports its gold standard bill,
is over, but they know too much to
butt their heads against brick
It la to say that
Senator Allen will be most
welcomed by the silver Sen-
who know his flue fighting
from experience.
Mr. the man who
Mr
before adjournment.
Marriott His First Wife
After Years.
Again
James G. of
township, was in last
week and got license to marry the
woman that he says he married
years ago and has lived with ever
since. He says that years ago
he and America Nichols went to
South Carolina and were married.
They made their home there till a
few years ago, when they were
burned out and everything
The certificate of marriage
was burned with the other things
They moved back to where
they have lived together since.
They have eight children, some of
them married. There are, how-
ever, always
and some of their unfriendly neigh-
have recently doubted their
marriage and threatened to have
suit brought. Their certificate
was gone and the witnesses dead,
and so they decided to have the
ceremony performed again so as
to allay the doubts of their
Chronicle.
par Chills and
Night sad
hack If It Nu other u
la, night and grippe,
It Nu other u
Bind Red on the
Bold and guaranteed by Woolen
A O School Officer.
In a letter to the teachers of For-
county, the Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Prof. C. H.
swats in a rather lively
fashion A. P. Davis, the
superintendent of Forsyth.
Mr. Davis, who was the fusion
county examiner, under the old
board, assumed the again
the decision of the Supreme
Court. null
the certificates issued by the school
authorities acting under the school
law of 1899, for this Prof.
Mebane calls him down. The
letter is as
Forsyth
have received
a clipping from a paper published
in your county, in which Mr. A.
P. Davis announces that he will
hold an examination on December
that he
we will not endorse any certificate,
but all must take the examination
alike. Any teacher refusing to
comply with this will forfeit his or
her position,
wish to say to you that all
teachers who have stood the exam-
under Mr. Walter O. Cox,
up to the time of the decision of the
Supreme Court, have received
certificates from said Cox in accord-
with the general school law of
1899, said certificates are good Air
one year from the date of their
issue.
have advised quite a number
of you from time to time since July
the first that issued by
Mr. Cox in accordance with th
school law are good for
year from the date of their issue,
and I meant what I then
mean it now
propose to see that you are
treated as and gentlemen.
It is a shame for any or set of
to try to drive teachers about
like ho many cattle.
If Mr. Davis will not endorse
your vouchers, let him refuse to do
so, but the legislature, which meets
in June, can easily pass a special
act and order the county treasurer
to pay you. We also have a
in the to compel an of-
to do his duty.
I this as a matter of
to yon and also in response to
numerous letters received from
your county, which I have not been
able to answer account of press
of official and other duties.
truly,
H. MEBANE.
Pub.
IN-
TO GIVE ALL A CHANCE, THE HAS ALLOWED THESE EXTRA LOW PRICKS
TO REMAIN DECEMBER LOOK FOR LARGE
FRONT ENTIRE
J. B. CHERRY CO.,
Greenville,
yo crop can
grow with-
out Potash.
Every blade of
Grass, every grain
of Corn, all Fruits
and Vegetables
must have it. If
enough is supplied
you can count on a full crop
if too little, the growth will be
look. i
A Smile la Each.
Some people can resist
except temptation.
th
pi temptation.
before a fall, as
turkey can testify.
FOR-
Hardware, Paints
AND STOVES
A SPECIALTY.
AND
HEATERS
HEATERS
MORE
BEST HAT BE BOUGH
COME AND SEE OUR
ND HEATERS GARLAND
COOK STOVES, THE WORLDS
BEST.
BAKER HART
N. C
in the usual way. As long as
rooms up stairs have hail to lie
price, arc
more for those on the lower
than was ever paid before, In the
case guests who happen to over-
look this question when they order
rooms, there is always a prompt re-
volt if themselves above
Shy About High Up Rooms.
The Windsor Hotel lire has bad
one result which hotel keepers
he city constantly appreciate. In
new and presumably fireproof ho-
tels this surviving feeling; shows
less conspicuously, although there
are evidences of it. is very the third Boor. It is not with in
much harder than it ever was be- to deceive that we bad all
said a clerk in a Filth the numbering of the rooms
hotel, persons so that the higher mini-
go to rooms on the upper doors, for tiers are the Hoofs, but
the fear of tire has become so much w the object of avoiding discus
greater shire the Windsor Hotel New York Sun.
catastrophe that
now compelled to rent rooms u
very much cheaper price or have
them vacant when they arc e
the fourth floor. Before last win- I, President of
we had no trouble of that kind. the Tobacco G rowers Association,
long us the elevator carried I
guests up and down they never the Jan-
seemed to care what loot they to select delegates to a State
of tobacco growers to
be held Raleigh 17th. Let
every section of Pitt county he rep-
Negated in the hare.
pi is
in this mane.
Tobacco Convention.
here we publish from
now that is
most the only one that guests pay
attention to. The small demand
for the upstairs rooms is of a
hardship than it might be, because
he
Freight Rate on Paper.
Some weeks ago the trust
kited in ices while paper of
all kinds and grades, to the great
of all printing concerns,
notably newspapers.
Now railroads have followed
suit by raising freight on the liner
grades of paper, to the
of book and Job printers.
The increase is about per
cent., or rate from Baltimore
to Raleigh, for Instance, has
jumped from to cents,
Other words, paper, w is
always framed or crated for ship-
has been taken from the boo-
and put in the sixth.
This rate, therefore, docs not
ply to paper rolls or bundles,
but only to such paper as is crated
or framed for shipment to prevent
damage, the rate depending upon
the of the
Of course this only affects book
and job printers, and they arc
vigorously it. Al-
ready complaint in regard to it has
been Bled with the corporation
commission, and yesterday
letter regard to the rate was
sent out from the office of Edwards
it I trough I on asking all printers
and newspapers in the State to as-
in the light against the rate.
News Observer, 13th.
The malls are getting heavy with
letters.
The weak vote
may use strong language.
When a man's board is due he is
expected to plank down.
A man's love is apt to grow cold
his breakfasts are not warm.
A man's conversation may be
heavy and yet his words may not
carry much weight.
Few really believe that they
deserve the good opinions they
have of themselves.
Social drawn even tho
barnyard. All the don't
belong to the same set.
Adam may have had his own
troubles, but Eve spared him the
threat of home to
newspapers are excellent for
polishing windows, and they are
also useful for
grates stoves. This last should
be done while the stove is hot,
and, if a little turpentine is rubbed
over afterwards, all grease will be
removed.
Pitt
HOWS THIS t
offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward any case of Catarrh
that can not be cured by Hall's
Catarrh cure.
V. Co.;
Toledo, O.
We t be millers have known
F. J. for the last
and him perfectly
honorable In all business
and financially able to carry
on I any obligations made by I heir
Urn,
Tin wholesale drug-
gists. Toledo. O.
Wholesale druggists, Toledo. O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken in-
acting the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Trice per bottle.
old all Druggists.
live.
family arc beat.
III
solemn that as
stands a beautiful
I trail many of your
Bud names written ill the
Book of Some-
we arc made sad by seeing
i-I names certain places.
would rather sec my daughter's
on her tomb stone than to
and it In a list of dances.
I would nil her see my son's name
in your list than lo read
his as leader of m
A.
Tilt
The following is a of the
c-f meetings of the f
fer Pitt number of days each
member attended, number of miles
and amounts allowed for services
as for the fiscal rear
ending December 3rd, 1899.
or
II. L. Davis attended
W Harrington hath
Calvin J Tucker attend d
J I, U Manning hath
W King attended
Kit days as
For day as
miles hum
Total
ma
anneal o w
Fur as HO
Fur days as IS
For allies
Total
ma
VI C
days as Commissioner
For days M
For
Total
allowed Manning
allowed W M King
Total Board
mi
or Pitt.
II. Clerk
of Commissioners for the county
the foregoing is a
appear upon rec-
my
under my hand Ike of
i of
T. R.
for Hit
, r. L.
MOORE.
At Law.
C.
Dr. D. l.
It. C.
Office

ml
EASTERN REFLECTOR
N. O.
D. J. WHICH Owner
Entered at the Post Office at
Green villa, H. as Second Class
Mail Matter.
For weeks the press of the Me-
has been tilled with
speculation relative to the where
of the glorious work of the
Army in the northern part of La-
ion. Now come the statement
that is making for
in the of the
and that the Insurgent forces there
are larger and stronger ever.
What a deceitful rascal somebody
MORMON CUSTOMS
Observations By in Their
Midst-
Dec. is, 1899.
Editor
As I have recently a
spirit of inquiry existing many
of the journals of the
try, the theory
practice of Mormonism, I will
write a few that have come
under my observation.
I stayed in of Mount Oar
Utah, about three months in
1831. It contained about
inhabitants, all of whom
were members of the Mormon
church.
Their church services are opened
the Bishop, who then calls a
preacher from the congregation of
which every male member is a
Elder. At the close of the
services the seats are removed and
the Bishop a dance with
prayer. Then all join an old
fashion after the
which is continued until the con-
is exhausted. The sue-
wish to settle in their
midst. The men do the work
Wheat, Irish potatoes, cattle
are the products, on which the
people subsist. About sixty
years ago in what was known as
the Mountain Meadow Massacre,
the Mormons murdered about
were an
train passing through
Utah their way to California.
John l. was their leader
the massacre, capturing
the he kept prisoners
for weeks weeks. Finally he
turned the towards home am-
bushed stayed all but the
These he kept reared
the Mormon faith. During this
time he was close
with the
chief.
This act was concealed for thirty
years, it finally
known. was a fugitive from
justice a long time staying in
mountain caves and being secreted
by Eventually lie was
captured, court
shot. These are facts, I have seen
his name in caves where
I was informed he curved it in the
sand stone while he was hiding.
I have also visited the site of the
massacre.
left a wife six children
Carolina and of course did
not partake of their ways. am
sixty years old and belonged to
Confederate Infantry in
war. I served four years.
My Colonel was from
Missouri. I give as reference to
my standing as a Sheriff
M. Morning, clerk
of Superior court, D. C. Moore.
T. J. Jams, or any lead-
citizen of Pitt county.
Yours truly,
J.
A la Bach.
Sympathy doesn't empty
stomach.
Small boys are acquiring large
stockings.
The doctor realizes that practice
is better
The landlady and the lumber
addicted to board bills.
Every carve out his
fortune, but he needs sharp
tools.
Marriage is often a tie that
a man with
it comes to en-
gaged, the average girl likes just
an everyday wart of man.
Bo, Maude, dear, incubator
is not exactly the MM thing as
egg
A woman's idea of economy is to
save the pennies spend the
dollars.
The Hi i i wishes every
reader a merry Christmas.
liver
, ; .-.
m. ft I
r. Headache and all
Pills
v ill i Hie
Hi- v d-j i. or pain, do
haves tonic effect.
at all by mail of
C. I. Lowell.
for years
Superior Court Clerk of Beaufort
county, died Washington
i i
To
u I
to Joint I
S i .
JOHNSON'S MILLS ITEMS,
Th.-
The critic was the most prominent
leader of Power lie Is slow
of speech sail tats
painfully, when he does speak
word lilts, lie go about,
as is the manner of less cultivated
alter, but strikes home with few
Words, mainly figurative. lie;
Is full of the Instinctive aversions and
of a of culture, he i a re-
tired spends most of,
his time an dirty
loon.
At a ball which leader of Bow-
an society a took
place, ill which there were contestants
for a prise, to Riven lo him who
was the most natural. Any who
should burlesque IDS walk of the Bow-
tough was be excluded If the
tough walk was to be given, U was
he given right
must do it on de said
the leader of society, giving
instructions. must give us
real no cake walk, dis
bard walk. Walk Jest if you was
walking lane I
bundle girl on arm. Anybody
kin look tough, but want you to look
as as do real de bloke de
Bowery, no
Century.
. Matter's call
of an but
II Is gnu
is look,
blue blouse bis an-
prised K Is
tor's, because of its Intrinsic value.
The clothing worn by CM-
PI ., is the costs any-
where from o suit.
As u nation object to
wearing of kind, nod
centuries i I have
them how to make up the
caterpillar into the most
form, ibis Chinese
dress, though of purer material, has
none of the been usually associated
with silk. peculiarity which has re-
the erroneous ideas as to their
composition. All the garments are
made China and are only exported
for the personal use of Celestials in
foreign countries.
Owing to their cost, however, they
are only purchased in long intervals,
each garment being of so durable a
character banded
to the third even the fourth
Wear appears rather Improve
than otherwise, with the result
that the of the father or
often more Intrinsic value
than the newer less worn articles.
We have a
first class
TAILOR,
HARRY F. WALLS.
WHO WILL MAKE
SUIT, PAIR OF PANTS
OR FANCY VEST,
Prices Ills guaranteed.
Suits cleaned and pressed.
Greenville Tailoring Co.
V. J. LEE, S. V.
MY
IS
A SALE DAY
at My Store. I do not cut prices day make it up
on somebody else the next, but every day
MY ABE SO LOW it is to your interest to see me
before you buy. You never get fooled at my store bu
full value for dollar every time you comet
STOCK IS COMPLETE and my goods are NEW
Goods Hats,
furniture and
In of these Hues you get all your filled at my store
the lowest prices for honest goods.
C.
NEW BIG GREENVILLE, N. C
Walls Hal
The Irishman who v.
tel lift know
up ill the
what it was
Johnson's Mills. Dec.
ox is on I he sick list.
L. II. Cox returned home i
day from a week's trip.
Misses Florence and Katie
rick returned home Saturday from
Institute where they
visiting relative.
The Junior Guild of St. John's
church will have an oyster supper
Friday before Christmas and
and the Christian at
Salem will give one Tuesday night
after Christmas.
services are all the same.
of their missions to this
country is to obtain the names
our dead send them to Utah,
order that some may be
for them, and thereby enable
them to have life, wives, and
bands in eternity. The names of
dead women here are taken and
sealed to living Mormons, they
may have husbands in I he next
world, where they there is
more multiplying in this.
They marry by revelation. If a
member makes known lo the church
that it is revealed to him that be
must wed a certain woman, they
make preparation to have the
performed regardless of the
wishes of the She is taken
to the baptismal font in the
where the priest washes her
water anoints her with
oil, that she may be faith-
forth for
Then they are pronounced
and wife through all eternity.
One chief point of their , ,
is the laying on of hands H, .
uniting with oil for the healing of
the sick. They also claim to raise
the dead.
There is a tithing house belong
to every church, where all
members have to store something
for its support.
My authority is Bishop
v. hose house I made my home while
in lie was a relative of
mine and we were very Intimate.
Bishop had three wives.
For instance he stayed wife
during the day, at
night with number two, and
third night wife number
being careful lo get home
day dawned each time. The next
night was spent with wife number
one and so The Bishop was
considered one of the
its of the church. There
no is too poor to have a sew
machine and stove.
They take great interest
cation, and keep their at
school all the time, being careful
to employ none but Mormon teach-
They are strict enemies of all
other denominations, and puss res-
in their conference not to
employ any gentile person from
another to do any work for
them. Asa people, they oppose
all public improvement do not
have been
GRIFTON items.
Dec. 1899.
Dr. II. Johnson was here
day.
w. Pope was here Sat-
and Sunday.
Bryant Gardner and W. Poole
went to Friday.
S. Stalling, of Norfolk,
came down on a short visit, W.
Stalling was general manager
here at the X. W. mill.
son is here on a I if
days furlough from the I. S.
Army in Alabama.
There was a case la-fore Mayor,
the prisoner
through the
calaboose.
Thomas left today
mi another trip working insurance.;
Miss Blow is here visiting I
her brother, Blow,
There will lie religious exercises j
here op Christmas day. All are-
invited.
W. S. Br. near
yesterday. He is buy-
up I the timber, such as birch,
ash, maple, gum, willow and
beech, he can gel.
Capt. Arthur of
who for eighteen years was an as-
doorkeeper of the V. S.
was found dead his room
at Washington City Saturday morn
It is singular lo that
Arthur
years ago the was in
eclipse, as the night after the
death of Barnes the same
phenomena Wilson
News.
your Chills and Fever, Malarial
ml Night Sweat
Chill Tonic at Mr j
to lake. Money n if it .
perinea the blood and
yon well. None an
by Unix Vi
ml sold guaranteed at the drug
of Bryan Woolen and SI.
ii ml
The number of cultured, refined,
people who slip Into error In the
use of Is large and
pears to be continually grow Their
trouble lies in i heir Inability to sens-
rate the Oral person from the third,
where both or.- referred to. as the
expression. ashed lie I
beard a very clever say
said Hint him and we
were the only two the A
lawyer street, well known a
unusual ability, gets it wrong J
nearly every Urns by striving hard lo ,
get It right, lie is so afraid that .
client and Is Incorrect that he com-
promises on client
He knows my and will not
do.
separating the first and second
persons this block Is instant-
removed, and even a child cannot
err. said that him me
might fool some people, hut
said him could
trip any one. Neither could
said that me Now. altogether.
said that he was; George said
that George said that
he and I fork
did not recover easily from the
prise. He relates the story In Ibis
lo Hie hotel, and. says I, -g
Smith
said the man with the
cop. p
lo the closet, and all of
a lie putt's Hie rope,
the truth I'm u yes the walls of
the building began running down to
the cellar.
says I,
come of i and the children which
was left I. lot
lb, cap
They'll I nil when yes
-ti. is it says I.
it is el i at all. but a
balloon, I In
i t i alls . stock
still. ; op the tin re
I was -I the to- f J-. i. . my
And. that's what saved mo
from to the
OBI Tilt THAT US
OFFERED, AND AT THE
LOWEST
am now of the new Rawls
stores prepared lo supply all
your the way of
STAPLE AND FANCY
GROCERIES.
t exclusive Grocery
and I carry a
STOCK of the BEST
Just sonic California
Peaches.
A Rub.
A very simple proved
very unfortunate to n savings
In the rural district recently. Au
editor, In Writing of the Institution In
hi-
president is a wry tall man;
tin i-
And in an an hour the excited
depositors asking. much-
how Atlanta
It is an Interesting fad that
the dahlia was Introduced Into Citrons
It was as a lower it
valued, but n The
Is tn lie really akin to potato.
and it was it would
an Important addition t our food re-
sources. The single variety to
have been Aral,
of having Introduced it
It came to from
Madrid Spaniards having. It Is I-
found It In and It
was Introduced into well s
A ft w daring adventurer-, appear to
bare ma trial of it as on edible root,
hut it is t; r easy to
a or article of food, and the
f dahlia old not take on. If
It had due the Is that
never have troubled much
shout it cultivation as n flower. We
never do for fruit and
flower, too, and If we had of
dahlia
should had dahlia
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CLOSING OUT
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CO
Grimesland, N. C.
About January next we will sell our entire
of Dry Notions, Clothing,
Furniture Crockery
FIRST COST FOB CASH,
Until i, 1900.
TUCKER CO.
KM 1875.-
S. M.
PROVIDED FOB YOU
Apples,
boxes
Figs,
. Dolls. WATCHES,
VASES,
and
WAGONS,
ALL KIND of
TOYS,
me.
mm m.
hone
No Ghost Story
Mime our store is an
Eye
not
stock
DRY s
. GOODS
AND
GROCERIES.
and Ira in at what low pi ices
selling Bitch excellent with
out being astonished.
But that is what we are here for,
o please our customers always
give them big values for their
money. delivered free in
any part of the city. to see
us.
L.
ENJOYING All XMAS FEAST
is what everyone in Greenville is
looking forward to in the season of
good fellowship and merriment,
and right here at our store will be
the delicious morsels
cakes and candies, choice fruits,
celery, fancy oranges
apples, nuts, every-
thing else you can think of. For
your baking we have the
finest pastry Hour,
pure spices as well as
jellies at bed rock prices.
J. S.
W. H. White, W. T. Fleming.
Hi I
Vt have just opened
with an entirely new
and complete stock of------
We Carry
Dry Goods, Notions. Boots,
Shoes, Hats, Hardware,
Crockery, Farm Implements,
Meat, Flour, Sugar, Coffee,
Lard, Tobacco, etc., in fact
every STAPLE
carried in a general stock.
We Also Sell
Premiums been pal
OATS, COT-
TON SEED HULLS AND
MEAL AND GUANO.
Our prices on everything will be
found as low as a good article can
In-Mild You are cordially in-
to visit our store.
Highest prices paid for all kind
of country produce.
WRITS FLEMING,
N. O
H. W.-
WHICHARD
to W. B.
Whichard, N. C.
The complete in every
part men t and prices as low as the
Highest market prices
aid for country produce.
IN
II
W.
of , N. J.
Your Policy
Has Cash Value,
Loan Value,
Paid up Insurance,
Insurance
works automatically,
Will be reinstated within
three years after lapse if you are
in good health.
After Year
No Restrictions,
Incontestable.
Dividends are payable at the be-
ginning of the second and of each
year, the
for the current year be paid
They may I used
To reduce Premiums, or
To Increase the Insurance, or
To Make Policy Payable as
an Endowment during the Lifetime
of Insured.
j. l.
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GREENVILLE N. O.
-o
Cotton Bagging and rial always
Fresh goods kept on
hand. Country produce and
old. A trial will convince you.
O. W.
you any
If m, lo mo.
market prices.
I pay s
J. M.
bum
FRANK WILSON
The King Clothier
has no old goods to Shove off on you, but
Just what a well in in or boy i
wear. Call to see me and I will con-
you I have right goods
at a lower price than you have
to pay for
LIST.
Not Bat of People.
Monday,
Mrs. B. Whichard in sick.
for
J. K. King left this
IN HIS NEW STOKE
CLOTH I KB
EASTERN REFLECTOR
NOTICE.
If there is a CROSS MARK
on margin of this paper it
is to remind you that you owe
for
and we request
you to s-tile as early as pas-
We need what YOU
owe us and hope you will not
keep us waiting for it.
This notice is for those who
And the cross murk on their
paper.
LOCAL REFLECTIONS.
The air has a snowy feeling.
Fresh Pork Sausage at S. M.
Holly
is coming in.
Some of the street side-
walks unpaved.
The well the Court House
square has been the
pump put
Call
In on Jan. 17th.
To Tobacco G rowers of North
By a resolution of the North Car-
which met December
1899, all tobacco farmers
North arc asked to
at their various county seats
tho first Monday in
county associations
send one or more delegates, not ex-
five from each county,
convention to be held Raleigh,
17th, 1900, at o'clock
p. m.
Planters Virginia, South Car
am invited to
us, form county associations
send delegates to this
At these meetings it is
earnestly desired that the
business in all phases fully
freely discussed especially
Rev. J. B. tuned
this morning.
John one of Bu
carriers, is sick.
Waller of
sou, is relatives here.
H. W. who has
sick some weeks, is able to be out.
E. Coward returned this
from in c.
Mrs. B. E. left this
morning for Oxford to visit
Miss Mary of
who has visiting Miss Pattie
left this morning for
home. Miss Pattie accompanied
her and will spend the holidays
across the sou ml.
Tuesday, If, 1899.
Mrs. O. came over from
Kin-tun this
R. E. Lee, of Wilson, is visiting
his mother, Mrs. S. Lee.
M. F. Jefferson returned
ed evening from Beaufort
AND
BUSINESS NOTES.
x. c.
Manning ,
war.
have plenty of
ever one m
SHOOTING AT
Negro Release From Guard
House.
-Show gave a
Farmville a large crowd
being there that day. When the
performance was over t he
about their preparation
which they served in
their tents. While supper
was several colored men
around the circus
themselves ob- ibis f ,.,,.
them to go away from the I u . , ,, , .
,. . i to
lo go front of the
main where the would
play. of the colored
grew very insolent over ask
ed to move. Soon afterwards a
pistol shot was heard outside t In-
tent. This was followed
shot, when a little son of Mr. Mr
of musicians of the
how, screamed said lie was
shot. The boy struck the
shoulder.
The shooting caused excite
seven young to
to T. Tyson, local cooperative factories, mar-
ascertaining a
II
There are almost as many shop
out at night this week us
during day.
They cannon crack-
Monday night. It
most like Christmas.
The took Christmas a little
ahead went in total eclipse
early Saturday night.
R. is packing up
stock of Greenville Book Store
to move back lo Wilson.
W. B. Wilson and W. L. Brown
have moved into their new office
in building.
passenger train is let-ling
lie approach of Christmas. It was
three hours late Tuesday night.
If you want mortgage,
mortgage or crop lien blanks I'm
the year get them at
office.
body is pulling for trade
this week. If as much enterprise
was shown all the year trade would
be better all the year.
is more blessed to give than
to The has
a lot of receipts on baud. Come
around and let us give you one.
Mr. N. H.
Reflector that he was out
exercising his trotting horse, this
morning, fell dead.
In thinking what to
absent friend for a Christmas pros
let us a year's sub-
to The The
paper will remind the friend of you
all the year.
One of the cars of the north
bound freight train got off the
truck, Tuesday, tin side of Scot-
land Neck. A wrecking train had
to be sent down to get the oar
on the track. The toad was block-
ed several hours.
Attractive Window.
The center window of C. T.
ford's new store is the
in Ibis week
exhibit Is made in it that would do
credit to a establishment. A
handsome parlor suit of furniture
the window, the door
with rugs, lace curtains and
with hanging
all TIm holly sod
moss give holiday
appearance to display,
pretty R. A Corset girl that
hangs in back ground
gets
log
a-, possibly the acreage for
the county, yield per acre,
of crop marketed, class of to
raised, prices,
If for any reason counties fail to
organize, individual grow era from
those counties may attend us
gates.
Thorough organization is
to improve present
J.
Pres. N. C Grower's As.
Died.
Mr. Davis, of
ville, died Sunday. He was re-
as one of the best and most
upright citizens of Greene county.
He was about years old and
leaves a wife and four
Monday's Panic.
The tremendous tic-dine the
cotton market created con-
all over the cotton grow-
States and numerous inquiries
were made as to the of the
collapse. Monday Prise,
. sent out other
telegrams on the situation in order
that if possible might
restored. re-
the .
New York, Dec. 10th, 1899,
ED. N.
Stock market adversely
affected cotton today but worst
seems over Understand action
will be taken by Secretary of Treas-
New York house
that will avert trouble
row. seems to have seen
bottom today.
Prick, k k Co.
. .- .
Li.,., v. on . the
of
Thor much n ad danger
in Store the that her
gives way lo s
of tin st the thought
pain which she must undergo.
t so preys upon the mind
many women that it till, them with
and baby's a
the and dread.
All the and the
ordeal he avoided by the um
of friend, which
tho this event.
Mrs. J. W. Higgs left
for Rocky Mount to visit her
parents.
N. M. left this
for Greensboro to be pres-
at I lame marriage.
W. F. Harding left this morning
for Greensboro on a mis
He will Miss Long, of
city Thursday morning.
will return Friday evening with
his
Joseph Rawls left this morning
for Tarboro.
take a trip to fair
hi-
I who lives
Ha
a gnat many arc
sold. a. ;. . i at tin-
top of the market all the tine.
We I nun the
name of Harrison
has natal
by Tucker this plate,
and will upon a stock of goods
and broke up the night
circus. The of
Joyner, who was charged yesterday. By way,
shouting, was is of those farmers who
placed in the guard fancy prices for his tobacco,
house lo lie held until he could be and whom the little farmers My
brought lo the county jail, but Ml pits with
the
AND II fED
Orinoco Guano
Has the largest sale of Tobacco the world
Manure your plant beds with ORINOCO, and then
to pounds per acre; it will give the plant
a and vigorous growth, will mature a
BRIGHT
Farmer's Bone Fertilizer
is heat all round all tried on co
crops and
BY
Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. M. I,. has beau
quite sick for several days.
Mrs. W. T. of
who has been visiting Mrs. E.
J. Moore, left this
Miss Patrick returned
home Tuesday evening from Dur-
ham where she has been attending
music school.
Miss Mary Alice returned
home in evening from Greens-
where she bus been attending
III lisle School.
Union nesting.
The of the Tar
River Association convenes with
the Memorial Baptist church at
Greenville December the
Following is the
Fridays o'clock, P. M., Intro-
Sermon by Rev. J. H.
Washington.
Saturday o'clock, A. M.,
Exercises by Rev. O.
B. Webster,
Saturday o'clock, A. M., Our
Young People, by W. A. Dunn,
Mai U o'clock, A. M.,
Home Department in
Work, by Rev. M. L.
Rocky Mount, Rev. L.
Hobgood.
o'clock, P. M.,
Outside Mission Work Comic.-
with our Town and
Churches, by Rev. B. K.
Williamston, Rev. A. W.
Ayers, Bethel.
o'clock, P. M.,
Miscellaneous
o'clock, P. M.,
Song Service lead by Choir.
Saturday o'clock, P. M.,
Woman's Mission Societies in
Churches, by K. E. Hilliard.
Sunday A. M.,
day school with short talks lo be
arranged by the Superintendent.
Sunday o'clock A. M.,
by Dr. R. T.
Sunday P. M Sermon by
Rev. II. Craig.
during the his broke
guard and released
him.
The of the wounded
brought him to Greenville
Monday night and left this morning
for their home in W.
Va.
Don't Put it Off
The wise thing lo do is watt
until Saturday to make your
day purchases. The stores arc
goods
the early buyers are gelling
pick Brat. Don't put it
day. over the columns of
and you will see
where lo go to the right kind
of goods.
Talked a Little Too Long.
Two business from
towns
and to tho depot
late the expecting to
on the
1st during this time. Thousands They engaged in no
and let the train
pull out leave
They made the
a good share of admiration Co. Atlanta. receive the waited for
ill
. m, we
Fast Tims.
We hear that one of our
who
was oil a trip in the
oilier day, drove four miles in IS
in I he horse Dally trotting
so fast I hat a. rabbit was run over
ii the road, The horse that made
this time would be n invest
race J. D.
says he will vouch for
reel of this.
Mayors Court.
Mayor bad the following
cases before bis coin I Monday in- on
Dock Clark, drunk and disorder-
lined l costs, total 94.60.
William drunk and
using vulgar and profane language,
lined costs, total 13.85.
Alex drunk and
using profane language,
lined and costs, total
Killed By a Log Train.
Saturday afternoon a colored
man named Will Barnes was kill
ed by a log on the
Lumber Company's road,
in township, the
dent occurred while the was
bringing a loud of logs out of the
w Tho colored man was pass-
along on the cars when in some
way he fell off between them.
Three of tho loaded cars
over him his body was terribly
mangled.
If church members those
who pretend lo be working so bard
to get liquor out of Ayden and
other towns patronizing
bar-rooms themselves, the
whiskey business would receive a
death Mow. that if a
man never enters a grog shop him.
self, sends by some one else to
get staff only lakes his
dram at home, he is patronizing
the bar same.
It is reported all over tho country
A. G. Cox B. F. Manning
have bail an affray and been shoot-
at each oilier. Will say
of any who have heard such
report is entire false.
They have even bad a cross
word, and have never been friend-
lier in lives, it is true that
one of old front
teeth is out, bin lie pulled ii out
himself. The fact be is wear.
for a charm goes in
prove mi one knocked out.
Trial Postponed.
The three men who were
held on of
Colonel's jury in tin ease of
murder and burning of Mr, George
Taylor, near Oakley, Saturday
were arraigned for
nary trial today before a court com-
d If. Hurtling, W.
W. II. Long. A
large number of people the
ion in which
were present,
Solicitor L. I. Moore
to Stale, his
request the was postponed
28th, to give
for developing farther
My Stock
is Complete
-sIN ALL
prices that will suit you.
AND SEE THEM.
Jas. B. White.
BICYCLE
GUN
General Repair Shop.
a hi; hack a; at old stand on main
STREET PUBLIC.
ADDED NEW A AUK
PARED DOING
BICYCLES TO
Don't Tin-
happy days
children as they look forward in
joyous to Christmas
eve night wonder what Santa
Claim will bring them. They count
the and the
their joy increasing I lie lime for
the fruition of their hope draws
nearer. Moaned childhood, who
would rob the little one of thin
happiness Seeing I heir joy takes
I lie older us lo
days when Hitch were
la-l's children
make ourselves by eon
lo joy. May Ibis
be of for now feast on and
them all. , be for u year.
Yesterday, Crisp, T.
Eagles, Jr., lost his
which he bad recently erected, by
Are. It caught from a defect
flue. Mr. It is bride
ORIGINAL OBSERVATIONS.
Made by the Orange Va.
Tee.
The is very
by.
a deaf man gel a hear-
Your closest friend is the one
who won't loan you a cent.
The greatest miser becomes ex-
when advice is to be
given away.
Eggs are so high now that
cents for a seal on the to
hear a cackle.
A lie as it
escape venom
slanderous serpents.
Some people a ho pretend to be
with religion, haven't got
enough to till of a lion.
The bail way to waist
is In put your arm
mound waist best girl.
The unhappy swine are squeal-
the days arc here;
f AM
Dress
In In make
regular
in 2.1 tor
room for Spring Stock, I
at n cut price from
ALSO
and
have swellest line imaginable
i ratio, from to 98.00,
the
IN THE
Kid
A Hew
line ff Slate Mocha. and
in Price
PUSH
had occupying a month.
He was to save all bis
Tho Henderson Gold Leaf has en-
its nineteenth year,
Manning gives his one of
the best III
His town ought to he doubly
Shoes and
is tun. all
Every thing new. No old goods, stock
or to shove off you.
Phone
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We have before referred to the
fact that two of the of
Mr. Watts, of Alexander
county, lost their minds some
weeks ago as the result of attend-
ion meetings. The
preacher denied this
and said that Mr. Watts had stated
that the insanity of his daughters
was not due to their baring
the doctrine.
In the Landmark, of
Friday, Mr. Watts states that he
never said of the kind.
One of his daughters, he says, is in
the Hospital at Morganton; the
other her mind and is at
home now. will stay there a
time before she goes to hear
another preacher. I
would
a dozen elders turned loose
in my neighborhood than one
This doctrine does
appear to be the most dangerous
and troublesome thing that has
ever hit The dog
fennel. Canada thistle, Hessian fly,
hives and seven-year itch are not
in its class; no more are
fever, yellow fever,
and smallpox. It makes fools
of sensible people, fools crazy,
and, from every point of view, is a
nuisance and a
Observer.
Y. r Hr Oft
Many people- believe tint do
not weep, but thorn- who have much to
do with these faithful creatures know
that on several they will
abed an well an sorrow la
the most In
west, where the hardiness of tho
ponies causes the riders to almost over-
look the of for their
needs, It la quite common when the
weather Is extremely cold to leave an
puny up for two or
three hours when the temperature Is
nearly nod while owner la
business or drunk.
In this cat the Is evidenced
by the which are almost like
obs. and unmistakable tears on
to the cheeks like Icicles.
When a horse falls In the street and
gets Injured, the generally numbs
the senses so much that It not el
cry or groan, but under some con-
an Injured horse will solicit
sympathy In the most distinct
I remember a favorite horse of my own
which trod on a nail enough to
pierce foot. The poor thing hob-
bled up to me on three logs and cried
as nearly like a child In trouble as any-
thing can describe. The sight a
very touching one. was also the
gratitude when the nail
pulled out and the dressed.
St Louis
Bilious and
which prevail in dis-
are invariably
Ivy derangements of the
Stomach Liver and Bowels.
The Secret of Health.
The liver is the great
in the mechanism of
man, and when it is out of order,
the whole system becomes de-
ranged and disease is the result.
Liver Pills
Cure all Liver Troubles.
Stand
cents.
Never spill when over.
A Care
Notwithstanding the spread of
cation In superstition Is
alive among the Polish peasantry. The
wife of a well to do country man In
had a ma-
ulcer and in a very
state. Her husband decided to
call In a shepherd renowned for his
wonderful healing powers.
The latter, having examined bis pa-
proceeded to tie her left elbow
to her right knee and her left knee to
her right elbow, announced that
was with a devil and direct-
ed them to anoint the ulcer with a
mixture of soft soap and chopped
hairs from a horse's tall. If the pa
screamed, it was the devil
screaming within her, and she to
be left alone, securely bound to the
bed, that she might not remove the
appliance. He then took Ida fee and
left.
His orders were conscientiously car-
out, with the result that after a
night of Indescribable agony the poor
woman died of
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COMPANY OF
SOUTH
SCHEDULE
lie no Smart.
II was at OM Of receptions.
All v It was a
brilliant occasion, OM man who
u for brightness and
repartee throwing at
of the fair young ladles. heard
say you were the most
charming of the he
whispered to her.
Oh. who was It, Mr. she
asked
I can't tell he replied, I
will tell you some
please she pleaded.
He wits and she was per-
Mai so. u the other girls were
attracted to where the couple stood.
think It Is real menu of you. Mr.
to arouse my curiosity. And
what do you think, she said
Io the
nil is won't tell who
Sid
I did hear that she was the
most chant of the sea-
spoke a;, Mr. Blank.
Who told yon, op
girl In a last effort t. Ml the of
her admirer.
mot answered the young
man. Ami they never speak as
they Scimitar.
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school
s. m.
Divine service and sermon every
Sunday morning and evening. Ev-
prayer Wednesdays at
M., and Litany Fridays at A
M., Ber. I. A. afield, Minister
rices every San-
day, morning and evening. Pray-
Thursday evening. Ber.
J. N. Booth, pastor. Sunday
school a. m. C. D.
superintendent.
every San-
day, morning and evening. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening. Rev.
N. M. Watson, pastor. Sunday
school W F. Harding,
thin
J. B. Morion, pastor. Sunday-
school p. m. J. B. Moore
regular
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Is only a year and con
the news every week,
and gives information to the
those grow-
tobacco, that, is worth
many times more than the
subscription price.
Quality and News.
presenting interesting phases
of scientific mill economic problems
high-class newspapers
give of us great value
advertising columns in
those devoted to the publication of
the principal events of the day; and
when fame of a product is ex-
tended beyond its natural limits
foreign lauds, and a large de-
created throughout Great
Britain her and the
principal sea-ports and cities of
Europe, Asia Africa, it lie-
comes a pleasant duty to the
fact and to tell of the points of ex-
on which so great a
based. We refer to the
now world-famed laxative remedy,
Syrup of Figs, the product of the
California Fig Company.
The merits of this ex-
laxative were first made
to world through the
medical journals and newspapers
of the United States; and is one of
the distinct achievements of the
press. It is now well known
Syrup of Figs is an ethical
remedy, approved by the
most eminent physicians every-
where, because it is simple and
yet pleasant to the taste
acceptable to the system, and
not only prompt in its beneficial
but also wholly free from any
unpleasant after-effects. It is
referred to as the remedy
of the healthy, because it is used
by people who enjoy good health
and who live well and feel well and
are well informed on all subjects
generally, including laxative. In
order to get its beneficial effects,
it is necessary to get the genuine
Syrup of Figs, which is
by the California Fig nip
Co. only.
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Fleas.
Perhaps the plague In Paraguay la
merely an attack of or sand flea.
This Insect Is called In the native
language. In It killed a whole
colony of Englishmen, consisting of
families, turning the colony, which
was at Into a cemetery. A
man colony at was driven out.
The causes and
the warmest parts of the l,
the cavities and the groin and
Just the same spots the eastern
plague. It attacks Englishmen and
preferentially avoids
those that use hut little soap. Snaps
clean the and the likes
to est. It also avoids
who eat more or
fowl. A man saturated With alcohols,
gin. and do Julio
Cookery Is pretty well safe from the
Ayres Herald.
Governors
There Is n largo expanse of rolling
sward on Governors kept all
times In the pink of condition. Tills
little island off Battery park l
ceded to the host kept army post on
the Atlantic There are two
reasons for this. Fort is the
headquarters of the of the
east. It must assume appearance
in keeping with Us standing In
the department.
It also n military and the
convicts sent there for terms of months
or years are to ban
the of sentinels
these men keep the walks and
scrupulously clean and the
sward and free from
falling leaves Other litter. They
also give proM-r attention to the
and their immediate
York Press.
Next time you any milk
take the saucepan off the fire and
it at once in a bowl of cold
water. Put a pinch of salt in the
saucepan, give the milk a stir, and
yon will find that the taste
has almost entirely disappeared.
It was after the piano recital, and the
audience was applauding. There
were two women, though,
did not clap their hands. But they
commented In tones were audible
for some distance around
The poor man Win they make
him play
It awful the way the
cans applaud so
the most vulgar thing they
And the took meekly their
lesson In York Com-
Advertiser.
Most Ancient Tool.
Then- can lie very
tin- potter's wheel, or lathe, as
it is also termed, represents lossy the
most r ma of machine
known, the many
records the trades
which so represent the
and habits the Egyptians
the ism r an I his bars boon
found frequently depleted, and It la
to note through the
most counties since that
time this crude of laths has
gene no n
The form evidently a
I in set on pivot and
free to being by hand
at interval-, an I Io this
were added the course of lime inch
simple com- as a table to sup-
port it mid n U I or a hand power turn-
displaced in recent
years possibly a few isolated
engine power driving. In
gem ml use. however, the
wheel of the ill tears ail the
f the
years or more to out
pottery attesting lasts
and
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PM AM PM PM
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cm it.
St am,
Weldon am. daffy
Of SI I-on f of
The of fresh
bread sold by I says a college
professor, weighed on average a
one one ounce. A leaf of
bread made from Hint--
quarters of a pound of Hour,
per cent of water added to tin-
flour the
With some Hours to cent
more water be
a greater n eight of bread from n given
weight of Hour. This weight
is water not nutrients.
At a a for Hour It Is es-
by the professor that a
loaf of bread made, not count-
fuel and labor, for J cents, a
half cent allowed for shortening
and The loss of dry matter
is usually considered
amounting to about per cent of the
dour used. In exceptional cases, as In
prolonged fermentation, under
conditions the losses may amount
to per cent or more.
Wilmington A Weldon Railroad, Yadkin
Main
ton p m,
p m, arrives San-
ford p m. Returning leaves Sanford
p m. arrive S p m leave
pin, arrives Wilmington
p m
leaves
am, a m. lied
Springs a m, Hone Mills a m,
rive Returning leaves
p m, Hope Mills p m.
Springs p m, Maxton G p in,
arrives p m
Connections at with train No
at Maxton with the Carolina Central
Railroad, Red Springs with Red
Springs at at Sanford
with the Seaboard Air Line and Southern
Railway at Gulf with and
Charlotte Railroad.
Train on Neck Road
leaven Weldon V pm, Halifax IS p m,
rives Neck OS p tn.
em. Kinston
at II is
Sunday.
o Branch leave Wash.
s s m t p m. arrive
a m and i p m. Parmele
an
and so p m. dally
Train leave. Tarboro dally Sunday
st p re, Sunday pm, arrives Ply
pm. leaves
dally, except Sunday. SO a m. and Sun
day t CO am. arrives OS am, am.
Train on Midland N C
dally, except Sunday. OS a m, arriving;
a m. returning leaves
a . at to ts a m.
Train on Nashville Branch leave Rocky
Mount at so a m. i in. arrive
Sprint am,
pm. Hemming leave Hope II am
p m. Nashville II a m arrive at Rocky
Mount a m, t p m, dally except
Train on Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw for
Clinton except Sunday. m and IS
returning Clinton st s m and
so am.
close Wei
don toe all dally, all a
Pass. Agent
J. It. Manager.
T. M. Traffic Manager.
LODGES
A. F. A. M. Greenville
Lodge, meets first and
third Monday evening. B.
W. M. J. M. Reuse, Sec,
I. O. O.
Meets every Tuesday evening.
D. D. N. G.
Sec.
K. of River Lodge,
meets every Friday evening
J. L. Fleming, C. C.; C.
E. of R. and
R. Vance Council, No.
1696, meets every Thursday even-
W. B. Wilson, R. M. R.
Lang, Sec.
O. U. A. every
Wednesday night at in I. 0-
O. F. hall. A. D. Johnson,
A. O. Council,
No. meets every first and third
Thursday nights in Odd Fellows
Hall. J. Z. Gardner Worthy
Chief; D. Smith, Sec.
I. O. Conclave
No. meets every second
fourth Monday nights in Odd
Hall. W. B. Wilson
D. Smith Sec.
of m Comma.
me Io do
Mr. pen-
do It, Ilk a
Mr-. Mi who hap-
Id time Io him.
I art yon Io lo
yon do It like a
Chit-ago
The Commonwealth says the-
around
stamped out.
A Writ Path.
tin ex-
to why my if
In
Ohio
The of work In the Calcutta
in II from l n. m. toO p. m.,
or In-
and nil and of
have to done
FOB AT REFLECTOR BOOK STORE.
of
arc only found a rule on the cast
and and on
being caused the meeting of the
arctic current with the gulf stream.
The Interior In la described
a moat delightful climate,
that of the south of France.
Mr. notice, that
yon hare the rheumatism as bad
Don't ye i take for
It
I does, I
crutches Courier.
It Is said that cowbells an produced
la only four In the United
and air made Just the
they were ago and sound the
same.
In India and up to
IS years of age are deemed the best to
purchase and will generally work
flat old.
A Diplomatic
Assistant Secretary of State Thomas
W. in the discharge of dip-
duties, crossed the ocean
ably more times than any other
In that branch of the govern-
On one voyage he made ac-
of a traveling
whose marred
by
on business, like myself,
I suppose
line of
writing or
for
I thought cabinet makers
used only wood, and
them and the diplomat
began to speak of other
day Evening
To Girl.
Two men of manner of
speech were talking of a mutual friend
named Henry.
Henry git to that
lady asked one.
The other shook Ids head and re-
When got
down he found be had to take
bis and In line so to
be able tn . the young lady, so be
came Record.
Th of r.
We smile the Ignorance of the
who cuts down the tree In or-
to reach Its But the fact
Is that n of this description
la made by every person who Is over-
eager In the pursuit of
pleasure.
are at the
The
of every
they may he and
Into the i I hey III exist,
and. when mid
and will grow oat of
thin-
Railway.
THE
------OF
SOUTH.
Direct Line to all Points.
I. P. COREY,
-----DEALER IN-----
I,
A LINE OF
Line of Hardware.
I can now be in
brick store formerly
occupied by J.
W. Brown.
COME TO SEE ME.
J. B.
OLD DOMINION LINE
Texas.
California,
Florida,
Cuba and
Rico.
Strictly CLASH Equip
on all through and Lo-
cal Trains; Pullman Palace Sleep
Can on all Night Trains; Fast
and Safe Schedules.
Apply to Ticket Agents Time
Tables, Bates and General
or address,
B. L. T. P. A.,
Charlotte, N. C.
F. E. DARBY, C. P. A T. A.,
Asheville, N.
No trouble to answer questions
M ho J. I at
WASHINGTON, D.
Steamers leave Washington on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri-
days at A. M. for Greenville,
water permitting, to Tarboro.
Returning leave Tarboro at A.
M., Greenville A. M. on Tues-
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Bailing hours subject to change de-
pending of water.
Connecting at Washington with
Steamers for Norfolk, Baltimore,
New York and
ton, and for all points for the West
with railroads at Norfolk.
Shippers should order freight by
the Old Dominion Co. from
New York; Clyde Line from
Bay Line from Baltimore;
and Line from
Boston.
JNO. N.
Washington, N.
J. J. CHERRY,
Greenville, N. O.
A Free Trip to Paris
v.
The Eastern
P. J. EDITOR
TO
VOL. XVIII.
PER.
-AT
The I Share Has Became
a at
Smallpox.
Much Indignation is expressed
at of the million
lies Portsmouth Other
towns in eastern Virginia with re-
in small pox. It was a
fact well known that last year the
disease was imported into this Stale
from Virginia and fact from the
whole eastern shore seems to have
become more or less of a breeding
for the the local
authorities usually denying
that there is any such thing
as small pox about and the news-
papers carefully suppressing nil
reference to it. Last year when
Norfolk Portsmouth were rot-
ten with the number
of cases is not obtainable as there
seems to have been no record kept
by the
in the papers of those towns
boat the epidemic; at Newport
News chairman of. the county
board of health, who had a robust
of small pox when the United
States official declared
that there was not a case of the
disease that vicinity refused
to move until with a
quarantine against In
other words attitude of eastern
shore Virginia was to cull it the
elephant itch and then pass it on to
as many of the neighbors
This year the same happy
of stamping out the disease has
begun, already this State has
been infected. There are downs
of but DO attempt to compel
vaccination or to prevent tho
spread of disease. If this
course is pressure will
be brought to bear on the
ties of this State to declare a State
quarantine against Norfolk,
and the whole infected re-
The town authorities of
Monroe, N. have already
against Portsmouth, which
was especially liberal last year in
helping the epidemic along.
In this State the disease has
at Pomona, where about
cases are reported; at Salisbury,
where cases are reported to ex-
though no recent report of the
number has been made to the pres
of the State board of health;
in Chatham county where it is of
a rather severe form, and sporadic
cases at other points.
Dr. Lewis, president of the State
board of health, said yesterday that
unless vigorous measures are
adopted, especially compulsory
vaccination in the towns where the
disease has appeared, he
more trouble from small
pox this winter than the State had
last year.
has been pointed out so often,
quarantining is practically useless
in attempts to stamp out small pox,
vaccination being the only efficient
Nevertheless towns
that an free the disease may
find the quarantine useful by en
it against all towns that
have small pox and refuse to adopt
a compulsory vaccination
News and Ob-
server.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. DECEMBER
Statistics Human Life.
Statistical scientists will not let
us alone. thing we do or
say is submitted to the closet anal-
and the figures emerge full
of warning and reproach.
The newest tabulation of our
doings comes from the workshop
of M. Alfred who is min-
itself. He has worked out
first, an approximate calculation
of the words the normal
man utters ii the course of a year.
Ignorant or culture, playing on I
the miner's vocabulary two
words or on the
thesaurus of many thou-
sands, it appears that we let fall
words between
and December.
Every year about
one thousand two hundred times,
expending on the a force
sufficient to raise a locomotive
weighing eighty tons. The
of our eyelids is accomplished
ninety four million six hundred
thousand times per year, rep-
resents of energy
capable of lifting a weight of fifty-
on pounds.
division of our
time, it is found that a normal man
living years has spent no less
than years months and
teen days asleep; years
and eight months at work. His
has occupied exactly the
same length of time as his work.
He has passed live years and ten
mouths in moving about and the
same space of time in the opera-
of feeding. His toilet has
occupied two years and
months. Two year- and eleven
mouths, also, pass In doing
or in little things that are not
easily classed.
The surprise is the estimate that
a man passed exactly the same
time in speaking
one year live months a half.
Which gives one a new idea of the
value that ought to be attached to
every man's
Weekly.
fa.,
Sets If bad
no other revolution on
state, ho would llama our
of com-
vessel m
mil In act
former
section Of a as neatly
into a of
seed If lb. ,,. , wen
done. If. the double begin
to an,
to roll. Hi warn n In
the pray In theirs,
and the what canoes would
surely have been In
supposing they could have la-en
launched at all. over ship's
aide and In sight
well, we see the cleverness of it and
arc tint hardly horror
or overcome by terror.
On other hand, the ship's dock
In with Its of silent
men near helm and Its passion
torn woman In the foreground, the
horizon line suggesting the sea far
effectively than n whole platoon
of waves
can, creates and
and as much a component
part of the as tin- sing-
mid orchestra. The ship in
Is a clever hit of stage
mechanics; the ship Is
scenery that In
Sorrow Thar.
. f A Wall Pat.
any of the class
explain to me why the way of the
transgressor is
guess it's because it's
traveled so State
Journal.
TAKE Ohm,
bouts. and
lint on the I.
by Wow,
The Colonel halted his horse in
dugout and
vigorous and
a minute a tow-headed girl of
about sixteen years of age showed
up and looked over and
then, what
fur and who be
get anything to eat
water for my
gone
far is it to the
your father to step
been on a drank for a
your
the toothache. That's
her
you got a
but he got yes-
and don't feel
Well, what about per-
the Colonel- seem to
be all
but I replied as
she made ready to disappear.
was to git married yesterday, but
my feller got shot by an and
it'll two weeks to ketch on to
another. This a house of
row, sir, and you will please to
ride on and not ask any more fool
York
Fobs.
famous of Newfoundland
only found as a on tho east
and south coasts nod on the
being caused by the meeting of
arctic current with the gulf stream.
The Interior In summer la described
s a most delightful resent-
Mint of south of Prance.
II Paid to Be
A manufacturer of Kensington tells
this true years ago I
was very rich, but ten years ago there
a time when It seemed that I'd
surely fall. One day when a smash
appeared a certainty I walked down
Chestnut street toward wool ware-
houses, blue, blue as Indigo, but I
braced up and put on a cheerful air.
Just then n I knew came In and
mil. what makes you always
look so cheerful Don't you ever have
trouble st
said I. jollying a little;
to look blue doesn't do
etc.
this fellow said. tell yon
what I'm going to do. I've got
lying Idle, mid I'm going t get you to
Invest It for me. You're so well off,
so lucky In business always, sad so
blamed cheerful, I'm nothing ever
falls with you. and I you Io In-
vest this money any way you
nil I won't even ask you how did
Invest
I took this man's money. It
was the amount my tottering
needed. A year Inter times and
prices were vastly better, and I paid
the back with Interest
do you per
Record.
J. CO-
We desire to return sincere
thanks to our many customers
for their liberal patronage
the past year.
For the new year you will
find us at the same place ready
to do business with you.
Come to us often.
Yours to please,
i p
HOW'S THIS
oiler One Hundred Dollars
any case of Catarrh
that can not be cured by Hull's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J.
Toledo, O.
W undersigned, have known
J. for the last
years, and him perfectly
honorable in nil business
lions financially able lo carry
out any obligations made their
Wests Ti.-i x, drag-
lute, Toledo. O.
wholesale Toledo, o.
Hall's is taken in-
acting directly upon
blood mucous surfaces the
system. Price per
gold by all
Hall s arc
There is n girl town who, being
both bright and pretty, has a good
many admirers, but the most ardent of
all happens Io a pudgy old grass
widower, with two grandchildren and
a red nose.
Naturally she has to stand a good
deal of guying his account and
much as possible. So
In fact, the man had
no chance to plead bis In private
and and so was at lust driven to
the US. of pen and
Here Is his production. It Is
mended to nil bashful lovers for Its
brevity and beauty, well as
Mils, I lo my kn,,
that I . Will ,. .,
In lint I . , ,,.,
Una.
And would yon believe It That
heartless maiden to
him about Plain
Denier.
Hid see a
Many i hi horses do
weep, but those who much to
do with faithful know-
that on several occasions they will
tears v., II as express sorrow in
moat manner. In
the west, where of tho
lira i Idem i- almost mi-
look tho of providing for their
It is the
weather Is cold to
pony ii. up for two or
three hours when the temperature is
nearly zero while its owner Is
transacting or setting drunk.
In this ease the suffering Is evidenced
by the which arc almost like
tears frees, on
to the clicks like Icicles.
When u horse falls In the street and
gets shock generally numbs
the senses so much Hint does not el
cry or groan, but under some con-
nu injured horse will solicit
sympathy the most distinct manner.
I remember a favorite boas of my own
which trod on a nail long enough
pierce its foot The poor thing hob-
bled up to me on three legs and cried
as nearly like a child trouble
thing I can describe. sight was a
very touching one. was also the
plod animal's gratitude when the nail
pulled out and wound dressed.
St. Louis
Acts gently on the
Kidneys, Liver
and Bowels
Cleanses the System
EFFECTUALLY
overcomes
ire .
the o
Th Amount of Paper Used.
BAKER A
B s s
FOR-
A of
Henry of was a life-
long Democrat.
or Judge for a brief
period a Democrat also. After be g it
to be a Judge be soon became a Whig.
While holding court at
he occupied a room the leading ho-
tel, which, was usual during court
time, was dull. Late night Mr.
arrived and wanted a bed. The
landlord him that every lied
the house two It except the
one that was occupied by Judge Mat-
up and tell him that Henry
wants to Bleep with
The landlord lip. nipped at the
Judge's door, mid told errand.
said the Judge half
of
Democrat oh .,. hod it once.
It -Urn Argonaut.
Hardware, Paints
AND STOVES
A Core Thai Killed.
Notwithstanding the spread of
cation in Is still
among the peasantry. The
wife of n well to do man In
Kaspar Kafka, bad a inn
ulcer and was a very
state. Her husband decided to
coll in n renowned for his
wonderful healing powers.
Tho latter, having examined bis pa-
proceeded to lie her left elbow
to right and her left knee to
her right elbow, announced that aha
was possessed With a devil direct-
ed them to anoint ulcer with a
mixture of soft soap and IS chopped
hairs from a horses tall. If tho pa-
screamed, It was the devil
creaming within her. sin- to
left alone, securely bound to the
bed, that she might not remove the
Ho then took his fee
left.
His orders were conscientiously car-
out. with the result that after a
night of Indescribable agony the poor
woman died of
Letter In Chicago
A SPECIALTY.
AND
Mr. Johnson notice. Jasper, that
Ton hare the bad
ever. you ever anything for
Jasper--Deed does. I
A recent visitor from east to
sound describes with
the effects pro
by. and upon, the gigantic
of It
happen-, that as seen
from the city of Just before
sunrise. Is coveted with u dome of
cloud I. or more, height,
while behind the Desk, toward the east,
the sky I clear, such
the rising sun casts the cf
great upon the cloud curtain
overload In the of s blue
triangle, the of which upon
apex the peak. At other
the r of lb,, earth can he seen
.-replug up ion distinct curve,
the Hush of the
I snow ab the line of .; to s
Disk, Youth's
HEATERS
HEATERS
MORE
THE BEST HAT CAN BE BOUGH I
COME AND SEE OUR BEAUTIFUL
ND HEATERS GARLAND
COOK STOVES, THE WORLDS
BET.
BAKER HART
-a Fleas.
Perhaps the plain. B Paraguay Is
merely an attack of or flea.
This Insect Is called the native
language. In It killed a whole
colony of consisting of
families, turning the colony, which
was into a cemetery. A
man colony at was driven out.
The causes buboes and attacks
the wannest pans of t. body-that Is,
the cavities and the groin and armpits.
Just the Home spots the eastern.
Plague. It and
Germans preferentially and avoids
those that use but little soap. Soaps
clean the body, sail the plane likes
clean persons to est. also avoids
people who eat i. poisonous
food, a alcohols,
I and I-.,.,,
cookery la well , the
lien.- Herald,
statistics of the
paper in the
States have compiled by the
of labor at
It appeals that this country
uses more than
worth of paper, or
gate of A
little less than a third of this is
by the newspapers. The
wrapping paper amounts to about
two-thirds as much its the
pen and almost half us much w
Used to manufacture books as to
print newspapers.
of the various kinds of
boards amounts to over
tons annually, or more than half
production of news paper.
tons of paper
the of
wall produced annually.
About half of all paper is pro-
in the States of York,
Massachusetts Maine, though
there are sixteen other Slates that
seven other Slates report some
produced. Paper is one of
the emblems of The
amount of paper used is a test
the of a nation. There is
no other country in the world where
so much paper per capita is need
In the United State. The cir
of newspapers
sines is greater here than
other putt of the earth, more book's
me read, more used in
more in the
Other ways which paper adds to
the convenience and the pleasure
of City
rolling
ward on I kept at all
condition.
i park is con-
Is in army post on
-i ore two
i i
f II e of
m an
high la
a military prison, the
convicts cent ire for l. of
or years at lo hard labor.
under the if
those men keep i e wall and
y el i the
swam led and tree from
leave, and utter. They
lo lb
times In tin
little
i.
the
east.
keep
the i. ii
It also ;
Too many men get through life
on reputations of their
tors.
When a girl is caught under the
mistletoe she is generally rooted to
the spot.
AYCOCK, MOOSE.
Attorneys At-Law.
Greenville, N. O.
; ml i .
Dr. D.
X. V.
White
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