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IX
JOB PRINTING
The Reflector is
pared to do all
in this Una
NEATLY,
QUICKLY, and
IN BEST STYLE.
Plenty of new mate-
rial and the
of Stationery.
Careful What You Say
Never believe of one
until you that the evil
exists We should never say
anything about which is
in a joke ; for
our words are often
a id if they reach the ears f the
one of whom
may do harm-
I think it a plan to re
from saying about
others, we Can speak in
their favor- It does good to
tell the faults and short
of other people; bur, on the con-
it is too apt to make us
and fault-finding-. None
of us are not one-
If your neighbor has fault which
you have not, you have others,
perhaps, which are quite as bad.
we dwell upon the virtues in
stead of the of oar
ate, we shall find that it is much
tor us, and certainly
much better for them- We are
certainly conscious of our own
defects they
are much discomfort to us; but
how much worse we should feel
if we that everybody no-
them, even spoke of
them to others. Now, instead of
talking of faults,
I'll Jim a better plan,
And one that works quite
try defect to cure.
Kit m of others tell.
I though we sometimes hope to be
worse than sonic we know.
On- own short comings bill in let
faults of
Railroad Statistics.
According to the report of the
U. S- Railroad the
total railway in the
try on June 1894, was
miles, an increase during the
year of miles. The in
crease during the previous year
was 4.897 miles. The percent
of during the year
1893-9. it is stated, was less than
for preceding year for which
reports have been made to the
Commission.
The ventures the
that it is probable
that the year ending June
1895, will shew much improve
merit that respect. In Penn-
the addition the
months to 1891, is
reported to have been 300-20
miles, Florida miles, in
North Dakota 195-51 miles, in
Ohio 181.02 miles, in Georgia
162.71 miles, 125.00 miles
in Missouri miles, in West
Virginia miles, in Minne-
116.49 miles, while the States
of Kansas,
setts, Nevada, New
North Vermont and
and the Territory of
show slight in mile-
age, due to
abandonment of lines.
The report makes the total of
railway capital June 1891,
an increase of
over the year pieced
the total
was stock and debt.
Of the debt was
bonds, miscellaneous
obligations, income
bonds, equipment
trusts current
The Eastern Reflector
D. J. WHICH ARD, Editor Owner
TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION.
per Year, in Advance.
VOL. XIV.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1895.
NO.
You Need
SABBATH DESECRATION.
Like all the other laws of the
Decalogue, the command to ob
serve the is
the very of the
for whose benefit it was in-
It is no rule
laid down the caprice
of a powerful being, as an
of his superiority, but one
of of a nature
which project themselves, by
itself, into the form of a
statute. Taking this view of it,
the says; law is
just and holy and THe
Sabbath was made for man, and
never was a greater confer-
red man than when this
act, the Great Author of all good,
provided a the
of secular
life labor. Nothing is half
so good for poor, tired,
aged, heart sick toilers as to stop
the wheels of busy life,
to the voice which
speaks softly in the silence, s
still, and know that I
am
How can have the benefit
of this while the avenues of
travel and pleasure are
open to our people, with special
to follow them up
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
j Warning Notes Calling Wicked
to Repentance.
God is mi alarmist, but
when there is ahead ho
wants us to know it.
A Perilous Precedent Averted.
The p of Judge
political decision in the
St. nth registration
CREDITS
When a borrower in Wall street
The Reflector this year
It will give the news
every week for
a year;
.--------
IN THE STATE.
of Matters cf General
for the of Appeals
Christ went about doing Richmond is a fortunate cir
He sit down in a i for it will pat a stop
obtains a he takes it in the
form of a check nu the lender's .
bank, which he deposits in his i Mr- B- C Hackney his sold the
case bank to his own account, I recorder to Al. Fair-
Not will the thoughtless
multitudes, upon whom tho
churches have little or grasp,
be led away from all thought of
God, but the of em-
mast doomed to a
slavery i death. Is it
not true of railroad to
say nothing of many other em-
multitude
number, that they rest not
day nor night What is to be-
come of a generation, swept along
by such a resistless tide of forces
inevitable Will the friction
of a life a charge
of nervous excitement sufficient
to it It does
seem that such will be the result.
Our honest is that
railroads ought not to be operated
on Sunday. To say nothing of
place and talk about it.
As long as the devil handle
our money he don't care how
much we make church.
If God answered all prayers,
the heavens would always be rain-
fire on somebody's head.
The who is not religious at
me. wants to be
extra pious church.
Some people waste a good deal
of time praying for who
are not willing to become
There are too many people who
claim to love the Lord, who put
rotten apples in the bottom of the
basket.
It takes some people a whole
to find out that dollar
is big enough to give hour's
happiness
th convicted sinner say.--,
the devil feels
that it will s for him to sleep
,. week.
no man who at every-
thing through money is more
half convinced that the
is a gentleman.
No matter what
may be, God is always the side
of I ho man who does right and
to suffer for it.
Many a man fails to have access
to God private because he has
been too much trumpet
blowing in public.
That man is not needed as a
missionary in heathen lands who
has married for years and
never talks with his wife.
Tho devil is very close
to the Christian who persuades
that Ins work is more
to God that of some-
body else.
not thy left hand
what thy right hand The
moral law, and the law of God as hands should be
The Gum Swamp Parson.
The ship that carries a great
people to success is kin-
ship-
A promise once broken can
never be repaired.
The mule is a necessary adjunct
to farm life, but the plowshare's
the labor also-
Politics keeps the army of
tramps down to its minimum size.
No matter how and
truthful a witness is, he is regard-
ed as a questionable character.
Big feet are more desirable
than the big head, for they can
be placed out of the
sight.
The soda fount is a sample of
enunciated in the Bible
the law of and a wise
economy forbids a whole-
sale disregard of human
Railroads would be as pro-
the would be as
full cf wealth, the people
would be infinitely happier, if all
the were suspended
Sunday.
But aside from what railroad
authorities should or should not
do, it is certain that Christians
no business Sunday
trains. Let all Christians
to patronize the Sunday train,
it will bi a long step toward
the reform which is needed.
Christian
A Shame.
The practice of sub-lotting the
star route, or overland carrying
of the mails, is a disgrace to our
form cf government.
It is caused by that
custom which allows those star
routers to lie around Washington
secure the coo tracts for these
mail routes, at very low figures,
then make those in the local-
where the route is, who want
it, take it ft a mere pittance-
The pay received by star
routers would be sufficient to
carry on the business, but when
scaled down it is hardly sufficient
to the animals engaged
in the service.
Our system of letting these
contracts should be so conducted
as to preclude the possibility of
these fellows having a monopoly
in these Sun.
Even the bravest grow faint,
hearted at times are tempted
to look back despite the fate of
Let's wife- The head of a big
firm who had seen his business
built up by advertising, and know
that his success was directly at
to it, needed to be told
occasionally that
paid-
Dan of Australia,
whipped Billy of and together
ton in six rounds at Boston-
so busy for God that they
have no time for gossip.
kept
will
Deafness be Cured-
By local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure Deafness,
Mid that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con-
of the mucous lining the
When this tube
inflamed you have a rumbling or
hearing, and when it Is en-
closed Deafness is the result,
mill inflammation can be
this restored Io its
normal condition, hearing will be de-
forever ; nine ease out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which Is
but an condition of the
mucous surfaces.
will give Hundred Dollars
any case Deafness by
that cannot lie cured
Catarrh Cure. Send for circular.
P. J. CO. O.
by Druggists,
to a pernicious of
opinion toward a support of such
quasi judicial interference with
State election The brief
statement of the conclusions of
the court deals with the
question of jurisdiction the
procedure, but a fall
opinion by Chief Justice Fuller
is promised, it is to hoped
that it deal with the
mental of Federal inter-
If the power assumed by Judge
Goff wore to be sustained the
States courts would become
the most potent political factor
the interposing by
to control
State elections a judge
found the laws of the
with his interpretation of
the Federal Constitution or so ex
edited , in his opinion, to
abridge the rights of citizens
Judge decision was not has
ed so much upon the provisions
of the South Carolina law as upon
the manner in which tho were
alleged to been applied.
The decision of the West
politician whom President
Harrison put on tho bench when
he failed to be elected Governor
of the State was partisan in its
whole tone
most mischievous in its
and it is that the con
of politic j in South
and the pestilent conduct of
such mi as Tillman and Evans
should befog the public judgment
on this subject. Tb question at
the bottom of tho case is too
to be determined by any
passing exigency State politics
however important for the mo
No doubt, gross wrongs
have been committed under the
election laws of South Carolina
of many other States,
New York, but that does
afford a ground for taking from
States tho control of elections.
The idea that, a citizen
alleges that he has not been
lowed to register as a voter or
that the provisions of a State law
put obstacles the way of
so, a Federal judge may issue
to the hold-
of an is so
that it is amazing that any in-
person should give it
York
A newspaper reports a farmer
as certain townsmen on
being far behind him
edge of the financial problem. It
is not a joke. Those last three
years the people in the country
have studying political is-
sues, particularly financial
while the townsman has
been content to leave it to his
party leaders. late, however,
the wave has broken over the cit-
now when the farmer
comes to town, he finds merchants
ready to dispute or agree with
him intelligently. for
the first time the history of the
country, the people all over the
laud are pretty well informed on
a single political issue, it can
not be said that they are inform-
ed on the question as problem of
political It is hard to
find a farmer who cannot sustain
himself in good company in ad-
j of free coinage of silver,
laud one cannot be found who has
no opinion of bis own on the
Humorists make more money
than Nye
earns now about a week, .
.,. j- t . course his party ought to pursue,
Milton got Lost . . , . . J
while Mark Twain received
for Josh
Billings received for his
magazine work alone, and his lit-
profits ran into the
reds of thousands. Josh Billings
sold his first venture, the
on the for Tom
received for years for the
comic part of his nature as it
MM out through the end of his
Mr. W. H. Norwood is the own-
of twin chickens-both hatch-
ed from the same egg. They
are weeks old, almost exactly
all the
Gleaner.
which latter is something entire-
new, greatly to the
of party leaders. It is a good
sign when people become inform-
ed and show that they are think-
corder.
To not drink, that is
the question- nay drink-
water is so impregnated with
bacteria as to be unfit for use.
Prohibitionists wine
and beer. It is urged that tea
produces insanity, and coffee
and insomnia ; while it is
declared poison lurks even in
innocent lemonade. But the world
will keep on using all of these
His Confidence shaken.
said the small boy.
fishing the one thing that most
men live for
not,
all girls sweet when they
there may be
they invariably write fool
their
boys that go to college
forget everything they ever learn-
ed except how to row a boat and
play foot-ball
course
hawing against it checks as his brother,
needs require The persons who j p. of Chicago,
receive these checks deposit them i , .
in their hanks in turn, thus manager cf insurance
the entire sum is split up and , for the Southern Western
passed from hand to hand with- States, died Asheville, N C-, of
I consumption,
of a dollar of
Within a year Raleigh's six
richest men have S.
Tucker, W. H. J. M-
Heck, E. G- W. J. Haw-
kins and R. S.
out the use, except on special
actual cir
dilating medium It is true that
tho borrower has the right to ex-
act legal tender money for either
the check he takes or for the
cheeks Bo draws himself, but this
right is exercised rarely- The
bank credit is so completely j c t j H of
to that it is treated , , , . , . , . .
as money by everybody. a rat-killing on his place
This explains, too, what about were shun,
puzzler the how the ; Of these were killed in one
banks of this city, with only Gleaner.
of specie and legal ten-
in their vaults, can Shelby, the Aurora says, has
deposits to the amount of over boys, all under years of
and like man-1 age. whose aggregate weight is
the total deposits of all the ,.,,. , ., i .;. . ii
i n i pounds. heaviest weight
in the United States footed K
up, according to the latest report pounds, the Who
of the Comptroller of the i can beat it
although their
stock of specie paper
was but The
credits given to borrowers are I
as money of equal value
with specie and notes, and,
v. they serve equally well the
needs of the It h.
only panics such as that of;
1803, when confidence the
of the fails, and
Now comes weather forecaster
Herman with the depressing
news that a not wave is about to
invade us. Ho says it will be a
Keep your eye on the
Near Monday even-
while Judge Hoke and his
all at the same time, j sister, Mis Sal lie, were taking a
to clamor for actual in-1 drive the the horse be-
stead of certified checks, that the frightened ran away,
difference becomes apparent- At j The were thrown from
other periods people hardly ever ; . . . , .
reflect, when they take checks
in of debts or for prop- The had his right arm
sold, that checks considerably shaken
tie to actual money- They u,,,
deposit them in their banks
are satisfied with the entry of the I .
amount their ; The Work f
York Sun-
Two mules belonging
The Passing of the Horse.
to
Air. C- M. Pollock near Pollocks-
sale of well-bred killed by lightning in
Saturday's thunder storm. They
were mules that cost for the
pair.
Across Neuse river not far
At a recent
trotting horses this State three-
year-olds were sold as low as i
apiece, the highest prices
cured for was At these
prices it does not pay Io raise i, ,
the breeders who made a flock cf sheep
the sale did so to got out of wore struck by the
business no longer profitable. in the storm previous
Their case is but one of to and every one
The horse is being rapidly super belonged to
Cable traction, trolleys neighbors who were letting them
other device are together- There was also a
greatly the for struck m the same neigh-
horse service in but no special harm
Journal.
sadly and said
you needn't bung me
home, any more cf these comic
papers. I'm kind of losing faith
Star.
Left It to the Lord.
There is a band of colored
men Durham who claim that
they live by leave
every thing to the Lord. Some
of them do washing. A Durham
lady employed one- When ask-
ed what she would charge, the
colored woman said she would
leave it with tho Lord- When
the wash came in it was
The next week the same question
was and the same answer
given. When the second wash
came in it was
said the lady,
leave it to the Lord any more.
He is charging too
Durham
The Charlotte News had been
troubled with rats for some time
and were big that they
whipped out the cats. The rats
suddenly disappeared on
looking for the cause it was found
cities but in small towns
roads
all well-populated
The time c be far oft
cable or electric railroad will
begin to carry freight as well Mi. has
as thus doing j big life insurance to the remark-
drays, trucks country a re is
wagons to a very huge extent- . . ,. ., . ,
The bicycle the place the most heavily insured
of the saddle-horse with all man in America, and possibly
the rich w o like horseback ex- the world. John B Stetson, of
and in it as a, Philadelphia, has policies on his
, for and Hamilton
The recent exhibitions or horse ;. , n
less carriages in France indicate for
that our broughams and M- is said to be insured
cabs will presently be driven.; for the who
Without and when these hustles to the
last to the Chinese custom of ex- forced to marvel
horses entirely from the lesion News and Courier.
streets of cities. I
on farms the steam I A who lives to the limit of
the steam thresher and the like if
health and of average p.
petite, will have eaten in that
time about pounds of meat
about 10.000, pounds of bread
and vegetables, about eggs
and of fish, chicken
and game. He will also have
consumed about gallons of
s fluids, or a lake
four blocks in extent two feet
deep. In other words, he will
to a York
Her Age.
what is your age, mad-
am C was the attorney's
she answered
The youngster shook his head promptly.
mean how old are
am not old, with in
beg your pardon, madam, eaten fourteen tons of solid
I mean how many years drank barrels of liquid
you
The
have
have
years
passed me
many of them
passed
I never heard of them
you must answer
my question. I want to know
your
don't know the ac
is desired by the
other
don't see why you insist
upon refusing to answer my
said the attorney.
sure I would tell how old
I was if I were
nobody would ask you,
for everybody knows yon are
old enough to know better than
to be asking a woman her age.
So
And the attorney passed on
the next
Free Press.
A Georgia judge warned his
people in regard to coming into
court intoxicated, and used these
wish, to put every-
that a big black snake bad made JEWS hat
s . , . , i into tins courtroom while I am
the News office his Luting on this bench drunk, they
era. had better
refreshment-Ex.
Highest of all in Leavening U. S.
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Bright and Queer Items Clip-
Promiscuously.
In march, 1865, buttermilk sold
Richmond, Va-, at a gallon
and eggs at a dozen,
money.
J. W. city treasurer of
South St. Paul, Minn., is short
He says Ins
will make it good.
A force of are said
to have been employed constantly
for in building the
Canal of China
A. R. Holman, a lawyer of
Valley, Minn., is missing
with upward, of of tax
money entrusted to him.
A terrific storm in the vicinity
of Ky-, did great dam-
age, tho wheel
crop where it was not cut.
It is estimated that this count-
pays England a
year interest profits
investments this country.
There is a stone bridge at La-
China, which is six miles
in length and is composed of
arches, each in height-
Tho next annual meeting of tho
State Alliance is to
held at Cary, county. The
date is the second Tuesday in
August.
Adolph Mercer, a Gorman tan-
of England, has lately
expelled from Union
for tho crime of tanning a
man skin-
Two testing New
York law forbidding
were admitted to a
hotel all tho fashion-
able s in
At It there is a tomb bear
this inscription lies
of,
Florence, the of
May God his bins
The Delaware rolling mills, i
of Philadelphia, and the John
Steel Company, of
Ohio, increased the wages of
employees to and per
cent, respectively.
Tho Treasury gold reserve, as
the result of the ;
syndicate paying in
of intact again for the first
time since December 14th,
It stands at
There is still owing from syn-
in gold.
The director of the United
States mint gives the world's pro-
of gold in 1805 as
; and of silver, at coinage
value of to
shows increase of in
gold production over 1893,
increased pro-
silver.
The friends of General Solicitor
George B. Peck, of the Santa Fe
railroad, have started a move-
to make him a candidate
for the Republican nomination
for President.
LOCAL DIRECTORY.
Superior Clerk, E
Sheriff. It.
Register of Deeds, W. M. King.
J. L. Little.
Coroner,
Dr. V. Laughing-
Surveyor,
Dawson,
T. K. Keel, Jesse 1-
M. Jones.
Dr. II. Bagwell.
Home. J. W. Smith.
Examiner of
W. II.
TOWN OFFICE Its.
Ola
Clerk, C. C. Forbes.
Treasurer, w. T. Godwin.
W. Perkins, chief, Fred.
Cox, I. W. Murphy, night,
II. Smith. W. L.
Brown, W. T. Godwin. T. A.
Jenkins.
Baptist, Services every Similar
night. Prayer
meeting Thursday night. c. Al.
pastor. Sunday School at ft-M
A. M. C. D.
Catholic. No regular services.
Sen-ices every fourth Sun-
morning and night, A,
Hector. Sunday
A. -M. w. Brown, Supt.
Methodist. Services every Sunday
am light. Prayer meeting
night, U. F. Smith,
Sunday at A. M. A.
B. Supt.
Presbyterian. Is and
lid Sunday morning and
meeting I night Rev. Archie
pastor. Sunday School at
A. D.
LODGES.
Covenant Lodge Mo. I. F.,
meets every Tuesday night. Dr. II.
Bagwell, N . G.
Greenville Lodge A. F. A.
vests and third Monday nights
W. M. King, W. M
D. L. JAMES,
N. C.
DR. H. A. JOYNER
DENTIST.
One decoration day speaker has
at last had the grace, says the
Norfolk to tell the
truth as to what the Confederate
soldiers fought for, while
them on their courage.
At the meeting in Carnegie Hall,
New York, Mayor Strong said i
was a remarkable war. But I
will say there was no heroism in
history that anybody
can be prouder of than we are of
that of our Southern
so nobly defended their
in that
A tall with a mus-
is going around the
try claiming to be John the
We would warn our readers
against trusting him on that ac
as he is what he
tends to be. We have taken the
pains to look the matter up,
as a result of our
that John tho Baptist is
Independent.
O.
Office up stairs over S. E. A C
Hardware store.
Jas. K. It. L
Greenville
N. O.
Office under Opera House. Third St.
GREENVILLE. t .
all the court. Collection
specialty.
B.
F. TYSON,
If a tax incomes is
we should think the
tax on State banks is
certainly unconstitutional. Why
is it not tested the courts
Free
The Landmark has
made its as a semi-
weekly. It maintains all its bright-
excellence, and coming
oat twice as often as before will
please its readers all the more.
to it.
No word is more frequently
misapplied economy. It is
not the most penurious
of public affairs that is the
most economical. A close-fisted
policy may result in the most
waste, while a more liberal
may prove to be economy in the
true sense of the
Sun.
A Denver preacher has declared
that thousand people are
going to hell which
leads a thoughtless
to remark is a mighty
small percentage of accidents
considering the number of
on the
Attorney and Counselor at-Law
Greenville, lilt County,
Practices all the Court.
CiVil and Criminal Business Solicited.
Makes a special of fraud
ages, actions to recover land, and col-
Prompt and careful attention given
all business.
Money to loan on approved security.
Terms easy.
J. H. BLOUNT. J. t.
FLEMING
M. C.
Practice in all the Courts.
U C. LATHAM.
A I II
Si
X, JARVIS.
IS ft BLOW,
I. HI ow
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
N. C.
Ml the
A- W- As-new, president of the
First National Bank of
Fla., has been indicted on charges
of embezzlement, abstraction and
misapplication of the funds of the
bank to the amount of
John E. F. Harding,
N. U. Greenville, N. C.
WOOD A HARDING.
Greenville, N.
Special attention to
and settlement of claims.
THE REFLECTOR
Greenville, N. C.
Entered at the at Greenville
N. C., as second-class mail matter.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3rd, 1801
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Four bicyclers made the trip
from Tenn., to
City, wiles iD
twelve days.
obtain better impressions from
the Lome paper than can be
had from other sources. The
home paper works day in and
day out for the town in which
it is published, while the out-
side paper has no interest in
the town beyond the pay it re-
for the write-up. Again
every dollar invested in the Treasury, now
home paper enables it to do j that the bond syndicate has made
just that much more work for fa inst payment on
our
1893.
No member of the
takes any stock in the ore-
dictions made in some
quarters concerning the probable
early that will be made on
The second session of
summer school opened
with teachers present. More
are expected to arrive.
On Thursday San
had the fire ever known
there. There were houses
and the lose amounted
to A number of
lives were lost
An excursion from Raleigh to
Wilmington, Wednesday, car-
1800 people There were
from to left on account
of the scarcity of room
were coaches.
There
A convention of the voters of
Maryland who are in of the
free coinage of silver at ratio
of to has been called to meet
Washington, D- C, on Friday
The new woman keeps clam
for the i to vote and
to hold office, out we have not
Heard a word from her yet about
wanting to step up like a man
and pay poll tax.
The bond syndicate
complied with their contract by
paying in the balance of the
purchase gold. Their contract
still requires then to protect
the treasury against gold ex-
ports until October-
-u
T- H. of North
Carolina. of the
United States at Shanghai, has
hid- another valuable and inter
report to the State Depart
on tho trade relations of this
country with the orient- It is
very highly complimented
Not a few North Carolinians
would be seeing our
modest girls dressed in bloom-
riding bicycles. Yet we are
told that they are coming. The
New York Sun thinks there is
nothing wrong in girls wearing
bloomers. Perhaps with is
not, but down this way we
still believe in the womanly
woman.
The Kentucky Democratic
convention met Wednesday,
after voting down a free silver
platform and
sound money and the
of President Cleveland
and nominated P.
Harden, the free silver
candidate on the first ballot.
R. P. Tyler was nominated for
t-Governor.
It is believed there will be
no bolting the Democratic tick-
et in Kentucky. The sound
money men like the idea
of having a free silver candidate
for Governor but they con-
soled by the fact that they
a platform that does not
declare for the free and
coinage of silver at the
of to The free silver
t like such a platform
as they have but they are won-
pleased at having a
who is an out and out
advocate of silver. This
ii the situation in the State
and the Democrats are confident
of winning.
ADVERTISING TOWNS.
All arrangements have been
made by certain parties of our
town, to furnish weekly an in-
letter of a column or
more in length, to four North
Carolina four North
Carolina weeklies, two North-
Journals of Commerce
Trade, and two Virginia
This is a good movement
and will receive the hearty
of all citizens Tar-
Southerner.
If the people of Tarboro
would put the amount they
will thus expend in their home
paper and send that broad-cast
over the country, it is our be-
lief that much better results
will be reached than by the
plan have mapped out
There is no better index to any
town than its home paper, and
good articles in that have
effect upon outsiders than
In distant I
People
the town.
We heard a distinguished cit
of Statesville say that he
was induced to make his home
there through reading copies of
the Landmark that chanced to
fall Into his hands, his
being that a town sending
out such a paper as the Land-
mark would be a good place to
live. This just one
among similar ones
that hare occurred. It is
home paper that talks for the
town, and to see the business
men standing by it shows that
they have confidence in their
town and believe in maintaining
e enterprises.
The following gives some little
insight into the politics of Ens-
laud at the present time i
The political character of a
now Parliament as determined by
an imperial forecast gives the
Unionists a solid majority. The
most sanguine liberal estimate as
published by the
Gazette admits that the Unionists
will gain seats, means
votes on a division and entails
a steady majority in Parliament
of 24- A thoroughly non-partisan
view assigns to tho Unionists a
majority of but
conservatives predict a majority
of but the latter figures are
ridiculous- Any how the Liberals
enter the lists with a feeling of
despondency and a conviction
that they will meet such a defeat
a will establish a Unionist
in power for the next
have not a ghost of a
said Sir
in an interview to day;
are curtain to secure a
solid vote which will keep them
in power for a long time to
The last hope of the home
rulers rested upon an appeal to
Mr- The leading
several staunch
English adherents to home rule
approached Mr- Glad
stone beseeching him to issue
a manifesto and also to engage in
some degree of active personal
intervention during the electoral
period, but they got negative re-
plies in every case, some times
directly from Mr. Gladstone, and
some times through Mrs. Glad-
stone, who declares that her
band must not be troubled with
reference to anybody
with tho political situation. She
is that the
mental disturbances arising from
political would
his health is
determined to keep him aloof
from all political agitation. For
this reason she will be over-
joyed get him back to
den.
The Tobacco Department
Conducted by O. L. Joyner, Proprietor Eastern Tobacco Warehouse.
If they would look this
then over see that,
the exception of Morgan,
of Alabama, there is not in it a
man of the first order of ability
who is advocating the free coin-
age of Observer.
Senator Pugh, colleague of
Senator Morgan, is thought to
be a big enough man to be Chair-
man of the Committee
of the United States Senate ; Sen-
to Chairman of
the Committee of Finance ; Sen-
Daniel, Jones, Berry, Geo.
Butler of South
Carolina, BlacKburn, Cameron,
Coke, Roach, Gordon, Ba-
con, Call,
White cf California, Harris, Bate,
Vest and are justly
as among the ablest men
in the United States Senate.
certainly are the ablest
Democrats in that body, and some
of them are men of first
order of In tho House,
F- Crisp is regarded as the
leader of the forces,
and is one of the few men who
eyer declined a seat in the U. S-
He has been a judge,
and he is a man the first
order of if there are any
in the House- One of the strong
est leaders on the floor of the
House is Benton of
Tennessee and such men as
Richardson, Black, Bland,
Hutch, Williams. Hunt-
Wheeler and dozens of others
are thought to be pretty big men
in their States, and have come
to exert wide influence.
Besides, rampant
men as Sherman and Car-
lisle once favored silver. The
Asheville Citizen says that Pres-
Andrews, of
is for free coinage-
Most of the brains in the Mid-
and New England States are
opposed to free coinage. In the
balance of the country a large
majority of the men of the
order of ability favor of
free It is certainly
true in North Carolina in ho re
tie of to
The has
in progress in for some
time favor of a pay-
day and Saturday half holiday,
I appears to be making satisfactory J
f progress. The Chamber of Com .
added the weight of
its influence r of the move
and the now is
that in the Mir future the em-
ad of them, will have
with a vie- of locating there I half-holiday on the latter day.
account of
bonds purchased. On the con-
members of the
consider the outlook very
cheerful. The Treasury now has
a little more than in
gold, officials do not expect
that amount to be materially re-
during this year, and their
confidence has a solid
Gold only goes to Europe
when somebody can profit by its
shipment. The for the
shipment of agricultural pro
ducts to Europe is now almost
open, and those shipments
ways make the balance of trade
favor of the United States for
a time, and if it does bring
as European old it gives a
gold balance over there which
prevents our haying to send any
gold over for some time. Be-
sides, unless all tho big financiers
are mistaken, the demand for
American of all kinds
is once more on the in
Europe. Tho unloading of those
securities by European holders
has been one of the reasons for
sending American gold to Eu-
rope- There is no good reason
for the direful predictions which
have followed sensational state
as to the reason why the
bond syndicate made the last
payment on those bonds this
week, instead of waiting until
next ac contract
allowed them to do. The
probably closed at this time be-
cause the syndicate found it con-
to do so, and U i non-
in the opinion of Treasury
officials, to say that tho syndicate
has design upon the gold it has
paid Treasury.
Secretary is
very seriously of applying
examination methods to
the U. S- Consular service. So far
as their nomination to office is
concerned, of course they would
have o take their chances of be
confirmed by the Senate after
passing the examination and get-
ting nominated. It is admitted
by all travelers that the longer a
consul remains in office the more
useful he becomes to the country
ho represents, and European gov-
never think of
a consul, except for cause.
Secretary addition to
tho examination of consuls, would
like to see the
a permanent basis, so that young
men would take it up as a life
career.
Much is attached
by to an interview
with Cannon, of
Illinois, was published
Washington this wok- It wasn't
what Mr- said at
traded attention, as his talk is
not considered important-he does
too much of it . but what he did
say. He occupied nearly a
column the
possibilities of his party, men-
Heed, who he is supposed
to favor, Allison,
and
vis, but leaving out Mr-
min Harrison, notwithstanding
that gentleman's recent attempts
to have himself considered the
leading candidate for the
nation- As Mr. Cannon has just
returned from an eastern trip his
interview may be part of a plan
of men to kill the Harri-
son boom by ignoring it.
Great interest is felt in Wash-
in the change of
the
it may have on tho silver
question in this country- Lord
Salisbury, the new premier, is
friendly to silver and Mr. Balfour
a member of tho new cabinet, has
a parliamentary as a bi-
of the most advanced
type. It is natural therefore that
hopes should be indulged that
might change her
of opposition to silver and join
in a movement for international
bimetallism. It is just as well,
however, to remember when in-
such hopes that in
England the national finances
have never figured as an in
politics, and that, unless there is
a radical upheaval precedent
tho personal opinions of Lord Sal
Mr- Balfour will no
b sufficient to change the
c policy of that country- It is
quite however,, that if the
coming parliamentary elections
shall result in favor of the con-
party, to which the new
cabinet belongs, that a strong
fort will be made by the silver
ran of Europe America to
get England to declare favor
of bimetallism- But all previous
efforts in that line have been
balked by the mighty of
i of Lombard street
who lowed the adoption of the
gold who will
ail to the last ditch-
Crops are beginning need
rain.
Yesterday's rain will
the crops of every kind
for nearly all wore beginning
to need rain very much
Tobacco as a general crop is
looking much better than cotton
fact each year has to the
trade a little meaner crop than
the previous one, until the mar-
of the world are full of com
nondescript stuff. The
nil hits the nail plum on the head
in this article, if we had more
of this kind of literature we would
gain more general satisfaction in
or corn and that is not the finest the disposition of the crop. There
that we have ever had at sea-
sou of the year.
There is much made
this year by the farmers ac-
count of tobacco trenching. It is
a great pity that some
cannot be discovered for this
disease.
Crops around
are looking much better than
crops in the vicinity of Green
ville, and we understand that
down below Greenville the to-
is even better than in the
Farmville and Falkland sections.
The lumber has been hauled
and work will commence soon on
the Eastern Warehouse. When
it is completed the sales floor will
contain feet and hold
of tobacco. The house at
present has only feet. The
addition will make it hold nearly
twice as much tobacco as at pres-
From now the crop begins
coming and later if necessary,
We shall endeavor to give the to-
farmers some good reading
matter- In each weekly issue we
hope to be able to give our read-
an original article direct from
the pen of some of our best farm-
on topic pertaining to
tobacco culture Besides we shall
endeavor to post ourselves
as to the growing crop
and the future outlook for prices.
other words from new until
Sept- 1st we shall endeavor to
the tobacco department
alone worth the sub-
of the paper- We
expect to on
the desk of nearly
North Carolina and Virginia
it is through this that we
hope to attract more attention to
this section than ever before.
A few days ago a gentleman
who had traveled over the
try from here to Raleigh, stopped
Greenville while here call-
ed upon Dr. C- J- Dr.
tells us that he said in a
very few years this would be a
thriving little city of several
thousand inhabitants. The Dr.
asked him on he based his
assertion, and he said, here
you have the very finest tobacco
lauds the world that is on
half, your people are begin-
to properly utilize the land
by growing tine He
said that tho same thing that
built up Durham, and
other towns in the State, would
in a short while be discovered
hem and that people would come
here and avail themselves of the
natural advantages of our climate
and soil. Greenville, he said, was
backed up by as fine a country as
any town in the State.
There ought to be a mutual in
between tho warehouseman
the tobacco farmer. The
houseman should be the far-
best friend and farmer look
upon him in the same light, yet
there are some farmers who seem
to think the warehouseman feels
no interest in them and is only at-
to them for the hope of
selling their tobacco. If this
had tobacco to sell and had
sufficient grounds to believe that
the extended by the
were not genuine,
he would certainly not sell his to-
There are some people
try to get up feelings be-
the warehouseman far-
mer. Such an exhibition was
manifested Saturday in the meet-
of the tobacco growers. One
man seemed to think the ware-
housemen were trying to run the
association, and by his remarks
endeavored to engender unkind-
between the warehouseman
and seller. The association was
organized for the benefit of the
farmers, and whatever is the far-
interest is certainly the
warehouseman's. We are of the
opinion, however, that there was
only one man present who had
such feelings, and happily no-
bod . who heard what he had to
say was changed mind.
are those who seem to think that
they must puff the crop
hazard and by this means they
must hope to leaf men to
come to in fact
it produces the opposite
Leaf men everywhere got
the idea that all the markets are
going to be full of fine tobacco
and hence they don't put their
men to buying the first offerings,
thinking to wait until the good
tobacco comes in- They wait and
finally learn that there is no good
tobacco. As a consequence the
farmers tobacco sells lower than
it the trade bad properly
and truthfully informed. The lea
men get an undesirable
probably their buyers the
good tobacco and let some one
else have it, and hence
faction is given all around- We
in conservatism in making
these reports. Let the trade know
just exactly what they may ex-
to get of the crop, and
when the offerings in they
will not be deceived and
pointed. Give the trade the facts
and get more satisfaction.
thought home, we shall hold
his memory in kind reverence.
Bis mind always seemed to
full of beautiful thoughts
his daily lectures in the school
room the weight of his discourse
always tended to the elevation of
mankind and the purification of
morals. On account of his age,
we suppose, at that time his
was smothered and
it any noticed on
the part of some of the pupils,
but when ha came to lecture
we always gave him our
ed with the result of
ways feeling after each
that had been benefited
than double the value of time em
ployed on our books.
Prof. Smith's life was a cam-
of education, so to speak,
tho thousands of young men
all over tho country that he has
aided acquiring a knowledge
of business are living monuments
to-day of his earthly labors. Ii
seems to us that the most
thought that gild the sun-
set of life, when the trials of
this world, with its vicissitudes
and sorrows are over, is to look
back upon tho stage of no-
and know that we have
done all that Scald toward
our a-d as little
as possible toward his
This could right-
fully claim- Ho devoted his
life to the elevation of young men
now he has gone to claim
There Is one thing that Green-
ville needs just at present more
than anything else, and that is a
first-class Board of Trade,
ting of the energetic
men. We have found sever-
letters in our box lately, direct-
ed Jo the Greenville Board, of
Trade, and thinking probably they
were intended for the
Board of Trade we opened thorn
and in every instance they
were about
our town if
we had Board of
who
would
Trade o
men generally,
take lotting the
world what we had and the
inducements we could offer to
visitors, could the more easily
impress home seekers and
men by united and concert-
ed action, than in the slip shod
manner in which it must
be done until we have an or
board of this kind. Again
what is everybody's business, and
matters of kind left to at-
tended to by and everybody
will most likely go unnoticed, and
hence in a great many instances
the town loses a good citizen,
when by prompt attention it might
saved one. There are
of towns this State with
not near so inhabitants as
and whose natural re-
sources are much more limited,
that have regular organized
Boards of Trade through which
medium are bringing them-
selves to the notice of the world
of trade thriving under con-
a groat deal less favorable
than mm
If the people of Greenville want
to induce capitalists to come
among us, if they want the
resources and latent industries
of our country opened up, if they
want to build up a live, hustling
town the of one of the
most God favored spots on earth,
let our first step in this direction
be the coming together of our
business men, young and old, and
organize a Greenville Board of
Trade.
By our heretofore
this particular, we have said to
those who might have come
among us, had the proper effort
been made, we don't want you,
and with this encouragement the
of citizens whom we would
like to have, have justly of
tense and without an
of our advantages and in
, caused by our
they have given us the go
by-
Prof. E W. Smith, President of the
Commercial College of Kentucky
University Has Away.
The Kong Were Singing.
Dixie land is
in-r-
tiling mills,
Bring mills.
Bring mills
want more mills In Dixie,
more mills III Dixie State,
to Weave the cotton
Hooray I
We want more mill in
Oh, cotton is u greater
But What we want i the cotton weaver
Bring in II l.
Hi I'm
Briny cotton mill- Dixie.
Oh, we want more mills in Dixie,
Hooray I
We want more for to turn
take at a out a noun-
book away
Cook away in Dixie
Frank I.
What . He Say
Even tho best regulated
families things sometimes
A man in our town sit
out the other day to celebrate his
little sou's birthday, went
cellar to make him a freezer
of ice cream.
lie wan going to afternoon
tea, had just minutes
which to freeze the cream-
Ho managed to crack the ice
and three of his fingers the
first five
Then he gouged r. the
palm of his hand with the
pick. He finally got tho freezer
packed, and at the crank with
bloody hands and made it revolve
at the rate of a million revolutions
an hour-
One can always tell by tho way
the freezer turns when the cream
is stiffening, but at the end of
twenty that freezer was
gyrating around as easily
when he began ; so he off
his coat, got a little madder, and
increased the number of
by a quarter of a million.
At the end of minutes the
thing was flying around with
no indications of
Finally he jerked off the lid
and then fell down the dead
faint, frothing at the mouth-
All that terrific effort had been
expended on absolutely empty
The cream was up stairs on
table.
It was a birthday a
occasion, and tho dignity of tho
head of Hi- family must main-
But he wan down collar
every movement, every
J idea, every transaction at
King Clothiers. It is the pulse of
the great business. Its vibrations are
felt in every department, every aisle,
and on every shelf. For every cent
expended Frank Wilson returns full
value. No discrimination is made be-
tween the small purchaser or the great,
the rich or the poor, the experienced
or the inexperienced. All have the
same advantages, and no one is given
concession, commission or discount.
I must make room for my fall stock and
will put prices down to a low notch so as
to clean them out. My stock of Fine
must be cut down as I intend to have
line this fall and do not want to
suit over.
carry a
Gents Furnishing Goods
T have knocked the bottom clean out and will
sell if you will come and look.
FRANK WILSON,
THE KING CLOTHIER.
To Farmers W
I have rented the old Greenville Warehouse
and and with Messrs. R. D. Evans and
A. H. Critcher, under the firm name of Evans
Co., will be in the warehouse business the com-
season. We earnestly solicit your patronage
With the best light in the State for showing your
tobacco, polite and competent assistants, plenty
of prize room, experience and ample means to
successfully conduct the business. We know we
can get as much for your tobacco as any house or
market in the State. Give us a trial and we will
try to please you. Respectfully,
L. F. EVANS. C.
TOBACCO
are low Ready for Delivery
m by w
S. E. Fender Co.
X-
Prices greatly reduced.
Terms Cash.
Same price all
Opposite Wooten's Drugstore.
The Danville
tin.-- week gives one of the heat
articles that we have seen in a
trade paper tho crop The
admonishes
giving high fly
enormity the crop,
says for the last four years
the trade been treated every
year. u the roost
per report about the largest and
crop of that
grew bat of the ground, when
We hive just learned of the
death of Prof. E. W. Smith, PreF-
of the College
of tho of at
his homo in
Five years ago tho writer en-
the College of
Kentucky our
first wore given by
Prof. E. W- Smith. At tint time
we bad never remained long from
home, naturally were blue
and
For the fatherly of
and cheer MM many
little jokes
he told to kill tho dull mo
and the eyer concentrate
id
T-
A.
GREENVILLE. N. C.
Just Received Cars Rock Lime.
SO NAILS. AM. SIZES.
cl
A CLEAR HEAD;
good digestion; sound sleep; a
fine appetite and a ripe old age,
are some of the results of the use
of Liver Pills. A single
dose will convince you of their
wonderful effects and virtue.
A Known Fact
An absolute cure for sick head-
ache, dyspepsia, malaria, sour
constipation
bilious fever, piles, torpid liver
and all kindred diseases.
Liver Pills
so Cap Sardines,
It Bread
Beep.
; SO Star bye
mid Cracker.
Bbl Stick Candy,
Matches,
Hunt,
Powder.
Sacks Coffee.
Tons Shot.
Powder.
flour.
Meat.
Hay,
Tub
M P.
Ax
U. Tl. Mills
Three Thistle
Tobacco.
nuke v. M. P.
Old Va.
Cases Oysters,
J. X.
line Ii
N. C
KICK AT COURT HOUSE.
All kinds Risks placed in strictly
FIRST-CLASS COMPANIES
At current, rates.
AGENT FOB FIRE PROOF
GREAT
JULY JUMBLES.
Served Crisp for Hot Weather.
IN
These goods will be sold
CENT.
DISCOUNT
to make room for my
fall stock.
REFLECTOR
Local Reflections.
Rev. F. Smith mat to Be
Monday.
A little child of Mr. Wiley Brown Is
quite sick.
Ufa Becca I visiting
here.
lone May . of Farmville, In
Miss
The up again . .
not the Mon-
day bat it rained sure
at night.
The work on the draw at the
bridge has been completed and
people can now pass over.
The young men have sent
invitations for a big German here
on the evening of July 4th.
We told that a few days ago
Mr. Amos Evans, Jr., picked
worms off of tobacco leaf.
Contractor H. Jones com-
work to day on the
to the Eastern Warehouse.
The list takers of the several
townships made their returns to
the County Commissioners Mon-
day.
The man who wishes to climb
to the top of ladder can take
lessons from the thermometer
now.
Apples, peaches, plums and
plentiful- Now when the
conies will be all
right.
Some sections of the county
had a nice rain Friday evening,
but it was very light close to
town.
The is indebted to
Elder W. A- Ross for a sack of
nice apples which he sent
over Saturday.
The grass is not all dead yet,
buy some of my Hoes while they
are going cheap-
D. D- Haskett.
The Atlantic will
sell fourth of July tickets to ail
points on its roads at very low
rates. TicKets good from the 2nd
to the 7th-
lie in ember I pay you cash for
Beeswax, Chickens, Eggs
Country Produce at the Old
Brick Store-
The list takers for this town-
ship say that while there are some
delinquents this year the number
who failed to give their taxes
is smaller than usual-
Mr. J. J. Cory has started a
canning establishment and is put. train tare Thursday for
ling up We hope
Ins venture will load to a canning .,, . ,,.,
factory on a large scale. ,,,
Sunday b playing at;
Cleveland, O, has been look the train
by an from a Circuit Saturday morning fir a visit to
Court Judge, who held that Hie
cheering made it a
Mr. C. M. Bernard home from
Housekeepers can hardly Monday evening. His fain-
a door or window open at night remain there.
ONWARD GO. New Officers.
Mr. W. S. fewer, of Baltimore, is In officers were
town.
The Beat Resort on the Coat
D. D. Haskett, N. U-
F. M. Hodges, G.
W. L. Brown, F. S.
D. W. Treas.
C. D- Sec.
Mr. W. H. Cox returned from Norfolk
Wednesday evening. I the business or professional life
Mr. W. B, Grimes, of of any town is always represented
Mr. J. is just buck
from his first to
and says the management of the
hotel this season is the best
hotel has been built- Messrs-
same Here. Bell and Harris, the proprietors,
Watch the advertisements in young men of enterprise, a-id
this paper and give your business j they leave undone for
to those who talk to you through the pleasure of guests. fare
columns. The beat there is in j as good as anybody could wish
in Tuesday evening.
returned Wednesday
evening from
Mr. J. J. Cherry Jr. went to
coke Saturday evening.
Mr. B. S. left
for a visit to Greensboro.
Rev. C. M. returned from
Carthage Thursday evening.
Mrs. Dr. II. A. Joyner left Saturday
to Visit relatives in
Mrs. W. M. has gone to
to d some time.
Mr. A. has gone to Gran-
county to spend a few weeks.
MUs Maggie Allen took the train here
Saturday for a visit near
Mrs. M. F. Dancy and Miss Dot Flan-
from Kinston Monti
Mr. and Mrs F. M. Hodges went to
Tarboro Saturday to spend a few days.
Miss Mamie U spending the
week with her untie, Mr. Zeno Moore.
Mis. I. K. Hooker. Of Hookerton. is
visiting bet daughter, Mrs. L, Wool-
en.
Mr. Collin Harding, of Washington,
is visiting the family of Maj. II. Hard-
Mr. home Friday
evening from his to Littleton
Mr. A. ha- returned to
Greenville and is now with C. Cobb
and Son,
Mrs. of Four Oaks, is visiting
the family o her brother, Mr. L- F.
Goodrich.
the
the
in the advertising of its
local paper Gazette.
Mrs. A. Charlotte has gone in
country to spend the remainder of
summer.
Mr. B of
The year is
Seventh mouth-
Blackberries are ripe.
Pooches to d
a peck-
has organized a
of Trade.
The days are now slowly grow
shorter.
A large stock of nice Furniture cheap
at the Old Brick Store.
Passenger hour late
again Saturday night-
The potato crop in this section
is very nearly exhausted.
The party returned
home Saturday afternoon-
The County Examiner examined
several teachers Monday.
Neither the doctor nor the bill
collector expect you to return their
calls.
bushels
b J. L Starkey
Co
This month gives us five Mon-
days, five Tuesday and five Wed-
your cotton seed to
Henry Sheppard, and buy your
Meal Hulls- Car load of each
just arrived tor sale cheap.
The young people of Farmville
will have a bail on Thursday
night, July 11th.
Morris Meyer has added a
handsome soda fountain to his
confection
Foil well equipped
Shop, Black-
Shop and. Wood-working
Shop, with all necessary tools and
machinery. For terms apply to
James
Greenville, M. C-, June 1895.
for the bugs. We never them
more numerous they a
great fondness lamplight.
The Iowa claim
have sac upon General
Weaver their recent State
Convention. Then the Iowa
Populists should brush off the
seat of pants
If a tax on incomes is
we should think the
tax on banks is
certainly unconstitutional. Why
is it not tested before the courts
Free Press-
J. II. Joyner tells us the
new Methodist church at Grimes-
land is completed and the
service will be held in it next Sun-
day. It is a neat, pretty build-
Vegetable thieves, or thieves
after vegetables, are troubling the
gardens of some of our citizens.
Somebody is running a good
of getting or caught
in a steel trap.
Sunday the gin house of Mr.
Hardy near Kinston, was
struck by lightning and set on
tire. The building forty bales
of cotton were destroyed. There
was no insurance.
There is a lady in Greenville
who bought a paper of pins
years ago and has never
ed one since and has some of
them on hand now. They do not
rust, pull out or break off.
We learn that the Adams bridge
across creek, near the
Greene county lino, has been con-
as unsafe The bridge
should be put in order at once,
as it is a convenience to a large
number of people.
A citizen of Greene
remarked in our presence that
he thought every tobacco farmer
ought to take tin Reflector as its
columns more information
about handling
that crop than be had from
any other source.
The Teachers Assembly
at Morehead adjourned Sat-
The new officers elected
were J. Y. Joyner, President W.
Poteat, President; J.
Parker, Secretary and Treasurer.
The attendance this year was
Smaller than usual.
The oldest postmaster in the
States has died
This time he was John Dales-
man, aged for years
postmaster at West Milton, Pa.
He was appointed by President
Jackson 183-5 and held the of-
Cols of Pie.
One of his fellow-workmen tells
us that Charles Thorne, one of
the bands at the mill, put in his
Friday afternoon with
a pie about a foot
long, six inches wide and neatly
two inches thick. It took Charles
nearly an hour to get outside of
that pie.
House.
The you had a good
audience in the Opera House,
Friday to witness the
play for benefit of
Hope Fire Company- The play
was well rendered and the
highly pleased. About
was realized and turned to
the This helps the com-
fund quite
the Bars.
Monday Mr. C. F. White, g
as special deputy for Sh
went out and arrested a
colored man named Richard
Gowan, against whom there was
a warrant for taking too many
privileges with other people's
smokehouses Richard has the
reputation of being a bad man to
handle, but Mr. White was shrewd
enough to slip the on him
and laud him in the lock up.
Chance for the Girls.
Mr. W. H. White has counted
them up and tells us that from
the office to the Court
House on main street there are
marriageable men from -1 years
old and upwards. He did not
state high up the column the
ages run, as John Andrews, Dr.
Mack Ernul and Joe Blow, are
included in the With this
number of marriageable men on
two blocks it looks like the girls
ought to have a good chance.
Mis-cs Settle and
of Greene county, ace visiting
Misses A i.
Mrs. L. Murphy of Kinston, who
has visiting relatives near Farm-
ville, spent Tuesday here.
Mrs. John Flanagan has been sick for
some days. Her host of friends are glad
to know she Is now improving.
Little Miss Clara Latham who has
been visiting friends here, returned to
her home in Washington Saturday
Rev. and Mrs. II. B. Anderson, who
were the of Mr. D. D.
Haskett, here returned to
Miss and Masters
lieu of Mr.
Lovit Hines, are visiting relatives at
Dover.
Register of Deeds W. M. King return-
ed Wednesday evening Oxford
where he had been attending lbs Grand
Lodge of Masons.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hooker, who has
for
Panacea Springs, accompanied by her
daughters. Misses Mamie and
Hooker.
Mr. K. K. Cotton and son, Mr. Bruce
Gotten, of spent Thursday
here. The former, by
Cotten, will leave Saturday a
by steamer to New
Clever Capt. Hawks, of the
train, is on the sick list and lay off
Tuesday when his train reached
don. Capt. W. J. Hill, another very
courteous conductor, is temporarily on
the run.
Mr. H. S. Manager of the W,
U. Tel. Co. at S. C-,
lived Thursday evening to visit his par-
Mr. aid Mrs. S. B. Wilson. Bur.
teak his lessons on the wire in
tills and we arc glad to know of
his success.
Let Tram Through,
As long is the railroad is
such poor in fact
almost no connection at
their present freight train ached-
to enable people to go through
to Morehead without having to
lay over a day could
not they arrange to let the Booth
bound passenger train
through to Month ad Saturday
evenings and return Monday
mornings V This would give ops
port-unity for a delightful trip and
be appreciated by the seaside
seekers.
Mr. Charlie Forces is laying
off a nice tennis court near
his father's residence.
Mr- J. A Manning, near Grin-
reports a five-weeks old gos
line that weighs pounds.
Growers Attention. Warm is most
We have just received a -large upon the woman has to plan
quantity of tobacco flue iron o for the daily meals. The menu
good finality and clean. Parties becomes tiresome vexatious
h ordered flues from us j and she longs to gel away from
of
mouths ii for nothing
pan get them now any
S. E. it- Co-
regret very much to
that our order for floe
iron was misunderstood and
instead of getting what was
ordered, they sent us a heavy
iron that c be med It is
sq late, now. it is impossible
to get it in time for use this sea-
son-
U L-
else than to escape the endless
of meals.
J. L Starkey Co. have taken
the for the City Electric
Laundry, of Wilmington. This
Ian miry does the and best
work of any in the
State and is the equal of any city
work done in the See the
for prices them
work.
In Memoriam of Ruth
Wednesday, June as light
was drawing her curtain, came
and found strange beauty on that
cherub brow, and that sweet spirit took
its flight to heaven. Pure and transient
as the g dewdrops she passed
from her earthy suffering to rest in
sweet Her
is radiant with Heavenly light, and
sweet angel, we know her brow
is decked with an ermine of
Oil the gentle form of darling
slumbers In that pity the dead, but
her spirit U the bosom of God,
Mourn not but draw comfort from the
consoling thought, that your tender
plant, though nipped in its sweetest
has exchanged her suffering
to slug Onuses endless
eternity.
let the
of her sunny laugh, and sweet little
come like
from the sorrowful
Try to look forward to a day of
reunion when shall be the
first to welcome you to
sanctuary.
by one earth's arc
we see
pie hones fondly
How it is in Concord.
We trust that the riders of bi-
cycles in Concord will be careful
in riding the sidewalks, so as
to cause complaint from
It should be
that there is an ordinance
which makes it punishable by fine
or imprisonment to go by a lady
or a child except at a low rate of
speed. This ordinance should be
strictly enforced.
Let bicycles riders in all cases
when passing take the
extreme outside of the street.
When coming up on anyone from
behind ring your boll, unless it is
a lady- At night never go with-
out your lamp. In fact, exercise
common sense and show regard
for the rights of others, and all
will be well. do not believe
the town commissioners will
legislate the bicycles off the pave-
if the bicyclists will be-
have themselves. Concord Times
The law makers of Greenville
might take an idea from the above
Our People.
We have seen a copy of the
, Journal of June
containing a full account of a
very brilliant entertainment ten-
by Mrs-
Lawrence D- Tyson to ex Govern-
or Mrs. T. J- Jarvis during
their recent visit to that city.
The Journal pronounced it the
most brilliant social function of
the week, and the most elegant
of the entertainments ten-
to the distinguished guests
Lieutenant Tyson was a Pitt
boy, and took especial de-
light thus honoring old time
friends of himself parents.
Oakley
IA K l PEOPLE WOT IN IT.
The Town Council on
and
on the License
Tho Council had a full
of the Board at their
meeting Monday night and they
a breezy in
keeping with the stormy weather
that prevailed The
w in so bad that the
had reporter present, and we
have to depend on what can be
gathered outside as to what was
done.
The matters of most importance
that occupied the attention of tho
was action on two
before them. One of these
petitions was In-half of the
of the town that they
be allowed to ride bicycles on the
sidewalks except the
Court House and Five Points on
Evans street- This had
between signature,
many of the leading citizens of
the town being among the sign
but it was ignored by the
Board tabled by a vote of
to
The other petition was against
the granting of to sell liq-
near the tobacco warehouses
This petition also had a largo
number of signatures, nearly
names being to it. The question
warmly sod when
a rote resulted in a tie,
Councilman Brown, Smith
to grunt tho license
Godwin,
Jenkins against the license.
Mayor took the side of the
citizens and cast his vote
against tanning th license.
The usual monthly bills wore
allowed.
THE WAYS OF A MULE.
Wouldn't Pull Made to do
So.
Mr. Bryant has had a
time getting a load of tobacco
flues out home- He came
try a week or longer at Ocracoke- Monday afternoon with a mule
and cart to carry them out. The
The Musical Contest
From tho Morehead
dent of the Newborn Journal we
clip the following about tho
before the
Assembly
PLAIN FACTS.
for, as these dishes on
the bill of fare for will
Ham cabbage, roast
turkey with oyster dressing, bar-
sheep head, fresh
fish, oysters, loaf bread,
vegetables, pickles and
three kind . of desert-
Bath houses have just been
built by the pier in front of the
hotel for bathing also
on tho beach for surf bathing.
The fishing is just immense, par-
ties bringing in trout and blues
by the hundred. A good baud of
music is
Mr. has made
with the Dominion
Steamship Co. for an excursion
to be from to
week during the
season- The steamer Myers will
leave Greenville every Saturday
morning at o'clock, connecting
at Washington with tho steamer
Virginia Dare which arrives at
Ocracoke o'clock Sunday
Tho Virginia Dare will leave
Ocracoke every afternoon
at o'clock, connecting with the
Myers at pas-
back by
VI o'clock
here knows the Myers and the
pleasures of a trip on the Tar
with jolly Capt. Bill The
Virginia Dare is an elegant new
steamer, perfectly seaworthy and
to carry -50 pas-
Tho gallant Capt- Dave
Hill is command of this
ed steamer, and if you don't have
a pleasant trip with him you can't
enjoy anything. Get ready and
DRY GOODS.
Price. Regular Price.
Scotch Lawns
Satin Stripped Mitts .
Silk and Wool
Colored Dotted Swiss
Colored
Cloths fl
French Sateens
Dotted Swiss
Crinkled Cloths .
White Goods rents up.
La Vest Scents, former price
1.25 La d,
Pile.
8-cent cents.
10-cent . cents.
cents.
20-cent cents.
cents.
cents.
Shirt Waists.
Our Shirt Waist. . now
Our Shirt Waist,. now
SI Shirt
Our Shirt
STRAW HATS.
Our Dollar
Our
Our
Our If
styles to from.
Shirts, Collars and Cuffs, Gauze
Underwear, and
at panic prices.
CLOTHING.
Men, Youth and Boys
go to make room for fall stock.
PANTS GOODS.
Our
Our 49-cent
Our
Our lite.
Remember to get these juices it takes the
Cash down and don't yon forget it.
Tours for business,
C. T.
flood were placed the cart and
the started for homo- Not
a yards had been gone
lover before that to
how at the
I of the fines, with a hump
laud a jump he let out,
At night tho musical contest, around the A-a grove,
postponed from yesterday,
, . ,. . The idea of the load
lace, the matter
posed of in short and when Mr.
be used by came back a barrel of
Secretary liar- flour to take instead, the mule
ARE THE PEOPLE
-Who want your trade on
B-
gas companies
said he h id twelve
to enter the contest, lying
his table, only one of the
applicants had put in an appear-
walked off as as a lamb.
To day Mr- came back
for the flues with another
driver coming along with the
mule also. And tho horse would
so I hey had determined to j not pull flues, either, but as soon
as the load was put on cart he
scattered them all over Five
let this one play her part, that is
her piece, award her tho
medal, which seemed common
to be a very proper thing
to do.
A spirited piece was next play-
ed by Miss Sophia Martin, M. D.
but those ominous letters don't
signify, as have
sometimes heard them
She can't ruin a
doz u hearts before she cures
one. just mean our petite,
lively musical who
moves so quick plays s j rap-
id, she ought to reckon her ago
by springs not summers.
Then the contestant, Miss
Sheppard, of came
forward, with her pet piece fa-
down to her finger ends,
which was received with
applause-
Miss Sheppard played her sec-
which had never
at random from a
as readily and
well as tho first. Den-
sou presented her with tho As
beautiful gold medal in
a neat and happy little speech,
the cheered their
satisfaction.
Points. It was concluded to give
mule another trial. He was
led up, at tho first rattle
of a flue ho to tho
The fun attracted all the clerks
in the neighborhood they
up their minds to load that
cart- Enough of Hie boys got
around that to hold him
down the loading
They rattled flues the mule
squirmed and twisted, the
boys got bettor of it. By the
lime git through tho mule
was ready to down to
business walk off home.
Greenville
Corrected by S. at tin-
Butter, per to in
Western to
Sugar cured to la
to
Corn to SO
Flour, too
to
to
per to
to
Eggs
Beeswax, per
to
per
Cotton Seed
to Ii
BREAD YEARS OLD
Mr.
While on a to the homo of
Mr. T- A. a few days ago,
I v,. shown a family relic by
Mrs. Nichols. It was a of
cotton cloth and wrapped in it
were two well preserved biscuits
These biscuits were made and
cocked by Mrs mother,
Mrs. Baker, the wife of
Elder Billy B the 17th
day of Oct.-, for supper- Be-
e the morning had the
death angel had visited that heme
and Mrs spirit had taken
its everlasting Mrs.
V- let, as then a beautiful
we see
Brighten but to pass away.
One by one hopes grow brighter
As we near the shining shore.
For we know the river
the gone
mm A i
accord all agree that
the fare at the Hotel
equals or any other i.
sort in the State. All who have
been down say and the
was never
I. H. Little and wire spent
Sunday here.
Mr. W. J. Little rant sister,
attended the union at
Green
Mr. W. H Williams made a
business trip to, Fri-
day night.
fir. Little returned
last week from the coast.
He is looking well and
a pleasant
Saturday P M. tun
sad news reached this place or
of the death of Mr. B. O. Flem-
He was a member of th
Disciple, clutch, lie had been
a year. He leaves no
J near relatives but many friends
to mourn death.
Cotton and -in-its.
Below are Norfolk prices of rotten
peanuts for yesterday, as fin
by Cobb Bros, To., Commission Mer-
chants Of Norfolk
Good Middling 1-10
Middling
Low Middling B --1
Ordinary
Extra Pi hue
Fancy
Spanish bu.
Finn.
It. E. 2.50 2.78 per bag.
damaged, 1.50 to 1.75.;
Black and Clay, to 1.00 do- bushel
a At.
Jelly TUMBLERS,
Tobacco Knives,
DRY GOODS,
Shoes, Groceries
FURNITURE.
We can soil very
Call on for lowest prices on all goods.
cheap.
inly took two beautiful
while loaves of bread, no nicely
pi by her mother, carefully
wrapped them this cloth
laid them away as a precious gem
of v to lier dead mother,
because it was tho last woe c f
h r hands The e
well preserved as
bread, that it la a
yellow by age- These loaves
bread will have been coo
years October. It t
most as good as fresh and
I have no doubt but is life
saving properties in the
T. T.
ail
STYLES
There U only one price
Ramblers. enough for the
best bicycle that ever built.
More than tic i too much.
Ramblers are made
lightness, strength,
and durability. You break
them if you try,
baa no perceptible effect. Yon
are groping in the dark if you buy
without seeing a Rambler catalog.
Festal will bring it.
a co.
O.
ruck Barrels, Pumps
All Kinds of Machinery.
have opened at
the
Moore store and are
prepared to furnish
any kind of
want.
Special attention given
to putting down
and repairing
PUMPS.
All kinds of Pip
work done sat-
lion guaranteed.
I'll your orders
for with
TASTELESS
ILL
Greenville, N. C.
WALL
I have removed my Wall to
to the Marcellus Moore mid
have a of
Come before the art
. best opportunity
had to your house at
a small cost. Priors as low as
three cents a roll of yard.
A. B. ELLINGTON.
TONIC
J U ST AS ADULT.
WARRANTED. PRICE eta.
O I. A. ILLS., Hot. M,
Mn-
last rear, of
TONIC and
already this In
Team. In toe hare
In
rose
A by J. I.
o-
ABUT
. ill tint
before
a, COFFEE, SUGAR
RICE, TEA, Ac.
always
TOBACCO
Day direct from Manufacturers,
you to buy at one profit. A
stock of
FURNITURE
always and sold at prices to suit
times. goods bought
sold for having no W
to sell at a close margin.
Respectfully,
S. M.
N. C
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MARBLE.
Wire and Iron Fencing
sold. First-class work
and prices reasonable.
Marble Yard erected on Dane
lot, on the same Street as
Dated June ., x M.
Leave Weldon Ar. Beer M.
Rocky Mt Wilson Ar. 0-5 U SO o a
Lt Goldsboro Magnolia Ar M. IS . M j Ia-
June
Lt Ar M. IS SB it 3-
Wilmington Magnolia Goldsboro AX M. a or. M.
Lt Wilson Ar Rocky M M,
A r Tarboro Lt Tarboro Lt Rocky Mt Ar a
BUILD UP HOME
By patronizing Home Enterprise.
Mara
of DURHAM, N. C,
manufacturing is line Cigars, Che-
roots and a can be found on
market. Their i brands are
a dune cigar for a band made.
Havana tilled.
a fine Nick e Cigar,
Havana band mad
Named in honor of Col. buck Black
well.
a line live cent Sumatra Wrapper
band made, Havana filled, a sure win-
Named in of Col. J. S.
Cans of Durban To-
SADIE
IV n cents.
OLD
Five for The smoke for
Hie money.
NORTH STATE
Three for S cents, a hummer that
ways pleases.
Stick to borne and semi us your or
dent. Special brands put up de-
sired. Address
N. C
Train on Scotland Neck Branch Road
Weldon 3.40 p. m. Halifax 4.00
p. m., arrives Scotland Neck at p
o., Greenville 6.37 p. m., Kinston 7.35
p. in. Returning, leaves Kinston 7.20
a. in. Greenville 8.22 a. m. Arriving
Halifax at II.-00 a. m., Weldon 11.20 am
daily except
Trains on Branch leave
7.00 a, m., arrives Parmele
8.40 p. m. Tarboro 9.50; returning
leaves Tarboro 4.50 p. m. Parmele 6.10
p. m arrives Washington 7.35 p. m.
Daily except Sunday. Connects with
trains on Scotland Neck Branch.
Train leaves Tarboro. N C, via
A Raleigh R. R. daily except Sun-
day, at p. m., P. M;
arrive 9.20 P. M., 5.20 p. m.
Returning leaves Plymouth daily
Sunday, 6.30 a. m., Sunday 9.30 a
arrive Tarboro 10.25 a. m and 11.45
a. hi.
Train on Midland N C Branch
Goldsboro daily except a
m. arriving Smithfield, a. m. Re-
leaves Smithfield, a. n.;
arrive at Goldsboro, a. m.
Trains on Nashville Branch leaves
Rock Mount at 4.30 p. in., arrive
Nashville I p. no-. Spring Hope 6.30.
p. m. Returning leaves Spring Hope
a. m., Nashville 8.85 a. m., arrives
at Rocky Mount in.,
Trains on Latta Branch, Florence R.
R. 6.60 p. m., arrive Dun-
8.00 p. m. leave Dun-
a. m. arrive Latta a. m.,
Daily except Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves War- j
saw for Clinton dally, except
at II a a. in. Returning leave CI
at 1.00 p. m., conn-ting at Warsaw
line trains.
n No. makes close connection,
a- Weldon tor all points North dally. all
nil via Richmond, and except
Sun via Portsmouth and Bay Line
also at Rocky Mount with Norfolk AT
railroad for Norfolk daily
ill points North via Norfolk, daily
Sunday.
JOHN F. DIVINE
Genera
T. H, Manager.
J. Traffic Manager.
War-j
This Reminds
You every day
in the month
June if
you have
your Printing done
at the
REFLECTOR
JOB OFFICE.
It will be done right,
It will be done in style
and it suits.
These points are
well worth weighing
in any sort
of work, but
way of prompt and deadly
nothing In all the
of homicide in fur west brats
I he record of the gambler at
Newton, Kan., made one in
said C. U. of
railroad had boon
built that point during the year
and a town had grown
up round the terminus to which
cattle drives that bad been
ti Abilene now came. With
tic and railroad
thronged street, it was
a pf where
hi and pistol
by day and night.
in
were In for
and cowboys were
of
had a grudge the
me town, mid so came in
I bat night prepared for trouble,
and set about making it straight
way. They killed the city marshal,
the deputy marshal, and
man early in the evening. Later
they poured into dance
hall to the twenty-five or
thirty. The three already
killed wore not enough to satisfy
them and they wanted more. Upon
a bench at the side of the room a
man was sitting with a girl on his
knee. One of cowboys walked
up to him, him Una
shoulder and
teach you to hold my girl in
your and shot him dead.
was in the dance hall and
the man just killed was a particular
friend of his. Without a word
stepped back in the big double doors
in the front of the saloon and closed
them. Placing his back against the
doors he drew a pair of revolvers
fell Io shooting, one man against
the crowd. Men tumbled left and
right and shots rang out. all over the
room in response to the drum-roll
cracking of Riley's pistols. Shots
perforated and splintered the door
about him, but he stood there fir-
until his pistols wore emptied.
Behind the bur which ran one
side of the room he knew where tho
armory was kept ready for
use. Leaping over a counter he
caught up a revolver that lay on a
shelf beneath and kept on with his
tiring. Before he had emptied the
that he had found behind the
bar, the men inside had forced the
front doors open, those that could
rushed out, and shot his last
man in too middle of the street,
When he came counting up losses It
was discovered there were thirteen
dead men in the town due to that
eight's of nine cow-
boys had fallen t Riley's hand.
How many wounded ones rode or
were carried away by their com-
to the cattle could only be
guessed at.
was one curious incident
of this fight not generally known.
it was supposed was unhurt in
the shooting. A doctor hastily sum-
to scene came to the side
of a who was
t door the
I to
poor
gut
-two
answered the doctor.
was not even
know better than said the
cowboy. know he was hit. I was
right by the side of him when ho shot
me, and before I fell I fired and hit
him under the arm. You examine
and you'll that he's wounded
the doctor got round to
he examined him, and sure
enough, found that he had received
a flesh wound under bis arm which
in the excitement of fighting he had
not noticed. left the town
after the inquest and did not
there again. No effort seems to
have been made to arrest or bring
him to trial for an act that was
generally held to be justifiable and
praiseworthy.
got a message sometime after-
ward from Kansas City saying that
was there and asking if I
wanted R. H.
of the land department of the
son, Santo Fe railroad,
who was mayor of Newton at tho
time of the killing. sent back
word they were perfectly
come to keep him there. We had
begun to build up a population in
Newton and we didn't need
Hard class to suit.
Patronizing of Swell
Swell Servants.
Kn. Say. Can II old
with Bat
with and
wonder if I'm more a snob
than most d little
Mrs. confidentiality, to the
New York Tribune man, I must
plead guilty to being dreadfully
afraid of smart servants. The only
set of individuals before whom I ac-
quail are the ladies
and the gentlemen.
With their masters or I
can hold my own fairly w their
wealth and grandeur do Dot over-
awe me a bit. But the dis-
depress and in a
me, for I feel so vexed with my-
self that I have so little self-respect,
as to mind them. Nevertheless, I
do, and I fancy a good many other
people do, too, if they would only
have the frankness to acknowledge
it. Tho other evening, for instance,
we were dining at the and
I began to feel uncomfortable as soon
as left the cab.
until we are inside of the
I said to the driver, feeling
guiltily conscious that wanted the
footman to that at least did
pot arrive in the
inquired my husband,
innocently are so stupid, they
never suffer from these aristocrats
of the
I answered,
haps it's the wrong night, or
Why can't he I exclaimed,
petulantly.
certainly, if you
want him to; I don't said poor
Jack, bewildered.
the
man and Mrs. own maid,
looked critically at my home-made
gown and shook out my skirts with
prowl humility. You know the
Midas house and how the room In
which they receive their dinner
guests is beyond the big drawing-
room; so, although I was longing to
ask Jack if my hair was all right
and the comforting
which ho always gives, dear
fellow, that I looked
felt rather than saw that the butler
was waiting patiently and reproach-
fully to usher us through the ante-
room and announce us. I
said to myself as my glove wouldn't
go on, and I felt that the battery of
observant, calmly critical eyes was
more than I could endure, re-
member, you snobbish little thing,
that you are as good as Mrs.
butler, and, rallying my
self-respect, I deliberately finished
buttoning my glove and swept
haughtily through the rooms.
Jove I said Jack,
afterward, looked like a regular
little queen of Sheba. What made
you so
was tho instinct of self-
I answered.
ply had to assert myself to keep from
feeling utterly
WHERE OLD CAR HORSES GO.
Many to Which Is Bur-
o with Hi Equine Population.
Just as we are getting rid of our
horses by substituting electric
on street railways, the
of European countries are
complaint lg that equine
is increasing beyond all
bounds, Kiel traction
has as yet made comparatively little
progress there, and we arc dumping
shores many of our worn-
out old car horses, to such an extent
that from one
an energetic protest has just gone
up.
In Franco they are no better off.
statistics show that that
country has no less than
horses, and that tho horse
of the cities is
continually increasing at a greater
rate than tho human population.
This, without doubt, is due to the
Increase of urban street-car lines,
which are making much progress In
France, especially in the smaller
cities. In Paris there were twenty-
five years ago horses, now
there are which travel, col-
everyday a distance equiv-
to two and one-half times the
circuit of the globe.
COSTLY AUTOGRAPHS.
all things
in
Your Job Printing.
Not to B Caught That Way.
I should ask you to marry
ho said, smiling softly and sweetly,
you say
dear responded
in a tone of gentle reproof, talk
to me if I were receiving my first
Free Press.
Io a Story Book.
The dowager empress of China has
bad a romantic history. She was
extremely beautiful girl, the
daughter of poor parents who lived
in the suburbs of Canton. When
the family was starving she, know-
her commercial value, persuaded
her parents to sell her as a slave-
She was purchased by a
general, who, delighted with her
beauty, disposition and general
adopted and educated her as
his daughter. When later the gen-
was summoned to Pelting, he
think of no finer gift to
is sovereign than his daughter.,
he found her so charming
that be made her his wife. When her
husband died, in 1881, this slave-
empress became regent, the present
emperor being only seven years old.
She found China crippled
torn by internal rebellions, yet five
ago, when she handed over the
governing power to her son, peace
and prosperity reigned throughout
the vast
ft
Signature Brought
Francs at an Auction,
At a Paris autograph sale In De-
1890, the signature of Chris-
Columbus is, prob-
ably, one of the most fantastic sign
manuals ever brought
francs. The only existing piece of
manuscript in Titian's handwriting
was knocked down at francs,
and one with Cromwell's signature
attached brought in exactly half
that sum. Alfred Morrison, a great
English collector of autographs, was
present at the sale, and paid a sum
equal francs for the only let-
written by Corneille that has
ever been on tho market. The last
letter written by Napoleon to Em-
press Marie Louise, was disposed of
at the same sale bringing
francs, and several signatures of
Louis XIV. and Henry IV. fetched
1.000
Some Hope.
said the sage,
hear you are about to be
are said the young
man.
young man, tho day will
when your will make the
discovery you do not
everything on earth. It will a
great shock to her feelings and your
supremacy. Still, there is hope
you. You, while cheerfully admit-
ting that you do not know it all, may
be able to persuade her that the
reason for that state of things is
that there is so much In the world
that is not worth
Breaks All Records.
A French conscript has broken
the record by claiming exemption on
the ground that he U, at the age of
twenty, father of living
children.
FLOWERS IN VASES.
Different Arrangements Are Varying-
Effective.
There is a choice in vases. All
flowers look better in vases of clear
crystal or pressed glass than in those
of china, however rare the ware or
artistic its decoration. Porcelain
vases of graceful form and coloring
are really completed ornaments In
themselves, and they detract from
the beauty of t be flower, while their
own conventional daintiness also
loses by the contact. Another
sou for choosing clear-glass vases
and jars is that through them we
can catch a glimpse of stems, and
this gives the flowers a more grace-
finished appearance. When
Enjoys C
To the friends of blind Julius Stern
his the billiard
ball and cue source of
amazement.
His in playing at
billiards is his acute de-
of sound and its location.
He also Is assisted the
most shots by bis accurate
sense of touch. simply locating
the three balls or. the table, he is en-
to send the cue ball on its way
around the table, gently clicking
each of the ivories in succession,
most always as intended.
Stern delights in relating the
opaque vases are used, those in plain, i of his all-around-
A BLIND
He Is an
PASTIME.
Player and
dull color, which pottery dealers call
monotone, are the prettiest, a con-
tint to the main color of the
blossoms being selected. Imagine a
vase tilled with black-eyed
of the roadside, and you have
the idea.
There is, too, a choice In placing
tho vase. Large flowers of vivid
tints can be put further away from
the looker-on, and yet lose none of
their effectiveness or be unseen. But
a fine flower, like the forget-me-not
or a cluster of heliotrope, would be
lost on a mantel or high shelf. Put
the delicate blossoms where their
dainty color, form or perfume can
appeal to everyone, while tho massed
and gaudy splendor of large flowers
may serve to deck a dull corner or a
shady, somber room.
A pretty conceit is to put each
one's own room bouquet of the flow-
best loved. This is a small mat-
but in discovering these favor-
blossoms tho home decorators
will grow attentive and considerate,
and perhaps learn other ways of
to those to whom he or
she owes much.
Some flowers display themselves
best in low, or saucer, bouquets, and
often thoughtless persons will give
away the flowers almost bereft of
stems. Moist sand or moss is par-
good to place such Short-
stemmed flowers in, as they are bet-
kept in position. Rut the velvet
pansies, with their modest faces,
have an unexpected trick of curling
up their stems saucer bouquets.
They are better controlled in small
vases, the blossoms standing upright,
just as they to us from the gar-
den bed.
Place vases when arranged as
gracefully as possible before a
either on the mantel or dressing
case, or hang a small looking glass
or sconce behind tho table whereon
the flowers are put. A simple
of a half-dozen single scarlet
with long stems and their I
own leaves, a few daisies and sprays
of oats, reflected in a plain mirror,
makes a long-remembered double
picture of grace and beauty rarely
seen, even when costly roses and
ferns are to be had.
The Passion Is Said to De Abating
Somewhat.
According to a writer In the Lon-
don Spectator a change has come
over the minds of women in respect
to feathers; and while these pretty
ornaments continue to be worn the
objections to the wanton sacrifice of
birds in order to procure them have
so far prevailed that substitutes
have been found for those kinds to
obtain which birds were killed.
While tho egret finest
of these still
as an ornament, the mil-
liners say the ladies object to buy-
the article It is
and demand artificial
or are Contented with less
plumes; and sham
they are called, are in ways
is difficult to determine.
Some are fashioned from split quill
feathers of a larger heron. In
others even a microscope fails
show the process of manufacture.
Besides substitutes for the
all kinds of composite feather deco-
ration are now used for hats and
bonnets, and a naturalist in a
shop finds himself confronted
with a hundred varieties of plumage
never seen in nature but excellent in
art, for which it would puzzle any-
one but the or the tax-
to find a name. Tho era of
stuffed birds and natural wings
adorning headdresses Is almost over.
The One Crop System
of farming gradually exhausts the land, unless a Fertilizer containing a
high percentage of Potash is used. crops, a better soil, and a
larger bank account can only then be expected.
Write for our a 142-page illustrated book. It
is brim full of useful information for farmers. It will be sent free, and
will make and save you money. Address,
GERMAN WORKS, Nassau Street, New York.
shots,
etc.
clicking music of the balls
Stern instantly knows whether ho
made a successful shot. The
soft or loud of contact tells
Win where he may place his
to the preparatory to th j
shot.
Playing billiards is his pastime.
When a boy, before be became
he used to play a little, but he has
acquired his skill since he became
blind. Stern earns a living conduct-
a news stand. He is an expert
accountant, can detect the different
of coin instantly,
make change with astonishing rapid-
and delivers with accuracy
of newspapers, placing them
unerringly in the proper letter boxes
in flat houses. He has learned to
all this In spite of tho fact that he
has been blind almost since
Managing a Servant.
One of the most intrepid
peaking on the servant question,
said, with entire
have a fixed method of
or dismissing my servants and
I never vary from it. I am careful
not to seek them in domain, as
there rattle dishes while I
talk. always send for the offender
to come to me in. say, a quarter of
an gives them time to
lose their nerve and wonder what I
want. Then I always contrive be
writing at my desk as en tor my
room and I keep them standing
waiting while I finish my page. This
is wholesome also. By the time I
am ready I find my servant quite
subdued. All this sounds trilling
and it takes time but saves
friction In the Harper's
University of N. C.,
Comprises the the Col-
the Law and Medical Schools, and
the Summer School for
K Teacher, Students.
President Winston. Chapel
mil, X. C. for and hand-
book on
Tax Notice.
The Board of Commissioners of Pitt
county will meet at the Court House in
on Monthly 8th,
the purpose of toe tax of
valuations reported to them.
At which time tho Board will hen- all
complaints concerning improper
or real or personal property or ex-
Any person having
such complaints to make will present
them in writing to said Board on said
lay with such evidence as they may
ha e.
By order of the Board.
w M. KING, Clerk.
GRADE
MADE
For beauty, strength, lightness, durability and easy
running qualities, no other bicycle can equal the Victor.
Buy a Victor and know you have the best.
BOSTON
OVERMAN WHEEL CO.
Makers of Victor Bicycles and Athletic Goods.
YORK.
CHICAGO.
AN FRANCISCO.
PACIFIC COAST.
LOS ANGELES.
PORTLAND.
Notice to Creditors.
duly qualified before
Court Clerk of Pitt county a. ex-
of the Last Will and Testament
of Warren Tucker, deceased, notice is
hereby given to nil persons indebted to
the estate to make immediate payment
to the undersigned, all persons
having claims against estate must
present for on or before
the day of or this no-
will lie plead in bar of recovery.
This 16th day of 1806.
E. TUCKER,
of Warren Tucker.
hereby
claims
is Without precedent.
The Refusal of a Barber to Cut a
Customer's Hair.
It was one of those hot May days
that precede a cold wave, and the
fat barber who had just finished
shaving a lean customer perspired
profusely.
have a little powder on
your face, hadn't he feebly
mopping his own face as
he spoke. a warm
answered the man in the
chair. it
The powder was applied, and the
operator ran his fingers through the
customer's hair in the usual way,
preparatory to combing and brush-
it.
does look pretty long, that's a
said the customer,
himself critically in the
guess you may cut
gasped
her. you come as well
Praise from English.
Here's praise fr an unexpected
source. An English periodical
undoubted-
surpasses our tn
and Before every meal blue
points are served on crushed ice.
To Cory person at table are placed
or seven little
china dishes containing dis-
benches, as
olives, pistachio nuts, crisped
nuts, anchovies, dressed
gherkins, etc. As you talk you
nibble pleasantries the
courses. The
drink much less wine we do at
meals, though they are not above
calling aloud for at
promiscuous hours of day. The
service at table is simply site.
Such dainty flowers
and oh the roses. Why do they
So much longer,
our own
potently
Notice to Creditors.
T lie having duly
before the Superior Court Clerk of
Pitt county as administratrix of Wini-
lay, deceased, notice is
all persons holding
against the. estate to present them to
the underpinned for collection on or be-
fore the day of May or this
notice will be plead in bar for their re-
and all persons indebted to said
will make immediate payment.
This the day of US.
MRS. S. G.
of Winifred May
DOUGLAS
SHOE
FIT FOR
A KING.
One Million wear the
W. L. Douglas and Shoes.
AM our arc
the value for tho money.
They equal custom In fit.
Their qualities are
The prices uniform stamped on sole.
supply you we can.
mid
Police Shoes. totes.
and
School Sheet
and
If dealer cannot supply
for
W. L. Douglas,
It. L. Bro., lie, N.
B. J. Cobb.
Pitt Co , X. C.
C, C. Cobb,
Co. X. C.
Skinner,
COBB BROS CO,
Commission Merchants
FAYETTE STREET NORFOLK, VA
and Solicited.
THE OLD RELIABLE.
AT WITH A
YEARS baa taught me the is the
Rope, Building Pump, Farming and every
Mag necessary for Millers. Mechanics general house purpose, a well U
Clothing, Hats. Shoes. Ladies Goods I have always on hand. Am head
quarter Heavy Groceries, and for Clark's O, N. T.
Cotton, and keep courteous and attentive
GREENVILLE. N.
LINE.
TAR RIVER SERVICE
Steamers leave Washington for Gnu
ville and touching at all laud
on Tar Wednesday
and Friday at A. M.
Returning leave at A. M.
Tuesdays. Thursdays and
Greenville A. M. same days.
These departures to
of water oil Tar River.
TRADE
MARK
Tor toe Cure cf ill Skin
This Preparation has In use over
fifty years, and wherever know has
been In steady demand, been en-
by the over
has effected cures where
all other with the attention of
the most . physicians, have
for year tailed. This Ointment is of
long standing and the high reputation
which It has obtained is Owing entirely
x its own as but little effort
ever been made to bring it before the
One bottle of this Ointment will
sent to any address on receipt of One
Dollar. AH Cash Orders promptly at-
tended to. Address all orders and
communications to
T. F. CHRISTMAN,
N. C
obtained and alt Pat-
foe fits.
m,
Hon. W if or not, of
fee not due till b
How to Obtain
V. S. and foreign
sent
. Of net, c. I
at steam-
of The Norfolk, Wash-
direct line for Norfolk, Baltimore
Philadelphia. New York and Boston.
Shippers should order their goods
marked via Dominion
New York. from Phi la- j .
Norfolk
more Steamboat from Ball I j
more. Merchants Min
Boston.
JNO. Agent,
Washington N. i
J. J. CHERRY, Agent,
Greenville.
Real
Estate
and
Rental
Agent.
Houses and lots for Rent sale
terms easy. Rents. Taxes.
and open accounts and any other
debt placed my r
collection shall have prompt attention.
guarantee.
patronage.
BERBER
TONSORIAL PARLORS
Under Opera
Call in when yon want Rood work
NORTH
R. R. TIME
In Effect December 4th.
GREENVILLE
MALE ACADEMY,
N. C
The next Session of this School
begin on Tuesday the 4th day of
and continue weeks.
TERMS MONTH.
Primary English
Intermediate English
Higher English
Languages
The instruction will continue through.
Discipline mild out If necessary
an additional teacher will be employed.
Satisfaction when pupils
early and attend For
informal ion apply to
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will
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Sun.
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Train I connects Wilmington
Weldon train bound North,
Goldsboro a. in., and with R
train West, leaving Goldsboro p. m
WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR
We will them QUICK
We will rill them CHEAP
We will them WELL
Ship to
J. C. Jr.,
Factors
Commission nU
NORFOLK VA.
Attention to
Weight
Rough Heart Framing,
Rough Sap Framing, ;
Rough in inches
Rough Sap Inches,
Wait for our Planing Mill and
e furnish you
as
Wood your door for
I cents a load.
Terms cash.
Thanking you for past patronage.
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