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JOB PRINTING <lb/>
The Reflector is <lb/>
pared to do all worn <lb/>
of this line <lb/>
NEATLY,<lb/>
STYLE. <lb/>
Plenty of new mate- <lb/>
rial and the best <lb/>
of Stationery. <lb/>
The Eastern Reflector. <lb/>
D. J. WHICH ARD, Editor Owner <lb/>
TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. per Year, in Advance. <lb/>
VOL. XV. <lb/>
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH u, 1896. <lb/>
NO. <lb/>
WHAT IS A GENTLEMAN. <lb/>
What is a gentleman Is it a thing <lb/>
Docked with a scarf-pin, chain, a <lb/>
ring, <lb/>
Dressed in a suit of immaculate style, <lb/>
Sorting an eve glass, a lisp a smile, <lb/>
Talking of operas, concerts and balls, <lb/>
assemblies, and afternoon Kills, <lb/>
Sunning himself and <lb/>
bazaars, <lb/>
and smoking <lb/>
gars <lb/>
What is a gentleman i Say, is it sonic <lb/>
one <lb/>
Boasting of conquest and deeds he has <lb/>
done <lb/>
One who to speak <lb/>
Things which should call up a blush to <lb/>
his cheek <lb/>
One who. while railing at things <lb/>
lobs some young heart of its pureness <lb/>
trust <lb/>
Scorns to steal money, or jewels or <lb/>
wealth. <lb/>
Thinks it no crime to take honor by <lb/>
stealth <lb/>
What is a gentleman I it not one <lb/>
Knowing instinctively what lie should <lb/>
shun. <lb/>
Speaking no word that can injure or <lb/>
pain, <lb/>
Spreading no scandal and deep no<lb/>
One who knows how to put each at his <lb/>
ease <lb/>
Striving instinctively always to please <lb/>
One who can tell by a glance at your <lb/>
check <lb/>
When to silent, and when to speak <lb/>
What is a gentleman Is it not one <lb/>
Honestly eating the bread he was won <lb/>
Living in uprightness, fearing his God, <lb/>
Leaving no stain the path he has <lb/>
trod. <lb/>
Caring not whether his coat may be <lb/>
old, <lb/>
Prizing sincerity far above gold, <lb/>
Hocking not whether his hand may be <lb/>
hard, <lb/>
Stretching it boldly to grasp its re- <lb/>
ward <lb/>
What is a gentleman Say, is it <lb/>
birth <lb/>
Makes a man noble, or adds to his <lb/>
worth <lb/>
Is there a family tree to be had <lb/>
Spreading to conceal what is <lb/>
bad <lb/>
Seeking out the man who has God for <lb/>
his guide <lb/>
Nothing to blush tor and nothing to <lb/>
hide ; <lb/>
Bo he or be he in trade, <lb/>
This is the gentleman nature has <lb/>
made. <lb/>
Young Folks. <lb/>
The Apple Business. <lb/>
Apple trains are nothing new <lb/>
to the people who live either in <lb/>
Taylorsville or Statesville, but <lb/>
they ate common hereabouts, <lb/>
yesterday a carload of bush- <lb/>
els came over the Ten- <lb/>
to Charlotte, <lb/>
here they went to <lb/>
ton. The agent at Taylorsville <lb/>
has shipped this season <lb/>
bushels of They came <lb/>
from Alexander <lb/>
Observer. <lb/>
WHERE PRESIDENTS LIE <lb/>
BURIED. <lb/>
George Washington died from a <lb/>
cold which brought on laryngitis ; bur- <lb/>
on his estate at Mount Vernon, Va. <lb/>
. John Adams died from senile de- <lb/>
; buried at Mass. <lb/>
Thomas Jefferson died of chronic <lb/>
diarrhea ; buried on his estate at Mon- <lb/>
Va. <lb/>
James Madison died of old age; <lb/>
buried on his estate at Montpelier, <lb/>
Va <lb/>
James Monroe died of general <lb/>
debility; buried at cemetery, <lb/>
New York city. <lb/>
John died of par- <lb/>
the fatal attack overtaking him <lb/>
in the House of <lb/>
at Mass. <lb/>
Andrew Jackson died of <lb/>
ion and dropsy ; buried on his estate <lb/>
the Hermitage, near Nashville, <lb/>
Martin Van died of catarrh <lb/>
of the throat and lungs ; hurried at <lb/>
N. Y. <lb/>
William Henry Harrison died of <lb/>
pleurisy, induced by a cold taken on <lb/>
the day of his inauguration buried <lb/>
near North Bend, Ohio. <lb/>
Tyler died from a mys- <lb/>
ed Va. <lb/>
James K. Polk died from weak- <lb/>
caused by cholera ; buried on his <lb/>
estate at Nashville, Tenn. <lb/>
Taylor died from <lb/>
by improper diet ; <lb/>
buried on bis estate near Louisville, <lb/>
Ky. <lb/>
Millard died from par- <lb/>
buried in Forest Hill cemetery, <lb/>
Buffalo, N. Y. <lb/>
Franklin Pierce from <lb/>
cl the stomach ; buried at Concord j <lb/>
N. II. <lb/>
1.1. James Buchanan died of <lb/>
; buried near <lb/>
caster, Pa <lb/>
Abraham Lincoln, assassinated <lb/>
by J. Booth ; buried at Spring- j <lb/>
field. <lb/>
Andrew Jackson died from pa- . <lb/>
; buried at Greenville, Tenn. <lb/>
Ulysses S. Grant died from can- <lb/>
of the throat; buried in Riverside j <lb/>
Park, New city. <lb/>
Rutherford B. Hayes died from <lb/>
paralysis of the heart; buried at <lb/>
Ohio. <lb/>
James A. assassinated , <lb/>
by Charles J. ; buried at <lb/>
and, Ohio. <lb/>
SI. Chester A. Arthur died from <lb/>
disease ; buried in Rural <lb/>
Albany, N. Y. <lb/>
MY SWEETHEART. <lb/>
She is neither short nor tall, <lb/>
Rather what I think you'd call <lb/>
Just the size. <lb/>
And her hands and feet <lb/>
I'd say ditto and tell <lb/>
Any lies. <lb/>
Though her eyes are soft and blue, <lb/>
They have not the brilliant hue <lb/>
Of the sky. <lb/>
Yet when in their depths I look <lb/>
Like a picture in a book <lb/>
There am I. <lb/>
Not so very small her nose is. <lb/>
Neither are her cheeks like roses, . <lb/>
Red and white. <lb/>
And my muse does not embolden <lb/>
Me to call her golden, <lb/>
Though might. <lb/>
Just a village maiden she. <lb/>
Many ladies that you see <lb/>
Rank above her. <lb/>
Men have seldom culled her pretty <lb/>
I have never thought her witty, <lb/>
But love her. <lb/>
D. C. <lb/>
A Tale of Two Cities. <lb/>
SWEETEST <lb/>
New York for some time past I have heard the greatest artists that <lb/>
has been making a big blow over j gee <lb/>
her broadness and magnanimity ii i ,, c., <lb/>
,.,, j ,. Sing all the grandest music of the <lb/>
brotherly-love and spirit of <lb/>
fraternity, all of <lb/>
the big pint parade cf Federal sat soul transported in a <lb/>
and Confederate retort ; which <lb/>
was to be held there on the coat- <lb/>
Fourth of July. The <lb/>
els were to wear gray and the <lb/>
Yanks blue. But all of a sudden <lb/>
the commander of the Grand <lb/>
mist of melody, <lb/>
As I listened to each life-uplifting <lb/>
lay; <lb/>
But the music that is sweetest-surest <lb/>
round my heart to creep-. <lb/>
Everybody <lb/>
THE REFLECTOR <lb/>
for 1896. I <lb/>
Brim full of fresh, crisp <lb/>
foreign <lb/>
and domestic <lb/>
Only a year. <lb/>
OUR NAVAL STRENGTH <lb/>
And That of Spain Compared With <lb/>
Ours. <lb/>
Army of the Republic discovered ; Is the voice that every evening softly <lb/>
that body to be exceedingly my boy , <lb/>
tile to marching side by side with ; <lb/>
men wearing a gray uniform, a i Singing m the twilight simple, soulful <lb/>
reminder of a cause which, as little aim, <lb/>
their commander now says, the Fragments of some love song, old <lb/>
G. A. R. to death thirty i , , p <lb/>
years ago. So after all New aim dear; <lb/>
York's bras and bluster, the par- I better nature and <lb/>
has been declared off. This melt my heart to tears, <lb/>
reminds us that Chicago is fast Just the kind of music that is always <lb/>
LATE NEWS. <lb/>
Like Father Like Son. <lb/>
The man who at the present day <lb/>
fails to insure his life and his <lb/>
property is behind the <lb/>
times. is, we might <lb/>
say, overworked, and is consider <lb/>
ed indispensable by every <lb/>
thoughtful Dis- <lb/>
patch- <lb/>
One of gold may be <lb/>
drawn into a wire that may extend <lb/>
around the globe. So one good <lb/>
deed may be felt through all time, <lb/>
and its influence into <lb/>
Though done in the flush of <lb/>
youth, it may the last hours <lb/>
of a long life, and form the bright- <lb/>
est spot in it. while it is <lb/>
day. The night <lb/>
An exchange says that a fellow <lb/>
in a near by town, who couldn't <lb/>
spare one dollar for a newspaper <lb/>
fifty two cent stamps to a <lb/>
down Yankee to learn how <lb/>
to keep a horse from slobbering. <lb/>
He got his receipt and he'll never <lb/>
stop your horse <lb/>
from slobbering teach hie, how <lb/>
to <lb/>
A Kansas Freak. <lb/>
Captain Jud Haskins, who lives <lb/>
in . is perhaps the <lb/>
most patriotic man in section <lb/>
He lives in a two-story frame <lb/>
house and has just completed <lb/>
the work of it red, white <lb/>
and The stripes run <lb/>
around the house. The <lb/>
first stripe, which is blue, comes <lb/>
is a bright little follow, <lb/>
about six years old, whose par- <lb/>
are very poor people living <lb/>
in the West End. <lb/>
He is a regular attendant at <lb/>
Sunday school. As occasionally <lb/>
happens, his mother is not able to <lb/>
make him presentable on account <lb/>
of his threadbare clothes and <lb/>
excess of patches. But he is, <lb/>
was, a pupil good <lb/>
it is not <lb/>
of the congregation, who know <lb/>
him and admire his quick wit <lb/>
ready to pat him <lb/>
the back make a remark <lb/>
something like is a real <lb/>
nice boy so unlike his <lb/>
From which it is readily <lb/>
that his father is not at all pop- <lb/>
The latter is a shiftless sort of <lb/>
a fellow j seems to but <lb/>
one object in <lb/>
ion of the entire and beer <lb/>
out, and it is hardly necessary to <lb/>
say that he has made an <lb/>
failure at his chosen <lb/>
Sammie's mother is a <lb/>
good woman, well <lb/>
respected, ever present <lb/>
contracts of intents and purposes <lb/>
in the household keep the boy's <lb/>
impressible mind in a constant <lb/>
state of vacillation. So when <lb/>
the minister called at Sammie's <lb/>
borne the other day the latter <lb/>
thought it his duty, as one of th e <lb/>
flock, to make bis visit agreeable. <lb/>
His idea of hospitality, how <lb/>
ever, got entangled with his <lb/>
methods of entertaining his <lb/>
friends, which, from an ethical <lb/>
standpoint might be subject to <lb/>
severe criticism. Pushing a chair <lb/>
from the middle of the floor <lb/>
toward the kitchen table, he <lb/>
climbed up and procuring a small <lb/>
tin strode into the minis- <lb/>
presence and exclaimed; <lb/>
chip in get a <lb/>
of Courier <lb/>
Journal <lb/>
A serious outbreak of yellow fever is <lb/>
reported in Rio Two <lb/>
and twenty-five men of the Italian <lb/>
warship have been attacked <lb/>
by the disease and have died. <lb/>
A dispatch from Fla., <lb/>
says an expedition sailed for Cuba <lb/>
with one hundred men, rifles, <lb/>
cartridges and other stores for <lb/>
the insurgents. <lb/>
Fire the depot and general offices <lb/>
of the Norfolk Carolina Railroad, at <lb/>
Norfolk, did about damage. <lb/>
The loss is covered by insurance. <lb/>
In a battle between Italian and <lb/>
Abyssinian troops, on March 1st, the <lb/>
Italians lost men. The fight <lb/>
lasted a whole day. <lb/>
A mill at Bristol, Pa., was. <lb/>
destroyed by fire, causing a loss of <lb/>
and throwing hands out <lb/>
of employment. <lb/>
John W. Cowan, a of a <lb/>
wholesale lumber firm at <lb/>
Pa., disappeared suddenly, and it is <lb/>
claimed that of t he firm's cash <lb/>
went with him. <lb/>
The Oxford University, in London, <lb/>
denies the proposal to allow women to <lb/>
take a degree at that institution. The <lb/>
measure was defeated by a vote to <lb/>
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad <lb/>
Company, one of the oldest and largest <lb/>
railroad corporations in the United <lb/>
States, is in the hands of receivers. <lb/>
Judges Goff and Morris, of the United <lb/>
States Circuit Court, Saturday evening <lb/>
placed the affairs of the corporation ill <lb/>
the hands of John K. Cowan, recently <lb/>
elected president of the company, and <lb/>
Oscar Morris. The receivers ac- <lb/>
the trust and each gave bond <lb/>
the sum of The receivers <lb/>
were appointed because it was known <lb/>
that the company be unable to <lb/>
pay interest due March 2nd, <lb/>
and other amounts on trust bonds. A <lb/>
reorganization, it is said, will effected <lb/>
as soon possible. <lb/>
Secretary asserts that <lb/>
the Democratic party will <lb/>
forever. Of course it will. It has <lb/>
up to the lower windows, the sec- already lived forever- It <lb/>
stripe, white, reaches to the <lb/>
second story windows and the <lb/>
balance, together with the roof. <lb/>
was <lb/>
with Adam, but is Adam <lb/>
sight bettor off than it was <lb/>
ti. it has raised Can. <lb/>
in since is Abel to keep on <lb/>
shape from the road, and it rah-tag St It is simply immortal, <lb/>
-aid it looks rubber Wilmington Review. <lb/>
Pockets in Stockings. <lb/>
The quaintest idea emanates <lb/>
from the German hosiery world <lb/>
in the shape of tiny pockets con- <lb/>
ding to the <lb/>
World, above and on the outside <lb/>
of the knees of stockings. Time <lb/>
will prove the convenience <lb/>
of such hiding places, said to <lb/>
hold from a watch to a couple of <lb/>
moderate sized diamond neck- <lb/>
laces. On evening stocking the <lb/>
small pockets are of a contrasting <lb/>
color, and elaborately wrought <lb/>
with silk flowers foliage, <lb/>
framed with an inch of <lb/>
The black stockings for <lb/>
ordinary wear of course <lb/>
deeper receptacles, with plainer <lb/>
devices. It ladies to find <lb/>
out mottoes in good taste, and <lb/>
suitable for both coarse fine <lb/>
They will most likely <lb/>
put all their ingenuity into pro- <lb/>
charming sets of pocket <lb/>
with knickerbockers <lb/>
and either garters or suspenders. <lb/>
On the other hand knitters will <lb/>
have to revise the receipts of the <lb/>
tops of their stockings, order <lb/>
to introduce the extra flap or <lb/>
gusset for the nook. <lb/>
and suspenders, too, will <lb/>
to be strengthened to bear the <lb/>
extra weight. may <lb/>
possibly find the new invention <lb/>
handy, but sportswomen and <lb/>
even church women will not read <lb/>
adopt a fashion likely to <lb/>
the bending of the knee <lb/>
Washington Times. <lb/>
A man with good health, a clear <lb/>
conscience, a determination to <lb/>
work and do right, will get along <lb/>
in this world. You cannot keep <lb/>
a man down. It is a pitiable <lb/>
sight, however, to see a bundle <lb/>
of so many possibilities sitting <lb/>
on a goods box railing because <lb/>
every thing is not just as be <lb/>
would do it, and waiting for the <lb/>
Lord to take him by the largest <lb/>
rotunda of bis pants and coat <lb/>
collar and throw him into the land <lb/>
of Canaan. That man would <lb/>
muddle the honey and sour the <lb/>
Sun- <lb/>
becoming, if she is not already, <lb/>
the representative city of Amer- <lb/>
Chicago is the Northern <lb/>
city which has erected a <lb/>
good to hear; <lb/>
So full of Heaven's tenderness, with <lb/>
love so sure and deep. <lb/>
in one of her beautiful Is the voice that in the twilight, softly <lb/>
parks, to Confederate soldiers sings my boy to sleep. <lb/>
who died in prison there during j j e <lb/>
the war. Chicago could Heart-swells from her girlhood, maybe <lb/>
have as New York has, i seeing through girlish tears, <lb/>
id this parade She Now doing cradle duty for her God. <lb/>
would have thought twice before They come to me like echoes from the <lb/>
such an tor. b of years- <lb/>
and if the second thought was j Just a little glimpse of Eden on the <lb/>
favorable thereto, could i sod <lb/>
have stopped her in making it a O, the air is full of angels and their <lb/>
success. Chicago took the wings around sweep, <lb/>
World's Fair away from New As I listen to the twilight voice that <lb/>
York j just the other day she took my boy to sleep. <lb/>
the national Democratic Nashville American. <lb/>
away from New York ; she is <lb/>
to have the exposition of South- <lb/>
cotton products, which it is <lb/>
believed, will mark the of <lb/>
a great part of Southern trade <lb/>
from the East to the West- It is <lb/>
high time Father Knickerbocker <lb/>
was discarding his powdered <lb/>
queue, his knee breeches and <lb/>
stockings and buckled shoes. He <lb/>
Commander Philip the <lb/>
Chief Constructor of the Navy, shows <lb/>
in his generalizations upon the subject <lb/>
that in number, equipment, and fight- <lb/>
strength the American Navy is far <lb/>
the superior of the Spanish Navy. In <lb/>
answer to a query as to the ships which <lb/>
the United States will have in <lb/>
not later than July Commodore <lb/>
stated that they would be <lb/>
thirty five in number, as <lb/>
Name and displacement of armored <lb/>
ships <lb/>
IN NORTH CAROLINA <lb/>
Matters of Interest Over the State. <lb/>
nine iron <lb/>
Buncombe county has <lb/>
bridges, costing <lb/>
W. L. De will start the <lb/>
needs to get a red necktie and a Wilmington to succeed <lb/>
patent leather hustle on him if he . ., . . <lb/>
the V Review. <lb/>
Col. Paul E. of this State, <lb/>
who held the position of Inspector of <lb/>
the Indian Agency in Oklahoma, died <lb/>
in that territory on the 4th. <lb/>
Salisbury is to have electric lights <lb/>
and an electric car service, a company <lb/>
having been formed in that place for <lb/>
the purpose of building and operating <lb/>
them. <lb/>
doesn't want Chicago to set the <lb/>
pace. The road building of <lb/>
is turning Chicago ward <lb/>
She is making herself the center <lb/>
of metropolitan Americanism <lb/>
Charlotte Observer. <lb/>
That Blue-Gray Parade. <lb/>
General Ivan N. Walker, com- <lb/>
in chief of the Grand <lb/>
Army of the Republic, has vetoed <lb/>
the proposed Gray-Blue parade <lb/>
in New York city, on the Fourth <lb/>
Two mules were at play a pasture <lb/>
in Mecklenburg county when one of <lb/>
of July. General Walker has two I them got the other by the tongue and <lb/>
weighty reasons, either of which polled so hard that it came out by the <lb/>
The wounded animal had to be <lb/>
is sufficient. The first is that it <lb/>
be too hot to tramp the streets <lb/>
f New York on the Fourth of <lb/>
July. The is that he <lb/>
scorns with the men who <lb/>
fought for a cause that was <lb/>
to some years ago. We <lb/>
say that either of these reasons <lb/>
is sufficient. If it is too hot to <lb/>
parade, and like the <lb/>
fellow you are asked to parade <lb/>
with, and don't to <lb/>
anyhow, why should you parade <lb/>
are objections, <lb/>
and we see how they can be <lb/>
overcome. There are some <lb/>
sons favor or the parade scheme <lb/>
of course. For it would <lb/>
give a large number of General <lb/>
Walker's pensioned veterans a <lb/>
chance to see for the first time a <lb/>
real live rebel with rebel clothes <lb/>
on. The sight would <lb/>
make their wounds bleed <lb/>
give them a claim for more <lb/>
pension money. But this <lb/>
is as dust in the balance <lb/>
the reasons set out by <lb/>
Ivan N. Walker, of the Grand <lb/>
Army of the Republic. Walker <lb/>
doesn't want to be will <lb/>
parade, and there can be on <lb/>
parade without Walker- <lb/>
We are well content to have <lb/>
Walker interpose his veto, and <lb/>
the ex-Confederates will no doubt <lb/>
sustain it. They will not be very <lb/>
critical as to Walker's reasons, for <lb/>
they have reasons of their own, <lb/>
just as good as Walker's. They <lb/>
wouldn't object in the least to <lb/>
walking down Broadway with old <lb/>
Union soldiers in pleasant <lb/>
if it were convenient and there <lb/>
were good reasons for it. Johnny <lb/>
not got anything against <lb/>
Yank. But he cm find better <lb/>
employment than that of larding <lb/>
the lean streets of Mew York <lb/>
bis melting fat on the Fourth of <lb/>
July, and gutting himself knock- <lb/>
ed dead with to make <lb/>
a Gotham holiday. Let us have <lb/>
done with all this once <lb/>
and for <lb/>
Appeal. <lb/>
The newspaper goes right into <lb/>
a man's house and sits down <lb/>
him- It is with him at night by <lb/>
the fireside, when he has dismiss <lb/>
ed all his business cares and is <lb/>
spending his time in ease. Then <lb/>
is the time and the only time when <lb/>
he approachable by a salesman <lb/>
Why not then tell him about your <lb/>
business in a clear, plain, concise <lb/>
way, as one man talks to another <lb/>
These are the kinds of that <lb/>
attracts the eye of any hard work- <lb/>
man. Try it and see. <lb/>
killed. <lb/>
The number white female convicts <lb/>
in the State penitentiary is and of <lb/>
colored the latter are in the <lb/>
central prison, the others on the farms <lb/>
as cooks and <lb/>
The Treasurer reports that <lb/>
there are banks in North Carolina, <lb/>
of which are national. State, la <lb/>
private, and savings. The total re- <lb/>
sources arc ; paid in <lb/>
stock, ; individual <lb/>
its, <lb/>
A white man named Stephen Rouse, <lb/>
on his way home in Stony <lb/>
Creek township, Monday night, was <lb/>
set upon by an unknown about <lb/>
a mile from town, clubbed into <lb/>
and robbed of The n- <lb/>
was on the wagon with Mr. Rouse <lb/>
the time. <lb/>
The New Yorkers started <lb/>
some years ago to build a State <lb/>
which was to cost <lb/>
They have spent <lb/>
op it and it isn't finished yet <lb/>
There is no tolling how much <lb/>
money a public building ab- <lb/>
when the right kind of <lb/>
lows manage the job. <lb/>
Tho Value of Independence. <lb/>
A poor estimate is placed upon our <lb/>
powers when we are always dependent <lb/>
on somebody. It is not meant to say <lb/>
we can be independent of God, from <lb/>
whom our every blessing comes. <lb/>
But there are some <lb/>
are ever afraid to turn <lb/>
loose and Middle their own canoe. Con- <lb/>
in one's self is a to be de- <lb/>
sired by all people. Even the idiot does <lb/>
not hesitate to do something to show <lb/>
his independence, even though his work <lb/>
is done in a way different from what <lb/>
others would do it. <lb/>
This spirit of dependence is the. result <lb/>
of faulty training of the child. It's the <lb/>
child's nature to walk, nature must <lb/>
be heeded. No parent ought to <lb/>
a slave of or herself order to <lb/>
give the children an easy time. <lb/>
Let the children learn to be <lb/>
dent. Scatter them, if necessary j <lb/>
break HP. the Indulgences, and give <lb/>
them to know that what they have they <lb/>
must earn. The best men and women <lb/>
are those who are raised to work. <lb/>
Work makes one independent, but <lb/>
many a bright boy has made a <lb/>
he was always <lb/>
looking for favors and never learned <lb/>
that the road to wealth lies in honest <lb/>
Friend, <lb/>
The Greensboro Record tolls of <lb/>
a very singular and amusing con- <lb/>
in Guilford court. It seems <lb/>
that one Duncan, guard of the <lb/>
convicts who are working the <lb/>
county roads, was by said <lb/>
convicts to chase a rabbit- He <lb/>
did so. The convicts escaped. <lb/>
We not told whether Duncan <lb/>
caught the rabbit. He was fined <lb/>
and costs. Of he lost <lb/>
his job. Chasing and <lb/>
guarding convicts do not go to- <lb/>
New <lb/>
Name and displacement <lb/>
San <lb/>
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Govt Report <lb/>
Baking <lb/>
Powder <lb/>
vi <lb/>
Royal <lb/>
ABSOLUTELY PURE <lb/>
A GOOD <lb/>
many additional ships could <lb/>
you have in commission within ninety <lb/>
days after next July if their services <lb/>
were needed <lb/>
could have two fighting ships, <lb/>
the Iowa, of tons <lb/>
displacement, and the Brooklyn, an <lb/>
armored cruiser of the New York type, <lb/>
but larger more powerful than <lb/>
that splendid vessel, of tons. <lb/>
There is also the Chicago, which is now <lb/>
undergoing repairs, and nine other <lb/>
vessels, mostly of the gunboat class, <lb/>
which could be used at that time. Our <lb/>
small fleet of torpedo boats on Oct. <lb/>
next would be supplemented by seven <lb/>
others now building. The list have <lb/>
given continued Commodore <lb/>
not include any of the <lb/>
old monitors or any the old <lb/>
cruiser class, either of wood or iron, <lb/>
though doubtless some of them might <lb/>
be moderately serviceable a war <lb/>
with any but a naval <lb/>
A summary of the fighting value <lb/>
the two fleets will as <lb/>
Bright Young American Staggered <lb/>
His German Challengers. <lb/>
A is told of a bright <lb/>
young American and several <lb/>
German officers who, at a dinner <lb/>
one evening, set out to make him <lb/>
uncomfortable by chaffing him <lb/>
about his The young <lb/>
man is Albert II. the <lb/>
States consular agent at <lb/>
F. <lb/>
the consul at was the <lb/>
first one of the Americans to be <lb/>
attacked with a taunt from one of <lb/>
the Germans that he could not <lb/>
give the names of the Presidents <lb/>
of the United States. <lb/>
named them over with some deli- <lb/>
and drew from his Ger- <lb/>
man friend the declaration that <lb/>
he did not there was an <lb/>
other American present who could <lb/>
do it. <lb/>
Young had said <lb/>
nothing until now, but he broke <lb/>
in and can do it, <lb/>
and will you the vice pres- <lb/>
He was about to begin, <lb/>
when a second thought struck <lb/>
him, and he I am <lb/>
about it I might as well give you <lb/>
the Secretaries of State, <lb/>
The Germans got down a book <lb/>
giving the names, kept tab <lb/>
on the young man as he correctly <lb/>
through the list. They were <lb/>
pretty well backed down already, <lb/>
but had no idea of let- <lb/>
ting them off so easily. I <lb/>
should like to he said, <lb/>
any of you can give the <lb/>
names of the Prussian rulers from <lb/>
A PREVIOUS SPRING <lb/>
The spring is laughing at my door <lb/>
With rosy face and pleasing. <lb/>
pay that plumber's bill once <lb/>
Ami be resigned to <lb/>
She wears a blossom on her breast <lb/>
A bloom o'er winter's sorrow. <lb/>
that wind changes from the west <lb/>
surely freeze to-morrow <lb/>
Her brows are bound with meadow- <lb/>
green <lb/>
Where roses flame like fire. <lb/>
wonder what those fellows mean <lb/>
In jumping coal up higher <lb/>
Welcome, sweet messenger of love. <lb/>
Fair nymph of field and river <lb/>
come the from <lb/>
above <lb/>
What, ho bring on more <lb/>
F. L.<lb/>
She Went With Them. <lb/>
Recently a strong-minded mother, <lb/>
discovering that her daughter was <lb/>
about to elope an objectionable <lb/>
suitor, donned her husband's coat and <lb/>
trousers and boarded the same train <lb/>
taken by the lovers. The <lb/>
trip occurring in the daytime she took <lb/>
a seat the smoKing ear and allowed <lb/>
the fugitives to complete their journey <lb/>
in blissful ignorance of pursuit. When <lb/>
the lovers left the train upon reaching <lb/>
their destination, this Spartan mother, <lb/>
throwing the cigar she had been <lb/>
aDd the other actor in <lb/>
his sous down to the Emperor <lb/>
William V <lb/>
Not one of them could go half <lb/>
through the list, and they were <lb/>
on the point of apologizing to <lb/>
the young scholar <lb/>
when he took them down still <lb/>
more by modestly suggesting, <lb/>
I had better do it for <lb/>
He began with <lb/>
went through the list <lb/>
without a break, much the as- <lb/>
of his German hosts <lb/>
and the delight of Consul Ed- <lb/>
wards and the other Americans. <lb/>
did you do it V asked <lb/>
Merritt. my father had a <lb/>
taste for such things and taught <lb/>
them to me when I was a boy, <lb/>
you see, th are sometimes <lb/>
useful to he replied <lb/>
Kansas City Star. <lb/>
Type of <lb/>
battle <lb/>
2nd class battle <lb/>
Armored <lb/>
Armored <lb/>
Unarmored <lb/>
above <lb/>
Unarmored <lb/>
above 3.000 <lb/>
below <lb/>
Unarmored <lb/>
above <lb/>
below <lb/>
above <lb/>
below <lb/>
Torpedo <lb/>
Queer Events of One <lb/>
the being too to <lb/>
do or say anything to the contrary. <lb/>
And yet some people maintain that <lb/>
there i no such thing as the new <lb/>
man or that, it here, she is no good. <lb/>
Cure For <lb/>
The Buffalo an- <lb/>
a new cure for alcohol <lb/>
ism, which is simply bowl of <lb/>
ice aid a raw potato peeled <lb/>
By dipping the potato into the <lb/>
ice water and sacking it when <lb/>
ever the desire for drink becomes <lb/>
uncontrollable, a perfect cure is <lb/>
said to be effected. The <lb/>
of a prominent citizen who <lb/>
was cured of the craving <lb/>
for drink by this treatment is <lb/>
en to encourage others to try it- <lb/>
The curious things do not happen <lb/>
once in a while. They happen every <lb/>
day, of the strange <lb/>
events of a single day that are <lb/>
in the newspapers would take a <lb/>
table of contents that would put to <lb/>
blush any sensational novel ever <lb/>
Here are just a few that appeared in <lb/>
day this week <lb/>
A man who lived six weeks with a <lb/>
broken neck ; a man who left fur. <lb/>
tune in prise packages his heirs ; a <lb/>
protest against wasting good whiskey <lb/>
in christening the warship Kentucky ; <lb/>
a tramp in full dress found stealing a <lb/>
ride in a freight cur ; a man, lovesick <lb/>
for fourteen years, sent to the mad- <lb/>
house ; death of a tramp worth <lb/>
; thief in police uniform robs <lb/>
pie on two sexagenarians <lb/>
their affairs into court; a <lb/>
woman scared to death; a would-be. <lb/>
Chinese bridge jumper tangled in his <lb/>
pigtail and sandals; a misplaced tub <lb/>
water saves a woman from burning <lb/>
to death ; rival lovers fatally wound <lb/>
one another; a deathbed confession <lb/>
tells of the lynching of an Innocent <lb/>
man , ears collide upon the porch <lb/>
of a house, and a woman revival <lb/>
meeting tells of casting in <lb/>
els upon her bureau and one of the con- <lb/>
steals them. <lb/>
And there are <lb/>
Journal. <lb/>
A Riot at Edenton. <lb/>
N. C-, March <lb/>
night at o'clock A- M. <lb/>
a was from a <lb/>
store window -Main street. <lb/>
The crush of the broken window <lb/>
attract d the of a white <lb/>
man on the opposite side of the <lb/>
street. He pursued the <lb/>
whom he recognized as the man <lb/>
at the broken window- He was <lb/>
joined in the pursuit by a police- <lb/>
man, after a long chase the <lb/>
was overtaken. He resisted <lb/>
arrest, but after fight <lb/>
he was injured by a blow and <lb/>
carried to j <lb/>
This morning about ten <lb/>
went into the store of the <lb/>
white who assisted in the <lb/>
rest, and refused to leave the store <lb/>
when ordered out- One of the <lb/>
leaders pursued the man, running <lb/>
him behind the counter and at- <lb/>
tacking him. Then the merchant <lb/>
shot the The white <lb/>
at once to the officers <lb/>
and was put in jail. <lb/>
Large numbers of made <lb/>
angry threats of lynching the <lb/>
Troops were sent for from <lb/>
City, arrived here to- <lb/>
night. The town is <lb/>
quiet. <lb/>
The is still <lb/>
living. <lb/>
General Cameron yesterday <lb/>
received a telegram from <lb/>
Lieutenant W. J. Griffin, com- <lb/>
the Elizabeth City Di- <lb/>
vision of the North Carolina Naval <lb/>
ill-serves, stating that the Mayor <lb/>
of Edenton bad telegraphed to <lb/>
him asking that the Reserves be <lb/>
sent there to quell a riot. <lb/>
nor Carr ordered the division to <lb/>
proceed to Edenton at once. <lb/>
There are forty-five men in the <lb/>
which is fully equipped, <lb/>
the equipment including- two <lb/>
howitzers. <lb/>
Governor Carr at once <lb/>
graphed the Mayor of Edenton <lb/>
for as to the gravity <lb/>
of the News <lb/>
ii Observer. <lb/>
STANLEY AND THE CONGO. <lb/>
The Grout Explorer Tells of Bis First <lb/>
Journey Down the River. <lb/>
The world was <lb/>
to know what was this mysterious <lb/>
the quest of which had occupied Liv- <lb/>
declining years. The Lon- <lb/>
don Daily joined with the <lb/>
New York Herald in defraying; the <lb/>
cost of this second expedition. The <lb/>
story of how I set a second time <lb/>
from Zanzibar, circumnavigated the <lb/>
Victoria discovered Lake Al- <lb/>
Edward, voyaged around Lake <lb/>
Tanganyika, and reached Livingstone's <lb/>
farthest point on the <lb/>
banks of the has been told in <lb/>
detail in my book the <lb/>
It also relates how, after <lb/>
a tedious land journey parallel with the <lb/>
river, made ready my boat, <lb/>
collected about a score of native <lb/>
embarked my followers, and how, after <lb/>
a course of nearly 1,800 miles, we <lb/>
reached the Atlantic ocean at the <lb/>
h of the Congo. By this river <lb/>
age the question which had puzzled <lb/>
Livingstone for years was solved. <lb/>
It is a noticeable fact that when I began <lb/>
my descent of the Congo I was the only <lb/>
white my companion, <lb/>
Frank be <lb/>
the and the <lb/>
and between Zanzibar and the Lower <lb/>
Congo. <lb/>
It may easily be understood why, on <lb/>
returning from the discovery of the <lb/>
great African waterway, I should be <lb/>
that should avail her- <lb/>
self of it. In 1816 had dis- <lb/>
patched a naval expedition under Capt. <lb/>
to ascend the Congo, but it <lb/>
disastrously miles inland. <lb/>
In 1873 another <lb/>
officer, had attempted the task. In <lb/>
1870 Admiral Hewitt's expedition had <lb/>
suppressed of the Lower <lb/>
Congo. For over years had <lb/>
kept watch over the Congo slavers. <lb/>
Half of the expenses of my expedition <lb/>
had been contributed in England. She <lb/>
was also rich, tender and just toward <lb/>
the natives, and her people were the <lb/>
best colonizers in the world. All these <lb/>
facts were, in ray opinion, claims that <lb/>
might justify England in stepping for- <lb/>
ward taking M. <lb/>
Stanley, in Century. <lb/>
The debt of Cleveland Is M.- <lb/>
and the taxable property is val- <lb/>
at <lb/>
The youth who smokes cigar- <lb/>
in Lincoln, Neb., after this, <lb/>
will have to do it in the privacy <lb/>
of his own back yard. The Lin- <lb/>
city council has passed <lb/>
cigarette ordinance- <lb/>
It prohibits the use of cigarettes, <lb/>
cigars or tobacco by persons <lb/>
years of age within the <lb/>
city limits. The police are <lb/>
to s. without a war- <lb/>
rant, any person comes <lb/>
the ban of this law. The fine <lb/>
to be imposed is no more than <lb/>
for each offense. Councilman <lb/>
is also the author of the <lb/>
ordinance which was pass- <lb/>
two weeks ago. <lb/>
R I PAN-S <lb/>
The modern stand- <lb/>
ard Family <lb/>
cine Cures the <lb/>
common every-day <lb/>
ills of humanity. <lb/>
</p>
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<p>
THE REFLECTOR <lb/>
Greenville, N. C. <lb/>
S. J. <lb/>
Entered at the Greenville <lb/>
N. as second-class mi matter. <lb/>
March 11th. <lb/>
Senator Jones. o Arkansas, who <lb/>
just returned from a visit Lome, <lb/>
says the reports that the silver <lb/>
was dying out in that are <lb/>
without foundation. On the <lb/>
contrary, he says, it is getting stronger <lb/>
all the time. <lb/>
The debate on the resolution to seat <lb/>
Col. as Senator from Delaware <lb/>
is oil, and may last ten days or longer. <lb/>
The Republicans are much disturbed <lb/>
over a rumor that the Populists will <lb/>
join the Democrats in voting down the <lb/>
resolution. <lb/>
Senator Allen, Nebraska, expects <lb/>
to be chairman the Senate Commit- <lb/>
tee will investigate the last Ala- <lb/>
Senatorial election, if Ms <lb/>
which has by a partisan vole <lb/>
reported from the committee on <lb/>
be adopted. Hut that is a <lb/>
formidable in view of the attitude <lb/>
of the Democratic towards <lb/>
this unconstitutional resolution. <lb/>
statues there. The A. P. A has <lb/>
its ability to control tin <lb/>
sent Republican House, and original <lb/>
was to have that body <lb/>
adopt Representative <lb/>
against allowing the Statue to re- <lb/>
main in the Capitol, hut so many Re- <lb/>
publicans who live in districts where <lb/>
Catholic voters are numerous have <lb/>
shown that their defeat would be <lb/>
if that was carried out <lb/>
that party has been brought <lb/>
to bear upon the leading A. P. A. men <lb/>
the House, and the is <lb/>
held up, for a time, if not for good. <lb/>
All of lessons European history <lb/>
forgotten by those men who are <lb/>
trying to use religious prejudice for <lb/>
partisan political purposes, and even the <lb/>
more recent lesson that broke the heart <lb/>
of James G. Blaine. religious <lb/>
denominational lines shall drawn in <lb/>
cal parties, if such a calamity <lb/>
shall ever in this country, the <lb/>
death of the republic will he near at <lb/>
hand. <lb/>
FERTILIZERS FOB TOBACCO. <lb/>
Kinds Adapted to Different Soils. <lb/>
President Cleveland is once more <lb/>
showing the when he be- <lb/>
he is he will not hi- swerved <lb/>
by either Congressional majorities of <lb/>
adverse public opinion. This time it <lb/>
s the Cuban question which his <lb/>
pinion is directly contrary to that a <lb/>
majority in which has de- <lb/>
by the adoption of a concurrent <lb/>
resolution, in favor of recognition of <lb/>
the Cubans as belligerents and of <lb/>
taking steps toward the <lb/>
of Cuba. the House and Sen- <lb/>
ate had decided upon of <lb/>
that resolution a statement was given <lb/>
out by Secretary showing that, <lb/>
in the opinion of the President and his <lb/>
Cabinet, Cubans were nut entitled <lb/>
to as belligerents, and <lb/>
it plain that the would <lb/>
not willingly accord them that <lb/>
until he thought them entitled to <lb/>
it. <lb/>
have been made before by <lb/>
President Cleveland, some of his <lb/>
most ardent admirers think that he is <lb/>
making a mistake in not acting in ac- <lb/>
with the concurrent <lb/>
against which a total only <lb/>
votes were cast in both branches <lb/>
Congress, and they believe to <lb/>
the a large ma- <lb/>
the citizens tin; United <lb/>
Hut whether one thinks the <lb/>
President right or wrong this matter <lb/>
it is impossible not to admire the mural <lb/>
courage the man who can stand up <lb/>
the face of public opinion and <lb/>
and say will not do this thing <lb/>
because do net believe it the right <lb/>
thing to <lb/>
While the President can ignore the <lb/>
concurrent resolution, Congress can <lb/>
n to out it- if it <lb/>
can get two-thirds of both the House <lb/>
and the Senate to vote for a joint res- <lb/>
expressing those wishes, he- <lb/>
cause that number votes will be <lb/>
to pa.-s the same over the Pres- <lb/>
veto, which would make it a <lb/>
law. Some think this will the <lb/>
final of the matter, but tiny <lb/>
are merely guessing ; there is nothing <lb/>
in sight to indicate it. <lb/>
The Virginia Legislature has passed <lb/>
the anti-gambling bill and <lb/>
Governor will promptly sign <lb/>
it. In feet, the credit of its passage <lb/>
is no measure due to the <lb/>
or's vigorous action says the <lb/>
Sun. The bill was hung up in the Sen- <lb/>
ate, although the majority was <lb/>
of it. Hut the it is reported, <lb/>
allowed it to be understood that, if it <lb/>
was defeated, he would call an extra <lb/>
session. The result was the <lb/>
concurred in the bill by the decisive <lb/>
vote of to The measure <lb/>
is not only a rigid enactment <lb/>
pool-selling at races, but against all <lb/>
other forms of gambling. Hut <lb/>
it is designed to cut the dis <lb/>
graceful debauchery at the race <lb/>
near Washington. It <lb/>
passage of such a law would be <lb/>
injurious to the breeding interests o <lb/>
the State, but the of tin <lb/>
argument was demonstrated on no less <lb/>
authority than breeders <lb/>
and it MM shown that to abolish the <lb/>
corrupt methods which have been <lb/>
at the tracks in Alexandria county <lb/>
could not he disastrous to <lb/>
horsemen. he la-vis distinctly <lb/>
in interest of order and good <lb/>
and it u not likely that the <lb/>
Legislature trill ever have <lb/>
to its action. <lb/>
TOBACCO <lb/>
According to those who know all th <lb/>
circumstances, the sending of the <lb/>
statue to the Statuary <lb/>
Hall of the Capitol by the <lb/>
Slate ill was result of a <lb/>
political play made by a Republican <lb/>
for his party's nomination <lb/>
governor of Wisconsin, away back <lb/>
when the late Busk was gov- <lb/>
f that Slate. This <lb/>
introduced a bill in I he <lb/>
legislature providing for the sending of <lb/>
the of Father to <lb/>
Washington by the State and <lb/>
in having it passed, arguing <lb/>
with the Republican members that it <lb/>
would catch Catholic voles for that <lb/>
When the bill reached Gov. <lb/>
Rush he declined to sign it, and would <lb/>
have vetoed it not this <lb/>
candidate persuaded him I'm. it was <lb/>
good politics to sign the i ill hi i then <lb/>
assured him that he would see that the <lb/>
statue km made. Hut this <lb/>
not only failed to <lb/>
get the coveted nomination but he <lb/>
lacked to prevent the statue <lb/>
being today it stands in <lb/>
of the most artistic <lb/>
by v. L. <lb/>
There are several gentlemen who <lb/>
coming to Greenville next <lb/>
to buy tobacco and they will want <lb/>
prize houses. If the citizens of Green- <lb/>
ville, that is the merchants and business <lb/>
men, had extended the same spirit of <lb/>
of co-operation to the tobacco men <lb/>
when they first came to Greenville to es <lb/>
a tobacco market that Kinston <lb/>
is offering the of the <lb/>
tobacco market there, Greenville last <lb/>
year would have sold seven and a halt <lb/>
million pounds. <lb/>
There is a good deal of inquiry <lb/>
made just now as to the probable acre- <lb/>
age at will be planted in tobacco in <lb/>
Eastern North Carolina this year as <lb/>
compared with las. Just at present no <lb/>
one can tell how much the increase will <lb/>
be. That will largely upon <lb/>
several conditions. First, if cotton con- <lb/>
at a fair price the planting <lb/>
season, the probability is there will be <lb/>
increased acreage in cotton and hence <lb/>
a decrease the acreage <lb/>
in tobacco. If the price of tobacco on <lb/>
an average last year had compared fa- <lb/>
with the year previous then I <lb/>
do not believe that many farmers would <lb/>
have decreased their crops, but as many <lb/>
them contend that their tobacco did <lb/>
not sell for as much this year as it d <lb/>
last, there are numbers who will cur- <lb/>
tail considerably and the important idea <lb/>
in this decrease is this. The decrease <lb/>
will be made principally by the larger <lb/>
farmers who have been planting from <lb/>
to while the increase will <lb/>
be made by the farmers principally who <lb/>
plant from to acres. <lb/>
embraces the old tobacco auction of the <lb/>
east where they have been planting it <lb/>
several years, while in the new dis- <lb/>
there will of course be an increase. <lb/>
Hut taken on the whole it can be read <lb/>
following suggestions on <lb/>
the fertilizations of tobacco <lb/>
crop will be found useful <lb/>
instructive at same time each <lb/>
farmer be his own judge as <lb/>
to bis particular land, and apply <lb/>
bis fertilizer accordingly- <lb/>
One drawback to tobacco <lb/>
growers of the South is the fail <lb/>
rule, to use sufficient <lb/>
fertilizers to get best returns <lb/>
from their crops. In past <lb/>
men who have been the most <lb/>
successful in tobacco growing are <lb/>
those who are not afraid to give <lb/>
their lands just what they require- <lb/>
We do not mean necessarily com- <lb/>
your <lb/>
compost heap and make your own <lb/>
fertilizer whenever possible. <lb/>
FERTILIZING WON'T TAT- <lb/>
Tobacco raising to be a success <lb/>
must be on intensive rather <lb/>
than the extensive scale- <lb/>
crop and fine tobacco is what <lb/>
pays. The slovenly tobacco <lb/>
grower never makes ends meet, <lb/>
because tobacco will not thrive <lb/>
under the management of <lb/>
Therefore the planter <lb/>
who grows a few acres, or more, <lb/>
whatever the size of bis crop must <lb/>
make land yield all that it <lb/>
will and of the very best- Scanty <lb/>
fertilizing pay. If your <lb/>
acre lot needs pounds of <lb/>
fertilizer to make it yield its best <lb/>
you should not be content to put <lb/>
on pounds and let it suffer <lb/>
for balance. Let planter <lb/>
bear this in that prolific <lb/>
pays best and be a <lb/>
not so liable to make a mistake <lb/>
with his crop in the outset. <lb/>
Maj. Ragland, who has made a <lb/>
study of fertilizers for tobacco <lb/>
through a. series of years, <lb/>
has written some random <lb/>
on this all important subject <lb/>
which are given below. <lb/>
FERTILIZING THE PLANT-BED. <lb/>
best time to make heavy <lb/>
applications to the plant-bed is <lb/>
when the beds are being prepared <lb/>
and sown before the seeds <lb/>
germinate, for after germination <lb/>
the tender plants are <lb/>
easily killed by too heavy <lb/>
cations of fertilizers. <lb/>
the grow to size of <lb/>
a gold dollar larger are <lb/>
not near so easily killed by <lb/>
fertilizers, if such are applied <lb/>
while the plants are dry. <lb/>
COMPOSTING DOMESTIC <lb/>
tobacco <lb/>
are all much improved by com- <lb/>
posting; for the compost heap <lb/>
pulverizes them and puts them <lb/>
in the best condition to afford <lb/>
nourishment to plants. Coarse <lb/>
bulky, dry, manures are <lb/>
to tobacco, and on some <lb/>
soils do more harm than good, <lb/>
especially should the growing <lb/>
season prove dry and the soil be <lb/>
naturally thirsty. <lb/>
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. <lb/>
The component elements of fer- <lb/>
for tobacco should be <lb/>
adapted to the of plant, <lb/>
character of the soil and <lb/>
class or type to be produced. <lb/>
That is they should be such as to <lb/>
promote the growth and develop- <lb/>
of that type, and to meet <lb/>
the needs of soil in supple <lb/>
thereto what best <lb/>
to produce largest pro <lb/>
duct of the finest quality. <lb/>
elements most needed in <lb/>
tobacco fertilizers are soluble <lb/>
phosphoric acid, nitrogen <lb/>
and potash. And <lb/>
if planters knew the composition <lb/>
needs of soils, they <lb/>
might then make their own <lb/>
to very great advantage. <lb/>
But this they cannot always do, <lb/>
for two lack of <lb/>
what their soils most <lb/>
need and how to select <lb/>
compound fertilizer materials <lb/>
to supply tho needed <lb/>
Rich soils rarely produce <lb/>
co of fine quality high color, <lb/>
but of more body larger <lb/>
yield ; and the increases <lb/>
for tobaccos of substance and <lb/>
elasticity. <lb/>
general practice of North <lb/>
Carolina and Virginia over the <lb/>
old bright belt is to use far too <lb/>
little fertilizers. It is not <lb/>
up North for planters to <lb/>
apply pounds <lb/>
acre, and harvest from 1,200 to <lb/>
per acre product. <lb/>
It is true, however, cigar <lb/>
tobacco requires heavier <lb/>
than bright yellow- <lb/>
Planters in Eastern North <lb/>
Carolina are using heavier <lb/>
cations and with results decided- <lb/>
beneficial. And same <lb/>
planters are getting ahead of <lb/>
the old tobacco <lb/>
districts, in the way of more- <lb/>
using improved <lb/>
MEETING. <lb/>
N. C. March 1896. <lb/>
The Board of Commissions for Pitt <lb/>
county met this day, present C Dawson, <lb/>
chairman, T E Keel. S M Jones, L <lb/>
Fleming Jesse L Smith. <lb/>
The following orders paupers <lb/>
were <lb/>
Martha Nelson H D Smith <lb/>
Nancy Moore Susan <lb/>
Luanda Smith Henry <lb/>
Harris Kenneth Henderson <lb/>
Eliza Edwards J H <lb/>
Henry Sam and Ann Cher- <lb/>
Fannie Tucker Alice <lb/>
Corbett Easter Vines Win- <lb/>
Taylor C Alex Harris <lb/>
Winnie Chapman Polly Adams <lb/>
Mrs J W Crisp Jas Long <lb/>
Edwin Haddock Matilda <lb/>
Thomas Chas Joyner and wife <lb/>
Hanna Lucinda <lb/>
Peel Cullen Thigpen <lb/>
Sarah A Bright Sallie Due <lb/>
J O Proctor Abel Venters <lb/>
Win Boyd Jason Parker <lb/>
Garris Paul <lb/>
The following orders for <lb/>
county purposes were issued <lb/>
J. A. Lang D D Haskett <lb/>
D D Haskett E C Spier <lb/>
Edwards <lb/>
W B John S Ross <lb/>
J W Smith J S C Benjamin, <lb/>
KL Joyner D J Which <lb/>
ard J F L H <lb/>
Spruill J H Eubanks J II <lb/>
Eubanks M J Bullock E C <lb/>
Williams J B Bullock It <lb/>
W King R W King It <lb/>
If Jas Elks B F <lb/>
C P Gaskins B <lb/>
D Beach F W Brown F <lb/>
W Brown Greenville Lumber <lb/>
Co C Dawson L Fleming <lb/>
TE Keel S M Jones <lb/>
J L Smith W M King <lb/>
For Swift Creek and <lb/>
Stock Law territory J W <lb/>
Jas White J L <lb/>
For Greenville Stock Law territory <lb/>
C M Harris B W Tucker T <lb/>
A Forties, J R J B <lb/>
Cherry Co S P <lb/>
The following persons were released <lb/>
from the hire of <lb/>
C V Newton for Joe Vines. <lb/>
C M Bernard tor Jerry <lb/>
Wm Whitehead for Robt Parker. <lb/>
II C Hemby for Brown. <lb/>
J J H Cox for Goo Kirk. <lb/>
Ordered that the sheriff issue to W <lb/>
II Smith a duplicate liquor license. <lb/>
Ordered that the Sheriff refund J P <lb/>
Dawson out of fund of Swift <lb/>
Creek and Stock Law. <lb/>
Ordered that be refund- <lb/>
i.-d overcharge in taxes. <lb/>
Ordered that taxes of Mrs Susan <lb/>
Andrews be corrected. <lb/>
Ordered that E M Cheek be allowed <lb/>
to move his bar to corner of Hotel Ma- <lb/>
con lot. <lb/>
Ordered that J II be no- <lb/>
that no receipts except from <lb/>
Treasurer will be recognized. <lb/>
The following were allowed to list <lb/>
taxes for 1895 W F Rich, ; J <lb/>
D Greenville ; L A Cobb, <lb/>
Swift Creek. <lb/>
Ordered that be released <lb/>
from poll tax for <lb/>
Ordered that lands of L A Cobb, in <lb/>
Swift Creek township, be increased to <lb/>
per acre valuation. <lb/>
Voting Precincts. <lb/>
seen that th. decrease one crop will <lb/>
newer implements <lb/>
amount to more than the increase a <lb/>
dozen, hence I repeat from the <lb/>
at hand, I do not believe the <lb/>
increase will be very much if any. <lb/>
Then again a large acreage will depend <lb/>
upon the condition of the <lb/>
plants at setting season. I know of a <lb/>
number of farmers who while they have <lb/>
prepared their land tor tobacco, yet <lb/>
the event that they cannot get thrifty <lb/>
vigorous plants to sit due <lb/>
will plant their land in corn. On the <lb/>
whole, I do not think our farmers are <lb/>
over enthusiastic over the of <lb/>
the tobacco crop mid it they will only <lb/>
HUM the same attitude toward cotton <lb/>
next fall they will all better off. I <lb/>
not disposed to believe the reports <lb/>
. by a few who say that the acre- <lb/>
age will be doubled because there are <lb/>
new barn- going up on the farm.-. In <lb/>
a great many instances the old burns <lb/>
have played out and th new are <lb/>
to them. <lb/>
methods, and making more <lb/>
out of the business. Ho much <lb/>
for enterprise. <lb/>
MODE OF APPLICATION. <lb/>
This varies somewhat, <lb/>
to the soil and quantity to <lb/>
be When the <lb/>
decides to use pounds <lb/>
per acre, it is best to use <lb/>
sown broadcast and apply <lb/>
pounds th drill. to <lb/>
got greatest benefit from a <lb/>
of not over <lb/>
per acre, it should in <lb/>
bill. But by this latter mode <lb/>
tin- laud it not improved- <lb/>
The tobacco grower who wishes <lb/>
to get the largest return out of <lb/>
the industry in which he is <lb/>
engaged must be a close student. <lb/>
He must study the quality of his <lb/>
laud and try to determine just <lb/>
what his soil needs. caret <lb/>
of a little chemistry right <lb/>
here by the planter of ordinary <lb/>
intelligence will found to be <lb/>
worth dollars and cents every <lb/>
March Marriages. <lb/>
For the first week of March Register <lb/>
of Deeds King issued seven marriage <lb/>
licenses, three for white and four for <lb/>
colored couples. <lb/>
WHITE. <lb/>
and Sallie Windham. <lb/>
W. Y. Florence Lang. <lb/>
Peyton Langley and Ada Bell. <lb/>
COLORED. <lb/>
J. If. and Adelaide Moore. <lb/>
S. J. Wilson and Annie Bradley. <lb/>
Jack Peyton and Patsy Best. <lb/>
Louis Phillips and Molly Vines. <lb/>
In accordance with Section <lb/>
Laws of 1893, th voting <lb/>
and polling places in Pitt county <lb/>
are established as follows <lb/>
BEAVER DAM TOWNSHIP. <lb/>
One voting precinct, polling place <lb/>
May's Chapel. <lb/>
TOWNSHIP, <lb/>
One voting precinct, polling <lb/>
Parker's School House. <lb/>
BETHEL TOWNSHIP. <lb/>
One voting precinct, polling place, <lb/>
Bethel. <lb/>
CAROLINA TOWNSHIP. <lb/>
One voting precinct, polling place. <lb/>
Public School House near Turner <lb/>
TOWNSHIP. <lb/>
Two voting precincts, as All <lb/>
that part the township lying south of <lb/>
the following line, to Beginning <lb/>
it the township line where it crosses <lb/>
the road leading from the Home tor the <lb/>
Aged and Infirm to Black thence <lb/>
with Black Jack road to Boyd's Ferry <lb/>
road, thence with Boyd's Ferry road to <lb/>
Grimes Mill road, thence with Grimes <lb/>
Mil road to Grimes Mill, thence with <lb/>
the mill pond to the Beaufort county <lb/>
line, shall constitute one voting <lb/>
to be known as Precinct No- of <lb/>
township, polling <lb/>
School House at cross Roads at Sallie <lb/>
Cox's. <lb/>
All that part of said township lying <lb/>
north of said line shall constitute <lb/>
voting precinct to be known as Precinct <lb/>
No. of township, polling place, <lb/>
Public School House <lb/>
near Church. <lb/>
TOWNSHIP. <lb/>
Two voting precincts as follows <lb/>
All that part of the township lying <lb/>
south of the following line, to wit <lb/>
at the township line the <lb/>
road leading from Frog Level to the <lb/>
Kinston road running with <lb/>
road to Kinston road at the Ellis place, <lb/>
then with Kinston road toward Green- <lb/>
ville to Swift Creek, thence down said <lb/>
creek to the township line, shall con- <lb/>
one voting precinct to be known <lb/>
as No. of town- <lb/>
ship, polling place, Ayden. <lb/>
All that part of I township lying <lb/>
north of said line shall constitute one <lb/>
voting precinct to be known as Precinct <lb/>
No, of township, polling <lb/>
place <lb/>
FALKLAND TOWNSHIP- <lb/>
One voting precinct, polling place, <lb/>
Falkland. <lb/>
FARMVILLE <lb/>
Two voting precincts as All <lb/>
that part, of the township lying on the <lb/>
south side of Little Creek <lb/>
shall constitute one voting precinct to <lb/>
be known as Precinct No. of Farm- <lb/>
township, polling <lb/>
All that part of the township lying <lb/>
on t side of Little <lb/>
Creek shall constitute one <lb/>
be known as Precinct <lb/>
of township, polling place. <lb/>
Fork of th road known as By <lb/>
store. <lb/>
GREENVILLE TOWNSHIP. <lb/>
Four voting precincts, as <lb/>
The first ward of the town of Greenville <lb/>
and all that portion of the township <lb/>
lying outside the corporate limits of the <lb/>
of Greenville east of the <lb/>
ton Weldon railroad, on south side <lb/>
Tar River, shall constitute one voting <lb/>
precinct to be known M Precinct No. t <lb/>
of township, polling place, <lb/>
Court House. <lb/>
The second, third and fourth wards <lb/>
of the town of Greenville shall <lb/>
one voting precinct to be known as <lb/>
Precinct No. of Greenville township, <lb/>
polling place, Foundry and Machine <lb/>
Shops of James Brown on Dickinson <lb/>
avenue. <lb/>
All that part of the township lying <lb/>
outside of the corporate limits of the <lb/>
town of Greenville, west of the <lb/>
Weldon railroad, on die <lb/>
south side of Tar shall constitute <lb/>
one voting precinct to lie known <lb/>
as <lb/>
ling School House, <lb/>
All that part of the township lying <lb/>
of Tar shall constitute one <lb/>
voting precinct to be known as <lb/>
No of Greenville township, <lb/>
polling place, Parker's Cross Roads. <lb/>
TOWNSHIP. <lb/>
One voting precinct, polling place, <lb/>
SWIFT CREEK TOWNSHIP. <lb/>
Two voting precincts, as follows. <lb/>
All that part of the township lying <lb/>
south o. Swift Creek shall constitute <lb/>
one voting precinct to be known as <lb/>
Precinct No. of Swift Creek <lb/>
polling place, <lb/>
All that part of the township lying <lb/>
north Swift shall constitute <lb/>
one voting precinct to be known as <lb/>
Precinct No. of Swift Creek township, <lb/>
polling place. Public School House near <lb/>
L. B. <lb/>
his 27th of February, 1896. <lb/>
E. A, <lb/>
Clerk Superior Court Pitt County. <lb/>
STEP TO BE COMMENDED. <lb/>
The action of the merchants <lb/>
in organizing a board of trade, is <lb/>
one to be commended to every other <lb/>
municipality of the south. <lb/>
The reasons for this step arc <lb/>
The south, so far, has passed <lb/>
through the commercial stringency with <lb/>
less disastrous results than other<lb/>
T. WHITE. <lb/>
C. A. Whites old <lb/>
-----DEALER IN----- <lb/>
CLOSING <lb/>
OUT AT <lb/>
COST <lb/>
ENTIRE STOCK <lb/>
best is r <lb/>
Knott sold by S. M. Schultz. Try a <lb/>
lb bag. <lb/>
Mothers <lb/>
Anxiously watch declining health <lb/>
their daughters. So many are cut off <lb/>
by consumption in early years that <lb/>
there is real cause for anxiety. In <lb/>
the early stages, when not beyond <lb/>
the reach of medicine, Hood's <lb/>
will restore the quality and <lb/>
quantity of the blood and thus give <lb/>
good health. Read the following <lb/>
but jut to write about my <lb/>
daughter Cora, aged She was com- <lb/>
ran down, declining, had that tired <lb/>
feeling, and friend said she would not <lb/>
live over three months. She had a bad <lb/>
Cough <lb/>
and nothing seemed to do her any good. <lb/>
I happened to read about Hood's <lb/>
and had her give It a trial. From the <lb/>
very dose aha to get better. <lb/>
After taking w bottle she. com- <lb/>
cured and her health baa been the <lb/>
beat ever Mas. Pick, <lb/>
Place, Amsterdam, N. Y. <lb/>
will say that my mother ha not <lb/>
my ease In at strong words I <lb/>
would have done. Hood's <lb/>
has truly cored me and I am now <lb/>
Amsterdam, N. Y. <lb/>
Be sure to get Hood's, <lb/>
Hood's <lb/>
Sarsaparilla <lb/>
Ii the True Blood All <lb/>
Prepared only by C. L Hood ft Co., Lowell, Maw. <lb/>
law <lb/>
t Jo. i <lb/>
DAIS <lb/>
Tinware, Crockery and Hardware, Heavy and all <lb/>
Farming Utensils. T. of warrants <lb/>
the union. During the twenty- Axes, Plows, etc., a specialty. to see and got my prices be- <lb/>
five years of prosperity which followed i fore purchasing. Cur load Flour, Hay, Lime, Seed Irish Potatoes <lb/>
the war the west was recipient of I also handle all of High Grade <lb/>
i . . Cotton and Tobacco, <lb/>
both capital immigration, while <lb/>
political troubles deprived the south of <lb/>
each. The era of so-called <lb/>
squeezed all the values out of <lb/>
the west, broke their banks, bankrupted <lb/>
their merchants and ruined their far- <lb/>
The south's previous misfortune <lb/>
in not securing capita proved to be its <lb/>
best fortune, for it was thus the <lb/>
wholesale ruin the <lb/>
hitherto prosperous west. As we had <lb/>
little lo loose then, have everything <lb/>
to gain now, and in I he rebuilding which <lb/>
necessarily follows every crash the <lb/>
south such rewards and resources <lb/>
as must the attention of capital. <lb/>
The south is the natural home of the <lb/>
cotton mills. The hesitating New <lb/>
England, which tardily admits that the <lb/>
coarser goods must he manufactured in <lb/>
the south will yet admit that <lb/>
the finer goods must follow. If they do <lb/>
not, we have now southern mill men, <lb/>
whose success makes their statements <lb/>
respected, who will push the work any- <lb/>
how and leave the New England mills <lb/>
to the which is inevitable. <lb/>
Every mill site, in the south will be- <lb/>
come the center of a busy population, <lb/>
whose labor will unite lo build up the <lb/>
country. <lb/>
It is important, therefore, that the <lb/>
example of should be imitated <lb/>
by every town it. the south in the for- <lb/>
of a board of trade whose duty <lb/>
it should be to discover the local <lb/>
and to lend united support to <lb/>
their development. Then is not a town <lb/>
but possesses some special <lb/>
for business, which, if developed and <lb/>
placed before the would attract <lb/>
wealth. Capitalists and investors could <lb/>
deal with such a board when seeking <lb/>
information, and thus a mutual feeling <lb/>
would grow up of great advantage. <lb/>
But the distant investors aside, a <lb/>
board of trade means much tor local <lb/>
purposes. It would a business <lb/>
rivalry and emulation and give tone to a <lb/>
town which it could not have in any <lb/>
other way. It is not always the <lb/>
mayor and the <lb/>
council of a forms the best <lb/>
of opinion. The methods by <lb/>
which men reach office are not always <lb/>
conducive toward out the best <lb/>
men. The salaried officers of a town, <lb/>
chose depending upon its <lb/>
power for contracts and franchises, <lb/>
too often get together and secure the <lb/>
election of mere tools to the town <lb/>
In such cases the town board <lb/>
trade, like the rural agricultural society, <lb/>
can do much in saving the community <lb/>
from adverse impositions. The coming <lb/>
together and the organization of the <lb/>
solid men of every community, taking <lb/>
an interest in local prosperity, can <lb/>
be productive of Con- <lb/>
The clips the above <lb/>
to show that its argument for a <lb/>
Board of Trade in Greenville is along <lb/>
the right line. There is much in what <lb/>
the Constitution says that should be <lb/>
considered by our business men. <lb/>
TWO PAPERS FOR <lb/>
This Chance Does Not Come Every <lb/>
Day. <lb/>
The has just made <lb/>
with the North Carolinian, <lb/>
of Raleigh, whereby we can furnish <lb/>
both papers, weekly, a whole year for <lb/>
Our readers are well acquainted with <lb/>
both these papers. No paper ever <lb/>
published in Pitt county contained as <lb/>
much news as is now found every <lb/>
week in The Eastern Reflector, <lb/>
while the North Carolinian ranks as <lb/>
the best weekly paper in the State. <lb/>
If you want the home, Slate and <lb/>
general news these two papers will fur- <lb/>
it to you. Remember this is cam- <lb/>
year and you could not subscribe <lb/>
at a better time.<lb/>
C, Jan. <lb/>
F. Royster. <lb/>
Dear can book me <lb/>
for tons Orinoco Guano <lb/>
tobacco. I can buy guanos <lb/>
for less money but I want <lb/>
Orinoco. I will order some <lb/>
sent to and <lb/>
to and V hi takers <lb/>
for my different places. <lb/>
Yours, <lb/>
J. B. PHILIPS. <lb/>
Mr. Philips is one of the <lb/>
mod successful tobacco <lb/>
In North Carolina. <lb/>
I MERCHANDISE <lb/>
Will be closed out at cost without reserve. There <lb/>
will be a change in our business next year and <lb/>
these goods must go. Remember everything <lb/>
goes at New York cost. Parties owing us must <lb/>
make immediate payment so we can settle pp <lb/>
the business. <lb/>
J. O. Proctor Bro., <lb/>
N. <lb/>
f E Li ABLE. <lb/>
--------IS AT THE WITH A LINE-------- <lb/>
YE EXPERIENCE has taught that the best is the eh. <lb/>
Hemp Rope, Building Pumps, Farming and every <lb/>
ting necessary for Millers, Mechanic and general house purposes, as well a <lb/>
Clothing, Hats. Shoes. Ladies Dress Goods I have hand. Am head <lb/>
quarters for Heavy Groceries, and fobbing agent for Clark's O. N. T. <lb/>
Cotton, and keep courteous and attentive clerk. <lb/>
GREENVILLE. N. C <lb/>
J. <lb/>
Life,. Fire and Accident <lb/>
DELICATE <lb/>
FEMALE <lb/>
REGULATOR. <lb/>
IT IS ft SUPERB and <lb/>
exerts a wonderful influence in <lb/>
strengthening her system by <lb/>
driving through the proper <lb/>
all impurities. Health and <lb/>
are guaranteed to result <lb/>
from Its use. <lb/>
My wife was bedridden tor eighteen months, <lb/>
after using FEMALE <lb/>
for two months. Is getting well. <lb/>
J. M. JOHNSON, Malvern, Ark. <lb/>
REGULATOR CO., GA. <lb/>
Bold by t SI <lb/>
I am receiving New Goods every <lb/>
day. My stock will soon be com- <lb/>
in every line. <lb/>
Nails, Axes, Doors. Si <lb/>
and Oils, Rope, Bolting Pack- <lb/>
Poultry Netting and Fence <lb/>
Wire and HARD WAR E of every <lb/>
description. u will <lb/>
Five Points where I am selling <lb/>
goods low for the cash. I buy. <lb/>
for cash and sell for cash. Call <lb/>
to see me. <lb/>
Truly <lb/>
D. D. H <lb/>
Five Points, Greenville, N. 0- <lb/>
AT <lb/>
GREENVILLE, N. C <lb/>
B COURT HOUSE. <lb/>
All Risks placed in strictly <lb/>
FIRST-Cf ASS COMPANIES <lb/>
At lower-current <lb/>
AGENT FOB. <lb/>
T. A JONES. Established 1878. P- H ACE <lb/>
SAVAGE, SON CO. <lb/>
Cotton Fact rs and Commission Merchants <lb/>
TUNIS WHARF, NORFOLK, VA.<lb/>
Prompt and <lb/>
Norfolk National Bank. r any B Boom In <lb/>
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In Tl s, <lb/>
Attention given to Sales Cotton, Grain, Peanuts and Peas. <lb/>
Liberal Cash Advances on Consignments. <lb/>
Market Prices <lb/>
C. Pitt Co. N. C. <lb/>
T. J. <lb/>
COBB BROS CO. <lb/>
Vet. <lb/>
cotton and <lb/>
AND <lb/>
Stock, Cotton, Grain and Provision Brokers. <lb/>
-03, and MS Protean Building, Water <lb/>
Ragging, Ties and Peanut Sacks at Lowest Prices. <lb/>
and Consignments Solicit,. <lb/>
1878 Code, and in Telegraphing. <lb/>
Tobacco <lb/>
Flues. <lb/>
A few sets on hand. <lb/>
IVe are going to make <lb/>
Flues. Will let you <lb/>
know in a few days <lb/>
where the shop will be <lb/>
For the present you can <lb/>
find me at home, <lb/>
site Dr. of- <lb/>
A. ELLINGTON, <lb/>
Agent tor Wall Paper. <lb/>
A Year Non- <lb/>
Participating Life In- <lb/>
Policy in that <lb/>
old and reliable com- <lb/>
the <lb/>
UNION . <lb/>
CENTRAL. <lb/>
Remember we also have <lb/>
also added to our list of <lb/>
Fire Companies the <lb/>
GEORGIA <lb/>
HOME, <lb/>
Columbus, Ga., as- <lb/>
sets over <lb/>
WHITE <lb/>
in Reflector building.<lb/>
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THE REFLECTOR. <lb/>
Local Reflections. <lb/>
Fruit trees blooming. <lb/>
Potato planting goes right on. <lb/>
All kinds of Garden Seed at S. M <lb/>
Schultz. <lb/>
The town of Maxton had a big fire <lb/>
Tuesday. <lb/>
Canned Deviled Crabs and Shells at <lb/>
the Old Brick Store. <lb/>
HT THE REFLECTOR. <lb/>
People See Their Faces and Straight- <lb/>
way Forget What Manner of <lb/>
Men They Are. <lb/>
Spring Hats in all the new shapes <lb/>
at Mrs. L. Griffin's. <lb/>
A bride in county refuses to <lb/>
live with her husband. <lb/>
We never saw more work going on <lb/>
in Greenville at present. <lb/>
See notice to creditors by B. <lb/>
administrator of Belcher. <lb/>
The town of Mt. Airy voted for <lb/>
a system of water works. <lb/>
There i talk of a series of races at <lb/>
the track here some time in April. <lb/>
The interior of the King House <lb/>
has been given a spring whitewashing. <lb/>
Higgs dray horse run away <lb/>
Wednesday with a load of empty <lb/>
boxes. <lb/>
what a big you <lb/>
can got for S at Reflector Book <lb/>
Store. <lb/>
Drug Store next door to S <lb/>
T. Drugs, Medicines, Seeds <lb/>
Books. <lb/>
So far very few fish have been caught <lb/>
this The warmer days may <lb/>
increase the run. <lb/>
The believes that a <lb/>
furniture factory in Greenville would be <lb/>
a paying enterprise. <lb/>
Flowers, Laces, Mitts, and Side, <lb/>
Combs received this week. <lb/>
Mrs. L. <lb/>
Try the Sporting Club, <lb/>
Filler, when you want a good cent- <lb/>
at the Old Brick Store. <lb/>
The people of the town feel elated <lb/>
over the prospect of a system of water <lb/>
works at an early day. <lb/>
A passenger train has been put on <lb/>
the A. U. read between Rocky <lb/>
Mount and Plymouth. <lb/>
Does the disappearance of the big <lb/>
sleeve indicate that our girls are be- <lb/>
I coming more approachable <lb/>
The corner-stone the main building <lb/>
I at the Odd Orphanage, at <lb/>
Goldsboro, will be laid in May. <lb/>
Several new carpenters have come to <lb/>
Greenville since the tire and all of them <lb/>
are finding plenty of work to do. <lb/>
Mis. U. H. Horn has vacated the <lb/>
corner store so that it can be fitted up <lb/>
I in readiness for Lang's new stock. <lb/>
The dilapidated corner section of the <lb/>
louse has been removed and a <lb/>
new building will go up in its place. <lb/>
Freights on river are so heavy <lb/>
just now that the steamers Tar River <lb/>
and Myers are both kept busy handling <lb/>
them. <lb/>
My line of Millinery is prettier <lb/>
more complete than ever before. Call <lb/>
to sec me, I will save you money. <lb/>
Mils. L. <lb/>
We understand that the Chick Med- <lb/>
Company is writing here trying <lb/>
to a hall to give concerts in for <lb/>
a week. <lb/>
B. F. Smith, who built the vaults in <lb/>
the House here, hits the con- <lb/>
tract for building vaults for Halifax <lb/>
county. <lb/>
Don't fail to mad D. D. <lb/>
advertisement today. He is adding <lb/>
daily to his stock of hardware buys <lb/>
and sells for cash. <lb/>
The object of New York's cat show, <lb/>
we suppose, is to keep tab on the list <lb/>
of Gotham's social <lb/>
Dispatch. <lb/>
Mr. Lovit Hines tells us the ground <lb/>
is being cleared for the brick yard near <lb/>
the mill and the making of brick will <lb/>
soon <lb/>
Cod Fish, Irish Potatoes, Prepared <lb/>
Buckwheat, Oat Flakes, Cheese, Mac- <lb/>
B, Molasses, at S. M. <lb/>
Schultz. <lb/>
The Review has <lb/>
pended publication temporarily because <lb/>
of the poor health of its editor, Mr. <lb/>
T. James. <lb/>
can lie found at my old <lb/>
stand where I will be pleased to see all <lb/>
my friends who may want Ham-as, <lb/>
Collars, Whips, at low prices <lb/>
General repair work a specialty. <lb/>
Yours , J. II. <lb/>
His many friends here will <lb/>
with Cunt. M. S. Mayo, who for <lb/>
many years was commander of the <lb/>
steamer Greenville, in the death of his <lb/>
which occurred at Washington on <lb/>
Tuesday. <lb/>
Many a mortgage is now being made <lb/>
to pay for fertilizers, instead of using <lb/>
home made manure. From every rail- <lb/>
road station wagons are daily hauling <lb/>
loads of fertilizers, which will take many <lb/>
a bale of cotton next fall to pay for. <lb/>
The case of Tucker against <lb/>
was given to the jury late <lb/>
day afternoon, and in a few minutes a <lb/>
verdict was rendered in favor of the <lb/>
plaintiff. The defendant took an <lb/>
peal to Supreme Court. <lb/>
I desire to say to my friends and <lb/>
former customers and the public gen- <lb/>
that I am situated as clerk with <lb/>
Mr. A. Cox, at Winterville, N. C, <lb/>
where I will be pleased to <lb/>
yon. Very respectfully, <lb/>
J. F. Harrington. <lb/>
Impoverished blood cause that tired <lb/>
purifies <lb/>
enriches and vitalizes the <lb/>
vigor and vitality. <lb/>
B. C. Pearce has gone to Baltimore <lb/>
for a month. <lb/>
Dr. H. A. Joyner has returned from <lb/>
A. H. Taft returned from New York <lb/>
Thursday evening. <lb/>
Col. J. L. Bridges, of Tarboro, is <lb/>
attending court. <lb/>
Chas. J. home <lb/>
from Oxford Tuesday. <lb/>
Mrs. II. B. Clark left this morning <lb/>
to visit in Scotland Neck. <lb/>
T. C. Woolen, of Snow Hill, came <lb/>
over Monday to attend court. <lb/>
R. J. Cobb returned from the north- <lb/>
markets Thursday <lb/>
Mrs. J. S. left this morn- <lb/>
for Raleigh to visit relatives. <lb/>
W. S. has moved into his <lb/>
new house on Dickinson avenue. <lb/>
Miss Florence of Sam to- <lb/>
is visiting Miss <lb/>
Mrs. Flam, of Wilson, arrived Fri <lb/>
day evening to visit Mrs. C. T. M <lb/>
ford. <lb/>
C. C. Cobb, of Norfolk, arrived <lb/>
Saturday evening to visit relatives <lb/>
here. <lb/>
Mrs. S. B. Wilson and Mrs. M. <lb/>
Merritt have returned from a visit to <lb/>
Penny Hill. <lb/>
W. O. Dixon wife, of Hooker- <lb/>
ton, spent Friday here with the family <lb/>
W. <lb/>
Mrs. J. P. Barnard, of Durham, <lb/>
rived Friday to visit Mrs. <lb/>
M. Bernard. <lb/>
Rev. N. II. D. Wilson went to <lb/>
Goldsboro Monday to a mission- <lb/>
conference. <lb/>
Capt. Swift Galloway and his <lb/>
Miss Addie, of Snow Hill, are <lb/>
spending a days here.<lb/>
Mrs. Georgia Pearce left <lb/>
day for Baltimore to purchase <lb/>
millinery. Little accompanied <lb/>
her. <lb/>
Jurors. <lb/>
. regular jury for this week's <lb/>
court is composed of J T. Lewis, G. T. <lb/>
Tyson, Henry B. Turner, Henry <lb/>
Mitchell, R. L. Humber, J. H. Dudley, <lb/>
John Pierce, J. J. Forbes, M. T. <lb/>
ton, Nashville Hardy, Lacy Warren, <lb/>
Geo. W. Hooker, W. C. Jack- <lb/>
son, Cannon, W. L. F. Cory, <lb/>
Robt. L. Nichols. <lb/>
THEY ARE COKING. <lb/>
Greenville <lb/>
is Going to Have Water <lb/>
Works. <lb/>
Crowing Chickens. <lb/>
An old lady in Greensboro, remark- <lb/>
on the changes of the times and <lb/>
the degeneracy of the same, says that <lb/>
in old times chickens never crowed in <lb/>
the night except about Christmas and <lb/>
now the pesky things crow any time. <lb/>
That seems to be about the way of it <lb/>
down here. We have heard many <lb/>
people commenting on chickens crowing <lb/>
every night and at all hours of the <lb/>
night <lb/>
Miss Katie who was visit- <lb/>
her uncle, D. D. Haskett, re- <lb/>
turned to Monday evening. <lb/>
J. W. Higgs, Joe Starkey, N. H. <lb/>
and Misses Novella Higgs. <lb/>
Gertrude Williams and Clara Bruce <lb/>
Forbes went to Farmville Sunday. <lb/>
J. C. of Raleigh, represent <lb/>
the Biblical Recorder, is in town, <lb/>
lie made the a pleasant <lb/>
call. . <lb/>
ANOTHER <lb/>
Greenville Stands Ahead. <lb/>
A recent issue of the Rocky Mount <lb/>
Argonaut says that the purchases of <lb/>
the largest tobacco buyer on that mar- <lb/>
foot up for this season. <lb/>
has three buyers who have <lb/>
done better than that. Up to the <lb/>
of March one of our buyers had <lb/>
bought another <lb/>
and another between and <lb/>
The total sales of the mar- <lb/>
are about <lb/>
An Overflow Well. <lb/>
The tobacco men found an abundant <lb/>
water in the fire well they <lb/>
have due near the warehouses. After <lb/>
sinking the well as deep as desired a <lb/>
pipe was run from it to a ditch near by <lb/>
with the idea of increasing the supply <lb/>
in the well by draining the v liter from <lb/>
the ditch into it, but so much water rose <lb/>
in the well that it overflows and the <lb/>
pipe conies into play by taking off the <lb/>
surplus. <lb/>
A a-ad Store burned at Parker's <lb/>
X Origin <lb/>
Supposed. <lb/>
About o'clock on Monday night <lb/>
a bright light was seen in a northern <lb/>
from Greenville and upon <lb/>
investigation it proved to be at Par- <lb/>
X Roads, about two miles from <lb/>
town. From parties who went over <lb/>
there we learn the following A <lb/>
small light was discovered in an old <lb/>
barn back of a vacant store on the <lb/>
corner and in a few minutes <lb/>
it was in a light soon <lb/>
with the store and burning both <lb/>
to the ground. The store on the op- <lb/>
side of the road occupied by <lb/>
B. F. Anderson, was in imminent <lb/>
and all the goods were removed, <lb/>
but by efforts the house was <lb/>
saved. The origin of the fire is not <lb/>
known but it is thought the torch was <lb/>
applied by some miscreant. The barn <lb/>
and store belonged to the Fleming es- <lb/>
We could not learn whether <lb/>
there was any insurance or not. W. <lb/>
S. Fleming had a lot of corn and fodder <lb/>
stored in the barn and it was entirely <lb/>
consumed. Loss about <lb/>
Notice. <lb/>
I have moved in my new office over <lb/>
the Old Brick Store, next to the King <lb/>
House. Am ready to do all work in <lb/>
the line of Dentistry. Will be glad to <lb/>
see my friends and former patrons. <lb/>
Can be found at all hours. <lb/>
solicited. <lb/>
Ayden Items. <lb/>
N. C. Mar. <lb/>
Waters, of C. C. College, will preach <lb/>
at Red Oak church next Saturday and <lb/>
The township Sunday School con- <lb/>
meets in the Baptist church <lb/>
here fourth Sunday in March, at. <lb/>
o'clock, P. M. <lb/>
The Trustees of Christian College <lb/>
will meet Thursday to elect a principal <lb/>
to succeed Prof. L. T. who <lb/>
has <lb/>
Never Had a Better Teacher. <lb/>
Miss Annie Perkins, who for two <lb/>
months taught a public school <lb/>
in Farmville <lb/>
home Friday and returned Sunday to <lb/>
take charge of a private school. We <lb/>
heard a patron of the school say that <lb/>
the community had never had a teacher <lb/>
to give so general satisfaction as Miss <lb/>
Perkins. So well pleased were they <lb/>
with her that she was prevailed upon <lb/>
to return and take a private school <lb/>
the term public school had <lb/>
closed. <lb/>
Oakley Items. <lb/>
N. C, Mar. W. <lb/>
M. Bagley is teaching singing school <lb/>
at Piny Green school house, learning <lb/>
our young people to sing, which is very <lb/>
nice indeed. <lb/>
Mr. Joseph II. Taylor, a <lb/>
just across the line in Martin <lb/>
died very suddenly Friday night <lb/>
last. Heart failure is supposed to be <lb/>
the cause. One of his near neighbors <lb/>
was taken very sick and rang the bell <lb/>
and Mr. Taylor and family started run- <lb/>
He soon out and told the <lb/>
rest to go on, he would come as soon <lb/>
as possible. Its family went, and after <lb/>
some time, he not coming, they went <lb/>
back to look for him and found him <lb/>
cold in death. He leaves a wife and <lb/>
several small children. The bereaved <lb/>
have our sympathy in their <lb/>
row, <lb/>
Let Go Forward. <lb/>
Notwithstanding Greenville has but <lb/>
recently suffered the greatest disaster <lb/>
the town has ever known, if the people <lb/>
ill keep up the start they made Tues- <lb/>
day night by coming together and act- <lb/>
together on matters of public inter- <lb/>
est, this can be made the best and most <lb/>
progressive year in our history. <lb/>
town in the Stale has greater <lb/>
and possibilities than Greenville, <lb/>
but the outside world cannot be con- <lb/>
of this until we at home <lb/>
our faith by our <lb/>
In response to the call of Mayor Forbes <lb/>
there was the largest gathering of <lb/>
in the Court of last <lb/>
week, that we have seen assembled to <lb/>
take part in any matter looking to the <lb/>
general pi-ogress of the town. Such an <lb/>
outpouring of the citizens shows that <lb/>
they are becoming aroused to the <lb/>
town's needs and are ready to act to- <lb/>
in matters pertaining to our <lb/>
general welfare. <lb/>
The meeting was called to order by <lb/>
the Mayor, who after a few remarks <lb/>
read the call previously published and <lb/>
invited expressions of opinion from any <lb/>
persons present. He said if the <lb/>
of the town want a water supply <lb/>
they can have it, as the Board of <lb/>
stood ready and were going to <lb/>
do just what a majority of the citizens <lb/>
desired them to do. He hoped those <lb/>
having anything to say would say it in <lb/>
the meeting and not wait to get out on <lb/>
the streets to express themselves. <lb/>
After a few moments silence II. T. <lb/>
King arose and said he supposed all <lb/>
were waiting for somebody to <lb/>
the He expressed himself as fa- <lb/>
a regular system of water works <lb/>
preference to cisterns. <lb/>
New Prize Houses. <lb/>
Mr. C. D. Rountree tells us that at <lb/>
an early day work will commence on <lb/>
a prize house for the Star Warehouse. <lb/>
Mr. R. A. Tyson has purchased a lot <lb/>
adjoining and will also build a prize <lb/>
house. <lb/>
Bethel Items- <lb/>
Brant, N. C. March, <lb/>
Rev. J. W. filled his regular <lb/>
appointment at the Baptist church the <lb/>
first Sunday morning and night. <lb/>
Elder B. R. Hall held quarterly <lb/>
meeting the Methodist church Sat- <lb/>
and Sunday. He preached <lb/>
Sunday morning and night to large <lb/>
congregation. <lb/>
At the sole of the O. C. Farm <lb/>
here last Monday. The <lb/>
Brick Hotel was purchased by Mount <lb/>
Bro. brick store under hotel <lb/>
by Mrs, O. C. Farrar and the house <lb/>
and lot known as the James residence <lb/>
by <lb/>
B. J. Grimes, Mayor D. C. Moore, <lb/>
W. C. Nelson, J. L. Peal and F. S. <lb/>
Gardner are attending court at C <lb/>
ville to-day. <lb/>
Big to the County. <lb/>
It is now more than a <lb/>
since Mr. J. W. Smith was selected by <lb/>
Alfred Forbes expressed himself fa- i <lb/>
One of the Pioneers. <lb/>
We were glad to have n call to-day <lb/>
from Mr. Jesse Barnhill. of Carolina <lb/>
township, who came in to renew his <lb/>
subscription to the and <lb/>
have a chat with the editor. He is <lb/>
among the oldest and best men of the <lb/>
county, and tells us he will be years <lb/>
old it he lives to see his next birthday <lb/>
in June. He was among the first sub- <lb/>
to be enrolled on the <lb/>
tor list and has always been one of the <lb/>
promptest in renewing his subscription. <lb/>
He comes to town only about twice a <lb/>
now, and says he looks to the <lb/>
paper to keep him informed as to what <lb/>
is going on. The hopes <lb/>
there are yet many happy in <lb/>
store for this good man. <lb/>
HONOR ROLL. <lb/>
W N. C-, March <lb/>
Winterville school with an enroll- <lb/>
of is thriving remarkably and <lb/>
steadily advancing. Its teacher, Miss <lb/>
Nannie Cox, with her new a <lb/>
now prepared for still more thorough <lb/>
work. Below is the roll of for <lb/>
the mouth ending March ; <lb/>
Minnie Can- <lb/>
non, Little, Tessie Min- <lb/>
Cox, Dora Cox, Parker, <lb/>
Ida Nobles, Cooper, Dora Smith, <lb/>
Mary Parker, Maggie Brown, Rosa <lb/>
Cox, Mabel Cox. <lb/>
F. Tucker, W. C. Vin- <lb/>
cent, E. A. Cooper, Fred Worthington, <lb/>
Louis Manning. <lb/>
The highest average r as by <lb/>
Miss Rosa Cox. <lb/>
Brighter Ahead. <lb/>
Greenville is turning over a new <lb/>
leaf. The large meeting citizens in <lb/>
the Court House, Tuesday night, in the <lb/>
interest of water works, shows the <lb/>
people are arousing from their old time <lb/>
indifference to matters of public <lb/>
fare and are coming together on <lb/>
in which all are concerned. In <lb/>
this the begins to see the <lb/>
realization of what it labored for <lb/>
through many people united <lb/>
and working together for the town's <lb/>
best interest. Now that the rood work <lb/>
is started let it continue. Let the next <lb/>
step be the organization of a Board <lb/>
of Trade or Chamber of <lb/>
Put the town in position to show to the <lb/>
outside world what We have here and <lb/>
what inducements can be offered home <lb/>
seekers and investors to among <lb/>
us. Who will take the step by <lb/>
calling a meeting with such an organ- <lb/>
for its purpose <lb/>
Notice to Creditors. <lb/>
The Superior Court Pitt <lb/>
having issued Letters Ad- <lb/>
ministration to me, the undersigned, on <lb/>
the 24th. day of February, 1896., on the <lb/>
estate of Belcher, deceased, no- <lb/>
is hereby to all persons in- <lb/>
to the Estate to make immediate <lb/>
payment to the undersigned, and to all <lb/>
creditors of said Estate to present their <lb/>
claims properly authenticated, to the <lb/>
undersigned, within twelve months <lb/>
after the date of this Notice, or this No- <lb/>
will be plead in bar their re- <lb/>
This the day of March, 1896. <lb/>
B. <lb/>
on the Estate of Belcher <lb/>
to cisterns, and said the town <lb/>
could not bonds for a system of <lb/>
water works without a special Ad of <lb/>
legislature, and it would be a year <lb/>
from before such act could be <lb/>
passed. <lb/>
Mayor Forties said if the town could <lb/>
not issue bonds at present it could issue <lb/>
notes, which would practically meet the <lb/>
same <lb/>
J. B. Cherry was called Upon and <lb/>
not being informed as t what a <lb/>
standpipe and water mains would cost <lb/>
he was not prepared to speak advisedly <lb/>
on the subject, but suggested that the <lb/>
meeting a committee of good <lb/>
business men to take the matter under <lb/>
consideration, and that the conclusion <lb/>
reached by the committee be accepted <lb/>
as the sentiment of the citizens of the <lb/>
town <lb/>
Following this suggestion a motion <lb/>
was adopted to appoint a committee of <lb/>
five, the following being selected J. <lb/>
G. Move. W. B. Wilson. Alfred <lb/>
Forbes, R. Greene and A. J. Griffin. <lb/>
On motion of Councilman Brown <lb/>
the name of S T. Hooker was <lb/>
to the committee, and on motion of <lb/>
John Flanagan the name of Ed. La- <lb/>
Captain of the and Ready <lb/>
Fire Company, was added. <lb/>
CM. Bernard ottered the following <lb/>
resolution which was unanimously <lb/>
At a meeting the citizens of the <lb/>
town of Greenville held this day it is <lb/>
unanimously resolved that it is <lb/>
sense of this meeting that we tire heart- <lb/>
in favor of the immediate <lb/>
of the most efficient system which <lb/>
will Cornish water supply for <lb/>
said town. <lb/>
adjournment the Board of <lb/>
all of whom were present, <lb/>
requested the by the <lb/>
meeting to remain a few Mantes for a <lb/>
consultation. <lb/>
A motion was also adopted that the <lb/>
action of the committee be accepted as <lb/>
filial. <lb/>
In the discussion among the commit- <lb/>
tee the after meet- <lb/>
the developed that the <lb/>
of the is largely in fa- <lb/>
of a regular system of water works. <lb/>
The remarks of J. G. Move in behalf of <lb/>
such a were greeted with <lb/>
as Superintendent of the Hone of the <lb/>
Aged and Infirm. In this time he has <lb/>
proven his efficiency in the management <lb/>
of the Home and has saved the county <lb/>
several hundred dollars. During the <lb/>
year preceding his administration there <lb/>
were inmates the Home who were <lb/>
maintained at a cost of to the <lb/>
county. The first year <lb/>
Smith's management the <lb/>
her of inmates averaged and were <lb/>
maintained at a cost of saving <lb/>
to the county one year s And <lb/>
during the year the value of the prop- <lb/>
has been considerably increased, <lb/>
farm has been supplied with <lb/>
the quarters of the inmate, <lb/>
have been made more and <lb/>
is improvement in every way. <lb/>
Mr. Smith is a good man for the <lb/>
A part of my stock was Damaged by the <lb/>
fire and I am determined to dispose of them at <lb/>
Greatly Reduced <lb/>
Prices. <lb/>
In fact no reasonable price refused. <lb/>
C r. <lb/>
NEXT TO TYSON BANK. <lb/>
FALL <lb/>
FOR THE <lb/>
We are told that there is a white <lb/>
man in to who is <lb/>
years old and is now sprouting his third <lb/>
et Free Press. <lb/>
Our tools were de- <lb/>
by fire but we <lb/>
have ordered more and <lb/>
will be ready to furnish <lb/>
all the Tobacco Flues <lb/>
you want. They will <lb/>
be made of Steel and <lb/>
you may depend on it <lb/>
our flues will be made <lb/>
right as heretofore. For <lb/>
the present you will <lb/>
find us near old <lb/>
the warehouse <lb/>
formerly used by J. <lb/>
Cobb Son, first floor. <lb/>
S. E. FENDER CO. <lb/>
Mar. 1st, 1898. <lb/>
I am North <lb/>
making a com- <lb/>
purchase <lb/>
of stock. Wait <lb/>
for me. <lb/>
WINTER <lb/>
BUSINESS <lb/>
and cordially invite you to inspect the larges <lb/>
and neatest assortment of <lb/>
BE- <lb/>
con <lb/>
line. <lb/>
use, <lb/>
I will occupy <lb/>
the store former <lb/>
used by Mrs. <lb/>
R. H. Home. <lb/>
Wait for<lb/>
But we have come again. <lb/>
The late fire caught as just as we were opening business in Green- <lb/>
ville, Dot we have built a new store to the Reflector <lb/>
office, below Points, and are now ready to <lb/>
serve the public.--------- <lb/>
ever brought to Greenville. Our stock <lb/>
all the newest and <lb/>
DRESS GOODS, <lb/>
Furnishings <lb/>
Boots <lb/>
and Shoes, Domestics, <lb/>
Bleached and <lb/>
ed Sheeting and Shirt- <lb/>
Calicoes, Fancy <lb/>
Cotton Dress Goods <lb/>
everything you will <lb/>
want or need in that <lb/>
Hardware for far <lb/>
and mechanics <lb/>
Tinware, Hollow- <lb/>
ware, Wood and <lb/>
Whips, Buggy Robes, Collars, Rope, <lb/>
Twine, Heavy Groceries always on hand, <lb/>
Meat, Flour, Sugar, Salt and Molasses. <lb/>
The best and largest assortment of Crock- <lb/>
Lamps, Lanterns, Lamp Chimneys and <lb/>
Shades, Fancy Glassware, to be found <lb/>
in the county. And our stock of <lb/>
FURNITURE <lb/>
batting. Carpets. Rugs and Foot Mats is <lb/>
the and cheapest ever to the people <lb/>
of this section. Come look and see and buy. <lb/>
Sole agents of Coats Spool Cotton for this town <lb/>
for wholesale and retail trade. Reynold's Shoes <lb/>
for Men and Boys. Bros. Shoes <lb/>
for Ladies and Children. We buy Cotton and <lb/>
Peanuts and pay the highest market price for <lb/>
them. Your experience teaches you all to buy <lb/>
and deal with men who will treat you fair and <lb/>
do the square thing by you. Come and see us <lb/>
and be convinced that what we claim is true. <lb/>
Yours for business square dealings, <lb/>
HARDWARE <lb/>
IS OUR <lb/>
SPECIALTY <lb/>
Bat we also carry a complete line of- <lb/>
L III. STOVES. <lb/>
Paints, Oils and Materials, <lb/>
We bay for cash sell for cash, consequently can defy <lb/>
on all in oar line. Come to see as. <lb/>
BAKER <lb/>
FIVE POINTS. <lb/>
HART <lb/>
if mm Mil <lb/>
GREENVILLE, N. C-, Feb. 26th, 1896. <lb/>
J. L. SUGG, Agent Victor Safe Co-, <lb/>
Greenville, N. C- <lb/>
Dear am pleased to say that the Vic- <lb/>
tor Safe you sold me some five or six years ago <lb/>
preserved in tact all its contents in the late fire <lb/>
Greenville on 16th The safe stood <lb/>
at a point in my office in the Opera House <lb/>
block that must have been one of the hottest <lb/>
parts in the great conflagration. It contained <lb/>
many papers and other things of value- When <lb/>
it was out of the ruins and opened, some <lb/>
twelve hours after the fire, everything in it was <lb/>
found to be preserved and in good con- <lb/>
I cheerfully make this statement of <lb/>
facts in recognition of the valuable service <lb/>
me by this safe and you are at liberty to <lb/>
make such use of it you may sea proper. <lb/>
J. <lb/>
The Victor Safe is made in all sizes, <lb/>
for home, farm, office or general business <lb/>
use. Every Safe sold with a guarantee to be Are <lb/>
proof. Prices range from up. <lb/>
J. L. SUGG, Agent, <lb/>
GREENVILLE, N. C.<lb/>
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FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. <lb/>
Bone Hint. Which the <lb/>
Do Well to Note. <lb/>
There little change to record in <lb/>
table linen, except that the pretty col- <lb/>
lunch cloths are no longer in <lb/>
vogue, and I am sorry. They were much <lb/>
more cheerful than the small square <lb/>
of linen in the center of a bare oak table <lb/>
now preferred. The colored clothe now <lb/>
serve as a cover when the table is not <lb/>
in use. There are very pretty ones, in <lb/>
delft blue and white; and another <lb/>
pattern shown is on pale pink and <lb/>
silver. <lb/>
If yon wish pie-crust to be very nice, <lb/>
fold it, lay it on a plate, and stand in <lb/>
the refrigerator over night. This will <lb/>
Improve a good plain paste so that it <lb/>
is almost as flaky as a puff paste. In <lb/>
sealing a pie moisten the inside, <lb/>
on the edge, with a pastry-brush dipped <lb/>
in water or the white of an egg. Tut <lb/>
the upper crust in place and press the <lb/>
two together with the thumb <lb/>
in flour. Press together, but not on the <lb/>
exact edge, or the pastry will not rise. <lb/>
the ice chest smells queer and <lb/>
yet it is immaculately clean in every <lb/>
nook and cranny of the compartment, <lb/>
pour some boiling hot soda water down <lb/>
the escape pipe and look at the fearfully <lb/>
and wonderfully made rope of solid <lb/>
matter that is washed down by the <lb/>
soda water. The pipe ought to be thus <lb/>
flushed once a week to keep the re- <lb/>
sweet. No servant does this <lb/>
of her own free will. Many mistresses <lb/>
don't, either. Pour in cold water after- <lb/>
ward to cool off the box and wipe dry. <lb/>
Food keeps better in a dry, cold <lb/>
than it can in a damp, cold one. <lb/>
A great many women in this world <lb/>
who fancy themselves good cooks spoil <lb/>
every bit of food that they prepare, ex- <lb/>
perhaps, hard-boiled eggs and <lb/>
baked potatoes. They are careless and <lb/>
indifferent. If a recipe calls for more <lb/>
than they happen to have they <lb/>
it up with water; if they do not happen <lb/>
to have the herbs and seasonings for the <lb/>
turkey stuffing, they do not bother to <lb/>
go or to the grocer's for them <lb/>
just leave them out. They cut down <lb/>
the amount of butter that a recipe <lb/>
for because is expensive, and the <lb/>
result of these little economies and <lb/>
carelessnesses is that the food is flavor- <lb/>
less, spiritless and to the <lb/>
palate. Really, they waste a good deal <lb/>
because the food, not being especially <lb/>
good, is not all eaten, and some must <lb/>
be thrown away. Generally, economy <lb/>
is excellent, but not economy of that <lb/>
kind. <lb/>
When particular baking is receiving <lb/>
attention and several unfamiliar dishes <lb/>
are being manufactured, it is of special <lb/>
importance to have the oven in per- <lb/>
condition, as far as possible <lb/>
under the control of the cook. The best <lb/>
of stores, says an experienced house- <lb/>
wife, are tricky sometimes, and bear <lb/>
watching. Nearly each one has its pet <lb/>
peculiarity. A tendency to burn at the <lb/>
bottom, or a habit of scorching at the <lb/>
top, while the lower part remains raw <lb/>
and sodden. Familiarity will <lb/>
the cook to correct these difficulties. <lb/>
She will overcome the first fault <lb/>
placing the prating of a pan under the <lb/>
baking dish, and the other by cover- <lb/>
t he cake or loaf with a pan or paper <lb/>
until the bottom is done. A plain piece <lb/>
of paper laid over the top of <lb/>
a cake will insure thorough, even <lb/>
when without this arrangement <lb/>
the top would become scorched long be- <lb/>
fore the cake was baked <lb/>
Inter <lb/>
NOT AT HOME. <lb/>
CHINESE POEMS. <lb/>
Train on Scotland Meek Branch <lb/>
3.55 p. Halifax 4.1 <lb/>
p. in., arrives Scotland Neck at 4.55 p <lb/>
u., Greenville 6.47 p. in. 7.45 <lb/>
p. in. Returning, leaves Kinston 7.20 <lb/>
v. Greenville 8.22 a. in. Arriving <lb/>
Halifax at a. m., 11.20 am <lb/>
ally except <lb/>
Trains on W leave <lb/>
7.00 a. <lb/>
. Tarboro returning <lb/>
Tarboro 4.30 p. , Par-mete 6.20 <lb/>
t. m arrives Washington 7.45 p. m. <lb/>
Daily except Sunday. Connects with <lb/>
trains on Scotland Neck Branch. <lb/>
Train leaves S C, via <lb/>
A Raleigh R. R. except Sun- <lb/>
at p. in. Sunday P. M; <lb/>
9.00 P. 8.25 p. m. <lb/>
Plymouth daily except <lb/>
lay, a. m., Sunday 9.30 a TO-, <lb/>
10.25 and <lb/>
Train on Midland N. C. branch leaves <lb/>
.; l except Sunday, 6.0 a <lb/>
in. riving 7-30 a. m. <lb/>
leaves 8.00 a. in., <lb/>
rives at or 9.3 i a. in. <lb/>
In Nashville leave <lb/>
R at 1.80 p. in., arrives <lb/>
Nashville 5.05 p. in. Spring Hope 5.30 <lb/>
p. Illuming leave Spring Hope <lb/>
a. in , a in, at <lb/>
Rocky Mom t 9.06 a m, daily except <lb/>
Sunday. <lb/>
Trains on bunch, Florence R <lb/>
leave 6.40 p in, lumbar <lb/>
7.50 p in, OS p m. <lb/>
a m. 6.30 a in, <lb/>
Latta 7.50 a in daily t Sun- <lb/>
day. <lb/>
Train leaves War- <lb/>
saw for Clinton except <lb/>
11.10 a. m. and 8.50 p, m- Returning <lb/>
leaves Clinton at 7.00 a. m. and 3.00 p m. <lb/>
Train makes connection <lb/>
at Weldon points daily, all rail via <lb/>
at Mount with <lb/>
Norfolk and R for <lb/>
aw all points North via Norfolk. <lb/>
JOHN F. DIVINE, <lb/>
General Supt. <lb/>
M. Manage--. <lb/>
B Manager. <lb/>
A New Way of Getting; Rid of a Col- <lb/>
The death of Tom one flaw <lb/>
a well-known of the press gal- <lb/>
on both sides of the capitol, was <lb/>
sincerely deplored among the old- <lb/>
timers the other day, and some <lb/>
were told of the popular <lb/>
newspaper man by his friends in the <lb/>
course of the day. One of the best is <lb/>
v repeating. <lb/>
was in the habit of taking <lb/>
n late breakfast at the Press club every <lb/>
morning. On one occasion, while he <lb/>
was vigorously discussing a hearty re- <lb/>
past of ham and eggs, a bill collector <lb/>
suddenly walked up to side, <lb/>
and laid his account him. <lb/>
looked at the bill and then at the <lb/>
collector, and in a deliberate tone be- <lb/>
blamed fool, can't you observe <lb/>
amenities of ordinary civilized so- <lb/>
Don't you know that a man's <lb/>
club is like his home, and that you are <lb/>
in danger of being summarily ejected <lb/>
for coming in her without a card <lb/>
and without being intro- <lb/>
The rules of this club require <lb/>
that if you have business with a <lb/>
you wait in the lobby outside until <lb/>
waiter takes in your card and <lb/>
whether the gentleman with <lb/>
whom yea have business is present. <lb/>
you go out into the <lb/>
this bill with comply with <lb/>
the rules of this <lb/>
The collector apologized for the in- <lb/>
fraction of the rules of the Press club, <lb/>
vi to tell the truth, were never <lb/>
forced on anything, and waited until <lb/>
the steward came to ascertain <lb/>
wishes. <lb/>
announce me to Mr. Han- <lb/>
said the collector. <lb/>
The steward told him to wait, and he <lb/>
carried the man's card to <lb/>
who looked at it carefully, then handed <lb/>
it back to the and <lb/>
at Post, . <lb/>
City or Toledo, <lb/>
County <lb/>
Frank J. makes oath <lb/>
he ii the partner of the firm of K. <lb/>
J. Co., doing business in <lb/>
the City of Toledo, County and State <lb/>
aforesaid and that said firm will <lb/>
the sum of ONE HUNDRED <lb/>
LARS for each and every case of Ca- <lb/>
that cannot be cured by the use <lb/>
of Hall's i Cure. <lb/>
Sworn to before me and subscribed in <lb/>
my presence, this 6th day of December <lb/>
A. D. 1693. <lb/>
SEAL <lb/>
A. W <lb/>
J Notary Public. <lb/>
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken intern- <lb/>
y and act- directly on the and <lb/>
the system. Send <lb/>
M what my does away la the <lb/>
I inwardly but I cannot reply. <lb/>
Like the peach blossom carried away by the <lb/>
stream, <lb/>
I soar to a world of which you cannot dream. <lb/>
Li <lb/>
AMONG THE <lb/>
The birds have all flown to their roost in th <lb/>
tree, <lb/>
The last cloud has just floated by, <lb/>
But we never tire of each other, not we, <lb/>
alt there together, the mountains and I <lb/>
Li <lb/>
AT THE TOP OF A <lb/>
Upon this tall peak <lb/>
My hands ran the slurs <lb/>
I dare not my to speak <lb/>
For fear of startling n <lb/>
Yang <lb/>
on view an old to v. on <lb/>
The of a thousand years <lb/>
In one brief morning lies unrolled. <lb/>
Though other voices greet the ears, <lb/>
still the moonlit tower of old. <lb/>
The heroes of those thousand years <lb/>
Alas, like running water, gone <lb/>
Yet still the fever blast hears. <lb/>
And still the rain patters on. <lb/>
Twas here ambition marched sublime <lb/>
empty fame scarce marks the <lb/>
Away, for I will never climb <lb/>
To the bloom and man <lb/>
Anonymous. <lb/>
REGRETS. <lb/>
My eyes saw not the men of old; <lb/>
And now th away baa rolled <lb/>
I shall not see <lb/>
The heroes posterity. <lb/>
Century. <lb/>
Mr. Carlyle. <lb/>
It soon became a habit to watch <lb/>
for the familiar carriage and <lb/>
to welcome Mrs. Carlyle for a visit- <lb/>
or to go with her for a drive. <lb/>
often came to mo on Sunday after- <lb/>
noon. One wet and dreary day I <lb/>
was sitting alone when the bell <lb/>
rang. I gladly ran to it and <lb/>
saw a strange gentleman standing <lb/>
there, but looking beyond him I saw <lb/>
the dear smiling at mo from the <lb/>
carriage window. I was eagerly <lb/>
flashing forward, but was <lb/>
waved back, with orders to get <lb/>
my bonnet and come out. Mr. <lb/>
George Cooke was our companion, <lb/>
and in spite of the wind and rain <lb/>
we were all very bright and <lb/>
Mrs. Carlyle taking my band and <lb/>
holding it in hers for a great part of <lb/>
the time. <lb/>
The she and Miss <lb/>
came I bad seen Punch's Christmas <lb/>
Al in i on its cover were like- <lb/>
of all the principal literary <lb/>
people, very and funny, <lb/>
with absurd doggerel couplets de- <lb/>
scribing them. Among these I spied <lb/>
Carlyle and together. Car- <lb/>
was in full Scotch costume. <lb/>
In one band he carried a child's <lb/>
spade and pail, with the other <lb/>
he was throwing pens ink over <lb/>
bis shoulder, and the lines were <lb/>
Carlyle, having finished alto- <lb/>
Is off to to spend the <lb/>
weather. <lb/>
Oh, how she laughed, and how de- <lb/>
lighted she was first time <lb/>
Punch has taken any not ice of <lb/>
said. Another time Mrs. Carlyle <lb/>
There is in the car- <lb/>
for you. Run and I <lb/>
found there a large blue china plate, <lb/>
still happily in my possession. <lb/>
Magazine <lb/>
A Keen Woman. <lb/>
Lord used to toll some <lb/>
good stories of his experience as an <lb/>
Irish magistrate. One of them re- <lb/>
to the case of a woman whom <lb/>
he had to sentence for a breach of <lb/>
the peace. He lot her off on <lb/>
that she found two securities <lb/>
of each that she would keep the <lb/>
peace for six months. <lb/>
ye, my said she, <lb/>
moving toward the door. <lb/>
said Lord <lb/>
must name your securities <lb/>
that I may see whether they are sat- <lb/>
and who would I <lb/>
answered, your lordship's <lb/>
self good enough for a <lb/>
retort which not only showed the <lb/>
sprightliness of the Irish character, <lb/>
but in addition the feeling of friend- <lb/>
confidence which the Irish peas- <lb/>
who knew him cherished for <lb/>
the Lord of <lb/>
son's Weekly. <lb/>
The Mains <lb/>
The was written <lb/>
with ordinary black ink on very <lb/>
heavy parchment. It is a curious <lb/>
fact, as stated by an eminent Eng- <lb/>
historian, that of all the barons <lb/>
who signed that most important <lb/>
document not could write other <lb/>
than his signature, and only two <lb/>
were able to write even that <lb/>
neon.- surfaces of <lb/>
testimonials free. <lb/>
P. t. Co,. <lb/>
F-J old by a. <lb/>
J. F. <lb/>
On <lb/>
STABLES. <lb/>
Fifth Street <lb/>
Points. <lb/>
Passengers carried to any <lb/>
at reasonable Good <lb/>
or, Comfortable <lb/>
An All Bound Raise. <lb/>
A man owning a double house sub- <lb/>
let the half ho did not occupy to a <lb/>
noisy tenant. Such a racket was <lb/>
kept up that ho notified the party to <lb/>
quit <lb/>
the matter with ho <lb/>
asked, much hurt in his pride. <lb/>
you raise too much noise all <lb/>
the time, and I can't stand <lb/>
don't you balance matters <lb/>
by raising something yourself I <lb/>
don't <lb/>
you Well, I'll just raise <lb/>
the and he did to such an ex- <lb/>
tent that the tenant <lb/>
Magazine. <lb/>
An Old <lb/>
Ship With blood. <lb/>
BEN FRANKLIN'S KITE. <lb/>
Salt Beat. th. With <lb/>
Yarn About a Whale. <lb/>
The story of a as told by <lb/>
Mate of the good ship Am- <lb/>
rum is as <lb/>
loft Mex- <lb/>
with a cargo of hemp, bound for <lb/>
this port. For the first few days out <lb/>
we had delightful weather that <lb/>
those of the who were super- <lb/>
declared that something re- <lb/>
markable would happen before <lb/>
reached port <lb/>
officers, of course, paid no <lb/>
attention to them until we ran into <lb/>
heavy northeast winds and seas that <lb/>
ran mountains high. Then we be- <lb/>
to think that perhaps were <lb/>
right, and we felt that the <lb/>
thing had happened after one of <lb/>
the was washed from the <lb/>
top of the by B huge <lb/>
that broke over us and was <lb/>
carried the entire length of the ship, <lb/>
feet and inches, without being <lb/>
seriously hurt <lb/>
in itself was remarkable, <lb/>
but it was nothing as compared to <lb/>
an occurrence on when we <lb/>
ran upon what the lookout thought <lb/>
was an unmarked island, but what <lb/>
we found to be only a of <lb/>
whales. <lb/>
seen whales before, but I <lb/>
never saw a sight as I saw that <lb/>
day. <lb/>
weather bad down, <lb/>
and the sea had become smooth <lb/>
again, and when I took my <lb/>
just before going to dinner, at <lb/>
noon, I found that were in <lb/>
degrees minutes and <lb/>
degrees minutes. <lb/>
bad just seated myself at the <lb/>
dinner table with the other officers <lb/>
when the ship received a blow that <lb/>
shook her from stem to stern, and <lb/>
threw us from our chairs. Then the <lb/>
ship ceased to move forward and we <lb/>
were filled with consternation. <lb/>
some one shouted, <lb/>
and we all ran on deck, not knowing <lb/>
what had happened tons. We found <lb/>
the crew all forward, some busy <lb/>
with the lookout and others looking <lb/>
over the bow into the water. <lb/>
vessel was covered with <lb/>
blood from the fore rigging to the <lb/>
bridge, and the lookout appeared as <lb/>
though he had been bathed in it <lb/>
ran to his assistance, and as I <lb/>
did so another great fountain <lb/>
blood came over the bows. It was <lb/>
from a whale that we had struck. <lb/>
The whale was spouting gallons of <lb/>
blood, and as I looked at him, I saw <lb/>
that we had hit him broadside on <lb/>
and had cut a great gash in his side, <lb/>
the blood from which had discolored <lb/>
the water for hundreds of <lb/>
around. <lb/>
was the largest whale that I <lb/>
ever saw, for he exposed fully <lb/>
feet of his length. How much longer <lb/>
he was I had no moans of knowing, <lb/>
for, as he wont under our starboard <lb/>
bow and disappeared forged <lb/>
ahead again and right into t he midst <lb/>
of a of whales was so <lb/>
compact that one might have step <lb/>
upon their backs and walked <lb/>
from one to another without wet- <lb/>
ting his feet <lb/>
was a most remarkable sight <lb/>
and one that is rarely seen. <lb/>
as reached the <lb/>
they all spouted and wont out of <lb/>
sight. The water that they threw <lb/>
into the air with their immense <lb/>
flukes upon the and min- <lb/>
with the blood of their poor, <lb/>
unfortunate mate, who undoubtedly <lb/>
was asleep when we struck him. <lb/>
arose all around us, and in <lb/>
anger thrashed the water until it <lb/>
was covered with red foam. Some <lb/>
of them followed us for a long dis- <lb/>
but none charged on our shop, <lb/>
as we thought that they might do. <lb/>
can appreciate the force of <lb/>
the ship's compact with the whale <lb/>
when I toll you that we were forced <lb/>
backward, although running eight <lb/>
knots an hour when we struck. <lb/>
blood that covered the <lb/>
bridge and everything forward of it <lb/>
we were two days removing, and <lb/>
I dare say that n then we did not <lb/>
get it all off. <lb/>
was a most wonderful <lb/>
and one that I do not care to <lb/>
go through again, these <lb/>
was, with <lb/>
Built Boom In a Bottle. <lb/>
A few years ago the writer saw a <lb/>
genuine curiosity which bad been <lb/>
made by a little blind boy in Chi- <lb/>
It was nothing more or less <lb/>
than a miniature made up of <lb/>
forty odd pieces of wood, which was <lb/>
placed on the Inside of a very com- <lb/>
looking four ounce medicine <lb/>
bottle. The general verdict of all <lb/>
who examined the wonder was that <lb/>
it would puzzle a man with two <lb/>
good eves to put the pieces in the <lb/>
bottle, to say nothing of the task of <lb/>
gluing them together so as to make <lb/>
them resemble a Louis <lb/>
CAMEO CARVING. <lb/>
During the sieges of <lb/>
times it was very common for the <lb/>
besiegers to throw their <lb/>
and other military engines <lb/>
dead bodies of dogs, swine, together <lb/>
with pieces of horseflesh and <lb/>
carrion, into the city or castle <lb/>
besieged, in order that the defend- <lb/>
might, by the stench of this <lb/>
be forced to a surrender. <lb/>
A man would have little <lb/>
use for a method of rescue which would <lb/>
require days. A dyspeptic doesn't want <lb/>
to bother with a remedy that Is going to <lb/>
lake weeks to show Its effects. <lb/>
The Mount Lebanon Shakers are of- <lb/>
a product under the name of <lb/>
Shaker Digestive Cordial which yields <lb/>
Immediate relief. The very first dose <lb/>
proves beneficial In moat eases, and it <lb/>
is owing to their unbounded confidence <lb/>
In it, that they have put cent <lb/>
bottles on the market. These can <lb/>
b had through any druggist, and it will <lb/>
the to invest the trifling <lb/>
sum necessary to make a trial. <lb/>
The Shaker Digestive Cordial relieves <lb/>
by resting the stomach and aiding the <lb/>
of food. <lb/>
is the best medicine for <lb/>
Doctors recommend it In place <lb/>
of Castor OIL <lb/>
It Formidable, bat I. In Reality <lb/>
Simple <lb/>
Gravers and and other <lb/>
mysterious little instruments have <lb/>
crept into the modern maiden's den. <lb/>
It sounds <lb/>
in reality it is simple <lb/>
First you provide yourself with a <lb/>
working table; it need not be large. <lb/>
Then, at any art store, buy half a <lb/>
dozen gravers and of vary- <lb/>
degrees of fineness. The next <lb/>
outlay is for a shell upon which you <lb/>
are to out the cameo. Black, red <lb/>
and yellow as the shells <lb/>
are called, are required, and they <lb/>
cost from to each, but from <lb/>
good shell several ovals or rounds <lb/>
can cut. <lb/>
After it has been out the required <lb/>
size and shape, it is then fixed with <lb/>
hot cement, upon a little <lb/>
block that can be held in the band. <lb/>
The upper surface of the shell is <lb/>
made sufficiently smooth to take the <lb/>
GOOD CK AND <lb/>
TOO. <lb/>
Is <lb/>
pared especially for stock, as well as <lb/>
man, and for that purpose is sold in tin <lb/>
cans, holding one-half pound <lb/>
cine for cents. <lb/>
Lambert, Franklin Co., Tenn., <lb/>
March 1893. <lb/>
have used all kinds of but <lb/>
I would not one package of <lb/>
for all the others I ever saw. <lb/>
It is best thing for horses <lb/>
the spring the year, and will care <lb/>
chicken time. <lb/>
With Which the <lb/>
Death. <lb/>
It was a square kite, not the <lb/>
fin affair shown in story book <lb/>
pictures. To the upright stick of <lb/>
the cross Franklin attached his <lb/>
pointed sharp wire about a <lb/>
foot provided himself <lb/>
with a silk ribbon and a key, the <lb/>
ribbon to fasten to the string after <lb/>
he bad raised kite as some <lb/>
much be did <lb/>
not the lightning en- <lb/>
his body, and key to be <lb/>
secured to the junction of the rib- <lb/>
and siring to servo as a con- <lb/>
from he might draw <lb/>
the sparks of fire if it came. <lb/>
When the thunderstorm broke, he <lb/>
went out on the open common near <lb/>
Philadelphia and faced <lb/>
the tremendous power of the light- <lb/>
stroke, before all people j <lb/>
of all had quailed in terror, <lb/>
faced what mos of the world then <lb/>
believed to he the avenging blow of ; <lb/>
an angered God. True, he believed <lb/>
electricity lightning were <lb/>
the same thing and therefore had no <lb/>
different properties or effects, but be <lb/>
did not know it <lb/>
best existing theory which <lb/>
accounted for electrical phenomena <lb/>
at that time was his own. The laws <lb/>
of conduction or resist <lb/>
now so familiar, were not even <lb/>
suspected. Who could that <lb/>
the lightning would obey any law <lb/>
Besides be bad produced tremendous <lb/>
shocks with his Leyden jars in series <lb/>
and bad killed birds with them. <lb/>
More than that, he had been <lb/>
shocked himself by tho same <lb/>
into insensibility <lb/>
and nearly killed. Ho had said <lb/>
again and again that an electric <lb/>
shock, if strong enough, would blot <lb/>
out life, though without a pang. If <lb/>
his idea was correct if his <lb/>
was ho was now about to <lb/>
face an electric beside <lb/>
which that of tho most powerful of <lb/>
man batteries would seem <lb/>
weak and insignificant. <lb/>
All the world knows what hap- <lb/>
The kite soared up into the <lb/>
black cloud while the philosopher <lb/>
stood calmly in tho drenching rain <lb/>
the string until finally he <lb/>
saw little fibers of tho hemp <lb/>
raise themselves. Then without a <lb/>
tremor ho touched his to <lb/>
the lived. For tho spark <lb/>
crackled and leaped to bis finger as <lb/>
harmlessly as did that from his old <lb/>
familiar electrical machine <lb/>
lowed him to charge his jars with it <lb/>
with the same impunity. <lb/>
He sent the story of what he had <lb/>
done abroad without a particle <lb/>
trumpeting. He was not a <lb/>
for revenue. No stock markets <lb/>
awaited the announcement of bis <lb/>
claims j no newspaper stood ready <lb/>
forth his achievement in the <lb/>
interest of the money jugglers. Hit <lb/>
own narrative barely fills one of the <lb/>
little columns of The <lb/>
Magazine for Oct. 1752, and it <lb/>
has at its end only the initials B. F. <lb/>
Park Benjamin in <lb/>
Diane do <lb/>
While the abbess of being <lb/>
still untried by tho stress of battle, <lb/>
went sinless still orthodox <lb/>
way there lived just across the river <lb/>
on the manor of a sinner of <lb/>
a gayer de <lb/>
The castle of the Star dates from <lb/>
fifteenth century, when Louis <lb/>
there as governor of <lb/>
and was given lessons in how to be <lb/>
a king. the <lb/>
most as Francis I gal- <lb/>
called <lb/>
fortress into a bower and gave to it <lb/>
accepted for appropriate- <lb/>
airy name of the <lb/>
There she lived long aft- <lb/>
her butterfly days were over. <lb/>
There, even, she received tho visits <lb/>
of Henry II, her dead lover's son. <lb/>
And in a way, although the Castle <lb/>
of the Butterfly is a silk factory <lb/>
now, she lives there still, just as an- <lb/>
other light lady beautiful, Queen <lb/>
Jeanne of Naples, lives on in nearby <lb/>
Provence, for Diane's legend still is <lb/>
vital in the countryside, and the old <lb/>
people still talk about her as though <lb/>
she wore alive among them and call <lb/>
her always, not by her formal title <lb/>
of tho do but <lb/>
by love title of belle dame <lb/>
do A. in <lb/>
Century. <lb/>
Tho of Tobacco. <lb/>
Tho prophet was taking a stroll <lb/>
in country when ho saw a <lb/>
pent, stiff with cold, lying on the. <lb/>
ground. He compassionately took it <lb/>
up and warmed it in his bosom. <lb/>
When serpent bad it <lb/>
listen. I am now <lb/>
going to bite <lb/>
inquired <lb/>
med. <lb/>
Because thy race persecutes mine <lb/>
and tries to stamp it <lb/>
does not thy too, make <lb/>
perpetual war against was <lb/>
the prophet's rejoinder. <lb/>
thou, besides, be so ungrateful and <lb/>
so soon forgot that I saved thy <lb/>
is no such thing as <lb/>
upon tho <lb/>
serpent if I were now to spare <lb/>
either thou or another of <lb/>
race would kill me. By Allah, I shall <lb/>
bite <lb/>
If thou bast sworn by Allah, I <lb/>
will not cause thee to break thy <lb/>
said tho prophet holding his <lb/>
hand to the mouth. The <lb/>
serpent bit him, but he sucked <lb/>
with bis lips and spat the <lb/>
venom on ground. And on that <lb/>
very spot there sprang up a plant <lb/>
which combines within itself the <lb/>
venom of the and the com- <lb/>
passion of tho prophet. Men call this <lb/>
, the. of tobacco. <lb/>
Bare. <lb/>
. commemoration of <lb/>
ho go and humanity displayed <lb/>
during tho <lb/>
yellow fever prevailing in <lb/>
in year in <lb/>
college in Philadelphia, dis- <lb/>
closes n phase of in the <lb/>
philanthropist not generally under- <lb/>
stood. During the fever epidemic he <lb/>
gave up his business and his <lb/>
homo assumed <lb/>
of a yellow fever hospital. <lb/>
He took up work others recoiled <lb/>
from, and did the work because it <lb/>
was his York <lb/>
Secret of Beauty <lb/>
is health. The secret of health is <lb/>
the power to digest and <lb/>
a proper of food. <lb/>
This can never be done when <lb/>
the liver does not act it's part. <lb/>
know this <lb/>
Liver Pills are an <lb/>
lute cure for sick headache, <lb/>
sour stomach, malaria, <lb/>
constipation, torpid liver, piles, <lb/>
jaundice, bilious fever, bilious- <lb/>
and kindred diseases. <lb/>
Liver Pills <lb/>
GROVES <lb/>
SMITH EDWARDS, Props.- <lb/>
the late Williamston store near <lb/>
Com t <lb/>
GREENVILLE, N. C <lb/>
Manufacturers and dealers all <lb/>
kinds of <lb/>
FINE BUGGIES a SPECIALTY <lb/>
All kinds of repairing done <lb/>
We use skilled labor and good <lb/>
material and are prepared to give <lb/>
you work. <lb/>
l. E. Moors. Moons, <lb/>
Williamston.<lb/>
under House. Third S <lb/>
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