JOB PRINTING. The is pared to do all wort of this line NEATLY, and IN BEST STYLE. Plenty of new mate- rial and the best of Stationery. Safest Pace During a Storm is in House Where There is no storms an far the majority of people in writes Edward W. link in Home Journal. a severe lightning storm i admit of no question, and will sometimes bring uneasiness to o the strongest man. lint the real h slight. The chance lightning striking a house, example, is not one in a mil ion. Particularly is this true in cities most of with wires. The greater from storms is in country, n may lessen ti e mid m -t common-sense of precautions are surest electric conductor is a and when a it is seen that all windows and doors liable to occasion a in- kepi closed, the danger i- at once reduced a If a woman is out in a thunder-storm the safest shelter is a house the most danger a tree, particularly oak tree. It is a p but nevertheless a pr iv mi, bi th it the oak is must susceptible of all trees to a of electricity. Over fifty per cent, trees struck by lightning storms one summer, the -m statistician tells us, were oaks, while the beech tree was the harmed. Therefore, the p place of shelter in nil electric i-in i- an oak tree, while by all olds, the safest place is in a house and out a The actual danger an electric is, n tilth, not from the lightning the th bin from the nervous condition which allow themselves to all. And this is a danger which they avoid. A little calm thought and a few grains common sense will do The Eastern Reflector. WHICH ARD, Editor and Owner TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. Year, in Advance. VOL. XV. GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1896. NO. HOME A Month of Disaster. THE CHANGE OF TIME. When the work-lay hours are Chicago Tribune, which b And the evening twilight bills I has been figuring up How the homes throughout the , . Send forth Heir living calls tins during the month of attended by loss Calls so low. you may not hear them ; how many hear and smile A Generous Act. Here is a nice little story. When the two Princeton students were shot, about a year ago. it was that immediate operation might save the lite of the one whose ca-e was worst, and Dr. Bull, New York, was summoned by telegraph. The message reached after midnight. He went at to Jersey City and asked for a special on the Pen u Railroad. The agent said he must d and promise to pay any further bill that might be sent Hi did, and got his engine and Some time he wrote and asked. for his Instead of getting it, he receive I back the that he had de- posited, and a note faying the company could make no charge for a service done-i i th; interest suffering Very pretty behavior for a soulless wasn't it f, Harper's Weekly, The Magnitude o He Bicycle Someone has been figuring out the extent of of the bicycle business, and while it is that the statistics given are rather high, it can be read- shown that at least some of them are not much overdrawn. This estimates that the bicycles now in use have cost their owners and that there are factories, with an aggregate capital of but this is probably incorrect. It is said that, taking the cost of the wheels in use, the capital invested in their manufacture, and he capital in the retail trade, Of 100,000.000 is represented, and hands are employed. Record. And tired hand and heads so weary Are forgotten for the while. The dear home-sounds ring sweetly In the cars of toiling men, And, for love of wife and They seek their homes again. I in the brooding twilight. And as they homeward go, With I steps, hurrying onward To the hearts that love so. And I long to cry out to guard home-love well. Be tender and true to ones How long yours, none cm For I know there is one among them Whose heart in sadness roams, Who hears no call in the twilight, Save to the Home of homes. of Franklin. Fish and visitors smell in days. Diligence is the mother luck. is not his that has but his that enjoys Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely. He can have patience can have what lie will. Don't throw stones at your if your own windows are glass. Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands. God heals; the doctor takes lee The noblest question in the world what good may I do in it There are three faithful old wife, an old and ready money. Who has deceived thee so as thy- self Fly pleasures, and they'll follow you. Hast thou virtue, acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow money to be repaid at Easter. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage ; half-shut afterward. As we must account every idle wold, so we i lb; silence. Search others for their virtues ; thy- for thy vice. Grace thou thy and let not that grace thee. Let thy child's first be and lie second will be what thou Richard's Tribune lives the On the May, persons were killed by an explosion in Cincinnati ; on the by a in Tex- as; the 17th, by cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas; on the 18th, by a ill Nebraska ; on the ID by a cyclone in Oklahoma; on the 22nd, by a cyclone in on the 24th. by a cyclone in Iowa ; on SO by cyclones in Michigan Oklahoma and by a cloudburst at Iowa ; and on the 26th, by a storm at Cairo and between and by the falling of a bridge at Victoria, British C will lie observed that the Tribune only made up its to the 27th the mouth. On that very day occurred terrible tornado, or series does, that laid in ruins great parts of the cities of St. Louis and Last St- Louis, and wide areas the surround country, causing the death per- haps persons, the serious wounding many more, and the de- of property to extent many millions of dollars. Truly month of 1896, has proved to be a season of disaster, and it will leave behind it a record of storms physical convulsions at Will make it long remembered as a period Press tor. Fifty Warts for a Cent. A New York paper says a friend of Speaker Re d went into his private room at capitol the other day and made an appeal to him for a on a special bill in which a g eat deal of in. is pending. The speaker was not d.-posed to Jet the bill be considered, and finally declared his intention o let it come up. The spokesman for the bill, who is considerable a joker, turned aside and quietly slipped hi Reed button into his lapel. It the speaker's eye as soon as he turned his face to him again, and a bright gleam of light Hashed across his semi- countenance. The bill will not be allowed to he drawled with that Reed button in your Mr. G. St. Beaver Ill, says. Dr. King's New Discovery I owe my life. Was taken with La Grippe and all the for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told I could live. Having Dr. King's New hi my sent a began its use and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottle was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold We won't keep store or house without Get a free at John L. Wooten's Drug Store. They Will be Cared For. Richmond, Va., May fol- lowing card has been issued because the many inquiries made concerning for the entertainment of visiting veterans during the reunion to be held here June July 1st and 2nd. With a view of answering many in- in regard to this matter I want to any that we are preparing until all our might and main for the grand as- of our comrades, and with all the loving care and devotion of which we are capable. We have grown neither too old nor too callous to love the Confederate sol- with all our hearts and minds and strength, and he will find himself treat- ed, not as a but as a brother, when he arrives. q one need fear to lack of accommodations. The provisions we are making in this respect i we believe to be ample for every We are frequently asked whether we will furnish quarters and rations to vet- who will attend We some time n an official circular promised quarters for visiting organizations that might need them. We perfectly recognize the fact that then are many our dear com- to whom, for many reasons, it will be a great sacrifice to endure the expense of travel here, and to whom, in times like these, further sacrifices are too All such will lie the hon- and welcomed guests of my coin,; and will be lodged and fed to lie- utmost limit of our means. All others should provide for themselves at the very reasonable rates which will prevail among the hotels and boarding houses, and the committee would be greatly assisted by their engaging their quarters at an early day. Address in this connection Capt. C. T. Richmond Va. Signed. Chairman. One of the Star's brightest most energetic little newsboys had, until a Weeks ago, been afflicted with fifty large and ugly warts on his hands. Every one who saw the boy thing to say about them, and he became very sensitive on subject. Many remedies had been ed, but not owe was successful. An j elderly gentleman, with all the earn- imaginable, told the little I tell ye, limes is And to lies the relish That used do Some things it's in the evens I don't pin tend say I know t don't taste natural Account how ye may. I don't get no beans bow As mother used bake With pork all crisp and juicy, Just like a And loaves of rye Cut oil in slices round. All light, sweet, and Ain't nowheres to be found. Tin ain't no more SUch As mother used fry ; never was her For mince or pie. gingerbread for Such spicy cake. and Nobody else can make. She had a big blue platter That held a master sight Hut when she'd get dinner, It wasn't too big, a mite, Piled up will meat mid cabbage, With turnip and with beet, And carrots I tell ye, complete We had flapjacks then, breakfast, And real codfish hash ; And warm cooked hasty much, nor any trash. I hanker tor a With butter jest like And a bowl cider apple To lop the whole concern. How one- thing starts another curious, I declare ; most forgotten How good her were; And stews, and tripe And seasoned head and pluck Our folks does try to fix Rut they never bus no luck. Their and spareribs, what's th; lack ; baked or roasted mother's knack, Two Papers for We have made to furnish the Reflector and North Carolinian for the above amount. This is campaign year and you should take the two leading papers. Weekly Bulletin reports correspondents of the , . Weekly Bulletin Highest of all in Leavening Pow X. J., has , Th- reports of correspondents of the who are, according , a informant. M a couple of They old, yet they In I under keep the peace. j m drought prevails, a rapid growth of under keep the peace. three years they have been growth of every day, sometimes once, sometimes The the a hall dozen times. They veil M. the neighbor think they are being mid Saturday were also killed while being whipped, and are j f notes later. A lion of the State receiving too much, the west little. Highest of all in Leavening Govt Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE laughing ten ml time ago tie twins entered the public I school after school hours and decorated the tore up all the copy books, threw the inkwells at the emptied the content of tin desk out of the window, and were play. on the piano when caught. Before the case had been settled they tools from a chest and were mother in a street car one day to m . . rs baked or roasted pick into roots one of them with a needle, slice an onion and squeeze the liquid into the wound, then bury onion in the ground, and when it decayed the warts would have dis- appeared. These instructions were faithfully carried OUt tO the letter, but the warts remained. A Well known druggist mi Marshall street ex- in the boy's hand with caustic for several weeks without avail. fried or I That has the goodness Or else my taste is E. M. M. Good Housekeeping. A Dollars trying -o cut a flat car up when the ii train started. They jumped off and tools were to Buffalo. They milled highwaymen, and are now out on parole for t. king bicycles. The twins are small their age and very thin. They are dressed alike, r ml persons call tell them apart. at times cannot tell which is George and which is Dave. Since their fa was ally sufficient sunshine. Cotton and corn especially are in splendid ; tobacco is doing fairly well. The wheat harvest has just commenced. are beginning In lay by coin iii the south i the Stale. rain the southern nor coast of this dis- drought continued to last week, which did much good, but was hardly Sufficient In ex- north portion too much rain has fallen at some places, injuring cotton and lowland corn, and enabling grass to headway. the have been very favorable and not cry escapade they been tethered rapidly. Both during the day in the rear of where live. e House A Paradox, The paradoxical discovery that speed a sailing vessel may lie in- creased by perforating its sails is claim- ed by Captain an Italian mariner. lie that the fixed cushion of air tilling up the hollow of inflated sail lessens the effect of the wind, and he has sought Io prevent the collecting this cushion by making a number of bole.- in the canvas. Several trials, made in all weathers, have given surprising results. In a light wind a vessel made knots with ordinary sails, and knots with perforated sails; in a fresh breeze and knots respective- and strong wind and knots. The ship's would lie increased one trip of live weeks being re- lo four the increased call be sustained throughout a long Ledger. A New fork Sun special from Washington says The books of the United Stales treasury still carry an The little fellow at gave up in de- of which represents span. A week or so ago a young lady told boy that she would give him a cent United States notes which are supposed to have been consumed in the great i Chicago lire years ago. It is known for all his warts and he go out j , buy something for lie quickly at- j .,, or in e the oiler soon returned with then, that none of it a mouthful of chewing gum. Very recovered, but the denominations tie attention was paid to his hands j and the exact amount until a day or so ago, the warts suddenly began to disappear, and his hands are as smooth and soft M the young lady's who contributed the won- cure. The accuracy of this story can be vouched for by several trust- persons who are amazed at the remarkable Richmond Star. It's the Luxuries They are For. A minister, remarking, a few days ago, on the prevailing cry of hard limes, scarcity if money, etc., said that it is not the necessities of life that the people arc crying for but the luxuries. This is true. How many people in this section, instance, are actually destitute Poor people there are, of course. There always have been poor people and always will be poor people, no matter what sort of obtain. On the other hand, nu- people enjoy more luxuries to- day than ever before. We are glad J that this is so. but some of them, be- cause they cannot obtain the they want, out that they are poverty-stricken and oppressed. It is not the necessities of life they cry for, but the Land- mark. We know of but one community in the world where dyspepsia is practically and is the of Mount Lebanon, N. y. These good people have been studying the of digestion more than a hundred years, and that they understand it thoroughly. Is evidenced in the fore- going fact. Their Digestive is the safest and best remedy in cases of we know of. A trial bottle can be bad through your drug- gists for the trifling sum of cents- The Shaker Digestive Cordial supplies the system with food already digested at the time aids the of other foods. It will almost instantly relieve the ordinary symptoms of lion, and no other sufferer need to be told what these are. is the best medicine for Doctors recommend it In place of Castor Oil. are unknown, as the books of the cash- were consumed also. There could not have been, however, very many dollars less or very many dollars more than and it would simplify the accounts of the treasury and save a great deal labor to the bookkeepers congress should pass a bill or resole, recognizing the fact that this money is no longer in existence, for every day when cashier in the treasury balances his accounts he has to include this item, deducting it adding it, as case may be, from the amount in hand. It appears every daily, weekly, monthly and yearly statement of the assets and liabilities of the gov- destroyed United States note,, A Panic. May terrible pan- from the rush of pen. at the feast to-day in honor of the coronation the Czar, caused trampling to death of many people, including women, In anticipation of the holiday and the popular tens of thousands began trooping towards the palace, securing places vantage and them during A long of tables, by rough benches, had been erected and efforts made ant people. Twice number were desirous of enjoying the feast. To feed multitude an army of cooks and waiters were em- ployed and half million mugs, bearing the portrait of the czar, being made especially for the purpose. Thousands train toads, of provisions and a ship of liquid wore provided. Some of the mass has been fastening tor the occasion. Suddenly the mass humanity i waved and everything before them overturning the tables and benches, trampling hundreds under their feet. Women gave to children were to death. The Czar has sent a special physician to the scene. Almost a Tragedy. Carver's Creek has a great sensation. Two of its most prominent young men got into a quarrel Thursday night, and but timely interference one of the young mag would certainly been killed. Both young men were in love with the same girl. They happened to meet at the door of her house Thursday and a quarrel resulted, during which each claimed to engaged to the girl. They finally agreed to submit the to girl herself. So hey went, and formality the question was put, each speaking for himself. The girl replied that she would not have either of them. They immediately left the house, friendly, and desperately hands at the gate hurried home. A few hours afterwards one of the young men shouldered gun and went p, the house of the other and there dared him to a fight. It is said he even threatened to burn the other out. Luckily at this moment neighbors and a terrible tragedy was Observer. Miss Alicia of near N. Y., is a plucky as, well a pretty woman, says a local exchange. A few days ago she was out gathering arbutus on the hill at the. rear of her home, when she heard a rattlesnake spring its rattle. Looking around she saw the reptile in a coil. She threw at it and drove if A later it appeared again and this time showed fight. Once more the young woman put it to flight. A third time the snake attacked her, and then she seized a stick and killed it. It measured four feet and had nine rat- a button. She will have a belt made of the skin fasten if button taken from snake. She would even wear the rattles around her waist, but the effect be too loud, she thinks. and are splendid ; corn is quite large for the time of the year and some ill silk tassel. Insects are doing some damage to tobacco. Cutting wheat has j t begun in Field peas and sorghum being planted. Peanuts arc up, with not goner-illy a good stand. Irish potatoes continue to be shipped, DISTRICT. Ill general the past week bus been very favorable. The weather was warm, except Friday and Saturday, which were agreeably cool, with plenty of sunshine to make crops grow well. enough has fallen at most and when; hast has boon Sufficient such crops as can be worked; some few reports of heavy rains Washing lands. Cutting w heat has just begun on a scale ; hugs at some place.;. Some dents report that cats are coming out considerably since the rains. There is still some tobacco pi transplanted ; the crop looks well. Colton is now getting grassy ; good stand and vigorous ; chopping co in north portion. quite large the season, and to be laid by in the south. Blackberries be- ginning to get ripe in the south portion the district. Growth of grass in crops require active attention farmer.-. The warm entire week, excepting Friday night, with light but very beneficial showers at numerous points, generally not exceeding an inch, but drought prevails large portions of counties, in which but little improve. went in crops is reported. Where showers have occurred prospects are with The good man came, and his voice was kind. And his ways were sweet mild, I'm to bust him the roarer, said, wait he gets me When he playfully felt of his pistol belt, And look up his place on the stage. And waited m wrath for the Temper- man To further excite his good. Considerable damage by hail occurred on the in Wheat harvest has begun in the southern portions of the district though sent is short heads seem to be well Spring oats an a failure and winter but little better. Cotton where drought is in good condition, with good stand, and is well grown for the season of the year. Rains brought up late planted cotton, which is being dropped l a stand, is still be sot in the northern portion. Grasses on meadows are short and pastures poor, except on bottom lands. Gardens very poor slight- improved this week. Comes a Coffin. Short Items of Interest. A family quarrel Cleveland, O. ended in August shooting his Minnie and then himself. are dead, The University of Chicago will send a movable observatory to Mexico for the purpose of making observations of the planet Mars. Later developments have placed the property loss at St. Li by storm last Wednesday night at James an employee of a Michigan logging camp, died in the woods a couple of days ago. friends placed his body and all his be- longings in a coffin, shin to his Toy decided to carry the coffin to the railroad station. Fight stalwart woodsmen undertook the task of carry, it a mile over the n mud roads. They had not gone far when they suddenly Stopped. one them turned pale and they nearly burden. From within they the strains the In the piping tones peculiar to u music box. Then some one remembered the box which brought to help shorten long nights, was packed in the coffin, and H is sup- posed the jarring caused springs to The men were reassured and proceeded on their A hit of patience often makes the sunshine come. And a little bit of love makes a very happy home; A little bit of hope makes a rainy day look gay, And a little bit cf charity makes glad a weary way. Exchange. Hoarsely demanding a He sidled up to the bar, And he handled his glass with the air of one Who had often before And a terrible glance shot out of his eve. And over his hearers ran. muttered, the town Per to bust that temperance man. he's and heaps of talk ; allows he'll make all fellows w drink Toe square the Temperance chalk. I here he pulled out a knife hat was too feet long or more, And he bandied his pistols familiarly, W Idle the crowd made a break the door. Population Area Taxable property Debt front Churches Dwelling Houses Business Houses Parks Paved streets Gas mains Railroads Bat the orator he wasn't that sort, For he talked right Straight to the heart, And some how or other the felt The tear drops start, And he thought of the wile who loved him well, Ami children climbed bis knee. And he said as the terrible picture was drawn got ii kernel that's Then his thoughts went Io the years gone by. When his mother had kissed his brow, As she tearfully told of the evils of drink, And he made her a solemn vow, Thai he never should touch the cup Which had ruined so many before ; And tears fell fast as he said, me more and lie his hold on the pistols and knife, And covered his streaming eves, And though it was homely, hi- prayer went up to the starlit skies, Then he signed the temperance pledge, And holding it high, says lie, came here to bust that temperance chap, But I reckon he's hutted t off at Chatham Square, and me wife's for me there. If you fight, come But the guard thought better of it, and the Inebriate resumed his seat, leer- and muttering. Al Chatham Square he had Io lie as- out of the car, striking wildly right and left and getting blows in re- turn. On the platform stood a white-faced, poorly dressed woman scanning each car eagerly. As she saw the drunkard her pale cheeks became crimson. She rushed to him, took him by the arm and ad him, swearing and gesticulating, to stairway, with an expression on her face that I shall forget. Talk about your lecture The American Metropolis. Now York and Brooklyn, with a number smaller places, have last become one, by the signature of the governor to the Greater New York bill. The following is the present ex- of consolidated city, as given by the York sq. miles mile miles TOO miles miles 1.2011 miles die schools Governor Mm ton's signature makes of York the second greatest city in the world. a superior London only, with a population of and an area of miles. Paris comes The next great- est city in America is Chicago, with an of square miles, following third with an square miles. He Opened the Beehive. Some peculiar shipments are made over railroads, but the Ground the freight depot of the Louis- ville and Nashville Railway thought hat they the strangest of all at point couple of day ago. There were several beehives en route from a point on the Big Four to a south, and as they stood waiting to be they were closely examined by one of the men. They were billed -imply and. being curious to see in side cl it, this employee pulled the plug that Stopped entrance to the hive, when, swish out came the bees so fast that they looked like animated running from an overturned It was as good a nineteenth century re- production of as could be wished for and the evils, in the shape Of bees, settled on the unlucky railroad man in squad, platoons and battalions. He ran away and left the bees to their own will, and late that night, when they had all crawled into the hive again, another was induced to slip up quietly and slick the plug back. Next day they were all shipped A drunken man is an object of terror to most women, and I don't wonder at it. My lot has never been cast in the vicinity of one. and I am very glad of it, for I don't think my stock of patience would hold out very One of wretched s-as occupying a fact, several seats in an train the other day near mine, nod every time he yawned, or stretched cut his feet or hands, I made myself as small as for he was all over place. He fell asleep at his hat went into the aisle. The guard picked it up, rammed ii on the slumberer's bend and then shook him so hard that I expected In see his teeth drop out. But there was no response. Then the guard gave the poor wretch several sharp slaps in the face, which protested. wake him up, ain't I de- the official, I dun- Burke have always no where he gets people o high intelligence, and So the shaking and slapping were re- have taken a step newed until the sleeping one anise in standard of awful wrath, squared off at his county to as high a level tor and gave vent to a string of to They that was awful to hear. l Webster's Blue-Back Seller think, m be the of in screamed. There is no true New Herald has the fact that there is a huge profit made by bicycle manufacturers on the standard hundred dollar bicycle which are sold. The Herald declares that the one hundred dollar crack wheel costs the manufacturer only to make on of the best material fit together in the best and put on the market. The Herald goes into a detailed expose of the actual cost of everything used in the construction of the machines, and claims that the manufacturers have been standing together and carefully guarding the secret in order to make the enormous you stop tell us where, you get replied the official of which it is not the basis Charlotte Observer.