JOB PRINTING. The Reflector is pared to do all of this line NEATLY, and IN BEST STYLE. I of new mate- rial and the best of Stationery. The Eastern At War With the United States No ago yesterday ii was there was less probability a i aimed collision between the United and than at any lime Hi in Cuba, but it the Span, arc to believed, was The Kl one of the newspapers of Mad- rid, instance Spain is no lighting tin- insurgents, but that the c is with die United St. exclusively. read what it says problem the war is not in Ha- ; it i ill Washington. It this should our Generals will be our a my and we shall gain nothing;. We must tight or compromise, and as our hands are tied I be United States, it is with the American republic that the compromise have to be made. We accept advices nod recriminations Mr. Cleveland and Mr. as to how we should administer justice. One ten and this intrusion will lead to an international compact. It would be sham, tor Spain. Is there any Spaniard who has the courage to go so far Our policy is that not tor should Spain stand this The journal an from the p n of a military man in Madrid, who after surveying the situation says; enemy is in Washington. If this con- n catastrophe is imminent. We put an end this it w cm if not, let us at once renounce the task as one which is either beyond our strength or unworthy of us. The opinion of the loyal friends of in Cuba is that if we do not make last it we do not profit by of the rainy season, if Gen. is not allowed all liberty of oar now scant hopes will be killed. The rebels receive almost daily fresh supplies of arms and am- munition. It is not possible to send to any forces from rest of the island because the would be exposed to the attack of the filibusters. It was expected that the volunteer- would be willing to as the troops in the but so far they have remained in The must fight or which is it J Spain can take her choice. As the Washington Post says, tho United Suites is at war with Spain, but is holding Spain if she feels like g ling to war with D. J. Editor and Owner TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. per Year, in Advance. -----3- VOL. XV. GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N, C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE NO. Two We have made to fun he Reflector North Carolinian for above amount. if campaign year and should take the leading papers. Notes and The present horse has untreated nine Democrats. There is an old oak tree in the Stale of Georgia that is feet in tree was named after a professor a natural- who died 1710. Cal., there is a cherry- tree only eighteen years which is feet through the trunk. Too much sitting ever the fire and too little outdoor exercise is fatal to the beauty of the lips The sacred of Ceylon is said to have sprung from a slip of the tree under which Buddha was born. Twelve hundred acres of land in the of Youngstown, O., have been leased by Ohio capitalists and will be developed fur coal and gas. A German inventor has a bi- cycle which, by pulling a string, can be from the to the garment, and vice versA. In eighty years the DuKes ford have in one estate from which they draw an acre rent. The land yields of wheat to the acre. The Washington Post thinks that . should lay aside all Mark . . , . , on the and make that first ballot. There will be plenty of time for courtesy after the adjourns. It was reported in St. Louis that the Eastern opponents to the nomination of Major as the Presidential candidate have formulated plans to place in St. Louis, to help currying the convention for an Eastern man. DID YOU Try Electric Bitters as a troubles H not, et a now and relief. This medicine has m e n found to be adapted the lief and cure of all Female Complaints, a wonderful direct influence in strength and an tone to the organs. If Loss of Constipation, Fainting or a Nervous, Sleepless, Melancholy troubled with Bitters is the medicine Weekly Crop Bulletin. Tin- ill the issue I by the North Carolina an e. for the wee; ending Saturday dune 1896, indicate in general fair progress in the growth of crops and in The temperature was below the normal every day. excepting Sunday and Saturday but the was not give ard did little damage, except to re- lard growth of and cause a little yellowing. The was consider- ably above normal, and, though too much rain at many places, yet the thorough breaking of tee where throughout the compensates any other ages. There was less than halt the normal amount f sunshine. r. The past week has been cool and cloudy, with rains, settling in fair and warmer on It is still dry over limited portions of the middle but general, ample rains have fallen over the District this week. In the north, from Halifax eastward ti and especially over Gates county, there was too much rain, corn to turn yellow and drowning some on lowlands, besides making crops very glassy and preventing far. work. In the south daily gentle rams were just suited for growth of crops, which progressed rapidly here and are clean. Corn generally is fine, much of it in sill; and tassel, and being lain by Cotton in south looks well and clean good stand, first forms reported June in north it is not good on ac- count of cool weather. Lice reported on cotton several place. Trans planting tobacco over, crop growing well, but worms have appeared dance. Farmers almost through set- ting sweet potatoes. Shipments Irish potatoes and beans proceeding. Irish potato crop generally poor tine tops but no tubers. Cutting wheat and THE OLD-FASHIONED HEAVEN Ii. It tor me, wife, I hit the do-nines Which we now hear preached sung, exactly we heard In th days when we Worn young. T are now not nigh so to have kind Is the world or better Thai it's its hardness behind We don't bear so much Where be no any night; iv here with golden we'll be sing- throne that is great and bite. we don't hear much the man- the street how we'll be like the angels When we're safe with the these days we hear but little that other old-fashioned place That made fur the fallen angels the lost the human race, its the worm that the wrath God the soul's lot. WHEELS. are cheaper n ever before, but still the e be reached as yet. No longer ago than last year people fore buying a cheap wheel, or on; of a model that had not received the test of several ; and with Those who bought a low-priced w heel for economy often had to trundle it home as the result of a breakdown, or spend nearly the machine's price in keeping it say that their experience with cheap wheels this year has been different. They believe very tact of old having made so great a reduction in the price of their wheels, together with the in- creased facilities for manufacturing, is for proof that there is u chance greater drop in price. A few years ago one invested in a bicycle its he would in n horse or n buggy. He had no intention of selling of ling it at the end of six months A bicycle of any sort was a luxury, and I rider became more attached to it I each year. Wheels were but slightly J modified from year to year, and to ride machine five or six was not all Like fiddles, were said to better with ace. Now, it may be said, a wheel must be built the occasion. is the latest is the proud hoist of cyclists to-day. This desire for new wheels of the latest pattern has done much to benefit Just at This Time Year. I New York is standing aghast over the disappearance of the wealth its millionaires. The who hive suffered from reports that they are worth or are hardly able to scrape up to put on the tax lists. The time ago felt so poor that they retired life in New Jersey to economize on tux. AH the rest cf the circle erroneously reported to be gilded, from been before the tax commissioners swearing that their have been greatly over- rated, and that they tire only worth various sums, alarmingly modest in comparison to the general estimates. There is nothing like blank for THE GLASS VI US. VI. an assessment a man's property values Press-Visitor. The Boy in Business. a little wild ; jest a little ; loved us too well to be wile, there's a sight comfort In that dear Where, within a glorious We'll be safe with our children then, ,. , . ii i l manufacturers in the Now as we know. a MM ;. . ,, , business. Cyclists feel that while a wheel may not have great endurance. it will suffice for a season or two, So, away his home he j they want a new one anyway. we know not where he's stray.; I, been rumored that a consign. j bicycles is likely soon to arrive Only know Chat the rover is ours, from and that As when he around us J ow What. say. when up yonder j M of p,.,,,, We're safe with the six who're here, is t hat bicycles should . I Do think you'll be happy, mother, ii. . held peas now order. Black- . . . , now are. It you find our Jack not there I I c,,,.,,, berries and huckleberries now in mar- Cool and cloudy prevailed, with plenty of ram and deficiency sunshine until Saturday. Over most of the District the ram-fall was gentle and beneficial, but heavy rains washed lands in a few counties Guilford and Grass is increasing among crops and farmers are getting behind with their work, but a week of fair weather will remedy this state affairs. Corn is extra promising, is being laid by slowly. Harvesting wheat is in full blast; with crop short out he well filled ; some fields were tangled by rain and wind, and some damage by hugs still reported. Oats apparently not so bad as expected and spring oats during past two weeks. The greater part the cotton crop continues in good condition, about all and squares in south ; on light, thin lands cool nights caused a little yellowing. Lice re at many places Tobacco nearly all transplanted, except where drought hitherto prevented where setting is progressing, crop growing well. Irish potatoes poor. Sowing peas on stubble land. Fine rains occurred on the and breaking the drought almost every- where, and greatly all crops. Oats were improved by the showers, though much of the crop has been in beyond recovery by the drought. Corn and cotton are doing finely since the rains. It was a fine on to- plants recently set out, and also on potato slips, assisted in bringing up late planted cotton. Peas are being planted in fields now. Grapes are generally reported doing of wheat was the chi.-f work of the week crop short, but grain good. Rain stopped work, but crops not for want of cultivation. Here is a diamond, here a piece of charcoal. Both carbon . yet between them stands the mightiest magicians The food on your your own body ; the same, .-et between the two stands the the arbiter of growth or decline, life or we can- We cannot make a not make flesh, blood and tone. But by means of the Shaker Digestive Cordial we can enable the stomach to digest food which would otherwise fer- and poison the In ell forms of dyspepsia and incipient con, with weakness, loss of flesh, thin blood, nervous prostration the dial is the successful remedy. Taken with food It relieves at once. It and assists nature to nourish- to show its merit cents, is the be.-t for Doctors r. commend it place of Oil. It is a sign to the color of health on a man's cheek, but not to it all heaped together on his nose. know you too well it ; a rich man's wheel All your would go after York lad ; j The harp your hands would be lent, Jenny Lind, Sung For Him. All the glory could not make glad, j V. the veteran be no end your j pUS. On account the one down below j on was You'd be there yourself, moth. of this anecdote of his was about the beginning Than have him there, you began. was know kind of a boy does a business man replied a shrewd practical man of many the other day. I will tell you. In the first place, he wants a boy who doesn't know too much ; business men like to run their own business, and prefer some one who will listen to their way rather than to try to teach them new- kinds secondly, they want a prompt who understands seven o'clock as exactly seven, not ten minutes third, an industrious boy, who is afraid Id put in a extra work in case need fourth, an honest boy honest in his as well as in the matter of dollars and cents and fifth, a good boy who will keep his temper even it his employer loses his own now and then Young man, touch not the ruby wine, There's danger in the bowl ; D. to health and happiness, And danger to the soul. Set down the glass, as yet untouched, Ere you its poison drink ; Pause for a moment, count the cost, pay you wall to think. Lite holds for a promise rare, Th- world is very wide; Honors and friendships waiting To journey at your side, Your feet may climb with steady steps The dizzy heights of fame, you have gained the highest point And carved thereon your name. Look yonder at that broken neck, With tottering steps and slow ; He was a young and honored man A few short years ago. He had wealth a store, Love smiled upon his way ; His life held every But what is he to-day A broken, bloated, ragged wretch, Men pass him by with ; it were for him and his He never been born. ma him what ho is to-day What rubbed you think What stole his honor and his The cursed rt-n drink. Would you. too, the downward way, A be to rum a slave, Till false to truth, to honor lost You fill a drunkards Don't say I'll only drink just once ; That surely is no fatal glass, the first you bike, Unnerves your steady arm. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Report Baking Powder Absolutely pure publicity. Some Fundamental Principles of Advertising. BY ;. OF You at you can stop at will ; It is not my friend ; After the first the second comes. And soon you the end. the first glass that the sot, Then shun it while you can ; Be true to honor yourself, God's noblest man. Not too Funny. then a clerk in a large music-publish- house on Chestnut street. One day a well-dressed quiet little woman en- the store and me to show her some music of a classical nature. It doesn't pay to be too funny. A up quit. a conversation, mm who formerly boarded at a Maine j f I asked her if hotel used always to call for had heard the great Jenny he saw chicken on the bill of; was f tow. tare, table girl and cook there, I laughed and said i yes, upon for him, and whenever j heard her. Have you I told chicken an old hen was pro- that I hadn't had that pleasure and and this particular boarder ways got a generous piece of that. this order of things had continued three months without the boarder the joke, one day he called the waitress to him and told her he was getting sick of old hens, and he'd like to have a taste of chicken. was the reply, can have it, but you ordered old hen and as this house always pleases its guests when it is possible we've been giving you what you Mr. W. E- Curtis is for the statement that the the record and pension office in the war department places the number deaths disease, as well as killed In battle in the union army and navy during the rebellion, at Let us suggest to the in congress who are so anxious to fight Spain or anybody else, that we take, say half this number of men from the United States and the same number from the country with whom we have a difference of opinion, march them out to slaughter house and cut their throats j after submit the points at issue to an committee and arrange a treaty of peace. course we might just as of peace without well u . the prelude the sham.,., would in ever, we further that if must lie killed it would, perhaps, be policy to begin with some state-men, rho are pacing the halls of congress like the villain in a drama muttering I smell the blood Englishman Toledo Bee, that I very little prospect of hear- her the price of admission so high. She laughed again and then she handed me a song she had picked out and asked me to play the for hat while she tried it. She sung so beautifully that I played like one in a dream. When she had fin she thanked me and with a rare smile she said cannot say now that you have never heard She thanked me again and left Record. The habits of fruit are peculiar; we S have seen, raisin box. a fig drum, and you need. Health j stand all day at the corner of street. cents at Jno. L. A pastor In the north-west received notice from an attendant at his church don't preach but N to which the pastor replied your cup Is full, the door What One Mo Bid. Dr. William Moon, the famous blind philanthropist, who has just at Brighton, England, lost his sight when he was He at st about learning the systems of reading for the blind then in vogue but find- them all imperfect, he invented a new system, which is now widely used in institutions tor the blind. The alphabet in his system consists of nine characters, placed in positions. They are cc of the simplest figures. Qr. Moon's success in direction determined to devote his to the welfare the blind. Languages were his special study, so that he might give all nations the advantage his During his fifty-five years of blindness he adapted his emboss;, k languages and dialects, and his books have circulated all over world. The of issued in his type up to th- close of 1892, was He also wrote for the and embossed geographical and astronomical maps, as as pi- He established numerous free lending libraries home teaching so- for the Household. No News. An exchange has a story of a man who wont into a fish market in Richmond to buy dinner for his mas- i After looking about a few minutes, he slopped before a pile of shad. his suspicions were aroused- He took up one of the fish and held it under his nose. . . , . . Dun t tread the rapid hat do you m an smelling I . that asked the smell de fish an- the to I And what did he say ax him for de news at de of de ribber, he say he done clean forgot, for he ain't seen no water for weeks. all he way, A OF Lazy day days, tine to take in the clover, Or with tho Merry days berry -lays, time to slip away the river's music Under moss.-s cool gray. days. ain't you fine When you're tangled the blossoms Of a honeysuckle vine Lazy days hazy days. wouldn't life be. sweet With a green bank fer pillow at feet The Bill-due Banner. We expect to go to the seashore as soon as there is room enough for us in the Banns We are no longer in the race for con- Our wife locked up our wooden leg and we can't run. are willing to accommodate a a liberal quantity of summer relatives who bring their grub and house with them. During the hard times last summer we swallowed a and we are now threatened with a rule, our candidates don't have to do much speech-making. Money in this neighborhood. We take silver on subscription, and anything else that you can lay it on. The are not dead, but sleeping, and it may be remarked that j child. till a drunkard's grave ; Look up to if you are weak, Who has the power to save, Don't drink the first, that glass, will dim your beaming eye, For honor's sake. For love's dear sake For God's sake pass it by. HOW IT PAYS. He was seated a Park seemed to be a letter or paper which he held in his hand. V seem to be much interested your I said, as I took a seat on the same bench. he said, have been out my account with Old Alcohol, to see how we he comes out I vent- the guess. y time, and he has lied did you come to deal. with him in first what I have been writing. You see he promised to make a man of me, but he wade me a beast. Then he said he would brace up, but he m. de me go staggering around and then threw me into the ditch. said I must drink to social. Then he made with my best friends, and to be the laughing-stock my enemies; he give me a black eye and a broken nose. I drank for the good of my health. He ruined the tittle I had and left me as a would warm me up ; and I was soon nearly to death- he would steady my nerves ; hut instead ho gave mo delirium said he would give me great strength ; and he made be promised me be made me a coward, for I beat my sick wife and kicked my little Grasshoppers are reported to have dose considerable damage H is Walk right Onslow to potatoes, to, Carolina Baptist. and gardens. they are great hands Constitution. The North Carolina delegation to Sf. Louis, has not obtained headquarters or hotel though Nation- Henry J. has been written to on the subject a number of times, and; has, never an-, so the St. Louis papers say. All of the other delegations have made these Copyright, by O. Fowler, Jr. He, who doesn't advertise, because he knows nothing about it, says that advertising doesn't pay. Some advertising doesn't pay. Some lines of business don't pay. It is as absurd for the merchant not to advertise because some advertising doesn't pay, as it would be for him to refuse to do business because halt the business men fall. Ninety-nine per cent, of all business men, who began to advertise when their business began, continued to advertise, and are now advertising. One man out a hundred docs successfully without advertising. The rule of average is safer to follow than law of exception. The experience and success of the teach a h-lesson in profit-making. Business men don't do business for fun. They do it profit. Because nearly all of them advertise, aid sue i- both direct and circumstantial evidence that advertising is absolutely necessary to the conduct of successful business. I don't own . publication ; I have no interest in any ; am not an agent ; I have no advertising to sell ; it makes no difference to me whether the of Greenville advertise, or not. I have no to grind. I'm telling you what I know to be the truth, and what every successful man will tell you. Success business depends upon live points of trade. The first point trade, something to sell. The second point trade, something to sell it The third point of trade, management and capital. The fourth point of trade, salesmen and employees. The fifth DOOM of trade, advertising. Without something to sell you can't sell anything. Without a place to sell it in, you can't sell it. Without business qualifications, and sufficient capital, you can't do business. Without employees you can't do much business. Without advertising you can't tell people that are business. The of all the points trade is in the strength of each particular one. Drop out one, and you may as well drop them all out. They are the five links in the chain of business, and as advertising is one of these links, the strength of the chain depends upon advertising. The value best Store, the salesmen, and the best goods, is limited to the number of people who enter the store, or send to the store, and the inventive genius of the has never produced anything take the place of advertising, and until it furnish a substitute, the man who do-s business must advertise, or find that he has no business to lie in WAKE FOREST One week of vacation law and already we hear much of for the return of the students. Mr. J. II. Gore, of Wilmington, a member of the graduating class of has bought the lot just north of the campus, formerly belonging to J. W. Bailey and will at saw erect several buildings, fitted up with all modern conveniences, such as water works, electric lights, bath rooms for use of dents. The water works are to be improved and rendered more efficient Work will begin at once on the this will supply a long fell need. The Summer Law School begins on inst. The growth of this School has been more than its most ardent advocates and the coming session will be the most success- in its history. Almost every mail brings letters from young men who wish to study Law mid expert to enter this summer. All will receive a warm come. has accepted the Pro. the School of the Bible ti which be was elected Is Cussing- Ever Necessary. the Boy Land. he would brighten my wits; bin instead he made me act like a fool, and talk like an idiot. promised to make a gentleman of me; but he made a yon I ventured to he answered sadly. drink now to forget all the other mean things he has made me do. Spy you it out of employ- ten cents to buy see he has also made you. a I remarked., Yes, I that. must put it down. Every that lives on a farm, and every girl, too, for that matter, have the use of a piece of ground. It need be only a small, out-of-the way tit first, a place for the child to dig and make plans, increasing grad- to the acre of corn or potatoes or turnips, or whatever it may he, as the child grows older. There are few farms that could not easily spare it, and children to whom it would not be a benefit. Books and and games are good, but they are for the mind, and the leisure hours; and while they may the children at home, they can scarcely foster a taste for farming with-, out something to supplement them. child early learns the meaning of and a few square rods of his oar will be more to him than the Th are not a few men, otherwise very good, who believe with uncle To- by that swearing is sometimes not only excusable but necessary, and that while the Recording Angel cannot officially excuse the lapse, he will drop a tear lo blot it the record. Not a great while ago the Superior court a certain county in North Car- a Quaker had given certain and the lawyer whose client was injured by the testimony was trying to break down the character in order to destroy the effect of his evidence. Here were the asked by the lawyer and answered by he you belong to the church of the it against the laws that church to you not a very profane man Don't yon swear on all occasions sir; I haven't cussed none now for seven years, except one tune last full on the tenth of the eleventh month. Peter X-------up here at High Point said I had put a white man between two to dinner at my threshing, and give him the damn Then turning lo the jury the said, damn lie twice, gentlemen of the to Judge, with an earn- est and honest air, the old it does like a swearing at times is absolutely News and Observer. A Piece of Flag;. The Trinity College Historical have had presented to them a re- markable and highly prized relic, and one that is indeed valuable. It is a piece of the flag that Columbus raised at Sun Salvador, when he landed on the newly discovered continent of America and took of it in the name of Spain. This flag has been long preserved by the Spanish govern- and was sent to the World's Fair along with some other relies from the La convent. The flag was much decayed, and in unpacking it at Chicago, a piece of it fell off. A piece of that piece was secured by Capt. of the S. Army, who through the influence of Rev. A. J. of Williamston, N. C, it to the Society. It is so very much decayed that it to be kept glass. It is an interesting old relic, and be viewed by every one. It is in the museum, and may be seen by vii at the commencement week. Durham Sun. The Afternoon Nap. A nap of in after- noon enables many aged people to get through the rest the day in comfort whereas they feel tired and weak when deprived of this refreshment. If they rest well at night there can be no ob- to the afternoon nap; but it broad acres of his Many a be of, the bu- has grown to manhood on the should be discontinued for a time farm, and left it at the earliest possible Most old people find that a reclining moment after he became of age because with feet l he had been made a mere laborer without a laborer's wage The Household. better than the horizontal position for the afternoon nap. Digestion proceeds with more ease than when tho body in recumbent. en's Drug Store.