; . FOUR If. C. THE EASTERN REFLECTOR AND D. J. WHICHARD, PAUL It. OUTLAW, Editor Associate Entered in the post office at Greenville, N. C, as class matter, Advertising rates made upon application. A correspondent desired at every post office in Pitt and adjoining counties. in to . . Pitt County, N. C, Friday, October 1903. The Herald, has, we think, over-stepped justice in pub- the following. the past we have adverted in terms to the of a certain superior court judge Greenville is dust and sand-curs- d. The street crossings in some places are half leg deep in fine, powdery sand, and the streets being I so narrow, every passing vehicle certain superior court who. not a century- since, held court nils the eyes, throat and lungs of in Smithfield. We have seen and heard more of the man since then, and can better understand some of his utterances since having arrived at a truer estimate of pedestrians with a quick cough pro- Street sprinkling would help some, but the thing the town needs a liberal layer of oyster his character. No presiding judge, can be polite and courteous to wit-j hells, at the crossings, at least. Greenville needs, among other things, a building-loan association There are many people here who are tramp printer blows into this inclined to save something for a and languidly inquires if there is rainy day if an attractive and table plan for securing a home were a-plenty here, but not for the blear- presented to them, and once such an association is established it will be the weans of drawing hundreds of new citizens. If half the money in- vested in the saloon business and loon buildings in Greenville were put into a building-loan association, we confidently believe it would pay better than any men until business or bank in the town. Building as- benefit benefit only keepers, and that tempo- We hope this word a spoken to wise. If it is, it The following from the Statesville ,,,;, i Landmark is the same doctrine we lawyer or jury v. ho had passed , When ground up and packed hard ave been giving out ever the the night in a drunken j this makes good and The Herald grossly wrongs every In . superior court judge in the state. man qualified. save the guilty one. hat dues our. in wet weather the mud makes it vote allowed to vote, re- contemporary think to gain by such . innuendo Who is the guilty , judge If you know, it is your President Turner, of the Raleigh den duty to speak his name, that pub-; Pamlico railroad, says two con- opinion may strip him of his be abused and betrayed honors. Why road at q matters The only right working t Raleigh and the thing to do is to give that judge's I , working east to Pamlico ever side wins-will be a i i- u ff,., -J , , , , i white people. But name, charge Inn. with the offense L a glad y Swathe exercise U right and prove it. Any other method is we the first of suffrage and. makes an to. sign of the road. of who or what ha- votes for; but public opinion should take note of and severely condemn any attempt to cater to the vote on- to to the right of suffrage. Let us for- ever have amend of this in let white set- their at the polls as best they caw. certain that which- contemptible, cowardly. Sunday wrecks seem to occur most regular as Sundays come, and like the railroads had annul their Sunday traffic or prepare to go out of business. The Southern railway had a most wreck near Danville Sunday afternoon, in which the whole train was demolished, killed and several others seriously injured. Some may argue that these wrecks would have occurred anyway and join heartily with Green In Let Raleigh out victorious in its fight against the saloons the cause of temperance in North Carolina will go forward with impulse. Every man. Peasant ashore is Occasionally a of the dim and distant past in the shape cf a any work. Yes, there is work party with the beery breath day is gone forever, to the credit of the craft. His shadow lingers yet awhile, h is now of few days and dreary, and soon the places that knew him will know him no mete. It duty of every parent, in Greenville to send their children to the graded schools. we regret to say, conditions-are each as to make this a duty of performance. We- hope such instances-will be rare in this com- and that those who are able to-send their children to school see that is improved. It is doubtful if sound business men want to lease the A. N. G. railroad unless they saw some- thing in it for themselves. Why, the state and stockholders get out of it what others see in it There was a spectacle at Salisbury Saturday. Seventh Day were holding a meeting there and white and colored converts together. Women to the heads and faces as w latter came out of the water and the same towels were on That is social equality wit h a vengeance Now the seas en apace when the old with tie benevolent aspect and side whiskers goes to the circus for the sols pose-of taking the children. We are not prepared to attribute it to Providence, but it does that the Southern railway is being punished for its sins. The pity is- that and overworked must be sacrificed. From all accounts that Carolina cadet deserved dismissal,, but it i probable there are scores left as bad as he. Wall street is somewhat posed. It is doubtful if it will re- much sympathy from the it has made sick. Now the president will add a razor to his arsenal he will keep the square with his ton colored friends. Why is foreign countries manes an . cultivate let him be mark- so much, to- a cabinet l there so few j. , , people over there ca of filling the state r r r offices no without salary Id an making the a sue- , , j, a going begging and an of pit . If the Colorado and child in the state ought to wish probably the best city are overstepping their the in its the state, leads I bounds new law is a bad the capital us thing and the-people learn the state in and of it ham We been you that for about on year. Time is is a slow but sure right. of all. been elected president of the Na- Sunday had nothing to do recent- them. That maybe so, but all the Mr. same it reminds us of what an old j ., a South- colored man recently said in reply to more the question if he had ever a about than any other man in tobacco barn. I don't j low cured in my on , Sunday, and I ain't never lost is broad enough to hold all her Don't bite of the ends of your wandered afar, no matter how .-lath city always do party U Harrie Jordan, of Georgia, has undertaking and they should Be heartily seconded by the state. mustache. A man out west did that very thing, and now the doc- tors think he will recover from an operation for made necessary by the patient's fondness for hair. great and grand they may have grown. The October reunion at Greensboro should be a matter of pride to every North Carolinian who lives today. A Cough I made a most thorough trial of Cherry Pectoral and am prepared to say that for all dis- eases of the lungs it never J. Early Finley, O. Cherry Pectoral wont cure rheumatism; we never said it would. It won't cure dyspepsia; we never claimed it. But it will cure coughs and colds of all kinds. We first said this sixty years ago; we've been saying it ever since. Tim lie., Mt. II. seems that the doodlers are turning out their own. It is doubt- if J. Wiley would be jobless to- day if C. were still the guide, philosopher and friend of the When we gaze upon the picture of the state Capitol building as it will appear when remodeled, we re- member that Durham once had a picture of an union depot. The Erie railroad has posted no- to the effect they will in the future only give employment under age of years. years of. many men's lives come of and is to do without a deal of brains, experience and To raise the question of the re- peal of the fifteenth amendment at this time would be as as the South could do. We do we please, anyway, so why fight for the shadow when we the sub- stance An Alabama postmaster is in he offered P. II. G. Payne for a butter office. He had he would have ante aid presented the P. M. G. with hundred dollar horse dog. and continues to constitute the major part of police court business in predict that the human race become- Comfort for the The Durham man who was shot in a whiskey shop reaped exactly what he sowed. A charity bawl is the one neighbor's baby your If King of Abyssinia is the wise old guy he is credited with being, he will pull himself The sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows, in convention at Baltimore, has authorized the construction in the above city of a mill on dollar homo for Odd Fellows. order has been one of the of the world, and it grows continually in good works. Plate glass has advanced in price-. Never touched us. The president of the A. L. not resigned again. to prohibit was the chief theme of discussion; at the National Liquor in Baltimore recently. The y used to be does not . and yet somehow, the a knot hole in to mixing violently opposed it. Now up with an American imperial ad- ministration. foul doctor. If ho mm US . do ho SM, h to It, don't Ska It. Ho Perhaps the president does not care to visit the South so soon after scaring those Mississippi bears badly. We hope the conflict between civil and authority in Col- is not a sign of the times, but we fear it is. rills the TORPID LIVER. the organs the arc equated a ANTI-BILIOUS MEDIC U their as The stole of peace that is reigning in Macedonia reminds us of the peace that has been existing for in the Philippines,, though it may be a little worse. Durham Herald. The peace of the slaughter house. We heard of a farmer the other day who was completely satisfied with the price he received for his tobacco. We hope this kind of satisfaction will become contagious. . Another of been purchased for an American heiress. They are getting cheap now. this one cost only they recognize that prohibition does prohibit, and their problem, to prohibit Recorder. Take No Substitute. mum In a woman's akin is turning white. Here is another problem for John Temple Graven. Stubborn FACTS Back up Our Claims for YUCATAN TONIC Fact is Tonic and not a stimulant. Fact vitalizes and permanent vigor to the entire human system. Fact no a drug, bat a normal, scientific cur for Jill Malarial Complaints and Neuralgia, It the and TRY IT-TEST IT-Oar THE AMERICAN CO. IND. v- Molly Hunt's Temptation now, Molly, I most bid you adieu. Tour father, your mother, yourself, bare merited the thanks u the for me, and you especially deserve my thanks for your kindness while I been in hiding under your you go direct to she asked, putting up a pair of tempt- tips, inviting a farewell kiss. I go to the house of that Tory Andrew to stop one pray, what will you do that asked the girl, blanching. his daughter, is one of be replied. must see her before I return. She and I are warm The girl drew away. Instinct told bar that when a man risked his life to asset a woman it was not friendship that led him to do so. man called a and bad parted. The next night a party of British sol- appeared on the place of Andrew and asked if a stranger bad stopped there for the night. On old that no one there they search- ed the then the outhouses and at last came upon Lieutenant Lionel Otis hidden In the haymow. He was search- ed, and plans of British st Trenton, with Information to the strength of the force defending them, were found concealed In his clothing. He was to the of Farmer Hunt and led Into kitchen, where Molly was cooking supper. When she saw him she turned deadly pals. morrow, Mistress said the young man. meet again very soon. Some one has given me Molly staggered, without a word, out room, turning her back to soldiers that should not see her face. said Otis, she should be affected. But she knows the fate of a It was late when prisoner was taken to the farm, and bis guard con eluded to keep there over night A sergeant in command went to the second floor and selected a room with but one window and one door. Into this room be thrust Lieutenant Otis, placing s man at the door one the window. Then the rest of the guard lay down on the kitchen floor before great stone fireplace and went to sleep. At midnight sentinel below stood leaning against the house, bis hands grasping his musket his hat over his eyes. Presently he sat down on the ground, then fell over on his back. He was asleep. Suddenly he felt bis gun slip from bis hands and, looking up, Molly bending over holding a long knife, its point within an Inch his heart He thought her Insane, wild looking was she. do you he asked. Molly did not answer; but, keeping the point of the knife as near his heart as possible and her eye fixed on him, she draw a little away till suddenly she raised and, pulling up the pointed It at him instead the knife. Then she told in a whisper to go before indicating the direction by pointing. Marching to the house of a patriot whom she well knew could depend on, the two locked up In the barn, and the man stood guard while Molly returned. Going at once to an outhouse, she took eat a ladder, raised It to window and, mounting, gave a faint tap. heart Jumped within as he went softly to the window and cautiously raised the sash. said Molly, and she descend- ed In the barn two horses stood saddled. Molly led the way with one, Otis fol- lowing with the other, through a field to the rear, and, making a circuit, truck the road far from the said Otis, bis voice with emotion, owe you every- thing. If I get clear some day I will return to thank you. If a life of will help to listen to me. Perhaps yon thought that there was more than friendship between me and Margaret There Is not. She Is work- lag with me and was to give me war True, father Is s Tory and must have got wind of my being en the no, do You were Informed on by s wretch, one unworthy to live a minute by your She was riding at a gallop, but she dropped her reins on her horse's neck and covered face with her hands. sweetheart, never mind who gave me away. have rescued me, and my life belongs to you. It will be g willing servitude, for my heart Is also your no. wailed the girl. am unworthy of you. I thought you loved Margaret and were going from me to I betrayed you. I am a selfish, fiendish creature. I put yea In Jeopardy of halter, and the only bops I bare fur peace of mind Is that I have THE N. G turned horse's and went galloping back in direction from which she had come. Otis reined In his horse and sat looking after her. he called. I for- give There was no reply except sound of her horse's hoofs as she drew farther from him. After surrender Bought out Hunt's farm, hoping to find Molly, but he was told she bad pined away and died. Her doctors said that she suffered from some mental strain that sapped her vitality. GEORGE PLUM. Africa. It may n surprise to the lightened to learn probably no ex- in forcing his passage through Africa, has ever for more than a few days at a time been off some beaten track. Every village Is connected with some other village, every tribe with the next tribe, every state with Its neigh- and therefore with all rest The explorer's business Is simply to select from network of tracks, keep a general direction and hold on his way. They are veritable foot- paths, never over a foot In breadth, beaten bard and netted beneath level of forest bed of centuries of native traffic. Like the roads of old Romans, these footpaths run straight on through everything, ridge and mountain and valley, never shying at obstacles, nor anywhere turning aside to breathe. Yet within this general are a singular eccentricity and an indirectness of detail. And the reason Is not far to seek. If a stone Is encountered, no native will ever think of removing It; he simply walks around It. It would never occur to that that stone was a ob- and that for the general weal be might displace It. PERSONALS AND SOCIAL. MONDAY, Jessie Ball, of spent Sunday here. J. Norman up the road thin morning. Miss Eula Cox, Ayden. spent today here. Skinner left Saturday evening for Raleigh. H. M. Norfolk. left Sunday for The Appetite. A whale's appetite la phenomenal. His chief diet consists of Jellyfish. He has simply to open his mouth and pad- along leisurely In order to in Jellyfish by the wagon load. Such Is the method adopted by the whalebone whale. The sperm whale, on the con- captures huge squids weighing often several tons. Like his brother the whalebone whale, he must be con- on lookout for food; other- wise he would starve. As many as fourteen seals been taken from a thirty foot Other fishes of enormous appetites not uncommon. The for example, thrives on sardines and other small fish. that one eats ten small fish a day, It has been figured that it re- quires 10,000,000,000 sardines to feed the on our coasts every summer. Most curious of all eaters is the creature that can be turned Inside out without impairing Its appetite or Its power to American. A fin at Rachel, tbs great actress, made to every say the They forget to men- that an hour afterward she regret- her generosity, and from that mo- she never left off scheming how to get the thing back. Every one knew this. to whom she gave a magnificent sword one day, instead thanking her have a chain put to it mademoiselle, so as to fasten It to the wall of my dressing room. In that way I shall be sure that It will not disappear during my Alexandre Dumas the younger, to whom she made a present of s ring, bowed low and placed it back on finger at once. me to present it to you In my turn, mademoiselle, so as to prevent you asking for She did not say nay, but carried the matter one of her smiles. Englishman In L. A. Cobb, of Grifton, spent here, Mrs. L. B. Randolph has been very ill for several days. J. W. Perkins returned to Sunday evening F. M. Hodges and pent Sunday S. If. Daniel, of spent Sunday at his old home. G. W. Bilker, of Lewiston, came in Sunday evening. T. M. House returned from Rapids Sunday evening. Dr. L. C. Skinner to Ayden Sunday evening. Lafayette Whitehurst, of Kin- spent Sunday here. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Brooke, of Kinston, Spent Sunday here. W. J. Turnage and J. H. Keel went to Farmville Sunday morning. Dr. William Fountain left Sat- evening for Elm City and returned Sunday evening. Miss Bruce Gardner, of Wilson, arrived Saturday evening to visit relatives here. Mrs. T. J. Jarvis returned Sat- evening from Jackson Springs. B. C. Savage went to Lawrence Sunday morning and returned Emmett Savage to Law- Sunday morning and return- ed Sunday evening. Susie Keel, of Whichard, who has been visiting Mrs. J. G. left this morning. Jennie Raynor, of Kinston, came over this morning to spend the day with Miss Inez Wooten. F. C. Harding went to Grifton Sunday returned this morning. Louis and James returned from Washing- ton today. Alice Smith, Bettie and Rosa Hooker left Sun- day morning for a visit to Farm- ville. Mrs. D. J. Whichard and two children returned Monday evening from a visit to Whichard. J. E. Langley, of Richmond, came in Monday evening to visit Dr. D. L. James. Jennie of Kinston, is her sister, Mis. R. W. King. Miss May Harvey, of came over this morning to visit Miss Nina James. G. W. Baker, of Lewiston, who has J. N. Hart, left this m -ruing. Miss Daisy Jones, of Durham, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. B. E. returned home today. Miss Betsey Greene, of La- arrived this to visit her Mis. F. M. Hodges. Prof. T. H. King, of Moore county, who has been elected of graded school at was here today. Inez Wooten, of who has been visiting brother, Arch Wooten, returned home Monday evening. Miss Raynor accompanied her. FOB SALE. A valuable tract of farm ant i and land within Greet v tile. By virtue of a decree of Pitt court made February 1903, in a certain special Mill- therein pending for the If the land there after described to which Rosa Fleming, Fleming, Archie Fleming, Km. Fleming, D. C. Fleming, Fleming, Rancor . Jewel Fleming are parties, I II. on Monday October 5th. 1903. for sale to the highest bidder at the court house door in Greenville ll. valuable tract of farm and land, opposite Parkers cross r a Is, which was allotted to the ti ants in common in the i f the lands of F. Fleming and as lot No. containing J. J. returned from Niagara, N. Y., where he has been Edith little Miss Foley returned Sunday evening from where the latter had been to the hospital. Sacred Teeth. Teeth of all kinds been and are, in fact venerated as the congress, relics In some religious shrines. Bud- tooth is preserved in an Indian F. Griffin and temple, the worship tooth of a monkey, while the elephant's and shark's teeth serve a similar purpose among Malabar and Tonga Island- respectively. The Siamese were formerly the possessors of the tooth of a sacred monkey, which they valued very highly, but In a war with Portuguese they lost the holy grinder and had to pay to get it back again. It Is now kept In a small gold box, In six other boxes, In one of the many temples of Siamese capital. What the Editor Advised. An authoress of some note In her day once asked a famous editor to give his opinion on a book which she Intended to publish. In her letter she the work is not up to the mark, I beg you will tell me so, as I have Irons In the fire, and should you think not likely to succeed I can bring out Having rend over several pages of the manuscript, the editor returned it following brief I would advise you to put this where your irons TUESDAY, SEPT. Prosperity leads often to and ambition to disappointment. Rev. W. E. Powell went to Hob- good today. Q. G. i Fine in it ii returned Mon- day evening from Norfolk. F. D. Foxhall returned Monday evening from a trip up road. L. M. of Norfolk, came in Monday evening. T. R. Hodges, cf Washington, was here today. Skinner returned morning from Raleigh. Miss Sallie of Bethel, who has Mrs. J. G. Mi ye, returned home this morning Mrs. D. E. House returned Monday from a visit to During recent trial New York of Samuel J. Parks, a walk- delegate, on the charge of extortion, of Police Dev- appeared in the court-room. nave no particular business said, is a mine, and I want to give him my moral Then before be left, Mr. told a story of n young doctor. young be said, too much in the evening, alter working hours. One night his best patient, a rich straight-headed old woman, sent for him, be would call on though he was pretty far gone, he know it. he took another drink to brace him, got into bis drove to the old woman's house. He found in He asked her a question or two, ashamed all the time of his thick voice, and then he took bold of her wrist to count her pulse. he found he couldn't count her he was too far gone even for that. Turning a deep purple with mortification shame, he said, and without another word he stag- out of the room and went home. morning a letter was brought to him, he opened it with a groan, for he recognized the handwriting of bis rich old female patient, and be knew that now she was giving him bis dis- missal. But out dropped a check for and he read something like this. know only too well that you discovered on visit- me last night the unfortunate and shameful condition in which described in said division as foil Beginning at a maple on the On . ville and Bethel road, the corner of Susan Brown, and running thence with her line north west 1-2 chains to a ditch; thence north 1-2 west 1-2 chains to the crook of the then north 1-2 o-t chains and links to a st. I e centered by a dogwood, oak and ma- thence south 1-2 east chains to a stake on the road, thence with said road to the fourth cash on of sale, balance with interest January 5th, 1904. Greenville, N. 1903. L. Blow. Commissioner. North Carolina, I Pitt County, fin Superior Court James H. Gray against Annie Gray. The defendant Annie Gray will e notice that an action entitled as has been commenced against in ti Superior Court of Pitt County by plaintiff for the purpose of r a divorce from the bonds of upon the grounds of abandon- and the said defendant will further take notice that she is require i to appear before the Judge of our Court, at a court to beheld fur the County of Pitt at the in Greenville on the ninth Monday after first Monday in it being the 9th day of r and answer the complaint, which will be deposited in the office of the Superior court of said county within the first three days of said term, then and there answer or demur to said complaint within the time ed by law, or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief j in the complaint. This the 26th day of September D. C. MOORE, Clerk of the Court of Pitt Co. North Carolina, I Pitt County. J L. H Williams and T. L. Williams of Township, Pitt County, North Carolina hereby enter and lay claim to acres more or less of cant land in township aforesaid county state described as Lying between the lands of Jordan Nobles and warren Stocks and adjoin- the lands of Jordan Nobles, war- Stocks, H. M. Williams, M. M. Williams, A. R. T. L. and Frank and heirs east of swamp in wist This the day of September L. B. WILLIAMS, T. T. WILLIAMS. Witness, R. Williams, en- try Taker. By H. A. Blow, for Pitt County, N. C. Any person, or persons, claiming ti- to, or interest in the ed land must file their protest, in writ- within the next days or they will be barred. Without the Knife. North Carolina, Pitt County. To All Whom It May This is to that in July, 1902, I had a fistula in anus which had , . , , . . en me trouble for ten years past and I bad placed myself by accident had consulted several physicians but I trust you will you witnessed as a regard what professional had followed their prescriptions to the letter and continued to grow worse until I not walk, and for eight secret, and a small cluck months I could only walk on crutches, and In this condition I was advised to that will, I hope, be to repay you for your call on Dr. Moore, colored, which I did, and under his treatment I at once began to grow better and in one week the trouble was removed and I was well, a 16-year old boy, and the has returned. WILL E. L. Sworn to before me, sept. 26th, 1903. H. HARDING, J. P. 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