the carolina watchman salisbury n c thursday april 25 1889 vol xx.-third series r j c mccubbins try - - - n c i . :, iildin<r ecoiu floor next lo o,,,,o,ite i a atwell'a m .: street ly .; v(.,l !•• h ci.km1 n ! cra1ge & clement a.t t^tx-w > \ 1 1 111 ky x . (.'. peb.3n1 i ssi inoforte tuning foe salisbury pupil il it m;ir ■ i ersita iwi'i ol l*;;ris : h.i - come from 4i !,, sn lisbury stud i . ite iin«l rep lii i'iti uo ii j i \ , . ■. i _ '. ii . ■ leii nuiiii iu ... h ind oii ■ : i ■ ■ i ■ ■ ■. . l i.iv .... ■• rin - will tuned occasii ■ in ■ tar please h ; iiirtii i !.' r bv ioi i . i : office - lnini:.nn sins ii is the falsest ■ piani forte to remain im th in.-ti umetit aud r.ir if an j dralor s»yh h has the xv x douklm shix-a without name and price ktniupea on uic bottoni put him down n a fraud w7l douglas 1 3 shoe oc^r-mcr ! itrgt in tho noil i examine his 8.-..oo oknmnk hamiskukdmioe 4.(h ham>-<k\vi;i vvkl.t shok s.i.r.ft police m farmeus shoe q-i.v kxtka value calf shok k ' ..• .. vvokkinuman's shoe hi.'ht an i 181.73 boys school shoes i all made in congress liutinii auj i ace w l douglas s3 shoe lad r es i:eit matpri»l best styl best fitting \' u : ■ id h your dealer write tv 1 .. imhglas ijkockton mass for sale by m s brown salisbury for sale by jno ii knniss druggist d a atwell's hardware store where u lull line of goods in his line may nlwftvs be found m i wr l royal bak nq j powder absolutely pure this powder never varies a marvelol parity strength and wholesomeness more economical i than the ordinary kinds and cannoi be sold iu unpetluon whlithemnuhudfoflow test short weight alum r phosphate powders sold only in cans royal bakinii l'owiitk io 10c wall st n y ', foi sale by bingham & co young & bos tian and n p murphy ym yi tc jcs jcs jc9 almost everybody wants a spring tonic 1 here i a simple testimonial which shows how i 1 b is regarded it will knock your mala | ri;i out and restore your appetite : splendid for a spring tonic arlington ga june 30 1888 i i suffered with malarial blood poison more or i le all the time and the only medicine that done me any good is b b 1 it is undoubted ly the best blood medicine made and for this malarial country should be used by every one in the spring of the year and i food iu sum mer fall and winter as a tonic and blood purifier gives better satisfaction cadiz ky july 6 1h87 please send me one box blood balm catarrh snuff by return mail as one of my customers is taking 15 1 b for catarrh and wants a box of the snuff b b b gives better satisfaction j than any 1 ever sold 1 have sold lo dozen in | the past 10 weeks and i gives good satisfac j ion if i don remit 11 right for snuff write me j fours w 11 brandos it removed the pimples h iuxd mountain tenn march 2 is.st a lady friend ol mine has for several years been troubled with bumps and pimples on her face and neck for which she used various cos metics in order to remove them and beautify and improve her complexion but these local applications were only temporary and left her skin in o worse condition i recommend an internal preparation — known l botanic blood balm — which 1 have been using and selling about two years the n-ed three bottles and nearly all pimples have : disappeared her kin is soft and smooth and j her general health much improved she ex j proses herself much gratified and can recom mend it to all who are thus affected mas s m wilson a book of wonders free ll who desire full inrorm.uion about the cause an i cure of mood poisons scrofula and scrofulous spellings ulcers sores rheumatism kidney complaints catarrh eic can secure by mull free a copy of our 32 page illustrate j k>>ok of wonders tilled vitti me mist wonderful and startling proof ever b foreknown address . to:iy bt.oou tulm co atlanta ga t i m ul at * tiio torpid liver mrenjjlli eiinthedtsrewlive nrsaim reg iilalen tlio bowels and arc uuc-quoleu us an anti-bilious medicine in mnlnrlal rtlxtrirt their virtue nre w l«lel v rcrofirtilwjd »»» tliey pwimm t-c nli:«r'|»ro|»«.ttl in i reoiiir iho s.vm«in from nut gxti-oii lllex mil ly nujjar coaled bosc miuall i'rlrv act sold everywhere office 44 murray st new york p h thompson ft co siasl facturer8 sash doors blinds itor'k scroll sawing wood turning bp.aczsts cl and castings of all kinds dealers in steam engines and boilers steam and water pipe stetini fitting shafting pulley hangers also — machinery of all kirnl9 repaired on si1ort notice mar 15 88 •/ subscribe for the carolina watchman home company seekinq home patronage a strong company prompt reliable liberal ! total assets ------ ™-~- 750.000 the quilting-bee < nf winter l>y the merritnhc some two-ccorc years ago vou could not see the fence-rails tor the drift ed heaps of snow the flocks of chickadees would conn and in the door-yard stand too hanger-tamed to tear the touch of even a boyish hand i s:it beside the kitchen tire the chorea at last were done the fartney'a wife unwilling owned my ta.-»k a rest had won i when down the road all silver-sweet the sleigh-bells jingle came and though the frosty air i heard trice called iu hast '. ray name imperious a girli>h voice oh john be quick for see you're wanted over at the spragues they're got a quiltin'-bee a quilting-bce i held my breath and pray what fjood are vou 1 heeded not the dame's sharp tongue she al ways was a shrew but coat and ntinffier hurried on i iu to the sleigh and like the wind we flew along behind the squirm's bay a little hand stole into mine a low laugh rip pled fleet and mixed its music with the chimes so rol lick n<r and sweet perhaps — perhaps — i kissed her cheek the merry blue-eyed maid perhaps we whispered loving words but pace we never staid till at the spragues our rein we drew and saucy kate to me said airily • 1 ve brought you john to sally's quiltin bee the house was gay with candlelight the lamps were all aglow the ruddy flame came streaming forth across t e shining snow the girl were fitting by the frame their need les out and in went flashing to and fro through guch a mer ry din you scarce could hear yourself for fun un when the work was o'er then bwift we piled away the chairs and clear ed the kitchen floor and uncle archie drew his bow across the fiddle strings and men and maids we danced that night as if our feet were wings my word the very thought of that sets this old heart athrill i'd dance again as then 1 danced and with a right good will if kate could call me once again as we#t a sweet could be come john make haste you're wanted john at sally's quiltin'-bee liut kate my kate for many a vear no mortal ears have heard the tones which rang with melody surpassing any bird the angels wanted her ton soon ihev alwavs want the best they lake the one whose absence leaves an ache in every breast her grave is in the open ground beneath the open sky right in the fair home meadow where her father's people lie and i have been a lonely man and cumbered oft with care and bowed beneath the burden that my dar ling used to share i little thought how soon the gold to ashen gray would be turned darkly v hen i went with kate to sal ly's quilting bee what's that young man you've come to say that you and daughter sue would like to join your hands for life that she has promised you in case her father will consent he will the dear old dad she cries and ti the same tweet way her darling mother had and she though not a touch to kate has dancing eyes sf blue and checks that hide the dimples where the blush comes peeping through take her young man be good to her i have had my day i'll not begrudge the happiness that seems to point your way hut much i doubt if you will kno-.v the bliss that fell to me when kate said yes 1 that night we went tp sally's quilting-bee — ilaryaret e sangster in tnce a weik minority role in a republic the boast of the republic is that the majority rules but it does not abvavs more people voted for gro ver cleveland last november than for benjamin harrison yet ou the 4th of march mr harrison became presi dent and mr cleveland retired to pri vate life that is an nnomally which may hap pen at any time under our electoral system it has given rise to much dis cussion ami no little agitation for re form the democratic party must make it an issue in the near future they have i majority in the united states yet they did not elect their president in 1s88 and may fail to elect one in 1892 and thereafter though polling a majority of the pop ular vote the anomaly will be made more striking in the next election by reason of the admission of the xew states some interesting results of the working of the present system are shown elsewhere in the herald this morning in nevada for instance one electoral vote represents about twenty thousand population in penn sylvania it represents a hundred and forty-two thousand in other words the vote of one man in nevada is equiv alent to the vote of i«even men in penn sylvania similar disproportions run through out the country the nsult is as shown elsewhere that a group of states with twenty-one million people may elect a president over another group with twenty-seven million is this popular government gov ernment of the people by the people that is a serious question for the dem ocrats who are tho chief suffers under the existing system the problem presented is not how to abolish the electoral college but how to so modify it as to g've effect to the idea of government bv m lioritief — x y herald how the peanut cures insomnia washington post we have always entertained a tender { regard for the peanut its comfort ! itl)le homliness its sweet awkward j simplicity its unobtrusive modestv have wou for it a way to our heart and awakened there that delicate sentiment of affection which lingers as a holv fragrance about the soul of the lover ennobling him beckoning him to deeds of greatness we are of course on terms of familiarity with the peanut — so intimate indeed that we have not for years addressed it by its proper name tuberum bunimn bulbocasta num but have applied to ifc,*f..r vari ety's sake such familiar and endear ing names as goober gr»undpea earth nut and the like this public protestation of our af fection for the peanut is made in order j that the reader may he convinced we i are not actuated in what we are going ! to relate by any disposition either to i injure the tender sensibilities of the | peanut or to rob it of its well-merited | popularity but truth which is mighty land will prevail impels us to this re i cital of the events of a night we that is to say the particular we 1 who j sits in solid phalanx and writes the postscripts column we have been ad dicted to sleeplessness why once when we were in the midst of an epi demic of courting we remember we lost so much sleep that our parents noticed it but that is neither hero nor there what we wish to have understood now is that we do not always go to sleep when we make ready to do so it was therefore with a feeling of deep gratitude to the rev theod«re b lyraan episcopal bishop of north carolina that we read his interesting letter recently published in the raleigh news-observer recommending peanuts nnd milk taken just before going to bed as a sure cure for sleeplessness we have not the honor and pleasure of a personal acquaintance with bishop lynian but from certain tests we have recently made we have learned to re gard him as a man of overwhelming not to say dangerous veracity the peanuts and milk did cure our sleep lessness we had devoured only the hrst quart of peanuts and imbibed only one pitchei of milk when we found ourself not in bed when we had left onrself but standing in the midst of a crowd on the under side of the moon with our head walking around on ai - other man's shoulders this va ; very attractive but not precisely the situa tion we should have nominated ourself to fill if we had been consulted then we had a variety of experiences for instance we walked off the edge of the world and went dropping through space till we broke into pieces as a mud ball dropped from precip d does and each piece became r separate dream and each dream a mas»-iueetiug of hor rors this sort of thing went on from worse than anything to worse than that until morning when we uwoke we found ourself all tangled up in something about the color of vir ginia clay on uncoiling it and fol lowing it up to its source we found it to be our breath as soon as we could reach the shears and cut it off we said something about peanuts and milk something that our sense of propriety if nothing else would keep us from saying in the presence of bishop ly nian and now since we have prcv ed to ourself that the worthy bishop reallv found a cure for insomnia we are devoting ourself tirelessly to insomnia as a possible preventive of peanuts and milk we are afraid to go to sleep — lest some more peanuts and milk catch us unawares wanamaker'g sunday school prof if u mecu-llan in christian observer i reached the bethany s.ibbath school twenty minutes before the ap pointed time for opening and found the large building so full that stand ing room only could be asssigned to visitors indeed the first impression one receives is that the building is in tended for the workers — for the pupils and teachers who fill almost the en tire structure small space is allotted ; to visitors who are welcome if they find room but who are not allowed to interfere with the work of the school at one end of the room is a large platform capable of seating nearly five hundred people on which is the desk of the superintendent and immediate ly behind the cabinet organ choir nnd orchestra the latter consisting of twenty instruments string and cor nets behind this is seated a bible class of nearly four hundred adults in front of the stage the main audi torium contains classes of boys to the number of over a thousand a wing on the right contains an infant class of boys numbering several bud mred a similar wing on the left holds infant class of girls of equal numbers while in the rear of the aud itorium six alcoves stretch back and nccommodate large classes of older pupils two large galleries extmid around the entire room and the^e also are filled with pupils probably three thousand people men women and children are gathered within this building every sabbath afternoon and among them a very large proportion of young men and young women pigskin is now ast for gloves andj childien's shyef { the age of paper the world has seen its iron age its stone age its golden age and its bra eu age this is the age of paper we are making so mauy things of paper that it will soon be true that without paper there is nothing made that is made w e live in paper houses wear paper clothing and sit on paper cush j ions in paper cars rolling on paper wheels we do a paper business over paper counters buying paper goods paving for them with paper money or charging them up iu paper books and deal in paper stocks on paper margins we run races in paper boats for paper prizes we go to paper theaters where paper actors play to paper audiences we elect paper men with paper votes on a paper issue to represent a paper constituency in a paper congress and make paper laws as the age develops i the coming man will become mure deeply enmeshed in the paper net he will awake in tne morning and creep from under the paper clothing on his paper b?d and put on his paper dress ing-gown and paper slippers he will walk over paper carpets down paper stairs and seating himself in a paper chair read the paper news in the morning paper \ paper bell will call him to his breakfast cooked in a paper oven served on paper dishes laid on a paper cloth on a paper table he will wipe hi , lips with a paper nap kin and having put on his paper shoes p.iper hat and paper coat and taken his paper cane he will walk on u paper pavement or ride on a paper carriage to his paper office he will organize paper euterpriy.es and make paper profits he will go to europe on paper steamships and navigate the air in pa per balloons he will smoke paper to bacco in a paper pipe lighted with a paper match he will write with a paper pencil whittle paper sticks with a paper knife go fishing with a paper fishing-rod a paper line and a paper hoop and put his catch in u paper basket he will go shooting with a paper gun loaded with paper cartrid ges and will defend his country in paper forts with p.iper cannon and paper bombs having lived his paper life and achieved a paper fame and paper wealth he will retire to paper leisure and die in paper peace there will bf a paper funeral at whioh the mourners dressed in paper crape will wipe their eyes with paper handker chiefs and a paper preacher will preach a paper sermon in a paper pulpit from a paper text he will lie in a pnper coffiu wrapped in a paper shroud his name will be engraved on a paper plate and a paper hearse adorned with paper plumes will carry him to a pa per-lined grave over which will be raised a paper monument the papers will record his paper virtues while pa per angels with paper wings will clothe him in a paper robe and waft his paper spirit from this paper world to the paper gates of a paper paradise where all is piper and fire-proof at that paper world piety and fioodb incompatible there is no one who holds good men in higher reverence than we do we honor the true men of god who live holy who glorify their heavenly fa ther and illustrate true religion and piety by attending to the divine in junction to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction aud to keep himself unspotted from the icorld o when the star jeers or laughs at such men as wanamaker who are held up as patterns of piety it is because they profane the very name of religion by their conduct as politicians when men professing god-likeness — godli ness — become political profligates it is high time that all newspapers that reverend religion should denounce the profaners of the pure religion of the immaculate one pharisaism drew from the master the most pointed and caustic and withering denunciations it is simply impossible that a corrupt politician a big meodler should be a sincere and genuine christian he bus stolen the livery of heaven to serve the devil in the xew york world savs of wanamaker he obtains money for corrupt uses which a notoriously bad man could not secure in thus making a cloak of his professed piety a plutocratic pharisee not only brings reproach upon religion but becomes an enemy of the repub lic as such the world will continue to expose and denounce all of his class of whatever party or creed that i right there is noexouse for such profanation and the guilty uien richly deserve to be scourged by an outraged country the bastinado of public scorn should await the men who niiike merchandise of their religion and use it as a cloak for corrupt and demoralizing practice lf,wanama ker harrison shepherd a njd others of the northern republican leaders would have people to confide in their sancti ty thev must abattd&'u flagitious politi cal niethols and live unspotted from the political world the buying of votes the eonnoodling with bad rascally politicians and the accepting of office obtained by open bribery and bv the aid of the mo>t notorious tools ot corruption will make a man's re ligious profession fairly stink in the public nostrils and will ni.ike the men who are guilty only a luughing-sttick to be pointed at aud gazed t wil mington t'tiir i a lesson in natural history-the dude statesvilk landmark i the dude is u small onimn found in various parts of america england and franc thev geuerall make their haunts in large citie and towns but sometimes are seen hopping around in small villages they are quite harmless but a great nuisance peo ple no doubt would exterminate them as fast as they appear but for the ex istence of a game law owing to the light die eaten bv them which consists of ice cream lemouade and chewing gum thev hardly ever grow very large or live to be old they sometimes grow to a height of six feet and weigh from 90 to 140 pounds darwin's theory that man was evolved from the lower ani mals and that all mankind will finally become monkeys or possums again beforetre end of time seems to be i partly verified for the dude is or has : at some ti ne in the past been a branch of the vine of the human family if the evolution continues downward an other step or two darwin's doctrine though laughed at now will in the misty future become a fact to be cher ished by coming generations in both prose and poetry though the dude exhibit a higher degree of intelligence than most of the lower animals yet hardly more than the horse or ele | phant though bearing a closer re semblance to human beings than the monkey his language is almost as difficult to interpret the monkey chatters away rapidly not regarding the rules i f grammar the dude in a lazy drawling manner equally ungrammatical here is about his style well old fellah thawt news is werrv distwessing ah dwead fully so yon have my sympathy old fellah those horwid tailahs cawn't cut our clothes so as not to have winkles in them it makes a fellah feel like he was wuined if his twousers don't fit corwecth bah love it does naw hang he if i'd weah them down scweet with a winkle a horwid winkle in them it would wuiii my weputatii.il my deah bo fhe female dudes have large humps | on their back which disfigure them frightfully but otherwise they are usually very beautiful creatures as their habits are indolent they seldom live to be old they often paint their faces and put on a peculiar white pow der which renders them very qnoer looking especially if the weather is warm these pretty little creatures are quite timid aud have been known to faint at the siu'ht of a mouse but if greatly vexed they will sometimes at tack a man in such a vehement man ner that lie will be compelled to seek safety in flight yours faithfully h:s warnek — — ■ ■ ■ flexible stone there lay this morning on the desk of mr samuel hodgkm acting chief clerk of the war department a stone wrapped in brown paper it weighed about a pound and was perhaps \'-'> inches iu length i in width and one third of the stone was tine and piesent ed no evidence of stratification and was smooth over the entire surface a knife blade made no impression on the particles there was no doubt as to its being a genuine stone but it nevertheless possesed the flexiblity ol a piece of india rubber when taken in the hand and shaken in the direct ion of its flat surfaces it would bend back and forth with a dull muffled sound the movement was more of a laxity in the adhesion apparently than an elasticity when held horizontally bv one end the other would drop and remain in that position w ith the two endd supported on rests the free centre could be pressed half an inch below the middle line with one end held firmly on the drskthe other could be bent upward over an inch the movement was not confined to the one direction in the plane of the flat sur faces—bat the entire stone seemed to be constructed on the principle of an unusual joint with a movement in all directions under pressure it came from a mountain iu north carolina and bears the name of flex ible sand stone the entire moun tain is composed of this material and pieces cut at random exhibit the same flexible properties wushin'jton star i » » up in her grammar a vei v prettv young lady friend of ours met u near the raleigh & gaston railroad freight office sunday and stated that her education was now en tirelv completed that she had quitu ated with the highest honors at one of the leading female cemeteries in our state and that she would parse boy and girl for us at once to 3how us tli:it she was up in her grammar here it is bov is a conceited noun a dude hateful gender thirsty person second in number matrimonial m<>ile with a miserable voice an 1 i a hard case girl is a particular noun loving gen der bewitching er.:oii pleasant tease number one kis<in;_r mode muiscal voice objective case object oi hearts we think the reader will agree with us that the above parsing t ike ttv calt . and we have ordered oue from durham to be sent her at outv by fast male — haui'jh visitor njrth carolim zirons deposits prom the popular science news ire clip the following interesting arti-'le i'ii zircon written by mr t c harris of this city probably the only place in america where zircon is regularly mined is in north carolina this minerul is in the shape of quadratic prism and | pyramids light brown t mack in col j or and averaging about one fourth ff an inch in diameter the mine re ferred to is on green river in header son county and during the past sura ; nier as many as 200 men were en | ployed in the mines the crystals are found scattered | through sand and gravel beds many i feet in depth and are obtained in a i manner precisely like placer-mining for gold the earth is thrown into long troughs or rockers and vibrated j from side to side while a sluice oi wa j ter passes through the apparatus the zircon being quite heavy falls to the bottom and is retained by the rides 1 or cleats across the bottom after cleaning and drying the crystals are subjected to the action of strong mag neite to take out particles of mag iietic which may be among them and seperated into several grades according to size and quality the operatives are paid a definite price per pound for each grade an t in many instances they tin 1 it very remunerative the bulk of this min eral is consumed by the makers of the incandescent gaslight burner which promise to become a dangerous rival to the electric light for this purpose the zircon is reduced to its base aircou ia which is one of the most refractory of all known substances a tubular cotton wick is saturated with the r.ir conia and suspended by means plati num wire in i glass chimney over u a gass burner if the bunseu type u hen first ignited all the combusti ble fabric is at once consumed leaving i very delicate zirconiau counterpart of the original wick this incombustible mantle or hood of zirconia is kept glowing at a steady white he.it by the g.i and gives out a beautiful white light perfectly steady and much resembling the elec tric light the hood or wick is of course extremely fragile and easily broken but otherwise i remarkably durable a coumtaut use fur over two thousand hours i said to leave the mantle in a good condition an ut first how wounded men behave if ft soldier is wounded his behavior depends on the manner in which he u wounded and whether he is of a quiet or excitable temper flesh wounds re ceived in action are in many cases not felt ut all until the blood comes and the man geta exhausted when the bone is struck is ivlt and accompan ied by acute pain i have seen poor fellows struck in the breast by tuini ball remain in actkn for minute then sinking on theia knees or fallu.g on their faces not all such severe wounds are mortal sergeant true of the twelfth missouri received a bail which went right through both tem ple and he lived for yearn afterward a soldier who waa shot through the left lung lived for a whole year gen shields was shot through his breast m mexico ond reached m advanced age the worst hits are of course those by canister and round hot and are tuost iv mortal they take off arms or legs r the head of a man as was the case with the captain of a southern bat # terv in the battle of pea kidge splinters of shells are le-s dangerous but when thrown into groups and col amns may disable many men a sin gle shell from a paixhan gun sent from fort duncan maryland heights in uiv presence to bolivar height against a group of southern horsemen killing general lewis and wounded or killed nineteen of his companions i have heard wounded soluirrs groan ing under great pain but i noer heard them crying out or using profane lun guage w hen halting t n horseback on the right of the twenty-fourth massachusetts in the battle of ew market the regiment was under tire at close range for about forty minutes losing 2<xj men in killed anu wounded but not a loud < rv wa-s heard from those who were wounded chu\igo ledger » i - honesty it p;iv to be honest ol say grunted yet how many are dishonest through ignorance expediency or intentional ly one caii be dishonest and yet say nothing a clerk who lets a customer buy a damaged piece of goods a witiiem who holds back the truth which would cleur a prisoner a medical practitioner who takes iih patient's moury when be knows he is doing him uu good ull an culpably dishonest a valuable uemedy a letter from s !'. warded ifctfton hs i ih i c'lakkfc extkactu t'l>x ■ kipi ion i cat a..ku ccaij m juu lust iv»j il.ij kcvcr wttn yriiit s:iii->lii lion uiu i.iu it the only ihiny i nan a*xa \\ uii n would iitlaj mituwut u ri t.»t in t l»c in t!...iiln.i lull nl tlic nostrils illiil llildat li xmtliiii ui'i ix-.ilii ii • ji-rlit vcfc mki'.lll iin>l lulii liiaii ." i-ji_v ix'lllc fl.u ciitwt'a p.tt.v ouup i lue inltil dull utt : frv il iil aslilwittivu al juu ll £ ui»o liu oiort no 27