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Coffee Beans N inIfactured to Order.

"Give me your opinion of these,
young man." said the east side grocer,
as he spread before the reporter hand
full of coffee beans. "They aren't very
regular in size, are they? Now COM
pare them with these, and tell me
which you think are the better"
The grocer placed a second handful
alongside of the others. The two lots
were of the same dark brown color,
and at little distance away presented
no very marked difference. Closer in
spection showed that while the coffee
beans first shown were not all of the
same size. the second handful were of
extraordinary regularity, the beans
being very plump and large.
Il know what you are going to tell
me, and at first glance any one would
say so. Your opinion is that the last
lot IS the best isn't it? Well, the diff
ference between the two patches is
that those which Ishowed you first are
fair lot of coffee beans, while the
others aren't coffee at all, and never
grew on coffee BUSH"
"What kind of bush did they
grow on?"
"No bush at all. They are manu-
featured article. You need not look
as if you didn't believe it, for it's
fact on which you may safely risk your
last dime. They are nothing more or
less than limitations, made out of
dough, and Drowned up to resemble
the true coffee. They are made in
molds and oaked afterward. Each one
is almost perfect in shape, and all are
alike. You won't find genuine coffee
beans to have such regularity"
"They look all right, but it strikes
me that no one would mistake the bev-
erage made from them for coffee"
j" You are wrong again, young man,
No respectable grocer would be foolish
enough to give any customer who buys
a pound of cofee a pound of the imi-
tation. No, indeed. They mix it in
the proportion of four or five of coffee
TO one 0f the imitation. Nobody ey-
amines each bean. You hear persons
complaining of bad coffee all the time.
: I'm sure cant tell how it is, says the
housekeeper; / buy the coffee in the
bean and grind it myself. am sure
it is not adulterated.
"You see, the grocer can mix
chicory with ground coffee, but when
coffee is bought in the bean something's
got to be done. Some brilliant mind
got over the difficulty by making coffee
beans to order. .'-Ne,o York Sun.
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WiSs Traits,

The laborer and peasant of Switzer-
land have in many respects rather
hard time of it. Since the influx of
foreign tourists has assumed such
large proportions during the past
twenty years, the cost of living has
greatly increased, while the wages of
the laborers remain stationary, and
the few acres of ground of the
peasants refuse to yield larger
harvest. Rents in cities and towns,
the cost of wine, meats flour and
bread, which during the past twenty
five years have all risen at least fifty
per cent, present no attractive side
for men who have to work for fifty or
sixty cents a day. They generally live
in crowded and poorly ventilated
houses, perhaps warm enough, but al
most bare of furniture and comfort.
If they can have meat once or twice a
week, they consider themselves happy.
They are badly off, for the reason that
they have to work hard. live poorly,
and are seldom able to save anything.
But notwithstanding all this, they are
happy in their way; they love their
country, with its institutions read, are
intelligent; and know that intelligence
and industry, and not bayonets, pre-
serve the peace in Switzerland. Asto
the peasants, or small farmers, they
seldom live on farms, but in clusters
OF houses, villages and towns. The
reason thereof is that their land is
seldom in one piece, but is cut up in
small pieces of from one-quarter of an
acre to a whole acre, and scattered for
miles in different directions. The
peasants are early risers, industrious,
simple and economical in their habits.
As in Germany and France, SO in
Switzerland, the women work in the
fields beside the men. In fact, the
women are generally quicker and
more industrious than the men, and
the economical principlei in the former
is more developed than in the latter,
for these like to frequent the beer and
wine sal )ons, and spend some of their
daily earnings,or of theproceeds of their
fields. They generally possess
Yankees desire for money, but lack
his shrewdness as to the ways of max
ing and saving it. 7 r cares are
few and, like their income, rather
light. They NOW their hay, herd their
few cows and goats, prune their vines,
and leave the outcome of their work
to time and Providence. Their taxes
are comparatively light, and yet the
majority of these little farmers are
never out of debt. Politically they are
conservative democrats, loving home
rule and disliking centralizatio n.-
United States Consul Cramer.
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Too Late.

The law of heredity, by which living
beings tend to repeat themselves in
their descendants, is generally accepted
by scientists and physicians. Some
assert that not only the physical but
the spiritual traits of parents are re-
produced in their children. In the
matter of health and disease there is
no doubt that parents transmit their
physical qualities, strength and weak
neSses.
One OF the best-known physicians
in Boston was called, not long since,
to attend the bedside of rich man
who hal been suddenly taken ill. The
doctor felt the patients pulse and saw
that the ease was hopeless. Turning
to one of the family, who stood anx-
iously waiting to hear his opinion, he
said:
"You should have sent for aphysician
long ago.
"But we sent at once; as soon as he
was taken ill.,"
"Ah yes" replied the physician,
sadly, "but you should have sent 100
years ago.
The physician recognized the fact
that his patient, who died that day,
was in reality the victim Of his an
cestors' careless or criminal violation
of the laws of health, years before he
himself was born.
The banner-enterprise., 1883-05-10
RALEIGH, n c., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1888.

home pa was going to sass me, until
the hearse driver told him it was the
minister that was to blame. | want
to find out if they got the minister's
umbrella back. The last | see of it the
umbrella was running up his trousers
leg, and the point come out by the
small of his back. But | am all right,
and shall 60 TO work tomorrow, cause
the livery man says / was the only one
in the crowd that had any sense. l
understand the minister is going to
take vacation on account of his liver
and nervous prOstration. | would if
| was him. | never saw man that
had nervous prostration any more than
he did when we iished him out of the
barbed wire fence, after we struck the
street car. But that settles the minister
business with me. don't drive with
no more preachers. What l want is a
quiet party that wants to 60 on a
walk" and the boy got UP and hoped
on one foot toward his crutches,
filing his pistol pocket with figs as he
hobbled along.
"The next time | drive minister
to a funeral, he will walk" and the
boy hobblei out and hung out sign
in front of the grocery, "Smoked dog
fish at halibut prices, good enough for
company"
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in the matter, and learn if there were
any other arrangement possible more
congenial to her own mind.
"She came to the interview looking
most fair and fragile in her black
dress, and listened attentively to my
proposition. Then the tears which lay
very near to her eyes in those sad days
pushed their way from under the
terse-drawn eyelids, and rolled heavily
over the white young cheeks, and she
said, in trembling, pitiful way:
"'Then cannot live with you, Mr..
Penrhyn?'
"I had rather pronounce the death
sentence in thousand cases than to
be obliged again to meet the emer-
gency that stared out of those innocent
eyes at me; but something had to be
done then and there, and l had rather
have tried modern strangulation in
my own person than to have explained
to this pure child the reasons why she
might not live in my house as my sis
ter, when there seemed no other home
no heart in all the world that held
for her kindly feeling save mine.
$50, and as 1 told you in the begin
ming, it seemed to be the only thing to
do at the time, l asked her, as gently
and delicately as l could, to marry me.
ut came very sudden to her, and
especially so to me but she con-
sented, not that she was greatly in
love with me any more than | with
her. but because her quiet, straight
forward life had taught her none of
the hollow sentimentality of pride
that would have led her to question
my sincerity, or the prospect of form.
ing a connection that held no romance
but only the continued society and
friendship of one whom her aunt had
held in respect and trusted.
Immediately, and beside Miss
Patience's new-made bed, blanketed
with a drift of sweet syringa bells, we
were married, l feeling at last content
that the sainted dead would rest now
quietly from her laborS, II her spirit
might look down upon us two made
one"
"And-I beg your pardon-but did
it turn out well?' askel the listening
friend, his cigar burned down within
Of the blonde mustache,
and smothered recklessly with long
white ash.
"Turn out WE'LL Why, Gabriel and
| have grown to love each other to
degree that makes the slightest separ-
alton unhappiness to both There are
two babies, and-Lord love you, man,
guess it did turn out well p and the
Tom tumbled the long. white
ash into the gayly-painted saucer at
his elbow, and murmured, somewhat
cynically:
after all, it was an experiment !"
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Some Funny Names.

"Take Notice il the name of {
new mining town in Nevada.
Sara Bernhardt committed suicide
near Dublin, Georgia.
Mr.. Drinkwater happens to be the
name of a Massachusetts ale brewer.
Zachariah Taylor has been sent tC
Jail at Syracuse, New York, for theft
Lains Bible and his wife Sarah
Testament live in Crittenden county,
Kentucky.
The village of Tight Squeeze"
Georgia, is to be known hereafter as
North Atlanta.
At a recent election at Sheridan,
Michigan. Benjamin Franklin beat
John Quincy Adams for justice of the
peace.
Boone county, Missouri, has a citi.
zen namel Old, whose nearest neighbor
is named Young. At Rockyfork Mr..
Grave lives few doors above Mr..
Gay.
George Washington was a witness
before Baltimore court; he was also
discharged from the BOtetourt (Va. !
Jail, after having served a term Of
twenty years.
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FASHION NOTES.
Big buckles are all the rage.

Leather fans are in high favor.
Mourning fans are edged with Grape.
Nests with tiny birds figure among
the novelties for hats.
Persian and gold lace intermingled
produce novel garniture.
Leather buckles and shell comts ap-
pear in the new ornaments.
Lace is the choicest selected garni-
ture for grenadine costumes.
Pongees are selling rapidly for sea
side and watering place wear.
Chine effects appear in many of the
new wool and silk dress goods.
Jagged, ragged-edged flounces and
ribbons are coming into vogue.
Colored mantles are not in COOL
taste for any but carriage wear.
Buttercups and blackberries are the
latest Partisan combination for bou-
quets.
The sleeve is nov made a promi-
nent feature of the dress, by such
modistes us Worth. ....
Paniers are going out entirely.
Drapery, if arranged high at all, is
draped across the front of the dress.
The bang is going out cf fashion in
England. The hair is now parted down
the middle. A falling curl or two may
be permitted, but the frizzled circle
covering the entire for head has al
most entirely disappeared in gool So
ciety.
A round straw fan has the handle
covered with pale blue ribbon and is
finished with bows. On the body of
the fan toward the side a long spray
of natural flowers should be fastened,
the edge being bordered with a quilt
ing of soft lace.
Beads Of all kinds and sequins are
almost as profusely used as ever; pearl
or mother-of-pearl sequins, hanging in
lattice-work of silk cords, or pendant
from strands of chenille fringes, are
among the most effective ornaments
on white OF pale-hued evening dresses.
Transparent muslins areshown with
Strawberries, raspberrits, laurel, ar
butuS blossoms, carnations and moss
buds, in groups. scattered on col0red
ground. Usually this background is
of pale tint, very delicate tea rose
or primrose yellow being a favorite
color.
Wide founces of antique lace, and
laces of every description. which have
been out of style for years-Chantilly,
Honiton, Guipure, Flemish point, and
the like-are this season revived, and
are used to drape courtly dinner and
reception dresses for the stately danes
and dowagers.
A very fashionable material for
dressy home toilets is cream white
serged flannel, trimmed with long
loops and ends of white MORE or satin
ribbon. For young married women,
this fabric IS made into tea-gowns and
Grccian robes, with trimmings of lace
and white silk embroidery or braid
ing.
A new way of applying floral trim
mings on bonnets is to sew single
blooms on in a double row outside the
brim, so as to make a flat bordering.
On dresses large fan of flowers is
laid on one side, and new and very
Iretty are the floral necklets worn for
evenings, perfect necklace of flow
ers encirclng the throat and match
ing the small shoulder bouquets,
Irish lace is popular because of its
tirmness and durability, and is
specially useful In trimming childrens
dresses and spring wraps.
The banner-enterprise., 1883-05-10
Inia1S in Massachusetts,.

A correspondent of the Boston Post
writing about the remnants of Indian
tribes surviving in Massachusetts,
says 1t is believed by those who
have an opportunity to know, that no
lndim of pure aboriginal llood is
now resident in tho 90 nmonwcaith,
they having from time to time inter
married with the whites and those of
African descent. Counting all those
who have Indian blood in their veins
in the State, in the yestiges of tribes
remaining, there are to-day not far
from 1000 persons, embra ed in 225
families, aud it must he borne in mind
that the numbers contained in .he4e
tribes have been decreasing fer over
200 years. 1t is a very significant fact
that no tribe now existing is increas-
ing numerically in the common.
wealth.
The banner-enterprise., 1883-05-10
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

The appropriate color for infants
this season will be yeller,--SprjlGteld
(O) Neacs.
When the man in the dock fumbles
in his pocket for the zone do1ar and
costs, is it u case of fine feeling P
Boston BuJletm, . ...
Hens may be little backward on
eggs, but they never fal to come to
the scratch when llowyr beds are con-
7erncd. Pica5at3'.
"What was your observation, Mr..
Brown?' "Oh, nothing, madame. L
simply said the butter ranked WELL"
--BoSton Transcript
The American hog is forbidden to
enter Germany That shuts out the
man who tries to occupy four seats in
II railway car.--Ha,ckeye.
"Say. Mrs. Bunson," said little girl
to lady visitor, "do yoa belong to a
brass band?' "No, my dear Il
thought you did" "Why did you, my
child" "Because, mamma said you
was Always blowing your own horn,
and thought you must belong to the
band. '-Diunner.
Some manufacturer of fishing tackle
has invented bait with luminous
arrangement, of phosphorus, or some
thing of that kind, to light the fish
toward the hook. When it gets so
fellow has to hold a lantern 50 fish
can see to bite, half the fun of fishing
will be gone.-PecE.
youth went out TO serenade
The lady whom he loved best,
And passed beneath the mansions shade
Where erst her chamber used to rest.
He warblel till the morning light
Came dancing Der the hilltops' rim,
But no fair maiden blest his sight,
And all seemed dark and drear to him.
With heart aglow and eyes ahlaze,
He drew much nearer than before,
When to his horroc aud amaze,
He saw "To Let upon the door.
--IoWh'S Companion.
"Pa, | wish you would buy me
li.tle pony" said Johnny. Il haven't
got any money to buy pony, my son.
You should 90 to school regularly, my
son, study hard and become u smart
man, ana some of these days, when
you grow up, you will have money
enough of your own to buy ponies
with Then | suppose, pa you
didn't study much when you we're a
little boy like me-, or else you would
have money now to buy ponies with,
wouldn't you, pa?"-SVtings.
A "fashion" item says: "The lozengo
shape is the most fashionable for pills,
which should be cGatel with silver, and
look very inviting" This appears to
be new departure in fashion intelli-
gence, and next it will he in order to
describe whether the new shape in
porous plasterS is Gctagon or ohlong,
and if they are trimmed with gimp
braid or guipure lace, and we may he
told that the most fashionable tints in
castor oil are terra-cotta and fawn
color, and that liyer-pads are cut in the
form of heart, with scalloped edges
and lined with ciel-blue satin.-NorriS-
torn HeIdld.
The banner-enterprise., 1883-05-10
Many Words in Little Space.

A man in Humboldt county has put
16i words into the spare occupied by
a nickel. He has also put 1,l50 words
on the face of a postal card, which
contains l5s square inches. lie has
written the Lords Prayer on a space
covered by one side of an old-fash-
ioned three-cent piece, and says he
can put thirty thousand letters upon
one side of postal card with a steel
pen without the aid of glass.-Iotoa
State Register.
The banner-enterprise., 1883-05-10
How IL Was Made.

An old lady in the country had a
dandy from the city to dine with her
on a certain occasion. For dessert
there happened to be an enormous
apple pie.
LA, ma'am r said he. chow do you
manage to handle such pie?"
Easy enough" was the reply; "we
make the crust up in wheelbarrow,
wheel it under the apple tree, and then
shake the fruit down into il.
The banner-enterprise., 1883-05-10
Costly TAPESTRIES.

The municipal authorities of Paris
own tapestries reckoned to he worth
$j07, 1923. Unfortunately many of
them are in a deplorable condition.
Some have lost their borders, which is
greatly to be regretted, for the sigma
ture of the artists to whom they are
due, the date Of their manufacture,
the place where male, were commonly
in the borders. Others have been so
often used as hangings that they are
rent in many places. The municipal
authorities intend to have them photo.
graphed (cost $1,522) and mendcd
(cost $l0,376) by Leger, the famous
tapestry mender. When mended they
will be hung in u room of the new
Hotel de Vile, all except five, which
came from st. Gervais church, These
five We're made in the Louvre; the
designs were by Lcsuenr Philippe de
Champagne and Sebastian Bourbon;
the tapestry was male hv the most
celebrated makers Of the early part of
the seventeenth century; they are the
only tapestries in the world Of which
no second copy was male. They are
to be hung in Musee tarnavalet. the
municipal mu'e em, which has estab-
lished in the mansion owned and long
tananted by Nine. de Sevigne.
The banner-enterprise., 1883-05-10
An Epitaph.

The following is an epitaph on ;
tombstone in Chautauqua, county,
n. ":
Neuralgia worked on Mrs. Smith,
Till meath the sod ii laid her
She was a worthy Methodist,
Aud served as a crusader.
Friends came delighted at The cali,
In plenty of good carriages;
Death is the common lot of all,
And comes more oft than marriages."
The banner-enterprise., 1883-05-10
LOVE, DRINK AND DEBT

Son of mine the world before you
Spreads a thous md secret snares
Round th4 feet of every mortal
Who through life's long highway fares
Three especial, let me warn you,
Are by eyey traveller met
Three to try your heart of virtue
They are love, ana drink and debt,
Love, my boy, there's no escaping
IT'S the common fate of men;
Father had it; | have had it;
But for love you had not been.
Take your chances, but be cautious;
Know a SQUAD is not dove;
Be the upr. ght man of honor;
All deceit doth murder love.
As for drink, avoid it wholly;
Like an adder it will sting I;
Crush the earliest temptation;
Handle not the dangerous thing.
See the wrecks of men around US
Once as fair and pure as you
Mark the warning Shun the pathway
And the hell they re tottering through.
Yet though love be pure and gentle
And from drink you may be free,
With yearning heart | warn you
'Gainst the worst of all the three.
Many demon in his journey
Bunyan's Christian pilgrim met;
They were lambs, g en- old Apollyon,
To the awful demon debt.
With quaking heart and face abashed
The wretched debtor goes;
He starts at shadows lest they be
The shades of men he owes.
Down silent streets he slyly steals,
The face of mln to shun,
He shivers at the postnan's ring,
And fears the awful dun.
Beware of debt Once in yol'll be
A slave foreyecmore
If credit tempt you, thunder mol"
And show it to the door,
Cold water and crust of bread
May be the best you'll get
Accept them like man, and swear
"IIl never run in debt ~
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Bismarck is not good orator. He
coughs and stammers, and stops for
the right word his sentences are
involved, and often foot long but
when he writes his native tongue, it Is
idiomatic and graceful.
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WHAT SEED SHALL WE sow9
| wonderful thing is a seed,

wonderful thing is q seed,
The one thing deathless foreverl
The one thing changeless-utterly true,
Forever old and forever new,
And tickle and faithless never.
Plant blessings, blessings will bloom;
Plant hate, and hate will grow;
You can SOW to-day, tomorrow will bring
The blossom that proves what sort of thing
Is the seed, the seed that you SOW.
The banner-enterprise., 1883-05-10

Alabama females have II majority
Of l7,2i7 in the State.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-19
AnuseInents.

The Famous Calendar Festival min
strels commence their engagement of
three nights and matinee at the Grand
Opera house to night. They have made
great Improvements in the company since
they were here last season. The famous
Hyers sisters, Emma and Anna, have been
added and Chas. Hami, grotesque per
former. The favorite tenor, Wallace
King, and ell the old favorites remain.
VIM. WEIGH has managed a new pro-
gramme With appropriate scenery and the
engagement will be successful one. The
grand parade of the Calender Zouave
band and drum corps takes place at noon
to-day