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are hurled from beneath the glowing
surface and go hurtling out into space.
scattering white-hot showers of frag-
ments, and cooling and condensing as
they go, never to come back again,
flung forth by the tormented sun to
wander until they fall perchance upon
the earth or upon some other planet, or
join the system revolving around dis
tant star. What a gigantic Calling
gun Of the universe. belching fire and
smoke and fearful missiles, must the
comet face now!
At the perihelion swing the tremend-
Gus globe of the sun seems to fill the
whole expanse of the sky, boundless.
raging, tossing and spouting sea of I'M
quenchable fire, universal conflagra-
ton wherein iron and all the metals,
calcium and all the elements of the
solid rocks, flaming. lick the heavens.
There are no words invented that can
describe the heat, the glare, and the
roar of it.
This terrific passage around the sun
is the elimination of the comets career,
the fiery Cape Horn of its voyage.
Flung of by the storm giant, it speeds
away again, back through the realm OF
the planets, and out into the black
depths from which it emerged.
Even though furnished with the wings
of imagination, the rider must look
alive and leap quickly as his racer
passes the earth, unless he would be
carried back again into the outer dark
ness.-Gdrrett p. Serciss, in N. Y. Sun.
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He Got an Opinion.

While Officer Pierce, of the City Hall,
was rubbing his back against the wall
in the lower corridor yesterday, a
strange young man kept moving
around and watching him SO attentive
ly that the officer finally asked if he
wanted anything.
Eyes; I'd like to talk to you," was
the reply.
"All right-what is it?''
"Will you give me square up and
down honest answer to question:"
why, Of course / will"
The young man shifted about I'M
easily, turned shade and half paler,
and hesitated full minute before he
said:
'.If you were walking along the street
and boy called out for you to get Of
that tunnel, what would say he meant
to insinuatep''
"Why, he meant to insinuate that
you were bow-legged."
s'And am 1? Look me over and give
me an honest opinion"
stranger" said the officer as he
stood off and squinted at him, '.you are
bow-legged man, and don't you for
get it.''
''In both legsp"
.'Yes, and you've got it bad! / think
it's the worse case ever saw"
Nov, as / face away from you and
step off, do l look as if was riding on
tunnel?"
Exactly! If you had seat on top OF
a big boiler the crook in your legs
would hardly be worse"
'.How is my gait as Iapproach you?'
ssWell, l should think you were
walking on each side of a sawlog. am
sorry to tell you these things, but you
asked me for an honest opinion"
Certainly Ibid, and am glad you
have given it. l am twenty-four years
old. For the last fourteen years Ihave
had suspicion that was bow legged,
but never had manhood enough to
settle the question. Every time I've
been in the city for year past the
boys yelled at me to get off that tunnel,
and I finally decided to settle the mat
ter. I'm much obleeged."
20. no thanks. Hope you don't feel
bad over it,
Feel bad! Why, sir, it's a grea,
burden OF my mindl For dozen years
I've been walking sideways and corner
ways to make myself believe that my
legs were as straight as bean-poles. I've
wondered why had to cover so much
land to jump six feet. I've seen the
gals winking at each other and didn't
know what was up. I've seen strangers
halt when l was working alongside the
road and gaze at me till / dubbed EN-
off. I've wondered why always landed
sideways in q puddle when tried to
Jump over it,
"And now?'
"And now I'm perfectly satisfied.
I'm young man on a tunnel, and peo-
pie can like it or lump it! The tunnels
going home-goodbye!'-Detroit Free
Press.
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NEVER TALK BACK.

Never talk backi such lnings Is reprehensible:
A feller only corks hisse'f that jaws man
that's hot;
In quarrel, eff you'll only keep your mouth
shet and be sensible,
The man that does the talkin' ii git worsted
every shot
Never talk back to fellers that's abusin'
you
Jest let him carry on. and rip and cuss and
swear;
And when he finds his lyln' and his cussin's
Jest amusin' you,
You've got him clean kafiummixed, and you
want to hold him there!
Never talk back, and wake up the whole CON-
munity,
And call man liar howsomever that's
bis fx;-
You can lift and land him furder and with
gracefuller impunity
With one good jolt of silence than half q
dozen kicks!
-. W. Riley. IN Indianapolis Journal
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Living Pompeli.

Our Naples correspondent writes:
"A project is ON foot for three days
artistic festival at Pompeii, under the
direction of Professor Petra, director of
the museum, some other distinguished
psychologists, and some of the first
artists OF Naples. The proceedings will
be arranged as follows: On the first
day Circensian games viii be executed
in circus erected on the outskirts of
Pompeii, on ground not yet excavated,
with two-wheeled chariots and all the
ancient customs. Before the games
there will be procession. and mock
Emperor will proceed to his seat in the
Imperial stand. Various factions, with
their respective colors, will take part
in the races. Afterward the city will
be visited, where several shops will be
restored to their ancient semblance, in
which victuals and wine will be sold in
antique vessels. On the second day
there will be mock wedding procession
from the house of Cornelius Rufo to the
street of Mercury, and . funeral pro-
cession will proceed from the house of
the Faun to the Herculaneum gate,
where the mourDers viii perform funer-
al rites. During the intermediate time
between these professions extravations
will take place at various points of Pom
peii; and on the third day gladiatorial
games will be executed in the ampi-
tbeater in presence of NE mock EN-
peror. The departure of the Emperor
by torch-light win conclude the festiv-
tiles, the different scenes of which will
be careful copies Of antique customs.
Pieces of music will be specially COM
posed for the occasion. and performed
On instruments If antique devices. The
period at which this festival will take
place Is not yet decisively fixed, IS the
will of course take some
lime. VI London Daily Nesos.
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The Interstate conference of the col.
ored people at Pittsburgh is full Of
political significance We don't know
that the leaders of the Republican party
will be wise enough to read the mean.
ing of this Pittsburgh Convention, and
we are sure if they do they will be pow
erless to avert the dangers which It in
dicates IS threatening the grand old
party. It is unreasonable to suspect
that the negroes viii 60 on voting
blindly, as directed by the Republican
party. for all time to come, through
mere sentimental fancy that gratitude
requires they should make themselves
political vassals. Emancipation gave
the negro political freedom, and it has
only been . matter of time for him to
assert his political Independence. This
Pittsburgh conference shows that the
time for the second emancipation is fast
approaching, perhaps, has already
come. There have been expressions,
not alone Of discomfort and dissatisfac-
ton, but of turbulent indignation also,
and these manifestations by the leaders
may be taken for q fair reflection of the
feeling Of the colored masses. The
adoption of . resolution declaring
against an Endorsement of the
Republican party was practically
an act Of war, and it viii
be found impossible for the Repub-
lican party to frame the basis of
q compromise. The colored people are
tired Of being mere voting cattle, and
the only thing to satisfy them is fair
share of the Offices; but this is tho one
thing they can not be given, since the
great body of white Republican voters
Invariably and always bolt . negro
nomination. Every Republican leader
knows that, aud is aware that the thing
the colored leaders are asking would
ruin the Republican party If given. 1t
is already apparent that the weak en-
deavor to stem the torrent of this re-
volt by electing few negroes as alter
nate delegates to the Republican Ma
tional Convention has intensified in
stead of allaying the discomfort Little
things like these counted for much in
the first years of freedom, but the
negro is no longer satisfied with the
hollow honors that carry no substance
of reward with them. He has been
told he Is just as good as . white man.
but he has found the Republican party
little disposed to act upon that political
principle. There Is nothing strange,
therefore, Il the negro hes At last con-
eludsd that be viii be more Of free
man and get : great deal more personal
benefit from his right Of suffrage by
putting his ballot where it will do the
most good for himself. whether that
hurts or helps the Republican party
st. Louis keputlican.
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When William Pitt Kellogg was
placed at the bar to answer q criminal
Allotment we told the people to pre-
pare for another farce.
Thursday Kellogg walked out Of court
q free man. The Indictment was de-
clared defective. A false date had been
inserted, but the prosecution was barred
by the Statue of Limitations.
The Administration has known Of
Kellogg's guilt for three years. Itknew
the charge involved Tom Brady. tide
layed the prosecution purposely until
the Statue Of Limitations had expired.
1t further fortified the accused by flaws
i'm the indictment.
The Republican Administration did
not dare to punish Kellogg. He is a
representative Republican leader. He
had been fraudulently made Governor
of louisiana fraudulently elected to
the United States Senate; fraudulently
kept there by Republican votes. He
had been q partner in the fraud that
seated Hayes. He holds the secrets Of
Rcpublicanism in his keeping.
Send Kellogg to jailp As soon con-
denim TO the penitentiary the whole Re-
publican party.
The Government had the witness who
paid Kellogg S20.OOO for himself and
Brady to have his Star-route contract
raised 50 that he could rob the people
OF $4,000 or $50. 900. 1t had the
banker who had cashed the drafts. 1t
had the proos OF payment Its only
way to protect Kellogg was to delay
the ti Indictment until the Statute Of
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"A Leafenworth (Kan.) colored
breaches recently baptized thirty people
= fifteen minutes.
English inspectors have reported
the most practicable way Of teaching
history Is to begin with the present
time and 90 backward. The Century.
Since 1868, London, which was
formerly considered grave for Method
ism, and 1t that date had only sixteen
chapels, has increased to sixty-four
sanctuaries aud ninety-seven smaller
places of worship.
The largest Protestant cathedral in
the world is that at Ulm, Germany.
When completed it win be surmounted
by the highest spire in existence. The
building Is the finest piece OF Gothic
architecture in Germany.
The collections for the sLuthor
fund.- of the Lutheran Churchin Russia
amount to e130,000, the interest of
which Is to be used for the education of
ministers and parochial teachers and
the establishment Of new pastorates.
The Benevolent Fraternity of (Bos-
ton Unitariau) churches has voted to
accept the chapel and other property
bequeathed to it by the late Rev.
Henry Morgan. One of the stipulations
Of the will is that the chapel pulpit
shall be filed by Methodist preacher.
-Boston Transcript.
The New York Mission and Tract
Society has compiled statistics showing
that lower New York is very poorly
o,,cx>1;oJ ~rvs<L D~cfao<~uk <,burohoc
The Catholic churches are plentiful
enough, but there is only ono Protestant
church to 5000 inhabitants. The State
of New Hampshire has one church to
every 500 inhabitants Y. Tribune.
Therein is one of the faults Of the
public schools "a lack of education of
the heart. Steering clear of the Scylla
of seotarianism. they have not found
middle course, but become wrecked on
the Charybdis OF heart ignorance. Chill
dren are not sufficiently trained to
know the utility of the hearts noblest
sentiments. Respect for authority, for
parents, for elders may be quoted.
veneration also suffers. Rabbi Mendcs,
of New York.
I'm the English Contemporary Re-
Utew, Dr. Plumptre, dean OF the Es-
tablished Church, advocates the recog-
milton of encouragement of women as
preachers. Curiously enough, the
weekly organ of English Methodists
does not back up the dean, but con-
cludes: There Is ample room for the
ministry of women even in these days
Of extended feminine rights and de-
veloped feminine powers, without their
mounting the pulpit"
The first-elected professor in the
Chicago Theological Seminary was
Rev. Franklin w. Fisk. He alone of
the original faculty remains. An ex-
tremely pleasant throng of friends
filed his home on . recent Tuesday
evening. to celebrate the twenty fifth
anniversary of his connection with the
Seminary. An incident Of the evening
was the presentation of . valuable
watch. gift from the alumni. by the
hand of Rev. w. L. Bray.-Jours'Gl OF
Education.
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The outrageous navigation laws
which have killed our commerce under
pretense of protecting ship-builders
Stand in the way of rehabilitation Of our
merchant marine. which is . more ur-
gent necessity than the rehabilitation Of
the navy, and their revision Is impera-
lively demanded by the ship-owners
and merchants Of the country. What
we need are commerce promoters, not
commerce destroyers, and it Is plain
that we must look to the Democratic
party for them. The action of the two
tiers is significant in this respect. The
Senate spends its time helping the Robe
son ring put up naval jobs. while the
House passes bills to build up tie mey.
chant mesiae. Boston 0let(, =
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The Next Step.

After all. this very defeat of the Nor
rison bill, which the protectionists are
SO madly exulting over, may and, we
believe. will prove the worst thing for
them that could have happened. 1t
does not settle the question for q yea,
nor for a day, nor even for an hour. 1t
unsettles it more than ever. Nor does
1t remove the question from the realm
of politics. On the contrary. it plants
1t there to stay till it shall nave been
definitely and satisfactorily disposed Of.
Nothing in the way Of tariff reform is
to be expected from the present Con-
gress. The House has abdicatei its
right BY rejecting the Morrison bill, and
the Senate has Initiated the evil ex-
ample by defeating the free-ship feature
of the Shipping bill. But this IL clearly
not the end of the matter. It must and
will be taken to higher court; it viii
be appealed to the people before whom
all great questions must come first or
last; and when it comes before them it
will receive thorough and exhaustive
treatment. Instead of being emascu-
lated as a political issue between the
parties by the defeat in the House it
will lie found that that defeat has i'm
parted to it more vigorous virility,
and more intense signiicance; and
that so far from cutting no figure in
the approaching Presidential canvass, it
will be the only issue, and will cut the
only figure in that CANVASS.
First and foremost, it must 90 from
Washington to Chicago; and next from
Chicago to the country. The Republic
an Convention will declare for protec-
ton, or refuse to declare against it.
The Democratic Convention will do the
very opposite; it will demand, in clear,
unequivocal and unmistakable- words, q
reduction of duties in the direction of
free trade. There is not q shadow of
doubt about this. The National DEM
Ocratic Convention, will be very DIFF
ferent body from the House Of Repre-
sentatiyes. The latter contains one
hundred and ninety-six Democrats and
one hundred and eighteen Republicans;
the former will be composed entirely of
Democrats. 1t is true, there will be
some protectionist Democrats in il, but
they will stand alone; they will not be
reinforced and supported. on the final
test, by one hundred and eighteen Re-
publicans, as they were in the House
vote. They win do what they can, Of
course, to defeat an authoritative Ma
tional Democratic declaration in favor
of tariff reduction; but they will fail.
The Convention will recognize its
bounden, unavoidable duty as low
tariff party-a duty which it can not
shirk without dishonor, which would
invite disaster, by boldly and clearly
removing the principle Of the Morrison
bill. This will make up the issue, and
on the two parties win go before the
people. We have no fears about the
result-St. Louis Republican.
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IT, T.-~-.. H. ,-x -l,,-
an az 9aPon'so "'o ai"os' "no'iy
rh. -. ~, 80.
a. no ms4 WI W. curse LUCK nasn :
hsd ~..nsca ~ 80 W.n'. IT, ~. ms o"a
A o'"e"s Ivy 3m"e
- popular poem IN the west Is en-
utleo Inc ooy VINO Kissed MS motner.
lu great rarity = what makes 1t 20
poPuiar.--M. Z. 0ropnsc.
81 caught . cold somewhere yester-
day, she remarked. Probably it was
In your head" he said, and he woke
three times that night to laugh over IL
and congratulate himself on his success
a. a punster.
A Texas man has invented a m..
chine for washinc dishes III doesn;t
demand Eve niobts 4 week ont : r ,. snr'
reptitiouslv borrow ;fs n,;sty.ss, bat
bonnet for an Afternoon crorac.Se
the probabilities are that t viii be in
demand. -Norristown Herald.
A little o;r, sat On tho aoo- .~,,;,.
After awhile she stoned and sa.red
buried in thouobt ipoE;nc m and
denly she ss;d. ..M.mws ~
CRYING abo,,t p, s.Recsnss sro,,,d,,t
let Won % down town go ~. ;,
and She set mn snothsr how, " ''s'
r-...,, -, s-.~S
4. ossy gM. ulyPPcl 70 tne noor
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f;ss ,.;,r ~ . so - 'nc pIl;or ner
s;c;.n IA 49, ooi, eI =; sss s; " Pny-
mother moth w.s 49, ,. eu ~ d ;.ho Du' ner
Kitchen = tba tsme .nd d;% ~ hs sn1
her fsil.-PS;radeinh;c 1,aI NV A''
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th.t = f.,,s w .sr lily 49,. 10y .ee, D1,
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VA r;~bf. th.t csra 49,, srS ~ wa r,M anas
wer IA $500 .Ssr ss"t wv 'ncuo
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: 49, 1890
oEe. Doy; come noIo this horse"
ssla : :ssnlolaoie equestrian, aiighting
tavaI nv s'eeo m iront OF . New York
nuss. = ne 10y 70 wncm ne spoke was
t.w c .ms s'I T. q : clgsr' ana having
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The man in Macon, Ca, who
bought Of . confectioner for twelve
dollars the right to cot all the candy he
wanted for : month. has reluctantly
sem the close nf the thirtisth day. Not
10 the confectiQper. for tho cater cen,
sHmsd e2f7a Weyth Of BE goods
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bears, is only skin deep. We cannot
guess what discoveries he might make
upon Mercury, the Utmost planet of all,
which braves the sun at close quarters,
for our telescopes give US little hint as
to its condition.
And at last the comet is face to face
with the terrors of its perihelion
passage. 1t must swing around the
sun, which from little star has now
grown to gigantic orb of fire, 30 close
as almost to touch it. Long before he
approached so near the comets rider
beheld astonishing appendages about
the sun. Instead Of smooth, dazzling
white globe, he saw the sun hinged with
scarlet flames, while shooting out on
every side, hundreds of thousands, and
in some cases, perhaps, even millions
OF miles, were huge fans and shafts of
wonderful light like fiery spokes
radiating from the glowing hub Of the
solar system.
And now, as the comet darts closer
in, he sees the whole surface of the
melting pot q the elements surginq
and swirling in the mighty rush of con-
tending solar forces. People have lost
their heads by gazing too long at the
Niagara Whirlpool. That would tear
q ship to pieces. But there are mael-
stroms here in the sun that would
shatter and swallow q world. Iron and
copper and zinc are here reduced to
vapor and spouted heavenward thou
sands and even hundreds of thousands
81 miles, and down they como sgain,
cessclees and awful rain Of motion
metal !ASA masses q sun substance
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golden circle of wealth.

golden circle of wealth.
| He followed Edith Glare to Chess
terdeld. an ardent lover, impatient
and unreasonable in his anxiety to
be once more by her side, 10 listen to
the music of her sweet voice and
to sun himself In her smiles. He re-
turned a Disguised one, all his ardor
cooled, not forgetting the delights
he had 80 lately craved, but angry
that they had ever been, tho brief
~, the JOY OF his life. He had said
farewell to his guardian, to whom
he rejoiced that he had never COM
mitted himself by special offer.
This was a bitter experience to
Edith. In the midst Of the dear joy
OF being loved, the bitter draught of
scorn had been pressed to her unre-
sisting lips;she found herself desert
ed. But she was brave. Her par.
ents never knew,or not till years had
worn away traces OF this early trou-
bic. how their child had loved this
worthless young man.
Next year he married the SNOWY
daughter of reputed millionaire,
whose name was all soiled with ugly
suspicious.
And Edith no more turned aside
into fiowery paths. where for her
only thorns seemed to grow. In q
little time / heard OF her as fulfilling
her vocation, nobly and we'll. AS
years passed on she rose successfully
IN fame aud position. At twenty five
she found herself at the head OF one
)f the most successful seminaries for
young ladies IN the country, trusted
and honored.
Established there, and at a con-
siderable distance from the home
hat had become mine, / did not
meet her for long time, though her
praises often reached me, and knew
hat her womanhood had amply full
lied the splendid promise of her
fouSh. | was quite sure OF this, for
here was no faint Of falseness in her
when learned that In
Ter splendid maturity she had be-
ZONE the wife OF man already ia.
nous, and fitted to aspire to the
highest position our country offers.
From her own lips I soon learned
hat she was happy, for in her hus-
'and's nnstainedand noble character
he had ample guarantees that her
leart had not chosen amiss, and that
'efore her lay lot which only the
Inevitable and providential ills Of
lie could shadow.
Years after, she met Randolph
ssvr 1880 e0ess~t
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COAL AND WOOD OFFICE
AND
Flour and Feed Store


TIME undersigned resps cttnl'y informs
i the citizens OF Martinsbure and setk-
eley county that he has opened Oyal ana
Wood Office aud Flour aud Feed Store at
CO Queen Street, where AL orders IN my
line will receive prompt attention. have
put in a pair of Fairhank' 8 new scales and
all coal sold by me will be weighed and
full weight gnarantt' d Piedmont and
Cumberland run of mine Fine and Lump
Coal; also hes, quality Nut aad Egg au-
,hraci Goa alwa. 5 on hand
Farmers having Corn, uats aud la. 10
sell ar solicited 10 zee me before selling
Thank,ua the public Tor tb~ llnera pat
roons. ex erded m. and soliciting your
further favors. fi-
] a. especially yours,
j24i, = ~ sEnio