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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
FOR FEMININE READERS,
Latest Styles i'm Bracelets.


The bracelets worn to-day are in re-
markable contrast with the old fashioned
chain manacles and stiff, broad bands of
former times. The latter were valued
chiefly according to size and wei ght, while
the presen. styles include only such as are
delicate and dainty in construction and
of artistic pattern and finish. Numbered
with new things attracting deserved at
tention and promising to have long run
are elastic reversible gold bracelets.
These bracelets are composed of little
box-shaped sections strung on a gold
wire spring, and SO arranged that the
bracelet can be slipped over the hand
with perfect ease, and yet adjust itself
closely to the arm when in place. By
this arrangement troublesome fastenings
are entirely dispensed with, and there is
not the slightest danger of losing the
bracelet from the arm. In addition to
the merits of fexibility, durability and
elasticity, is the fact that these bracelets
are reversible. They are equally we'll
finished on both sides, and show two
distinct styles of finish, affording two
bracelets in one. For instance, the block
pattern sections on one side may present
the "crackle,'' or clark, =" finish, and on
the other plain or etched surface; or
again, gems may appear on one side for
evening wear, and plain surface on the
other for less ceremonious occasions.
The bracelets are as readily turned as are
a strand of beads on a rubber cord, with
the advantage of durable gold wire
coil in place of destructible rubber
.Jeaoelers' Circular.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
4 Wonderful Bridge.

The land of Celcstials still boasts of
tho most wonderful bridge in the world,
and this, according to travellers, is the
bridge of Lagang, over an arm of the
sea in China. 1t is built in a similar way
as the bridge of Babylon, but entirely of
stone. Its length is said to be twenty
six thousand Paris feet, and comprises
three thousand arches, OF rather openings
of pillars. These arc rot overspread
with arches, but there are placed above
them large slabs of stone, which form
the roadway, seventy feet broad. The
distance Of the pillals is nearly seventy
four and half feet, the latter being
seventy feet high and fifteen broad, and
Strengthened with stone facings of the
form OF triangular prisms, which extend
over the whole height of the pillars up
to the traversed slabs. The latter Col
course more than seventy feet long,) ex-
tend in breadth to fifteen feet, and have
nine feet in thickness. The parapet is a
balustrade, and every pillar supports &
pedestal on which a lion. twenty one feet
long and made of one block Of marble,
is placed.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
Cremation in Japan.

The crematory stands little apart from
the main road, a building of asingle story,
with an innocent-looking, tall chimney
that might be connected with pottery
or small iron foundry The business is
always conducted privately, and there are
few In Toxic, except those who are pro-
fessionally engaged, who have witnessed
the process. But arrangements made by
the omnipotent Foreign Minister opened
the doors and secured respectful well
come. We were first received IN the
house of the manager, where tea was
served in priceless porcelain cups OF ku-
tani ware. The furnace, if so imposing
name may be used for process so sim
pie, stood few PAGES from the house.
On entering it there was nothing to be
seen but what appeared to be two butter
tubs resting upon few faggots OF wood.
There were several cavities about two
inches deep and one foot long in the stone
floor, and these were filled with shavings.
According to municipal law, no burning IS
to be done before half-past six in the even
ing. 1t still wanted ten minutes to that
: time; but under the circumstances the
manager thought he would be safe to an
ticipate the hour, and the shavings were
fired. One of the men, kneeling before
the glowing flame, famed it with piece
of wood 1t caught the dry faggots,
greedily licked the sides of the tubs, rose
high in the air, and then, with horrible
thud the head of the barrel burst outward.
Quick as thought, the man seized large
piece of wood lying by in readiness, and
hid from sight whatever may have pro-
truded. It is the boast of the skillful
cremator that under his supervision the
contents of the barrel are never exposed
to view. A heavy mating of wet straw
is laid over the length of the barrel before
the fire is ignfted. AS the barrel is burned
away, this falls in and covers the body.
In three hours the work is done. Every
particle of flesh is burned away, and there
remains only the skeleton. The bones and
the teeth the relatives collect and give
them sepulture.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11

came, as Bulwer has it, whalebone
prison; its busks of ivory and wood
turning it into sort of cuirass. Gosson
thus describes it:
'sThese privie oats, by art made strong
With bones, with past, with such-ike
Whereby their backe and sides grow long,
And now they harvest gallants are;
Were they for use against the foe,
Our danes for AmaZones might goe.
'But seeing they doe only stay
The course that nature doth intend,
And mothers often by them slay
Their daughters young, and works their
end,
What are they els but armours stout,
Wherein like gyants Jove they f1out?"
1t is instructive to study the faces
of the unhappy women who formed
'the flying squadron" of Catherine de
Medicls. The history of the times
still more unfolds itself if We
study their costume. Catherine dc
Medicis, shut in her 'swhalebone prison."
the folds of her skirts hanging stiffly
and diagramically, her sleeves like two
long black wings, her little black cap,
stiff stuff collar and white riff, appears
like some great beetle, in the costume
of Mary Stuart, as given in Lacroix, we
have the same hard beetle-like form;
more beautiful. indeed. as the finest
specimen of the Carabus tribe is to the
sacred Ateuchus. The slashes in her
black dress show the white robe under
meath; her waist, her arms and her
throat are bound round with bands of
precious stones; while from her waist,
which by the way is by no means
slender one, is suspended a golden tas-
sci, garnished with pearls and precious
stones. But consider the crowd of poor
women whom these two rival queens
| led down the Dance of Death. A
painted butterfly, with none of the in
sect's grace, is poor Eleanor of Austria,
as depicted in Lacroix. Her body is
prisoned in horny cuirass, and her ruff
is backed by two additional fans of
lawn; her sleeves are diapercd like
chessboard; and from under her arms
descend two pieces of stuff broidered
| with gold and shaped to look like an
enormous pair of heavy double crutches.
Her rival, Marie Touchet, wears no such
frightful costume; she is nevertheless,
one of the same tribe. less hard and
| ugly specimen than Catharine de Medi
els, less hard but not so beautiful as
Mary Stuart. But for forms com
pletely-.-, iflsectile.5 nothing perhaps
ever went beyond these seen in the
court of Henri LII. of France. e., .. e,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
A Good Ghost Story.

There is certain well-known country
house in certain English county which
has the advantage, or the disadvantage,
of being haunted. Lately the house was
rather full, and visitor, an eminent
London clergyman, was put into the
famous haunted room. His host did not
tell him of the fact that the room was
haunted, thinking, no doubt, that his
religious character would be sufficient
guarantee against any disturbance OF his
slumbers through visits from the spirit
world. At the same time he felt Httle
anxious, and was greatly relieved the
next morning to find the reverend gen
tleman at breakfast with as CHEEKY an an
of successful slumber as possible. The
next morning, and the next, he came
down with the same light-hcarted aspect
which only those who have enjoyed
peaceful dreams can wear. At last the
host thought he might safely mention to
his clerical visitor that he had been
sleeping in haunted-room, and con-
graduated him on having seen nothing
out of the common.
s.Seen nothing!" replied the visitor.
ooh, stop bit, though! did see some
thing"
There was grave silence round the
breakfast-table all clatter was hushed,
and every eye was turned upon the
speaker.
Eyes; yes, of course" the clergyman
resumed; ''on the very first night winch
passed here was wakened in the md
die of the night by what seemed like a
touch upon my shoulder, and, on look
ing up, 1 saw the figure of man In the
ROOM"
Here, to the intense horror OF the
whole company, the clergyman gave a
very correct description of the particular
apparition which always honored this
room with its wanderings.
'.How could you bear it?' "What
did you do?'' were questions which i'm
mcdiately succeeded upon the awe struck
silence.
"Do?" replied the clergyman, "why, |
asked him for subscription to my next
Sunday school picnic, and the spectre
vanished Immediately"
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
Scientific Smuggling.

An elegantly dressed lady, carrying
small dog in her arms, boarded the par
lor. car of one of the numerous railway
trains that left for the East "a short time
ago, in blissful Ignorance of the fact that
members of the canine species are not
allowed to ride as first class passengers
on frst-class trains Before she reached
a seat the porter stepped up to her
politely and volunteered the Information
that it would be necessary for her and
the dog to part company until they ar
rived at their common destination; that
she might ride as first passenger,
while the dog would be required to take
his chances as baggage among the trunks,
bananas, colored employees of the road,
guns, bicycles, etc., in the baggage car.
Without replying, she simply gave the
porter severe look, and then drew her
arms in protecting manner more tightly
about the dog. At length, seeing the
porter was determined to have the rules
of the company enforced, she stepped
from the train and walked along the
platform toward the baggage car with
the apparent intention of having the
brute checked Instead of going to the
baggage master, however, she slipped
into the ladies' waiting room and wrap
ped the dog up carefully in an old news
paper The bundle, as she boarded the
train, might have passed for a package
of dry goods had not the dog wiggled
fiercely as she passed the porter. Again
she was ordered to take the beast to the
baggage car, and again she quit the
train and started for that coach. Sneak
ing to the waiting room again she wrap
ped the dog in. a newspaper the second
time. Placing the bundle under another
bundle, she reached seat in the parlor
car without detection. AS the porter
was passing through the car while the
train was travelling at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, he was astonished at the
spectacle that doomed up before his eyes.
He acknowledged he had been out-gen-
eraled when he caught the woman in the
act of attempting to make the dog stand
on his hind legs on the seat opposite her.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
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No Person can take the Bitters and remain
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Cleanse theaVitfated blood whenever
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Give the Bitters trial One bottle will
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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11

tie lines running out Of it are evidences
of previous affections.
ooh, but this great big break is you.
Then, there's my head line.
"Yes, darling. If your heart were as
level as your head mean IN palmlstry
Il would not be so jealous.
ssBut you mustn't read it like that.
What are you looking for?"
He was very anxiously scanning the
book and the hand.
sDearest, I love you. You have a
magnificent life line and splendid heart
line and level head line, but"
''Well?"
II am poor, and if you could only
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
No Kitchen Line.

She was crazy about palmistry. She
had bought half dozen books and stud
led the lines and the mounts and the
islands and the crosses and the stars, and
she had read her Henry's fortune time
and again. So he undertook to read her
hand one night, with her help.
as she traced with her fingers across the
palm.
eyes, your heart line."
seYou see how we'll defined and strong
it tsp
eyes, beloved, but it is not quite
straight, and this book says that those lit
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
An Emperor Turned into Soap.

A parallel case to '1mperious Caesar,
dead and turned to clay" stopping a
hole to keep the wind away, has been
found in Rome this year. The ashes of
an Imperial Caesar, Piso, were lately en-
ployed for the lye of a Roman woman's
washtub upon the discovery of the urn
in which they had reposed for eighteen
centuries. They were SO white and
clean," explained the workman, ''that l
gathered them together in basket and
sent them to my wife to make soap for
washing"
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
COreican WOnl en-

The Corsicans are Italians by blood
and language, Frenchmen by political
accident, land idlcrs by nature. The
womens. arEhe laborers, and also the
beasts 0 xen A French traveller
says be- 3iassseeh women and girls emer-
ging from. the woods bending under the
heavy loads aof brush wood for fuel,
while their male COMP Alons rode behind
them on ponies or mules
Another. Etseler says that passing
! one evening Corsican village,
he saw atroop20f young girls carrying
gallons of water Before them marched
her male relatives bearing flaming
Grches to light the Rens=bearcrs On
w Water e1'i is brouglsl cities by
xaqueducts. The women gather at the
city fountains to fill their jars, and t.
gossip. Resting the jar Oh one uplifted
knee, and holding it by the ears, they
fill it from the FLASHING jets. When it is
! filed. they raise it to their heads. square
3 their shoulders, and march off without
sspilling drop.
But the bearing of jars on the head
this compensation it gives the
men an erect, robust. majestic
- iage. They walk superbly, as dc
81 Ssisters. the peasant women of Egypt
teAergysburdens on their heads.
+ the Euggle of the island fol
81 4en{1 aswomen were earnest
patfiot4 (ffhly aided Paoli, the
patriot al. A peasant woman
broughtz young sonz=to him as 3
recruit 4SF
'sTakaEgood care of him." she said.
s'He is the last of four brothers. You
have had the other three.' - Youths
C0Rspdni0n.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
A PLAIN QUESTION FOR INvA11Ds.

A PLAIN QUESTION FOR INvAL1Ds.-
Have the routine medicines of the pro-
fession done you no gooda Are you dis
couraged and miserable9 If so, test the
new Vegetable Specific, DR.. WALKERS
CALIFORNIA VINEGAR B1TTERs, famous
as the finest invigorant, corrective and
alternative that has ever seen the light.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11

There is remarkable absence of pau
perism in Japan, but a man with an in
come of $1,000 year is considered
wealthy, and peasant OF farmer who has
500 laid by for a rainy day is ranked
wits capitalists. It is estimated that
there are less than 10000 paupers in tho
whole empire.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
Character.

That which we shall teach, not w.,
tarially, but fundamentally. ~ soh
come into our minds by avenue noas
we never left open, and Thoughts WI WI
of our minds through avenues VIII % .
never voluntarily opened. cha ca
teaches over our head. 0''aSa
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
knowledge.

Useful knowledge can have no enemies
except the ignorant; it cherishes youth,
delights the aged, is an ornament in pros
perity, and yields comfort in adversely.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
queens and Corsets.

Catherine de Medicis is credited with
introducing the corset into France; but
tight lacing existed long before her APP
pearance at Fontainebleau. AS early as
the fifteenth century we read of "a pair
of bodies" the evident origin of the
word "bodice." But it was during the
latter part of the sixteenth century that
it assumed the ugly forms depicted. No
doubt it was at this period that it be-
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11

show me the kitchen line 49,
would be one unbroken dream 4 Of |
ness" VI
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
| DISEASES OF
| DIeESTIOn.-

tributing in their
obscure, and are
physicians for Ott
to the removal OF
Treatise on diseas
address on receipt
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11

Hanging on the ragged edge is ,
rendered tottering on the slipnorr
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
tiers Known.
n Made from

Calf ornia
70 o t S a n d
h err b s, free
from AIcO-
hOlfc Sti11lu-
lantS. A Pur.
gatiVe and
Tonic.
This Bitters
c ures II e I.
male Com
plants, In
famm atory
Aand Chronic
R he III IN n.
ttslll, Gout,
Bilious, Re-
nittent and
lTntarnittont
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
| NASAL, THROAT
and
LUNG DISEASES.

tits, Bronchitis,
made this branch OF
ments. We have eve
the organs involved,
scopes, spirOmeters,
kinds of apparatus
atOmizatiOns, pulver
approved medicinal /,
We publish three
diseases, viz: A Ire;
chitis; price, postp
Phthisic, giving new
ten cents; A treats
two cents.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
NERVOUS
DISEASES.

eases with a measul
See numerous cas-,
phlets on nervous
cents in postage S
with q statement O.
which one of our 7
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twice as many superduous hairs would
have DONE"
care there none of these things that
do any good!'
sol all the remedies which ladies
commonly try there is only one, the
tweeZers, that is harmless and effective.
But that has to kept up, at intervals of
few days, all ones life. l have expert
mented with all the remedies that, so far
as l know, have ever been proposed
Some have found to be positively inju-
rious; some very painful, and but one to
have any value"
s'What is that?"
''The electric treatment" said the
s'beautifier," as he uncovered diaboli-
cal looking little machine, all wheels and
rods
cit looks as if it might be an Internal
machine
81 assure you," he replied with a
laugh, THAT there are good many
ladies in the city who regard it with
feelings of gratitude not in the least
akin TO the way they would look at an
Internal machine"
GLOW does it work?"
"This fine needle is connected with an
electric battery, and when l nave forced
the needle quickly down by the side of a
hair into the rootsac complete the cir
cult, SO, and not only the root of the
hair. but the sac from which it grows is
killed by the electricity, so that another
hair can never grow from it. Then, you
see, the cure is final. Each hair must be
treated separately. but when they have
once all have been killed in this way the
patient will never be troubled again."
''But isn't the operation painful?"
s'No, not very. The needle is so fine
that it is scarcely felt when it goes into
the flesh, and almost instantly with
drawn. 1t gives tingling sensation
but you could not call it painful.
us this something quite new?'
eyes and no. The principle is no
new, but its application to this purpos,
is comparatively recent and its use is no
common.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
KIDNEY
DISEASES.

which our institution long ago be
to very extensive practice in q
Our specialists have acquired, thru
ence. great EXPERIENCES in detcrmil
case. and, hence, have been succl
remedies for the cure of each indy
The treatment of diseases of the
tuted prominent branch, or SD
lnvalids Hotel and Surgical Insti
celpt or numerous inquiries for a
the nature and DURABILITY Of these
large illustrated treatise on these
any address on receipt of ten cents
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
STRUCTURE.

ing false passages,
ally consult us for
too difficult for tn,
ported in our illus
refer with pride.
small experience,
been ruined for Ii
their lives through
case and ten cents
tlSe containing maj
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11

1t includes numerous testimol
Dy mail for ten cents in stamp
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
| DISEASES Of
WOMEN.
have made these

have made these delicate {
Hundreds are brought t,
on beds, and they go hon
ing our specialists, whett
most careful and consid,
land we get few which ha,
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11

They Will take the most. extreme
measures, "<heswent on, '.and run all
sorts of risks to rid their faces of a few
hairs which no one but themselves has
ever notieed- And when it becomes an
actual dffgurement there is nothing.
however dangerous, that they will not
try on anybody's assurance that it will
remove their affiiction. They will put on
ointnlents that burn and plasters that
tear the flesh, lotions that harden and
Iiniments' that discolor the skin, and
they withstand befo1e their mirrors US
ing at%aeaeEs % the hour. l have had
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
NOT ALWAYS MEG

original system Of DIAGNOSIS can treat many chronic
llttion While we are always glad to see our and
amiare them with our system Of yet we have not
feet with which scientists are enabled to deduee the
miraculous if view in the light Of the early ages
invention Of the it not marvellous degree OF
cable nearly three thousand miles long Our venerable
the most elements of nafe that he can aGcateX
weather will be in Florida or New York as well as if
places And in all Departments Of modern science
what required is the knowledge of certain
SIGNS OF @
to and p9sd
--@@1 tenn Of determining, with the greatest
without personally
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-11
BRIGHT,sS ]

kindred Inaladies,
and cures effected
been pronounced
practice Of chem
examination of