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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
NUMBER 26.
WORKING DAYS.

A-wooing you came with your dulcet voice.
Your manner so knightly and debonair:
Who would not proudly hava been your
choice,
When YOU wove her garlands so rich and
rare?
It was well enough in the courting time
When your tongue spoke only in tuneful
praise,
With lovewords set to silvern rhyme;
1t is other now in the working-days.
Could ever she dream that gentle girl.
When you pledged her the tendelest care
for life,
That your brow would knit and your lip
would curl
When she poor child, was your welded
wife!
Would the pretty maid have been swift +
-. yield,
Caught in the tolls of your winning ways.
Had rift in the futures veil revealed
The gloom that should shadow the working
days!
lis easy to carry the hardest load
When two who share it in mind are one;
lis plea ant to Chamber the roughest road
With friend why is CHEEKY from sun to
sun
But crushes the burden with aching weight
Ii only the weaker that burden raise,
And bleak the path in the frost of fate
When jars the music of working days.
Oh, holiday suitor, so brave and trim,
So gay of mien and so soft of Speech
Pray what is your ring but fetter grim
To the wife who is learning what tyrants
teach?
Would it cost you much her home to bless
With the love you promised the love that
stays
strength and a sweetness through all the
stress
And the strain of life's working dayss
-Marguret T. SanQster
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
SCOTLAND NECK, HALIFAX CO.: n THURSDAY, MAY

they would not be able to carry enough
coal to last them more than ten davs'
full steamipg, but in addition to their
bunker space they can carry coal on the
lower deck. The coal capacity of the
Alaska is thus estimated at about 4, 900
tons, and as her consumption is 25S tons
day, this would make voyage of over
5000 miles. The Oregon burns 337 tons
a day, the Umbria about 800 and the
America 1872 tons.'
A New York dealer in Japanese
goods has fitted into the back of his store
a real japanese house in miniature Only
two rooms, however, are represented,
corresponding to the American reception
room and parlor, but these are complete
and exact in detail The material for
the frame work is of Japanese cedar
bamboo; strong, transparent paper
forms the little square panes for the win
dows, glass being only used by the
lower cla ses. The holdings of the
rooms are of very artistic and beauti-
full pattern, and the ceilings are bamboo,
braided in different designs and colored
in different shades of brown. The floors
are especially curious, being made very
elastic, a sort of split bamboo Or straw
forming padding underneath the
squares Of mating, which are finished
separately with a neat binding. The
rooms in Japanese house are designated
by the number of pieces of mating re
quired for each, as the seven, six or five
matted room. The reception room is
furnished with a sideboard with rounded
front, placed in one corner, on which
are richly ornamentcd tea caddics, a
huge teapot, and all the accessories of a
hospitable cup of tea, which they offer
to all callers; and very elaborate lacquer
and bronze table near by holds decora-
tive jardiniere. A little sliding door of
paper, gayly painted with japanese
| flowers, separates this room from the
inner one or parior. This is the Give
matted room," and has on the floor a
very curiously wrought artistic bronze
incense burner, and On one side of it is
the box holding the materials for burn
| ing the incense. A lacquer reading desk
stands near, on which is book, scroll
and pair of exquisite candlesticks.
Handsome raw silk rugs, which serve for
chairs, are laid on the floor.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
A Logical Hen.

Every one has heard of the distress of
the hen on beholding young ducklings
hatched by her taking to the water. This
occurs so frequently as to attract little
remark, except when observed by any
one for the first time. Mr.. Jesse, in his
natural history "Gleanings," records a
singular incident. A hen which had
hatched three successive duckling broods
got so accustomed to the aquatic ten
dency of her pupils, that on Matching a
set of her own eggs she led the chickens
to the pond, and in surprise at their I'M
willingness to take the water, actually
pushed some of them in, and several were
drowned before the awkward situation
observed and the survivors rescued
Ieisxre H0a1
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
A japanese Invitation.

An invitation to dinner among the
middle-upper classes of Japan frequently
commences about as follows: II beg
pardon for thus insulting you in begging
your company at my house to dinner.
The house is small and very dirty. Our
habits are rude, and you may not get
anything fit to eat; and yet l hope that
you will condescend to be present with
us at 6 o'clock on the 9th of December. y
On arriving at at the house you find it
spotlessly clean, tasty in arrangement,
and the host and hostess affable. The
bill of fare consists of ten or fifteen
courses, the best the market can afford.
All the self-humiliation of the host is the
method adopted to do you honor
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
A Rad Place for Christians.

Formerly when Persian Mahometan
killed Christian he was fined SIS.
Now he has to pay $50 for the same priv
ilege. If Mahometan can capture a
Christian girl and convert her to his re-
lirion. when her father dies he inherits
his property to the exclusion of all other
heirs. This causes great run after the
daughters of rich Christians, even when
they are not pretty. If a Mahometan,
when out walking, meets a Christian on
horseback, the latter has to surrender his
steed and allow the follower of the Pro
phet to ride to his destination.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
"Wh0 Says Ham,

A famous bon vivant proposing par
ticularly swell dinner to party of dis
tinguished people, and being short of a
dining room servant, hired noted head
waiter to ofticiate. When the ham was
placed on the side table to be carved,
the head water, full of the importance
of his position, sang out: ''Now. guests,
which one of you says ham2" The host,
speechless with disgust, rose, and seizing
the astonished waiter by the scruff OF
the neck, he shot him out of the room,
and then, with an urbanity that was i'm.
mense, resumed his duties as the most
admirable OF hosts.-Eoery Other Satur.
day.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

There is stipging in the powers that
bee.
The mosquito always makes himself
to hum.
In the matter of diet boiled egg is
bard to beat.-Merchant Traoeler.
Doors and horses tails will be worn
banged this season.-Boston Post.
A man content to live in an oleomar-
garine boarding house does not know on
which side his bread is buttered.-Paca-
yune.
"In the spermaceti whale the teeth
arc fixed to the gum" We have noticed
the same thing in Vassar girls.-Ne,o
lo"h Graphac.
Men are said to sleep the soundest the
night before they are hanged. Those
troubled with insomnia have now an
etfecacious though heroic remedy.
The small boy now wears seraphic
smile of perfect happiness as he fuctu-
ates between the baseball game, the
skating rink and the circus.-Cal.
''This world is all fleeting show,
For mans illusion given;'
The ladies walk the streets below,
But their hats ascend to heaven.
-Gorhane ~ H. Mountaineer
"Dear me-" said a lady on Fifth ave-
nue., New York, the other evening, how
the china craze is growing! Here's a New
York club that is paying $4,000 for
pitcher"
What is the difference between the
young fellow who is osc ulating girl
and another who only sees the perform
ancc? One is kissing a miss and the
other is missing kiss. .-Svtings
The rapidity with which raw material
is converted into marketable goods
is shown by the fact that new maple
sugar is on sale two weeks before the
sap beg gins to run.-B0ston Post.
Cooking Clubs for Men" is the title
of an article in an exchange. Why they
are cooking such things for men is a
mystery. We should think a cooked
club wouldn't be any more digestible
than roasted clam.-Noyristown Herald
An English traveller in looking over
some American town names came across
the we'll known ones of Pawtucket, She
tuckct and Nantucket. s:Haw! hawv
he exclaimed, 'I'm blessed if the whole
family didn't take it!'-Pitts6any Chaon.
icle.
Volumes have been written giving
diagrams and specifications as to how
children should be trained up, and yet
as soon as man becomes a daddy he
throws his judgment overheard, shuts
his eye to reason, and lets the squalleI
rule the roost. = Chicago Ledger.
ga scientist rays that the way to sleep
is to think of nothing" read Mrs. Smith
in newspaper. "If that be true,
should say that you would sleep I'll the
time, my DEAR" said her husband. "No
doubt Mr.. Smith, for think great
deal of YOU. u.''-Neuman Independent.
81 like him well enough" said Kate:
"But then he's foreign, honey"
II heard," said Sue, ''hed won your hate
Because he was too tony"
Kate smilingly replied: ''Tut! tut
That ideas quite euphonic;
'Tis not that he's too tony, but
Because he is Teutonic"
-YonEers Gazette
A Chicago man, at Plainfeid, Ind,
desired to leave his travelling bag and
ovcrcoat while he walked to a place
twenty miles distant. He put them into
field unprotected from thieves, except
by the sign. Smallpox. beware!'' and
when he returned they were right there
in the field, but they were twenty feet
under ground, buried by health officers.
-CHicu10 I1ibune
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
COMING.

sone from the top of budding tree,
A song of the sweetness yet to
scarcely is leaf or blossom seen,
rartb has only hint of green;
yot the heaven taught sparrow can soar and
sing
10 coming of every precious thing.
coor will the wind blown seeds take root
p.rs houghs blush into bloom and fruit.
[wedded Joy in sheltering nest,
Brooding love in mothers breast.
;fes full of gladness doth wake and sing,
.Tbroush the song birds note, in the early
spring.
Mary Isabella Forsyth, in the Current
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21

London is the largest city in the world
According to its last census the popula
ton numbered 1882, AL. 1t is now es
timated at considerably over GOO 90"
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21

The profits from s.Uncle Toms Cabin"
are not all gone yet, but still remain the
most important feature of its authors in
come.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
TIMELY TOPICS

It is said that the South, instead of
Buying less meat each year, is annually
sending more money to the Northwest in
payment for meats. In several Of the
Southern states there are fewer cows and
fewer sheep than there were in 1880.
This is the case in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi.
Wheat experts in the Northwest esti-
mate that the yield this year will be
about Alb, 900, 900 bushels. This with
the 121, 900, 900 bushels left over will
make total of 534, 900, 900 bushels. OF
this amount 315, 900, 900 bushels will be
required for home consumption. leaving
219, 900, 900 bushels for export.
A serious epidemic of whooping cough
has run through the islands of the FIJI
group. The malady has carried off all
the very young native children, and left
decrease in the population of 5000.
A few years ago 10000 persons in Fiji
died of an epidemic of measles. Since
the local government has done much
to instruct the people in the laws of
health.
1t is not genarally known that Vermont
has gold mine. tits called the Rocks, u
and is located at Plymouth. From an
, nual report it appears that the mine pro
duced from September, 1888, TO Janu-
ary, 1885, $6s, O70 in gold, and paid four
dividends, aggregating $40, 900, the
yield varying between $33. 50 and $50. SO,
while the cost declined So Is to 81. 90
per ton for mining and milling.
Mrs. Mary Breneman, of Lafayette,
Ind, claims to be the oldest human
being in the land According to her &C
count and that Of her relatives, she was
born at Lewiston, Del, on the 14th
of March, 1918. In 1901 she and her
first husband, William Golfer, moved to
Circleville, Ohio, making the journey in
a wagon. Her youngest son resides in
Rensselaer,, in Jasper county, Ind, and is
eighty one years of age.
The supply of fine fur is growing
steadily smaller. Sables are on this &C
count rapidly increasing in price, and
! may ere long be unobtainable. Some of
the fur mantles now worn are we'll nigh
historic. The costlicst one known is
said to belong to the Duchess of Edin
burgh, its value being $50, 900. Adelina
Patti has a suit of sables that cost
$40, 600. Mrs, J. W. Mackey owns a
mantle of the choicest bits of 10000
black fox skins, for which $40, 900 was
paid.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21

There are more than 1000, 900 farm.
ers In the United States, or nearly one
eighth of the entire population.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21

The making of orange wine is proving
!. successful business on the Pacific
coast.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-21
The following table shows the wool
clip of the world in million pounds:

Total. .............. 9S1 1,371 1911
Thus, the wool clip of the above
countries has risen 60 per cent. in 20
years, or four times faster than popula-
ton, and yet prices have fallen only 20
per cent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24
Samuel Loves weather Predictions.

Samuel Love, who has become full-fedged
weather prophet, predicts that there will be a
storm Oct. %, which will prevail with greatest
severity in Europe and Asia; but portion of it
will reach the United States followed by cold
weather and probably snow. There Will also be
terrific storm Nov. 3, followed by cold weather
and snow throughout the Northwest He advises
persons to keep off the lakes about that time.
He predicts also, that there will be o cyclone in
the South Nov 10 1.-The storms of December "
he says. will be very severe. both North and
South The Ohio, Mississippi and Wabash rivers
and the lakes will be closed against navigation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24
HOLDING ON FOR HIS FEES.
Sheriff Carter Refuses to Send Prisoners to
the WOrk-HOuse Without Special Orders.

The general order relating to the transfer of
prisoners from the county Jail to the work
house has been called in question by Sheriff
Carter as far as future sentences to the Jail are
concerned. The Commissioners ordered and di-
rected shat each and every person that has
been heretofore, or that may hereafter be SEN
fenced to impriso ument in the county Jail of
Marion county, Indiana by any court or JUS
tice of the peace, of said county, or the mayor
of the city of Indianapolis for a violation of
State laws. shall be forthwith transferred from
said county Jail to the work house of said Marion
county" The sheriff does not question the
legality of the transfer of prisoners who were in
jail at the time the order issued, of those
who are hereafter sentenced to the work
house direct, but he doubts if he can
be legally required to give up prisoners who are
to serve Jail Imprisonment. Day before yester-
day Judge Norton sent two men to Jail for a
term of six months, and the issue is raised on
these cases, it being claimed that transfer to
the work house would be imposing punishment
different from that contemplated by the court.
The sheriff claims the general order of the Com
mlssloners does not cover cases of this kind, and
If the transfer is made, .it must be on special or
der The Commissioners say that If they have
to get prisoners on every Jail sentence in this
way. it will require OF them daily sessions. But
their attorney Mr. Ketcham, regards the first
order as sufficient; yet if it is necessary, ne is
willing to carry the matter to the courts at once.
He and the sheriff's attorney, Ross Clarke, will
probably reach settlement of the difficulty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24
The street-Railway Convention.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 23.-The American Street
railway Association was called to order at 10
o'clock this morning. The special committees
on taxation and license" and ''ventilating,
lighting and care of cars" failing to report the
morning session was mainly devoted to discus
sion of the latter subject
Mr. Charles Cleminshow, of Troy, N. Y,
chairman of the committee appointed to nomi-
nate officers for the ensuing year, submitted the
following report: President Julius S. Walsh,
of St Louis; first vice president, VIM. White of
New York city; second vice president Charles
b. Warner, of Chicago; third vice president,
Samuel Little, of Boston; secretary and treas
urer VIM. j. Richardson, of Brooklyn; ex-
ecutive committee-C A. Richards of Boston;
John Kilgour. of CINCINNATI John Mcguire of
Mobile; Thomas w. Ackley of Philadelphia; c.
q. Woodwork, of Rochester The officers nom
mated were elected by unanimous vote.
After the usual vote of thanks to officers and
committees the association adjourned to meet
on the third Wednesday of next October in Gin
cinnati The delegates will be given banquet
at the Southern Hotel tonight by the local
street railway men.
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Affairs of William Heath g. Co.

New YORK. Oct 23-The schedules in the as
Segment of William Heath and Charles E.
Quincy, comprising the firm of William Heath
& Co., bankers and brokers, to Adamson r. Nc
Caness, were filed to-day. They show liabili.
ties of 81 1855, 500; nominal assets So O44 1913;
actual assets. $3782S The schedules state
that creditors hold securities to the amount of
$4l7,500. Creditors who are members of the
Stock Exchange have lien on the seats of the
assignees for their claims Of 1922, 679, of which
amount there is not covered by securities $l72-
679. There are unsecured creditors to the
amount of s., 185. $50 The cause of the differ
ence between the nominal and actual value of
the estate is due to the fact that many of the
assets have deprecated in market value, or in
trinsic value: that some of the individuals whose
obligations are held by them are lnsovent or en-
barrassed Among the firms creditors are the
following: Fourth National Banking Associa-
ton, 5000 900; w. A. & A. NJ. White. 1925. OO0;
Macauley & Co., 500, 900; Adds on Cammack
$7S. 900; VIM. l.. Scott ST., 500; Savin & Wander
Soft $l0.7 75; James Low mo security, Sill. 729;
Jay Gould (no security. money advanced. $3.50,
900; G. P. Morosini (no security $478, 295; Will
lam Heath & Co., London, (estimated) $500, OOO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-24
Fifth District w. C. T. U.


FRANKLIN, Oct 23-The w. c. r. u of the
Fifth district, which has been in session here
since yesterday morning, closed its session this
afternoon. This morning the committees com.
pleted their reports. Reports were also received
from Greenwood and Whiteland circles The
committee on resolutions reported, fayoring a
national Prohibition party, and also favoring
active effort to secure the enactment of laws re-
curing the teaching in the common schools of
the evil effects of alcohol; also, indorsing the Or
ganizer, the State organ.
A young woman's meeting was held this after
noon. The closing exercise was a children 8
meeting, conducted by Miss L. f. Reed. of In
dianapolis. Miss Mollie G. Hay of Indianapo-
liz, has acted secretary, in the absence of
Mrs Major e.. w. Grubbs of Martinsyille.
Mrs Layah Barakat, a native of Mount Leba-
non, Syria, delivered an address in the Presby-
terrain Church, this evening, on Foreign Mis-
sions' Mrs Barakat speaks English readily.
Her husband was interpreter for Chinese Cor
don in one of his Soudan expeditions. Her de-
scription of her escape from Egypt, during the
uprising of the Mohammedans there three or
forr years ago, is of thrilling interest.
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ILLINOIS.
Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.

Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.
Samuel l. Bradbury. ex mayor of Waukegan,
has died at that city, aged ffty-six years
Farmer John Hoff. living near Clinton, became
intoxicated. Wednesday night fatally wounded
his wife with d Ratchet, and fed.
While quarrying rock in a quarry near Au-
burn, John brennan was buried beneath a mass
of rock and dirt, receiving injuries to his lower
limbs and body which his physicians pronounce
fatal.
Two Mormon missionaries who have been seek
converts near Tolono, had narrow escape the
other night from mob armed with clubs and
rotten eggs. They got wind of the affair and
took the train for State Line, Ind.
Some days ago David Smith. German tailor
of Springfield, was found drowned in a sewer,
where he had fallen the night previous. When
last seen he was intoxicated and his widow hav-
ing found where he obtained the LIQUOR has
commenced suit for SIS. 600 damages against John
Mayors, Chris Haker Harry FL. Miller and
Charles Lowentrout saloon keepers.
Felix Henry was executed at Alton last Jan
uary for the murder Of Henry DePugh and
Henry Ross at Rocky Fork, in March, 1888 In
his dying confession ne implicated Samuel WEIGH
and Reuben Morris, of Godfrey, as accessories.
Welch was arrested and is now in JAIL Morris
enlisted in the United States army soon after
the murder. and was stationed in Wyoming
Territory but upon requsition being made he
was surrendered and arrived at Alton on Thurs
day in charge of an officer. Both WEIGH and
Morris will be tried at the term Of court now in
session
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Time. Bar. Their. Hum Wind. Weather RAIN.
---- - = - ---- - -
6 A. M. 80 O6 $40 90 invest Foggy
10 A. M. 80. IA 4S3 73 North Clear
2P. M 100 ID $50 AZ North Clear
6 p M. 30.14l 5O.7 SO North Clear.
10 P. NJ t30.17l 423 rs North Clear
Maximum temperance $780, minimum temps
allure, &c. e.
Suffocated in a Sewer.

CHICAGO, Oct 23.-Two men lost their lives
in sewer to-day, and third, VINO attempted
their rescue, was so poisoned by sewer gas that
he is likely to die. Three men, Stephen Bren-
nocke Edward Mccarthy and Peter Mooney
were occupied in skimming grease off the filthy
water which runs through the stockyards
sewer when Brennocke received an order
from the Union Rendering Company to
search for and remove some obstacle in sewer
near the stagnant south branch of the Chicago
river, into which it pours it's filth. The obstacle
was located, and Mccarthy and Mooney were
lowered through man-hole into a dark and
Shiny pool some len or fifteen feet below the
street level Mccarthy went ahead, and was
instantly Frustrated On reaching the bottom
Mooney started to turn back
but was overpowered and fell
senseless to the bottom of the sewer
Brennocke instantly went to the assistance of
his men, and was also overcome by gas, and fell
across the bodies of Mccarthy and Mooney.
Some by-standers called for help, and several
men employed at the stockyards fastened to the
spot, armed with long pike-poles. These they
twisted into lthe clothing Of Brennocke, and
brought him to the surface before life was ex-
tinct The bodies of Mccarthy and Mooney
were not recovered until this evening.
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OUTRAGE AT ST. LOUIS.
A Street-Car Blown Up with Giant Powder
The Passengers Escape Unhurt.

ST. LOUIS, Oct 23.-While bobtail car on
the Washington avenue road was coming east,
between and 10 o'clock last night, il ran over
something between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets, which exploded with a great noise, tore
out all the front part of the floor of the car and
shattered some of the windows. Three ladies and
one gentlemen were passengers. All of the former
were terribly frightened, but none of them were
injured. A crowd soon gathered and greatindigna-
ton was expressed at the outrage 1t is not known
what the explosive was but from the loud
sound and force it exerted, it is supposed to
have been giant powder. No arrests were made