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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-28
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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-28
BUCKLENS ARNICA SALVE
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.'ayeats. and Trade Marks obtained, and
all Patent business conducted for MOD'
ERATE FEES.
orr OFFICE is OPPOSITE [. S PATENT
OFFICE and we can secure patent IN less
.iDe than those remote from Washington.
Send model drawing or photo. with
.Iescrip ion. We advise if patentabie OF
not. free OF charge. Our fee not due TIL
patent Is secured.
A PAMpHLEr, GLOW to Obtain Pa
tents with names of actual clients in
your state, county, or town, sent free.
Address. I. A. SNON ".
Opp. Patent Office, Washington, d. c..
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15
Waleal Broken Health.

Some announcements in romsncing con
temporaries about the immense parties
that are to be asked to SandrinRham this
winter and the brilliant gsyeties" with
which the gusts are there to be entertained
are all fabrications, for the parties, Of
which there ara only TO be three sltogeth.
er. will be much smaller than usual, and
the "gayeties" are likely to be on the
most limited scale, for it is idle TO attempt
to Disguise the fact that the health
of the Prince of Wales has broken down to
considerable extent, and ne has now
neither the strength nor the spirits for the
diversions which some Of the papers are so
eagerly planning for him.
OF all the alterations of the silly season
perhaps the NEST nOnsensicsl is the pro-
posal of stupid snObbish contemporary
that the Prince of Wales should at once be
appointed regent, because be is in a pre-
csrious state Of health, and il ne we're to
die the Princess would be left very bad
of, whereas if he were made made regent
new pecuniary arrangements on a
more liberal scale would be granted
By Parliament. II is needless to
criticise such preposterous rubbish, but l
may as well point out that in the unhappy
event Of the demise of the Prince of Wales,
the Princess, go far from being very badly
off," would have parliamentary annuity
of ego, 600 a year for life, while the Sand
bingham estate is entirely at the disposal
of the Prince; added TO which all the chill
dren would be we'll provided for, as, apart
from the parliamentary provision for the
younger members of the family, the Duchy
Of Cornwall estates would at once pass to
Prince Albert Victor.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15

verbally or in writing. It was doubtless
his good sense that caused him to take
out nearly every contract in trade, for he
knew that it was a hard matter to keeT
money. But once when he had accepted
an advertisement from druggist, and
agreed to take it out in porous plasters,
could not help muttering complaint.
Il am sorry, said he that you do moi
understand business economy better than
you do"
"What has business economy to do
with it," l asked.
Has a great deal to do with it. Look;
my pants need patching now, and l
have discovered that a porous plaster Is
the quickest and most inexpensive way OF
patching pants. Hang it, amt you
practical enough to know that a business
man can't afford to lie in bed while his
pants are undergoing repairs; such pro-
cedure would initiate against business
man. It's well enough to be literary and
all that sort of thing; but literature isn't
everything. Be practical-open your
eyes to the virtue Of that shrewd manage
ment which spreads the plaster Of ecOno-
nv over the wear and tear of this life.
| could say no more. Literature has
ever been dumb in the presence OF bust
ness. The advertisement is mightier than
the editorial. Minus knew all this. He
knew that when he wheeled me about
and compelled me to face commerce,
stood at an abashed disadvantage.
The Palladium was printed on novelty
nress. twas made Of two slabs, and an
impression was taken by pressing lever,
which slapped the slabs together. We
were very short on type; indeed, we had
not quite enough to set up one page OF
our quarto publication, but we managed
to fill out with blocks, We had to work
Off" one page at time and then distribute
the type"
Minus had operated the paper before
Joined him. l well remember my thrill
of delight when I received a postal card
from him telling me that if would edit
the paper he would give me half the
profits. He kept his word.
One day, shortly after my arrival, he
turned to me and said: Don't you use
any more cap AS"
"How's that"
Il say uOn WIllt any IAOIS stuA WIN
cap AS in it."
lie was setting the type and I was do
ing the literary work. l did not quite
catch his meaning.
Cant you understand anything" he
asked.
you fellows that write never can learn
to understand business principle. We
are short on cap AS at best, but it seems
that you have been trying to spread your
self on them al day. You must not be so
extravagant.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15

gradations to buns, and then to ginger
bread, and from gingerbread to cake, and
from cake to frosting, and thus grow sweet
er and tenderer all the time till finally l
could ask her il l might call upon her
Sunday and take her to church in the even
ing l bought a cookbook to study up
the subject and l used to reed it home in
the evening, and think Of her. But l
never dared to put my head inside the
shop; and I would not ask about her be-
cause the subject was too sacred for con-
versation.
I fell to wondering whether she ever no.
ticed me st my window, and finally l
really thought she did, because one day
she looked across the street, and really
seemed to be amused. A few. minutes af-
forwards l discovered that there was a
large spot of ink on the side of my nose. l
halted, to attract her attention in this
way, (supposing that had done SOL, but
after all, thought it was better than
nothing, for she must have known that |
didn't wear ink on my nose all the time.
Ny window was so arranged that l
couldn't get very near il because there was
steam radiator in front OF it; and beside
the radiator was pile Of books; still, I
could see her very well, and that was all l
cared about. Every day when. came
down TO my work looked scroes to
bid her a client but atfectionate good
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15

1 had Just accepted the position of ex
change editor of the ReholobOth Sunday
Herald, and had come TO the city Total
stranger. That is why fell in love Sc
easily. LonesOmeness is nearer akin to
love than pity is. Put man in strange
town where nobody bows to him and the
tailora won't trust him Tor the BARRIERS
talk to him when they cut his hair, aud be
will fall in love with the wooden squsw in
front of tobacco store if she looks at him
with the eyes Of sympathy.
And this girl across the street was go
pretty She worked in a bakers shop,
and the sweetest cake on the counter-yes
sir, the kind with chocolate frOstiDg on it
was no more to be compared with her
than so much stale ginger bread.
She was a creature all smiles. l never
saw humsn being smile 80 steadily as
she did, with the exception OF an Indian
out ia Dakota, who had been frozen to
death while reading about the interest OF
Congress in his race.
A smile such as hers must be worth a
great deal to a baker. 1t may not be an
evidence of deep intelligence, but it must
be great thing, in business way, TO be
able to smile at anything from a cake TO a
cuspidor. 1t used to attract trade to the
place across the way, and Iknowit. There
is no hiding such things from the eyes OF
jealousy. / used to see men DIN and buy
buns, and then, 20 out and pretend to lose
them in order that they might 90
back and buy more. And she
would smile at them, and make
my heart curl up and ache. All, how l
used to watch her, and try to decide
whether she smiled even a little sweeter
at one male customer than at another.
And then l would compare the smile which
the customer got with the one which enc
bestowed upon the bun. Sometimes it
seemed that the customer got the better OF
it, and then how jealous l would be of
him. And again the bun would seem to
be in the lead, and would be Jealous OF
1t, and mediate going after the purchaser
and robbing him of the base bun that l
might cut the perfdious raisins out of it
with my scissors.
And all this time, mind you, didn't
know the girls name. was too bashful
to 90 over to the place and buy bun for
the sake of making her acquaintance.
was afraid that she would know that was
a bachelor, who had no Legitimate use for
buns. Perhaps she would laugh at me
for liking such things, or she might think
that was too poor 10 buy anything else
for dinner, for | hadn't been in the city
long enough to be known, and hardly
dared hope that she had already noticed
me in my window and taken the
trouble TO find out who l
was. And then the horrid thought would
come that perhaps, after the hundreds
upon hundreds of people whom had seen
her smile upon with impartial regularity,
might be the first upon whom she would
not smile. No, it certainly would not do
to 80 over there and try to get acquainted
over the counter. 1 admit that l
thought Of it for time, and even
sketched out conversation that shoald
begin decorously with plain every day
bread, and should then pses by easy
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15
The Fiend of the Car.

About the middle of the car was lady
and boy about five years Of age, evidently
mother and son. The train had scarcely
moved out of the depot before the boy be
gan 70 "cut up" running up snd dowI
the aisle and making remarks to passea-
gers. The mother called TO him seYers
times and finally said:
James, I shall certainly tell YOU
father"
"How can you when he's Tun away, an6
nobody knows where he is?' replied the
boy
This settled the mother for time, bu
when the boy sought to raise a window sni
leaned forward and said;
"Tames, I shall surely punish you!
"If you do I'll tell that policeman az
rested grandpa" he retorIe1.
She let him alone for another interval
bat "a he began 20 worry bird IN cage
which one of the passengers was transport
irg, she sternly said:
flames, come here"
mot now"
"Right of You are bad boy, and
sham let You come with me again"
"Yes, you will"
'No, I won't"
Then I'll tell that the reason papa ran
away is because Mr.. Davis came to QUE
house so muchn'
This Frustrated the mother, and she be-
gan TO read, and had nothing further to
say, while the boy roamed up and down
the car unchecked until he finally fell
asleep on q vacant seat. He had one more
shot in reserve, however. As he lay down
he called ont:
q Say, msmms, wake me MP when we
get 70 grandma's. I want to hear her
swear and take on because papa turned
her ont doors last summer"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15

To this class Of dancing toys belongs the
performing bear. which Is a perfect model
ub.Diu 10 fall motion, instinct with life
a-d very natural in an his movements.
hs 1ss q staff and be goes through the
same antics one sess in O performing bear
belonging to stroiling musicians, where
ile after nave trained the enimsl. He
cpsas HE mouth and closes it with re-
o1Hiing snap. pounds the floor with his
sat snaps his jaws, gr0wis, rolls his head
nom side to side and dances He's
very different customer from the old
t-5 toy bear. who stood stock still, with
its exception of bis head, which be swung
az' y from side 70 side 20 a tongue-lolling
impairment. He Just costs So.
ut the same order of comiCal toys Is the
Pew Uncle Sam VelOcipede Rider. The
---e of Uncle Sam is dressed in chsrac-
.s1s.ie style and, mounted upon a velOCi-
lee he grasps the lever IN bis hands
t gets it 10 motion When wound
E &c viii run rapidly round a
-a circle, bur the circle can
Be reduced 20 suit the size Of the parlor.
' Is strong and an excellent toy and viii
lsass crowd Of children quite as much
t aly,hiug they could get. The price is
g. A somewhat similar, although not a
-5clanical toy is the ''Pig-Cartn Piggy
ms on a wheel between his hind feet and
.'ls cartWith a beIgong beneath. In
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15

man and might regard small cap as a
compromise measure, whereas he could
not help but admit that cap B is bold
and outspoken. Well let it go that
way"
We rented our office from Major
Blodgett, man of clustering destruction
in the village. He was a lank fellow,
with a heavy growth Of fiercy red hair, of
which he was exceedingly vain. He was
bachelor and slept in room immedi-
ately below the office.
The first time l saw him was on a
morning when he came in to collect his
rent.
"Look here" he said, addressing
Minus, "doyou know how much you owe
me?n
mot exactly, Major"
do you recollect ever having paid me
anything?"
mo; but you've been getting your
paper regularly, haven't your
II don't know, but l reckon have"
"Well, that shows my good intentions
towards YOU"
Look here" said the Major. "if you
wasn't such blamed fool I'd turn you
out. AS it is you may run on a while
longer"
He was really a kind-hearted man, for
he came around every month to see how
we were getting along, and do not know
that l ever saw him take anything out of
the office.
One night while Minus and were pre-
pairing a solution of consecrated lye, with
which to wash the ink off the forms, " we
heard the Major go into his room, and
by his movements we could tel that he
was drunken than usual
81 hope he won't come up after the
rent while he is in that condition" said
Minus. Look here" he added, this
I've won't do. It's too strong. 1t takes
the dots off the is and splits the diph-
thongs. I'll put the jar over her till
morning. Then wen tone it down with
water. There isn't drop up here, and l
don't suppose you want to go after any to-
night"
said did not, whereon he remarked:
"All right. Well go to bed
had just dozed off to sleep when Minus
awoke me by getting up.
whats the natter" | asked
can Internal cat has come in here to
eat the paste, and Pm going to kill her.
It's good thing we sleep in the office
If we didn't we'd lose everything we've
got"
lie slammed around, scared the cat
nearly to death and turned over the jar
Of lye.
The next morning, jus: as we had dress
ed ourselves, we heard some one coming
rapidly up the stairs, and the next mo-
ment Major Blodgett rushed into the room.
His hair VI S falling off in patches. He
looked at us a moment, and seemin ely
with an effort to control himself, said:
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15
He Had the Documents.

We were waiting at Trenton for the
cross train to Long Branch. when a lame
and sorrowful-loOking man began to ciTcu-
late ameng the people and solicit aims on
the ground that &c had Just buried his
wife after a long illness, which had,
coupled with ill-health, reduced him to
poverty.
Look here, sir!' said the third man he
came to. You are liar and an impOster.
''But I am not" quietly replied the
man.
"But You are. You told me this very
same story in Buffalo year ago."
"And he told it to me in Pittsburg sboul
two years sgor' added a second.
"And he related it TO me and got money
in Paterson three months ago" exclaimed
third.
"Gantlemen, I am a truthful manu- pro
tested the beggar. -,
But you are telling a mighty old
story"
no, 7 amt. My last wife died four
months ago." 49,,
Your last. How many have you hsd?''
''Three. tod this story IN Buffalo De-
cause lost my second one there. Please
read this document"
II was DOCTORS certificate of the cause
of death, with a newspaper notice pasted
thereon.
But you told it 20 me year previous
in Pittsburg" said the Pennsylvania.
mo doubt OF it, sir Please read this.
It relates TO the death of my first wifi"
L was some such document IS the other,
and its genuineness could not be doubted.
and the story you told me at Paterson
relates 20 the death of the third, l sup
pose ?" oueried the third accuser.
1T does. Here ia the document That
paper was also straight, and the first ac-
cuser scratched his head, looked puzzled,
and finally said:
"Well, I take it all bsck. You are rot
an imposier, but excuse me and accept
this half-dollar, when I rise to remark inst
you are stopping in house next door to q
fool"
And the thrice bereaved was sent limp
ing away with purse Of about six do
Lars
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15
GREAT SOCIAL BEAUTIES.
Are They Almost All Bred Outside the
Great Cities.

Great OitIes.
The great beauties who take the social
prizes in marriage, says a London letter
in the Ladies Home Journal, are almost
all bred in the lesser towns, where q less
conventional society gives women a snatch
at freedom in eirlhoOd. You don't find
them growing up with calisthenics, health
lifts and a massagense to do their exercise
for them.
You all remember the painful story of a
girl in q city home, surrounded by every
care, who was strangled in cords OF her
health pull" one evening little more than
year since. Scarcely more pitiful is her
fate than that of girls brought up to de-
pend on such substitutes for work and eX-
ercise if they live. A sick, anemic woman,
unused, unable 10 care for herself or others,
is the most pitiable rspugnant object in
creation. You seldom find a lasting
beauty which has not had a semi-Greek
education OF outdoor life and exercise be-
hind it.
Take the beautiful Cummings who ran
wild in their Irish country home till their
calculating mamma had raked and scraped
enough 10 take them 10 Dublin and thence
to London. The Cummings were unlicens-
ed holdens, but their races over the hills
gave them mAtchless compilations. Later
still Mrs. Langtry took her beauty course,
rowing the lanes with her brothers in soft,
pure air, living on peaches and coarse
bread, with Just as little of lessons as SUIT
feed to fit her for London drawiug-roOms.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15
She Doesn't Earn It.
Drale's Maya ING.

"Desr me-" said old Mrs. Jimsonweed,
as she laid down the paper, "here's piece
that says Queen Victoria gets 81 $50 900 q
year for being Queen. Well, she don't
arm it, now she jlst don't I don't keer
how well she puts in her time; don't Reer
how airly che gifts up of mornin', nor
how late she sets up nights darnin' and
mendin'; don't keer how much dish
washin' she does, nor how much butter
she churns, nor how much soap she biles,
nor how many geese she raises feathers
from, nor how many calves she brings up
by hand, nor how free Of moths an bed.
bugs she keeps old Windsor Castle. I'd
like the chance to be Queen, an do it all
for half the money. Even then wouldn'
arm no s., 600, 900, an she don't either
no che don't"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15

"If there are no more cap AS" said l.,
Chow are we going to manage this notice
of Andrew Albright"
He was stunned for a moment, and
then in thoughtful manner replied:
Won't do to leave that out. It's paid
notice and we are depending on 1t to get
paper enough for the next edition. I'll
teli YOU what well do. l can skirmmish
up one more A, and with that we can fix
yes, but how are we going to fix up
Andrew
'SWe'u have to use a little shrewd econ
omy. that's all. Wen use an initial
We'll call him B. Albright. B is next TO
A. We will come within one of hitting
the original text and I don't think he
ought to kick at that"
"Was he in the army" l asked.
believe he was. Why"
"Didn't know, but we might call him
Colonel Albright
owe could have done it, but not I'M
derstanding the rules Of the office you
have been spreading yourself on cap Cs,
too. But don't think that blame you,
me added. you'll catch the style OF the
paper after a while. Every newspaper and
every magazine has its own particular
style, you know"
"Well, what are we going to do:' l
asked.
"Let me see He began to scratch
around in the case" "Wait a minute.
We're got cap G.. but l am afraid Cen
eral is little too high for him. He might
take it for sarcasm. Well, couldn't do 1t
any way. We've got paid local for old
man Order. l think my plan OF B. ALI
bright is the best"
"Why not use a small a - innocently
asked.
He geEe me a look of pity.
That would settle it. He would think
that we were trying to belittle him, and
we should have shooting scrape on our
hands in less than hour from the time the
paper made its appearance.
1--WE might use a small cap" l sug-
gested.
This set him to thinking. That's a
fact he admitted. I'VE might take q
small cap and bolster it up until it would
make quite ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS But
wait moment. He is very paticular
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-15

Among the larger and more costly me-
chanical toys that have been put on the
market this season is the Fire Patrol
Wagon This is q toy for 8 grown boy.
Six fremen and a driver are seated on a
long wagon, drawn by two horses and fur
nished with all the ropes, ladders and
other apparatus needed for fire. II moves
automatically and can 90 at a good rate OF
speed. Bells clang and 1t makes IN NINA
ure iast such a racket as the big ire wsg-
ons DO In reality.
Oae Of the most interesting as well az
the timeliest OF the new mechanical games
of the wear is the Worlds Fair Tower. f"
From a tower runs a serpentine tube COM
municating with wheel something ike
that in a dredgeT. A marble is dropped
on the tower, and runs either into the
tube OF back into the tower. In the lat
ter event 1t counts nothing. Should II
drop on to the wheel it may be whirled in
TO 8 number of a higher or lower denomin-
alton, which counts so much, till the
winning number is reached. This TOW is
8 mate with the Worlds Fair Rsce
Track The game is purely one Of
chance and is attractive from its novelty.
/ Ii costs 81 so.
One Of the best of the new parlor games
and one that can be played by adults as
well as the little ones is the Turtle
Game" On a large turtle shell, about
three feet long, by two feet wide, are five
smsll knobs AZ which hall Is thrown
from a distance Of ten feet When the
knobs are struck, the head Of the turtle
pops ont. and so also DO the legs snd tail.
The game can De played in the parlOr and
is a capital amusement for Willing away
an hour that might otherwise pass rather
duly. The turtle and its belongings cost
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