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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21

The largest department the South Ia itself Worlds Fair
presenting thing both and ornamental Sixyour
various dep rtm fin home here un Ter ceng mile OF
norng each being the supervision Of the best talent
the bst an IN reliable materials
Tue gods marked n plain aud nothing LEFT undOne that is
calculated 10 ent the confidence essential prosperity.
On the main aor will be fund the depam Of Silks Wosted Dress
Fabrc' Line Wares Dress Trimmings Ladies Muslin Underwear Knit
underwear, Domestic vevets Hosiery Gloves Handkerchief
Umba Buttons small Toilet White Good aud
thing pertaining a worlds outfit in the dry gools line
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21
TWO ROSES.

Twas a blushing red rose
Rose had pinned to her breast
And | boldly propose
, That this rose should be pressed
And she gave her consent,
For she never once guessed
That the rose that | meant
Was the Rose | then pressed.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21
A Man of Letters.

wshingtoE Post
"What are you doing new2'
asked one youth Of another.
II write for a living"
"What do you wrIteT"
"Letters to father.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21
FoURQUREAN, Price g. CO.,
429 East Broad ST., Richmond. Va.
SPRING AND SU MMER---1S9O.
OUR GOODS ARE THE FRESHEST.

OUR BARGAINS THE MOST SUBSTANTIAL.
OUR HIGH NOVELTIES The RICHEST.
Having At all times the largest and most compile stock
of STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS in the South,
confidently invite your inspection either in person
by sample orders.
LACES, EMBROTDERS, FLOUNCINGS.
BLACK GOODS, WHITE GOODS, GENTS FUR
AND GLOVES.
Special inducements in Ladies UNDERWEAR
DRESS TRIMMINGS, FANCY WARES and WOR-
STEDS Of all descriptions
kinds of work.
AGENTS FOR BUTTERIcK,s PATTERNS.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21
Political

Political History I'm -Four
: Chapters.
Wiliamsport Sun
Chapter mckinley.
Chapter 2.-McKlnley's bill.
Chapter 3.-November, 1892.
Chapter 4.-March, 1893, DEM
ocratic Congress and President.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21

Petersburg has u curiosity in the
shape of a chicken with four legs,
two heads, two backs and four wings.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21
The Cold-BIooded Canucks.


Kissing goes by favor in some To-
callties perhaps, but in Canada it
cost man Sl25 to indulge that
propensity The Canucks always
were cold-blooded lot.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21
NO. 21
Same Old Drink, Though.
Boston Traveller

"Will YOU take an original with
me?" is the Iowa formula. "Come
in and sit with me-" is what they
say in Massachusetts.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1890-05-21
The Home Of 1900 Happy
People,

though scarcely one year old.
Churches, Schools, Banks, Electric
Lights, Water Mains, and all the
appliances and eonveniences Of a
modern town.
O-O-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
INDUSTRIES SEC CRED AND
IN OPERATION At BUENA
ILSTA.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

''Mr. O'Flaherty, why don't you keep
ducks?" so the poor man who bought
the bird skins and was offered 500 for
them, and did not accept it, after taking
thirty days off and visiting each of the
custom house people for an hour OF SO
each day, succeeded in getting an order
from the collector requiring the cashier
to refund the fifty cents.
1t seems that the package was improp-
erly sold, having been by mistake placed
among the uncalled for goods, when in
fact it had only recently been received,
and was called for Immediately after
the sale. When he went away some one
heard him say that he almost wished he
had sold the birdlings at 500. And
with that he looked bitterly at the four
bits which he held in his clinched hand.
We should learn from this not to be
too greedy, but be willing at all times
to accept fair profit on our original in
vestment, unless, OF course, we happen to
be connected with the drug business,
when the rule would not apply.
Once man was struggled into this
country and seized. He was in barrel
of plaster. One arm had been cut off in
Europe.
Also his head.
He had been fortnight on the ocean
and another fortnight in the custom
house when he was discovered, but life
was extinct. Very much so. in fact.
1t seems that he had been murdered by
his employer in Europe and sent to a
friend in Racine, Wis, or addressed to
him at least by way of a pleasant sur
prise.
I One can, in ones minds eye, almost
see the joyful face of the friend at Ra-
cine. Wis, as the twinkling candles light
op the somber green of the Christmas
tree and shed light, wax and sperma-
cetti over the glad throng. A flush of
Measure is Oh every cheek. twinkle of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

JOY is in every eye. How the children
gayly whoop about the premises OF walk
thoughtfully across the bunchy feet of
the dear old grandsire!
All at once the crunch OF wheels is
heard along the gravel! forgot to say
that in the kitchen the turkey is done to
turn. Also that holly, mistletoe and
seed corn are festooned from the walls.
The table fairly groans under its weight
of good things.
Out in the cold street a poor woman,
wan, but still very wildly beautiful, and
wearing thin breakfast shawl and a
large diamond ring, sits fainting beneath
the glare of the gaslight. Rosetta Nc
Crocken had come home to die. But to
return to our subject.
The wheels cease TO scrunch on the
frosty gravel walk. The husband goes
forth into the crisp night and comes
gayly back, rolling barrel on which is
a foreign postmark.
"Run and get the Ratchet, Roger" he
says. ''Ah, here it is. Now, Bartholo-
new, hold the lamp till knock in the
head of the barrel and open it SO that
-(continued next week..
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Love in London Tower.

'In one of the most grewsome parts of
the London tower" says an American who
recently visited that institution, ''the fol-
lowing bit of conversation came to my
ears: I say, Jimmie. whatever will | do
when the bloomin' bans are called? |
shall feel such silly to know I'm soon
going to be a married woman Shall you,
now, Mary JaneY he replies. We'll, low
do you think shall feel? 1t amt no non
sense getting married, for a man gets to
be rate payer then, and no mistake, and
'e's a 'ouse'older and that Then an in
terval ensues of eloquent silence. The
cheeks of the girl grow pinker and the
man wakes self conscious and awkward,
and |, who listen to this chatter, walk
away from it all and muse on the great
problems of love and life and mummies,
for here are mummies galore, to right and
left, in various degrees of stony, calm con-
tent"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

ing der suit vhas his. If not, he doan'
get him. He has shust gone AWAY NIT
der suit"
"But you are long way ahead if you
sold to forty men"
81 doan' sell nottings to single man.
How You suppose vhas Token in? 1t
vhas great game. Ash dot SIS suit he
took AWAY only cost me s4.25 I can al
most laugh aboudt it myself. Here is
how she vhas One man after another
comes in, looks about und says:
"sGood day. Say, I vhas going down
to Florida dis week, und like to take a
fur trimmed oafercoat along. Show me
something's for about twenty dollar
"Efery man said dot same thing, und
when der last one vhas gone oudt und /
vhas lying on der floor in dead faint
dot mate comes in und says:
"'Vhell, take dot suit along. If you
doan't half some fur trimmed oafercoats
for my boys hat to go somewhere else.
1 vhas man who always keeps my
word
"Und dots what ails me-" he gasped
as he fell upon stool at the door. Eur
trimmed oafercoats when it vhas 105
degrees in my ice box!"-New York Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
A MAN OF HIS WORD.

He Promised to Send Forty Men Around
and Kept the Promise.
1t was a boiling hot day in August,
and st. Louis clothier was hopping his
brow at the door when an acquaintance
observed:
"YoE seem to be taking it hard"
"My soul! but I vhas oaferpowered
und dun for! Ivhas proke in two in der
middle."
Cheat affect you that way?"
"Heat! Who said heat? l can shtand
fifty degrees more of dot. No, it vhas
something else. 1 find man who keeps
his word wild me-"
Glow was it?'
"Vhell, dis morning der mate of a
shteamboat comes in here to buy cloth
ing. He vhas VERY honest looking
man, und he says he can pring forty
deckhands to my place. I says if dot
vhas so I like to gift him suit of
clothes"
Rather risky"
''Oh, no. fix him like dis: I bundle
up dot suit und leaf him next door, II
forty mems come and inquire for cloth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
He Was the Man.

He did not look altogether like muir.
derer as he came into the station house.
nor yet altogether like burglar.
II would be pleased to see the lieu
tenant" he asked of the house sergeant
81 have an important confession tc
make"
The sergeant, with visions of slices Of
a big reward floating before his menta
vision, tried to get the secret out of him
The old man for long time refused
Finally, after the sergeant had sent ou
for several GROWERS of beer, he con
sented to unbosom himself.
You have heard Of Tascott, the muir
derer. of the Chicago millionaire Snell?"
Eyes, yes" cried the sergeant, hardly
daring to breathe.
well, cost what it will" resumed tn,
old man, I'll am the man who strucl
Billy Patterson. Philadelphia Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
The "Fire Kings" Trick.

A writer in an English fire paper says
the showmen who perform such wonderful
tricks, and announce themselves as fire
kings" and as being fireproof, are enabled
to perform their seeming miracles by using
an ointment made by dissolving two ounces
of camphor in four ounces of aqua vita, and
then adding two ounces of liquid storaX
and two ounces of quicksilver. Two ounces
of hematis, beaten into powder and mixed
with the above ingredients, completes the
preparation This mixture when rubbed
ON the hands makes it possible for the oper-
ator to grasp redhot iron and bend it
double without the least danger. Rubbed
ON the bare feet it enables one to dance on
redhot irons without even as much as a dis
coloration of the skin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Revolution in Diamond Mining.

A writer on the subjec4 of the dimond
supply of the world, which is steadily in
creasing. and which can be regarded as an
index of how much of its surplus earnings
it can afford to spend yearly in this partn-
ular form of luxury, says that the romance
of diamond mining is all gone. 1t is now
a matter of excavating vast beds of blue
clay by machinery, washing it and sitting
out the diamonds, which. after being
roughly sorted for size, are sold in bulk by
weight The men who do the work ara
mere laborers, and their pay is proportion.
ately small.-New York Commercial Adj
yertiser
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

An Ohio poet recently wrote pathetic
poem about the little red school houses in
that state. When the poem appeared some
heartless Gradgrin went to work and in
vestigated the color of the school houses,
finding that out of 1872 only two were red.
But the poet was not entirely annihilated,
for he got off the chustnut that his poem
was read if the school houses weren't
New York Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
614A M
Exact in Letter.

Hollow Eyed Woman Gn dentists Of
icel-When you made me these false
teeth didn't you promise me that they
should be quite like my own?
Dentist Without doubt, madam.
What is the trouble?
Hollow Eyed Woman can't endure
them; they torment me horribly.
Dentist-In that respect are they not
like your oWn?-Judge.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Expensive Economy.

She-You paid 50 for pair Of gloved I
could have gone uptown and got the same
thing for SO cents.
Hell don't doubt it. But you would
have bought yourself something for ten or
fifteen dollars to 60 with them.-Munsey's
EA1 -IH~
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Proof Positive.

Tramp understand that pocket
book containing $4,000 has been found
on the street and you have got it here.
lost it.
Police Justice-You! What proof have
you got that you lost it?
Tramp-This big hole in my pocket
Texas Siftings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
RAND Transit.

Keepitt-I can make dollar go much
further than you can.
Srenditt-Don't believe it. l can make
one go clear out of sight in about half a
minute.-West Shore.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
They Generally Arc.

81 look after the great responsibilities;
my wife looks after the little ones"
"Thats strange. l thought the little
ones were the greatest of all RESPONSE
bilities. Harper Bazaar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

Fair Traveler-I do not see how you
cowboys become such wonderful riders.
Cowboy-Sometlmes, mum, we run
out of terbacker hundred miles away
from camp.-Street & Smiths Good
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
He Was Sorry.

Tcacher-Were you sorry, Tommy, that
you stole the apples?
Tommy-You bet l was. They made
me SD sick that I had 30 stay home from
the ball game.-Yankee Blade.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
1t Was All There,

"Does the cellar leak?"
mo. It's had two feet of water in it
ever since I've been in the house. Not a
drop has got out."-Harper's Bazaar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

this time of day! Why, it's only noon.
Cholly Cholmondeley but it is 6
o'clock in London, doncherknow.-Jewe
ers' Circular.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Rather Hard on Him.

Mr. Fuller Ito Clarence, years old)-
Why, Clarence, how much you look like
your father.
Clarence (resignedly)-Yes, sir. Every
body says that, but don't think deserve
it--New York Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Hadn't Yet.

EYES," said Gus. de Jay, II have had
soma vewy twying experiences. 1 was
struck senseless once"
"And when," inquired Miss Pepperton
archly, do you expect to recoyer?"-
Washington Post
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Charley Was Slnnv.

Amy--Are you going to give Charley
anything at Christmas, Mabel?
Mabel-Fm thinking of giving him a
hint.-Epoch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Rla Stel Homes.

He-My love for you is like the bound
less ocean.
She-Oh, no, it isn't. There is no tide
about it, and there isn't going to be one
New York Herald
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Curing an Ailment.

Uncle-What in creation are you
jumping about that way for?
Niece from Boston)-Tm self con-
stituted board of health engaged in
stamping out disease.
Uncle-Eh?
Niece-My foot's asleep.-New York
Weekly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

She-I can't endure him. He is man
of too small caliber for me.
He-Oh, you do him an injustice. He is
tremendous bore.-Munsey's Weekly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
GAY DUTY DODGERS.
Bill Nye on People Who Try to
Beat Uncle Sam.
SOME OF THE BRILLIANT SCHEMES
With Smugglers Furnish Theme
For The Humorist.
tFor THE SUNDAY HERAID-COpyrighted.l

In the uIurky depths of the custom
house there sits the special agent, who
has made the heart of more than. one
person ris. to his or her throat for brief
time, and yet to look at him you would
not think him to be constructed that
way. He is tall. and l say, with no tinge
Of jealous bitterness, that he is hand
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Celestial Meteors.

She-Have you seen any of the shooting
stars?
He-Oh, yes; Tve seen both Buffalo Bill
and Bogardns.-Lowell Citizen. 4.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
One for Smith.

Brown eat great deal of bread with
my meat.
Smith-Yes; and great deal of meat
with your bread. Journal of Education.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

"PIl sell you the first lot for $4,000,
and the second for $1,000"
But the second is a poorer lot than
the first"
II know; but the sale of the first lot
viii put up prices tremendously in the
neighborhood. Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Fixing His Whereabouts.

81 have always wondered" said the
newly arrived missionary to the genial
cannibal, "what became Of my prede-
oacco, -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

the most prontaDle FOR my son?
Teacher can hardly say, but think a
good stout blue beech or a long sinuous
birch would do him as much good as any.
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Away with Fear.

"Oh, he," returned the cannibal, she
has gone into the interior. Life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Down to First Principles.
Give Even the Devil His Due.

"What do you do for q living?"
"Breathew- Life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28

"Why, he doesn't look like a dis
peptic."
He isn't, but his employer is."-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
The Branch He Most Needed.

Father-What branch do you consider
he nlnst nrnfita bile for my SOM
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
A Sufferer,
He says he is suffering from dyspep-

"What ais jones'"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
Boomtown FINANCE.

like your own?-Jud
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-16
Withdrawal of Senator Jones.

We expressed the hope last week
that improving health and returning
strength would remove all question as
to the denomination of DR.. w. A. Jones
as one of the senators for Washington
county. The senator's health is stead
lily improving and his ultimate return
to the activities of life seems well as
sured. He is able to sit up a large
part of the day and is daily regaining
his powers of eXertion and endurance.
His eye is not dimmed nor his mental
force abated, and yet, even if his re-
covery shall be more rapid than it has
been for the past few weeks, ne says
he should feel compelled, under all the
circumstances, TO decline a renomina-
ton at the coming convention. He
believes, in the first place, that the
county should begin with a well man.
The duties of a legislator demand all
the strength and energy that accom-
pany the full possession of bodily as
well as mental powers. His ideas of
public duty will not permit him to ac-
cept nomination to an office the work
and responsibilities of which, it is pos
sible, might transcend the measure of
his restored strength, for his attend
ance upon the general assembly, in
either branch, has never been gala
day occasion. He has had Just and
proper sense of obligation to his con-
stituents and the state at large, and
he has lived and worked up to his high
standard of public office. The people
of the county will deeply regret this
determination, or rather the circum-
stances that have led DIR. Jones to this
decision. They know his great worth.
they understand the high value of the
public services he has rendered, and
the possibilities of further advantage
to the county and state from his con-
tinued participation in the work of
legislation. They will regretfully yield
their recognition of the reasonable
ness of the considerations which have
actuated him, and they will discern the
patriotic spirit that is at the bottom of
his resolution. They will much prefer
that he shall not jeopardize his COM
plete recovery by prematurely return
ing to the public service; that he shall
devote himself to accomplishing the
full restoration of his health. They
will have abundant use for him in the
future. They will see to it that full
measure of public honor shall be melted
out to him when the comforting Of such
honor shall not involve important con-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-16
State Prohibition Convention.

The third party men and women of Ver-
mont met in convention at Burlington on
last week Thursday. There were between
fifty and seventy-tve delegates present, in
Guiding ten or dozen ladies. Wendell p
Stafford of st. Johns bury, chairman of the
state committee, called the convention to
order, and Professor III. NJ Seeley of Mid.
dlebury was elected chairman, the organ
ization being completed by the choice of
Rev. George l.. Story of Franklin as secre-
tary. A committee was appointed by the
chair to nominate a state ticket, and an
other committee was appointed to draft
resolutions. a number of speeches fol-
lowed. One of the speakers Rev. Chester
Brown of HardwicB thought that there was
great danger of high license being quietly
forced upon the legislature this fall. re-
cess was taken at noon, and when the con-
vention reassembled the committee on
nominations presented the following ticket,
which was adopted: For governor, f. l..
Allen of Fair Haven lieutenant-governor
Gardner S. Fassett of Enosburgh; treas
urer, E. H. Field of Charlotte secretary of
state, w. p. Stafford of ST. Johnsbury;
auditor, II. G. Barnes of Swanton. The
following state committee was appointed:
c. w. Wyman of Brattleboro, chairman;
Clinton Smith of Middlebury, vice-chair-
man; G. l.. Story of Franklin, secretary;
A. o. Ferguson of Burlington treasurer;
II. S. Eldred OF Sheldon, auditor A
telegram of coincidence was sent to Mrs.
Clinton b. Fisk. a subscription was taken
to defray the expenses of the convention,
and S251.51 was raised. The committee on
resolutions then reported. The resolutions
declare for state and national prohibition;
that the prohibitory law in this state does
not increase the burden of taxation; that
the Australian ballot law, or its equivalent,
should be adopted; that the work of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
deserves commentator that 60 all combna-
tons of capital TO increase the cost of prod
ucts for popular consumption " are to be
opposed; and that the recent original
package decision makes prohibition "A
national question. 1t was suggested that
woman suffrage had been overlooked, but,
as IL was near train time, the convention
contented itself with endorsing the move-
ment by a vote