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The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1890-10-31
SALE OF A MOST DESIRABLE
TRACT OF LAND
On Roanoke River.
NEAR GAINESVILLE, IN ME~CKLENBURG COUNTY, "

In pursuance of the decree of the Circuit Court of Mecklenburg county, Va
entered at its May term, 1890, in the chancery ause of Allison & Addison vs.. w. A
&c, / will on
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1890-10-31
A LUNCH.
The Man of Millions Who Had some.
thing Worth Talking About"

The Man of Millions Who Had some
thing Worth Talking About"
Jones and Smith happened to meet at
the same table in a restaurant.
"Do you dine at this place ofteng
asked Jones.
"Quite often" said Smith. 1t is
moderate in price, at least for the COM
mon dishes, the cooking is excellent, the
service good, and everything is clean"
ut is pretty well ~patronized, too" OBJ
served Jones. "A good man merchants
and board of trade men come here for
their meals"
Eyes. What are you going to order?
II think I'll take a porterhouse steak,
a glass of claret and a pudding or some
thing of that kind. A man on a salary
can't afford a swell dinner"
That's a fact. We've got to curb our
appetites. I'm going to try veal outlets,
Dreaded, a few vegetables. an omelet
soufie and a pint of porter. | can't go
over seventy-five cents or a dollar for a
mere lunch"
That's about the figure for me. Now
if | could afford such a meal as Tubbs
over there at that table in the corner is
about to order I'd have something
worth talking about"
You bet! What do you suppose
Tubbs is WORTH"
Hes worth a million and a half"
Jones and Smith looked enviously at
the table in the corner where the mill
i~onaire, with the bill of fare before him,
was knitting his brows and pursuing up
his mouth in the effort to decide what
he wanted. After studying the printed
slip from top to bottom several times
he seemed to have come to a conclusion.
Waiter" he said to the white aproned
official standing respectfully by, bring
me some doughnuts and a cup of coffee"
Chicago Special Press Bureau.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1890-10-31

Many of the stereotyped mortuary ira
ditions are passing away, and eve the
receptacles in which dead bodies are
placed are 10 longer the somber things
they once were.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
THE MAGAZINE OF THE FUTURE.
Articles on Certain Topics to Be Write
by Experts on the Subject.

1t is evident to the energetic and
thoughtful magazine reader that the
specialist is having his day. AS each
fresh batch of journals m to view
the fact becomes more prominent that
the public is engaged in goingto school
to the speciality writer. There is a
charming Arcadian simplicity in this,
and we wonder whittier it is tending.
1t seems, indeed, to be part of the
broad general movement, of the age by
which the obnoxious middleman is be-
ing eliminated and the producer and
consumer, so to speak, are being
brought together. In this case the mid
dleman, the mere literary person who
spends his time and energy in sand
papering his literary tools, is waved
aside and the digger after diamonds
sits down and tells the public himself
how the mines at Radney Slick are
operated. 1t is bad for the literary
person, of course, but let him in turn
devote himself to the operations of the
malarial germ, or the use of fog sig
nails on English railways; let him make
a sufficient name for himself in some
hitherto obscure direction, and the ears
of a respectful and attentive public are
at once open to him. Does not the
specialist know whereof he speaks?
And do we not joyfully lend him our
ears in order that we in turn may also
knowP-that is, perhaps we may. Ii
the facts themselves were given into
the hands of the literary commission
merchant, and by him worked up into
magazine articles, is it not possible
that with the extra polish which they
would take on there would be a lack OF
substantially? At any rate it is a fact
that we are all receiving a vast amount
of information never before possible to
us, and it is expected that in the near
future the entire table of contents OF
the average magazine will read some
thing as follows:
THE Dangers of Wealth"-Croesus
Vanderbilt.
THE Use of Starch in Laundry Work
Yang San Lee.
Social Aspects of Our kindergarten
Tommy Ammidown.
lode to the Electric BelIn-ohn
Smith, practical plumber.
lowed to John Smith"-A Victim.
care Gas Meters a Failure?"-H. G.
Brown, president of gas company; L.
Cummings, president of electric light
company; J. Hausman, of No. 24S Up
town street. and others.
The Place of the Cornet in Music
Karl Emil Op~penheimer, cornetist in
tn Deutscher orchestra.
Memory, a Sonnet"-Prof. Louis.
cite.
"The Cuisine of the White House,
The Head Cook.
With such advancement as this be.
fore US it is obvious that to the reading
public of the future nc path of knowl.
edge will be closed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
How Grant Escaped At DoneIson.

The following incident mas never be-
fore been published, and its entire
truthfulness can be s~ubstantiated to
the satisfaction of any who may desire
it:
On the morning of the surrender of
the Confederate troops at Fort Donel-
son, a Federal staff officer approached
the works occupied by Baldwin's
Brigade, of Buckner's Division, and
inquired for the headquarters of the
bridgade commander, He vas shown
to the quarters of Col. John G. Brown,
Third Tennessee Infantry, who was
temporarily in command of the brigade.
Upon meeting Colonel Brown the
Federal officer announced that he had
been sent forward by General U. 5.
Grant, commanding United States
forces, to learn the location of the
brigade headquarters, and that he would
return and inform the Federal COM
mander. The officer then rode back to
the line of works, and meeting General
Grant and his staff conducted them to
the tent of Colonel Brown.
Colonel Brown, allow me to intro
duce General Grant, commander of our
forces"
Colonel Brown acknowledged the in
PRODUCTION by a polite though formal
bow.
Colonel Brown,it gives me pleasure
to take by the hand an officer who has
made such brave defense, and, remov-
ing his hat, the Federal commander
leaned from his horse and extended his
hand, which Colonel Brown accepted
with that grace and dignity which, with
his gallant bearing on the field, so
distinguished him afterward as amajor-
general.
After a few minutes the party passed
on toward the village of Dover, the
Confederate headquarters, leaving
Colonel Brown standing before his tent.
As he turned to enter he saw, approach
ing from the direction of the fort, a
Confederate lieutenant, mounted on a
splendid horse and riding at break
neck speed, his hat drawn tightly down
and a full-sized ''~navy-six' particularly
noticeable in his right hand. An in
slant more and Colonel Brown had
seized the madnan's bride, with
ssWhere are you going; sirPn ITO
shoot that d-n Yankee officer; now
loose my bride, or I'll shoot your And
the man raised his pistol while he
foamed with rage.
eve have surrendered, sir, and"
"Loose my bridle!"
81 will not, sir-you shall not do"
Colonel Brown, for the third and
last time, | tell you, loose my bride
rein"
Drop that pistol and the man,
thrown off his guard by a quick o
ment of his horse, found himself cover
ed by the pistol which Colonel Brown
had suddenly drawn.
A moment of hesitation and the mad
~lieutenant's pistol fell upon the ground.
Now, dismount, and with one look
that satisfied him of the firm purpose
in the ewes which CLEANED behind the
leveled pistol in the hand of Brown
the mai who would have killed Grant
was safely under guard.-MemphiS DIP
peal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Discouraging to Story Writers.

/ caught a glimpse in one of the big
iron safes belonging to a weekly story
paper the other day, and found it's
roomy compartments filled to over
flowing with manuscripts of all shades,
%colors, and sizes. The most of them
were yellow with age, and | was as
sured by my friend, the proprietor,
that not a few of the stories had lain
within the iron walls of the fireproof
receptacle for over thirty years. Every
thing represented so much cash invest
ed, from the three verse poem of unre-
jected love, to the thirty column serial
of blood and thunder. 1t is not likely
that many of the old manuscripts will
ever be used, as they are very much
out of date as regard to style and plot.
There were hundreds of stories which
tell chow they lived happily ever after
ward" and as far as Indian romances
are concerned, there was a quarter sec
ton of the safe devoted to the subject
I'll wager there is many a good little
gem stored away there, and it will be
many years-perhaps another genera
tion-before the poem and romances
are put in type. | find that the ma
jority of the weekly story papers that
have been established any very great
length of time always carry more or
less stock of manuscript on hand, and
there are at least half a dozen of these
papers in New York could publish week
in and week out for years to come,
without even so much as thinking of
looking for new material.-NeW York
Gr0phGc,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

to continue his march. They consigned
him to the are of a farmers wife who
looked kindly upon the suffering pris-
oner. She gave him a spare room and
religiously shut the windows lest he
should have adraft of Heavens air and
die; she denied him tae cool water of
the well, because the country doctor
said so. The patient lay still in the
midnight hours and the kind watcher
by his bed slept the sleep of the right
eous. Awakening suddenly the nurse
found the sick bed empty. The pa
tent had gone. Running out to the
front yard she heard a spluttering
noise, which she traced to the deep,
cool mountain well. Getting a candle
she lowered it by a string to the wa
ter's brink, and there stood the Yam
kee soldier up to his chin in the cold
water. He had escaped while she slept
and had sought for GOODNESS and found
it. 1t tooksome time to rouse the sleepy
negro man, who was farm hand and
general factotum. After an hour or
more the soldier was rescued. He was
hoisted up, and, for the first time in
many hours, he was conscious. He
was wrapped in blankets amid many
forebodings of death. Sweet sleep en-
sued, and the next morning appetite
returned. A few daysand strength re-
turned. The man was cured by Ma
lures remedy. He never saw a Con-
federate prison, for the kind oma
piloted him over the mountains to the
Union lines. He remembers that well
to this day with deepese gratitude, and
40 summer passes that he does not
send to the East Tennessee farm some
remembrance of the kindness he had
there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
A Real Good Boy As Model.

A Philadelphia minister preached
from the text, Little Lord Fauntleroy''
last Sunday, in order to get up a SER
mon on the subject. Honor thy father
and mother" Ha! good text; good
sermon. There were some other boys
the parson may have heard of that
were fairly good in this line of conduct.
It is written of one of them,i the book
of Genesis, that Jacob obeyed his
father and mother;'' but then he was
never dramatized; and a young man
named Joseph ''nOurished his father
and his brethren;' and Jonathan stood
by his father most grandly. Never a
man in the Bible nor a prig in a novel
who presents such a splendid text for
just that sort Of a sermon as does this
manly son of a most popular father.
Anybody could love Lord Fauntleroy's
mother-we can't just find the chapter,
by the way, in which the account is
given of him, but it's somewhere in the
Second Book of Comicals, probably;
but to honor such a father as Saul, as
beautifully and tenderly, and nobly as
did Jonathan-why, the young man
any boy, can preach himself a splendid
sermon from such a text. 1t breaches
itself. And Jonadab's sons have al
ways been considered models of obedi-
ence and flial respect. Oh, my son,
there have been lots of ''real" good
boys, quite as good as the imaginary
ones. My boys, if you are going to
select a model for your life, take some
man who really lived; who really said
things and did things, and lived a real
life. If you build yourself upon an
imaginary foundation, your life viii be
a fiction as thin as the one you copy.
What do you want to be? An imita-
ton of an affectation? A copy OF a
copy?-BurdeHe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02

81 fancied you merely one of the or
binary clerks-I-you have saved nv
life. No doubt it was for love of nv
daughter, Theodore"
"Who is to be married shortly, ]
hear" said /. my congratulations to
her"
Il viii break off the match if you
still love her, Mr.. Prince" said Won
dervitch. .She is in despair, and
threatens to kill herself-she is still
fond of you. Twill take you into part
nership, Nh. Prince; my brother will
agree joyfully. One who has such won
derful sources of private political in
formation as you have, honors US by
proposing to wed a daughter OF the
house. Remember, I did not know
Miss Theodore V~ondervitch, y | re-
piled, would honor an emperor if she
bestowed her hand on him.
1T is settled, then" said he.
And that is how it came about that [,
Thomas Prince, am youngest partner
in the firm of Yondervitch Brothers,
and am married to my darling Theo-
dora.
That night, Gorokoff being arrested,
was lugged away by the police, but
died in prison of j~aundice before the
time appointed for his trial.
My father-inlaw spends his life in
conciliating me, in the belief that l am
full of mysterious knowledge of Rus
sian affairs; for l have been very care
full never to let him know anything
about the rickety old register in the
miserable hotel through which 1 over
heard the words of poor old Peter
Gorokoff.-Fanaity Story Paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
The Banner of the Sea.

BY wind and wave the sailor brave has Jared
To shores of every sea,
But never yet have Seamen met or dared
Grim death for victory
In Drawer mood than they who died
On drifting decks in Apia's tide,
While cheering every sailors pride,
The Banner of thertree!
Columbia's men were they who then went
Not knights nor kings of old;
But brighter far their laurels are than crown
Or corOnet of gold.
Our sailor true, of any crew.
Would give the last long breath he drew
To cheer the old red, white. and blue.
The Banner of the Bold
with hearts of oak, through storm and smoke
CoIumbia's seamen long
Have bravely fought and nObly wrought that
Might never dull their song.
They sing the country of the free,
The glory of the rolling sea,
The starry flag of liberty,
The Banner of the Strongi
We ask but this, and not amiss the claim,
a feet to ride the wave,
navy great TO crown the state with fame
Though foes or tempests rave.
Then, as our fathers did of yOre,
Wen sail our ships to every shore,
On every wind will soar
The Banner of the BraYel
oh, this we claim, that never shame may ride
On any wave with thee,
Thou ship of state whose mDerS great abide
The home of liberty.
For so our gallant Yankee Gars
OF daring deeds and honored scars,
Will make the Banner of the Stars
The Banner of the Seal
Homer Greene.
1.-THE above is the poem selected by John
offered by the Scranton Truth for the best
American sea song.J
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Faunt1eroy on Cigarettes.

"My child, said old Lor Fauntleroy
to little Lord Fauntleroy, as the latter
dragged himself in, looking pale and
weak and wan, "it grieves me deeply
that you have formed the pernicious
habit of smoking cigarettes"
II haven't grandpa; truly, I haven't"
Then why do you carry them in
your pocketp" asked the aged man, as
he inserted two fingers into one pocket
of his little lordship's trousers and
drew forth a whole package.
30, grandpa. l never knew they
were there! That bad little Jimmie
Jones must have put them in my pocket
to disgrace me-"
Yes! Then how is it that your lips
and fingers are stained brownp"
I've been eating licorice, grandpa"
"IndeedP Then how comes it that
your breath smells of tobaccoP"
THAT bad little Jimmie Jones blew
a whole lot of smoke in my face to
make me sick"
you don't tell me. Then how do
you explain the fact that [ saw you
down around the corner just a little
while ago with a cigarette in your
mouthP"
80, that was because I wanted to
show that bad little Jimmie Jones how
nasty it looks to see little boys with
cigarettes in their mouths. I have been
trying to reform Jimmie, but he won't
let me. He hates me because / got a
merit card in Sunday school and he
didn't
My angel child. am glad that 1
was mistaken when l thought you had
formed a filthy, pernicious habit. Don't
have anything more to do with that
wicked Jones boy. He will contami-
nate you."-Albany Express.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Sailing Under False COlors.

In England we do not dote quite so
much upon uniforms as they do in
France. and little incidents of this kind
are therefore not likely to occur on this
side of the channel. Still, a we'll
known English cabinet minister did
once get into difficulties, not through
going about in multi, but through
wearing too much uniform. We will
not mention the gentleman's name, for
he is still extant. The distinguished
politician-not ever his friends ever
thought he was a statesman-was once
upon a time First Lord of the Admiral
tY. Full of the importance of his office
he determined to wear the gorgeous
uniform of Lord High Admiral, whose
representative he was. The first time
he had official business with the fleet
the right honorable gentleman put on
his uniform and went aboard one of
her maiesty's ships. The minister, who
liked to look upon himself as Lord
High Admiral, had his flag up and his
vessel started. In a few minutes n
of the officers came up and politely
touched his hat to the First Lord.
IF you please sir, what are your or
ders," he asked.
''Ordersi what orders?"
"As your flag is flying, you are in
commando"
But | don't understand at ALL"
''Well, sir, you are in command and
in a few minutes we shall run into the
Queens yacht. VIII you give me my
orders?n
The unlucky First Lord became
crimson with vexation, and the Lord
High Admiral's pennant vas promptly
hauled DOWNS. James Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Among the Rushes.
Away through the night, where the tall rec

Away through the night, where the tall reeds
grow,
King Midas's queen hath sped;
Where the SlumberOus river lies dark below,
She hath faltered a word of dread:
Bend low, pretty reedS-my secret hear;
King Midas, my lord. has an ASS ear"
And the tall reeds treasured it safe, l wis,
Till the breeZes of morn came by,
When each, as it bowed to their greeting kiss,
Repeated her gentle sigh:
Bend low, pretty reedS-my secret hear:
King Midas, my lord, has an ASS ear"
Then. as ruder and louder the winds blow
wide,
The traitorous whispers grow,
Till a chorus rises on every side,
As the reeds sway to and fro.
Loud DER the land goes that word of fear,
Lord Midas, the king, has an ASS ear"
All! had / a message / fain would think
Unspoken afar might go,
Could | HE me down to the river brink
And whisper it soft and slow,
Would the waters that flow and the winds that
feet,
Liz kindly traitors, my trust repeat?
And had a secret of sweeter strain,
That forever must rest untold.
Did | murmur it low on the reedy plain.
Would the TusheS their secret hold?
Did | bend me and murmur it day by day,
Would it come to his hearing, so far away7
[~Longman's Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
A Glacial Remnant in Idaho.

A glacial remnant is said to have
been discovered in Pine Greek canyon,
between Big Bear and Texas ridges, in
Latah county, Idaho, 1000 feet above
sea level. Attention was attracted by
a current of cold air rushing from
the earth's surface from beneath a
moss bed several inches in thickness.
The adjacent surface was covered with
verdure. The moss was pushed aside,
a few powders removed, disclosing an
ice vein several inches in thickness.
Alternate layers of gravel and ice were
were found to a depth of several
feet, the cold current of air still rising
therefrom.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Saved BY a Cold Bath.

The efficacy of the cold bath in ty-
phoid fever is now admitted, and the
doctors are claiming it as a discovery
of science. Fever patients would have
discovered it long ago if they had been
permitted to treat themselves. A dear
friend of a Washington Capital cor
respondent discovered it for himself
when a prisoner of war in East Ten
nessee. He had been captured and
was on his way further South when
taken with typhoid fever. His guard
fHund him delirious when waking him
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Manufacturing Companies Suffer.

AMeriden Conn. )authority declares
that street musicians are a serious
thing e a manufacturing company OF
that town. A gypsy girl who played
the tambourine recently passed their
establishment, land it is estimated that
she cost the company about 5000.
Every employe in the factory flew to a
rindow and work was suspended for
fully fifteen minutes all over the shop.
Every circus parade costs every one of
the large manufacturing concerns hum
dreds of dollars. 1t costs them from
$25 to $50 every time a minstrel
brass band marches by"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-02
Love Me Little, Love Me Long"

Il love you, Emeline, with all the
feryor at my command" he said, as
they strolled out East avenue. Yes,
George" she replied, Il know it, and
yet I would that you had told me OF
YOUR love in some other terms. | have
been loved with fervor, oh! SO many
times, and l do want this match to
amour: to something. -Rochester Bud
get.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
DEWALD.

1t appears as if Spring had come at
last. for the farmers are busy seeding,
several of them have bought pulver-
izers which looks as though more land
was to be put under cultivation.
We understand that Mr.. Maxwell is
going to build new barn, and has the
lumber already drawn for it.
| Rosa Bass, .Tille Kilsa and Adam
Ager are at home spending their va
cation. Louis Maxwell is also at
home but does not expect to attend
the spring term. .-,'
Mr.. Shinkle of Iowa, owner Of the
place occupied by Mr.. Beckley, has
moved on to it, and intends to make
Minnesota his future home. MIR.
Beckley has moved into Tobey's house
where he expects to live this summer.
Mr.. Kilsa thinks some of selling his
stay here kilsa, for there are so many
new neighbOrs coming in.
There was 4 surprise party at MIR.
Kilsas about the twenty ninth. There
was also u gathering of young people
Of the community at Mr.. Bass a few
evenings later, they all seem to have
had a pleasant time. =.
Mr.. Carpenter and Mr.. Dire accom-
panied by Mr.. G. Green have gone to
Sioux Falls, Dakota. =:
Miss Abbott took her school to Wor-
thington a short time ago, with the
intention Of having u picture of the
group taken.
The Sunday school in Dist. AZ elect
~ 1ro
Sanford Peterson foreman of the
Roche farm has returned home and
we understand, intends to build a
house this summer which looks sns-
picious, don't it? GHOST.