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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-11
HUMAN INSTINCT.

So powerful Is human instinct, that
some of its suggestions become embodied
in social and household customs. The
people know and feel that at the begin
ming of the sprnig season the system
n S an Alternative an d a
purifying tonic and stimulant, In all
parts of the country it is the custom for
the housewife to dose her brood with
sassafras tea. Among the simple rem
edies that our ancestors employed, this
decotion has continued to hold its own.
The demand for a spring Alternative and
tonic, however, is filed more etficacious'
Iy by S. s, S., which is itself as simple
as natures remedial medicine should
be. 1t purities the blood, ceanses and
stregthens the system, and prepares TIT
human machine to stand the wear ant
tear Of the summer months.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-11
NOTICE..

North Carolina I Superior Court
Halifax County ! May Term, 1881
W. II. Kitchin
Edward Allcott. }
Take notice that the above entitled
action. wherein W. II. kltchln Is
ol,int!fr and Edward Alcott is deten-
dant. has been Instituted IN saio
SUPERIOR Court, for the recovery OF
The sum of $4,000 due for lumber
cut pursuant to contract made and
entered into by said defendant and
said plaintiff on or about Aug -,
1880. IN which warrant OF attach
ment has been issued against TIE
pr2perty of said AIicott, returnaois
before the Judge of our Superior
/ Court st a court &c be held for HSlt
fax County in Halifax town on lJt'
Monday after 1st Monday IL Septem
Der 1891. 80.
Tnis 30,h day OF May 1891.
W. Il. Kitchip, John L. Gregory
Plalatif'. Clerk Snpr Court
Gil It.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-11
DRY GOODS.

Theirs Is large VI aFute 81.
hog.s. FIVE storle. high; each AeoT :
30 ~ go feet, filled with Tie oes'
class OF Goods. They sell nothing
TINT DRY GOODS. Taelr system
Of elhpg every article ST sma'
croft, hut Of lho4r.aiy Tet1-h|s
laai.l,y has been their ruling lf.a~
.lp!e for the past Sky years Every -
thiag II oue p:ice Ia every oa', -"
# Goods are not IS represented, TIE
money returned. Whole>sle ta1 tfs
can purchase AM length waited al
lowest wholesale prices.
Their reputation for aooe-', lar yea.
mos second to uo1e In tue L ;.
Their Departments Include:
Low, MEDIUM AND Htou>PkClEh
DRESS GOODS.
| RIACK AND COLORED SILks.
MOURNING GOODS.
FNBROIDERIFS, WHITE GOODS
VEILINGS, LACES.
+ GLOVES, HOSIERY. UNDER" AM
yELyETs. PLUSHES. TRIMMINGS
|FLANNELS. BLANKETS, COMFORTS
IACECURTAlNs. RUGS, MATING,
PRINTS. GINGHAMS, PERcALES
DOMESTIC COTTON.
LINENS.
TOWELS. NAPKINS, DAMAohS,
HOUSEKEEPING LINENS.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08
sUPERsTITIoUs TRAPEzIsTs.
They Don't Like to See Cross-Eyed People
Nor Cripples.

They Don't Like to See Cross-Eyed People
Nor Cripples.
Trapeze performers have many superstitions.
Stirk, of Stirk and Zeno, the famous aerial
artists, believes if he sees cross-eyed man just
before he ascends to the trapeze that he will
fall and break his neck. Zeno has perfect
dread Of hunchbacks, and if he sees one on en-
tering the stage will ascend to his trapeze
backwards. There are some people who be-
heve that If they watch an aerial act the artist
or artists will fall. How often is the expression
made: "If look at 'em one of 'em will fall
and break his neck, sure" You can not pay
some people to sit through an aerial act. Stirk
cOnfesses that he feels peculiar nervousness
whenever he sees strange face watching his
act for the third time.
Some people find peculiar fascination in an
aerial act, and it sometimes happens that a man
or woman will witness each and every perform
ance. When the Irwin Bros. show was in
Montreal recently for one week there was
mysterious stranger who occupied q private
box every night and seemed to heed nothing
that was going on until Stirk and Zeno appeared.
Then he was all attention.
The third night Stirk hestated as he started
to ascend to his trapeze. He knew this stran-
gers eyes were on him, and he felt that he was
going to fall, but he climbed up and tried to
shake OF his fear. He was nervous throughout
the act, and, sure enough, when he turned the
double somersault, he fell wide of his partners
arms and went headlong down. Had the Mon
treal authorities not insisted on the net beneath
Strk would have seen that mysterious face for
the last time.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08
A BANQUET TO MIR. Ro CKwELL
Handsome Compliment to q Retiring
Massachusetts Nam

Handsome Compliment to q Retiring
Massachusetts Member.
The private banquet hall of the Riggs House
on Wednesday evening was the scene of a very
pleasant affair-the banquet in honor of the
Hon. Francis W. Rockwell, lately member of
Congress, given by a number of his Washington
friends. Promptly at 8 o'clock the party took
their seats at the beautifully laid table, Col
William q. Moore acting as master of cere-
monies. Anecdotes, "reminiscences, and repair
tee supplemented the menu, at the conslusiou
of which Col G. w. Hayes made an eloquent
speech ia praise of the many noble qualities
of the guest of the evening, and yoicing the
heartfelt regret of all at his near departure.
Mr.. Rockwell responded in a feeling manner.
Representative Cogswell then arose and re-
stored the former merriment in a lively and
mirthful speech.
Among those present were Representatives
Randall, Cogswell, and Milliken, Col w. G.
Moore, Majors l.. Lowell Blake, S. n Holiday,
George A. Bartlett, Harrison Dingman, Thomas
Steep, and w. II. Speare, Capts. Matthew God
dard and Burton Ross, Mr.. W. B. Shaw, Mr.
Charles b. Reade, DIR. Walter Wyman, DIR. j. o.
stanton, and Messrs. y. w. Hayes, Peter Gray,
David Coolidge, George o. Jones, and r. D.
Jackson. feature of the entertainment was
the handsome souvenir menu card of unique
and beautiful design, the covers of which were
ornamented with delicate floral paintings.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08

Every season Washington furnishes the
materials for half dozen three volume novels.
The romances of society here are stranger than
fiction, and the best of them seldom get into
the newspapers. The marriage last June of
Miss Lena Caldwell and Baron Zedwitz, Minister
from Germany to Mexico, was the happy culmi-
nation of romance begun some years before In
Washington. During the winter the Misses
Caldwell occupied the old Knapp house, corner
of Seventeenth and | streets, Baron Zedwitz
figured prominently in society as Secretary of
the German Legation. His infatuation for the
younger of the two sisters at once became ap-
parent to all who knew them. Fired with that
spirit of repeated endeavor which rendered the
name of Robert Bruce, of Scotland, famous in
all ages, Baron Zedwitz persistently followed
the beautiful young object ofhis affections from
one place to another. Whenever the two girls
appeared at summer resort the musical Secre-
tary was certain to loom up on the horizon and
renew his protestations Of unalterable love.
Finally he was promoted by the home Office and
sent as Minister to Mexico, while Miss Caldwell
and her sister went abroad for long stay.
Distance, however, seemed in nowise to have
affected the lovers ardor, for several times a
year he regularly went abroad, until at last his
devotion was rewarded, and, Miss Caldwell, re-
turning to this country, was married to him in
the chapel of the new Roman Catholic Univer-
sity which her sister Gwendolin endowed with
100000. 1t was a fitting distinction that the
first bride to enter the walls should have been
the most regally beautiful of all those upon
whom Washington society has looked for sew
eral decades past.
A STORY OF THE DUKE OF CAIRNS.
The romance which first brought Miss Adele
Grant into public notice as beauty was enacted
abroad, yet it is in many ways allied to her life
in Washington as the sensation which her ap-
pearance in any assemblage invariably created
during her residence here several winters since
is undenably due to the fame which now en-
velopes her as the American girl who had the
good sense to sever her engagement with the
Duke of Cairns real live duke, albeit thor
oughly unprincipled man. According to re-
port Miss Grant, upon whose beauty the Prince
of Wales had set the royal seal OF his approba-
ton, consulted no less parsonage than His
Highness on the momentus subject of her en-
gagement, and upon his august advice 1t was
formally annulled. The titled lover, like many
another before and since, reckoned without his
host, or, more properly speaking, appears to
have gone ahead without much attempt at any
sort of reckoning, for no sooner was it noised
abroad that the engagement was declared of
than bills began to pour in from every direc-
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08

defiance at his widow, protesting vehemently
that this calamity had come upon her because
in the insolence of her beauty she had dared to
spurn his oft-repeated avowals of love. Mrs.
de Podestad, with the little son by her first un-
happy marriage, is living in seclusion with her
mother on the coast of France.
SIX MONTHS TRIAL CCURTsHIP.
Perhaps the most novel romance ON record
for any Washington girl is the provisional en-
gagement said to have been entered into several
years since by Miss Patten, eldest daughter of
the late Mrs. Patten, of California, and Sehor
Rafael Cana, whose brother at that time was
Minister from Chill to this country. The for
eigner, though the senior by many years of
Miss Patten, yet hoped to somewhat equalize
all such difficulties by the wealth Of which he
expected to be master upon the sale to an
American syndicate of his silver mines in Chill.
Senior Cana did not speak one word OF English,
while his lady-love was as gloriously ignorant
of Spanish. but they met upon the common
ground Of French, and each sought in this way
to finally overcome the obstacles to a perfect
understanding in their respective native Ian
guages. The plan decided upon in the matter
of the engagement was that it should be held
by both in the most liberal sense as provisional
that is, for period of six months they would
be outwardly all devotion to each other, and,
though all public announcement was to be
avoided, they were virtually to consider them
upon. Senior Cana was to be the attendant of
Miss Patten on all occasions, should provide
her with flowers and bonbons dd Hbitltna, should
secure choice seats at theatre and opera, should
carry her bouquet and fan at parties, and quietly
obliterate himself during the round of dances,
to appear again as surely at supper-time In
return the young lady was to hold herself in
readiness upon all occasions to forego such
social pleasures as conficted seriously with the
sedate disposition of her elderly lover She was
moreover to meet and walk with him every fine
day, and when inclement weather precluded
the enjoyment of pedestrian exercise was to en-
tertain him after the most approved fashion in
her own home. Here the hours were to be
whiled away with music, the reading of some
interesting book, or, when fancy SO dictated,
time was to be forgotten in desultory converse
tion. AT the end of six months each was to be
strictly honest with the other and state what
progress this intimate degree of friendship had
made on the royal road to love, and whether, all
things considered, a continuance was to be de-
sired. Strange as it may seem, the two held to
their VOWS of absolute candor, but the end was
that they mutually preferred friendship to mar
rage. MISS GRUNDY, JR,
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08
A WORTHLESS RECORD.

CIergymen Continue to Neglect to Attest
Marriages
~ had OCCASION" said well-known lawyer,
"to hunt up the proof of the marriage of a
young couple who ran away from Richmond
and were spliced here few years ago.
searched the marriage license books, and the
record of the license was there all right, but
there was no attestation of the marriage cere-
mony by the minister who performed it. The
couple failed to get marriage certificate, and
as both are dead had great difficulty in finding
out where and by whom the marriage had been
celebrated. l had the curiosity to examine the
license record since the beginning of the year,
and l found that up to date 423 licenses had
been granted, and that returns had been made
by the ministers in only Ill cases. The mar
riage-license book as legal record is conse-
quently not worth pinch of snuff. The Pas
tors Union some months ago passed resolutions
and formulated bill to intlict a penalty for
failure to make due return on the part of those
performing marriages, but the measure was not
pressed before Congress- Perhaps we shall
have to resort to the French method of compel
ing civil marriages apart from or in addition to
the religious feature. It's shame that we have
no reliable marriage record In clerks Office -
Free from dust and heat is Derwood Park
William Il. Thomas, Twelfth and G..
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08
American snobbery.
Birmingham Age.Herald.

Our. so-called republican simplicity, fierce
democracy, ETC., is great humbug; we adore
the rich, and we like them still better if they
have been born rich or come of a family that
has been rich for several generations, because
that gives them a tinge of aristoeracy. No
member Of either the Astor or Willing family
ever did anything for this country, nor did any
of them by any personal effort or accomplish
ment ever acquire distinction, except John
Jacob Astor, an unlettered German peasant,
who came to this country less than century
ago and built the fortune on which the family
greatness is founded. We are very fond of our
plutoerats In this country and fond OF obsery
ing and commenting upon their fine doings.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08
CHAPTER OF LOVE AFFAIRS.
SOME OF THE REMARKABLE Ro-
MANCEs OF SOCIETY BELLIES.

How the Rich Lena Caldwell Was Courted
BY Baron Zedwitz and How the Prince
of Wales Caused the Breaking of Miss
Grants Engagement = Senator's
Daughter and Why She Failed to Marry
the Duke De observation-disclosures of
Florence Audenried's Love Affairs
How She Was Saved from a Nunnery
and How the Prince of wnIes Gave Her
Ride in Wheelbarrow-The Story of
Washington Heiress and the History
of the First Engagement of Historian
Bancroft's Grand-daughter.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08


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Free from dust and heat is Derwood Park
William +. Thomas, Twelfth and G.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-11-26
Postal Del livery for Farmers.

1t is understood that the postmaster
general is prepared to inaugurate a
free delivery postal system for villages
and country istricts. Some expert
ments made with $4,000 appropria-
tion by congress for the purpose are
understood to have met with favorable
results. We are told that about $500
were expended IN each place, and that
in forty or more towns where the ex-
pertinent was made, it resulted in
greatly increasing the revenue-not
quite up to the cost in some cases, but
exceeding it in others. So, OH an
average, it is believed that the increase
of business would about equal the in
crease of expenses. If this is done on a
spasmodic experiment, much better
results might be expected from an
established system; and there is reason
to believe that increased receipts
would render it possible to furnish a
one-cent postal system for all letters.
If it is feasible, we hope the proposed
new system of postal delivery will re-
ceive the early consideration of con-
presS.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-11-26
COTTON

COTTON, Nov. 23.-Lots of rain since
winter is over.
Frank Nees is building new barn
on his farm east of town to replace the
one that burned down last July.
l.. o. Brown, we learp, has retired
from the hardware business and trad
ed his farm for a patent right pump
and other consideration. The pump
was manufactured by Aaron Engler,
of this place, expressly for the T. of l.
We have not learned when Lew will
commence to canvas.
F. p. GOodeIl is very poorly with
tubercu ar bacillus ofthe lungs.
Mrs. Nettie Klaiss is able to be out
again after two weeks illness.
Well. Flaxen, | have come out ofthe
Whortle berry bushes on account OF
the recent rains, and to let you hear
from me again. The election had no
effect on my democracy, as it is here
to stay.
J.C. Jones was in Toledo last Fri
day on business
John McGarvey has shipped two
car loads of apples this week.
The Cotton school commenced Mon
day under the management of John 5.
Mohler; we feel assured that he will
give good satisfaction, as he is an ex-
perienced teacher and has no one girl
on his mind. MOSES SKINNER.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-11-26
Every Man to His, Trade.

The old adage "every man to his trade, 4"
has a sharp value and something of the An
glo-Saxon ring, but in the subdivision of la
Dor Incident to civilization every mother
becomes anurse. She decides %het or the
little one is sick and Immediately consulLs
her mentor which gives. at the outset an
amount of knowledge at which many arrive
only after years of experience. 1t is need
less to state whose mentor or medicines she
has in her possession. DR.. Humphreys
mentor and medicines are too well and wide
ly known to require special comment from
us. They are called for, not only by the
mother prescribing for her ailing child, be ,
cause they are mild and etticacious, but by
old and young throughout the land in whom
a continued experience OF their results has
developed confidence enjoyed by no other
medicine. No. seven has become house,
hold article for the speedy relief of coughs
and colds. No. fifteen for rheumatism; No.
twenty seven for kidney disease: No one for
fever, etc. II the child is troubled with
collie, cry or wakefulness, No. three is what
the mother gives now instead of the old
nauseating paregoric. Yes, it must be con
fessed that the power is mild but it
cures.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-11-26
Toledo Insane Asylum.

We CLEAN the following from letter
from Superintendent G. E. Tupper,
published in the Bee Monday evening.
1t forcibly refutes the silly charges
which have time and again appeared
in the Signal and other Republican or
gans, setting forth that the institution
wasnot under coed management, and
that it was in the hands, of incompe-
tent men: iG& 4'iN f}g'sE6i III
Our records now being arranged in-
to detailed report for the year ending
November Is. Sl891i show a. greater
number cared for, q greater average
under treatment, fewer admissions,
more recoveries, a greater number dis
charged improved, q less ratio dis
charged unimproveds fewer deaths, as
few suicides and homicides than any
years records show since patients
were admitted into this institution;
notwithstanding the fact that all the
chronic and infirm holdovers, not on
.ly belonging in the district, but the
transfers from Newberg, Dayton and
Columbus are included, which cripple
the report.
\ The records also show less ratio of
deaths, a greater percentage of recov-
cries, as few losses by escapes, larger
number of successful important sur
gieal operations than any annual re-
port since the opening of the institu-
tion contain. They also show a larger
current expense account and decisive
reduction in the per capita cost, in
Guiding officers salary, than any pre-
vious report; Notwithstanding the no.
torious fact that we were compelled to
pay from 2 to q cents a pound. more
for beef, and double the price for po-
tatoes, and higher price for -four
than such articles cost for two or three
years before.
: Our clothing amount has also Teen
larger than any previous year, show
ings which are not mere assertions,
but recorded facts. Nor is it reason
able to presume that such exhibits are
results ofaccident, instead of evidences
of Intelligent care, treatment and
supervision, in which the friends of
patients, as we'll as payers of the bills
rendered own personal interest.
Such record is not only gratifying
to the management, but it is believed
and advocated, an argument for
changes in control. Such arguments
are as numerous and varied as are the
experience and capabilities of individ-
uals. Ones disasters, sickness, and
betrayal, and his means Of retrieving,
healing and counteracting them,
makes him peculiarly competent for
like adversities. The closer such life
experiences come to US and our loved
ones, the deeper interest we take, and
the greater ingenuity do we display in
the methods of repair and recovery.
No intelligent, observing man or wo-
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-11-26
Blanket Your Horse.

Now that cold weather is at hand it is to
the interest of every person to see that his
stock is properly cared for. Every one
knows how he feels when he is not perfectly
warm and protected from the colds and
draughts, and how apt he is to catch cold
There is no animal which is so susceptible to
draughts and chills as your horse. At night
when sleeping his blood becomes sluggish
and he is liable to catch cold. In recent
years it has become the fixed rule with all
owners of good stock to carefully blanket
their horses not only when out of doors, but
also in the stable. 1t has been found that
horses eat less to keep warm, are keptin bet
ter condition, and are more valuable by be-
ing blanketed. One of the most essential
features which should be looked at when
purchasing a horse blanket is It's strength.
Too much redit cannot be given to the
manufacturers of the celebrated 5-A Horse
Blankets, who for years have insisted upon
putting strong blankets upon the market.
believing that the use of horse blankets
would in time recognize the necessity and
demand the 5-A Horse Blankets. The A
Blanket is what you want. There are 100
different styles made square for outdoor use
and shaped for stable use at prices to suit
everybody.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-11-26
Hezekiah's Surprise.

"Wal, Hiram, if this don't beat all!
The old way for doctors kill er cure,
but here Pve found apiece in this here
newspaper where a doctor offers cash
er cure-' It's fer catarrh! / wish we
had it'd like to try him! Jest listen,
Hiram! The proprietOrs of DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy offer reward of $500
for any case of catarrh which they can
not cure That beats all lotteries
hollow! The medicine costs so cents
your catarrh is cured, er you get $500!
Where's my hat? I'm going right over
to neighbor Browns, to show him. |
never wanted to get within ten foot of
him before, but ifitis the cure of his
catarrh, guiess can stand it onc't.n
Sold by druggists.