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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-24

glance at the girl, then dropped his
eyes bashfully and went on with his
chant.
The girl bent her pretty head over
her work as she tried to make up for
lost time. Lost time was accurately
counted by the general manager.
She did not seem to be part of the
Office machinery. Surely there was lit
tie in common between her and the
typical Office machine, an expert at fig
uring, whose desk was next to hers. His
one ambition in life had already been
reached. He had elm bed as high as an
office stool, where he sat proudly, with
dangling legs, bending contentedly over
his papers covered with figures and
lines, red penholder for red ink above
one ear and a black penholder for black
ink above the other.
He spoke of ''Ouh office" and ''Ouh
Mistah White" and 'ouh Mistah
Brown" He also knew how to turn a
certain set ring around on his white
hand so that the set would show to adj
vantage.
The young girl next to him had no
ticed that he only talked figures. She
sometimes wondered when he laid down
his red penholder and black one with
clock like regularity each day, when
twelve was the figure at which the
clock pointed, to 90 to lunch, if he did
not eat these small crackers cut into
ones tWOs, threes and fOurs.
Her active imagination saw his stOm-
ach and head both lined with nothing
but figures.
AS the busy day Wore on, into the
rush and noise of business there came
the sound of music from the Auditor
ium, across the way. Some one was
practicing a vocal lesson. In an instant
one pen in the office stopped travelling.
The pretty face of the young girl next
to the ambitious fellow on the stool
was turned wistfully and dreamily
toward the window. She rested the
end of the penhOlder against her lips as
she listened absorbed, following the
voice in its wanderings among the
trills. She faHed there" Unconscious
ly the girl spoke aloud.
Il beg pawdon, did you speak to me,
Miss Quivey?"
''No, oh, nO-I was just thinking
aloud" replied the musical voice. Then
she bent again to the work before her.
"Thinking.~ Mr.. Croovelet-the ma
chine-lOolled at her in a puzzled, com
miserating sort of way, as he carefully
dipped his red penholder into the red
ink and returned to his figuring.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-24

trs.-tS from, ,l...r,, b,. 4,ss.s s,,s s,rfL.,.
a balance Of net increase
Then there are details He ha,
gained 50 much cn TN, investment. IIy
has lost So much ou that some thing,
have been handled simply because i'
was an accomm .atiou - his custom
erS. Some have hal 81 npst limited dc
mand. Not oae in twenty Il the pee.
pie who came to his store knew what
4 the curious things were for. other did
not care. Some things he carrie,
simply because il was graft heatjon =
/ him 10 See them IN stock. In The gsn
eral casting NJ 81 accounts for the year.
all these considerations find place. y
the merchant grows older IN years aat
in hl>incss his possessions increase
With every Successive annual invasec
ne finds about him accessory details
which add u or dctra-t from hi. huai-
| ness profit. II takes good JudgmgIt
and a strong will u r-aay away the
delightful losses. and en. Iragc tAc
dlStastcful profits.
We AZ" ali In business. We may not
buy and sell and get gain" but our
lives are our stores, none the less oar
patrons are the people We meet The
profit we make from tn" l2tsrco4rse
may be summed up in the oae word
pleasure. That Is the capitol of this
fanclful trade. Memory Is the iaforna!
day book, checked and posted, WIN b
we look over from time u ui.a", ana
which shows Us past transact 3us. !itr.
was greeting. There was a complt-
ment Further on wa, generous
service. Scattered through II was iar
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-24
BucklCl s drnlca SaIVe.

The Br~t Neive lii tn world for
Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcer, SIT
Rheum Fever Sores, Tefter, ChapTed
H4Ads. Chllhl.Ins Corn, and all
skin Eruption-, and positively cures
pills, or no pay required. 1t IS guar
sutee To give perfect satisfs ton or
mnne refunded Price SOC l.er box
Fu, ~aln +, f {. Whiteheat &. Co &.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-24
The Pot and the Kettle.

The Pot and the Kettle.
This is hard fate, " said the roast
tur&ey u the carving knifr
1T isn't as hard vou arr. ." re.orteA
the knife, as A.s c,."- was turned bass
by the turkey breast Harper Baar.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-24

what did she die or"
she overloaded her stummick with
turkey an mincc pie ou 1.hanitsPivcn'''
"Oh, what lovorly dcath-lIow
cnvy's her corpse. Life.
Movable E"ast.
First Small Boy can't play any
longer Time TO 20 home - ThanIts-
giving dinner.
Second Small Boy -Thank~givin' din
ncr was over two or three days ago.
FIRST ErF ~ We always have our
Jhanl<sgivin' few days late. Pop saya
turkey az things is cheaper then. aa'
heres more To bc thankful for.-Good
News
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-24

Mrs. Cumso-I wonder Why the ses-
sion of congress is arranged 10 begin on
the first Monday Of Dcccm Der instead
Of the first Monday Of November.
Cumso-The idea was 10 have moth
ing interfere with the enjoyment OF
Thanksgiving day.-Brooklyn Life.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-24
The Edlsor's THANH: living

Itt .tIs1E b -AFti.--Htr ibS+
For his y a.li giving dinner le had such goodly
chsr-.
Il Offset cao I.1.cr nd st.rva on Of year;
Ono load ~ e.aot from Farmer Brown. potatoes
from. his patches,
And from his grocery man a ham and one big
box of matches,
He baked tie sweet potatoes, be boiled the
goCdIy ham
And served il in connection with staviu' pot
Of Jam:
He locked the door and spread the feast, and
ate till eventide
Then shouted Praise the Lord" and then
well satisfied, he died,
Atlanta Constitution
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-24

glance at the girl, then dropped his
eyes bashfully and went on with his
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-24

BfDvyN'S IRON BrTTERs ALMANAC
For 1sG2
Contains One Hundred Recipes for Tsss
ing delicious Candy caeaply and quickly
at home. This book Is given AwaT at drug
and general storeA
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
PUBLIC library.

and organized. is attracting to itself
the best talent ami the ripcst scholars
in the land.
1t is not necessary, however. to look
to the future in order to show that Chi
cago is not behindhand in its educa
tional system, at least. The public
school system is most extensive and
elaborate. 1t 10 not yet equal to. the
demand, it is true. but therein it only
shares the condition of many of our
public institutions growing unavoid
ably out of the phenome nally
rapid development of the city.
With scarcely greater means sup
piled by pxation than other citi.s this
municipality not only has to keep up
its establishment, but is continually
building up new features. 1t has to do
in y 5sw decades what other cities
of its size have spent centuries in de-
velopiny. Hence the expenditures by c,r
school authorities may appear cx-
traord'nary. But if it is considered
that it IS not merely matter of keep
ing up Ei,c schools. but also of extend
ing the system. erecting new school
houses !c satisfy the needs of a popula-
ton increasing ordinarily at the rate of
over $1,000 a year, and introducing
more primitive condition. the wonder
must be rather that SO much is accom-
piished " ith such limited means. Still
the schGol taxes are high. Bnt Chi
cagoans do not grumble. If there is
any tax 'hey pay willingly even cheer
fully, it is the school tax, for they feel
that these can be no better investment
of money than in a good education for
their ct ildrcn.
As in other things, SO in educational
affairs Chicago is for progress 1t be-
lieves in the most intelligent, modern
ideas OF education. Does it not sound
strange in the ears Of many people that
the Windy city" t3c city of hog pack
ing and grain shipping, should have the
most perfect Fracbel institute in the
world? Yet this is true. / can speak
by the card in this regard. Being in
position to hcar frequently and di-
rectly from the widow of the greatest
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25

MAIN ENTRANCE TO ART INSTITUTE.
the way of beginning learning fox
himself afterwards"
The main principle of manual train
ing is to countcract the purely intcllec.
tual training of our schools and thus
produce men and women of har-
monious development, ready to turn
to any specially that nature
may have fitted them for and
bring to bear upon it not any special
talents or requirements alone, but the
entire weight of Il fully developed and
rounded human nature. of a man $50
trained in his youth as Prof.
Huxley says, that his body per.
forms with ease and grace all
the functions which as a mechanism
it is capable of: whose intellect is a
clear, cold logic engine with all it's
parts of equal strength, ready to be
turned to any kind of work and forge
the anchors as well as spin the gos
samers of the mind" That is the high
est ideal of education. And it Is this
goal thatthe board of cducation OF Chi
cago is striving to attain. To this end
physical training has been introduced
in our public schools with a most re-
markable enlivening effect, and choral
singing has also been added to the currio-
ulum.
The educational division of the
worlds fair bids fair to be highly inter
esting. 1t is under the management OF
Selim II. Peabody, formerly president
of the state university at Champaign,
Ill.
The exhibit will embrace charts and
tables and all objects employed in in
struction. The woman's department
contemplates kindergarten in the
woman's building, which is to be kept
in operation continually.
H. T.. O. HEINvNASN
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
hung 'em there tha. yon may 4lnd On

hung 'em there that yon may And en-
| easier then you would in the barrel"
Wall, my other half took 'em all down
AMI when she come to the boots he
looked sorter sheepish. Howsumevcr,
it worked we'll hangin' things up SO,
and was congratulating myself highly
that by my mildness hc wuz doin' bet
tes. but lawful heart, it's dretful easy
to get false impressions. and l found
had got hold of one.
Wall, reflected and metitated and
ono mornin' I said to benjamin, says l.:
''Do you rene m ber- those sticks you cut
me about three feet long and as large
round ns a pencil, to make = rustic
we WIZ united?'
Yes" says he.
WALL" says I. lookin' real sweet and
smilin', ~ would like about dozen Of
'cm. now. If it amt too much trouble" :"
"Sartinly," says he. BE you plan.
min another fence?"
NO" says 1.
"Wall, / can cut 'em jest as we'll as
not, but I snum if can sec what you
want of EN-" r-.,. -f
didn't feel no call to explaterate
and my beloved went out to get 'cm,
deeply studyin' as to what wanted a
! dozen sticks for. After he got them
went upstairs, hunted up an old white
skirt and proceeded to business. /
stripped up cloth and fastened on to
those sticks till had n dozen nice
| lookin' flags, aud taSin' advantage OF
| his steppin' over to the neighbours sot
sail 70, nd the garden and door-yard n
| plantin' a flag wherever there WIZ any.
| thing layin' round. When / had fin
! -, oI thar oh <.au On, 'eno n
wavin in the breeze. They looked
dretful pretty shakin' and a BLOWN.
! ! wuz reminded Of village Of tents.
Some WIZ quite near together and some
wuz far apart Before u great while
noticed my other half comm home and
cyein' them flags as il they wuz so
many interlopcrs. lie come in the
house tryin' very hard to keep calm aud
WIZ doin' ditto.
Presently he said: Seems to me,
Huldah. it's sorter cool. Hadn't you
better shut the end door?"
''Sartinly," saysI.
Wall, l delare to goodness. if he
hadn't stuck one of them flags through
the handle of my dish pan which hal
out there sunnin'. I jest laughed then
and Benjamin did likewise. He told
me in confidence that when he cut then
SUCKS ne INlSLEustcO 4 WIZ Ec11 W cut
some unlikely caper with en-
1t wuz more than exprisi in to see
how much notice folks took of those
flags when passin' by, and could hear
'em askin' each other what they wuz
a,vavin for. I kept EN- faithfully
stuck wherever ther WIZ anything lay.
m round, aud IL I wanted the rake aud
couldn't find it in the barn, would
look at these flags and locate jest about
where it might be. l think it wuz real
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
Mt I00l

There's a ,cide difference
between the help that's talked of
and the help that's guaranteed.
Which do you want, when you're
buying medicine?
If you're satisfied with words, you
get them with every blood-purificr
but one. That one is DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. With
that, you get a guarantee. If it
doesn't help you, you have your
money back. On this plan, medi-
cine that promises help is pretty
sure to give it.
But it's because the madeleine is
different, that it's sold differently.
It's not like the sarsaparillas, which
are said to be good for the blood
in March, April, and May. At all
seasons and in all cases, it cures
permanently, as nothing else can,
all the diseases arising from a tor
pid liver or from impure blood.
It's the best blood purifier, and
it's the cheapest, no matter how
many doses are offered for dollar.
With this. you pay only for the
good you get.
Can you ask more2
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
WORLDS. FAIR CITY.
It's interest III the Arts, the Sciences
and Education.
An Extensive Public school system-Em-
Portance Of Combining Theory aud
Practice-Educati6nai Division u 4
the Columbian E1position.

Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, June 6.-Thc name Of Chi
cago is coupled everywhere with indus-
trial and commercial progress. Never
theIess the city is beginning to develop
the higher functions of life, and with
true Chicago genius it reaches ont at
once for the best A sure material
basis is necessary before the iutcllcc-
tual and spiritual parts Of our nature
can be developed. So Chicago laid a
foundation OF material prosperity first.
There was "a time. not SO very long ago.
either. when people said that in Chicago
they begin building houses with the
roof and thence downward to the base
ment. They we're not altogether wron.
1t is a ccninon thing now, and was
raise the low frame dwelling and put
Easements underneath.
But since they began building for a
city that was destined to be the gre atest
on this continent, people laid solid
foundations and looked to the future in
erecting buildings.
So they are doing in the arts, sciences
and education. A magnificent art
temple is rising on the lake front,
which will be sufficient for many years
to come. A huge public library build
ity. j. will be able to house the larg-
est collection of books, and the one
now owned by the city. be it said, by
the way, is none of the meanest- The
Chicago university. now being built
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25

handy for Ben jamin, too, but some-
how as it got out what they WIZ used
for, he got sorter out of patience with
and some he put in the stove. He cal
kerlated folks would know his business
better by them flags then if he adver-
tised in the Shawmy News. for some
folks never read advertisements, and
anybody with eyes could see them
wavin' and futterin without wearin'
specs.
Howsumevcr, they did a dretful sight
of good and 1 hain't had much call to
tear up old shirts to use for petticoat
government l amt no likin' for hen
pecked government. There is vast
difference between the tew: as much so
as in the tropics of the Arctic ocean
compared to the frigidness of Africa.
1t is jest like slight OF hand perform
ance, a rulin' our other halves, and the
more slight you do it, the better for
both parties. Fussin' and frettin' amt
never goin' to cure any bad habit and
it's an excellent idee when Iookin' up
faults of our partners to take day. or
even a week and mediate on our own.
I have taken notice for considerable OF
a spell that women are more apt to find
fault then the men folks, and I arriv to
this conclusion some time ago. that il
amt because they don't have Jest as
much to corn plain of. but simply that
they are not. as q roole, as fond of talk
in'.-Aunt Huldah, in Home.
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
To Find Your Car when Abroad.

Every traveller is aware of the
trouble and annoyance that is often ey.
perienced on long railway journe Y
when after alighting for few minutes
from ones carriage, the bell rings and
the driver blows his whistle, while
the bewildered traveller is frantically
running up and down trying to recog
nize his carriage from a dozen others,
all built alike and painted the same
color. Here he cannot, as in England
jump into an empty compartment. fol
in France the practice of overfilllns
prevails, SO that he must either find
his place or lose the train. The Paris.
Lyons Company has adopted an in.
genious device which win put an end
to all this worry and also make :,
easier for trains to start punctrally
from intermediate stations. 1t il due
70 an engineer. NJ. Edouard Gros. ant
was to be seen working for the FIRST
time on the Marseilles express. NJ
Gros remarked that the mum Der painte,
outside the carriage, often running into
five figures, is the very last thing that
will strike passenger or FIX itself ir
his memory. His device consist. il
placing outside the carriage al
enamclcd plate with. as he calls l.. 8
syrnbolical figure, in black ana wk9I
Paris Cor. London TELEGRAPH.
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
THE OBSERVING MAN.
Some Questions That Annoyed Him Not .
Little.

Some Questions That Annoyed Him Not .
Little.
I've always been close observer
and am blessed with very retentive
memory" said one of party of gen.
tlemcn dining at downtown restau
rant n few evenings ago. II can re-
peat nearly all of Hamlet and most OF
Longfellow's verses" he continued,
land my power OF remembering odd
dates and mum bers and statistics is al.
most remarkable. I'm always discover
ing some inconsequential fact and
clinging to it as though it were of vital
| Importance. ..-,-.-,.,.
The silver-haired member of the party
beamed kindly at the speaker and re-
marked:
II presume you are pretty well ac-
quainted with yourself?"
The man with the good memory con-
fessed that he thought he was
"You have been told on what day of
the week you were born. Do you re-
call it?''
We'll, I shall have to admit that I've
let that point slip my mind
"How many teeth have you at
present."
Really, that is something never in
vestigated."
The other members Of the party
smiled significantly.
"Of course you can tell me instantly
the numbe of letters in your own full
| name?" But the close observer could
do nothing of the sort. He also con-
fessed that he was not quite sure how
many presidents this nation has had or
how many states there are in the union
to-day. The smart man bought cigars.
And, by the bye gentle reader, u
how many of the questions could YOU
have given prompt and correst o.
swer2-Chicago Times.
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
WORLDS FAIR FACTS.

/ TIM English admiralty authorities
will send to Chicago models of . num-
ber of modern English war vessels.
The Ecuador commissioners have had
constructed fac simile of tho famous
palace Of tho Inca Perca. the ruins OF
which stand near the city Of Quito. and
will exhibit it At the fair.
TH1 II. c. Frick Coke Company. OF
Pennsylvania, has decided to make
model in miniature Of its entire plant
Tho machinery will be in operation. the
motive power being electricity. with
gas for the ovens, the coke being repre
sented by asbestos-
The New York exposition board Is
planning to show in its state building
an exhibit illustrating completely the
art history of the state. An effort will
be made to have every New York artist.
painter, sculptor. etcher and engraver
of talent, from tho earliest record. rep
resented.
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
NEW ART INSTITUTE.

training is not fad. provided IL ID
properly handled. We are accustomed
to trace the faculty of reasoning to the
senses of sight api hearing. But the
sense of touch ~. perhaps. quite as
necessary. A scientist attempted re-
Gently to base the entire faculty of
reason and speech upon the sense of
touch. He showed how the parrot sur
passed all birds and most other animals
in intelligence and articulation of
speech if that term may be
used of animal language, and argued
that it was due to the fact
that the parrot had an oppos-
ing thumb on its feet which en-
abled it, as the hand enables man, TO
feel of objects and get true idea OF
their form, which the eyes would not
reveal.
The Chicago board of educ alton be-
gan some years ago to introduce man
ual training in the high schools setting
apart certain rooms and hours and
making the study optional. But it was
found more convenient to establish a
separate manual training school, which
is now in operation and is located on
West Monroe street near Halsted. It
ranks with the high schools and in
cludes all the high school studies cx-
ccpt Latin and Greek and the higher
sciences like geology and biology.
The manual training department en-
braces chiefly n woodworking room in
which the important branches OF, that
industry are taught, and n blacksmith
and machine shop. These tive lines arc
representative of all the leading indus.
tries and fit a young man for any tradc
he may take Up in life.
But the main point in connection with
manual training is not the special
knowledge of trade which child
may acquire. ''As to any learning that
man may acquire By school educa-
tion," says Thomas Paine, cit serves
rather as a small capital to put him in
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
Tr1llc-NIark Case.

Judge Woods in the U. s. Circuit Court
mark case, which is of interest to all drug
gists and manufacturers OF proprietary
medicines. About IL year ago the Hostetter
Stomach Bitters, discovered that q. A. Nc
Kce was selling at his department store on
West Madison street, Chicago, III imitation
of the bittcrs. The original bottles. which
tho imitation article. and the cork scaled
with false or counterfeit metallic cap
Suit was brought by bill in chancery, and
the case came on for final hearing, as above,
aud after argument by counsel for both
sides the court decided against Mckee,
g.antinC perpetual injunction, with ccsts
0t0
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25

Turned Completely Topsy-Turvy
By the m malicious sprte, dyspepsia, the stoul-
and equilibrium by the use of Hostetter's 5
Stomach Bitters. Heartburn, wind on the
stomach. sour eruotations. nervous annoy
ance and disturbed rest, nll Indicative OF
chronic indigestion. are obviated by it. II
is unparalleled for malaria. constipation, bill
iousness, Rheumatism and la grippe
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25

Tho Only One Ever Prlnted-Can You Find
tho Word?
There Is inch display advertisement
In this paper, this week, which has no two
words alike except one word. The same 10
true Of each now one appearing each week,
from The DR.. Hartcr Medicine Co This
house places q Crescent on everything
them the name OF the word and they will
return you book, beautiful Autographs or
aamnleS free.
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
a1o0 Rex,rA AloA.

Tho readers Of this psper will b pSeeee6
% learn that there is at least one drendcd
disease that science has been e6le TO cure
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Cetarrh
being . constitutional disease, requires 2
Cure is taken internally; acting directly
apon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
streng 9Th BY bnildinx up tho constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have 90 much faith fn its cura:
tive powers, that they oher One Hundred
Dollars for any csso that It fails to cure.
Send for list Of testimonials.
Address, r. J. CHENEY Il Co, Toledo, o.
uSold by Druggists, 75c.
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25
resented

THE lock on the door OF a house In
Plymouth, England, on being taken to
pieces for repairs, was found to contain
an inscription stating that it was for
mcrly on the door of the chamber at St.
Helena in which Napoleon brcathed his
last
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25

A DOG with fleas has pretty hard scratch
ing to get along.-Binghamton Republican.
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25

THE Puritans were not speculators, and
yet they frequently invested in stocks.
Feliciana sentinel., 1892-06-25

THE Rams Horn Is published Mt Indian
apolis, Indiana, at Sl.5O per year.