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:IHB GOOD ANGEL.
By OCTAVE THANET.
rCopyr,eht, 1sO5, by the Author.l

r By OCTAVE THANET. TCopyright, 1895, by the Author.l We were a house party spending a few days at Rogers country house at Highland Park. Though Roger is Chi lscago lawyer, he was born a Virginian, and we recalled many an evening over a bowl of genuine Virginian eggnog. A noble fire blazed up Rogers colonial chimney, as generous, if not so crooked, as his ancestors chimneys in Berkeley Manor, and we could, did we choose, rest our eyes from its blinding splendor by a search through the dusk and the moonit night outside the window panes, until the vast dark bulk of the lake shaped itself out of the incessant moan of it's surf on the beach.
 Somehow our talk, which had started lightly enough amid dead and gone Vir- ginian revels, sank into somber mood, and presently we were discussing, not an occasional misstep over the bounds of temperance, but the black problem of drunkenness itself.
 The judge had high opinion of the Keeley cure, but the doctor believed in legislation backed by good stiff sen- tence in prison. Roger had listened, saying nothing, but pufing away at that brier wood pipe of his that he smokes whenever he is under the protec tion of his own household gods. At last he removed the pipe and poised it in air, with the manner of one about to speak. We all listened, for Roger does not often discourse out of court, and when he does he is likely to have some thing to say. Besides, Roger is the best fellow in the world.
 ''I have nothing to say against the Keeley cure," said Roger in his soft, deliberative tones. 'FNo doubt it helps some men nightly, and that is not say ing that the doctor here cannot give us as good 8 hypodermic as they give at Dwight; there is the contagion of sym pathy and the influence of faith to be taken into account, you know. There is sense, too, in what Ben," waving the pipe at the doctor, ''has to say about fear as deterrent, and dare say many fellows have been reformed through their affections, which is the pleasing theory of the ladies. My own impress sion is that each case has 8 possible cure, if we could only find it. I know man who was scared into reform, and another man who reformed neither from fear nor favor, but principally, think, because he saw the odiousness of his own vice in another mans actions. That was queer case.
 "You mean Jimmy,' said the judge. "See here, Roger, your wife isn't here, and we are all in the family; tell us about Jimmy"
 Patty wouldn't t mind, know. Tell them, Roger" said his sister. So in the end Roger did tell us. <.
 He rubbed the shining top of his head, from which his brown curls are receding; his kind, keen eyes contract ed absently; he sighed and began.
 My first acquaintance with Jim n.y." said Roger, "goes back to peri cd that makes me feel my age, for I was old enough to be in Harvard Law school, and Jimmy was in mickerbock- ers found him in high seat of cir GUS in Chicago, exulting in the dangers of the trapeze. He had made friends with newsbOy-even at that tender age JimmY's perilous sociability was in
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"A shilling apiece? No, sir; not at a shilling apiece. I'll give you what you gave for 'em and a shilling apiece over to soothe your injured feelings What d 'ye think of that?'
 MT. Scherer found his magnanimity so exhilarating that he drew himself up, threw open his coat and slipped Georges Evening Intelligence into his own pocket.
 "You doubt my honesty and my good faith, ell, my dear sir, he said, pull ing out his checkbook and a roll of notes Last week you paid me 9250. If you will be so good as to hand me back the scrip, shall have much pleasure in handing you my check for e362 l0s,, or perhaps, " he added, with cutting sar casm, "since you doubt my honesty you would prefer Bank of England notes?"
 George, who had risen, half dazed, had, just enough presence Of m1nd to gasp ill his astonishment;
 "If it $ all the same to you, should.
 Certainly, my dear sir. "
 "I'm only delighted to hand it back to you, said George fervently as he passed over the scrip and received the crisp notes and gleaming gold in ex- change.
 "And yet, strange to say," laughed Scherer, "I can assure you I'm no less delighted to take it back Ha, ha, hal Ha, ha, hap for some moments the cachination prevented speech. When Scherer found breath, he remarked to his bewildered friend: My dear George, let me give you a word of advice-in fact, two words. Don't doubt your friends honesty again, and when you hold active shares keep a sharp eye on the papers, Ha, ha, hav'
 "The papers?" echoed Littlecash. Why, no, I haven t seen tonight's paper yet," and he struck bell
 "Yes, sir?'' said the office boy
 "Where's tonight's evening paper, Tippetts?"
 "Ain't come ill yet, sir '
 "Oh, yes, it has" corrected Mir Scherer, choking with laughter as he just-just mechanically picked it up for moment myself "
 But the office boy triumphed.
 That's hold one, sir. Tonight's ain t come ill not yet, sir. "
 "Not come imp shrieked Scherer, turning to the date. "Why, good Lord ! The d--d paper a month oldW
 MT. Scherer' s exclamations as he sank into Georges chair were so shockingly profane that even the office boy turned pale and expected flash of lightning.
 George got his friend out of the office at last but made a point of handing him back the odd G12 lO-"to soothe his feelings" The wedding took place, and Uncle Piper will never know the particulars of Georges first-and last little adventure on the Stock Exchange. St. James Budget.
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"Never a,-v:rc, fly Gear George. Don't do it-on pr nciple Cut your losses, let your prcti;' run, is our old wheeze But it's rD good being too nasty. I'll ; fall is mpIy duo to some body being ill too bS a hurry to pocket profit But you judge for yourself dear boy; that's what I advise. ''
 Next day Gold Bugs had crawled down stairs two Or three steps mole.
 'It's nothing, George" said the opti- mistic Schercr. "Wcak holders couldn t last out. That's my explanation. Still don't be guided by me. "
 Next day after that Gold Bugs had fallen so heavily that you couldn't find anybody to pick them up again at any price. And just then of course to make amends George Littlecash was reminded by his tailor of "that little account" which had been overlooked so many quarters. It was i'll this doleful hour as he sat savagely biting his lips, knitting his brOws and inwardly cursing Scherer and all his works that he glanced vague ly at a copy of The Evening Intelligence.
 Renewed Activity In Rand Shares" was the line ill large type that caught the discOnsolate investors eye as the paper lay OH his desk.
 "ConfOund Rand shares! !'' he ejacu- lated fervently, wheeling around as though from a too affectionate snake.
 Just then, as luck had it, in popped the beaming and expansive Scherer.
 "Why, George, my dear boy, you re looking as ghastly as James Canham Read when he was taken from life, as the waxworks bill says. Nothing seri- ous, I hope? Gal chucked you?"
 "LoOk here, Scherer, don t want you blarneying again, I've had quite enough of Rand shales, thanks-in fact, a long site too much.
 low," ScLerer returned, with look of pained virtue, ''yOu really don't t mean to tell me that's what put you down in the dumps--that little matter of two fifty, when you stood to win as many thousands Bless my soulp' Scherer's eye had just caught the line in The Evening Intelligence. "H.tve you seeu the paper tonight?"
 "No," replied George, whose back was turned, "nor want to. I'm sick of the whole thing You knew, for told you, cOuldn t risk anything under the circumstances unless it was absolutely certain.
 And that s what you call 'risk?'" "
 "Oh, hang! I know it's my own flult-only don't bother me with any more of these fine tales ''
 "Now, call this very unlSind of you, George, said Scherer, injured II do indeed" And so saying MT. Scherer cast an eye down the money column. When it reached "Gold Bugs" that particular eye fared up like a fusee,
 "Now, what should you say if Gold Bugs went up again to 54, eh?'
 "RotP'
 "Right you are, dear boy. Rot, is it? Well well, you think 1 misled you about that little deal, eh?"
 "Well, if you want plain speaking, Mr Scherer. think you did"
 "And you and I friends, Georgel This is what comes of trying to do man good turn! Now, what do you say if offer to take those shares off your hands again, since you're so cut up over 'em?"
 "At shilling apiece, suppose. Ha, hal''
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"qGVe me G most It1ITepentGnt gTt1I." tence when he was getting over it of intoxication. but he announced boldly that he didn't intend to give up his times-only, in deference to the morbid sensitiveness of his family, he might agree to have rather fewer of them. I assure you he would argue the matter cool as a darky with chicken under his hat. It was redeeming trait of my gentleman that he wasn't little bit of hypocrite. You have DO idea, Roger; what a glorious sensation it is to let yourself go, says he. You deadly re- spectacle fellows that are forever chok- ing your natural passions and handcuff- ing any instinct that is bit wild, you don't realize the tremendous exhilara- tion there is in the gallop.
 ''At this he swung round in his chair, and says he, I say, Roger, were you ever drunk""
 "Well," said Rogers sister, for Rog- CT had paused.
 II told him, " answered Roger, "that once in myfcollege days, when our base ball team won, had made all the diff ferent kinds of an ass of myself, includ- ing that, and had awakened the next morning with my head like a sawmill gone wrong, and my throat like baked leather, and, my stomach beneath con- tempt; had spent several days in CUTS ing myself and paying my bills, and had never repeated the experience.
 That's odd, said Jimmy affably; I never even have 8 headache until get quite done up, you know, and don t think make an ass of myself.
 You do, l rapped out, and par ticularly nauseous one. I wish you could see yourself.
 "But he simply laughed and asked me to lend him a double X; there was no moving Jimmy. made every ap- peal my imagination could suggest. I even talked about his mother, who was broken hearted over him. Then he lost his temper for the first time He spoke like much injured man, demanding to know why we allowed Mrs. Cunning ham to guess anything about his carous- a1s. Didn t he take particular pains, he asked with an, air of indignant virtue, to keep them from her? And here was that chump Ralph toddling over to her, or writing every time he was late at the1 oficel And he had always treated Ralph so squarely; always gave him warning when he, was going to take a week off : yes. and put off his fun when \
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Two LIVES SAvED.-Mrs. Phebe Thom- as, of Junction City, Ill, was told by her doctors she had Consumption and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr. Kings New Discovery completely cured her and she says it saved her life. MT. Thos. Eggers, 139 Florida St., San Francisco, suffered from 8 dreadful cold. Consumption, tried without result everything else, then one bottle of Dr. Kings New Discovery and in two weeks was cured. He is naturally thank ful.. It is such results, of which these are that prove the wonderful efficacy of this medicine in Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottles at B. K. Taft's Drug store. Regular size 5Oc and $1.OO.
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A LITTLE DEAL.

"Presents, clothes, honeymoon. How on earth can one leave out either?" ask ed George Littlecash of himself, earnest sy drilling his penholder into much furrowed forehead. "There never was a wedding without presents. As for no honeymoon-why, Hetty would be jus tified i'll crying off before the very altar "
 What had placed our friend ill this unpleasant quandary was, to begin with, Uncle Piper's check for G5OO. It was a check to marry Hetty and set up house with, and qua cash was satisfactory enough, but accompanied with the wise avuncUlar injunction, "George, marry on cash basis-cash, mind-or never look me in the face again. Such ex- cellent advice, plus a G5O0 check, it is impossible for q nephew to spurn, es- pecially a nephew ill love.
 And then, when he had this gold mine of untold wealth in his pocket and full ocean of happiness to look forward to, George fell into the tolls of a plausi ble fellow, Tom Schcrer of the well known city firm of Mouton, Scherer & Walker. Schcrcr had such taking way of remembering and cherishing atfec- tionately one Christian name
 "Ah! Congratulate you, my dear George. Coming off next month, eh? Happy man! Some of you fellows have the devils own luck. And just ill time, too, for mo to put you on to one of the incest little chances of making com fortable nest egg for the happy home, one of the prettiest chances you ever had. But come into Pipps' and have a coffee "
 Pipps', that long, low, smoky "dive" in Throgmorton street, was crowded with easy hammered gentlemen i'll silk hats, or ill no hats at all, who conversed in pairs and groups with electrical en- ergy. They could not hear themselves for their own talking. "Sell at five three eight, ," Book you thousand, ]" Buy six quarter, "Sell," Buy" "Panjand1ums, " Rhodes, "Bmney's stock, '' "Struck Bibble pebble reef, !" ''Last crushing ten ounces ''-such were some of the scraps of jargon that emerged above the din in flashes of comparative silence, while ever and anon gentleman would draw from his vest pocket little notebook and pencil some entry or other. Almost deafened at first by the hubbub, George Little cash was soon i'll the whirlpool himself, an eager listener to MT. Scherer's glow ing tales indicative of the pecuniary ad- vantage certain to result from small punt ill the South African "boom. ''
 Eighty thou in one deal, my dear George-what dye think of that, eh? Springett went nap on Gold Bug Ex- tensions-put on every penny he could scrape together till he hadn t cent to swear by and came out 80, 900 golden sovereigns to the good. And yet you say it isn't worth trying. My dear George, faint heart never maintained fair lady, if it won her" "
 The upshot was that George figured up his liabilities against his check and handed over to the trusty Scherer G25O to be converted in two days or some such reasonable time into 92, 800.
 "Done !' cried Scherer as he penciled the little transaction ill his notebook. And Fdone" George was, for next day when he looked at "Mines" in the money column he found Gold Bugs had crawled down stairs three-eighths
 "What do you advise, Scherer?" asked George when they met in the city.
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HOw'S ThTa9

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A BABY | KNOW.

Hod's angel was bidden to make her fair. So he wove the sunshine into her hair. He took of the midnoon's s cloudless skies And fashion'd d therefrom her two blue eyes. He washed her white with the sinless snows And painted her cheeks with the dawns faint
 rose.
 He dimplcd her tiny hands and feet, tTe made her sunny and soft and sweet, lie nodded her round white limbs with art, He got her from heaven a pure child heart. Then he kiss'd her lips and her brow and eyes And brought her, sleeping, from paradise. Such virtue lies in those kisses three That how so weary at heart are we, The look and the smile on our baby's face 9ring rest and comfort and endless grace
 Bessie Gray ill Ladies' Home journal.
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DIRECTIONS
 for using Cream Balm.

ELY'S CREAM BALM opens and cleanSeS 1he Nasal Passages, AllayS Pain and h. tlLmmatiOn, Heals the Sores, Protects tlIn Membrane from
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To remove the cOnstipated habit, the only safe treatment is a course of Ayers Pills, followed by laxative diet Most other cathartics do more harm than good, therefore leading physicians recommend Ayers Pills, especially as family phYsic
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" H. HEWETT, House. Sign and
 w Fresco Painter, Plain and Ornamental Paper Hanger and DecOratOr-Panter Kalso- mining and White-washing: By day or contract. All work guaranteed. Send postal card or call Shahan'S block, Stafford Springs If
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FAIR NOTES.

IL hate to see them leave, 5aid lady
yesterday when the fine cattle OF the
Occoneechea farm were being taken
from the fair for shipment back to the
farm. my chief pleasure as the fair
has been to look at them prettlest
and finest cows ! have ever seen.
"Come right IN, ladies aud gentle
men," said The hootehie koochie drum
mer, yesterday and see the celebrated
dance denounced by this mornings NEWS
AND OBSERVER. That paper said we would
be driven from the grounds this morn
ing, but here we are. Come right in
and see the performance. 1t is your
last chance"
A gentleman went out yesterday
morning to see Secretary Nichols drive
off the ''fake" shows, in Pursuance Of
the order of the Society. There was a
hitch somewhere Most of the shows
were in operation as usual, and this
gentleman suggests that Mr.. Nichols,
initial ny DR.. BlacknalI told them to
get off little further from the road. 5"
Mr.. H T. Chandler, late of Nebraska,
WnO Is now farming near Ealelgh, got
six premiums at the fair on white leg
horns, bronze turkeys and fae hogs.
lsDo you see this SOW n he asked Well,
paid fifty dollars for her, and nave
already raised one litter of pigs which /
sold for fifty dollars can easily raise
Two litters per year, making oae hundred
dollars per year on an invest Of fifty dol
lars. Can you fad better investment
anywhere than thatf'
There was nothing at the fair hat at
tracted more attention than tho mam-
moth ear of corn in the beautiful exhibit
of the Occoneechee farm. 1t waa five
feet long aud would shell one half q
bushel Of shelled corn 1t was a marvel
and every boGy went to see it. "D1 y u
mean TO say thai that ear Of corn was
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eat well, if they do not have the flavor
of the kerosene oil that helped to hatch
them.
1t was farewell day There was, of
course, that lack of preparation that
seemed to be in the air on other days.
There was in tead an afternoon sugges-
ton about the day. The end was near,
and even the Midway responded to the
spirit of the closing up of this year far.
The H0o-cbee- Koo-chee girls were hare
to close up. They were closed up Thurs
day ty resolution Of the Society, but
somehow q compromise seemed to be the
card Yesterday. The girls started out
jaunty enough with the ROmeoled tenor,
aud the all around wh0oper-uD, with
sifters in his nose. Secretary Nlch0ls
was on hand, metaphorical
bugbear to Hoo chee-koo chess They
would dive down IN their
tents like rats in their holes Wbea ever
they would see him coming, and found IN
comfort until they got Gu some gingnam
affairs, which took some Of the ludlg1a
ton out Of the Secretary's eye. They
seemed for time 70 be doing a bigger
business than ever, all Of which will in
due time be repented of by those world
lings who saw what they saw.
It was beautiful day; there was a
picnic sound to the voices of the gather
ing of people; the air was as soft as the
stroke of maiden's hand or the feel
of q rabbits fur; the hills and
stretches of wood were whipped
with willowy switches of color,
the evening sky was fringed with mottled
yellow, as rich as the feather fakes on
the back Of the Golden Wyandotte /;
there was benedlotion in the breath Of
the closing day as If to say "Men and
women, be at peace in your homes and
by your fresides, for the BARNS are warm
and the bin is full, and there is love
among you.
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CITY IN BRIEF.

The Mabel Paige Company will give a
matinee at the Academy of Music at $50
p. M, presenting the comedy, 1.-THE
Other Girl"
Governor Carr yesterday issued war
rant for 800 reward to A. K Franklin,
of White Rocks, for tie capture of Jim
Stanton one of the murderers who es-
capped from the Madison Jail.
In the mayors court yesterday one
man was fiued TEN dollars for disorderly
conduct, another, five dollars for fast
driving. One boczar had filed up en-
Wilmington street ''red eye" and at
tempted to paint the town a deep Grim
son, was gwen thirty days On the public
roads.
ga Breezy Time" which will be seen
at the Academy Of Music on Tuesday,
October 29th, is one of the most effective
farce comedies On tour this season. Tt is
diverting without being inane, aud has
a slight story on which to fasten the va
rious specialties, and it has the advant-
age of having as the principals of the
cast E. B. Fitz and Kathryn Webster.
Raleigh Daniels, Wake Forests star
football artist, said last night that the
decision of Wake Forest faculty to allow
no more football killed athletics at the
college. ut is impossible" he said, Ito
keep up local interest in athletics with
out these match games. The boys say
that, since the faculty have killed foot
ball, baseball and track athletics will
also go by the board"
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One Person Killed, One Fatally Im-
iared and Three Hurt.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 25 "A collision oc
CURED this morniag on the Baltimore
Raj road, at Bowie Station, midway be-
tween Baltimore and Washington, in
which one person was killed, one fatally
injured and three injured
Engine 1t3, moving north from Wash
ington with stock train, backed in on
the "" at Bowie TO allow an express
tram to pass, when q work train on the
Pope's Greek Line ran into the rear of
the train.
+. A. Ellis, a droyor Of Fort Springs,
w. Va, was instantly killed. Isaac
Iaarn, foreman Of construction gang,
was injured internally aud died at 2
p. m
The injured are:
a. r johnson, droglr, Of Fort
Springs. w Va, head burned and cut.
W. w McCielIaud, drover, of Hum
bert, Green Byier, ". Va, injured in
the breast.
J. M. skegg3, drover, Of Hughert, W.
Va, injured in head.
Physicians went FROM Baltimore and
Washington to look after The injured.
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Fire This Morning at Three O'CLOCK,

Fire alarm No. "a sounded this morn
ing at three o'clock TIE bakery of Ed
Jones (col. corner Mcdowell and Lenoir
streets, burned. Cause brick fell out
of oven. Damage 800.
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grown on Ooooneechee z" asked visitor
tn the gentleman in charge of the exhibit.
eyes, +" WIS the reply, "every grain Of it
was grown on Ocooneechee farm" That
was the truth, but the fellow who man
aged to string all the corn Of many years
in such manner as to make ii look like
it had grown there is nothing less than a
geninR
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Supreme Court.

Appeals from the 4th district.
Maroon VS. Wyatt, argued by Purnell
for plaintiff and Harris for defendant.
Moflitt VS.. Glass, argued by Beckwith
for plaintiff and Strong for defendant.
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Moro Hog and HomIny

The North Carolina Swinebreeders'
Association was organized at the fair
grounds yesterday afternoon with a
large number Of the most successful hog
raisers u the State as charter members.
Mr.. g. S. Watson, of Biltmore, is the
President, Mr., j. r Holeward, of
Burlington, Secretary, and Prof. Frank
Z. Emory, Of Raleigh, Treasurer. Par
ties throughout the State who are inrer-
ested in the breeding If fine hogs are
requested to send their names to the
Secretary and become charter members.