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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-10

Train on the Scotland Neck Branch ROAD
leaves Weldon 55 p m, Halifax Is d M, ar.
rives Scotland Neck 05 p M, Greenvtlle A
p m, Rinston 40 p m. Returning leaves Kin.
ston 20 q m, Greenville % a m, arriving al
Halifax II 90 m, Weldon IL 20 a m, daily ex.
cept Sunday.
Trains on the Washington Branch leave
Washington 90 and 90 % m, arrives
Parmele so m and 40 p m, Tarboro 9 As a
m, returning leaves Tarboro 80 p M, Par
mele 80 a M and 20 p m, arrive Washing
ton ii 25 a m and 10 p m, daily except Sun.
day. Connects with trains on Scotland Neck
Branch.
Train leaves Tarboro daily, 5 80 d m, ar
rtves Plymouth 35 p m, returning leaves
Plymouth 40 m, arrives Tarboro 8 As m.
Train on Midland N. G. Branch leaves
Goldsboro daily, except Sunday 200 q III, ar.
irving Smithfie1d 30 m; returning leaves
Smithheld 7 90 a m; arrives at Goldsboro
Is q m.
Trains on Nashville Branch leave Rocky
Spring Hope 30 m; returning leaves
Spring Hope s 90 a m, Nashville 8 35 a m, ar.
rfves at ,Rocky Mount Oh a m, daily exceps
Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves Warsaw
for Clinton daily, except Sunday, at 20 a
m ano 10 p m; returning leaves Clinton at
90 @ IN and ii 80 p m.
Train No. 70 makes close connection at
W eldon for all points North daily, all rail
via Richmond, also at Rocky Mount with
Norfolk and Carolina X. Il. for Norfolk and
ali points North via Norfolk.
JOHN f. DIVINE, GenI supt
j. r. KENNY, Genn Manager.
It. M. EMERSON. Traffic Manager.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
Walking 1880 Miles an Hour.

Have you ever thought Of the dis
tance YOU travel while you are out for
an hours stroll? Possibly you walk
three miles within the hour, but that
does not by any means represent the
distance you travel. The earth turns
on its axis every twenty-four hours.
For the sake of round figures we VIII
call the earths circumference "a
miles, and 50 you must have Travelled
during your hours stroll thousand
miles in the axial turn of the earth.
But this is by no means all. The
earth makes a journey round the sun
every year and a long but rapid trip
it is. The distance of our planet from
the sun we will put at $4,000 600 miles.
This is the radius of the earths ormt-
half the diameter of the circle, as we
call it. The whole diameter is, there
fore. 1S4.000,000 miles, and the clrcum-
ference, being the diameter multiplied
by 3.1416, is about 57S,000,0OO.
This amazing distance the eartn
travels in its yearly journey, and dl-
viding it by 800 we find the daily speed
about 1,5S4.O00. Then, to get the DIS
tance you rode round the sun during
your hours walk, divide again by "a,
and the result is about 66,0OO miles
But this is not the end of your hour
trip. The sun. with its entire BROOD Oh
planets. is moving in space at the rate
of 10000, 900 miles in a year. Ihis
is at the rate of 81 little more than 4o4,
900 miles day, or 1S900 miles an hour
So, adding your three miles OF leg
travel to the hours axial movement OF
the earth this to the earth's orbitaI
tourney, and that again to the earth
excursion with the sun, and you nno
YOU have Travelled in the hour, oo'9oo
miles. 80
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
POPLARvIll4E, MISS THURSDAY OCTOBER s, 1895.

Esquimau. They say that some of
their people were once carried away
by a storm and reached this land sub
sequently returning. One of the ma
tives was so confident Of the truth of
the story that he begged Captain Her
cndeen to secure for him passage on
a north bound whaler. in order that he
might 20 with the ship as far as pos
sible, and then leave it to complete
the adventurous journey in his little
boat.
General Geely, the famous Arctic
explorer, believes that the North Pole
region is continent. He says that
immense masses of handmade ice are
seen floating southwark through Kane
Sea and Smith Sound under such cir
cumstances as render it certain that
they must come from land area far
to the north. The very size of the
bergs proves that the land area must
be of great extent. On one occasion
he saw, in Smith Sound, such a foe
berg that was 800 feet thick, and that
must have required something like
2,400 years for it's formation.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
The Color OF the Eyes.

II has been discovered (and not mere
Iy discovered but also proved) that
taking the average jof Europe anu
America. 44.6 is the percentage OF inep
having light eyes, including blue anu
gray. The proportion Of girls anu
women having blue or gray eyes Is ny
the same computation 34.2 per cent
In other words. blue eyes are declueuiy
rarer among women than among men,
and it is for this reason, perhaps tnas
blue eyes, especially in comDiha.lU. 49,,
with blonde hair, are esteemed 80 me-
ly as a feature of feminine oeaeS
Men have light eyes oftShs- - an
women. but in the intermediate grade
of color between light and dark the per
centage of the two sexes is very nearly
though not quite, the same. In this In
termediate category are brown and
hazel ewes. neither pure light nor gen.
uine black The percentage of these
among men is 43.1, and among women,
45.1. The percentage of dark, or, more
properly, black eyes, is larger among
women. being POT per cent. of the
whole number. while among men it is
1913. Perhaps it is the relative rarity
of dark ewes among men which eStaD
fishes the rule that dark-eyed men are
esteemed by women to be more for
tunate in the color of their eyes thar
blue-eyed men.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
The Sick Buried Alive.

A tribe of natives on one of the Phlt
ipine Islands. known as the Ahetas
have the custom of burying the sicB
before DEATH So soon as high fever
sets in the patient is taken out of his
hut. wrapped in his old clothes, and
deposited in a grave. No sooner has
the body been placed in the grave thar
it becomes at once apparent 10 MS
relatives. that his death (Which should
more properly be termed murder) mus
be avenged. Accordingly, the warriors
of the tribe sally forth with lance anc
arrow to slay the first living thing they
encounter, whether it be man, woman
or child or wild beast.
When thus in quest of an explatory
victim they take the precaution OF
breaking off young shoots of the shrubs
as they pass by, leaving the broken
ends hanging in the direction they are
going as a warning to travellers ano
neighbors to shun their path. Even
should one of their own people be the
first to meet the avengers they dare
not suffer him to escape.
Whether an Aheta is buried alive oi
after death, his kinSmen at once as
semble and destroy all goods and chat
tells he had accumulated during his life
time, breaking his gong to pieces.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
Dog Drowned His Tormentor.

Nelson, the dog, was regular men,
ber of our party. says writer in the
London Spectator. Where we went he
went. He was specially fond of fol-
lowing our trap. and nothing, not even
doggie friends could divert him from
his faithful attendance at our wheels.
One summer we We're staying at the
west coast of SaltcOatS, where the
sands are broad and fiat. and we often
drove along the road skirting the bay.
Nelson followed, of course. The dogs
of the village seldom molested or inter-
rupted him. but one rash little terrier
repeatedly rushed out of his garden
gate as we passed and bit at Nelson's
heels. Time after time Nelson declined
to notice the insult, but one day his
patience evidenly became exhausted.
Turning around he caught the unhappy
terrier by the back of the neck, car
ried him down the sands and into the
water chest deep, put his paw on him,
and drowned him, and then carried
him back to the dry sand and laid him
out there. One crunch of his jaws
would have done the deed and more
quickly, but it seemed as if Nelson had
no personal animosity to the dog, or at
least had suppressed it, but had con-
cluded that the world was better want
ing such a snarling cur,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
The Prolonged Bath.

Modern medicine says that patient
in the st. Louis Hospital was recently
kept Immersed in a bath-tub for six
weeks, for the cure of large slough
ing abscess, a current of water being
constantly passed through the tub.
The writer has, within the last twenty
years, treated many cases of gangrene,
crushed limbs, sloughing sores, ETC.,
by this method, and has found better
results than by any other. Its success
is due to the asepsis secured by the
constant immersion. The presence Of
a large quantity of water is not favor
able to the development Of pus-forming
germs, so that suppuration is lessened
and at the same time the poisOns re-
sulting from the action Of the disease
germs are washed away. These pOis-
ons, when left in contact with the tis-
sues, paralyze the living cells and de-
stroy them, thus hindering the repara-
tive efforts; but by the constant cleans
ing effected by contact of water kept
pure by frequent renewal. the tissues
are protected from the toxic influence
Of these poisons, and healthful repair
Is thus promoted.
While in Vienna some twelve years
ago, the writer found patients living
In tubs Of water, who had been i'm
mersed for periods varying from six
months to year or more. The cells of
the body are accustomed to contact
with moisture; in this respect they may
even be compared to aquatic animals.
The blood cells are carried by current
of watery fluid, and the tissue cells are
all constantly bathed in this fluid, SO
that the contact of water with the liv-
ing tissues is a condition closely analo-
gous to that which is naturally main
tanned within the body.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
POISONOUS FISH.
They Are Very Plentiful in Some Tropical
Waters.

"Visitors to tropical countries, says
J, c. Duncan, an extensive traveller,
SHOULD eat no fish down there without
first ascertaining whether it is safe as
well as palatable. Poisonous fish are
very plentiful in warm waters and
have often been eaten by ignorant fish
ermen with fatal results. These fish
are most abundant in the Brazilian and
West India seas, but they are also
found in the East Indian and Austral-
ian waters.
so far as know there are five kinds
of poisonous fish, three of the mack
erel and two of the herring tribe. OF
the mackerel species called the jurel
is most numerous. 1t can be dis
tinguished from ordinary mackerel,
which frequent the same waters, Dy
certain marks. The jurel has no black
spot on the gill covers, and it has scales
on the back, while the harmless kind
has three black spots and no scales ON
the back. The poisonous variety grows
large and often weighs as high as
twenty pounds, but the others seldom
run over two pounds. For this rea-
son mackerel weighing over two
pounds are not allowed to be sold in
Havana.
1.-THE chicaro is another poisonous
mackerel. which is also found in the
West Indies, although it is not con
sidered poisonous by the natives. 1t is
highly poisonous during spawning time,
| the people of Guadaloupe using its
flesh to poison rats. But at other times
it is comparatively wholesome. The
third variety is called the bonito mack
erel, and is very dangerous at certain
times of the year. while at others it is
safe and palatable. Even the oldest
fishermen, however, do not always
know the periods when it should be
left alone, and every once in a while
some one is taken with collie after eat
ing of bonito.
1.-TWO kinds of herring are also dan
gerous. but the milletto herring is the
only one which is found in the North
ern Hemisphere This fish sometimes
gets as far north as New York. The
most dangerous part of it is the roe,
and | know of several deaths which
have followed the eating of it, 1t is
most frequently found in the Indian
and Australian waters, and is very
dangerous because not easily distin-
guished from another variety which is
perfectly harmless. The only differ
ence between the two is that the pois-
| onous fish has q black nose and a
black spot on the dorsal fin, while the
other has not these distinguishing
marks. In other respects it perfectly
resembles the harmless variety, which
has silvery scales and blush back
and attains length of from five to six
| inches.
"The strange thing about poisonous
fish is that most of them are not harm
full at all times and places, but only in
certain seasons and within certain
bodies of water"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
A Capricious Memory.

A favorite trick of q capricious mem
ory is TO substitute some other name
for the one wanted, a process due to
assimilation. A couple of ladies on
Chicago street car asked the conductor
to leave them at Pennsylvania avenue
There is no such avenue in this
suburb" said the conductor.
But there certainly is" reiterated
the ladies, 1--WE have friends living
there and they ought to know"
Perhaps you mean Keystone ave
nue." suggested passenger, and they
said that was just what they did mean
but they knew it had something to do
with Pennsylvania, which was i'm
pressed upon their memories as the
keystone state.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
rur STACK BEHIND THE BARN.

September is here with the 'ripened
seeds,
nd tbe homely smell of the autumn
weeds;
,,v heart goes back to vanished day,
And am again boy at play
In the stack behind the barn.
noor memory of the old home-farm;
Tbe hedcer rows fencing the crops from
harm,
The cows, too heavy with milk Tor
haste,
Tho barnyard, yellow with harvest
waste,
And the stack behind the barn.
Ipaar dear. dear, the old garden smell,
Sweet william and phlox that ! loved
so well,
IAnd the seeding mint, and the sage
turned gray,
put dearer the smell of the tumbled
hay
In the stack behind the barn.
the side of the stack we made our
nest,
Ind there was the playhouse we loved
the best.
thicket of golden-rod bending and
bright,
Filled us with glory and hid us from
sight
In the stack behind the barn.
fhen, when the stack, with the year,
ran low,
Ind our frosty, morning cheeks were
aglow,
then time had forgotten the dropping
leaves,
that joy to jump from the barns wide
caves
To the stack behind the barn.
childhood years! Your needless feet
pve slipped away with how muct
that's sweet!
ht dreams and memory master you.
Il the make believe of life is through
till may play as the children do
In the stack behind the barn.
Charles G. d. Roberts in Truth.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08

fore him, but he often found it no easy
matter, for the young lady seemed as
shy of Arthur as Arthur did of her.
Matters were in this state-and Mr..
Browning fretted over them very
much-when Miss Harding informed
him one evening that she should like to
work until ten o'clock at night He
consented, supposing that she had suffi-
cient reason for. the request, but it was
not until the hour arrived for him to
go home-for he never spent his even
ings at the store-that he happened to
recollect that it would be unsafe for
her to go home alone.
II hate to trouble you, Arthur" he
said. privately to his son, but 1t
would not be right to allow her to be
out so late alone. and the evenings are
getting so cold now, that l don't like
to be out with my rheumatism, though
l would go rather than she should be
alone"
90 well. father, I'll go, of courseA
Don't fret; I'll see her home" said Ar
thur, amiably.
"Arthur's good boy" said Mr..
Browning to himself, as he walked the
length of the long salesroom. I've no
doubt that it's quite sacrifice for him
to make, but he made it without any
wry face. Yes, a very good boy"
MI. Browning-dear, honest, blinded
man-listen to me. After you had gone
your son jumped up from his chair
where you left him reading, tossed his
book helter-skelter behind a table, ran
across the room to where pretty Mary
Harding was sitting, and taking her
up, armchair and all, carried her to a
place before the fire, and put a screen
between her and the gaslight. Then
he dragged a stool up before her desk
and fell to writing. In less than an
hour the work was done, for he was
fresh and earnest, and she had been
suffering all day with a headache.
Then he brought her overshoes-how
did he know where she kept them?
I'm sure you couldn't have told-put
them on for her, wrapped her in her
shawl, tied her pretty rigolette beneath
her dimpled chin, and finally tucked
her little hand beneath his arm, and
marched down the street in the direc-
ton of her home. What! you wont lis
ten pa ctually walking away while 1
am talking! o, you obstinate old bat!
Well, would you have been convinced
if YOU had been awake and heard Ar
thur come softly into the house at half
| past three!
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
First Wigs.

The use of wigs as mere ornaments
began in France in the seventeenth cen
tury, when Louis KILL, to conceal his
premature badness, took to a wig.
His courtiers followed suit, and the
fashion spread rapidly. The wig be-
came larger and larger, till under Louis
XIV. it reached an absurd size. The
fashion spread In England. also, being
* itn height In Queen An29e Ynigp.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
ssxentx Men 10 Make a Knife.

.In the manufacture of knives" says
one of our scientific exchanges, the d.
vision of labor has been carried to such
an extent that one knife is handled by
20 different artisans from the moment
the blade is forged until the instru-
ment is finished and ready fer the
MARKET.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08

One day, in the latter part of No
vember, Mr.. Browning's bookkeeper
didn't make her appearance as usual.
Nobody seemed to know the reason.
At last Arthur came in.
arthur" said the old gentleman,
where can Mary be?"
He had lately taken to calling her by
her Christian name.
Il believe she is at the fremont
Housew
"At the fremont House,"
"Yes," replied the young gentleman,
taking up a newspaper. "She became
my wife last evening, and you won't
sec her here any more. Johnstone Is
we'll now and will be in in the morn
ing"
90, you scamp, you rascal! / thought
you were at your club rooms all night"
There, Mr.. Browning! now will you
believe what l told you?
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-08
|ROWNING'S BO0KKEEPER.

Arthur," said Mr.. Luther Browning,
the firm of Browning, Burgess Il
to his only son, who had just en-
ed the office. "Johnstone's ill-very
with the typhoid fever. You will
te to take charge Of the books for
ay or two, until l can get some one
J."
he young gentleman addressed
hIgged his shoulders, without reply
and then seated himself in an arm
pr by the table, and took up the
fning paper.
lt the old gentleman-Mr. Brown
was widower Of fifty-tive, and
Is considered old, nowadays, you
W-didn't seem satisfied with this
e reception of affairs, over which
bad been fretting for nearly two
Is before his sons arrival, and
fidgeting about in his chair for
" moments, he broke out with:
declare it's trying-the luck l have
my bookkeepers. There was Tom
IN, who swore by his honor that
stay by me for years If I'd give
The situation, and then went tiirt-
IF to California at the end of six
his. Then came that rascal, Ware,
deserted me just at the end of the
and left the books in a hubbub.
I've had Lane, and Fulton, and
Andrews-luckless scamps, every
pf them. And now Johpstone's
and"-
well, father, don't fret" said
lr, looking up, nervously from his
"Of course, it's not Johnstone's
that he's i'll. Here, l will write
vertisement which will come out
morning, and you'll have appli
enough for the situation before
eek is out. And until you get
pne, I'll take charge of the books.
lon't scold and worry"
nc young man wrote out an ad-
Pment, and sent it to the publish
ice. In the course of the next
here were several applications
E situation, but Mr.. Browning,
somewhat particular, and know
books were in good hands, was
ted. But on the third morning,
called at the store and asked
the proprietor. She was d.
to the Office, which was in the
the salesroom, and where sat
Downing. That gentleman rose
Entrance.
lady introduced herself as an
nt for the situation of book
AS she spoke, she threw aside
Mr.. Browning glanced earn
the young and pretty face thus
\, and Arthur, after a glance In
be direction, left his desk and
to window near by.
(ad never been regularly en-
u the business, she said, but
assisted her uncle, who was a
Z, and kept his own books, and
|ght herself capable Of assum-
situation and giving satisfac-
e could also give satisfactory
rs, she believed. Mr.. Brown
ed pleased by the lady's man.
at the end of the interview re-
ger to call again at the last Of
before which time he would
ne persons she had referred
said he, rubbing his hands,
mad Of expressing pleasure.
Arthur, I've 9 presen NQent
hs'the right on& ".
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15
BURGLARS CAME AGAIN.
The Residence of Frederick
Marriott of the News Let
ter Entered.
The Thieves Considerately Lett the
Carpet and Some Heavy Pieces
of Furniture Behind.

The residence of Frederick Marriott, the
proprietor of the News Letter, at 1016
Green street, was visited by burglars few
nights ago and everything worth carrying
away was taken by the uniuvited guests.
They made their way in by smashing a
large pane of plate glass in the front door,
and by that means were enabled to shoot
back the bolt of the spring lock.
No more choice locality for their calling
could have been found in the City. Mr..
Marriott's house is located near the sum-
nit of Russian Hill, between Jones and
Leavenworth, where the shadow of po-
liceman is seldom if ever seen. Besides.
at any time after o'clock in the evening
the locality is as quiet and lonely as a
graveyard.
The house has been unoccupied for some
time, as Fred Marriott and his brother
Edwin are living across the bay in Oak.
land for the summer, leaving the dwelling
on the hill in charge of faithful servitor
OF the family, whose duty it is to attend
to the flowers in the garden and see that
the front gate is kept closed SO stray goats
cannot enter and destroy the plants.
Great was his establishment few morn.
ings ago when he opened the front gate
ana discovered the broken glass in the
uoOf. ho aS OuCs CoIn III unlCated his
discovery to the owner, who saw at once
that the place had been robbed. He
notified Captain Lees, and men were put
on the case Immediately.
/. This.is the second time within six months
that Mr. Marrlott's house has been robbed
On the former visit everything worth car
rylng away was taken. and it may be pre-.
sumed that it was the same thieves who
plundered tbs place on the former occa-
sion that paid the second visit. thinking.
perhaps, that additional wealth had been
placed there to make up for the lost arti-
cles taken on the previous occasion. The
loss has not been estimated, but it was
seen that almost clean sweep had been
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15
Whaling ~ were @ ogs9s % % pg " n Catching and xns ne 100 % M

whether Sir Walter Scott made as much
money Sheriff as some of the Sheriffs OF San
Francisco have been reported to earn-how
much l do not know, because l have never
been the attorney for the Sheriff.
Stress was laid upon the fact that the
works of Sir Walter were pure in tone.
From the beginning to the end of them
there breathes spirit of purity which
elevates all the sentiments, which chastens
and refines the human mind-a marked
contrast to the vile literature OF the
present generation, which future genera
tions will regard as blot upon our age.
Then the speaker concluded:
As a man it is recorded of the poet that he
never said an unkind word to any human
being. The servants about him simply adored
and worshiped him. He was simple, kind,
generous and trustful. As writer his
thoughts were pure and elevated and were
conducive to the betterment of mankind and
the elevation of the race.
The speaker was rewarded with pro-
longed round of applause at the close.
Dancing till the stars began to pale
ended the evenings entertainment.