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sniders. Web SILK.

1t would appear from all accounts
that NJ. Chacots enterprise Of the man
ufacture of spiders web silk is to be
pursued on large scale, q factory in
Paris having been taken for the purpose.
Here the spiders will be kept and work
ed at regular hours, and when one OF
them isused up he will be fed and help
ed back to condition again, while an
other will take his place on the bobbin.
An expert, fully acquainted with the
habits of the insect, will be il control
of the spider department Of the factory,
the care OF them, feeding, housing, etc.
In obtaining the requisite supply, if
the latter exceeds what is necessary for
the industry, experiments will be made
with a view to ascertaining which OF
the different varieties produces the finest
quality Of silk, aud in this way those
not favored with Il fine web will be
weeded out Trials will likewise be
made with different diets in order to
determine whether or not it is possible
to train the spider to give forth a weo
that is an improvement on the ordinary
product, the expectation being that
perseverance il this respect will result
III securing Il quality Of silk hitherto
unsurpassed.
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Gladstone aud the Nervous Citrate.

I happened to be in a church ono
Sunday morning when Mr. Gladstone
came in. 1t was church he attended
very rarely, 50 he was quito unexpected.
He had much difficulty i'll finding a
seat for it was free and open church
and apt to crowd up dreadfully. a Gu
rate deacon whom we all loved, but
whose forte was not preaching, happen
ed to be in the pulpit and caught sight
of the primo minister as he hurried in
and looked around for chair. 1t was
almost his first sermon, and, nervous
before, this quite upset him This Mr.
Gladstone quickly perceived, and, pick
ing up his hatamd umbrella, he scurried
to the top OF the church and finding q
seat among the children, sat through
the whole of u long sermon with his
hand to his car, paying the most mark
ed attention to every word. This gave
the curate-I am sorry to say he is since
dead-more courage, but after the scrv-
ice Mr. Gladstone took an opportunity
of thanking him. Letter i'll London
Church Gazette.
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So-e1s with the Same Namc.

When the story teller has finished his
task and surmounted every obstacle to
his own satisfaction, he has still Il diff
Guilty to face in the choice of a title.
He may invent indeed an cminently ap-
propriate one, but it is by nomeans GER
tain he will be allowed to keep it, Of
course he has done his best to steer clear
of that borne by any other novel, but
among the thousands that have been
Brought out during the last 10 years,
and which have been forgotten even if
they were ever known, how can he
know whether the same name has not
been hit upon?
He goes to Stationers' Hall to make
inquiries, but-mark the usefulness Of
that institution-he finds that books arc
only entered under their authors names.
His search is therefore necessarily fu-
tile, and he has to publish his story I'M
der the apprehcnsion-only too well
founded as Il have good cause to know
that the high court Of chanccry will
prohibit its sale upon the ground OF in
fringcment of titlc.-James Payn in
"Some Private Views.
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CANON ANGER ON BURNS.
To Doubts That His Work Was Approci-
nted In England.


In the second Of his lectures on
"Some Leaders In tho Poetic Revival,
17G0-1S20," delivered ut the Royal in
stitu6on recently, Canon Anger, dis
cussing Burns doubted whether his
work, with the exception of u few
pieces, was ever very widely known or
appreciated i'll England. Readers would
not take trouble and were repealed by a
dialect that contained number of I'M
familiar words, while i'll addition to tho
dialect difficulty there was certain adj
mixture of free speech OH religious and
other matters that might easily offend
those who were particular in such
things.
Burns best and most characteristic
work was written in the peasant speech
of his native Ayrshire, but tho English
enthusiast following the line Of least
resistance probably began with the
poems written in English. In these tho
poet was not at his best, though tho
lecturer could not go so far as to say,
with some critics, that English was q
foreign language to him. His English
poetic style was founded OH poetic
school that was already i'll decay, and
he wrote English verso under the influ-
ence of bad models He was not indis-
criminate or inartistic in his use Of
English, and it was no foolish. literary
ambition ''tha& Led him to- abandon the
yernacular. M
N'1 The aaltarn1evseee vt,-sAb. and Scotch
in the "Cottd Shipping L~'s-n-eo-r
example, was 4--e--------------5 ;;7----77. !
tuted one of >the setcre.srof it's beauty
and effectiveness. Nor could TIE lee
turer admit that that poem was senti-
mental if by sentiment was meant clap
trap. False sentiment did not last, but
Burns sentiment is as true and sweet
and pure now as it was 100 years ago.
1t was as song writer that he was best
known to many, though he did not
make his first appearance i'll that char
acter. OF songs he wrote literally hun
drcds, naturally of differing merit. But
the best were transcendent and almost
unique.
They came rs reminder that in lit
erature and art the difference between
first and second rate WAS infinite, though
between second and third and fourth
rate it was insignificant. AS story
teller III lyric measures Burns had no
equal In the development of poetic art
he stood Mt the parting Of the ways
the climax of the old and tho hlrbingcr
of the new He was the greatest of Scot
fish poets, though not the last. His III
hucnce on English poetry WAS incalcu-
liable, and it was he, if any one, who
broke up the frost that had settled on
lyric poetry at the end of last century.
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Keep nm Eye on Russia.

But let US examine closely for Il mo-
ment the supposed friendship of Russia
for the United States 1t snot, it CAN
not be- other than mere words. States
do not differ that arc never brought i'll
contact, and where there is no contact
there is no rivalry, and professions of
friendship may do no harm and can do
little good. But what is there between
the United States and Russia i'll COM
mon that can make them allies?
Russia aims ut two things-to pre-
vent an Anglo-American alliance, and
to prevent the United States from ever
acquiring any voice in the direction of
affairs i'll the far east. The policy of
Russia was not matured in Il day. Rus
sin did not withdraw from America I'M
til she had possession of the lower
Amour, until she had awakened tho
fears of Japan, had taken possession of
one of the islands and had driven her
into the family of nations, where Japan
hoped she might find allies among civ
iliZed states. Russia intended that the
Monroe doctrine should effectually
estop the United States from having
any voice in the settlement Of any
Asiatic question. She may say, you
can no moro acquire by conquest the
Philippine islands than Russia or France
can acquire Cuba. y
Russia withdrew from Alaska for
two reasons-to exclude the United
States from having any voice in respect
to questions touching the eastern shore
of Asia and to prevent Alaska i'll case
any future conflict with the United
Kingdom should arise from becoming Il
part of British America, and it was so
understood at the time by every Japa-
nose statesman North American Re-
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THE OLD CLERK.
A Pathetic Picture Too Frequently Pre-
scented In the Business World.

A Pathetic Picture Too Frequently Pre-
scented In the Business World.
He is a familiar figure in almost ev-
erv business house-the old clerk.
White haired, thin, with clothes that
are always of decent black and scrupu-
lousy brushed, he has sat behind the
same desk or stood behind the same
counter for dear knows how many
wears, growing thinner and older and
muster rs the time went by. Some
times we meet him in the early morn
ING going down to Office or store, walk
ing the same route he has trod for 20 or
80 years with 4 regularity so perfect
that the very policeman on the beat
might set his watch by his movements.
Often, late at night, when we are 60
inc home from the theater we see him
through the iron grated window, still
bending over his ledger, for ho works
slowly nowadays and must work over
time TO make up his accounts. His eyes
are growing dim and he fumbleS with his
glasses, his hands are losing their trick
of deft penmanship, and his brain It's
swiftness. He does not understand it,
but the fly boys al about him, young
enough TO be his sons, rush through
their tasks and are out and gone while
he is still laboring over his Slowly but
surely it is being borne III on him that
he caunot compete with them.
In the managers Office he Is already
becoming problem. Customers have
begun TO complain of his slowness. y
man. not Intentionally cruel, called out
that he wanted somebody who was alive
60 wait on him; not that old fossil. y
woman complained that he had not
matched sample and asked why they
kept blind people. The old clerk heard
them. and it sounded like the knell OF
his own foreboding thoughts. He knows
that the time is coming when he must
go. He has seen it happen before with
Others. First he will be retired to some
other department., with less work and
less pay. They will remember for =
time the many years of faithful service
in which he has seen the firm grow from
small beginnings to present wealth.
Then after q time they will forget
even that, and one day when he has
been slower than usual or some mis-
take has passed unnoticed by his dim
eyes they will send for him 10 come TO
the presidents room, and he will be
told that they think 1t best TO put boy
in that department-somebody who Is
young and quick and can get about
swiftly. Sometimes they give him a
little pension, oftener not, but in Ell
Their case he goes out Il poor, heart bro
ken old man. They talk TO him OF en-
joying leisure, but he has never learned
the art Of idling, and so he hangs about
the store after he is dismissed, walk
ing by it through sheer force of habit.
To others it is commonplace enough
store or office. To him it is the mauso-
leum where lies buried his youth, with
all its dreams and hopes and ambitions,
and there is tear under the smile on
his winrry old face as he says that he
has left Blank & Blanks and has got
too old to work.-New Orleans Plea
yune
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OUR STORED UP POWER.
Mr. staybo.t Considers Man rs Brilt Upon
q Compartment Plan.

y Compartment Plan.
"N1an is, as one might say, " said MIR.
Staybolt, built in series of compart-
ments though he may not know this
fact at the outset, and ho may indeed
go through life and die without know
ing it, taking with him unused stocks
of ability and strength that no had
never known no possessed, simply be-
cause they We're never brought into
play. AS to what will bring their quail
itics into play men differ. There are
some few men who command them
selves, and somo who open at Il touch,
and then there are many who respond
only to tho most urgent call. But there
arc few men who cannot in some way
be moved to action.
"This brings me- for illustration, to
Il brief consideration of the personal
quality commonly dcnominatcd rs sand,
of which, l imagine, most of us possess
far moro than we suspect, for there arc
few men who finally run away-mighty
few who will not stand up and fight
when they feel that they aro really call
ed upon. But our sand is in compart-
ments, and most of us, fancy, open
only one and mako that last through
life, and VIC die without knowing how
brave we are unless some great occa-
sion, independent of ourselves, opens
another compartment and shows us
what we really have in reserve. I might
add that there are few if any revela-
lions that come to us III life that give
us greater pleasure or moro enlarge our
horizon.
1.-The moral of all this is that i'll our
good qualities we should trust ourselves
without hesitation. There arc qualities,
which will easily suggest themselves,
which it would DO better to leave un-
used, better for ourselves and for every
body else if tho compartments contain
ing them were never opened, but us to
such qualities as pluck, endurance en-
ergy, capacity and moral strength wo
should call upon ourselves freely. We
should not take down with us us other
wise we are almost certain to do stores
of these valuable qualities untouched,
but rather we should draw upon them
now and constantly and confidently, and
so doing we shall be grati1ied with our
constant growth in strength and moro
than gratiticd with the attending sub
stantial rewards New York sun.
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Sigsbce's Decoration.

Captain Sigsbee is one of the few
American naval officers who possess
the right to wear foreign decoration.
The emperor of Germany rendered him
the cross Of the Prussian Red Eagle i'll
recognition of his services i'll the inven-
ton of a deep sea sounding machine,
much esteemed in the German navy.
an act of congress, passed in 1882, was
required to enable him to accept it,
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misunderstood,

Doctor just met your wife. That
medicine I sent her by you seems to
have benefited her greatly.
Dumley-Sent her? Why, doctor, 1
thought you said that was for me, and
I was in the hospital week after 1
took Richmond Dispatch.
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A SELFISH SHAH.
The high Prices of Persian Lamb capes
Accounted For.

Tho High Prices of Persian Lamb Capes
Accounted For.
The shah of Persia may be only i'll
the 2:30 class III matters OF diplomacy
and he does not dare exactly to slap
Queen Victoria or Kaiser Wilhelm on
the back when the potcntatos chance to
meet, but, so far rs matters i'll Persia
are concerned, when the shah makes Il
law it is generally enforced to the letter.
y case in point may be cited i'll the
matter of Persian lanbskin. Persian
lambskins are and have long been an
article of staple demand in the COM
mercial world They have commanded
such good prices that the supply was
hardly equal TO the demand. Conse-
ouently, when tho shah one day ordered
spring lamb with mint sauce, the cook
was obliged to confess that the dish was
beyond the command of the Persian
treasury. OF course the cook was
promptly beheaded, but the shah could
not find another cook who would agree
to furnish spring lamb whenever his
majesty desired to indulge i'll that deli
cacy.
This naturally irritated the shah.
After consulting with three or fonr OF
his most trusted advisers, who could SEQ
no way out of the difficulty and who
consequently disappeared from their
homes and society in Il mysterious man-
ner, the shah finally decided that the
commerce of Persia was threatened by
the extinction OF Persian sheep and Per-
sian lambs. Consequently he made n
decree that any person found with lamb
skins in his possession for purposes Of
trade or commerce would be fined hcav-
lily. Since then the export trade i'll Per-
sian lambslins has stopped with a
blunt and nauscatinS jar.-Boston adj
rertiscr
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surmounting the Obstacle.

Her Papa-I'm afraid, young man,
that you and my daughter would not be
happy together You might get along
all right for long time and agree Oh
important matters, but what would hap
pen when the little things came to wor-
"?
Her Loyer-Well-er-we could hire a
Nurse. New York Journal.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude and
imperfect thing settled in the magma
ton, but never arriving at the under
standing, there to obtain the tincture
Of reason.-Ben Jonson.
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Underground London contains 8, 900
miles of sewers, 81, 900 miles of tele-
graph wires, 1850 miles of water
mains, 5000 miles of gas pipes, all def
nitely fixed.
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4 Shrewd Sur.nise.

The professor, who BY the way was
IF Irish extraction, was presiding over
the class in English literature.
"What are the meaning and deriva-
lion Of the word 'impediment:' -
'Impediment from the Latin pc
les, meaning feet, is something in
the way; literally in the way of the
feet 80
VERY we'll. Some one give me sen-
tence using the word correctly"
lie had en- impeachment in his
speech. -
THAT" quickly retorted the profess
or, with the fash Oh his face which al
ways heralded his wit, must have
been the man who never opened his
mouth without putting his foot in it. "
-Pearson;s Weekly.
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What She Heard at Church.

Hc--I suppose your thoughts were all
on your new bonnet during the sermon
this morning?
She-No, indeed, they were not.
81 don't believe you can repeat any
thing that was said during the service. "
eyes, L can. heard u lady behind
me say, Ism tit stunning" New Or
leans Times Democrat
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a Partial Success.

Father-Well, my son, did you break
the new horses so they would stand
Lteam?
Son-No, father, but broke the car
tage.-New York Weekly.
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What could be lovelier indeed than
to have ores memory kept alive by a
Aower, as has been the fortune Of the
hotanists Fuchs, Kahn, L'Obel Dahl
and Macnol, who would have been for
Got. Gotten Ions ago but for the fuchsia and
Salmia, the lobelia, danIla anu magno-
1;o of our gardens and forests.
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ScuEDULE OF THE-f==2
Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic
Railway Company.
Until further notice, will run their
steamers as follows, (weather per-
mitting,) leaving South st. Wharf at
500 o'clock p. III.
STEAMER PoCOMOKE.
Capt. Howard.
TUESDAYS and Fridays for Crisfeld,
Tangier Island, Finney's, Oman
cock, ShelItown, Pitts Wharf, Ce-
dar Hall, Rehoboth, Powell's. POGO
moke City, Mattaponi. and Snow
Hill. Observation-Disclosures and
Thursdays, leave Snow Hill, q Il. m,
Mattaponi 6:30, Pocomoke City s,
Powell's $50, Rehoboth Q, Cedar
Hall $50, Pitts wharf 10, Shelltown,
1915, Onancock 2:30 p. ILL.,. Finney's
8, Tangier Island 1870, Crisfield &.
STEAMER EASTERN SHORE.
Capt. Ii. H. Raynor.
Wednesdays and Sundays for Girls
field, uarborton, Evans, Boggs,
Cedar View. Nandua, Concord,
Read's. Davis. Shields and Rue's
RETURNING leaves Rue's
Tuesdays and Fridays s, Shields
$40, Davis 1000, Reads 1920, Con-
cord II, Nandua 1870, Cedar View
1915. l5oggs 2:45, Evans 3, Harbor'
ron 3:15, Crislield &.
STEAMER TANGIER.
Mondays and Thursdays for Fords.
Crisfie 4, Finney's, Onancock,
Coulbnurns. Hunting Creek and A:es
sopgo RETURNlNG-leave Wed
nesdaS and Saturdays, III essongo &,
Hunting Greek, $3.50, Onancock, $50,
Finney's, 3, Cristield, 6, Ford's $50.
All Steamers leave Crisiield for Balti
more on arrival OF last down train.
Freight and passengers received
for all points on the N. y, Phiia. and
Norfolk. Wicoinico and Pocomoke K.
r. daily, Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia Railroads.
Positively no freight received after
1870 p. III. and must be prepaid to all
points, except on the n. \.
Phila. and Norfolk Railroad.
Willard Thompson, T. Murdoch,
Gen'l. Manager. Gen'l Pass. Ag't.
j. Sawyer Wilson, Jr.,
Gen'l. Freight Agent.
III Z. Baltimore st.
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Fame Eept Alive by Flowers.

In St. Nicholas there is an article on
Flower Names, " written by Ella f.
Mosby. The author says:
Some of the roses have French his
toric names, as the Souvenir de Malmai-
son, and the splendid Jacqueminot, the
soldier
Who shared in Napoleon's glory,
And dreamed that his sword lad won his
fame!
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All, the fate OF man is past discerning!
Little did Jacqucminot suppose
At Austerlit2 or ut Moscow's burning
That his fame would rest in the heart Of a
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ST. stops for passengers on signal
to conductor. 2Daily, except Sunday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-05

DaftS except Monday. IDsiIy eAcspL SUI da,
train on she ScoBland Necs nraucn &c
leaves Weldon 3 61 p IA, HaiifAG go o ~ y
rfves Scotland Neck 20 p 10, 3reaavtils 81
n m Rinsron 2 30 y 10. R8Surnins leAvas ~
stOu 7 so q M, Greenvtlle 81 a m arrtvln, -
Halifax II Is IN. Weldon II ~ = m IAi y -
cepE sunday.
Trains on She washington BranaA ss.
washington 20 q m ana 30 p 10 arrtV
Parmele 10 am and 400 2 "a. re turufns sss "
Parmele SO M and 80 > A. arrive wAaa
ington II Oe m and z 20 y danv srcap
Sunday.
Train leaves TarOoro, n q, oaIiy. sxeep,
Sunday. $50 p m, Sunday Is D N. a RVS,
Plymouth daily except Sun law 7E0 a ~
% a m. Returning leaveg PiynouSn astT
except sunday, 80 q m.and Sunday no q "a
arrives Tarboro 10 O6 q M, II % q M
Train On Midland N. Q. Br6nch leAyc
9oldsooro daily, except Sunday7 10 al. :,
irving Smtthneld 8 30 m; Returning lssva
smtthneld 9 90 m; arrives az GOlds0orI
10 % q m.
Trains on Nashville Brancn leave hosxN
MounS asa 80 p IN, arrives NasRvflIea O. az
Spring Hope ~ y N; resurnInS ss&Vag
sprtns Hope 90 q 10, Nasnviil~ ; So n, ~,
Ftvea AZ Rocky MOuae on g NJ daily axceTa
sunday.
Train On CiIusoD krauysE .S.ssyM es-s~s
for cltuFon daily sGcaps 9UuE%t AZ - 20 t.
% &nd 10 y IA. r@6aro3os ceasy.,. I6G. .s.n -
100 m and $40 D nj
Tram No, II MAKES 54gs. c0nnegsFrE a.
WELDON for an points gorsE lsiiy. "a cA-
via Richmond.
ID. N. EMHRs0N, Gent Pas- ,UA
u h K1NLx, Genn MaaBGer-
Z. d. EARRsoH. Traffic MAuaE@>
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FREE OF CHARGE TO SUFFER-
ERS

Cut this out and take it to your drug
gist and get a sample bottle of DR..
Kings New Discovery, for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds. They do not
ask YOU to buy before trying. This
will show you the great merits of this
truly wonderful remedy, and show you
what can be accomplished by the regu-
lar size bottle. This is no experiment,
and would be disastrous to the pro-
prietors. did they not know it would in
yariably cure. Many Of the best ply
sicians are now using it in their prac-
tice with great results, and are relying
on it in most severe cases. 1t is guar
anteed. Trial bottles free at any drug
store.
Regular sizes 80 cents and $1.00.
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FELL FROM THE GALLERY.

A Fourteen Year Old Boy Plunged
Headforemost Into the Parquette and
Was Unhurt.
Chicago, Ills, Jan. 3.-James Cadyin,
IA years of age, leaned too far over
the balcony railing in Hopkins theatre
this evening, and as result he went
laundering down among the people in
the parquette. How he missed falling
upon somebody is a wonder, but he went
straight down between two Tows of
seats, and touched nothing bat the floor.
He touched this first with the top Of
his head, and then with shoulders.
Luck was with him to the last, however,
and he sustained nothing more serious
than a cash on the head
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-05

Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, O., says:
"After two doctors gave up my boy to
die, / saved him from Group by using
One Minute Cough Cure" 1t is the
quickest and most certain remedy for
coughs, colds and al Throat and lung
troubles. Carolina Drug Store.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-05

Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa,
saws: 'My child is worth millions to
me; vet i would have lost her by Group
had / not invested twenty-five cents in
a bottle of One Minute Cough Cures"
1t cures coughs. colds and all throat
and lung troubles. Carolina Drug Store
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-05

Prosperity comes quickest to the man
whose liver is in good condition. De.
Wits Little Early Risers are famous
little pills for constipation, biliensness
indigestion and all stomach and liver
troubles. Carolina Drug Store.