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r j. Leading Paper 1N THE j Largest Circulation : BEST ! ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 153" Rates on Application DISTRICT. 52.00 a Year; 6 Mos. $1.00. TII VD II. M NNING, I K litorand Lrox r. I C.iioiL.iasr5 0.s.oiJEsr3 Hea.-eost's Blessings Attend tt-p.t? j HunsrniPTioM VOL. VI. HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1887. NO. 45. L. THE DARKEST HOUR. For a period of fu years I've lenn victim of a vfrv severe and aznnlzing case of Salt Mwum which affected my hands to such an extent that tuey almost become a burden. My hand became raw and Inrrlfyin?, compelling me to keep it covered all the ti in". I'e spent hundreds of dol'ars for vari out preparations, but instead of bene fitting my condition, they all seemed to stimulate and encourage the progress of the mi-erabio disease, until I had about given up all hope. IJut thank heaven, " the darkest hour in just before day,'' and I rejoice to know thatapostive cure has been found, which is known as B. B. B. Botanic Blood Balm. My family all rejoieo at its magical curative powers in giving me relief. My hand has been cured and resembles a burnt surface after being healed over more than anything else. It ha also curred my two children of a loathesome form of Itch which had resisted all pre vious treatment. I refer to any business house iu Moody and to Thomas Payne. Druggist, of whom I purchased the goods. Signed, , W. A Bryant. Moody, Texas, April 27, 1880. FLESH SLOUGHING OFF IN PIECSE. For two years I have b-en confined to bod with a loathsome form of Blood Poison, which had about eaten me up, and I and others had no hope of a re covery. For a while I could neither walk, sit down, hor.lie down, only in misery as my llesh seemed to be tailing otr my bones in pieces as b-g as a hen egg. My appetite was lost, my bones ached and pained me, and friends evei. shunned me. I used various blood purifiers without benefit, and fceveral physicians treated me until large suns of money had been expended, but not one particle of good did any one give me. On the 19th of February, 1886, Mr. F. R. Jackson called to see it I was not dead, as it was thought I could not endure 1113' Buffering much longer. He concluded to try B. B. 11. on me and pot a bottle from Mr. Brockington, at Beaufort, S. C, and before one bottle had beoa used 1 commenced gaining strength, ray ap atite improved, sores commenced heal ing and wheu two bottles had been used I was on mv feet and walking; arouud to the astonishment of everybody. Witness.- Mbb.Lauba Uabt. Frkd III Jackson. Beaufort, S. C, May 10, 1886. All who desire full information about the cause and cure of Blood Poison, Scrofula and Scrofulous Swelling?, UU cers, Sore?, UheutnatWin, Kidney Com plaints, Catarrh, etc., uau secure by mail free, a copy of our 32-page Illustrated Book ot Wonders, tilled with the most wonderful and startling proof ever be fore known. Address, BLOOD BALM CO.. Atlanta, Ga. A. 11. OWENS. W. B. GODWIN. KstnbliNliod in 1881. GODWIN & OWENS, PltODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND WHOLESALE DKALER3 IN Fancy Groceries, Butter, Cheese. Foreign and Domest'c Fruits, Confectioneries, Cigars, Tobacco, &c, 11",, 117 and 113) High St., PORTSMOUTH, - - VA. It-.epi. 'V a I. MiimiT&MGEL BREWING CO., PHILADELPHIA, - - PA. Norfolk, Va., Manager, P. W. ADAMS. Henderson Managers & Bottlers, E. W. CURRIN & CO. tept. 9-3 I. New Livery Stables ! Having bonubt out the entire livery businPHK of Messrs. Currtn Bros., and added more horse Rod vehicles. w d fire to annoauce that we will conduct the business at.t be mine pltee aud are prepared to do everything in the Liveiy and Hauling line. W will keep a good stock o." horses and buggies, wagons and teams, and -adcle horses, for hire, and our terms will always be found returnable Special accommodations for travelirg men and their baegat-e. Will make contracts for hauling Rock, Wood, Lumber or an tiling that hones cu pull. "Horses fed by the single feed. Hay ot month, and good attention will b given. Soliciting a shard of the public patronage. Very Respectfully. W. W. SWAIX & CO., HENDERSON, N. C. JP S. H ABRI S, s DENTIST Tp HEKDERSON, 3-Office over E. G. Dziz Store, Udia Street it r. 25, 1 c. HOW TO WARM HOUSES. DIRECT RADIATION VERSUS STOVE FURNACES AND PIPES. S, The Artificial Climate In Oar Houp.es. Destructive Effect Upon Health Radia tion from Open Fires Hot Iron Sur faces The Only Remedy. TYc make an artificial climate in our horses. We live indoors in an atmosphere luxated by troves, furnaces or steam pipes, to 70 or W !e.s. ; and we pass from oar parlor or hall into the open air. At a step, literally in a breath, t!io temperature of the air has, for us, dropped 50 to 70 dogs. V o may put on an erzlra coat cr shawl, and shield tho out side of tho body and chest, but wo cannot sliield delicate lining and membranes of the air passages, tho bronchial tubes and lung cells. Naked, they receive the full forco of the chinge the la-t breath at 70 dogs., tho nxt at freezing or aero and all unprepared. We have been sitting, oraaps for hours, in a tropical atmosphere; nay, worso, in an at mosphere deprive 1 by hot iron furnaces of its ozone and natural refreshing and bracing j qualities. uar mugs are an relaxed, de bilitated, unstrung; mid in this condition the cold air strikes thera perhaps GO degs. below v.-hat they tiro graihiatod to and prenared for. Li it strange that pneumonia and bron- ; chiti i are at hendf If wo were in tho West Indies, or even in Florida, and wish to como north in winter, wo try to make tie change gradual. But in our houses we keep up a tropical climate, or worse, for tke air is nut fresh, and we step into an air an ranch colder as i'4 degs. of lati tude will make it. It is in affect going front Cuba to Icelaad or at last to New York et a step, and we make tho journey perhaps a dozca times a day. And often, while we are still shut up m our domiciliary Cuban ciimxto, Iceland comes down upon us from an open wiadow tx replaea air that has had i; nicral refreshing qtaiffcias uite ceoked out of it by hflt staves, farnaces or steam pipe.. And all thos-3 ssddsu haages and shocks of cold eema pu v.g whila the whole Bjstem h.s ita vitality and powers of resist ance ganged down to the law necessities of a tropical climate. Tha effect upon health is destructi ve. Pneu monia has increased aearly threefold in Naw York, is proportion to population, within th hurts flfrj years. Xraekin ba increased evn mere rapidly, and now auses 1,500 deaths in that city evory year, being an in crease of nearly livcfold to tho population iu fifty years. What is the cause? Wo have a sufficient and very obvious cause in tho fact that in our methods of heating our houses wo have beo:i "progressing backward." Tifty yenre ago there vcre f ov.- furnaces or close stevea, and no steam prj.es for warming; houses w?re wanned by open fires. The difference is radical and of great importance. It may bo briefly explained thus: Radiant heat from the snn cr from ax open fire passes through the air (so far as it is puro air) with out warming it that i3 to say, without being obstructed or retained by it (jwst as light does), and oidy warms the pavement, floors, wtdis or other opaque body on which it falls. Ilenco on a sunny day the pavement will bo 100 degfl., while the air above it is only 50 dogs. The air that touches tho iron bars cr surface of tho ro in an open grate 0C3 to feed tho Gro, and then i3 drawa up tho chim ney. Only pure, radiant heat ie thrown into the room, not hot air, and it does not heat the air at all directly, bat worms our bodies, walls, furniture, etc., and the air is heated from them. Whon stove, furnaco, steam pip(6 and hot water pipes are used the air is heated directly and in turn warms the ob jects with which it comes in contact, the pro cess being exactly the reverse of the other. By radiation from open fires tho air is the coolewt thinj in the room; by the air heating method it i the hottest. By opon fires the lungs get I?sa heat than any otkor part of us, and eo are bracod and strengthened ; by tho hot air process they get more heat thaa any other part, because the hottest air rises up permost about tho head, and so is inhaled, making the lungs tender and sensitivo to cold ou our going out. We want to warm our bodies, not the air. Cool air it denser, contains more oxygen and warms the bloo J tuore than hot air, besides refreshing and streagthninj tfee lungs and bracing tham against iajary n going out. Wo want air with the normal amount of ozone. We get it all destroyed by the hot iron surfaces. Tbe only remedy for all these mischievous conditions and effects is entirely to abandon the plan of applying tho heat to the air of making the air the carrier of the heat. Heat wants no carrier any more than light. Put your fire in proper position; take away the iron and brick cadng3 that inclose it and ob struct its natural niovemonts, and, quicker than you can think, the heat will be flashed all over your room; darting out in straight lines in every direction from the surface of tho fire down, up and horizontally; and this without expense for pipes and hot air ducta. If one grate is not enough put another on the opposite side of the room. Coals are cheaper than coSns. An aim est perfect arrangement for worm ing a room would be an open fire, and the en tire surface of the walls and ceiling formed of a reflecting material. Tho least possible fire would warm us, because tho heat would bo kept alive, active, radiant; being reflected constantly f ro:n sido to side, and up to ceil ing and back as quick as lightning flashes; and so, impinging on the body on all 6ides, would give it a lively, glowing warmth, while the air might be ct almost any lower temperature. It would be like having a lire on every eide of the room. Popular Science Monthly. Dangerous Lemon Squeezers. The Popular Science New3 gives warning against the so called galvanized iron lemon squeezers. The iron is coated with zinc, and the "citric acid cf the lemon will readily dis solve the zinc, forming unwholesome and poisonous salts. Lemon squeezers should be made either of plain iron or wood, or, better, like some we have observed, where the stir faces brongh ia contact with the fruit are porcelain. Zine is a mt&l which it readily attacked by the weakest acids, and no article of food or drink should, ever be allowed to corns ia contact with it." Barton Journal of HealA. Diagonal Streets fcr Towns. If towns were laid out with the streets in the diagonal directions, northeast and south - west, northwest and southeast, the sun shin- inir into all the rooms some time durin? every day in the year, the effect would chceKig and salutary. Boston Budget. CONCEIT. The shallow brook That o'er its pebbles, brawling, runs Away, And turns with every break of land or stone. Vexing the air with plaint of heavy burden, While but froth and straws it carries, Knows not the deep, still lake so Eear, That, silent, covers its unnumbered dead. While on its broad breast, to and fro, The thousand ships of commerce go. So our lives. The narrow mind, loud voiced o'er pretty things. Knows not the silent souls anear Dreams not of depths or heights beyond Its own, Or burdens borne in patient stillness. Louise Houghton. PROFESSIONAL PALLBEARING. A Gloomy Trade, but Very Easy and Eminently Respectable. Ho was a gloomy looking sort of person and his face were an expression of woe that mado one think he had it stamped there as a sort of trade mark. He was clad in gar ments of the somberest hue, and from the wide weed on his high hat to the dead polish on his broad soled shoes he looked for all the world like a man in whose family there was a death at least once a year. When he came into the street car a sort of hush fell upon the passengers out of respect for his placarded sorrow. Isy and asked if he had Dy tne gloomy man was met with a bereavement lately. "No, indeed," he replied, "there has not been a death in my family for years." Why, then," asked his neighbor, with more curiosity than politeness, "do you dress in such deep mourning?" "Oh, that's on account of my business." "You are an undertaker, then?' "No, I am a pall bearer," and noting the look of surprise ia his interlocutor's face he went on: "Some years ago there was a strike in my trade. I am a carpenter, and during one of my idle days I passed a house where there was a f uneraL Stepping to watch it I was approached by the undertaker, who asked me if I was going to the funeral I said no, that I knew no one there. He then asked me if I had any objection to being a pall bearer. I said I had none, provided I was paid for it, and we finally struck a bar gain. I ms.de ras ranch that afternoon as I would had I worked ell day at my trade, and since then I have adopted pall bearing as a means of livelihood. I dress in black, as you see, and each mertKnj look over the death notices. I havs foand that my ser vices are very seldom required where the funeral is that f a ynag aaan or woman, or whero the deceased has belonged to any secret societies, and that Bay most profitable customers are those whe have outlived most of their companions. If the dead person hap pens to be an unmarried lady past the meridian of lif a I am nearly always certain vi mo jou. jl uuu inai as lanerais tho pro portion of female attendats outnumbers the male about four to one, and that most of the latter aro close relatives. As it is generally tho rulo to select the pall bearers from among thoco not connected with the family you can see that my serriecs are very fre quently in demand. I generally seek ouirtho undertaker and aaake ray bargain with him, and I average about two funerals a day. It is a nice, easy sort ef life and eminently re spectable. You will have to excuse me now, as I have a funeral ia this street and must get oil hero." Philadelphia News. Ballcling Sites and Choosing Souses. In selecting a house, or a site for a now one, remember that where the sun will shine on tho house fcr some hours a day, one ele ment of good is secered, especially if the sun shine enters et the windows of the living rooms or rooms most used during the day time. After this aspect ha3 been found to bo suitable, and that 0 plontiful supply of sun and air is insured, attention should bo given to the general position end construction cf tho house. If the ground is at all porous, a layer of concrete not less than six inches thick, and composed of cement or limo and broken bricks or gravel, should be spread over tho whole of the ground cevered by tho building. This will prevent the passage of ground air up through fiie floors. Air will travel through the ground for some distance, and, as it invariably becomes contaminated by taking up carbonic acid gas in its passage, is not suitable for inhaling. Tho house acts as a sucker on the groturd; and if, unfortunate ly, the site is one oa "saade" ground that is, composed of all Sao refuse of a town tho ground air becomes the medium of disease. No houses should be built without a well ventilated air space between the earth and tho ground floor. esDeciallv if the laverof concrete on the surface be omitted. Cham bers' Journal. Tricks for the Old Time Clown. Hcro'3 a book I found v?ith some of the ancient wheezes in it: "After the first equestrian turn the clown raay say, 'Now Til have a turn myself,' and then roll over like a coach wheel. Fall upon the ground, pick np eawdust, let it trickle down your faco and say, 'Jfy nose bleeds.' Pick up a pieco of straw far fear of falling over it, then balance it en yeur chin. When the ringmaster sayi I 3ver follow a fool,' let him go first, and ha say, 'Then Ida' Tell the groom when he takes tho horse away to rub it dowa with abbago puddings. A good speech to learm to address to the ring master: 'If yow please, sir, he says that you said that I said that they said that nobody said nothing to nobody.' " They sound childish, don't they! But not one of them striped things ever failed to make people laugh. There are lots more of the same kind, but I won't read them. Circus Man in New York Star. At a Dress SehearsaJ. Prompter (to leaser of supers at dress re hearsal of the stirring Roman drama "Right Against Might") Now are you all right with the cue? Leader I am so, sir. Whin the man in the sheet (toga?) hollers to the gnrrrJ Prompter The girll Leader "Katy Field," we get ready, and whin he sings oat "Rum and Crackers" Prompter (frantic) "Catiff yield," "Rome and Gracchus," stupid! Leader Jesso, ir we an to go for the chap ia the brass wistcoaA. In a rood eld western Msitchnsetta town lives a doctor wh has buried four wives. When number four was a bride of a few days she went with her oldest stepdaughter into the attic to find an ironing board. Seeinr a , board that she thought would answer her j purpose nicely, she was about to take it, when the daughter exclaimed: I "Oh, dont take that, for that i3 what I father u-ics t lv out bis wivea oalr RAILWAYS IN EUROPE. AN EXPERT ON THEIR INFERIORITY TO THOSE OF AMERICA. A Chat frith Chauncey M. Dcpew A Sys tem of Barbarism That Smacks of the Middle Ages Young America in Ger many. "One thing is quita certain." said Mr. Chauncey M.Depew to a correspondent; "that no railway company in the United States could run trains on the European plan and retain its charter. Tbe whole system over there seems to me to be a system of bar barism that smacks of the Middle Ages, and I will teil you why I think so. In the first place, no one is safe in the small compart ments. You are left there alone with several utter strangers; perhaps only two or three and often but one. And this one may bo a thief, a lunatic or even a murderer, with the others as his confederates. Under such con ditions, then, you are shut up in a miserable box for an hour or more, while the train, thundering on, drowns any cries that you could make in case of an attack. The signal bell i3 out of reach, and if you are unarmed or doze for a moment you are quite at the mercy of any villain who may be traveling with you. Fortunately, the evil consequences of this system are not so great in Europe as they certainly would be in the United States, for there tho criminal classes seem to bo less daring than with us. But even as it is rob beries, murders and assaults are so frequent on continental railways as to convince any fair minded person that men travel in Eu ropo at the risk of their lives and women at the risk of their honor. "Then compare tho two systems as regards conveniences offered to tho public. I pass j over untouched what travelers in America 1 have long since learned to consider as railway I necessities, but whieh are abjolately unknown in Europe. I refer to adequate arrangements ', for eating, sleeping, lighting, heating, amuse ment, etc. LACS OF COimXIEXCES. "But I must omphasiao ono glaring do?i oney, which is so utterly inexcusable that in tho United States it weald simply cause a riot. I mean the fact that continental trams are without even ths most primitive toilet conveniences. The annoyance end snffering occasioned thereby is incalculable. Think ef the feeble women and elderly men, of the in valids and children, who are forced to put up with such monstrous neglect. To be sure the companies pretend to furnish these accom modations at tho stations, bat as the runs are very long, the stops short, and the weather often inclement, many persons aro unable to leave the train and take advantage of even those wretched accommodations. "Hero is an illustration of tho abuses of this system. I mention a caso which has come under my own personal observation. An American lady left her seat to enter one of these cabinets, and she was actually locked in and kept there until the train had moved o:T, simply because, having left her purso in the cars, she was unable to pay the few sous that were demanded. "Another serious discomfort on European railways is caused by the incessant jolting, due very largely to the small size and faulty con struction of the cars. If you happen to ride in the forward carriage ef one of their ex press trains, you are thrown op and down and from side to side with a violence which would only bo equaled in the United States on ona of the eld corduroy roads over a western prairie, where tho rails had been laid simply on the ground without grading. YOTJJT3 AK3IUCA IX GIKMAKY. "I will illustrate the autocratic character of European government railway manage ment by two incidents which I know to be authentic. A party ef American students, traveling through Germany, reached the sta tion just as their train was starting. An of ficial called out to them not to attempt get ting on, but as the can were moving slowly they paid no attention to his caution and stepped aboard. The result was that at tho next stop they were met by a guard of sol diers and all marched off under arrest. At first the young Americans treated the whole affair as a huge joko and inquired with mock seriousness when tho trial would come off. But they changed their tone on being in formed that, having deliberately violated an ordinance of the German empire, they had been already tried, convicted and sentenced to thirty davs' imprisonment. In fact, be- j fore they realized the gravity of their situa- tion, they were behind iron bars in the city jail, and it required the influence of the American legation at Berlin, together with the most humiliating apologies on their own parts, to effect their release. "A friend of mine was the hero of the other incident, which happened at the Frankfort depot. lie was about to enter a compart ment, where several seats were vacant, when he distinctly saw one of the gentlemen inside slip a gold piece into the hand of tho guard, who irnmediately declared that the compart ment was 'reserved' . and that no one else could ride in it. My friend was so angry that he at once accused the fellow of having received a bribo, and on the charge being de nied he added, with American directness, that the guard was 'a liar and a thief.' The train moved ofT, my friend being forced to find another seat. At the first station he was arrested for having insulted a government official, and finally, after a great deal of trouble, followed a lawyer's advice, made a full apology, paid all the costs and heavy fine and left the country in disgust. Just imagine if you can such a thing happen ing in tho United States." Philadelphia Times Interview. Opera at tho Dressmaker's. I was passing the establishment of a fash able dressmaker on a stylish street just off of Fifth avenue, when there suddenly pealed out a most magnificent burst of vocal music that evidently proceeded from the dress maker's parlor. It was a woman's voice, manifestly of the highest cultivation, for the mcrceau it sang was ono of those tours do forco whose execution is reserved for great artirio elcno. A police officer who had stopped on his patrol to listen, too, furnished an explanation of tho impromptu concerto. "It's ono ef tho opera sangera," he said. "She's having a dress tried on, and she sings to see if it will give her room to breathe in. The madam does a lot of dressmaking for singers, and youll hear a concert here every day fcr a month at this season of the year. There she goes again." To a tribute as eloquent as this there u nothing to add. Alfr-1 TrumLie in New York News. A MOST INTERESTING STUDY. A Physician Talks AVrat the Philosophy of Walkers and Walking. "There is no better way to tell the habits, characteristics and occupations of people than by the way they walk," said a homoe opathic physician of Brooklyn. "It is a most interesting study. Let us walk along Myrtle avenue, the most cosmopolitan thoroughfare in Brooklyn, and 111 try and point out a few different types for you. There comes a so ciety butterfly a pretty miss with mincing step. She looks best in a poem, for you will observe that the upper part of her body bends over at an angle of nearly forty-five degrees, and that her high heels tilt her forward till she feels she is going to fall flat on her face. The instinct of self preservation makes her unconsciously stretch out her open hands so as to save herself when she falls. I should say it was very laborious work for her to hobble along and keep her bustle bobbing up and down and from right to left with such clocklike regularity. "Here comes an office clerk. He has been at the desk nearly all his life, for there is nothing human left about his figure. His right shoulder is three inches higher than his left, his back is bent aad his elbows stand out. From leaning continually over a low desk with his legs crossed his pelvis has been thrown out of place and the right toe turns in so that he walks with a hoppity jump. "That hard featured man across the street has been a convict. He has the regular lock step, and his right arm is unconsciously 6tretched out in search of something to lean on as he bends forward. It wouldn't surprise me if he sometimes rested it on some one in front of him. "The man just ahead of us, although re spectably dressed, was no doubt a tramp the greater part of his life. Notice how he shuf fles along, scraping his feet on the sidewalk instead of lifting them up. He learned that habit from walking long distances in shoes without any fastening. "The fat woman over there can hardly be said to walk. She propels herself along by moving Crst one sido and then the other. A womaa came to me the other day who was so fat that she eouldn't put her two heels to gether to save her life. She offered me $100 to thin hor down. I told her if I could do that my fortune would bo mado. "Few people walk correctly because they over have boon taught. It is impossible to stand erect when the backs of tho hands aro turned outward and tho thumbs lie next tho person. Soldiers are drilled to stand with the little fingers touching the stripes down their trousers. If you walk with tho elbows close to the sides, and you can see the palms of your hands as you swing them back and forth, the shoulders cant help being throvn back." Tho doctor himself was almost as round shouldered as the reporter. New York Even ing Sun. I Inventor Edison's Method of Fun. A reporter casually met Mr. Edison this week, and he happened to be in more than his usually jolly mood and by the way he is apparently in the ruddiest health and best of spirits. To the Inquiry if he had anything new Mr. Edison replied: "Yes, I have mado a fresh discovery of no little importance a groat advance in electric art tested its practicability and realized suc cess; but I will not name it now. Hereto fore when I have invented or discovered something and published its details the scien tific papers have soon after teemed with an nouncements of anticipations, prior experi ments, hints about piracy and stolen thunder, etc. According to these I have never pro duced a prototype, nothing but poor, miser able little antitypes. Now, this timo I'm going to have some fun with the boys. My new dis covery is fully recorded, but I will not pub lish it for six months! You may give this formal notice, so that the bibliophiles and prior inventors may have tho first chance, with lots of time to get the laugh on mo. ! As the oil men say, I'm down to the 'oil sand,' but propose to plug the well and hold it as a 'mystery' for six months. If, meantime, no claimant appears with a full description of the 'mystery' I'll draw the plug, and I think I'll be entitled to nail my sign on that property." Electrical Review. 1 The Canes of tho Dudes. I The canes of the dudes take on wondrous forms. Ed Knox, who went over to London this summer, told me something about it the other day. Tho stick itself is nothing. It may be bamboo, rattan or witch hazel But the head is the thing. The real English fashion is to have the head so largo and so odd that no one else can have anything like it. These heads are of carved and stained ivory or silver. Representations of crocodiles' heads, elephants' heads, Urbaned Turks, swarthy negroes, dogs, horses, birds and rabbits are all brought into use. One cane made in London for a special New York order to the head of a member of the Old Guard with his bear skin cap. It is of silver. Another is a globe with a map of the world, and still another is a cigarette and match box combined. Among horseman the f ashionablo thing is to have a hollow stick like a swerd cane, from which may be drawn a measure for tho height of horses. The ugly face of Mephistopheles is utilized as a cane ornament by a Fifth avenue saunterer, and some Englishmen carry ivory busts of Queen Victoria sinco the jubilee. The cost of such canes is $25 to $75. New York Tribune. fr la tiiij Sliver Certificate. There is said to bo a good deal of criticism among the bankers of Washington of the method now in vogue in the bureau of en graving and printing for printing tho reverse side of the silver certificates. When Mr. Graves was installed in oGico as chief of the bureau there were soven machines for print ing from plates in operation. Now there arc eighteen, and threo more arc soon to be added. It is asserted that no machine has yet been invented which will take tho place of the human hand in distributing tho ink over an engraved plate, and that with tho present machines It is impossible to get good results with any other color than green. For this renson only the green sido of tho silver cer tificates it printed with the machines. The ink, too, is said to bo inferior to that which is used when hand printing to dono. Tho silver eertiScates printed ea tho nachino aro much less durable than those priaHd by hand, and tho ink will easily rub off when tbo bilk are ia tho leaot moist. Mr. Brooks, chief of the secret service division of tho treasury, said recently that the United States is falling to a rear place in tbo quality of the notes which it issues. He u opposed to tbe printing ma chines as a substitute for hand labor, and says that counterfeiting will increase ia this country in direct proportion witn uja w trxipe i j the une of those machines S03IE STARTLING FIGURES. FEW MEN OF THE NEW STATES NATIVES OF THE EAST. XJnes of Migration In the United States. Facts Obtained from m Railroad Man. Tho Breeding Ground of American Men. Tho South. It is a historical fact that all groat migra tory movements of peoples or of races have been, with few exceptions, westward, along the degreo of latitude on which they were born. In our country tho men of northern birth have almost always emigrated to the northwest. Those of southern birth have followed trails which led to tho southwest. A few weeks ago I was talking with two comrades in the dirty office of an ill kept hotel at Prescott, in Washington territory. One of my comrades was a bright, snappy railroad official; the other was a farmer, who cultivated 3,000 acres of highly produc tive wheat land. I had been traveling through the marvelous wheat growing region known as the Ralouse district, where the es tablished rules which control agricultural operations in the Mississippi valley are ig nored, and where tho most productive land lies on tho top of hills," and I told my com rades what I had seen. I dwelt strongly on the fact that I had met but few men who were from New England or from tho north eastern states in the region. When I asked the settlers with whom I talked whero they came from they answered from Missouri, from Iowa, from Arkansas, from Indiana, from Tennessee, from Illinois, from Kansas, from North Carolina, and at long intervals one would reply that he had been raised in one of the New England states. Tho fact that New England was scantily represented in tho new states which are being created in the west impressed me strongly, and it troubled me strangely I said, as I looked inquiringly at my com rades, "I do not understand why there are so few New England men in this region." Tho railroad official thrust his hand into the breast pocket of his coat and drew forth an enve lope, which he handed to mo, saying in ex planation: "Last December our company placed aa advertisement in tho hands of an advertising agency to publish in all their newspapers. This envelope," he tapped it with' his index finger 03 he spoke, "contains tho record of the answers we received during tho first four months of tho year, and from what state they woro sent Read tho record, and you will then understand why you do not meet New England men in tho west." I thrust tho envelope into tho breast pocket of my coat. That night after wo had separ ated I read tho list, and it sharply indicated that tho railroad official had spoken truth fully. But the list also indicated that tho southern pooplo who livo in tho old slavo states had ceased to emigrate. But I knew that the southern people were emigrating westward in enormous numbers, and this knowledge made mo doubt the correctness of tho deductions tho railroad official had drawn from his list of letters of inquiry received. So I laid it away until I could bavo access to that portion of the tenth census which relates to the nativity of the population of the differ ent states, Tho volumo lies opon beforo mo as I write. I group tho Now England states and tho states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jer sey and Delaware for convenience of illustra tion and as typical of the northeast. This group contained 11,576,000 native born white inhabitants in 1880. Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri and Iowa liaving in 1880 a population of 12, 772,831 n&tivD bora whites, I group a3 states settled in part, and almost wholly In somo cases, by Now Englanders, and use tho group as typical of western states, to illustrate my meaning. To tho figures: Tho total number of letters of inquiry that were received at the railroad office in answer to tho advertisement, which was published in many hundred nowspapcrs, was 4,402. Of this number 1G1 wcro sent from New England, 17 from New Jersey and Delaware, while New York and Pennsylvania sent 493, four-fifths of which were from tho western portions of thoso states. Tho total number of letters sent from the Crst group of states was 67L During the same timo 2,364 letters wcro received from people re siding in the western group of states. It is a significant fact that moro letters of inquiry were received from any ono state which I have placed in the second group than wero received from all New England. And it is also significant, and Indicative of the strength of tho migratory instinct of the western poo plo, that more letters of inquiry were re ceived from the far western states, in propor tion to their population, than from any other portion of the Union. For instance, 403 let ters wero received from Iowa, a compara tively new state, and which contained 1,353, 040 white peoplo in 1880, and 1C3 were re ceived from Indiana, an older state, which had a white population of 1,704,7C4 in 1830. Illinois, which had 2,448,173 native white population in 1880, sent 390 letters, whilo Ohio, having 2,723,582 native white popula tion, sent 254 letters. Kansas, one of tho youngest states, and having a native white population of &4 2,211, sent 3G6 letters, and Missouri sent 375 letters, or 214 mora than New England. In tho region included in the second group of states food is plentiful and cheap. Tho people are not overcivilized. Largo f amilies are raised. It is today the greatest breeding ground of American men. Tho migratory instinct is strong in tho peoplo. They are venturesome and courageous and willing to endure hardship. These peoplo are western bred, and ore western in thought and feeling in every fiber of their bodie. If tbo migr tory instinct has become weak in tho Puritas stock which remained in Now England, tho nativity of tho population of tho now state which lie beyond tho Missouri river rnhonli how it. How is it! In 1880 Kansas, alleged to bo tho belovod child of slavery Basing Now England, contained 22.S23 pooplo ef New England birth. T7 to 1SS0 niiaoto at ntlOS,Kof her calldrom Kspom. ouri sent 69,221 Ohio asnt dlana furnished T7JX9 emigrants t sua. Kentucky forwarded 33,978 of her bin graao bred children to tho Pvoirio otato, or 9,583 moro than Kew England. How is it in Colorado! New England supplied 11,156 inhabitants, a largo proportion of them consumptives, to that arid land. Mis souri sent 12,434 tough, hardy citizens to the highlands of Colorado. In Oregon, in 1880, there were 4,309 people from New England and 10,754 from Missouri. The same Ktory is told by the emigratia statistics of all the western States. Today Missouri ideas and methods of thought are more powerful be yond the Missouri river than those of New England. The Southern people have not ceased to emigrate, but in their case the natural law which compels men to follow westward tho degree of latitude on which they were born has been olyed. The nativity of tbe popu lation of Texas proves tlmt tbe southern people have emigrated as freely as tho of tho middle Mississippi valley. Frank Wilko on in New York Times. The Yanderbilt Dowllns Alley. The assertion of an architect recently that he had built a magnificent bowling alley in the attic of Cornelius Vaudcrbilt's magnifi cent house on Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue lias caused the passers by to raisa their eyes to the vast and impressive roof i f that structure. They try to hear tho tenpins fall, despite the fact that the architect says that ho has deadened the rJls so that nothing can bo hoard, and they picture to themselves the master and mistress of a $100, 000,000 merrily bowling their time away up among tho clouds. This particular Vandor bilt mansion is moro of a mystery than any cf tho others, although ail of tho exteriors aro gloomy and prcteutio'as enough to excite interest. New York San. Schools for IMcbpoeket. Notwithstanding tho aisaronco of tho po lice that there are no schools for pickpockets In the city, thcro ore unquestionably several Fagins in town. A short tin:e ago there was an Egyptian who kept a candy stand oa Broadway, who had no fewer than thirteen boys under his direction engaged iu jockct picking. Ho was finally captured by the police and in his stand was found fully f 100 worth of silk pocket handkerchiefs which his pupils had stolen. 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