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Numbeb 6.
MYour
finger on
Yonr Pulse
IN OLD ENGLAND.
You feel the blood rushing
along.
But what kind of blood?
That is the question.
Is it pure blood or impure
blood?
If the blood is impure then
you are weak and languid;
your appetite is poor and your
digestion is weak. You can
not sleep well and the morn
ing finds you unprepared for
the work of the day. Your
cheeks are pale and your com
plexion is sallow. You are
troubled with pimples, boils,
or some eruption of the skin.
Why not purify your blood?
I
1 will do it. Take ft a few days
and then put your finger on
your pulse again. You can
feel the difference. It is
stronger and your circulation
better. Send for our book on '
Impure Blood.
If you are bilious, take
Ayer’s Pills. They greatly
aid the Sarsaparilla, They
cure constiparon also.
MMfe to our Doctors.
In TO!
promv
DR. J. O. AYER.
Lowell, Maas.
Editorial Glimpst* and Clippings.
The Cubans promised that they would
lave between 50,000 and 100,000
nen to back up the United States in a
var with Spain. So far about 2,000
lave inateralized Savannah Press.
Now is the accepted time for a glad
some reunion of the old democratic
>arty. There is no excuse for any
urther division. Let us give our ban
;er to the breeze “united we stand
livided we fall.”
The populists will never have so fa-
orable a time to multiply their popu-
arity than right now. Just let them
Irop back into their proper place in the
lemocratic party and their popularity
vill be simply unmeasurable.
The counties suggested for the new
udical circuit to be known as the
Yiregrass circuit, are Dooly, Wilcox,
iVorth and Colquitt. That would take
me country from each of the following
circuits as at present constituted;South-
vestern, Albany, Oconee and South
ern.
Premising that the Porto Rico cam
paign seems to be a picnic, the Green
ville (S. C) News observes tnat “any
lay in the week we can get up a bet
ter fight than the Spanish army is
making by sending a squad of revenue
officers up into the dark corner of
Greenville county.” Which reminds
the Charlotte Observer of the declara
tion a year or two ago, ot a railroad
tan running into Charlotte, in dis
missing the Spanish-Cuban war, that
there was no town down the Air Line
railroad, in which more men were. not
killed every Saturday than were killed
in any one of those so-called Spanish-
Cuban “battles.”
Those who suffer from impaired di
gestion and weak stomach, and on UC'
tount of this have a peculiar dread of
hills and fever, will be glad to learn
hat a cure for chills and fever is now
anufactured and universally sold
rhich does not injure the stomach but
dually benefits it. It is Ramon’s
cpsin Chill Tonic. Tasteless and
ia ran teed. 50c.
Keep Quiet
tJ use Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
tirrhoea Kemedly. for all pains of the
cmach and all unnatural looseness of
bowels. It always cures. 4 lyr
C'antkkkl’uy, July 17, 1808.
No one -ho'ild say lie has seen Eng
land who has not visited Chester,
Lewes and Canterbury. Perhaps I
shall add other nam-s to my list later,
but these three certainly stand out
unique among the many heart if ul and
interesting English towns.
I have already written you from
Chester, I shall now try to give you
some idea of Lewes,Pevensey and Can
terbury. A faint idea it must be (or
they must be visited to be thoroughly
understood and appreciated.
We landed at New Haven after a
night trip across the Channel, and took
a run down to Brighton to see this
much thought ot English watering
place, and we left it with a sense of
relief a few hours later. There is no
reason why we should not have liked
Brighton. It is a well-built, clean
and handsome city, the Prince Regent,
who was afterwards George IV, made
ii his residence. Thackeray considered
it a delightful place to live in, but when
ah i> said, Brighton remains a hand
some, modern, lashionable, uninterest
ing place, and we left it with delight for
the little hamlet of Pevensey.
What drew us to Pevensey? The
tact that it was the landing place of
William the Conqueror. We got off
at a quaint, tidy little railway station,
such as you have everywhere in Eng
land, and alter a few minutes found
ourselves be ore Westham church, a
grey stone building, partly Norman,
sat in its grassy churchyard. There
was a school in the narrow lane near
by, and an agitated bobbing up and
down of various urchins proclaimed
their interest in our arrival and our
purpose. Alter viewing the church we
went into the castle. An immerfse en
closure surrounded by massive walls
of stone now crumbling into min, with
round towers at intervals, overgrown
with ivy, marked the site ol the older
Roman Camp of Anderidu. Within
this enclosure stands the later Norman
Castle, also in ruins, but one ot the
best preserved, and to me, most beau-
titul of the ruined castles in England,
excepting Kenilworth. The massive
lowers and their connecting walls are
still standing, but the interior is a
mass of debris, and the arcked door
ways are blocked up with fallen stones-
II is exceedingly interesting to see the
handiwork of two races so similar in
many re-psets, for I know of no people,
excepting only the Greeks, who have
left a more indelible mark on the his
tory ot the world than these two, the
Roman and the Norman. There is
something, strikingly similar too. in
the character and quality of their
work. Strength and massiveness
were the distinguishing features
of both, but there was more plas
ticity and flexibility in the Nor
man, and he had a more imaginative
temperament and his strength flowed
into beauty.
Leaving the Castle behind us we
walked down to the sea shore, across
the fields and down a shaded lane by
old Pevensey church, to me more in
teresting than its sister church at
Westham. Such prety lanes you find
in England, but never short, straight
cuts to places. I really do not think
that the English people ever cut anything
short, not even their novels. Their
lanes are beautiful winding paths bor
dered by hedgerows; (it, as our own
Lanier has expressed it, “for the whis
per of vows.”
Down now on the shingly beach of
Tevensey, and oh! the misery of walk
ing over the pebbles. How they roll
under your leet and turn up sharp
corners and close in around you! but
how beautiful the picture before you!
A broad curving beach, with the blue
sea shimmering in front and cutting a
“shining cantle out,” as Shakespeare
would have said. White sands and
blue sky, white sails, like the wings of
birds, and a sea, what color? I can
scarcely tell, the deep blue ot the
sapphire, the flash of the amethyst, a
thousand hues in one. I wish I wpre
an artist, but what use would it be? No
artist’s palette would furnish tints
enough to catch the infinite purity and
sparkle of those waves.
As you stand on the beach with the
fields behind you, some just newly
shorn of their grass, others heavy with
grain, with pastures here and there,
where flocks of sheep graze at their
leisure, and. herds of cows lie in the
sunshine and chew the cud, with the
sea before you and the curve of Pen-
vensey Bay at your feet, you get a
sense of “infinite range and sweep.”
It is a great place, fit for a great land
ing in the history of a great race.
But if Pevensey be lovely,what shall
I sny of Lewes? I have read again
ami again of the Sussex Downs, but
now I have seen.
You stand in a green valley dotted
with tidy little villages,and to the right
and left rise the soft sweep of the
Downs. I know not how to describe
them that you may picture them to
yourself. There, are no sharp edges,
no jagged peaks, no hare, unsightly
cliffs, hut just a swell of green, all
curves and dimples like the shoulders
of a beautiful woman. They are clothed
with grass but here and there in little
jackets where the hills have washed
are plantations of noble trees, and as
the shadows fall upon them and play
hide and seek upon the gcass, the pic
ture is too beautiful ever to he forgotten,
yet too subtle and delicate to be paint
ed with anything less etherial than the
finger of Ariel.
We engaged a carriage and at seven
o’clock in the morning drove out
to the battlefield of Lewes where Si
mon de Monttord took Henry HI
prisoner, and where tradition asserts
that men fought to their knees in blood.
We caught our first glimpse of English
heather on these hills. Our driver gave
us all the historical information he pos
sessed in a nonchalcnt manner, but sud
denly his eyes lighted up, his face be
came all animation, lie had discovered
something worth looking at. “What”
“Where?” Why a windmill with 8
swifts. “Did we ever have any wind
mills with eight swifts in America?”
More heather, new vistas of down and
ami valley, dull stoicism on the part of
our guide, but soon a burst of radiance,
with whip outstretched he pointed to
a race course! Beautiful scenery
ami historic battle fields, bah! a baga
telle! but a race course where fine
’orses show their speed, that indeed
was worth coming from America to
see.
Down again to Lewes to the ruins
ot ihe Priory ot St. Panceas built by
the step daughter of William the Con-
querer. All in ruins now, but the
arches of the cloisters are still to be
seen and some ot the crumbling walls
still stand, faced with massive blocks
of stone. The immense pillars and
buttresses testify to the thoroughness
, could ever have fallen into ruins pass
es my comprehension. Over ail, the
ivy throws its protecting tendrills. I
have seen iyy the stem of which was
twice as thick as a man’s waist, and
the glossy sheen of its leaves adds a
beauty and grace to the evidences of
decay that must be seen to be ap
preciated.
One more object of interest I must
mention before i leave Lewes. Amid
all their stern determination, and daunt
less courage, there existed in the Nor
man a deep religious instinct. It was
the Norman indeed who filled England
with the castle of the noble, but it
was the Norman also who reared those
magnificent temples of God that are
the admiration of the world to-day.
Wherever you find the ruins of the
Norman castle, by its side you will
more than likely find the ruined or the
still existent Norman church.
One of the most authentic specimens
of Norman architecture still extant in
England is the little chapel of South-
over church at. Lewes. The arches
with their chevron and dog-tooth bead
ing, and the. vaulting of the roof arc
all pure Norman. This chapel is the
resting-place of Gundrada, step-daught
er ot the Conqueror, who built
Lewes Priory, and of her hus
band Earl Warenne, dnu their leaden
coffins rest in the middle ot the .chapel.
As «you follow the footsteps of the
Norman conquerors of England, you
begin to comprehend that these men
were not mere ruthless marauders, wan
tonly destroying the works of past
generations. “Stern and stark he was,
and no man dared face his frown,”
says one historian of William the Con
queror, and stern and stark indeed was
the work he did for England, but he
destroyed that he might built up bet
ter than before and it was the Nor
man who laid deep and strong the foun
dations of the future English nation.
And now, shall I have time to tell
you of our pilgrimage to Canterbury,
a pilgrimage of love, a pilgrimage of
peace, of deep and satisfying pleasure?
We reached the quaint little Cathedral
city last Saturday night,so that our first
view of the city and the cathedral was
. v -, ■ j on a lovely Sunday morning. Scarcely
inn wor manship. How they j a stone’s throw away W as Mercery X.ane,
It Requires
NO HEAD
To See the
Great Stock
Bargains in our
of High
Grade
Goods.
Good quality and honest merit are in all goods we show.
Uniformly low prices are made on all we have to sell.
You can’t go wrong when you buy from os, because we have juBt
one way of doing business, and that is to give a dollar in Good
Quality for a Dollar in any man's money.
THE NEWEST STYLES IN GREAT VARIETY.
All departments are stocked with the most popular and desirable
f oods made Come to us for anything you need and get it at
’rice you can afford to pay.
—-
where once the pilgrim* to Canterbury I
s topped at the little inn o! The Che. I
quers of Hope or lingered at the Mer-
cers,booths to buy relics of St. Thomas.
There remains but a single vestige
of the old inn; at the very corner of
the Lane, carved on the wall which
was a part, of the old inn itself, is a
cognizance of Edward the Black
Prince—a lion’s head with the tongue
protruding. Just within the Lane the
street is spanned by the beautiful per
pendicular structure of the Christ
church gateway, Passing beneath this
we came into the Cathedral precincts.
I think Canterbury Cathedral has
spoiled us tor every other cathedral in
England. I cannot imagine anything
more impressive than the exterior of
this magnificent edifice with its great
western towers, its double transepts
and its lofty angel spire, nor anything
more beautiful than its interior with
its perpendicular arches and columns,
the exquisite carvings of the choir
screen, and its great west window.
Sunday afternoon we attended ser
vices in the Cathedral. We sat un
der the vaulted roof of the choir which
is raised above the nave by a succession
of steps, and saw stretching away to
the right, arch after arch of marble,
and above and around us the double
arches and columns of the triforium,
with the stained windows of the cler
estory throwing their rainbow hues on
the arches and pavement.
Suddenly from some unseen com
pany there came a low amen, rising
and swelling and dying away in a
succession of whispered echois, and as
the organ burst into a deep solemn
strain there entered a procession of
white robed choiresters followed by the
chapter of the cathedral, then the ver
ger bearing the insignia of office before
the Dean, then the Dean of Canter
bury (Farar) and the Dean of Roch
ester in their robes and scarlet hoods.
Dean Farrar, a slender figure, slightly
stooped with iron-grey hair and a quiet,
reserved manner, read the lesson for
the day—St. Paul’s beautiful argument
for the resurrection. The Dean ot
Rochester preached the sermon. He
too is verging on the evening of life
A portly man, with gentle eyes, ui
emotional nature, and a magnetic pres
ence. His text was from the prophet
Amos—“Seek Him who turneth the
shadow of death into the morning.”
Cannot you imagine what such a text
and sermon must be preached in an
old minster that lias seen the birth and
death of generations after generations,
and has kept watch over the history of
a people for over seven hundred years?
As we came out of the choir the even
ing shadows were crowding every cor
ner of the nave, and our footsteps
echoed wierdly from the marble pave
ment. Outside everything wus as still
and peaceful as sleep; it was an expe
rience never to be forgotten.
Monday Morning (July 18) we went
over the cathedral; we stood on the
spot where Thomas A. Becket fell un
der the assassin’s sword, and before the
tomb of the most romantic figure of
English history—Edwdrd the Black
Prince. Down in the crypt we visited
the French church. Permission to
worship in the crypt was granted by
Elizabeth to the Hugenot refugees
whom the blind funatacism of French
Catholicism drove out of France, and
here their descendants worship to*day,
as some one has fitly said, a noble tes
timony to English liberality and broad
minded toleration.
Much less beautiful than the Cathe
dral, but ot even greater interest, is St.
Martin’s church, on the hill, the ear
liest Christian church in England alter
the Saxon conquest. It is built on the
original site of the church of Bertha,
the Christian princess, through whose
instrumentality Christianity was intro
duced into Kent, and thus into Eng
land, A portion of the old church is
incorperated in the choir of the pres
ent edifice. Here too is an old tont,
said to be that in which Ethelbert him
self was baptized. The old church
stands in a little church-yard well filled
with tomb-stones and on one that of
Dean Alford, is this beautiful in
scription: “Deversorium Viatoris
Hierosolyman Profiscentis.” (The
inn of a traveler on his way to
Jerusalem.)
In the atterqoon we walked out to
Harbledown, Chaucers’s Bob Up and
Down, through which his pilgrims
passed, beguiling the tedium ot the
way with the Canterbury Tales,and we
stopped awhile too at St. Dunstan’s
church, wbere it is said Margaret Ro
per whose name stands for all time as
a model of filial devotion, buried the
noble head that the king had dishon
ored. A king could behead Sir
Thomas More, but all the kings cfI
l
Royal make* tho food part,
whoiesom. and tfsUctoas.
SO»«l MKIWO EOWOW CO.. NIW YORK.
his name from the annals
nor kill the influence that
of history
a great in
tellect and truly noble soul exert in alk
ages.
There is much more to see and leant
in Canterbury, hut I have not time,
nor, you the space tor further details.
Strictly speaking, you can see Canter
bury in a day, but you cannot exhaust
it in a week, and as a place to live for
the student or the man of reflective
temperament surely no sweeter, more
home-like, more ennobling city exist*
in all England. It does not seem to
me to be the place to make mqney, but
it is a place to live a sweet, pure,
wholesome life in, and to die at a good
old age in tranquility and hope.
Jl’I.IA A. Flisch.
Discovered by a Woman . "'
Another great discovery? ha*- u6en
made, and that too, by a lady nr' this
country. “Disease fastened its clutches
upon her and for seven years she with
stood its severest tests, but her vital or
gans were undermined and death seam- -
ed imminent. For three months she
coughed incessantly,and could not sleep.
She finally discovered a way to recov
ery, by purchasing of us a bottle of Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Consump
tion. and was so much relieved on tak
ing first dose, that she slept all night;
and with two bottles, has been absolute
ly cured. Her name is Mrs. Luther
Lutz” Tims writes \V. G. Hammick
& Co., of Shelby, N. C. Trial bottles-
free at Culver & Kidd’s drug store..
Regularsize 50o and $1.00. Every
bottle guaranteed.
Election of Judges.
Gov. Atkinson has issued a procla- •
mation submitting to tho people of the
state the constitutional amendment pro
viding (or the election of judges andZt
solicitors-general by the qualified voter*
of the state.
It is proposed to amend paragraph 2^
ot section 3 of article 6 of the constitu
tion of this state so that the same shall
read as follows:
“The successors to the present and •
subsequent incumbents sliall be elected 1
by the electors, entitled to vote for
members of the general assembly 0 f
the whole state at the general election
held for such members next preceed-
ing the expiration of their respective
terms; provided that the succassors for
all incumbents whose terms expire on
or before the first day of January,.
185)9, shall be elected by the general
assembly at its session of 1898 for the-
full term of four years.”
It is also provided the termk of
judges to be elected under the constitu
tion, except to fill vacancies, shall be
gin on the first day of January after
their election. Every vacancy occa
sioned by death, resignation or other
causes shall be filled by appointments
ot the governor until the first day ot
January after the general election held?
next, after the expiration of thirty-
days from the time such vacancy oc
curred, at which election a successor
for the uuexpired term shall be elect
ed. *
The law also provides how solicit
ors-general shall be elected and hovr
vacancies shall be filled.
Governor Atkinson submits the pro
posed amendment of the constitution
tor ratification or rejection by the legal
voters of the state at the general elec
tion to be held Wednesday, October 5,.,
1898.
Do you have sick headache, with
nausea and vomiting, chilliness, yawn
ing and general lassitude? T^at con
dition is caused by a disordered livi
Take Dr. J. H. McLean's Livr- -
Kidney Balm and Dr. J. H.
Liver, and Kidney Pellets
cure will result
m
England combined could not obliterate I
Kidd.