The Greensboro patriot [August 6, 1879]

              Ttt£ PATRIOT,
PUBUSNEO WEEKLY AT
CREENSBORO, N. C.
t^fTat EMablUhed in 18211***
Lbi oldest, ud i*si Xefsfipin it
P. F. DUFFY. Publisher and Proprietor.
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Gradually George began to object to j unpleasant to have yon going
her frequent visits to her parent*, nl- j looking like a mute at a funeral.'
j though n< ver in so many word*. Too 'I cannot look more nnhappy tLan I
>oM boy | „gament be need was tbat she was so feel,' she burst cut, with gathering sobs
much away from home; bo saw so little | 'Why did I ever marry yon? I wish I
of lier. Gradually Eddie abandoned , had died instead. Why did you not
tins point; but in retnrn she resolved marry this Storey girl, whom yon make
vLisitls"to^oTther p1la*cees<.lnaSJ!h7e eesht'aSbl.is°hfed''"a 'l™. U. now character for nnsociability and indiffer-ence
among all the La KITS' friends in
: - ■- it.
i bight;
■lamb"
»-. ! '
tram i.iruicg
,11 i ti .die,
if ■ ,' 'adarl baiiow lowws;
and i ir pleasures we
I ol ours.
.- rratfal,
' -it yea and I know;
odor forgi tfol
: *firling wo owe.
that fanny?
I feeble for many a day,
:.: gists once.
fttn • ■ • .y KrSy.
: "» ' '• II, may
tbc tn.;'i i Lara mi lotl I;
! : ■ I ■ id rtul
I bty years old.
• ■■ give to uo other
l'. repay;
• ran that
I ill v.
UNITED AT LAST.
"'*•■ I it's nil very tiuo and
I b'liere I'd rather E Idie had
• some OHO who wouldn't
B* II I ■ ■ One mi 1 grand for
ma,'
■ I nl the young man is per-
I respectful. Andoartainly
before my face? If
von
have no f.eling for me aa a woman, ]
should think you might show at least
Port R,,.l, people whom Mrs. Le Roy I ^TZ'S^ '°r ,"" T *TZ *,
• urged her to cultivate-'for your HJo^y Jto^thte^poZint toftSfnry*. S'JlTy Swiifel1!
had
hnsband'a sake, my dear:-a physician's
wife cannot exercise too much discre-tion
in (he choice of acquaintances.'
he said. 'Heavens I I wish yon had not
that claim upon my tolerance. A man
Gradually she did not seem to herself' rM!* " f,°",al h,nrve8t ,rom » y°n,Ual
to be tho namo girl. Ob, if only she and | mistake.' Then he turned on his heel.
George could live In a little house of I ™d ?loKi th* door8l"rPly behind him.
their ownl This gieat, grand house was,!
a prison. Bat it had always been on the
cards that Gcorgo should live with hij
mother. An nnusuil devotion eiisted
between the mother and POD.
George and she drifted farther and far-ther
apart. He was of an impressionable
Eldie was only a trifle more miserable
thau she had been before.
The next day was Sunday. Parties
for church were made np. K Idie found
herself listlessly included in one. It
might at least be more tolerable than
wandering aimlessly about the hotel.
nature, which speedily fell away from ! A8 Bhe WM handc<1 mto *• "tog" ■*•
the msgnotism of any influence which notlCed hor hn8D»nd gathering in Min-was
not vigorously exerted. And ho I na 8 8torcJ*8 draperies within the com-r
I the lady bjjt_
llrsl. and asked Eldie
' l •'■ We flionld bear
'■< r..-; eoled toniak.'
of plain fulks likens.'
oiug else to do, nolecs
' -h her BOD, and thai she
I \ and be the apple of her
i best of it. But
. what, pa—1 mean te have
it the weddii •, for all
I.' [) 7's wheedling soft ppeeehea.'
then would have been elated
■ prospect of a daughter's marrying
r, r,p the phrase goes, but of
nol atrs. Olark. Bhe was rat-her
own station in life. She
ep to her own ways, and
e i honld ki t\> to theirs.
was as gi od asi y I ody
i :•. be thrown
»] oheld a contrary opinion.
I- Roy carried the lay. The
ii ■-'. M ■ ■ i, and
i a n-rm,
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I
a large,
d Mr.
* '. Ihey fell
rj
e'< ex-
1 -i n of all
Dot be-
I . She I ved
all her
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i 1 ap-
: • ■ i. be-er
pa.-adise,
Date kl
Pr ' r] lin J j iirnev,
i r em-robing
the na-i
I r ■'■:. :. i ..
il I for Europe I-B
i rich man,
>n, lo whi !: ! e pro-
.'. I' >r the next
. ittuec
Igfa he had
i in to f»o to
He and EJna
twoyean;
' In*—art and
'■. The world
1 hter than her
D a year
■ a ho • she bed
■ i 1 mother until
.'.. >rc i: i |, i ii
II .-.v had I!I" done
r i xtraordi-
• tation?
j JI i hi r own two
.. :. -i to hor
Teai a of j iy and
01 irk's cl
never were
"-. E ina
; . ! nnhappy,
her that Mis. Le
p -i hi r :>:.•■ lents,
lly D| ..n her
hi-r In Uii
1c wd. ' Idie'i
had her own
I Mrs. Le B iy"i
i. I
■ '-' R • 1»J«3 alter day ahe
• ■. D y .,! er day
' I hi rdening
■ atfa of hi r m ,tuer-in-vetllanee.
A word
I I prejudice
i eorge, for tiie first
bad defeeta:
• If-poi soRsion.
■ in lime, but
le part of the
ued woman of the
liked life and gaycty: Eldie's mood
chilled and repressed him. Ho had'no
sympathy for people with tho blues. So
he sought amusement elsewhere. If
E Idie refused to return visits, tho more
reason that l,r should visit vigorously,
no was always warmly welcomed at
the houses of hu old intimates.
Port B. >yal—at least its exclusive cir-cle—
always left homo in August and
September. The Le Rovs from time
| paf s of a light wagon, in which he was
I going to drive her. She was talking and
laughing as usual. There was not a
cloud on George's face. The sight cut
Eldie to the heart. She averted her
face hastily. Her fellow-passengers saw
what she saw; they pitied her. It is hard
to a young, proud nature to be pitied.
The stage clattered off amid a gay
Babel of voices, A mile down the road
there was a hill. At the top of this hill
DESTRICTIOX OF Ol'R FORESTS.
H baa Hit- li,.M-rri,iiinui. Cullius af Tr,„
mi Hi- CnntiiirDI »-111 Rr«ult In. aa Sfaonn
Forlh hy n Srlrullflr Vt'rlirr.
A scientist writing in Harper'i for
August, draws this picture of the oon-
STlUXttF. STORY.
A Million,,!,, N.nk. r.cr, l.,,.,„« kl. Fr.„-
'"'• »»'■■*". N.uik, „,„i i.cmnt for n,„i
Married by n '■:,,,:. „ UJi-TiraWlim,
• l»lui In. < orpr.
A New York paper gives details of the
sequences of deforesting cur country: remarkable history of Jamee II. Wheat
Of a desolation which is recorded far j 1«7, of Brooklyn, who, at the age of
iack of the days of Roman or even of j fofty was a millionaire, but lost all in
memorial had gone to'the Swectbrior ihe hor8es took ,ri8ht.on8 becoming per-
Springs during thoso months. It was
decided to carry out the usual pro-gramme,
almost without consul iug Mrs.
George Lo R>y. She, for her part,
detested tho idea of going, as indeed she
fectly nnoontrollable. Piunging and
rearing, they dragged the stage to the
edge of the mountain. The next mo-ment
the great lumbering vohiclo was
overturned and pitched down the moun
had ended by detesting all the Ls Roys' i lainBille5 Tben the horses having done
,l„iug!<. Ilueir worst, stood still. The driver
W.-.^li„i... a ii • a ■ picked himself up, and surveyed the
.Nevertheless Swcetbrier SuauKs was ' . r ., ,- . .„, «...
, „iD„»„„. i i - .; "K | scene of tho disaster. The first ol.j-'ct
a pleasant placo enough, in the bcort of ■ i\ .» 11 ■ \. » .. ,
<\„-r™»ar,,\ ,„ _ .• "-'"'' that met his eyes was Mrs. Le Roy, who
the peaceful, serene mountains. It was -
not so far from 1'ort Royal but that
Gcorgo could join his family oneo a
week, for which fact Eldie would have
been nioro than thankful had she had the
fnll benefit of his society when he did
come. But thero were not many men at
the Springs, and Dr. Le Roy was baud
somo and popular. His weekly arrival
was tho signal among the idle girls at
Swcotbrier for a struggle to monopolize
his attentions. And George was nothing
loth, fie came up here to recuperate I
had been thrown against a heap of stones.
A messenger was dispatched to tho hotel,
who met Dr. Lj Roy first of all in his
no-top wagon,
'Hurry 1 hurry !' he cried. "Tlie stage
I baa gone over the side of tho mountain.
Mrs. Le Roy is dead.'
George was off like tho wind, but not
loforo MisB Storey had entreated, with
white lips, to be let out. Ho was alone
when ho was confronted by Eddie's pale
face.
They gathered her np.aud carried her
and to have a good time, and when he ! to the ho,c, for ,,„„,, •„ or
applied himself to having a eood time it i ^ ...
w-i with the same zJ which 1,^^, i Par*y eBca»,eJ ""^urt, except for trifl^e
lironght to bear upon the study of his
profession.
The Storey girls were bi3 warmest ad-mirers.
Minna Storey was as bewitcb-msly
beautiful as the typicil E istern
houri—all rounded curves and dimples,
soft, tendrilly brown hair, and laughing,
mischievous hazel ovea. She was a t'irl
v..hn„o n«e^ve.r h,,e„s„it;a.t.e,„d,.to f,ol,l.ow t:h, o b, ent, ' ensers, now that Eddie lay speeches*.
of hor plcnsures.although these at times
cut* and bruises; but when tiny laid her
on her bed they thought that life was
extinct.
I might qnote pages in support cf the
assertion that the worth of a treasure in
emphasized by Ihe dre ad of losing it.
Hirshness, indiftireuee, neglect, dogged
George La Roy's steps like htern ac-id
her into somewhat devious ways.
E Idie was wretched. Those women
ate perhaps to bo envied who, in similar
situations, cultivate a gaycty which, if
ft igned.at least set vjs as au escape -valve.
E iuie not only was wretched, but look-ed
no. And George becamo iiritatec.
He actually was nt last in the condition '
of boJiering himself to be the aggrieved
party.
One evening, when E Idie had hung
over the children until they were asleep,
crooning soft airs to them whi
nnconsoions, for hopeless hours. I:
seemed to him that he bad killed hor.
If he had been with her, this might not
have happened. Surely he might have
shielded her. Shielded her ? Ah I had
ho shielded her from other dangers,
other ills ? Tho bitter reproach haunted
him that he had betrayed his trust.
How utterly littie and contempli ie
their dissensions now seemed I Only
ihe one truth remained, that she was
his, the woman be loved, the only wo-man
who could fill his heart.
>m which always H""e s"ent for h"er ,f'"a"th"e"r a"un"d mu,ioJlther.
lulled them to net soonest, she wander-1 The? c*,me' wrnog by tho cruelisl ttn"
l gmsh; but they came just us she began
' to revive. Youth is stubborn; life is oh*
rtinate, end love wrestled with prayer.
George L? Roy had never kuown before)
what it was to face a mysterious Provi-dence,
omnipotent, and yet hearkening
to supplication.
E Mi" was given back to him again—
ed down stairs with the vague intention
of finding George, and ■trying to dispel
the miserable cloud which had hnug be-twi-'
i th.-m cot for so long. A wish to
do ■ i had coma into her heart as eho
■i sod her babies goodnight. 8ho drift-ed
down the great sounding stairway,
looking like a pale ghost, with her sad
eyes end her H iv. iug white dress,
glanced out on tho different piazzas on
her way: the boarders were apt to walk
and sit about on these during the long
evenings. But she did not BOO her hus-band.
She drifted through tho parlors,
where there wire oardplayicg, dancing,
mnsic.
"Look at Mrs. Le Riy. How beauti-ful
she is I' one person remarked.
'And how intensely unhappy I Poor
thing I What a pity that any one with a
heart should have married George La
-by."
Siio stood in an open doorway, and
looked up and down the piazza on which
opened the parlors. Ah.at last I George
was seated with his back to her, iu a
louuging, negligent attitude. Facing
him iu an attitale equally negl'c;out,was
Minna Storey, her dimpled Bacchante
face upturned to his; her whito arms
gleaming out of the falling rose-colored
sleeves of her dresi, and wroatnod with
Rjmau psarls. Perhaps she was posing
for LtlSa Rookh or somo other Orieutal
character, to whom strands of pearls are
appropriated in tableaux vitanU; at all
Brents, her graceful head was adorned j
to i-irrespoad with tho arms. She made ;
I given back to him, so it seemed, from
' death. It was a second marriage.
We often wonder if we would live our
lives better if we cmld live them over
again. Certainly Eldie and her hus-band
profited by their former mistakes.
For one thiig, they tpent their second
honeymoon in a home of their own.—
When Eldie went down from Swectbrier
Springs, in the fall, to Port R ival, »he
found a lovely hou<e made ready for
her, of which she was tho unconditional
mistress. George explained, to nil
whom it might concern, that the situ-ation
of this house suited the require-ments
of his practice better thau that of
the Le Roy homestead.
Greeiau glory, we read that 'a man was
famous according as he had bfted up
axes upon the thick trees.' In the days
when American forests were considered
practically limitless, cur fathers were
fur too famous for lifting up axes upon
the thick trees, and the resultant de-struction
is even now upon as, like the
Puilistines upon Samson. This destruc-tion
comes upon us in many forms, most
of which are, in fact, rapidly and terri-bly
cumulative. Here is a beautiful
stream of water, for example, which was
a great element of wealth to the region
through which it flowed. It might not
only have continued to be so, but to
have gained in uet-fulness instead of be-ing
either dead or surely and swiftly
passing away. The numberless little
hollows on the hills, where were the
spriDgs which grew into rivulets to feed
it, have been stripped of the moisture-economizing
verdure with which the
Creator clothed them, and so the springs
aro dry, and the rills no longer murmur
their once glad songs of labor as they
hastened down tho valleys to turn the
mill-wheels of mechanical industry. In
this one matter of destruction of hy-dranlic
power with which we have been
already smitten, hundreds of millions of
dollars of annual damage has been and
is the actual remit. That this dryirg
up of tho streams is attributable not
only chiefly to deforesting, but almost
solely to it, eommon-sense—which is, in
fact, the very essence of both fact and
philosophy—must make plain to every
candid mind. Riin feeds tho springs.
To feed them economically it should be
gentle and frequent, not violent and at
long intervals. Intelligent forost engi-neering
would require that tuch por;ion
of hills be clothed with a mantlo of
green trees, as by its cooling influence
it would more frequently so coatract the
aerial sponge as to give us showers at
short intervals. This is the casn in
forest-clothed, beautiful Britain. The
reverse is true iu tree-stripped Spain,
whosp poop'o have become as prover-bial
for their hatred of tree3 as their
country has for fterility of soil and
bleeping streams. There, and on east-ward
oil through tho Orient, n relent-lessly
brilliant sky and an appalling ab-sence
of verduro will teach one, as
nothing else can, how beautiful are
clouds that weep, and, iu its proper
time, how delicioui a drizzling, rainy
day. These deforested Eastern lands
are as famous for seasons of blinding
storms, and Valleys torn by terrible tor-rents,
as they are for the reverse. They
will soon find their counterpart in all
these characteristics in America, unless
we ronso ourselves with a will to under-stand
and to master these evils. Forests
promoto streams available for our pre-cious
manufacturing interests; also by
furnishing vast and almost innumerable
beds of fallen leaves and of moss, which
act on the earth like a hujo overiyiug
sponge, to check tho enddeu rush of the
rainfall iuto the valleys and down into
the streams. Very rapid iu recent years
aro mournful instances multiplying in
wbieh these manufacturing streams are
transformed by Weshets from spirits of
blessing—to give horaei and food and
clothing to thousands who live in the
hamlets, by turning the machinery
which helps them by their labor to help
themselves—to demons of destruction.
Forests a's> promoto such steadiness of
flow of the bl reams as to make them
sources of national wealth in giving em-ployment
to skilled labor by preventing
the rapid evaporation of moisture —
Probably more than half the water that
falls on a deforested region in a dry
season is whisked off by evaporation
just at the time when it is most needed
to strengthen the depleted mill-streams.
The ateam engine, to be of any practical
use as a motive power, must have its
action controlled by the conservative
influence of the balance-wheel. Other-wise
its wheels would whirl at ono time
with a fury which would result only in
destruction, and then they would move
t >o ilowlj to be of service. Thus the
forest, by increasing the frequency of
gentlp rains, and so decreasing tho vol-
It was astonishing how eosv it was to j,,mo au * tlie lcnKtu of intervals botween
get on with Mrs. Le Roy mere after I "bowers, also by regulating their too
this. Sometimes, indeed, Eddie won- j e"dden plunge into the streams, is the
dered whether her former tr< ubl.s had | Kr0*1 regulator provided by nature fo
not been chimeras of Ler brain. th'ir control in tho service of man. All
As for Mr. and Mrs. Clark, they were i ow ,ho mannfacluricg portions of our
at last entirely reconciled to their
daughter's marriage. Tuey spent the
greater part of their snbseqneut lives in
spoiling their little grandchildren to
their hearts' content.
country we may find instances where
| large amounts of capital hare been in-
' vested to develop and make available our
| once magnilicFUt anil almost numberless
hydraulic powers. Trusting to what
j seemed a certainty of employment for
Europe's Crop Prospects. I themselves and their families, the Hands
Tho calamities of Centra! and Eastern ; of "killed laborers have in many cases
a slight movement at the monient tjiat , Enrope teem likeiy to bo supplemented i confidingly made tiieir homes at a point
bv a season of dearth, consequent upon vhere tlie **" swmed abuudantly
the unfavorable state of the crops. The \ r"werfnl and permanent. Then, as the
Spanish harvest? though it is not ex-1 summers came and went, the river
pected to equal the average, is looking j "feracd to sicken aud grow more and
better than was at first anticipated, aud moTe feeble, till there would bo a week
Sicily, despite the recent devastating or fwo each year ia which the spindles
eruption, also makes a tolerable show. , "nd tho looms would be silent As time
On tho other hand, Northern Italy is in : went °n theso periods of idleness have
a very unpromising condition from the lengthened into months, in which the
recent floods, and the same cause has labor struggle for bread and clothing,
for means to pay fur the bumble little
home, or debts incurred iu sicknes',
was compelled to bo suspended. The
cune of all this was that the sources of
the rivers' life had been destroyed or
it.jnred by tho ignorance, cupidity or
11 Idie appeared in tho doorway, with
which hor little whito hand fell against
Dr. La Roy's knee, and lay there care-lessly.
E Idie's faae contracted as in
pain. She came forward. Minna slight-ly
changed her attitude, but with no
visible show of embarrassment. George
f lanced op. 'Will yon join ns?' be ask-ed.
in nn unsympathetic.supcrflcial tone.
11 Idie paused a moment,looking down
the crisis of 1873. Saveral subsequent
attempts to retrieve his losses were fail-urea.
He pn served his integrity so
thoroughly while bis misfortunes crowd-ed
in upon Lim, tbat although he was
trustee for large sums, the trust fnnda
in his hands were not disturbed. Mr.
Wheatloy wns regarded as being in
many wavs a superior man and possessed
of a striking nobility of character. Ont
night in 1873 he was found lying in the
street in Brooklyn, and he complained
of having been robbed of 820,000 in
bonds. In the polios station it was found
that his watch and chain and S15.0C0
in money was upon his person, and' his
account of the robbory was not credited,
though bis family now believe it to be
true. The next day he walked ont of
the house without raying good bye to
any of his family, and the next that was
beard from him was a telegram from
Washington to his wife, saying that he
would not return that night. Weeks
passed by and he did not return, nor
could he be traced. Mr. Silis M. Gid-dings,
who had been Mr. Wheatley's
most intimate friend, was appointed
pu ir.liuu of his only son, James V.
Wheatley, a boy of seventeen, wboiiad
inherited a fortune from his grand-mother,
Mildred L. Whealoy. It %as
discovered that Mr. Wheatley had used
np all of this money; but nnder the
power of attorney which he held, he
had a right to use it as his own. There
was no discrepancy complained of in the
other trust funds. Ia the latter part of
March last Mr. Giddings learned that a
man answering Mr. Wheatley's descrip-tion
was living iu the village of Heuder-sonville,
in tho mountains of North
Carolina, eight miles from at y railroad,
and that ho passed under tho rame cf
O. H. Carter, of New York. Hnrrying
thither Mr. Giddings fonnd his friend
on his deathbed, and by bis side was a
refined woman of thirty-five years, who
said that Bhe was Mr. Carter's wife. A
discreet inquiry informed Mr. Giddings
that Mr. Wheatley had wandered into
tho town a few weeks after his disap-pearance
from his home, no was weary
and Boomed sick, and as ho appeared to
bo a gentleman, the hospitable South-erners
received him kindly, allhongh
they could not solvo tho mystery of his
appearance or his mission among them.
He acted strangely, and was often seen
in tho woods ■anted on a fallen log, with
his face buried in his bands. Miss
Josephine Bjud, a maiden lady, who
lived over the mo,iL'taius,|hcaring that a
Northern man was sick in a boarding
house in the town, carried him delicacies
and took an interest iu him. Mr. Wheat-ley
was extremely ill with Brights
disease, and uas plainly on his deathbed.
Miss Bond tried iu vain to learn his his-tory.
HIB friendless condition appealed
strongly to her sympathies, and soveral
nights when the snow was deep on the
mountains she remained all night in the
house. To prevent gossip a marriag«
ceremony was performed, and tho lady
took him to her own home, where Gid-dings
found him. Without revealing
the mystery attached to his friend, he
n turned to Brooklyn and soon learned
of Wheatley's death. M.ss Bond dis-covered
the deception from a newspaper
fonnd nmong Mr. Wheatley's papers,
which gave an account of the assault
upon him. Miss Bond had tenderly
nursed him up to his death and buried
him iu tho villago churchyard. Sho
learned with grief the true story of Mr.
Wheatley's life-, as she ha d become affec-tionately
attached to him. Mr. Gid-dings
told her that for four months be-fore
bis disapfearanco Mr. Wheatley
had been pronounced dciauged.and that
all of his acts since had evidently been
the acts of an insane man. The widow
in Brooklyn was gralnaliy informed cf
the fato of hor husband. She pardoned
his fault, believing ho was not respon-sible,
and feels kindly toward Miss Bond
for her self-sacr:G?:ng attentions to the
deceased. They had agreed to bury tho
secrot of the second marringo with tho
body, but au account in a N irth Caroli-na
paper of the death of Mr. Carter, and
a first wife claiming tho body and re-moving
it to tho North, has led to the
disclosure of the troth that in stranger
than fiction.
Keep Yonr Temper.
Blessed is the msn who can keep his
temper. Getting angry never yet did
any good; still mankind seems to be slow
in profiting by the fact. Every time a
man loses his temper he places himself
at a disadvantage with his cooler adver
sary. As a general thing the hot-tem-pered
man is a conceited egoist, who
imagines every person's will must give
way to his. In the outside world a man
of this kind gets more than he gives.
People who are not dependent on him
care little for his high mightiness. Here
the retn!ts ofr his evil temper rebound
on himself. It ia at home that the
quick tempered man looms up in all his
grandeur. He can brow-beat his ser-vants
and keep his unfortunate family
in misery with his tantrnms. The recent
tragedy at Montclair, New Jersey, is a
case in point. A gentleman of high and
mighty temper, fiudhig himself spoken
to in an insolent manner by his coach-man,
gets into a passion, goes up stairB
for a revolver, comes down and shoots
the coachman twice. The coachman is
now dead, and the so-called gentleman
is in prison. Of course the latter 're-grets'
the matter now that a trial for
murder faces him. This is one of the
traits of the man who gets angry. He
is always sorry afterward. But he never
attempts to check his indulgence in an-ger
next time. The New York papers
unite in saying that if this Montclair
man had governed his temper the
tiagedy would not have occurred. They
can do neither any good now, but it is
to be hoped it will prove a startling les-son
to other easily angered men.
Sensible Teaching-
Principal French, of ono of the Penn-sylvania
normal schools, suggests .what
he calls a 'business day' iu schools—one
day in a month, a fortnight, or a week
set aside for the learning of some par-ticular
thiug in a fresh way. Ho recom-mends
that on ono of these days each
pupil should bo requested to bring somo
good magazine or newspaper aa 1 read
therein something of real value which
will bring out Questions from the audi-
»w Postal Decision.
There being considerable misappre-hension
as to what constitutes third-class
matter in the mails,the postcllicu author-ities
have issued a circular to postmas-ters,
stating that in order that the mat-ter
may be more fully understood, the
department would indicate tho following
a« among tlie doenments of insurance
eompaniis which, when partiy printed
and partly written, are admissible to the
mails as third-class matter: A policy
unsigned, or being signed by a lrcal
agent, is transmitted by him to tho
homo effijo for additional signatures;
special surveys, when unaccompanied
by written memoranda in the nature of
personal correspondence; canceled poli
cies, when unaccompanied by recripts;
renewal policies, when unaccompanied
by new notes. The following are re-garded,
however, as in the natnre of
personal correspondcDi'-i, and hence snb-ject
to first-class rates of postage: A
policy signed and duly executed; daily
reports; notices of premium due; assign-ments;
promissory notes attached to pol-icies
or unattached; applications; receipts
or other kindred matter- Tno same rule
will apply to other printed commercial
papers, such as drafts, checks, etc, and
to deeds, bonds, &&,, whether drawu by
public f aiiCtiouaries or private parlies.
A partly-printed bill filled out iu writing
may be sent as third class matter, but
when receipted can only be admitted to
the mails at letter rates of postage.
Scene In a Mew York Police Court.
'Your husband was arrested by an
< ffi er, Mis. Powers,' Baid the justice iu
Essex Market oonrt, to a sad faced little
woman, 'en a charge of crnolly beating
you. I bave Bent for you to make a com-plaint
agaiust him,'
'Against my husband, sir ?' she a^ked
iu a low voioa.
'Why, of course. Yonr face is cat aud
swollen, your arms black and blue and
your lips quivering now from the paiu
his brutality has canard you. l'our cries
were pitiful to hear, yonr neighbors say,
aud they add that your husband is s
drunkard and that ytu haA to support
him.'
Oh I let him po.'sai.l the little woman,
crying. 'Ho didn't mean to do it.
We've been married just a year and n
naif. Our little boy is homo asleep. I
would not have it said his father ever
lead been arrested for beating his moth-er.
You'll let him go; pleaso do,' and
the woman wept afresh.
■And what do yon say. Powers ?' an-swered
the court.
'Say I' answered the drunken brnle.
'Why I say d—n her I I'll give it to her
when I get her again. I'll stop her
blnbbering and her baby stories.'
'You will not if I bave the power to
prevent yen. Yon are committed for six
months in default of WOO to keep the
peace.'
The ( i-n.-H.e,l( hihlren.
Nobody can tell who has not watched
it what an effect a physical deformity
has upon the mind and character of a
growing child, especially one which de-tracts
in ao marked a manner from it*
personal appearance. It exp-wes tho
child to the taunts and cruel appella-tions
of its comrades, which in sensi-tive
children often drive them into soli-tude,
and make them shy and suspicious
of strangers, in whom, on tho other
hand, they excite suapicion. The turn
in the eye gives either a waiideiuig,
doubting air to the face, or if the gaze
is fixed, a too intense expression, which
is disturbing and perplexing, if not
downright painful, to the beholder.
I have known boys of eight aud ten
years of age beg their parenta to let
them undergo the pain of operation to
riil themselves of a deformity which
subjects them so often to the unfeeling
romarks of their elders, usually friends
of the family, as well as the nnenpho-nious
but expressive titles bestowed
upon them by their own contempora-ries,
of google-eye and cock-eye. Nor
does this end with childhood. The de
fortuity is a disadvantage to him through
life. It pursues him in his business
and in his profession. Cheated of fea-ture
by dissembling nature, be is often
thought to bo dissembling himself when
nothing is further from his thoughts.
How often do we hear people say of
another, whom we know to be perfectly
upright and trustworthy, they do not
like him because he never looks them
squarely in the face. And it is a little
curious that precisely here it is that the
lesser degrees of tie trouble produce
the most effect. That peculiar expres-sion
which people complain so much of
is generally duo to a deviation in the
axes of the eyes—a slight convergence
which is never very conspicuous, and at
times oidy to bo detected by a trained
eye, but which, nevertheless, produces
in all a very disagreeable impression,
although not marked enough to betray
its cause. —Dr. k'duurd O. Loring in
Vurper'i Mayatinr.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTIIKIM.
A Devil-Flak Off Charleston.
While Mr. Henry May was emt fishing
with a party near Fort B pley, in the
vacht Cncle Peter, and the vessel waH
Iving at anchor, all of a pudden, without
apparent cause, she started off at a
frightful speed. The eauae, however,
was soon explained by a huge devil fish
rising to the surface of tho water, with
the anchor rope fastened to one of his
tin
Sarcastic Wit.
At a recent dinner of the Massachu-setts
medical socioty, in lioston, Presi-dent
Eliot, of Harvard College, in au
amusing speech, called the attention of
the doctors to a peculiar disease existing
among the students of Harvard. Tweii
ty-one per cent, of the senior class wore
so affected with diseases in the throat
aud lungs that it was impossible for them
to go to prayers—so the doctors of the
Massachusetts medical Bociety had certi-fied.
Among the curious facts in con-nection
with thisdieoase was that it hail
increased from ten per cent, in tho
freshman class to twenty-one per cent,
in tho senior class, which showed how
mdiealtby the college course must lie in
this respect. It was a disease which ei-isted
only a few momenta iu each day.
It did not prevent the stu lents from go-ing
to breakfast even when the prayer-bell
was ringing, nor from going to the
theater every night in the week. S ime
of them were the most athletic men in
college, and sang iu the glee club while
thns affected. Tuese diseases wero all
certified to by mombers of tho Massa-chusetts
medical society; the college
took noothrrcertiflcites. 'I don't know,'
said the president, seriously, 'any great-er
harm a physician can do a young man
between eighteen and twenty-one than
to give him a false OKHM for avoiding a
duty."
A Remarkable Phenomenon.
A gentleman residing in Waknlk
connty, Fie,, Ly the name of. Cox, who
is cultivating a small farm, upon arising
one morning last week w is surprised to
find that during the night his residence
had been changed from a region where
water could not be seen and was situated
ou the border of a lake. When he re-tired
the evening b» foro his hou-e was
fsr away from any pond, lake or river,
luit upon going out next morning his
surprise cm bo imagined when, instead
of his garden, an immense sink, fifty or
sixty jards Bquare, filled with water,
running up within eighteen or twi Bty
feet of his residence, met his gaz-.
Daring the night this transformation
occurred, leaving not i v m a vestige of
the tallest pioe trees which were stand-ing
in their full majesty ouly twelve
hours before. Taeso sinks, however,
are not nnfrequent in that connty. It
has only been a short time siuee that a
sink occurred near I.ivender's Mill,
more remarkable than tho ono alluded
to above, in that it occurred upon the
V.TJ top of a hill—one of tho highest
points of land in that connty. Will not
someone explain these occurrences ?
A Natural Soap Mine.
Oa Smith's Creek, in lllko county,
Nev., there is a most remarkable stra-tum
of steatite resting horizontally in a
Bteep bluff of volcanic matter which
A small negro 8-hing boat was ! flau)l8 thc M(|teA „„.„ of 8mi5lj.„ Creek
soon ctught, to >, by its anchor rope be
ing entangled with tha* of the L'ncle
Peter. The fish then went straight for
F .it It pley with both b-oats, but as
upon Minna. Then she said, icily, 'No, j joue mnch mischief in Huogary like-tthi,
a-n*k- y11o,11n1 ,' aCln*ldf mt«So-^v«e-.d1 aAway. I .& * .«
She was combing at her long hair pre-sently,
when George knocked at her
ioor. Still that rigid look on her face,
that hurt look iu her eyes. He closed
the door.and stood leaning with his back
against it. 'I wish, Elna,' he began
directly, that you would be a little more
like other people. It is oonfonndedly
wise. Russia, however, seems to be thc
most unfortunate. Along the whole
northern coast of the Bltck sea, from
the Pmth to the Caucasus, corn-beetles
aud grasshoppers bave mado terrible
havoc, their ravages being supplement- recklessness of men who 'lifted up axes
cd by severalof thoseterriflchailstorms, on the thiiii trees' far np the rooun-which
are the enrse of the Russian corn-j tains, where the mill streams had
lands in summer. I their birth.
tors. Oa another day ho suggests that
each pupil should bo tang'ut how to j gooa „ h'e WOald get near shoal water
write correc' and cu'ertaiuing letters, ■ bewould shy off again and make for the
and how to make notes and receipts.— | channel. The negro boat sooo ont loose,
'Again be rurgests geography, asking' bnt the Uncle Peter was carried twice
I pupils, for instance, to load a vessel at j rormd Fort Bipley, and it was nearly an
I Boston with su;h artieles as are needed ! nonr before the devil-fish finally let go.
I in the Weat Indies. Mr. French carries -jho anchor'rops was fonnd covered with
j his recommendations and illustrations ! a thick slime, which conl-1 not be re-
1 through many branches of study, and moved. There was no harp .oa on board
; they are all good. i the Cncle P^-ter, othernise the name-
! sake of his sable majesty might have
paid dearly for his prank.
valley. The stratum of steatite in from
three to ten feet in diameter. It is easi-ly
worked and is a veritable soap mine.
In fact farmers, cattle men aud sheep-herders
in that region all use the natural
article for washing i-urposes. Cuemi-cally
consi lered this peculiar clay is a
hvdiated Bilicato of alumina, magnesia,
potash and lime. When thc steatite IB
Nickel baa been discovered la Hanks
county, Ga.
There are 30,000 colored members in
the Methodist churches of Baltimore.
Kaoxville, by a hands, me majority,
has decided to built itself water works.
Walker connty, (la , has but on* dram
shop and not a single solo of property
forUxea.
General Sheridan and two I \ Confed-erate
generals were Judges at » Cjiosgo
horse race.
The total exports fr. m \\'.;■ lingtoa,
N. C , for the year ending June 30, wero
frt,G71,3:ll.
Miss Lucy Hortou has entered suit for
820,000against John II. U rgan, son of
Senator Morgan of Alabama, for breach
of promisa.
Statistics prove the mortality of in-fanta
in New York to be t. rrible—not
one quarter of those b-irn thero r<
ing the age of one year.
A gang of seventy-five tramps on.
camped in a country town of Saw Y'ork
has been preying on the surrounding
farmers, aud defying the few local
stables.
A Missouri house took fire at night,
and the first alarm came from an old
shot gun hanging ou the wall. It got
real-hot and boomed away, sad tho fam-ily
had time to save themselves.
Much religions excitement has I
aroused iu the rural portions of N
Y'ork over the alleged cur.' of a bed rid-den
paralytic by moans of prayer, after
physicians had declared her easo hope-less.
The coal of the late Durham sir:!
England is estimated at 13,300
nearly half is borne by the mm. VI
out reckoning interest, it is conipu'. I
that it will take nine and aqu irler year!
to make up the sum lost.
During the transit of a sea I
from Stn Prancisco to the ('-i't: ■'
menagerie, New Y'ork, she gave birth t i
a cub in the car, anil the mother and < T-spring
were received with pie
surprise by the New Yorkers.
The city council of Pueblo, 0 a.,
e.l an ordinance against tl s carrying of
eoDOSalad weapons, and on the
day most of the male r aidenW
on thc streets with revolvers and
gcra stuck in bells oataide ol I
c iats.
It is remarkable so few ci
found in Texas. (■ x>d water i
Qiiielo almost all ovei tl
dally in the northern and u i
sious of it Wells, when they can be
found at all, aro from tw i.'
fifty feet deep, and thin tl
not first- class.
Tennessee will produce 1
fourths of the average ?h ' I •,' i
this year. Tho eoncrop \ I
the average aud is report d
sections of the State. Tob i pro-mising,
bnt the crop Will
as last year by probably a third ''
is vary promising.
Five years ago Mr. Fan
iu Texas for tho aappoai,( murder i
wife itnd a young lady, ad
dead iu their beds. B ■ till] l Mr.
overs, on his dentnbe I conl
oomruitbd the mnrders ' I pi
stated that tho llufurtui ■
innocent of parHeh,
Some Amherst students tin ngl I it
a good joke to sli el H o mnoa i od am
nition from tho col i >onda; but
when it was diaoovered the stolen i
erty belonged to tl tl govern-ment,
and flvo of I i «' re ar-rested
and held iu S3 0 bail each for
trial, the funny part oi Lheei ispadetook
on a serious view.
Giptaiu A. ' i .1;-
Fort Haoon for Beaufort, N. 0., in a
small boat, aooompaniei] by his son
fourdanghten. When part way on the r
j iiiri.ey their boat filled and sanli. I
of tLe daughters was washed away
drowned, and the Indan OB of the |
were res. u il iu a perishing o
but the three girls soon expired.
The wealth of <• ■<!. R ibert To
Oa., la estimated at t B
100.000 acres of Texas Unda in <
fancy of that State, at twelve Of
cents an acre. It in now worth
to 8111 f-r acre, but ho bus so! I
or 40,000 acres. Jfis Income It
pra ti.e has reaches! 840
IT-j is a priLcoly liver, b
ful fluancier.
A nine-year old boy fell from I r. .f
of • six-story bntlding in N ■
distance > 1 seventy nigh! fei ,
r.ot break s bouc nor WM
injured. He fell forty-five feet
struck a roof hard enon nta
eral elates, and then fell
more, passing betwi* i tyro
'umblel on a wagoi.-p- le in 1 i
struck thc pavement.
A correspondent desori
•ved ling in Philadelphia, »|
thobride'a;trous'6«n, r.av [eat
u complete 1st, but in tie I
over by papa them were ;
f.ur hats and bonnets,
plefe suits of under and ;.
two dozen pairs Lisle II
stockings, two dozen i ■ 1
gloves, two dozen pail
handkerchiefs, ties, rill
hundreds of minor acci
make up tho sum total of I
lady's toilette.
Somebody in [an
A New York mother, while holding an
infant in her arms, attempted to start a
lire with kerosene oil, when the can ex-ploded,
enveloping hcrcelf and babe in
flames, resulting in tbclr death. Her
six-year old boy was so startled that he
jumped out of a thirl story window and
was fatally injured.
first dag from the stratum it looks pre-cisely
like immense masses of mottled establish a 'teasheiI n.i -
Castile soap, the mottling element being is akin to that of tie .1
a email percentage of iron oxide. Prof, which have proved ao po alar In i
Stewart received a sample of this natur- cities. Children who live I f '1 s
al soap, prepared by a firm ia Elko who are to gather shells, w oh an tl
bave undertaken to introduce it into the in boxes of 2 JO each to i
Sitting Ball says he never wanted war,
but ouly defended his women aud chil-dren.
Now all he wants ia to be let
alone and allowed to hunt. He will
market. It ia similar in appearance to
the castile soap sold in large bars.
Nothing is added to tho mineral but a
trifle alkali and some scenting extr.-cts.
never consent to go on a reservation and , Its detersive qualities are as powerful as ' cots a few seashelU to plaj with will
become a farmer. | those of any manufactured soap. I a welcome boou.
among poor children in boa-pitala.
Many children I ibeHa
for toys, and to weary little f III aa who
have to pass ledioi