The Greensboro patriot [June 21, 1883]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT.
ESTABLISHED IN 1825. GREENSBORO, N. C„ THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1883. NEW SERIES, NO. 801.
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JOHN B. HUBBEY,
Editor and Proprietor.
■ ;IM>RO s. c, .M KE a
— \\. shall next bear of Vic-
's abdication. The 1'rince of
Wales is a "jolly dog," ami will.
tm iloubi. -tii- up th'- old Ibssils as
|> fore.
-Those who are anxious to
the jnimi- great men of the
Ucpublio can Bud many of them
among the stupid fellows who are
irtn'g .i! the tail cuds oftheir
We have received the Gat-
Held memorial address "by lion.
.lamest!. Blaine, Peb'y27th, 1882,"
with Mr. Blaine's compliments.''
aid res* is conspicuous among
I he able*) memorial papers ever
produced on this continent.
me that the household had got
through over 200 volumes the last
winter. The Governor is a vora-cious
anil versatile reader, no less
than an attentive and wise observ-er
of affairs, and we talked of eve
rything from Thomas a'Kempis to
Thomas A. Ueudricks. He play-fully
observed that the chief objec-tion
he had heard to the election of
Mr. Carlisle to the speakership was
that in some recent volumes pub-lished
by one Mr. Fronde there was
a suspicion that he had mistreated
his wife.
Hire I must stop. 1 know that
the public is more curious to learn
what are Mr. Tildeu's views of po
lilical affairs, current and prospec-tive.
I have little doubt that if 1
had the right to speak I could, by
faithfully reporting him, make my-self
at once entertaining and in-st
motive. Hut the opinions of eve-ry
man are his own, and bis house
is sacred. 1 never knew a man
more entirely frank in his inter-course
than this sage of Grey-stone,
but 1 am not his mouthpiece,
and it is not for me to come all the
wav from Kentucky to New York
to do that which which he is so
much better able to do for himself.
1 can say, however, for myself that
nothing passed which leads me to
modify the opinion I have so often
expressed, that no power on earth
could induce him to accept the
presidency.
The BBMkenklp.
Iiiaiti'- Led
The opposition to Mr. Randall
originated after be was Brat eleot-
-—1 iio boom in ('null-derate
1M.ml- continues. There have been
in Itichmoud at auction of
■ »;ii bonds at * I
nid brokers are constant ed Speaker, when he did not give
ill classes of Confeder-iiipon
securities. The house
of Thos. Branch «\ Co. has bought
in worth of these se
-—When South Carolina pities
Sen I'.iijrlaiul for lack of prosperity
in manufactures, as compared with
the South, the oldest inhabitant
ma\ pell perm I himself to be as
liniished. The Charleston Seicx A
. ,,: ais the observations of
;, ISostOII newspaper about the de
pTi-son in Massachusetts, and
tbeiisftys: "In the South a very
different condition of things pre-vails.
All of our manufacturing
and other industries arc nourishing.
mi ton mills, especially, are
dmii- a wonderfullysuccassfuland
increasing business. The old mills
now running on full time are crowd-ed
with orders, and in all parts of
the country new factories are going
up. while others are projected and
ire in in- built."
I- II \ in l'l.> BOOM I
Henry YVattcrsoii. editor of the
l.iiuisville Courier-Journal, writes
from New York a- follows:
I have been spending a few days
at Grcj -tone with Governor Tilden,
and iiot merely because his old
friends in the West and South haw
an .\ it present personal interest
in him. but because his name is at
moment upon the lips of poll-us
of every class all over the
country, I propose to give the
readers of tin- Courier-JournalaotM
particular account ol him.
When 1 parted from him a year
ago I die) never expect to see him
again. Indeed. 1 was so skeptical
of the stoin- concerning his resto-ration
to health as to led a dclic.i-houl
intruding upon his priva-
|. «as good enough to send
forme, and 1 went over to Gramer-
,-v Park in a somewhat sorrowful.
sympathetic state of mind- My
:,,:,,.; exceeded my grati-
„n. The old house is under-going
reconstruction and enlarge
mem mi a magnificent scale. But
the old library is still the MUM,
being held from the hand ol OS-splendor
for the last. I
. ,- a tribute of affectionate
In brance of old times, old
ids and Old books. 'I here I
I the Governor. II an appa-h.,,
1 stood beforemc I could
have been more astonished.
days of 'To-IJ-'T seemed to
come back. His low voice
und again. His eyes were
hi and his .■hecks rosy: his in-
■ ,,- sinewj and clear and his
re as they were when
,de nothing of riding Blade-
.!ii„,-t„ Harlem and back.ordnv-the
Kentucky hays from Ura-
. i I'a.ktol.nystoiie. Ilctook
,H over the new bouse, point
,,m the various changes, ex-lg
bis general design and dis-
: architecture and architects
... -tic intelligence. He
meoat—a favorite ami
nilerdW way h« has ol puntoh-his
Mends—climbing long
stairs, meandering through laby-
.Ofde -alive art ^'dthrca.f
i„g the tapestried and frescoed
ol corridor andchamber On
jnt affairs he talked with Ms
usual pungency and candor. When
endurance had ceased to be a Vb>
I uM. ..covenor. don't yon
,,„,!, ., have had enough ol this-
He smiled, and in his dry, nail-sarcastic
way, repUed: -I! >ouaic
will go down stairs.
AtGrevstpne his life is of the
1,1,1 DU8iC8t I nL
farm haul by, and no end of 1
poultn and blooded stock. Of
Mi Cox, Mr. Morrison and other
gentlemen the positions they were
entitled to on the committees. A
man must suffer for what he docs
in a passion. Randall had no busi-ness
to overlook these men. and
they arc doing their beat to make
il hot for him.
But 1 take notice of the fact that
Randall is too much of a quantity
for any new man to beat him like
Carlisle. Of course. Mr. Carlisle
may yet be elected, but the drill
docs not seem to be that way, and
I observe that the Evening I'ost
here, which is controlled by three
free trader-, begins to take water
on Mr. Carlisle and point out the
ta.i that the extreme anti Randall
men arc so alarmed at Randall's
strength that they are willing to
drop Carlisle, and even take up
Cox, whom they do not desire.
Cox's strength lies in the support
of the New York delegation. New
York has a big delegation, and
very much of it is Democratic.
Perhaps Ohio, for the sake of old
times, will come to Cox, although
1 fear that J. G. Thompson pulls a
good many strings with the Ohio
delegation, and has always been
on good terms with Randall.
Where, then, is Mr. Cox's strength
to come from f It must come from
such votes as he can personally
control by his magnetism, &e., and
from the element hostile in any
event to Randall. The latter ele-ment
has always been more obsti-nate
than numerous. Mr. Cox's
friends have never been most
numerous when he was running for
Speaker.
We will, therefore, suppose that
Mr. Randall is elected Speaker of
Congress; what influence is that
to have on further dissensions in
the Democratic party I It seems
to me that all the States now op-posed
to Randall will go Demo-cratic
any way. while the States in
favor of Randall must continue
Democratic to get the Presidency.
It would take an extraordinary
campaign, for instance, to make
Mr. Morrison's State of Illinois
Democratic Without a Speaker
that New York State and her in
dustries can trust, the Democracy
cannot carry New York, while
there are already very strong signs
of a complete fusion of the Republi-can
party with no man omitted from
influence in it but Mr. Conkling,
who seems to have sieved lnuiselt
like a small shot through all the
different sieves in the shot-tower,
and to have got to the political
bottom at last. There is really no
Stalwartia.u In the country but
Conkling and his little friend. BOBS
Cameron. I hear that Cameron
call be cordial, too, but he had the
idea for years lust nothing could
be accomplished in this world With-out
a club.
Of course, the Bpeafcenhip con-test
is largely a matter of trade
about the committees. Randall
has the advantage in that trade be-cause
a large percentage ot old con-inessmen
are coming back. It is
among the new congressmen maim
lv that the opposition to Randal
is seeking votes. Suppose Randall
is elected, will there by any robe
lion in the Democracy ? I think
not But I think that it Randall is
beaten, except in a very square ami
fair way, there will be music.
Sherman a» an O-rulator.
[WaaUaatoa l.vO^r-1
General Sherman isthe champion
kisser of America. He never kisses
boys or babies, but he lets no pret-t/
girls escape. If he had but de-voted
himself to the bab.es as he
has to their big sisters he might
have been President before this.
A lovely girl with ripe, red lips,
who has known the General all her
life, was suddenly
Hu.-.-ii Vlrtarla-a Abdication.
The Washington Sunday Herald
says: "A representative of one of
the prominent European powers
tells me that a very serious event
is impending in England, which is
the, abdication of the Queen. The
reasons given for this unexpected
course are Her Majesty's last tail-ing
health and increasing unwil-lingness
and sometimes an inabil-ity
on her part to perform the du-ties
incident to government
"For some years the Queen has
been a mild believer in spiritual
ism. She thought the spirit of
her dead husband used to assist
her in working out the questions
which perplexed and sometimes an-noyed
her. Since the death of her
favorite servant, John Brown, she
has been very much depressed, and
finally it was necessary to remove
her to Raltunoral, where some of
her happiest days were spent with
the lover and husband of her
youth.
"I am told that some very pa-thetic
scenes took place at her last
visit there. She seemed to teel
the actual presence of her dead
Prince, and talked as though he
were by her side. This and other
occurrences frightened and alarmed
her daughter Beatrice very great-ly,
and she insisted that some of
the other members of the family
should come down at once. The
life of Princess Beatrice must be
something dreary beyond words.
The information was telegraphed
from London by the ambass-ador
of a great power to
his sovereign on Wednesday last
that the abdication of the Queen
of England was impending, and
would" probably occur very soon.
' From any other than this most
reliable source 1 should doubt it
The Queen has clung to the visi-ble
endowments of the throne with
such tenacity that she must have
greatly changed before the thought
was bearable. But the break-down
of her health has been followed by
nielancholly of the most pronounc-ed
type.
"It seems not to be generally
known that the trouble with the
Queen's knee comes from a large
ulcer of :. scrofulous nature that
has formed under the knee-joint,
and in spite of all that can be done
is catingits way through muscle and
nerve to the bone, and her condi-tion
is very serious indeed.
"The abdication of the Queen
and succession of the Prince of
Wales as Prince Regent would
change the whole condition of En-glish
politics."
How Maiiiii'acturliiK De»elopea a State.
! L. Una— in ItalnWi i >Wvcr.!
One fact carries more conviction
than many theories.
Till'. ODKLL MANlFAi'trUlNC COM-PART,
ofConcord, is a fact. Pacts of this
kind arc not wanting now. but I
propose to comment a little on this
one just now. The investment is
1140.000, and it gives employment
to 276 hands. The aggregate popu-lation
of the families from which
these hands come will number, 1
understand, something over oil",
including the older and younger
members who are not suited for
factory work. Or. we may count l
on 1,000 increase in population for ,
every $300,000 invested iu the |
manufactory of cotton. In some
lines of manufacturing the number
of hands is even larger in propor-tion.
To make this a little plainer, if a
town has one thousand inhabitants.
the population can be doubled In-putting
$300,000 in manufacturing
enterprises. These laborers will
ut nearly all their wages, (say
Two Venerable Chickens.
Eleven years ago General Dar-gan,
of Wadesboro, bought a five-year-
old hen from a countryman
and put her in a pen to fatten, but
she began to shell ont eggs so fast
that the general concluded to keep
her for a while, as lie considered it
a too valuable fowl to kill. She j
contiuues to live, is now sixteen, a
hale, hearty old hen, and lays an
egg every other day. The next
aged hen is owned by Mr. M. P.
Leak. It was presented to him
when sixteen years old by a lady
friend, who declared her intention
never to marry as long as that hen
lives. This happened nine years
ago. The chicken lives and moves
and has its being, and the lady still
walks in maiden meditation, fancy
free.
The Ohio Democratic Convention.
Judge George Hoadly, of Cin-cinnati,
will, according to present
indications, be the Democratic
nominee for governor of Ohio. He
will go into the convention with
solid delegations from Cincinnati
and Cleveland, and many counties
have already instructed for him,
including Butler, one ofthe largest
counties in the State. The New
York'Sun expresses the opinion that
he will be elected by a large ma-jority
should he be the nominee,
as lie is especially strong with the
Germans, whose sentiments he has
championed professionally in the
celebrated liquor cases before the
courts. The Sun further says in
the event of his election as gover-nor
Judge Hoadly will loom upas
a Strong candidate for the Demo-cratic
nomination for President,
for which he possesses the requi-sites
of great ability and learning
and an unsullied reputation. The
Ohio Democratic convention meets
Thursday of next week.
The Doctrine ol'Chance-.
[Cenual Urn Journal.]
The invitation to goto Washing-ton
with Judge Story did not im-ply
any promise of attention alter
we arrived at that city, as he was
careful to point out when I re-ceived
it. "The fact is."' said lie," |
'T can do very little for you there,
as we judges'take no part in the
society of the place. We dine once .
a year with the president, and that I
is all. On other days wetakeour
dinner together, and discuss at the
table the questions which are ar-gued
before us. We arc great
ascetics, and even deny ourselves
wine, except in wet weather."—
Here the judge paused, as if think-ing
that the act of mortification
he had mentioned placed too se-vere
a tax upon human credulity,
and presently added : "What I
Say about wine. sir. gives you our
rule; but. it sometimes happens thai
thb fmief Justice will say to me
when the cloth is removed, 'Broth-er
Story, step to the window and
see if it docs not look like rain.'
\nd if 1 tell him the sun is shin-ing
brightly, Judge Marshall Will
sometimes reply: 'All the better,
for our jurisdiction extends over So
large a territory that the doctrine
of chances makes it certain that it
must be raining somewhere, anil
it will lie safe to take something.
Evil I'.M, i I- of Idleness.
I Extract fmia Kcv. Dr. Kins'? yenuon Ian Sun-lay.]
"By much slothfulness the build
ing decayt'th: and through idleness
of the bauds the house tlroppeth
through." "In earing time and in
harvest thou shalt rest." Idleness,
said the preacher, is not only au
evil but a sin and a crime against
Cod and ourselves. As Lord 15a-con
says, "In this theatre of man's
life it is reserved only for God and
angels to be lookers on." I do not
believe a lazy man can be ahea'thy
Christian. Unemployed hours
breed evil thoughts as naturally as
worms are generated in a stagnant
pool. Hence arise calumnies and
slanders. Most ruined men date
their wreck from some vacant hour.
An ancient poem which pictures
the devil as fishing for men with
baits adapted to their different
tastes represents the idler as giv-ing
him no trouble but as'biting at
the naked hook at once. Idleness
is especially the corrupter of youth,
as it is the inlet of all temptations.
The most miserable being on earth
is the young man of fortune who
has nothing to tlo but to find some
new way of doing nothing, and
equally wretched is the young wo-man
who spends her whole exist-ence
in hunting for a husband.
Sensible youths will do well to be-ware
of her. That laziness meets
at times with a fit punishment may
be seen from the example of the
Hamburg Workhouse, where idlers
are suspended in baskets above
the dinner table so that they may
see and smell the food which they
are not allowed to taste. Remem-ber,
then, the saying of Ci.ssjanus
that -The working monk is assault-ed
by a single devil, but the idle
monk is overcome with devils with-out
number,'" and be certain that
the man who limlstime hang heavy
on his hands has consulted neither
duty nor happiness.
Recreation is not alone a privi:
lege but a duty. It is to the mind
what whetting is to the scythe.
The man who spends his whole
time in recreation is always whet
tini; and never mowing, and the
The "Colonels" Must tlo.
The editor of the Florida Herald
has started a reform movement
which has long been desirable.
though no one else seems to have
had the courage to begin it. He
proposes to restore to the civilian
ranks all of the spurious "colonels."
We hope the stout hearted editor
will succeed. He has begun right
by declining the title of colonel on
his owu account, but whether lie
will live long enough to finish the
job is doubtful, unless some way.
at present unknown, of prolonging
life is discovered. Even if he ex-poses
one pretended colonel a day,
Sundays included, he will need
more than an ordinary lifetime in
which to extirpate the breed iu
Florida alone; and what is the rest
of the South to do iu the mean-time
1
Hot Weather and Cool Drink-.
Will any one ever solve the
standing mystry of the drinking
habit'. Half a year ago all men of
inclination were taking brandy
and gin at intervals throughout
the day for the sole purpose of
keeping warm: yesterday the same
meu were drinking the same kinds
of liquor, in the same quantites, in
order to keep cool. Most of them
poured ice water into the liquor or
or took it after their liquor! but
they did the same in the depth of
the Winter. Can any drinking man
tell the public for a certainty
whether alcohol makes the drinker
cool! If the stuff is cooling, why
did he take it in v Inter to make
him warm ! Or if he says the effect
Is not cooling, but heating, why
dosebedrink it freely when thenier-enry
is iu the nineties '. If such
apparent inconsistency was dis
played by a politician there would
seem nothing strange about it; but
when it is manifested at consider-able
expense, the money coming out
ofthe ilriuker's own )iocket, pub-lic
curiosity is inevitable.
ITHMfl OVMTOMGH.
—England imported about 260,-
000 pounds of ostrich feathers last
year, valued at 15,400,000.
—The total yield ofthe mines in
this country for 188:! was $32,500,
000 in gold and 148,100,000 in sil-ver.
—To pay four per cent, on the
cost of the Brooklyn bridge about
$1,000 will have to be taken in
daily.
—The widow of Dr. Glenn, the
great California farmer, expects to
realize this year $700,000 from the
grain crop.
Learning to Sew.
To be handy with the needle, is
one of sterling accomplishments ol
every educated woman. To be
alile'lo take the "stitch in time."
is worth all the time and trouble
that arc required to learn the art.
Like walking, reading, and many
other things which we OOUB to do
without special thought, the learn-ing
to sew is a slow process, and
should be begun while the child is
Still quite young. The girl should
not only have the useof the thread,
needles' and patch work, but be'in-structed
how to take the stitches,
turn the corners, and do various
It is said that a fly has sixteen things connected with needle work
Taluia^e on GlkSta ami Camels.
The interior of Talmage's Taber
nasle resembled a vast flower-gar-den,
Sunday, when Talmage, the
man who spends his whole time in | gnn-flowerof the group, bowed his
labor is alwavs mowing but never ' head for the congregation
pay
at least $50,000 I year) among the s|Up (1|. it_ .„-„, .„
grocery and dry goods merchants | illlmin.<iweight o
Mlllill, .,..., . . r
. I had to be dragged OVCT
this farm, and the devices «_ it
Uic old gentleman pnt ->M
to trap ine into some unguai.l.
on to the butter and eggsoi
my blue-grass country were many
and ...genius. I stood my ground
like a hero, but it must be owntU
that the Governor's torniing is, IiM
thor-him
if
ont of
easier
Uiug he undertake-.
ougiilv well done, i asked
I to make any money
Mil,, no." said he, It >s
made some other waj•
Whilcat Greystone not so
as the shadow or the *'"f . '' '.
poHHcian crossed the threshold".
appeared upon the g«>«»',s
i;i .h [a
luull,l,.,| i,v his nieces and his
,, the Old statesman phllOSO
cd in bis con-much
pher was as unreserve
she was and »»«»?" \"
in his hospital
ll ion as
iv. one of the young hKUee to...
seised by the
gallant hem. about noon the^er
dav. right in front ? the Bbbitt
use. and smartly kissed square
■ the lips. She didn't mind the
U- of course, but she didn't like
the publicity. She frowned tierce-
Kthe General as she thought
Of the picturesque scene of a no-nu.,,
l before, and then said sharply,
.-llow dar
sol" "T
grizzled
^^rDo^h^s have any fool
It, ess over a little matter like * ^•- -r f-!r-crw- &£. estimated recently that
,e t'eneial bad had a hundred
■ i i, the neighborhood to gather
fore ami tnei. samsiia.r.j,
arc von, General, treat me
Tut " "tut," child,' said the
veteran. "I'm old enough
jo be your father: yes, your grand-and
at home And thus yon see
many of our towns, by starting a
few factories, have largely ineieas
etl their population.
TOWN LIFE
has not been so populous With
Southern people as it always was
with those further North. This is
not because we are a different race
of people, (we are all Anglo-Saxon)
nor yet because we have different
notions; but interest determines
the actions of all parties. While it
was to the interest of people in the
State of New York that three
fourths of them should live in the
towns and cities, it was a fact that
at hast nine-tenths of our North
Carolina people lived in the coun-try-
That was our interest in slav-ery
days. It is our interest now to
live much more largely in cities.
If for every man that now lives in
towns, live more shall move in
from the country, we would then
ha*«left perhaps a larger country
population in proportion than the
State of New York. The plain,
good conIItry' people feel this in
stinctivch, and hence they are
coming into the towns rapidly.
Every town in this state well loca-ted
and well governed, is growing,
and in the next ten years can have
five times its present population.
LAZY PEOPLE
in the country may become very
good, industrious town citizens—
sometimes necessity compels them
so to be. People poorly adapted
to farm life often make very good
operatives iii factories. To make
a man industrious, there is nothing
like having him properly placed.
Anglo-Saxons are not lazy people
naturally, as compared with other
people;"and there is in all proba-bility
no hardier race than our own
yeomanry. Aroused to highest ac-tion
(as during the war) our hardy
muscles and active brains must
soon build a great State. Muscle
is now alive as well as brain, about
which 1 may write some other
time. . .
As a result of this activity and
of cooperative effort, you may ex-pect
great rapidity of growth in
The la oniir Value ol* KiwUage*
The economic value of ensilage
has been strikingh illustrated by
an English agriculturist's experi _
ment reported in the Agricultural | W|iaJ
(jozrltr. In his case a crop of oats
ruined by the wet season was sav-ed
by ensilaging it, the oat sheave-having
been •in a thoroughly sod-den
condition and the corn iu them
so generally sprouted thai appar-ently
all was worthless except for
manure." The process of ensilage
consisted in putting the oats in a
idding about three
f salt to thirteen
whetting. Belaxatiou is indispeu :
sable. I.utc strings must some-times
be let down or they lose their
sweetness; in like manner man's
body aad brain must b- refreshed
Or the] will lose all their vigor. We
Americans are, as a nation, given
to overwork. We have not yet
learned the secret of rest. At this
time it is specially well to remem-ber
that recreation and recupera
tion are %t idleness and abstinence
from activity, but salutary powers
exerted in different directions. The
only antidote for idleness is work,
and weariness can only be combat-ted
by i cereal ion. Inaction is al-ways
baneful, as its sole function
is to breed indigestion both in body
and soul.
in Behalf of Frog*.
The Kjrster season has ended; the
fatal months without the "r" have
begun to run their course. Let no*
he who loves his stomach despair,
however, tor the juicy, tender, de-licious
frog has come—he who in
France makes his cut ranee ami exit
by the light of wax bougies ami
the poppiugOf seductive Widow
Clicquot. There is a prejudice a lining
some people about frogs as a steady
diet. Il is not founded
inimal or reptile
tons of the green fodder. When
the pit was opened last month, af-ter
having been closed marly eigh-teen
weeks, the temperature was
on reason
so much
resemble man as the frogl Manj
men and more women think I hey
causing. They can't. Neitheican
the frog, though from time imme-morial
his lugubrious wail, solemn
Nik, has been heard a I dewy
by summer boarders. Who
has not seen men that looked just
like frogs beardless, bald paled
wide mouth, receding chin, promi-nent
eyes, alderuia.iic-bellied sort
of fellows* Then with their eyes
exercise the electric power, and
what ladies tl t I II is a fact
iu natural history that some, men
cn
ev<
found to be 110 degrees, the mass ; haye endeavored to stand the gaze
was in good condition, giving a tra ,,,■ ,|M. iv„L,-s eve. and fell fainting
grant odor, and was readily eaten
by horses and cattle. The theory
of the process is that when green
soddes is placed in a water-tight
pit under pressure heat is generat-ed
and fermentation ensues. The
oxogen in the interstitial air is
speedily absorbed anil its place ta-ken
by carbonic acid gas, so that
the fermentation and its accompa-nying
heat arc arrested in the mass
oi" closely packed fodder immersed
in a batli of carbonic • acid, "just
as." to use the words of Professor
WrightSOU, "a lighted candle ex-tinguishes
Itself in a bath of choke-damp
of its own making when
burned in a closed vessel." Ol
course the more perfectly air-tight
ofthe frogs eyi
to the ground.
The fiog.too, has been celebrated
in son-, poetry, sacred history and
the Koran. Two thousand years
BgO Aristophanes brought frog
peopl to the stage, and a poem
attributed to Homer relates ol the
battle between the frogs ami mice
Then, tOO, frogs gave Moses and
bis people a good deal of trouble in
l->pvt once, which might have all
been avoided if they had fallen to
eating them, as we do now. And
the Koran relates that when the
Chaldeans cast Abraham into the
flames the frogs spat into and ex-tinguished
the tire. Thcictore.s;
Mohammed, respect the fro
having saved the patriarch
After the openingchorushe came
on the stage and announced '-Woe
be lo ye who strain at a gnat and
swallow a camel."
lie said that the. scriptures were
proverbs of compact wisdom:
knowledge iu chunks; river in a
mill race.
He described the camel as a
great, awkward, sprawling brute.
with a back two stories high and a
stomach tilled with reservoirs, an
article of diet forbidden the .lews
and as no good. The gnat was a
grub of infinitesimal proportions at
the start, and yet man was so in
consistent that he would gulp down
down the"shipofthedesert,,'while
he couldn't educate his stomache
to envelop the gnat.
lie said that the principal peo
pie he should refer to were the min-isters
of the gospel, who were blind
guides of the text They objected
to everything that was not clothed
with solemnity, while they them-selves
did things a thousand fold
worse. They always wanted to
see the mouth drawn down instead
of up and preached to sleeping con-gregations.
It was worse to sleep
in church than to smile.
••When the congregation begin
to go to sleep," he yelled, "it is
time lor the minister to announce
the doxology or pronounce the ben
ediction. There is too much solem-nity
and not enough vivacity ill
our churches
Christ did not think any ..lore
of a minister because he was sol-emn.
The men who always preach
cd solemnity did it to detract the
attention of their thicks from their
greater sins. Buuyan and Wesley
and Whitleyand South and Jere-my
Taylor, and even Christ him-self,
were paragraphcrs.
\ sermon without wit was like
a banquet of raw roast beef with
out dessert. .
These ministers strained at tne
; gnat and swallowed the dromeda-ry.
.,
A man who was away up III tne
I estimation of his neighbors would
: watch for the boy who stole his
morning papers and when he had
caught him he would say, "ah,.you
little rascal. I've caught yon at
last. Police! police!" (Several
i started forth to find on.-, hut re
1, when he continued): "These
would steal millions
eyelash, and
thousand eyes. This accounts toi
her carelessness in leaving herspecs
laying around.
—The estimated value of build-ing
improvements in Atlanta this
year, exclusive of public buildings,
is £1,000,000. and the year isn't halt
gone yet.
—"Were it left to inc." saitl Jef-ferson,
"to decide whether we
should have a govcriinn nt without
newspapers or newspapers without
a government. 1 should not hesi-tate
a moment to prefer tin- latter."
—See the eternal lintitness of
things, says the Oil Citj Dtrrick,
A silver dollar of 1804 was recent-ly
sold for 1704, ibile the silver
dollar of tin- present day is worth
about seventy-eight cents. This is
progress.
—A schooi has been opened in j
St. Louis by a pupil ofthe Russian
Professor Mc/.zcrolV for instruction
in the art of making dynamite ma-chines
and other destructives.
Fourteen young men, il is saitl, j
have been enrolled as pupils.
—A Detroit tailor will shortlj
advertise: "Persons leaving the
city for the summer resorts can |
have their statements of account |
promptly forwarded by leaving
their address. State lo what street
and number last postal card was
sent"
—A number of Harvard fresh
men have been lined rL'O each for
thieving. While riding out from
Boston they •'ragged" a lot ol
signs on the way, Mug about to
carry oil' a tobacconist's Indian as
a policeman appealed. Their car-riage
was full of barber poles, gilt
watches, grocers' signs, and so on.
—Yiiinie Beam Iloxie, the noted
sculptress, rejoices in being a
mother, her baby having been born
last Thursday iii Washington. She
had been married stveral years
and was quite well advanced iu
years, so that this last ev. ut in her
history causes somewhat of a sen-sation'
among the friends of the
family.
—John l.cveriilgc. the oldest law
yer in New fork, will lie ninety
two years old September I. He
distinctly remembers the funeral of
Washington, witnessing it in coin
pany with his sister at the corner
of Broadway and Ves-.-y streets.
The event was forcibly impressed
upon his mind by the fact liial
when he got home he and his sister
were soundly spanked by their
mother.
We are including the boys ill
our remarks, because they need to
learn to thread a needle, ami do
general sewing. Men are many
times so situated that they must
depend upon themselves tor their
necessary sewing. Keen if it is an
age OfSewing machines, it is best
that all children should learn to
use the simple, common old fash
ioned kind, which can never be
whollx superseded. The amuse-ment
and occupation that sewing
furnishes little folk- afford sufii-cieni
reason why all mothers
should sec that their girls, and
boys too. learn to sew—but the
very practical use of the needle in
alter life is the principal reason,
after all.
for
turne<
same men
without moving an
then kneel down iu prayer and
thank God for the prosperity ol
the dav. and kiss their children
and hope that they might grow to
be as good as their fathers.
thief who would steal :
Knli. au4 l-oii. .-'lime.ho.-.
To drop your knife means --I am
badly bored."
To cat with your knife aiis -I
am not posted."
To drop your fork means "I am
desperately in love"
To wipe your knife on the table-cloth
means -all right.'
To stir your coffee with your
fork means--how sweet you are''
To eat your -Olip with a fork
means "yoi. are very beautiful
To whet your knife on your fork
means -you see I am sharp."
To cut your mouth with a knife
means -'I am impatient."
To |iick your teeth with a fork
means "I an. the pick of the lot."
To wipe your nose on a napkin
means -I am making a fool of my-self"
. , , ...
To drum y ■ pla'c with a knire
ami fork means -I am almost cm
To scratch your head with a fork
means "1 itch for au acquaintance
with you.''
To dip your knife in the butter
means '-ram not very particular,
you see." ...
'l'o let your knife slip and -plat
tar the gravy out of your plate
means "I am exceedingly happy to
lie here."
To draw the knife half way down
your throat means"! a njoying
myself very well, thank you.
I liraiun Hj tn :.u- a Panic.
\ New York special says: A
big dragon llv. such as children
call a darning needle, flew into one
ofthe primary departments ol t
Ohl Si-rtional UanGMM,
\. a "i ..ik -
Politicians who are now skirm-ishing
for a third party for the
Presidential contest have probably
forgotten the complex I the
present House of Representatives,
which would elect a President in
case of a failure at the ballot box.
In such a ctnitingeucj the vote is
taken by States, the majoritj of a
delegation controlling the State.
These States are Democratic:
Alabama. Arkansas. California,
Connecticut. Delaware, Ueorgiu,
Indiana. Kentucky. Louisiana, Ma-ryland,
Michigan. Mississippi. Mis
souri, Nevada. New York, North
Carolina Ohio. South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia
and Wisconsin—L'L'.
These States are Republican:
Colorado, Illinois, Iowa. Kansas,
. Maim-, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
i Nebraska, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island. Vermont. Virginia
I —15.
Florida, divided—I.
The most noticeable fact in this
record is that the Democratic
States include every part of the
liiion. and all its extremes, North
and South, East and West. This
is the first time since the civil war
when the strength of that party
has I ecu distributed over so vast
an area. California, Connecticut,
Indiana. Michigan. Nevada, New
York, Ohio and Wisconsin sp.nl.
for the North. The old sectional
hues arc g
■Vil!!, ( IHIMlla I 111, til' lloU.
"Yes, I think she intended it.
She saw 1 was looking wry well,
and she has two daughters of her
own: horrid things thej lire. too.
She can't gel then oil'. «itu all del
III.ill.\\. Well, I .Mine II,: ,\l\i\ III)
hair look ine two hours. I assure
you. Il lay jn.-it as I wanted it,
along my forehead. Sin-rushed up
to me with a fan as big as a barn
door ami commenced fanning her-self
asif sin- were "oi Led li) steam:
•My dear child, how nice you look.
Rut how hoi it is! Where i- your
dear Bister .'' It was aregnlar hur-ricane;
mj hail flew apart in all
directions. I caught .< glimpse of
in)self in a glass: I was a fright.
I iuight have been uetli.iK myself
up lor Ophelia, iu the mad scene
Not only can the fodder be kept postofflce
palatable and fresh (thus possess- Vcr. The transaction will Oecon
ing higher nutritive qualities than ducted in a different way. Meiore
when dried), but much produce, Mr. Tabor can get h.-i ■ ■ <>
which, if not ensilaged, would be- , Attorney General tin s, ot t> 11
come useless for stock feeding can | „,,ed States District Attorney to
by this simple process be kept from examine and report t.. l »»>'
deterioration till winter. Enthu- the Senators tttle to the property.
siastie estimates ofthe value,,. If correct ^.#2S^h-Trs«?a?tK
ensilage have bee. indulged inby sends onacertified .distract «w
some writers. But the si relia , title and when '^XHe_ltW..
ble estimates show that iu feeding „,.y General picpaies tin
cattle the gain in favor of ensilage ; This document goes
fraud
many
enough
come
iltsidc. There
frauds outside that it was
to make an outsider be
a Christian to get out ol the
voucher
the First
Auditor who examines and passes
if the law has been
bad company, ami vice versa.
Most people could see then-neigh-bors'faults
bettea than they could
see their ow if. They were the watch
dogs of humanity, always wait in-to
have an opportunity to grow 1,
always watching to set if then
neighbors were crooked. Vultures
were always tin- fust to -cent car-rion,
and these people wwe .lkeuetl
vultures. They could see tin
main recitation room becamepamc-
Btricken, and, jumping up, started
for the doors, yelling Are. 1 he
teachers tried to stop them, but al
least one hundred escaped down
thestairwax and out lo the street
shouting lire at each breath. As
the little ones ran out their cues
were taken up by men and women,
and in an incrediblj short tune
the street was blocked by a in,,:,
2,000 strong, wailing, crying, shout
ing. and trampling on
in their efforts to gel ml
I could hav. choked the old eat. I
kiii, w -he meant it. I hie of her
charming daughters had claret
punch spilled over her buhl silk.
II was ruined That was - •
consolation, ail) how ."
Repulallatt.
Wbo call estimate the cost of a
peerless reputation ! Voilllg man.
young woman starting out ill the
giddy whirl) I of life, pause and
consider before the tempter has
you in his power. He only is for:
tilled who has determined not to
yield tothe first temptation. Oh.
divine, oh, glorious legae.) of a
stainless reputation! Who can re
deem it il lost I Truly does the
great philosopher ol poeln HII) the
world's wealth is as "trash"' in com-parison.
I hope that iu all that
concerns a just appreciation of the
insignificance of human life, what-ever
ma) attempt to threaten or
alarm you he, ,1 it not. Keep a
stout I.e.ut and a steady e)e; and
above all, keep \oiir reputation.
|, i- better than gold; better than
lam,-. Without it stating has no
dignity.
'.'Ilom.1- .l«-lkl-oi,'- <ira,»-.
The neglected conditi ,i the
grave of Thomas .blleisou, at
Monticello, has long been the -il'i
jeel of comment, and the national
Government has at last erected a
monument over the resting place
of the author of the I leclarali, ' ,'t
Independence. The |»eopli hav
been making elaborate i
ration- tor the unveil.p .. lie-monument
on the Kour ' •• -Inly
next. It was suppo.-,. 'I ; li
sands would come Iii - ;
:i
Mill
i the
ther
I I
our principal cities and towns. God {^
designed "men to live largely in
cities. Only wild men and wild
beast can live entirely alone.
I", s. Msn-let Attend speak-.
Col. II. Walters. 1*. S. District
Attorney, Kansas City^-.Mo., au-thorizes
the following TOtement s
"SAMABITAH Nl'.KVINK cured my
niece of spasms." (let at druggists.
$1.50.
the coui.tr). bui
the committee of :,
whole affair promi
ph-te failure, and
are that the lli«
exceed the ilignit
crossroads gathering x
gle conspicuous si, • sma.
■ ..!-. tile
a to '< ■ i com
; . hardly
. i ■■nlii.ary
., tin
Id
the
lie ,..- ,
last year's. Wheat has improved
very much in the past two weeks
and while the crop will not be as
large as that of last year the qual-ity
will be better. Corn is also in
a'rtourishing condition.
a„d it is mailed t" his postolhce ad-dress
after having been ■"■»*»
Better Bruce for legistry, «"<« "'.'
is returned iu due course to U»|S8»», ^faction
ollice."
Bock) Mountain eagle
Dr. i: H. Babbitt, Hickory, S.
••Brown's Iron Hitters
it.
ml
time the dragon llv has almost
made a panic. The children think
it will sew up their ears if it gets a
Chance to Ming them.
p n ty has agreed to '...■ pi i-Sent. __
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