The Greensboro patriot [May 5, 1885]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
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GREENSBORO, N. C„ TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1885.
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lilllc, inicclike vanities creep in
and out of our religious influences.
Nothing <'an lie more defiling to
Christianity than the spirit which
ezieU too often in churches—their
combativeness, their enriooaneaa
and their jealousies ; their strifes
at to who (hall lie first, who shall
he mosl respectable, who shall be
most prosperous. All those things
are not of Kim who calleth you;
they aic of the devil. I'.nt churches
that ari' full of sweetness, lull of
activity, and that seek each other's
honor, rather than their own—
whose atmosphere is warm and
nourishing—the churches which
cherish the graces of the Spirit, so
tli.it if a man comes in from the
outward world he will say, -This is,
indeed, a different life from what
I have ever seen anywhere, that is
a moral influence beyond preach
iug, beyond all organization; and
whenever we can begin to touch
church with church from village to
village, and from town to town,
and to circle the nation with asso
.. ., -in i" ciations of men ami women that
S IS.Thompson, of the I are manifestly seeking to produce
I iee Baptist holiness iii their souls, yet with all
"i ml,, in asking the
sin to
w arrant
dance '."
for the
cheerfulness and sweetness and
beauty, the glory of the Lord will
not long linger and the millennial
■David daie- day will have already lit up the
eastern horizon with its beams."
\ii.int Pharisees.
liev. Mr. Smyth, first Keformed
L'resbyterian church, New York,
gave his text—"For 1 say unto you
i«ish todancc, thai except yourrighteousnessshall
er, as in all others, exceed the righteousness of the
-; as they wish, on scribes and Pharisees ye shall in
i i. with all his
lid ; "No man can
rules, though
written by an angel
il from the
iu everj particu
' i e has a
rrl ,'t, hat another shall
The most the
I l,i i-tian teacher can
, i .,::; the dangers in
■ as In- may the
ivt evils in other things.
. .i> he must, the matter
who i ngage in it. If,
: i In ist, I am to de-ne
principle ac
t must be higher than
■ tact thai I personally
pleasure in it, or be-ice
in the Christian
because I never could
, is unfair in argu-
■ mini; w ho to make a
e oi his own interest
iinent which does not
il truthfully coincide with
«•- in the case.
irehes, in some instances.
ling unfrequented by
_-. and ail because some
i rank, having out-i
the impulse ol youth, preach-religion
as wide from
; in nature of the religion of
Christ is error is from truth. When
• made to appear like t In-clining
ot labor's pick, burying it
deep in the natural proclivities
of youth, then the whole economy
made to unjustly suffer.
the Church in opposition to the
natural instincts ofyouth, ami they
• only refuse to embrace
. luit turn foot and lace from
met uarj.
iw, dancing is both a religious
. and is Biblically admissible.
I ii has been a national feature.
il ned from its purpose and into
- sometimes been the
■ i- not the faull oi the
act, lint of the debased na
iHI.- and low impulses of those en
II It.
■•Anciently it was a rite. Miriam
ami the women of Israel danced
the diowned hosts in the lied
.lepthah's daughter met him
dancing, and the women of Israel
hailed with like tcrpsichorean cxer-
- the coming of Saul from the
slaughter of the Philistines. Then
in tin- customs of the people it is
n of. The coming home of
the prodigal son filled the house
with merriment and dancing."
peaker went on to say that
there i- good warrant for dancing
no case enter into the kingdom of
heaven." True righteousness, he
said, is defined by a distinguished
divine to be that uprightness in
dealings which ought to be between
man and man. This is its proper
sense in the text. But it is evident
what is here ironically termed the
righteousness of the scribes and
Pharisees did not come up to tlrs
standard, for it is added that the
righteousness required for salva
tiou must exceed theirs. A scribe
might be termed a compound of
editor and clergyman. They tran-scribed
the writings of others, and
many taught and expounded these.
The word "Pharisee" is derived
from the Hebrew --I'harish.'' to
separate, and, from what we can
gather from the Scriptures and
Josephus, they were a haughty and
sell conceited set. To this sect be-longed
most of the scribes. Isaiah
prophesies ot them. ''Stand by thy-self:
come not near me. for I am
holier than thou." Our Saviour
says of them that they trusted in
themselves, that they were right-eous
and despised others, and that
one of" their number stood and
prayed with himself, "Cod, I thank
thee that 1 am not as other men."
Let us beware of cherishing a sim-ilar
haughty anil contemptuous dis-position
toward others. Another
characteristic of the sect was a
punctilious attention to little things
and the neglect of greater. Not
withstanding these they secretly
indulged in abominable crime and
inexcusable tempers,and linalh re-sorted
to measures resulting from
envy and revenge which have cov-ered
their name with infamy and
brought down the judgment of God
upon their nation. When they
brought a poor creature, taken in
sin, belore Christ forjudgment and
lb- said to them. "Let him that is
without sin among you (that is,
without her sin) cast the first Stone
at her," conscience stricken they
slunk away iiwcowardice.
The sting of thus revealing them
to themselves rankled iu their
breasts and bred iusatiable malice
aud revenge. Jealous of His popu-larity
with the people, they plotted
against Him, they consulted to en-tangle
Him in His speech, they
blasphemed Him, they denied Him |
the right of free speech when lie
dancing as an exer- quoted from their own Scriptures,
no one can upbraid until it be
made the vehicle ol passion or vice.
stand me clearly," he said,
••the people v, ill have amusements.
them be of the highest
- 'nle order. Bucour-tliem
in the home circle, where
thej will be safe from evil. Trench
around your amusements with the
approbation and pru-dent
surveillance, and you will
make religion palatable to the
young and snatch from prudery no
what we ill can afford to yield it-
■Uglier Impulse* to Right Living.
Mi. Beccher preached the short-g
-i i limn Sunday morn-ing
that he has delivered in several
-. 111" text had to do w lth the
higher impulses to right
living ill the ease of professing
Christians. These extracts are tak-en
from the sermon :
"The Kingdom of God consists
ill thai group of men, in all nations
and ages, that are renouncing their
aniin.il impulses in favor of a life
dowiug trow reason
the higher moral ami spiritual sen
itie
....and seek
.,,,! •• the righteousness ol Christ.'
■•The true idea of religiou is not
bo much tO tuck up our conduct so *I...i.t flirtation and Marrying.
t it will never drag on the Rev. ,1. .1. White, of the Fourth
ground; not MI much to take care Street M. P. Church, New York,
it church meetings, who married the two young couples
- iu such a waj as whose parents are seeking to aonul
. 'What religious the marriages, said :
lit- in- :i<-. 1 1111 .0 .oiii > 11 niiii .-.1 11 1 11 1 ., 1 11
ibilities. Thej have got up above , "1"-<'«"e-l the same class «a gen-
:I fine; the? are living ' eratlon ot vipers f
„ a land without a winter, and .. "Let'°8 aV0Jd ",,ch »s'"" • '"
to get a reputation
io be and not to
folks thej are'.'
toi piety—it is
seem."
••It is very easj i"i a man to act
gioilsly when he knows every-bod}
is watching him and praising
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■9KBSIN
they tempted one of His disciples
to play the traitor toward Him
with a bribe, they brought Ilim up
belore a mock tribunal on a false
accusation, suborned witnesses
against Him ami finally crucified
Ilim.
Murder is the climax to the envy,
malice, revenge, intolerance and
persecution which belong to the
spirit of such characters as these
scribes and Pharisees. Any man,
matter to what society lie be-longs,
who hates his brother with-out
a cause, is no better. It Christ
weie again on earth would He be
tolerated by an assembly of the
clergy in the exercise of the right
Of free speech, as, for example,
when addressing the scribes and
Pharisees, he said, "Ye blind
guides which strain at a gnat and
swallow a camel." "Woe unto you
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites."
"W Idled sepulchres full of dead
men's bones ami all uncleaiiness."
••It will be more tolerable tor So
dom and Gomorrah in the day of
. judgment than for you." Would
they tolerate .lohn the Baptist,
Marriage is adivine institution.
Once a young man said when I
married him: 'I thank you, .Mr.
White." Hi' was in raptures, and
added: 'I feel like a new man,'
and -o he was ; for no man feels
Mi '1 me almost universally complete until he is married. You
vain and will do a gieat deal for all know and feel a desire for that
• "i praise. The Americans completion
an- the proudest and the vainest
people that live upon the face of
the earth, 'flu- temptation to gain
praise for doing things that are
right is a very strong el cut iu
0111 national character. In our re
ligion there is not a little of the I national stability. Fancy a nation
clement of vanity. A thousand I of bachelors. There would be an-
Where there is no
esteem there can be no affection,
and where there is no affection
there is no union of hearts. Now,
therefore, marriage should never
be thoughtlessly entered into, tor
good marriages are the basis ofour
archy. When you see young men
keeping away "from marriage _ the
nation is beginning to decay. Now,
what is bringing this about! Want
of parental restraint. Young girls
are allowed to run about unattend-ed,
are not watched at home, or
looked after when outside the home
circle.
"It is a wonder that more girls
are not led astray. Mothers should
be the confidantes of their daugh
ters in love affairs. It amazes me
when I find senseless fops and
dudes encouraged in the house by
mothers who have marriageable
daughters. Yet when these girls
go oil' and marry these fops and
dudes a great sensation is made of
it. The causes of marriages are
often trivial. A beautiful mous-tache
will w in a girl's hand for a
top. Young men who have nothing
to do should be shunned by girls.
One of the most damnable institu-tions
of the age is flirtation. It is
the cause of most of the unhappy
marriages of the day. The tlirt
cannot be a wife in whom a man
can put confidence. Cod save good
men from them ! Another cause is
the love of dress. Women's love of
dress deters many from marrying.
Young men have given this as a
cause to me why they have not
married, and yet I know men who
are supported by their wives.
Tba Revised Old Testament.
The revision of the Old Testa-ment
has been completed, and on
May I'l the new version will be is
sued simultaneously ill London,
New York and Philadelphia. The
version is thejoiut property of the
universities of Oxford and Cam
bridge, and each university will
issue its own edition, although both
will be printed from plates made
from one set of types. Tor the
American trade Thomas Nelson &
Sons, of No. 42 Bleeeher street,
New York, will control the Oxford
Bible,and J. I!. Lippincott Com-pany,
of Philadelphia, will act as
agents for Cambridge. The Har-pers,
of N. York, will also have an
edition of the Cambridge Old Tes-tament,
which will correspond with
their own reprint of the revised
New Testament published three
years ago. 'they will have only
one style, in pica type and in four
octavo volumes, making five, vol
nines of the Old and New Testa
incuts. The binding will be 111
brown cloth with red edges, and
the four volumes will be sold for
$1". The Nelsons will offer a va
riety of styles on the day ot issue,
and a copy of the complete Bible,
printed in pearl type and bound iu
cloth, may be had for $1, or the
purchaser of luxurious taste may
secure a royal octavo edition iu live
volumes, printed in pica type and
bound in Turkey morocco boards,
with gilt edges, for $53.50. There
are to be in all six editions aud
twenty-three styles of biiidirg.
The "parallel Bible"—the author
ized version arranged in parallel
columns with the revised version
—will doubtless suit the scholar
who desires to make a close com
parison. It is to be a crown qnhrto
edition, printed in minion type,
and as to price *S will secure the
book in cloth boards,$14 a Persian
morocco binding and $18 a cover of
Turkey morocco.
Tho interest of the public and
even of the booksellers ill the pub-lication
of the revised Old Testa-ment
appears thus far to be of
rather a quiet sort, and such ex
citemeut as attended the issue of
tho Ne.v Testament three years ago
is not anticipated. The Harpers,
however, state that there is a fair
demand for the new Bible, and the
Nelsons report that they have re-ceived
a greater number of orders
than they had obtained for the New
Testament atabout the same period
to publication, although tho aggre-gate
quantity ordered is somewhat
less. It is said, too, that the uni-versities
have printed a much
larger number of Ilibles than that
at first supposed to be snflieieiit to j
meet the demand.
As to a comparison of the old ]
and new versions of the Old Testa j
incut nothing can bo said at pres-ent,
as the translators keep their j
own counsel. Every precaution j
has been taken to prevent a pre- j
mature issue of the work, and to
prevent stray copies from getting |
out before the day of delivery. It
is asserted that the two universi-ties
and the three American houses
who are to act as agent! are work-ing
in perfect harmony in the mat-ter,
in proof ot which the tact that
the Oxford and Cambridge Bibles
are printed from the same set of
types is mentioned. All the edi
tions to be offered in America are
imported from England in the com
pleted state, no sheets oven having
been sent forward for binding.
Whatever arrangements may have
been made for reprinting must await
the issue of the English work iu
the prescribed form.
A ui...
A kiss is said to lie sweet, not
because it contains saccharine mat
ter. but because a man doesn't
know what else to call it when he
feels the effect traveling through
his system on a lightning express
with no stopover check. It is safe
to assume that a man who at-tempts
to describe a kiss never
had one; men who have had kisses
(not smacks) don't want to talk ;
they want to think and dream and
die with their boots on. So we
have been told.
A Novel suicide.
[ML Airj News-]
Jerry Gallian, who resided near
Low Gap, in this county, committed
suicide last Saturday by hanging
himself iu the fork ofa laurel bush.
While the affair is a sad one, the
means employed to destroy life
were rather novel. The deceased
leaves a wife and several children.
No cause is assigned for the deed,
but some believe that a too free
use of liquor had something to do
with the man's death.
Beauty In Women.
The standards of feminine beauty-have
never been fixed by compe-tent
authority, and there are evi-dent
reasons why agreement on
some of the points at issue call
never be arrived at. The Chinese,
for instance, finds the true stand-ard
in his short statured, round
faced women, with plum colored
complexion. An African prefers
the color of his native race, with
lips and nose 011 a scale correspond-ing
with the breadth of his conti
nent. These are, however, extreme
instances. The Italian anil Spani
ard. with more reason, give the
palm to the black haired, dark
eyed beauties who unite the finest
features of the brunette type, while
natives ot the North find all that
is lovely and angelic in woman's
nature associated with blue eyes
aud fair complexions. The charac-teristic
of the Latin type is passion;
ot the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon,
tenderness ; but which is the bet-ter
no one will ever dare to decide
in these cosmopolitan days, with
specimens of both types free distri
buted about him.
To render a woman of any type
or class beautiful she must not
have too great irregularity of tea
tare, intellectual or moral beauty
may atone for many deficiencies,
but cannot make beautiful iu the
eyes of civilization a mouth too
large, a chin too sharp, or a uose
out of the line of projection. When
the ordinary mortal rises to find
standards outside of his own judg-ment,
he becomes greatly confused
by the utterances of the poets and
novelists. The sonnet of a bard to
his mistress' eyebrows is certainly
no guide to a sound decision, while
to read dull descriptions of lips
like cherries and peach colored
cheeks suggests some of the points
without leading to a verdict.
Recent novelists, it would seem,
fight shy of the subject. It is hard
to pin them down to any definite
detail of the charms of their heroi
nes. There is, of course, a long
list of beautiful mental and moral
qualities, and with those the reader
is expected to be satisfied. The
older novelists treated their subject
somewhat differently.
Walter Scott, for instance, was
not so timid. He had opinions,
and was quite willing to state them
boldly. When he undertook to de-scribe
anything it was with graphic
lineaments that made an impres-sion.
Yet, with all of his pictorial
audacity, he hesitated to decide be-tween
the two great types—the
dark and the light—into which na
Hire has divided women. His pas
sages describing the blonde fto-wena
and the d.irk Kebecca are fa
miliar to all lovers of English lit-erature.
He dwells with especial
tenderness on the portrait of the
dark Rebecca, which is said to have
been drawn after a description of
an American Jewess given to the
novelist by his friend Washington
Irving.
since Scott such descriptions
have become hackneyed. Novelists
have grown more afraid of their
readers, who delight in analysis
and not delineations. Beauty is
not found in the face alone. Ac-cording
to Emerson a tine figure is
better than a fine face, by which is
meant that if the choice lies be
tween the two the first is to be pre-ferred.
The two, however, are
very likely to go together, regular-ity
of feature being in a majority of
cases attended by symmetry of
form—a tendency of the race which
is every year become physically
more perfect. To have a good
figure and a face not displeasing is
no doubt a happy combination iu
cither man or woman.
The beauty of Shakespeare's
heronies is of an entirely undefined
type. It is something like his geo-graphy
and his chronology which
are so' closely related to the no
where and no when. A lovely pro-cession
of Juliets. Constances,
Isabellas, Imogenes, Heat rices,
Ophellias, Helens. Rosalinds, Cor-delias
and Yiolas troop through
his dramas in picturesque proces-sions,
theoretically beautiful, but
most of them gentle, submissive
and hapless food for tragedy. As
doubtless than tho modern repre-sentatives
of the race, aud with the
curve of the nose considerably pro-nounced.
Perhaps they would not
now bo called beautiful, for ouly
among tho ancient Greeks aud Ro-mans
beauty, whether ot form or
face, arrived at a great degree of
perfection. With other ancient na-tions
beauty must have been simply
comparative—that is, a woman was
beautiful because she was less ugly
iu lace or less unattractive in form
than others of her sex about her.
And so it is in the present age.
Mrs. Langtry, Mrs. Coruwallis
West, the Countess Dudley and
Miss Chamberlain are none of them
called beautiful. They have tine
complexious, superb figures, pleas-ing
eyes and mobile features. Yet
they are not perfect beauties, but
deserve commendation only by
comparison.
HUH Barries Fell.
The village of Chalcbuapa, be
tweeu sixty aud eighty leagues
from Guatemala, was strongely en-trenched
by 5,000 San Salvadorians.
Barrios, leaving his main army of
8,000 in the rear, commenced an
attack with artillery on the after-noon
of tho 1st of April, but dark-ness
fell before any advance of in-fantry
had been made. The assault
was continued at daybreak of the
second, and with a picked body of
•S00 Guatamalans the first trenches
were taken by nine o'clock. The
vj^tory was a bloody one, however.
The Guatemalans were losing
heart when Barrios cut short an
informal council of war, leaped on
his horse, drew his sword and
cheered on his men. There, was a
gallant charge past the first in-trcnchincnt
and the second was
taken with a rush. A strike was
made up a wooded slope for the
third, when from the trees above a
volley blazed out aud the attacking
troop was cut down like grass.
When the smoke lifted Barrios was
seen sitting on his horse almost
alone. Two of the few left an
harmed were a bugler and Dr.
Pitch, the I'resident's chief of
staff, who related the story to your
correspondent. Barrios waved his
sword, and at that instant there
came a single sharp report from a
tree well up to the right and Bar-rios,
screaming, fell headlong from
his horse. As he fell he threw up
his hands, and blood gushed from
his mouth and nostrils. The sharp-shooter's
rifle bullet had entered his
right shoulder aud traversed his
body, cutting the aorta in its diag-onai
passage. After the scream
and fall I'.arrios made no other
movement or .sound. Tne Dictator
was dead. Bis adopted son, Geu.
Veiianeio Barrios, and his son in
law, t'ruiano Saeho, rushed to
where the dead man lay. Again
the trees blazed out and two more
fell across the body of the Presi-dent.
Almost before they touched
it others ran forward to secure the
body but it was not until fully a
score Guatemalans had fallen by
the bullets of the invisible enemy
that the corpse was removed.
Then the firing ee ised and both
armies retired. The total loss on
both sides was above live hundred,
ol which number four hundred were
Guatemalans
Stonewall Jackson -o Bull's Ren.
tien. luihodeii writes of'•Stone-wall''
Jackson in the first battle of
Hull IC1111: "Cell. Jackson's wound,
received under the circumstances I
have described, became very seri-ous
when inflammation set in On
hearing, three days after the light,
that he was suffering with it, I rode
to his quarters, in a little farm
house near Centreville. Although
it was barely sunrise, he was out
under the trees, bathing the hand
with spring water. It was much
swollen and very painful, but he
bore himself stoically. His wife
and baby had arrived the night be-fore.
Ills little daughter Julia was
still in long dresses, and I remem-ber
tossing her, to her great de-light,
while breakfast was being
made ready on a rude table under
the trees. Of course the battle was
the only topic discussed at break
fast. I remarked in Mrs. Jackson's
hearing: 'General, how is it that
for Lady Macbeth,she was without can keep so cool, ami appear
doubt a freckled Scotch maid, l»>' ' »0 utterly insensible to danger iu
fate a termagant, by accident a
Queen. The inference is that most
of these women were beautiful,
but no reason can be given for
such assumption. They drew men
irresistibly to them. Nearly all
had great loveliness of character,
which should have made them ad-mired,
anil it the poet is to be be
lieved it had its effect. They are
certainly immortalized in his v.'rse.
Beauty in history has usually
been associated with misfortune,
and has, therefore, sometimes re-ceived
undue sympathy.
such a storm of shell ami bullets
as rained about you when your
hand was hit!' lie instantly be
came grave and reverential in his
manner, and answered iu a low-tone
ol great earnestness: 'Cap-tain,
my religious belief teaches
me to feel as safe in battle as iu
bed. God has fixed the time for
my death. I do not concern my
selt about that, but to be always
ready, no matter when it may over-take
me.' He added, after a pause,
looking me full in the face: 'Cap
tain, that is the way all men should
The beauty of Mary of Scotland ! |jVe, and then all would be equally
has been used to cover a multitude ' brave."
of sins, while the lack of personal ]
charms in Elizabeth has been often * »"»••«"""'" •,«'"-»^»-
cited to render her faults more eon | George Dallmeter has resided at
spicnous. Some beauties, like No. 143 South Green street, Chic
Beatrice, Laura and Bettina, have [ ago. for years, and has seldom veil-been
rendered famous either by the tared beyond the precincts ot the
adoration with them. Beatrice and
Laura were doubtless beautiful in
an era when beautiful women were
not uncommon, and justified the
eulogies of Dante and Petrarch;
but Bettina was interesting to
backyard fence or the front gate,
because he fears that the meddle
some, law will interfere with his
harmless recreations. His pet
hobby is female apparel, which he
has worn for these many years in
Goethe primarily for her mental j all its completeness. George is
and moral graces, which may have | about fifty yean of age, witl
kindled her face into physical love-liness.
How did Helen of Troy look I—
the woman who, when past middle
age, convulsed the heroes of the
world with the desire to possess
her and caused the ruin of a na
tiou. She was probably of the
Greek type, her profile forming a
straight line from the top of her
forehead to the tip of her nose. So
also must be described the sem-blance
of Portia, Agrippina, Cleo-patra,
Faustina and Virginia of
Roman history.
Judith, Esther, Batbsheba and
Uorodias were, no doubt, of the
Jewish style of beauty, darker
smooth face and long hair, which
curls down below his shoulders.
He cooks and keeps house, it is
said, for the owner of No. 143, who
boards there. He keeps pace with
all the latest fashions, and gives as
his reason for doing so that wo
j men's raiment is more comfortable
and convenient than man's. It is
also said that Dallmetes served his
■ country iu the war ot the rebellion,
• and received a wound for which lu-gets
a pension, ami this, together
with his housework, supports him ;
but he makes himself very scarce
on the streets, as the neighbors
threaten to have him arrested if he
goes out.
Isaiah's Prophecy -till 1 ninliilli-il.
A clergyman of New York city,
preaching about Christianity and
war, last Sunday, was forced to
como to the conclusion that the
day is still far off when, as Isaiah
prophesied, the nations would beat
their swords into ploughshares and
learn war no more.
Christian France has only just
come to peaee with heathen China
after the useless slaughter of thou-sands
of human beings. Christian
England is still fighting the Mo-hammedans
of the Soudan. In
Central America hostilities which
may more and more involve this
country are now going on. In
Canada the Kiel rebellion of Chris-tianized
Indians against those who
had converted them is to day in
progress, and the war may be long
and bloody. France makes threat-ening
demonstrations against
Egypt. Ireland is pervaded by a
spirit of bitter animosity against
England, which would delight to
express itself in a bloody contLct.
All Europe is armed to the teeth,
and the military preparations of
the powers are on a scale of mag-nitude
never before equalled. Fin-ally,
England and Russia, two
great Christian nations, make
ready for a probable war, induced
by the greed of conquest of the one
and the determination of the other
to hold fast conquests made long
ago.
The prophecy of Isaiah, there
fore, is not likely to be fulfilled in
the nineteenth century, and war
has been and still is about as much
the business of Christians as it was
of the pagans before the day when
Christ preached the brotherhood of
man and celebrated the virtues of
meekness and humility. A few-years
ago people were flattering
themselves that so stupid a method
of settling differences between na-tions
was about to give place to
peaceful arbitration, and that tho
time was near at band when two
countries would no more think of I
resorting to arms against each
other than two great merchants |
would propose to engage in a slug- |
ging match to settle a dispute
about accounts. Y'et since that
time the European armaments
have beon extended to an unprece
dented degree, and wars have been
in continual progress. Krupp's
gun foundry has become the great
est industrial establishment in Ger-many,
and the most active inven-tive
and scientific minds the civi-lized
world overare devoting them-selves
to the perfection of the en
gines of warfare, so that they ..hall
be more destructive. To-day the
busiest industries in this country
are the manufactories of munitions
of war, and they are turning out
cartridges by the hundred million
to be used in killing human be
ings.
Russia is ready to fall on English
commerce in case of war, hoping to
drive thousands of peaceful ships
from the seas. She is planting tor
pedoes in her harbors to blow up
the great vessels of her enemy and
destroy the lives of their crews,
and iu the dock-yards aud gun
shops of the empire the hours of
labor upon the engines of war are
lengthened by the use of the elec-tric
light which Christian civiliza
tiou lias introduced. Night and
day the workers are ceaselessly at
their toil completing all sorts of
infernal machines. Like prepara-tions
for wholesale slaughter are
going on in England, where the
Government has thousands of men
at work to get ready ships and
munitions of war, and is giving or-ders
for the building of great num-bers
of other vessels, more guns,
more torpedoes, and more shot and
shell. Hospitals for multitudes of
wounded men are going up on the
borders of Afghanistan, ambu
lances are manufactured by the
thousand, lint is scraped, and sur-geons
are sharpening their knives.
All these horrible preparations
for coining slaughter are going on
iu the sight of the civilized and
Christian world, and they are made
by nations which daily send up
their prayers to the Lord of peace
and righteousness. They are made
not only iu contravention of the
teachings of Christ, but even in
contemptuous disregard of them;
and yet Christendom is not shock-ed,
is not surprised, any more than
we are surprised to see two hull
dogs snap at each other in the
street. Christendom rather stands
by wondering that the light has
not already begun, and ready to
visit with its derision either power
which refrains 'Vein war because it
would avoid bloodshed. We hear,
at least, of no general assembling
of the Christians of Europe and
America to protest against the
awful struggle as a crime against
the religion of Christ. A few ad
vocates of peace 011 principle have
! begged to English Government to
j desist, but they are laughed at as
j cranky visionaries even by the
1 clergy, who declare that it is craven
I lor an Englishman to obey the pre-cepts
of Christianity and not re-taliate
for a blow.
. All this may seem very common-place,
but why is it commonplace 1
Is it not because such a thing as
genuine Christianity has almost no
I existence in the world t People do
I not expect to see the teachings of
the Sermon on the Mount obeyed,
but treat them as impracticable, as
beautiful poetry merely. Iu their
! individual dealings they do not
pretend to be governed by them,
altll collectively they disregard
them as a matter of course.
A <;rcai Revival.
iWUmisetoa st»r!
The revival at Fifth Street Meth-odist
church closed on Thursday
: night. The results are as follows:
■ Conversions, 306, accessions L'.">'-'.
Total accessions since January 1st
j 280. This is doubtless the greatest
revival that has ever occurred in
North Carolina with any one
Ichurch. All of the converts are
; white.
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Whst Is the lost of the Nation's POSFSBBSM
Au interesting computation made
by Mr. Edward Atkinson, is pre-sented
in summary by BradstreeCs.
Mr. Atkinson has been endeavor-ing
to determine, not how much it
actually costs the people of the
United States for food, but what
would be the aggregate expendi-ture
ou the basis of a fair average
for individual nourishment, and
how the expenditure would be dis-tributed
among the various items
of subsisteuce.
The conclusions of this iutelli
gent and careful economist were
reached by the following method :
lie took the actual cost of feeding
seventeen adult men. most of whom
were hard-working mechanics, and
eight women, three being servants,
for six months, iu a Massachusetts
town. lie also took the actual cost
of the food eaten by seventy-two
adult female factory operatives and
eight servants in a Maryland '.own.
He assumed that the average of
these two tables would be no more
than a fair daily ration for all
adults throughout the country.
Here are the individual averages
and the totals, the latter being
reckoned on the the basis of a
population of fifty millions:
Clf imr C'IJ p«r Total
lUiy year furlliot. S.
Monl, poultry ami fi-h. St.TO $3r> :il SI.76.-V.O0O.00O
l"airy ami warn. li.i" -ii * l,ii]y,uW.iw>
Flouran.liiu-al. J/'l 9 In 4.\r,,0Hi.lXIU
fosatabhs, l.w Til ;»i.imu.i««J
-Mi^ar au.1 .j-ru|i, I.tM 7 06 3S3,U0u,«M
rsaandoolks, l.'rt a 71 iHSAm.nn
Fruit, green and dry. ".Oi • 2ii l!:i.i»«i.tui
IsH, sjiee, i.-o. *c 1MB 1 7s sti.uw.Ouo
Total, EMS U5 8I Si.-iw.uw.iwo
What will strike everybody in
the table given above is first, the
arge relative cost of sugar aud
syrup as compared with that of
flour and meal : anil, secondly, the
fact that so great a part of the
total expenditure is for dary pro
ducts and eggs. The milk, butter,
cheese and eggs consumed cost
more than the Hour, the meal, all
the vegetables, and the tea and
coffee together.
Roughly speaking, then, tho
average individual ought to live
pretty fairly, so far as food is con-cerned,
on a quarter of a dollar a
day, or a dollar aud three quarters
a week, or ninety dollars a year.
Mi. Atkinson thinks that by judi-cious
purchasing and economical
serving the tiling could be done for
twenty cents a day in the Bast, and
probably for less in the West. As
for the beer and whiskey bill, Mr.
David A Wells recently computed
that the nation spends 9474,823,000
a year for drink.
Western >'. C it. H.
[Citiicn ]
The new schedule on the West-ern
North Carolina Railroad went
into effect on Sunday morning. By
the present arrangement the morn-ing
mail train from Salisbury ar-rives
here at 8.30, and leaves for
Warm Springs at 9.02. In the
afternoon it arrives from Warm
Springs at 5.21, ami leaves at 5.31.
This train arrives at Salisbury at
12.35, making close connection with
the train going South, reaching
Charlotte a little after L' a. m„ and
Atlanta at 12.30 p. m.
The Ducktown road has been
changed to the''.Murphy Division"'
ami the train on this road leaves
Asheville at 9.12 a. m . returning
reaches here at 3.50 p. in.
The local freight from Salisbury-reaches
here at 8.01 p. In., and
leaves here at 5.45 a. m.
Swanuanoa Junction has been
changed to the Spartanbarg Junc-tion.
To County Superintendent-, and Teachers
Maj. S. M. Finger, State Super-intendent
of Public Instruction,
gives the following notice:
County superintendentsand pub-lic
school teachers are hereby noti-fied
that ou and after the second
Thursday in October next, exami-nation
will be required on Physiolo-gy
and Hygiene. The State board
of education will, at an early day,
recommend a text book on this sub-ject,
and publication will be made
so that all may know what book is
recommended, where it may be ob
tained, and the price agreed upon.
Any teacher desiring tube examin-ed
at an earlier day than the second
Thursday ill October may be ex-amined
on any day of the regular
days in the law. Let all prepare
anil be examined as soon as possi-ble.
Roasted Alive.
The jail at Wiuton, Hertford
county, was set on tire last week
by two prisoners confined therein
and entirely destroyed tlespite the
efforts of the citizens of the place
to save it. The building was an
old one and contained three prison-ers,
one ot whom had nothing to
do with the burning. The two men
who set the jail ou fire were rescu-ed,
while the unfortunate man who
had nothing to do with the affair
was roasted alive. The sight was
a horrible one, and the people of
the town were greatly excited by
the occurrence. All tho prisoners
were colored. It was the third at-tempt
to bum the jail.
A short Crop.
A Georgia farmer leased some
■ land last year to a colored man for
1 a third of the crop. A severe
drought cut the crops shoit, and
i the negro gathered only two bales
', of cotton and two wagou loads of
corn. The latter was stored and
the cotton sold. When the land
lord called for his share he was
told there was nono for him. lie
asked, in surprise, "Didn't I rent
you my land for a third of the
crop I" -'Yes, boss.-' said the dar
ky, "but you see dere was no third,
liere was only two bales of cotton
and two loads ot corn; all mine,
ami nuftiii for you by tie contract."
—A twenty-dollar Confederate
; note was passed en a Chinese nier-
• chant in Portland, Oregon, last
week. It was difficult for the Po
: lice Justice to make him under
stand that the note was not a forg-
■ try, but simply worthless. He
i had never heard of the lost cause.
to Facts and Kaacles.
"behoTj8 anybody to know what
it f when the very word
—."Carefully0,1," tue middle of
pen doth tell," na*
as he pensively twistAtfj tale my
a crack. *>c pig
—When General Grants doit,
shouts to tho country: "Cancer v
tho country replies : "Cant, sir !—
sheer Cant!"
—Revolvers and mince pies
should always be handled with
care. You never know how the
things are loaded.
—A widow possessing a sour
disposition trying to talk sweet to a
rich widower reminds us of a con-fectioner
making vinegar taffy.
—"Podsnap, don't you think pen
manufacturers a bad lot of people !"
"Not particularly; why !" "They
make people steel pens, you know."
"Oh!"
—The man who dropped dead in
a Toronto theatre just before the
curtain went up for "Over tho Gar-den
Wall" must have had a pre-monition
of what was coming.
—Snuff-taking has became lash-iouable
among New Y'ork duties,
and the average dude is so weak in
the legs that when he takes a
pinch it brings him to his sneeze.
—The woman who is making
more noise in the world than any of
her sisters just at present, is a
member of a female brass band iu
a Western town, aud beats the big
drum.
—A Lawrence episode: Man.
Bakery. Pies. Man steals pie.
Eats pie. Policeman. See. man.
Takes man. Court. Judge. Bis
months. Appeal. Bond (300.
Nary bond. Jail. Beware of pie.
—It is said that 1,250,000 cats
are annually killed for their skins.
They must kill the cats in some
other part of tho country that hero
in Greensboro. We haven't missed
a single one in the last two years.
—There were forty-live different
kinds of pie at a dinner given re
cently in Colorado. A doctor must
have been the host, with his
weather eye wide open to the pros-pect
of an immediate increase iu
business.
—"Mr. Singleinan," said a de-signing
widow to her bachelor
boarder, "isn't it strange that iu
India it costs more to get married
than to die I" ••They burn widos s
in that country, I believe," was his
rather irrelevant reply. •Yes, so
I've heard." "Humph I if that were
the custom iu this country it
wouldn't cost so much to get mar.
ried." he growled.
Ovcr-|>ren,ui'e in Schools.
I Now York Tribes*.J
The highest medical aud educa-tional
authorities in Germany and
England are loud and persistent in
their warnings against pbsical
harm and nervous ailments caused
In over pressure in public schools.
The danger is greatest in the ease
of girls between twelve and four-teen
years of age, although it is
not to be ignored in the ease of
boys of the same age. It. ought
not to require much argument to
convince practical educators that
entrance examinations of ninety
per cent entail continuous anil im-peril
the health anil sanity of girls
of that age.
Methodists and Presbyterians.
In many quarters there is a.strong
disposition in favor of eeclesiasti
cal union, and iu some directions
where it seems hardly possible.
There is no essential doctrinal dif-ferences
between Presbyterians
and Methodists, yet their ways are.
SO different that it cannot be said
that they- have any strong affinity
for each other. There are those who
take a different view- of the matter.
Dr. Grant, principal of the Presby-terian
College. Kingston, Canada,
contends that there is no insepara-ble
barrier against an organic
union of the Methodist and Pies
byterian churches in the Dominion.
A Very Practical l'c-t.
[Uluafcoro ObsMTsr.]
Mr. Matthew Atwater, one of
our largest and most successful
farmers, says that last year he
planted six acres ill cotton, and
raised on only one acre. From the
cotton made on the six acres, alter
paying for fertilizers, bagging, ties,
&C, he had $103 left, lie sold the
tobacco he made on one acre, and
after paying for one bag of fertili-zer
which he used on it, there was
left I141.25' Then- will not be
much cotton made in his section
this year. Every farmer who built
one tobacco barn last year will
build another barn this year.
Tin- Longest Cotton Row.
[Tsrboi
TliW longest cotton low in the
county ami probably in the world
is OU the Shiloli farmer of Messrs.
Statien and Jeffries. The row be-gins
in the centre of a hundred
acre field and goes round and
round, spiral like, until the center
field is gone over. To side op the
cotton on one side requires only
five and a half days. In this Held
Mr. Jeffries estimates that he will
during the cultivation of the crop
save nt least the work of one horse
for three weeks.
A Mountain ol Iron.
Iii the heart ot the Wyoming
Territory is a mountain of solid
hematite iron, with 600 feel of it
above ground, more than H mile
wide, and over two miles in length ;
a lied of lignite coal big enough to
warm the "mid for centuries i
eight lakes ot solid soda, one o!
them over 000 in depth : and a pe-troleum
basin which contains more
oil than Pennsylvania a.d West
Virginia combined, from which in
places the oil is oozing in natural
wells at tin- rate ol two barrels a
day