ODE TO JACK FROST. iAOtnt CoaUtuUon.j .j f ..... 1 thought thee cruel once, Jack Frost, Wbeu I vra young ami small; You pinched my earn and bit my toes You painted red my cheeks and nose, And kept mo close within the doors, And th u I deemed thee chief of foes That could my youth befall. I thought thee cruel, once again, When up to manhood grown ; I saw tliw clothe the earth in white, When all that' fair and pure and bright Wat withered by thy deadly blight. Withered in one short, luckless night, WliiVer thv breiith had blown. Y ou nipped uiy bud and upoited mjMrincff And filled me with dismay : An enemy I railed you then, A foe to jpirden, fild and glen, A curse sent to the sons of men, And, never to return again, . I bade thee haste away. Hut now, Jak Erost, I find at last Thou wast my dearest friend ; One has come inr to take thy place, Without thy beauty or thy grace, With poisonous breath and saffron face. Bent on destruction to our race, - Aud sorrows without end. Our land lies mourning at his-feer And 'neath his ghastly tread ; Our fairest flowers have met decay, Our brightest genis have lost their ray, The young, the beautiful, the gay, Are vanished from our sight -away And numbered with the dead ! ' 1 ' Come back, Jack Frost, again come back, H Thrice welcome to each heart, Stretch forth thy white and frozen wand, Bid suffering flee at thy command, Give health and quiet to the land, Come wrest his sceptre from his hand, And bid the ghoul depart. Whole cities wail his deadly stroke," Trade bends beneath his rod, Palsied our every interest lies, Tears, bitter tears, suffuse our eyes, Our bosoms burst with groans and sighs: Come, then, thou angel of the skies Thou messenger of God ! Thou Great Physician from above, Who cam'st to save the lost, Thou who did'st once for sinners bleed, Come in this hour of direst need ; Come and in mercy intercede : Come, stay the plague's insatiate greed- God, senu the white hoar-lrost: TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW. Morrow is a town of some irapor tance about forty niiies from Cincin nati. A new brakesman on the road, who did not know the names of the station, was approached by a stranger the other day. Stanger "Does this train go to Morrow to-day ?" ' CNo." said the brakemau. who szii:. a. ti i t inuiigiii mo Mittuger was limiting game ftf him4- "Tr. mA rrwlnv trncfnrr?! r tha week; after.' ; . vY ou don't understand," persisted tlie stranger: I want to go to Mor ;.BkenianTr" Why don't you wait "Villi roLfiinrPAiv li art nnrl nr bothering, around to-day ? You can go to-morrow, or any other day you . please.'; ' Stranger "Won't you answer me a civil question civilly? Will this train go to-day to Morrow ?" Brakeman "Not exactly : it will go to-day and come back to-morrow." As the gentleman who wanted to go toMorrowwas about to give up in disgust, another employe, who knew the station alluded to came along and gave the desired information; DOG-FISHING. v A singular practice of fishing is found among the Chouos Indians. Thev train dncr; ti nirl (Knm In ing, and the dog helps them in much the same way as the shepherd's dog " helps the shepherd. The net is held by two men stand ing in the water, and the dogs, swim ming far out and diving after the fish, drive them back towards it. They enjoy their work just as a good horse, though hard pressed, seems to enjoy the hunt, and everjr time they raise their heads from the water they tell their pleasure by barking. The Fuegians, one of the most miserable and degraded races on earth, train their dogi in a similar manner to assist them in catching bird. They nave a wonderful contrivance for kill ing the sharks which abound off their coasU. - A log of. wood shaped , so as to appear something like a canoe is set afloat, with a rope and large noose hanging from, one end of it. Before InnVr n clmi-t- - r rl " aiLUUKS 1110 supposed canoe, swimming after it, and is caught in the noose hanging from the stern. It closes on him so that he cannotyextricate himself, and the weight of the log keebs him swim'- ; i. .i -r, . . . iiimg siowiy wimout Demg table to sin kr Then the Fuegians in their canoes generally steered by women, approach at their leisure aud finish the shark with their spears. ? "Won't you ladies tdl me whatyoii are talking about?" said a fop. "I am all ears." One of the ladies look ed at him sharply, aud said: 'So you are; you ought never to get you hair cut." " c VAGARIES OF THE YELLOW FEVER. Many of tlie most learned of the medical profession do not profess to understand the character of the treat ment of yellow fever. It varies in its , form with different localities, and even n the same localities, and its vagaries I I T A. tAPV are inniimeraoie. xt prescuio niaav curious and interesting features, buknone more curious or interesting than this, as cited by Dr. Roger B. Tracy, in a splendidly - written ana ighly readable papejr on this subject, irinteu in me uciouer uuiuiwj Popular Science Monthly, now on our table. Dr. Tracy concludes his pa- er, which occupies four pages in the leriodjcal mentioned, in the follow ing language : The germs are portable, and may be conveyed in baggage or merchan dise (fomites) for hundreds or thou sands of miles. If not so conveyed itsprogress is very slow. In 1822 in New York, where it gained a foothold in Rector street, it appeared to travel about forty feet a day until killed by the frost. It oiteu leaves a house or block intact, going around and attack ing those beyond, with no assignable reason. A thin board partition seems to have stormed it on Governor's Is- 7 li land in 1856, and an instance is re lated where it attacked the sailors in all the berths on one side of a ship be fore crossing to the other. Such ap parent vagaries are, in the present state of our knowledge, inexplicable. WORDS OF WISDOM. The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of. The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most obliged lo praise it. To established ourselves in the world we do everything to appear as it we were established. Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous. Ihe duration ot our passions is no more dependent upon'us than the dur ation of our life. - Applause waits on success, ine fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the stream, glide with the current still, and follow fortune. Gootl words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler take off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. Some eyes threaten like a loaded and leveled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blue berries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. HULES FOR TRAVELERS. The following rules are important to travelers, and are not as widely known as conld be desired : It is legally decided that applicants for tickets ou railroads can be ejected from the cars if they do not offer tiro exact amount of fare. Conductors are not bound to make change. All railroad tickets are good until used aim couumous, "ior mis uay only," or otherwise liniitinir the time of ceuuiue ness arc of no account. Passeugers are bound to observe dec orum in the cars, and are obliged to com ply with all reasonable demands to show tickets. Standing upon the platform, or otherwise violating a ' rule of the com .1 pauy, renuers a person name to be put off the train. No person lias a right to monoplize more seats than he lias paid for, and any article lying on the seat while the owuer is temporarily absent, eutitles him to a place on his rcturu. The above rules are based upon legal decisions. TEARS. It is raining, little Flower ! ' Be glud of rain ! Too much raiu would wither thee ' 'Twill shine ajjuin. . The clouds are very black, 'ti true, But just behind tueui shines the blue. Ai t thou weary, tender heart ? Be glad of pain ; In sorrow sweetest things will grow, As flowers in rain. God watches, and thou wilt have sun When cloud their perfect work have done. ijot long since, on the avenue, I saw a man, respectable looking, In a helpless state of intoxication, and a policeman on each side of him going to the station house ; behind him was his wife, a young, nice-looking, well dressed woman. She paid no attentiou to the rabble following or the wondering looks of the passers by, but stuck to him. I could not help, think ing how little a man would stand , by a woniau. Man is of the "nobler" sex, and and superior being, lmt he will get a wo niaii iu trouble, and then leave her to get oujt'tho best she eh.Wa$hingtoji Capi tal ' OVER-RIGHTEOUS MASSA CHUSETTS. The 2d volume of what is called 'Bryant's Popular History of the United States has been issued. It is only so far Bryant's as that he read and approved the work as written by Sydney Howard Gay, whereupon it bears upon its title page, "By Wil- iam Culleo Bryant and Sidney How ard Gay," thus "putting the' cart be- bre the horse." No boubt Mr. Bry ant recei ved a large su m for the use of h is name, for he was known to lie a very shrewd man in money matters, and be knew that without his name Mr. Gay was not likely to make his book popular." In the opening chapter of this volume we are told how -the Boston people originated the system of sleavery in the United States, which they perpetuated as long as they could make money out of it and then assis ted to destroy when money and office were to be gained by stealing back he "chattels'1 whom they had sold. In their war with Pequot Indians, the history says that "the women and children, indeed, were not killed, but they were for the most part, while the lostihties continued, sent to the West India Islands and as slaves." Some of these captives, as is well known were sold as slaves in North Caroli na, and their descendants were upon the plantations of Mr. Pollock, on the Roanoke, afterwards owned by Mr. Devereux and the Bdrgwyns till they were freed by Lincoln's procla mation and the result of the war. But the sanctimonious Puritans did not confine themselves to the traffic in Indians; they fitted out and sent ships to Africa to kidnap negroes, whom they imported and sod here by tens of thousands. A few years after this Pequot war the General Court of Massachusetts, which is the General Assembly passed a special or der directing that the chrildreu of a banished Quaker, being too poor to pay the fines imposed upon their re ligious belief, should be sold "to any of the English nation at Virginia or Barbadoes to answer the said fines," and soon afterwards a more compre hensive enactment : "That all chil dren aud servants and others, that for conscience sake cannot come to their meetings to worship and 'have not estates in their hands to answer the fines, must be sold for slaves to Barbadoes or Virginia, orother parts." And so they trafficked in Indians, ne groes and whites, just so long as raon ey could be made by it. When that could not be done, they discovered that slavery was sinful, and made up their minds that as they could not profit by it nobody else should "." in Raleigh Observer. VIOLATING THE DAY. SABBATH It has been heretofore stated that at the late meeting of Mecklenburg Presbytery, at Asheville, some reso lutions introduced by Elder C. Scott of this city, were adopted by the Pres bytery and ordered to be published. The following are the Resolutions: Whereas, The violation of the Sab bath Day by many of the Railroad Companies in North Carolina by run ning trains, and requiring their em ployecs to labor on that sacred day as upon any other day of the week, is a disregard of the Divine Command and asin which calls upon the Christian people of the State to exert their in fluence for iU arrest: Therefore, be it. Resolved, By the Presbytery of Mecklenburg, that we appeal to the Christian Church in North Carolina of all denominations, to co-operate in invoking the aid of the approaching session of our State Legislature to pre vent the continuance of this desecra tion of God's Holy Day, and by pro per legislation, require a cessation from labor by all railroads which en ter or pass through the State. Resolved farther, That the Minis ters and Sessions of this Presbytery be required to bring this matter be fore their respective congregations at the earliest day practicable, and that they adopt such measures as may be necessary to obtain a petition from their congregations to the State Leg islature, asking the exercise of their authority in delivering our State from this reproachful disregard Of God's express command. . Almost every official whom Hayes kicks out of office is assured that "the President appreciates his zeal, ability and faithfulness." It is Hayes' style of reform to remove zealous, able and faithful officers to make room for till. ttllAvaa wkn 4it L ' ' J for him, ' , : ; Wilmington Sun., ;; Under the above name ,: ' ' A Daily Denioeratle Newspaper J " ot twenty-elgrht wide columns will be Issued la' the cttjr ol Wilmington, North Carolina, on or about: Thnrslay Hornini, October 17, 1878. The 8UM will be oubUShed bv the 8rv Aasnni tion. from the Printing House ot Messrs. Jackson & Bell. It will be printed Id nrst-class style, on Rood paper, with new type, and will be the h&ndsnmeAt rt-iiiv eurnal ever published In thla state The Scn will i edited by Mr. Cicero W. Harris. 'The Citr Editor ship and Business Management will be In competent hands, and a Correspondent and Representative will travel throghout the State. , Probably no paper has ever started In the South with fairer prospects than those ot the Scn. Cer tainly no North Carolina paper has entered the Held Hnaer more auspicious circumstances . 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