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VOL. VIII.
WELD ON, K C, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1879.
NO. 3.
DO THE RIGHT.
Do the right, oh child of pleasure,
Lot thy heart be free from stain;
Spurn from the each selfish treasure,
Love the good and thou wilt galu;
Though in gilded haunts of beauty
Of the demon doth Invito,
Beer in mind thy sacred duty,
Bhun tho wrong and do the right 1
Do the right, ob child of sorrow.
Never 1ft thy hopes grow faint,
For the sunshine oomes to-morrow;
Strive to be a worthy saint.
E'bn th'itlgli life to thee seems dreary,
And thy proRpocU ('.ark as bight,
Never lot thy faith grow weary;
Banish wrong and trust the right 1
Do the right and never falter,
Never Fie ashamed to say
That the right thou wilt not falter,
Nor its happlneNN betray,
lie a good and faithful servant
Though your station In tho light
May be humble, yet, if fervent,
Thou wiltoonquer with the riuht.
THE MOTHER'S DREAM.
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"He is dead I" The word were softly
uttered. The speaker turned from the
bedside to hide the falling tear, while
there trembled oh her lips the earnest
prayer, "God comfort his poor widowed
mother 1"
While hope remained to sustain her,
that mother lingered near, soothing the
little sufferer, stilling anguish at behold
ing his sufferings, and jealous of every
attention the kind watchers rendered.
But the words of the attending physician
were a death knell alike to her hope
and eaergy. With this wildness of
despair, her lips were pressed to those
of her darling, with the hope that she
too wight face the victim, ai d that
when death came ho would claim her
also.
Vain was this sinful hope. Her
idolatrous love could not chain to earth
the pure, young spirit, which the angels
were beckoning on high.
The mother's place at the bedside
was deserted, and ki.id friends watched
the little sleeper as death approached,
wiped the death-damp from the baby
brows, and, for the sake of the wretched
mourner, kissed the paling lips whose
last words were ''Mamma," when death's
silence fell upon them.
' He is deadl"
With hushed whispers the words were
repeated iu the death chamber. With
bnwed head and tearless eye the mother
aatted fur the message which should tell
her that her last tie to earth was
severed that she was a childless widow.
Heart-rending werds I To i well were
they realized by her lonely heart, and a
knowledge uf t'le inestinabli loss which
awaited her sealed the fountain of her
team, and banished all consolation.
"He is dead!"
Slowly, pityingly, the words fell upon
her ears. The stony eyes were fixed on
the face of the sympathetic friend, and
then, with a request that she might be
left alone, the mothers head fell to its
dropping position.
"Alone 1 alone !'
What a world of agony were in the
words, wrung from her breaking he irt I
Alone in the world, chilJIess, friend
less 1" Once before had those ominnus
words. "He is dead," congealed the
fount of happiness iu her heart, and
written upon the girlish face that im
pression of chasteaed sorrow which pro
claimed her to the world a widow. Sue
had felt that a cloud blacker than that
of Egypt sbrnwded the day-star of her
happiness. I5ut even in that hour of
A ....
adversity whea she beard the earth
rattle above the head of her heart's
idol, hope had not deserted her. She
had one source of comfort left, one ob
iect around which the crushed tendrils
... .
off affection could twine the raoy Ooy
the miniature copy of biro to whom her
heart's love and trust bad been
plighted.
Iu the early days of her married life,
the rounz mother had basked in the
sunshine of happiness without a th iught
of Him to whom sho owed so much
and in punishment (or that broken com
mand. ' Thou sbalt have no other God
but me," her idol had been shattered
and her earib-star had do J. Now the
demons of despair folded their black
mantles around her, and no ray
heavenly light pierced the darkness
which eneloped her soul.
No more would the dimpled arms of
Iter darling eiiuuli her neck i b C
ressing fondness. N' more would t
sweet, rosc-bad litis be pressed to her
wn. N more could she trace in the
idolized features of her child the imn
of its father: and no more, as in the
past, would baby fingers wipe her tears
away, eud the sweet child sympathy
mitigate her sorrow.
"Oh, my child, my bnhy I Cjo it b
that they have robbed mo of you too
taken my wee lamb, my only oner
justice, l justice I what have I dune
be thus tortured to bo thus robbed
aud cursed? Aay with the fulse
philosophy which teaches that the Al
mighty is a God of love and justice I
Wby should He give my child to icy
care, allow him to grow into my very
life? He alone made uiy existence tol
erable. Oh, what have I done that the
vials of Gud i aratb are peured upon
my head?"
"Short-sighted mortal, daiest thou
question the ooednest aud mercy of Him
whom angels worship, and to whose
mandates archangels say 'amooT "
8 ift and sweet as tho music of an
JK ilian harp was the qvestiouing voice
whose cotes (ell upon the widun's ear.
A flood of light flawed around her, ood
being of celestial beauty stood at her
side.
I
"lie has taken my son, my all, my
only one I How can I kiss His chasten
ing rcid? He who was to have been the
pride, comfort, and stay of my lonely
life is taken from me I The future,
which once appeared strewn with blos
soming flowers, will now be a dreary
desert. My child, my child I What will
life be without thee'f''
"la tender mercy and in loving kind
ness hath the Almighty a filleted you.
In mercy to you hatb lie commissioned
(Its servant. Death, to rob yeu nf what
was a blessing, but which would have
proved a curse. Thank Him that He
has reclaimed your innocent babo ere
sin had set tn his stainless brow its
desecrating seal. A tender fljwcr has
been removed Irom tins bleak earth to
blossom In the paradise of God. lie
ill draw you safely up to him. See
the future maiked out for him whom
you mourn, then bow your rebellious
heart in penitence and fervent prayer."
As be sp ike, the veil seemed lifted
from the future. With the skill of
magic he caused the dazzling light in
which he seemed enveloped to dispell
the darkness which shrouded the years
which were yet to be. Forth from the
misty light came a figure which the
mother knew her child, vet not her
child ; the same face which she had
worshiped for its beauty and purity, but
now robbed of its Gcd-l ke stamp by
marks of dissiputios and riot. The
eyes which she remembered to havo
been blue as summer skies wore an ex
pression in their cerulean depths which
showed that he had viewed life ie its
gliest phases. The pure, sinless child
who had prattled about her knee was
transformed into the wild, dissipated
youth, spurning paren'a! authority, and
eager to plunge into wilder excesses
from which he would not be turned.
With a keener pang than she had vet
known, the young mother noticed the
recklessness written on his brow, and
then she, who had never knelt to her
God, bowed the kuee to her child, and
bpgged, besought nnd prayed that he
would turn from the path his inclination
bad maiked out. 15.it to all he turned
deaf ear, and a leaden weight settled
upon her heart, while grief, with its in-
isible haud, chiseled the girlish brow
with the furrows of wee, and touched
the sunny hair till it seemed as if the
snows of nmi'V winters had fallen there.
The radiant being stood by her side,
pity beaming lrotn bis lace as lie saw
the bosom of the stricken mother rise
and full in agony, ns though the heart
would break.
' See, fond mother, where thy truaut
ov lingers 1"
Obeying the mandate she gazed at
the picture which was present ) to her
view. The interior of a gaming hell
glowed under the light, and amid the
coarse, rude crowd collected there she
recognized her son, jesting f';imili.!rly
ilb the brutal creatures by whom he
was surrounded, staining his lips with
blasphemous words which, until then,
had never fallen ou her cars.
0 Heaven I" sho groaned. "Can
this iadeed be my darling, the hope of
my declining years?"
"Ay, the same, Ml softly on her
ear. "1 he clay idol you worshiped;
the child above hose cradlebed you
never prayed : 'Lead hiiu not into
temptation.'"
Like the fleeting scenes of a pano
rama, the tuture was presented to her
view. Diikness had fallen upon the
gaming table, and with it a tripple dark
aess on the mother's heart.
Crushed to earth, trampled on and
withered, was every beautiful picture
which fancy, with fuirv finge:s, hud
painted ns the future of her boy. lie
whom she had ershrined as the iul of
her heart, to whom she bowed down
ai d worshipped, stuod unmasked be
fore her in all the hideous deformity of
depraved eature. The child, in the
mother s heart, bad usurped the place
of her Maker; but now she saw at last
the sins (if which sho had been guilty,
and in her ogouy sho prayed, "Forgive,
forgive 1"
Link yet again, and nerve thy
heart, for terrule indeed is the picture
which must now meet thine eye. 0 lv
a li.tle while shait thou be tortured by
sce-.es such as these, ihy heart is
bowed, but must bo broken."
A seem daik and dismal mi thp
eyes of the watcher as she obeyed the
mandate. A great city lay slumbering
under the faint, uncertain light which
gleamed in tho distance. ' Creation
slept, nnd nature made a piiise."
"S-e," whispered the fi jure at her
side, "in the angle made by those frown
ing w:i!!i Ui-l;s ur.o who is destined t
p'ay the principal pait in tho tragedy
wh:ch yau must behold.
'ilir pieicmg eyes saw a figure,
crouching in the dim shadow of the
walls, su k to the lowest depths of
buar) degradation, and with an ex
Prussian on the crixe-marked face bur
rowed from tho Mends of hell. 'Tas
hard to trace in the features ef this be
sotted wretch a reminder uf him she
loved ; Mill the mother ritoguizdd her
son.
A fascination held her gaze. She
marked the fi ndish glitter of the eyes
saw a dagger, gleaming is the uncer
tiio light which louud its health in the
heart of tho passer-by. No moon look
ed down on the deed of crime; the
silver-eyed stars sl rouded their faces in
the mantle of night, but the midnight
air rang with tho cry of "Murder I
murder I"
"Oh, Gud, in mercy spare mo I" bnrst
in a leeblu wail from the mothers lips.
Her fuim quivered m its cxqaisite
agony, and lor a moment mental dark
ness caused her to forget the present.
"Ouce more, and for tho last time,
must you be tortured by the closing
scenes in his life's drama."
The noonday sun looked down upon
the last picture preseuted, shining as
brightly as if all on earth were beauty
and love. But in the, crowded city the
granite walls of a prison loosed, around
whose portals were collected men wtib
faces stern and bruttl, gozing with
marked impatience on the dosed doors,
then far down tho street, where, in the
dim distauce, tho wretched watcher saw
the ignominious scaffold. Her cars
were tortured by the muflied beat of the
drum. She saw the prisoner brought
from bis confinement, the open coffin
borne before him. Amid the surging
crowd she saw but one the one she
bad so ofteo fondled upon her knee
the one whom the crowd was wailing to
see die.
Though "murderer" was written on
the brow, sho remembered it as inno
cent as if an angel's kiss had rested
there. Dissipation, ruin, and ingnomin-
ious death, could not seal the fount of a
mother's deathless luve.
As one bereft of reason, she watched
his tottering steps mount the scaffold.
To her horrified vision the air sceed
peopled with ten thousand furies, and
in the distance she saw the red flirues
of hell. For one momeut a wild,
frenzied cry for mercy startled the
hushed air a prayer at which God's
angels must have shuddnrd, and at
which the fire fiend laughed ; then all
was still. "The perjured soul had
passed for judgement to tho higher
ol God."
Darkr.ess again fell around,
horrible scene was visible only
in viti t'oo, and ia an incredibly brief
space uf time bad the valise and bundle
ia the rack above, the shawl tucked
araund the window U exclude the draft,
aid was regaling the red-headed woman
with a choice collection of anecdotes,
that kept her laughing till the passen
gers could sec the gmus of her false teil'-.
Uockland Courier,
bar
The
in
the far-receeding distance. The figure
gently whispered,
"Thou hast seen all."
llien thero was a gentle pressure
upon her brow, and she was alone.
Hie extreme tension upon her nerve
gave way ; she started, and found herself
alone in her chamber. The soft sum
mer zephyrs played among the tresses
of her hnir, and kissed her fevered
brow. It was only a dream, an awful,
vivid dream, the remembrance of which
years could not obliterate, aud in which
she recognized the reproof of Deity.
Cjltuly she arise and passed to the
side ot her dead child, lhe snnny
tresses were lifted by the gentle breeze
from the fair baby brow. The waxen
lids were pressed over the violet eyes
the long lashes 'rested on the cheek
from which tho roses of health had
faded only to be replaced by the pale
lily of death. The lips wore a smile of
wondrous sweetness, and his mother
scarcely shuddered as he lay before her
ia the embrace of death. Dead dead
never more to spring to her arm?, to
fall asleep upon her bosom.
0..ly a little while, my darling
I know whence the pare young spirit
has fled. ly the grace of Him who has
recalled thee I will go to thee thou
canst not come to me. I will clasp thee
to mv bosom when we meet on the
banks of 'the river which fliivs by the
throne ( God.' "
She bent lower over the enfliaed
form, so beautiful ia its statuetquo
lovclinrs. but no teardrops nimsieoed
the another's eye as she whispered,
On, God, thy will be done!"
HE WAS A DIPLOMAT.
CASEY'S REMARKABLE ADVENTURES,
MOl'NTAIN MAlI.-CAttrtlKlt WHO
LIVED KOR TEN DAYS OS
TODACCO AM) SNOW.
A very tall man with sandy chin
whiskers entered tho door. The car
as lull, and the only seat unoccupied
by two persons wis filled with a valise, a
bundle, a shawl and a thin woman of
thirty-five, with the latest shade of red
hair, and false teeth. 1 ho man with
the sandy whiskers, feeling a sympa
thetic bond drawing him toward the
woman's red hair, touched her on the
shoulder and said
"Is this seat engaged r"
"Yes, it is," snapped tho womon,
swelling up in the seat that the man
might observe no possible room.
.h? murmured the man, in a
plea-nut tone. Then he went nnd stnod
by the stove and mused fur awhile.
rcsentlv he returned to tho scene of
his rebulf, and leancl on the arm of the
said o!tly
1 bcz l'ftir pardon, rcadum, but as I
was standing by the S'.ove, your features
struch me familiarly. Did jeu ever
attend a presidential reception at Wash
met ui."
' Nu, 1 never did, replied the woman,
but iu a milder voice thau sho had ot
first assumed.
"Then yon will please pardon uie,"
said the man with an apologetic air;
"the mistake ocensi ined by your close
rcsemhlanco to a young lady fiotu
Philadelphia, who made her debut tl at
season, and wnoni 1 naa me pleasure oi
meeting. She was considered the belle
of the senson."
"No I never was in Washingion,'
remaikcd the woman, iu a mollified
tons.
"It is strange how much you resemble
tho voting Udv in nuestitm," pursued
the man. "lhe hair is the same golden
hue, and while hur features may not
have been so clear cut and Urecian in
their but there, excuse me, 1 urn
annoying you," and the tall man started
away.
"lWt hurry," said tha woman, pleas
antly. "There doesn't appear ts be
many empty seats; won't you ait herer"
Aud she puked up her numerous
cage.
The man with the sandy whiskers
didu't know, but finally accepted the
The Helena (Montana) Independent,
says: Casey carried what is known ss
he horseback mail, but which i, in
fact, carried by a two wheeled vehicle
like a sulky, from Sun lliver to the
Twenty-eight Mile Springs. On the
7th ult. he started from the former
place. There was a blinding snowstorm
at the time, and the track across the
prairie was wholly lost. As he did not
reach the end of his drive at the ap
pointed time it was assumed that he had
lost his way, and this theory proved to
be well founded. There were not want
ing brave men, both at Helena and Sun
lliver, to undertake the search for the
missing man ; but their must arduous
efforts were in vain. the 31 mst
Mr. William Howe reached Benton,
and was informed of tho circumstance
The weather was fearfully cold ; but this
did not deter him from the attempt that
humanitv dictated. Mounted on
horse bo set forth, and in due time
found a dim track where it seemed
probable that Casey had left tho main
road. Following thii, his lnbars were
rewarded on the 5th inst. by finding the
drive about twenty miles north of
Twenty-eight Mile Springs. When
Casey was found he was sitting in his
cart, which the horse was drawing slowly
and painfully along, lie was in a do:
and iMr. liowe shouted to him once or
twice before he was roused to conscious
ncss. It was then found that bis right
foot and leg wero frozen nearly to the
knees, and that his left foot was in the
same condition. It is believed that his
injuries are not serious and that he will
not suffer the loss of either limb. His
story was soon told ; and with his rccil
lection of his experience nnd what Mr.
11 iwe learned iu his search the tale
wonderfnl beyond fiction. Tho driver
had been wondering ever tho trackless
prairie for ten days and nights without
food or shelter aud with a temperature
never above z-ro. All the timo lie had
moved in an almost perfect circle and
had picketed his horse nnd camped
every night in almost tho same spot,
More remarkale still, he had daily
passed within n mile and a half of the
Twenty eight Mile House, which was his
destination. AH this lime, amid suffer
ings that would have crushed un ordi
nary man. JJofj Casey had only one
thought, that he must stay with the mai
and get it through whatever belell mm
And he did ; not a minlc package was
lost. Starving, half frozen, and dazed
by exposure and privation, it was not of
himself he thought ; his duty was sti
uppermost in his mind. Here was hemic
stuff ; how many such can the postal
service boast? During all those terrib'e
days and nights iho only thing that
passed his lips was tobacco aud snow.
He had with him a goodly supply uf the
former article at the start, and as day
wore into night and night into day he
began hoarding it with as much avidity
as ever did a miser his gold.
SUBJECTS OF THOUGHT.
Ho lives In fame vho died in virtue's
cause Shakespeare.
Content thynnlf to Uo obscurely Rood
wnen vieo provaim. aud iuimous men
bear sway.
Tho post of honor is a prlvato station
Nor fame I slinhtnor for her fuvors call;
Sho couioo unlooked If she comos at all.
ropo.
I would wish fer immortality on earth
lor no other reason than for the oower ol
relieving tho diatresBed, -Empress Maria
X'nowliiik.n dwalla
In heads replete with thoughts of ether
Wisdom in mlmN attentive to their own;
Kiiowlodice is proud that he has lean el
so tnueli,
wisdom numuio tuat no knows no more.
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H2ES
JOANOKB AGRICULTURAL
WORKS,
JOlfS.nu FOOTE, Proprietor
TnB
Is't death the full for froodom's right
no a (loud alone that lacks her hulit.
And murder sullies in Heaven's sight
The sword he draws
What can alono enoblo flcht.
a uouie cause! Campbell.
I shall hear of ingratitude. I name the
argument to dspie it, and tho men who
lU'ike use ol it. I kuow no species of grat
itude which should prevent my country
from being free; no gratitude which should
make Ireland to be the slave ol England.
No m m can be fjratolul or liberal of bis
con3ieuce. nor woman of her honor, ner
nation of its liberty. Qrattaa.
There is a God : The herbs of the valley
the cellars ol the mountain bless Him; the
nseet sports in HU beams the bird sinir
Him in the loliagc; the thunder proclaims
Hun in the Heavens, the ocean declares
His iniinensitj; man alone hue said there
is no God. Chateaubriand.
X5ut whether on the scaffold high
Or in the battle van,
The lit test plaee whore man can die
In where ho dies for ii.au. Barry.
It 19 f ilth in srr,ehinr, and enthusiasm
for 8methin!, that nukes a lile worth
looking at. Holmes.
Tho heichts by treat mon reached and
kept.
Were not attained by sudden flight;
n it tnoy, tnlo tlieir ooninaruons slept.
Wero U-iling upwards id the llfcbt.
uougieilow..
Sin has nuny tool;, but a lie is the han
dle w hich Ins them. Holmes.
I look upno death to be as nccrs'nrr to
our constitution as sleep. We shall rise
refreshed in the moriiing. Frauklin.
civility ci'sts nothing, and buys every-
tuiuj;. Jlaiy iv . jioutnguo.
Do you covot learning's prize T
Climb hur hoifhts and take it.
In ourselves our fortune lies;
tiilo is what we make it.
It is well to think well. It is divine to
act well. Horace Mann.
One and God make a majority. Fred
erick Douglass.
Ono impulse from a vernal wood
May toaeh yon more ot man,
Ol moral evils and of uooil.
'I ban all iho nugus cau. Wordsworth.
If wisdom's ways you'd wisoly seek,
Five thiniiH observe with care;
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, and when and where.
This is truth, the poet sings,
That a sorrow s crown of sorrow is ro-
mnir. boring happier things.
Tennysen.
There is no floek, however watched and
tended,
11 it ouh dead Inmb Is (biro;
There is no flruaido, how.soo'or defended,
Hut hits one vaeant chair. Longfellow.
KICII4BDSON COTTON lLMt
A SPECIALTY.
manvpactcark ar, aw bx8a& Aaurt
FOB,
ALL KINDS OF FARMING IH.
PLEMENTS,
STEAM ENGINES AND 0OTT0K
TWO TILTED UMBRELLAS DID IT.
An umbrella figures in a recent Boston
romance which nuaht he tcrnud " line
Winter" As the story is told by a Hull
correspondent cl a Detroit paper, on the
afternoon ot ths lu h ol lat month, which
was a stoimy day. two people, with tun-
brellss lilted lorwnrd. met in the drivi'iu
storm. Oue was a hale and hearty g, ntle-
man of about Q. ty years and the other was
a littlc'slight woman, perimps a year or
two younger. He wa9 coming arnund the
corner from the Washington ttreet aidi;
she was going around the same rorner
Irom Winter ctrcet. Both wero in a liuiry.
Natural eonseqilrnre, a sudden collision ol
umbrellas, the flinck ef whirh cat se I the
little wonmn's fict to flip on the timelier-
nns will?, The grm'rnnn p-ckcd her up.
thereby netting a C'" l look at her fie,
when, (xehanumg a lev astomshcl c.u
tinitions, the puir ncngniz" ! i'.i p u-Ii other
lonc-.ist fiiends, and waiktd off together
I hirtv yenrj ago she wss a l iCtoiy till in
Lowell, and he was a medical tin lent nt
II irysrd. U th were pour in pocket, lint
rich in love aud hope; ho worked hard at
j'udy, and she worked hard to rai:c the
money to help him no through hia course
when the Calilornia lever bioku out in
1819 be resolved to try a quicker route to
fortune, and started for the golden shore
ndmg back a letter nt t.uewtll to this
y lung fiirl. 1 he upshot of the separation
ws that letters neeame les aa.i i ss recn-
lar, and at laH there was cilenre Tin
years passed on; he grow rlcb and infln-n
tial, cumpleted his stulie. and became a
noted phy-ician ol one ol ths Wriest Cili
forti'iiv citie; Im rri"i",1 and h...l t
children. Two yeurs ago wile and ihildrcn
were earned nil by fever. A year to a day
before the meeting in the snow-storm. I)
drenmcd that his youihlul love wna living
tnH in li?ttrss, and the lironm mule such
an impression upon him that ho Bent Kixt
and made inqiiuirs. which results I in h:
coming en hiuisrll to search for her. Hut
m months had bran ipi nt unsuccessfully,
and he had just drapnired of ever (hiding
her, wea lhe two bumpet together at tho
corner ol Washington ami Winter stiee's.
Anil khe poor sou'.! ha I msriie I late li
life, an I now was a widow, with 'wa chil
dren, who wire too young ta woik much,
sad whom she was trjing. with bur old
deration, to keep ul school.
WOMENJNCHINA.
The condition nl women in China is
most pitiat'h; sukring privation, con,
tempt, all kinds ef misery and degreds'
tion siiz; on her in her cradle, and ar
ivirpiiny her pitilessly to Iter Inmb. lit r
very birth is caiumouly regarded as a
humiliation and dis 'rars tn the tannly
an evident sign ol tho mtledirtion of
Heaven. II she is not immediately sufT
eated she is looked upi n and ttcuted as a
r.uUrc intrinsically ilisniiahle, and
rirre'y bihrni'ig to tha human tace
This appears so iuconUstablc a fact that
I'au honpan. celubia'.ed, though a werian,
11111011" Chircse writers, endeavors lu her
workj to kumilitate her own srx by re
minding them cunstiintly ol the in'vnor
ra'jk they occupy in the creation. "Whin
a son is born." lie sir, "he Bleeps on a
bed, he is clothe I with silk, and plays
will) peirh; every one attends ts Ins
princely cries. But when a girl is bom
the bleeps upon the ciound, is meanly
wrapped up in s cloth, plays with a tile.
sod is meapiblc at acting either viituous
ly or viciously. Shu has nothing ta think
of but iKi'tmt.l Innd, making wine, and
not vexing her paren'.s " Ken alter mar
riuce her care is not improved! Accord
ing to expressions nf so old Ch n.'se wiiler,
the newly insrneJ wile should lis but a
shadow nnd un echo in the house.' 8h
has no right to take her metis with her
hushan '; tin,, uor sven with her male
ihlrer; hrr duty is to icrvc them at
table, to stand by Ihim in silence, help
them to drink, snd light their pipes, bu
mot eat alone, and alter they have done.
and in a riunei; lurfood la scanty and
c uiise. aud the would not dare to tnuch
rvn wh it is lelt by her own sons. It may
be thought th vt this does not well agres
with the mucli-talked-ol priucip'et ol fit'
iul piete; but it must not be fntgnttcn
that in Chun woman counts for nothing;
the Uv ignores her rxistence, or notices
her merely to load her wilh fetters, to
complete her servitude, mil to coollrm
her Icl'iiI incapacity. Polygamy is al
lowed; and the hearlendinn Jealously and
quvrrela that theuce ensjo lead to ouaier
ous sun id ..
GIN3.
Also Agent for tha Chicago goals Ooaae
panya
UNITED STATES 8Ti.I9AJEa
SCALES.
Everything in this Ha from a It TOW
Railroad Scale to the SMALLKSJT Tli
Seale furnished at Surprising- LOW Fig
ure. A riatform HAY or HTOCK. Scale
of FOUK TONS capaoity for ff . last
r reigut.
All kiuds or
IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS
Furnished at SHORT NOTICB an at
l'etoisburg or Norfolk PRICKS.
I am prepared
Repair Work for
to do AMY KIVD of
When to tli flowers so beautiful
The Father gave a name,
Bark enino a little blue-yud one
I All timidly It earne,1
And attending at its Father' feet
And gnziiiK in bis face,
It said. In low and trembling tones:
"liour tlod, the imino thou gitvest uie,
AlaM I have lor(rnt.
Kindly the Father looked him dowu
And said. "I'orget-me-not.
The vacu t ruin 1 aad uncultured imagi-
ra'.inn are leal evils, and as realty to be
met, ss cold and hunger; and he who can
uive his mite to the one Is as hound t
offer it as he who ta help the other,
ENGINES, MILLS AND OOTTOJf
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As I have an Excellent MACHINIST".
BOILER MAKKK.
I keen oormtantlv'on band of smt on
Manufacture a GOOD OFFICK
COAL AND WOOD STOVE.
Also a good assortment of EOLLCrT
Wars.
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