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No name entered without payment, and no paper sent after expiration of time paid for. WHAT TIME IS IT P Second Series. : . ESTABLISHED IN 1860. Vol. I WTo. 48. ; 'I RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, QCTOBER 26, 1881. What time is it? Time to do well; Time to live better; Give up that grudge; Answer that letter; . .Speak that kind word to sweeten a sorrow; Do that good deed you would leave till to morrow. Time to try had , In that new situation; Time to build up on A solid foundation Giving up needlessly, changing and drifting; Leaving the quieksands that ever are shifting; What time is it ? Time to be thrilty; Farmers, take warning ! Plow in the springtime, Sow in the morning; Spring rain is coming, zephyrs are blowing lleaven will attend to the quickening and growing. -JTime to count cost;" . . . Lessen expenses. TJme to look well To the gates and the lences; Slaking and mending, as good workers should; Shutting out evil and keeping the good. What time is it ? Time to be earnest, Laying up treasure. Time to be thoughtful, Choosing true pleasure; Loving stern justice, of truth being fond; Making your word just as good as your bond. Time to be happy, Doing your best. Time to be trustful, Leaving the rest Knowing in whatever country or clime, Ne'er can wo call back one minuto of time. Liverpool Mail. NIGHTFALL. Crush-out thy vainness and unreached desires, Marlt how the sunset-fires Which kindled all the West with red and gold, "And slumbering 'neath the amethystine glow Of the receding day, whose tale is told. Stay, stay thy questionings: what would'st thou know, O anxious heart ? ? Soft is the air; And not a leaflet rustles to the ground To break the calm around. Creep, little wakeful heart, into thy nest, -The world is full of flowers even yet, Close fast thy dewy eyes, and be at rest, Pour out thy plaints at day, if thou must fret; Day is for care. Now turn to God. Night is too beautiful for us to cling To Belfish sorrowing. O memory ! the grass is ever green Above thy grave; but we have brighter things Than thou hast ever claimed or known I ween. Day is for tears. At night, the soul hath wings To leaveithe sod. The thought of night, That comes to us like broath of primrose time, That comes like the sweet rhyme Of a pure thought expressed, lulls all our fears, And stirs the angel that is in us night, Which is a sermon to the soul that hears, t- Hush I for the heavens with starlets are alight. Thank God for night ! Chambers' Journal. A SHORT VISIT. " What !" said Mrs. Haven, almost in a shriek. " " It's true," said her husband. "They're coming to visit us every one of 'em ! My sister Zuleima. because the Saratoga hotels are too intolerably hot for endu rance; Cousin Herbert Haller, because he h an esthete, and wants to study nature from a level hitherto untrodden ; Mrs. Johnson, because the children don't re cuperate after the whooping-cough ; Aunt Sadie, on account of a difficulty with her landlady on the subject of poodle-dogs; and Unci Jenks, because he never has visited us and wants to know what my wife is like !" "Dear me!" faintly gasped Mary Haven, looking around her pretty sitting-room, draped in pink chintz, fra grant with fresh flowers, and decorated with gilt bird-cages, water color sketches and Kensington embroidery; " what am I to do?" 44 Do ?" repeated her husband, who was intent on clipping off the end of ;his cigar so that it should " draw " satisfac torily. 44 There is but one thing to do let 'em come." 44 All at once ?" "Yes, .all at once." 44 And I. with only one girl, and the thermometer at ninety in the shade, and the painters in possession of the second story !" hysterically cried the lady. " Couldn't be a better combination of circumstances, my dear," said Mr. Haven. "I don't believe these people care a straw about seeing me," said Mrs. Haven, ready to burst into tears. 44 Neither do I," said her husband. 44 It's only on account of their conve nience, the hot weather and the high prices at the hotels," added Mrs. Haven. "Hugh, I've a great mind to commit suicide !" ' r a "Don't do that, my . dear !" said Mr. Haven. 44 1 can suggest a better plan. I was just thinking, do you know " 44 Of telegraphing to the city for a new force of servants, a box of provisions from Minardi's and half a dozen cots, with hair mattresses and bedding to match?'.' eager ly interrupted the lady. " Nothing of the sort !" said Mr. Haven, , serenely eyeing ' the distant landscape through the amethyst rays of cigar-smoke. "Of-moving." " Moving, Hugh ?" 44 To the little cottage by the lake," Mr. Haven explained. 44 Only for a few days, merely on account of the repairs at the house. Paint upsets my digestion, and t lie sound of a carpenter's hammer sets my teeth on edge. Besides, Hodge, the contractor, can work a deal faster if we're all out of the way." 44 But, Hugh, the cottage is nothing on earth, but a camping-out place, with board floors, and not a particle jbi plaster or paint about it," remonstrated Mary. "What of that, my love?" said the im perturbable husband. " Our friends don't come, as I take it to admire fresco and gilding, but'to enjoy our society." " They'll think we live there always," sard Mrs. Haven, with corrugated brow. " That is precisely what I wish them to think, my dear." "Oh !" said Mrs. Haven. . " You following my meaning?'-' 44 1 think I begin to," said she, : with an amused light beginning to sparkle into her eyes. "Yes, dear, perhaps it . would be a good plan to move just while the repairs are in progress." And. she hurried up stairs, to pack a - few necessaries at once. The cottage by Wiscomac Lake was not an imposing edifice. - There was plenty of room in it, such as it was but the floors were of rude pine boards, the windows were undraped, and the furniture was such as was adapted merely to the wants of camping parties who were prepared to "rough it " after the most primitive fash ion i and when Mrs. Zuleima Montagu Prout drove up to . the' door in a wagon heavy-laden with trunks, she stared, through her gold eye-glasses, in a most ridiculous manner, at the porch of shin gles, supported by cedar posts mantled in their native-bark," the shutterless win dows, and the unpainted wood settees on the grass. "This isn't "The Solitude !" said she. 44 Drive on, man ! You have made a mis take !' 44 This 'ere's where Lawyer Haven's folks live," said the man, leisurely chew ing a straw. "Gnss it's enough of a 4 solitude to su&-nybody." " I thought it was a picturesque cot tage," said Mrs. Montagu Prout, in ac cents of the keenest disappointment. But at this minute Mrs. Haven herself hurried to the door. " I think you must be my husband's sister Zuleiwa," said she, graciously. "Do come in?" 44 But where are my trunks to go?" said the fashionable widow,- who had dazzled the eyes of the Saratoga world with her numerous changes of toilet during the past fortnight. 44 You can put them in the shed at the back of the barn," said Mrs. Haven, gra ciously. 44 1 don't think they will qnite go up the stairway." . Mr. Haller arrived later in the day a long-haired, sallow-complexioned young man, in a violet velveteen suit, followed by a countryman carrying his portable easel, color-cases, traveling library and writing-desk. He knocked loudly at the door of the cottage, with the ivory knob of his cane. 44 Can you tell me where Mr. Haven lives?" said he. , 44 This is the place," said the hostess. 44 This 1" echoed Mr. Haller. " You are Cousin Herbert, I suppose." said Mrs. Haven, politely. 44 Walk in ! My husband will come on the evening train. . Allow me to show you to your room. It is rather small; but we are ex pecting a good deal of company, and I dare say you won't mind a little inconve nience !" 1 And she left him in a seventy-by-nine apartment, under the eaves, where he couldn't stand upright except just in the middle of the room, and where the three-paned window was close to the floor. 44 Humph I" soliloquized the aesthete, looking ruefully around him, 44 this isn't at all what I expected I" Mary Haven had scarcely got down stairs, and resumed the manufacture of raspberry pies, when shouts and cries in various keys announced the coming of Mrs. Johnson and her four children, on a 44 buck-board wagon " from the nearest stage station. 44 Is this Cousin Hugh's house, ma ?" said Adelaide, the eldest, discontented ly. 4 4 It ain't nothin' but shanty !" loudly proclaimed Alexander Gustavus, the second hope of the family. "There ain't no paint on it," said Helen Louise. "Lemme get out ! lemme get out!" shrieked Julietta, " and play in that love ly black mud, where the frog-toad is sit ting !" Mrs. Johnson sailed in, with a scarlet face and a perturbed look. 44 I'm afraid, Cousin Mary," said she, 44 that we shall inconvenience you. There don't seem to be much accommodation here." 44 Oh, there's plenty of room up in the garret, such as it is !" said Mrs. Haven, smilingly. "Of course, one expects to lead a gipsy life in a place like this, and the lake will be so nice for the little dears to play in, if only they are a little careful, for it's very deep; and it's so lucky you are here. Cousin J ohnson, to help me with the pies and bread, for I'm not a very experienced house-keeper, and" . " I thought you kept two or three ser vants," said Mrs. Johnson, rigidly. 44 1 have only, one young girl just at present," said Mrs. Haven; 44 and of course, when there's so much company, there's a great deal to do.Oh, there comes an old lady with a sweet little yelping dog !" . . She glanced out of the open doorway. 44 Goodness me, if it ain't that intoler able old Aunt Sadie, with her inevitable dog !" groaned Mrs. Johnson, as a fat elderly lady toiled up the path, in a scar let shawl and a black-lace hat. Bless ; me!" said Aunt Sadie, purple with the heat and dripping with perspira tion, you never mean to say, Niece Haven, that this 'ere's the place I've heard tell of on Lake what d'ye call it ?' 44 It is where we live at present," said Mrs. Haven, quietly. 44 I'm downright sorry I left the tavern at the railroad," said Aunt Sadie, sadly. 44 1 ain't used to these unplastered houses, and I'm 'most sure Trip will catch cold." Uncle Jenks was the last to come a shrewd, brown-faced old man, in a gray suit, and keen eyes like an eagle. He looked around him and seemed to take in the situation at once. 44 No servants, eh ?" said he. 44 Well, it's lucky I came. I'm pretty handy to fetch water, and split kindling, and help round the house; and you're pretty slim my dear, to do all the work of this house, with only a voung gal to help you. So Hugh hasn't done real well in busiues ? I've a little money uninvested r myself, and don't know as I could do better with it than to lend it to my sister's son. " Thus he spoke, cheery and kind, while Mrs. Montagu Prout fanned herself on the porch, Cousin Herbert Haller did battle with the mosquitoes and midgets. Mrs. Johnson followed her four children about in ceaseless terror lest they should be "drowned, and Aunt Sadie felt her dog's pulse and groaned over the heat. One night at the cottage settled the question of " to stay or not to stay," in the mind of Mrs. Haven's guests. j 44 1 never slept in such a hot place in my life," said Mrs. Johnson, with a sign. 44 The bed wasn't long enough forme to stretch myself out in, and the eaves touched my forehead," said Cousin Herbert, sadly. 4 The owls hooted all night in the woods," said Aunt Sadie, 44 and kept dear little Trip barking until he was; hoarse." " , " I wouldn't stay here if you would pay me a thousand dollars a week," said Mrs. Montagu Prout, thinking of her pink silk party dresses and twelve-button kid gloves. "Well," said Uncle Jenks, drily, "it ain't iust the location I should have selected for a summer residence, but I ain't going off to leave Hugh and his wife while I can manage to be useful to thenifJ" 4 So the company departed, with various adieux and insincere protestations of regard, and surely Uncle Jenks was left. And then Mr. Haven took his cigar out from between his lips. ' 44 Uncle Jenks," said he, 44 suppose we goup and see how the carpenters and painters are getting along with the con servatory up at the house !" 44 At what house ?" said Uncle Jenks. 44 Mine," said Mr. Haven. 44 Don't you live here?" said Uncle Jenks: 44 Not all the time, said Mr. Haven. 44 We only came here to accommodate such of our relations as merely desire to make a: convenience of us." ' " Oh !" said Uncle Jenks, a slow smile beginning to break over his shrewd, brown face. And Mary Haven confessed that her husband's advice had proved its own ex cellence. Uncle Jenks, the only one of the troop who really cared two straws for them, was with them still the rest had all been frightened away by the rusticities of the Lake Wiscomac cottage. 44 And I wish them bon voyague !" said Mr. "Haven, calmly. , 44 So do I," agreed Mary, The Clean Newspaper. There is a growing feeling in every healthy community against the journals which make it their special object to min ister to perverted taste by seeking out and serving in a seductive form, disgust ing scandals and licentious revelations. There is good reason to believe that the clean newspaper is more highly prized to-day than it was four or five years ago It is also safe to predict that, as people in all ranks of life, who wish to protect their own at least from contamination, become more conscious of the pernicious influence of a certain class of journals, called 4 en terprising," because they are ambitious to serve np dirty scandals, they will be careful to see that the journals jthey per mit to be read in the family circle are of the class that never forget the proprie ties of life. Already men and women of refinement and healthy morals have had their attention called to the pernicious influence, of bad literature, and , have made commendable efforts to counteract the same by causing sound literature to be published and sold at popular prices. These efforts are working a silent but sure revolution. The best authors are more generally read to-day than any previous time. The sickly sentimental story paper, and wild ranger and pirate story book are slowly yielding the field to worthier claimants. To the praise of the decent newspaper it may be said, that where it has a place ,in the family, and has been read for years by young and old, it has developed such a healthy tone and such a discriminating taste, that the lit erature of the slums has no admirers. Fortunately, the number of such families is increasing in the land, and-astney in crease, the journal that devotes; itself to sickening revelations of immorality will be compelled to find its supporters - solely among those classes that practice vice or crime, or are ambitious to learn to follow such ways. Boston Herald.' : i Asking TTiw Father's Advice. I ' Not long ago a young man in Carson got married and started for California with his young wife. As he boarded the train his father bade him good-bye and gave him the paternal blessing. 44 My son," said the agod sire, shaking with emotion, etc., 44 remember these words if you never see me again: Never go into a place where you wouldn't take your wife." ' The couple settled in Mariposa county, and last week the old man went down to visit them. He proposed a bear hunt, and they were fortunate enough to track a grizzly to his lair among some boulders in the chapparal. As the two approached, the bear roused up and sent forth a growl of defiance that shook the trees. "Go in there and kill 'im," said the old man, excitedly. The son held back, further acquaintance with the bear seeming in some respects un desirable. : 44 Count me out," he said. 44 Have I crossod the seas and settled in America to raise a coward ?" shouted the father, brandishing his gun. 44 1 recollect your advice when I left Carson," was the reply. 44 How can I for get your sage precepts ? Didn't you tell me never to go where I couldn't take my wife ? Now, how would Sal look in there with that bear ?" The old man clasped his dutiful son to his bosom, and as the bear issued forth, exclaimed: 44 Speaking of Sally, let us kasten home. Our prolonged absence might cause her needlees alarm." f In about fifteen minutes , they had reached the ranch, the old man a little ahead, and the distance was about four miles. The Englishman and Yankee. An Englishman was bragging of the. speed on Euglish railroads to a Yankee traveller seated at his side in one of the cars of a " fast train " in England. The engine bell was rung as the train neared a station. It suggested to the Yankee an opportunity of " taking down his com panion a peg or two." . 4 What's that noise ?" innocently inquired the Yankee 44 We are approaching a town," said the Englishman; 44 they have to commence ringing about ten miles before they get to a station, or else the train would run by it before the bell could be heard ! Won derful, isn't it ? I suppose they haven't invented bells iu America yet ?" " Why, yes," replied the Yankee, 44 we've got bells, but can't use them on our railroads. We run so 'tarnal fast that the train al ways keeps ahead of the sound. 1 No use whatever the sound never j reaches the village till after the train gets by." 4 ' In deed !" jexclaimed the Englishman. 44 Fact," said the Yankee; had to give up bells." Glasgow Times. I Little Belgium has more of an , army than is generally supposed.; In time of ta 45 277 m An .nrl officers with 10,014 horses and 204 field and siege i 1 1 AO POO guns, ana on a wariooung xoo.ooo uieu, 13,800 horses, ana guns, reserve comprise 120,000. The militia There is a merchant in New York city who vows that he will never vote for a president again, as every candidate he voted for who was elected died in office Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln and Garfield. The rice crop of the Gulf States, it is said, will reach 150,000,000 bushels. THE MOON AS A HABITABLE PLANET. THE STJBPACE OF THE MOON AS SEEN. BY AS- TKOKOMEBS In consequence of its proximity, we known more of the moon than any other body connected with the solar system, save the earth itself. It is only about 240.000 miles away; so that, were one of our lightning exprees trains able to speed through the space that separates - the earth and moon, no more than one hun dred and sixty-six days would be required to pass from one body to the other. It would take about fifty bodies of the size of, the moon to make one equal to the earth, the satellite being about 2,100 miles in diameter. One face of the moon is constantly turned toward the earth, so that the average length of its days is about fifteen of our own. If there is any atmos phere at all on the surface of the moon, it is extremely rare,- since a star passing behind its edge disappears' instantaneous ly. It has no water, and, consequently, no clouds or vapor are ever visible, even with the aid of the most powerful tele scopes. When a telescope of high power is employed in viewing the moon, only a small portion of the surface is seen at each moment of time, and it is then that the advanced cosmical age of the statellite be comes strikingly apparent. Deep annular chasms come into the field, four of the largest of which have been named after the great astronomers, Tycho, Coperni cus, Kepler, and Eratosthenes. Tycho is an annular crater, said to be fifty-four miles in diameter. It is in the southern part of the moon, and forms the center of radiations of luminous rays, running out in every direction. The crater is from six teen to seventeen thousand feet deep with a mountain a mile high rising from its center. The country around Tycho is ex tremely rugged, iudicating commotions of a gigantic nature in its formation. Co pernicus is fifty-four miles in diameter, and 11,250 feet above the surrounding plain. Its height is easilv calculated from the length of the well defined shadows of its peaks, as they extend along the bottom of the crater at sunrise or sunset. Kepler is twenty-two miles in diameter, contain ing in its center a rock 11,800 feet high, and it rises from 3,000 to 6,000 feet above the plains around it. These details are given to show with what untiring zeal the surface of the moon has been examined. Everywhere upon that side of the moon presented to the earth smaller annular craters are seen, and everywhere there is seeming ruin and desolation. There is nothing now on the earth with which the general appearance of the moon can be compared. But let us imagine the earth carried forward in history a few hundred thousand years namely to the time when its atmosphere shall have disappeared, and the waters now covering three fifths of its surface, shall have been 44 dried up." It is a geological fact that the earth was once almost, if not entirely, covered with water. Slowly but surely the land is gain ing and the water losing surface. Time will doubtless empty the great basins of the Atlantic and Pacific - A scene will then be brought to view not unlike that exposed to our gaze upon the moon. The i immense coral islands, coral rings, chasms and irregularities, now hidden by the waters of the ocean, will then become the study of geologists, and possibly, nay, probably, excite the attention of the in habitants of our little satellite in the same manner as "we are now excited by the appearance of a world in the autumn of its cosmical life. As reasonable beings, we have no right to hesitate to look facts j steadily in the face. Our own earth is ' slowly, but with inevitable certainty, growing old. As its age advances in other words, as its physical characteristics change its animal organisms will adapt themselves to the perpetually varying conditions around them, and there is no reason to doubt that these organisms will continue to exist until they perish simul taneously with the death of the planet itself. . The physical conditions of the moon being so different from that of the earth at the present time, its inhabitants must be strikingly unlike the beings we call men. To illustrate, if there is absolutely no atmosphere on the moon, then what we call the sense of nearing is entirely unknown to the people on our satellite. Their organ of sight, the eye, is also of a very different construction. Place one of our astronomers upon the moon and he would undoubtedly see stars at midday. The sun would be an intensely bright spot on a jet-black ground, dotted all over with the constellations that sparkle" so faintly in our own firmament. No such thing as twilight, or blue sky, or brilliant sunsets exist in the moon, if the eye of its inhabitants is simular to our own. No 44 bright, rosy -fingered morn" heralds the opening of day, but the sun rises suddenly above the horizon, and as suddenly disap pears on setting. But our reason forbids that we should for a moment imagine that the actual in habitant of the moon is as unadapted to his condition as we ourselves would be to such a situation. All over the great uni verse the general law is that each organ ized being is so adapted to its position as to enjoy the greatest possible advantage or happiness from the condition of. its existence. An infinitely wise Creator .could establish no other law. ,It is not possible for the wisest man on earth to imagine a change in the condi tions around him that would, on the whole, be beneficial. Everything is ex actly right as it is, and continues to be right without the slightest need of any special Providence to adapt it. This be ing the case, we may quite safely infer that the inhabitants of the moon enjoy their residence upon that little world just as happily as we do upon ours. We can readily imagine what must be the most important astronomical work of the scientists of the moon. What a mag nificent spectacle must our great globe be to its inhabitants ! What an object of intense interest to its astronomers I Dr. Dick, somewhere in his works, recom mends that an immense building be erected amid the bright snow of Siberia, which, by its contrast of color, might at tract the attention of the observers on the moon.; The suggestion may not be impracticable. It may have been anticipa ted by lunar astronomers. In 1866, Schmidt observed that the deep crater, Linne, had disappeared, leaving only 44 a little, whitish luminous cloud." The diameter of this crater is about five and a half miles. Observations were made in October, November, and December, and during the latter part of this last month the crater was again distinctly seen. Who can say that some Dr. Dick, of the moon, may not have been engaged in an attempt to attract the attention of the earth's as tronomers ? Possfbly, it may have been a practical effort to clear np such specula tions as jthe rapid growth of cities like Londory, Paris, and New York, must have originated. Put one of our telescopes upon the moon, and an eye"no better than that in the head of man would detect the gradual enlargement of such a city as New York. All i kinds of speculations would be rife as to the cause of these slight modifications in the appearance of our globe; and as the astronomers of the moon must be far in advance of our own, we may infer that work such as that sug gested by Dick has long since been ini tiated. Perhaps it has been begun and abandoned a thousand times, and the con clusion reached that, after so many futile attempts to discover the existence of any thing like intelligence on the earth, it could not, even if existing at all, be in a condition of development sufficiently ad vanced to be able to respond to any such mode of communication. Though the method suggested by Dr. Dick may not be the one by which the fact of the inhabitability of the moon shall be demonstrated, it may be safely as sumed that the day is not far distant when some kind of communication be tween the inhabitants of the earth and its satellite will be established. The in ventive genius that can practically send a word eight times around the earth in a second of time, wilL surely be equal to the task of demonstrating a problem so profoundly important as that of the in habitability of the planets and satellites of- the solar system. We are certainly now able to generate an electric light in tense enough to be telescopically seen from the moon when that body is in the shadow of the earth during the eclipse. Why not electricity be the agent, certain ly common to both bodies, which shall solve the problem ?; A hundred such lights as will soon illuminate Union and Madison squares, New York, if concentra ted into a space no larger than one of these squares on the moon, could readily be seen through a telescope of low power during a total eclipse of the sun. But tremendous as have been our recent strides in the application of steam and electricity to the needs of our rapidly de veloping civilization, we must not lose sight of the fact that we are still on the very threshold of what may be expected in the future, so far, at least, as electric ity is concerned. That it is to be the agent through which we may telegraph to 44 other worlds than ours," is certainly an idea growing naturally enough out of what has already been accomplished through its instrumentality. It is safer to affirm than to deny that the inhabita bility of planets will soon pass out of speculative problems and into the domain of science. Cutting Through the Nile. I have made inquires, and find that Baker cut through some eighty miles of the 44 sudd" or vegetable barrier; the ether day my steamer found this qnite closed up. . . A curious little cabbage-like aquatic plant comes floating down, having a little root ready to attach itself to anything; he meets a friend and they go together, and soon join roots, and so on. When they get tp lake the cur rent is less strong, and so, no longer con strained to move on, they go off to the sides; others do the same, idle and loiter ing, like everything up here. After a time, winds drive a whole fleet of them against the narrow outlet of the lake and stop it up. Then no more passenger plants can pas through the outlet, while plenty come in at the upper end of the fake; these eventually fill up the passage which may have been made. Supposing T o.nt thrnniyh the veeretation. I mav have it closed any day by a wind blowing a I flow of these weeds from one side oi tne lake to the other; so that the only way would be to clear out the lake of vegeta tion altogether, or to anchor the banks of 44 sudd " so as to prevent the winds blow ing them together. Below Gondokoro it spreads out into laxes; on ine eage ui these lakes an acqnatic plant, with roots extending five feet in the water, flourishes. The natives burn the top parts when dry; the ashes form mold, and fresh grasses grow till it becomes like terra firma. The Nile rises and floats out the masses; they come down to a curve and there stop. More of these islands float down, and at last the river is blocked. Though under them the water flows no communication can take place, for they bridge the river for several miles. Last year the Governor went up, and with three companies and two steamers he cut large blocks of the vegetation away. At last one night the water burst the remaining part, and swept down on the vessels, dragged the steamers down some, four mUes, and cleared the passage. The Governor says the scene was terrible. The hippopotami were carried down, screaming and snort ing; crocodiles were whirled round and round, and the river was covered with dead and dying hippopotami, crocodiles and fish that had been crushed by the mass. One hippopotamus was carried against the bows of the steamer and killed; one crocodile, 85 feet long was also killed. The Governor, who was in the marsh, had to go five miles on a raft to get to his steamer. Col. Gordon in Cen tral Africa. - A Trap for Sheep-Ellling Dogs The Lynchburg Virginian describes an ingenious trap devised by a Virginia far mer to capture sheep-killing dogs. Hav ing suffered severely from the depredation of dogs upon his sheep-fold, he built around a number of sheep that dogs had killed an enclosure of rails twelve feet high and about ten feet square at the ground, the sides of the trap sloping in ward until an opening was left about five feet square. Any dog could easilv climb such a sloping fence and enter the pen, but not even a greyhound could jump out of it In three nights the farmer cap tured forty-six dogs, including fifteen or twenty that had never been seen before in that neighborhood. This, after there had been a public slaughter of all dogs sus pected of sheep-killing, save one, whose master could not be convinced of his guilt. The trap was built for his especial bene fit, and it caught him the first night. Scientific American. Out of every 100 inhabitants of the United States sixteen live in cities. The Mexican Construction Company has determined to use paper car wheels. The richest ore yet discovered is that in the new vein, thirty miles from Dead wood. It runs $150,000 of gold to the ton. - The classical ancients had white walls on purpose for inscriptions in red chalk like our handbills of which the gates of Pompeii show instances. Mrs. Burke, of Omaha, made $1,000 at the Nebraska State Fair by riding ten miles, in twenty minutes and thirty-four seconds. She used four horses and made six changes. Poor Man'a Breakfast Table. THE ADUTjTEBATIOVS OF THE PRIME NECESSI TIES OF LXFE. :- We hear with no great amount of skep ticism, savs Harper'' s JSazur, of the im positions, in the subject of food, that our European cousins endure; and thinking of the perpetual wars and rumors of .war amongst them, we feel it somewhat re markable that they have any food at ail of their own, or find the means to buy any of us. But when we come to look at home and consider the immensity of the crops tf our. own country, and itsv un measured wealth, then it seems marvelous that its people submit to such rapacious robbery of their food by adulterations as is of daily occurrence submit 'with scarcely a murmur, and with scarcely an attempt to briug about anything differ ent. Let us take the mere question of bread; which in the cities is often as largely sup plied from bakeries as made at home. One would imagine that from wheat grown upon millions of acres all the peo ple of the continent would feed in plenty; but, on the contrary ; the act of adulter ation begins, we are told in the simple choice of flour, some bakers buying a cheaper flour made of 44 sprouting wheat," in which the gluten has undergone such a change that light bread can be produced from it only .by the use of chemieals and deleterious suhstauces. Chief of theso deleterious substances, it is declared, is alum, and that used in an immense pro portion to the flour a drug which pro duces, when taken in any quantity, purg ing and vomiting, heart-burn and griping pains. Doubtless a great deal of the Am erican dyspepsia might be traced directly to the bread thus tampered with, and the victim has reason to consider himself lucky if the white sponginess that he fancies in his loaf is produced by alum alone, and not by a little bine vitriol also. : , Nor are we any more fortunate in our tea, that stand-by of the household, that mainstay of the sewing girl -and shop woman, that cojmfort of the weakly and sustainer of the strong. To sav nothing of the cunning of those-of our own peo ple who si'll over again.' the once-drawn leaves bought of hotels and eating-houses and redned, nowhere and in nothing does the heathen Chinese practice more lamentable cunning than when coloring black teas for us, as he sometimes does, with a preparation of black lead, or in giving the bloom and tint to his green teas, not simply by drying the leaves on sheets of copper, but by stirring them up with powdered gypsum, Prussian blue, and turmeric, half a teaspoonful of the destructive mixture being used to a half dozen pounds of the leaves, and the hands of the workmen being dyed in the process. There is a cry going up among, politir cians every other year or so, when the time comes to agitate the question of the tariff, about laying a tax on the poor man 8 breakfast table: but wre see in such things as this the sort of tax that is laid j his digestion and on his blood and mus cle. His bread and his tea are rendered not only innutritions, but hurtful, and we all know that Ins butter was uneatable for a long time before sufficient sense of the wrong gathered to make a war on oleomargarine, a sufficiently harmless sub stance in itself, as every German house wife knows who has been in the habit, as her grandmother was before her, of boil ing her suet down, with a little fresh milk and sugar, and setting it away to spread the bread of the children s forenoon luncheon, but which, when made from unknown substances, tallows and fats collected no one knows where, is an en tirely different thing. That the milk of the poor man's break fast table should be no longer whitened and weakened with chalk and water is something that town and city governments are trying their best to bring abont; but they still submit to terra alba in his white sugar, and sand, in his brown. And not only the poor man, but almost all the others, have, to put up with mustard whose asperity has been so softened by flour and turmetic that it will not draw a blister, horseradish that will not draw a tear, cay-'" enhe into which corn meal and salt have been sifted, cinnamon that is only cassia and mixed with ochre at that, pickles made grejen by vitriol and copper; and even the cunning of the bee among his blossoms is counterfeited by the grocer in his jars of strained honey. Yet of all the adulterations in the com mon food of people there is not one that equals in the enormity of its outrage the coloring of candies the majority of whose consumers are children by the use of such absolute poisons as verdigris, sienna, gamboge, chromate of lead and all the rest, confectioners claiming that the quan tity of the pigments employed ' is but infinitesimal, but scientists claiming that they have, for instance, scraped from one candy toy enough 44 Scheele's green " to kill a rabbit. We need, in this connection, say but little, of the toxicology by which strong waters and other kindred drinks are coun terfeited, made palatable, and given, a re semblance to that which they profess to be and are not, as they are hardly to be called the constituents of daily food, and are only to be regarded as such when ad ministered by the physician, and then, tampered with, coming under the head of the adulteration of drugs, and the -action of the fiend who would d.o to death the occupant of the sick bed less merciful than unmerciful disease an adulteration worse than that of food, for the injurious food finds us at. least in something' like health, and able to combat it, but the adulterating drug takes the dying when struggling for life and breath, and puts an end to the struggle. Most men pity the sick and suffering, do what they can to relieve them, remembering that only savages expose their old and sick to death; but the peddler of medicines knowing or suspecting them to bo other than the heal ing things desired, the man who 44 pestles a poisoned drug," murders every day by direction, and each time that he passes the false parcel across the counter is a Judas selling his Master over again for 30 pieces of silver. The ivory of the. walrus is covered with enamel so hard as to strike lire with flint or steel. - The Chinese divide the day into twelve parts of two hours each. The Italians reckon the tweuty-four hours round. Grecian doors opened outward so that a person leaving the house knocked first within, lest he should open the door in the face of a passer-by. ' Morocco bindings for books came into use in 149i, leing introduced by Grrolier, who was the treasurer and ambassador of the king of France. OF NORTH CAROLINA. Rooms of the Executive Committee, Axn-PjiOHrBrnoN Tahty of Nobth Carolina, , Raleigh,. N. C, October 13th, 1881. 'i Owing to the peculiar features of the late cam paign aud the, determined efforts upon the part though in a different but persistent manner, ve, your committee, have deemed it our duty to send forth this address, plainly setting forth the facts and calling upon that noble band of one hun dred and sixty-aeven thousand who so firmly guarded the Temple of Liberty, to1 keep their' the old but true adage, Eternal vigilance Jsthe pi;ice of Liberty," and continue guarding our rights and liberties as guaranteed to us by the Constitution. of our State and ithe United States. Every casual observer must have noticed the -retiring or absence of a large portion of the heretofore leading politicians of both political parties who were always ready and willing to advioe the " dear people " of! what to them ap peared the rights and duties of their fellow citizens. Yet on the issues presented in the last campaign, where our liberties were assailed and endangered, theso loaders wore content that the " de..r people " should grope in darkness, fear ing to brave a morbid and mistaken so-called moral sentiment. : 1 The fanatical appeals and so-ealled arguments 1.,. U T.. fin. A i.i 1. .1. .W ! rality and reform, through thecry of " Prohibi tioh," wei-e too well answered and ventilated in; the late campaign by our speakers and press, tOj require any further notice from us. We are the friends and advocates, not only of the freedom and liberty of the people, but of sound morality, temperance and all kindred sentiments, tending to suppress vice and encourage virtue and so briety, and believe all desired1 reform and ad vancement in these respects have their remedy iii the inherent principles of our free constitu tions and governments, j . Heretofore, alter an election similar to the one upon the question of Prohibition one that had apparently no party significance there has always been manifested a disposition on the part of the minority to acquiesce in the result; but, greatly to our astonishment,) leading Republi cans and Democrats in different parts of tho State have announced their purpose to force, as it wi-rji tlift lYlinfivinna mcflMinri' infxi fnfnro fn.m- puigns ; and being apprised of. this, as the Ex- vvuii r V' vviiiiii a uivj - n vj i i iu ws s- j ui va la j vv sound the alarm and notify the friends of Anti Prohibition throughout the State, of the purposes aud intentions of their opponents, and, further, " to suggest the propriety of. maintaining our organizations in their various relations to the State, counties, towns, Ac, att Anti-Prohibition-. ist, and to accept the issue thus tendered us, not as Republicans or Democrats, but wholly without reference to your j political affiliations heretofore, and make tho fight as freemen who are determined to be free, aud lovers of that liberty, the birthright guaranteed to us by Washington and his compeqirs in the earlier days of our republic. j The efforts and purposes of designing politi cians within the last few years to run.and manip ulate parties and organizations in their indi-; vidual interest, and without reference to the rights of the people, is so apparent to all observ-, iug and thinking persons, that we are of the; opinion that this is a fit and' opportune occasion! to suggest the jjropriety of ignoring party alto gether, especially in the next campaign ; first, becauso the question of Prohibition or Anti Prohibition is above and ;superior to anv tics that Party may have upon us, and, next, because i there is no election, State or National, that canJ appeal to us for .our suxport or divide us on party principles or poney. ; 1 ?ifri t1 tf tww litiiklla . Tift viv nttillfliintifll it is our necessary and houuduii dnty that in tho coming election none but j those who weremnd are true to the great principle we so earnestly contended for, and which was so zealously main tained by the people at the ballot-box, on the 4th day of August last, should receive tho votes of those who are desirous of ; maintaining aVd de- In the selection of members to the next General Assembly lies our strength or weakness, our safety or danger. ! , The cpr of the politician! to his party friends, by either Democrats or Republicans, to stand by him because of his professions to your views on. issues heretofore dividing the people, wo trust will hp wlimlv Ainr:''nrli'.a. and flip livelier issues that concern so vitally the freedom and liberties. of the citizen will Ijc taken up and pressed as the one Uearet and nearest our hearts. i . I We cannot close tins address without asking our friends their warm and substantial suppor to our central organ, the State Journal, and to such other newsnaners erf" the State as were friendly to the cause of liberty, opposing as they did the fanaticism of Prohibition, which is ex taut not only in j this State, but is spreading its folds in every section of the .nation. Every effort must be made to crunh it, and that most effectu ally, betore it can recover trom its recent aeteat, in order that we may never again have our lib erties endangered by the appeals of its adhe- rAnru . Again reiterating that we are friends of sound morality and temperance, and shall in the fu ture, as in the past, be the earnest advocates of all constitutional methods for the advancement and reform of our people ! in these respects, we cannot and will not submit to fanatical encroach ments upon our liberties, such as have elsewhere failed to produce anything but a lowering of the morality of the people. ' T. N. COOPER, Chairman. J.H. RENFROW, W. B. STAFFORD, J J. J. SIMMS, .C. J. BAILEY, , H. Ei scott; , II. BRUNHILD, . , W. A. MOORE, - ' ' . J. E. O'HARA, . ; ED. P. POWERS. v F. M. Sobbell, Secretary. , - ( ' ' - In the seventh century Paulas Ayineta defined sugar as " the Indian salt in color and form like common salt, but in taste and sweetness like honey." . The art of iron smelting was known in England during the time of the Roman occupatiou, and working in steel. was practiced there before the Norman i con quest. ' As an instance of the thoroughness with which musketry practice is taught in the German army may be mentioned a device which has been introduced with good re sults. The better to accustom the men to interferences with sight in a battle, clouds of smok are produced by burning furze and wet jriuxi, or by other mean between the marksman ana his aim,
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