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. - 7 r .7 . t r v 1- ' ' : ?T . , . ' .i - : : -. !.-'; ' , . : - , I ! .i ' ' ' . ' . . . ' - 1 I I ' ' " ' " ' '" ' ' ' : ' " ' ! '"' i' . ' r i. ' - " f ; ; V - . NORTH-WESTERN NORTH CAROLTNA-WE LAQOR FOR ITS INTERESTS. Six Months, $1.00. VOLUME III. WINSTON, FORSYTH COUNTY, N. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 188L NUMBER 50. LEADER. One Year, $1.60. ; X ' is n-BLT-.Hrn evrrt TUESDAY rt JAMES A. ROBINSON, Ovner and JZdiior. - Tub:crfptioa Teres la adTaaesr "V.e copy, one yean' postage paid) , , , f. 90 One copy , m m.m. n , ...i,. u 1 oo Jne coy, three months , 50 A rrns nwirV on your paper indicates that year subset ii: ion has expired, or is due, aud jouanra kprctfiiiiy soli' itcd to renew or remit.. .'oHiniunic.iti..i comainin items of local news are re-iect'tilly solieiitil. . , "1 he editor will not be held responsible for views en tcri .lined nd expressed by correspondent. Advertising rracs made k iwwi upon application. Winston Card. EUGENE E. GRAY, ATTORNEY-AT-LfiW, WINSTON, K. C - Opficb : Orcr Wachovia National Bank. aprso-iy W. T. VOGLER. Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler. Main St., Oh-ositk Msrciiakt' Horat., WINSTON, JC. C. Ki'cp constantly- on hand Clocks, Watches, Jew dry, ami Siivtr-plateJ ware of kinU. KI-::CTACL1".S A SPF.CIALTY. Kcpairi'iR r.f evfrj- description don promptly, and a'' ir-i-J. tan u-'T. H.S. FOY. I- J.W. FOr. LIVERY1 STABLE. H. S. FOY & BRO., Proprietors. Main Street, "WINSTON, N. C. We have a large number of fine Horses, Pnssteas, Buggies, &c, and are prepared to furnish FIEST-CLASS ACCOMODATIONS 10 ALL Prompt attention :given and charges moderate. iCWe have ample room and horse drovers can he readily accommodated. Patronage of ail solicited. 1 00 GO S3 ef O-EEEITSBOIK), IT. C SEYMTTOR STEELE, Itrop'r. TERMS. Ji.So PER DAY. Large Sample rooms. Omnibus and baggage wagon meets all trains. i H. M. LANIER, with Jones, McDuffee & Straton, ' iMrosmas of ajtd dbalkks if tub POTTERY GLASS Of all Countries, from Original sources? ALSO. LAMP GOODS, CHANDELIERS. TABLE CUTLERY, ETC. , 51 to 69 Federal & 120 Franklin Sts., BOSTON. MASS. JACOB TtSB. C. M. TTS. Jacob Tise& Co!, East Side Ciurt Hotut Squar. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. MERCHANTS. We desire to return our thanks to our many c era for their liberal support in the past, and hope we wilt have their trade in 'the future. Our Stock is complete, consisting of DRY GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATSE- Hardware, Queens ware, ' of all kinds, all of which w. sell at the very loweet prlow. FURNITURE 1 We have been recWtal r??Ck FURNITURE of aU grade, all sell at the very bottom price aiwe do not intend to be undersold. Gie ns a trial before baying elsewhere. Ecu. Fcrgei n w tt til fc. April igth-jy. XjOOKT SCiBXEEI I If you want La Blanks. If you wap: BaU Tickets. if yo want Programmes, If you want Letter Heads, If you want Bottle Labels, ... If you want Auction BUH, If you want Calling rcU, jf you want Address Cards, If you want Check Books, If you want Shipping" Jags, If you want Business Cartas, If you want Caution Notice.. iVyUwantWedtorCard if vou want Invitatlcm Cards. Yc want Business f IlSt lob Prmtina;of any deserfption. II you wanv titSuto maaaar. T i r o - . o 5 'ft 1 1st sv i i n3 4, g -EH 4 ?J i rH g .a g g b w SSI " A Hymn for Farmers. . be following hrmn, written for t he ooeav lon by Mr. John O. Whlttler, was rang to the) tone ofAuld Lang Syne," at the banquet m ins American tionioaiiarsi ote)i.jrt " Boston, a few weeks ago. I O painter of the fruits and! flower, We awn thy wise design! Whereby these ha man hands of oar Kay sbswe the work of Una. I Apart fram thee we plantn Tain ! The root and sow the seed : ; Thy early and thy later sain, 1 Thy san and dew we need. ' Our toll la sweet with thaslkfalneaa, - Our burdrn Is our boon . The earn of earth'a gray morning Is The blessing of Its noon j : Why search the wide world everywhere For Eden's unknown ground t That garden of the prlmaj pair May never more be found. Bat, blest by thee, our patient toll Car right the ancient wong. And give to every ollme and soil The beauty lost ao long. 1 1 Onr homestead flowers and ft-ulted trees May Kdea's orehard shaine ; We taste the tempting sweets of these Like Eve, without her bl ijlame: east a And north and Bouth and east and west, The pride of every sone, j-1 ; The fairest, rarest, and the beat May all be made our own. Its earliest shrines the yoking world sought In hill-grove and In bowers ;: The Attest offerings thither brought Were Ttoy own f rulte and flowers. And still with reverent hands we cull Thy gifts, each year renewed ; The good Is always beautiful. The beautiful is good. 1 i The False Guardian. Just after the elose bf the Amerie&n Revolution, . James Tudor, a young hip exirpenter, of B:tbn, sailed on board the Orient, a n iw and staunch built ship, bound for Smyrna, at that time the largest aad wealthiest city of Levant. After the usual! tedimm and want of variety incidental to so long a voyage, the Orient arrived safely at that port and unshipped her anchor. The next morn In gJ just as the cap- tarn's gig was being owered for the accommodation of that officer and the supercargo, who werej then preparing to go on shore to report to the British oonsul and pay their respects to Mr. Tracey, the American- merohant, to whom they bore letters of introduc tion and credit from Gray, Tollbitts fc Co., the great importing house at home, they perceived a small row-boat rapidly approaching the ship, and containing two ' persons 'a man who was vigorously rowirrj, and one soli tary female ngvre. I ' : ! When the boat came alongside, the boatman promptly assisted the lady on board, oomewnat wnaiy, dui heiitatingly, she Inquired for tne cap tain, who, in company with the super cargo, was pointed out to her. She was vountr and ntettv. in fact. almost . childlike, and : seemed, from her wild, scared lcoK, to ! be laboring under some deep anxiety or fear. She was- dressed in garments of the richest material, .though seemingly thrown on in hast and with the greatest negligence. 1 1 f She approached the captain and in a flurried nervous way inquired if she mlrht speak with him a moment alone. He answered in the affirmative, and drawing her aside out of hearing of his companions; patiently prepared to listen ; for the pudden .ap'iearance of the strange young Woman on board his ship at so early an hour In the morn- ing had greatly excited his curiosity. Will you excuse me, 7 she began timidly, but are you a single or mar ried man ?" J Captain Ward glanced at the questioner curiously ! Indeed it was a a young woman peculiar question for to ask of him, a perfect stranger. But good he answered her with i perfect breeding and politeness Yes, he was a married man. Ths wraino lurlo- lrt.Vri r1iHn.rToiiited but presently recovered. "Is there any gentleman on board vour shiD who is not married, and whom you think would, like to marry rich young girl ithin the hour, and ask no question ? I will say that she has been deeply rorged and per- ...nlAil Knf fa n ATA heless highly re- nectable and virtuous.: thousrh she can only claim her pjroperty by clearly. tNJUkDllBttlug ute iaui ui a iraj iuu- riage." ; j i ( : "Both my mates are married," said the ciptain, I "and the supercargo is engaged to a young Oady in Boston, to whom I understand he will be married on our return. But noia," he aaaea, reflectively, "there is our carpenter, James Tudor, a fine looking, gentle manly young fellow as one might wl-h to see, and is unmarried. In fact he is much more of a gentleman iu his ways and m nners than any of US. If we except Mr. wley, yonder, the SlltAVAMri " Caii I see himl ?" i inquired the strange young lady,) eagerly. "Oh, certalply, iss, I will emm- mon him directly." j And James Tudjor. the sprightly ! and handsome young carpenter, was sent for, and one promptly aft where Captain Ward ani his: mysterious visitor was stand in gJ j . It was evident at a j glance that Tudor had made at first sight, a favor able impression up n the young lady. Captain Ward therefore excused himself to the lady , and after leaving her alone with Tud y?t rejoined Owley, when the two ohor ly after took their eat in ihe gig, andj were pulled ashore by four seamen in waiting. At the awkward Intoduction of the captain the carpenter touched his tr- n.nlfn rHf al v mn ti n'tmAa S InW ind rmm j v.... , mvam r 1 -- - grateful bow, wblcn went far toward captivating the heart of the young lady. "Pwax sir," sks said, .lashing and trembling visibly ; "I have what may appear a very unmaidenJy proposal to make. There is a wealthy young lady, in whose service and interest I ' am now employed, who cannot obtain poceeeslom of her rights exoepUag by marriage, as a proviso to that effect was unfortunately embodied ' in her father's will. "Her. uncle 'was appointed her guardian, and, taking advantage of the situation, has since attempted to make a traffic of her hand, by marry ing her to a wretch whom she loathes, in consideration of his yielding up to him one-half of the property, which amounts, I am told, to over fifty thou sand pounds sterling. It is now the earnest wi-h of this young lady to marry some one else, and thus defeat her unprincipled guardian, who has been to her, since her father's death, a most unmerciful tyrant. , She is pretty and amiable, and I have every reason to believe, would devotedly love her husband. And now I come to the most difficult part of my mission. Will- you, a stranger from a foreign shore, take pity on her hopeless, oondi-J tion and marry her? The moment you are married she will make over to you her entire fortune." "I will marry her,'.' said James Tudor, "if for nothing more than to spite her tyrant, but I will not be so mercenary as to exact her fortune for so slight a service." "Come, then, my boat awaits you; let there be no delay ; said the youug lady, greatly overjoyed by his ready answer. "You need make no altera tion in your, toilet, as I am supplied with ample means', and have beeu authorized to procure for you the most costly garments to be found in the market." Hardly knowing how the adventure was likely to end, Tudor followed the strange young lady into her boat, and they were speedily landed at the market wharf. ' She hailed a eab and the two en tered it. They were driven to a locality mentioned by the young lady, where our young American enjoyed the de lightful luxury of a Turkish bath, which left his naturally clear skin as pure and white as an infant's. Their next step was to visit one of the most fashionable English cloth iers in the city, where Tudor, at the urgent solicitation of the young lady, secured the richest and most expen sive outfit in the establishment. The proprietor himself assisted young Tudor in the arrangement of his toilet, and when onee attired in the elegant and costly habiliments, a finer-looking young gentleman could not have been met in the city of Smyrna. He was tolerably well educated, too; well read, with a great flow of lan guage at his command, picked up from the works of Steele, Addison, and others, with whom in his leisure hours he had made himself thoroughly conversant, added to which he was naturally possessed of easy, graceful, and winning manners. When his toilet was complete he glanced admiringly into the full length mirror before him, and was then ushered into the presence of the young lady by the gratified proprietor. She looked at him in a half-bewildered way, as though she were, in some doubt of his identity, and then her eager face was suddenly over spread with a genuine blush of nleas ure; and taking his arm they re entered the cab, which was still in waiting, and were driven directly to the residence of an Episcopal clergy man, the address of whom had been previously given by the young lady. On alighting from the close cab they were ushered into the parlor where they were presently joined by the clergyman. "You must speak to him," whispered the young lady, blushing crimson, "for as you may have guessed, I am to be the bride if you de not object to me." "Nay, on the contrary," whispered Tudor his face glowing with manly pleasure, "I aoa overjoyed to hear that it is yon. But please tell me by what name I am to introduce you ?" ' "Susan Fa' er," whispered his fiancee, smiling through her blushes. The young American promptly ac cepted his cue, and proceeded with a graceful introduction of the young lady, as well as the purpose for which he had called. , The clergyman bowed and with drew, but presently reappeared with his wife and two. daughters as wit nesses. : When the interesting ceremony was over they again entered .the cab, and were driven to the residence of the British Consul, before whom the new made bride made a clear statement of the facts. ' M " As good fortune would have It, Cap tain Ward and Supercargo Owley ar rived just as she had concluded, and both readily vouched for the responsi ble and geatlemanly character of Jam? s Tudor, the bridegroom, and a messenger was immediately dispatoh ed for the false guardian. When he arrived and saw how mat ters stood he ground his teeth in sup pressed rare, but wisely declined to test the validity of the marri' ge. He relinquished on the spot all fur ther claims as guardian of his niece, and at the request of the consul, made out a hurried schedule of the property then under his control belonging to the aforesaid niece, .Mrs. Tudor. A fortnight later, and the happy bride came into lawful por session of the JC50.000 left by her father, and on the subsequent return of her husband to Boston, where with the money thus reoeivwd-waa. purchased the wharf which bwars their family name to this 7. Cock-fighting in Cuba. A correspondent writes:-"Vhile the Spaniards qf the mother country find their pleasure in bull-fighting, the in habitants of Cuba still delight in what was once the "good old English" sport of cock-fighting and the valla as: gal Ins (cook-pit) is always full when a com bat is announced to take place. The cock-pit itself, around which are two rows of raised seats, Is about three feet in diametev , and the cocks which are going to fight are all marked and num bered beforehand, the key s of the cages in which they are placed being handed to the senior of the judges, who lays them on the table so that there may be no suspicion of fraud. This is the more necessary, as heavy bets are de pendent on the result, and attempts are often made to substitute a bad bird for a good one by those who have wa gered against him. The noise and clatter as the time for the fight ap proaches are indescribable, the vendors of refreshments and the betting men making a tremendous tumult ; while, when the two cocks enter the arena, which has been carefully raked and sprinkled with sawdust, one hears such cries as "Fifty pesetas on the English bird," "I will bet you six" ounces (of gold)." "Done." Then a man will rush and offer "Two to one on the Chi nese," or "Five to four on the Espan tago,"asthe casemay.be. Grandees and Democrats, planters and negroes (the latter only admitted in the even ing), functionaries and beggars, meet as used to be the case at English prize-fights upon equal terms ; but all the noise is hushed as if by magic when the president makes a sign for the fight to begin. There i no need of giving a detailed descrip tion of the fight which is conducted very much according to the old Eng lish custom, their ownexs stirring them up to the contest by putting them at each other, beforehand. When they have fought so long that they fall to the ground exhausted, without victory having been declared for either side, one of the two owners counts aloud up to ten, while the other yells at them and calls them "oowards" and "good for nothings." If this is of no effect their owners suck out their wounds and pour into them spiced brandy. This done, they are put upon their feet again, and, agonized by pain, find strength enough to renew the battle. If this fails one of the ewners counts up to forty, and if at the expiration of this only one of the cocks has come to the scratch he is proclaimed the con queror. The great festivals of the church are always accompanied by cock-fights, notably at Easter, or on saints' day, when it is the eustoui for ladies to attend them. Upon these oc- asions the respective owners adopt colors and choose a representative from among the girls who are present. The young lady who has the colors of the victorious cock, is proclaimed queen for the rest of the afternoon, and for the ball which follows. A Miniature Electric Lamp. Tive Hundred-Candle Power ia the' Area fo a Half Dime. Mr. Edison has just completed and transmitted to Prof F. G. Fairfield, of the New York College of Veteri nary Surgeons, an electric lamp which has the novelty of being probably the most minute ever constructed. The electrodes, or carbon points, are only one-tenth of an inch in diameter, the object being to obtain the high eat at talnable intensity within the smallest possible space. It requires a battery of about forty cells. The flame will not exceed the dimensions of a silver five-cent piece, but will concentrate within this limited area the power of five-hundred candles.. The conduct-" ors are scarcely larger then a hair, and the electrodes are adjusted by means of a delijate screw movement, capable of altering the distance of their points from each other one ten-thousandth of an inch, if necessary. The instrument was made to illuminate a microscopic objective, constructed upon the newly discovered law of homologous sections. This lens renders it possible to obtain a power of sixty million diameters. At such a power only a section of a colored corpuscle of human blood can be viewed at a time. Computing the molecule of living matter to be about a twenty-millionth of an inch in di ameter, Prof. Fairfield believes it pos sible to project the image of it upon a screen with the help of the lamp, and to take photographs showing themole- rfeular constitution of such complex rbodies as albumen. Two Affectionate Rivals. There were several men clustered around the stove in the back room of a Galveston saloon, and some how or other the subject of newspapers came up for discussion. One man said that editors were more jealous of each other than any other class ; that they never had a good word for each other, etc. A long-haired youth with a solemn look, spoke up, and, heaving a sigh said he had had some experience with edi tors and he found them the reverse of jealous of each other ; that a Texas edi tor was always willing to deny himself comforts for the benefit, of a brother editor. "Where did that happen ?" ' "It happened in a western Texas town where I lived," sighed theyoung man. "I had dsshed off a little poem often or fifteen stanzas about 'Beautiful Spring.' There were two rival papers' in the place the Bugle and the Trom bone. I had heard that the editors were deadly enemies and sighed to shed eaah hr's .ror, and I was afraid that, if T lf fha TVvmmAmw mi hilar) m v nop.m first there would be a deadlv en-H counter. .'!.: "I finally resolved to have it appear simultaneously in both papers, When I called on the editor of the Trombone he said the editor of the Bugle had a large family, and that he would pre fer it would appear' in the Bugle, as personally he loved the editor of the Bugle. I went then to the Bugle man, s ad he said the editor of the Trombone was his warmest personal friend, and that he would be' glad if I Would let him have the poem, as it would be putting bread in his mouth and clothes on his back. ; "So, owing to ihe love those two ed itors had for each, other, I couldn't get my poem into either of their papers, and it hasn't been published yet. I never saw men so anxious to help each other out of distress," and once more the long-haired poet sighed like a bel lows. . : . . j ' .'. 1 There was a pause, and the old man with a frost bitten nose drawled out ; . "Yer never tried them same editors with a cash advertisement did yer ?" The poet answered in the negative whereat the audience significantly nodded . their heads and winked at each other. ; Home Again And mighty glad to get there. , Glad to get to a spot where your b d room is big enough to turn a double hand-spring in without landing two thirds out of the window. Glad to find a bed where the foot board is a few inohes below your feet instead of a few inches above' your knee, naking it necessary to sleep in an uncomfortable, ; half open, jack knife attitude. Glad to get a drink of water that isn't so saturated with "healing min erals" that it tastes like a rusty lamp post on a frosty morning. Glad you haven't got to swear Jht such stuff "does you good.' ,: Glad to abandon the nonseasical conventionalities' of "resort" life, and lift your feet to the mantelpiece in the American fashion, and feel social and free. - ' . ;: Glad to get a square meal into your system garnished with simply the provision dealer's profits ; a meal that you feel sure you can afford to eat Glad to see your wife and family around your own table and hearth stone.; They look better and feel more clo ely related to you than they do promenading the, verandas of a hotel with strangers. Glad to "slosh" around in your own bath-tub, where . there Is no deathly fear of an "undertow." , Glad somebody can speak to you and answer a civil question without 'charging "fifty cents all around." Glad it isn't necessary to lie to stran gers about your extensive business and your establishment. You can't fool people that have known you from a boy Hp, so you don't have to try. Glad you had money enough to get home after your j hotel bills were paid. This is cause for proclamation of a day of thanksgiving" and' prayer. Glad you now have a chance to growl and find fault in true home-like fashion, without being deterred by the presence of a scornful world. Glad that you. can roam into every room of the house at your own sweet will, although the bver-weening curi osity you bad while on your vacation deserts you; 1 Glad to meet j your friends on the street once more, and surprised that they didn't know you had been away. Glad to see the dog, glad to. see the cat, glad to see the servant girl. Home again, i And you inwardly vow that you will let the tendrils of your affections so cling around your own. vine and fig! tree that you will never desert its comforts again, never, never. But in less than three months, guide-books and ."resort" literature will begin to flood your post-office box, and you'll find yourself planning just such another lay out for next summer. The nomadic instincts of human na ture will not "down" after they have been once . gratified, -r- New Haven Register. Exploring Hudson Bay. Prof. Bell, who has spent five years in exploring the Hudson bay, gives, in glorious terms, an account of his wan derings in and about the great body of waters, which, in hie enthusiasm, he designates the Canadian Mediterra nean. ' He slates that Hudson Bay is in effect one thousand miles long, more than six-hundred miles wide and, covers one million square miles. Instead of being, as is usually suppos ed, a part of the Arctic regions, the nearest shore is more southerly than London, and its farthest, still remains within the Temperate zone. On the northeast coast there is little snow In winter and little rain in summer. The tributaries of the bay are the Nelson which discharges pie water of Lake Winnipeg; the Winnipeg, about the size of the Ottawa; the Saskatchewan, nine-hundred mile long, pouring in from the west, and the Bed river', coming over five-hundred miles from the south. I. ; j : All the centra part of North Amer ica, from Labrador to the . Rocky mountains, drains into Hudson bay. The largest tributary is the Nelson, about four times the size of the Ottawa, at the capital; then comes the Churchill, the Big river and the Al bany. On the we3t side of the bay the southerly winds are the coldest that blow in the winter, and there is less snow and less intense cold in the vicin ity of York Factory and Fort Churchill than in more southerly regions. Dar ing winter the temptratara improves as one goes from Minnesota northward through Manitoba, and down the val leys to Hudson bay, and bathing is found agreeable in July, August and September. On the southern and west ern shores unlimited supplies of red and white pine, spruce, white birch, balsam, poplar, aspen and tamfarao are found. Odds and .Ends. Mirrors nhould never be hung where the sn shines directly upon them. They soon look misty, grow rough and granulated, and no longer give back a correct picture. The amal gam, er union of tin foil with mer cury, which is spread on glas to form a looking glass, Is easily ruined by direct, continued exposure to the solar rays. : S Theodore Hook once called upon an old lady,! who pressed him so urgently to stay s!nd -dine with her that, aaThe had no ! engagement, he could net refuse. On sitting down, the servant uncovered a dish which contained two mutton chops; and the hostess said : "Mr; Hook, you see your din ner." "Thank you, ma'am," said he ; "but where is yours ?" The correspondent of an English paper writes: "I have a canary that di-ginctly articulates phrases and sen tences. I have always regarded my bird as a great rarity, but not an an absolute exception. I can not but think that more canaries would mani fest the talking faculty (which probably is latent in them all), if more attention were given to them. My bird hs always been treated as a member of the family ; there being no children in our house, he has been attended to and cared for as a child." Dr. D.i G. F. Maodonald writes to the Lon don Dai iy Telegraph . " Th e phenomenon known as tbe harvest moon is altogether independent of the harvest and of terrestrial latitude and longitudel The nearest full moon to the autumn! equinox, when the sun is in Libra, is the proper harvest moon. She then rises sooner after sunsetting than at. any other period of the year, ! and nearly at the same time for days together, occasioning a num ber of brilliant moonlight nights. The so-called hunter's moon is the imme diately succeeding one." There is nothing new under the sun especially in the matter of jokes. Mark Twain has an anecdote of a Scotchman who enters an eating house on Holbom Hill and calls for a penny loaf. Then he says he has changed his mind, and that he will have a pennyworth of beer instead. This pro cess he repeats twelve times, and he is then going on his way, rejoicing and full of beer, when the oookshop keeper demands I payment for his beer. "I gave you a penny loaf for each mug of beer," answers the canny Scot. "But you have not paid for the loaves," continues the ineensed Boniface. "But I had them not," replies the Scot. This storyf is to . be found in an old cheap book published late in the seven teenth century ; and it is very proba bly a survival of Home incdiseval joke current among the schoolmen, since its humor hinges on a false premise in logic. 7 . Yesterday morning a man with a load of fowls, couatry produce, etc., stopped in front of the house of a prominent citizen, and the good wife came out to inspeet the display. "Guess I'll take those two wild ducks for to-morrow's dinner." "Guess you'd better take something else, madam," said the t produce man. "I met your husband 'on the. road this morning with a wagon, two horses,, three dogs, and a hundred rounds of catridges, making for a big duck slough." "Oh, indeed ! The poor man !" replied the lady. "You had better give me four ducks. He may want some when he gets home." The testimony of experts of all kinds is to be taken with great cau tion, and experience is diminishing rather than increasing confidence in it. "'A Cabinet Minister was once com menting on a very strong despatch in the presence of his sovereign. "The language is strong," said the states man, "but the writer does not mean it; he is1 irresolute." "Whence do you sec : irresolution ?" asked the king. "In the n's ' and g's, please your majesty." Only it is to be said that a great deal of humbug is often talked by people who profess to be judges of handwriting. I showed a professor of caligraphy a letter which I had received. He took a very un favorable ' view of the handwriting. It was the handwriting of a man with out learning, without genius, without feeling. "And now, sir," I said, "will you look at the signature?" The letter was written by Lord Maeau lay. Miss Aunie Louise Cab? has sold her house in Portland, Maine, will hereafter, it ia said, live in New York. t . . t "The first American flag used by citizens of California is still in exist ence. The people made it themselves, and had to buy a seaman's shirt in or der to get the blue. By saving all the seams and hems and coarse pieces of cloth that are not suitable for a jag carpet, when you are" making one, and braiding sewing to gether, a nicerugcanbe made. -The rags are prepared the same as for a car pet and knit on wooden needles about as large as a lead pencil, eight or ten inches long ; knit a square centre, and knit stripes of various colore, and sew around it until it is aa large as ycu wish. ' ... - Gold Is, in its last analysis, the sweat of jjthe poor and the blood of the beats j Won at Last. "So you wish to marry my daugh ter?" These words were uttered by a man who fairly hissed them through his teeth as he stood, with a cruel sueer on his lips, in front of a young man, the nervous twitchingsof whose clear cut features .told more plainly than could any words, however freely inter spersed with adjectives, the ton are he was suffering. "Yes, sir," said Herbert MjFntosh, looking up into the face of him who had spoken. "I love Myrtle with a rich, warm, tempestuous love that recks not of obstacles, but sweeps away like a mighty avalanche the difference in social position that exists between ns. My passion is a deathless one, that, like the mighty simoon of the desert, gathers force with every in stant of Its existence, and stills alike with its hot breath the life of man and' beast. . I know that appearances are against me. I am poor and honest, and last Saturday night I had a king full beaten at the Owl Club, but I can not conceal my love. You are rich and successful, and I can see from the window of my little room In which I work, the high walls of your packing house, and hear the plaintive cry of the stricken pig who has his interior soooped out and is cut into hams and clear sides, before the echo of the death shriek has ceased to linger in the musk-laden air of the stock yards. You are living under torquoise-tinted skies, while I am in great luck to have a sky at all. It is net my fault that you are rich ; I : love your daughter, and she returns my. love;" and saying this Herbert looked anxiously in the direction of the window, his breast giving a great throb of joy as he saw that the blinds were closed, and the old.man coufd not throw him out. "Hark ye, my lad," said the pork packer, with a cold, skating-rink smile hovering o'er his face, "you say you love mjr daughter, and would win her for your bride. So be It. I have naught against thee save thy poverty. Come to me within a month with flOfO gained by thine own industry and skill, and Myrtle shall be your wife. .If you fail in this her hand is given to a friend of mine who owns a glucose factory." "But you would cot force her to marry against her will," said Herbert. "She has plighted her troth to me.-" "I know not of your childish vaga ries," replied the eld man. "I have said my say. In three minutes I shall untie the bulldog." . Herbert went away. ' Midnight on Wabash avenue. Five men are seated around a table with a hole in the centre of it. Herbert is in the party, and opposite him aits his hated rival, the man who owns an interest in a glucose factory. Herbert is dealing. Herbert looks at hia cards and bets f 100. "Five hundred," says the glucose man. "A thousand," says Herbert, re-tob-ing into his pocket as if for money . , "Oh, never mind getting out your roll until the hands are played," said the glucose man. "I will be easy with you, and only all. I have four aces." "Straight flush," said Herbert, in low, bitter tones, as he laid the cards on the table and pocketed a $1000 bill which bis adversary threw acros to him. The next night Herbert and Myrtle occupied one chairin the parlor of tbe pork packer's residence. : "We will be married in the fall, my sweet, "she said, in soft, low tones, kiss ing him passionately as she spoke. ?Ye8, Tcotie," he murmured; "in the fall. We can live with your folks next winter." Japanese Carp. The Emperor of Japan has been making quite lately an official tour through his realms, and on the occa sion of his arrival at a village, Otsu mura by name, he was presented with three large car for his special eating, which fish the chronicler of the impe rial travels declares to have been three feet in length. The wonderful things the Japanese do with their fish we can scarcely understand. It seems as If carp are among the most ancient of Japanese fish, and have be; n preserved by them from time immemorial. Home recent travelers tell marvellous stories as to the age and size of tbe ciprinoides, which are kept in hwly precincts. It looks as if the carp, since it has received its impulse in the United States, will make the circuit of the world. Fature biologists will not have to. speculate, as does Mr. Wal lace, on the migration of animals, de ducting their movements from many different sources', for the man of to day, like Noah of old, carries his dumb friends along with him. Recently it was noted that some of the carp raided in the United Stales Fish Commiesion had been carried to Ecuador. Tbe re sult has been perfectly successful. Though the and journey over the mountains extended for many days, and the small fish had been carried in tin vessels on the backs of porters, the little c rp were placed in t he beet pos sible condition by an enterprising South American gentleman in a pleas ant pond on the very heart of the An des. This performance in fish culture far exceeds that undertaken by the English in New Zealand with trmit. The son cf a clergyman in Rich mond, Macs., received as a wedding present a very valuable suit. It was a breach of promise suit for foOOo. Oh, won't he have ntsvl Sunshine. , From an aoorn weighing a few grains a tree will grow for a hundred i years or more, not only throwing cfl ) many pounds of leaves each year, tut ; itself weighing several tons. If an orange twig is put In a lure box of I earth, and that earth is weighed, when i the twig becomes a tree, bearing lu3 i clous fruit, there will be very nearly ; the same amount of earth. From csre ( ful experiments made by different sci i en tine men, It is an ascertained fact that a very large part of the growth cf a tree is derived from the san, from the air, and from the water, and very little from the earth ; and, notably, ail vegetation becomes sickly, unlef s it is freely exposed to the sunshine. Woo i and coal arc but condensed sunshine, which contains three important ele ments, equally essential to both vege table and animal life magnesia, linis and iron. It is the iron in the tloci which gives the durability ntcessary to bodily vigor, while, the magnesia Li Important to many of the tissues. Trus it Is, that the more persons are out cf doors, the more healthy and more vig orous they are, and thelonger will they live. Every human being ouht to have an hour or two of sunshine at noon in winter, and in the early fore noon tn summer. HIVm Medical Ad vter. English as the Universal 'Language. We gleau from London Truth the following item, which we are sure our cultivated readers will agree with us as furuUhing one among the pertinent proofs that intelligent thinkers every now and then eome across which go to show the "manifest destiny" of spoken English, and the ultimate es tablishment of the "Greater Britain" which Sir Chartos Dilkey wrote about. English the Tslegrsphis Tongne. Although the English language is the most absurdly spelled tengue in the world it permits much more terse composition than any ether, and tele graph clerks have specially noted that English telegrams as a rule, contain feweg words than those expressing the same ideas in any other language. I was reminded of this subject the other day by noticing the directions for an electric bell In my room in a foreign hotel. They were printed in'French, German and English, viz : On eat prlede ponaser le bouton 'jusqn'au fond. Man let gebeten den knopf ho vlel all moglick suruokcustowen. Please press the button to the bottom. There are ten words each in the French and German to seven in the Englirh., The number of letters ia thirty-seven, fifty-two and thirty-one, respectively. The note at the foot of the bill of fare was similarly interest ing: On re met la note cheque Jour su control des voyageurs. Una I itu n gen zu vermeldrn, wlrd tagllch die Belchnung sur Controls vorgelegt. Bills are given dally to avoid errors. Here again we have ten, eleven, and seven words with forty-five, sixty three and thirty-one letters, respect ively. Another common "notice" affords corroborating evidence of the preceediDg" examples of superior ter? news of our venacular : On est pre de ne pas f umer. Es wlrd gebeten nlcht ru rauchen. Please do not smoke. Here we have seven and six wcrJj to four, .with twenty-two, twenty seven and sixteen letters respectively. A Small Boy's Wandering Thoughts. A good mother, whose Ave year-el J boy ia exceptionally conscientious and devout, has often been smitten with a pang of apprehension lest her d&rlic z might be too good for this worii. The thought came into her mind tls other day, when her head was by the side of her child's at church in prayer time; but this pain was quickly ban ished by a very different feeling whn the little boy said to her in a low wLIj per : "Mamma, can't I go to the cir cus to-morrow? There's going to Is a horse oh stilts." On a quiet answer from the mother the child returned to his devotions. And what does th' story show? That the, child was hu man ; but not that his Apparent devo tion was deceit or delusion. The little boy's noind wandered in his prayer at the minus of some grown people do, and he spoke out his thought, n grown people genera' ly do not. This is Fame. "Good gracious!" asked the profes sional, "why do yoa, a prosperous business man, the father of a fa.nii!j and the main stay cf a church, c! .lib era tely come to me and want to lta.rn all the tricks of poker playing? IX you mean to throw sway your rer; t it ability and become a gamb'ex?" "No," said the merchant; "no; I don't mean to become a garullcr; but I'm going to visit LouJsvills, tzl I'd as soon go to Texas without a plttpl as to Louisville without a knowledge of poker." Bomton I'nt. "It Is all done !" remarked a brida eI the end of the marriage ceremony, with a sigh of relief. "No," whis pered the officiating minister, "It hut just- begun." Recently converted per sous, if very happy, are sometime tempted to make the bride's mL.tak. A renovated and reconstructed Pres byterian church announce thrcjb its friends in a religious journal that, "with a new minister and a new !; -organ, a larger attendance is secure I, and the solemn truths of revdx'J: arc presented and reoeived with c uaxal carncatnscs." . It
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Dec. 13, 1881, edition 1
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