POETRY.
EAUTU BJSAUTIFUI*.
O, Itlfc, !t U Mr M the ihvn f
And the world is a woodrrus world I
Aud all lh»t ! *ec ie a joy to me
Wlu ft till 1 nnncr of peace U unfurled.
Each lnri-a* as it sweep* o'er the sea
la I:" jMtit with health to the isles,
A nil the na\re beat time to a mystic rhyme
That the «'.i!or'» toil beguiles.
F. plaut lliat blooms on the land
old repent,
Each hunting star in,heaven afar
Looks down with a smile that is sweet.
A ml the c.u tli sends back a song
To the answering heavens above ;
Ami the waters true, a* tbey roll to the sea,
Repeat tin storjr of love.
Yes, love is the magic band, —-
A n«l seiip It. the golden k*y, ' R,
That liults in one all 'neath the sun
With it peace that is sweet to see.
A Fatal French Duel.
A Paris correspondence of the Lon
don Telegraph gives the particulars of a
remarkable duel between too French
noblcuien. which recently took place ou
the frontier. The quarrel ap
pears to have originated in a fashionable
drawing room. A Count and a Duke
were discussing politics, and the conver
sation bcenme so hot that' the former
lost his teyifur.-a.id wJ*r forgot himself
we fo strike his noble opponent a blow
on Iho face. The latter did not reply >
but sought his friends immediately af
terwards, and swore to thorn that he
would never Pec his family agtfin until
ho had washed out the iusult with the
blood of his adversary. No time was
lost in arranging for the meeting, which
took place next day. The combat was
of the bitterest description. Beforo
they had fought long the Duke was
wounded in two places, in the arm and
in th 6 chest. With the blood stream
ing from his hurts he oontinued the oon
flict, though hardly able to maintain
himself erect. When about to succumb
from weakness he summoned all his
strength lor a Snal attack, and succeeded
in striking bis adversary a mortal blow,
from the effects of which he instantly
fell dead. The Duke then staggered
forward, cud bending over the dead
man, steeped his handkerchief in the
blood that had flowed from the fatal
wounds. Aflcr rubbing the gory cloth
on I*B face be turned to hi* friends and
said: '*l eooSde this handkerchief to
you, (bat you may hand it to my wife,
the Duehew. Tell her to place it among
the marriage gifie of our daughter ; it
is the dowry of her father—the purity
of his uame." Soaroely had he uttered"
these words when he, too, expired, go
ing into eternity with a smile upon his
face, produced by the sentiment that his
honor had been satisfied.
Woman.
The Tar River Beaoon, published at
Greenville, N. C-, has a story written by
Mrs. T. J. Jar via in which she says of
the puqty of woman: "How often follies
deepen into wu, and sin is the mother
of great crimes. A pressure of the hand
which means nothing—yet is too bold
«' frietjudb.p—a flight* thought
or ana Tiffißy g'vtn, an.araorou* glance,
may fire a brother'* or husband's aru) to
tfhed the life's Wood of brave men, em
boldencd to such weakness by uo other
motive than the criminal vanity or self
love of womsn. Yet how few of our
sex audi too late hpw real life fa!
Wo know of more than one leader of
fashion, keeping op the same eternal
simper and paint and bedixxen ment of
finery in ball rooms and other festive
scenes, who can never lay her head upon
her pillow without an anguished re
meiiiberancc of a low grave in which
has been laid a manly breast, whose
-nyoung life's blood haa been poured as a
libation at her feet, in an effort to shield
the fair name or fame of whioh she bad
been wickedly heedless."
litX ~
What a wavering thing is the Btream
of life! How it sparkles and glitters!
Ilow it bounds along its pebble bed,
sorjo imes in shade; sometimes sporting
round all things, aa if its essence were
merriment and brightness; sometimes
flowing solemnly on, aa if it were de
rived from Lethe itself. Now U runs
like a liquid diamond along the meadow;
now it plunge* in fame aud fury over
tho rock; now clear, limpid, as
youth and innocence ean make it; now it
is heavy aud turbid, with tho varying
streams of thought and memory that are
flowing into it, eaeh bringing its store
of dullness aud polution as it tends to
ward tho end. It* voice, too, varies as
it gees; now it sings lightly as it danoea
oo; now it roars amidst the obstacles
that oppose its way, aud now it has no
tou* but the dull, low marine of ex
hausted energy.
Suuh is the stream of life! Yet per
haps ie* ol uk would wish tQ change
our porti&cn.r it for tliflcalni teg'nlarity
i f a catrd if one could be con-
structed without looks and flood-gates
npon it to hold is the pent-up waters of
the heart till thoy are ready to ha rut
through the banks.
A Short Sermon to my Students.
You are the architects of your own
fortune*; rely upon yonr own strength of
body and soul. Take for your star, in
dustry, self-reliance, fa,th, and honeaty,
and inscribe on your banner, luek is a
fool, pluck is a hero. Earnest effort in
one direction is the surest road to wealth
and high-position; diligence and stick
to-it uess is the winning hand. Don't
take too much advioe, keep at the balm
and steer yonr own ship, and remember
that the groat art of commanding is to
take a fair share of the work. Don't
practicp too muoh humility, think well
of yourself—striko out —assume your
position. It ia the joetlings and joltings
of life tJiat bring great men to the sur
face; put potatoes in a cart 6ver a rough
road, and small potatoes go to the bot
tom; turn a raft of logs down a mill-race,
and the large logs eome to the top. Rise
above the envious and jealom. Fire
above the mark you intend to hit. En
- ergy, invincible determination, with a
right motive, are the levers that move
the world. Don't drink. Don't chew.
Don't smoke. Don't swear. Don't de
ceive. Don't read novels. Be in earn
est. Be self reliant. Be generous—
there are two sides to every balance,
and favors thrown in one Bide of the
scald are snre to be reciprocated in the
other. Be kind. Be civil. It is a
foolish man who does not understand
that molasses will catch more flies than
vinegar, lleadr the papers —they are
the great educators of the people. Ad
vertise your business. Keep your own
counsels, and your own
business. Make money, and do good
with it. Love yonr Qod and fellow-man.
Lovo truth and virtue Love your
country and obey the laws.
H. G. EASTMAN, LL D ,
Prea't Eastman Business University.
Since long prayers have been intro
duced among Christian congregations,
the spirit of devotion has been lost; for
where such prevail most listlessnees and
deadness are the principle characteris
tics of the people, and these have engen
dered formality and frequently total
indifference to religion. At a public
meeting a pious brother led in prayer.—
I kneeled on the floor, having nothing
' to lean agaiust or to support me. He
prayed forty-eight minute*. I was un
-1 willing to rise, and was several time*
1 near fainting What I suffered I can
not describe. After tbe meeting Was
over, I ventured to expo*tnlate with the
good man, *nd {a addition to th« injury
I sustained by his unmerciful prayer, I
had the mortifiaation of the following
reproof: "My brother, if yonr mind had
been more spiritual, yon would not have
felt the prayer too long."— Dr. A.
Clarke.
'Mark Twain am £ditor.
ffe jratlne paper on his lap, and wbil*
he polished his spectacles with hi* hand
kerehief, he wquire^:.
"Are you the new editor?"
I said I was.
"Have you ever edited an agricultural
paper before?"
"No, sir," said I, "this is my first at
tempt."
f "Very likely.' Have you had any ex
perience in agriculture practically?"
r "I believo I have not."
"Some instinct told me so," said
' the old gentlemen, putting on his spec
tacles and looking over them at me with
asperity, while he folded his paper into
a convenient shape. "I wish to read
you what must have made me have that
instinot. It was this editorial. Listen
and see if it was you that wrote it:
"Turnips should never be pulled; it
injures them. It ia muoh better to send
a boy up and let him shake the tree."
"Now what do you think of that?—
for I really suppose yoa wrote it.''
"Think of it. Why, it is good. I
think it sense. I havo no doubt every
year millions of bushels of turnip* are
spoiled- ia this- township alone by being
pulled in an onripe condition, when if
ihey had sent a boy up to shake the
tree—"
"Shako your grandmother! Turnip*
do not grow on trees!"
"Oh, tbey don't, don't they? Well,
who said they did? The language was
intended to be figurative. Anybody
that know* anything will certainly knew
that meant that the boy should shake the
vine."
did gentkmaa get «p and
tore hi* paper into small shred*, and
stamped on and broko several thing*
with bis cane, and said I didn't know as
much as a oow; and then he went out
and banged the door after him, and, ia
short acted in sach a way tkat I fancied
he was displeased about something.—
But not knowing what the trouble was,
I could oot bo of any holp to Vim.
+ ■ '»a ■
A ixyro ia South Carolina, who was
complaining of tbe bard time*, deelarad
they were tho feardest ever known.
"Why," said ho, "I worka all, day and
steals all night, and yet I'm blest cf I
can make an honest living!"
Epistle of St. Bribe to the Bepubli
*'■' eons.►" * 1 *• '
THB I'AJUBLB OF TH* PRBTTY fQOT.
*
Js And it csmo to pas« io tho last
J ear of the reign of Ulysses the mm of
esse that these things did ooonr.
2. There was a valiant captain of the
tribe of Filknap who dwefleth in tho
regions of lowa, who was a mighty man
of valor.
3. Yea, verily, he did smell the battle
afar off, and longed to plunge into the
thickest of the carnage, bat was always
prevented from doing so whenever the
rebels appeared ia the field, by tome
doty at home.
4. Now Belknap was a man after
IT lyases' own heart, for was it not writ
ten that Ulysses sprang up like a mush
room in the night, like a mushroom
sprang he up.
6. For Ulyssos the ion of Jesse sold
bis cord wood, and filled himself full of
jugorum, and became a spectacle to the
people of St. Louis, who dwell beyond
the father of wators.
G. But when the blast of war blew in
his ears, then rose he up and sent forth
his valiant soldiers by millions who put
to flight the famished host of Jeff, the
F. V. V's, the Tar Heek, the Goabers,
the Butternuts, the Sand-Hitlers, lb*
Dagoes, and all th« that dwell sooth
Mason and Dixon's lines.
7. Then came forth Ulysses the son
of Jesse, from his tent, and the smoke
of the weed went forth from his nostrils,
and his aose was red with the fumes of
fire-water, and he said, let as have
peaoe.
8. Now the people of Yankeedocdle
dum rejoiced exceedingly, and pro
claimed Ulysses the son of Jesse, the
Qreat Higbcookalorm, to rule over the
land of Unole Samuel for the period of
four years.
9. And Ulysses went into the White
House and surrounded himself with all
manner of plunderers, who gave unto
him a portion of their spoils, whioh they
had taken away from the people of the
land of America.
10. And Ulysses tbo son of Jesso re
fused not the hones, and the houses,
and the lands, and the other good
things that were offered anto him by the
bribers and plunderers, save the bull
pup which was sent by express, C 0. D.,
which Ulysses would not take antil all
the charges were paid. Selah.
11. Moreover Babrooster, the scribe
of Ulysses the son of Jesse divided the
spoil of the crooked whisky with the
St. Loeis-ites, bat gave not unto Ulysses
a portion thereof, and Ulyssos waxed
wroth and bounoed Bab; yea, in bis
anger did be bounce him from beneath
the roof of tha White House.
12. And it oame to pass that Belknap
the mighty man uf valor, did take unto
himself a beautiful damsel in the land
of Kentuckee of the tribe cf Tomlinson;
but the Lord took her away, and he did
mourn exceedingly. ' r '
13. And it oame to pass that the sis
ter of the damsel, who was a widow with
an exoeedingly pretty foot, did cleave
unto the valiant oaptain, thai, sho might
comfort him; but the Lord waxed wroth
that so great a sin should be done before
the people of the nation, and great was
the punishment of Belknap.
14. For the Lord caused Ulysses tho
son of Jesse, to appoint Belknap his
cMef Scribe of War, whioh honor turned
the head of the spouse, who had the
pretty foot, and who was as poor as a
church mouse in the beginning.
15. But now she yearned for the
groeobax, where* ith she buy the
shoddy, the brown stone, the chariot,
the glittering braoelcts, and all the trash
that is so much sought after by the up
starts who do sojourn in the capital of
the nation.
16. Moreover she wanted to give big
dinners, sad would not be outdone by
Fuh nor the ftesh, nor tho fowl of any
entertainments that aboundeth in the
city where he who maketh the greatest
show is worshipped by those that partake
thereof.
19, But the pretty spouse, with the
pretty foot had not the greenbax where
with to purchase those things, and she
urged her husband, that ho might sell
the posttraderships to the frauds who
swindle the poor Indians out of their
lands and their lives.
18. And William did.
19. Whereupon be sank into the
M" rih of despair and the rejdioing of
the widow, with the pretty foot, is
tamed into lamentation. Ulysses the
sou of Jesse, hath bounced him, and all
the lunohers have eaten up all the green
bax that the post-traders yield; yea liks
a swarm of grasshoppers have they de
voured kll and flown like the wind.
20. But the people do clamor to have
tho matter investigated, and panish all
the persons who aro concerned in this
great loqiity; and it is written that they
■hall not escape; not even Ulysses, the
sob of Jesse, who taketh presents and
bribes, and driuketh the rum that ia in
the jug behind the White House door,
aad who smoketh the weed of the devil,
and who driveth chariots furiously with
the kali pap under underneath the dost
thereof.
21. So andeth the Epistle of St.
Babe.
"Why should we celebrate Washing
ton's bisthday wore than mino 1" asked
a teacher in Boetoa. "Because he never
told a lie!" shouted a little boy.
A little girl who was sent for some
indigo, forgetting the nam, ssked the
grocer : "Please, sir, what do people dye
with?" "Whatdo people die with V
exclaimed the grocer; "why, With the
cholera sometimes." "Then,* said tho
child, "mother wants twenty-fivo cents'
worth of cholera."
The Passenger Conductor.
A few days ago a freight conduotor
on one of.the Western railroads went to
the superintendent and said he thought
ha oaght to be advanced, having served
on the freight for several years. The
superintendent agreed with him, and
told him that the change should be
made the very next week. And it was
made. The superintendent a day or
two after took a seat in the rear end of
one of the ooaehes to see how the new
oonduotor would take to business, and
pretty soon the official danced into tho
door, cap on his ear, sleeves pushed up,
and a half acre smile on his face.
"Get out your paste-boards 1" he
shouted, "I'm the high munoky muck
that runs this train," and then turning
right and left, he continued:
"Right bowers this way—play lively
—pass or order up —how's trumps with
£au —slide you right into Chicago—
urry up, there —trump thiß ace—what
kind of hand do you hold, old man V
There wag something novel and exhil
arating in hia style, but yet the superin
tendent called the conduotor up stairs
the next day and told him that he was
the best man in America to run a freight
train, and that he should have to pro
mote him backwards. He was too tal
for • puaMger oonduotor.—De
troit Free Preu.
Something About the Management
of Bwine.
We oopy the following from the
Michigan Farmer , and oommend it to
the attention of our friends:
"I learn from your paper and other
souroes that there are a good many sows
losing their pigß this spring, either at
farrowing, or soon after. From what 1
can learn, I do not think wc have the
hog oholera in this State, and the trouble
probably arises from mismanagement.
Having met with some loses in this
way, and from sows eating their pigs, in
previous years, I am satisfied it general
ly arises from the following causes-: Feed
ing sows on oorn and corn meal; con
fining theui in olose pens; not having a
dry and shulterod place to sleep; allowing
them to get too fat, and from absence of
vegetable food.
Aoy of these reasons are a sufficient
cause for weak unhealthy pigs, as wo
have found to our oost from uxperieooe.
Owing to the low prioe of oorn many
farmers aro feeding on that almost ex
clusively.
For store bog* running out doors, or
for fattening, we oan feed nothing, per
haps, more profitable than coru and
meal, but it should not be fed to sows
just before or after farrowing.
I have known sows to stop giving
milk almost entirely in two weaks after
the pigs were born when fed on boiled
corn meal.
We havn never had bettor success
with litters of pigs thun this spring, and
havs fod as follows: During the early
part of the winter our sows were fed
corn in the ear, raw beets, and what
they could pick out of tho litter thrown
from the stables. For two months pre
vious to farrowing they have been fed on
boiled bran, middlings, poor wheat, rye,
oats, and a little corn gvouud together,
with raw beefs all the time, and re
ducing the richness and quantity of food
as farrowing time approaches. They
have the run of the yard, and sleep on
a straw bed, on a plank floor, under a
shed, sheltered from the wind
About a week before a sow is to far
row she is put in a pen by herself every
night, turned out daytimes, and the feed
reduced to boiled bran and wheat screen
ings, just onoagh to keep her quiet.
After farrowing, wo feed boiled bran
alone a few days, and then add ground
mixed grains, making the feed richer as
the pigs grow older, feeding all the sow
will eat. After the second day the sow
is turned out iu the afternoon an hour
for oxercise; ss the little pigs become
accustomed to her absence she is ielt
out longer.
We usually let the boar serve the
sow as soon as she farrows in the spring,
so that she may have another litter in
July or August. The little pigs then
get a good start before cold weather.
It is not generally known that the sow
will take the boar between the second
and fourth day after farrowing, but suoh
is the foot. She will not generally be
ia beat again till tb« pigs are weaned.
We aim to keep our aowa in good or
der, bat not fat. Whou too rat they
seqm stupid and not so oare-
or stepping on the young
pigs; neither are the pigi so strong.—
On the other hsnd, if the sow is hot in
good condition at the time of farrowing,
she will get ran down to skia and bones
before the piga are weaned.
It most be borne in mind that after
bocoming pregnant there is % greater
tendenoy to lay on fat, and the same
feed that will keep a sow in good order
at other times will make her so fat she will
hardly be able to walk if kept ap till she
farrows.— Southern Planter and Fanner.
The young man who was filled with
amotion had no room for his dianor.
Teacher—(addressing tho class in
etymology) —"Now, then, what is the
moaning of the word appetite f" Little
Boy—(after deep reflection) —"I know
what it means. When Fm eating I'm
'appy, and when I'm done I'm tight."
Foreigners do not appear to under
stand our people. That was particularly
tho case with an Englishman in a cross
town oar the otbor day, when a female
passenger, with a marketbaskot in her
lap, suddenly jumped up and shrieked,
"Oh, heavens and, plunging her bead
full tilt against his shirt-front, begged
him U "jab" his hand dewn her back
and "yank that bag eat."
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