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VOL V.
FRANK THORNTON
T . tJwii in sriertinst the rool people of Johnston county, and congratulates them upon
T"? nJcd BaSbtmd facilities. Hlth psmlossKte pride we announce that we hav the lar
,0 .!,,, kmcsl stock and the most perfectly arranged establish i ieiu in the entire State.
r" store. -e . . . , ... .
.cst LINF OF G-OOP5" contained umier any one tool, south of Mason & Dixon s line.
!"J - .7r fvS 1, 0 s,ow perfect lines in elegant Black Gras' Grain. Striped and Colored
J-V T 1 ur assortment is unsurpassed in beautiful black, colored, striped and mar
" ' T "V VFLVFT An Ujf handsome exhibit is made of Silk Velvets, strip-
f?"r v-- lutt Velvet's :lnd Brocaded Velvets, IX SI 1,14 PLI SHES arc seen all
,e" . ' TV F1"K nUESS fUMVDS. All the t,reiti.w " oiiH 4 ot-
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d a nee at tre ins-ne 01 our .iinninioiu 01 ore win convinte anyone that we carry
! j monc which are Striped Boncle, Assabet, ail wool suitings. 40 inches wide; Chieko,
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KrilliaBtimcs, Cashmere Tei'te. Travers.
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We .:, 0 bwlifal 'lipslayuf Felt Pall Edgings. Mohair Marabout Trimmings. Feathrs Mar
, It immincs. Beaded Gimps, all colors, entirely new; Picot Brai ls, Lacings Cords, Bea
. j pasBMMBtrie, stul aD the new designs, in Buttons in matee designs. IN BLACK GOODS
i- -s0rt. :ient is pel feet. A large and full line of Mourning goods, including sitk Wrap Hen
lirtta Crept Cloth, YeUurs Broehe. Black RJisdsires. etc. In Wraps we take pleasure in
directing vour attention to the most complete array ever shown in this part of the country, in-
hnlino-short wraps, in data and Brocade silks: Newmarkets in cloth and Brocade silk, all
kari'lsinelv trimmed in the newest designs; sea! Plush saciues. 40 inches long, satin lined a
bea'.itifullv wrap.
rv heavv and handsome stock is
Ch;ne4 Carpeting ia Hai l and stripes. Ingrains o-i lays. Tapestry, Tapestry Brussels, Body
Bnw-e's Broehe, Velvet. Axminster, stair Carpet in Ingrain and Brussels, Hemp, &c. In
A . .. rtment is perfect in all grades. We are the sole controlling agent in the city
- itl Ziesler Bros Fine shoes, and no one else can buy or sell them in this terri
tory There are no other Zieglers' make of shoes, but to get the gentiine enquire and look for
Ike oraad "Ziegler Bros. " Kvcrj pair is branded. We show these goods in every style and
fcsgM known to the aristie trade.
We use Our Best Endeavors
in Ac arrangement and extent of our stock to savo the Ladies trouble of going from one store
ether in order complete their memorandums, and we Hatter oursolves that we can, with
ble fill anv memorandum in the lrv Goods Line, hereby obviating to the purchaser
ranee. FOB THE BENEFIT OF OUR LADY TATRONS we have connected with
ear estabHskwenl haiulsomely furnished Parlor, and Toilet Boom, a feature in the Dry Goods
business n ; possessed y any other House in the city.
MAIL ORDERS, and orders fur samples solicited and promptly attended to.
FRANK THORNON
FAY ETTEYILLE, N. C.
BO W WLW 1 MM M
OPPOSITE OLD STAND,)
With the Largest Stock of
Staple and Fancy Groceries
P r ovisions, Etc.,
Ever offered to the purchasing public of
Johnston and surrounding counties.
As an evidence of our increasing bus
iness, wide-awako buyers are being con
vinced that merchant s who handle one line
of goods only and buy in large lots can
givtt bargains.
400 BARRELS FLOUR,
Fresh ground out of New Wheat, just received
at Wis.liamsox x 2,'lake's.
Price from ?1 to -5( per barrel.
2 Car Loads Salt,
Oarse and tine grand Alum and .Clown just
received at Wi ham-on & Blake's.
10 Boxes C. R. Sides,
Ju-t received at Williamson & Blake's.
50 Boxes Cakes and Crackers,
At Factory Prices just received at
iriLLiAMsox x Blake's.
25 Boxes Tobacco,
From 2-3 cents per pou id tip, just received at
Williamson A Blake's.
Car Load Bagging and Ties,
At redneea prices, just received at
Williamson Blake's.
20 Boxe Tax-bell's Clieese
The Finest on Earth.) and other grades just
received at Willi amson & Blake's.
25 CASES STAR LYE,
Just reseive l at Williamson ft Blake's.
23 CASKS HORSEFORDS BREAD
PR EPA RATH N just received at
Williams- vV Blake's.
Crockery, Wood and Willow Ware, Giasa
Ware. Limp Goods, Tin Ware and a
thousand other thiugs just re
ceived at Williamson & Blake's.
Thev have the goods and the lowest
prices, Conult your interest by giving them
call before buying elsewhere.
Very respectfully,
Williamson & Blake-
STOP AT THE
CUMBERLAND HOUSE,
Near the Depot,
FAYLTTEYLLLE, N. C.
D HBELL, Proprietor.
This is the largest house in the city, is lo
cated in a I eautiful grove, has recent improve
ments and is in the business part of the town.
iV'Kte attention and good tare.
A. E. Rnnkin. S. C. Rankin. A. II. Slocomh.
A. E. Rankin & Go.,
Wholesale Grocers and
DEALERS LN
Fertilizers, Old Hickory
WAGONS and CARTo.
Post-Offioe Building. Person Street,
FAYETTEYILLE, N. C
Beasisyl Houston
Kef p in .-tuck a nice line of
Clocks, Watches, -
4KB JE'.VELKY.
Repairiag done in the best possinle manner.
oouthSide, Hay St., near Market Plaice,
FAYETTEYILLE, N. C
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Fancies. Serges. Colored Faille, Colored Rhada-
shown embracing every available Novelty in
We wish to direct the attection of the
public to our large and well selected stock
of goods now in s:ore. We carry the
largest stock of Hardwarcin the country5
and can and will sll hardware cheaper
than can be sold by any genera dealer.
If you want stoves and tin ware,
if you want crockery and glass ware,
If you want wood and willow ware,
If you want builder s hardware,
It you want to build or repair a wagon,
If you want to build or repair a buggy,
tf you want saddles, bridles and harness,
It you want to paint your house,
If you want to dry or preserve your fruit,
If you want to cut your wheat, grass ataJ
oats.
If you want sash doors and blinds,
If you want to run a cotton ginor saw
mill
If you want files, oil. lace leather and
If you want guns and ammunition, belts
If you want pocket and table cutlery,
If you want thebes: razor in the wor
If you want to fencu you farm,
If you want to shoe your horse,
If you want the best plows and cultivators,
If you want the best hoes, rakes and forks,
If you want the best iron and wood pumps
If you want fly traps and fly fans,
If you want to rest whed you are tired
If you want to be rich and happy,
Buy your goods of
E. J.& r. S. HOI T
33-l.y. Smithfield, N. C.
W. L. Edwards,
SECOND STREET,
Smithfield, X. C,
Is Heedquarters for Fresh Norfolk Oysters.
Served up in any style and at all hours.
NOTICE!
By viriure of the authority contained in a
mortgage deed executed to J, TF Temple on
the 9th. day of June, 180, by C. J. Temple
and vrife, and transferred to Zanders & Mas
sengill on the loth di.y of November, 1886,
and duly registered in the Register's office of
Johnston county, in look "Y," No. 4, pages
-571 and 572. we shall sell at y-ublic auction for
cash at the court house door in the town of
Smithfield, on he 18th day December, 1886,
a certain tract of land in Ingrains Township,
Jolt a at oa county, koo"vn as the Nicholas Stan
ley land, containing 18 acress and fully de
scribed in said mortgage. This 18th day of
November. 1886.
KAN DEBS & MASi-ENGILL, Mortagees.
s ft. a.i
Carriase M;aniifa,ctu.iers
AND
UNDEE' TAKER
VEHICLES at Rock Bottom
Prices.
Dealers in Celumbus anc Cincinnati Bug
gies, Buggy and Wagon Harness, Saddles,
Bridals, etc, kept in stock, very low for cash
Coffins and Burial Cases furuished on saort
your mteret S and give them a call
and examine their Stock before purchasing
anywhere Satisfaction jruaranteed.
E- AV POU Sr. P- T MASSEY
pOTJ & JJASSEY,
Attorney s-at-Law and Real Estate
Agents,
SMHITE ELD, N. C.
If you wish to buy land or to sell land, per
h ips vre can aid you.
We can negotiate 'oans, for long or short
term3 on real estate i i Johnston county
Persons wishing to lend money or to borrow
money on mortgage of land may find it to their
nterestto call on us
HUL
SMITHFIELD, N.
' WHAT, TOES, IS RELIGION?'
Is it go te church to-day,
To look devout and seem to pray,
And ere to morrow's sun goes down
Be dealing slander through the town ?
Does every sanctimonious face
Denote the certain reign of grace ?
Does not a phii that scowls at sin
Oft" veil hypocrisy within?
Is it for sect and creed to tight,
To call our seal the rule of right,
When what we wish is at the best,
To see our church excel the rest?
Is it to wear the Christian dress.
And love to all mankind profess,
To treat with scorn the humble poor,
And bar against them every door ?
O, no ! religion means not this:
Its fruit more if ir and sweeter is
Its precept this: to others do
As you would have them do to you.
It grieves to hear an ill report.
And scorns with human woes to sport;
Of others' deeds it speaks no ill,
But tells of good, or else keep still.
And does religion this impart ?
Then may its influence fill my heart.
O haste the blissful, joyful day,
When all the earth may own its sway.
Bishop Heber
THE FLIGHT OF THE SWAL
LOWS Swiftly the September days glide away
out of the future, across the sharply drawn
line of the present, into the misty, fathom
less recesses of the past. And as the days
fall, one by one, the dingy, yellow grass
grows dingier and yellower still; the brown
ish green leaves grow browner, and off in
the mountains where the frost stragglers
creep down under cover of the dark nights
far ahead of the main army of cold the
leaves already are going down to their
death right gallantly, wrapped in shinning
grave clethes of scarlet and crimson and
gold. The chrysanthemums, the sweetest
flowers of all the year, bloom out bravely ;
but their glory is short lived, and in a lit
tle while they too will return to the earth
from whence they came. The winter draws
on apace, and the swallows, birds of sun
shine, wing their way Southward from out
the chilly, sombre regions of the North.
While yet the twittering of the depart
ing swallows floats easthward from the
still regions of the upper air, the chatter of
reawakening social life resounds blithely
through the city streets, and the world, as
it calls itself, prepares for the mingled labor
and merriment of the winter campaign.
Driven in by the advance guard of winter
from its summer resting place amidst the
mountain fastuesses or by the sluggish,
slumbrous, yet ever unquiet sea, society
returns to its accustomed haunts. Wood
en shutters peel off" from the doors and
windows of the houses wherein eminent
respecability resides. Dirty water trickles
carelessly a down eminent respectability's
front steps as the accumulated dust and
grime deposited by summer winds is wash
ed away. The household gods of eminent
respectability emerge from out the swa
things of brown holland in which they have
done penance the summer long for the fol
lies of the previous winter's gay festivity.
The grocer's wagon arrives, laden as though
for the relief of a social Nicsics. The ba
ker is notified that French rolls once mere
will be in demand, the butcher that joints
again are needful, and the butter man and
the market man are ordered to hold them
selves in readiness to fill their several or
ders as has been their custom in time past
Then, in the dusk of a late September
evening, eminent respectability drives up
to its own front door -dusty and weary
with its long days ride by rail, but emin
ently respectable through it all-and enters
in upon its kingdom. The dull stillnes of
the summer is at an end. The chari is
snapt. There comes a noise of striking
clocks, of feet that run and doors that clap.
The long pent stream of life is free once
more. Eminent respectability touches the
lever with its delicately gloved hand and
the great social machine begins again to
move. Sluggish, at first is the motion.
There is much friction, the result of dis
use, to be overcome. The parts have wraped
a little while separated. Living close to
nature even to the poor, sickly nature all
bedraesled with human adornments that
is found at the average watering place it
is impossible for society people, though
seasoned and tried, not to rise to some sort
of vague appreciation of the sad difference
between the true, natural life, of which
they only catch glimpses, and the false,
artificial life which is theirs by birth and
by education. Before they can lapse into
the routine of city ways; before they can
assume onee more the burden of their so
cial duties, they must forget somewhat ef
the wholesome lesson that the summer has
taught. To do them justice, they forget
more rapidly than they learn. Heredity
and environment are potent forces, and
when they pull together may not easily be
resisted. In a little while the wanderers
returned from Nature's bosom forget the
teachings of their gentle mother and in
sensibly recur to their own devices and
devious social ways. September vanishes
into nothiagness; the twittering of the swal
lows resound no more in the air. With the
first staid dinner parties of early October,
seemly feasts to which we bid the most
dangerous of our social foes, the discords
brought by su aimer are disipated and the
great social machine settles down into the
rythm of its steady, regular pulsations,
which will last the winter along.
WE LIHETO II r. RUINED
THAT WAI.
The public debt has been decreased a
little over three millions during the month
of November.
Mr. Blaine never fails to make the point
that the country, under Democratic rule,
is going to ruin at a speed in comparison
with which that of a lightning express
train is a mere tortoise pace.
Well, if paying off the debt and boom
ing business is Mr. Blaine's idea of ruin,
the people, like Oliver Twist, will hold
out their plates and ask for more. We
like nothing so much as bein ruined in
just that way. N. Y. Herald,
C, JOHNSTON COUNTY, DECEMBER
I THE J. M- WHITE DISASTER.
Sixty Lives Lost Powder Fin
ishes the Work Commenced
by Fire.
Sixty lives are said to have ben lost by
the burning of the Mississippi ner steam
er J. M. White. Below is a condensed
report ;
When the alarm was given Mr. Mc
Vay, head clerk of the boat, turned his at
tention to saving cabin passengers, of
whom there were about fifteen or eigh
teen, including eight ladies. He first
awoke Secend Clerk John Callahan, who
came out of his room in his undershirt
and trousers, and the two went to each
room and awoke the inmates.
The terrified passengers quickly got out,
nearly all of them in their night garments.
Among them was a gentleman, riame un
known, but recognized as the superinten
dent of the Vandalia Southern Railroad.
He had his wife and two children, girls of
nine and twelve years, with him. He
called them around him and bade them
follow him. By this time the flames had
reached the cabin, through which thick
smoke was rolling. The panic stricken
passengers quickly made for an entrance,
some to the stern and the others to the
bows.
The gentleman referred to was among
those that went to the stern. Upon
reaching the deck he grasped his two
children, one at a time, and threw them
into the river. Before he and his wife
could follow the flames had reached them,
and thev were burned to death. The two
pilots on watch, John Stout and Bob
Smith, were in the pilot house, and were
compelled to jump into the river, where
they were picked up. They had a nar
row escape trom death.
The fire burned so quickly that it was
impossible to see who were saved and who
were lost. The deck was crowded with
roustabouts and deck passengers, thirty of
the latter having got on the vessel at the
New Texas landing, just above where the
boat was burned. Nearly all these were
lost.
While the passengers and crew were es
caping from the boat the steampipe blew
up ana was hurled, with over twenty bales
of cotton, a hundred feet in the air. They
revolved over and over until they fell into
the river.
Immediately after the explosion shrieks
were heard coming from the stern of the
vessel. For an instant two colored women
were seen standing on the gallery just
back of the wheelhouse, and the next in
stant they were hidden from view by the
smoke and flames. The first part of the
boat to give way was the wheelhouse. It
fell into the water, and, a draft bring crea
ted, the flames swept through the centre
of the boat.
POWDER BLOWS TP TIIE BURNING WRECK.
Those who escaped were taken away
from the scene by the steamboat Stella
Wild, which plies between Bayou Sara and
Natchez. As the Wild was backing out
four kegs of gunpower that were in the
hold exploded, and cotton and burning
timbers were hurled in all directions.
This virtually put the fire out, and what
was once a palatial steamer was now a
blackened wreck. When the Wild
reached the river a loud cry for help came
from the middle ol the stream. A boat
was lowered and pulled in the direction of
the cry. Through the darkness the crew
saw the figure of a man grasping a bale
of cotton, but before they could reach it
the bale turred over, and when it was
righted the man had disappeared.
STATEMENT OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER.
William McGrevy, chief engineer ot the
boat J. M. White, gives the following ac
count of the disaster : " A.bout ten min
utes past ten o'clock Friday night, while
lauding at Dr: Ferrette's place, above the
postoffice landing at Point Coupe, at
which place the boat was loading cotton
seed, a fire broke out amidship, just aft of
the doctor, between the engines, on top
of the cotton and below the boiler deck.
Engineers Barry and Jenny, who were on
watch, gave the alarm and the pumps were
put to work, but without avail. The fire
spread rapidly, and in les than fifteen
minutes the boat had burned to the water's
edge. There were four kegs of powder in
the magazine, and the moment the fire
reached them the flames shot up about
one hundred feet. The sight was the
most heart-rending I ever witnessed. The
shrieking of women and children for help
was awful. I saw the superintendent of
the Vandalia Railroad, standing aft of the
ladies' cabin, throw his two little daughters
into the water. He stood there and burn
ed to death with his wife. There were in
the cabin nine lady passengers and about
eight men. At New Texas twenty deck
hands were taken on board, all of whom
are supposed to be lost. Andrew Pierce,
a sailor, and Antonio Rebatta, a fireman,
are the ones to whom the credit of saving
the survivors is due."
SOU IV D DEDIOCBATICDOC
TRINE. It is no idle talk of disposing of the sur
plus so long as taxation remains the same.
The surplus must accumulate so long as
the taxes continue. Therefore the best way
to put a stop to the surplus and avoid an
otherwise inevitable panic which must re
sult from collecting so much money from
the people every ysar and hoarding it in
the treasury, is to stop collecting it. Let
it remain in the pockets of the people,
where it will surely circulate, instead of
piling it up in the government vaults where
it can't spread. Reduce the taxes. New
York Star.
THAT IS THE QUESTION.
The people have said "Let the taxes be
reduced." The President says "Let the
taxes be reduced J' Now what will Con
gress do t Wilmington Star,
CHRISTMAS-
Whatever difference of opinion there
may be as to the historical accuracy of the
ancient custom that has placed the bright
season of Christmas amid the snows and
frosts of winter, like an oasis in the desert,
there is very little dispute nowadays in re
gard to the propriety of a celebration of
the event which Christmas is meant to
commemorate. There was a time when a
part of the Christian world shut itself out
from the warmth of the day, and passed it
by with pretended indifference. But it
was too good a day to belong to one coun
try or to one religious jurisdiction, and so
all the Chvistian world has come to claim
a share in it. Aud, indeed, whether we
be Christians or not, the kindly festival
appeals to us with a force which we can
not resist. Round it center so many bright
and tender memories, so many beautiful as
sociations, so much that has softened and
enobled all our lives, that no matter how
far we may wander from its true spirit and
teachings during the rest of the year,
Christmas finds us once more following
the Star of Bethlehem and bowing, all un
consciously, perhaps, before the royal man
ger. For that first Christmas hymn, of
"Peace op earth, good will towards men,"
was for all the centuries and all mankind,
and though its notes are too often drowned
in the strifes and dissensions ot every-day
life, thev are heard clearly at Christmas
time, and find an echo in millions of hu
man hearts. 9
But though Christmas belongs to old
and voung alike, it is especially the day
which belongs to children, and in the gifts
which we bring them we pay homage
through their purity and innocence to that
Child who has made all childhood in some
sort divine. And while remembering our
own children, let us not forget those that
have been born in the lowly places of this
world, in whose poor homes there is little
that accords with the generoas gladness of
the season. The star that rose in the
East nearly nineteen hundred years ago is
still shining over the abodes of the humble
with all its ancient brightness, and we
should throw them wide open that their
kindness and want may be dispelled, and
that its soft Christmas radiance may shine
upon poverty as well as wealth. Let us
hope that all our readers who can do so
will make some noor home bright and
happy today, by throwing wide open the
door of the heart, and letting some rf the
golden sun light of charity creep out, and
warm and cheer up those upon whom the
snows of misfortune's winter are now fall
ing so fast and so furiously. Let us re
solve that we will make one person happy
this blessed day, and print upon some
countenance the lovely type of that blessed
goodness which Christ taught in his min
istery on earth. And commencing on this
hallowed day of cheer and good will to all
mankind let us all resolve that each fol
lwing day shall be a beautiful repetition
of this blessed anniversary, and that we
will live nearer to Him by doing some act
of kindness and goodness for those less for
tunate than ourselves. Let us go not on
ly to diy but each day to some one who is
depressed and heart sick, and weary with
trials and burdens, and if we cannot en
tirely relieve let us lend a helping hand and
whisper a Word of encouragement: let us
throw a gleam of sunshine o'er the wintry
waste of their icy pathway; let us scatter
some flowers of hope amid the scorching
sands of their dry Sahara of disappoint
ment; let us make them feel that there are
hearts which vibrate at their touch of sor
row and sufferiner, and that streams of
sympathy are flowing for their healing.
Let us do some good each day, and when
we descend the hill of time, and pass un
der the heary tree of old age we will hear
amid its leafless branches the tuneful birds
of happiest memories singing their sweet
est Aongs to deaden the roar of the river of
death, and all of our acts of kindness to
each other will rise up and glisten upon
the vision as beautifully as those flower
decked ilses which sleep upon the bosom
of the ocean as they lie hugged in the em
brace of rippling billows, and kissed by
the glimmer of falling moon beams.
With these reflections then, we wish all
of our readers a happy and merry Christ
mas, and trust they may enjoy this glorious
anniversary with high and rapt delight.
Sermons out of books, ornate, elegant and
profound; music, grand, beautiful, joyful;
Te Deuma and jubilates by the thousand
may be heard bu& what sermon, for elo
quence and force, can equal the silent
teaching that the listener's home can fur
nish or what music can rival the universal
paslm of homely, honest and sincere grati
tude that wells up from the great hear-; of
humanity this day. Wilson Mirror.
TOUR HOME PAPER.
One of our Western exchanges put's in
this plea for the home paper. It says:
Friends, when you are about to discontinue
your subscription and patronage to your
home paper in order that you may sub
scribe for some more extensive and better
patronized foreign paper, have you ever
thought that it is the home paper that is
really'the source of most profit and pleas
ure to you ? Your home papers is the only
one that is directly identified with the in
terests of your home and the neighborhood
in which you live. Have you ever read
in the columns of any foreign newspaper
anything that so thrilled your heart with
joy and pride as did the item relating to
your success and prosperity or the advance
ment of your son or daughter, or the ten
der tribute paid to some departed friend
all of which you have clipped from the col
umns of your local newspaper, and have
laid away as sweet mementoes, to be read
and re-read, each time with greater inter
est ? Your home paper is directly con
cerned in your welfare and the welfare of
your neighbors. No other paper will so
willingly speak the word of encouragement,
or of warning to your sons or daughters.
No other paper can feel the pride and in
terest in the noble achievements ot your
25, 1886.
self and neighbors, that your home paper
manifests. No foreign paper, no matter
how ably edited it may be, can posibly
have claims upon you until you have first
du charged the duty you owe to your home
paper. To its prosperity you can contri
bute by words of encouragement and gen
erous patronage. No one thing can do so
much toward the general welfare of a town
or community as can your local newspaper.
Then ought not business men and citizens
generally feel a deep interest in the wel
fare of their home paper and contribute
generously to its support.
A REMARKABLE OPERATION.
Part of a Colored Man's Back
bone Removed and He
Recovers-
A Cincinnati! special says: One of the
rarest and most dangerous operations in the
scope of surgery has been lately performed
at the Cincinnati hospital. It consisted in
removing about three inches of the back
bone and exposing the spinal cord. The
patient was a young colored man about
twenty-one years old. When first admit
ted to the hospital he was suffering from a
terrible disease which had broken out over
the head, neck, and back in the form of
large abscesses, the chief one of which was
about the middle of the back, and had eat
en away the backbone to considerable ex
tent. The peor fellow could not lie in a
recumbent position nor on his side, in con
sequence of the extreme pain attending such
a position, and was compelled to he all
the while on his face. Slowly he had lost
the power of motion and of sensation in his
legs, so that he was completely paralyzed
from the body down.
It was decided that his only chance of
life lay in an operation for the removal of
a part of the backbone, so as to stop the
process of deeay. He was then turned on
his face and the surgeon made an incision
down the spine. A large quantity of pus
was relieved, and the cavity was sponged
out carefully in order to see just where the
knife was going. In this region, where
one slip of the knife or one false move
would have been fatal to the patient, the
surgeon with a chisel and hammer went
down on the bone until he cut out all that
which was in any way affected, never touch
ing the spinal chord. All causes of sup
puration and paralysis were removed, and
the surgeon felt assured power would re
turn to the paralyzed legs, and that time
would accomplish the healing up of the
place where the bone had formerly been.
The patient recovered from the ether, and
was placed in bed on his face.
In three days motion returned to the
legs, and he was able to move his feet for
the first time in nearly a year. About the
same time sensation began to return in the
limbs. In about three weeks he could
bear some weight on his legs, and at the
same time he assumed the position on his
breast and kees whichie has kept ever
since. He at length became strong enough
to stand with assistance and take a step or
two. He is now able to walk te the end
of the ward, and sit down in a chair with
comfort. Of course his back is yet weak,
and probably never will regain its former
power; but he will be a useful man. The
wound has gradually closed up, leaving on
ly a slight scar, and causes him little or no
pain.
BE WHAT YOU CAN BE.
Boys, be whatever you attempt to be,
and be it all over. Make a full hand at
whatever you tackle. Strike something of
yuor size something that you can make a
success of.
One great trouble with some people is
they attempt to fly too high, and their in
telligent wings not being strong enough
to bear them up they suddenly collapse
with such force as to break them all up.
It is better to venture a little cautiously at
first, but all the time keep venturing a lit
tle further up in the pursuit of high en
tertainments. But be careful to always keep within
the limits of safety. Don't attempt to much.
Great attempts do not count anything for
us except they result in success, and be
sides every failure to a great degree destroys
our self-confidence.
There are thousands of men now try
ing to eke out a miserable existence in the
various professions, who would find it bet
ter for their own good to tackle something
a little lower in the scale of duties some
thing that requires more muscle and con
sequently brings more of a recompense.
Braine work is goo d, and to it the world
is indebted for many of its great advance
ments. But brains will not keep the world
moving. Brains alone will not build ma
chinery. Brains alone will not construct
bridges, erect foundries. Brain may plan
but it is muscle that must do the work.
The world is full of people who are try
ing to live by their wits, and while a few
make a grand success, there are plenty ol
them who live, it is true, but who merely
live and nothing more. Exeept one is
possessed of very extraord'nary ability, he
had better rely chiefly on muscle. While
the brain market may be full, there is al
ways room aud opportunity for a profitable
display of muscle.
Of course there must be men to fill the
professions, and of the boys now growing up
a certain proportion of them must become
professional men. It is not our object to
cry down the professions. But we would
merely impress it on the minds of the
outh that except one has extraordinary
abilities, he would succeed better in lite by
following a vocation wherein he is not so
entirely dependent on the public. A man
can raise just as good corn without friends
as with them, but when it comes to a pro
fessional life, if he has no friends he will
find it an up hill work indeed to attain
success, and he will find further that only
those who are possessed of strong nerve
and a disposition to push forward even un
der the most adverse circumstances are
able to come to the front at last.
NO. 29
MIRRORINQS.
Written by Henry Blonnt.the
Inspired Genius of the'
Wilson Mirror
When the dark clouds of malice, gather
over your pathway, and begin to pour
from their tuundering bosom of blackness
the furious rain of slander aud maledic
tion don't run away to fiud shelter from
the drenching torrents. Draw the invul
nerable coat of a blameless deportment
about you ; raise over your head the leak
less umbrella of open dealing, put on dig
nity, and the stormiest rain ot the rubber
of a quiet and manly vituperation will not
Wet your reputation or soil your charac
ter. We should forever bear in mind that
every hour in a man's life is a leaf in his
history, and everything done is done for
eternity, and from these pages, which we
are daily writiug, will come an everlasting
judgment. Let us therefore strive to
keep these pages pure and stainless, and as
free as possible from the ink-drops of sin,
folly and passion. Let prayer be the
thumb paper, and then the leaves will not
be so badly soiled, but that the compas
sionate tears of a loving Savior will wash
the blemish out.
Small, narrow, dwarfed, cramped up
hearts never forgive a wrong. They
nurse it and treasure it, and, Hyena like,
feed upon the festering ghouls of the dead
and unpleasant past. Its memory is a
sweet and luscious morsel to their enven
omed tastes and thev like to stick the
fangs of bitterness in it, and cat lustily
upon it. But not so with big hearts,
with noble impulses and Christ-like at
tributes. In them no weeds of resent
ment grow, no briars of acrimony are felt.
Precious flowers of the aWeetest impulses
bud and blossom there, and under their
delightful fragrance all sickening odors of
past wrongs find the sweetest death.
When cares oppress and sorrows deepen,
and life is lashed with stormy strife, it is
sweet and comforting, yea it is blissful to
know that some where in tie far away
realms of God there is an harbor, where
tempest driven mariners, long tossed by
wind and wave of earthly care and trouble,
can pilot their weather beaten vessel into
quiet water, and there under the blessed
and everlasting "peaee be still which
soothed the chafing billows of the storm
lashed Gaililean sea they can drop their
anchors into the unruffled deeps of ever
lasting peace, and find unbroken rest in
tha fadeless sunlight of immortality. God
be praised for the storms of life, for they
make, by the contrast, the rest which ia
coming more sweetful and more beautiful.
All will be well. Even though the
clouds of misfortune should throw a
gloom over the very sunlight of existence
and flood it with shadows both dark and
rayless. Even though your friend, whom
yon have loved and trusted as your nearest
and dearest brother, and around whoni
you entwiued the precious garlands of af
fectiouale worship, should turn away
from jou in the hour of your bitterest
trial and suspense, and leave you stranded
upon the shoals with wild rushing billows
all around you, even then look up, and
remember that the darkest night hath its
glittering stars of trembling light, that the
stormiest sea hath its rdessed calm, and,
sweeter still, remember there is ONE who
sticketh closer than a brother, and who
will never desert you.
The greatest exhibition of courage ever
yet witnessed is that made by the blushing
maiden, when she goes up to the altar in
the Heaven directed fulfillment of woman's
holiest mission. It is the grand turning
point of her life. Her home hallowed
with the dearest reminiscences of her joy
ous past ; the holy companionship of
mother and sisters ; the protecting care of
father and brother all must be surren
dered, must be left forever. The future
is unknowu to her, and full of a thousand
perils. But love is a golden shield, and
placing her hand within that of her chosen
one, she looks up bravely into his face and
pronounces her own magnificent apotheo
sis to heroism in this sublime utterance :
the past has been bright, happy and beau
tiful, but the future lean trust, will share
with you.
Death is not so terrible a thought after
all, for amid its shadows the buds of im
mortality begin to swell and burst into
glorious beauty, and the hearts, which
have been so long separated from loved
ones srone, begin to throb again with the
rapture of that re-union which is to be
forever beautiful and eternal. So we see
then that death is but the tunnel through
which all must pass to reach the immortal
Jif beyon.d To the Christian it is glory
lit from end to end with the rosy gleams
of celestial lamps, held by waiting angels.
But to the sinner, it in like a hole in the
night dark -and full of shadows, and
heavy with the fogs of doubt and dread
despair, for no cheering light of blissful
hope brightens the dismal gleom, or tints
the closing scene with those radiant gloam
ings which come trickling down in Auro
ral floods of endless brightness from off
the throne of God.
Why weep and grieve when loved ones
are taken from us by the hand of
death. If love sacrifices ail things to
bless the thing it loves why not rejoice
and be glad when the glorious chaniro is
made, and our loved ones are translated
into higher, brighter, sweeter, more beau
tiful existence in the home of the blest in
the land of the Leal. Why not shout at
the thought that they have laid down the
cross to pick up the crown, and dropped
the burden to enjoy the rest. Why not
rejoice to know that the day of work and
toil and fret and worry is over, and that
a blessed repose hath come, with that
sweet solace the saints enjoy in Heaven.
Such a thought as this should gem the
consecrated coronet of sorrow with the
most radiant jewcHof resignation, ami tint
the darkest night of separation with the
brightest stars of cheer and comfort.