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IT 18 NOT A MATTER OF OPINION TJIAT Jouriiai Advertisements I BUT AN Ascertained Certain Tlie Soul’s i'arciroil to tho Body. 86 -vvi; !iiu£t parfc forever, and, uithoiigh I lung hiivu beat njy wings and cricd to go, froiu your narrow iimitinu control, Forth iaito space, tho tri;c honjo of thy soul, Yet HOT/, yot now that hour is drawing near I par..^; reluclnnt, findinif you so ar. All juyd awair mo In tho realm of God. Must you, my comrado, molder in tho sod? I Was yqur captive, yet you were my slave; Your prl*«n«r, j-ot obedie:»ee jo^ gnr® To all my earnest wishes and commands. No'.v to the worm I leave those v/illing hands That toiled for me or held the books I read; Tho-se feet that trod v.-here’er I wisiuKi to tread; Thoise arms that clasped jny dear ones, and ■ \e breast On which one loved and loving heart found rest; ’ Thoae lips through which my prayers to God have rist-'n; Those eyes tliat were the windows to my prisoJi— From lii-'.-'e, all these. Death’s Angel bids'me sever. Dear Conn-ade Body, fare thee well forever., I go to my inheritance and go V« .th joy that only the freed soul can know, Vut in my_spirit v/anderiziiis I trust I may sometimes pause near your sacred dust. —Ellu V,'heeler Wilcox Weeil and Itoso. A littlo weed grow at the foot of a rose, And tiicY botii breathed the soft summer rir, But tho liitlo wood .sighed as ii looked at the rose, For the ro.se wns so tall and so fair. Au sunjbt tiie little weed tremblingly spoko And told oi '.ta love to the rose, But tlie roBC did not hear, for tiie language of weeds Is a language a weed only knows. Then fho little weed wept, washed the fair rose’s feet, Ajid the rose was refreshed for tho night. The si-aur.-i of tho morning birds opened her And s5ie lifted her head to the light, And tuiler she grew, and her green leaves Ujjread Avidu Till Lbey shut out the sunlight and air. Bo t;U; ]:ctlo weud Jit-d ut the foot of the roeo, Aiju ihc rose nov-.-r knew it wa« tiiQve. —Atlanta Constitution. ONK OF MRS. CAUDLE’S L£;CTURESr. Douglas Jerrold. ‘■I’m sure I don’t know who’d bo a poor v.’oman! I don’t know who’d tie themselves up to a, man, if they only knew half they'd have to bear. A wife must stay at home and be a drudge, while a man can go anywhere. It’s enough for a wife to sit like Cinderella , by tSie ashes while her husband can go drinking and singing at a tavern. You never sing? How do I know you never sing? It’s very well for you to say so, but if I could hear you I dare say you’re among the worst of ’em. “And now, I suppose, it will bo the tavern every night? If you think I’m going to sit up for you, Mr. Caudle, you’re very much mistaken. No, and I’m not going to get out of my warm bed to let you in either. No, nor Susan Bha’n’t sit up for you. No, nor you shan’t have a latchkey. I’m not going to sleep with the door upon the latch to be murdered before the morning. “Faugh! Pah! Whewgh! That filthy tobacco smoke! It’s enough to kill any decent woman. You know I hate to bacco, and yet you will do it. You don’t smoke yourself ? What of that ? If you go among people who do smoke, you’re just as bad or worse. Y’ou might as well smoke—indeed, better— smoke yourself than com'c home with other people’s smoke all in your hair and whiskers. “I never knew any good come to a m^n who went to a tavein. Nice com panions he picks up there! Yes; people w'ho make it a boast to treat their wives like s slaves and ruin their families. There’s ihat wretch Harry Pretty man. See what he’s come to? Ho doesn’t now got home till 2 in tho morning, and then in what a state! Ho begins quar reling Vi’ith tho doormat, that his poor wife may be afraid to speak to him. A mean wretch! But don’t you think I’ll be like Mrs. Prettyman. No; I wouldn’t put up with it from the best man that ever trod. You’ll not make me afraid to speak to you, however you may swear at the doormat. No, Mr. Caudle, that you won’t. “You don’t intend to stay qut till 2 in the morning ? How do you know what you’ll do when you get among such people? Men can't answer for themselves vvlien they get to boozing one with anotlier.' T(iey never think of their poor wives, wlio are grieving and wearing themselves out at home. A nice headache you’ll have tomorrow moruing, or rather this morning, for it must be past 12. You won’t have a headache? It’s very well for you to say 80, but I know you will, and then you may nurse yourself for me. Ha! That filthy tobacco again! No; I shall not go to sleep hke a good goul, How’s peo ple to go to sleep when they’re suffo cated? “Yos, Mr, Caudle, you’ll be nice and ili in iho’ morning! But don’t you think I’m giving to let you have your breakfast in bed, like Mrs. Prettyman. I’ll not be such a fool. No, nor I won’t have discredit brought upon the house by sending for soda water early, for all the neighborhood to say, ‘Caudle was drunk last night.’ . No; I’ve some regard for the dear children, if you haven’t. No, nor you shan’t have broth for dinner. Not a neck qt fftut- tan crosses my threshold, I can tell you. “You won’t want soda and you won’t want broth ? All the better. You wouldn’t get ’em if you d'.d, I can as sure you. Dear, dear, dear! That (llthy tobacco! I’m sure it s enough to make mo as bad as you are. Talking about getting divorccd. I’m sure tobacco ought to be good grounds. How little does a woman think when she marries that she gives herself up to be poisoned ? You men contrive to have it all of your own side, you do. Now, if I was to go and loayo you and the children, a pretty noise there’d be! You, however, can go and smoke no end of pipes aiid—you didn’t smoke? It’s all the same, Mr. Caudle, if you go among smoking peo ple. Folks are knov.-n by their com pany. Y'ou’d better smoke yourself than bring home the pipes of all the world. “Yes, I see how it will be. Now A WEEKLY PAPER THAT REACHES THE HOMES WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS. Vol. 1. No. 2. you’ve once gone to a tavern you’ll al ways be going. You’ll becoming home tipsy every night, and tumbling down and breaking your leg, and putting out your shoulder, and bringing all sorts of disgrace and expense upon us. And then you’ll be getting into a street fight —oh! I know your temper too well to doubt it, Mr. Caudle—and be knocking down some of the police. And'then I know what will follow. It must follow. Yes, you’ll be sent for a month or six weeks to the treadmill. Pretty thing that for a respectable tradesman, Mr. Cuudle, to be put upon the treadmill with all sorts of thieves and robbers, and—there again that horrible tobacco —and riff-raff of every kind. I should like to know how your children are to hold up their heads after their father has been upon the treadmill! No, I won’t go to sleep. And I’m not talk ing of what’s impossible. I know it will all happen—every bit of it. If it wasn’t for the dear children, you might be ruined and I wouldn’t so much as speak about it, but—oh, dear, dear, at least you might go wliere they smoke good tobacco—but I can’t forget that I am their mother. At least they shall have one parent. “Taverns ! Never did a man go to a tavern who didn’t die a beggar. And how your pot companions will laugh at you when they see your name in The Gazette ! For it must happen. Your business is sure to fall off, for what re spectable people v^ill buy toys for their children of a druhkard ? You’re not a drunkard ! No, but you will be—it’s all the same. “You’ye begun by staying out till midnight. By and by ’twill be all night. But don’t you think, Mr. Caudle, you shall over have a key. I know you. Yes, you do exactly like that Pretty man, and what did he do only last Wednesday ? Why, he let himself in about 4 in the morning and brought home with him liis pot companion. Puffy. His dear wife woke at r> and saw Prettyman’s dirty boots and her bedside. And where was the wretch, her husband ? Why he was drinking down stairs—swilling. Yes, worse than a midnight robber, he’d taken the keys out of his dear wife’s pockets— ha ! what that poor creatuie has to bear—and had got at tne brandy. A pretty thing for a wife to wake at 6 in the morning and instead of her hus band to see hia dirty boots 1 “You’ll be ruined, but if I can help it—you shall ruin nobody but yourself. “Oh, that hor-hor-hor-i-ble tobacco!” To this lecture Caudle affixes no com ment—a certain proof, we think, that the man had nothing to say for him self. Starvation Ju K.londiko. San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 29.—The Call has received, via steamer City of Seattle, a letter from its correspondent, Sam Wall, who succeeded in reaching Dawson City, on September 25th, after a perilous trip, in a small boat from Fort Yukon. He was the first to give the news to the people of Dawson City of the failure of the relief ships to get up the river. The gold seekers, he says, are confronted with famine, and there will undoubtedly be intense suffer ing during the winter months. The Dominion police have announced their intention of seizing all superfluous stores and especially those belonging to gam- bleis and the disreptuable element, and dividing them pro-rata among the fam ishing citizens. Everything possible will be done to alleviate the distress. How Mucli 7 The Chatham Record asks; “How much ‘relief’ has been given the taxpayers of North Carolina by the so-called ‘reformers ?’ “How many useless officers have been abolished? “How many fees and salaries of offi cers have been reduced? “How much have they reduced the public expenses? “How much have they reduced taxes?” Let every voter take these questions and answer them according to his own knowledge and belief. ]Sorth Carolijuv’s Railways. Tuesday last the map of North Caro lina railways tor 1897 was issued by the railroad commission. It shows that there now railway lines in all the coun ties of the State save eight. There are fourteen routes of the Atlantic Coast Line system, fifteen of the Southern, twelve of the Seaboard and thirty mis- pellaneous—total seventy-one. The to tal mileage is, 3,436. Of one line, the Danville and Western, only three-quar ters of a mile is in this State. The longest road is the Cape Fear and Yad kin Valley, 331} miles; the next long est, the Carolina Central, 265J miles. IIar<l oj» Judg;e Kobinsoii. Elizabeth City Economist. We have never taken any stock in Judge Kobinson. We knew him when he was district attorney of the Federal court here, and then we formed a very hard opinion of him. When ho was not drunk he was disgusting, disgusting in tho court, disgusting at the hotel ta ble and disgusting in the presence of the grand jury of Pasquotank county. Sam Josies on our Legislature. ‘•The last legislature in North Caro lina was a lousy set. I’ll bet there wasn’t a man in your legislature, who could go home and borrow $10.00, with out security. Think of such little de vils as that making laws for decent peo ple!”—Sam Jones in bis lecture in Lau- i-inburg. The minority of the anti-Butlcr Pop ulists who voted for Pritchard tor the United States Senate are very angry because of the adoption by the Farmers’ Alliance of resolution indorsing Senator Butler’s course and denouncing the minority as traitors. They assert that Butler wrote these resolutions himself and forced their passage. ELKIN, N. O., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1897. WE WA.1^T 10001 NEW i SUBSCRIBERS -BY- 1393, and in order to g'et them -we will’send THE JOURNAL— One Year for 50 Cents. Six Months for 3 5 Cents. Casli Most; Aceompaiiy the Order. Copy or cut out the following and send to us at once: The Journal, Elkin, N. C: Enclosed find 5o cents or 2 5 cents,'for which send The JouriVAL 12 or 6 months to Date. P. O. Your Name. JJILL AHP’S I.ETTEB. “Hark, havk, the dogs do bark; The burglars have come to town.” For fifteen years this has been an orderly, peaceable and honest town. Ever since the saloons were abolished there has been no disturbance of the public traquillity. During all that time our doors have not been locked at night nor has our chicken roost been robbed by the fowl invader. The presence of our faithful dog may have been our protection, for there have been some few chickens stolen in these parts. Our neighbor, Charley Patterson, suffered some in that way until he bought the old gallows on which a man was hung a few years ago and built a chicken house of the timber. Since then he can barely get a darkey to put chickens in it by day, much less to take them out by night. But our negroes in and around Cartereville are a clever, indus trious people and as honest as mankind are generally. The domestic servants will take some liberties with little things that they think we won’t miss, but they have many good traits that are a set-off, and so we compromise on general prin ciples. But now the burglars have come to tow'n and alarmed the whole community. I believe they come from up north where every bad thing comes from, even to bad weather. The other day a tramp came to our house and asked for some thing to eat. He was fairly good look ing and well dressed. My wife got him a lunch and asked him where his home was, and where he was going. He smiled and said he had no home and was raised in a_n orphan asylum up north and was going to Atlanta in search of work. “How do you travel,” said she, “if you have no money?” “Well,I ride on the freights until they put me off,” he said, “and then I wait for another one sind ride some more, I am just taking a little trip now to see the country.” There were two of these follows in town and they took the rounds asking for something to eat and always got it. My opinion is that they are profes sional thieves and their purpose in calling at so many houses is to prospect the prethises. Tho night after they were at our house burglars entered four houses and stole money. They took $90 from under a sleeping man’s pillow and smaller sums from the pockets of other men. A few nights after they entered three houses and took a fine gold watch from under a banker’s pillow and the next night a watch and some money at another place. They take no clothing nor anything to eat. They are white folks, I tell you, and are experts in their business. Well, of course, tho whole community is aroused, and especially the woman. My wife is not a timid woman. She is more afraid of snakes than of men, but she, too, got alarmed and made me get the hammer and tho screwdriver and some bolts and nails and fix up every door and window. She held the lamp and watched me all round from room to room, and I mashed a great blood blister on my finger and it hurts yet. When all was done to her satisfaction and wo got ready to retire, she suddenly told me not to lock the back hall door, for Uncle Siim had to come in there in the morning to make a fire. Considerate woman! She knew that I didn’t like to get up out of a warm bed to unlock the door. Bet they don’t get any watch from under my pillow, for 1 haven’t got any. Forty years ago they got nine just that way in old Dr. 'Thompson’s hotel in Atlanta, and I have never carriad one since. They got my pocket book, too, and a little money and some valuable papers. They were from up north and were very clever men, con sidering, for in about a week they sent me all my papers back through the mail and the letter was postmarked Philadel phia. They will give a man back everything they can’t use. Bill Fort told me that they were a kind hearted set of thieves and he had known them to lean over and kiss a sleeping ra»n after they had robbed him. No, it is white folks who are stealing these valuable things. Negroes havent got above chickens and turkeys yet. I heard the other day of an old darkey who prayed every night during Christ mas for tho Lord to send a turkey to him, but the turkey dident come, and so he changjd his prayer and asked the Lord to send him to a turkey and his prayer was answered that very night. A negro don’t hanker »fter gold watches. He wants something to eat. But now I want to know what is all this racket about tha^^they call oo-edu- catlan. I thought i. was just another fad and would soon pass away, bigger the more they talk about it. One would think that there were no female colleges in the land and that the education when the truth is there are more educational facilities for girls in this state than for boys. I dont know what it all means. Do the girls want to mix with the boys and icoprove them and be inspired by them? Then why should not the boys claim a similar privilege and go to the female colleges and to the girls’ indus trial school at Milledgeville? If we are going to bunch, let us bunch the whole concern and include the agricultural attachments and let the girls do some plowing if they want to. But I reckon it is just the‘new woman who is con tending for the abstract right to go to the university. Of course they won’t go, for their fathers von’t let them as long as the female colleges are open at Macon and Athens and LaGrange and Decatur and Eome and other places. Tnere is plenty of education for them there without the co-. The best moth ers, I know, never got higher than a high school and the best co-education is for the girls to get married young and go to raising children and chickens. If they do that diligently, they will learn enough in a life time and be as happy as their college bred daughters. I’ve never been entirely satisfied that such abstruse sciences as chemistry, astron omy, trigonometry, fluxions, calculus, Greek, rhetoric and logic were of any use to the average boy, much less to the girls. I went to college and my wife didn’t and I have to take a back seat now sometimes. I married her when she was only sixteen, but if she had spent four years in college she would have been so smart she wouldn’t have had me, and I reckon I wouldn’t have had her, for no prudent young man will marry a girl who is smarter than he is —it is dangerous. Pi^jk out your girl and take her young aid co-educate her yourself. Bill Akp. Nineteen Prisoners Try to Kill the Slierill Beeause tliey Wanted More Footl. Princeton, Ind., Nov. 2G.—Nineteen prisoners confined in the Gibson countv jail to-day declared themselves in open revolt against Sheriff Murphy. For several days threats have been made by the prisoners and the Sheriff has been warned. This morning the men declared they would have more food or kill the Sheriff. A posse of deputies was placed outside the jail while Sheriff Murphy entered tli£ building alone. As soon as he closed the door tho prisoners, headed by John Boger, a notorious criminal, rush ed upon him and were about to carry out their throals when the posse rescued the Sheriff. A fierce fight ensued between Boger and Murphy and Boger wj^s beaten al most into insensibility and then thrown into a coll. When the prisoners saw their leaders worsted they were sup pressed without further trouble. Boger says he will kill Murphy. The Enquirer says Mr. W. E. L. Williams, of Union, has been farming on the intensive plan this year. On an acre of laud he cut a fine crop of hay in the spring and after the hay crop was off he planted the land in corn and made 500 bundles of fodder and 60 bushels of corn on it. KEV. SAM JONES WRITES OF POLI TICS AND POLITICIANS. Have the politicians of Georgia dis covered at last that there is possibly a limit beyond which they cannot go in tho process of filching from and gouging the tax-payors of Georgia ? Let the col lection of the $400,000 additional school fund bo indefinitely postponed, is the cry. What will the Legislature do with this question ? I see that even the gov ernor who professed such friendship and devotion for the brother in black during the last canvass now proposes to the Legislature to apportion the school fund in proportion to the amount paid rela tively by the white and colored people of the State. Now be it understood first, I am un alterably opposed to such public schools as wo have, and I might be opposed to any we might have so far as I know. But tho logic, the sentiment and tho grounds for public schools is that edu cation makes better citizens; not one word of which do I believe. But that is the basis of all arguments I have ever hoard on the question. Now taking their own basis and arguments for the inauguration and perpetuation of the public schools which are supported by the tax-payers of the State for the rea son that education makes better citi zens, then I am unutterably opposed to such a distribution of tne public school fund as will give the negroes one- fifteenth or one-twentieth interest, or one-fortieth, or whatever it may bo. I have not the statistics before mo as to tho relative amount of taxes paid by tho white and colored citijons of the State. I want the public school fund appor tioned, according to their argument, to tho most illiterate and the most desti tute children. If education does make better citizens, and if the most destitnte children of tho State are not the ones to be benefited by the public schools of the State, then their logic lies and thoir excuses for public schools have passed away. One of our leading citizens re marked to me some time ago that in aiscussing the question of sending his children to school with his wile, she asked him could he afford to send his children to public schools. He replied: “What do you mean?” “Well,” she she said, “you got to feed, clothe and take care of your child andlio gets noth ing in return from tho school to which he has been going.” So much for tho quality of schools. I know we have more vagabonds among the young men, both white and colored, in Georgia to day than we eyer had before, and they are not illiterate vagabonds either. I am in favor of free schools to one class only, and that class is the children of parents who will come to the court house of the county and take the pau per’s oath and swear that they are not able to pay their children’s tuition. Then let the public pay teachers who will teaoh those children the three K’s— reading, riting and rithmetic—and noth ing more. But it is the last retreat of selishness and unmanliness to talk about good citizenship and making better citizens of the children of this State by the pro cess of education and then giving nine- tenths of tho public school'fund to white people who are largely able to ed ucate their own caildren, and let the great masses of the negro children grow up in ignorance because they cannot attend school. Ar. l I don’t believe our governor would recommend such a thing if he knew therew.isa possibility of his candidacy for gov-;,-norsliip again, and that he would need the colored vote as bad as he did in Ins last race. There is no accounting for politicians. If I were a politician and the politicians sustained the same, relationship to the .Jewish synsigogue the Irishman did, then, like the Irishman, I would die expressing tho same wish Pat did when when the p'nysician told him that he would only live perhaps through the day. He called his old friend jNIiko up to hia side and said; Price 2 Cents. “Mike, I am going to die. I have a dying request to make of you.” “Mike said, “Make your request, Pat. It shall be carried out faithfully.” “Well,” said Pat, “When I die I want you to see personally to the duty of my burial and see that I am buried under the Jewish synagogue.” “Mike replied, “What in the devil do ye want to be buried under a Jewish synagogue for?” “Begorrah,” said Pat, “that’s the last place the divil will ever look for an Irishman. ” Already the candidates are popping up on all sides for governor a year ahead of time. The machine is at work; the clans are gathering; the rings are thickening. But the old clan is sorter divided against itself. The ring has been broken into about three pieces, and each part has as little love for the other part as a dog for the hickory. Like mules, they pull together in the team and then kick the filling out of each other in the lot when the day’s work is done. There are a dozen or more good men in Georgia, either of whom would make a magnificent governor, who live and move and have their being as far above the little politicians of this State as the eagle lives and soars above a Muscovy duck. Personally I feel very kindly toward many members of the legislature. They enjoy the honor if not the emoluments of the position. Some are looking for ward to congress; some to the governor ship and maybe one or two of them to the presidency; but most of them will gravitate back into private life, some of them to the practice of law (if they can get clients), some to the administering of pills and powders, some to school teaching, some to merchandise, and some will end where Joe Brown started —plowing a bull. But, gentlemen, you had better listen to the governor and defer that $400,000 additional appropia- tion; for 5-cent cotton and $2,000,000 to public schools go togethe rabout like a donkey driving with Nancy Hanks, Yours truly, Sam P. Jones. The Atlanta Journal SnBpends^It's |Negro Carriers. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 29.—The ne groes of this city held several indigna tion meetings to-night denouncing the Atlanta Journal, of which ex-Secretary of tho Interior Hoke Smith is principal owner, because it had drawn the color line against negro carriers and news boys. Trouble has 'been brewing for some time between the white and black carriers. Two weeks ago they had a conflict and several were arrested. Last Thursday, when the colored boys applied at the Journal ofiice for papers they were turned down. Manager Ca- baniss said to-night ihat it was true that negroes had been suspended temporarily because of the prevalence of small pox among them and their refusal to be vaccinated. This policy was urged by the Board of Health as a means of forc ing the negroes to submit to vaccina tion. The negroes insist that it is but a surrender to the white boys and are greatly aroused over the situation. I^ational Affairs* It is announced that President Mc Kinley and Secretary of the Treasury Gage have agreed upon a plan for cur rency reform which will be set forth in the President’s message to Congress. It IS said the President will advise Congress not to take any action at present which would complicate the situation in Cuba. Senator Teller does not believe Coh- gress will substitute bank notes for greenback and treasury notes. In the pending reciprocity negotia tions the United States authorities are seeking to secure the admission of American cattle to France. The United States consul at Wood- stock, New Brunswick, reports that since the Dingley tariff went into effect trade relations between that part of Canada and the United States haye been at a standstill. Curls Tell the Story. When a woman is young, she does her fcair up with many curls and flourishes, but the curls and flourishes disappear as time rolls on, and after she has been married a few years It is ■worn in a hard little knot in the baot showing neither time nor attention. Her hair ie also a great thermometer to her feelings. A* long as she br.n social ambitions she curls it though tiie steak btims. When 6n old girl who has worn her hair plain for years begins suddenly to curl, it again, look for a light in her parlor on Sunday evenings.—Atchison Globe.: Rice paper is not made from eithei; rice or rioo straw, but from a pithy plant found in China, Korea and Japan.. The first English duke was created in 1887. Butler’S Denial Doesn’t Go Far. Ealeigh, N. C., Nov. 26.- There is no end of comment in the State press upon Senator Butler’s Rocky Mount speech, in which it is assorted he said that Democrats would hire negroes to assault white women. Nothing bitterer than the denuncialion ho has been re ceiving has been heard in recent years. Republican papers are not taking his side in his denial that hr? made the re mark. The P"puii!iw who oppose him are not saying a word in his defense. Otlio Wilson, railroad commissioner and editor of the Hayseedor and ex- State chairman, says in his paper to day: ‘•I do not doubt but what Butler made the statement, because he is the only man in all North Carolina mean enough to suspect such motives in a hu man being.” Revenue officers made a raid in Wilkes county and found hidden in the water melon patches of ex-Sheriff Greenwood twenty barrels of moonshine whisky, which he had buried there early last spring. The - Joiimal - Leads JN JfKICE, IN NEWS, IN CIRCULATION, IN ADVERTISING, IN LIVE ISSUES, IN UP-TO-DATE JOUENALISM. A Snake Story. A road party, comprising the nsnai gang of from 50 to 80 Kafiirs, with a white man as suporintendent, was esji- ployed on the construction of a road la the Tugcla valley, Natid, about 30 or more years ago. In the course of their work they ciuiic on a liugo stone which it w^as necessary to remove, but beneath it was tho home of a large black mam ba, well known to tho neighboring in habitants as bolug old, and therefore very venomous. The mamba is the most deailly of the South Aftioan snakes, and the superintendent anticipated some trouble over that rook. He offered a bribe for tho snake’s skin, and the gang “Wow—dl” and sat down to “bema gwi” (take snuff), but a slim youth sauntered forward and amid the jeers and protestations of the rest declared himself equal to the task. He took from his neck what looked like a bit of shriv eled stick, chewed it, swallowed some of it, spat out the rest on his hands and proceeded to rub his glistening brown body and limbs all over. Then, taking up his stick and chanting a song of de fiance, he advanced with great confidence and swagger to the bowlder. There he roused up the mamba, who, in great fury at being disturbed, bit him in tho lip with great venom. The boy took no notice of the bite, but broke the snake’s back with his stick, and bringing him to his master asked for the reward, ob taining which he went back to his work, and the bite of the reptile had no effect on him whatever. No brllae, not even that of a cow (bet ter than any gold in the eyes of a Kaiilr), would induce this native to disclose the secret of his antidote, which, he said, had been handed down in his family for generations. —London Spectator. Make a Man of nim. The best way to cure a student of pet ty vices and childish trickery is to make a man of him. Give him something real to do, and he will not fritter his nervous strength away in conviviality or in degrading associations. But to forbid excesses and abuses, putting nothing in their places, cannot be veiy effective. Not long ago I had ocecasion to say: “If your college assume to stand in loco parentis, with rod in hand and spyglasses on its nose, it will not do much in the way of moral training. The fear of punishment will not make young men moral or religious—least of all a punishment so easily evaded as tho discipline of a college. If your college claims to be a reform school, your pro fessors detective officers, and your pres ident a chief of police, the student will give them plenty to do. “A college cannot take the place of a parent. To claim that it does is mere pretense. You may win by inspiration, not by fear. ‘Free should tiie scholar be; free and brave.’ The petty re straints that may aid in the control of college sneaks and. college snobs are an insult to college men and college wom en. It is for the training of men and women that colleges exist.”—David Starr .Jordan, president of Leland Stan ford, Jr., university, in North Ameri can Review. Cooking and Insanity. A writer in What to Eat asserts that 4d pcT cent of tho ^7omen inmates of insane asylnms have been cooks; that women cooks either go mad or get mar ried, while men cooks make money. The explanations given for this are log ical and true, tho causes that affect tho health and lead to brain deterioration indisputable. It is but another proof of the fact quoted recently from Dr. Maudsley, that women “cannot run over tho same course at the same- pace a3 men. ” Tho coarser skin of the male and his heavier frame are more fitted to en dure the extremes of heat and hot va pors that must be endured by cooks. Another moral to bo drawn from tho article is that wo cook too much; our days and nights are hampered with meals. Advancing civilization demands a study of greater simplicity in food; to call a halt in the race after all sorts ol materials and combinations to whet ca pricious appetites. The Great White Craner The great white crane is a grand, stately fellow, clean cut and shapely from the points of his daggerlike man dibles to the ends of his slim black toes. When standing erect, his lean head tow ers above the grass nearly to the height of an average sized man, and his keen eye can range over leagues of prairia for approaching foe. Garbed in plumaga pure as new fallen snow, with extraor dinarily long, slender, shiny, black legs and with the graceful lino of his back ending in a cascade of lovely, curling white plumes, he always reminds me of tho powdered, belaced, much coat- t-ailevi, spider logged gallant of the old Prenoh school. And Grus americana is surely a gallant gentleman and dig nified withal, and can he not, like his relative, ashen hued Grus canadensis, dance the minuet and dance it as it should bo danced?—Ed W. Sandys in Outing. The Seccla Were There* S jrmer Nubbins (shouting across the garden fence to his next door neighbor) —Hey, therel What are you burying in that hole? Neighbor—Oh, I’m just replanting Bome of my garden seeds. Nubbins—Garden seeds, eh? Looks to me mighty like one of my hens. Neighbor — That’s all right The seeds are inside.—Pick Mo Up. Not liost. Young Boreman (who has been talk ing about himself for tho last hour)— D’you know, I had a beastly headache before I optme here today, but I've quite lost It now. Miss Miggs (wearily)—Oh, tt Isut lost I I’ve got it—Loudon bW tTnaecessary Alarm. He (starting)—Is that your father coming down stains? She (looking at the clock)—Oh, na tee won’t ojake any noise wh
The Journal (Elkin, N.C.)
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