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A FIELD FLOWER'S COMPLAINT. _ ' ——— * 'll 1 bad been a snowdrop,the flrst one of the Would you have gathered In your hand each Woukfps bars thought me beautiful,being And word for life »u beouUful " ir “" k “ W 8 «t.r.LrL,a0..™.«d.~r.., ’"‘Ushsss.’x?""*""** 4 i .*«, loveless head; DMO they dropped about you feet, and all Among the tall dead nettlca/whlte campion my heart fay bare? who will heed? A broken heart, a golden heart, for you to White campion shrinking faintly mid dock laa or wear— —Nora Hopper, ta Bleak aad While. | The Business Way. Jack vauted to, but Laity Mary didn't, and that's the way it all came about. Jack awore she wee the very daintiest, sweetest, loveliest girl eu .earth, added a great deal more ai dove’s hyperbole, and—entre sons — javro soared Into poetry occasionally, [when lie read to Christopher Colurn- W her pet ball terrier, i Alt ae Christopher wrinkled his E decidedly and hie tail did not the least intimation of a wag, tore it np—the poetry, I mean. . The trouble wee Jack wanted to pro mote aad couldn't. For never did he jpring np the eventful subject but Lady iMsry would go off et a tangent, posai ihiybeeanee Jack was using round p Ac Jack confided to Us chum (who •hall be namelaea for rarious reasous): ['.Do yon. know, H., if I speak of ran- Meta, she will immediately have a wild * Wake to disease ethnology or irreg julnr Greek verbs, and if I should ever mention lore—not that I ever have, (yon know-—but if I evhr should, hang {seif I don't believe she'd aak me (how my liver was.'* i By which it can readily be seen that {Lady Mary and Jaek were on the best ,of terms, aad the very intimacy seemed (to preclude the possibility of anything {■ant 1 One afternoon I was lying on the User bank industriously fishing,while Jack sprawled upon the grass alter nately reading and scribbling. Then (he looked up and observed compla cently: “Mow. J flatter myself that's rather good. Listen, H.: i “The weary ecu has sunk to rest, j. And with Mm Cades the dying day. i Come night, oome hoar 2 love tbe best, i Ik tine love's winning words to say. f “Pretty good, eh?’* 1 “Goody Oh, Lord! Ton want to jahaage those last two lines. Ton should say: • “kiss! still Uvea a love-struck crank. 1, Who eaataay what he wants to say. • “Besides, ‘best* isn't good gram gnar, if you're comparing day with night.’’ . “Hang It all, H., Tennyson himself Mould not please yon." Then a long silence which he at last broke with: 'Bar, do yon think she would have mar* “Oh, take a run around the block! 'Mow do I know? There &he cornea now, and 1 give you fair warning if yon two stay here and aenre all toss, fish away I'll tall about the ffoetry.” Divinely tall and most divinely (fair was Lady Mary. She came trip* mtog sedately over the tender grass, " dhe mountain winds kissing a delioate peach blossom into her cheeks. Jack, iwith Us customary facility, rose to his lest and the occasion to play the gui tar! neither of ’em paid the slight wet attention to ms. . X was supposed to be dead. “Jack," she said, sweetly, “I want won to row me np to the store. Will Four Os eonrse Jaek acquiesced, and the (two of them got into the boot and •tsrted. Jack is a finished oarsman, at least ibs generally fimsh&a it in about ten unfautfre. I knew it was to be inter esting, so I gave np the fishing and '1 (Mem. later: They .have drifted .down the river, both behind Lady 'Mary’s parasol.} » How, Jaek being one of those fel lows who believe in never losing an (opportunity calmly rowed the boat Mtto the middle of the river and' then, as I predicted, shipped the ftmu and opened the conversation. • “Bow well wa gat along together IB a boat,*’ he remarked, gazing senti .gaeatally at the diffk. > "Tee,” abstractedly, “but I wish jm rtiiww up to the stove. I don't /want $o waste the whole afternoon ny+ tide.” "Ho,, of coarse not," waking up mddealjr. Two strokes. Then, “X .Irish wa eonld always—” 1 “There are a lot of new people com ing tonight,” shefarokein. “Mr. Eg gleston told me MX 11 “Did he? H'm!" Then with a taihhuat idea, “Are yon over inter fr-d-u. “Oh. yee—now, there’s Christopher •Columbos, I’m interested in him. I Jack came to me disconsolately. “Lwfab I was dead,” he said. I told him how annoying it would be to me to hare him tying around dead. He aaid I talked like a fool. “Jack,my dear boy,” I said,patron izingly (I am two months older than he), “the next time you try to pop the question bn like a bottle of ginger ale. Go off with a bang and let all tbe fizzle come afterward.” “X never thought of that,” he an swered thoughtfully, “I wonder how it would work? By George,H.,you’re a tramp. I’ll try it" That evening they were both down by the spring, and I hid behind a tree. I didn’t hear the first part of it, bat I got there just in time to hear Jack say: “Lady Mary, I love yon. Will you be my wife?” “With pleasure," she answered, gayly. “Too. silly boy, why didn’t yon nay so before?” “Just what 1 told him,”said I,com ing from behind the tree. “Did you? Yon dear boy,yon may kiss me for that Keep still, Jack." And I did. SENATOR MILLS’ STORY. Abraham Lincoln's Sweeping VnrOon to John L. Helm. Senator Mills has a new story about Lincoln. It was told to him by a son of John L.Helm of Kontucky.who lives in Corsicana: “Old John L. Helm,” said the sen ator, “'was a famous character in Ken tucky. He was, if I remember right ly, a governor of the spite, but at any rate his position was a most prominent one. Whan the civil war came on Helm was a rabid secessionist. He could not praise the South too highly and could not heap enough abuse upon the North. He was too old to go into the war with his sons and re mained at home, doing ell he could to help the confederate cause and harass the Yankees who invaded the state. Finally he became so obstreperous that the federal, general who was in eom tttand near Helm's home pat him in pmon. The old man’s age, tho high position which he occupied in the state, his wide connection and espe cially liis inability to do any harm, were all plcadod in his extenuation, and he was released. Instead of profit ing by the warning, the old man be came more persistent thau ever in his coarse. Once more be was clapped into jail. This happened two or three times, and finally, -while he. was still locked np, the matter was brought to the attention of the federal authori ties. Even President Linooln was ap pealed to and asked to commit the ar dent southerner to an indefinite con finement in order that he might be curbed. “Linooln listened to the statement of the oase with more than usual in terest Then he leaned back and be gan to speak with a smile upon his faoe. ‘Yon are talking about old man John Helm? Well,did yon know that I need to live when I was a boy in Helm’s town. He was kind to me. He seemed to like me as a boy, and he never lost an opportunity to help me. He soemed to think,’ said TAn ruin, with another of his almost pa thetic smiles, that I would probably make something of a man. Why,when I want out to Illinois, poor and un known, (hat man gave mo the money to pey my way and keep me until I got a star! John Helm? O, yes, I know him, and I jxnow what I owe to him. I think I can fix his ease.’ “And then,” said Senator Mills, “Linooln went to hie desk and wrote n few word*. The bit of writing is treasured in the Helm house hold to this day. This is what the president wrote: “ Thereby pardon John L. Helm of Kentnoky for all that he has aver done against (he United Btntes and all that he ever will do, “ ‘Abbaba u Liscols. ’ ” —Washington Post Men exposed to the rigors of til# Alaska winter never wesr mustaches. They wear fall, beards to protect the throat and faoe, but keep the upper lip risen shaven. The moisture from the hroeth oong«e(a so quiekly that a moustache becomes imbedded in a •olid sake of ice and the faoe is frozen before a man knows it. MtoMr msssfvea. . ‘My wife got even with that lmr* St* who sot the burglar alarm going and woks the beby." “What didebt dor* '‘She polled him to by tbe collar nod made Mm rock the baby to, sloop again/’—Detroit Free Freon, _ ELECTRIC LIGHT AND EYESIGHT enr aad Blua Eyw Are Host Suscepti ble to Xajaltoai EBbd. Ona effect of the advent of the X ray has been to direct doner attention to tbs' influence of the electric light on the eyesight It has recently been stated, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, that sailors suffer much in their eye sight from the brilliant electric lights used on shipboard. Gray and bins eyes nro the most subject to injury, nut being heavily charged with pig ments. The men who work tbe search lights already wear dark blue glasses, bat it is found that these only miti gate the intensity of the light, and do not absorb the source of the trouble, the ultra-violet rays. These rays, however, con be intercepted by gug gles or screens of nreninm or yellow gloss, and with those,it is understood, the sailors of the French nary are soon to be provided. Another interesting cose boaring on this subject is reported from a British warship. It seems that two stokers on the ship, having s little spars time, became engrossed in the operation of an eleetrie drill, which was burning oat holes in a hardened steel plate. Both men declared they only watched the arc for about three minutes.and at the time felt no ill effects, except that all objects appeared to bs of a deep gold color. At night, however, both men were sroueed by intense pain and par tial blindness for the time being, but both recovered quickly after treatment. The electric drill acts by facing s hole through the steel, end the inteusity of the light is greatly increased by the rays of light thrown off by tlm molten metal. The fact, too, that tho work is carried on ehiefly in the daylight is apt to deceive the casnal onlooker as to the degree of brilliancy of the light, and it is not until tho after effects be gin tn assert themselves that he is aware of anything ont of the common. Dark glasses are now used by all the men on the electric drilling shifts. A singular feature of this affection is that it is analagons to snow or desert blind ness, end, as in them, tho pernioions effects of the electric light are proba bly due to the ultra violet rays of the spectrum. Candle Mih-Food, Medicine and UfM la Alaska. * With tbe discovery of the Klondike, with all its winter privations, comes also the practical discovery of a fish found along the Alaskau shores which it is said will famish food, light, heat and medicine to the prospectors who have gone into the new El Dorado.* This fish is of the smelt variety; but larger and fatter. They ore caught iu nets easily, and on being caught, are found to be of a rich green oolor on the back variegated with bine, and with golden reflections on the belly. On being esught these fish are dried and stored. When the Alaskan is snowed iu and without a light,ho sim ply inserts the tail of one of these fish iu a crack in’ the table and touches a match to its nose. It gives out a clear three-candle power light. The back bone io largely formed of phosphorus, which not only causes it to ignite easily, bat also accounts for tho strength of tbe flame and heat devel oped. The substance of the fish, largely fat, retards the rapid burning os the tallow sets in an ordinary candle. The fish is also valuable as food. BtiU another use to which it may bo pat is as a substitute for cod-liver oil,which, aiding the natural heat of tho body, serves to protect against the severe cold. It is to be.hoped that scientists will discover s way by which the akin of this fish may be made into clothing, and its backbone sharpened into min er’s picks. Queer Milkmen. Everyone remembers Uow Trilby used to 'call “milk belowl” in the Paris studio building, according to Da Muurier. But every one does not know just what manner of delivering tqilk is usual in Paris, that such a call should announce the presence of the milkman. He is very frequently a goat-man. He drives his flock to hie customer’s door. He blows shrilly on hie reed pipe—so Arcadian is he— and then, that there may be no sus picion as to the genuineness of his ware", he milks the goats into the pails his patrons bring. In Mexico the method is equally in teresting. Thera the gentle cow is driven from door to door, and is milked before the suspicious eyes of the cut toiners. In Brussels the honesty of the milk man seems to be assumed The oow is not driven from door to door, bnl the method is equally picturesque. There ere milkwomen instead of milk man, aad they drive curious little dog wagons through the streets.—New York Journo! •tosh for Breakfast., Oar ancestor# ate much more .meat than we do. In Queen Elisabeth’s time her maids of honor were allowed three ramp eteaks for ‘ brsnktost Mutton was not so much used as beef, being looked upon as diet rather for a fastidious appetite than for a woman to good hefiltn. ' ■■■■ i. - m * Mountain climbers frequently fin#, butterflies fro sen on the snow, and so brittle that they break unless ears'* tolly handled. When thawed the butterflies recover end fly away. hu it mu»in. Ruminates About the Gallant Con federate Chieftain. RECALLS INCIDENTS IN LIFE General Lee Requeued on Hte Death bed That No Funeral Oration Be fipoken. I was ruminating about General Lee, whose birthday anniversary we have been commemorating all over the South. When we old men were school boys we used to speak speeches about Washington and Patriok Henry, and I remember one from Van Wirt begin ning, “Who was BlennerbasseU?” that was very popular. It is time tbit youflfear generation was speaking a speech beginning, “Who wae Robert K Lee?” Bat if they don’t apeak it these annual reminder* will cense them to talk it and think about i! We cele brate the Fourth of July because it wa* the birthday of a nation and the 23nd day of February because it woe the birthday of Washington, tbe father of that nation—e man of whom General Lee’s tether said: “First in war, first i. peace, aad first in the hearts of hi* vountrymen." What e wonderful State was the “Old DominionV” What was in the air that caused it to produce such a galaxy of greet men as Washington and the Lees aad Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, Patrick Henry and others in revolutionary days, and in later days such great generals as Lee, Jonnston, Longetreet, Jackson, Stuart, Ashby and Thomas? There hove been many great men. There have been many more good men, bat the men who have been both great aad good are few.- Greatness and good naan are not twins. Indeed, they are seldom of any kin. When Abner was slain David said: “A great man has this day fallen in Israel,” and so might be said of David and Solomon and Con stantino and Ctesar and Cromwell aud Napoleon and many others who were great, but not altogether good. There was some dark blot upon their name and their fame that marred its bright ness. Lord Bacon was one of the greatest of men. but ho was far from be inggood. War is perhaps the severest test of e groat man’s goodnoss. It tries his heart os well as his mind and makes protest of ail his emotions. No man in the an nals of history has stood this teat better than Robert J 2. Lee. (Stonewall Jack son was no doubt as good a man, bnt he was not so great, so brave, so com manding. Albert Sidney Johnson was probably aa good and as great as Leo, but his opportunities to prove it were suddenly arrested by his untimely death. Even Washington was not so great a general os Lee, for he hod bnt little military training, white Lee was educat ed carefully in the art of war—was the tanking graduate in a doss of forty-two at West Point, was for three years is charge of that institution and hod large and varied experience in the war with Mexico. In addition to ell these ad vantages, he inherited a talent for oom mending men, for he wsn the son ol Henry Lightfoot Lee (Lighthorse tyarry), who was Washington’s favored friend and military adviser, and whose bones have honored Georgia soil on Cumberland island. It is worthy of mention that Gen. Lee’s grandmother was Luey Grymee, the first love of Gen eral Washington She wae known ae the “lowland beauty. ” It grieved her to reject his addresses, bat he comfort ed himself soon afterwards bymartying the widow Custis. This widow Custis was the grandmother of General Lee’s wife, Mary Randolph Cassia And so the Lees and Washingtons got as close together as they oonld. Ninety-one years ago 109,000 people were born on the same day with General Lee, bnt not on 6 of them stands ont in such bold end beautiful relief. He gett greater and grander as the years roll on. More biographies have been writ ten and published of him than of any other many. Nine are already bpforn the peoplejand another is in press. Hit noble life and public aervico have com manded the admiration of an observ ing world and all tbe oommendatios that the English language oonld give t* a man has been given to him. There are no more noons of praise—no more comparatives or suf erlative* left in oui vocabulary. The* it does pc* t«oom* tributes and said of him ae "Virgil said of Aeneas, “Geno arma of viram. ” It him only remained for one gmb to wife* anything that sought to sully h Cz •scutcheon. I remember well the second lime I ever sew him. The Seven Days’ fight was over. The last shot and shell bad been fired. I was sent with dis* pitches to General Lee, who was resting worths white house, on York river. His headquarters were to a large officers’ tent, and es I approached a strange spectacle wee presented, fc* General Lee end four ox five of his stall were partaking of a scanty noonday me'l. that wav served on tyro cam* Delivering mff ttspetchee 1 silently •waited a reply, and when it was given I rode away, but turned to my saddle to take one more view of the impressive this is enough. Let ns not fell to commemorate the eminent virtues end noble deeds of this greet man, and to commend them to cur children end oar child ran’■ children. Tboumnds of good people have same birthday and should' lee! proud of the coincidence and be inspired by it to • virtnouallk If I was net too modest to speak of la I would whisper that I know aa note oonx trusted rebel mother who is uread that on tktolMh davol January «he ob served not only General Wa birth » * • * » ! * me to e«m anything to these motto*. It is enough to say that after all thes« yean stooe his death in 1870, the ellmai has boon reached whan a Northern man, the president of a Northern college, hat at last voluntarily placed him at the head of tiie column end prononneed him peerless—that greatest general of modern times and the beet of men. Furthermore, this Dr. Andrews, who was himself e soldier in the Northers army, makes bold to say: “Hi* cause was not the lost cease so much as is suspeoted. The doctrine of States’ rights, for which he fought, os now in terpreted by our Supreme Court, 1* in exaot accordance with his claims upon this point,” When Robert Emmett, the illustrious Irish Patriot, was condemned to death for treason, he made a memorable ad dress to tho judges and said: “Until Ireland is free, let no man write my epi taph. ” And eo when General Lee was on his lest bed, and realized that death was near, he requested that no funeral prntiuu should be pronounced. His re* quest was observed, bnt since then the tiouthern'people could not be restrained from giving vent to their love and ad miration. Monuments and statues ha tv been erected, orations have been pro nounced and biographies written too numerous to be recited. Notable men of all oountriee have joined in the day, bnt that of two of her children. With prophetic inspiration she did her beat to honor his ooming tome. Whet mother could do more?—Bill Arp in Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. A tml-EutM Driver. It Is reported of Artemee Wsrd that he MUM offered his flask of whisky to the driver of the stage on top o( which he was riding through a mountainous section. Ihe driver refused the Husk In most de cided tonee. Baid he: "I don't drlsk; I won’t drink; I don’t like to see anybody else drink. lam of the opinion of these mountains—keep your top cool. Shey’ve got snow, and I’ve got brains, that’s all urn difference.” Temperance Stefogm Iu tbe Piefeulsu. The progress of tomperaneo reform Is very notable in the professions. The doc* ter or lawyer who drinks to -sxoeaa Hade that his business is decaying. Tbe teeoher who visit* saloons soon ILnds his occupa tion gone. Not many years ego there wore notorious drunkards in Congress, but this nulsanoo has been greatly abated. The Legislatures of all the Statc-s show * similar change. I’nbUo oeatiiuent is be coming las* and less tolerant to inebriety. Social Driakiac, Sir James Unslett, member of Parliament tor Belfast, speaking at u meeting recently held in London, presided over by the pres ent Archbishop ol Canterbury, gave the following important testimony, which wo' commend to the statesmen and public men' el the United Btates: "Sly Lord Bishop, It Is with very great pleasure that I rise to proposo that tbe best thanks of this meeting be given to you for presiding on thlß occasion. I think you oro tho right man In the right place. The church most lead if we are to have at healthy influence in society. AX a stronger amongst you, I have had very great pleas ure in hearing all that has been said in re gard to total abstinence. I have never tasted drink. And, what possibly Is not su easy matter, I have never offered It to: others. The greatest difficulty we have fa in the social Intercourse of life—to enter tntu publicly, as u public man, without' drinking. So strong ore social habits that] yon have raised against yon all thej weapons that satire and evil oom-i munleatton can possibly find. You I ere called ’mean' and 'niggardly,* 1 and • hundred other tilings. I think my lord, that \ho change must come'from tbe women. They must net as a lever ini this matter, though I do not know very' well how they are to do It. It was one of my duties, os the Mayor of Belfast, to en tertain fhc representative of royalty, aud it wok a diffleulty with me how I eould do it without drink. Unfortunately, the Lord Lieutenant dropped upon me lost the week, atior I was appointed. That difficulty was greater, I think, that t might have been, able to withstand; but I heathen my wife with me, and ebe said, ‘Wei! you bad bet ter resign your office,* we carried It through at best we cohid. I trust that tbe recollection of that may still brighten her life In the other world. But it Is the diffi culty of social Ufa that you most seek to unravel. You cannot do ft by legislation. X am bound to say that whoa I waited upon the Lord Lieutenant and told him about my dilfleulty, bo said, ’My dear ltd low, I would only spit upon you If yousao riflcod your principles.’ Lord Londonderry Was too muon of a gentleman to seek that! should in any way lower myself, and Kelt, os an old Sabbath-school teochcr, working amongst tho young, and addressing meet ings all my life, that ft I had then put drink on tho table I would have sacrlflced alt that 1 hod ovor done. My Lord Bishop, It Is not aa sesy thing to net thus. X have passed through a xeoent election, and my bitterest enemies were thdse who sola drink. It has been said In Ireland that the readiest way to a man’s lateUtgenea fa through his stomaeb. It Is wonderful bowl kindly we ore disposed after we get oar dinner. It has unquestionably an Immense Influence; and there is a luge class fa our country of whom It may be said that the readiest way to their intelllgencols through a gloss of beer or spirits. - You have that to fight against. During my recent con test, and during a contest ton yean ago, I * never had at the election committee meet ings one drop of strong drink. If we can not carry on election without it, then, fa tied’ll name let us surrender.” t Temperance Xm and Notes. The Utile principality of iffoWeck. in Gar* many, has forbidden the granting of mar riage licenser to habitual drunkards. It isn't tho drop fa tho wages that harts a man so much ss tbe drop he takes after getting hhi wages. That’s what drops him. Drink destroys tho sorohe and peaceful happiness Whloh n mother feels, whs'soee wound her sober and loving and respectful •, children. • Sefantlfle temperance instruction Is to be Introdooed Into Queensland, Australia. . Sets of approvsd physiologies bAV* Wan ordered for examination, and sir steps will }>e taken as rapidly ns possible. . At e temperance celebration fa h eerfata city, n little lad appeared In Che procession bearing a flag on which was inscribed the following: "Ail’s right when daddjrs sober.” a sentence which bee been aptly described as M a volume in a line.” A little fellow, fa response to e question by his teacher, sold, '*™ Monroe doctrine , ’ Is knowing want Is your own aad holding on (o It,” X thtok that the Monroe doafrine Ism good temperance doetrtne. Knewgteol is your own nod hold on to ft. XnmßSe rente of the mind God gave yoo iad-wd on to It.-Bev. Doctor Ooaefy.
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