North Carolina Newspapers

i ORG COURIER Issued Weekly. PRINCIPLES,. NOT MEN. $1.00 Per Tear VOL XXVIU. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY AUGUST 1 i, 190?- rr 7 i THE S. Bryant, PruMeat J. 1. Cole, Cashier UAe Ba.nk of Rai.dlemet.rv Randleman! N. C. Cipftal paid in, $20,000 Protection to depositors. 40.000 Dibbctohs: S. G. Newlin, A. N. 11a. W. T. Brvant. C. L. Lindsoy, N. Newlin. J. IL Cole, S. Biyant U O Barker and W K. Uartseii. BRITTAIN & GREQSON, ATTORNEVSATLAW, Asheboro, - North Carolina. Practice in ths courts of Kandolpn and adjoining comities; in StaU and Federal Courts. Prompt at tention to business of all kinds, Wh. O. Rammer, ' (CItII Praolloa OolT.) j.A.Kpeaoe HAMMER & 8PENCE, Attorneys at Law Aahebors N. C. North of Court House.) Practice in a'! the oourta E. MOFFITT. Attorney at - Law, ASHEBORO, N. C. Phone No. 83. Practice in all the courts. 3pecial attention given to settleineu of Estates. tftrOrricK Nrah Couiit Uouhc 0 L. SAP? " Attorney-at-Law. rMM Baato aai Fedenl 0 (Ww , OmbnUI aad Pre katokUw. AU baataaa praapilf .Dress Shirts I GKNTLKMEN! If jou want a Mice Dress Shirt for 60 cents as eoou as you nave been paying 75 cents to $1 for, Come to see ns quick. We are Head-quarters for Shirts, Collars, Cnffs and Neckties. Come! Yours truly, CTTriMAN tSk CO UUST A HINT About Hardware! ( We carry in stock cutlery, spoons, hammers, hatchets, hinges, cow mid trace chains, curry combs, brushes, locks, shears, scissors, halters, hame strings, forks, hoes, shovels, spades, drags, rakes, saws, baskets,' buckets, n-' horse shoes and a good many oilier useful articles. TV rnn a m in nnul nr unv nr me above named articles, or anything else, call -on -J. F. HEITMAN, General Mdse. Trinity, N. C. Mason's fruit jars and rubbers. NEW THINGS IN CLOTHING! Brixton eckt Suit- These cuts represent some or the new things that we are now opening op direct from the manufacturers. Call in and see the latest and best in men's wearables, THE MERITT-JOHNSON CO. 808 8. Elm SC Greensboro, N. 0. H6e ;University OF NORTH CAROLINA. AcsdcmlC Department, Law, Medicine. Pharmacy. Mm aandred M dtU wkotawMpi. Ve tuli-si to tNMiia and lo mm at auniakm Mi.MuiliMth Central BM- HV ."':r'i'V"rfL'!Lti '.XmI1 bSIi . mi k 1 vw v. r. vis n a m., 3 Ok . l WASHINGTON LETTER. Republicans Wearing Broad Smiles Clsrksoa the Mao tbat Fnrolshed Revenue Cotter for Postmaster Oeneral Psyae Other Im portant Matters. Special Corrwiniulcpoe Courier. Washington, D. 0., August 10th. Many Republican leaders who, in the recent erstwhile, were Koine about wearing a worn, haggard un hunted expression are now walking the streets of the nation's capital wearing a broad and expansive smile that somewhat resembles a crack in a frozen liver. Wherefore? Simply because on the 31st of July lust the statute of limitation ran and they are forever barred from prosecution for the misdeeds and speculation they indulged in while holding positions of nonor and trust under the national government three years ago. There ure many .men who ougni to nave oocn uiaicieu ana would have been had not President Roosevelt told Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General llristow not to investigate any of the cases where the statute of limitation would run this year. It was known here also that Perry S. Heath, the .secretary of the Republican National Com mittee, would have been one of the lirst to be mdictod, along with Machen, if the Republican leaders bad not stepped in and put a veto on the thing. Mr. Heath knows too much of the inside workings of the cogwheels and oiling that the differ ent parts of the machine received in the last two national campaigns, He might, as Kathbone threatened to do, "Pull down the pillars of the temple, aim that would le danger ous to many iu high -places and leave the Republican skeleton ex posed in all its hideousnces. The man who invented tho statute of limitations should have a monument erected to his memory by the Re publican leaders, lor they know iow much tribulation he saved them. The next convention of that party should puss the hat around, and no one should be more liberal in his donation than President Roose velt, for it has saved him a world of annoyance and publicity, that might have jeopardized his political future. An excellent slogan for the Rcpub' leans next year would be: Vive la Statute of Limitations! When rrcsident Roosevelt un pointed "Rot" Clarkson Surveyor of tnc i'ort ot fiew xork there was a general gasp of ostonishmeut by civil service reformers, and a good deal of surnnse was manifested bv the less truly good politicians. That i..i. iTm.. .... :.... . the duties of hisollicc, but was mak- secret trips to the Southern States, with a strong inclination to coiiliue the society he sought to "bluck-ttiid-tans" and "lily-whites," who were known to be important factors in selecting delegates to national Republican conventions, oc- asioned no amazement amongst pol iticians. U hey regarded him ns the Stromal representative of the Presi ent, and on what may be called a secret service mission for him. Clarkson regards public oflice as a private snap, and although President Roosevelt is supposed to have other and opposite views on the duties of public officers, he evidently does not disapprove of the Clarkson "graft" of drawing a good salary without much, if any, return to the people who are taxed to pay it. Clarkson is an old political pal of Postmaster- General Payne; they have been mixed up in some similar deals ob taining delegates on former occa sions so nobody will be particularly surprised at the information that "Ret" Clarkson is the official who furnished the revenue cutter for Postmaster-General Pnvne and his family to take their late summer outing. That revenue cutters were not intended for private use does not seem to have troubled the elastic political consciences of cither Clark son or Payne. It is through this loose idea of tho private snap, that high officials regard as their political perquisites, that the grafting and looting in the postoffice and other departments have grown to such serious scandals. et Mr. Payne is supposed to be investigating this sort of tiling. When will people awake? - If President Roosevelt is elected next vear it will be simnlv and solely because the voters of the country believe that he is helping them in their battle with the trusts. It is not strange, then, that the President is doing all in his power to give currency to the idea that he lighting the trusts witn might and main. Let ns see how he is doing this. Let ns see how much he is eu tilled to the distinguished consideration of the people for his efforts to curb the trusts. Mr. Roose velt started in political life as a strenuous free trader, and was a member of the Nowl York Free Trade Club, yet recently, under pressure from the rrotective Tariff League, he joined the "standpatters," and thus stands opposed to the most cer tain way of curbing the trusts and giving relief to the people by re ducing the tariff duties. It was the President's voice that killed the Lit- tletietd anti-trust: bill in tho last Congress and caused the passage of two sham-trnst bills tho ikins anti-rebate bill and the Department of Commerce bill with its bureau of corporations to give publicity to trusts, iiis voice coma nave caused his Attorney-Genernl to go after the coal trust tbat William Itandolpn Hearst had treed with his own I money and solely in the interest of people. His voioe was silent, T.,l....,l llCinlr Knoxy," he left Mr. Hearst to guard the tree alone. 1 he facts that are slowly coming to light iu regard to the new liureuu of Corporations in the Department of Commerce should open the eyes of the voters of tb country to the real position of the rrcsident on the trust niicstion. In discussing the "Present Statistical Outlook in Washington," the corre spondent of the New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial llul- letin, on July 27, said of this new bureau: "The work now laid out for this bureau is of a really thorough type, and if it is pursued with vigor on the lines now suggested there will be a good deal of complaint in the near future when the methods now contemplated aro actually ap plied. .Pressure of the most stren iious sort will undoubtedly lie brought to bear at the White House. Just how soon the department will really begin to show its bund in the matter of trust investigation cuunot be certainly predicted, but those who arc in a position to know say it will not be until after the next presiden tial election. As a mutter of fact, a good deal of time is needed for the organization of the work and for laying out special lines of investiga tion. All this will consume, many months, and Secretary Cortelyou is too tactful a man to weaken Ins strategic position by opening lire in presidential campaign, it there would be any danger of hurting his party thereby. It will, therefore, be a good while before there are any definite results of the inquiries of the liureuu of Corporations. Is there anything in this state ment to frighten the trusts ? Is it not clear that this new bureau will give tho trusts two years mere lee way two years more license to loot tho people's pockets two years ut $l,000,0U0,0i0 a year? And what thenr Publicity. J hats all, and more than all, for it is entirely op tional with the President whether any of tho facts gathered by this bureau ure ever published or not. But the facts, when published, are to serve only us a basis for "conser vative unti-trust legislation some tiliie in the dim and distant future. President Roosevelt lighting the trusts.'' Rot. He is their best friend. He, as no other living man, knows how to tickle them and ut the same time make the multitude, who sees his fierce face and vigorous ges tures, believe that he is mauling the immortal ichor out of them, lhe trusts have great need of just such a man ut this juncture to suvo them from the wrath, -of -au outraged peo ple. It is part of their game that Wall street and the trusts are to be against Roosevelt this year. Next year, when the campaign is on, it will be found that the l. U. 1'. is getting financial support from its old-time friends the trusts. How loug, O Lord, how long, will the people bo fooled ? As corroborative evidence that the leaders of the Republican party are standing iu with the trusts and they each understand the game that is being played for the edification of the gulliuble public, the administra tion organ in Washington, the Even ing Star, not long ago had an article attacking Governor LaKollette, of Wisconsin, for bis siieechcs before different Chautauqua assemblies, in which he fiercely assailed the trusts of the country. This article said in effect that uovernor Ijiir ollettc was to be disciplined for his heresy ; that he was. jumping on the Republican party and one of its pets in his at tacks on the trusts, una tnut the leaders of the Republican party were becoming alarmed lest the trusts should get idea that they really were after them and withdiaw their finan cial support. What stronger evi dence that the Republican party is tho party of, for and- by the trusts, do the people want? CHAIiLKH A. JUnVAKDS. Mr. Nash Is Wronf Husbsnd sod His Band were Patriots. Last Sunday's News and Observer is peculiarly valuable. MrPittman's paper on "John Porter and the Cary Rebellion'' corrects a manifestly false conception of the character of Porter, and at the same time estab lishes the reputation of the author for thorough-going research and the genuine historic-sense. Likewise is the paper of Mr r rank Nash counter to generally conceived notions of Herman Husbands and the Regula tors. Mr Nash is a native of Hills boro, a great-grandson of Governor Abner Nash, and by both descent and environment is peculiarly fitted to deal intelligently, if not impar tially, with this (piesliou. The paper nndcr discussion is intended to refute the story of the Regulators as told by Hon Thos Wateon, and Mr Nash succeeds only too well, for it is unpleasant to have former concep tions of tho Regulators replaced by harsher notions of them, liut let truth be established. However, Mr Nash should account for tho cur rency of the higher estimate of Hus bands and the Regulators, if he voices the sentiment of tho time, for the Regulators Bed to the West and left their reputations to be colored by their contemporaries in the centre and the east. We trust the question will not rest here, but tbat every possible light may be throw a upon it. We commend it to the attention of Mr Pittman, being assured ihat if hnth he. and Mr Nash am-ae in then conclusions, the question may be considered settled. Lumberton Ar- gu. W. J. Moore. M. D. DrWJ Moore, the subject of this sketch, was born in Stokes county, this State, August 3rd, 18G5. He attended ' the public schools of that county. In 1882 he entered Oak Ridge Institute and re mained there for three years, after wards completing bis literary educa tion at Trinity College. After leuv ing college he taught, school and for a time clerked in a store. In the fall of 188!) he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md., graduating from that institution in tin- spring of 1893. Immediately upon his return home he began the practice of medi cine in Stokes county. Three years later he moved to Arnold, Davidson county, where he was actively en gaged in the practice of his profes sion until in the year 181)0, when he came to Asheboro and purchased Dr J M Boyctte's residence, Dr Boyette moving to Wndesboro. December 12th, 104. Dr Moore was married to Miss Mamie Frazier, daughter of- Dr F C Frazier, of Trinity, this county. Mrs Moore died January 23rd, liml. Un April 1st, 11)03, he was mar ried the second time to Mis Mattie Porter, of Asheboro. In May of. this year lr Moore was elected County Superintendent of Health, lie is a member of lhe State Medical Association and is as sociated in the practice of medicine with Dl S A Henley of this place, under the firm name of Drs Henley & Moore. Montgomery Items from the Examiner. Mr. J. A. Mathenv, who lived near Rockingham, died at Capclsic f riday morning. It is reported that his deuti: u.is Cau. cd by diuki.i6' wood alcohol. He had Urn cm- iloyed here painting for Mr. J. R. Blair. A Hindi party ut the home of Mr. J. B. Yuucuiinu wus enjoyed very much by u select party of friend Tuesday night. Klega'ut refresh ments were served and all seemed to eujov themselves to the utmost. Three negro boys were brought up Tuesduy before 'Squire Saunders for lighting. It seems that one Bar ringer boy "licked" two Bruton boys. The judgment of the court was that the Harringer boy pay a line of $i ami one-half of lhe cost, and that his father lake a hickory and whip him good. A cow belonging to .Mr. h. . rlathcock, of Wadeville, was killed by lightning hist Tuesday. The cow was chained to a stake near a tret.'. Lightning struck the tree, jumped off on to the chain mid the shock caused the cow's death. The World Demands Sobriety u( Men. Cold-blooded busine.-s is doing about as much to make men sober nt anything else, the prohibitionists with his demand tor closed bar rooms not excepted. In this day and time the demand is for Sober men in all lilies of business. In this duy of close compel it ion, when every corner has to be cut, business men demand the unimpaired energy of employes, and the man who has his nerves unstrung and hid energy mpaircd by liquor will very soon find that a sober man has his job. A railroad company, with thousands of dollars uud human lives ut stake, ill not allow a drunken engineer to haul a train. People ill not. em ploy a lawyer whose brain is be- louded with liquor, and when death is to be coped with the public demands that the physician shall have every faculty and that none of them shall be impaired by drink. The business world is making the demand for sober men mote than it has ever made it before in all it history. Liquor-drinking is a bad business, to say nothing of the moral feature of it, and the business world so looks upon it, and is acting on the principle that there are sober men enough in the world to transact the business. Monroe Enquirer. Hell's Messenger Service. An evangelist of tho eternal- furnuee-with-humau-coals tvpe was addressing an audience in a New Hampshire village one evening a short time ago, and he imparted to his hearers the startling information that his father, who had departed this life, was now a resident of hades. A young man iu tho audi ence, with whom the evangelist had "labored" somewhat, was disgusted with the unulial glee of the preacher and lose to leave the hull. "There he go-js," cried the speak er, pointing to the departing auditor; 'there he goes, straight to hell, ladies and gentlemen straight to the torments of hell'.'' I "Well." said the vouneman. turn j iug abont just before leaving the hall, "is there any message yon dusiru mo to take to jour father? ITEMS OF NEWS. Live Hems Gathered from Different Sources All Readable. J. M. Bishop, of Raleigh, N. C, is charged with the heinous 3nme of criminal assault upon his 12-year-old stepdaughter. A shocking charge of criminal as sault was made last week against Henry Ooodwin, of Wake county, for criminal assault on a 1 1-yeiir-ofd girl. A young negro lawyer ut Claiks- ville, W. a., last week mude t brutal assault nnoii u hiu-hlv resnect- able young white woman. A mob pursued Ii 1 1 it with bloodhounds, but fulled to catch him. A Campbell, of Cherokee "ounty, died last week. He was proiniuent republican ligurc iu the legislature ot 18'Ja. lie was called "llolu Boone from Hanging Dog." Gen Nelson A Miles having ar rived ut the! nge, has been placed on the retired list and General Young becomes the temporary commander of the armv. . T W Dewey, the Newbern bank lefaulting and abscunding cashier, is short in his account with the bank $131,000. His shortage is due to gambling in futures with the bunk's money. Application has been made to operate three distilleries in Salisbury. lhe board of aldermen have deferred lotion until after November 3rd when an election will be held on the inestion wheihcr there are to be saloons are distilleries in Salisbury. Pretty nearly everybody that amounts to much, no matter where they have gotten to, either went from North Carolina or are descend- d from it. It now develops that the mother of Whistler, the great irtist, who died lost week, was a North Carolina woman. Charlotte Observer. Mrs Emma Henley, widow of the ate Oliver Henley, Jf Iredell county, was drowned in Third creek, near Stutesville, August Cth. Mrs Hen- lev ami her nephew, Mr Arthur Turner, were crossing the bridge in i pheatoii when the horse became 1 Tightened and backed down foot embankment into the stream. Young Turner jumped and escaped injury, but Mrs Henley fell under the vehicle and was drowned before issistance could be hud to get her out. $000 Reward for Dewey. The absconding cashier, T. W. Dewcv, who wrecked the Newborn bank, is wanted and "wanted bad," io mu'jh so that a reward of $4,000 s offered for his apprehension. He gambled in futures, and an iuve it ion show s that he squandered i;.il,0oo of the bank's and the de positors money. A Valuable Invention. Mr C M I'almer, of New London, has invented a wood-distilling ap paratus that will con ;crt n cord of fat pine into lttO gallons of product n the shape of turpentine, creosote, tar, together with about i!5 bushels of charcoal, worth front $20 to $30. It is the latest and most unproved naehine on the market for this work, and it is expected that Mr Palmer realize largely from his mveii- lon. Man lev r.nterpnsc. Lightning's Strange Freak. During a storm which passed over laekson Springs on the 2!ith met. ightning struck a tree ulMjut ten ftt from the corner of the hotel. It jumped from the tree into a room ind on to an iron bedstead. From bed it, lighted on the electric ight wire and ran through the entire building, burning out all the lights. It followed the wire to the power house and did some slight damage to the machinery. Two men were rioiislv shocked but no permanent njuiies were received. 1 roy r.x- Birds Attack a Hen. Judge Eclver reports witnessing a novel tight the other morning le- u a hen and some r.nglish spar rows. On the w iv to his office he noticed a young bird diop from a tree to the round, aim inimcu.iui.cjy an oiu ueii hiuiici U now n on liie nine oiru, una tinted off. The young one quickly uve the alarm, and the old birds uinc from evei y direction and got all over that hen in a jiffy, and didn't let up on her until she ran under a iieurbyjbridge. Ihey would irobably have killed the hen it stic lad not run away. Carthage Blade. Sanctified Defaulter. In a letter written last Tuesday from Montreal to the pastor of his church in East Boston, Willard S. Allen, treasurer of the Preachers Aid Society of the New England Conference of the Methodist Epis copal Church, confessed that he was a defaulter to the amount of more .1 o..nn ..c 41... ...:....'. .lo Mr. Allen has been treasurer of the society for 14 years and clerk of the East "Boston "District Court for 29 veura. and for 16 v(rs was a promi nent member of the school commit tee of Boston. He left home about a week ago, without announcing his destination, and the fust heard from him was the letter to the East Bos ton clergyman. Mr. Allen said that he lost his money in speculation He requests the minister to notify the monitors of the Allen family and the officers of the society of his con- fession. What John C. Campbell Said to Bill Mayaer. Mr J H My rover, of Fayetteville, in writing to the Charlotte Observer of lust Sunday tells a good story on a man who was well known to many of our readers before his death, as follows: The gold miue bonanzas, which seem to be had for the asking iu different parts of North Carolina, remind me of an old, old story, Many years before the civil war there lived in Aloore county a man who was known as "Prof Campbell. He was not a very prosperous farmer, nor a successful "man of affuirs;" but as Cup'n Cuttle said of old Sol Gillie in Dickens' "Dombey and Son," he was "chuck full of science." He was especially well up in geology, found a whole history in a pebble, and read "sermons in stones." At that time the gold fever wus ripe in the county of Moore, aud Prof Campbell conld have stocked the Smithsonian Institution with a cabi net of minerals as large as half the main building from the quartz rocks, pieces of sandstone and gneiss brought to Hi in for inspection by men who were looking for an El Do- ado on the farm or piece of woods. Campbell hud all of a specialist's devotion to geological research; but he was a reticent man, and nobody ever did find out whether he was credulous or skeptical ubout gold finding. Perhaps his "golden! silence udded weight to his authority on the scientilic side of the subject. One steaming hot day in July l'rof Campbell who was an old bachelor, living pretty much as he chose, in slovenly, slip-shod fashion was stretched out iu uu old arm chair, with a clay pipe in his mouth, and his stocking feet on the window sill, catching a little puff of a breeze now uud then from the west, when he saw a man coming down the long red hill leading to his house. The traveler was a typical inhabitant of the Deep river section awkward and shambling in build and movement, wearing jeans trousers stuck in his cowhide boots, and held up by a oue-gallus suspender, no coat, but a striped calico shirt, and a broad, brimmed wire-grass hat on his shock head. He trudged steadily on, but bent a little forward from the weight of a load on his back, which, on nearer approach, proved to be a large bundle in stout, blue check home spun, fixed to a crooked stick over his shoulder. He Seemed to know his bearings, for lit! passed through Campbell's gate, kicked at the yelping yellow cur dog, gave one sounding knock at the door, and entered tho room where the man of the house sat. The visitor swung his burden off his shoulder with a flourish, slapped it down on the table, untied the ends of the homespun, and spread out about a hull a bushel of dirty rocks pitted with yellow freckles. "Thar, Perfesser," ho said, with an uir of triumph, "what's that, and what's she wuthi"" The professor w heeled around to the table on his chair rochers, picked up one of the rocks, squinted ut it, and said: "Py rites, und what you've got there is maybe worth 1J or 2 cents." "Pyri-pyri wuth two cents! Why, iii'tii alive, kain't yer see she's jist chuck full er gold er-bustiu' out iu spots?" "Yes; that's another name for it f (Mil's gold," said Campbell, taking a fresh pull at his pipe. The deep river man picked up a rock, turned it over, and laid it low n ; guzed long and steadily into the impertiirublc face of the geolo gist, heaved a prodigious sigh, and said: "I'ihiI s gold: res, damned fool's gold! Yes, damned fool's 1! That's ther talk, Perfesser. that's me! Why, great Johosnphat. Hasn't 1 jest been und married u read-headed, cross-eved woman 49 years old, that walks parrytoed, jist cause she 1 got a whole held full of that blamed stuff? Fool's gold! Hint's you, Bill Muyncr, by the great horn sjiooii!" And he left his wealth neglected on the table, turned on his heel, strode out of the house, and made his way back over the long red hill. Loans for Buildinf Public School Houses. The Slate board of education has passed upon application for loans for building public school houses in 34 counties, and has allowed $46,286. The result of this will be the erection of 95 new school houses at a total expenditure of $104,315. Thus the State will get the benefit of this amount of school property. Fifty two of the new school houses are to be built in accordance with the plans prepared by the State Superin tendent and published in his last an nual report. Fourteen school houses are in course of construction, nine are being repaired and enlarged, six will be iu accordance with differ- nt 'plans, which, however, have been approved, while six are held np until plans are agreed upon by the State board and the counties. In eight cases the loan is for the pur- Fose of buying private academics, t will be feeu that the loan has eieatlv stipulated the building of school houses, and that it has also brought about the erection of ira proved buildings, since the average cost is, as will be seen, over Jl.uw Nervous Headache. I incll Without any dtmcirca'ilc WUKCL' wuiu f tarn or twu ol Capudine (Liquid.) THE STORM. One day iu spring us I sit at my window looking out, there is a block cloud gathering in the south. Dull Hashes of lightening play through and around it as if they were demons trying to lash the darkening sky into furious storm. The thunder growls heavily ufar off. I sit and look, and as I look the cloud gets blocker, the thunder louder, and the lightening more herce. But I um not thinking of the majesty of the storm, or of the effect it "will have upon the plans for the duy. My thoughts are far distant. My mind wanders to a place many miles beyond that lowering, rumbling cloud, to where the pine trees sigh and moan, and the whip-poor-will calls to his mate. There is my desolate home, made desolate by time and his pitiless changes. There mv father lies still and cold iu his grave, uud my mother sits, in her loneli ness aud sorrow. As I think of it, the very blackness of the cioud makes that which is dear to me seem much more separated from me than ever before, uud it lnukes the cherish ed past seem farther removed. My head leaus forward on the chair arm, and a storm of passionate grief burst upon me. I hear the rain beating against my window, und the terrible jarring sound of the thunder us is rolls ucross the sky. And the lightening is so vivid thut it seems to have set the world on fire. Outside, the eurth is being drenched by the storm. Inside, my heart is being driven through u tempest of sorrow by the recollections of all thut I have Jlost. I give away utterly under its weight, and for a long time I am shaken tremendously by its power. But, at length, the pas siou of it subsides aud a sort of sod, reflective mood comes over me. I can hear the sough of the pine trees as tho wiud sweeps through them, around my southern home. And as the evening clcses in I hear the plaintive note of the whip-poor-will. I sec him dimly through the moonlight as he sits upon the garden gate, culling. At lirst he calls very loud, then gradually getting softer, after awhile very soft, almost dying away, until 1 think he has taken ilight to some distant tree. But, as 1 peep cautiously toward the garden gate, he is still there, but his call is ulmost a whisper, then it dies away altogether, wheu, it is said, the melancholy songster has sung him self to sleep. There too, the niock- mg-bird sings, lie used to sit in that old apple treo bock of the house and sing every day, and some times at night. His song was the exact reproduction of every other bird, even to the screech ot the owl and the whip-poor-will's cry, arranged into a sort of medley, embellished with his own way of rendering it, which mude it his own utter all. remember once my mother heard the peculiar, "pat-rack, pat-rack, put rock" of a guinea-fowl up iu that old apple tree in the yard. It was not the excited, "clea-a-a, cleaM-a!" of the fowl when pursued by an euemy, but the complacent "put- rL- l A.,,1 ,v mnrW tlnnLiiicr it strange that a guinea should be up in a tree on any ordinary occasion, went out. She was surprised when she came near the tree to see a mockiug-bird fly out post her. As I think thus, of how mudi brightness the "post hold for me, many, many instances that contribut ed to life's happiness then, recur to mv mind, one after another, until the storm of passionate regret is lost and forgotten. 1 raise my head ana look out. The thunder and lightening have ceased. The cloud has passed over, or rather, has poured itself out upon the green grass and Diidding trees. The earth is smiling so am There, taking up the loose threads of the duy where I dropped them. I begin all over again, with renewed strength and cheerfulness. And so it is with us ever, io 10k backward is bitter-sweet. To :ok farward is new, wholesome ife, to live in the beautiful present, to rememlier and love the post, but not regret it. To know that the things which were ours and are ours no more, are not lost, but hidden. To know that the fliends that were once with us and who have gone away forever, are not lost ure "not dead, but sleeping. And in the glorious light and golden splendor of the home-land we shall meet them all again. To know this, and to live today, not yesterday to gather the Mowers that bloom, not cling to the dead leaves of the past is right. To believe -in that Light which is the light oi men, ami to sing with the poet: Lead, kindly light, amid the en circling gloom, Lead thou me on! The night is dark, aud I am far from home, Lead thou me on! Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; ono step enough for me. So long thy power hath blest me, sure it still Will lead me on, O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone. 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