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-'. I i - .): X ! i. ::."H !'! ; r .1 ' ' 4 W '. -.m -4 1 1 x)i.n3....l"rV"-5 ..j 3brroii. . JOHN H. GABRETT, -1 . - i r -re vol. in. EDENTON, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,4881. NO. 28. : " I i . , 1 -x.',-l7TTX - ' - 1 I-' ' ' ' . 1 i ; "' "" 1 ' ...... i, .,,., ., t , ii ,. i i . m , : r , , : -j : : " ' ti - ; - ! , i-: i ! . l : - ' 1 -; '!..' brother's irUcJcelerrj ric. How oft gnos memory back to childhocKl, When pickiog beiTieffonlhe Hl ; V , With pail itf band I'd ef rip he W slis Along with little brotner,Will. What cared we for the heats of mramT, With hroad atraw hat tipped o'er our eyes ? For; with those very huckleberries Oar mother made those famous pies ! 1 (' - X" ' ' ' ' X fiee her.nor, dear cherished mother,. With apron on as white as enow, V ner plnmp arms bare up to thej elbow, , - And on her cheeks a ro?y glow ; -I scfem to see her roll the pio crjift, , - . And. fill the plates of largest iBze ; ' For well she knew how hungry children Enjoyed her huckleberry piesr And father, he'd rome in frrffn haying, And starifl by mother rery'near, : ' , And say-"No5!r, wjfo, in all the township ' None make fcuch pies as you o, dear, . . Except, perhaps; my lear old mother ; k . . 'Why, at the Fair, you'd take the prize, ' Corae, children, now we '11 $dl to d inner And have a feast of -.mother's pies." Thoe dinners now I well remember, Within the kitchen large and pool ; Those eurrimer days of our vacation, Wheh we were free of books and school. Ah ! cagi it be of years full thirty ? ' And yet it must be -; how time flies I Since we sat in that farmhouse kitchen And ate, in childhood, mother's pies. Within our modest home is sitting An aged lady, saintly! fair ; 'While at her side my laid and lassie Are looking up with earnest air. i ''Ora'ndjna," they nay, "we picked these berries, i We meant it for a great surprise," . And grandma, smiles and says, ply darlings, I'm not too old to make good pies.1" .." A KIND HEART. The woods were gayly bedecked with their autumnal foliage, and the robins had ceased chirping their but,the brook murmured sweet lays ; on, with its lulling intonation, beneath the rustling branches of the trees, as happily as it did when its banks were luxuriant with summer's green verdure. And it was by thi tiny rustic bridge that spanned ithe stream in the shadow of the trees, 'that Nettie, first met Lennox Vale. He had been listlessly tempting the speck led trout ih' the stream with his rod when shej3aroA,down from.1 the cottage nSar by,oTtch,a pil o'f waf er ; and on meeting the pretty girl he rose from his recumbent position, gallantly doffed his hat, and laughingly demanded her toll to cross the bridge. She blushed pret tily, and would have retraced her steps in dismay had ho not reassured her by a lew joking words, and .to her astonish 1ment filled her pail and carried it tohe cottage for, heir. ' That was the way th? y became ac quainted, and it tyas not long before both were hopelessly in love with leach other, although tho sweet' words, had not yet been spoken which1 would reveal their passion. Her was handsome, and being from New York,- poslesvsed the polished manners of a thor$gh gentle man, w iiile she, reared in the quiet lit tle village of Roeelle, was as innocent and si'niple as a cpuntlry girl could be. He afterward called at the cottage where dwelt Widow Borrowdale a graceful little lady, if possible more beautiful than her daughter. An air of mystery surrounded the ipretty widow, wichas only apparent to Lennox Yale; but he, too, was a mystery to them, as the extent of his confidence was that he was a New Yorker, rusticating a few months' for recreation. He boarded at the hotel in. the village,- but from the day he., met Nettie most" of his time was BTio-nt npiir nor. - V And thus the happyldays of summer ana autumn sped rapidly by. and cold bleak winter approached in biting gusts 1 over the Blue Itidge, at the base of i wlich , the stream wound its sinuous course. And winters approach brought , terror to the widow's hearty for she had been unfortunate all summer ; the bank in,which she had deposited what little money, she own ed had laiied and . left comma her penniless. This news she hicated to Nettie, one evening1, as they sat in the tihy 1 parlor before the cheer ful fire, a few minutes after Lennox had returned to his hotel. j 't do not know yfhat we v shall doj . Nettie dear," she said, dolefully; 3 ?The - few - thousand dollars -were . alL your father left us when ffce died, ?andfthat . money he brought from'England.", ' "From England, mamma ?" queried1 A-fNi3tiefin'surprise.'iV. ' .'- ft .-f "Yes, my dear.. I never told you we are English, did I? , Dear me how rap idly time flies ! Whyertainly 7 am an r English woman, but t Jpu. ere born y here in this housed i And do j6u know vNettie, your grandfather was a noblet manr " . . -v . f . "Why, no, mamma,", replied the, asi toiiishtd trirl. ; I Well, he was," continued Mrs."Borr rowdale: "The story of mv KfW is an uphappy oner but J wiU tell it A briefly.: Your father was tho only child' of Lord Borrowdale, and I was the daughter of a "London merchant.'! , My -father and mother died leavin g me dest ttuta, and I was obliged to earn my bread by teach ing in a private seminary. Your father met me, and falling in . love with each other, we were married; 3y i my husband inenrred the ftiry father, who was an ambitions vol his act of his d man, and had chosen the daughter, of a peer for his wifeJ Considering himself dis honored by his heir marrying so far be neath him in rank, the bid gentleman -..life. ' 'f ;",' "' I i ! disowned his son, and forbade him ever to enter the home of his'' childhood days again.. Your father, Nettie, . was ' as proud as his unjust parent, and though we straggled hard at,first for sustenance, we finally amassed enough money to carry us over the broad Atlantic, and ! we found a comfortable home here where you were born. I "Welles I declare !" ejaculated the girl., This. is a revelation to.; me, mamma. But . my possessing noble blood does not r alter our situation. What shall we do?" ; 4,I cannot tell," replied tho widow, despondingly. . ' , The next r day Lennox? called at the cottage, and Nettie told him their mis fortune. He tried to comfort her as ' j. . ..' , best he could, and then left her. He called several times after ' that,: but seemed to -grow less affectionate, as the time passed by. He left Eoselle for four months, and returned again when the flowers were beginning to bud ;nto beauty with ihe advance of another spring. By this timfe Nettie, and her mother were sorely pressed for money ; they had Jived comfortably through the winter, owing to the kindness of the grocer, who had brought them such groceries as they needed every week. Mrs. Bor rowdale had told the man she had not the money to pay for it; but he smiled, and saying no money was needed, went away with her blessing. This had con tinued until Mr. vale s return inj&Jig, when the grocer su-alj. ijjj the day of Mr, & - r - bearing the post-mark of .New xrrrKitfas handed to Mrs. Borrowdale, and won dering who her correspondent could be ad she had never received a letter in the twenty years she had resided in Amer ica; she opened and read it. Its. con tents seemed to perplex her considera bly ; and her leaving Hosello with Net tie for New York that same day, per plexed the villagers "still more. ! ! j Lennox called during her absence, and he was attired more fastidionsly than he ever appeared before. There was an extreme nervousness in his man ner, too, and when lie found the house 16ckd up, although he appeared to be disappointed, he breathed a sigh of re- ' lief and went away again. ) Nettie and her mother returned to Eoselle the next day, and both seemed to be greatly excited at something which had occurred. Lennox called again in the afternoon, and as he approached the garden he saw Nettie weeding .the flower-beds.' ! A little cry escaped her lip3 when she saw him, and she flew to him with a hearty greeting. Then she noticed how grave he looked, and a chill came over her heart when she thought of his coldness when she. told him of their poverty. Was he a fortune seeker, and: thinking her financially "well off" had been hoping to gain her and her fortune ? 1 The widow's having had a comfortable amount of .money in the bank was no secret, but none knew of her losses a save Nettie and. Lennox besides herself. In her innocence Net tie did hot i imagine that Lennox "was anything else than a poor man, and il he proposed she would have accepted him as such ; but now ' ; He spoke gravely to her as they wan- dered in the shade of tho trees in the garden, and in the course of his conver sation declared he loved her, and asked her to be his own. The sweet words of consent trembled on her lips, but an instant later a thought occurred to her that sent the blodd from her face and left it as white as 6now. She trembled violently, and with a negative answer she burst into a passipn of weeping, and breaking from his embrace ran into the house. i He stood still a moment;, utterly dumbfounded ; then, with contracted brows, he hurried after her, firmly re solved, to hear an explanation of her strange conduct. He found her in the parlor, weeping on her . mother's breast. Then a, dim. idea of why she acted as she ',did crcssed his mind ; but he said,-;-;. j,', ;:.'.'..; .; ;j f-; l,M Nettie, you must explain this. Mrs. Borrowdale, do you think I am a I ortune hunterr t -: - ' .:,L: It "I cannot tell, Mr. Vale," replied the widow, coldly. "If you truly loved jtnyj darling daughter, why did you not con- f ess lit when , she was in her most ... - straightened circumstances ?' . - ; "I will explain," he replied hurriedly. "But first, Nettie, if you truly Jove me, come to my arms." ' ': The young girl hesitated a moment then the sweet emotion that enthralled her very soul proved its strength, and muo ucw ivj xxia cuiui auc, nun uiwvpeu fervently to his heatt while her arms encircled his neck. VfNdw I will ex; :plain," he said, . tnmM ! . dsses, medium tan being! the owdale. -When 1 left falri.te h' ' ... me? to Mrs. Borrowdali you last autumn I was obliged to go fo t .vouars designed atter the Btrie of an New York, as my father had died, leav-1 ?DCnt lrdle are favor' The.v are 'ing me his immense fortune. 1 Whde I ssly worn, forming a pretty throat there, by chance-I saw an advertise Suture and shoulder drapery, ment in the papers for th'e heirs of Lord f: Sllk fianzeand embroidered muslin Borrowdale, who had died in Londonl'0 a slow combination for fall dress leavino- rns titlAnnd fnHnn t hi rmfv?feveninS wear- The , garniture should son, Herbert. Knowing this to be your dead husband's name, i sought ou the lawyer in the city who had inserted the' advertisement, and telling him I thought you were Herbert BorrowdaleV widow,' I advised him td communicate-with you.! This he did, and you received his letter, called on him yesterday, with Nettie,, and proving yourself to be nfcxt of" kin to the departed peer, you received, I think, papers which will give you your rightful fortune. Is it not so?" . f "Yes, yes 1" replied the delighted Mrs Borrowdale. '!Lennox, forgive our unjust suspicions of you. We should never have doubted your good'hearted- ness !" : ' - ' - - t. ' . ' .-: He said n'othingr but kissed Mrs. Bor-1 rowdale, and all that day therie was re joicing in the cottare. - He did not men Hon then that he had paid the village grocer to see to their wants, and it was long after he married Nettie before thfy found it out, and that his cold demeano. was assumed, that they might not sus pect who their benefactor was" in their distress. " . ; ' ' 1 It was necessary for Mrs. Borrowdale ner daughter to go to England to y had married Nettie,' they all three f went. They had little or no difficulty j establishing their identity and gaining their inheritance. It was ascertained; that the bid peer died repentant of his injustice to his only son,' and had used every means of trying to find him and bringiag him to his heart and home again ; but, living quietly in the seclu-. sion of the pretty little Jersey village, it is not strange that Herbert Borrowdale never heard from his father, as they never corresponded. i - And thus we leave our glad tr4o, living luxuriously in a great mansion in Lon- don, once children of misfortune, bht eventually made happy once more Waverly Magazine. A Scheme to Encoiiriage Wedlock. 1 At the next meeting of the Ontario legislature application will be made l&tV the incorporation of the National Mar riage Dowry Association. The objects of the promoters of the scheme is in a-Llf probability to make money, but the re-v suit of their quest of money will un doubtedly be to encourage the man audi the maid to wed. The society first! began its operations in Indiana, and M ow casting its benevolent arms over the bachelors and spinsters in other states, territories, and provinces. In j the words of the circular: the associations is established "to encouraere lawful wedlock, to promote economy, to endchf homes, and to make married life the end and aim of the rich and poor alike." The scheme is as follows : Supposing, John Smith, on the 13th day of Augustyf casts his lot in with this association. pays, in the first place, $5 for his cer4 tificate, and a semiannual paym.en thereafter of $1. Incase some of hi&j co-insurers marry, and there not being sufficient funds in the treasurer's hands: to pay the sum to. which the newly marv ried man is entitled, an assessment of SI is levied all round. These are the payments to which he is. liable. The benefits are that should he marry on the J oi Augusr, looa, ne is enuueao S200. Should his marriage not occiir for fivo years, he woul:d be entitled 'ko 1,000, and so on. We don't suppose that ladies are excluded from the asso ciation. It's a grand scheme. Any young lady who was known to have one of these certificates would be. the ob served of all observers, and themdmired of all admirers. At church and market places she .would not want for swains. j-.ona.on urzano) staveri-sir. It is very difficult! to b1 learned j ; it seems as if people were worn oht on the way to great thoughts, and can nyjtr enjoy them because they are too tired- FASHION SPRAYS. Dres waists with long coat-tails are fashionable in Paris. ' . . Shirred gatherings are much used when the fabrics are fine and supple. ; Laces of all kinds are worn, from point de yenice to imitation edgings, ji White rnoiro satin is very popular and especially when adorned with .flos f icidy embroid- :. It is the height of elegance to have the gloyes somewhat dark, even with e be composed of lace and delicate beaded fringe. , r Thi report is, in the world of ' dress, that feathers will play a Tat her 4 'loud" part in millinery. Long plumes, with their i flues flying thick, will be in de- ;mand; some of the tips are shaded through several tones. . Clouded plush has been introduced Tor f till dress. This style of goods is very j effective and showy. Moleskin plush will be encored next season ; this Ifabric-was very popular last winter. I' It is. now stated that plush will be the favorite material for autumn cha teaux. Fancy feathers will, also figure largely in fall headgear. Tiny chanti ceers . are very important in the trim ming department of the incoming mil linery ; they are madeof impion feath ers -and cock's plumes. I Grecian Beauty, f Mch has been said in praise of Qrecian beauty, and the men are hand some in every sense of the word. We might well imagine ' them to have been models ' of - Phideas and Praxiteles.. Their large eyes, black asiet. snaikl glanceg of fire, hile their lor andgive a dreamy appearance of mel choly. Thei- teeth are small, whi and well set ; a fine regular profile, a pale-olive complexion and a tall, elegant figure! realize an accomplished type of distinction. As to the women, they seem to have left physical perfection to the men ; some possess ; fine yes and hair, ' but as a'rule they have bad figures, and some defect in the face generally spoils' the good features. It is among them, however, that the old oriental customs are most strictly preserved ; while the men'are gradually undergoing the prociess of civilization they, in a moral point of view, remain stationary, and; are just as they were fifty years ago.- tic may, maeea, do saia inai, wun the exception of Athens, the women possess no individual existence, and count as nothing in society. The. . men have reserved -every privilege for them selves, leaving to their helpmates the care, of the house and family. " In the towns, where servants are kept, they are of the poorest class of peasants, who knowj nothing, and receive miserable wajjes. The families are generally largeseven or eight little children-demand- a mother's constant attention. 'The. morning begins by directing the work of each servant, repeating the same i thing a hundred times, scolding, screamintr, even beating them to be understood. In the evening, when the children ; are sleeping, if there remain some, little time, the poor, worn-out mother sits down to her spinning-wheel to spin ,silk, to sew or knit, or, if it be summer-time, to look after her cocoone, ham)V if she has not to do the work of her incompetent servants over again WORDS OF tVLSDOM. Dissolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the mouth, j Learn to fay no! and it will be of more; use to you than to be able to read Latin. ' ! ; "One soweth and another reapeth," is a verity that applies to evil as well as good; vNo better advice could be given an aspirant than the terse little counsel of Emerson : 4 you. want success, suc ceed." : . ' A great step has been gained when one has a high standard for himself, and nfeasures himself on that ideal standard. To cover a bad life and its fruit the evil strive to divert attention from our-;-feelves.by? laying eyil at the door of the innocent. - .. , . .-, ; Bad habits are the thistles of the heart, and every indulgence of them is" a seed from which' will come forth a fcrop of rant weeds, 1 " ' ' 3L Tm . . ullef-Proof Yts. In answer to a correspondent's inquiry. ai to. where he could obtain a steel jacket, a New York Sun reporter visited gunsmiths' shops to learn whether life- saving apparatus was known to the trade as well as life-destroying applian ces. He yisited eight first-class shops of this kind, and no one in them, hid ever heard of such steel jackets made or sold in this country. 'Some "bullet proof fts4 it was said, hal been made at one time by a firm in London, which is now put of the business. Such things are,tnade row in Paris, and might be imported. . ' . At. two shops, one on Broadtfaj, and the other on Maiden lane, it; was said that such jackets had been made in Aniericft. In the Broadway .establish ment the proprietor ' described a vest that had been much used," he ' said, by ifhcers in the late war. The vests were made to order, and sent to the front. Privates never bought them, because they were expensive. Cavalry oflicers especially bought them, not only, be- causo they were heavy, but also because they kept the body as stiff as though it was in a strait jacket. The tailor's work was simply to make strong pock et; on each side , that reached to tho bottom of hi military jacket in front, and well around on each side. . Solid plates ot stfeel were! slipped into the pockets, and when the jacket was but toned the , plates met j in front. They reached from the collar bone to the gioin., The steel plate was little more fhan twice as thick as a sheet of blotting paper. The inventor tested these plates by putting them into an old jacket, buckling it around a tree, and firing at it at point-blank range. . It was found that a twisting ball from a rifle would go through them as though they were sheets of paper, but a pistol ball, even at close range, would be stopped and the plate indented. A bayonet or knife would make no impression. This bullets proof vest weighed abeut five pounds. shop it was eaid it . chain-armor in stock, and the iem to be over anx- ions to receive an order for one. It was more bother than it was worth to make them, he said, since inquiries were made for such wares only three or four times in a year. The inquiries always came irom the southwestern . oiaies. The vests - were made, the proprietor said, in New York by e. man in the em ploy of this firm. The workman's name the proprietor refused to" divulge; say ing that the man was an artist in this and in other ways, and that it it wouldn't be for the interest of the firm to make his name public. The skill required to make these vests, continued the propri etor, lay in the necessity of making a garment, cf steel that would fit. the person so that it could be worn under the clothing without attracting atten tion by any bulging, wrinkles, or bag-1 giness'in appearance. The manufacture of a 6hirt of this armor is begun by linking four very short steel links fihto. akc2ntral circlet of steel. These four links point outward to tho four links of the compass, and into the outer ends are linked other steel circlets, and f o on outward in every direction. By making the links longer or . shorter, or by leaving out one hero and there, the garment, which is sleeveless, is moulded to the artist's designa. The Judicious Waters at Carlbad. Not the least curious part of the effect of these wonderfully impregnated waters are the exactly opposite effects they have on different people. Amus ing dialogues may frequently be heard in consequence.. The daughter of a con spicuous New York publicist had been drinking from the Fredericksbrunn for some time, when, meeting a New Yqrk acnuaintance', a young girl, she aked in astonishment : "What are you drink ing from this spring for?" "To get flesh," promptly responded the other. 'Why," exclaimed the first, indignantly, "I'm drinking it to cet thin." Then the f two girls. tore over to their physician, a celebrated professor from Vienna, and besetihim for deceiving them. He ex plained that the water on certain con stitutions would have one effect and upon' another a directly opposite. The girls retired, by no means convinced of this miraculous discrimination of the springs, but at the fnd cf four weeks the doctor was justified. The stout girl: had lost seventeen pounds of flesh and the delicate girl had gained nine. .. h - r. . i A man must punch over 200 half-dollars' to i get Silver enough" to make sixty cents, and yet some one keeps on punch ing, 1 T" ; " ''Ths'tnaii'wllh ViAel jndgmnt i the man wnose opinion tuziers irvjn jour own.j ; J . ;: A Leadville journalist h shot, so tbat he is 'now spoken of a "the i'oeai leadijor4.- ' In an effort to enferre. in LouK law againtt carrying concealed uvapons, fine ks high as310ti for a pintol .and 8200 jor t slungshot are being imposed. Lidieswithpmsll moutlis sre in favcT in the Sorth this season, and it i feared. that not a peri mmo in witi u left on tno treea5Ho ripn, t , j , Irwin Stark, of JTarboi - Creek k -Erie county, has a' toko (jf trotting Veers, three years old. One of them goes sin gle insid of four minutes. A 6npecticnt"imman prcsnte! her son ith a bed quid Imade of hair cut froml L own head, j It ill go down to posferitv ai a family iiairloom. George Dorn, "anj atorni 'of Erie, became iuddenly eraty in the preenco of a great multitude at an open air meeiiugandannounowl himself tho Son of Cjtl ami appointed to. convert-Ohici and teniisTlvania. 1 Three-' Michigan gils male upap.irt; and i-loned with a yofm marn By go ing to three different ministers, he married all three.1 of .'his cominnions ; and then they went on a tripartite bridal tour. F j M. Darnell, a dwarf, four foot four ies high, caused a sensation in Co inches In tubus, Ga., by appearing in the streets . with a son only 33 inches high, though, nine; years old Thq father has four children, two of wiom are' dwarfish, , while the other twd are of the ordinary height. ; j ; . Temptation is a fearful word. It in dicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is tho ringing of &n alarm bt-ll, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eter nity. Like the feiidilen, sharp cry of fi 1 in tVia wiolif I it cVinnlil rniiun n in UnstftntanAnna nrtivitv. and VirarA " r , - ; j every muscle to its highest tension. rr ' The South Jnvereen anything tor f aal trrereoaratiotrbeir-iiranoiLjr htiiej international diiion Exposition. Hnndreds of workmen areu"rrn5y ami night on tho grounls, and the lumber forjbuilding is sawed on the grounds by steam saw mills that run day and night. The main building i 800 feet in length, with a' central tower 1 00 foot square, wings 400 feet-- in length. This building covers less than half tho floor space of tho other buildings. Tbis is only one of the many huge edihees oing up like magic. The hall; for re ceptions and speaking is 100 feet quare, and a huge double ha'l'for art exhibits is imuch larger. Every inch of room has been applied .for and still other buildings are being planped and execn- ted. dtjw The grounds! havo been sown wnto grassland roads and promenades cut. The beauty of the grounds will be an attractive feature, and fonhtains arid shrubbery have sprung into exist ence where a few weeks ago were the "old red hills of Geircia." "', " How the Prince Obeys Ills Mother. In Europe, as youikno, royalties are nearly all related. When one dies, all the rest go into mourning and suspend pleasure. A common1 result of this ii a little passage of-arms between tho Queen and Prince of: Wales at this mn-j ment. The Duke of Saxe Coburg died two or three days ago, juht wlipn tho G)odwood races were in frill. swing; and wiien the Prince of Wales was enjoving himself very much indfed. at th man- sibn of the Duke of Richmond. In- , stantly the Qaeen telegraphed to the Prince, defiling him to return to Lon don. The Prince sent bak word that i . t he cond weep jnst as freely for the' de parted sond cousin at Goodwood as in Marlborough House. Tho Qieen in mtedouhis hot going to tho races; The Prince replied that ho must ; where-' upon the Queen, in a great rape, tele- graphed positive orders to the Duke of ' Richmond not to allow any dancing at tioodwood House 'during the races. Thns,the Prince goes to the races in" the daytime, but has to content himself without tripping the particularly light and fantastic toe, jwhich he' loves to. wield when any fair dames are about. Ipw bear that he ill go to Cowes . next yeek ; but tho newjpipers have been asked not to allude to his pres ence; as he intends! to be at the regatta almost incognito. The Qaeen. too, being at Osborne,1 would be a trifle too handy Tor, him.' acd. he "would in all probailily find that merrymaking at .. Cowes was followed by fc' little enforced ; piniteiice at Osborne; The Piince has evidently lost noneof his original oread of bis august mother's anger. - -I t i
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