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Y UJjUi.YJ.J2j LENOIR, N. C, WEDNESDAY; MAT 27, 1885. NUMBER 36. Wallace Bros STATESVlLLE, N. C. Wholesale Dealers Geneial Uerchandise Jot- Largest Warehouse and best facili ties for han dling Dried Fruit, Ber- ries, etc,, in c ' ' the State. respectfully Wallace ; i i ,: August 27th, 1884. J. M. Spainhour, QlAbUATX BALTIVpBE DVXTAL OIAKOf LENOIB, N. C; Vaem no impure material for filling teth. Work as low as good work can be done. . Pailanta from diitUnoe JmT Told delay by informing him at what time toe proyoM coming. ..... . i . F. LEE CLIN E, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, nicnomr, rj.c. j Bros UDumiD jorixrs, ATTORNEY - U-LAlf, LEIIOIR, IL C. CLINTON A. CILLEY, Attornoy-AtiaT7f Prsstls? in All Tlao Courts. THE liXD OF THE SKY. .BY A.' M. D. Have you been to Watair;a, the land of the Sky, Where u hanquei of glory is spread H for the eye ; Where the mountains do rear their summits above The storm and the cloud to the re " gions of love ; , Where scenes of enchantment en ravish the soul, ! And reason to rapture surrenders control ? Where waters go dashing down! rocky declines And the hills are covered with ever green vines Woven in a wreath for the hills' rugged brow, Overhanging the dark, deep chasm - below ? Where boasting musicians are wont, to retire When the bird of the mountain tunes up his lyre, And lends to his melody wings that can fly To scatter his song through the land of the Sky ? . Where the air "is freighted with , sweetest perfume Wafted from the flower when' full iui its bloom, And the breezes that float o'er moun tain's tall peak Give back the invalid the rose to his cheek ;t ; And fountains are gushing from every Kill-side All sparkling and cold, a health giving tide, An elixir of health more tempting to sip Than the cup that presses the Bac . chanars lip. Ye seekers of pleasure, oppressed by ' the heat, Come to the mountains, 'tis a pleas ant retreat. Ye ones that are feeble, why linger and die ? r Come up to this beautiful land of the Sky, . here activity is restored to the limb And lustre comes back to the eye that is dim. THE CAUSe"nOT LOST. Col. M. L KcCorkle's Memorial Address at Statesrillo. The history of the war will not be fully written. ; For a long time to come it cannot be impartially writ ten. The world worsnips the con queror. The vanquished often fail to get their just meed of praise. If the Confederates had succeeded the world would have called them pa triots "and heroes. Their praise would have been on every lip.' Over come by force of numbers they sur rendered in good faith at Appomatox" Court House. It issaid that on that day the Confederate cause was lost. It is sometimes called "The Lost Cause.'! The cause for which they fought was not lost ! I don't mean the doctrine of secession. I don't mean the institution of invol untary slavery. They were lost and lost forever. But I do mean the rights of the States as understood and explained by Jefferson, Madison and Munroe, Jackson and Henry Clay the doctrine of local self government ; the doctrine that all power is reserved to the States, not expressly delegated, to the general government nthat this government is not a nation, but a republic, and must be governed by the people of the States ; that any tendency to ward consolidation is dangerous and subversive of liberty ; that the con stitution must be held inviolable. These are some of the principles for which they fought. These are some of the principles for which the best blood of the South was shed. Didn't Ton Pals. The court and the jury, as well as the general public, enjoy the scene when a lawyer, in an attempt to badger or browbeat a witness comes off second best in the encounter. A correspondent recalls an amusing in cident of this sort which happened a few years ago in a court room. The plaintiff, who was a lady, was called upon to testify. She got along very well and made a favorable impress ion on the jury under the guidance of her counsel, until the opposing counsel subjected her to a sharp cross-examination. This so confus ed her that she became faint and fell to the floor in a swoon. In cross examining the next witness thecoun sel asked - f . Did you see the plaintiff faint a short time ago ? - . j t Yes sir. ! -: People turn pale when they faint, don't they ? ; , , U No, not always. ( -v -. Did, you ever hear of a case of fainting ' where the party did not turn pale ? ! Yes, sir. ' . Did you ever see such a case r ; ? Yes, sir. ; - - When? About a year ago. . Where was it-?-' In this city. Who was it ?' 'Twas a negro, sir. - r . Peal after peal :. snook the court room in which the venerable Judge joined. The defendant's counsel lost his case, not to say his temper. NO CONTRADICTION. Ashev'Pe '"t'zeu. A very intelligent gentleman, em inently respectable from his age, his experience, and his strong good sense, somewhat sharply twitted us yesterday for the seeming contradic tions in the conduct of the Citizen in its relations to Western North Carolina, now lauding it as the very treasure house of all that is valua ble in natural production, again demonstrating its poverty by illus trations' drawn from the importa tion of articles of prime neeec-sity for the support of life and comfort. We feel the force of the rebuke, not as a reproach to our good judgment or veracity, but as a reproach to the population which gave point to the Comment. It is no fault of nature that our claim for the fertility of Western Carolina is not sustained. That is the faulfeof the inhabitants, more from the fifrce of circumstan ces than j from any deficiency in richness of soil or capacity to high production. Only two or three jears have passsed since markets were opened up to this section. Be fore then there was no stimulus to the production of more than was necessary for the support of life or the supply of neighborhoods. Richness of land, as well as its cheapness and unlimited extent, brought carelessness and waste. Thrift, care and economy were not considered because not necessary. Since population has flowed in, since towns hp.ve come into being, de mand has increased which has stag gered old habits and systems to supply, and while we stand up stoutly to all we . have said about the fertility, the advantages and the temptations of Western North Caro lina, we ai;e subject to the seeming humiliation of recording its depend ence in part on "olher sections for necessary supplier. The humilia tion is not real as it might be, be cause it is exienuated by causes which explain defects. A mountain country cannot compete, with a plain country as a grain producer. There is a limit beyond which it is impossible to pass. Every accessi ble acre is in itself as productive as aval ice or amb'tion might wish fo reach. But these acres are relative ly few as applicable to the uce of the small grains. Therefore an in .create of popular lion may compel, in unpropitious years., to re-oi t be yond its own limits. The mountain country, as a rule, cannot be a grain exporter. It must be content if it can supply its own wants. But it can be made emphatically a stock country. It can supply beef for expo-i. as it does now on a mod erate scale. It can infinitely enWge its production of cattle. It can spare us the mortification of sending to KnoxviHe for beef for our tables. It could spare us be shame of send ing to New York for our but'er and cheese. It could spare us the great er shame of sending to Maine for our hay. - All thee things are in deed the subject o shame, because this ,is go unmistakably a grass couniry, that it bespeaks charac ter to the most unpractised eye. Whether in valley or on mountain ti le or top gti . g.ows luxuriantly for the mere scdin. There is no limit to stock or dairy facilities if wisely applied. Nature aud the coun rv are not in fault All rests with the people. Industry, thrift, good judgment in the people will vindicate a hih opinion of Western North Carolina. Fruuv potatoes, glasses, ihe daL-y, together with stock raising, combined with miner al and forest wealth, uunish mate rial enough, properly utilized, to juSwily the mopt extravagant eulogi ums on Western Nor h Carolina. Our old iilend must not abandon all hope bcause things do not woik to suit his ideas. He must noli give up all, and spend all his time mus i ig sadly by the brink of a fish pond over the short comings of the pres ent. Even he may live to see a bet : ter day. . '"' : ' ... j KILLED FOR T DOG. Liberty, Va., May 17. About 11 o'clock yesterday morning Thomas A. Jeter, of this place was shot and fatally wounded by II. W. Terry, of Richmond, son of Gen. W. It. Terry, superintendent of the Virgihiapen itentiary. Some time ago Terry gave Jeter a dog, and Jeter named it afte? Terry's sister, but no one knew that this had given offense. Terry was on a visit to his sister, Mrs. ,E. T. Walker, who lives a short distance from this place. He came to town yesterday to attend to some business, and went irom the Wind sor Hotel io Jeter's tobacco ware house and was'sEanding in the yard in- front of the door, when Jeter came to the door and in a peifectly friendly manner asked howliis fath er was. Terry's father, Gen. Terry, had .been stricken , with paralysis, and was one of Jeter's warm ft lends. Terry e was dying. Mr. W. S. Jones, who went i with TeiTy to the warehouse, said : .'No, he is better. xerry saia: ; jmo, ne is dving." I Jeter then playiully said : "Why don't you come up to see your. KinioiKS r meaning, n is mierrea, why he did not come up to see the doe which he had given him. Ter ry immediately drew his pistol and,; fired beiore Jones, wno was stano ingnear Terry, could interfere. The first shot ttok effect just below the point of the breast bone and ranged upward. Jeter &creamed and turn ed to go to the office; in his ware house, and the second shot was fired and took effect just above the left lung. Jeter did not speak after he was shot and only lived a few mo ments. Terry was tires' ed, but threatened to shoot, Jones if he did not get but of his way. Mr. Knight,' who wa? standing near, - says Terry said immediately after he did the shooting : 'I have been up here a month to do that, and I have done it." .To another peisou he - said : "He (meaning Jeter) knows why I shot him," and to another, that it was because he named Ihe do- after his sister. There is fear that the friends of Jeter will take Teirv out of jail and lynch him. TerryTs f i iends say his mind has been unbalanced for some time. ! He had two navy pis tols, and it is said he has boen prac ticing for some time, and was so ex pert that he could hit a ten-cent piece as a target. Teiry afterwards expressed great sorrow at his deed, and wished it had been , he that was killed instead of Jeter. Tha mur dered man was about 40 years old, a widower, and leaves two children. Terry is about 22 or 23, and was ed ucated at the Virginia Military In stitute. -I Lyxchburg, Va.. May 18. The excitement caused by the unprovok ed murder of T. A. Jeter by H. W. Terty, at Liberty, Saturday, receiv ed a fresh impulse at the funeral of Jeter at his home in another part of the county, and at 2 o'clock this morning a party of twenty disguised men gained possession of the jail by force and ban je;l the . murderer. Jeter was the ' most popular man in the county and his.funeral yesterday was very largely attended. Terry is a son of W. R. Terry, a prominent man in the State. ! The muideier is said to have been insane, but other cases recently tried in the State in whch murderers were cleaved on claims of insanity made the lynchers more determined. The lynchers are thought to be relatives of Jeter's. The Prospect for a Very Pretty Fighi in Alexander. :. Correspondence of tiie Lanc'mii'-k. ; . j At the meeting of i the county, commissionerf to-day, n. W." Mays, ex-sheriff and ex-treasurer,i filed his ' account, against the county for com missions as county treasurer for the amount of $1210." : The county has had no county treasurer for the past five years or more, for the reason thnt j- the magistirttes and p?ople thought Sherilf M:fs wys to act as treasurer and ; cliarjre no commis sions. The claim -was laid over until the regular-meeting, jrbt Monday in June, but I think l he board in tend to fight all the claim except for the past year, as: the' have had a final settlement at the end of every year before giving the tni books to Sheriff Mays; I will ). give your readers a full report of the next meeting. If -the aini is allowed it will throw our little county badly in dent, and it will leave things in a bad shape for any one to, be elected to an ofiic6 in this county by prom-, ising to do a part of the work with out pay. I think that it would have been much "better for our county to have had a treasurer all! the time, and then our claims would have been worth dollar for dollar, and you would not have earned them in col lecting them. I' think Ihe people will stand by the commissioners in resisting the payment of j all of this claim unless it is for the, last year. If all reports be true there is a good prospect for a law suit between the ex-sheriff and the commissioners, as the ex-sheriff has already employed able counsel to press his claim. A.IjEck " Taylorsville, N. C, May 11, 1885. Seeding to Grass. Our greatest need now; is, to grow more grass ; jiot more j acres, but more to the acre, leaving a larger area of ground for fodder and other crops raised bn a mixed farm. This can only be done by better prepara tion of the soil, and better seeding. Instead of throwing the seed in a haphazard' way upon the hard, weather-beaten surface of the ground in the spring, the seeding should be Eostponed until the grain is cut and arvested. . The . soil is then to be plowed with a shallow furrow, thor oughly well harrowed, and made fine and compact. The seed must be sown, and immediately j brushed in with a smoothing and brush harrow, which is ; easily made. This levels and firms the soil, as well as spreads and covers the seed. ' It is well to use this harrow crosswise of the har row marks, and across . the line of sowing, so as to spread the seed more evenly. It is better still to sow the seed both ways, half each way, if the sower is not able to ' spread it quite evenly. -The even sowing is very ; important, because bare spaces are a great injury in two ways; one, that the ground is vacant; and will pro duce weeds . in the bare.spots ; the other, that the grass is loo crowded where it is too thickly sown. Grass seed, if sown as here directed, will start up quickly Arid' grow rabidly ; if the seeding is done in i J uly or early in August, the young grass will be strong enough to resist the winter safely, and a heavy crop will be the result. TEE C.F. &T.V.L.B. M.oufrctarer' CecefH, ' , ' - i Of the many enterprises illustrat ing the progressive spirit of North -Carolina, and promising j great re sults, there is no one which attracts more attention than, the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railway, whose construction is being so vigorously pushed by the energetic president Mr. Julius A.. Gray, of Greensboro, N. C. Whether it is because the road is essentially a North Carolina road, running diagonally across the State, bringing into close relation sections far distant and totally diff erent, arid effecting an inter-change of every product of North Carolina soil and waters ; or weather it is be cause the people are rejoiced to see the approaching realization of an old idea and the success of an enter prise that, for thirty y(!?lrs, has been struggling with backsets and perverse fate; or whether it is because it is the only road in North Carolina which is owned, .officered and con trolled by individual North Caroli nians, built by North Carolina mon ey, and operated for the develop ment solely of North Carolina towns; whether it is because of either or all of these facts, It is noticeably true that the people of the Sta;e are particularly interested in the build ing of nthis great work of internal inprovement. I Anecdot8 of Judge Thomas Ruffin. 1 eakmviKe Echo. About 43 years ago Judge Ruffin, went to school at Shady Grove, in Rockingham county, to Mr. Samuel Smith. Across the river about a mile and a half from the academy in the rich bottoms of the Mayo, was a fine .melon patch, to which the boys occasionally made clandestine visits. The widow who. owned the patch had two pretty daughters, sprightly and lively and full of fun. Ruffin occasionally called on these young ladies, and on one occasion the theft of the melous was spoken of. The young ladies told young Ruffin that they thought the students of Mrj Smith were the robbers. - Ruffin at once defended the "boys" fi-oni the unjust suspicion and 'promised that if it was so he would use his influ ence to stop it. A few days after wards a negro girl - came from the melon patch with a "handkerchief which she had fou nd there and gave it: to the' young ladies. In one cor ner was the name "Thomas Ruffin" The mother of the young" ladies' se lected ihe finest melon she could find, tied it up in the handkerchief and sent it to Ruffin next day-by one of her sons who attended' the schools It cured Ruffin from mo lesting melon patches, and it is aid he never could face the young la dies again. . ;Nangiiy Major Tales. Char otte Demof rt . Miss Endicott, the War Secreta ry's daughter, is said to be one of the most beautiful women in Wash ington.. Her complexion is pure and white, her eyes large and brown and her figure so says a lady corres pondent, "exquisite in rounded grace." Washington Society Papet. Why, that's nothing for beauty compared to some of the backwoods girls. .Mr. Sam Jones, of Pinch Gut township, has a girl who is one of the most beautiful women that never saw Washington. Her com- fdexion is pure and red, her eyes arge and just a little crossed to make her interesting, and her figure plump with no hollow in the back, and her feet oh, they are lovely" long and flat and not pigeon-toed. But, to cap the climax, she wears high-neck dresses.' Now let the Washington gals stand aside for a 170 pounder who can rock a cradle. Plowing Corn. J. W. Vandlver In AvbrriUe Citizen. Our brawny armed farmers have very little to do with the govern ment of the country, but a good deal to do with its support. Any thing expediting their opearations is a public benefit. Corn being a leading crop for these hills, I want to give my fancy and experience about its cultivation. These lands are active enough to make better yields than farmers generally gather ; and the failure is attributable first, to leaving the plants too thick on the ground, and second, to excessive plowing. Rows five feet wide, and one plant every two feet in the row is sufficiently crowded. The most successful corn raisers on the conti nent intersperse the plant still more. The soil should be well broken, pul verized and cleaned, like men do for tobacco, before the corn is planted. Then one plowing with a very nar row plow is sufficient. Twelve days after the plowing a sharp-toothed one horse harrow should be run through the rows, and twelve or fifteen days thereafter a light one-hor.se cultiva tor run twice along each row con cludes the plowing. ? Instead of "stirring the roots," as some nsay ought to be done, the delicate: root lets whose important function - it is to absorb the nutriment that devel ops plant, should not be interrupted. : The surface should be kept clean and periodically "stirred," so that a crust should not prevent the circu lation to the roots of certain atmos- Eheric (properties. Many of the very est planters now in the cotton-belt, furnish stock to their tenants until their fields are well plowed and plante4, and then withdraw them and allow said tenants to' complete the cultivation with the hoe. I hae seen men plowing corn for the fourth time in this country,' when t io plant was tasseling, and at the enc of a row kick off his plow a bunch yf white cern roots as large as a bi-ear of corn. Now if that can belione without injury to the forthcoming yield of corn, nature varies in her general operations. Bitte Milk Causa and Prevention. Iherje are several causes for bitter mil k . j The most prevalent is the presence of ragweed or other bitter weeds iki the nay. This is almost always the case whenrowen or after math hay is fed, and at times when corn f dder from a weedy field is used. The flavor of ragweed is so persistent that it ' appears in the !ream and butcer and spoils the lat ter for ise. This is to be expected, because the flavor of ragweed and other p ants allied to it'is due to an essential oil, which will naturally combing with the cream and remain in the bjitter. The flavor of it also affects Jthe butter in the fall from cows pasturing in meadows. The only rerhedy ' for this defect is to a void tbje cause. Another cause in which ml seem to agree is that in certain Conditions the milk of farrow cows will be bitter. This peculiar flavor i perhaps changed by some change n the character of the milk which indicates that the secretion is not pur$, and that milking should cease, pther opinions are to the effect tnat the cow is not in good health ahd the products of some dis order afe being discharged in the milk; arl occurrence which frequent ly happens, and which shows how necessary it is to guard against any injurious use of the milk of diseased cows. Cows suffering from tuber culosis, r consumption of the lungs, wPl continue to give milk copiously, buV its flavor is exceedingly dislv greeable and nauseous at times, be ing mawjkish and bitter, and quite unlit for use. It is c rrtain that milk is made bit ter by premature decomposition pro duced by the remains of stale milk in the c devices of the pans. . In all the?e cas is the remedies .or themeans of prevention are obvious. No wood en utensils should be used in milk ing or in! setting milk. Wood ab sorbs the milk into its pores, and when L 1 pail is scalded, this milk becomes if adulated, ferments and de composes, and. will surely injure the ' milk." by. infecting " it with a leaven of putridity. Tin pails and pans should frst be washed with cold wa ter, themwith hot water and soap to remove the grease, then rinsed, and finally scalded with boiling hot wa ter, wiped with clean dry towels, and afterwards placed out of doors to air in ithe sunshine. Interesting Account of a Mountain Trip. Mt. Zion, May 15. To ihe Euitor of TJie Lenoir Topic: Siuce my last items to your inter esting paper, I have been on a visit to friends "beyond the mountains." Spent a night quite pleasantly ; with Maj. W. W. Vannoy and enjoyed myself finely conversing with him and his estimable lady and family. Went t ) the city of Boone, where I had the pleasure of meeting and conversing with many friends whom I had not before met for over fifteen years, auong whom was your, able correspondent, 'Hal," who is look ing well and is about as large and fleshy as ver. j Here I also met D. F. Raird, Watauga's popular and enterprisi tig sheriff, who has grown considerably since I parted with him on my way to Oregon over fifteen years ago.j He. is now a fine,"portly looking gentleman. Hele I hiet your Sugar Grove cor respondent, "N. N." and accompa nied him to his home and spent the night quite pleasantly with him and his estimable family. I next visted the interesting family of Sheriff Baird on Watauga river and spent a day or tw quite pleasantly and was kindly entertained by them. Visited Jacob F. tVagner and his estimable family and spent a few days and nights with them quite pleasantly. While in this locality I think I met your interesting correspondent, "Aunt Peggy," though I am not sure of it f but there is - one thing of which 1 am sure, and that is, I would like very much to occasionally hear from 'her through The Topic. Visited my friends, Joel Norris and W. Hf Norrisyof Soda Hill, and spent part of a day and night with my old friend and comrade in arms, J. H. Taylor, at the mouth of Meat Camp, and passed the ., time quite agreeably with him and his estima ble family. s ' During my stay "beyond the mountains" the weather was quite cool, so much so, that trout fishing was out oil the question, but cool as it was, the! farmers were busily en gaged in putting in their crops of corn, which I presume will be larger than usual owmg-to the poor pros pect for a bountiful harvest of small 'grain. -:.:;;-jylv:;-.;'-i.;-V':- s , The Topic still continues to reach us in due t,ime, and is quite a wel come visitor. T. C. L. : TEE EKD CF TEE VC3L0. N. N. Explains Uat Es does est C:;!ila at tka Dispehsatlsss cf . ProTiissci. Scoar Geove, N. C, May 4. To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic: I was surprised, when I read in The Topic of April 22, of "Old Hal's" reflections on my musings in mr correspondence to The Topic, Marcn 25. It does seem passing strange, that a correspondent of "Old Hal s" intelligence, should so readily jump at a conclusion that missed the mark so far as 'to misrepresent the mo tives, that prompted the ideas set forth in the aforesaid correspond ence. First Hal says : "He has lived in Watauga 20 years, and his neighbors have sung the same old song every spring, "there will be nothing made thisyear.' " We'll say I have lived in Watauga 65 years. Don't remem ber that I or my neighbors have sung Hal's old song oftener than every passing decade of years. Then he seems to put me in false colors and ascribes to me the spirit of mut tering against the will and Provi dence of God. He should remem ber we read in Romans, ."0 man, who art thou that replieth against God." Therefore why, why should we murmur, but rather rejoice in the sure word of promise of the Lord, for we read in 2nd Peter, "the Lord is not slack concerning his promises a3 some men count slack ness," &c. . 'Again Hal says, "N." N. predicts that the time of mundane affairs is about to collapse." Now he mis understands my meaning ; in fact I did not say I knew or even thought the end would be today, next week next year, or when. Why should I or any one, for we read Mark, "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven. Neither the Son, but the Father." But we read in 2nd Peter " hat one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one .day." . Again Hal says I bring to bear on this serious subject the redness of the sunset (hazy veil); says he can't see why this should prove the end. We read in Luke, And thero shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars." . , Then we read in Matthew, "And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto Him privately, saying tell us, when shall these things be ? and what shall be the sign of thy com ing, and of the end of the world ? and Jesus answered and said unto them, "Take heed that no man de ceive you. For many shall come in iny name, saying I am Christ, and shall deceive many, and ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars Nation shall rise against nation, and king dom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places." Again Hal says, "suppose it (the end of time) comes, and time and earth shall be no more, who can pre vent it ? why be alarmed." Oh! how absurd are such remarks, 'fyrho can prevent ifr? why be alarmed," as much as to say I resist God, and am awfully alarmed at "the fullness of time," when I only meant that the signs of the times do begin to show forth the close of this "-dispen--sation" . and we should heed the warnings and admonitions of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He says, "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of, the Son of man be," and "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come, therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not, the Son of . man cometh and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world-for a wit ness unto all nations, and then shall the -end come. These blessed, glo rious and divine admonitions teach us this grand and important lesson, "be ye also ready." In conclusion I will add that I am waiting and trusting that the Lord in his own time as it. seemeth good to him, will fulfill all his precious promises according to his own good' will and pleasure, and that I am glad that 1 live in the end of the nineteenth century, that when I die r I will be nearly six thousand years nearer the general resurrection than the days of Adam when he was cre ated and put in the garden of Eden. We read in Matthew that Jesus says "Watch therefore ; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing." In the words of an old Mother of Israel, "Blessed is the Lord, unto Him be all the power and glory of earth and heaven, time and eternity, now and forever, Amen." 1 . Having written my defense and given as full and plain an explana tion as I can I hope that I will be fully understood and not misrepre sented, and as I had not the least idea or thought that the thoughts expressed in my correspondence of March 25, would lead to this dis cussion and as I have no desire to continue this discussion, .this will close my side of the question. : ;;;;':'-::V;--SN..II, , The wife's pathway in life h gen erally a buy way. f