VOLUME X.
lenoir, n. c, Wednesday;" july 22, 1885.
NUMBER 44.
Wallace
Bros.,
ST?ATESVILiLE, N.C.
WholesalE Dealers
General Merchandise.
-lot-
' Largest Warehouse
and best facili-
& . S -to-J
ties for han
dling Dried Fruit. Ber
ries, etc.. in
the State.
RESPECTFULLY
JMRl'UFi nh' If
August 27th, S84.
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J. M, Spaiuliour,
LENOIR, IT. C.
t?tca bo import material for filling toetb.
Work as low as good work
can be done.
FatlenU from diaUnM MJT
old four by informing blta u what tuna
they propoM coining.
P. LEE CLIN E,
iTTORNEY.-AT-LAW,
ATTORNEY - AT -LAW,
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VJjlTJ'I'f irj V- UAillW!
waimcsr
Icc ia JLl Do Courts.
JOYS.
B B.KV. B. L. BMXK. .
Tbe Joys of earth bow sweet they are!
When all la calm around;
And nothing cornea to hedge our way
And trouble ara not found.
To fallen men, then life Is sweet.
While joy. around them stay;
And they are merry on tbe street
Of time, fr m day to day.
8weetly their days are passing by.
Crowned with festivity,
While many are mixing the err,
I1a lost eternally."
i -
We say the jovs of earth seem sweet.
And make .ife sweet too ;
But they oon pas-, and thm we meet
Trvubl, and they not few.
Th' re ia a plac where joya last
Forever and forever, ,
Tbnir troubles are forever past
And do not coiue, never.
Then let us seek this joy above ;
Then let na "watch and pray,"
That we may rest in joy and love, .
In the brign. realms of day.
FORTY YEARS IN A TRAKCE;
OR, : y
v '; Old Sij in a Caie.
Bakersyille, N. 0., July 8.
To the Editor of The Lenoir Topic :
A long time ago, "when this coun
try wu8 irst being settled, there liv
ed a man by the name of Si. Haw
kins. The white settlers were few
and far between ; the nearest one to
old Si.'s was about tenor twelve
miles, but the Indians were a great
deal nearer and not quite so friend
.ly. The Indians would often visit
old Si. when he was asleep and steal
his stock. After being harrassed,
vexedand losingnearly all his stock,
he concluded to build a stockade
out of locust posts ; ic was to be In
dian high, bear strong, and wolf
tight. So he hitched up his ox team
one morning and drove to a small
rich cove, where there was plenty of
nice" young locust trees. Old Si.
was working away faithfully, pre
paring his posts, when a heavy rain
came up ; seeing that he was going
to get wet, old Si. crawled into a
small cave nearby on the side of the
mountain. r V.
He had been in the cave but a few
minutes when a peculiar looking
bird flew thrice around him ; it re
sembled an owl but was not half as
large. Every time the bird flew
around old Si., he inhaled a strange,
peculiar odor, growing stronger ever
time the bird flew around. At first
it frightened old Si. somewhat, but
he soon ) began to get stupid and
sleepy and laid down. In a few
minutes he was unconscious of his
surroundings
While in this unconscious, trance
like state, he wandered far away
through space, passing distant suns,
moons and worlds without number.
He passed beyond the star-lit sky,
saw beautiful gardens, legions of
angels and heard the sweetest music
that ever, fell from, the lips j of re
deemed souls. Old Si. . was so en
chanted by all that he had seen and
heard that he attempted to enter
one of the beautiful gardens but he
was hurled by one of the angels at
the gate, down ! down ! through un
known space and an immeasurable
distance j ijntil ; he fell suddenly jin
the'iriOutb'of a cave in' ah unknown
world.
Then old Si. awoke, rubbed his
eyes, and went but of the cave he
had been in, but what was his aston
ishment when Jbe,saw that all of his
Jdiretrpoitsi were decayed, all- the
irons rusted off his cart but the tires,
and they were standing upright and
alone. The wood works of This cart
were all decayed except the tongue,
and it was so affected that it could
not speak ! Kivette.
' . Washington gossip. .
Greentboro Patriot.
"Coot" Jones has been appointed
Chief of Division in ..the .Customs
Bureau, Treasury ' Department.
This Appointment was tendered A.
W. Graham, and subsequently J. A.
Lockhart, of Anson.r! Both declined
on the ground that the salary $2,000
wag not equivalent to their law prac
tice. . V, ' ., ' :,' .
Col Staples has the .refusal 'of a
judgeship in Arizona or an appoint
ment as , Chief of Division ;m the
Treasury Department. " He will take
the judgeship. The salary is $3,000.
The appointment will be made next
week. . "'" '.'' ' -
Babyhood for July urges upon
parents the importance of "labell
ing" little children by always mark
ing their full names and addresses
in indelible ink on some easily-accessible
part of their clothing, such as
the f ihfefde of r their , co4Iar:'band.
Therecari be no doubt" that such a
custom would be fruitful of many
good results, and go far toward alle
viating the anxiety of parents in
cases of their little ones straying.
away from home, or becoming lost
fdent
ortrtnnrtfl
mntW and. in the vanetv of top-!
UVUV, 7 - - i
ica treated by ats contributors and
correspondents, proves its ability to,
fulfil ita avowed intention io become
a channel fartEe best thoughts xf
all who study the highest interests
of child-life. A Among its leading
articles are fTerBaby that must go
to the Counts," by Marion Har
land, and "The Quantity of Food
. Eequired in infancv," by Prof. J.
Lewir Smith;, Physician to the
a number; $1.50 a year. 18 Spruce
Street, New York.)
DUCK CREEL
A Citizen of Duck Creek, Alexander County,
Thinks his Neighborhood has been
; Siandered-An Open Letter:
in Reply.
Little River, July 13.
To the Editor of Tlie Lenoir Topic:
Allow me to interest your readers
with a few lines." I find in your
paper an instrument disgracing my
neighborhood and country, headed,
"Duck Creek Outlaws," headed by
Marley, on the line between Alex
ander and Caldwell counties, j I will
inform you that there is no such a
crowd as you describe ; if there is it
is unknown to the writer of this.
You say for years this crowd has
been banded together and has carri
ed on illicitly the manufacture and
trade of whisky until the whole
neighborhood is ruined and de
bauched. . f j
I was born and raised on j Duck
Creek, in one mile and a quarter of
the Caldwell line and 'can inform
you that we have as peaceable a set
tlement as there is in any part of the
adjoining country. We have peace
and plenty. We have . a good a
Sunday School as there is in Cald
well or Alexander counties and we
have as prosperous a Church at Do
ver, in one quarter Of a mile of the'
Caldwell line, as you will find in any
country. I
You say that we have a gang that
dares not testify against each other.
If there if any such gang they do not
stay in this locality. By what you
say if a man lives on DuckjCreek
he dares not tell the truth1 and,'
again, if he lives on Duck jCreek
and was to get out from home he
would be arrested for burning Clip
pard or for breaking jail. )
There are just as good citizens on
Duck Creek as there are in Lenoir
town or any any other town, and
just as ready to submit to and execute
the State laws as any people jin the
State and would be the Federal laws,
if they were controlled by huest
and respectable men. We are Dem
ocrats on Duck Creek from one end
to the other, but if such men as
John Clippard and Bob Teague and
the very scrapings of God's creation
is to execute the revenue law we
squirm to submit to them. " We vot
ed for Cleveland, hoping the! scala
wags and carpet badgers would have
to step down and out and go to
work, but we find to our surprise to
the contrary. We want thej laws
administered fairly and squarely by
honest men and men of good char
acter, men that has stood io the
front until Cleveland had taken his
seat. .
I have seen no band of men col
r logued together until, last week, I
saw a crowd, said to be revenue offi
cers, headed by Bob Teaguej pass
my house going up Duck,, hunting,
they said, for an illicit still and it is
reported they found an old still
house that has not been in use for
ten years and they was so hungry
for whisky that they gnawed all the
bark off the old house logs and, be
cause they could not find anyj they
forsaken Teague and left him to
make his way as best he could.
As to Marley heading n crowd on
Duck, it is an infamous lie. Marley
does not live on Duck Creek, j You
may think by what I say that I am
upholding, jail breaking and- barn
burning, but I am opposed to any
such thing. If I. had the wisdom of
Solomon and the penmanship of
Jerry Black I could not explain iny
feelings toward such depredations.
I have seven promising little chil
dren and don't intend them to lie
under such reports. I
Sir, you must give me either pub
licly or privately the author of the
writing headed "Duck Creek Outlaws,"-that
is in your last j issue. ,
Give me the author. If it wasj your
self let me knqw. and if it was any
body else let me know -who ft was.
You may think I am a friend to il
licit distilling. Sir, I am as much
opposed to it as any good old fash
ioned Democrat. 1 1 will close, hop
ing to hear from you in your next
issue. O r-M.' PennellU
. ,; A. LETTER IX REPLY. ! ...7.
Lenoir, N. C, July 15, 1885. t
My Dear Mr. Pennell ; I re
ceived your letter of the 13th inst.
I fully appreciate your feelingai. One
is prone to make one's own neigh
borhood law-abiding and respectable
and to take umbrage at criticisms.
I did not know that you lived on
Duck Creek and it goes without say
ing that such men as Mack Pennell
are not to be classed with the; out
laws whom I condemn. f iLot 'saved
Sodom. You ask for my author. I
can give you a dozen ; it is the common-talk,
here and is I substantiated
by good men from Alexander , coun
ty.' I am, of course, myself respon
sible for the publication; but, if T
were to try, I could bring up dozens !
of witnesses to prove every thing ' I
charge in The Topic. ; Such men as
yon, perhaps, v know; little of these
things these lawless men would not
dare to interfere with you, but I
repeat it, the poor and the humble
are so in dread of these men j that
they are afraid to swear the i truth
against them in Court. i
Ho w many citizens of Duck, Creek
are now lying in the woods and
dodging the revenue officers and the
sheriff of Alexander; who has : war
rants charging them with rescuing
Calloway Marley ? Note this care
fully : No good citizen will distill
whisky illicitly and no good citizen
will transgress or evade any law.
You cannot deny ? that too many
Duck Creek men are blockading and
that some of them are dodging . the
sheriff of Alexander, who wants
them for rescuing Marley. If they
are hot guilty why do they ' run ?
Clippard may be a bad man but he
has a right to the protection of law.
You are a good citizen, you want to
raise your family right you would
not be a Pennell if you did not.
Then, my dear sir let the good peo
ple of Duck Creek, these Church
members and patrons of the Sunday
School, join hands and frown down
these bad men who give a bad repu
tation tp your settlement. Let them
understand that the best elements of
society, the moral and well-meaning
people, intend to rule public senti
ment and that the lawless must take
back seats and reform. These wag
ons that go almost every week to
Hickory with whiskey and . brmg
back corn, these threats to the jailer
of Alexander county they are all
known and they give a bad name to
Duck Jreek. . r , ' '
I honor your manhood in 'writing
over your own name and your article'
shall be published. By ;:the same
mail I received another letter from
. Little River from a man who was
ashamed or afraid to sign his name.
He abused me and spoke ill of every
body that is opposed to Marley and
his gang and said if his letter was
not printed I should "hear from him
again." lam not John Clippard
to be scared and run away by
threats from a coward who skulks
in ambush and is afraid to show his
face. I may be mistaken in reading
it as a threat, but if he did mean to
threaten me and you find him out,
please tell him for me that I am al
ways to b found at my office during
business hours, and what I do I am
neither afraid nor ashamed to ac
knowledge. Again, Mr. Pennell, I sincerely
believe that you are an honest, hon
orable man, and I beg you to think
seriously over this matter and ask
yourself if I was not correct and I
also ask that, if you find I was right,
you Will join with the f riends of law
and order and give the force of your
influence to rectifying this disorder.
I hope you agree with me that it is
not the part of a good, citizen to
break the revenue laws and to block
ade whiskey and brandy. Then ask
yourself--'1,' Are there any Duck
Creek men who dodge the revenue
officers, and if so, how many ? 2,
Are there any Duck Creek men who
are charged with that outrageous
rescue of Marley from Alexander
jail, and if so, do they evaile arrest?
If you answer these questions in
the affirmative you must acknowl
edge that TnE Topic is right and it
is your duty, as a good citizen, to
join with us, for this state of affairs
must and will be stopped, and these
crimes punished no matter who suf
fers. Sincerely your friend,
W. W. Scott, Jr.
Editor Lenoir Topic.
Assessing Railway Franchises.
-News and Observer.'
Yesterday the State board assessed
the value of the' yarious railways in
the State. Notices will be sent the
various counties in which there are
lines of railway, giving the mileage
in each, and the assessed value per
mile. The board ascertained the
total length of -thf lines to be as fol
lows and the valuation pen mile as
given :"
North Carolina railroad, 226 2-10
miles, $1,000 per mile ; Northwest
ern North Carolina, 26 13-100, $700;
Piedmont, 44 12-100, $1,500 ; At
lanta and Charlotte . Air-Line 46,
$1,000; Wilmington, Columbia &
Augusta, 67, $800; Atlantic, , Ten
nessee & Ohio, 41, $300; Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta, 12, $800 ;
Chester & Lenoir narrow gauge, 62,
$300; Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line,
106, $700; Carolina Central, 238,
$600; Atlantic & North Carolina,
99, $600; Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley, 143, $800; Norfolk Southern,
53,6-10, $850; Western North Caro
lina, 276$, $250;. University, 10 2-10,
$100; Alma & Little Rock, 12$,
$100; Cheraw & Salisbury, 14; $500;
Albemarle & Raleigh, 33, $300;
Asheville & Spartanburg 25$, $500;
Oxford & Henderson, 13. $500:
. Milton & Sutherlin narrow gauge, $
flOO. , . .. , . .
' A very amiable and modest widow
lady, lived in a certain county. Soon
after her husband had paid the debt
f nature, leaving her nis legatee, a
claim was brought j against the es-,
tate by ; his brother, ! and a - process
was served upon hereby the sheriff!
of the countyf who happened to be a
Widower of ' middle ' age. f ! She 5 was j
much alarmed, and meeting with a '
female friend, she exclaimed,1 - wh
agitation; "What do you think? the
sheriff has been afte me!" "Well," ;
said the considerate lady, with per
fect coolness?" tfherls"" a very fine
man.", "But he says ' he has an at
tachment for me,"., replied the 'wid
ow,1 "Well, I have, long suspected
that 5 he ; was attached to you; my
dear." ' '"But you don't understand ;
he says I must jfo1 to court, ' "Q 1
that's , quite anothit raffair, $ don't
you go so far as that-it is his place'
to come and court you,"
A SOUTHERN FOURTH OF JULY ORATION.
John S. Long at Goidsboro.
; From Messenger's Report,
' ' "J ' "
When the impetuous Montgomery
led his brave but exhausted patriots
against the fortifications of Quebec,
when Gates charged the splendid
columns of Burgoyne at Saratoga,,
and when the ice-covered hills of
Valley Forge were marked with the
bloody foot-steps of the starving
Continentals, everywhere the men of
the South were in the "fore-front of
every danger, hardship and suffer
ing. They were the ancestors of a
race of soldiers, who, at a later day,
shook the earth . with their valor,
and wrote with their bayonets an
Iliad such as Homer never dreamed
of. : They fought by the frozen lakes
of the Siorth just as cheerfully and
gallantly as if they had been fight
ing among the pine and palmetto
woods of their own sunny home.
And equally the men of Massachu
setts and New York sacrificed their
lives for the same cause. Side by
side with Marion. S,umter and Lee
flashed the chivalrous blades of Mor
gan Lincoln and Greene. The great
drama . of National liberty upon
Southern soil drew into its -stormy
bosom the sturdy sons of New Eng
land, who had breasted the first crest
of the tempest at Lexington and
Concord. Out of the thick
darkness flashed for a single moment
the crimson glory of King's Moun
tain, but the heroic gallantry of
Shelby and Sevier could not keep
back the steady columns which were
rushing forward to victory. In this
lour of comnjon danger, the bonnd
'. ess spirit of a common patriotism,
nerved every heart to die for the fires
and altars of a common country.
Talk about dividing the inherited
glories of a nation, brought through
such a baptism of suffering, and
built up at the expense of so much
treasure and sacrifice ? , Again we
say, Isuch a result could never have
been accomplished. An interna
tional survey might have established
geographical 1 limits, and interna
tional courtesy might have observed
them with Christian gentility and
forbearance. f But the sublime iri
heritanco of glory and honor, won
by heroic self-denial and courage,
belonged to both sections alike, and
would have mocked at every effort
to divide it. ; When this Con
tinent was chiefly occupied by the
savage and beasts of prey, the great
literary workers, of Elizabeth and
Queen Anne had enriched their na
tivity with the grandest productions
of ancient or modern times. But
still in the fields of history and crit
icism, of poetry and science, and in
the almost boundless area of action,
wo have accomplished results which
the World will not willingly let die.
We pave lived to see the day when .
Englishmen three thousand miles
away, have erected ' a cenotaph to
Longfellow in their glorious Abbey ;
when Bayard Taylor is mourned in
the German capital as if the blood
of Schiller flowed in his veins; when
Phillips Brooks receives the divine
doctorate at Oxford side by side" with
the (bishops of the English Church ;
when American scientists are recog
nized and respected by royal socie
ties !; and when by a people, who a
few years ago barely tolerated the
graphic pictures of Washington Ir
ving, the exquisite writings of Poe,
Whittier and; Lowell are received
and honored on every side. What
higher tributes could be paid to
American , literature than these ?
These are the seal set by the intelli
gence, taste and culture of the world
on our literary excellence and suc
cess. . ,'
' Only let us of the South seek to
have a larger share in this intellect
ual possession, which has so glori
ously adorned the annals of our
country. Hitherto we have reaped
but a slender harvest in this fertile
field of industry and thought. Be
fore the war, 8 wept onward by the
tide of politics and pleasure, and.
si nee, bending under the burdens of
poverty and taxation, we have claim
ed but little interest in these mat
ters . Dowewishto make
our country truly great and power
ful ? Let us keep 'it on that grand,'
conservative pathway along which it
was started by "our patriotic , sires.;
Let us weave into the material and
intellectual elements of its growth
the honest contributions of foreign
brain and muscle, seeking a free
I country for liberty and rest. 'Then,;
though we may be gathered to our
fathers, oUr children shall see the!
grandest nation which ever lived in
the tide of time. Like the Olympus,
which, under the eastern skies, look-!
ed put upon the vain ambition of
Greek and Persian satraps, and ' saw :
the shattered fleets of Xerxes and
Antony alikeugo down in ruin, this
stately Government crowned with
the fadeless splendors of peace and
plenty, shall see the . proudest na
tions of the earth pass away "like a
dj-eam of the night when one awak
eth.w ,rArid'as the centuries pass
over her, freighted with the changes
of intellect and thought, i and the
hoary watchman, on his lonelybeat,
begins to strain his vision for (the
breaking of that morn '-which shall ;
never hare a night; in her starry
sisterhood 'of; States j shall . still be
that Qharigelesa unity whioh no war
nor revQlutionan eyer reach. ? ' f
Side issues whiskers; (
AN OLTUPIAN TOUR.
A talented Party visits Banntr Elk "Tha
Oelightful Tnssday"-Th8 First Banana
Peel for Beech Uonntain-A Tongne
Tiad Poet.- .." 1;: w;:,; f
; Banner Elk, July 12,
On the evening of the third inst.
a beautiful tent was pitcned on a
grassy lawn at the upper end of the
Banner Meads. i
Its occupants were Mrs. Elizabeth
Van Loon; a talented and well
known authoress of Knoxville, to
gether with her husband and little
daughter, Mrs. E. P. Martin, Lou
isville, Miss Jessie McFarland, St.
Louis, and Miss Katie Trig, a pop
ular young artist of Louisville.
So pleasant and agreeable were
these people that only half an hour
was necessary to form an acquaint
ance which could not have been ac
complished with the ignorant and
unlearned in half a lifetime.1
The Apollos of the mountains
visited the Muses of the valley and
a trip was planned to Beech Moun
tain, the Olympus of Banner Elk.
Mrs. Martin, the dashing widow
of the party,sugge8ted that the nec
tar for the trip should consist of
"Mountain Dew," a well-known
beverage of this country, which is
not only inspiring on such occasions,
but also useful in cases of poison or
snakebite.
On the morning of Tuesday, the
7th inst., the company left camp in
the following order, viz : In front,
Miss Trigg and the experienced
fuide, who had just returned from
litchell county, where he has been
mining the glittering treasure.
Next in order was Dr. Wetmore,
of Salisbury, with Mrs. Van Loon
and daughter, in a bughickle.
Among others too numerous to
mention, came a well-known tongue
tied "Tar Heel" f rem near Wil
mingtonthat is, his tongue is tied
in the middle and loose at both ends,
and by his side the charming widow,
whose speech is slightly disabled in
the same Way. ,
'Forward the light brigade, and
three leagues onward. The tongue
tied couple volleyed and thundered.'
' Some laughed; some talked, some
hollowed, some whistled, and some
sang songs until the ringing, joyous
mirth of the jovial crowd,- minglecl
with the prattling laughter of the
Beechen brook that played beside
our pathway. , j f
As we neared the place known as
the ! Ponds, we passed through a
cluster of wild honeysuckle, where
every shrub, clad in full bloom,
looked like the burning bush which
Moses saw. Mrs. Van Loon named
this place Honeysuckle Avenue, and
suggested that the first hotel erected
on Banner Elk be called "Fern
Wood," for the great variety of
beautiful ferns peculiar to this lo
cality. " :
Miss Trigg named a favored spot
"Love Vine Gap," it being almost
entirely covered with a delicate yel
low air plant, known in Watauga, as
Love Vine It winds its tendrils
around the branches of rich weeds,
and is used in fortune telling in the.
following manner : i The person in
love holds a piece of the vine in his
left hand, and placing his whole
soul, mind and strength on his
sweetheart, tosses it over 1 his head
without observing where it falls.
The next time he passes that way, if
it has taken root in other plants and
is growing, he will be successful in
love, otherwise he is doomed to dis
appointment, j
We now reached the summit where
mountain rose beyond mountain
until all was lost in the blue haze of
an immeasurable distance.
The ladies, with book and pencil,
took heights, distances, names and
directions with a rapidity and an
interest that evinced not only thor
ough discipline, but also an appre
ciation of the beautiful and sublime
unsurpassed in prose or rhyme.
Hibriten, near Lenoir, :is among
be - mountains noted and sketched
y them.
The face of the venerable Dr.
Wetmore alone bore a marked re
semblance to the granite bluff which
had stood the storms of the count
less ages and with every beating rain
grew more majestic. ;
The sun having reached the zenith
we repaired to Buckeye .Spring
where a lunch was spread that would
have done honor to Richard Coeur
de Lion. Nothing had been left
undone in its preparation. Oranges
and lemons were abundant, and the
first banana peel was cast for Beech!
Mountain. Dr. Wetmore afterward ;
stepped, on one of the peels and f ell,
reminding us vividly of the parody
on "Aileen Allana."
After lunch i every : young couple
found them a mossy rock from which
the low, sweet, musical accents of
love arose and died on Aeolian whis
pers of the evening breeze. '
V When Joshua hung in the West,
and the shadows wsre j falling fari
towards the East, we started home
ward and, resting at the Ponds, the
guide was prevailed on to ; tell the
bear story which he calls "Brewin's
hiberna." The ladies pronounced
this the champion bear story of the
world; and by an unaninious request,
it was repeated at the camp on the
following day. ' H ? I
We reached the valley in the twi
light, which was rendered mellow
by the reflection of a saffron sunset,
and thus ended that season . of sun
shine to the heart, which is denom
inated "The Delightful ..Tuesday of
1885." .
However tbe tongue-tied gentle
man being vexed at nis unsuccessful
effort to express his feelings in well
articulated English1 to the accom
plished widow, completed his diary
that evening with the following
metaphorical lines : t : .
My life Is a quill from a goose's wing.
The pain that's left from a hornet's sting, ,
The screak of an owl on a mooney hill,
An opossum, at bis captor's will.
. S. M. D. ;
"A Plain. Respectable Dinner."
The Standard complains that a
man of means cannot purchase what
will furnish a respectable dinner for
his family for less than one hundred
dollars." And here is the bill5 of
fare and the cost of it, which it lays
out for a family of "six or seven
"One ham of 12 lbs, $84; 4 lbs steak,
$10; couple of fowls, $10 ; couple of '
cabbages, $8 ; to say nothing' of
bread and soup, and potatoes, and a
dozen small constituents which can
not be dispensed with."
This is liberal feeding for a man
of any amount of means, and in
these times of scarcety ought to be
restricted. 'Divide out this dinner
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yidual would have to swallow two
pounds of bacon, half pound steak,
one-third of a "fowl," and a pound
or two of cabbage, a quart or two of
soup, a peck or two of potatoes, and .
a quart or .two of a dozen "small
constituents which cannot be dis
pensed withl" T.he breed of such a
"family" ought to be put a stop to,
or else exiled to a more plentiful'
country than ours is at the present
time, no matter what their means.
"Students' Songs."! ,
Ml
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Moses Km?, while a student at
Harvard College, earned his entire
college expenses of about a thousand
dollars a year by making books, such
as "Harvard and its Surroundings,"
'King's Handbook of . Boston,"
"The Harvard Register," etc,, and
since graduation, a few years ago, he
has published many successful books:
among theiin, "Students' Songs,"
which has had the most remarkable .
sale ever known for a book of its
cias3. Over 40,000 copies of this
"Students' songs" have been made,
and the demand is almost the same
as before. The probable cause of
this success is the fact that prior to
the publication of "Students' Songs"
there was noj book containing songs
and music that have sprung up and
become popular within college walls
during the j past ten years. ' ! The
songs nave been heard and heartily
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glee club concerts, college festivities, .
college societies and at home and
social gatnenngs. rney nave a pe
culiar breeziness and mirth-making
capacity that make them enjoyable
on all enjoyable: occasions. . ;The
book itself is also a cause of its suc
cess. It is handsomely printed, and
contains sixty of these songs, with
their music, nearly all of which are
copyrighted and to be found in no
other collection. It is a surprise to ,
find so choice , a collection of songs .
new and copyrighted jolly songs and
music, selling for only fifty cents.
Like almost all successes, it has its
imitations, and some are rather de-
ceptive.lri their make-up. Already
several so-called collections of stu
dents', or college songs are in the
market," but the genuine and origi
nal book of 'Students' Sougsr" the
only one that has been noteworthily
successful is edited and compiled by
Wm. II. Hills, a.young Harvard
graduate, and published bv Moses
King; the publisher, at flanover
square, in Cambridge, Mass. i - -it
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Lamp-Shades and the Eyes. i
Prof. IL L. Cohn, in his pam-
nhlftt "TTfiherden BelenchnnrRWftrt
der Lampenglochen" . (Weisbaden,
188o, describes along series of de- -terminations
of the, relative value of
various forms of laipp-shades.' The
method pursued was to measure the
wa .
nrigntness oi wnite paper lying on a
table over which the source of artifi
cial light was suspended aa given
distance by means of a Webster pho
tometer. As ne wtreld anticipate,
the general effect of shade is to in
crease very greatly the illumination
immediately; under the Ugnt,. and
not modi fly it notably at an angular
distance greater than forty-five de
grees from this ; region. The last
section of this pamphlet, which deals
with the illumination requisite for
easiest use of the eyes, is of the most
general interest. ' Taking as a meas
ure of the value of the illumination
in this . sense the number of lines
which can be read from a newspaper
in a minute, and as the unit of illu
mination that of a normal candle at
a perpendicular distance of a metre
frnm triA -nnnpr Via flniln i.Vifl.f. tr)A it.
lumination is not less than fifty such
units. Since even a fifth of tma u- .
lumination is very rarely secured,
except immediately under a lamp
provided with a good shade, the au
thor emphasizes the conclusion, that
few school-children' work' in a satis
factory light. , .,t ;lff.rt
'ni. it '. i' ii a'a n .''"i''
lieconect mac irines masea per
fection and that perfection ia - noj
trifle.
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