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VOLUME XI. LENOIR, ST. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1885. NUMBER 8. Wallace Bros., STATESVILLE, N. C. Whole salE Dealers Geneial Merchandise -tot- Largest Warehouse and best facili ties for han dling Dried Fruit. Ber ries, etc.. in the State, RESPECTFULLY Wallace Bros August 27th, 1884. cnourrs A lnilUJuu DTTEIR Covblalag IK03 with PUBS TEG STABLE T0HIC8, aleklx aad completely CLEAKSES sad EHBICHES TIUS MOOD. Qalckea the aettaa ef the liter u4 Kldaeys. Clean th eoMplexloa, atakes the skla smooth. It does not. lajare the teeth, euw headache, or predate eoa atipatloa-ALL OTHEB IROH KEDICI5E8 DO. PhjeleUiieaadDracEletoetaif wheiareetrnimwid tt Dm, IT. & Bttooum, of Marion. Mass.. ears: -f, recommend Brown's Iron Bitten ae a valuable tonio for enrichinf the blood, and ramovin all Armimtia, anaemia and blood riiaaaaes. also whan a tonio was nava fmaonMa tsrown a iron tsitten In aum aeefled, and it baa praM tnoroaftux aattefaototy lCa.WK. BTXXS, M St. M air St.. Hew Orleans, LaJ aajsi "Brown's Iron Bitter, relieved me inaeaae of Mood poiaoninx. aad X heartily command it to those nooning a noTifier." i The Genuine has Trade Hark and eroesod red lines an wrapper. Take na ather. Made only by BBOWH CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, MIX IiADm Havo Book neefol and attractive, eon taining list of prises for recipes, information abone eotas, ate given away by all dealers in medicine, or mailed to any addr.es on receipt o to. stamp. i CLINTON A. CILLEY, Attoniey-iit-LaT7, P;t;v:1v9 in AH Courts. MONTANA TERRITORY. k Trip Over tbe fountains A Beautiful Psnorama & Rapidly Growing Conn try Western Hay kept Beneath Snow "Bim Rocks" and Otlrer Geological Formations- Cold, 4c, ic. Helena, 3. T., Oct. 2G. To the Editor of TJie Lenoir Topic: Now for some items about my last trip. White Sulphur Springs is 85 miles east of here." You run up the valley iii which Helena lies, and cross over into the valley of the Missouri river. This valley here is 25 miles wide and 60 or 70 long. The Mis souri valley is not so wide, but it stretches for hundreds of miles. They are beautiful valleys of land, but requiring irrigation for anything else except grass, or occasionally wheat or oats. It would surprise you to find that the oat crop is just being harvested. The season here is so short that the oats just will mature before the severe frosts. I saw yesterday and Monday many' acres just turning. Early Rose po .tatoes are raised, here also very fine indeed. The fact is, they grow bet ter here thm elsewhere. I never ate finer potatoes in my life than are grown in these high tablelands. The people have them three times a day, and I never grow tired on them they are so rich and mealy. They haveia tenderness and delicacy that I do not find in our eastern potatoes (Irish.) Sweet potatoes don't grow here. You find them in the mar kets, shipped from N. C. and Va. to this place. In going "to White Sulphur, I leave the R. R. at Townsend, where the road crosses the Missouri. The river here is a. large, bold, rolling river, about size of Catawba below Hickory. Its green waters boil and bubble and sparkle in the sunlight most beautifully as the stream pours onward over the rocks in its bed. It runs northward nearly to the Canada line as you see from the map. The valley along here is as I have said lovely to look at, but the climate is dreadfully cold of winters, and the only thing that you can depend on for crop it grass and stock. There is a great deal of mining here also. - From Townsend lam on the stage again, for another long ride. For 17 miles we run up a narrow valley, full of ranches, to the "first statiori, at the foot of a main range of moun tains, one of the spurs of the Rock ies. .Then comes a long pull of fl: more miles till the summit is reach ed in-a low gap below the present snow line. To right and left, the peaks are covered with snow some of which lias been there from time immemorial. '; Our descent of the mountain is extremely interesting to me. As soon as we turn down, there is seen, lying just lelow, and spread out to right and left, far as you can well see, an immense valley or plain ; not a tree or bush in sight, except in mountain hollows behind. You see -the town, White Sulphur Spring, looking like you could almost throw a rifle shot into it at your feet but it is 14 measured railes'away in an almost straight line eastward. The road scarcely makes a turn, and we have but very little descent, the mountain pass being about 6,000 feet sea level, which the valley it self is 5, 50Q feet above , sea level. The driver cracks his whip and away we speed the delicious mountain air exhilirating to me as I sit on the high perch at the driver's side. We get a sweeping trot which is broken only once, at a bridge, in the drive to the Springs, 14 miles away time an tour and forty minutes. We pass a postoffice, but don't stop to change the mail bag is thrown out, and one caught "on the run." This Sulphur Spring valley has just recently been opened up fully. The figures'on the court house show "1882' but now there is a large and. flourishing town with a Presidential postoffice, money orders, telephones, telegraph, banks, fast hotels and many of the so-called adjuncts of modern civilization. To give you an idea how new and virgin the county is, I might tell you that the horns and heads of the Kocky Mountain Elk are still lying around the road over which we ran coming up the mountain. On our return yesterday I was tempted to dismount and measure j a monster sett of antlers that I saw by the way side. ' The main horns were a little over nine feet from tip to tip ; and the "points" over 18 inches long. The whole made almost as much as I could lift. I saw 2 Cayotes right in sight. There is yet good shoot ing all along this road. In this Sulphur Spring valley, there is scarcely a thing grown ex cept oats in the way of grain. I saw fields just ripening and being cut. " . , ' The grass here is short, but ex ceedingly fine and nutritious. Cat tle grow very fat on it. There are thousands of cattle; sheep and hor ses to be seen grazing on the sere and yellow plains. tThe grass is what is called ."bunch grass here, the finest known i for stockThis grass is unlike the grass of the east. Early in the summer it appears to die, it turns a beautiful yellow, like "old gold." But it is not what we would call "dead ;" it has been sim ply cured, as we cure hay and fod der, but by nature's own best pro cess. It bears the same relation to grass that raisins bear to grapes. All the saccharino and. nutritive matter appears to be perfected in the sere bunches. Stock are exceedingly fond of it in this condition. Nature seems also to reverse her processes in one respect in regard to this grass. In the east, our grasses usually die down, dead, in the fall. Here and all over the Pacific coast besides as soon as the Fall rains set in, the grasses just begin to grow, and they grow till the summer then apparently dje. Here the grass es grow all winter, and in most of the localities there is no such thing as feeding stock in winter when the snow gets too deep for the animals to get down through it to the grass. Stock that are used to this country will paw the snow away and find the grass when it is under more than about a foot of snow. I am told that horses and sheep grow very ex pert at cleaning snow from grass Horned cattle are not so proficient at it. Some of the ranch meu havo large scrapers made exactly in the shape of the letter A then then they drag, point foremost, through the deep snow thus opening a broad furrow into which the stock go and hunt for the grass. I saw many of these scrapers lying around in my trip through eastern Oregon before I found out what they were for. Sheep and horses, I am told, prefer to get high up on the moun tain sides, undtr the "Rim Rocks" to find the grass there. The , snow is more easily pawed away ; there than on the plains; grass is better also there. I don't believe I have ever written you anything about these "Rim Rocks."- They are the projecting ledges of lava that are left all over the Pacific coast by the breaking to pieces of the earth's volcanic crash during the great Cataclysm of the Deluge, (so supposed), when "the fountains of the waters were broken up." .There appears to have been mighty upheavals, breaking the lava crust .into immense fields. These fields have been lifted high in the air4-to various altitudes in fact sometimes thousands j of feet up ward. The successive layers of lava "are distinctly seen rising in parallel lines (and nearly horizontal also) one above the other. I have counted as many as seven separate ledges from 10 to 25 feet thick each, of different hues on one "Butte." A Butte is a mountain here. It is more properly speaking, the butt end of a moun tain something like the "short off" at the end of the Linville moun tain, or the bluff below Blowing Rock. The freezing and thawing of this lava, or volcanic matter, during the thousands of years since it was deposited here, have (with the ashes and such other soil as has been mix ed with it), made a most general home for the grasses that grow here in the Pacific country. The soil looks for all the world like the rich black soil you see along the north hill sides in Watauga. It brings here asMne cabbages also as grow in Watauga orin any nlace in the world. At Fort Bid well, I saw a man with a load of cabbages that averaged over twenty pounds each. I saw one at our hotel weighing 23 pounds. When I come home I shall try and bring some curious specimens with me. I have one nqw, that Bhows the exact outlines of an oak leaf. The once green coloring of the leaf has apparently imparted a green cast to the stone also, as far as the edges of the leaf go. Beyond this it is reddish. I have seen, in the excavations here for railroad, volcanic matter taken out which shows that the showers of dust or ashes that came from the volcano or elsewhere fell upon waters that were full of fishes. There is a stone on exhibition at the Eagle Rock postoffice in Idaho visited by mo in August where on a surf ace about a foot square, there are six fish buried. You can see the very colors of the fish, and count easily the bones they had all now in a petrified condition. By run ning your fingers over the fisn form, who can distinguish both bones and scales. Gen. Albert Pike, who was in Utah the same time I was there in the summer, was greatly inter-: ested in these fossil remains, and told me he considered them among the most wonderful phenomena of nature, He made a collection to take back east with him.: The trou ble with me is, I have so much bag gage to carry along that I can't ap propriate specimens as I would like to have them. But all this has but -little to do with my trip to White Sulphur, which I wish to finish telling you abont. Here is, as I have said, a flourishing town, more than five thousand feet above sea level. It owes its importance chiefly to the magnificent hot Sulphur Baths there and incidently to the : new .mines being worked in the mountain near. The stock interests are also large there. The valley is too" high for grain. It is a dreadfully cold coun try, I am told. A man who loves cold weather can get all he wants here. The stage driver told me that .he had been over the route many times when the mercury was from 40 to 60 degress below zero. One of the mail men in this city had his lungs frost bitten some years ago in the mountains here. I never heard of such a case before. I had to ask the gentlerrian twice in regard to his statement before I could really be lieve him. He assured me however of the truth of the statement. His looks confirm it, for they indicate the broken health of the man: You can understand that when Boreas comes down from the icy pinnacles of the Rocky Mountains, especially in this latitude and in such altitudes as exist here, he certainly has "bus iness on his hand." I noticed one thing in White Sul phur Springs which caused me a long train of reflection on the stage after leaving there. A majority of the businoss houses, not only there, but all ovtr this great western coun try, show by the signs over the doors that they are controlled by people of fto-eigh birth. The Germans and other people of the north of Europe are monopolizing most of the mer cantile industries and interests of the west. You can scarcely find a respectable store out here now run by our native population. Of course there are notable exceptions to the .rule. But what is the cause of this monopoly by the foreign element of our population ? , You 6eo this cause outlined more distinctly on the frontiers than else where. The native American men that push out into these remote re gions, seem to scorn the slow and patient growth of fortune that walks with a yard stick or rests upon Avoir dupois weights in the ware house. They rush into mining, or stock operations, hoping thereby to make their fortunes at a single bound. They despise the petty systems de pendent upon cents or dimes or ! "bit" as they are called out here. lint the old countryman comes to onr shores, and if we can only give him a home among the freemen here, he rejoWs and is content with the hope of rising some day by the slow but certain means of patient labor, and sure but small gains. He knows that the race is not to the swift al waysnor is the battle ever with the strong. The foreigners live on less than Americans think they must spend. They are content , with smaller profits, as a rule, some of them, however, sweeping down with a Shylock per cent. or swindle whenever the victim will allow and thus they go ahead here and else where in America, building up little by little, until they eventually be come the possessors of fortune and the controllers of trade. I I have learned one thing since out here in regerd to the "Chinese Question," which is the great raw head -and-bloody-bones of the Pacific coast politics. The head and front of the Chinese offending is that these people, wherever they go, work for lower wages than-are demanded by the white or negro population here. They are thus monopolizing all the lowprice labor in the west. White men Americans who want the old time price of four to six dol lars per day kept up still, rebel at the employment of Chinese at from 50 cents to one dollar per day. lence the cry is that "the Chinese ynust go." And then the most of the men who are. bellowing out this cry, say that the Chinamen must go because he is a heathen and not a white man, that he worships idols and not the true God. p Hah ! What hypocrisy 1 What idle subterfuge ! Nine-tenths 'of the men who are waging the war against the Chinamen don't care a fig for any kind of religion. They are living lives in open rebellion against the very God they curse the Chinaman for not adoring. And as 'for the color of the Celestial, what difference does that really and sin cerely make to men who will sit down as I have seen them ,do out here at the same table with what i they call in the South "niggers" I and eat and drink and be merry with the sable sons of Ham. But the politicians are at the bot tom of it all, and they don't care a continental which color comes to the polls, or who has to "go," so they win I ' M. V. M. WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, Oct. 31. To the Editor of TJie-Lenoir Topic: , Only a few weeks now remain be fore the assembling of Congress. Not only the United States, but the. whole civilized world awaits with in terest the first message from a Dem ocratic President since 1860. Mr. Cleveland has not yet put pen to paper in preparation of this message to Congress, nor have any sugges tions or memoranda been submitted to him. He will commence this work early in November, and will devote some hours to it daily until Congress meets. -, In view of the seclusion needed for this work came the President's edict on Wednesday, closing the White House to the office seeker and his influence ; from the first of No vember for an indefinite time. Col. Laniont thinks the rule may be re- IJaxed a little when Congress meets, so as to admit Senators and Repre sentatives, ? but the f desire ox tbe President is to withdraw from the annoyance permanently. .Under tne new,. arrangement as pirants for positions will have to reach the President x through the heads of Departments ; but ne will still feel under obligation to seek information as to their fitness for office from such sources as he may prefer, and in such ways as he may see fit to adopt . :. No dhe at a distance from : the Capital indeed no one whose avo cation does not bring the matter directly to his notice can realize the enormous demands that have been made upon the President's time, since his inauguration, by pet ty place hunters. Thotse who ap preciate the duties of his office,! and who know how Mr. Cleveland's per formance of them has been impeded by these exacting importunates will commend the new rule.. In order to prepare himself for the questious of the winter, the line hadjto be drawn at la$t, not in a spiritj of ex clusivecess, as the unthinking may claim, ' but in defense of the public interests. ' ' The growth of the country and the modern systems of rapid transit may yet make necessary some limi tation to . the freedom with which the Executive is approached; This being a Republic, of course the Pres ident belongs to everybody. He ia a perennial circus that must be seen and shook. He is by far the most easily approached ruler in the world. Any citizen can walk into his pri vate office unannounced, introduce himself, and be accorded a personal interview. Men call upon him be cause they voted for Buchanan; bri dal couples call upon him as a spec tacular part of the honeymoon; and politicians from all parts of the Un ion insist upon making his personal acquaintance. j Candidates for the district offioes and their friends are growing anx ious as November approaches, for it is thought that early, in that month the President will begin to make the long discussed changes. The latest gossip says that Gen. Far ns worth will be the next Marshal of the District of Columbia.) It is known that the President has wish ed to have a personal friendj in-the office which is so close to himself. Gen, Farnsworth is'a close frjend of the President, and was upon his staff when he was governor of New York. i The President is experiencing dif ficultv in re-organizing the Civil bervice Commission, lie regards reform in the Civil Service the most important features one of of his Administration, and lie is trying to secure men for the place! whose names will guarantee a practical car rying out of the duties of the offica. It is hard to find such men jas pos sess the necessary qualifications, and who are willing to make the sacri fice. The salary is only $3,500 a year. Three gentlemen have already declined appointment. Congress will probably be asked during the winter to increase the compensation. There are quite a number of houso hunting Congressmen in the city who are deploring the scarcity of suitable residences. The transient winter population of Washington i3 so large'that the supply of desirable furnished houses foi? rent was ex hausted some weeks ago, and many of the late comers will be compelled to put up at hottls. This mode of living is not fashionable here, how ever. It is the custom forj public men to keep house.. Congressmen Fisher, of Michigan and Bay ne, of Pennsylvania, failing to get the kind of houses they want, made arrange ments yesterday to, board their fam ilies during the session of Congress. The latter, though a Republican, re marked that the Cleveland adminis tration was a good one, and suited the people of the country. CLEVELAND'S THANKSGIVING. His Proclamation Appointing Thursday. 26th Inst., and the Recommendations Which Ha Offers. Washington, Nov. 2. The fol lowing is the text of the President's , Thanksgiving proclamation : By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. The American people have always abundant cause to be thankful to Almighty God whose watchful care and guiding hand have been mani fested is every stage of the national life, guiding and prdtecting them in time of peril, and safety, leading then in the hour of darkness and of danger. , , It is fitting andproper that a nation thus favored, should on one day in every year, for that purpose especial ly appointed, publicly acknowledge the goodness cof God, and return thanks to Him for all His gracious gifts.. r- Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President L of the United States of America, do hereby designate and; set apart Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of November, instant, as a day. of public Thanksgiving and prayer; ana do invoke the observance of the same by all the people of our land. . On that day let all secular business be suspended, and let people assem ble in their usual places of worship, and with prayer and songs of praise devoutly testify their gratitude to the giver oi every good and perfect gift for all that he has done for ns in the year that has past; for our preserva tion as a united nation and for our deliverance from the shock and dan ger of political convulsion ; for the blessings and peace and for our safe ty and quiet, while wars andj rumors of wars have agitated and afflicted other nations of earth ; foif our se curity against scourge of pestilence, which- in other lands has claimed its dead by thousands, and filled streets wjth mourners ; for plenteous crops which reward the labor !of the husbandman anil increase pur na tion's wealth ; and for contentment throughout our borders wljich fol lows in the train I of prosperity and abundance. j ; And let there also be on ;the day thus set apart, reunion of families sanctified and chastened by tender memories and associations, land let social intercourse of friend 8 with pleasant reminiscence renew ties of affection and strengthen bonds of kindly feeling. And let us by no means forget while we give thanks and enjoy the comforts which have crowned our lives, that truly great f ul hearts are inclined i to deeds of charity; and that kind and thought ful remembrance of I the poor, will double the pleasures of our condition, and render our praise and thanks giving more acceptable in the sight of the Lord. Done at the city of Washington, this the second day. of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the independence of the United States the onb hun-; d red and tenth. ; I Bv the President Signed! Grovee Cleveland. VP. Bayard, J "I Secretary of State. More About the Earthquake. . ' ;. Meat Camp, Oct. 24., To the Editor of TJie Lenoir Toptc'i Having neard so mucn concerning the earthquake through the columns of The Topic, I have concluded to give my idea concerning it. j About 9 o'clock a. in. on the 6th of August, 1885, while grinding our scythes, William Profit, andj myself were suddenly alarmed by a mvste rious noise proceeding from the south, which 1 thought wan thun der, but turning my head in that direction there was no cloud to bc seen. By this time the ncise ap peared to be directly over heiid or rather west of perpendicular. On looking upward I found a clear; sky. Before I could turn my head again, the noise had passed- away J to the north or rather to the northwest. By this time I caught up; that it was some aerial t he idea voyager. However I am still led to believe meteor that it was some wandering! or a?rolite, which, for ages, has been traversing the profoundest di epths of space, and in all probability in its wnnderingsiit has sped by Slerjcury. Mars, Jupiter and even Neptune, as it bathes its desolated surface in the sunlight of another system. But getting tired of its journey far out in the broad fields of space, it come, to pay its last respects to this gram' old planet. I am of the opinior that it was the explosion of anieteo or aerolite that caused this greai commotion and perhaps tli 2 explo sion took place in a short distance of the Grandfather or some of the sur rounding peaks of the Bluet Ridgt . as the noise and the jar seemed t be more sensitive there than at am other point from which I have heard. I think the idea of it being uii earthquake is erroneous, as (the noi of an earthquake is rarely ever hearV to any great distance, whiltj the jiu . may be sensitive! for thousands or miles. The ide of some great sub terranean cavern falling deep dowi, into the bowels Of the earth L sendin' out such a report is very erroneous. Had it been a volcanic eruption then I might have agreed with your Sn ear (irove correspondent. " r : , ; Eugene. Letter from Wafoflga. Sugar Grove, Cct. 31. To the Editor of TJi& Lenoir Topic: Your correspondent, as he is seat ed at the writing desk this rainy morning, to try to give a few items of passing events, feels' very 'much like one going to take a walk with out an Objective point orl urposi'. Therefore if we fail to interest any body, we feel sure of the Sympathy of some of our fellow correspond ents. However, we will I give you tfye very best we have. The sorghum season is just closing with all its bitter and sweets. The crop of cane and yield of sorghum is simply immense, while (the quali ty, as a general rule, is extra-fine. And "you bet" the .beaii-oys and bonny lassies have had a sweet and enjoyable time pulling and kissing candy. . h-:-t '-' V : ;- Corn gatherings and huskings are now on hand ; which is another source of pleasure for the young folks. Bless the young folks, give them plenty of innocent! fun and amusement, for their nature requires it to make them cheerful and agree able. jr -K I -' Another , season is drawing to a close, with all its labor, production and care, and soon the husbandmen will have garnered and housed their Various crops, which seem to be an abundant supply for the bext year. Then the toiling farmer and his pro ductive, soil will have a season to rest and recuperate their wasted and worm energies. While jwe are so greatly blessed let us not be unmind ful of the source of every good and Serfect gift, but let our hearts over ow with gratitude .and thanksgiv ing to God from whom alone all our blessings, bothjspiritual and tempor al, must come. The mast up here in the moun tains is simply vast in its abundance and variety, viz: WThite oak, chest nut oak and bitter oak acorns, chest nuts, walnuts and hickory nuts, all , of which are seldom if ever in bear ing the same year. What a feast for the hogs which are now fat; which saves a large percent, of corn. The vegetable and fruit prodiic-, tion of Watauga is immensely abun dant. That a correct computation of the whole, would be surprising and almost incredible. Would it not be a way to approximate the a mount, for the merchants and deal- ' ers in vegetables and fruits of Lenoir, Hickory &c, to make a note of the number of pounds and bushels bought from Watauga. AVuld not such statistics be interesting and useful. We think so. Therefore we earnestly request all dealers to give it their immediate and careful attention, and give the amount re ceived by each dealer to the editor of The Lenoir Topic to compile and publish. Hoping and believing that this request will bo complied with, we remain your humble and grateful petitioners. J We would be glad indeed if our business men in our country towns and villages would adopt the system, in trade, of a cash basis, that is, buy with cash and sell for cash. . ,We think that that system once adopted and carried out would equally bene fit all parties. Some may object and say such a plan is not practicable. In reply we would say : what, has been done and is now done in many business centres, can be done in any place . of trade. Our little dealing and observation of the barter system convinces us that a cash system would be more fair, equal and just to both buyer and seller. N. N. In Memory cf Henry Elrod. Blowing Rock, Nov. 3. To the Editor of TJie Lenoir Topic: On the morning of the 17th inst. at his home in Watauga county, N. C, Mr. Henry Elrod ; passed into the spiritual world, aged .64 years and 8 days. t Mrf Elrod was the son of .the late William Elrod and was, born and raised on New River, three miles from where the town of Boone now stands. In 1843 he married Miss Sallie Brookshire, of Wilkes county, N. C, who, with two children, sur vive him. He was a kind husband and an affectionate father. He professed religion in his early manhood, and joined the Baptist -church at Three For.ks, 30 years ago. Ever since he has taken a deep' in terest in the affairs of his church, ind his walk and conversation has been that of a christian gentleman. He was One of the founders and pillars of, the present Baptist church at Flat Top, and was one of its dea cons for a number of years, lie loved his church and-wasever ready to defend its doctrines or resist the intrusion of anything within its gates, contrary to the faith and practice. He contributed liberally of his time and means for its pros perity. ? Mr. Elrod was a successful farmer and believed in the co-operation of farmers. He was a charter member of Blowing Rock Grange, No. 452, of the Patrons of Husbandry. At I' organization he waselected treas urer, which position he tilled with credit to himself, and to the satis faction of the Grange. Dnring the late war Mr. Elrod, though not in the regular service, did much efficient eeryice in the defense of his Stated and the South ern cause, although he never held any political office. As ho was never an office seeker politically or other wise, yet he always took a lively in terest in the politics of the coniitrv, and voted as he believed was right, : regardless r of w ha1 others m ight think or say. In the loss of Uncle Henry (we . all called him Uncle because we loved him) the country has lost one of its best citizens, the neighbor hood one of the best of neighbors, the poor and unfortunate a kind friend, and the Baptist church one of its pillars. Truly a good . man has fallen and gone to meet many friends who liave gone before him. Not into the silent tomb, but into an intelligent spiritual world, in- ' habited by intelligent spiritual men and women, who have obtained their resurrection and are living in the ! society of congenial friends in their final homes. As to Uncle Heniy, the world has come to an end, the' resurrection passed and the final, judgment ended, and he has entered into his "reward. ' ; Of him it may be said : "Write, blessed are the qead which die in:-4 the Lord from henceforth, yea eaith : the Spirit, that they nmy rest from their labors and their works do fol low them." "Ah, tell me not tbat beaven'a sliming portals Are d eUct from the patba of earthly care. Tor I believe the weary fet of mortals f Oft stand upon the threshold naware.r : l ' I ' ' i ' ' f : . "And I believe that this that njan calls dying ' la but the opening of our UHidd eyea, The pluming of the Spirit's wing for flying, ' The garments changed for those of ParaJiso." I t The above tribute, to the memory bf Uncle Henry, is tho sentiments of at least one Friend, II
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