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:. ' ' q - .... :-.. .Vf T : - ' ! . -! ' " -I h ' X ! SI 1 i 4 I ' i I w r i i : ! Barefoot. Oh, don't you remember the old hill-side farm, ; . .And the farm-house with, clapboards so gray, v r , With the- garden of roses,, and sweet pinks, and balm, And the meadows with buttercups gay?.': ' V , And don't you remember how, in' doors, and out ! V j And under the old orchard trees, And gSy, laughing children went skip ping about, --. With bare t&t, as busy as bees ? How we all played together, the girls and ihe boys, And had houses, and workshops, and storea, Rag babies, and " earthens," and just as much noise i j. As our voices could make out of doors ? How we loved through the pastures and woodland to roam, r ! i Together bright mosses and I flowers ! We thought then, as noSv, there was " no place like home," And no home so delightful as ours. j. And don't you remember the pleasant - Kchojl road, And the "school-house eo sunny in June, ! With the lessons we learned, land the " mark that we." toed" And how we played " pizen" at noon ? J : Our sunbonnets, crumpled, hung over our necks, ; The summer wind played with our .. hair ; j While the sun paid our faces the warm est respects. i And kissed our white toes that went bare. - . How we climbed the steep hill-side as nimble as goats, M . ! And bkipped o'er tlie ledges in glee; We mimicked the woodlark and; whip- poor m Irs notes, i I And sung with the chick -a-dee-dee. We waded' the-brook when the water was 1W, . 'I - And shouted to make the woods ring, Or playe 1 on iU banks in the summer's hoft glow, j ! Light hearted as birds on the wing. . You remember the pond where the j geese u-ed to swim, " j J:Hcw we oil lied it- the ocean so wide, j 'And in au old hat that-was minus the without paying for them, keeps I une o lunus in a iow 8iaiemo8L oi the timo. 44 1 liave not the mon ey to-day, but I "should- like j the article very much' says a young man who happening into a store. ,sees something '-which strikes'his fancy. 44 Never mind' says; the gentlemanly clerk,- 44 vou are good for it." 44 Well, I will take it and you may charge it." And so it is that little accounts are opened at one place and another, till the 3oung man is surprised at his liabilities; 'which,'-' though small in detail, are sufiieientlv large in the aggregate to reduce his cash materially when settling dav conies. In manv instances, if the cash was required, the pur chasewould not be made, even hud ...the. person the money by him; but, to some, getting an ar ticle charged does not' seem like parting .with an equivalent; ' Still, when pay-d y comes, as it always dots", tliis illusion vanishes, and a feeling is experienced of parting with juonev and receiving noth ing in return : - -brim ' M JWe sailed our rajrdolls on its tide? And when they had cruised all the wide ; ocean through, ' j , And outdone hoih Magellan ami Cook, ' Wo drew them all rome an old r;ig ged shoe, . ; ' And called it a conch ride they.. took How we danced in the mud, with our ! I bare, naked feet, . And plnyed 'twas;the Butch, wavto - ! ' churn ! :-' AVe made us mud biscuits and plumcako i so sweet, ' I Without anyyook-book to learn.8 How we pitied the children whose j stockings and shoes ' ' Forbade them'to share in our fun I ; While we stirred up our puddings, and pastries and stews, And left tliem to cook in the sun. A Murderous Weapon.- Kranka, the . inventor Of the breech-loader which has - been adopted by the War Departrpent at St; Petersburg tor the Russian army, has just '.'publisheda pamph let at Prague, in which he de scriUes a hew in ventitm of his, call ed the 44 kuloinet," Or hainf nii trailleur. The kuIonWt, he says, isi of simple construction, and may be used by the soldier on any ground," however hilly, just like a rifle. It is comparatively cheaper than Wernel and qthe'r breech loaders used in the Euro pean armies; atid a soldier armed with it can, under all oiremnstan-' cesfire thrice as rapidly as with the zuudiiadelgewehr. "in batth it will tire twentv-fnir slujts t. minute, while other ers only lire twelve a minute. Anv'riflo verred into a kulomqt, and ! an 1 cartridge may he used with ij:. jreech-Joad-or thiifteen liKtv be icon SpqTS. There is a grow nip ten- 44 Charge It." . - A simple little sentence is th?3, to be sure, and yet it-may he con sidered as one of the most insid ious enemies with which ! people have to deal. It is very pleasant to have all the little commodities offered for sale in the - arket, and it is sometimes hard to deny one's self of the same, when they can be obtained by just ordering them ind flaying "Charge it.? j But this habit of getting articles, how i ver small the expense may be, . t -I ;.. the iox . . 1 1 .j """""n eieunnc men trace a connection between1 soots -on i the sun ; :ind vupou earthly phenomena, iueh as ex cessive disturbances jof eliihate volcanic outbursts, earthqulkes and the prevalence of epidemic diseases, j The maximum rsfre qnency of sun-spots; occurs atte' ular periodH, between eleven !uuh1 twelve years apart, j Thus itltfe't m the yearn 1848 and 18G0,j and tell also in the year just closed., 1 he writer in Nature calls aheiv tion to the fact that great national epidemics; occurred in two fo'f mer years, and that the potato disease in Ireland, and the vine disease in Franco jand Portugal, are mow ocvastati ng those spectively.h co U!i tries; rer What a Brave Man Did. M One night, in the long galleries of au immense convent at Castro, during the retreat of Sir John Moore, immediately prexjeeding the j batt le of Corunna, several thousand British soldiers were sleeping heavily, exhausted j byl tne Tatigue or me past uay, ana by the evening of revelry which had followed. ;1 ' . Y ' ; J-' .';-. " f v, ' The corrider below was com pletely filled by the hearses of the men and ,of the artillerj'. These were packed so closely that there was no room to pass between them, and there was but one door of entranee. '- -. i '.; '- .' '' l At a late hour of the night, two officers who were crossing the bridge of : Castro perceived that one of the shutters of the convent was on fire, and that, the flame was fast .sireadinr tol the! roof above. The peril was extreme, fr had a chance spark fallen on the -straw beneath, the whole would have blazed up at once, and hundreds at least of those senseless men who lav there inthe deep stupor sleeping ot intoxi cation must inevitably have per ished. ' H' " ( i; :' . j . - Xot a moment was to be lost. Oiie of the officers, Captain Lloyd, of the. Forty :third his name (le serves to be reinemberd made a sigh to his 'companion: to keep silence; then ran on fast to the convent, and making his waj in to tlie corridor, leaped oh the back of the. nearest horse.) On he sprang from horse' to horse for there was no Boom to move in any othr way ; it was giddy work, but with stroni: courage and stead v i er ves he went h o u n d i ng o n o ve r that living bridge. Will he be in time ? Already the flames are liekinir the rafters of the roof above, and the -wood is old and rotten. One more fly ing leap and lie has gained tlie window ihe -next- inonienj he is earing awav franticallv at the mutter, to loo en it froni its hing- itement. One false ne cruel spark, and all his vould be in loomed men It was a moment of fearful ex- work vain ; he and the lie was trvihi: to ave would alike have been crusli .'d or stifled or burnt to death imongst the falling ruins. Still lie kept his place at the (zuhy height, tugging a way manfully at 'the shutter. Well done. Captain Ljoyd !' Hold on but a litth- long er, keep a good heart, and you will save them yet. , ' .The fire helped rather than hin dered him now, charring and loos ening the framework, which at anv other j time ' it would have ta ken a verv Hercules to move. He worked on against time through moments which seemed like hours, till at last he had wrenchec, the shutter from its hinges, and the mass ol flaming wood was Ioo3e in his hajids.! Then, with on final effort; he hurled it down, a far as he could, into the court yard beneath, there to smolder and burn itself into a white ash, and do no harm to any one. We fancy the man's heart must have beat fast a nd proud lyw hen he looked down afterwards and realized what he had done don all alone, too, and silently ; with out a single cheer to help him all the time. . . j :.. The Price of Type; Messrs George P, Rowell . & Co, announce that they have at their warehouse, in New York, an assortment of type from one of the rnost celebrated foundries in world, that of Figgiiis, London, Kur., which thev will sell at 20 per cent, discount from the Amer ican scale, when i ordered in fonts of 100 pounds andupwards. They also otter to import large fonts on special orders at a greater dis count front the American ecale. and irofess to be able to" Ifill the largest order in eitjht wct?ks from date of its receipt- in Sew 5ork. T h ey supp ly so rts i n I a rge o r"s m al 1 quantities r from j their st?ck on handun Kew York, at the Amer ican scale rate. Tliey asstjr't that if the jiresent duty on .type shall be removed, the price of the: ar ticle, both of home and foreign maiVufacthre, will immediately . fall 40 per cent below the present scale. Messrs. George P. 'RowVll & Co. are known" as conducting, the largest advertising business ever secured bv one house, and are also entehsive dealers in print-, ing". material. They are compell ed to import fV reign goos, be cause American founders, govern ed by a close corporation or ring, keep the price vastly, too high, and at thesame tiinu-VniaUe.it an exception to every other ispecies of' merchandise by; recognising no wholesale price ; the same amount per pound being j charged to the purchaser of five thousand pounds as wouio - oe jiaia oy nun wu wants but fifty, The IitielligcHa r says that thjev gentlemen . wIkso combined weight was a- thousand ' pohnds, registered at the Simonton House in Sratesville last Friday.'' ' charlotte; Advertising Agency, Trade Street, 2 doots beloiv 'ilerchar.tnavJ ' ' 'tfk. -- ' ... . I--"- ' -. k Farmers' ' Actional Bank. . . Advertisements received for any paper in North cr South Carolina at Pub lisher's lowest rates. Business, men will save time, tr on hi find money, by doing their ladTeriLtirr ihroagh this acencv. ' I
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