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GKEENSBOKO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21;. 1881
New Series NoJ
Established in 1825.
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CoL I been treated with Incivility.
t w t I rrarw onlr t hre rpa.ni oiiL.
iJTPrPfn5llDrilUairlDl Tiarton Green, who has a Tine- who have settled among us are
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B. HUSSEY, EUoc and rrpritot-
yard of 1.-50 bctcs near Fayetteville, ing H, express themselves
told me that he had real zed nearlv as wen sausneu.
CREEN.BORO. DECEMBER!, lS5f.
T2 FE0GEE23 OF .50STH CALO-
j LISA.
Utr5T lzZorzuzn Ccacenusr; tha
$4,000 last year from four acres of
the older part of his vineyard.
When such profit can le made,
persons will wonder why more
wine Is not made. Oar people,
The condition of the negro rice
hajibcenmateriallvimproved. They
are in the main orderlj-. and doj
generally work enough to support
themselves, while a few are acquir-
T Tin: Kditou of Tiir. Sun
I rill with pleasure answer
a.H to tne prorrrs
h North Canliua ha lnen mak-
Tlie to publications vou
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f i r j . v m j
: , kv .tlrvadv jrolncl iwime nati-Yj-V'TJ
rt-ju"lt. Vou may ierhap
rv -jj, m'HT that I iike esjeeially
if tli-t temperatuns of the State.
T: icducetl a unmlier of persons
ifr.,Hi thi rviun und from the
i V. thWent to jro into western "orth
i..n!in. anl purvhaae many thou
i:uU vf walnut trees standing in
J '.. f.re3ts. Kivins prices ransin
!r,.tH ie dollar to twenty-five per
iv-i'. In fact, oue manaretdto
juv tinv vtnU for each tree he
.n'-ht dWide to take, and refold
thi pnvileB to another for ten
liUari lr tree, without ever re
iiivirir one of them. An Enhsh-
in in told a friend of mine that a
.sin-le ; walnut tree which he re
ui.it ml. from Madison county to
Ijimlin wa sold there for 1 1,270.
, The walnut trees are sometimes
f-umd more thati nit feet in diam
ctrr.: The walnut timber, however,
o institutes but a mall portion of
ihf forests. .
r.gckeyc and maple are abund
ant, j but the forests are mainly
cIuijoed of imniei.no white Oak,
chestnut, jKiplar, hickory, and ash
tiw. -ami aUo in some localities
of white pine, hemlock, laurel, and
tuNsnl lir trees. For these there
ill k' l " jrret a demand as
lUi-rr i now for the wainut.
. A liviil presents, I think, the
U-sl'i Luatiou in the world for fac
t iriM f.r the construction of rail
toad ears, for carriages of all kinds,
and even' frt or housenoia iumi
; tare; The French llroad lliver at
(hevillc h:is morn than twice as
mnch water as the Merrimac at
l4iv.t-IIt with a fall of sixteen feet
just lit the i-dseof the town, in fact
within ta mile and a half of the
i Vtrt Ilouc. The land alonff the
tivrr U favorable fr a canal and
"1 buildiapi. Three radruads diverge
(r ,:u this inat. and a lourin wm
,?Liriv reaen u
v. j;ri.tl0i im Tmrvrtr. Tiio percentarro oi
i.tMu vAW Mif rxi I Hm in North Carolina wiiu l
I I V lilt y r I I 1 I I k 1 II r III 11 k Faub W m r-
cotton or corn, so as to pet an im
mediate return of money. As it
requires a few years to pet vine
yards in pood condition, they fail
to attempt prape culture. Of
course, if each farmer would strive
to pet an acre in prapes durinp
each year, in a short time he mipht
realize a rood profit. With proper
effort, 'orth Carolina miht easily
make more wine than the United
States would consume.
The prowinp of fine tobacco in
the upper counties of the State is
makinp perhaps more propress
than any other kind of apncultural
industry. As I told you last win
ter, suitable lauds can le pur
chased, cleared, cultivated, aud
the crop secured and put in mar
ket, for less than ISO, while the
tobacco would command from $100
to 20. Puttinp its valuo at the
low rate of only (100, one acre of
tobacco will be worth in its proni
in
think, eomnaro favorably with that
of the States penerally, and life and
nrowrtv are as safe as they are
t-lso. The climate of
North Carolina has many varieties
in its COO miles of length: but prob
ably for health, comfort, and the
number of its Productions it has tio
eiual. Its fruits apples, peacnes,
melons, prnpes, soycannoi ij
excelled. Its eastern portion ; Is
noted for its immense pines, cy?
iirxs. lunirxT. and many other
trees, while its middle and western
T .
nArtinn cannot IMS sunasseu xor
the variety and size of its trees. I
Whatever is crown in any of the
States, except, perhaps, su par from
the cane, can be profitably pro-
duced ia some portions of the State.
No country in tho world offers
preater advantapes,! both to the la
borer and the capitalist, for agri
cultural and manufactunnp opera
tions. Its railroads are belnp rap-1
Tb7IMalklTrla.
(From All the Year Round.
Acros lb dull and brooding night
A riant fiies. with demon light
Aod breath cf reaihiog sm ke;
Around him mhirli the reeling plain,
And with ada&h of grim disdain.
He cleaves the undered rock.
la lonely swamp the low wind stirs ; ,
The bell of black funereal firs, .
That murder lo the sky, .
Till, startled br his mad career.
They seem to ke :p a hush of fear
As if a god swept bf.
Through many a dark, wild Leart of hea:h.
O'er booming bridges, where beneath , (
A mighty ner braw!s;
By ruin, remnants of the past.
Their iries treroblin g In the, Uast;
by singing waterfalls.
Tha slamb'rer on his sSent bed
Turns to the licht his lone! head.
Dirested of its dream.
Long leagues of gloom are hurried o'er,
ThrogTJh tunnel sheaths, with Iron roar,
And shriU night rending so earn.
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Past boddling huts, past flying farms.
HiRh furnace flames, whose crimson arms
Are grappling with the night, .
He tears along receding lands.
To where the kingly city s'ands.
Wrapt ia a robe of light.
Here, round each wide and gushing gate.
A crowd cf eager faces wait
And every smile is known.
We thank thee. O. thow Titan train.
That in the city once again
We clasp our loved, our own.
GUITEaUISIL
AUa Bodied Beggary-Dr. Tlmag
ths Great Aua3ia of the Oactury..
oa
acres of
ten acres of the lst cotton lands, idly extended It has twe nty-six
and. accordinp to the census re- mountain peaks hipher than Mount
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and valleys. A few of its sprinps
have buildinps for tho accommoda
tion of visitors, while some of the
most remarkable are waitinp for
suitable edifices. At the Warm
Sprinps in Madison county they
claim to be able to accommodate
1,000 visitors. The situation of
these sprinps is a most remarkable
aud beautiful j one, j resembling in
its surronndinps, but even excell
inp. Ems in Germany. A pentle
man of my acquaintance assured
me that ho had assisted in exam
ining and counting more that 200
mineral sprinps situated in a space
of five or six hundred yards in ex
tent, not more tthan eight miles
from Asbeville, The spot is so
handsome that if accommodations
were provided there many would
resort to it. I The number of vis
itors in Asheville during the past
summer was stated to have amount
ed to twelve thousand. "With its in
creased railroad facilities it and oth
er points in the mountains will have
much larper numlers of visitors.
Tii! winon. beinir near tho centre
within twelve
utW Timber, there lore, to anj
I aumaiit. t an i a.silr and cheaply be
W-lurtt l. Would it not I better
: m.r.- profitable to have it
w.,;rd t:p tln re than t send it to
'lti.l-a en to I'hilatlelphia to
"Ik- rud:4!.i-tured and returnetlto
tUr i.r distribution over the
ntuiisr-. i: the fonn f househtld
HanL.la-. vehicles, antl railroad
;i. J ,
i It ji:ie, lam over, sieak of the
Sta- p. -lo-rdly. Ft r sveral years
all r ilu-cI.iM-I f the war the swamp
lau n:.l river Uittmnsin the eos-
' trru. part of the St.'.te were de-
-hsI ia price, but of late they
treii rap'.dlv 'covering their
.i!.'. It i- tau.itel iy weu-i:f-ir:ae.l
pePM.i.H that scarcely. a
tft.-!iii;h iiart of the swamp lands
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State
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s-fJlie
hive U-en retlucetl to
calUvat.on. These lauds can be
. im li:is.ii. cU-aretl. and drained
lor aUut tf.Vl.iter acre. Whe
c iltitutt d they yield from fifty to
jk-vttdv live buheU of corn ier
acre. Trnvt that have U-en con
tinvu ndy cult ivatetl for 11K years
ia turn are not ut nil impaired in
their fertility. Taking ixtybuhels
of t orn ai the average production,
anl putting it at the low price of
ti;tv tent irr Imhol (it is usually
higher), the crop r acre will be
worth 00. This land, King level
and liht, U mi easily cultivated
that ? piT acre will pay the ex-Iea-
leaving a profit of jht
acre to the owner. This would lie
t .V) per ecut. per annum on the in
; votiat ut.
While every part of our State
; will produce nome sjecics of prJpes
abundantly, the light soil of the
5 1 eastern part of the State is espe
: ti.illy suited to the production of
theSk-upiH.rning and several other
Ikiutl of pr.iiH?s. These lands, lie
! ing very generally underlaid with
i ti;-marl, can be male prinluc
j I me iu ctttou ami pram, dui can
f I protmMy le made most profitable
j ' when .Ht in vinyards. A CJerman,
Fnxlich by name, ,t whom we
m pave the pnmiuui at llaleiph for
' tire best ScajK-mong wine, told me
1 1 that he could make 2,0(K gallons
! to the acre of this wine as easily
as ho could UM gallons intlenuany,
; atnl thathect.uld s'll it for twenty
1 five t-ents a p-allon ut a profit.
France ha 1 nmc- Venn azo .000
s pure miles in vinyard. North
Carolina c juld ispare n,(KHl awmare
'miles to the cultivation of grape,
aud ha e it mahiing an ample jxr
tion of territory for all other needed
production.
; One rv-.i.oii why our nines arc
not letter is that thoMj protlucing
tlam caa m 11 them when new at a
price e.pial to that paid for Ku
roi.m wines, anl hence they have
no iad.ut xaent to keep theui until
tU y mvtuiio poL 1 paid last
su iimer at hme 1 per Imttle for
new,' sweet wine, matle of the Ca
tawii.t graj-e ia my county, llun
roiube. oii, p'rhaps, lememler
that; this gr.ip originated in that
ouuty. liad that wine leeii kept
t thr. e' cr. it would doubt
less hae Ufa ery gotnl. At llal-
K-r last, 1 lajtizht ot
a a
s gooti wine a l nave
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r
norfjc eoual to twenry
average cotton land. The lands
suitable for the production of this
tobacco have within the last three
years risen from 1 1 per acre to four
or five ia some localities, but not
one acre in fifty of this kind of
land in the mountain counties has
as vet been cleared. In tho sandy
land of the east the cultivation of
peanut is stated to yield much
larger profits than even the fine
tobacco docs. Every part of 'orth
Carolina will produce prain and
praAses. I may add that upland
rice is found profitable in the eas
tern counties. I doubt if there can
be found on the face of the plobo
0,000 square miles in one body
which, when all thinps are con
sidered, is equal in the production
of wealth for humanity to Xorth
Carolina. It also excels any re
gion of like extent in the variety
of its vegetable and mineral pro
ductions. Prof. Shepanl, to whom
formerlv I used to send many min
ral said that there was a preater
variety of minerals in a circle of
fifty .miles around Asheville than
in any other spot on the globe as
far as ho knew it.
The two counties of Mitchell and
Yancy, in which, thirteen years
ao, 1 had some mica taken out,
now, it In confidentially asserted,
furnudi more than half tho mica
of the commercial world, while
other counties lurnishsome at pay
ing rates. In the year 14. l uis
covered corundum in blocks in Mad
ison county, which was exhibited
at the London World's Fair, and
was much sought after by miner
alogists. Now the best corundum
mine in the world is worked in
Macon county be Dr. Lucas, whose
acquaintance I matle while he was
mann-Hnf the Chester emery mine
in Massachusetts. He has obtained
a number of fine crystal, out of
which perns are made. Ten years
ago I pt in the adjoining county
of Jackson a specimen which I had
cut in this city, and which Prof.
Sbejord declared to be the finest
Americau nibv he had ever seen.
Yon doubtless are aware that the
corundum, being tho hardest min
eral except the diamond, furnishes
next to it the most valuable gems.
I have seen enough of it to feel
confident that some of the local,
ities in the State will when thor
ourhlv examined, afford not only
rubies, but also fine blue sapphires,
Oriental emeralds, antl all the
other known colors of this mineral.
Of thepold, iron, aud copper mines
I need not speak, except to say
that there is a steady increase in
the iterations in them. Many of
the newspaper eorresjondents who
write from Atlanta state xnaionu
Carolina makes the lest exhibi
tion of any of the States at the
fair in that'eity.
The question may be asked, why
U it that, with all these advanta
pes, the forward, progress of the
State has not been preater f In
answer I would remind you that at
the close of the war, in lSOu, our
people found two-thirds of the
propeatv of the State destroyed,
thirty thousand of the bestraeu
killed, and many disabled, work
inp tools worn out or wasted, and
most of the horses anti nomcu te
the pone. In addition to tnis.
numbers of restless and half-wild
negroes rambling alout and de
stroying what little live stock and
poultry was left. Our people went
resolutely to work, and succeeded
in escaping starvation. Each year
since has found them improving
their condition. I think the steady
advance of orth Carolina since
the war has not been excelled,
even if it has been equalled, by
anv other Southern State. This
result has been almost entirely
due to our own ieople, the emigra
tion into it as yet being, perhaps,
in number scarcely eqnal to those
who left the state during tho first
m fir tiim vears that succeeded
the war. o one seems 10 oe iea -ing
at this time, and some are going
in from other States as well as
from Europe. When in this city I do
not as often as I used to do have
the question put to me. "when will
it be safe for a Northern man to
go into your State! Doubtless
more than fifty thousand men from
vnr!,cm Rtntcs have been iu our
A vs. -
Continuing his series of sermons
upon the "l'laugues of Modern
Times. Dr. Talmage. before an
overflowing house iu the Brooklyn
Tabernacle last Sunday, preached
his sermon with an entertaining
elucidation on Mathew xxiii., 23,
wherein "Christ cauterizes the
scribes and pharisees. Then .he
announced his text from I. Samuel,
xxi., 13: "Have I need of madmen,
that yo have brought this fellow to
play the madman in my presence?"
There are three dark passages in
David's history which we may not
hide, because God does not hide
them, j They aro recorded as warn
ings. jThey are buoys showing
where are the sunken 'rocks. He
broke up the family of Uriah and
then murdered him, and enacted in
those davs what in our time we
would call the principles of the On
eida Community. To e-scape capit
al punishment at the band of the
government he simulated insanity
on one occasion Uut ho was nev
er less insane than on the day when
he impersonated dementia. The
fact that he ran his hand up ami
down the irate like an idiot and had
an nncleanlv benrd did not hinder
King, oi Uatn, lrom
Arliiii1i ' flm
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of the Southern States, antl Having jerking on tno masK aim saving iu
thelest summer climate, will be his attendants, "Have I .need of
rapidly settled by those who seek madmen that ye have brought this
!,nfr Thonirh I follnTp i a nlav the. madman in mv
all the cartenters and builders that presence f There is something Mib- j j
can at present be procured at Ashe
ville are steadily engaged, yet in
some instances both stores and
dwelling houses have recently been
rented for sni much as forty er
cent, of the cost ''of their erection.
The town of Durlmm and Winston
arc also being rapidly built by the
tobacco trade aud other advantages.
It onght not to be forgotten or
overlooked tliat orth Care Una ex
cels all the States in its great fish
ing waters along its eastern coasts,
and it would w-em that this branch
of its industries can bo immensely
increased. - ' '
I fear, however, that if I pursue
the subject further I shall trespass
too mucli on your generosity. i
1 T. L. Clinomjlh;
New York,' December IT, 1SSI. j
Out on a search The hen which
has eicaied confinement and wan
ders In o the garden. i ,
The first successful trial of a
reaper took place iu 1K33. j
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If vou want io gc whipped, ask
a thorouphly bald-headed man
what hair dye ho uses. j
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Tin Booi of VTideit Clrcnlatiott. i
John WickliftVs translation is
the earliest English version-of the
Bible. It was made about imi,
but was never printed, although
wvphiI manuscript conies exist.
Tyndale's translation, published in
152(32, was the first English ver
sion' printed. Tyndale was burned
for heresy Jn Handera while en
gaged on a' second edition of tha
llible. On his death Miles Cover
dale and John liogers completed it.
It was printed at Hamburg in l.W
under the borrowed name of John
Mattbew,1 aud! is called the
Matthews Bible.: I This version was
revised by Cranrocr, who wrote a
preface, from which it received the
name of the Cranmcr Bible. This
Hi fimt Bible printed by nu-
thoritv in England. It was print
ed in large folio in 15.10. The
Geneva' Bible was brought by a
band of English refugees in 1557,
and about thirty i editions were is
sued. This work is much prized by
collectors, s It is ornamented in
many copies with the pen, the bead
and foot and column rules being
put in this way. This transla
tion is known h$ tho "becches,,
Bible. King James version of the
Bible was issued in 1 Oil, and was
prepared by a syndicate of forty
seven scholars. Ir
Statisticians have expended a
great deal of labor on tho Bible.
The fruits of their labor appear in
the following dissection:
Old Tut
smeal.
No ft books. .33
t 'Lap' era. Jr!0
Wraea 1 IU
Vool....W.4
Lettr..2.7,U0
2'ew Tttt-
tneal
27
113 V
arrcHKTrna.
Is3; veraM, 6.C61;
Tot-it
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31,173
772
'Mr tf-il.l..r
tMK .i.iu ihe last twelve territory since the war, jind 1 never
1s tt.1.1- fn.M ti... n. iritt r.. i ,-! that anv one 0i uicxa. xuiu
nonths.
Chapter,
18 l8-.
The wonl "ami" is .found 45,227
times in the Bible, and the word
"Jehovah'' G.855 times. Fiaeeu
lKxksofthe Bible are mentioned
that are now lost or unknown.-
limelv sad in the aberration of Kin
Lear frenzied by his daughters He
pan andGoneril in the attemprto
have their sister, Cordelia, disin
herited; There is something thrill
ing in ! tho bewitchment of Meg
Merrilcsas she goes-shivering a
great borrow through Waltor
Scott's I "Guy Manneriug." There
is something tremendous in the in
sanity jnf Lycurgus hewing down
his own son under the impression
that h0 was hewing down a tree; in
the insanity of Cambyscs; in the
insanity of Ulysses before the Tro
jan war, for these, were genuine
calamities, and there is sublimity
even in a shipwreck. But there is
no emotion excited by this feigned
idiocy of tho text except that of
disgust, and it lias us ecno in me
court room in Washington, w here
the fiendish assassin of our former
lresideut is dramatizing tho stark
f..oh hopinz under the cloud to
onrnno from the anathema of the
nation.
Gt'ITEAXJ lilt OWN DEVIL.
I have had during the past week
nn ooportnuitv of confirming pv
observation in Washington my th e-
ory of that pip&ntic crime. There
I nothinrr new about it. It is sim
ply a bad mau nature allowed to
run loose in every direction. Our
young men can arrive at the same
result; bv just allowing their evil
natnre to develop and trample out
the good. There is plenty of oppor
tunity. There may not be enough
Presidents to allow each one a sop
nrarp. target, but there ore innu
merable victims if you will seek
thcm-l-and illustrious victim?.
Thereiis no need of charging that
crimojto Satanic isesMou. ; It
was merely the evolution of the
man's own bad uaure. Such a man
needs no devil to tempt him. lie
is his own devil. He planted night
shade nuxx vomica and coltqintida.
He raised, as might Ik exiM-cttd, a
crop of nightshade, mix vomica aud
colquuitida. There is a philosophy
of crime and a science of sin which,
though very old. has not yet come
to eranhic and picturesque r.omen-
.itiir. For punxses of warning
and illustration lball call it C.uit
..nwm ir Kcnunderelisiu reduced
VituiMi y
tr n Rcience.
In the first place, Guiteauism
stands for able bodied beggary.
There is a large class of people in
n.ir .nmtnnnitics who live by beg-
cing. although it is often under the
name i of borrowing. They have
hands' and feet and brain with winch
to achieve their own livelihood,
but they prefer to depend upon the
i-nlr. of the industry of others.
Ti.An'iRKin now on trial had plenty
v tr Raw . wood or ditch
r.xTm nr pound the shoe last, but
!, tnrneil his back mon what he
could do and gave himself to that
for which he haU no quaiincauuu
rn.oM am n iunr as 1 can tell, in
Ma mnntn- to-ilav aiwui a nnuuretJ
thousand of what are commonly
called 'Mead beats. (Laughter.
rnt,T nftliora have a smattering
of learning and forthwith fee
themselves, called to edit newspa
the lecture platform. One would
think that after five or ten or fifteen
years of dead failure they would
take the hint, not being able to
earn a livelihood by toil of brain,
go back to earn a livelihood by
what is just as honorable, just as
respectable toil of hand and foot.
Not they will not do that. What
do they do? Borrow. They stay
in a place, until its patience or ca
pacity is exhausted and then thej
move on to pastures new. The as
sassiii now on trial borrowed all h
could at Freeport, . then borrowed
all he could in Boston, then bor
rowed all he could in Chicago,' then
borrowed all he could in Washing
ton. He borrowed the money to
purcJ;ao. the pisoL He borrowed
tha cloths he lias on his back. He
is borrowing the time and the tal
ent of his counsel. .He is borrow
ing hundreds of thousands of. dol
lars from the United" States, gov
ernment in the expense toe which
this trial is putting us, and in all
the expense that attended the last
sickness of our beloved President.
You and I, if we are taxpayers, are
helping to pay his "board to-day in
prison. My friends, it Seems to me
that it is high time that we men
and women who in our occupations
and professions are toiling until we
cannot draw another ounce, ceased
being taxed to support tho lazy
scoundrels of America- (Applause.)
CEO WS BACK ON THEIR BOOSTS.
Guiteauism is able bodied beg
gary. ! Many of these men live on
their wits. 'They try to see what
they can pick up. - They hover
around the headquarters of political
parties just before selections -and
hurrah for the men that they thiuk
will Ik? jlected. They are hearty re
publicans or rousing democrats, ac
cording as it pays Washington is
full of them to-day; All the trees
around the WThite House were filled
with these crows 'when Garfield
was shot. That -shot frightened
them off their roosts, but they are
all back there again as thick as
ever.1 They are as enthusiastic for
Arthur (laughter)--now as they
were for Garfield then. Oh! they
are a precious group aud their
chief apostle is Guiteau. The vast
majoritv of them of course, will be
disapiointed, and they will be mad
onousrh to shoot i anything from a
President down to a sapling. After j
a while they will start for home
without any official appointment
and.witbout a cent in their pocket.
What will they do when they get
hornet Borrow, of course, borrow.
It is only we vulgar people who
work. Guiteauism is able-bodied
beggary.! The curse of this counirj
s the genius of ktliose men w no
t I HUXLEY OH THE BIBLE. !
; "I have always." says Professor
Huxley, "been strongly in favor cf
secular education in the sense cf
education without theology; but I
mu$t confess seriously perplexed
to know by, what practical measures
the 'religious 'feeling, which is the
essential hcMs of conduct, was to
be kept up, in the present utterly
chaotic state' of opinion on these
matters, without the use of the
Bible. I The Pagan moralists lack
life and color; and even the noble
Stole, Marcns Antonions,is too high
and refined for an ordinary- child.
Take the bible as a whole; make
the! severest deduction which fair
criticism can dictate for shortcom
ings and positive errors; eliminate
as a sensible lav-teacher would do,
if left td himself, all that is not
desirable for! children to occupy
themselves with, and there still
remains in this old literature a vast
residuum of moral grandeur. ' And
then consider! the great historical
fact that for j three centuries this
book has been woven into the life
of all that is best and noblest in
English history; that it has become
the national epic of Britain, and his
familiar to noble aud simple,! from
John iO'Groat's house to Land's
End, as Dante and Tasso were once
td the Italians: that it is written in
the noblest and purest English, and
abounds in exquisite-beauties ofa
merely literary form; and, finally,
that it forbids the, veriest hind, who
neter left his Village, to be ignorant
of the existence of other countries
and other civilizations, and of a
great past, stretching back to the
furthest limits of the oldest nations
in the world, i By the study of what
other books coald children !,be so
much humanized, and made to feel
that each figure in that vast histor
ical procession fills, like themselves,
but a momentary spacein the inter
val between the two eternities, and
earns the blessings or the eursei
of all time, according to its efforf
to do pood aiidiiate .evil, even a
they are earning their payment for
their work? I . N
( "Arid if Bible-reading is not acf
cbmpauiedby constraint and solem
nitv, as if it were a sacramental
oiK?ration, I do not believe there is
1 VTlater VTiaiala. , i .
When winter winds are oiercine chilL
And through the hawthorn blows the rale,
w itn solemn reel i tread trie rait
! j That overbrow the lonely rale !
O'er the bare upland and awar ' !
Through the long reach. of desert woods,
The embracing sunbeams chastely play,
Ana giaaaen tnose oeep soutudes. -
,'? i i .-::
Where, twisted round the barren oak,
i The summer tine in beauty clung.
And summer winds the silence broke, '
i The crystal icicle is hong. . ;
When, fvom their frozen urns, mute springs
t our out ineir nver s gradual tide.
Shrilly the skater's iroa rings, :
; And voices fill the woodland side,
. i ? ' - . .
Alas! how changed from the fair scene !
i: When birds sane nt their mellow lay,1
And winds were soft and woods were green.
: And the song ceased not With the day.'
-i . I . ' ' ..I-
But still wild music is abroad.' ' :
Pale, desert woods ! within your crowd ;
And pat tiering Winds in hoarse accord
: Amid the vocal reeds pipe loud, j
Chill airs, and wintry winds ! my ear
- Has grown familiar with your song; .
1 hear it in the opening year j .
I listen, and if cheers me long. '
HtHiy u, Lougjtiww.
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! OIJEEB THTJrGS .DT-lWOIUJSLt-
T see that writers iiif our public!
journals are now buly engaged j
in a; task over which I often tojrtur-;
ed my brain as a boy-i-the, number
oi ir.uisposiiious inac can oe maae
oat bf Grey's line;
'p!o!
h!a
1 1' .
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CIVII. SEBT1CB BEFOB9I.
In his message President Arthur
seriously discusses civil service! re
form as a practical question. lie
evinces a tuprougn. stuuy oi i ine
question, illuininated by a varied
experience jii the ( public service
coupled with f practical knowledge
of the evils; of the present system.
This discussidn will bo a very great
aid in' advancing ! the solution jot
the problem1. Hitherto it has been
the custom to vroless in omciai
Tn Jk f ntniirhlntn' hr.mA
w v, T a.' luitu'uani , u v III J
weary way-i" ; , j
I cauuot see why this line should
have) been always selected From i -manj?-other
lined of Iiglih verse j
that are capable) of just its iaany
transpositions, j Th' smtejnce,-f
u Jolpi lies bnritnl Ihc," ' contains i ,
but four words, yet itas ca rablo of
twenjty-four transpositions, all jnak-.
ing good sense and gbotlv vnlish. ,
If the seven word 4 coi lprjsing
GrayJ's line were capable, i ikei the
four pords in the sentence I have .
here given, of making goo il iehse '
and igodd English iu whai ever; I
dsiton you might alrauge hem
they jwould be capably of Jive ihfk-:l-'
sand and forty trausp)rtatious : 1 -
IIet3 are a few) remiirkable lllus-fl .
trations of the cliaugej of i leajning ! ) '
that .an!Ie effectel incert.i infseh-
teneces nv a cuaugeoi accent ana
pause;
In the 13th chapter bf I.
occ
the
ass7
Kings
me
documents igreat admiration foir a I the; reader obiervoi how many .vari-
reiorm oi ine civil service iu t,uw i ou ineuniiis vuu uo.&tvt-u
abstract. Every twliticiau is tin, I lowing question! byl is ch;
tavor oi a reiorm or me civu er
Wilt
a reiorm or me civu bct-i
Vice which wuld put out his ene
mies and put I in his friends. The
countrv is interested in no sucn I row.
reform. We look for no immediate
reform. Thee are difficulties lux
the way of a speedy solution of the
problem, which are plainly pointed
out by the President. - But as all
parties and fill factions are now
committed tq civil service reform
it should not be very difficult to
strike out a wjorking plan foreffect
in ir the end for which all parties
are uuitea j iu minting suoum pv
sought.
-urS this passage: 4 Saddle
3 ass; so they jsatldled hinjiritho.
I A vounir clrirVlnan itsidl it
thuB: 3j"Saddle wi tho assf and they
saddled Iktm the ass.1 1 Ajrlli i, let
lielbl-
liiret of
. V : f fit- ! t
accent lrom one word f to another,
beginiiing by ncceiitingL tl
yon ride
to
td-mor-
.--m
Now, as regards pause: A certain I
hnmojrist gives I us f tjio follbwirig
reading of a familiar passage in ;
Solomon's Provejrbs: 1 'The picked -flee
(ilea), when no nijhii pufsueth i
but the righteous, i4bild asuiilion." !
A strange announcement this to
: In 1810 El
patent for hisrst
entomologists. ! 1 iUi
A ( istirign ished Eifglish actor,
enragpd at an ulwppij'ciatnlr'ait
dienee, hissed out the word ;oolsJT
Havirig been imperiously balled';
ias Howe obtained a !" to apologize, he eli veH d t ho
srst sewing machiue. follpng apology ii pidlM and
I j I "t --I without pausej 4d havt 'called thisj
be surfe;
oiuing
of the
think themselves Iord Byrons,not
becau.ee they have any of his talent,
but because they;' have his vices
ami his big shirt collar, The ouly
kind of irenius that is worUi any
thing is the genius for hard, prac
tical, useful wort. ; n oou uua
.rivi ii you two hands and two feet
ami good health yon ihave magnifi
cient etpiipment. m - .
Dr. Talmage empnasizeti im
point bv reciting the names of tho
"Teat who negan me m uuscumj
l.iimo distinmiishetl by their
own exertions, among them Michael
Faraday, Shakesieare, isnrus,
George Peabodv, who entiowt-i
a library in the village in which hq
oucesawetl wood; William CaryJ
iv-.-rL- Wbitp. Akenside, uaminai
w . I
Wolsev, Coiiernicus, uoiumous aut
Tentenlen, iru mci tfusuw
Enul ind. Then he said: uut oi
S . awwV
m-orv lifiril 1M1S1L1UI1 111 two
are flftv doors which at the tap of
the hard knuckle of toil swing witle
oien. Do not my hearers, join the
neat hrmv or able-bodied beggars
led on bv 'Guiteau, the champion
of dead-leats. vvnen iue
conns that you feel like putting
your lazv hands on your hips ami
saying, ftlie world owes me a hy
ing," it owes you a halter. jj
GUITEAVS DOMIlAXT CIIARACTEK
ISTtCS.' 1 - I)
The "preacher next descriled the
scene in the court room, in which
the assassin seeks to ueiame
or. n family, beginniugat his father s
LTave a ghoul laaccmeiei a ...
then he counseiwi ui umuioi
anishfrom their minus auj ii'i-s
..i ;.. .-nTi"-i. isevence, uc
ai a bib a. m . - - - '
on
chara;
anvthinsr. in! which children take
more pleasure. At least, I know
tli at some of the pjeasantest recol
lectionsof my childhootl are con
nected with the v. luntary study f
an ancient Bible-, which belonged
to my grandmother. Thre were
splendid pictures m u, to
but I! recollect little or
about them isave a portrait
high priest u his vestments. What
pomes vividly back to my mind are
remembrances of uij- delight in the
histories of Joseph and David, aiid
of my jkeeil appreciation of the
chivalrous kindness of .Vbrahim
in his I dealings with Lot. Like
a ! sudden j flash there returns
back upon me my utter j scorn I of
the pettifogging meanness of Jacob,
and my sympathetic grief over the
heart-breaking lamentation of j pie
cheated O'Esau. "Hast Ihon i not
ablessiiigforme also, O thy father!"
And I; see, its in a cloud, pictures
of the grand xhantasmagoria of the
book ot revelation. 4
"I enumerate, as they issue, the
childish , impressions which cinne
crowtling oiit of the pigeon-holes in
myl brain, in which they have jlain
almost lindisturbetl for forty yifars.
I prize them as an evidence that
a child of five or six years old, left
to his own devices, maybe deeply
interested in the Bible, and draw
smind nioral substance from it.
Contemporary Jicrkic. j
! I- j 1 r- 1 .
; I fAH in
! J-J
A You will seldom find an attorney
at law lie knows be ter.
ODD NAMES OF POSTOrnOES.
at
(we
er
We have so loft en been amuset
the odd names: given io towns
thonorht the! rtladers of y .ur pa
in hear what wo found
T . . L.
in our extensive travels over tlie
United Stages j (map.) Arizona is
frtain1v ahead in patriotism, for
" i','.
ieu
kJi wnsts ofsa new town ca
"American Flag' We found a
noor. little fBarefoot" in Kentucky,
and there is oiily one "Shoemaker7?
in the country, ana lie nas seuieu
3lDnroe county, 1'enn-
way up iu
syj.yania.
there.
'loney", is
in Missis-
of c6urse. we find "O.l K.7
While there is ,' "Gloryf in
Texas, the iobr people of Tennes
see have "GrieP with 4Gas we
know what t is to have gnet with
out it. ; I : 1 !: I " ! r
I "Othello'' is up in Minnesota
cooling his jealousy, but "Desde-
moma'' left him long ago and set
tled in Texa.4. ! j J I
? Poor, sentimental "Komeo' nas
been in Tennessee, Mississippi; and
Michigan,! anil can find j no Juliet;
he has at least leen told there is
"onesucn ' in iicniguii. n.
i If Secretary Hunt! wants a
"Steamboat'l to help build up! our
broken ddwu navy! he will fintl one
in Xevada1 without any jhelp from
government! ! ' i ' - 1
audience fools it is true ami 1 am
sorry for it." On befng tkunted
afterward on tho) abjectjiess f his
apology, he, denied having liolo
gizedit all, ''-declaring lrT"tji had
qnly reiterated lis;acci)sati tht antl
giving his laiigaage as foil nv: t"l
have jialled this audience ljopls;1 it
is trult and 1 am sorry lor' W7 ; I
. In fhe olden tfine it y;us the .cih
om vtltli inn-keeiw'rs t(J hajti a le
gend or rhyme o their ;igiii ward
Bayaitl Taylor 'tletjs n.fjlh'at VjucUyis
the e istom in S vfideii o-d. Uy- lld
tells s that those, who iWire "to
attract religions persms toithosd
houses have some test tVoiii the.
Bible 'oil thciif ,sighfloa'fltW; yet,
alasJJio tells us that $vhete er i ho
saw - knelt outward sign
tionjhehad to lake iiecu
against being cheat e rft'tt
tere4 the house. ' : j
Irtirnral portioifs li)nlij
is now ine custom,
r
!t.n-
;aor
recently, for - hiiikeefaers
some sort ot -proverlfe nn
gend or rhyme h thei- sig
In an old English 1-1 ok
andll anecdotes' tliat;?.!
re ate
11
1 VI
In a
EICAN TOES ADO.!
Oh the first tornado!.
mntwrnleis leaden skV a sort ot
i
dark: dome, a strange "celestial
sign? begins to risefroml the horizon.
! It rises hnd rises an I rises' as-
' ' I im1ikO 1 r4?
siimmg exiiauiuiiiai.,i umiuuu-..
terrific shapes. At first one would
take it to bo the eruption ot some
gigantic volcano, the explosidn of a
whole vtdrld) Vast arches fim iu
the sky and rise higher aud Ingher,
and j become superimposed with
startling sharpness of contour, in
opaque heavy masses: it looks as
though enormous vaults of stone
were about to crumble downi upon
cart U ana men
for all the! presidents! excepting
Tin ve sinil Buchanan. !We could
only find jtwoil ioliticians
the land, ji "Republican"
"npinnerflt.1 'ill -I ' '! - - '
Imagine a "dead bear' staying
long in either of the towns pray
in
md
thirh' years ngd 1 ioidHli
of a jolly fellow; somvhe
west! of Enghuid, that ke) t
ler 11 shop" and ru ; taprooi
house, andwhdhatl -Jhc
rhyiiie on his sipi-bord
llTina'ina is Tom Proud dm an
J& think 'j ' i
I'll you fjr a xi!t:cfl aal
dr ? : ' ) ' ' I
Tliere was nq punetuat
rbythe was intqmled for a 's
web! to catch iinwai:' Hies:
daltwo.men eliteied th s
e.eiu as oiners iiaua w
theih. On - finding t
ch.rged with the drinks-is
Hip kliave. thelJiecnScd 1 01
dull of haviiiielteatil tl en
insrHntion on his sigiii-lxiar
rr i .
idllviui
is
to
nd' it
been'
hiivo
i-ixaiis.
jilliCS-
Over
laocouur.
o iki I tho
bai-
i i Ihis
tbrJ
ion
io
icn
n .in
viting them oiit, lie ajKea itiem u
ner rent
in to revenge. -"v "."t ; tho wte ui uum, ....i
i to say, has been the dominant an this becomes illuminatetl we
aracterUtic of the man all through p- ivdm llow, with metallic glea
TTt" or "Pav Down." that is, if the
people injthat vicinity live up to
those rules. ' l Ii 1 i'" . k
It is aggravating to see how the
pacueiors ue l - wrJ,i.th coupM. whfch
Aile3 tfr.TLSlZZTlXrXA in the same i ninner; as. th
tKniip nra' atPSL" 1 1 mm nuoui nuu rr . i l. a i
"Bacheldrs' Ketreat; ' ana lor orn vr- ,r; , - Anit
v . , A.j IIW o hh Tt'IlllMl IIH IllinftSrill I
rider's
Duo
. i ... i
iars
be lore
selves
veu .as
bv thc
to
1 ;
a
y j mm
ue, -
inl-
eams,
i .... r PiKf nifrnr
uihi i- ... If
have killed his cross-ciuii." "
there had been a; weapon at hand.
When the prisoner stootim iuc
as his own witness, ami wncn j ue
twteut finger of Joliniv. i
Ihiust into the tvesuneni
mtmlerer, ripping open me uei. ,
iniquity confined lucre u. t
iires of hell uiazeti iuiui, 4""
the cobra bit tne oars oi i,m
iow the tiger, trappen m luojute
daretl on his captor. Kevepge!
He . w ould wan, greeuish, or copper-drdored,
nnd rises, and rises still.
The artists who have painted the
"Deluei the Day of the Last Judg
ment, the cataclysms of the
rnrld. never imagined
c f iTitnktie. skies so terrible.
! Aiid still there is not a breath of
air, hot one trembling movebentin
all that wear uaiuic.
primi-sihts
1
iif'c i;iffer was a siKxm c
pared with it. ! 1 . . il 'J
Tne unit oi iu I'lc;"-"" a : r
proposition was iiiar w. ?
crueltv to society. i n" '?r: ; t
eaiu lie sketched the assassin
course as a professor of religion
and in closing niiw uwir
n;.w. f lpace.' under whom
X ill" ' . , . i
t i.i,w f tliem miirht be
HIIIIUH.'-1 -- - c
a "cut of great results.
comes a
I . I i.- ... luinl- hnr I
s of a pnnligioivs whip; up tueir jcoaii.
I r;nir poneeai ine iacv.irojii us i
thither the storm over: that soinethiug is waidmg in htlieir
rvtniniitsp4th. The outfit, t&thh only. "Vest" Jn the
pers(or
to write books or to take to shell out
the
the
Calling a red-headed man ft liar
is experimenting with 'explosives.
Whv is the let erSlike a serins
machincf . It makes iicedle.j. need
less. s . "
Vrt room was ever made large
f enough to hold lK)th a fa- man ana
a mosquito. , .
i.'-iiinr has to pav up some-
tin.es; even the little chickens have
! Then all of a sudden
cwri.tfni mst: the trees, the
the binls lie down as if prostrated
by the )low
the j tepai
hither and
t1irova In AO
thrhadd is unchained, everything
Bh,i,1ders and shakes; .nature
writhes; under the frighlfid power
of the metoric force that passes by4
j For about twenty1 minutes all the
cataratfts of heaven are let loose
flm eirth: a diluvian rain re-
w.i,r.4 the thii-stv Isoil of Africa;
the futy of the wind strews the
earth with leaves!, branches and
debris. ''" ' ' ' j ', i 'i
t And then everth ing calms down.
It is all over. The last gusts enase
away the last of the copier-tiuted
clomls, sweep olTthe last fragments
of ruhis left by the cataclysm;-the
meteor is past the sky becomes
snotlefcs and pure, mo
tionless and blue. PIERBELoTI. :
iVnrth f?ardlinal her
hasleen lefttn lrgiuia, her -unm
in South Carolina, "Mirror? m
Kentucky, and the most lament
able part of Ml, her Bangs are in
the same State with "Bachelors'
Wall eonseduentlv it is no comfort
t tnnw I she can fsee "Pinafore,"
"Saratoga," pBroad way," and her
'(Grandfather." without leaving
flm State. I She probablJ wouhl
prefer to go to those places in! full
dress, howeyer. I
.- L i ..t.1 1.r.f 4liom' IMS
TMi.s" iii Vlrcinia. with "Bache
lors' Hall," but that can hardly be.
The inmatesjof the Hall can button
1
the
couplet in this wise :
Mtin-tme ia Toin
-1
think
Droddara aa
I'll Whave oa fur t.5ipuee and tHrctr in a
.1
4 I
Cathartics FerCatt
The best cdt ; in fiy
theJ
aft
sta
It
to a
ren
sen
past twtrjw intersl
r , mi i-.l.
caivmg 'win isj
rers and fall c.owb.
umght she .woiildSlie,
v neighbors to qnd
I'.edv to civeherrOne
t me word that m
vAiv in in Missouri.1
The a.ipirant for office who; when
asked, by sdnic stately government
official, Where he hails from,j;mght
feel soinewhat humiliated iu an
sweringi "Tub, '-Tin Cup," or
"Turnip." I Xeyer mind, jypung
man, if vour former residence sa
vors of (he kitchen, and the jdimeii
small.' vou may! becupy
thc White llonse yet, although yon
now live in(a) f'Tubl"
The girii who resides , in j 4ion
Bet," California, must hnd it haru
to avoid using slang, j
AinnriV other oueer names, .we
fir,.t "Yankee "Quaker,", 'Ieft
Hand," I "J, ! Bob," "Sweet Lips"
.Dismai," fv ny ot, - .f-
o,l "Peculiar7 rw""
I
I
as
Ka
w
cudj and that If wouhl
fur
a or it wo
n wnn
spring
d ent
t what
fanner
d lost h r.
tie: bldiged
tt Wake her ai:iiner. ii,e oe
th names of d ffareilt liter i&i'.,
tolnake that luxttry&lwj cqdJ fliiis
-Ws!ttw much lor meS tor i iiaujuis
kek'h readinir PnlV (follier 'Jiixi? r
iiri Ihom ail iind 4heif eJcppifi
idki's. l w iit into the fioUanu
ox t.rrour
Ws. 1 went into the
yMlmy wile forJi '
hVilv tloitoi , ealha
j J . . '.? ' M .
Mi I knew wen
XiLYu her tuvee uwe. f .
nJt Millie near Kliunf ru
, , m -
-vii iisorniii'T the old .crW
11
ntj
ant
is
tiv
till-.
iinl. I
iiuiitity
Th
eat in;
PIT
I
-hive read in yiur pipeil tlijtsj i suirf.
mtr that it wa nrilH leVer
?gt)od for ht z'i
"'"'i
frdmi
tasen
I--:''
a
Senator Da viid DflVis
4 1 i . 1 . , 1 y
tHV -VilSt 1 I IlKlfl"
telegniihi" ti2inplirJntiilg,lni tipon
' - . . . .: .a. i I 1 J- la.
the patriotic seiui?et
lei? s diction of
his Ireceht:
ha.4
ett
tvas
i a 1 i
What
U
What
again r
O.M.
recciv-
rraistt'"
I fault-
hddres
4.1 ' .- ;
4f -
.it ;
1 ' I
Mvt a vet aa v. w v AtVaU a m w