GREENSBORO, K. C, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1885.
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i Temptation.
' Lrmh placed her hai
rp" mrf anTwhite. I lonsed to i
TlSffend? I took it. and
' Kjueeio it. '
J"lL. hn within my reach.
er 1 Wn or t- mo ITound it.
A. precious time in Fpeech.
I JPJ5?J f put my arm wound it.
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ThfelS'ruiA mortal man resist 'em?
i near her ripe, red lips
'fhlea torn? Pfc. . ,
f ffllijrthem nearer and I kissed
-J'j 4 Good Reason.
' J Li b hold her head so high
'em.
- T he other maidens by
ma rf ?" . .u hr bilious?
.A", llv 'he Pnudly walk the sUeet,
Vhiwfiie her pride increases ;
UMa V thousand pmkj. .
!'' ' . . .Wh winklinc- feet
birds with carols sweet
JSt decks aeain the yale.
tteD, Hy flowers are lound in bunche.
' beer and. ale.
Ajjiv t up drinktns whiskey punches.
1LLPIT THEMES. . '
.Is Daiiciug a Sin !
UJ jiev.'N. B. Thompson, of the
m rmM York in asking the
l1 . ..tfion i "Is it a sin to dance f
i i Lve I cxcelleut
warrant for the
r,iftticc ii his
text "David danc
niTclit - lie said: "No man can
jav?i(loyvB laws or roles, though
Nine
ifv ! couiuiissioneui from the
laroontro! those who wish to dance,
lor iWtJi ; matter, as in all others,
I J.i.in iivilJ iln inst aa tlipv wish, on
11 tlie ii"tiplo that no one has a
11 t fliriatft what another shall
tOT Slltll nut. uu. iuc uiusb iuo
rsjreacLer or Christian teacher can
if do !s ltd,1 point oat the dangers in
the dance, the same as he may the
4 constructive evils in other things,
and: lesivje, as he mast, the matter
with those who engage in it. If,
as a minister of Christ, I am to de
tiouitce dancing, the principle ac
tuatiiig be must be 'higher' than
tlieiposs.ible .fact that 1 personally
caul see I no pleasure in it, or be-
'i (cause I fill a place in the Christian
. pulpit or because I never could
i';dancb f hat mauls unfair in argn-
f niepiaud reasoning w ho to make a
point in; defence ot his own interest
K resorts to argument which does not
wiiouy anu iruiuiuuy coinciae wuu
, tbQ fats in the case.
I, "Our churches, in some instances,
jhro ast becoming unfrequented by
it the young, and all because some
! pulpit foggy crank, having out?
ill grpwu the impulse ot youth, preach
PI es a so-.called religion as wide from
:; the true nature of the. religion of
if i Christ as error is from truth. When
' religion is made to appear like the
cutting of Jabor'a pick, burying it
j self deep in the natural proclivities
of youth, then the whole economy
J, .of God is made to unjustly suffer.
- ;Set the Church in opposition to the
1 natural instincts of youth, and they
will ! not only retuse to emorace
I such.' but turn foot and lace from
;; I the sanctuary1. ,
: 5 , s'Now, dancing is both a religious
.factor and is Biblically admissible.
It ever has been a national feature.
I; If turned from its purpose and into
- evil, as has sometimes been the
i case, that is not the fault of the
I mVere act, I but of the. debased qa
I tare and low impulses of those en
I gaging in it.
:;, ; Anciently it was a rite. Miriam
'aud the women of Israel danced
qver the drowned hosts in the Bed
I i Sea. Jepthah's daughter met him
1 I dancing, and the women of Israel
I f .hailedvwitb like terpsichorean exer
I f cises the coming of Saul from the
jf 'l slaughter ofthe Philistines. Then
1 ' n the customs of the people it ia
1' spoken of. The poming home of
t j the prodigal son filled the house
; with merriment and dancing."
I i . I The speaker went on to say that
j there is; good warrant for dancing
L in itself, : and dancing- as an exer
cise no one can upbraid until it be
made the vehicle of passion or vice.
jVUnderstand-me clearly," he said,
j"the people will have amusements
jThen let them be of the highest
and best possible order. Encour
age them in the home circle, where
they will be saffrfrom evil. Trench
fi around your amusements with the
r safeguards of approbation and pru
lj dent surveillance, and you will
'? make f religion-palatable to the
t ' young and snatch from prudery
I what we ill can afford to vield it."
- Higher Impulses to Right Living.
Mr. Beecher preached the short
est morning sermon Sunday morn
ing that he has delivered in several
years; 11 is text had to do with the
need) for higher impulses to right
living in the case of professing
Christians. These extracts are tak
en from the sermon :
"The KiDgdom of God consists
of that group of men, in all nations
1 and ages, that are renouncing their
auitnal impulses in favor of a life
generally flowiug from reason and
the higher moral and spiritual sen
sibilities. They have got up above
,-. the fequatorial line ; they are living
. in a land without a winter, and
with an ever present summer of
1 the soul." r '
? iThe true idea of relicriou is not
so much to tuck up our conduct so
that it will never drag on the
- ground ; not so much to take care
of the Bible, of church meetings,
. i of ! associations in such a way as
that men shall say, What religious
folks they are V to get a reputation
for pietyit is to bo and not to
' seem''
j . "It is very easy for a man to act
icujjiuusij , wneu ue snows everv
(Doay is watcuiner mm and nraisinf
him. Men are almost universally
yam ' and will do a great deal for
the sake of praise. The Americans
are the proudest and the vainest
people that live upon the face of
the earth. The temptation to gain
praise for doing things that are
right is a very strong element in
our national character. In our re
ligion there is not a little of the
element of vanity. A thousand
little, micelike vanities creep in
and out of our religions influences.
Nothing -can be more defiling to
Christianity than the spirit which
exists too often in churches their
combativeness, their enviousness
and their jealousies ; their strifes
as to who -shall be first, who shall
be most respectable, who shall be
most prosperous. ' All those things
are not of Him who calleth you?
they are of the devil. But churches
that are full of sweetness, lull of
activity, and that seek each other's
honor, rather than their own
whose atmosphere is warm and
nourishing the churches which
cherish the graces of the Spirit, so
that if a man comes in from the
outward world be will say, 'This is,
indeed, a different life from what
I have ever seen anywhere, that is
a moral influence beyond preach
iug, beyond all organization ; and
whenever we can begin to 'touch
church with church from village to
village, and from town, to town,
and to circle the nation with asso
ciations of meu and women that
are manifestly seeking to produce
holiness in their souls, yet with all
cheerfulness and sweetness i and
beauty, the glory of the Lord will
not long liuger and the millennial
day will have already lit up the
eastern horizon with its beams."
About Pharisees.
lie v. Mr. Smyth, First Keformed
Presbyterian church. New York,
gave his text "For I say unto you
that except your righteousness shall
exceed the righteousuess of the
scribes aud Pharisees ye shall in
no case enter into the kingdom of
heaven." True righteousuess, he
said, is defined by a distinguished
divine to be-that uprightness in
dealings which ought to be between
man and man. This is its proper
sense in the text. But it is evident
what is here ironically termed the
righteousness of the scribes aud
Pharisees did not come np to th's
standard, Tor it is added that the
righteousness required for salva
tion tnust exceed theirs. A scribe
might be termed a- compound of
editor and clergyman. They tran
scribed the writings of others, and
many taught and expounded these.
The word "Pharisee" is derived
from the Hebrew "Phaish,,' to
separate, and, from what we can
eather, from" the Scriptures "and
Josephus, they were a haughty and
self-conceited set. To this sect be
longed most of the scribes. . Isaiah
prophesies of them, "Stand by thy-j
self ; come not near me, for I am
holier than thon." Our Saviour
says of them that they trusted in
themselves, that they were right
eous and despised others, and that
oneWof their number stood and
prayed with himself, "God, I thank
thee that I am not as other men."
Let ns beware of cherishing a sim
ilar haughty and contemptuous dis
position toward others. Another
characteristic of the sect was -.a
punctilious attention to little things
and the neglect of greater. Not
withstanding these they secretly
indulged in abominable crime and
inexcusable tempers, and finally re
sorted to measures resulting from
envy and revenge which have cov
ered their name with; infamy and
brought down the judgment of God
upon their nation. jWhen they
brought a poor creature, taken in
sin, before Christ for judgment and
He said to them, "Let him that is
without sin among you (that is,
without her sin) cast the first stone
at her," conscience stricken they
slunk away iajBOwardice.
The sting of thus revealing them
to themselves rankled in their
breasts and bred insatiable malice
and revenge. Jealous of His popu
larity with the people, they plotted
against Him, they consulted to en
tangle Him. in His speech, -they
blasphemed Him, they denied Him
the right of free speech when He
quoted from their own Scriptures,
they! tempted one of I His disciples
to play the traitor toward Him
with a bribe, they brought Him up
before a mock tribunal on a false
accusation, suborned witnesses
against Him and finally crucified
Him. . ! . j !
Murder; is the climax to the envy,
malice, revenge, intolerance and
persecution which belong to the
spirit of such characters as these
scribes and Pharisees. Any man,
no matter to what society be be
longs, who hates his brother with
out a cause, is no better. It Christ
were again on earth would He be
tolerated by an assembly ofthe
clergy in the exercise of the right
of free speech, as; for example,
when addressing the 1 scribes and
Pharisees, he said, "Ye blind
guides which strain; at a gnat and
swallow a camel." "Woe unto you
anril-Maa and Pliarianaa livtvutritiia "
"Whited sepulchres full of dead
men?s bones and all, uncleanuess."
"It will be more tolerable for So
dom and Gomorrah in the day of
judgment than for you." Would
they tolerate John the Baptist,
who called the same class "a gen-
ratiou of vipers T1, I ;
. "Let us avoid such a spirit, cul
tivate the spirit of charity and seek
the righteousness pf Christ."
About Flirtation, and Marrying. ,
Uev. J. j. White, of the Fourth
Street M.f P. Church, New York,
who married the two young couples
whose parents are seeking to annul
the marriages, said : ;
"Marriage is a divine institution.
Once a young man said when I
married him: (I thank you, Mr.
White.' He was iu raptures, and
added : 'I feel like a new man.
and so lift was ii for no. man feels
complete until he is married. You
all knowiand feel a desire for that
completion. Where there is no
esteem there can be no affection,
and where there is no affection
there is no union of hearts. Now,
therefore, marriage snouid never
be thoughtlessly entered into, for
good marriages are the basis of our
nation&l stability. Fancy a nation
of bachelors. There won Id be an
archy. When you see young men
keeping away from marriage the
nation is beginning to decay. Now,
what is bringing this about T Want
of parental restraint. Young girls
are allowed to run about unattend
ed, are not watched at home, or
looked after when outside the borne
circle. . .
"It is a wonder that more girls
are not led astray. Mothers should
be the confidantes of their daugh
ters in love affairs. It amazes me
when I find senseless fops and
dudes encouraged in the house by
mothers who have marriageable
daughters. Yet- wheu these girls
go off and marry these fops and
dudes a great sensation is made of
it. The causes of marriages are
often trivial. A beautiful mous
tache will win a girl's hand for a
fop. Young men who have nothing
to do should be shunned by girls.
One of the most damnable institu
tions of the age is flirtation. It is
the cause of most of the unhappy
marriages of the day. The flirt
cannot be a wife in whom a man
can put confidence. God save good
men from them 1 Another cause is
the love of dress. Women's love of
dress deters many from marryiug.
Young men have given this as a
cause to me why they have not
married, and yet I know men who
are supported by their wives.
The Revised Old Testament.
The revision of the Old Testa
ment has been completed, and on
May 21 the new version will be is
sued simultaneously in London,
New York and Philadelphia. The
version is the joint property of the
universities of Oxford and Cam
bridge, and eaeh university will
issue its own edition, although both
will be printed from plates made
from one set of types. For the
American trade Thomas Nelson &
Sons, of No. 42 Bleecher street,
New York, will control the Oxford
Bible, and J. B. Lippiucott Com
pany, of Philadelphia, will act as
agents for Cambridge. The. Har
pers, of N. York, will also havo an
edition of the Cambridge Old Tes
tament, which will correspond with
their own reprint of the revised
New . Testament published three
years ago. They will have only
one style, iu pica type and in four
octavo volumes, making five vol
umes of the Old and New Testa
ments. The binding will be 111
brown cloth with red edges, and
the four volumes will be sold for
$10. The Nelsons will offer a va
riety of styles on the day ot issue,
and a copj of the complete Bible,
priuted in pearl type and bound iu
cloth, ma be had for $1, or the
purchaser of luxurious taste may
secure a royal octavo edition in five
volumes, printed iu pica type and
bound in Turkey , morocco boards,
with gilt edges, for $52.50. There
are to be in all six editions and
twenty-three styles of bindicg.
The "parallel . Bible" the author
ized version arranged in parallel
columns with the revised version
will doubtless suit the scholar
who desires to make a close com
parison. It is to be a crown quarto
edition, printed in j minion type,
and as to price $8 will secure the
book in cloth boards, $14 a Persian
morocco binding and $18 a cover of
Turkey morocco. i
The interest of the public and
even of the booksellers in the pub
lication of the revised Old Testa
ment appears thus far to be of
rather a quiet sort, and such ex
citement as attended the issue of
the Ne Testament three years ago
is not anticipated. The Harpers,
however, state that there is a fair
demand for the new Bible, and the
Nelsons report that they have re
ceived a greater number of orders
than they had obtained for the New
Testament at about the same period
to publication, although the aggre
gate quantity ordered is somewhat
less. It is said, too, that the uni
versities have printed a much
larger number of Bibles than that
at first supposed to be sufficient to
meet the demand.
"As to a comparison of the old
antTnew versions of the Old Testa
ment nothing can be said at pres
ent, as the translators keep their
own counsel. Every precaution
has been taken to prevent a pre
mature issue of the work, and to
prevent stray copies from getting
out before the day of delivery. It
is asserted that the two universi
ties and the three American houses
who are to act as agents are work
ing iu perfect harmony in the mat
ter, in proof of which the tact that
the Oxford and Cambridge Bibles
are printed from the same set of
types is mentioned. All the edi
tions to be offered in America are
imported from England in the com
pleted state, no sheets even having
been sent forward for binding.
Whatever arrangements may have
been made for reprinting must await
the issue of the English work iu
the prescribed form.
A Kiss.
A kiss is said to be sweet, not
because it contains saccharine mat
ter, but because a man doesn't
know what else to call it when he
feela the effect traveling through
his system on a lightning express
with no stopover check. It is safe
to assume that a man - who at
tempts to describe a kiss never
had one ; men who have had kisses
(not smacks) don't want to talk :
they want to think and dream ana
die with ' their boots on. So we
have been told. v
A Novel Suicide.
ML Airjr News- j
-Jerry Gallian, who resided near
Low Gap, in this county, committed
suicide last Saturday by hanging
himself in the fork of a laurel bash.
While the affair is a sad one. the
means employed to destroy life
were rather novel. The deceased
leaves a wife and several children.
No cause is assigned for the deed,
but some believe that a too free
use of liquor had something to do
with the man's death, ;
- - , . j Beauty la Wmrii.
v The standards of feminine beauty
have never been fixed by compe
tent authority, and there are evi
dent reasons why agreement on
some oft the points at issue can
never be arrived at. - The Chinese,
for instance, finds the true stand
ard in bis short statured, round
faced women, with plum colored
complexion.1 An . African prefers
the color of bis native race, with
lips and nose on a scale correspond
ing with the breadth of his conti
nent. These are, hpwever, extreme
instances. The Italian and Spam
ard, with more reason, give the
palm to the black haired, dark
eyed beauties who unite the finest
features of the brunette type, while
natives of the North find.-all that
is lovely and angelic in woman's
nature I associated with blue eyes
and fair complexions. The charac
teristic' of the Latin type is passion;
ot the Germanic-and Anglo-Saxon,
tenderness ; but which ' is the 'tet
ter no one will ever dare to decide
in these cosmopolitan days, with
specimens of both types free distri
buted about him. ' j
To render a woman of any type
of class beautiful she must not
have too great irregularity. of fea
ture. Intellectual or moral beauty
may atone for many deficiencies,
but cannot make beautiful in the
eyes of civilization a month too
large, a chin too sharp, I or a uose
out of the line of projection. When
the ordinary mortal rises to find
standards outside of his! own judg
ment, he becomes greatly confused
by the utterances of the poets aud
novelists. The sonnet of a bard to
his mistress' eyebrows is certainly
no guide to a sound decision, while
to read dull : descriptions . of lips
like cherries and peach colored
cheeks suggests some of thepoints
without leading to a verdict.
Recent novelists, it would seem,
fight shy of the subject.! It is hard
to piu them down to any definite
detail of the charms of their, heroi
nes. There is, of course, a long
list of beautiful mental aud moral
qualities, and, with those the reader
is expected to be satisfied. The
older novelists treated tbsir subject
somewhat differently, j
Walter Scott, for instance, was
not So timid. - He bad opinions,
and was quite willing to state them
boldly. When he undertook to de
scribe anything it was with graphic
lineaments that made! an impres
sion.' Yet, with all of his pictorial
audacity, he hesitated to decide be
tween the two great types the
dark and-the light into which na
ture has divided women. His pas
sages describing the f blonde Ro
wena and the dark Rebecca are fa
miliar to all; lovers of English lit
erature. He dwells with especial
tenderness on the portrait ofthe
dark Rebecca, which is said to have
been drawn after a description of
an American Jewess given to the
novelist by his friend, Washington
Irving. i
Since Scott such j descriptions
have become hackneyed. Novelists
have grown more afraid of their
readers, who delight in analysis
and not delineations. Beauty is
not found in j the face alone. Ac
cording to. Emerson a fine figure is
better than a fine face, by which is
meant that if the choice lies be
tween the two the first is to be pre
ferred. The two, however, are
very likely to go together, regular
ity of feature being in a majority of
cases attended by ! symmetry of
form a tendency of the race which
is every year become physically
more perfect. To have a good
figure and a face not displeasing is
no doubt a happy combination in
either man or woman.
The beauty of Shakespeare's
heronies is of an entirely undefined
type. It is something like his geo
graphy and his chronology which
are so closely related to the no
where and "no when ' AJovely pro
cession of Juliets, Constances,
Isabellas,! Imogenes, Beatrices,
Ophellias, Helens, Rosalinds, Cor
delias and Violas j troop through
his dramas in picturesque proces
sions., theoretically beautiful; but
most of them gentle, submissive
and hapless food for tragedy. As
for Lady Macbeth, she was without
doubt a freckled Scotch maid, by
fate a termagaut,! by accideut a
Queen; The inference is that most
of these women I were beautiful,
but no reason can be given for
such assumption. They drew men
irresistibly to them. Nearly all
had great loveliness of character,
which should have made tuero ad
mired, aud if the poet is to be be
lieved it had its effect. They are
certaiply immortalized in his v?rse.
Beauty in ! history has usually
been associated with misfortune,
and has. therefore, sometimes re
ceived uudue sympathy.
The beauty of Mary of Scotland
has been used to cover a multitude
of sins, while the lack of personal
charms in Elizabeth has been often
cited to render her faults more con
spicuous. . Some beauties, like
Beatrice, Laura and Bettina, have
been rendered famous either by the
adoration with them. Beatrice and
Laura were doubtless beautiful in
an era when beautiful women were
not uncommon,! and justified the
eulogies of Dante and Petrarch ;
but Bettina was interesting to
Goethe primarily for her mental
and moral graces, which may have
kindled her facet into physical love-;
liness. I - ;-j ,
How did Helen of Troy look t
the woman who, when past middle
a i;e, convulsed ; the heroes ofthe
world with ! the desire to possess
her and caused j the ruin of a na
tion. She was probably of the
Greek type, her profile forming a
straight line from the top of her
forehead to the tip of her nose. So
also must be described the sem
blance of Portia, Aerippina. Cleo-
natra. Faustina and Virginia of
Roman history.
Judith, Esther, BathsheVja and
Herodias were, no doubt, of the
Jewish style of beauty, darker
doubtless than the modern repre
sentatives of the race, and with the
curve of the nose considerably pro
nounced. Perhaps-they would not
now be called beautiful, for only
among ine ancient Greeks and Ro
mans beauty, whether ot form or
face, arrived at a great degree of
periectlon. with other ancient na
tions beauty must have been simply
comDarative that is. a woman was
beautiful because she was less ugly
in lace or less, unattractive in form
man otners or ner sex about her.
: And so it is in the present age.
Mrs. Langtry, Mrs. Corn wal lis
West, the Countess- Dudley and
Miss Chamberlain are none of them
called beautiful. They have fine
complexions, superb figures, pleas
incr eves and mobile features. Yet
they are not perfect beauties, but
jk ......
ueserve commenuation only oy
comparison. ; :
r j ; , U-w Barrios Fell.
1 1 The village of Chalchuapa, be
tween sixty and eighty leagues
from Guatemala, was strongely en
trenched by 5,000 San Sal vadorians.
Barrios, leaving his main army of
8,000 in the rear, commenced an
attack with artillery on the after
noon of the 1st of April, but dark
ness fell before any advance of in
fantry had been made. The assault
was continued at daybreak of the
second, and with a picked body of
800 Guatamalans the' first trenches
were taken by nine j o'clock. The
victory was a bloody one. however.
The Guatamalans were losing
heart when Barrios cut short an
informal council of war, leaped on
his horse, drew his sword and
cheered on his men. j There was a
gallant charge past the first in
trenchment and the second was
taken with a rush. A strike was
made np a wooded j slope for the
third, when from the trees above a
volley blazed out and the attacking
troop was cut down like grass.
When the smoke lifted Barrios was
seen sitting on ms norse almost
alone. Two of the few left un
harmed were a bugler and Dr.
Fitch, the President's chief of
staff, who related the story to your
correspondent Barrios. waved his
sword, and at that instant there
came a single sharp report from a
tree well up to the right and Bar
rios, screaming, fell headlong from
his horse. As he fell he threw up
his hands, and blood gushed from
his mouth and nostrils. The sharp
shooter's rifle bullet had entered his
right shoulder aud traversed his
body, cuttiug the aorta in its diag
onal passage. After the scream
and fall Barrios made no other
movement or sound. The Dictator
was dead. His adopted son, Geu.
Venaneio Barrios, and his sou in
law, (Jrniano Sacbo, rushed to
where the dead man lay. Again
the trees blazed out and two more
fell across the body of the Presi
dent. Almost before they touched
it others ran forward to secure the
body but it was not until fully a
score Guatemalans had fallen by
the bullets of the invisible euemy
that the corpse; was removed.
Then the firing ce ised aud both
armies retired. The total loss on
both sides was above five hundred,
of which uuinber four hundred were
Guatemalans i
'. Stonewall Jackson at Bull's Kun.
Geu. Imbodeii writes of "Stone
wall" Jackson in the first battle of
Bull Run : "Gen. Jackson's wound.
received under the circumstances I
have described, became very seri
ous when inflammation set in. j On
hearing, three days after the fight,
that he was suffering with it, I rode
to his quarters, in a little farm
bouse near Centreville. Although
it was barely sunrise, he was out
under the trees, bathing the hand
with spring water. It was much
swollen and very: painful, but he
bore himself stoically. His ; wife
and baby had arrived the night be
fore. His little daughter Julia was
still in long dresses, aud I remem
ber tossing her, to her great de
light, while breakfast was being
made ready on a rude table under
the trees. Of course the battle was
the only topic discussed at break
fast. I remarked in Mrs. Jackson's
hearing : 'General, how is it that
you can keep so cool, and appear
so utterly insensible to danger in
such a storm of shell and bullets
as rained about you when your
hand was hitf He instantly be
came grave ana revereniiai 111 uis
manner, and answered in a low
tone ol great earnestness: 'Cap
taiu, my religious belief teaches
me to feel as safe in battle as in
bed. God has fixed the time for
my death. I do not concern my ;
selt about that, but to be always
ready, no matter when it may over-!
take'me.' He added, after a pause,'
looking me full in the face: 'Cap
tain, that is the way all men should
live, and then all would be equally
brave." ' -1 f . ;
A Male Crank in Petticoats.
George Dallmeter has resided at
No. 143 South Green street, Chic
ago, for years, and has seldom ven
tured beyond the. precincts of the
backyard feuce or the front gate,
because be fears that the meddle
some law .will, interfere with his
harmless . recreations. His pet
hobby is female apparel, 'which he
has worn for these many years in
all its completeness. George is
about fifty years of. age, with a
smooth face and long hair, which
curls down below bis shoulders.
He cooks and keeps house, it is
said, for the owner of No. 143, who
boards there. He keeps pace with
all the latest fashions, and gives as
his reason for doing so that wo
men's raiment is more comfortable
and convenient than man's. It is
also said that Dallmetes served his
country in the war ot the rebellion,
and received a wound for which he
gets a ! pension, and this, together
with his housework, supports him ;
but he makes himself very scarce
on the streets, as the neighbors
threaten to have him arrested if he
goes out.
Isaiah's Prophecy Still Unfulfilled. ;
A clergyman of New York city
preaching! about Christianity and
war, last Sunday, was forced to
come to the conclusion that the
day is still far off when; as Isaiah
prophesied, the nations would beat
their swords into ploughshares and
learn war no more.
Christian France has only just
come to peace with heathen China
after the useless slaughter of thou
sands of human beings. Christian
England is still fighting the Mo
hammedans of the Soudan. In
Central America hostilities which
may more and more involve! this
country are now coiner on. In
Canada the Riel rebellion of Chris
tianized Indians against those who
had converted them is today in
progress, and the war may be-long
and bloody. France makes threat
ening demonstrations against
hgypt. Ireland is pervaded by a
spirit of I bitter animosity against
Englandi which would delight to
express itself in a bloody conflict.
All Europe armed to the teeth,
and the I military preparations of
the powers are on a scale of mag
nitude never before equalled. Fin
ally, England and Russia,1 two
great Christian nations, make
ready for a probable war, induced
by the greed of conquest ot the one
and the determination of the other
to hold fast conquests made long
ago. j 1 M- j .'.J J -
The prophecy of Isaiah, there
fore, is not likely to be fulfilled in
the niueteenth century, and war
has been and still is about as much
the business of Christians as it was
ofthe pagans before the day. when
Christ preached the brotherhood of
man and celebrated the virtues of
t 1! 1 ;t:i .
meekness anu uummty. a. iew
years ago people were nattering
themselves that so stupid a method
of settling differences between na
tions, was about to give place to
peaceful arbitration, and that the
time was near at hand - when two
countries would no more think of
resorting to arms against each
other than! two great merchants
would propose to engage in a slog
ging match to settle a dispnte
about accounts. Yet ' since that
time the European -armaments
have been extended to an unprecej
dented degree,1 and wars have been
in continual I progress. Krupp's
guii foundry has become the great
est industrial establishment in Ger
mauy, audi the most active inven
tive aud scientific minds the civi
lized world over are devoting them
selves to the perfection- of the eh
giiies of warfare, so that they thall
be more destructive. To-day the
busiest industries in this country
arp the mnnntactories or munitions
of war, and they are (turning out
cartridges by the hundred million
to be used in killing human be
ings. i. .:'- ' -' 1 ;
Russia is ready to fall on Euglish
commerce in case of war, hoping to
drive thousands of peaceful ships
from the seas. She is planting tor-j
peuoes in uer uaroors 10 mow up
the great vessels of hercuemx and
destroy the lives of jtheircrews
aud in the dock-yards and gun
shops of the empire j the hours of
labor upon the eugines of war are
lengthened by the use of the elec
tric light which Christian civiliza
tion has introduced.1 Night and
day the workers are ceaselessly at
their toil completing all sorts of
infernal machines. Like prepara
tions for wholesale slaughter are
going on in England, where the
Government has thousands of men
at work to get ready ships and
munitions of war, and is giving or
ders for the building: of great num
bers of other vessels, more guns,!
more torpedoes, and more shot and
shell. Hospitals for multitudes of
wounded men are going up on the
borders j of Afghanistan, ambu j
lances are manufactured by the
thousand, lint is scraped, and surf'
geons are sharpening their knives.1
ji All these horrible preparations
for coming slaughter are going on
in the sight of the civilized and
Christian world, and they are made
by nations which daily send rip
their prayers to the Lord of peace
and righteousuess. I They are made
not only in contravention; of the
teachings of Christ, but even ill
contemptuous disregard of them';
and yet Christendom is not shock
ed, is not surprised, any more than
we are surprised to see two bull
dogs suap at each other in the
street f Christendom rather stands
by wondering that the fight has
not already begun, and u ready to
visit with its derision either power
which refrains from war because it
would avoid bloodshed. We hear,
at least, of no general assembling
ofthe Christians of Europe and
America to protest 1 against f the
awful struggle as a crime against
the .religion of Christ A few ad
vocates of peace on principle have
begged to English Government to
desist, bat they are laughed at as
cranky visionaries even by the
clergy, who declare that it is craven
for an Englishman to obey the pre
cepts of Christianity and not re
taliate for a blow.
All this may seem very Common
place, but why is it commonplace f
Is it not because such a thing as
genuine Christianity has almost no
existence in the world T reopie do
not expect to see the teachings of
the Sermon on the Mount obeyed,
but treat them as impracticable, as
beautiful uoetrv merely. In their
individual dealings they do not
pretend to be governed by them,
aHU collectively they disregard
them as a matter of course.
A Great Revival.
iWumington Star.
The revival at Fifth Street Meth
odist church closed on Thursday
uicbt. The results are as follows :
Conversions, 308, accessions 252.
Total accessions since January 1st
280. This is doubtless the greatest
revival that Imis ever occurred in
North Carolina with any one
church. All of the converts are
white. ; " ' j
What la the Cast ofthe Nation's FoS;
An interesting computation made 1
oy dr. Edward AiKinsou, is pre
sented in summary by Braastreefs.
Mr.' Atkinson has been endeavor
ing to determine, not how much it
actually , costs the, people of the
United States) for food, but what i
would be the aggregate expendi
ture on the basis of a fair average
for individual nourishment;, and
how the expenditure would be dis
tributed among the various items
of subsistence.
The conclusions of this intelli
gent and caretai economist were
reached by the following method :
He took the actual cost of feeding
seventeen adult men, most of whom
were hard-working mechanics, and
eight women, three being servants,
for fix months, in a Massachusetts
town. He also took the actual cost
ofthe food eaten by seventy-two
adult female factory operatives and
eight servants in a Maryland town.
Hp .assumed that the average of
these two tables would be no more
than ' a fair daily "ration for all
adults throughout the country!
Here are the individual averages
aud the totals, the latter, being
reckoned ; on i the the i basis of a
population of fifty millions:
C'tsper
Cta per
ysa
35 31
20 88
9 10
' T21
7 08
,fa 7i f
2 20
' 1 78
Total
"forth U.S.
Heat, poultry and Ash. 9.70
Pairy and acjgs, - . 0.60
Flour and meal.. 250
Vegetables. - 1.9S
Sugar and syrup. 1M
Tea and eoffee. ' 1.02
Fruit, rreen and dir. 0.62
$1,765,000,000
l,01tf,000.000
455,000.000
360.000.000
3S3.000.000
185.SO0.00O
133.0UO.OOO I
89.000,000
Salt, spice, ice. c. 049
Total. j 23.85 S8 81 fl.310.000,000
i What will strike everybody, in
the table given above is first, the
large relative cost of.dugar aud
syrup as compared with that of
nour and meal ; and, secondly, the
iact that so i great a part of, the
wuii expenditure ia ior uary
pro
ducts and eggs. The milk, bntter,
cheese and egcrs consumed cost
more than the flour, ! the meal all
the vegetables, and the tea and
coffee together. j . .
Roughly speaking, then, ; tho
average individual ought to live
pretty ..fairly' so, far as food is con
cerned, on a quarter of a . dollar' a
day, or a dollar and three quarters
weeK, or ninety dollars a year,
Mr. Atkinson thinks that by judi-
cions nnrchnjiinv ami cpnunin in.nl
cious purchasing aud economical
serviug the thing could be done for
wenty cent a day in the East, and
probably for less in the West i As
for the beer and whiskey bill,. Mr.
David A Wells recently computed
that the nation spends $474,S23,000,
a year for drink.,; ; . .. ..
; Western N. C. R. R.
M'!!' . tCitisen. -
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The new schedule on the West
ern North Carolina Railroad went
into effect on Sunday morning; By
the present arrangement the morn-
ug mail tram from, Salisbury ar
rives here at 8.JU, and leaves tor
Warni Springs at 9.02. In the
afternoon it arrives from Varm
Springs at 5.21, and leaves at 5.31.
This train arrives at Salisbury at
11:. Jo, making close connection with
the train going South, reaching
Charlotte a little after 2 a. m.l aud
Atlanta at 12.30 p. m. r
The Dacktown road has .been
changed to the "Murphy Division''
aud the train on this road leaves
Asheville at 9.12 a. m , returning
reaches here at 3.50 p. m. 1
The local freight from Salisbury
reaches hero., at 8.01 , p. in.; and
eaves here at 5.45 a. m. t
Swaunanoa Junction has ; been
Changed to the Spartanburg Junc
tion. ...
To County Superintendents and Teachers
Maj. S. M. Finger. State Super-
ntendent of : Public Instruction,
gives the following notice:
County superintendents aud pub
ic school teachers are hereby noti
fied that on and after the second
Thursday : in October next, exami
nation will be required on Physiolo
gy and Hygiene. The Stato board
of educatiou will, at an early day,
recommend a text book on this sub
ject, and publication will be made
so that all may know hat book is
recommended, where it may be ob
taiued, and the price agreed upon.
m -ji
Any teacher desiring to be examin
ed at an earlier day than the second
Thursday, in October may be ex
amined on any day of the regular
days in the law. Let all prepare
and oe examineu as soon as possi
ble, f
!j Roasted Alive.
The jail at Wihton, Hertford
county, was set on fire last week
by two prisoners confined therein
aud entirely destroyed despite the
efforts of the citizens of the place
to save it. The building was an
bid one and contained three prison
ers, one ot whom had nothing to
do with the burning. The two men
who Bet the jail on fire were rescu
ed, while the uiifortunate.ntan who
had nothing to do with the affair
was roasted alive. The sight was
a horrible one, and the people of
the town were greatly excited by
the occurrence. All the prisoners
were colored. It was the third at
tempt to burn the jail, f
i ;, . ; A Short Crop.
; A Georgia farmer leased some
laud last year to a colored man for
a third of the crop. A severe
drought cut the crops !shoit, and
the negro gathered only two bales
of cotton and two wagon loads of
corn. The latter was stored and
the cotton sold. When the laud
lord called for bis share he was
told there was none for him. He
asked, in surprise, "Didn't I rent
yon. my land for a third of the
crop f" "Yes, boss," said the dar
ky, "bat you see dere was no third.
Dere was only two bales of cotton
and two loads of corn f all mine,
and uuffin for you by de contract."
A twenty-dollar Confederate
note was passed on a Chinese mer
chant in Portland, Oregon, last
week. It was difficult for the Po
lice Justice to make him under
stand that the note was not a forg
ery, but simply worthless. He
had never beard of the lost cause.
Facta and; FaacJe,,
"belibTJ8 anybody la know frfiaf
it f ; wJen the very word
- "Carefully. middle of
pen doth, tell," saw
as he pensively tw;
a crack. M -. . .
- When'General
st&ft' tale my
,v c pig
Grant's dolt,
' tin ;
snoucs io me country; -saucer
the country" replies : "Cant; sir !
sheer Cant P : Ubtntihm
-Revolvers i and mince -pies
should always be t handled , with
care. ,xou never know how -the
things are loaded. 1 , : :i
A" widow possessing a Sour
disposition trying to talk sweet to a
rich widower reminds us of a
con
fectioner making vinegar taffy :i
"Podsnap, dont yon think peri
to
manufacturers a bad lot of people f ,' j l
make people steel pens, you know."
"Oh!" ' r.: " "
The man who dropped dead iu
a Toronto theatre just before the
curtain went up for "Over the Gaxs
den Wall". must -have had a pro
monition of what was coming, j
Snuff-taking has . became lash-" ;
ionable among New York ' dudes, ' J
and the average dude is so weak in
the legs that when he takes a I
pinch it brings him to his sneeze, i
The woman, who - is making , I
more noise in the world than any of I
her sisters just it present, is a
member of a female brass band in
a Western town, and beats the bier
drum. - 1 -
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A Lawrence
episode: Man;
Bakery. Pies. Man
steals pie.'
See..- man.
Eats pie. Policeman.
Takes man. 1 Court. . Judge. Six
months. Appeal. Bond , $300.
Nary bond.- Jail. Beware of pie.'
It is said that 1,250,000 cats
are annually killed for their skins.
They must kill the cats" in ' some
other part of the country that here
in Greensboro. "We haven't missed,
a single one in the last two vears.
There were forty-five different r
kinds of pie at a dinner given re-.
cently in Colorado. A doctor must
hfimk uun i 1..0. i :4-i.i.:'
have been the hostr with, his
weather eye wide open to the pros
pect of an immediate increase in
business. . -!
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"Mr. " Siuglemau," said a dp
signing . widow
to her bachelor
boarder, "isn't it strange " that in
India it costs mare' to get married'
than to die t" "The.v burn widows''
in that country, t believe," was his,'
rather irrelevant replyr "Yes,;soj
Fve heard." "Iluraph ! if that were
the custom in this country it
wouldn't cost so; much to get mar.
ried," he growled.. j .
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' Over-pressare In Schools. ' i
(I tNwYorkTribunlj ;i
The highest medical i and educa-
tional authorities in Germany and !
rr i i i i - :
niimuu are iuuu anu persisienc in :
their warnings -against phsical .
harm and nervotis ailments caused j
by over pressure in public schools. 1
The danger is greatest in thp case j
of girls between' twelve and! four-j
teen yesirs of age, although; it is
not To be ignored
in
the case of
boys of the sajue
age.- It ought'
L i '--If
not to
require much
argument to
convince practical educators
that;
entrance examinations Of ninety
per cent entail continuous and im-!
peril the heal tn and sanity of girls
of that age. I ;. . .. i -.1 . j
Methodists nd Presbyterians, j 1
In many quarters there is aktrong
disposition in jfavor of ecclesiasti;
cal union, and in? some directions
where it seems hardly possible;
There is no essential doctrinal dif
ferences between Presbyterians
and Methodists, yet their ways are
so different that it cannot be said!
that they hav any strong affinity;
for each other! There are those who
take a different view ofthe matter.1
Dr. Grant, principal of the Presby-j
terian College, Kingston, Canada,
contends that there is no insepara
ble barrier I against an organic'
union of the jMethodist and Presi ;:
by terian churches in the Dominion
A Very Practical Test.
Hilbhoro Observer.)
Mr. Matthew Atwater, one
our largest tana mosi successiui
. i ... . .
farmers, says that last year he
planted six .acres in cotton, and,
raised on only one acre. From the
cotton made on the six acres,! after
paying for fertilizers, bagging, ties,
&c, be bad S1U3 left, t iiesohi the
tobacco he made on one acre, and
after paying for oife bag of fertili
zer which he used on it, there was
left $141.25 Theie will not be
much cotton made in bis section
this year. Every farmer who bajlt
one tobacco barn last year
wilt
build another barn this year.
The Longest Cotton Row.
, rtarboro Soatherner.T
Tbr longest cotton row in the
county and probably in the world
is on the Shiloh farmer of Messrs.
Statien and Jeffries. The row be- u
gins in thp centre of a hundred f
acre field I and oes ' round; and
round, spiral like,! until the center .
field is gone over.j To side up he j!
cotton on one - side requires only i
five and a half dafys. In thiifield It.
Mr. Jeffries estimates that he yttilj
during th cultivation of the crop j
save at least the work of one horse i l
for three ireeks. -.. t-
A Mountain of Iron.
Iu the heart Of the Wyoming
Territory
hematite j
is 1 a" mountain of solid
iron, with GOO feet of it
above ground.
more than! a rune
wide, and over two roues m length ;
a bed of lignite coal big enough to
warm the world for centuries ;
eight lakes of solid soda,1 i One of
them over 000 iu depth ; and a pe
troleum basin which contains more
oil than Peunsjlvania ajd .West
Virginia combined, from which in
places the oil is oozing in natnral
wells at the rate of two barrels a
day
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