Cljf A Democratic Newspaper. I'aMUWl every Friday in Louisburj auricr RATES OF ADVEl". (10 USES OK LK8CoN4TITl katj of sucsciaj'Tiox. f ;.' 1 yc;ir.... ....?.()) '" 6 Months......' i io j " 3 JMdallix ""' 7-" !F TERMS CASH IN aDVAXCE Conseienee. I remember reading, when a f very Jittlc boy, about a child who was in tk habit of goin to an upper room or loft where there was a store of . ap ples. She w,cnt from time to time to steal the fruit; but she met with some thing tlJat greatly troubled her. There happened to have been placed in that store room an old painting. It was a large face, the ees of which, go to what part of thefroom' the little girl might, seemed tti follow her, and they" appeared to be saying to her, as the fatooped down to take "up the apple, .'Ah, I ece you ! ; It is very naughty, Vou arc sure to be fduiul out," This h annoyed the little culprit," from time to time, that she' was determined to ft a stop to the! threatening of these. tu fcuury eyes;; so sue procured a Mnall knife, or aj pair of. scissors, and htuck then&out. j Ah, bn, still there were two large holes iu Jhc place '' of them, and she never could look at them without thinking of the eyes, and what they used to say tD her, She had put out the eyes, but she had not, nor coujd she get rid of her conscience. Moreover, the very means she had used for Rpiningj without 'rebuke only served to discover her guilt, for, when what had befallen the paintings came to be found out jt led to such' rebuke as she . dcservcdJ 'ITlio lTijst Sireo. I Xcvcr was drunk but once in my life," said a chap in my hearing ; 'nev er do I mean to be again. The street seemed to be very steep, and t lifted my les at every step, as if I was get ting up stairs, Several wheels were m akin" nvnlnfi" o " i j wiajuj tuna a t one time I fancied my head was a large carving and Juniiirg establishment, the lathes of which were keeping in motion ..111. ' i T" " ii wiui my own ieet. i could not con ceive what was jthc reason that the town had turncdjn guch an enormous hill, mid wlifif Tnw1 if nil the while to be growing higher, and threatened to pitch over upoii me, Stop, stop, though j; I md 111 head this old hill yet, or at least it shan't head me. So I turned round to go down, and get to the bottom, but hang me if the town didn't turn round with me, heading mo all the time,! and presenting a" LI '.IF in frdnt of me. .Well, sure enough, the ground soon; flew, up and struck me on the forcheadj and as soon 'a the stars cleared away, I commenced climb ing with my hands and knees. The next thing I saw was a big brick house coming full split round the I believe it ran over corner ! And iVoiiian'N Temper. i i 5 Xo trait of character is more valua ble in a female th;m the pjosstssion of a sweet temper. Homo can never be made happy without it. It is like the flowers that q fing up in our pathway, reviving and cheering us. Let a. man go home at nigjir, wearied aud " worn out by the toil j of the ,lay, and how soothing is a vord dictated by a'good disposition! It is sunshine falling up- on his heart. Jle is happy, and the cares nf fire arc forgotten. A sweet temper has. a soothing iuflueuee over the miuds of t' e whole family. "Where it is found in a wife and mother, you observe kindness and love predominate over the feelings of a natural heart.. Smiles, kind words, and looks charac terise the children, and peace and love have thcir'dwcllinrr there. Studv, then . . 'i . - . .. i . .ii vj .icipurc anu retain .a sw eet i r.emper. It is morc valuable than gold ; it cap tivates more tha.i beauty, and to the close cf life it retains all its freshness and rower. I . 1 , ! ' r An exci a c tills tjkis stcry : Our little-four yeai--j!J went over to see lur grandma, th f er day, end wcstold to go directly ;ho;nc ud ted his papa' that his gtaadw- bid ario.Uid, .und he must bej vaccinate;' j wbert-ur ou, tLc littlo fellow "earvc ;rurin:n.j h me, breathlessly eajing ; Grandma has .;ot the very old LW, aiid I must be bap U8(J !. VOL.. 2. TImj Vtilloy ol I5eath," -,The Valley of "Death, a spot almost as terrible f-s the prophet's valley of dry bones, lies ju,t r.orth of the old Mormon road to California, a region 30 miles by SO broad, anajsurrounded, except at two'pointF, by inaccessible mountains It is totally devoid of water and vegeta tion, and the shadow of bird or'wild beast never darkens, its white Klarm sands. The Kansa3 Pacific liiilroad engineers discovered it, and also some papers which 'show the lite of the late Montgomery train,' which came' south from Salt Lake in 1830, guided by a Mormon. When near Death's lalley, some came to the conclusion that tife Mormons knew nothing about the coun try, so they appointed one'of their num. ber a leader; and broke off from . the party, The jeader turned due west ; so With the people aud the wa-ons and flocks be travelled "three days, and then descended into the broad valley whose treacherous nirage promised, water, j . They reached the centre -but only the white sand, bounded by scorching peaks, met their gazes, : Around the!vai. ley they wondered, m.d cne by one t! e mea died, and the ; panting flcka stretched tbemse'ves in death under the hot sun. Th'-n the children, crying for watcY, dL-d at their Imotlicrb' breasts swoilen torgma' jind burning yitals the mothers t jllow4l, Wagon' after wagon was abandoned, and strong men tfot tered, and raved and died- Arr a week's wondering, a d' z :n snrvivors found some water in the hollow of. a rock in the mountain. Ir lasted but a short time vhcnall perished but two, who escaped outof the velley and fo) lowed the trail of their former com panions. Eighty-seven famili-?, with hundreds of animate, perished here, and now, afcft.23 years, the wagons stan d, ttil! coniplctc the iron work and tits art biight-, nna the shrivelled skeletcns lie side by side. . . . T5 Pcerloss Hose. That loveliest specimen cf woman, Aspasi- who lived in the days, '..and was the associate of Socrates. Pericles, and Alcibiades, in Athens,7rom a certain circumstarce, worshipped the rose L.veiy in form and features, beyond common lot ot her sex, yet she had a hideous waif ouher'fac:v, which marred all her cn y'ment, and rendered her young hf.i miserable K It defied all the arts of the doctors, nurses and caustics. One night thebfeautiful Appasia, weary Ot lile with that terrible bVX on her lace cried herselt to sleep. Iu l,er dreams a , dove 'was sent toher by the Goddess Venus, and informed her, if he wrould t iko some rose leaves and tey them' on her cheeks the wart would disappear. . She did so, and she became as per ec' in 1 eauty as she wisin intellect The great orator, Pericles, divorced his wive to marry Asp;is:a.'. She was afterwards the cause of two w :.rs one between the Athenians and Lacc';eaio nians, and the other the Athenians against Samians. If we could induce some of the young ladies of the present day, says an! cl.-gant writer, to divide part ot the devotion paid to music wiih the cultivation of the peerless rose, aud oilier flowers, it would bring beauty to their checks and more life and vivacity to their music. The history ot the past is full of adoration ot the rose. Ifcjio gabalus bathed in rose wine, acd Nei6 ,had a fountain throwing up rose water, to supply which whole shiploads of roses were brought from Greece, the an cient home of the rose. There is aa better index of refinement, as we pa?s the street or public highways in tbe country, than to see this beautiful flower having a prominent place in the sitting-room, garden, or lawn. IIasd IJim Ako csd. jemmy mv s a what are you going to do with that club ? : , 1 '5cud it to the editor of course." ' But what are you going to send it to the editor for ? j 'Cause he says any one will send a club he will send them a copy ot hi pa; er'v' ' The mother cams very near f i'intirg, but retained consciousness in .c'i to ask But Tommy, dear, wh -.t :do y.u suppose he wants with a c r.' i SVtH I don't' know "Unless it was to 1 .knock d-jwa subscribers ho don't pay ijr thtir paper. A drunkard, oa being told that the farth is lound and turns on its axis hll -the time, said: I believe that, fjr I've never been hble to stfcud oa th? darned tLia:'., DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, LOTJISB Woman's True 3Xijssio. Homes, are stupid, homes are drjarv homes are insufferable. It one can ie pardoned for the Irishism cf such a saying, homes are their own worst 'banes.' If homes were what tky should be, nothing under heaven could be tune to them, which would do mnr ,than serve as useful foil to set off their better cheer, their pleasanttr ways, their wholesome joys. Whose fau'lt i3 it that they are not so?) Fault is a heavy word. It includes generations in its pitiless entail. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof, is but one side of the .truth. .No day is sufficient unto the evil thereof, is the other. Each day has to bear burdens pissed down by so many other days j each- person has to bear burdens o complicated, so I interwoven with the burdens of others ; each person's fault is so fevered and swollen by faults of others, that there is no disentangling the ouestjon of re sponsibility. Everything everybody's flault, is the simplest and lairest way of putling it. It is everybod's fault that the average home 'is stupid, dreary, in sufferable, a place from which lathers flyj to club3, boys and girte to streets. Bt when we ask who can do most to remedy this, in whose hands it mof t dies to ( fwhtf the fight against the ten dencies to monotony, stupidity, and instability, which are inherent in hu man nature, then the answer is clear and loud," It is the worth of women this is the true mission of. women, their 'right' divine and unejuestionable, and ir,e'uding most emphatically the 'right to labor.' There is one aged colored woman in South Carolina who docs not believe in social equality, judging from the way she talks to her son : ; ' Ephreham, courc nyar to yer mod eler boy. Whar you bin?': : I'se been playiu' wiei de white folk ses chilun.' ! You is, eh ? See hyar chIlo,"you'll broke yer Old mndders heast.'and brung her gray hairs in sorro' to the jrrave I w id .yer rccklumness and earrings on wid evil assosaysyashuus. Habn't I raised yer up in dc way yer should ought to go?' , . ' Yessum.' 1 j, Habn't I reezened wid yer an' pnoy ed wid yer and deplored dc good Lord to wrap yer in his buzzum ?' ! ' Yessum.' L i Habn't I taught yer to walk iu the broad and narrow path ?' 1 Yessum." -i . 'An' isn't I j-er nater'l detector an gwadjeen fo' dc law ?"' ' Yessum.' - AYcll den. do you spose Ivse gwine to hab yer morals r'ectured by do white' trash? sail ! Yer git in de house, dis instep ; an' if I ebber cotch your municatiu'. wid dc white trash any mo' fo God nigga I'll break yer brack head wid a brick !' . - Yessum.' A dandy spending a few weeks in the country with a farmer friend' askeeV to be permitted as 'abstract the. lacjteal fluid from the bovine group at eventides. As soon as the farmer friend found out all he wanted wa3 to milk the "cows some night, he cheerfully assented, gave h"m a kickirg cow . to commence on, and with other members rf his fami'y seateel himself on the fence to see the fun. Hardly had the tight pantaloon, ed chap begun to pull on the peculiar natural ippend;igC3 which all who de eire tovmilk must manipulate (.-xcpt milkmen who live near a pond) wben the patient cow looked around and saw 'nhat-it-wss' atherside Fetching him a wipe in the eyes with her tai1, she at the same time projected h-r foot with lightning ra pidity, atid while 'the milk er wa3 balanQing on his caria a frown mud-puddle the spntive cow sent the milk pail spinning after him. Oar hero says farming is a traud. , Ayrupgman becoming a little dia sati?2cd with ihe coquettish actions of his youcg -lady while shewas phopping on Saturday, retired to another purt f tbe s:ore, an 1 resting his elbow on the dummy figure ot a womn, gave him -se f up ; to gloomy refieciion?, from which he was ruddy areas l by a sharpjusb, while ihe dummy Wcived a vigorous slap oyer the head frt-nu an indignant lady's parasol. There is hardly enough q! the cgliih 1-ir.gudge tJ do justice tq. the sene that full iwed. CTRQ, N. C, JUNE Gcnis of Tlioutrlit. :No mn can go to Heaven when he dies, who has not sent his heart thith er while he lives. Our greatest hope3 should be beyond tho grave. jr7 son. The whole sum and substance of hu man history may be reduced to this maxim that when man departs from the d ivine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers loss and harm. TV Parker. . So conduct thyself in all thy actions and thoughts as if thou wert to die this day. If thou art not ready to day, how wilt thou be so to-morrow? And how deist thou know that to-morrow will exist for thee? Tiomas A' Kempis. ' Basy not thyself in searching into other men's lives ; ' the errors of tuine own are more than thou canst answer for, It more concerns thee to mend one fault in thyself, than to find out a thousand in others. Bishop Lei'jh. ton. i i Only by a just stewardship of the temporal can wo hopo to merit the eternal. This is a life of trial, aud when we are through with it, the soul we develop out of time's Just, and bring t-iiumphantly to the gate3 of eternity, will be worth more than our handful of gold. Chkarjo Di vine, Never fail to do daily that good which lies next to your hand. Trust God to weave your little thread into the great web, grand harvest of the ages shall come to its reaping, and the day shall broaden itself to avthons"and, and tho thousands shall show themselves as a perfect and finished day. Geo. Mac Donald. In deep, spiritual temptations noth ing has helped me better, with noth ing have I heartened myself, and driv en away the devil better, than with this : That Christ, the true eternal Son of God, is "bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh," and that He sits on the right hand of God, and pleads for us. When I can grasp this shield of faith I have already chased away the evil one with his fiery darts, Lu ther, Christianity is not a theory, or spec ulation, but a life ; not a philosophy of jlife, but a life and a living process. Try it. It has been 1,800 years i ih existence, and has one individual left a record like the following: I tried it, and it did not answer. I mad-3 the experiment faithfully, according to tho directions ; and the result has been a conviction of my own credulity. Cole rid'je. Heaven penetrates to the bottom of our hearts, like light into a dark chamber. We must conform ourselves to it, till we arc like two instruments of music tuned t the same pitch. We muit join ourselves with it, like two tablets which appear but one. "We must receive its gifts the very moment its hands is open to bestow. Our ir regularpassions shut up the door of our souls to God. Confucius. There is on on 2 pass key that will open every door, and that is the gold en key of love. You can touch ' every side of the human heart, and its every want, that is, if you can touch it all ; and if you have the power to bestow anything, love gives facility of access, the power of drawing near to men, the power of enriching thought, of weak ening their hungry desires and appe tites, tb.3 power to thaw out the winter of their souls, and to prepare the soil for the seed and growth of the better life, -. W. Beher. An Iiiibman, ruteung another asked him what had become ol a mutual frieud. Arrat, now, my dear honey, answered he. Tatidy was condemed to be bani, e bu: he, svel his life by dying in prison. . Giieasi: SroTs. To remove grease spots from woollen clothes make a thin paste of fiour and water, and lay it on the tarnished place ; let it re main till dry then brush cfT with a frtiU brush- SCIENCE AND ART. 20, 1873. iia in- Ilsitoful Tiling Vhat a sirunge disposition is that which leads people to say hateful things for the mere ple asure of saying them: You are never safe with such a person. When you have dona your best to please, and ar lealing "very kindly and p easantly, out will pop some underhand stab which yoiiidone can comprehend -a sneer which is masked, but which is too well Mined to be mi binder stood. It may 1 t your persou-your mental leeling-your foolish' habits of thought -o: some lit tle secret opinions confessed in a mo ment of genuine confidence. It mat ter& not how sacred it may be to you, he will havy its fling at it; and since the wih is to make you suftV, he is ad the happier the nearer he touches your heart. Just half a dozen words only for the pleasu e of seeing a cheek flush and au eye lose its brightness,, only spokch because he is afraid you are too happy'ortoo conceited- Yet they a-c worse than so many b'ows. How many sleepless nights have such mca i at tacks caused tende -hearted men and women! How after them, ore awakes with aching eyes and head to remem ber that speech cefoe everything -that b ight sharp we'baimcd need e of a speech that p'obed the very center of your soul ! An Original Document. The following elegant extract is vouched for us a genuine document prcsnted to a horse owner in St. Louis : Sant Lcwb Ganewcrry the 4d 1873. to james Han Kox Vcttureri- nary physickian and SurgeantDr. Too mediklc advice twict, 3 dollars; Kon sultation over a ded marc sed too hev bed the ppzout, 73 cents ; Goin to see two sick bosses in tho nitc (very cold), 2 dollars;. To treatment of a kream koloi ed hoss two days with medisuns. 4 dollars 50 cents ; To ma king an obstsrekul cxaminashun of a bosses throat, 1 dollar 50 cents ; To settin up all nitc in a barn with a sick hoss, 2 dollars 50 cents ; To writtin a preeskripshun for botts, & also one for spaving recovered, 1 dollar 50 cents ; To givin my opinyun one day on the street regarding the kau3e of the zoot, 3 dollars. Totil, 20 dollars 75 cents. a'Thk Rfbel's. Tho constant appli cation by the Radical press cf the term 'Rebel's to the Southern people, is a very ridiculcus piece of Yankee efftcti tiom The proudest boast tbe Yankees formerly indulg-rl in, was that their forcfithera were 'rebels' against that re spectablc old geatlemar; George III,. We never owed allegiance to Yankees, however, tor supreme allegiance to the Federal government. The 8tate was our sovereign. If, however, we were 'rebels' against the Yankees, co pun ishmcat can be too severe for us, not for rebelling, but for ever belonging to such scurvy masters. Lyuchhurrj Xeics. Sillik. -A gentlcmla of 'elegant leisure,' and a bachelor at that, had been amusing himself with matrimonial statistic, and reports that out of two hundred marriages publi,hd in New England journals, last week, only two of tL&lad'eshad old-fashioned names such as M iry and Suscn. All the others were Mollie?, Doliiev Polhet LibUts, TibbieF, Biddies, Unties, Potties, Mat tits, L:zz'ts, and sr or. , He eays if he can haar of seme girl with a familiar 'christian camr,' he shall 'start Icr her A fishionible lady being a&ked how she ,ld;d the .dinner givej at a poet's houie, her repTy wa3, 'The dinner was cx-spltnclid Lut my seat wa so promote from tLe nicknack that I . could cot ratify my appetite, and tbe pickled cherries had such a defect cu n,y Lead that I haJ a notioa to leave the table, but Mr gaye me s me hearts horn resolved in wattr which bereaved me . To Glaze Shirts To every quart of made etarch add a tei spoonful cf starch and one of hitc soap, scraped fine. Buil the starch, after adding hot water, until you have it as thick as yotfi wish, " j -. . TnE author of this saying you must always take a man as you find him" was a com table. NO. 34. STJBSCillJBE FOR TUB f COURIER, A Weekly Newspaper. PUBLISHED IN LQUIS3URS N. C Odc Square one iarrtkn , One Ejm-U HiWqrirnt ti Cne Cn - Cn Cne - Oie Cne month Two month Ihree month fcttuiontb; Twelve monthi... Contract s tot Ur grr nine mr terrv ADVKIll ISEMKN BUX'TUftBnOYsN The bet in uc- Sold o , trial. If it dot oit give i . taction reiuru it at u.y txp.D tbtae excellent u.'t M: : price and io additiou i:l r! cocct tf 10 per cent to clubj ! moro- A sample (Jin on txU.' mj store in FraDkliotuc, He Capt W K Davis, Capt V.' 1 Dr V W Oreen, Cbsrlcj I-. V' D Spruill, Eq. W V Mo WlPtrrj,E.q. WMhc AU ot mhum bsT thtsegin To reponible parties I wi these jil in Sept ember ptjal . cembtr it &o desired, WSMALLCf Franklin to: Agent ior M anu fa. :t:i. WAT0N?S CALLtl-y OF Photographic A:'. Kalcigh, N. ( . I one cf the rr ot complala Tl '. ; eiab'.ishmeuU tba boulh. o l'Hotoraphic )ikDeti from tl tsinjatore tolbl.r:et rorlTAii Oii,ireUiJjjruuhd. Jfyoal -- oacaoi a ocaea teUtira tr B1T hava il COt)ia t nrl rr.lrir.! and tali -taction a'wavt Roarot- '.. graph Album an( l'tciare Fr: oa hand, in great Trietj ; and w:: low. W iiea . oa coma tj i:a i lAi. to Tii it Wataou'a iiil'.erj. Tacker'a MalL j W. V. o. S-ly. i FOE lEISi 'i A nice businea office for re.it, ply at this otlicc. Garden Seed, A .fresh s&pply just receive dfn Bl.lt BOW & PLIUSA! Ii Bacon! Bacon!! We are now receiving anchcr Load of Sid ?g aud Shoulders. V ranted strictly prime, which v. c i selling at Northern price s freight added." BAIUtOW & tlzaban: J ARRATT'B HOTEL PZTEUBCKO, VA. Hm.l. n IS II or, Uropr U f w No. 31 6mo 50 Barrels "N. Carolin:- Family Flour . The very be Trice eil. BARIIOW & i'LILVSAN H 40 Barrels "Vide Family Flour. A prime artlclv. Price eili. UAItftOW & PLEASANT MEAL! MEAL!! MEAL!!; A frvfch supyly cunsUntly on i.u . and at , COTTON SWEEPS. We have in store a fall He of C too Flows, fnc:adiLg the D'xlcsoa f tn iwees. Orders filled tr. roptlv. K.U. PLUlMEU&ct. " 1 121 Sycmor kfrett. ma H 1 m. PeUrsLui rjj, V , DRESS GOODS, c. Call at oar store aad .xamiae "ii Irge-t tock io ihe market ol . Urts UooJ., Wh.te Ukk1, L-ittv lars, Jewelrj aod Fancy O King. While & Shav- X ' Only $2,00.

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