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7 Courier RANK IN GEO. S. BAKEE, Editor and Proprietor, T-KRIMS : 82.QO per Annum. VOL. III. LOUISBURG, X. C, FKIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1874. SO. 43. Eye and Heart. Frorn the German 8o many a one appears at night All full of love and warm of heart, Au'l than doth show, more closely known, That love with him la bat an art. 8o many a one appearj at sight All utiff reserve aDd Icy cold, Bat keepH hie heurt for him who seek ltd rlcheet treasure to unfold. and again the men take bold of the vic tim; again stretch his restored limbs and fasten them to the chains ; again the cranks begin to turn. lhis time no scream, no Tell, but a faint whisper : "I can no more." The judge who flrat interrogated him approaches. ' Confess, Harrik," says ne, ana an is ingot. STOItY OF THE RACK. Oa the southern thore of the Waal. tjat powerfnl branch of the llhine which in the Netherlands loses its im portance, and in the Katwvk sand hill finds an artificial issue, lies the ancient city nf Nimegue. Ancient indeed, for on the summit of the hill, covered with iiuum uuui ja mo miaaie ages, are yet the ruins of the Roman "burg," where in the first century the Roman legions kept their watch ; and in the middle ages Nimegue was one of the imperial free cities, . endowed with pervileges such as belong to an inde pendent sovereign state ; while at the close of the seventeenth century there wan feigned the treaty which put a ston to the grasping power of France,and for a 1 1 flu? at lean gave peace to Europe. et us go back to the year 1760. Let us go through the steep streets, rip to tue market place. What means that crowd before the courthouse? We pass the crowd, we ascend the stoue steps, we enter the hall, we follow the stream of men coming and going, nntil w reacu a door guarded by two hal uerciiern... We are allowed to pass. A lew windows give a gloomy light. The marble pavement, the bare walls, the dead silence, make us shudder. We look round ; in the distance against the wall we perctve a large statue ; it is white, it 'holds in one hand the scales. It is the emblem of " Justice"--of jus tice ia marble. We advanoo a few fitep and find we are not alone. Un der the statue is a table, long and nar row, covered with a green cloth. Five men are seated, facing as. They are jiiig H. iiieir wigs and dress show it. 1 heir faces are turned to the left. We follow their direction. We come a lit tle nearer. We see another room open ing into the court room. It is dark. Near the door wo can discern some thing like a rained platform, oblong ; at the four corners are cranks. A hu man being lies there stretched out, the hands, and feet held by chains. Two men stand by with crossed arms, one at the head, onu at the foot. " Oue turn more," says the presiding judge in alow voica." Slowly the crauks move. We hear the wrenching of the limbs. A shriek, loud and pirrcing; then another less piercing ; then a gasping as for breath ; then utter silence. L'ostnl" cried the judge; bring him to." The cranks move back ; the men applied medicated water to the month of the fainting prisoner. He opens his eyes and looks around. We have come near enough to see all, to hear all. What an agony in those eyes ! One of the judges approaches him, looks stead ily at him, then say, with a voice where in pity is mixed with Btern conviction : " Why not confess at once Harrik? To-morrow you will enter eternity. Why not tell the truth?" With a voice which can scarcely be neard, the man gasps out : " I did it ! I did it ! 1 was alone." The judge gives a signal to the men. holding up two fingers. The cranks move, this time more rapidly ; shriek 1 1 1 a 1 upon surioK ionows ; ine cranks move on ; an unearthly yell is the last ; yet we near the cranks move till the seoond turn is made. " One turn more will dislocate," says one or the men. "Loosen 1" cries the presiding judge, "and bring him into court. WV look on, though cold with hor ror. Wo see the men unloose the hands and feet. They take him np, and carry the fainting prisoner in the court room, where they lav him on a sort of lo iiing chair. Consciousness returns after a few minutes. He realizes that he is no more on the rack. He sighs,, and we hear faint "Thank God 1" luti presiding judge speaks, in a tone of impatient authority : " Harrik, what is the use of further delay ? Why this obstinacy ? Oilman was there, and assisted you. Circum a W ' stHuces prove it. lour ena is near. Why force us to mcreuse your misery ? For the truth must come out. Tour confession must seal his doom as well as yours. Come, now, Harrik, confess at once : Oilman was there." 1 here is a silence, we observe one of the judges looking intently at the doomed man; his eyes are moist, his lips quiver. He leans back in his chair, resting his head on his right arm, and with his hand trying to cover the emotion of his pitying soul. At last the victim gasps out : "I did it! I did it! I was alone 1" The presiding judge frowns. " To the rack I" he says with a stern voice. They take him up. Arms and limbs hang powerless. But they are stretch ed on the ruck, the chains fastened. "Three turns 1" cries the presiding judge. Screams are of no avail. Slowly the cranks turn ; we can hear the muscles squeak, and there is a dull noise. The crauks ptoo. H - Dislocated i says one oi the men " Call the doctor:" cries the presid ing judge, in a Bonewnat anxious voie. "Yes, yes, he was there 1" says the victim. The crank goes slowly on. " It was GilmaD, was it ?" "Yes, yesl" " He wore a brown coat, did he ?" "Yes, yes 1" "You swear it was he who aided you?" " Yes, yes I for God s sake 1 yes 1 The cranks stop. The declaration is written down, and a pen put in the vic tim's fingers, who traces the semblance of a cross under it. The court adjourns. They have'suf fered, though not on the rack I They leave. Unly one remains. When ail are gone, he rises and speaks a few words to ths warden ; then turning to tne prisoner, ne assists in carrying him to the leaning chair. The poor man looks thankfully up to his sympathizing face. The warden enters with a tray. On it is a strong cup of coffee, and some refreshing food. The man says thanks with a glance, 'while the judge leaves the court room, j What I have written is no fiction, but a simple narrative of what occurred in the Court of Justice, at Nimegue, in the year 1760. For the judge who showed compasnon was my grand father, and he had good occasion to nar rate it to my father, as you will see. From my father I heard it more than once, as an only son is anxious to hear over and over what belongs as it were to the family. Yes, the merciful judge left the court room, and went to his hme. His wife received him with love, and in the blessed atmosphere of domestic affec tion in vain he tried to forget the hor rible scene he had been compelled to witness. In vain ! Harrik was a man who always bore a good character. The father of a numer ous family, he had an enemy one who with all his might and craftiness tried to do him injury. This was known and acknowledged by all the witnesses. In all his troubles his next neighbor, Oil man, had been his friend. This was known and acknowledged ' by all the witnesses. But one afternoon, when the dusk of evening Bet in, and people returned from their work, Harrik vent ed his anger on the cause of his troubles. From words they came to blows : a crowd gathered. Beside the two men, a third man was seen was it Oilman ? The struggle was short. The troubler of Harrik s peace fell down, stabbed in breast and back and side. Harrik was arrested on the spot. But where was the other man ? He was gone. "It was Oilman," said most of the witnesses. " We knew him by his coat. It was Oilman." Others seemed to doubt. Oilman was found at his home, busy with his do mestic duties. He seemed very agita ted ; but was it sorrow for his fiiend, or wa3 it consciousness of guilt ? In court he protested his innocence, and appealed to Harrik, who simply said: -a. V4JV4 IVt VJI11LUCIU na UUV tilXUXU But the many witnesses who insisted that they had seen him and no other, as well as the known friendship of the two, iuduced the court to get the final convincing proof from Harrik. He was condemned to the gallows. Yet one day, and the convincing proof would fail. Hence the rack I They had been successful 1 Oilman's doom was sealed. But the merciful judge had his doubts. That night he was sleepless. It was long past midnight, when ho was startled by the ringing of the door bell. It wa3 the warden. Coming into the presence of my grandfather, ho said : " Sir, the unhappy man is restless- more than once he has asked me when he was to die ? I told him ; then he cried loud: O. Oilman! Oilman! At last I said: 'What about Oilman?' Then he "said nothing. Just now he stopped me in my round, and said: Jochems, could yon not go to the gen tleman who was so kind to me ? I want so much to see him. Said 1: 'But it is late, Harrik it won't do!' Then he began to beg me so hard, sir, that L did not like to refuse. He has but one day more to live, sir, and I saw you were kind fco him, so I took courjge, and said I would go." While the honest warden was talking, my grand rat her was already busy to prepare himself for the" visit. They went through the silent streets of Nimegue, up to the prison. The jailor unlocked door after door, and ushered my grandfathei into the cell of the con demned man. A sad sight it was! . On stretcher lay Harrik, a wreck of hu- " I thought eo," said my grandfather. ' Now let me write down your solemn confession, which you will sign, and I shall attest with the warden ; then yon may be sure your friend will not suffer. I shall take care of that." The warden brought paper, pen and ink ; this declaration was made, signed by Harrik, and by the merciful judge and warden as witnesses. Kew York Rag Picker. " In Jail, August 3, 1870. " I, John Harrik, under sentence of death, this last night of my earthly life, in the presence of God Almighty and two witnesses, do testify that my con fession, made on the bench of torture, was in consequence of unutterable pain. Oilman was not there. I alone am guilty. May God have mercy on my soul. " John t Habbik. "Witnesses : C. W. V. M., Judge, Joost Brand, Warden." "Now, I can die in peace, said the poor criminal. " Blood for blood, it is just ; but Gil man will go free ?" " Be sure of that," was the answer, and my grandfather left. Years have passed. The skeleton bones of Harrik has hanged on the " gallows field," near the city of Nime gue, probably alongside of other vic tims of human justice ; the birds of the air have fed on the flesh, the bones have frightened the passer-by. Oil man kept his flesh and bones, and lived a good long life in comfort and ease. A Wonderful Oil Well. The Titusville (Pa.) Herald thus de scribes a wonderful oil well that has just been opened: "The road" leading to the Parker well from Petrolia is in moderately good condition, and soon after leaving Cen tral Point the traveler observes the words ' no smoking permitted here in conspicuous places. After about two and a half miles ride the top of a hill is reached, where a loud, roaring noise is distinctly heard, and eighty rods furth er on brings us in sight of the well. A dense fog or mist envelopes the der rick, engine house and tanks, while fully one thousand persons are there gazing on the wonder of Armstrong county. The derrick has conspicuously placed upon it, in large letters, 'Boss Well.' and Creswell City.' There are two 250-barrel tanks full of oil; also two 1,200-barrel tanks, one of which is full. Three dams, one below the other, catch the drippings ; and the rivulet beyond, we are told, for ten miles of a circuitous route to the Allegheny river, is covered with oil. There are two two-inch pipes connected with the well, one of which is shut completely off, and out of the other flows a steady stream of oil with immense force. There is no perceptible intermission in the flow, and as it gush ea into one of the twelve hundred bar rel tanks, the foam and spray envelop the whole surrounding atmosphere in a dense mist. "A trustworthy ganger informed us that he had gauged the well three times since the stream was turned into the 1,200-barrel tank, and he found it doing 1,750 barrels, and he- estimated the leakage to be at least fifty barrels per day. He further stated that in his opinion the well started off out of the two two-inch pipes at the rate of 2,500 barrels per day. He also claimed that although this was almost incredible he believed that if the full stream was turned on now it would do at least 2,000 barrels. " The well is claimed to be the larg est ever struck in the lower region. A farmer walked up to us and offered to sell his adjoining farm of 100 acres for $100,000, which ten days ago, for farm ing purposes, would not have brought $1,000. The surveyors are at work lay ing out Creswell City. "The Parker well stands two and one-eighth miles due east of the most eastern well on the fourth sand devel opment, and about two and three-quarter miles east of Petrolia. The num ber of wells drilling on this belt east of the most easterly well on the McGarvy farm are six, namely: Two on the Snow farm, one on the Steel farm, the Gush ford well, 1,000 feet deep ; the Craw ford well. 300 feet deep, and the Pren tice wel', 1,450 feet deep. The latter is half a mile due west of the Parker well." The rooms above ground in Bone alley, where the rag pickers of New York exist, are used only for the ordi nary purposes of living. Bnsiness, which begins in the street, is here re sumed only in the cellar, whence it is transferred to the roof, and ia finished around the corner. Under the building are a dozen or mora small vaults, ex tending beneath the pavement, and lighted only by the narrow above them. Th6 air in these vaults is impure to the last degree, and is damp and chiling. There is neither floor nor tiles in them, and their clay bot toms are slimy and covered with mould. Here, crouched upon their knees, the old and young are busy from seven o'clock in the morning till noonday in assorting the contents of thair sacks. which have been emptied upon the earth. These consist of cotton and woolen rags, paper, lat, bones, crusts of bread, old bottles and occasional scraps of. leather and metals. They are separated and placed in little piles. All this work is completed by twelve o'clock, at which heur the bone dealer arrives in the alley to make his daily purchases. Bones are brisk at present at sixty cents per barrel. The little heaps of cotton and woolen rags are scraped together and trans ported to the roof of the building, where they are suspended upon lines. They are usually quite wet, and the object in hanging them up is to get rid of the foreign matter that clings to them and which wind and rain will re move. They are not suffered to remain long exposed, as too much heat would dry them and reduce their weight to an unprofitable figure. On Friday or Saturday affernoons they are gathered in separate bales and bundles and carried to the ragdealers in the neigh borhood or to a large warehouse in Third street, near Lewis. The prices paid vary from time to time, but are usually at the rate of about two and one-fourth cents per pound for cotton and three cents per pound for woolen. At this rate the men, women and chil dren engaged earn an average of about eight dollars a week. Fat is sold to the soapmakers, the usual price being about two cents a pound. Bread crusts are eagerly pur chased by Long Island countrymen, who come after them with market wagons and carry thim away as food for hogs, for which purpose they have a value of $2.50 per hundred weighr. Empty bottles of every description make up no small share of a rag picker's daily collection, both in volume and weight. They are carefully packed among the rags to prevent breakage, and are sold at seven to eight cents per dozen. The bottle merchant resides opposite Bone alley, and his place of business is a curiosity. He receives miscellaneous collections and assorts them after purchase. There you will find wine bottles which have contained the choicest importations, with the The Loco t In 3UaaessUL The visitation of locusts in Minnesota has proved a serious calamity. The total damage, thus far done, consists in a loss of about one-twelfth the usual crop, or about the same as if the average yield throughout the State were dimio- T si a a a st . isnea one ana a nan ousneis doiow me average per acre. The plague extends over one-tenth of the cultivated area of the State, and involves about one-thir- gratings I teenth of the population. Ine insects, we notice, are universally styled "grasshoppers." which is incor rect, although the mistake, owing to the confusion of names, is a natural one. The principal points cf difference be tween the locust and the grasshopper A A - consist in mat ine latter is usually ox a green color and is more active by night than by day. Urssshoppers, moreover. do not associate together nor migrate in large numbers, while their flight ia short and unsteady as compared to that of the locusts, beside being noiseless. The locusts which have appeared in Minnesota are, when full grown, of about an inch and a quarter in length. and of a dusky grayish color, the heads being reddish and the under wings. when spread, of a coppery hue. The eggs are gray, ovate, and about as large as a wheat corn, and are deposited in clusters ia the ground and under the grass and stubhle. When hatched, the insects feed on the nearest vegetation. and then rise in vast clouds, seeking other pastures. A Minnesota settler, who has suffered severely from their ravages, in writing to the Minnea. olia Tribune describes throng of the locusts as resembling huge snow cloud, often completely ob hterating the sun. The lower insects fly at a height of about forty feet from the ground, and the others fill the air above as far as the eye can reach. When they settle on a field of grain, every stalk is covered, so that the entire field seems to have suddenly turned brown. They do not eat the grainjbut bite into the tender stock and juicy kernel, and suck out the vital sap. leaving every particle of vegetation dead, so that within a day or two the entire crop be comes dry and withered. Their appe tite seems especially directed toward garden stuff and grain, but frequently the voracity is such that every living green thing is devoured before they rise. Minnesotta farmers assert that there is no remedy. Fall fires do no good and water and frost are without effect. Plowing up the ground where the eggs are deposited or burning over the grass where they are laid during the spring, it is believed, aTe the best known preventives. The worst enemy of the locust, however, seems to be a little red parasite, which gets under its winga and gnaws into the very vitals of the insect. Dead locusts are found covered with these worms. Various portions of Europe and the north coast of Africa have suffered greatly from the plague both recently and in the past. In France, during My and June, when the insects first CniLD CRIBIS1LS. Th AtacUtlMa Wktlcla Ciim prrlir lat tfce Yas The counterpart of Boston's whil- ved Uoy murderer, says the New York Herald, has been found in the person of Henrietta Weibel. whose dislike for infanta urged her to attempt their de struction by fire. And so strong is this dislike that the girl seems incapa ble of restraining it. Already on two occasions she has been guilty of in cendiary attempts, having their motive in the win to destroy infant Hie. it is curious that a mania of this kind should develop itself in one who is heraelf lit tie more than a child, the more so i&ai the natural tendency in jcung srirle is to love and fondle infants. Bat no donbt the influence of the wretched society in which the daily life of this child was cast weakens, u it does not destroy, the best natural impulses of those who grow up in its midst. There is something appalling in the reflection that thousands are compelled to breathe the vitiating at mo ph ere which exerted so baneful an influence on the xneral sense of this poor child. Toverty and 1 - raiatoL uegieci uo qui j jearo tucir im press on their victims, and wherever the children of the poor turn they see before them little but what is calculated to degrade and brutalize them. ' This is peculiarly the case in great cities, and it ia in these vast human Lives that ab normal developments of crime usually occur. It would be difficult to imagine a nature so perverse and cruel as that of the boy murderer of Boston or this child-hating girl growing up amid the green fields. Something of the fresh ness of the country steals into the child reared in nreaence of the beauty and generous bounty of nature, while the fetid tenement, and dirty and repulsive alleyway seem to exert a noxious in fluence on the moral as well as the physical characteristics of those who grow up in the slums. Man is very much the creature of circumstances. He is mostly what his surroundings have made him. It is, therefore, chari table to believe that under more favor able conditions neither of the children who have won unenviable notoriety would have grown up so utterly devoid of moral sense as these have shown themselves to be. Instead, therefore, of condemning with too much vehe mence the child-authors of these mur derous crimes, society would do well to seek to remedy, in so far as it may be remedied, the evil which lies at the root of the demoralization which exists among the children of the poor, the victims of the slum. If these wretched beings grow up as enemies to order and society they are not much to be blamed. So long as they are con tent to sauirm in the loathsome dens a I liens or lateral. t Nearly seven hundrM infants nnier one year died in New York and riiU delphia ia one week, recently. Two women, a mother and her mar ried daughter, were recently cut ia pieces by a reaper at Dayton. Ohio. In round numbers it emts the British people-$3,000,000 annually it support the royal family, and ont princoas yet to bo married off. A stout old woman in Detroit got mad lately because a photographer wouldn't let her fan herself while she had her picture taken, ' He's a gentleman aud a vculler, is a compliment which, in the light of recent events, cannot b applied indis criminately to college oarsmen. A Delaware man thrashed his wife almost to death beoanao their baby didn't get a prite at the baby show, and then he offered to trade the baby for a pijr. This brief chmnicle writUu by the editor of the PhiUd-lphia Ldjr . Lowell Saturdsy. Two littl tmys and a pistol. Now, only one utile boy The girl who generally writes her came in a straw bat and marries a mil lionaire through its influence btan't been heard of this year. Toe million aire was probably married before the hat came out. Sake alive, I wom!d no more name a boy Alias than nothing in the world. They're alius cutting up aOtn ePr. Here's Alias Thompson, Aliaa WiHm. Alias the Night Hawk, all been took up for stealing." A friend invited Hones Orrely to call and see him, ending the invitation with, If I am not at home yon can al ways' see my wife." Oh'aaid the philosopher, I don't think it is well to make a practioe of that,M And it isn't. The following letter has ben re ceived by Treasurer Spinner : Tieaae send me a new Bill or the worth of this bilL I droop the letter on the floor and one of my men had his dog thrre and his dog chewed part of the bill to peeoea." It is bad to bo bitten and not know what bites yon. Austin, Trias, is im mensely annoyed by a gnat so small as to bo invisible to the naked eys ; an insect with a bill so delicate and grotU that the bitten knows sot bis wound until he finds himself pimply all over. The bead of the family is atout to eat an apple. Mother" Say, father, give mo a piece." Daughter " O, father, giro mo a piece." S n O, father. I want a piece." Nieoe "Won't you please give mo a piece, too? Father (disgusted) " Here, you all into which society an 1 civilization have PPl ud 8,Tf ne Puc crusnea them, or tneir own iouv sua children turn out to hunt them. Four persons grasp the corners of a sheet, remnants of their labels carefully pre- appear in the fields, all the women and served ; ink bottles, glue bottles, mu cilage bottles and babies' nursing bot-. ties ; blue bottles and green bottles ; the smallest of crystal vials and the largest and most uncouth of all kinds of German Seltzer jugs ; patent medi cine bottles, with the most astounding names of miraculous liquids cast on the sides. These make up the contents of the fchop. Broken glass is bought heie at half a cent per pound. Many of the rags that find their way own vice or the vices or their parents nave sunk them, society does little to improve or ameliorate their condition. It is only when crimes like the present call atten tion to the seething mass, sunk in misery and degradation, which is Mr. Becher having been represented as being quite jolly, the Louiavillo Courier -Journal is moved to sav : "The man who wouldn't be jolly at the thought of being the chief proprietor A the most beautiful and ex tenure scan dal of the age must have a skin as two in advance holding their ends close to the ground and the couple in rear elevating their corners, so that the sheet is held at an angle of 45. In this position, the cloth is carried over a held several times, forced to rise, when sheet and thence are tumbled into bags. Some idea of the immense numbers of the locusts which may thus be de- packed out of sight in tenement build- thick as the epidermis of a rhinoceros. "InGervais. Ores on. during storm. a large tree was struck by lightning and cut completely off, as with a sharp in strument, about four feet from the ground. In falling the tree was thrown into the garbage barrels and the gutters stroyed, may be gained from the fact manity ; his tortured limbs powerless, his face alone showing life. With glistening eyes, he looked at my grand father, who took a seat beside, and claspiug his hand, said: "What is it Harrik? What can Ida?" There was a moment of silence. The man looted steadily at the mercuui judge. At last he said: " xou have been very kind to me, va aV sir. l have something to say, ont i am afraid, sir. The rack ! The rack ! And as if all his torments returned at the very thought, he gasped for breath. At last he said : I cannot die with a lie on my con science 1 Blood enough ! Blood enough ! The physician approaches, the chains But poor Gilman poor dear Oilman !" " opeaay saia my granaiatner " i am no judge now ; I am only a witness of what von have to say. Oilman was not there ?" The man stared long, then he said, slowly : " You were so kind to me, sir. I thought yon might have pity. But I am afraid I can no more bear the Y. are loosmed, the dislocated limbs re set. This takes some time. We look at the five judges. The president is agitated, the others indifferent ; the onngest remains sitting, one handover is face. The physician has performed his work, and with 'some stimulants re stored the prisoner to consciousness. The presiding judge has recovered self possession, and says in his usual tone of authority : " Bring the prisoner into court. Again the victim is carried to the leaning chair. Again the judge ad dresf es him in stern words. Again he answers, Lut faintly this time. " I was alone." " To the rack I" exclaims the judge ; A Natural Cariosity, The Providence Journal says: "For the past day or two there has been in this city a colored man who presents in himself a queer physiological freak. He is thirty-four years of age, thick set, of medium height, of fair intel ligence, and was born in Manchester, England,. He gains a livelihood by ex hibiting himself to physicians. His abdomen is naturally full, but at will, without the use of his hands, he gives it a wave-like motion, and it gradually sinks as if being wound up, until it ap parently rests close against the back bone, and he presents the appearance of a man with no abdomen, and then in the same manner he rolls it out to its original form. He then drops from nu j der his ribs a duplicate set of ribs, with a breast bone, when the original ribs and the duplicates can be distinctly felt and counted, nd the whole front of the body is, as it were, iron-clad. Or, at will, he apparently drops his heart from its natural position some twelve inches, puts it back and sends it to the right side of the body opposite its natural position, puts it back and sends it to the lower patt of the body on the right side, thus putting it in four dif ferent positions. During these two changes the two sounds of the heart can be distinctlv heard in either of these new positions, and not where they usually are heard. It seems to be necessary, however, that after each change it should go back to where it belongs be lore being sent to a new quarter. Ha also has the power to stop the beating of his heart at will from five to ten seconds at a time, the pulse are pregnant with contagion. Heedless or thoughtless people have, instead of destroying them by fire, thrown them into the street. They are not cleansed by the water with which they become saturated, nor does the filth which at taches to them destroy infection. In fact, the street produces precisely the condition required for the earliest pos sible germination of whatever seeds of disease and death may be concealed in them. Selected from the grease, bones and glass, jumbled together in the sack of the rag picker, they are removed from the vaults of the cellars to the roof, for the purpose of drying, and the air which fans them reeds the lungs alike cf the poor and the rich of the factory girl and the millionaire's daughter. Often, in the adjoining tenements, some poor wretch dying longs for a breath of freBh air in his o'ose and overheated room, and prays that a single peasant, with a entomolo gist's small net, has been kown to capture 100 ponnds of insects in a day, equal to about 80,000 eggs destroyed. I he Arabs drive on locusts by making -a a m a a. a 1 ings and noisome aiieyways, mat .tne prosperous and well-to-do remember even the existence of these unfortunates. It may be an idle dream to hope for the perfection of humanity: it is at the insects being least a noble one. but there is so much forward ten feeL raised high in the air. they fall upon the that may bo done in the direction of I and the butt driven into the grouud. elevating the lower classes in great the shock shivering the branches and cities, that the most practical minded leaving the trunk standing upright." would find ample scope for the exercise grow rich is not to make more of a large philanthropy, even within monBT. but to spend less. If one is very uimieu uun ut aciiuu. w the spread of elevating influences among the classes from which criminals are chiefly recruited that we must look for the suppression of that worst re- great bonfires, producing large quan- proach to our boasted civilization the tines oi smote, xn Algiers, tne most i child criminal. effective plan is said to be spreading large nets over the insects early in the morning after they have become gorged and inert through feeding, and then collecting them in bags and bury them in lime. Leaving the dead bodies on the ground is apt to breed infection. Harrowing over the fields, where the females lay the eggs, seems, however, to be a widely followed plan of destruc tion, as, if the eggs be scattered, the sun soon dries them up. Birds and toads are excellent auxiliaries in dis posing of the eggs after a field has thus been gone over. In Iceland, Manners are simple in Iceland. There is really no distinction of ranks. Vv w mm mm t aI Vi 1 mm 0mWmA mm roof. The casement is opened, only to Zui Cl.Z'ZIZTCH T?jrr.i admit the poisonous breath of tlie wind 7"i i:J?Xy" t that has rioted with the deadly rags and that the windows may be opened to ad mit fie breeze that he watches curling the pmoke from the chimnej s and rust ing the clothes drying on an adjacent " Speak and give your testimony," stopping at the same time. He seems said my grandfather, "and l give my word that it shall not be known be fore " He hesitated. The word was hard. But H rrik understood him, and with a look, almost of happiness, said : " Oilman was not there, sir ; torture made me tell an untruth. Gilman was not there 1" also to have considerable strength, easily bending by a blow on the arm heavy iron cane which he carries. Several of our prominent physicians have examined him, from one of whom we have obtained, these xacts, ana pro nounce him to be the greatest curiosity in physiology they have ever seen or heard ot" comes to the l;ps of the suflerer only to cool them forever. Surrounded by malaria arising from filthy gutters, panting under a heat that is simply an incandescent stench, breathing an aerial poison, they gradually lose their hold on life, and sink away from its noise and fever into the quiet and chill of the grave. Murder by Boys. for him bell, and works with Lis own hands. There is no title of respect save Herra to the bishop, and Sira to a priest ; not even such a title as Mr. or Mrs., or Esquire. If you go to call for a lady Crop Prospeets. The statistics representing the aver ages of the condition of the crops in the Western States are interesting sot only to the commercial, but also to the con suming public. Despite the numerous pests, in the form of insects, blight, droughts and diseases, which seem late ly more severe in their effects than in former years, the reports of the wheat crop are very encouraging. The ex treme viaitationa oi misionune to mo farmer t-re apparently oonCnrd to limit ed regions. The sugar crop is remark able for its favorable condition and more extensive cultivation. The growth of wool in the West has augmented and shows the wisdom of the farmer in comprehending that the new soil, al though broken so few years ago by the hardy settler, needs the bene tit of the rest and recuperation which results from the policy of letting it lie in pasture for a time. In fine, there is reason xor graiaiation on tne im not accumulating money as faat as Lo thinks he ought, the remedy, in fcioe cases out of ten, is not greater exertion to make monev but greater care to save it. Indeed, e who ssves mony sys tematically, putting away a part, even though it be a small part, cf each week s or each day's earning. Is rich already. His means exceed his neces sities, and that is wealth always. in IiTltrd 5oae. At one of the demi French reunions not long since, a little scene occurred which amused the few who witneaaed it. About ten o'clock a ranaleur entered, very correct in his getting up," un exceptionable in his demeanor, but a gentleman gifted with a very eonaider able nasal organ. The old provrrb aays. "A largo nose never spoiled a handsome face," and the stranger justi fied the proverb. " . . . 4 at. Advancing to the mi ire as ci tne bouse, ho made the formal reverer.ee which ceremony requires on a first vlait, then, taking a more famfiiar tone, Lo aaid, It has been vary happy Vt ac cept your invitation, madam ; an honor of which it is quite unworthy." This was aaid In a low voice, but so distinctly that it could be understood you tap at the door and ask if Ingibjorg provement in the science of agriculture by those who stood near. or Yalgerdr is in ; or, if you wish to give her her fall name, Ingibjorg Thor valdsdottir, or Eiriksdottir, or Bjar nardottir (as the case may be) for there is no title of politeness to spply. .Her name, moreover, is her own name, un made manifest by the monthly reports of the government. Fixing ShUgles. Farm buildings frequently undergo changed from birth to death; for as I repair at this season of the year. Es- At the .Birmingham, England, police there are no surnames or iamuy names I pecially are new roots Laid on barns and a. a i J a cjti: j I ii T l i l a l n i : l ta i . i t i oourc, two iaas nmmea ouuiv&n ana aaiuog iue icciuiuerB, uut umj vsuna- Kelly, both about sixteen years of age, tian names there is no reason for a were charged with causing the death of wife assuming her husband's name, and a boy named Earp. The three lads she is Thorvaldsdottir alter her mar went on the previous day to bathe in I riage, with Gudmundr just as before, the canal, ine prisoners, who could while her children are uuamundsson swim, induced Earp, who could not. to 1 and Gadmundadotti. accompany them into the middle of the canal, where they deserted him, re fusing to return and assist him even when he was seen to be drowning, Another stripped and swam to his assistance. but before the body could be recovered he was dead. The prisoners were re manded until after the coroner's in quest, the msgiatrate remarking that the were, to say the least of it, a pair of disgraceful cowards. The lady. who. though a Terr fu- t input person, is somewhat timid, be cause still young, was somewhat em harassed at this address, and, thinking she had misunderstood him, replied: " Excuse xoe, sir; were you say ing " T mA mr- thai It u verv out-buildings. It may be worth while crt,fai for the umUtion to your to state what is amply proved to bo jne a fact, that oUing or painting shingle Xho bystanders exchanged looks and roofs. at the tame of laying the shingles, to whisper; the lady became xnore and more out ox countenance. Horse Wetdowb. Tho more light admitted to apartments the better for those who occupy them. Light is as youth, seeing Earp'a danger, necessary to sound health as it is to vegetable lue. luxciude it iroxn plants, and the consequences are disastrous. They cannot be perfect without its vivi fying influence. It ia a fearful mistake to curtain and blind windows so closely for fear of injuring the furniture by nays. uippmg tne onus into not whitewash is also recommended to be done as the ahinglea are laid. There can be no doubt of the economy of thus protecting roofs from decay by either ! painting, oiling, or whitewaahing. Sax Caxx. A penaivo man in co nam, while singing " uone, Wis- love. come, beneath lis luicinees window the other night, had love, muaio, wind, and everything else knocked out of him by a something in a long white gar ment that fell out of a chamber window. Bleed eta at tee Nose. The health of persona anbiect to bleeding at the exposing to the sun s rays ; such rooms u to u positively gather elements in darkness in ber to 7kDOW vbo which engender disease. Let in the m ' ; . - rtAf...M.v. light often, and fresh air, too, or snffr . . s nose should be improved by nutritious I the penalty of aches and pains and long doctor a puis wnicn znigm nave Deen food. Violent exercise will sometimes bring it on. Plugging the nostrils with lint or cotton wool soaked in a strong solution of alum will bo found to be efficacious. Where persons are often troubled in this wsy a regular practi tioner should be consulted. Applica tions of iced water to the forehead and 1 face are also good. 'I do not understand you," she aaid. at length; Mof what aroyou speaking? " The gentleman did not speak again, but pointed, in reply, to the prosux.ent feature in his face. Whatl do you know? Ob, how impradntr exclaimed the lady ; and blushing from her chin to ber eyes, aba eoaoteled in ber handkerchief a face half Laughing and half embexaaeed. . The explanation of this little myatery soon cams out, Tho boa teas tad met this gentleman tho evening before at the ho use of her sister, where ho had made himself very agreeable, as was his custom. On her return, recollect ing her own soiree of the next day, she avoided. I believe my fate will be that of Abie's," said a wife to her husband one day. "Why so," inquired her husband. Because Able was killed by a club. serenading her, leaned too far over the window-sill ; hence tho result. Ho says when ho sings " Come, lore, I wrote hastily the following concise note come, again he win Keep away xrom 1 to ber aiater: under tho window, as his system can- J "I have taken a liking to tho big uuk i m -""j iiku m.mm I boh. viJTW iiih ma umauuu w uo. Her madcap relative amaaed Leraell The Philadelphia Steamship Com- I by sending tho invitation as it was, ana mm MMinii niJ bt fr Bradv ft!.-1 the rentlemAn resTondd to the joke in and your club will kill me if yoa eon- 000, with $150 costs, for the salvage of I a manner which brought tho laughter tmue to go to it every night. tho steamship i'ou&syivania. I on us sioe.
The Franklin Courier (Louisburg, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 28, 1874, edition 1
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