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TVliat is "Work?
; The following is really
Mark Twain's best stories:
among
Tom Sawyei having offended
liis sole guar Jin. aunt Polly. Is by
that sternly-affectionate dame pun-
ished by being set to whitewash the I
fence in front of the garden. The
world seemed a hollow mockery to
Tom, who had planned fun for that
day, and who knew that he would
be the; laughing-stock of all the
boys as they came past and saw him
set to werk like a :'nigcr." But a
great, inspiration burst upon him,
and he went . tranquilly to work. I
What that inspiration was will ap- I
iur -iruiii wuat louows. I
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ticularly fine apple. Tom does not I
gee
mm. isen starea a moment, I
and then said:
"Hi-yil You're up a stump,
ain't you ?" ;
No answer. Tom surveveil his
last toucli with the eye of an artist,
then he gave another gentle sweep,
and surveyed the result as before.
Ben ranged up alongside him.
Tom's mouth watered for the apple,
but he stuck to his work. Ben
said:
"Hello, old chap ! You got to
work, hey ?'
"Why, it's you, Ben 1 I wasn't
noticing.
it
"Say, I'm
going
a-swimmmg,
am. Don't you
wish you could?
Bnt, of course, you'd druther work,
wouldn't you? 'Course you would!1
Tom contemplated the boy a bit I
and said:
"What do you call work ?'
"Why, ain't that work?'
Tom resumed
llld wVllf fTVfl till t
or
and answered, carelessly:
"Well may be it is, and may be
it ain't. All I know is, it suits Tom
Sawyer." ;
"Oh, come now, you don't mean
to let on .hat you like it?'
The brush continued to move.
"Like it? Well, I don't see why
I oughtn't to like it. Docs a boy
get a chance to whitewash a fence
everyday?
That put the thing in a new light
Ken stopped nibbling his apple.
Tom swept his brush daintly back
daintly
and , forth stepped back to note
the effect added a touch here and
there criticised the effect again
Ben watching every move, and get
ting more and more interested,
more and more absorbed. Present
ly he said: , ?
"Say, Tom, let mc whitewash a
Tom considered; was about to
consent; but he altered his mind.
"No, no; I reckon it wouldn't
hardly do, Ben. You see, aunt
Polly's awful particular about this
fence right here on the street.
you know but if it was the back
fence, I wouldn't mind, . and she
wouldn't. Yes, she's awful parti-
cular about this fence; it's got to
bo done very ; carefuL I reckon
there ain't ono boy in a thousand
may bo two thousand, that can do
it the way it's got to be done. ...v..
4 "No; is that so ? ! Oh, come now
-lemmejust try, only just a little,
I'd let you, if you was me, Torn.
cBen, Pd like to, honest Injun;
but aunt Polly Well. Jim wanted
to do it, but she wouldn't let him.
Sid wanted to do it, but sho would
not let Sid. Now don't you see
how I'm fixed? If yon was to tackle
this fenced and anything was to
happen to it "
Oh, shucks ! Til be just as care-
ful, Now lemmc try. Say, I'll
give you the core of my apple,'
"Well, here. No, Ben; Now
don'tjrm afeared
: Til gi?e you all of it !
Tom gave up the brush with re
luctance on his face; but alacrity in
his heart. And while Ben worked
and sweated in the sun, the retired
artist sat on a barrel in the shade
close by, dangling hi3 legs, manch-
ing his apple, and planning the
One of the buys, Ben. Bogers, I part of jewsharp, a piece of blue
comes bv and pauses, eating a par-1 bottle 'glass to ' look through, a
slaughter of more innocents.
There was no lack of material.
Boys happened along every little
while; they came to jeer, but re
mained to whitewash. ' ,
By the time Ben was Jagged oat,
Tom had traded the next chance to
Bly Fisher for a kite in good re
pair; and when he played out,
Johnny : Miller bought in for a dead
rat and a string to swing it with;
and so on and so on, hour after
hour.1-:- - . , ;
And when the middle of the after
noon came, from being a poor,
poverty-stricken boy in tlie morn-
ing, Tom was literally rolling in I
wealth. lie had, besides the things
a nave ireubionea. twelve marDies " I
... 1 . I
spool - cannon, "a key that wouldn't
umocKnyxnmg, iragmen& oi cn aiK,
a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin
.soldier' a couple of "tadpoles, six
fire-crackers, a kitten
with only I
one eye,1 a brass door
knob, aog-
. ' J3
handle of a I
collar, but no dog, the
knife, four pieces of orange-peel,
and a dilapidated old window-sash.
He had had a nice, good idle time
all the while; plenty of company,
and the fence had three coats of
whitewash' on it! If he hadn't run
out of whitewash he would have
bankrupted every boy in the vil
lage.
Tom said to himself that it was
not such a hollow world, after all
He had discovered a great law of
humstfc action without knowing it
namely, that in order to make a
man or boy covet a thing it is bnly
necessary to mate the thing diffi
cult attain. If he had been a great
and wise philosopher, like the
writer of this article, he would now
have comprehended that work con
sists of whatever a body is
obliged to do. And this would
help him to understand why con
structing artificial flowers or per
forming on a treadmill is work,
while rolling nine-pins or climbing
Mont Blanc is only amusement.
There are wealthy gentlemen in
I England who drive four-horse pas-
J senger coaches twenty or thirty
1 miles on a daily line in the summer,
because the privilege cost them
considerable money; but if they
were offered wages for the service,
that would turn it into work, and
then they would resign.
Chang-os in Inclination,
Some time spo there lived in cur
city, says the Waco (Texas) Patron,
a young gentleman and lady who, for
convenience sake, we will call Ned
and Kitty. They were frequently
seen together exhibiting unmistakable
evidences of tender attachment which
was fast leading them toward a vortex
of matrimony.
Bugcry riding was a favorite pas
time with tho young lovers, and there
was scarcely a woodland glen or a
prairie Slower for. miles, around here
that did not, at some time, twtnesi
their happy love-making, as they rode
by, or stopped a moment . to bill and
I too and axehange vows.
When the jonng man jwanted a
a boggy he jnvaria'ply write about as
follows, to the livery man:
: Mr. Mo Please send the narrow
seated bugy to my door, at 5 o'clock
P..M., and oblige, yonrs Ned.
P. S. If you can't send the
narrow seated buggyi don't Fend any.
. "! No,
In the course of time they were
married, and a few weeks after the
event trauspired Ned presented him-
8df at Mc'a offieo and told him that
he wihed to take Mrs. Ned to the
country for a few days recTfation,
and desired him to get ready a buggy.
"All right, old boy; I'm glad to see
ou round again, and I can let you
have your favorite buggy."
'-Which?"
Why, the narrow-seated rig, of
course"
"Never mind it, Mc; that one will
do, and he pointed to a buggy that
two persons might have sat in with a
I yard's space between them.
Tlio Now Scliool Dlroo-
,; ; j
Mr. Tiraoty Search was highly dated
over bia election to the vacant chair in
the School Board of bia district, and he
at once beran to take a great interest
in educational affairs, lie wanted
plain teaching, be said; -didn't want'
any bighfaulutin learning forced up
on the scholars, and declared that he
would kick the first teacher out of the
school -house who attempted' to stuff
the children with any new Tangled no
tions. ' .-":
Theforc, the new director was start-
led when his most promising son told
him that the teacher proposed to in
uwuce Aiireora into u9 scnooLN
1 "What kind of a study is that?
asW Mrs. Search. TfTimoth, I'll bo
bund that it's some outlandish booV
that Dominie has writ. My 'sonV
brains shan't be buffed with it IV i i
, " Doesn't the sound of tho name tell
. "
you what kind of a study it lis?" ani
swered Search. "Why, it's the histo-
c r ij i , t I
ry of anew fangled animal, related to 1
ry ot a new tangled
the zebra, I suppose. Blamed if he
shall teach it in this school districtl"
The very afternoon the new director
visited the school for the first time.
He was graciously revived by the new
teacher, who was listening to a class
in geography.
" I understand, sir, that you want to
introduce the history of the Algebra ic
to thb school?" said 'Search.
''I had thought doing sa',.
" Had thought of it, eh t Well, let
it go no further than .that. I don't
want my children ta know anything
about such outlandish aninuls. The
Algebra may run wild in his native
country, but we don't wart him troub
ling the childecn in our schools, that
we don't,"
" But, Mr. Search, the new study
will a&sit the scholars in mathemat
ics." " See here, that's thin. If I " would
read the history of the rhinocers, could
l subtract any better than I do? Would
the biography of the giraflo enable me
to multiply with more facility ? Now,
sir, answer these questions, and tell
me how the history of Algebra could
I adtance the children in a arithmetic?
I " iOu misunderstand mc, sir, said
the teacher. " Aljrebra is not an aDi-
mal ! no more than hydrosatics."
" Hydro-thunder!" exclaimed Search.
" I suppose you'd like to introduce ac
rimenics into the school. With my
consent no tom-foolery shall be tanght
in this dktrict. The algebra in as
much an animal as gyascutas is; and if
I hear another word about teaching its
history to our scholars, I'll be blamed
if you can't leave." ' ' . '
"Sir, I regret that we differ! What
shall I teach?"
" Teach good common sense, sir,"
said Search; "teach that this world is
flat, as reason and our eyesight tell us.
We don't want any round worlds"
swingin' on nuthin' in this district,
and we don't care if the sun is ninety
five millions miles off.' Teach the boys
that Andy Johnson wa a tetter man
than Columbus, and if I hear that you
try to make them believe that Martin
Van Buren was elected President boi
estly, darned if you can't leave thin dis
triot. We had a feller tea chin' here
one who talked about Cromwell, Bad -
dock, and a lot of other old Romans,
and I worried the d' rector till they
turned him off. . You needn't teach
the girls anything in panicular; they
learn too fast anyhow. The other
teacher filled their heads full of Cleo
-somebody, till they called the boys
Antony and Caesar. We want gooo,
solid education. If vou know how old
Crosses made his money, tell the boys,
but don't stuff their heads full of the
filthy habits of the algebra, cr any
other wild beast. Tho show business
b not payin' this summer, and we don't
want our boys to be Barnums and Dan
Rices You misht tell them how Ben
Frabklin caught thunder and lightnin'
in a bottle, for that is scientific, but
tell them to keep away from walnut
tress in a thunderstorm."
u You've no objection to me teach
in-a little hydene?"
doc-
trines in this school, I tell you. No
high giene and no low giene, but if
you want to . introduce Robinson
Crusoe into the school, 111 as
sist you. . But no such studies as
Vneba and high gieno while I'm direc
tor. After 'while you'll want to teach I
that the earth isn't half as bin as the I
sun. Darn your highfalutin stuff!"
'I The teacher has a hard row to hoe
in Timothy 'a, district, and he doesn't
teach algebra eub? r. . , .
4 One of our Mtssislpl ctchangc
icll3 tbefoilowin, idmi bcicjf assured
that ' the -story cs related la" tree,
wf th hundreds of 6thcr curious pco.
plo ' we ' would 2 liko -to-knowtho
nimeof the "touring pilgrim." :
; jit 'was a'cTcart: bright day,, when
lho";i 'young''" drummcr-rwho sras
making his r first -tour through the
South was seen smiling coa-pla-:
cently oii a fair damsel fitting at
r V i t. iTTi
hU left anddtagonally opposite him,
l . i Ti
on uic o ou buuiuouunu uxuu irum
Memphis, on the M,'& T. Railroad.
' She was fair and beautiful to be
hold, as ho thought, when ho ap
proached her thns: ' -,
j My good lady, It seems that
ypu arc traveling' aTonc."
! "I am." was the reply. '
; "Well," said the drummer, 'noth
ing gives in' more trua plcisure
than to play' the gallant to the fair
sex, who, like yourself, are com
panionlcss; and if I do not presume
tioomuch, I will bo happy to bo
your escort as far as wo travel together."-
, ''How far arc you going?" sbo
said.
"To Grenada," was the reply.
'I shall go that far myself "
"Well, then, surely we will have
quite a nice rido together."
, "But pray, fir. if I am not too
Impertinent, may I adc wbat sort of
a business you are m ?n
"Oh. not at all, my fair lady?
with pleasure, I can say that I am
a touring pilgrim for a commercial
house in Louisville, Ky." ,! -They
sped on at" the rato .of
twenty miles an hour, ousily eo-
I gaged in ; conversation,
uutil they
arrived at Station 15. By this
time he had changed his seat to
the one directly behing Iter's.
When the train stopped their eyes
fell upon a poor-looking donkey,
when he, thinking to make the
rnnnrr loilv TTne1 rvr. a Virto rvl Incn1.
'Fairladyl I having been raised
in a city, and totally unacquainted
with the different animals that in
habit the country, will you please
tell mc what sort or kind of an
animal that is over the way there ?
at the same time pointing 'his
finder at the donkey.
She replied by making a mls-i
chievous wink at her father, who
"I, too, have been raised' in a
city, and am like you, unacquain
ted with the , animals that inhabit
the country; but if I would be left
to judge, I would emphatically say
from' his silly look, and long cars,
he must be a touring pilgrim for a
commercial house in Lonisvillc, Ky.
Uon't jou think so, papa?V
Ido, I do, my daughter.".
Tbe drummer wilted, and has not
been heard from since.
I Uxcectaixty OP THE Law. The
difficulty of defining on offence' in
the eye of the law is well illustrated
I by the following anecdote, which kd
I related of a mayor of Folkestone,
I Enirland. who bore the nickname
of old Steady Baker. A boy was
brought before him for Mealing
gooseberries. Baker turned over
'Burn's Justice," but not being able
I to find the article he wanted in the
book, which is alphabetically ar-
ranged, he lifted up his spectacle?,
and addressed the culprit thc3:
"My lad, it b very lucky fur you,
instead of stealing gooseberries,
vou are not brought here for steal-
ing a goose; there's a statute
against stealing geese, but I can't
find anything about gooseberries in
all 'Burn ;' so let the prisoner be
- I discharged, for I suppose it is no
offence."
I have, sirJ No new-fangled
Hcajflr :
f
A yrar : - t hero cf
honest r - x t td C3
heart 1 " lij t- . - r y i
tttbrilhex, Cj:1?j lis .tij7 -
teroJ.t! cstsrtalrclCa Uiu
t3 U
low
. ,wSiipjj Liz's !al Ur i1
3 YW-f-
Young ota. j
j"ies, aneu; sa,t cot you down ca
Iho alata for a gran bcce, aha has l"
3 -Why,howrpi r
; wt7AlaJ tLa ala't do XV rt
to ehaw dhUcnry hczt it rieether
i i.i ....
causa ther ain't no discount ca EU
she's a ha
"She sea sat goes out with you xa
m
vt Vocnd Icj ubcucna as icrae
oja psrrid ot, t? ws H ,
ain't ter nulhia' -ct cbeaa els aoir
water at er dcib a ckizri tl r
The man ilbed tni reached for a
iSha ses aha rzsta s feller,. thet'i
got ran stile aout tun aa' kia set cp
a-'aquaro ncil icrt Mj ,pl .leaio
tikes her a gallmntlaV the docs V
Tbe young man rutaniaged for his
handkerchief. !
'I tellyer wot it' is,' boss, ray sis
alnt noalouch, an, ' whea she gits a
crank in her hcl dad tei tha grinds
it wnss nor our olo rickety ccfTeo mill;
3Lo'i gom' fcr yeran1- she'll tell all
tbe other gals ter shoot tha xai&tr, an'
jcrjessbci they'll do it,' .'cicra tbey
can't co back on aia not xaocl!'
j The young man was. climbing dowc
the front stepa 7 f
i Juit then sis tntered, and Johanio
txplained how b had ugiv tho old
dugout a tig wabble.,f '
, But Johnnie's opinion, tinea his
daddy" let go or bin, ' i' (hat, if ho
bad been i'Sit ling Bull darisg tipper-
different loelitj. . ..
I m
How tlio Story wasiTold.:
j A Dresden correspondent narrate,
With unmistakable feminine acst, tLat
there was an "audience of ono hundred
and twenty spectators," many of whom
were ladles, at a case cf cremation
there. " ' : - 1 '
j Two bedietwera burned for their
delectation. The iron doors swung
open, the corpses were slid io, and then
through a thick glau- doer, w the audi-
I , w , v , . . t CU"J
tto procesa of iDcineratba. fTbo
play oi liames over tha bodies gam
rise to torn littla' murmur cfap
plauaa but when thtdark msi2Cj,lira
burnt roast beef, werft succeeded by
masses, cf brotrsuh ccaU thrcr-h
which the whita riba and skuls showed
grimly, . hreathlclliiltfka?ri
ing was kaocked out of tha doora and
the axhei cuHtetcJ aeJ "jzzzzl round
the andienea an filter fcr inspection
the ladies trisitalrj it 'tzlzzid'f. wllh
more thaa ci cidia. i A) V. I
Tha lady who cntea this adds at
tha bolters cf fcrr lettcr-ithjl she for
got to say that ths bodies wera those
of a Newfcui!;r.d C?z ii ci Thay,
however; 'reprexciUd Lusaa' bsdiea,
nd ahe tay.' :t?Iih a genuine tigb, .
"but tha experiment was ts aatufacto
ry as if tbtry had been 'iaaxra
During the parada ca Dcccratloni
day there was a great crowd around
the City Hall, an eld maa with a
straw hat made in 1836 took it urta
I him fa pub people back
'Stand back ! stand takl Lt ax
claimed. Nnc cf you went to warj
There was a youog nan wha
wouldn't stand back. lis tali La had
been a warrior and h-d ii-tu
: 'I was at Bull BcaT sheeted tho-
I old man 'where were your'
4l wa at Bankir IlillT yeliei t!:
young man CauiilirLis it arcund
'Vaaiyoacjcdat Lolbtr 10 lead
remarkad tha ollshapttacdi.g back
f himsalf. ,Tt was csJy czz day aL
cfSuilllaur