tp i, furs
BEST
SIX CORD.
hi:, . . - . .
Kaehin ; or liana use.
j 'j FULIj assobtm ekt of
All; kumbers and Colors,
1 if WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
B" JUuttz ind Hcnuleman,
'l3j,j 4 'j- !!! Salisbvury W. C.
1 '
The Farmer?.
the neld one
Hislariguidtep and his weary way,
us hpn.lpil brow, his sinewy hand,
&fioWd liis work for the good of his
jT laud j
I $dt lie sows, r
Arid he hoes,
' A riil he mows, r
All for the good of the land.
iS-'l tl , - ; I - - !
Br flic kitchen fire stood his patient wife,
T ivht f his home, and joy of his life,
Vitliffice all aglow and busy hand,
irtpaing meal for hethusband's band ;
5 Fur she must boil,
Itaijd she most broil,
tlAi a she must "toil."
.'iiftafor the good of the home.
'Hctih Rutamn is! here with its chilling
i Is.
18t. - j ';
HiS tmm are full, his fields are bare,
ip Lirui
uier gathers his crop at last;
1
hath
I dare " l. ' -! !
-"While it blows,
I At Id it snows, V
jTIje winter goes,
ert is from: the woikof the land.
But tli-
willins wife. tilUife's closing day,
Is the
'children's cuide. the husoaud s
-hi
tat.-'-' I -i!' .
Ftil d
ay ,: to. -day she hatn ione ner oesc.
Cntit death ahine can give her rest,
jFo)' after the test,
II V th he blest;
Bf jtlc farmer's heavenly home.
sir
Christian at Work.
Circumstantial Evidence.
f
'announcement by the New Yorlc pa
the murder of Mrs, Hull was in each
DStance, though he was nor named, an ac
taaMdn against her husband as the mur-
ilerer.
)n the Second day be was plainly
hJLmecl!
The police would apiear to have
, jird4pe same suspicion ; rft least they kept
M Pqctor under close surveillance. "What
lift pojice theory was, or whether the po
ijfe.jiajd a theory," or whether either the po
ice r the newspapers (both lay cliam to
othe honor) contributed materiallv to the
rv of the actnal criminal, are thiners
Hi ";likely ever to be known. But the
a .i " ----- , o
tifivspipers are ;"giving fits"f to the police
txttlei
supposition, assumed as fact, that
tiehft
eory was that Hull was the murder-
thus ' a great injustice has been
dand
innocent man. Much moralizing
U the
perita of circumstantial evidence is
Vsdged in view of the injury to Dr. Hull
ftgatfist whom, as the World now says, there
3ij)t a singlepiece of direct evidence,
?vow tbat the real murderer has been found
jtfc JHjfrfc- goes on to say, "all New Yorkers
fwvsehat a majority of the people o
rN1 ork probably thought a strong or at
least k ttvoimi.
p?niigainst Dr. Hull falls at once to the
ground when confronted with the facts of
,'cj.se. ne case against ur. Hull was
s, not because we knew a single fact
'w-unBistent with his innocense, but because
era jwere many facts quite consistent with
f$ jilt and because no suspicion could be
ttsc ipd to any other persoiuhe Jpeople
hi fcontended most j earnestl v that the cir
cumstances of the murder nointpd to him
perpetrator w ill most rejoice to be re
ora f n atlhcted nian who was the victim of
n,m to human! nature itself. It
is cun-
tfd
nu it ought to Ibc instructive to con-
i now hat this suspicion is finally dis
flhpw terribly plausible it was. Many
have suffered death nn RvirTpnri 1p
S than that which might have been
against Dr. IIull. It-i3 hot likelv
Ptps that a legal conviction conld have
(Wured against him, but the evidence
pfy4 aTc sufficed- to produce a moral
ntiction and fa weicrh down Riirh Tpr
lri"e as remain to him with the burden of
iel distrust added to the burden of a
aen and dreadful IiereavementL Real 1 v.
taost the only considerations which those
".believed in; the innocence of Dr. Hull
3fc ahle to addnce as inconsistent with
supposition of his guilt were that the
vuacy of his motive was not made out
ft. Jf A . - .
H ina! he was physically incapable of
vORirn. ft. '.." 1 T '
r-'w.iAjj buuu a muraer. in oiner worus,
e tw"ee elements of capacity.' oppor-
tV (.. M:AA 1..aL 1. A. 1-
i . aui,itjh vmcn must ue esiau-
i-ifi j circumstantial evidence, that of
was apparently lacking, and mo
fi was not proved," ' - - . '
I f TerJ remarkable English case of cbr-
stantial evidence is also' cited by tke
: -if. i a i
v t? v"!fr j commuted t -torn
thirty years ago at night in a gentleman's
houstt in the south of England, and finall V
confessed by the murderer, in which1 every
ue 01 inese tnree elements was. apparently
MMing tnai, notmng but his owi blun
uw.woma ever; nave brought the
home to him.
crime
itself as well as so sufr&rcstfvetthflt it . I
C9 m. iiiiri tTHLiii if
worth repeating. The shinwreck fl n Tn.
diaman cast upon the shore a passenger
ho was t,aken to :C6untry house near by,
the owner of which, a man of tnrtuL' hA
for man j years been confined to: his chair
by gout The host recognized in the man
whom this chance had committed to his
uospuauiy a scaool-fellow with whohi lnnr
years before he had had a bitter school-
nuu umi : pencnea upon 1
linn. Old times were revived, and the host I
recalled this childish
laugh it off.; He devoted himself to enter-
4D 1 T-j -wj; fcVT
taining his accidental guest, and the even
ing passed off agreeably. When; bedtime
came the host-was wheeled to his chamber
nana ine stranger was shown to a room on
J a. . I .
A. 1 a .. .
me noor aoove that inhabited by i his dis
abled DPnnnint.nii.' f . Lx' ' . I
...,iautt , jure, po strangely i
once more stumbled UDon. In thii rrvm
on the next morning he was found dead
with a hideous gash across his throat. As
as eviaent that the man had been mur-
TTZ uh Uke that which
attached to-Dr. Hnll, was fastened upon a
maid-servant who slept upon the same floor
with the murdered man. Theiriri WM r.
raigned and a case was made out against
ner as tne only person possible to be sus
pected. Her master, a local magistrate
naturally took a special interest in avenging
tne murder of his guest, pushed the inquirv.
and a conviction seemed inevitable. But
somewhat to the annoyance of the prosecu-
.lug iuuusci, who inougnt the case
com-
plete, he insisted upon asking arid
reiter-
atmg in a curiously persistent I
ay, the
question whether the maid heard Ao noise
during the night. At last she aoddcnlv
remembered and-tated that at a certain
. si
nour ot tne night she had been dislurbed
in her sleep by a slight noise in "the passage
before her door "like dragging ia dog."
From this point seized and pressed by the
detence new light grew and broadened.un
til the disabled man, who had to be lifted
from his chair and who had no motive con-
ceivable to any person engaged in the in
quiry for injuring his guest and
friend, confessed the murder 1 The
his old
memo-
ry of his childish wrong had grown
strong-
er within him as he sat at meat
Vith the
ooy, now become an old men, who had
. J U'J Ta. 1 ...
niuugeu uiu. n came on mm iiKe a pas
sion in his bed, unil the lust of revenge at
last mastered not only his mindj but the
very infirmities of his body. He dropped
out of bed, found and took a lazor and
uraggea nunseu in agony on an lours up
the staircase and into the room where his
guest and enemy lay, to do murder upon
mm. ine case is one oi tne most impres
sive of the loner list of warnincrs against
that over confidence in "circumstantial ev
idence," which would have acquitted him
without a doubt or a question to j commit
tVrA iniinf.i j i! i j I
mo juuaiu uiuiuci Ul nis BCJ VItUI., auu
... . 4 . . '
wmcn now aain in our own CUT. out lor I
the capture and confession of the real mur-
aerer, muse nave aone a grievous and ir
reparable wrong to the husband of Mrs.
IIull. Hal. Observer.
Over the Falls at Niagera. There
was a terrible scene lit Niagara a ; day or
two ago. It was reported that a religious
maniac was about to float down th river
in a rowboat to the edge of the fall, ex
pectmg to be miracuonsly saved from
death. A multitude of people gathered
upon Goat Island and along the Canadian
shore, and presently they were i horror-
stricken to see a boat drifting down with
the strong current directly in the middle
of the river. In it was the fig ire of a
man. .He sat placid and motionless,
seemingly perfectly confident that a ruira
cle would save him from his impending
doom. Nearer and nearer to the awful
.1. .
brink rusnea tne boat, aud nnaiiy witn a
mad plunge the frail bark dashed head
long down into the seething cauldron be
low. Women fainted and strong men fell
to the ground weeping and praying, borne
hurried to the foot of the falls, ad finally
succeeded in recovering the body.: It was
stuffed with straw.
Remedy for uiiicken u holer a.
Nail a piece of bacon on a tree or post so
thajt the chickens can peck it, aiid if they
are too far gone to peck for themselves,
put a small piece of fat bacon down their
throats for three moruings and they will
recover. They are to have no waters dar-
in
treatment, f
Gapes in k chickens 7 is a worm that
hatchjEs pp the head and crawls into the
windDine. Greese rubbed on the heads
of little chickens will nrevent gapes, bat
if tliat is neglected, put carophOr in their
water and it wj)l work a core. pT. O. Far
mer, ' "
Advices from.Hong Kong to June Jst
states that Gen. Grant was then, eu route
from Tientsin to Pekn, and that con-,
siderable change in the programme of
his future movements is indicated. It is
now believed probable. )hatbe may re
turn to China after visiting Japan, and
proceed to-Austraa. Hs plans are subr
ject to so many sudden' alterations, how
ever, that nothins absolutely! certain- is
known a month in advance.
For the Watchman. '
Stock Law'' Question. 't'V-f
Lrr aker Towkshi?, July 3d,1 181 9.
Mr. Editor : The time ji not far distant I
when the above question
will be voted p-
on, and as I nave seen nothing in the pub-
' r r ,
solicitation of others, have concluded
c r n - i m -w
to
hint at the matter which may lead
some action. We regard it as one of the !
most important subjects now claiming jthe I
attention of our section of the StateJ
Will rlvn B fotv PDHinna . .' , i j i. I,.. .1
" - ... .
t .wk.....-.:ii Li ivJ j.ii.ieaconiiaoaioiiunimiiiy.aiia never i
f .w. -i'i.j.i -juti ..ij '!-; -f--- i
. w iiau. ici win i ehu i l. - lh liik uria ifwr
good of the largest number ought to bo
- - i-T I
jthe
,aw ne na. ine tana-owners are a
yerT important class, in the strength, and
- - ""v-j T -rf
No one "M a ngnt to trespass on any
one's premises, which the owner pays for
and improves, as it now
is. A man's prem-
ises should not be subject to depredations
by his neighbors stock Without redress ?
3. It will result in great good to the
r I A. .. - Ufc I
runS zoc.uuxng ,n lUe
oa tug v lauut auu iiujui;!, uvivi c n H iuu I
lafA THa nrnflra orwinop frnm tViA onlfiiro
j i
. r . - , .
tion of hedge rows, fince grounds, and
,he natural improvement of landsnot lia-
ble to trespass, are itenis well worthy of
no - . . I . . !
i Tf Tr13 T,DS -1
with the people. Many who were opposed
are now m favor of it, and are anxiousifor
change. Consequently fences have
1x3611 neglected, and should the law fail to
pass, exira enorw wm oe requirea 10 re-
. jr. a. ii " a ;
nAir nnrlpr tn nm fiTafpm -tiiri this nan. I
pie will be very loth to do.
5. Because it meets with some opposition
does not prove it to be an evil. The rail
roads, public schools, and every enterprise
which resulted largely in the welfure of all
classes, met with
the
same unfavorable
reception.
6. Last but not least, it will tend to the
elevation of societv. As it now is there is
too much labor for the! amount realized.
i .1
Consequently farmers' children are ground
down to hard labor eight or nine months in
the year to make a support, and have but
three or four months left for school. Thus
the majority of farmers remain poor, their j
chiIdren gro P with
good minds uncul-
tivated. They follow ii the footsteps of
their predecessors, and fhink it is all right.
On the pther hand wefeel persuaded that
thft nrniu. 1H.-.,K !f Ko W
stock law, will be the initiation of a "new
and living way,w so to speak, whereby our
children will become in truth sons and
daughters
of
xunu varonna. mstcaa oi i
servants.
If the State fails to
provide adequate
means, as hitherto, for the higher cultiva
tion of the rising race, I verily believe that
the new, method will soon enable the mass-
1
es to accomplish this end unaided, together
with all the .blessings and advantages that
accompany prosperity ana intelligence.
Knowledge is power, arid gives the posses-
sor the advantage of the uncultured in ev-
e,7 "tuation in life. Ve hope Rowan and
aaJcen unues wu. ac, speeoi.y.-cau a
convention, and have the counties canvass-1
I ' i , T I
Lu iH.iim.nf .n..ilo i:ka, ..j
J . o - "i"-""-"
encourage the people.
Very respectiully,
J. L. G.
"Little Gutter Pup."
swaying up1 from below sing-
I
He came
ing:
"For rm little Buttercup,
Poor little Gutter Pup.
when the Justice gently asked him if
he
would 6top hia noise.
"Can't do it 'Squire k Til
lose it Fni
little- "
"Lose what f What have you
got to
lose."
"Lose the tune man.
Went tothe-6p-
era last night see little Gutter
"And where did yod go after the opera
as over r asked the bourt.
"Went strait to the bofel-strait. Fl-
ecenian showed me the way. What's ray
bill ! Where's the feller 't keeps this ho
tel I I'm little gutter
pup
rt
Yea, you're-evidently little gutter
pup," said the Justice
sadly. Your hotel
l.ill w ill l.e fiv dollark. with understand
inir that von follow the Seville company
rr. : . ; .. -
out of town aU(1 play ke characterofgut-
ter pup somewhere el.
se.'
According to rumorfe from Boston Ben.
Butler is liooming. He expects to be ndm-
inated for Governor by both the Labor
Reform; and Democratic Convent ons.
When the latter body does so we will be-
lieve it and not until then. Wil. Star.
Brother Hugh Hastings offers Bri-
tian General Grant to fight the Zulus
with. It will also relieve us of a ve-
rv nainful dutv bv Drooosiiiir.'in ad-
Iditibn, to throw Pobe in as dispatch
RPnder. We want to see the Zulu3
well licked. -Washington Post- j
A true woman scorns the smirking
Affectation o( gentility is little
better tnan insult. 1
'False hair, false teeth, false cheeks,
false manners," says an exchange,
"are likely to poveij a false heart.'
man Js fortunate who works his
way to wealth and
position, and dies
before he finds they
are not worth the
.labory;
-
SENATORIAL COURTESY.
- rrom Ui Ealeign obserrer.
We are prone to ttink that the old-
en day& .were! betters
(than jthe these j
daWand lhat our forefathers were at
h i j j .. j ' . I
I I0ief Hnmi.irnrl. in 1 nt armtv anH tup. I
tue.
V! Ihwav.1 WiieliinMAn V .nl1 I
HamiitonJ.ii
others of likcij stamp -tUl feeling of
awe. and iavlwithiri xjurselves. surelv
these worthies were above the infirm-
'j .1.. lir. . T t I.
i i J i :.mrA' ..: : i - .
looking U the great figures in history J
i . ?. , j - . .
Who loom more nearly t to us than I
those first mentioned we are disposed
to regard Ihern as -greatly superior in
self-control and- dignpty of- character I
to such ben as Lamar, iConklinj,
Conger, Chandler, and others of that
stamp ; whereas, history attests that
Webster. iClav. Calhoun. Handoloh.
' :i ' :! '- . '
Bnt Butler, FooteL King, and oth-
i , .1 , , . .
era who more or less raiiKtu wiui
, n L i f 1 i
themi a, natl tne,r weaknesses,
their
vanities, their bursts bf. passion, and,
at times, exhibited before the country.
in their places in Congress, not the
very best examples of parliamentary
.
aecorura anu uigniiy.
It is well known that the duel be-
txveen JJri Clay and
Mr. Randolnh
-.., i r rj anA UUta
; o . "
sonalites between those -gentlemen on
the floor of the House. It is remem
bered, tod, that Mr. Clay once told
Mr. Pickering on the flooring of the
Senate that heJ'disgraced the carpet
on which; he sat."
sion,
Mr. Clay,
L k f
II Illf IlfAl I III I!
debate, impeached the veracity of
. ' -
Col. King, of Alabama. -Col. King
instAntlv ! wrote a challenge, which
! v !;,
was handed to Mr. Clay, and Mr. C,
bowing towards Mr. King, said : "I
accept it." But immediately Mr.
Clay proeeedecl in substance to say
tjat 1 e nne.v Col. K nff would notat-
n. A . wlt waa
, ! , f u j i a u
aUOUl lO Bay aim MICH UC auuvwuv
had allowed himself In the heat of de
bate, to charge Col. King with false-
hoot butf Mr. President," he said,
t .m. r i ii.. i .1 aUa
a. m t. b u a w waMBwa mv m - - w
Senator of Alabama is not capable of
1 : - '
falsehood." ;
Mr. Webster indulged only once,
we belive in gross personalitis. Charles
Jered Iiigersoll had charged in his
place in the House, that Mr. Webster
It It I . 1 1 .I C. 1a.a.A.
had oeen onoei oy uie nianuiaciururs
to represent their peculiar interests in
the Senate. Mr. yebster repelled
fc , j hig the genat
, P f 1
.1 ( a ..!, i 4.
in the most vehement
manner, ana
handled Mr. Ingersoll very roughly
j -m j
personally. I But Mrf Webster did not
i . i. ;L it. 1 aa1I
puoisri tnis spoecn in u.e rrgmur eu,-
tion of bis l speeches. Mr. Calhoun
was remarkable for lis natorial dig-
nity. He delivered his last great
ity
speech in the Senate bn the 7th March,
1850, orj rather it wis' read for him by
a friend for he was too weak to read
it himself, aind as soon as the speech
was finished, Mr. Foote rose and made
a vehement, personal auacK on iur.
Calhoun. This wad too much for Col.
n.n(ntl iwhr.. thono-h not on oersonal
I , ir -oj- ,
"" . t V . 7 7 .
t . a-wt a iBir ri !ii r Miiirmii v m iiiwnvn
ftr manliness and lair piay, ana ne at
once said, in tones ipua enougn to oe
I T ; . A a I
neara in neany every Far., i
chamber, "when God puts His hand
on a man Iltake mine ofi7'
i We might deote column npon col-
r : i - - a r W AM -
umn to reminiscences of this kind, to
I : i i j I
fihow that moderri days are no worse
this re8pect than former days. We
are neither improving nor retrograd
ing on this score, j Witness the fierce
t -i -Lnna; An fJoU Jfl-bsnn'ji
F"""-f ",r
administration ; th0 abuse poured out
by Wise and Pevtdn on Whitney and
" T .
Kendal! ; the threat that "ten thou
sand armed men wjould march down
the avenue on the j White House," if
Uen. Jackson did npt cnange 111s course
on the jiank question; the personal
assault by $am Houston on Mr. Stans-
buryi aibrotheremberof the House,
tor wnicn ne-was reprHunuru uy
Speaker; the personal insult offered
by Henry. A. Wise to James 11. roiK
when the; latter was Speaker of, the
House, which Mr. Polk : did not re-!
$ent, bat for .whicli he paid Mr. .Wise
in 184$, when aaf President he found
Mr. W jse was American Minister to
Brazil, and, being1 a good Minister, he
continued him in JiU place ;.and the
threat oy Gen. Jackson, soon after the
Seminole war, that if a certain mem
ber of Congress "did not cease his as-
I saults upon him he wonM
ingtod and cut hia ears off."
i i Senators should remember that thpv
are gentlemen. Of course everybody
says that. On ninety-nine occasion
a,. l j
OUI 01:0116 niinrfrMl f hev H on v.maM
UCf. flllH thpV (Ifk M Off rina SAn--.
Senator is a liar. The Sen
atr thus insulted repels the insult by
tcljin him that he is a liar. Wei I. what
ft? What has been gained? What
.1 "
h.i uu i : j i
gameu uy bucu a uiscus-
i . . .
sion ?
Question, which is the liar ?
This question the country is not d is
posed
to settle. It says, "Gentlemen
'please'
excuse' your constituencies
"om this duty. It is as unpleasant
as H is difficult. That Senator who
first impeached the motive of his broth-
er oenaior is primarily to Diame ; out
when jthe lie began to be bandied there
was too much of the smoke of passion
to allow any one to see .clearly who
was in the wrong." And then the
whole country adds, "You are both
Senators ; you were sent to the Senate
gentlemen, and we believe you are
really; so, though you have lost your
tem,ers and behaved unhandsomely,
t . ... J
"lc w WUVU4 ,u v cw
iaKe0Ieacn oiner tnat ,s iat yoa
I rri. a .1 i i
are nars. x ne country ininss Deiier
of yoq than that."
The House used to be called the
1 i
"Bear Garden." As the Senate incres-
es in numbers it increases in
its
ten-
dencyj to disorder. The people
are
lA.-l.:i- a. l.-.iU tt 1 t.U
talking about them. l?or several
;
? .
i i - z i
lives lias ueeu impruviug in wunesjr
and decorum.
The people think the
House in this respect is doing very
well.) it would be by no means a
it lit
happy or a pleasant thing if the body
once adorned by a Webster, a Badger,
Clay, a Douglas, a Cass, a Mangum, a
Calhoun, a Preston, or a Benton,
should suddenly cast off the cloak of its
, . . n
diffiii
y and become itself a "Bear Gar-
den.'l It would be well if Senators
would conduct themselves in their
Chatnber before the world as geutle-
men bear themselves toward each oth
er in a private parlor. Words in re
ply to insulting words amount to no
thing. Rather than thus meet words
with words, it would be better to
ad t (he old adage a
w . , d nQ
'
gentleman
other can,"
and thus pay no attention to words.
The old Scotchman, who, when called
a liar, retorted by saying, pruv it"
was a man of more sense than he bad
r.rpdit for. Behold the war councils
- Amat.:Mn Tj;ac! Tf ih
I lite -t-ktuwaawuu . -Liiuiuu-i a-.v itiv
raode, . f b thege
I '
ft , , discountenancin, personalities
, j, . . , , yh Senato-
.
AK JUARNEST sweetheart. me
following tender epistle was sent us
by a friend in Winterville The paper
was ornamented with three bleed
ins hearts and a woman, done with a
pen iii a manner charactertic with or-
L, nU PUrt Cnnntv. n-i
r t - u ri r
. -j-. george x win iukc in x icyer oi
i . j. n I - ia
in tonng yoa a lew lines to lei you
UnQyf that j am we an(1 hopiDg tbat
. f dg jjj fin( you the
6ame my OVe to words you is grater
thau j m exspress if all the straw
tbats in the old feel wood torn topends
nn j a the leves thats on th trees wood
turnto paper and all th water thats in
the see wood turn to ink it could Not
llite the love down that I have in my
hart for your the Rosie is nid the.vi
lets blu Shugar is seaweet and so are
you if your love me like I love your
no nife Can Cut our loveju2 Mr. I
wood like to see your very much at
this time. Your are my dailie study
and my Mid night dream I will be
down there the Sunday in June if
Nuthing takes place Your dear love
Miss Emraer line Pinson." Ogle
thorpe (Ga.) Echo.
In an editorial comment on adver
tising schemes, the Tteading (Penn.)
Times says: "There are men who
would rather spend $10 or $20 in the
rail-card and board nuisance, which
may be seen by a few hundred people,
than to' expend the same sum in their
home papers, where tens of thousands
would see their cards every day. This y
is an age pi , newspaper, reaaing, ana
the sooner business men come to real
sooner uusiness uieu vutue w reuv
this feet in all it importance,-the
ize
better it will be for business general
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ENTERING THE SUEZ CAX1X.
. iU 1 I From Sundaj, Afternoon.
Sunset on the Suez Canal. Twain
terminable1 banks of erayish-yellow
sand, growing gradually higher ail
mey rouna southward ; a little rib-1
bon of light green water barely visi I of conquest beyond which lay an un
ble between them ; a huge steam I known grave in the depths of the t
dredger ia the background, with a
clamorous tarrison of blue-shirtei I
men and red-capped boys, who rush I
shouting to i the side to stare at our
steamer as she comes gliding by ; be-
hind us; the houses and docks-of Is
mailia, the f Khedive's new capital,
fading into one shapeless mass ofgray'
amid which a darker spot represents
the mouth of the "Sweet-water Canal j'f
and all around, the drearv waste o
the great Arabian desert, lookint?
vaster and drearier than ever beneath
the fast-fallin? shadows of nii?ht. J
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At first sight it is certainly difficult
to realize that this tinv streak of
watfar, less than twenty-seven feet deep
andi barely seventy in breadth, can
really be one of the great commercial
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highways j of the world. Like the
Russian military road across the Cau
casus, qr the little thread of railway
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whibh spans the boundless desolation
of t be steppes between the Volga and
the Con, it is so utterly dwarfed by
the vastness of it surroundings that
one half forgets the magnitude of the
results achieved, or the long and ter
rible struggle against heat, sickness,
drifting sand, insufficient supplies,
and constant hiuderances of everv
kind, which human skill and human
perseverance have conducted to this
glo 'ious completion. The men of old
time, when they completed the same
task, certainly found it no child's
Plar
'fin the region of Nech," says
Herodotus, note-book in hand as
usual, "one hnndred and twenty thou
sand Egyptians perished in digging
this canal What a history of op
pression and wrong, of grinding
mfceiy and wholesale destruction, do
those few words convey ! I
$tand by your anchor ! Let go 1" i
the captain's hoarse shout, and the
ikt- r ,1,. Ua.: -l
splashes into the water, scatter my
visions at once, and I look up to per
ceive that our surroundings have un
dergone a sudden and marvelous
ch4nge. From the narrow monoto
nous avenue of the canal we have
glided into a wide expanse of smooth,
dark water, whicli seems almost
bolindless in the shadowy twilight.
Td the south and west lone waves of
nnrnle hill roll ud acainst the last
irlJam of lieht that lingers in the
.laik-pnincr fikr. In front the nosts
T O J' A
ly like skeleton sentinels; and amid uf; r
the deepening glom twinkles a soli- "Then ou will pfease pardon me -tary
point of fire-the light-house said the man, with an apologetic an-;
thlt guards the passage. This is the "the mistake waa occasioned by your
faLous "Bitter Lake one of the closeTesemblance to a ! young lady
liniiM. Wnnn thnt oornnv a full frora Philadelphia, who made her cfe-
kLi nf h .mvpl bv th
canal. '
"Are you going to stop here cap-
tan?"
"Don't see what else we can do,f'
'growls the skipper, if them feller
mbke us go half speed through, the
canawl. so as it comes on dark afore
we can git through. If we was to go
it full steam we'd run the. whole
eighty-three miles 'tween sunrise and
diirlc easy! bnt its no fault of mine
anyhow !" ;
But no halt can be a matter of regret
op tins mstonc grouna, wnere tne
very earth seems to be still shaken
with the tramp of empires, and the
very air to be filled with memories
of the past Fewi spots .upon the The man with the sandy whiskers
face of the earth have a stranger didn't know, but finally accepted the
Singling of the familiar and remote, jnvitation and in an incredibly brief
of names whicli were the household 8hace of time had the valise and ban
words of our earliest childhood wjth je n the k above, the shawl tnck
others which are known only to the ed around the window to exclude the
driest lorejof the antiquarian. Hebrew
shepherd and .Assyrian conqueror,
and . Greek, Saracen and
Crusader, Frenchman and Anglo-
Saxson all have been here in turn.
JU the full, moon breaks forth, in
Its, cloudless glory, the shadowy arm
es seem to rise around us once more.
Moses and the thousands of Israel,
m kpiiQg forth upon that wonderlul I
jr. u r u: nl mmF MJ
forth upon that wonderful
uiaiyu vir-" iv - v ---
Upheer-;Assyrian Ninas in his cary-
fed chariot, with the "captains 0 the.
in
hos
and
mighty men
of valor"
pomp, and
around
him in all the
splendor of war the turbaned war-
r,0Ir9 4f Cambyses with their light
lances and huge wicker shilds, sweep.
ng onwara to tnat nerce snort lever
hungry!, desert the soldier--zealots
of iAradia, following Jjlack-bro wed
Amron to the" sack of Alexandria '
mail-claa horsemen with the Red
Cross oi their breasts, straining their ,
eye$ to catch the first gleam of SaUh. i .
dinjs spfears along the sky and final-
v jhe wat-worn grenadiers of Re-'
pnblicn France, gathered around
tneiaarjc, stern lace and eagle eye
of UieJi ueneral Bonaparte- who was -
one
day to be the Emperor Kapo-
leon.
Leo Miller, a Greenback talker
saitijlast week in a speech in Lewis-
.in
"It is a great wrone to
8taMD lone aolIap oB ft Dlece ofen:n
x - Si J au u r ' t. '
iii;il i wiiri.il fiiriii viiiiir i-ARnLS- wmfii
r o 4
it can just as easily be stamped . on a
piece of paper worth nothing."
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Economical management of news
papers is a very good and a very
necessary thing, especially in the
South But we do wish that our
friend! of the Baltimore Gazette, which
we like to read, would quit wrapping
up his paper in iUlf.
A sponge cut thin and moistened,
worn in the hat, is the best protec
tor against sun heat known, and are
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verygratcful and cooling.
He Was a Diplomat.
A very tall man with sandy chin
whiskers entered the door. The car
was fall, and the seat occupied by two
persons was filled with a valise, a
bundle, a shawl and a thin woman of
thirty-five, with the latest style of red
hair and false teeth. The man with the
sandy whiskers, feeling a sympathet
ic bond drawing him toward the wo-
raan 8 red toucbed hef the
shoulder and said :
"Is thafc seat eDgaged -
5i is " capped the woman,
I HweiiHie: up iu iue ecai. mat, iuc, wau
might observe no possible room. -"Ah
I" murmured the man in a
pleasant tone. Then he went and
stood by the stove and mused for a
while. - Presently be returned to the
scene of his rebuff, and leaning on the
arm of the seat, said softly :
"I beg your pardon, madam, tut as
J was 8iauuiu5 l J"4
I t -a i; i .L. Va.
ever attend a Presidential reception
at Washington f
Washington?"
'No, I never did," replied the wo-
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man. dui in a muaer voice man aue
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that season, and whom I had the
pleasure of meeting. JShewas the
belle of the season."
"No, I never was in Washinton,"
remarked the woman, in a mollified
tone, '
"It is strange how much you resem-
be tfae &dy in question pnrsued the
man. "The hair is the same golden
hue, and while her features .may not
have been so clear cut and Grecian in
their but there, excuse me, I am an-
noying you," and the tall man started
away.
"Don't hurry," said the woman,
pleasantly. "There doesn't appear to
be many empty seats ; wont yoa sit
here?" And she picked ap her nn-
merous baggage.
draft, and was regaling the red-headedV
woman with a choice collection of an-
eedbtes that kept her laughing till the
passengers could see her false teeth.
The plain and wholesome things of ;
life are iU greatest blessings. We are .
taught to pray not for luxuries and
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Colored velvet stands for dishes
ijoiorea verves eunus ,iur
are used Whenlt is thought best"; to.
J make the dinner table look onasaaK
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ly fine.
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