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The farmer tat in his easy chair.
Between the fire and the lamplight's glare;
nit ftce wat roddj and fall and fair;
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UU IUICD UUJ III I IIC VUlUiUCJ UUOK
Conned the lines of a picture book ;
His wife, the pride of hit home' and heart,
Baked the biscuit and made the tart,
j Laid the table and steeped the tea.
i Deftly, twiftlysilentlv; - t
Tired weak and weary and faint.';: '
-She bore her trials without complaint, ,
( Like man j another household taint,
Content, all selfish bust aiwve, ; i
At last bet wen the clouds of smoke '
That wreathed hit lips the husband spoke:
There's taxes to raise and interest to pay,
And if there should come a rainy day,
1 Twould be mightY bandy I'm bound to
To have something put by for folks must
die. : ... -
I'd be saving of soap andi saving of ile;
And run up some candles once in a while;
I'd rather be saving of coffee and tea.
for sugar is high and all to buy.
HI sell the best of the checscland honey.
And eggs is as good nigh about 's money;
And as to the carpet you wanted new,
I guess we can make the Old one do;
And ax for the washer,' and sewing ma
chine, Them sinoothtongucd agents, pesky mean,
YouM better get rid of 'em, slick and clean;
What do they know about woman't work.?
Do they calculate woman was born to shirk!
Dick and Edward and little Joe
S it in the corner all in a row ;
They saw the patient mother go
On ceaseless errands to and fro.
They saw that her form was bent aad thin.
They, saw the quiver of lips and chin,
And then with a warmth he could not
tmother,
Outspoke the youngest, frailest brother:
"You talk of saving wood and ile,
And tea and sugar all the while,
Dut never talk of saving mother 1"
University Ilagazine For Feb. 1383.
This number of the Magazine is en
riched bj Capt. Wm. Moore's histcrical
tketch of "Rutherford's Expedition
against the Cherokees," in 1770. It is
a very interesting report of that event
ful military effort to restrain the hos
tilities of the Indians in the moun
tains of North Carolina at that time.
wThe Origin of a good story" by W.
B. Phillips, is both amnsiug. and in
structive as showing how old stories,
coming down through the ages, are
changed, and adapted to suit the peo
ple who relate them.:
The seventh No. of Mrs. Spencer's
"Old Times in Chapel Hill." is a
a
review of Governor Swain's Presidency
of the University, and criticism on his
personal and official character. Mrs."
Spencer is one of the best writers in
the State, and never fails to invest
her subject with a charm which leads
the reader onward to the very last
word. f ' '
' Then comes t4Biogrphical Sketches
of the Confederate dead of the Uni
versity of North Carolina," by Stephen
B. Weeks. Among those noticed are
Peter G. Evans, Nichbllas Collin
Hughes, James Davis Hunt, fredrick
Hopkins Jenkins, Jai. Perry Jenkins,
John Thomas Jones, Daniel White
Johnson, Daniel McDonald, John
Henry Morehead, Fred. Nash and
others. j
We will close this notice by an ex
tract from Mr. Phillip's "Origin of a
good story," which Us all the more
readable as giving a story laid in Yan
cy county, in this State.
The narrative runs : thusly: In
Yancy county there lived some years
ago a famous hunter, who, although
"he feared not God neither regarded
man," was inordinately fond of a dan
gerous sport, to-wit: bear hunting.
On one occasion white pursuing this
fascinating occupation, he came across
a she-bear with two cubs. He killed
one of the cubs and wounded the
mother, who, however had strength
enough to make good her escape for
awhile. He followed tracked her to a
narrow cut de sac, and fearing lest she
might turn upon him suddenly and
take him at a disadvantage, he rislsed
a snap shot, but failed to kill her,
She turned and came upon him with
crreat fuiv. As it was in the days of
the muzzle-loadin&r rifle, he had not
time to re-load. Drawing his huntin
knife and wrappinz his coat aroun
his left arm. he sank upon ona. knee
and thus prayed: "0, Lord, I am an
old man now. vet I have rfever asked
any favor of you io all my life. It
seems to me that there will soon -be a
consederable difficulty here, and I want
you please to do one thing for me, and
if you will, I'll neTer ask anything f
you as long as I -live. I 7o
please to be on my side in this difficul
ty here, and 1 want yon
one thine for me, and if
please to do
von win, i ii
sever ask auvthinsr of to
n as long as I
live. I want yoq please be oa my side
in this difficulty that is what I want
you to do. : But if too can't be oa my
side, please sit on the fence, as it were,
and don't help the bear, and 1 11 show
r ii.-. v-ofr Km Nha vnnavflma ar niif nnuLioas. ana auae arc
- -11 i:e i I
wrsaw man jgui iuci, . .
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Horthj Carolina flitorical Socie.
I The fiorth Carolina PI
cietjt atthe Unirres ty at Chapel Hill
r, JilLi il; ja r. A- "
w retolTfcd to do what it can to rescue
from 'Jiiten4V9on whatever of
valaablei historical material may. still
be savedj pealizihg how swiftly the
witnesses pf the late war are passing
away ajjl how constantly the scattered
aid fragmentory proofs of its momen
tous events are being carelessly des
troyed the Society , makes its earnest
appeal tq all patriotic citizens to join
at once in the effort to gather all note
worthy riatehal bearing on the part
the State, her troops or any other of
her people bore m the great struggle
of the Confederacy. They want the
reports of her civil and military ofi$
ctrs, the itory of her troopa in the
fieldembracing what is notable in
the life oj all from the youngest pri
vate in the Junor Reserve to the
chivalousjrank of her Generals. They
want the rist6ry pf the prisoners con
fined in her birders and of her sons
who werfj prisoners in the North.
They want the home-life aait was ex
perienced by different classes in ever
part of th State in those bloody years.
They want the minute recital of what
was said apd done in the multitude of
homes that fell within the power of
the troops of Sherman, Stoneman,
Foster arid others. They want a
graphic add minute account of every
battle, skirmish and raid that occurred
on her: sell. : Thev want all ltfra
musterrrols, commissions and other
written, .or printed documents con
aected with the participants in the
struggle, f 1
Their Obiect is not th nviv nr natt.
trate bitterness of feeling, but to gath
er aiid preserve the materials of history
for the instruction of the present and
future. The University will set apart
a hall for the preservation and display
of all relics and documents confided to
the care cjjf the Society, and it is pro
posed to make publications from time
to time of such matter as may be of
general interest. -
The Kansas City Times says: A New
York man ihas invented a process for
1 '
making railroad cars out of wood pulp,
but it takes a Kansas cyclone to make
wood pulp put of railroad cars.
Judge Norton of the Circuit court of
Souffh Caroina(in a recent decision in
volving thejvalidity of county and town
bonds giveif for building railroads, de-1
dared that Sthejr were unconstitutional
and void, ad that the taxes to pay the
interest on heoi are illegal and cannot
be collected', - The decision will be car
ried up, perhaps to the Supreme Court
of the United States, many holders of
said bonds residing in New York.
Some nejroei of Charleston, S. C,
have been detected attempting toswin
dle two norf hern life insurance compa
nies out of &5,ooo each, on polices issu
ed to one oil the party named Dudley.
Dudley died; and was buried, they said,
and they applied for the insurance. A
Pinkerton detective was sent down to
investigate jhe case, and brought out
the fact that the body buried as the
body of Dudley had been stolen from
a grave in afnegroe grave yard.
Report :of the State Auditor.
RalaighNews-Observer: From advance
sheets of the forthcoming report of State
Auditor W. 1. Roberts, for which we are
indebted to the courtesy of the depart-
I ment, we learn that the Assessed value of
: eal and personal property in the State
in 1887 aggregated $210,035,453, against
$202,803,502 (or the year 1886; an increase
of $7,141.9334 There are now borne on
the pension rolls of the State 3,524 pen-
sioners, oi wnicn numoer z,no are wiu
owe, and 1,48 soldiers, "and besides,
there are many hundred claims held on
account of the absence of certain proofs
required by the Board."
A snecial 'interest statement is that
which shows not only the amount of the
Sroperty and franchise tax paid by the
ifferent railroads of the State (property
paying $14,499.32 and franchise $1,891.28)
but further, t far as reported, the num
ber of miles !of track, value of rolling
stock and atl other property including
capital stock Ac, Ac. It is, a valuable
addendum telthe report usually made.
Moreover, we note various improve
ments in the report over the reports
which have preceded it in the -way- of
convenience Or arrangement and otnex
wise, all of which reflect credit on the
present administration. Gen. Roberts is
a fine officer, f That is what they used to
say ef him dilring theJime that tried
men's souls. XI is equally true of him to
day ia the affairs of civil life-
1 lasjla
I donft like that new name for
dnde.M " What is it?" " Yams."
What's the biatter with it?" "Why,
mm1" :
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BE PAT3 HIS BESPECTS TO ' TIIE ORAST,
, ABKT OF THE EEPCBLXC APoUTT.
CAL ORG AKIZ ATI0JT THE
PRESSURE
UR .PENSIONS TS
MAIiTLT BT
CLAfM
AQESTS, K0T BY SOLDIERS. j
, The brightest speech that has been
delivered in either branch of Congress
this session was that delivered by Sen-
!?r y,'7esteriaJ" on .Pension legisla
tion.) i That was admitted &nyall sides.
1 or nearly an hour he kept his own
side of the chamber applauding and
both sides laughing. The bill to pen
sion incapacitated ex-coldidersJ
i. Senator Wilson,'of Iewa,had offered
an amend men t to- enlarge its scope
and Senator Plumb had delivered an
eloquent address in eulogy of the
brave bovs in blue. They had heard
a good deal about almshouses and
veteran soldiers. Ia the State of Mis
souri there were no Federal soldiers in
almshouses, and he was prodd to say
that there were no Confederate soldiers
in almshouses either. When General
Lee surrendered at Appomattox there
were but 8,000 muskets left -f of that
splendid army which had f ice 1 the
world in arms aad which had been
L.ii j i a i i .
oaiiereu ana oeacen oackt bv over
whelming numbers. Outofcomnanies
which had gone into the terrible strug
gle from 125 to 180 men strong onlv
tcu aau gone oacK to ineir Eitfired aad
their homes. The South to-day was
trurcrvu wiui maimea ana crippled
soldiers who had been shot and shelled
and sabre-struck for their honest con-
fictions, and they asked no ensioni
and would not take it, "God be bless
ed! Ihev were not . in almshouses
and none of them had ever been seen
begging for bread. Whence, thenl
came the talk of Federal soldiers in
almshouses? They were not there
tie was tired aad sick of the insinua
tion of robbery and pretence and hy
pocrasy in the name of the trite aad
gallant soldiers of the Union. He had
personal friends among them, and he
would give to every disabled I or de
pendent soldier of the Federal armv.
and the widows and orphans of i those
who had lost their lives in the service.
the last acre of land and the last dollar.
He would have done the same for the
Confederate soldiers, "if God had bless
ed our cause1
He had voted for pension bills, coer
ced by his position, because he had
been a .Confederate, and becausejhe was
honestly anxious for the honor and
glory ef the country. He -had voted
for them because he wanted to evidence
to the world that the men with "whom
he had acted in the unfortunate strife
respected the fair and gallant soldiers
of the Union, and were willing to
give them even more than they de
manded. 4But, he repeated; with
strong emphasis, "there is a limit, and
1 nave reached it. 1 will be dnven no
farther by claim agents and plunderers
in tbe garb of soldiers. 1 or the hon
est, and brave and real soldiers of the
Union I am willing to vote any
amount of pensions." j
Mr. Vest went on to say that of the
3,300,000 men enrolled as soldiers dur-
J 1 s '
ing trie rour years ot war, there were
applications from 1,200,000 for pen
sions on account of disability, j Such
military . execution, he saidi had
never been known in the history of
the whole world. The Confederates
had thought that they had poor powder
and ordnance stores, and yet making
due allowance for the effect of climate
in producing disability, it would appear
that one Coufederate soldier half cloth
ed and half fed, had disabled three of
his adversaries. There had been no
such destruction in military annals
since the children of Israel marched
through the wilderness destroying
whole nations in a single day.' i The
marksmanship of the Persian Prince in
the "Arabian Nights," whose arrows
crossed mountains and rivers and des
pised space in the flight had been noth
ing to that of the Confederate soldier
His bullet must have hit two or I more
at the same time.
The Senate had been encrssrod for
encrajrc
some days past in a political auction
for the soldiers' vote. First hadV come
his friend from Nebraska Manderson
backed bv the G. A. IL and he
(Vest) had listened with real gratifica
tion to his dialect and modulated voice
from the beginning to the end of his
speech. Even Senator's flings at the
President of the united btates had not
detracted from the general merit of
his bid for the soldier vote, and when
he received a florall tribute as a ieken
of regard from his admiring constitu
ents behind him, he (Vest), bad but
one single suggestion to make, and that
was that the lillies should have been
embroidered over the portal 61 the
White House. That was the object of
ii 11 i i ! i
ail tne a e Date, oi an me Diaaing it
the soldier vote of the country in the
coming contest. When the Senator
from Nebraska took his seat he ( Vest),
had thought that the bid was in his
favor; but that the present ocenpant
of the chair, the Senator from Maine
(Frye, had "caught the eye of the
auctioneer" the Grand Army oft- the
Republicand had "gone one better."
That Senator was prepared to vote a
pension to every man who had served
a day in the Federal army. He ( Vest)
was about to knock down the prize to
the Senator from Maine when, his
i . . i a muiu i. camp in
if nt and outWJ the Senator; iroat
JL Ta .u,enaw to thf .bill
.ould increase the expenditure
AU p "fivellion
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close and the prize be fgfven id nhe
benator from Kansas? but then,r the
senator from IHinok (PnttAv-j
come to the; front and made a hid from
that 'giittipiSUieiyhi&liad '
taggered his conviction as to the 'brop.
t t?n? iht Since (hit "
time he Jiad been in a1 conditioV'ef
anxiety waiting to hear from other hid-
ucSLine fw Wational AncUeni '
iiiB oenar had nf : v.jj
his dulcet-toned friend fromTIowa
I Allison I, who had Unf I,;. .Jsutj
merely noded acuiesence tor the 1 molt
extreme propositions for the benefit iif '
the ex-soldiers. Nor had the Senate "
yet heard from the distinguished Sen- f -ator
from Ohio Sheman,!whom
roch a contest ouht certainly Id conie .
to the front and bid something for1 the
vote which candidates thought wat rfo
determine the contest Neither Ii ad "
the benate yet heard from thepresidinV
officer IngallsJ, who had bWh n0m:
tiataJ aL A I - a a a a m - . ' 7 -
i.m oy we district or Uolnmbiaattd
everyone knew that tbr District of
Columbia only acted from the 1 most
disinterested and unselfish motives.
He would rather have the nomination
from the District cf Columbia Hhan
from any State in the Union," because,
as everybody knows it came fronlMthe
heart and never from thepockets.No
man, woman or chiW Jn the District -had
any other object than the promo-' 1
tion of the national honorand prapfr
ity. And so, when he read in a Demo
cratic paper of Washington ' last Sun
day before attending church that'the -presiding
officer of the Senate was the
nominee of the District of Columhia,he.
said.irefai: we have found th mn
at last; and the question is finally ' set-
In conclusion Mr. Vest said; ?Parli
san or nonpartisan, my convictions it-V
guire me to vote against thTbill ; and I
say here now, that I hopa,it may idii
the death in the other- branch of tin -National
Congress, and if not .there ltT
the hands of the Executive. ?V If thit
beunparliamentary make the m6s tjf
The whole of Mr. Vest's sneech waa
listened to with the closest attention
by Senatois and by the audience in the
galleries, and his felictous sketch ef
the Republican candidates and their
respective bids for the soldier vete seem
ed to be enjoyed with equal zest on both
sides of the chamber. "
Honor the Farmer. ;
It has been said that there! is s noth
ing about which the American will
not joke, and it may be affirmed with
equal truth that there is nothing in
life too serious to be ridiculed i by the
American newspaper. So when itJs
liott the sleepy policeman, or the
mother-in-law, or the tipsy! httsbaad
who comes home late at night, ' itJ is
the American farmer who is Inade the
but of ridicule. One can count on the
I finger "of one's hand those journals
wnicn discriminate m their . commas
between legitimate humor or-wit,' and
that ill-timed levity which makes"fnn"
at the expense of higher and better
things in our nature. This subject
may seem trival,. bat it is more im
portant than appears at first ' sight.
Not that the ridicule of-the 'press will .
injure the farmers of theojpntry, but
the constant harping upon the ethital
ignorance and follies of this, class , has
a tendency to place more rigid barriers
between the city aad the country and
create caste. And if any pne considers ,
this result desirable, let him tell us how
much caste has helped India inf. her
progress. ' J .
So long as the country villages and
the rural districts furnish the boys , to
make the merchants and bankers and
railroad magnates of the city, every
true American should scorn to speak
derisively; of our- .agricultural popula
tion. :
; One thing is needed in this country :
and that is an increased appreciation
of the real val ue of patient, plodding toil.
The average man nas somehow forn&d.
the idea that there is something very
ludicrious in the efforts of men content f
with tilling the boI, and working
quietly and numbly in the lowly. fields ;
of usefulness. r -
We, as individuals, and as a
nation, need a better appreciation of
the American farmer's life and labors.
The time was, perhaps, when it was
thought that any one had- brains'
enough to be a farmer, but that time
in this countir, at least, is past ' Any
Useful class or citizens working for the
advancement of our national welfare. '
is not a proper subject for ridicule; and .
thS low humor which finds for its-obr
ject our agricultural laborers is : . not
the best matter with which to expand
literature. i
j It is the duty of the press, to , da all '
in its power to elevate and 'aid tha
farmers, and to spread right ideas
concerning their social and intellectual
position,- and not to belittle them,
There are many who do not care whit
they . write. They aim to construct
"readable" articles regardless of prin
ciple. . But .surely we ought to expect
tu.4lA V m t Arnw . t maiWiMt
tan papers, which from their -' circula
tion of and their occasional recoshiiiba
of hicher thiags. are styled "repres
tative Amencan joarnsis Lpxh.
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