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ssssMssssssssgsgaMMBBMMBBi Wi 71. ."if. '. m...'. .. hMT - t. V. & E. T. BLUM, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS U mppUd with all we wry maitrial and U fully prepared to do work with raATxn, rra- rxTCM, and at the VERY LOWEST PRICES. Be rare to girt us a trial before eoatraetinr, with aay on else. Ttran-ratb la AdTaaee. 'I . -Ctae oopy, one yer .i A$i 50 " " six months.... 75 thremonti 50 Devoted to Politics, Literature, Agriculture, the Markets and General Information VOL. XXVIII. SALEM, N. C., AUGUST 19, 1880. NO. 33. WHY DO 1 SING I BT KU LOO . BXmrOSSV Why do. I stag? Tit hard to Ml Why Joyous notes my boaom awell ; Why strain b of music, wild and freo, Gush forth in tuneful harmony. , When, underneath a thin disg-ulse, A Borrowing heart so often lies. I ting the atren volos of song Beam my enchanted sou along- The stream of time to that bleet shorn 'Where mortal caree are foty no more; Xod heaven itself were not complete , "Without the round of music sweet. Why do I smile? Why, mirrored here, On brow bo iieed to pain and care, .Are gentle smiles that softly xshaee 'Each other o'er a care-worn facet 'The heart o'ercaat with grief the while -And yet 'mid unshed tears I smile. I smile, because to nature true ; Like gleams of sunshine breaking through. The rifted efonds, when storms are past; ' Though soft white clouds still OTercast The azure sky, to cheer the scene Bright rays of sunlight burst between. Why do I weep? Alas ! these teara Cannot efface the stains of years ; Ti grace alone can save, I know, And yet, tie well to let them flow; They soothe the griefs of life's dark hours, Aa sunlight smiles through April showers. And then tla written. 'tJesus wept," Above the grave of otie that slept, While friends and loved ones gathered "round With softened trad the new-made mound; That whenjb'a, pressed with grief and cares, H fcunwet relief in tears. A LEAF FROM LIFE. In an attic like other attics, in a city like other cities, lived a young girl; not (uncommon after all, , though the world may not believe there are Bach young girls. For she was pretty, she was poor, she was alone, she ; hardly found food and fire and clothes enough for decency and neatness by unceasing labors; and yet she was not a sinner. -Her name was Sarah, yet nobody called her Sadie. Indeed, nobody called her anything dis tinguished or individual. The grocer paid, with ill-concealed contempt, "Four cents, Miss." As for the car oonduc i .-s, "Step lively, lady," was their salutation, if after a long walk to the shop that gave out shirts to be made at fourteen cents, he was tired and expended all the but ton holes in riding back. "Is there not a -wilderness somewhere," Sarah used to say to her looking-glass, : where I could go and make acquaintances?" It seems she had a looking-glass. But though the looking-glass told her much that she cared nothing to know, it did not answer Lex that. There oontintiod' one day to be in another room in the attic a young man named Edward. Such things in such ; places have no perceptible beginning. I Ihey were not, and they are; like a ring of grime on a shirt cuff, So with Ed 1 ward; Sarah did not know when he came, or that he came, but she began to per ceive that he was there. In fact, she : met him on the stairs. He was neither : tall !. nor short, neither handsome nor plain. When he was in his room he whistled and sometimes tramped up and down. Sarah began to be interested, not in the young man probably, but in the fact that there was a young man. Well, such neighborhoods always lead to certain results, i When Edward had ; passed her eightyseven times on the ' stairs he met her for the eighty-eighth ; time and bowed slightly but distinctly. Sarah smiled. Three weeks later he had said, " Crood-morning, " and Sarah murmured to herself "I shall have an acquaintance I shall have an acquain- By and by winter one day became spring. Winter always suggests spring much as a hard boiled egg .suggests chicken pie. But suddenly one day it is in the winter air that spring is coming is coming nearer is happening. It must be with never ending wonder that we behold this recurring miracle of the res urrection; a miracle, however, that heaven does , not apparently consider it worth while to work in the case of the hard boiled egg. j The heathen would I have said this is j fate. But' perhaps .'mother world will set it right. The spring had not gone when Sarah 'I ecran to pall "Edward "Edward ' and "Rd- aid to call Sarah, Sarah. This is dways an interesting formative period in the acquaintance of a young man and a .'ung maid. Here it came about in all sunplenes8: Sarah, before going to bed one evening, was combing out her long but thin yellow hair and tying up the .combings, with the ends all one way,, in a bunch against a rainy day., There was a knock on the lath and paper partition wall, which had seemed to her as thicl as the Chinese wall, and which to Ed j ward had seemed as wonderful and sa- ered a tiling as if it had been built a j twelve kinds of precious stones or thir teen kinds, for the matter of that This was the partition wall between their rooms. Sarah finished tying up the sav ings with which she was occupied, took off her short print sacque, and, wiping her hands, clasped them over her exquis- itely moulded bosom and cried " What is it?" ' she began to feel mora like a sister or a mother to Edward then like in acquaint ance. ' DayB passed and this pair became more intimate. An acquaintance grows at the start not like a lump of sugar dis solving in tea, but like a crystal of Glau ber's salts forming in a saturated solu tion: that is, from a small beginning it becomes larger. It may fall awav after wards, but there always is a point at which it is greater than at the beginning. This is the general law of acquaintances and the case of Edward and Sarah was not an exception. They had never been in each others' rooms. " Tell rme your history," said Edward to Sarah, on the stairs one day. "How can I tell it here? she said, W"S 11 . smmng. 11 yon wm. come into my room and sit down " - Edward started and . plunged a deep regard into the eyes of the young girl. He was obliged to confess that he saw nothing whatever. "I will come," he said. Arriving at the little room, he was re assuied by its barrenness. " This sim plicity," said lie to himself, "arises out of innocence," Then he looked at the solitary chair with some embarrassment. " That is for yon, Edward," said the young girL " 1 can sit on the bed." "No, I thank yon, Sarah; I prefer to stand," said Edward severely, and handed her the chair with a gesture of determination. She took it with a sigh and a little laugh. " Then I will make my history short," said she. AH life histories are hitched at inter vals on to the infinite. To make a life story short, therefore, is necessarily to make it incomplete. Sarah knew this, but she would not ask Edward to sit oi the bureau, so she made her history very short indeed. "I know nothing about myself," said she, "except that I was born in a hos pital, brought up in an alms-house, and support myself by making shirts." HOW HE DID XT. Way BUI M IMlan WUk His 1SU Umis rosl-DU patch. Charles A. Hill, Esq., attorney-st-law, is just now an occupant of Cell 83 in the City J ail, and with the cheerful prospect before him of ten years in the peniten tiary. He is the most notable capture which the United States detectives have made since the Biebusch case, and the arrest has caused a great deal of excite ment throughout the town. In yester day's Post-DUpatch the details of the collar were ' given, and within the last twenty-four hours quite a number of new facts have, developed, enough to make conviction a, certainty. Mr. Hill has been in the habit of clipping one and two-dollar greenback bills in such a way thai out oi each nine he makes ten, The process is rather a complicated one, and needs diagrams fop thorough comprehen sion. . A. i B- C. SOUTHERN NEWS. No eensus was taken in Bradford County, Fla, Ghsxbox is seriously affecting hones in Mississippi. Taxis is to have a State Convention of wool-growers. , . CHATTAifooai and Knoxville have the same number of inhabitants. Tkx&z are 2,100 convicts on the rolls of the penitentiary at HunUviHe, Texas. Tex assessment of "Volusia County, Fla., is $100,000 greater tnis year than last Maooh has twenty-seven churches, or one for every four hundred and seventy inhabitants. - V , t Thx Virginia Penitentiary contained on the 1st of Jane exactly 1,000 convicta, of whom 783 were colored. Sax Axrowio nas grown enough in population since the eensus of 1870 to entitle hex to the letter-carrier system. The Memphis Appeal makes the dis gusting statement that many of the ladies of that town are becoming cirgar ette smokers. Lf Southern Georgia half -formed boll are reported on some of the cotton stalk of last year's growth, which kept alive through the mild winter. Gut. A. H. Prmoasw, who com manded Gen. Lee's body-guard daring the late war, has been elected Chief of Police of Lynchburg, Va, name and the taming oat of his beard. which hid certain soars on his face by which he could be identified, ciroum vented for a time the Sheriff, who has. ever since his appointment to oftae, been searching for Sylvester. The criminal was sent to Mobile. OoLXTKcon (Oa.) Echo: Some time since Patsy Origsby, an old mulatto woman of Islington, eame to a lawyer and told him that she had sore proof that a certain woman had murdered her husband, and she wanted the case prose cuted. Upon being a&ked to give her evidence. Patsy replied thai the night before Christ had come into her cabin and told her all about it; thai she knew it was the Savior, far her apparition was as white as snow, and had three little heads growing upon its breast (her erode idea of the Trinity). To Aunt Patsy was explained the difficulty in getting her celestial visitor to appear in an earthly ooort as a witness, and told her thai she must oonfiae her ease to humbler testimony. Many negroes believe her improbable story. " That is noble," said Edward, with enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is a volcano of flowing sympathy. "The only clue I have to my parents is a broken agate, singularly carved," continued the young girl. "A broken agate!" stammered Ed ward, feeling in all his pockets with one sudden impulse. The young girl re garded him with astonishment. A sud den suspicion came into his mind. Sus picion is both mother and daughter of distrust The world had been hard with Edward, although he whistled. For a moment he suspected that Sarah had been -rummaging his room. By some mysterious instinct she divined hir thoughts. "Wait," said she imperiously. Push ing away impatiently ner simple dress, she disclosed a very prettily rounded but plain gray stocking. Edward turned, embarrassed and un easy, towards the window. The young girl made a movement of absolute simplicity. "Do not be ashamed," she said. "This is my wooden leg." Edward started, and approached her with tears in his eyes. "Sarah," he said, "you are adorable, and I I was a don key." She smiled a little and gave him her hand. Then she unscrewed the wooden leg and from a recess in the top took out the broken agate "I think I am your sister said she softly, "and this you see, is why I clatter on the stairs." It was an indescribable moment r ull of tender love and brotherly respect Edward yet could not properly embrace his sister with a well ground fear of up setting her frail chair. And she she could not rise and throw nerself upon nis neck. With the air of one sacrificing at the altar, he knealt, gently lifted the wooden supplement of his sister's per sonality and screwed it carefully into its socket Then both rose, gazed into the new worlds of each other's eyes, and melted into one figure, sobbing and smiling. So when the commonest water-bucket is upset in the snow and the thin, solid looking ice across its face is broken, pours out the wealth of that wonderous fluid that runs round the world bar ring the salt Out of one dollar bill "A" he clips a piece through the head of Washington three-eighths of an inch wide, and cut with artistic irregularity. The two ends of the bill are brought a little closer to gether than they were before the piece was taken out and a rough continuation of the lines of the head is made with ink upon the white surface of the gum med paper beneath. The bill is then artistically dirtied, and is ready for shov ing, i Bill "B" is then taken up, and a section three quarters of an inch, or twice as large as that taken out of "A" is then removed the piece taken out of "A" is then' inserted tetween the two ends of "B," the pasting, inking and dirtying repeated, and this bill is also ready for the market A section an inch and a half wide is then removed from "C," and the three-quarters cut from "B" let in, and so the process is con tinued, each bill, instead of its true length of seven and three-quarter inches, being only seven inches. The first one is the most dangerous, because it is hard to doctor np the. head of the Father of his Country in a way that the children of the same will not recognize the old gentleman, and hence this bill is left the longest of the lot It is easy to see that out of every nine bills there is an extra bill left over, making ten dollars for nine. Working as hard as he could, Mr. Hill could not have made more than from three to five dollars per day rather a small sum for the risk he ran, as it was necessary to shove fifty of the mutilated dollars to make five. Tkx population of North Carolina in 1870 was 1,071,86, The census of 1880 will show at least 1,300,000, with a pros pect of the number being 250,000 more. Fox the week ending Jane 29 United States patents were issued to inventors in the following States: Alabama, one; Florida, two; Texas, two; Mississippi, one. Nahhvtlxx ranks ss thirtieth among the cities of the United States in regard to population. With the exception of New Orleans and Louisville it is the largest city in the South. Thx stands of all fruit venders have been removed from the streets of Nash ville by the order of the city authorities. As a consequence, several respectable fruit stores have been opened. Tax Hon. A. H. Stephens spoke in Augusta, Ga., Thursday, to a very large audience. He believes that Hancock and English will certainly be elected, and the Democracy will win great victory. Ovx colored female encountered by the census enumerator of the Nature Bridge district in Rockbridge County, Va, gave the name of Sallie Martha Brown Wash ington King Green Violet Ada Moore Thompson. She was the only daughter of an aged colored man. , "What is your name, my little neigh bor?" said the calm voice of the young man from the other side of the walL Sarah,, who had turned to answer the knock, turned back to look in the glass a moment before replying, and then caught up a shawl and muffled her shoulders in it, Then she blushed. Then she smiled a little. ' A woman's smile may 'be an unwilling winter thaw, or a hearty fervor of sun Bhine Here it was neither. After smiling a little Sarah said: "My uame is Sarah. "My name is Edward," said Edward. "I wish you would let me call you' Sarah." "Very well. Edward," said Sarah blushiug again. She did not know why she blushed. - : Then there was a delicious pause of a few moments. It was not the woman, you may be sure, who broke so sweet a silence. A woman may not be wise at all times, but she knows when she feels like holding her tongue. In this knowl edge she excels all men. "Sarah." said Edward presently, "why do you make such a clatter on the stairs?". The young girl burst into musical laughter; "lam going to bed, Edward, and you had better go too good night Edward," was her only answer. In fact she presently blew out her candle and fell into a sweet sleep. Edward was puzzled. Do you know what the young girl said N to herself when she laughed? Perhaps One thing we can only guets at blind ly. We do not know why Edward's first allusion to her infirmity should have flashed into Sarah's mind the thought that he was her brother. It was, per haps, the working of a beautiful instinct a new sensitiveness-i-bestowed on her by nature as a compensation for the loss of her leg. But we may say it was this, or it was that We do not know. Knowledge is the agreement in con sciousness of an object with its ideal This being the case, how should we know? Or how should we know we know? Being a sister was a new experience to Sarah. " But" she reflected after a mo ment, 'since I have, only one wooden fjr I cannot be everbody's sister." It tj . ... i i was the working oi tne mina oi a Degm ner in a new field. Perhaps she should have said, "Although I have a wooden leg." However, her longing for an ac quaintance returned. 'Edward," she said " you musi have friends. Make me acquainted with them." He made her acquainted with a mas named John, whose hair was red, and whom she married. John used her wooden leg as a medium of reproach and reproof, and finally cut her head off and threw it out of the window. John was executed. Edward became a blear-eyed drunkard, and was killed by an Italian in a street fight The Italian took poi son., The Lost TfelL In the Sahara desert only a few wells are found ; they are lookea upon with reverence as the gift of God. It is not, as some suppose, a vast flat region, but interspersed' with mountains; rocks of vast size are as common as sand. No country is so 'difficult to traverse, for -there are no Kd" ; the only trace a caravan leaves is the bones of the horses or camels that die by the. way. Those who travel the desert carry water and food enough to last them from well to well ; and, if they lose the route, they all usually perish. An old legend tells us that a certain tribe had found a well among the moun tains, and around it they lived in per fect happiness. The summer months they passed on the banks of the Nile. It was so curiously hidden that it was im possible to find it except in this way : One of the tribe stayed all summer there, and on a certain day watched for the return of the others; they having arrived at a certain white, camel-shaped mountain, made a fire, and the watcher seeing this, built one on his moan tain ; thus were they guided to the oasis. Atone time the trte returned and built a fire, but no response was elicited ; they waited, they sought for the path, but all in vain, and they were obliged to return to Egypt, losing from hunger and thirst a very large number of the tribe : the secret of the approach to the well had disappeared ; it existed only in tradition. Nearly 100 years passed, and a young man having escaped from the oppression of the chief, made his way into the mountains. He traveled three days in search of a well, wandering among the valleys; finally he was obliged to as cend a mountain of dazzling whiteness. He remembered the tradition it was shaped like a cameL Looking there, he descried in the far distance what looked like the green tops of some palm trees. Toward these he pressed, almost over come with heat, thirst and weariness. It was a beautiful snot : the nalm trees had grown luxuriantly and tall ; only an aged man resided here, surrounded with a species of antelope. He was the watcher who had been left He had been unable to build the fire, having fallen from the rocks. Nor could he find the way out Since then stones have been set np to mark the 'way. Scholar Companion. Particular. A recentiy-arrived'f areigner stopped at one of our hotels, ana at xne supper A Watxbbubt (Conn.) officer the other day called at ' a house and asked if the family had any dogs to be registered. No. sir," was vnepromps reply, lie table began to play fearful havoc with a j thereupon imitated a dog's bark so effec- plate of hard-boiled; eggs, scooping out the yolk and leaving the white un touched. Just as he was devouring the tenth one, the waiter - remonstrated with him, calling his attention to his wasteful ness. "Good gracious, man," he re marked, "you vould nothave me eat ten vites, vould you? De yolk is der chicken, and der vites der f edders. Do you tinks I vants ter make von great bolster of mine stomach?"- oZciyA tfwt. tively that he started np three dogs thai were m tne ceuar, urai oiacj owing tneir whereabouts. Thx Bertha Zinc Works, situated near Martin's depot Wythe County, Va, are turning out forty-four tons of spelter per day. The owner has a contract with the United States Government to furnish the mint at Philadelphia with zino for alloy with silver in coinage. " Tex American says that the avocation of "street-walking" is now followed in Nashville by a larger number of females, chiefly black, than ever before. There are not less than 300 women now follow ing this practicj in Nashville morj, probably, than in any city of twice it size in the country. Ax order from the PostofSce Depart ment establishes new money -order offices as follows, to date from August 2: Nino in Tennessee, four in West Virginia, seven in Virginia, six in North Carolina, six in South Carolina, five in Georgia, four in Florida, four in Alabama, one in Mississippi, three in Louisiana and twenty-five in Texas. A ScxDAT-ecHOOii has been inaugu rated at Augusta, Ga., on a novel plan. It is for the benefit of the factory children- in that city, and is known as the "Pinafore Sunday-school." Its plan of working is to take the children in the little canal steamer "Pinafore" np the canal every Sunday afternoon, and on the excursion the little ones are entertained with religious teaching and the singing of hymns. Lrrrnx is said in the papers of Texas in favor of repealing the tax on drum mers. Some seem to think the tariff should be prohibitory. The ubiquitous drummer is beginning to be regarded as an Ishmaelite and a pariah. Complaint is made that drummers and candidates invade social gatherings, picnics, camp meetings, and the, like, and not only ply their trade openly, but make themselves offensive by their obtrusive manner and loud talk. Tit.r.aKaMxx (Fla.) Patriot: Three able-bodied white meu came to town this week to sell eight quarts of whortle berries, which they had, no doubt, spent a whole day in picking, and then walked from their homes, a distance of seventeen miles, through the scorching sunshine, to get them to market The last we saw of them they had bammed around for several hours, offering them at ten cents a quart, without finding a purchaser, and had stopped to debate whether to sell at a lower price, throw them away or lug them back home. Lsytit ea Fat. We have com plaints from England that the beef which we send there is not sufficiently "mottled " to suit the taste of the English consumers, thai the fat is laid on too much in compact muses, which has to be cut away for tallow and thus causing too much waste. We had supposed thai the opposite of this the rule, thai the English-fed beef much fatter than the American, but now the tables seemed to be turned against us, and American beef is charged with carrying too much tallow; not, they say, thai it really contains more fat, but thai it is not distributed as evenly as the fat in the English beef, and hence the result named. The Americans run their stock along for a few years, then commence feeding heavily with corn, converting a lean animal, in a few months, into a very fat one. Bach an animal has a light muscle, and the corn lays on the fat heavily, while the English beef is fatted, in a great measure, on their rich pas tures, and till the time It is slaughtered it is kept in a fattening condition the whole time, one object only being in view to place it upon the market ready for slaughter. Linseed meal is fed heavily, but this contains a large amount of flesh-forming matter as well as being a fat producer. It seems thai a mistake has been made in this matter. The de mand was for fat beef, and without con sidering where the f si was wanted, we went to work and put it in the wrong place. Do not lei na run into error in this re spect and say thai it Is the factidvas taste of the FgHmint for if we intend to supply him with beef, we must con sult his taste. We must not say it is his prejudice. This avails us nothing, for if he is prejudiced we must conquer his prejudice by meeting his wanta. Bat this complaint of piling the fat npon the animal in lamps does not come from England alone. Our own tnarketmea in the city of Boston, and other cities, make imiW oomplainta, not only with regard to beef, but also of mutton and pork. The breeds of sheep which in England are noted for mottling their meat do not do so in this country, and the breed of hogs which are there so highly prized for hams and shoulders lose thai peculi arity here. They want the' mottled hams and shoulders and deep cuts of lean meat with a small amount of outside fat Their middles are cured for bacon, which requires a strip of fat and another of lean. Her the demand for middlings for the pork barrel is thai they should be all fat, and in order to procure solid, fatted middlings, we, in a peat measure, injure both shoulder ana, hams. This is a aixncuiry wiu pigs siaugnverea x 3 fresh pork, too much attention being given to fat, and to little to lean. The pigs should be fed with mare flesh-producing matter and leas com more clover, shorts, and malt dust, mixed with a fair share of corn. Commence fatten ing the steer as soon as be cease to be a calf, and be sure and keep the calf well; do the same with the wethers, and w shall have meat which will not only suit the xcVaT market but our own, American Cultivator. G4 Wrs tVr ta Kkvak. A fuller acquaintance with the haHis of the skunk would lead us to consider it one of our most valuable friends. We make our first aoquaintance with it however, through the aenae of smell, or the death of young chickens and ducks, of which the skunk is wry food. The Intense odor of the skunk U optissn, and it tasks its preseno known ta a way thai is unique and searching. While the fragrance of the skunk is ml fftnerU and qverpowering, it is not oamafing a thai from sewers and sinks and neg lected potato bins and cabbage pita. Judging the latter from odor alone, they must be condemned mor surely than th odoriferous skunk. We know the use of potatoes and cabbage, and think of thctx good qoalitie. Bat not o with the -skunk. Let us see if we cannot afford to odor than on th Lara, aad allow them an occasional chicken or dnck for change of diet The skunk is pre eminently an insectivorous animal. H dQigantly pursue hi calling at night when insects are most abundant and when his enemie, dog and tars, are asleep. H devour ma the Colorado potato-bug (dccrm-l Inrata ), and finds a nch mora! in th suawberiy gran (JUtcXoneira H make hearty meals on cot worms, and gorge himself with whit grubs, the lanrs) of th May beetle, which he roots after in the loos sod, or the decs ring hay or straw about stack-yarda. He plow through th litter and leave gathered in th nook and corners of th fields, which ar th oureits and bfeding-place of th myriads of clinch bogs. H reaches ratllWs of enemie in seclnded place which man cannot reach with th plow, or rake, or fire. W may clear the litter and trash from our fields, but th ear ner and fence-rows harbor th enemy we try -to destroy. A kind rarmdano ha sent to our aid this hali-domeatio animal thai nmi fc increa Ilk th Norway rat in populated district, and for th common rtaaon thai hi food is mors abundant there. We wish w could ee some like compensation in th preaenaeof the rat but science has not yet revealed it nd American a vOi ration has not, like Chineee, found use for it Th skunk, nnliko the rat, pay ah goe. We can afford to take car of th chicken and docks and let th sksnks multiply. BoiLi th walls of our porche and dwelling ao Lbe srunx can not ret PASSI50 SMILES. under them, and they will keep at such a from our home a not to of fend us. The oITGreek motto, "Know thyself," is a good one, and it suggest a good one for us, "Farmer, know thy friend." A Iirmcr, in Cincinnati CbrmncrciaL rotpriata la th Desert. On the prospecting trip to the north east of Ban Bernardino, about on hun dred mile from which Barney Garter and J. G. Beed have rest rrturnVd, they discovered the spot wber Oorg J. Lee, well known in Ban Bernardino a a vet eran prospector, met a violent and sodden death at th hands of a party of Chime hueva Indiana. Mr. Lee left San Ber nardino last summer to explore this unknown country, and, month elapsing without hi return, hi friends sppre hended thai aom calamity had befallen him, sad search was mad for him. A peculiarity of th soil ther retain any imprint on it surface for age (th wagon wheel track of a Government surveying xnedition m ISM can b een ther to day), and th old man' tracks were dis covered and traced lor days, but nouung definite waa found. On their last trip Mcintosh and Carter followed his foot print, and cam to the spot where b was killed. Borne bloody clothing lay on the ground, and on nan ins linn showed thaiMr. Lee had been walking leisursly along when a party of Indians in ambuan behind some bushes fired upon him; he reeled snd sank, digging hu elbow into the soft earth (and may thai impreaaion remain till the judgment day as an evi dence against his cowardly murderers). Th Indians then revealed themaerTta. and placing his body on a bora carried it off into th monntaina Bingl pros pectors are in peril of their live in traversing this region, both from the rov ing bands of Indian and the danger of bong lost and dying from starvation and thirst San Bernardino (CbXl IWc. A TxxT large share of our social mis eries, say the. MethodUL i caused by scasdalmongering and half th scandal is a fruit of suspicious or meddling temper, and of neglecting th rol " go tell thy brother," Pzxsaoona (Fla.) OaseUe: On last Tuesday week Sheriff Hutchinson cap tured a murderer who ha for eight years eluded the officers of the law. His name is Nat Sylvester, alias Charley Wil liams, and h is wanted in Mobile to an- 1 swer for the murder of Officer Jerry 1 Lynch on May 27, 1872. Hi change of A Sad Ckasra. A manufacturing population tends steadily downward, at least to a fearfully low level. It was long supposed thai the United States were going to prove the exception in this resrjoct Thirty year ago our factory girls were above the average of female in intelligenee, refinement be nevolence and general character. Indeed, many of them were simply ac cumulating means for the completion of their education at the higher seminaries. Dickens snd other English travelers looked on them with amazement The Lowell Offering, a magazine conducted wholly by the operative, commanded universal esteem. "Rnt sJreadv this hsmrr condition is passing away. 1 no greed or corporaoona ask only for profit. No matter how low the grad of workers, provided only te work is done. The life 'may be early crushed out of the employed, but are not their places kept always fall? Th poorer snd more dependent they are. th more ready they will be to let their children work in the mill, when they should be at school, or out in th sunshine at play. If things go on as they are now. it is only a question of time when the manufacturing population of New England shall be as hopelessly de graded a thai of Old England. It is evident that it behoove the State to stand between the corporations and their operatives. -It owe this to its own welfare. It can not do everything. but what it can it should do with a strong hand and a persistent will. It can secure to children their right to a proper education, and their exemption from labor thai shall dwarf them in body and brain, It can limit the hours of labor for all to what i physically safe. Cost of Spirits ax4 Beer. The profit on th sale of whisky by re tail is enormon. There ar in a barrel of whisky thirty-on raBona. At retail ther are 64 drinks in a gallon, and 1.S64 drinks in a barrel; cost per fraBon, aay SX&a This make the cost of SI gallon $77.50, and 1,984 drinks at 10 cent a drink are $19&M. Deduct th cost, $77.50, and it leave of profit for on barrel of whisky, $12(190. If a saloon keeper can sell barrels a month he re ceive $483.60, and lor tne year sa.iwo.au. Take out for expenor $1,500, and it leave a net profit of $4,30&20. For a barrel of ale of 31 gallons th cost is about $9L In a gallon th num ber of drinks will average 18, at 5 cents a drink; this is 60 cents a gallon, or $27.90 a barrel Deduct th cost of beer, $8, and it leave of profit $19-90 a barrel, or on th 11.000,000 of barms, a 5 cents a glaa for beer and ale, of $275,- 000.00a The cost to the people of th United State for distilled snd fermented liqocca must bo some $800,000,000 a year. This is an enormous sum for drink! And not a dollar of this vast expenditure adds anything to th physical, mental, or moral well being of our family, but cre ate misery and evil beyond the power of any pen to describe or an Imagination to conceive. And yet we hxr this fact to console us: There ar not a much ardent spirit ooosumed new, per capita, fifty years ago. Th consumption of beer and al is greater. lUctano. Txx man who ale Lis dinner with th fork of a river has been trying to spin mountain top. PAXwrt-vo a window shatter is a nod deed in mor way than on. It heir the blind, "srxx a landlady dinrrxl Jhai hey boarders wer dsnpptng off, th Hxrdsa """"" of her song became: "Nothing ' leaves." ' ' Tan men folks complain of climbing to th upper Vriea, but a womaa can get no stare easily enough tf h is good-looking. Paxao " Bather drowvy weaiber, this, farmer Jonea." Farmer Jooeav "Aye, parson, so it b; mhdono rrmon time, dont U7" A vrjurarr town board wrestled with th ord 1attoos,- so b od as . sign on a tsridre, for ever an law. an4 ' finally got it Daeruoa." A Mirauaur Cbnrr-"smsn kid a frieod that h was filled with amaaemect; and . th friend went down to the bar and called for sinaxrmect Warr is paper money mor valoaU than gold? When yto pet it tn -rour pocket you double it and when 70 Uka U Out you find it still increase. At a 111 Mstch-mskitg --n?n to her mamsgeabl daughter: "Virginia. -dear, dont L aightof thst geotlcnan in BXHxrnmg. He may b a widower." Wares Beeehrr w asked what ecjov- . ment there was in heaven fee an old mall w ao homely that she has to help beraeU cp wneoeveraoai xas Gown In Usudr, he could make no reply. Joaazxs say thai h can get into dress fee City cent, but 4 takes fiva hundred pounds to gwt into Lis front t door aom sight when hi wj's gro to 1 sleep and h s lost hi night-key. "Too cant bring decency out of dvt" ' ay a modern rLksmnpber. Cant eh? . Than yon never looked at th water in th laundry tub after the dean Lil clothe were taken out of it dai yoa? Txacxxx WhU is an abbreviation Scholar "A shortening. Teacher Te; giv m an exararle." Scholar I "Some folks us butter, but mother says i hog's lard is good enough for anybody"- : Caru of seven, before beirxg brotgtt ; into the dr wing-ronm. Bow heard out side room. Scream from chad. Child la si to: Tompany (company or no ' tompany, I wont have my lac wished j with spit" ! loaTT-scnrnxs young thing, in . tsvth ingsuit "Surely Aunt Msrgarrt youV i not going to wear your spectacle ta th waterT Aunt M "Indeed I am. Nothing shall induce m to take u an other thing." . vBoarjrsov. (after s long whist boat at th clobV-"lis awfully late. Brown. What will jnn ay to your safer Brown, (In a whisper Oh I than t say much, you know "Good morr.ir.g dear,' or some thing of thai sort tshsll asy ha rest" Ir is tro, Epaminondaa, yoa rant mak a ails purs out of asows ear. but thai i no reason why you should go en tirely back on th pig. Ton can mak might good souse of it whkh is mor than yon can do with all the raw talk this side of Lyon. Ax advertisement says: 5ve your hair while you hav it" Many young ladie Lake this advice They take their hair off before going to bed, and care fully plaoo it on th bureaa or back of a chair, where th rat can't get at it At least rumor asy they do. " What ar you doing out ther. my danghter, in tha night dew? said this kiadly old gentleman on th pisxxa. rtactking fencing." was th sweet reply, as sh leaned over the racket till her face was dreadfully rloae to Wil liam'. Tkx only cool thing which ha been seen in town for th past week is th fel low who comes into the office, smoke mm other fellow's pipe, use aocae other fellow' desk, and then ask if you ar not going to aay beer besor he has to gn Botcm Globe. WiLir th editor printed: "Th lion, Lnk Ithertang. our distinguished rrprrseaUtrf to th National Oongrtaa. ha vrry kindly favored n with a copy of his able and masterly speech on th Improvement of BobiaJed Frees." What th editor said: "What inthundar doe thai fool send bis rubbish her forr Jons rsv a lawyer a bi3 to b col lected to th amount of $30. Calling for it after a while h inquired if it had been collected. "Oh, ye," said th lawyer. "I have it sU for you." "What rhargw for collection?" "Oh," said the lawyer, laughing. "I am not going to charge jre why, I have known 'you sine you were a baby, and your father befur you; $20 wiD be about right" handing over $10. "Well," said Jonea, aa be medi tated upon th transaction, "it's darned lucky h didn't know my grandfather, or I shouldn't hav got anything A zmao, driven by an elegant attired lady, with a trim and neatly dressed colored boy perched on the footman seat behind, was passing through th street, when it was espied by an old gro SomeLhlar, 5rw U A Hartford young man boarded horse-car the other day with s bunch of three rosea. One wa white, on rrun, and on of a delicat fieah colored tint These fiowers attracted th attention of the passengers, both ladies and gentle men. On lady remarked thai she had seen th bnd of the green roae, and an other said ah had seen the rose itself, but had never seen any so perfect and so lovely a this one. The flesh colored on wa also commented on and praised. Finally th young man volunteered th information thai all were white in th morning, and thai th coloring was don by putting th stem of on into green ink sod the other into red ink. Although the leaves were beautifully colored th coloring would not rub off, bot it seemed a if Nature had don the work. It only required ten minute to change th color. Uarlford Ckmramt. 1 Brass de Lordr she claimed, raising her hands as she poke. "Bress de Lord! I never spected to see dai. Wonder whai dsi vrwrr.er mil ml It can, by means of honest and qushfied gemmaa ey dai young Whiioman for mspactors, keep a sharp eyon all the driving dai kemdge? I know'd it'd mharani aboaa f th system TWA coca. Jut never 'pected to lib to see it Companion,, Ds njgga' ready to go 'way now," "Mr danghter. never tell any o tout nival affairs." said a mother in sending her daughter away upon her first journey. "Monsieur, a third-class ticket, if you please?" sail the daughter at the tickei-ohce. " For where?" asked th employe. " Is thai any of vour beai neas?" answered Msdsnvasaelle, indig nantly, remembering her mother's ad. vice. I 1
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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