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JOB PRINTING 13 vjx. r.s ::?nisn L. V. & E. T. BLUU, Publishers and PftointlSTOfta. Is sartuas w.a 3 a-y aaeiattaX. u4 u ar 44 wu BtaATWCM, taTCH. AMP At HI VERY LOWEST PRICES TERMS: -CASH TSLDXAKCE, Qevohi h QoTifits. giitrafare, ggritvlhire. (e J$arhlsanJ general gnfemafieti. A One Copy on year, ........... ,L60 " " six months, .71 a nn t as trUl I " " three " VOL. XXX. SALEM, N C, MARCH 2, 1882. NO. 0. An Old Wire's Valentine. The old wife stood at her garden gats The eve of St. Valentine's day; She watched for the post, that liks a FaU Just stopped and then galloped away; ust stopped, and then, in the waning light; Tassed over the hill and ont of sight. Iler grandchild tugged at her shawl and gown And her daughter called, sweet and clear, ".Mother, corns in, for the cakes are Drown, And the boys and father are here." " Ah, yes," she said, ' and the night is cold; I quite forget that I'm growing old." At breakfast lay at the father's place A letter as white a the snow; Ho looked at it with a curious faoe, And said, " Now I want to know I" The boys all smiled; the mother grew O'er face and throat a primson hue. then, i He opened the dainty lett" And lo ! in if satiny fold TVaa painted rose, and forget-me-not, And lilies with hearts of gold; And, under the whole, just one sweet line "Forever, forever, thy Valentine." He touched the note with a tender ears, And he went to his sweet wife's side; He stroked with his hand her snow-white haiJ And he kissed her with loving pride, Baying, with smiles and misty tears, , My Valentine through fifty years." "Oh, boys," he said, with a youthful pride, "After fifty years of life, If you find in your home, and by your side, A fair and a faithful wife, Count your life lucky, as I count mine, And loyally kiss your Valentine." Mary A. Barr. A Short-Lived Triumph. The grand opera-house at Newtown was crowded, from the undesirable situ ations immediately behind the orches tral stand np to the still less desirable duart ers, to be secured for a trifling sum, in the lofty elevation of the fifth gallery; that gallery built and reserved in ante bellum days lor the slaves who attended their masters hither, but now only peopled, when, in the attraction of pop ular favorite or rising star it was peo pled at all, by the slaves of that harsh est, most severe of all masters impe cunicsitv. The perquette and dress circle held, as usual, representatives of the wealthy. more cultivated and richly dressed in habitants of the city, most of whom had come here, as they went elsewhere. merely to wile away an idle hour, and wero as wearily indifferent to-the throb bing heart pulses of the exquisite melodies as they were to all else in life, except their own gratification. But in the less aristocratic," lower priced positions, an oddly contrasting ckss to these spoiled children, nause ated with their own good fortune, had to-cight found its way. Men to whom the price of this evening's indulgence meant a day of hard, unin terrupted labor; women to whom these short two hours of respite from care and worry in novel surroundings and under the exciting influence of the mu sical strains was a revelation, an episode to be remembered through all the ccmicg years, and alluded to as, "That evening when I went to the opera house;" and half-grown youths and maidens to whom the whole seemed like a poetical dream of fairy-land, from which they must soon awaken to the dull prose cf their daily lives, with only a fierce resolution beating itself into heart and brain to get .back into this blissful life to do something, to be somebody I These members of the middle class, these men, women and children, who in intellect and nature were on par with their richer, highly-favored fellow mortals in the upper seats at this won drous banquet of sound, but who had been crushed and bent down to a lower level by the iron heel of poverty, had drunk in the musical strains from the first low notes of the orchestral felec tion, down through the intervening numbers on the delicately scented pro gramme, with an unquenchable, ever increasing thirst, until now, as the third number from the close was at hand, their excitement reached its cul mination, and forgetting all their trou ble and pain they glanced first at each other with smiling lips and flushed, radiant facs, and then back to the stage 'with eager, expectant eyes to watch for the first appearing of the even ing's debutante the young violinist. And then she came a radiant vision, in sheeny silk and fluttering, cloudy iace - uu3 gin wno nau awen among these poor, hard working people now watching her with such breathless in terest, since the early days of her child hood, whose sunny face and cheery laughter hsd been to them all, in their distrcs?, as the sun's own cloud-dispersing beams ; whose wonderful music had bo often poured forth for them, now a merry roundelay to heighten the mirth of wedding or festival ; now a soft, mcurniui strain to carry balm to gnev ing soul ; or, again, a crooning lul laby to still the sobbings of some fret ful child. "Oar musician," they had called her, with evident pride in the possession, since tho time when the small hands had first drawn the slumbering harmony irom ner lataer s priceless instrument, and had watched the budding genius as it put forth leaf after leaf, i form ing the gracious flower that now could could give delight to all who gazed upon it. All this had been the work of time, however. More than fifteen years had elapsed since the day when the father, himself a gifted German artist, mad dened by jealousy and the unfaithful ness and harsh criticisms of erstwhile friends, bitter to death against a rival violinist whose fame soon threatened to echpse his own, and crushed by the loss of his young wife, had seized the two treasures still left to hi m hit t.wrv. year old child and his violin and with them had fled away from all old associa tions and buried himself in one of the obscure streetfrof an American city. Here he had eked out a scanty pit tance by teaching his mother tongue to those who would learn, and here he trained his daughter, his one musio pupil, for he steadily and obstinately refused to impart aught of his skill to others from the time the baby fingers could clasp thobow ; and, in aiding her progress, had forgotten somewhat of ms own trial. But the wound still rankled. ijeibchen," he would say sometimes Marguerite, as she carefullv laid away his old violin, after hours of practice, to busy herself about house hold mattera-Leibchen, thou goeefc bravely. Only see, I will tell thee secret. Some day, when thou playest to the great people and the entice. end the old eyes would flash with scorn and the old voioe tremble with bitter ness, " play not these inspirations of the old masters. Maze wiv violin to sneak whistle like a bird, bark as the dor. or scream as a dau cnua. That is what ' these critics will like, ; that will bring the fame I ; Uricxs, . not musio. seestthou? Only, not onmjCkemona, hugging the old instrument tin his wasted arms; " that would be a profa nation I bis voice deep and inpressive as-a roll of thunder on the last word. Marguerite would assent to all he said, hex mind entirely blank as to the brilliant career he seemed confidently to arranrelor her, ner thoughts wan dering away tct the quiet, happy home lifethelovinffTrords or a young me- chani hsd pictnjad :to ataxia Jhnir blessed future. At last a change came into the girl's uneventful life ! A great pianist in his rambles about the city chanced to hear the girl-artist as she practiced, and, presto ! the road to the stage wmcn naa mtnerto seemea barred against her progress now opened clear of all obstacles, alluring, enohant- ing. Flattered, coaxed, petted by the per sons whose very name had hitherto filled her with awe, tinged on by poverty ana by the thought that fehe might win back the fame that had once cast a naio around her father, it was nothing to be wondered at that her innate vanity and slumbering ambition awoke to life that she forgot her lover and his happy planning, that she consented to be taken under her discoverer's patronage. " I must," she urged, in reply to all young Earlston's arguments. Don't you understand, Fred? Vaterchen Is an old man, he needs rest and comforts. what else can I do to care for him, to keep myself when he is gone ?" and she looked' up into the frowning young face above her, her blue eyes filled with tears. "Rely on me, Marguerite. Trust to me," the man answered, firmly. " Do you think that I wrrald ever let you suffer, dear ? Come to me now, you and your father. The girl moved away from him, her face almost sullen at this overthrowing of her own' good reascn, with which she sought to blind her own conscience and the eyes of others, fcr wishing to leave her old monotonous life. She walked slowly over to the window and looked out tq, where the lovely old elms were being despoiled of their fresh spring foliage by an innumerable host of small black worms with which "all green things " were that year infested; glanced from them in their writhing, wearying hideousness, up to where a swarm of gayly-colored moths, newly released from the groveling life and brief prison, were flitting and flutter ing in the sunshine, then turned back to the humble room with its one waiting occupant again. "Fritz," she said, going to him and laying a hand on each of his shoulders " I will tell you the truth. I am tired, desperately-tired, of this stupid life. will die if I remain in this awful stagna tion longer," passionately. "I have been crawling and held in check long enough, with a backward glance out at the marauders " Now I, too, want to try my wings, to flutter about in the sunshine for a time. It i cruel, cruel to keep me here 1" " Liebchen," he answered, calling her by her old pet name, thcugh a kind of despair shone from his eyes " Lieb chen, I cannot keep you against your will; I cannot even ask you to stay now," and he took the slender hands from his shoulders and held them close in his own strong palms for a moment, "and so good-bye to you and happiness." "But I will come back, she urged, hurriedly, frightened now at her own work. " I will come back, to you some time." Yes," he answered, with a bitter smile, " as the moth returns to its own ways held a huge man of the loveliest flow ej a perfect incarnation of triumph. - Ear is ton sprang toward ner wun a cry of delight, but with a little laugh she throat forth the violin, anl so held him off. .. ' "You will spoil my flowers," she said, with a plajful poutT- Bee I arn't they lovely?1? . " res, he answered, starting pack. " I would spoil your flowers, and so 1 have come to say a real farewell." Why ? x on are not going away r she asked,a troubled expression com ing into her face. Going West," he answered,abruptly. Perhaps I, too. mar some day break forth from my chrysalis ; at all events, I will find something more to do- something beyond this every-day plod ding. Good-bve I" and without wafting for an answer he was gone. In the corridor h found old Tatar chen, his face " one vast substantial smile," his broken English pouring forth in wild attempts at oratory, shak ing hands with every one on the very topmost pinnacle of happiness. " what I you go, exclaimed the old gentleman, seizing Earlston's unwilling arm. " Nein, nein, that makes not,' as the young man attempted to offer an excuse. " We muBt haf a little of good timee.a sholly oelebration, nichtwhar." But Fred slipped away at last, and rushing forth into the night soon lost sight of the brilliant lights, heard no longer the clatter and laughter: saw only the awful blank in his future; heard only the voices that called to him from the awakening powers of the West. All that winter the fame of this Mar guerite, this German daisy, was sounded all over the length and breadth of her adopted country. All that winter the young girl lived the reBtless, uneasy, dissatisfying lite of a publio performer a popular favorite. All that wiater Vaterchen felt himself growing daily weaker and weaker, the strong current of excitement preying upon his old, worn frame, until with the coming of the June roses he grew tired unto death and lay down for a long rest. Then Marguerite realized the loneli ness of her position, the isolation of her hew sphere, as never before. Cut off from all old associations, placed in unreal atmosphere, surrounded by FACTS AND COMXEXTS. Last year there were 250 persons killed and 823 injured through boiler explosions in the United States. Minneapolis millers are reported as having great difficulty in working the new wheat crop. It eaka after pass ing through the rolls, and a great deal of the product is of an inferior quality in consequence. An electrician in France is having built a small boat, with which he in tends to cross the English channel, using an electric motor to propel it He will take a companion oa the voy- age, and is said to nave selected ue route from Boulogne to Folkestone. ttruotlon, and has a sort cf vestibule exit at the ground. A person stepping Into the escape and taking a sitting E store may glide quickly and safely to around, the retarding curves be fore alluded to preventing the body from acquiring too great an impetus in the prof ress of descent. It is claimed by the inventor that this tower I much better and more useful than tno ordinary fireproof ladders or chain escapes. And especially whew a person becomes weakened by fright or excitement, and would be unable to use either oi toe se latter, it is asserted that the tower would afford a sure means of safe atd rapid evcape from danger. There is a law in Holland to the effect that when a young man of prop erty is inclined to be fast and Is spend ing his money too rapidly, the govern ment may step in and take care of it for him until he can prove that he has reformed and will henceforth make E roper use of his means. This law was ivoked in the case of Count Wevgand A. Deveer, and being disgusted with his native land or himself he ran away and came to Canada. Here he married a nice young girl for his wife, and to gether they removed to Bt. Louis, where Mrs. Deveer set up a dressmaking es tablishment. She was quite successful, and her husband having sowed his wild oats bad sense enough to reform. Thereupon he procured a certificate of the fact, sant it to Holland, and the other day received his patrimony a goodly sum, enough to support them, and the happy countess has quit run ning sewing machines and making dresses. an jealousy, rivalry and flattery, she longed for And then he left her, feeling that the light had gone from his life, while she, i passionately, burying her faoe in ttiict uuo ubj ui ucito nuKuiou, ww I ptllOWS. "The touch of a vanished hand. For the sound of a voice that was still V Daring tho summer she wandered about from one secluded watering-place to another, rinding everywhere those who were eager to claim an acquaint ance with the successful violiniste, but none who cared to befriend the lonely girl. The opening of the season found her again in the fitful maelstrom of profes sional life, the novelty worn away, all ambition, save to requr tad ones who had drawn her out of obscurity, to pay the debts that necessity had incurred, dead or dying in her. Then came the sorrowful ending. Une December night, alter an un usually brilliant ovation, as 6he stepped out into the icy street, holding her violin in her arms as she always would, trusting no one else with its care, in tie short space intervening between hall and waiting carriage, her foot slipped and she fell heavily to the hard pavement. Even in the act of falling, however, the old instinct enabled her to hold her beloved instrument out of harm's way, but the act cost her dear ; for her ritrht arm received the full force of the shock, and was mangled and crushed into an almost shapeless mass. Who can tell of the dreadful struggle that followed the fierce rebellion against the skilled surgeon's hard de cree ? " Oh I I cannot, I must not lose it, doctor," the poor child screamed in her terrible agony. "You will not be so crueL There must be some wsy to save it. There must be." " My dear," answered the kind old man, touched by her hopefulness when all was hopeless, ' I wish I only wish for your sake that there was." "Them let me die, she urged. the Fires in private dwelling houses have been made the subject of special inquiry by a London journal which has had ac cess to the data preserved by a number of leading insurance companies. The results are worth considering. The dwelling house fires, so far as the cal culation goes, were from these causes in the following ratio: Per Cm. 1. Curtains or window blinds In con tact with Ran or other light 2. Clothe or article drying or air ing at fire 3. Defective hearths, lines, etc , or say inherent atrnctoral defects. 4. Incautious ue of lighted candles, sparks from, and uperttm?, oto. 5. Ou explosions and escape of gaa. 6. Burning embers or sparks irooi fire to hearth-rnRS. etc Children plaving with mtchra or lights....". lighted matches thrown down . . . Lamps npset, leaky or exploded. . Lightning Other miscellaneons causes, snob as canying livscoala, plum ben' fires, fuiBigatinp, etc Incendiarism or snpectd incendiarism 8. 9. 10. 11. 11 30.4 ISO 1&.0 10 7.1 1.0 5.3 1.7 36 L7 5.3 .03 Tke Hemeilctt Man in the Its rid. The ancient Hons seem to hrre been tha ugliest of all the ugly races of CeMsoUAsia, and the homeliest indi vidual with one exceptloa--waa pro Dr ably the "veiled prophet of Bokhara, Mullah Ibn Baib, the repuliivenesa of wboae features was aa overpowering that he did not dare to show himself without a mask, for which ha afterward lubetKuted a woUea veil, whence hit surname Alnaakana "The Veil -vl One. Tet his biographer, Ibn Cbaldir. as sures us that an elder cousin of Alma kans. who proudly disdained lo hide bis face, exceeded him not only in eru dition but also in uaiinesa. This man, called Kotta Ben Lukas, sod famous as a philosopher and grammarian, must actually have been the ne plus ultra of homeliness. He was an accomplished teacher of languages, but the only pupils he oould procure at the lyceum of Bagdad were adult male, of ex ceptional fortitude, all others being overcome by the terrors of bis presence. When Almobadi, the caliph, inquired after the best teacher of the Persian language the name cf Ben Lukas was mentioned among too ol tberiaDeat merit, but. when farther inquiries proved this woithv to be identic! with the fcimidable licentiate of Bagdad AlmohadL who wanted the inaUoctor for his own son, was earnestly advisexl to alter his choice, as a prince ot such t ecder years would surely svecomb t nervous prostration at the first gram matical interview. The cahrh ridi culed these fears and ordered the grammarian in appear at his ourt; but m sooner had Kofta Ben Lnkas made bis salaam to the commander of the faithful tban he was presented with a puree of 450 golden decarti and offered fifty more if he would leave the capital before night. He hvl been summoned through a misunderstanding, they told him. and the caliph did not wish it to become publio that by hi mistake an industrious scholar bad thus been fool ishly interrupted in his stodiea. Popu lor Scietvyi Monthly. T0H TUE LIDICS. A Wraa mi EaSaraar. Living in a town in New Hampshire is an A mason, not la the sense of ap parent masculinity, but in actual strength and agility, and her enterprise is equal to her endurance. It ws re ported la the papers of the county that she picked sod marketed 400 qaarts of blueberries the last season. She ae ro red the writer that the qi wtity was much larger than reported. These ber ries she carried on foot two miles to the vilbue and peddled them ont to the residents. Recently she wheeled a wheelbarrow two and one-half miles over a rough and hilly road, and re lumed with it, trundling home twa food-sised pif a, Khe performed a feat a few weeks since that few men would ears to underUka, yet he accomplished it without ado or difflewlty. Caving pur chased at the village sa ontstde dw all- in thick, ahsfklsead tt cm bee back and carried it in that taanner to her boo, a distance of two long mile. Tet she is slender in form, and agile and elaatie as a deer. She is often see walking is the street engaged in knitting, her fingers and feet moving as if ia ior ona competition with each other. When not incumbered, in passing to sad from tbw vil'sgs, she treqasnUv strikes isto a run, somstimes maintaining it up the steepest ni us and for moat of tr.e dis tance. Occasionally she essays journeys of ten or tureen miles on foot into the neighboring towns, tr not at a cor responding speed, yet at one rarprivh: to people with ordinary powers of loco motion. UotUm Journal. 'm4 rvaa ( eta tl. There is much lo be said la the sa- lect'rn of a location for the pa. It should have a southern exposure with a mors bis frt&tthateaabs opecedorshnt to admit or exclude the saa at pie, sra. . When the pen is large a half to Uirse-fonrths of it ahoald have no floor ing, but the earth should be hard and the drainage Complete. Manure can be Btanslaelnrva from leaves, cornstalks. and any dry substtaee convert 14 lato that valuable product. The floored portion should bold do moisture, an J be supplied with plecty of strsw ss the leering sad rewtirg spartoecL ITc-ri always Lay elots togtlher to prods' warmth, and the warmer they can make themselves with the addition of a close pea the less food they will require, not only to gire theta increased weii h but to enable thaca to n lain te fat I bay pcesrasad wVaa they watt into winter quarters. ' - THE FAUX A5D DOCS ED OLD. leached save also and m ia like run ts. DoVt be so wet!mL By sod by vour soil will cry out arltt yow ant sarwvr uses ta siac.ua grcrs-uts and diaU&lahed yields. Old customs still prevail to a great extent io the northern and western por tions of England. In the north, espe cially amid the great Black Country, they are almost universal, while in the midlands and in the south they seem to have disappeared. Many of these cus toms come within the category of su perstitions. In the noitU no child's nails are ever cut on a Sunday; no in fant's nails are cut until it has attained the age cf one year, bnt are bitten; the inside of a child's hands are never washed until three weeks after birth; infants, baforo they are carried down stairs, are always taken upstairs, in order to insure their ourse in the world upward; no child is shown itself in the glass, or its teething process will be painful; cake is always given to the first person met on the road- to the christening; marriage should never be performed on a Bxturdav, but always, if possible, on a Wednesday; the person who sleeps first On tha wedding-night will die first, as will the person who kneels first at the marriage ceremony. In Cornwall no miner whistles under ground; a Cornish child born after mid night will see more of the world tban ordinary folk, and Sunday is an espe cially lucky day for birth. to again been soothed and stimulated by her new friends to forgetfulness of all else but the thought of her new career. AH during the spring and summer she practiced more earnebtly, more as- Bidnously than ever before; strong res, olution lending her physical strength a boundless ambition guiding her fingers through tne intricacies of scale and arpeggio. In the early fall came the eventful night. The spacious opera house, with its rows upon rows of upturned faces the faces of those upon' whose smile or frown hung the success or failure of her artist-life; the idle, lack-luster faces of amusement-seekers; and above and be yond tho dear, familiar faoee of hor girlhood days. As she stood looking down upon them all, for one moment she hesitated, a dull, aching fear paralyzing every nerve and muscle ; then the opening notes of the accompaniment fell upon her ear, and clas pincr the precious old Cremona in her lair arms, she stood awaiting the signal for her playing to begin, lost to all save the1 love of her art. And how she played 1 Surpassing her patron's wildest hope ! Carrying her whole audience as one soul spellbound into the regions of di vinest sound I All her father's old skill neigntened and rehned by her own womanly intuition anal talented grace. One, and only one of all the vast as sembly felt his heart sink, as he saw tha flattering attention and heard the thunders of applause that broke forth again and again as soon as the last note bad died away, and the girl turned to ieave the stage. Standing far back in the shadow of a huge column, young Earlston watched the slender form as it passed off between the wings ; watched the flash of pleased excitement, the sparkle and flash of the blue eyes as she returned in obedience to the en thusiastic recall ; watched the trium phant mien of the old Vaterchen as he a i . ... peepea irom tne curtains of the mana ger's box, and knew that his last hope of saving ner irom tnis me was dead. A fixed purpose now shone from his deep cr.v eves. Workinor his wav through interminable corridors, through masses of machinerv and avenuea of nn- Bightly scenery, he at length found him self at her dressing-room; door, and heard her well-known voioe bidding mm enter. Marguerite sprang to her feet as she saw him, her eyes still feverish bricht her mouth still smiling, the violin still clasped u one arm. while the other But death when bo entreated seldom comes, and so a few weeks later Mar guerite sat in an easy reclimng-chsir looking out on the passers by, her fair face pale and worn, her empty sleeve concealed under soft draperies by her loving maid, her bonny blue eyes filled with despair. Suddenly the door opened. There was a rush oi fresh, invigorating air, a thrill as if some strong presence had entered. The girl turned her head slowly, languidly, uninterestedly, and saw her lover, unchanged save for the more resolute, manly bearing. " Fritz!" she called, half doubtingly, and then sprang toward him. ' My darling," he answered, as he clasped her close. " But how did you know?" she asked, a moment later " how did you know wh,ere to come to me T " The goings and comings, the haps and mishaps, of noted persons, like yourself, are all choice items for the press," he answered. " Awav from all news and habitations where I have been. those ubiquitous sheets do not find their way frequently, but when I saw I came. Marguerite looked up into his brave face for an instant, then softly moved away from him and said, with her old despair creeping slowly into face and voice: " I sent you away when I was strong and well. You come back to find me maimed and helpless. I cannot accept the noble sacrifice it shames me so. I am unworthy of you P "You are still Lnerchan, my darling I he answered, drawing her back into his strong, loving arms. When completed the railroad bridge over the Missouri river, at Bismarck, Dakota, will bo one of the finest struc tures in the United States. The bridge will be a mile and a halt long, and re quires two years more for its comple tion. The stone for the caissons were brought from Sauk Rapids, more than 300 miles eistward, in Minnesota. These caissons are sunk forty or fifty feet down in the quicksands of the river in order to form a firm founda tion. It is impossible to find terra Anna in the bed of the Missouri, the Platte and many other streams. When a section of the suspension bridge over the river at Omaha was blown into the river, it quickly disappeared. A few hours later, when workmen with neces sary machinery endeavored to grapple the section, it had entirely disappeared beneath the quicksands, and they were unable to discover it. Some four years ago a waterspout carried away, in the spring, the Kansas Pacific nil way bridge over the Kiowa creek, some fifty miles east of Denver. A freieht train plunged over into the treacherous flood. A body of workmen wre sent for from Lawrence, 600 miles away, to fish out the train. The editor of the American AgricuHtiijst was there about five months afterward, and he aays the me . had recovered the freight cars. They had not yet, however, discovered the engine, for whioh they were still exploring by means of long poles. Serving a FaUas. Solomon was an oriental derpot, and out of his self knowledge wrote. " the heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of king is un searchable." Two aneodotea, one asso ciated with the late aultsn of Moroccj. and the other with the present despot, illustrate the "unsearchableneas" of a tyrannical despot's heart. The late sultan, having'a passion for lacd.4cepe gardening, surrounded a beautiful lake with a charming garden. He was In the habit of rowing on the lake with the ladies of his harem. Ons day the boat capsized and every person in it would have been drowned had not two men, working in the gar den, rushed into the water at the risk ot their lives, and saved tho whole party. A European monarch would have rewarded such services by a hand some gift or a pension for life The sultan took a different view of the deed The men had aern their high and mighty ruler in the undignified position of floundering in the water. They had also seen the ladies of bis house hold, and possibly their unveiled faces. Bach men, according to oriental idea, ought not to live, and he was in capable of gratitude; so the brute in his nature had its way. Immediately the two gardeners who had been so un fortunate as to ssve their ruler's life were walled up in a room in a palace. While some repairs were being made in the building, on the occasion of, the present sultan's accession, their skele tons were found. Tho present sultan is brave enough to lead his troops into battle. On one occasion, when engaged with a rebel lious tribe, his armr was routed. The sultan's horse had been shot under him, and the dismounted ruler was overtaken by an enemy, while runnixg for his life. As the man was about striking the sultan down, Taiecb, a royal officer, galloped between them and with one blow killed the assailant Dismounting from his none be assisted the sultan to mount and guided him to a place of safety. A civilized ruler would have knighted and promoted the brave officer on the spot, and have seen to it that he should not want means to support his new state. All the recog nition this sultan took of the brave act was to give his deliverer a horse. ftrta Cta liaaia. Fresh importations of cotton fabrics tor spring sod summer dresses are shown each week at the wholesale stores, sad many are exposed for sale in the retail shops, (.hints patterns are found among these both ia light end dark colors, sod with borders or without them. The percales are espe cially pretty ia their eotweb Patterns on white grounds with web-Uke lines. on which gsy figure are thrown. There are also many in Watt can colors and designs combining line with pink, or rose with gisy, and showing birds. baskets cf flowers, tiny landscapes or pipes, shepherdess hats, and flowers bound np with ribbons. ' The polka dots prevail, however, tn all Ut soft fin ished goods, and come In all dark bronsA, brown, garnet and blue shade. The Madm cloths are the popular zephyr ginghams in all the old-fashioned checks, bars and stripes that wash and wear so well, and tn seats new contrasts of eolcr besides. The cheviots are excellent for aetrice, axd represent the twilled and plaid effects of the Scotch wool cheviots. Eos lis b calicoes, heavier tban percale, come in the chintz ratterns that they si sraj s repeat from French calicoes, and in the popular polka dots cf were on dark gToonds ; the latter are psrtieulaily liked in black and white for ladies dressing in mourning. Sstinette is a cew cotton fabric thet can scare1 j be ditinguirbed from fou lard, as it ia " silky " even to Ibe touch. This bss a costly twilled sorfae. is not nearly so thick a the usual cott r sat in ea, and is brought ont in must sj rtie colors and desjgxa, with plain sat incite 'o Dstrh the ground of rseb rat tern. It comes with a err am grouna strewn with Marshal Ntrl rrse-buds, or pale pink with deeper pink roses, or bine grounds with either pink or yello rose. To mate np with these olive- colored plain sstinette will be used with the cream ground, or deeper blue with pale bine, or tbey may Lave 'he same ground throng bout. Dark brown, green. wine color and purple are shown ia the plain shades, and these will make ex cellent foundation for the aatinrttes in " stained-. lass designs, as loose axe called that cover the fabric with figurts. leaving so single color for the ground ; similar designs were used last year in foulards, and were sometimes employed for the entire dress, thocgh com binations with olive, dark blae, seal brown or bronze shades were fonnd to be very effective For lighter colored dretaes these satin eltes have white, gray, pearl or pick grounds strewn with carnations, nastur STatae at Ka Writ'rg oa this sabieet a eorrespetd- ent of the CW7 save : Farmers who neglect to provide either Carrots, rarssips, brets or tamips for their stock tasks a serious taiatais. if thry anticipate the best prof.t and work for Urge resalta. Wa eftea sew the feedies ef roots arrad froos aa English standpoint, bet taaav things ia this conn try ia aa arkutlarl point are quite di cercnt. Aevrrtbelesa. there ia no question of the alne ad ecoocoy cf feeding roots ia this country to a larger silent than is dona st rreeent. Probably the most easily raised, roost productive, and meat profitable rvot crops for us to raise, are some of the varieties ol beet, some or wntea grow very large sad yield fOO to 1.000 bush el to the acts, if the land is wU manured and thoroughly tilled. The heat wsy to grow them is to 1st thea follow some deeply-wotked. Uighly-csa-nured crcp, oa thoroughly good land. putUsg on do man are lbs year the beets are grewn, There will then Us few weeds to trouble, which is cflea the plague of root eultare. ibe fomtr 'rret aays : tai are (he aabe which msaia ia our stoves after the stick cf oak tr ma pis is burned, or that are Ist ia a blackened beap where one stxxl a straw stack alter era tas beea applied J m an swer. They are the IndeairactfUe part of the wood or fiber the mineral per lion which has be a extracted froca the soil and absorbed by the growing plants. This earth cf ours is a regular store house of potash and t boephcru asd soda, and earcesia, acd lias, and sil tea, which U, by a wonder! el process of natare, taken np by tbw rootlets of the l last and coavtrted into wood. fiber and bark. Into everything fa the shape ot plant Ufa go these minerals ia greater or less degree to balp male tz also and Wei and flower and trail The absence of any one ia the soil dimin ishes, to a certain extent, the groth of the plant, and the feaeraj lak of all results ia what is generally known as " worn out Land." Every crop re moved, therefore, takes with it a cer tain portion of these iodipnsable sia meate, whkh must, in time, be restored. or rWroi3 a ta Tax Wash, reel sad site some very goM potatoes) of zaadiaos sis, c-ultlsg e-ech potato lato six picoea; eteam uttil tx!er; have read some freah tattr rat ia'o dicv pi a re the potatoes ia a hot drsh. rprUkle crushed silt aal strew tbw butter v thea aad serve fatel-aUly. Ftaa Sacra. Jl ds'irioca UU saws is cads cf ha!f a rrp rf batUr, oca Ublespmcfal i4 jr ley cb--pped vary flee, a little salt sol it-pp aal the jiice of two small le-aoae, or of oae Ure one. Warm ike better s l.tvls so that you ran eailv bt tt ta a rev-am, then rail wilh tb obr tne TvTil. tailing tha paralev la latt. jstl Utjra sending tt toths UMa. JUca CjnciTiirCtksb3tWn cf a puJdstg diah with sliors cf brotKi Lam; cat np a brsVl chicken sat nearly 11 the dwh; rr in gravy and ktad batter to 11 the &h; adJ cbepped oaioae if yw l.ke. cr a Mtle enrry fum&e. wUeV la Wise; tbsw aid boUM rice to &1 all totersuces and cevrr the top tblrk. Dds it for one-half cr three quarters of sa boar. Tarvra Pt iiTa 8-k a cup of tapioca all hl ta water; ia U extra- ing cuaah wiih a rrrwo every litUs - dissolved part-!; pal tt la a quart ot B.UV. writ a IiUU salt sdJrd; tet tt boil until the tardea it soft, then star la the yoU of five or ait rr a 1 a sxp ef ragar; flsver with ltata; a baa ocUi spread over the tcp a ihia laer of J-J :y or raspberry :sta, sax ra tbt pwt a mertngaeof the wbitsc4 llrfserra. L4 it brown ia the ova for two or three minutes. Hrsrs c w Cuts Baarx Wbeueake are made without jeai or egfs, soda sad powder btag the vu tits'., ty require quxa rusts tt a inMera&ety hot oven, sni bcw'd b drmsa dir-tly thy sr da or lby gtt iry srd taste- !. roe a 4aia est, a-ais snia ooe pound of toxr. etc., t aa lite lo be sl towed ia bakisg wosli bs from fo-ty to fifty talauUa, at the out ails not tstrre lhaa aa bsar. Tea esW take loagar sav frova tea to Bflrsa avautaa-aad will b-ar beitg left ia the owa rather ovr the time without each Lrjary. Very rich cakes, la which tuUer aad egg predomieste, take, of ewTOwa.vwc? trnch loegr liox t ovik. poua cake taking frce aa boar aad a Lalf or to boars, sad a bri Is cake thres aal a half. Oa no sceunt should sa ovwa be too Lot a bra the rake is jet ta that Is. hot exosra f brown at ooee ; if ao, ta Cv tci&stes the whole uUHa will be barnrd. and the l&Urkr wdl aland litlLr chaaca -f LvUg cooked. The old plan of frolics? tba handle ef the oven da r to teal tbe Lest Is sot al ways areefst; tt is btUr to tinkle a little flea LvfcU atd alt tbe door for about tbree mints W; if at the end cf thai I-me it is c-f a rich I fU brown Us cake may be put la. t at if bnrnrd the b'sl tcuat Cr.t b U rrl. Ia mat tag ck rs see lhat sll iLe IsrraJwaU sra ihorcugbly dnel bl ro us--. a the Boar; thin fcr a vry rkn cake, where a nail color ta waited, t&sy o laaea. ot tut inpgirnuBCBiw -' as it ad U materially to tb ri b appear- Llencs the spplieiUon ef manures asd I .. rJ tu m.J iurt. n,at tla mt fertilizers, which contain, ia an eminent ts . cUm. - ora window it possible, sod then let thea ssy till wanted. It may net beoct cf place here if I sarreattosny Isly amateur who wis Lea to practice tbe art of cake teak lag that ale ahoull take rare to Lave all Ler l&grxdiests ready to br Lai d before commencing Ler work sugar poandsJ. raisins atoned and cboj pJ ft Mcaary, citron rut ep, rwrrente washed and dnw, aad tiss already greased to bold ths tail tors when ready. tineas of natural sizr taskcts filled wi:h flowers, bouquets without baskets and bird patterns of most varied coloring. All tbrs pretty designs sre repetu in sheer batiste of most beautiful quality that is handsome enough to be made up over silk; fifty ccQts a yard is the price of the eatinetlee and also of the new batistes, fine cambrics and shirt ing have blue grounds with white figures, or white with colored figure. The new pattern for theae is called the Comet of 1831, and represents two comets crossing each other, one blue tbe other red, or some other contrast ing colors. There sre also anchor pat terns, nogs, squares, stnpes, bars, the curved line of beauty forming the letter 8, horseshoes and polka dots so small that they arw mere specks of color grad uating np to those like great bails or moens. Harper a liatar. raaSlaa Was. Mr. Mulhall, of theS tatistioal Society of London, estimates the amount earned by commerce, manufactures, mining, agriculture, carrying, and banking in Earope in 1880 at 7,6S3,U0U,UUU, show ing an increase for Ureal Britain ot 337,000,000, against 1,218,000,000 for tho rest of Europe. The .man who has never tried the companionship of little children, has carelessly passed by the greatest pleasure of his life, as one passes a pure flower without plucking it or knowing its value. When Abel was followed to the grave the funeral procession consisted only of members "of tbe first family ,nNeit York Herald. The matter of constructing the best and most effective device for escape from threatened buildings in case of fire has lately received marked attention throughout the country, and many improvements have been sug gested. One of the most ingenious of these new devioes, and for which thorough safety is urged ss tho chief features, was recently described before an engineers' club in Philadelphia, where drawing were exhibited illustrat ing its workings. The new fire-escape, according to those, ia a fireproof brick tower, octagonal in respect to its exter nal construction, but having an interior of cylindrical shspo. In this interior is a central shaft about eighteen inches in diameter, around which is built a species of winding passage, a trifle over two feet in width and having a smooth or glazed surface. This passage ia in clined at an angle of thirty-fire degrees, and has curves the inclination ot which is modified to secure retardation of im petus. The tower is intended as an addition to a factory or other building, and is built in such a manner that tt connects with each floor of the edifice by means of doors of fireproof oon- Ittl-e Toir Own FUh. By attaching a pump, propelled by the wind, to a well you ctn supply a basin from fifty to seventy-five feet in diameter and six to eight feet deep, with water sufficient to raise several thousand can or other fish. The cost of this pond and appurtenances need not exceed fifty dollars. The bottom and aides need to be cemented tborenehlv. When the basin is com plete. plaoe in it a email quantity of brush or floating weeds. It you intend to raise carp, do net place other fish of a predatory character in the pond. The spawning will occur during the spring months, the female laying from 60,000 to 500,000 egga. The eggs will adhere to whatever they touch, and will coon hatch. The green (cum of a partially stagnant pond is floe food for the young fisb. Mud in the bottom of the pond is beneficial. The fish will feed readily cn kitchen-garden refuse, such as cab bage, leek, lettuce, hominy or other substances. Water seldom becomes too warm for these fish. Daring frees ins weather thev burr themselves in tbe mud st tbe bottom of the pond. While in this condition they should cot be disturbed. Ia a pond of tbe (riven dimensions several thousand fish have annually been taken, If weeds and grass grow profusely about the borden of the pond, so much better for the fish. In two years' time you can have an abundant and constant supply of sport and food, and the ad- vantago ot a pond to aesut ia beauti tying your borne. Bonnets grow a little smaller. The tage for old gold is on the wane. The name for new sateens is sati net te. Percales show pretty cobweb pat- terns. The capcte, cf good size, is the com ing bonnet. Shrimp pink and shell pink will be much wcrn. Peacock feather embroideries enjoy high fsror. Tiny lan di capes appear as figures on some of the new printed cotton goods. Broad moire sashes are aeea upon many stylish winter cloaks and visiter. The new organdie muslins are woven in large plaids, bars and stripes of pure colon. Dark ball d r5SaT?waaj Ugh ted only by a bunch of bright flowers, are worn in London. Scotch ginghams show t-e same heather miituroa that appear in the new cheviote. Large red roiebads in ebsne effects on a ground or ahrtmp pinx are amoi g new aa teens for spriog wear. The first importations ot spring silks have moire grounds with geometrip and flowered damisse designs. Fringe or folds of plush are used to trim all pointed waists, except those made for the most t lender women. Colored stones set with diamonds are considered mere U eVonable lhaa soli tiiree or onyx ixexujtsd with the geaj. hence the veloe of green crop Inroad under, which abound la potash aad nitrogen and phosphorus ia a laree degree. It would seem, then, that if tha aahe of a p'ant were restored to the soil on which they grew that they would tend in a large degree to revive la waste, sxd that burring of the straw oa our wheat fields was not so bad a thing after alL Well, it is not, c rtrridlag the burning can be made general all over the field and the aabe equally diatrib uted. A large pott ion of the constit uent el em ecu bav been permanently taken away, however, ia tha grain; yet, if tbe aabe of tb straw could be aa errnlv spread ss those of a prairie fire. the result would be equally as beneficial, for we all know that prairies which Lav been burned over prodace sweeter aad more luxuriant grata, owing Largelr. no doubt, to the ashes whkh have beea left upon them. Is it wie, then, to burn the straw on the fields f In tt& respects, yes, aad ia others, no. Tea, bacaus aahs ia say form sr-plieJ to the soil are beneficial, aad no, bvoaus if the straw waa ted to stock or used for bedding, and lb era by made into manure, its value as a fer tilizer would be still farther increased. nsv bean looking over some suthoritie on this subject, aad find that everywhere ashes are commended. The old editor cf the Jatsrvxn Ajri cat&vrU. Mr. Lewis F. Allen, aaja: " Don't wast even a pound ot your ashes. Bare them aad apply to the soil st tb rats ot twelve to Cflaea bushsla to ths acre on light soils, and twic that amount on heavy one. All kinds of mots and grasses are especially bene fited, and even if they Lav baeu leached apply them, as only a portion of the potash and soda Lav bora re moved. The drpartarat of agriruJ tur for 1675 report a oa where, ba for th a rrli cation of ashes, a certain field had only yielded 600 pounds of hay per acre. Ashe were freely put oa in th fall and th yield th next season waa increased to a ton. Th next year the yield was a ton and a half, and for five neoessiv years fol lowing th cut wa over a ton per acre. Tb party Lad tried barn yard manure on tb asm field, bat failed to reap aa great a benefit aa with th aabe. liar- na, tb aatber of "Wall a aad Talks About th Farm. aays: I us all tb wood avhes I can get oa my farm. It agree with my land as well ss tnaaur doe." As so we might go indefinitely giving ill tut ratio, all proving the valo of this fertiliser to the aciL For wheat lands it would probably b better that th straw b mad Into manure and thus applied, as avhes are not as quickly appropriated by wheat a they are by gras. It is a good deal better for tb land, at aay rate, to stack th straw and 1st th rat- tl feed from it, than it Is to burn it ia th center ot th field. Mad into tnanur it Is easily convert ibi into its original slam eels aad, being washed into th soil by th rains, it is readily taken np by lb rootlets of th growing plant. Th moral of this brief artide ta, save not only your mantra but your abs. Restore to th soil ia sobs ahsp that which you. Lav taken from it or els par th penalty ta years to com tn dwarfed and stinted crops. The ashes that are made ta your stove save aad apply either to your meadows or graia field. The ash that bar bora Xla'.ag by Asatect, S no hotating works oot if I kaow it. Yoa caa fool away a cool deal cf god. hard cot a on Loutinf worts." flow in th den' do yoa run your mice ? Oa the aaseaasent plan, sir. That's tLe 1st eat ard taot ia provwl method. When we Lav a gocd map ot th lower wakings ww douTt 4 say work a to speak cf- I keep a cat ia'Virxlaia at 30 a month to eupena Ued th location and writ weekly let ters, aad I stay la Saa FrancUc) ta tsy effie oa Piae street, acd levy th aa ments every sixty dsvs; that's ss cflra ss th Is w allows. I a a tie rseaident, board cf trustees, tecrttary, trtaiurrr and everything nor especially th treasurer. Ol court I draw salary for all tbw cSew. aad whea I get throve h draw-fag eslsrie I tarn th rest owe to th sgent ta Virginia to pay o9 Ik I Land. By not eaplcyieg aay tan. Is. f he save eucujh to pay himself. This is what I call aeJesUfi taints c itr. Ton get th silver oat of Lb pockets of la stockholders axd leav tb ra4 argsstiferous aad s anJsroua atrpoeile ia your claim fcr your cbiidras, who eaa go right ahead and develop tie mice Jat aa soon aa th pabite quit Eutlieg up, whkh isn't st all Lksly to sppea- As locg a peopl are beig bora ia Nevada aad California tsy xaia will rua oa Lk a chrccoaetar clock."' " Bat," said tb Utah taaa, tny atyl of mining keep lots of ta at work." Bo doe mm.- quoth tb Golden Stat chap, M Thousands of men are working night a-vl day to pay th -aeaamcnta. It keeps th aoaxlry as bury as a baa Live,"' and th speaker sauntered to th telegraph cSo to order eastern eut No. 36. iMmrrr A'ewa. Kewse Kick A aaerVaa, Th New Tork fr estimates th wealth of a few rich tao as follows: W. H. Vendee biit, f 30Q.OOO.OCW; Jay Oould. 1100,000,000; Ms-.key, t.00Q. 000; Orxker. tOOO.000; John Bocka fallar. of th Standard Oil ccxapany, 1 10.000. 000; C P. Ilenti&ATtoa. t23, OO0.OCO; D. O. Mills, f20.000.000; Sex. tor Fair. fS3.000.000; ex Governor Stav-V lord, ItO OOaOOO; Russell Sar. I IV- 000 000; J. IL Kate. 113,000,000; tt. J. Tildao, llS.0OaOOOr U D. Ucrrao, 8 10,000.000; Ssmuel fJloatt. tlP.OXYJ.OTr; Coatmodav Oarrisoa. 1 10. 000, OCX); Cy ras W. Field. tl0.COi.0fA Bsc J. Jewett, S2.000.OUO; . B-dtty Lhlloa, 5,000.000; Dand Dow. 1.000.000, J. F. De Navarro. W.OOO.O-O; Jcha W Oarrtts. 13.000 000. and W. W. Aator, li.0O0.tOa Th Mar aids; TL real estate of Ororma, th Lydiaa king, th richest scan cf antiquity, was wor a ti,vO0,00a, about two-thirds thavaJce of VsaderbfU'e and Lis boas c:t fiOaOOO. whO that cf Vasderbdt will cost $-5,000,000. Tb value C4 th lal W. H, Aator a real eatate aTcc worth tnore at the time of hit dealh than (bat I Europe. of aay nx crowned Lew I
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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March 2, 1882, edition 1
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