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- v js j II ii i r jiLiiir. ii ii mini r i-n j l r . i-n i i-n - L V. & E. T. BLUM, Publishers and Proprietors. TERMS: CASH IN ADVANCE. 0a Oopy on Tear, . . . , . , , . .tLBO " " six months, ".. J7J thrm VOL. XXX. SALEM, N. C., SEPTEMBER 21, 1882. NO. 38. " : " ' " , . ' ' " M4TOS. DSkeATOM. Qntiti h JJoMtM', ftfmhrt, qritvttorf, ($ Jxritis mi fount Jttfarmxfoq. VERY LOWEST PRICES m I : ; : 1 -------------- , - 1 ... s Early Autumn. Of seasons this the perfect type The earth, the teeming earth is ripe I From regal heights of mountain glad To inmost depth feriny 6hade, The pullulating echoes fly . With rapt repeatings of this cry, Tea, ripe, in full fruition, stand The numerous plains, the meadow land This, yellow with its latter grain ; That, shadowed by the russet train Of fait Pomana's fragrant robe, Whose rustling steps full harvests bode. Outlined in bine and palest gold, The distant hills soft mists unfold ; A gentle wind just breaks the grass, .To let its whispers reach a, mass Of anreou8 and purple bloom Propendent o'er a lowly tomb. Some few cicadas try to sing Their summer notes ; the crickets ring Their tiny cymbals far and wide ; While gaudy moth-flies flaunt in pride, ; Where homely spiders weaving glide, And field mice covertly abide. The river flows with broader swirls ; A brooklet glints and blithely purls Amidst its dikes of stones and moss ; And, here and there, leaves crinkled toss Forerunners of the latter fall Which must proceed gray winter's palh Yet still the dreary season far In future lies, and cannot mar The peaceful scene of hearty life. Whereof all nature seems so rife. - It leaps, this life, on maiden cheeks, Whrch deeper blush) and its course leaps Through every muscle of the youth, Whose ready hand strips from their booth The juicy clusters of the grape.' ' Which coiling tendrils closely drape. It beats, it throbs, ah yes, is told. In joyous flow, to staid and. old, In measures full, yes, bounteously, ; In sooth it seemeth good to be 1 - If but to f eel the wholesome flood Of quickened thought and freshened blood ; Which issues from the brain and heart, And to each wish would zest impart, Yielding the soul a cheering faith That love and joy are not a wraith? WiUiavx SUmthers. malice when she persists In doing it.M "What should he do next ? He could not stay in the cellar all night and hcl did not like to batter down the door with the poker. A -happy thought! He went to the furnace, and, with the help of the hatchet from the kindling wood pile, he cut the tin flue which conveyed the heat up to Mrs. hit aker a room. Certainly he could com pel her to hear him now. He put his mouth to the broken flue and caned, "El-len, El-len!" Then he Btopped and listened. He thought he could hear- Ellen breathing softly in her sleep, but he was not certain. He called again and more loudly, and then put his fingers in his mouth and whistled. " Probably I can wake the baby anyhow, and the baby will wake her," he said. But no. response came down the flue. The baby seemed to be sleeping with almost supernatural soundness, and, manitesuy; airs, wmt- aker had her deaf ear up. Mr. Whitaker was almost beside himself with rage. "A woman," he said, "who would treat "her husband in such a manner as this is capable of anything. Either Ellen will stop sleep ing with her deaf ear up or we will separate." . A third time he applied his lips to the tin pipe and bawled into it until he was hoarse. He thought he heard his spouse walking across the Mrs. Wliitaker's Deaf Ear. Mrs. w mtaker was, dear in one ear. - It was her right ear, and it was stone deaf. Mrs. Whitaker had acquired a habit of sleeping upon her left side, with her ueai ear up, and this bad olten been a source of annoyance to her husband, who was nervous and irritable, while she was a woman whose calmness and serenity of disposition were remark able. Sleeping with her deaf ear up Mrs. Whitaker at night was rarely disturbed by noises which robbed her husband of ms rest. The hum of the mosquitos which maddened him was not heard by her. A passing thunder-storm which roused iiin in a summer night and sent lu& flying about to close the windows "would leave her in perfect unconscious ness of its existence. The noises in the streets and the rattling of the window-sashes upon windy nights fre quently filled Mr. Whitaker with vex ation as they deprived him of sleep but his wife slumbered sweetly on and heard them not. Indeed, it rarely hap pened that she heard the crying of the Lady until Mr. Whitaker, indignant at : its refusal to go to sleep, would rouse her by shaking her, and would ask her to try to soothe the little one. , Mr. Whitaker had olten remon. strated with his wife about, this habit of sleeping with her deaf ear up, and she had often replied good-humoredly with a promise to try to remember to break herself of it, but "somehow or other it continued to cling to her. One night in winter time Mr. Whit aker sat up in his library till ablate hour reading a dook in which he was very much interested. His wife retired early. Mr. Whitaker finally closed his - book, and after locking the front door went down in the cellar, in accord ance with his custom, to see if the fur- nace fire had been fixed properly for tne night. v nue ne was poiung it a gust of wind came through the screen upon one of the cellar windows and slammed the door leading into the back hallway above, through which he had come. For a moment Mr. Whitaker did not think of the matter particu larly, but suddenly he remembered that he had put a spring lock on the other side of that door, and the thought struck him that the catch might pos sibly be down. He ascended the stairs and tried the door. The catch was down; and he had. no key. He was locked in the cellar, for the key of the , out-cellar door he knew was in the kitchen. - ' He could hardly think what he- had better do about the matter, but finally he concluded to try to make his wife hear him and come to his rescue. He seized the long and heavy furnace poker, and inserting the crook of it above the bell-wire that ran along the joist or the cellar ceiling he pulled. The bell jangled loudly, but it was in the kitchen, and Mrs. Whitaker was in the front room in the second story, Would she hear it? He pulled the wire again, twice, then he sat down on the steps and waited. There was no re sponse. It then flashed upon the mind of the imprisoned man that Mrs. Whit aker was probably sleeping with the deaf ear up. ... This increased his growing irritation, and he pulled the bell-wire with the poker fifteen or twenty times. "I could hear that a mile from here if I were deaf as a post !" he exclaimed as. he threw the poker on the floor and xook nis seat again, with the bell still vibrating. : Mrs. Whitaker did not hear the noise, for no sound of her comim , reached the ears of her impatient an! indignant husband. .ne grew angrier every moment. He felt a sense of injustice. It seemed un. kind, inhuman for his wife to be sleep ing away calmly upstairs, while he was locked up in the dismal recesses of the ceuar. " I'll make her hear me or I'll break something," he exclaimed, seizing the poker and hooking it upon the bell- wire. inen he pulled the wire with such furious energy that he broke it, and the jangling of the bell died away I11!! nttle 8hort of scandalous,1 said Mr. Whitaker. nave spoicen so often to Ellen about sleeping with her deaf ear up that it looks like malice deliberate, fiendish floor, but when he called again there was no response, and he knew that he was mistaken. The soul of Mr. Whitaker was filled with gloom. In his anger he indulged in sardonic humor. "I suppose she rather relishes having me down in the cellar here all night ; it is a good joke! But let her take care! She may laugh upon the other side of her mouth be fore we are done with this business !" And he laughed a wild and bitter laugh. Poor Mrs. Whitaker, sleeping sweet ly upstairs in perfect unconsciousness, would have been deeply pained to learn how gravely her husband wronged her. 1 must get out of here somehow or other," said Mr. Whitaker. "The win dow is small, but I can crawl through it I reckon, if I try." He unhooked the frame containing the wire screen which protected the window and pushed it outward. Then procuring a wash-tub and climbing from it' to the window-sill he thrust his head out and dragged his body through. When he reached the front pavement his face was covered with cobwebs and his clothes with coal dust: but he exulted in the thought that he was a free man. He took his dead-latch key from his pocket and was about to try to open the front door when he remembered that he had locked the door and put up the chain bolt. There was no use trying to ring the belL The wire was broken, and Mrs. Whitaker wouldn't hear the bell if the wire hadn't been broken. There was but one last hope of making her hear, and that was by throwing gravel stones against the window. Mr. Whitaker tried the experiment. The first hand ful produced no effect. The sleeper did not hear it. Neither did she hear the second handful, nor the third, nor the tenth, which was dashed against the glass with such violence that Mr. Whitaker expected to see it shivered to fragments. Mr. Whitaker was at his wit's end. There was a faint light burning in the room, and as he looked up at it and thought of his wife slumbering quietly on while he was in such great trouble. his wrath grew so fierce that he felt capable of doing something really ter rible. But what should he do? The poor lady was as much beyond his reach, for the time, as if she hail been in China. He thought for a moment of ' trying to borrow a ladder; but where could he get a ladder in the middle of the night? No; as his sense of personal injury deepened he more and more firmly resolved that he would punish Ellen somehow or other for her indifference. As he could not obtain admission to his own house, why should he not fly? Why should he not go off somewhere and give his wife some thing to worry over in repayment for all the wrong she had inflicted upon him by persisting, against his earnest and repeated remonstrance, in sleeping with her deaf ear up. Mr. Whitaker turned passionately away from the house and walked rapidly down the street. He had no particular destination in his mind, but he hurried along with a vague notion that he might perhaps go to a hotel when he left calmer. In a few mo ments he came to the railroad depot, not far from his dwelling. It was brilliantly lighted, and, as he looked at it, he remembered that a train started for. New York at midnight. He walked into the waiting-room. The minute hand on the huge marble clock indicated three or four minutes of twelve. Mr. Whitaker rushed up to the ticket office and bought a ticket for New York, Then he hurried into the car and took a seat. He had upon his head his velvet smoking-caD. so that his appearance did not excite re mark. Presently the train started. and Mr. Whitaker actually felt a kind of malicious joy as he thought he would soon be far away from his wife. It was a slow train, and he had plenty of time to think, and as he thought his passion began to cool, and the conviction began to press in upon him that he had been behaving very foolishly. How absurd it was to blame poor Ellen because he had locked him self in the cellar! He pictured her lying by the side of the baby, calm in the belief that he was still sitting in the library. This recalled to his mind her deaf ear and her fondness for sleep ing with it up. Then he had a revul sion of feeling and he began to grow angry, again. But this was a mere flash. Steadily he advanced toward a more reasonable view of the situation, and as he did so he concluded that it would be a great act of folly to go all the way to New York. He asked the conductor the name of the next sta tion. It was Bristol. He made up his mind to get out there and go home early in the morning. He really felt badly to think how much alarmed and distressed his wife would be when she discovered his absence. When he stepped from the train at Bristol rain was falling quite rapidly, and ope feeble light in front of the station shone through the deep dark, ness. Mr. Whitaker inquired of the man upon the platform the way to a hotel, and then he started to go to it. In descending the wet and slippery steps of the platform he lost his foot ing and fell. He was very much hurt and found that he could not rise. He called for help, and when the railroad man the only man who was any where about came to him, he discov ered that further assistance would be required, for Mr. Whitaker's leg was broken. The man soon brought three other men, and placing the hurt man upon a board they carried him to the hotel and sent for a doctor. If Mr. Whitaker, sitting in the car. had thought himself a very foolish man, what did Mr. Whitaker, lying far away from home in a wretched hotel, with his leg broken, think: of himself? Mr. Whitaker thought that If there was a colossal idiot on this earth he was that personage. Early in the morning he sent a tele gram to his wife, urging her to come to him at once, and right speedily came a reply from her, saying that she would take the train which ordinarily reached Bristol at 9 o'clock. ' From the windows of his bedroom in the hotel the invalid could see the station and the railroad, and as he watched them, while he longed for the train to come, he tried to arrange in his mind, for his wife, an explanation of his conduct which would present it in its best possible light. Senseless anger is one of the things that defies justification, and a man's very sense that his wife's love makes her capacity for forgiveness almost il limitable, only tends to deepen his shame when he is conscious of having wronged her. Mr. Whitaker resolved, after think ing the matter oyer, that the best thing to do would be frankly to confess his fault and to throw himself upon his wife's mercy. He heard the whistle which an nounced the approach of the 9 o'clock train. The train came in view and drew up to the station. Mr. Whit aker looked eagerly at the persons who got out of the cars, but Ellen was not among them. She had not come. He fell back again upon the bed with a sigh and began again to grow angry with her. But the poor woman was on that train. Alarmed by the discovery when she rose in the morning that Ms. Whitaker was not in the house, her alarm was increased when she received the telegram sent by him. What could be the explanation of the mys tery of his disappearance? She was so agitated that she could hardly pre pare for the journey. But she reached the depot and got into the car and began to move toward Bristol. Some what weary from too great nervous ex citement, she placed her muff against the frame of the car window and rested her head upon it, while her veil covered her closed eyes. Unhappily she had arranged herself with her deaf ear up, and so she did not hear the conductor when he. shouted "BristolP and she was so deeply absorbed in thinking of Mr. Whitaker that she did not notice that the train had stopped. When he found that his wife had not come Mr. Whitaker made up his mind to go home at all hazards. A steamboat stopped at the wharf at half-past 9 On its way to the city; and borne upon a litter he had himself carried on board. In an hour he was at the city wharf, whence a wagon carried him to his house, ne was shocked and disappointed to ascertain from the servant that Mrs. Whitaker had gone to see him on the train in which she said she would go. He could not comprehend why she had missed him, and all day long he lay in bed worrying about her and Wondering why she did not come. Mrs. Whitaker got back to Bristol about noon and ascertained by inquiry that her husband had returned, with a broken leg, to the city. There was no train that she could take until 4 o'clock, and she spent the interval in inquiring about the accident to Mr. Whitaker and trying vainly to ascertain the reason of his extraordinary conduct. About half-past 5 o clock he heard her voice in the lower entry. He lis tened eagerly to her quick footsteps upon the stairs. Then she flung the door open. Mrs. Whitaker did not speak as she entered the room. She uttered a little cry, flew to the bed side and put her arms about her hus band's neck and kissed him. Mr. Whitaker felt that if he should have exact justice dealt to him he would be sent to the scaffold. When she had nearly smothered him with kisses she sat down beside him, and taking hold of his hand said: "And now, dearest, tell me what causes all this strange trouble?" " Why, you know, Ellen" said Mr. Whitaker, "It was your deaf ear!" " How do you mean?" " You slept with it up." And then Mr. Whitaker related the whole story, and as he did so his wife began to cry. " I am so sorry," she said. " I will promise you never to sleep with my deaf ear up again;' never, never, neverP "Ellen," responded Mr. Whitaker, " you will do me a favor if you will always sleep with it up and stuff cot ton in your other ear beside! I have behaved like a wretch." Then the doctor, who had been vainly pulling at the broken bell-wire, knocked upon the front door and came in to examine Mr. Whitaker's frac tured leg. Our Continent. FACTS A5D C0XXE3T8. Well-informed political economists estimate that the United States lost upward of $500,000,000 by reason of the ill-fortune of agriculture last year. Even our statesmen will soon recog nize the fact that agriculture forms an important spoke in the national wheel of progress. The rate at which railroad bulldiag is progressing throughout the world is indicated by the reported issues of new capital in Europe. An excellent authority states that out of a total new investment of $317,972,000 during the first half of 1882, $147,190,500 were for railroads. Of this vast sum France received $44,118,500, Great Britain $39,038,000, America, in cluding Canada and Mexico, $38,055, 000, Germany $10,701,000, and Hol land $8,872,400, leaving only $16,000,-1 UUU lor all the rest of Europe. a remarxaDie sandstorm, accom panied by an intensely cold tempera ture, is mentioned in Icelandic jour nals as having raged on that island fo two weeks during the past spring The air was filled with dry, fine sand to such a degree that it was impossible to see lor more than a short distance. and the sun was rarely visible, though the sky was clear of clouds. Nobody ventured out of his house except upon matters of most urgent necessity, and many who were exposed to the storm were frofen. The sand penetrated into the iiouses through the minutest crevices. .It was found mixed with ar ticles oi. rood ana drink, and every breath drew it into the lungs. Thou sands of sheep and horses died. On one of the ranches of Nevada the Widow Loveless carries on the business of raising hay and cattle, and asks no favors of any man, except to be excused from paying a poll tax The assessor declares that he would be happy to accommodate her, but that if she will insist on wearing trousers she must pay up like a man. The widow's name perfectly describes the condition of her heart since her scapegrace of a husband deserted her a year and a half ago, taking with him several of her best horses. She rides and throws the lasso as skillfully as any herdsman of the plains, and as she sweeps past there is nothing to denote her sex except her auburn hair which waves about her shoulders. world over for the patience, cheerfuV ness and Independence with which the people of Iceland confront the difficult problem of life in their bleak and bar ren country. Their existence is at east a struggle, but they are now threatened with actual famine. In a etter to the London iWtr Mr. Wil liam Morris calls attention to a report which the governor has just laid be fore the ministry at Copenhagen. The following are the main facts of the suoatlon: The unexampled cold win ter of 18S0-81 was followed by a cold summer, the hay crop was a failure. ana, in consequence, an unusual num ber ox sheep and many cows were of necessity slaughtered in the falL The last week was so stormy that sheep and noises eouia not sareiy be turned out to graze, and many of them died. Ex- eewive ice made the present summer a very lata one: last year's failure of hay and stock made the people too poor to buy imported fodder, and, as a result, thousands of live stock have died; th lambing has failed; the milk or both twes and cows is very scarce; the usual autumn trade in sheep and tallow, upon which great dependence placed, will fail; a hurricane last pril overwhelmed with sand-drifts many farms In the neighborhood of Ilecla; aid lastly, the measles, which has not visited Iceland for thirty-six years, ant which, when falling on a people not used to it, is a deadly and not a trivial disease, is spreading over the couEtry. If any Americans de sire to ail this unfortunate people they can send subscriptions to Messrs. Mort lock & Co., University bankers. Cam bridge, Ea gland. LADIES DEFAEIXOT. Host women look well la plala black, relieved by a dash of color here and there. To the falr-akinned Euro pean races, indeed, black and white dress is naturally becoming, for the delicate tones of the skin form a middle tint between the two. On the other hand, if we come upon a negro dressed in Uack; the features and the pupils of the eyes, which we wish particularly to see, have vanished; we cannot get rid of the whites of the eyes, which are forced into startling and unpleas ant forwardness, and which, under a normal state of circumstances, are in tended only to enhance the dark pupil and iris. A light dreaa, which brings out the dark feature and tone down the white of the eye, to the proper wear for dark races. In fair races the rule with individual exceptions, of course is that the dark, eye harmo nizes the fair skin with the dark dress, or is a telling point of color when a light dress is worn. To my mind people ef beautiful coloring look best attired with equal attention to the tinting and the light and shade of the complexion; but the effect can never be complete without the mediation of some neutral color white is the best between the face and hands and the dress. The white may be slightly toned, like old lace. We want the sug gestion of dean linen, as well as the actual color of the white. A pale dress generally needs the accentuation of a darker color. port, where they are worn over dresses of satlne muslin or foulard. Shoes that are laced in front and tipped with palest leather are in great favor. Low shoes are entirely ef patent leather and are worn with black boisery. Slippers of kid are cut low on the toes and are without ornament. Canvas shoes ax worn in the country for long walks and mountain climbing. Pointed toes and high heels meet with the protest of all good shoemaker, as they ar of permanent injury to th feet. HrXOB 07 THE DAT. T4 Beaatlfal Rata f Taals. Mr. McCullough, a well-known Western journalist, has been looking over Utah. He thinks polygamy is dying out. He thinks, too, that the multitudinosity of woman attachments carries with it its own punishment. clung this instance : "My friend tells me, said "Mack." politely, to an abundantly woman-equipped Mormon, " that you are numerously sealed." Hi replied that he had five wives. Prettj soon one of the five came along ant joined her quintuple husband on thi street. "I simply inquired of the friend who had introduced me if ihs other four were like unto this. Ue said they were. Then, said I, nature furnishes its own punishment fur polygamy, and Congress ought not to interfere." Fish culture in New York State.it would seem, has been munificently re warded. The trout-fishermen report that the fishing has been excellent in the restocked streams this spring. Cal ifornia trout were distributed for three seasons, but not until 1881 were the fish commissioners able to distribute them in quantities large enough to make their presence felt. Twelve years ago the shad had been so nearly driven out of the Hudson that the fishermen abandoned the shad-fisheries of the river. The present year, owing to the work of the New York fish commission. snad were more plentiful than ever before. Within a distance of six miles. according to Seth Green, 30.830 full grown shad were taken. Mr. Green states the work done by the New York State fish commission under his super vision amounts to the following : Shad hatched from 1870 to 1881, 53,009,000 ; salmon-trout from 1870 to 1881, 10,- 980,000 ; whitefish from 1870 to 1881, 2,438,000 ; brook-trout from 1876 to 1881, 5,375,000 ; California trout from 1879 to 1881, 1.288,700; California salmon from 1873 to 1879, 678,000: mature bass from 1871 to 1880, 32,849 ; mature yellow pike from 1871 to 1880. 1,882 ; mature bull-beads from 1871 to 1S80, 5,750 ; mature yellow perch from 871 to 1880, 2,331. There have also been distributed at different times 93, 000 eels, 900.000 frost-fish, 780,000 fresh-water shrimps, 155,000 sturgeons, blO scarps and le.UUU crawfish. Th Titration ef BnUdlnrs, Few ersons who have not looked into the matter have any idea of the trouble vhlch the managers of large manufacturing establishments often have in preventing vibration of th building in which their work is carried on. Tus is not due to faulty con struction indeed, vibration is found usually jn mills which are admirably built. In all cases it is what is termed synchronous, that is to say. It is occa sioned ind maintained by the vibra tion of some other object, which strikes what nay be termed the key or note of the building. Just as the wire of a piano will respond to a proper vibra tory force, so a bridge or a building will vibrate when its key-note is struck with sufficient force by some other object. If the human ear bad a greater range of power the sound made by this vibration might be d&ected. It is not now heard sim ply because it doe not come within the lmits of what are to human be ings audible sounds. In a recently punished work on mill construction by ilr. C. J. II. Woodbury, a number of interesting instance of this syn chronous vibration are riven. At one of the print works at North Adams. Maas a new and unoccupied building was found to vibrate in consequenetf the puffing of a small steam engine sixty feet away. At Centredale, It. L, It has been necessary to change the height of the column of water flowing over the dam to prevent the excessive vibration of the adjacent mill. At Amesbury, Mass out of eleven mills that are near the river two vibrate' when water in certain quantities flows over the dam, but the tremor can be wholly stopped by changing the flow of water. The roost frequent cause of vibration is due to the run ning of the machinery, and it has re peatedly happened that a complete ces sation has been obtained by increasing or lessening the speed at which the machinery is run. This is not always profitable or possible, and the fact that this vibration results in a loss or power, variously estimated at from ten to twenty per cent, is a strong argument In favor of the construction of one-story mills, which would neces sarily vibrate much less than factories having a height of six or eight stories. But it is not alone the loss of power that has to be considered, for in ad dition there is the straining of build ing and machinery, and in the manu facture of textile fabrics this unsteadi ness causes a great breakage in the threads and a consequent damage to the material. Annie Wakeman write from New York to the Chicago Homing Journal : Old-fashioned Industrie are coming Into vague. The latest is the patch work mania. One day last week I took a flying trip to Fort Lee. Seated on th broad piazza of its fine hotel, and listening to the afternoon concert by the band. I amused myself by studying the people seated about me, most of them regular boarders at the hotel, who were plying their fingers over various kinds of fancy work. There is always one kind which is the rage for the summer. Last summer the prefer ence was given to serpentine braid rio-rac" work, consequently every other woman you met had her muslin gown elaborately decorated with this showy trimming. This year the rage is for the Oscar crazy quilt." On a Giece of cambric half a yard square lere is basted in the center a sunflower made of either yellow broadcloth, silk or velvet, or a lily, a daisy, or pansy of one of the am materials. The square is then filled in with bits of silk and velvet of all colors, arranged belter skelter, a sort of artistic confusion of colors. The bit are of irregular pat tern, just a your friends give thetn to you squares, triangles, circle, Jags and tags. After basting these on u edges are neatly turned in. and the piece 4is sewed Luminous Fish. Many of the fish brought from the lowest depths of the ocean exhibit phosphorescence, and this has led to the suggestion that in those deep and dark abysses every animal carries its lantern, as a miner does in the Pennsylvania coal mines. Phosphorescent patches are often found about the head and mouth of these fishes. A phosphores cent shark has been found in Austra lian waters that is luminous over the whole lower surface of the head and body, and it is supposed that this lumi nosity may serve to attract its prey, on the same principle that some fishermen employ, torches in fishing at night. Dr, FootfB ffealth Monthly, The earthquake shock at the city of Mexico in the middle of July was an extraordinarily lively one. According to a correspondent the walls of several houses fell, a great many edifices were badly cracked and the churches suffered. At least eighty per cent, of the build ings in the city were more or less injured. The water in the fountains and the lake overflowed. The pipe were broken and there was a great scarcity of water. In the main square, two very large lamps fell and were broken to pieces. Two men were killed by falling from a scaffolding. People rushed out of their houses and kneeling down in the middle of the street, raised their hands to Heaven and prayed aloud. Some sang litanies and others confessed their sins for the benefit of all who could hear them. Children ran out of the schools crying and wringing their hands. The balconies of the houses were full of ladies sobbing and pray ing fervently. Horses and mules, whether alone or attached to vehicles, suddenly stopped, stretching out their fore feet and refusing to proceed. Husbands and wives, mothers and their children bade each other an eter nal farewell. Those who a few min utes before professed a deep hatred for each other now fell weeping into their greatest enemy's arms. But this feeling did not last very long, for the next day eight or ten robbers broke into a tax-collector's house, stabbed the collector, ill-treated his wife and car ried off $4,000. There a general admiration thi The Pretty X IhllUt's SUry. Sophia Perovskl was handsome. "A little, fair head, with a pair of serious and searching blue eyes, a broad lofty forehead and a rosy mouth, which in smiling displayed two rows of most beautiful teeth" such is Stepniak'.s description of her. She is a descendant of that Rasumovsky whose beauty in flamed the passion of the Empress Eliz abeth ; her father was governor-general of SL Petersburg. Her deslre'for emancipation" was so strong that at the age of fifteen she ran away from her parents in order to educate her self She at once joined the revolu tionary party, and became one of its principal members. The most Impor tant, missions were intrusted to her ; where danger was greatest there was her place. The fair, pretty, smiling girl that looked like an innocent child, and seemed but to dream of a first love, thought day and night of assassination and planned it with the coolness of an old soldier. It was Sophia who lived in the house at Moscow where the mines were laid. She talked good-naturedly with the neighbors while eight conspirators dug underneath; - she cooked for them, and during the meal amused them with Jest and song. On the table there stood a flask of nitro glycerine, and in her pocket she al ways carried a revolver. In case of being surprised by the police she was empowered to fire into the cask and thus blow up the house. She lay in wait when the imperial train ap proached and gave the signal for the explosion. Smiling, she also stood on the 13th of March, 1881. on the Cath erine canal. Sometimes she would wave a handkerchief, as if to greet an acquaintance, in order to inform her confederates of the approach of the imperial carriage. Suddenly she raised the handkerchief and waved it over her head; at the same moment Ilysa koff threw his bomb. It would .hart been easy for her to escape after the assassination, but anxiety for the faU of her lover, Zhellaboff, kept her in St. Petersburg, and eight days afterward she was arrested. She died with ZbeUaboff. down firmly with a chain stitch of old gold, alternating with cardinal sewing silk. When the cambric squares are completely filled but. and enough of them have been made for a bedquilt or sofa comforter, they are joined together with narrow black velvet ribbon, which to orna mented with chain and herring-bone stitches in shaded silk flow, to suit the artistic taste of the worker. The sunflower give - Oscar." and the patches are "crary" enough in shape. Such is fame. Oscar Wilde Is Immortalized himself in silk quilts. to be handed down to generations yet unborn as heirlooms of what " grand mamma did when she was a girL" Spirits of former grandmamas, how you must fume as you haunt tne gar rets where are Ignomlniously packed away your favorite calico quilt, the much-treasured " spider-web," "fox and geese," and " log-cabin " patterns ! "What is this folly r you ask in sepul chral tones; - the Oscar crazy young women, you are all clean daft along with your trumpery quilta." Never mind, this serve to revive the homely industry of quilt-making, and a prominent society lady tells me that one of the novelties next season here will be the sociable quilting-bee, in order to quilt and silk-line the summer-work of Dame Fashion's daughters. IL Edourd NarCle ha lately re turned from a abort tour of explora tion In the Eastern Delta, where h visited the rains of Tanis. Th rains li high above the marshy plain.' upon a kind of plateau sur. rounded by an amphitheatre of low hills. These hills are the rubbish mounds of the old erode brick city, aarToundlsr th great wall within which lay the temr4e and palace T Tanis. M. FarOe found himself stand ing in the tnklst of a vast wast strewn and piled with columns, architraves, obeliika, statues and enormous blocks of hewn stone, all shattered, over turned, and showing marks of willful destruction. Traces of the tools with which the ruin was done are visible on almost every stone. In one superb colossus, which has resisted the hand of the dortreyer. M. NarlUe found wedged hole into which wood blocks had been inserted for th purpose of splitting the granite. He inclines to think that this was the result of war and not of lccooclasm. Th temple was probably occupied as a fortress in Roman times or daring the middle age, and both besieged and besiegers may have ased it materials for offensive and defen sive purposes. The principal tempi was buOt en tirely of red granite brought from the ?uarrie of Assouan, on the Nubian rentier. The difficulty of transport ing these enormous blocks to quit in calculable. Fourteen obeliiia, described by M. NavCle a the largest in Egypt, strew the mounds with their gigantic fragment. All these and nearly all the statue and sphynxes, which ap pear to have lined the avenues to the principal temple, were erected by Ramese 11. Not only do their In scriptions celebrate the glory of this great Pharaoh, but even the bases of these overturned monument which rested on the ground, and were Intend ed never to be seen by human eye, were engraved with bis well-known cartouche. Many of the colossi still retain their trace of color. M. Narille is of opinion that there to a great work to be done at Tanis in the way of excavation. The little, comparatively speaking, which has yet been accomplished there was by Ma riette Pasha; but bis discoveries were limited by want of time, health and funds, and much that be uncovered to again buried. " In severe grandeur and solemnity these ruins." says M. NaviUe, "sur pas even those of Karnak. Herodo tus, who had never seen Tanis, ex patiatAl at much length on the beauty of Bubastis. To Judge by what to left of the co end of the other. Tanis must have rreally surprised Its rival, at least was standing that all was not, a it now is, overthrown and shattered I hare no hesitation in saying that Tanis would have been the most beautiful ruin in Egypt." Though exempt, by reason of It In accessibility, from the depredation of tourists. Tanis Is suffering from the fatal effects of an atmosphere laden with saline ex ber allocs. If. Narille report that the surface ef these granite monuments are rapidly decay ing. London Athennttn. Th original land Teague Thre mile. If it wsxnt for th beHea a good many people would miss bring church' members. A piece of steel to a good deal like a man; when you get It red-hot It lose Its temper. - Life to a riddle," ays a Western exchange. Yes; lot of people give t vp every day. -Misery may Lie company." say a colored philosopher; -but I'd rader bah de rhumatiz in on leg den ter bah li in bof ." It to carious that th p!g most be killed before bs can be corrd. A yacht can stand on a tack wfthcot saying naughty words. -Don't put La co muxkretcr beUln for me," said Aunt Hannah. 1 oont want to breathe no strained air. Jlotttm TranmxipL -Amateur Gardener waits to know the easiest way to snake a hothocse. Lear a box of parlor matches wLcr the baby can play with thexa. At a recent parade In Chryenn on of the papers remarked that the mayor was in charge of th police. What misdemeanor was be guihy of f Bashf al lovers must have a streak of rpirituallEn in their ccc position, as they always turn down the Lgbt wto there are to be any manifest at ircis. - Dont you think it la about tixa that I exhibited somethiagr" aaksd an ambitious artist of a critic -Yea; a little talent, for Instance,- was th ready retort. A Philadelphia mule has kZIed a mad dog. but it to still a matter of doubt whether a mule or a mad dog Is the safest thing to bare around LouxJ COiim. I You can boy a real Mexican rr.aaSa hammock for IL7S. And then you can fall out of it and drive your back bone up clear through your chin for nothing. .Yew arm JUgW.cr. the name of "Tw Handsome Spanish lace In either black or white to now used over silk surah for evening Jackets. Matted jewelry which has only been considered appropriate for morning, to now being used with all styles of dress. Ecru-colored silks, covered with shaded "begonia" leaves, and finished with Irish point, make showy and sty lish costumes. White and black saline piping, braided in floral designs and deep, pointed edges, is sometimes used for the heading of fringe. Tbe"Gros de Londres" to a silk. ribbed like a -rep," very rich and rare; particularly referred by the -boo-ton" fashion-seekers. Instead of the combinations of two or three fabrics, it is announced that a single fabric for the entire dress will be the prevalent autumn fashion. The most expensive of the floral sat in es are found in pale-tinted and black ground, profuse with sprays of fuchsia, chrysanthemums, roses, lilies of the valley, etc Plain basque are losing favor, for ws now see the rich corsage made with a plastron of velvet, or, if lighter goods be preferred. It to shirred to please the fancy. Large single flower are In favor on ratines, foulards and surahs, and their size to so great that only one blossom can be seen on a sleeve and five on the back of a dress corsage. Red to the favorite color at present for children's frocks. It rival the white dresses formerly used for little girls, and appear In some guise in al most every toilet of the season. Ivory white to In such great vogue that satin dresses of thi shade are no longer confined to full dress entertain ment, but are Imported for visiting costume. The garniture to lace and natural flowers. Green and cobalt-blue rediagotes of doth, with velvet collar and cuffs, are sent over from Parti to ladies at Nrw- Tae IT reef Yeriict, It was in 1877 that John T. Ray mond, a the Immortal Sellers, was doing the Western country. At EvansviUe, IndL, the bouse wa filled, and the audience, the critics say. was en rapport with the actors. The play went along swimmingly until the de noument was reached. This. It to well known, occurs in the Jury scene which doses the drama. At every village a new jury to obtained from the popu lace. Leading persons of the place are sometime honored with a position In the box, and it was so at Evaasville. The collection was one of the finest ever on the stage doctors, lawyers and such like. The foreman was a six-foot Kentocklan and a judge, too. He had for years adorned the bench, and was never known to quail in public It was from his mouth that - not guilty" was to be received, and be had been duly cautioned a to bis lines. As soon aa the verdict to rendered Sellers throws up bis hat, hugs the accused and per form many wooderraj sue puy. after which the curtain descends. At EvansviUe Raymond did his prettiest, gyrating before the judges like a mad man and -fixing the Jury" In his inim itable manner. When the rase bad closed and the Jury were expected to return the cut-aod-dried verdict of -not guilty - the foreman thi six foot Kentocklan and a Judge to boot waa attacked with stage-fright and startled everybody by shouting: - Guilt y." -Whatr inquired the disconcerted Sellers. - Guilty." said the forgetful foreman, thinking he was doing himself and the EvansviUe party proud. In vain jUymond giggled: the ver dict wa plainly -guilty? Therefore the play oouldnt go on a it was laid down; there wa no chance for that throwing or hugging. The audience was not slow to catch the mistake, and a wave of hearty tough ter began to sweep over the parquette. At last Raymond, seeing things to be In a des perate state, began to "fix" the fury again, and, buttonholing the big rare man, whispered the proper verdict in hi ear. Whereupon the big six-footer mered out: nilty- The bat went tm, th locky accused was cccgratnlated, and th curtain rung down amid the laarhter and ap plaose cf the aadlence. That big Km-' tuekian, however, wa never again foreman f any of Raymond's Jririea JTrte Harrr Union. -1 declarer exclaimed Mrs. Tttalca, -1 never saw a gal liks our Sary Jan. I worked eenamost two bull days on her new bathin dress, and dont roa think ah got it wringin wet the fas time she put It ocT" - Dee your wife take much ex rrder" asked Fenderson of Forx, whose family to at the seasidn. -Ex erdae r exclaimed Fogg ; -1 should say so. She changes her dress six limes every day." Barton TrenripL To, I want to cbsrob see 4j With sacs nxmrj br tt r stti trots rr Tar eacM sac: frst tJbm tml mtram tbs eJtt A4 tw submI torn mtih s scsC! bo Itteeti say UU (41s IstbsUts. W have often read remarkable sturle uf muChertess) squirrels sad rats being raised by female caU, bet In Tarrant county, Texas, an eagta raised a young rtg which weighed, forty pounds. Tb esrU's wisprf measured nearly eight feet from tip la Up. SiHnfft. -I wast a good match safe," the? customer said. And the boy promptly, dipped a box cf matches into the water pau sad banded them out. -There, he said. -Ton cant buy etn any afrra that la all AmerU. Wouldn't burn If you stock 'era la the stove." Geveraer TaWr a the FarreC M. R. Curtis and bis wife have a pet parrot which to their ccawtaat traveling companion, and which pak th king English with amazing Carney. The loquacious bird caused quite a panic at the Windsor hotel last night. The Curtis family cceopy rooms directly adjoining Governor Ta bor's apartments at the hotel, ard last evening, as the governor was enirrisf hi apartments, he beard what he thought was a female voice, aayisg, - Utile, baby." The gwremor was a trifle startled. He Is a very man. but be could act for the him Imagine what be bad ever don to warrant any female la addressing Ua so familiarly. The salutation apS peared to be intended for him, and. came from the transom over the door of the room directly across the ball. The governor wa non plussed. -IltSo! baby, pretty baby said the voice again, and th gov ernor blushed a be stroked bis Cere moustache, and tried to brace up and look dignified. - Wont yon come and. kiss your taby eaucd th vote again. In a ddkiously seductive sort CD a way. Now, the governor seldom takes a dare of any kind. To do him Justice, he to a brave man, and at this particular moment h felt big enough to tackle aa army. II crept sofUy over to the door and aaked: Ar yon. talking to me?" -Nice bahy," sail the vote; but no sooner had the rok spoken than another voice from tnaid the loom a big, burly man voice' called out: -Go away from that door and let the parrot go to aleepr It wa XI r. Curtis who spoke. Drsrvr (Col.) TrUun. gallant If of mildly stamt -Not i Tall Men. The New York doctors having tad the question put to them whether a man can add a cubit to bis statu, agree that tber are ways by which staloe can be affected. People who drink limestone water like the Ken torklans and Tenaeaeeana. who are famous for being tall, owe It perhaps to the fact that they absorb so much lim which goes to the making cf their bone. So oatmeal builds up the bone and muscles of the Scotch, and make them taL Dr. UM. said: -PoCks who feed upon good, healthy and simple food have the best chance for growing to be tall TaSaesa seems sometime to be a family trait, and runs along through geratioa after feneration ; but on the other rit taa children tery often grow from short parent and Tic versa,' There doeant seem to be any positive ml about it, and I dont know that tber to any mod cf determining from the height cf a chili at any given aga what it wd grow to at maturity." There to a Ulxtt. however we3 or 13 fonaed, that th height cf thaehiU at the arscf two years to jast half th hdrhttowUch it wl attain at tartly.
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Sept. 21, 1882, edition 1
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